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The party left from the night till the morning
I
I need you to move your body
And feel the rhythm
The party live from the night till the morning
I'm stuck in a hole and I can't get it out of it, something down, wasting time on a sunken
I'm feeling love while I'm drowning with my, with my finger
I'm losing all my thoughts when the sun's in the sky
It's just dark in bed, when there's fire in my heart
It just seems like they're in my
I'm losing all my thoughts in you
I'm losing all my thoughts in you
I'm losing all my thoughts to you
I'm losing all my thoughts to you
Make an end without a roll
A world of times when I feel hopeless
It's all for me and I can't forget
There's some stuff in the hole and I can't get out
Something down, wasting time on a sunken cat
In the love I'm drowning with my, with my feeling
When the sun's in the sky, it's just a given
When the sky's out of my heart, it just seems like they're gone
I'm losing all my thoughts to you
I'm losing all my thoughts to you
How many of you guys are excited for our opening matchup?
It's Levy of Town versus Team Heretics.
Yes, I've seen lots of jerseys outside.
I've seen lots of the Lev signs.
I've seen quite a few of those in the last week.
And also some Team Heretic signs as well.
So let's see who is here for who.
So if you're here for Levitan,
they can hear you because they're warming up right now.
Make some noise!
Yeah!
Nice, I know that and he doesn't gonna grow up.
What about the Team Heretic signs?
Yeah!
I've seen some of my new friends.
They might be in the free show.
Watch out for you guys.
So yeah, thank you so much for joining us today.
very quickly before we get into the show.
We love having you here.
I say this every day,
like you are the sixth member for these teams.
Cheer them on in their greatest moments,
stick with them during their worst,
and know that they appreciate every single one of you
for turning up today.
And so that we, it's been so exciting to spend
like the last week in London.
This is my home city,
so getting to actually hang out with fans here
is the coolest job in the world.
I'm incredibly lucky.
So we're gonna do our best to make sure
you guys have some fun today as well.
If you come on your own, talk to the person next to you,
say hello, introduce yourself.
If you haven't come on your own,
send to the person next to you,
introduce yourself, bond over signs,
all that kind of stuff.
We've got about 20 seconds.
So, oh, 30 seconds,
they give me an extra 10 seconds, guys.
So, let's just see if we can all make the loudest noise
together, get everyone excited for the day
that we're about to have.
Especially as my friend Goldenboy
has come all the way from America to be your desk coach today.
It's his first day.
I've told him all about you guys.
So I need you to make some noise for him
so he knows that you're on a good job of warming up, OK?
So London in three, two, one, make some noise!
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Today our top eight becomes a top six and we've got back-to-back elimination matches
of two squads who are going to be seeing their dreams of lifting a master's trophy slip away
from their hands.
Hello everyone and welcome to day numeral of show of masters London. Oh wait different place that we're in
We're live from the copper box arena. That's right. I got to do a British style. Uh, maybe don't figure it out later
Hi everyone, I'm golden boy the host for today. You got me me. You got Billy
We're gonna be yapping about some valorant today and it's so damn good to be here London England
Thank you so much for coming out today. You guys are incredible
Also shout out to the mix in any case though. He had to get it in
Listen, you're going to get at least three more mentions of the New York Knicks on this broadcast today.
And it's perfectly fine. I don't care, I promise my dad.
Now in any case though, today's elimination matches are going to be the subject of our MasterCard fan poll
because the last two American squads are going to be on the chopping block
and I think a lot of people are kind of rooting for America's downfall here.
I don't blame them.
And of course, we want to know how many teams you think are going to be surviving.
The gauntlet is zero. Is it one? Is it two?
to scan that QR code, cash your vote.
We'd love to hear from you and we'll of course show the results
at the end of the show.
And don't forget to use those hashtags, VCT as well as
Ballant Masters.
They tell us who you're rooting for today.
We want to hear from you.
And remember, we're only going to put the best stuff on air,
not the bad stuff.
It's only send us the good.
OK, so let's go ahead and check in with my main lady,
Frankie, the goat, one of my favorites who's outside the
Copper Box Arena with some heretics fans to get their
thoughts out of today.
I think we've got a chance to
get to the next round. It
could be a very sad day for
the heuristic sounds, but it
could be a great day. All we
know is Benjy fish is going to
be on the stage. He's
representing the UK and it's a
very important match for him.
Guys, do you think that they've
got a chance to get to live
your test day? I think we've
got the experience over left.
We've been to many tournaments
before that. I've got a
over here, or either left, sorry.
I think we've got a good chance.
Come on, Heritage.
Well, Heritage have won on a land,
but they never won a master.
That is true.
They have never won a master's.
We have come second in a master's,
so we have to break that curse
and we have to finally win one.
Yeah, and I love this artwork.
I'm guessing Benji might be your favourite member.
Yeah, definitely.
Do you think that Benji's got what it takes
to succeed in front of this home crowd?
I mean, he's the ghost,
so you can do whatever he wants to.
Yeah, and you know what, Benji?
you know, you've got the crowd
on your side today. Yeah, I
got off the train three hours
ago here. There was already a
sea of heretics jerseys coming
in. The support, the love for
this team at this event already
has been massive, but there's a
pretty grim position there right
now. Yeah, for sure. I think having
that home called buff will hopefully
be able to help Benji come into
today as well. You don't want them
going out of this tournament on to
He's got himself a really tall task ahead of him taking on that Lev roster
But as we mentioned, there's a lot of tension today, right? Everyone's feeling it a bit
So we decided let's lie in the mood earlier
We asked team heretics to keep a straight face against truly incredible odds check it out
What is up guys welcome to the dad joke battle I enjoy five Benji fish you looks very ready for today
game. Okay, sorry. Take a
minute, take a minute, sell
yourself. We're gonna play a
game where I read out a prompt
and then a punchline. These
guys job is to keep the water
in their mouth. As you can see,
it's going swimming already.
I have a feeling we know who's
going to be dumping out that
bottle the quickest we might
need backup. Dominic ready to
to start.
Fancy my gun.
I'm letting it out the first time.
Come on.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Let's take a breather.
Deep breaths.
All right.
And let's go gentlemen.
The first one for you.
Which days are the strongest?
Of course it will be Saturday and Sunday.
The rest are weekdays.
Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon, by the way?
It's supposedly it has great food, but no atmosphere.
Oh, Benji. Hold in there, man. I'm rooting for you.
What's the difference between a bad joke and a dad joke?
The first letter. That's right. That's right, folks.
Come on, Benji. You're not gonna laugh at these.
Two antennas got married, by the way. You know this?
The ceremony was okay, but apparently the reception was terrible.
We're doing well. We're doing well. Okay.
Okay, well, a dragon would never explode, but a dino might
Hmm. Okay, we're holding strong. Let me ask you. What do you call a belt made out of shrimp?
clams and salmon
Well, that would be a waste of good seafood wouldn't it? Oh
No, oh
I didn't want to see that
That was
They are and don't worry, they get worse.
What did the frozen crow say?
Ah!
And he's made it through, we'll give him the, oh no Benji!
I'm trying to help you out man.
We're clean up over here, it's gonna be a nightmare.
Okay, alright round two gentlemen, we've gone through the generics, you've done very well.
Let's go to round two, Valorant theme, dad jokes, maybe bad jokes as well.
Why didn't Mosch get fired as a gardener, because he couldn't even plant the spike?
Why do Valorant pros have a tough time ordering from the menu?
You know they just keep on switching sides, don't they?
What was Harbor doing at the bottom of the ocean?
He was trying to be a good anchor.
you call a honeycomb with glasses? B site. Oh yeah, keep going. Okay, Sova started a
botany blog. All he does is post plants. And gentlemen, I think we might have reached the
end of the list. I think you've done a fantastic job here today. Two of you. The others have
something to be desired. Can we call the cleanup crew? This is gotten out of hand. Folks, that's
all the time we've got for here on the the bad or dad jokes whatever you want to call it we'll catch
you in a bit thanks for joining us boys say hi I don't know about you guys those were all funny
to me this is great yeah I'm the audience I'm the dad joke audience crudos to Mitch as well
good job on the delivery kid you get there one day you're really nailing the dad joke cadence
You know, that's an art form.
It seems to take much to get Benjy though.
No, it does not at all.
It actually doesn't bode well for him today.
He's cracking that early on the stage.
Oh, jokes aside though, you know what though, folks,
here's the thing, right?
We got to talk about that matchup
that we did see Heretic's Vitality.
You know, we're going to mention it here.
It was not the situation that Heretic would have wanted.
I mean, I came into this matchup, obviously regional battle.
There's always going to be that familiarity there.
I just didn't expect Vitality to come out
was such force like that. Yeah, I think on the breeze particularly we have to speak about Team
Heretics. For me it didn't feel like a lot changed from that EMEA Grand Finals coming into this
event which I'm kind of disappointed with it all honestly and frustrated with because they had
extra time coming into this event as the first seed and yet we were seeing them get overwhelmed
time and time again Vitality having the read that wherever boot and route where was often the weakest
side of the map and we see the adjustments come in from Vitality as well being able to use that
attack operator to their strength to a point where Team Heretics got too scared to push out on
the defense and it kind of killed their game plan off a little bit I think is fair to say me.
Yeah I think the way that they were anchoring as well on that first map was pretty rough. It was
the same issues that manifested in the match in the finals that they played against Vitality
where they're over committing to anchoring on site especially back site A losing the fights to
the split from the harbor and then not being able to win out in the man disadvantage retake.
You look over at map two and I think there were fundamental issues here as well. The attack
on the defensive side. They
could not be proactive on
their defensive side in the
way that their comp wants to
play into. But on attack, I
felt like it manifested more in
just fundamental issues, not
playing together underperforming
to their expectations. This was
a heretics that was. I think a
massive disappointment compared
to expectations from the team
that won Amia. If I may have a
little bit of hope for a second
I'm hoping that those are pretty easy cleanup things right? I think for me
The biggest disappointment was coming into a map having same things that you had shown in EMEA stage finals
I think that's something that cameo. Yeah, it's a frustrating thing
But on that note team politics they're no stranger to a lower bracket
They did it back in EMEA to win that grand finals. So hopefully they'll be able to do it here
Yeah, four weeks now like yeah
Your first point to me is the biggest one that not enough change from EMEA
There's not a lot of time now to turn it around but we only saw two of their maps
There was underperformances on top of it. It has to be way better today
Yeah, well, I'm sure you know all the heretics players feel exactly the same way
We had an opportunity to catch up with root about that loss of vitality in this Hyper X player moment
Hello, it's food. I'm playing 14 minutes. I'm frustrated because we couldn't fight back
Like, we showed ourselves like fools, like they showed it really easy against us and
it's kinda unacceptable.
I think they were playing good, I mean they were playing good in Grand Final as well,
that's why it was 5th map overtime, they were really playing well, but I think the difference
was us, not them, we played pretty well.
I'm being frustrated while losing is fine, because that means that you care and you need
to fight back.
So for me it's not like calming yourself down, it's like more what you put in game.
If I'm frustrated to myself that I played bad, I'm talking with my teammates and acknowledging
and you know telling my teammates that I played bad or I made a mistake and then next round
I'm just resetting myself fully and then focus on next.
You can certainly see that composure there from WoT and we're of course hoping to see that on this
stage here now focusing on some of these 1v1s you know more individualistic battles right we got
an interesting one here between I would say the two players that are just kind of the
the Neons, you know, they're rolling with this agent. They're not really changing anything
up. It's Kashmara as well as Spike. They're going to be face to face today here. I think
it's very fascinating because, you know, we're seeing like teams kind of figure out where
they want to put that duelist role, what they want that to be. These teams have settled.
We like Neon. We're going to roll with this.
Which I respect, but I think it ends up in pretty different ways for the two. When I
talk about Team Hyratix, I think their biggest thing is on their attack side, having early
set plays around Koshmars. I think they're very reliant on him getting opening picks
for the team and that's how they play their mid rounds off of it. I thought in the game
against Vitality, in the rounds where he would fail, in those openings where he would be shut
down by Vitality, that next layer was really rough for them. When I look across the field
to Lev, well they still play those early rounds with the Neon, they still rely on Spike to
get those openers. I think they do a much better job of being able to see a map where
is underperforming and have other guys step up to fill that void. I think there's more depth in terms of the talent with
Lev versus the heretics that I think is extremely relying on Krushmas. Yeah, it's almost as if it is their only wincon,
which is disappointing when we consider the preparation. And I think the contrast between these two is the spike.
He took a little bit of time to warm up to this tournament, and I think it's fair to say the past couple of games that he's played
and he's looking really great. But as you mentioned, Mimi, he's not the solo reliant player of being able to go in and get those first picks.
I think when I look at Kosh, we had high expectations of him coming into this event because of how he performed regionally
We just need to see him step up a notch now that he's here at the global stage
Bear in mind. He has a rookie to the global stage. He was only playing in tier three less than a year ago
Let's not forget. So yeah, I think seeing him step up today should work for them. Yeah, it's really an incredible journey for that player
Right, I will say the thing that does give me some hope about Lev is the demeanor. They're a very very calm and collected squad
They don't really let things rattle them.
So I think like when the crowd is very much going to be on the side of heretics,
that could very well be a thing that Levitan could use to their advantage.
That calmness might be the difference factor in this game here.
But of course, let's check in with Buu of heretics ahead of this matchup,
because he had an opportunity to catch up with Genly earlier on to get his thoughts.
Here with Buu of the heretics.
Now Buu, what is the last Vitality series exposed from your side that needed fixing
and any truth to the first e-curs?
I think in hospitality, the worst thing was that we didn't start really well.
We were not present enough in my opinion.
So I think in terms of in-game stuff, there is not much to fix
because we didn't really get into it too much for the first seat.
I don't know. I mean, I didn't believe it before, but you know, practice was different.
I have my own reasons. I wouldn't say I believe in it, but I can't ignore it as well, so it's like a bit weird.
But yeah, I mean
You need a hot start today. Yes for sure
Seen booby come a little by little superstitious
Wait a minute is this real now, of course, so let me don they managed to pick up dubs in their first two Swiss matches
But they got a massive wake-up call when they faced off against the juggernaut of Pacific.
You had Paper X. They took him out 13-1 in that first map loss.
The other way, able to recover a little bit, Mimi, but it was really just Paper X.
Yeah, I'll start with map one. I think that Lev came in with a plan that Paper X absolutely
destroyed. Paper X on defense had great answers to get aggressive, to disrupt Lev's style.
Their anchoring was absolutely on point. They got smacked.
But what impressed me was the recovery after that.
I think they went into Lotus with a great game plan.
Play slow after faster opening rounds
and wait for the PRX re-aggression.
They punished it in that map, which they failed to do in map one.
And even though it slipped away in the second half,
they lost another pistol and it looked pretty rough.
I walk away from this game not having my expectations
shifted downwards for Levy-Aton.
That's just how highly I think of PRX.
Yeah, and I think that that's completely fair
I think that was a great challenge for them to go back to the drawing board and figure out what where their weaknesses, especially going up against such a strong opponent such as paper X.
I do want to see a love that can prove big and adapt early. I didn't love how long owner waited to take timeouts in that series.
series. I didn't love how slow they were to find any game plan on
assignment. They never found a solution on a set to clear. So
there were some worrying signs, but I'm not particularly perturbed
by a loss to the best team at this tournament perturbed. That's
word of the day. I like that one. But let's go ahead and send it
back over to Jen. She had an opportunity to catch up with the
IGL of Levita.
Then here with King of Lev King. How did you guys put your loss
against paper X into your perspective?
I think it every loss always helped help us grow and this one especially because it was the first time we played the first match
our routine kind of a little bit messed up, but
We also learned playing against prepare X. Who's a crazy team?
I think they're one of the best if not the best team in Toronto
So it definitely helped us grow and we're gonna show a way better face today
I mean first match is like e-sports early in the morning, but good luck. Yeah, thank you
Can't speak from experience. Waking up in the morning playing
the first game starts at 3pm. It's too early. It's too early.
It's too early. Me, me. I don't know how many times I have to tell you this girl.
Okay. Get me going at five and then we're chilling. Of course, it's time for one
by one showdown for a skirmish side select. We got a duel between King and Webber.
Okay, so we got a little projection. Yeah, we like to do this in EME, I feel.
They love to send the coaches into these skirmishes and I think that it's actually
kind of a good thing because it takes the pressure off of the players. Let's not forget,
Weber had a little bit of a semi-pro career once upon a time, but King looks to be taking
his head a little bit.
Kind of started this one off quickly.
Yeah, I mean, just beating a coach. Feels like a pretty good player.
And it looks like it's going to be pretty delving in here for the King. The 5-1 win.
I feel like Weber just wanted to see how he fared against King.
Yeah, baby, I also start to question was today really worth the risk of sending your coach into a skirmish with an elimination map.
Good point, good point. Let's go ahead and see where we're headed with our map pool picks and bands. Check it out.
Alright, hello and welcome guys. Let's do the map picture real quick. It is Levitam vs TH today and Levitam won the skirmish, so they are picking their side.
Team A and Cerytix is Team B, which means Levitam is winning first.
We ban Breeze.
Alright, Breeze is banned, now it is Hirtix.
We ban Pearl.
Pearl is banned.
And Leviton is picking the first map.
We pick a fleet.
Split, right? And the site for split, please.
Attack.
Attack, and your map pick?
And Lotus.
Lotus, and the site for Lotus, please.
We pick attack.
Okay, we have Ascent, Fracture and Haven left, and Leviathan is banning first.
The ban, Fracture.
Fracture is banned, last two maps are Ascent and Haven.
And, Banh-Haven.
Haven is banned, last map is Ascent, Leviathan is picking the side.
Defense, alright, let me give you a quick recap.
We start with splits, critics attacks, then we have Lotus, Leviathan attacks,
And if we go to the side of the map, which is Ascent, Levite and Defensive.
Everything correct?
Yeah.
All right, good luck guys.
We asked the community what you think is going to happen as far as the
America's team goes.
No love for the America's region.
They think both teams are going to be eliminated here today.
And honestly, I could see that maybe in the case both teams looking really good
on the EMEA side.
It's going to be an absolute slobberknocker.
One you want to watch, you don't want to miss.
Because today, top six is on the line.
Two teams are getting the chop.
Day eight of Masters London is going to start right now.
I'm being frustrated while losing is fine because that means that you care and you need to fight back.
Heretics, for me, the youngest point, I gotta say it.
We need to wake up, we need to train something,
and we will try to fix it for the next game.
We have a lot more squads and we are prepared for this.
They are 4 rookies, 1 veteran, same as us in 2024.
All of them look strong, same as us.
We have to win.
Maybe it will be our last game here at Masters, but I'm sure it won't be because we have a lot more squads here.
There we are.
We never see each other, we always speak to Turkish words.
Today's word is, you're stuck.
Have a safe flight.
to Jule. London, please welcome Team Erratic Burf is leviathan.
And here we go, an elimination game to kick off today and it is a good one.
Heretic versus Leviathan, Leviathan a team that surely is the underdog in this matchup.
And this audience, this crowd is firmly behind the Heretics.
It's gonna be a plumber knocker, and I'm excited for Mimi.
Absolutely.
Two years ago, it was Team Heretics stepping onto a master stage.
Four rookies, one veteran.
They made it all the way to the finals in that tournament.
Now they've turned around, had to fight their way back against the Leviathan,
who today are in the very same boat as rookie team,
trying to live up to the lofty expectations that they earned in Swiss.
And when I look at the individuals on one side, Benji, that hometown hero,
but Sattel on the other side, he has been the showman of this tournament.
He's been incredible. Looking at this map, I'm almost frustrated at team
how it takes selecting Lotus. I wish they would have gone for a fracture.
They looked so great on it regionally. Obviously, looking at the results
that they had the other day, maybe feeling as though it was just
those fundamentals that they had to clean up that you highlighted there,
I think having a program really hurts in here. I don't like that. They have to get rid of this breeze in that series
I think it's a pretty weak for heretics in their last two showings
But that's gone to the maps we get end up being interesting split in my opinion the strongest map for levy a ton
They're applying this in
Americas and I think that's really the one that I look towards
How much of a game plan can heretics have?
Because I thought their prep yesterday, their adaptation in that game they lost was really weak.
This is their chance to show us what they've learned, what they rallied after that loss
and come out for a game plan in, Billy, what I think is a super predictable map.
They didn't have adaptations and this was the issue.
At least they were too slow to react against Vitality.
We need to see this team that was once in grand finals at global events
because otherwise they're going to be eliminated here, completely winless.
I think we have to speak about that split though.
Yeah, yeah, you do because it looks like for this Leviton team,
this is the tone-setter.
This is the one where if they are able to shut down heretics,
I will be very concerned about this team going into map 2, Billy.
And when I think about Lev,
they had such great controlled aggression on this map against global esports.
Being able to adjust the tempo and set the pace really,
I think going up against team Hercics, we had mentioned the composition that we'd saw in EMA.
They were leaning into that buys, and I think that that could actually be a strength from here against this double-jewelous composition that we expect to come out from the Vietta.
Yeah, I think what's interesting about Love is, despite flying that double-jewelous, that no-sense-y comp, they tend to play a pretty metered attack side.
They like to default a lot early into B main, and fade out vice utility when it's set up on that side,
but for late rounds, looking for re-clears for space back towards mid.
So what I want to see from heretics is playing strong to flood into the b-site, playing heavy to control mid on their defensive side, and not engaging with Leviathan in that b-main fight, but taking space elsewhere.
We see that double duelist up here, but heretics is well going to be rolling with it too, and we mentioned that vice, Benji Fiji, he's going to have a lot to work with here.
Yeah, and don't be so readable, because that's what we saw in the Vitality Breeze in particular as well.
that. You know, the
opposition is not always
just on main. It's not always
in mid often the heaven wall,
but Levitt on will need to
figure out quickly. Yeah, and
for heretics, looking at that
earlier attack side start
before they flip over. My eyes
have to go to koshmah. It's a
slow start to their opening
game on stage with such a
paramount amount of
potential. I think it's
opening game on stage, he's such a paramount player
for this team in their victory back in E&EA.
I think he has to start strong here.
He has to come out swinging on split.
On a map where domestically he was so good here
in this double duelist look alongside Woot.
All right, folks, this is it.
London, England, let's make some noise
as we get ready for our first match.
Send it over to your casters.
Their actions don't seem so special now that I'm here.
the floor is yours, fellas.
Let's get to it, then. It's
elimination today. It is the
best of really Americas and
even maybe not quite an
elimination, but it is going to
be good games regardless of
that. E. A versus America's
all throughout it. The
Levitane and team heretics as
well. The practice storylines
because there's a lot of
to varying degrees. Lev, a brand new roster realistically with a long-term vision of where they want to be at in three years' time.
Oner has spoken about it and that's in contrast to Team Heretics that have known repeated failures, repeated defeats essentially.
Yeah, Team Heretics they're in their third year but without that global trophy and this year having broken the curse of lifting a domestic trophy,
finally getting onto that throne in the EMEA, it feels like something should be a bit different but they would have to run the lower bracket
in the same way that they did inside their own region
to have a chance of anything like that.
And that's a story that we'll be telling way later.
For today, it is EMEA against the Americas
all day long for survival.
EMEA dominated the early years of Valorant.
If you think all the way back to, you know, 2020, 2021,
then America's took over as top region,
recently seeding that to Pacific.
But this tournament, it really feels like
is changing that narrative.
As we watch, in front of your eyes,
you're seeing Chinese teams doing incredibly well,
both Pacific teams crashing out during the Swiss stage,
it feels a bit more volatile that parity
that's always existed between the regions in Valorant
showcased again here at Masters London.
Yeah, definitely.
So, I mean, if you're in a stew watch here,
you might be wondering, hold on,
there's an agent select again,
and that's because I'm not gonna point to any fingers,
but it was someone on heritage who picked the wrong agent.
So, we're gonna redo it, and there it is, finally.
We got it.
I mean, it won't take much investigation
to find out who it was.
No, you're just going to do this and just rewind on the Bob-Mate, yeah?
You're going to be able to spot how it was, but we're getting into the game shortly.
But I don't think this is really going to change too much.
The map pool is interesting. Split, I agree with the desk, is going to be a big deciding factor,
but to me that map too, I got to agree with Billy, who was talking about Heretics
probably should have leaned into their fracture.
Right, yeah.
Maybe a ton came out with quite a nice fracture in terms of their tactics at this event,
but it has not been a matter that they've been greater.
That heretics, it has been a gigantic strength for them.
And instead, we're going into the Lotus non-viper mirror
as our map two.
I think that's going to put the pressure on team heretics
unless they can have a good performance in map one.
And we are going to be going into things here
as the time is ticking down for the pistol.
Pistol rounds, vitally important for heretics as well, Brent.
It ended up losing all of the pistol rounds yesterday.
I think it made them look a lot worse than they
perhaps should have been.
I mean, you think about how impactful they typically are,
They're not making right adaptations, not using the time off well enough.
This is their opportunity to prove that they have actually had that time off.
That it has worked a fruition.
Elimination.
Dua tie.
It's Levitane versus Team Heretics.
We start on split.
This is the bread and butter map of Levitane.
They've got countless wins at it.
Many a team has tried to anti-strap them.
And there wasn't very much time for Heretics to figure out who their opponent was.
There's one with that spam.
figure out who that opponent was.
There's those with that spam from his heaven position,
knows the angles well.
But as Team Heretics predict,
Lev mostly give them the sight.
So it's a 4v5 post plan.
They've got ideas of pushing screens.
Quick little ramp takers while by Lev.
They're not messing around.
Make sure to rapidly take this one.
Giving a lot of space towards CT.
Perhaps a indicator as well.
Hearing a bit of that utility in use.
As post plan from Heretics could be quite potent.
Wall's going to have to get baited out of here.
Timers of the essence.
The seconds are going to get bled off the clock.
And it looks like Team Heritage are getting antsy.
They want to activate.
Oh, my!
It's Neon just to capitates two of them,
waiting and wondering a little bit too far here.
Stats, he's stuck from Sato.
What a hell of a pistol round to get things off.
It's an incredibly aware retake from Lev.
Neon's positioning throws a smoke for his players
to go for the ramp retake and holds with immaculate patience.
It's not the patience of a rookie player, but that's what you see from him over and over again on many different agents.
It really feels like he's a special talent that they've found. He can do it all.
He's got that aggression. You'll see that on Lotus with the jet.
But they're such a crucial part of the puzzle.
And good game plans for both teams too. Heretics knowing they'll get a free A site.
I like the VICE wall from Benji. I like the screens push, the productivity.
There are many teams that have played well on Split against Lev, and Lev just played better.
That's the reason why this has been their home territory map.
Countless times.
Neon, a big task of anchoring here against this.
Eco is going to be running in straight down here, because tomorrow's looking to see if he can lead the charge a little bit forwards,
but peels back and away with the guns in hands.
Liverpool players ready and waiting for every possibility. That is flawless.
Leading it forwards, very slowly.
One away from the odds.
Yeah, one away.
I mean, he might have wanted
an extra little tussle in the middle there
because it was so clean from left.
He wasn't actually allowed to generate his ult on line,
but as you see here, he's super quick.
Another 2k.
From Team Heritage players,
he's spacing is too tight.
Strange to see it twice in a row.
Sato may well get his ult on line
for a retake scenario
in the midst of this round.
I must win round here for Team Heretics.
Got the guns in your hands.
It's all about which direction you take it now.
Mid-control is to be the name in a game.
Bit of spam into the doorway.
King's got to be careful here.
Orbs up, but instinctual, really.
You knew the timing was coming his way.
Koshimara's immediate take towards us.
Good utile.
Judging hands, Spike.
Wanted to hold this one all the way down, and it's brave by Wootz.
Stove forwards. This is this joint hit.
And blows. It's just popping them all up.
No coordination team heretics rushing into the mall. It's still a bit of patience has played a customized world catch flows
Team heretics were not ready for the pace of left, but good patience towards the end anticipating that final player
Many layers of bait and switch setups going on and heretics come out on top. It's gonna be incredibly tough for neon
Four and zero currently, but with only a bulldog and no great awareness of where team heretics are
Should be a chance for the EMEA team to get on the board early
It's going to be triggered. It gives away his position. Not much Neon can do here.
TP to obfuscate.
Pyro could be perhaps, but this is pure discipline being played and there's guns to be reclaimed.
It's a name here for... Neon is going to be looking to save for the next.
Place for the stat line.
Yeah. Well, I mean, all plays for the gun.
Team Heretics will be fairly happy about this one. There was a bit of a mess going down there.
that. They dealt actually very aggressively, very decisively, with Spike's judge. I can't
believe that we challenged that. I know it's ridiculously brave, but they scrambled it
afterwards. As soon as they killed the second player, they think it's surely not a third.
They'd already dealt with King. Then to find the second judge layer to it, you just don't
think about the extra player being down here in Vectra. This is the speed that Lev will
show you if you remember back this is why paper X picked them because they wanted to play against a team
it was that aggressive that was going to get in their face because they're comfortable playing
that kind of tempo and left did get spanked in that opener.
And a hard time with another cent. I'm just able to pull it back on Lotus but
not enough that's why they're here. Now Naomi is tested in terms of his anchoring
what are you two being pulled out of him early that's just from the astra util no one is actually
home over towards B main. It's a full evacuation. It forced
that he out from Sato and he's even looking to see if he
can reclaim a bit of space but he'll be a little way back.
That always going to be running out of juice soon enough.
Another midtake here by Heretics. He's all up pivoting around
the map here and now looking for the reflight forwards. He
realized that Bull is going to be caught out of sorts and sees
on top of it and forwards again. Spike with the wall up and
nobody accounting for the corner. Sano just cleaning him up.
Lack of awareness again on display here from Heretics.
They look to see if they can pick up the pieces, but they're in a 3v5 spike.
Sharp is his form.
No slowing down, immediate disengaged. He's gonna give away his life for free.
This is where you see Brenda, value of the neon.
He's gonna take contact again here. He's everywhere.
Look at the place here, he's actually all over the place right now.
Prowler sees it swing.
Immediate to Benji's dismary. I mean, this is just brutality.
You see the individuals raining here.
What a brilliant round from Spike, the decision making to go and take this fight after a prouder
detective boot is brilliant and also showcases you why they've stuck to the Neon.
Neon is still getting decent pick right in this tournament, still winning a lot, these
are two teams that have absolutely stuck to that identity, Spike vs. Koshmara's.
They might not go head to head very often, we're not talking about Neon vs. Neon, but
how much value they'll respectively get for their team, especially on the defense side
Reclear's like that, it will make a difference.
A fast play towards his B main angle, it's conditioning before but this time feels very much real
sending in five forwards, the studs run a cypher again, oh my god!
Kings is beaming them all down and Neon still left to be dealt with, sitting up towards the back of the side
just a smoke to partition it up, it's a 2v2, very much winnable here for Team Heretics.
Benjy could be the hero.
He could be and he's the square wrap and he does indeed.
Finds his mark, finds the target that he needed now 2v1 and there's guns to be picked up.
Recycled now into the palms of Boo.
This was a light bite round and they're doing such a good job here.
Baiting blows in the curiosity.
Oh god, taking a peek!
Quick reactions from Benjy.
What a save from them.
Ah, that was beautiful from Benji Christian the whole round!
Such a crucial player there towards the end in that 2v2.
Perhaps that first kill with the Sheriff picks up a rifle.
How has he done that with 1HP?
Light and fast reactions, he's up out of his seat.
Benji and Sato are going to be up a lot, they feed off the energy.
Not just of the crowd, just of their own game, of the passion that they feel in matches.
In heretics now, just trailing by the one round, Ultimates close to being built up.
They've been to send this in many different directions.
For now though.
Why didn't that time, waiting it out, listening to heretics, are they going to be ready for this re-fighting?
Three, three I'll be in.
I'm coming to you.
Can I mid push?
Yeah, I don't see anyone.
I'm just waiting to smoke.
Can I fight for you?
Yes, yes, yes. Wait, wait for me.
Can you do after-stun here?
I'll also smoke this, wait, wait, wait.
You can do it now.
That one here already pushed back.
Posh it.
turn that refight into me. Cooked him and Reyes was looking for ways out of it but the
smoke completely cuts him out of the angles. It's got to sting for Heretics being fought
in refight styles like this when that was their bread and butter. The big thing that
Heretics innovated in their first year in 2024 was this kind of style where they would
refight with flashes. Oh that time it was double initiative so they were using the K
over here. Sato coming through the Phoenix Slash and a refight. Utilizing the double
duelist it just looks beautiful. There are similarities, there are echoes between these
two teams. It is like looking back a little bit to that first year of Heretics. And yet
they've spent three to be able to pick up a trophy in EVA. Oh my god.
That a random spam fight and that one blows
Even a horn it is dealt with in time and happy to concede up this space over towards the A site
Name of the game for Levies is surrounding them on multiple fronts
I think they've got a good reason they can be able to get a every time they go in that direction, but that the spam is
Dangerous from heaven so fast around it pretty bit of a read here
At least from the pistol round we saw they know the team had this we're making a play towards that
CT angle this one though could be dangerous here off angle
The waltz just went over the movement, not quite in time, still nasty shots there, Benji Fischi.
They clean off their off-spike, King, you can't just side swipe them.
The complete pinch and collapse is all up to Ful, just a share of that hand.
It's not good enough.
The lead fans didn't get a chance to be able to see their team in San Diego.
11-10, left on the outside.
Plays games, turning up to media events, getting some decent experience against teams like
Paper Rex.
And this is what it's for.
Turning up in a low bracket game, this next round is going to be everything and that's
why Team Erics have hit the panic button.
Or at least the mild adjustment button.
There are huge amounts of ultimates in play here.
It is also another big eco swing round.
I think there's a couple of ways that you could play this, but if we're going to talk about a coin-grace win condition,
Heretics might be thinking we're getting the A site fairly easily.
However, there is always a player up towards Heaven, often Blows, who's going to be trying to spam either the A mainline or up towards Heaven.
I'd like to see Team Heretics go for an A ramp fake, so you throw just one parlor, a stun, something like that up towards A ramp,
but you actually pop through A. I think that's going to pull Blows' attention towards A ramp, allow them into site for free,
Let them play some kind of post plan and with the Alts online it will then get
Very crazy. I mean that's just how you play the alt status exactly right, but with the raise in the comp I
Feel like they can they could win that yeah, I'm the showstopper the woods jills absolutely
It's gonna be a key tool into a round like this whichever way they choose to take it
It's really leaning over towards either be main or mid
That's a mid round
But they've got the showstopper away from them at the beginning if left force this early fight towards mid
We won't be able to have that level of impact early on.
One of the team heretics coaches cooked up.
So the idea is towards it.
The boom block taking out the main control.
Spikes all the way up here.
That's immediate.
Oh, this is a fast rapid take over towards that heaven angle.
But Kinkinsado just holding down the ground over the water.
And Spike is just sat tight.
No idea at all.
Showstop was going to be unleashed, offloaded, but nobody is home.
It was mid control to name it a game.
name in a game and level happy to just punch back. Yeah now you've lost the steel garden
availability from veggie fishy too. Level got the advantage in numbers. Power look. Fast
lane to cut this one up. I think this is all on boo and the flank through mid. Kills are
becoming now. Individuality is needed. Sharp pain to Marksman but this is a tough fight
indeed. Daddy overdrive. Can be faced by this one running down what a prospect that is. Spike.
They can no liberties. It's all up to Boo, playing from long range, but listen, already
half of the defuses of Winkons have been played for and Ert out, Rev are fully dominating
this. The strat from Team Heretics completely misunderstands the pace and the aggression
that Lev are going to bring to this game. They're throwing a fade-off towards C-Heaven.
There's three players in mid. None of these players are getting hit by that. They're all
stepping in front of it, looking to crush one side of your split and the showstopper launches
its way into sight with no targets.
Taratiks have a misunderstanding currently of how Lev want to play and Lev are running
away with things. They've now knocked Taratiks down onto an eco. The Benji's all despite
being great. They're not going to find many opportunities here you'd imagine.
Could be good if they find a couple of picks.
That's just desperately needing to pick them sands up here now.
Kostmaros is going to be sending it flying forwards.
Bit of a pop take in terms of what the identity was in the round with his heritage now setting
in a different direction over towards his B site.
We could put the pressure on King.
What's that?
Raptors position barely turning out in time.
It's more time the saddle to get involved and side stepping out of steel guarded.
Benjy Fischian Buu, there's a time in to see if they can reclaim a gun or two, yes, they've got some rifles of Guardian at least.
Benjy was the key player in an eco round like this before, he's managed to find a Phantom and slip into spawn.
But it puts a lot of weight on Buu to actually get the spike in the floor.
Look at this, just waiting it out.
As soon as they hear the spike tap now, they're looking to see if they can move forward.
Second one is going to be order confirmation, they need it.
Stun's going to be sent out, ricochet and fly forwards, and that's the connection they were looking for.
It's that default position. Benji reveals his hand, it's not planted for him.
Everybody's going to be watching for this one. A tap to see if they can drag him
way out into the open. 33HP, just not enough to work with.
In terms of the half ball that was offered up.
It's another situation there, Bren, where a player gets absolutely bullied by Spike.
And it's through once more. Forced to try to stick it, so that Benji can possibly clutch.
King's done amazing from this position, by the way.
somehow got two in the midst of this.
But look at this, what is Boo supposed to do there?
When Spike's able to keep all of his Util and just dump it onto you.
The Neon is still great.
And there is a clear Neon gap right now
between these two teams and which one is getting more value.
We talk about Spike being young and being fairly inexperienced,
but you've got to remember he does have an extra year over Kosh.
He played in that 2G team,
it was more of the flex role for them because it wasn't a Neon meta,
But now he's back playing the stuff that he was incredible at during tier two and he just thrives
He certainly does here second time are being called for team heretics. It is dire straight. So you've got a
Crit the course really at this point going up against the Vietan
They are a potent team on split. They don't come prepared here
You do come prepared for them to be honest they will still
If you run for your money
They have to turn around
There's urgency here, just to call back as well to what we were talking about at the very beginning.
This is a position that Team Herodix, a lot of these players, they've been in before.
They've bombed out of international events, they've bombed out of tournaments.
They've also been to some of the very highest peaks, making it all the way to the grand finals.
This is the third year really of the Team Herodix project.
This is where it was starting to come to fruition.
This is the year where it was supposed to be a little bit different.
It secured that number one seed in AMA, but right now they're not playing like it.
They've got to pick up the energy somehow.
And I just mentioned, gosh, he's going to be the tip of the spear over here towards A-Ram.
But really, you can't put that level of weight on the youngest, rookiest player on your team.
It needs help.
Got to get forwards, though. It's a stun for a stun.
Pound for pound. Just trying to deny that ramp control, but immediate disengagement.
Pit in mid is going to cause problems.
Spike used his counter stun, so now it doesn't have that available to punish somebody in the mid or late round.
or late round.
Saturn's inside this pit for a moment,
thinking that they're going to contest King.
Early ramp clear though with the horn,
reveals that Kosh is not stuck around.
They're sniffing out that Heretic's want to try to
peek into this ult in mid.
Yeah.
Re-clear with the prowler on ramp.
That's going to be good information for Lev.
Now, whether this one is entirely clear,
it's also going to be sent flying forwards,
but there's no real commitment to try and clear out this pit.
the rest of the pack moving up into B main.
But there's no Neil stuck.
Oh, Neil, pressured early.
Yeah, he's going to be pressured now,
and this is where he's really tested as an anchor play,
but already calling for reinforcements.
Orbs going to be propped up.
Tempted to see if they can flood the fence all the way in here,
to trade, from point immaculate work.
Shots all ringing out, raining true here for LaVietta.
And Neil always just being cheeky, adjusting,
TPing back and forth.
And here's what a discipline again.
It shows itself.
No one over steps, no one over peeks.
It's a crossfire setup that is impossible to get past
Reans
Immaculate macro from left. They have full control with his with their vipers pit
They re-clear with excellent utility coming out of blows
Proactivity confidence going out of spike. They realize the a run pressure was fake. They stacked me
And heritage entire game plan here seemed to be let's get you till out of them
There was no stuff. There was no snake bite. There was no, you know stuff to stop them at the door and yet
They still ran into the stack
Heretics are lost right now. They're drowning, they're floundering.
Two more rounds left into the half.
A bit of a team flash potentially could pave the way.
But that whole reveal is just two players.
It actually gives a massive indicator.
The rest of the pack is moving in a different direction.
We're ready for it now. We're still being exhaled from multiple directions.
A lot of damage done. It's just a one kill claim.
But look at how rapid it is.
Leaving no stone unturned.
The following action, the following heat.
We're going to give it to him.
You'll get no free space. There will be no avenue of split that they're not willing to fight over.
And King dances as he moves during that, overwhelmed by bodies but did enough for his team to come in and clean up.
Spike is 12-4, Sato is 12-5. Meanwhile, players we've seen dominate tournaments before on Duelist years in the past, wound is 2-11.
Heretics need to wake up.
Desperately need to.
Running out of chances, 9-3, it's a possibility if they manage to earn an extra round.
A lot of damage being just pumped into them, but I can't spam OK.
Kasmars, right on point, same with Boo, he's going to be catching the rotates,
finally punishing his over rotation play.
There.
It's an open site for the taking out, get to this post plan with the two player advantage,
they should be more than set up.
First round where they've had an enormous advantage.
Face your chair!
They don't need to be too proactive.
I thought we'd make at least one or two players potentially getting tagged.
It's going to put this one off, that would have run it back, and Woodham is going to be able to handle this one.
Morton set up now for this third round that Team Heretics desperately needed for Lev.
I don't know if I'm holding it down, still looking for more opportunities.
They're dropping it all, it takes us, plays a swing together.
Heretics are able to put that third on the board.
It's a small piece of driftwood for a drowning man.
They managed to pick up that final round and a half, but it is in no way the performance
that they were looking for in heretics in this first half.
And you're going into an attack side from Lev that have torn people apart before.
This was Lev's pick.
This is the map that they're dominant on.
Heretics need to find that self-belief though that Benji's showing you there.
He's bringing it.
The energy is sky-high from Benji.
the game. We're going to be
going to be getting to the
important of all of it. For
that we're going to be sending
it down a floor. Frankie is
standing by on the stage with
Jake and one or some of
reins and Koshima's former
teammates. Take it away. I'm
joined by Jake and we've also
got water with me and these
two actually played with
weekends when he was standing
on heat in 2022 is impressive
Like he was one of the most amazing players on our team and we always saw the potential and look at him now
He's doing great. I only took him three years
Sorry was that it only took him three years, but now he's doing it. Yeah
I mean, I'm so proud of Rien's like he was so talented
like we instantly knew from like the first day that we played with him that he was gonna be amazing and like
Yeah, I mean you can see him. He's always making internationals and he's playing well every single time
Not at the moment, but they won the last round, so I'm happy for that.
And hopefully, Heritage can, like, spell on some momentum now with that.
Yeah, Wada, why do you think they're not finding the momentum so far?
They knew that Lev were going to play fast.
Yeah, I mean, it seems like Wu and Qash are getting shot down
very early in the round, so hopefully, now that they're on the fence,
they can start getting some entries and feel the game a bit more.
And, yeah, that should be fine.
But you have also played with Qashmaras very quickly.
You've played with him just a few months ago.
Yeah, Cross is really insane. He's probably the best space-taking duelist I've ever played with.
And it's just a pleasure to see him. And he has so much fun playing on the Neon.
And you can just see on the server.
Well, hopefully they can take space quicker in this second half.
Thanks, guys. Let's get back into it.
Some decent analysis of the issues facing Team Heretics there.
They only managed to rack up three of those first kills, it might end up being easier for them on the defence side.
But the focus on Rienz I think is, it really is critical to talk about these players who are legitimately great.
And Rienz, he might be one of the greatest players ever to not lift one of these VCT global trophies.
He deserves one at this point in his career, but that's not how it works. You have to earn it together as a squad.
And at the moment they are up against the ropes and they need players like Rienz to go huge here in this defence half to bring things back.
There's a lot of saying if he's around.
There's necessary stuff here.
Benjy Fischi, make it to be aware of this one.
He likes to anchor over towards the ace site.
Just be able to disengage away from a lot of the spam coming his way.
And he's having some sound.
Looking for a bit of a refiner. Tent the sees goes wide.
It's a bit of a whiff.
Hits the corner of the wall and his damage is being done.
Heretic's players are being softened up across the board.
They are however expecting a bit of a retreat from left.
And so they've read this fairly decently.
Wooten Reans will have another opportunity to cause some chaos,
but the pack that's approaching them outnumbers them enormously.
Uh-oh, here we go. Heretic's exploring, but that damage done earlier.
Didn't take the most precision out of Neon, but he's still going to fell them nevertheless.
Just hoping that that was an A-Ree here and they get in some good retake positions.
The pistol rounds. A brutal story for heretics in their game prior. Rearing its head again.
Time for a cheat score, doesn't it, with this one? It looks to be another pistol round going away of La Vietanne for Benji.
50 HP in a dream. Opposite side of the map, in a 1v5.
At this beginning to Masters London is not how Benji saw the tournament going.
individually doing fine top of the scoreboard but struggling as a team to
be able to find that potential that they showcased in the EMEA. You need divine
intervention I think. He's going to be trying to play for the most of his
outside step with a stun. Intercepting is that. Re-clear! But even the first layer,
first obstacle to get past doesn't go his way. It's Sato. Flames his life 10 to 3,
Another pistol added up here for the rear time
The way which both teams are gonna have to play in the next map brain it's very aggressive double-chulis
Come here is and I'm starting to get concerned that heretics are gonna be out of it mentally because of how much
These players are gonna need to fight people like Kors people like wood. I just getting trampled on in this game. Yeah
Not only is this now about split right here, but it's about
They're ability to perform in the rest of the series too great players have short memories
But this will be tough to shake off if Lev convert easily here. I certainly so to go the eco stack in the right place though
Ever a chance for they were waiting for that one though to flash in the peak
Sato just cleaving through the opposition
a good thing about that. The
game's been a bit more efficient.
Consolation crisis picked up,
but that's all you're going to
get. The heretics players have
been toppled like skittles.
Third of fourth time we've seen
them lined up and a left player
easily knocks him down. They
were incredibly ready for boom.
You know, the same could be said
on the other side. I think
heretics were extremely aware
that neon was going to be
now. Their ideas didn't convert into clinical execution in the same way we're seeing from
like real struggle.
Put on this round here for L'Vietat and Sadon out, earned up that ult from Briar.
They're gonna be keeping it simple, 4-1 set up on the attack side default.
King's gonna have his watchful eye on the other side of the map, but rest of the posturing
like they wanna go towards his B side of the span though, don't pay off here.
It's a good kill to Klaib, especially on Sarno, all to earn out, but Spike is willing to see if he can even out the score line.
Bit of spam into the corner, here's a lot of damage being done, but not really the right gun for the job.
DTP still the Hacker middle!
BOOZE!
How was he managing this?
Oh, that's absolutely outrageous.
Pulls it back from the brink.
Team Herdick should have had complete control of it.
And now Kosmaris, 3-13.
They're walking straight to his own demise, it's King who mobs him up now 12-2-3.
It's pure domination, Levitant on cloud nine.
That team heretics forced to eat that humble pride.
Having lost Sato that early and then still be able to turn that into a B walkout behind his wall.
Look at the reaction from the guy.
I believe it. Get him in a
Coastreamer booth.
He might have the time after
this one. It's tough, man. It's
tough for heretics.
What a feel for a man.
What's going? Spam.
Hunting for the opportunity.
Boobie brought down.
The single digits here.
The prowler jumps forth.
King gets the evenos.
When he was looking for the
ensued vulnerability.
OK.
Chris Miles will pick him up.
That's going to cause a speed up now on a Vitan.
Who's to make moves forwards with a horn on the delt win,
but that's just going to be picture perfect.
It points out the position of the players.
No way to get past that one.
Team Heretics now.
Left to play to retake 4v4,
but he don't really have the best guns for it.
Swapping it around.
Spike decided not to go for that pushy to Heaven,
because Saddo's already on the wrap around.
Let's job is just a delay.
Must win for Heretics themselves,
but they are facing so many obstacles.
One forwards, Utah gonna be broken, Satchelie forwards on top of it, spraying around.
Shawnee!
Two in the work and the final blows.
Booze, the last one left and not for much longer.
Four piece to finish it for Spike.
Roots are beginning for Team Hardix with the Liatan.
Rimming with confidence and looking for a little bit more as we head deeper into the series.
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The USA ego peaked every single angle.
The final event of the year is not to be missed.
Esports Nations Cup 2026.
See you in November.
Here we go again.
I got you.
Baby, baby, I'm gonna be the queen that I see makes me what I am.
Folding his hands yet again!
He's got something to play!
And he can knock this one out of the park!
And now he shall be engraved alongside the plates!
here with neon of left neon what is the mental approach for today when stakes are so high
I would rather say that we try to treat as a day by day at the situation.
We just try to play the next game as the next one. We don't worry much about the rivals who gonna face
We just need to make sure that we're doing what we do to our routine for the game. Okay. That's a good mindset
Thank you and vamos
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Dominant map one by Lev owner, how is everyone able to step up to the occasion with elimination
on the line?
I think the whole tournament is like a new experience for us.
Every series, it's like we learn something new.
The communication against VRX was too high.
We are trying to keep the same energy
with more clean communications.
We are achieving it.
Maybe it's going to be enough, who knows.
All right, you guys are growing into a scarier team.
Oh, man.
Leviathan pick up a massive win on their map pick of split 13 to 3
And of course leviathan fans in attendance super pumped about that
But for our heretics fandom, you know, there is a lot of disappointment out there now
Of course folks before we head into map 2 and if you're enjoying yourself here in Masters London a little little
QR codes gonna pop up here in a minute because you should join us for the VCT EMEA stage 2
finals and they're going to be in Barcelona August 28th to the 30th. So again scan that QR code on the screen, get your tickets now. There it is. Scan the QR code. Get the tickets now. Do your thing. All right. And hopefully we'll see you out there. I won't be there. But who knows? Maybe I might try and sneak in one way or another. I'll sneak in in the back, you know.
You know, and I'm, you could just buy a ticket.
No, no, I prefer the sneaky strategy.
I'll buy a ticket to support the cause, but then the sneak.
Sure.
Yeah, you always got to have the sneak.
Now, of course, let's take a look at the HyperX Reflex moment of the match.
And it's Leviathan.
Shocker here, but it's the re-clearced that we're hyping up here, Mimi,
because honestly, Leviathan looked brilliant in these.
Reflighting is a key piece of love's defense,
especially on this map with Split.
And I think Heretic's got caught by it a lot.
Here they're going for a heavy play in sports.
Made it, feeling that pressure, the ramps players
get this prouler to spot out move
and immediately have a great reaction to pinch him.
You see the fade on the other side as well.
But I love what they do from here.
You see, Harris' route isn't expecting Sato
to be rotated in already from CT.
And with this space update,
you have a great job of refighting in,
punishing the individual fights at Heretics.
Give them and cleanly win this round.
But really it wasn't just this one,
it was the same towards B main in this round as well.
this play was gorgeous.
Well, Territic's kept getting caught out by these replays.
Yeah, and it's Sata with the flash there.
It just completely wipes out all of the Team Heretics players,
just not even expecting them to be putting up these kind of plays.
And I think right now, looking at Team Heretics,
this is unforgivable, in my opinion.
We look at the players and the individual performance
that they had throughout that map, almost multiple,
hitting a pie there, which is, you know, disappointing.
But I think for me, they've used that energy to be able to get to London,
get onto this global stage, where's the hunger? Where's the passion that we saw from Team
Heretics back in AMA to be able to make it to this place in the first place?
Yeah, that's a great question here. Let's find out from Coach Nilsinho. Is he standing
by with Jen? I had a map too.
Here with Coach Nilsinho of Team Heretics. Now, Nilsinho, what issues do you see repeating
themselves in the server?
Honestly, I think that game is one of the rare occasions where I've not been able to question our mentality or our desire to win.
We just got them out of class and ran over. They were shooting so hard and every chance they got they took.
We made some really bad mistakes and a team like that, when they're that individually skilled, they capitalise on it really well.
So, yeah, we need to go into our map pick now and come back fighting because that was, yeah, they absolutely destroyed us.
Thank you so much and should be able to flip the script because Lotus is coming up next.
Something that really stood out to me there was when you were saying when they saw the chances, they took it.
That was Leviathan's whole game plan and they really did take advantage of that because heretics were giving him the space.
Absolutely, he's bringing up Lotus as a way to bounce back in this series, but frankly, I'm worried about heretics.
I think in their last match on their defensive side, they have a composition that doesn't play with the Viper, that's into these double duels.
They were very reliant on being aggressive on extremities and looking for fights.
And I thought against Vitality, they did an excellent job of punishing any of those aggressive plays.
When you look at the last match or level on this map against Paper Rex, they did an excellent job of the exact same thing.
Shutting down defensive aggression, slow plying the attacking side, and showing excellent late retakes.
So the Heretics Flares, it's got to be a complete 180 from the despicable performance that was map number one.
against a team who I think is strong on Lotus.
Yeah, Despicable is definitely a word choice there, Mimi.
And I agree with you.
You need to come into this potentially last map of the event.
Let's not forget.
I think for Heretics, starting on this defense in particular,
I want to see them taking control of that A lobby.
Stop sending Koshmars out to just do these individual heroic plays.
Someone give them some kind of support here.
Yeah, help the boy out.
But more importantly, for Heretics, this is it, Mimi.
They need to put up or shut up.
They don't win this one. They're out.
Their journey here at London concludes.
This should be their way back in.
This was the last program before.
Sure, they played Paper Exclose,
but this has it in the top of their pool.
Team Heretic's on the other hand.
Sure, you have a young player coming in.
Sure, you have changes,
but this is a team that in the past
always had excellence at the global event
was in the discussion to make it to finals.
They've got to turn it around.
Well, folks, is this going to be it?
Can't Heretic's bringing back for map three.
Let's send it back over to your casters for map 2, here's Brent and Sideshow.
Lotus are bound here and it's a must win for Team Heretics.
It's elimination on the line, but the other ones on the cusp
are being knocked out of this tournament, Levitane.
But an absolute tear heater, realistically, as well.
I think Neal Zeena really just summed it up in the coaching interview, Josh.
Yeah, just saying we got completely outclassed.
I think the Desk will criticize it, maybe the mentality.
He's inside the comms and he said, I don't even think that was the problem.
I think we just got utterly outclassed on Split.
Well, I'm just hoping that mentality hasn't been affected by how badly they go outclassed.
They should be able to bring the game to Lev, but I like the way that Lev played their attack side.
Neon was a beast in the game against Paper Rex, admittedly in a loss, but a close loss.
Yeah, close loss.
Putting in a lot of pressure over the wards. This angle, boo!
getting balls, flipping a switch over towards the door.
It's a complete crunch in Team Herodix from the birds.
There it is, a pistol round out.
Break that string.
Cursed rounds that they were unable to get.
Finally one on the board right when they needed it.
It's a great round as well.
Not only is it a really good strategy,
but they execute it with a lot of decisiveness,
a lot of aggression.
Immediately dispelling any doubts
So they were going to come in timid to Lotus, they are here to bring the fight to Lev.
We're going to get a high tempo game by the looks of things.
Which means we're going to get a lot of those kind of brawls.
And Team Heretic's got to be able to shoot back, got to be able to be in sync with each other in a way that they weren't on Split.
The pace that Lev were playing at on Split was a little bit too much for Team Heretic to handle.
It's good to see them immediately taking proactivity precisely with the play.
Nice in with the play.
Be careful of this one though,
they're on a straight up and over for Benji.
He's got his back.
Couple of straight shots there from that bulldog.
More than I came from though.
Players just waiting for the right time to strike
with good level of awareness.
Koshmarras just dominating.
Smoke that a lot of teams have thrown out on the attack.
Anything to see if they can look in,
find a cheeky play off of the timing.
Team Ericsson got quite a few players here
would love to be able to snap up these kills. Get there all going. Looking towards Wu in
particular actually, but he's on the other side of the map. Hiding away from Frau Lerbert,
Koshomaris is not going to be pushed back up that line. Shops off the head of blows.
Looking for a few more here. It's very cautious here by Lev. These slow mid rounds are a really
important way that Lev like to play. They're fast early on, then they slow things down
a lot. You didn't get to see on split because we barely watched them play on their attack
side. But if Team Heretic can dominate these fast early fights, the skirmishes towards
mound, rubble, and stunt any attempts at this kind of stuff where they go for the slow walk-in
afterwards. Delivered, proven why they went to Lotus.
We do that one, all good. Already. I mean, Sada was left hanging horribly earlier in
the tournament, so I'm not going to read into that too much.
Now, this is all good, honestly. Fed what we're used to currently, Team Heretics.
Pretty healthy bonus going into this one. It was flawless on the last round, a bit of
spam though, you've got to be careful of this one. A boo.
Might be able to stay in it, yep.
He's going to get spammed down into the corner, so...
Let's kill...
Claimed here by Leviathan.
Spotted entirely, that position's so dangerous.
When you get spammed, you actually leave a little mark on the wall.
And they just know that he's there.
Rotations, though. Team Herodix is going to be reinforcing up towards C.
Trying to poke out where this vice wall is.
So my Sada was just walking up to it.
One satchel as well, removing a bit of the U-Tilt.
It's very calm, very patient from Lev, actually.
King calling quite a defaulty style here early on, but this is what they like to do whenever
they get into an advantage position. Without smokes, Team Heretics are going to find it
very difficult to pull off a retake if led find that open side of the map that right
now is over towards A. But they've got no interest in lurking over there. With no Viper
in the comp it is hard when you don't open Rubble to go back in that direction. Heretics
with the right read and stack of bodies here could do some real damage and more
heretics that are ready for it the folks gonna be broken nice and early deep
dash you're inside the smoke but don't want to hear players are ready for it
and eight was a backdoor not anticipated and once gonna be going down
spike is just chasing down his adversaries Dora puts up here sharp
shooting from King puts customers into his grave heretics had the right read on
the macro but left with a really good exit take a look at how this Utah goes
in onto Woot. Woot is getting flashed, he's getting forms, he's getting naded. He does
not get a chance to play that round. And now into the next. We get to see something
we've only seen glimmers of so far, the Koshmaris, Odin. This is a speciality that he's been
running a ton in the EMEA. He put up the Ares one round on Split, got a kill with it.
They're even a fast lane. Flipping a switch as well, going to be called for here.
Lev are going to be hearing a lot of this, but refighting for the aim and control.
Looks like to be the aim and the game. They want to try and take this fight forwards.
It's a good flash, dash to the side. It's all compounding now, what do you tell?
Augmenting this hit and Kostomar is going to see if he can do anything at all.
The Odin. Right, two over the job, just takes away two, but not quite enough.
It's still a player advantage for Lev. Open access now at A site.
Benji would have to be a monster to be able to take this round away,
but it's a 1v3, it might be winnable.
V3 is just going to try and isolate somebody's fights,
giving an opportunity just for the 1.
No creep ever closer here, fully healthy.
But look at this setup here from Lev,
contacting all the way,
Benj is going to try and play this one with intelligence.
O'Qu's giving away.
Flash as they choose to fight it, I mean, it's smart stuff,
but King just snaps onto the angle regardless.
Too many bodies and too much discipline from Levitan there,
Backing up into a great anti-clutch setup.
Set-up plays towards the crowd.
This strat, though, this tactic,
not one that I've seen from left before.
I don't remember them doing a delayed rubble reflight.
You know, 10, 15 seconds into the round.
The timing's unusual.
You expect from Team Heretic's perspective
that a wide-of-the-be off-barrier
scrapping towards rubble or doing that,
I guess, really late in the round.
Completely caught them.
The paranoia and Neon being aggressive, so difficult to hold on to.
Perfect utility.
Team Heretics are on an eco.
Woot goes and snatches up that all one away from a showstopper.
They're stacking the right spot again, but Liverpool are already in.
Yeah, much faster now.
Left, they're all messing around.
Third of the line, U2 being used, I believe, outside A main.
They want to call full of speed up, the right reaction,
but can they deal with these players instead of title to market the size?
Saddo is walking all over the Benji, trying to do his best yet.
That's four already for the young gun.
Sato, wasn't close to the odd before, he definitely is now, almost in Koshmaras with
less intentions, but only to short, the overdrive is going to be popped off, but
to Koshmaras I said it, there's completely obliterated chances.
And Sato playing to the crowd again, he's such a showman.
You know, we've got some great personalities here at Masters London. Benji Mayeth came into the
scoreboard thinking that he was the hometown hero, thinking that the crowd would constantly be on
on his side, but it's been unexpected heroes here at Landon.
Kostmaros picks up the operator.
It's interesting.
With this before in a Vitality game,
he's trying to take a fast timing,
potentially to land a shot onto Neon,
but Neon's at the top of his own.
It's gonna be squaring up, anticipating the updraft.
He comes out of reaction times here,
but posted up, Kostmaros.
He's gonna be favored there,
especially with Neon peeking into him.
A nice crouch position.
Let's take a listen into Leo.
There's a lot of men here
Open the door, come on
I think I got a rifle
I got it, I got it
Open the man
Ready
It's a pelin, that's right
It's pretty hard, man
There was a guy in the house of the barrier
There's still a man
I can't lie, every time we do a listenin', it feels like the team's cursed to lose the round.
But, uh, all good.
King and blows will do their best in a position like this.
Team Heretic's still not willing to let it slip.
I think if Lev can even apply pressure to draw out the show, some of that would be a win then around like this.
2v5.
Blow is considering it, at least with a flash.
4, let's get some connection.
Those are there, showstopper.
That's a place that up close here, but we'll just take some out.
I think that's a silver lining Brett. Yeah, it really is. I don't think that's bad for Levin that spot be fine when you're pulling alts out
Heretics though they put quite a lot of pressure on as if they were gonna be over towards Rovell and I think that just threw off
What Lev's idea was for the round?
King the IGL the last one left standing. He's gonna look to try to save this gun
10 seconds left. Nobody on team heretics has money in the bank
Not worth trying to take a challenge against the guy
But heretics will be happy about that one even if he did cost him an arm and a leg
At least you've got show soppers expended on both sides, you know. Yeah, it's not the worst situation to be in
Still staying competitive
It's nice work by boo right in the middle of the listening when we were paying attention to this one, but the util was perfect
Please offer some paranoia. Well
Three to three year
And here it is, looking like they don't want a hard fight over the wall to say Rubble control, but it might go for the C's Nade.
Doing that a lot, they've got that youthful prime, they're ready, we'll see if they get any catches.
Moose also just showing himself on A and now moves over to C.
Just mixing up where that paranoia is going to be. What an ult towards the back.
Jay, he's going to stick it.
He cuts us up over towards the third case, hold on this place, way out to the open, Neal's the one to deal with it.
Saw these anchoring spots in positions, it's Reans, backs against the wall.
Long side booting, needs a bit of a bailout out because he is way out into the open.
There's no form of help arriving.
Not right now. This is fast and loose boom attempt at a time. He just gets the one what a trade is in sight once more
Again team heretics are left in a player disadvantage retake spot
Benji's got an all-in hand he's had this for a while, but there's just no opportunity to invest it
What chances do you have?
They're gonna have to call this one off koshmaras with the op does not want to risk it
He's a player with no money and never gonna get what was to be honest a fairly easy one frankly
spikes ultimate
Just put who in such an uncomfortable position
He was guaranteed to go down either way
But I think it's it is a bit worrying the players of woods caliber that they're struggling to take one with them in situations like this
I'm not saying that he's favored. He really isn't but when you have players of this caliber who's been winning in EMEA
They literally lifted a trophy just a couple weeks back you expect them sometimes to do the unexpected to pull the miracle out
A lot of pressure that was being placed on it. Yeah, it's an insanely tough shot to hit
Seeker's in the front home and all on the back and Neon's movement
He's always jumping as he takes an engagement to throw off the crosshair placement. It's crazy
How good this guy is on such a large range of agents. Yeah, he's going for the chamber. You haven't even seen that yet
That's unbelievable flexibility, it's demanded of him as a player, yet he performs every
single time.
This is Team Heretics of a timeout, they need to pause into the round, I think Coinbase
win conditions are there, I'm looking forwards because Leville already be making the right
adjustments I have to say, as soon as they realise previous round, Neon dies to the operator,
they speed it up a bit all day, they realise, wait a minute, okay, Koshmars isn't playing
here, let's just make him play retake, forced to fight into the sights.
I think it's pretty tough for Team Heretics.
They look like they're getting a little bit of input from the coaches here
rather than Boo having a chat with the team about what they want to do moving forwards.
But they need to stabilise in this half and I think need to come out to,
you know, a good half for them.
They finally want a pistol, the first pistol that they put together a Masters London
and then haven't really been able to capitalise on anything else.
Boo had a big round off for Paranoia. That's it. That is it.
That's the biggest issue when you run up against a team like LeVe.
I think their ideas that they have that they come into maps with always going to be fleshed out.
Well prepped, well versed. They have a ton of ideas off the barrier.
They put the preparation in as well when it comes to their opponents that they play against,
but then you also have to get past the hurdle of the individual Amos.
LeVe, they got hitters in every single role.
It's the kind of thing we used to say about Team Heretics,
but I think the game has just got better and better and better in terms of the talent and how mechanically good they are.
Yeah. So we see.
I said that the team had X-Tiles actually let them want to take this one all the way over towards the V-Site.
Really open here, just a piece of UTIL, the thorns that were laid down to see if they could delay this take all the way forwards.
What a shot by Sato, still overwhelmed that one.
But at UTIL, still going to be fighting a multitude of value forwards, and that shorty, not good enough.
Just pointing towards the toes.
Can't do much about that, still.
Big player advantage, and who's thinking about it?
it. Neon he's just slipped it all the way through takes the path through heaven and now it's going to be
sailed again from multiple directions but the movement oh my goodness how's it get away with this
he is unbelievable what on earth did Team Herodix doing running at him like that as well
they knew he was there just giving away so many sound cues making it easy for him to hold the angle
and he's on it again for Reans sharp as anything it's pure filth made manifest i was just talking
about it yes you get past the ideas the elements that it might be going for they
had a very nice protocol team heretics here ultimates to use when I think it
came through but individuality they couldn't get past neon he's already
by far away a rookie of the a candidate in america's I challenge you to find a
better rookie that's playing like this this year no one's coming who you're
looking at sayonara maybe for vitality maybe team heretics job at this
This tournament is just to get whacked by rookies.
Apparently.
Got to get in control of the game somehow, and a forced fight over the wards.
It's not set up with any form of U-Tilt.
Just holding up the shot, shooting up the chair, might pay off.
Benji tries to help out, he's traded though.
3v3, you can't scoff at it. Team Heretics have wins, and ways to get back into a round like this.
Lev though, they're just going to pump the brakes.
They're going to make it so difficult for Team Heretics to figure out where they're going.
My boost position is good, and Lev don't have the easiest answers to go in there and push him around, but
But who's also one of the weaker individual players?
I'm not sure if they go in charge in boost gonna be able to come up with the double kill triple kill to win the round
They are kind of relying on things going into Wooten Reans
Just holding for now to ping it out of weaponry. They would be guessing correctly to heretics
They had around like this earlier though and Lev's execute was too good
It's time though
No due list available. It's gonna be harder for the Florence into the corner here. DTP is Spike
Sees those gonna be stopping them in his tracks and just need a bit of bailout and help from the rest of the team
The bill was gonna be committed as an alt from them
Okay, nine fours gonna be used water back in the side. It's will quickly overwhelm Spike
Madison to his own hands here and Reans
Twisting turning wondering which direction to look in
That's gonna wait a sound cue so the fast rotates and boo and accounted for up onto that flank here with a sheriff
Three is just really trying to keep a steady hand, steady aim in the moment.
Not good enough, Spikes movement just offsetting where those shots are going.
A plan into back side is going to make it all the more difficult now.
Budo, let's pick up the weapon.
I'm full in hand, it's going to make the most of it.
He's also got a flash if he finds out where these left players are positioned.
But I think it's really tough here.
Cover going out.
And Heretics need this. They need something.
Again, it's going to reveal his position now with a paranoia that's sent flying forwards time.
It's going to start to tick rapidly at this point.
He realises, it's going to make a go for it now.
No messing around, fully running around inside the smokes.
It's going to just ignore the pre-fire, not quite.
One HP.
The fuse now stuck.
Half all the way.
Boo, boo, boo.
He's making a play.
And that is outrageous stuff.
Well, that there is experience versus mechanics, isn't it?
I don't know if he misunderstood where the spike was planted or deliberately through that just to make it more difficult.
Chop up certain angles, but he's trying to stick that with no smoke on the spike as well.
Nope.
But he just full sticks it through.
Heretics needed a miracle.
Some divine intercession has landed right in their lap, courtesy of Boo.
Woot now picks up the AWP instead of Koshmarus, but he's on the opposite side of the map. Lev has been opening C a lot.
Setting it rapidly over the walls of this area.
Flashes up and over the walls of top there alongside that nade. It's a much deeper vice.
What's going to be delaying potentially forward towards the back of the side is a flood to Fembenchy!
Stands a test.
Put under a tremendous amount of pressure, yet still come out with a good, just a three piece for him and around.
Any more bodies where that came from two team heretics have complete control over the woodsea they have
Stunted the hit of Lev
Benji's been the one player of heretics who's actually been able to find value whenever he's been contested
But Lev haven't got into him very often. He'd be relishing more moments like that begging for him
Yeah, bringing the fight to him. This individual form has not been lacking
Leva dangerous in 2v4 spots if you give them anything. Definitely, that's what we saw.
I mean, Heretics were committing ults in the 2v5 earlier. How much pressure does left
team do exert? Yeah, that will make it a little bit nicer. Close, handed it an uneasy task
in impossible order. That now, 5-5. Heretics clawing their way back in. Two enormous rounds
could not have landed at a better time for heretics.
Benjy with three, the adjustment on spike.
Glorious.
And it may well have saved this half for them.
Leva's still gonna have some money
to be able to work with here.
Rest of the half looks all right.
Here's a timeout though.
Tack timeout taking kinda late actually there
in the day from Levy at hand.
There's two rounds left to play for in the half.
owner wants to adjust something.
They've been opening mound a lot,
which is an unusual way of playing non-viper compositions.
So, Coinbase win condition here
that owner might have come up with is
to opt into faster A rounds.
Or maybe even that A Reclear,
because the more the boo gets pushed up
on those deeper rubber lines,
the more that A Reclear is gonna work,
but they haven't actually been exploring towards A late
when they open towards mound.
You don't have the luxury with no Viper.
No, but that also means they don't know
what the late round A setup looks like.
They haven't gone and explored there.
So we've seen it, but they haven't really interacted with it
They know that Wu was there last round with a knob. That's about it
But if you allow team heretics to go and dominate rubble this round Wu will also have a showstopper, so I think
Does seem likely to be that Lev would want the troops to be headed over towards a
Let's see what they've come up with though
Levwer fairly firmly in control here on Lotus, up until these final two rounds, courtesy of a ridiculous clutch from Boo with ice in his veins and defence from Benji, the two at the top of the scoreboard.
As Wooten re-ends, the bigger names continue to have a little bit of a struggle.
See Woots, he's got the operator in his hands here, deep deep deep into the match, it's a fast play.
He's going to be cutting up the angles, a full stick might be punished, yes!
The decouple is straight onto the line, perfectly played through the door, slip into the net,
that's going to be caught by Benji Fischi.
They've laid out the trap, the Vietang is walking directly into it,
the wider towards it, even the shot is not going that way, here it takes!
He's slapped, Leve back down to earth, they ground them in around like that.
There's been an enormous swing momentum here
Heretics have not been themselves that masters London and these last three rounds. Maybe they're remembering who they really are. Yeah
This was fast. It was decisive. They got in if I did more like round one, you know, they know exactly what they're doing
And they have a strategy to deal with it
As I said though level still got the money to be able to buy up for the rest of this half
So another opportunity to tie things level off a team of heretics to take a sizable lead
Might be correct read as well from her it has got three players posture towards that B site
Leaving Benji fishy to his devices trust in him
Not misplaced with the way that he's been playing
It's another mound open from levier time, but this time they leave King lurking over towards a so they have options
maybe to look to sneak back in. He's looking for a little bit of information on that A side,
just audio information, but it is hard for Lev to try to get back in on that side of the map.
The later Vietan played us as well, the worst is going to be for them with which showstopper.
Pace might be required, boo. Very DTP and that's just purely for information. Didn't see anything
up towards that rubber angle. Schmar is going to be taking points. King's giving them an option
to pivot away from the C here if it doesn't work.
Well, that would show something.
Okay, there it is immediately.
And Lee shitting it directly into the corner.
Ludby and Troy now, the horn reveals two.
30 seconds left.
Where the hell do you go if you're levitating?
Flip it a switch, but you are panicking at this point.
Now, King didn't even keep the space on A,
so Neon and Blows can't go back to him.
Not anticipating it at all here.
You have big ults to utilize, but only 20 seconds to do so.
Off into the corner, Neon finds it, still 30 HP.
And we tilt it down, still guarded, now going to be used.
Execution styles, the short he brought out,
Bruce going to be up the last to Eglipus Mars,
straight in there, nice thing!
Stabbing away in the back.
It's not even necessary end of the day,
but two-round lead for Team Heretics.
Exactly what they needed.
The energy palpable from this squad now, the self-belief evidence.
What has Benji been teaching the boys?
For the first, I know it's London, but that is a business.
What a great defensive recovery from Team Heraldix.
These last four rounds have been exactly what the EMEA fans needed to see from their top team.
Giving us a proper game.
They're backing it. They're favouring them.
Backing it. We'll see if they can take it all the way to a sin in map three to second half of Lotus.
It's going to be coming up.
Got it!
Give it Rien's up to her text Rien's
What would be the key for you guys to survive left today?
I think if we just play like ourselves, I think that's the key for us.
Because last time against Vitality, we didn't play like ourselves.
I think we did really bad stuff, you know?
So I think this time, today on stage, if we be like real team heretics, I think that's the key.
Thank you and good luck.
The real heretics.
something here where he was saying we didn't show ourselves we didn't show the real team heretics
in that game against Vitality i'm not sure they really showed it during split or even the
there were glimmers of it okay round one yeah okay but all of the rifle rounds that came after in
this first half were wrapped up until that final spurt of rounds towards the end those last four
of what team heretics has to promise they could win another pistol here they'd be feeling great
about their chances, but the way things are going in London, it's not looking pretty.
That's been tough. Loosen out. You're in that fashion for you. It's just going to be,
taking over a bit of a split approach, which Marus just seemed to get a bit of information,
but the one way looms up, denies over that chance, flip is going to be on the switch there,
so the door taking B main control, this time over towards A to scuttling and scaring it
carrying it afoot, steps, couple of bullets, also whistling fast, the King might be looking for timing, hold on, body blocks out, oh my god, what is this, taking the play!
Matt is into his own hands there, just a one-to-one for the traitors in sight, and now, a pivot into a different direction.
Over towards the B site, slow going though, it's contact plays all the way for Heretics, and they've got themselves deep map control, spike.
Level of awareness here, hold in tight, the plant's going to be going down with no real pushback.
Boosterl has a paranoia for post here, they're gonna be finding this one shortly.
Hold on, that's utility of his hands, the most unfortunate timings, but spike.
He's gonna be paying the price as a result of it, Neon, deep dash.
Cuts up the angles, but he's still hunting, searching for a couple of these heads.
Hold on, he's discipline, slugged his bite in their time, and suddenly it's brought into a 1v2.
Kusmarus, all in his hands.
Kylo set up in play, dashing, sliding forwards.
Makes the best of a foul moment there.
It's all over the end of the day and a pistol round claimed under their belts.
I love the idea from Heretics. I think the way that they played that round,
making it really difficult to let them know where they were ending.
But the challenge from King into three players and he gets one, wild.
And then this retake, Sato blows a neon in.
And they put a lot of pressure on Heretics there.
It's too much to ask of Kosh.
just TBS replay. I get Kosh though he's at the top of the scoreboard now he's
got more kills just on Lotus than Woods had in the entire series so far you
know there's there are issues here for the heretics players that you expect to
step up and they need to show that same level of brilliance that he's being
echoed across other players at this tournament. Other players in this match.
The reinforcements down across Mars.
There's an outlaw here, it's full armour.
Not too many half armour targets, they're waiting on the other side of things here.
It's just Neon and Spike, they'll be susceptible to it.
I'm really fully investing into this one.
Not wanting to let it slip away if I kind of min-max the economy.
Yeah, I mean if you see that your opponent likes to do this kind of thing,
thing where they force by the outlaw then makes a lot of sense. Yeah, this one goes to smoke up onto the staircase. They are really
contacting trying to threaten and that's two shots that will bring down King in the end still aware of it now position away here and he's
able to bulldog blows really our favorite in that line of sight is gonna be taking a lot of damage. So trying to weave in and out
but they could be given opportunities here for Heretic to get back into it.
Player advantage.
Pump face now, but now overwhelming amount of util.
Kitchen sink being locked towards the back of the site.
Goss Mars is straight there with the rest of the pack moving forwards here.
This is good.
From Heretic, still need to get the spike down though.
Playing it safe.
Tucked towards that T4 angle, needs to be covered in time.
Goss Mars is going to be going down.
And the players are being picked apart two pieces.
Whippenry picked up the rings with a stinging, makes the best of it.
Brings it into that 2v2, trying to play the cost-up set-up here with a wall and a double-face to 3-2-1.
That is great pro-activity, dropping down low, down Neon versus Benji.
Big gun in his hands here with the rifle, trying to ice out these fights out, sound cues being made.
It's Neon just trying to pull Benji way out into the open.
He's not one to be working with this gun, Neon gets half, he's already earned himself potential win-cons even more.
Look at the second tap of it, and he's finally found where this player is. Six!
It's all he needs.
And good that the fuse on line.
Oh my god, was it costly?
It is a good eco round for her.
But when it comes down to a 1v1 like that,
when it's so winnable in the 2v2,
it's just heartbreak
for the EMEA squad.
Leon's so skilled, man.
That drop down to deal with Rien's is spectacular.
And because he likes to fight,
because he's an aggressive, confident, mechanical player,
Benji doesn't think the first half is him getting half.
It puts him in much more of a difficult position, but the economy, you are right.
It did do a lot of damage to the left.
They're coming into this with what's essentially an eco, just relying on Neon.
Fully invested into the anti-ecco. What a shot by Wootenke!
Aggression, full-on opting into the C-Mount fight.
And a punish, the Livia Town playing it entirely for it.
That is the kind of thing you need to see from Wootenke.
If he can get his legs under him here, on the attack side, this might be a very different
game.
Chose the front line as well.
Exactly right.
They're not up from the plan.
They are going to be in a prime position to take this even further forwards.
They might sound crazy, but I think that might be the first fight that Woot has won against
Neil.
They fought against each other a ton in this series so far.
I'm just going to show you guys my impact, but now he's got the showstopper and he is
the playmaker moving forward into this round.
He can crush the Leve economy here with a good game plan from Boo and a good ult from
Wu.
Opted in to the A-flying perhaps, heretics could, had to pull themselves into the lead
and they'd flash, port up and overhead.
Something out of any of the players, the opposition, Lovietan just going to peel all the way back,
anything like they're fighting.
Niberside seems to be too interested in it.
Booz is going to be still holding on to a lot of this space.
Reans wants to really sell this one.
The pack would still be remaining around this A site.
Booz calling so far has been lovely as well.
He's given them zero opportunity to find out where they are around the map.
It's been extremely quiet.
And they've been testing the very limits of where Leva is holding.
Leva are going to have to start adjusting and looking to re-challenge,
re-fight into some areas the kind of stuff that was working really well for
them on Split. So Blazer goes out and grabs some a bit of information here on
A. And that's going to allow King to lean over with Neon but they still don't know
that his pop is about to hit.
There it is, nice fall, flash forwards, it's going to be Dov's. Being timed,
Dov's to potentially play around Neon trying to really square up your blood
out of them, cost Mars though. So they slip all the way into that back of site.
Show stopper. Extra element going to be thrown into the mix and a bit of a free
in a corner, guessing game, still gets the job done.
Full side control into the post plant, your thorns are going to be layered down on top of it,
Eretix in a great position here.
Leverage is contacting all the way in, not using any util, they haven't even revealed that they've already
walked all the way forwards, it's a double flash in through, back in the sights at home.
But Justin is aiming in time for it again, and that's going to be the overback,
what a time to activate!
He can be the difference maker in this game.
If Rude decides that this is a match he wants to win, a tournament he wants to stay alive in,
he can make a little difference here, at least on Lotus.
Neon struggled to find that first engagement that they were looking for,
Koshmaryas up through the back, and moved Clean's house.
Booster did a good job as well in both of these post-plans that saved his paranoia.
Great piece of utility to use.
Lev's economy mangled.
Neon though, one away from getting a Bladestorm online,
So they're gonna try to push heretics out early here all in flight again
Was that a main space DTP cuts it up
Off to the side and not accounted for bruises straight there almost picked up in the midst of all of this
I mean it does have the blades on the use, but
Okay, look at the round two
Flags forwards up draft to see if you can catch any stragglers. What is that? Oh my gosh limits the margins
reins is going to be
to capitate it. Hold on, Pasquare, stop next. This is getting a little bit testing now. I mean,
Benji has possibly won the round for you with this look, and yet Neon has still found two
targets over towards Rubble. It's going to hand over a couple of guns, isn't it? If they're too
noisy though, these thorns are going to get popped, and it's going to slow things down and give Neon
another chance to contest at waterfall. Dead to dip, but I don't think he'll realize that Benji
has worked all the way to the back of sight. Cover going out. It's a good smoke control
Over the sea it is blocks off the waterfall angle who's going to commit to the plant
One has a job to do though and team heretics aside
It's the guns that have been dropped as well. Yeah, I'll picked up by spikes and blows
One of the biggest problems to shots going white there from the hour that could have been paying absolutely everything
Slicing and dicing his way through just one blade left
He's not gonna get that reset in time, but players are toppling talk to boot out
I'm rightful hands and over could just be spelling defeat and doom. What is that?
Unreal work from Nioh. Just when he thought of Team Hedis he could have a chance for a runaway with one of these maps.
Gaining a sizeable lead, it's Lebu answers straight back.
Hedis has done the hard part, getting themselves into this situation. What is that shot?
That's a prediction. You could also argue why is Team Hedis challenging this.
this you know that he's got the knives he's the danger player but also look at the quality of the
shots that he's hitting yeah I mean Neon he's been given the slimmest imagines to hit those shots
and he's delivered they are a dangerous team and a mastercard thrifty has just brought them back
within sniffing distance here on lotus eight to nine
They've been opening towards A, the maturity of these rounds.
Now, looking towards a fast C-Quast.
TTP. Who's going to be cast on that one?
I feel like it was safe enough to half-commit into everybody.
This cleared up backside control, so it lets Team Heretics work their way all the way in.
How do you win a post-plant here against Sato's showstopper?
Heretics are going to have to be aggressive somewhere.
Fighting Agro might have to be in the name of the game.
Waterfall control.
They wanted to take some level of it.
They're gonna threaten like they're pushing waterfall but actually just leave that deep wall there really nice really intelligent
But they still haven't got an advantage prior to Sato going for the retake
I'm gonna be broken they rebounded into the corner spike
Our lawyer is gonna be ready now, and it's gonna be sending it by forwards here. It is showstopper
RAPID right into the corner the collateral damage might have almost been done
Soffin of the opposition is a good trade though by Wolton
He is on a sliver of HP moving forward steadily at that the team is just trying to take this one with as much coordination as possibly can
The shooters this time not hitting it is all heretics. Holding it down into the post.
The two round lead still there's.
Benji the blood sacrifice for heretics to hold on.
Important kills there towards the end as well. There's a smug down on the spike.
There's pressure in constantly. The early peeks made all the difference.
The boot comes up with two unfavoured in the final fight but King could not find it in the IGR battle.
Pressure is back on for Leviathan and their economy.
Sado's bringing a Guardian into this round.
I think Team Heretics Blue, they're doing a much better job at giving themselves options to pivot around, creating pressure in multiple areas around the map.
But Leva not buying it this time.
Not quite. Very quick in terms of...
Probably used to be said to be main control. King's going to explode an hour here.
Grawler forwards and just walking up using the fast lane. There's a bit of problems. Fire King.
Why not even anticipate that the back side control is already lost. Still he sees the tracers. Swarm's it out!
Guardian's fang on the way. Couldn't reset it in time and it seemed heretics.
Again, they swarmed the opposition and the attempt at the flood defense is dismantled.
And that's how fearless Clutchmarus is playing in this map too. Found his feet here. Hold on,
What is this show stop a rip just in case neon and spike were here? It's all expended
They're just trying to get the plant down
Yeah, I'm just trying to see if they can earn themselves a bit of space wrapping around excited. I've rock is not gonna be finding its mark, but
We're telling I think in a mentality of heretics. They are
Feel like they have to use everything. Yeah, but a fear there just to keep
Hold into this map
He's trying to get out, Neon, still alive and active and that means that anything is possible.
Planet towards the back, he's already earned some of the one kill.
Trader's there, rapid though. Spike still on top of it all.
We can see if he can earn himself half of it.
A spam though.
The song, the issue momentarily.
11 rounds down for Team Heretics.
Kosh deserves a lot of credit for the way that Team Heretics are playing here.
You heard his former teammate typing about that previous map.
Even when he was getting destroyed.
Even when they were getting tremendously outplayed,
and Niels who hurts,
but here now in more comfortable territory,
he's playing really intelligently too,
for a rookie player that's coming in.
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, baby.
The way that Booz asking him to mix in these faster rounds
with some of the slower tempo contact plays,
they get ready for a C-pop, they wall up, he walks in.
No sound cues, makes it incredibly difficult for King
to figure out where he's gonna be getting pinched from
the timings involved, not giving away the game at all, making it really awkward as well
to try and hold down like you're saying with the anchoring setups here. It's forced the
time out of love, but down tremendous amount of rounds now, it's taken a lot of sheer heroics,
that individuality that we keep referencing, keep talking about, you have to get past to
be the team like Lovitan. They are being dismantled now, Team Heretics have found that confidence
again. Distant memory of them being top top team this year. Keep harkening back to it,
but supposed to be different this year. Number one seed at EMEA. Should have been an opportunity
for them to right the wrongs of the past when they've attended these globals and been met with
disappointment. Now they're finally playing like it. And this whole day is EMEA versus Americas.
Oh yeah. America's landing a big blow early with that 13-3 on split, but Heretic's still got that
talking to them. They've won that master cut thrifty earlier on because Neon was able to get
his blade storm online. This one does guardians abound but Neon's not one of those players
with one in hand. It's a classic idea. A lot of teams won, haven't they? Going up against the
Mike. Look at the smoke will cut off the line of sight regardless and now the pivot into the
B site. And through the blue room there's going to be a nightfall. Going to give you a piece of mind
A lot of this is clear, but Spike sidesteps the Prowler, sidesteps the Olds.
He's only got a Guardian though, Spam is not going to be called forward here.
A couple of straight shots into the corner.
It's making it awkward, making a test here.
Rean's not feeling safe that he can get this plant down,
but finally now, I'm committing, the Nave could be sailing up and overhead all the time.
It's starting at something up target, Cosmar's going to be brought down a heal.
In the back pocket, Neon brought back up to 100s.
Pressure onto the flank, it's going to be mounting to this push and pull lever.
The amazing when it comes to these B retakes even with the weaker weapon now
But I just need to find these shots in the target still
Landing them forwards the rightfuls into the hands of wood this time making it sing they agree bounce
Sato pushing forwards, but just it still not is just ridiculous
How is that happened?
Sato's died to a maid from a player that expired moments ago and Benji wins what should have been a 1v2
The Red Bull Clutch, take a look at this again, Leven done such a good job actually of applying pressure to this.
Saddo, sits inside the knee, trying to play patiently.
Not wanting to step into Benji Fishi's sideline, but also not realising that Nade was rolling down the stairs underneath his toes.
Along for the role there, pulled it into the 1v1, and you're going to have to play off the back of it.
Ring's team heretics up to 12 on the cusp now, sending it all the way to a sent dash.
Through grind here, Nioh turns into that pressure!
Oh my! Disguise the opposition and a flick and a rest, why not?
Fancy stuff all around and quick shooting.
One point from Neon. It's not going to make it that easy for Team Heretics.
They get up to that point and Neon shows you that you've still got to fight.
Kosmaras and Rheads turned into a combat. Absolutely brutal.
The Matos have seen that from Team Heretics, where their spacing is just a bit too good.
They're right on top of each other, lining up.
Cosh is going for the Aries.
We see him with these kind of guns, Aries, Odin with the neon.
Weird stuff that he's formulated.
All players looking to fight as well from left though.
Fast lane.
All angles at all.
He's opened up.
He gives an access to a sight line.
And the next one's going to be collapsing.
Olds are going to be offloaded though.
This is over towards the B side.
Plus Markz is trying to create that sound pressure.
Left not buying it though.
The stack of bodies ready and waiting over towards the B side
and out desperation as Team Heretics will move over to more C.
Big Ulster could be utilized, but with the players about to take probably want a little bit more than that.
The spike is not committed to the C-Walk.
Team Heretics have done this a lot where they try to contact into space that they think is going to be a little weaker, a little open.
Retreating flash.
But Blue doesn't have his ult to be able to reconnect with the rest of the team.
He's going to have to make it a bit noisy.
Position time here for Team Heretics.
Level for this one here, level 5 themselves bunched up a little bit past it's positions
but they're going to be in a good spot to retake towards C as soon as the confirmation
comes in.
3v5 is going to be off to the intro here, the plan goes down, I'm not finding too much.
So 3v5 though, it's on.
5 forwards it is, dealt with, broken in time, smokes to cut off the angles, deep flash.
Nobody is back side here. The rest of Team Heretic is going to be playing this one.
Shot of the shoulder.
He's going to come down to see how sharp are their shots.
Neon hold on slicing through them. Play some in hands making it overly tricky.
Squaring up the Reans, Reans!
Leads it into the hunter ball!
Can't get a turn but my god, did they pressure them?
Reans almost delivers it on a platter for Team Heretics.
That's a second opportunity, a closing out Lotus.
And Lev come through with the goods.
This base wall that King had put over towards B really ruined what Heretics were going for here.
They were trying to make it fake, feel like a rubble fight, pop into B.
That's a disaster.
But we want to speak about it.
Where did we get the 3K from?
That's ridiculous.
It's incredible stuff.
Unreal spray control.
What a pity the boot couldn't convert.
Because now, now Team Heretics have no weapons to work with.
Yeah, that's why I was talking about it.
I was surprised what they could have made the decision to save those guns.
It's forced out of time out from Team Heretics here.
They don't have the money to work with in terms of a buy-in.
They have plenty of votes.
Overdrive with Koshmars.
Maybe you can piece something together,
but it's all going to be most likely settled around 24.
I think that what we can definitively say at this point
is that the Heretics players are starting to come online.
Yeah.
You are getting big rounds, big moments coming out of Woodynry
and so we're struggling a little bit, map one.
Koshmaras was getting Neon Diffed, frankly, on Split.
And now he's playing great up towards the top of the scoreboard.
In fact, clearly at the top of the scoreboard here on Lotus,
on his team, at least.
You're getting good moments out of everyone on Heretics,
and that's why they're in a winning position on their map pick.
But it hasn't been enough in the final two rounds,
or the most recent two rounds, let's say.
The final two yet to play.
It is a full old bank, though.
I don't really care about the state of the weaponry to be honest because when I see Overdrive show stop
But like you said full kit terms of the war chest being filled to the brim of alts
There's always ways for team heretics to win
Always ways for them to convert and bring it all the way to a cent
But of course the worst case scenario would be they think it's winnable expand the alt bank
Yeah, and then go into round 24. Always the risk is a balancing act
Put them to pieces to give it to see what they can get
Spam into the corner, whooshes way up into the sky.
Sotan, like a trade pigeon, sat on those shoulders.
They're going to be going down here.
Yes, Utah's good alongside that overdrive.
Cosmar is going to be mopping up a couple of pieces
of the opposition forwards.
Now, that is insanity by Spike.
Insane reaction by Prowler forwards.
Anticipating the reswing.
Left, and he got me stopped.
CHEERING
The mowed-down team heretics here again.
3 rounds in a row.
But the silver lining is for the EAA squad.
They didn't invest those important ultimates. It was only Koshmuras.
On and equal round, using the neon ult.
Very reasonable.
Very economical.
More on a few opportunities now in this round coming up. To convert it, prevent it from going to OT.
They're doing a B and C default here, looking to try to push me on the way if he was offing
in an aggressive position.
He's threatened in the B-pop, but there's an ice wall there.
It's going to be a fake B-pop into C by the look of things.
He's going to pull some seekers, 11, almost around here, following the sound cues.
They need to bait this ice wall without getting anybody killed.
Biting the time for now, anticipating there could be a refight from Lev.
very passive positioning from Lev on the a side of the map. I don't like it, they've lost all of that info.
All the control very early on, because none of the seekers are moving over there.
But at the same time, the nice wall of B, not being tripped.
Fogs, those ones are right here. Yeah, he's trying to square up, I think he
realized that Buu was potentially isolated but
he's gonna play a bit more patiently now. But what's the A side here? It's getting the right read.
What a round to go and re-explore A, it's so difficult and yet this is the one round Lev and nowhere near.
Yeah, and it's pulled all these players away with 40 seconds remaining, but they
may have realized, hold on, we've made it over Rotate. They're the hard committing
all the way around towards it. Ooh, what a master blast. It's being sold by the Smokes.
The door being flipped. That's Kosh Mars as well. This is fully saying that there's a presence of it all
a day. It is evacuated to C site. X-rayer on top of an eye full. So they're not second-guessing
themselves alongside the showstopper too. Neon, he's closer to the forward! How is he hitting that?
Demin looked like he was aiming towards that point, yet still he takes Woot out.
Benji's ultimate, absolutely critical here. Biggest tool to save Heretics.
He's going to be waiting for the U2 to be used here to just delay.
Lead some extra seconds off the clock and there it is.
Utilize now, it causes that full evacuation out.
Lev, they're going to have their weapons taken away.
Rapidly looking to reassert themselves here with their player advantage situation.
Heretics trying to play up close here.
Chances and IoT to take it all the way to back three.
The wall is going to be triggered, Thorn's already dead hit, it's so damn awkward already here for heretics, they can just pluck them to pieces, pick them apart with the rifles in the hands, the time ticking, it's forcing the play into their hands right now from the mere time they need more.
They are absolutely brilliant and this is not on display for heretics, they take control and they send it all the way, we are going to a safe.
Look at my scout, look at my scout!
Go, go, go!
dick's head
I
The body lift from the night till the morning
Life only hit and hold me tight
Show me how to survive
I need you to move your body right
If you don't want me, don't want no
The party live from the night till the morning
We had to come out to the crowd, hang out with the people.
Ain't that the truth?
It's a beautiful crowd.
Just want to throw it out there.
I can't hear you missing out.
Now, of course, let's talk about what we just saw,
because we needed to see heretics come alive.
Billy, you were talking about it.
You were like, this team, when they showed us in map one,
simply wasn't it.
But who would have thought it would have been a clutch
diffuse from Boo that would have been with the doctor order?
Yeah, more passion.
That's what I wanted to see coming out from Team Heretics.
And I think that clutch that Boo was able to get, for me,
at least in this map, was the pivotal moment
for Team Heretics to find that hunger and passion back when we consider how the map started off for them.
It wasn't looking too hot, but then Booth got away with this play.
I think that really that unlocks a lot of confidence in a lot of the players that we weren't seeing in that first map.
Yeah, it was quite close in this first half, but after he gets this defuse, it's a few more rounds one.
And what really impressed me in this game from Team Heretics was how they followed that into this attacking side.
I think they had a really great approach of how they wanted to play.
Both these teams are running the Viperless Composition, which means it's pretty tough to play that slower style and actually have the pressure going back in towards A.
But I think they did a great job of playing slow, of figuring out where the stall utility from their opponent was in Leviton.
Dealing with that and then getting these excellent late round hits.
Almost too slow on the last round though, I must say.
Got a little scared.
Slow as molasses on that one.
I mean they were moving really slow and I was a big concern.
But on the other side of that though one player that we were a little concerned about because he has often been the
Entry the tip of the spear for this heretic squad Kaushmaru. We wanted to see his kids step it up
Did he do that for you guys in map 2? I think this is the best map of the tournament from him so far
I've been honestly pretty disappointed in Kaushmaru's in this one
I think he was okay in the second map of the first series that they played
But for me, this was one where he was actually delivering and going back to the success on their attack side late rounds
I think so much of that was down the costumers. He was doing a great job on their C execs of dealing with the solo anchor from left
Not one was a complete
Individual dip no one can hit a shot. No one can just forget about a single player
That's why it's so important that he turned it around and hide like he did on this
And the coaching staff sent this so as well, right?
We heard it for me a very much felt like a GG go next
We just forget that the first map even happened and I'd expect the calibers of these players to be able to GG go next
Yeah, and that's exactly what they did
But now we set our sights forward toward a cent that'll be the battleground for that final clash between leviathan and team
Heretics one player though that we've been really questioning. Where is he?
Yes, he reends has kind of just been chilling in the shadows until the end of this game kid really came online
Now they're really gonna need to rely on him
I would imagine in a sense. Yeah, for sure. When I think of a cent, I think of Rienz.
Yeah. When I'm thinking about EMEN in particular, and I think as you mentioned, those last kind
of rounds for them to be able to close out the map came down to him. We're looking at
Koshmires being able to step up. Let's not forget he's a rookie to this global stage.
Then I look at the rest of Team Heritage and the experience that they have going up against
Lev, who are fearless, have nothing really to lose when you consider
how far they've been able to come in this competition so far.
Yeah, I think there's big questions on the other side as well, going into this map for Lev.
This is the map that they got absolutely dumpstered by PaperX.
It was a 13-1 loss on that as they debuted a composition similar to their other stuff
with the Devil's Rulers with the Phoenix. I don't feel like they have a terrible ascent.
I think they just had a really slow start to that series. I think in particular what PaperX did well
was show aggressive problems on the defensive side. They were constantly repushing into mid-getting
picks, repushing into extremities and getting picks, and I felt like level is far too passive.
This map, I want to see a Leviathan who's showing more what they showed in this series so far
and is taking the initiative to go for these very heavy early fights into extremities
to prioritize getting over to their Phoenix and be willing to be the team taking that initiative again.
And I guess we're looking at Neon on the chamber here to be able to take those fights
and take that aggression to Team Heretics. Team Heretics at times have been struggling with keeping
up with the temple, the aggression, the pace that we're seeing coming out from this left side.
What I will say for Team Heretic's goal is, this is a flawless map for them in AMA.
Four wins, zero losses.
And it was a crux for them in playoffs, I will say, for them to be able to go off
and have that lower bracket run and be able to make it to this event.
So honestly, I feel like this last map is going to be like you go back.
Yeah, I mean, it has to be, right? We made it to map three.
Heretic's managed to force things as well and bring this to that point.
It's a lot of pressure on these players on stage here.
But to have been following Benji's career for years,
This kid's used to the pressure, he can shine in those moments, so I have no doubt that
he's going to be bringing that energy with the squad.
These players have been here before, number one ENEA seeded team, this is a brilliant
squad that is really just one or two solutions from picking up the dub here, you know what
I mean?
There are only one player different from that team that in 2024 did that, made it to two
back to back finals.
It's two years ago now, it's been slower for team Harris, but this is their home event.
this is Benji finally in front of an English crowd and trying to show up in a way that he didn't earlier in this tournament look good on map 2.
Going down to the side for here as well, I think he's great and he's one of the players that I want to highlight, especially on attack to be that
that. I think that's a good
idea. Be that extra player. Yeah,
dealing with left aggression,
especially once they have the
up online. 100% I'm looking at
her takes here and getting a
little worried that they haven't
steered away from that
composition. Hoping that doesn't
mean that they're going to rely
on old habits and fall into
things and not see anything new
from them like I had kind of
highlighted at the very start of
the day left those dying on this
to bands be mentioned the
aggression in the pushing out
This is where you have to show up. You had a great swiss stage look like the best team out of those groups
But now they're in the playoffs. They dominated map one, but slipped away on that second
It's a team of four rookies only one veteran player here and very high
Expectations this is where they have to show that they can bounce back that they can leave up to those expectations on the global stage
And to that point Mimi, they probably have to suffer any losses so far when we think about their run regionally,
making it all the way to that grand final through the upper bracket. Yes, it was a devastating grand final loss, but here, this could be it.
Folks, we're going to map 3 and you know what that means. You gotta make some noise as we get ready for a clash between two phenomenal squads.
Let's hear it for your casters and take it away.
London looking like two of our best on ascent. Lev incredible performances individually inside
of America's. Team Heretics 4 and 0 with this jet neon comp in EMEA and yet Lev got spanked by
PaperX on this map which they might have legitimately thought they were the best in the world coming
into the tournament and they found out early. How much have they learned and how much can
Team Heretics play in a similar way to put that pressure on? Well it was like a bit of a hard
read here. Team Herrick's fully contacting all the way up until they get towards the doorstep. A site
fully open there, sort of taking to use
bit of utile bits and pieces. The dart was committed but it's going to be applied into the back of the
sight and a full retake played for. They actually still have a really good post by the utile.
Neon stun, paranoia. Yeah. Voodoo not really in a position to use it from hell. He's going to be
holding in main so we'll see how this gets used shortly. Posted up. Stun as well to peel away
The left players, they're going to look a bit like they're trying to fight us into the door, yeah they are.
Parallel already sweeps his way forwards, but not expecting this one already.
Distraction's been played for, what is that flash? Everybody blinds it up and King would apply to make.
This team happening to capitalise, they swarm on the opposition, smelling up blood in the water.
It's a full defuse from blows, he's got safety in numbers.
He knows that his team has got his back pissed around, squared away.
They're trying to come up with ideas, trying to create some pressure over there, but they
just didn't anticipate the right positioning of these retakers.
They thought they'd be right next to the door, all in three.
Instead, they're tucked back.
Pretty safe spots actually, being played by Neon and King there, and the counter-paranoid
does so much work.
Here's that strategy again from Team Heretics on their attack side.
armor with an outlaw. Allow him to roam around the map and see if he can generate any kind
of opening for them.
It should be ready for this setup. This is something that Lev do a lot on a sense in
terms of their defensive anti-eco protocols. King with a judge in a main, Sato just jiggling
with a Molly in Kat. They've done their homework, they're going to know how Lev wants to play
this round.
The judge has a bit of a nightmare if you give it over. A boost smoke. Cut in the gap.
Might be baiting King in.
Yeah, I mean, it's good for the judge, obviously, but it's also good for the Heretics if they can swarming.
Yeah, they're pretty aware, I think.
And there it is. Another level of awareness. Saddle.
Just for the mornig out, couldn't retreat in time.
I mean, the way that Team Heretics are handling even just round two here at a disadvantage shows that they do have an idea of what Leve are going to be going for.
Yeah, this is something that Leve have been criticised for, not switching up their setups too much in terms of adding to the playbook, being too readable.
It hasn't really been too much of a problem for them. They've usually been able to pack enough of a punch.
When it comes to the firepower, that even if you ante them, they're still difficult to get through.
Looks like clear homework being done by Team Heretics here.
Still they are running out of time to make a play towards this.
30 seconds roughly in the round to work towards, and they're making a lot of noise as they look towards beat.
Trademarks are going to be slowing them down potentially if it's not broken in time.
It does indeed get detonated, so they're going to be slowed to a crawl.
20 seconds remaining, Neon dominating control over the wards main.
Multiple players now swatted out. He's done a lot of damage in the process though without running through peels all the way back to safety in time.
Let down just to find a few seconds. His plays are being softened up. They're gonna get a move on. They're gonna get a move on.
They're just getting mowed down. But blows Bulldog in hand.
Heretics with some nice opportunities to open, but as you said, the tie being their biggest enemy there towards the end of things.
10 seconds left, one at the remaining.
Lowes is taking on pretty early in here to his understerage,
which is a difficult ult to get on long and early doors.
Lever about to head into their bonus.
They can be extraordinarily aggressive in rounds like this.
You will sometimes see them go for a tiles crunch.
We've seen rounds in America's over in eight seconds.
But this time, patient.
patient. Shining a job for heretics, he's not thinking about it. Yeah, Reans.
Number 2 far forward there and he is going to be caught completely unawares and scoped
up to our post-backup onto the line.
I was wondering, what the hell do I do from this spot?
He's cycling for the Utah, but he's going to peel back.
He doesn't want to give away his position, he's a good sheriff player, but this is a
weak weapon to have.
It's a real tough angle too, he's not going to be favoured onto that line anymore.
That's going to be set up, now we're going to be fresh, sure, he can adjust it in tight,
it's a good slide.
LeCosmire is going to be playing the rest of his team in.
Very simple, good round here from Heretics.
Not trying to get too fancy with it.
Boosted attacks I call in was lovely at times on Lotus.
He can mix in those very intelligent rounds.
Whoa, what is that timing?
Okay!
Pulling down the weapon door is going to be traded pretty quickly.
Who would not have expected this might be there with him.
Shouldn't matter too much in the grand scheme of things here.
Team Heretics, massive player advantage.
Post plant looks pretty sublime.
Any damage though is good damage.
The attackers are not gonna take a lot of rounds usually on Ascent.
So if you can put pressure on the economy by playing for exits,
it normally pays off in the long run.
And that's gonna be on Spike.
See if you can do as much damage as possible, just the one.
Yeah, good updraft from Woot.
Yeah.
Nables to take three weapons forwards into the next round.
It's very simple stuff, they just post up on angles and they're looking for the aggression
to come into them.
Female default, going through a B-exec, utilising your nil to be able to put a lot of pressure
on the side anchor.
Usually though, Levy and Tanigun have much better weapons to be able to work with.
Around like this, I see it utilized
Holding operator in play here listen in to see what level got at their sleeves
I'm going to bang and I'll open it, if I'm close.
I'm close to the attacking.
I want to be close, let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Happy to do so
You know they're not gonna want to wade into the judge angle not too willingly
Is at some point gonna run out of these smokes
He's got around 20 seconds until the phone another one can be deployed
Disappearance, there's a gap here for 18 heretics to look for a pic
30 seconds down onto the clock here
3d5 though
Konami's going to be pressed if Team Heretic's end up losing this one, keeping away to Guns,
but they're going to contact in as much as they possibly can.
It's a good swing.
Reans, rips away two.
Now there needs to be a bit of a speed up here from the rest of the Heretic score, who's
going to be TPing in, trying to get a plantile coverage for the side Benji Fishy, taking
out, going to the chest, and Neon is just unreal.
He does it all man, doesn't matter what agent it is, and we finally in this match get to
witness the signature one. The chamber. He showed you early doors, his omen, then his jet.
And now the chamber that he's been absolutely destroying people with in Americas. And in the Swiss stage.
Heretics seem like they were in two minds of whether to commit to that, but when Rienz delivers you two beauties on a swing out,
You've got to at least fight for the round. You have to but it did destroy their economy. So now they're on a half-bite
It's gonna be weak here. It looks like a man's gonna be pressured paranoia primed ready
Crazy to do this on an anti-eco. Yeah, he's letting it loose anyway
The long side the stun the molly is gonna be burning them to crisps. Oh my
It's doing all sorts of damage on the highlight the delayed dad is that cherry on top
It takes time to really make it go a bit. Hold on, the judge is not going to be getting that angle, Woot.
Just trying to get involved.
Reans. Limpin' away from this engagement in a 1v3. Spike is irretrievable.
What a risk to take for Levitat.
Go for one of their aggressive and tactical plays into the eco.
Yeah, I usually you don't want to play things like that
But sometimes teams will come in with game plans where they want to take the riskier option when they have a big advantage with weapons
Just for the conditioning factor just so the aeritics start thinking that that's a possibility
Because it is gonna make the attack side slower to go and take a main slower to go and take b main
I love your worry shitting
It's a gorgeous tactic. It really is
They are excellent with these tactical plays this is what level of throwing in that made them such a threat
I think a lot of team, you know a lot of teams talking about who the best in the world when it comes to a sense and a looking board
Elimination game by the way, I mean he's such a show
He's peering over the team players as they take their attack time out
That guy is you really want to break?
I think honestly goes to show the difference of pressure on both of these teams shoulders
We've been talking about it all series long
But the leviathan they played up house money
This is a squad that expectation wise they are playing for the long-con
This is a journey for them essentially they're just looking to rack up experience the trophies for them
Something in the distance that they have yet to grab
But they are looking to play that long-con in terms of the journey that they're taking with this squad
But the heretics have been through this before they've known disappointment
they've known Grand Finals, but they haven't been able to lift the trophy.
And now on the verge of elimination,
this is where the pressure gets made manifest, I think.
Completely agree.
And much like your chances of lifting trophies in Valorant,
the opportunities, they are few and far between.
You can't afford to let them slip.
And here, on the attack side of Ascent, you have similar situations.
You're not expected to win a lot of rounds.
So if you get into winnable positions, you've got to be able to convert.
With rifles back for Team Heretics,
They just disrespect a man instantly level not gonna want the same strategy again. They call the bluff
And go and take this space depositing somebody in there
Push though neon cams gonna be spotting him
Who neon stuck here now?
He is
What's the shorts going on here? Just potshots raining down and plays on multiple angles here
It's gonna have to be insane reaction times
Call for the pause though
His place is still have committed on the different angles though
He's always got his teleports to be able to escape here.
He's playing within range this time.
The bench is going to be close.
Shoulder to shoulder, and that's just a little brief fire.
Brians, the only angle is like the back of his hand.
He was fishing for that one a couple of times.
Re-exploration of my leg.
Yeah, leg, want to make a play now.
Down to play a water response.
Yeah, beautiful.
Straight through the cut, Sado is also getting involved.
Just takes a peek, takes a hit, clean off.
Going to be risky business from Lev here. They're down a player.
We're going to see if they can even things up.
The drone, we met with the Paranoia but it gets the tag that they were looking for.
Kings in a lot of trouble. That is lovely work by Reans.
Pre-MCIT, Alistair TP was going to be online just swinging it way forwards.
Blow's gone down too and that's going to crack over to B-side calling for an immediate adjustment.
Sandoval's burned his ultimate there thinking that it was a full APOP.
King even got lucky. He failed the teleport and that actually let him survive.
Reads otherwise was perfect with the hundreds fury
This might even just be a save round for left. Yeah
I you just you don't have a clue where any of the team heretics players are but with that kill saddled twice now just
barreling into heretics
Taking heads taking names quite entries, but he's just taking straight up raw aim duels still gonna be to save though
Yeah, they're too far away to make anything of it and King too low
But he's scoping out some of the setups. I mean playing for exits here is also really good though
Like trying to do some level of economic damage to heretics is what level should be looking for their money is still fine
Saving the opp is all right. Yeah abundance of wealth
Keep piling it all the way up here, but the heretics critical rounds
And around the showcases experience how many times has we ends pay the cent to know exactly
Play that angle. Yeah, and course also
Great punish of the spike is in a way
two kills that are remarkably similar opened that one up and despite Sada's best
efforts heretics get another on the board
in terms of asking questions about like how many do these teams need no idea
nope not a clue defense is potent though any man of attacking rounds that
team Ericsson gets will be good for them see even out immediately with that pig
From Neon, but oh my god, he's gone for a little bit more.
Anchoring it down, holding it down up towards the staircase,
but he needs a bit of a bailout, needs some assistance.
That's going to be the fast lane.
Trying to help him out.
Inserting some of his teammates with reinforcements,
gives him possibility of peeling back.
Reans cutting it up, tied to the angle, not anticipated.
Penji's right there alongside him, sort of the shoulder,
but again, snappy. Magnetic stuff from Spike.
Looking at the multitude of directions now,
wondering where the next fight is going to be coming from.
Boo, DTP past the line.
This might be completely unexpected,
But Neon, he's got his eye well trained on it,
waiting for the overextension, waiting for the signs of life.
Smoke though, it's good stuff by Buu.
Pushed and pushed back up onto the line,
Spipers is making sure to lock down the angle,
and Neon's job was made simple.
That's a remarkably good defensive setup
that they find themselves in towards the end there.
Spike looking down B, Neon getting a bunch of good kills,
but I've got to give huge credit for Spike in this.
He throws a fast lane to try to help Nia, swings out to take the fight into Rien's,
causes the market door so that there's only two angles to hold with two players instead of three.
You need players that are willing to take a risk in a spot like that, and that's exactly what Spike did.
Money pushed down again, Koshmara's picks up the Aries again.
That's a pre-emptive shock dart looking to try to stop a drone that might be coming through mid.
Reans is going to be allowed. Full clearance here with the drone, Neon.
Once the poster potentially hit a target, actually not triggering onto the one side of things, but...
I love the awareness now with the re-clear.
Trout of the run is going to be used. It does force the dash out.
Once nothing to do with it, they're looking into a different spot.
Straight through mid.
Trout is going to be heard. Broken by Benji.
Taking risks in a spot like this.
spot like this, but it's going to be spotted out by Spike. The stun is good with that connection,
Saturn is going to be low as anything, Hunter's Fury is used preemptively. This is just a
peel away and help him out. This is the other side of the map. Just had a range, I think,
from a couple of tags getting active online. A jump spot. They realize they've lost control
over the wardrobes and it's up to Benji to see if he can do anything from this pressure.
Calling for reaction back over towards B, but Neon is ever closer now. Well, it's his
and by it this time, and I shot, but they are put into the blader regardless.
They've always got a beautiful setup to play off Neon as he escapes,
whether it's spike dashing in or whether it's blows on the line with the Odin, bro.
They've just got these defensive setups down pat.
You think Neon's the threat. You deal with him with the updraft.
Pressure him off the line but don't get the kill and suddenly there's another one away.
It's an anti-eco. It's a round that heretics are expecting to lose.
But they need to start putting rounds on the board here. We are getting into the final four rounds of the half.
Running out of chances.
Woot with the Bladestorm. He's one and seven. It felt like he'd woken up halfway through Lotus.
You need to see it from him. Big play, big performance especially when he's leading the
charge, the rest of his team there. Can I get up this spot? That's where Neon is, the
Parano is going to be sliding and gliding forwards and reflashing the play, that is
good. Fighting out, deep into his tree, he's going to be putting the squeeze on the anchor
plays, Osado, super looking for the re-clearance, Benji, right on top of it, Kostmanas as well.
It's served himself into the conversation, and to double into the tally.
Now you've just got to lock out these other two. Make sure that there's no opportunity of throwing away a 5v2.
This has to be around there. Heretics secure. They're going to pressure out these players with more expensive weapons.
They're going to look to go and save. It's another opportunity, Branwere, I think. You know, they could start to chip away at Heretics, but we're getting towards the end of the half here.
Three rounds remaining, and Heretics feeling good about this one. Woot even got to upgrade.
Big round from Heretic, big pace increase up through mid, taking in multiple different directions.
There were chances, I think, hot shots from left where they could have actually come away with a kill or two,
but it was lack of hesitation, I think, that's the name of the game.
Yep. I mean, that's part of the reason why Levy and Tan throw in those early fights.
You know, the Tars crunch, the game they fight that we saw.
They don't want the attackers to feel confident going for fast paced hits like this.
Normally in more usual standard comes some days past you would have a KO knife to deal
with this kind of stuff. Now you have to rely on that conditioning and Lev thought they'd
done enough in reality. Heretics are calling their bluff and Lev haven't quite played as
aggro on defense as they've shown at times in America's. This round though they're very
set for it. Yeah. Wood's positioning here. It's almost begging for them to do something
aggressive to be made
Deep B push
TPS from boo as well. He's gonna get a lot of clearance up from mid and it's yeah
It's a cute of the punish. I think of West Mike likes to play
Roaming and floating around the map he loves the jump spot off the fountain
Yeah, if neon was tucked in that position towards close mid as well
Maybe it could have gotten early pick doing it now. We'll get the punish now a couple of bullets. Yeah, just sales past
Saddle with the same setup
All in his hand, looking to send this one flying forwards, but that is the benefit of the Neon.
Can skip straight pass and get disrespected entirely!
Koshmars doesn't care at all, King. Two for his trouble, traded out by Benji.
Damage already being done.
Pace being set by Koshmars, now he's getting blows again. I'm going to play full retake here.
Shot down might get a bit of damage done, bit of work. Koshmars up towards the top and he could play spoiler.
Punishing this one when the drone comes out, swinging wide.
They're not expecting it.
Forward's close, snaps to it.
There's a couple of bullets left remaining.
This is a 2v2 and the spike is still not down.
Heretics, we're gonna make a play for this.
They full commit this time.
So that's why they get themselves into the post plant.
Still danger though, especially with this Odin's spam.
She's never know, you might just get beamed down at a moment's notice,
but the double up is called for.
Team Heretics playing.
Crossfire set up.
Holding each other's backs.
No tags, the shot just got a wide here, Benji, first sheet.
Alternator's position, I'm tucking in and calling that 3-2-1 swing, oh my!
That little bit too close to comfort, but at the end of the day it is around, added up here.
11 health points, separating team heretics from losing that one.
But Benji, happy about it, absent the card towards the end.
Kosh has done amazing by the way. This 2K is fabulous from him.
He had to read early on of where Sato was going to be playing. You saw it.
Round two, in fact, where he was looking with the Outlaw and caught on to Sato. And this is another round.
The finest margins though, separate that round. A lot of pressure coming out from blows in the on.
to be on an eco at any point.
But it's about getting. The
shut down on these faster plays
when team heretics commit to
stuff, especially through a
whether that be a split or a
hit. It's been more successful
than any other avenues that
whether that be a split or a hit, it's been more successful than any other avenue that they've tried.
Pressure of it all day, getting to read them where Saddo's playing. Like you mentioned,
a lot of punishers occurring from him.
Let's take the time out here. It's a major difference between potentially Roski Senairo 6-6-1 or 8-4.
potentially game-winning tournament extending so all the pressure now
steadily mounting over the course of this series it's starting to reach the
pinnacle heritage again not dissuaded from taking this a main space early on
the rapids using you till paranoia Kings got a judge does he go for it and I'll
hide in there attended over there on plays that potentially could make a
play to no scope into the smoke I'm going fishing for it doesn't actually find
it here, right ahead of it.
Paws now, that's a big reveal from the dark, who's going to get tagged up?
Come on Spaff, find these kills, but Sparrows has got it.
Jones going to be used to clear this one out, fast and loose now.
It's the way that this is being played.
Left group's up, Hunters very now, this is meant to stop and punish.
It's done to them, but now it blows them in cool way out.
He's going to be open on that follow-up tag, suffering up King.
Now we see the old, offloaded, running back from Sato, is jumping down, eventually traded out,
but he just claimed the one.
What is that by Neon?
Finding his kills.
Trowel and Cobblestone, how are they doing it?
That is just ridiculous!
Sattle!
Four kills in a round for him.
But what the hell was that from Neon?
I guess he's answering back.
Crushed Marus is flying the kill over towards Heaven as well.
Look at this, this is where the beacon comes from.
Combined with the flash.
Saddle's just done so much so in this round as the Phoenix all but it sees
drop-down kills as well just squeezing heretics I don't reins it done enough at
the Hunters fury yeah but even when these experience plays on heretics have
a moment there's one responding back immediately from Lev last chance at his
half everything here for team heretics another round where they want to go
over towards A early on but King he's here instead of helping Neon over towards
Kat, he's trying to stop that A push if it did come through. This round though Boo
calling a little bit of a slower pace, prodding it both directions and getting
Woot set up on that angle, great punish on blows. It's outside up though, Neon's time
it's a shine, once out of that roll and that gives him the timing to take, it's
evened out almost immediately blow-for-blow there woot and neon
Osada was the star of the prior and if Benji Fischi tries to make a play
thinking the B's gone a little weaker without that sobering position
he may have a bit of a difficulty on his hands diligence here by team Heretics
just trying to pick away at the defense taking out the trip slow going for 45
seconds left. Benji can control a B main. It's like the fall is made. Look at the end
of it towards B. The pressure is going to be on Spike here, alongside Sato. So they can
do in a spot like this. A lot of youth are waiting but they've got those rifles trained
regardless of all of it. Trying to adjust it in time. It's just for one. Looting it forward
so Benji is all the way forwards and not ready to trade them out but that is a bit of an
overheat Spike. Setting it flying forwards. He wasn't expecting a couple more players
I think to just scale all the way in as a TP by King.
Cemented now, rooted, anchoring towards it with the judge in hand up towards Lane.
Shots fired, it's traded immediately, Nioh straight down, it won't be one but time.
Time, seven seconds remaining, the pressure's on.
Atap for Reans. Atap for Reans!
He hasn't committed! And Nioh with the Reans!
Plays the time, peels back.
And Reans left at eight rounds.
Boon took a risk on Lotus and it paid off for him in the clutch.
Rienz takes a mighty risk there at the end of the half and Neon reads it like a book.
Absolutely absurd ending to the half.
All on the line elimination between these two teams plays being made across the board
but it is led with a sizable lead.
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I should know better
Than run right back to you
Losing my mind of how I knew
I let her
And no one can take it through
product and ways of Canada
Where's my foot foot foot my baby
Can't get your lucky shape
I'm a threat to you
to win the game, I don't want
to pay for state and I take it
up.
Eight full half.
Have a little to overcome with
your team heretics here in this
elimination game.
America's versus EMEA.
Leviton.
Lead like this would just be
cemented of a pistol round win
Heretics is essential. They stop that earn it themselves
Looking for a bit of aggression down mid off the rip here spotted out swoops
And the jump spot how committed into this corner now double face double swing out live
Shava shooting here with the pistols in hand because tomorrow, so it's not done yet
It's up the upgrade immediately gonna be disengaging
It's another early death for Wu he's having an absolute nightmare
Needs to find his footing needs to find his form. It was so important for the mon lotus
But now he's left the task to the others.
They want to re-clear this.
The time is missing, the time on that one, but Neon, he's...
We're gonna just peel back the safety.
That was crazy though, the first ping didn't get it.
I know, just from the smoke dissipating, right?
4v5 gonna re-clear through B main, they at least have that information.
Allow us, Kosh, to move over towards mid, but I don't think he's gonna go for a challenge here.
We're gonna play things quite passively, Heretics.
As safe as anything, giving up a lot of control up towards Cam though, but Cam's going to be spotting that.
There's no paranoia for Buu. There's no real trips even to interact with.
To anchor back forwards in a way, reveal one way at least with the cage, so we can play up and through.
He's trying to play this one close, cutting it up!
Two players, blink of an eye, and it's traded now in a 2v3 for this pistol,
because Maras feel like he has to go, but it's one now, visually gliding his way into the fight,
He's putting multi-shooter targets, but it needs pure heroics.
He can't stand up to it.
The tests that Lev are putting on display right now could show some reins.
Shocked out to the ready.
To be sidestepped and dodged for now to Tarte.
Not revealing it.
75 help to work with.
Double Tarte leaping into the fray.
Pistol round her top for Leviathan.
That could just be the death blow.
First nail in the coffin for this team heritage squad.
Everything has been going wrong for Heretic's here at Masters London, they've lost to a vitality team that they were, in my opinion, clearly better than any EMEA.
They couldn't win a pistol, here the pistols have slipped away from them again, repeatedly.
And their players have not found their form.
The Heretic's coaches have felt misery before, but this is, again, them being plunged back into those depths.
It's supposed to be the tournament where things would be different.
Full seed, skipping the Swiss, but...
...Henry takes just meeting obstacle after obstacle.
Not able to come up with answers.
Contrast that with Lev, the way that they're playing, it's freeing almost.
Jumping out of their seats, screaming, playing to the crowd.
They got to experience the other side of this too.
absolutely dominated in their first game of playoffs, playing against PaperX here on Ascent,
a map that they wanted to go to, but they still had faith today, still left it available in the
map pool as that map 3, and you're seeing why. Heretics have got the wrong read here,
went for a gamble stack over towards A, but Booz managed to slip the net years back in.
I saw him though and I'm going to use a U2 to clear him out.
Stun connection but a right click could do the job.
Gliding forward, spike is more than ready for it.
Wukdo is buying some time for the rest of the team to get in.
Hold on, the Sheriffs.
Stunner lights up the feed.
Classic Interhands of Rean is also doing a heavy amount of work here.
Double down, bodies out to the open air being chipped away.
Whistled down.
Interhands of Rean at the left but this post plant is anything but comfortable.
They're not even in it yet.
Even if we've got the plant down, blows.
So we're going to iron him, but now fully committing.
Player advantage here to Heretic's.
It's a grand opportunity, but he needs a little bit more
to bring it over the line.
A fast line is going to be causing that pressure spike.
Fighting forwards, brought down any way to movement.
China adjusts to the game.
It's Saddo, left now alone, will be two home.
It's misery and heartbreak again, but it's Heretic's squad.
And it's Saddo again.
He runs ascent.
The Desk was saying when they think of a set,
They think of players like Rien's, you better stop thinking about players like Sato.
He's outrageous here.
The adjustment here.
Small reset of the re-gloy.
And he's 17 and 7.
Takeover game.
Incredible in Swiss.
Brings it through with a Red Bull clutch.
And that could have been a lifeline for her, it takes...
That he could have.
Instead they're Rodellus.
They've managed to get a couple of guns, silver lining being they did damage to the level economy.
But this is a bonus. I mean you should be able to win this one.
Exactly, and Lev, all those kills racked up, sat out, he's going to run it back already in his back pocket, rifle in his hands.
Woods tucked himself into a position where he has to be good for it.
And he's been struggling.
I'm out of here.
And the head of the dart, flash.
Smoke is up. Paranoia is good to try and play this one all the way back in.
Spikes in a bit of trouble. It's an ult immediately dissipated.
There's Woot, lightly firing.
The reflight goes over towards Cat, a little bit over Zelis.
Dash, Woot.
He's not out of the picture here. He's caught in a corner.
Wait for the game to try and come to him.
The Cloudburst to play over.
That's pure brilliant at the moment.
Unique idea to get away from this.
dodgy situations might now be a drop down into their laps it's a huge round
from the team heretics due less funky positions but neon's dealt with
all of it now I love that really clear you know that's something that we were
talking about so heavily on split less on Lotus because the game ended up being
quite contactee after the defenders to figure out where the attackers were
going but here Kosh knows that they've taken tree and that set up as he goes
back in is beautiful and who delivers if we're going to be critical we've got to
be positive to when he actually does turn up that two games in it a made is
exactly what heretics needed they still trail by five rounds and that was only a
bonus that they managed to dismiss here comes the real deal
my face into mid you said here comes the real deal it's money guns weaponry in
the hands of these left players. Five rounds being the difference for Heretic, so you can
have the clawer back one round at a time.
Woot is looking to try to get aggressive. Fighting is cash forwards. Taking a fight
straight to them. That's crazy.
Not sure if that's a misstep or what, but...
Must have been a mis-input. No way you're dashing forward solo in Gelato there. Just
maybe the nerves getting to him a little. Tucks himself back in the wine with no exit
strategy. He's got no dash, no clown burst, crazy position of play.
Try and fight his way out if the fight comes to him.
Smoked up.
There's Fam, he's gonna go both ways here.
Looking hunting for the kills, almost on the mark.
It's the same defensive setup.
If you go tree, Caution Boo are gonna whack you with the paranoia and stuff.
But they've seen it once, so Lev pivot on the direction.
It's low as drone in towards B in the case this is gonna be a B-split.
So Fly by Rean is looking to cancel that drone out.
Keep Lev guessing as they go into this B-split now.
It's onto the anchoring players.
Edgy Fishy, Reans, he'll do a lot from the spot.
They might begin as a backup as well, arriving 30 seconds remaining.
They call her a pivot.
A space taken by King.
He's going for the pack to move over.
They have 24 seconds left.
They don't have A main control.
Saddle is looking for a kill here.
Out into the open.
A util to be held.
There's a game of timings and right now Lev might be winning it.
But the insurance policy potentially played for.
Hold on, kills collected.
It's all on woots.
A main and watch for now.
10 seconds left.
Pings out for the potential plant position, but it's a safe plan.
And it's being watched for in the main smoke.
Spike protects the VIP.
And Benji is watching dismay as it all falls apart.
This whole game, they have not wanted
to go towards Benji Fischi.
He's just never had an opportunity
to influence the game the way that he wants to.
Lev have cooked up something beautiful there.
That set up on the B-split.
And then the little pump fake making it really
feel like they were going to come in. It opened up entirely the tree position. That same trap
that they ran into before with Kosh, disaltered an instant and King just walks on in.
This is brutal for heretics. Going to put together the rounds, the gun rounds especially.
They scramble to give her a bit of a bite. Glass cannon by the operator, whoops. Placed in his
hands. Boo's not working with much either here. The smoke calls for concern. At least
the Phoenix one should say that's a spam up straight through mid. Reigns is caught
out. Woot and Kosh are going to feel like they have to make a play. It's an alternate
turn. Neon just picking them apart now. It's a round 11, feeling inevitable that it will
move to 12. Woot. I'm going to get this chance here to take the shot. It is patience being
played for calling for the pause once more. Letters just making Team Heretic stew. They
make these moments excruciating to play. You feel like you've got to do something.
You're down a couple of players, but Levin giving you nothing. No information around
the map. You're scared to peak any angle. You don't know where you can try to generate
that return position. And Heretics are just forced to kind of fall back into a passive
3v5. Offensive positions. It's going to be on the shoulders of Benji Fishinboot. Benji's
He's been asking for a moment to make his mark this whole game.
This could be it.
It's time to shine, but unlikely odds.
They're going to be stacked against him here.
The one-way's already going to be dead in here.
Onside is Kage's.
Saddo.
It's going to be saved up here.
Soaking up an abundance of this Utah.
We're trying to play forwards and around.
Inside the cage is a bit of spam.
Forward's.
Benji reveals it.
Now his position's noted.
Inside.
Gliding to the side.
Trains are through and thick and fast.
And it's all feet filled up in red.
Blood's spilling out on the streets.
fight themselves up to 12. The pause of the patience is so nice. There have been
multiple times in this match so far where heretics have expected Lev to lose
control of the game and get a little sloppy in clutch scenarios they always
think that they're gonna be. This is an order team, first and foremost they have
that discipline to close out these 5v3s and they have seven chances to close
out this low bracket match and send Heretic's packet. It's all in now for Heretic's matter of
survival. They've got to drag it back one round at a time, otherwise they will be exiting far
earlier than anticipated. It was both America's teams up for elimination today. The region hyped
up heading into London, but EMEA first on the chopping block is their number one seed.
I'm shocked and Hashmah is
praying that the action is going to be leaning towards him.
The flash sheet does not pull the trigger.
It does not reveal where the setup might be.
Straight shot.
Woot.
Jump spotting for the information here.
Slow round being called here by King just wants to work the map.
Remember last time they went for that B split fake and he walked in through tree.
Fast now, it's wrapping onto the approach, but it's officially almost getting caught out into the open.
Territicks, certain themselves playing more anchoring positions, but the Molly's going to be cast on that drone out.
He's not able to look for the information he was hunting for here.
Heroics players need to step up, and it's Kosh.
I'm wondering where to step up to. This paranoia is good, but on on the TP, the TP, big play.
Well done, these players out into the open, 30 seconds remaining, and it's Fury!
This picture perfect, Kosh. He's trying to survive on where the site is.
Slicing and dicing, going back over towards B because that is where Saddle has been
instead of this entire time. It feels inevitable.
It's not the angry players once more, Benji and Reans. What can they do?
Weak weaponry in hands, 13 seconds remaining. Time might be theirs to play for.
Rapid plays all around. Reans! Reans! Might have just turned it to save them.
But King's doing the damage. This is all on Taboo. Black Sight all to play for.
He's got to survive. He's got to live.
But he's born of that lifeline! One round more!
With only a second on the clock, all he has to do is live.
And Lev could not quite hunt him down.
Reans, he delivered them a triple on Lotus and it wasn't enough.
Yet they still pulled through.
Here it delivers them a triple with a spectre of all weapons.
Unbelievable.
And it's just enough.
Neon there probably getting punished by the shorty nerf coming into this tournament.
A couple months back, Leve probably already won the game.
Here's the tiles crunch.
Trying to make a play for it.
Loot's going to be punished all of a sudden.
But Neon, Neon's position completely accounted for.
And just like that blink of an eye, it's all gone slow.
Damn, Ron Leviathan.
Not eliminated today.
Today, the protagonist in this story, in this tale, the tournament runner, will continue.
After being picked by Paper Rex, you knew it was going to be a difficult run for whoever lost that game.
And they got battled on ascent. Here they strike back, a 13-6 victory against another team known for their ability.
On this map, a 4-0 record in EMEA, not enough to save Heretics.
Lebs showcased excellence in form, in resilience, in discipline.
And Heretics just couldn't find themselves here at London.
It's a fit of defeat for Benji Fischi in front of his home crowd.
What was meant to be quite a beautiful moment for this squad here, they take him out.
This event, it just could not be.
The Leviton, they get more chances to show what they've got at their sleeves.
Deeper and deeper into the tournament, it's going to be a tough road for this young squad,
through the rookies, but they've got a right mentality for it.
The energy, you can just feel it off this squad, man, what they give out.
It's incredible that they have so much energy, so much playmaking potential,
yet they've found such a great balance between going for it and not over-heating.
I'm always impressed when I watched him recently.
Kings calling as well to World's E.M. there. Beautiful.
Let's put in a complete squeeze.
They are the sharks in the lower bracket that you do not want to run into right now.
Just really trying to avoid them.
The heretics, they will have to watch from the sidelines.
As the rest of the tournament continues on without them.
We'll be in time though, we've told them a dark horse, like you said, they're the sharks in that low of a racquet.
Dangerous team, you don't want to run into them.
You don't know what kind of form they're going to be on in the given day, but it's usually going to be top form.
And they've showcased as well that they've got a map pool that's completely capable of being able to take down these bigger squads.
Heretics have got years more experience, but they could not handle them on maps where lead felt confident.
Yeah, that one and three
They weren't really close
That being said, we're gonna send it down to the four momentarily Frankie is standing by one of the star players a little bit on
Take it away from Verizon post
You are an international rookie. So how are you managing to look like a veteran on this stage?
So Leon
Technically, you are a rookie in the international championships. How do you feel like you're a veteran here now?
I'm very happy because I'm living my dream.
It's something that I've wanted to do for a long time, to be on that stage, to live that experience.
I'm very happy.
to win this match.
So, taking into consideration that you don't have so much experience playing with European
teams, did you adapt very well?
How was that?
No, we are always preparing for a kind of game, a game of what we have in the front
and we always try to do our own play time.
We don't think of the person we have in the front, we just go face to face and we
And now you will get a result like this, how was it possible?
It's hard to know what happens, in a game of that level, everything is very good.
You can get it once and then we can see better things, we can do a better result.
What we always do is not think about the past, we live in the present, we think about what has happened against PaperX
So we played like we had to, and we were very happy on the day of the game.
So, we are very happy to be here in London. How is it going with the fans here?
I am very happy with the Faque Teño team.
Both for the Faque and for the other teams.
We are both very happy with the Faque team.
But you guys are very good at fighting.
It is something very good for us.
I was already playing and I was already tired from playing in the back.
I've always been very happy with the opportunity I had.
be the only American team remaining in this competition, you'll find out what our next
game is due to. Go up against Fert.
Thank you so much for that, Frankie, and we're joined by King, the man himself. Good to see
you, buddy.
Thank you, man.
Congratulations on the win. Hard fought. Heretics is an incredible team, but I want to go back
to the beginning because it really did feel like you guys were not just playing with the
confidence at that start but a dominance is what you guys felt like you were unstoppable on map one.
Yeah I mean honestly we had a very good read on their map on their split and we were just
just looking at the run as I played and stuff and we kind of knew many times what they were
going to do from literally the start of the run. Yeah on map three as well you guys looked great
it was back to that form from map one and your trap plays were working consistently and I think
That's been the thing for your team that we're talking about that people start to know you for the micro the trap place
You have so many of them. Who is the the person in the team that is designing these preset ideas?
How do you guys come up with that?
So I have to give my props to the coaching stuff. Yeah, they do an incredible work
They they make they are always consistently like whenever we show around it's like, okay
We need to adapt this or just throw like
I think outside the box, between that place, so I have to give my props to them.
Yeah, so I want to ask them because you have had to show a lot.
You had a long Swiss stage, you're in the lower bracket now.
If you want to win this tournament, you have to go all the way through the lowers.
Do you think your style can hold up to that?
Do you guys have enough in the tank to do that?
For me, yeah, because as I said, we do have, of course, our rounds and stuff, but we mix
them up so much.
Like one round we can be doing a set trap,
but we're mixing the macro.
Like you don't know if we're actually doing a trap
or if we're actually playing towards that side.
So you'll show the same thing
but have a different round off of that.
Yes, and eventually just coming up with new stuff.
We're just, at some point I like to just
start playing more reactive,
like just start off with a default
and just play macro.
Kind of read off of them.
Yeah.
Stuff like that, yeah, and it makes sense.
Hey, well look, we're not gonna keep it too long.
I wanna know who's this guy?
Who's this stuffy?
Who gave it to you?
My girlfriend.
She's here with me right now.
I don't know if you're in the stage, but I'm in the audience here, and she gave it to me when we were like one year in the relationship, and now we're four years in, so it's just like whenever I'm alone, because many times I'm alone, it's like the sign that she's here with me.
I know that, I know that. Now I gotta ask my wife, where's my stuffy? Come on lady, step it up.
Always a pleasure to talk to you my man. Congratulations to Leviton on an incredible win
But that is going to do it for us here, of course folks
We have plenty more to come because it's going to be another EMEA and a clash
It'll be foot taking on G2. You don't want to miss it and as always. We'll see you on the other side
Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up here. It always was a bit weird.
all started when I got to the FIFA World Cup and, wow, thousands of Verizon customers.
Have you got the free rides tickets too?
No, I'm with amazing seats.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
And even pitch side access.
Where are you?
David Beckham.
A Verizon customer.
This used to be for players.
Now it's for Verizon customers.
No one gets you closer.
Only on Verizon.
I
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
game. We're going to have a
great match of the day. It's
going to be foot e Sports
taking on G to e Sports. Of
course, Golden Boy here back
on the desk. We got Mimi. We
got Billy. We're going to yap
about some E M E a and a
clashes because you know,
that's the theme of the day
today. You love to see it. Uh
but man, quick reflection,
Billy from you on that match
of great game between
Leviathan and heritage. Yeah,
I think so. I definitely think
that Lev had team her takes
number. I think that team
politics maybe weren't
expecting the expecting the
aggression that left were
It's nice to see them put up such a dominant performance here.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
So shifting gears to our next NA EU clash is going to be put and they're looking to stay in this bracket.
Can't keep themselves alive.
Make that lower bracket run.
But one player that they're certainly going to be needing in this instance, Billy, it's Zeus.
This guy is going to need to step up and really be, as I like to say, the tip of the spear for these teams.
and set that tone early on for sure and I think Zeus coming into this competition wasn't the one that we were looking at when we consider foots roster it was
Soap he was very much the star of the show
But you can see here the progression that he's been able to have from
EMEA in stage one and the way that he's been able to step up to the global stage has really impressed me
Let's not forget. This is his first ever global event
He joined that foot roster last year for the year start and kickoff and honestly
I think that he's one of the main reasons why foo are able to tap into that Turkish firepower that we get to see here on the global stage
And he was great in the game against CDG on this pearl in particular this one ended up being so close foot
I think had a lot of opportunities to be able to close this one out
So to slip away the kong kong 4k on the pistol round some big moments from them and a really good approach their attack side
Sent it to a map 3 and that's where foot
absolutely crumbled. It was a dominant win from EDG. It looked like they could do absolutely no wrong in that one.
So for a foot that is already surprised, already impressed in making it out of Swiss in the form that they did,
they're not in a really tough position here. There's great teams in the lower bracket.
They're coming off of a pretty rough loss,
which they'll have known that they should have and could have won versus EDG.
to now have to bounce back against a team that was talked about as one of the top dogs in the
team. Yeah, it's a tough one, right? Because you got a foot squad that that team plays with so much
passion on that stage. So you know that they're going to be bringing it. And on the other side,
their opponents a little bit cool, calm, collected in those moments. We'll see how those emotions
kind of play out here. But for more on Zeus, let's actually send it over to Jen Lee. She had an
an opportunity to challenge them ahead of the match.
10-year with Zeus of FUD.
Zeus, where do you see opportunities against G2 today
with elimination on the line?
I don't think either team cares all that much about whether this is an elimination match or not. Either team will definitely give 100%. I don't know if we're going to be eliminated or not, but I definitely wouldn't pick either team.
here if I thought we would get eliminated so the best team we would that's a good mentality. Thank you so much. I
Mean we are most definitely
Expecting a clash here because on the other side of the stage G2 eSports
I don't think thought that they were gonna be in this position
They thought that this was a rather winnable moment so much so that they posted a clip of them celebrating the fact that they got to
pick XLG and then disaster struck. Mimi XLG made them learn today. You do not
disrespect the Chinese teams because they will find a way to pull off a go.
Yeah, they've beaten this team twice before, eliminated them in two events, but
this was different. I think this is one of the worst games that I've ever seen
from G2. The first map looked excellent from them, but then we went into this
ascent where I thought their attack side was so extremely inactive. They let
the team. It's like, you know,
it's like, you know, it's like
they're playing with XLG built
for aggressive plays. They
struggled to actually find any
clear game plan to be when
normally I feel like you watch
this you and they play with
such purpose. You look even
later into that series on
split where it felt like in
rounds, Josh just getting sent
in to die. The team's not
scaling together. This was a G
to absolutely out of sorts
against XLG. Let's not forget
the cookie crumbles as you mentioned it kind of fell back in their face in that
performance that we saw yesterday. Yeah and the reality is here at the global
events it doesn't matter what region it is you got to take your opponent
seriously because they are here for a reason folks and we just saw exactly why
now for more on that loss it's like she sent it over to baby Bay had an
opportunity to catch up with Jen earlier today. Here with baby Bay of G2 hello
friendly old man. What areas of foot demands the most attention from you
today. Oh, I mean, soft, you know, I can't I can't let him do what he did to
Cruz. You know, I gotta kind of get the get back for Cruz, you know, the
uncleanness. So hopefully this guy's not updraft, dashing on to me and doing
that stuff. I gotta shut that down. Yeah, hopefully the Overwatch aim prevails,
you know. All right, sounds like a plan.
Jarray, I don't know if you know, this is a different game. I mean, case, though,
being said, let's talk about expectations for both of these teams,
right because look let's let's call us pay to spade coming into this event
everyone's like G2 is sports are gonna win they have the favorite bracket oh
my god maybe maybe you are I don't know okay that's true it's true but on the
other side for foot is another team that always has expectations because they
always are a squad that believes in themselves so let's talk about that I
think seems expecting yeah I think for food they've already gone beyond the
expectations the external factors had of them coming into this event which is
why I think we've been so impressed with them of course last year was the first
that foot missed out on all of the global events.
They usually guaranteed make a masters or a champs,
but we've been talking about how this is the new era of foot.
I think for G2, definitely missing the mark.
But I'm also kind of curious to get your thoughts on this, Mimi.
If you think that maybe we set the expectations too high
for G2 coming into this tournament,
because I think coming into today,
it's a question of whoever can reset quickest.
Yeah, I think expectations were reasonable for G2.
I do think they had a very favorable side to the bracket.
I think they were exactly where they wanted to be.
They were in the position they needed to be at.
That's why they celebrated, and I think after winning map 1, they underestimated XLG, and going into that ascent in the map pick, I think the game plan looked rough.
This was embarrassing from G2. This is the complete failure of living up to their expectations, because when people are negative about this team, it's always them making the top 4, making deep tournament runs.
This would be something completely different. If they get upset by a Chinese team and sit home now by foot
This would be I think a low for a G2 that has had a pretty great last few years
I guess my question then is do you think that
This quick turnaround time works in anyone's favor because I kind of team foot in that as aspect in the sense that they've already warmed up to the stage
They've come into this as the underdogs whereas G2 they have so much pressure on their back
Yeah, I do think it is. It is the pressure for G2. It's a lot heavy on their shoulders here, so
It's gonna be awesome. I know, I'm... I see, look folks. This matchup, it's gonna be a brawl.
There's no other way around it. Let's go ahead and check out the maps, picks and bans and see where we're going for this clash.
All right, welcome guys. Let's do the map before foot versus G2. G2 won the skirmish, so they are picking their side.
B.
All right G2 picked B site which means foot is speaking I mean banning the first map and breeze
Breeze is banned and G2 is banning
All right Haven is banned and foot is speaking the first map
Pick a scent
Assented is and site for a scent please YouTube defense
Defense and your map pick Lotus
Lotus and what is your side on Lotus foot defense okay defense we have fracture
pole and split left and foot is bending first fracture pearl and split then
pearl okay pearl is bent last few maps are fracture and split cheetahs
Just winning.
In facture.
Fracture is banned, last map is split, and foot is peeking the side.
Defense.
Defense. Let me give you quick recap. We start with Ascent, G2 defense, then we have low house, foot defense,
and if you go to the decider which is split, foot defense. Everything correct?
Okay, good luck guys.
All right, folks, the stage is set.
You see that countdown?
10 seconds, and it's time to bring out your two teams
for this elimination clash.
Let's welcome to the stage and make some noise for Foot
versus G2.
It's always disappointing that we have to start like this
down in the lower bracket.
I see my G2 that's always fighting back, kept in check.
We kind of just have our backs into the wall,
And we're used to that, but it's still just very pressuring.
And Zeus can't be doing this one!
So they just kind of like a new team on the radar.
They're shooting at all cylinders in their own respective ways,
so we gotta be ready and be confident.
I am sure that they are a good team.
They are very good in the internet, but I think they will be different this year.
I am not the full potential yet, I will show myself here.
You will be able to see me very closely.
The last chance pub is open for business! Who will make it beyond last orders?
It's G2 vs its foots!
Yet again, another elimination flash between two incredible teams, and it all boils down to this.
For Foot, you heard Noose in that video. It doesn't matter who's in front of him, he's going to have to take him out because that is what is being asked of him.
But on the other side, Mimi, you have a G2 Esports that came into this event feeling like they were on top of the world, and reality hit them like a ton of bricks.
The first match for them. It's not unfamiliar to lose to being the lower bracket for G2.
It happens pretty much every event in the last few years, but it was different against XLG against an opponent
They celebrated kicking now it's time for them to atone make the run back. This team they're facing is a difficult one
I think foot has been the biggest standout team for me that people had low expectations for already
not only making it out of Swiss, but playing that competitive game against EDG.
They've been in good form.
We've been talking about how good have this new era with this fresh roster,
the changes that they made between kickoff and stage one
to find themselves finally back at a global event.
But looking at this map, Vito, selecting a set,
we've not seen that from them this event just yet.
So I'm hoping that they've got a trick up their sleeve to go ahead and pick that.
Yeah, who do you think ended up winning on this map?
Picks and Bands here, Billy.
Oh, honestly, looking at that, I think G2 have come out pretty good.
I think that you can definitely see the lessons that they would have been able to learn.
I think when we get to that Lotus, I'm looking at the great site anchors in Baby Bay, in Leaf,
and how incredible they were on that map.
I think for Split though, it's almost unknown territory again,
because we've not seen foot on that map this event,
so I'm hoping that they'll be able to catch G2 by surprise.
Yeah, that would be the whole day for Flood.
What about for you, Mimi? Do you agree with Billy's assessment?
Yeah, I think I do lean a little bit more towards foot in favorability in this map, so I think that, well, that Lotus is absolutely a strong point for G2, they're gonna feel very confident getting that map into the pool.
The split to me has been a little bit rocky for G2 when we were watching that one both regionally, and in the last game they played against XLG, that map 3 was grim, especially their approach to the attack side.
I think that they played into too many of these late faster rounds, but I think always just kind of getting
Sacrifice they struggled to get any space on that map
Yeah, but it's something they'll have had a magnifying glass on after that loss
You expect this team to have taken that loss hard to focus stuff
That should be the the come-to-god moment after Lucy's XLG
And look, I mean, I think Jogamos used to being that
Sacrificial lamb in all of those instances because that is the job that he has
But what if you're not allowing him to get going in the team like it becomes way more challenging for this G2 lineup to gain that confidence
But once Jogamos feels good that that energy just oozes to everyone else same thing with baby
They as well they have players that can very much elevate the mood in that lineup in a moment where they need to but they need to
Give themselves those opportunities Billy
I almost asked when was the last time that we saw Jogamo perform at that global level where he was the star player on this
We're not seeing it in quite some time.
Yeah, I showed up at the end of America's, but I think of accents in recent games and
recent performances for G2.
People are starting to notice.
He always shows up in the biggest games in the biggest moments.
That's what we remember, but it's a question of consistency for me right now.
To revisit the map, Vita, I have a lot of questions around the set.
We saw G2 in America's come out, play this yoru-pom.
I didn't particularly love it.
They pivot in the way that they play when they went up against XLG.
Last time he sent me on for Jock, I'd be shocked if they changed comps this quickly.
But the waylay would certainly be interesting to watch.
I do think that's a better agent on this map, especially Billy against the Cypher team.
Yeah, I definitely agree with you Mimi.
I think starting on this defense is going to be a key one for them.
We've spoken about how incredible Baby Bay has been as a site anchor,
but when I'm looking towards foot, Zeus on the stage,
I think that's the first thing
that I've seen. I've seen
that's the first thing that
I've seen. I've seen that's the
first thing that my eyes
want to get towards. He has
been so mechanically great and
so upon the jet as well as sent
always known as such a great
Turkish map. I think pretty
impressed with this composition.
I'm just on the stage, though.
I'm battle stage battle stage
love to see it here. And of
course, I think that way later
certainly going to be looking to
Yeah, I think as a dive agent the way lays a lot stronger right now on a map where a lot of teams are starting to bring
Stenfinals especially into a double-sensey comp like this
I think it's quite tough to get value out of that neon. There's few players that are still making it work right now
John is confident on that role before they've made a pivot after that tough loss, but so effort. It's bound to be good
Oh, this is gonna be a good one folks is do or die
So let's go ahead and jump into map one shall we make some noise as we get ready for your casters
Here's Prezzi and Hyde Park.
You're right, this is a tense scenario here for both sides.
After suffering some brutal losses, they look out for Blood Mike.
It's something that it's hard to not notice on the players' faces here.
Absolutely, yeah. I mean, there's so much of stake here,
given everything that's gone on.
I've got to say that I'm super concerned about D2 coming out.
Obviously, the nature of the loss, now coming into this matchup,
You'd argue he wants you to go back to what they do well, right?
But really, versus Foot, that's kind of a clash.
You don't want to entertain.
I see my foot, you never want to go into these kind of brawly,
you know, contact style sort of a poster,
especially starting on the scent here.
The comp change, sure.
But I don't doubt that Zeus is going to be in the thick of it with this age.
Couple of seconds until it starts.
G2 on the defending side, of course, Foot on the attack,
And the Turin is set!
Zeus from the word go, we're gonna find the first!
And Giorgomo, first casualty.
Looks like it might be due to go aggressive behind that, but...
I'm not paying on the reveal here, and Leaf's still curious towards short.
Just catching Climbs, but no damage done yet.
I'm turning the boat.
Yeah, he spotted very early on, isolated very easily.
Paranoia a little too late there, and also catching onto Leaf.
Yeah, they've already kind of dismantled these early forays coming out from G2 that attempt towards middle the second look on the potential pressure that could have been coming towards leaf
And even though not a great example. That's the sort of thing foot will lap up these recluences by G2 so happy to play that sort of tempo
Your foot have
This is run of the entire map. I think I run of the house, right? That's it's all there
So don't have to be in a particular hurry anyway
This has been kind of above a minute most of the blood was drawn
So they're pretty happy with this Leafs gone curious gone and cleared top middle
But by now I think the pennies gonna be dropping. Yeah, I mean great timing on this show
But you know, I just want to see him make it moves elsewhere
Chance here at least for Valin to relay that information
He holds the front door for the time being so we'll buy some time for this rotation to come through
It's not a challenge. Yeah, it just gets removed. Yeah, and for giving up for every single one of these fights
I know that for can play a disciplined game
We know that they play a very solid game, but they aren't still Turkish players
They will be up for every single fight if you're gonna play that game against them and for G2
I haven't seen them warm up enough really even in that first game
The first one to really do anything here is baby babe
Picking up worry left off being an essential piece to the G2 system, but to find four more is a very difficult prospect
three on site one
Over toward main
Yeah, it's just gonna play safety to this. I mean responsive
But yeah, they have to come and clear him if they want to be a little more practice
We'll sign now the clock gonna apply a ton of pressure to baby bait
So look for some progress here because this one's wraps. Yeah, the rounds out of reach but baby bait
He's going for a knife. You can see him laugh it's red
The grinning assassin waiting
He's gonna do good damage on the way out good start from baby bait
It's going to keep that levity alive with G2 even in a loss.
I saw him actually burst out laughing.
We got the first kill on Tazoo's way ahead of any of this happening,
but his foot to find the pistol.
He's on the board here.
Fairly comfortable in approach.
And a consolation at least.
A little boost to the vibes, maybe.
For an ace here, at least in the trash time of the pistol.
I mean, it's not the key for me. The vibes on stage seem to be very different for G2 as well.
You could see they were just bleak every time we cut to the cameras.
Yeah, but for foot, this looks like business to me. This feels like they've got a very singular goal in mind.
And it's so far, pathing perfectly towards it.
The Albreng will clear the space and see there is no resistance on the side of the map.
And it's going to be a stack from G2, a fair approach considering the purchase.
Now the name of game would be damaged if it'd be lovely if baby break could have done the dive
and it wouldn't have been planted.
Let's see what G2 can achieve. Can they lock him in? Can they minimize the reward for foot?
You're looking at silver linings now.
The other thing to consider is obviously G2, a number of poor starts, two halves.
This is XLG.
Flank going to come through heavy here. That's Jay going to be tasked with dealing with that.
Social World is keeping
Over any check here?
That's just farming ground here, foot clearing.
I'm a little scared.
House out towards main.
That material is looking like it's going to be a flawless here.
Awwww.
I'm a little bit scared of foot coming out like this.
I'm going to keep my eye on it, right?
Because I think we all know that they've had a bit of a treacherous path to this point, obviously.
And even with that in mind,
my God, they look kind of lethal now.
Along the other side, my concerns with G2 are certainly not assuaded yet.
The issues of those cold starts, the player's not really getting much time to warm in and just feel out the game.
Yes, great for Baby Bay, but I'm kind of one of the others to find a bit of that.
Yeah, but he's certainly here in the first buy-round, you want to see them come out swinging.
Well, invested at least.
Inside of foot.
So I can't feel a little pace change for them here.
Try them all over the top, can't find anything just yet.
Stop on the hunt, gets shut down by Jorg.
That's a huge start.
Jorgamo, they can at least feel out of the game,
slow that pacey approach in the bonus for Foot
that's relatively well-rounded as well.
We've got Bulldogs out.
We've got a Phantom in hand for Zeus.
So, certainly got some punch to it.
Ballon, get a shoulder check and then wait if Jork
can catch him on that cross up towards Cat.
Deltwey and Sociable, can he give him an option now?
Still healthy behind that as well.
Got a course of rotations here, surely.
Got at least clearing out here.
won't note yet today though, it's looking to actually drift back over towards B.
And does that mean they get punished if maybe G2 wants some info on this? That's
where you've got to be careful of. Trent's waiting. He's 15 seconds on the guard, so
he's shouldering this now for info. No rotation just yet.
I need to stay where they are. Precarious. Trent now noted on the four up and you can
You can see the attempt there in with the Algeron.
Brilliant, push and pull.
Sociable striking towards market, carving our path.
They know Trent is down in the Doldrums
and the site is theirs.
It's composure from foot.
Valon and Baby Bay, they were on the other side of the map.
It was a long road and a long walk back.
But a 2v3 with utility for Valon is not impossible.
Valon needs to find yesterday pretty early on though.
Zeus ready to swing off contact here.
Two steps after pieces together.
Beautiful. Very nice. Valen, that's the first key step.
Kani Kabao, one more, no Yelichae, just ahead on the angle.
And it still leaves crossily the unknown quantity.
And time being such an issue now for Baby Bay.
He's got to get a wiggle and he knows it as well.
Try to do the dance, try to do the one-two.
Stap and Yelichae, put them to bed.
It's clean work from foot.
G2 concede another bonus.
Just, I get no surprise to see, we've just seen it flash up on screen here, a timeout being called and the biggest thing coming into this series would have been to be able to reset in between a number of those rounds yesterday, the G2 just spiraling out of control so quickly.
I think you didn't see them get desperate and throw bodies into weird situations, but it just wasn't, it was the execution.
There's a few times where they were going proactive.
I mean, you think back to Split where there was a timeout quarter,
it was like, every time we get contact like this, walk down mid.
Let's do something, be proactive about that mid round.
They have to start that early here on a send.
And we haven't seen it yet.
And that could be the point-based win condition, really.
If you're looking at that in this moment,
you could be kind of threading that through
because they've got a lot to fix,
but it just feels like they're not able to activate.
And it's so baffling to me.
We know the caliber of this team.
And I think it was Mimi who was saying on the desk as well,
Are concerns with g210 to kind of pop a little bit later you're talking those top three pushes
Yeah, these are the sort of performances where you see them dip out like towards the end. Yes
Yeah, that's that is a bit of a concern and a backwards trajectory
Now that's completely um, that's a charm I can get behind
Yeah, I'll let you close that one out if the score line keeps going like this, though.
For the football fans, they might get that one.
However, this could be farming time.
Look at this.
Soft, obviously.
Got a weapon in hand for it on the other side.
G2 needs to wake up.
I cannot say it time and time again, but it's a clear, clear picture to us here.
Foot, treating that previous series as an ignition point, really.
Something to start it again.
And already leaf with a good start.
That's a lovely scout to claim. Zeus now gone.
I set peace here.
Jog him out.
It's a ton of damage, but...
Don't shy away from this.
Happy to re-clear.
Droner will at least note yeti, Jay.
And does anybody overstep the mark here?
Can they maintain this advantage?
Only alt to work with would be sociable.
I'm just gonna fall off on the drone here.
A bit of bravado in approach, I'm not so too much concerned, but there's a lot of bodies on this side of that.
Very... well, domestic, trying to clear leafy. They were so aware that there's going to be someone on Gen.
So he's gone, so they have evened things up, but with 40 seconds, they do need to be cautious.
Maybe he's waiting on the other side of the map, it's not a full stack, it was sort of this 4-1.
I mean if he can catch somebody especially at this time
Sam wall still there. This is this is a real opportunity
That's smoking best just to keep their attention keep them present keep them considering baby
They saw active on the anchor that's got that wall to give them hopefully the way forward
However, that TP is now an issue is gonna see the dark to follow. He knows what's coming
13 seconds. They've made it through the door. They you base gotta go big here 10 seconds
So I don't think you can re-swing this. They've done enough to create a safe avenue out towards the B site.
Hunters Fury here as well, just in case they need it. Hands across the link.
He's on site I guess, the only spot.
Found it.
And it's just looking simple. Stop G2.
I mean it's done with a bang but it's gonna end with a fuzzle. Three alive for four and not really feeling much pressure yet.
very easy for foot to navigate the map right now. Again a similar situation, it's kind of low hanging fruit but there were some of the things that just weren't going right for G2.
They took about just one engagement here and there, a gunfight, one and lost was just a death sentence. Some of those rounds.
I guess the only redeeming factor now is it has to be, whatever the time that was fought, needs to be in this round.
Whatever G2 came up with, they're now going to a lighter purchase.
Now they've got the buy behind them. Now they've got Baby Vazel.
They're one away from Leafs. They have key tools, but with that in mind,
just put them, kick up the tempo, so it could be in trouble.
Has to evacuate and reset a little bit on A main.
They were to pay out this trap, though.
How do you found it?
Probably the res in hand for Zeus, so they can get a little more audacious here
in terms of an opening engagement.
Back in a place.
Done real spot.
Real good.
I've seen Valor.
He took that gun to that.
Yes, swap.
Just got around the corner in
time, but costily creating more
and more safety on the approach.
Door to be shut.
Spike now, ferried through.
Again, G2, not looking like
they're in the server.
Around where they're actually
looking again for yesterday,
but we switch up here.
Neural theft will go through
information flowing now
for foot.
We're going to reset.
Actually, might even look at
Yes, Jake going back towards catwalk
And it's so well considered so
Heads up from foot they knew that all could be coming in they sit incredibly deep
They're proactive on that wrap through cat but leaf with a very diligent recheck, but social will remove in the players
It's all really on leaf for now. Maybe they try to clear the side. He finds it in the smoke
They're still doing work G2 not down just yet, but it is getting tense and that time is gonna start ticking
They've put everything towards this, but Crossley could not care less.
Leafy look good, but he is not enough to deny the walk, the run, the foot are going on.
Great awareness from Leafy. Even hold for the second player there.
You can't fall them, they just have to run down the clock.
Basically pressure from Cap prevents anybody from really getting back onto site.
There's this opener, there's just no nuance to it.
the game. It's just a. I'm
to really open up this
execute. And then the other
two players from due to force
further back onto the site.
They can't contest on to main
and even then that situation
like said, she's got the rest
against the orb. So they can
kind of gambling engagement
there if it goes wrong. At
least feeling like they found
a little bit of freedom. When
things on this side of the map. And he's shock darted away from the checkpoint.
Okay, a valiant attempt but even with all these players, if this is the 5 stack, before it was only 4,
now all 5 stingers, bucky, sheriffs, whatever they could afford, they felt this out and again the
reposition here towards middle of energy should be hearing this.
Is here at all this? Yeah, absolutely, but I've done that with Valon!
There we are, that's the start that it feels like they haven't had in a minute.
I can't actually get damage back onto the res either.
We've disrupted the stack haven't they? Look at this instantaneous rotation.
A little bit of a gamble here.
I think your task for this is going to hear
sound cues on the other side but a total misread from G2.
And you look at Yedajay, he's just the insult to injury right? I mean if he shows towards
Markey it's the worst thing possible.
For G2 I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no he's selling them.
such a story. I don't think he's going to be noted, maybe it's just a little bit deeper
on towards stairs, but still look like they haven't seen this.
Desperate to find this bucky, he's been spamming off the close angle, see it?
And well, that's an issue, and that's a player, Yedajay, just slicing up the guts, feeling
no resistance man, G2C and Gavroff.
Looking for another player as well.
There's nothing, there's nothing to stop them doing this.
Out called and outplayed so far G2
Looking out of options trying to figure this back out
But you look at what they're coming back in with you're gonna need someone to be
More than a hero now. I think this one
Yeah, give this up and it's nobody's really close to an ultima you don't really want to give away the extras
find the sock
shifting forwards here on heaven
I was going to say you can make it costly, but even then you look at the finances behind
foot, they're not feeling any sort of pinch here.
No, they can hang around.
And they will.
That is an absolute trend, still trying to put up performance as lovely from him.
You can see the potential, it's just sadly all of the wrong time as time has gone again.
It is just flawless from foot six to zero.
GT2 really have to do something to disrupt foot here and already trailing by six
Have you seen just a joke I even see after hearing the steps. There's no reaction at all. It's completely
Unconsidered
Operator in hand now for Jor
And probably not the sort of thing you want to see unless he's gonna go hyper aggressive here. I see what it's what's happened
for me not necessarily the answer the wall up here leave a vintage play here
over the top for Sopper catch initially I think the last time we saw a wall up
I don't know, it's been a truly vintage.
That tells them nothing.
There you go.
We almost miss cells the presence here.
That's big though.
At least going to see Yeta J, but they don't see anyone else.
Yeah, that doesn't say much though.
Yeah, cool. You found Yeta J.
Most of the time lurking.
Now, if that scans anything now, that's a bit more info for G2
to operate on, but are they going to rotate? It feels like they're sewing their heads about how
foot are approaching this, who are being quite slippery. Again, you've got info on beta, there's
more than one here, but then you've just seen an alder on the other side of the map. They're
keeping the cards very close to the chest, a slower, more considered approach from foot,
and it looks like Sop wants to keep him locked in on this. He's got the angle for it too.
With 30 seconds, that spike's still not yet to be moving particularly, so they do need to get a
get a bit of a move on here for
Sop, only sent back
20 seconds boys
Yeah, G2 are holding 3 strong here, still on 8
Leaf ready to slow anything down
Crew tree
Don't like this, 15 seconds
singed
and slightly crisped
Jorgamo, gonna put one towards main, the site's not secure here
but it's taking everyone in battle with a beautiful strike
Finally G2
breaking up, patience being their virtue, they break back in, but Foot taking way too long there.
Like I said, for me, slowing these rounds down isn't necessarily the go-to answer on the side of G2, but Foot play into it here.
Again, you'd expect to see a massive reaction at the back of that ping over towards B main.
It's like, well, now they know, right? The jig is up.
to make a move here. Stop slowly clearing up to some of these angles. I mean, that is
the other side of the equation, right? If we don't commit to these opening engagements,
but that's a little bit of a headscratcher on the side of foot for me. They had a ton
of space, a ton of time initially to play into. And you could argue the advantage in
in terms of that misinformation.
If they do get another opportunity,
has the players on the server
learned the same lesson,
the coaches felt that they got a reward from.
I did go for it.
I was even an aggressive start,
but he did at least push up towards middle,
but waiting to buffer.
They try and go for this a-pop.
Getting active on B main as well.
First time we see a bit of a walkabout towards that.
Baby Bay searching a bit deeper here.
joined by Trent of course.
I mean the next thing now for me is me seeing the awareness from foot that this adjustment
has come from G2.
Yeah and how do they want to approach it right? G2 sitting super deep. G2 just going for false
sight. XX is that why Jaws on this side of the map as well considering he's got the
ult that could soak a long bit and they line up. How does that not get won? It's valid
to get sucked. And there's the stall out. 37 seconds but Crossley fights back. Jorgamos
down, late now with an all to do, wall goes in, but social wall goes forward and catch
on the rotation, it is just perfection until then, baby they get himself a 1v2, it's a
lot on this man's plate.
He got the 5 in the first, these two would mean so much more.
He's heard the door shut, doesn't want to go for that until now, hops to at least imply
options.
It could be another smoke to cycle through here, eventually persuasable though.
Actually sent over towards door.
Yeah, already committed.
But the off angle, the high angle. It's there for the reward!
Again, foot instantly.
Troubleshoot, problem solved and come back in with an answer.
I don't know how that hop shot missed.
I know, it looked like it was...
Did he step?
Did he step just before?
I'm looking to you for answers. Where's that gone?
I'm looking to the developers for answers, but I don't see him here. They might have just hidden away
Send me the replay file!
Yeah, honestly
I mean, because that's a cloud lined up
Could you imagine this?
So close!
And then he's off kilter with sending the ult through and slowing down
Basically what boils out of main
I mean, we kept saying yesterday, fine margins
Versus XLG, it's another example
I think it's just don't go G2's weight
At some point though, we do have to kind of look...
You only get away with that excuse for so long.
Yeah, exactly. So you've got to become Mosul of Yoran Fahy here
because Sop is opening these up. Expectations there for a follow-up.
That's two on the entry and the site's now theirs.
They walk in with ease, but Yedda J's been a nuisance even for rotations.
He's been catching them. I mean, this has been a dream attack for Furt.
They've been given a lot of freedom and in some of these rounds
they are really running away.
There is again.
Jaw gets shut down.
It feels almost scripted you could rinse and repeat this over and over and there's a lot of credit to foot for keeping it
So buttoned up, but on the other side the G2 just can't stop it
Initial adjustment we were discussing coming out of a very early time out by the way
Christian just yet believe
So impressive, but it has to be more than this
These little shows of brilliance and not gonna be enough to get the round again
We know their capability. We know mechanically they're good, but at this stage in Masters, it's not enough
But certainly wind in their sails now
And you give a player like soft a couple of confidence boots is certainly
Yeah, to open up some of these rounds
Absolutely not in social war yet today the ones top of the board here for foot. Yeah, they always work horses
Really encapsulate that. Any given Sunday, any of these players can step up.
Odin here for Trent. Nobody on the B site right now, so relying heavily on a retake to pay off for them.
Stop sin, sees nothing. Made it pretty far. So, maybe very willing to go ahead and social
ball utilising the new landscape. Keep vigilant watch. Could be in a bit of a predicament.
Yes he is, gonna be scanned out, has to fall away. That's not bad.
Nobody dealt with that tar. Yeah, it's a little bit interesting that
he kind of got that. But like Joran, Joran! Joran's heard this, 100%
Okay, should be able to catch.
We're in to the kill, Fidd, yes he does.
Okay, social ball, gonna go down another pressure
on the side, leave again this time,
looking far more viable to maybe convert around the 2v4.
This is essential.
They cannot lose this.
Cross to Lee in their way, he has to go down here.
G2, this is a lifeline for them to get a second round
after so long.
He's actually heartbreaking the social ball
to get caught there by Jor.
Saru late, nearly gets turned on as well, as Lee to carve a path back onto the site.
And Lee put quite a path to that round, well...
Don't do it, SF1!
But again, as much as we look at G2, right, and we know their capability,
I need a star to start shining.
If it's going to be Lee's call, if it's going to be...
I don't care who it is, they need someone to step up to the plate.
It can't just be that team that I need a couple rounds to give him some hope that needs to result in stability across the team as well
So we had a couple of hero rounds here and there, but it's the consistency that really lacked
He is in an 8-2 deficit
Leave again
Flash ready
But prioritizing this mid control to start with
The extremities watched in some way shape or form but baby bait on the line does get away with his life
So fortunate in that fact with its Trent close top middle soft seen this they should know both players are now here
Always to go in doesn't it?
anybody out into a
tricky spot
What kind of held here at the first step of
this set piece up mid
And not too much damage done though. Do you have the red still for Zeus so?
Can can commit
If they want to find an opener sociable might he's just caught a glimpse of Jill
Did he I mean he's looking back this way still I'm not sure it feels like he's been on edge this whole time
It looks like you want to talk to me track?
Popped him up the gates three big kills and leave waiting
Just sociable alive and finally
looking like there's a heartbeat from the G2 side of the stage, such a ball outgunned.
He's got two, would need three more. 18 seconds. And they're back pedaling away,
they're playing with a lot of respect here, they don't want to explain any nonsense.
Thank God that's the case. Some of the rounds really slip through their fingers now.
Now, I know they need to close this out.
Again, 8-4s didn't necessarily suit them yesterday either.
Hope pinned on a prayer.
Coming in here, I mean, going to be struggling financially.
Just feeding into Trent here, unable to trade this.
I can't really even fold the spacing at all.
Trent's just usually on point with the Odin.
And maybe a chance here for the new old theft, but nothing else going to be available to offset
this. It's just the res for Foote.
It was taking some time, but they have broken most of the bank here. Still being able to
fashion a purchase for the final round of the first half, Foote. Certainly be lacking
in some areas. See, Crossley and Yedda J suffering under that, but on the outside, Leaf, the operator
cycle is in and out depending. I think there is a fan to behind him if he does want to
switch out to it so certainly not stuck towards it and again a similar look to a start here
foot trying to explore towards middle. Maybe this is going to be the second layer to what
we well they attempted to do in the previous. He's got to be really careful to not get overwhelmed.
Gonna force them deeper so foot putting a higher prior and trying to get mid control
this time. Still shift of focus back towards three here. For both foot and G2, are they
smoked off. Aranoia good but tops ahead of it he can clear behind this space yeah
he's going to take all of this no problem at all you look at his Valin
maybe Jorgom will want to get involved but I don't think they got really much
of a chance of having to give up something here. Chance maybe trying to
find a kill here Hunter's very good change landscape here in a retake
Do you have the TPM Baby Bay's ultimate as well?
There's only one offside here. I think that might catch the majority of the foot players.
Okay, this is big. This has to be the goal. If you want to get it done, get it done now!
Yeah! You're meant to be on a weaker weapon man!
Trent though just starts the massacre, but it's now flying. It's all on you and it won't be free.
Soap already up, Tarpey's having none of it, but with a strong lead now.
Yeah, TJ, breaking the hearts of G2, everybody caught off guard here by the ultimate,
but it amounts to nothing, a 9-3 half here for Football and fantastic display from Foote.
Yeah, they've got to be trapped a bit with this one, going to get the confidence back in the right place after their previous game for G2.
Still question marks.
However, let's hear from Footzus and get his thoughts on their playoff run in this HyperX player moment.
We had full dmg, 2nd half was dmg, 18s was the only thing we had to do.
After that we lost control, we couldn't close the map and we lost it a bit.
We had a little trouble with the 3rd map, we couldn't enter the map in the first place.
Then we played with paul, we started to lose the map again, but in the end it wasn't enough.
We lost the map too, that's all.
To say it doesn't matter upper lower side, they look fired up today. They look like they are out for blood
I think we saw in the very start of things is kind of held up true in games with three rounds
Yeah, I feel it is you to pay in the price for the performance they displayed in that previous series
But I think don't really have to make much of an adjustment in terms of their game plan in terms of their mentality
Overall that cockiness the bravado they'd like to lean heavily into but you haven't even got the two main factors of that
delivering this half. It's just a very well considered approach here from
Furt. And there I say, and many of these rounds didn't really feel tested. They've
given a lot of freedom once more, which is a criticism again of the XLG series.
Yes. Furt have got themselves a huge lead now. Yeah, you're right. I'm glad you kind
of echoed back to that point. It was something we heard in the coaches
discussing the fact there was so much space given. All right, G2. Well, the
I mean, they're, they're, they're, I say it, foot got a pistol here. Don't be surprised to see them just go hyper aggressive and look to sweep this map. Yeah, gotta shut it down early. Do not give any water. Now, obviously foot on the defending side, G2 on that attack trying to step in towards middle. I think
of at least a pixel there, but they're gonna carry on.
Leaf wants it.
Stop, can I pack in?
I mean, I told you, they're pretty naughty with it,
but again, sitting a little bit deeper now.
Same time, talking about the timing of that.
Ah, you're not gonna be able to make it.
Leaf's done nicely though, straight up, middle,
now they can wrap towards three.
Cron's coming in.
Cross the lead, he's considered it.
He's prepared for one, but he can't get the rest.
And so should...
Oh, oh my God, how's he still alive?
Finally goes down,
But he tracks two with him. He's given Yenice a chance here in a 1v2, but baby they in Trent need this round.
Clutch man himself, Yenice J.
I can't see it.
Baby made it down to 45. Trent's still healthy.
But two sheriffs in their hands.
Trent's still been sharp as well. These two have been one of the heavier hitting portions of the G2 squad.
So, Yenice J trying to find the first man for a fair fight, and I don't think they fancy giving him that one.
That's to make a couple of sounds.
Way down, baby bait!
Gonna get him on the board here!
Four rounds, it's a long road back.
They convert a pistol, something that's haunted them.
Leaf, I mean, just absolute disregard
for any of the footplayers here.
So she will put in a position to potentially have to just shut this down.
Single-handedly.
That's the accident.
I'm unable to find Trent though.
What a first stop!
The first one!
That is terrifying.
Yeah, he's stuck himself.
OK, well, let's see how different the game looks now, right?
They get the first starting block.
For foot, they've gone for a touch of a stack.
So G2 just don't go B. Simple's, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, he's coming to them.
Yeah, he's coming to them.
You don't need to go in to B.
Oh, no.
Oh, no, Baby Bay.
Someone help him.
The Baby Bay contingent and the crowd
is going to be devastated at the loss.
So should we're going to find him,
leaving the rest of G2 try?
We're going to win!
No, it's very far away!
Oh, dear.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This can't be how it goes, Mike.
Sure, lands a nice shot.
Softball gets shut down.
still four left standing for foot. You do have to hold on to this. I'm so scared. He has no idea, he has no idea.
The bomb! The bomb trips to the weather! He's gone, Lord! Lord! This is just against pistols. And it feels this tense.
Okay, we've got the other J. He's not doing anything. Don't worry about it. It's all fine.
I mean, even the Faith Jaw had in Trent there gave me anxiety.
I'm terrified. I'm scared.
Yes, they can find another kill or two.
Oh, now that would be lovely, wouldn't it?
Oh, he's behind the wrong spot for this either.
OK, gonna go down. I mean, not the worst outcome.
They made it a little bit costly.
But G2 stringing together a couple of rounds now.
And it's just this initial reaction here
and then Lee's caught completely off guard.
It's that kind of sloppy gameplay that we saw repeat itself over and over.
Oh, that boy left. Oh, that boy left again.
Oh my God, baby! Hey, good shit!
At least some semblance of vibes.
The G2 camp.
Lie back for foot.
So let's see if we can find the enemy.
Yeah, well-rounded purchase here for G2, at least.
I mean, it's jaw-closest here, training behind with Hunter's Fury,
but early progress at least stops going forwards and he's got to get a little active. I was going to keep my on stop during the series.
We've seen that he's obviously come on a lot of scrutiny and all kind of public attention. He's probably not used to.
And already you can see a bit of a difference. It's only map one, not the end of the world here, but let's see if that continues throughout this.
Baby, I'm afraid to take a walk up middle. He's got to be a bit cautious because sociable.
I'm going to try and set it in, but they face good for the attention of three, that felt
ambitious at the best of times.
And this is no contingency in that sort of situation.
No, you're so alone.
Yeah, the wall drops now and at least we'll open up the possibility, but Zeus gets a kill ahead of the paranoia.
Slow warp goes in, they can't scan out from that.
That's the spike kept back at bay.
Yeah, it's a long road around right now and they just can't hold the sight this time.
No, there's so little to be done about this you're hoping, I guess, but at least even
picking up towards heaven, maybe trying to puff up the chest a little bit, catch one,
but again, Phil already here.
Because it took so long, 20 seconds, 2v5, it's a firing squad of foot there, flawless,
coming through this.
second they got the rifles Mike they're having none of it. I mean Leaf has to like I said they can't
just sit there and hold sight for that long they have to make sure that no distress ring from heaven
the spike has to come back through a main but Leaf just gets shut down immediately on this peak.
Fortunately at that point there's just so few ways
for G2 to recover that trend looking a little baffled.
I can already see, I think a man's bell up there having a little dance about, little sing
song.
The atmosphere changing is foot kind of getting back on track but we will be checking in with
G2 this side, comms, see how they're feeling because it's got to be a tense spot for them.
And already foot getting active, let's see how they are holding onto this.
come on, Subraza chill
oh my god I'm throwing them, I'm throwing them
I'll kill, I'll kill, dead, dead, dead
one more, I'm jumping
I think I need to fight two more Subraza
go, go, go, go, go
I try to fight you guys mid
leave me, I can't really go
wait, he's A, he's A
where, where, where
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we're smoking door
wait, tossing door as well
come on, what are you guys gonna do
grab bomb, go back
Oh
Got the headshot as well by the way, yeah, Jay almost pulled off a miracle there
Perhaps a nightmare for G2 you heard it though. Maybe they even prompting. What are you guys gonna do?
Trying to allude to the fact that maybe you don't want to go this way. Maybe you just pause for thoughts
How many heads left on shoulders after yet a jail most massacre the lot of them?
I mean so unlucky not to actually find this final tag 10 HP difference or finds it through the aim punch
Call me spell hectic man. Yeah, they really did
Necessary stabilizing in terms of the by just yet still gaps here for G2
All time to come online though
Jaw leaf and Trent on the other side. So she born yet to jake
all goes up and be made a little bit of an adjustment here a heavier lean towards the other side of the map and mid
To look into disrespect that initial control found
Trying to go in but the stall is good
They're gonna be kept up. I don't say a bay completely
But certainly nullified someone the slip towards the site or he won down towards it being Zeus
trying to be helped out there, but Babyhead, Babyhead's him already.
Looking for another target, can't deal with yet a J, this man's on a heater already.
G2 just won the plant, they want some stability.
Slow of the roll, the foot don't want to allow it for a second, flash comes in,
Great Hunters Fury gonna get the connection, then the rest survive in the meantime.
Crossley already, starting to apply pressure, stop on the trade, 2v2,
Crossley and Sop try and take on Leaf and Trent.
Trent playing on the side itself.
I thought they'd found a little more there G2 some stability something to hold on to but it's 11 now in the hands of
That's the trademarks all around foot can give you it's so chaotic to try and for this imagine trying to play it out
I mean not just get into the weirdest positions to press you back onto this B site
And that's going to break the bar as well.
That's going to shatter the economy from G2.
And an 11th round, not even a timeout used from Furt.
The game plan has held the whole way.
What do you do here?
You come back in now as G2.
Maybe a rifle or two, but it's not going to be much.
You are looking at conceding that point.
balance, baby bait, Alts to invest.
See, we saw it there from Jor, Trent and Leaf.
I mean, Leafs, Alts didn't really net them much.
They didn't necessarily guarantee the scale-up on that.
Yesterday, he even finds the response kill there.
Well, usually, like I said, this is always just wind conditions for G2.
Not landing once more.
At least round by round.
Yeah, and it's never free against Furt, it feels like.
They're so happy to kind of refight.
They're happy to pull that on occasion.
they can play the kind of more patient games too. They're very hard to pin down. They are a very,
very hard team to kind of put in a corner. Now G2 have to do it with even less. A couple of
volts, but not even massive instigators either. Stop a chance. I mean, didn't even need to farm.
He's got his blade storm behind this anyway. Hunters Fury here for Crosskali as well. TP
as noted, 4th associable, might just slow creep into mid here, trying to maybe try and
spot out, somebody holding on here, he's just got tacked there with the leaf, yeah.
down pretty loud. I don't know how much is going to be able to get back.
It's f**king away.
We just need to stay somewhat stable in this really, just not get baited in a little too much.
Keep that composure.
G2 desperate for someone to overstep.
I mean credit to Foot as well in some of these rounds to be able to play this deep and really make G2 work.
work. We're almost probably expecting a little bit of aggression now. I certainly was into
the second half, but it's tempered.
Oh, shots!
What an absolute belter from Baby Bay. Couple more of those and I'm starting to believe in
something. But crossfully on the case. Wait and see if anyone over extends. I mean, you've
got another tag cross, so he's down on ten, but couldn't quite do enough leaf there to
double down. Hold on.
They're making something up in 25 seconds when they got to go towards Jettajay.
It's still going to be difficult.
The final hurdle, the final boss, just going to make it so damn hard.
At 15 seconds they have to do such a tricky run towards the side.
He's not letting you pass.
Three kills, 12 rounds, but one off now.
I didn't see where Valen tried to TP to, but cancelled back in.
right back. Shut down. It's just it's so late in the day as well.
And I think he has to go to see if he cancelled.
And you have to be able to hold down the fort here. I mean, he just looks fantastic.
So what he's capable of.
I can hear me out, certainly replicating it here.
Alright, aggression!
Jor, gonna find social wall across the lead, trying to punish here, not gonna find the connection he wants.
Two-set on the line, he'll take a lot of damage, but takes the life of Leaf.
The baby bait back on the low gun again, comes out this time swinging.
Sobs fallen.
His foot just kind of picked up the tempo, went for a mad approach on this one.
Look where Baby Ray's had to use his ult.
Just to guarantee, yeah.
Yeah, look at this. Re-clearance out towards Catwalk, though.
Oh, it's getting weird.
And Valen's gonna catch Zeus.
Baby Bay, oh no.
Couldn't quite get the job done in time,
so Yedda J gets to live for another fight.
It's not coming to his side. It's hostily.
Crossley has to go huge here with the Odin.
Oh, I'm scared, though.
He's gonna hear those steps.
He's positioned out, he's waiting.
and waiting and still gets them to yet a J left in
And look how far away baby. What are you meant to do man? He's gonna get a double notification baby, baby
You see already just wiping the sweat for the brow up against you. Yeah, I
Mean he's gonna take so much work for baby. I need to find him here the hero of the hour though
Babybay all the final boss of the energy down
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I don't know anything can happen in a best of three.
We've got three. Have we got any
foot fans here? Come on. You
want to see it go to three?
That's right. I know your team's
in the lead. Oh, they're like,
no, no, no. No, we've got our
money's worth now as long as they
win. We don't mind. Where am I
G2 fans at? Oh, I love it. We've
kind of got like the the
American supporters here in the
European tier. So you know what?
We've got new guys at the top.
Hi, guys.
Are you having a good time?
I'm sure the screen looks amazing from where you are.
So let's start with this side of the crowd, OK?
Three, two, one, make some noise!
OK.
It was kind of just the front.
I didn't hear you guys with the back.
Come on, guys.
You said, yes!
Use both sunsets, but I need to hear your voice here, OK?
You guys up there, you guys down here,
you're not going to let me down, OK?
This side of the room.
And three, two, one, make some noise!
We need to give these guys our energy, all right?
We need to see the team that currently dominates America's season after season.
Gigi fans, get behind the team, make some noise!
We need to see the team that dominates America's season after season.
We need to see the team that dominates America's season after season.
I'm going to be the first person to get behind a team makes up nice.
Yeah, we had a sun face into that one.
Come on then.
Two European teams left.
We want to stick it out that way.
We want to stick it out that way.
Was that English?
I don't know.
We're in London.
It's fine.
Anything goes.
We're in International City.
Everyone to European teams to stay here in London.
That's what I should say.
Make some noise for Furt!
I love her. I love the chance.
I'm enjoying the sign. Okay, thank you so much London.
We're going to go into our second game shortly.
Obviously you're here for my friend, Gordon Moore, and the Annalisec very soon.
But before I let you go, let's give them something to remember you guys by.
Me, me, me, me is one of the me, me, me.
And Billy on the death with GB. Please make some noise for our unlit desk.
Lovely. Thank you so much guys. Enjoy the rest of the game.
We'll see you guys soon. Thank you!
Here it goes Vlad of FUD Vlad we thought maybe you would double down on the double
He'll do his stuff on Ascent, but no, so talk to us about putting Zeus on the battle stage.
I mean, you just said it yourself, like, battle stage is like a good form for him.
It's, I mean, it's, it has been such a long time we haven't been playing Ascent because
like we have 100% win rate on Haven, but it's good to show the Ascent as an on form right
now, so we're feeling good.
Okay, that's good, that's good to hear, and that was Vlad with foot with a W on a Turkish
mouth.
Oh, yeah, I mean I forgot for a minute with the turkeys a game
Because man, oh man, what a great start here for foot welcome back everyone
Let's go ahead and dive straight into our rise in high speed moment here
And Billy walk us through this because you were really picking up what foot we're putting down here
Yeah, so that kind of just spoke about the value of the sage
But here we see Zeus kind of set us up up to be able to get a deep line straight into the round and set them up
I think just being able to slow it to stop any aggression coming up from G2 was really, really nice.
But the thing that impressed me the most is seeing this synergy that keeps occurring between these two players in Zeus, in S.O.B.
But what are what agents for them? Seeing Zeus on that stage was really exciting and one of the highlights for me in that map.
Yeah, it looked really good. I liked this pivot out of foot. The post-fans on attack with this composition also looked really nice later in those rounds.
Yereje though was the man of the hour in that second half
I think there was a world where G2 could have started to build into a comeback after that pistol win
But it was Yereje in two key rounds that shut it down
24 kills to end it from him is a great way to start. Yeah, I mean once
So many moments too. He was just taking these great angles not really allowing G2 to feel comfortable in a lot of those moments
And honestly one of the big things that we were seeing from foot was just Russian
I really like how they wanted to just be in the face of Jitsu not let them have any kind of space to work with
They took advantage of it
Yeah, I want to go back to the first half because I think Jitsu's read in this one was that they wanted to play quite
Passive they didn't want to go for proactive fights on their defensive side
And I think their comp honestly looks like it benefits from it when you have a phoenix in play
But they were so often playing to hard anchor as execs coming in
I think the read is that because it's a comp without much exec power
They realize more on playing the post plan. You don't want to give them early picks and instead want to play to shut them down
As they exit but despite that being a solid idea on paper
I think the execution from G2 ended up with them more often having to just fall back
Give massive amounts of space and then foot is excellent in these post plant positions
They were always fighting deep
They were always disrupting G2 and they ran away with the attack side. I think off of rounds like this
I mean, it's consistent. Yeah, and I think the part where I start to get worried when I think about G2 is they struggled against triple sentinel when we think about their game against XLG on Lotus, and that's the map that we're heading to next.
So if they've had a quick warm up of playing against that double sentinel, I worry here because of course we're not expecting FOOT to play that kind of composition coming into Lotus, but I would have thought that they would have learned those kind of lessons playing against those type of compositions.
Yeah, no, there certainly is a lot of work that G2 need to do in order to put themselves in a position to take this series
Let's see what's going on in the G2 camp. We have the coach standing by with Jen
Well with adaptations needed from the both sides trash RT. Where did you two struggle the most innocent?
We didn't really play our game and I know that's cliche to say but you know
Sometimes we start off five before and like we didn't know how to keep it. You didn't know how to transition on defense and
obviously we started off with like we lost our pistol but you know you can
always like bring this up like half back with just the first good gun round
the second good gun round and like we didn't play that right so it's gonna be
really hard when you start that way I'm glad that the boys called back want our
first pistol of the event so the message to the boys was just hey we started the
momentum now let's do it on our map and then just keep it going let that map go
behind us right now and just win Lotus you win the pistol on Lotus those Josh
or T and let's get back into the game show Lee a grimace sense from G2 Josh
not really leveling too much more off of that one but I think it's especially
so for Jaws normally the key player that steps up in these big games in these
mobile events delivers the exciting moments but he's been having a bad time
of light not playing particular I think was a low from him but he tends to be
excellent on the raise. This is G2's best map. They're one of the best teams in the world at Lotus.
If they can bounce back and beat foot here, not only are they out, but I think that's such a
massive change in form from expectations. 100%. I think we look towards Americas for the inspiration
of some of the compositions that are run on Lotus. I like what you're mentioning here Mimi. For G2,
this event would be a failure to go out at this point in time. 100%. I think when I'm looking at
to be able to hit that
performance and have one of
their best finishes that they've
been able to have a global
event fifth to six that they
had back at Masters Shanghai in
2024. Of course, this year has
been the return to the global
event for foot on attack side.
She to have a big importance on
Leaves lurks. You normally does
an excellent job of navigating
into the eight space behind the
Viper on the midramps. But I
think alongside job he's been
won the players that I think
he's been off of his timings on
the work as he's been able to
get to the top of the level.
He's been off of his timings on the lurk, especially in the XLG game.
It was a big underperformance from the norm, so I'm looking at him as well.
I'm looking at John, I'm looking at really everyone on this team to bounce back individually
and show a G2 that is confident, that can deliver on expectation,
that can show why people thought this team would be a contender in London.
Yeah, I mean, listen here, right folks.
G2 have been oftentimes viewed as the uncrowned kings,
squad that should very well have lifted a master's trophy up to this point that
they have not been able to find that success. Meanwhile on the other side
Foot, they are playing with house money and they must be feeling so damn good.
Let's send it over to the casters to see if G2 can fight back. 4-smap 3. Here's
pansy and high pot. And look if there's gonna be a map for it this has to be one
of them right? Surely. Surely. Okay chalk up a sentence just not being there as we
saw it in the previous game it didn't look good okay let's just cut that off
where it is but Lotus I need a reason to believe G2 but now I've said foot look
great they've got everything firing yet a J's looking nasty it's all looking great
and I think it's rather the biggest thing you've got to say is for winning the
mental game down on the stage you can see even though they're not kind of on
their feet every single round but they look composed as hell again it can be a
a little more scary when they're on their feet, but G2 a little muted.
Now have to bounce back on Lotus.
Let me lean here towards C, initially from foot.
We're not stepping the mark just yet, but G2 and the spike headed towards Rubble here.
A good opportunity for G2 on this attacking side to set a standard,
set a line in the sand here and just kind of show what they can do. Foot have opted for a very all-in look.
Now, fortunately for G2, not going that way.
There's not even really anybody to challenge on the side of foot to really act as a deterrent.
Once taking this space outside A, Crossley will be the first point of contest.
That's sociable.
Move towards the tree.
Paranoia's there.
He's very on his own, and Crossley already down a 10. This is a good start.
Slow and steady from G2, but they've done brilliant damage, so she'll go on half HP.
Gonna be surrounded on all fronts here, and does still get one, goes down Swing, to say the least.
Bond denied, but they should be able to get another attempt at this, but stopped close five.
This time, they would get involved a little earlier. Crossley badged, baby, bye bye!
Oh my god! But you're not going to be doing this!
This is G2's map and it ain't looking like it.
Sociable and Crossley both tagged up ahead of this site here coming through.
Sociable still gets a kill. The spike doesn't go down, foot right with the flood ahead of that.
This is just, I mean, absolutely criminal that they get away with this round. Crossley finding
three there after effectively played out of the round.
Oh, my word. Those pistols continue to elude G2.
They've got some work to do and I don't know if they're going to have the time to do it
in here. Need I remind you, this is a lower bracket game. It is do or die situations for
these teams. Very few chances to recover at this point.
Stop trying to stand his ground
He doesn't outstay his welcome, but slowly but steadily backing away energy
Close enough by if needed and this time around everyone in the right place here
And you can see they're on the minimap as well sociable to catch baby bait
There's a drop of a smoke and stop getting punished for overstaying his welcome
G2 trying to actually pressure further forward here all the way into spawn the leaf will be spotted though cross to Lee
The chance to maybe farm this up will find another 3k
to J to close the account, maintain some of these crucial weapons early on. Across the
just missing one for his ult. G2, we'll have the upper hand here to the weaponry, but said
there's two Bulldogs maintained for always a threat. In rounds like this.
Could go in for a stack. Just leaving, who's it? Yenice with a sheriff on the other side of the map.
He's got to set up behind him, but still. Kind of a 1-3-1 beginning for G2.
Going to note that there is a further exploration towards that robble side.
So Yenice has got to be careful though. Needs to be able to hold this down on a pretty much a solo endeavor until support can get even nearby.
I mean, socials here already.
Let's have a weapon to do some damage with here.
Again, this should be G2's.
Should be a moment for them.
What? Could be sent away from the early attempt there.
Looking for the wall, but it's not there.
I'm able to bait that out.
Hmm.
Obviously could be caught now. Baby bait played in.
I'm going to get the shot across to get another player.
Again, this kind of indicates this deeper default, looking to find that aggression.
So, Magic Bird just slows things down.
Yeah, the wall not being there. It's kind of thrown off these early round protocols.
G2.
They're going to have to explore further, but I don't think they've got the time this round.
48 seconds, they do need to start making progress towards one of these sites.
It does seem as though A might be the end goal here, but again, you're walking in...
I don't want to say blind at this point, but you're going in with limited information now
when you're starting to knock on the door in 30 seconds.
G2, you can't hesitate this late, and if you're gambling that wall, there's not on that B site.
You might be in for a terrible surprise.
I think they can catch somebody off here with the paranoia ahead of the wall.
20 seconds. Huge. Absolutely huge. You're going to leave the way, but with 18 seconds, it's dangerous.
He's all alone. He's surrounded. Lee's trying to save the day, but 14 seconds. Keep your eyes on that timer.
It is looking lethal out there. Pure pandemonium. And with seven seconds, they need the time on their side.
And look at the positioning from Yedda J. Trying to be spoiler, but he deals with it well, and Lee's going to get all four.
I mean, certainly didn't look as if that was going to pan out.
That's a bonus. The timing here on the investment. So much info.
Again, you've got, I mean, it's a miracle. The jaw is able to live that long. That leaf
has to even get an angle to compliment that.
But with a real chance here to convert. God, neurology. Yeah.
Just delivered one by Leaf.
He can even start. He could be
leaf.
He can control that deep line.
Again, putting bodies behind.
It's getting aggressive on both extremities.
Mound and rubble.
The cat's on the prowler as well, so
something knows he can get very deep
on this angle. Does he swing this?
He fancies it. He fancies it.
He's still fine sitting on what, 40 HP now?
At the end of the world.
That's the next big question, there is pressure, they are fighting pretty shallow on these extremities.
Did Sochiw actually shoot at the reveal there? Did they know the closer position?
I feel like he did, but I might be wrong.
Well, scrap back and Sochiw is here with the operator already.
So it doesn't matter if they try and clear him.
Oh, and yeah, you've got all I said to have Sochiw, but it's up to be the problem.
And now they're back away again.
I'll jump by the beautiful little sidestep on that, allowing pathway towards the A-Sides
cross to Lee once again on patrol.
I keep towards back site, expect that belief is coming alive for this team.
An X Factor player finding form when it matters.
Now a 3v4.
And Leaf just let off the chain a little, let off the leash, go and walk about.
Having a look deeper towards stairs should give good information across to the rest of the side.
You shouldn't drop this one.
They need a pick and you two just aren't giving it to them.
The paranoia though, that's pretty solid, that could have been exceptional as Sop was
trying to there to be essentially an outcome and the energy still alive, hold on, Leaf the
man who started it, the one to end it, brilliant again from the man, a necessity for the G2
side.
Follows up with a 3k here, G2 keeping foot in check, again a huge opportunity here for
put to run away with this one, with a slower pace, this composure, starting through for
G2. They can rally behind Lee right now. Could just be the turning point in this series for
them. Already got a pit online. On the side though, Soft does have his ultimate ready.
How far is he willing to go as far as it takes apparently Val and dead Juggamon hands him some still on three!
It's three! Can't quite get four baby Bay!
But an explorer! Down to just Yenna J and the one feet two.
His timing's not bad though. His timing's not bad at all.
He might be noted on this baby bay next to leaf these two have really Sean
Let's say you can get to a rifle, but it's gonna be noted very early on here
Does he catch something just come back out of main leaves goes back turned
There it is position noted one be two now purely
in the hands of the energy leaf and baby base should be solid in this this
man does command some attention first contact can't get away from it lovely
again baby base saving that round in my mind another hero to note for g2 right
now still just causing so many issues I mean so up goes above and beyond here
The support system really, the little baby bait.
Ten years younger on some of these shots.
We only need a single of me.
I mean, he's not wrong. He's open a few.
The old situation now for G2. Everything but the TP for Valin.
It's a great, great position to snowball this early success.
Look at the minimap.
This is foot. Completely flipping the script.
And they've posted up such a ligendos in position, but he wants to go further.
Baby Bay's waiting. He has been the bouncer on this sort of business.
And he's still doing it!
Caught in motion, however, the trade comes through.
through. Leaf again though.
They're not expecting this.
That's just no way. One
single leaf this time is going
to be heads up makes his way
through and they've sliced
through two sides of this map
now. Issues galore for foot.
Back away. Doesn't need to
stay as welcome. G2 making
good moves here. Even the
keep foot on guard towards eight.
And do they try and dig leaf out or just
bank on cross to the find in something here?
It's a very, very strange round.
There's our timing here on the wall.
Shall I stop the popped?
I was not gonna find anybody here towards C.
Look who's still here, Lee.
Man, every time is always seemingly right behind you.
leave on an absolute belter of the map so far and cross to these options are
basically zero but can you even escape him he's already hunting I mean this is
the sort of thing G2 can just let him off the leash in some of these rounds I
mean sitting spawn just let him cook and work the map right now to keep him in
check. He wants number four again.
This is his map, man. On an absolute tear, Lauren. They need a time
outfit they are being dictated to. It feels like everything's going right. Finally, these
lurks. I mean, the big positive is this is something that needs like an adjustment in
the calling it's like when leap is feeling right this just let him go let
him create the opportunities for you start contrast is g2 that have total
freedom 12 and 2 right now oh he's untouchable absolutely untouchable
do they have any other plans in mind or is this kind of where they end me for
Again so much blood to just deal with him! Stop this time!
That's right, I think the NA fans like it, sir.
Yeah, I know.
Still on guard.
Still on duty. Still dead!
A quick handling of it!
Are they going to check he's dead? No.
Maybe Jor was considering it.
4v4 now.
And again, for G2, yes, obviously losing on Lee, who's been monstrous, is a bit of a
loss, but again, look at what it's commanded. Three players had to be put to that task.
There.
It's Jay. I'm near sheriff here. He's going to need to land a couple back to back. Is
any chance of really stopping onslaught of G2.
Perfect.
It's so nice.
G2 finally looking like they're, I don't know,
former cells with a team that we expected to be seeing.
And Foot just really stumped for an answer.
They have nothing to play back with so far.
I expect the time out to be pretty soon, if I'm honest,
just to be able to kind of talk through the options.
I mean, especially with that, where they left A site open,
they went to explore mid.
sort of thing that maybe requires a check in with the coach now, all that thought though.
That's not bad.
Look at the reveal here, it's so good, Zeus needs to go nuclear, it needs to, where were
you done?
Just take it a walk.
I'm talking like that round's over, should have been over, it should have been done.
Oh Jesus, down then.
not meant to be doing that one. Do not think this is over yet.
That's a bit unforgivable. Absolutely speechless. I mean fair play to Zeus for it, but still.
That is just insane to find this 4k. There's still so much time left and nobody from G2
is stopping them getting out of
the choke point. A little bit
of complacency there. They will
be punished. But bring it within
one will call a time out now
and probably a time for
celebrations. You're actually
bad, probably singing their
praises, but. Need no rules or
the game plan though. It feels
like you get a couple of those.
Obviously we've seen the
capability of foot, but it
feels like that ethos check in
that kind of mentality approach
of how do we handle leaf on one
side, baby on the other? We're
one side baby Bay on the other. We're not getting the info even though we are taking space on extravities with being
recleared, which is not getting what we need.
Sure, the Coinbase win condition. Come out of this now. Some ults to play with on the side of foot. Maybe a couple of players are
buying hand here do see an operator on the table. I mean, still G2 though. Only the showstopper previously invested. Like I said, I mean, G2
You thought that round was over, but you don't see a single old pop to really counteract that.
It should be a rude awakening.
Get him back, focused up here, because map one is something that's soon to forget, but we know it happened, and the scoreline is still just three to four.
They're not out of the woods, and it just looked a lot better.
So we go back in. What's been the adjustment from foot now?
Shift of focus here.
So we're going to look to get a little further forwards due to continue with this info gathering
approach.
It's not leaf on a solo endeavor this time and he's not leading the charge at all.
Cross to Lido.
Activity rewarded there.
Maybe they will fall.
Yesterday, now, all upon.
Yeah, the J.
Fortunate to be able to buy the time, but didn't expect Valon to be on the back line.
So quick. G2 have access towards the A site now.
Depot comes in.
Ballast alive!
Oh, it's Valon breathing!
3 HP and he's gone so scared!
That's all he apparently needed.
He's coming alive himself!
Three kills!
Looking like he should have been buried,
but sociable has work to do.
Valon, the 3 HP.
Bad dead!
more kills on HP at the end of the round.
What are these rounds, Lauren?
Individuals shining on both sides here.
Valin just capitalizing on Etude.
The denial of information here and runs away with this one.
Beautiful stuff.
2 answer right back following the time out
Very quick decision as well to be made on the back of a bay fallen
The Zeus now on the hunt
He's the hero in the rifle right?
The one that they're banking on to do something with but apparently soft with just a pistol
Gonna be up to the challenge Leafs gone, but they lose on the other side of the map now
You know what the MO is going out of the time out
to find him. Find him down.
What a great deal of players to do it though. Easier said than done. Who do you recover another weapon?
So two now to be worked with. They're still just on pistols and Trent already going to find Sop.
It's Zeus to get your and now the investments come rolling in Valin.
Brilliantly before, still standing guard on the site.
as well. Trent resetting outside does have company here.
Valen has to go huge again. Valen! Oh, he can't do it yet! Jay's caught him!
Maybe they're a little blinded by the smoke, but that's fine. Trent! Backline!
He's got time for days! These rounds are ridiculous! Wait, did he get there in time?
He should have done, he should have done. Just double checking on that one.
Oh, good in the end. 4 to 5.
I mean, this is the sort of thing if they can remove leaf, spur on G2 to make one of these
reactive mid-round decisions, but can really, really relish the chaos that that creates.
See, a couple of examples now.
Oh, it's Nortiness Resociable.
Yeah, I mean, that's a real fake.
Oh, beautiful stuff.
Still within one, G2 able to
Scrappy game.
Maintain this purchase.
Going forwards once more.
Revealed.
He shut down.
Least round the gill as well.
Yeah, Least this time, bringing the rest of the boys
over for the party.
We'll try and keep this one in check.
And this time he makes it out, breathing.
4v3, they can reset the tempo now.
They don't need to overextend if they don't want to.
They've got the man advantage as well.
He's starting to work the map a little bit.
Crossley though. He's curious outside beat.
You can find this transition.
I mean now you don't want to look at the x-ray there.
That's a lot of players, but that's one less.
18 HP gets away. It's a 3v3 now.
He's got the safety net as well.
The smoke comes up but there's still a wall.
Let's say still alive.
They're still lurking though.
This time it's 45 seconds.
Could read from foot as well.
Look where they're headed.
They're going to send two towards the seaside.
Conscious that Leif has slipped the net on this side of the map, but...
The jaw is tagged up.
Should we avoid this?
Yeah, no catch.
And he's getting furious.
There it is, parchment.
Do they expect the other J?
Can he avoid this?
No.
So he's 20's ahead.
It takes the body and drops it for the 1v2.
Hard at this point now as he's so far away in leaf and unknown quantity.
They still don't know.
You can see, look at the mini-map.
Sochibourg has to clear everything.
The way back in here does have a paranoia to play with.
Can he isolate somebody off that?
They cannot afford to drop this round though.
G2, I want to see them with margins here.
If Sochibourg hits back to back 1v2s.
So it's near unforgivable, isn't it?
Paranoia's there, smoke their TP, but he wants one early. He wants it before he's wants to leave. He can't get past them! G2! Hold on!
So he already was being discussed in the timeout. I mean, Sop, hyper aggressive here.
It's revealed, unfortunately, it's just not considering the possibility that something's just TP'd across.
I like that adjustment from G2 to not just leave it being leaf they read that
adjustment as quickly as we did put some bodies behind it put utility to it
make sure he's not gonna be just instantly found on this again it sends
the finances back to the stone age for foot
up. So, oh, no, I happened last time here.
You're not wrong, are you?
Yeah, the J.
Nah, not going to be there.
He should be dead.
He is.
You're going up and above to take him out of the equation.
They've got the early man advantage.
Did they spot Sop there?
Not sure, but they have completely found an open B site.
I'm going to take a look at this.
Anyway, picks up a very deep position.
Cause real issues here in rotation for foot.
It does over pit if this gets crazy.
It just shouldn't, it just shouldn't.
All accounts are just shouldn't.
There it is. It's going to go for the pit preemptively.
Need assurance in this round.
But I want to say take that
Gonna find Valin close to paranoia is good, but the shots are there Valin well handled
I do see the rest of the clothes coming through. Oh, that's a late investment from
Shut that down quick
Social and Zeus it feels like a formality now, but social will still gonna do some damage
You get any more
Grounds out of the realms of reality here
I'm not entirely sure what they thought was going to happen now with the old but sociable.
I'm trying to hold on to this as best I can.
I'm not even able to squeeze through but I shouldn't find this kill.
G2 up to 7 now.
They've done really well here.
They've done so well together.
They've still got holes to play with as well.
It's a fantastic position to be in.
Great isolation here with the paint shelf adjoining.
himself up for success. A little bit curious. Maybe what was being called in that situation,
but maybe know something we don't. It's Jor, Trent and Valen. Alts to invest here. Round 12,
a chance for G2 to secure a huge advantage here. I'm giving the state of the pistols really.
We want them to be four up.
Yeah.
Complete agreement.
Looks direct though from G2.
Do they continue?
Looks like they are.
Full commitment here.
Olds coming out.
And there's the old seven to one for one trade.
Crossed the league in the least.
Crossed Jorgen.
Always life in that.
Social ball going to backfill the space.
Tren.
Cancel on the attempt of the plant.
And baby they're going to punish.
Good pick up there G2.
Finding stability on the site.
But they're on the base.
They're hard on them though.
Yeah, they are locked to this leaf.
this leaf trying to give them a little bit of I guess relief towards that heaven
side but there's still issues on the site itself.
Sort of being part of it, takes away baby bait, that's Tree gone. Trent on 36 HP can
start feeling a little bit under the gun. Yet a jake getting closer, two boxed in, great
timing on the strike and foot starting to strangle, G2 clawing back this last round on the heart.
situation the spike doesn't go down the G2 have to then go forwards they have to
fight this they give up some crucial control here and foot strike and find
number five I mean it's fascinating considering if G2 got that I think I
want a different game but now the question mark of those pistols with G2
we wait with fated breath
game and they play a very chaotic style. How do you handle that? Shoot them back. Good.
the lead and now this time
like they've got to get this
pistol. Please rock this game
in man. Thank you for already
showing tendencies of how they
not happy to sit back and be
dictated to it's ever the story
with a team like this.
Stop at the top of the table
four foot.
Crossley having a fantastic
performance in that first half
as well, but.
And the likes of leaf baby bait
these anchors really hold up
under the pressure here.
A foot find some early success.
And one of those teams you talk
you talk about you do not want them to get the wind in their sails a little bit
of a momentum can be a death sentence oh my god you can go the hell of a long
way
G2 if you wanted any of the pistols this is one that you really want under the
belt get that nice buffer and baby baby two why is it impressed me thoroughly
other ones to receive all the attention paint shells paranoia is just about
everything but it's still standing strong until then first front foot and the
sights all there's simple simple stuff for foot. This pause ahead of the
execute is just lethal. Again, this is a vibe out of ice here holding this site.
Oh man. Oh man that was not how I dreamed it happening Mike.
A flawless pistol converted here, foot taking the right steps, back into this lotus immediately
in the second half.
Even with Luke getting really cheeky inside the poison orb, amounts to nothing.
is going to be a brutally hard bit of work. Now, as foot get the first step on the ladder
really to run this one back to an even affair. Six to seven, paying help for the fact.
I don't know man, he's got an arm, a cannon. But the A site's open. It was a stack to start
with. Fair enough. Again, you look at the round, they haven't invested massively into
this but seeing their resistance that's what until then I think the foot of
digging it out yeah a little caution on display from foot yeah they're looking to
pivot B I mean a mystery that's the on the back of Jaws jump peak they could
just maybe yet today's timing is crucial in B alongside this though she will get
shut down
well always done exceptionally well and yesterday's timing amounts to nothing as
Well, yes, so click a load of damage to this is still getting hectic here hop hop stop does so well doesn't
double down
Yeah, this is this is getting messy stuff here at least got an upgrade so it was baby babe
Zeus though does have a phantom. That's a pretty big weapon to bring into this
They're going the other way as well this could be a lifeline for G to
bring it back, cross delete, scene, sees, invested, slowing them down, buying a couple of seconds,
no seconds become precious at this point, Flash comes in, turns it, buying more and more time,
another target, but he drops on this one, now down a Zeus, a 1v3 to hold on to this,
sees just down a reach, Prowler's good, gonna send in the satchel, that's clean on the first,
Sticking it!
He's got a swing!
And it's a miss!
Baby, baby, it shrinks!
With a masterful of thrifty!
Not allowed to be yet!
Oh, my word!
I mean, you can't fault the fight towards Spawner yeti-j!
Court of guard!
There's three members of G2!
Drifting back outside!
And he just gets caught the worst possible time.
That's when you want to see that look, really.
value be it information or dying in that situation but then it's the spawnfire that really unravels
right in foot space. G2 find number eight around two foot. Stop scurrying though. He's
still pushing a lovely reveal. Instantly nullifying all that space he was looking after and G2
starting to stamp their authority and some of these aggressive starts just
sheriffs and the spam barely a-looking this whole time leaf looking to get right
behind this play but might not even matter rosterly tucked into tree right
now yet to jake doesn't have a ton of space to work with G2 freeze just have
to hold their positions. Round two flip, a flawless to find number nine. Yeah, this
is too big, big cushion now. Progress really not to know on either side of
me cross to Lee dismissing to but give me split. Take us the distance it. Finally seeing
shades of this G2 side we've heard about right the regional masters always look
good. Domestically and internationally. This buy is everything, Lauren, for footpin.
Yeah. All right. You are paying attention. Now you will be. This is the one that either
gets you back in this or somewhat shuts the door. It's an aggressive beginning, at least
taking space for G2 over towards now. So now put the task as to try and find some space
to play into G2. Exploring elsewhere, there's a three-man commitment towards C. Define
One more, guys.
Come to the house, we can hit him.
Go to the hospital.
If you have a chance, let's go, guys.
Let's go.
I'm going to the right.
You're yet for G2 the clean round now for foot
They want to chip away at this cushion. We were just discussing for G2
You're able to really what is happening?
A great question a few quiet rounds after
initial flurry of kills in the first half, but
Certainly still looking sharp
Oh, for Crosterly too.
I mean, I'm looking for the buy behind this now, three semi-protective for G2.
So, Foot can keep this clean.
Scoreline aside, we'll have a slight advantage.
But they're chomping at the bit, man. Didn't quite get what they wanted,
but at least going to note there's no wall there, I guess, as the smaller outcome.
But the Paranoia instantly impivot towards C puts Valin a little bit deeper.
They are looking pretty mobile at this, kind of that instant check towards B, that prowler not going to catch, they're not going to identify yet, JV here, but the investment of the op from Zeus, wants to ensure space, make it his own, the valon right behind them, soaps falling, Zeus looking to send that pain shell towards that season, so Jordan has to respect this.
Look who's on the lurk, they are you aware, how long do you wait?
There's been enough going on that they've considered this now.
Strike me baby, just turn this back now.
Back of the spike tap here.
There'd be a chance for him. Let's say going forwards now.
Shots and a half of the foot there, crunching towards CT.
And it's left to 4-footer, back in this one with 4 alive.
You can see now, they are
chomping at the bit. They
really want to take the fight to
G2. Yeah, they really are.
And even in situations like
this, it's like, yeah, Alan gets
one when he shouldn't, right?
But it's the onslaught of players
behind that initial trade.
And then foot dig that heels in.
Michael, what have you done?
Trash obligations is out of my hands.
Are we actually, what is it, three for three now?
We are three for three in the hometown.
Don't look up here.
I see enough people turning and being aware.
I'm not making eye contact with anybody.
No, stand up and apologize right now.
You can take this time.
There you go.
Sorry, guys.
Sorry, gang.
It's on us.
I'm going to sit back down there.
Fanatic fans, apologies for both reasons.
Hopefully it's a quick pause here.
I mean, it's a bit scary. Yeah,
I come out to the point now where
initially that round to flip is
about to sort of fizzle out. You
have the showstopper here to
offset potentially the gap in
this purchase, right? For me,
the gap in this purchase, right?
For me, foot. I'm worried.
I've obviously had a chat about the first half panned out.
Yeah.
They're certainly looking to take the initiative here, set the tone.
What the hell?
He's opening five rounds.
Yeah.
They found us.
My worries are the mental effect of this as well for G2, right?
You know, it's not just a normal game of Lotus.
This is map one. It's map two, and you're already lost out on a
scent. Some of those concerns come back in.
You get a momentum swing, starting to hit the foot at the
right time, you know, peaking at the right time.
That's why I'm worried as, uh, I mean, the signs already
being written. That's a concerning sign here.
But they have drawn a lot of attention to the fact that
they're not going to be able to do anything about it.
They're not going to be able to do anything about it.
They're not going to be able to do anything about it.
I think it's a good sign here,
but they have drug a moat sitting ready with an op.
It's the finances you were talking about it kind of almost at that previous round.
What was behind it?
And I think this is why we are,
I mean, he's only up there.
You're asking for something. He's up. He's up top.
Don't watch the Coastry.
I promise you, he's around. He's on site.
He's waving like the Queen to the people.
King, I guess, these days.
Beautiful form. Beautiful form.
But thank you for your patience if you are playing along at home.
at home. Just come back to that as well. You'd be looking at a very different situation here.
A win for G2 brings most of this old cycle online and then footer just up against it.
Like I said, the crucial ones for me in the second half, it's Leaf and Babybait.
And Leaf, like I said, he had a few rounds, but we're talking about four kills outside of those.
And actually, speaking of Leaf, I actually just got an update from production,
as this might take a couple of seconds longer rather than staying with us and banking on the
the signs, we are going to go down to a video where we spoke with Leaf about the loss to
XLG and facing off against someone like Sop in this HyperX player moment.
Hey guys, G2 Leaf here. We just lost to XLG 1-2. It was a very tough, very stressful loss.
We made a huge mistake on a set, just like gave them so many rounds and it's just really
hard to work with. And on the split, you know, we were barely there, we lost to Thrifty and
and just kind of crumbled.
Overall, just very disappointed with myself
and also I think we're all disappointed.
Except we have to go forwards.
Face off the backchats!
Oh, three, baby!
Thank you, Paul!
I think that Sopper's just been very entertaining.
You know, he's kind of a showman.
He's playing his agro style on the jet and stuff like that.
And he's making it work within Neon Nurse.
And he's showing everybody why he's, you know,
the new doulos in town.
And he's just funny, like all the little taunts
that he does on stage.
And so if you can tell he's a guy that kind of has,
like bravado and he's just kind of having fun with the game and just for you guys playing
along at home if you all are and there's a bit of an in-game starter so we are just
taking an extra second to really make sure again the gravity of this game can't be overstated
so it's worth taking a little bit of time to make sure it's right.
Just a second is everything we're running you down.
Yeah 100% and again if it does take a little bit longer we can go to a break and just kind
have to be there. We have to
be there. We have to be there
to kind of take our time with
this one. Because again, we do
want to ensure that everything
is right. Please place in these
moments again too much on the
line to kind of take any chances
on that because the pressure is
getting there now, and I'm glad
that we kind of echoed back to
those previous series because as
much as you're meant to be in the
moment as a player, I'm sure the
coaches try and keep you in that
mentality. It has to be there
somewhere in your mind, right?
Both of these two teams have I
don't call them upsets
necessarily, but maybe wake up
calls or maybe just kind of
was obsessed. Yeah, it's massive missteps. So like, to be honest, yeah, you come both
of those series probably looking odds on favorite, especially for G2. Yep. So like I said, at
the start of this series, you didn't necessarily want to come back into this series now and
see G2 just go back to, oh, what's worked historically. So I don't think that overlap
with foot is really the right answer at all. And again, similar stuff to be said with foot,
because I think it's the first time we're going to see them tested to this degree where
they've been put under such high pressure, be it in the game, out of the game, and then
having to kind of keep going forward and kind of find that momentum. Because I know a lot
of people were talking about even just like Ascent being probably a map that was meant
to be theirs, if you're looking at it, and a weird choice maybe from G2 potentially,
if that's how you want to see it, fair play. But Lotus was meant to be G2's kind of playground,
and we saw it in those early rounds, that first half. I mean, G2 looked solid, once
they go into the bar, you saw the best of them, you saw Leaf hitting those lurks, right?
The adjustment eventually started.
I mean, that those are the rounds where foot will probably actually sit back waiting to see what G2 wants to do.
And that's a big mistake, right?
That's where Leafa, I mean, you saw it, right?
Running away with rounds single-handedly necessarily had the opportunity to replicate that success.
Now, I hate to say it, folks. We are going to be taking, let me get ready for a short break.
Just because we want to get this one right for you guys and to save us, yapping away forevermore.
Take a moment pop on the kettle chill out for a bit or any other caffeinated beverage of your choice
We're gonna take a short break here and once everything is sorted. I promise you will be right back into things
Okay, so we are getting close to the end of the video.
I'm not going to push you for a prediction on this, but how concerned are you for G2, seeing how it's swung now?
Just the moment in which it started.
I'm no more concerned for G2 than I was coming into the series to be honest with you. I mean, I had the book go in top three.
I mean, this is a team that how many times can you just pray that they break the curse? Right? There's obviously a recurring trend of whether it is getting to that stage and nerves or not being able to feel as comfortable as they do domestically, but yeah, I wouldn't necessarily, I'm not any more worried about G. I'm still very concerned.
I mean, these next two rounds are crucial in terms of dictating the outcome here on Lotus.
Ah, no harm no foul. We're all good. Appreciate your patience. We go back in. If you're just
tuning in, it is eight to nine. The time is not moving. The time is eight to nine.
to nine. The time is not
moving. The time is not moving,
time is not moving. We've been
in the past. We've fully
anti-stratte. Tech pauses. We
know how this goes. Another
curse on display. Oh, oh, oh,
we've been hit with the double.
We've been hit with the double.
I can't take it. Get the Alice
desk back out here. Get us a
camera up to the close room.
They've got to do something
for him. Frankie Frankie
on the stage, I'm pretty sure.
I can't see who's up.
I can't see who's up.
I think.
Nice.
Paper.
Always going for the.
You're winning.
I can't tell.
It's a horror.
There we go.
Yeah.
Oh, we've got a split screen up now.
Oh, the 1v1 screen at last.
I think maybe.
What?
I think you got that.
Right?
I mean, like you're the analyst here.
Break it down for me.
What are we seeing coming out there?
There's no scoreboard.
We're used to that as well. Come on. You should know that by now. Oh
Dear me, what's your favorite charm been so far for the baby Ray charm which one?
The baby Ray charm earlier today. We will have to run the clip action production if we can yeah, yeah
Okay, that's what that's what Frank is. You should be doing that
She should be down there getting the best chance out of the British crowd. That's a foul court action
I think we aren't just got a little bit of update
I think it's just the kind of go between between the coaching
room and the players themselves so during those timeouts again it's making things
right. No, I dare you not. Where is that? I don't know what that is. I don't know. I'm terrified. Normally I can find this.
It's up there. How dare you guys? Turn around. Why's the camera on the way to us? I don't know. No fun allowed.
Are you surprised seeing G2 with quite the British contingent of chances though? No. No, you like that. You're not surprised by that.
I mean the EMEA fans, there's still plenty of them pitching too.
Oh, it's the NA fans that they don't have.
You got no fans.
I think we could get a couple of good chance started.
Maybe.
Are you pitching?
I might be.
Like an off day for us, we'll let loose.
Down the pub, couple of chance.
I mean, even here.
Me and you.
They can't give us beers all day off in here.
I really want to do, you know, like feed the snake, you see how fine you get it?
Yes, yes.
Like we have been doing it with water, boring, boring.
You know, I technically miss all the shoey as well.
Oh, I'm down for the shoey.
These are quite foul though.
If we can go down to like Primani or something and get everything sorted, I'm all for it.
I actually have evaded all shoey so far.
I didn't even do it in Australia.
Have you been caught doing the shoey?
No.
Life?
No.
Could you imagine Mini doing a shoey?
Now that, that would be all for...
We'll have to do an IV check.
Post-wings are half the dark.
Yinsu would do it.
Yinsu would do it in a hard thing.
She's already got a skin.
She's already got a skin.
Absolutely lad. Hopefully we can update for you guys.
Otherwise I'm going to start sitting down and looking through
either red or someone's chat. Which chat am I going to?
Which one do you think? We've got a couple of options.
TNV I think. TNV.
Okay.
Let me have a look.
We're having a little go.
I get worried when I still see people reclined.
Look, that has always been a concern.
Asfa has kind of took the concern out of us.
They're just chilling out and like, hmm, I don't know.
Not sure at this point.
Not sure.
So, okay, bigger picture then.
Do you still hold foot within your...
Where did you put them in your head?
I mean, I'm not sure.
I don't know if you went three, two or...
I think they'll win today. I'm asking bigger picture. I'm asking ice ice. I stick by my foot top three pick
Okay, so stand by my foot picks. Yes
Okay, perfect. Um, so with that in mind who beats them then? Oh
We're going back in
the time because we do have to come back to the game moving I'm not seeing the
time moving until the time of moves we're having none of it
we'll see I am seeing movement okay okay okay I'm putting the phone down all
right back to business back to my job the nine to five God it's a hard grind
isn't it eight to nine though actual scoreline here let's see if this is
essentially offset some of the confidence but certainly momentum as
Well, if you run this one through with a lesser by on the side of G2, I was expecting
The show so far as I said to offset that
Stingers around this out
Always a little question mark coming out of a pause like that
Actually taking a ton of space on the seaside here
Pick up the place towards a
Yes, just gonna tank a little bit of damage for news there pretty swiftly
Maybe they're trying to get involved, but it just has to trigger the wall for now.
Create some options to deeper down the line, because the plants can be coming in.
Wait, did he trigger it? Yeah, it's just a spear now, yeah.
Well done considering how much pressure that was, and social book can clear all this space, so it becomes so obvious now.
Big check into CT as well. It's just going to know that it's all in from the other side.
George's going to set all of this motion, and Zeus, the heads baby, baby, ah, it's the Zeus show!
This shows four kills of Jordan Olsen and nothing but die!
We're tied all even, 9-9!
The timing is absolute perfection here from foot.
You've got to be in any resistance here and they're scaling up the entire time.
Can't fault you too, they can't go any quicker here on the flank.
The one to equalize here on Lotus.
Riding through that Nassabine now puts an operator in the hands of Jor.
The two people Val and Trent, BabyVate and Leaf all just missing one point.
As I said, if that ult cycle aligned previously, now D2 have to rely on it.
To try and maintain the lead here, release control of Lotus.
Foot not too far away from both dualist ultimates either, but they won't be available.
Oh! Executed. Rewarded for his patience yet. Social...
Drifting forwards.
Bring them down.
No smoke, sir, but have to brute force their way into one of these sites.
Might just be leaf tested once more.
He's got a little bit of utility to help him out with.
He's probably jumped past already. Zeus is going to start paving the way,
and surely, wait, wait, wait! Got it in there!
Stop does answer back towards leaf, but this is not easy at all and they're looking to pivot plenty of time to reset behind this though
They can create a real question mark of a lurk somewhere on the map. I think it's what G2 are gonna read into
They've still got so many numbers to play with right like they shouldn't be too threatened yet
How do they split this one up? Okay, so 30 seconds left. I'm close towards C joined by baby
They the rest kind of left in motion baby. They still feeling secure enough in this position
They've made contact release kind of implied some presence at war is yet to be checked though.
Paranoia comes in, they're going to know where Valon resides, but it's Trent.
And it's going to be others, Jorgamo being one, and then Sop's not really looking afraid of 12 seconds old.
Where do we go at this point? G2 shut this down.
Yeah, the G2 late to the party.
Can make it a little more costly, short.
But the round win, not a possibility now.
You must win the G2, certainly. Still a cushion here to chip away at.
We'll be able to buy back into this. Big investment here from Zeus, the showstopper,
from now on. It's baby bait to find this kill.
What is it? Is that causing any issues?
We've got to call a timeout here. Come back into the shop as old, but nothing else available
now and talked about G2's
old cycle aligning. See jaw and
baby investing. They're still
crucial alts. You have to
string together a couple of
rounds here. This is hopefully
just a normal time out. I think
it is. I believe so. Want to
see the coaches talking, you
know, that's what I want to see.
it's fine. Do some jaw and again it does feel like I want to see more from
Jorgamot. It's when you know the caliber of a player, it always leaves you wanting
to see it again. It's not like he's not doing anything here but again those
highlight moments that you can certainly reach towards. Okay there we are, we are
seeing the coach checking in so it does look as though it should be a
foot timeout. Also opportunity for G2 to have a chat as well.
They are able to check back in and my nerves are assuaded.
Then, who are they able to maintain behind this?
I mean, some operator, that's like the stinger in hand.
The ultimate behind it.
It's very frugal here, they're conscious that...
Let's make them dead.
At least the main present here.
The follow-up, FGT-R over to 5-11.
There we go!
Suck it!
Soft looking to get into this vial with a big backhand there.
Zeus sent away, but Jogobo didn't bury it.
That just got him in no man's land.
Trekk does well to identify the approach from Set.
Down three players are struggling for numbers.
A quick pivot, but the spike has to take the longer way around.
So she bought.
Should get a little bit of that back, but I mean, not much.
All that chaos actually brought Leaf out of the pit now.
with drop, C site open for the taking.
Hell, there they couldn't really capitalize
on such pressure in the back lines.
Look at Valon though, he's here so early.
Very so he is.
Poisons off.
Back play.
Pants in.
Three V4.
Poisons are admitted.
And you're right, it's Valon's position
that's really caught my eye here.
Him seeing nothing at mound is such big information too.
G2 taking the long road around CT site.
Also gonna see nothing.
We know that foot are posted on site itself.
Casterly waiting for the push through now.
Contact made, baby.
Gonna set the tone and the tempo,
but it's gonna be a re-switch.
Yeah, Jay, looking sharp, but Valens made it here,
and social ball was down low.
70 HP against the 30.
What's the matter?
Valens gotta get to work, he gotta get a ball!
But with the numbers not on their side,
they tie it up at 10 apiece.
The bait out here from the sociable, he can see the cocks turning, he considers trading this, but he wants to run the clock down force, Valens hand into a do or die situation, go for the spike, keep exploring site.
Absolutely beautiful here.
We're able to find number 10.
And it's G2 now, scraping a bye together.
This is why there's a timeout here for G2. They need to check in. They've got to have a plan in mind now, Mike,
because they just don't have the funds for it. They are at the bottom of the barrel here financially.
A couple of weapons, sure, but it is going to be light, and Foot are just getting dangerous enough that this is now a problem.
The ult's spent as well. They have a TP for Valin. That's it.
now effectively looking at conceding number 11 and again with that kind of
blip along the timeline at the loss bonus won't align for them depending on
what they spend here
horrendous position to be in here for G2 yeah terrible I think as well we saw a
A couple of rounds ago, Foot almost getting a whiff of how G2 we're approaching here.
Even that previous example, like I said, they couldn't capitalise on Sop's flank quick enough,
but they drew Leaf out of the pit, they created an opportunity elsewhere, credit to the mid-round
of Foot.
Might just be a brawl here.
Three for G2, everybody for Foot.
I don't want to stop. Yeah, but the angle is good for Val in there. So try to be active in this instigator.
Literally has to. He's the one with Vandal.
Zeus is down at five as well.
He's coming out on top of this opening engagement.
Still here. Still looking for... Oh! Zeus on five HP!
Is that weapon uncomfortable? Not really. And the other general follow up.
The site now looking secure. Foot taken strides towards this.
ZOE STYLE AT FIRE!
You're not meant to be looking this sharp right now.
Finally put down. Leif, how bad do you want this one?
It's a 2v3.
Baby base still up as well.
Just trigger that wall and look for other options.
Maybe other upgrades, but that timer is an issue.
And Silver linings don't feel like enough.
and he's not given any opportunities in my couch so
no doesn't get him down there's another door shut on G2 in this round social
balls found in baby baby can't do it now
lead gathered for foot 11 to 10
and the financial woes continue I mean it's only two players sitting north of
3k. This by is everything for G2. Operator in hand for Jor. Just the TP, already mentioned it.
Cross study, just missing one. Yeti J, a chance to shut down. This must win by
for G2. That's looking all in once more on the side of foot. Windows in their way,
past rubble
G2 productivity hinted at once more. I'm seeing in a few rounds
We're really gonna get bodies ahead of this
I can't afford to die though, at this point there's no one really present on site to do much with it, maybe they tend to, sure.
I'm going to come down preemptively to make sure no one's lingering on site, but actually Zuzo's going back in for seconds, gets punished, and a shot from Trent and life's still in the veins of G2.
But a man to the good, you can see the foots go hunting with Val and holding the line, there's still a lot to be said about this.
This would be unforgivable if it's a loss, so for G2, it becomes essential to stay calm, cool and collected here.
So much time left though, for sociable and Sop to get out of this, but pure.
The one disconnected here.
You're back onto this angle potentially.
It's open. There we go. I see Dal on the first. Doesn't need to over extend on this.
30 seconds left. Doesn't need to hunt down sociable himself. Keep that B site secure, maintain space.
Sociable forced to plant where he can at this point and a 1v4 would be legendary at this point
He's the first couple cleanly here and they're stacked up all together
Trying to maybe divide this site in the new way
But I'm pretty far not far off
Look how big to play from does he get given a first?
And G2 staying now blow for blow and four left standing that's crucial in terms of the
re-investment required themselves. Another ultimate to boot but a fantastic old
near-foot given a ton of space to play into but I would have capitalized
yesterday's old used preemptively and G2 sat just outside it.
Please now the one to pick up the operator.
Zeus just missing two for a showstop across the skill and ultimate to play with.
Flip the script though, footer here.
Potentially feeding in, chance and leap! Will land! Zeus down and out!
And social ball considered, paint shell goes in and the wha!
What can get out of there? G2, somebody looking stronger!
confidence shown now but caution aired on the other side for leaf he took the
first player taking away Zeus he can't over extend finds yet a J this is good
information here
you two looking to remain active as well potentially three ready to greet
This drift towards A for foot.
Maybe a little off kilter here.
Well, I can stack up and find this first kill, but, like I said, it's invested for G2.
Smokes in.
They are very close to us, trying to keep this quiet at 35 seconds.
seconds. Get looking to finish towards the A side of the map, you're prowler. Just a
little early, but you're the most ready. Standing guard! With a double! Would love to make it
more for Valens there in unison and sociable, irrelevant to the outcome. And G2 looking
to finish with a flourish. He's going to take a body with him. Put Tread back on notice.
And there's no escaping it now, G2 pushing up to 12.
And just like that, foot are the ones
to feel the pinch in terms of this purchase.
And we have to muster together much.
Beautiful opener from Leaf.
And Sop just out of shot there.
Again, they were both onto this angle at the same time.
Unfortunately, a pivot back towards A, G2,
and we get to perfection.
Starts feeling like this might be a marathon of a game
at 11 to 12, G2 now.
One away from taking us to that third map.
Slip on the horizon, but the pace not stopping for foot.
Straight in towards the side, and Beta Bay in danger,
swings into it.
Stop gonna take his life.
Oh my god, leave!
This guy can fight that!
You had no right with Valin trying to be hot on their heels.
This time, social balls here, but it's not just him.
He's got support, he's got fire to the head!
That's my ball!
Chocobo's down, Valin's down, and stop!
It's standing tall!
This has got OT written all over it now.
29 HP now.
Looking at impossibility for Leaf to clutch this one out.
Krestely will find it.
Overtime found here by Foot.
Another turn of pace that suits them so well.
G2 caught totally off guard in this round.
Just when you think G2 gonna convert this one.
The timing for Zeus as well to get back onto this angle.
It is beautiful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, imagine sociable relaying that information
of both players being noted on the plate.
12, 12.
Oh, even.
OT now necessary.
G2 desperate to take it to split.
Foot would love to close down the account right here,
right now.
And it's pressure from the word go.
foot, not gonna let off the gas here.
Reset in terms of comfort.
Sides swapped here, Leaf will be put to task here and holding back the onslaught of foot.
Silly a pinstrel, social white outside B.
It took almost all five to find him, but four of them got the job done while leaving the entirety of seeing the hands of Yedda J.
They're just keeping him interested, but now G2 don't have step. They don't have that look great indicator for overtime
They'd still remember the sort of things that caused issues during regulation
Taking the fight to G2 in this first overtime round
In 50 seconds, they're still in spawn they have to read it back out to rubble
Foot will allow this
I mean, there's an all-beer for
Jor.
I'm going to take it.
Potentially huge to find that in a post.
There you go.
Plants in.
There you go.
There you go.
potentially huge to find that in a post
go once in this needs to be absolute money for G2 baby bait
I mean this is the plan for Furt so let's see what they got
there's gonna be the power in the air he's gonna try and make a run for it
the reveal comes in and here comes the flood back through
Jogamo he wanna stand the test so far and it's all on Jogamo
he's desperately trying to do everything he can
The final hurdle! Just too high!
Nearly saw all those magical moments from Jor, but it's Yetejay.
Ever the last man standing for foot to find the advantage here.
God almighty, he did so well to get to this point, but as you said, the final boss, the final man!
Man, yeah, RJ.
That's a whole lot of players painted in red there,
with the one remaining, has given foot 13.
And a timeout for G2, much to consider now,
with life on the line.
And that second half, I mean,
G2 was struggling in a number of rounds.
It took Heroics in the first, Heroics in the second.
Now they need to deliver one in overtime to the top of the board for G2.
Lots to be discussed here during this time out and see the amount of pressure that Valin
is under.
Yeah.
It's an unforgiving job, isn't it?
Yeah, it really is.
Don't envy anyone in that position.
13 or down to 12. It doesn't really make much odds, but for Valin a lot of way on his shoulders
obviously spread between the coaching staff and the rest, but for him obviously
Big call coming in now
First stand on the verge of a 2-0 win
Soap and Zeus, top of the board for Foote as well. No surprises the dynamic duo that continues to deliver for this roster
Can they close out here?
I will not spy on that force away by the reveal.
Sup will take this space at least.
Plant the seed.
G2 is not moving just yet off that, maybe actually reading into the fact that nobody
He's even curious outside C right now.
This is Baby Bay and Valin.
All down the floor for G2, Zeus is in here.
He's in there quick as well, but doesn't she get to close down on the man?
Valin!
Somehow!
And actually pretty unscathed to an extent, right?
I mean one point down between 9 HP there where the paint sale is about to pop.
Just to get to this point, tension starting to matter, 48 seconds, a corner and a cubby made to get the plant here.
It's a 4-5-V-5 of the post run.
It's about to be pure chaos, isn't it?
Lu comes out on top in this one, Zeus, ready to engage, takes away Leif, goes hunting for more!
The Hedge both, baby Bayon Leif, and puts them with a man to the good.
Jorgenbo, Valon and Trent, in a while of the trouble now.
Now, so much to get past.
So she will hold in the line, gets away, baits him in,
but Valen's got the body to drop.
Leaves him lying in short, crossly down low, down low again.
Absolutely doing wonders for his side, G2, holding on, you know, team.
Oh, my word.
Couple of players from foot in a position to shut this down.
That trade back from Valen is everything.
attempt at keeping hope alive and somehow Abbey Trev delivered one here off the reveal
but it's Valen to find another two.
Let's go!
Come on!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Do you two find the response required?
Valen, make a statement here.
Need a drop.
That's way to end hand for Sop now.
Bit of a curveball.
Got to be considered though.
He's quick to this.
How far does he go?
He's still pushing.
Maybe he's got to be really careful on the other side.
And again, so do the rest of G2 if they do decide to come back this way.
But he's maybe here not feeling the pressure, so he's already rotated players to the rest of the map.
G2's progress.
Something to keep in mind.
When I get closer, it doesn't need to do anything.
That's done.
now starting to be ticked off. This is just a probe though from G2. They are looking towards
B right now. Posterly is so curious as to what's going on over there. Look at what's
on C. They're still soft. It's a deep angle for the operator as well. He's giving it up.
This is wild and then Zeus.
Oh my God, the stars could allow G2 to get checked really nicely.
Paranoia was not able to shut him down.
Then they'll be able to get closed.
Still standing.
Zeus still takes one G2.
It took so much to clear the cycle and now subs back already on site.
Thirty fifty P cross.
He's done a lot of this.
He's going to respect it for now.
An advantage we're going to want to convert now.
Trinket's out now to avoid the Cs.
By his time.
Time for the smoke stop, he has it so slightly.
But looking to get aggressive now.
Here they come, they're already on towards the site here.
Looking to re-clear, Trink tries to stand the ground though.
Getting a bit dicey, and Sop's going to take away Val and the hero from the fourth.
It crossfully over Worms.
It's all on Trinket, it's too much!
Again, first shake, first!
They get huddled into the corner, even blocking each other's view here.
G2 just have no plan B once foot, like I said, the timing is off just because of the Cs.
One of the smoke stops, they have to move forwards.
They can't risk the plant being punished.
And Flut run away with it.
Answering right back, number 14 on the board.
It's G2.
Underscrutiny.
There.
What seems like the hundredth time this map?
Go again.
Trent here early this time.
Jorgamo as well.
Slop's been punished a couple of times on this push-up.
That's gonna be a potential big reveal here.
There it is! Oh, it's gorgeous!
Leave the one to capitalise!
Fall up there for Stockholm! On the trade!
4v4! Pivot towards a B site.
There's no one to discreet them.
They've got options now in Sociable, being slippery too, gonna keep control on the other side of the extremity here.
Keep prowling, gonna catch Baby Bay, that's fine.
Gives him a little bit more confidence in the plan.
Big info though.
Where does Sociable go with this?
Sop's got Leaf.
Sop's got Leaf.
Hold on, Jorg, come on, try to do it again, but Sop's still standing, that's three for the man.
Can he do it all himself here?
We're gonna keep going!
And Ace is going for the lead!
He's getting it right, so superstar!
Looking like a nightmare!
The face and foot carry on the Marcellus March!
Here in London!
What a way for this to end, like,
Sof just comes alive!
As he's known to do,
Him and Zeus in this last map. Worth their weight in gold for foot.
Ah, you can see what it means to a man who's on the other side. How many half-reys can this team take?
This time with a well-willed concerning sign, half-four-four in the end.
Lutus looking the best we'd seen.
Yeah, this one feels a little different for me. The writing was on the wall from the get-go to G2.
It's just something wasn't landing here in London and it is a shame to see them bow out once more though.
For me, I mean, a lifeline delivered for foot after, like I said, a misstep previously in my eyes.
Showing that they can go up against the more recognisable greats on the international stage.
Deliver.
Superb performance.
And a bounce back as well, considering the bigger picture going on around that previous series as well.
Absolutely.
A big ticket in the box, in terms of mentality and resilience, which for some of these youngsters is huge.
Again, 18 years old, his son.
This is a young guy, under purries, so the practice likes to step into, as said, big pressure from external influence.
It feels like a taking down the North American teams one that match at a time. Yes, again,
I'm just going to let him take this very cute selfie, I have to say.
And then we're going to talk about, well, first of all,
Esen, the double Sentecom.
I never thought I'd see the day that Turkish team wasn't going
double-truelist on Esen.
So talk to me about that decision.
Actually, we tried so many cons, but we just
find a good one, finally, and it's Sage.
And this is like, so good player, has really good aim power.
So whatever we give him, he will do it.
Was the Sage also a plan to just slow down G2's attack?
I guess not. We didn't see the score, so...
You didn't see the score. I mean, it was a fairly quick opening match.
In the past, Furt has had an issue with actually closing down these series.
Today, you managed to do it 2-0.
Is there something about being here in London
that's making you believe in yourselves more and more?
Fans, obviously. Yeah, that's just fans.
What is it like getting to meet so many of those fans in London?
Yeah, most of them don't support us, but it doesn't matter.
We are here for Ring Ice.
Well, I've been talking to the fans, and there's quite a lot of them
that support you quite vocally in the breaks when I'm out here meeting them.
I guess what I'm interested in now is, how far do you think Foot can go here?
Maybe we can see the finals.
You think the finals? What about the win?
I don't know.
You don't know, yesterday this is not your first LAN, but you are playing with four players who've never played a LAN before.
Top 6 isn't bad, you guys could go all the way, would that be the dream?
Yeah, that was our dream, and we really want to go for Top 4 because we did Shanghai Top 6 like on 2024, so we need to do better than Top 6.
Yeah, well listen, there's a good chance if you keep playing like that. Thank you so much, yesterday.
Go meet the fans because you do have them as for you guys more valid action coming your way tomorrow
So much for that Frankie we are back here for of course the man the coach of
Foot Vlad a good friend of the desk and of course
former talent as well
Well, so you've been in the game for a hot minute, man,
and it is incredible to see Foot pick up this win.
So I was asking you before, I was like, OK,
what teams did Foot take out?
You took out the number one seeded G2,
then you take out NRG, the world champs,
and you also dropped full sense as well.
So this has been an absolute lightning bolt event for you
guys.
How are you feeling, man?
Like, it's like an emotional roller coaster so far.
I can't imagine.
I mean, yesterday the EDG game and now G2 game,
like we should have won the yesterday's game as well.
But at some point, like we could have easily won Lothus,
to be honest.
But Leaf made it so impossible for some of the rounds,
and we kind of started choking.
But I'm feeling so good overall.
Yeah.
Being in the top six right now, it's like amazing.
But job's not finished.
Oh, 100%.
One other thing I wanted to ask real fast, when you were in that situation, Lotus, you
were starting to CG2, get the comeback.
Who on the team was really stepping up to get the boys in shape so that they could just
take it round by round and pick up that win?
I mean, every single one of them, I got to give the credit to all of them because like
we have been like the best possible way was to everyone thinking about round by round time.
everyone was contributing each round and in the end like Zeus stepped up so good.
Awesome.
It's been incredible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like our calls basically made everything possible from Sociable, of course, but I mean, I gotta
give it a lot of credit to the Sociable, I think.
Yeah.
I mean, I mean, Zeus, sorry.
Both players, Sociable had some big moments, but Zeus 100%.
You mentioned round by round, Vlad, your team has played the most rounds in this tournament
so far.
How are you keeping that kind of you know momentum going in the stamina? Are you awake? Yeah, literally how are you awake?
What's your turn around?
With two ice thermals today. Okay, all right. And then two Red Bulls, sugarless.
Of course, sugar. You gotta have the sugar free.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
My choice.
And yeah, I mean it's been just like I say it's been an emotional little bit closer because like after the EDG game
we had to, like we went through some difficulties of course, and then we had
to kind of stay awake for hours and hours to prep G2, like the map pool
shifted because we have been playing Pearl, Fracture, Haven, all games so far,
but this time we haven't played Haven, we showed we're another single map team
right, and yeah we struggled and lost us but I think I'm quite satisfied with our
I want to ask you as well, what's the goal for you now because you've already achieved
at minimum 56 which is the best finish that FUT is an organisation that has ever had at
a global event and I think that it's fair to say that maybe you overachieved in comparison
to what people set up for you guys coming into this tournament so what is the goal for you
now?
I mean everyone was thinking we were supposed to be grouped at first and then we showed
the team. I'm going to talk
about everyone that we're
competitive player team, right?
Yeah, and then I saw on the
social media everybody started
to okay foot is actually
making it to finals, right?
So we started believing it,
like brick by brick. Yeah. And
then right now making it to top
for is going to be our goal,
of course, and then the
finals. It really just sounds
like you guys are just taking
it, you know, goal after goal
whatever you can get. You're
important especially in an environment where the competition is the highest it's
ever been and these teams are insane so totally get a congratulations thank you
so thank you so happy for you guys happy for you to be here I know right
Istanbul this guy took me out for some of the best dang what do we get
trip gave up that's right that's right oh man and then the sweets I was I was
in heaven, of course. Look at me. Come on. That is to the
list. Yeah. And you said that's right. That's right. That's
that's all man. Good memories. Good memories. Now, of course,
folks, that takes us to our final six that are left in the
running. Let's look at this bracket because there you have
it, folks. Foot will be awaiting the loser of either. I
believe it'll be, uh, I think of paper X vitality if I had to
assume. Um, and then, of course, we have edg s XLG that
that will be taking place tomorrow.
Lev foot move on.
What do you think of Lev Yedam?
Did you get a chance to watch them?
Yeah, I mean, they're crazy.
Like in this, in this.
That's one word to put it.
After this neon nerve, I thought they were going to drop,
like at some point, neon, agent one.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought like he's just, the guy is just like soap, you know?
Like he's just adapting into jet, just like neon.
So it's amazing.
Like it would be such a matchup for us
if he could ever come across.
Hey, that is possible.
Do you think they have a similar kind of play style to you?
I think so.
In terms of the aggression?
I think so.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
If that match were to happen, just, yes.
Let it happen to me in real time.
All right, friends.
That is going to do it for us today,
but I'd always a pleasure, my man.
And I need one of the track suits.
I'm just saying.
Your boy need to look like Nico Vellick out here.
You know what I'm saying?
They're really near right now.
Oh, no.
We'll get you one of these folks.
Mihael, don't worry about it.
We're both going to be rocking foot track suits.
It's going to be dope.
Thank you so much for tuning in today.
We'll be back tomorrow with plenty more action,
great matches ahead.
We'll see you then, friends.
Have a good one. Good night.
Oh, he's making a play!
And that's his own rage!
Hey!
Come on!
I mean, I think you're a mean.
I
Ha ha, it's fire, it's fire, no time to heat up, baby
We got the cold water in the flames, expect me out, nobody
No way could ever come up with me, nobody
No way could ever come up with me, ha ha, it's fire