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Hello, we're here at Fanfest, which is just a stone's throw from the copper box.
We're here at Fanfest, which is
just a stone's throw from the
copper box arena where we'll
have our matches today and there
and to come and visit. Watch the matches at the Phoenix Arms while having a lime and soda water.
Checking out Artist Alley, maybe going home with a dozen or so key rings or some of the
fantastically talented artists works. It's all up for sale and honestly it's just worth coming for
that alone. And then we've got a couple of stages down here. Currently we've got sunflower doing
R over on the main stage. You can also see her up for grabs in Artist Alley and we've got another
have a huge stage over here.
So there is so much going on.
Come down, get some photos.
You'll see some of your favorite ballerine influencers
also wandering around.
Live and in the flesh, it genuinely is not to be missed.
So hopefully we'll see you here.
That's for that, that's for that, for that, for that
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We got one team that's going to be punching their ticket to the Grand Finals and one will
be heading home.
Hello everyone and welcome to the final weekend of Masters London and we're coming at you
live once again right here in the Copper Box Arena in beautiful London, England.
Ain't that right people?
I mean, I'm seeing a bunch of heathens not even walking in the back over there.
London, England, let me hear you!
Get away, oh no, that's exactly what you want to see.
You gotta get the crowd going.
Remember folks, if you save with enough confidence,
people will inevitably cheer.
In any case, no folks, I'm Golden Boy,
you got me and you got Billy.
We're gonna have some fun today.
We got some great matchups all lined up for you.
So let's take a look at the current bracket
and where we are right now because,
here's the thing folks, we got equal,
equal representation across the board.
We have Levy-Athan representing America's.
Vitality representing EMEA and then of course our first matchup of the day
It's also another cross regional clash. It will be Pacific's paper X taking on the CN region's
EDG in the upper bracket final and the winner will be punching their ticket to the grand final and one step closer
To making history and then of course guys we have our elimination matchup of the day
It's just such a great way to kick things off on a Friday
Yeah, both these matches are really incredible love vitality both those teams have been on incredible runs themselves and both the teams in this upper
Final have been in a final before have won a trophy before and looking for that one more
I think as well
We have to like the most wholesome fan communities when I think of PRX and ATG going up against one another
So more but everyone says hello make some friends in the crowd. That's right. It's right
Hey, this is your first time coming to a Valorant event. Oh, Cam. I'm gonna do a little housekeeper for you real fast
Hey, why don't you meet the person that's next to you never know that could be your next duo in rank, right?
So just go ahead say hi to some folks have a good time. That's what we're here to do
Speaking of having a good time. We have an incredible weekend ahead of us
But let's take a moment to look ahead into the future
Vct because there's some big changes coming ahead in
2027 here's a sneak peek
Okay, you're gonna have this ready by next year
I don't know how many teams from the open qualifiers get into the cup.
So how many from NA make it into this cup?
Is all of this NA?
Moment's development.
Now they do not mention in this how many parnas there will be.
So how do we explain our very simple, super intuitive system?
Hi, I'm Bill.
And I'm Om from the VCT.
When we were planning 2027.
integration into points will accumulate across formats and qualify your pathway.
Synergy.
No. Nope. This is not going to cut it.
Let's try this again.
Is everything really a tournament?
Everything is really a tournament.
Okay. Well, how many partner teams?
We're going to have eight partner teams per region.
How'd you get to that number?
We knew if the system was going to create the impacts fans wanted,
open teams needed a real shot, not just a token slot.
Eight partner teams gives us enough room to bring at least four open teams into every major event,
while still keeping the meaningful financial support and competitive opportunities for everybody involved.
It was a deliberate choice.
Few were permanent slots, but more opportunities earned through play.
Okay, okay. How does the season begin?
We start the year with the Triple Illumination kickoff.
The only tournament that's going to guarantee slots for all the partner teams.
Wait, partners don't get automatic qualifications in the Cups?
Nope. Partners who perform poorly are going to have to fight through opens just like everybody else.
What's an open?
The qualifier is leading up to Cups.
Opens to Cups, Cups to Masters and Champions.
And thousands of teams across 14 regions are going to duke it out.
14?
North America, Latin America North, Latin America South, Brazil, Europe,
Turkey, Vienna, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the rest of Southeast Asia,
including but not limited to Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and China.
The competitive structures described herein are based on right games,
current assessment of ecosystem needs, and are subject to continued monitoring,
iterative refinement, and readjustment as further information becomes available.
Folks, we're still building this.
Once we get to the Cubs, it's the VCT at its very best.
The best partners facing off against the best open teams.
In new cities that you've always wanted us to visit,
You'll get to see Aspas versus the up-and-coming rookie with the whole thing concluding in a hype weekend event.
Okay. And if I make it all the way to a Master's, do I have to start all over again afterwards in the next cycle of open qualifiers?
No. Master's teams will have advanced placement into the later stages of OG playoffs.
That's actually starting to sound pretty pretty good.
How much can non-partnered teams stand to make if they do well?
Walk me through that. We're moving to a predictable payment model based on how far an open team
gets in each stage. Qualify for a cup at 100k, make masters 200k, champions 400k, fixed payouts,
and then pricing on top of that and some extra incentives too. Like if any team qualifies for
Game Changers Championship at another 100k in the bank. Best answer I've gotten yet.
So, if you're good enough, you can go from open bracket to global events, get the spotlight
and the bag?
Yeah, exactly.
Open teams can qualify for everything.
Partner teams start with a leg up, yes, but they have to perform to keep it.
And every match matters.
Wait, where are we actually taking these events?
That's what I want to know as well, but of course, we'll find out later.
Make sure you guys get involved and scan that QR code on the screen for your MasterCard
fan poll because we want to know which team you think is going to be the first to qualify
for Sunday's Grand Finals.
Is it going to be Edward Gaming or is it going to be Paper Rex?
Scan that QR code, cast your vote.
We like to hear from you.
We saw a little hint of a poll earlier today.
The results might be shocking or not depending on who you are and what fan base you're part of make sure you those hashtags
Vct as well as valorant masters. Let's go ahead and jump straight into it
We're gonna have our skirmish side selection here. So we have a duel going on between Harley the chief gaming officer of paper X
Okay, and sign cinch cinch the sign
Excuse me the edg assistant coach
So we have a game between the assistant coach and the chief gaming officer of the association
in the company.
Honestly, though, that's a great setup for a resume, you know what I mean?
Right, just be sending anyone into these skirmishes at this event.
And they're all nasty.
It turns out they're all God tier players, right?
Where should I sign up?
I want to play tomorrow.
Like, do you join PaperX if like you're a certain quality of, you know, talent in the
game or something like that?
Yeah, I'd love to get a rank check on paper, actually.
That's a good point.
Okay, there you go. EDG picks it up. Honestly, if the assistant coach didn't get the win over the CGO, I would have been a little disappointed.
We're being honest there. But of course, that is going to be 5-3.
EDG, excuse me, we'll be able to win that one. But now that we have our winner, let's see what's going on with our maps, picks and vans.
Take a listen.
Alright, hello and welcome guys. Let's do the map veto for PRX.
EDG won the skirmish, so they're choosing their side.
side. Team B, which means PRX is gonna ban the first map. PRX bans Pearl and we ban Ascent.
Ascent is also banned and PRX is picking the first map. Pick Breeze. Alright Breeze is picked and
EDG picking a side on breeze
Attack
and your map pick please EDG
it pick fracture
fracture is picked and the site for fracture
defense
defense alright so
We have Haven, Lotus and Split left, Pierrex is banning first.
Melotus.
Lotus is banned. Last two maps are Haven and Split, EDG banning.
We ban Haven.
Alright, Haven is banned, the Sider is split, and PRX is picking the Sidon split.
Defensive split.
Alright, so quick recap. We start with Breeze, EDG attacks, then we go to Fracture, PRX defends,
and if we go to the Sidon map which is split, PRX defends. Everything correct? Good luck guys.
We were saying it before, all bangers and on split.
They'd love to see that whole thing play out, but of course, folks, this is an upper final
classic here that we've seen, a VCT classic, I should say.
Two region defining squads have placed against each other before, and also, these are two
trophy winners to boot, and Mimi, you got yourself these two squads that ironically have
not played against each other in two years, so it's a lot of twos going on over here.
But it's indicative of the change in these teams.
2024 was the breakout tournament for EDG.
Beat Paper X, early in those playoffs,
went on the run to lift not only their first trophy,
but the first trophy for China.
Years after that, they made that top three at Bangkok
and then kind of fell out of their normal high placements
at international events.
Other teams started to go on those runs
like Wolves in Toronto, like XLG stepping up instead.
But now the Metas come back to them.
They've finally returned and they're facing off against the paper X who unlike then never left the top has been so consistent at events ever since
Yeah, top four finish at eight global events me me has been quite insane
But I think what's interesting about this is these two teams have only ever usually faced off against one another in the very early
Stages of those global events. So right here right now is probably gonna be the most important time for them to be able to bring that again
Yeah, this match was the start for EDG, the very first game they ever played at a global when they attended Istanbul against Paper X.
And it's the middle of their story, beating them to go on the run to lift the trophy and maybe this next step now today if they can make the second grand final for themselves.
But it's going to be difficult with how damn good Paper X have been this tournament. They have been in an absolute flow state here.
Yeah, 100%. I think that they just looked as though they were in a league of their own in that game against Vitality the other day, especially starting on this breeze.
What really impressed me was not just the proactive approach that they had, but how reactive they were when they were being proactive.
They constantly had plays set up for even, for example, Cron being isolated after breaking a shock dart, recon dive, I should say.
They just always had very clear plans throughout the game that they played, and it was really impressive, and I think that's what's setting them above everyone else at this tournament.
It's like an evolution of W gaming, man.
It's like chess, genuinely. You make a move, we have a move already ready for once you make that move.
And I really think it's fascinating, Mimi, when you consider the history of this team,
right, they were known as a squad that really like to get out there, do crazy things, do
what they wanted to do, but they have found a way to take that chaos and turn it into
coordination and it has been brilliant to watch.
They have the best team fighting of anyone in this tournament and I think that's quite
a wide margin.
What's been especially impressive to me is their defensive sides.
They're amazing at being incredibly active on the map and constantly having new looks
of how to fight, what space to re-clear.
I think especially when something is off online, which he's been excellent with this tournament.
They are always looking for that next step.
I never watched this team and feel like they're hurting for information like they're being too passive.
They're very proactive, but nowadays it's so much more rare that that's ever to a fault where they're actually throwing around.
Yeah, which is crazy.
Just happens sometimes, but it's way better now.
It's just a thing. You don't get killed.
That's the perfect way.
That's the PRX way. You don't want to do rounds.
It's all right.
But look, on the other side, though, you got Edward Gaming.
Now this is another team that I mean look let's let's call a spade a spade coming out of Santiago
I think there was a lot of unsavory conversations that were happening online about how viable the region is and it is very clear
Yeah, no, they're viable. They're good and ever gaming once again, Billy leading the charge. They look prep
They look prepared drilled do they have what it takes to punch that ticket to the grand finals here?
I hope so and you have to remember coming into this tournament
They finally returned to the top of China after I think it was 470 days or something in crazy like that
But I think what impressed us in that last game against XLG was the preparation
Was constantly knowing their opponents next move. Of course, we speak about this region having the time to prep before coming into this tournament
But they really have been a cut above the rest in that regards
Yeah, they certainly have when I look back at the run that EDG won in Korea to get that first trophy at champions
obviously the big ticket item was Kong Kong the man who just walked past your
screen and his incredible performance to win the MVP bracelet there he's been
insane at this tournament as well that's a given but the other key facet of that
run was them having very good preparation for their opponents being
able to adapt throughout a tournament run and coming in with great macro
approaches and it felt especially in that XLG game there's still some issues I'm
saying the breeze is what I'm gonna look at today which we will see in this map
But on that Lotus against XLG I thought the game planning was very good
I was impressed with what the coaching staff came up with and the execution followed through
So we're starting to get inklings of EDG at their best. What's fascinating is you talk about the Lotus and everything
I was like, oh, we're not playing that but like there's so much that now we're gonna see EDG and showing us different things new things
I'm excited for it for sure. But of course, we're not the only ones here
We have our H reporter Jen standing by with two superstars. It's Jing and con con
Well, look at this everyone, we have Sun up in the sky and Jing, a PaperX and Kong Kong
of EDG next to me.
You know what guys, you guys know each other so well.
What do you think of each other's current form?
Like individual form or like team?
Both?
I mean, I think overall both us and EDG, we are like really hot right now because we
were first seed and one of first two games so I think today is going to be a banger match
for sure.
Okay.
And Kong Kong?
perfect now performance also so just have to try yeah but one has to win one
has to lose how do you stop jing now I don't think we're gonna stop so on just
like I want you have the nice performance and nice match because we know
each other so well so we just play just like the screams no yeah we just have
What about you, Jeng, and what's going on in scrims?
I mean, of course, for sure, same. I think we played them so many times in scrims.
In officials, we played them as well. So I just hope today we deliver a good match
and have fun, and hopefully we'll meet again in Grand Finals.
Okay, thank you so much, and it seems like no one's planning on stopping anyone.
They just, you know, they like each other. You know, these scrim buddies, you know,
got respect, mutual respect. That is one thing, though, that I do appreciate about both of these teams.
It's such long histories that they both have such talent really when you measure both of those players right jing and kung-kong being
The just the forces on the squad building. They've been present since day one such
Icon within their organizations
100% and I want to kind of lean on the agents that they're playing here right jing one of the best
If not the best race player in the world and has kept that stays for a very long time
Then you have Kong Kong jet being sold back in this met and being able to flourish and thrive on that agent as well
Which is what I find so exciting about these two going up against one another today
I mean, it's crazy how neck and neck they are as well
Yeah, you're looking at MVP candidates and I think these are two of the biggest names right now if their respective teams make it to
The finals Kong Kong in particular had a bit of a small start to this tournament, but map three against XLG
That's when I felt like I was watching vintage Kong Kong when he was on the jet when he was on the split
He absolutely took that game over and we started to see similar games from Jing.
These are two guys who had the meta move away from them who had to vary it up when
Wei Lei and Yoru were the big names you were looking at.
Now both of them have gotten their favorite agents back.
Their teams have gotten met us that they massively benefit from.
And so it's absolutely no shocker that for the first time in two years
when they're playing against each other, it's back on those iconic roles
and it's back in that peak performance.
and talk about playing against each other in such a high-profile game.
We were reviewing what we were talking about earlier, those other matches that they played.
That was a round one game. That was a lower bracket round one game.
That was absolutely stages.
You're like, don't mistake, those games are important.
Every game matters when you're playing at a global event.
But few will carry the stakes that this carries.
You know, going to the finals to compete for a trophy in front of this crowd here in London, England,
it will be a true monumental achievement for either of these teams.
but of course the job is not done yet.
It's time for our MasterCard fan poll though
because earlier we asked you beautiful people,
what do you think, who's moving on in the finals?
Oh, and the fan spoke, Paper Rex is moving on.
That's what the fans say.
I'm just going with the fans say.
Some cheers, some booze.
Some cheers, some cheers.
Some cheers, some booze, yeah.
Does the crowd agree with the MasterCard fan poll
by any chance?
Yes, no?
Okay.
I think I have a boost.
Okay, what about you disagree?
Do you think EDG's gonna win?
Oh, it's a little bit more.
It's a little bit more.
OK, so I think, you know, listen here, we talked about this.
The crowd's going to play a little bit of factor in here.
There's a lot of hype and a lot of energy in this room, Mimi,
and that is certainly going to play at least somewhat of a role
as these two teams take the stage.
I agree with the fans, though.
I think that Pay Park so far this tournament has been much more tested,
even though they've only played two maps.
They've looked great in both of them.
The MasterCard fanpole fans.
Yes, I think they paid for it.
It's a favorite today, for sure.
Yeah.
I think like a 65 35 will look like that feels quite reasonable. I think a lot goes back to the maps that we were looking at
Yeah, we're gonna get the breeze in this series. That's only I'm very worried about for EDG
I thought that that map especially their very passive approach to defense got abused by XLG
Paper X is gonna be far harder to beat than that team wants. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome though folks
I mean we got ourselves a great game. You see our predictions there what we're thinking
We all feel like paper X is in a very dominant position
But, and I gotta say, it is a big but.
You cannot count out EDG, not by a long shot.
This team has proved time and time again to defy the odds.
And then on the other side, you have PaperX,
a team that is battle tested.
Masters London's upper final starts right now.
I think he is the champion of last year's Barley match.
He needs a man that could potentially be a difference maker. They call him Mini Kong Kong for a reason.
The defending champions go home first.
I was very excited.
Because I wasn't very mature at the time.
I had to learn a lot of things.
But now I only have one step ahead of me.
Now I'm not the one who was the champion at the time.
Now I want to show myself in the game.
Last time we met you guys was 2024 in Seoul.
I think the players are more passionate about Paper Rage, this is what we need to be careful about.
Kangkang, you've been on fire recently. Let's show the world who is the best of us.
I really want to win, but it won't be worth the money, we will take one step at a time, and then we will win
London, are you ready?
China came to the winning form!
It's a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a!
And here we go, you could have asked for a better way to kick off the Friday.
There was effort gaming versus paper-axe.
The winner of this one punched the tickets to the grand finals.
One step closer to history, one step closer to etching their name in the valorant books,
And it all starts right here, right now.
Two years since the last time these teams faced off
on the run up to EDG's historic championship win.
But Pay-per-X, they've been working
since then, they've been making finals.
They've been lifting trophies.
They have been the team to beat.
But now it's EDG's chance.
And looking at the map feature,
I think it's a challenge today.
The breeze for me especially is one that I need to have seen.
It's a massive improvement.
the last time EDG played that map. For sure. It's crazy to think that PRX have won a trophy since
the last time these two met. EDG, of course, weren't at that Masters Toronto where PRX lifted
that global trophy after so many grand finals, as you're mentioning Mimi, but
Breeze, yeah, it is the fact that we need to start considering here.
EDG had an upset loss against XLG in this tournament so far. After being flawless on it in China,
they were five and all up until that point, so I agree with you. I want to see more improvements.
I think Fragger as well, such an interesting map choice.
We saw how much PaperX were punching Vitality in the face on it the other day.
What would you say would be the thing that they need to really address, excuse me,
for this freeze in order for you to feel a little bit more confident about EDG in game one?
EDG's defensive side on freeze was far too passive.
They played heavy to anchor back sides and fight for main control, and often neglected mid.
Netlight XLG walked around that part of the map and set up for splits pretty much at will.
with a top of composition thrives when you could early control mid and then flood retake on site.
I want to see them ignore the mains a little bit more and play towards the middle of the map.
I think the crowd just wants to see PRX win. That's just me personally from what I'm hearing.
But hey, that could be what the doctor ordered there. But of course, Billy, you talked about fracture
and you know that if you're EDG, you saw fracture come across the bow there. You're like, oh boy,
they might be thinking something here. What are they thinking? Or maybe they're just thinking,
Just keep punching him in the face, keep going, because it works so good.
Like you mentioned, a good fight out of it.
I think for me, it's such a firepower matchup.
We'll be back to fracture.
I think I'm looking towards smogging.
The pumps in the house, everyone!
I'm looking towards smogging, and I'm specifically on that map.
I think them bringing out the neon of the units was an interesting approach on fracture.
I'm not a religious guy, so you know, I just had to go for it.
Okay, I'll go for it.
No, but that is incredible stuff there.
Of course, yeah, and you're so right, Billy, that it's going to be tough.
for this EDG team to have to contend with the might of Paper Rex,
but we have seen Chichu and Kan-Kan time and time again
manage to be able to stand up against some of the best the ballerin has had to provide, maybe.
They've never really been a favorite, walking into a tournament to win a trophy.
Sure, their fans believe there's people they've always been.
They're world champions. They were an underdog in New York.
They shocked by pulling it off like that.
And then when they had the hoax in Bangkok, couldn't follow through in that tournament.
in that tournament, but they're here again.
This is one of those scenes that you just cannot deny.
They're big game players.
You watch them at Hong Kong, walk out on that stage,
and you cannot deny that this squad is one of the best
in these types of matches,
when there's a big crowd, and the lights are bright.
Oh, they play up to it.
They love this kind of atmosphere.
They love this environment.
It's where they play best, Mimi.
I think going into the breeze here, I'm looking at Paper X.
We spoke about how incredible they were
at being able to isolate any sort of fights
the team fights. Pay attention to that on this first start of defense.
Two regional juggernauts are ready to battle once again and we've got just the casters to call this
Slavernocker. Here's Brynn and Sycho. Thank you very much guys. I'm really excited to get this one
started here. We're going to be talking about it in one of the day. Historic between these two
squads. These two teams have a proper hook of each other all the way back since 2022.
PaperX have talked up a big game, they've been spring partners since then, always picking a BDG and vice versa the other way around.
But now they clashed once more on one of potentially the most important stages yet in their long and storied careers.
If you win this game, you're going to the grand finals with Double Map Vito, a decisive step by the team to look towards that second trophy and cement the legacy.
When Paper X played last on this map, they were fighting heavy for mid.
Here's something with a little peek out through elbow.
Not punished, good information.
But EDG fend off that first attempt at Paper X taking early control.
But they are always going to be active.
Always looking for that second opportunity.
And there it is.
Calling it into motion now, but both teams also looking for the same signs of life
To a paper X stone, stone, kind of a connection, it's walk of fire.
And it paves away to successor of pistol round, paper X.
There's been no slowing down.
If that's a sign of wants to come, EDG are going to have to rally themselves.
Absolute flawless pistol, lots of aggression.
EDG were waiting for it, couldn't hold on.
That's one of the first times, the only time where I wasn't sure who the crowd was going to be rooting for here, Brad.
They get so heavily behind, both of the teams from China.
Today I think it is actually leaning a bit with Paper X.
Both incredibly popular teams.
It's so fun to watch every time they play against each other.
The clash of the wars at an aim and angle.
Darn not taking care of it, it was delayed by Envy.
Go for it, have a re-fight as well.
Gear it up, for it now!
Guardian in hand!
The whole squad, following up as through,
leaving it just to Chichu.
Seemed like a little bit of a questionable
map decision to take us over the breeze in the first place.
And Chichu is going to find out here as the Vi cleans things up.
Mavericks are willing to bring the fight.
Yeah.
It's a map where we haven't really seen Mavericks' attack side.
They dismantle Vitality so quickly, we barely gonna see it.
But their defense is really aggressive, and they lock play against teams that fight into them.
This is the kind of matchup where PaperX should be...
I'm going to the right, go by!
Absolutely at home.
LadyG finally got some weapons in her hands though.
We'll have to see if they can punch back.
You're right, his players should be at home on this PaperX side.
Strong form that they've showcased so far.
Continuation of it, now something might get a chance here.
They're sleeping the wheel.
Yeah, teaches Kostak Kierberg.
He's going to be tested now.
Guardian in his grips, looking for a little bit more here.
Slot on Fango.
It's Forsaken against the better of him.
First kill advantage.
Massily going away, a paper X so far along with these fights.
Same gun for both.
For a second, just a little quicker to the trigger.
If he's clearing this area out, now let's divide, lean over a little bit to go and help something.
But this B site broadly undefended.
Just ignoring the draw now. It's a bit of chip damage right through the chest.
This guy's revealed up, though, and surely going to be spammed out.
Something double cloud burst.
They're going to escape.
Going to give up a lot of this space now, waiting for the rest of his team to come through.
It's a baller, it's a nagging.
It's great retake pattern from PaperX though.
They're taking away all of these safe spaces that the post-1 players might play on.
Very claustrophobic right now for EDG.
They're going to try and fight forwards here because the postman positioning is not ideal
like you're saying.
Well, we've got this idea from Payfrix and right now they're coming up with everything.
Nobody thinks matters if it was on how he's pushing the CT.
G2, the next step to step up and again he's actually delivering a decision all the way
out but he's got a DTP.
He's trying to hunt down what his strategy is going to be.
Left on the count of four.
A lot of damage done by the CTG.
Barely surviving, limping into a win but a round win nevertheless.
The two players that survived had some of the most important kills.
That swing out through nobody into Arches relieved that suffering pressure that they
were under.
After he got this kill, suddenly, okay, now we have a safe area that we can play from.
I know that I can put my back to a wall and Chichu trades things out.
It has done damage though to the economy.
Chien is going to be coming into this one with just a Bulldog, but rifles back and in
the hands of Kan Kan, that's better than the weapon he was using previously.
And deep mid control though, prioritized by Payprex, we talked about it, they're always
going to be active on the defence.
Sakin making sure, oh he's asserting himself here into the cove, he's going to be careful,
but his bomb!
My god, there's the punish!
Stepping towards it.
Dominating the control of that cove position, our drone to see if they can lead it one step
further.
Who did you get to be?
You know what, a control of the side here, a snake bite in the shot pass, have to be
side stepped, what is the next level to this?
the gear and up plant eventually going to go down here.
Joe's going to be sweating out a couple of the players positions.
Watch Jenny with this other flash that he has in his back pocket.
Kai-Kai, it's already taken ahead though.
Clean off the shoulders from Dubai.
Big reveal into the park.
They flashed but there was no follow up.
Yeah, massive player advantage though.
EDG surely favoured this one.
Post plant positioning.
It's pretty impeccable.
Three angles really being covered here.
Paper X.
Hand is going to be forced.
Hold on, they're going to get a couple of kills.
It's a great punish early on on Forsaken. That opens things up massively for EDG.
Forsaken was trying to fake as if they were putting some pressure over towards A-Main.
You know how he plays. He tries to puff himself up and look big, look threatening in situations
to mitigate the way that Paper X plays their macro. But this time, EDG call his bluff.
come away with a really nice easy round to be honest.
Kanghung also being able to find another in the midst of it in a post-buff.
Dead to rights for taking court there.
Yeah.
They're going to need more of that.
Two to two, even game.
These two teams have gone back and forth ever since 2023 of champs.
They've been trading their matches against one another.
Close affairs even before that
Expecting something similar here
again today
Something again on to this angle crowd stop at this time
Not asleep at the wheel gets the punish off onto the OB. It's a big kill
Yeah, I mean if smoke is going to be using that smoke to try to threaten like it could take some B space
They need to be more aware than that
Clearing up now, but they don't have any initiator utils of those out of this one just inside
but that's gonna be dissipating.
Flash underhanded, still on the counter for something.
Holding it down, looking to risk, can't quite manage it,
but can't hang up, gonna be dropping back off.
Now still in force, but to the right, and Invy.
Take it over now, take it over!
CHEERING
It's just beautiful.
This backbone of Paper Rex to Vi and Invy
have been far too strong in this tournament.
The other players happy to take that extra risk,
play their lives in a bit of more of a risky way.
Something goes for the extra peek at the Clavos.
Why not when you have a guy like this behind you?
Tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle!
APPLAUSE
It's the early fights that have been defining these rounds.
And Pedro X giving up for a triple fight over to Wattay.
They've got that retake wall that they've got.
There he is again. He's everywhere.
Something, he's got a hot hand and more,
Putting it to good use
Talked about it the first kills have been defining these early rounds pay prex
It's a big one to find that's completely alone as well. Nobody covering over towards window
He's just using the conditioning the idea that the attackers are not gonna want to peek window cuz I've been punishing it so much
I'll be able to get a free peek straight into elbow. Yeah
The cheese is not ready for it. I'm gonna look to get an orb here to the bladestorm online
Worried though about these a main fighting again. That's prior conditioning pay prex
Be making the right moves here putting a bit of fee into the back of the mind of the EDG players drone
forwards
See if you can get any tags. I can't didn't get the orb
Probably not didn't actually end up going for it here to power away
But it's easy to be in the corner that Molly the feet jing jing jing
Very brave stuff
Gonna have never gone at the end of the day here, but a hundred series might do enough potential times damage. There it is
Killed claims Jenny going down nobody would have promised us the top to see there's an extra element that they can pull out of
Paper X still giving information squaring up Kang Kang on a batter's way past this one.
He's in his hands here, nobody not feeling like it's a safe place at all.
He's squeezing me in the back, he can't!
Oh my god!
That's forwards!
Up for an ace now and now and the blade's still not ready to slice and dice potentially
but he's hunting forward.
He's struck a player from the right!
The ball at!
My god!
Sometimes got his head in his hands, can't believe what they've just allowed Kan Kan to do.
Don't give in an inch, the guy's a superstar with a champ's trophy for a reason.
Hasn't had the loudest tournament yet, but he's electrifying London now.
What was this? That's unbelievable.
Oh, I am the best!
He's playing like it.
Heating up.
They're looking to take that aim and control again.
Paper extract smokes into their face.
Threatening like they could be refighting.
We saw Kan Kan wasn't able to pick up the orb in the previous round
because of that threat, because of that pressure.
This time, no such worry.
It's being expended here.
Okay.
This step there with a movement.
Didn't go anywhere at all, but the wall, that's a bit of spam, it's just...
Walls are gonna be dropping on either side, it's traded out.
Frankly, I think Paper X will take that.
See how this one goes now. The Pippin Committed is gonna be a very tough retake here for Paper X.
Already only working with the Sheriff, Operator in our hands or something, it's a good tag.
Paper X are gonna have to go hunting, fishing for a couple of kills here.
Nobody, possible that Pippin's made noise.
Something's ready for it, what's for lie, onto that angle.
happening now. And through Mayn, he's playing for me and Tom toppled now. It's just a pit
that stands up against it. The true test now to see if he can get past all of this. Jenny
steps forwards now. Tom Bim trying to hit that transfer. Chichu! Chichu! Chichu! Single
high, and then he pushes them all back and away. This is that one and two punch that
could carry EDG to another trophy if Kanko and Chichu are pulling out rounds like this
they could end up being unstoppable these are the two monstrous players that powered them to
that champs run a couple years ago and two players that have looked the best in china for my money
as well when they've been playing there in VCT.
To be honest, Kanko hasn't taken over yet in London,
but man, you get him on a breeze,
you get him with an off on his hand,
like you see in here in the next round.
Yeah.
I mean, Alex is going to have a lot to say here
because the Coinbase win condition is, guys,
can we not lose 1v5s and 1v4s to their star players, please?
When there's good form on either side,
scary to go into.
You always know it as a possibility to win it.
I'm going to myself last two series that they played a map three he has had more than a hot hand
Almost single-handedly dead lifted his teams to wins in those matches and now
continuation that form this time no slow start for him
I don't think it'd be quite reasonable across the seven rounds that you've watched I think
PaperX have actually played the better game but it doesn't matter
I think someone famously said you get shot you die actually
That's true.
An EDG have been doing that in the last couple of rounds.
Monstrous plays coming out from Kang Kang and Chichu.
Normally these teams have got such great protocols for dealing with the pit.
To be honest, I don't think there was too much wrong with Paper Rex's idea of how they
wanted to clear that, but Chichu was just better.
That's with a Vandal as well, by the way.
Yep.
Paper Rex again putting emphasis being placed over the wards.
Minipra these wards.
That's a lovely knife.
Going to get the tag here.
It's the ultimate surprise.
The ultimate brilliant as well.
Just turns off something's blade saw.
Completely takes away any chance of people experiencing a bite back here, but he are still approaching and threatening from the flank
And that puts the pressure on the chichu here. Just missing slight timing
Looking at Arring about his positioning, but now he feels it the threat
From the motorway direction, asking for Smoggy's assistance and helper trades coming through
Taking fast now, that plays so finally back in action into the hands of something
Flash no forwards, and a fight towards, it's a lovely shot, Kang Kang
Played him perfectly there
Some of the support of Util can't beat, looking to see if he can play to capitalize on some of this noise
But it's all watched by nobody, close up back and they get a firm idea of where Dive stands
Two round lead now for EDG
This round all about stifling that threat from Paper X, still good pattern problem on the retake
But all of the timings control beautiful by EDG, that first bit of pressure
With the mid push, cancelled out by G&E's ultimate.
The next bit of pressure coming from the flank, cancelled out by G&E's flash.
I know he's not at the top of the scope horde right now, but he has been massively important for EDG.
He's slotted back into this team beautifully.
Player with a lot of pressure to perform.
I see guns once more with that operator in something stands where he's tagged up here.
Blind shots might be required.
He's going to be blinded up regardless.
has to dash through this engages. Plenty of paper X players potentially waiting to shoot up.
Backstab a threat now onto the flank that's going to be making it all the more awkward.
Thawing in their sides when it comes down to this wall of individuality in me. Potentially
taking over to get this Jenny. That's a straight back. Don't want up to face it.
It's an onslaught occurring onto the B site. Something open sight lines given to him but now
Now, unavoidable really, has to peel back, has to save this operator, EDG are really
running away with this map.
That's part of the reason why we were looking at it in the map, Paul, and saying, what on
Earth is this?
Unexpected, we were expecting PaperX to pick into the weakness of EDG's Haven.
Instead, they go for a map where EDG have been destroying people in VCTCN.
They're hounding down something at the end here too.
He's got no money here, we'd love to see this gun and sharp shooting.
Matt Peake, yeah.
But it's Jenny who gets killed towards the end, who's an absolute saviour on small for EDG.
Chichu's lurk was fantastic too, to be able to pick off that first player.
It drew somethings off away from the fight.
But just when you think Indy's done enough, Jenny responds.
Chichu comes back around to be able to support him as well in that high-low setup.
EDG are very comfortable on this map. They're looking unreal right now.
Snappy.
I got it straight up here.
D-D-D-D-Dash, not even deeper. D-D-D-D-Dash, for sakin'.
It's the overdrive being forced to be pulled down, but he's not expecting this one.
It's a crossfire set up.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, it's...
Jane, you took this for the punish. Straight it out, though.
Chaos occurring.
Not a main fight, but now finally a bit of a stalemate caught for.
here. Player advantage here to
EDG into the post plan once
more. It's a very nice setup
from them. High level setup,
sliders of angles, just a jiggle
on the shoulder. It's all
something needed and he's even
into a 3v3. Cove into the back,
rim to spam. Smoky making the
most of it though and still
unaccounted for on this push,
looking for a little bit more
here. Signs of life.
Cove is going to be revealed
out to the open. Time ticking.
Pay break so to get a bit of a move on here,
top of that, towards it, it'll be a quick trade.
Not a shot plus line through, nobody knows.
70 HP, just gonna see if he can hope for the best.
A few sharp shots, something sticking,
he needs to defend it.
Oh no!
No way!
Absolutely unreal!
What a way to play in the 1v2.
What are these rounds that EDG are pulling out?
Nobody is an utterly unique individual.
There's no one on Earth who's gonna play 1v2 like that.
Survive on him! Survives on 1HP!
The jumpy to the exact opposite corner.
You're joking. By the way, you had a recon.
You're joking. You couldn't use that!
What an animal! What an absolute beast!
What an incredible example of individual moments
that we are seeing from EDG to power them forwards in this game.
three individuals first set up with an ace from Kangkang then into Chichu and now 1v2
from nobody towards the end. I mean it is bonkers what we are seeing out here.
Really is going toe-to-toe with pay-per-exe. This is a course for concern. Coinbase win
for them but it's the second time out I'm going to be taking in the first half of this
game. I mean the cortisol is through the roof. Oh yeah. Don't even ask you already know.
We knew this had potential though to get close I would say. I think a lot of people, a lot of pundits going into this game, expected papers to be able to run away with it.
They've been form-wise looking better than ever, better than even their run in Toronto when they ended up lifting that trophy.
But here today, showcasing why you can never discredit, never discount this EDG squad.
They made that abundantly known in 2024 champs when they lifted that trophy.
I'll keep them quiet.
They never come in as favorites, but they've done it before anyway.
Can I count them out in the ninth position?
Again, it's just sublime!
Support of Utah.
Something didn't know which way to look.
Yeah, great take. Great control.
That's something without a player there to be able to break the recon for him.
I think they were hard expecting that to be the EDG push with the Harbor roll into A.
And now they're forced to make a reaction on the other side. Nobody has got his eyes on this.
Yes, but as a... Oh, he does!
Flanks by Paper X. Turning here, straight up. Sharp with a shooting here.
Rifle in hands, but for safe care, he's barely swatted them out.
He's damaged them through the wall. Slide his head in, so now calling potentially for the speed of one small,
but this is dangerous, dangerous stuff. Cheechoo, just to see if he can find his way out of this one.
Still a straighted out with Jinx, straight on top of it.
Kankan slowly circling around, it's here in the town,
he's down there when I play, stop!
Oh, it's a full-on takeover!
Three-piece for him in a round, shutting out any chance of a comeback.
Nobody in Kankan, the Jinx left into a 1v2.
Pure discipline, EDG, shoulder to shoulder, doubled up in backside.
He's got the smoke for it.
Shadows, give them any room at all, Jinx.
Hoping to hunt, he's ice at one!
DTB don't know left guessing where could he be Kangang circling? No! Yacht! It's just ridiculous!
Immaculately played by Jin. Exactly how the goonhunt won't be two scenarios like that,
couldn't have played it better. Brilliant stuff and exactly the kind of individual moment that
The Paper X needed.
Because Khang Hanh took over this round.
The mid default was beautiful.
Something out of no hope.
And yet, the final moment,
Jing proven,
the Paper X, you know, slages when it comes to individual moments too.
They absolutely...
They can give it as good as they get.
A 5-7-1 half here would be a big recovery for Paper X.
But I haven't won the pistol.
Gee, still looking phenomenal.
Payback's going to a bit of a trap play set up towards A-Mate.
Jing holding Paranoia off Forsaken's contact.
And nobody, if he inches forwards, he's the one with the spike.
This would be dangerous.
Get punished, but he's playing pretty passive position here.
So it's a draw, he's trying to pull out of this utility,
but look at it, positioning, waiting to absorb his aggression.
And G-Tube, back here.
Oh, Jing!
Shredo in it.
Look at the pressure on them in between the pyramids with a gun.
What an ideal still.
Jing!
Back to the line, and kicking.
Stomping out the fire that was this first half for them.
Spikes in their position now, Jenny.
And Smoggy have got a lot to do.
The map has just been flipped around against them.
Yeah, they don't have information about where something is.
That's why you're seeing EDG not commit fully to this.
The longer they wait, the more they threaten the flank, but something's watching it.
The one way is refreshed.
45 seconds left.
Paper X cannot let this slip away from them.
They have a perfect position.
position. Jing has done everything for them so far. Flash primed. Jenny's gonna be calling
for it. Waiting for the smoke to dissipate and here it is. Time is right. The football
is the play, Jing. Slams shutting their face, the four piece towards it. Come on V2
for Jenny. Teed up. But how do you ice with these five-six bullets? Remaining! It's something!
The five-seven-half, we said it. Hell of a recovery for Paypress considering the way
the EDG were looking. I think both teams can be relatively happy without this
half presented. EDG ran away with things in the middle but this these final two
rounds from Jing have just saved PaperX's chances. Going into their attack
after we haven't seen too much of it would have been a disaster if they
hadn't got it within two. It became powered by phenomenal individual moments
so far. Seeing the very best of EDG and PaperX being brought out of
each other. We're going to sit it down to the floor. Frankie is standing by with some
very familiar voices.
London, please make some noise for my new friends. We have got Naomi Young who plays
Sage and we've got the voice of Clove, Isla Campbell. And first of all, what's it like
seeing your characters around the venue? It's like their faces are everywhere. Absolutely
incredible. Just keep taking pictures of Sage. We keep calling it like Big Sage, Big Clove.
Because big club there's so many big clubs and also seeing like the cosplayers and they are like it's
So surreal it's the best day you've actually got clothes you've got clothes keeping something gave you yes
Someone who is cosplaying as club gave me this and it's one of my most treasured blogging style. I love it
It's my version of a laboum
Even better I would say even more unique now if you were to be going into game on that stage
Which of your voice lines would you like to hear?
Stantall we are Valorant. We are Fighters!
Well, well, well isn't it my arch nemesis sage? Oh just kidding. We're like standard nemesis
Can we get back into the game?
Have you got a message for anyone who plays your characters in-game?
Come on!
Come on, yourselves!
It's been such a pleasure having you with us.
Enjoy the games.
I know who they're supporting, but I'm not allowed to tell you.
Apparently, let's head into the second half.
Yeah, the bias is apparently...
But that is... That's just excellent.
And they've got an entertaining game to watch.
This has been everything you could have wanted for, with a clash between PaperX and EDG so far.
You've had some monstrous individual moments, both teams looking to take the fight to each other.
And even though PaperX are the team that picked this map and won the pistol, they're down 5-7 at the half.
Look to see if they can secure a point of a one pistol round, even it up 7-7 here.
This is fast. Blade or is double or angle, deep dash from something, but it's a fake.
And switch. Faking out the presence, even if they can pull rotations away from EDG, but
deep committed position, Chichu potentially an accounted for, but on that timing,
he'll abandon it in hand, it is traded in time. And they can go back to the insert of something at
double doors. It's fake, some fake, it's pressure on pressure, but nobody again, he's insert himself.
Four words, it's Dubai! Just a competition, nobody. Cleans up the threat of that. Paranoia is going
to be connecting and can potentially
split it out towards the back of that site.
No one will enter contest just yet.
Deep high tide though is going to be cutting its way across now.
Walls on walls.
The backside position already taken up.
It's dropped down.
Headwrecks falls to the issue.
Jayre!
Hot hander moist striking while the iron is hot.
There's no slowing down.
He's passed the rounds.
Jump spots.
Guess he can always run.
Knows where Jenny is.
The 1B3 for him.
Still on ahead of a task to chew through.
And another Pestillian for Paper X. Insane consistency so far at this event.
Before we got into this one, it was sitting at about 70% win rate.
Yeah. Well, that's only going to be going up, isn't it?
That was actually an area that Paper X was struggling with in Pacific.
Yeah. It was going to be even holding him back from showing the truly dominant potential.
Six, seven, eight.
I'm feeling like an EDG fan now.
I mean, the views of the Charles.
says it all isn't it winning double pistol here though might be the thing the
paper X need they have been phenomenally consistent with them at London winning
all of those crucial fights nice idea on the pistol round to that little fake
into returning back to a they've opened up a main again for themselves here by
jiggling that door drawing smoke use attention and EDG have very different
ways of approaching their defense depending on their opponent how the
smoke he's going to be looking to like try challenge double doors or sometimes
It's a hard fight to game A with the flashes.
It's a high tide committed very early on here by EDG.
Underweapons are a fight like this, what to say, should.
Look at the draw blood and more, take the lines away.
Or it can really get too messy.
It's strong.
It's overwhelming.
Paper Rex are going to be coming in with a really nice bonus.
And they're a team that's got fast, strong ideas.
It really is. In DCT China, it's the defence side though.
though, where EDG have been winning their games.
There isn't really a team in China
that can get past their different looks on the defense side,
even though sometimes the analysts, if you talk to people
like Mini, he's not too happy with how they play the harbor.
But their flair, the way that they play it on defense,
it's been working.
And it's been powering them to an enormous amount of wins
on this map.
If PaperX can hit them hard here with a big bonus,
that could make all the difference.
You'll see, it's a bit of honking and prodding against similar scenes.
Jenny though is holding his zero point over towards B here.
Any noise, any drone used in this area, and he can knife the wall.
He's gonna be looking to hold close angle.
It's almost a one undone, but you can see it there, Jenny.
Playing for it, something.
Util looking all the way up, and that timing couldn't be better.
Soon as Util's utilized, he's gonna be completely canceling out the drone.
He gets all the info they were looking for.
At the same time though, Jisru did use his snakebite and the orb pop.
So now this second wave time for PX is not too bad at all.
He's sending it five forwards here with a dart, but it's going to be broken up.
Look at Jin!
And a fast lane day.
Our patient is anything but Jin forwards.
Look at Jin!
Saw that noise pressure!
Well, eyes were towards that choke point, Chichu now!
Trying to do it all!
Stutting, standing tall up into the corner, timing four, Kangas right there.
Chichu!
Stono removed!
His sight hit.
He's not willing to give it up for three.
One shot forward, something still, but now it's 27 and a half, that's all he's got to
work with.
Is it into the 1v2, but nobody wrap it on the flank?
Incredible anchoring from Chichu.
Think back to when they looked at that champions trophy.
It's kind of like the MVP for his outrageous performance in the finals,
but who was there toiling, gaming, game out,
putting together the best stats prior to that?
Chichu.
He's a monstrously good player that we've seen turn up to events like this
and dominate before.
And he's good for it again in a very difficult spot.
I really like the way the PaperX played that.
Just again, Chishu's too good.
Here the attack side op comes out from something.
I think both teams can get big value out of this idea.
Cause Kangkang's the one maybe even more known for it.
Yeah.
Easy cheat.
Cementing up the A main hold with Smoggy's judge.
This is the more aggressive setup that you see from them pretty often.
Is she true?
She's going to be watching this one.
Slight angle here but somebody operator could be...
PYING FOR IT!
Just plucked a life out of Cheechoo.
What an outrageously good peek.
Crosshair placement. The dip onto the angle.
That's something that's been insanely consistent with his offing.
In his series, the event so far.
It's this A9 setup as well, though, again, that EDG thrive with.
Getting your Cove deep onto an angle like this,
and getting smoggy inside of it, you can play for the ult orbs,
you can generate his Harborell really heavily,
and it just means that the rest of EDG can spread out a bit.
I am surprised to still see three players on A, though.
They've left Genny on a complete island.
Not budging.
It's a lot of pressure to put on Genny.
He's drone.
That's going to fly forwards here.
That's it out, but I think just barely spotted out.
There's a square up now, side stepping,
and somebody's just watching for those rotates.
Genny forced to retreat back in the way,
and flashed on the hand.
There's just a 2-7 about it.
For the protocols.
30 seconds left.
Flowing freely now for Pay-Per-X.
First round in a while where I think he'd achieve
pretty heavily misplayed and misunderstood what PaperX were going for.
Another kill from something's off.
This attack-sided off has been a marvellous addition to the ideas for PaperX.
And the callings really clean from them too.
The way that they're faking this level of A-split pressure,
taking the hull of the middle of the map away from EDG,
the macro game looks strong.
And Smoggy's just left in a very similar position to where he started the rounds.
He's managed to get the upgrade from the judge to the vandal,
but he's had no impact.
I'm out of here.
And this slower contact he pays
will require an adjustment from EDG.
8-8.
Both teams pushing each other to the limit.
You're right, it will require these adjustments from EDG.
Pixel angles, yeah, something has been just sucked online.
Dude, it's one thing to be holding a pixel angle.
It's another thing entirely to know, just peeking into you,
peeking into a pixel angle, knowing exactly how your movement,
how your aim all needs to be lined up,
and then hitting the shot, Insta.
It's incredibly good.
This is that tack timer for EDG to address the playstyle
the PaperX are throwing at them.
They are scrim partners.
They've been script partners for years and years and years.
You heard Jing and Kang Kang talk about it earlier.
They know each other inside and out.
We haven't actually seen them play in a match in a long time.
It's 2024, and that was before both teams had even
lifted a trophy.
Yeah, at that time, both teams were fighters.
They were the scrappy team that you didn't want to run into.
The teams that looked like maybe they had a chance of taking
a big upset, or maybe even a trophy.
But the last time they clashed was in the group stage
of the tournament where EDG went on to win a champs.
Since they first played against each other in 2023,
they still have seven out of 10 of the same players too.
Yeah.
These are rosters that have mostly stuck together,
loyally building on that teamwork and chemistry
in order to get to where they are.
Showers, they've got a brotherhood with one another.
Through the scrims, through the matches, the historical context,
and both of these teams face off against each other.
Another look at this, Devine picking up the attack side off.
Okay.
It implies that they want to keep the off,
but they want to run something fast in this round
to throw off EDG's tag timeout.
Frankly, though, I think EDG will be taking this round for the next one.
Look at the buy.
Yeah.
Hit some pieces, but ensuring that they can keep the buy going for the next.
Comes up down.
You'll see a lot of Utah being used.
Kill disrespect over towards Amen.
Kan-Kan.
Guardian.
See them do monster stuff with this weapon before, but it's time.
Watter down.
The second is now slowing down.
All the way forwards now.
Something, his turn is here.
He can show up.
Farm up.
Somebody's eco kills.
Collecting all sorts of action.
Ratchet them all up and away.
A flawless, big pace increase from Paper Rex.
We'll see if there's a continuation of that.
It's a nice idea to throw that kind of stuff off.
Might have also been one of the pre-prepared setups,
just in case they think Smoggy's playing
with some judge or blocky in a main.
He go fast through and immediately trying to barrel through.
But now the attack side goes back into the hands of something
and maybe the pace settles a bit more
into what we were seeing across rounds 15 and 16.
Kankang, something might be squaring up here, the op-vee-op, we were talking about it, we were teasing it.
I know, nobody wants to budge, no one wants to make the first move.
Open to the fight, comes to them, that little trademark wiggle, yeah.
It's like reset of the game, just feeling it out, making a bit of noise now.
Lot of respect being given here by Kankang, playing on more and more passive angles.
Jenny got information that nobody was over towards a main with the knife.
I'm getting the tag here. A lot of youths are being pulled out of them.
But again, this battle of towards double doors, pixel to play with jumping round.
The ball is wading, but the shot goes wide.
Now with a dash.
There's four wide to this time. Strikes.
The conversation, though.
Ports again, over drive.
And he's running a turn.
Atchison towards the shots.
Side stepping the bullets.
It's called all the pressure, pulling the players of EDG out like a poultice.
Now with a bit of a pause.
Get out of my way!
Bit of temperament into the round, but it's going to be again, applying even more pressure
towards Jenny, how well can you anchor?
Underhand with a flash, there's that big connection here,
but these players still, the crates might not be intact enough.
Seiken has gone down, narrow-pointing out though, even taking out Jenny.
Quick little turnaround, transfer, smoke is ready for it, moving his way!
Weaving and ducking and brings it into the 1v1.
I don't think DeVy knows that Chichu's coming from here.
Fast on the flank and accountable potentially.
DeVy trying to spot him out with a jump spot,
see if he can scope it out, but it just spotted it.
Signs of life potentially.
Chichu healthy as anything here.
Walls up.
DeVy trying to play and insert a bit of the mind games.
That's the angle!
Unaccounted for...
It's Paprik's now leading by two.
Beautiful reposition, great usage of the wall there in the post-platform on V1.
Dubai has been a monster every time his team needs him in London.
A wild, scrappy fight here between Kang Kang and Forsaken.
Well, something was doing crazy stuff on the other side of the map too.
They did nobody out of position.
Another wild round.
But this is Paper X in control now.
AHHHHH! THE BALL IS-
Their attack side has been exactly what the Doctor ordered.
EDG down on Twin Echo again.
Kankang, we've seen so many big moments.
He's got the Bladestorm, but at the moment on the opposite side of the map.
Yeah, player to look towards the danger swarm.
EDG, they're putting their hopes into his hands.
Smoggy's holding a wall for him at the moment by the look of things.
They want to put Kankang in their position to win this round.
It's risky stuff here.
He just opens himself up, something with a punish.
Hearing potential sound cues now.
But Jenny looking to step up once more,
but he's only got the Stingy here,
and behind him with a flash forwards.
He's going to play again at one entire angle,
looking to see if he can pull anything at all.
Out of pay for X.
But the bias is one step ahead.
It doesn't mean taking over. You see the cerebral level of his plate.
Great control so far.
Dubai is a step forward compared to the rest. They're going to take the fight deep behind them here.
Just laps it onto the opposition still up top. Nobody in attempt to reclaim the gun is punished.
We've got out of hand here, but Payprex ensuring that they don't let any rounds slip.
They've actually pushed back site twice on anti-ecos, but they've done it together.
Kan-Kan was the big threat, and something shut him down.
In terms of that jet impact, something's got a KD of over two at the moment.
This is ridiculous.
23 and 11.
Meanwhile Kan-Kan, he's had incredible moments earlier.
He had that ace, but his KD much more even.
He's had impact in terms of rounds delivered, but he's not delivering round over round over round
the same degree that something is. This attack side, something's been such a key player and
opening up those avenues and creating such threats in mid. EDG at the moment are just
giving PaperX all of that space in the middle of the map. Yeah. And PaperX are using it beautifully.
There is a bit of a gap here in terms of the theory in this half. Absolutely. The conditioning,
you can tell the PaperX, even on the first half, the earlier moves are now making sure. A lot of
contact players trying to punish the fact of EDG and not going to be wanting to hold
out in the open angles against the attack side off of something. Isn't it crazy that you've got a guy
who at one point we were all talking about is the best yoru in the world. He dived back about a year
and now since swapping over to the jet he's been utterly dominant on this as well. He's so,
so good. This form's ridiculous. One of the biggest reasons that they found that meta style that fits
for them was when they gave up with running something on the neon and decided to just plug
and play him on the jet. It worked wonders. This is looking to be a little bit faster on the back
side at a time. I want small paper X clearly. We can see if they can upset some of the preparation.
A deep pit. She sure needs to be defended here because he could get jumped on and moments notice
and they see it. Haranoia going forwards here, running them all the way down. No hard committal though.
Snake bite, uploaded. Oh, it's a very fast ult used. Jenny throwing is zero point and then ripping
in the ultimate and forcing out the snake bite, recon used as well from nobody.
I think nobody might even go for a hundred fury though if Chichu is pressured again.
This could be a trap to take rest.
That's going to be a ricochet and throw forwards, gets the title to the plate, they
were looking for a tee tee peaching, put the crunch, the pressure, the pinch is on now,
and there's a hold, it's getting dismantled, cut the shreds.
It's the backside control and nobody's just spotted outside, it's surely not.
It's managed to grab two, brought his team a potential lifeline in it, but still a 2v3.
Come on, limited opportunities with the walls in his face.
What are you up? Slowly moving his way up the jump spot, though.
Ford is spawning forward and just misses a second chance of it.
And it's brave as anything by DeVy.
Re-swinging a fight. Ford's going to stop by Smoggy.
He's got the ult.
Magnetic straight to it, but something on the work once more.
And this is that insurance policy.
All but guaranteeing it now, but not glaring into the corner.
Hold on, shoulder to shoulder, shoulder to shoulder!
Swaggy turns it, comes active now and also blow the good guy, sticking it for Lee.
Ain't no way, ain't no way that that's how EDG picked up that round.
Should have been a slam dunk flank around from something and he just doesn't look to the right at all.
The way that they cleared through this period was lovely.
I think a misplay from EDG not having someone ready to break a John Rhee clear.
A misplay as well, in terms of the timing, but this... this is everything!
That's what a hinge is on. Smoking can't believe it!
How's this guy teleporting next to me? And why is he not looking at me?
Why is he part of the retake?
Potentially. Exactly what EDG needed.
Still down by two rounds, but...
Get a momentum behind them still with the weaponry to see if they can punch.
This is a lot of pressure.
Paper X making a lot of noise towards us.
The knife's going to be committed to that double or sort of drone.
I've cancelled out.
There's the way a lot, but...
He did just play tough in terms of the positioning, comes down to the anchoring now.
But if he's squeezed once more, twisted, you're turning again again.
Smoggy's position, accounted for.
That's what it all came from earlier.
Paper X is far too good.
Once you let them through these choke points,
They are just running over and dominating the site, and this one surely you can't miss, but something's going to play his best, I guess.
Maybe the nerves and the pressure came to them a little. It seems crazy to say, but he's had a couple of weird moments in the last two rounds.
2v3, EDG. They're going to play for it. Going hunting.
I hope they've got a possibility here, it's a lovely movement.
Gichu, I stood in now to 2v2, Reload committed.
Left guessing the time's ticking and there's still the pit to play around here.
Paper X, surely with the advantage,
Hidichi have got to get a bit of a move on, but already the decision's made.
Spike is ticking far too rapidly, and just with that, I'm in a fadeaway shot.
Kankai not even able to keep that operator into the next, it's up to 12 for Paper X.
Gichu's not even going to be able to recover it.
That's a massive weapon to lose later on.
I think one of me did these big problems is they're not fighting PaperX as they get into the sights.
They're holding passive positions and hoping that somehow they'll be able to anchor back aid
when they're being split from both sides.
It's hard to do it against the other side.
It's bad theory and it's also nobody's been sat on this hunter's fury for the last at least three rounds.
Yeah.
Probably longer if I was paying more attention.
But he's got to find an opportunity to use that and hit PaperX as they're getting in.
One more round though, the impetus here for Marieze, potentially about to be reached.
Paper X.
Second half onwards, they've been one step ahead when it comes to the theory, game plans.
Really justifying the map pick.
Yeah.
Cautious though, some way it's going to be played.
Here.
Marieze is going to throw it all away, you've seen the jump spots, she's looking for the
information hold on here in this one's kankang, striking, daggers on the back to load all players now finally this all
offloaded, hunter's fury that is, excellency from nobody, difficult to hit that one but still
managed to land the shot, dash back deep, did this engage kankang does, gonna be stepping up the
square up, potential to refight now these players, that rang on the spam, hold on he's just connecting
bullets that have done something barely alive, limping away from the backside of this one,
psych control forwards, mogies just got the judge with a bit of spam still, solving the issues, cleaning
in them all up but in beak no slouch you can't count this team out something 10 HP
it's gonna find a way forward into the smoke in the place step into the side
over to a smoggy watch for lie and he did she not done yet they've still got a
fight in them two more opportunities for paper X the closeout but that was
EDG with slightly lighter weaponry and it's a more of an aggressive look in me
I think this is so critical for EDG is that they do feel confident to go for those
Explorations towards Alba or a re-clear in an area because it's gonna give them better info for this kind of stuff
Well, they can flood it with the sight of paper X are actually hitting
Cancun's probably gonna be the most important player for that, but I think Jenny as well can be calling some of this stuff
Proactively with this initiator you tell
He's here in the previous round with the judge and he hears them all leaving.
This is the kind of timing where you've got to make a risk.
You've got to walk forward.
He's taking it.
All right, timing to be taken here.
We can see if they've inserted a straggler to D-Trona.
He's really pushed back here, but he up-trapped.
And at that, Shichu stung up into the corner.
Too much to deal with.
Overwhelmed as swiftly as that.
It's a masterclass, the only exit.
Paper X with an increase in pace, an increase of tempo.
And Jenny and Smoggy, to see if they can pick up the PC.
And it's GVS!
There's something swing to set up, Ching.
Blinded to the side, Smoggy.
1v2, 1v2!
1v1!
And the plan's still not down.
Overheating potentially.
Hold on.
There's a wall with it.
All offloaded.
Push forward, Ching looks to disconnect.
Pushes past, there's no blind intact for him
and the reposition could be everything the prior damage done it's all in
Smoggy's hands comes down to the 1v1 but just three bullets remaining
have to be sharp you'd have to be on point they've all missed the timing and
you might need a bit of luck on his side you have to cope that's a cold dead
sits and now with proxies have been a spam jing has to reveal his positioning
Now he's sticking, sticking, sticking, sticking!
Smoggy!
It's just insanity!
These rounds that E-Linge here putting on the board,
you should never witness this kind of stuff,
even with pressure like this.
A 5v2, something and Jin are almost playing
with their food at the end,
and Smoggy's gonna want to be three.
The harbors staying alive towards the end, but if it was a one-off, if it was a one-off,
it would be excusable.
How many times have we seen it so far already?
IDG just will not stay down now, look to see if they can take it on TV, this is again a
rapid pace.
Jenny is instantly able to trade, cuts it up, oh my, nobody potentially made it out, here's
it, by Bernalang!
It's clean, put together in the end, shoot you now, concerns himself and announced himself
to the side with a snake bite at TTP.
Potentially there, Sting repositioning with the rest of his team, calling for
a bit of a temperament in the rivalry.
Mr.
Tywin, Cheechoo, not clear, not clear to still watch yet.
Look at this, it's Magnetic, Cheechoo!
Damage Scatter, almost bringing down to by 6 HP.
And a dream here, the Kankang's got it all covered.
How is this game going through overtime?
Utterly ludicrous final rounds!
Exactly what you want, exactly what you expect from PaperX against EVG.
My God, it's fun to have this rivalry back taken center stage.
I think Alex must be pulverizing his desk in the back.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely phenomenal individual moments from EDG.
Wait, look at the kill differential between these two teams.
It's outrageous.
And yet, EDG are hanging on.
Chocasing the parity between these two teams
when they last faced off.
Nivea side had a trophy this time, both in a cabinet.
Looking for a chance to claim a second double win here today.
Forsaken!
He's not finished, he's not done yet.
It's damaged by the Hanmore.
A discipline and temperament is called for, no overheating this time, Paper X.
These track plays have been absolutely deadly. Paper X got a bunch of them.
A bit of random sprouts all the way down to it. There it is.
Perfect. Couldn't ask for a better opening to O.T.
Got to be a little bit of anxiety over there.
When you know that your team has been playing better, especially in that second arm,
and you've somehow gone to overtime, EDG will need a big answer.
Chichu's been a beast anchoring towards B.
I'd be looking to run A splits or something.
I mean, Payprex have just had so much more success on the A side of the match.
All the hard work for EDG, surely not going to be undone here and now.
Payprex are trying to stamp out and stop this one in his tracks.
Got a map lead as they head towards potentially the next one here, Smoggy.
There, there, there! What a time to come up on me!
Run, run, run, run, run.
He's been the glue player the entire time for them, and no stopping!
CHEERING
Pure momentum and delivers energy and flawless rounds to go once more.
Love the decision to step into this one.
I was saying earlier, they need to box paper exit.
You have to fight them at double doors, at aiming.
You can't be anchoring in passive positions.
Beautiful adjustment.
Really nice stuff from a player that's normally more supportive.
We go again.
13-13.
The tension already sky-high,
and we're just at the beginning of this series here.
Delayed as the knife gets a tag now, but a fight forward to still call it for Paper X.
Surely forced to respect this, and they do.
They've found Sal, but it's a slow squeeze attempted by EDG.
So, Tichu.
Looking to play off all of this sound pressure, potential for him to activate.
Throwing it clear the way.
Paper X looking for information, but up towards the side, this is where it's being played now.
And Paper X, they are trying to defend this one.
Right side gets them out. If I take the ball, it's at double the angle.
Tichu, traded with a big reveal.
Like some modern players, EDG, Corral now collected onto the site.
They've got to get this plant down now to snake bites.
It's precarious as anything.
No shock to follow up.
Indian something are committing to the flank.
Jenny holds him back.
It's a big wrap around.
Jenny, Jenny again.
It falls on his shoulders.
The blue player.
Isos the fight.
Isos them for you to play.
Torr Darn is all put into his hands.
And the 1v2 now handed to DeVy.
Jenny and nobody, nobody with a timing, slight adjustment, and a slight swing through the wall, I anticipated EDG this time with the lead.
EDG get up to map point on their opponent's pick when they have 20 fewer kills than PaperX. Absolutely insane.
And Jenny has been a monster.
Yes!
Ah!
Paper X are taking the time out here.
The pressure is mounting on this side of the stage.
They are the favourites. It's their map pick.
They were the team with multiple opportunities,
three of them to close this out in regulation.
And it's not anger coming out from Alex.
But he's very focused.
Locked in.
Looking for ideas, paperx. They were favoured on their attack side, of this map so far.
This OT has been anything but expected, EDG, the first ones to break past it.
And the more time that it takes paperx to close out on their attack,
the more time it's giving EDG to adapt to what they're doing.
Yeah.
Early on in the half, I don't think EDG had very many good answers,
but here in OT, it's starting to see them really figure out what they need to do.
That's a concerning sign.
Maybe something should be picking up an attack off again.
I mean, that was something that was working well.
The slow play through mid was working quite nicely.
Can Alex find an answer?
They're going to need it.
They want a chance to pull this one to one of a round of OT.
To not give up their own map pick to EDG.
It's hard to see the players really coming alive.
Jenny in particular.
Got to sing his praises.
Ending ahead.
A lot is asked of him.
He's been delivering now, Smoky.
Deep Tarts, played 4.
She's just gonna be here in this one with the throw,
and it's gonna be a nice, but a snake bite.
Already pulls off with a deep dash.
Already cutting this one up, something.
I'll check in onto the corner, there's chances here,
but G2 again, he's a menace, the anchoring position.
Trying to get so damn difficult to remove,
and something way out of the open!
They're losing their head.
Losing their minds, they try and play this one to the bitter end,
But it's all EDG.
Two player advantage, Jing.
We can see if he can seal anything up.
Making a little bit more even, but he's hunting,
but he's still, he's just not finding the hold on.
He's back to the side, divide!
Also online.
So that's 2v2, but Chi-chu,
did they know about his position?
That's the question.
Orson, Orson.
Holding still for now.
So our players ring around the rows.
Please choose a bullet to the temple device taken out and it surely could be here to send to Jing.
See if he can do it. 1v2.
30 seconds left.
66 health and the pressure's on him.
The emphasis placed.
He's the one who has to get the plan down.
He's the one who has to find a way forwards out of this one, but he's running out of time.
Come on, come on.
Only taking down 17 seconds.
TP forwards a bit of spam forwards and he knows he has to play but it's one forward to come in the middle.
It's spam though.
This dangerous tidings all the way, watchable by KiteGangSight, step, Jake, what a way!
He all pulls out and just loses his nerve!
But it delivers them up, win nevertheless to EDG to open.
It's 30 kills for Jin, but it wasn't enough for PaperX. How did EDG win that one?
I am the best
Oh, see the help, boy.
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And they fall into turns yet again!
Stats up to the plate and he can knock this one out of the park!
Now they shall be equated alongside their plates!
They did behave themselves, many, however, little out there, but it's okay, that's the
same personality.
Oh dear, Mini, what did you do?
I didn't do anything.
It's just making, making stuff up again.
I don't know which of your eyes to look at.
What's going on?
Did someone make this for you?
Did you bring it yourself?
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Yeah, so someone made it and I'm gonna use it for the rest of the event and I'll give it back to them.
Everything man, like, closed class time for me when we did GCC, so shout out to them.
You literally have your own personal stylist?
Yeah, Emmy.
Oh, well shout out to Emmy. I've won a Wingman touch please. You've also been given a gift.
Yeah, this is all of my pets that I have at home.
Liggie, you do streams. Remember where the camera is.
Sorry, this is, this is, this is, I was trying to show you as well.
This is all my pets that I have at home as well, so I've got some nice gifts as well.
nice gift as well there's a melted chocolate down there
can we have a look?
sorry I'm literally I'm
I'm terrible I'm rooting for everything
go on unbox
you want me to unbox right now?
oh that's for Minnie
this is so cute and Siggi's got his own
stickers I got stickers out here
a lot of stickers
I know what the camera is now
this is the most Kyoto unboxing I've ever seen
what is going on?
there's packaging upon packaging
it's like past the parcel
it is
very very British
oh my god there's a picture of me
I was not expecting that. No, I was not expecting that.
That is incredible. Oh my gosh, it's acrylic.
That is so beautiful.
The artist didn't sign it, though.
Guys, you've got to sign your artwork
so we can sell it on the internet for lots of money.
All right, okay.
You know what?
I'm not going to read your personal note.
I'm just going to let you guys enjoy the melted chocolate.
But thank you so much for joining us.
Enjoy the game.
Oh, actually, prediction?
Hey, Brex.
Hey, Brex.
Hey, Brex.
None of you have said about the vitality game.
I don't want to pay you don't want to pick between Europe and America. Okay. I'll say I'll say vitality for y'all
Right, he's got trait of vibes going on. Let's let's wrap this up
Here we coach Autumn of EDG, Autumn, that timeout in the second half allows you guys
to take it to OT and close it out.
What were you able to address?
I put a lot of emphasis on mid-control and how we should play around mid-control, so I told them, and I reminded them about what kind of strats we had, and told them to utilize those mid-control strats a lot more.
Thank you, Adam, and good luck in the next map.
map one and that was a grueling matchup of what a game as everyone's rolling in
here at the Copper Box Arena. Let's go ahead and take a look though because you
have your HyperX reflex moment of the match and got to give some flowers to
Kong Kong and Flo as Cheechoo, Mimi, these guys were on fire this game. It is
utterly ridiculous the EDG have won this game and the reason is Clutch is this is
how it started in the first half. It's crazy. It's a ridiculous ace out of
in what was a two on five round and you follow that up just a few later with
another clutch out of cheats you in total there was four true clutches in this
game there were numerous 5v4s what this was the most disadvantaged I think I've
ever seen a team beat to come out and win a game they were minus 19 on kills
minus six on first kills how the hell did they win this map yeah Jing ended up
having like 30 kills towards the end like you look at it you think how
it is the individuals. It is
your concoming is your teacher
obviously being able to send
them to overtime as well.
The lead the paper X had. You
saw the 1v2 that nobody had in
Maine as well. All of the players
on this side, absolutely
stepping up to the plate.
Piper X run both pistol rounds
in this game as well. You see
the first kills that I was
mentioning. You take those
pistol rounds away. It's a
little different of a matchup.
It certainly is, but you take
the four clutches when it's
also certainly different
matchup. They kind of went
both ways in this game.
in both ways in this game.
I agree with what Coach Autumn was saying there.
I think that the same problem was manifesting for EDG
early on defense.
They were conceding so much space in there.
Payprex abused that with the attack side off from something.
It looked like a great approach to me.
They saw the same things I did.
I think they were right to pick this map,
but they could not close it out
in the key advantage rounds.
And now they're honestly in a really bad position
in this upper final.
Yeah, I think it's a rough one
because not only have you thrown the lead in that map,
you've thrown your own map pick,
and now we have to start to look ahead at what EDG does.
I think that definitely EDG definitely took those moments
in that overtime where they learned the lessons
and kind of implemented those things
like fighting for that midway,
saw it in double doors, the combination of utility,
the swing off the back of it as well,
really having a great understanding
of how to be able to close out race.
Yeah, and listen, we talk oftentimes
about the individuals on PaperX and how good they are,
but you gotta get flowers to the individuals on EDG too.
They're all so good, right?
I mean, we barely even talked about Cheechoo
And that guy is like an unbelievable player.
It's actually criminal that we didn't talk about him as much
as he deserves to be spoken about.
But let's actually see what's going on
over on the PaperX side of things.
We have Coach Alex standing by with Jen.
I'm sure he's happy.
Here with Coach Alex of PaperX.
Alex, what was your initial plan picking Breeze?
And where did EDG disrupt it?
Yeah, it just felt as good meant for us
and that we have enough time to prep for them.
I thought they won an incredible amount of rounds
that were like in our favor.
So I think they're just shooting better today, you know.
Okay, so clean things up a bit for Fracture.
Okay, we'll see how that plays out.
Fact-Faction.
And look, when you want to assess the situation,
there's really not much else you can say.
The clutch plays from EDG did play a factor.
That is something that if you are PaperX
and you're a PaperX fan,
you need to be aware of this Billy on Fracture.
You can't let EDG run away with these rounds,
especially when you have man advantage
You just have the advantage all together 100% but I think a good thing for paper X going into this one was yeah
Maybe the game against vitality on breeze last time was a bit of false confidence
But I think coming into fracture they were able to close out that series on this map
And I think that there was a lot of punching in the face going on and people X are a team that maybe they weren't getting away with
That overextension that we saw in breeze but on fracture. They were definitely getting away with it the other day
Yeah, I think this was a pretty solid map for paper X in that match showing they absolutely rolled vitality
Like you bring up, but I like the composition that EDG play better on this map
I think the neon Phoenix works really well towards their style
I think is the one of those maps are it highlights how good EDG's team fighting can be paper X on defense
They're very reliant on early aggressive plays. That's what vitality wasn't ready for this team is gonna be in your spawn on north side
Running you down pretty much everywhere
So he did you have to be ready for that case, but they matched it
They already won the chaotic rounds in map 1, which gives me a fair amount of faith without going into this second.
Alright folks, can we get that map 3?
Can't pay Porex force the issue or does EDG lock in a spot for the Grand Finals?
Let's send it back over to your casters and swing us into the action.
Here's Brent and sideshow.
It would be absolutely phenomenal if that was the case pushed to all three because
let's take something they speak for themselves.
It has to be going over in here, a spot for the Grand Finals, that's what's on the line, but currently EDG in the driving seat.
All they have to do is take away their map pick off fracture.
And Paper X are going to be tested here in many, many ways. It should be a good map for both teams.
Yeah, I think that's the saying they just have to win their own map pick against Paper X.
That is easier said than done.
Paper X looked phenomenal when he saw it. So did EDG, the improvements were massive.
Southside information of forsaking comes back over realizing that EDG are
pressuring Arcade.
He's a prowler, not much behind it but he might be waiting for his time to strike.
Smokes up, contact plays by EDG, bit of pot shot, a bit of random spam hunting,
fishing, smoggy going out of the 25 HP, but now explosive play, EDG all the way forwards.
Smokes are primed, they're taking control over the wards canteen.
Hold on to the positioning potentially take it a bit more further deeper in
They know that this flank is gonna be coming through I mean even before the trip took contact
You know the paper is gonna be doing stuff like this. Yeah, it's gonna be difficult to do gonna be clean here
Postal positioning pretty impeccable stuff here from EDG
Time is already ticking
Divide
They've taken up first contact now sheriff in hands. It is by a side towards that Jenny angle
Hold on blind as anything, but hold on to damage finally.
Seeing that these kills is forsaken.
For another feed, Chichu holds it out.
Another smokey.
Trying to do the best, but a damage potentially enough.
Chichu, hold on to fuse.
Being stuck in the plant position is just not ideal.
Not at all.
Another pistol round for PaperX.
An indomitant all tournament along with them.
I said 10th pistol round win.
10 and 3 currently in these pistols at London.
And they absolutely needed both of them to be in with even a chance, you know, we're getting into OT on Mach 1.
Yeah.
Wooo!
That one was ludicrous.
But PaperX will be hoping that they hit that mental reset and can close out some of these rounds where they create the advantages for themselves.
Both of these teams, aggressive, willing to take the fights to each other.
And very different compositions to PaperX with a brawl here.
Very different ideas.
Deeper to seize.
Always gonna be late.
to the back, let's say good, it's holding it down, bulldog, up onto the angle,
Jin's going to be announcing it, turning himself a little bit further.
Once the client see if he can find him, somebody's killed and the Orbs are just
laying in wait, Chichu, for his best interest to go down earlier, just to
deny them that chance, from generating those ults.
Smoggy's halfway to being able to get his Phoenix ult online,
paper X, and Finder took off as well. That's the advantage of running
Potential of the signs of life that they see the power of this. Oh my goodness. What a blunder.
Solo, nobody's okay. It's kind of a fake-out presence here, but
Going for the team to come back and around.
There's a lot of space. There is no swing out, something.
The weapon I hand. Here comes the safety. It's made a lot of footsteps. She's almost ready.
Going for the draw, though. Line in the sand is going to be drawn.
Something's going for a peek out here as well.
Towards that north side. Or at least getting on a slightly deeper angle.
Paper X starting to drift over to B, which is where the hit's coming.
Yeah, Smoggy.
You see this move all the way forwards now with that fast lane.
Cutting it all the way up.
And for him, player is the Molly!
And the smoke's up to the vibe, and he doesn't have to come but a job.
Measuringly dismissed and hold on, this is just pot shots into the dark, into the smokes.
Sting taken out.
Really nice clean round from EDG.
Now C's Molly combo is a beautiful idea from nobody in Smoggy.
Cooked for a second.
This was a week of buy from PaperX, but they were never in this round.
Never had a chance, to be honest.
Bonus ideas on PaperX just being sidestepped.
Danger in it being diffused and smoggy.
That's an old turn-top for the next.
Out-pacing everybody on PaperX.
If Jing had been able to get into the round, maybe he would see it with a showstopper on the other side of things.
But not to do the case. Look at this!
Go down to 1, immediately executed.
The device trying to hold on to tower control with those nanoswarms.
They pop her out head high.
But gets over one as well.
I like the way that nobody calls on this map.
You know, they're going to take a bit of space, they're going to pump the brakes.
They're going to try to bait these pushes out of paper X.
This round though, you can be a bit more straight up. You have to Phoenix ult.
He's on here, he's moving forward, it's a bit of a fault line, but it's danger.
Good protocols from EDG, players that were able to sidestep all of that Util.
They would have put the punish on Chichu, they're going to sound the latest noise.
Me, Jig!
To be really standing up the caps for now, sped up, all the way towards the site.
You're going to see EDG look to take this one with a run of back.
Smoggy, cleaves and clears a bit of a path forward.
Hold on, that's Jenny going down with a spike to tighten out.
now, EDG trying to find a way to bounce it away out of this, where nobody just squaring
up, taking the fight to all the confidence in the world. Really good pathing from PaperX
though. Yeah, now put the squeeze up through walls, and now just nobody backs against the
wall. Oh my goodness. It's another round where PaperX had a big advantage. You could not
let nobody back into that round, but they clean it up. The pathing's really beautiful
for them on the retake. Instead of just going straight into site, they make sure to take
away A-Main and Hall is first. They know that with Jishu down and with the rest of the team
popping from Dish, Hall should be weak. And that puts these post-fam players in a much
more difficult position. I think they played a positional game on the retake better on
Breeze as well. Fundamental macro game stuff is still being executed here at a high level
for Paper X. So the devil is in the detail of the clutches previously. Now though they're
starting their alts back on line two. So this is an incredibly important round for EDG to
convert and an uphill battle at that. And when Jin's going to be lying away with our
show stopper, he's going to be commiting it. He's got straight down. It's a lovely movement.
Shade in through tunnel. It's going to potentially punish anybody at tree. They have run this
round before and Chichu's heard it though. So if they've watched the Vods they should
Have an idea of what PaperX is set up looks like.
Trouble is broken.
Bits and pieces of information, but nothing concrete.
Now, in case you didn't take the timing through the smoke,
PaperX don't tend to hold that arcade smoke.
That's how it is in a big group up now,
and Devai is going to be pulled out there by the power,
and will have to disengage out and away.
And I thought, give that piece of mind to Oswald,
Devai, Devai, Devai!
There's no way he's going to repeat!
What a play! Two players!
Down, sent straight to the spectator, see DDG, going to find a way forwards now.
Sixth one, dissipating by that horse control again.
The understanding fundamentally is too damn good for PaperX.
Back of control, it's individuality that was helping in the last month for DDG.
Present in that round, the pathing is just beautiful, isn't it?
They completely squeezed all of the best spots of the map away from DDG.
But Divine here works magic around that smoke.
I can't believe he repeats it.
I know.
Time for the second back.
Arguably a little greedy, but it's...
I mean, it just works to perfection.
Ah!
It also stalls out the rest of EDG
as they're trying to get into the site
that creates extra timing advantages for the flank retake.
Jenny couldn't even get the spike in the ground.
And EDG are going to take an early tack time out here.
I think the best-case scenario for them as an adjustment
is to do a bit more pump faking.
Pump faking area, force out the push on the other side of the map
and be ready to catch it.
You know that PaperX are going to be aggressive.
And if you let them take control of the entire map to retake against you,
you're not winning these rounds.
No.
Already, it's a monumental lead here for PaperX.
I might be counting the eggs before they hatch,
but for Aksher, we've known it to be very attack-sided.
Attackers have all the advantage in terms of picking where they start,
They want to build up and generate their ultimates.
You can snowball so effectively, so...
For PaperX, the 4-1 beginning.
Nothing to scoff at.
I think they've probably got the best defence side theory on fracture though.
Yeah.
And these kind of...
We have seen a lot of teams really struggle on their fracture theory this year,
since it's re-entered the map.
I mean, the map changed a lot.
Initiated a nerf as well.
I think also though, a lot of the rosters have changed a lot.
And so they forgot a lot of that old theory,
whereas these two teams have been around...
They've been around the block.
I mean, that's what we were saying.
The first time they entered a plashing.
Seven out of ten of the original players,
all the way back in our first game of now.
They remember how to play on maps like this,
and it's Jin's playground, usually.
The second...
Outlaw!
Got the second shot here,
but he might be swiftly overwhelmed.
This is full running and gunning from Kankai!
With a stinger,
they control him towards tower sharp!
Shooting, it's even down at least, the trade from Infi.
Potshots, he placed out towards that canteen position, but he did at least sort of plant down with a chance.
With a weaker buy, Cage gonna be pushed up to buy, just trying to send some south here.
Breaking the trip, removing bits and pieces of Utah, we have ults ready.
That stun is gonna be the pulse line, yep, it's gonna be tagging onto it.
All the players down, the wall's there, wanna shot by Chichu!
It's already answering and making up for absolutely everything here in B.
Forced to pull out these all the side steps, KenKai!
It's not long for the ward though, the damage was done prior.
Maybe now out of the few, there's a flash from Smoggy.
He's pulled them off, pushed them back, but he's only got the bulldog.
What can he do in a spot like this?
Defended to buy! Side stepping!
Making it an awkward fight of engagement.
Really strong defense.
This is the backbone of PaperX to buy in in B.
Normally holds so strong in these late round moments.
And that ultimate just forcing Kan-Kan out into the open had to make the play.
It's another course round and it's one my paper eggs stay in control.
And Jin still got that showstopper to work with.
There's a stun being held across the map for him to go and take control over towards Tree.
Alright, Cheechoo could be in for a nasty surprise down here.
It could be.
I'm playing close to the ropes, is he?
The full line is a showstopper.
Inside the smoke being played for though, trying to put the squeeze on him and again, like
I said, he's not playing by the ropes.
Tag in, twint!
Crazy shot by Cheechoo.
Possibly the best thing to get home for up towards tower.
Forsaken, forsaken!
Go down, let's listen into paper X.
I'll go from B main guys, I'll go late
I think one archen
I don't see B main, B main one
Finish B main, finish B main
He go clear B main
Clear B main, he's sending one guy now
He make some I guess
What? There's one here.
One behind the box.
One head, one head.
That's something. Time ticking now.
Despite getting away from him, no real chance at all.
Slogan takes that peek in the head clean off EDG.
A round that he desperately needed to get on the board.
You hear it inside the comms there.
The read from PaperX is that the Phoenix Ultima is clearing down through tree
through tree because nobody else is holding it and so that's where you get
the walk back up where Indy is just oblivious because why would the Phoenix
be reclaiming that area if you had to play holding it the entire time it's a
reasonable deduction but it does mean that that entire retake falls to pieces
one of the few rounds where EDG find themselves in a decent position able to
convert otherwise it's been pay prex in control that was a big one as well with
Payprex utilising ALT's, the ALT economy going to be flipping on his head now, EG finally with a chance to see if they can put together a bit more than just a one round, one or two.
Payprex have mostly been leaving Arcade undefended, now they pick it back up on a timing, contacting back on both sides of the map.
Here's a wide face to buy, beautiful, just instinctual base of the timing here, but I don't have flash to break an extra in behind the box, his player is a...
And that crunched, and both the cinders, Jenny, punished them, made them hurt.
As a result of it now, but it's still about 3D3.
Random pops up here, these players, he's trying to sidestep most of the youths.
They're going away, Chichu out to the open, smoky, like fiery.
All but a strike even being offloaded, and Chichu finally taking out towards main.
All eyes towards the site.
Right, potential for a timing.
If he wants to push past this, the plant going down, looking forward.
All the way down, tower counter 40, nobody's play is hard, but it's over!
Swifling it over!
And each individual 1v1 just goes the way of EDG.
Jenny managed to get the punt down in the midst of all of that, despite something having a molly line up for it.
It must have missed, because Jenny was not forced out of position really at all.
What a play towards the beginning. The brimstones matter so much in this round.
Both of them having their own. It's one of the best thoughts you could possibly get with Fletcher.
Here, something decides to use it to get the guaranteed kill on Chichu, but it's this little counterplay towards here. Look at the mulling. You just saw it in the replay. Completely missed from something.
That could have been all the difference there. And it's not PaperX's economy down onto its knees.
And they're actually guessing wrong in terms of where to fight these last couple of rounds.
EDG, all of the techno prisoners here, sliders at pixel angles with a shot missed, going wide, deep smokes.
It's going to cut up the A site here, but it does give possibilities for paperx to get themselves in.
They're here at the plant, I'm going to be called down and commed.
Spike planted.
Immediate rotations with the north side players.
Pretty big ultimates, but I don't necessarily want to use them unless they get some kind of advantage.
Post plant positioning is way better this time for EDG.
It's Pepex only with the sheriffs.
Nato on as a full line too, alongside it.
So a barrel over, see if they can create some space for wards.
Here with the sheriffs, my God.
They're singing in hands of Pepex players.
There's no money coming all the way up, no money's enough as an alt.
Expenses, but all the players have dropped me like flies.
What? It's chaos, man.
What's the lockdown gonna do to mine?
It's not like they're gonna respect it.
It's barely any time.
Back-to-back rounds, our Payprex are expending key ultimates into lost rounds.
Nobody tried to lay an egg in the middle of that one too.
Didn't see the cluster grenade at his feet, I guess.
This round was always going to be decided by the gunfights along that angle in A-May.
I think the EDG Coaches stuff are wondering what happened to that lockdown as well.
It's PaperX with attack time out here and I think it makes a lot of sense ever since
Alton called his own three rounds in a row for EDG.
Decent adjustments but also PaperX's aggression has not caught them early and some of that
on fracture is a little bit of luck.
You have certain areas of the map that you want to fight over and depending on if you're
You're going to do aggression or barrier drop as defenders.
Sometimes you're just going to create a reaction, haven't you?
Third, the attackers to get in and get the plant down.
Yeah, it's risky to do.
The meta shifting on fracture, seeing a lot of teams slowly,
seeing if they can take contact, set up some trap plays.
Not a lot of all inning.
But for PaperX, they've lost multiple opportunities now.
Olds being tossed away into these rounds.
I think the Coinbase win condition
has got to be to set up that good retake pathing again.
If they can dominate the south side of the map, that is going to set them up for some really clean retakes into a where they can dominate holes.
And taking tree away is one of the biggest post-bunt positions as the defenders.
Alternatively, EDG are mostly looking to stack over towards Arcade. This is more of the same again from here.
So PaperX could try something funky on this side.
It's really difficult as the defenders though to fight Arcade early.
You see that something is forsaken. They don't feel comfortable sticking to it early on.
Yeah.
side step fashion get an
acknowledgement from forsaken he's
moving around the map rapidly
trying to move T2 forward
they can re-fight this one but already
running back at their backs they're going to have to see if they can put the pitch on the T2
not so easily removed
the forward is the play smoggy
decimating now
huge advantage already
paper X
tail between their legs force to see if he can scurry away the rifle
for the next round here, but this is EDG now firmly back in it.
Paper Eggs, we're in control of this map, and it is firmly slipped away from them, as you're saying.
This round, I think they actually get the fight they wanted. They want that 2v1 into Chichu.
That's what the, that's what the defending game plan is built around.
That Chichu just slaps them back down to Earth.
We've seen time and again in the last couple months, Paper Eggs utterly outclassed people
on an individual and a map theory level, the whole kit and Kaboodle.
Today, it feels like even when their ideas were, the individual level of being killed
is just too much.
They're on one today.
They're a-humped by the brightest, the light-hearted squad.
The 2K, okay. You can definitely talk about tightening up that timing, about pushing with, you know, a jump, peek or a flash if they knew exactly where Chishi was positioned.
At the end of the day though, they have just taken two straight 1v1s and been dismantled there.
Massive credit to EDG for turning up in this upper bracket with their best possible form.
Look at Reminiscent here, we're seeing him off the red play!
Team just gets the wonder, follow up with the flash now, trying to put for the north side crunch.
These players, to stand up authority, attempted by PaperX, they will all in.
Full investment, barely any for the role, now Smoggy left a two run around so you can pick up the pieces.
It is the spike reclaimed, he's got to run, he's got to run all the way back here.
Luckily no players following up with the trailblazer.
Smoky ended up being immaculate there from getting his run.
Oh look at that!
Great play.
No map control over the south side of the map.
He is all the way forwards now and leaving himself as a deep insert.
There's a little ping on the map.
Hold on, hold on.
Breaking the trip, he's revealed where he's potentially pushed out.
He doesn't know what Chichu is.
That's why he's worried about clearing holes.
Looking for information.
Looking to make the EDG players as paranoid as possible.
And he's got a flashback in five seconds, pure contact on my EDG, 30 seconds roughly
left in the round to play with.
He might be able to find himself an ICER player for Sakin.
It's going to be on him.
They can't full contact into him though.
They don't have the time.
No, not the time.
Surely not.
23 seconds left.
They are walking all the way up.
20 seconds remaining for Saken Caesar though.
Beautiful flies out!
What is that?
It's Chichu.
Unreal form.
Hard entry into that site.
What a read.
Brings it into the 2v2.
EDG managed to find their way through difficult rounds,
time and time again.
Not a pressure on paper X.
Bit of spam up towards the top.
Barks, but Chichu!
My God!
Alongside Swaggy!
The cap is stopped right now. What a duo, what a round.
Shishu's cage isolates most of the angles. He knows there's only one he needs to worry about.
And this round looks so good from Paper X. I think it's a nice idea to do an offside crunch.
They've been stacking Arcade. Look at that. Another backhand from Shishu.
And Forsaken hits the floor. It's ridiculous.
Alex is wondering where it's all going wrong. Five rounds in a row.
They will find one up.
Hey, Prex.
Looking like they're posturing up towards that main angle,
but the season is going to be put some back in the way.
A couple of signs of light, bolts.
They're going to be acquired here. Nobody's got it now.
Ready, waiting.
Nightful to be primed.
He is going to be used to play spot-to-back in this one.
It's a lot of talk shows.
Stop, stop!
It's Kang-Kang, let's take it out before he goes down to huge and to take advantage of the space and all that noise pressure was made
But it's something again straight back in it. That's aggressive from something
Utilizing his teammates need to be able to put all of that pressure on G-shoe and they've immediately started pushing through tunnel
Very decisive very fast still super confident in the final round. They can't let this opportunity slip player advantage
situation again for them and the fights taken they're just hunting for the
information. Smoky, couple of bullets wrestling into the back of that wall, put
some fear into their step. I would cheat you down, you're pretty confident EDG
don't have info on the north side of the map. Same game plans here, Embi does have
a rolling thunder, he's going to be able to delay the plant, a little bit. I think you
should be looking to play full retake, you're looking at the position of the rest of the
players on his team.
Got spiked.
Just play that retake.
Utilize the utility that you have, the ult that you have.
There's no pushback here onto this one,
but it does mean Smoggy's going to have an ult now.
Same with Jenny.
Ult's to be played for all but a strike.
It's a critical one, making all the noise in the world here,
off into the flank.
It's on Jenny's shoulders.
Forwards again.
Bites his time, but no accountants.
Not for the corner, not for the clear runs.
Finally, this player is going to be toppled.
Ow, stop it when it backs there.
The Smoggy, the second least of life, puts in a good usage.
Envy, all on his shoulders, front line,
force of the sidestep, the flash is gonna be a miss.
They pull out once more though.
I see him with that tap, looking for seeing
if the EVG players will just open themselves wide up here,
but this is pure discipline, isn't it?
They're not taking any chances.
It's EVG looking to secure him a seven!
But Envy, time, time, it's against him too much.
Another round where PaperX have an advantage and can't convert.
No jiggle beat, no clearance, A-hauls play off beasts.
EDG are winning so many of these spots, capitalizing on being in these unexpected angles.
The flag even comes through before the breach halt.
And it's six rounds in a row for EDG to recover the half.
Unreal stuff from EDG overall.
Yes, well, we spoke with Jenny about the win over XLG
and facing PaperX once more in this HyperX player moment.
Check it out.
Hello, everyone.
I'm EDG's Gen.DT.
Actually, we knew which map to choose before the game,
and we knew what to fight against.
But today we are able to win because of our communication and state, which is better than yesterday and the day before.
But now we have only a step away from the victory.
I think it's first of all happy, but I'm quite calm now.
I think we haven't done it yet, we haven't completed the mission yet, so we need to keep a positive heart.
Half and all about it, there it is, target Rich Genny!
Crazy Lubey, that is just collapsing at this point.
I'm glad to see you all here, in such a remote place,
supporting us, and seeing many Chinese people
playing for our families.
We can also feel the passion here.
It's definitely useless for us to help.
Thank you all!
to fill smoke, Sentinel initiate it, he's doing it all, and he really has been delivering.
You see the pressure on the other side of the stage as well, it's slightly glum, desperate,
faces on paper X, they've won three out of three of the pistols so far, and yet they're
barely staying in these halves.
I don't want to... I wait.
The battle between the crowd's favourites here.
Hard to tell.
Which one's really favourite in that regard here, Kang Kang looking.
It's like jump spot. It's a multi-terra position here.
Sometimes that's going to mean Divy is alone, but not this time.
Reload going to be heard on top of this.
So they could do the big fake out here with all of the sky util baits out the
bush from Kaka. Tough one here. Kaka gonna be removed almost immediately now
you can see that fault line nobody fully put into a pen and it's gonna be difficult
to fight your way past this one here. Rapid approach. Stimmyed up full speed ahead.
That's a call by Payprex and the Molly is gonna be sailing up overhead but a
little bit too late. Last year looking for the last player here to just root out
without Jenny, the teacher with Smoggy, looking with bang at the end of the wall here, heads
are rolling. Inflation is to where Smoggy was. Xorra is more the earlier, they sniff
him out here for another pistol round win. It's outrageous, 82% of the pistols here
They're in London, they're 14 and 3 and they needed them in this match at least.
They were wiping out their opposition in previous games.
When they went to that top four in Pacifica, who'd she met?
And here in London, but they've met their first opponent to give them a proper opposition.
And EDG, remaining the lead, at least just for one more round,
as Paper Rex looked primed to tie things back up at 7 o' peace.
I see the snade.
Clearing out any potential problem positions.
I don't know if he's up towards tower.
I'm not as accounted for here.
A lot of Utah being used here, but these deep smokes make it awkward.
Lay it down, Jenny.
Tempting to take the timing past it.
Smokes down.
They're going to get cheeky.
I like the defense side.
He's trying.
Jenny's one of those players that should be exceptionally hungry in a match like this.
One of those on EDG, hasn't had the chance to lift that trophy.
She's slowly going to get squeezed from this position for something.
Something holding tight and that is lovely stuff.
Snapping to the dome, see it.
Making sure it doesn't get any more messy.
So can you all low?
You're still got a sigh on it.
These are the maps that PaperX were absolutely dominating,
where Jing was able to play his raise.
If they managed to get us through here on EDG's map pick,
we're going over to Split, which is the only map that they've actually lost at London.
The narrative's shifting a little bit.
They were undefeatable on those raised maps.
maps but as the competition increases we're seeing the very limits of what
PaperX is capable of and here it's all on the line again.
EDG with good weaponry.
We'll look to push back this bonus from PaperX which has a lot of fights to it.
It's dangerous here with the rifles guarding the bulldog.
Another flash early on from Forsaken over towards Dish.
He's trying to make it feel like they're defaulting in that area and you can see
We know a lot of EDG's attention over there.
Similar execute now, you see that fault line.
Maid sailing towards it.
Chee-choo, Chee-choo, surely watch for it.
Yes, it'll be.
Stay up in the Guardian.
Good awareness.
Yeah, it shows that there's no money business here.
It's a deep plan.
It's not going to be able to play it for into main, but it's a tight, safe position.
Last smokes now being utilized here.
Gee, they have windows.
Poking, prodding, divide.
This flank is absurd right now.
So he wasn't heard in the midst of all of this one, but Jenny's got his eye on this.
The potential noted, Harenly is going to be putting Devai straight down.
That's crazy.
He's not playing this one. They're deciding the umming, aring about what they want to do.
EDG, I think they were looking to save even when they went to kill Devai.
I think backing up into the lurker there was almost just a fortuitous situation.
EDG did not like the positioning that they had.
I think one of the weird things I'm noticing is that Smoggy's Molly lineup only denies the dice plant
And they don't really seem to have a lot of pressure on to these other areas
Without running the breach in their composition
They don't have to stun an aftershock combo that you use to put pressure on the B plant
So a lot of it comes down to Jenny's Molly
Definitely ready to see these two teams take it
Stay on my like that around ending with four players alive on either side. Yeah, that's not the EDG pegerex. I'm used to
Do not see that often
Gearing up, though.
Boris conversion here for Paper X.
Makes it all the more likely that we can go to split, we can go all the way.
This is the nice spot.
I'm wondering if Smoggy's got his eye on that A ult, or both teams look like they want to be fighting over it.
Double tap shot, Jhin.
They're messing around, is he?
Stunner's good though from Kong Kong, and that's going to be Jhin putting a bit of a stop to it.
Every sidestep, every beginning of the round is a fake.
They've caught Jhin, but everyone else on paper is going in the opposite direction.
Full of players around, but already it's a rapid approach.
You did you have to realise this when a cheater could try to hold this one back,
and he's just buying time for the squad to close.
He's like, yes, it was Zaz, they got a kill of the Jhin,
Genny and Anna moving in a completely different spot.
They made it out of the ult from Smoggy.
It's quite beautiful.
All the sound cues, the push and the pull, the rotations
are bound here.
EDG left guessing where could they have gone.
And now the defense will have to spread back out the map
a little bit and PaperX are ready to repop back
through Arcade.
They're calling a really nice game.
A lot of Utah being committed.
And Alts by EDG.
You're right, they are calling a phenomenal game.
Proulessy's nothing, they start stacking A's.
No way at all.
They have slipped the net entirely, no strike where it hurts.
Flash with a connection, they know that Towers are occupied.
Chichu just with this judge.
We're gonna lock this one down now.
No flash forwards, the judge.
So it's gonna be difficult to trade out, and that, of course, was a concern.
They don't want it to go toe-to-toe with it.
Chichu, falling aside for the enemies.
They'll step it up, smulking you with the instant trade.
Flash forwards, pushed in time.
Bakari's positions into 2v2. Chichu's picked up the upgrade.
He's got the rightful, he's already on the site.
It's from the play in position, but he's revealed it anyway.
The Paper X individuality, heavy handed now firing off.
The other cheaters the one that has to play for it.
A four piece of a safe check.
Looking about to that two round lead.
Smiles all across the faces of the Paper X players
because that is one of those rounds
that they play beautifully in terms of the macro
and never allow the Digi's individuals to steal it away from them.
I mean, look at that.
Camera on a swivel, and they're right underneath it.
A grand heist on fracture.
They got away with all the jewels,
and they've knocked down EDG's economy in the process.
Absolutely run their pockets.
What a round.
The massive one.
The pay-per-ex as well.
They're on the attack side now, and it was EDG's time out.
I'll attempt to see if they can push this one back in a way that, like you said, EDG on the weaker guns.
And Payback's a boundless opportunity now to generate build-up, some massive ultimates on their attack.
Already with a lead, money flourishing for them.
This is the kind of momentum off the back of the pistol that you have to be able to create if you are struggling in rifle rounds.
A recall back to what we saw on Breeze, it was some individual brilliance, but also EDG slowly responding and learning as the half went on.
PaperX are going to have to keep their foot on their gas, foot on the throat of EDG to keep them down and out of this game.
And absolutely nothing is guaranteed even if we make it to split.
The EDG players are hungry for it this time, man.
Kang Kang said right before this game,
true winners never settle for what's in front of them.
Never rest, always hungry.
Both of these teams have that trophy.
You might be expecting them to not be the hungriest teams out there.
But man, they are coming in with fire.
It's a chance to join of every elite club
if you make it to the Grand Finals.
Chance to be two-time trophy lifter.
It's only Fanatic and Senno have done that.
That's higher history of the game.
And EDG, they would be the first team to win the Chaps after Masters.
Gonna make it their first step, one step at a time.
Currently on the back foot, there's a lot of sound cues,
a lot of utility being used by paypricks, but that's just to pull the rotations.
Stack of bodies by EDG, they're lying and wait hoping the full committal is occurring.
But now, it's a reclarence up towards Dish.
Go for potentially by Divide, but walking up, he snaps it aside.
He might just call the troops all the way back, he's hurt the rotations.
They're catching the bodies. They are scattering EDG to the wind.
EDG left really, really now. No safety at all.
And Jinx is going to be able to give the showstopper on line with this plant.
This is his map. It's his home territory.
And they love another opportunity to take Paper X forwards in the next round.
A little aggro play.
Nobody almost invited forwards there.
Yeah.
On the go in town.
It's tempting.
Not going for it though.
The economy is just absolutely thriving on Paper X.
They should be looking to chase this one to generate ults.
Oh my goodness!
Almost missed opportunity, but a fault line.
Secures it in the end, you're right.
Jinger's the killster killed out. He's already earned up his show stopper, but they're not too worried about it
Yeah, even with forsaken dying he gets to seek us online
It's a big uphill battle now for EDG
They are lacking the ultimate paper X have the initiative on the attack side the initiative with the alts
They showcase that they can do these slow more fakie rounds and edg's defense can't really handle it
Kung Kung
He's gonna pick up the operator. He is three and fourteen
It's going to look to see if he can turn this around.
Unconventional, not used to seeing him perform this poorly.
But EDG, they've got to do it now.
Paper X, looking like they're cooking up a bit of a threat
over towards the tower play.
Faking like it could go slow, but this molly line up,
as you're saying, means that speed is going to increase
as soon as Jing and Envy get set up in Arcade.
Here's the molly, that's the timing.
I'll show you there.
I'm going to see and listen in potentially, but...
They can spawn now, we're gonna see the old top loaders, Jing and Shoes stopper.
Forward again, Smog is claimed one kill, but that's not straight to the corner.
Let's take out Cheech and Vesky, problem played in me.
Locked down Arcade.
Steps towards a challenge and comes out on top.
It's a disaster for Kan-Kan.
He's just invested into this operator and now finds himself in a 2v4 retake with it.
Never been able to get impact in this map. No.
He's been shut out completely. Still waiting for that round that really got him fired up again on Breeze.
If he could find a moment like that, maybe he could take his team back into this game, but PaperX have locked them out, shut them out.
And he's going to be forced to save again.
Yeah, it's a kill masterclass on the attack stack for PaperX, but not seeing the same mistakes rear its head.
No. Ended up losing them split.
Tiny opportunities, sitting oversellers giving opportunities for EDG to clutch.
They are hungry, hounding for these kills for the guns themselves.
They understand how important it is.
EDG, this is everything to them. Full investment.
Kang Kang.
Push them back and away to keep this up for the next day.
But this is it slowly circling around and they're not even giving that chance.
Kankang's used to be in the predator but he's turned into Prey, Paper X, hounding him around
the mat, stopping him from having any impact and making sure the op is taken firmly out
of his control.
The Elbs are just invested at the perfect time as well, Paper X to keep all of this momentum
going.
They are flawless.
EDG can't find an answer on defense.
Six straight rounds here.
EDG not choosing to force.
You'll have to do this.
It'll most likely have to be one round at a time to drag it to OT
because Paper X is feeling almost preordained,
ginging forwards again.
But at off angle is everything.
The first kill that goes away of EDG,
potential gun to be reclaimed on top of it.
Jenny is caught in transition.
What a blunder.
Taking them easily on top of it all, Trebley clears up most of the other side.
No more surprises.
So Yuto now going to be trapped into the mix here, in the place of trouble,
and Hanatou is going to be dead hit, and Otsi is going to be committed on to him,
and no one's turning, no one's looking, it'd be finally accounted for.
TDG flooding in.
The timing here, but it's a 2v4, now making it a 2v3.
Side-stepping for Sake, and it's going to do his best to the spot like this.
Steps forward to the side, and that is squeezed on Dubai, rapidly from the side.
Chichu baiting, swinging around, and somehow it's E-N-G to find a light to the end of a tunnel.
They are holding on to life right now, that was barely a buy whatsoever.
Sheriffs in half, not much to work with, and a Mastercard thrifty puts them on the board and keeps the gap within three.
There's some nice shots here, but also a little bit of PaperX just not being ready for the timing on the A-flat.
He had Envy with his ult in his hands and players not holding angles.
One mistake? Absolutely re... That's acceptable.
Alex is not going to be mauled in too much about that one.
But if he keeps happening like he did on Breeze, suddenly there's an issue.
He can't let a team as talented as EDG back into a game.
Really can't.
Turned over a trap play here, didn't even try to square up nobody, this is just ridiculous!
How did he get one?
Still against the one that would have traded his insight.
A lockdown.
Should be pushing these energy players into the extremities with the VICE, they're smart
in terms of the crosshair placement.
Where are they going?
Where are they going?
Indecisive.
Smoky's running forward, some players running back.
The flash is coming to connection, but it goes both ways.
Blinding up Smoky.
He's going to band those way out of this one.
Into a corner, into a corner.
Oh no, he got a second!
How are they managing it?
Mistakes being made by Payprex once more.
This can't be happening. Not a repeat of Reeze.
The 2v3, something didn't be done yet.
Clan at least down. They've got great post-plant utility.
If something gets a kill, the round should be over.
The orbital strike should lock things up.
Holding. Tucked for now.
He's only giving anything away.
Hearing sound cues now. We're going to see that one moving over.
That's going to be the Molly Selling over, Kenny's already got half, it's a good win
call.
Turn for them, Mimbi's found it, hold on, flash ready, but no kill, claims, critically
on the sum, it doesn't have the ult to play for here, Mimbi, Mimbi, MIMBI!
Oh my!
Time to miss one of the Dylan Mim, Maxi Dors, a bit of an end but they got that half.
So TDG securing it up, they just couldn't find that post-bant setup that they were looking
for here.
But it's individuals again, Brett.
It really is. He's just barrelled into a smoke, and then Smuggies run all the way through a lockdown.
Decided a completely different game plan to Jenny.
They crossed paths in the middle, bottom team to each other.
But Smuggie had a round to win.
Went to 4 and 12.
The player that was highest rated in the VSTC and Grand Finals has woken up again
to carry where Khan Khan couldn't.
They're doing it again, EDG.
And one round at a time, kind of drag it back to equal here.
Four play, the second is very much out into the open to jump squad.
The Terral Blazer, center for the punish, and here's the players close.
We're going to take a listen in EDG. They're ready for this.
potentially might go down anybody committal now they do have ults to work
but still it's a player disadvantage
EDG
prime ready over a striping of what it is
force of the issue
it's exactly what they ordered
exactly what they needed
still a 2v2 though they're not quite out of the woods just yet kankang
forwards with a stick
can potentially earn no just gets off in time it's a perfect beat by something
stimming out forwards
another tap
seems like a police way way down to my
something
The capitalized of all that noise!
Paper Rex get up to map point.
Off the back of an incredible round from something.
Known for the jet in this meta.
This aggro brim round is beautiful.
He uses all of his utility.
Ply it to the post plant.
A masterclass in how not to bait his brim.
Immaculate timing off the back of Indy's stack.
Collects his kills, drives him into uncomfortable positions, and swings off his teammate.
No hesitation at all.
One round is all that is needed to send us all the way to Split.
But this, remember, was the scoreline on Breeze, and PaperX failed to capitalise.
GG. Tent to get it done.
The weaponry is that idea. Stingers offloaded. Nobody posturing like he's stronger than he is.
He's a one player alone onto the A site.
the A site. No matter what for now, Kangan.
Decapitas to buy into that north side of the map.
They've missed him, but he's turning up late.
Turning up when it matters most.
Obviously picked up here, but this is a rapid approach.
Once more, EDG reinforcing over all the B sites.
Paper X's composition just snowballs these ultimates so heavily.
Envy's one away, Forsaken's one away, Jin two away.
EDG's win condition at this point
It's just to hope the Paper Rex fumble them.
Or the EDG can get in front of them.
And around like this, with lighter weaponry, a sheriff and two stingers.
They're loving the fact right now that Paper Rex is split up.
There's only 30 seconds left, by the way, here.
Split up across from the board.
The door's gonna be opening up, though.
It gives a bit of an indicator of what it says.
Come on, right door's going over towards P.
And they're going through spot.
Jenny's being pulled away potentially.
Something's gonna go wrong.
Jenny is straight there.
Hold on.
Resolves off the chaos.
You're over the strike.
Subloaded early.
Jenny let's choose to use it 20 seconds left to even have time to reach this 14 13
It's good against them now and nobody
playing spoiler
Just touch them to strength
EDG
Somehow they find the foothold somehow they find a way round by round piece by piece
Jenny stays alive with the bundle
Chichu without an opportunity to upgrade though.
The money is still not going to be good.
EDG are still working with odds and ends.
But Kan Kan hit two very important kills over the course of this round.
A quarter of his total in the map.
And they still have not baited these ultimate tower paper X.
This is one of those rounds where they got in front.
See how well he goes for them though.
Ken Payprex all they need is one of the ults on their side.
Surely you gotta imagine,
you need to keep putting these miracle rounds online.
Smokes primed, cutting off all the angles here.
Tripp's gonna be catching.
Smokes off in their face, they'll be down now,
but that's gonna be the show.
It's gonna lead it all the way forwards here.
Seconds actual, looking for it, to fade away.
Nice movement still.
He won't go down, smokey.
Stand up towards it to the corner.
Ultimately expecting that, but I might fall out.
The crunch and the pinch.
Oh!
Eiji, decisiveness and zero hesitation.
But by now, it's a weak and she-chew.
Hang on with no rifle.
There are inns, there are ways to get back.
Potentially send this all the way to split.
He's got to get past so damn much.
Kankang, critical info.
Comes to the side, 45 seconds left, a lot of time to work with DeVy.
Placing Swarm Grenade.
Guessing being with him as he hunts out.
The remaining player could beat.
G2 is low, 4 HP, first shot, accuracy is what they're going to come...
Kankang, 2!
It's going to fall.
Chopped down.
Kankang revealed himself.
Kankang!
He steps up when they need it!
At the final hour, the protagonist emerges to help put rounds on the board and do the
same thing to Paper Rex.
That's what happened on Breeze.
This was supposed to just be an elegant round, close things out, get Jinx out in the best
position, follow through immediately afterwards with a breech up.
They expended the entire arsenal, and yet EDG still prevailed with nothing, with scraps.
It scraps every time.
Nothing but pure grit and resilience.
They come to expect it from Kangang, but the ability to pie in a match, pie in a map,
and still pull it together round after round the composure to clutch it up
despite all the pressure that's on the line. Second to none. Another situation
Brent. Paper X have got 11 more kills than EDG have. It's not as egregious as it was
in the previous match by any means but they are the ones in control. They are
the ones who have been dominating especially early in the halves and yet
And EDG start to find the answers, start to piece it together, and attack time out like
this.
I just have to reinforce all of that.
Once again, Paper Rex are asked to try to close things out before it gets to OT.
Because otherwise, EDG have already shown them where the danger lies on Breeze.
Your resilience. Your composure. EDG. Set their sights forwards for the OT, Divy.
Trying to dominate control up towards the smoke.
There it is! And I'm so ready to clear it.
Walking in with a shorty in hand with Divy taking out.
Suddenly problems arising. Nobody did that in the previous round.
He walked in and went one for one. This time he brings a buddy with a shorty.
Really good adjustment coming out of the tag timeout.
So even though EDG and their IGL nobody are unconventional, they can still find really good answers.
Apex right now, scattered to the four corners of the map basically.
They've got a piece of idea just yet.
But why gone?
There is a lot of pressure actually that a flank could be coming behind the enemy.
He's the one with a spike.
Still, he presses the advantage forward to stem time to set up potential here.
The resilience of this squad is unbelievable and they have all the momentum
against Paper Rex the team with the biggest expectations coming into this tournament
who wiped away their opposition in essentially every game they've played recently.
EDG are standing back up, refusing to go down.
Let's go Hell!
OT, EDG return to the attack site.
Smoggy on an absolute tear. 28 kills forwards. Paper X. Back on a defense now. Lost their
chance in regulation. Maybe they'll look to see if they can seal it up, take it all the
way to split here. Tough route though. EDG never a team to give up to early. Cam is
going to let them know. Troubles used on the north side.
Flash from the crowd. Cheers on either side.
The tension palpable now. Shots hitting straight to the toe.
And he's going to be brought down on the second runner.
Will this play all the way in? King!
And a counter for a 20 and getting a satchel to see if he can buy us out of it.
A bit of safety. He smoked. Three round of Rosies.
They don't have a clue. It's going to be a turn. Hold on. Hold on.
It's getting precarious. It's getting frenzied. 3v3.
Something, something just spots out the shoulder.
T2 there and out of squeeze.
It's probably played for EDG.
That's a spike drop down and a damage.
Come here. Those both ways.
T2 and 1v2. 1v2 is spiked up.
But not a clue to Jin.
He was rapidly approaching.
He was a monster on breeze.
on Breeze and it wasn't enough. He's again top of the school board jing for
Paper X and the way that he's moved around that anchor smoke on B has baffled
him before the DDG. Grabbing a couple gets flashed inside the smoke and swings
back around through tower playing off the vibe again.
Holy shit, how am I like bro? How am I like bro?
It's Paper X who are going to be taking the
attack timeout first in overtime. Alex wants to put a strategy in their hands
that will make this one clean. They had three chances to convert on Breeze. Four
I think including OT actually but three again here on fracture this being the
fourth. You've got to close it out when the game is in your hands. Definitely
Tell those of these two teams, scrim partners since the dawn of time.
It's a different level that they bring out the best out of each other.
But you can't deny the payprecks, they have been dropping the ball.
But this is their moment.
Good chance to see if they can send it all the way to a map three.
But a sider, to see who sits in that grand finals for that upper bracket.
The Paper Rex Tournament is about grasping opportunities when presented to you.
The meta came towards them. Their form is outrageous.
Jin might be in the best form of his entire career.
He's been in the top of the game for five years.
You have to capitalise when opportunities like this present.
This entire tournament is an opportunity for Paper Rex to round out the cabinet.
round has got to be a micro demonstration of the same. Straight in there, ought to be picked up,
tools can all put up. It's a fake. They have been very good at threading this kind of stuff through,
but nobody has just grabbed so much information towards the north side instantly. Just full
sprint off the back of his horn, not seeing anything. I mean, if he was, he's the type of player,
I thought for a moment he was going to get the rope. He was high enough, wasn't he? Oh,
he's thinking about it. It would be insanity. He's thinking about it, but no,
feels his back away but he had given up the entirety of B. I don't know what is going
on in the EDG camp right now. It's Carnage walking back and forth here. Paper X might
be just walking straight back into the stack. How have they called this perfect? Oh, there
is no way. Operator! Kong has got to be good for it. Takes a shot but a trade is there.
All to cut this one up and across in through that sand control. That also means Jinx one
way from Shostopper though. Ching contacting again onto the line. It's a pixel angle of
pre-fire, smoggy, almost going down as a result. Could have been tired, could have been it.
Nobody's still, it's a guessing game, it's just been sprinting back and forth, getting
the steps in. It's a fault line, a swing forward. Chichu looking to see if he can bail it out
and relieve some of his pressure, but he hasn't stopped finding these kills. Chichu, Chichu,
I bring these menace, but I don't upload it and I rock into the back. That was spelled
the feet and doom nobody forced to do it all in 1v2 damage stone drops down
plan is down though the positioning one two ideal the paper eggs finally
around the matters pull it all away so stop in this train the final stop will
Oh, please, please.
I am, can I complain, can I be really British for a moment?
Yes.
It's too hot, mate.
I'm grateful, I'm grateful, but yeah, it's very, very warm.
The Copper Box Arena is aircon, so it's like a great excuse to go and watch some ballerina,
Absolutely, I mean it's never been a better time to be inside in an air con beautiful place watching some fantastic Valorant
And we're gonna be watching you on Sunday. Yes. I uh, I had some rehearsals yesterday
I'm so excited and I hope everybody can tune in and see the glorious new map and and have have some fun with us
So and you've seen the glorious new map. I have seen the glorious new map
I will keep everything sort of close to my chest
You have to be there to see it though because it is magical and you are going to be the captain of teen chaos
Yes, I am. I hope we can bring you lots of chaos on the stage as well as hopefully some zen moments
But yeah, we've got a few tricks up our sleeve to bring some chaos to you guys at home and in the arena
What kind of leader are you?
An aggro one. It's gonna be interesting. I've got a few people on my team who are used to being the vocal IGLs
So a little spoiler there, but they're gonna have to listen to me this time
Or you'll give them a verbal spanking. A verbal spanking indeed
I can't wait, thank you very much. Thank you.
Gabber, you come all the way from Mexico today?
Yes, I'm all the way from Mexico, yeah.
And what's your favourite thing about London so far?
Well, everything has been really good for now.
The city is amazing and something that really makes me...
how coordinate is the traffic, because in Mexico it's chaos, it's chaos here.
I think it's currently going to get quite chaotic in the matches later today.
I know you're rooting for Leviathan against Team Vitality, but also your loyalty has been bought.
Show me the shirt. I have a paper rick shirt. I've been found for paper rickshittings I think
in 2002 maybe, and well I've been left fans since I'm no left, but paper rickshittings is
So I am really grateful for that.
And yeah, let's go PaperX and go live.
What happens if it is a PaperX Levitang Grand Final?
Which jersey are you going to wear?
You might have to cut them up and sew them together.
Well, it happened not on the final,
but we had a PaperX vs. Leve,
and I was going for one map I had the jersey from PaperX
and the other map I went for Leve.
So a little quick change?
Well, yeah, I have to go with both.
Well, you couldn't ask for a better way to spend a Friday than being right here at the
Copper Box Arena.
I'm about to witness a game three between two prolific squads in Valorant's history
as PaperX takes us to map three.
Folks, what an incredible display we saw there.
It's going away here alongside me and Billy.
Let's break it all down because, you know,
one of the things that we were talking about
was how these pistol rounds were a factor.
And as a matter of fact, I had said, yeah, you know,
they picked up a couple of pistols,
complexion of game changes.
You said, yeah, but they lose the clutches
or get the clutches, the complexion of the game changes.
Kind of seems like that's the story of this match
of those critical rounds.
I think these two maps ended up being incredibly similar.
Rick, Rick's dominates the pistol rounds.
It looks like they have it going early,
but it's EDG getting clutches back, building momentum in,
and this time, just being again, basically a round away
from being able to close this one out against Paper X.
But what saved them today has been these pistols.
They've been very consistent on it throughout this tournament.
I've loved the different approaches they've had,
and they do a great job of coming up with rounds
to bring into these matches.
And honestly, in close games like that,
that is the difference.
It's pretty much a guaranteed four rounds
every single time you're playing a match.
Yeah, that's how it feels.
The amount that they're winning these pistols,
And I think you look at the numbers that Smoggy was able to put up,
and I think the biggest impact of him was being able to get those ultimates online as quickly as possible.
I think Kangkong may be not performing to the expectations that we set from him, especially when we consider a map 1.
I think he almost tied at one point, it wasn't looking great.
Obviously PRX able to kind of bounce back from that loss on map 1 as well.
And Kangkong did pie in this map, only to bring it back and have huge performances towards the end.
I mean, test them into this, Steve.
I think the key though in both these matches was EDG doing a really good job to win the big clutch rounds, build momentum off of that.
But I think in both maps, I felt like especially on defense, the theory and the macro was better from paperwrecks.
Here in particular, I like their very active defensive sides on this map.
I felt when EDG was playing defense, they were far too often trying to retake through spawn instead of pushing through on flanks.
That just doesn't work particularly well on this map, especially when you're playing against a comp that has Neon stun, that has Moz, that has all of these things.
It has all of these different tools to stop you from getting out of those show points
And I think that's something that really needs looking at for EDG and couldn't make the difference on this map for them to win
Yeah, you mentioned the neon
We did see some nice micro with the neon stones and a brim all one round as well
It's really nice to see things like that, but I agree with you
I think that we kind of set this up as paper X having some of the best defense on this map in particular
That definitely shows you today. Well, we said it at the beginning of the show
all bangers and on split and of course that's exactly where we're going to settle
the score and determine who's punching their ticket to the grand finals as the
EDG is in paper X and of course the tension has to be high here where we
look and how are we feeling I mean I think paper X surely has to be feeling
very good about pulling off that win but if you are EDG you have to feel even
better about making them sweat more than I am right now in that moment because
men it looked like EDG we're gonna lock this one up maybe I think that they
They should have honestly they were so close to pulling this one off pulling it all the way back
I've been really impressed especially with what smoggy has been doing with what cheeto has been doing
This is not a con con takeover game and despite that it's edg winning the clutches
It's them stepping up in the light rounds
It's all the things that have historically been the strength of this team when they're in these big games
And the fact that they're doing it against paper X who's normally the squad you think of for those same things is so incredibly impressive
I think when I think of paper X on this map, we need to talk about how dominant they had been up until that match against vitality
The other day of course vitality being able to steal that one away from paper X
And I'm hoping that they've been able to take those learnings away from that loss
I think that there was moments where I would have liked them to have fought through mid rather than
Putting so much focus on the extremities. Yeah, I agree. I think that what vitality really got over
Paper X is that their defense is reliant on winning those extra many fights are always going for that space
And what Vitality did was simply play back, go for late round contact plays into mid, and that was highly effective.
I would love to see a PaperX willing to, once they have that operator online for something, just post that on an extremity,
and look for more rounds like trap plays in mid, repushing into that space instead.
But I do think these are pretty easy fixes to their macro, off the Vitality loss.
But this is what you like, but what's the reality? I mean, what are we thinking? What's the reality?
It's double duelist mirror match between the two best double duelist teams in this turn.
It's going to be an incredible match that comes down to the clutches that comes down to the individualism where all of these guys are massively stepping up.
That's how I really think it's going to get.
And that's exactly where we're going to get here. Billy, we've got double duelists locked in ready to go. A lot of pressure here for those players.
Definitely. I think, although you've said that, I think PaperX is starting on the defense here.
Cheetu on the first map in particular when I'm thinking back to Breeze was getting away with some ridiculous lurks and that's something that PaperX is going to be looking to punish.
on that same token EDG, there needs to be a ready for this aggression, we're
talking about how Paper X likes to fight for these extremities and that's a
position where T2 can get caught out pretty easily.
Alright, well Copper Box Arena, we're going to a Math 3, you guys excited?
No, no, no, no, no, we're here in upper bracket final, it's Math 3 makes some noise!
Caster is taking away.
His first two matches, they're going to go off this third one bound to be explosive, bound to be neck and neck action between his two squads.
Desperate for that chance to earn a spot in the Grand Finals.
It's a chance to claim their own portion of history in VCT.
The last time these two teams had clashed, neither of them had their trophy.
Now both owning one and looking for a second and whoever wins this would be favoured in the grand finals with that man Vito
Paper X have won every pistol almost in the entire tournament and yet edg have still been hanging on
It could make all the difference really could edg
Rapidly all the way around straight down the vents from a ramp
But the X were playing in small to play for sound choose no on their heels
Yeah, the Vibe was in a passive position, so he's not going to get caught.
Thanks for Mathrudo, look at this, it's a low, where it is at all, that's a spike drop down!
Invisalum is the one that's going to kill that one.
First blood going his way, Smoggy falls, seem to be going to fight a way through, punch a hole out of this setup.
But with the spike drop down again, the Paper X pistols have just been outrageous.
There's a disaster, this one for EDG.
They tried to cook up something interesting, and Paper X were in spawn, hot on their heels,
immediately repushing vent. There was not a thought in nobody's mind that there
could be a player running him down on that quick of a timing as he trailblazer
for his team to take pressure in mid up through B heaven. This spike should be
unrecoverable.
She chew, con con, will do their best.
30 seconds left.
Shots rattled down, hold on, heads to side, they're all gonna flash on a peek.
They hold it up here, spacing, hold on.
Okay, I bet you're gonna be able to find a way forwards, pissed around again,
half of the course of Paper X.
It's absolutely unbelievable.
The consistency that they've had, and the immaculate read on what was happening during this.
I mean, it's not like you've never seen a pistol like this.
You absolutely have.
A ractate, flood back to mid, go towards B heaven.
But the speed with which Paper X recognized
what's happening to them, and they are immediately
barreling after EDG looking for the fight,
completely caught them off guard.
Be careful with that gas.
EDG changed their split composition.
I think looking at Miro, what Paper X would do is...
It's damaged on there, Jenny.
Trying to get cheeky.
Alright, he will try to look to mirror them.
This is one of the advantages of being Paper X is that other people are looking to you
in methods like this to figure out what is good.
I should see who can do better.
Big brother, little brother, Type B in this final round.
Let's see it now.
It's with a Sharon though, it's a decent amount of damage.
Kills so barely, gonna do a route of line.
He's gonna be careful of this one, 27 health, but okay!
Fade away steps to the side, it's a lovely three-piece for him.
What a reaction from the guy.
I think Paper X can be happy anytime they just cleanly convert these positions.
With the way that it's been going in the match so far.
They're keeping the energy up.
Weak a weaponry heading into this bonus.
But a lot of it's still going to be dangerous.
Now you see Forsaken and Chin fight over Beemane all the time.
And in rounds like this Forsaken loves to do his walk through a smoke play.
He does.
He's in with that judge.
Passive from EDG early on.
Yeah, look at them, they're holding for it.
Yeah, they're just hoping the PaperX makes the play.
Haha, yeah.
They want Forsaken to walk all the way out of that, they've seen it before.
We all love.
But it's also the threat, right?
It's also the fact that PaperX have done it so many times,
forces EDG to just sit here for 30 seconds, essentially wasting the clock, their own clock.
That's the threat, that's the pressure that PaperX's aggression can do, even when they mix up the tempo and throw a slow round at you like this.
We'll see, we'll say, turn, slight pixel angle, ADS double the full talk.
Kill Claim with Smoky being cut out, 0-3.
That contact also pulls Jing and Devai closer towards B main.
Something's fine, he kills all over the place, hold on, we're going to see a bonus.
Potentially in their sights.
GG, looking for answers in a possibility like this.
Hold on, the Paranoia is set flying up, but the DP that is accounted for.
Paranoia with sidestep.
Made her way onto the site, I can be able to get this plant down.
Chichu is going to be so late on this.
There's an enormous pressure on Jenny and nobody to stand tall.
It really is, but somehow still coming up with it.
Staviah gets it, now at the Los Angeles.
Sancho! Oh my God!
Nobody! Nobody!
Just leaves it into Jenny's cable, hands down in time, potentially brought.
Chichu is going to be arriving.
Envy trying to step towards it, picks up the gun,
but he's still looking for that second player,
because surely, surely Chichu's nearby.
Snake bites, sails out, reveals a handle by Chichu's playing forward.
Side stepping, Envy forwards.
70 HP, gets on it, TAP! Moves out into the wide!
So what Jenny knows, just to leap him out of his sight,
four kills to salvage a very tricky situation.
It's another spectacular round.
From a player re-entering the roster for EDG,
Chisu's lurk was outrageously late.
They left a lot on this guy's shoulders, and he delivers again.
Whether he's playing the smokes, or the senti, or the KO,
He's there, the glue guy for EDG and they've been searching for a replacement player like him for two years.
Finally found him in a meta that works better.
Yeah, I'm seeing it.
DTP.
What could take now over the walls? I've been in control for, it's a mistake.
Can't look at this, he can run this one down, but he's on the WTP again.
Surely not this time!
Once more!
He looks straight to the top of that box.
The play is being accounted for, EDG gets flaxed as well as a B-side, and they need me to be respected.
Nobody barely out of dodge here, second wave of the Util.
The play is going to clear up the Hellplay, a chain is way ahead of the rest of his pack.
We're going to take this fight forwards in the up towards our approach, but then again it's all smokey.
Fortune for it, immediately steps back up to the plate.
I think they completely misunderstood where Chichi was in this round
Something we're still looking for a lurk and that's why he wasn't with either of the other two on the retake
It's not really a feasible 1v3 this one. Well, they are weak go down one shot to the outlaw
But it's not gonna give him the option. It's not gonna go up
He's gonna be left with an outlaw. I mean he might be able to
Upgrade this one. Yeah, he's got a phantom that he can go grab
But that's around the paper ex had loved to have another go out again
And money's not gonna be in a great position.
Jin for Sake and DeVile down to within the hundreds of credits.
And for Sake, it's going for the same play twice in a row, as you said, Bren.
And EDG have caught him both times.
It's fine to go for a play like that, when you feel like you need to take a risk.
Like a spot like this.
The expected value gets a little bit lower, I think.
Yeah.
enemy remaining. Pretty hard read seeing the frustration Alex's face or the
risks in that round are very individual. Forsaken takes the risk, Jin takes the
risk while Envy is smoked off. They're not really tightly playing together and
relying on that teamfighting that they have probably best in world at.
There are ways to get back in here if you are EDG here, that's gonna be the least.
Hello, Dic Dash forward, Kagan's lying in their face. Well that is anything but it
matters at naught. I don't want to fight taking out that kind of distance and Kagan's got more
intensity. This is where Bulldog Blades star on the right click will do the job. They are
going to put this PaperX team to shred to satchel across Jing. Hope we'll do some better weaponry
now. Cutting this one up at a three, two, one, double space. That's just straight into the wall.
Boom buck. It's what's up, Jenny. Dropped into our PaperX. How are they making the most of this?
Unreal. One of the players leaves it into it. Jenny being pressured, pinched. Got a heaven angle
He's gonna be offloaded to try and help him out, nobody.
Back to the wall now, but that smoke just booms in.
Time, Jenny!
It's got it all under control.
Defy with just 20 HP.
I have to walk all the way around this one,
but I think time has gotten away from him.
They've left it too late.
One fly to the exits!
Consolation prize.
These are the kind of rounds that Brent went paper X.
You'd normally favour them to be able to pull some magic out.
A rabbit from a hat.
And instead, it's EDG who deserve a lot of credit
for being able to win the crucial duels in the midst of all of these rounds
that calm the chaos.
Today, EDG's individuals, the little decisions they make in and the shots that they're hitting
I'll put them forwards in these scrappy moments more often than Paper X.
Three rounds in a row.
A reminder that coming into this game, Split, our decider, was the only man that Paper X had lost at London.
It's a small sample size, but they did kind of get battered by vitality here.
And Alex is having a lot of words.
And we've seen the time-outs before. He's looked laser focused. This one, he looks more frustrated.
And I would imagine that he's talking about the playmaking that's happening over towards B.
It's very individual, focused really, a lot of risk being made.
I remind you too that that loss that they had against Vitality was also with
Ching dropping astonishing numbers and one of the best Ace 1v4 clips I've ever seen.
Oh yeah, absolute outrageous clip.
But the others just couldn't get into the map.
It really couldn't.
I pause here, seeing this
tack-timeout transition into a
tech pause, so...
Unfortunate.
Growns from the crowd, but
if you thought the tension couldn't get thicker
between the two teams,
it's going to be ramped up by this.
Now, we'll get some information, surely,
on what the issue is.
I'm sure we'll get it solved in a manner of time.
The game is delivered on all fronts so far.
You had to have a tech polish just to complete the bingo card
Both of these teams have been going hammer and tongs at each other
Paper X they know this map like the back of their hand. They know the way the EDG are gonna want to play it
And yet they haven't been able to stop it
Those two P rounds in a row
That's what I'm expecting this to return to as we get back to a rightful scenario
We're headed back into the game, quick little restart of the game for nobody, but straight back in it.
My eyes, my attention goes to something with the operator. How has Alex adjusted the setup to make this one work?
It's still Jinger Forsaken playing over towards B. I think they'll have Forsaken on a bit more of a leash,
or at least doing different things to try to mix things up.
We'll see if EDG get the read on this one. Something, he has a tendency to offer towards A main, straight down a gut up mid.
I'll blaze it, confirms there's something.
He's not coming over to that main angle in the deep dash now as well.
Get themselves deep into the A side, let's take a listen in the EDG.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh, that's it.
That's it.
Disappointment towards the end there in the comms of EDG.
Obviously with Wade, that was handled and played,
but explosive at times as well.
He brings up a clean retake.
Yeah, I think even though EDG
had smartly put Smoggy in a position
to build up his ultimate,
despite all of that,
The way that Paper X scale together it retakes scenarios like this look at the way that they fight behind the sequence gathered up together
With something just controlling any potential reaction at ramp
It's really nice
Paper X great round from them really is
Well, that's who a EDG think it's quite telling all the time out the answer something at the OPMoney
Speed of hand clear strategy
The point is for Jenny's deep TP, taking this time, contesting that B main space.
I'm not going for the B one way first, just TPing straight into the angle with the flash.
Have some catch that timing, with the fight.
Malm's reclaimed, just pushing back and away.
Holding onto a bit of that B main control here, Chichu.
It's fine if he's had a deep insert, but he's left guessing as to where the opponents could be.
Jing, slight angle here, he's worried about it again, the deep looks, Piperik's very good awareness, as deep pings into CT, they understand that they could have lost control of that area of the map.
Jing here.
Now he can't quite see it, but now all the way forwards, flying, but nobody watching for that, Heaven angle, this is something again, taking potshots out of them.
of them. It's not really conscious of the danger with Jenny falling. No smoke for heaven.
But Kang Kang didn't adjust his pathing for it. Should be an easy round for Paper X to
clean up. The season being, it's a legend here, but if that last retreat was over, you
could see the discipline raining through. Up top that Adasah is insanity by something.
It's played to perfection. Paper X not willing to leave him hanging. He's always going to
be stylish the jet on split his style of play is beautiful to watch I love the
adjustment coming out from Alex as well they're fighting more aggressively
over B main even though this is an anti-eco funneling them into the a-retake
which they look really strong at
One of the players has been killed.
EDG are gonna continue to pressure A again, even though these post plant situations have not been working for them.
KBX in more anchor positions now as they swap something's operator to B main.
Looking to stay mobile with the defensive setups.
Still potential danger here though.
Rob Lacer broke it down and a bit of spam and I'll do the job.
It's Kangkang going down nice and early, but that's going to be a paradise sweep.
But and a counter-forcer in these anchoring positions, as we were saying,
DTP is going to be hurdle to reinforcements arriving.
It's going to be a case that I mean, Jing was just thinking it was potentially Jenny,
but now they're going to be making moves up and around.
Divide pushing forward, let the pit drop.
But now that lets something pick up this angle.
And they've lost control over the wall's vents.
The MVDG fairly heavily trapped.
Should be another round where Paper X just convert this one cleanly.
Positioning's all good, player advantage all good.
That's EDG that are being pushed.
Into a corner here, there's no real exit.
There's nothing like your way out.
If I catch that contact, there's nothing to do with it.
This job is just to contain this space.
Whittle down the time, force EDG into making a bad move.
They ease up on the pressure as well.
Not looking to contain, super heavy.
Time's fairly low.
EDG would be a mad scramble if they wanted to pivot over towards B.
Something would have a chance to contest.
Yeah, if you had control though.
Contacting all the way.
Something was still here where the operator would have been able to punish this.
24 seconds left.
Into this round.
B is the objective. It's an open sight.
What a call to make.
They've slipped past a vine, something.
A smoke for the plant.
It would be meticulous if this were nine seconds left, something.
Slowly getting back up onto the line
Just want to take this one aggressively at that these two positions risky business EDG. You've got to try to take it to them
Punish onto the players, a contact play in Jenny and so much you can do in a spot like that
Something saves the day skewers EDG
That's another one of those rounds you could not afford to lose
They were expecting what they got to site. They wouldn't be an Inca player. They were
not ready for Invia at all. Not in the slightest. And something is taking over.
They'd be immaculate to get that jet head to head with both firing on full cylinders
for the final map but at the moment defense side with the op, something's in
control. Desk we're talking about it hasn't been a Kangkang takeover game
he's had I mean unbelievable round on Breeze but he's he's actually got more
to give there are a few things pistol rounds Kangkang's individual level but
if he managed to get them going absolutely could make the difference
They really could have in Kanghwagg.
Previous series that EDG have played,
it's him that has stepped up to the challenge.
Top numbers who lost the board to close out
their previous series.
They're going to need to see it from him once more.
EDG timeout has got to come up with something good.
This one is going to be a week of either EDG.
All the minor investment,
are willing to really go all in.
Other than Chichu, it's got the hero rifle.
They were getting their success in rounds 3 and 4 by putting immense pressure over towards B.
And for whatever reason, nobody has not let the troops back in that direction until this round.
From memory, it's been three retakes in a row on the A side.
Yeah. Great time for B here though, deep ping into the back of the site.
My anticipate Jenny's going to use his ult here as they go into the B exit.
There it is. It's going to be clear of that backside control.
The energy can rapidly approach down to the B side, but maybe it seemed to be one step ahead. No one was anchoring.
Everybody off-site. Happy to pepper them up bullets.
And they primed the plant position as soon as they're here at G2 now.
Committing and watching inside the smokes. Hang on, don't walk about here.
Drop it down! That is disgusting work!
She eventually dealt with the paper X-mall and ready once more. Nobody dropped down to just a single hit of hell.
No, snappy stuff.
GG4 sister. Retreat all the way back.
Spike in his hands for any chance of salvaging this round, but Pay Per X.
One step ahead of the man at a timeout.
Leaving something posted on the line.
It does grant a very slim chance for Chichu to do something remarkable.
But they've been great at monitoring his position this entire time.
Torxon's going up.
They knew he was one all the way, he'd be playing with the team looking to get the spike plant, looking to get the pit online.
So they were never worried about him on the lurk, and something's got to read again.
30 seconds.
Not really enough time for G-Shoot to do anything over towards A.
He's just going to look to try to preserve his gun.
Just hoping the paper X would make the mistake and step out into it.
Well, like I said, it's an immaculate round, they just got the perfect read on where G-Shoot was going to be.
They weren't as worried about the lurk this time. They had something gathered together and the push out through the rafters smoke much better executed this time.
Yeah.
Ging drop in Heaven, Envy wide out on rafters. And the retake smoke matters a lot. I mean in previous B situations, for sakes been dead this time he's alive and able to provide incredibly important utility.
It's a very heads up play from Payprex. Out of the timeout. Everybody off site, no anchoring over towards the B site.
The Sword of the Ultz, Sword of Jenny had it available, anticipated that re-executed TTP
into it, but...
And the pressure down onto the plant is enormous, they're not waiting for EDG to put the plant
down, get the pit online, get into funky positions, the pressure is on instantly.
And a nice mix-up after they've been threatening to fight B-man a couple rounds in a row, back
again, something not applying onto the ace.
I teach you, not long for the waltz. Shut out of this game.
Sustainable inconsistency is what you're going to get with an operator in the hands of something.
You need to be given full access once more towards this site.
Again, worried about the next step of things deep.
Flash, not looking to take the space off the back of this one.
Get out of my way!
TP. This time a tap, but this time no need.
See them hold it all the way down by taking all CT, something activating, the all-unpressure
apply, Jing!
Getting away with murder!
Another round with a bait EDG and they lure them into the site.
You guys can have it, it's free, and then they collapse the trap to master class.
It really is, it's beautiful.
They know the conditioning from early, they know the first few taps of the spike, it's
It's just going to be that. Just taps.
They also took down Chishu so early on so they don't need to worry about the lurk.
When you're playing against a team that likes the 4-1...
HIT THE GOPTER, HIT THE GOPTER!
As soon as you take out Chishu, all eyes focused on the site.
EDG occasionally mix things up where Kangkong also lurks through mid.
It'd be nice to see something like that because the game plan is not working right now.
That's interesting.
The money's all over the place here for EDG.
Group up into A.
EDG have also just been putting a lot of pressure on the outsides of the map.
Think about what the desk is setting up by tallity on this map, by putting pressure through
the center of the map, by splitting into these sites.
Not something that EDG have been doing much of.
EDG are hyper-focused on execking through A main and B main and they're getting punished for it.
Now Smoggy's one away from the alt. This is risky business from something.
It's a lot of angles to account for but the dash is going to be prime for this one.
He's going to use the dog but nobody took the space off the back of it.
Now set up potentially for success here.
Player's just waiting to walk straight into him. Reaction time test but usually good for it in a shot.
This goes wide.
Tom about face here.
It's going to be immediately evacuating, looking to contest it whatsoever.
It's going to be sailing though.
Up and over now.
Whiskey business.
30 seconds left.
It's not going to be going for all that plan.
The Seekers even just blinding up the opposition.
But it's a full retake.
He had to be played for now.
Is he a Jing?
Sure, stop up.
Finds a mark.
And the Bucky can't even get it done.
Jing.
Running all over them now.
Still alive and kicking.
The spray control.
He's whipping it around, making sure to put a stop to any of it.
And Chichu's up, but he's been trying to deploy for the last three rounds.
Shut down at the knees.
Paper X's retake game plan is working excellently here against EDG.
It's two-one dimensional.
They can't figure out how to win a post-plan.
They don't contain enough of the map because they're not threatening to win.
EDG have been hanging with Paperex this entire match and now it seems to have all slipped away.
It's essential for EDG to put his last round on the board with the way that the pistol rounds have been going.
You can't let Paperex get a 9-3 up. Pistol round into the next, you'd just be staring down at the barrel.
They've got an Odin spam on the A mainline.
Spam, straight shot though. Operator's going to go on wide here.
I can't come straight up now. We're gonna see that show stop utilize the Odin spam punished
Am I taking out?
Rocket potential there maybe but side step for now
The right going down this retake wall is not gonna come into fruition
It's not as it'll retake for paper. So that's barely getting under control. That was actually what it's about. Ging
Almost rang a controller right boy in his hand a blind shot in attack still something getting it
Smoke is positioned, now known, but a forward approach is guarded!
Crossfire set up, played for to perfection, EDG.
They get that 4th round and they need it.
Kan-Kan delivers them an opening kill.
And Paper X, that's the fullest time that we've really seen them after the tag time.
I fail a retake attempt.
Jin traded.
Incredibly important.
But they still need a pistol, and they haven't won a single one.
Tough going, but it's all to play for.
Grand finals spot on the line between these two teams.
Who gets there? We're going to be fighting out after this.
The
tension with a knife here in a couple of blocks, arena between these two squads.
Impossible. I'll be an ask for of EDG to get back into this half.
Every single pistol round has gone the way of Payprex so far in this series.
They get one more. It could be spelling to feed. It could be spelling to...
The DDG have shown nothing but tenacity, nothing but grit.
I don't think they're going to be down and out too easily.
They've been toe-to-toe neck and neck with paper wrecks.
Sheer will, it feels like, sometimes.
Powering them through rounds of the had no right to win,
and yet did anyway.
The underdogs, but here, A4 down.
There's never been a more important round for them to be able to secure.
Very much an all-in here. Flash.
Not getting a connection and it didn't bait the trap play.
It's P-Prix walking up off the back of it, they hear potential rotations.
Smoggy Dump catches it, signs a life now and a flash.
Bryant brought him ready.
Something's gonna be straight back in there, but a snap to the side and he was...
Back down.
...one with a refight and a repeat.
Parallel is good.
He's taking straight on it and the damage to the Kangkong.
He's sent to leave. He might see a reciprocated yes.
It's for sake, kid. Just gliding and jumping straight to the side, heart turns into the flower pot.
It's nobody, claims a life of something.
Joe Blazer, anything to buy them in a space, and Tyrone's done it.
It's good with a connection, EDG! Finally!
The pistol round I was promised to them, they get it on line.
At the 11th hour, that's when the story all day for EDG.
They chair behind, but when the pressure's on, when the lights are at their brightest,
They step up. Here again, it looked like the second might have been able to do enough.
The little jump peek around, but I start with Trailblazer and a half clearance from something
who's otherwise been having an immaculate gain by that.
I had a small error.
And let's EDG back in.
Paper X are not going to force, but they're dangerous even with only these bandits, sheriffs.
You need to be clean.
It's nice.
Spam onto the cross.
Immediately applies the pressure here.
The side with these pistols.
They...
You know, they're positioning now with the paper X players.
Like you said, it just has to be clean past this point.
There.
They're waiting just in case there is that presence,
but that's going to be the bounding into vents.
Just the way a little bit.
Drop it all the way down though.
Similar scenes here, the EDG's pistol, but this time it's not full committal.
EDG are also a little bit more tentative of pushing out around the map compared to PaperX.
PaperX love taking the fight on defense, love walking forwards.
What a shot! Just sitting back, letting the game come to them.
Catched a guy on the lurk.
They can do that, smoggy.
It's got them contains, just trying to back away here, taking a lot of shots in the process.
Let's play still. Trick shot.
Tragic is in time here. Definitely is in v.
Doing the damage though.
Jenny now has got to put a stop to it and he will do just that.
From the high ground up from the heavens.
EDG unable to recover though.
An extra weapon on the back of that.
Coming in on the bonus.
Not looking super, super great in terms of having a good defensive setup here really.
I mean, look at the weaponry that they're working with.
It's going to be a bucky.
Oh, force of the Phantom.
Oh, that is a massive decision late on about to head into this round from Kangkang.
Big gambit.
Full armour, Phantom in hand in a work-on-position with no one holding the heavy control.
No, he's in danger.
And he's also nowhere near the blade store.
I mean, you'd have to have a phenomenal round to even have that in the back pocket for the next.
pocket for the next
control be given up by EDG just
just the boom box exchange on either side
poking prodding over towards B main
they are probably going to have a slightly more defensive setup as I say
on this half compared to paper X
we're always looking for that fight
that's far really nice read from paper X too
taking up all of that space that's being given them
through mid
we'll have to take this all the way up towards B
she choose going to have one hell of a task
It's not going to be primed.
Open angles, open avenues, trying to shoot them all down.
Immediate dash of this engage, thinks through the wall.
This is definitely picking apart this PaperX opposition.
Gearing up though, primetime, waiting for the smokes to dissipate
before the B main plays potentially activate.
Spotting these battles out wide now.
Going to see that nail in the flash forwards and the activation
of a lot of sound cues. Pressure being made.
It's perfect stuff for PaperX.
the sound cues, pressure being made, it's perfect stuff for Paper X.
30 seconds left.
They're gonna play each other in properly and that is his rescue business going down.
Oh man.
He gets away with it.
Hold on, pick that one up, you're not done just yet.
He's got a dashback in his back pocket too and a heel on board from the IGL.
Raid boss himself, we're gonna see if he can step all the way up.
This is Paper X trying to gear up, but falling asleep in so slightly.
Trying to time it just with nobody's flash.
Now he's picked up the gun, reclaiming it.
coming down to these individual shots.
Slight reaction times here, he's going to be chipped down,
potentially double dash in now with a satchel.
Smog is straight there, they need to push.
Nobody's found it, hold on.
In the...
Oh!
Oh!
Stab is back to the side.
And earns himself that red blood clutch, rightful in hand.
Treturi from the bucky.
Invis stays alive.
Look at the aggression here in the postbox on KBX, giving nobody multiple different opportunities to close.
And a blast taken out of 26HP. But not enough.
That man's heart may not last to the entire match.
I'm going to be able to take care of this.
Sake MTP. This is all an attempt to pull the defensive players into spawn. It's succeeding.
Yeah, very passive position, isn't it, Utilaos? It's going to give to my tons of space to work with him.
Yeah, look at it. Just follow the seekers all the way up.
What's he worried about now? It should be potential EDITESMENT OF THE SHOTS!
This can get us going wide.
Falling, prey to the Vi already taking up all that space, but still doesn't force the issue.
You change a side stepping this one to give you to the back Jenny Jenny
Cut the strength by the bullets
Smoking there
Shooting in the dark is able to train at least one of the kills when it's a two before this point paper X of
Slow siege the way all the way into the B site
Edgy have already got a somewhat cautious approach to their defense side and then after Forsaken throws the yeltsin
They've just pulled back their defensive line. Yeah, really heavily
Granted, PaperX, all the space.
Kong Kong only needed to hit one of those bullets with the Outlaw and Divy would have dropped.
The pressure would have been relieved.
But he couldn't land it.
It's a really nice idea by PaperX.
Seekers on one side, fake with the Almanaut on the other.
I'm hunting potentially that these EDG players were small years old for his ult.
It's a round that comes down to the wire in the previous and then instant response where
they just dismantle the defensive setup. It's so much harder to defend when you're being
forced to run back through your own smoke into the site, especially if you don't have
Be Heavens caught to be your position to try to flood from.
EDG, I feel like this entire match, I've been losing the positioning battle,
but they've still been able to find success in other areas to make up for it.
Now it feels a little overwhelming.
Yeah, clutch potential.
I don't want to count the scene just there yet, but again the weaponry taking a knock.
Some blind firing.
I think we're lucky. Connection in the face, but dodge for now. This wall
causing a lot of issues, but the fuel is going to be running out of it soon enough.
Piper is happy to just wait it out. Crouch, and now slowly creeping back up
onto the line. Contact plays. The trailblazer is going to be able to clear a
decent path towards that heaven angle, and it does put pressure onto Smoky.
Should I anger from this spot? How does he find it? As that smoke blooms, that
he ults, earns right from the backside. Now this is Jing looking to see if he can
Sapshulani is creating an annoyance pressure made for a significant base out these sorts of 10 kills.
Flodding in now, wonderful spacing and good footer members on display.
Potential chance to claim a kill, still a 3v3.
Love the way the jig is jiggling that.
Perfection from Paper X.
Pulls all attention away now.
Can't back himself out as to any other better weapons that they can reclaim,
because Jenny's playing as a judge, cheater of a sheriff.
Can't come the only one with a rifle, it's gonna be on him.
Look at this discipline, this is own real stuff.
Milo could have an angle accounted for,
swinging with confidence in their hearts.
You might be going toe-to-toe here with Cheechoo.
Gotta be careful.
Get to the day, K-BREKS have got shooters themselves.
11 rounds now for K-BREKS.
Getting closer and closer to a date with Destiny in the finals.
And the discipline difference,
as they've warmed up throughout the series.
Jing only commits to that when the rest of his team
He's already through the choke point, ready to pinch.
And then a high-low set up in front of the paranoia.
No way that Jenny can have any impact in that round.
Oh, can't come for the matter.
Head taken off instantly.
That was around here.
EDG took the gamble.
EDG decided to invest up in that round
and see if they could pull things back,
even with the lighter guns.
And now, PaperX are running away with it.
Three rounds in a row on their attack side after an 8-4 dominant half
Puts them with a lead of five
And EDG's economy again in a poor spot. They will be able to buy it. It'll be a scrappy force
It's all over the place really, yeah, the money
You get some rifles going but
Jenny looks like he's forcing a rifle no armor
Smog is not gonna be able to get too much done
This is a tough position for EDG to be placed into. They've shown amazing grit. Do not get me wrong
Map 1, Map 2, being able to drag back these rounds,
making competitive despite just getting blown out
when it comes to the score line, kills are going away.
They've found their moments.
Yeah, they've showcased that resilience
that you need to be able to lift trophies again.
But whoever wins this game is going into the grand finals
with a massive advantage in the map veto as well.
If you win here, you've taken that first important step
towards that second trophy, towards legacy.
Chance again to secure himself in a history box to punish.
Even at such a play, it's Kang Kang just stands his ground,
immediately dashing disengaged.
So, wonderful first kill opener for Paper X.
Gushan is howl and he reclaims it.
Dubai wants space over all day.
Could be calling for the rotation of the troops
to come back over towards his direction.
And because Jenny plays in such a hard anchor spot,
his opportunities to clear areas are extremely limited.
he's alone on an island no idea please we're walking into heaven let's take a listen
i just think i can come back actually be careful of me you guys don't worry i
didn't play inside they're just skying go back go back over
they're down here let's do two from there let's get the group in man you guys group in there i
don't do two with you la okay because they're not gonna kill this airman again they're fucking
fucking canceng now
Decisive calls here from the Vile, looking to see if he can put the squeeze again.
But his big players with EDG, they are home the trades.
Have to come through now, but it's just not going EDG's way.
A 1v2 once more, Jay.
30 seconds left.
Left a once more due to the impossible.
He's placed in difficult positions.
That's his job.
On this squad.
He's often able to come up with the goods, but a 1v2 with no armour to his name.
That's going to be difficult to see if he can get through in B&D Vi
Coming for a lot here, cutting up in terms of the angles
And playing out!
Hold on!
It's more than an ounce, but there it is, the Vi!
Land's a shot that was necessary
He's been a monster in London
You hear him in the course
You see him in the server, you see him in the kill feed
The way that he's controlled the game
and understood what EDG's playstyle is.
They didn't go to that victory, they were holding in passive positions.
And the coordination they caused were in terms of went to Ben Moise
and how he's going to pull the defensive eyes in different directions.
That's a lovely opportunity for this team to attain
that now has six chances to close out and go to the Grand Finals.
I'm going to take with Destiny, potentially order that one more round, push them into
that Grand Finals, a spot that at this point they're comfortable in, expected to get to,
a little more than enough of those, give them another chance though to round out a trophy
cabinet divide, already on the A line here, with the patient play all around, show us
That's a connection and a half, Genie straight in there, there's going to be a trade-in, Genie straight up, and now we get overwhelmed!
Kichu tries to get involved, tries to insert himself here, both players rotating in, they're just calling it all the way back, it's a masterclass from the right.
Yeah, he's giving them another opportunity to pivot.
Something's actually going to step ahead, something's sticking around, this thing is going to be broken, yeah he is, it's already inserting itself, it's causing orders pressure.
Noisby are made, keeping one of the eyes peeled all the way back to seek it out, points out exactly what Kangkang is, and device ready for it again.
The cerebral nature of this caller, he might not put out the bigger numbers, but he will call you to a win.
30 seconds left.
Plan going down, obviously no contestation and it's all in the palms of Chichu.
To get his first chance of it cost a place was good one be two now earned
But how the hell do you find a way forward to pit?
They're gonna be playing here based on the real the laughing here
There's gonna be a course we can serve the paper expert spamming away blood's raining hold on these women
Stop in the process 26 health. It's all on the line
Not he's trying to work, but it's all paper
It feels like Toronto again for these paper X players.
eating you pushed them they were absolutely moments of immense pressure
where paperex were barely able to hold on but this final match they showcase the
quality that is absolutely undeniable paperex are favorites for a reason and
they head into that grand finals looking to take the cloud
Top of my bad advantage, they're going to be working with.
They can take a bow here today.
They've earned their spot, and that grind the finals best of five.
EDG, of course.
Their story's not over just yet.
They're going to be sent down to that lower bracket.
They're going to be waiting to see who they are going to be playing against.
Match up for this one.
That one's going to be a good one.
For Paper X, that upcoming game is not just about another trophy.
legacy is about in view as well top
fragger in this final map 20 and 10
and incredible performance so far
now we're going to send it out on the
floor Frankie is standing by for the
horizon post match interview I believe
it's going to be with Jing the paper
expanse here in London absolutely
delighted with their team especially
we got to see three banging maps today
Jing is just signing things and then
and I'm going to have a chat with him,
signing in the yellow sharpie.
I know the fans are really keen to talk to you.
Jing, what's it like going straight through
to the grand final, no lower bracket run this time?
I mean, I think it's a really good feeling
because getting to grand final in Santiago as well,
so it's back to back in the final, so yeah, I'm really happy.
I feel like we are still improving day by day
and hopefully we deliver in the grand finals.
And earlier this week, I spoke to Divide
the fact that you've clearly been working on those pistols since Pacific, that was something you
wanted to fix. Do you think the result could have been different today if you hadn't won them?
I think yeah for sure because game one and game two were both OT, so I think if we lost pistols
we would have lost, so yeah I'm really glad that we are working on the pistols and I think it showed
the way. How did EDG surprise you and get you to Overtando? Because I know you guys
scrim each other regularly, it feels like your friends backstage, so why were they able to get
to get the better of you in certain rounds.
I feel like on Breeze especially,
they just, they played really well
and like a lot of situations like,
I think like three refours and stuff,
they just kinda hit their shots
and they played better as a team.
So yeah, that's why they came back on Breeze.
Now Jing, I can't let you go anywhere
without letting you say hello to this crowd
because they're all listening to what you're saying.
So what would you like to say to them?
I mean, thank you to all the fans
for coming and supporting us.
You all support me, it means a lot and we see all of you, so thank you so much.
Congratulations, we'll see you in the final on Sunday.
London, please show your appreciation for PaperX.
Thank you so much for that and wow, I mean of course, congratulations to PaperX.
Always a pleasure to hear from Jake.
joined by the man himself. Give it up London for Divy! Divy, pleasure to speak with you
as always my friend. Yeah, always, always. You, this was a tough series, right? And I
think for you in particular was a tough one as well because you were trying to, you were
trying to rally the two back together. How did you keep yourself motivated in this one?
Because you know, EDG is a phenomenal team and they were really taking it to you guys.
Yeah, I think for me, I mean as you can see my aim wasn't aiming today, so I had to
Yeah, you had a lot of great moments, so I'll say it's a little short baby
But I think for my standard, I think it wasn't the greatest
And I think I had to focus more on what they were doing rather than focusing on the aim
Because you can just rely on your aim when it doesn't work, you know
So yeah, I think my job today was just to align the voice and stuff
And as you can see, Jing has been having a good series as well
Anyone for something on jet and yeah, yeah, he just feels like a trap card man like a Yu-Gi-Oh trap card
Just play him and he's gonna
We're just saying all the different collecting games. I wanted to ask you about the pistols who's coming up with the pistols
How are you so good on wishmen the split any of them?
I mean generally your pistols have been very strong outside of that one round that you guys dropped
Usually when it comes to Pisteron is the good himself because he can cook in the Pisteron.
Yeah, no, of course. I mean you guys are coming into this one with a lot of ideas, but it does feel like in this moment
this was like the biggest challenge you guys have faced. Now that you have overcome this, you're going to the grand finals,
you're fighting for a Masters trophy, what is this? Like the 100th time, bro?
You know, does it feel any less
Stressful than it did in the past despite the fact you guys are you don't have a
Fanatic to contend with you don't have a g2 or an energy or a
Gen G or you know, so on and so forth right and long shim as well
How does it feel for you being in this spot?
Personally, I think for me the experience from the past grand finals definitely helps me in the mountain
Calm I would say yeah, and she can see even our playstyle now even though we managed to fumble a few runs
It's sure I think we reset quick because now I think that's the important part about us right now
Yeah, and yeah, I mean and just real quick
Would you attribute that to your the connection you've built with these players because you guys been together for so long?
Yeah, I think for us it's easy to just like tell the boys
I mean each of us like if anyone always like kind of like upset or whatever we are okay to just tell him and
He's okay to receive it as well.
So yeah, I think there's a good thing about being with players for quite some time, you know?
Correct.
You sent every single team remaining in this competition to that lower bracket final.
I guess the question is who do you think, or who do you want to meet you there in that grand final?
The classic question, baby. Give it to us.
I think it's a tough one.
We played all three teams. I think everyone have their own...
Like, how to...
Trinket and Misha's.
Yeah, like, string and weaknesses.
If I had to choose one, probably I would go for EDG.
EDG?
OK.
Hey, I think a lot of people in here
will love to see EDG and Paper Rex run it back again.
Yeah.
Always a pleasure, my man.
Congratulations, you're going to the grand finals, folks.
That's it, Paper Rex.
They've locked in their spot.
But we still have one spot remaining.
Who's going to play against them?
We have three teams to decide who will be the challenger
for Paper Rex.
Coming up next, though, two of those teams take the stage.
Leviathan from the Americas, Vitality versus in the EMEA, whoo, it's going to be a banger.
You don't want to miss it as always. We'll see you on the other side.
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And even pit-side-ass, are you?
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Oh, all right then. Well, I think we should probably start then. Basically, the winner
is the one who pops their balloon first, and that means that he is surely going to win.
So, Leviathan versus Vitality in three, two, one. Let's pop off! Oh! Don't get invited
this way. She's doing it for the bee. Could Vitality be predicted to win this next game?
But Leviathan, maybe the Pope, he's praying, he's wishing, he's asking the Holy Spirit to give
him a little bit more gas for these balloons. Oh my goodness, his vibe we're running out of juice.
The helm is a little bit too big for her head, but she's trying. This is avant-garde, I almost
kind of want to help, but get those feet going. We're popping, we're popping, we're maybe not
even going to be able to do this before we head into the next game because we've only got 30 seconds left.
I I always want someone to come and help the Bible, but that's not the rules and I didn't make them keep going guys come on
There's someone's got a pin. I need to put these guys out of their misery
Let's keep going. Oh
Something very wrong, please check that PC's keep going guys
I never fail to scream on camera. Please no one clip that apparently vitality will win this one, but we can only find out
Welcome back to day 11 here at Masters London and our last best of three of the event.
It's going to be Leviathan taking on Vitality and the winner will be moving on to tomorrow's
best of five lower bracket finale where they will face off against E.D.G.
Golden boy here alongside Mimi and Billy yet again as we are looking to break it all down.
We got ourselves a banger match up here folks because it's a classic story of EMEA versus
NA.
You love to see it.
And why don't we go ahead and start first with the America squad.
The last hope for the region here.
Well, everyone's the last hope for the region in this case.
But in particular, Olivia Thun, Mimi, they genuinely were the only ones still carrying
it for the region up until we got to our top four.
They went into an XLG who had gone out and beaten both other America's teams and they
absolutely crushed them to give revenge for the region.
It was a really nice approach.
I think in particularly the defensive aggression in Trap Place, we've been talking about old
tournaments that looked great yet again in this game.
Here you see some of the rounds from Haven where they were constantly creating problems
for XLG, constantly pushing in these early rounds.
And the thing is that a lot of these rounds are brand new.
It's not stuff they were showing before.
The big worry with Lev was the deeper they went into a tournament now, the more counter
the more they would have shown
the more they'd run out of steam.
And at least in that last game against XLG
it seemed quite to the contrary.
It was dominant, it was fresh, and it gives you confidence
in left going into today.
They've actually looked unpredictable, if anything
I think whenever we've been watching this roster
there's been such an exciting team to watch
and as you mentioned Mimi, coming into this tournament
we set the team up as this is such a prep heavy team.
They love to run similar things on maps
and like you're saying, they've only really been able to show so much
I feel like a lot of it has been on the fly, which in my opinion is really impressive when
you look at King being able to lead these four rookies on the team.
The only thing I will say though is Vitality and Coach Powell are very much known for their
anti-straps back in AMA and they love to watch those demos back and be able to counter
them.
But also on the same note though, I mean, Coach owner as well and King, I mean that's
a great dynamic duo that has been working together for so long and they're very good
at being able to identify those things too.
reason why they've been so successful here but for more on the IGLs as a matter of fact we had
Jen Lee our ace reporter catch up with Yampi and King ahead of today's elimination matchup.
Here at King and Yampi the OGs now you guys waited a long time to get back here does it feel like
a return or a new start for you guys? For me it feels like a return after 2025 not
not qualifying anything. Being in the big stage, it definitely feels great to come back.
Alright, what about you?
Yeah, for me it's a little bit the same. It's the first international as an IGL and I had
it a longer break and I was 2,023 my last time. So yeah, it feels nice and I don't know
if you remember, but you beat me in Champions 2022 in Liquid, so I'm looking for revenge
today.
You're looking for revenge? It's been a long time, you know, you forgot, but yeah, what
is your reaction to that?
I mean, that's a long time, I mean, that's a good one.
Yeah, you guys are happy to be here, I can see that,
but experience from Vitality's side,
a fearlessness from Lev, what matters more today?
It has to be like constant draws.
I really like Lev's stage presence,
I'm really, you know, I see them having fun every game,
and you know, I like to do it at the same,
so yeah, it's gonna be a great battle today for sure.
Yeah, for sure, and King,
when you guys were busy competing on that stage,
Three of the players on your team were still in middle school.
So what edge do you have over Vitality today?
I mean, it doesn't really matter.
I think we showed that we can be a great team,
even without that much experience.
So I agree with Jampi.
It's going to be a great game.
Thank you, guys.
And I know this is a little bit late, but welcome back.
OK, so today we learned that Jampi is holding
a generational grudge on King that he just simply
not willing to let go. Fascinating stuff. Good news is folks, the grudge continues because
Yampi and King were facing off against each other in our 1v1 skirmish side select. So let's see if
Yampi can start to get this book of revenge written here in Sarvada's first chapter,
winning the skirmish. It's so serious, Mimi. It is. He's bringing up the deep cuts going right
away back to 2022, but that was the breakout tournament for Latem. You look at the history
of this team and all of these players except for King and a friend, they were cookies like
Jen said, we're in middle school.
We're the Vitality guys, that make you dare to.
That was full by the way.
That was full when she said that.
I can't believe it.
It absolutely was, but going back to 2012, Yampi on the rainbow, Yampi on the rainbow.
Yampi's going back to 2022 as well.
Blinken, you miss it.
Vitality pick up the win, 5-4.
So they will get the skirmish side select.
Well done.
And it seems like Yampi is little by little getting his revenge guys.
This is great.
This is great.
Now let's see if Jampi can win out in the next phase of this battle as we go to the picks and bans surely surely the W's continue
Let's check it out
Hello and welcome guys, let's see the map you talk for the white-hunger white-hunger white-hunger won the skirmish and they are choosing their side
Alkonen Elias Alkonen we pick team A
All right, white-hunger picks team A. Which means white-hunger is banning the first map
I think Haven.
Alright, Haven is banned, Leviton is banned next.
Sorry, you said Breeze, okay.
Thank you, and Breeze is banned. The first map pick for Vitalt, please.
We like the cheesecake a lot. We do.
Quick plan of Lotus's cheesecake?
Lotus's cheesecake.
Alright, Lotus is picked, and the site for Lotus, please.
Attack.
Attack it is and your mafic split split is picked and the site for split, please
Attack then we have a scent fracture and pearl left by Salty's running first
Ascent fracture and pearl left
Last 10 seconds.
Alright, Ascent is banned, last two maps are Fracture and Pearl.
Pearl is banned, Decider is Fractured and Vitality is Picked in the side.
Alright, let me give you a quick recap. We start with Lotus, Leviathan attacks, then we go to Split, Vitality attacks,
and if we go to Decider map, which is Fracture, Vitality attacks, everything correct?
Yes. Good luck guys.
Thank you. Good luck. Talk about the maps in a little bit here, but before we do that, we want to talk about what we've been seeing as far as the talent on this team because, you know, you'd heard earlier, right, Kings playing with a bunch of younger players, right, some rookies are taking the stage, but so is vitality. They have some young talent as well, Mimi, and that's going to be coming in the form of Sionara, but he has a tall task today because he's dealing with the cool hand of Neon.
If you're talking about rookie of this tournament and looking ahead to crowning a rookie of the year at the end of 2026
I think there's no bigger front runners right now than Sianara and Neon Sianara coming out of the tier two system in a
Meant he was immediately a massive point of success regionally and he's kept his nerve internationally as well
The thing that impresses me the most about him is how he holds himself how he speaks in interviews
How calm and collected he is in all of these different situations and vitality has had to be
to be able to get into the
next round. We're going to be
going through this tournament,
but it's exactly the same on the
other side for neon. He's been
so good. I think especially
would be off in this tournament.
100% neon has been great, and
we've seen the kind of
flexibility that he's able to
offer on the same side. Cyan
Sinara also been able to offer
that deep flexibility for
vitality of it into whatever
compositions they want. And I
think that we need to remind
ourselves to that Sinara had been
on vitality's bench for a long,
long period of time. They backed
in on this kid early to be able
to the roster for stage one before attending this global event and well
Vitality added veteran players who they head-hunted alongside those players
that they had been developing. Leve took that risk, owner going back down to tier
two, playing in Leve Academy with the core of his team fully taking the risk to
put the team's future onto developing young talent. They have four players who
are stepping into their first global event here. They're now into a final
weekend, an opportunity to make it into a lower final and showing that that
development system for both these teams has massively worked out. And while I'm
excited for the prospect of this leviathan lineup the good news is for
Vitality fans is you have a Durka okay and he is really freaking good at this
video game and I look maybe is it Durkin time we'll find out maybe we have to find
out next time on Dragon Ball Z but it could very well be the case here Billy
because Durka has been playing some incredible valor. 100% one thing that
Durka can offer you at these global events is consistency and yes one
and I think back to how he was playing regionally in AMA,
it wasn't always hot.
But coming into this event, stepping up to the global stage,
we talk about players that thrive
when the flashy lights in the big stages are right there,
and he is one of those players.
He very much lives up to every single moment.
From making it to that first big final in Reykjavik,
to now back here again,
it's been an incredibly long career for this guy,
and he's still so young, still in his early 20s,
this way this tenure in this game,
his consistency pretty much unrivaled,
and he's had to wait a long time to do it.
was fine with his vitality last year that failed super team that could not live up to their promise.
Now finally in a position to do it again to make a deep run to get into a top three and play in that lower final.
He's been waiting for this moment and now that he finally has it he has been delivering massively for his team.
Billy I mean you know right better than anyone else like when the the rumors and we were hearing all the hype around this team.
The word of the day was super team and it turns out that maybe super team
I think that you definitely have super team players and super star players when I think of your Dereko when I think of your Chronicle
Yeah, when I look at Profic and Sayonara Sayonara the kind of rookie that was promised to us as being incredible
Certainly has stepped up to the plate when I think about Profic one of the best controllers coming out of EMA last year
But let's not forget last year was his rookie year in tier one when you consider the tier two performances that he used to put up too
you can see the tier two
performances that he used to put up too.
And then of course you have Yampi.
He is newer to the IGL when you consider the roster that he built with pal last year on BBL.
So yes, you could envision this as a super team because of the superstar players you have on the roster.
But I think that yes, they're yet to prove the fact that they can be a world-class roster.
Well, one of those big things though that we needed to see from them, Mimi,
was how do they handle this pressure?
How do they handle this aggression?
aggression and well in that foot game,
foot were definitely bringing it to them there
and then they were able to just receive that very well,
stop that in its tracks
and then the result spoke for itself.
I think Vitality have had very good, big picture
approaches to these games. When I look at the
PaperX match on their split, playing passive on
extremities to punish PaperX's heavy
aggression there and playing heavy for mid.
When I look at this foot game, in particularly the Lotus,
knowing that this viperless
composition relies very heavily on slamming
those hits towards a, towards C,
They played back, waited for the Utah to come in, and then played flood retakes, and the execution of all of that was very good.
I don't think I've seen very flashy game plans from Vitality in this class.
They're not like Lev, who is going to come out with a million different individual trap plays that look super pretty,
but what they will have is a good, overarching read of how to deal with their opponent,
an extremely good execution in the micro of how to follow through on that.
And the main thing for me is that they look calm, they look composed, they look cohesive when they're doing things they're doing as a unit.
And that was the biggest thing coming into this tournament that I had said vitality need to improve on to be able to have a deep run at the global event.
My big thing is I'm looking at the coaches right who's going to keep the boys in track. Coach Powell is a great head on his shoulders with Soda's owner.
They are masters when it comes to manipulating the game how they want their opponents to play. This is going to be a master class.
You're going to see a little chess match here people. You should be prepared for this one. Get a cup of water. Get yourself a snack because it's going to be a good one.
Let's send it down to the stage because we gotta settle the score in a classic battle of EMEA versus the Americas!
Facing elimination doesn't really scare me. I've been here so many times.
I feel like if you want to win the event you need to be able to beat everyone.
There's no fear on the side of Levitt. It feels like they never had fear.
Sato! And he wants more!
We want to enjoy it as much as possible.
Sensation for the unmatched!
We don't want it to be the last.
I really like the atom. Their energy on the stage is really fun to watch.
Aus5 just standing up, screaming around. I can feel it definitely gets to their point of step.
I think Insato brings insane atmosphere to their team and to the stage.
This is going to be a secondary ace.
Brick Sato and Wanda Thierrys.
Ow! We're dead!
He's a mechanically great player.
I want to see it for myself.
Let the closing in now.
Oh, Sato!
I know everyone's looking at Sato and Neon right now.
I don't think they have any pressure.
They're showing why they're so good.
Vassimo Reika's against Vassimo Emié.
I know it's going to be a banger.
Let's settle this here.
I don't know what's going on.
E-Sports, few battles have been as timeless as NA versus EMEA,
but in the history of Valorant, those battles are often fought by the likes of G2E-Sports and RG,
maybe even Fanatic, Petten, even a foot from time to time.
But this time, it's completely different.
It's Leviathan versus Vitality.
Fresh blood to bring the hype on that stage.
Fresh blood on the side of Lev, but a lot of experienced players on that team Vitality
as we've already mentioned.
Really excited to see this head-to-head
between the both of them to see who's gonna progress
throughout, but then when we consider the maps here,
Vitality, Select, and Lotus, I don't know if that's
because there's a strength for them
or because there's been a weakness for LeB
throughout this tournament so far, Mimi.
I think it's both.
So far here, the Viper teams have looked incredible
when crying against the Viper List WL squad.
I think this is looked like LeB here at Tons.
Weakest map in this tournament,
especially their approach on that attacking side.
They struggle to re-control back into A and Vitality.
They've looked very, very clean.
They're one of the few teams besides G2 who's gone
in this tournament actually playing this map with a Viper.
And I think that approach works so much better.
But you look over at Split, and honestly,
I think this is a pretty solid map for Vitality as well.
Sure, I'd say Levis favorite.
They took PaperX down on the other day.
There's a great approach for that one.
So this is an interesting map pool,
especially when Levis had the option to go into the Ascent,
Choosing this split instead is a bit of a surprise to me.
I wanted to take it back though to map 1.
You specifically talked about Lotus and you were talking about, you know,
the compositions, what we're going to be seeing here.
And I guess the question that I'm wondering is, maybe you see Leviton make that choice on attack.
Does that tell you that maybe just maybe they have something cooking
or are they just trying to get that thing over with?
I think it's too likely to change your comp.
Especially that massive, you'd have to rework most of your theory.
Maybe not comp change, but maybe just like how you approach certain elements, certain strategies.
And I think they'll definitely want to look at that, but I think it's a great talk.
Vitality is really damn good at this map.
Their defensive protocols in particular, I think are really great.
The way that they re-clear space on this map is top tier.
When Dorka gets you up on defense as well, he's an absolute menace here.
So I think it's a really, really big surprise in this series.
If Lev take this map, that would certainly set the tone early.
What I'd love to see from Lev on this map, especially starting on that attack,
is going for these reflites, not always feeling as though they have to full send it every single time.
I want to see them take some map control and some space, but then be able to pivot away from that as well to kind of catch vitality off guard.
I think that one of the things they'll need to keep an eye out for is obviously Chronicles buys utility,
which we're expecting and being able to deny as much information away from them as soon as they can really,
when we consider how explosive Leviathan's composition is on this map.
You look at the rookies on the stage for Lev as well.
Four players stepping into their first global and now on to the biggest stage and they're playing against
so the guys who have been there the most, Chronicle, Durka.
Mimi, they look comfortable.
They're the all time best players in this game, but Leve doesn't look phased.
We've been doing this gig for a hot minute.
Those kids look comfortable on that stage.
They look comfortable, they look fine, but of course, I mean, Sato's waving to the crowd over there.
I mean, this guy's definitely in the zone as well, but on the other side, you see that sign right there.
It couldn't be Dirk at time because let's not forget folks on the other side,
you got the likes of that man right there.
And he also has people like Chronicle, Gain James,
people who have considered to be the goats in the game.
Is it enough?
They haven't been there since 2023.
Top four flying like this.
It's been a hot minute for these two.
These are the matches they deliver.
Today has really been about those players,
those teams that rise under the bright lights.
These are two of the best examples of it.
This is one of the biggest tests for Lev, even if you win today, you have to go into a lower final tomorrow.
And this one is tough. Vitality is in this very good at preparation, very good at getting a read on their opponent.
Lev, they've had a little bit more time off, so they have more to show.
And you mentioned Lev, potentially going into that BO5 tomorrow.
This roster only played their first BO5 in America Stage 1.
It was the first one that they've ever played. That's how new and young this roster put together is.
They provide talent you need to get off to a good start here, but it's not all comfort for the other side either
So you have to look at you have gone for sign on a profit y'all Pete coach bow
Those guys are also stepping into a deeper stage to stage a tournament. They haven't been to you before for y'all
He was here for those absolute years ago
Clearly he's got a chip on his shoulder
But one thing I do know for certain is that we are gonna be treated to one hell of a match up here because there's no
world that Leviathan just wants to go without a whimper and you know Vitality wants to show
that EMEA is here to represent in their region. It's the last squad from EMEA in America fighting
to stay alive. Folks let's make some noise as we get ready for map one and send it over to your
caster, pansy and high five. Thank you so much GV and the Desken. What a moment right. New generation
same old battle America's area a matter of survival but these two look locked in
like there's a lot on the line. I think probably with that carry out this is the
two best examples we could show right now. Vitality again on a run here that's
had an asterisk next to it this will be the true test for me with the form left
have demonstrated here in London if they could come out here and at least show
some dominance or one of these matches for me the veto is a little heavily
It's going to be front loaded here. If we got them out three, that's where this series goes into question.
Oh, it goes completely off the rails at that point. But I think all of us have enjoyed the prospect of both sides here.
Seeing the lead just fine their footing, fine that fire and keep that tempo up. But Vitality, man.
It feels just like a team of sleeping giants. You get a Darker, you get a Cron coming online. Terrifying.
So Leve starting out on the attack, vitality on the defence.
Well the intention is shown here by Leve.
Stuck up behind this slide here, Popek sending out some feelers, won't connect just yet.
They're flying their way onto site safely here.
Actually looking to pressure onto Popek as well just before the spike line.
We've already learnt the lesson they don't care who they face, but Derker tries to remind them.
A little note sent and it's been received.
Cropback tries to steady himself, but Lev continues step by step, but where do they head? Where do they want to finish here?
I don't know about this double stack over towards C right now. Actually wrapping through the spawn.
M3 at least will have a chance to check back over towards the A side.
Just need to door. Give me a sound cue here. Blow's tagged up, but still looking healthy in the 3v3.
It's Sionara, who I'm curious about here.
Is that consideration even going to drop or are you waiting?
There we are, seen it, Pixel, now to play a drop.
Looking for a full upspot, said great shot, but he couldn't get the kill.
That's going to be life hell for Neon in a 2v2.
Not far yet, so they're going to be able to run this down a little bit.
Black play up to Neon, the perfect trade off the dog here.
It's yamping out in a 1v2.
Still has a power as well to play with. A couple of key tools here.
And the flash, not really effective, so he's going to try and move forward.
Neon and blows, waiting for this now.
The Ampere gets to catch someone on the cross out.
Doesn't get it on that try.
On still present on the site.
Doesn't note the second player.
This could be difficult for the Ampere.
Trying to find an opportunity.
And they're not giving him much.
Got plenty of time to play with though.
But they're calm on this, Lev.
Blows now, trying to sit in synergy with Neon.
It's quick from the Ampere though.
and he's got to know where Boris is.
He's like, oh, oh, oh!
Head first for the captain!
Yampy with the first strike!
Patience shown here by Yampy to clutch up a 1v2.
You can see them desperately baiting him in
to look for something with a fantastic ripple clutch here
to kick off Lotus.
I mean, they do so well to even get themselves
into a comfortable post-plan, considering,
as said, Kronach, they're drifting a little further
a little further afield than you'd expect. Just looking for information but Saiyan Aoi
gets caught off guard there. King to invest, at least a scope here around two, maybe to
look for something. I'm not expected to see Vitality go forwards here with this purchase,
They've got a chance to farm up early here.
What a cool note. At least presents early on.
You can go control with Mounds.
Again, info on the other side of the map as well.
You look at the most recent games with Lev.
Those four ones were working wonderfully for them before.
I think this is a bit of a different beast
and a couple of different players when you look at it right.
So I'm curious to see how Vitality of Problem solved.
Something that was so key for Lev in those previous series.
And we know they've got the players with the firepower and the caliber to keep up to that approach, but how's Vitality got a, I mean, I guess a cure at that point, a remedy for it?
That's how you start it, though. King beheading one already.
Chronicles down in Sinora, gets a little isolated. You've got to be careful not to get overwhelmed.
This could be dangerous, and then you want in! He sends a package with two, but still this is damage, and this is a threat.
Spikes is going to get the upgrade as well.
All weapons to be retrieved.
If needed.
I don't find anything ahead of that smoke drop in either.
Might be still on a pistol here. Has to make something work from behind.
Doesn't catch me on.
Nope.
Maybe he notes it on the Profit there.
Maybe he'll put together that all going to be dedicated towards Scythe of Profits.
Paranoia. I think I'm pretty...
Paranoia is a great reaction from Spikes in.
Plays it forward on the corner.
Yampien, Darker, Inc.
Unison, they'll start to clear out Neon.
Can you go wild here?
That's one!
The second just too far away, but a fantastic round for Leve, even in a win for Vitality.
You'd have opened it here from King, then the patience shown, not to air.
Noted early on, at least here towards Mount.
Just whittle away here, with a TP not noted.
Maybe not noted in the moment, but Sionov is still catching two.
That's really well in this situation.
He's kind of faced with a do or die moment with that paint shell going behind him.
Ops to go forward, so needed something on that swing to trim the fat at least.
Often you see many round threes looking like that. Yeah, absolutely shambolic left in the bite.
Turku though trying to be instrumental here. Liv, I feel like you still have to make them respect
you first they are going to be a confidence-based team.
So that would be after a fight.
They blinded Dey, vitality trying to show a little bit of force
early on towards that seaside of the map.
It's one of the left guessing and serves the buyer,
I guess, here with all that damage done.
It could be a big round if Dey could find us too.
Shostokov could come online very early for it.
We know that they're not too slippery when they play left.
They're quite direct in approach.
We haven't seen them pumping many fakes.
You're going to be working the map in that way.
Now obviously with a different opponent,
We see that Ben changes potentially
It's not happy with what they've seen early on here they deal with the wall
Potentially open up some opportunities elsewhere. I mean it's perfect on an island right now
Expecting vitality to maybe clear this space. I'm sorry. I'm actually opting for a rotation instead
Should be on the right timing here for Yampi at least
Well, that's confirmed attendance, and they're very fast to this, Mike, as you noted, 30
with the rotation.
They still need to make this count, with 25 seconds, it gets a little dangerous here.
This is where these pistols can shine.
This is where they certainly could, and now they look a little lost here, left.
The Mb turns the flank, he takes a lot of damage, dealt with brilliantly.
Derker though with 10 seconds can do a lot. Eyes on the spike it's leaning towards B.
Derker still here, has the satchel tonight. Follow off!
Look at that again! That's all it took, Charlie! I think they don't have time!
Beautiful work here with next to nothing as the clock that comes to bite Lev.
I mean the original Iceman, Derka there pulling off the Mastercard thrifty and you saw there was that just almost hesitation
When they were eyeing up that ace site they went for the pivot. I don't mind what level trying to do
But there's always that danger. I mean they didn't find anything
They took so long to even pressure towards a they know potentially two players
Yeah, maybe even a stack behind that and then it's Yamfie to the ice side and they think great
We've opened up the other side outside of that stack
Great work from Derka
have a massive effect in terms of Lev's inventory, but Oracle will remove Sato Media here, shows
up and now online. I'm scared if he's going to have a game here today. We'll keep a little
watchful eye towards it, but for Lev they need to stabilize. It feels like their approach
has been quite well read or at least considered by Vitality. Now whether or not you can still
continue that further forward is yet to be seen. Lev have opportunities here, but I feel
like that first hurdle, they're not getting the same walk in the park that they've had
in the past. However, trying up this A site, you can see the amount of bodies here. It's
being mirrored by vitality. There's four players on this side of the map. So early.
This guy seems to be removed. It's not really anything to counterbalance that. Yamp people
fall though. Slight overpeak from him. I can see it though. Shut this down. It doesn't
really tell them too much though. They've got a lot of, I guess, space and freedom on
that B side because of King. He's done exceptionally well and he's there early. There should be
an awareness in the back of Lev's mines, excuse me, Vitality's mines, but again they've given
up a lot of space for this Lev. Threading the needle to find it and Neon does get the reward
on profit.
I'm actually heading all the way to wrap this from A. I've got the Stilton note, show
us Stopwick could do real damage here.
Yeah, but King feels like he's in that checkmate position. Oh, I'm sorry, I had a little bit
a side step on it but he all gets popped. This might be too little too late. Maybe not with
Chronicle fighting away in. Sends a showstopper. How dare I doubt the original two but Borslech
with it all on the plate. One v one. Another tap, blows. Try to be patient. Chronicle trying
to dig him out but he's got to go now. Borslech is going down to right. Let's arm drink back
with the final player.
And they've here able to just cement control off-site.
Again, it's a beautiful kill for Onto Profek, the one that really shuts things down
very early on for Vitality.
So, Corkle's got so much ground to cover.
You know, making that decision because he's noted on the wall,
they're going to expect him outside Bieber.
Lev, don't lean into that.
Happy to commit to some of these crossfires on-site.
TP available now for Spike Neon. Just want to open the Bladestorm.
Can't see. It's just...
Still has a hero rifle here for Durka. Chronicle. Postured up, though.
Look at this. Yeah, come on.
I'm just going to clear that all day long, and this is a great opportunity for the Viaduct to just build some opponents.
It doesn't get called, though. Durka has isolated the one.
Again, it feels like it's just a really nice temperature check on how Lev like to play.
Dealing with the rest of this round. I don't think it's gonna happen with Sato taking space. Yes, it's good pistols
But you look at Sionara now. He's got the upgrade. You look at Dalka. There's still a bit of threat to this
Kind of uses on this. Yeah, this won't be one between doing strikes. So you go over towards sport
Fresh it back. Oh
That opens things up here
This is when it gets dangerous now you got threats you got a fight on two fronts you need space
I don't realize these...
Wait, and Dirk has just saved him!
And now Sato has to pop the odds just to kind of slow this down to stem the bleed.
And it should...
Oh my god, oh my god, it's all getting a little bit hectic on the server,
but Dirk I think...
No, he's getting pretty close on time here.
He's gonna play it forward and Neon does very well.
Again, this is a very light investment from Vitality.
That was a check, yeah.
Damage done.
Wow, a bigger ultimate from Sato,
which is definitely to convert here.
Rightfully so in this situation.
You have to respect the showstopper that late into a post.
I'm not sure what exactly happened there.
I mean, thank God blows falls to Derker.
Adjust the right moment.
And I want to put a little bit of credit towards Neon here as well.
Considering the Derker made a very authoritative start to things,
he was very much controlling the tempo, being very much in their faces.
Neon's done very well to match that.
Right back into it, leading the pack here.
Lordy had a right on this young man.
Speaking of.
And, well, talk about the amount of space he's gonna get and the confidence that does it.
Again, get checked! Sainar is so prepared for that!
Nice read. Very well into this seaside hit now.
Especially with the U2 being invested.
Sato, hold the blinds.
You're lucky to escape with his life there.
Hey, you're here!
It's gonna get messy now. They have no idea what's going on.
Is there gonna be pressure beyond this? No, they actually just stalled out for a second.
They didn't want a crunch on that.
Oh, with an angle found and Sato gonna have to try and get himself healthy again
They are down to three and they need him in this round
Coming through as well. It's not gonna be able to go down here. Just yes, so they have to fight
But else you can just freeze
She's gonna be kept up over do things allow for an instance to happen the Kings for and those in reaction profit on
It's all on Sato one beat three man. It was eight miracles and they have happened in our vitality
Again, right place right time. I want to look at the start of that round.
Again, a real opportunity, like I said, for Vitality to slow things down here,
but Lev almost just misread or misgaged the timing here.
There's a moment where you have to prioritize one of these fights.
Once the smoke's dropped, all this U2 exchange expires.
Somebody has to go forwards.
It's another situation where the spike's not being planted in that one window you would expect it to be.
And again, Lev can rely on that scrappy fighting, but we're not seeing them commit just yet.
There's not enough pressure behind it to really instigate anything further.
Knives to be depended on for Neon here, I can imagine.
Worked with that operator, but back towards what we were seeing towards the...
Rints and repeat, and hopefully to a different outcome here.
He'll have to at least beat the wall.
Spike's seeing it again himself.
Hope will to glue him early.
And Neon looking again for a fight.
Up the challenge, and he spots his opponent.
Again, Sionara on the case.
On this time respecting it enough eats the paranoia, but gets at least invested early
Come out here, but it doesn't really slide like that. It's now full 5v5 here in the post
It's gonna be the question mark in this equation
That's a nice little trade for neon there keeping things
Before there's the tipping of the scale Zato in on it sign our back hard to split these two
the time is on Lev's side and now you got to look at what's remaining.
Neon waiting for someone to move, to try and make a move.
It's gorgeous from Neon, a lovely read of the game and Dirk has he knows.
The door is shut here.
This again, another round for Neon in my mind,
where he has been the difference maker.
Taking charge here for Lev, creating so much pressure.
You can see Vitality just waiting for an over bit.
I mean, Dirk is wall bangin' through to Link on repeat
because it's just nothing to do in this downtime.
They trade perfectly out towards ceiling as well.
Again, you've got a question what's being called in this situation for vitality.
It's just waiting for one of the extremities to play off,
but they didn't even look close with those two engagements that were key for them.
Four to three now.
It was all without popping the blades. Yeah, that's just the shorty which is wild. I like that's actually outrageous isn't there sport
Different generation man
See vitality feel they have the freedom at least towards a for now
Let's slowly start clearing towards the early showing a little something on to you
We keep this clean hard to find stability in a tempo game like this
Well, by Tarty, happy to lead into conceding a lot towards B.
You can correct Reid here for them, but Sionora really the one to do damage.
He's got the Guardian.
Time to hunt.
Yeah, he's only a close friend of Sionora, so it's very, very hard to be imposing if they figure that out.
to find nothing as well. This is very patient from Lev actually.
Respecting maybe. Well I say respecting, well actually they demonstrated earlier on with
an awful buy from Vitality, what's the clock? You can see a similar situation here, 20 seconds.
That won't say nothing, it actually might compound the problems, they're about to fall
on to Yampy's plate because as it stands Lev will be like Reed and the Great Catcher
Again, showing some real diligence and patience with that explosivity.
It is a lovely sight to see.
This round, they've really buttoned up here.
Again, this is against Pistols and a slight upgrade for Sionara,
but beyond that, the way they've approached this so far, Mike,
to me, ticking the box.
Way more clinical this time around.
Damage of consideration, sure, but I think King's going to be moving forward, see it?
Money in a very good spot for Lev.
left. Do you still have the blades
on both set that Sato building
towards another showstopper as well?
Not much left in this one, but out
here and to wait it out.
Curious to see if somebody's slow
around here, but out to do go
hunting.
Chronicle, the one to get a little
more active
defensive side.
I really want to give credit here to Lev because I know that in an exciting manner we've seen
that explosivity, their hyperaggression, their willingness to stick to their ethos as well.
And they've really been challenged in it to this degree, but seeing them already
adapt a nice amount of patience is really the heavy burst site takes. It's brilliant to see
to get to them as well. And again, the readers right from Vitality, they're usually two or three
people on one side anticipating that sort of approach. Again, the way in which they're winning
out is kind of slowing left down on that initial approach. We were talking about the smoke
dropping and kind of being left in a weird spot where the spike's not planted and they're not
then committing to that second wave that suited Vitality more so, but still four to four score
here. Now there's Coinbase
win condition for vitality
certainly going to be. It's
around maybe. Making use of
more players on one side of the
map. Certainly do want to see
the maybe dig out play like
can we see neon to be the one
lurking outside rubber and kind
of posturing up and again, it's
always a clear indicator in this
sort of composition. You see
all the jeweless. There is an
opportunity to do something.
We'll see if they can figure it
out. Again, audience wise, I
think you can hear it at home.
and already seeing a nice bit of resistance, resilience from the middle, win-win.
The buy back in hand for Vitality, and the necessary one.
You could kind of feel the change.
Similar situation to what I was just talking about, Neon's probably going to go forward here with an operator to look for something.
Don't have the base storm, so he can play a little more aggressively.
There's three players here though, that is a decent amount to try and clear, but you have to be careful.
Okay, gonna be seen on the haunt. How do they react? It looks like with a proactive approach it noting the operator
I guess you've got to just steady the ship on C make sure you don't get overwhelmed and fall in the meantime
They've taken the space back towards rubble as the exchange
But then carrying on and protocols get before in no man's land. How is he still alive?
Finally cleared and a bit of a mistake. It felt like they're from Cron
maybe just trying to back himself in a fight but it's giving up the sight and
sign now I have to respect this. I've not noticed I finally picked up by Sato
working out to try and deny what lands. I didn't like that at all from what I saw from
Vitality they don't see. They looked a little lost in how they wanted to handle
that suicide take coming in kind of caught in between two ideas. Exactly what I was
talking about they need to convert that pressure onto neon into something
I mean, they don't even deal with the wall.
They're often here to hold on to what they've got.
Like I said, if that's the call on one side of the map,
I mean, Sire and Chronicle need to back out a site maybe.
Either back out or commit to it.
Yeah, it was that something between the two.
It's a trade-out on the front line.
Chron's got a smoke to slip into.
I mean, it's not like it's black and white.
There's an opportunity for him really to get involved.
I just want them on the same page if they're going to do it.
And I think that opportunity for them is going to love it.
They're going to wrap that up.
the box for me though coming out of a timeout is to see the thing I want vitality to do which is
the pressure at least on to neon can't necessarily learn too much behind
certainly vitality a team that have done their homework they have to have a decent understanding
of the approach here yep. Sato starting to get a little bit more animated on stage but this is
all business for now right hard to feel fully secure in it even though it's a great string
around seeing where they hit right the opening yes good for vitality but once we got into the
the kind of meat of it. Once we go into the buy rounds, it has been Lev at the helm. Now,
do we see an adjustment here for Lev? You're noting that they were kind of pressuring to
fail. Well, I think it's the perfect response now if
Neon shows the unfortunate thing being vitality have completely switched up the defensive
formation here. It should be fairly all in a direct here from Lev.
I like this though, the tempo changes, gorgeous, but I'm just swinging it.
I feel like this is a mystery that feels too individual to my eye.
And Lev will absolutely thrive in these environments as they are,
looking dominant as they take the site, and more than likely take the round
down to Durka, Sayonara and Profek.
It just doesn't feel like they're on the same page here.
Back in here at disadvantage.
Close at least going to identify it.
You need a free catch here, could it be Dirk on to King?
Relayed!
I can't see the offset there, forceful heaven at least, but still doesn't really net them anything.
No, it's such an arduous task to just get back towards Scythe.
That's gonna help matters, but the speed up now has to be sublime.
Down to just blows in a 1v2.
He's got the spike, at least in eyesight for now.
Time is ticking, beautiful!
It's done!
It's over, surely no time to play!
Walk it outside, Arla! Another one for Lev!
Beautiful call here from Lev. Anticipating Vitality, you're going to replicate the same thing,
but actually, Vitality's switching things up.
Chronicle a little bit of an over-commitment to that opening engagement.
He just wants to maybe do some damage here.
I mean, he's not going to rock in a hard place, but Neon's here so quickly to catch the second player.
He wants to bolster this side-hole.
I mean the snake bite, the reset for the paint shells as well, they could slow things down
a little bit here. It comes a little flustered, it comes down to that 2v1, beautiful.
That's like running the clock down.
Impressive work from Lev, I'm really genuinely enjoying this.
looking a little ascent out of sorts. Let's see if they can button up now. Looking like I want to
make a bit of a pressure plate. They've already come aware of these traps. I'm seeing it.
Yeah, far enough forward now to read the util, know what's going on, know they have an opportunity
elsewhere on the map. Sion always close enough to at least provide some support to Chronicle.
And keep in mind they are currently almost abusing one of the most decorated players in this game,
They are making it look like that's the goal and are here in support. Let's see if they can be again synchronized in this
But left laying plans for later not committing to the sea approach
Perfect obviously want to take this space with the paranoia previously
Happy to stay present
Let's catch a little info here. Just not sure. I don't think he spotted anything there, but he certainly was seen
and it's four to creep back from final scale.
A lovely gear shift to go back to those four ones,
we know they're notorious for.
They have the seekers, if they want to get some security on the site in case they're walking in blind,
they'll get great information on this as well.
They know they've got room to play into here.
Perfect desperate to catch a cross, but has to give away position.
Yampy on the right side of the map.
13 seconds, this could get dangerous, it could get close,
but they've found safety in numbers, they've found security in this.
Now in plenty time on their side and let lighting up the guilt spikes in once in buried to the life
Chronicle and Sionara do you have it in you now a 2v3 and sato falls? Okay this time here a little earlier
Yeah
Left to do it all
And the time is running low and they are running away, making it work for his data, KIN!
There'll be none of that!
Let's look a punch above Vitality on this side!
Looking so composed here.
The situation is where you expect Vitality's welds, drilled, retakes to really excel.
It's the likes of Sato to find crucial kills and he blows us into the smoke here, a freebie
found.
Yes, that moment, just sweet out.
Just getting ahead of the ultimate is so key.
Unfortunately, she has to chase somebody down that situation.
Lev, looking all in, one spot, neon to lead the charge here with the operator.
Here.
Good luck, YMP.
Gotta get out of there, mate.
There it is. Okay.
Flash on the wall.
They instantly scale up back to their 4-1s, back to business.
And to be fair, Vitality early had the read. They've lost it.
Imposure starting to wane.
The swing looked a little too close, but it actually delivers.
And now Vitality want to get involved.
Perfect, shoulders up, takes away Sato, down a three, advantage to vitality.
Still desperate to hold this cross here, Neon.
We don't have to get close enough to work this off, mate.
Time of damage comes down to Syot.
Being actually on the back of that slipstream, he's in a world of trouble right now.
Syot screwed. Surely he can't live here. Dead, gone, bye bye, three, beat three.
He tries to backfill the space, but Neon overwounds and they catch!
A sleeper, the wheel-profic!
EVE, absolutely out-classing them on all fronts here.
They've re-secured A. They took the long way for it, but they've got it.
Another 1v2 presented.
Not sure if you can find an upgrade, but...
...push forwards regardless. They're slipping into three here.
Got to force Kruikul to work for this one.
time to do this you can clear out these early spots but as soon as our spike starts ticking
it's got to make a move here you must know now that they've given up sight and they're
in towards three and it feels too little too late but I'm happy wrong the swing is together
It's in Unison and it's dominant from Lev already 8 to 4.
These guys look astounding.
A beautifully called half here by Tauhti.
Unable to really find value from these anchors.
To say as well, Sire's getting a ton of kills.
Chronicle unfortunately falling short in my eyes in this first half,
but that's not to take anything away from the way Lev are approaching this.
Really well drilled first half here from Lev.
Highly, highly impressive stuff,
but a man who started well was Durka.
And we spoke with him about Vitality's dominant win over for this HyperX player moment.
I mean, I thought game against foot would be a bit closer as it usually was.
I feel like Soap and Xeos didn't have as good game as they usually have.
I feel like they might be tired, maybe something else happened.
But also, I think once you play someone 3 times in a row, you kind of get used to them.
and in my opinion they're still a very strong team and we were kind of surprised that it was a bit easier than it used to be.
So yeah, we were actually like really great on the server and we can like recognize the patterns or also knowing what to expect from them.
With every peek, with every bit of pressure that's placed on the shoulders of foot, they keep opening up even more mistakes.
You can see it in the way that they're playing. It's wide swings, not set up at all.
I mean, getting at least a 4 in a second already feels amazing.
After missing so many last year and this year, missing Santiago, I think it means a lot for
me because now I've got a couple of friends with me, Jumper and Chronicle, also two new
new teammates, Rofek and Sayonara, so I'm really excited to play with them still.
I really want to show people how good we can be and how much we prepare for this tournament
and win this year overall.
I think we can do even better than top 4 this Masters.
And I have to say it again and again to me here.
Lev have come out and set the bar exceptionally high.
The in-game leadership on point, the adaptation on point,
and they are gunners in the showdown.
It's the level of comfort as well by Tauti.
Like I said, barely even, you know,
forcing any sort of pressure onto Lev.
A number of situations here where you tee up serve players
and come back to Chronicle,
and of course you're not to half on it,
but it's good for his one usually.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In an anchor position, and I mean, historically even,
good for three in those situations.
Now it's the perfect recipe for the Lev.
Again, you question this composition.
The questions around this composition here,
they don't have to force the issue now
on the defensive side.
Certainly
a lot of work to be done here
for Vitality to get back into this.
Bring them down.
Heavy lean towards C here for Lev.
Fowler at least will
plant the seed of doubt.
I'll smoke here.
I can potentially weaken
potentially weaken spikes in his ability to anchor solo here towards A.
Four members of Vitality head this way.
Yeah, but the timing on this as well, it feels like they're going to miss the boat a bit.
Maybe banking that the smoke is being respected is kind of a feign, but at this point,
if you're spikes in, you've got to stay on guard and the rest of Lev, you've got to feel something's not right.
We've not heard a spike plan on B, we've not heard any deep utility.
Spikes in now knows it. They've been slowly creeping towards that A site. He has helped as well.
Bows beheaded though, Sionara!
Saying goodnight to him. That's a first. Spikes in back site.
They commit to try and make it out. Has the Paranoid tried to do less. Plays ahead of it. Plays up front of it.
Tries to maybe buy some time for some rotation. Still holds his up!
Still kills!
Holding me! Rounds!
Lev, I thought they were out of this round already, but no! Able to chip back into a 3v3.
Popek just found Spikes in through the smoke, I believe.
had to have been. And a re-swing here as well.
Like, Tauti, don't even have the palm down.
King's taking away Yampi.
Look at him so boxed in on the side.
This is where he could go terribly wrong.
Already sartled around.
King!
Catch is perfect!
Polishing the hesitation for Vitality.
Lev are looking too good.
Vitality.
What a brute force here.
The spikes here do so well to slow things down.
It's one of those few situations where
You have to deal with Drop. You have to go forward. You can't really get on the plant you want without dealing with that.
Sato's up!
It's heartbreaking as well, because by telling you to get the first skill you want to see on this approach to the side, they just can't dig him out of that position.
We all see a bit of a bar back in here as well, actually. Investment coming up from Vitality.
Maybe turn the pace here.
She's gonna build mainly around Durka here, plenty of light shields to punish.
Go off set that as well, Sion-O and Profek, stingers to hand.
I guess the tough part as well is that Vitality didn't even see level on this kind of stack towards Mound.
They didn't get to kind of figure that out early.
So that's going to be something you have to learn pretty quick.
Catch on the flash.
You can see how deep Vitality is still playing.
Not too far off here from connecting, but no damage done.
Now we'll at least note some investment here.
Part of that balance sheet. Notes about this on the way in.
He's here pretty quick, and I wonder if he gets away with it.
They've managed to get some safety here, but knocking on the door is left.
They're not far away and they don't need much encouragement.
Keep in mind how explosive this team can be.
Finally coming in, Lev already and waiting, already signed R and 4s, perfect one's in, this is madness, what are you doing?
Trying to get involved here, trying to get a trade but it's just too far, feels a little desperate, they look dead to rights man, this is Lev looking so locked in, oh my god, shots from Chronicle!
But it's gonna take the original Ice Man himself to even keep Hope alive to deny 10.
They're both one-shot.
Anyone's going to land it.
He gets on here and needs to find this one.
The satchel to slow things down.
Watch down. Placé, Conte.
Down! Merci!
But it works!
Blows will get it done.
Not a pretty kill, but a critical kill.
And ten rounds for Lev.
Four on this round here for Blows.
And again, it's a moment where vitality
make the right decision, right?
So it's just a solo attempt in towards drop.
I'm only made really close by chronically.
There's a chance here in the clutch, but unfortunately there's a smoke to cycle through and just can't buy the time and a very awkward exchange to end it.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
No, she can't.
Vitality will pump the brakes here.
Take their second time out.
Let's feel Jin.
Having had to take a pause for thought.
Already a double digits.
Vitality going to be thrown off Kielter ever so slightly.
With that purchase,
don't really get
good old progress out of that either.
A tough
that's tough task lays ahead of
them. Oh yeah. Certainly a way
back into this, but. They are
reducing that margin that
round two force for sure. And
again need I remind you this is
Vitality's map choice. Opted to
Since then, it's been a lockout. Lev have looked a cut above. Quite substantially too. This hasn't, I mean, in a couple of rounds gone a little close short, but it hasn't felt that close here.
Lev looked better.
Well, just a perfect example of that previous round where they said that with this score, I don't need to force the issue on the defence. They're happy.
To make vitality sweat.
I can tell the intention towards B shown from the empty one smaller in this direction.
More open here will force me on a little deeper but does have support.
I'm going with King.
We're in need!
We're retrieved here.
There's still some investment here.
I mean by talents you just need a round.
Yeah.
Sounds a little too simple, but that's what it takes and Neon's not allowing it.
Critical looking all too easy to clear.
And now Spike's in Sanna, read into the pressure that's mounting.
Kind of back away in time and he does.
Just about.
I mean if you can buy time again this is going to be critical for Lev.
Look at Sato.
He is so early.
Right place, wrong time though Sanna.
Right on the clear.
The B site looking like when they might move it towards.
No I'm not.
The B site looking like when they might move it towards.
No, I'm all mine.
Caught before the smoke please.
Rose stands guard, and Durka taking so much damage.
And there he is, neon waiting.
Took away Krom, took away Durka.
This man doesn't care about the old gods.
Irrelevant in his mind, as Profek and Yempi desperate to convert around.
Taking so much, Lev are just better by all accounts.
with 24HP in a bit of a dream.
Oh, it's just not gonna happen.
The mind of that again, step by step,
looking so much sharper today.
In standing situations now,
the pressure is starting to show.
Vitality have to go so deep to try and convert
some of these opportunities they have.
Unfortunate here, I mean, just getting caught ahead
of the smoke, Durka then has to find a kill way,
has to equal the odds.
up against the ropes now three rounds to continue this streak for Lev. Let me look at the timeline.
It's dominance man. How many times can we say this about the team? Again, both of these
two suffering under the hand of PaperX, right? So you thought maybe relatively equal. There
There is a large difference between them so far.
At least here on Lotus.
And Neil, not a relenting.
It's endless.
So happy to keep pressuring here,
knowing that they're up against financial struggles.
This one's for King here with an opening in and a chance.
Oh, a chance over the top of the top of the top back.
It's all going right for them.
They absolutely is locking it up! They look fantastic today!
12 rounds in the blink of an eye and nothing's stopping them right now.
Walking all over Vitality.
First chance to see actual rifles in hand. Some ults here but Lev have found 12.
Almost replicating that previous map performance in a dominating fashion, Seeker's available
for blows.
Again, these rounds aren't really reliant on the investment coming from that.
We have to find eight rounds to extend play here on Lotus.
Good luck.
None of the map feels particularly safe either.
You don't want to go towards Mound.
You don't know if maybe Neon slipped on B again or what's gone on towards Rubble.
You're working in the dark.
There's four on this side as well.
There's been an absolute bloodbath to end here.
to having shown face just yet. That's it now, Spike Zane's still.
He's not been shot at on the D4.
I mean, there's no man's that, though.
That doesn't even get away.
They did this kill.
They can't shot him down. Ooh, caught by the Cs, but he's got help!
You never just find one! They try and stand shoulder to shoulder!
The critical and Sionaur finally get them advantage at a 4v3.
There, take them!
Listen to me here.
catch anything though. Neal not going to be noted initially here poses that sign.
Oh man. Oh look at it. The knock-up down Neal again. The try and do it now to take him across the line of
The lead are absolutely relentless in a pursuit of perfection.
That one dominance.
And that was Fatality's choice.
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about to meet loads of fans. I know they're going to be queuing around the block to meet
these two. First of all, what's it like seeing all your fans here in London?
Yes, lovely. You know, I can't wait to play today. No, but it's really nice to see them.
And it's so great to have you with us. Crashies, has both of you been giving you a tour?
Yeah, he's been showing me all around London. You know, we've been going on a few private
things together. So yeah, we've been enjoying our time.
Can I just find private?
You know, some dinners here and there, some more private things.
I imagine. Big news coming from Camp Fnatic. You've got a new member joining the ranks.
Yes we do. Yes, you could say, I was going to say it's Cloudy, but it's not that Cloudy today.
The sun is out, but Cloudy's smiling and the vibes are good.
Tell me what role is he going to be filling within the team? Is he going to be flexing?
He's going to be flexing and just filling in what we need from him. That's about it.
Why Cloud? Why would he be the right fit for Fnatic?
I think Cloud is a player with a lot of echelades, or I think that's a word for echelades.
Echelades?
Yeah, exactly. And I just think he has the experience and the capability of being a fanatic player.
But can he listen? Because he has been in IGL.
Well, that's what we're hoping to, because we don't have much time for prep before stage two,
and I think he's got the tools to be able to use his IGL-ing ways to learn faster too.
I'm really excited to see what happens with you guys on stage too.
Onwards and upwards for Fnatic I think.
Very quickly though, before I let you go, is it going to be a Vitality win today?
It's going to be a close game but I think Leviathan are more exciting to watch.
I think the rookies, they've been owning.
You know we are in Europe but yeah I'm going to go for love.
Interesting, very quickly some questions to you both.
You know me, I'm going for Vitality today.
Only because Kronogorne and I go there, and Sayu, I guess, and so, yeah, I gotta support the ex-fanatic lot.
I think they will be really appreciative of that. Thank you so much, guys. Go meet your fans!
Here we coach owner of Lev, owner congratulations, dominant win on Lotus, King was you know
reading Vitality like the boat beyond was on fire, what went really really well against
Vitality?
We have a plan, we have a lecture on how they approach that map.
We've been training against teams with the same style, so we were kind of prepared.
But the boys did a really good job individually, so I think that many teams connected at the same time.
Good preparation and good execution.
Thank you very much, owner. That was owner, and he seems pretty happy about what happened below.
And he has every reason to be because Leviathan are showing me why they are
forced to be reckoned with in this tournament with that win. Yeah the
reader was really good going into this match against Vitality. They play very
passive on the side of the map with their Sentinel utility. So Levenley slower
rounds put a big emphasis on late contacting into that space and popping
on the Chronicle site and throughout this round getting pretty much every time
Chronicle tried to hard anchor he was just getting absolutely destroyed by
going to be a great example
of what it was. I really
impressed by left, who are
fighting incredibly deep in
these post plants and making
vitalities like an absolute
nightmare to try and get back
into Lotus. Something I was
really impressed with was left
being able to switch up what
they were doing right going
for these contacts, style
rounds, but then also being
able to be explosive with those
ultimate runs as well, which
was really impressive for me
and shows how they're adapting
throughout this event as well
and how they've kind of grown
This is an app that it's been very good for them already,
but they couldn't get the Dirk off online.
They couldn't find solutions to left contacting back in.
This is a really rough start for the last
DMA squad in the tournament.
Yeah, no, I mean, honestly, it's,
I'm a big fan of this Vitality team, right?
And what they've been putting together in this tournament,
right?
We had the chance to chat with Powell
and really like see how this team was growing.
But then when you have like a Verizon high speed moment,
clips like this where Neon is just going nuts, Billy.
It's like, I talk about the calm composure of this player on stage, nothing illustrates
more than this round right here.
Yeah, I mean, maybe you mentioned Jennifer attempting to get the operator up, but any
time he did have the operator up, Neon was just in his face.
Neon was constantly in everyone's face.
You see the over extensions that he has here as well.
He's constantly not only able to create space, but able to create deep space for the rest
of his team and take control of that.
Every position we see him in on that attack there was so pushed up, so pushed forward.
against Vitality, which Vitality struggled against PRX the other day, I think, when I
remember playing special in the fracture, so I'm a bit confused as to how that caught
Vitality off guard. Do you know what these players are capable of?
Yeah, I think it is interesting to contrast this series to the game against foot because
it was very effective to play close wait for the utility expended, play these flood retakes.
Here it was a leviaton who was doing a great job of constantly pressuring, fighting in
these post-fans like you're talking about at Neon, and that really ruined the game plan
for vitality on this map and if you look ahead into the series to not to have split I think it's going to be a very similar approach in
Left's post plans of constantly pressure and flooding forward make it a huge challenge to play these retakes
Yeah, I mean we now make our way over to split as you talked about Mimi map to and
This if you're vitality in this situation Billy, right? You know backs against the wall. This is Lev's pick
You add your choice. You went lotus. It's been good for you
You only got four on that son of a gun and now you find yourself pretty much at death's door
How do you respond? That's the question
I think the good thing for vitality here is that they can find some confidence and know that they were able to take
Split off of paper X the other day and honestly coming into this map veto today
I was questioning where we're left going to spin their map veto because I think that they have quite similar
Map pools across the event that at least that we've seen from both teams so far. So honestly, yes
This is Lev's map pick coming in to split, but I think for me it's 50-50 when I look ahead to split.
I think it's it's fair to say that, but I think what surprised me today is how much the left players have been able to hold up to this
pressure. We keep talking about the next step, the next big game, the next great hurdle, and if a team of four rookies can stand tall to that
and be able to stay in their own form, play their own game and perform to the level they have all tournament, and they've done that yet again.
Just crushed some of the players that they were looking up to when they first started playing when they first started watching this game
And now a map away from that lower final a map away from the game against EDG here
You also have the blessing of the Valorant Pope as well
So I mean at this point everything's not so high for Leviathan, but realistically though for vitality
This is a team of veterans who have been just through the ringer time and time again
question is can they dig themselves out of it they're going to be leaning on a
couple of individuals to help them do that and one of those is going to be
their coach pal Jen had an opportunity to catch up with him ahead of Matt too
you're a coach pal of vitality pal what was holding you back on Lotus you feel
like you guys need to maybe simplify things a little bit on split no I don't
think simplify necessarily I think we made way too many mistakes just on
Partly on an individual level. I think they had a fantastic timeout on our first one that we just got it the wrong way around
So fair enough to them. And now it's just about making sure we're playing to not let each other down
And don't grab us if they don't grab a tournament a day where you felt like you've let each other down
Go and actually play with a bit of I want to help this guy out next to me
And very very quickly whether it's a joke whether it's a trade whatever they'll pick themselves back up and get themselves back into the game
Hey, thank you do it for the team
Let's see if Vitality can even this out.
Actually great insight there from Palvail. I mean, you know him quite well and you know that energy, that attitude that he's bringing to the team.
And they're going to need that on that stage. They're going to need that lift of energy.
Yeah, I know Palvail fairly well. I think definitely one of the things he'll be saying to the boys at the moment is to enjoy the moment, have fun.
We've made it to top four. You
could have argued back in EMA
that they didn't even deserve to
make it to playoffs because that
fate was no longer in their own
hands because of how rough their
regular season was. Now you're at
the global event. Now you're at a
top four position. Such a great
position for a bunch of these
players when we consider prawn and
duck on the experience of them that
we've spoken about. And I agree
with them. We just need to see
these players having fun on the
stage. That is when this team
vitality plays the best valorant
is when they're having fun.
But one one parallel that I want
that I want to draw between both of those interviews.
Owner and Powell mentioned the individuals.
For owner, the individuals were shining.
They were winning those battles.
For Powell, the individuals were really, really struggling
as evident from what we were seeing in that game.
So you're looking for that to step up here,
but it's hard to have fun when you have Levy at down
that are just running rough shot all over the server on you.
This team is incredibly hard to do it.
They're very aggressive.
They are very confident in the way they play.
They'll take those fights.
No problem.
You have to look at the veterans to step up in this game.
You saw from Dirk already.
Swipe the loss.
I think he had a solid map one.
He has been the shining light for this team so far in playoffs.
He's been the guy that this crowd is rallying behind on this team.
The guy that we've been waiting for years to be back at this point.
2023, the last time he and Chronicle were together in a top four competing to make it
this deep.
And that's this young team trying to shut them down yet again.
Shut them out from having another chance to go this far.
Case you guys aren't aware already doing a little bit of vamp in here
So again, everything set up ready to go the stakes are too high for this matchup friends
So we just want to make sure everything's all good and ready before we start things up should be remaking the lobby
And we'll be jumping right into the action and as soon as we are ready to go. We'll get out there
I got to find my way out of the crowd that John I can hear it almost
I can't quite hear what they're saying, but I can hear the time. Let me tell you guys a Latino myself
We know how to get a little loud out there ain't that right Buffy hey all day all day the big fan of that though
Big shout out to the leviathan crowd who's coming out to support the squad
It's actually been pretty incredible to see that fan reaction for all the squads here
You know even I know Frankie we were talking earlier
You got a lot of fanatic fans in the crowd who you know, maybe maybe they might be aligning with vitality
Maybe not maybe they are maybe they are it seems like there's some bad blood out there Billy
You got a little bit more insight, right?
That might be a sticky one to pull.
But, GV, you're not going to lie.
You know, obviously, wanting to cheer on
Daka and Kron.
Yeah, how could you not?
From their fanatic days, it makes sense to follow them
and then support this Vitality roster.
Yeah, this team, of course, has a lot to work with here,
but on the other side, I mean, you got
Sato, a young player who's lit the stage on fire
with his attitude, with his presence,
and we're expecting even more of that going into this map, too, maybe.
We certainly are.
It was neon that they were waiting to be able to play at this level turn 18 and step in but it was the other two who those prospects last year
You look at Sato spike. They each got to play half a year of competition in America's
They were long-awaited players themselves to be ready to step into this level
There are teams that couldn't do it teams
They could not deliver and make global events but now they're here the next generation of Latin America trying to take down to a
of Valorant's great tier on Split, already up a map
dominantly in this series.
Billy, when I look at this here and I see the Double Duelists
comps on both sides, I kind of just
feel like everyone's getting what they want here.
And we're going to see Durka on that, Jeff.
We're going to see Sato on that Phoenix.
This is going to be a bit of a brawl.
This is kind of what we've known these two teams for.
When I think about Sayonara and Durka,
they pick up that Double Duelist across maps such as Split.
Sayonara really needs to go hard here, I think,
especially when you consider the discussion that we had about him.
I'm setting him up as one of the potential rookies of the year, right?
Then I look over towards the left side.
They have very much leaned into this neon,
probably the most neon heavy team that's left in this tournament.
Well, folks, question on our mind is whether or not Vitality
can bounce back and force a Math 3.
Let's go ahead and find out and kick off the action.
Here are your casters for the game. It's Pansy and Hy-Hok.
Time to leave nothing to chance here between these two.
Lev came out swinging on that one with a 13-4 result.
Vitality, looking under the boot beneath the heel.
They barely got a shot in that first map.
Yeah. I mean, Lev, you've got to be feeling themselves now.
You come back to the discussion of this beat-tock, the split.
Again, something here, a real opportunity for Vitality to fight back.
Probably one of the most dominant performances.
That's how the Pacific game domestically.
This is Paper X.
They have to replicate that here.
We start in here on the attacking side.
We'll have at least in a position to greet any sort of mid presence early on.
It's just shouldering for info right now.
Can we notice on the next one though?
You can see the team come through there just on the other side of the wall.
Glows hasn't seen anything yet. They've actually proactively looking to clear mid.
At least a glance behind the orb.
I had a little bit of peek, didn't I?
Does this get red? I mean, the way they're kind of stacking up on this, you can see the safety for Glows as well.
Kind of sitting pretty deep with that sheriff.
Not going to get the full connection they even want, but still, Vitality having to work for their entrance.
It's I and R, and I'm looking out here.
Hard to try and stand up to the test of a team with confidence right now.
And look at them. I mean, play it deeper towards CT. Look at Vitality.
I'm trying to maybe stamp some authority on the match themselves, but you can see the reaction is quick
It's pasty. It's down ramp already
They could be an issue on the site and they've got to get moving fast because here it comes spikes in already clearing front side
They're already all the fight
The situation perfectly here by left know they've got the pressure in the right place
they cleared through so proactively and by talenting can't push any further into spawn.
I mean they can but they don't. There's the one Winkon here to regain control of heaven,
protect the spike and it just never happens. A fun ball here to kick off split.
Getting embarrassed in round one like that. Again, Lev don't need more confidence but they're
they're gonna get it everything lining up reading the game well denying any
chance of a fight back in early but as you don't need any more pressure either
you see how they are crumbling start of this series
here the sato and the only one will shut this down sato one with the Molly as
well and he is that three look at the old already halfway
Just gone left. It's expected towards A, but I don't think he's really even going to get a chance to look in here.
Yeah, that's my team. Just going to shut this down.
There's any for a flawless ground two to follow, Lauren.
Lev, certainly looking to pick up where they left off from Lotus.
And again, it feels like...
It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. They're playing with an authority way ahead of their years throughout this game.
Confidence when needed. Calculated when needed. Looking like the full package hit.
Funny when needed. 2-0 though. Vitality, have to answer back. It's not even negotiable at this point.
This is do or die, it feels like. This game just feels like it's been a drought.
That's our point where realistically we just saw things not clicking for vitality here just looking like
Individuals struggling certainly a map one
That's why you want to see this first half the dominant for the likes of Durka Sionara
Chronicle in the lurk as well
Passive approach adopted here all the way on
Yes, I blink and just we didn't see much pressure on to live
We want to see the macro adjustment for vitality.
I see Korsh is here in the first buy-round.
We stacked up here towards B main.
I mean, Chronicle even making his way across the bolster.
This.
And Korsh is sighting the other, and Karm on the pressure.
Kool collected, getting the kills.
Swings out, drops another.
By Tau, to be prosecuted.
By Lev, Chronicle and Yampi.
We see how far away from it is, it yapping on a wild swing.
It's going to go nowhere.
It's desperation plays.
This is not what you wanted to see if you're an EMEA fan.
This is a problem.
Lev looking untouchable today.
Chronicle would like to just live,
and he does, but he's going to have to fight for that.
10 seconds left.
10 for the Hills now, but another example where
Lev just looks so well coordinated.
and Vitality fragmented in their approach.
They're chasing him with everything.
Not gonna stay alive.
Ha ha ha.
He's having a little look across the stage,
but why would they care when they're 3-0 up already?
That's the streak that continues from map one.
I mean, Neon is just so composed here.
Because he knows as soon as he takes contact here,
he's got two that are gonna flood in from heaven immediately.
The player is standing.
Vitality barely scratched the surface on this B site hold.
Got to get a grip on this game, man.
This is passing them by.
Let's continue, man.
I mean, the internal dynamics, where you hear power hinting
towards it, it's like, we can't go out like this, guys.
At least opening three rounds.
I haven't seen that adjustment reflected just yet.
Chronicle, shut down.
That's the rifle removed.
Yeah, pass to the other.
Dirk is going to pick it up, but from the cold, hands of his fallen teammate.
And boys, it's been such a nuisance, Flash to come in as well.
How to fight this hard just to barely make a step towards the site.
Nothing feels safe.
Dirk has to go nuclear here with this rifle.
The info here from Sire.
He may have to maybe set things in motion,
but Sarto not noted on that deeper angle.
He'll shut this down.
It's the right one, retrievable now.
Just pistols for Yampi and Sire.
Oh, they're buckling now.
There's not even a problem in sight.
Lebs at dominance continue.
Map one to map two.
Five standing.
It is stunning to witness.
I mean, typically, I'd say, in early time out here,
almost unexpected, but again, you come back to what Paul's saying.
What discussion are you going to have here?
He's obviously going into the dynamic today
and there's concerns coming out of that map one where he's willing them on to at least go down swinger
They are being trampled dictated to by left
Not many early wins at all here in terms of this old cycle. I mean progress across the board, but it's coming in round five. Yeah
Yeah.
Certainly want to see it again, low hanging fruit,
but you want to see vitality take the fight to them.
I don't want to see them passively
looking to probe across the map.
And they haven't been able to methodically work their way
through any of those rounds on Lotus to my memory at least.
I'm my concern start now.
I think it's seeing a flat vitality into the start here.
And obviously it compounds the problems for them.
On the other side for Lev, they are walking on water.
They're on cloud nine.
Everything feels good.
And it's not just a one man show.
It's not just like a Sato taking over the game
or Neon taking over the game.
It's everything going right from the read
to the strategy, to the players behind it.
Everything's perfect.
You see the commitment as well.
Once they feel that tempo,
they've got the confidence,
the perfect example on the bonus conversion.
Again, for Neon to just go forwards
with a spectre in that situation.
Paranoia's burned.
He's got his challenge.
but he knows Spike's in there.
It's full faith.
It's the things that pals are looting to as well.
It's like, guys, bail the guy out next to you.
Fight for each other.
Again, see them here, split three, two across the map.
Here.
Don't we wait and see, don't we?
This time we will be having a listening with vitality.
And I'm sure it's going to be sour.
From the word go, Spike's in instantly.
Removes Derker.
Where's the danger going to come from now?
What is the answer? What is the remedy for vitality?
Ayanara, is it gonna be you?
I'm gonna find out now on the listening.
Yeah, yeah.
It's fate the one say he took in a fall.
Just come towards me please.
Yeah, yeah, we're coming.
Last fall.
Finish here.
In that fall.
Stefan, you have double flash.
Double flash, yes.
Nice.
Stefan, go to the rafter smoke, okay?
And be focused site David.
I need to TP out to site, okay?
Yeah.
And they didn't have AWP.
We go on contact and we go on contact.
I was neon ramp and one rafters.
Let's pick me 3, 2, 1.
I can open the wall as well boys, when you want to pick.
I can full left side ramp.
I'm ready to open the wall.
Rafters, rafters.
Masterclass from left, Sato's in on the final row.
It is magic!
It is poetry in motion for Lev.
And nothing is stopping them now.
Comes excruciating to watch a team struggle like this.
I mean, right out of the time out here,
they're looking to maybe piece something together
with Durka towards Ramp.
Again, you can hear as well.
That means Yampi having to micro a lot of this.
I'd almost feel more comfortable with just running drill strats.
Like I said, stacking up and at least trying to trade off each other.
I think they're really struggling with was left just flooding bodies to the right place.
Is that stack up? Is that site take just all together trying to make it work when they can?
Here comes the elbow from Sato. Flash in, go!
Can he find someone? Yes!
Oh, a second! Sato again and again!
Just keeps going! Desperate Artebatro, King Bailswell!
So I know I desperately to spray onto the reset there.
Posato.
Two of the best to ever do it left here in a 2v4.
Guardian Chronicle.
Well, no, it's Spike's scene, but...
Durka.
So low endeavor towards site here to get the plant.
I
Mean to look threatening like this. They know where you both aren't duck is not for starting blocks yet
Machine they could really start taking space Cron then almost called into action
It looks to go forward already gonna be sent away. There's the fight Crackles still can't get in to save his teammate falls
It's all on derka 1v4
Surrounded
believe that Sato just got bit better today and Leve maintain a clean slate.
It's just another example again the numbers overwhelming for Leve but two of the goats
made to look sheepish here in this post-flop and don't commit to what I mean there's no bailout
here for Durka, a less chronicle, commits to that fight on ramp.
This vaccine just playing with expectations almost.
That's another, what feels like, killing Blow, too vitality.
At least stepping the right direction as I said, drilled, set strats here to try and isolate a player, Durka.
Throwback you with over the top.
The blade stalker. Doesn't find it, blows or find Yampi.
He's been such a nuisance to try to scale into the site in any effective manner and they're blocking each other.
They look messy, they look scrappy.
They love to try and get in on ramp here, but again, we saw the issues before for Kron.
Look at them again! The Kronjom massacre!
Everything is lining up the left!
Kron a mile away, and look at it again.
Similar scenes.
This time Durga fights out forward, but Kronical locked up.
can't get past anyone! This is absolutely a look out here! Sato again on his feet, the
conductor of this crowd, 7-0! A systematic shutdown here. It's hard to even get themselves
into the right situation but just crumbled. Unprecedented Lauren. You don't see
scenes like this. I mean they put them in their pocket man. That vitality just
can't win out any of these advantageous positions. I mean again Yampi
falling through so you can't fold things like that but at least for me throwing
something out to see if someone will stick and force it. I think the momentum, the sheer
brilliance we're seeing from Lev here might be too little, too late. I hate to say that,
I mean we've seen seven rounds but I feel like it's done.
Halfway in the grave man, halfway in the grave here. And this is when you look to your yampies,
you look to Powell, you look to your Dirk as you look to the rest of the boys standing
side you and you decide if you're gonna go out with a whimper or if you're gonna go down fighting who rallies the troops here though
Who's delivering?
Someone has to stand up and try they are being ripped apart. It's so hard for somebody
To at least get the vibes back on track
Operator alpha derka here
Olds available Chronicle Sio yampi
Like I said, it hasn't come down to that though
Belief and faith are a hell of a thing here today and Lev have it in droves.
An investment made on Durka though, an operator in hand and a couple of volts to potentially invest.
Can they stop the absolute brick wall that is against them though?
them though I mean at Leavage are so happy now to just leave blows to command the A site
he's been exceptional on it and then you walk into mid you've got Sato and Spike seen
I'm not even sure what I'm doing.
Beast. Anybody from vitality.
Still dares to go forwards.
Early win here for the operator.
Now we'll send out the feelers towards ramp.
I can't just yet.
so slightly but to what end of 35 seconds you still need to succeed on the
site it's not like they've been doing these sites easily either so banking on
these obstacleies give them the way in they need that to land it doesn't a
fumble but with the space garnered off of Chronicle they're gonna pull a mad
rotate he's got to stop this though he has to stop before they get back it is a
messy shot and he's being pressured he's being pushed again perfection and spikes in is
It's fully off the chain here. Clearing site.
Yep, the other backlight is close to die back in.
The flexing clear, Sayonara.
Sato's there. It's Durka. It's Profec.
They're locked out.
They can't even get back to the spike.
Not again. Not like this.
Profec does something, but he's going to do it all now.
1, V2.
He's dead. He's going left.
Untouchable still.
Eight rounds now.
Can they do anything against it?
The guard will just get caught totally off guard here.
Maybe thinks he's got a 1v1.
Let's put a position where he ends up spamming onto the wall.
There's a little chip damage,
but there's a real opportunity
to completely shut this down with a pit.
Or at least I say shut things down.
Buy them some time to get an extra body up there.
But again, it's that flipper the switch and left.
sweep the front line I think this might be one of those dominant games we have
seen in a while especially at this caliber at this level in the tournament
it is round by round in their minds they've got so many to play with no
pressure vitality this must feel like a mountain to climb
They didn't even really come close in terms of piecing together a comeback once Lev got
rolling on Lotus.
Conical now at least going to be noted from the previous round.
They didn't even really cause an issue.
Stacked up now.
Minute marker has passed.
It's going to be all five for vitality.
One small towards the A site blows.
Actually switching things up a little bit.
The second player in support here towards heaven.
Despite it not too far away.
I quite like the adjustment at this point.
Catch him off guard potentially.
Let's see.
Lolling them in.
That was a clean shot there from Yampy.
30 seconds left.
Clutching at straws though.
Looking for silver lining close.
Still on the side, here on the heart.
And he gets a great catch on Durka.
And there it is, boys waited patiently.
The adjustment in position, fantastic.
And still doing damage even on the way down.
And even 3v3, Yampi standing guard.
Trying to hold onto the line and getting the last one alive.
But confidence will be there. Why wouldn't it be?
He's trying to ruin himself. Come on, alright.
Vitality, finally!
Make a mark.
Yampi on his feet immediately, but you see there's a lot of cats there, beautiful shot.
Who said who's going to be the difference maker?
And it might be the captain.
I mean it would be the one person to actually get the vibes back in the Vitality Camp.
Chronicle got a rally behind that.
You need the rest of them both.
I mean, the weight of the world on the Anthony shoulders right now.
Neon opportunity presented here.
Arise a very early deterrent for vitality.
They're happy now to at least contest this early pressure towards A.
Now they know there's an up race towards B site.
Does that feel a little more tangible?
Oh, the mid-walk.
Nice info for Lerne as well.
And again, Neon holding towards Scythe.
And that's a great first pick for Vitality.
Keeping it simplistic, but there's the block back in.
Sionara, there's one! A second!
Scythe, there are balls! Caterham!
Just down to one now.
And maybe that was the spark.
The spark of life for Yampy.
They got Vitality back on board with a second.
a flawless two follow. Could
this be the start? It's
chip away at the finances.
Ulster considering here, but the
first time they've really got
bodies ahead of this flood.
Sionora does so well to
repositioning it. You know,
at least demonstrates in the
understanding of what Lev are
going to do and when. And for
me, it's key to note the
operator quick enough.
Not an opportunity for Neon to go forwards and maybe a hint of complacency in the formation.
I can't even like...
No, you can't, no.
Not at this point. Instantaneous, Viper's bit towards middle though.
I haven't really seen that export too deep.
I mean, we saw that lurk in the last, but still, for Lev it does just garner so much security now.
Why do I feel that Sato wants to go flash out on the backside of that?
I think we've watched a couple of games of it.
Now, let's see how much Neon can handle.
Because this is now all four players looking to once again punish the side of the map.
Support on the way in the form of King, he's replaying from Heaven, doesn't get noted.
I did, there we go. That was surely enough in the spot here.
They're looking to try and overwhelm it.
No, Seeker's garnered, 50 seconds still.
Pit to be given up as well.
They've got both jewelers, they probably want to open up those sight lines to challenge.
Chronicle hasn't shown his hand just yet.
No pressure towards blows, he's starting out as Sato, not Spike-Z to provide some support.
They do have a pit once more here, potentially in an A site post plant.
Blow's going to deny, on the first, he's been planted.
He's already on here, and he's fantastic!
Again!
Blow's just seen you drop a player every time!
Again!
My target just ignited the keys to the castle and misread!
13 seconds and the pit goes down, maybe enough to secure some safety.
The Prophet has to go wild!
He has to go crazy here outside the pit
Very reliant on Chronicle to be the late-round piece here
It's too passive. I've got so much time to
Peace this together
Chronicle's starting to feel it constricting around the side. It's going to get one
There's Poppeck on the loss. Chronicle again trying to roll it back. Not to be!
King maintains the crown for Lev. Nine rounds to their name
game. I mean, Durka and I found running towards the smoke again. It's they're expecting it
just to be the one anchor from heaven. The spike scene. We're so quickly. We're into
the blender. Sato sitting at 15 and three.
I'm so a heater of a game for him.
One away from another hole as well.
Derker operated it to hand.
Let's go.
And this is just to get them a 9-3.
Yeah. I don't think we can inform you enough how unlikely this becomes,
but Bronflet, with the shot at the guard, is going to be rewarded,
but Sato feels like he's being given gifts from the guard.
We're going to try. First time we see actually an advantage, I guess at the beginning.
There's plenty of time left to play with it.
Two bigger question mark elsewhere. That spot here as well, so I know we'll find close.
They don't know about Neon, but they don't know about King.
But he's already going down. I mean, that was an audacious attempt for Neon.
Easy now, that's three.
Okay, there's a heart beat onsite, but that's about it clinging to life and the question is is it just a death rattle before they fade away?
Lev up on nine like this has been a brilliant display from them showing exactly why they are here, how good they are, and you don't want to miss how this closes out.
The look on Dirk's face there, something that sums up this half, 9-3.
What a comparison.
as the conductor today.
No trace of the crowd behind us.
He has been a superstar in the making.
Nearly two aces in one match in that previous series.
Right now, eyeing up probably the next opponent.
They've got a 9-3 on the half.
Similar sort of situation to Matt Poimlev.
Again, you look at the playstyle,
they don't have to force the issue here.
It's vitality.
Three of the ones to take, three in this is Jim.
The damage done here, but it's just chip.
Four Dirk up.
I think we'll be given a shot here, but...
I'm looking as if they want to go forwards.
Only isolated.
Where's the trade? Where's the fuck with the back?
Fortunately for Yampy, he does get a trade.
But now at what cost?
Most of Lev have options.
A good read here from Brattalacy though.
Okay, Yampy's reposition.
Only now I'm 20th thing early on at least.
I'm timing now.
Hello and goodbye!
Critical!
Whoops!
It's a double but it's quickly dealt with!
Headshot is wrong today.
Yeah, it's true but when Blows is still alive here,
I mean roll it back to the first half.
I guess Yampy is an unknown quantity but...
Keep your eye on the spike.
Profex just figured this out at the right time.
I think you'll catch through heaven, but a chance here is certainly on the spawn cross.
So, smoke up here for the plant.
Does he spam him?
Yes, he does.
Okay, great catch for Profex.
Close, called upon.
I have the spike.
You know, 1v2.
If you're dead, you can dance now.
Easy.
You've got to stay buttoned up here.
These guys command the authority.
He has to back away.
He's going to spot them.
How the hell have you done that?
Hey, can do no wrong.
Even here that first instance, you question the spacey if Prophex gonna commit, but it
It starts how it ends, the trade not a-landing at the right time here, that's double digits
on the board.
There's many ways out of this one, and Spike's in just looking like he's in full control
now, confidence exuding.
They look to end towards B. Yes, there is a little bit of a threat in the back lines,
then it's classics. So it's somewhat is crushed as you already see them looking, you already
see them aware, King. In a note one they're trying to shut down on him but they're support
the cavalry's coming. This is just an individual battle now, they're playing deathmatch in
spawn. That's what I call does best, King. The question is going back all the way for
It's here, again, just get simply outclassed as disgusting.
It's all smiles.
God, what are you meant to do against it?
Well, this bonus feels like it's got a little bit of weight to it.
Obviously, the rifles to come out here for vitality.
Spam here early on but Lev
Again you can see the wind in their south now straight up middle. Yeah, Beside ours going for a push behind
I'm gonna have a listen in with Lev right about now. Let's see how they're coping with this pressure
It's a lot of bombs, I'm going to use it
I'm going to do it, King
I'm not going to attack, I'm going to use it
Where?
such fine margins here.
Wind conditions so few to vitality,
but two crucial kills here.
Beautiful shot from Yankee as well.
A little more scrappy on the side of Lev, but as I said,
I mean, they're happy to throw rounds out like that.
That was a bonus.
Especially on a bonus, like you said, yeah.
Chipping away at any sort of cushion,
any semblance of stability that vitality
they're just begging for.
Well, the alt's not going to be a factor here,
but Vitality at least.
Spike's seen.
It's going to be someone Sato, too.
Got the nightfall available.
Floor blows.
And it just looks like they're just getting so direct.
Oh my, all right.
And Sato giving another gift there.
Ruff, it's gone, man.
King and Unison, Nero.
Both sides of the map, they succeed.
There.
Reduce the numbers of vitality here and nobody's going forwards. There's no attempt to
At least equal the odds here have just freeze outside beat as they should
Wide open sight here for the taking
Concise again, you're hoping they go forwards here and clear it
it. To get somebody ahead of this site here. I mean, also, could just be an early indication
of a save, honestly.
Saving against it right now. I mean, it feels like it's the right choice, but you don't want
to.
I know. That's, that's the part, isn't it? It's so bittersweet in these moments. Maybe
the right call, yes.
That temptation beckoning and Kim waiting on the other side.
It's just always in this sort of position, King.
The Chronicle win this out.
Inside, Syo.
Toys is on.
He's here.
Strikes go!
Oh, and a hit shot to follow!
He wants to hunt him down, get three, no!
Chronicle stays alive.
Derk is still in this, but a 2v4.
Now, there's your save call.
Yeah, you cancel on that.
Because they're just not making these mistakes,
they have to give up 12 on that scoreboard.
It's only Durka and Profak to carry money out of this as well.
Jesus.
They said the early progress not there for some of the key ultimates
and really went towards the pit.
The play store and the showstopper to offset the vibe.
And that's number 12 found.
Looking to repeat that map one score line here.
Their own map pick this time around.
Perfect, it's Core on a peek ahead of a smoke as well.
Again, can't contact, but it's got Sato to catch him in the first three bullets.
These guys are operating at just a higher level here.
Right down to my brawl here for now.
Last chance to dance, man.
Lock in, folks. This might be a bloodbath, and it might be over quick.
already spikes in on the hunt. Does he check the player mode?
Durka, new list of life, fights forward, off the chain, but dead.
Blows eviscerating both, leaving Yampi, Krona, Profek to try and put this back together.
Oh, super low here.
He won't get the kill off the plant.
Face your fear!
Absolutely no kill here. Oh, just let things down for Blows.
Catch anybody on this first peek.
Blinded.
Great layering.
Perfect.
It's so good to win this look at this time being bought
Vitality second by second seeing their chances dwindle yambe kicks down the door props the seekers
You need someone else there to help him out now spikes and still on the side Chronicle comes online
He's still waiting listen King as well patient in the backline
The new generation is petrified!
Back-to-back 13-4s here.
Total dominance displayed here from this level of stuff.
I feel like even at the veto coming into this, they've just gone from strength to strength here in London.
Heartbreaking to see Vitality bow out like this.
He's the ones that you'll learn the most from.
But today, it was a clear cut picture.
Lev are simply better.
They came out swinging four-mats at all-time height.
By Talty, I think over-delivered in some minds.
They did incredibly well.
But the moment will be for the new yarn of guns on the stage.
I mean this has got to feel so good playing alongside players like Sato, Spike Seen, Neon
as well.
Everybody stepping up to the plate here in London.
What an exciting team to watch.
Making a name for themselves today.
Making history for themselves.
And honestly, I wouldn't want to face them.
There's something about that team a little bit of an x-factor part of what to fight for a terrifying all of teams
We have left it
Exciting culmination regardless here in London
At least didn't have to sweat for this one
It's gonna be a high pressure scenario going into the follow-up series here. I'm so excited to see that match up
You and me both, man. You and me both.
You've got to work for your revenge if you want to make it to Paper X.
We'll be waiting all that way in the finals for other masterful team before you get there.
So as said, job not done for live, but a moment to breathe.
We'll be in a moment, sending it down to Franklin, who's down at the stage,
and once obviously a couple of those signs have been autographed,
I think she'll be standing by those spikes in for that Verizon post-match in here.
I can't wait to hear from you. This has to be a fantastic moment as we wait for the go-ahead.
And I think they are looking just about ready. So let's hand it over there down to the stage.
Bikes and congratulations. Top three is now guaranteed. How were you able to topple and
dominate Vitality on both maps?
I think that when we were at Lauer, we were creating a lot of confidence
so that we could get involved in the game.
So we are only demonstrating the fruit of our training and our daily routine.
about this moment where we saw you get out of your chair and go.
So, we really like you, because your team is very open, but there was a moment that
seemed like you were running. Can you tell us a little about that?
In this round, Derrick Davitani ate the Bacete running in a pack, so I did the movement
he did, and then I showed the team to do something funny.
Well, there was a moment where Derrick was running with a knife, he got like the bays,
And then, in order to like, illustrate that, I did the same line of movement.
So it was a dirt for impression, I love it.
Finally, you've just mentioned the confidence is growing.
Do you now believe that you can make it to the grand final against PRX and win this entire event?
We're playing very well, so yes, I have confidence in myself in the team that we will be able to counter him in the grand final.
Leviathan.
We'll see you guys on this stage tomorrow.
Oh, man.
Unbelievable as Leviathan managed to pull off the victory.
And they move forward to the top three.
And we're joined now on the desk by that guy right there.
It's Sato.
Sato, my man.
Congratulations.
Good business.
handshake my friend good business handshake hey man congrats dude this has
to feel unbelievable yeah I mean you're playing one day and the other thing you
just we're just two guys he happens while you were working the desk at
America's and now you are three at an event a global event what does it mean
to be in this position with this team you guys have worked so hard man it's
just like a dream come true honestly you know you're with friends they're like
family to me and I'm just you know really happy to be here yeah I see the
energy with you and the team on stage and it's it's so infectious for the
crowd here and for I'm sure everyone watching at home as well I think for a
lot of people they thought there was gonna be a limit to that you guys have
four young players coming into your first global event going this far for the
first time why do you think the pressure hasn't got to you why do you think
you've been able to keep that energy throughout I think it's because we don't
think about it like honestly just like yeah it just we just go as it as it like
as it goes like day by day you guys just a day by day kind of room like
everything that we do we always talk about the most important thing is
forgetting about the past and being present yeah I just bro if you're if
you're too hung up on like the crowd the pressure or expectations you're just
not gonna be able to play your 100% and I feel like the the nervousness the
emotions that the stage gives us like makes us even better. Yeah, no. Well, real quick though,
when did that nervousness go away? It didn't. It didn't? Okay, so you're still going up because
when you're nervous you want it. That just means you want it more than anyone else, right? Yeah,
through the entire series today, I felt like I was gonna throw up. Really? It happens a lot to
me like on freestyle when things get a little bit more stable. It just comes to me and like,
like, I wanna throw up and then the round starts and I forget about it.
Keep some thumps on the stand by.
Once you're in the match though, it feels different.
I wanna ask about playing with the kind of leadership core that you guys have,
because like you mentioned, young team, all you guys stepping into this event for the first time,
that you have King, you have owner, there's a lot of talk coming into this event
that your style would be easy to prep against, that you guys would run out of ideas,
going deep into a tournament. That certainly hasn't been the case.
the impact of those two in life on the team here?
Yeah, I mean, maybe at the beginning,
that might have been true,
because the way, the form that we are right now,
I feel like it's the best that we've ever been.
For sure.
And I think owner's work makes everything so much easy,
especially since we're so young,
and I think we mix up really well,
because it's a guy that really takes detail into account,
and since we're all young,
we're obviously gonna listen to him.
And I think, well, King today, man, the guy was on fire.
He really was.
He knew everything they were doing.
It was actually crazy.
I noticed, especially, it looked like you guys were just
in their combs, honestly, some of the rounds on the top.
It was weird, man.
It's like he opened his third eye.
Don't fall.
Don't fall again.
Don't fall off.
We need you for the other games.
But yeah, I guess to kind of lean more into that, though,
as you said, it's like Dr. Strange opening up his third eye
and he's seeing the world as for what it is.
But I do find it fascinating that even with all that,
you guys are still doing these very fast,
very just aggro plays.
It feels so cohesive at the same time.
If you were to told me like,
oh, I think they're just gonna go out there
and set it and shoot them and win the round.
It feels like that too.
Is that kind of how it comes across out there
for you guys when you're playing?
Like, because at times, I'll just see you make a play
and you do it with the utmost confidence.
Cause you know, like if you lose out on it, it's okay.
Someone else is gonna pick it up.
Yeah, I think yeah, obviously that helps, you know, for all their insincere stuff, I don't even care if I die, someone's gonna kill that guy, but also, we talked a lot about not having regrets or not playing cowardly, so,
owner says a lot, you need to play the probabilities, if you pick a fight and it's higher than 50% probability that you're gonna win, then it's the good choice.
It doesn't matter if you peek and the guy just insta deletes you if you think like if you think back
Oh, this is the correct play that it doesn't matter. So I feel like we we think about it
We think about this a lot
Yeah, so whenever we peek or whenever we try to go for a fight is like it's all the time sitting all in
Bob's always are in your favor. You always want to press that advantage
I want to go to a more room to go question at the beginning of an event. I think it was with TMP
You guys were talking about some of the interesting things you've done with your free time at this event so far.
One of the activities that I remember you were counting was that the team was just going to the player hotel and just riding the elevator.
Not pressing any buttons, just going in there seeing where it takes you.
Are you still riding the elevator to the step?
Not actually, we haven't been going to the elevator anymore because there's so many last teams at the hotel.
Last faces to see.
Now we don't see anyone.
It's a tragedy of winning, now we're in the elevator.
I think it'd be weird right now we just go into the elevator and just see like regular people from the hotel just one of these kids doing.
So we abstain from doing that, but it was really fun. I think we'll probably do it again at the next.
You guys have certainly left your mark here that much. And you have so much more left to do as well as actually take a look at the bracket and see where we are right now because as you all are aware clearly only three teams left in this
competition and it's going to be leviathan taking on edward gaming tomorrow and a best of five
how's it feel man to go up against con con and again because these are incredible players they
put up one hell of a fight against paper X here we're looking they were looking strong today yeah
it's going to be an awesome game guys i'm excited i think everyone we got a little crowd are you
guys excited for tomorrow oh yeah this we got a contingent of humans that still stuck around
That one guy, two.
We have that one, we gotta get the camera over there.
But in a case, though, guys, thank you so much for tuning in today.
Now, a quick reminder, we wanna make sure that you are punctual and
you show up early for the grand finals on Sunday because we've got a show match on
the way, with that show match comes a map reveal you don't wanna miss, folks.
It's gonna be super cool.
And of course, you're gonna watch a really cool show match.
It's gonna be Team Calm versus Team Chaos.
And then of course, as I mentioned before,
we're gonna see something really cool,
something really special.
Sato, thank you so much, man.
You already know, I'm proud of you.
Congratulations, dude.
And good business, good business.
Handshakes from Sato.
The business is done for today,
but the job is not done yet,
because tomorrow we have a best of five.
It's gonna be this guy, Sato,
taking the stage of Leviathan versus EDG.
We'll see you tomorrow for tomorrow's best of five.
Ta-da!
I am the best!
Oh
With Leon, it's quick from the Ambitose, and he's got to know where Boyz is.
Seize him up!
Eyes on the spike, if we need more spinny,
the actor still here has the satchel tonight!
Follow up!
Because of that, again!
That's all it took, surely!
I should know better than whenever to use
Losing my mind over how you knew
I met her and no one did anything get through
Caught up in ways I can't undo
I don't want to play for state and I'll take it all back.
The other guy running from the waves
Take it to the grave and mistake
I mean, they saw me
Baby, I just have to let you go
Let you go
Oh
I can't get you, I can't shake you
Gonna have to lose
Ever little faith, ever little game
I don't wanna play, if you stay
Then I'll take you out, bruh
Take you to the point where you must stay
When you're near somewhere yet
I've never been in the place
Maybe I just have to
Go
Maybe