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I want to start trying to keep things
But I couldn't follow me away
They call me stranger, said I'm too old
But now the fire is breaking down
Stranger, said I'm too old
But I'm afraid, I'm afraid to die
We fight, fight, fight, never broken
You know that girl we chose
Gonna be, gonna be scared
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Today it's all on the line.
Two teams will get their third strike and have to watch Master Santiago from home.
from home. Hello and welcome to week four of the city of America's kickoff coming to your life
from the ride games arena in Los Angeles, California. I am Zoe and on the desk with me today
are Ender, Mimi and Emily. Guys, we've got quite a day ahead of us. Two back to back elimination
matches blood is in the water. How are we feeling? Yeah, you guys are gonna have to sell me on that
because all I'm thinking is how is that road in the scenics not around about that was like that
was like a six street intersection without a roundabout. Okay, now sell me on why I should care
care about the games today because we're on the west coast to be me we don't
drive in circles here okay we're going to straight line okay as roads intended
as far as I'm going to say it's to the valorant valorant we go ahead there are no
more second chances there's no circling back if you lose here today that's true
and even if you're winning you're still not out of the water right because
tomorrow you have to do it all over again we do have cloud nine as well as
hundred thieves waiting in that lower bracket and for their chance and for
their next opponent so it's not gonna get any easier from here. No for these teams
really consistency is gonna be the key here especially going up against teams
that already look really strong like Hunter these are Cloud9. Yeah it is weird
though because you have two teams coming into these games both having just
made big changes Envy with the last second one Leviathan just getting their
full roster back so these teams have absolutely no time to fully write the
ship and put together the way they want to play. They're looking for the the old
fashion honeymoon phase right here. Let's just come in. Everything is perfect. It only needs to be
perfect for like two weeks and then we're done.
He's out. He's out.
Well, then you're done.
Well, what about that if you get there?
Exactly. Cross that bridge then. And now we do of course have some stacked matches for you today.
We're kicking things off. We're kicking things off with Evil Genius taking on Endine. And afterwards
we do have Lydia Dawn going up against Sentinels, which much are you more excited for?
Honestly, the second one for me is so exciting.
I think that Lovieton, they didn't get tested very much in that game,
but what we saw was insane individual form,
and it's a great opportunity to see if Senna's actually fixed those issues
and can match that raw talent.
No, I completely agree, but I want to focus on Lev specifically,
because what we saw was really good out of them, right?
We saw them going back to their kind of comfort roles, having me on back,
and kind of saw the game plans that they were wanting to have early on in the save,
but they couldn't because they were accommodating for their sub.
We definitely have a lot to talk about for both of these matches, but before we're getting into all the weeds for our upcoming matches
There's some other stuff on our agenda that we need to get through. Yeah, you know, like we're adults here
We have a lot of responsibilities day in and day out. Yeah, we're showing up here like do our taxes or something. Exactly
Taxes, I have to take care of another little human being and then I have to take care of these little human beings here in the desk as well
We'll just let that slide, okay, move on
I'm wearing heels as well, that's the worst part of it.
No, but I'm on top of that.
I'm also in charge of the wear back department in this arena.
So there's a lot, and especially with how some of these players played the last few weeks,
I think there's some claims to file here.
And I've heard, I have a good authority that you guys want to pitch us some players to be nominated or considered to be back.
I will be the judge of their blackness.
I don't know if that's a word.
Also, it kind of sounded naughty, and I don't know why.
I don't like that.
That's just me.
Maybe that's an exclusive me problem.
Emily, who do you have?
Who do you want to pitch?
I have the one, the only,
Superman, the veteran, not only of
just invalid, but for EG, going
into his third year here on the
EG roster.
But he had a phenomenal
performance, literally the MVP
of their first match win of
kickoff, right?
And on top of that, the thing
that I want to highlight and
for it is his ability to accept
accountants.
He's a great player.
He even said in his post-match interview with, I believe it was Athena, that if we were playing
like a full 5-5 rather than a 4-5, they would have won 3-0 right now.
And I feel very confident that he's going to keep bringing that into the rest of kickoff.
Yeah, I think he took a lot of responsibility for the performance for his first two weeks,
which shows a lot of leadership, and he more than redeemed himself, I'm approving of this
one.
I have a nifty little stock right there, big news, Superman everyone.
They have a big budget for that.
So, back.
There you go, he's so back to that.
Put it on his forehead.
You know it's real.
That's back.
That's exciting.
That says approved for anyone that's back.
What do you mean to do?
Yeah, he's back.
He's approved to be back.
Now, that's one.
What have you got for me?
I've got the one, the only, Spike Zine.
I think he really got forgotten a little bit coming into Leviton because all this excitement
was around Neon and him coming back
and them having the full roster.
But people forget he was the long-awaited player
in Neon's position last year,
and despite the failures of 2G,
was still really good individually.
Leves started tough this kickoff,
and he didn't play great individually as a result,
but in that first game with the full roster,
his individual performance looked really great,
switching onto the kind of like flex role-playing,
that viper, I thought he looked very comfortable there
someone who previously mostly played the duelist and as love gets better and really get situated
with their new roster, I think he's only going to become more back.
You know, I'm feeling the backness.
I'm so, I'm so improving.
You know, the second case.
Nice.
Right on the neck.
Okay.
Right on the neck.
That's how the kids wear it these days.
Oh, I didn't know that.
There you go.
Today we'll learn.
I think we're in action.
You know, we're wearing it this way.
And then, we do have more spots available, so.
And you know what? I'm going with a person you mentioned, Neon.
Well, how is he back when he's...
Well, because he's literally back.
By the way, Spike wouldn't be back if Neon wasn't back.
His rules wouldn't be fixed if Neon wasn't back.
Right? Neon couldn't play, right?
But now, as soon as he gets back on the stage,
all of a sudden, things are great for Leviathan.
And I know, you said he's not actually coming back
because he didn't play with them. That's not true.
He played with them in the off-season, guys.
They were crushing overseas.
So, yes, he's back with love.
But did his performance ever leave?
Because I feel like...
No, he's physically left.
He's always been great, but he's...
But this is before he fell.
You gotta be in pain.
You're doing some mental gymnastics here.
He is, but...
I don't understand what's so hard to understand.
No, I'm sorry. Sorry.
You're gonna risk the life!
I think he didn't understand the requirements
to find back into the worst soul back.
That's horrible.
I mean, he's back on stage, I guess,
He's never been on stage before.
It is literally true.
Yeah.
But is the baseline the next one?
It's fine.
He's already ready to go.
We don't know.
He's already ready.
He's back.
But Chat, let us know what do you think.
Either way, his performance was great, and we hope to see much more of that.
Another thing that is back, I have it on Good Authority, is pro-chips from bearded castors.
That's right.
So send it over to Riff and hear what he has to say.
And in this edition of How They Do That, we're going over anchor smokes.
How do the pros use them effectively?
And I'm going to show you how you might experience one here on a BIS with Brimstone real quick
before we look at some of the pros and how they've used them during kickoff.
So let's create a scenario where A is getting hit a lot, you've tried to play up front,
you've tried to play retake with the team, but it's not working so let's just employ
the smoke for the anchor.
So you hear them, that familiar noise of them running through lobby, running through A,
when you put your first smoke out,
and as soon as you hear that util start to hit site,
you put the second smoke down,
covering yourself from sova utility,
other initiator utility,
and also playing the back of the site,
making your opponent feel uncomfortable
as if they have to take the site again,
or plant without taking back site,
which is in your favor,
as it should in theory make it easier to retake.
All of these can be played on different maps,
and I'll show you that right now
as we check out how the pros use it,
because it is very, very effective in many cases.
Here our first one comes from Vic playing it on Pearl,
and he actually uses one in the battle.
He just puts the smoke around him,
and you'll see him here in the smoke, and Envy is looking.
He creates his own angles, actually,
to find his first kill, and then goes back into the smoke,
still anchoring, almost alone in the site,
finds another one, and Envy do not want to enter this.
That's the pressure anchor smokes create.
They eventually find him, but it's after he's already
done the damage and brought that game to OT Health Team.
Here we have another one where you're going to see Ethan.
He's all the way over on B and he's
going to be smoking towards A. And he throws one in for Brock.
And now 100 Thieves is still trying to hit.
This is their second take.
So they're a little light on Util.
They're going to go ahead and neon alt in.
But who's hiding in an anchor smoke?
Brock, instantly dropping that neon.
The rest of the team now has the site cut off in their favor.
And they just wipe down 100 Thieves.
Our third one comes in.
I love this one because it is, again, a team where they're
trying to take the site again.
Crew already tried to hit the other side.
So they're light on Util, but they use
Infiltrator's ult to go in.
Now, this smoke is an anchor, but it's almost just
becoming the default because it's so strong on a bis.
It funnels everybody from crew over to that left side
because they know someone's there.
They try to get to the Util.
And if you look toward the back of the site,
you have nerve easily rotating all the way to the left side.
No problem whatsoever, free of anything,
and their sova has to jump through on crew
because they just don't have the utile
to get there through the anchor smoke.
Get the pressure into their favor and make sure it works.
So it's always in your favor as a defender
if that moment happens, get that smoke out.
As a final note, the anchor smoke effect
can be achieved in a variety of ways.
It can be a cypher cage, it can be a viper orb,
or even a well-placed wall if the moment calls for it.
Send it back to the desk.
TIL, thank you so much, Arif.
Now let's get into our first match and start with the news that kind of set the internet
on fire just last night.
Hot off the press, a demon one has signed with Envy, Inspire is out for now.
So that's some huge changes coming in for their roster in their elimination match today.
Yeah, this is a really pretty unprecedented move, I think, that only speaks to something
deeper than just his performance wasn't good, because it was good.
I would argue is probably the best player for envy through the start of their kickoff run here
But something internal in the team they've deemed. It's not the right path forward. So now Emily they take a humongous risk of
Changing the team with basically no time to crack. Yeah, I mean they had a good picture that we saw demon one play on stage
For cloud nine and he filled so quickly
And just really fit the team and I think he could do the same thing here for envy
the only concern of mine is that is this really Envy anymore?
We have two core players that we saw kind of be the players to come in and send.
And now we have three, I guess, subs if we want to call them that.
I don't know what they are anymore.
And it just feels like they have this new identity again that's not really them.
No, I mean, you're right. They are a new team now.
But the question isn't really like whether they're Envy or not.
It's can they win? Can they stop actually being in the face of elimination?
of elimination. They have the tryouts against Demon One last week where they got spanked by him,
so now they bring him into the fold and try and put him on the roster. And now it's about creating
a system built around Demon One because we talked to Emmy a couple weeks ago about how it was working
Demon One into that C-99 team and so much of it was about allowing him the freedom to play the
game he wants to play. But I think my concern is that this is not a team that is built like Cloud9.
Cloud9 was already built to put so many resources into Oxygen, really enable him
as an individual. I think Envy already has some very resource-intensive players who want
huge flexibility in how they play. I think Keznyn is a big example of that. I think you
can even look sometimes at the place they're setting up around Eggster in that there are
a lot of preset ideas and ways that they are dumping things into their players, that now
they have to implement a super resource-heavy player in Demon 1 in. And I just don't know
how that's going to work with like no prac. It's actually easier than you think. No prac means they
just get to play like ranked, which is comfort zone. Exactly. Yeah, that's the aggression we
know Envy for, right? So if he just fills that spot and just comes in aggressive and they all
just play to their comfort and probably not dig too deep into the strap of they should be fine
than the Envy we know and love. Now, in less than a month we'll be at Master Santiago and there's
one player in the server today who has something extra to fight for. So let's send it over to
I think there's something very impressive about playing around with your family, as well as
I think it's something very beautiful to play in front of your family and just have your family right there.
But also after that 0-9 that I had with Kuretsun Point, I know that everything is possible and playing with Demon 1 is going to be insane.
Thank you so much. Good luck.
Yeah, the home buff actually goes hard.
You've seen that in e-sports across the board that does something to some players and
Kessnet definitely has a great to really want it.
Now if you're looking at some other individuals that will be playing today extra, he had an
incredible debut starting off this season, really, really strong, but kind of in quiet
after that.
Yeah, I feel like he's been struggling a bit more, especially with all these changes
the end he has had to kind of find his footing like he was in the tier two scene before he
ascended right and I would honestly love to see him change up the roles of it or just
play a different duel considering with all the changes that they have like I feel like
they're placed out.
You think that's ever gonna happen?
I'm praying for that day because just nothing's the same right like they need to take risks
they need to change something because they haven't been finding success with what they've
been doing already.
I will say the one time we did see him really pop off was during week one that was specifically
in the opening match versus Evil Geniuses
who he's facing again today.
It was a completely different story.
He was topping out the kill fees.
He was phenomenal in that game.
And hopefully he can find that in the rematch here again.
However, I think it is somewhat of a bad sign
if he's the top performer today.
I think the winning condition for Envy
is making Kessnet and Demon 1 comfortable
to have the best individual performances they have.
They can have.
And I think part of that might require
Excergys going in and dying for the cause.
I mean, we don't quite know.
Obviously what we expect from Envy
they did not have much practice time with the rosters is now we're looking at the other side
their opponents for today evil geniuses they took them down once however week one to week three i
think that's a very different look for evil geniuses they really started to mesh you know the synergy
started to be really on display no it did i felt like it was a complete 180 versus what we've been
seeing in their first few weeks i was honestly doubtful a little bit of the chemistry that they
presented early on but last weekend they showed a whole new team i felt like they were actually
playing together outside of their pre-planned stuff, right?
I saw them kind of, maybe it's an improvement on comms,
if I had to say, just because of how well,
like, specifically look on these site anchors,
how well they were kind of playing around each other
with that.
I do think it was an improvement,
but I still think we see issues in those later rounds.
They had nice set plays.
I think especially their haven exemplified that.
But when they get into these stressful late rounds,
where the team has to take initiative and action
on something very quickly together,
I still think we see EG fumble in those moments.
And I think that might have been obfuscated some in their last game because of the clutches
that they were getting from players like super and calm, which I don't know if is
replicable today.
Whereas that was on full display in their opener versus NB the first time because of
how chaotic NB were allowed to make those late round situations happen.
So this is something that's going to be very tested throughout the match today.
I think EG was very aware of their shortcomings though in those first two weeks.
They knew exactly what they needed to work on, right?
We had chats with the individual players,
also of course, with Coach Potter.
You mentioned it as well, right?
Superman, he's one of those individual performances
who kind of didn't show up in the first two weeks,
but really redeemed himself.
No, he did.
I think alongside Superman, we really saw it.
You just kind of come together and be the team
which I kind of hope we saw at the start of the year.
Yeah, so they have a trajectory so far.
It's going up, but they do have to go up against the team
that actually knocked them into the lower bracket
to begin with.
Let's send it back down to Dryad and hear from Coach Potter.
Hey guys, I'm here with Potter and Potter,
we know that the Evo Genesis players have insane potential,
but how do you balance the coaching of the individuals
and the little things that they have to do
and also the countering what MBE is doing,
knowing that you already faced them
and I mean, you know, they went very well.
I do know him well.
You know, this week, it's been a lot about adapting
and improvising and kind of rolling with the flow
to build our confidence.
We've been really focusing on ourselves
a lot of the heavy lifting for that sort of prep for the macro side of things was
done before the kickoff started so this week it's been about activating my
players and making sure they have the confidence. Very excited Gilles. Yeah it's
gonna be against the team that didn't expect to see in the form that they will
be facing off today so it's gonna be an exciting match for us to watch. It
absolutely will be I think it's gonna require a lot out of calm today in
particular because even more than usual with envy today is going to be about
sight reading you're gonna expect envy to be switching around compositions
trying to prioritize getting demon one on that chamber if you can it all
possible and I think that's gonna be a big ask for who is still a very new IGL
in the EG camp now I want to know based on the information we were given that we
were all having an opportunity to change our predictions yeah did anyone
change their predictions? I don't know. I pre-predigee and I stuck to it. We're
committed. Yeah. We're committed to potentially being wrong and I'm not
that about it. Mimi's still a sendals believer. A lot of people have jumped ship
off the send train in match two. Yeah I did this just off of vibes and it was
kind of a pun. I assumed I would be in the minority here. I think that there is
still... I was very impressed by the talent from Leviton in their first game.
I haven't seen enough of like what the team actually has and I wasn't crazy impressed by their macro
So I still think even with Sen's struggles. That's gonna be a close game
But you told me spike was back. He is now you're saying that he's gonna lose you can be back and lose
Is that surprising to you guys so much Andy Andy love and chat and demon one is incredible and
And EG, they are not a firepower heavy team compared to some of the field, I think.
So I can understand it.
Well, I'm excited for this one.
I want to see what both of these teams have in store for us today.
Everything is on the line today.
Four teams will take the stage, but only two can move forward in this competition.
V to the America's kickoff starts right now.
No way.
But still, 10 seconds left.
This is going to be a hype.
Oh, he's got the 1v1 now for his Luke Show.
Is he gonna end the game?
Com already did around the world.
Can he put it on his shoulders?
Com getting the revenge on Luke Show.
Man, did that flank get so much value.
Definitely felt good.
Felt like rolling back years in a way.
I think everyone was like, he's flanking again.
You know, that's kind of been my thing over time.
Now it gives me more confidence going into all my clutches.
It's something that everyone will have to look out for.
and then we'll see if I can play mind games with it.
I think EG are pretty good.
They have a lot of issues though.
I feel like they try to play too structured.
They're like too rigid,
and I think that's pretty bad for them.
Also, in the end, we're like very loose and free.
We do what we want a lot of times.
This is FB!
I think we just need to trust each other more.
When I hear my teammates talk about, like, adjustments
for what the enemy team is doing, I'm like,
wow, these guys are so smart.
I actually think we have a really good chance of making it.
I personally can get myself together like I feel like I'm bottlenecking really hard right now.
I think MV are kind of doing their own thing right now.
Well, we're kind of improving.
We'll see what happens.
What I'm expecting in this game is a 2-0 for MV.
Evil Genius has put in no work the past couple of weeks.
And they're a different team as of last week.
They're on the right trajectory just in time to avoid elimination today.
that they are for E.G.
This is a really big test.
This is a team that...
Get the E.G.
How many times have I heard that?
What was I saying?
This is the same thing for E.G.
Today, they are a lost or a bit...
Excuse me, I have questions about this.
There's a firepower about how well they can put it together
with it's really some weird pieces.
And I think they could have looked good in their early rounds.
They've had good plans, but now they have to execute
against a team that is going to be so chaotic,
so firepower heavy and who they've already lost to.
And mission number two, find Demon One.
Mission number one, kill Demon One somehow.
Don't go to Demon One.
Avoid at all costs.
Yeah, that's the hidden third route,
but that wasn't the tougher to do.
I don't know, but it seems like there is a clear game plan,
at least, in place.
All right, and their opponents for today.
Fairly lost, but it changes, of course,
with a whole roster of our ascension teams,
so they might have to bank a lot on comfort.
And then there were two two members, some of the Ascension and Squad still here, but
hey, Demon One, the Super Saw, there's some for basically every Oregon BCT, put them in
the mix, you're going to get the job done.
The last time we saw our roster move, this crazy, this unexpected was when Demon One
joined EG in 2023.
What they were going to say when they joined Sina?
No, no, literally, like when he first joined, remember, they, they, they made it a drop
like oh that's a crazy move why would you get rid of BCJ and then he was like the best thing ever for EG
This is another move that is coming in the middle of very weird circumstance
And we have to see if they actually can make it work. All right, and here is your max selection
What do we make of this one?
These are all maps that I could see chamber being ran biably right like these are maps where we could see demon one
Just kind of in the locking chamber and locking it down and I'm just concerned with
much EGS kind of struggled with that macro.
Are they going to be able to put down
and push back an operator no matter where they want to go?
Yeah, it definitely needs to be a focus for them,
but also something that they would only found out
about yesterday, right?
At the same time, looking at the rematch in the map pool,
both Crude and Bind were two maps from that original pool.
Both of them went and beat Wade.
That was where the series was won.
So evil geniuses are going to have to go back
and study that tape too.
And looking at demon one,
The last time he played on Pearl,
you dropped 37 kills in overtime to beat Envy.
Now they've gone, picked him up and they're like,
okay, you're trying to do that for us today on Pearl.
Take us home now.
Yep.
Yeah, can't beat them, be them.
That's the way to do it.
Yeah, can't beat them, buy them.
Hold that, yeah.
This economy, I guess that's how you do it.
Yeah, what do you wanna see composition wise
for matter of those teams?
Team in one chamber.
Chamber, Doru, Jet.
I actually think that that would be good given the circumstances or the
Kessnet Neon actually like him on that role too. Yeah and coming in from EG let's
see if they run the same comp exact same comp that they ran last time that
didn't work out great for them but I do like to pick on the show but I think the
dart and the drone give you a lot of information that they could kind of play
around with but will it be enough to kind of clear out every spot on for also
default property that is my question. The big elephant in the room the last sunny
EG was playing Pearl and also the split against them.
Demon won Astra.
What?
Wait, wait, they're asking EG.
No, Demon won.
Potter's on the other side of the stage.
You don't have to walk in the smokes anymore.
She's not forcing you to.
That is a wild move.
I mean, he has played it before, like you're saying.
He won Champs playing Astra, Brim.
We're going to see his Brimstone on bind.
I'm telling you now.
Yeah, lock and doors, compositional predictions.
The teams are getting ready and so are we.
So let's send it over for this elimination match to our casters.
Here's Riven and Silly.
Thank you so much to the DAS great setup for the day.
And it is going to be, as you said, Zoe, that elimination match facing these two
teams that are also facing some changes with EG.
It's feeling good about the position right now.
So can they topple the demon as he now comes into play for Envy?
That's just so many changes going into this game.
So many changes.
Yes, even when it comes into the roster for Envy and you're adding arguably
some more firepower than steam, but then it comes down to is there going to be a lack of preparation?
Is there going to be any dynamics issues now going to this game?
It's also going to be a role potentially issues.
You have even one going into this after he has to play after us since his leviathan days
I think the last time he's played that astra was actually on March 30th where they lost 0-2 against and
What's upon a time for the other right like the foodie of today back in with Rossi exactly now
And yeah, he gets to get reunited at least with Rossi
But Rossi also switches into a role going into the centi.
Yeah.
You have to also online for EG though.
They keep the same comp, but they are also switching roles.
Okiyanos is now going to be the tip of the spear,
playing this way for the team, and Digizine
to support them under Yoru.
Has swapped it before.
Digizine, no stranger to that Yoru.
But we have seen Okiyanos fragging on it.
So can we expect the same from this?
Envy taking space already.
As EG do the same long, and it looks like they are going
to put their foot down here.
just from R right away and sign off on it.
Double Molly's two, so that's no alarm but a middle.
This is why you're playing so passively for EG.
Ears are ringing. Already Superman,
he has under heavy trouble.
Still gets it.
Little bit helpful to the team there
as he was very good cost up.
They're trying to push through the smoke,
nice job holding the defensive side.
As MV continues to push forward,
but it's not enough.
It's falling flat out of Digi-Z and it's a 3K.
EG was ready for that.
This is why them being spread all across the map.
Again, they were expecting for Envy, just to continue to be aggressive in the post plan.
They held their lines where you're trying to cross over to find information.
You needed some Util to at least help out onto Kestin to move towards that kick fight.
And he runs into a crossfire setup and there's just too much to deal with here for Envy.
These boys! There we go! Hey!
It looked red. It looked like they had to cover for each other for all the Util that Envy used there. It was very nice.
One thing that's for sure, at least for Envy, is once they take this offensive side, it
would still be a very difficult game for EG, because you're still looking at a roster
across the board that has some heavy, heavy firepower, as Okinawa is already arrounding
under trouble.
A drive-by from Kessi with the Sheeran.
Forcing an error there, and they're still going to push in.
The rest of the team is trying to pick up the pieces.
Almost a little too much, but EG does come out with the 3v3 now.
I have to be careful of how this works.
Kesnet with the Guardian is able to go back and forth.
Gonna keep focused on those guns in sight.
There's no U-Till right now for EG.
He has to move it as a group.
Another.
Looking to tempt some shots, draw some eyes,
and they leave bow to run in.
The Phantom Purchase for the round is gonna clean a few off,
get that return on investment,
and good patience to slow that one down,
recognizing Envy was putting a little bit of chaos in there.
And that's one thing that we're gonna keep underlining in this game.
They wanted to brush up on their micro against Laod last week and they looked excellent in that series.
Now they want to see if we're going to be able to continue this against a team like Envy.
Again, they've learned from their opening kickoff game against this very team where that aggression from Envy kind of took over for them.
And for Envy's win over EG.
But now so far so good.
I love how we scaled back towards that map, playing the buddy system on that retake.
Despite this being an anti-eco and probably doable for Envy's side, because it was a very nice 3v3 in the end
that was doable on the side of the attack.
And now for the gun round of Envy.
It's gonna continue to be slow, playing a little bit more of a default on the 2-2-1,
trying to prod to see if there's anybody pushing aggressively as you have this towards for each enemy.
Nice pressure for Okeanos to follow the drone.
They have calm on that Ode in the double doors for a moment to keep the spray down,
But he backs down street as envy
Do a little bit of play so they can get themselves into the hallway towards our
They've gained a bit of space here, but no real movement
Towards the map side of an EG might have to come down to the activation
This belongs so far for the side of envy because you've made so much noise in the first place now
You finally push them back. Actually, this is perfect look for EG right now
They could split into a 4-1 setup on the B site where there's a very weak side
They should have had to TP out.
Ok, hasn't it?
Oh, gets torn apart by the Superman Bandit and Com does make that Oden sing.
Envy getting a little bit of ground in sight and they are going to use all the time in the world on EG side to walk this one back in
so they can have the right hit from every side it looks like they're going to be able to come from.
A little bit separate though, there's so much good Util and Okianos but look at him flanking all the way towards that long B side.
Really, you're looking at a flash, hopefully a recon that comes back for Com, for that fucking take, but they're losing the timing.
Quick trade.
Okano seems to move, but he can't make a footstep yet.
He doesn't know if somebody's in range, now he's kind of activated and he can start the head down long.
There's that dart.
Spike spots a hit, medium tech, here Com's off, he's gonna play off that utility and easily get the spray down.
The last shot from Baal, they have three alive still, and EG grabbed their bonus round.
That's surprising as well from EG.
Set up in a position where they're just trying to react on...
Yeah, EG coming back and once they're realizing EG are fairly slow. They're not trying to group up here
You saw at least on the
On the sidewalk towards the street Ross
He did try to find some information the postman to try to cut these rotates
But the rest of the thing hanged it up stay in individual positions though. She's gave so many 1vx's
EG have shown now a is closed and B is closed
It's gonna take more than some regular hits to get in so how can Envy start to really split this defense?
Envy will go for a flyman hit.
It's a half-wire, you're trying to get some value here off this
Bucky wall slicer in the slide from Keznit.
Now DGZ hands that up wall.
One clean shot, they know spikes on the left side of the map.
They can at least bring one more over as you see that lean coming in from
Combe to protect the site.
Just reassured that they're in the right spot. Oh, this is gonna be tough.
Seeing Stars as DGZ, but he gets out of the gate crash.
Kessnetz forced to run through, taking a bit of damage in the same moment, and that damage is finalized by Bob.
Plat is good at least, but they're looking fairly strong for EG for the retake.
At least this time around, it looks like they want to try to push Fort Street.
A little side kill there, helps. They got a look.
Break the crosshair, but Bob was able to get one.
It still means Envy is trying to be active on this.
EG goes for the dimensional drift to find the rest of the members.
And Ekster looks like he might get cracked on this one.
He goes to hide again a stinger a bucky. He's got an arsenal back there
But does he have the answer for everyone staring him down? He does not
He grabs another one
And already dimensional drift in this round into some more kills e.g. Are flowing. I love the confidence of the jazine
Yeah, in that there was what a concuss from the astra on the side of demon one
Yet he still stays in and tries first shot before it tepees out and makes it out safely if he actually died though
That's an outlaw left in the post plan which would have been dangerous there for EG
Yeah, but thankfully here is despite the damage being done for and be signed on this half-mine
They're still flowing with a lot of money for EG for most of the crew when a shot from people one by the way
Few he still has that sheriff when he's playing smoke team members brim on fracture units astra
He's still always hitting those sheriff shots on the lower buys
But it's gonna be a timeout as it's quickly four rounds for EG
And that shot from D1 just brings into the confidence that even one brings in for this team, right?
Absolutely.
He's mentioned in so many interviews in the past, it's like, hey, I don't mind whatever team I play with, I'll make it work.
And whatever agent I need to play, I'll make it work.
He makes it work here because he brings into the firepower.
But then now it comes down to the preparation of Stunna and his assistant coach on how do you build around now the synergy with that?
Yes, you have that firepower, but if you don't have that utile that really helps out the team into these moments of chaos,
That's where the opponents can really take over these things. Thankfully though, I think, you know, Demon 1 played in that week 2,
Oxi came back, and then now he probably had like a two-week stint now to be the scrim with Envy to build things up,
and hopefully it'll shine for that side for Envy this time around here, but I mean, it's a big ask right now for this team to move in.
To figure out what all of that looks like, as well as they might change duelists around, change smokes around, change the Sentinel, who knows.
They could really toss things up.
So for disappointment though for not seeing a chamber. Oh mind they release a video that has chambers faces hard
It's his name on demon one with chamber there and we get astrophora. We better get a chamber in the series
We better get a chamber. Let's see what they have for round five out of this time out for envy
It's been a pain point for envy so far
But you understand here you lose a bonus things who start spiraling but the retakes have been really good for eG
So you have to R&D's out on the pulse plan and this fight that Toronto play it slow
trying to force EG's hand to find the info first.
That's a solo push-up from Navezine.
And there's three players over,
maybe even four at the beginning on that B site.
Yet, he still comes out on skates for EG's side.
Beautiful start for EG after this timeout from NB.
And they're ready to play towards A2.
No, they'll have to delay and get a retake here.
Supplement, playing safe in the back,
going for a bit of a smoke.
It's a kill through three!
Someone pop and takes a pie to the face past his teammates.
And now they're holding in the site,
did you with another one he's popping out of the woodwork you can hardly see him
when he's hitting these shots from the side of envy and they are lost in this
one is bow gets a little bit of a cage if they're on the lurk and it is five to
zero the timeout will not work for envy and you have to understand here why we
have these role switches going into this map as well to see Rossi on this cage
when demon one plays a chamber he plays a brimstone Astra brimstone Astra is
gonna be with the team where he's gonna have to play pulse plans but when he's
He's playing a chamber, he's more like a rotational pick-off type of player, while you need lurkers.
That's what was one of the key components to Envy's working around the map, forcing rotates and being able to come back into a different site.
It was because of Enspire's lurks.
Now you're giving it to Rossi, who's also very good at that role, which is probably why now he's playing this KJ.
And not giving this sentiable to Steven one just because of the map layout here of Pearl.
All right. Confirmed entry with the dimensional drift. They can see Bao on the back side.
They'll say we'll put this right on point. Easy kill. Yeah, really just going back to basics here on using one ult to favor the other, compliment the other.
Still pushed. They have a reaction for the Util. Very nice protocol here from the side of Envy to stop it.
But is it going to be too much chaos from EG? Is the rest of Envy is just ready down the firing line of Secret to bring that in their favor?
When you open it up on that side and you're playing weak for EG on the A site with Bow's Util, if he dies,
I mean you've already lost the information on what could happen here towards Art.
I have the best question marks in the game.
It was artistic.
But there's just so much space that Envy could take here in the pulse plant.
So they all group up towards the end, they all least try to congregate into one section that they could retake for EG.
But Envy just had great counter-util in the pulse plant because most of it was just used by a double ult to take space.
Spaceball is great
Rolled a few off the chain of demon one there, but he still gets to kill as it goes through the metal
So they get one back
See where they can take the money see where they can take the gameplay
We've kind of had the death ball strategy from envy here and he's passed you around so they could keep their forces together
Definitely took a hell may ready for that round, right? Yeah, all together space. Thankfully now
Did you see and still has his overdrive so they could cycle a little bit more?
Despite them winning the round, a couple of them did die with not too much money left going into this round, so Ekster only has a spectre to work with.
And we have another very slow start for Envy. Just still continuous different looks and trying to get active information in the first place.
Is this drone on this long B side, excuse me?
Hasn't seen any position from the AWPer yet.
They may be thinking that the AWPer is playing towards this B side, but it's actually just
Okiano's playing at the over A. The AWPer was actually posted up on art.
Beautiful mind games here.
A call from Kong to rotate Digizine back on the offline because there's no more deep drone
to spot down towards that long B.
Digizine has an opportunity for Great Opener once again.
He's holding down low.
He knows if they hit this late, they're probably not
going to do too much on the top side.
Oh, he moves right, but he moved a little too early.
And that's an activation for Envy here.
Nice cosmic divide is going to make
EG feel a little uncomfortable on their site.
There's a quick check to the back side, gives them safety.
Oh, still comes going to find you at the Shock Darts, as always.
The next plant to come back in, it's
going to be the Killjoy Ultimate, going to be a lockdown
So we might have somebody caught if you cannot get eggs are out
It just got there is out to you a couple seconds left
So that's gonna force Envy out allowing a G to flood back in with a cosmic divide
You could at least get it halfway, but they haven't wasted a you till from the after yet dashing through
Hasn't it now looking for a first kill as demon one gets bowed down
They are
Arms reach apart here as the fire starts coming through and EG finds a few kills for themselves as in another one trade down long
They're not putting the pressure on. They're not getting the swings that they need here. It's all up to DG now.
Operator there. Pete's gonna come out, but it's not gonna be enough time. All the smokes, all the delay.
Beautifully played by Envy there. It took quite a bit from both teams,
but it's what comes out for Envy's side that matters, that victory.
Envy was not afraid to refight through the cosmic divide as soon as that lockdown was depleted on EG's attempt.
Look at this. Yes, it's a beautiful shark right in the beginning, but towards the end,
for EG, putting back in his double ult on their side, they haven't had a spike.
Yeah, there's just a lot of you two coming back from enemy side.
Yeah, really delayed everything on the side of enemy, which is perfect.
Just kind of felt like false pressure. You know, you are coming back into the site,
but you're not making the enemy care too much about it.
Oh, an op is saved for Dujuzin going into this round.
He's been here a few times trying to take the fight himself another one. No the saturate was so nice
But X got arrested the team trade back
Hunter's fury goes through that chaos as well from calm in the back to get a kill
And there are X's all over a but it does not mean Ross. He stops moving
He's still trying to gain space and figure stuff out where the plant goes down
Time was still pretty good for EG. What a shot though for DGZ.
That's XR down advantage for the side of EG.
As now the alarm button is sounded, they know at least that one is towards art.
They could start 10-4 you up here, especially now that DGZ has the ult
to confirm where the second player is going to be.
Well, they see the turret. That wasn't there before, so they're guessing it's going to be with the EG.
Wait, wait, wait!
Why are you looking left if there was confirmed no one there?
All the last moments are just all in Envy's favor around the dimensional drift,
and they snuff that play right out.
And that's a little bit of a slip there.
We were talking about EG having to clean up a little bit of that micro and just having to turn left without
you know, flicking towards that right side to really clear both extremities.
Kesley found that perfect timing to take down Calm out in the open.
And then the crossfire to bring immense value from Art.
After that lurk coming out here from Rossi.
And there you go, you see how they're so focused on trying to take down
Rossi towards Art that Kesley found that perfect timing.
You're lucky to start there, because that pulse is at the end.
There's only two rounds remaining to tie up this game for Envy's side, and yeah, you're going to stop the breaks now.
Potter calling it for EG to just redraw the plans on how they want to anchor on these sites.
It was still nicely drafted. You're trying to go for, you know, the dash up to fight Enko,
combined with the Hunter's Fury, but that second layer, they try to stay on site.
They tried to fight with the Chaos against Envy, which was something that they also wanted to explore going into Loud.
But going into that pulse, but it's might have been cleaned up here by stunner after his calls.
Because that's what? Three plants in a row since a timeout? Three of them won by a side MNB.
See where they go from this. It does seem to kind of allow Okianos kind of extremity control
and denial of him going down in the same situation was still Digi being hard on these lines,
lines going for the operator being the main focus of kind of the defense point
they want to focus they want to hit with if they are moving forward here again
that at long c so we'll see if okay you can get himself going here looks like he
might be backed up by the drill in this time to an arm
the GC is gonna find star try to find some value again with the odd by five
who's gonna try to move up a lot more where he found some value with the
phantom before but he'll stay posted up for a bit as they hear their drill near
to re-clear towards Arc for EG.
That's a little bit of a stalemate, but the ult comes up right away for Ekster to find the early information and a quick 5 man pop.
Instantly cut the side as well.
Towards the right side, making sure it's safe. They leave 2 in main to insert, but now Ekster is fully pressuring here towards the back side, and EG can't even approach their site.
Always seem to be stuck to play the post-plant right now when it comes down to these big ult rounds for Envy.
What do you have cooked up now for EG as you're a man down already from Ophianos?
Poppin starts it. Safety in sight. Everybody's kind of got a crossfire on each other and that's the one. Poppin goes for the kill as they get one out.
Nicely played by Exor and the team there just to send EG for a loop. And team in one had an up in the back by the way on main. Still open. Still team in one.
It's going to be a save for EG as they cruise out to the left side of the map here. And this was a 5-1 game. It's not going to be a 5-4 game.
for it. Correct. Yeah, again, after that time up from envy, and they started having these
old cycles coming on their side to they, they were able to take full advantage of it, even
canceling out the big old round that he had before on that lockdown and astra cosmic divide
on that B site. So that means now for envy, they're, they're definitely on the driver's
seat for this half. And I like to see EG maybe try to change things a little bit more now
when it comes to these chaotic rounds. Because again, the, the we're looking good chaos versus
chaos against loud and kind of clock their opponents off guard now you're allowing
Envy to get full setup on these full splints and now they found how they could
correct force correct right over here to fight towards that pit.
Bro we have Demon 1, she's the best player in the world, let's go.
As Demon 1 just sits back and sips on Mahito and A main for that round.
But you saw how that changed towards that fight on that pit instead of the piss
round of course. We have that U-Tilt but now you're baiting some players out,
you're TPing out and you're swinging right after the TP from next to her.
and EG gets all their angles broken trying to fly back into the A site pit take.
Now it's a big round that EG could maybe take into their advantage because they have this whaley ult.
It's actually ok, I was using the mini AWP with the Guardian looking down the line, aggressively actually for Info,
which allows now EG to focus a little bit more on the crossfire and to getting information on middle.
Mm-hmm
Just patience now
Thanks, there's probably not going unless he has some utile. They're waiting for each other here to make a move
I kind of like this from Envy
They've they've shown a lot of pressure in the beginning of the rounds before now
It's gonna be very patient to make people second guess if it's actually gonna happen
Flash is coming through shots going a little wayward for a moment there
But it is gonna be Envy trying to push through art here
Nice shot by Digi to slow him down. Wait, Okonos is there too. It's only a few trades from Envy and not enough to stop EG's defense.
I thought Okonos was going to run down there as he only had the Guardian inside that smoke.
He makes it work. We were looking to see if he could come online at this game. They've kind of kept him quiet on this way, Lei.
And now probably don't need to use the convergence path to just come up, hasn't it?
Shorty on Digi's he's gonna slide around here. This can be incredibly effective if he slides into 1v1s.
Boom. Saved by Demon 1. He's trying to hide just outside the path. They're just waiting. Long swing.
Oh, here's a poppin' for ya. Biles gonna be able to clean that one up. 6-4. It was going for a few rounds, but EG stopped the bleeding there.
You see the practice coming in for EG as they look that they're gonna align themselves to Demon 1.
and they just head back and say wait guys we have to pick up the fundamentals 3-2-1 a wide swing and then finally they break the crosshair placement
and they even flat out live our own of them and that's definitely surprised
NB when they tried to double run through that smoke nice repositioning coming out from Okianos
even Valis the one that gets the kill man they're getting good values with the bandits and the pistols
remember Superman at the beginning of that half all the way towards that back of that B site
up in?
Ha ha ha.
Tasty your own medicine, right?
Six to four here.
Two more rounds to clean up this half.
Could go either way with the buys coming through.
And EG keeps that up.
Maybe orb control will be the name of the game here.
Demon one would have a cosmic divide if it picks up that orb.
Offer them to go into easy mode on the execution on that B site.
Don't have them. Well, the turret's gonna see them at least.
There it is.
There's the storm. There's that orb.
And there is that pick from Ducati again, though.
It's hardly bent on that left side, actually, towards the screen.
It's been boxed. It's been backhauled.
So always switching it up as the site comes in.
Cause of divide for safety. But how safe is the question?
Com already getting one. Swings through the wall.
He's going to be found very quick there just not stopping E.G. biting down on this kaisen because he's revived right away.
Oh, wow! And Digi's in there to clean the round up.
Crispy there from E.G. on the hold.
Yeah, I was questioning here, Envy running down from that plant, especially when they lost a player, but it's Poppin trying to go for that plant.
He already had to hunt the fury.
He was probably going to be the one that could save the round for Envy, but instead they go through there trying to improve their play style.
They tap the spike, they force players to come out and they're coming on their aim.
They try to win these rounds.
But YouTube continues to be too good for EG, they back themselves out into these fights.
I'm feeling like it's Christmas.
He's giddy over there.
Where are we going?
Looks like it's happening fast.
They've slowed it down a few times and now they're gonna hit the go button.
Double off again.
Cruising right through, Diffusene's gonna try to get in the face.
Oh my god.
The shorty warrants and the gatecrows is out just to return a little bit later.
for another fight and play again.
Oh, Nadia unable to clear the right side.
They're so tunneled on what's happening over towards the util
of evil geniuses as they continue to clean up Envy.
Flawless round so far and a flawless round to end,
the first half.
Great cleanup by Potter,
sends the time out as well on their side
and they're making this game in this series interesting.
Again, a big elimination game,
big changes coming up for Envy
and EG trying to find their championship form
And it's all thanks to this guy, the continuous first bloods from Dijazine that gets converted back for EG is the name of that first half.
This first half of Evil Geniuses vs. Envy.
Oh my god, even one cosplay!
It has been in your face and I don't think it's gonna change when we come back from the break. Don't go anywhere.
Can I help you, sir?
Here's the bill from the dealership where I got my car,
and I'd like you to beat it with a better deal
on one of these five cars.
Not how it works.
I guess you're not as cool as Verizon.
Bring in your AT&T or T-Mobile bill for a better deal today.
We are back to see if Envy can put their stamp on the second half here, 8 or 9.
We are back to see if envy can put their stamp on the second half here eight of four is evil geniuses
You called it right before we went to break Potter's timeout just corrected everything and anything
We were really seeing wrong with them and they even came out with a flawless the last round of the half
So really right at the ship there. We'll see if they can continue into the second half
Yeah, both coaches actually getting tremendous value out of their timeouts at very good
Start a slow comeback within the game
They were really one run away before tying things up on a flop by a scoreline until Potter called that timeout
And at the end of round number eight yet
It could convert the other one too, but then the last three look pretty good
But here is that question mark that looks to be answered this time around is where about to witness the second half unfold envy
Five players individually could definitely win these rounds. Okay. I'm gonna start off and already shut down to
Demon one says you can have a play at it and they're gonna try to actually protect this
I thought Superman and the rest of the team were going in, but it's gonna fizzle out for now a
Crete going into the site here for EG as they try to keep things a little quiet until the drone
But they still have quite a bit of control over here. They just have to figure out what's going on in art
The peak, the double swing there. Bob was able to help clean that trade up
They're still going, they're still going. It doesn't look like they're gonna slow down at all. A jump in coming from Rossi
He's gonna throw his aim off for a moment. Can it be popping? It's Baal again!
A 3k for Baal on this pistol. A 3k for DG earlier. These guys are cruising.
Especially when you see all the 5x's for the blue side of Envy just dying here towards middle.
It just became an easy, you know, advantageous position from A.G. side.
Look at how we're trying to push up. There's one flak and then we're all peeking one by one at that point.
He has to try to converge on two angles, but E.G. were just ready for it.
They had three players on her side and just flopped back beautifully.
Oh! Yo, Kessnet!
Kessnet Dukie!
He's gonna have to watch his words though, because I remember, I don't remember no Keanos.
I think I'm left against Krue.
It was very loud against Kessnet, and he ended up being a victory for Krue in the end,
so we'll have to see if it bites back.
So far, so good though. Keanos continues, shuts down next through,
was trying to look for some more control, so for Envy's end,
trying to maximize as much as they can into their eco so that they could get
these ults up ASAP. Poppett's already halfway towards his on the Hunter's Fury
but EG is starting to run away with these grounds.
Wishing the eyes of Digizine right now as they get dimensional drift back on line
ASAP but still right side of the map they're working back on the defensive
side so thinking Envy's gonna get a little weird here on their lower by a
A little bit of the anti-eco purpose for EG moving in here slowly.
Turning every stone though. Double swing to bring the turf behind a drone too.
That confirms an open site for them to take. I don't know if Rossi will try to
go for a timing. He only has a classic to work with and now it's just fine exits.
Try to go for dynaspite. Don't give these orbs up on the side of Okianos is
already halfway. So that means for me, you're gonna have to switch weapons here.
Maybe try to pick up the pistol from Superman or Bal and start amming Okianos.
chasing for these kills in spawn.
I like that.
Looks like they might trade over here.
No, they're actually just getting out.
Trading positions.
So still Least going for the effective person to push.
Calm.
Starts off there.
And the rest of Envy, I think, are
going to try to deny some orbs here
as we just get the spike to go off.
A nice job by EG to roll through these ones.
I think one of the things that pained them in pro, going forward.
There you go.
You got the trade finally.
One thing to pain them was they played a little too safe
on these rounds where they had buys.
And they kind of let the enemy team in
And under their skin, but not this time.
Good shot, Darts, coming up from Tom.
That's a white two-shot, Darts, and he's gotten on this map so far.
Yeah.
So getting value off the credits that he spends for the abilities here for that soba.
He's also getting very close to halfway to his hunter's fury.
Jeez.
Zoop!
Kits it. Of course he's blind when he does it, too.
He is having a grand old time today.
Alright, 10 and 4 here.
Did you with the Outlaw?
18 and 6 for both him and Bao.
Just laying down the law today.
Right now the Openers is across the board from EG on how they're getting these values,
but on that first half we was definitely Digizine at the tip of the spear.
You know, we talked about five first Bloods.
All five of them converted into a round for EG in that first half.
That's incredible.
So think about him right now with this outlaw.
The thing is, is this bonus round is
not going to be as strong against Envy.
The outlaw against four full shields across the board here for four of the players out of five of Envy.
They could stay alive here in East Vines, but
they have power numbers on the attack.
Making good space.
Feeling comfortable about their take, actually.
A little late on the activation to see if Envy was maybe hiding in the works.
Oh Rossi with the angle Rossi with a sliver forces off that so he doesn't play anything too silly and the team can get back with him
Knowledge of Rossi's position gives him some damage now
You got to watch coming around the flank those wall from our team and one is a good push inside extra
Doesn't fall prey to at that time with the shorty and demon ones good for two from around the outside now
It's just digizine and Superman
Getting back in from main and it is gonna be a task. That's one shot. That's two
No, this can't happen!
It can! We just watched it!
And I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it.
Evil geniuses
grab another round that was well in the hands of Envy.
And that's on Superman.
17 assists, by the way, on Superman.
Oh my gosh.
And somehow finds a timing out of his gravity well
to not allow Envy to get even half the fuse at the start.
So they find the perfect timing as the smoke dissipates,
And it's outlaw classics and the long-range catching pairs off guard one by one. What a conversion out from the evil geniuses
I think that's a big point where we see that it comes down to the team who's kind of been that veteran locked in status to a team that
Ended that point relies on firepower in a moment relies on swinging on each other as Ross
He said before we're all calling until poppin kind of confirms a call. It's very ranked
We'll be back and forth covering each other hitting our shots
There's no real method to the madness other than we are aimers
We're good and we'll get in there when the call is ready and macro wise when you're looking at how that
Ground unfolded though. It was so unorthodox in terms that Envy playstyle to get so much space at the beginning
The fact that EG was able to crawl down for a split into the A site and still set alarm
Bots deep into the jump up towards IE
They had so much information in the pulse plant to win for EG side and then Envy well
Well, they used their brute force U till they set these aggressive fights on site and then they forced the EG players to really fall from a couple of mistakes until you have this hero round coming out from the Jazeem and Superman.
So, honestly, like it wasn't the worst of rounds coming out for Envy when they wanted to flood Riting towards the end. They just got very unlucky of not protecting each other when they're trying to get that defuse.
Where that's planted towards that
Towards that fridge you could still body block your teammate to a preschool for a half diffuse
Maybe even a full diffuse, but they weren't really there to work with with each other for envy after they reach of the A site
Well, they're active double swing doors instant control in mid
Tempting a flight bow feels it already. Yeah, and they actually got it right off of the turret too
Oh the throw over the wall for the escape. Very nice of blade
This bow kind of calls that one.
A little hand sticking out.
Took his elbow off, and then the hand.
Traded back, beautifully.
When we get another peek is the question.
Org grab an out, EG doing a great job at maxing in these rounds, too,
to make sure they have an advantage to get the round
if they are stopped in their initial strat.
While that happened towards being in the round,
looks like they already took down Rossi's turret.
So you're forced now players to really move around that map and that was something that Star Wars mentioned before
They haven't been too strong a funny mid round plays especially when they're still aggressive to get the early space
So they kind of feel like they're off on an island
Playing in the unknown that allows our opponents to really close out these rounds. So having EG on the attack with
Well now the dart going towards the east side
You kind of have an idea that there's probably a finish from EG over on a so that will that actually get demon one ready
Let's see how Demon 1 plays this smoke here.
Gonna go ahead and smoke it out so they feel uncomfortable taking that back side of site.
But they're just jumping through as shorty's fearless.
EEG right now with the numbers they're able to put onto the site seeing one,
but that's gonna draw the tunnel attention to the wrong spot.
Poppin' in the back, trading out guns there.
And now, in the eyes of Kham here, he's gonna get found out,
so it's gonna be the rest of the team needing to help him.
comes gonna have to dance now in church great crossfire on our cleaned up one
waiting to pick another double here from the side of Superman and he cannot get
it Rossi gets to with a bulldog and the diffuse comes through for Envy timeout
value up again now is a big play case it just had to get his one while he slads
across that eliminates the crossfire setup yeah so then the other two are
kind of just stuck playing on the staircase and trying to swing on a high
low repeat out from envy very nice in the end good finish here to close things
off on envy that's the face of off just want to close this one out
no pie no pie no pie got it yeah 4 and 13 for Rossi lives are still there at
least yeah yeah especially when you're not buying they go up that's from a vibe
up. Look at that win round. They win the round here, Guardians and Inaries.
Still not out of the frying pan. Yeah. Or Envy and Nijir just looking to go very
quick towards his B site. No converters past the start. No they decide to dive in.
Eggster's still there. Ah, missing on the Hunter's Fury. They're trying to just rush
into site on this call to still take the space but Envy's not gonna let it happen.
A line of scrimmage stands strong, and no member of EG really passes that.
That was huge by Ekster.
He was the reason why they were able to anchor that up and how they were able to.
Also, despite that four versus two that they lost a couple of rounds ago, it was all thanks to Ekster.
Finding great value out of his clone.
They shoot it out, he flashes on top of that, gets some kills while he's storming back with a team.
That was something that was mentioned at the desk where they wanted to see this resurgence of pumping from that week one into this week.
week because he did kind of halter a little bit in the last two, good luck at that flash after the
phone. Even his TP that he forced himself away from was not even far away, so he's always there in
that fight. Mini off shot. Feeling good. Now Eggster has previously talked about kind of getting hit
by the fog of war in a game. It's like, man, I know what to do all the time when I'm playing online,
But in the server sometimes it escapes me and it seems like he's got that cleaned up in these chaotic situations
Well dismiss
Oh
No fight they hold their tongue. Oh, I thought I eat crow on that they don't hold their tongue
They go straight for the fight and now it fizzles out for a moment
Look at the differences from TP's from X-rays while he stays within the site
Well, did you see was always going towards the A site and a very long rotate. So he's always back in the fight, too
EG though on an eco so they're again just trying to maximize as much as they can as they can rather going to the next round
But this is also a scoreline that could potentially haunt EG
They had this matchup. They had this map against sentinels in the past. They had a strong lead too
It was an 11 a 7 1 half or scoreline rather until sentinels came back and won it 13 to 11
No EG was also on the attack side in that moment, or in that map in the series.
Maybe we get an orb here for Superman. I mean you're going to be going guns, you can't go shy. They do.
So at least you get cosmic divide out of this two. Four ults to come out of the next round if none are used here.
And Envy still can clean up. Setting up their ults too. It can get locked down online if they find one more for Rossi.
So, Envy in a very good position to keep stringing these together.
I think it's important that we see them be able to be down in such a way a 5-1,
but still have the knowledge and the wherewithal on how to come back in that situation.
They have to make some noise here. They have to plant. Stay alive to time towards the end.
The Econ won't be there.
Good. Whoever got there first really, too flawless.
That thing is, those are important kills for Kiznet. He's one away from the overdrive now and you just mentioned before
Rossi is one away from his too. So going into this round here, it would be a huge chaotic round two coming up.
Pop and resting. This is Potter saying, slow down the aggression. It is.
Potter wants a moment with the team and also just stop this envy momentum coming through.
coming through. Seems like they have the idea, continuously, in playing at that fundamental
level and putting a few tricks in there. Demon 1 doesn't seem to be having any trouble
slotting in right now with the way they want to play.
I'm still quite surprised though on this Potter timeout. I feel like it's a little bit too
early. They still have 4 rounds of hour and 4 MB ties things up. Yeah, I mean maybe they
want to try some good value out of their ults, but maybe not try to use too much going into
the next round.
That could be it.
They were still looking pretty decent from the pistol to the bonus round that they converted
that they could still trust into Khan's calls going into this round here and then maybe pause
once you start getting 11-8 or 11-9 potentially for Envy here and you see where the ult balance
is going to go for either team.
But maybe because Okianos has been holding on to that ult for a couple rounds in the
past but he should have looked like he was trying to use it towards the B site and decided
to cancel on that.
lost that round so maybe it's just to brush that up a bit remember this is a
different goal swap for both the dj and okianos both of them fighting great
belly on yoru but okianos struggle a little bit more on the waylay this is
new as well you know he is the Swiss army knock for the team but maybe the
jack of all trades master and done scenario here and sometimes that kda
follows the volume to a lot of times you see okianos be in that volume that
Superman has said has got the team going again so that would be pivotal right now
to to hear that parallel from her. Her just path goes up. It's a zing. Easily able to find demon one
out. This makes EG a little unsure to push more. It's only going to be okay on us. I was going to
say no one's going to follow him, but they're trying to get a kill. R is the play from Rossi.
Well, EG have the sight. They also don't want to peek. They're playing a little scared. It's working
out for him for now, but lockdown's going to hit and this is just going to be absolute chaos from
Mexter either side of the wall played here
Kessner's just gonna wait to see if anybody comes through just outside the lockdown playing inside his
The plays from Okeanos don't come through on to Rossi. Just yet here in bow
They've asked from him before can he do it this time?
That's on one swings it almost gets the second one has the timing buddy
Oh my god!
That would have been insane, but it's once again extra singing out for Envy
Coming out of the TP staying alive
And now forcing Val to really run around
Like a chicken with his head cut off and you know what the chicken almost won. They stay alive for a while
Yeah, it was low HP the wall bang into that box and he looked at the HP remaining for exit towards the end
I think it was half way in terms of health. Oh my gosh shot on that flake on Kiznet. 114
A headshot and a body so he still hit him in the face
holy
But that that stops the bleeding
This is a huge advantage for envy to bring things back because you talk about this time out
They've used all of them on the son of EG and he couldn't convert it two players
I should have escaped when the lockdown came out from Envy sign and it didn't happen see him
He didn't see him. Oh, he didn't see him either. There's no being seen right now ships in the night
All right, we digress there might push a little bit more, but the play is towards a here for evil genius is where envy is gonna be rotating
We'll take a long time for them to get their old cycles back to you so well
At this point on second thought
We look at the space you've already gotten all of envy exactly they have the alarm
But the big gap they have is a street where they have zero utility and that's where he's running into actually
This is a great opportunity for them to move in
into a B-side flat, up and over, in clean.
The rotation now coming back in from popping here.
EG trying their hand to stop the bleeding, stop this hemorrhaging that's happening right now
and they lose calm right off the bat, so they're going to have to search the site themselves.
The angles are covered by team and one, and he is just that.
And after these rounds of Valorant coming through on the defensive side, we talked about
individual plays from a lot of these players across the board that can make this a very
tough game against EG.
You don't necessarily always need that synergy when you have five amazing players across
the board that can fight these times.
I don't know how he does it, but he does the thing again.
We're also fans of the thing, whenever it happens, every time.
11-9, it's...
Envy is not stopping and it doesn't look like the aggression is going to stop for A main here.
And then we're not even really in orb fight, they just want the space and give EG a hard time.
It's a big W for NB, definitely.
Talk about ult cycles that EG are desperately trying to get it back on their side.
You can trade a lot of utility on both ends though and EG are just looking to quickly
rotate back towards his B site.
The turret that was watching mid the whole time that never got broken, it allows for
them to now know that there's a weak site towards B.
Drone in, full team.
Push into site or aggressive at this point because they're kind of waiting out to see
if backhaul is clean, they still haven't cleared backhaul.
One minute on the clock and the rest of Envy is now about to stare down the barrel here
or the site.
They're in a position to go in.
Cosmic Divide comes through.
Here's the slide in.
Casnet, oh my gosh, just shocking!
Plays right here, drives that one!
Howl right in the kisser, Akam!
Ekster.
Superman, trying to play the soak, trying to play a little sketchy.
And they already know.
They already know, and it's not enough.
NBR just cleaning up these rounds one after the other.
Oh, that's a fire finish right there.
That's crazy.
Excerpt has been popping off for sure on that second half.
But right over here, this is where we're seeing those...
A little bit of those mistakes coming out of EG.
Playing to win, not playing off each other in there.
1v1v1 just through the cosmic divide.
Nobody there to help out.
And calm, unfortunately gets caught with Util and Han.
Knowing that you're low HP onto kids, that you're trying to get a shock bar kill instead of getting gunned out.
And now Envy are one round away of tying things up and they have the chance on their side.
This is a broken economy for EG.
Okianos with a rifle that they want to cycle over as a team.
That's what they're saying, grouped up now for some art control.
Honestly, in a gun run, what can be an answer for EG at this point?
I mean getting onto sites and the post plans for the retakes
I think it's a similar storyline for both of these teams where they're looking very strong in these retakes
Just if they can get there
This is good though breaking the alarm button on middle from the jazine
Yeah, now they start creating these question marks you're weak enough the site look at the rotate that comes out instantly from popping with this Odin
But the yop is where it's the crutch
We have already noticed it from one side.
A little fakey fake. Running.
Oh no!
Got Spike too.
The fake is called, no bluff to be had.
The Spike is down.
And you can kind of see they're not moving too much either.
Because Envy is still worried that EG has a play in mind, not that that was the play.
Can't Omen TP on it.
We had no full rotation just to converge on Spike.
Still playing it smart. I love that from Envy.
of that from Envy.
Yeah, just run down the clock down.
Play your numbers, keep the economy up.
This is very, very smart for Envy.
Change of pace as well.
As you're trying to find, like we were talking about how
it gets difficult for them to find info in the mid-round,
just let them come to you.
Let team 1 move them down.
You just got to fade away headshot.
Walk it backwards.
150 HP for all of Envy across the board.
No way.
Even on that little fight, too?
Good lord.
Yeah, contact play denied for that rifle round or at least a hero rifle for Okeanos
We just talked about the
dreadful scoreline for eG that comes back creeping at him
This is what I'm talking about here
You don't have the time out from Potter anymore to try to calm them down. Oh crap. Is it gonna happen again?
Yeah, I'm gonna lose this lead that we built up against our opponents
11 to 11
hasn't it not. Stop it. Keznick over just continuously in these rounds into the face
of the opponent. Eggster is going to double up on that one. It looks like they might even
take control of the game this round with a 12. EG is stumped already on this round
looking for a way to get in the site. They still have oceanos to dash in and do some
trickery but there's hardly any follow. It's going to take a big play to make this happen.
We need some heroics. It's up to Val here with the space that he's just gotten.
That's one. Oki in. Oki down. The rest of them were there and supermen.
The cape flowing in the wind, but I don't know if it's going to be strong enough for this one.
And he is just going to be timed out here for Envy to find him.
This is wild from Envy right now. You said there were going to be a lot stronger
with the way they could play, how they could lock things down, just being shooters on that defensive side.
And man, are they shooters?
Yeah.
Com has to dig deep right now for this last round.
There's no economy available for EG.
There's no time out that Potter could call out.
And this time around is they're getting owned here
by this op when they're trying to creep up.
This aggression coming out from Kesna too.
It's really catching the timings of what you're trying
to do for EG's side when you're trying to say, OK,
let's just recall some little drone on top of Long B
trying to find the op.
And you have Kesna just running it down
and taking you by surprise.
Basically what the GZ was also doing on the defense, Envy answers and spades.
Because that's all across the board, they're firing value on the defense and
that's the individual prowess of this team, of this roster.
Demon 1 operator are extra outlaw, like, they're having some fun.
Enjoying at least comfort fun, you know what I mean? They're not trying to troll right now.
And that's the other thing we were talking about, right?
You have three players that can opt right now for this team. Exactly.
Next for Demon 1, that's another pain point that EG will have to face going into the series.
He's already broke 20 kills, you're seeing that he can just play anywhere in any team,
doesn't matter the environment, he makes it happen and already he'll get the first blood
on what could be the final round for Envy here to take Pearl.
Cosmic Divide comes in, they sort this out with a bit of a hunter's fury up the gut and
that's what they needed.
That'll definitely raise a bit of the mental going in, Okeanos breaking space but they
still can't break this line, the fight feels weird.
He's gonna get concussed chaos is coming
Ventional drift reveals all the jig is up here and the rest of Envy start to make their way into the church portion of sight
One for one trade are it still alive and well you got calm hanging out on the outside as Ross
He pushes here got to get a tap on the spike
So the plane for his life just wants to make sure you hear that to guarantee the round for EG
Is it OT?
It's creeping ever so close here and looks like EG is gonna tip us out of regulation
What's that old? A few shots. A calm comes in, yeah. That's going to make it pretty easy once the lockdown comes through, but it's all the calm shot to bring us to OT, that final kill, 12 to 12, and honestly, that should not have happened in the case of EG, this was their game to lose, and Envy took that seriously.
You came down to that one of those rounds again where almost for Envy where you showed aggression
You caught some players off guard so many times and for the last round you're playing as safe as possible
You're trying to force your opponents to make a mistake, but comms opener without Hunter's Fury and then the constant divide
Available for the attack was everything for them
To continue to delay and win off time guaranteed especially bow after that kill has a lockdown
But would want any other way a rematch between EG and Envy a match that goes into overtime to start the series
elimination game. Oh
Okay, I was eight and oh you just got outside
Beautiful shot on the chasm. They really bolt misses and now we're seeing oceano's fire up a little bit at the beginning of the round
Hiding drawing that kind of towards secret. So yeah, you're gonna get seen by the drone
But the rest of the team is unknown
IGZ is already TP'd across too, and he's playing with the Phantom, so they are looking to just play off each other and fight.
Little attacks are good.
Great sprays back and forth, knowing the locations, knowing the angles they need to trade.
Add a swing off the target as he calls the timing. Catches Pop and half U-Till out.
Come on that spray. Come with the Odin. We know it's coming up with some results.
And now the 2v4. Pitted versus Demon 1 and Rossi.
EG's scared, they're just waiting for the smoke to disappear.
That's a full Nebula, so they got time to work here, a little bit of an anchor for themselves to play on the outside.
Got that bubble to work around. Oh, he sucks them! Just to the last beautiful job I demon wanted to get the gravity well,
but it's going to be too many high lows. That's just the way it goes.
Evil Geniuses pick up the first OT.
You can see EG though, despite the player advantage, they were still looking kind of scared.
They were afraid of a late lurk from Rossi.
So you count down down time really okay. There's no late lurk coming out from the side of envy
Let's start scaling back in
But demon one almost went for another hero play to grab well to isolate one kill
And using his own smoke as an extra obstacle to hopefully get a second one
But it wasn't enough and EG are finally back in the lead
Digizine up and excited two players with 24 over there and EG
We're going to get a timeout here.
This is a hack of a game.
Just seeing the scoreboard comparable against each other, who's fragging, who's up there,
it's everybody.
And it is taking the full team on both Evil Geniuses and Envy's side to make this O.T.
work.
I think this timeout, I think it's called by EG actually.
So Potter calls it to try to close this out, not on Envy trying to bring this into a double
overtime.
Looks like for Stunna and Crew for Envy, they're still comfortable with their game plan, knowing how strong they were on a defensive side.
For EG, I think the call here, you gotta slow things down.
I think going into the quick find the early information where they'll up to be and try to react on that has caught them with their pans down often with how aggressive Kessnet has been.
I think at this point you need to show a little bit of an Envy look, maybe stay back towards that spawn, see if anybody's gonna push aggressively.
Then you could really go into the late drone mid-rounding calls that you can do here for EG side to
have more bodies on to the site when you're finally finding because they have lost so many numbers in the
very beginning of these rounds before they could attempt to cross into either of these sites.
Setting up.
Five seconds before that wall drops and it already looks like a action with double stars ready to can cuss or follow up with this play.
Kesnit. Dash out. They're just going loud. To actually push EG off feeling
comfortable. Not even trying to stay silent here. Yeah. One smoke forward.
First one dismissed. Second one goes in and oh my god. Cleans it up.
Can they keep going? Just looks like everybody wasn't even ready for that
fight. What an awkward round to start this one off. And they push back. It's
right to spawn to check and see if anybody went through Art and they missed
timing that could kill could have been huge though towards that street because
with that frag it comes down to a 2v2 that they could retake the spike here
for EG and now bringing the hopefully favorites back on their side but envy
after that timeout I love the aggression coming out of them EG did see
towards that spawn but they didn't get caught they did get caught still by a
recon flash I got so much value for each and these defense but bow a killer
plant gets him a lockdown he has full kit to work with as well in the pulse plant
Rossi is already moving back towards this B site because he was so far from his Utah
in the very beginning.
Well no easy from Poppin, they get the play, yeah he just seemed just stunned at the end
there.
You know looking at deer and headlight situation as Envy just snapped and that's I think one
of the ways they're the best.
We've always known that a team on defense still feels like they're on offense at times.
Now this is a great timeout, I mean it should be a timeout, so two guys just lean back before
went into the replay. Look at that. Just a little bit too late on that slow. The
saturated from O'Pianos in. They got it. He immediately out of it in the beginning.
But now this last time out of overtime for Envy's side too just to try to close
it out again. I think this is a perfect call for him for Envy's side. We know how
strong they were on defense. They were struggling here on their attack too. And
when he got this time out at the first half he got so much value out of their
post plans I think it was like three in a row in that first half so again stays
as a group stays a team e.g. for me then you're just gonna have to
fight fire with fire not give the not give a chance here for Envy to sit up
in this post plan
what's the best way? Okie first, Digi first, what do you find? Digi on that
sea line, that B line he's actually done really good at pushing up trying to get
into the B lobby, Hohkianno is kind of messing around with A main.
By the way, Demon 1 has been a silent killer as well.
We've been talking about the close in plays from Ekster and Kessnet.
Demon 1 has some highlight reels, but towards the end it's still 24 kills across the board,
on top of the board for Envy.
Yeah.
And he's been switching around.
He's got his guard, his faithful guardian to the Phantom plays, to the Operator rounds.
We even saw him with the Op 1 round to drop it for a Phantom next to stay in line with
the team.
It's working out.
It's actually not being picked up by Duzine in this overtime. So no glass cannon
They're trying to play the bait and switch for both duelists. They've been hip-to-hip
And in the past on this map when Okie was playing on this Yoru
There's still keeping that same type of play style
Over on this side and that was almost a nice surprise on the X-er but yeah now we cancel things out and then V now has the
Next step that they have to take now into the mid-round
Okie's going to have to cover towards Street after that play, but the play is going towards
Art for Envy.
Running into the bot here, a bunch of Util in sight.
He's going to let this play out, yeah, they've alerted to more than one person.
Dart goes up, can't get a spray on the Odin, Combs just trying to get the right angle.
Oh, he wipes out Kessnick's knees, and the team's still going to try to plant here.
A little bit of a fake plant to get that Odin spray out and identify where the exact location
Digizine sees a lot more people than he wants to and plays his life very safe to keep the pressure on.
Here comes the drone in, they're gonna start using this U-Till as demon one fires back.
The dust settles, a bit of silence in the fight right now.
As nobody's really sure where to look, this one-way smoke's gonna be a little awkward and Bao finds the positive.
No Keanu finds a plus two and now it's going to be the converge onto the side, EG just methodically tear apart that post plant defense from Envy.
Okay, they gave a chance for Envy to sit up but they did have a plan on that retake.
And it started off with Com into the pit. It was already red though, I'd like to say by Envy because the macro of how they scaled out towards the yard.
towards the yard. The last time he had somebody flanking inside that pit, we had three guys
that are spraying through the staircase to take him down, and they almost got calmed
down to 7 HP, but he's so slippery. Is he going to get tremendous value?
I'll close the drop in 30 on the Giljoy. Start off another round here. And Envy bring
Bring it back for another OT.
You see how it's quiet across the board, as we were talking about before too, but instead
of staying back towards spawn, they're just trying to keep gun out for EG, to see if anybody
is going to peek in the very first place, because they have been a little bit individualistic
for Envy when it comes down to the first Bloods that they're attempting.
Look at their positions.
One's already up there solo
So that poppin can watch towards art. All right do a star to you see how aggressive he loves to play there
Ready for the one for one trade even maybe another
And he'll back in the situation as they start to drone
Just dodging out shot over the shoulder eggs you're there this shows the fake and look yeah
They're gonna insert to try to sell even more. Oh, that's a good check by poppin
Even better by the side of evil geniuses to correct the situation now they can work a bit of the map since they've been seen everywhere
Yes
Put the alarm box just came back up
Integrate chaos on both sides of the map now
Insta can cusses very quick you till but what do they actually want to work in this situation Rossi gets a glimpse
There's 18 seconds. They have to hurry Rossi gets enough info to glean that they should stay towards that B site
Another shot from him would be here. She gets himself to safety now Rossi on three and he could deny the round
He's gonna bring him to O.T.
The ace sits just on his lap to hear the coming through.
Oh my God, he hits the ace.
Basically solo in the side.
We've overcooked for EG.
After a beautiful kill by Superman in the beginning.
I respect the calls coming out from Kong though,
because he dashed into the site.
Okinaw still spotted players over on the A.
They were heavy on that side.
Lean in towards A, Superman was already inserting towards B.
But it comes down to you, when you're trying to play your micro
and play off each other, you can't play scared.
And I was afraid of that going in from round into this game.
The alarm bot sees him, and it decided to pull through
instead of brute forcing the way across to get the space.
And they allow EG, or it's Envy, to set up.
And for Rossi to have a highlight reel of an ace,
to push this into another overtime.
It's an elimination game, but neither team
even wants to lose the first map.
At this point, Dijazine puts another marker in the first blood column for this map of Pearl.
And now it's going to be Envy moving forward, not having that extra entry all on Keznit.
That hasn't been a problem before.
Bowell talked about a Dino 1 cosplay before.
Can he do the Rossi cosplay on this B site if Envy are attempting to re-hit B?
He's top-fragging. Confidence is there. Crosshair is ready for sure.
Tom, trying to set up a bit of U-Till.
They get Dart for the fast lane.
And they will insert with that on Envy's side just for a second.
That smoke is just going to force
Kessnik to look for a different spot to take here.
Yeah.
But it comes down to Oki.
Is he ready?
Called upon in this position multiple times here
to see if he can start off the team with a big kill.
And if he falls, he doesn't.
This is perfect to start.
He slows things down and there's 40 seconds left.
I was gonna say they're so separated that if he falls,
that's a weak ace fight.
Raises his life expecting C heading out a little bit
to get another kill there.
Knows he gets shot from one side and they're looking.
He gets that, the Superman and they're just playing
peekaboo with Envy in sight.
Another defensive round for Evil Geniuses.
Envy once again on this map, forcing themselves
to just dig as deep as they can.
Remember there was such a big OT game
against Cloud9 when they played this map, where Demo and Farm dropping close to nearly
40 kills, but he was actually representing C9 at that point.
And I was looking at his skills, like, well, if Perl is going to be left in the pool for
Envy, you have to put Demo 1 on that chamber.
He's still putting up numbers on this Astro, though, so overall, EG is looking really good
into these over times.
Back in 4-3-go, but they're still back at map point.
Was it C9 energy that traded defensive sides to and so they started trading attack sides and over time
It just seems like teams cannot get a grip on what the whole fundamentals the game was going for
They love that defensive side for both right now. We'll see if envy can get theirs strong. So we go to 1515
Okay, we're tapping and just leaving so they don't want to let anybody know on envy side
Who picked up or who could be the one lurking if there's still gonna be a lurk after?
This means for me it's yeah, I was gonna say maybe some sort of find the yop again and just explode as a team
We crash out did you peek I
Got a question mark on his mini map there for a quick head. Oh eggsters out
easy
Great shock dart to come through not too much chip damage actually
still holding. Smoke clearing is actually real scary, knowing there's operators in the game right now.
This swing is going to have to be fast. Smoke goes down once again, and it's still delayed.
25 seconds left of the round. This one goes to a pressure cooker. Not sure who would favor this just yet,
but it's going to be a quick scope. No hit. No one down yet. Still five alive as the site is pressured
and Envy's just on the outside ring here, looking to get back in. Wow. Starts with number one.
That's going to be three quicks for Evil Geniuses.
This could be it.
First map, going to them, two more kills.
Rossi and Ekster stand tall here in the defensive side.
An operator to come through has got enough.
This is it, and cleans them up.
And Evil Geniuses will push it through for a victory on Pearl.
And you will definitely breathe a sigh of relief for EG.
This was an 11-5 swirl, and I think going into the first map.
They let Envy creep back up for them to get warmed up going into the second map.
But finally, at least they're able to close it out in overtime from heroic plays again, coming out.
What we've seen from Digizine from battle and already the conversations coming out to making sure that
they know what mistakes they could fix going right into that second map.
How often do we see that quick huddle, right? Usually it's like, we'll talk in the back, but you're right.
Just quick little touches that they know they need to work on a game that was very much in Evil Geniuses.
favor there and will be something they can look at for why it turned around so fast.
But it's something that EG has been plagued by, they seem to write the shift here, but
it can't rear its head anymore this series it seems.
Yeah, and that's just basic envy.
They always have slow starts on first map when it comes down to series.
That's right, they always bounce back into the second map making games very close and
even closing the gap on the series against Envy.
So this game is still anybody's in a series.
We'll be coming back for Corode after the break.
Don't go anywhere.
geniuses versus Envy here, VCT Americans.
Oh, that tastes heavenly.
Wait a minute. Watch this.
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.
Wings? Wings?
I can't have wings. Not in my position.
Red Bull gives you wings.
You off guard!
Two!
No way!
Right back in their favor now.
Direct to the top of the next step.
He's right open.
Pop in though.
He's right over.
He's on finish.
Hungry but a final kill.
Hey guys, I'm here with Coach Potter after an insane map where it was so back and forth
we didn't know what way it was going to be closed. Now going to that second and third,
those are maps that you lost last time against MV. What is it going to take for you to carry the
momentum of this map and to give that one? It would be nice to convert the 5v3s a little bit
more cleanly, but you know for us I guess I got to say the positive thing is is we got it out of
the way in map one. You know the last time we met them up the doubts and the paranoia started
kind of creeping in for us and it really deflated our confidence but coming into this one we already
got it out of the way in map one so map two and three we're ready. All right, good luck.
Butter is so real for that comment. Oh my god the 5v3 that Rossi gets the ace crazy.
Yeah that one was gifted but hey you know what we're here now they're up 1-0 and they just have
to win one more map in order to stay alive here in the lower bracket. Let's talk about how they got
it done. Of course a big part of Ichi's victory here, even though I played it very close in the end,
was them winning the Pistols, was them winning the bonuses. Yeah, I mean this game looks like it
was going to be a 13-4 at some point because again, like you said, they converted on both. It was
off to an amazing start from Evil Genius and I think especially in these early rounds, Thao had
huge impact for them to take it up the edge. No, we didn't. I'm looking like hindsight. They really
needed to win those first three rounds on the second half there in order to bring this into
to overtime eventually.
A game that really, we didn't think we're gonna go,
or I didn't think it was going to go this far,
but you know, Envy did have a little bit of that comeback.
It just wasn't enough.
But EEG looked so clean, especially Digizin and Oak,
because Digizin was taking so much aggression
on that defensive half,
and I think that ties into what Potter was saying
with the comments.
I felt that from them this match.
Yeah, I think a few individuals
that really are highly worth here as well
are Bow and Digizin.
You just mentioned Digizin.
Bow dropped 30 there as well.
like that duelist duo looks really clean when they're on.
It was really good.
And Bao also just like, you remember the first game he played
actually versus Nv2 was his veto going absolutely nuclear.
He does the same thing here on the killjoy of all things.
And whether it was on those pistol rounds,
having huge impact or late round moments as well.
Him and Dijin were the backbone of the CGT.
Yeah, I felt like he was really good at kind of playing more
back on the end, going into that retake,
or even kind of flooding towards that B site.
I really liked EGV here and the amount
the utility that they had to delay it there.
That also had so many of these rounds
where he had like a shorty in his back fucking
getting a ton of kills.
Like he was kind of just the pistol expert
throughout this game.
And it's funny when you look at like the score lines
here between everyone,
because the map almost felt like a 2v2.
He had D and 1 stepping into this roster,
Andy looking phenomenal.
And also Eggster stepping up,
I think pretty consistently throughout this game
to keep it so competitive.
Yeah, there's a lot of aggression,
a lot of gunfighting happening here.
And that's clearly of course a strength
that we know Envy has, and that we're
leaning heavily into this one, Emily.
Yeah, they were starting to kind of win
rounds just by doing that.
You know, EG and Envy were kind of just brawling in a main.
We saw them do that towards dugout,
and that's where Envy started to find their success.
As soon as EG started playing a little bit more back,
kind of playing a little bit slower,
is where they kind of were able to close it out there.
Now, of course, we only see what we have on screen,
but our very dear Nini, she got the inside scoop from Envy.
Nini, what did you hear in that first map?
Yeah, much like how I've been hiding in the corner
this thing you guys I was doing the same to Envy throughout the start of this map.
The big elephant in the room is of course a demon one coming into this roster and if
you were thinking about his performance on cloud nine having a lot of ideas in the pre-round
putting himself in positions where he's telling his team what he needed.
I think we had some of that here from demon one as well but the big difference is that
he was playing on the Astra and he was joining into a team that already has a lot more voices
and a lot more players that have preset ideas going in.
So I think in some ways, well, he still called up tendencies
and what he felt in some of these pre rounds.
This was a bit of a step back for Demon One
and still trying to find those places to get his word in.
Getting the word in though,
that was really the name of the game for Envy.
This is a team with a lot of players with strong opinions.
A lot of players who are very strong individually
and have reads of where they want to be to thrive.
And the maker break for envy is navigating those situations correctly and defining what call they're committing to in time to properly set it up, especially when they're having to micro at times utility from players like demon one or even other members of the team because so much is on the fly.
They've had to really balance defining the chaos and the mix wasn't there in the first half, but it improved in the second to make it close to find out if that's enough going into corrode as we check in with Envy's coach.
I have a map to you. I'm here with coach Stoner and I want to ask you, Envy has been in a technical conversation in social media for the past few days. Can you tell us and give us a little bit of insight what this past week has been for you guys?
you guys. I mean it's been a busy week. We had to make a change so we made our
change and we're trying to implement maxi's doing a great job. All right,
face the look.
Concise and to the point we are now heading of course to their own map pick
off Corode and map day one last time 13 to 10 they played a mirror match what we
expect to see the same today. I mean we'll have to see because the the roles
get funky and the thing that interests me the most listening to your report
there maybe is that how different it was for demon one stepping in here and I
want to know how much of that is necessarily him on a new team versus
the role he was actually playing because like back with cloud nine for example
he was allowed to play the chamber and I think if he's allowed to have that free
lane again to call what he wants to early in rounds on a champ an agent like
the chamber who'll be in a good spot he just wasn't the priority on the Astra I
think so had to take that step back in some ways I imagine if they put him on
I think the win condition is actually going to be having some of those other players, your Rossies, your Poppins, take a bit of a step back and ask him, what do you need to succeed?
Because I really see getting him on one of those roles and letting him succeed the way he did on Cloud9 as a priority to win this map too.
Absolutely. Now Rick and Vance will be back with map 2 Coro. Right after this short break, so don't go anywhere.
Welcome back to VCT Americas and our first series of the day where Evil Genius has taken
the first map in OT against the comeback of Embi and that was close, honestly it looked
like Embi was going to take the game so they are going to come in hungry here for the second
one on Corode.
Okay, Corode, and then Demon 1 going to play a Viper.
Okay.
So, I think I looked back, when was the last time you played Viper?
Last Viper game, Icebox against MIBR, March 20, March 25.
So, he's bringing it back, just like he did on the Astra earlier on, but this is definitely a big question mark again.
We just talked about the first map where Demon 1, you know, he's not the type of person that would play like a Viper,
a lurk, especially when you're looking at the last time you play on Icebox, you never
really lurk on Icebox.
Right, he's more anchored in watching.
So we'll have to see if that's similar to looks, but that's going to give an opportunity
potentially for EG to take over a little bit of that roll swap coming in here for Envy.
Yeah, it's going to be interesting.
We thought it would kind of fit around Demon 1, but it seems like Demon 1 is more fitting
in to the team here.
So that's going to be a very interesting thing to see.
Yeah, and even for me, we saw some role switches going from Pearl before, and I was like,
oh well, maybe if we're going to go into the same type of composition that Envy has brought in the path on this map,
then I put Demon 1 on the open instead, and then I have to go and play that lurk role that he just tried to do on KG before.
Exactly.
But maybe it's just a plug-and-play type of thing, and it's also another one of those,
okay, well we have two weeks to work things out, and Iron Out are tanks replacing now Demon 1 with Inspire,
so there's always so much you could do in so little time,
Maybe you're just trying to making sure that it works out in your favor
The positive thing about it though at least for Envy Sun if you're an Envy fan is the last time they played against EG on this map
They converted a hundred percent of their men advantage
So every time it was a five versus four a four versus three a four versus two anything
They always converted it and EG were never able to get one of those
Disadvantages turnarounds within the run in itself
So if you're seeing Envy score first bloods down on their attack sign
You can probably see Envy go with a very strong second map of their map to hero of Korone.
Yep.
Cool.
Kessnit.
Solo play.
Love this gladiator status all by himself up mid and they weren't even ready for it.
EG still trying to rotate and figure out if that was real or if that was the fake but
the spike's being planted just about 20 seconds into the round.
and seeing start didn't have a chance to see if we pop and actually bought you till for kes did
I was like somebody told EG it started right this is crazy all the trades just a classic to go straight
from heaven they're allowing the the angles to be open here and here's the retake a bit of protocol
with the utility used for now the detection and the flashes another flawless kind of the name of
the game towards the end of pearl for envy that's a crazy pistol run honestly yeah so we'll dash up
there barely you tilt it out and can't it just glance and open it like that that's insane here
and you come out with full force I mean you're catching your players off your opponents off guard
you'll take it for sure EG was not ready for that no and they were ready to almost take it slow too
on anything on the back half of this round but 100 miles an hour was the main of the game
you had another round to the tally of the 100 conversion when they have a men advantage against
EG. Now in areas on the attack side, Poppin is trying to find something with the Prowler
wallbang here, but they're expecting the EG to go from sort of aggression play. So all
of them staying back into the spawn after they've probably came through, and besides the insert
right here from Eggster. Almost gets out. Nice, nice clean up there.
That's a big pickup. That's a very big pickup. We'll catch Eggster
on the first blood connections too as the map goes on is now E-E-N-V rather
makes her way through that link. Safe for now, Kazan is ready to show something
and get out of there so the team can finish the process and they're getting
a little close and they have to all stay now. Paranoia delay. EG's setting up well
but they're not under the skin of N-V yet.
They're in front of this lurk, they have to find deep in the site at all.
Why do they want to look at us stay in?
Nice jump, I keep in one.
Very nice.
Doesn't matter if it's going to be a rifle or a pistol, still uses the sidearm effectively
for two there.
They have the right entrance to A, and now they just wait this one out.
Only losing one?
No.
They've lost two more.
A superman has something to say about it, has the outlaw ready, and almost gets online
for another shot here.
Found with a sheriff.
Two quick shots, one already abiding a demon and that's enough but Rossi cleans it up, keeps the round safe but they do take quite a bit of damage there.
Yeah and that was a great release for EG. After you get that kill onto Ekster you've already gotten a weapon and so much max space.
The only gap that they had was towards middle but you gambles that right with the instant rotate from common to the east.
like I think going into two beautiful shots from Superman on that two versus four here right here
it was just a little bit of a one too many piece that didn't really allow Kong to really move up
you're trying to hopefully waste some bullets on your opponents and Kong finds the surprise attack
as you're reloading but he stopped the bleeding for envy it's fairly expensive that's our buy is
still quite good going into their bonus they split A site here to work the right side towards the elbow
Easy take for Envy. They want to go fast on this bonus round and get away from any of the quick pressure
Come on DG. He finds a kill. Another one from backside of third one! A fourth one!
Digizine going for the ace here. He's gonna try to find Poppin, but he gives them the swing and that's gonna be a backshot from Bao.
Finds the flank. They come up quick.
Man, Envy went fast, but Digizine went faster.
You know what it looked like EG were caught a little bit towards that ace side.
There was some good values are so some tenors on the ground so information was there for Envy
But as he tried to scale back up the EGZ finds a timing who is this guy? Oh my god
Yeah, it's true he did he did with a little bit of poppin towards the end when the other shots look fairly clean
You're definitely going to take any new rounds so far for EG to not allow Envy to snowball any of these rounds
Rifle for DGZN again
He kept it from that previous round. Yeah
EG are on a fast rotate already though. You don't know if Envy hurt that but they are still gonna go for a 5-man pop
They're crashing into the site
Quickly seeing a ping there. Everybody's about to get out safe.
Ooh, calm caught mid spray there on the Odin by a quick swing.
Superman's already elbow, a high low kind of peek, and he gets cleared.
This thing's fizzle out for now. It's just going to be detection from Dizzy Zin ultimate.
He's grabbed it for so many good kills on this round, but it looks like things could go.
Yiji's way. Dizzy Zin being a problem in sight here.
We're looking for kills from Okiyono. See his last few rounds and you're going to find it.
Find it. They just clinically pick a par and you one by one to find their way back in after that dimensional drift
Look quite dangerous. So bow just got instantly caught
by demon one in the cave
Again, the playing just to the standards you see a dimensional drift come through the site
There should be some players flowing through your corner run some util around the information that you see is from the jazine
Right here, and then you catch them off guard with these aggressive angles
Thankfully here, another big flank. Ok, honest, it's been doing that on Perl and doing it again this time around on Corode.
It's a nice little two-piece. Ties up the game and breaks the econ for Envy one more time.
And Envy will go for it again. This time around though, there's no nightfall to really try to clear towards the elbow.
Make sure to have early info.
So you get a quick peek out here on the right side of the map.
Or the left. Nice drone. Oh, drone to safety. You could actually see Superman coming in for the assistance there.
Nice teamwork, but Envy's still going to try to encroach onto the site.
One clothesline. Another clothesline from Superman as Demon 1 is finally able to trade to kill back and easy go again.
I was going to say into that defensive mode, but it's still a kill mode. Did you see he finds one?
Odin picked up, Spike will go down, Demon one has a stinger to work with, but up against
four players, Kassadin at half HP.
Oh dear, one kill backhaul, that outlaw still going crazy for Digizine, and they saturate
Demon one so he can't go anywhere, and they tie his shoes together right on top of the
Spike.
Another 3k coming through for EG as they start getting these alts online early and just having
advantages to retake site over Envy.
Yeah, and you're seeing like the adjustments that you're doing, the change of the meta, having to play against a Waleigh.
The drone, and then you have a player to support.
Little micro things that changes within Valorant here with these new agents and patch changes.
Something also that Fugir did quite well in their openers, and their magic incitles.
Just to bait out the Waleigh and have a second player just behind the one that should get punished.
To do the punishment onto the Waleigh dash.
That was nice, because they couldn't get too much space out of that one too, and...
No shenanigans out of MD's aggression on their eco or their half-buy.
See if they maybe force a hand at the Viper Alt if they can get in to B fast this round.
They have conditioned it a few so maybe this is just saying, hey, we're here again.
Get that same rotation out of EG and then they work the map because they still have somewhat of a default position to start.
Yeah, I think out of six rounds maybe five of them was a start into B.
Even if Kesnit on the piss round get dashed towards middle to get that first take the main players were still leaning towards his B site to start
Their first thing a gene to push forward and hopefully into their crosshairs
Bow back saw realizes this is danger chooses the right side to back up on
Cetric
Can't follow up on that a great clean up here by the team of Envy to get it
He swopes in for a 3k. Oh my
Oh my gosh, and it's cleaned up with the four inside the mind of Envy as they're making these side hits.
It ain't a bird or a plane, it's a snake in Superman as is Viper, dropping down on the double flash of Digizine and Bow.
No way.
That was still vulnerable, it's coming through, that was still very nice. I mean, even if the flash isn't getting valued, you have to stay towards that back of that hut.
He finds perfect timing. We just talked about it there. You don't always have to place what retakes on the side of EG.
You try to catch them off these timings. The look that we saw when they played that drop down onto loud on the even.
Now you're seeing a whole different EG and how the course corrected their defensive side on Corona and it's beautiful, man.
Such nice things from Superman.
from Superman.
After their loss to Sentinels the next week they win,
they ask Superman in the interview,
it's like what was the things you need to fix in that loss?
And he said, you know what, I noticed
I had a lot of little mistakes.
And I'm considered a rock of the team.
So if the rock is crumbling, the rest of the team can't perform.
So it was really on himself that he took that
to bring his play back up,
make sure those mistakes weren't there
and you get these kind of plays in the end.
Crazy stuff from Superman.
11-3-1 on that Viper right now bringing the alt out with that round and the rest of the team isn't having any trouble
Fragging as the site hits the B have just absolutely been snuffed out. Looks like we'll condition one more time for Envy here
It's gonna be a lower by as they again default the map. Yeah, you have no choice
You've shown so many times towards this B side, but you haven't really converted rounds since you got into the gun run for
EG so you continue to show this hand the difference right now though is that you have inserts towards this a sign
So you are I mean there was a 50p that went towards that front of the a as you saw Rossi come across towards B
So that said it was trying to make a lot of noise on I guess both extremities here
So they could potentially go for a late rotate back to a as demon one does have that slow control over towards that a main
Buy it though
Okie low, they're going with the regular Prowler hit, cash in, oh the target acquisition from Superman is unreal to understand that situation. Digizine's there already to assist that elbow and it doesn't take many members of EG right now because they're all putting on a show if they're asked.
Demon won last one alive with his Guardian, we'll see what kind of damage he can put out before they find him.
Superman is locked in for sure. It made me chuckle a bit because it just gave me flashbacks into their matchup on Abyss before where
Superman saw the Euroclone turn around and still shot the Euroclone after he saw XR run into Ivy and he got flashed and died and this time around
he knows which to choose and
Punishes XR right away, but the flake out the Kessnet was nice. I mean it wasn't the strongest advice of envy
But you're on an island right now and you're trying to get your 1 and 2. You're looking at the setup from EG
They're giving so much responsibility onto Sputman 2, 1-4 hold, solo hold rather, towards this B site.
He's doing an excellent job at it.
Man, they are bringing the pain here at the B site.
Again, like you said, it was a low buy, so you're kind of affecting a little bit of a map on the right as we saw,
and they tried to get into B off maybe a sneak attack.
Still doesn't work. EG's ready for everything, and it doesn't look like they're over-rotating either.
They're going to anchor everything until they are 100% confident and this is leaving Envy with little options.
A push. Oh, now EG want to go active. They're going to try to get a force on this A main after so many rounds. Huge saturated, but no follow up. Envy is able to react in a split second.
Trying to do a little bit of a MIBR flair.
Yeah.
And it's fair because EG has shut down B site every single time.
So they had the perfect read for an A site hit, just unfortunately the combination wasn't
there and Envy's already having an early 5-1-2 situation after a plant here on A site.
Round after round it looks grim when you're losing, but it's still only 5-2, this could
bring it to 5-3 potentially and again we're right back in there, we're 5-1 on Pearl and
Envy still made that comeback count.
You're right, despite EG looking very good in this defensive side, it's still a very close game thanks to that pistol round that was very nice for MV to start saving these two weapons though would be huge and also getting exits on top of that.
The economy for superman is low but for the rest of the team, they can actually go for these types of fights.
MV recognizes that it's been quite all along towards spawn so they want to clear it as a team and they'll keep fall, five of them alive.
When they do it, a lot of times it's flawless. They start to stack that money and it can be a problem.
Envy keep everyone alive for this round.
If that doesn't mean he needs out, we should have money to come back here and buy it.
But it was really nice consideration, the attack. They went through a Saturay and a Paranoia.
So it actually took quite a bit here from Rossi to make sure they didn't get double flanked.
Or a double push, sorry.
Missing that recall too?
I was just trying to get his one, it was locked in at least to just try to get one.
But it looks like Envy was just ready for that.
The thing is too is, if you start SlyCLeague so much, for Envy on the attack, AWP comes
out for the first time though for Digizine.
Okay.
He's playing it towards his A-Syte.
The fake TP.
Making it think that it went all the way back towards spawn.
Look at how he pulls two players back here.
looking on the little adventure is this is gonna be Digizine taking front sight
now to see how that site was spread how does this creep in all gives them a
little spike site our little entrance into the site to really cool pit now
we're gonna just split the pits as well they don't actually cross
interesting formation interesting everybody having their own line of
scrimmage pretty much who's gonna visit who first that's the question they'll
have to be easy. Yeah they have to go in the search. Poppin is sitting right on the edge
actually he's kind of in a little crux between both of them that's kind of crazy. Nobody's
found him yet he's gonna encroach back into their own. Calm on top trying to make it work.
Oh do they drop it? Oh they drop it. Hold the pants down and see if it can work in their
favor. Calm is there to get a kill with supermen. Poppin's looking left and right trying to find
the right angle but there's just too many ways to swing the hospital flick so that's
That's necessary and that's gonna be one kill, oh shoot them at the bottom!
Kesnick gets the kill on the clutch!
What a chaotic round of Viper ult and it's gonna be Envy coming out on top.
That's what we're missing towards the end Envy, yeah, you talked about the pit dropping.
There's a spray coming out from the calm where it was starting to do a little bit too much damage on the top of the hut.
Actually it was D.Va1 dying which is a reasonable amount of damage dropped.
I was expecting a stupid amount of damage to drop his here so you get some value on who maybe else could be hiding out in the open.
So some good shots came through and some good trades, but it came down to the clutch bird fortunately there
See the disappointment out from Potter was close, but no cigar where
The timeout now comes in for EG. Yeah
What a chaotic round to happen on
It's like honestly if anything in these last two rounds
Has been indicated from Envy. It's that their disrespect has got them a little bit of an advantage on what's happening
the firepower that they do bring and being behind each other on those hits.
They won't have the dimensional drift anymore.
It has made things a little easier.
So you have to note that for what's Envy's been doing.
It do have poppins out though, to make sure they can just swipe a site
and see where those trails lead them.
The play was still very nice for Envy.
I just love XATP from Rossi out towards B main.
You can't really hear the audio.
So then it allows for you to pop into a weak site.
The thing is though, is that each eat is spike
Superman showing some rounds where you drop down and surprise three players and take you down the EG is also very protocol
When it comes down to the flood retakes in that was something very dangerous that you need her workplace needed her workplace from kids
It's just stay alive in that match
But the Odin is quite strong for calm
Calm doing
Just gonna say he's up there at the front of B
Is he gonna try to just rip off a dart and try to go right up the gut here of a push?
But now it looks like they're holding back for now
Okay, this is a forward snake bite just to get Digizine at this line.
I tried to jump spot TP, but Digizine was just out in the open and had to cross her
placed easily for edge jump.
Too fast.
Just too fast.
Oh my gosh, she's all over the map.
Omni-Present, Digizine.
Another off shot is going to show himself now at the A side as they already have a push
coming down and reclaiming the space outside of A for EG.
They're closing all the gaps.
Yeah.
They're basically rotating to make sure nobody's going to creep up here towards the A-link.
They might see the spike.
They will see the spike for sure.
They might see the spike.
Oh, you know, on the gun round too, it's a little ways away from everyone that needs
to do a plant.
What?
Even is that sliver of Kassnet that he saw and was able to shoot?
That's incredible.
One enemy again.
And yeah.
Yeah, a round of evil geniuses, easy shots, great crosshair placement, and shutting down Envy as they search the map out.
EG's turn to get a flawless and a perfect round out of that.
It's all Digazine, not getting zero damage, all the op kills, and spooner plenty off angle.
I was going to say, like, just before this kill happened, right onto Kessit. Kessit found a pocket.
To creep out towards the alien can make a difference, but as soon as he leaves a little bit back,
Everything gets locked down and Stunner was not happy about that one.
Oh, he's just watching what would be kind of inserts get taken down in one of the one situations
and it looks kind of like there's no idea behind it when there really is.
Yeah.
They're getting snuffed out there in those plays.
And I think what got good value as well for the off there from Digizine out towards that
B main is remember we were talked about the constant conditioning that came out from Envy
at the beginning of the half, having Pop and Newflord power into that spot, trying to see if anybody's there, trying to spot where the opportunity at the worst place.
But as they started winning some rounds, they could finally start temporarily away from conditioning that B site hit, or the B site start rather,
and EG were kind of ready for that one, so they just wanted to post up the up there thinking that, you know, they might try to walk contact player or something like that,
and you got tremendous value out of that read.
It's gonna be a once again, okay
We can might get a dart down middle so they can clear that right quick from calm and Envy is looking to at least
Put some noise on this side of the map
Gonna get
Convergent path. Yeah, right right on the other side of the wall ready for this
Actually, they're gonna hold it with the Yura to mm-hmm. So after this time out, it's time for eG to up the tempo
Waiting for the commitment. Not a foot. Too many passed. They really couldn't get past
the forward line there. They held it for a bit. Collins was able to take down Oceano,
so he gets one. Not the one he wanted. They continue to push in. Envy now has all of this
space on the right side. And they forced a flub in this situation from EG. Did the zing
good for one in the smoke with a shorty. Looks like he might return again after Tom gets
these shots down from the Odin.
They're snippers of health on these members of Envy limping around.
Joel will see him too.
Suma gets the flank kill as well and will which he players on the site now for Envy.
Demon 1 is the only one that's a bit healthy in this situation.
He's forced to move because he's orved out by the Yoru wall.
All the plan goes down but he says peekaboo!
And now Demon 1 is known from the A-link as he jumps up to Superman to try to get a kill there.
Super, playing his life, just reading that he's being pushed, turns it the right time!
Oh my gosh, you can't ask for any more from the EG players right now, they are just giving Envy the worst time.
Still finding gap, look at the respect, look at Superman roting all the way back towards middle.
Geez, and even Digizine, the 3K sit under the crosshair of Demon 1's placement there.
Just make it look easy, a seventh round now for EG.
How did that turn that back for EG's side?
Because again, the play I thought it was going to be a dimensional drift, but if not, okay, it makes sense you put the yop at that line, but the yop was playing an off angle, watching it passively.
So they all missed everybody from Envy and they instantly got punished.
But DGC finds redemption, shorty in the site, and then create delays from him as well.
Dimensional drift, good thing he stayed alive, writes his wrongs and EG gets the round still.
If I'm Envy right now, I'm terrified of any smoke in front of me.
DG lives in there.
He has been in so...
The majority of the smokes Envy's trying to enter.
Doesn't go too far on the peek.
Ekstra hears the TP back.
Trail off for Virgin's fake on the right side.
A lot going on from Envy here.
Team wide.
This is taking a lot of parts in place to make it work.
And they have sold evil geniuses here.
On the push towards A.
Oh, hello.
Never really showed any fakes in the first place, yeah the ult gets info, but this 4 position is a 1 for 1 trade off, but they just keep still up.
Somehow the trade is always there, what positioning by EG to be right on the anchor of each other.
And yeah, Com knows. It's like they've planted, we weren't there, they're gonna push for space.
And yeah, it's covered. Beautiful X-fire there between Com and Bao as the angle was approached.
And Rossi.
C1 almost gets a second, but it's a clean up by Okianos there.
EG are gonna look to grab 8 on this first half and clean it up nice.
Always seem to have found an answer against all of Envy's attempts here on their attack side with the exception of the pistol round.
But all of the rest, as soon as you're able to get it off or a sniped and a handed to Jezeem, something that he hasn't pulled up too much in that first map.
But he's done quite well here.
Alright, we are going to be throwing it down for an interview with this half being over.
Let's head over to Dryad with Furia's Nerve.
We're going to be hanging out down on the stage.
I'm here with furious nerve ahead and enjoying a little bit of the games as well nerve. I want to ask you this MV team is a squad that you played last year when you were playing in Challengers and you even won against a few of them.
you see them right now and what do you think are the strengths, the weaknesses
on this matchup that they have against TG? Well first off the team is a little
bit different, three or four different players now regardless to the changes I
think they're an insane team and somehow like they keep bringing more
mechanically gifted players and I just think this team is so mechanically gifted
and on any given day they can out aim any team. And I have to ask you we are very
excited waiting for your matchup against MIBR and I just want to know is
I think everyone has us as an underdog, we've won three matches and people still have us as an underdog.
I forgot the odds, but they're pretty crazy.
Everyone has, it might be our winning by far, but this is very easier.
And my last question for you, in this game between EG and NB, who do you have winning?
I have EG. I think EG are looking really good right now.
I think Superman's playing instead right now.
I've traveled with EG in the offseason and I tell everyone, I think Superman is the most underrated player.
I'm proud of EG in the offseason and I tell everyone I think Superman is the most underrated player.
This guy is so good and I love Superman.
All of them.
Thank you so much, Nerve.
Can we hear for Nerve as well? I feel like you guys were excited.
And let's turn it back to the game.
Well, it has to be nice to have to see Superman absolutely crushing in these games.
Having heaven drop plays where he just waterfalls onto a team's head.
18 and 6 right now.
That's a good good life for the capewars. Yeah 18 and 6 did you see that 18 and 5?
So when you have something that's an opener in digizine with the op and then somebody that anchors up and
It's a beast like no entry for a superman on that defense
Lousy G to have a strong start going into their attack sign
Where do we see the envy now has his defensive side is there is there an advantage they face right? Yeah, they're good
It has been the story.
So you'll have to be clean here, but the underlining thing is you have to notice now unfortunately XR has been shut down on the attack
against EG so far, and you're hoping to wreck the runs as well for this star player who's popped off on the first map.
He starts off by walking down the middle.
One of those silent jumps was not silent, so Rossi's forced to move off his initial line there, smoked out anyways.
You call the mid push and they push and pull a kill on both sides to start off a little bit of utile used here
That insert of digizine is very nice seems they seem aware though
Little left right crossfire going on
She's going to the smoke just in time, but they need the rest of the team to make the chaos here in the front of the site before
They're waiting for that peak
They kind of set up to look at a link there and see if anybody would peak
They're just a firing squad outside the site and Envy is actually walking into it.
What a slow down there and freeze the round by EG.
Spike planted.
Slowly.
Demon one has to clear every single angle.
There might just be too many.
We ask for the first one.
I like that. Com's like, no, I'll run away.
We're all gonna get together outside the site and play safe here.
Especially in two of them are one shot able now by a demon one
I don't even know if darts up soon. They're just playing it very very safe
At least for the pic the peak and the quick touch on spike. Oh
Superman again a 3k there even at low HP
Sturdy on the pistol round and another one for evil geniuses. I love the little combo at the start at middle
Comm got value. I think it was a drone that he got the tag on and then because the bandit shot
The uto in the first place it allows Oki to separate and actually that fight knowing that Kessing already ran back
He has to finish with my VFL wants to go the Trent lines. Yep
Speaking of which my VFL has nerve and Artozine, so I don't know what nerve was talking about
Okay, okay
Hasn't it
Trying to get that refract a little information some damage anything
Put a very very slow around from e.g. Here in the backside of their half
There's not gonna be any surprise swing outs out for e.g. They're just really trying to
Punish a contact play outside of the front B site. There's so much map
Given here for EG to take. So that's one orb taken. They haven't heard anything towards aiming yet.
Good damage done by Kheznet to start though, that Shadow is strafling.
And they're ready to end A here. He takes the orb, but then Digi walks away and comes back to see if there's somebody else on the line to kind of trick him.
And then despite this being an eco round for Envy, but we talked about here the mid round.
How do you find information for Envy inside when Stunner was talking about it with Pedro Romero?
You're looking over here. There's a minute left, but everybody rotated all the way back through spawn.
There's still such a huge question mark within all of the zone so they're gamble stacking out for the A site hit
Thankfully, it's a right read because a drone comes out from EG and now they're ready to fight
Kind of doing what they did a pistol round set up here in the courtyard look for some shots before they move see if anybody will push out early
Some flashes into the site that would also paranoia
Everybody comes out of Blindville and it's gonna be shots here for envy actually start off back and forth though
3v3, Seized goes down, but it is not going to be DigiSeen going down, that's kind of insane.
9 HP, jumping classic, does DigiPush. Oh, he still gets the shot in the air.
A 4K for DigiSeen in a situation where he's also Seized up.
If he was Seized up at 9 HP too, then you saw here, you're just trying extra,
just praying that the jump spot randomness, the RNG of the classic, is going to hit that one single
bullet to take him down. Man, did it look so good for Envy. We talked about again, the
gamble step there on the rotate towards that ace like. Thankfully, the reaction for Digizine
too good.
Wait, 15 rounds, 22 for Digizine, 21 for Superman. Holy, these guys are cooking.
And this is such an uphill battle for Poppin and you're trying to think here maybe in the
the comms will Rossi start stepping up who to help out for these calls because
that whole timeouts left so as he continues if it could continue to be
as aggressive for these punishments already what I'm here oh still going for
the fight it seems like they're staying right in front a lot of utile and it's
catching envy off guard in most cases
come get the plant here superman's gonna have to start hurrying up cuz he's
He's chilling towards the elbow.
How did I miss?
I don't hear it dance with the utils.
Shot through both armpits maybe?
I don't know.
That's a question we have to look at for later.
C's just outside.
Com is safe here.
Paranoia, but the distance is there.
Oh, he's just back at the crosshair.
Just at the muzzleflash.
That's insane.
Com down.
Rossi, so much to do here, creates some situation
for himself that makes it feel bad for AG,
but they still have answers for the situation.
He tries to get half here with most of his HP
going the way of the snake bite,
and Superman cleans that one up as he knows
he has the upper hand.
Yeah, he knew Rossi had to get it at half at least.
Yeah.
So runs back in, has to eat the snake bite,
and no choice but to have low HP once he's at half point.
But calm stay alive, I love those.
Again, being very sneaky here.
He had drone, giving it a drone out towards main,
still survives.
The thing here, at this position was quite nice.
He avoided the prowler, got into that slope,
delivered the prowler.
He still gets the kill while he's full paranoia there.
Nobody ever does that.
Two rounds away from facing elimination,
NV need the answers now.
And EG will not even allow them a chance.
They are making this look so tough.
Fendi came in with some changes to see if it would be the right choice here.
And it'll play after kickoff, but it does not seem like they were able to get the pieces in order for this series.
And EG is punishing for it.
NVD did some answers, but EG keeps making that test difficult.
Yes.
An instant kill, and then a 1-40 onto Kesnit.
They dropped two players in the process, Orb now being picked up.
Drone is still available too, so right now EG could continue to play a clean round to get the late info.
Probably spot demon one in the site. Yeah, just saw him.
I flashed. It's gonna be a good kill by Ekster, and it looks like they're able to thwart the take so far, and Erigy stopped in their tracks.
8 HP trying to play his life. Oof. And 10 on Kessin on the rotate.
Oh no. A possible game point for this one. They go for a fake plant to see if they can pull anything out, and actually planting in a little bit better of a spot as well.
Under that Viper orb.
Orbs gonna drop. They're not looking to save-
OH THE FAKE!
Well, they just seen draws Kessnet's attention enough for the kill to come through.
No mistakes from this guy in the series.
So, and for EG, I think the confidence is gonna be oozing right now.
Oh my gosh.
At map and series point, we just talked about their last two times.
They had an 11 scoreline against Envy.
It was a comeback game. It was dreadful actually for EG.
But now that it's the instantly crossed from 11-12, they're looking good.
Oh, keep roll! You should... he insta-killed me, bro!
Oh, Bob... Bob was going through it on stage right now.
He's... he'll never want to remember this series, even if it is a W.
Push forward, Okiyanos! Hardly ever on that quick, aggressive play, but they're still trying to find a little bit through it,
because Envy probably isn't expecting it. The Hunter's Fury Digizine follow-up throws Envy for a loop to start round 17.
team.
As things calm down though, it's still EG with a player advantage.
Okianos did get heavily punished in the first place when Envy knew potentially about the
type of map space they're trying to get at the very beginning with a double dash, so
they instantly go for some util right in that pocket.
Now EG are just going to wait, and I think they are understanding too that Envy will
have to try to find some information in the mid-round, but as they lose pop in the first
Well, this is going to be very difficult with no prowlers and Hawks.
Yeah. Everything becomes a personal check. You are the turret. You are the sentry.
And that's why EG staying as a group, going for instant trades. I think this is a perfect call right now for EG in the mid-round.
Wall goes up. The cruise in through here. Ross, he looks to get a peek actually as it drops. Maybe an upper hand.
Oh, he still dinked Superman, but he controls the aim.
How couldn't that go in a kill for Envy?
Caznit trying to be fast, does he know there's another one there?
Oh my God! He's dropping his sight from Envy!
Using a bit of Evil Genius' own medicine on him.
Com, 31 HP in a pickle.
Can he get out?
No, he cannot.
Marinated by Caznit with a 3k,
and Envy stay alive for one more round.
What the heck happened there?
All I saw was four players instantly dropping on the kill feed.
That was a Superman play by... who was the judge there?
That was extra. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The rest of the team were getting kills around the map as well.
And good on Dima1 is DL2 once he got spotted.
We go again.
12-5 scoreline.
still very close to a big old actually for Oki, Digizine and Superman but Digizine will
pick that up no way none of us make sure
bought a flash to play with demon one a great anchor on the play as well as poppin now moves
over to gather that space for the team now e.g. we haven't really seen them have to deal
at these rounds where they've been whittled down to start losing calm losing okianos what's their
entry now? Lee's bow still has his two smokes but the other thing is that we didn't really have
any type of like lurk or insert for some of them but what you could do is keep pulling this wall
up and down here to keep some players to listen to audio cues and that's isn't it so you're still
somewhat fitting the the lines and you're selling this fake on the b site to start keeping them
guessing he has to consider there might have been a timing too digizine now going to the other site
They see him orb through the saturate he only had a sheriff that's insane and he actually got hit by a two at the same time
They're gonna go ahead and get the all down and did just advise them through the middle
Looking to put envy to bed
It is only gonna be Rossi coming through spawn now with the bulldog three
Standing in sight here for the side of evil geniuses and did he still even covering the flank so the team can watch spawn
It's just a push out. Rossi tries to get in. Barrel gets the final kill. It's not him this time.
Barrel gets that kill. Evil geniuses say goodbye to Envy as they move on in the kickoff bracket.
Again another EG day when they find revenge. A map on Karogorov they were dominated by the
100% conversions on advantages on the side of Envy, but now today when it
matters most, the Illimiting Envy who's made such a big change and Demon 1
joining the roster again adding so much firepower. Yeah. But the firepower today
was not enough to thwart down EG's chances. Digizine is something else. The
eyebrows raised for a reason when we did not see him in the VCT the year he went
back to Ascension but he became one of the greatest players we've seen in
Ascension and there was no joke because he's carrying it back to the VCT stage.
The rest of the team as well playing absolutely amazing superman, getting a
shout out from nerve there and we saw it in this game just why he got a shout out.
Everybody came to play today and Potter's timeouts were a huge value to the
Yeah, Superman looking like prime on for sure from again five years ago
Yeah, the comment of the Vietnamese monster of rice
That this time around and fitting perfectly and you seeing the what Potter sees right now in every single of these players
It's crazy. It's no mesh every year
You're looking at a rebuild a DG where Potter always chooses like oh
We have some hundred players that want and have some point to prove
Yeah, like a game for example last year as well
You didn't have to make this a success for Nichi last year overall, but now you're starting to see this resurgence of EG with a
Different type of roster with all of them very hard to prove the point and they showed it today
And you see everybody on this team picking each other up at times filling in the firepower gaps whenever there is one right bow
Kept saying why me first. He's also carried the crap out of games for you
I'm on some maps, right? Even on Pearl just this series and Digizine, Okiyano's carrying all those guys have shown
carry so you're right potter sees all that the players and they came to show
that clinically today man it was hard to pressure digizine in this one what a
match for him was he close to dropping 30 did he drop 30 that's the question and
Envy a run where they started hot decided to make some change which is
always difficult but I can see this team absolutely bringing the fire once
they're able to capitalize on everything what didn't that's cool too is that
EG will now face against under these going into the whole brackets and that
is another team that has also found a resurgence into a rebuild going into
2026. So I think this upcoming game between those two teams is gonna be a
fire matchup to witness. And as we move on to those games it does mean we have
to say goodbye to Envy who came in from the ascension tournament firing on all
cylinders hit some rocks because they couldn't bring the core and it seems
like they're still trying to figure some things out but not a team to be
taken lightly still. Definitely some big question with check marks sorry that
you can actually solidify for this team is one of course the firepower to yet
demon one it's very hard to not say okay well you have demon one they're
definitely gonna do good right now it just comes down to the mackerel to find
their identity right now as well for the set of envy and it'll look good in the
state one. Alright well let's set it down to Dryad on the stage for the Verizon
post match interview with Com. Thank you guys so much. Can I hear for Com as I get
the win against Envy. Come, come on, come on. There you go.
Come, I bet you didn't know you were going to face Dreamer 1 today.
That was a vast minute change. How does he feel not only to play against your ex-teammate,
but also to get revenge for that first match we had?
All of it feels really awesome. Like, I respect Max a lot.
He's like literally one of my favorite teammates I've ever had.
And he deserves all the praise. He deserves to be on the VCT stage,
so I'm really happy he was able to do that.
And yeah, it's always good to give revenge.
I didn't like how that first one,
it almost happened again on map one,
but yeah, I'm super happy
and we just have to keep building on this.
And I want to talk about the calling that you've had.
We always know that you've been always very vocal
in different teams, but now as the IGL,
what is it like to IGL this team,
especially having a DGC for example,
that is learning English and having a mix of players
that maybe you didn't expect to have?
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a lot in the play
and I think it's definitely a lot of work
have to put in, but also at the same exact time,
the guys make it super easy.
I'm so happy to be playing with these guys.
And as you see, I'm so happy to see Doug activated 30
and seven that last map.
I mean, it's insane.
This is stuff that we've been showing in scrims.
I think eventually you will see it in Santiago.
I'm so excited for that.
But in order to make it to Santiago,
there's one match that is just ahead of you.
It's 100 Thieves.
Give me your thoughts on 100 Thieves
and why you're winning against them.
I mean, they definitely have a specific play style,
but I think it'll be a 2-0 for us, no worries.
It's just simple like that.
Thank you so much, Kome.
This is everything that we have for the post-match interview.
We're going to send it to a break.
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I'm not sure if I am able to play this game in the first place, but I'm sure that I can do it.
I haven't played this game in a while, but I'm sure I can play it.
I don't know if I can play this game in the first place, but I'm sure I can play this game in the second place.
Well, the fact that they were playing in the stadium was very happy.
Because they could actually show us, they were on Google, etc.
This whole fight is not going to be ready for it at all, unless I'm John QT!
That is a second of the series, by the way, one on each map.
I think we complement each other well, I'm just making sure we do well in these matches.
I don't have any specific Sentin's players that I want to face.
Because no, my style of play is not based on the other.
It's just not based on me and my team.
And the preparation that one has in the day-to-day, it helps a lot.
So, if we do the right thing between us, there's no way we can get back.
to an end today of course there were plenty of highlight worthy moments in
the last three weeks but they have to go back to the drawing board they're not
gonna be from the outside looking in yeah that they will it's tough to have to
watch on for Santiago especially with Kesson on the team but that's how it is
and there's another elimination match coming up there is indeed so let's talk
about it let's talk about those two teams Lady Ahton I want to start with
here because week one and two they didn't get to play with their full roster
right they came in with a sub which is always a difficult kind of you know
place to be in. Now, Neon became eligible and immediately they started winning. So, the
map is nothing. No, I mean, hey, he's back. Neon was absolutely on fire. I mean, in his
debut goes 13 in first kills to two first deaths. Absolutely destroys crew. It was the
thing of you to watch. Yeah, that was very impressive. But the team as a whole just felt
a lot stronger when watching them right. I felt like the thing that stood out to me for them was the
13 chemistry they were doing so well at fighting together but it like they felt like something
was missing and when we saw neon come back in I realized oh they weren't just doing like a one
for one sub with pss. No they were literally playing around pxx changing their comps changing
their roles and now that we see them back on their comfort picks and playing into their game plans
that they originally wanted to come in with with neon it feels great. I think it answered a lot of
the the questions that we thought were going to be easy to answer right easy on as incredible as he
was in fear to individually yes it's spike gonna play to his peak form when the team's roles get
fixed yes and can they win dominantly against a sub roster also a yes but to me I still think that
because of how dominant that game was because of how reliant on individual performances that game
was that was not yet the test of how good love is as a team and how deep they can go that was just
the the the order of can they shoot good absolutely. Yeah we've seen neon beat the the teams down
in ascension and challengers before right but now I think I want to see him up against a
legit team that's all here and here to play. It was just so impressive that he came in with so
much confidence like no fear going in he had aura already on that stage and he's not a right in
like this did not look like his first time on the bcp stage. No there's not getting to at all I was
honestly a little bit skeptical with how much everyone specifically dry I want
to shout out. I thought she was hyping up Neon like surely one person can't come in
and just dominate and kind of fix a roster and Neon kind of did like Neon
was performing getting those first goes like you said especially all that
secondary duelist which normally is kind of like the cleanup crew no he was
in there getting as much action as their Neon. Yeah I think the way they built
around him was really nice enabling him to like be the first one to activate a
lot of rounds so that the rest of the team could play the controls down go
farm kids. Yeah and when we talked to the team the last two weeks I did say like you know like
we're not playing in our roles like it just the team isn't complete and now they felt like a whole
team again with Neon back in the mix. Let's hear what coach owner had to say earlier today to drive.
I'm here with coach owner ahead of their match against Sentinels and I want to ask you about the
growth that the team has had so far. You were the coach of the players in Latin back today now we
get to call icons. So, what is new generation? Tell me, what is the balance of refinement
being for Clare Development and, you know, letting them run it down and sometimes also
just pulling back and making sure that those bases are looking good?
Yeah, this group of young men is not like in 2021 or 2022 that we were starting, you
know. This group had a lot of personal development, a lot of work that they did before me. They
They knew that they want to be professional players since they were like 14 or 15.
So it's easy for me, you know, they are very young, they are very professional.
So they make my life easier.
Sounds good.
Good luck today.
He spoke a little bit like a proud dad.
They were like, how much can grow up and now we're all here together.
But I think it does mean a lot to owner to find success with this roster.
The last time he was a coach in America,
he was coaching Olivia Tom that is most remembered
for saving every round and messing up some of their macro
and not quite living up to the potential
that that team had at the time.
So now with a second shot after more than a year away,
he has this opportunity with some of the best talent
that South America has to offer
to actually show that he can coach a team to success
and kind of make up for the mistakes of the past.
Yeah, and of course it's unfortunate
that, you know, showing them and now a bit later into the kickoff, now they're finding
themselves at the brink of elimination and sort of sentinels. And quite frankly, like
these are two teams that historically have strongest starts in a kickoff.
Yeah, I mean, this is a team that, you know, came into 2024 to go on to win Masters Madrid,
right? Even last year, they come out as the second team from America's even after losing
a star in 10. So I think it's, it's interesting to see that Sentinels have been able to find
success in previous years even after losing stars like 10s like saucy being
able to rebuild around one or two missing pieces but this year with the
whole rebrand it's looking rougher no it is but I think one key thing and why
their rebuilds are so successful in the past or right off the right off the start
they were successful is because they kind of had plug-and-play players they
had players that were already established right there was no like
question on their strengths and like their value that they would bring to the
team whereas this is a little bit more developmental right they're kind of
aiming for that future success rather than the immediate bringing up two
players from tier two swapping your IGL to a different person right there's a
lot of changes here that's just looking for positive things to happen in the
future still if you can't make it happen and kick off you have more than like
two months basically where you're just sitting back and having to practice and
prepare for stage one and especially for Levy it's on missing the the first
first masters in a Latin American country. That would be a big disappointment for them.
I mean, the last time these teams played against each other, you had 10s, Zekin, Saucy, Osbus
and Com. Just think about the amount of trophies between those players. Now it's just complete
reset back to kind of starting from zero and seeing which developmental project is actually
further along.
Yeah, I'm sure both teams don't want to find themselves in the position. Now, last year
we are and for more on Sentinels new roster and their kickoff struggles with diet, diet,
diet, dry it, sit in down.
Nailed it!
Hey guys, I'm here with coach Kaplan ahead of your match against Lev.
This is a high pressure situation but it's not the first time that you've been here
whether it was Grand Finals or another elimination.
So for today, how does this kind of pressure compare to other pressure that we had in the
past and with this specific roster as well?
Yeah, I think pressure is always a tool. There's always a lot of it on Sentinels. It's important to me as a coach to use it, right?
Pressure helps us stress test our issues, stress test our systems the way our roster works, and we're definitely getting put through that right now.
I think the difference right now is that in the past a lot of the time
it was just about playing under pressure and getting comfortable with that. Right now,
it's obviously still about that, but it's also a very competitive region this year.
we're right at the start of the year.
And I think our team has a little more growth
that we need to go through compared to previous years.
So we're really trying to use that pressure
during the scrim weeks.
Just double down, be very deliberate
and make sure that shows up in the scrims or in the matches.
Which is something that you mentioned as well,
where you were focusing on making improvements
every single day.
And that was the goal for the team.
So how do you balance those small improvements
and make sure that the players are constantly applying them,
even in a situation like this one?
Yeah, I think that during a scrim week,
we're definitely gonna be deliberate
and work on a few target things.
And we just need to all be bought in
that when we go into the match,
we don't need to be the perfect team to win these matches.
We don't need to be incredible at 20 things.
Working on those things we've been working on in scrims,
making sure we're still doing them in matches,
under pressure, that's enough to win.
And I think as long as we understand that,
we stay focused on it and it still shows up.
Makes sense, best of luck.
Thank you.
It's a great insight there from coach Kaplan.
Yeah, it's a different approach.
Sentinel took this year more developmental,
they're bringing up those tier two players.
And so far, the results are mixed.
Yeah, I really like how he pointed out,
he doesn't want to focus on being great
at 20 different things, especially having basically
a brand new roster.
He want to focus on the fundamentals
and build up from there.
Here's the question I want to ask of going into today.
After seeing their losses early on in this tournament
to go down to this lower bracket,
are they going to make a shift in the direction of the team?
If you were one of the nerds staring at Narrate's tracker
over the last week, you'll have noticed.
He was crying, or excuse me, redux rather.
He was playing a ton of that way,
which has led to thought as to whether Narrate
might be swapped off that primary duelist role
after his under performances to start this off.
And I think that is one of the big things
to look at as we get set for this game.
Yeah, I mean, it's no surprise that Narrate's been
under a lot of pressure.
I think after swapping back onto the duel,
it's something he did back when he was across the pond
in EMEA for a little bit,
but on wearing that Sentinels jersey,
it's been a very different situation for him.
And I think that Sentinels now with no real time left
to make adjustments and try to figure things out,
it could be a lifeline for them
to try and mix things up in the rolls.
Yeah, that's right.
I mean, it's a new system that he has to fit in
and then in a new role that can be tricky.
Now looking at our map selections here, any thoughts?
I'm a little surprised from the
Corode pick coming in from
Sentinels just based on how they
played and performed the last
time we saw that.
So how did these play?
It wasn't close enough.
No, it was.
I didn't mind it, but I still
feel like there was a little bit
more cooking that they needed
to have there, especially in
their game plan going into that.
Yeah, you got a little spoiler
there seeing that chamber.
Quite possibly here for Neon on
one side, but I think so much of
this for Sentinels is you can't
just rely on John QT again today. He's had three back-to-back-to-back ridiculous performances
and he's probably the biggest reason that Hundred Thieves game was even close.
I mean you dropped a 30 bomb on a map you lost right?
And just unreal but you need to see more. You need to see the rest of these guys these
rookies these developmental players that have been brought in stepping up and finding themselves
in time to turn the ship around. And look you can kind of see it there some double
a duelist action coming in for Sentinel. So, Nere will be on the Neon, Redux takes over
duty on the wayway. But interestingly, this means John Cutie is also switching up roles.
He's not going to be on the Omen whereas before, he'd been playing a lot more of the initiator
of the Tejo.
This is a big swap, but I honestly do really like seeing Neon on Nere kind of being the
cleanup crew instead of being the one to have to take that initial first base because I do
think that was one of the things he struggled with. He got shot down super quickly, whereas
Redux, I feel like maybe the movement on the way they could go a lot further.
I'd really expect C-Sensitals to play a lot more exec heavy in this game than they have
in previous times and try to simplify and maybe one of the things Kaplan was talking
about working on was just running some execs and set pieces with double the list.
Well, let's see who's going to come out on top on our first map.
Two America's winners are up for elimination and anything can and will happen.
Good thing we have Uber and Wyatt on the mic.
to be open to anything because
both of these teams, of course,
are on their last legs here in
kickoff for Sentinels. They've
always been a fixture in
kickoff, obviously looking so
good. And last year they won in
Madrid after that kickoff win
and in 2025 they were great. It
would be shocking to see them
fall out of a kickoff so early
on the Levitan side. This is a
Latam org with a Latam player
and coach who are looking for
that opportunity to play in front
of that crowd in San Diego.
Why in front of that crowd in Santiago still yes specifically King trying to get to Santiago play in front of that home crowd on the opposite
Opposite opposite side talking about sends history success that kickoff over the past couple years a lot of that driven by John has started with his addition to the team
The last member remaining yeah he set the standard for the fans and the amount of pressure honestly that they're applying to this team to perform
perform. We're pushed up against the barriers here and Sartre takes an early peek, step a refractor wave.
This is send out a canoe, accelerate to you in towards Yard, but as King of Blows, lay them down!
Cortesier gets on the board though and narrates with that burst of speed coming off the way.
Leigh has gotten within striking distance off this ace. Sight! Sharp work from Blows though,
not gonna knock the wind out of Sentinel's sails. And Blows after the fact making the right move,
which is just to duck back a little bit towards spawn, double up with Spike, a very low Cortesier,
Working his way forward, and Neon is swinging out, can't connect his shot!
All of a sudden the map is split open, this B side, easy for the taking four Sentinels,
they're definitely going to get that spike down. This is always such a weird juncture on this map,
where there's a rotate in progress and both teams almost cross by each other top.
Levy time was slow, they were worried about getting caught or someone was post up in windows,
so they're gonna play together. They're gonna have a 2v2 though,
So, Jon and Cotty are playing together, he is showing himself, Cotty is here with his third of the round.
Guy is sharp as attack. Now it's on Jon.
Cotty clutch a billion times for seven, last time around, the Bulls fight him through the wall.
4k off the pistol.
And a brilliant way to start this map on defense.
Stunning round from one of the Lev Academy players that they brought up this year.
One of the four young talents that they have on this team, all of them can crack out of control and mechanics.
mechanics are really sick. I like the opening there from Sen.
Nere gets on the board right away picking up this Neon. I think you really want to see
that if you're a hopeful Sen fan. And even Cortesia with that triple. He's another guy.
Over the pairing. I'm looking at Nere and Cortesia. I feel like one of them needs to
seriously activate today. We've seen Redux post this failure in game one. Drop some
sick maps like that 34 kills on Yoru in their last matchup. We've obviously seen John in
the peak individual form I think you've ever seen him in the history of Valorant.
But they're gonna need another guy to step up with them because we've seen
that just that duo that hasn't been enough to get over the finish line and
definitely not against the lead team that is just stacked with Shure.
They're missing something. Do they have it here? Have they found it?
Payu gets up all the way between the shoulder blades but now at least he's having to respond.
It's just Shurey that takes the fade out.
And Niyun not able to get away with any kind of teleport by the way.
Just jumping kill from Jon who's now picked up the Outlaw.
Every target one shot of a long lead to that weapon
So we get to pick nosy needs to move John. Okay spike Del with King's hunting for narrate here
Who's giving him absolutely nothing was about to be backed up. Yeah, Cortezia on his way
Just a classic for Cortezia
Swing but I think times of the essence narrates up and wouldn't that find out on his own and so it falls to Sato
To get in here and dig the spike out, but it's gonna be surrounded on three sides with narrate
surely rattling the cage to get his attention and fighting a three-piece to get himself out.
Four-and-one for Nare, someone who has slaps over the course of this kickoff and needs to step up.
I tell you, he needs that bad, and I'm definitely not mad at Sen getting him back onto a more comfortable, fearless role.
He's played a ton of Neon in the past, what a kill from Jon, and that is, I think, perhaps the most crucial one of the round.
a one shot classic jumping on
the chamber that could have ran away.
Teleported away.
Suddenly they just capture momentum.
The momentum drifting away is because
tech bars real quick kind of walking
into this game.
I do think that the storylines in terms
of the duals inside the most compelling.
We've got neon who hits the ground
running last week and has an insane
performance plays a lot of glory.
He goes to 62 ACS for the series 3921
for the 13 and 2 first kill, first death.
Then there's Narade, who, in an interview with Sage Yathuin, basically says,
don't throw me out yet.
I still got a lot to show, got a lot to give.
And in that conversation, he kind of says that I'm an intuitive player,
I like to play intuitively.
I don't want to be too structured about my approach,
but that means if I come into a game feeling off,
or I'm just not locked in,
I feel like I have these low lows.
I really need to be in a good headspace,
I really need to get off to a good start and then he referenced obviously what he was able to do last year
You know in stage two right towards the middle part of the year. He said it's time. It's sick
Uh during champions and he definitely struggled his gameplay struggled there
You know, he wants to remind everybody what he was able to demonstrate on that sentinels roster and he thinks he can access that here
I don't know me too soon. This is the lower bracket
and I do feel like that
reflection of his own play is
accurate in the way that you were watching him on Wele in the last couple weeks where maybe it's
just something to do with his role on that agent generally it's just not for him but you weren't
seeing him succeed taking into it a time he's awkward dashes in where he's getting caught at
times I'm questioning is this a part of the game plan going wrong is he not having a sense for the
Wele in some of these particular moments but regardless I just want to remove any possible
negative from running him on that agent by just switching him to the neon which
is way more comfortable as he takes me back years to when he was competing in
challengers and making a name for himself and when you started seeing rumors of him
moving up to the league it was because of him playing neon crushing
challenges seems alone during the neon meta and then making his way to K-Corp
eventually back here right but this is certainly a comfort role for him and I
I just think that's exactly what he needs.
Some early momentum to him, like getting this three piece
to win out that crucial ego round.
I feel like that can get him in the zone
to have his best performance of kickoff yet.
Can he build consistency with him?
This game, can he simply get to the driver's seat?
Lot of questions around now, right?
But so far he's been delivering.
Sentles are able to get into that B site quickly last round
and have a successful post-plant.
Now they've been kind of stymied here going towards A.
Dark cover is enough to ward them away for the time being.
No sense in doing anything too aggressive at the moment. They don't want to run into a stack, but it looks like it's going to end up happening anyway.
Four left players are here. Sato with that shorty close up at main.
Sato getting very close without taking any contact. They're aware that Lever likely just dunked in on the side with pistols and such blows chose up at the wrong time.
Straight in the cross, here's the Redux. Saturate, good connection there.
Heron, Sato was crashed into that shot.
Fieze steps up here, but it's here by the Relay Bolt, doesn't seem to bother him too much.
Oh, that was a team.
Three with the Shorty.
And there almost was more. Sato, could've been a real problem, ratting on that corner.
It looked as if...
...the kind you get hit by in the rates with Relay Bolt trying to get in there.
I wasn't able to. I was a little bit too dialed in on Sato, just dodging the Relay Bolt.
Could've been a Saturate.
All the kills with this Shorty.
Here it goes.
I'll tell you I'm interested in seeing how good Redux is going to be on this way
way compared to what we've gotten from the Sen running the agent so far. Now
honestly though all those kills it doesn't even end up mattering that much
because Sen win the eco their economy is still super strong yet but it does get
sawtoe very close to the convergent path since just one orb away blows one away
from the nightfall because of all the kills he got that four piece on the
pistol they won. So we can definitely see those alts coming to play late into this round.
Shocked out there to simply clear the trademark out of that B main choke.
And instead of going to double back, they actually were
posturing towards the weaker side of the map for late, but something has tipped them off that
they might have elsewhere.
And now early on, Neon hasn't gotten a ton accomplished on this chamber,
but frankly on the first map on Bind, he's sort of really slow the first few rounds.
He saw him whipping a lot of shots and then suddenly
He just activated and completely ruled that map with the arc so
You can see him take over at any given moment. Here's an area in with a relay pole.
Major Basato, yeah, he just has to get out.
Okay, but that gives space, there's a bit of a use of it.
Basato taking down through that dark cover, there's a bit of a spade in his direction.
There, the refracts, the refracts, and get him all the way out the way.
Inside the smoke, John QT is hiding.
Or rather, that was King Paranoia, that was attempted, but no, right, he's in a great spot.
That is a light play from King.
Nothing to supplement that no players really nearby just wants to get a timing but with a paranoia
You have no idea if someone is just gonna be stood to the left and ready to go
It's not like you're popping out with a KO flash or something that's gonna fly to everyone
It's probably gonna be based on a misconception. You probably doesn't think that married is sitting up on that off angle or could be yet
He's kind of neon
She's fast as fudge
I just burst into AR with some speed and the fact that Sato's refractus looks like it's placed more for like an engagement towards mid or length where you can get away.
Not very good when center running into AR and you can just get spanned down.
He's trying to get out of fight man!
Little bit of swagger, that's what we want to see.
Narade steps into the octagon, that's a three kill from Milnat round.
He's looking good, up to 7, already has that overdrive at the ready.
This could be a very different game than what we otherwise would have expected, on the who rise and fall on the back of Nara.
It was just a real disjointed effort there from Lev to try and hold that site.
There was no activation point where everyone suddenly did something at once.
There's a flood on the spike tab, like something along those lines that just fell apart piece by piece.
Domino's falling.
falling and there it's got the ult into this round a couple alts for Sen maybe a
pit if they get that spike down let have a meager investment into this
Sen have been so varied A then B then mid to open really trying to mix up their
approach here now Neon's controlling P main so let their content with trying to
fight over me will there be a moment where they try to crunch on to Sen's
paranoia is ready to go from king that's gonna do that
Saturator could be huge here. Okay, Redux let the plan to kill on Spike before it comes down and the Saturator is easily followed up on.
That's the danger of pying in those corners with way late. You can clear them really consistently.
Because what does he do? There's no reason to take it.
An elongated fight with Neon, but probably felt like he had the better.
Neon's headhunter though, rings out.
Yeah, I would say at this point for some, not surprised to see a player with some confidence in that moment and also the cash to back it up in case they die.
It just really doesn't matter. Neon cleaned up by Johnson, make it look effortless on that round.
The counter utility for Leves, little stack up towards mid, was just far too overwhelming.
Yeah, it's all well and good, I think. You know, King had a paranoia, wound up, but he
missed the timing because of how fast Scent can be, and that's that trait just dominates you if you
sat that corner. They're getting hit by a saturate and a relay bolt at the same time.
It's fried. The saturate is really better defining, I think.
Making a passion to play those corners. It absolutely is. Alright, it looks like lead they want to contest to be main
Just so happens that basically all center there. So we might see a big early clash
Paranoia, it's time to set up well, so I'm trying to get ahead of him. Getting many more in the asked for but he's having for two in pulls on
Out of 16, that's huge. What a beautiful play. Did you have no chance to answer that? There's no
window of opportunity to
retaliate. Lead are easily in the driver's seat on this round
Send knowing there are a few players there that want to double back into a but that's part of Lev's trap
They have the op on this side of the map and neon was dominant with this one
To hear all right that'll cut sent those down
Exactly as Lev drew it up aggro play in B main even if send weren't there
You're just trying to funnel them into that operator over on a his reaction time neons has looked astonishing so far and kick up like quantum
He just doesn't miss these held angles. You've got to force him off of some utile.
Well, they're going to be a slow death. Fakayu waits for that wall to drop. Spike collects that kill.
He's playing a hero of a lot of Viper since the team has gotten their full roster.
He is definitely more than just a duo's player, more than the neon-ranked demon that he was known for when Tucci was getting into the league.
league he is very flexible here's that play again on over top oh my I mean
crazy double-dash paranoia is excellent everything about that let's play
works across the map
you hear that guys you hear that guys
instant reaction there from neon okay two round game so that was probably
happy to put these rounds on the board early now they have to contend with the
same thing again it's a slowing paranoia that comes out from Lev this time at A.
Send getting pasty into this A side again relay both towards that connected
narrate pressing forward on the entry three players from Lev ready to
contend this though. Five volts they're gonna use some of them here and Redux is
considering the path first and foremost looks like no connection there was all
of them actually moved out to elbow they've given up a lot of this space and
look at the YouTube retake. Looks like Glows is ready to send in a nightfall
from spawn and they could just fight from elbow maybe wrap behind and send one
here to them. Redux okay it's a bit of a safe peek around the corner we see now
I don't know what is at work, but the knife is still going to come through.
Viper's been on the side both the sets. They are ready to fight down and dirty in these trenches.
Spike speculating with some spray. Nightfall did catch on and Sato's dealt with Kaiju.
Now, Sandals are fully encircled.
Livy Tan, like Vulture's, starting to make their way in.
C's used but not followed up on the decay, was shrugged off.
Here comes Sato, more spray, straight through.
Conversee a little bit too slow with the trigger figure.
There's John going down, that rate has to hold up.
That is disgusting!
Five up the lip, a flawless retake of a Viper's pick post-plat, you don't see that every day.
You could just feel the walls closing in on them, every single player stuck in that pit.
Not a lot of options for Xen. How? I mean, if they're also stuck in this site, players are just
going to die to spam. I don't even think that ended up happening really. Look at that from Spike,
the adjustment to the right is nasty. Why, we've seen this from set before. That is a three-alt
round from them and so another one that falls flat. A number of their all heavy
rounds over the last couple of weeks have been pretty underwhelming. Yeah I
think that has been a pain point in their gameplay they're just unable to
press forward get any space they're just completely entrapped on the site. Their
economy is still booming oh by the way another by no problem looks like they
just want to go back to the well get right into a.
Anasuri coming out, Naray dancing amongst the arcs of electricity, it's going to be Spike to fall.
King's playing back on the side, this time though, not into elbow for a levee attack.
He will have Sato up front, Sennepi, Sattray, but it's slip pass!
Naray's going to take King down, that's a control you till gone.
But it is a trade that Sato is able to go one for one.
He does eventually have to retreat though, pinged up, blinded as well by that paranoia.
That's a nasty spike.
That's going to be crucial, Caillou stepping up on this round, both left players, they
go through the star cover, Crosshair staring at them.
Well they're going to haunt their way out of this?
Wait for a timing.
It's happening!
It's happening for three in the round, that is disgusting!
Left with some pretty egregious moments here, some very surprising turn to events.
Beautiful round there from Sen's IGL, they just go right back to the pace on that A side.
Spirit this time being the catalyst of the site take great kill and at the same time
King up King later just gets spray down when they're it accelerates we've seen
moments where this neon is outpacing this defensive use so that was another
one where nary gets ahead of the saturate and is then able to kill King it's that
same angle that he caught King off in a few rounds ago when King just dry
swings his own smoke up to paranoia not used to the neon tiny on this map
It's defensive off from Neon, really just hasn't had a lot of opportunities because of Sen playing at an explosive pace and just dumping Utah on these execs.
You're getting the wall coming out from Nere. There's just too much obscuring any reasonable angle that could be taken by an operator.
Though maybe this round will be the moment unless you just get forced away by the Terran.
It's not the drone, that's the issue. That's been every round.
It's the pace behind the drone that makes it impossible for Neon to re-post up on angles.
But yes, that's dirty.
Little flick and gets out.
It's such a small window to capitalize, and he nails it.
John from the shadows gets behind enemy lines.
You can see Lev on the minimap.
They are trying to clear their own spawn at the moment.
And John would be the linchpin of a potential send win here,
or at least attempt to get back into the round.
but let you be able to lock us up.
They've got a ton of bolts.
Ooh, Sato with just incorrect crosshair placement.
He's only assumption that no one is up top mid like that.
So this A site is obviously free for send right now.
30 seconds left.
Though they'll be slowly solved
and at least having to use that dart now
just to get through the dark cover.
So a tool for a post plant removed
is lead attempt to maneuver their way here
for the four on three retake.
King still with that paranoia ready to go.
Closed with the Cs as well.
So, Crossfire is set up here.
Snakebite for Kortzee is relevant.
They still had this Viper up, and both controllers in play.
I think it's pretty pertinent.
Jon's still holding mid.
He's gonna need to get there and help him.
Time, and Kaiju just kills off the line.
Kortzee, you're left alone.
Yeah, his spa became obvious, goes down to the span.
Kaiju's gonna have something big here,
but the counter spam too much.
Now Jon has to face four.
He's had some pretty absurd performances
over the last few matches, but leaving the town,
our wise to it.
That's a nice retake, they really just deplete Sen's numbers piece by piece, isolation on Cortezia first and they move on, figure out where Kaiju is, he's spamming through the wall, loses that out to Blows, even if he gets that kill looks like he was about to be swarmed after the fact.
I mean just as I was talking about Neon struggling to get anything done with the AWP because of Sen just brute-forcing their ways through extremities
That time, opting to try and go up mid the first time in a while ends up just getting a very free kill for Lev
Yep, Lev aren't giving mid up for free anymore by the looks of things
You're gonna see...
The waylight's actually in mid here, so no...
Pop plays on defense from left here.
It's a proud of the clear.
Neon is here with that AWP.
Son...
Don't intend on accelerating in right now,
but they're going to have to do a hell of a lot of re-clearing.
I mean, as far as they know, Neon could still be anywhere with this AWP.
He could be posted on mid again.
He could have a main control.
I think that I probably heard the trademark there as well.
I think that this has been the prescribed location for it.
It doesn't feel like it wants to run up and get slowed.
Well, Sato very weak is getting out of mid back to spawn,
so Senn do have the opportunity to walk up here without danger.
Though, of course, they don't know that. They don't know that.
Link is just for the taking as they're working into this.
A split, three players from Leverry to hold this site again.
He's quite spotted out.
And here's to give the space up though, hope to saw that a little bit more by his pit on A
That's where he thinks they're gonna land, that's a pretty good assumption to make
Redux can't get ahead of the saturate
All the space has been cleared here, let me just get straight back into the site
They're gonna disrespect this, it's Sartre they're falling
He was out towards Elbow, they're part of the map now, not under the left control anymore
Good ping out, but he's king, he's down three in the pit
He's out of the game
Oh man, this guy is in trouble
Nothing but trouble
Spike loose, Cortezia has to recover and he's about to get backstabbed
He's not careful! Beautiful done! Ace for King!
She's that slow! And Satyago!
And he's got it for it!
Stunning hold. Sato hyping him up as well. Why not?
That's beautifully done in the pitch.
Right in time. That gets thrown down by Spike.
And King maneuvers his way deeper into the site wall.
All of the attention from Sen is fully occupied
and removing the Valkyrie from play.
He has had to be the main anchor on that ace, right?
A couple of rounds, right, the pace from Marek kind of shook him loose.
He swings into an off-angle, gets taken down.
It's been tough for him to get a feel for the tempo.
I think he might have locked in.
That feels like now, Lever on the same page with these holes.
They're able to nullify Sen's aggression,
but the right back out of right into this B site.
Redux with that, Bucky, up close.
To the Jepati, potentially, Sato might want to go quickly off this.
They're trying to just hit the gas back in.
I mean, not all five players are here.
They still have two in mid on the rotate for Lev.
TTP tower picking the fall about where Senna set up on the site.
So Liviton should have some advance notice here.
Senna have no ult support for this convergent pass.
The only one in play that's Kaiju trapped in the site.
We're not really down.
Human is called to Zia.
Kaiju just needs to buy these timing noses.
Gonna have some backup here from main.
The problem is though just around that elbow corner
and Liviton have tower control.
Kaiju has a stake put.
Uncomfortable!
Xana's having a beat about it on the swing.
It's gonna be blows.
Dills who dropped through the smoke and called to Zia.
No business being here.
Another pretty clean effort.
All of these consider less retakes.
But we don't got movement.
It goes on and on.
No, I love the way that they've been playing the ladder
rounds of this first half.
They've made some great adjustments
and really tightened up the retakes and the floods
on some of those prior rounds.
Excellent stuff from them to make these adjustments.
There's Viking over top.
And Rosendo is just never able to claim any forward space.
That has been their undoing on a couple of these execs.
We've seen it on both sites now
Look once you're in a position as the attacking team with the spike down
But you have two guys stuck in main behind a Viper wall
There's just no way you're gonna be able to win that out. So Kai you look to go rather like I'm gonna get me help
I
More chance all five players to send in B main no ults right now Kai you won away narrate
Let's notice they're getting in the side as quickly as they can but will it be fast nap now right is well entrenched
and there's a smoke that keeps Libby time to reinforcements still in top mid.
Can Sen do anything to actually fight forward, to actually take the space they couldn't on that last round
so they can get six full of half ends.
One P4, that right there gonna reveal Spike who now is forced further and further back.
This is what you're asking for!
What they wanna do is they have three players fighting right into Elbow, smoke down,
they can take Heaven control, they realize the errors that they made in that last round.
Okay, that's gonna be the action, they're back towards that B area.
Oh, dangerous!
Neon's able to avoid being taken down, but he's in a weird spot.
Doesn't really have anyone to play off of.
There's the dash across, it's getting a lot heavy here over towards that arch area.
Sato's trying to get in.
Looks like Tau's where he wants to be. Neon, big pick there.
Jon gets the dropped!
There's Sato once more, drops down, hard to hit, but Kaiju's had three so far,
and Kings of the Divus, he's got to answer.
Neon, isn't the shot, doesn't do quite enough damage!
What the classic gamber for Caillou Flups?
Levitan X in the half and seven defense side rounds.
That flank from King was perfect to close out the round.
They just didn't expect him to be back in Main so late.
I feel like the duo of him and Sato have been incredible
on this defense side.
Just generally as well, King, the leader of the team,
being able to make the necessary changes after Sen go
on that early run just playing with this blistering explosive pace.
The level figure out the answer.
Forgot very differently.
Got one V2 at the end of the round.
Nice looks here for Levy.
Time to look very adaptable, despite said having a good start
and narrowed looking decent.
There's lots to look forward to for a second half of Corode after this.
Let's go.
They give a bit of the map up on a lot of these defense side rounds, but why did retakes look meticulously constructed and
Half of them they're coming out with only one gun lost. It's like four players standing when the smoke clears
Yeah, you take a look at the timeline right now
Lev when that tests around to send eco them then they go on a run
It's four rounds in a row for them one out because they're playing just a relentless game and Lev
have initially couldn't keep up the pace but they figured out how to handle
Sen. We're now going to have to step up on this defense side of their own. Okay.
Good way to open it for Nere. Well, Levitant's ability to pull Sen's off
the extremities now is drastically limited.
And this Levkamp obviously not as dense with the attacking util as Sen's is
having poodle is having that neon and the whaley so a lot of pressure on Sato
here to perform. That chamber is not bringing a whole lot to the table in
regard to the execs so they only have paranoia it is flashes so that's a
challenge. Sato lone on a hoping to draw some attention from Sen but at the moment
position is pretty unwavering.
Patient here from that right, not forging your head for anything too excessive.
Very quiet from Lev at the moment, trying to slowly work back up mid, Sato with no utility
in magna.
There's not going to be a dash in a refract.
It's going to come down to straight angles.
As you mentioned, paranoia and then also a haunt for blows.
Those are the two pieces of Utile as legend.
25 seconds are slowly working towards B.
They have two guys towards B. One guy in link.
One guy on A.
They're bouncing back?
We gotta pick a site to go to.
There's 15 seconds left and I mean it has worked.
Because there's some pressure in B with the smoke down.
And now the A side is free.
I mean, Sen or...
They're thrown for a loop.
And now they're playing a full 5-4 retake.
I like that from live. I think they wanted a chance
at least trade top mid if you know someone randomly took a peek timing maybe
they were always intending on ending it abit this worked nicely now sent those
look at that backstab he is miles away though but it's been looked for send
my out hasten but he was looking for a bit not quite where we have to be
focusing spike that is huge now you're on a clock if you send those in more
ways than one guess you're gonna get the deep use but also that viper is gonna
be biting you in the rear end if you're not quick okay okay fine it's about two
That is pretty big and that was gonna get on the spike. Sato seems to know this, but now it's gonna go in this way. Surely not.
Redux have to put a lid on it.
Sentinels take the pistol.
Spike gets that kill on the flank, but same immediately then, know what they have to do.
It's just go forward and they use the useful that they have.
How for Christmas is a pistol.
And they got it. There you go.
Kai, who just has a little lineup, sticks the spike.
The rest of the sun goes now exactly underneath the pipe because of that flank.
There's a lot of push and pull in that round.
They've actually been sweating just because they were taking it so damn long!
This is a hallmark of Onus coaching style though.
This is funny, let me turn it like a three-fourth boolest team,
but they have a coach that really likes the meticulous game plan and conservative saves as well.
Interesting mix.
this time a little bit faster straight into B but straight out of B what do you
do now I mean your waylays entry utility has been expended and just as a
shorty feels like Sato is basically out of the round at this point John got
low-key beat up as well
neon trying to work me where you could take a fight
Alright, bye you.
Gets the pings.
We are Ares gaming, folks.
Not even around like this.
Time, man.
That would have been the moment where something could have been opened up.
But Naren is ready to go.
Redux in main.
And with a couple of weak players on left and no weapons to speak of,
this one should inevitably going into the hands of Sen to even up this game.
Naren playing some pretty restrained Valorant here on this defense side,
but hasn't overpushed into anything.
It's been patiently holding angles and has been rewarded two back-to-back rounds now.
This is also a reasonable way to build into a strong half.
You're adored to your defense, you've got to have a good feel for like whether it's
safe to be popping here on defense or whether you just need to play time.
The Nery looks really nice at the opening of this game.
I still have my eyes on Redux here as well.
Uh oh.
Oh god.
Oh that went out of sweet.
Expect it to reach.
All five guns retain percent to play out, a pure bonus, a real opportunity to take control
of the game on defense.
What the worst bonus on this is that you've got Mary's outlaw, obviously not the most
well apportioned weaponry opponent to have a heavy armor, but still.
From my point of view, it's not f***ing...
Somebody have to be here.
I've only got to give a lot of credit right now to Kyra, by the way.
He's been playing very well individually, and it's his debut year as an IGO here on stage.
Yeah, from that same classic.
Him taking over from Johnny.
Yeah, big shoes.
Oh, okay, yeah, but he's not taking down to 10.
He does not have a chance to really play much Valorant on this attack side so far.
Just as well, because he was a problem on defense.
Now moving with the chance there, up mid.
The three dots on this angle is that? Oh no, I'm just...
He's about to have his hands full.
Same to me either. Why are they hitting people on those?
But then you're sure a kill.
These dark covers keep getting cycled down mid from Sen,
and it's just making Neon irrelevant at the moment.
They're double stacking a connector through mid as well. Why, it settles.
Lever set up for this 1-1-3 at the moment.
Are they going to really try to commit that bar into the safe side?
The spike has moved through the dark cover right now.
I like this from Kai, trying to shock dart off contact here and give Redux some E kills.
So it's like there's a shot for, yeah, one way or the other, right?
It's like Redux takes the shot, hits 140, shock dart.
I like that.
Cleared the kill, yeah, that is a cheeky little setup.
Lef don't want to overcommit to that A side with only three players, and that is definitely the right move.
Heads up from Cortez, yeah, he pulled out of B.
It might be out of a stiff from top mid.
30 seconds left.
It feels like if Cent on defense just don't get heavily dragged around the map and stay pretty steadfast in their anchoring
They can find success here against Lev who are just going to be hitting these sites with virtually no time left of it
20 seconds they are in that's hell of a kill from neon in mid
Just a good call from levittar you to hit this b side send them to have decent amounts of
Retake potential with this double senti-con
John has double smokes up still I
I like this from Lev, they've taken a lot of space here but Redox gets that kill on the weak Sato.
Returns to get the rest of the damage, he's got the start around, he's found yet another one, his Outlaw is getting some value.
Still, Sen have to actually get a foothold on this B-side, they're trying to work their way in from B-Arch.
Close with that initial kill, that was well done, and Jon, yeah he really can't do all that much of support when he has the Stinger coming through connector,
I mean that's just not going to be good in the fight situations he find himself in.
I'm not sure what the tip-off was for letting you try to hit B, but we saw Cortezilla had left his anchoring position on that side to play mid.
They are making the right calls. They are hitting the Vase inside of the pistol round and now they're first time buying.
Seox is starting to come to life on this defense half-time.
God, and he snaps back against his alert. Okay, well...
...extremely well-drilled there from blows.
He was dialed in. Another one of the players that we were expecting to see in the league.
Once he was of age to be here in their range, trying to fight down mid, gets in that dark cover fast, and now he's down to the top.
Might be a reward for this, he's about to get forward and trying to spray Sata down to the smoke.
Mid presence essentially neutralized now, his blows can only look on.
I've just never seen Sata with full HP, this has never happened, Spike opens up this B side, open it, wow, what a kill from blows, I was going to say, he's in trouble.
He's the guy with the spike, but he's going to get towards this B side and should be able to plant it.
That's also going to get him the nightfall, so, you know, despite being a 5 HP and might not be in a bunch of alleyway in the gunfights at this point,
that nightfall could get left over the finish line.
Again, B is so lightly held from Sentinel that Neon is so far forward through Arches, back towards B yard.
Key has got a straight line down to those floor, can we really get this space off of him?
That's going to be Redux nullified for a moment, but it's in going for this time.
That's right. Oh, Spike! Beautiful! Notches his third, and Redux realizes that
that font of money has finally expired. He's going to have to get on out of there.
This guy is unfortunately forced to save with the AWP.
Nightfall just gave him no opportunity to play, and there was like poison cloud in his face,
There's just too much going on.
It does feel like we're seeing a lot of the hallmarks of the double duelist defense side from Sentinels, right?
They are attempting to make some of these pops thrown in.
Just overstate a little bit. Remember, this was a 5v3.
Look at the first two opening kills.
That's just Spike individually winning out that duel on the opposite side of the map,
and then blows, wins the duel he needed with 5a truly to live with this Spike.
dies there. There's Spam coming through at him too with dark cover. Any stray bullet would
have taken him out and that's probably round done. I mean, Spike is just an animal on any
agent he's playing and now we're into a timeout. I mean, I think some people will definitely
be questioning Sen taking us to Corode as their map pick first. We never even talked
about that really yet. They played it against 100 Thieves. It was 100 Thieves pick where
they've been running that Sage comp they brought into the mix for kickoff. And that was the
game where John went nuclear, he drops 29 kills, he has an ace, he has 2 4k's, 2 3k's
and wins 3 1v1 clutches and they lose the game 13-1.
Like, I mean, I think people will definitely be questioning why they're here based on that
and you have to imagine since then, Santa had been hitting the grindstone on this map
and feels super comfortable here but as of right now, Lev are putting them in the danger
zone.
give it though of like quote unquote home map for these guys to lose the horribly have a pick to
them and they had a home map I don't know not really split could have been it but they're all
in two and kickoff on that map yeah there's some horrific scores it feels like they just don't have
it's a sure map to take an opponent to like we're going to see on-bind that looks like
Lev's map I mean said have I played it in kickoff if we get abyss said I've only played what EG
They looked it right there, but we're called home map
Yeah, let's see if they can make something happen though on this defense side to try and slow down live
Redux is staying I kind of an expected setup here from son you can stack a site put the op on the other one
Just submit a leg
And Redux is able to clean up kill
But I don't feel like Lev or the team that are just gonna go ahead and try to rush into some space elsewhere because you die to be off.
I think they're going to take their time and try to work the map.
And that is exactly what's going to happen. They will not be foolishly running into the Sentinel stack on A.
I mean, in fact, it seems like the solo off there is tipping them off to...
Wait a second, that's like what is not a lot going on.
I mean, that's a, you can't advise that play.
I think that a flashless cop might like at least one of their controllers for the rest of the round, but...
Neon. Neon put, no, no, no.
A little vertical correction, perhaps?
Neon is not going to go for another looks.
That is the wise choice.
Again, they are making their correct decision on the lightly held site.
They've got that top mid control.
They also do have to do a bit of work to get back into the map with this level of weaponry,
And obviously, Narrow8's not a great spot to use his Parkie, but we know what Neon can do.
We know she can close the gap.
So, Sen, on this retake, Convergent Paths, definitely have nothing.
Also, just everyone else feels like they've all got a full kit.
Don's got the paranoia. He's got a smoke.
They have a recon. They have a drone. Narrow8's got everything.
They have a Saturay. I mean, it's...
They've got every single tool you could want to get back in, except for rifles.
Yeah, and they're struggling on retake rounds with those rifles.
Why, let alone a round like this.
We need to see them step up.
Not a great start, Neon.
There's a really handled Redux.
It's going to be a fluck here out off elbow.
Off some util timing. Nicely done by Ty.
You're really just beating me off. Here's the rate.
Here's the buck you're spoke of.
And I guess I'm in my words now. It's blows in the corner.
Send happy worried for a second when they send out the convergent pass
and no one is ready to swing off of an elbow.
I was ready to witness disaster, but they still are able to pull it off
it off just swarming with the numbers and Mary taking advantage of the neon
movement to close the gap with the shotgun.
He's a big round to put them in position with the off that he saved.
Suddenly does Xenar right back in it.
Got a say man, is that right? He's looking like he's on rails this time.
That was the most hype moment I've seen from Cortesia. And I feel like...
I think it's this great determination, you know?
Yeah, I mean that is genuinely part of the reason they brought him in is that just change of
Personality that it felt like he had midway through last year when he became mi3r's tight man to bring them back from the brink of demise and
Send want that level of excitement for their players and specifically Mary. That's why he's sitting next to him
He just head in the game. Oh, that's a massive risk and he's punished for a massive risk
I don't know if that's necessary.
We're walking up like that into a gun round.
Apropos as far as we can tell are very little.
Sprite wants to take around two against the offer, but...
King just flattens Kaiju.
Then he's bottom to top mid-action.
Gun on there. There's a one-taple Guardian.
Neriage...
It doesn't spot it.
It's Sato.
Kaiju again!
Just good start to the round for Sandals on these defense sides,
and they just pushed it a little bit too far.
It just it feels like they're doing too much and they're doing it against the slowest team in the world
Yeah, it really is I get it you're playing double duelist
Thank you you want to be angry you want to be active you want to be trying to pull them around the map
But they already got a kill but they already got a kill and they have a hunter's fury
They have no result. That's an easy combo to get back in for I guess it's like a replay a knee jerk reaction
You lose your mid player and you are feeling starved of information all of a sudden and yeah, and then you know maybe
They're working amidst you want to take some space elsewhere be man. It's just like when your service did you feel like you'd be blindfolded
Especially on these maps with really long and I definitely get the inclination for sure
But it just doesn't work out well read looks back on the save with this op
Send you have a lot of money to buy for the next round
I mean much like the first half it was winning an eco round that just gave them a serious
Stimulus to their economy and then they were disabled to buy for however many subsequent subsequent rounds excuse me
that's gonna be the case here too. Let's see how that transpired. It was a nice shot by Kim.
Don't want to take it off to do that.
Crosshairs is a little late on that, not the middle of the side.
That's now right, obviously he tries to try to feel out of time, trying to intuit a window
to go forward for that information. Now you feel like maybe they better off not doing it,
but I will note that when Sen play Passory on the map, Leviton have been rotating into
the weak side and forcing Sem constantly into retakes which have gone pretty badly.
There's Kaplan showing some frustration on his face there that he's going to have to
temper calling into this timeout. I think this is the opportunity moment for it.
This feels like a really crucial moment in the game despite the economy not fully being on the
line. This could certainly be the round where Sem are trying to expend these alts and if they lose
here with Lev at 11, unable to get those back in play later, so this is going to be a big moment.
Feels like a very timely moment for his sidecar. I feel like half of us are telling them to calm down.
Calm down on some of these rounds here. Yeah, they are doing a good job getting entry, specifically
Redux is doing a good job with this off. We'll point out that John hasn't been or hasn't needed
necessarily to, you know, crack signals kicking and screaming over the finish line here. He's had
impact but it's been pretty subdued and set a hold on their own but you're asking for a lot more
than that in a potential elimination hatch. It seemed like so far Jon's games on initiator are where
he goes insane which he was playing on SPAP by the way I mean that we didn't really take note of it
but he didn't move away from the Tejo. They're actually controlled though. Back in main here's
his heliport so definitely thinks that King has crossed. That's going to be some space giving up
but Redux is reluctant. He wants to be posted into a prowler?
Okay. Yeah, I think it's twice about that one.
Has to get away, but blows his core down.
King also down to half.
Kair has been sharp with these altits.
Pick up Sato.
And he's out of there.
Both times, these Hunter's Fury have been used,
by the way, by Kair.
He gets a kill, and then he also just tags King.
So he's down on low HP.
And this is the moment now where Sen
Just need to keep control of this round play for an event will retake that watch really close for push-ups for info or anything
That is a bit impatient for Sentos here
All the battle over on
Aside of redux is hindered the spike is left
Outside of the conversion pass that kind of in the plan used by Sato. I'm a little lost like is caught in mid
He's looking for elder other
Yeah, it feels like Lev have really lost their bearings in this round. Also, Spike, by the way, is just working flanking through mid. Might catch Nere.
Does Nere have a...
The little mini half wall obscures the view.
It feels like Nere has a sense for potential backstab because they know how lightly they're holding B.
Yeah, Cortezio fully gave it up. They've been intending on just playing this B side for retakes, so it's going to be no shock to them when they hear the Spike going down.
But Neon knows if they can make it.
Ooh, the sound he's caught.
Okay, that's a mid presence down sentinels now are funneling via spawn over towards that B side
But again, we're gonna see them have to try and work their way into arches
But no, let me tell don't have a forward presence in arches
They're gonna have to actually anchor on this B side proper one kill for spike
He'll have the pit so it's possible that we see that in this post plant. Hey Odin tower
That's definitely a recipe for success sato
Is wise to it though and time is getting short. This is taking sentinels a long time to get in position
They're gonna go now, Paranoia comes through,
we gotta catch on the spike, it's gonna be a two for two.
Redux in there.
They gotta get on this spike, time is getting so slow.
Oh, it's an easy shot, and Redux have a trade up,
and no chance for their DVs.
Neon knew exactly what he had to do,
and now we're pointing the two-slope finger,
and Statenles, big ripple clutch.
Four on three, but they just play it
so monotonously getting back in there.
The convergent pass kinda wasted as well
from Lev early on, they were playing the site for a retake,
but they just did not have the pace there,
but they all took it back in.
They got either way there for sure.
That is big for Neon.
How many first kills have we seen from Sen on the second half
that are resulting in 45 losses
when Lev just slowed down the game
and take all this free space
or find a hill somewhere else on the map?
Do you think there is merit in Sentinels
being so ready to get off B, to give up that part of the map?
because it put Naradea in a position where he was pinched.
He also did make the decision to push down mid out of Link.
He didn't need to necessarily go all the way down there,
so that is him also choosing to take a more aggressive line.
But the general idea there of just Cortezia playing back
in elbow to hold backside B to make it easier for a retake
and give that up when they have men.
That's totally fine.
I mean, the problem was just not getting in fast enough.
They just gave Levin way too much time to just post up and wait on that hold and fair enough, Sato gets a nice little two-piece as well.
If they don't lose Narad, I mean they can run to B from Spawn, but they're worried about someone pushing top mid, I think, and getting at them as they try to cross.
Yeah, that's a potential problem too.
Alright, Sen, still a ton of cash though because they won an eco round and recovered those guns how many rounds ago now?
The echoes of that round still being felt for sure.
Yeah, that was on round 17 on the timeline, still that off in the hands of Redux,
who really has turned around the game in the second half by the way,
he was like,
40%,
yeah, 9, something like that, and...
has started to activate.
He's getting in the first bloods, they just have to win a round off of it.
We still have a game here, but Redux is under refract,
he's allowed that to elapse.
Cannot escape anymore, and he is wide in the open.
He has to flick Sato into next Tuesday, if he steps up.
Sato, of course, still has his mobility abilities.
Redux doesn't offer a sound cue in mid, he'll simply slink away.
Sato does not want to test faith with a swing out.
Does know if Redux is...
...posted up on him, or to the left, so...
What is the move here from left?
Can you probably smoke top mid here and just walk south?
Surely, right?
Yeah, virtually.
And now they can't be working link, Redux is calming that to his team.
Redux hear that action from King.
He definitely hears the jumps, yeah.
And now Lev, who were just pretty patient over towards B,
seemingly waiting out any aggression,
they're just going to have their Sentinel and Viper pivot towards B.
Oh, that's Redux on the line.
Good patience, he could have gone way more aggressive that round.
Ops, not two.
Give up mid, though.
Cortezia on the retreat, Snakebyte just took a delay, Lev,
and this is the opportune moment for the pit.
He's under a lot of pressure, Caillou.
Nares is going to be really important here, the solo player in Elbow right now, and he gets the better of King.
Viper's been in play, play the Atan, and extremely short on options in order to try and take this round away.
And looks like they're not going to bother. They're funny, a bit awkward, not only two against five, it's not odd you want to take.
Time for some vintage corrode. When things are going wrong, just pick up the double Odin and start sparring through the corners of walls.
I don't know how Kai you got the kill in mid, but I think there was some shooting for a wall involved. We'll see on the replay
I'm sure but
All right, there it is from the Sen
Applies an off this grape for still three shots coming down Sato. Oh, see that bullet hole though
That was close
Oh
Here's the TP across perhaps
Yeah
16-15 for that right hazard overdrive now ready to Odin's maintained by Sentinels
And honestly feels like it showed up a lot of the rich is in that round
Love spending a ton of cash to play into this one even with a tour the force action
But that's the right wow line for neon, but neither art makes the connection. No way
in there
Went with a baby they jump
Only works for over 30. Sorry
Redux sees the jump across, realises Levitana second, guessing there's a push.
Now, Sentos might actually be able to have their chips in the right spot.
They've caught a pretty big rotate, yeah, but there was a full aqueous of the B-side.
Jon got out of there and is now trying to slowly get back into elbow for some info.
There was a drone re-clear from Send towards A-yard.
Look, this Viper wall is actually pretty disruptive for Send on that B-side.
Jon has to really respect it.
Alright smoke down top mid so Lev can threaten this part of the map
But they could just double back into an a split. They do still have King over in a main
This is a what a dog. There's a crossfire here because this is yeah
Sato's ever to swing it now. There is a door open
HP
Dash in from Sato on B. They're just tracking the rotates off of a Lev might be playing
This is sick master class late round to get a free site
10 second guess it. You're gonna double back, but it might be too late. Kylo has dealt with Sato.
That doesn't really
make it easy for Sentos to decide where to be right now.
Doritos really can't fight this. All he can do is just try to post up on a forward angle with the AWP.
Now the way this pit is placed, Lev are going to be giving up a lot of space.
Sen can just take control of the site rather easily.
Who's the recon for the pit? And Neon just steps out a little bit too far.
What a risk! Yeah, there's no utils to supplement that peak whatsoever.
King, pretty far off the action here. He's sitting back out towards main.
The pin allows left to flood back into the knee to this and there's an opening play this two of them in fact
This is tough. It's all stored snake by down on that spike location. Time is getting short
There's that recon spike pinged away. There's two Odens in the game
He's really got to make sure we doesn't get wall bang down
Redux to begin this down to half and here comes that right straight forward finds his one and that will be enough
Redux trying to do it with the octa and the round and the signals get within one round
A-Site, the contrasting to one of those slow retakes we saw on BB the undoing, saying hit the go button at the right time there.
The two players who were still on that A-Site make the right decision of holding the space in front of the pit.
I mean, Neon just goes for a 40 aggro peep right there.
A few rounds in a row now, Wyatt.
And then, Neri makes the right decision of activating that overdrive to get into the great peep on from Caillou as well.
That's it, boys!
There's going to be a gratifying, validating round for Sentinels and the intuition of Marek.
And despite from round 15 to 19, four of them being taken by Lev, because of Sentinels winning one eco round,
they have a way better economy after winning just two rounds.
Lev are forced to come into this with just pistols and shotgun for Sato.
Alright, no time wasted. Sato trying to get in and John is laid low.
Yeah, that is some serious danger for John. He is out of there.
But at least as Cortesia in sight to provide some assistance of Lev accelerated, but lead accelerant. That's crazy
More of a stately trot
They have lost a main as well sent have gotten
More interested in taking the forward space there and they have on some prior rounds
We have Redux taking contact and then narrate behind the well there against the box there against pistols here, right?
So I think they're
Gonna be able to flip the script on their normal game playing and actually at cert they're right through some more of this space
Alright
That's a little awkward he actually got caught on
Things are looking awkward across the map, but can Redux stabilize on the retreat in the same thing by the font
Deadly consistent is actually caught inside the conversion pass if you'll be out of the fight for now
This will let Levioton into a close gets a gun. He's got the nightfall for the post plant 15 seconds supply
And this going to get that down so far forward with the all
Brutal stuff is that Bible was actually extremely troll in this situation
Cutting off any chance of getting him in here's John finally getting into the game of fields
State bike up to the Atlantic. Close court, but stop through times. He's good
And a 30 round for Levioton. Don't forget. It was a pre-classics a bucky and a bloody sheriff
If we go to the coach cam, I know what I'm going to see from Kaplan's point of view right now.
What a frustrating loss.
Yeah, that's about what I expected.
Matt Sen are in some serious trouble here, but I guess maybe it's, I don't know, some kind of universe karma
that Sen do get E-Code after doing exactly that on a couple occasions to lead in this game.
The ledger tends to balance itself one way or another.
Sato is 23 and 17 now.
Yeah, has a mental round after picking up that AWP.
Crucial kill towards spawn from him.
He has really been lighting up since his entire game.
Canary, pick himself up from a rough round.
Redux doesn't have any help there.
It feels like Sen just want to win this round.
They're getting really aggro down mid.
That smoke that Livy Tan put breaks up the two
duelists for Sentinels.
There's no chance for Canary to help.
They had no intention of taking this one slow.
They wanted the round to be done just 15 seconds into it, but now Lev, first blood, it's time to walk around slowly.
Start to walk, dog.
Stop for a bagel.
And a radiated bagel, of course, but that's the best they got out here.
Neon just pushes it up towards B-man. Dog walked now. Very good.
What if we all go to B-man? And what if we just hit this side?
There are two Sen players ready to hold it though. This is going to have to be a hell of a moment from Cortesia and Caillou, to be fair, has been playing an excellent sova.
He's going to cross fire. He's thinking about timing through that wall and unfortunately just picks the wrong spot.
Paranoia's going to slow things down. Kutuzia ready and waiting for King to emerge.
And now Levitan going to keep it close. They've got the player in front of his spike. Just rips one on Kutuzia and John.
And Narade, story of this game, he is going to be relied upon to keep Sentinels in Corode.
Spike planted, blows, spotted, surely round that corner, fast lane will let Narade get in, but how does he play around this?
What does it imply? Does Neon think he's crossed?
He's still watching that line, Narade has to maybe a wide swing.
There's his hard, Neon's reactions!
Get the result for Leviton, 13-10 here on Corode.
a road, a Sentinels, Matt Pick and Wyatt, they're just, they're just not quite there yet.
Sato comes out, swing that entire game. Some of those attack rounds from Lev were a master
class that slow controlled approach to the game, just working the Sentinels, rotates
at some excellent calling from King, it's the game plan that coach owners provided them
with and Sen really just didn't have the answers for it.
It's the ultimate paradox, it's Levitan team full of really aggressive individuals with aggressive tendencies in a structure that is way more conservative.
They're like the youngest team in the league, you would think they just want to run around and kill everybody.
Oh, it keeps them just enough leash, they can run up and have moments like this, and then retakes on defense while we're so clean.
They're coming out with four players still after them, very, very good at the A-side especially.
That's them making an adjustment halfway through the first half on defense.
Send them over early, just playing all the speed in the world with the double duelist comp.
But then, Lev, they're able to take the approach, a stable one with really excellent 4, 5 man floods,
big setter he takes. That was working well. Lev really put on a show here.
And it boils for the Headsman's axe to knock Sentinels out of kickoff as we head over to their map of Binds.
go too far at this, and so he's gonna break down by number one.
Watch I step, come with the gang, with the set
I'll leave, no way out
You scared, tell me now
Walk in, shut it down
I'll leave, no way out
No way out
No way out
To the casket shops
To the casket shops
To the casket shops
I
for two and three!
One enemy remaining.
From John GT, brilliant!
They get that win of map one at the end,
and owner something that the community has noticed
is that you guys have a slower approach to the attack side
compared to other teams.
What do you think this slow approach that Lev has
is successful for you?
the last game was really difficult. We took a lot of loss, you know, I think the defense
was way better. We won 7-5 in the defense, but we lost, I am an eco, so we made our
life way harder than it should be. It was a difficult attack for us. We didn't play
play well. Hopefully we're going to play better in buying.
I mean he's looking good so far. Just have a look.
Welcome back. Left staying alive in that first half. Much of that of course at them playing
the retake simulator that you specifically are a massive fan of.
I wouldn't say I'm a massive fan of playing retake simulator but I will say it was very
effective in this game. I think it is really a feature of owners coaching style that we
saw all the way back when he was playing on the or coaching for a very
previous leviathan roster playing a ton of this retake and I think against teams
that have great retake protocols and know how to pick it you and get aggressive
it can get punished but in this game it looked on point I think especially with
a lot of the flanks from King they looked very well put together on these
retakes. Yeah what it allows them to do is have that extra time to set up to get
the timing of the planks before fully activating or to make sure your space
to get back in sight is good by slowing things down and playing together.
It helps you simplify a lot of things that unless the team is going to be actively challenging
you like you're saying, they can find success.
I also feel like they were very aware of what space they had and what space they didn't
go into those retakes and never felt like they were caught off guard by a player kind
of slipping in towards that elbow.
We even saw them keep control of that elbow, making their retakes a lot easier as well.
Yeah, I mean if you're looking here at the breakdown, Saddle was such a standout.
Like he just took over this game.
It's so incredible to see him like playing this conflict and being back on that way, which he had to switch things up for the first two weeks, but you see that he's right in his comfort zone back on this year.
Yeah, he looks really great on a lot of these dive plays. He's so good. I think it's picking the right timings of when to pull back and when to actually commit to a fight, playing the way, which I think is one of the hardest things to balance right now.
Now this round in particular was just great with the set playing to me.
It was a standout game for him and it continues to show that everyone on love is so much more
comfortable with the full roster here.
Yeah, I also think with his saturates they weren't so much as team focused as we've
seen other teams like Hunter Thieves do.
But I think he did a really good job at isolating those fights with that utility for himself
and capitalizing off of it, which is what we don't normally see from waylays now.
Okay, just kidding.
Yeah, now of course this lost Sentinels, my pick.
And now we're heading over to a bind.
We have seen that Leviathan played this twice already in kickoff, they're 50-50 on it so
far but even in the loss against Hunters Thieves, they had a really big comeback on their attack
in the second half.
Yeah, and good to show they have some of that resiliency in the late round, the latter half
of a game, as you should say, I think already they're the ones in the driver's seat.
They're not the ones that need to be challenged on that front now, as a matter of fact it's
sentinels that are feeling heaps of pressure now.
Yeah, I do really got to give proff to the narrative. I think he did step it up on that new role
And if you do a little bit of a swap to their vine comp, I think we could see the same size
I think he went like five and two and first kills in first step
So which is a huge improvement for what we see when he was on that waylay
And I think if they do adapt their comp to what's been fitting them especially in this last map
They could find some sort of success here even though it's less mapping still I think with the changes to the composition
We could we saw some of the protocols not fully be in place
And I think one of the keys was talking back to love playing so much retake
I think Sen was really struggling to find the right flights to take in their post plans
Which I think a team that is more experienced in the composition and roles that they've been playing will do a better job at finding
Those moments and I do think that's gonna be key again on fine if love do play a similar style
I do think it's pretty easy though if your protocols are out of place
You're simply have to put them back in place and then never insightful. Wow
everything's fixed. It seems like a very simple problem Mimi. Okay this is why we
paid the medium size bucks. We're gonna work on very small things each week so I
just I just figure putting things in their places is a good way to kick it off.
You should maybe consider coaching. Yeah. You know you know. For now though we have to
make do with coaches such as Kaplan. Let's see what he had to say ahead of
my team. He's gonna say what I said. Thank you guys Kaplan. We're going into a map of
that you were second banning in the last couple matches and we haven't gotten the
chance to see what can we expect from this map and also what are you expecting
from the players on this map. A nice little surprise strategically for
everyone really excited to show it. Other than that really happy with
everything we're doing just wants to play together a little more as those
rounds develop and I really believe in the guys showing that here. Alright best of luck.
Thank you. Remaining positive of course one foot is out the door already that's a
a lot of pressure to put on the newer players as well.
That is true, but I do like hearing that.
You know, he's coming into this map
with a little bit of surprise.
I don't really know what to expect.
The last time I heard that,
we saw a double senty comp on her road from Pungent Sea.
So I hope, I'm excited to see what he has cooking.
Yeah, I'd be happy to see something creative here.
This is in a map where they're having to scramble.
It is one where you'd hope that they've had some time
to put something together,
but it would be a big shift in expectation.
If San Luis here, they're always grading kickoffs.
They were the runner-up in 25.
They wanted in 24.
It's their time to lock in.
I want to say something.
I want to say something.
I know.
I was just like, that's the juicy narrative right there.
It's true.
But this has been a very different year.
Yes.
It's already four sentinels.
They obviously feeling so much more pressure.
Wait, what's going on here?
Yep.
God.
I actually hate everything.
I hate everything.
And you know what?
You should learn your lesson.
shop firebellion they were all over the six seven what happened to them at GCC
they lost yeah leviathan just dug their own grave
is that the six seven curse yeah i'm just saying i i have i still don't know what it means and i
just want to distract from that i have so many questions so let's just let's just let's just
look at something else how about we just like change the subject all together because earlier
you read an opportunity to talk to Kaiu about what it brings to the IJL row?
I do think one of my strong suits is to stay calm, you know, as an IJL you have to be calm,
you have to be level headed, especially because if you're like running around everywhere crazy
and calming, like very hectic, you know, it's gonna, your team's gonna also see that, so
trying to keep calm and it helps your team needs to be calm as well, especially if their leaders calm, so, you know.
Who you know like us go and get it jumping kind of be the shoes
Always down back trip is still kind of vision how to see it through
Got them all tuned in like we ended hills hold out of you
For real
up the deal. We got a mess of you.
Imagine being levier time with high expectations at the start of this year, but coming into
this kickoff without all the pieces quite there. However, the moment Neon joins your
team, you dominate career, go 2-0, and now you take the mapping of Sentinels away from
them, you've got to start believing that you might be on a run.
and conversely, in the mental game, they're going up against the Sentinels who have been under extreme pressure, extreme scrutiny from the fan base, who demand perfection out the gate,
and they haven't been able to live up to that just yet. It feels like in that regard, this game just have the makings of a lead win,
And now the sense back against the wall in danger of elimination if they lose bind here
They need to find that resolve within themselves to actually
Get there as a team and frankly I want to see more of the players on this team
Getting excited like they care to win this game outside of Cortez you like you're watching lead everyone's standing up
It feels like they're into it in that way. They're hyped up. Where is that? I want to see that from Zen
I mean watching the pressure. I'm watching the pressure. That's what it feels like crustive at the moment
I mean hearing from company is pretty upbeat even after a lost map that was their choice
right?
He's trying to keep a very positive mentality despite the circumstances and he should, he
should but they are in the danger zone.
Now these 18 assignments are interesting right?
Obviously first-priced is John on the brimstone here but we have Naray picking up the chamber.
Redux is going to stay on that way.
This is the first time we've seen Sentinels in VCT this year on this map.
It's the pick of Leviton who looked very solid thus far, obviously with a dominant showing
over Kru, especially in my mind.
As you're talking about the Neon debut, being this obvious turning point for the Leve team,
not just the insertion of him as a talent, but getting everybody on their intended rolls
across the entire squad, he comes in, first map in VCT for him, on-bind, drops 19-5 against
Kru, five first kills, no first deaths, completely rules the map with the AWP on defense.
are going to be hard pressed to get these attack side rounds.
They're going to have to really dig it deep to straight by
and everyone that they can get.
Well, who knows?
Having not played blind, we don't know where they're at.
They might not even know where it's at in their map pool,
which has been mixed in the results across the board.
Yeah, really, we talked about it this time of this game.
We don't know where they're on ground, it's supposed to be.
Maybe this will get a surprise, and this is it.
Maybe they come out swinging and just put the pressure
on Lev.
John DePromis, I saw your cap on DePromis,
a surprise saying, looking for something fun,
strategically, to paraphrase him,
and that even if you would try it.
The composition doesn't seem too crazy,
it's got two out there.
Got a fun to see in the right here on the chamber.
Yeah, we were seeing a lot of Redux playing chamber,
actually, in the offseason, but he was farming
in those tournaments.
But with the recent happenings of Merritt on Wale,
just not feeling like it's his right agent,
He's going to be picking up the chamber here instead, he can just focus on getting kills here sent on this attack side against dangerous leviton team.
Spike solo on A immediate danger as he peeks out but does not get domed by the headhunter.
So far leviton's retakes have been their strong suit in this game.
This guy has got to be on the run, he has no help.
There could be a Yoru teleport to heaven but that is about it.
We're hanging around on the spike one-for-one. No use of the gate crashed just yet. Looks like Neil's happy playing from shower here alongside blows
It was a fast double TP for Lev. They're really trying to pinch the send team right now. One player from short two from shower
You're gonna have King going through spawn and send looking to bait out some swings with the top of the spike
Lev will not be giving into that though. They are content to just hold these angles in a fairly passive way
They just don't mind not having full information for a time.
A time Kai feels safe to stick.
Trying to pick down Shaw!
That's huge!
That's right, gotta be avoided by Redux.
And Kai moves up as well, but Sato is just folding back on the angle.
Is there more to this?
That's nice, I like that.
They were hungry for that kill and to also just remove the flank pressure in doing so.
Now return to the fray, but Levitana got into the side under the absence of Redux,
could flash through the wall, and that is stunning!
Then Kotosi is out of fine two!
Let's put the king in a virtually unwinnable position now.
Let's step up with a bandit for the smoke and mirrors and a sky and his wife.
There is another pistol round for Sen Cortesio was asking for them back on map one.
Let's start off the game in the right way here.
It's like just sticking around there, ends up getting caught.
I think that's a pivotal moment, making that decision to go back and deal with Sato.
And they feel like that's fine. We can give up the space on site
We know they're gonna get on the spike lower back here fighting them, but we can just pop flash right back through the wall
We're gonna take the fight to them just quite fundamentals
I think on three or four occasions from Sentinels there and they make the right micro moves there
That's all classics for left fully stacked towards octagon
Sentinels spread across the map in this
Did see a fun clip
Rift Shared on Twitter where you can get the poison orb inside the satchel hanging up on the left of octagon for a one-way smoke
Oh five man TP
Okay, well here goes the Marshal!
His name's taking his hands and their aides able to find two
And the rest of Sen now know it's time to go to be
So they will be on their way there all good probably get Kaeyu that plant
Get him closer towards the Seekers
Hell maybe even just throw the gun to someone else so he can
take some fights with the ghost or something to try to get some kills.
We'll see.
Just depends on the situation they find themselves in,
how safe it is to actually try to hunt a little bit.
Doesn't really seem like they fancy that line.
No, no.
I mean, we were on Redux POV for a second.
That just reminded me of map one, mentioning the fact
that, yeah, he did start that game on attack.
4 for 8 was looking like he might be struggling on the way
But then half to he bounces back he drops 11 for 4 had really important op shots got to first kills with the op
Feels like he's right back in the game and honestly, that's just something we've seen from him in general is that
He has had bounce back games. I mean in a big sense in that week one
He had a very poor performance to open a kickoff
Yep match to immediately bounces back on the order last week against 100 thieves not a great map one map two drops 34 kills
So he is definitely a player that can thrive under the pressure and he doesn't let one bad performance get through his head
Let's get down to business now is leviton finally buying in and it's a bonus for a for send that features a number of handles pretty decent
new with the Bible to them on round two and just having some go-standard good
Bible might be all for not as neon just these run up me yep just walks down
short news narrate from the rounds and also just wait just we're walking up
walking around sure well sent us here are looking for a little bit more on this
be cyber down on a great spot at all to three on three stack locally with John
being unable to immediately intervene how could they crack this crossfire
that has been the thing for this round walk up and end one I mean there's just
no way they're going to be able to maneuver through this situation live
one player taking contact two ready to swing out from either side just feels
actually impossible. It's a weird round isn't it Wyatt? It starts off with a
number of individuals taking their own contacts, these own during duels up a short
here that throws around into a very weird spot. And it's an early illusion to the
style that Lev liked to play here on defense that we saw was a nightmare for
Pruitt to deal with that Neon is constantly mixing up his positioning on
Dior. He's great at working the map with his teleports. Not only does he have the
aim the op skill but he's intelligent with his teleports he feels like he's always in
the right spot when you're watching him took the hit from the outlaw there but
everybody on leviton knew they needed to buy that full armor
see it's pretty customary for your first five round but still just gonna be that
fake clone tp but narrate aware yeah the key uh imagine it what if
Sato here is posted up. That is very crisp wire
He's very crisp. No chance to even rendezvous out there for narrate
Dog getting some extra distance with that stem redux is in does have some control of lamps a lampside has been given up
I can he's happy to play it back side. He has two friends to help
Yeah, the question is how to send those games back side here at all
I think some showers control that a pinch could be pretty huge for them
I mean, honestly, I just don't think they try. They can't even really get on to the spike.
On the molly to follow it up. Yeah, cringe. No plant here.
If they try to go back to B, spike is still entrenched in the site.
This is the move just...
We're going to get seized with the next plant attempt, potentially.
Well, probably doesn't spot out anything, so maybe they think there's a chance they can be walking away,
but even still, they don't have any reason to move realistically.
30 seconds.
30 seconds left.
The Sentinels have been in place for the most part
having a refresh on the smoke.
So he's the Molly to prevent a walk up on Caillou.
He is able to get a plant.
Decade down as he used it.
It was a season in the end,
but the follow-up there was a little bit belated.
That was big.
That was a must-win duel for John.
Neonlost will post it up in that window,
but it is called to see a Caillou entrenched here
on the side, but he's taking down the one through the box.
That's all he's gonna get.
Still, Levitant have to continue to make the move.
They're up on site.
Senor just ready to drop this wall
face with multiple players off the timing.
That seems to be positioning for that snake bite of his king.
What just happened?
It all fell apart.
It just feels a little bit labored there.
Send work really spread to take a great multiplayer swing.
Lev weren't on the spike.
Honestly, they felt like they were just ready for that play.
Nicely done. As soon as that wall came down,
we're going to see this on replay.
That was fantastic, Joe.
Fighting up through the side that's crazy
All right, so they are going to be forced onto the eco rounds you get your standard way
Lay with the chocolate ready to go towards be
Time for a pause actually
So Sandals with a good start, obviously you win with the pistol generally, makes you look
decent, plus the buy up of two vandals in that second round, did a pretty clean sheet
for them heading into the third, which is where things start to go pretty haywire.
Yeah, tough when your rounds begin with a walk up from someone on lab that just deletes
your player on the inside of the game.
It was Neon, and he had heavy armour, yeah, heavy armour into the outlaw, so he's having
with that fight out and then I think Naray tries to find his own timing and Sato's there.
That was a crazy shot from Sato. I mean yeah it's just back to back first kills straight
up adro player with rifles and unfortunately Naray being the victim of both of them.
So Kaplan teased something a little novel for this map. So far you seem like you know pretty
stand in Viper War on a short walkup trying to use that story until we're more calm.
Yeah, I thought we were going to see something a little bit stranger, but yeah, not the case
Feels like so far really fundamental brand of bind
And let me turn the show this that they want to get pretty active on this defense side in keeping with his double duelist
Cop I think neon has just that in mind
We head into this next round
Let's take pause now to follow that
time out here
Regular pause wasn't enough for you
We put so many pauses inside this bad boy
He's gonna be an awkward by first sensual stuff. I think that's probably something worth touching on here
This next round is gonna really feature a bucky for redux thus far alongside a couple of
Sheriffs I would also say that you know if you're a bit worried for sin in this moment
Especially in terms of the fact that they're losing these first engagements
Yeah, that's just not even a part of the plane.
What I expect on this round, if he dies, we'll probably pick it up in the next.
I mean, even if they win and they all live, he might just pick it up in the next because
they're filthy rich.
So I feel like it's inevitable we'll get it into the next round.
Yeah, post-buy, a lot of these Levittar players are sitting on 3k.
So that should tell you everything you need to know about that situation economically.
A huge part of that is King walking up and getting three kills as they go for that A side retake.
And again, like some of the U2 placement there for Settles was a little off.
Like the Snakebite from Cotsia was short, it's too far to the left.
The Spikebite location was actually a little bit deeper, so a couple of things to tie him up there.
Again, you know, send maybe some less reps on this map knowing that they would sort of walk into.
I think they're permering Paven at the moment.
So definitely bind to be a fixture of them, Apple.
So just to touch on King specifically as a player as well, since Neon has come back,
I really like where he's been at as a controller because last year he was doing some roll swaps.
There's a little bit of duelists from him at times and it just never felt like anything
was clicking for him in 2025.
But now just being back on this stable roll where he used to frag out in the past surrounded
by all this talent, feels like he's in his zone right now as an individual.
That yeah, it's like that a cool Academy
Time for me on to walk at them
There's gonna be something
This is happening exactly the same as round three exactly the same
the pace on the dash with the dog is just not ideal and
Feeling like
Again tough round to win anyway, you know you're walking into a you know a wall of rifles
And now walking into four players. They're from Leve.
Sightwall is really stacked, guiding light here. Flash avoided. No info for Kai Uden.
He's gonna be hit. He's actually walked up on Parallel. He's all coming to Core.
That's that right. He's down.
He's gonna be over pretty quickly. He's getting knocked to another two. He's going with six and one.
Let me target that flawless round. That bank is continuing to burge.
not even an ounce of damage really done aside from I think Sato has to rebuy
armor that I think that's the most significant that occurred so very clean
here for Lev now will we get the AWP I mean nope because they I mean the
situation which they don't buy it is they just kill everyone look away let me
time stand so we'll just and other feels like they're ready to walk at them
perhaps yeah watch this watch this a short play it is or they're sending it
I mean, there's not gonna be much walking actually, more dashing, sprinting.
Okay, watch over the strike! Catches Kha'Zia!
Classic combo on bind right now.
Saturate into the strike.
Also, quite effective as the Cs, that's the same thing for you.
I mean, this timing is just a bit sloppy from Sen there.
Redux walking through the smoke into the molly before the flash is coming late.
It's just a miss call.
Vanessa again down to players early in the round have to find a way to salvage this is one of the previous from the exception of
metal weapons at least for the attackers here's some angle campages seek is off the side
Least all narrow with a chance for King back sight able to shoot him in the side
He's looking dangerous so far King is everywhere look at how he's made these movements John can't be ready for it
It's another three K for King easy come easy go nine and one for the ITL
Senn are just being relegated to these slow contact rounds because they're losing players early every single time.
And Weth have an easy fight with God.
They're just getting their anchors on the right parts of the map as well.
Teleport, they didn't even map on this one.
I mean, this was just two players able to straight up hold that.
They're just crying off of each other really well.
We've seen blows actually.
He plays that elbow side of the map really well.
We saw that against Kru.
Yeah, he was he plays it off angle in the open he steps out of it further past the smoke
It takes good timings out of the smoke all that all right well me again. This is what I'm saying
He's just going to mix it up constant one
He's pushed out of the
That's good info though off the guiding light those have to get back, but it's just ready to now hold
Right back into that B side
Sent was allowed to play the game finally
Well, that smoke is going to deny Nürrit's ability to play much of the game on worse.
There's an Everpeak from Sato, jump spot.
That's going to be virtually impossible to hit.
Yeah, he's seen enough.
I mean, King hit him with the Guardian last round, but our last map, brother.
It's got to be a- Oh, wow!
Okay, he's got to be refracted out already!
Sato gets his- I mean, to Sato, he might be able to ult him if he really wants to.
He just wants to kill one.
What?! Oh, God, is he-
What is he doing?
He's just messing!
Tries to cross the wall!
That's just how it gets his second!
Man, that is brutal stuff for Sandals.
They are no closer to having a plod than they were earlier and here comes the pressure.
Here comes the stall you till.
Feels like Lev might just be dealing them a slow, painful death blow on this bind map.
They have been...
You're choking them out man.
Beyond dominant in the first kill game.
Something look at the sun in here for sandals blows avoids that pressure and seizes redox in place
Oh, it's conversion pass from Sato now. No chance for recovery. It's a total force in play and they're right deals with King
But he has to go huge here for a place there between him in the end of the round is no chance
disrespect
The middle name of Sato actually he's got like three
Four maybe
Again, he is absolutely living up to it
He is in demon form today
best player on the road and now trying to take a crown from him here but
maybe it's like oh it's gonna be a moment where he backs off tries to use the
cats there or he can just step forward and get another kill he just insists on
remaining and it picks up a more aggressive off angle and he's like okay
well all smiles for owner he's been chilling with Lev Academy brings a couple
players into the league gets himself back in the league you know just gets to
Watch his youth soccer team ball out in every single game.
They're always dressed to impress, isn't he?
Here's Redux. Get some stuff up in the box.
A bit of a variation on the normal dive here from Wailay.
So I'm trying to get the pace back that they had early on in Corral,
when they found some success.
John, with that strike to the post, right there for the post.
Surely, Sentinels on an ultimate round for Wailay.
They're investing it all. They're investing it all to take this,
to get that third round on the board.
orbital strike should have been required as well. Surely this is it. There's no real
fake pressure right now for Leviton, but I think Neops is looking to create some.
And Jon of course has the Molly too by the way. Surely a round hit for Leviton. Neops found Kaiju.
That's the sky picked off. Now there's backstab pressure on Sentles. That's going to have them
watching their six. In the pit it's getting hot and heavy. It's going to be Redux falling.
Mollie trying to step out of it. Here's that orbital strike. Got to be avoided, but Contra's here
is down. Jon and Mollie time going really not on the side of Leviton. Yeah, Mollie to get this done.
Blows knows he's cooked, maybe he might try for some damage on the way out.
Sentils get around, but man, they have to scrape and claw at it.
That is classic bind right there.
Just lighting up and running up with your brim.
All we're missing is Raised Nades, Gecko.
I know, where is she?
Yeah, us, usboss, usboss player.
Alright, five and three. Sentils get that round, but it is...
They've been few and far between.
This push up here for Neon threatened to undo the post plant setup.
And Neon actually doubles back to the site.
I don't care guys, I just care about the run.
Yeah, addressing the fact that they lost four more players, Cortesia still just, like, the
lone man out of his seat trying to get this team hyped.
I mean, it feels like that should be obvious, but I'm glad he said it.
These things need to be put in the words.
Here's me, disrespecting as per usual, caught to see ya.
Oh my god, I mean, Vau's out again.
What can you do?
What can you do?
He is everywhere on the map.
Hey Redux, trying to get EGN, he is convergent so moving at the speed of light.
That's nice, that is very nice. They're able to isolate those players set up in the crossfire, blows Conn in the path.
On the smoke!
Okay, suddenly into the 3 on 3.
Gonna buy some time, that is pretty big.
One more kill and he gets a nightfall too, and he's got the EGN.
Redux trying to creep up there through this, and the Prowler's gonna spot the map.
Now he's gonna fight for his life!
Three for blows!
And it looks like Statenles are blasting off again!
What were we just saying about him and Elbow?
Yeah, but it's normally-
It is his domain.
Normally he's swung out.
It's unstoppable there, man.
I mean, that is just going to be a gut punch.
How do you combat from around like this?
Not only this one, but another in a series of Leon pushing out.
Oh, my God.
I'm not saying the player on the scene is being an absolute shooter, but also least passionate
over the game.
I mean also by the way just Kai you planting out in the open winning there could be a player elbows ill
That's an error. He should have been talked and he's going to regret not being talked
I mean this is riddled with mistakes and unfortunate moments for sentinels and now
Well, it's a share of free ducks and after that round
It seemed like you are sorry after the round one by send with all the alts
It felt like they weren't satisfied and winning because they used all say lost for players
Well, this is why they were feeling that way one more round lost economy is straight back to the pin
And it's going to be a while until they get those real power ults back online it's at all in the half
It's round 10 that the Redux and John each have one orb
I'm probably never gonna have them unless one of them gets a bunch of kills around like this
That's looking less and less likely by the second
Far be it for Lev to get
They love those moves, and I think I don't know you saw are you there on the way back loves the round the world
I mean it gives you information you shouldn't really have access to I don't
if he sees Kaya there though because of the Viper War.
Sato turns a flash!
Oh first kill there we go for Sand Narade.
Shot.
Ging.
Little bit.
That's it!
Takes the challenge yet again.
Poor premium of confidence now.
The shorty is able to dodge away from that saturate.
He hasn't really given up his space.
Not at all.
One more kill and he gets that orbital strike.
Defensive Viper's pit Viper coming in here.
The unpressuring from the flank as the pit comes in the nightfall comes in.
comes in. God this is impossible to play into. Neon doesn't even need to take that shot. John is
dealt with. But at the time, a sign of respect. They've spent some ultimates on this round, but
ultimately Sentinels are crushed. A small consolation in the loss. That was basically all classics and
the headhunter from Nere. What do we get? The hook is the roundup. Nightfall drift. Pit? Nightfall
drift and pit. Okay. They'll take it. They will take it. They're gonna be using it at some point,
I guess it's nice from there. It's getting in that position to get a free one
Listen that being said though, they're against weaker weapons because it was pretty beautiful retake from left. They used every all to perfection
Thought it's you're gonna be called upon by send fans all around the world with today
He's just had some really unfortunate situation
He's the one they got caught in the saturate and the orbital strike when he was sat up mid
It's kind of just been that guy.
And honestly, not that I'm anything wrong, really.
And as he gets up, they spend four ultimates
on winning a round, he says, it doesn't matter, guys.
We need this round.
Let's build off that.
Something I'm noticing about Kaplan is that,
it feels like he's been pretty measured
in his expectations that interview with Dryad earlier on.
So he's actually pretty happy with what he's seeing.
I don't know how you can exit kickoff at this stage of things
and maybe maintain that happy feeling or satisfaction.
I think there's an awareness that this is going to be a longer term program.
There's definitely a difference in the pressure that Kaplan feels the players should be under
versus the community and fans of the team right now, where he understands and feels like
of course they're not going to be in the perfect place right now. The year is just starting for them.
But it's the Sentinels' namesake. It's the success that Kaplan and John had in the past
that has gotten them to that consistent echelon where they're making all of the globals that now
has them under this level of pressure. Victims of their own success right now are out of the
timeout. Narade ultimate pops. Can this be their fourth round? After we mentioned they got three
ults out of lev so less danger. Kaiju one orb away from the seekers here as well. There's a
possibility and matter of fact I think the last gun round they got is when he was able to use them.
So some stall utility for Levitant, they might actually...
Okay, just position a bit further forward. No, really thinking for a pop, but they can quickly get
three-way crossfire going on. Okay, unnecessary, just not needed. Yeah, that is brutal. It's just these
simple setups, crossfires, swings off each other from Lev and unbelievable aim skill, that.
okay it gets worse looks like bad things coming more than three percent
well it just has them feeling like an unstoppable force right now what do you
force to save this surely look at the spike is see one three though 40 seconds
this late in the half two rounds left they have the last bonus try to see if
you can get a crazy kill got to the orange on
I make something happen here on the move called as he's gonna shot his favorite one.
Obviously they had a chance, they swung out further than Neon was actually holding for them for the AWP, so
Lev, you know, somewhat of a risk taken there, but
So, what is the meaning of risk when you just don't miss shots?
Neon making sure that he is everywhere. This time it's an aggressive push up and a shot.
He takes a different every single round, he really is putting a lot of work into varying that approach.
Yeah, I think there's an awareness from spite that I took a risk there
But gets him out of the round. No harm in a foul with their loss one player acceptable
You can just set that casual 14 and four another orbital strike to end the half
There it would be all fueling the pressure teleport and there it is Sato over places hand is caught out
Still gonna get aggressive on the other extremity now a sentence one of acuatic
John! That's brutal!
Kaila John lined up and knocked down like dominoes!
Right.
And it felt so good to get that first kill.
And now, back to a situation of...
Are we just walking into A again?
A moment where Neon has these well-placed teleports.
He's in the right place at the right time.
All the time.
Yep. He is the sleep paralysis team and their signals are grappling with.
This is why I have a wallet to get up on short, and Narade's unlikely to expose himself to
Neon in the near future.
Oh, tag the king!
Of course, that's your triumph.
Neon spotted now.
He's relanced, by the way.
I'm like, this is pretty audacious.
There's a lot of space here for a plant stall, though.
Yeah, it's going to have to be all the strife.
Oh, into the TP, even!
Are we pivoting?
Quickly, Neon!
Gate creches back over to the site.
This might have to be a pump fake, and I think Sentinels aren't doubling back to A now.
ends up being the perfect play from Redux and King spotted out, Narade is lighting them up.
Three kills for Narade.
Determined to bring them to four on for the AC. He really has been the spearhead in this round.
Here's the plant. Flash blooms overhead, walk out for Neon, Narade for four. He has got to be the one
that pushes Settles at least in the halftime with four rounds through their nameless spot.
Shots him down.
Both send players here back to back over towards that lambs direction. Spike needs to get busy.
He didn't get the ace, but that has to be enough from Nere for Sends to get four rounds here.
Time is ticking. Spike cloud up to tap the spike. Snakebites here for Quarters here. Not getting flanked.
Double face forward. There it is.
Sector nose.
Trying to make that first half a little bit more respectable, but it felt like Nere is just
Pulling kills out of every orifice to give them a shot in the route.
Real heads-up play there from Redux takes that teleport really fast to rotate back
and that gave Nere the timing to get forward and get those kills.
To take some of that space because it baited Neon away.
At that moment right there he's huge and then also just
crosshair perfect to deal with King.
A good final round for Sen.
Perhaps a hope for them is, when you kick back on that first map of Corode, starting on attack, Redux didn't light them up, didn't put up numbers, which is to defense, and then he goes 11 for 4, so maybe he can bounce back again.
Alright, let's not mince words. Quick break, we're going to be back here to the second half of this bind, about with Sentinel's chances at staying alive and kick off on the line.
Let's go!
Red Bull Genshin Wings!
All of the year has never been in more doubt.
A brutal first half with a pistol round one,
Shaw converted on, and then things got ugly,
and they got ugly fast, Wyatt.
It feels, I don't know, poetic, ironic,
something that in this very moment,
it's Nairay putting the team on his back
to get them through this game.
So then that first half had four first kills only,
but they all came from him.
He's just doing everything he can on this chamber
to get sent across the finish line here,
King 1 for 1, aggro fight from Sen, straight out of Hooker, and does pay off.
Okay, nicely done, Narade, plazs his feet over and ain't short.
Gets himself further into the map, he's definitely expecting left to angle.
But with that Hooker direction, and the honest head of the guiding light,
there's gonna be a lot of players looking at him, and some sharp shooting from Cortes here.
We'll put this round to bed, that's both pistols, one now on Bind.
Back on map 1, Cortes was acting like this team has never won a pistol round in their lives,
And now they since then they won three in a row second half corrode both on bind
You cannot ask for much more to get right back into this game
Now I think the what a tap on the last one the contrast for me that I'm gonna look for in this attack site
The levitator is that on defense is so active right me on is always on some part of the map
Yes, and on attack. There's so very slow the exact opposite. Yeah, really. It's a weird team the tempo is
The inverse of what you would expect to say
It feels like we just keep talking about it over and over, but it is just so funny that
you have the most cracked out children on this team and you have them playing the most
disciplined developer in the league right now when you watch them.
That's easy for Redux.
Spike walked into that.
I think Levitano trying to get this one going pretty quickly.
Tano is noticed crossing under Hooker and is picked off.
A little bit of info.
Why not?
Now, let me tell them to get a plant, so it's time to hang your hat off.
Yeah, they will eventually have to deal with the Redux and Hooker.
Mion's not leaving that corner.
Yeah, gonna be hit by that trailblazer.
And King at 35 will make a swift exit now, as the wall is rather permeable to those spectre shots.
Nice and easy round for CERN, Lev Wolfield.
Alright, we've got Flanchor, one on, we've got five classics.
That is exactly what Sen needed to accomplish.
Good for Redux to get another one on the board.
I mentioned it at the end of the first half, but he really did turn things around once
he started playing defense on Corode.
So you have to hope that he can get there.
I mean really, you're going to need, let's, I mean, yeah, let's do it.
We're going to need multiple Sen players to get online if you're a Sen fan.
Like, they have been struggling outside of Nere.
I mean, specifically, honestly, I feel like the elephant in the room today is John, you know, on map one, he put up 126 ACS.
That's the weakest performance he had of any map, including when they lost 13 to 5. He still put up 205 in that one.
So he's got to come to life at some point here. He has been their best player up until today.
Yep, he was 274 ACS over that whole series against 100 Thieves. Incredible showing, but it felt like an outlier for sure.
So Lev were able to take some space over towards the shower, just a slow walk up from Sato and safety.
Virtue of a haunt that was thrown deeper, knows that he can just claim it for free.
I do think this play towards B long for Sentinels is one of the more compelling parts of their setup here.
Cortezia and Merit, they're next to each other on stage and next to each other over at the teleport.
They're ready to play off of each other here.
He's taking this contact so we can teleport away and try to bait them into Cortez.
Will they fall?
Oh, Cortez had an opportunity there to do something nasty.
He was trying to bait, but he got baited.
That's it.
That is...
What did you say?
Poetic?
Ironic?
Something like that.
It's rough.
So now...
Settlers aren't having any play as pulled off of that A site though.
They're kind of happy to leave Narade over at B.
Levy doing a great job on Karoda just dragging those rotates to the exact wrong site.
But now, Sen?
They're stacked up, but they say, hit them, ready to go!
Mid at Redux, and for the Guardians, they're gonna get out of lamps and find a big kill.
Blow's gonna be deep, blow, but Kings attempting to stand up in his absence.
To Guardian, it's really been ringing out, but the B site has been left for now.
Oh, late teleport away, but what a catch from Jon, blows us down.
I mean, Redux, rushes to his demise, but ultimately an irrelevant one because they just don't have time to get this fight to the site.
Hey!
Too slow for Levy at heart!
Oof, this fight can't even save the gun.
Bonus round converted for Senna right back in the game.
Give me those Redux highlights.
Yep, it was kinda looking nasty with the Guardian there.
Those ice short plays honestly have been the best look for Senna's on this second half.
It's also on the pistol where Maraite's able to control that space where you want.
Yeah, that's a nice shot there, supporting Kaiju.
And also, honestly, even though Kairu was pinged up and under a lot of pressure, I think he did a bunch of games there, so, you know, it wasn't too bad.
Man, a few words? Same for the mid-rounding.
Still very good side. Sentinels this time hold serve. They're over to win that first buy-around.
James gonna get tighter here. Redox wants to take this fight.
Yeah, and time to get out there. Except it goes away. What? He just refights right to...
Yeah, I mean, I guess there's no reason to have a place earlier in there, but Cortez on the hold, all good for him.
Yeah, it should be a comfortable spot here. Neon shows himself. Cortez again very quickly makes that adjustment.
It blows with the craft end. It might want to weapon upgrade if he can get it. Spike trying to get in close down with his stinger.
Jon is on the hunt. And yeah, that Odin for Kaiju. Certainly going to be a wrinkle in the play-in for Levitan. We have finally a game.
Really solid hold there from Cortezia back sight
Redux goes one for one bit of delay the rest of the rotates come in
Ready for that rush over top
And into this round send by the way
Two lots to play with so they are
in a good position
Let's take down this full buy round, Nere picking up that Operator as well.
Fertile pass, off the rip!
Agro play, Agro play, flash, dashing from Redux, does he try to go further?
He's gonna have to help it look, yep, Redux.
He knows that that's unwise, I mean they're gonna kill anyway on B long, so why go for
more?
Sato down to this, Redux eventually neon shows himself, here comes Sintin City!
Oh wait, where do these guys come from?
Finally unleashed.
Unleashed and now three and you go ahead on the map kick off. Let me it's on
Remember now you start thinking about first a little bit start thinking about that map number three of this
creeping at the edge of our periphery
Because levitan don't have any more business try to play into this route
Another map by the way two or three in the pool that led just I'm done haven't played it
They've played like four before the series only four different maps, so
It's a little interesting. Mostly, yeah, we've seen them on Pearl, Bind, Split, a fair bit.
Sandals didn't want to go for Split, I don't know, that's going to be much of a go-to for them for the near future.
They've veered away from picking that map.
Yeah, they picked into it, they tried it, and it just has not worked out for them.
I mean it is just struggles with them right now. I'm trying to pick a map to go to as a home map
The pool is it feels like it's very weird. They put it
They put so much work into trying to shore up their corrode
It feels like as they knew teams were picking it against them. So
You know, they end up being a decent spot against hundred thieves on that map
Then they say okay, we put so much work at this and let's make it a fixture
Let's double down on this now. We've had to spend so much time on trying to shore it up. Let's make it a
strong point instead
The first outing for Sentinels and kickoff here on bind is looking good after a really
rough first half
See what happened to the killster. So at that same time there was the play down a short with the pass
So then Redux opted to not overplay a wise decision. They already got the kill elsewhere and
Neon tried to take some space off the refract but just went right into his crosshair anyway
I think that represents Redux also starting to get into the game on Corode
We talked a lot about like these defensive plays from Sentinels how aggressive they're trying to pop
You know narrate where's he gonna be looking for too much action and over staying
Redux playing a lot of top mid on that map really patient despite being on a duelist
Despite I'm sure the temptation to go forward and try and make something happen
I think Sentinels realizes how important it is to have Stull Ward anchoring on the A side and Redux has shown
So little of himself. He saw this tight angles. He was playing with the Guardian where you got that 2k
That's the game plan for him
Don't put himself too much on the line and just by time slowly be turned down because once they want to get going
What's it gonna be time to sign to hit W?
They do hit you hard and fast
I'm recalling this time out as things have completely gotten out of hand for Lev
It was really feeling like the game was just in their hands. Yeah, some of those rounds
You just felt like the game was inevitably over
Yep, but suddenly Senna just coming through with a surge of momentum in this second half to string five together
Matching the best run the left run when they played defense
I love just buying what they can to make sure that they're ensuring the full buy on round 19
Still have to deal with this narrate off. It's going to be positioned down short. Oh
Okay, I was gonna spot this out pretty early on this feels a little bit dangerous
Look at Leviton already pushing up and Redux is Bumper-nosed to them on the other side of this wall, King!
Gonna show his full rear end!
And Redux gets himself three!
So that was a minor wrinkle in the plan!
Which Redux walked and 10-2 very quickly.
Ironed out and Sandals get to 10.
And a little big play. It didn't work over a B long.
They try it at short. A little bit better.
They really could have gone either way.
It seems like Leviton is not that interested in clearing this.
I mean, there's a prowl of it went here.
were they shooting that was just narrates I am and that was just that was
the intention of the play just narrate break the prowler and narrate make the narrates teleport away
and even though they sniffed it out on the last round and dealt with Cortesio
when they were running that play it belonged exactly yeah the same the same
look you did right I'm there I posted up on short again but this time
Passive! All right, Sato.
I think that confidence is starting to build.
Leviathan still has some weapons to make use of now, to the very early nightfall.
Is Leviathan trying to get into the site?
It hits John only in his miles away, anyhow.
Yeah, I don't think Leviathan is gleaming too much information from that exchange.
Sen are able to close this distance towards site. Maybe they try to throw the pit down with Cortezia.
See if that's an optional Redox. Great damage there.
Yeah, and safely working his way into the site. Good damage, like you said, on Neon, and look at Ingo!
Neon caught out of the open, quite low, and he's easy enough to pick up a spark falling.
Sentinels now, with some self-belief, a bit of Vim and Vigor!
And a spring in their step, gonna get the plant down, John released.
Yeah, he gets it to half.
And even at that, it just blows alone, trying to swing out. Oh, really?
It's just being obnoxious.
There it is. John gets it to half, despite the Molly being in play.
It settles to be able to finish the job. Brilliant. Three rounds in a row, if not more.
They've got to be feeling themselves now.
A completely different team, just decided to enter on the second half.
Redox a completely different player.
Again, he is just repeating exactly what happened on Corode.
But I think to an even greater extent right now, it's been a perfect half so far from Sentryl's.
I got to say, he is a player with just an ironclad mental respect to him.
We're in the round. Nice round. Let's go boys. Come on.
Wait, Nere bringing the vibes?
Yeah, okay. I'm about it.
Yeah, he's starting to plop up a little bit.
Posting up on this angle. Risky.
Yeah, he doesn't fully commit to it.
Why is it the fact that Levy is trying to hit the hard and fast
and caught his ear with there to help Nere?
Yeah, he's just in that perfect spot
to be able to kill a potential Waleigh dashing forward
to try to catch Nere.
They really just have that set up.
I can't believe I'm saying this, we might be heading off to Abyss.
I look like it was very unlikely in this first half.
I'm not sure if it blows, but it doesn't matter. I guess carefully he won one.
They do have some cheeky little game plans for this
defense side. We didn't see it on attack, we were questioning.
Why did he say that in a half-time interview? But even outside of the double
stacks they've been putting together, that move from Cortesia being positioned to help out
Now right in the case of a fast push, that's just really nice.
Ah, well yeah, if it wasn't that Molly, it would have been the next one, so.
Molly and Snakebite.
That's a lot to deal with.
It's a king on the stinger, nothing more.
Ah, nothing like the feeling of your entire team dying while you're on the lurk and
then they're all watching you just slowly.
That's kind of what Naray was dealing with last week, a lot.
I will say, I look towards the ultimates in this next round.
Both teams are going to be toting quite a large number of them.
Leviton are equipped at least to fight to stay in this game.
But boy, the win has changed, and it's changed very quickly.
Dominating second half in from Sentinels.
The confidence that looks completely absent, I think it started by,
and even if you look over towards the last few rounds on Corode,
it's like a different team. It's night and day.
It's about bloody time.
Look, I know I'm beating this narrative into the ground,
But it is crazy that Redux for a staff is three and nine.
And then right now, second half, he's 13 and three.
He's just good on defensive way, I guess.
Settles here for the map to take his two abyss.
Of course, going to pop some of these ultimates.
It'll be the dimensional drift here for Neoniz.
He wants to get forward.
Now they want to try and pinch Cortesia in the pit
right now if they can.
The Virgin pass back and forth.
Neon emerges.
Owen deals with Redux.
That's the way they now down.
Guiding light, Zeno's trying to get back onto this B-side of the map, it's gonna be Spike to go for the elsewhere.
That was an A, that was the lurk player. The action's definitely here at B for Leviathan.
It's 3 on 4% Nils, in which they have to get a lot of space back, trying to work through elbow right now on account of the trailblazer going forward, so...
...Kyre at least knows it's relatively safe, but...
They're got elbow, Kyre's back up in there.
Can he fight against multiple players though? Yeah, here comes an orbital strike!
Oh, I think he was seized as well.
I think he was given just enough rope there to walk straight into that, but here comes John steps up in quiet the series so far
King Notch is free a costly round for Levitan a lot of ultimates want to play his down, but they are going to stay in this game
if only just
The King just will not give up great round from Neon
And I like the game plan there for on Lev with the pit going down be long
They just try to circumvent it play around into sight and then eventually crunch Cortezia
where they have blows working up B long at the same time. They choose to give up
elbow just to make sure they get a big orbital strike. King very animated there
as well despite fragging out four. Sentels though still have a number of matchpoints
at their disposal.
Love worked that prowler up short and doesn't spot anyone out, so Neon is happy to take
the space to try to post up on a deeper angle.
It felt like they've been starting to read Neon a bit easier, Sentos, but now I want
to be ready for that all-fangled and he's gonna be like down.
Down to 30.
Neon gets out of there straight away and now Narade after being seen wants to pick up a
new position.
He's on the way to a B.
Hey, react, trying to make a playtrend through the TP and then all the way back.
Bold and confident from Redux.
That is rewarded for it.
Now, let's see if he's settled a little bit.
Yeah, it feels like we're right back to where we started, except
Nereit moved over to the B site to try and throw off left, get that off into a different position.
I was on that B site.
He's completely alone.
Torta Force, but he does also have a judge, so he's got modality in play, but he has no teleport.
Honestly, I'd be concerned about all these tools that Lev had to clear his corner.
Yeah, I mean, there's a strong chance Amali just comes his way right into that corner.
It's a pretty feverish chatter. I'm hearing it on the stage behind me from Levitan.
They're trying to put it together.
Player Anson has moved a muscle on this A side.
Oh, I like it from Mare, but again, he was one and done virtually.
Yeah, he's put in what feels like a damn near impossible situation there, tucking into cubby.
They spend the pit here just to make sure that Leviton desperately want to get to 10.
Neon will be attending this smoke here, no flash to help Senn get out, they're gonna have to contact this or play through smoke.
QQT hits right where it hurts.
Fast trade from Cortez, King tried to swing off of that but just gets removed from the server, I believe.
Sky smokes, get him back into the site.
Now into the pit.
There's an opportunity to at least tap this.
Get some info when the guns are coming through.
Alright!
Don't hate it. Redux trying to make a bit of a move.
Colt is here. Looks like he's satisfied with some exits.
Good weapon for it. That's for sure.
Trying to keep a lid on that Livy Tart economy.
Thank you, Costly! He'll get three.
The neon saves the op.
left starting to heat up a little bit when Son have applied the maximum pressure of getting
on to this match point winning all that eight rounds in a row to get there.
It's of good value for Levitan, they're actually rationing these ultimates.
Each round they're getting one or so.
Crazy kill from Sarto.
Man, his aim is just, he's still to watch him.
It's just pretty nice, crispy.
King of course, I would get so many of these multi-kill rounds, he's up to 21 or 38.
We are approaching that zone in Valorant, where you're trying to make a comeback, but
the other team eventually get some ults to play with.
So Lev will have to deal with Seekers, and they're going to have to deal with, I think,
crucially, that orbital strike.
We could see a moment from Sen where they do go for the saturate play, trying to get
back in on the side of the Runefaker, and orbital strike someone that got those kind
options now. Senna are refusing to move off their line so far. Yeah, Mary just
watching showers over on A. He has a trip over to his short that can be
played off by John. It's a good little passive setup so everyone else can play
B. Blows looks like he's to be the catalyst here. Some U-Till that might get
left going. They want to bait someone from Senna into the jump peek. Get more
info at B long a little bit later. Senna giving up a lot of the map on the A
side as well. Yeah they're content playing a passive set up there where they just have
the offer shower and they have the trip. This means though that that play up a short isn't
really being attended sent can't watch it unless they try and get to it. That trip pings
and slows someone we might just see an instant orbital strike. Yeah okay here comes the night
four it's going to move John out of the way now ain't going to be marked into K down John
there to help him though orbital strike. After ready let's it go on to the spike location
this blows it moves off and there's King taking down and the ensuing chaos now back on top
and a Stimbeacon and Spike sprays him down. He's low himself, but he's certainly made an indent.
Looks like Bows found Redux now. It's got to be tough for Sennos to fight out of this one,
but look how low Spike and Bows are. Three up, post-plant. KotaZia trying to put this to bed
for him becomes a problem. He's got an iconic clutch on this map last year. What's the recreate
history? Leviathan really split KotaZia on the Spike, gets it to half. There's some soundbates
being made because he is confident, comfortable, ready to step up, finding Neon and handled!
Another match point goes by the wayside, Olivia Tan now, threatened overtime.
Charlie, we don't get an OT, Mish. It's surely. Eight rounds in a row for Sen. Now three in a
row from left, all that timing is just gross from Spike. They use that orbital strike Sen to
get the players off the spike then they feel like okay maybe we can take some
lamps control but never is watching with the off great little play but then
spike continues to fight sprays down to massive play from him round number 24 the
last of regulation can send just close out this game they had it in their hands
and left one to rip it away, trip over towards Octagon from Narade and double
posted up with Cortesia who is fully tucked.
Sada wants to try and yet dig this angle out.
Sen want to go for another bait play.
The Sufacy is knocked there.
Wow, Redux again with that teleport through and then around the world.
Get back over to the A side.
Okay, one of the players has had to give up Hooker so that is now Narade playing on the B side itself.
No longer a double stack in intercept.
GUNNELS!
Redux just gets a little bit too exploratory.
Quiet.
Thought that the trailblazer got all of the info.
But Neon tucks around the corner and makes that info as false as it gets.
Sand now have pivoted all their players over towards A.
They think the haters are going to be coming in that direction and they all right.
Kaiju playing through behind triple is going to have a lot to look at in a moment.
He's going to be feeling the pressure.
Thank you to Cladric over here.
There's going to be C's down to Cade and dealt with by Sato.
Spike is still looking to work the B side of the map, odd little situation there, but we'll let that go.
Oh, come on. Just not expecting a player to push there.
Nere gets a fast one down short though onto King, but you have to be watching Cortesia Nere.
People to the corner. Is there going to be a push behind this?
Looks like a lady's coming to leave it. Are they aware they're not?
Cortesia is able to get the backstab because of the weird chips in the night situation.
And who cut? Why would they ever expect Spike to be there?
And Alcortesia has to clutch for the game up against Spike, both rookies last year,
both highly talented. It's Spike to take his door of a time. The relief, palpable.
A winless second half for Leviathan up until Sentinels got to 12 and then they come alive.
You can see it on Spike's face. He thought he screwed it up when he missed that first shot.
the relief then that he was able to get it after the fact. There's just no way we're going to
okay that is crazy this is an insane game. I mean he can't believe it but also he's just
thinking whatever gods he might believe and then he was able to connect after him with first
This is the last time we've
seen him in the last few
years. Crazy deep breath. Now
signals playing in his over
time for their kickoff life.
What's here means this shot at
Santiago goes up in smoke.
Neon takes the line over at the
long to the teleport back over
side of the map. Shower controls from left as well. Scyther just has that for free.
Yay! No left presence, it's so interesting. We can cross the site now. There is a smoke that obscures the advance here for Sentinels.
We may be able to do just a 4-5 on 5 retake unless King gets a kill. Spray through Kaius' ult!
Oh, he comes down to the molly! That's get the spike plant, but that's a loss of a play for Sentinels in order to achieve that.
Is that a fair trade offer? Oh, what a shot from Neon! 3 vs 5 now for Sen.
Then she's getting worse never it was glass cannon wouldn't matter in any way
Redux that we still didn't trench here. Can he get further past this line of scrimmage on the back of the side of case
Thank what's gonna force him out?
Style you kill usage
For this round for leviton what a retake
Util is just stunning there. And the pace that it was distributed at, I mean no hesitation,
everything in the right spot. The Molly into Lance, I'm able to shot from Neon, but it
immediately just routes the send players right into the saturated was going forward
and the spike was getting stuck at the same time. It's giving Corode sort of same thing
from Levitan on his defense side, retake rounds.
Talk about confidence, Breaker.
After an eight round run to get the match point, Senna now on the verge of getting knocked
out.
The married overstaps, King takes advantage, exploits that movement, exploits the overextension.
Marek, the double edge saw the play that really kept Senna going, got them going in
that second half.
Hell, even in the first, is the only reason that they had enough rounds to play with
in the second half. But off the rippies out of the round? Now those beats have
started to appear on the forehead of Semnals.
Who wants Sen is going to step up now in this four on five. Does anyone risk going
for anything proactive? Surely not against this Leib team. They are disciplined, patient.
A rotate's been pulled off the A site. Do Leibitan have an inkling of what is a foot?
A lot of this guy, U-Tillby thrown.
And you can see Spike just calming that they flashed down short and it didn't get any pings.
Okay, Prowler into Hooker.
It'll be time for the player advantage for the match.
Neon sees Redux's glass cannon, though that's risky business, he's having to get off the
line and now the Spike is heading over to A to make the right read wire!
Sato has controlled shower this entire time, they're more than happy to go back, Sander
trying to beat them to the punch. Dash from Redux and spawn. They need to support Kha'yuu.
Does he try to hold this down alone? He's like, come one for one. Kha'yuu has
fallen again. Had to get into the side pretty quickly. Sandals wasting no time at
time. He's short. 12 seconds blows. Has to plant! That kill from Sada could be
everything. Redux is a little bit too slow to stop the planter. And our Sen, with two
players, had to make a miracle happen. They kick off life on the line and Redux
is going hunting. Three on season. Coming the stat rate would have done him in anyway.
and now you spotted out Cortes here one bullet in the chamber maybe all that he
needs is a miss shot from the Ombudy he's in punish through it King will simply
step up and sit them down what a wall we live in with Sentinels not getting
president of the first Masters event the Titan from the depths drags them under
King puts them down and continues his journey to try to play on home soil at
masters. This leg team are the real deal. Neon comes in. They've got all the talent
in the world. But you can't help but feel for Sen. They lost an OT last week to 100
thieves when they were the ones making a late comeback.
And now...
3-9, 11-16, 14. A really competitive series.
They had that match in their hands. Just storming back into that second half. On match point
for what felt like ever and it's just slipping right out of their grasp.
We talked about it, but Levitan may well find themselves on a run.
They are still alive in this little bracket.
Opponent TBA.
They have now advanced the course into a matchup against Cloud Nine Wyatt.
They played him already.
There were two OD in that.
I've played them already, but they were lacking one Valorant's child Phenom, who is now in their roster.
A very important element, a noble one, you might say.
Not only providing some outstanding AWPing, but also just getting everyone onto the intended, comfortable roles.
I feel like we've never seen King like...
I don't want to say maybe we've never seen him like this, but I will say we have not seen King in this war in a while.
Finally he's got a unit around him that it just was like it's making him comfortable
He's just in position to not just be like the veteran presence on the team who's supporting all of the young upcoming players
No, he's also just going off and if the game style here for Leviton is so obnoxious
They're constantly using me on aggressively pushing up on that defense side
He's fighting first picks two rounds out of three and he never does so in the same place
Sentinels they adapt, they get these little two-player setups making use of
chambers of ability to get out and leave an insert player behind on some of these
close corners and it really does work in some important rounds. The Leviton are
firing all cylinders. John QT doesn't really seem to be in the game today.
Naray, honestly for me, great job. Generally I think what you hope for from him,
what you kind of expect, but it's it's far from enough. It's a tough result here
and I think Leviton is so modal, right? We're going this off-hand side, look at how they're
slowing the game down. Holy sentinels around the map and always seem to make the right call in the sights that they've rotated onto.
There's something sadly poetic about the last outing for Sen and this kickoff being Nere's best performance where he was the one keeping them in the game throughout that attack half.
I mean they had a good showing in some of these games, but I think the map pool was kind of their undoing at points as well, they just weren't able to find a home.
They kept coming so close.
I feel like they were making people believe.
We saw John in unbelievable individual form.
I think Redux, the bounce back after that first match,
just really showing how talented of a player he was,
was amazing to see.
But sadly, just not enough for them at this kickoff.
And it's the first kickoff in two years
that they're not going to be qualifying for a Masters.
I think what John has never missed that Masters,
one with that Sentinel squad,
there's a lot of work to be done there, surely.
You can head down to dry out on the stage where Verizon post-match interview with Neon.
Thank you guys so much. I was hearing the fans. Can I hear it once again for Livia then,
and for Neon as he moves forward in the lower bracket. The first thing that I want to ask him is
the fact that he's currently undefeated in this stage, but this was a very close matchup. What
did it take to make sure that they won those rounds that matter the most? Neon, felicitaciones
This was a game in which the way that you have not lost any game so far was very
fought.
What makes you win those most important moments?
More than anything, we are the most difficult moments.
We try to have calm 100% because as much as it is fought, we know that we put our
own game rhythm, so we always try to do that.
As much as we are losing or winning, we always play our own game.
that the main thing that we have in those difficult moments is we just stay calm.
We know that we can force our own game no matter what. So in those moments we
know that we can adapt and just continue playing our own game. Now for the
second question that I have for him is what is it like to be a player under
King, a player that has been a legend and that had an incredible performance today.
What does he have that other teammates maybe in his tier two career didn't have?
and the game is a lot of fun.
Something we see a lot is how King is highlighted as a Hélice.
What does he have as a partner and as a Hélice,
that perhaps other partners you have had or have not had?
I imagine that King is always very good, has a lot of experience,
but he is also a captain inside and out of the game,
so that's the best. He helps us with the whole game.
King is an incredible player. He's amazing. He has a lot of experience,
and the thing is that on top of that, he's also a captain inside and outside of the game,
So that is what makes the difference.
My last question is, that next match
is going to be against Cloud9.
And the first time that they played, he was not here.
So now, what is he going to take to win against Cloud9?
Who does he think is going to be the biggest challenge to beat?
The next game will be against The Cloud9, but the first time I saw them play against them, you weren't playing either.
What do you know about The Cloud9? What will you win against them?
I don't know if you think there are any stars in the team that call you attention.
I never look at my rivals, I only look at the mini and my team.
So I wouldn't tell you what they are. We are only very prepared.
I'm doing so I don't really know what to tell you. I'm just gonna focus on myself
This is everything that we have for the interview neon. Thank you so much. Can we hear once again for neon?
But that being said this is everything that we have for the post match interview. Let's send it back to the desk with Satou and King
Hello and welcome one and all two match points
We do indeed have Sato and King joining us.
Now, you guys have reaction times on the server, on this stage.
And now you have to prove that you have it here as well.
In a little game, we call valergories.
Valergories.
Valergories.
It's pretty simple.
So we have a timer.
Are you guys familiar with the speed chest?
Yep.
So you do your turn, and then you hit the button.
You both have one minute on the clock.
I'm going to give you a prompt.
And you each have to just give me an answer to that prompt.
The prompt is Valerant Abilities.
And I know everyone watching is like,
Well, that's easy. Well, not really, because apparently most of the players don't actually
call the abilities by their actual names. So I can't wait to hear what you guys are
going to cook up with. Of course, we have an official ref for all the shenanigans as
well to make sure that, you know, nothing weird is going on. Are you guys ready?
Yep.
Are you guys prepared? Are you guys cooked? Are you going to, like, do well in this game?
Yeah, he's good.
Sounds good.
Yeah, he's good.
Oh, he's good.
Okay.
For sure.
All right. Well, we're ready when you are, so, Emily?
start the game.
Three, two, one.
You're on.
Nope, you just gotta say an ability.
Well, who started it?
Okay, he started it.
Yours is on, yours is on.
Say an ability, any ability.
They're pretty molly.
How do you call it?
How do you call it?
Oh, I thought I said G.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll say it.
Should we restart after we do the restart?
Okay, okay, okay.
We restart, we restart.
Don't worry about it.
You guys just came off with an insane win
keeping yourself alive in the lower brackets.
I understand.
I've got to give you a minute.
Okay, basically as soon as we go who's going first he's gonna be first right okay
So you just give me the name of any ability as long as it's the real name you're good
Yeah, exactly
And then you as soon as you said it you hit the buck that you hit this this top at the top thing
That's the medical name of it in fact, and then it's your turn
I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna go back. Okay, there's ready two one go
Orbit's right
Saturate
Um, trailblazer, showstopper.
He's locked in.
He's locked in.
Oh, no, he is.
He's so locked in.
He came prepared.
I know, right?
Hot hands.
Oh.
Slow warp.
Is that what it's called?
I don't think so.
It's not an ability.
No, it's not.
I just got word it's not an ability.
Oh, fuck.
Keep on going.
It's just a time to conduct.
It's just a time to conduct.
Mm-hmm.
I don't think so.
It's not an ability.
No, it's not.
I'm taking that.
Stuff like that is so much harder than you can.
Yeah, it is.
I think that's one.
That's Britain's lolly, no?
Yeah, yeah.
Go with the S, yeah.
Hunter's here.
Paint shelves.
Oh my gosh.
Recon bolt?
Yeah.
Moonbot?
She's looking at me like I'm looking at her face.
Haunt?
Yeah.
Wingman?
This is so intense for me.
I know.
I'm sweating.
Dizzy.
He's smart.
He's just choosing one agent and is going through...
Marsh pit?
Oh, he took him.
We're on time.
Can't read the time.
I think they're...
Okay.
28, 18, 17.
Oh my God.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
Okay, 15.
17. Oh my god. Okay, 15. Stem beacon. Oh.
Oh, I'm gonna go ahead.
What's that thing? That's game. Wait, I'm gonna start 5 seconds. Oh my god. 5 seconds, 4, 3. Shot there?
Oh my god. Oh my god.
Oh my god. All right. I thought I was gonna do way worse. No, you actually did really good.
That was intense, good candle, speaking of good games, that was incredible, how are
you feeling right now?
I mean, you still are having, like your life is on the line tomorrow, again there's a
short turnaround.
Are you ready for this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean you can't say no.
Because you have to play regardless, right?
I mean tomorrow's my birthday, so.
Oh, is it?
I got that buff.
Oh, is it?
Birthday buff!
That's crazy.
I told her I'm going to get some two-piece presents.
I want to dance tomorrow.
Okay.
That's an easy cop out to not actually buy a present, so I'm with you very nice.
I just know I'm not getting s**t tomorrow.
Alright, one more one, bro.
That's alright, that's alright, we're gonna start it off.
Let's take a look at the bracket. Let's see who's still alive.
You guys amongst them, of course, because we're now down to eight teams here in our lower bracket.
Any predictions from you guys?
Of course not for your own game, since you probably assume you're gonna win that one.
Aguilte, you see... proceeding.
I'm personally very biased.
Because I love VG guys, so I would love to play against them.
We'll be sad that one of us has to go, but we're very tall with Corbin.
Like, whenever we end up playing, whatever happens, we're going to stand up.
We're going to be like, yo, I got you, bro.
So it's going to be a very fun match.
We'll play against VG.
I look forward to seeing that.
What about you, also?
Are you getting a post-match pump?
Like, what's happening?
I just need to vent out stuff, because I'm too energetic right now, because after the
win and I have to run off stage to go use the bathroom.
You made it in time, I'm already proud of you, that's awesome.
Thank you very much.
I also am very biased because I also love EG guys, so I'm going to say that they're
going to win and we're going to have an insane competition at the end.
That's what we like to hear.
Okay, we've manifested an EG victory here, guys.
Thank you so much for joining us after this incredible match you guys played and of course
best of luck tomorrow.
it from us here but tomorrow we will be starting very early at 3 p.m. eastern that's noon pacific and
that's because we've got a big three matchday ahead of us the first two are once again elimination
matches and then afterwards we do of course still have more to come in the middle bracket now thank
you all so much for joining us for today and we hope to see you again tomorrow
the
elimination match facing these two teams.
EG is feeling good about their position right now.
So can they topple the demon as he now comes into play for Envy?
Oh, not even able to clear the right side.
They're so tunneled on what's happening over the utility.
Geniuses as they continue to clean up Envy.
A flawless round to end the first half.
Oh my god, Demon won, Goslin.
They should stay towards that B site another shot from him would be here. He gets himself to safety now Rossi on three
And he could deny the round. He's gonna break him to OT. The A sits just on his lefty here to come and throw
On the outside ring here looking to get back in bow start your number one
Answer that's gonna be three quick for evil geniuses Rossi an extra stand tall here in the defensive side an operator to come through
Dijazine cleans them up and evil geniuses will push it through a great clean up here by the team
That would also paranoia everybody comes out of blind bill and it's gonna be shots here for envy after you start off back and forth
No.
Cease goes down, but it is not going to be Dizzy going down.
That's kind of insane.
9-8 speed jumping classic, just did you push.
Oh, he still gets the shot in the air.
Evil geniuses say goodbye to Envy.
Games like this, we have to be open to anything,
because both of these teams, of course,
are on their last legs here in Chicago.
Part of that now, no under legs control anymore.
Good kick out, but he's kicked.
He's still breathing, kicked.
Yeah, man, it's going to be trouble.
Colt does he ask about to get backstabbed
if he's not careful.
Good for bad, that is for key!
Here we go!
We'd actually get this now to half, and here comes now right straight forward, fights here,
one and down, will be enough!
15 seconds to plan, and this is going to get that down,
Saito, forward to the arm.
Saito by Kuzzi, trying to clear the close corner.
Saito fans, he's good!
13-10 here on Corode.
Close corner.
Bonus smoke.
Okay, suddenly into the 3 on 3.
We'd actually creep up there through here, so the final is going to spot the map.
Now he's going to fight!
From the flag, 3 for boos!
Redux gets himself three. Sato is a minor wriggle in the plan. Redux will quickly take
his snake bite and get a force of out. Oh my goodness. Hammer and Anvil style. U-Kill
usage. And now the follow-up. It's a blime. What a wall we live in with Sentinels not
the first Masters event, the Titan from the depths, drags them under.