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Today, 16s are fighting to make it to one of next week's best of five showdowns.
Hello and welcome to Vcity America's kickoff coming to your life from the Riot Games Arena
in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
I am Zoe and on the desk today with me are Emily and Dryad for what will be a very, very,
very, very long day of Overwatch, Overwatch, Valorant, oh my goodness, you know what, it
was just a matter of time until this happened to me.
It was just a matter of time.
The living rent free in my head.
What can you do?
So do our teams and so do the teams that performed yesterday because men that we have intense
elimination matches, EG kept themselves alive and they did it in a really convincing fashion,
I think that was really cool to see, especially because I feel like Envy with the swaps that
they made, they had a good show and we saw eggs kind of popping out there, but it just
wasn't enough.
EG just looked so good.
It has been so fun to see as well and we didn't know what way it was going to go.
Last minute changes as well.
It could have been possible for the set of Envy, but on the other side you have an illusion
says that it's looking strong and they can go and run, you never know.
Let's talk about what went down exactly and then break it down a little bit more for the
people who might have, you know, not been able to watch all the action here.
A quick summary of our matches.
We have this evil geniuses as well that I feel like surprises a lot.
You have a DJ sin that has always been a topic of conversation has always been
as do list that we talked about has always been very individualistic.
But when you have that combination with the rest of the squad,
that's able to play together.
I just feel like you look amazing.
Yeah, also huge props to Superman for kind of stepping it up in these last
matches. He's really showed how valuable of a player he actually is, what he can
bring to the team, especially in firepower because he was hitting some
nice multi kills and some nice shots. And even going into that second game too, I
didn't know always it was gonna go sentinels. They're like, what? Like my
two favorite teams right now and Lev ends up getting the win. They continue to be
on the team with Nian, so it's pretty good for them too. It's crazy to see a
team like sentinels being out of the mix now, right? So unfortunately, two more
more teams we have to say goodbye to yesterday and we have to say goodbye to
more teams just two days. I know it's a heartbreak because it feels like we
literally just started the kickoff and so many teams are already out. Yeah and
especially because it always feels so fast and it always feels like that first
time that we have of the year after kickoff is coming so fast that if you
don't have the meta right from the beginning if you don't have the right
read on the meta it just feels like it kind of slips through your fingers and
And that's it.
Yeah.
Also, just a few weeks in, we already seen changes to the teams as well, right?
We saw Super Subs being brought in, and we also saw Super Subs staying or being picked
up by other teams, such as Demon One.
And the resurrected Demon One actually is giving us the Pulsar Flick after week.
Blink and you'll miss this one.
This was a very quick kill on Corode.
This one is insane.
And I feel like we always say, when we see these Pulsar Flicks of the week, is just how
I don't know, because, look,
Oki kind of gave him a warning
shot if you look at it.
He got a little thing off, but
it just wasn't enough.
I really wish this was me.
It's actually me with the ghost.
I'm kind of crazy.
So are we queuing and you're
going to show that?
Of course.
That's how we get cute together.
It's like really far apart or
anything.
You got this you got this far away from it and now of course the teams that won yesterday
They can't catch a break. They have to do it all over again today
Because of course they remain in the lower bracket and once again they have to fight for their lives very dramatic
It's under thieves versus evil geniuses and then it's gonna be cloud nine which will be taking on leviatan
Well, wait, there is more. That's right because you gotta stay hydrated today stock up on snacks
We have a three match day coming your way following our elimination matches. Yep. That's right
We're also heading to the middle bracket
So we're gonna see energy take on G2 and the winner will move to the middle of bracket grand final not grand final
Best of five matches next week. So
Man, it's gonna stay intense for those teams. I keep seeing this energy G2. I'm like, what do you mean?
This is the middle bracket
What the upper bracket is for a second there, like what?
I just, and it might be our just up there.
I love the system though, because there are so many layers to it,
and we do see so much evolution of those teams, right?
Yeah.
Throughout those weeks with the different opponents there have been.
And I can't imagine like if we didn't have this triple bracket,
how like much quicker teams would have fallen out early on,
because we've seen a lot of changes coming in from teams.
We've seen a lot of consistency coming back and improvements,
and without the triple bracket,
who knows what this could be right now.
Exactly, and if we're looking at that bracket, of course,
it's going to be fury on M.I.B. Arving to talk off town,
but I do also feel like there is plenty of individuals
in those teams that I feel like they're kind of going
onto the radar, or at least they were in the past.
And that's why we here on the desk want to give them some flowers.
Emily, which player do you feel like just deserves more credit?
Does deserve those flowers?
I want to give Lev Spike a big old bouquet of flowers
because I think he has not nearly talked about enough.
You know, when Neon wasn't there,
we see him having to flex on these pretty hard agents, right?
We've seen him on the way lane.
We've seen him on the KO, a big movement agent,
a big utility focused agent, right?
And now that he's back, or now that Neon is back,
and he's able to kind of play what,
well, I guess only Viper, we've only seen him on so far,
but he looks so comfortable and he's performing so well.
And I think just being able to flex
and do whatever you need for your team in the moment,
especially having a sub situation like that,
That takes a lot of players, not always fun to be in that flex role, but he did it and
he did it like without any complaints.
He did it almost effortlessly as well.
Even last year, I feel like he was really impressive because he was playing that jet
and that kill that, you know, that combination, we don't really see that often.
So this was a player that was really showing us that flexibility and now even more.
Absolutely.
Now, dry it.
I know you also have a great pick for us.
Who do you think deserves so more flowers, so more recognition?
Yeah, people call me that they say I'm biased for his Latin American.
I've never heard that being said about that.
How am I not going to give it to King?
Can't we talk about King?
He is incredible.
Such an underrated ideal.
I understand that we talked about the best ideals
that we've had in Valorant and history.
We think about Buster.
We think about Valin.
We think about all those veterans too, Ethan as well,
of course, but this guy, King,
has consistently made it really far in the tournaments.
We think about 2024.
They made top three at Champs.
They also lifted that trophy in Americas in that year.
And on top of that, you have an IGL that has IGL in Spanish and English, and that was IGLing in Portuguese.
That's actually insane.
It's just willing to do anything for the team, and has been as well the IGL on the different
coaches, having to adapt to different systems.
There was a point as well where he was not the IGL, and he was just willing to play anything,
duelist, controller, whatever the team needs, and he's always the liver.
Yeah, and you see that leadership so clearly on display with the young players that surround
him right now.
That's why they're still in the competition, right?
Like, it's really showing what they got and all of that.
Of course, thanks to the two kings.
Now, my pick, I feel like he does get flowers here and there,
but not consistently.
And that's why I have to bring him up.
It's Digi's in.
I mean, after the performance from just yesterday,
I think it's pretty clear that this guy can take over rounds.
He can take over matches.
Like, we know he's explosive.
We know he's aggressive, but in the past,
he's just been criticized for, like,
maybe a lack of consistency,
But he's been so willing and so eager to play and win.
He's been grinding through tier two.
He's been back in tier one, back in tier two,
back again in tier one.
And obviously the teams that he's played for,
they've not always found a success.
But his skill and his mechanical prowess
has always been on this play.
And I think in the structure that he's in right now,
in this team with the support that they're having,
this is his time to shine.
This is what exactly EG wanted in quarter one.
They wanted a duelist that could take over rounds,
win those rounds by himself and you have that,
but you also have, like you're saying,
that's part of the team.
Absolutely.
And speaking of EG,
I'll send it over to Goldenboy
and check in with the IGL.
Come.
Hey everybody, GBL here with Calm.
Look, yesterday we saw Digizin drop plus 33
and epic performance there.
Who do you think is ready for a performance like that?
Again, today there's just gonna be Digizin dropping
another plus 33 like we saw yesterday.
Of course, we can't fully rely on that every single match,
but I think everyone has the capabilities
to do that every single game.
Every time we go in this every,
we're ready to just kind of show out and show off, you know?
And honestly, for me, I'm just happy that everyone is like
happy with the roles in the team
and everything is kind of like starting to come together
a little bit.
The biggest thing for us today will be just confidence
and have fun.
Definitely seeing you guys having fun on that stage, man.
Best of luck out there.
Back to you.
They lost their first two matches of kickoff, but they are gaining steam, they're on the
right trajectory, we see the team now meshing, the synergy is on display.
Now today though, their opponent historically, but not been able to take down.
Of course we have different players in the mix this time around.
I feel like things always change and the history can always change, but I feel like when you
have such a dominant score throughout the years, different rosters, I mean different
everything, I feel like it just becomes a mental thing.
to be said that was a story that we had for 100 these incentives and I'm gonna
be able to become successful so maybe I'm just gonna take it oh no
living in my head all night last night we don't got to talk about that one it
happens it did happen I mean Potter addressed it afterwards so we just like
yeah we don't really need to make sure that the 3d5 situations are like Rossy
he's like that had to feel so good oh yeah yeah that might be out of the mix
But man, that one goes into the highlight reel.
But yeah, EG has still some cleaning up work
to do those kind of little mistakes.
And them not being able to close it out round
instead, really, like they had every advantage.
Yeah, I mean, I think in their first two losses,
they were having a lot more problems than what we're seeing now.
And now it's like they're lower bracket demons.
I've been seeing things that they've been focusing on
and improving, especially synergy-wise,
coming into these last two matches that they found success.
They're playing super well together.
I think there was still some questions on their macro,
But I think today is a perfect way to kind of limit test that going against a team like under these
Absolutely now both come and coach Potter are confident in their teams chances that kick up here is what they said on yesterday's broadcast
It would be nice to convert the 5-3 is 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.
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 mile.
I mean, it's insane.
This is stuff that we've been showing in scrims,
and I think eventually you will see it in Santiago.
By the end of the year, she's right.
Yes, in her round.
Yeah, I don't know.
I have no idea.
Oh.
I'll introduce you later to that.
Yeah, I can't wait.
She's cool like that.
She's cool like that.
Now who else is cool?
Bao, because he's been popping up on the cameras,
on the microphones, on that stage, in the game.
Look at that.
What is even happening?
What is happening here?
I don't know.
I don't want the answer to that question either.
I just want to live in the now and enjoy
this very moment with Bao.
I mean, honestly, though,
Bao has been performing ever since he joined the scene.
His kickoff, his debut performance has been phenomenal.
He has been incredible.
And this was one of the players to watch
when we started going into this kickoff because he was so incredible in tier two to me. He was the
best sentinel and he's proving that on stage and also something that we didn't see in tier two
when he was playing for emity is how admitted his how much is hyping up his team. He's doing this
constantly and that is adding so many layers. I really like the impact that he's having. We saw
yesterday on pearl the way that he is that strong holder on that side on that A side that we see
constantly or you have calm playing with him. They have a really good structure to set him up for
And he was also a really smart player as you have to be as a send-in or just backing up when you have to.
Yeah, no, he was really good at choosing when and who to kind of fight, what fights he wanted to kind of isolate.
And he was also just so aware of all the lurks that Envy tried to throw at him.
Like he shut them down almost instantly, right?
And I just think it takes a...
It's a side of bow that I haven't seen yet, which is with how well he was playing, especially on that A-Side, right?
You would see him fight on site when he has the support.
If not, he's playing back. He's holding space. He's not getting over-aggressive.
I feel like early on in the matches for EG he was a little bit panicky it felt
like he didn't know what to do or what was the right move but he felt so
confident and you saw it in his aim to like his mechanics really surprised me
like every shot was so clean he was on point he's so cool.
EG's gonna be a tough opponent to go up against.
Tandu Thief has the honor of doing it today let's talk about their journey so far in kickoff because
they've been very exciting to watch and not gonna lie like I feel like they've
been able to like modulate their tempo like keeping it creative maybe not
necessarily on the composition side of things, but just the way they have been playing the game
has not been that easy to read. So last week, I think there was just when they played against
Energy, they played really well. They just kind of got tricked up with little mistakes.
They didn't play the way that we expected them to play, honestly. We were having a Fimotino,
and I feel like that was a bit of an on-characteristic game for him who was getting shut down, who was
not having the greatest performance there, but that is not something that I think you will see
any more. They're also playing this little things that make a big difference
at playing that Sage, they're playing that Vito as well. They're trying to bring things that
my cat are the teams of guard. Yeah, when I'm watching them play, the thing that they struggle
with the most is keeping momentum. Like you will see them win around and then lose to or win around,
lose one, win around, lose one. And that is such a hard thing, especially when you think economy-wise.
We saw the same similar thing that we saw against G2 in their past match where they would win around,
But then they'd be forced to play like five or six egos in one match and it's just you're already at a disadvantage at that point
Right, but when I look at the roster as a whole this is honestly like the most well-rounded hundred thieves
I think I've seen in a long time like they're not relying on you know to start players or anything like that
They have a good Mac or they have the firepower
They have all the tools that they need to kind of find success and they just have to start like really locking in and focusing on
Fixing these small problems, and we'll see if they fix it well in time
Yeah, I love to see the new blood in this team right the tier two players
They they they stepped it up right there and then on day one with the tier two IGL coming in as well
You know like sometimes there's more growing pains
I feel like they they meshed really quickly now
Let's check in on how bang is feeling today and send it back to golden boy
Hey, jibby out here with bang and look despite the loss last week
I think it's safe to say the hundred thieves is having one hell of a kickoff
You're only two losses are against the world champions and the America's champions. Pretty damn good company to keep
How are you guys carrying that confidence with you coming into this matchup today?
And if so, how do you prevent yourselves from getting a little too ahead of yourselves because you saw EG did yesterday?
Yeah, honestly, we're really pretty happy with our overall performance then kickoff like you said
Obviously, we also aren't super content with being the team that just you know loses the G2 energy
We want to be the top team in America, so we're not content with it and we're playing
with that kind of chipper on our shoulder going into, if we want to make Santiago, we
have to beat GT in energy.
So if we're confident that if we do get that rematch and get that opportunity, we'll be
the better team that time around.
So yeah.
Well, hey man, I'm seeing a lot of people out there cheering you on.
Best of luck out there.
Back to you.
Yeah, three upset people are here on the desk.
Lots to cheer on here.
If you're looking at the team and the individual performances there, Cryo, of course, always
He's been a standout on 100 Thieves.
And I love what we've seen from here.
We're great in a chamber meta, but he is switching it up.
He is playing that Vita for the team.
Like he's switching things up, going out of his comfort zone
in order to get them to win.
Yeah, no, I've honestly been like nerding out
over all the setups that I've seen from him.
Because honestly, Vita is similar to Chamber, right?
You have the TPs.
The only thing is they're a little bit slower,
but you have a kit that can help delay the execs, right?
You have a kit that can kind of destroy all that Utah
and allows him to still be super aggressive,
be super confident, be push up.
Even on the defense, we saw him like just go for full flanks
and just keep on pushing.
And I just think he's the first person in America
to show that, hey, Vito is actually viable.
I don't know why more teams aren't running him
or trying to play around him, but he is really good.
It's all the coaching staff as well
and what they've been cooking.
I feel like the Vito is something that you need
to sit down and take a look at how much value you can have.
And you also need the right player on that agent.
And cry is absolutely the one.
I really want to see cry succeed.
I feel like he's always been so close to making it happen,
so close to making it an international
in the past couple years.
And he's willing to do anything for the team.
And he is so flexible.
He's played a duelist.
He's had games where he's having 30 kills and losing.
He's having to play the OM and having to play the Vita,
whatever it takes, the chamber as well.
I'm just wondering if this is the time for him.
I mean, one time, it's got to be the time, right?
Some time.
It might be this time.
But yeah, I think it's something you just said.
Like it's it's it's him making the switch ups him making the adjustments for the team in order to find
Success there's no ego there
He saw it in the quote there as well from his chat with ravish that he just he really wants to lift that trophy as well
He's seeing all his like peers doing so and that obviously motivates you to find yourself on them
Like on the podiums and it's something that you don't hear very often from cryo
We think about all their players that have been in in this game for a while
there are a lot more vocal cryo is just quietly getting his 30 kills every game
moving on switching it up with the agents doing whatever it takes so I feel
like if this means a lot to him and he knows that is very possible with that
team Latino that is very very confident that is why I'm so excited for the match
today because we're gonna have a duelist and team Latino that is very
confident just as much as cryo was when he was playing the duelist and on the
other side of course did you send that has always been that player and also this
team just feels so supportive especially when it comes to kind of trying out new things trying
different costs, putting people on different roles. I feel like everyone on this team kind of has
the same mindset as Karly. They're all aligned in the fact that they just want to get a win.
They want something to show for it and I feel like there's not big egos on this team right that you
kind of get a vibe from other teams and there's just no clashing like I feel like they're all here
for the right reason and they're all putting the work in to try and find the success.
They're having fun doing so as well like you see you see that clearly get along and they're enjoying
playing together which honestly goes a long way obviously in those high stakes
matches and situations. Pretz were hard for these. Yeah I'm not gonna lie I feel
pretz were hard let's see where the broadcast team is a leaning for today
okay riffleman silly hype bind aligned the rest however is going for 100
thieves. I feel like we're kind of everywhere it's like it's yeah it's like
you're saying it's so hard to predict you never know what where he's gonna go.
Yeah well we'll find out very soon because those matches are about to be
We played K-Com, we got three matches on the way and the first two squads are ready to take to the stage.
VCT America's pick-up starts right now.
I feel like Evil Geniuses has been a team that always seems weird on paper, their roster,
but somehow they always end up making it work.
It's pretty impressive what they've been able to put up, especially against the better teams.
I think it's a lot like EG usually is in every year. They're just a team that will surprise you.
Nice teamwork, but Envy's still going to try to encroach onto the site.
Superman has something to say about it.
Honestly, a lot of teams have been showing a lot of solid stuff.
You know, they have one of the best way, like, players in the tournament right now.
Team Aquino, that guy's insane.
Quick shots.
We'll win forward to the next matches, I'm going to make sure that we stay composed and win out.
The low bracket just means no more lives, so we have to win out from here on out if we want to make Santiago.
And I'm very confident that we're capable of doing that. We are the best team in the low bracket, and I'm really, really confident in this.
We've been talking about husband and the phone up and have a run when nobody is expecting it has that experience
I'm as the ideal that no leaves the ideal
But also have his housing having some of those moments that we saw years ago when he was lifting that trophy and right now
They are on a such an upward trajectory. It's just a matter of can they keep it consistent while also continuing to improve at the rate that they have
their opponents for today. It's a hundred thieves. They are the first real
attest. They've been looking good and we have of course been treated to a lot of
creativity, a lot of really interesting ways to play the game, a lot about
course through to their new IGL and his ideas that he brought to the table.
Yeah, alongside the coaching staff they've definitely showed us things that I
wasn't personally expecting to see but it's been working for them. You know, they've
been fixing a lot of these minor mistakes. It's just a matter of can they do that in
today's match? Can they show up? Can they not let these rounds that they should be winning
slip out of their hands? They have a lot of great ideas going into these rounds and a
lot of them rely on the confidence that they have on Tumatino. I still remember one of
those rounds I saw on Split where he's just going by himself on mid and they're playing
this 4-1 and he gets so much value as well when everybody is kind of distracting it.
So it's little things like that that they're able to do that I want to see today not only
in those rounds that are a bit more planned, but also on the rounds that are defining off
the game, and that's what was lacking last time.
Alright, here's the map set for this first match. Haven picked by EG, we just saw them
recently dominating loud on this map, and he comes to us still.
Yeah, I think they brought in a lot of new ideas, especially running that Vito comp. We
see them doing a lot of aggressive pushes with that, and it looks really good. And then
we have an app like Bind where we have seen 100 thieves kind of pop off on that. It's
no surprise that they're picking a map that they seem so strong on, especially having all
those plays around the way they, and it's just a matter of will EGD be able to kind of not
fall into their trap, not fall into Hunter Thieves overall game plan.
It doesn't matter when you see this, Bind will be the Hunter Thieves map as always.
It doesn't matter what iteration or what comes or how, but they'll always make it happen.
I'm very excited to see this map of Haven.
I know that we were talking about Hunter Thieves and being a little bit momentum based,
and that's what was lacking in the last years, but I also think that EGD is very momentum based.
last last match they had just yesterday a round in a row that they lost in the second half that ended up pushing the overtime on
Crow that cannot happen again and Potter they recognize it she called for the time out early on but it was still very
Messy so I want to see for evil geniuses if they want to get this one if they want to move forward and as come said
Make it to Santiago a clean game from beginning to end. Yeah
I think Haven is a perfect map to kind of test eG's
macro here because it is a three map bombsite. You do have to do a lot of push
and pull because X-Acting won't always work for you especially now that they're
going up against a Vito that we saw have such a strong hold on that A site and
they're not willing to give that up. We're gonna see them having to play
around all the map kind of baiting out that utility and just seeing if they can
kind of break things down. We're talking about the dualist as well and we've
never seen this have to have Timotino against Dijizen. Dijizen has always been
that player, no matter what team he is part of. He is currently the second best
rated player that we have and Timotino is at fourth place. So I feel like Timotino,
after that last match against Interkin, he's going to be fighting to try to beat
Digi's in, not only in this match, but also to get at the very top. Yeah, and one
thing that I'm excited to see is how 100 Thieves kind of go up against Digi's
and off, right? Because that is kind of what he is known for coming into America
because again, is how well he used that operator in tier two last year. And I'm,
We haven't really seen hundred these kind of battle that out
We see them having to deal with a chamber off a little bit on that fine when they played against you too
But besides that we haven't really had a duelist that loves to off as much as digits
And so will that kind of play a big part in their win condition here for this map?
Especially on that defensive half or will hundred these be able to shut it down right away?
And we'll find out a very very soon
There's currently a little audio issue on stage of course the team is
Working on that and we'll get this match on its merry way
Now just looking at the map set do you feel like any of the teams is gonna be more happy about it than the other?
Hmm, I feel like hundred thieves are pretty happy, right?
We saw them have a close game on Haven you know
They had a little bit of time to kind of fix and kind of perfect it almost and then we have vine
Which has been like their comfort pick literally like dry and said their map this whole America's right and then you go into a map
Like split which again, I also feel like hundred these has a really strong comp and a really strong game plan going into these maps
these maps I feel like hundred thieves have prepared to play right because when
we saw them play a map like breeze for example it didn't look too hot because
it didn't it just didn't feel like they had reps on it but these three maps I
feel like are all come for picks for them.
There we go.
What are we thinking here?
I just feel like going into these three maps as you're saying Emily we have a
that is the only question right that we have it would use is if they're able to
put up that performance but it was against a loud that was one of our
first teams that got eliminated so it makes the question yes they look
dominant they got a 13-5 but then looking at the other side can they keep
up that the same kind of play when you're going against Timotino when you
go against Cryo when you're playing a similar composition as well where you
know what the Viper is going to be doing on this map that also can be just that
big difference maker in how that A site is gonna play out yeah I mean when you
I mean, you look at how or the opponents EG's had in the past, that's why I said that 100
thieves will be the test for them, because 100 thieves come in with a strong game plan,
whereas the other teams that they played were a little bit looser when it came to the macro.
So EG's going to have to work really hard at kind of perfecting bare macro going against
such a game plan heavy team as 100 thieves, right?
And I'm trying to think, when I look at like buying his foot, even though those are pretty
good maps for 100 thieves, I think EG has a shot at kind of being able to pick apart.
it just it really just depends on the
reeds that they have going.
I mean what did you see?
Don't worry about it.
The ones who speak Portuguese
know what we just so I cannot explain it.
I cannot explain what you just said.
Okay, if you know you know,
if you know you know, I do not know,
I do not know, but that's alright.
Yeah, I think obviously something you have
to consider here as well is that the
turnaround is pretty short, right?
Like when you're playing from yesterday,
there's only so much you can change,
only so much like specific
team-specific prep you can do, so that comes down to what every coach gives as an answer
in every interview ever, so we're just going to play our own game, and honestly that does
ring true. Now, we do have a little issue on stage, so we're trying to fix that, but
in the meantime, let's hear what Bang had to say, following the loss against G2.
The first map I wasn't really doing much. I feel like I was kind of playing pretty stiff
the first map, and I couldn't really get anything going in like, uh,
again scenarios where I could win my team the game, like the round.
Momentum is kind of like,
people, some people will feed off of it.
And eventually it does help you in the later rounds.
Like obviously getting started off hot and like feeling really good and
confident in your, in your mechanics and in your like decision making.
It's always really good to start off like that.
And you know, getting, getting multi is getting a bunch of kills.
It'll all, it'll only help.
So I, I do value it, but it's not something that I feel like I need
momentum in order to play the game.
I don't need momentum.
I don't think any pro really should need momentum in order to like play a good game, so it's nice to have but it's not something that I rely on.
One shot, one kill.
Go on, go on!
No, this can't happen!
It can, we just watched it!
It can, we just watched it!
It can, we just watched it!
It can, we just watched it!
Welcome back one and all, which is moments away from Evil Geniuses taking on 100 thieves
in an elimination match to continue their run here in the lower bracket of VCT America's
kickoff.
They will leave nothing off the table.
They have to give it everything they got in order to take a victory here.
And we've seen different looks from both of these teams.
What are your expectations, like just composition-wise?
What do you want to see on our first map here?
I know Emily wants to see that, Vito.
Yeah, I do. I love Vito.
She just killed me so well.
She said that. That was horrible.
But no, yeah, I would really love to see no changes coming from 100 views.
I think having a little more ideas, especially on that defensive half, I wouldn't mind coming
in from easy.
I want to see, I want to see like a heavy you to comp almost right.
I want to be able to have a bunch of utility kind of set up digits and also find a way
to kind of break that veto utility on the ace side because when I'm thinking, he's not
like someone that you can kind of default and just break all the utility right away.
Right.
Especially when he is playing for that ace side, you have to be ready to be pushed up
out in an awkward spot to kind of break that.
So they're going to need a lot of utility to, one, be able to break that utility, or
break the veto utility, and two, be able to still steamroll on the site when 100thies
are trying to retake that.
My one thing here is, we know, and we've seen a lot of the neon being played on this map
with Haven, but we know it's immatino for being that best play that we have.
Not only in America's but I've said it before in the world, and feeling this guy is insane.
So I feel like that could be maybe a slight change that in Haven, even though we haven't
in general seen this map that much could be a little change that makes a difference just to make
this player a bit more comfortable and build around that one condition that has been for the other
matches. Yeah I love the way he said in an interview as well right about the way they play with the
way they love to like find an agent and just abuse that agent like get maximum value of their kid
that's really what the team has been doing. The entire team is playing so well around those kids.
Yeah I mean I can't remember last time I seen 100 peace com without a waylay right like it's just
It's too OP to not run it, especially when you have Timothy on your team.
And I also just want to touch on what Bang said in his interview.
I really like that he's not a momentum-reliant player, because that really is just a big
mental game.
There are a lot of players who will have that momentum, but as soon as they get shut down,
their performance goes down with it, they get in their heads, and that is a hard thing
to kind of come back from, whereas Bang, when you have a player that doesn't really focus
on that, doesn't care if they're getting a bunch of kills every single round or dropping,
they're just focused on the round right in front of them.
is such a good and strong mindset to have, especially coming in to a high intense match
like this. Like you lose, you're out. Yeah. He's just been such a level headed person
as well. That's a great person to have on your team. I mean the same can be said of
the most people on that team earlier actually because they have so many opportunities to
talk to Bang. He's like, talk uptown today to get his thoughts on EG's new IGL. Come,
let's hear what he has to say. Yeah, Com, EG is basically the most experienced player
on that team and also stepping up as Dad, GL I think, on Evil Geniuses, so I think
he'll value, I mean his value is probably immense as a caller and he probably brings
things that like people are not like ready for it to play against and also just
like I think he's helping probably, I'm assuming he's helping the rookies out a
lot, Bow and Okianos. Okianos is a little bit more experienced but I think he's
giving them a good system to work around and making them feel comfortable so I
think just from knowing how he plays and how he is as a teammate I think he's
He's doing wonders for that team, so yeah.
I'm generally interested about having a discussion regarding the IGLs for both of these teams.
How did they stuck up? What ideas did they bring into the server today?
It's still a different ride because we think about Vora, this new player that just came in,
does have the experience of tier 2, but on the other side, you have a comp that has as much experience as you can get.
Look at the new trophy, but I really like that Bang was talking about him because they have similar paths.
They, you know, they've been part of a team, they become, they became very iconic in their
teams, having 100 teams and equal geniuses.
Then they left, of course, Bang going to Sentinels and then come going to Lev as we've seen in
the past few years.
And now coming back and trying to find that comfort.
Now having a little bit more experience of what is it like to play with other teammates?
What is it like to play with different coaches?
And all of that experience has been adding, I feel like especially to Bang, who has been
so underrated.
He has always been very, very good in the controllers.
He's really good at closing out rounds.
this year, especially at the
beginning of this year and what
we're seeing right now, he has
been the best, I feel like, that
we've ever seen.
Yeah, no, I think he's always
been a consistent player, but
going back onto this 100th
roster, I think he's really
stepped it up.
He doesn't have to be the star
player that he was on previous
rosters, right?
He doesn't have to drop 30 or
have insane clutch after clutch
to find success in the team.
I think that's what fits him so
well, being back with Asuna,
being back with Asuna, Asuna and
Cryo.
I love her.
Because you have to pre-existing
synergy which also means that there is pre-existing trust and that is a game
changer in moments that are hectic in the game. Yeah and one thing that I wanted
to highlight about calm IGL specifically is one thing that I feel like is
overlooked is vibes on your IGL. I have been IGL'd by really happy people like
Myrna Athena for example she's great. Love her. Love her. But then I've also been IGL'd by
people who don't really have that leadership quality that people who
really easily and once your leader ending leader starts doing that everything
gets a little tense but when I look at calm you never see him tilting he always
has a smile on his face he's goes like zero and thirteen but when one won't be
doing he's like I can still clutch on you and that's the kind of vibe you need
and a leader to keep the team especially in a very close game or when
you're down numbers or when you're down rounds you need a leader that can keep
the vibes up keep everyone calm and still kind of guide you through the rest
of them out absolutely yeah on the other side of it Laura obviously coming from
tier two so it's not the same amount of experience but Bora still has been he's been given the
trust by the rest of his team that they are following his ideas and his leadership and
also on top of that Bora is a fragging idea like he's dropping numbers on them too.
That 1v3 clutching split I still think about it.
Yeah, I love having this moment and those are the same moments that he was having in
tier two and you're mentioning that experience and that synergy of working together you have
have this core of 100 thieves
that we've seen in the past few years.
But you also have the core of TSN,
but we spent here too.
So you have these mix of these two teams
where three of them have been playing together recently.
Three of them are that core that we know 100 thieves for.
And so the kind of perfect mix
to make it all work together.
Bang was talking about it.
Going back to the scene,
it's feel like Cryo and Esmeralda
are the same as always.
But it brings the newer vibe
of players that are getting hyped up,
players that are bringing something different
called positions as well,
for these other MVAs that are very different.
and that really refreshes this
hundred years that we've been seeing.
Yeah, it feels almost natural,
I'd like to say, for both of these rosters,
honestly, but specifically for,
I want to give props to him because
not only is the ideal,
but this is like his first season in tier one,
and he is so nonchalant.
Like he is so calm, cool, and collected,
which I feel like is really hard,
especially when you're going on a team like Hunter Thieves,
high expectations, having to step into this leadership role
and kind of guide the team to success, right?
But this being his rookie debut,
He's doing phenomenally well at kind of keeping that pressure off of his shoulders, being able
to do what he needs to do to find success for his team.
Yeah, I think most of our rookies this year actually are so nonchalant about it.
Like none of them looks like they have chitters or anything along those lines.
They're just coming confident and I think a lot of that has to do with the more veteran
players on their team or the synergy and the vibes on the team because everyone is just
hyping each other out.
Everyone's just happy to be there.
And so are we.
We would also be so happy if we could start that first match, but we're still troubleshooting
some problems on that stage. We're gonna step away for a few minutes and hope to see you on the other side of this.
That's one shot at the moment.
No, this can't happen.
We just watched it.
I
So while we wait for the issues on stage to be resolved, we're going to get a heat check
on a variety of topics with a game of overrated and underrated.
I guess it explains itself.
We don't need to explain it.
Therefore we will not explain it even though I just tweet that.
I'm going to give you a topic, not here, I am explaining it, a topic and we just talk
about how we feel.
We love feelings.
I love that.
Yeah.
I love giving my opinion.
Also, that's why you're being paid to be here.
I know, you literally get paid for your opinion.
So let's hear our first one.
The Frenzy.
Over under.
Is there just like a bad I could do?
No, but that's what I'm saying.
I'm like, over under, okay, like, yeah, actually, now I'm just gonna say over rated because
I don't like it.
Yeah, and I don't see really anyone using it anymore.
I have no opinion on it.
It had its time.
It had its time.
And then it died.
The Glitch Pop Frenzy though.
That's clean.
I didn't even, it means like, well, I wouldn't even say it's over it.
I just think it's it's there.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's just if you if you are using it, what are you doing?
Yeah, exactly.
So I hear that in my ranked games all the time about anything I do.
That's crazy.
Okay.
New breeze.
Surely there's a lot of opinions.
I think it's underrated.
I think it's really good.
These are really hard.
I think it's underrated because I actually really like the changes.
I think it's a really fun round to play now, especially.
Does anyone not like it?
I know.
I feel I've not heard much hate.
I feel like you're a hater.
I don't like breeze just because it's breeze and the history that it has, but I like it a lot because I don't have to babysit halls anymore as a sova I can free roam I have free range of the whole map I'm free and it's fun.
Yeah, I like it. I was never a hater. I'm a hater in life but no I'm not trying to talk about it.
Yeah, nobody comes to breeze you know that's not my one exception.
But, no, I do like it.
I think it's fun.
I feel like maybe something that people do like is that, that, that A main post plan
can be a little bit similar than it was before, but you do have a little bit of a variety.
Like there's a little bit more that you can do, so I'm okay with it.
I don't mind it.
Glad we agreed.
Yes.
We're aligned.
We're aligned.
Yeah.
I feel like we're probably aligned on this one too.
The double dual, this composition.
Well, that's, I mean, I love it.
Yeah, no, same.
Yeah.
I'm always my...
I'm always playing double duelist in my ranks.
Yeah, I feel like it doesn't quite work with a drone.
Yeah, I don't know exactly.
I have to really stretch my brain to make it work.
No, but I think it's used as much as it should be used on the maps where you should be using it.
No, that was really good. Very insightful. Thank you.
No, but I completely agree. I get what you're saying.
Because, yeah, I feel like a lot of people don't like the double duelist comps
because it's... I don't know.
People just see it as something simple, something basic.
base like a Y1 double duelist when you could run double controller with a senty you know
whatever but I actually really like it I think the right teams can make it work and it's
really overwhelming I think it's the only thing that we should play forever and the
second duelist should be arena.
Oh.
That's a take.
Even after that take is the first time.
It's hard to tell.
No she's on nerves now.
I know.
I don't want to talk about it.
I don't want to talk about it.
She hasn't even picked yet.
This is sensitive public groups.
already sensitive to it. Be a little bit careful around that. Double senti, come.
I don't like it.
There's a time and place for it?
That's my statement.
Okay, I don't mind it. Like when it's Nido and Sage on Corode.
Okay.
But if you're running like, I don't even know, we haven't really seen any double senti.
Deadlock, Deadlock, Cypher, Deadlock, something like that.
That's what it was on a bit.
Oh yeah.
I was in a big Canada.
Like I just, like just have fun.
It's, yeah.
Obviously it had a little value with the vice, with the flashes, all that.
But you know, don't do this, run it down please.
They're already made out points, complies.
The new MIBR roster.
Oh.
They're, I still think they're underrated.
I think they're underrated, you know what?
It's not because of the, obviously we all know that the team is insane.
but the individual players are still underrated.
Why are we not talking enough about text or Masino?
Well, because all the focus is on the superstars,
second and half spots, right?
Trying to figure out who's going to be playing the duels
and who's going to be swapping out.
But the whole team only works because of these other players,
right?
Exactly.
Like, they are in unit when they're together,
and we saw that.
I feel like people want it to fail,
because it's like a super team, right?
And people love to see them fail.
So they're like, it's just, it makes a better narrative
if it doesn't work out.
But I feel like maybe for the first time,
We do see the superstar players coming together and it seems to generally work like they are finding the success that you would expect from those
Individual players and also as a team the egos aren't there. They're gelling. It's it looks cohesive
And they're not just focused on being super star players or exacts our team like you have second literally filling the controller role to
Make this teamwork. It's not just a bunch of firepower being thrown into a server. They're actually coming in with game plans and strategy and
You know playing good valor and that's why I'm putting it in the middle
Well, I don't know if that's how it would.
I'm going to say underrated.
Oh, I'm going to make our own rules here.
You can do whatever you want.
The rules are always true.
Yeah, I think it's underrated.
In general, just because of that, like the individual pieces, I feel like are not, you
know, when everybody's talking about, as possible, everybody's talking about the second, but
Masina and the impact, I feel like only now we're starting to realize that he got the
MVP, he was our best initiator in 2020 for a reason.
Text as well, I feel like people had their questions on how he was going to do the Cincinnati
world and he was incredible when we saw that cypher as well that we're not expecting on this
so they're bringing a lot of things together that works really well and also the aspect doesn't
matter about team doesn't matter what roster he's gonna win and he's gonna make international
and we love that for him. Absolutely. Okay we have one more I guess paid to say words can you
We have one more, fracking IGLs.
Well, I think I'm split on that.
No, if you think it's, well, we have.
Okay, do you feel like IGL, maybe I'm going to just make my own rules here.
Okay.
I'm going to rephrase the question, does IGL need to be fracking out?
Is that, I mean, I think we've seen IGLs in the past, not do that.
Are they still good IGLs?
No.
I think, no, I'm not going to
say anything on this.
But no, I think, especially
when we're looking at him,
I think it's underrated.
I don't want to glaze love
too much or it came too much,
but you did give him flowers
for a good reason.
Like, I think the fact that he
is able to ideal at such a high
level while also putting insane
numbers on the controller, I
think that's underrated.
I think he is underrated.
I think IGLs like him are
underrated.
And we think about the reason
winners in America,
in international as well, you
see how this frigging IGLs have
so much impact.
And yeah, I think it's
underrated.
So much impact and yeah, of course, you don't need it and other teams have gotten and have with the trophies
Not having a fracking IGL, but it just helps so much
We think about Ethan and the impact that he had in the last map of champs
Yeah, think about Valin and the impact that he has in G2 to lift this three trophies last year
It just feels like it adds more than people imagine because I mean it just hard to evaluate everything
But I I love a fracking IGL every time. Yeah, I mean, I'm never gonna be against a fracking idea
So I'm going to over it because as you just said right like you can make it work even if your IGL is not fragging out
So I feel like it's not a requirement that the IGL is putting up the same numbers. I think it's a fantastic bonus
It's nice to have and it's very impressive if it does happen because just how difficult that is to actually achieve
So whenever it does happen awesome if it doesn't happen and you get your team is still doing good
That's also fantastic. Now. We do have some work of art happening on stage while we fix all your issues
that's so creative that's. Is
my daughter on stage right
now? Hey, that's better than I
could do. It has character.
That's so funny. Okay. Keep
you. Oh, it's so funny. He's
actually turning into one of my
favorite players. Like, what is
he doing right now? I locked
into. Yeah. He's missing a
little bit of the ombre, you
know, but I think he's doing
great. I think I think it's
You have limited resources in
paint.
And this paint is not really,
you know, I love it.
The colors right, too.
It's the details.
Look at that.
Wow.
I was going to say, I think you
can do better.
You're the most creative person
I know.
I know you can do better.
But this is not about me.
It's about Bao.
She said, yeah, I know.
So what I'm going to say is,
yes, it's the heart.
Okay.
Okay.
manifesting. I can tell what this is for sure. It's a movie. Yeah. This is manifestation
happened like common eyes on a price. Yeah, why do they actually have like good console
drawing with their mice? It's not that's not easy. No, it's not. And everyone watching
if you want to join in on those masterpieces, you know, hit us up on socials. We'll see
what you got. What would you draw? Oh, I'll be the first thing coming to battle and
related hopefully. Like brain.
I would have no reasons whatsoever.
The outline of fracture. Wait, that's what?
The outline is my favorite map. Fracture?
You have to outline and memorize.
But that doesn't mean I can draw every little piece.
I will get that tattooed. Bring back fracture and I will get it.
Whoa, actually. I will get it tattooed. I get an outline of fracture.
Okay. She said that though. Yeah.
I stand on business.
If I had my pay to pay for it, I'd just be like, go.
But then also I could not correct it
because I don't have it like in my mind right now.
Anyway, we're still yapping.
Which obviously means we're holding the game hostage.
Nah, just kidding.
We're still fixing things on stage.
And if you're seeing a lot of fun things happening
around the desk, that's why.
Now, of course, we want to keep you entertained and happy.
So we've got more things for you.
How about Rayleigh in your ranked games?
Ooh.
If you see them, if you like them, well, they play it at Timotino, he's gonna make it look
fun.
Is it classic?
It is a classic.
It's just, do you see Timotino?
He looks like way later, he's the easiest A agent that you've ever seen.
Yeah.
You're like, I can do that.
And then you're not doing that.
You're not doing that, you're throwing.
I remember I did a demonstration, messed up my dash for a sh**, oh.
It's not easy, guys.
It's not easy.
They can make it look easy. That's why I'm close.
That's why you're only three right now.
There you go. There's no movement.
You just chew.
How does that go for you?
That's crazy. No, that's crazy.
Kind of insane.
Going great, of course. Of course.
That's me for my rank, anyways.
I think there's a bunch of players, obviously,
we have here in VCT Americas that have taken to Aile
like so quickly, and I love to see those teams
are really like structuring their plans
around this very particular agent and the agent kit.
Yeah, but I feel like they're just not as successful
when it comes to comparing them to the Timmatino.
They don't have Timmatino.
They don't have Timmatino.
I don't know how he makes it look so fluid
when the dash is literally like up, down, down, up.
And he makes it look like so smooth
and he always gets his saturates off.
You know, his team either capitalizes on it
or he does it himself.
Like he will do all the work himself.
And I don't see a way like that.
I don't see a way like that has as great a movement as him,
has good timings on his Utah,
literally getting the most out of the small saturate that he has that is what's so cool
about it too because we always have approaching these international events a meta that is
kind of right time right place for a specific team and it feels like it could be for team
team it could be for 100 teams just because of how good he is on this way like after that
we don't know what we're going to be seeing but it just if you feel like it's very momentum
if you get the meta right if you get the right place to play every role and that can be enough
so I just feel like that's why we talk about them again so yeah and I feel like when it
comes in overall meta, Waylight is very overpowered right now, right? But is she really, because
if you don't have a player that can actually use her missile and her kit well, is she really
good at it? I feel like you can turn it into a good skill set for that.
That's why players like Tmultino, if surrounded by a good team that can work around that as
well, they will send other teams packing and they will send them home.
Edy Jazeen also has been a phenomenal, of course, the way he plays and he's also been
and able to send a team home.
I mean, we've talked about those ops as well, right?
Digizine.
That's what he is now for.
Yeah.
Yeah, give him a scope.
He'll get three.
I remember when we had Jonah on the desk,
he was talking about how, when he thinks about DGC,
and he thinks about Haven, for example,
the first map that we're going into.
I think about us, Sen.
And it is the exciting thing of the operator.
And before it, it used to be a lot of that jet,
because he was so comfortable in the jet,
even when it was not meta.
Now you got the value from it, but now
He's willing to flex a little bit more with other jewelers
with that you're that we're seeing that kind of brings in
the same amount of value.
But sometimes there's just mechanics
that's winning him the rounds.
I want to touch on something.
I can't remember which player said it.
But they were talking about the op being scared,
or the idea of the op from another player being scared
and being very cryptic.
I believe you were on the desk.
I think that was last week, day two, perhaps.
But I think you said that you're disappointed to hear
from someone with such a veteran player
that they're scared to go up against a note.
Oh yeah, because I feel like the odd has been in the game
since the start, right?
I feel like at this point, yes, there's shifts in meta,
shifts in comps.
You're not going to have the most amount of utility
to kind of clear that.
But it also shouldn't be something
that you're kind of just scared to play against.
I feel like this has been a common trend
for teams to kind of have an offer,
maybe not as good as Digizin.
But you know, you should be able to feel confident
going up against that and being able to push him back,
not really letting them capitalize off of just one gun.
Okay, no more yappening happening,
because agent select is ready,
and you know what that means.
That means we're gonna head into the game.
And very single.
I'm very excited.
I'm cryo on the video.
You got witches.
Is it Christmas?
It is for me.
It is for me, because, again,
100th is running back this comp.
I can't wait to see what other setups
they have going for them.
And I also can't wait to see
how they kinda utilize this kit on this attack.
Maybe in the post plans a bit more.
I would love to see that.
You know, you can use his interceptor early on
to stop any aggression, any like first wave utility,
but also have that regent in time for those post plans,
which is gonna be really hard,
especially on a site like A,
which is literally known for being one of the hardest sites
to play reefing on.
Like you do not wanna be going into a five to five reefing.
And that's almost happening with Lauer.
I feel like they were making a lot of those mistakes,
trying to get that space,
trying to punish that A site that honestly,
is pretty much impossible.
When you look at the compositions
and the way that Evil Genius is approaching it,
that's what gave them so much momentum
to start off on this map.
But how did these, we know that they were not gonna do that.
Yeah, and one thing that Evil Geniuses was doing really well at in their last match on Haven,
is having that kill to utility live for so long.
Hunter Thieves will have to work the map a lot more before committing to a site,
because otherwise Evil Geniuses will be prepared, they'll have the rotates, you know,
they'll be able to flood those sites, which is exactly what Hunter Thieves don't want.
You could see the non-sorm, for example, towards B, that it was not being broken,
they were not getting any sort of map control, and that was the problem that Lauter was having,
but again, 100th of the team that plays very different.
They're playing at least of these four ones,
getting a lot of space, getting really aggressive,
kind of really bringing to their strengths,
knowing how explosive they can be.
And that means that it's a different to be as fast side hit
that is not really gonna,
is gonna force it, which means you play for its free takes
or for this plus or otherwise.
Yeah, will EG though be able to capitalize
off of them taking space,
off of them trying to default and break all of the utility
that they will be having set up?
That is the big question for me
because obviously they didn't get tested too much by loud.
So 100 thieves will be completely different stories.
Now, let's get today's triple head of star good
and send it over to your castles,
Hiramimi and Ender.
Well, if you're just joining us,
consider yourself lucky.
If you've been here the whole time,
thank you for hanging in here.
We're gonna have a lot of fun today.
We've got three matches coming up,
starting up with EG and 100 thieves,
who during this little break
have had very different vibes on stage.
It receives five stoic men.
I don't think they could hear each other,
which is part of the reason why they weren't really talking a whole lot.
But very Marcus really is coded.
They were just sharing at the monitor lock in each different story.
Completely opposite.
If you're lucky enough to be in the crowd,
Okinawans who was playing rock paper scissors with people
was chatting them up.
The rest of the EEG had calm juggling.
They were doing some Microsoft paint.
It was beautiful.
But now we've got some ballerina on our hands.
We're jumping into game one.
An elimination game to lock in for these two teams.
100 thieves that have only lost to champions thus far
against an EG who has started to work
through this lower bracket.
And well, we'll have to work on their retake this round.
C left open, it's under Thieves' exec.
That's going to be a casual five on five for the retake.
Doesn't seem like that wants to do anything.
So maybe some forward-hunching from Timotino.
See, the rest of you, well, G, is taking a lot of control
on the rest of the map.
Yeah, I like seeing them set up for a double flank here.
The question is how does 100 Thieves respond once they realize an opportunity to push towards CT and fight close. Cut this flank in half.
It's gonna have to be quick thinking from them. Once 100 Thieves realize the flank is underway, two players now revealing themselves down long as Okiato strikes 100 Thieves fight forward.
That's all the players back in Spondel would and a beautiful hole out from Bora. This round is wraps.
exact right reaction from Hunter Thieves. Realize you have pressure on one side, fight out the other.
Team Bettina leads the team to great success there. There's a Hunter Thieves that is playing
more solo duelist than pretty much anyone else right now, but Timo in that role has impressed me
to know and in this tournament thus far. He had on the neon with great decision making and movement
on his waylight that we'll get to see later on in this series which is one of the best in Americas
right now has definitely been putting up numbers looking real strong on it
a hundred thieves now moving into a round two with the advantage gear up five
players again this time over towards a interceptor to counter on any utility
that would go the other way it's interesting to see how that veto cues in
on the attack side and if you're a team that is you know going for that early
default using it to nullify fight utility and make that a lobby hold way
easier is a great asset of that agent. Yeah, stop the early fights, stop the refights,
and then can reset like Cryo's done now to just contain and see if anyone's walked up
into literacy. And if you keep that utility for a post-plant, makes the retake that much
more difficult. Now, Hunter Thieves are heading into an A stack. Four players here on the
site, and that includes some buys from EEG, a Shorty. Uncommon, this Marshal that's now
been dealt with. Tometino has the Phantom, so with that kill, it does look like Hunter
100 thieves are going to move back towards Cryo in mid.
Seeing Neon in heaven is really suspicious.
They're going to realize that there's something else going on.
Cryo will walk in and might catch a timing here on to bow.
And with Cryo's position, he's about to hear a lot of footsteps rotating back through spawn as well.
So he knows he has the timing to creep up into the smoke.
So if he can find a kill, a little bit unexpected as the flank is dealt with.
And 100 thieves continue to control this map.
Both of these teams play very flank heavy on their retakes on defense.
Have to be aware throughout this match of haven is Garos still in this spot.
A little bit patient now stepping forward off the Paranoia end.
Finds his mark so nice workout from 100 thieves.
Now one of the difficulties I think EG is going to face on this defensive half early on is by
losing that early pistol by going for some lighter buys of the Marshall in this round.
That means they're going to get that operator online a lot later than they'd probably like to have for a guy like Digizin, who is absolutely farming with it always.
Yeah, he was plus 33 in the last matches teamfight. He's really been a monster after coming in as this unusual pickup.
A resilient player who got dropped, you know, some rumors of maybe not being the best teammate, went back down to Tier 2 for his second time.
But just reappears on this EG roster and is immediately finding the individual success that you know he can get at his peak.
Now Evil Geniuses with the buy.
Set up with Digizan over on the A side of the map, but like we were talking about, it can be hard to fight up for that early space when the interceptor goes down.
I'm really looking at how EG approach A lobby control.
control. In their previous game they played a lot of rounds where Kong was solo holding long.
It's really tough to contain from that position. You're against a double smoked Kong.
And Ichi haven't done a whole lot fighting for it. After two rounds of that interceptor being in a
lobby, Hunter Thieves have control, but this time they only put two players over here. So it's
been a lot of map control, even showing some presence now in mid that pulls a smoke out
from Okie. While the rest of the team comes into A and this fight over short is gonna
really determine the round.
Sin creeps up into it, but is hard held, and there was no utility behind that.
That was fully out on his own.
That's how a Phantom to be upgraded from 100 Thieves is,
they still have plenty of time to work with.
They're gonna call back.
They don't have a lurk to go into easily this round,
but still with plenty of time to make a reef there happen on this map.
You've been on the bonus round. This is a winning position.
And 100 Thieves call against EG's tendencies twice in a row.
Now as EG stack four players on that A site,
Again, 100 Thieves call that and now find themselves on the FTC site.
And now you look at a possible retake scenario where you're down your Neon,
retaking into seat with some great utility, including that interceptor in the post-plant.
It's going to be tough to even get out of the choke.
And we get to see some different post-time protocols from 100 Thieves.
Still the forward fight from their Neon, but this time there is that late presence in mid.
Bang has a chance to back stab or come back into garage if he so desires.
There is an alarm bot right on his left shoulder, but at the same time, Timotino jumps up into
window, taken out, but still Evil Geniuses don't have an infinite amount of time, and
as one player goes out of the open, all on his own, is Krylan Bang, locked down garage.
Comma's gonna just have to straggle away.
One of the most impressive facets of this new 100 BCME is just been their protocols
in general.
I think that in every state of the round,
they always have very clear ideas
of what their next step is going to be.
They've always been a team going back to previous coaches,
previous leaders, that we knew for having preset strats.
Great ideas of how they wanted to run an eggsack
at the beginning of rounds.
But I think what they think excellent this season is,
in those post-links, always having the next step ready.
Here, not just one reflank that gets picked off,
but a second player ready to pin in
and very carefully choosing what utility to save
to themselves into that winning position.
Well, now that's found 100 thieves
with a bonus round victory.
EG only have the saved Phantom 4-com
and he's playing by himself on the A side.
And for EG, this is rough.
Their last game, they won three out of four
bonus rounds themselves.
Probably the only reason that didn't throw
three naps against Envy.
Yeah, that one nearly slipped away from them.
EG did enough to find themselves in this match today.
So they can problem solve here now
as 100 thieves round after round
have gotten so much map control virtually for free.
The only difference this round is actually
the forward step up out of foul all the way down C long
that informs a little bit better for EG
when they wanna go for these A-stacks.
EG might wanna go for a reflight super caught by bang.
It's felt a little bit scattered from EG, especially on these short fight players just
running out one by one.
When they do swing together, that's when other things have three players trained on the lines.
They get mowed down here with just the pistols in hand.
I do question the re-aggression there on a light fight.
You have such great info with the push up towards long.
They still had information from that alarm-bottom garage.
Would have liked to see them just hold back and quiet staff that with the worst weapons.
if it's maybe just them getting a little overeager, trying to get a bit of a hero go
for an early pick when they have the weaker weaponry, but it does seem to me like A has
to be, and A lobby in particular has to be the problem area of the map to solve.
Good news, sir. Next round 4EG, even though this one is the wash, they will have an operator
for DGZ.
Oh, well that's a way to solve all of your problems.
Yeah, well maybe not all of them, but I think when you can set him up on a line forward
at one side of the map, it makes it so much easier to just go into those stacks together,
hard anchor and feel like you have less need to go for these kind of active plays that
they've been getting caught on.
It is still a little bit tough to find value with that off if you wanted to take it over
towards A when the Viper Wall is always going to be in play, break up your crosshair.
So then we have to think, is the real problem or lack of a lobby control?
And I think that's really what EG is worried about as you see three players to fight it
here.
interceptor always available. It's hard to full send. You kind of have to refight into
this space instead.
Now, Hunter Thieves would really like just putting Cryo and Bang into A. Look for Cryo
or Bang rather to get that little insert. Rest of Hunter Thieves into mid. And as that
operator gets to the pink, that can be the go button for Hunter Thieves now. Zooming
up into garage. Timotino actually without support immediately behind him, now finds
himself in the open. Doesn't matter.
Now that speed up front, the Thieves comes in.
Still a player to be dealt with back site.
Smokes to wad Shupa inside as more support comes in,
but it doesn't matter to Latino on fire through this seaside.
DGs have been spotted as well.
That ops not getting saved again.
Down it goes and 100 Thieves not only win the round,
but eviscerate EGs money.
Like clockwork.
And it's another miscue in a critical spot.
Bow, tucked in the left corner.
She uses a timing to swing a loan into garage, and as soon as he falls, makes it whole the
easier for 100 thieves to split that site, use some lovely utility fore-backside, and
just completely dismantle EG's hold.
And you know the worst part?
I mean, losing a fifth round in a row is probably the worst part, but like number two, that
operator, Kyle picked it up, threw it off the map, so no chance to get that one back
online.
going to be waiting another couple rounds before he can dip into that fund again.
And the beginning for the guys who have been really the flag bearers for EG in
the two games they've won in the lower bracket. Deaches in alongside Superman.
One kill combined right now.
It's been a tough start for them.
Look at those shots in Team Latino Man. He is, I think, so far for America's.
He got it eventually.
Yeah, you know, team other is I think for me right now the rookie I have been the most impressed with in America's
He has been so good individually his decision-making has been great and he's playing such a hard role
I was talking about it earlier, but he doesn't have a euro to fall back on
He is so low entry in so many of these rounds and he's often put into really tough situations that he can consistently navigate out of
really great work by the stroking.
I mean even if you're just looking at that last round
he proved a couple of different things that were just solid on his own.
First of all that first fight, just a straight up gunfight.
He wins it on his own, but then his pathing to fight forward
into the smoke that was on site and wait.
When he peeks through, that wasn't just a random timing he took.
No, that was exactly when his own teammates were stepping in to fight that player back site.
That's why he's able to catch those two players right in the side of the head.
It's very good individual play, but also combining that element with his team play.
Exactly. Turning over to EG though. This round is an EG, so it'll be a little different.
But when we get on rifle rounds, the solution EG needs to find is how to deal with a lobby.
They have not had control of that space once, which means they're playing low info.
Even when a C hit comes in, their A and Chris don't feel comfortable early rotating.
They need to figure out how to defeat that interceptor in lobby and take this space
Kong donated the
Phantom over to digs in for this round
Just have a little crap set up on a long but hundred thieves have maybe even changed up their
Approach in these rounds coming out of the time out not putting those two players isolated in a lobby this time around
Said playing a little bit more bundled and really expecting some form of aggression on the anti-eco
It seems like they're very suspicious of that coming from a lobby.
Wouldn't hate to see a bee finish in this round. They have worked into that space quite a few times.
Something Boris shown quite a few times has been this prowler up through mid around the one minute mark to try and just watch anyone that's crept up underneath window or stepping into the space.
What that means for 100 thieves is very likely they'd expect, you know, they have to be a little bit more diligent as they clear down into A because the main places you take space on this map are either down through mid or up towards A lobby.
How many does the drone catch?
I don't know if it's going to get any, really.
No.
They walk back.
Time to walk back.
And Kong now is about to walk straight into his death.
Well, well, well, you better start running, Kong. Get out of there, buddy. It's not going to happen.
Well, a little self stun from both of the odds.
Alright, don't watch that. It doesn't really matter. It's still going to be that retake. No stuns into the mix.
Let's see what Tino just lights things up.
Was that self stuns or did they trade stuns? I think the one in spawn was red. Either way, EG on a retake with the pistols now, but that interceptor will block all of Utah. Or not.
Or no hun.
Digis in with the vandal.
Bands him around there, but 100 thieves again.
Doing excellent work.
A one on two now for Digis in.
Pops the ult.
Dixie has a chance with the crossfire.
Two solid.
100 thieves.
Stay perfect.
Got a little dicey in that anti-eco.
You can see that the paranoia, of course, can still rip through that intercept.
They're unaffected.
Get some blowing up.
Allow a couple of kills with the pistols.
But again, that second layer of post-flying protocol from 100 thieves, just too good.
too good. And this is just brutal. It comes so close to finding a player. It's no information
and instead guys. So now we look ahead. It's 6-0. How do they deal with A-Lobby?
Yeah, I got the scuba skin line. Oh, they got to get the scuba skin line, maybe.
Okay, of course. They got to wait till the next game. Yeah, hard to say. It doesn't look like
they've changed too much. Oki-Onos is playing down short for the time being. Dujizen does have the
the operator, back again, but I feel like Hunter Thieves have changed their approach
coming out of that timeout again, anticipating the adjustments EG are going to make and have
filtered down into mid, virtually uncontested.
And it's such a passive hold for EG, only the alarm bot here, and with that, it popped
under Thieves will simplify, straight up take on the B site with no one held the counter.
Well, Hunter's fury.
Well, it doesn't matter.
I planted.
Well, he might have gotten so much of a Tino's trying to run, he's only back towards Spawn.
Taken on through, but now's Viper's pit.
Turns to be site green.
Each you have to navigate their way back in.
First is gonna be up these doors.
Or in the open, doesn't matter.
Locks it down.
Now to teleport on top side from Othiana's.
He can't see anything.
He's up here prowled out.
Digizin's got an operator, uses it like a shotgun.
No one has a clue what's going on on this site.
It's a mixture of colors.
Full on rainbows. Okie-Autos gets one.
There's just no time.
Still a pit as the flank comes in.
Bang is still alive, stalling it out.
Another from the thieves.
Technically a Red Bull clutch for Bang.
As he dances, he's right into a seventh straight round.
NEG, had the right approach, fight out from garage, get these players off of the areas in mid, outside that Viper's pit so you can pinch into the Viper.
No, 4 hits, 2 kills, easily shuts it down, and going back to your point, 100 Thieves make great decisions.
They're trying to deal with a lobby, they're trying to change it up. Okay, we just simplify. Send them a B hit with the ult and win a round.
How many times has Vora been able to just find empty sites this game?
It feels like four or five rounds, completely uncontested, but now, the operator that was saved.
How confident are you feeling? No way! Already spammed out down short. There were smokes in front of that one.
Sometimes everything goes your way in a game.
They saw up still posted in the closed corner.
You gotta get this kill.
They have EG a chance in the round, but it's so patient from Hunter Thieves.
They're waiting for the re-aggression and they might be about to find it.
Two players walking down mid from EG.
Any prowlers left for Forrest still has two.
This is usually when you use it down in mid.
Yeah, as I'm saying, but it spots a deeper player.
Still though, that's enough information for Hunter Thieves just to regroup and move towards A.
It all comes down to Digizin.
Nice shot from him.
from him, instantly slips on out.
The stun to slow things down, as now the rest of Hunter Thieves
realize they've got to go.
There's no more time to wait, another brilliant shot
out of digits in.
And Supe was cracked into the corner.
Nice workout from him.
Hunter Thieves not gone yet.
The shot gone.
Dell went not again.
Can't close it in.
Can't close it in.
No shot.
Three for Pryo and the round for Under Thieves.
That's such a heartbreaker for EG.
Digizin has been their salvation in so many games.
Looks like he was about to do it again.
It's two stunning off shots back side.
Well, I'm too much.
You know, I'm particularly so impressive.
The second he falls.
Unlucky for Oki, I guess.
How jumping around the corner with the judge,
him not getting a kill there.
The last straw and this game on EG's map choice is a rough
That's a second time out called Potter if in the second time out in eight rounds and the last time out was what two rounds ago
Yeah
Okay, maybe three
But ten hundred these immediately changed up their game plan to more of a focus on mid one two rounds and well
Now again, you keep trying to settle down
And this is a tough situation to be in because normally when you play a game like this and it's like okay
We haven't been fighting for so much forward space like maybe we change that and run some aggro plays on the defense side
That sounds great in theory in terms of mixing it up
But we have the benefit of watching how hundred thieves have been so controlled
Leading for that aggression even though EG haven't shown yet if they do fight up
I feel like hundred thieves are prepared for it entirely
Yeah, because you're either running into an interceptor a lobby or in mid
The prowler is coming in a minute. You're getting re-cleared in that area
Maybe this is the round where we finally get an honest a lobby fight
You tried it before where they've crept up into the smoke even that last round where they got spammed down short
I almost think EG would have a better shot just trying to blow it up through mid up in the window a little bit quicker
If they wanted to go for it
Currently digits in all on his own steps forward
This is interesting.
The thieves rarely so split on an anti-eco, but after showing so much presence in garage,
any shooter ends duelist, yeah.
As you say, some amount of bite, and with the rotate out from Digizen, that has opened up the A site.
So really, the only hope of this round now is calm, in this weird position.
Oh my, are they gonna try and sell a fake B hit into an A split?
I think that's the vision. Maybe enough counter-util to send Timotino out of here as to step out of garage
Just a little bit too late and now calm up long the shots not found
rest of 100 thieves
Mose down evil geniuses on your project. It's just meticulous
Hundred thieves had walked three players into egg still they're sliding out there hard clearing the soba aware of it
and 4 are always holding down the flank.
You think about the pistol round he got to, you think about that round outside Garage.
Again, good for 1, but Supa...
has now called Okeanos over to his side of the map. That's awkward.
It's given 100th use control of Heaven.
Hell of spawn.
Not a great plant for that, but...
Still, the time is there and with a wide swing, high low,
make that 9 in a row.
This is outrageous for a hundred thieves now.
Finally, after nine rounds played, the second opportunity for an AWP to be bought over for
Digizen.
At this point, it just feels too little, too late.
Look at this, a re-clear.
Team Latino is so on his game.
One enemy remaining.
Just crisping every shot.
Okay, off out of garage door. Something new.
Oh, okay, he gets it. Had to go for the re-scope down on 30 HP.
Now without Cryo in the mix, 100 Thieves, you realize, wait a second, we actually don't
have to waste any time onto this B site. That should be an easy plant for them.
And his fight's over and it's a disaster!
Timotino dropped, so now...
Eyes turn to Asuna.
Boosted up on site, now getting flushed out by a lockdown.
Make some noise! I mean, he has the ultimate to try and cancel.
We're gonna try and...
Shadow step his way out of there, regardless, doesn't have a second one,
so he's detained this round!
He's a disaster for 100 thieves!
everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
And all right.
Okay, if you showed me that round in a vacuum,
and then told me one of these teams is up 9-0,
who is it?
I would have guessed EG.
That was just ridiculous.
Everything that could have possibly been dismantled was.
D-Bartino fighting until it was itself stunned.
Even earlier.
Yeah, even this.
It's just a nice shot from DG, a little whiffed out of cryo.
It's a little stop.
It's an awesome entertain.
Oh, I mean a little levity to what is felt like an execution thus far.
Sometimes you just need that first round, Mimi.
Yeah.
Sometimes that's the floodgates.
I don't know if this is that time.
We're so back boys, let's go EG.
We'll see what happens here.
100 thieves can get over the mental hurtle of losing one round.
Yes, they're true.
A compound guy in this corner again.
Sound advice.
It's been a few times this game.
Dosimakokianos is getting repositioned a little closer, but now the prowler spots him, pressure mounting.
As the onslaught of EG members supports comp, nice work for him.
Get his before dropping.
Now these rounds getting a little bit scattered out of 100 thieves.
Look at Kaio still stuck around in mid. That's a 3k out from Okeanos.
Mimi the floodgates are opening.
Yes they are.
I mean another round where just a few little mistakes for 100 thieves.
Nice timing and how they fight up into short.
I think maybe an over-commitment, this is a team that's been very thorough in playing
these slow rounds and finding the right site.
This really feels like the first time this game they've actually hit a site with players
on it.
Yeah.
Two rounds in a row as well, we're 100 cases, it's a little bit quicker too.
Two rounds where, even though Digizin's AWP isn't finding a huge amount of value like
in this last round, it's been heading over towards the C side, which means I think the
actual fighting on site from EG has been a little bit more supported, the multiple
right holes and players rotating over so good work there we'll get to an 0-3 G
9-3 I don't want to oversell it but it does make it doable remember they want three out of four
of their pistol rounds and bonus rounds in the game that they want to against Envy they've been
good for that and that's the start of something of a combat.
I feel like since joining the CG Rosser, I didn't have that game where I'm watching and thinking, this is the guy that impressed me so much on love last year.
So, 100 thieves, back working into mid. It's been rare they've seen a player here, now Okianos playing the highline.
Nothing to be found just yet.
Despite inch garage went poorly for battle last time, this time falls into the back side.
This time the operator is there and the ult cancelled in back side.
Ditches in nice on the first one, taken down to the rest of 100 thieves.
Hearing full force, Cryo fully evolved.
Now takes the forward position, he can play inside this pit.
Got a lot of room to work with, no decay to affect him.
And with the Shorty as well, stepping into it, that's three for him and 100 thieves right
back in it.
The more you watch this video get played, the more situations where you think about
just how strong that alt can be.
Being able to sit in a pit with a Shorty out and have the HP advantage is so big.
I just thought we'd just play more like the rest of this game, right scaling from 100
getting the spam kills they've been finding all game and going up 10 to 2
at the half. It's desperation for EG. Let's see if they've got anything left in
the tank after this.
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 fine cars. Not how it works.
I guess you're not as cool as Verizon bringing your 18 tier T mobile bill for a better deal today
the team after using both timeouts to get UT ready to put up a fight here.
Bad news for the faithful though, last time under these, this map I think they were better
on the defense than they were on the attack.
It looked very impressive, in particular the litany of setups they have around Cryo on
this detail, either with fast rotates or some aggressive plays.
I feel like he gets so much value and has so much freedom in the way he sets up.
You can see on this pistol, it starts towards long but can teleport back if needed.
He played so passively on the defensive side.
Interesting to see 100 thieves.
Looked to get to Metino, tucked away by Bunny.
Early on here, the rest of his team has fallen away.
But no one's looking in that corner.
A little bit shaky.
Stun doesn't matter.
Metino drops his own stun.
It's a one for one at the start as Evil Genius
is destroyed his mid-hold.
Great pick from Supa.
Picks the perfect time to swing and now continues fighting
for more.
It might be too much up into window and shut down.
And that's a problem because the rest of Evil Geniuses
real far back.
The only space they had was in Garage.
Now that they've lost that player,
they have no information on this map at all.
And it gives time for Hunter These to group,
work together outside of Garage
and a chance to push through.
That turret getting a ping.
That was Evil Geniuses a lot.
But are they worried more about their flank now?
Garage?
Still a lot of question marks.
Right now, none of those areas are concerned.
100 thieves expected off of that turret being broken.
EG to run it back towards Zang. 30 seconds left. They're wrong and said it'll have to be a set retake.
On to this site, 3 on 3. That turret guarding long is real nice though,
but Red Seville Genie says step up towards Seelink.
A forward position here. Very early for 100 thieves to deal with.
Opening exchange.
The creep ceasefire ends with Dujizin landing the killing blow on Vora.
Now, 100 thieves.
No, this fight is up here, but it doesn't matter.
Leafle from the newest.
Dujizin had a very slow start to this game, as did the rest of his team.
But now, he's starting to come online, 14-9, leaving the way for his team.
Look at the pivotal kills he gets this round.
That one on T'vora taking away the favor utility continuing to fight up for a third
And okay, I'm just excited about the prospect of round 14
Absolutely wild. He's even so loose even during the tech issues. I mean having fun even after showing up his other skills and great
Trailing ten three still
Having some energy for evil geniuses
You see how heavily EG's buying into this one.
Keeping pretty much all of these guns feels like a necessity.
I think that bonus round a good chance.
But they've got the right stack for players.
I'm a little concerned.
You're against them.
Oh.
And that's a counter paranoia ready to go.
That's not utility in EG's hands.
Stun doesn't do too much and now Com gets that kill back in deep.
That's all right for Evil Geniuses.
Do they choose to stick around, though?
Again, some more stall is...
Joan has only seen the Viper here.
I don't think these aren't flinching, Mimi.
Three of them still holding together.
His crossfire could be brutal.
I mean, how long are we gonna wait?
There's a dart for calm. That's gonna come down. This wall's gonna drop soon, and that's
gonna be the start of things. Bang. Right on the other side, it's ready for it. Or we'll
get his one, but Evil Genius is not leaving too many gaps in the armor. No issues here,
even if it gets a little bit low, and even if a couple kills come in, Evil Genius is
take this round two all the same.
It's very good that they did not lose that round
because they were hitting straight into his staff.
It's insane.
But still, with how heavily they bought in,
losing two gums is not insignificant.
They want to make a real comeback here,
putting a good effort into this bonus round.
It's going to be big and it won't just be until you go,
but I do see some concerns that I've seen as a theme.
Oh my God, all I got won?
That's my biggest concern.
Only one you go.
That is a big one.
With comms calling, I've seen a lot of these rounds where they take an early extremity,
freeze and just re-hit with low info, without really plotting the other side.
I think that can lead them to sometimes hitting low info into stacks, like we saw in that round.
Well, again, playing with limited information on the map, five players into A.
It's a little bit peculiar though, because it's so quiet from EG, not really showing anything.
Quick exchange down into long.
It's Asuna rotates on in.
This time though, I don't think Evil Geniuses are gonna go for that
protracted pause.
Instead, just waiting for S'Wall to drop into Okianos.
Catches a shaky Asuna.
For also dropping, where did 100 Zeebs go?
EG again, freezing right here.
This time, just win every gunfight.
I suppose if you don't win in the macro, you just hope every one of your players in the
four on four gets to win.
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
I think this is what we saw yesterday versus Envy, right?
Yeah.
Winning the pistol.
Queen conversions on the bonus.
Like, this is an EG that could get a little bit scarier as we get deeper into the second
half.
You remember that NFE game and just think about the fact that EG would have had no business
winning that first map if it weren't for the bonus rounds. They won both on Pearl and from this game too
but they should have had no business coming back in down 10-2. They actually have a shot.
Typically though we've seen evil geniuses get these big leads and then the game starts become
close that was plaguing them all throughout 20-25. Here's the solution, never get a big lead.
huge always come back there a cowbell down there
there is a cowbell that's awesome
these shots are okay on us as well also it's just kind of caught out in the okay
step by step please step by step very true sound advice
I don't think you still have a buy here though
Thus far, EG is called away from this veto, anchoring the BC side of the map. It's very
very easy cryo set up A.
100 thieves playing really heavily into mid to allow them to quickly rotate onto the extremities
if necessary. Although again these slow quiet rounds have to make 100 thieves a little bit
nervous because they don't really have that much forward information right now. I think
Haunt was just thrown on A long. They got instantly broken.
And that's all they know.
Much like Chamber Vito basically needs help when he's soloing the BC side of the map.
Unlike a KJ or a Chamber who have two pieces of info utility.
You can watch a lot more space.
So you oftentimes see a hundred thieves having to regress as well.
Oh, and you saw the barrel of the gun.
Supa holds the line.
No, Stimitino's trapped in the corner and it doesn't matter, he fights up through the
stun with calm to support.
Another clinical round out from Evil Geniuses.
Some smokes to try and muddy the waters now on the A side, but as you can see, that's
a judge in Austin this hand.
He's going to have to beg Evil Geniuses to walk forward into him, otherwise this round
is just over.
far this is showing a good read for EG. Ignore the veto side of the map, prioritize A. It's
almost always going to be a lack of information on that side.
Get your clipping tool of choice ready.
Okay.
Let's see some TikTok teleport shenanigans.
Don't worry guys, he's not in here.
Give us one more TP, Austin.
Now come on, go all the way into long.
TP for the Ninja defuse now, no time.
It goes for the classic of all things, weak.
You can now close your clipping software of choice.
It wasn't worth it.
Unless you're hate-watching.
And then you're even doing it.
Wow, so what does that make that?
Is that now six out of the last seven for evil geniuses?
Shilling back to last half.
Don't laugh at that.
You mean, Chrissy said six out of, not back to that.
OK.
We're never going to win this battle.
I don't know why you're fighting it.
You just got to accept it, Mimi.
There's no point.
100 thieves, they're going to call the timeout.
And give a wife an A. Potter, you
can now discuss things with your team again as well.
That's nice, after using both timeouts in the first half.
100 thieves are faced with similar problems,
where A wall B has been a weakness.
Yep.
And I'd like to see them just committed to maybe playing
some of these retake ideas.
Something I really liked the last time
that they were playing this map is how often they
were pushing through flanks on their retakes.
Normally it would be T-Matino either
or he's something aggro towards a lobby
or outside of C in the mid-round.
And then letting him off the leech
to push through and get information.
Uchi hasn't really been defaulting
outside of, you know, leaving
one player usually down outside of that area
at the beginning of the round to contain.
I think that mid-round's
re-aggression into flank retakes
could really help their problems on air.
I think the thing that might
dissuade them from doing that is
limited information so if they want to do aggression they either need to put some punch
behind it, you know, multiple members be loud or it's kind of like ripping a coin whether
or not someone's going to be holding that space.
I also think with Fade, with the double prowler, she's better than Silva at challenging the
vibra utility in a lobby.
You can prowl through and kind of keep pressure up in that area and I think that's the approach
we're seeing this round.
Four players on a lobby.
Now, it is one rifle, that's in Cryo's hands, and well, it was pretty loud from 100 thieves,
so evil geniuses, they're just gonna hold this smoke and make sure no one keeps walking.
Thankfully, despite that viper being alone, Cryo will be able to leapfrog to B and then
over towards C connector with the double TP to join his teammate if they need.
So he's taking the V to the tech.
I think that stuff is legitimately one of his strengths, that really spats rockets.
Oh for sure.
like if Yoru and Chamber could kind of have like half of both worlds.
Like he doesn't do either of those agents as well as what they do.
We have the quick rotates of a Yoru as well as the quick get out of jail free.
But Hyrthi's also plays way less Yoru than pretty much anyone else.
So it's nice to have that compromise.
Good night.
Well, you're getting what you asked for Mimi.
There is a flank out of a lobby.
Unfortunately, Val is still hanging out in spawn.
The key for next round?
Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure he also got the scouting report on these flanks coming in,
so he can just now play heavy, heavy contain on the anti-eco.
Oh, might have missed the timing, though.
Turret tells him there's players in mid, and it doesn't matter.
There's a new game primer theme, so the mission is to try and kill Val back in spawn, but
support. And Supa walks that down as well, to all of us. So, EG's now within three rounds,
and 100thies, this is where we get a look at how they wanted to approach that timeout.
I'd like to the A lobby fight they went for there. But I think what is going to be a problem
if they go for that flank approach that I talked about is, you gotta kill Bao. And I think
that means instead of sitting team on solo flanks like we saw in the last game, give
Give him a friend. Maybe calm, he seems like a great friend from that clip.
Always got his teammates back, and right now it's Dujun and Kondor
kind of just farming during this win streak for Evil Geniuses. Again, quick up into A-Lobby,
out of 100 thieves, back to back rounds. It wasn't just an eco strat, this is a clear adaptation
from the time out, but Evil Geniuses respond in turn, already up into window,
to just in, anticipates and taken out. That hurts now as there's still a player
on C site to deal with. Cryo steps in as well. This is a brutal pinch. Now the
Hunters here it comes in. It's actually calm to lay down supporting fire for EEG to get
this bike down. Big whiff from Bank puts it back into a four-on-four and with no
flying to the fight for his pit down this is a very difficult retake the
only way in will be for his nightfall but there's still that late pressure of
calm that'll come into garage hundred thieves have to anticipate it and they
can't wait too long or is looking for the right angle on this but all it means
is more and more time gone no prowlers to follow up super can still hang out in
his pit two players caught on the nightfall bow decayed down but too much
Time has been bought comm is already approaching on the flight calm takes down the first and his head swivel back towards him
The rest of evil geniuses find their mark hundred thieves look out of sorts get on out of there boy
You don't stand a chance
Nightmare scenario down for hundred thieves
Out of their time out lose the first rifle rounds I
Need to get it simple solutions, but they've consistently been a step ahead this half
from knowing previous the hundred these place heavier around the video has no
info on it slamming to start your round how do your opponents time not change it
up know that they're gonna ship this setup know that C is gonna be like it
give us two beautiful from two at the half to within two now evil geniuses
Actually taking this fight into a lobby again this time hundred thieves not
answering it this time it's cryo anchoring this a side with limited
support and already not so low without a teepee to get out of sight either
Wow ditches in goes to the outlaw by all five members of hundred thieves on
on Light Armor.
Kitch is in his down low, but
as he creeps forward, he waits for the jump peek.
That is easy pickings for him.
The interceptor will slow things for another moment.
But he has no intention but to re-hit.
Tracking that head even through the box.
Now they're going to get suspicious, so they see the knee on there,
they hear the veto, they understand this is his staff,
but they don't have a lurk to call back into.
We'll have to take some time re-clearing space.
But Hunter Thieves don't have information on BRC either.
It's just solo players, so a very passive play from Bang as he has to control,
but B site and Garage, it's a little bit uncomfortable.
25 seconds on the clock, and B will be the call from Evil Geniuses.
A high tee, B out of El Qianos. The first one goes his way.
Dodging around as Timotino comes in on the flank,
Ripping apart the back lines, Hunter Thieves attack from every single front and find so
much success that spike left in the open, no time left for Val.
Hunter Thieves will take that first half.
Both teams play that round with basically two thirds of the map in the fog of war.
Hunter Thieves had passive anchors on C&B.
EG only had a contain with the turret.
Now your team had any information, except for today.
So when they realize the stack has been called into that site,
EG have to gamble and hit B with low info.
And with 100, these realize it quick enough.
Practically the entire team there to pinch,
as Simatino pushes in on the flank.
Despite it appearing, there we go.
All five players ready to go here.
Simatino shows mid instantly back.
It's a fake teleport from Okeanos.
He's been enjoying this in recent games right at the beginning of round, but already
Hundred thieves have cleared out their spawn realize that's gonna be a fake
Back to the more usual veto setup towards C and cryo dead even in skin good night
That's trouble and now war caught out by the utility
Somehow goes on
You madman! Still alive! No support! Get the head shot! Before ultimately falling.
Now it's you on two, but Pad with the Stinger fights back. Another clutch for Calm.
100 thieves taking their time. Where does Calm move from here?
Paranoia catches him. That's uncomfortable. Seize the shoulder that is! And bang, so well!
The Oles-Rambo Bangs single again! Will take 11 for 100 Thieves.
That was the same spot from the last calm clutch on this map that people remember.
Practically the same scenario, but this time it's bang on literally one HP.
for it here too. Time's out the stun. And then Timotino, who sends himself in there to die so
for it can get those kills, just lines it up for him.
That's a heartbreaking round. The momentum on his comeback suddenly stunted.
And the thieves potentially ready to fight for A once again.
You know, Bao has this all. Don't want to allow an execute to come through.
Naval genius is trying to pivot away from here.
We are aware in trying to get these HUD issues sorted for the time being.
It is 11,800 thieves leading this round.
Very quick rotation in from Cryo, but spotted by the drone.
It's 12-8, get back. Match point here.
Oh, nice timing! Caught from Super!
That is brilliant!
The next one steps in!
And deleted.
Evil Genius is in full control now.
And that's reminded me of the Super of last year.
So good in these positions and another fight ready for him.
Backs away.
Oh, these shots! Tracking a little bit dangerous for a moment 3 now for Timotino. Still though
so little time, and now with Nanos being chucked onto the spike. This round should be a wrap.
He needs the half stick and will not find it.
These are struggling to deal with this viper wall in a lobby. They feel the need to commit so many resources
To fight into that space that the rest of the map has been weak
And because cryo is the second all has low information
That didn't have a second piece of utility to hold space
She was realized you can find these gaps work aggressively through garage
And open the entire map like I can
So another game point, 400 thieves. Austin actually only with a stinger has always been
catching the short end of these buys whether it's a judge or a SMG. This time the rest
of Evil Genius is close behind.
You have some ultimates to work with, and nice little line up there for the Anno.
Just gonna push Osno away.
The rest of the 100 thieves have moved in pretty quickly though, so I like this calling
out from Evil Geniuses to just pump the brakes.
A better setup though, 400 thieves, a re-clear in garage.
Two players posted forward, down a short, but they lack information towards long.
No prime rotates to come back in, 100thies, Vora.
He's calling this one.
He thinks it's an A finish and it is a good read.
Yep, especially after seeing that Viper wall go up.
This is about the time you'd expect to start seeing players.
A few more seconds and maybe 100thies could overthink it, but how is some noise is made?
That is going to give up the play.
Still Timotino in the corner.
Oh my word, he is gone.
A lockdown with less than 30 seconds on the clock.
100 thieves are holding their ground fighting in.
Clio advances and has a corner and long two players tuck away.
Comma's going to have to deal with them.
There's so little time left.
EGF 10 seconds and need these fights.
Bora still alive.
As the spike goes down, 100 thieves approaching on every angle.
Only two alive for Evil Geniuses.
Super stepping forward.
Caught up between these smokes, the first is his.
Tucks into Hellos, the drop comes down, a one on two.
Bow, ditches!
What else is there?
Bow's got it!
EG's stay alive!
Huge Red Wolf watch for Bow.
He had a nightmare start to this game alongside EG.
But now comes online.
Dropped a 30 bomb in their last series and stepping up here again.
He makes such great choices.
And he fights around these smokes and how he isolates the girls in the 1v2.
I'm activated now, buddy!
Potter knows that's what they needed.
He keeps EG in this game.
And with 100 thieves reset to another eco,
Now they're the ones calling the second time out in a half
Hundred thieves have two chances to come up with one answer on this defensive side
So while they don't have to buy on this next round
I want to ask when they did piece together those two round wins
Is there something they can tap back into to replicate that success?
Yeah, I do like the rounds where they're fighting for a lobby control
I think they have to deny that space
But what I'm still waiting for is to see these rounds where they're being willing to re-aggress further in the mid-round
I don't know how much they figured it out yet
But most of these rounds EG is playing four ones and not actually
Proactively holding space in mid or if they're leaning towards C only have one player containing towards A
I think being willing to test these extremities test that space in mid a little bit more
It's gonna go a long way to better punishing EG when they go for these low info late round executes
But they've done round after round yeah, cuz bow's hold has been a little bit more reserved when he's containing
a little bit deeper
So under thieves do have more room to work with if they so please
What the idea is now for hundred thieves three players down long trying to farm in orbit. That's big bang if he gets that orb
That would have been the ultimate online for the final round of regulation
potentially major implications for the rest of this one off of just that spam kill
Nice cleanup for EG, staying steady on this anti-eco and ensuring that the fate of this game rests in the last round
round. Interesting to see Cryo was actually teleporting back towards the sea side. I do
anticipate he's going to try and end up dying to someone here. He's trying to get the orb.
He's trying to get the orb. Yeah. Gotcha. Wants to have that evolution for next round.
Either way you're dying here anyways to get your money and unlock that one but could have
tried to go for a spike death I suppose. Not like EG are going to have any chances to
to unlock major ults for the final round.
They've already got their three.
Scans is so interesting.
Both teams have struggled to solve the exact same problem.
How do we deal with the Viper lure call on a lobby?
It's been such a problem for defenders.
Struggling to have information towards at each side
of the map, trying aggressive looks,
trying to play more positive, even when they switch it up,
getting ran over on C.
But now, there's one last chance for 100 thieves
to figure it out.
And for a hundred thieves, there are two wing conditions in this final round.
First one, Timotino has gone to the operator, where he's going to play to get the early picks.
Second, Cryo has evolution, and when there's big major ultimates on the other side,
how can he use that to his advantage?
To anchor down a site, even with a Hunter's Fury coming in.
Cryo died, boosted up in a previous round on C. That operator makes it all the more difficult.
But after failing to see anything initially, EG regrouped towards mid and out of the map
that they barely touched this attack half.
We're playing all the way back in GONG as well, so Evil Geniuses, a lot of space to slip
up into.
But for most of this game, 100 thieves just needed resources for A. Now just one neon
with it all.
100 thieves just moved down to C long, and I think they've got to be ready.
Heavy presence in mid.
As EG, test garage, pull out of paranoia, no kills to come down yet.
And now the B hit. This is where EG are gonna gamble everything.
Ditch is in, taken down. That's another.
And three on five. Heroes are needed. Bow could be that guy for EG.
He is still stuck here, but it falls to calm.
The spike down. 25 seconds left.
OT afar, cry away. It won't be there.
Being there, 100 thieves take map one.
From a 10 to half to a 13, 10 win 400thies,
Yuki was so close to pulling that one off,
but snuffed out in the very last second.
Such an interesting game across the board.
Neither of these teams managing
to fully figure out their defense.
But in the end, it's a big win, 400thies.
They take their opponent's map in, they set up for bind enough that they've looked so
comfortable on, no matter the roster, but continuing into this 2026 season.
It has always been a classic for them.
At the same time, EG, after coming back to getting so close, have to feel a little bit
of that hunger for the next map.
We're going to be jumping into that second map in just a moment, so don't go anywhere.
Let's go!
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It can't happen! It can't! We just watched it!
Everyone, GV down here with the assistant coach, right?
Of 100 Thieves, Dune Bros. is a little bit of a weird one for me.
We used to talk in the global events, and now here we are in LA.
Dune, pleasure to see you, my man.
Look, what we're seeing from 100 Thieves is a lot of creativity with this veto.
And just in general, great plays from 100 Thieves.
Do you feel like the squad right now,
The 100 thieves might be the most creative team in all of the VCT, all of the league.
Of course I think so.
I see a lot of teams that stealing our comps, stealing our comps on the road, our bind,
our place, right?
I'm a little bit like self-indulgent and saying that we're the most creative, you know, but
you kind of have to be.
I think Vido is just criminally underrated and it's just about learning the agent and
as time goes on, we will be better with it, our teams will be better with it, but today
was a little bit shaky but the ceiling is very high. Yeah do you feel like I
guess to follow up on that one real fast do you feel like the reason why this
works is because of the players you have on your squad? Yeah for sure they're
always willing to pay everything. That's excellent man. Always pleasure to talk to
you my brother all right. Thank you guys. Thank you so much Alex. You know I love
that for Dan. It's tactic on the tactic there but now we saw that tactical be
said from Dan as well. Why is it not tacky Dan? I don't know. That's for me. Okay fine.
Guys they just talked about that video right in the creativity. The way they use it though,
it does so much for the team. Like the utility usage for the video, that's what gets them
around. And it was incredible. We think about how this map started. Ten, two. We were on
the way to have the fastest map of Valorant that we've had in America. You think they're
going to close it out, but then things start to go the other way.
Attack side, we can grade second half for the both team struggling.
Mimi mentioned it when on the cast, the both, the one condition that we always
talk about on the A side, that Viper, the impact that she can drop as well.
And it was happening a lot, but on top of that, you have the Vita, though,
doing the same thing.
Yeah, and Cryo's specific, like his utility usage, especially on that attacking
half was so strong, you know, throwing that interceptor A main, not allowing
for any early presence, being able to recall it if nothing is there,
even if it was used, it's only a 45 second cooldown and he used it almost every single
time on that 8 post plant, making it so much harder for them to retake because they can't
throw you to the, they really just have to rely on what a neon wall may be a blind and
it was just really hard for them to retake back into that.
Also, did you guys see Christ screaming?
Did you guys see?
I believe we should have, I swear, I've never, we literally, in the pre-show we talked about
how he's so chill, so passive.
Yeah, super quiet.
This is, this was, this was different.
Yeah, it actually blew her mind when it happened.
I couldn't believe it.
I'm so serious.
I thought something happened in the game.
You were calling for something.
It was like, oh, I must have been a sick moment,
like actually in game.
I was like, no cryo.
I was like, hey.
You're never happy.
Well, honestly, if I played like that,
I'd be yelling my guts out as well.
Like that was an incredible performance.
Of course, each had to play around that.
And then it just, in the second half,
started to kind of avoid that Evito.
I think like they really tried coming in aggressive early on.
And that was punished.
Yeah, no, especially in that first half,
because we did see EG trying to push up,
trying to go for those first picks,
being a little bit more proactive.
But they were getting shut down
until we saw this amazing off-round coming in from Ducati.
And just getting a 4k to kind of start
getting those rounds on their side.
And then moving on to the second half,
it was a complete 180, right?
With having a Vito, it's not like running a kill-dry.
There's not a whole lot you have to default
and kind of break in order to open up the map.
EG took advantage of that.
And even when they went towards that Vito,
they didn't a lot of the time, they tried to avoid it
because it is hard to exit into,
especially if you can't use your utility.
But when they did, they actually managed to waste a lot of his utility.
I was very surprised.
Yeah, they were able to get a lot of space on that attack set.
And you also had a little bit of the scurril plays that played it out.
I mean, Val with his clutch, for example, was incredible.
You have another play by Superman, where he's able to exploit a little bit of that gap
that defense had in garage.
Then you see an immediate correction for 100 views.
And then you see their game playing finally under defense be able to be executed.
But it was, it really came down to the wire.
It really did.
I think it was around 10 when the tide started to shift, right?
That's when EG started to heat up,
and it was all on the back of Dijizen's off.
Like, he went in aggressive with Dijizen, go in and kill,
and that kind of opened up things for EG.
Yeah, I think he really earned the flowers
that you gave him earlier, truly.
And then even on that second half,
we still saw him getting so much momentum
and getting so much space.
It was just really insane how quickly
and how much of a key factor he was
in turning this map around.
He is such a win condition, especially in a situation like this one, Evil Genius is on
the verge of being eliminated.
You are relying on your star player.
You're relying on DJ Sin as he did in the first half to get those last two rounds as
they did go into that second half when they started to get some momentum.
Now to go into a reset when you know the map was so close, it has to be on him.
Yeah, it's going to be 100 thieves' map pick here, right?
We talked about it earlier, which feels ancient.
We talked about how this map was going to make the 100 thief players fairly happy and confident.
They played by in three times already, so you can also argue there's a lot of tape of them.
But each time, they looked really good in it. I think they're 2-1.
Yeah, and now it's a completely new battle, right? We're not going to probably be seeing Aveda here.
Very sad, very unfortunate, but we will be seeing the Tiber.
Yes, they're talking about it.
It's way like you're not. You like the Tiber, you know?
Yeah, I mean, how can you not, right? It's crouching.
But no, you'll be seeing the waylay in the chamber,
which is a whole new battle of itself,
which is something that didn't happen.
It's something that was what energy was able to plan
into the fact that Tina was not on this way.
So now going back to the way like going back to math,
the hundred things is comfortable with, you know,
it's a little scary for the other side.
Yeah, we know what to expect from a hundred thieves
heading on to a band.
Let's hear what coach Potter has to say ahead of my team.
Hey guys, here with coach Potter here,
tough loss in that game.
But you guys did manage to almost come back,
What were some of the bright spots that you were seeing in that game because there were a couple like
Did you just taking space freely and being aggressive as we know him to be?
What were some of those bright spots and what are you hoping to see in match two?
For sure. Surprisingly the bright spots came in the first half.
I know we were getting bullied it seemed that way but we had all the info, we had all the right moves.
We just weren't proactive enough and decisive when we had that info.
So going into the second half that was a big talking point.
So I think you know being able to come back in that second half it definitely reinforced our confidence
So we need to stop being so timid going to map to any players. You're looking at to really turn up the heat here
It's got to be the black Jesus Douglas. I mean he's been he's been carrying us
He's been being very vocal and just becoming just a confident player that I know he can be so I'm looking at Douglas
All right, let's see if you can take it to the promised land. All right back to you guys
Jesus takes the wheel already up
No, I never get to win this one.
Yeah, but we just talked about what we expect to see
from on the thieves.
EG side, what do you want to see, Agent Wise?
Agent Wise, I wouldn't mind seeing a Wele Headset,
I think on a map like Vine,
where there's so many small parts
where that interceptor could, not interceptor,
sorry, I really like Vito if you put it out.
But that stun coming in from Wele, it's just too valuable.
And we saw EG play this map against NB,
the EG scene was actually on this Wele,
they were playing that Double Kill Lids with Okie,
on the Euro that we've seen pretty recently,
but I still feel like Timodino,
he has the upper hand in this agent.
But that way Lea Matcha will be so juicy.
I'm excited to see what both of these teams
have in store for us as a minion ender.
We'll be back with Mach 2 after a short break.
Well, after EG's fakest of all fake combats, back on map number one, we're geared up for
a pretty interesting bind.
Both teams have played this map, had different ideas, whether it's the solo waylay versus
double duelist and we're gonna have a moment here before jumping in to agent
slash these teams can get geared up because Mimi this match evil geniuses
lose it their kickoff is over yeah and that is a tough pill to swallow it's
been a rough few years for this organization where it's always slow
starts on successful kickoffs into just apparently turning around for stage two
almost banking playoffs and then falling flat again it's a real opportunity for
them to try and make that a different story, prove why this seemingly so strange roster
they put together can truly be effective, but it's going to be tough going into 100
thieves' minds, which has been really impressive.
Yeah, especially because even though 100 thieves find themselves in the same situation as EDG
here down in the lower bracket, where elimination means your tournament ends, their journey
has been a little bit different.
Yeah.
They had really close losses to G2 and NRG, who people are rating really highly as they
should.
and the Raining World Champion right now and are still in great form.
Exactly. So a lot of people are expecting 100 teams to kind of be the favorite, I think, in this lower bracket run,
at least until we see more teams trickle down out of what we've actually got.
But, even geniuses were within touching distance of taking up one.
Yeah, they absolutely were. I think though that it has to start earlier.
You heard Potter really trying to push the team to be more confident.
I think guys I'm looking to you for that is number one. Did you say he had such a turn around in that second half?
He was so good for this team and I think that he has been the bright spot. It's been not far.
It's been a dark year for each. Yeah, especially get that get that man an operator in his hand.
He's going to be tearing it up. Those things Potter was talking about was of course being a little bit more decisive in their hit round actions, which I think we saw.
I think we saw, especially in that first half, Bora calling a great attack side where so often he was able to pinpoint the weak sides of the map and find himself on sites where there's zero or one players actually holding it.
And even while it was successful for EG on their own attack app, I still think we saw them fall into a lot of these four ones without re-clearing a lot of space and like low info light hits.
And to me, that was the biggest issue last time they played Bond, of playing too slow, not taking enough space, and just kind of gambling off a read.
We're going to hit into against Envy, and unfortunately for them, the read oftentimes was not correct.
They were getting ripped to pieces on the execs, so I would like to see a more proactive attack have from EG when we get there.
Not just in the execs, but what they're doing in the mid-round.
And of course that proactivity also has to come with dealing with the different things 100 thieves are going to be throwing at you in this map.
If they walk in the same agents and we're typically used to seeing, we're talking about Wele, Saturate combos with different stuff.
We're talking about dealing with chambers and whatnot.
It'll be a whole big problem that evil geniuses will have to solve.
We're getting a little tease here of what's to come.
or had been playing that sky previously 400 these will go ahead and walk that in so this is the expectation
you got the double goals for e.g. vs. Timothee no the way they prodigy
He is been so impressive find the silver way
I think he does a great job of finding the right opportunities of when to commit and not refract and when to
Repract out of there immediately and just get the saturated down. I think it's in a little player. He uses abilities
he picks the right way to use it.
Correct, exactly.
And I think some of the players who have picked up
Wailike because she's meta, but maybe
aren't the best Wailike players, who are almost always.
Yeah, not the Wailike players.
They'll double bash in, saturate, pull back every round,
and let their teammates go.
He does a much better job of tempering that decision
the right way.
And he has to, because they don't play double duelists.
They don't have a yore with him to follow up on these execs.
Yeah, they've got Cryo still walking it down,
but very far away from whatever Timo Tino is doing.
Yes, but Cryo has been a beast, especially starting on defense here.
When he gets that off online, he is monstrous.
When he is rifling, he is great as well.
It's going to be a big problem for EG to diffuse.
Timo's got some support here out in the ground.
People genius is still looking loose. Yeah on the stage all things considered
Have a whole lot of fun there even do you want to see them less happy? No, I love the the joy
Okay, I'm seeing on their faces. I just didn't know what direction you were going with that. I want to make sure
There what do we got I can't read it. I think it says pizza at the top
the game. It's like after they
get through the strat book,
it's like, okay, after we win
world pizza for the boys. Yeah,
that's for sure what it is.
That's definitely what NBS is
talking about. There is a small
delay on stage. We're getting
into the game in just a G. F.
P. D. Oh, he's not to of the
series and E. G. On their last
life on our way from losing
that third strike and being
eliminated from contention for
from contention for Sonny Aga and they'll be stepping in 200 thieves home turf here on bind
that has always been their comfort as an organization.
People Geniuses found a lot of success on the attack side back on Haynes and went on a massive
run but couldn't get over the final hurdle. Let's see what they can do here on this opening pistol.
Have you leaned towards B to start, poor evil geniuses?
There's a look to take long control.
The panel are broken away.
And look at how hundreds of these have started this one.
They had three players on the A side of the map.
Now just Cryo posted forward for the trip on the other side.
That forward information though has allowed four players to stack onto B.
People geniuses need to call away from this, and they're doing a good job, digits in making
some noise.
He's going to peek his head in, but as Cryo gets the kill outside showers, that's still
going to make things uncomfortable on the A side.
100, they still hold to the stack for now.
Not breaking formation.
I should finally reveal these players. As plant comes in, but EG have no control of the site.
Yeah, they've got lamps, but no showers, and now it's a teleport. That's heavy pressure.
Two angles to deal with on this post-plant. Very challenging. And Cryo's insured that no one
is actually made it out back site. Hundred thieves are gonna avoid lamps. As a matter of fact,
they don't have to take it. They've got some time at the moment and now just waiting for the action.
That Molly's gonna stall out for a long time. Hundred thieves have certainly waited a while.
DG can get a couple of kills. They could do this even low on numbers but no kills.
Well, we found there except on Tvorah. As the fuse comes in, a hundred thieves take the pistol.
Such a well-tempered round there, 400thies.
You see, each step of the checklist in play,
get cryo posted, and then you hard commit to the B-step.
Don't waver from that, Seth. Simply play retake.
And with that control toward showers,
EG felt like they had to aggress on.
That's why you see Okiana swinging out back side.
Beautiful, guys. Beautiful, man.
He wasn't supported by anyone else, just falls alone.
And with him gone, 100thies.
Simply crunch in and win a pistol.
mirroring the start of map 1. And you're gonna see a lot of these forward walks
from the guy like Cryo to get that deep information line. Let's see some aggressive
plays out of Timotino as well. This time just on his own with a Bucky, but
definitely have some ideas for set aggro. Once again Cryo up here.
He's the jump and is a bit timid here. Not wanting to donate over an outlaw.
Still has TP though.
Oh dear. Good night.
And now a little jump forward to scout. Oh no, sorry, sorry, sorry, I take it back.
No, I said it was a scouting mission. No, no, no.
Well it was, but he also had a shotgun that he brought along. He's gonna go for more.
That was just an assassination.
and a mean one. Oh by the way yeah cry was outside showers while you were distracted by the the guy
that was jumping over and around you. Oh also a report from the western front uh you've been fully
in circle then hundreds have pushed through the flank. Oh my god it's being closed in on by every
single angle. That was devastating. Yikes it's pretty much all I have to say to that one. I'd be
shell shocked. Yeah all right so now gums are up for EG. Last two rounds they've shown us four ones
where they work slowly one side and then hit back in, they're already from just watching that pistol round
where they found the chamber lots of players. Then hit back in, I want to see if they're going to
give us more aggression in the mid round or if it's just going to be walking around playing this
slow 4-1 style that they had last time on bind. Fight over showers again this time the kill comes
comes through, he was hit though, down to 10 via the outlaw.
That was risky though, he was completely alone, just ego challenging Cryo.
But I think this is how the matchup is going to evolve because usually when you see this
double duelist with Yori, Yori is going to do a lot of early just fighting on his own
if he really does teleport back to his team and Chamber wants to do kind of the same thing.
So that 1v1, if Cryo and Digizin keep sort of ego battling over showers is something
we're going to continue to track.
EGF picked right in this lay-round,
understanding that Hunter thieves are likely to be clear
where they lost their chamber.
They might have waited too long.
Rotate's coming back towards B now.
The question is, what Vorick accomplished inside of Huka?
As Timotina revealed, that's going
to be tough to get anything done here, Bucky in hand.
Still, Evil Genius is very controlled.
It's a smoke-on-site.
They don't even want to step forward into Timitino.
This is an utility to hold it as the jump out of Suga goes right to Timitino again, lethal,
and somehow it's 100 thieves, up a man.
Supa and Baldo, the guys you want alive in a post-flint.
A crossfire, towards Long.
One snake bite to work with.
Scent out, nice spam.
And Heartthease pulled away from the spike to Matino, still charging in, and now rips
the ultimate.
It misses, up and over, puked out of the sky.
Zupa taken down!
Osuna will take the bonus for Heartthease.
No Bucky has done more in this video game in maybe two or three years.
That was gross.
Back to background.
Yes!
He's going again with rifles.
EG are just so slow.
The Rotate's coming. Tino, Tino.
Jumping out of the smoke.
Weeping the ultimate here.
To bite on for his teammate to half.
How does he do that?
SuperVenus, not like that.
Believe me, he is not like that.
I'd be mad too that Hinder did hit him on the ulti.
Had to get the headshot on one bullet, but still it wasn't enough to win the round.
Now EG, on the broken by.
Already the tip of the spear, taken low as well.
Nothing going here for EG.
Hundreds this time leave their waylay over with the chamber on the A side of the map.
And have all of their stall characters together.
Okay
He's just playing with them again that felt like it was supposed to be the scouting mission. Yeah, where you teleport in and slide back
Now that's not okay, I don't like that
So now this just feels like the first half of Haven again, yeah guys this spike. Oh dear. That's the one he loses
okay
And instantly Timotino picks up the mantle for another two kills. That's a lot!
And that's also Chrissy, three rounds in a row where Timotino has gotten a refract refresh.
I feel like it's pretty bad we've seen that with way back.
I mean, Timotino is currently averaging more than two kills around. So that's pretty good.
This is gross, don't show this.
I love how he stucks the orb as well. Like he actually got that too.
I'm probably gonna die. Let me get the altar and then just casually kills both of them anyways
Wild stuff did I no scope come from right here to here
Just the chuckle here we go again another showers fight. Oh wow this time. It's heavy though and did just didn't even have his gun out a
Little bit surprising hundred thieves had changed the pattern. It's not a chamber over here with an op. No, no, no
Well, that was the forward fight, and that's now a dimensional drift out of the round.
That trip was spotted by Superman.
And that should mean that he soon to realize that 100thies are likely to stat back into
A with that information.
He'll call his teammate to over.
But this is still so awkward, because Okiannis is stuck in showers.
He can get back over to be quickly
So do they want to fake be polar rotates trying to go back into a say break the teleport or break the traffic
Call the teleport into a Tino getting wild with it spots those two players
Okay, honest takes that timing to get his pick on a that draws back some members as the shot goes wide and
That one kill on the way lay on a kept hundred thieves over there
So there was a timing if EG wanted to speed up on B instead. They've actually missed that window and they're eating away at the rest of the clock
Sometimes you just have to go and now I've missed the window. I if they're not are they going it's 20 seconds left here
Still two players holding
Okay
Put down the poison
Okiyono, strum a box.
The Molly!
Bang just needs to kill the planter, but he can't hear the plant going down! It's too late! He didn't know!
EG's still in this round!
As Bang, inside of Scythe, stays alive!
And taken out evil geniuses in the nick of time!
But still, I really question...
...somewhat the decisiveness in these rounds for EG.
On both maps attack side, they have consistently missed windows where they had an opening because they froze for too long and let their opponent reset into a neutral position where they can quickly retake either side.
And they lose this round if Bang can just hear things.
Yes.
Because that's an easy spam kill on the page.
Oh, by the way, if that Molly is like an inch closer, because the plant also gets denied that way.
Yeah.
And yet, a lifeline for them. Sure, they win the round.
Now they have a... your ult. If so, they please.
Instead of actually playing a very spread approach on the map.
Not something you always see when you have the heavy hitter ults.
Tangerine's, Okie's pushed him into the corner.
Finds his time to beat for Bow! A beauty!
But in that, Hunter Thies has gotten two kills back to Matino, creeping into the corner.
Oh, what an off angle.
That is nice.
The hindrance to its clinical.
It just looks a little bit easier when the way lays in his hands.
So another round where this Ultimate isn't going to come into play.
He may be, but that is in, even getting battered and bruised, and that Teleports back into spawn.
Let's just play this round again from the beginning guys. It's time to jump fortunately for him cryo
He's here on a
Actually, this isn't lucky that that teleport didn't go into showers. I try I would have spotted it
Trademark here. He has to break it. That should be the death sentence
I'm so impressed with Team Latino. Just continually from his play here, that refight into long
picks a perfect off angle. How's the refract, the refract off? And I think other way lings
you would have seen the saturate time dash in and make a play. He's patient. Only after
After getting this first pick, does he immediately saturate, isolate the second player before
going back in.
Nice, let's go boys, let's go, let's go.
In high pressure situations, more than most other waylays, he consistently makes the right
choice with his utility.
And got a hundred thieves back into a round that they were losing after the initial fight
down long.
Evil geniuses saw that success, want to trial it out once more, this time just with two guns
in the hold.
Already there are so many rounds where Okinawans use his refract very early and he doesn't have
it for exact.
Ooh, ready to challenge here, if EG were to stick around.
To Metina, that's his second ult in not even seven rounds.
Trial on a new off angle, towards A.
Posting top, ready for Supa.
Whether or not it's the forward posting he's been going for consistently or now,
Anteco protocol is playing a little bit deeper.
Feel suffocating on the A side of the map for
Evil Geniuses to really take any space.
EG is contacting so much in these rounds.
Try and make it happen again and walk up towards B, but then making a play.
Right up in the middle of everything gets his and falls away.
Never one to be glee, never one to bite off more than he can chew.
And I think they just lose on time, I'm not gonna lie.
Finally smokes come in, it's just brutal, it's just brutal, hundred thieves again rinsing
EG at the start of the map.
The story of this series, for me, has been the difference in initiative between these
two teams.
For 100 Thieves, anytime they see an opportunity, a fight to re-clear, a moment to make that
individual play.
Then bang, jumping into hookah here in the last round, Team Latino fighting for long.
They make it and succeed at it.
You can pass that to an AG who is so passive, so unwilling to make those proactive plays
to take that risk.
And I think it's really punishing them.
And it's coming because they're playing so slow and they're playing so much of the map and especially when you play against a chamber team
That is often a losing play because you're more often than not gonna get picked off by the chamber and then forced into
Fighting into a heavy stack on the other side of the map chamber essentially forces you to use utility to clear space
Yeah, you can't contact into him or you're almost always losing at least a player and where I think
Potter calling this time out might be the most disappointed in evil geniuses is that they've had tools to
the game. And then they find
themselves in the blink of an
eye in like a three on three
where it just doesn't make
sense. They're playing away like
home. Count for me. The number
of friends are actually seen
okay on us refract double dash
set up for either a saturator
coming into sight almost never
whereas on the other side to
set up for either a saturator or a commuting to site.
Almost never.
Whereas on the other side,
Timo Tino has used two ultimates in seven rounds.
He's 12 and four.
Yeah, and when you're flying like that,
it just looks too simple for 100 thieves
to stuff these late round execs
with 20 seconds or less on the clock.
Potter said she wanted more proactivity.
Show it to me this round.
It's gotta come here and it might have to come straight in
to the Viper's pit.
The combo comes out of the exit.
Saturate missing!
Bang falls out. Maybe he loses the pit. Maybe he doesn't. Yet Cryo has been dealt with.
And that Dimensional Drift has gone nowhere. It's a double teleport. This round is madness!
I'm tashed on up and over. Evil geniuses are getting their kills everywhere because Digi's in. Stuck around on A.
That's now pinpointed, Timotino. I don't know what the hell just happened this round, but it worked.
I'll give him that. It felt like a disaster in every distinct moment, but
works out for EG. I think you're right to call it Digizen. He was the man who amid
the chaos was patient. Found his mark. Opened up A. I should have won this round
for his team. It's awesome. Gun here. Stacks away. I'd love to see that again
in a little bit more detail how that fight went down because while we were so
distracted by the the convo piece of the double dash in and to saturate and
brimble on the enemy Viper. I believe Digizin was going through showers and
trying to get him shouting on the other side. And then he was left behind while all
the chaos came in of the teleports and the pivots over onto the B side. It was in
rounds like that where it got chaotic. I think that actually 100 thieves in the
first map found a lot more success. Like in the second half when they started
winning some rounds I thought it was because of like very fast execs that
turned into brawls all over yeah this time EG just kind of won every single one
of their rules let's watch this again yeah let's see this is that initial kill
onto cry always he tried to walk up off culture and did just in was baiting yeah
not baiting but he was over in showers while his team was making a lot of noise
and baiting for him. Six seats guys let's go please bro. He's begging you. Very respectful.
He wants four more, okay.
Attack side off.
I mean, I love that.
You know Cryo's been facing up showers so often.
He just got to win the fight though.
We wanted to look at these two players.
Digizin has consistently been the star for EG.
This time, both ops bringing a supporting cast.
I'm gonna come before the storm.
Cryo gets a little bit antsy and chooses to give up the line.
Hundred thieves have almost always reexact elsewhere when they lose space.
This time, just a flash to confirm their silo lurker towards B.
So, EG after 40 seconds, know where the sky is.
They know Chambers hanging out over towards A.
Don't know is what's happening towards short cryo is reposted. There's a player top
Luckily for them. They're leaning
And this is brutal because cryo on the line with the operator is gonna draw all the attention away
from to the Tino in the corner
The only possible way to break this be digits in coming out from showers motion operator
He's not gonna do that and right in front of the wall. This sets up perfectly to machine or don't it bow is waiting
And that will recover the spike, blitz onto the site, mayhem, unfolds, with digits in and
Okeanos, dismantling 100 thieves, this one's wraps.
That could have been a nightmare for EG, a player tucked in the corner, but so thorough
from Bow to clear him out.
And that was the decisiveness I wanted to see, right?
Bow not wasting any time, sees the spike, not slowing down with a little brimstone
come down right in his face, took that narrow timing,
EG had to get in front of in order to play out that round.
There they took the initiative.
And the game plan as a whole, I think, was good.
Don't put the fight in this off-lead to head.
Go stride off the line.
Oh, that's a sweet play.
Yeah, great positioning for Moki, dashing up top.
OK, bro, you know I'm clearing that for you, bro.
Only happens because Thou saved his teammates' life in short.
So, 6 is still a possibility for Digizin.
After his plea, prior to the last round...
Change up for 100thies, chamber goes back to B, masked behind the sky short.
We've got a trip over here.
It gives EG a decent idea of what's to happen, but it's all about lodging digits in on the
highline.
I thought he was going to stick around and try and pluck away players rotating off from
B instead, back to A.
This kind of becomes reminiscent of the pistol round, where a hundred thieves leave his staff
towards B, feel comfortable trying to retake A as long as they hold on to showers.
I like though that Kalmas found the weaker side of the map, at least for the time being,
already Vora moving back from spawn.
Fourth day.
Hundred thieves are gonna have bodies ready to intercept this.
Okeanos has no support behind him.
That's him all he's doing is taking down these hits.
He can't find it.
The rest of EG up through short.
Now dealt with as Supa collects on two.
Evil Geniuses still have a way in,
but the spike is pinched back in showers.
There's an operator on the line.
Now it isn't.
Evil Geniuses again have come through clutch
on this A site.
There we go, EG.
Another round.
And another moment where they are
willing to take the initiative to make the play
at the moment it needed to happen.
Spot a player towards showers with no way out.
Rip the waylale.
Send it.
The same time, players scaling faster and shorter.
It's great individual shots from Super and DG.
This one up
Sometimes hard to appreciate how
Impressive these fights are in the timings when you swing and cover your teammate back when you're going down these like split lanes on
Bind where it's like there's a crazy fight going on in showers that two players are trying to coordinate
Well, three players on short are also trying to get up trying to help them out. I
Think the super indigest in
really effective in their ability to sort of swing back into a line after they'd heard
some engagement going down in showers and cover their teammates.
And looking at this timeout now for 100 Thieves, I think one of the big keys is figuring out
how they can get Cryo back in the fight is last few rounds.
Eju had great plans of how to find his location and either full avoid it as they did in that
previous round or show great utility patterns to push him off and punish him before he can
become a problem. It was his off, so they'll hold excites, getting kills in the late rounds.
There's one of the big reasons they were losing in the first quarter of this game.
Yeah, I wonder if the idea could just be more immediate aggression or space taken.
A hundred thieves have done a lot of like these little trap setups, these one-two ideas,
and showers down on B long as well.
It might actually be a similar idea with a couple members hanging out, blocking away Huka.
Because that's been an area that evil geniuses have taken some liberties in the last couple of rounds.
So EG again, go exploratory towards B.
And a much more passive position from Cryo, set up in showers. Not wanting to take this off dual early.
I mean, the good work from EG to challenge him a couple of times has stopped him taking
the massive walk down that we saw a few times early on in the half, and each year actually
respecting it.
He could have had so much of that even this round.
Still, this puts him in the position now where he could be on a passive line like this, or
he could have reposted somewhere.
It'd be very thorough in the Utah you use and how you clear out this chamber.
Well, Evil Geniuses are going to have options to come back into Digizin if they want.
Dujizan's also gonna be looking to take timings on these players rotating from Huka.
Okay, unless they go for the quick flank, as it appears they will.
Oh my. Dujizan just missed the timing and so did 100 thieves.
They've crept in.
And EG, think their back is safe. It isn't!
Supa, somehow still alive and now the op is back on the line!
E.G., high-rolling in this round,
to Latino just barely escapes on the dash and at the same time,
you're in the back of sight.
What is going on?
We're down to 12 seconds again.
E.G. once more late into the round.
What can Cryo do?
He doesn't see a thing.
The span is too late and it's traded too.
Madness now is the pit, envelops the site.
Cryo once again into the thick of it.
The walls fall down, Bao spotted, and the Molly's a little bit delayed.
It's already a sink, the Molly's wide!
It's a mess, Bao back on the line, takes care of Madders himself.
Already to half.
He has to take this fight, but Bao is just better.
Evil Geniuses continue to build round after round, and Calm is letting them know.
the timings that that round was to find on though were razor thin. I think Austin it was maybe
like five degrees of rotation. They stamped an inch when connecting and telling.
Not to mention the fight down long B along B as well. Yes. The Molly missing so many things that
could have swung this round. Plumber dusted after that. Just like she drew it up. Yep.
Okay, well, if you wanted a moment to breathe, think again, Digi-Zinn!
Boosts up on the deep wall, sees over the smoke, and it's speeding out of EG!
Flitzing on down B-Wall, Masuna, the last man left.
He's done!
Builds a little fortress for himself, Masuna!
He's in the trenches!
He's seeing ghosts!
But he's made his way out of this one, groups up with Cryo, and while they're still down
numbers, there could be a pinch on this retake.
Now it's discovered.
You know, only the one, and the Spike has escaped.
Jibow has also taken a moment.
You thought it was hungry thieves in the trenches?
No, no, no, evil geniuses completely lost as Under Thieves close in and take the lead
at this half.
What an entertaining end to this game.
EG way too slow to begin, but they take their initiative,
find their way back in,
only for a final round to be stolen away.
Play on that.
Swimmest of margins there too for the opener.
And this is just rough for EG.
Three different players ping-ponging them
from different angles.
It's a competitive path though,
a very different story from map one.
We'll find out if EG stays alive,
or if 100Bs end it after this.
We've got two eSports endemic brands coming together
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We hope we can help BOSA become the top brand in the world.
And Vox is one of the founders.
but 100 thieves, they're the ones still feeling very comfortable here,
leading 1-0, already in the series to stay alive.
And their attack side on this map has been very good.
Simatino, in particular, this is one of his best maps on,
but it's clearly become his best agent in that first quarter,
and he was really finding reason alongside Cryo
that 100 thieves looked like they might just run away with Bind.
Free G.
On defense, a chance to stay alive as Ditch is in.
To be baited for in off the gun
Too much longer left on his teleport
It's a hold his line. He actually gets the first shot the bait comes in but ran out of the timing to leave there
Right on the other side of this smoke
Two players just waiting for someone to appear a flash turn from
Oh, that was in a great spot.
Now, it's ready for him.
And Com delivers on the other side as well.
Now, backed into a tough corner, still fighting out.
Is the bullets where are they?
Hell, he's come alive.
It doesn't make any sense.
Com is running circles around this poor man on site.
Oh, man, giving them the business.
He's making a mockery of this game.
Oh, my.
We've seen shots on the initial fight towards the long,
But on site, it's the movement that defines it.
So I said shut off to one and I'm gonna just stay off and full defend.
I thought it was gonna be Bal the big player in that round.
Talking at a great angle remaining.
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to their tournament lives.
Yeah, 100 thieves can bounce back into this round
to play for early orbs.
That'll be the small little wins for them on this anti-eco.
Talk to you about the different things
that 100 thieves are going to end up
doing when they actually send Timotino into the sites,
because it is a little bit less common to see a sky backing
up a wayway.
Obviously, sky has been popular on this map for many years,
even when nerfs came in.
but not a whole lot of teams are still running at these days.
He'll see a lot less rounds where there's someone
to actually follow Team Latino up on his dive insight.
Instead, more often than not, he'll either
be dashing into some kind of safe position
where he can talk and then fight out,
or he's playing much closer to his team
and dashing much later as his team is already scaling through,
and only then using the Saturite.
He'll see a lot less of those straight up double bashed
Saturite pullback rounds that you will
compared to double duelist teams.
Cause your teammates can't actually catch up to you with just one bullet.
Yeah, normally you'd have like a Yoru or something who could TP in and have very good spacing.
It means he has to be very in tune with if his teammates have gotten out of a choke.
Yeah, a little bit more pressure on the rookie to deliver in those moments.
I think Hunter Thieves have done well now to... okay.
Good Molly.
Well, anyone that wanted to play up there will not.
This is still scary, that Molly is going to buy a lot of time if EG do not go quick.
Bang has a snake bite too.
A guy.
Evil geniuses were plagued by waiting way too long previously.
Lucky for them, I think they should have the half stick.
Might even have the full stick through this.
And uh yeah, there we go.
All the way.
The Molly missed.
And win.
You can understand why we're nervous though, right?
Yeah.
No, literally if that Molly hits, there's no full stick.
Yeah. In time. Luckily, it did.
So, I'll throw the Dems well.
You do love to play the closer rounds of the battles.
I do.
I don't know if they would love it themselves, but
certainly it's popping quite a bit.
Yeah, there you see that Molly popping.
Oh, no, it didn't!
Yeah, it was just too late.
It was a little too late, yeah.
Those pinstone mollies take no to land.
Yeah.
And that's Simatino dad with a solo duelist comp, it's so hard to go into an execute now.
And if you're EG you crunch back, you don't give away a fight early.
It's a great position to be in.
So what it comes down to for under thieves is playing the map, letting your solo players
go, create pressure points on the map.
One fewer defender means way less information.
That means more doubt for evil geniuses.
As Bao steps up.
Huskas is falling down right.
It'll be good for the one.
Tom also just not anticipating that Cryo can be so far out of showers either.
So I'm gonna Thieves even without the duelist, navigate nicely off of a couple of good shots.
I mean, at the end of the day, Evil Genius is without rocking a sentinel in their comp for permanent information, you do sometimes have to take those lines if you want to play with any knowledge of what's going on on the map, and I'm sure a hundred teams are going to bite you.
So under these convert their bonus some big things coming online. TGC with a great start
Has already gotten himself a dimensional drift
And it's fight was just great from him get the headshot onto T. Matino which I just caught on that teepee
See my pink gesture. I could have had to yeah
Tough because that could have been the difference there
You also see who's going to have to be, when rounds go wrong for a hundred thieves, and that's Cryo.
He gets a lot of agency playing this chamber.
Interesting round for Evil Geniuses. Digi's then got his ultimate online so early into the half.
Right now, a little 1-2 setup on Huka.
With the forward line, they've actually got on showers too, from Okie.
I mean, EG had the option to commit into the stack on B instead, Dijizen took his teleport timing back over to the A side.
They will just stand off towards showers. How do they put a fair bit of pressure towards B?
But this hasn't drawn rotation, Zoki.
Oh no, I think I saw a foot, doesn't matter. Ok, Honest just lays him out.
Alright.
So now it's gonna be the B hit. Flash dodged away from Teutino, snaps on back, tries to set up on DeKalb, but again, no utility combo found.
Installed out now, it's a couple of flashes too. The punks these players right when they show their faces.
Don't really know where they're supposed to go.
I think they want to pivot, but that requires Cryo getting this kill short.
Yeah, there's a fight on short cryo clearing every angle
But oh he's up on the offline taken out and now the teleports come in
But keep your eyes on this dimensional drift tracking the players the back line setting up for bow
Low on the clock. Digit and already farms to in the back line
How much more can he do sent out on his own
He's just bait all the rest of his team a little bit further behind calm for two
gets the job done
The 2-1, 2-1, just like that.
Calm standing up again.
Just going through the emote wheel.
First one didn't get a reaction, so he goes to the next one.
Yeah, keep spamming him.
I don't know if he's not playing that game.
The info that TG got here with this dimensional drift was huge.
Put so much pressure on Hunter Thieves to pinch in and...
Perfect line up at the end.
That's the game tie again.
Now for the first time in a long time, 100 thieves don't have anything in their bank accounts.
One for the save. Actually it's interesting, they do have some money, could have gone for some amount of a vine,
instead choosing to really keep it light on this one.
Build up for a few rounds in a row.
People geniuses run this little set piece nightfall into teleport more economy open, but okie doesn't hang around oh
Dear out of showers bio shuts it out okie on us survives
on a sliver of HP
Instantly back in looking for this planter takes him out fight down a this is dying act
To steege you want to try to
from a brief ceasefire to end with Dujizin stepping in.
Now here are Dujizins, backed away into lamps, Bang will fall.
And the new IGL left isolated, versus three members who all live to tell the tale.
Ichi have done a great job of holding on to their extremely players throughout this game.
Whenever Hundred Thieves is going into these light pivots, it seems like there's always someone who is locking towards showers
or had kept some pressure in elbow or towards octagon on feet.
That's been so much trouble.
Here's that rotator coming in of Okionos.
He manages to make the play, stall it out in time for his teammates to hold on.
And I think because of that proactivity, 4G, we've seen Cryo's trouble to find some real
consistency on the lurks.
I think he's gotten a lot of later round kills, but it's not often until that late round
where he's actually getting postured forward into this space.
Making it short right now, Cryo, you put your eyes on him, but he could be in trouble teleport
away, and the teleport on the other side shoots Tevitino straight in the back of the dome.
That waits, lines it up, and again, gets his two!
It's all heads for evil geniuses!
They have fully arrived!
10-8, this half is out of control now, EG!
Looking so good, and in the last two rounds, it's these proactive plays with the way life.
Okay, on us going in through the teeth and getting a pic there and as he draws back in it
Some friendly advice over a hundred thieves
See if they can avoid peeking him, but
At this point hundred thieves seem to have no answers and attack off for cryo
patrolling
perimeter of showers
Which is in steps in and takes him clean out.
No witnesses.
Why is this confidence game on this?
Oh my god!
You need to see!
Who is this man?
Sapping the soul out from 100 thieves.
I think you got nothing left in the tank.
Timotino's your guy.
Cryo's the next one.
100 thieves left without either.
How many rounds in a row have Evil Geniuses now had a player get one kill, get taken down
onto 10, 20, 30 HP and then still get another?
It was Okeanos in the last round.
It's truly outrageous.
So confident, so aggressive for EG.
yet with the numbers calm not over eager falls back buddies up into elbow give
hundred thieves the plant still a tough situation for hundred thieves to navigate
but three huge alts it's all but guarantee this round if they need them
okay I was just diving in to scout this out close corners being covered another
their scouting mission, the ult to ult, raining down on B.
Vora backed into the corner with nothing left to say.
And Bang isn't long for this world either.
Evil geniuses have ignited this building.
Make no mistake, that run was DG's in from beginning to end.
Straight up challenges into cryo.
In a fight he's not favored.
watch it again and he just goes straight to the other side and Rex Simatino as
well a little bit over use of old but we'll take it yeah used all three and I
don't think any of them the message consider it delivered
To 100 fevs, there will be no corner.
Urgent times though, for 100 fevs.
NDS, slams the time out.
Okay, if you were to list the problems in order of priority.
Z, G, Z would be my top three.
I see.
Is there a fourth problem or is that just,
you have to deal with that or nothing else matters?
I think that's number one right now.
The guys 24 and 11.
Good Lord.
I would not mind seeing them simplify a little bit and just try and show us a couple legs at rounds
I think team Latino is really good when they can go for that stuff
And right now where somebody's rounds are going wrong is getting kicked off early by these eg aggro plays
I mean, I do think look they're one off of both a waylay and a broomstone
Well, those are really effective if you want to run the hard execs
I'm a little worried at their ability to find success running a quicker hit though
When they don't have those ultimate's online or how well the anchors have been playing out of each
They've certainly been on point thus far this game.
I think if they do go for execs, they have to be splits.
Princess Rate, like you have to hold on to showers control.
It makes it so much harder for A anchors to work when you lose that space and they're
just trapped behind smokes.
100-EVs have their eyes set on showers.
With Crye and Timotino actually joining forces here to do what Digizin if he was here.
That was the problem.
They were fighting on their own.
Surely, two guys can take down the one.
It's the way, Layall.
Okay, and for Team Latino.
Top of Craft is the Warp, they also leave Cryo in showers.
Well, it's hit by the Prowler.
And this 1v1...
...it's been a problem.
All five Flares, one shot to this outlaw from DG's end.
And he's waiting patiently.
Some pressure on his left ear needs the support of his teammates.
We can lock down this angle.
One bullet left.
Now he is fully lit up.
Cryo gets the first 100 thieves who made great work here, but keep your eyes on Okeanos all
the way down short, and now the shotgun doesn't do the job.
Okeanos, still a problem with Thorn in the back of 100 thieves.
They're so timid, Vora, finally! Deals with him!
And now an ult in the post plant. Supa. A one on three.
But the Viper's Pit, it isolates these three members out of a hundred thieves.
Supamen still worried about Cryo lurking into showers.
Hell's hundred thieves, exactly where he's coming from.
You can see the hope start to dwindle for Supa.
He's got to mask the spike and shot straight in the back of the head.
100 Thieves aren't out of it just yet.
Something back for 100 Thieves.
When the fight toward showers, get the way lay out and send a very nice execute.
It was again a moment from disaster with that climb from Okinawans.
The timings they took on this XQ were so nice.
And talk about how they were able to isolate Dipszak and take it slow and pinch back into that play.
Yes.
Making it so hard for him to play.
You can't just take the fight set on.
They can work for it.
But now showers will be more difficult to take. Dipszak here with the operator.
And stepping out onto the wide line.
Wall falls.
Dog dips bottom, I believe. Ready for it, doesn't matter!
And he's away, Okiana's trying to get away from the burning, and he makes it through!
Evil geniuses pulling off the impossible.
Hundred thieves, routed.
Now stuck in this husk of an A site.
But they're fixed. Players in CT, players in showers, they have to pick a fight and win it.
And Team Athena's alone.
He chooses to take matters into his own hands.
What can the rookie give us?
Absolute zilch!
Bangin' us and now...
Push back even further.
They're ready for these fights, but again, evil geniuses are just dominating them in every single exchange.
Whether it's in the game or on the stage, evil geniuses are backing up the talk.
And take themselves to game point.
Such a great pinch for Ichi.
And so many moments, it looks so improbable there.
Okay, I'm just barely dashing out of the brimstone ultimate.
Watch this again.
The opener for Ted's shot, too.
Come on.
New viewers there.
And then escaping this ultimate by hair, getting a pick,
only for DG to cause more problems.
Timmy, Timmy, you bad, bad boy.
I'm rageous.
Absolute madman.
Okeanos has been talking since the get go.
And now fast play.
Straight on through that smoke.
Clio though gets the first kill.
EG are still moving forward.
This is a little bit loose.
Having a little bit too much fun with it.
Now 5 on 3.
Practically no info, 400 thieves.
And Krai is still alone.
Okie heard that gun get grabbed.
The only information that matters is that
Digizen is still alive.
Teleports red. Brief exchange.
Doesn't result in much.
And this flank is coming.
A triple finder, but it's still containment.
Well, they've spotted Digizen.
I'm just going to just have a minute left.
minute left they don't want to go into the up and so they head straight towards
super those shots got to be better to pull evil geniuses back into this round
let's give it a hundred thieves a path back into the A site which they choose
not to take fakes on fakes now as they move back into a B site EG of already
abandoned but this sets EG up for a retake with two players with no utile
And it all pins each he's hands. No, they evil geniuses needed a pick or two before this spike went down to stand a chance
There's just no way into it for him
Each you try something hyper aggressive go for a full pinch and it's cryo the man to worm hundred these out of it
holding towards
The side of the map and just getting that perfect dead shot as the push came in
And yet, for 100 thieves, they're going to win this round.
Yeah.
They're like, OK, we can't necessarily
replicate that because evil geniuses aren't just
going to run at us crazily again.
Yeah, very true.
So they're still trying to find yet another answer
as they wait for the spike to collapse on itself.
And even though they lost the fight, it was the right read.
That was going to be a B exact, 400 thieves.
Still some life left here, 400 thieves now trailing by just two.
So much situation that evil geniuses found themselves in back on Haven.
EG couldn't explain us the promised OT.
Maybe if Friar keeps shooting like that, 100 thieves could.
That was another moment.
The only way back in for EG was super finding something there.
But now a timeout getting called from the side of Evil Geniuses.
I don't know how important this is to close out.
The opseal in the hands of DJ Zinn.
And I don't think they have to change the tone.
I think DJ Zinn literally just existing, taking the same fights he has been in showers,
is doing so much because even 100 thieves can get that space.
He is extracting so many resources from them.
The interesting thing I think for EG is the Potter's coaching style when she calls a timeout like this is so often to get very clear breakdown.
This is how we win this round. You have other coaches that are going to be a lot about judging styles and having a read deeper into the game.
Sherrod Hotter always comes in with a very distinct plan. And when you're on that point, when you just need one round, that is exactly what you want to have out of your coach.
You better believe that evil geniuses are going to have the initial idea, they're going
to have multiple different answers to what 100 thieves are going to show them in these
first 10 seconds.
So now round 23 is, this battle between two FPS legends, did Potter or NDS come up with
a better read, a better round in that timeout?
The call from EG.
Okianos, outside showers, maybe ideas to crunch through this teleporter if the fight
were to come there instead just geared up with this up in a little gap to play with a micro element
you remember just in back on the attack side took a similar idea on this to get the opening pick
the final round of the half
this time no one stepping into his field division
and dg backs away yeah i think hundred thieves knew
That's some kind of an idea now using the prowler.
No operators seen just yet or at all. As a matter of fact.
Here.
So long controlled, but Digi here when that orb drops, he could still be a problem.
100 thieves used it to cross to the other side.
If Timotino drops, 100 thieves have no clear way into the site.
Shot doesn't connect, just in, pushed back, and with the high jump out of Timmy, that'll
be the opener for Hunter Thief.
Still a battle left in the smoke.
Dominant!
For two!
A quick collapse at Okinawans, instantly staffing back towards the A side.
It's only calm on B.
This plant's coming down.
Inobo, isolated, he's calm, and they're pushing him.
And a one on two.
He waits and is taken clean out.
Matino on with three already and evil geniuses made plenty of noise that's
four waiting through the ace no chance now the double swing to come through and
100 thieves will bring this to the limit humongous around from 100 these
rookie duelists and you talk so much about the pressure on him as a soul
duelist to find those openers brilliant work and the approach there was perfect
The patience to wait up the smoke all along.
Don't give DG that chance.
Cross with the orb.
Use the sky flash and the dash.
They gave no grounds to the operator.
Gave no easy shot to DG's in.
And as soon as he was dead, DG's job
became so much harder.
One more round.
Back to showers for DG's in.
Kill for him also means that Dimension
Cryo on the other side, Cryo delivers.
He is heated up at the end of this half.
And now Okiyono's stuck, has to pick a fight.
The pinch to come in, Okiyono's trying to run away, barely,
makes it through.
Eiji have divided themselves.
Val finds himself alone as the Seekers.
He'll be exactly where he's waiting.
A fight to backside.
Okiyono's back in.
See nothing else left in the tank.
Hunderthief still divided, but still dominant.
Cryo lights up the kill feed for another, and we are heading to OG.
Supa's already made his noise, already made his position known.
And Cryo, the man to end it, monstrous.
This game had been defined by DG's, and he had been outrageous.
It brought DG back 27 kills for him.
But in the most important two rounds, it's Cryo stepping up, bringing his scene to overtime,
winning this off-battle.
This was the game.
So many times in this match, we'd seen Tujizan on the better end of those fights over showers.
But now with Cryo heating up.
He was out here!
Cryo looking real good with 100thies advancing into overtime.
that for evil geniuses a loss here is the end of kickoff they were in the
driver's seat this was their game to take now have to navigate overtime and
it's cry again poster forward trip and now falls back to a new angle
interesting neither of our star operas have gone for the hero off you know T
Sticking to the rifles and armor for now.
Skyflash just cleared towards B.
So 100thies, stack an extra player back into A as EG. Go and investigate that area.
Remember EG, love to take their time on attack.
And they don't leave an in bed, despite having showers control.
So many rounds on their attack came down to just 20 seconds or less on the clock.
the clock. The position underneath Huka could be devastating for EG if they commit forward.
And already some early rotations from Timotino. He's a band today looking to reinforce here
at exactly the right time. Okiyama says a shorty ready. 30 seconds left. EG are quiet
And it's gonna come down to a gamble on the eggs that come through the box.
What is that?
And yet Austin still lights him up, puts Supina 1 on 2.
With 20 seconds left, he's looking to fight forward, looking to try and find a kill.
But there's nothing for him yet.
It's given him less time to play with, less doubt as to his location.
And all he's thinking about is the flank his back, his left, his front.
The shots are there on the first, but not the second again.
Clio comes up clutch.
And while EG improved their calling, had a much better attack side on this
find than the last.
Here, all the issues rear their head.
They took showers control.
But the third place picked the perfect time to be clear.
Realize that this has to be a B finish and get the pivotal players in position.
Despite all of that, he's won.
Did you see that shot on the head?
It just wouldn't have happened without Asuna.
He hits that incredible 2K.
Vuhre does the same.
And now they're one away from closing out.
Evil geniuses, their backs against the wall.
And so with these seconds left, we're
going to rip the time out.
A little bit of time to catch our breath here.
Second chance for Potter.
The last time she called the timeout, she could not end the game there.
And that's the thing, last time she was calling the timeout, she needed to win one round to just call the game over.
Now she has to win this round to stay alive.
A much different position for the coach.
And DG, unlike the offer on the other side, looks to be considering getting that weapon in his hands.
Seeing it as a win condition for DG.
I mean, I think that's valid to say.
He was still actually very sharp with the rifles in this one,
but now that Cryo started to heat up,
especially without Cryo taking the gamble
and going for the glass hop himself,
I think that you have to favor Jutj's in in those fights.
Is there one you want if he's going for the glass?
Yeah, he has really been on point this game.
And this is a chance to show that round 24,
losing that head-to-head against Cryo will not define this game,
Well, not to find their kickoff.
EG is a team that has had trouble closing.
That's been their narrative for so long.
And it's been true this year as well.
Apps that should have been theirs already.
You can start to reflect on them slipping away.
On the near misses as well.
Well, if you wanted a little bit more suspense here before we...
the penalty round. We're experiencing a brief delay up there on the stage to the teams.
They take a little bit more time to get themselves geared up and head into what could be a tournament
defining round for Evil Geniuses. Not worth it. We should be heading in here in just a moment now.
For those players on Evil Geniuses' side,
new kids, players getting second chances, veterans with the org for a while, this is a big moment
for them. A lot of teams make decisions in the break between kickoff and stage one, staying
alive here. It's an absolute necessity for EG.
And DGZ, he wants to be the man.
I've actually never seen him take the AWP this far up a short before. A new idea, even
past regulation for EG.
You can't hundred these, this is suspicious.
A slow start.
But he's arrived towards long.
I like this reposition.
GG have a forward line out of showers Tuesday.
Pretty well informed.
It'll be heavier outside to be.
Okianos is sticking around, he's walking forwards.
How patient can Bang be?
Bang has to patrol two different angles.
Spot him.
Okianos looking for it up over on the mound at the top.
That'll be the first strike for Evil Geniuses.
Now up in numbers with two players.
Wait, Okianos is sticking on the line?
I thought he was running away.
He was waiting for the wall to be drawn up
so he could just barely make it through.
So it's steadies for a moment.
Egypt retreating to Saivettino Latino.
Ditches in also.
Peppered by Cryo down B.
It's just bow here. Time is low though.
Already put down the volley, two delay.
Quick teleports on the beat.
Calm and Supa, ready to receive.
We are down under 10 seconds.
Supa holds the line and continues.
Is there time to get the spike?
They can't actually get to play at the spike.
There's no time.
Vora can't play the round.
We go again!
A second away at the end.
And a last second decision with the finds.
And Okimono took such a huge risk.
He gets clipped on the roof trying to dash over him.
Ridiculous.
But it pays off.
Gets away.
Look at him, he's playing for stats!
Guys, you're playing to stay alive in the tournament.
You got bigger fish to fry.
Evil geniuses giving themselves another chance here and actually Mimi it's Cryo's turn with the glass up and he's going aggro.
Fines digits in and deletes him.
He had never played that angle before. Succeeds in overtime.
Always having new ideas. What? What?
Just looks magnetic.
Under thieves.
Quick toggle on.
But Okie...
IN THE CHILAMPS!
Jeep CG in this.
The op is reposted.
Up into heaven.
Evil geniuses still have plenty of time to work on.
But what they don't have is smokes.
And they saw a bangle.
Things they cannot cross.
Oh awesome.
Challenging.
Pushes Okie back for just a moment.
100 thieves are waiting for the flank to activate.
Bang has been moving back in straight into these two members of EG
Distraction leaky havoc on site here is bang this round is all hundred thieves
Great work by a hundred thieves and really by cryo not showing the operator in the first line of overtime and then taking a
risk so similar to what you saw from
DG, in the run that he picked up the AWP. These two going bar for bar in this game.
And now a second chance for 100 beach to close out.
When so much weight is resting on Cryo and Dijizen, there's also this element of mind games of where they're actually going to post up, how are they going to change it.
When it comes down to the 1 on 1, even Diju's in choosing to actually discard the operator.
This time on defense, it's another element EG must consider.
Hundred thieves, no way to say any time.
Cometino, low retreat for the time being, as Okianus is out in the middle of nowhere!
Evil geniuses have no control over this A site!
Already down to man!
Vow continues to challenge.
I found the Molly in the corner, some utility exchanged, there's no smoking mirrors in this round, both teams know exactly where the other is.
It's a question of how willing 100 Thieves will be to commit this fight to the ground and Zuba now found a teammate back side, Zuba likes them up,
sneaks away into Lames and that's the spike out in the open. Another? No way, absolutely no way.
Calm on the flank, did they see her?
For your tournament, calm, they have escaped.
And calm takes the time, and calm is out!
100 thieves advance!
By a hair's edge, 13-11 Haven, 15-13 on binds.
An absolute slug vest between Cryo and Digizin ends with the Thieves making that one step forward to their chance at revenge.
For EG, the story continues. Always the team that is around or to away. It is so close to that win they desire, but today it's about 100 Thieves.
And you talk about the heroes of this match,
you gotta talk about the clutchness
in those last few rounds.
Specifically, Tino on the entries
at the end of regulation,
Clio stepping up and dominating in the off one on ones.
So it was, thieves definitely remain a force to be reckoned
with here in the lower bracket,
winning yet another incredibly close series.
For me, I'm looking at them as a V team right now
in the lower bracket to fear.
I wonder how this EG game will change those expectations.
I think a lot closer than people may have expected.
I don't know, Mab1 10-2 to start nearly slips away.
It glows out today.
If the win, it's a tough road, qualifying
through the lower bracket, having to run it all the way
with no chances left.
They're going to have a busy week next week
if they want to make it the whole way on through.
Also, we forgot how influential Jimmit Tito on the Bucky was at the start of this game.
Crazy.
This match started off with him, pistol winning the bonus.
A hundred things don't go on that streak.
They don't have a chance.
Both maps, really.
It started with a bonus round win with a huge streak around for a hundred thieves.
For EG, you have to think ahead.
What will they be when they return for stage one?
Is this close enough?
Does this monster stand?
Or is there a next step?
That's a long way away.
Two tough months of watching at home.
The biggest thing to me is just seeing how excellent
Dijizen has been up there with the EG jersey on.
For sure.
That it's gotten a couple different second chances here
in VCT.
He has been a true think the star of EG through this run.
Certainly.
So good in everyone in their games.
For a plus 33 in the last one, even in the loss today,
a kill off of a 30 bomb here on Bind.
It's been truly impressive from that Brazilian player looking again at 100 fees.
I think we're really seeing not just these stars and cryo and T Martino continue to get formed,
but also in terms of the way that they want to play by more so than anyone else,
more veto than anyone else. They're defining their own style, but it's been so specific.
Yeah, I mean, both these teams have sort of their own style as well.
Even coming into their very first match, Bao was the one to pioneer the veto
here on the America stage but ultimately we will be bidding a due to evil geniuses
for the time being that we back in stage one to see if they can continue
performing these very close series you can get over the final hurdle this time
close but no cigar has been the story of the tournament so far people
really has and really for for each use a hole that has been what has gone after
them but for now let's send it down to golden boys got a very special guest on
on your stage, Ben for the Verizon Post match interview.
Thank you so much for that, Mimi and Ender.
Yes, we got Ben from 100 Thieves' Folds.
Give it up for Ben, if you don't mind.
What's the pepper in those cheers?
That's what's up, Ben.
Congratulations, my man.
Big win for you guys here staying alive in this tournament.
I spoke to Coach Doombrows earlier,
and I asked him if he felt like you guys are showing
the most creativity in the VCT right now.
And I think it's safe to say that you guys are.
What is the difference there?
What makes this 100 Thieves team so good right now
that it allows you guys to be able to be so creative
in these big pivotal matches?
I feel like what makes us so creative is just,
we have so many players and coaches with different ideas,
and we just find ways to get, incorporate all of them
in their own way that makes it work for our team, basically.
So I feel like every day in practice,
everyone brings up something that's really important
in server time, we bring it to the actual practice
into streams and it works out.
And honestly, it's just a great feeling
whenever that's going like that happens.
Who was leading that for you guys?
Honestly, that's like I said, I feel like any one of us can say something and it could be eventually in in our game
Yeah, it could be added to our arsenal. You know well in that regard too though
I do kind of want to ask you about coach doobro's because you know
He's coming into this one lots of experience from the EMEA region coach MBS as well
Is that also played a big factor in this because I feel like they're bringing some of those European sensibilities to 100
Yeah, absolutely. I want to be honest like a lot of the things that they say like
Strategically or not what we're used to but something that we're always open to yeah
Like when it comes to comps and stuff like that, some of us are like even laughing at what some of the ideas that they have when it comes to composition.
And then we do it and it works out like, oh, I guess it's good.
Yeah, which is absolutely incredible. So I guess in that regard, right, we do feel like this is the best that we've seen 100 Thieves.
The form looks absolutely immaculate.
Is there more left to give for this 100 Thieves team?
Because I think right now we've been really treated to some great gameplay from you guys.
I definitely think there's more left. I don't think we're satisfied where we're at.
Obviously, we're in the lower bracket.
We have to beat NRG, NRBR in order
to actually make it to Santiago.
So I feel like once we get past that hurdle,
I feel like I'm going to be a lot more proud of us as a team.
All right, what do you guys think?
Hunter Thieves got more left in the 10 guys.
What do you think?
Oh.
I think they, wait a minute, come on, make some noise.
Thanks to that guy right there.
He's into it.
All right, folks, that's going to do it for us here.
But coming up next, we got the run back.
It's C9 versus Levita and you don't want to miss it.
We'll see you on the other side.
I generally think C9 can be one of the best teams whenever they're like locked in.
This is gonna be my opinion, a really fun match.
I think the Lev is a strong team, especially with their new kid, Neon. I think he brings a lot of energy for them.
You know, there's a lot of hype and people saying he's like the future and stuff.
Last time we played them without him, so I just want to feel, I guess, his presence in the server.
Now, I'll set those water back away for the shot!
That's brutal!
Nyan being an extractor will really make the game entertaining.
The sauce is a very good high-gl overall.
They have oxygen that I always thought is very good.
I have Sato, I have Nyan.
My sauce is insane, the sauce is insane.
It's just gonna be like a clash of titans, you know?
Welcome back to VCT America's kick off and our second elimination match between Cloud
9 and Leviathan is about to go down on our stage as we are joined by Emily and Dan.
But first, before we dig into this one, we have to talk about what just happened.
What a heartbreaker.
They played it so, so close.
EG was so animated.
They were out of their seats.
out of their seats, they were this close to push up map 3.
It was insanely close.
I feel like it could have gone either way.
I mean, it was map 1.
We already had a T-SERV that was going to go down and then not over time, you know.
Yeah, I really thought we were going to get a map 3, especially when Hunter Thieves were
struggling to kind of find success on that second half.
EG did a really good job at punishing whatever they were doing on the attack side.
And I'm glad I'm happy for Hunter Thieves for getting that 2-0, but a third map would
have been sick.
It would have been.
Unfortunately, that's not what we're going to get.
So we have to say goodbye to EG and Hunter Thief,
so keeping themselves alive in our lower bracket.
Now, this next one is going to be a rematch, actually,
from Kickoff as well, Cloud9.
One that won 2-0 the first time.
Historically, this is also just kind of left-matched
to lose their 7-1 all-time.
Alas, of course, the rosters have changed quite drastically.
There has been massive changes from that match.
They had week one.
But also, historically, it's honestly pretty impressive
that cloud nine has this kind of store up score against love because love has
always been one of the best things that we've had in America even if they're not
winning those trophies they're always coming very very close but that comes
from that cloud nine that we always know are great in the group stages now what
is elimination when the pressure is a little on I feel like love with this
version with this roster with me and you know should tell a different story yeah
I mean what's kickoff without a bunch of subs and changes moving around a lot of
moving pieces here.
Yeah, and this remand specifically,
it was kind of funny to me because when we saw C9 and Love
first go at it, it was like C9 threw Demon 1 in the pool.
You know what?
You have to face Demon 1.
Now it's reversed.
You threw Demon 1 at us, now we're bringing a neon.
So it's just like a whole new opponent for them.
Now, Oxi, of course, is back in the mix for 5'9".
However, we saw him on that central Penny playing that duelist.
Do you think this is just a new direction for them?
Is there something, are we going to see a repeat of that?
I think so.
I honestly really liked seeing Penny on that first duelist.
I think it was very natural for him.
And seeing Offsy kind of shift towards playing Chamber and Vito,
right, these sentinels that you can still be super aggressive on,
he looked really good.
And when we look at the changes that Clap 9 made
all the way back in the offseason,
the biggest one to talk about was Penny.
But it was because we know this player
for being incredible on the duelist role.
We didn't know exactly what he was going to be playing,
but this is something that makes sense.
depending on the duelist and the possibility of them burning the Double Duelist that has never really been a characteristic for Club 9,
but now they can add an extra layer that they need.
Yeah, it's a new look for sure, but I don't think it's risky in any way.
I think I'm more focused on how fast they can kind of bring a game plan around these comps, right?
Because we saw them playing a little bit looser when they had that sub,
but they overall still had a game plan going into every single map,
and I think if they're able to kind of quickly adapt to that to these new comps, they'll still be really good.
Also, even though they had to deal with changes, some, of course, they couldn't really plan
ahead with, with Oxy having to leave the roster a little bit.
There are individuals on the team that just have been very consistent.
Zepa is the guy I'm talking about.
From a week one till now, he's been performing really well consistently, and Golden Boy actually
had an opportunity to catch up with him ahead of today's match.
Hey, what's going on, everyone?
Here with the man himself, Zepa.
Look, last time you guys faced Leviadonna was a 2-0 victory for you all, and you, in particular,
plus 21, an absolutely massive performance, but this time around, Neon is on the team
and I'm sure you've seen his impact. How do you stop a player like that from taking control
of the game?
I feel like a player in that caliber, you can't really stop, but you can slow him down and
that's what we're going to do and try to do. We know we got Axe back, so the power of
nepotism is our full strength, so there's that.
Of course, man. Hey, brother, always a pleasure to talk to you. Best of luck in the matchup.
Back to you.
I just love that netbook power.
What can you say?
Well, let's see what happens to
Star for us today.
They will be going up against
Leviathan, a team that has gained
quite a momentum in that lower
bracket, of course,
with their recent performances.
This is my favorite team going
into kickoff.
And I feel like it was a lot of
people's favorite team,
but that was what the addition
of Neon that we're seeing right
now.
The impact that this young
duelist has is incredible.
And we got to see yesterday,
in moments under pressure,
In moments where you don't know what weight the round is going to go,
in moments where it seemed like something else had some momentum when things were getting closed,
it was always this left squad with little experience,
with this new duelist that they added too much as they go,
adding so much and being able to close it out when they needed it.
Yeah, I really feel like since they brought Neon back in,
they were kind of able to go back to their roots of what we saw before, right?
You know, when they had that sub, they were playing off roles,
they weren't really going into maps with their game plan, having set protocols,
but we really got to see it come to life
and every player looked comfortable in that.
They were, they're the team that I look at them
and they are the most comfortable in chaos.
Thinking even about the off season
when teams were just making changes,
left was the first team that already had everything.
They had a lot of time to prepare,
they had a lot of time to figure out
how those roles were going to look like,
what those agents were going to look like.
So that's why you see that level of comfort
even if they just added neon.
Yeah, and I mean, that's what they were committed to, right?
And they said it early on as well,
like they're aware that they will be shaky early on,
but once Neon is in, there will be a okay.
And that's literally what happened.
So now we see the roster at its full strength
in its entirety.
Now, King had another solid performance as well
in the win over Sentinels just yesterday.
That's our ideal.
Incredible, incredible.
He does it all.
He does the ideal.
He does the kills as well.
I feel like every single time that the team
is in a tough situation, either he's making great calls
play around the map when you know in running and making the other team a
little bit desperate when you're putting these slow attack rounds or he's the
one closing it out with the kills with the ultimate he's so smart such a smart
player yeah I feel like a big talking point for King specifically and his
calling is that they do tend to play really slow on that attack but I
honestly really like it I think he has really good pre-round calls to get those
first opening picks and I think slowing down allowing the team to make the next
move and just have a reaction off that is really overlooked as a kind of a IGL
style. Yeah. It's also kind of the playbook of their coach, right?
He loves to play it slow. Yeah, exactly. And it works for them.
So even though it's kind of a hard watch sometimes, you know, having to wait out
that box. Well, having to wait out a full minute and 40 for them to get the same
result as if they were to kind of just run it down sometimes, it's smart.
I like it. Yeah. Keeping those explosive young players in check as well.
I was making them slow it down. I saw it as a lot of work for king in that scenario.
And those young players really have that, they're giving that zoomer energy, right?
like they love to play aggressive and this team also has everything to play
for because a lot of masters for Leviathan that would mean so much to all
of them. In America's we only have two Latin American teams crew that got
eliminated having to play with a sub roster in Leviathan and now they are
the potential representatives what it would mean for this team to make it is
just it cannot really be described especially with King the player who has
been part of the squad since the beginning even before they were Leviathan
when there were Astralis this Chilean player qualifying would mean
everything and I would love to see it. I would love to see it too and especially
today a victory would mean a lot to one specific player.
Hello everyone we're here with Sado. It's his birthday. Sado it's your birthday.
You have one wish and this candle is hanging on for dear life so what is it
gonna be? My wish for birthday? Yeah. Just get home with the wind. Get home with the wind. Blow that candle!
They're like a pro look at that didn't miss it all means he's not going to miss him to serve her best of luck today
Fist bump there, and I'm gonna eat this entire cake. Goodbye
Well, why does he get to yeah
That's not his works Alex it's not his works
Yeah, well I first that's after us will play for the victory on the server
And then we're gonna go out there and fight Alex for the cake
I and I he gets one day of interviews and he just hitting loose like that
or I didn't get cake when I didn't eat this.
It really makes you wonder.
It does, the questions need to be answered.
Also regarding those two genes,
what will we see from both Clyde9 and Liddy Efton?
Well, I'm already seeing a little whelay,
which Sato whelay, it's a classic.
I feel like Sato is up there when it comes to whelays
in America's or maybe even in the whole world, right?
I think he's such a self-sufficient whelay,
like he doesn't always need to seem to follow up.
He's really good at using his new tilt
the isolate fights just for himself.
And does the thing about this whole team,
you think about them individually
and how they're playing together,
when they're playing these slow rounds,
it's not their own a five stack,
waiting to hit the site,
they're all playing around the map.
And King is trusting that if it comes down
to a 1v1 duel,
if he comes to finding the opening,
anybody can get it and so does one of them
who gets it the most.
Yeah, I mean, when you have players at this capacity,
when it comes to just raw mechanics,
I would trust any one of them in a 1v1, right?
Even in a 1v2, go get your multi kills.
I mean, Sato, it was the top
performer yesterday, like,
without it, he definitely kept
leaving it on in that game.
Yeah, no, no, it was a lot of
him and those first skills that
he was getting, and then to
close it out, it was King.
And I was so curious to see
where the maps were going to
go, because that really shapes
it, if it's going to be as
close as our first match of
the day was or not.
Bind, Riz, and Abyss, I really
like this vine.
You really like the vine?
You're expecting some sick
whaley stuff coming out of
Sato?
Not only the whaley, but also
King, and the things that he
was doing yesterday, those
clutches.
business is not. Yeah and I feel like they are really good at getting those
first picks like I said and then kind of playing a little bit slow because on
this map you kind of have to push down to get more info so you can start
stacking towards sides we saw it just in this match before where Hunter Thieves
was kind of struggling on their gambles because they didn't have that info. This
is what we saw just yesterday when they were playing in Sentinels and they were
really good. No it's starting mainly on that defensive side where King was
closing and saving a lot of the rounds I want to see the momentum from the team
starting on and that is not really something that I'm worried about for
Lev. This is a team with very cool, calm and collected, even in moments under
pressure. This feels like a very not outdated comp, but definitely nothing new
here without O'Wayla. You know, going back to the race, going back to the chamber,
but why change things if they're working, especially for Penny on that race? He is
so good at that. Playing inside for an essay. When everything is on the line, both
of these teams are fighting for elimination or against elimination rather.
So let's send it over for our first pistol round to our casters. Here's Riff and
and silly. Thank you so much so in the desk we do get into our second
elimination match of the day and it is going to be kind of a reboot for both
teams a toss-up to see what's gonna happen I feel like it's gonna be a
scrappy one but we are definitely gonna get a good series. That's sure the sequel
of this matchup is definitely a little bit of a reboot in terms of role
changes you see Oxi coming back play a little bit of a second-year duelist now
meet even chamber going into certain maps now even left the return now of
neon into this roster. Remember the last time these two teams played against each other was a
whole different composition from Lev, but also you saw some insecurities and unfamiliarities in
terms of roles and positioning that the players played around the roster. But now as soon as
they got into a full five man for Levieton, they've been looking very good, especially with neon,
on this Yuru, on Vine. We're kicking these off and a piss around here on Breeze and it is going to
be a firefight for Levieton, looking for distance, long range distance, and potentially just
The gruesome battle wants to go for the execution because of the lack of utility
They're gonna use in this round lots of shares for across the board and this ghost of four kings
So they go for the maybe a fake and then a full pop towards the end
Let's see how much they tempt
Trying to just source information around the map oxy has the shorty for once he shows headhunter to just
Collapse on anybody that tries to get into it the u-haul area
And they'll go for a quick peek. So at least they know they got rendezvous off the rip
Quick one from Vic there, a nice peek out towards Long just for information, but they
got to come and confirm there, and they swing for the kill.
Now it's a rotate back over, his Lev is still creeping up towards A. Sure he's still available,
they're gonna know for a second, but the haunt gets Oxy caught out, and Lev now has control
of that front site, but they don't seem happy just yet, King.
He's gonna solidify that, and Lev, across the map here, are able to do work as C9 is
just looking for a way back in but it's not going to happen.
Tap of buys is looking so good within these pistol rounds,
especially you're playing against a team that or just in general against teams
that will have to buy you till the try to stall.
So you're playing hash shields, maybe no shield at all.
So that's two body shots, a kill.
Leviton use that to their advantage despite losing a player in the first place.
The rest of it looks very clean for the control into you all.
When you had that jiggle in the force tee tee out from oxy,
He already gave a little bit of a space for Levitan to move up, but all that was also
thanks to Spike-Zine's insert into Huka to get these picks off the Rotate.
So nice.
And really with that, like you said, low U-Till for the round, they have to use everything
they do have, accordingly.
Let's see how they pop into the second round here, Vik.
Only one able to really find one of the enemies on that round.
So they're just going for the full classic buy here.
real purchase into too much.
Oh, they're getting behind the smoke.
Full of a pop.
Always good for a few here if they can really get surprised and Lev knows what's going on.
Zell's just able to take down two so the damage sticks a little bit, but still three alive
are going to be half to here for Lev as they can play this one out pretty safe.
Give them some respect just to figure out where Penny could be at.
positions neon still watching that showers you're not creeping into be
yet you don't want to walk solo into the site but yeah that was an easy
punish from leviathan you tried to flash peek out but the flash was still
inside the brimstone smoke so once they flooded out
none of the players here from leviathan were really blinded in
you didn't really give yourself a chance here to do that to do that damage but
smart players for leviathan started to stick together move forward for this
plant while pinning still looking for a weapon in the end
Shot there from neon to clean it up on the outlaw, and it's not too bad
Lev control their first few rounds that have an answer for the bonus is the question
We'll have to see what C9 will do to
Really give them something to think about we've seen them going aggressive from the defensive side to do this
They did that second round will they do it again
Both these teams not necessarily against each other, but throughout this kickoff had had good results in their defensive signs
Responsibility a lot on to the snipes.
We've seen the C9 versus G2 game.
It was a lot about the Oxy versus BB Bay.
Lots of rounds were C9 loss where G2 were doing a lot of clutches as well.
You got to clean up that act a little bit better here to have a strong start on their first half.
But Neon has a excellent position until now.
He peaks a little bit too much so that gives his position away.
But with the jump spot, he does get a little bit.
He knows it's at least Oxy still playing on top of this A site.
They're weak towards B.
Very aggressive by Vic to go into Hookah, but oh, he's good for one if he can get that quick situation.
Loves to play aggressive on his opponents.
And right now, Lever just going to insert and keep walking around the map,
but looks like they may get Sato to do some kind of fake here in a little bit.
Actually, Lev thought that they were weak for C9 on that B-side.
Yeah.
Shorter swings out, half HP remaining.
Into the mid-round, that dog actually spots Neon into showers.
Big info.
And because he's so passive, I like this push from Cloud9, double it up, let them take that short space, it gives a chance for the players to rotate from the spawn
and to try to punish the Unishowers.
Secondary AXE tries to take the place and get the firefight in their favor as a quick trade comes on the front side of site, but still waiting to break that back side defense.
Okay, can he get the crown? He can not, Zalcis drops him right away and now it's the rotation over.
Again, front side-side is still there for Lev, but they have to figure out where the defense is coming from.
The timing is just there in favor of Cloud9 so well, but the shots for Neon are there if you can't say no.
Zepa takes him out. 2-1 now as the bonus round. Will not go in favor of the Lev.
And C9 has already identified these late lurks and inserts. Zepa gets the instant punish.
I think that was Santo trying to creep up into Hookah and he picks him off.
We were talking about that slow playstyle. Emily and Dan Dry were mentioning how the Evian Tunnel likes to play slow, call slow, because he liked to play his inserts.
Remember also their own game against Sentinels. Although they had an excellent defensive side, it was still a matchup that went into OT.
Because of how slow things were, you started identifying where these works could be.
King was also left in multiple occasions alone on an island while the rest of the team were just falling like dominoes on the execution.
execution. So the game plan, although it forces a lot of rotates, you also have to make sure
you keep bodies on set where you're able to enter. If not, that slow playstyle is going
to bite you in the ass.
Quick positioning just to get in. Only 20 seconds in the round and they're already going
to have an insert into Shower for Neon and they can work whatever they want across the
map. Quick search and that sees nothing. Again, with the insert already here, that could be
fallen into a bit of a trap, but it's safety with the way they beat you first.
That's one way of staying alive here when you're not playing like a whaler or a yoru,
paint shells to push the line, but he's walking down!
And that's a slight mistake to start. You're trying to find that information in the mid-round.
Now you're forcing potentially players to start
road-titting out to find some info.
You're trusting Al-Oxi, still the one in the A site, because you do have this trip on short zone,
it's never been activated within this round.
And that will confirm some bodies at that spot, but at the same time, Leviton did fall back, so they lost control of that showers.
So this early rotating gamble from C9 still works out for now.
30 seconds left.
Until Kim calls the audible.
Let's just gamble up into the short push.
And they've got the soft site.
If we saw this from Levin, their pass game two, wind that clock down and try to find the soft site, and they've got it again here towards A.
They're still going to have to deal with four members on the side of C9 once that spike is planted. Quick peek from both ends!
Omni President is cloud nine on the site. Take right off the bat.
And they find this now in a 3D4 situation. Make that two for the side of left.
He still has a line out to work with though, so it's blows that has to play hero in U-Haul.
Getting one will be perfect.
Peek it down, Oxy.
On that lower angle, there were just too many for blows to look at here as King
may try to get one or two if they swing him, but he's got to be cautious.
Oh, Celsus is just going to swing it outright to let them know if he's there.
The correct choice to defuse comes through in a second round here for Cloud9 as they keep four alive there.
That's why it's smart for King to not throw that Molly despite it looking like an impossible scenario.
He just wants to try to find a surprise attack, and maybe chance is going to start.
But this is what we're talking about, why it's so important for C9 to re-clear towards that showers and hold that spot.
How quick you can rotate through to TP, knowing that there's no opponents on that other side,
because you still have bodies at that spot.
And Oxy was still watching it the whole time.
It punishes some players for Levioton on that, slow rotate back into showers.
Tying up the game 2-2, Levioton's on a broken econ.
Gonna try to go for a quick 4-1.
Walking up.
What's gonna give that shock on space? It looks like both duelists are actually there. There should be an explosion onto the site as the honk goes over.
All the X in one basket here as they crash onto B. Possibly for teleports gone now as C9 wiped the floor.
With Lev on the site entry, everyone prepared for that. Beautiful job by Zelsis and Zepa to hold the site down.
It's also a great start for him so far as the IGL.
That loss against G2, he was really not present in the fights, didn't have the best results
that he wanted in terms of fragging capabilities on the side of Cloud9, but doing a great job
chasing a couple of these eco-kills to cross-mars perfect with his teammates, and you'll take
that any time.
Build back all, finns up. I'm gonna reach a flow center and cult you.
He's second eye.
Very clean.
Kinda, and even on the retakes, they're being very organized here.
They were at the soft site last round and still came in with four alive, right?
So, making it work.
Staying very safe, playing their lives to the end of these rounds,
because again, when it be a ton, we'll take it to the end of the round.
You till in the shower to start here
Shot those thing Satos staying clean on this as the spike rotates for love towards the left side a peak from both
Elsa's and Penny
They want this space back
Please start to identify that pressure to showers now so right now you're
As you're pushing and prodding you're seeing how see nine likes to react for keep these mint rounds
They're really clear towards showers see nine knows about these late inserts towards hookah
So both IGLs now have to rethink how they want to approach these plans to find these gaps
Starts off with this op for Neon as well
In so much of the info grabbing default on default for Lev here once again in the round to insert one
Get it back. It's so easy with the Yoru so they can just get back to the fight like they are heading towards Bay once again
Oxy on that line
All the way back to spawn for safety after a shot
He just stays actually doesn't even worry about the rendezvous looks for another one sees ahead, but he goes low and takes blows down
Spikes finally grabbed once again here and Lev are just kind of left wondering going for the 1v1s now and spikes gonna make that work
You guys start hurrying up though the rotating to showers of 15 seconds left in the spike. It almost looks like they're giving it up
Always have an idea, but a hard time to make that commitment work
It seems oxy makes it a third kill and they are just gonna hang out by shower for this one
Let's save out instead of pressuring in on that chamber with a little bit of
util with something else other than bodies once oxy takes his first shot
and they don't hear the rendezvous.
Yeah, Spike's in pretty much just looking for some damage control.
Trying to make it expensive for C9 within the next round but looks like
Leviathan really wanted to save the operator into this next round.
Interesting too when Neon drops the off for blows, they just go for a body
He really tried to use their own util to scout where oxy could be hiding which I have never found out at the beginning of the round
That is
Not something you really want to do here going to your live rounds on your attack side
The more you're gonna try to play the contact play on a slow style the more it's easier for the opera of the defense to be
Ready for these type of pigs
Don't change the tempo a bit
Oxy changes positions as well has a little bit of help from Vic here. Oh, and it's gonna be his peak too with Vicks runaway steps
Bates it a peek as Oxy swings back out of the smoke beautifully done by those two
Oxy's looking very clean on the off-sale floor
He is shutting down every lane that he's taking
Wall down
Blow is trying to stand a line here as most active we've seen that really good at the beginning of a round
Neon's gonna help on that right. Oh almost a haircut for Vic. He sees King's shoulder.
Oh the Pauldron of Bramstone gives him up. And they are just gonna be losing numbers across the map now.
Have to reset and resort themselves to Spike gaining a bit of that space that
might be able to work with Anae. And it's almost like clockwork. The wall comes up.
They're gonna check that corner or close that pin and mark. They see the insert.
Punish it again but thankfully Spike one more time. Get some work Gale and opens it up.
A-Pull Neon gets caught!
Penny answers, still able to get himself sorted out on who might have timed him.
But Spike, the big name this round, the kingpin of what could happen, takes a hit from Oxy there.
And the alt goes down, now up to the rookie.
Blows, seeing if he can capitalize on this round and bring it within one to Cloud9.
Tucks himself and just tries to delay.
Had the lineup too, but now the jig is up.
Still hasn't heard this Spike, A-Pull, it's left.
Playing the jiggle peek.
They're getting high low trying to use protection of chamber here, and it's not gonna be enough hats and
the off by Penny and both oxy for the shot while played
Tempting that round but C9 still gonna grab it. Yeah, a huge pick by oxy defending his teammate
Oh, sorry by Penny defending oxy as he was diffusing and that allows for him even towards the end to get the showstopper in this round
It's fine
Unanswered rounds since C9 has built up that economy
You see all these mistakes now even tucking in that corner. You think you have a timing but your gun sticking out
Have your body sticking out into an easy wall bang
For the B defenders and now there's a whole lot to fix here going to the next few rounds
And I feel like you need to have that conversation with your team for owner
You have to avoid the off have different ways for the inserts
I think inserts horse of showers are having the buddy system as they have their attempt to work horse of showers
Sorry, towards Hookah, C9 likes to re-clear towards showers, so if they're going to give that space in the very beginning,
that's an opportunity for the operator probably to take that space for Neon, because he's still trying to find gaps in openings on the attack side-off,
and he's always had that vision walked by the Vypher wall in the mid-round.
Now it allows for him to creep up a little bit better within the ace lane if it continues to be fairly passive for C9,
but you know these defensive rounds.
But one step at a time, first one is avoid Oxy in the first place or try to find ways
to stop him.
This conversation was there as well from Zepa with Golden Boy when me arrived here at the
arena.
How do you stop somebody that's red hot like Neon and so far they really didn't have to
do much.
Yeah, they didn't have to slow him down because they're just finding opening and easy picks
almost gifted to them at this point.
should be the one receiving gifts it's his birthday. Where are flowers? All right. They
have they could saturate orbital strike it is a lower buy here for Lev but they have options.
The default has been their playbook. Are they going to employ one of these faster strats?
Dimensional drift to start us off. Clearing that long position but Oxy's not getting her
done just yet. How big is this going to be? They are bringing everything and raining it down on the
the B site for the side of Lev, the orbital strike grabs two and quickly, just like that,
Leviathan on top here to put some defense on the site. What a nice trap play. Using ults,
double ults to clear it out, forcing the TP back from Oxy right into the brimstone ult.
Nabloz has four positions. Just takes a little bit of tempo it seems like. Get the hearts going,
get the aim online here for Lev. A really nice hit on this round. Penny's definitely going to have to
to save the alt, he'll get backstabbed here by blows,
and that's gonna be a quick round for Lev out of the timeout.
They attack on a low by,
ultimates were used, but hey, he came away with a W.
Yeah, definitely.
Cause now it brings you back in the game,
your economy's back up cause you had a 30,
and you leverage those ultimates to the best of its capabilities
when you're on this, in this thrifting round.
So again, try to find that information early
and get exactly that.
Not only with a large economy loss in the first place,
but the dimensional drift confirms
where those players are at.
The set rate slows him down.
They have the perfect combo, despite even
getting two kills in the first place.
It's a weird way to celebrate.
Man, 50.
He wants more.
All right, quick prowler into showers
as long as being watched.
So again, Lev, try to touch both sides of those extremities
to make sure they're known.
I just realized maybe I was looking at the wrong head
when they're looking at the camera.
can make the difference with the owner and give me.
No, that was an owner.
That was an owner.
That said, though, things will calm down once again.
And we're just talking about how you want to leverage the op.
Contact play potentially.
But I think you want to play it safe.
They've been running into a lot of these dry peaks
into oxysop.
Yeah.
Bose is already there, hip to hip with Neon.
Inside otherwise, they don't really
want to get their positions away yet.
And they're playing methodical on the side of Cloud9.
They're not pressured at all, so you get the one-minute dog
into shower, and then maybe the 30-second guiding light
if you still have one and one for retake just to clear long,
really setting the pace of what Lev could even
be doing based on that information graph.
Oxy is the 30-second check towards long,
and they do have an idea here, but it could be a TP.
Showers is controlled by Lev, and this could all be a ruse.
They get the seekers out towards A,
and see a back pedaling.
Beautiful.
They're waiting on it, though, Vance.
Can they sell this still?
They have to.
They pinged and confirmed three players so they know one's in the pit and they're
practicing on that player right in the back of the site so they open it up for
Leviton and they make an easy 4v4 and he could flip the map for the plant but
there's only 12 seconds left and by the time the plant see not very close that
gap but a rotate from spawn. Penny shows up around this one to be used.
Vic though knows how to play inside the pit. A few shots back and forth it's still
going to leave blows alive inside that pit. You make a little noise I think you
He just did a fast step and kept it from making noise, but he's found, no!
Vic, knows where he's going.
Searches him out.
Nicely done by C9 here.
It does not seem like they're kind of put off by having to retake it all.
Zelsus has the team flowing together here in these situations.
Yeah, King thought that he was, he had the timing to go inside that pit,
but we haven't made too much noise yet for Leviton after they planted.
He flipped that site towards that back of A.
pushing towards the spawn solo and that's also a very tough call.
Oh god, it's all good! Let's take some water!
Let's go!
Yeah, for a spike to push alone into the spawn knowing that the rotate should be on that side.
When it blows again with the ult, spawned three players into spawn, are into the B site, and nobody TP'd yet.
So is, uh...
It was optimistic for him to try to go for that peek, but he got instantly punished and didn't give a chance for Levion to have to set up in the post plant.
And even then to double hold into the smoke. I love that people talking about him in a second right now as he gets another player advantage for C9 this round.
Being active on this default, why not? I mean, if Leverow is going to be back there looking for things that happen quietly, why don't you just yell on their face right away?
Vic does it again into hookah and they are being relentless on these rounds where you
said they've seen Lev trying to creep up all this secrecy that is almost getting them in
trouble because they're not using the util to get there.
It's like the responsibility of Vic just to shut down that hookah into the ground.
But just want to talk about that trip that was placed inside that smoke.
It was actually pretty cool for C9.
Right now if you see the trademark inside that smoke and you want to play it slow for
Leviathan you might want to try to creep into it and just break it in and fall back or force a rotate or something
But C9 holds two players inside that smoke in the surprise attack
The walks here from left
Do the same here and with the time remaining on the full roster for C9 against leviathan
You have no choice but to save one more time lots of money for Zalcis. He's going hunting
Who can I get? I get my brim alt with one kill or death, so he feels good about it, and that's going to be a brimstone ult for next round.
Showstopper's there. It's going to be even tougher for Levy to get this up online if C9 is doing smoke plays, but also not peeking the long lines that Neon's trying to get on.
That's a positive aspect for sure with the show starter being available for Penny.
It's been up for a couple of rounds that he's been able to win these rounds without having to use it.
And now Zelsis has his, so that allows him to cycle a couple of these and maybe have a strong close towards the end of the half.
That said, you also bring up another great point, Riv, in terms of the comp that C9 are currently playing.
You have brimstone smokes, very thick smokes. You're using it for fort lines.
You have the Viper walls on one side as well when you're trying to play this off on the attack side. Where could you really go?
So sometimes you'll try to say okay well my opening lanes here are now into showers short
But the short still is very hard to clear up very slowly
So it maybe comes down to that shower pick for oxy again if he's choosing to be in that spot
I don't think he's gonna lose that one against neon with what I've witnessed
Yeah, we even saw the round where Neon was holding long over there with blows or
You know one of them it was oxy to just kept the line right it's hard to pick a chamber
It's just gonna rendezvous away. That's never the safest thing
So it's even hard to get on that line oxy is gonna be somewhere
Like we're saying the smokes are gonna be other places cutting off the angle
So it becomes tough an owner when he called a timeout
They went very quickly with double ults this time around calls a timeout when coming back into this one
Satu has his available too. A damage as well that they have a lot of weapons to work with.
But you're seeing that they're playing this 1-1-3. Still trying to look for that extremity
control. Trying to see if C9 will try to push down for his B long into first place.
I think for Neon, he might want to avoid the flash if Zephla's looking for that early
input at the beginning of the round. Now they have trademars and showers.
Okay. Instantly found as they go back to default for Lev, this Hookah push.
Oh, that's the second time they've done that for Oxy, to just set the kill up for him by a jump or a fake runaway step.
Not even giving a chance for King to even set up inside Hookah this time around.
Walking up Sands, it's never been challenged for the last 11 rounds, last 10 rounds, so they take him down right away.
down right away saturate in a lot of info there let's spike get big control on
lamps just to try parallel convergence comboed in that stops the show
software but now they're kind of a little bit separate across the map finally
with TPL but the other guy to fight towards this A site for leviton now
it's committed it's else this still has that overall strike pump trying to play
in the smoke he's gonna be able to walk right up lines himself up with the truck
easy frag there knowing the spike was just outside of smoke. Just playing in
secrecy right now from the side of C9 and the spikes looking at every angle to
see where these shots might be coming from and he's even gonna have somebody
up behind him if it takes long enough. Vic is there. Zalcis with the 3k in sight
playing very patient. Things get very difficult for Leviton too. When you're
having like double pushes or solo walk forwards but every single time C9 seems
to be winning these duels. It's hard for you to play these slow plays and inserts. Look
at the timings that Zelsus keeps climbing within his own smokes. Another one where he
drops that spike.
Die, Sorden! You're smoothing, baby!
He is 15x7 with the brimstone ult available for the last round.
Oxy's off 1-2 expecting to hit a shot. You take that chamber out right away because it's
It's so much faster and so much more effective in the Operator itself.
And back to a default. This push and pull, this touch and go that I don't...
That was close. Actually, no damage as we check the board.
As we don't see like the push or the pull of left really is baking C9, consider moving too much.
And if they are, it's for Zeltsis to call the team on a full retake anyways.
This is actually not bad here. It's slow still from Levioton, but...
He avoided that flash when you're trying to find information from Zepa and somehow you
still creep down for Info and get one.
He's insane.
He walks out of his rendezvous like, oh, this is normal.
That's what happens when you're winning every single fight across the board.
You find that confidence that has yet to be punished.
And he's playing on the truck for the first time, catches Spike off guard here.
C9's still giving different looks as we're in the last round of the first half from the
The defensive side five alive as they're cleaning up the rest of Leviton inside site.
Even King and blows need to get hit and hit here before they try anything, but there's
just not enough time.
Another round that ticks down and let find themselves low on numbers and impossible on
clutch right now.
9-3 in the first half for Cloud 9 as they just play such a sturdy defense.
Very simplistic on that side for Cloud9.
Levioton though, that again, it comes down to
now that they have the opportunity to play the defense,
they definitely have strong looks.
Was it a game that went to OT against Sentinels,
where Sentinels, not the best of looks on their attack side,
but it definitely did go back and forth.
So still quite surprising that Levioton
still wants to play this map of mine.
C9 has a chance to walk away with this.
All right, we'll have to see what's in defensive playbook
of Lev when we come back after this break.
Red Bull Gives You Wings
Cloud9 looking clinical in the first half, but anything can happen when we switch the
sides up and now this W is composition of Lev are going to see what they can do from
the defensive side, the retakes hard and fast, or if we see a little bit more aggression
in that early round from them.
Yeah, and we're also hoping that the birthday buff starts activating Prasad, who are unfortunately
currently 1-10 after the end of the first half.
But one thing is that I've noticed, and everybody could agree here so far, is that Leviton has
been quite predictable on their attack set of how they wanted to default, which potentially
could also show how they could be predictable on how they'd like to rotate.
Neon on the soft most likely when he comes back to the rotate from the B to the A site legs to peek outside these smokes
On the top of the heaven and try to find timings against his opponent. So if there's a little bit of
Studying being done here from Amy's camp and cloud nine
They could definitely shut this down, but leviton this pistol very similar looks to the first half three instead of four shares
But two ghosts
So they could try to play poison orb on spike Z. Oh
Love that little line up
anybody swung that was also king to help so they clear quite a few at B and
seeing that setup knowing somebody was in hookah plus a few on top of the tub
is definitely gonna let them know there's a protocol for the site so they
want a on the way back quick clear quick run wall down and everybody is hip and
hip on this one for C9. Oh right the lamps waiting on your side don't have
any shotguns here so it's gonna have to be that true aim and everybody just
pauses at arm's length here look at a walk back and keep penny insert it spike a
little low so he's timid on really giving this full peak up but he doesn't
take anybody's in yet so much time had passed there they're able to still clear
it okay blows huge information there with spike going down he can play his
life and just make sure he is a nuisance here in the site oh he's
feeling it actually he wants a few more shots is more sure from the side of Lev
come out it seems like an important weapon for them to close it out but Vic
is an important player for C9 here in the clutch position. Sato's gonna drop
still hit by the smoke it's gonna be the last second as it clears and he clears Vic
a round win for Lev. What a nice shot by Vic on that second entry from spawn and
almost found that timing when the smoke was disappearing into hookah did some
Some damage up to Sato, but Sato was able to clean it up in the end.
Oh yeah, you're right.
When it comes down to the amount of rounds that's been won by Cloud9, how dominating it's
been by Cloud9 so far, some mistakes are starting to show up as well.
Not clearing these corners, not trying to fight and retake back towards U-Haul.
But thankfully again, it's those sheriffs that help.
Good shots by Blows, already in outlaw on the second round.
a range for the TP. I don't even know if Oxy set it down in the first place.
Sometimes you're just looking to get a quick peek and there's more than you wanted to get
bit off there. So one down already, good damage on to Neon, but they're happy with the results
so far. Taking down Oxy, it's probably going to be a full team peek if you see it next
time. Let's see where they go.
Yeah, for Lav you're using both of the long-range weapons to cover these extremities. Deny these
orbs so it's a nice little look by left to start. Defensive wall comes up though
he's a chance for C9 to creep up and I think he just hurt these footsteps.
Oh, safe. A lot of ways to get out of that one.
And saw those back on the back line here. C9 should have the front of sight to make this a
little weird. Looks like they can caterpillar through this maze of smokes to get themselves in.
Vick of the Bandit gets another one now it's a question of how they're gonna get
back in it's really scary with these classics being close range and how many
smokes there are so Lev has to wait them out and I think these smokes just drop
to you so yeah these small classics and bandits from Cloud9 could be
devastating for Levitan if they continue to just walk into these crosshairs
these crossfires laid down right as a spike hit so that's about half the spike
time now the orbs are gonna actually cycle up good damage from bench that's
all I needed to start Molly's gonna start to delay here as else is one HP in
that orb starts to bring the cake to came back up back and forth happens Vic
still alive just looking for shots all those were good Mali half turn again oh
my god they're gonna win the round this is ridiculous big on four you thought
there was gonna be another diffuse hit after that half was brought up but there
There was no time in man-makes to the C9 strong that round out.
That was the issue.
The smokes came down, you're hesitating for the setup of Leviathan.
You don't know where Cloud9's been hiding in these crossfires.
And he was just trying to get a half at least, but they realized back then they're like,
oh wait, we don't even have time to get a half later.
Yeah.
He came just aside to stick it.
He just dies to the Molly decay.
That is a huge trippy.
They just walked in from showers.
Grimstone smokes are 19 and a quarter seconds, so you get basically half the spike time if they're not gonna walk in there
Do you cycle the viper orbs?
Added pressure. Lev did not want. That's crazy. Yeah delayed with Somali from brimmy. Exactly, and viper.
It's late fight. There's a lot. Pulling your hair out in that situation for sure. Simple round by C9 and Levioton's on an eco
They do have a good stack though, but not necessarily being able to trade off each other yet
A few smokes. That's a dangerous spot to be smoking, but protected a little bit by the team.
They know how much time is on the wall if they keep it up full.
Oh. Good corner clearing here. Very disciplined. Penny.
Locking down that duelist spot with a few kills is king with a classic.
I got to clear him from inside sight and that shouldn't be too hard.
C9 can't give too much respect to this round. They know they have to worry about some angles,
about some angles, but they should be pushing through with the bigger weapons and that's
what's going to happen.
Yeah, it's already spotted by this boom bot.
Yeah.
Plant will go down and they'll have to spawn locked.
Oh, that was a little scary on that aim.
But Zalcis does not get too hurt.
They come out here, Vix ultimate, Penny's away from two, and Zalcis again away from
orbital strike here.
So even if Lav tried to start fighting back, they have answers.
is pretty much less for me first big task going into kickoff right the the first
two games that they lost from the upper bracket middle bracket was a whole
different role switch to neon not coming in yet ever since they joined in
the played against a crew team I had to unfortunately not play with their full
roster then going to the Sentals game it's a team that's in a rebuild that's
still trying to find their identity and now you have a C9 again that I firmly
believe here that a minute currently fits them perfectly.
It shows you that Levitan are having a little bit of
struggles and some pain points that they need to iron out going
into the rest of the series and
it love to at least warm up now to try to make this game close.
Maybe like what EG just did previously to 100 years earlier on
and
try to build a confidence up moving into the next map.
That's the thing.
Hopefully you have a time to take a moment and figure out what
those little speed bumps are.
And C9 waited out here and see if Lev will make a move of their own.
Just down to a minute, still a lot of time to play.
I wonder if Penny's gonna activate a little bit and then we go with A. I think Penny's
the last actually spear of this, to the point of the spear.
Molly over.
It's very slow.
It still seems fake.
for the molly here to commit another fake plant maybe?
Yep, for the elses fake plant to see where they might be, how much light and control they have.
I was just picked up the order, so that will delay me more now with the nightfall.
And as they're just trying to do the fight in this section, it was, are they gonna fight against this?
Can he get the rotator cross? And now Wills gets the pick of the elses, trying to plant.
I was just gonna say, something needs to happen or we just need to make coffee and hang out because nobody was doing anything.
This is gonna go all the way to B.
This is still gonna be a spot.
Dashed in, breaking the crosshairs.
So I have eight seconds to plant this one down.
It's gonna be front site.
Oh, they're gonna go inside too,
so that C9 has to stay inside the site to defend this
and stay in the face of Lev.
Makes sense.
They didn't know how many players were really hanging out
outside of their pit, so we're gonna play close.
Ooh!
Quick handshake for Penny DeSato there.
In the situation, Penny and Oxy
are just going to handle the front line.
Pushing Lev back.
Neon's gonna try to save this off,
But it looks like they, you know, they realize how much health they have.
They might be money in their pockets, but there's not a lot of health here.
So they're going to back up.
A few people would need to do a double buy there, so they save.
Especially at a 12-4 score line, they could let Neon keep the up.
They got a lot of valorant to play with to close up this map for C9.
A lot of chances and opportunities.
But the idea was there, the pit's going down, you're tapping that spike consistently.
You're trying to beat Leviton to get into the pit, or at least to see if any players are using U-Tilt,
you'd count how many players are playing around the site, knowing where the weaknesses are.
And then hopefully Penny could get the kill of the Spike Zenas.
They're trying to catch Spike rotating. Yeah, it's a nice little flick once again by Penny.
It was dangerous though, because with Zelsis trying to plant and die...
They have an AWP, you know what that means?
A hundred cheeeks, dude!
As he dined with the spike he didn't have any more smokes it was dangerous still for
Cloud9 to get into that B site so good on Penny to be selfless, double satchel and spot
spike seems so they can trade out each other to get that plant on that B site.
But now Orb Strike available, Shostok are already out and they're clear nutting.
Oh, soft way to able to refract that, that was actually huge for him, he's the Guardian
in their hands. Neon starts off on Oxy. Lev need to be able to convert this round to
keep themselves in. King finds the back of Penny as they're timing this one so well.
But now it's a spike down.
Lev has it up the tempo now. You have orbital strike and Molly available for C9. You can't
play slow anymore.
Somebody's got to tap it. Somebody's got to make the move on Lev that C9 care about.
King throws down the orbital strike from his sides. Elsa's still holding in the back.
Vix on the front just to check if anybody's peeking through this bit of a one way.
One tap. Expect to hear that orbital strike. No, he's not torn out just yet.
Not going to use it. Not going to use it. Alright, Lev gets a fifth. Nicely done, nicely pressured.
Can they take out Zelsis here? Roblo's going to hide on that one. A good confidence by Lev.
It's what we have not really seen from them in the previous rounds to get themselves really in the face of C9.
They've just been kind of giving that space freely.
You're counting on Vick and Zelsis, those last two players, to maybe utilize that one way because no Viper wall was coming up yet,
so we thought he'd be able to get that sightline into anybody trying to defuse in the first place, but the wall comes up, blocks the vision.
He's trying to just waste the clock down as much as he can.
And 4J couldn't get the spray through his own wall and it allows Leviton to just take him down, and those things Zelsis knew better to save the open to the next round.
Well, Neon has the AWP this round and gets pushed away by the boobhunt.
Zelsis hit.
10 HP for Sato.
There were three people ready for that refract.
And Penny just kinda hit his forehead a little bit, was looking for the finisher.
But Sato was already out.
Alright, C9 again getting to this plant situation.
It doesn't seem like Lev feel too comfortable after this point, but it happens again.
This time you got five players though.
I mean you have to be able to get back in touch it get that orbital strike out exactly thoughts checkmate
Gotta figure out where's else this is gonna be throwing this from no real time to delay a nice flash coming in to take one out
It's the 4v4 now Neon has the dimensional drift if he wants to kind of figure out who's in the back line
But I think they need the guns on the front line right now, and he can't go into the pocket dimension
It's over.
They will stretch the available line.
Yeah, this is going to be a Cloud9 stringing it out very nice.
A 4K for Vic and NatRound in a 13-5 scoreline for C9 here as they run circles around Levonbind.
Yeah, two slow on the attack, two slow on the defense.
In C9 it was just smooth sailing, cruise control across the finish line to seal that map away from Leviton's pick.
Again, we've seen some good ops coming out and some good defensive plays from Leviton in the first place when they were playing this map
They didn't even have a chance to play some defense. Yeah when their attack was unfortunately
Toppled down by hit a strong shot from big Zelsus oxy
Nothing that he could do against those three players in individual plays and they had the rounds from Leviton
Where they they would do some solo fakes on the extremity that C9 felt comfortable rotating in but the retakes from C9 also
We're just so strong it didn't really matter where Lev was able to put their forces.
We still have more coming from the second series of the day.
Breeze is up next between Cloud9 and Leviathan.
Don't go anywhere.
I
I'm me day and night baby I'm me day and night baby
Beautifully done, ace, fucking!
He's so close to being smart.
C9 is going to be step-fast on the side.
Guys, Epic, any results?
Oh, a ball!
I believe that one goal to do now, and a confirmation for the ace!
I'm going to be here with Coach Jimmy and I'm absolutely dominating game from C9.
13-5 I believe, a score line for y'all.
Couldn't ask for a better result there.
I guess 13-0 maybe.
What is the thing that you would like to accredit to that victory because it really felt like
you guys controlled the tempo from the absolute beginning and never let go?
Well we watched them and I made the game plan.
And basically we just knew everything we were going to do.
Short and sweet, we just knew everything we were going to do.
And what was that?
Ah, I can't say everything.
I tried.
Basically, they would always insert someone,
and then they're always going back to the same spot.
Like, whatever someone was spotted, they won't say who.
Like, we knew what they were doing.
Yeah, no.
And that's completely fair.
I mean, I think it goes without saying.
Like, you guys knew and had a very clear game plan.
It wasn't necessarily about playing tier-strained.
But speaking of the real quick,
Zelsus, an absolutely monstrous game for him.
I know he's been documenting his struggles as of late.
What do you make of Zelsus' performance
can we expect more from the captain?
I've just been working on it with him closely.
Even Oxy's been working with him on like game training.
But just in general, you start an attitude of either go plus 30
or go minus 30.
And that's how he's always played.
And I just said, like, as the IGL,
now you get a little stressed, but just do that.
Just play. Just play.
Take your fights and enjoy the game, you know?
Awesome stuff. Hey, man.
And it's always a pleasure to talk to you, my man.
Congrats on the win.
Looking forward to seeing what you guys do next.
Back to you.
Man, what a dominant performance.
What a statement this was, from cloud to nine, there's a lot to break down here, though.
Welcome back here to The Wall with Emily and Dan.
The Wall.
The Wall.
Also known as the other wall.
The Wall.
It's one of the walls.
We have so many walls.
We also have someone gameplay to break down.
The first thing I want to talk about is like Oxy, right?
We talked about him and now playing that senty, we talked about the chamber as we're headed
into this match and man, did he have an impact.
When we went into this kickoff, everybody was talking about the chamber meta and who
was going to be popping off and Oxy was one of the players that we mentioned the most but we
haven't seen this chamber just enough even if he's brought it here a couple times this is and has
always been his most iconic agent is the reason why back in the day in tier two he got picked up by
g2 before they were the g2 that we know today and he was it seems like waiting for a chance to show
off those operator skills those chamber skills that he did just now he completely controlled the game
shot down every single play that Lev had.
And like we heard from Imi,
they just knew what they were gonna do.
And when Oxi knows what they're gonna do,
it's put much easier to get a kill.
Yeah, I was impressed by his first debut here
and kickoff on that chamber roll in the last Bessa three.
But this, he was phenomenal, right?
We saw him going for those first aggressive picks.
We saw him playing those secondary angles.
We even saw him players like jump spotting
and baiting for him to go for even more there.
And he just found so much impact,
especially going against a team like Lev,
who started off pretty slow there.
Yeah, I mean, Cloud9, they came in with a tempo,
they came in with a game plan.
You guys just said it as well again.
Like they knew everything that is coming their way.
Their defense was like impeccable.
Like there's nothing really that they did wrong.
Like they got the first kill, so they did everything right.
Yeah, that was so cool.
Yeah, Coach Emmie said like he had the read
and it was clear here, right?
We saw Lev not really taking space early on, you know,
kind of just sitting back waiting for C9 to do something,
but they never did.
until until we saw that mid-round where they kind of aggressed picking them apart and as soon as they got that first kill
It's kind of like love fell apart. They didn't have an answer to come back into the rounds
You know after C9 did get those first picks we'd see them kind of tuck back into sites and not allow them to kind of even out numbers again
It was a nine three half
but none of the first skills going the way of C9 is insane especially because
We just saw this map of vine being played yesterday by Lev
So they find that you mean saying that he got the chance and the time to study
Knowing that these games are back to back is insane and you can tell really what the understanding was
You know that left is going to be holding those angles waiting for the push and how you react
You're swinging those angles with the operator finding one backing up and they were doing it every single time
It was so good. Yeah, and I mean the player that was also mentioned here in the interview between Alex and Amy
Excelsis we knew what he brings to the table as their idea, right? We saw that leadership
We saw that big brother energy and him like rallying the troops, but now he's also a fracking IGL. I guess like these
We're not used to that seeing it seeing it himself. No, no
I think we saw him in this kickoff kind of show that he is a really good
IGL really good at knowing when to call certain place certain default certain setups and he's really good at adapting mid-round to being
That big voice to kind of adjust in those mid-round situations
But here today we saw him absolutely pop off which is something I have been waiting for and rooting for
I want to see him get these
kills.
I want to see him kind of thrive
and be that fragging Agile that
we kind of highlighted earlier
today.
That's what we've seen for the
past couple of weeks and the
matches that he's played, even
though he's had some great calls,
some great wins, great ideas, it
seems like the kill department was
lacking a little bit.
So the fact that he was popping
off today, getting so many
openings as well, and even you
have obviously hyping you up.
That's what you know.
Things are going right for your
team.
Yeah, and I love that they have
been actively focusing on that
and money then translates into performance like what we've seen today. Oh boy, Cloud9 is a scary team
to go up against. And now of course we have one more map that they have to win. What do you expect
to see from them on Breeze? I am very interested to see this Breeze. For the left we haven't seen it
yet at all with and without Neon. But on the side of Cloud9 we've seen it two times the first time
they played it. It was against Energy. When they brought that bridge that it was kind of surprising,
kind of interesting. Caught Energy off guard. They had a lot of difficulty adapting. Second
the game. I think it's a
really good game. And then
they played it. It was a
against envy. They switched
the breach. They bring the
Astra. They were not able to
close it out. So this I just
have my questions. Which one
are they going to play?
Yeah, especially going up
against the team like left.
We don't know what they're
going to run on this call. But
we know how they like to play
playing a little bit slower.
We've seen that as a common
trend for them on every
single map. So I wouldn't be
so I feel like either comp
works, but I would kind of
love to see a breach is kind of
disrupt the show. Right? I
All right, here we coach owner of Levy at Don coach difficult game for you guys
We know what this team is capable of we see the talent. We've seen what you guys have put together here
Where do you think things kind of fell short in that bind game?
And how do you look to improve it as we get ready for map 2?
I think that we've started good, you know, we won the pistol in attack in disadvantage
We built momentum. We were like five against four in 2-1. We couldn't close that round.
I think that that round stopped our momentum. We had a really hard time to play against
operator in attack. And then in defense I think that we were kind of nervous already.
remember like the the first two games that we play in the in the kickoff we lost a lot a lot of
Ecos we lost
the last map and Ecos with advantage you know my advantage so I think that we have to
to reset to forget about about it
And just play like the boys know like you say again sending and we play way better
So we are capable of. Of course. All right coach pleasure as always best of luck in the next match. Catch you guys in a few
that's going to be a great
opportunity for us to do that.
We're going to do that.
Yeah, owner says reset. Forget
about it. But that is so much
easier said than done. When
everything is on the line, we're
talking about the elimination
match. Is this is going to be
an interesting one left that one
Latin team that has to stay
alive to be the representatives
in Santiago there on the
verge of elimination, and it's a
map that we haven't seen from
that yet. Absolutely And all
that is going to go down after a
We'll be on the mics once again.
to be a breeze. Cloud nine and the Vietton head into their second map. C nine up by one
with a dominating 13-5. We heard owner saying nerves got to shake them off. We knew where
we went wrong. Let's see if they can make a mark here on Breeze.
I hope it's not going to be a Breeze for this map. I want this to go to a third map. I do
wait this long just to see Leviathan get knocked out, especially with the potential that Leviathan
has been showing since Neon has come back. But let's take a look here at the compositions.
For Cloud9, you're seeing Oxi back into the duelist role, playing this jet, but also role
switches, Penny going into the Viper where Zelsis is also playing a chaos with double
initiators in the game for C9. I think they want to find the information going through
their offensive rounds. But the thing is, if you listen to the conversation of Indy with
Goldenboy, they already came in with saying we already knew the game plan and what to do
against Levioton on the front side of the bind. They haven't really had a chance to see
the bind of Levioton yet. All of the composition is something that's familiar that they've
played against before that they've seen and that we've seen throughout the VZDs. So they
They should still have a good idea of how to deal against this Leviton comp.
See the sheriffs are still there for Lev.
They like going strong. They're starting on attack.
They go on that very minimal U-Till, but more so onto firepower.
And why not? They'd like to play a little default and then they get into that death ball.
So create the firing line.
And this is also where Leviton could definitely shine.
It's a bunch of young, young, hungry fraggers for Leviton.
Another sheriff pistol round for the whole crew with the
accession of King putting three stars into his arsenal.
Neon already walking up.
They actually have to cross far instead of trying to punish
on middle, but unfortunately Neon already fell.
Yeah, quick wall up to Tenny's going to move forward here.
It's another one for himself.
Sheriffs are still aligned, so headshots are still a
possibility, but yeah, it's going to be for cell
No, a flawless first round possibly is C9 just read Lev like a book here and the zero points going to give up spikes position
So much trust put into the nature of how you're trying to approach these this map of breeze
Leaving Zelsis solo on to the A site and they're trying to just crunch
Into a mid control that works perfectly
Fortshake has leviton, we're peeking one by one towards that elbow trying to find a surprise attack and trying to
Leverature firepower with the sheriff rounds, but it becomes a flawless for C9 instead
And all of them come out with a sheriff now. That's true. Feels good
Yeah, that she puts you in a prime position in the anti-eco
Still want to upgrade around that?
Nice cover, Dalloran.
Nice, baby! Good run, Penny!
Yeah, and that's on him playing his individual wall.
Walking through his own wall that he put up and surprising his opponent.
Second round, judge around the corner. Neon could maybe make his way through
with Sato, but the rest would probably get mowed down.
Following the gate crash, he's staring straight at it. Daring him to make
a play over there on B. Spikes just outside it waiting as they have a really nice push through
tunnel here. If they can get the teamwork going down, King starts off and they get the swing.
Oh, they can. Right into Zepha's cross here. Goes for three. And yeah, they're going to be able
to clean this one up. Looks so good for a moment, but Zepha still was able to sweep the feed.
That was just about the center. There's absolutely no way they should TP right where it was because
not only was big watching it, but there was no pressure really that allows the TP to happen.
And even if you're flashing and darting towards that back sight,
if you're gonna TP there solo,
as the main players were all like,
what, on a 4-1 split?
You're just gonna get caught.
Set the line up.
No spread to try to guarantee the trade against Zippa.
He's gonna call that easy for sure.
He's like, I just did something gross, nobody look.
Alright.
Don't push up from Oxy.
Trying to play that Marshal straight up in front of A main.
Oh, he'll always go for the beat. Batch is on.
Yeah, outlaw that is. That's already a 140 on this auto.
You already got to fall back.
Yes.
Not necessarily the sip of the look here for Cloud9, despite them having some good presence on middle of that piss around there.
They've inserted Vic all the way towards that elbow because he keeps playing from a judge to a Bucky.
Yeah, that allows a gap for a lurk up from Neon to even out the Talioness round
Well, it's for them to actually spread out actually they either got the player advantage or got sought to survive that 10 HP
You didn't get picked up by the outlaw in the beginning
Little door peek here from oxy once again making sure there's no timing on the cross
But that's something Vic also has to look for they're really covered on the ways that
Lev could push here
yeah that's getting tricking me it is an outlaw you're all right Noxie's gonna
look to get a few more still has that return on the basket from the buys that's
a knee shot so now he's got two people on 10 HP made them suffer yeah limp into
the site here is that explosion from leviton despite player advantages they
could definitely get mowed down by the stack of cloud nine with three until
big comes in the cut the rotates oh my gosh the low health finally being cleaned
up a little bit here, Zalcis in sight. And Neon just looks for a different out. Really
nice escape there for a moment here to join up with Sato. I love the play. You're gonna
try to raise the advantage anyway you can to get another one down before the round ends.
Why not? It looks like this one just fizzles out as Zalcis goes hunting loud through the
site. Neon's just playing a game of cat and mouse here. 3-0 as C9 grabbed their bonus.
They weren't really able to grab a pistol last time. Still running through with the momentum
And their spec given to the Zelsis. Two of them at 10 HP each. There was not too much
planned left. They had to commit by probably wide-sleeving the site to try to go for a plant.
So Zelsis just had to run around that site and just the footsteps that he makes forces the TP
so that we could just save these two rifles in the next round for Levitan.
Hopefully they can get something working within this round. It's quite fast as they're splitting into the same site
Those for the reload so we can get another fast to
All the moment he unscathed
Thinking maybe he was going for a second inner scope, but there's not there for him
Who knows still gonna be safe behind the wall in the site and they'll give lead some space on this
Well, we saw what happened here on bind C9 had such good retakes
A little bit of a lurk here from King could be huge.
It's not a big break so everybody could focus on fighting towards the same side until it's lurked from.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh just one oxy hit us like almost looked like a triple collab though one of those was.
And he is going to be easily cleaning up kills.
We'll have to see how that happened for him but he is just smiles this entire map of Breeze.
Just sucks being the POV observer again in that round because we're like oh crap we have such a great time.
And then suddenly, Oxy just falls players with the outlaw.
So a collad on one.
Yeah, everybody's just lined up looking towards those doors.
There's like a double take there, huh?
Nice.
Surprising.
With the timing that King has found that all the rest of the team are still so focused
on the watch game to the mid doors, we thought they still had a timing on that wall or something
like that.
But it was definitely a miss call on who's watching what.
Kana probably
Solidifies what owner was mentioned before again in the between the maps are looking a little bit nervous
communications not looking the best right now for
leviton here and
Definitely getting punished
Least to get a plot down they got money to work with
No whops for neon
Want to continue to go for this mid control the slow mid take
Like, it did come into value for a couple of picks in the very beginning here for Leviton,
but just entering into these sites has still been a pain point, especially when C9 continues
to play like very castically on the extremities, forcing Leviton to come towards them and they
just get picked off.
It's that shot from Tunnel, so Neon can stay quiet.
Great start from King, need that from the leader.
To start the momentum, to start the mentality that there is a chance through these rounds,
Really, Cloud9 has been snuffing out Lavitt every turn.
Yeah, Neon just heard the rotating to spawn.
He's going to get this pretty kill on Zelsus.
So good.
He doesn't spin, right?
OK, he's going to let it go.
See how much more info he can get, how confident is Zelsus.
He's going to swing out, which really alerts them.
He was trying to also rotate towards that B site.
So he's going to try to help his team, help stop Oxi and Zepa.
Is it too much from C9, though?
Vic, pretty sure he's daftless right now, heading into this 1v2. Can he keep it that way?
All around the world as well. But the more it takes for him to rotate, I think they'll soon realize for Lev that
he should be on that big flank, so I love that they double up rather, play towards that castle,
has a star onto the plant, and play the time to their favor.
Three stars to use, just get the Nebula back up, actually, full uses that smoke instead of a dismiss.
already second beep it's gonna be a hangout I think looks like a save yeah
just waiting for those exits so nice job by Lev to get that push towards mid
there oh shots finding some nice timings here after the time they've been
taking finally pays off at around would have been in porn as well for Vic to
get those picks makes the buying a lot harder for leviathan despite them
win him around. Yeah, great display of patience by Neon here, but it's almost a very similar
look of what we've seen from Levitan online. They go into the mid-round when they try to
insert somebody to cut these rotates. Not many teams really go into this, especially when Breeze
now has come back. Not many teams are trying to get into that window, but Levitan has done it
twice now. King, when he got that lurk and then unfortunately got punished right away,
This time by Neon. It should be watched by C9 for now.
King on an hop?
On this one they're gonna go for this B site.
King hanging all the way back to try to shoot over their shoulder,
but I think they need the team here.
He is able to offer up a little bit of help.
Zepa just slows things down with the Hondras Fury for now,
as they reset the pace of this round.
Spikes down.
Nothing far, nothing seen by the drone just yet,
So they're going to have to creep in use the rest of this you feel to flash fragment Karina with shock darts
They should be able to clear out some of these areas
Nice little spread here by Lev
First fragment allows them to somewhat take that back portion of the site and they get the kill on the spike
Already working out in C9's favor. They've identified me on it ladder and now it's gonna chop from King
Oh, he starts the round and he ends the round!
King with a 4k.
That's one of the things here where Claude 9 faltered to G2.
It always looks so good in the very beginning, but then when he comes down to...
Okay, we should have a clear site or clear control of that round.
He just omitted to clear one more corner.
And King is able to do what he was able to do to help Leviton win against Sentinels.
Yeah. Get into these timings, these clutch scenarios to save these rounds for the last time organization.
And you're icing it right away.
It should be a timeout from him beside to can let these happen.
And he's probably going to drill his players to make sure that the they don't go into these similar mistakes, like they did in the previous games.
And much more methodical here from left.
It seems like there's more trust the nerves are kicked off here from the first game and these plays and they're behind each other
To make it happen still C9's doing quite a bit of damage, but that's what left finally weathering and getting some rounds in their favor
Well, they definitely be needed a clutch from King to get that second round they did everything else around that in terms of these
Good battles has still been favorite claw 9 from that first map
They had to use what Cosmic Divide to really pop into the site.
This timeout though for Mimmy allows for
Bohnner to talk with the team as well.
They have a couple of Vols that can start cycling
if they get some work control in the beginning.
Although they haven't really shown too much of a heavy presence
towards the extremities at the beginning of these rounds.
It'll change though.
Sato is actually perched up on that side.
Yeah, he's got to get a little momentum under himself here.
Right now he's got the curse state off for saying what his wish was grab the orb TV out join the team altered to the B site
See what they can make out of this
The plan from the get-go orb sato grab info can they get around to kill Vic?
Spike scene kills Penny to start and Vic will hide not too far though since he stopped by the Viper fight
They're still not clearing there playing this one a little slow, but no neons in their face
That's what they were looking for just setting up a little bit of the bait and switch
Slow actually fast play from Zelsis here with the speed that oxy is able to move with that operator through the flank position
Well, I got a flat down now
So oxy might be able to move in here towards the window with the op and fortune with Zelsis falling that might change the plans
One click they'll go for it still 800 on him
That's his first alt point, so there's really just the fight going in, tries to smoke, smoke mazes himself in there,
Neon's like, I know exactly what you're doing, plays a shorty close range, and the timeout's not gonna work right away for C9.
Let's grab another one.
I wonder if he hit him with that left click of that knife, I think he did.
Nonetheless though, I think what has been obvious here for the setup of Leviton's story as well is,
as soon as he got big ults to work with, he passed Tempo into these hits.
Once he's cycled it through back to the very slow game, so I think it gives an opportunity now for C9 to start discussing a bit as well to say, okay, well, we've got to get ready for these fast pops.
How do we delay through this pit in a Hunter's Fury available within this round?
And there you go. How do you find that information early? Already, finally, an early knife out on this site. It actually hits two players, including that Hunter's Fury from blows.
And they double take that control towards aiming.
You almost have to get the info and we're left moving now.
They aren't inserting anymore and making noise in positions, they're kind of moving the map
and then hitting.
So C9 has to figure it out early.
Jumping steps over here should be a quick clear.
Should be a quick clear, but it's Oxy.
Snapping a quick hospital flick to Spice Team's head there.
That's crazy.
Although they fell back instead of going to pick up the weapon and nice on Neon to cut
to rotate back yet still walking into the b-site.
Sharis also being played by Vick.
A lot of kings on solo peek on the b here to see if anybody will come through.
Clouds from Neon are walked on for a moment as he gets a kill on Vick.
And they're just going to hold this site strong.
Blowns on to Penny.
Sap C9 is kind of just giving them to the ones here as they're peeking left and right.
Little bit of the Guardian low by so they're not too worried about things and it should be clean up for Sato
He gets one on the board. We're started now the fires lit and Lev are gonna tie up the game with 4-4
First where missed there by Zelsis in yeah terms of the duals that he's been picking up in this series
But C9 they they find that info early, but they're also on it and we're on an eco rather
Nice pick there
I'm trying to split that site on that B site for Cloud9 force and across over that wall,
but simple when they're able to updraft over that.
Big head.
Oh, you lagged him.
Ow.
Yes, I wonder if the knife even saved me on where you couldn't up drop and float anymore
It falls to get like crazy in that in that look in that POV a little bit of mid control grab nothing pass
That middle wall though
Alt over on the sea or Zarbiside
Here by C9 may force the hand of left to go through tunnel. They have that mid somewhat watched by the side of Vic
And yeah, Leves doing a bit of that walk up against you know how close they can get before they activate how much time they can kind of whittle away
So we definitely see the power of that double initiator the knife
One single knife wasted so much utile from leviton to start but in after that to get the drone into the mid-round
So it allows for them to readjust you see now those elses flashing into the double doors trying to cover that spot
Box you re-clear. He has an inkling
Yeah, I think he sniffs it out.
Quick shot, very nice call for that knife to come through again here so they can
re-clear an area, get the movement out of A main.
Now towards B, the initial strat for left,
what they've been trying to work mid the whole time.
Already quite low for Neon, but he's going to try to be the front of this one
as they go for a little spawn action first before planting,
and they meet a wall. That wall's name is Zelsis.
A third one for him there as it just looks too easy for C9 to read these slower rounds from left.
Just two walls. It caused me to fight on the defense. We can't cross into B, get into the archist and face plant.
Right into Zelsis.
Reads are good.
Staying further back. I mean, nice shot by Oxy.
A little bit of a miss-com going through there, because you saw him passing from Leviton when
he decided to move out towards that half wall and push out towards the archers.
It only ended up being one player swinging in the front.
The other one had his back turn against him.
Lev just got easily mowed down by the lineup of Azelsis.
Now a change of KC9, Agro.
So far for Leviton's the same thing.
A miss on one side, but Azelsis has the back covered.
Axe is going to come up and bring up the rear on that one.
They're trying to switch the map here for a moment in AMAIN as Leve wants that space back.
Zelsus and Oxfie say no with a little bit of blood on the floor, but it's mostly Leve's.
And now it's just King again, searching around where he might find a kill for the end of this round.
Zelsus looking different today.
Yeah.
But that said, like I said, they tried to go for an aggro change of tempo for C9, but Leviton as well.
Just a couple of rounds ago I was just mentioning, they don't like to go very quickly when they don't have these big ults to work with
work with for Levitan. I would assume maybe they were trying to move in quickly to just
get the pit down. So they temple quickly through the double doors. Oxia was ready for that.
They watch each other's backs. They had full control of that A main. Forcing King now want
to save.
30 seconds left.
Oh, clean from C9 right now. It seems like they're even reading the plays at the beginning
of the round for Lev here, know that Lev feels really uncomfortable if C9 do make a play
and stop that default from happening right away. Really able to get under Lev's skin.
Save here as we know for King, they have a few ultimates coming online here with even
Satos just on deck if they can get another ult orb. They gotta find something that works.
The mid has given them the most distance into a site into a long post plant. So we'll see
if they go to control mid again.
If they want to control that middle for Leviton,
I feel like they have to slow that a little bit more.
I think that extremity control is very important
if they want to try to finish towards that A site.
But you also have to use players that where you trust their aim,
you know they're going to win these solo duels, right?
You need to hit them on the elbow
so that you can finish it to the mid round on the mid control.
But I think A site to try to stop Oxy and Zelsis together right there
would be a great way to allow for you to finally get that mid control.
Because what happens, the other few rounds where Leviton are able to take that into control,
C9's giving it to them.
And then once they try to cross that line of scrimmage to get into the sights,
there's not enough time left.
They triple their own laces, and then they just get stopped by C9 no matter what.
This game looks really close, despite that.
Exactly.
But it started off with a 4k from King.
I think that maybe broke the econ from C9 to Red After,
so that maybe have been, you know, the silver lining that allowed Leviton to start stringing some rounds together.
But outside of that, it's been C9 through the macro
from beginning to the end.
And I love that we're getting a bit of a jet match here,
as you see on your screen, 10, 6, and 1,
Neon, Oxy, 12, 7, and 3 there at the top of the boards
and the cells.
And in a position as well, where we heard Cloud9 say,
you know, Penny's going to kind of take that role.
But here, you don't really want Oxy on the Viper.
You want him back on that true to form jet.
And you are getting it from him.
So really cool to see we get a little jet V
jet match here between the two.
And Lev is starting to put up those numbers to come back.
Oxi's looking to op right into that B main.
So if they try to drone, just to try to pit Hunters here, whatever, he's gonna try to catch them right away.
They have to be ready for this for Levioton.
He's ready to just peek.
Flash sort behind them if they need it.
Almost catches Sato, Util out in a moment.
That's a window though. Levioton could start templeing up here and catch them off guard with these ults.
He's already on the tunnel line and that one he's not gonna mess actually takes
down his counterpart in Neon looks for another just on the outside of the wall
almost gets the fade away shot and he's getting pressure hard wants to go for
the fight again and he cannot be stopped it's gonna take an ultimate to shut
oxy down. Rest number falling. Still knows the site is not safe but Lev isn't doing
much more than kind of hanging out waiting for somebody else to make a move
as that mid portion fizzled out they couldn't enter B main as fast as they
wanted. Now we're just ready for that despite this being an eco for Levioton
I mean you already had the high low looking into the window and once oxy
spots some opponents you just delay or mollies double mollies I think it was
Zelsson and Vic playing the high low at that spot yeah so you can't even follow
up behind that for a levioton. Operator picked up, still a big focus here for c9 to get those
first kills, just make that 4v5 conversion so hard for Lev. He doesn't miss a beat, that's for sure.
The oxy time for two
Just understood as well for as much as he stalled and when he peeked out towards that B main
Not only that he missed a shot on Te santo
But here it had info of other players already walking up towards that elbow staircase
So for them at him to have the heads of play the reed to go back towards the tunnel to get that pick was huge
In a solo hold on a confidence there in the operator
He sees a little probably a little bit of that orb from Yoru searching a mile
So they get the safety behind the Cosmic Divide and this should be Lev's round to set up everything they want in a perfect style defense to shut down C9 in a retake.
Let's see what C9 can do though.
It's a very nice pit that they have.
He could tuck into the corner towards A-D, run away from a lot of utility.
Zachary is going right now for Spike-Z.
The rest of them could play inside of it or just outside.
So listen for some info.
Oh, king.
So good.
Atchist, the cut-off plays as teams are transitioning back to the other site.
And this makes C9 sweat a little bit. Even more, the Zelsus is down. They don't even need abilities here.
It's just about the aim for Lev.
And that loss of one player isn't even gonna scare him one bit.
Close with a quick kill. Another one as well. And a 7-5 scoreline as Lev is really able to fix a lot of what
they found problems in on the first map. Thanks to King. Thanks to King again. Again, honestly.
Cutting two rotates into the post-plant
But he's left on an island as well. He's also the
Last line of defense in the post-plant when he has this Astra to play with that said though a great job overall
This planet looking very one-sided in terms of the map for cloud nine levy funds able to keep this close
See what they can get on the next half we are going to be heading over to GB with co-streamer todo
Thank you so much for that fellas. Yes, join here by Toto the pocket KO himself. The man
who if you ever want to know how to be a good KO in your ranked games, this is the guy to
watch on YouTube. Now, Toto, first things first, welcome to the Riot Games Arena. You
having fun so far?
Well, I'm out of blast, bro.
Yeah.
Now, what's the experience been like and the vibe as well, especially, you know, co-streaming
while you're in a live environment? Let's be kind of surreal. Honestly, the crowd is
amazing here shout out to the crowd shout out to the crowd give yourself a round of applause
so you gotta do it you gotta like lead them into it first series uh 100 fees in my team so i i'm
really happy to see them get win that map um this maps exciting i need uh i need the birthday man
saddle to heat up for us i want i want a good map series i'm map three yeah i know i'm right there
with you real quick though you've played valorant all across japan you hit radiant playing across
Japan. What's a place that you would like to go and play Valorant in another country?
Philippines. The Philippines. Hey, I like that. We also got some Filipinos analysis as well. All
right, guys, back to you. Take it away. Love that love here from our co-streamers. Thank you,
GV and Toto for chiming in here on this matchup much closer than the first one too. So it is
getting pretty spicy between these two teams. We'll have to see if Cloud9's attack now is too
much for lab or have they have the defense to get out but they have something we're unaware of.
Want to see their attack as well for cloud nine. I think that this is the third time they're playing
breeze. They went from a breach comp that we will never talk about again. They went into the double
duelist comp the second time they played and now they're going to the double initiative comp which
then for me penny playing this role is you're going to try to activate a lot more on lurks.
And I think just on the nature of this composition you're looking to get to default a lot towards
towards middle, very similarly to how you have to approach the map really for these changes on Breeze.
And they have the perfect comp for that, because now you can flash through the Viper wall on defense,
but also knife for information on top of that, and not just being a Yoru crutch to be able to help your teammates to activate here on your attack side.
Double walk down from left.
Yeah, keeping themselves protected in the tunnel.
I wonder if they were going to kind of backpedal and see what was happening mid there
But safe play to stay together for the time being
It looks like they are gonna actually back out though leaving a quick insert there with a dangerous spot for Sato
You see the difference for the buys for cloud nine as well
I'd like to go a lot for these ghosts instead of the four or five sheriffs
That we usually see here from leviton on the other side
So do you want to use a little bit of you till but they haven't used it you till to try to get in first and again shut down
How did neon clear oxy have to see that again in the replays? That was crazy as the wall was coming off and it's not going to take much longer for the rest of the members of C9 to be found trying to enter the site here from a distance.
Lev is hitting these shots and they're trying to clean up Zepa.
If he could sneak out of this though.
There's a lot of time.
Decides to commit into the lurk pick.
They are isolated into fights though.
though. Nice ability to turn back on that one and get the kill. Sato with two
towards the all points. Fykes actually getting three towards the alt there so
a nice little setup first round. Still a few alive and we'll see if Les can now
carry this one. Yeah it looks like he saw the jiggle of the sobo the back of the
site instead of the yoru just tucked in. Two body shots to you. Yeah after the
The first player dies here from Nelsis as he's trying to jump spot for the knife.
They didn't have the extra utility support on the entry for the rest of the team and they got lined up and picked off by Leviton.
Good start. Pisserons have been pretty decent for Leviton throughout the series.
There's now an outlaw for Neon on a defense.
A different look for Clown9. They actually looked to heavily lean towards the ace side of control.
Yeah. Zero point allows you to know if it's free or not all the time.
Almost a free kill there, but it took it back and forth.
King comes away not too worse for the wear.
And they'll be able to set up on this for a few more kills.
Penny and Zepa holding the spike so they get some money to themselves here as they get to the next round.
Maybe a little bit more too.
Drops the numbers.
This is where you will potentially get dangerous for Cloud9.
for Cloud9. You have Neon already showing that he has a scope to work with, but
with how big this site is, or with the changes, you can still go for these open fights.
You have a possibility here to play a lot of scopes for the side of Leviathan.
Maybe he's not to Neon at the same time, but they're also trying to maximize the views for the orbs.
like us fans like us clean I'm clean
he's why he's like I'm watching the dart and then somebody pops out yeah that
was it was a fight good jobs by the producers not to call hot audio on that
one because it makes it even funnier to just watch King silently mine what the hell just
happened in that previous round. That said though back into the Sears grounds, Cloud9
has a rifle round to work with and what this plant allows for them to confirm, you till
full armor to play against this neon outlaw who still gets the opening pick. A headshot
with Ozzavia. You got the outlaw wielded.
C9 is still trying to grab that mid space after they got kind of juked out by the drone outlaw play.
They don't really have an entry now, so it's got to be everybody together here after this flash,
after the initiator util, and they may even have to wait for a sonar bolt if they do that.
So time will tick down, and Lev is going to go ahead and get themselves back into more anchor positions.
Mid, getting a little love from C9, but they still have quite a bit of space around the map.
Oh, that's huge. That first pick right there, but Sato stays very patient.
What they're trying to do for Cloud9 right now is to force him to leave, so that...
Oh, is that looking for the timing? He does so. Just in the nick of time.
Playing the map, not even the sights here. So clean for Cloud9, and they wait, King out.
They know King for being the one to catch the rotations, be in middle,
They catch them getting into that position.
7-7 here, and C9 have the read to push themselves to 8-7.
That's just little nice things in terms of the fundamentals of understanding the map control here in tactical FPS.
And that's the experience here that Zeppa, Zelsis, and even Amy as a coach has been showing for quite a long time.
Going from CS until now.
I mean, you look at the inserts, they make a lot of noise, they cut that noise, Zeppa makes a play.
All they do is just anchor up.
They don't want to force the hand to say,
oh, we have to try to push because we already got picks.
They forced the hand up of defenders
to actually need to find information
because they're now starved that info
and they have to push to figure out
where the rotates could be.
Another one of those was Zelsis,
just kind of, the flash went off, right?
But that was a swing peek onto mid,
or doors and get a kill in A.
So the 1v1, C9 are cleaning up too
when they're being called upon for those situations
and they get their first gun round.
So, he's trying to see if Neon will be offing towards A main at the start.
I like that.
As it doesn't spot anybody yet, he's slowly...
And any other day that Neon's on form, that should have been Zepa dying right away, but
Thankfully, you're coming to Lucky Stars.
They're still alive.
They find some info on the top of Tunnel.
And the counter drone here as well from the defender's side.
So I identified three players from Leviaton
in this crossfire setup for game control.
And this is a do it if it works, right?
The spike's down.
They're working the map instead of the site again.
It's slowly creeping in everywhere they can
to make Lev realize they're missing timings, missing windows.
Right.
This is where we're going to need some good calls by Zelsus,
because Leviathan gave so much space for C9
and they could go anywhere they want in this big round.
But despite being down towards A, is it okay?
Well, if Oxy gets a pick here towards B,
do we rotate back towards that side?
Do we try to hit towards A?
Nobody's rotated from Leviathan yet
and they haven't heard any noise on the attack
for C9 on these rotates.
Looks like it is going to be a B fake on this hit.
30 seconds.
Oh, you till out just tells a story
how unready Lev was, how close C9 could be in their eyes for these plays, and they are
going to be peeking out from everywhere now. Lev's wondering how C9 is all over the map
at one time, and it's because they're inserting themselves so well here. That's crazy the
way that looked.
And that's the issue of playing this single initiator for the composition of Lev. You
need now to leverage Sata with the TP's jump spot. Try to find some info. TP to another
place be more active around the map if not you see exactly where C9 were
spread out across and they found some value out of it could have been a
different story of the shots were letting of course for Levy down Levy
outside but another round of another one of old rounds where C9 are one step
ahead of the macro like when oxy is moving towards that B site it makes
noise they already heard the rotate from neon back out towards that tunnel so
they knew he was weak side towards A as well.
He said I did 142 damage. Everybody started running.
Let's get another all-point down line.
9-7 now for Cloud9, stringing together around since their first gun round there.
What is the answer? All points.
I mean, they're close to cosmic divide for Lev,
but still pretty far away for an answer to come back strong with those.
So it's got to be reading C9's map control
So I'm not having a real a chance here to
show his
Skills as he's getting shut down quite often by C9 and it's funny because they were again talking for a Zepa
How do you stop and slow down something like neon?
But they've done an excellent job slowing another star player across the leviton in Sato
Forcing an eco for Leviathan, Marshall for Neon.
Have a little bit of a walk down for Leviathan, which we saw that a little bit more towards these gun rounds to leverage the Viper wall on defense as well to take that mid control and counter it against Cloud9.
If it's not going to be the look now, hopefully we'll see it in their next rifle round.
You just have to not allow C9 to get so much space to work with.
Already choosing the soft site
They're gonna go in probably on this 30-second mark
This C9 get as close as possible. You can see Zelsis four seconds on the zero point
And they crash site. It's just enough time for Sato to get back
But it is gonna be that low by how much can they get in the face of C9?
Living by the skin of his team spikes it actually gets a big kill there
Because Penny and Oxy right the wrongs of the site for now, but they're being closed on in very quick
Zik or Vic rather will stare down the scope
From that latter side
Marshall from the hip yet huge done there to clean up another kill they're giving C9 some problems here eight seconds to plant
And they're gonna start running at them to create even more pressure. Oh the swing from Vic the flake is so good
King and blows get swept away in C9 grabbing up the round.
Wow!
Saving that round too.
I saw that spike was almost going to get taken down by the spray in the first place through the smoke.
But he survived just enough to do some chaos.
Start that chaos across from that back of the site.
And then Levitan encroaches C9, looked like they were hesitating a bit.
Against that second kill.
If he doesn't, it was 0.5 seconds after it.
for 1v1. We're now into play ring around the Rosie and see if you win an off time at least guaranteed for leviton
But thankfully Vic is there to save the round for cloud nine
C9 can just flex their muscle muscles with ultimates here if they want null commands gonna go off first
It's level just stay on their side of that Viper wall for now
Now, another Cosmic Divide comes out, so one wall goes down, another comes up, another
time C9 has been cycling smokes to make it tough for Lev here in sight.
And now it's Levitan that has to up the tempo.
You have the Hunter's Fury available for a Zepa, and it caused me to find the Legion
even more.
Nice big fight though to start for C9 to solidify this post plan.
He just dodges out one quick flash dodge as well.
Make sure that's not the real Yoru.
His dad is, looks for a quick kill,
goes for the shorty, knows it's going to be the close combat.
They've got to be ready for it, blows, finds a few,
but there's so many more of Cloud9 right now.
11 to 7 here as they're making this attack side count.
Playing around the wall too, the Cosmic Divine, a solo play,
I think from Penny that was at the mid double door,
isn't able to win that fight.
For the rest of them though, they have to cross
such a difficult position in the back of that A site.
The new area that's been opened up here on Breeze,
and that's been very,
it's given a chance for players on the attack,
post-plant.
Woo!
I don't know what's happened,
and they were on my ass though.
That's what I'm saying in terms of defense or attack,
that new spot in the back of Breeze,
you could anchor that a little bit better now
with you till the support of your cross forward
on both sides.
It's C9 takes the upper hand.
And Leve have to buckle down on elimination and just a few more rounds as C9 is really mounting the pressure.
And that Hunter's Fury is gonna start off, so it just takes a bit of damage here, but Leve wanna start the action first.
And Neon could be gonna do it. That's exactly what they need.
Kill one of the initiators out, know the next Util is gonna be the one that C9 has to break into site with.
Oh oxy the walk-up again through tunnel. It's not gonna be the first time King has the timing of the map so far
But the second insert though right here from big that might be a game changer for C9 in this round
Right before the smoke comes up and they still find two more on the Viet Thanh as a play hasn't even activated yet
There's just smokes going up and down
Quick all it's gonna get them a little bit of an insert into site here, but it's not full
How are they going to work this from here?
It's on Vic again.
It is on Vic and he swings out of a smoke to get it.
Zepa makes himself known and goes around the back site, clearing position and giving Penny time to plant.
And now they call upon the youngster, upon Neon, putting up numbers in his games and he asks for quite a bit here.
First kills there, get a little bit of view. Love the play as he sees actually where another player is.
Hard to be identifying where any of your enemies are at this point.
Oh, they crossed vision! We could still get it! The snap's not going to be there.
It's Vic in the end who's been the safe pair of hands for C9.
It's that second insert. Even though Oxy saw that hand of Sato, I love that King swung back out.
Just to double check and make sure that the tunnel was clear.
Gets that pick, but unfortunately they don't fully reclear.
So Vic cuts the rotate, sneaks into the site, opens up the site for Cloud9 and even gets the last pick in the end.
There's just unfortunately no real answer right now for Levitan outside of their aim that seems to have stepped up in that previous map.
Here's that mid-crunch that we wanted, but it's outlaw that's going to put Neon down to 10 HP.
Almost too little too late, they're trying to give C9 things that Cloud9 should worry about.
But they still push forward to take in the space, spiked down even in a round.
Where they're ready to find fights and know there's a low buy for life here.
It's a different defender wall though. It's a little bit deeper towards the doors.
Nonetheless, a poison orb on the attack blocks those double doors and allows Oxy to creep up one more time.
C9 coming out on top of every situation. It even looks like Lef may have the upper hand and
up and over. They're trying to break the crosshairs and they do break down Spike. Not before he gets
the kill. But is that enough? Already C9 still cross map, half positioning and if someone's
flanking they can all look towards the back of the site here to put the final touches on this series.
Take that win to move on and kick off. Now onto King and blows looking to get a
swing on this Guardian. They're trying to work together here and break the wall at
the same time. Oh my god! Onto King face-to-face. There's so much to be asked of here by
blows. Zepa's gonna get the final kill. Cloud9 come away with the win. Very
dominant throughout the series and that is gonna be their victory over Leviton
that will send them out of kickoff. A great game plan built up here by Emi and
well executed by his players of Cloud9 from that first map of Bind understanding
how Leviton was gonna play and punish them every single way. Even though we
haven't seen a Leviton breeze in that second map ever, it still almost looked
like they had the tape and knew how to play against the positioning of Leviton.
slow pace, fast pace, it still worked out in the end and it did a great job
shutting down the last-time team with that first man in the front there is
Zelsis with great calling and also great shooting. Gosh. In different
situations right could have been the first kill the round you find a three
kill maybe a 4k to end it absolutely you definitely know when Zelsis is on fire
the rest of the team as well Oxy coming out through this one I think had a 20
bomb for himself. Back on the jack. Doesn't matter. Riding the bike for this guy. And
the team kept up the vibes as well. Vick super safe in the flicks. This one might have to
take him to the hospital to see if his wrist is okay. Those were some shots.
And he did the same on that last one. Yeah, same. Maybe get him in the same doctrine.
All of them definitely looking on point for sure. And Vick actually had a chance to pop
off on that second map where he didn't have too much action going in the first one and
He did a great job controlling literally as is Astra.
And this sets up the stage quite well
for the next match, and if I think we're now
at the part of the lower bracket of kickoff
where every single match are going to be intense
into a big route, who are gonna be our top three teams
moving into the Santiago.
We talked about a stacked Americas
and it's probably the most stacked now,
going into what, the top five that we have right now
in Energy, G2, MIBR, Cloud9, the 100 Thieves?
Yeah.
Damn.
That's fire.
And the NC9 looking in a form where they are able to correct mistakes or even modify the play to be
Slow and play into Leviton with their own kind of default push into these windows that were insane and less like how somebody next to me
Wait, there's somebody over there too
Cloud9 was really able to work the entire map here and it was a really awesome thing to watch
That means we do have to say goodbye to Leviton on the other side coming through making their changes
And that squad does show promise we see the power that is on display there
Yeah, they just got to get it in order and that team is gonna fire exactly for me to take away going to that one
Is very similar to other teams going to kick off fire power is there in last minute changes coming across?
But now having to build up the macro around that right you have what it takes to start opening things up for this team
To go for deep runs going to stage one and stage two
But they also have to make sure that the macro changes a little bit more where they could add a little bit more layers
into how do you want to approach these maps?
That's right. Well, Cloud9 are moving on and kick off.
And right now, we're going to send it down to GB at the stage
for the Verizon Post-Match interview with Zelsus.
That's right. I'm here with the man himself.
Put your hands together for Zelsus.
Zelsus, pleasure to chat with you as always.
You and I caught up a little bit before the game.
We chatted. I asked you how you're feeling about the matchup.
And you know, you were, truthfully,
you were like a little nervous,
but you know, hey, gonna go out there, give it my best.
I think it's safe to say,
he most definitely gave it his best, right, folks?
I think they popped off out there.
Well, it's a good day when I'm shooting my gun, for sure.
Well, let's talk about that.
As Amy earlier, he had mentioned that you were working
with Oxy, he's been working with you on that.
What's that process been like for you
to have to really hone your shot?
Cause you got some crack out aimers on the squad.
I mean, I think it's just like,
I think I'm put a little too much effort
in the IGL stuff when I first switched IGL.
Now it's kind of like, I have those tools,
I kind of just need to shoot my gun
so we can win some games.
Was that a matter of you needing to catch up
on that IGL stuff, or was that just you wanting
to give it your all and sure that you were prepared
in that category?
I think it's the latter.
I think it's just like give it my all as the IGL,
cause like you said, we have four shooters.
Like if I'm shooting my gun, then that's great,
but they need an IGL, they need someone
that can lead them and stuff like that.
So I just kind of put my all into that,
but it's a good day when I shoot my gun, I had fun.
Yeah, hey, and it looked like you were having
a great time out there.
Team culture wise though one thing that sticks out to me. We're talking about this off camera is
Really you get this like wholesome family feel with y'all right even though I know coach
He means a you know bit hard nose and you know can oftentimes tell you exactly what he's thinking
I I do know that there is his vibe at least I'm getting it where you all looking out for you for one another
Is that something that is you're seeing it play out in the server here as well? Oh, yeah for sure
I mean I think I think when I first joined these guys had a tough time having really bad
talks and arguments, like, and I think within a family, you know, you argue with your sibling,
you argue with your parents, you know, like it happens, but we all have to understand
we're here for the same goal winning, so, and you need to have those talks to move forward
and get better, and I think the vibe there, you know, people like to call us Nepo 9, but
we put in the work.
We are working.
And look, speaking of that work, right, you kept a Levy at Don down to a 12 rounds, I
think total and absolutely incredible performance from you off to what we've been seeing Levy
at Don do.
I guess my question for you is looking forward here.
Where do you think Cloud9 can go?
Because it does feel like that work is in fact paying off.
We're qualifying to Santiago, baby.
Oh, you heard it here.
Zelsus, Zenit, Cloud9, qualifying to Santiago.
The people up there really like it.
Can I say one more thing?
Yeah, go for it.
Can you guys buy the C9 bundle?
OK, this guy out here, chilling like always.
Unbelievable.
All right, folks, that's good to do it for us here.
Zelsus, thank you so much.
Give it up one more time for Cloud9.
Zelsus, you coming up next.
We have the heavy weight-bound HG2 versus NRG.
Don't go anywhere.
I definitely didn't expect to play energy in the middle bracket.
G2, I thought it'd be like the upper final, obviously.
The late game comes just the way it should be.
Get your hands off the ball.
Get your hands off the ball.
Get your hands off the ball.
If they got the international, we have all the domestic,
so it's like people will just flame us and call us,
you know, domestic only.
But they're a really good team, but we just really
kind of understand them.
G2 usually plays a really slow play style,
and they try to, like, slow play the map.
So we're going to try to disrupt them.
the energy game will be a game of also showing new things and I'm sure that they have the
same stuff in store but we're just going to have to see who's you know new toys are better.
Last time we played on DCQ was stage 2 last year.
I feel like a lot has changed and we've been losing to him,
but I feel like we have what it takes to beat him up.
Welcome back to VCT Americas kickoff.
We got one more match left today, and this is a big one.
It's energy versus G2, and the winner will be moving on next week
in the middle bracket, the middle bracket final for a spot at Mass with Santiago.
So we are joined by Emily and Dan and men is going to be a good one.
I'm very, very excited.
Obviously we see the reigning champs going up against their kryptonite.
Yeah, yeah, they looked really dumb.
And I'm just happy to be in the middle bracket and no more limbs for the day, you know, no tears.
But no, I'm very excited for this matchup because you do have the previous champs versus,
like you said, their kryptonite two teams that I feel like out of all the teams here in America,
they love to play by the book.
So in my head, it's just who's going to be the first team to crack and have to adjust from what their goal is and what their game plan is and how are they going to come back into that?
We have always seen G2 be so dominant in Americas and when we were seeing this last year, end of last year, that was when Energy were still...
Finally, I seem to figure out how they wanted to play as they went into champs.
We started seeing some time to survive from them, we started seeing some great ideas and then they went in one at all.
But before that, it was G2 being so dominant.
This is going to be the best version of energy against G2.
And it's a G2 that has been struggling a little bit too.
Yeah, I mean, they have to kind of figure out
what to do with the meta.
I think we saw a lot of teams sticking to the good, honest,
valorant, what they're known for,
what they're used to.
Alas, they do have to make some adaptations.
And they did make those adaptations coming
into last week's matches.
Yeah, we've seen a few changes and a few win conditions
as well that both of the teams have been trying to find.
Obviously, if we think about the G2
and what they're trying to do with Baby Babe,
when it seems like nothing is working in her road,
what do we do?
You know, there's brandy.
I said, everybody's thinking all the same, yeah.
Yeah, we did get to see that on display also.
This graphic there, that's pretty.
And it can all change.
Sometimes history changes,
and sometimes it's the same.
It's true, yeah, it's true.
We here knew them.
Yes, that's the spirit.
That's the spirit.
Well, we'll see.
Today, of course, they're in the middle bracket,
so they will have another life to play with
in case they are, once again, dropping to their opponents.
Now, for more on this matchup,
let's send it over to Goldenboy and coach,
coach, coach Bonkar.
That's cool.
Hey, folks, GB here with Coach Bonkar.
And look, historical for NRG versus G2
has not favored you guys.
I'm sure you very much are.
Is there anything, or rather is there any concern that you guys are bringing into this matchup?
Especially Ethan, who's been a part of the team for a very long time. It has experienced those losses.
Nope. Okay, that's actually a very quick answer there.
Follow-up for that one. Are you excited for this match today and for this challenge to potentially take G2 down for the first time?
I mean, super excited. We all are. We know how good they are as a team.
And it's just fun for us to play against every single good team in the league.
So, yeah.
Well, I know all of us are very excited to watch this match up.
Best of luck to my friend.
Back to you guys.
I've expected him to answer the second one with a yep as well.
To the point though.
Sometimes that's all there is to say.
Now, energy of course, they got here with a victory over 100 thieves.
And according to Ethan, it was closer than it should have been.
You have some win conditions that ended up getting them that went too old,
but it was very close.
They were winning those big rounds.
They were winning those thrifties.
But when he came down to the big one conditions,
when you start to build some ultimates to work with it,
which is something that energy loved to do,
they were not really able to do that.
So that's why he feels like it was not as clean
as he wanted to.
He doesn't want those rounds to come down to the clutches.
Even if you have the players that can close it out,
you want it to be clean.
Yeah, and I think 100 things did play well,
but I do think a lot of it did come down to those mistakes
that Ethan was kind of mentioning.
I feel like normally when we're watching energy play,
they are a unit.
I feel like there's not a lot of gaps in their execs
and their retakes.
There's not a lot of mistakes
coming out from them,
especially individuals, right?
But then when I saw them play
against Richard Dives,
I feel like their timings
are a little bit off.
Not every angle was covered
on their execs.
It felt like the utility
was a little bit off.
But as long as they cleaned
that up, I think those are
very small mistakes
that they can easily fix
going into the smashing.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, one thing also
that really played into the
round set that they did win
was just heroics.
I'm looking at Scuba here.
That guy won them so many rounds.
He is insane.
I've been so impressed by Scuba, and I feel like we've been talking about him for a while,
even thinking about Tier 2, what he was doing last year, a lot of the rounds that he was
winning in Chams, but what he's doing right now, I feel like it's a completely different
level.
We see this was their opening match against Cloud9, the impact that he has and understanding
when things are not going right, how he's going to catch the lurk that was annoying
them over and over again, going into the second half, because this first half was a 10-2,
then it allowed him to build the ultimate, to build that Viper Spit, and of course, to
this clutch that we've seen now a few times with the sheriff. It just feels like scuba is able to
do it all. And in top of that, not only do we have this kind of play or the kind of place that
we've seen 400 views, but we think of how smart he is individual in individual decisions that we
haven't seen from anybody else. This clutch not only was it impressive because scuba was really
patient knowing what astronaut was going to be doing, but also because he baited that reload. So
of course astronaut to push just those little things that nobody else is thinking of that he's
always wants that the head yeah and scuba has to like repeat that performance today because g2 they
looked really good in their last match they redeemed themselves with the compositions i think when
we had jonah p here on the desk as well last week he said like he was just not really impressed
with what we've seen composition wise and g2 they came out with some really unique different things
it's just what you have to do you know you have to change it up a little bit and hey it worked out
we talked about the iso too yeah we did i honestly seeing a double duels coming from a team like g2
was a little bit unexpected and I think they did have a little bit of trouble
implementing that especially against Muria you know it didn't work out from
the first time around but they stuck to it and they made it work and they made it
look really good especially for something that's kind of a last-minute new
change for them. Absolutely yeah I am very interested to see what they're coming
up with here in today in order to you know punch their ticket into that final
already in the middle bracket. In the middle bracket too by the way I feel
But it's just hard to think
about that.
Not only this is the middle
bracket, but whoever loses is
going to the lower bracket.
Lower bracket for either G2 or
G2 sounds like this is not
real.
But the competition has been
so stacked, right?
If you're just looking at the
performance we've seen from the
teams in the upper bracket and
then also in the middle bracket
like it's been tough to call.
Like all those teams making so
many changes and they all look
like really crisp.
Yeah.
It's been so clean.
Yeah, probably the toughest
year in America.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We love to see the competition stepping it up now. Let's send it back over to golden boy and here from coach Josh Artie
Hey guys, do you be with coach Josh Artie look?
Historically speaking as I took to talk to coach boncar about the very same thing
I've read will home grounds in New York City. You guys defeated the then world champions brand news brand spanking new energy
30 and that was quite the statement that was made
What would it mean for you guys to be able to extend that lead to 6-0,
especially considering that these are the world champions that you guys seem to have the number of?
Of course, it would mean a lot to us, but at the same time that was then, and that was the past,
and it's about our new look, our new team identity.
We're mainly focused on us, to be honest, and they're just in the way, and that's it.
What was the prep like for you guys, especially after the loss you guys had dealt with prior coming into this one?
into this one, how you guys feeling?
We feel great.
I mean, I think the Fury of loss was a wake up call.
The C9 game was a little bit closer to what we wanted to do.
And I think the last week of practice
is more about sharpening us and just being more involved
in our team play.
I think that fell off a little bit.
And I think Energy is going to be a great test.
They're an excellent team.
Obviously, I think they're a top three team here,
probably arguably the top one.
It'll be a great test for us, for sure.
Dude, I know we're all excited to watch this heavyweight bout.
So it's going to be awesome.
Best of luck to you.
Now skirmish side selection is, of course,
an effect for this match.
So let's check out the one we want between Valin and Camada.
Who you got your jelly beans on?
This one is an interesting one because I feel like we've seen
the duelist versus duelist, the coaches as well.
But the duelist versus the ideal.
You don't see that very often.
I'm going to have to go with Madden, right?
Yeah, I think that's a fair assumption, right?
B-star player kind of for NRG, and he's already starting off strong here.
I'm excited for both of these people.
Oh, that's crazy.
Are you sure about that?
That's okay.
It's well right now.
This is going to be so well.
Oh, okay.
He's on the board.
He's on the board.
We're not back.
Yeah, we're so bad.
It's a little crazy, but it's a violin, like, he can just completely own whenever.
And that's what's happening right now.
This is actually really close.
a lot closer than I kind of thought it to be.
I think if your ideal is winning against your idealist,
that's it, that's already, you're already in the game.
You're already playing the battle.
That's a pretty game.
Yeah. This has to be like one of the fastest
skirmishes we've had though,
because there's not a whole lot of jibblin' in it.
It's just, you peep your death.
Straight to business.
Straight to business.
Okay, okay.
Like they are, it's coming back to the wire.
I love that.
Oh.
the big one and Valin.
Wow, okay.
Feels good.
Yeah, it doesn't feel good to be right.
It actually does.
It doesn't happen to me personally.
This is a new experience.
I love it.
Yeah, so Valin setting the tone, hopefully, for it as much to come.
That's a confidence booster heading into it.
Again, this is the mental game that you started right from the beginning.
Oh, you're doing this.
You're feeling good and you're going to get all over the girls.
Guess what?
The ideal on the other side is going to win.
That's why teams have their coaches to it because if the coach wins against your players,
you're really going to get a boom to it.
Yeah, but also a coach.
Mental warfare.
Come on.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, we love that.
Yeah, I'm very excited to see what we have in store for us here, map-wise as well.
It can really go either way.
I feel like both of the teams have shown us some really interesting stuff, but just like
we saw in the last years between 11-cloud-9, that information can be used against you,
And that's what happened to Lev for G2 and InterGate.
There's a lot out there because some of these matches have been very, very close.
So the question is how much you're giving that attention to the other side because just
for T for example, you said we're focusing on ourselves and nothing else.
Yeah, there is a lot out there for both of these teams, but I also feel like these are
the teams that do kind of want to focus on their own game.
They're not worried too much on kind of prepping to kind of counter whatever the enemy is facing
on them.
These two teams are really good at kind of adapting the game and also just being able
to adjust to find a way to continue to play how they want to.
This one is super interesting too because we're going to a map of Pearl that we saw
Energy play a few weeks ago against Cloud9 and it looked very dominated.
It was at 13-2 we thought was, oh Cloud9 is not playing really well, but it was the opposite
Energy.
They were playing really, really good on that map.
They had some strong wind conditions when it came down to the Ultimate, the way that
they were using that Armageddon, backside B, as the strong wind condition.
They were using the convergent path as well on A site.
Depending on how they wanted to go for that side hit,
that lockdown as well for the post plans,
it was very clear what the game plan was.
But once again, you can be right on the other side.
No, it definitely can,
especially when it comes to their post plan utility,
because that's what they relied on a lot.
They have a lot, they have the tail miss outs,
they have the shots coming in from so,
but they have the suck from Astor.
And it's just such a hard thing to kind of push back,
especially with all those agents,
you can play from that view on it.
You don't have to be on site fighting.
So as long as there's delay,
It's kind of a win as soon as you get that bomb down.
Right.
Ethan, once again, on that tail.
Tail main confirmed.
I really want to see an out of all the maps
where we've seen the tail.
This is the one that made the most sense.
Again, this is what we saw before when they played Cloud 9.
And was that backside B when they did it?
Why are you jumping?
Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
I see a lot of things right now, by the way.
A lot of things happening, and I have a lot of questions.
There's a phoenix. Why was murder right?
Because Phoenix, this is like the first one when she did that agent pitch.
We did not know that we were going to be seeing Phoenix in America's pick-off.
They have been cooking, all right?
And that's what I want to see from two NA Titans.
They're ready to do battle and we've got Uber and Wyatt on the mic.
Yeah, there's so much chatter about this stat.
At G2, last year in VCT against NRG, we're undefeated and it just didn't matter
because Valorant and the boys still had to look on
While NRG lifted the trophy at Champions Balancet, it's when it kind of came together for me.
It's really about putting our team in a position to peak at the right time, not just to hope we peak at the right time.
Absolutely. This is as exciting as it gets in America as the world champions versus the undisputed America's champions of last year.
It really is just so bizarre that NRG have never been able to overcome G2, though maybe this will be their moment.
I do feel like G2 have looked beatable so far in this run.
Obviously, they did lose to Furia who are still in that upper bracket.
And there was some danger, a sense of that, against Cloud9 on Corode until Baby Bay was a hero that brought them back into it.
Maybe this will be NRG's time. It's starting on Pearl where they dominated the aforementioned Cloud9 in their debut matchup.
That was a 13-2 victory. Haven't played the match since, though.
NRG don't have a perma-bed, so they get to go and ban some of G2's best maps straight off the ring.
They get binded out of there, that's the 3-0 map for G2, it's been their home, and they haven't played that many other maps, only three other ones.
So this is the first time we're seeing their Pearl, they're bringing out the Phoenix.
It's always been an off meta pick, but we have seen it pretty much at some point at all times since Pearl's debut, just again, an off pick though.
This grapple is actually pretty big in terms of buying some time, there's also the Phoenix Molly thrown in that place.
Jolt's curveball tries to get him around the corner.
Manna deep on the side, trying to push up.
It's going to be Jolt with the right click,
but gets his first by itself.
Also going to keep G2 and Bay for now.
And Ethan's playing aggressively.
And RG decided the course of action
is to fight past that wall.
Now slowing things down, Ethan gets that pick over
towards Flowers as the slow flank from Dre maneuvers.
Dull with.
Best of the final kill that Spike didn't quite go the way
that Baby Bay would have liked to be.
He's still threatening from that main position.
And now it feels like the net is starting to close.
Kiko falls, Skupa trying to give Brawk a little bit of room, but Babybay is encroaching.
Skupa knows he has to cross this expanse to try to line it up with the three combo.
I don't know if that really went off the way they would have wanted it to.
And that Skupa turns on Babybay now, the rest of G2 need to get active.
It's on Brawk, proving one! Valon cleans him up!
Great hold there from G2, and Pivotal is that late flank coming from Babybay.
They denies the plant and then just his
Existence in the main was sort of thrown in the side of those remaining energy players
They did a fair job of actually fading him out what while dealing with him to steal those two players that were in secret ready to go
Roger clean it up. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Look scuba looks so mad, bro
He looks like he always does.
Looks on phase there.
But I get it. Hype them up.
A lot of stall U-Tool there from G2.
Ooh, that is spicy!
Okay, huge space denial from Jaws Molly.
He's actually able to post up on these boxes now in a fast position.
In the meantime, Babyface pushed all the way up here,
so it's a G2 that are happy to fight here,
and you'd love your Phoenix Field to farm supports.
Is that right? A problem!
Okay, the Guardian's not quite able to cut through, but Trent is there with the Aries.
Scoob attacked on the cross. Yeah, and because of that cross Trent has to give up the line.
So guns are going to be recovered. That's Scoobah with a Guardian. Brock gets the
Spectre and now they can slow things down, recovering that spike.
Try and force G2 to spread across the map a bit more, which is the case here.
They'd be going towards that A side with the Marshall.
You can see this Teho U-Tool from each of those very heads up.
Jaws forced to flash there because the guy itself are coming at him, but all of the energy
was still on the smoke.
They actually exited the smoke about half a second later, so no one flashed up.
Hins up being a one for one at best.
Makes G2 look sloppy there.
Now Baby Bay has to watch both the connector and the B main.
Every single target on energy is a one shot to this Marshal, and it looks like he's getting
on the right line at the right time, but he can't connect.
What a shot from Scuba, that is.
Well if he's mad, he's channeling it in the right direction.
That Guardian.
Dominated baby bait.
Valon here's got a Stinger.
Trennally he can work from his high ground to some degree, but of course it's full post plant here for NRG.
I mean what's crazy is that NRG have the best long range weapon right now in this situation where they can play off the site.
They are chilling.
Scuba just waits for someone to step out, of course.
You've got...
Somebody going for a shot.
Yep, trying to clear Valon out there.
Kiko was just so fast on that flank to Ling.
He was running, he wrapped around, he knew he'd be in a good position, but now it gets a bit more dangerous.
That's the Guardian player down.
Kiko making a lot of noise.
And up in front of him is still down, but Kiko survives at 6 now, it's dangerous.
Dread hasn't even halved again, that's the problem. Kiko can swing on this there.
Oh, he does the bounce twice! And it's over!
Perfect there from Kiko, 6 points of health.
Still alive man.
5 more than he needed.
And a beautiful 50 for Enargy.
Just the right amount of pressure. Stop Trent from getting it to half and at that point
clutch was absolutely won
Well done from Kiko as well just that heads up decision to get all the way wrapped around the lane so fast
Yeah, he's so quick. He's got a clap
But yeah, I mean with that classic he's not gonna be any help over and long so
Perfect positional adjustment. He was moving and you have to call back to that great reflight in Maine as well
You're talking about Ethan's utile how crucial that was and suddenly G2 on this eco
Just when he thought they were getting off to the race as early G2
Have a stick jammed in the spokes basically just an entire full buy right now for energy
Mata has the stinger and well these separate range for the back
Oh, okay, Mata getting ahead of a draw, but he can't worry that after the time being it was gonna be refract anyway
These stronger weapons are starting to show up
sleep down
All is up here for job, but no attempt to test it everyone pulling out towards that B side of the map
The job is getting close to that Phoenix ult
Definitely a chance you could have it on their actual buy round
That is one of the main purposes of running the PX especially on Pearl is just fighting over the orbs being able to get
Alts just cycled one after another. Yeah, run it back being six orbs is quite a selling point as it turns out
Yeah. It's all yay playing a ton of the last year actually, on the stand.
Oh, and there is one kill from JAR.
Some danger for NRG. These players are weak, modern. Ethan, look at their HP.
Yeah, JAR here testing with a ghost.
Oh, look, though. Of course he gets himself an order as soon as humanly possible.
Maybe they might share a... Oh, my goodness! Two for BabyBane. Ethan is low.
In the post-parts, sure enough, but he's got nothing but the weapon to work with.
And now G2 is circling! What is going on?
That's the one where we're just going to need to rely on the replay operators to provide us the context.
Where BabyA just destroys two players and he is out of seed, he is pointing at someone.
There's a lot of interplay on the stage.
Okay, what is going on here?
Wow, I mean
Because it was my hours perfect. That was a pretty
Effortless shot at least he made it look effortless
He's not tired of the baby bear narrative yet because it is the deadest horse. It's basically pate at this point
The one that we've been this beating into the ground since stage two
enderizing of him joining the team and
I will say the biggest difference between then and now is he was good in stage 2, but I think he's been G2's best player in this run so far.
He has been a menace and getting back to that duelist role on a lot of maps now, his original role when he was competing on FaZe, he just looked so comfortable.
Right now he's up top trying to fight towards B, Ethan not giving him anything though.
Look at his deep clear of A main from G2 as they push off the side.
This is provoking and G to start to split a little bit here over towards this mid connector.
The energy are really trying to threaten that there could be some pressure going towards
A but it's just going to be a pivot back into this B split.
Right now, no ults to work with and if you two want to
gonna lightly play this site, maybe go for a spam kill and give it up and
retake with Jaws ult, that's not a terrible option.
Leif was so far forward on the right side of the map, he's gonna be pretty quick to connect
but there is a turret watching, is it watching in his direction though? We'll have to wait and see.
Faggot late, looks to flash out, yes the turret was watching the flank so that's now NRG being all worn.
Jaws here and that ult is ripped.
Alright, run it back in the plate and begin away from the special delivery.
Jorsten wants to fight. He knows he has to with no chance though.
Kiko dominates him there from long.
He can still entrench it in halls.
Needs to be dug out of Jorma's second attempt.
Get him at Mara and Scuba. They're in numbers.
And it's G2 walking into the crossfire, but Baby Bay's getting his hands dirty now.
Trembler to swing and catches out. Broke.
It'll be Yank to finish the round and G2 get to three.
They look phenomenal on these B side retakes.
I really like that they just played for that. Again, they found success with it even with the bad weapons on the other round, and this one looked even easier.
Jaws ult gets someone back, you tow out, even though he doesn't find many kills with it, he just had to, you know, drew out the Satch rate, etc.
And then after the fact they reswing, fight halls, in the meantime, the rest of the team just pushing through main.
So almost like it sounds like a joke because of how it's referenced even making this crosshair placement for the last couple of rounds is the perfect
Also, like just good spacing from G2. They have to fight in the halls
There's three energy players that are in there and new decent weapons to work with as well
Joe sees that sort of in advance or tries to get in there and shop by Kiko and then run it back
But when he returns for real GT trade up very nicely
I think he's probably trying to just convey some of the tendency, because G2 really split
across the map in that last round, with Leak also pushing super deep on A. That deep A
clear from g2. It might be something that NRG want to gain playing around because it
really cut that rotate timer down to size.
Now you would presume on this round with 5 plastics NRG won't be too much of a threat.
They're going to be able to get their hunters fury, their armor get in with this round,
Ethan and Brock even if they just die at some point so they'll have that for the gun round.
And then just looking at G2, that things even do get dangerous.
They have the ult combo with the Dimensional Drift Hunters, Fury ready to go.
Baby Bay.
Got himself an outlaw now.
I just smoked.
Okay.
Safe cross step for NRG, could have gone either way.
Just falls back, plays safe.
Valin is up close right now, stunned to get into the smoke.
Flashed up, stunned up, slowed.
Saturated and rolled by Kiko, baby Bay.
Leases have to ring out some shots with that sheriff, but the teleport is still out.
out in the open.
Yeah, not covered.
It's only the one who smoked that water up a side, and that was from NRG.
A little bit exposed.
He wasn't one.
What happened there?
The movement!
From scooper.
A little bit too slippery.
Oh, yeah, that's a well-placed shot.
Trent's done very well to hit this side of me.
Good use of that utility.
But now with the element of surprise out the window, scooper is a little exposed.
Yeah, got dangerous, but G2, there has been a stabilization from Leaf and Trent coming
in late.
Ultimately they still just had much better weaponry, the util arsenal to work with and
with no armours those shock darts just a lethal as well.
That was scary.
Classics and bandits getting kills.
But that being said, even the damage done really doesn't matter all that much because
G2 win that eco round and got a bunch of free weapons earlier in the game and then just
win the subsequent round.
So probably was promoting the NIG just to throw caution to the wind on rounds like that one.
Now this is one trick, quietly dominating.
This is an inflection point in this first half for sure.
Both sides stacked up with ultimates.
It's Pacy from NRG, just to get towards B long right now.
Not fighting for any control of the map elsewhere.
That has resulted in Baby Day getting A main for free.
And you can see just due to that, rotate from G2 all over the B side.
He wants to fight him as safe right now, but he's got no choice, he can't fight Halls, and that's gonna be good in that trade now.
Jorva reflects his way out, but Hunter Scurry's gonna be coming through, he's getting damage on him, but he could deal with Scoob Attack in the corner.
Fallon they're not far behind, has the inkling, has the idea that the player's there, and a clone is shot.
It's an easy three piece for the captain so far.
And Braug has to step away from this.
There's a triple stack, high and low, waiting around the corner.
And that spike is on the wrong side of that screen.
Virtually impossible round to win by any metric.
Let's see what he can get!
And he'll get nothing! 5-1!
NRG's straightforward game plan on these rounds is heading towards B,
and G2's willingness to send the player into A main early
has just allowed them to stack up on this site.
And despite the Armageddon going back, they just don't care.
They have multiple players in there ready to fight together already
What
Mocking so hard he's speaking it at a registered to life of the human here to register
Also worth noting that you two did not have to use one all to win our rounds
Okay, oh, they're aware of it. Oh, wow, they're right on it. They're chasing him to he didn't sort of have his hands full here
trying to avoid these shots, we get a multiplayer swing into this and not much you could do about that.
Mada gets in and gets one. Here's a lock down over to the A side of the map in the art direction.
This is going to get a scurrying back.
Leaf is going to get caught. The barrel's seen. Yeah, that's nice from Scuba. What a mid round from NRG.
That is a bizarre moment there with the lock down.
Forces G2 out of A, but convinces him that's where the spike's going to end up and so Leaf has his knife out.
A really sick call. We've seen few to the wing. Disadvantageous retakes on this B side.
So 3v4 is definitely not out of the question.
Another runner back here for Jor as well, but he's not Armin.
He is a bit like Paper Match A at the moment.
Is he just going to send it in on a round like this?
So strange.
All right. Asconvergent pass, Jor's at the sidestep there.
Inside holes, Mada is now on the prowl.
David Bay holds it up in position.
And aren't you reading?
Big spoiler now for the time being, being out of Mata, our TREP tries to spray that corner.
It's exactly what you want to do with the OVM, that Mata is just too good,
we'll be able to refract away. Caught by BabyBae though. Time, that's the issue.
Kiko is good, it's so far off this. BabyBae could cause problems, but there really isn't enough time to get that defuse.
Not even at that, there's stars on the spike, no chance for BabyBae there.
But so much damage done to NRG on their first round win could be extremely
significant as we move forward. That being said though, have to give the massive
credit for a sick mid-round call. After losing Ethan in A main from some pretty
relentless aggression that G2 display just hunting him down, they make that
great play with the fake lockdown and a pivot over towards B. Leaf caught on that
rotate really cool round one of those rail rounds where both teams are kind of
happy with the outcome yeah it's not horrible for g2 look at the money on
energy their players with zero oh my god that's crispy alright traded instantly
though your tries to push up into that plot that maybe they want to swap this as
well what is in danger he took some shock dart damage as well just 20 HP he
is in there to the link as energy trying to work down be long but they're so
spread across the map that they can't go for it right now. Oh mother had a chance
even at the low HP but couldn't connect the instant shot by the player had their
crosshair position for that it was all about adjustment. G2 looking like a
kick hornet nest this round. Very much buzzing around the map and Kiko is expected
to push up and he is rewarded. Yeah baby they're getting adventurous and is very
much punished for that and aren't you by their time you can see Kiko on the
rotate getting back towards B main. Scroober just posted to see if anyone
is going to shoot. Farther that's 3 for Trent Recon as well to assist Valon who's
going to be able to swing off Trent's contact. Just maybe intending on posting
up on his own. Just seek discipline from Trent there.
Ultraline sees the player eventually caught out but that was a guard itself
and he was going to force him out positioning either way! Here's Valon!
Slamson to full round game. There it is just swinging off of Trent
And this time on that round where NRG's economy was fully on the line, G2 go for a different look with that instant mid-fight jaw, just flashes out, catches one, and then from there NRG they get fairly disconnected around the map.
Mata definitely had a chance to get that kill on baby day but ultimately G2 just calmed
things down, played with that nice setup, simple, Trent holding the cross, Valon swings
off that contact, collects the kills, and look at Mata G's economy right now.
Mata just trying to get ahead of it, trying to pick something up, but G2 were waiting,
they knew they'd be colliding.
Oh, really?
It's like that.
like that all right you're looking a little different out there
I got one oh my goodness well easy come easy go with that ultimate you can
probably get halfway to his next one if things go off from here does just get an
orb real quick okay it's two orbs not the way he would have hoped
still be shocked hearts man all right Trent that's no what's gonna happen
and here he knows and he's still looking at end aid, keep her run on the deep.
Trent, is he trying to feed Orcs?
He's trying to style on them.
Yeah, he's trying to style on them.
I respect him.
And he's done it.
And he's done it.
Yeah.
Styling successful.
G2 are looking rock solid on this defense.
Are you ready?
One of the dangers of energy picking this map into G2, as we mentioned, is that there's
no tape on G2.
They don't know what they were playing heading into this.
The Phoenix is definitely a surprise.
Why are we saying this?
I think I wonder if that round where jaw like birds that that Molly
Play for liquid last year
Okay, that's great you play the Z9
Yeah, I want to go to use
The
Yeah, the Phoenix Molly and a main seems to have it so scare energy off for a little bit. It's nothing like that this round
There's no aggressive a main cleared from G2 either. So energy
Face no resistance early in the round at coffee divide straight full day
That means they're gonna accelerate any site that has four G2 players are ready to go
I was in the pocket here. This could be ugly Valon swing. I think it's on the other side
This is so awkward Valon back in the noise. It's not a moderate Winston now. He's entrenched
Ethan's popular the other side. There's a wall damage
This hasn't gone well for NRG. They're just going wall for wall.
RUMMING! Kick her down to 33.
Valorant can diffuse behind this, and G2 will lie in ways.
Once again, a situation where they just have everybody stacked up on the right site.
There are four players there, ready to go.
We're getting one of them flow state trade games today.
14 and 3. It's been very casual as well.
Yeah, I don't see it like it's just been dialed every round
But Valin really set up here this fight with motto is so awkward
That pocket is available for the spam so Ethan just goes down
Right after playing by the half wall
Starting a little frustrated if you ran out of G these G2 teamfights are really solid honestly
Ah, they retakes his wall whether they've been clearing close fine for each other
Very very good in this one. It just ceases to exist. That was spam I'd say through this one.
I mean by the way a main control from G2.
NRG just...
Dude they are going for it.
Oh what? There might be an opportunity for scuba and mid.
This is the later trader. Okay.
And this is the second time in a three rounds that scuba's been able to do that.
This time they were a better weapon and with more prospects in the round.
This is drawn NRG back through their spawn site.
Now on the instant lurk, Trent knows that this is a possibility.
He knows timing.
Oh my god.
He's off.
He's off.
How does he know, dude?
Great intuition there from Trent.
And he's just going to follow.
Scooby is never going to be ready for this.
And it's a freebie now.
NRG, githering in their own spawn.
Have to decide where to end the route.
Kiko has a lockdown, but that can just
be made irrelevant because of Trent's hunter.
It's fury.
Leaf is really entrenching himself on this beast.
spotting each other he's gonna be
fast all of the interceptor based
actually based eats up the guy that's
our vote it doesn't really give away too
much of the game either they just don't know
and there's baby bear he arrives in time
supplemental flash for leaf to swing
another crossfire set up 20 seconds
energy man disadvantage they have to just
damn deal with way too many angles
there's just no way to deal with those
oh so fast just being on
obviously interceptor inter-interacts
Inter interacts with any projectile-based utility.
I really thought he was dead to rights there, but great timing there for a leak to set that up and make sure he was going to be knocked out of position.
Scuba tries to put them in position to win this round. There was a nice little 1v2, goes for the lurk, but Trent had some real nice intuition there to be able to catch him.
He's so wholesome.
Oh, you guys.
Oh
You do get soft as you get old
Great influence there from the trend realized excuse me would have pushed that deep
So last round of the half energy poultry two rounds
This is the very map with a held C9 to only two rounds not so long ago
and
She too pushed all the way up be long
They know that no one is there time to rotate towards the aside teleport from baby day
They've got three players there right now. They're about that four players there
Danger for energy looms, yet again on this execute.
Run pinged, chased.
Hunters fury as well, okay, the schmoves.
One more shot first, and Bellarmine is able to avoid it.
So, fighting to get for what may be a flood into the A side.
Hey, minus down, he was very low already to be fair.
Hunters fury at this time coming away from G2,
it's Treble lining him up and lighting him up.
That's Kiko, barely alive, has to make use of this lockdown at some point of the round.
Create some space for a spike recovery, but I believe it's been spotted in a night
Trent you can't aware of this
And that's a free kill Kiko has zero HP to work with scuba on site
Surrounded G2 yet again on one of those rounds control the extremity baby teleports
They stack up the site for the hit from NRG and they just make that entire half look rudimentary
just a simple effortless defense where they have all of their players ready to enter the right site every single round.
Now, G2Know as well as us at their record against NRG last year doesn't mean anything, necessarily,
but you better believe they're taking no small degree of satisfaction from the way this map has gone so far.
Bring in the Phoenix comp, look at damn good its trend that I've got my eyes on though.
Let's see if NRG can find some equity to find a way to dig in on Pearl after this.
Holy smokes. You don't look so good, boss.
Tell me about it.
There's a real inferno down here, and I burnt out.
Here, try a Red Bull. It's devilishly good.
Red Bull?
Oh, that tastes heavenly.
Wait a minute. Watch this.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Wings? Wings? I can't have wings. That in my position.
Red Bull gives you wings!
21 and 6. That was Brawk's scoreline when NRG took Cloud9 to task on this map of Pearl
not so long ago. Trens on G2 at 16 and 3. Ain't that far away from that himself?
Energy might be suffering a loss at the same 13-2 score line if things continue the way
that they have been going, which is utter dominance from G2.
Energy's game plan on attack was just not cutting it.
G2 were effortlessly dismantling their execs, and now Energy will have to match that level
of play on this defense of their own.
from g2 moving their way towards that the side all going through main teleport ready to go through
as the utile comes in back site wall to cut off a potential crossfire gappy they'll do even
wants to commit to this yeah okay he thinks he's having a really punished that opening a little bit
flash there connected and he's still able to deal with your
i just don't feel like that's constructed all that solidly from g2 that the hit on the b
No, ultimately they're not really able to take any space. Ethan gets that nice first kill tucked in the corner
I feel like you don't see that position being taken a ton on
The hard site anchoring setups has a little view on the wall doesn't cover everything up. So he exploits that
Just good anchoring for the guys. I mean
They want to go scrappy bro. Let's grab you from done. Well done
Well, you heard the man start sales influx
Kind of old scrappy already. Yeah, maybe not. Yeah, I'm here nor there scrappy pejorative for energy
I think not complimentary G2 just run it down there not stopped by the tail want to come in intercept
Valon Ethan exchanging some blows
Maybe we're with a flash to a main, but it's just a faint
Now NRG didn't go for any kind of deep push up B long, it's just being held kind of passively
from Mata at the moment, which by the way, look at this buy from NRG.
I mean, huh?
Yeah, it's really like, if three sheriffs with the rifles, that's an interesting look.
Yeah, Leviathan all of a sudden.
Let's see this Valon mid-routing.
What's he cooking up?
Obviously there's man who saw me his feet there and a tire doesn't take contact
He knows it. He knows exactly what would be waiting for him. He's a little on the low side though
Now what is the move from G2? They have a ton of control of the map. He has really conceded all of mid at this point
Cheeky little
Stealth throwing there reasonably energy or just kind of set up in this 2-1-2
They need one player to watch sewers than they hope that a duo can anchor either site
Wait.
Can't draw as long as they don't feel long with a classic.
Yeah, he then swarms that go to Snarl out G2 as they're trying to approach this V side
of the map.
Can't draw.
Make a splash here.
Got into Halls in Phoenix and gets the drop on Kiko.
He's only a sheriff though that he gets for his troubles there.
Hang about.
He connects it back away.
That's all good!
Caught in the open!
Now a 2 vs 2.
Join this guns for a cover here in the post-plot.
Oh, it's just fighting.
What is the timing by the way?
Haz is off.
Four kills with a classic!
Is this dangerous hit for Brawl?
How the heck is he supposed to get onto the slide?
That was free!
He dinked him!
Down to 47!
Joel for free!
He's over to Punish Brawl, but now at least with a reach-in shield, he walks in healthy
enough.
He's got two players to worry about!
I can't even!
That is the most outrageous display a classic you've ever seen!
What are we doing here?
Where did that come from?
I'm just stunned.
What can you even do?
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
I'm just stunned.
What can you even say about that?
That looked like the easiest clean up in the world for NRG.
What, that long rigged right click is crazy.
But it's modern Ethan, or modern right now to bullets,
so it was just an honest pistol fight.
I mean, hey, what's good?
Why don't you do classic, baby?
Let's go.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Viral marketing in the big 26 line.
I am done.
NRG, because of that, by having the sheriffs,
They have a buy here kind of they have two stickers with three vandals. This is some new economic management
that is
Interesting to witness but
Well, okay try it might just
Begin send them out of this round actually never mind
This is the weak side for renardy. They were heavily stacked over towards a something that jaw probably surmised
So now they'll take that double stack in halls, player over towards long side and Leaf was just barely spotted there.
How does he intend to be a factor here? He's gonna play along.
Despite his full favor, they just rotate into the side, he's got an outlaw, so he'll need to keep his distance to a degree.
Shocked out, there's a valley to be had here, here comes Scuba though, gets on out there.
He and Ethan swing this together, but there's Leak and Ballon chiming in.
It's on Trent now, sixth game from him.
from him. The odds, the deck, stacked against him. Swing timing, look at how low these two
have gone. It's got to be now, it's got to be one swing to end the... Oh, Trent! Okay,
not bad! And no chance! Oh, man! He's just gone and done it. Red Bull clutch here for
Trent, and G2 go to map point. One of the most bizarre maps I've seen this year and
some time. Casual 18-5 for Trent. NRG will be able to cobble together another weird buy
to attempt to stay in the game in the next round. Just plays the timing perfectly there
on that swing. The Kiko just doesn't have the time to defuse that spike. Can't get the
to kill quick enough on the swing.
Energy's picked by the way.
Just a reminder of that.
Oh, okay, here we get,
once again the flash is South G2.
Oh, the cart ball is too good then.
Getting destroyed on this fight.
Butter at 20, he knows he's in deep trouble.
And so, it is Kiko.
Yeah, need more than just a little bit of liquid to doubt.
This fire, my friend, and it is a 13-3 for G2.
But you may can't believe it.
Energy in dismay, their map pick is thrown in their face.
But aside of how many are
that your classic case was
not ridiculous
How is that legal? How is that happening? How's that allowed to happen?
I thought they're going to denur
You got a long range right click the miles away down halls
What's happening? I really don't know. You know, it's funny energy
I'm sure bonkar saying he does not care about what the record was last year
But you gotta imagine some put through that map it starts to create the doubt
that maybe G2 might just be energies kryptonite
tonight. Aside from just that ridiculous classic case by the way, Trump was obviously putting
up numbers, but Jaws able to get first six boards throughout that game. He really went
off. A player that there has certainly been some criticism being lobbed at, has not had
a great tournament so far in kickoff. There's definitely not been an up to his standards.
But he had a solid game against C9 last week and to start off against NRG, the reigning
world champions, he destroys them on the Phoenix. Well Phoenix much. This was
absolutely absurd. Squeezed everything he could out of his kit and utility.
Take your preconceived notions from out the window and join us back to split after this.
What the hell is that?
It's an A-plan.
So very quickly the rest of the team come across from that B-side.
Big saturates.
That's not their entire time.
Another T versus three.
So they're cut off from a lot of somebody.
All of the control.
We're trying to come alive.
Alright, down here we're coached Josh R.T.
An absolutely dominating performance that we saw from G2 in that game.
I got to ask about the Phoenix man where the hell is this coming from? Where are you cooking this stuff up at?
I mean, I got to give credit to purex. They they don't serve us in an offseason tournament on Haven
I'm like, why not just try it on pro so you took it from the offseason tournament from them. Yeah
Yeah, what was it about that composition? I mean, do you be like hey?
This is something that we should be incorporating what about your players kind of give you the inclination that we can incorporate this
I mean jogging mode is he's always aggressive
I want to I I gotta leverage this Asian pool a little you know and just let them go free and just be super aggressive
Just show a lot of threats and just throwing a nice yoru in the mix with Andre popping and then a nice veto
Just to mess with their utility flow a little bit
So I thought it was just a great comp to just counter energy
You guys are basically on track to be able to win 6-0 in this series against NRG
How how are the guys feeling in the back after you just spoke with them?
Do you get an opportunity to catch up with them after that win?
No, they went instantly to the bathroom, but I'll talk to them in a sec.
I think they're ecstatic that, like what we worked on for a little bit, finally,
we're like, you know, panned out.
Yeah, no, I think, yeah.
Coach, always a pleasure, my man.
Thank you so much for your time.
Best of luck in the series.
Back to you, boys.
Welcome back to the desk.
We are here, and that's exactly what happened to NRG in the first map.
G2 just pummeled right through him.
I'm right here with Vans to set you up for the next map and break down that first one.
to running away with NRG's map and you heard Josh RT there just saying it's
because they had to go to the bathroom. Yeah exactly they had to finish it quick.
But to go with the low hanging fruit it's definitely about that
compositional change. Focusing a lot on this double duelist versus this double
initiator that they've always played in the past. So you have a different look
going into that week number four and you're seeing here Jogimo and Bibi Bay.
When Josh RT mentions about Jogimo where you want to try to utilize him to the
best of his capabilities. I think the Phoenix fits him perfectly if he's not
going to play the Yoru. Why? Because if you watched how he plays Wele, you always
talk about Joggermo being like a selfless player or whatnot, but there's a
lot of these moments where he's trying to throw a saturate, swings before it, and
just dies. This time you have self-sustainability for Joggermo to
flash, peek, get these picks on his own, and then finally get the support right
after. And what I like about that too and how they approach this against energy,
there's definitely a lot of studying that's been done. They cut that line of
Not giving a chance for energy to set up any type whatsoever at the beginning of these rounds and you get that hype right there
Yeah, baby activating still on something right they went all the way to put them on ISO
So we could still get in the fights still find ways to be in the face of the enemy and really put that heat on their opponents
I think the other thing too, especially with baby Bay is not only just talking about the step away from the double initiator
Look from the side of G2, but it's also baby being stepped away from the one trick chamber
you're seeing as well that you have an opportunity this time around to have so
many Swiss Army guys around the roster of G2. Remember Leaf going from sentinel
to initiator. Now back to senti as a veto so G2 is looking pretty primed up
when I was preparing for these games. You're smiling and ace up whatever he
wants that G2 comp as well. You see it on the bottom of your screen there's so
many annoying flashes to deal with there. You think towards post plant oh
they've got to be done with their flashes. No they have more flashes and
they're still throwing these Yoru's annoying Phoenix flashes in that you
haven't been used to because it's our first Phoenix here in America you might
be used to it but at this speed at this pace on the stage maybe not. And Josh
Arti talked about that veto as well right and we didn't really have a chance
to see that veto at all because of the aggression that came out from G2 in the
first place. When you're already swinging it out and getting a complete of these
picks you're always for energy side like a 1-2 player at a disadvantage trying to
enter into these sites they're just creeping trying to find information
trying to go for individual picks and they're getting punished at those lines
without having to utilize veto to the best of his capabilities. So right now
for G2 with such a strong showing, they also have the opportunity to hide a little bit more
ground for their later matches trying to qualify for Santiago.
And this is a G2 heavy segment because three rounds came in for NRG and the big reason
for that was some thrifties that came through where NRG couldn't stop and one of those was
a classic ace.
Yeah, and it was going to have to be this round as well.
When you talk about G2 looking very good in the pistol, they got echoed right after by
energy.
Oh crap, this is going to be a strong energy map again.
But then you have this first crossbar setup.
the stack is perfect. The shots are sublime from baby Bay in the first place,
but then going to this one, losing the pistol, going into a pistol ace.
And you just see Joggenburg keep and running it down just nonstop.
He does not care. He runs out of flashes still running cause he's going to get two more kills and get another flash there.
And it didn't look like energy could play their game, but they had to split next.
What, what honestly could be an answer because they're going to see a new G2 comp as well.
They probably won't have breach there.
So energy needs to be able to play against something they haven't seen already.
Yeah, I think for us in America, we're just like, oh, well, you know what, like, if EMEA and the other regions are just talking about how our, let's say, mini, for example, talking about how bad breach is, let's step away from that one.
And that's actually put our star player as leaf outside of that breach to bring more value to this composition for G2.
So I wouldn't be surprised if we see another approach of double duelists for G2, because it seems as though they've sort of wanted to flip the switch, not necessarily understand the meta, but play their own game.
because if you look at the double doors that they play,
it's no real way to dive agent kind of thing.
There's a prop ISO, you know, on corrodes.
So they're just gonna play to their best strengths.
I wouldn't be surprised to see maybe baby bait on ISO again.
Yeah.
And they just run it down with the rest of the team.
And split there, energy is gonna have to fight back
on G2's pick.
And even if that goes the way of energy,
they go to Haven where we just heard Josh RT talking about
that they have some things ready.
They feel comfortable and where the practice in.
So it really has to be everybody firing on all cylinders
here for this next matchup.
Well, let's hear what Coach Bonkar has to say
ahead of map two.
All right, here with Coach Bonkar.
Coach, that was a tough loss.
You know, got to call a spade a spade.
Were you anticipating that composition from G2?
Because, heck, no one on our end was anticipating that.
So is that something you maybe thought
could have been read on your end?
What do you make of it overall?
We didn't anticipate specifically that comp overall, we were anticipating like maybe some chamber here and there or anything, but they played a great comp and they played a fantastic game, so just up to us to shake it off and go again.
I know you took a little while on the back with the squad, what were you telling them to motivate them, get them back into it, or was any player in particular the one that was trying to rally the troops for the second map?
We just spoke super briefly about this map and legit just move on splits. We have
Auntie for them. We're ready for the map and just start playing the game again
That was a slow slow match for us and it happens sometimes
Hey, well look if there's one team that can't make the bounce back. It's a world champ
So I have the utmost confidence in your boys back to you
I echo the same thing GB says there bonk are in the team have been in a position where they have to figure out how to
Really correct what's going wrong go around the speed bumps instead of continuously go over them
and it shouldn't be a problem for map 2.
It would be tough though if G2 comes out with a brand new composition
because it'll kind of be like the energy versus C9
where you're trying to learn how to play against a breach.
Yeah.
Hopefully, we're going to be learned quick.
All right. Well, Uber and Wyatt will be back with map 2
after this quick break. Don't go anywhere.
This is of course a very important matchup in this middle bracket. The winner will advance
to that middle final, we'll call it, to take on the loser of the upper final. That's sort
of trickle down economics in terms of how a format works. So in theory, it puts the
one game away from qualification to Santiago. Here's the energy composition, maybe nothing
really to furrow the brow. The Tejo sky combo, I think is going to be an interesting one
to see, but we've seen that from them on a number of occasions. G2 with a team that used
to always just pound that Tehokov on this map, basically wherever they could play it.
They don't have gone away from it, and I wonder where they're going to go. Whoa, baby Bay
on the way, Le. John the Mion. This is a departure from the norm for G2. They're mixing it up
after suffering a convincing, convincing loss to Furia, one that Valen discussed as being
something of an inflection point for this team's run in kickoff,
addressing a lot of the internal issues with the team off the back of that fury of loss.
And since then, well, they beat Cloud9, they've absolutely crushed NRG on map one.
And now on this map, they're looking to bounce back via running an experimental comp.
This is pretty cool to see. It's kind of just a general idea or like identity of G2.
I feel like it's shifting a bit where they are getting more experimental overall.
Going from the Phoenix on map one into this Neon Whaley now on map two and yeah
The Phoenix was giving like mid last year paper X vibes
We've also said they've taken comms from tier two and tried to adapt them
Not many teams could pivot so quickly and how they approach a map midway through a tournament like G2
Now it's a baby day on the whaley instead of jaw and aren't you fast up mid to start us off on their attack side?
Jaw trying to set up a crossfire lose duelist partner. Oh enough. Nice to wait the dead there in
Try to bait jaw back in the direction, but baby bait will clean Ethan up
That's the sky out of the picture. So, no G. Lee fairly quick pivot towards the beside what a kill from mana
Shots
sick
Three and oh already baby ways having an insane pistol round that kind of son is gonna force it back to the green
But now all of the pinch comes in.
Brawk has nowhere to go.
But Scuba has submerged.
Unfortunately for him,
the spike's up and hit.
NRG have just been sat down
by the duelist duo on G2.
Listen, it is always fun to see
Jha on Neon.
I remember back when those changes
first came in, he was insane with the movement.
Let's see if Scuba can get anything done, though.
Players are tagged up.
There it is. Double face.
Scuba going to go down.
I do feel like these changes are pushing us closer and closer to Pete's me from Baby Bay.
Right? Like, you know, he's a jet player. Obviously, high mobility, flashy kind of player.
See, pick up the aura. We go, okay, like the Vince McMahon giving him, getting progressively more excited based on what he's seeing.
Now over towards the way, like, super high mobility, again, flashy, skill-expressive, agent choice.
He's already got himself three kills, so we know we're already hurting towards that first convergent pass.
He's brought himself up a marshal.
He's feeling himself.
Looks like he'll definitely have some opportunities for kills.
There's the first, just a straight up B fight, jogging right in their face with his judge.
Is the correct weapon for this round? Make no mistake, zero armor on NRG to speak off.
They are learning early the difficulties they'll be facing against this G2 comp here,
Which are the potential for these two duelists to be running it down at them on the extremities with some utile combos
I'm getting hit by the saturate plus relabel. I'm just gonna say right
Yeah, these like short range deployables that are easy to kill
Okay, you are does that at that range you are a long way away from them
Someone send that to the deads. Okay
Well, Leaf just runs around, holding down M1, or he comes by and the office.
Yeah, they're probably just around the corner, actually, yeah.
I don't know if you might need to pencil in an appointment with them.
Flawless round here for G2.
I'm so flawless, everyone knows full armor.
Maybe it's Maybelline.
They lost some money throwing abilities.
That is it.
Now, when it's your full buying, of course.
Now it's hard to play into.
That's the way to play D-Main.
Prowler post up with the scope weapons all running into their faces behind the prowler. That's
Not bad will G2 send it again
Well, it looks like they're gonna fake that they're sending it again in B main doing the same instant prowler and baby
They post up but this time jaw is with that shotgun over towards events baby bag was yeah watching his mini map intently there
So there was no real intention to go into the proper.
But if NRG want to go back towards the main, they will likely have to expend some youth
ult to re-clear it, but it is the initiated utility, gathering info towards the A side
for the attackers as you saw that trailblazer on the minimap, just go all the way up ramps.
The space isn't immediately taken by NRG.
It feels like they are just currently waiting out to see if G2 go for some kind of proactive
play before moving into their actual execute.
That second drone now from their other initiator being used to get through a B main.
Maybe they did not want to be pinged there.
They're pretty costly for an RG to get this space.
They are in a big garage.
That is something.
Maybe they headshot!
Just like the Doctor of Order was, and they'd be a terrible Doctor if they asked for that,
but that matters out of the game.
That's what's important.
by itself and forces them to bang off the line, but here comes the leap!
Why is that range there?
That shouldn't be happening!
Don't ask!
A true mischievous human, the answer to!
Here's my mantra!
Close range gun!
Hello?
Sorry, that was a bonus that featured Marshall, Stinger Bulldog,
and some other assortment of weapons that have no business doing that.
Yeah, and in the midst of the violence on the B site,
Trent also just killed that lurker over towards A.
Yeah, who's in this moment?
Oh, my!
We go round and round and deleted that man from the server.
This is FedEx level of saint.
FedEx is back on his feet and he is pointing again.
He needs to unlock some new emails.
Right now he is standing at the place to L-dance.
Can we throw it back to like, what, 2078?
And again, Valkar is forced to call an early timeout.
Much was the same.
It's around 4 on Pearl this time, it's even faster, it's around 3 on Split.
It was there at Ambulance.
This is brutal stuff for NIG.
They have 2 kills.
Okay.
Yep.
Well, that's not right.
Not like someone needed to touch that set if it wasn't going to be you.
I mean I'm the only one with a guy with a mic.
Yeah exactly.
We could crowdsource our casting if you want to, but you're either not this guy, so you
take that buddy.
Um, the way that G2 has been manufacturing these opportunities, despite having some weaker weapons,
those have been fantastic. BamBamBam knows that he needs to hold a crosshair placement that
is conducive to a headshot there, but it just swings into it. It's a little bit laggy.
And a lot of the utility is you, because there's like a really quick fake pop by G2 into B lobby,
that does mean it's more costly for energy to clear that space.
And we saw this on the Pearl defense as well, but G2, when it comes to
So flooding in and fighting energy when they're getting into the sites they have it looks like they've broken keyboards
There's no s key. They're just they are a they're sending it. Here is your standard
I'm a waylay with a bucky trying to kill someone, but it's not gonna happen
And baby just gets two free kills
And what it gets caught and I mean, this is
This is just one radiant verse five platinum's YouTube video from baby back
I think he should maybe stay on the way way. Hmm. Maybe they was just born to run it down to send it
Apparently not for him too early either. Oh, yeah, okay
The mother went self-confidence and self-belief coincide still waiting for a new email that's I'm not even
You know what? I'm good with it and now picking up the operator G2 have
Just millions of dollars they can just afford to buy an ounce switch things up
So Chris Bump said pulled the same five poses for a ten years bright. He won limpies Drake. Do what he wants, man
He's gonna put drugs. Oh
John doesn't get caught over on that a side. You heard the off-shot right law put there once in a kill that one
There's Mata in mid, catching Leaf on the jump-up, so NRG bringing the operator into the fold and now pivoting towards the A side.
Valon will have to be the hero for G2 in main.
Full damage control here now for G2. Valon's getting exploratory. He can't get away from the stealth drone. He's stuck. He is stuck.
I'm gonna find his one and have very quickly you see the dash there over towards the spawn side baby base trying to get position
But he can't hold the angle this up. There's a nebulae in the way. It's so
He's going for it and he is silent instantly by a mother, okay, but that's a display of the level of confidence
These guys are half right now. I was a 2v4
Yeah, I'm just having a walk up mid there
find that upkill. I'm a little bit of a G2 starter just to try and make you replaced with the backside of that one.
Watch me.
Telling that G2 aggression getting a little bit punished, leaf in mid.
Still though, obviously the economy is very good for G2. Right back to the full buy.
Another offer for Baby Bay this time, posting up mid.
Entity of energy over on a no ults to work with just yet, but it's an island fully isolated in that site
Okay, Marta refracts out seeing Valorant there, so Stamper under his feet, Valorant just moves out, but it's a little wide-swinged today
He's hit him, but he got his kill. Can he buy time?
You see, tights, and there's the spike going loose! This is not from bad to worse for NRG! Good money follows bad!
He's isolated for how long? 20 seconds, no help, finds two, another just be way into the disarray!
And again, Wixie, baby, baby, very, very good for the off, on the course of kickoff.
He didn't even pull out the shotgun.
No, I'm pretty good at that kind of point-blank range.
Yeah, he's off, this looks pretty good.
We've seen him on Diora a little bit.
It's 12-1.
The chamber?
He's still off.
He kills.
One of that.
6-0-10.
Look at this.
How?
That one, he can't be allowed to get away with it.
Like, why is he doing it?
None of his team are there.
He's a solo anchor.
He's spotted out.
by that bashing from off he is isolated in elbow
there's no time for a rotate from g2 to help him he's alone man
he's alone but he gets two and he gets out and then they're trying to keep chasing him
baby baby gets three kills that's crazy that just shouldn't be happening this is never
get so bad baby not switching to a shorty and just blasting in point blank with the off I think
cannot be out of the status that is that is very exciting if you want someone like Lee
That is going to get your blood pumping.
Oh, back into main.
Does he just take it?
He's trying to kill.
Yes.
Does he just run away?
No.
He wants to buy it for more.
Okay, grab well there to walk with the lead.
He'll be brought down by minus fans and one of a few functional, pretty functional rifles
here.
Oh, it's going back into B main.
Energy.
What is the move?
As things are slowing down in the mid-round.
Yeah, that opp is watching he goes and surely he can't resist
And he might be right. You might be right. You may be right
Limits of being tested guys
Guys that convergent pass straight up with G2 crossfire is not much of a crossfire with the network
Space the whole butt scuba is out in the open and maybe they will not oh well he didn't
All right, Ethan gets up on that site now seekers will keep bowing at bay there's going to be a belated swing to the left
There are a couple of things that have happened on this round that I would simply call uncanny
That could have been one of them
It's just who's in there playing with a little bit of confidence
some may say
The jaw just in the main gets that early kill and just runs it right back in there's
For the ball that you know tries to fuck this all
I mean, this is genuinely that was crazy. There's a generally accepted way
For your products to play right and when you're playing with this much swagger you break a lot of conditioning
Absolutely, and I want to say this reminds me of a similar point in pearl
They finally get their second round, but everyone dies except for one guy and then they lose and have no money except maybe this time
They can actually stabilize the game is to go finds in that entry. That's crazy, dude
That again
Stars gonna be recalled martyr is
Intently watching potential
Trying to punish the jump peak that way like is so
I certainly do not mind the off on attack with how aggressive g2 are playing.
Okay, there was back up there.
So I think we're at the junction now that we might be in timeout territory.
At least g2 can slow it down a little bit.
That was very snappy.
Josh may want to calm the guys down a little bit at this point.
They've hyped Max.
They've hyped themselves up too much now.
Where they're...
We're talking about crazy blades.
We're talking about a team who's been under some of the most extreme pressure any competitor in Valorant could be and prevailed.
On the world stage.
Close for Trent.
Still the 5-on-2.
Should be over.
Yeah, unlikely there's going to be an attempt here at the round for G2.
The money has finally started to dwindle for them on defense.
after just having basically capped cash for multiple rounds,
but they've been buying a lot of ops, so that'll happen.
How well do you think G2 actually adapts now?
The NRG appeared to have become a bit more comfortable with that tempo
that the defense side has been presenting?
Well, G2 are going to continue playing with this aggressive style.
It just needs to be more...
It needs to be more unified between players.
It's just becoming too isolated and a little bit too silly.
Individualistic.
Because earlier we were seeing when Jor was taking those B main fights, for instance,
there was like the prowler form early, and then Babyface was also posting up on the line.
Like there was supplemental utility.
But that is not been the case right now.
I mean, he's also, you know, he's just kind of baited in trying to kill Mata
who can refract and it's an easy trade for someone else.
You're going to start to see a number of these important ultimates come online now, or around
that round 8 spot.
All of these controller ultimates obviously need to have access to the cosmic divide already.
Not going to be a timeout here from Josh.
Thought there certainly may have been though maybe Valon from the leadership is like alright.
Well, they haven't really slowed down, or we could just send it with the Bucky immediately.
But of course the way they can't just get out with the frags a little bit different.
Leaf the Simons, the AWP, I mean Mato was-
The word frags?
Airshot? What happened there?
No chance to get away, you're trying to run it up mid here and here we go again!
Alright, yeah, they didn't need a Simons.
That's fine.
G2's hands reach out from the mud and drag and RG back down.
I gotta say, this is some of the most fun gameplay we've ever seen from G2.
And I like that for them. I like that for us.
Take it this team by the way.
Like, we're very, very good.
If people just straight up struggle to get excited about their games
because they used to play so passively, so systematically, so fully lagged.
There seems like a nine-day difference, and I wonder if, you know, Jor coming into the team
made an impact, but especially Baby Bay into the mix he was given in that volatility,
yes, but also just this, I don't know, this is where I want to count.
Oh my god. The slow Mo Lean in the chair is crazy.
Oh my god, can't believe it, neither can I. I feel it.
But it's cool that G2 went from being the same last year that we're just so invested in we are playing Tejo Yoru on everything into this year
We're stealing cops from tier 2. We're playing Phoenix because we saw paper X do it. Let's just play Neon and Wele on this map now
Joel wants to fight. He really wants to get in there. Am I getting going to be a circumventor for the most part?
He's going to get around that corner.
Valin, he's tucked into the back of the site. Lee didn't have a lot to say this round. Convergent pasto from Baby Bay.
He did! Spray the plays! Doing smoke! Just one for Valin.
But look how low he's gotten.
He was just parading that Nebula would drop earlier. He's sending in the nightfall in his two-on-gree.
With Victor Blight, we are going for it.
With Riff Rack there from Baby Bay, realizes it wasn't the landing from the top of the floor.
Look at the NRG HP right now. It's where it combines zero, it feels like.
Looks like a big decay down.
Made it easy for Trent to slip in.
And find that pick.
And now the Cosmic Divide
has been pushed past.
It's about to expire.
Keep you up in the corner here.
Need some good fundamentals in this moment, but baby, baby, there's all swagger.
Now the 2v1.
Boralkar struggled to fight his way out
of these unfavorite scenarios today,
and he will retreat.
And that defense spawned direction.
He's got to be quiet for a moment.
down to 32, beat a figure out by Brock. Red Bull clutch for NRG, another moment too soon.
He finally arrives in the server today, to me it feels unfair to say given that NRG as
a team just have not been able to stand up to G2 yet, but they need one of their many
stars to create some moments like this. I will say how many times have we seen Invalorant?
in Valorant, feels like a team is down and out.
Suddenly someone makes that hero play that gets everybody back in the zone.
You mean like Baby Bay on Corode?
Yes.
That is exactly what I mean.
Yeah, both these teams have got the individuals that can
lick the spirits of a team.
A big part of that is a strong performance or a clutch
that makes you believe it's possible.
Rotate now from NRG, heading back over towards this A side.
Everybody ready to go over there?
Maybe they're with the AWP on main, of course he should be getting smoked off when this hit comes in, so we'll see how he tries to pull around that.
Support Trent, who is very much so entrenched in the site.
Nothing to see with their trailblazer though.
Maybe it's just smoked that shit.
Bada has heaven control, he is in there.
Maybe they gotta be forced back.
Vulnerable to anchor it by that saturated Bada.
Nicely done, leaf handled. Relay bolt, no gonna be capitalized.
Alright.
Just running it in apparently and now energy just have the entire map split open for them
They can choose to go back towards B
Everyone running through mid
Even scuba late
Almost got himself into B main. It's a good position to play from
He goes astral but he's inside the spike was matter that was exposed to balance timing
Don't you dare to worry about a lot of angles right now despite the advantage balance still good for a second there
This is gonna keep g2 in the round
Gonna get busy to the check the bro guess inside the smoke now
It's even Stevens. There was a late rapper though through needed scuba might have just the timing they need it seemed like trend knew
It was a possibility turning around he's the tap
So he's gonna be some of that post-part you two baby made trouble
Grab well makes it impossible for him to fight properly against scuba and
And Trent doesn't really have the room here.
Kiko, Bats is in!
And here come NRG back into the game!
Finally getting a hand on the ranks.
It was a lovely play from Mata.
Taking all of that space into heaven, getting tucked into the corner.
And the second shot, probably going to be a serve on the replay.
He's stunned up, hindered, and there's one tap shot sliding into his space.
I was a sick 2k though and it also just then created the possibility for energy to rotate away from A towards B
And I was certainly the right call
Okay once a 4-0 lead for G2 where they looked unstoppable and I know G are on the verge of tying up this half
And started to look a bit more like protagonists in this map as well as opposed to
background actors
moments like that broad clutch I thought was really nice that feels like that gets in there definitely
just gonna say trying at nine and four by the way just continuing to put up numbers after being
dominant on pearl g2 have pushed all the way out of this b side they definitely know where energy
are on the map right now variation is that yeah leaf is set up here with the judge so g2 have
made a adjustment about how they're holding on to a head of you know you might just be
feigning something here. Look at this wrap all around from Jor and Valomite.
Pushed off B so early. Kiko was watching their back until he had to go into
astral form and that allows the perfect timing for Jor.
Make a discipline, Jor. Dirty stuff but at the spike going loose!
Now they've been caught off for the rest of their team.
NRG get control though off this A site. They're double the anxious at least.
They've got even up in players with Jor's bounty stirred.
Valomite's going to be there to support him. A cosmic divide to cut NRG off from the spike.
And what's the option supposed to be? Take the timing. There's a high low waiting for Ethan.
Feels like he knows it. He knows this is gonna be tough.
A double swing is what he's trying to put together. Four the round. It's 89 points of help on NRG entirely.
They've got to go for it.
Smoke on the other side. Jaw has the off angle. This is all but impossible.
And as Jaw... Is he gonna be here? Another race for Jaw!
And G2 put their stab back on this half in the final round.
It's a tie one, seven to five!
With four of those first rounds going in favor of G2, NRG did well to fight back in.
If there's one guarantee we've seen from this series so far, I'd say that JAR is definitely back.
G2 have been so willing to push through the extremities on defense today.
Let's go! Two for two, baby! Let's go!
And it's just allowed them to encircle NRG on the attack.
When they're going for these straight up hits, they have been crushed by the G2 defense.
Alright, 7-5 is a score line on splits. It's D2 fighting for their chance to qualify in the next game for Santiago
They'll go too far or will this match to come?
into the game, but it looks like they really, man,
they had to fight tooth and nail for every inch,
whereas G2 looked like they're having fun out there.
Both their dualists are firing a full of inspiration,
honestly, creativity and tons of confidence.
NRG were able to get back in the game
when it was G2 exuding too much fun, creativity
and confidence.
Those were when the openings were created for NRG
to get a couple free picks that would allow them
to get into advantageous situations in rounds.
When G2 were playing more stable and more coordinated with that aggression, they felt unstoppable.
But maybe they have given NRG just enough rounds to be able to take this split map.
Or just enough for it to trip the map in the second half.
Gonna be G2 on the attack side pistol.
Scuba tucked in the corner, making use of his own poison orb to take a wider swing just in case someone would push forward.
Double face here for NRG setup to play off this fighting light potentially for Mithra.
They both tucked in that right side corner, or at least work for a moment, even if it takes the contact, there's lit up.
Okay, now if you keep crossing here, they do want to go unchecked, instead of refracting, they kind of guess maybe they had a trouble.
They make sure work of G2 beautifully done.
There's the crossfire! Secret stuff for NRG! Oh, it's been affected!
Sure was he not.
He's all the way through screens flaking themselves.
Leaf, by the way, he's up there.
So, and you can get into the site with the spike.
Leaf is going to be the pivotal player from this point on
the round.
Easy in the right spot to succeed.
Youth among 10 HP in this situation.
David Bay wants to take contact.
Draw the attention so Leaf can be the player that
closes the round out.
I keep just pushing off his line there, maybe a lack of patience, maybe just concern.
They don't know what was happening ahead, so it's maybe 44 points of health, and that
is all consumed as Varda points the ghost at him.
He does a great job with Ethan fighting earlier in that round on ramps.
Flying tucked in the corner, forces Baby Vade to refract away, they're just swinging off
each other gear, it's that peek to the saturate, it's really nice and then Mordekitz, right
Back out there on that second swing to help you to bail them out. They collect two. They're really solid
It's a flashy. No, but the fundamentals here for energy. That's kind of what gets them over these humps
Jaws the one buying a full armor with the bucky
They they had a shorter for a second at least I'm about to see the double shotgun dive
To something where we will but baby man might simply be the the decoy of sorts
refracting away while Jorgamo actually gets in there to secure those
eliminations. Alright, well he's a fast lane, we'll let's see if that is the case at all or not.
Graph well popped but it doesn't seem to have slowed down G2, mucked their end of the side.
That's baby bait down, Jor needs to fly with his Bucky.
Fran on the side, G1 is just free to roam around.
Yeah, the Bucky found some purchase in the air but Jorna still has to find a way to be
relevant here and stunned up as he was by her. Special delivery if I'm not mistaken.
Clean map for NRG. Now it's an even game.
Scrooge had a good timing there to get that snakebite in main.
It just fully disconnected the pack from
those players getting in on the entry with the dashes with the speed.
That's the most silly stinger moments in this game.
Where are the deaths? Where are they?
Let me up for it. What do you want from me?
a pay to break their game dude. Alright round 15 coming at you. Blacksmiths is on mid with
both duelists for G2 converging, unintended. Scrooge Regent has been looking to hold these
passive angles with that relay box a problem. He's at least having to do the prowl and over
calls on me and the kitchen seat. And he's still got good damage. Respect it. Brutal
scenes there. And that glided salvo stops in acceleration through rope route. It does
slow g2 down but they kind of give what they came for. Driving your wedge straight up the
middle of the map and now allowing your to catch a rotate or go hunting for other players.
The weaponry on NRG is not great right now but they are playing at ranges where they can
get the most out of the SMGs.
Jar drawing some attention towards male.
Is this just going to be a one and done for Kiko or can he have
a little pop off moment?
There's no saturating Klee discord at all.
They don't have the utils, so it ends up being pretty costly.
Oh!
Okay, Jorn over too slow.
Flashed out, has to retreat.
That is especially going to keep Ethan in this position.
He's very much pinned down by Jorn here.
He has to fight his way out of that position somehow.
There's a good swing, and now Jaws is going to go play it safely back towards main.
That duo on site with Valon, they did a good job getting in, but...
He's just caught straight up in the open.
Yeah, again, too many spots to check, not enough ways to gain that info safely.
There's just some timings on timings there.
We'll try not to clean it up, but NRG will be relatively content with...
Good bonus.
He's doing some damage there on the bonus round here.
Three guns taken away.
This was just...
It was a lot.
It was disgusting.
You hate to be scooper when you're getting
stunned, prowler, stunned, dashed, seized.
Ha!
Yes, you never expect you to know that was my plan on purpose.
Pfft!
Is he referring to him getting flicked on by Mada
dropping down from heaven or not?
Sure.
Yeah, thanks man.
Oh, plant, oh plant.
Fall back here.
Looks like she's gonna want to go in some pace again.
Oh, stunning!
This dash is perfect.
Scuba's well hindered, but they're not going to bottom with the smoke.
What about the hell is she's scuba is just having a good night there friends. Yeah, you told you to use something else
Chica does very well to assert himself on his b-side. It's astonishing he even gets that
Now though, we're walking out. Okay
Marta will certainly punish you for those so it's a
It's even play a score now the post plan g2
You'd find a way to maybe get off this b-side or at least spread a bit more
Yeah, not going to be any late flank dangerous for someone to try to get towards backside when they know the off could be watching
but now with that Nebula up, there's an opportunity to spread out a little bit more.
That Nebula came up with the perfect time because that U2 would have forced U2 out to the open
out into the Town Square.
For the righties to be exposed to the world.
Here comes Ethan there, he goes.
Leaf knocked us up three.
Getting himself in the game now.
That was a really great timing that Leaf took, activated the double swing for Main and filler.
But this opening to the round is just so cool.
I think G2 have really shown that when it comes to the Wei Lei, I feel like they're one of the best teams at putting their Wei Lei in position to get kills.
We've seen other teams really struggle in the aspect of Wei Lei play of just supplementing them with enough utility.
So many of the Wei Leis we've seen so far finding themselves in situations where they're dashing in and they're just caught in the open.
But it's moments like that where you're seeing that G2 are a cut above, just able to get a free, easy kill for Baby Bay.
Everything there is really well-drilled and executed to, you know, perfection with the timings,
just getting the harm in there with the stun, the dash up, everything's perfect.
Yeah, this has been a conversation we've been having about G2 and their desire just to make these waylake ops work.
Ever since like, second week of kickoff, we're talking on bind, we're just, they're pointing out how Jor always has a spice mode to dive into.
Valence setting him up, but it's much more than that now
It always feels like an excessive amount of utility to put some of these energy players in literally
Unwinnable positions carving out sectors of the map and energy this time out probably is about how not to expose yourself
To those combos to those moments without giving up too much space for free
Yes, scuba has to be feeling right now that he is just not allowed to play in events
He's gonna feel like he's dead if he steps foot up that rope
So we have a side stack over towards A and G2R noses press to the barrier ready to test it.
I'm a little unlucky perhaps that they chose this like where they're going to be five energy
players. Let's see if they can deal with it. Lucky is relative, that's for sure.
Matarony through the classics ring out, Trent inside, he's smoked. Respecting.
Salvo is going to be Balon waiting for Kiki to push out.
They're going to get out of here. G2 lost three players on this.
Pushed him to the stacked side. It kind of goes the way you expect it to.
And now they need to put some breathing room between themselves and NRG,
who have recovered all the rifles.
And have a convergent pass to work with from Mata.
They have a great opportunity now to win this round.
Balon has a divider here off this plant.
Is there a gainful way to make use of that?
I still feel like a pivot around, this is the only one you can afford to lose if you G2.
Valantos meant to be main. What a cruiser.
It's about to be! Ethan is too far away to get a fast trade. That's a convergent path gone.
Look at this, Valantos is still aware that someone could be coming. How does he know?
And he's in lack of armor here for NRG that is hurting the Broke now.
Glass can and Vandal going for it.
And Leaf hurt him. He knows that he's up in heaven, but that awareness is lovely.
All right, step into the brook to go on Valin has to get this star pot though. Can't get it to half
Yeah, brook knows that frustrating you wanted a half and that's not happening for all Valin emerges
And what could have been a pretty disastrous referee to his salvage somewhat they'd lose four rifles to this mostly classic
A site stacked from NRG, but no for now. There'll be happy with the result
Valin just realizing that he should stay posted on that angle after getting the kill against
Huge
Disconnected that's my skirmish want to be one or in the clutch
He's up six to four against waterman. Yeah, I kill yeah for you. I'm gonna follow along in that map
He's a cosmic off the rip for G2
They are kind of going back to the well with the straight up a hit except this time
There's not going to be five energy players stacked there because this is a real gun round
So they get that type of free and it looks like they want to fight for even more
That's right into a pass from Marta. They're gonna try and go through it. However, they get thrown
Into the mix instantly the presence and screens here. They're being massively slowed down by that utility, but they choose the timing to swing out
Marta still no chance to make use of the pass of this round either through the smoke. It's baby. They fighting Kiko
scooper and brook had to figure it out
Leave watching the backstab. Will it be mindful of scuba slipping him through a main? It's not
being watched for right now. This is a huge moment for scuba. Brock spotted. There's going to be a
check here. Surely Valon. Little peek sees what he wants. And that leaves it up to Brock now.
Ah, Farmer! Valon again ends the round. Two decisive kills, but G2, two rounds away.
He's really come to life in these past couple rounds. Valon's playing super well in the late
round situations. And that G2 duo is still just having another crazy situation together
playing in tandem. And I love to see him. I mean they take the site for free, but then
they're ready to just disrupt that retake, fight forward with the pass, and then they
don't give up after that, they're still relentless.
They're walking to, I think it's Telthdrown that was suppressed at one point, caught up
inside screens. Anyway, George McGovern through. Really,
Bolt's quite telling about where Kiko was with them.
But that bit it out of an arm again on the B side.
And look at this, accelerating into A now.
A lot of the space being given up here by NRG.
But maybe they wandered into the crosshairs of scuba.
Trailblazer re-clearing towards A ramp
so NRG can feel safe trying to get forward.
Leaf knows he needs to make something happen.
Yeah, wants to get a kill.
Nightfall being sent forward.
Gets a big connection.
Convergent path are going to be used right away from Marder.
It's now one of them to make use of that ultimate.
He's spotted around the corner.
He's looking low and Valorantil has to deal with the Seekers, so he gives ground.
Backs up, risking now a multi-face into this elbow position, but he's got only a mind for his teammates.
Trying to set them up, he is getting powered by this Util.
Trying to get some smokes out on the side, but Scoob is going to fight him with the Stank Butt, it's a lead.
Looking for a timing, it's not there.
Trenton inside the smoke has to go huge, but Scoob has his crosshairs trained on this very position.
And the firing squad awaits Trent.
An interesting round from G2, a pretty crazy strat they had cooked up.
I think unfortunately Jor just dies a little bit earlier than intended because Mata was
playing up so close and had the saturated ready.
It did bait out the Armageddon which is kind of hilarious.
Yeah, look, I mean, Val had his hands full there.
He's getting Pritchin and Elbow, still knows he needs to start a side up maybe for some
you to listen to smokes.
Nicely done though by NRG. When they come back in rounds like that, you're reminded of just how these guys were able to hoist a trophy.
Yeah, there was a great retake. All of that back so you still found so much value.
Stuns, mollies.
It's an all heavy round though. Seekers, Armageddon, Convergent Paths, all used by NRG to secure it.
You can see how much it meant to them. The upside is those controller ultimates are still in play.
That's good, you can throw that down mid, get a vikers pick in play.
We haven't seen Jor go for an overdrive yet, so have my eyes peeled for that.
Also, I've liked this pit option for a leak in the post-plot G2.
Two rounds away. A timely time-out.
And Baja was speaking with some passion there.
Very different disposition from Josh. He's chilling.
I think he's literally chill right now.
Sometimes you get a feeling from Josh that most of the work's already been done in the week of the lead-up.
Again, I want to reiterate how impressive it is that G2 able to make such drastic shifts in playstyle
and just like macro strategy on these maps, like in the middle of a tournament,
amidst having to scrim and practice, you're also looking ahead.
Now into this round, Jaw has the Bucky on account of also having that overdrive.
G2 just keeping it simple. Get again, just straight up, fast, 8 hit.
That might be the case! Oh no!
He's too clean with it.
Alright, Hinderant's on Ethan. A little bit awkward now as Jor is encroaching
and threatens to pinch him. Ethan on raft and needs to find a way to get off here.
Jor's happy with what he's gotten so far, but anything extra is a bonus.
Look at the way that G2 is just spreading across the map right now.
He lost! He's at 6 health! Ethan caught out by the bucky! It's bound to!
And now G2 realized we could just go back to A for free the last two guys are over on the B side
They were ready to make some crazy maneuver across the map
Right dangerous another one at 6 HP Trent on the cross there almost went down. I think he's got it
He gets another one that is messed up, right? I can't say it on there. That is messed up
G2 match point 13-3 and a 13-8 would be something to behold against your literal world champions
But G2 up until this point have had the better of NRG every time
That first kill was a little insane from Jon
And then able to get two more it was cool in the mid-round that G2
They were trying to immediately go for this kind of cross that pivot
Well, then when these kills they're just able to go back to A for free
So George made it even end up mattering. He's made a big upgrade to the judge here. So
Flash with catch, he's made use of it.
Tremor has it dropped down.
Oh, I've seen their hindrance.
They're trying to predict this move, and he brought Jor,
but Valor's going to be falling it up pretty quickly now.
G2 were in this A site, properly in it.
But Viferspitz, he doesn't really seem to be a factorist,
baby bay, stirs out the waters there on rep,
but it's Jor.
It always has been by the looks of things.
There's an inability to be out this guy
with overdrive on the map.
Kiko false feeds himself on his own medicine,
but has to go one feet three for the series.
And that's a baptism of fire that leads him to Christmas cinders
G2 and Vots to have a middle bracket final
Somehow your veteran world champions will be fighting in the lowest
Talk about has it definitely silenced all critique over the last couple weeks
Complete turnaround in form was out of control today aces on both maps
was dominant on the Phoenix, putting up six first kills on that first map, so
they absolutely crushed NRG on their own pick, and now the neon was just running
rampant around the map. Baby Bay as well by the way, filling into this way away for
the first time, and he looked stellar on that agent. Just how far can these guys go?
They've got the coaching staff, they've got the vibes, and they slowly have worked
this team into a double duelist menace. There are some teams who are still trying
to get there. G2 have figured it out. I like that we're seeing this G2 team getting more
experimental to taking comps from tier 2 from around the globe to work into this new structure
that they have with Baby Day as a full-time player who has just been in sick form throughout
the entire kickoff. Gotta be very pleased about this. You do however
a waste the loser of MIBR and Furia in this middle final also both those two
teams are gonna have multiple chances to make it to Santiago but for G2 being at
one of those globals being at this global to give them it must be in their
mind they can't afford not to represent their region in Chile. Valen said that he
had an epiphany from watching NRG taking down champions that as a leader he
He needs to be able to enable his team to have a peek at the right time.
And look, we're still early days, but they had a pretty crazy peek today.
I like the idea of...
Disimmental energy.
I like the idea of not just hoping you'll peek at the right time, but you're actually
trying to set the playing field so that things line up properly for you.
That's out of, you know, projecting onto circumstance or fortune.
You make your own luck here in the VCT.
It feels like today this G2 team have really cracked the code on how to unlock this new
roster within this meta and it's heavily leaning into BabyBake going back to his original role
from years ago, running it down on the dual list, playing the way Lay now, the Yoru looked
really nice as well.
They've really, I think, worked out how to maximize this current iteration of the team
and this kind of feels like a turning point for them honestly.
They've been good in this run so far, but they've clearly taken it up to a totally different level.
Each of the teams that are willing to have the tough conversations with each other when things go wrong,
and this, that's the fruits of their later.
Let's head down to Golden Boy to stage for a Verizon post-matching interview with Trent.
Before you step out, give it up one more time for Trent!
Unbelievable.
I mean, you guys just, you have the number of the world champions.
That's not a thing that a lot of people can say.
You've defeated NRG six times.
You've defeated them in the off-season for a title
when they just won the World Championship,
and then you do it again here
and kick off sending them to the lower bracket.
Let's just get the feelings out of the way.
How are you feeling right now, Trent?
Definitely feels good.
I mean, we kind of know how they play, obviously, I think.
What is it specifically?
Like, I don't want to say nothing.
Okay, no, that's great.
They beat everyone else for us,
and then we'll take them down.
Ooh, okay, all right, ask for something.
But I think it is very interesting, though,
that it's almost as if you're a cryptonite to them, right?
But is this a matter of the prep work you guys are putting in,
the natural skill that you guys have,
the reads you have,
or is it just a combination of everything?
I think it's a combination of everything.
I mean, shout out to the coaching staff,
like they have great reads,
they have great game plans for us,
and then obviously everyone's shooting today.
Baby Bay is on the way,
whatever he's doing on that agent.
Jogmo's acing on Leon and Phoenix.
We're just doing stuff.
And it's working.
You guys are getting really creative out there, though.
And I asked Josh earlier, and it sounded
like the overall consensus is we got five cracked out amers.
We can kind of just do whatever we want to do.
Is that kind of the vibe that you guys are getting right now
internally?
Because it feels like that.
You're experimenting with stuff, but you're not just
experimenting.
You're implementing it very, very well.
Yeah, I mean, we're kind of just expanding our options,
being able to flex around and play anything.
So, I mean, I think it's good for us
where you have a very deep agent pool with everyone.
So we're kind of just using it.
When I asked Josh earlier,
he talked to me about the lessons you guys learned
from the Fudia loss.
I wanna talk to you about that.
What were some of the things you pulled away from that?
Cause I'm sure for y'all that was a very
unexpected defeat, but now since we're seeing
that evolution, it looks like you guys
have really taken that one to heart.
Yeah, I mean, we've made a lot of post-plan mistakes.
We kind of honestly just like gifted them kills
in situations where we shouldn't have.
And you know, they're good enough team
to close out the up number advantage situation.
So when you give a team like that the space,
you kind of just lose the game.
You guys feeling good though?
For the middle bracket run?
I'm feeling great.
This is their middle bracket.
All right, this is their middle bracket.
All right, brother.
Thank you so much for your time Trent.
Always a pleasure.
Give us a shout out to your family,
we're fast to see you dance like they're recording.
Thank you guys and shout out my girlfriend
and my mom and my grandpa watching online.
Love you guys.
Awesome.
Shout out to Team Trent.
Always a pleasure, brother.
Thank you so much for your time.
Appreciate you.
All right guys, that's gonna do it for us here today.
What a day it has been, and oh my God,
we're actually done, can you believe it?
But don't worry, because next week,
we have three best of fives,
and we're gonna find out who is going to Santiago.
Could very well be this guy and his squad right here, folks.
That's right, it will be, it will be.
All right, that's gonna do it for us here.
We'll see you same time next week, right here
at VCT Americas.
Adios, friends.
Evil geniuses, they are locked in and they are looking good, and their opponent is 4 today.
It's a hundred thieves, they are the first real attest.
That's trouble, and now Zora caught up by the utility, somehow goes unpunished, no one's
looking at her phone, you madman!
So little time left, EGF 10 seconds, I need these fights, tucks into hell as the drop
comes down to one on two. Bow. Gitz is what else is that?
Bow's got it.
What's the matter with him?
Bow could be that guy for EG.
He's still stuck here, but it falls to Kong.
OG, a far cry away.
It won't be there.
100 thieves take map one.
Mayhem unfolds.
Gitz is in an Okeanos.
And that was an incisive missile, as you can see.
Now, Wates lines it up.
And again, Gitz is two.
It's all heads for evil geniuses!
National drift cry on the other side!
Clio!
100 thieves still divided, but still dominant!
And cry on the main deck!
They're bringing the siege to overtime!
Spikes to the ground, it's Super!
Now down to teammate Bax and Super!
Another? No way!
Absolutely no way!
Calm, they have escaped!
And calm takes the time, and calm is out!
100 thieves advance!
It is going to be kind of a reboot for both teams, a toss-up to see what's going to happen.
I feel like there's going to be a scrappy one, but we are definitely going to get a good series.
All the X in one basket here as they crash onto B, possibility for a teleport's gone now.
A C9 wipe, the floor, everyone prepare for that.
Nice flash coming in to take one out, it's a 4v4 now.
Yeah, this is going to be a Cloud9 stringing it out very nice.
It's a 4k for Vic to end that round.
C9 here.
They run circles.
We're on Levonbind.
Focus on running towards the safe zone.
Close to the safe zone.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Noxie hit a thomus.
Looked like a triple collapse.
That was 40 on three people.
All the way back to try to shoot over their shoulder.
But I think they need the team here.
Already working out.
Neon at ladder.
And now it's going to chop some king.
Oh, he's going to throw that guy into the round.
And they're going to start running at him
to create even more pressure.
Swing from Vic to click.
They're trying to work together here.
Final fight against Hipshot Unlaw!
So much to be asked of here by Lowe.
Seth is gonna get the final kill.
Cloud9 come away with the win.
This is as exciting as it gets in America's,
the world champions versus the undisputed America's champions
of last year.
Boy, double choice, top-line holes,
and that's what they've been trying to do now.
Pat the idea of the play is there,
and a crazy quick piece.
But it comes as we get the drop on Kiko.
He's gonna be sure if they're gonna get for his truffles there.
Jai what the f*** is that?
That defense spawned direction.
So you'll be quiet in the moment, he's on the infote!
Down to 32!
Down to the left by both!
Rumble clutch, RNG!
And again with a straight up, bass 8 in.
So we can have my favorite chase!
Oh no! Look at the way the G2 are just sliding across with our play now!
What?! He's at 6 health!
He's been caught out by the f***y, it's bound to!
On the cross there, almost went down, I think he's got it.
Yeah, that's a good start, guys.
Go up and bro, can you sing the Tequila song, please?
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
I'll do it, I'll do it.
Yes!
Y'all got a V on sync though.
Ready?
Yeah.
I'm just waiting for my part.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
La la la la la la la la la la la....
Tequila...
Tequila!
Tequila!!!