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02-10-2026 · 7h 08m
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Welcome back. This is the Valorant Game Changers, EMEA, I'm Tash Bunny with ECO Today, your
casters, and today is a very, very, very, very, very, very hard to get because we're
going to look again. Giants versus alternate attacks, Ruby.
Yeah. I mean, like you said, this is a very, I'm not going to do all those various, but
this is a very exciting match. Both of these teams are looking absolutely incredible. I
not wait to see what they've got in store for us today because regardless of how it goes I think
there's going to be an absolutely banger matchup but we've had so many close games over the last
split so far on stage one let's take a quick look at what's going on with them why everyone's
in the standings because there's some surprises here to me we've got giant x down in eighth we've
got kasey down in sixth what's going on here tash there's a lot going on as well I think for me
personally, like G2 goes in, you know, where their standings are, I think is
something that we could all have expected. But with all of these orgs coming in,
and I think that this year is the one of the years where I think I've said it the
last time, and I will say it again based on all of the games that we've watched,
games are getting a lot closer. The gap has definitely lessened between many, many, many
of these teams. You know, sometimes the score looks like it's maybe like a 6-13, but the rounds
play out very, very close as well, which is why I really recommend you guys to catch all of the games.
KC making it to the top side there. You know, I thought it might be Zenit Orange that will be on top
popping the charts a little bit more, but just making it one differential. KC will go up there
and the same could be said about Giants. Now, I think we talked a little bit about what today
means for Giants. Yeah, so for Giants with them quite far down there in the standings now,
they are looking at if they don't win this, the chances of them making it into playoffs
are very, very small. It's still possible if they lose today, but it's so small that
they need to be so lucky with what happens other than their own games. And you never
want to leave this thing up to chance, right? You want to kind of secure this for yourself.
Whereas on the other side, ATN, they've been performing so well. Like they were kind of
the dark horse coming to this. I think them and a few people rated gentlemates quite highly.
And I think that went quite well for them. But if we're looking at ATN, if they win this,
kind of bump themselves up to something like 90% chance maybe more that they do make it into playoff.
So they're kind of looking to secure themselves that position today. You know, percentages are
really, really scary, right? When you think about these things, you know, the stakes are definitely
a lot higher as you go into today's match. And while we yap about the stakes, let's go into to
see who exactly we're playing today as well. You know, when you when you go into these things,
you know, with giants, especially with the, you know, they, they do need the win very,
very badly. While they don't have the highest chance to make it up there right now if they
don't win this match, I have full belief that this team is capable in doing so. We had a bit
of a conversation about them before the show started, excuse me, where we said about what
Jade Moise's capability is as an IGL and how her stats looked like last year compared to this year
and why it became that way is because she has had these four amazing, I would say players
that can really pick up the pace that she doesn't have to do all that heavy lifting while she's
eye gelling. Yeah, I mean, this is a star studded roster. And Jadmira is still incredible at her
eye gelling and a supportive utility as well. Making sure everyone else can pop off setting up
people like Jada, who is one of the best smokes players statistically we've got in the league
right now. She's looking absolutely on fire and then allowing people like Adora and when she's on
the chamber or when she's on the door list up there with Adora as well to run in there,
pop off and I mean Anita, she's just one of the best anchors as well. Like she's able to just hold
down a site, lock it down and keep it for herself. This chance was like I said, the score line for
them is a lot lower than it people expected going into this, but that doesn't mean that we should
underrate these players because they are so, so good. Yeah, which is why I said, you know,
while we do have these stars that are roster because of the, you know, the gap in skill that
that has really lessened how I think a lot of players
are starting to get very, very creative
with their comps coming into this year.
That's where things get a little bit more interesting.
We went from GC being a game of comfort picks
to meta picks and getting very, very creative.
Now let's talk a little bit on the other side of the coin.
Let's talk a little bit about alternate attacks Ruby.
I think we talked a little bit about this particular roster,
about what Blossie can bring to the table as an IGL herself
and how Jade, like all the other Jade's here in GC
have a phenomenal in putting up numbers, you know, in terms of
popping heads or even be able to secure rounds.
Yeah, like Jade is a kind of like top 10 dollars at the
moment. But the thing is, so is purity. ATN have two of the top
10 door lists in our league, because they are just that that
good. And no, you're talking about meta picks instead of
comfort. This is something I think alternate attacks Ruby have
really, really settled into is that comfort happens to be the
meta when they got purity in as that kind of primary duelist now and jade on that kind of second entry
these two paired up they allow atn to play into the meta to the best of their ability when jade is on
her comfort euro when purity is on her comfort waylay and you can just see how well it works in
the server when they're working together on that meta pick and speaking of like picks in general
right i mean just had a glance at some of these players you know agent pools i would say that
and Blossy and Purdy have huge agent pools,
the capability to flex if they wanted to.
And I feel like players like this have a little bit,
I would say a better understanding
in terms of how exactly things work,
how exactly things play.
The coaches love these kinds of players
because you can go with so many different meta picks,
so many different styles of counterplay as well.
We're seeing a lot of counterplay happening as well.
I mean, for me personally coming in from Pacific,
counterplay has been, you know, a lot on the server,
especially with how Vito has been used as well, right?
So, you know, in the situation
where you wanna be able to counter pick these teams,
especially if you know,
if you are having a skill-based matchup,
you have so many, I would say capabilities
to be able to do so,
especially since we did have the conversation
about, you know, how these two teams
have a very, very similar map pool.
Yeah, their map pool I think is a very interesting point
for me because if you're looking at maps
like kind of Bind, Corode, Haven,
they're the most played for both of these teams. If we kind of ignore split for ATN, it's pretty good map for them.
Like, both of these teams have a very, very similar map pool. And I think to me, what that means is when we get into the veto later,
it depends how we really see that go out. Do we see a Haven band potentially coming out from Giantex? They've not looked as strong in it as maybe ATN have.
It's always been a top kind of like three map for them. So maybe Giantex band that we don't get a go to that. And, you know, Giantex, they need to play
quite a brave veto to be able to get the map port into their advantage just because 80 end of people can so strong recently.
Yeah, and this is where things also get super interesting. Let's talk about the two players that we really, really want to highlight for today as well.
A little bit of a head to head if you want to see it. You know, we talked a little bit about how their map picks are going to be very similar,
but these two players that we're about to show on screen, they don't necessarily have the same roles either.
But in terms of their, I would say their fragging capability is definitely up there.
Yeah, like these are the two kind of most pop off players right now for these two teams for Jionx.
It's Jada. She's playing Omen. She's playing Astro. Right. She's kind of like on this smokes
role, a very steady role where she is just, you know, looking to clean up. But her assists
0.42 around. This is an incredibly high number. The second highest, maybe the highest NGC EMA
stage one right now as well. But if we look at it, they're KD, they're kills per round,
sorry, pretty similar. But that's because, priority, although she doesn't get kills every
single round, she's getting those multi kills, right? And these multiple frags, she's going
in, entering, getting two kills when she enters onto a site. That is a huge difference to
the way that Jada plays, where she is a consistent, she will get one kill, she might get two if
she's kind of like in a good position when they exec into her, but she's that more kind
of like defense orientated anchor, as opposed to purity, who's bursting down the gates and
dashing on it. It's a very different style between these two players. But to me, when
they match up, when purity is execing onto Jada's site, that's going to be the kind
of key thing to watch out for when we watch these games is, is purity able to overcome
Jada and her utility as well as her fragging?
Yeah, speaking of that as well, right, we talked about utility versus fragging, we also had a bit of a chat about like how differently these two teams played in terms of rounds.
We have a team, you know, one team plays very aggressive, very W gaming, loves the double jewelers meta, and then you have, you know, on the flip side, we have a very EMEA style team, I would say, based on at least the VODs that I've been seeing, you know, they love the double smokes, they love taking their time, you know, coming in for maybe retakes or maybe just bursting onto the site at the last possible moment after getting that influence.
And this is where things get super interesting because you have, you know, a very, very fast moving bullet versus a very, I would say, you know, powerful rock how exactly does this play out right for me personally I think that in this situation at least coming from a pack.
you know, W key is I would say our bread and butter. We love fast hits. We love aggression, but face against a team that plays a little bit more defensively, takes their time and with all sound the number very, very, I would say, what I want to say, mechanically, but I would say systematically, it kind of like ruins the, I would say the idea of having early aggression, because you're not going to give it, give this to any of the teams.
Yeah, I think this is the key thing between these two teams. Like you mentioned, we have
GionX that are that rock, right? They are able to just be consistent, steady, hold it
down. Atn, they're looking to open up the round as much as possible. Both of them have
pretty similar kind of first blood win percent stats. But if we look at their 3v3s, that's
where it gets really interesting to me, because GionX, they win 60% of the 3v3s that they
are in. Whereas for ultimate attacks, it's only 41%. These are even numbered scenarios,
right you'd expect this to be about 50% but this to me shows that giant eggs when they're down
in those lower numbers they're still able to anchor they're able to rely on the entirety of the team
to pop off it might be jada because she's usually in that kind of like three that's left alive when
you you know you might lose a couple of people and ver a meter adora relatively early on the other
side atn they lose out on their two door lists purity and jade and then all of a sudden there's
no one to enter and they can't really burst into site. They can't really retake without that burst
of their double door lists. And that's a big stylistic difference between these two teams.
And it's going to be very exciting to see how that really plays out. If it plays out in a similar
way to these stats show from previous, or if ATN can start to overcome that and really kind of start
to rely on people like Celia, people like Blossie to kind of hold their own in the later rounds.
You know, this is where good things get very, very interesting as well, right? I think when we
we look at the last time these two teams played.
It's almost a year ago already, last March,
if I'm not mistaken.
I believe it was Game Changers, year me 25.
I think it was week four, excuse me,
where it was a two-all win for giants
in favor of giants over ATN.
And this is where things get really interesting
because last year was a whole different story.
Rosters have changed, you know,
and this is where my brain questions
with the rebuilds for both these teams this year,
Could it be a change in pace for many of these teams?
Could ATN finally overcome giants?
Could this be the missing piece is what I am,
I think curious about, because if you think about it,
three of the players playing today
across two of these teams used to be former teammates.
Yeah, and that to me is where you should really be looking at
is when we're looking at purity, right?
She came over into ATN and obviously she came from SK
And this team has kind of like rejuvenated since then.
If we're then looking over on the other side,
Jade Moore used to be the IGL for purity.
So you've got a lot of those connections.
You've got a lot of that kind of fun rivalries
between these players that know each other.
Being in the times.
But it's like getting into your head type moment, you know?
I mean, it's been talked about a lot,
especially in VST Pacific as well, you know,
how Patman can kind of like really tell GE, you know,
what they could expect to see from their ex teammates.
I'm wondering if this could be the same as well
as we go into our first map,
because we're gonna go into our VP tour already.
I really wanted to see whether or not the map pool
will be similar as before.
Usually, Eco doesn't wanna get spoiled
and I decided to go their way today.
And what did you expect?
Is it exactly what you hoped for?
So I kind of floated the idea that Drianix
might ban out this Haven,
and I think this is a good pick because it is-
a good pick. Yeah, like it's a fine map for them. I was excited for the map anyway because I think
Haven would be a lot of fun between these two teams just stylistically. But that makes a lot
of sense. Going to bind for ATN, this is good. Oh, yeah, they would probably have picked Haven
if it wasn't banned out. So bind between these two teams, they look relatively even both teams
have a much, much stronger attack side, and they're running slightly different variations
on the double-double list. So that makes sense. That should be a lot of fun. Corode is where it
It gets very spicy to me because John X is still three and oh on that map.
That's what I was curious about.
You know, when you when Giants are just really this good at this particular map,
I was questioning, why would you let this map kind of slip through the net?
Has ATN predicted this pick?
Do they have counter plays, you know, in play that, you know,
usually when these kind of things happens, people are always very like, OK,
it's their map pick.
If this should be Giants, you know, Giants map, you know, in particular to win.
But most of the time, it has not been the case because many, I think many teams for this season have already started really, I would say, relying more toward counterplaying instead of just, you know, just kind of like letting it go through the map and say, okay, we will for sure win bind and hope for a map 3.
That's too risky in my opinion. You don't want to risk that because the possibility of a 2-0 is definitely there.
So if anything, I really would like to see ATN actually really try and break that streak
that Giants has set up for them is number one, number two, the counter play. And number
three, again, it comes back to that fast play versus slower pace. Did they figure something
out?
Yeah, and I think especially when we're looking at Corode as that second map, alternate attacks,
they've now had the chance to talk about counter play to work out how Giants are using this
chamber, and the chamber when you're up against a Wele Euro is good because you can try and
slow down and pick off people one by one and TP back, second layer, do the same again.
But Wele, if you've got the ult or if you've got the kind of like the saturate, you can
try and isolate where the chamber TP's are going to and catch the chamber off guard.
So that's going to be super interesting when we get there, but we're going to be starting
out on Bind, relatively standard comps from both teams, but like I mentioned, we're expecting
slightly different double-dose picks.
You know what, I think after what I've seen in the past week from APAC of
Saint-Precipite, I just want to see another veto pick.
Seeing Races, you know, Races, you know, Rockets getting eaten has been wonderful,
in my opinion, and I'm really hoping that it's going to be giants that actually,
okay, I'm going to be disappointed here. We're not going to see that.
But you know, for me personally, I'm not too upset about it,
Because Purity on Waleigh has also been very, very fun to watch, and the double jewelers still remains for this team, and this makes for, to me particularly, a very strong attack side, especially since this map can be very triple shell heavy on the defense side.
Yeah, and the very kind of key thing for me here is if we're looking at it for
GionX is they've got the attack side first and both of these teams have a
strong strong preference for that attack side. They're both in the plus 55%
category for kind of round win percentage and GionX they've played this map
five times so there's gonna be a lot of footage now for AT&Ruby for smart 7 and
Xiflex the coaches to go through on a smart 7 sorry 5-7. There's too many 7s
and there's too many Jades. But to go through, which these boards?
I'm trying not to say 6-7 so bad right now, I'm sorry.
Come on, Tash.
But now we've got Gioneks on the attack side. This is their stronger side.
Gioneks have much better attack pistols than they do defense pistols as well.
So if they can start the ball rolling, if they can start to build up momentum on this side,
they only might need to win kind of four or five rounds when they switch sides onto the defense
defense to get this first win on the board, which would be absolutely incredible. If that is possible,
as we can see here, alternate attacks, rubies 50% Matt win, Jan X 40%. This should be ATNs win.
But there's always that slide. I love that idea that numbers are just numbers and things could
still change, you know, like people say stats don't lie, but then something changes. And this is
where things get super interesting for me because you know while it is more of like a higher percentage
of map win here for ATN but Giants have a really really good defense I'm sorry has a quite a low
defense side with if say that Giants could build momentum early it would be great but at the same
time I really it's really hard for me to deny the power and capability coming in from this Wele
Yoru. Wele can come in sort of be sort of like an early drone get out safe you can have a double
layer of like you know of like info gathering from a yoru hell nowadays people are just you know
coming in as a yoru tp backside and then serving them a shotgun in the face it happens all the
time and it's such an annoying comp to deal with and i feel like this double jeweless especially
in the smaller map of bind would serve atn a lot better so my question to our giants is it's yeah
they also have like a double jeweless right but i feel like a race has always been so all in compared
to like a way lane. So you know, my idea is if giant X wants to really I would say shine in a tech
site, you have to have the race come in, you have to have the race be able to survive coming in and
take a little bit more space back side to deny a bit more space because as we know ATN you give them
an inch they take a mile and they're so good at just overtaking the entire the entire spaces that
you have been able to take early. Yeah, I think the key thing for me like you said, going in aggressive
all in. You've got the all-in composition because you do have that race. They need to commit. And a
big part of that is committing to get the spike down in the first place, because ATN's retakes
are their weakest part of this map by far. If you plant the spike against ATN, you can predict
you'll win about 72% of those rounds once you get the spike down. That is a huge number and
something that GYNX should be really looking to do. Raze does lean into that as well because
all in. She just goes aggro, throws an ace, takes site, and then probably dies whilst pushing a bit
below the two far if we know anything about raises. But we'll stop boring you with stats and we'll get
into the actual game because that's actually this is going to be such a good first map and it's going
to be a bit of a litmus test. See how these teams do against each other. Yeah, I would love to see
stats get broken today. I would love to see a situation where giants can actually really solidify
There, I would say, positions going into the next stage of this tournament.
Giants have such a solid team, and I would love to see them just really shine,
coming in from all these individually talented players.
Absolutely, but immediately ATN boasting into market by the looks of it.
Pushing aggro.
They expected already, with Anva already taking a bit of chip damage, and they want more.
Slowly pushing their way forward, Anva holding.
It's nice to play a bit more safe, so gathering up the spike and moving toward the other side is going to be key!
Oh, what a shot from Anita. Sharp as heck. Already broken onto the side, but Purity quickly trades her out.
So, the rest of the team now scrambling where exactly do we go? We already took out one player on A.
What's the site call now? Is it going to be B? A B, but I think it might just be an A, regardless knowing that you already got in one pick.
And it's a 2-2 for both sides as well. Quick peek out from Karina, loses hers.
So, Adora scoops up her head as Jade kind of make a bit of noise, perhaps pull away a rotation.
No, I think if she gets the right timing onto the site, it could be huge.
They've already made a lot of noise to aid, pulled away that rotation, teleport, definitely able to access as well.
They want to, I think they're thinking about it.
As Jade already on the side, the TP goes, nice dink to the head, and she cleans out Paus.
It's nice to go for more here as the rest of the team scurries up to that V-side.
Spikes are a bit late though.
Yeah, the spikes are gonna go down quite late and Jade's already pushing through all the
way through Elbow.
And Purity's on the long, long flank.
Probably gonna be unexpected this timing.
They've got to take the fight somewhere, they're gonna go aggressive.
But it's here, Jade's location noted as Jade decides to just move away and play closer
with her teammates.
But Fiori, bit late, but Jade was ready for it! Oh my god, this ideal can frag!
Oh yeah, coming out strong and you know, I did mention Giant X's attacks on Epistles
lay off pretty good, so you expect this win, but I mean opening it up with that shot from Anita.
I mean yeah, we're gonna see it in slow motion. Thank you, Goro, for the fingers on the replay today.
Great work there, and Jade finding such a good timing on Toselia, opens up the site
And allows the spike to go down a little bit late. Yes, but Jade's got it. She's spamming bodies already getting heated
We love it and now Gion X
The buy coming up Anita going to go in essentially shopping for alt orbs over towards showers with that marshal
A little bit of a little bit of spam towards be and the way they push is Anita. Oh my god
That was a very dangerous play very bold if you ask me
gets the information that's enough I suppose. So you have Anva just hanging
around toward Amine hoping to see if anyone pushes out to see you know if a
repeat of last round should happen again. B with three players holding gets a
bit more interesting there as well but the rest of the rest of the team here I
think that for AT for Giants excuse me slowing it down might be key to how they
want to push this but as soon as the horn comes out here it has to go for a bit of a
Peek and shows their hand.
Sh-Rangs out the guns, but no kills quite yet.
It'll come down to Celia. Can she find anything here?
Oh, she might be able to. No.
Almost though, Adora was very much ready for here.
Anva, sharp as heck, straight to the dome.
There's a team here, caught off guard.
Gets two, in fact, fights for her life inside of U-Haul.
A block C and J get theirs.
Jada, still holding on the back off site here as well, bit of a whiff coming in from Jada while Badura is there with Jada, small bang, gives Giants that second round win, which is huge.
Huge expected but most importantly needed, they lost two players there as well so it's not too costly and they can come full buy into this next round.
If Celia had maybe found a Dora here, that could have changed everything of this round, but Anva,
such a nice lurker in the early round allows her to get set up into the back.
Get that first pick to just shut down any chance of purity dashing back towards the site.
And like I said now, Gionx, they've got a good buy behind them, Tash.
Atn they've got light shields across the board. This is basically an even gun round.
Just need to shoot the head. That's where things get really fishy, right?
As you wait in the smokes here, Adora, I see a bit of noise there, and Jade just hoping
to catch them off guard. One flash is all they need to pop off those heads.
But none of the members of ATM look to play a little bit too aggressively. They know that
someone is inside of Octagon already.
We're trying this case Jade with the in-shells. No, she's gonna move away here for now.
Yeah, I'm surprised that Jade just stuck there. She didn't take the TP out, she just held her
line and that's such good info. Forces, Giant X back and you can see already Purity stopped
Anva from getting any progress on her luck over the short but she's gonna get a whole
a lot of questions, rest of GYMEX any moment soon.
Oh, I understand!
We didn't just fell asleep on the wheel!
Took a while, but I thought it was just quick to deal with her as well.
Jade finds hers.
Slowly, everything they set up is just slowly collapsing here,
as the rest of the giants just fully take control of both showers and main.
The late rotators forced to go for a save, no money for the next round.
I think this just might be formalities for the bonus to go to our Giants.
Yeah, and that's the key thing. It's a bonus. It's a flawless bonus. They lose some armor on Jaidemore.
Adora had the regen shield, so she doesn't even need to rebuy shields next round anyway.
All they need to buy up is their Util and Jaidemore shields, and they are pretty much set.
Well, there's ATN, two players alive, guns. Yes, they'll have two of them, but they won't buy up the rest of their team.
So it's going to be a little bit of a hero purchase here for Karina and Blossy.
Hero saved through.
Adonix, they could go hunting.
And honestly, I think they should go hunting a bit more than they are.
Maybe. Yeah.
I mean, they just won their, they won their ones, basically, right?
All they did was take 1v1s and win them out.
What a round from Giant X.
And you can see a little bit of a force coming up from ATN.
They want to take the fight straight back.
Jada is far and oh, and she's been winning all of her aim jewels every single time.
I think that was a moment that why I felt like Karina could have already popped her head super early.
That didn't happen. Jade was just so quick to just spot her out and that's what's making it really, really scary.
And ATM really wants to win this map, especially against a team like Giants that are streaking on Coroad.
Yeah, and like the momentum I talked about earlier, Giants, they've already got it on their side.
Need to Jade, we've seen this fight in this position before.
Shoulder seen. Now TP's away.
Okay, waiting the wings there the double swing there gives them all the information they need and finally Jade gets taken down
It's peering you will be the one to do so or so Tp away to avoid those paint shells
Our Dora she's looking a little bit more fast a little bit more aggressive this time around you could really tell
that giants I
Want to see whether or not they can force that way onto the site jumps over the Molly and a double swing just pops her head
Anita for the very least gets one of her own makes it a little bit more doable and off angle played by Jake Winters
Unbox finds the backside as well. Anita in particular today has been particularly sharp
Wait flank though. This is gonna be a quick retake
Anita on the open. Oh my god. Fearless as ever gets three
Make it a four if you can
Philia alone hasn't been spotted quite yet. Not gonna be the easiest retake so much you can pick up a gun
It's right in that corner, but timing is good by Anva
Things up house that's four on the board already for Giants
Yeah, that was a force up as well for ATN two players can buy in because they saved from the last anyway
And I'm not sure if they want to I'm expecting a time out to come on through ATN
They just can't find a way back in
Jionex are just playing around. They showed a really, really nice track play there to
take down J. We'll take down the IGL. And we do see the timeout coming through because
although they show these little sparks, these little cool ideas in the kind of pre-plant
area of the map, a very early game, they take some space and then use that to kind of springboard
forward, utilize the way lays recall to try and find some kind of advantage. And they
found it there. That was a four versus five for Jnx to win out. Yeah, they were able to
stabilize. And as soon as Adora was able to push purity out force purity through the TP,
they knew that B site only had one person there because Karina had also gone through
that TP and the phase she's not going to recall she's not going to way back. So they knew
that site was empty and they executed immediately got the spike down. Yes, Jade got a couple
of nice guardian shots in there. But we've really seen Jnx playing the cerebral game
here. J.Mal is calling a masterclass. Yeah, actually, and I'm really liking the fact that
for Giants this time around, they're a little bit more aggressive, I feel. They're not really
taking their time. They're a little bit more decisive with what they want in each round.
Yeah, it's not the fastest W key gaming that we've seen, but it's definitely a lot more
faster piece than the previous games they've played. So you could definitely tell that
they've really changed up how they want to approach this attack side. Yeah, they have,
And for now they're going to play anti-aggression, a little bit of a fight spam draw, over the
wards belong, and knowing AT-End they're going to go for a track play here.
I like this, this change in pace of AT-End could be good, but when you're up against
a sharpshoot like Anita it's going to be really, really hard to do anything about it.
Giants had taken two hits, but they're not going to try and commit to B, they're hoping
that the rotations have been pulled away from A.
But that hasn't really been the case here.
But Kailia, still alone, only a sheriff in hand.
We've seen the GC sheriffs.
Stray shots that come through, but not enough to deter them off that site already on there.
Both dualistic yet so much space, playing out those corners.
But Kailia hasn't been dealt with yet.
They're trying to find the right timing, stops the plant, huge!
But where exactly is she?
Anitta is hunting.
I cannot find her quite yet, so she will be overtaking the case of what it means to plant,
but Kailia decides that she's not done yet.
Three heads down, two more to go.
The ultimate is there for her to play, Anitta with three of her own,
and for she for her turns a bit too late as Kailia with a four already.
The only thing in hand was that Sheriff Jade finds her, denies the ace,
knows exactly where the last person is, sees, thrown, Jade, loathe,
A shot got in here, could it stop her? Yes it does!
An ATN!
By the skin of their teeth, get around on the board.
Enough 3 vs 5 as well.
ATN lost those first two members to Anita over on Belong.
And then all of a sudden they just bring it back.
Thanks to Celia, just popping heads with that sheriff.
The GC Sheriff is good, but I was not expecting that.
These nice shots from Nita, the trade from Karina not able to come on through, but look at that, the smoke blossoms and she still gets those kills a bit laboured here, but does eventually take down Nita.
And then Jade trying to slow it down as much as possible, but cleaned up in the aid with her opposing, or one of the opposing Jade's, I guess, with that, with the shotgun.
Janx, they've still got the money, but now there's an arc for Jade on the long holding down this line.
Already knows this off in play, Jade takes a bit of damage, forced off that angle.
Anitta's already on the side, I'm still not really hoping for her to teleport,
but it'll take a little bit more space in the backside now, she's stuck.
It was exactly where she is, so Fury and Karina clear the house,
Jada and Jade both get to each, it's messy, it's crappy, 2v1 left.
But Jada, the last person standing, not anymore.
What a round that was, you can tell that AT-N is starting to find their confidence.
Yeah, they're warming up now. I mean, look at this.
Karina taking this little bit of an off angle. Ignoring the clone and the little crossfire set up there from Giant-X
It's got the retake coming on in. No such luck.
And now actually Anita's brought up the attack side up. We've seen this from her a couple of times on this map.
So to take it over towards showers, usually hunting here just for a pick or two, but the
TP back to B for if she wants it.
And Janek's having really favouring the B site, at least at the start of the round.
I wonder if ATM will catch onto it, or if they change something up.
Don't blame them, they've had early angels on B long, and they've been winning.
Ooh, upshot quick!
You alright, Eko?
Alright, Eiko.
Mm-hmm.
I mean, Anitta's good.
You could see Jade flicked over, but just wasn't able to click that button.
Not able to take the shot.
Now the ops down.
Purity's got this, uh, this judge again, and she always starts in Celia, looking for
Hanva.
No, yeah, she backs off, she survives.
This is good, but now A-Side, it's open.
I was really scared when you see a game of timings happen, and happens way too much in
this game.
Anitta, flash in hand.
Let me see if this really take away that front of sight.
The pot comes out, is destroyed.
Oh, gun barrel out, I know what I'm talking about.
Karina right on time, you two in hand.
Unlucky timing.
To the very least, the plan is delayed
and Blossy gets a kill out of it as well.
The overall strike doing damage.
She's displaced.
Anva challenges her own utility and swings.
No respite at all, as every member
has fallen apart here for ATN, except for Celia.
Where exactly the look, where exactly the hold, she's done heroics before.
Position's definitely noted by that sound, so the pit goes down with three open angles
to worry about.
Where are you gonna look?
Well, not too far.
Anita with the op, terrifying.
Yeah, I mean, opening up the round and closing it down, she's so good on the attack side.
Able to find that timing.
And I like a little bit of a combo there, snake bite into the obelisk.
I don't know who was on purpose or not, but it did ensure that the Primstone was taken out.
What I loved seeing from Jynex there was the awareness to take down the pit, to cancel it,
essentially, right? It's a big ultimate. You usually don't see that, but they knew that they
had Neatle on the line with the op. They knew they had two players backside just swing off of her
in case she missed her shot. And now we're seeing another trap player set play potentially from ATN.
As soon as Jade spots someone, this odds going to be coming on through.
through. And Janix, I think they've sniffed it out somehow.
Probably did. Me, you saw presence in that broken haunt inside showers, so this really
brings a lot of alarm bells. I mean, just waiting for that right time, maybe a jump
peak from Moktogon would be huge. We definitely heard that, so answer back, it's just smoke.
Don't allow Anita to use that op.
That's two Grim Smokes already used, both of them would be long though from Blossy.
Only one left for the round, you gotta be aware of it Celia.
Ah, spotted by the Prowler!
Oh, I was so sure that she'd actually win that and force it for her.
Forced to break the Prowler as well as Jade does get her, so...
Still dwindles her number.
One, Jhulia's down, denies that Rocket as well.
Now, how much pressure can Anva put on here with just a wall?
She's gonna hold the rotations on A.
Ewww, quick as ever, Anita.
Just Ocelia.
Less util to work with as well, with the Viper down, Purity holding his very tight angle.
Like knife in hand.
Oh my god, how did she turn that around?
Unruh falls.
This is running away to the A site.
But unfortunately for them, Jade is waiting, the line's held, 13 seconds to go, thank god,
to go onside and plant, but no entry onto the area at all. Desperation or not, ATN
not giving it to them at all.
Yeah, lovely work from ATN to kind of stabilise here. Jade always in the right place at the
right time against here, kill on Adora, but you can see it over the water shower on the
mini-matter. She closes the round up as well. Yeah, I'm not surprised by this, the giant
next time out coming on through. And it's probably about time
they've had the momentum they got their early streak of rounds
going good. But now ATN they are almost showing off a bit. I
think I want to say that the way that they're moving around the
map, the way that they've got purity and Jade, the two door
lists holding down the A site alone, because they have so much
trust pure who's able to get her gun out, move for the left a
little bit to take down and for that as we saw once you had a
actually I think she was running for the teepee at that point. And Anifer just wasn't ready for it and
this is the kind of thing that ATN, they can, even if they're caught off guard, they like flip it
back around on you and say no actually you're the one caught off guard. It's a very impressive thing.
We see it from them so much and Janx, they need to find a way to fix it, sort it.
Sometimes you just really want to, it's you know the shock and surprise. I would say that these
the easiest shots from what I've talked to a lot of these players that they tend to fumble.
So, you know, in these situations, especially against a player like Purity, you have one shot.
Yeah.
You miss it and it's over.
And it shows in the stats how sharp Purity is as a player.
This is a drill though. She's got the shotgun over towards A-Short.
She's really aggressive, not!
If I shot her down, can't get out!
No, get out! Free Jail card will be used today!
But the show's offer comes online.
Celia somehow managed to dodge the entire thing!
but Jada's shot rings through, cleans up house.
Karina can't see a thing.
And also what TP is at least, wary.
Nora, wait in the wings.
She's trying to swing out, but it's a two person hold
in the area, cannot do much damage.
The op still in Jade's hand,
but the rest of Giants just remain concealed.
Arturite in a situation where you're not able
to duel someone off.
The smokes and the berries try to isolate players!
A glossy shoser hand will be punished.
And as for Jade, if you want to stay in the game, you gotta keep that up online.
Decides to move back, but I think the Giants want to try and steal this off the way.
Shot bring through a white swing from Anita and Giants right off that time out gets the round.
Yeah, that was a flawless. It was basically a 50.
They had one vandal, a couple of stickers and sheriffs.
Purity. Quite often, off of the back of time, as we see pace switches come up, goes for
something aggressive with a shotgun, and I think Giant X, they were ready, they were
waiting for that to happen. As soon as that smoke came down on Short, Purity was dashing,
and Giant X were aware. Anva shuts her out of the round. It's back and forth between
those two. But, at the end, they've still got guns. They've still got money, and they've
still got some pretty big ultimates to use. The convergent paths from Purity still not
being used here. Such a powerful weapon. We usually say use the middle combos at APM.
Expecting more of that in the future.
Prouder. Let's give away the game for giants. Still slowly take away that space bit by bit.
ATM, move back a little bit more further away. Deny those lines and angles.
So slow. This is the EMEA style you were talking about.
It really is. It's so different.
But Jade has such a good potential line here.
You see Jade looking to peek onto it and just holding it.
Oh, it's far out.
Oh, they kept the scene.
Yep. And here comes the Dimensional Drift as well.
So you know exactly where Jade is.
Ping's all around.
There's exactly where it's going.
So we're going to hold these long lines.
Celia.
Anchoring well, as usual, Jada as well, Karina, it's one each, but an advantage like it a lot,
it will be on ATN side, it's a 2v4, but yeah the capability to frag for all of these places
definitely there, Adora looking the wrong way, nice to swing, oh my god, Tile was not ready,
but let's push out. 2v3, much more winnable, here comes the Wailie alt, it's everyone on that site,
Andorra still remaining in the wing!
Jenny, how did you win that?
Hold it still!
Andorra from the corner decides to spray the heck out of everyone!
Fishing off with the shorty as well!
A 2v4 win!
And there's so many of the situations happening today.
Oh, I mean, a 2v4.
What, you rarely see this?
That is the fourth one for GionX and ATN.
They've only lost one 2v4 previously.
That was their second one, and you could see the way that Gioneks were taking their fights.
They knew that all they had to do was take away one or two members at a time, slowly
dismantling ATM it as they were meant to be coming back in and now Gioneks they secure
themselves a lead going into round 11.
Little set play here, or ATM it towards showers, taking their control from themselves.
Anitta's just watching it, holding it, and it's another relatively slow round.
They can... ooh, tap in the spy, Anitta.
She's not worried. She's not concerned.
It's early rush this, right? Especially in this...
Number one, number two. They're comfortable. Anitta's just one on the
the damage will lift Jada and Jenoise has two big impact ults to play with as well.
Doris building up towards her, they are getting so close to the ult cycle again for the last
round of the half. Karina though going to be under so much pressure. The sole person
towards site is the night fool, looks like it's coming on in.
I'm sure we're gonna have to wait for it to come out of the way.
Surely not.
It's gonna have to be different.
That's the plan.
Fourteen seconds to go, lots of time, and then about sticking the more forward approach
decisive that really took away the space.
A big swing out, and Blossie falls next.
But Jane and Purity to go.
Spots out, the player moves on to the back, will be slowed.
Adora cannot win hers, and gives Jane the perfect opportunity to clean up the round.
I was worried. I was scared. It looked like Jadix might have done another one.
There's no way. That's crazy.
So close. I mean, I could really get in one there after being knighted.
We were taking back around, dancing around that tone towards Scythe's.
It was so nice. This is the moment I think they really want it for them.
Purity, really using the Miss Peto comp to its fullest advantage.
Dashing in saturating and allowing Jade to follow on up
Now as we go into this we've got one guard in from Celia, but she's been pretty good with it so far
So I'm not too worried about that pretty much full by across both but big ults for Gion X
She'll drift open already for Anita should give a lot of information knows exactly where Celia is
So Celia or stride away moves back Anita falls by door. I trade
one for one
Now they're smoked out could slowly or quickly if they want to burst at the site. That's a perfect flash. Just this place on Dora
Suddenly it's time. It's one more time as both ponds utilized
Seas used a Dora moves away in the wings and the corner
There's all that noise Jada winters purity to fall next
Zanva playing a perfect game inside of you all as well in tandem
and just in the blink of the eye, every single member of ATN falls and we're down to a 4-8.
So, we'll be right back after this. Second half.
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Let me take you for a ride Close your eyes, come and live
It's a heaven in the skies Just for you
Just for you
Oh, welcome back.
GionX, 8 and 4 up.
Switching to the defensive side, that was half yes, but they only need 5 to win it out on ATN's map.
Immediately they're going aggressive.
I have given them way their cards a bit too early here, but Adora takes a lot of damage with some of our winters!
Moved away, forced away as well, but Adora gets 2.
Jada holds the front of Shower's 2 perfection.
Marked and low, forced to move back, hoping that the other members of ATN decides to get a little bit more aggressive.
Just to go for that punish, right? ATN aware that disadvantage decides to move away.
Moving together as a unit, trying to move and clear U-Haul together, and Blossie does just that.
The giants, they're unconcerned. They know they have a bit more of an advantage here.
Jade with a late rotation, one more time, doing God's work for this team.
Oh, Jade Moore waited for so long on that flank for the perfect time to peek on through.
You can see how early she was going there as Adora somehow on 23 HP gets two sheriff
headshots.
That is just the Adora we know, but Anita peeking with Jade Moore, different angles.
This Janix roster, their fundamentals originally looked a little bit rough when we first saw
them in week one.
In week two they slowly got better, but now in week three they are looking so much more
settled so much better at working together working off of each other and now another pistol round one
for them another goodbye for them here as well the door can be up first
me and the wings here the top side catches glossy right next to walking onto that site
chipped and low but not out of the game quite yet the paint shells get so hard to play as jadeus
Braze the heck out of the last two members of ATN!
Still, purity and card underwear about to do get this fight down, most importantly.
But without better weaponry, it's not gonna be easy.
Anva cleans up house one more time.
Another late flank is really sealed around.
And another flawless for GionX.
The third, I think, in this map so far.
Yeah.
They are just then not giving anything to ATN.
And you talked about earlier, A-Tin not allowing Jionix to have an inch, and the exactly the same is happening the other way.
Adora, such a nice timing to just pick off of that mid execution, and Jada, I mean like, we raised her as one of the players to watch out for right at the very beginning.
That is why she will just, again, find a timing, dodge the flash, peek back in, and now, full shields have to be bought for ATN, so that does mean purely she's down to the shotgun, but she doesn't mind that.
It's one of my favourite guns anyway, so that's fine.
A Gionix, a little bit of a lower buyer.
A lot of pressure heard over towards B, nothing towards A, but Anita actually takes the TP
back towards the B site while something attacks there, waiting.
I'm not sure what they're waiting for, but maybe a mistake?
Perhaps they're hoping for these early jewels, right?
We talked about what they like, how aggressive they want to play.
Our Giants isn't giving it to them.
No.
It's a plinth.
If they could be caught...
They could have chip damage.
That thing in hand is just a shotgun, so...
Taking away that space is already going to be hard.
For the TT they go, I'm going to try and take away that space inside of showers.
And they do just that.
Jay down the back end there.
the clone but slowly moving to the back of the area somehow finds Glossy's head!
Trade it though!
Done the damage!
Hunt comes through and as well it's it down.
Jake Lurix noted this time around they won't be fooled three times.
Tenva hold on to long knows where Celia is but Celia better faster with the swing.
I know it's where the position for at least one of the members of ATNR.
Hard to do more than that.
So I get a bigger gun, better, pop a head or two, make a dent in the economy if they
can.
Time is slowly ticking away.
Does fuck Puri out?
Are they just gonna be waiting for her there?
Ooh, one and two is at least so expensive.
the tap they get the round and ATN they're still fighting yeah but Janix being able to get those
two kill lists right at the end there ATN now can't fool me up they're gonna have someone on
weaker shields weaker weaponry at the very least and I mean a really nice early round Jada
dude first pick there but ATN they're able to stabilize you call it out Celia aware of the
Jade Moir flying, the classic that she goes for.
I mean, I honestly believe Dunita could maybe have done that if she practiced like taking
another head that Diffuse would have come through because Jade was already keeping it
already far away.
Now, Jonax, they've got the buy, they've got the money, and Purity again with this shotgun.
She's not really made it hard yet on this map and all the beautiful seas to slow everything
down.
Because Jade Moa had full force of that flash through our face could have been a bad situation
Yeah, wasn't that follow-up?
It's the position of purity already so rest of Giants
Been really good at denying these early fights ATN cannot get what they want
They have to bring the fight inside of the site to Giants
I've got a door though, her info is huge here.
Pushed all the way outside of A.
And hookah fully in their control already as well.
It's just a matter of clearing out these quarters and you have no idea where to look.
And they cut the noise.
I'm literally no that close.
It's most comes through one more time.
You see, I need to help waiting for the wings
with that flag, Jade.
We'll get hers, trade it out, I'm up.
If Jade's gonna get two, we're finally going down.
I need to end the wings still, not out yet.
Two V3.
That's what I planned.
White swing off, that's not enough to take her down,
but beauty sharp as ever.
But Tymy is not on her side, Adora this time around.
Get hers.
And Giants, we're at 11.
11-5, I mean this defensive half is already looking good.
Winning out on that gun round, especially after the damage done by Neutron the previous,
it means that the economy is going to be so much in with their favour.
And Neutron, a nice couple of picks done purely, almost brought it back with a reload unexpected.
You should always expect GYNEX on the flank, they're always going to be there.
I'm sure that is what Zyphex is saying in this timeout.
They're going to be on the flank. They watched it. Celia did manage to take down Jadmaw once.
But even if Jadmaw's not on the flank, somebody is going to be.
Yeah. Sometimes we see, most of the time, it's Jadmaw. I think we've seen Jada with the later
flank. I think one time we saw Anva as well. So, you know, even if you think that Jadmaw
is on that site, it won't necessarily be here. But most importantly, I feel, for giants, their
capability to multi-frag has been a big problem for ATN. They're so good at not only just isolating
you know these these lines but at the same time you know sometimes in the situation where
the sprays have to go together it's been deadly. I mean even the way that Janix defend their sights
holding down those lines it's it is these fundamentals that the the work there in week
one and they slowly started to build up in week two and now they just feel so good and
Janek's a much better buy and Neeta's got the Outlaw which is going to be essentially an
operator against everyone from ATM. Like this is such an even buy it will go up to
map point on ATMs map pick. Oh and so many people spotted from that. It got lit up!
Oh, that's just...
Well, this position from Anva, a little bit risky, she can't escape.
Oh, there we go, Anva.
They're too aggressive there, out in the open as well.
Damn, she'll risk, will give the game away for Adora.
Oh, she just passed away.
Last pack, excuse me.
Does Jake mind the corner there?
Oh, I love this buddy system coming online here for ATN.
The one person has a way to just really move away the crosshair,
and the other just fade out.
That measure of the ornithal's track excuse me will be used as beauty in the quarter hoping to see whether or not
Giant to push out.
Flash is there.
I think for the rest of Giant's understanding that it's going to be really hard to retake,
it's waiting the wings for all this utile to be served,
and peacefully make their way onto the site.
But look, they know purity in the corner here.
The Bucky in hand.
Completely bloody as a cross by she could go for two spots on the gun barrel goes for one
Oh my god, I'm for her Jada was quick to react walk and jade finds two great one V4 situation
Jada says not not today, but I try at least feel away a kill or so
I still use the full force of that flash jade has been doing phenomenal to help her team break onto that site
Perfect flashes all around
Yeah, not a flaw. Let's put a very nice exec there
As soon as Anva goes down, but I mentioned that this pop, the decisive piece from APN is right there and the buddy system, right?
You've got purely dashing up into you, into you, from the air, essentially dropping down from the skies in Karina with only a classic.
Swings on through, gets that pick.
Now Jyanex, they themselves down to an eco.
Enva's got a Bucky, but he's cleared his own medicine over towards B, but this is going to be a start, a fight over towards a full members of Gion X taking showers control.
This is so different this time around. Giants wants to turn up the heat.
With the spray, everyone just fall! That's a perfect spray! Come again from Jade!
Foreheads pop in just one single moment!
And Enva's suddenly all alone with only a Bucky in hand.
I mean, if you assume... Yeah, but if you assume she's already on A, right?
You assume that was a five-person stack, the viper over the wood short with four people
swinging out of showers.
What a straight down, though.
That is the kind of thing you get from someone with the veterancy that Jade has.
She's been playing in this scene for so long.
The initial drift was used last round, by the way.
She's now one away.
She gets a pick.
She gets a spike down.
That's it for the start of the next round.
Yeah.
absolutely popping off this. She's considered one of the best
dualists in EMEA, and she's definitely the best dualist in the Dark Region.
And you can really start to see why that's coming on through, right? Like, she is
just such an incredible player.
To say, look at her, um, champion's vandal, just glowing,
beautiful halo, just showing what she has to offer there.
It's really scary when you're playing against someone like her.
He really wants this ace if you can.
He already comes through there as well.
There we go! First ace of the night!
Give it to her courtesy of her teammate, WT-mate.
Thank you very much. No steals here.
Using the U-Till as well to help enable us to get it.
I mean like, look at this spray down.
She just, it's so well controlled with it.
That's all we really need to see.
That's all that round really was.
It was Joe and X attempting a surprise, attempting a switch of a pace.
But now, they've got the Octback on line, Anita with that.
Three Alts for both sides.
It's got hers again.
A-Site completely open.
And that's going to be spotted immediately by Jada, by Jada, sorry.
Dimensional Drift.
Anita though, she might be able to find the timing though, she's been spotted.
You're already on the backside there. Whoa, denied by Anita.
Adora as well, back on line with...
OH MY GOD! The showstopper still gets Jade in the midst of the teleport!
Karina, crossing, Jada, finds her!
And suddenly everything just falls apart for ATN!
That's the plant though!
Celia and Blossie?
Oh wait, this is a nice leaflank.
They still chase up their own medicine but she doesn't land her, shots their Dora is low and so is Jade!
But they manage to cross.
And he says there the very least of Blossy that swing catches and ball guard gets a diffused by the
Pandora's done her job already
Try tonight with a bit more time. Jada did not know that Celia is a bit more late here
Jade wall finds Blossy Celia finds you the half is there forced to reload forced to move away my froze
Dian's what a way to get the match point
And as soon as the ram gets messy, the staff looked so good for Gionex. They were incredible
early and needed perfect timing to catch purity and you can see Jade's TP just hadn't come
through. But all of a sudden it looked like that fight of Phipus' tooth could have come
on through for ATM. Celia, such good spam. The pros don't fake and the spike gets diffused
some giant X go up to 1280 and they've got a good bike.
They killed all five members of giant X.
They're down to an eco, but there's still a chance.
It's sheriffs in a bandit and lots of vaults.
So much possibility, but general spotted.
I can't contend them with the alone as well.
Really catch her off guard.
Anva, you're gonna make her way into hooker.
of Lair their interdefences to help out her teammate. ATM, single sound.
They might TP in about 20 seconds once they think the Rotates are over towards B. They
know Jharnx are on Niko. And usually on Niko teams group a little bit quick a little bit
earlier than they usually do but instead Jharnx they've gone for the flank. But I think ATM
They're already watching it. They're already aware.
And like they're not expecting to finish the game there, right? You know you're down to an eco.
You might have a hope that you can, because we've seen some incredible shots already just with those sheriffs, just with those bandits.
But I like the quick flank.
It puts the spear into AT&T, and they always need to leave somebody watching the flank.
And that means that when they execute onto site, they're one person weaker.
Which means you might be able to anchor that site, stop them from hitting the spike down that little bit more.
because giant X's retakes, they aren't a bit lackluster, but if I just hit it, it's gonna shut down the entire two short showers though, completely open ATMs speeding up,
Adora hears it, aware.
It's not making it easy for them to just break up this tank at all, so like you don't know, I think ATMs are gonna have to just wait back one more time for this utility to go down.
Could potentially try and challenge Anvas Pit, but you know, it's her world.
They've got the convergent parts, it's a pretty nice ultimate if they want to try and dash in and take down the Viper, but Jaiden's gonna spot Celia.
I don't- that- is that gonna pull the rotates over? It is, but I can only see that they want to make more noise, push over towards the B site.
Yeah, go on Anita, her TP's gonna loan Jade, somehow finds that pick up to Jade more.
It's here.
positions noted that's a big time for as well and somehow gets one the only one
just when you get onto the site as well purity comes in on but trades her still
hasn't been moved at all from this pit also a they made it come through from a
different alternate angle and another pit comes down as well so many things
happening some of the things going on the plants already down it's 2v3
And now let's see the site at all
You know does have a bit of an idea where exactly the plan will be happening only guts a bit of chip damage here
And by coming through hope to see if anyone's hanging around inside of showers
Timing is right to come on to the site
Oh, there we go. Perfect. Ben Karina. That's not you want
Is jade has moved away as well?
Celia has been found at all
is placed but is enough to show Anva where exactly she could be and Giants somehow managed
to win the round with a deficit one more time.
And I mean they are just a team that can come back from low numbers so consistently.
80N, I mean like look at Jade, right, like she was popping off like nobody's business
But she always is, right? And now it's really now, for ATN, the rest of the team just wasn't able to keep up with her, keep up with the pressure that Giant X was putting down.
Because I mean Anita on the other side, the opposing Yoru, what a performance, so many multi kills from her with just little timings, right?
She's aggressive, yes, but they've got a door is that primary entry.
Anitta just finds timings, tries to get in there before Atena, even a while of what she could be doing.
Honestly, I just really, really like to see, I think, you know, how Jade has been playing as well, coming through as well.
I think what's really amazing for me personally, coming into this particular matchup, it's going to be Anitta versus Jade.
I think we talked a little bit about how the ACS, how the plays are going to be.
to be, but I think for me personally, for Jade, yeah, she's good at finding situations
where she's able to get this early multi-frags, but the biggest problem that they had felt
that they had gone through was the multi-frags when they're already on the side.
Jai is just so good at, you know, when you find two players together, you spray somehow,
you get to, you find isolated situations, you find great timings, especially when you
have like those situations where, yeah, you are so aware that there's going to be the
later flanks coming through. You have players like Anita ready and holding the back line.
So you're not able to really do or get anything out of that.
Yeah, but I mean, overall, most of their stats line up so well, the cast a little bit higher
for Anita, first blood's highest, higher for Jade. And I think this really shows how close
between these two players it was, and that as much as Jade was popping off, the rest
of ATN just wasn't able to get there to fight GionX on their own turf. And now we're going
to Giant X's map next, right? We look at this relatively standard. Okay, I think there
was some more, what I would call thrifties than this is saying, there was a lot of low
buy, stinger buy, sheriff buy, but don't always come through. Yeah. But the post plants for
GionX, a strong point that we call out beforehand, if they get the spike down, they're going
in most of the rounds and that's exactly what happened. They get the spike down, they win
it out and when they switched over to the defense they were able to retake against ATN, something
that is so difficult to do.
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So, the stakes are definitely higher for giants, and you could tell that they are definitely
feeling the pressure. But for them, the pressure is sort of like, you know, making a diamond
or turning into a curl. They're just looking really brilliant right now. And I think in
a lot of situations, a lot of teams don't really want to like really open up their playbook
super early, but I bring it to the latest stages. And I think in this situation, you
know, they're just forced to say, if we really want to go far, we're going to have to kind
of turn the pages and see what else we have in store, because whatever we're doing on
buy before is definitely not there. But you know, what is there, though, they're corroded
streak and I think this is where things get super interesting. We talked a little bit about,
you know, letting these maps slip through the cracks. So for ATN, what exactly do they have in
mind here? Was their whole mind, you know, sort of going for like, we, we decisively win bind
and then go into map three? Or like, what's the plan here? Because as we know, Corode is stronger
in the Giant's Axide. It is much stronger. ATN, they've only played this map once and they did
pretty well on it. Like, you know, it's not a bad map for them by any means, but this is,
If we're talking about homegrounds, it's Haven and kind of bind for ATN and GionX on the other side, it is Kuro.
This is their map. This is their comfort.
And you're really starting to worry because I think GionX, as soon as we saw that veto, as soon as we saw Haven was banned out,
you really start to think it does lean massively towards them because
bind,
it's been okay for them and it's their most played map for GionX, right?
So I'm not surprised that they wanted out because they have played this map so much and now coming into Corode
a map that they know and love and one thing that I love about this we called it out in the pre-show as well
We get to see the chamber. Oh, yeah, and
Like chamber on this map is good anyway, but seeing how giant X play around it
They set themselves up for success and then they continue on they send adora in aggressively on that neon
that she's very well known for at this point, it really kind of, it becomes like this comp on this
map, I think is how I view giant X, right? It's just the perfect like combination for them. And
that's a big hill to climb for ATN to try and win this map. Yeah, I think that, you know, if you're
able to displace the chamber would be super important. I did a job life. I did the previous game
for job likes versus giant X kind of like showed that right where you know Anva didn't really get
most of the frags but in the situation for giants when you have one player not being able to come
online you have another four that can do so as well especially Jada I think the last time that
she played this map was again was all the way in EMEA stage one I believe for officials I think she
went 22 on 7 on that omen which is definitely very very scary now on the flip side we talked a little
little bit that you did mention a bit about ATX's last, I think, big win, ATN, excuse
me, against KC, right? I think it was like 13 level, a lot more closer in terms of
score. And I think for me personally, coming into this one, it just feels like
for Giants, with their win looking a little bit more decisive, I would say
will be the right word, you know, with Adora looking very, very comfortable on
the neon, she's super fast, and you have like a follow-up on the back side really,
quickly you have Anva watching these lines. It makes for a very scary, what's the word to say it,
a very scary situation because you're just not sure, you know, your your flanks are covered,
your sight is just so quickly taken away. What exactly are you going to do from the retakes there?
Yeah, I think that's really the key thing is how do they go through Dix because don't forget as well,
we saw this before Celia switches up onto the Yoru and last time I casted over ATM when they
had Sealer on this. She looked so much freer to go aggressive, to take fights that she usually
wouldn't. The Gioneks, their pistols on attack, very good. They want them on bind. They're looking
to immediately get the spike down, secure themselves onto this site. This is going to be their strong
hold. And immediately you'll see where they position themselves. The issue here is where the
Anavis TP is going to. It's back in main. This trip triggers. They know where the flank is coming
Yeah, you have to really worry because you have Anva here, particularly sharp.
Gonna set up the paranoia as well for Celia, so he just forces Celia back.
They check for Anva, they don't, and gives Anva two free kills, three even in fact for shut down by Karina.
And suddenly for the rest of the team, they're just falling apart here.
Everyone playing in tandem together with the spike plant in such an ominous position.
You get the tap, they know exactly where she's on it.
all that to do is just spray and Nora knows exactly where her head is so
pistols onto giant flap one more time as previous map. And they are just
continuing this and we saw the momentum the giant X can get. I mean the big
thing to be here is Aitian you saw where onvers teepee was going to you saw it in
main you must have ran past it but they just had no idea that this is where she
would be they don't clear it and now she's got full shield she's got the
Outlaw, she's got some headhunter, one headhunter bullet if she needs it. Only one, I'm a bit surprised she's not buying up a few more there, but that's fine, you know.
It's, it's Amber, she's good enough, she only needs one, and ATM they've got nothing, zilch, nada, and immediately spotted out by the horn.
Yeah, Narsily can not hold up a position once more, but Purity decides to refill that space, I need to have a nice off angle there, she's, uh, if they swing out, could just get one or two, the timing suits her, and smoke specific, one more time, no!
That's a jinx. But the rest of Team Damned has completely collapsed onto the rest of the members of ATN.
I'm not finding the last, so...
I am still looking very, very good in this attack side.
Yeah, and once again, they've gone for this same buy that we've seen from them before, right?
Where they enable themselves to full buy up into this next round and still have money for the next.
As soon as their smoke goes down, it doesn't matter that it went approved,
because she only had a ghost and if she had a gun, it would have been picked up by a team
that's anyway.
Anva shutting down Karina and because they've seen that outlaw, it forces Celia, who did
buy up, to have to buy full shields, which means she can only buy a Guardian, Glossy,
no TP's, no dashes from Purity.
They're so lacking in utility because of this outlaw.
A very nice first pick though with that spam.
Yeah, it's huge.
They knew exactly where Giant's going to be playing there and Anva's not shy at all
to show her hand.
She's got a TP out of that she needs it, oh no!
Jade's already with two, she already made so much of a Ruckus onto mid, now onto B as
well.
She did and it's off angle could be massive as well, Ardora trades at the very least.
Use the fast lane as well Ardora.
So fast movement though, slow peek will be the death of them, Jade will be the next one
to fall, Dora paranoid, slowed, everything in the kitchen sink will be used, try and
isolate these angles, spots off the right timing onto one but Blossy does not allow
more damage to come to the team so ATN 1 on the board keeps 3 of their rifles.
I think Jionix, they just kind of forgot that they were in the purchase. They forgot that they had the advantage here with better utility, better weapons as well, because they really had to buy a backguard in.
They weren't diligent with their utility. We saw such diligence on Biden, such discipline, using their utility to make sure Angles were clear before peeking into it.
And they just didn't that round, but now because of how they played those early rounds, they can still buy up.
And Viz got the Operator. And ATN, they're taking the fight to them in AMA.
And ATN was to brawl aggressively! And Jada so quick to punish!
Gordy I think got caught there with the dashes.
She got caught on the gate and she just gets taken down immediately.
And now the rotation has to come through from Jade.
She comes to support Blossy but that leaves Maiden D so much weaker.
Half Celia just moving down mid-side air and see if anyone is there.
Blossy paranoia, Blossy falls as well. Anita so quick to capitalize on that.
The gate still remains hidden.
The edge of that smoke!
That means just so much better for her.
The very least Anita, sharp as ever, quick to trade.
Arena all alone, 1v4.
If I comes out, I need to foolish to try and challenge that.
That's what makes giants so great. Just understanding how the lurks, how the rotations could happen.
No stone left unturned.
And they're just so good with it. Yes, okay, they might lose a couple to cut those drills,
but like you said, Anita comes in with the trade. Gets taken down by her opposing Viper,
But Andra is there ready over there.
That is probably going to be a save.
And now, because ATN, they've not had the economic boost that Giant X did, thanks to
the way they played those early rounds.
Essentially, an eco coming on through, weren't able to save any guns.
And they're up against Andra's operator.
She hears the TP, it doesn't deter her though.
Ooh, leg shot!
Yeah, leg shot, 5 HP.
alive limping in fact comes out finds nothing you're doing a great job of
being hidden that's not a problem though they haven't really seen oh my god what a
shot that was I'm on fire Celia wants to walk up to the plate too no I'm burst
out here with that flash quick swing forward and the rest of giants to move
away instead of challenging it off the hand. Quick shot to the face, Celia cannot survive.
He's hungry. Yeah, she wants more, but discipline. It's coming on through for giants. They lean back
over towards A, because they know they've got the massive advantage in numbers. They've got the
advantage in guns. Blossy 5 HP, they might not know that, but she's alone on the site.
Speed's coming in as well.
Let's know there's someone around here, ooh, she's got time, it's good!
Quick, sneeze and a kill as well as purity and glossy falls.
One more play to worry about.
They're aware of what kind of a beef they are now, they're going to rush up forward.
Beautiful display of teamwork as well, especially just having one player just pull away that
crosshair to wall us round.
or 6th. Flawless round as well I think it is and I mean like Amber's been on fire like
she's it feels like she just feels so much more confident right she's able to take these
fights that I think she might not usually take if she wasn't on the chamber and that
confidence has paid dividends already. 8 and 2 looking so incredible so much map control
thanks to how she's playing for now Celia's got her own operator looking like she's holding
over towards B and that's what the majority of the gianics plays ago in the prowler taken down by a teammate
but she's still holding the line
he displaced
there she goes oh my god before the tp could even come online Celia already knocked out of the part
Karina's marked and detained to be tamed excuse me but jade and purity is there to equalize
but Anva still unmoved.
There's a bit of chip damage this time.
There's a teammate's follow, Blossie.
Spots on Jade. They know that they're rotating over this time around, so...
but Jada, they try and get that early advantage onto that site.
They're pushing all the way to CT side!
It's gonna be huge if she wins this.
The portion for her purity will be the one to come up a little bit faster there in the jewel.
Except to worry about Anva.
He's hitting the corner.
Spotted as well.
Let's play a little bit more further back, but Jadenwa is here.
Quick to find her!
Bit of a whip, but she gets it in the end.
That Oden.
Be a menace.
And by the way, the one to fall next.
Jade trying to isolate these fights and these angles!
Oh shit, for her.
They have a tough mountain to climb.
So ATN gets one more point on the board.
Bit by bit, they're gonna try and catch up.
I mean, Blossy went out in there, I gel 1v1, I want to see how many more we...
Yeah, I want to see more of those, because both of these players, they're eye-gelling,
they have so many big moments, so many power plays, and I mean Anita, beautiful timing off
the people of the door, gashing on through.
And you can see there, the teamwork from both of these teams, but this is one of the things
I like to see when we've got Jade over on the fade, is she doesn't really change up her
mental of how she fights, how she plays around sites. She's going to go aggressive. She's
going to take a fight. And she's always got purity there with her. It's this little teamwork
between this duo, regardless of what agents they're on. So good, Adora immediately mid
control J though has the Odin. This could be leave. Oh no, she's going to back off.
I love this change. This time around, they actually committed to this mid area compared
to be forward it is only holding in that bottom mid.
The fast lane if it is used they now know where jade is yeah they have to smoke jade off
before they can push and they can't really push up beyond here.
His sees could be huge.
Slows them down at least.
Gets them back onto the aggressive line.
They're leaning towards A.
assie to deal with, especially with Bossy and Purity just holding on close by here.
To be able to come onto there, maybe a flash is just a place Bossy.
Oh, that's what helps.
Oh my god, quick through, the smoke gets one, Jake Maul will fall next.
Adora at the very least provides a bit of coverage for her teammate, so surviving a little bit longer there.
Bossy? Oh, this tidal angle, they peek, they fall.
I don't think they want to do that quite yet.
We fire so quickly forward here, a quick spray as well, but the fake bite does not allow them any more space.
Even swinging forward, Anita will put down that pit.
I'll try to run through here, see if I try to provide as much information as possible,
but Anna with the headshot, disgusting.
Karina stops the damage right at time B as well.
One flash and the clone to come out as well. One more time, finds nothing.
That's some access to an upgrade of a weapon though and Jade she just sneaks into the pit
like it's nothing.
Spots out one member so quickly, Jada here alone and Jade being a menace with that Odin.
Slowly but surely gonna catch up with Giant's score.
Yeah, getting up to three and now I'm wondering if we'll see the timeout come on through.
You want to try and secure yourself as many rounds as you can on the defensive side.
It's the weakest side of the Giants so they don't mind if they only even get 5 but I'm
expecting them to try and fight for more.
I love the decisive moment for Celia as soon as that wiper's bit comes on through she goes
to the dimensional drift, goes through it, pings out the positions.
Jade can spam it down with the Odin.
The counter play with that and then the spam.
So good, now we're gonna see a replay of round six.
Nah, Celia's not going aggressive.
She doesn't wanna die again.
No, not this time.
Celia going a bit more, yeah, she does get in space.
Now, oh my God, I was so sure that Celia
would get the kill there, but somehow turned the tables.
Already on that site, Anita, quick this time around as well.
Jake coming through mid, still with that Odin.
Hopefully he's not gonna find someone looking by,
but unfortunately for this time around,
Giants has opted to play on the side itself
with full control of CT area as well.
And 18 a saving.
They've gone through at this point,
there's Giants have a,
so almost a 90%, 89% win rate on their B post plants.
As soon as they get the spike down, they seem to win.
And when they've got five alive,
holding down the line with the up,
Gator looking to try and take down as many weapons as possible. Probably not aware of
where Jade is in her own spawn, but a great round from Jionix to secure the fifth, keep
themselves pushing as many rounds in the lead as possible, and putting the owners on ATN
to find a solution, to find a fix. And those rounds that they got previous, they were flukes.
That's what JX is saying. Those were flukes. This is how we really play.
Yeah, and in that round I felt like it was like a very bleak and you missed it situation because it was a little bit more quiet
Then something they just burst onto the side everyone there this time around they didn't bother with the late
You know flanks and I like that they can kind of like change it around because it just keeps
Hcm sort of guessing where exactly they might be
Now as we're relatively even on guns light shields for all of ATN and another brawl towards B
No up there
Very dangerous game they're playing here.
Burleys has a bit of utility to slow down the rest of the giants.
The rest of ATN, I don't think they want to peek this at all.
They do not want to meet with the gun coming up from Anva.
Whether it be a headhunter, whether it be an AWP, they don't want to deal with that.
Oh no, Jada.
I had to play above the water there, but somehow through everything is Anva that falls first.
Burleys equalized by Jade, Fanny Karina, her own pick.
We're all waiting in the wings, and they don't capture.
They're huge.
Yeah, still waiting in this corner.
We'll find that right time, and she does just that.
4v3.
The rest of the team is really taking it slow.
Aurora is stuck, unfortunately.
Don't think they really want to find her in the end.
They do just spray the heck out of her.
It's so easy, right?
Show your decayed and marked.
That's a suspicion that's one more close by. Oh my god, Util and Han could have been bad.
Anita, we need the wings to try to find that defuse. Still fixed it!
But this time around, giants are not playing around. They are resolute and they will just charge up at you.
At the very least now, 6 and 6 at minimum for Gion X.
So many layers to their game plan.
The door are holding there.
Those get taken down, but then Jada comes on through. You have to use the haunt on her.
And then there's still two members playing over towards main, stopping
Jade from being able to peek out of the smoke, looking for a kill whilst the defuse is trying
to come through. So many less Gionics and they are really taken everything away from ATN.
Any time ATN seen like they get into a good position, the smoke over towards kind of yard,
the way that they had the site control in their retake, 18 looked like that could have been theirs.
The GionX, they find a way to bring it back. And yes, Anita in the in mid to shut down purity,
stop that Frank from coming on through. And that security, the safety the GionX felt
in their post plant because of Anita holding down mid by herself,
showed that there's so much trust. There's so much teamwork in GionX that they can rely on each other,
and they know that if they're in a winning situation, even if they're in a losing situation,
they believe they can win. And now ATN. I'm not sure what kind of buy they're going for though,
buying and selling a lot of guns. I think two shotguns is probably a bit much, but they do have
the wipers put. Yeah, it could be good, could be huge as well. They have the, they do have Jade's
Alti to work with as well. So just really want to see how exactly they're playing this, especially
because Adora does have her overriding, but it's going to be nasty if she's able to just really
run away with it. Purity this time around wants to play aggressive, short gun in hand,
and the keeping her distance. Does hear her fade away. So now the bit of a rock is coming in
from mid as well. Blossy is waiting in the way. Quick find the right timing, and Jade does just that.
It's good. Nightfall as well has been used, but it cannot commit. Waiting in the corner here, Jada.
Quick to find Blossy. So now Fangle will not be abused, but not by Purity's.
Scrappy! These fights from so many different angles!
Gets on to the site as well, as the other three members of ATN said scram-ling to that B site.
Anva, holding all the way with that AWP, flicks to the right. It's clean. Teepees away.
Hold it still. The off angle. You have no clue if she's watching from main or not.
The nightfall will be used. She misses and seals you to full advantage of that situation with Jade!
It looked like it could have been one there for Giant X, but ATN just come on through.
So, so well played.
Jade swings on in, Celia's flash just to ensure that that was a one versus one fight, and
you know that Celia's going to be winning that out.
A little bit of a mistake from Adora there, got caught on the wall, but purely getting
two.
She loves these shotguns in these ratty little corners.
She lives for it.
And I never hit a very nice shot there, but Anita just missed. I think Celia was there for the trade, even if she'd gotten that first kill.
And you can see there are a few things from Jax at the start of the round, right?
The chamber TP away from the trap that was set by Celia by Purity.
Didn't work out. She was powering all the gas, but she survived.
And now the prowler spots one, but Purity's still holding the line in the open as well.
Oh, there we go. What the heck? There's been so many situations when Hito was able to
Spurrari peek out and just get the kill. It has really challenged these ops. And the
thing is, Purity did not even show her hand with that op.
It's just Anita. She just always beats the operator if she swings into it. How does that
keep happening? And now, the ops down, Blossie might try and pick it up, but it's a little
bit risky to push forward here. And now there's four alive for ATN, these disadvantage situations.
They're so tough.
About 35% round of win rate.
If ATN lose the first player as well as now, the exit comes through to site.
There's still two players here holding over towards Albo.
Overdrive's still available for Adora as well, they do want to get a little bit more aggressive
and take up a little bit more space toward the back side.
That's what I want to do!
Jaina's been holding out and relying for quite some time.
Adora will fall.
Pit comes through.
Just provide a little bit more cover.
the jump shot forward by Nita as usual doing God's work with all those hit shots so quick but
finally falls through the snake bite jada quick layering on to main as well make sure that
bossy falls but jade has been good at it i mean this high impact kills where exactly are the
rest of the players found jade and now with the flick to the left jade will be the one to fall
next Karina does actually utilize the pit gonna go for the defuse but all Jade has to do is just
swing out and Karina cannot finish around Jade Ma just cannot really figure out where exactly
she's gonna be swinging from. And I mean another round for Giant X, securing themselves the lead
this is how we saw it go unbind as well and this led to them getting an eight four half and then
winning it out very convincing when it switched sides too. A nice pick there from Jay, Adora
going a little bit too aggressive. I love the little tricks we see from Jay on the omen,
the fake TP trying to bait the swing across but Jaygmar surprising going around the back as soon
as Anva was set up on that line you saw Jaygmar going around the back going to elbow. Try and
surprise and that is exactly how that round is won from GionX. They're expecting something
being aggressive, A-10 has shown it a couple of times on the lower buys. Two shotguns,
two buckys for purity and Celia. Gonna have to get it up on some nice angles for that
to work.
The lines have been already taken away from her, so I'm trying to leave it away.
For her, she will be revealed, so of course, it's easy to out.
The wooden is just so loud here, whatever that Jade had a dished onto, and Jade Ma wants
to do it to them as well, but this time around, the first pick is not going to fall down.
It's actually Jade that gets it in the end.
Jade hasn't been spotted quite yet.
She could find that right timing there.
Adora finds her kill as well, the overdrive finally comes online!
They do get access to that spike one more time.
Gonna make a B-line onto that A-site.
TP as well from the shadows, just really secure that angle.
Anva puts Feincilia.
The paranoia is here.
Spotsaw Jada.
Put Pete to jump forward as well, and the convergent pass will be used!
Right as Anva tries to TP away to safety!
Adora does get hit, but the timing is good, nah!
false sense of security, a good crunch coming in from ATN.
I mean what an end to the half ATN,
managing to get up to 5, stopping the 8-4 we saw on Bind,
and now as we go into the next half ATN,
switching to the attack side,
that is the side where they should look to shine.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Oh, it's close. ATN managed to pull it back towards the end of that half and now as we
go here on giant X's map pick, they move onto their better half. To be honest, their defense
is so strong with ANVA with this operator. And ATN purity with the frenzy, looking to
You got aggressive towards Beledora first up.
Ooh, that's perfect, the combination of a flash alongside with the whaling, it's just
good to displace her, so they get the info, they get the bit of an idea of what's going
on that site, and they just pivot onto A if they want to, but I do still have to deal
with Hanva.
No TP though, yeah she can't back out, she sends that shot flying, it's going to slow
low atn down allows the rotations to come on through, but Anva she wants to survive,
she doesn't want to die in that 1 vs 5 bad idea.
Yeah, but you see the 3 players from Giants coming in from this side area, there could
be great timing, Anva barely survives that first contact play, but she is brave.
Both in for seconds, even thirds!
It's by being so low right now, it's hard to know that her back is completely open,
nope not anymore!
Celia does find Enva in the end, but Enva has done her job of just slowing down time, buying time for her teammates.
Lita here all alone gets a hit for herself.
Celia trades, 3v3 still. This pistol is looking very, very close.
They have the better guns for GX.
Definitely. It doesn't really matter when you have Celia, just dwindling down the numbers one by one.
She's got three members already.
throws out the heart knows exactly that someone is close but it's three-way hold
which is so hard to break in it's a choke an ATM that post plant looking real clean right now
only one off giants they get this uh buy and there we go seven seven
they are looking to come back into it as much as possible and like you said this post plant
is so good that in the moment decision to immediately flip the site plant for back site
hold back site, push into Anita, they get the trade to take her down as well. Great work
from ATN there in the postcard. Now they've got the buy. Celia because of those 3 kills
she got. Phantom in hand. Aggression. Likely to come on through over towards the B site
as well. As yeah, boom, site taken. Everyone from GX on the wrong site. The gamble stack
It does not work out.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's my pick.
They could just really go for exit frags at this point.
Oh, great.
We have seen really sharp shooters.
We've seen GC sheriffs hit today as well from Celia.
He's been nasty.
Karina now kind of served them a taste of their own medicine,
but Giants is aware of that.
You can't play the game that was set,
or play the playbook page that was set by the writers themselves.
8 leading the wings here, top of the head, is going to be enough, a quick spray forward,
security is good, a buck to be needed, so gross, jade it hurts as me, it bullied right
now onto me.
It's all down to the last member left standing there, jade and waw, he's gonna try and go
down to spike, hoping for a head to pop, not happening, so, you do get that 7-7 scoreline.
I mean, you can see there are a few really nice things from ATN, the little bait and
switch setup between Jade and Purity.
Jade taking that long range shot with the vandal just to try and take attention, pull
it away so Purity can then surprise Adora with the Bucky, gets that kill.
It really helps ATN to have these little micro set plays that they can then use to push on
forward to look to win out the round.
And if they were expected to win that, they had the better guns.
but making sure that they're used in this little micro-set place.
In those rounds, and then moving on forward, keeping those in as well.
In these rounds, that's where it gets big. That's where it gets crucial purity that we're grasping.
Look at his cheese face. It's fast for me from ATN. First contact done. Adora falls.
And dry as they can, they really can't keep up with this piece.
The flash comes through the seas as well. It was good and J.Y. Jada, doing God's work with these braze.
Yeah, that's the crucial thing is they've still got a pretty good economy behind them.
they're gonna be able to buy up. I don't know if they're gonna be able to have the operator for
ANVA yet but they might just be looking to bring that into the next round.
Jade more though with the Odin. I mean there's a brilliant clip of Neore passing over Jyadex
with Jade more with the Odin on this map. She doesn't need it but she's very very good with it
and we saw that coming out in that round. Expect to see that as a star in the next couple of rounds.
ATM though, no mid pressure, just A as they know this is their preference, this is the
site they're better at, all players pushing it, whilst Jade's alone.
Yeah, it's a lot less fast compared to before but we need to get the time to dot their eyes
and cross the TCA.
And the wall falls, it could be bad, and Jade did actually show her hand, they're basically
getting A for free.
So another retake will come through here from Giants.
Gonna get that plant.
Oh, the latler coming through here.
Jade, very aware of it.
But Bora as well, could be said the same.
Wins hers.
Now she's upping the ante.
The speed is coming through.
Purity as usual, playing very close.
I'm very patient to see where exactly she's coming from.
Double swing is good.
Need to trade to a teammate.
Unfast world, the vision is noted so quickly, a pop flash through, makes it perfect for ATN to play, and suddenly everything falls apart.
Jade, with the bigger gun, forced to save, forced to relinquish this round, back to the drawing board for the team.
And yeah, Jannix they've got both timeouts, they didn't use a single one in that first half, so they've got the chance to think, the chance to talk to Asuka and work out how they want to push on forward.
But that's still a round that you really wanted to win. They can buy up, but it means that they're less likely to get an operator online for Anvil.
She'll have the Tour de Force, maybe next round she can get an ult orb, get a pick in this, so that's how they can start to build their economy, but now ATN.
Again, aggressive over towards B, aggressive over towards A, then passive towards A.
I'm expecting a slow passive hit to B, but it looks like with the utile being set up,
a loud, noisy take.
Yeah, not being silent till the prowler, and the dodge, is it?
We still have space, but I'm gonna get picked out of that, so still forced off that angle.
It's a way. I don't have to find a timing.
Ooh, I should go to the corner. You should do it.
Caller comes up there, and she'll rip. She's just really thinking about it.
Anva one more time, sneak back to the off angle corner, playing with a little gap coming
in from that as well.
Now she's in space, she doesn't have a teeth anymore but winters, trade it quickly though.
But still, more damage to be done with that Odin, Jadmua.
Nasty work.
But Orak's still in the back of sight, moving slowly around the shaft.
Blossy is just so quick to find her.
Get the plant.
Leaving Jada Hall alone in a 1v2.
The easiest thing to play, where to look, where to go.
One thing that might be blank,
but she's coming in from mid already.
In the wrong way.
Spots one out.
Enemy.
Nice to isolate, wins one, but Celia trades quickly.
An ATN.
Finally overcome.
Nine to eight and one point lead.
their first lead this entire series. The first time they've ever had the advantage in,
Askers are going to try and put that to bed as quick as possible.
A chance to talk to the team. As Jarnx, a low buy for all of them. We could potentially
see the Tour de Force come out from Angla, but on these rounds you don't always want to use it,
because if you just, if you just immediately die, if someone like Anita just peeks you
as we've seen from her before, I'd expect to see the same from Celia, the same from
Purity to be honest.
Then the Tour de Force has gone, the alt's gone, and you've got no value, and your team
can't pick it up, so I'm not sure if she's going to go for that or not, she's got the
headhunter though, in the worst case.
And I'm really seeing a big alt cycle coming up for both of these teams.
only just getting the first one on time online with the tour force the rest of them coming on through only now coming in and
They're going to need to start to use them to bring the lead back. No, maybe not this round probably the next
It's cement our lead to do what they've always been able to do on the defense. They are going to need to use these hours
Actually, right? I think for me personally, I would love to see and I mean and that likes to play this aggressive
situations but it just feels that sometimes it's just a bit too aggressive
you're in a situation where there's no way to get out of you know these
double triple swings. Once again, up in the after-day going quick forward and so is
Giants! Fury was very much ready for the aggression. Two hits, popped, three to go.
Rest of giants, forces slow down, move back!
The Luthians have been abused in space!
You're already on the side already!
I'm afraid at all!
A Jada in the corner quickly found wall bank to death!
Suddenly, Anva, once again, all alone,
just gonna wait in the wings.
Perhaps go for a spike, perhaps steal away, and exit back.
So she's really going to be able to find, already being watched by Blossy.
Immediately shut down by Akina, flawless.
There was a nice little set player there from Giant, so you could see they had an idea of
what to do there over towards Main.
And we almost saw the convergent path being used by Purity, but the nightfall was used
by Jade, Jade, so.
And I'll use it against the Niko, Gionex is going to be happy with that.
Now the Operator Online for Anva, the first time in this half.
Six rounds in, she finally gets it.
Look at her, she's taking it towards mid, but this is an A hit, ATN they know what works
for them.
Aggression.
Early round.
That's where they've won before, that's where they'll win again.
Adora trying to hope for this good contact.
They're gonna check damage, move the wave,
the convergent path is gonna slow her down,
but Jada still has not been noted.
Moves away, hold!
Even Anva cannot still play.
But Jada still played quietly in the smoke,
but the drop was heard!
Karina and Jade, a lot of damage taken out there,
two of the members of GX, taken out of the wave.
Rebe 4, still very much vulnerable.
Anva cannot hold, taking a lot of damage,
on that snakebite, if you already cleaned it up! 2v4, one more time, and giants this time
around. How can I be able to see the same miracles they did on Bind? Forced to save.
Again.
I can't lie, I'm starting to feel the call of the map 3.
Me too.
This series with how close these two teams are. I feel like we should, we need to see
Okay, next up for actual JT taking down that's it doesn't really do much 18 foot such a bank of economy behind me so much money behind them
We talked a lot about
Countries and anti is today. We saw that happens Giants on mine
And we were and for me personally, I thought that myself, okay
Giants not to look really good on a street. They've been quite dominant on this map
But the same could be said about ATN and the work they've done against Giants on this map.
They knew exactly where to look, they've located where ANVA might be, they knew when the late rotations are going to come through.
It felt like a taste of Giants own medicine on that first map here.
Giants have a lot of words of this map out there, right? They've played it a lot. This is their home ground, their stronghold.
So it's no surprise that ATM they've been able to find these little pieces and when
I first saw Celia switch over to this Euro, swapping roles with Jade, I think it's the
only map they do it in.
I liked it because you can see Celia gets the freedom to go aggressive and Jade regardless
of what role she's on, regardless of the agent, she's gonna frag.
Like she can frag on Euro, she can frag on entry, KO, that kind of second entry role.
But even on the Fade, she's able to support her teammates, swing off of them and work
with them.
And she has almost more independence as well, it's allowing her to do what she wants, play
around how she wants and her purity has gone for the outlaw.
And this is going to be deadly.
Most of Giants down to Light Shields are needed, the only one with full.
And I'm assuming Tour de Force coming online as well, over towards A. But for once we're
seeing ATN a default. A bit of pressure over its both sides of the map and seeing her immediately
beats the tour de force down. It's gone that alt.
It's felt like giants are just doing the same thing again and again they knew exactly where
the pinpointer was and they're very much ready for it. But it's always mostly been A site.
They haven't moved her away. There was only one particular round that she was on the view.
It's the anti again and again, the awareness of what's happening, where on the map and
now is AT&T and they lean over towards B, looks like where the execs headed.
Tranex they've got a lot to do, they spent so much money into this round they're not
going to buy up on many people.
I think only Anita, so Jaden was going to have to find something special with this Oden.
That place is like something that buys a bit of time away, but her position has been noted by Arita somehow.
There's a quick kill on to Karina, and she's gonna try and swing again.
Samurai on fire is nothing though, but he does stand at the end of a beeline to the other site.
Pick from the shadows will be used to catch someone off guard.
Arita does though.
Blossy is here to receive the members of giants.
I can't paint out as well all the ideas in the world where someone might be able to.
Yeah, they tiered once again not denied off that plant right in the nick of time.
See there will at least be smoked off her angle.
There's no box to worry about.
Big one, the order is disgusting.
She gets two, but not before Dora falls.
Quick tap the head and Jade gets one, but not enough to be able to seal the round as Anita.
She fights back.
And just like that, giants bring themselves back into the game.
And it was a tough one to come back from.
You lose the operator over the woods there.
You lose so much information on that line when the chamber goes down.
But they stop and need to stop the pressure towards B.
She gets a pick.
The snakebite timing is perfect.
It stops ATN from finding any foothold to try and take the B site.
And they were ahead of the curve, already rotating towards A, already prepared for purity to peak out of that smoke at a late time and trying to find a pick.
Anita was there, holding it down, she's now got the Viper's pit online.
Could be used here if there's more pressure towards B.
again holding up on top of the shack this time, I like it, a bit of an unexpected angle.
Xanva's found no real value, no real position with the op, she's got a nice TP line here
though, she can back off towards mid if she needs to.
So now I think Celia managed to get the orb, it's one off away from the damage of Rift
one more time and you know whenever she steps into that, it's been so annoying for Giants.
Their positions though they're not able to hold. Watch out!
I should get a hero knight. The orb's there.
That was a huge...
I'm not sure if they actually did get a peak of bossy on main though when that happened.
Yeah, I loved it some ADM.
Oh, punting.
They know that I mentioned Rick. It's one of their wincons.
And the Viper's pit immediately comes on through.
I don't know if you could counter to it, yes, but it's Anita.
She's so good at holding down the site.
I've already bought so much time with the Snakebites, and I can't really follow up as well into their position for Jake Maw has also been seen.
Also knows where ANVA is, so they're conveniently trying to find their way around the map without needing to cross that off.
But you know exactly where they are.
The U2 hasn't broken. I don't know when in the right time to just cross the toxic stream.
Anva, find that first one. Arena, fall. And Nora rushes through here. She's sharp and quick as well.
Exactly in use. The paranoia. Perfect. The Flash, excuse me.
Nora's on a rampage here, but for the midside area, it's gonna be Anita to fall.
By so much time to deny that plant, and giants are slowly bringing their way back to the game one more time.
But Syphex wants to say no.
Atn they're wanting to fight back with all they can.
As this time out, the last time out of regulation comes on through from alternate attacks of
rubies because they've got a lot to fix just from that one round.
So much time used to get both of the orbs and Celia gets the position, gets into sight
with that ult, finds and spots out where Renita is.
The sneakbite, the timing was perfect to stop everybody else from from ATN pushing
on through and she's been so consistent stalling out forcing the rubies to go
elsewhere on the map and then GionX there again ahead of the curve on the
rotates Adora is there early. Unva gets the pick onto the person towards
Elbow that allows Adora to stun, swing, slide and stop the plant, stop any
else from getting the spike and then the paranoia, the utility from GionX. The
The fundamentals are coming on through, but the utility combos, the communication and
the awareness is there, and we're seeing so many things here, the GX, the Spellgun.
They may have heard me say that I think I want to go to map 3 because they're trying
to put a stop to that as much as possible, and now they've moved Anva over towards B,
but the op is the op is on B and the group at ATN everyone, and A here, a change of pace,
aggression, fast, quick, furious, and expect them to just rush on in.
If you don't get map 3, I'm gonna call you the Jinx Queen, man.
Heh heh heh heh.
Adora here.
Big piece forward.
He moved away, like that college.
Now yeah, I'm too bad to throw that paranoia.
No, then I'm fast enough and Adora is slowed.
Thankfully, the relay dies a bit off time.
He's able to move away with her life.
Holy utile, Dumpdome.
A lot being used just to get full control of Eldor.
We do just yet.
Paranoia used a jump shot forward, and somehow Jada still wins it!
J-Moha as well as Amira comes online!
And everything falls apart!
Karina, still sharp, gets hers, but she's limping, barely alive,
against three members, so many quarters too clear,
but it's one that gives her away.
Adora, huge drop for her this time.
No more timeouts.
And we go to 11-11.
You wish.
Yeah.
Sorry, cliche.
No, I mean, both of these teams are probably wishing they had a little bit more time to
plan out what they want to do because the economy now for APN is going so low.
This is essentially the swim round.
If they lose this, we're probably seeing Gion X win out on this map after it looks like APN
we're going to bring it back.
This is such a crucial round.
They've got the nightfall.
They've got the Viper's kit.
They can get the spike down.
again this should be a really good position but it's so unlikely it's so
gonna it's gonna be so difficult with a slightly better money slightly better
utility the GYNX are having on their defense and Jigmo with the ODIN oh
she's lethal with it
what a noise mate and I need to have played with this tiny little pocket so deceiving
especially if you cross it don't check first position deny any lines that she
can hold. There she does.
Swing on him to me as well. And both positions noted as well, cause they're not quick enough
so of course it's TP away. Nightbolt will be used, Adora just tries to buy a bit of time
with that relay bolt. Smoked off already as well, so they have no clue how many people
on that site.
You know, somehow through the title of pocket finds Celia.
She's trying to rotate onto the site.
This time around, it's gonna be Anita on that late lurk.
Tommy is good. Blossy.
He'll be the one, the next one to fall as well.
Pre-fire, pre-sure that J. Noir didn't spot up one.
There we go.
Front from two different angles.
J. Noir has been so much work.
Karina will be the last one standing one more time.
is a 1v3. Sharp. Spots and Vaselbo. Two more left.
I just think-
I think it's realizing his hit.
I can't be able to pull this off.
Especially since two of these players are coming in from two different angles.
That's the hearsake you think!
Jada caught off guard!
And even an ace give it to her as well!
so many times in so many post-plan situations she just thrives.
There is no way that is how that ends with Kravina.
The player that was on one of the original ATN Ruby Rusters
who made her way back to this team wins out a 1 vs 3 with an ace.
The Viper's pick came and threw out her to take those 1v1s
and now Gion X they've got money behind them.
They are fine for that but the only ultimate is the overdrive.
the overdrive. That's the only real alt to come into this round and is on the right line,
over towards B.
The spam is good and the flash was so nice to push her off the line and now Gion X, they
need to take it to overtime if they want to end this. If they don't want to go to that
map 3 and ATN they're doing the classic. Leave Purity here. Oh she's still ahead.
Nooooo.
She tries to challenge!
A bit of damage from the hop as well.
It's around that angle.
Maybe re-built by Jane Woff, by Celia, somehow knows exactly where Jada will be stationed.
There's all these things from here, here.
Celia, you can tell she really wants this round, W came forward as a second kill, giving
to her.
Later, rotation, luck, three members, and giants.
Haven't seen the same.
I would say, down deficit, player deficit wins that we saw from buying for giants this time around as well.
ATN is with the due diligence to not let that happen again.
They approach this as well.
Ah, noden, and a rifle in hand.
Celia is low.
The C's, that's my one.
Paranoia, they buy a bit more time.
A quick save forward on Eta Winters.
An X-Acular is lost, he is.
The U2 has gotten to my brain since lost these brains!
But I mean who else could it be right at the top Jade again?
She's always there just popping off I mean my MVP despite the fact she's seven less
kills than Jade is Corina winning that swing round that ace that 1v3 there is no chance
so that ATN could have won that round if she hadn't done that.
It all came down to that, that was such a swing round.
And they would have gone to overtime, at the very least, if Karina hadn't saved them there.
But we are going to a map 3, because of course we're going to a map 3.
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I am so happy that today we are not only just getting a banger match, we're also getting
a whole map 3 and almost an overtime. We're being spoiled here, ATN and Giants. This is
amazing. It's been so good so far and now we're going to go to Paul and this when we're looking
at the veto I think is a very very interesting map for it to go to because like realistically
this is both teams worst map. I think you know you can maybe put reason there for Giant X but
This is not a map where we're expecting both themes to be right at the top, you know, performing at their absolute best.
This is more like we're going to be able to see who has improved the most at this map, who has been able to kind of overcome their previous weaknesses.
Yeah, and this is where things get really interesting, right? Not only just improving, but at the same time, it's a battle of wits.
If truly they had let this map come through, what are the preparations they have done, or is it a situation where you really have no choice but to play that map 3?
because you put the preparation to map 1-2, you're hoping to 2-0 it.
There are teams that do that as well.
But in this situation, I think that if you look at ATN, they have played what?
34 pearls on, I would say, on officials.
And the last time they played this was against Zenit Orange.
And I believe it was a 13-11 win for this team.
So I would say that you do have some reps on this map in particular.
I'm very excited to see how exactly it goes here because you have Purity on Dioru,
you have Jade on the Tihou, especially since not a lot of teams are running that agent anymore,
compared to before. Yeah, and I think it's very interesting comps from both sides,
really, if we keep on saying it, because we've got the vice and the sage from Giant X. If we
continue for them going down that route, it's a very interesting composition. It allows them to
kind of surprise in a lot of moments where, you know, with these sage walls, peeking up over lines,
going for some of those grim walls because it's unexpected and these little plays I'm really
interested to see how much ATN have emptied specifically this. Were they expecting this to
go to pot? I mean if you were to look at the other side right for for Giants I think the last
official they played for at least game changers EMEA stage one was against SK Nebula they lost
there's a 13 to 9 loss for them as well and I think in this situation you know you did talk a
a little bit about that Sage wall, you know, about Anva with that as well. I think personally for me,
you know, there are ways you want to approach this, especially with Anva, but I would, for me
personally, I would love to see Anva down on the Sage, but on a chamber. Because legitimately,
there's so many lines that she can play. She can play B long, she can play A main if she wants to
play aggressive. In fact, get out of free jail card. Double doors could be something that she could
play with as well. Hell, even Link for B, there's so many different lines that she can hold to
to just deny that space and it could be incredible if she's able to do that.
She looked a little bit out of her element in that previous map onto that chamber, but
I think there were those sparks and moments that you realized why she's great on that
chamber, especially in the last few games that she played before on that agent.
So you know, for me personally, forget the Sage, give her the chamber, let's see a lot
more fight power for this team, because we know that every single player on Giants are
In fact, Head Poppers, but at the same time, ATN, you know, you have players like Fury that somehow really is so great, great reaction time, especially in that first pick, Celia today has exceeded my expectations.
Bind was one of them with that hero-sharif play that she got, you know, in the deficit round.
So at the same time, right, you know, this is where things get super interesting. You have a comp, both teams are very interesting comps, but at the same time, for me, can we cook something else that could be even better for them?
I think regardless of if we do see a comp switch up or not for GionX, even if they do put and
go onto the chamber instead, we've still got quintessential comps for how both teams like
to play. ATN going with the Tejo, going with the Yoru, aggressive, fast paced, sending the
Salwuz in to do as much damage as possible. Whereas GionX, they've got the Vice, you're
slowing things down, you've gone for the Fade and the Sage to slow, to get information,
to kind of reach up ahead and to stop the push from coming on through, both are kind
of like the perfect comps for their teams. But if we do see a switch up, I do hope it
is towards that chain because I mean vice chamber, especially last year was very, very
powerful. It was kind of, you know, one of the best picks on Pearl at the time. And it's
I think still probably up there in one of the better picks because against this double
door list made it that we're coming into, you know, you're expecting a lot of aggression
and you want ways to halt it.
You want ways to stop it.
I think that's what they're thinking about
with the Sage here, is ways to stop the double door.
It's to slow down the second door that's coming in
when one of them dashes or TP's into site.
Stop that, take the individual fight
once you've isolated them, and then win out from there.
But like you say, it's not a firepower agent, right?
The Sage, you can pop off, yes,
but you've not got the TP away.
You've not got the safety that you do with the chamber.
And I think honestly, quite importantly on poll,
you don't have a trip as well.
You've got the Vice wall,
but you kind of want to be using that
for more than just information.
So Janix have to be really proactive
with gathering their information,
especially with the Vice Flash changes.
I hear me out.
Veto.
Veto.
Yeah, yeah, no.
I think Veto is going to be very good on this map.
And I'm surprised we've not seen more of it.
Neither of these teams have really tried the Veto
from memory, at least in game changers, obviously.
The big thing is for alternate attacks, Ruby,
is they've been doing so many officials.
The entirety of January,
they did something like 40-something maps
over dozens of officials
because they were playing an EQ, right?
And this has allowed them to get so many reps
on this map, on every map at competitive level.
Screaming is one thing, but it's practicing maps in officials
when you're in that corner in a second.
so good and I think APN we're starting to see how that started to come through for them,
but Perl is the one map whilst in stage one, they've not been able to show everything on,
and I hope that's where we see the switch up. Definitely, I think also at the same time I think
we talked a little bit about like theory crafting about the agents as well, right? I think there's
so many different ways to approach this game, especially for for alternate attacks, you did
say that they had a lot of reps on this map, on officials, I think that they have great tenacity,
I think there are so many times I think on that previous map they were at a deficit coming into
the half but they managed to come back and seal the game and it was quite decisive as well how
they were able to mount that. Now to think that this is a three zero streak coming in from giants
you know they've done their work, they can put in the reps and you know again playing in high
pressure situations it's so different on how you want to do it. Yes we talked about Jade Moa as an
IGL, how she's able to frag and how she's able to just really shoot as well at the same time,
but the same could be said about Blossy. I think she really shined on that second map.
So this is where things get a bit more interesting because both teams are still maintaining the
same comps as before. Yeah, same comps. As expected really, and we're still on that stage,
information kind of traded towards main and art, but ATM, they want nothing to do with our atoll.
Yeah, coming straight from Art coming through as well to get the wall up, in fact, as Jada keeps a close eye on to the Link side area.
But Jada's one more, very aggressive here, trying to take a little bit more to CT side.
A bit of info found knows exactly where Karina is coming from, but this was that perfect timing!
And Jada's just really slid it with a triple peek, and Jada is sharp, finds Adora, Anva, quick to trade.
and see that that's a very dangerous angle to take, but it's not A that they won, they're making a B line to B!
Yeah, they've managed to clear out so many people towards A, but they figured the rotations were going there, and they were right.
A site pretty much open, but Blossy's here a little bit early.
But it doesn't really matter because Jada is dead, so is Jaguar!
And Pistols to Giants, starting off with the right foot for them.
A great round there for GionX.
On the fly decision making, those in the moment calls the audibles. So good and Jade was ready for it.
The stun though, just a little bit too late and Celia was being watched.
You don't really want to be peeking slow through that into other people if I released and...
Well, now, Janek's pistols again and again and again. They just love winning pistols,
that's pretty much how they've been able to win out on Bind and Wycra Road was so close.
And now as we go into this round, they've gone for the same buy, very weak compared
to a lot of people's round 2 buys.
They've got the Bulldog, the Marshall and the Vandal.
If Jada falls here, that could be a big risk for Jionex movement.
They really want to snowball.
You can really tell what they want this.
Prowler used already, Hauntz has well dropped.
Andora slowly makes her way onto the site.
Finds a good time and if I'm Jade, gets a freebie and gets out.
That's the beauty of it.
Come to the half HP.
Fine.
Blossy's still in the backside there, waiting for the right timing to be able to strike.
But an off angle with that wall is just disregarded entirely by Blossy.
And she wins hers.
And I'm about slowly stalking all the way to the backside here.
Fury, trade.
Pop flash will be used.
Adora is on the open though.
Will be caught by Karina.
That's a dig to the head of Fury!
With a hit.
Jump!
And suddenly it's a 1v2.
Anita all alone.
Spots one out, quick to find her, and Celia slowly moves to the right side.
It's a choke, it's not going to be easy to cross, a bulldog in hand this time around.
Celia has big gun as well to play.
He's just barely alive.
He does have utils to throw out, the timing is good, but Celia is just better,
and that's just a classic, a free gun!
And ATN wins the round, in fact gets a huge upgrade, a bandal to their name.
and I mean this is what happens when you go for that weaker buy it's a little bit
riskier and if it goes aggressive gets shut down immediately and if the vandal
falls while I saw a peek from Karina on Purity well it leaves Anita alone on that
look with a ghost yes she manages to pick up the bulldog but Celia plays that
late round situation so well so careful with it and now as we head into this ATN
and they've got the much better buy, GionX.
Only Light Shield, so Purity's Outlaw is gonna be so big.
The jump peek, I think was spotted,
so Purity takes a slightly shallower line.
But there is still Sheriff's for GionX,
they've got a chance.
Out the juicy Sheriff's.
Smoke gives them half a bit of space
onto that links head area,
but this off angle from Jade could be lethal.
There's a way to game though.
And Dora takes full advantage of that.
Are we going to see a thrifty back?
Yeah, it's always really good, yeah, yeah, it's always really good.
Let me just see the back to back thrifties like we did in Pacific this year, huh?
Alright, send me back here onto Main.
At ATN you can tell they're just scratching their heads a little bit.
How exactly we played this when you're up against these really insane sheriffs?
You don't want to over show their hand.
Off angle will be abused, Karina trains, but Adora will give back, so 2 for 1 in favor
of GX.
And in fact, let's juggle it a little bit.
Give our teammates another gun.
Why not?
Pretty still hasn't been cleared.
It totally makes her way onto that site.
Yeah.
Thorns will be thrown out here, and Adora waiting for that perfect swing!
Not fast enough.
Purity.
Doing what she does best.
Shooting people in the face.
Fast as ever.
A flash would be used but it's in Celia's favor.
Data traded.
Celia falls.
Still, 1 vs 1.
Jump peek forward.
Jump peeks.
Throw us away the game.
Jigmash shows her position.
Cannot get it to half.
She just played with the food!
And somehow, Giants bring it back.
Round win with only just sheriffs.
Wow.
Thrifty into Thrifty. I don't know if we're gonna see another one ATM. The
money's gonna be pretty low for them here. I mean what around again? Being able to
open up that pick and then it's swinging in working as a group, swinging in
together towards main to crunch those two players. They were stuck. They had no
where to go and the spray as well. We saw Jade getting a nice little 4k spray on
combined but no one able to do that here and now yeah we see sheriffs atn the
chance for another thrifty on the horizon but it's gonna be so difficult to do
well it's early as well here the giants has a different way to approach this round
they want to try and get a bit of a scrap mid if they can hoping to see if
someone will peek out pop ahead get some info spikes still very much over on to
mean. Smokes are used to load as well. I answered just playing it very, very patient.
Expecting aggression at the end, they'd like to go for it, but instead of seeing her holding
down the slide, she's the only wife in the round. Yep. I thought she was actually gonna
spray there. Field of Anva. Also locking away that linkside area, just to deny a bit more
space for them. We're on that site, clear to all those corners, go exactly where purity
is an ANVA response. Again, still hasn't found a way to crack that site quite yet. Three
sharers in hand, and last time he is good, spots one out, remaining. Jay does get one,
but the rest of giants? Nah, it's just all about that cleanup. They're good, they're
clean, and that's clear of the board.
Eventually they get their lead. They secure it for themselves. No more thrifties yet,
at the very least. But I mean, again, you can see these little sparks, these little
moments where ATN could try and bring it back, could try and find a way to get those
sheriffs into the right positions, but for now, GionX, 3 and 1, proper gun round finally,
still only light shields for ATN. They keep doing this, trying to save as much economy
as possible, save their money wherever they can. And just slow information prodding, poking.
They put the slimes up a door, pushing too much further.
Flash used us too neutral for one.
Ryan's pretty much done the job.
Jump peek gives Karina a bit of info.
I think I'm about doubling down here.
I mean, in through art, just flooding through with bodies.
Eater a little bit more antsy.
Of course, to move back.
Perhaps a retake would be a better answer here against a head-on aggression.
The crossbeam divide comes online.
Adora is marked.
The front of sight, at least they know, is a bit more clear.
Come on, you see, slows them quite a little bit, cannot enter the site.
In fact, the Tejo as well, a pop flash forward, but somehow, Adora wins that fight!
Question mark!
I'm seeing too many of this today.
Celia as well will be displaced.
Giants, you gotta really admire the fact that they have all of this,
I would say freedom, just pivot off a side they don't want to play.
Close.
It will be the next one to fall.
It needs to have ventures up forward, gets two.
No entry from CT side.
So what's the answer?
Be long.
Celia is alone.
No one's J-DAL, he's gonna be on late lurk, yep.
Right here like a book.
But now the other two forced to save.
And as soon as there's small trips though, no, that's what's happening as well.
Janix get the message that Celia wants no more of that fight, doesn't want to risk it.
Bring the guns into the next round and now this is where Janix start to build up the
momentum.
The snowball starts to roll and ATN has shown on Corode that they can stop it.
Right, they can put a hop to it, they can bring it back to their favour, but it takes
them a lot of work to do so.
And Coroda took, I think, two timeouts from Zyphex to really put a stop to Giant X, kind
of rolling on through.
I'm excited to see them go for it again.
I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see a timeout here.
There's only been a few gun rounds because of those 50s back and forth.
But, oh wait, oh just a way for ATM to get back into this game.
Find their positions because the money's low again.
And we've seen 50s from them, yes.
only really glossy this down to a sheriff jade can get a vandal here with you to the light
shield so you know it's not awful positions but gianeks have such a bank behind them they'll be
safe for the next couple of rounds and they've got alts are plenty and that's where atn they might
have the advantage not in this round but at least in the next they're gonna get all of their alts
online in the next two rounds and that could be a big big advantage for them at atn has done a great
job at stalling. It's just that Giants are so good at getting out the Util from AT&T
early. Like just now, one prowler sent out by Jade Muah is met with a Tejo slow alongside,
you know, I think it was a C's as well from Karina. So this is where things get interesting.
It's like, how much Util are you willing to use just to buy that time away from Giants?
And by the time that post plant happens, you're on a deficit.
And the retakes on this map are difficult.
Like they are really, really hard to get through.
Obviously for both of these two teams, you know, their retakes on this map, not exactly great.
But for ATN, their defensive half is not good.
This is their worst half out of all of their maps is defense on Pearl.
So they're not expected to do well.
What?
You'd still expect Purity to hit that, or at least dodge it.
Yeah!
Oh, Jada got that.
I'm pretty sure she fell asleep there.
She definitely saw it, had a lot of time blotted, the very least does get one of her own by Anita.
She's still streaking, she's hot.
3k to her name.
And she's been chaining so many kills, moving around the map here.
Ada could find a perfect timing onto Celia.
The swing is good, yep.
Gets her in the end.
Another round into the pocket for Giants.
At the end, they get one round,
But they still haven't been able to figure out things since these buy rounds
And I think why
Why dislike about this buy from ATN is they're not going to be able to buy in this round now where they've got another alt online
They're getting even closer to more, but they're not going to be able to buy
So we're probably going to see as we see another thrifty GX go up to six and then ATN have five volts online
All of their weapons, but they might not be able to cycle those alts back up again
Because they just won't have time by the time they get all of them online be around eight or nine and then they won't get them back
Now adora outlaw go and hunt and we've seen her do this towards be long before it worked out while with the Marshall
But ATM they're just plan passive don't want any of it purity though nice aggression or the
TP for the peak and now mid being taken
Jax, I think they're aware of it
Ooh, but Giants aware they're playing a little bit more further back.
Gives them a lot of space, just slowly and surely finds some hits to pop.
They know where Karina is.
And because they're coming in from two different angles, it's almost a choke.
How to swing. You swing up one angle, you gotta meet the other.
And Celia fell straight into Adora's crosshairs.
Pretty sure she's part of purity as well.
The timing is good, she ran forward.
Those were exactly the look here in this corner, but the shotgun play is still good.
Purity is still bringing a streak over on the previous map.
Blossy waiting in the wings. You do get that plant though, in terms of vision, in
terms of info, no clue where to look, where to hold. As soon as Blossy comes into vision,
ANVA immediately gets rid of her.
Gertie alone, only the Bucky in hand.
Just waiting for the right timing to fall.
Either you go down to Spike or you go down to the other members.
His high low angle held by Giant is not doing her any favors.
She's stuck.
They know she's there. They're just playing with her.
She's hoping for a mistake, but...
...Genex, they're disciplined. They're pure.
And they're going up to six rounds already.
He still tried though. This is the biggest lead they've had.
Oh yeah.
I don't know what to do.
She was really hoping to find someone there waiting in the wings, hoping to get lucky.
We caught so many lucky sprays today. I'm not surprised why she did that.
I mean, I like the idea here from ATN.
They send, purely for the peak, the info peak over the World's A main.
Really useful, but then they send two into mid.
I think two is too low of a number because you've got those two lines,
you're on lower guns, you can't watch both kind of market over here and you can't watch top mid at
the same time and have multiple guns on each angle. I think they really needed to send an extra
person at least over there but now they've got the open line for purity, taking their a main space
under their control, holding it down whilst Gionx, they're pushing towards B, they're holding down
mid. Looking for something. There's so many of us. Yeah, that's a lot of us to work with.
Yeah, I mean, this could be the swing around for ATM. They do decide to commit some silly
app. Unfortunately for her, her position is noted. They wall bang her, but she's doing a great job of
not only stalling and staying alive. Right. Follow the news. Even the utile, the T whole salves
everything in the kitchen sink to keep the giants away from the site so they're
not able to capitalize off of that night fall.
Janix are happy though with that, the information, oh I don't know if Jade
spotted exactly where Jada was but Janix are happy with that trait the
cosmic divided nightfall traded for one nightfall they're happy with this they
still got the advantage.
A lot of stuff to work with.
The way their guns are still guarded.
Or even just throw out the whole thing.
Or with the table out.
Oh!
The whole site is completely lit up as well by Jade Ma.
So they know it's definitely not the weaker side.
So they make a B-Line onto A.
Jordy's...
She does herself all the way further up.
Push for her whiffs.
And we're going around the Rosie there with her teammate.
teammate. If she knows exactly where to look and where to play, time is definitely not on
their side. Purity wins hers, and the plant is done.
All the way onto Arc's side. A bit more space. Catch someone coming from mid-paps. They
walled up one side of the site, so they have to come in from the other. It's a perfect
line to play with. It will swing, perhaps, could be something they can work with. They
do that. That is good. There's a bit of space for purity. They swing out. The flash is good.
still good. Comes back online again, Anita. Jade is there. They're gonna go for the defuse.
The wall, they're gonna get any favors for them at all and suddenly that wall was a mistake.
And ATN had somehow managed to weaponize their own utility against them.
And I think it was just a bit late in the round there for Jyrenex to
make the move over towards A. They should have known the op was likely there and I think the way
We saw Renita playing in a main. She knew the opp was there from the beginning.
So they had no map control when they got the spike down. They didn't control main. They didn't
look to push over towards the back of A site because as you noted the sage wall was there.
So they couldn't be spamming anyone who was on the spike. Left them into a pretty rough
situation but they've got the money and there were three ults invested from ATN there in that
round. So, GionX, still feeling okay to lose versus 3 ults, but this is now at ATM making
stage their comeback. They've got the money. They've lost some mid control. A few question
marks put on the map for GionX here. They've spotted a parlor from Karina. She's so good
with her, you tell. Flash forward and Karina moves back to overagress. She does still have
the haunt online to give a bit more info for her teammates.
I'm fascinated with the wings there. I just want to dissipate. I'm going to find a bit
of space that probably coming through. It has a bit of an idea at least. The art link
area is still clear. The wall comes out of mine. Gives a space to cross. I think I got
spotted I believe. The rest of the team slowed and everything in the kitchen sink thrown
on to them. Sends Giants scattering away perhaps to the different side. But even if they go
to B, they still have to worry about Celia and her utility. That's timing. That's the
wrong person. It does get confirmation that 30 is somewhere close with an op. They still
commit to this fight. I'm gonna go forward there. Nice stray from Jade Muah gives her a kill on to Blossy.
Fiori somehow none of her shots are landing. Jade's slowly gonna find her way
close. And Vakarov guard. Wall has been broken there. How is Jade Muah avoiding
every single shot? Says no she has plot armor somehow but that lockdown should
push the rest of the Giants players off that site.
But that star should pull them away in such a timing.
Jade, I brazed that lockout even.
So, T-Base is able to take away the space one more time.
It's halved.
Jade has to fight for her life.
Excuse me.
As timing ticks, you try and go for it.
If you use one more time, Jade does her special,
which is just to waste time, and she does just that.
And all the efforts done by Jade
to be able to win the round, con.
I mean, it's just the Jade Shore right now.
Which Jade?
Yes, exactly.
All three of them just had so much value in that one round.
I think Jada could have looked to break their children a little bit earlier because it did
send the rest of her team packing.
They were running away and it looked a little bit risky towards site for a while, but they
came back on through and the plant was open towards art, which a lot of teams are still
missing.
very very safe and not for art. It was that one, it was, it was ready. Now ATM, another
thrifty round. They're gonna look for something. They really don't want to go down so low on
this half. Yeah, okay, their attack side is much better on this map. Yes. But you don't
want to risk, you know, an 8-4 and 9-3. They've made the right call though, the gambler stacker
Over the woods I know not anymore GX. I think they were happy that they baited. No, they are going towards it. Okay, again, this is their chance. They've made the right decision.
Yeah. But the thing about giants as well is that they're so quick to pivot. As soon as they get a whiff of something wrong. Too many people. They just quickly move away. It's really hard to really figure out where you're going to go. Now that alarm bot mid will be broken.
But, it's getting biting.
They're still pulling step fast, and it's gonna be this sight.
But thankfully for Giants, they do have the dimensional rifts to use.
Spots out all the members in the world, but he still falls through.
The head gets popped, and Jade takes a bit of damage there forward as well.
Anva will be the next one to follow.
But the swing up from Jade is good.
Her timing is aggressive, massive even.
3 members down. I'll make it 4. The rifty win, coming from ATN. Beautifully done.
Giants waited so long to use the Dimension Drift that by the time they'd spotted there was the stack on A. It was too late.
And there was a split call there. You could see Anita was so far ahead of her teammates. I think there was some uncertainty, some miscommunication.
an ATM they pounced on that a shark smelling blood fully ready take advantage
of the mistake from Gion X there the time little too low and the push into the
stack ATM looking so good when they find those timings when they find those
moments and this round now purity it's on her the opp aggressive line TP she's
still go down for another 10 seconds.
I have to go for more!
I didn't scrap beyond that site!
I'll be right there.
That's the same as she always does, always with a multi-kill.
It's only as Blossy all alone in 1v3.
It's not done yet.
Blossy waiting the wings, hoping to find the right opportunity to go for a peek.
One way is gone.
You have to worry about the thorns, about these angles.
Why do you gamble the cross?
They're gonna be easy.
And Baguette's there in the end.
Garen X's fundamentals there, showing strong.
If it wasn't Amber that got the kill, it would have been Anita.
She was there already waiting to peek off of her teammates.
But I want to talk about that stage wall.
I don't know if you noticed it, Tash.
They used it as part of their exec over towards the left side to peek over screens on B.
It caught Celia completely off guard, opened up the site in the first place.
first place. You can see Anita was using it as a platform to kill on afterwards as well.
And now as we go to the final round of the half, Ginex at least eight looking for nine,
better guns. Only the res online not being used. And it's been used once this half.
So second res online.
I'm gonna kill someone twice is annoying to see the least.
For sure.
Very patient as well.
They keep expecting a suppression from ATN, but it's not happening.
ATN, they did it on bind poles, not a map that you can do so many trap plays like you
could on Corode on bind.
As soon as the usual comes out, you're just waiting to throw out the utility and the alt
as well.
But that's not why GX are going at all.
In fact, they're just going to try and pivot to an art.
This mid-stat play has been so annoying for them to deal with.
And once again, whoever's guarding door will be the one to fall.
So wall off mid.
I'm not sure what happened there.
Hold on, Dora was gonna swing that, but nah.
Yeah, Enva, I was like nah, not gonna forget it.
Just gonna wall it up and just call it a day here.
Oh, that is timing!
That's terrible timing!
Heard the footsteps come through, and she wins one.
Bit Leaf are teaming to fight her.
And then Dora is back onto the site again.
Enva, she heals! She revives and she kills everything she's doing!
Team is healthy, purity, caught of guard, Jada waiting in the wings, a 9-3 half.
Perfectly done, Giants showing us why they look really good on this map.
I
Let go gives you wings
The last half of the first series, a 9 and 3 half for Giant X, they're feeling strong
coming into this now.
Their attack side, yes, statistically weaker, but they're looking already like they could
Oh, I'm having no adore just gets out alive, but they know this is a be hit the rotation is that coming in
They have a nice cross coming from halls as well as a CT side as well
I need to flash full to the face takes all the damage, but they're all lit up marked perfectly
But I know I cannot do more than that
That's a giant's waiting in the wings quietly for all the youth to look just slowly dissipate
Gotta play your disadvantage here
Full control falls already. Spots out the Sage as well. Knows where to look and where to hold.
This situation is not gonna be easy. Oh no, Karina timing. Bad on her side.
Full control of that situation. Even Jada, as soon as her head peeks out, she falls.
Mid-Wall all alone here and IGL in a 1v4.
I'm trying to isolate these fights.
Hits are spotted and seen, maybe steal away a kill or two, I cannot do more than that
so I think for her, the right call is just, perhaps in a nice situation where she's getting
farmed as orcs.
Nah, will fall in the end of the age so, break by break, it's gonna be a slow run back up
to catch up but as you said, it's Echo, it's their better half.
And I mean just because ATN one hour round does not mean that we won't see a 3rd view coming on back as we saw that already
They've made the right stack to start with and they're holding all five players
Over towards being at the moment at the earliest that looks like where ATN are wanting to lean
And they've gone through a much heavier buy than Gyanix. Gyanix only had two rifles one Martian and two pistols
ATM, they've gone for everything.
Glossy yes with a ghost.
She's essentially faking a lurk here to try and see if there's a stack.
They hear one jump, he came.
Oh no!
Tronic's leaving!
Oh.
There's still no one.
Oh.
Oh my god, the snake oil has been sold.
Yeah, just at the wrong time as well, a second later with that jump peak.
A full man is very careful of being spotted.
I think they just didn't see anyone and they would be like, okay, we see no one, they must be going A.
And, you know, just a second later would have made all of that difference in that round.
And not saying they could have won, I mean they could have won, it's not saying they would have won this.
But they absolutely could have.
Well, they all died for the spikes, no arms, no money far enough at least by ATM.
But it does mean that the fifth comes on for them. They're slowly closing that gap.
And now we're going to see the Biop, two regen shields because no kills were found in the
inside a GX, if not being able to really build up any money behind them, because the utility
costs so much. Can't go for the full shields. Purity. Still with the Guardian, Karina, Bulldog,
CEO Bulldog. Honestly, these players are good with it. I trust him with the Bulldog, I trust
him with the Guardian, I don't think it really matters.
Yeah, that's not what I was going to say. It doesn't really matter. There's so many thrifty
rounds, there's so many low buy rounds, I just didn't get in their favor. Oh my gosh, I'm
I was so worried for a door off of that very moment there.
The position should be flushed out, yeah.
Salve's come through as well, just to really push her off,
but for her it's just about going a bit deeper
onto that site, just hold those lines.
Game 1's position has been noted as well.
The wall does get stripped there, next to the cone.
Oh, high angle there, playing as well.
The security just jumps over it, slowly coming from two areas of this view site.
I swear that door would have been crunched here if someone is there, really making the
way forward.
These have lines 1, J, Karina, at least finds the equalizer.
The security is licensing with the flashes perfection, completely taking me down.
The other members of the giant just locked out of their site, cannot sneak, cannot cross,
cannot hold.
separately from so many different angles.
None of us gonna slowly get her way onto the site.
Doesn't clear holes, there's two there.
There's two more, on too long.
If someone peeks her long, someone's just gonna
swing her from the other end as well.
And the tap.
Celia, pre-fire's so good on J-Bois.
Swing forward onto Hanva as well.
Just felt like giants couldn't even shoot back onto that retake.
retake and suddenly it's only three round deficit.
This is how the 9-3 curse started. This is how it happens.
Asuka, I'm pretty sure both timeouts available to GionX so...
Second to talk to the coach. Work out the problems.
I'm probably saying why didn't you save them that round?
There were three of them alive in 3 vs 4 and a B retake.
Very very difficult site to successfully retake on.
with the changes that have come on through it's still so difficult. Like globally statistically
it is I think a 30% Routake win rate. It's so difficult to do. But now Jamex because
they didn't save, they allowed the bonus win to go to ATN and now they've got a low buy.
Sheriffs yes. Util maybe. But ATN when they burst onto site they have so much utility
between the fade with the prowlers and the horned,
with the Tejo missiles, the flashes from purity
have been on point this entire map.
They can even use Glossy's Util and Celia's Nades
to flood site positions to stop Gionex.
From holding those crossfires
that we love from them on Bind on their defense,
they're not able to do that against this composition
because of the salaries, because of the swarm grenades.
And now it's ATM, they start to lean over towards the A site.
You've got to wonder how a Gion X able to set up a true defense
when there's so much utility to the other side.
Oh, absolutely.
Definitely heard those early sounds of their reaction is just slow and put that wall up.
Defense on security.
So clear the corners as well.
Bricks the walls.
makes a D-Line onto A, but a few rotinas already coming through as well.
You even have the yordle with the late lurk, Adora.
And then her headshots could be massive.
I think her teammates had already signaled to her that,
yeah, we saw the utile, yeah, we heard sounds, but they're not coming in.
So it might be a different site that they're going for.
And Celia knows exactly where Adora might be and you know what? Let's re-hit A because we pulled the rotation one more time
I'm just saying ATN can sell me anything snake oil marshmallows
Bad eggs
They're doing great job of doing that. What's wrong with marshmallows hold up?
I don't know, could it be talking to you guys?
I feel like anyone can tell me Marshmallows. Marshmallows are great, but now the spike not even down yet, because ATN they're just pushing. They're going aggressive. Maybe a little bit too much.
Yeah, but the hitshots are good though for Manita, but ATN gets two back in return.
Nanva, that is so...
Lee come onto that site.
It's a tag team situation from both her teammates here.
You go to one end, and you're gonna meet the other.
Oh, they're getting a bit spicy there.
Gatenwa alone here.
Try to steal away head to make it a bit more costly.
Big ask.
As soon as she peeks, the reaction is just so...
many shots to her head.
In fact, they're gonna try and chase her away.
Okay, expensive. Even an orb to Karina is huge.
Rightful now online.
The ATM really mounted this comeback as much as they can.
Purity's even going for the operator on the attack side.
Expect her to explore over towards Belong.
Try and find a pick because there's no warp on the other side.
The economy's never managed to really stabilize for Giant Necks.
they've not got that big scope. Oh purely okay sold it again that's fine I
think it would be very good but I understand that saves them that little
bit of extra money means that they have the economy behind a couple of rounds
and this is how they can come back this is the resilience of a team that has
played so many officials over the last month together this is the kind of
resilience that you get from that. We're still playing that team game hiding behind
pillar hoping to catch someone. And then this TP's away. In the last situations, you
know, ATN has just been rushing down B as quick to flood her, so she's not able to
move away a second time.
Probably friends nothing. Just snake their way onto Art, but Anva, not afraid to show
her hand. Of course to move back as well because of that haunt! Quick peek from
purity catches her off guard. This is the same story that has been going on for many
many rounds in a row for giants.
They're just gonna, I think they gambled right this time, AT&T and they didn't really sell
a fake over and Annvers found so much information towards mid. Cleared it out, hasn't heard anything
at all, although she's up first. Dimensional Rift spots her.
Yeah, Necrol will be used as well, but you know exactly where she is.
Purify?
Sorry, excuse me, Puriti is gonna be able to come onto that site.
Somehow, Alita needs a full force of damage from Celia's maid.
And Jadmua and Amber, I think the call is to just save at this point.
You have no money, you have no funds to go to the next round, you're broke.
But Amber's gonna try and steal away a kill.
Does that onto Celia.
A double peach coming in for the rest of ATN that's not allowed her to survive.
a minute longer.
And it's just down to the IGL saving which has got now time to think.
Time to discuss with the team at the very least what's going wrong.
A french timeout.
Make the most of the time you have right and I'm imagining something is being cooked.
A plan and an execute because if the last bonus giant X should be able to get some kind of buy
into the next even if it's a little bit rough but they might want to save they
might want to wait until it's nine and nine because that's where it's headed
ATN managed to come back from three five in a row and I mean what a nice shot
from purely to open it up and the try and do whatever she can on the exit but
ATN's fundamentals with the double peaks they are there and yeah GionX not
not wanting to force it, not wanting to waste money into a round where they don't have the
ults. Use this round to get the ultimates online if you can. Bunch up, group up, try
to find a thrifty where you can maybe but mid, first battleground.
You don't have to worry about the rest, a flash will come out alongside the Yu-Tzu coming for the Seh-Hou.
A pop flash forward as well, pushes her away.
And Jay's reaction is sharp, is fast, and somehow is 1v1.
They can 2v1 even, but immediately Jayna gets eliminated from the round one more time.
Spike in, her hands, and Celia is sharp.
Don't need it, a clutch perfectly done and it's a 9-9. Somehow ATN has turned a huge deficit into an equalized.
I mean, how else to do it other than with a Red Bull clutch? Like, that is the only way they could move on forward.
But, Janek's now. Guns. Money. At least half a chance, especially with this operator now on Adora.
She's going towards the wrong side.
Nope, six in a row now for ATN.
Nothing.
Pajonix on their defensive half.
Grab clearing out a lot of long.
It's going to be broken.
I think it might have spotted her Jadawha so she backs off and they're heading over
towards A. They're heading over towards Adora where the operator is.
Her TP's going to run out any second now though.
So she's got a decision make.
Does she TP out?
No, she doesn't.
sticks she stays
just breaking those walls whatever you till that's been set up ATN is just
taking it out here you should probably use finds nothing here comes that lock
down should give so much space to ATN ah Dora does catch one is gonna be Jade
They're so aware that they've been selling snake oil a few times in a row now
because of that
They will find one now. I see Lee has already taken out
all B site here
One for one still
ATM makes a pivot onto the B site area
You might be able to get a kill on to Amber here if timing right
It's a peak Sanita falls
There's one coming in from Link as well, so Purity will be the one in charge of that.
I am just completely dismantled here.
The Ruggat's a shot of guard, but does not commit, forced to move away and move back
as well.
Because hold on to that op, steals away Purity as well.
And now I feel like this is this is ATN showing even when you make the right call even when
you've still got a Dora on the line we will still react well Celia being able to have
the confidence right to go forward to take away the op but most importantly to take
B site alone after that lockdown.
much good work done by this new player for the rubies she's so young to be
doing so much good work and we look at this like being able to kill Jada opens
up the entirety of sight a lamp what down secures it for her and her team and
then that allows the rest of the team to basically forward the rest of the map
overwhelm giant X and now yeah they have to call this time out that is now seven
I don't know. I mean, personally, for me, I would have called the timeout perhaps up to four hours in a row five in a row, a little bit earlier, it just feels like you're just giving away so many rounds, so many chances when you could have already started to, you know, to start building things.
But perhaps, you know, perhaps the coach finally figured something out, finally spotted something out that they're able to use here.
use here. But in a lot of situations as well, I think in the the last map, um, ATNs, right,
giants were the team to win out straight after ATNs, you know, timeout as well. So this makes me a
bit worried, right? This is going to be your final timeout. You have to be, what's to say,
have to be really certain on how we want to approach this because this is a timeout. It's
supposed to be a swing round too. Yeah I imagine the swimmer will probably be the next. Janek's
not got a great buy into this so they're saving I'd imagine the biggest strats for the next.
ATN, a switch of a pace potentially tricky to do against Andrew on the stage. She's forced back
by the salvos though immediately. A great haunt revealed so much so ATN all being spotted they're
still wanting to try and take some space towards A and yeah the exec it's going to happen here.
It has stationed there as well, there's a lot of bodies just really pull the fight
and this time around all of the giants remember that they can shoot Nightfall Hell that Jade
Moa with the multi frags goes huge, three down already, make it a four, and Anita unfortunately
for her cannot hold, Asilia moving all around that site, but Spike isn't in her control.
habit on the lock and key they're watching every line at every angle to make sure it cannot be taken
and Celia she's got her swarm grenades she can maybe chuck one through the window behind to try
and find something but she's going for the long rotation and it's already been watched by Anva
I imagine she might wait Janek's are leaving oh no the timing if Celia finds something here
You're not looking her way, that's for sure.
I'm the one getting a bit nervous here.
Could get two here in fact.
Yep, that's one.
Looks the other way, makes a beeline for it, but thankfully Anva is there.
Thrifty swing round.
We predicted to happen the next one when they had a buy, but somehow Giants made this thrifty
work and that is the route to bring them back onto the board in the second half.
This is the 4th or 5th thrift, the 4th or 5th thrift of this map and Jionics use it to
get their first defensive round win.
The only randall they had was in Jaybro's hands and look at what she was able to do
with it.
This is the IGL, not usually someone that you'd expect to be at the forefront at the
front of the battlefield, taking those fights but she does it so well off the back of the
time out on our door. Our same position as before. I imagine she'll be noted by the
Tejo. Not TP'd yet. She's waiting and now she's probably TP'd, but Anita's here trying
to bait, slow down, purity though. Slowly pushing with the op. Found so much space.
She's not holding close though. Yeah, the instant reaction is to put up that wall for
Info and instead look at mid. They baited out of the wall so that's another worry to
worry about are they actually there or they just bait and leave one more time
because there's so many rounds where ATN has managed to pull a rotation from
giants only to be on the other on a different site.
phones use a bit early there I think they were very worried about the pressure
dimensional drift from Adoro they're fine absolutely nothing towards a one
towards made in cosmic divide from the defenders oh no Adoro's not heard what's
What's happening behind her?
She's still-
Oh my god, but she still wins the battle, though!
Finally falls to Karina, but Anva peeks out.
Two for one, we'll take it.
Jada still holding very aggressively, catches Celia,
with Util in hand, hasn't been displaced quite yet.
Jada's looking the wrong way here.
I mean, crosses each other.
Jada gets another, and is purified.
Purity, excuse me, alone.
It's a Tekken's tick there.
Jada seals the 3rd along with Anva.
You have to say I'm re-liking this formation coming in from Giants a lot better ever since
that time not happened.
I mean I do not know how Adora was able to find Blossy there.
She came out of the world, was looking the wrong way.
But Jada.
So consistent.
She's the player we called out at the beginning of this series, joined the pre-show because
she is so consistently good.
The third highest in most stats, if not the first, across the entirety of stage one.
She is right up there at the top.
And her and Adora and Andra have just forced ATN to take their timer after they had such
a lead.
So many rounds pushing forward.
And now ATN on the brink of defeat after getting seven rounds in a row.
This is where the mental resilience comes into play.
They need to bring each other up, to convince each other, it will be okay to have that confidence
in each other, the reliance that we've seen from both of these teams over this series.
It comes down to that mental resilience when you win seven and then all of a sudden you're
almost losing the series.
This is so interesting as well because in a way, right, I think it is such a great call
from the coach to have this time on. They've let, you know, Giants string two in a row.
It could also be a great time to really break the momentum that Giants has been able to build.
This time around, Adora hasn't placed herself over on the pillar. This time around, Adora
places herself in a high angle with it up.
Still holding the line as well. This is going to be good.
On this place at all by the prowler and she gets her first.
She TP'd all the way to OVDW though, B site's so much weaker without the operator there,
in ATN I think they're aware, they're ready to push towards the site, they've got Jade's
ult, they've got Blossy's, they could do something big here.
They just really just flood out, but she calls one more time, by the C's comes out there and
Jade finds Jade all alone, and by Sway's and her falls, and so does Jade, find hers!
The timing is good here, Jade, still moving around that map and she's precise as hell!
Giants look so good here on to match point
all of a sudden
They just push on it through a nice opening pick there from a door of a purity
Probably should have used a flash there and nice protection Karina looking after Jade allowing her to get the Armageddon off
But it just put Jade more out into the open where she could just drag the IGL
Getting her team through her calling on this map. He's being magnificent
And we're dragging up to map and series point 80 and they've still got some big ults
They've still got a chance, but they're fighting for overtime now
I love this for my Dora because she's just so dynamic with how she wanted to play this time around
She actually showed her hand onto pillar
She's still holding it. I like it's the confidence
So important to hold that line aggressively.
Anva, for slow.
Stops the mid control from being taken.
Keeps Link under her team's control.
Jurnx, they've got this map under lock.
It can have been basically no progress towards anywhere.
Go through double doors, it's going to be a slow.
You have Jayden Wastlow just floating around in the mid-side area.
position herself on to be Celia one across onto from art the wall comes up
it triggers it gives information over to giants and immediately look at chain boss
reaction to quickly rotate the mid-side area she's just holding down she's she
knows that that's where it could be and this stage was gonna take so long to
drake before they can make their way over towards B.
Yeah, they're going to end here.
Yeah, coming in with a nightfall as well, Jada in the corner there.
Pushed out of the way, but they haven't found Anva quite yet, and she takes full advantage
of that.
But Celia and Fiori makes it hard.
They're fragging.
They're aggressive.
They want this OT.
But before the wall comes up, I need to have five Fiori's head.
Spike goes down.
in hand here.
You should.
Oradora.
Let's deal away ahead or two, but can't.
That lockdown being a menace keeping them off that site.
Hice them.
A lot of time.
Oradora being very patient.
All the way from long.
Celia.
There's the popper head, but a jump peek immediately falls.
And suddenly it's so bearable.
A two versus two.
A one versus two.
And Karina.
All alone.
The timing is good.
Here's the drop.
drop, here's the defuse, the flash in her face, but how do you look at the right way?
No!
Amita knows exactly where to look and Giants despite 7 rounds in a row are getting anything
somehow manages to come back into the game and win it all.
Wow, I mean what a performance from Giant X, their own mental resilience to stick through
it despite how difficult that must have been losing seven in a row but the timeout and then the thrifty
and then you could see the confidence snowball again for them the way that they were able to just
slowly stabilize and push on through what a win from John X a statement win because this is now
their path to making it into playoffs then they're not locked in by any means but this is this was a
very much needed match win as they move on to the rest of week three but
commiserations to ADN because those seven rounds in a row they were dominant.
They really were and they could really tell that Giants were just really
scratching their heads trying to find their way you know back into the game
and right off that one time out and it was a little buy-around. They managed
just really swing it all the way till the end.
And this also marks their second win against ATN
where their last one was all the way last year.
And I'm really hoping that it's not gonna be
a once a year affair between these two again,
because it's just so entertaining
to see them really go back and forth
and really anti each other on their own app picks.
Yeah.
I wanna see this match up when we get to playoffs again
because it's gonna be so good
if both of these teams get there,
which I'm really hoping they will after that one.
Oh, it would be so good to watch it again.
But like you said, that was a different Giant X Roster.
But still, you've got to feel like
there's something there for ATN.
Just the name of Giant X maybe a little bit worrying,
a little bit scary for them, hard to deal with.
And you can see why, right?
As soon as they got the Mentum back into their favor,
they were just able to run through with it.
I mean like like adora she has not had the best maps today, but as soon as it went to
Paul as soon as she was able to be back on the euro and just popping off the way that
she knows how she looks so good on this map.
9 first kills by the way.
That's impressive.
I think that's all from that just that up either it's going to be from be pillar or even
from I think you know halls.
It's just been huge was you can't really you know that you have a brief idea or vague idea.
going to be there, but from which angle has been the biggest problem. And she works so well in tandem
with Jade, Jade Noir, excuse me, when she throws out her util, when she just really breaks, you know,
the crab, as you call it, you know, coming back to work that long just to keep her, you know,
in check for at least to be able to hold on her spot. Excuse me, I cannot English today, you know,
onto that be long side. Regardless for this, I have to say, I was really fully expecting an overtime
for this particular map? Yeah, I mean, this only says two thrifties, but there were so many low
purchases that should not have been one. And they just were, I think it came up to four or five
low purchases that won rounds. Just what a performance from both of these teams to be able
to do that and to find their little advantages in positioning, in map control, in tempo,
when they had those lower guns. Ginex, obviously, 18 first kills, half of them going to Adora was
really good, but this also means that they were losing out a fair few rounds when they had that
five versus four advantage, which again, props for ATN. That's where the fundamentals of a team
that has a core that have been together for three years now. That's where you really see that kind
of start to shine through. Karina coming back in as well. I think that synergy is still there.
And I've mentioned it earlier, but the amount of officials that ATN have done in the last month,
I think shows how much commitment they have to improving in a competitive sense together.
It's what's made them the dark horse of Stage 1.
Yeah, I completely agree with you with that as well. The difference of mentality between a scrim
and official is very, very different. You know, I think the same could be said about giants as well,
you know, being able to just really kind of lift yourself up after seven rounds in a row,
not being able to get a single round, just really trying to figure it out,
just really swing off from there, says a lot about the capabilities.
Not sure whether it's Jayden was, you know, uplifting words or calls.
Not sure whether it's the coach that cooked something out,
because we didn't really see a big change in that round either.
It's just them playing it the way that they used to.
It's just them remembering that,
hey, we can shoot back and suddenly Jayden pops off in that round.
Not sure what happened there.
I really hope that the team releases like a comms video or something just to get a bit
of an idea on how exactly the team works in those situations because I always think that
those rounds are the most crucial rounds in terms of what they cook and most importantly
how they keep the team I think alive, especially since this game is about a game that's just
repeating the same things over and over, either it be with different rounds, different strats.
So you really, really got to keep yourself in check with that mental.
Regardless, I really want to give, like you mentioned,
toward ATN, you know, the new player has done huge work
in that game.
And honestly, we personally thought,
I think, you know, like you mentioned,
the viewers say it's going to be a 2-0 for me personally,
after that win from Giant sticking away by it,
I thought it was going to be a 2-0 as well.
But they, both teams have really, really put in the effort
and the work and really, you know,
it's been really a game of, what's the word?
Oh my God, it's so late here.
I cannot think it's it's a game of of anti it's a game of who can figure out the playbook first
and it's been very fun watching the back and forth it has I mean like you can see the improvement
for both teams as well since since week one of stage one we're now in week three they've got
two more days left before playoffs are looming and I mean if we're looking at these two teams
both of them could still make it into playoffs. Atn, they're very likely to, but they've still got a long
way to go until that happens. I mean, Tash, what a series we had, and that was only the first one.
Yeah, because more bangers are coming in for the second half, so do not get anywhere. Second
series coming at you, after this we have Charlotte and Zach on the mic. See you later.
I
Hey, I'm not always looking for you by the way really
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
Tom Bass. You've had your fun. It's my turn.
to the right. Welcome back
I'm Charlotte joined by Zach and we've still got another best of three on the docket for you. But Zach, how are you doing today?
It's been a very exciting day. First of all, we had that banger game between Giant X and ATN. And I mean, it was very back and forth like shout out to ATN for making that comeback attempt.
But Giant X were able to close it out in the end and that's going to do wonders for them. I'm very excited to be here.
here for the first time. I think that we're costing together as well. Charlotte. I'm really excited
for this game too, because there's a lot at stake when it comes to the bracket and qualifications
and everything. So also just the both of these teams have been having a pretty good stage so far
and I'm excited to see them finally face off. Yeah, it's going to be a good one between gentlemates
and twisted minds. There we go. And yeah, it's been a very good stage from both of these teams.
I sort of find themselves I
Believe at least before the start of the day they found themselves in the top three
I believe that's still happening obviously what we'll get an update about all the standings and stuff after this game
But I mean I guess let's just start talking about these teams because again, it has been a
Very good stage both these teams and giant X not giant X
the game. So, I'm going to
start with the G. I'm very
sorry, everyone. Gentle mates
have been having a very
impressive time. 100% Yeah, I
think that this roster has been
definitely looking incredibly
strong. The rebuild, of course.
We've done a lot of talking
about one of these players in
particular Barry X who has just
so for more year as one of my
favorite cocasters, Akamus likes
to say coming in second year in
your player often your reflex I would say rather seeing as she does fill other
roles and of course Nami and Wenz the experience on this team is extremely
good and they've been putting it to good use off the back of it as well I think
that Wenz in particular has been so dangerous when it comes to those lures
kind of when it comes to those kind of more dangerous situations and she just
has so much impact on a lot of these rounds I think every single player on
this roster has stepped up when the going gets tough and when they were needed
that much, or whatever they were both seated, they were ready to be good mates and carry
the team forward. And I think that's why they're pretty high up in the standings, like you
said in that top three.
Yeah, for sure. In their last match as well, it was Toka being the highest ACS in that
one too. That was a 2-0 win against Zenit. So, yeah, a very, very experienced side, but
you can also say the same thing about their opponents, Twisted Minds, Orchid, who, let's
face it have do you have that that wealth of experience and they got Ness and
Sarah coming in as well from a very successful last few years so true yeah
I mean Nessa Ness and Sarah coming in from that GX squad last year like you
said a wealth of experience lean has been I think for me on this team the kind
of like the dark quarters for me I think that she's been incredible in terms of
her raw fracking I think that we're gonna be looking at taking a closer look at
her individual stats later. But for me, the favorite part of this team, obviously, there's
a little bit of bias for me here, because I'm also from a CA and it costs a CA sometimes.
But seeing Grahams here, having switched regions has made me so happy. And the fact is, she
was telling me that for the first few games, I don't know if she's managed to fix it yet,
but she was playing on 100 ping. So every time this girl does something insane, right?
The fact that she's doing it on 100 ping is just in the back of my mind all the time.
This roster has also been performing super well last year. I think it was a little bit
of a heartbreak. They were very, very close to making it to that GCC, ultimately falling short.
But I think this year, that's kind of revitalized them with this roster rebuild. And I think that,
yeah, they're definitely looking to lock in that top spot, or at least one of those top few slots,
and get that qualification bid in as well. I mean, if they went today, they're going to be one step
closer to definitely having that happen for them. Yeah, for sure. And for twisted minds, again,
Let's let's just narrow back in on lean because I mean she's been
Incredible so far a 260 ACS in their last match and the
241.8 average
Across the stage so far. It's such an impressive job that she's doing
100% yeah, I mean
In terms of the first bloods as well, right? I think that she's one of the most aggressive players
We've seen which is exactly what you want when you have that way late coming in
But I think right now in the current meta, Wele is probably by far the strongest duelist.
Yes, it used to be Yoru, but now it's Wele.
Move over.
Times have changed.
And Wele has just been so broken if you use it in the right way.
There's basically no counter to it.
You get in, you get that info, you throw in a saturate, hinder someone, I don't know, throw
a Tejo Molly at them, throw an ult at them, just throw a player at them.
It doesn't matter.
You just absolutely get that free kill 90% of the time.
And it's why that agent has been such an incredible pick in general.
But on the opposite side, when you look at this head-to-head, you have Bariax.
We talked about her consistency and fragging power before.
I think the biggest differentiator here between these two players is number one, the agent
being played, which is Bariax clearly prefers the Yoru much more.
But also in terms of first blood, I think the lean has just been rated a little bit
higher, which is fair, because in this current meta, when a lot of teams do run that double
duelist, I think that quite often it's the Yoru finding that follow-up trade, which means
rather than being that person that's who's like the first one in which you often see with the way
lay. So yeah, I think it's it's been pretty neck and neck in terms of stats for both of these
two. I'm very excited to see them face off. Yeah, for sure. And the the experience for
Twisted Minds keeps on coming really, because again, you we wanted to talk a little bit about
out Gruhams as well because she is coming in from GC Pacific, like you said, and was champion
over there with Ziptoe. Now coming over here to EMEA, it's a new challenge, but I mean,
I think we can all agree it's one that she is taken to like a Dr. Water.
Oh yeah, 100% and I mean, I still remember because I was there when Gruhams played her
first tournament in GCSEA and back then she was like a duelist player. So you know, she
She comes on this team and she walks in-gen, we were like,
hmm, what do we expect from her?
Because we've never seen her before.
And she absolutely went on to bully half-lovy
about most of the games that she played in.
From the start, she was just an incredible talent
and to see her really grow over these years
in not just in terms of the different agents
that she's played, but also her play style.
And now having her here in a whole new region across the world,
after proving that she was capable of being
a regional champion, beating Team Falcons last year,
which everybody was very dubious about but yeah I think that for Greyhems this is a move that makes
a lot of sense in terms of you know playing for a different region, gaining another level of experience,
another kind of playstyle, learning a little bit more about another region perhaps. It's just a
very exciting adventure for her when I asked her about it and she's very excited to be here too
and she's definitely like you said performing with it. I can't wait when these guys actually get a
you know, I mean, I mean, you
say that she's excited to be
here. We're certainly excited
to have her here and to be
performing on this level. And
there is there is a lot at
stake here today as well. Um
for gentlemates. It's very
simple. If they win, then they
are qualified for this. And
they are qualified for this.
you know, it's a little bit
more. It's a little bit more
up in the air. At least for
right now, obviously, it's not
their only chance, but to go
into playoffs. I mean, this
match. Right now they if KC
win, which is obviously the
other game that's happening
right now. If Casey win, then
I mean, both of these teams
going to be qualified into
the playoffs. But for gentle
mates, they can really take
that into their own hands. There
not on the line, but it's not
like if you lose, you're done
for, you're eliminated. There
are still a lot of chances to
qualify in the last two days of
this group stage. Yeah, I think
both these teams are also
looking pretty close together
when you look at the standings,
right? One has a fight to
record and the other has a
four to record. And like you
said, gentlemen, it's being
having that extra win under
their belt. If they win today,
they will qualify for sure. Like
you said, they have control of
their destiny in their own hands
or they're going to be looking
to make sure that it doesn't
slip out of the way. But I
gentlemates the consolation kind of years. Like you said, if KC win no matter what they qualify,
but also even if twisted win today, they qualify anyway because they're just higher up there.
So I think that gentlemates having a little bit more, a little bit less pressure on their shoulders
rather, but let's take a look at the games that they played throughout. And I mean, apart from
that permaband of bind, they've been having a pretty good split so far with the exception of
splits if you pardon the pump. Yeah, for sure. I mean, I would be very surprised if we see bind
today they've played seven games before today banned it seven times as their
first ban so gentle mates really not a big fan of that map but yeah like you
say for the rest of them they've been doing a very very good job when it comes
to this and interestingly enough they haven't even really banned split a lot
either the maths they've been taking away is their second ban have been breeze
or corrode so that's gonna be an interesting one to me you know do we
see split come in and how the gentlemates adapt to that and deal with that challenge where we've seen them in
In this stage so far not really have the most amount of success
You maybe maybe you know you've had two losses on it their time might be the lucky charm
But let's take a look at the opposite side twisted minds and how their map pull looks
In terms of the wins and the person stages and everything
So if you take a look at this again, Aven got to be a pretty successful map here for the 100% win rate so far
3, you know, very much preferred so and of course abyss that permanent ban that like similar to gentle mates
They just haven't been willing to play it at all. I think that in terms of successful
Successful map pool, I would say gentle mates is much much more versatile here because if you look at it twisted minds has
Showing vulnerabilities on multiple maps before of course
It depends on the opponents you're playing as well, which could definitely be a factor here
But I think that in terms of you know, if you want to anti-strat if you want to figure out a plan here
Twisted Minds have definitely showcased more vulnerabilities for you to lean into here
So I'm kind of excited to see if both these teams are going to continue with their established promo bonds or if we're going to be seeing something new
You know, it's exciting to you think about
Yeah, it very much is and for Twisted Minds if you're kind of looking at which one of these 50 50 maps is the best
you kind of have to start looking at round difference and things like that.
And I think their best one-on-one map is Bind. Unfortunately for them, that's
the highest round dip on. So, you know, it seems unlikely that we're
going to go there, but if we do, maybe that can be
something that gets pulled out. But I believe we do have the map veto ready,
so we can start to get a look at what we're going to be seeing here.
And, well, to the surprise of nobody, Gentlemates have taken Bind away, so Twisted Minds pick their best map of Haven,
Gentlemates take us to Pearl, and then Split is that decider, which, again, we point out that one and two record from Gentlemates
has a very interesting map 3 prospect.
100% yeah, I mean, I'm surprised that they decided to let it through, seeing that they have been able to find a greater degree of success on that breeze.
But I think the Twisted as well, opting to go for their probabana of Abyss,
Nothing really surprising here, I would say except for that split pick being allowed through.
So that is my only question mark when it comes to this veto, but you know, maybe they're just
thinking, all right, we're just going to pull off a 2-0, or they're thinking, we prepared enough,
you know, we've looked at the VOD footage, we've played it three times, I'm sure we can fix those
mistakes, we have to fix them anyway at some point, right? So that could be the rationale here for
sure. I think that the main question mark for me is what exactly we're going to be seeing on Haven,
whether it's going to be a repeat of those previous Asian comps that these teams have played.
I think that's for Twisted. I'm definitely expecting that because like we saw in that map,
they're 3-0 up right now. I doubt we're going to be seeing any drastic surprises unless, of course,
they're at risk of getting anti-Straton. And I think that what I really like about that comp
is the versatility of their K-Jay. I think that also, yeah, just the waylay on this map, I think,
is an incredibly underused tool. I know that some teams also like to run some wild picks
like the Phoenix. I personally like the Phoenix on Haven. I don't know how you feel about it, Charlotte,
but let me ask you this. In terms of agent comps, is there anything that you'd like to see or anything
that you're expecting to see here? I mean, I just feel like, I mean, when we look at just kind of
VCC and game changes across the globe, I think Viper is an agent that's very commonly brought out.
Like, I would be surprised if we didn't see at least one Viper on here, you know, that sort of
idea that was starting to come back into the fold a year or so ago. As for the
rest of it, honestly I think Haven is a map where you can be fairly flexible,
especially with the sort of dualist situation. You can go with a double
controller, you can go with a double dualist, you can go for a neon, you can go
for a jet, you can go for that yori, you can go for the waylay as well. There's so
much flexibility on this map in particular, that I think that these teams should be able
to find a way to really adapt to that. And I mean, both of these teams get to see their
best map. They've been able to pick their best maps, which means that hopefully we do
end up going to that map three and get that really interesting prospect. But we do have
If the agent selects for you, unfortunately, we aren't able to show it on stream right
now, but for the side of Gentlemates, we see a Viper, Sova, Omen, Yoru, and Killjoy.
So again, using that sort of double controller idea with a Viper and Omen, and it's a similar
thing on the other side.
The only difference there is the jewelist instead of Barry being on that Yoru.
We see Lin taking up the neon here.
I think that makes a lot of sense.
I think Neon is probably one of the best agents on this map.
If you are running a single duelist,
especially if you have the flashes
to kind of try to help her.
I think that the stuns as well are super useful
on a lot of angles, whether you're pushing that garage
or trying to stun that link on the wait for its B side
or just a short.
There's so many areas in the map that Neon can dominate.
The fast lane as well,
really good for slicing up the side.
So one of my personal favorite duelists to see
on this particular map.
But yeah, like you said, almost a miracle there.
just the minor differences being there being only that soul duelist for twisted a for lean. Well, you have the
Yeah, it's sorry. So it's a soul duelist on the other side. I lie
But yeah, pretty much a very cough coming in and I like the viper as well
I know that you mentioned it and we're seeing a lot more of it in the meta
It just provides you an incredible amount of map control, especially when you combine it with the KJ
You know, you've got the deep of coming in and then you walk through like the KJ Molly or a viper Moli
And then you've got three people spraying at you. Yeah, it's just very oppressive to even get into sight in the first place
So I do like this bit coming in from both of these players.
Yeah, I mean, it's a shame we're not seeing Karoad,
because I do love to complain about teams not playing Viper on that map specifically.
But as we start to head into the game here,
map number one gets us underway on Haven and Twisted Mind,
starting us out on the defense, on the attack.
Sorry, gentlemates are on the defense.
My tongue is tied already, so you know this is going to be a good one.
and already that early aggression when spots pretty much the whole complement and he's
going to be still holding her ground here on the site because if she can maybe get one but instead
immediately taken down. Shut down, locked out, that's going to be the site taken and the spike
planted. Now the rest of the gentlemates having to regroup for this retake. It does look like it's
It's gonna be a double flank coming in while Barry X gets joined by
This might gonna be spotted out by the shirt, it's gonna be interesting how they're positioning themselves
Yeah utility coming in so that should be the information given over but for gentleness
Kind of have to push forwards with not much idea about
about what they're going to be fighting into. And it's a flawless first round here from
Twisted Minds. A very promising start on their own map pick.
And you can kind of see that they're so practised with these executes, just going into the seaside,
finding that first pick and setting up that perfect pulse plan. You can even see like
how one of the players was ready to break the recon pretty much as soon as the clock
struck. So, or as soon as it came through, they were just watching the wall there. So
very very nicely played this
looking or rather this anti-eco shaping up to be a very substantial investment here for the twisted side you've got the
Vandal as well as the double rule dog only one player not investing the gun at all
Yeah, that just kind of helps twisted mind set themselves up
But I mean even despite not buying a gun sorry still finds the opener here
That's talker going down who again has been a very
three crucial player I think for this gentleman side. Now here comes another fight. I'm gonna
get caught out there. Yeah, okay. Not too much to worry about here for Twisted Vines
and now they have the A-Sites for three.
So I was in and once again the awkward retake position. This time it's a 3v5. Yeah, I think
call might just be to try and go down to the spike, maybe try to find an exit, a couple
of exits if you're lucky, but overall yeah, I'm not going to be able to do too much damage
with just those trostics unless you're super lucky, I would say. And again, you've got
the flank coming in very quick here from Marty.
I thought she'd just be able to dodge the alarm bot there, but not to be. So instead,
It feels like that angle of approach is kind of taken away from the gentlemates, but despite
continuous tick, just the mines actually fighting towards the majority of the gentlemates players.
Again, opportunities for exits here, but instead they just all go the way of twisted mines.
It's going to be the double controllers going down to the spike, not going to be giving
them the alt-tort, but yeah, again, pretty much follows round here for twisted mines.
First round, only one player went down, second round basically, second round basically, nobody
went down.
So yeah, pretty impressive performance coming in from them so far, and this bonus is definitely
looking to shape up to be a substantial one for sure.
Um, I do think that having that double Vandal pick is gonna be incredibly valuable on the opposite side that everybody's got full armor.
I don't see any outlaw purchases here, which I mean, we've been seeing in a lot more of these anti-ecos,
knowing that the opposite team is probably not gonna have the best, um, armor in terms of a buy.
But yeah, look at this gentleman, he's taking this aggressive midspace early on.
Immediately the kill goes the way of Barry.
There is a response here from Twisted Minds.
but they do find themselves in the 4 vs 4.
Taka's in a lot of trouble there, peeking into 2.
Yeah, lucky to get away with their life, I would say.
Lost off her HP for it, but at least she has the remainder of her utility to be able to help the rest of the team out
as they seem like they want to reconvene towards C.
They know that the Killjoy likes to play towards that side of the map and they're going to be
looking to make a little expedition of their own.
Barry of course, Barry X is ready in the corner.
I don't know if the Solar Util has been charged yet.
They do have the smokes available though.
Yes, that does have her.
Mary taking the aggressive fight.
She's able to get the first, almost gets the second.
Very very low HP left though now.
Having to be able to close out the fight.
It might be the shotgun that takes her out unless she's able to withdraw from the side.
Marty is here going out for the backup.
Yeah, really nice setup play for the double kill from Marty.
Very quick one, two to find three total on the round.
And as soon as that server utility refreshes from Taka,
it's put to immediate effect,
stands them out, gets the kills,
and saves that from being a fairly dangerous round, actually,
for the side of Gentlemaze.
Yeah, 100% I think that they managed to keep three of their guns.
I think that being able to have that definitely helps them out.
And in terms of a buy here, it's still going to be a full buy coming in for Twisted, despite
the double purchase of the rifles in that previous one, but it's going to be important
for them to maintain their economy heading into the next particular one.
Looking at the ultimate charge nest, almost does have that Hunter's Fury online, so if
they can get the spike down that's gonna be something available to play that
post plant with very very effectively. Once again they'll look at this gentleman
opting to take that deep space now that they've got these weapons in their hands
and Barry X I mean usually people expect someone sucked into the other corner
this one might not go checked unless of course they invest in early silver
drone for long instead but the spike isn't really being commented it might be
a call to maybe fake C and go towards A instead and Barry X actually able to get
No, although the counter-frag is immediately there.
Mega-trade work and...
...Sara has made her way all the way through onto the A-sites.
What a learning.
Stoker going down.
And yeah, free control here for Twisted Minds now. This spike should go down fairly easily.
Ooh, spike ticking.
Let's see if they are able to make this retake happen, despite the numbers disadvantage.
Not much in the name of utility, no Recon's available either.
It's just that I have to leave these contact plays with the help of each other.
Paranoia, though, might connect with multiple players all looking at this crossfire from this team.
It's going to be very difficult for them to break things apart.
Great shot from Wends there, but it's immediately going to be refrogged in.
Yeah, it's just Nami versus the World.
What more can you really do here, especially with the timer ticking?
Oh, well, that's a brilliant shot to find the first.
Shockdarts sent through and forwards though.
That has just, yeah, not enough time to get anything done,
so Twisted Mines continue to press our advantage.
Lucky escape there from the spike from Nami, but...
I mean, it's just a consolation really saving that rifle.
The rest of 13 pretty broke, to be completely honest with you,
and Twisted Mines looks set to find a 4-1 lead.
I think that was a really clean round coming in from them, even though Bariatx was able
to find that opening kill, the beauty fries were immediate, I think the difference making
kill was definitely the short lurk coming in from Sarah, their catching Tota completely
off guard.
I don't think she expected that that third player coming in, so a little bit late as well.
I finally got an eco by, I gotta be broken here for the gentlemaid's side, so let's
aware of it.
Playing a little bit cautious here, don't want to give away those free weapons and just
a bit of a default to start the round off with although once again gentlemakes whether or
not they have money they continue pushing and that's a beautiful headshot yeah takes ground
down to just 38. Very exited to be careful though spotted there by the recon and forced to
use the gate crash to get away from that situation. I can twist my grouping up to the sea here.
I like this though, I mean I think that they've gotten some information, they've
been able to figure out that there's a heavy presence towards this garage side
maybe. I do like this fake clone idea from Barry X here, but once again this fast
lane it's just been so incredible in partitioning these sites for these
secrets and this of course is somewhat hard anchoring. Two players now though
towards the back side, they need to go in for the swing off the back of the flash
not able to connect the kill and Sarah gets two.
and crams with a kill from the nano swarm as well, and now puts dantamates in a very difficult position.
8-2 v5s, make that a 1v5, because last year it continues to press the advantage,
so another seasite execute and another flawless round here from Twisted Minds.
I thought, I thought, I felt bad, you know, one of the players did get that crucial dink down towards the wrong,
but of course the 145, what do you really do there with the Sheriff?
It's possibly a failure at the worst time, either way they're a very clean round.
I really like the post-lan setups and the coordination that we're seeing out of Twisted as well.
So yeah, Gentlemates, Town 4-1, gonna be calling their first time out here ahead of their full buy.
I think that they have a couple of ults to use here, or they're getting close to them.
One in particular is the Dimensional Drift.
If Beryx can't confirm that first kill, we'll give her that ultimate,
which could be super crucial for a retake.
I think that in terms of the retakes here, it's been a little bit rough for
gentlemates because they've either been a player down or just behind in terms of
resources or just not having the time even if you're able to bring it down to
a manageable state. So I think that they need to kind of figure out how to break
apart that dynamic against twisted.
Yeah, plenty to discuss. And I think for gentlemates, I mean, they have been getting
caught out, I'm thinking especially if that lurk from Sara that got them so much room
on the A site just a couple rounds ago. It does feel like it's a very difficult situation
to try and break down and we're definitely seeing why this is Twisted Mind's best map
they're looking really, really clean with it so far.
And there's some of the article, they have broken apart every single effective execute
that they are doing and they're doing the same things that they were doing, there's
three previous wins and it's working like a charm.
Since our gentle mates today haven't been able to figure out a solution of what yet,
Yeah, it's an unfortunate one there, it has. It took the cut amongst the pigeons at least for a moment.
Just in minds, steady themselves and get that spike on the ground.
Clean low on HP, but it's still good for one and Sara backs her up.
It's just Nami on the site to try and find anything, but with just the one kill, Twisted
Mine's still looking so clean here on Haven.
I mean, even though it wasn't really captured in the POV, I think that investment of that
Hunter's Theory, you can see how it's able to just cut apart these players, and of course
that double play in the smoke was just beautifully played by Twisted there.
I think that Mates were not ready for it, and once again are going to be on an economic
deficit.
have a couple of ult available they also have a bucking the hands of wends which personally terrifies
me because i think shotguns in this game can just do too much if you let it happen but yeah i think
so far it's wherever site whichever site that twisted have been hitting they've been able to
get it without too much competition pretty much and this time the target of choice seems to be the
A however the rotation is much faster this time from the side of the ventilator yeah i mean on this
low purchase you want to group up as much as possible give yourselves a chance
Marty did go exploring there down mid but cut down to three HP and only is dealt 18 in response
so Twisted Minds yes again finding themselves very very much on the front foot
What they need for sure I mean Hanoi is being cut though first pick almost
Gardner and Marty with 3 HP and a dream left not exactly an ideal situation to
be fair though it is an eco and now that they made all this noise it looks like
they want to fake a rotate and go back but look at this gentlemates haven't
moved the muscle they've still got a four stack on the site I mean I think it
only works to sell a fake if you're able to make noise somewhere else and you've
got the Scyrovando as well, like hands of Berry X. I don't know if they're going to be
looking directly into it. That seems to be the call, but the trades come in.
Yeah, I got two in response, Marty. Not really able to do much with just that three health,
and it does leave it all on Wends, unfortunately, for Gentlemates, a 1v4 that she'd have to
try and complete. At the very least, takes down Grahams, but still three left to life
left alive for Twisted Minds. I mean, let's consider you very happy with that round.
At this point I think Twisted are trying to build the economy for the rest of the map here,
the way it's going, they don't have money. In spades for tomorrow, especially with a number of
people consistently remaining alive, like you pointed out, it's also doing wonders for these
old cycles, because you know, you've used leans, you've used messes old, but you still got the
Viper Spit for Sarah, which is basically like a guarantee win condition if you play it right.
You've got Rehems as well with the lockdown, but this is the round that I think is very
important for mates to win. They've got the resources as well. Four of the fifth almost
materialized and for the first time on the map we're going to be seeing Bariacs actually
having the money to invest in an operator so you're going to be seeing a little bit more
of a slower play coming in from this twist side. They want to be very methodical about
it. Already the Alderan has spotted out Marci's
position. I'm through the wall. She's got to dip away from that one. Check to mate system.
The depth of information, not really sure about what's going on on the map that Poison Cloud sent towards B, serving as a good utility sink.
Really, the Aldrone used there from the side of Tocca and Twisted Binds have this B site, essentially for free!
The Viper's Kit coming in as well from Sara!
I mean, this is going to be such a difficult retake if gentlemates want to go for this,
They kind of have to and the very least there's a trade back and forth but again twisted minds coming out on top
Hunters fury doesn't least get something done and locked out infested
So the kitchen sink being thrown at this one
On the rotation on the flank. What can blends do here? She's being watched for Zara has her no potentially but no
This is the first time we've really seen gentlemades in the ascendancy
but still they're getting cut down, still they're having problems here, as the utility proves too much to handle.
Grumps with three, and Twisted Minds find seven.
I mean, it got a little bit dicey towards the end, just a second or half a second too slow to break that second molly that Grahame threw.
Very X-Quda, very well just sucked the spike there.
It also served as a distraction, you can see how it kind of all sets the crosshair there for Wends.
So, very, very nicely played there by Twisted at the end.
Being able to take out the 2v2 in an early second timeout, that's probably going to be called by Gentlemates.
We don't quite see it yet, but, I mean, 7-1 up, I doubt we're going to be calling a timeout here.
I think the biggest problem for mates is that they're not able to keep up with Twisted at any point.
I think that Twisted had been so good at these flood executes that they were excellent at their post plan.
And I think that Gentlemates have to find that sweet spot between these two periods,
where they can just jump in and cause a little bit of chaos and not let them get ready for
that full retake. Also, I think that just the trades consistently are going the way
of twisted. So often in this post-plan it's like a 4v2 or a 5v3 or something like that
that we're seeing. And I mean losing that last round it has to hurt for Genselmaek's
because they invested that big lockdown, they also, the Hotros Fury as well, and the operator,
all of which they lost, which means it's unlikely that they're going to have any of these for
the rest of the half if you look at the number of rounds that have already collapsed.
Yeah, I mean it's absolutely suffocating right now if you're a gentleman's player as
Twisted Minds are doing a really good job of just like starving them of information around
the map. It's been so difficult for them to actually figure out what Twisted Minds plan
is it before it's too late? Already here though. Lots and towards C. That does give an inkling
that something may be going on. He tries to send some shots through the toxic screen there,
but it doesn't really come to anything. Now here's the pass lane, here's all of these
players fighting through. Sarah, good for one. Lean as well. Went, at the very least,
find something, but the trades go the way of twisted minds, but it's just Toca left to stand.
See, I feel like if they had guns in their hands that could have very well been around
that went the different way because that is what I want to see more of coming in
from Gentleman's Third Toca. Nice couple of headshots, suddenly this looks a bit possible.
Especially if they give her the ones, but Ness is there just about to secure the victory
you for twisted binds. You say a very good job being done there to at least bring it back into
the rounds of possibility in the end though. The purchase just too much to overcome really.
Brilliant shots. A little little consolation at the very least there I would say for the side of
Gentlemaids taking down a couple of fliers making it closer than the previous rounds have been
but twisted eight and one right now a massive lead so far already on this map and we're back to
rushing C and execute that historically I don't think it's ever failed so far for this particular
team on this map I mean they've been they've been good for it every time today yeah such a
confident side when it comes to this haven pick there's a little coming on in at the very least
for Berry. He's able to get one and Wens lines up to hello. This is an opportunity to find
something here. Teleporting in and out. Latiu is somehow able to break the ankles, but now
she's been spotted by Marty in mid. She does feel like this one's an impossibility. And
so from the shadows, it's used there. It's a perfect timing to get the frag. So finally,
Get another on the board. I mean, it's taken quite some time, Zack.
I think that timeout really helped with it. And of course that first...
The Omen Flash missing there onto Wins was kind of pivotal here because
very exeprosive in the first kill with the obvious that makes a lot of sense.
It was also the fact that Gentlemates had a triple stack on the C site.
The rotations were much faster in that round.
So yeah, good little adaptations coming in for Gentlemates if they get these last two rounds as well.
rounds as well I think it will be a little bit easier for them back to their default
kind of status code waiting for perhaps move from gentle maids and push some kind
of a mistake perhaps that their opponents will make but so far I mean
gentle maids they're just playing this with patience they don't want to really
overcome it or show their house. Okay Ness. And the head-to-head there is
pretty tidily one out by next I think it's fair to say. The lockdown now sent in in
garage. I don't know if there's much that Marty's gonna be able to do about that
one so she's forced forwards towards C lobby. Now stunned up by the paranoia and
Sara has her number but double team inside of the long. She's able to get the job done.
I think unless you get a kill pretty quick the call should just be to save here because
look at your money you're not going to have enough for the next one.
You've got the operator as well and I think Gentlemates agree with me.
It's just going to have to be the concession of the round.
It's not the mob gone quite yet but it has to hurt letting your opponents get themselves
up for free to nine rounds with only one left in the half.
When your choices are all bad choices I guess you just pick the least terrible one and twisted
knowing that they have all the money in the world are happy to go on the hunts here.
I mean, why not? You might as well try and take these guns out of the hands and make round 12 as punishing as possible here for gentlemates.
Tell me, does fight one though?
Really, again, to the action here. Round 11 goes the way of Twisted Minds and they're already up to nine,
Which is really quite a performance again. You can certainly see why they've picked this map
You know so just every single player on this team is fragging the heck out
So it's actually gonna take a time out here, which surprises me
But I think they just want to be sure they can get that 10th round
So they don't have to deal with the dreaded hashtag 93 curse that seems to plague Valorant's Valorant so often on this map
I think that
For Twisted though so far what we've seen out of this half has just been nothing short of fantastic
I mean lean has been incredible in creating the space that the team needs
You've got fantastic post planning utility coming in from both Rayhams and nest and the trades for these double controllers
I mean, I don't think we've seen like a lurk kind of play necessary coming in from twist because they're just rushing head-on and
They're so precise in their spacing and their aim that they've just been able to win out the fights pretty much
you know most of the time here so very very impressive showing so far you can
see exactly why the steam has a 3 and 0 record on this map and yeah I mean at
least this time I'm gonna give a little bit of a breather here for gentlemates
as well might be able to debate what they want to do for this last round and
what they're gonna do towards that second half as it begins well we have a
small amount of downtime here we'd like to point out that while we are on the
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As round 12 now begins here on Haven, map one between these two sides.
It looks fairly even in terms of the weaponry, but even still,
Gentamates have really been struggling
Mary
Roasting down the C long position
It's been able to spot our portal close one of these players. I think she's realized that it's not going to be
Looking like a C end just yet
Dimensional jump up for the information spots out a player
But nobody really towards long so it's pretty much completely clear and off the back of that
You can see the rotation towards the A side, the opposite side of the map.
I don't know though, however, if it's going to be to the counter, you to call to clear out C-Long once again.
That seems to be the case, because it wants to make sure that this area of the map hasn't completely pushed up.
They want to be able to hold on to it.
And in fact, it's going to be both omens ulting and going for some information of their own.
Falk is ticking down though. You only got 35 seconds left.
You have to make a commit on somewhere. The call still seems to be A although that fake seems to have worked perfectly.
I'm trying to work perfectly because everybody is still towards CT.
Yeah, being set in fast lane here, Leen trying to find the kills, but it's too much to find them herself.
A one-for-one trade-out so far, Twisted Mind still needs to pressure themselves forward, so probably it's a spike.
It's the wrong side of the box, but the kills keep coming the way of Twisted Mind's trading back and forth!
But a line up! Marty sprays them both down for the third round for Gentlemates!
Tactical crouching as well at the end of that, nothing like a little bit of celebration.
Either way though, before we head to the second half, we're gonna be taking a short break, so see you on the other side.
Red Bull gives you wings.
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Once more into the breach, the second half here of Haven gets underway. There's a pretty
dominant start from twisted mines, but Gentlemates at the very least were able to put a couple
rounds together near the end of the half potentially a platform to springboard off of here in the second
and how they find themselves on the attack here on this map.
I mean maybe this is where they start building that momentum it's very easy to kind of find those
steam rolls if you're able to play this carefully just snowball into this but you've got to be
and he is becoming in quick and heavy.
Yeah, that's you.
Turn the jiggles on the angle, forced away from it,
but
fully spotted by the side of
gentlemates
ending in that information.
But again, the first bloods keep going the way
of twisted pines, and it's sorrow to
take down Berry X.
Information being sent through as well
with the recon bolt.
And gentlemates just have to scarper
get out of their B site,
proving very friendly now they turn their attention towards C. Problem is Nory got two players ready
for the fight so although that's the first kill that might be important. Could be four versus four
in the map so far and Gentimate starting to establish a bit of site control.
Very least though look at this pushing from mid as a whole of twisted minds converging on that
that garage position. Now
gentlemen suddenly don't start
to feel as safe, but when does
have the lock off on that flank
that you taken down still back
and forth we go momentum in this
round of pendulum. It feels like
into a two versus two, but now
whence falls and it's talker
left by herself around the Rosie
the dance of death here on
But still trading out in favor of twisted minds, that's double digits already.
Okay, look, I know I haven't talked about her enough, but Sarah has just been phenomenal on this map in terms of the trades.
I mean, she's high up in that scoreboard for a reason.
It's about a little bit of a viper when it comes to the top frag, but I think in terms of just getting herself in the right positions to be able to confirm routes for her team,
it's definitely been Sarah has been doing a lot of that work well done, right?
Graham's as well. I like that little bit of a micro player where she made noise towards garage to distract
Let's say I get into position and once again make that kind of convergence play that we saw in garage knowing that
Toka has very little time to get that spike down
But now the call for mate seems to be to go towards this a side
They didn't get the spike plant down so no money left in the bank
It's just gonna have to be a bomb rush and I hope that they're able to get these frangs
But again the rotation they are fast here from this twist side already three players are gonna be on the side of the map
I feel like Gentlemates just stunted a bit in their momentum.
Dara, just be in for the opening kill, but it's actually hard to find it this time.
Doubling up on B.
Gentlemates, now, one would have to assume, looking to get him towards the C side, but no, instead,
she's in a fight back down mid and into this B position.
Dara is still here, still causing massive damage!
She quads up the round. It's another flawless from Twisted Minds.
I mean, that's the round that... I mean, the next round is gonna be the round that confirms whether or not Twisted are basically gonna continue running away with the map in the dominant fashion that they have in for most of it.
Bull by gonna be coming in here for the side of gentlemen
They've got to be able to confirm it and not only confirm it
But also keep a majority of your players live. They want to have an eco. Yes, they're getting four here. Just
17 and six that is the KDA. That is an insane KDA to have almost a perfect 3.0
All my first bit almost there as well agree away considering that's a 9.0. That's absolute insanity, but twisted
I mean, they've got to be able to
I mean, for them the pressure is much lower for sure, seeing that it is their bonus run,
but for gentlemakes they've got to be able to win this one out.
They really don't have a choice if they want to keep themselves alive on this map, and
already you've got the flank coming in, that information goes away by the alarm button.
It's going to force them forward.
Yeah, send the blindside in as well.
It's like coming here for gentlemakes and snapping from Berry X to secure that control.
That's a 8 down short though.
just get caught. Oh sorry that's gonna kill and suddenly things start to get a little
bit more unsettled here on the site as gents and mates have this control but and you've
still got a player in heaven and now there's two players wrapping around from main.
Rames has to be careful although Tokas wants to find that kill outlaw taken down as well
it's just gonna be one versus four here how much more damage can you really do especially
you're tired of playing that so much early. Captain left the clutch and he
kindly decides that he wants to back away from this one.
Both round on the board from Gentlemates, it's one that's sorely needed from them.
Oh but, I see he doesn't even find that kill. So, apparently, again for
Gentlemates, they keep four weapons into the next one and maybe that last fight
We'll give them just a little bit of confidence
Confidence is an issue for the squad. It's just the coordination that's been a little bit lackluster
But definitely in that attacking round, of course that was against weaker weapons
Let's see if they can do it again with stronger weapons. However, though
What worries me here is the operator in the hands of lean
We saw that coming very very late for gentlemates and one of the rounds that they won
in that 9-3 half was off the back of Berry X5 being a double kill with that gun.
I like this early shock dart as well to break the possible alarm butt,
and a bit of a fake call towards A while the rest of the squad, they look to push C instead,
but they're going to be walking right into that op if they're not careful.
I do have to watch out here. Caldron sent through in reposition.
Lane gets caught by Berry X.
GENOMATES, we can clean with this one, but...
GRIMSTON STALLS IN!
FROM THE WINDOW POSITION IN CARRIEGE
AND GETS A GODDAMN GODDAMN BORISON CORE
GENOMATES SUPPORTED CONSIGURATION
THAT WAS A POSSIBILITY
AND NOW THEY FIND THEMSELVES BEHIND YES AGAIN!
paranoia as well
from leteo to set her up for that play
able to find that perfect timing
now a 4v3 advantage once again there for twisted
and they're waiting for her
GENOMATES THE POSSIBILITY YOU CAN STAKE HERE
GRIM'S REWARDED WITH THREE
can she get a fourth both players pushing towards her right now and yeah I mean
what do you really do here at this point? Denselmae's just surrounded by enemies on
every side and Graves with a four gate to get twisted to match points what a
beautiful round coming in from the killer joint. Hardware pink player by the way I
just want to state this once again hardware pink player on the server wow
What a job she's doing, I mean...
Match point!
Again, I'm finding it very hard to see it, it's not the crystal of the enemy's ground.
No one's watching this position where it's literally the closest angle towards the defensive
side spawn that they could be coming from.
And I mean, let's not take the shots away from Grahams she is doing.
A very, very good job here, but again, it's things like that, slipping the mind of gentlemates
that feels like this map has slipped away from them a long time ago because it's eight
match points now for Twisted Minds and Jantamates to win that same number in a row. They want
to take a show overtime. Yeah, I don't know. It might be just the call to G. We say GG go next,
especially with the amount of momentum that Twisted seems to have, although with the help of that
that Omen will be able to wake their way onto site.
Remember though, that floor came at Graeme's thought
that's gonna give her the lockdown for this one.
You need a counter,
they'll actually attack a couple of players as well.
And the lockdown gets destroyed.
So this fight retake gonna be a little bit more difficult.
It's gonna have to be the contact blazing.
Graeme's actually goes down
in fact it's victims across the board.
Yeah, really nice here from Perriex.
Oh, a crispy triple kill.
And last you take that operator and try to smuggle it into round AC.
Nice shot.
Nice shots to again try and save this gun.
The end of things is still the fifth round on the board for the gentlemates.
Well, they'll be able to hold this up.
The captain is trying to keep the most extensive weapon on the board and she seems like she
We will succeed two kills as well.
A little bit of a bitter taste there.
If you lose the round, at least you've got that consolation prize.
That said though, I mean, there's one of the few rounds where I think that Viper 4,
you can really see the benefit of it, and of course, it's very attacking too.
Take those kills one by one by one.
It's like Pacman eating up those little dots on the screen, you know?
That's what that round felt like if you look at it.
If you think about it technically.
But yeah, you said it.
Eight rounds needed.
Make that seven right now.
And economy still gonna be there for both the teams, although it is
Kind of on lower footing gear for the side of Twisted, so they're gonna have to be perfect about it.
Goodness me, there's so many players inside of mid.
And honestly, he's lucky to be alive, even though he's just thrown at that one.
But oh, goodness me, they're going into crumbs.
That could potentially be the most dangerous thing that you're ever gonna do.
The trades keep going in Twisted mind's favor.
And here comes the operator from lead.
That's the spike now dropped.
You're going to have to watch
the last clutch one vs three.
No 70 seconds of this round
remaining. The house of cards
have crumbled completely
twisted minds with a 13 to 5
here on their map. Pick up
Haven. Wow. Wow. Wow. They can
see exactly why this is their
for an old record right now.
She has four first kills as well. That's what's like really insane. It's not the Neon. It's the Viper coming out on top and
Just having a better than 2.0 KTG. Of course when you look at the stats here, you can see exactly why.
83 person cast as well. I mean everything just perfect for Sarah. I think this is one of the lowest first set per first set person
We've seen as well in general. So yeah, every single stat that she could have she seems to be excelling and gonna be the MVP for a reason
But overall man, I think every single member of twisted minds in this map did their job
But did more than their job and we're just almost perfect as a play together that which is a testament because they got like what three
Flush rounds four Flush rounds out of like the 16 played kind of wild
There's quite a few in that
And the first kills pretty even in this one nine to nine
twisted minds having to come back from deficits of a fair few of these rounds that they ended up taking
So again, that just shows the resiliency and I think as well, just how familiar they are
with this map, how comfortable this Twisted Minds team are on Haven. I mean, we certainly
saw it today and for the side of Gents and Mates, I mean, this wasn't necessarily a bad map for them
either, a 3-in-1 record. Now, I suppose that's a 3-in-2 record. But yeah, they just felt like
They weren't even really in this one.
I mean, also just looking at that last stat, post plans, Twisted Minds, they won 9 rounds
of which they got the spike down 9 times and they won it all of those 9 times, which is
pretty insane to me.
I mean, of course, if you look at the opposite side, right, you could say that if the deficit
was less gentle, it could have showed off their own post plan, which could have been
pretty much better.
But I think that Twisted Minds also did have some really good retake protocol and we saw
like those crunch plays that they were consistently doing.
And I think that on a map like Haven, that's kind of like a major key to success.
Looking at the map, you know, though, I mean, we talked about how Haven is a map that is
basically the domain of Twisted Mind, which we could see exactly why.
But you could pretty much say that is the case for Pearl as well.
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Zach and Charlotte bringing you the action in Twisted Minds vs. Gentle Mates going on
with a potential qualification spot on the line here.
I think that we just saw an extremely intense map number one coming in, a very dominant showing
from Twisted Minds 13 and 5 at the end of it all and they look so good doing it but now
is where that flip switches, or rather the switch flips.
Not bad.
English is an English in today.
And yeah, I think that it's just a bit of a concern for me
because we saw the map pool's coming in the beginning
for this team.
And remember how we said Twisted Minds had
a perfect record on Haven?
Well, it's the opposite on Pro.
They've lost it every time they played it this year.
And that's what makes on the other hand,
have a very good record of it.
So it's a little bit concerning if you're a Twisted Minds
fan here.
Yeah, for sure.
In stage one at the very least, they've
played one pile. This is
So it's not the the greatest
as well. They've also been
on that map too. So yeah,
good for the on this map
point of view. But then aga
sets us up to go into spl
So there's a lot to look
I mean, why not just jump ahead into the agent select here to have a look at what these teams are bringing along here on to Pearl, because again, this is the gentle mates map of choice if they definitely want to be going on to this map.
They've not lost it and they've been picking it pretty much every time that they can.
I think I agree with you there. It's definitely about that they look very very convincing. I'm not gonna switch up anything
I think that in terms of a comp this is very close to what could be the meta comp here
I like the Neon and Yoru as well
We saw the effectiveness of the Neon at slicing up those sites and being able to take control very quickly
It's gonna be the same case on this B site
I don't think you like the Phoenix for that purpose
But the Neon just gives you a little bit more agility
Especially when you're as good with your movement as Varex is
The end's back on familiar ground with that cypher, Namib on the Astra as well, again
post plans of combined with the Sova, gotta be pretty difficult to deal with, if you do
let that spike go down, but on the opposite side, I am loving the Yoru and the Weiwei
coming in, where I am switching over back to our familiar territory, remember this girl
started off as a duelist and is gonna be heading back to that familiar, those familiar waters
here, pretty much a mirror combo I would say except for, you know, the sensual differences
and the difference is 2 out of 5 agents different, that's not too bad, but looking at the map
when percentage is, that's what you kind of see.
Coming in Gentleman, it's also going to be allowed to start off on their better side,
60% win rate.
Yeah, it's going to be an uphill road for sure, unless of course with the mines, they've
been able to do some scat work, do some anti-stradding, some preparation for this game, because they
didn't let it through the map, you know.
I mean, I think also. Learning
it through the map veto is just
a symptom of them. Binding up
a lot. Yes, mathematically. It's
it's it's, uh, this is now the
fifth time that they've first
banned the business stage, so
it's kind of a necessary evil in
that way, and we're going to see
if they can certainly improve
it's been it's been rough
rough is a bit of an understatement the way it's been going but
hey there's never been a better time to find
out if they can change that narrative than today
if they're able to you know pull a win out of the hat and possibly take the
series 2-0 I mean that said though I would love
to see a split coming in and also for gentlemates to be able to find some
revenge for that stomp that they had on the
opposite side. I do think that for the side of Twisted Mind they, even if they're running the same
comps, both teams are running the same comps that they played before. I think that the biggest
problem that they seem to have was in terms of being able to have that Yoru and that Wele work
together in coordination. I think it's very difficult for them to be able to find those opening
picks because this is an incredibly strong pairing. We saw a lot of it in Champions last year,
We're seeing a lot of it in VCT still and that way in particular is so good on this map especially on that a site
You know, there's so many angles you can get into you can play but the elevation is just a question of being able to find
the
openings and find those frags and get yourself in state for the post fund because if you can get that spike down you've got the
Holy Trinity of the soba the killjoy and the astra
And that's gonna make it almost impossible to diffuse
Yeah, I think in terms of the
I think I generally prefer cipher to the killjoy just because the utilities more global you don't really have to sort of stick around it, but Perl is such a small map that I think it doesn't really matter here and yeah, if it's really just about a comfort thing in my mind.
And again, like you say, that sort of yoru-wele combination is one that I'm really excited to watch because, again, it just works so well for both of these teams.
But we do start heading into map number two here.
Let's just jump straight into things.
Already Latiu has been spotted there inside of A main.
Blindside comes through.
Gentle mates trying to get themselves all the way down and do trade themselves out
Oh my goodness a complete massacre so far and the MVP from map one
Sara is gonna have to clutch up big here if anything's going to happen
It's a good start and Berry X's long HP as well round the side round the corner
Reload force to come through though on this classic and despite the low health Berry X wins out the game
the round sorry. I still got ahead of ourselves.
I mean that was a nice try to touch by Sarah but again this fight towards A main, absolute
chaos despite Leen being able to find the first one, Marty and the rest of the squad
counter back. They walk into Sarah's side almost able to find that timing but not quite
the kill there onto BariX despite the ladder being incredibly low and off the back of that
Marty gonna be getting that outlaw. Phantom as well for BariX, very very heavy as an
investments into this bonus round while it's only going to be lean with the
sheriff in hand. Let's see if they can manage to use this smoke, maybe some of
this utility to catch the players on Gentlemates by surprise but even if there's
a flank or a mid rush coming in you can see how prepared the Gentlemates side
are for this twist. They've taken a decent amount of control but the
problem is they've given up B-Lone pretty much for free.
the space but now he looks away just the wrong time nest should be able to get
the kill and does and is able to escape with her life as well
I'm gonna start in this round for gentle mates and they've lost one of their
rifles when it's pushing up aggressive just for the ghost in hand and it's going
to fall as well then they twisted lines and five versus three
We can sort of flood back into the same site.
And what more damage can you do?
Every single gun that you take is gonna be great.
I mean, looking at this buy as well, it's the Phantom, the Bulldog and an Outlaw.
So there has been a Bulldog that could be retrieved, that could make the difference already.
Marty's position spotted as well.
Problem is the Outlaw has a lead too, but Marty was able to find the first!
And the second!
And the second too!
The kills keep coming in for Gentlemates!
as Tocca and Marty combined for the full house. That's the first time in the series that we've
seen Gentlemates string two rounds together.
I think that was a very clean round. Twisted of course, starting off with those two huge
kills is nice but picking ahead just a millisecond ahead of that Astra smoke coming down, a little
bit unfortunate there and off the back of that crossfire just really clean denial of
the retake attempt from Gentle Bates. Now though, I see an Odin in the hands of Ness,
which concerns me slightly for anyone who decides to walk into it. But also, three players
on this twisted side only have light armor so that outlaw is going to be doing a lot
of work if it can be the right place at the right time.
Yeah, already though a sort of skirmish inside of a main
Besides leave the settles everyone remains unscathed
Fresh and coming in towards sorrow here in B link
Good feet course out here and my indeed is my inside combination working out well
Yeah, beautifully played there, I mean though, still numbers advantage here for this gentle
maids roster as they look to push forward, nice little slide in with the phantom in
the hands of Barry X.
It could be the way to pick open this.
The problem is they don't really have any map control, yes they have amane, they've
got a little bit of a lurk towards this art area, especially with Sarah going down it
might be a factor but it's gonna be the rotate call with 30 seconds left I mean
it's a good call especially when you consider there's only the Astra on this
side of the map I don't know if the information is quite varied and there's
also this deep lurk coming in from various guys could get so much value
Brahms is going to crash the corner now get caught out so I'll see with that one
Now, let me confess it's mines.
Got to save from this one.
Got to back away from the situation.
Free Naropa, Gentlemates, and again showing why this is their favourite map.
At least for Lean, a little bit of a consolation prize.
Able to catch Nami going for the free gun.
Not so free after all at the end of the day, but like you said, Gentlemates, they get that
bonus, three to roll for them, really starting to build up that momentum.
Again, they're just working this map so well.
It's kind of the opposite of what we saw coming in from Twisted on their map pick.
There was just a full five-person site pits most of the time after a little bit of defaulting.
Maybe, you know, a little bit of a site split, but here you've got the deep lurks,
you've got the map control coming in from the side of Gentlemates,
and I feel like it's just a question of, you know, the way that they're playing, right?
There's just so much utility available from this combination of duelists with a neon sliding in
off the back of the stuns or the flashes from the newer, really setting up the Neon
Force success there, really nicely played and now a bit of an awkward buy here, just
two sheriffs along with the three saved rifles that we have in the hands of the
twist players. Still a viable round but because of that save. Yeah, especially with the Ergid
on the side I feel like you can do a lot of damage with this but in the Cypher Tech coming in from
when so sir nice spy cam just to get the angle in towards art immediately the
utile pops in response twisted lines certainly curious about this but
rams might have been mistrode there
I mean regardless gentemates moving away from that position
Dimensional drift now gonna be popped by Marty getting that additional bit of information. I don't know if oh
Yeah, she does clear out that long. So gonna be able to spot out the asterisk position
Early concuss coming in despite the lack of sound the trine tonight the space it again
It's just what's really isolated on this island of Lucero like a sheriff finds one
Not gonna be able to get any more than that though very X there for the trade
against the game away!
Wow!
Wraiths down 2 in the midst of all the chaos and carnage here on B.
Just in mind, still with a couple of rifles to fight back into this one as well.
Last 30 seconds of the round, this is going to be so pivotal, Barry yet.
Still trying to push on forwards.
The hardest round to win, it seems like, is the fourth round of the half.
and gentle mates fall again the number of three ones I see is honestly
same I was just thinking that like it's always these kind of students in this
case it's a pseudo thrifties and it's always the thrifties that seems to bite players
easy share of striking again for that first kill of the tail so catching poor
Nami I don't think she expected to get that second kill but happy to take it
any day of the week still gonna be a decent economy here for the side of
gentle mates since they did win those three rounds in a row but now operator
Here in the hands of Grahams, once when he ping ain't gonna stop my girl from pulling
out that weapon in her open and spaces and me looking at the split, it's just all made
back to their defaulting ways, don't want to really make any mistakes.
Recon and a flash to push Grahams off the angle and if she's gonna opt to re-pick into
it, here's all the spam and besides that too falls a little bit back to safety.
I'm glad to see that the bias is still going strong, Zack.
a little bit just a bit well you know we've always it's like it's like when
your parents say we don't have a favorite child they do and don't really want to admit it so
we're embracing that here
I'm just round I mean that's 40 seconds I've gone by without too much incident
talk us down to 72 but that's really it just some great damage
great damage is about the right word some ship some baking I think being done here
by the neon I just break the turret as well could summon a rotation and Graham
spotted out to I don't know if there was a great crush available for her to be
able to get out of trouble 30 seconds make that 25 o'clock really running down
and the rest of the spot they have to go forward this is so valuable and
Graves gets to the sheriff what the heck 3 vs 3 training things back on out
twisted mind still in with a chance here and such a big chance because the
time is so low lean there for one the wends really has to put in a shift here
the Odin spam good for it from nest but what a scrappy round to find twisted mines in with a second on the board
See, I feel like if Wens had a time there
She could have probably pulled off the one meter because of how isolated the players were but yeah
I like that choice there to keep the spam to try and delay it of course for him being able to find two with the shed
It was just absolutely nutty to me and of course this room need being able to find that double and also
Spam from Ness to just die the spike once Wends really had no choice there but to peek.
Could have hit a headshot in another world, I feel like that 1v1.
There was a little bit of a chance there but now once again this A aggression.
Dancing rounds, as they mean to go on with a fight and fire.
Again, it's that immediate slowdown after getting that initial bit of space.
courses that we clear out from twisted minds that our drone comes on in and I
think they're expecting a second player here
the timing is perfect lean gets the first again the discipline twist seems
like they've learned from their past mistakes on pearl falling back right
now expecting this art push until you're watching the right angle but body finds
a crucial pick on the other side opens up the Neural Depth 4v3.
Again, all that information, it's a mate's willing to find things out over on the western
side of the map.
All the information and utility being sent towards the rotation round.
Again, there's two players anywhere they go and Lee is one of them.
That's a problem.
Grounds the other.
I mean, it's really difficult to fight through those two at any time, but not when they've
started to find form again here on this map.
So three rounds in a row from Gentlemates is met with three in response.
We tie ourselves up after six rounds here on Pearl.
Yeah, Wends just has to save here, unfortunately.
Not the greatest of choices, but I mean, one before a spike dropped.
No time to even retrieve it with a long plant.
Yeah, you can't really do anything else, but positioning-wise, very good round there from Twisted.
I like that Draem's the control of long after the Neural Depth.
I love the investment of this ultimate as well, knowing the tendencies of gentlemates to kind of just
lurk around and, you know, when they play that default heavy style.
I think the biggest flaw for the gentlemate side today has been, on this map at least,
the fact that they're willing to burn so much of this time.
It puts them under a lot of pressure and now economy broken,
They've got one re-hero rifle that they were saved in the hands of Lens everybody else
High-key broke not even low-key broke high-key broke here
Yeah, just a buffy really deep investment on this side
Very X gonna be driven along the shotgun. I mean on the neon. We know what damage it can do
Yeah, but
Let's feel like
Grabbing at straws really
Operator has been taxed out and spotted, so trying to get away, training things out on the site, and
the gentlemen are actually finding themselves in with the advantage.
Operator is potentially to be found here as well, so the fight goes down, 3 vs 4, making it a 2 vs 4.
And now a 1 vs 3 mess with the Soden, trying to fight back into things.
Too many angles to be watched, 4 shockdarts also sent her away.
I mean, this one seems like it's impossible to fight your way into, and Gentlemaid's destroying with her at this point, forcing her to fight into the ankle, the Threshki round comes through, and Gentlemaid's back in the lead.
I really like the call there from Gentlemaid's, despite it being a thrifty to invest those ultimates, because you know when they have a bucky in the hand, it's going to be super useful if you get yourself to that back site.
site, solo ult for zoning, combined with the cosmic divide, so let me pick up those dropped
guns and also forcing these players to kind of peek out of disadvantageous positions.
Really really nicely played around there.
Timeout now going to be called a little bit of a breather for both of these sides.
This game so far has been neck and neck, a complete contrast for the opposite one and
it's going to be a bit of an awkward by situation here for the duelists of the side of Twisted
Minds.
In terms of ultimates, they're twisted, are looking stacked here, they've got the lockdown,
they've got the ultimate as well from Let's Hail, the Cosmic Divide, both of these combined
are just so good for the retake, especially when you also have the Dimensional just available
from Graham.
So you basically got the Info Drone, you've got the stuff to push people out of sight,
especially since Toka invested in Hunter's Fury, so there's no counter to Sarah's ult
from this round on.
I think those are going to be very pivotal win conditions.
I think the only thing that would kind of tear it apart is if they're not ready for a push from BerryX, perhaps with the help of that overdrive,
that said, the economy very much revitalized here for this Dental Maid's side off the back of that.
And I think this timeout is just an additional little bit of planning.
You want to be sure that you are able to lock out one of your best maps, be able to take this series to that map number three of Split.
I mean, so far, the Dental Maids remember this is the side where they have a 60% win rate.
So it's a bit of a question mark whether they can maintain the same kind of performance
on defence.
Yeah, potentially Tamar as well called at the very start of the previous round not expecting
the Thrifty to come through.
By the way, the Thrifty did come through and it's given Gentlemates another platform here
away to get back into this half because it did start to seem like they were slipping
away with things here, but immediately twisted minds fighting back for the opener.
Ooh, nice little molly there to push this team away.
Nami having taken down as well means there's not going to be any smokes for the reminder
of this round, so it makes it harder to get that execute in, especially when you don't
really have any ults, except for that neon ult at the time of taking the space with Lee
with the jiggle.
Spots out, Marty. Again, change of pace here coming in from the Gentleman's side.
Trying to work a little bit faster. Graeum's popping up early, Yorua.
The flash doesn't connect, Selene gets that free kill, and all of a sudden,
it's a 3v5. Number is hugely in favour of Twisted.
Now, the very least ones can get one, but it's the trades again coming in from Twisted Minds.
What a kill from Lee to fight back into this one.
We head into Redsime here. All she can really do is
bump the spike and hope and pray that she's able to get this one over the line. And wow,
it's a 4K. She might be lean, but her impact is massive here. That's the fourth round for twisted
minds. They only used that one dimensional drift as well. So they still got this lockdown
combined with not only the cosmic delight that we were talking about, but also back with that
4k from Lean and the 4th round for Twisted. They're going to have the conversion pots for a
second time. Lean just having an absolutely incredible path, incredible map so far. And again,
the position on this player, Octavator, in the breeze show for a reason is exactly what you want
to see. And Twisted Minds, once again, able to tie things up, economy starting to falter a little
bit for this Gentleman's roster, when equipped with only a Sheriff. Well, the rest of the squad
still does have decent guns. I think Barry X, playing the Bucky is perfectly fine, seeing
that she does have that overdrive available. I don't know, it's a little bit of a fake
attempt coming in from Wends, but this might be a scourge very quickly if that push continues.
At Graham's position, already here, but ever dancing around the pillar and utility in the
way, it feels like there's a lot more presence here than there actually is than Nebula, I think,
me being the base in that one but just in mind they're also exploring up a main
so that sort of help things feel like it's that be sort of push but encountered
no one
quite on the western front, oh scared for the ultimate though the crunch play but Marty's
incredibly low Sarah able to find the punish very extra with the overdrive finds that crucial
kill the problem here is Grahams misses the shot but able to get out of jail thanks to
that ultimate now of course the best weapon possibly for a close range fight especially
when a neon's jumping in your face it's going to be the spike drop the reminder of this
Gentlemates roster have to go all the way back towards Link to retrieve it.
It's only five seconds of the clock and a 2v3. It's got to be a hard call.
Gwen's still with a sheriff here as well.
I'm able to find an upgrade.
It's a red time we go once more, gentlemates.
Then the clock be their enemy here.
That's again another round where the timer is going to expire.
Apparently, Splence will go down and not save the sheriff into the next round.
Now Nami needs to be careful.
That survived, so a rifle brought into the next.
That's one little benefit at the very least for sure, but I mean, it wasn't close round.
The trades were perfect in the very beginning as you can see, but believe it or not,
I think the biggest difference maker weapon was the judge here, right in place at the right time,
at the right time able to just grab the spike and hold on to it and once again it's gonna be
a decent buy here for a gentleman. It's not too bad. Three guns. You've got the Stinger in the
hands of Marty. I mean it's a Stinger. I personally think it's one of the best guns in the game.
Lean 13 and 4 right now. We talked about her impact on the way like about how this was one of her
strongest agents that she's definitely showcasing it.
That's going to give away a little bit of an information at the very least.
Brains go still in the corner, it gets spotted out here, has the teleport available, so playing
a dangerous game, oh Sarah, that whiff, it might have changed the very things of the
round, it's all up to a game, just 8 HP and a dream, like utility as well, perfect lead
with this ultimate able to swing in and find the first one bringing things down
to a 2v3 still numbers in favor of this side and I mean lean triple already dashes
out onto Marty hits the hinder this is the combo that you were talking about
and nest for the repeat and the kill twisted extend their lead to six
guarantee applied after the very least but can we get a replay of that because
Holy hell that wasn't the same from the way they yeah, I mean
This is the this is the thing right? I mean way late proving to be so valuable
Great kill from Barry X as well at the start of this, but again, we've been talking about lean all game
I mean this is certainly showcases why
in a brilliant performance and twisted minds after having a hall visit 16.7% win rate on
their defense. Certainly improving that number here. And gentle mates, not come to a strange
buy.
Yeah, not the greatest of economy, but I mean they were able to pull off a thrifty before
maybe they could do it at times too. Sara though, looking to place Foilsport for any
Rifty dreams falling back to a little bit more safety right now seems like they
want to push into the CD beautiful stun there though from Barry X able to find
the kill off the back of this Bucky although the saturate it's gonna hit
hard right now and lean faced by three players able to get one grams there for
the counter frag and it's just gonna be Nami to try and clutch this out Yoru
flashing the face a bullet to from Latteo and it's gonna be twisted to confirm
and guaranteed themselves a leap in this half at the very least 7-5. A beautiful round as well in
terms of coordination. I mean, Sarah able to get one close back to safety and the refrags coming
in in most of these rounds have just been phenomenal for the side of Twisted. Really, really well played.
So, one final round before the switch, and for the sentiments, you've really got to hope
that this one comes in.
I mean, three ultimates to do it with, because we can divide Hunter's Fury and the Neural
Fash as well for that information, but there's also three ultimates on the other side, and
really where we start to see this danger. Hunter's Fury immediately coming in from
Ness and that's kind of a tag. Because the intimates aren't playing a Killjoy, Ness can
afford to use that Hunter's Fury as she likes as Taka will likely be playing
hers just to try and deny the lockdown from Sara.
A little bit of exploration towards mid there early on in the round, Ali does use up her
get out of Jellifree card there.
So it's going to have to be her getting two kills to get it back or just to be able to
find damage.
She's not going to have that teleport to save her if she does use the shots that's going
to have to be precision.
Talking about precision though, I think the biggest problem for gentlemates in this half
has just been the clock.
They've been letting that pressure really get to them towards the end. Time trouble.
If you want to steal a Chester, has been a constant factor in this game for them.
And Graeme still has her hands on this operator, watching this game.
Line of sight! If you don't use the flashes, that's exactly what happened, and they're punished perfect for Graeme's.
There's the Hunter Fury sent in. Locked down to...
But...
Coming this out, it's not been dealt with accurately enough.
Bury X has to go back in for the fight.
It's a risky maneuver, but one that pays off the gentlemates.
They've got the Spike planted. They've got a player advantage. Just one to the good.
Here.
Mystic Blinds will have to try and fight through this cosmic divide that has to wall in their faces,
but spam through the wall and the Cosmic to hide off their own to completely criss-cross the sights.
Cut the map into crodrints and the defuse starting to come in.
Barry X can have to try and run in, but she's dashed into the smoke and found four!
As gentlemates, find five and keep themselves in with a chance.
Beautifully done there, the Edbien Barry X with just awareness of the spike flattens
And the perfect counter for the counter-counter-counter-counter-counter for the speed take.
Latteo tried to just stick the spike, but not gonna work out if Geryx is in your face.
We'll return for the second half though after the short break, so see you on the other side.
So can we keep this fit between us?
If you choose to stick around, don't say I let you down
When I burn it to the ground, big guys still learning how to trust
I've changed, it goes like it is nothing
Dr. and K-Bus class on my cell phone
Sorry, we're both a lot of tips on that
Got them bulls and bulls in a big mouth
I'm making this thing do impotent
Don't need that same tissue, stop it
Night one, one, it's a magic fecal
Your friends, everybody follow me
Wouldn't buy one, moving through the melody
Well, we thought this map was going to be a bit of a gimme for gentlemates.
It certainly seemed that way after the first three rounds, but twisted minds have been
able to fight back into a 7-5 half on one where we looked at the statistics and we saw
gentle mates, 80% or was it 60% win rate, twisted mines, 60% and 7% win rate. So, I mean that's
is a stark improvement from the twisted mine side and do they take this to zero now? It certainly
seems like that could be a real possibility where before this map we thought we were definitely going
to split. Look man, if lean is a KDF 20 and 6 and everybody else is barely on double digits,
nobody else is on double digits except Barry X and lean and lean has like twice the number of kills
as Bariatx. I don't know what she had for lunch or whatever before dinner or before this game,
but that is just insane. Almost like the solo carry kind of performance. All of these rounds
coming in from Lean. I mean, she's literally won them rounds to go handily if you think about it
in terms of the set plays now. Bill twisted the ones on attack going for a sort of B-split here.
Wen's gonna be alone because it was a four player stack towards A main, especially with Bariatx
haven't taken that box control. They're not going to see anyone so they should be guessing that the
spike is coming towards B at any second. Wenz though has to hold on alone versus the world here
and it's just going to be an onslaught of four players coming in towards B main. She hasn't
spotted anything quite yet but I think the jig is kind of up. You can already see the rotation
coming in from the gentlemaid side as well as this quick flank here for Barry F.
I mean, it's certainly going to
be the crucial factor potentially in this one, but instead it's these anchor players on the site that are finding the impact.
The flank from Marty not even needed really in this one just provide the information that they are definitely be, but I think gentlemen
I think Gentlemates certainly figured that out themselves, so double pistol hit on this map as well from the Gentlemate site.
Yeah, I mean that's exactly what you want to see, especially after the chaos of the previous one.
It almost follows round here for the Gentlemate site to get them, I think, their second pistol of this map,
and to put them at a good spot to equalize here.
Gonna be, once again, the buy that we saw, similar to the previous time, the Phantom this time,
which is a nice adaptation I would say.
Outlaw, Guardian, Bulldog, and Spectre, it's like they're playing a gun game.
The cam though, it's nice to spot out a player, you can't really get the wallbang I think through that.
In fact, it's not going to be Marty trying, it's just going to be them waiting for the peek.
I don't like this, they invest that smoke to be able to get lean.
That Altur could get her closer to that convergent pot, perhaps 4th or even 3rd round in this half
if she's able to find a multi frag somehow in this round.
Let's say he barely gets away by the skin of her teeth.
Knows now that Barry X has such a deep angle and the soldier will actually get a spot on Gringham's here.
So they know that E is very likely where this execute is coming in.
Looked at sent in to no avail, but the kill's coming in just as nicely.
Five versus three, the spike still yet to make its way over here to the east.
Karia has been dealt with, just to very least that's something for Twisted Minds, and again
gets lean one step closer to that ultimate, still going to be a rough end to be this round
you think with so many weapons in the way, but overwhelming on the site, still, Gentlemates
come up with the goods!
Got a bit little dicey, thank god that additional rotation was there from Wends to be able to
help them out here. I mean, I think that it was decent damage done here to this side that was
a weapon dropped, but not too much I would say. They're still able to hold on to the Guardian
Bulldog and I think the Outlaw. So, pretty good bonus coming in, especially if you look at the
buy here. Three of these players, extremely vulnerable to Nami's Outlaw, and Lean continues
to pop off two away now from the conversion pots. She gets a couple of kills this round. I mean,
she's been getting a couple of kills every round pretty much this map if you look at the way that
Kadeon looks. But yeah, I mean, nice round there from Gentleman. He's able to close things
out at the end, keep things competitive, and of course the multi frags a little. As always,
Toka makes the Bulldog bark, and it's definitely barked very loudly that round.
Yeah, it absolutely did. Came up when Gentleman needed her to perform. And now we head into
this one. Again, we talk about the bonus rounds. Gentleman started the first half with that
3-0 starts. I mean, it would be very impressive if they're able to do it again and regain the
lead here because it does seem like, Mr. Mines should be good for this, but there is an operator
on side from Marty and that could be the crucial difference maker. She's already found herself
in this mid-pillar. The Alderan doesn't quite spot her out, but I mean, Lean does
very wisely I think Marty gate crashes out of there to avoid having to deal
with a 1v1 gunfight against Lane that's a bit of a dangerous game and then now
they know that the outlaw is still want to go in it's the one-two punch very
extra second week on the counter-recon though that is going to be
perfection letting Graham's find this crucial opening the Guardian connects
for one, but immediate refrax to come in. Barry X goes still alive and pitting towards
his back site. Toka chiming in with one of her own as well. Advantage now in the hands
of Gentlemates, although Sarah is doing her best to neutralize it. Barry X with one and
Toka with another. A bonus conversion here by Gentlemates and that is going to give them
the lead. Exactly what they want. And I mean, Charlotte, I think the biggest difference
between these two teams has been the speed of the rotates because look at the backup
coming in it's so timely every single time. Yeah, I mean again it's the
second bonus conversion that we've seen from Gentemates in this match which
does feel like considering that only eight seven up is honestly a bit of a
rough one to be started into these rival rounds that's why we've seen twisted
minds find their form but whether they do so again is going to be a different
matter. Some sheriffs on the side of Stinger in the hands of Lattee.
I saw a YouTube from Nami and we made things very difficult. The timing though, the lead
catches Toka with the Recon out. I mean, we've seen the guards coming in right when the type
entry has been there until we were able to find one with the Stinger but Grahams with that
find that trade, 2v3 right now, with Teo, the 1HP left, I mean, it's still fine as long as she's able to use her utility for the team Wenz though.
That is going to give her the neural depth, both of these players just trapped in space right now, not able to find exit and Wenz,
just happy to continue frogging out Marty with the final trade there, and Gentlemates are going to be able to get themselves up tonight, a two round buffer now.
I mean, even in rounds where Twisted get themselves the numbers advantage, Genselmates have been really good at bringing it back.
And I mean, we were talking about clean a lot during the first round.
We still shoot after that first kill that we just saw.
But Lens has been incredibly consistent in terms of being able to find those opening picks,
whether she's playing Anchor towards the back of that B site, or more aggressive position on that A retake.
I think the timings have also been very good for Genselmates.
It's just Twists being caught off guard more often than not.
Yeah, I mean for lean as well still found the impact in that round is really nice saturate to
Lead to bury X's device in that one obviously doesn't quite come to anything
much close around and maybe should have been for gentle mates as they definitely have quite the
Economic advantage heading into it this time
run an even footing
Where we've seen twisted minds really start to come into their own at the very least on that first half
This is where they found their success.
Success, I mean, I think so far it's something that Twisted have been lacking this round, but are you right?
At least they were able to get the spike down.
Operator gonna run straight over back towards B after seeing no noise being made towards A.
Wends left alone once again, but she's perfectly fine playing that solo anchor.
I like this one force foot that you see consistently coming in from this gentleman's side.
Okay, Graeme's still able to get herself in position with an aggressive hold
Could be the fake
Cosmic divide but the timing not there Marley finds that opening and yeah all of a sudden I mean
The rotation towards a site is here as well
Immersion pops not gonna really catch more than one player
But at least let me get into the site though problem is the recon reveals her location
and she doesn't have to get out of June 3rd.
Toka just with this fanfight and killed after killed,
3 in a row for her and Bean, I mean, she's great,
but not against four people.
Toka, on the other hand, will be the reason
her team gets to double digits here.
And Gentle Blades, I mean, it's been a flawless defensive
of so far for them, five rounds in a row.
And looking really, really solid.
Again, brilliant start there from Marty
to play around at utility.
What a performance coming in from Toka.
I think 4 kills in that one.
Just solid work on the flood back in, Gentimates use the utility to combine, to set themselves
up for the fights really, really nicely.
Now Marty, I found previous success in this B main angle with these snipers.
He's gonna kill the dude again as Nes gets coursed out and Latiu is over here as well.
as well.
I was going to cut down, but still trying to go in favor of mate.
Roland's going to be able to fall back as well.
Remember the spike was dropped towards long.
He's going to have to be the dementia to invest it to bring it back here.
Operator now in the hands of this twisted roster.
So that's going to have to be the weapon to try and make the difference with.
It's going to be a 3v4 at the end of it all.
I'm just going to try and deny the plant.
It's a little bit wide.
The lurk is open, Sarah connects on one, gets the second as well, timing impeccable, and now numbers in favour of Twisted once again.
That gentleman, it's where do you go from this one?
Or locked out of the site here, just sniffing it main?
Fast lane, just about, saves very exes life, but Graham's still good for that first one, stuns in the way,
and a thrifty round comes in for Twisted Mind, so they are back on the board here on Pearl.
Sarah showing off the hashtag GCDGLE. GCDGLE moment there, certified. Barney though, beautiful
first kill to start off with. Just a nice word from Sarah that was the difference maker in this round.
And of course, this did I love the reviews here with that run and gun on the stinger from Grahams.
Very, very nicely played overall. I do like these kill trips that are coming in from Wends,
just in completely unexpected spots. I might steal some of these for my own Cypher gameplay on Pearl.
Not gonna lie. Ultimate's still there in space for these teams, miding one away from the dimensional drift.
They've got the Cosmic Divide as well for Nami and as well as the attacking AWP, Forward Twisted.
So it's interesting they've got the Lockdown and the Hunter's Fury. They've got a lot of resources in this round.
I'm gonna be interested to see who is gonna be putting up this first fight with Sarah as learned.
Actually, I might be getting spotted out here.
I mean, hardly even a lurk. She's still in her own spawn at this point.
Marty...
What do you call that?
Oh, aggressive. Yeah, at that point. I mean, Marty's so damn aggressive at the start of this round.
And, I mean, Beryx is just sitting in a smoke with a Bucky, so that's always dangerous.
I agree with you there. I mean, Bucky's shotgun is in smoke.
Snape a better couple as Valentine's Day comes ahead.
Maybe kill Joanne and Raze, I suppose, but yeah.
That's fair. That's fair.
That part though, I mean.
8 and 10, twisted if they can win this. Definitely gonna put some...
Definitely gonna put a little bit of tension.
The problem of talking about tension though,
it's 30 seconds left of the fucking app to get onto the site.
Lockdown comes down, wins with the spam through the smoke.
actually gonna be able to find the first kill.
Counter spam from Sarah though strikes back here and lean in the back side to try and find the space.
12 seconds left, bike is finally gonna go down.
It's both run for music.
They're jumping on into this one, no wins.
Trying to play ahead of the tempo in this one.
They've cut down the skill, treading out effectively.
Two versus two.
And still, the kills come in for both sides.
Now just lean.
We've seen her be incredible in this game,
but the first shot just does not quite get there.
Gentlemates, I mean, it looked like they were maybe about to lose two on the bounce,
but straight back in with a victory.
In ones with that first shot, and Toka with two in this round.
Just really well played on the reset of there.
Despite the lock down, despite the time crunch, of course, was sitting.
Please get the spike down, but yeah, I think the position, not quite there.
Sarah a little bit too in the open and the cybercage is providing the perfect
points of view and finally twisted gonna be calling a timeout in this half
they didn't call one after they lost five in a row they call it after they
lost their sixth one and I mean when the score is 8-11 you need to be sure that
every single round at this point on is perfect because you only have two rounds
before your opponents push you through that decider map and I mean it's gonna
be an eco round as well looking at the buy here
Sarah of course does have a lot of money could possibly get herself a hero
rifle alongside and he maybe even dropped one for one of her teammates but on the opposite
side you can see the economy thriving after that win by gentlemates they only need two
more wins again one away from the neural depth I think it's the third one for her in this
half and they've got so many ultimates the dimensional drift as well as the overdrive
which can be perfect for causing a little bit of chaos and aggression on the retake
I don't know though I mean four twisted despite investing the lockdown not being able to win
that round has to hurt, but at least they've got the Hotchers Fury for this one, Nescan
used it to find a cheeky kill, they've got two hero rifles, one on Serah, one on Linn.
I like that Serah decided to drop one to Graeum's as well, so economy for the next one is going
to be cooked if they do lose this, so it's kind of a musk-weed round for them.
Yeah, it really is.
Let's not forget, you can only really afford one mistake, and even at that point, if this
round goes awry, I'd like to say that's 12 for Gentlemates, they won't really have
of a purchase to defend against those match points either.
If it gets to that point, it's going to be of dire straits
indeed, but match point hasn't quite come up yet.
Gentlemates, three rounds ahead, but twisted could very well
catch up.
We've seen glimmers of brilliance in this half from them.
It's just that, gentlemen, to have been so oppressive
in terms of these flood retakes, and in terms of the trade kills coming in.
So definitely for them to find an advantage, cheeky cheeky though there, from Grahams.
Thanks to the recon though, it is going to be lead forced back.
They're going to be pushing their way onto the site.
Shockdarts connecting barely as the spike goes down.
You might see Gwen's ward for a bit of a cheeky spot on there.
Not a note in those, but Ness decides to live to buy another day,
and we've got a full buy one buy retake to come in.
That's Jettamates find the first. That's crucial.
And a crucial double kill as well from Nami.
Finds that second, continues to crest the advantage here for Jettamates.
As Regal Bolt sends through, Perriex cashing in with the judge, and now the overdrive sent in.
It's a 1 vs 5 situation for the captain, Lassie.
You're gonna have to try and come up big, but it's just a stinger in her hands and immediately cut down.
a flawless round for gentlemates to find their 12 and now four map points against twisted mines they're going to have to come up with something big here on the eco.
They haven't been able to crack open the equation. I mean one thing that I would like to see them, the runs where we've seen them succeed, it's been working, had a player down towards third little birth to be able to find the impact and catch the rotations which I think has been a key reason for gentlemates winning these rounds so effectively, right?
They've been able to get themselves into position to help the rest of the squads, and if you're able to come up with some of these rotations, it might be the thing that twisted desperately me talking about desperate straights.
So I mean, look at the equally here.
We only two rivals online at all for this twisted side against an operator and a full buy and full armor and the ultimate that are recharging for their second or even third cycle in the case of some players.
Yeah, it's gonna have to be four very difficult rounds that they convert.
I mean, it certainly does not look like me with that. Very X.
It's a shooting gallery up in art.
Well, now just a 2 versus 5.
The players with the rifles have been taken away from this one.
It's a spectre and a sheriff. That's all you've got to
avoid split, at least for now.
really showing up for their sides.
I mean, if Lina had a little bit more backup in terms of fragging power, it might have
been an even closer map, I would say, because look at this token right behind Lien, 22-21
kills each.
Really, though, I feel bad for Lien here, 358 ACS, and still a loss.
MVP, though, is going to be from the Winner side, BarriX with 269, didn't have the greatest
of first bloods, but overall the impact cannot be denied, whether it was her swings with
the judge, her plays with the operator, the multi-frags from the rifle. Definitely
playing gun game this game and definitely able to have the impact that
we've come to expect from her from her as well. I mean we brought up the head-to-head
in the beginning between Lean and Barry X and you can kind of see this map. It
came down to it at the end. Let's take a look at the team versus team performance
because I'm kind of curious about the post plan stats and everything else here.
Looking at it in terms of first kills it's pretty much neck and neck here
Charlotte, but that post plan twisted minds. It's just couldn't hold on to the site. Yeah.
And it's something that is quite surprising because that's really where they found all
of their success on Haven. What's those post plans? I think it was nine out of nine that
they were able to take through. But like you say, no dice this time around. And for gentle
mates, I mean, again, after that first half, it looks worrying. It looked like that it was
going to be a 2-0 for Twisted Minds, but only one attacking round on Pearl from
Twists, and it does take us to Split, which again is a map that is some
kind of shaky territory here for both of these teams. For Gentamates there,
they're 1 and 2 on it, and for Twisted Minds there, 2 and 1, so a very close
a fair and a map that seems like it is gonna be a real contest actually in terms
of that one. 100% yeah I mean I'm very excited to see it like you said the
map for the win percentage record does look better on paper for the side of
Twisted Mines but remember before it went into Pearl we were expecting it to be a
very dominant victory here for Gentlemates and even though it was a win
for Gentlemates at the end you could definitely see that Twisted had a fair
bit of prep ready. They had a bit of anti-stradding ready. So maybe they've
done their research for split as well ahead of this game. They're able to
kind of pinpoint those weaknesses that have caused the gentlemate side to
have an abysmal 33-person win rate like you said on this map. Definitely one of
their weaker maps and hopefully they've been able to do their own homework
because gentlemates, they got to win this. If they win this, remember they qualify.
If they lose this as well, they have a very good chance of qualifying if the
game from KC, if KC is able to win the game.
But before we talk about Split and head into that map number three to see who's
going to be walking away with the win today, we are going to be taking a short break.
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There were times when we thought that we weren't going to be finding ourselves here
map three is upon us. I'm still
sure that still joined by Zach,
of course. And yeah, we maybe
didn't expect to see split,
especially after the first half
of Poe, but we do end up on this
third map as a 13 five into a
13 eight the other way takes us
into a very evenly matched map
here. I think it's fair to say
In terms of raw percentages, yes, I think certainly it is for some minds who look a
little bit better, but I'm inclined to agree with you there.
I think this is a map where anything can really happen.
It's split and it's chaos for a reason.
I feel like this, if you look at Valorant historically, it's also the map that seems
to have the record when it comes to OT's games just going into OT here for sure.
So yeah, I'm excited to see if gentlemates have been able to fix their mistakes.
Remember, after three times they've played, they've lost it twice.
Go take a look at agent select to see if either of these teams have made any changes since the last time that they have played this map
I mean, I think that for the gentlemaid side on split
They've been they've been traditionally, you know, they've been swapping things around a little bit
They were running
The Astral in time but the last two times that they played they prefer the omen instead and that seems to continue to be the case
I mean, it gives you a fair bit of verticality. They have however also
continue to run that double duelist comp, which I think I really like on this map
personally. On the other side though, for Twisted, I think that they continue to
run that way. They've got the setup coming in from the double initiator, a lot
of utility as well. You know, your Grahams can stun towards a heaven, you can have
lean dash in, get a kill, maybe throw a saturate, set up the kill for someone else
to get it, and the double controller as well, going to make things a lot more
easier when it comes to those lurks. We saw Sarah as effective and has potency on
that wiper, you know, if you
want to make a ponder on map
number one. So overall, I mean,
I like both of these columns.
I think it just comes down to
who plays better today. I'm not
as convinced. I'm going to be
completely honest. I mean, I'm
happy for grams to prove me
wrong. But I'm never the biggest
fan of the breach, especially
in the current day and age, I
feel like breaches maybe just a
little bit behind the times.
Um, but again, I'm very happy
to be proven wrong here by
I think that. I mean, again,
she's just capable of doing
literally whatever again. A
champion coming from game
changes Pacific as well. So you
know, who am I to judge? But
yeah, I do think I feel like
we've certainly seen teams be
punished for. Or this kind of
feel like we can, we just have to wait and see on the server to see whether it does actually
come into fruition. But like you said, I think I do just generally prefer the double duelist
here as well, just in terms of getting that more fragging as well. Because like, especially
when we look, when we look at Pearl, our main criticism for gentlemates, particularly on
this attack, was that they just took too long. And I feel like with a Yoru and Ray's combination,
going to be able to get so much quicker into those sites. And yeah, I just think it's going
to work out.
Yeah, I think in terms of YouTube, Twisted Minds have a little bit of an advantage here.
A lot of stunts available with the combination of the breach as well as the whaley, a lot
of post plants as well. I like this fake pick on both sides. I feel like yes, the sky is
so 2023 at this point, we're in 2026. Let's move on to the fade, probably the strongest
scannily shader at this point with the exception of the traditional silver. But you see her
being run on a lot more maps in this meta as well, which I think I really like, because
again it just combos so well with agents like the Viper or even the Waylay here, in terms
of getting info, setting up your waylay for success, etc, etc, looking at the stats, I
mean, what I'm intrigued by as well, Gentlemates have continued to run the comp that they've
played the last two times, I think that for Gentlemates, even if the games didn't go exactly
as planned, they were able to barely find a win with this comp against SK and Abila,
No, that was a 15-13, so not the greatest scoreline to go by.
But to be fair, the teams that they lost to were G2 goes in an 80 and were kind of on
the top of the scoreboard.
So not the greatest, not the greatest, not the most convincing of losses there, I would
say it's difficult to deal with it.
On the other hand though, you, I think that being able to find the more convincing win
against SK and everyone on the same team, that was a 15-13 win for the side of Gentlemates.
I think it was Twisted who beat them as well with a 13 and eight kind of win.
So they did lose to Giant's Ex.
They adapted after their loss to GX.
They were dated, replaced Astral with the Omen.
And I think that Omen picked for both of these teams and served them really, really well.
I think that the improvements have also been there.
Last time that they played for Gentlemates, it seemed like they were able to fix a lot
of the problems in their game against G2-Gozin.
And hopefully that will be enough to take them over the finish line here.
remember if gentle mates wins this one they're guaranteeing their own
qualification and I mean even a twisted mind's win this one
gentle mates aren't basically qualified because twisted can't qualify without
gentle mates qualifying because of the way that the points allotment and guess
we ran a billion simulators to figure this out do not worry we're not
completely yapping like clowns we know what we're saying about this but yeah I
think it's gonna be an exciting quest to watch either way I mean I love that
will do this, coms. My favorite team is Paper X that you tell you everything you need to
know about me at this point. So yeah. Yeah, I mean, for sure, just the explosivity that
you're able to get feels really, really strong. But I mean, it's often cliched, I think, but
split does seem to always deliver bangers. So for the deciding map of this best of three,
seems to be a fitting setting for the conclusion here. At the end of this game one of the teams
has to win and immediately Twisted Minds coming out with the frags, a double from Lean and
Garage completely taken away from Twisted...from Gensomete, sorry.
Lean Twisted happy to fall back after that advantage. Paranoia at the ready as well
as well as lean with the off angle. Again, just ready for these shots. Don't quite connect, but what
tell you there, to be able to find that frag onto Marty, Spike dropped as well, Dark Cover comes down.
It's gonna be very difficult for them to retrieve it, especially with all of his spam though.
Blind shot from Wind, actually trying to hatch it out to Greyhems.
Oh, it's not gonna spot anyone, the little flank gets caught out too, Sarah goes down,
and with the Spike retrieved, it's gonna be them running America on towards this Ace site.
I don't know if the defense is gonna opt to rotate early quite yet, or if they're gonna wait you just see
Let's say you're making our way towards vents. I'm actually pushing down a little bit further
I don't know if it's enough. It's far away enough to hear this rotation and I mean far around that was so abysmally bad
5e2 remember the beginning I
Think that twist made some maintenance base at least get themselves the spike down
They have
to the right. How to fight
back into things twisted
minds. Putting up here on the
fight towards events. When it's
going to be the first point of
contact here that shots go
wide and Lati gets the spot
here, taking health away from
that situation. Not really
much left to wager on this
combined together the white swing out does not quite work in their favor when
in the smoke but now one versus one lean has been massive so far but just get
spammed down gentle mates get another pistol round I'm sorry I hate to
phrase it otherwise but that was just a little bit of a throw coming in from the
side of gentle side of twist there especially after the brilliant two
openings there by lean and that additional one. I'm not saying that the spine came to
their control as well. I mean this one's fine but everything else on this retake was so
sloppy that I made it to watch it. It was a good paranoia as well from nami to be fair and when
so disposed ballistic the run and gun with the coast for the final killer as well. A little bit
illegal but everything else there fair game and I don't know I mean first of all you let the clock
clock run down you make it like a 4v2 that you go that you make into 3v2 you let them retrieve
this fight, you get it down, there were so many mistakes in that round and it made me
really angry to watch but overall we got a little bit of an update for you while we
wait for this tech pause to finish. Remember when we said if KC wins both of these teams
would qualify for the playoffs they're currently up one, sorry the record on their game against
Zenith is one and one right now, map number three is going on, it's also Pearl by the
way and Casey have a very slight lead. Very excited to see if they are going to be able to lock it
out here. So yeah, I think it's an exciting match for sure. And yeah, Twisted and Mates definitely
have it in the back of their minds. It's nice to know that whether whether you win or lose,
there's a possibility that you will qualify no matter what. So yeah, probably praying for Casey
to pull off that win today.
Certainly the best outcome for both of these sides. Remember a
calming call win does mean that both teams qualify into playoffs,
but again a calming call loss doesn't necessarily mean that they're both
out of things. Still plenty of games to go and really in this one I can't really be thinking
about playoffs just yet instead just focus on the game and keep it in the server. I think that's
the best way to go about things.
I mean, I agree with everything you said there, but I don't know, I'm still thinking about
that pistol and I was not very happy with it.
I feel like I already said this, but I just want to say it again.
A 5v2, into a 4v2, into a 3v2, into a 1v2, and they lose.
That is just tragic coming in for the side of Twisted.
Very, very sloppy.
Hopefully they don't throw a little, that round was a throw.
I don't know how else to say it.
said, I do like this adventurous investments by me here. Outlaw with everybody else on
classics. It could work wonders if you get the buy, but it's Marty's outlaw to find
that pick instead. At least it's going to be retrieved. I don't know if they spotted
out the outlaw. So yeah, tragic.
Sorry, I'm in a bit of trouble here. Just about managed to escape alive and again the
the ghost doing numbers there. Blast pack away, somehow still surviving. That is the
greatest scape I think.
Yeah, it was like magic like Houdini at that point. The Satcho, the jumps, the jiggles,
whatever you call it, gets a kill as well with the ghost. 3v5 at this point, the flink.
It's gonna be caught out here, Mateo, in the open, outlawed by the gameplay, able to find
a third on the round and it's just Ness versus the world, only an outlaw in hand.
Can't really save it either, since that means that she won't have a buy for next.
Very awkward position to be in.
Yeah, and risk versus reward, it's not paid off for thrusted mines.
at least exits here would feel that Marty is whichever to the ghost just to prevent any
losses and well doesn't even get taken down for her troubles the ghost is good enough for
a flawless for gentle mates and yeah that economic situation is now rough.
I mean, also Marty with that 4k is now one away from that dimensional jump, which you can get an ult toward.
It's one of those ult's that you can just hop with nothing but a shorty in hand and try to find an entry with, especially could be very dangerous in this bonus round.
I think this series Gentlemates is one of the prettier classics there, I do enjoy the purple.
Nothing big to pay for rips, of course, with the pretty pink and the dinos, but back to the game here, Poison Orb.
Walking off this ramp, letting the rest of the gentlemen just take contact and walk into this ace site.
I don't know if we're starting to be expecting this, they don't really have any info, there's been no sound cue and
I'm all the way towards CT, although this is the one to find that first kill.
I could start and took down the player that really did the damage in the pistol round when Scott 4 and that one.
Now, no longer to have impact here, as Marty's also taken out.
Just need to be careful though, there's Toca on this close corner, so Lean falls there.
Still, crisis averted I think, his twisted mind's cleaning up.
Gonna have to be something miraculous from Toca.
A 1v4 brought into a 1v3.
It's done, paranoia, everything in the kitchen sink, you set up the best way, the last map, and Rayam's happy to take that kill any day of the week, all the Utah being dumped.
Kind of shows you what we can expect from the retake, a little bit of a celebratory moment of flex.
I feel like that's the main reason people are buying the skin for the finisher.
What a bit of a dance and cheer there.
Rayam skips the diffuser, concentrating on getting that breach oaks online.
I'll tell you, are you gonna join with your team?
Yes, the captain chimes in too
and it's gonna be a great win for Twisted.
Beautiful shots there towards ramp.
By Ness, I believe.
One, two, and three almost gets the fourth as well.
And yeah, I mean, despite good positioning there
in the beginning of the round,
I think the mid-round or the end-round
were just much stronger there for Twisted.
now looking clean with it.
again, we head through around
four full rifle by both these
squads and immediately it's
leading us to put that rifles
to good use.
Send on in at the very least for gentle mates. They've been able to plant the spike, but I
Mean they have kind of left Marty isolated and alone on the site
So it's good work from her to find one. It's the ramp fight instead not going their way
Just left to Marty now on the site itself of HP on Sara, but I mean still difficult situation
They're not looking in her direction. What a flick can't quite get it
last you with the judge saves the rounds for twisted minds
that's why I call a judge you're an executioner that was an execution if I
ever saw one poor Marty was not prepared for the judge in her face but yeah great
economic damage at the very least I mean that was a 1v3 and I mean I feel bad
for whoever shot classic Phantom moment there
RIP, FnHP, and Dream. They have really good flick there for Marty at the end.
Not in a damaged unbushed Serra though, so that the judge at that range is able to confirm the kill.
Could have gone the other way otherwise, if Marty still had most of her HP left.
Although, second dimensional drift charging up here for this particular player,
aren't already having been used.
A lot of volts coming to fruition as well. We're heading towards one of those crazy swing rounds that we love to see.
But on the opposite side twist they've got some pretty sure retake holds and it comes down to it in particular the nightfall as well as
Convergent parts like I'm actually gonna be invested here in the shotgun
Finds the first week to not able to get the second though
I mean it just feels unfair at a certain point
Rated back so like you say that fall versus four
Well, the gentlemates go from this one. It looks like they're leaning towards B.
It just depends on the outcome of this kill and a nice adjust from Marty catching Lean on the jump.
Gonna be able to cause a little bit of a fake towards this A site. The problem is you still got the judge in Lattayo's hands.
She does seem to be falling back though 30 seconds left on the clock
I feel like there's an inkling that it's gonna be a B hit irrespective
30 seconds left
And you've got Gult Latteo and Graham's ready for the damage
The problem is when this dark cover runs out
I don't know if Marty still has her clone available
Nope, no utility on this player
It's gonna be the Dimensional Drift attempt
Not even gonna get denied here 15 seconds
Graham's the sole player on site having to do it all
Isolate the first one, guess the seconds free don't you?
and Ness with the backup. It looked incredibly chaotic, but Swiss pull it off a third defence
around and one that breaks the economy here possibly for the side of Gents Plates.
Yeah, just here a rifle being brought into this one, but for the rest of the team it's
a bit of a paupers purchase and I'm not surprised to see the timeout come through because Gents
mates again have kind of let the clock be the master of their round outcomes and well not a
favourable master at that. So I'm out called to try and save face here I think because again
really rough situation where they're just going into these sites with barely any time left.
It's been a consistent problem for this gentleman, even on Pearl that was the case in a lot of those rounds.
They were just able to win out the gunfights most of the time and struggling a little bit more on splits, I would say.
So yeah, a good timeout called. You want to be sure that you can kind of leverage what you have.
I mean, this is an eco round for sure. If you're able to pull off the thrifty, great.
But even otherwise looking at the ultimate you're gonna have every single one or gonna be very close to every single one
Heading into the second round here talking about the other side the grams only one away from that dimension
Sorry one away from that
Rolling Thunder here could definitely be
Lynch of the route to do correctly brands as well
So just so iconic in that last round here's a satchel in able to isolate the fight off the back of the flash
That hit literally everybody and that's with the spa as well
Well, of course, not no over-sustaining moments, kind of, if you want to have.
The hinder comes in a little bit too early too, although the gorma at least is forced
to use one of those gate-croshers.
I've forced away from the fight in the angles, but for the fight gentlemen, there's still
much doing here.
is trying to force their way in.
Perfect pass being had as well for this one.
Lean instead just faces the fight and takes down Marty.
Looking towards having not too cognizant
of where these players are coming from.
Lean again, just so much sight control,
so much in this one.
You get the feeling that there's going to be a kill,
but instead it goes the other way than what I was expecting.
Very X good for the first looking for more. I'm not gonna get it though
It's Sarah to fight back through but then again, she's only good for one herself
Matthew though. Oh god the charge
melts through these players like a hot knife through butter
Great through them
Now just a 1v3 for wands
And in the conversion pots did get used up perhaps the ulti would have lose a user to go around
Oh well, where's that guy I thought it was gonna be a whiff?
10 seconds left on the clock.
You have to go up here.
Assassin's Creed moment with the Judge trying to jump into play.
Brings it down to the 1v1, but the problem is there's just no time and Lee has booked
it out of here.
She's like, nah man, I'm not risking it and twisted my able to win this round on time.
We were talking about it right before during that time up, Charlotte.
The timer has often been the death knell for this gentleman to roster in this round.
It proves to be the case.
I mean, two with the judge for, let's say two with the judge for once, I think that's a fair trade, you know?
Yeah, I mean, either way, it's some good damage being dealt here by...
...gentlemates.
Twisted Minds, I don't think I'm going to worry too much about that.
But again, another judge being brought along...
...as you're buying down to zero, 750, 50 is...
So like, it's a good round, all things considered, when you click there on the eco there,
that immediately sends him to convergent paths, and again that saturates to interrupt these players,
and that's trying to capitalize, and he's gonna get cut down.
Sentimental made his win this opening exchange.
Again though, it's a bit of a red herring. A fake towards his A side.
Reminder of the squad towards B. Leteo again with his judge though, looking to possibly play Squirrelsport.
Potentials are coming in, the flank as well from Sarah.
This could be so nasty. I don't think she has any inkling though that B has already been taken.
That is going to be able to spot out the cross variants though. In the angle wins the fight and
all of a sudden once again it's a 4v4 on the retake although the site is completely gone.
Yeah, aunt comes in as well. Uncontested really. Just a mate side going for this retake
I can't, so, look, caught out in mid as well, when, could've done some serious damage, but, Sara, good for that fight.
Tristid minds, where do you come in from here?
Because still these players on the site are fighting the kills and the spams, doing their work!
It's now just Sara, and they know that she's coming from this flank position.
Blindside sent in towards Garage, and he's just gonna have to be a save in this one.
Time out, man. Do it's work.
And...
...Gentlemates, sorry, get back on the board.
I mean, that was a tragic round. Sarah played that so well.
Getting the advantage into the 4v3, the investor rolling thunder as well, right, from Graeum's.
Just a little bit too early, not able to capitalize off the back of it, and nobody was really stunned.
Also, that smoke, I mean...
I don't know if it was a smoke from the gentlemake side or the twisted side, but...
...that site smoked such a menace at the end, the spam threw it.
I mean, yeah, it is a smoke from Nami, the IGL really calling that one perfectly, and just using that smoke to peek those little off angles that Twizz weren't really ready for, I mean, it starts with Ness going down early, you really need that Info Initiator as well, in order to make that ruling thunder work, and I think that was a little bit of a mistake, especially when it didn't really hit anybody apart from one player, a little bit tragic there.
hitting from Gentlemates by V3 and some lead who has been the player 3 that we've been talking about this whole time.
Kicked them down, but sorry, yeah, certainly putting their names in our mouths, and now Grime's...
Wait, that was collateral! I didn't even notice that at first!
She's found two with just one bullet, and now the one versus one, hopping up on the Angle,
when's just about saves mate's asses?
100% I mean Graeum's in the 1v3 hat though
Inkling as well where this third player
was coming from, just the sheriff versus the fountain
not able to connect the shot.
If Wenz had come up the road and said
she would have been a goner there, but yeah.
Just the fact that somehow Graeum's in this double peek
able to find both of these frags.
Wow. Beautiful shot there at the very end. Just try. I mean, it was an eco round to be fair. It's a good damage at the very least for this place side by first pit invested towards mid as well by Sarah and an off straighter finally in line as well but look at this, she'll stop her invested to push her off so far back.
That's a pit now neutralized and going to dissipate soon enough.
That's a gentlemate's now, I can start to fan out yet again, I can towards vents this
time.
If you're bringing a shotgun to the party I might as well, but instead it's just going
to be the walk up to events like as well making its way there.
does have this operator towards CT. It's late work as well for his main coming in from
when. In fact, very well, the Latteu ready for the front gets to already and now a bondage
towards Swiss.
What a couple of shots there from Latteu. Again, she's the IGL, but has been stepping
up when needed on this side. The gentle mates, they've sort of stored themselves out again.
A common phrase that we're finding here is taking a bit too long to find themselves,
to say who's still on the site now has been dealt with.
The problem is that the rotations have come through from twisted minds.
They've got control of heaven, they've got control of screens,
and they are starting to tighten the net, constricting gentle mates, suffocating them.
To force them away, very least the spike will make it to the plantable zone,
but now a 2 vs 4 it becomes so damn unlikely.
As it's now just Taka, on 28 HP, up against 3 of these players,
they're all converging on towards her position.
Saturates sent through, Hinder does not quite connect, but even still, forces her away.
As the spike starts to get tapped, she knows that there's no hope in hell.
Just saves the rifle and gets out of dodge.
That's just heck boy able to get the hell out of there and save that rifle, like you said.
you said. I like that call honestly you know I mean she's not even gonna get a penalty for saving
because the flight did go over down and got round but yeah I think this this moment from Latteo here
definitely the key I would say for Twisted to be able to win this round good positioning overall
I mean we've seen them lose multiple 2v5 2v5s and 3v3v4s or whatever so it's a nice change that
they play with a little bit more patience and intention in terms of the spacing able to figure
things out there for sure and get themselves a lead once again. Lean now, operator still in
hand on a little bit of a walk down towards vid. Again though, I like this patience coming in
from the gentlemaid side who have very quickly taken control of this A-Round.
There!
Ready, operator, it's gonna be, he feels so
aggressive but called a bucky coming in from Barry eggs traded out but lean now in trouble
converge upon still finds a second before getting taken out.
Passive impact from her yes again.
I want to tell you if that happened to me my ranked teammates in my ranked games that's
the point I start yelling at my teammates but I guess that's why I'm not a pro player.
3-3 at the end of all that chaos if they can get themselves onto site they've got a Viper's
pit available. How am I going to be getting themselves onto site because look who is here
ready to go, could give control of the spike. I don't know if they're going to expect Latteo
in such a close angle. I mean, yes, they want to re-clear main, but the timing on the peak
Toka wins that fight out. That is so huge. Now with the orb going to give out the nightfall
as well, there's no way that mates want to risk losing this. They're going to be missing
the Viper's Pit as well in this round.
Still twisted minds going for the attempts here, fighting in from heaven, converging and
grunts.
Gets our first kill, so Marty going down provides a bit of a problem.
His players now marked, sound taken away as the nightfall rolls its way through the site.
Dropping in, now will have been heard.
Still finding those kills when completely unexpected towards the Fender side spawn.
I'm trying to play around this pit, it's looking so damn unlikely.
Not even able to escape with a Garnora life, and tied up again, Gentlemates find 5.
I'm going to leave the sneaky-peaky saves that have been the forced resort at the end of this round.
I do like this play, there's this call from Gentlemates to walk up towards A-Ramp with the help of the Riker Wall,
that twist have a tendency to kind of leave heaven open and play towards the
site instead. Lean's still able to find two there including that crazy shot onto
the men's person but yeah just the fake play Berry ex going in assuming that's
the only player there Marty having given no hint of her presence to be able to
keep things out and even footing and yeah I feel like if if that kill from
Lattea with the Jettet come in the swing half a second earlier or later would
would have helped but yeah, beautiful shot there from Tocca.
Use it at least.
Immediately, Dimensional Drift being utilized here.
So Marty, gathering all this information on the site itself and towards Main.
There's two of these players and all that's being watched for in the exit of the Ultimate,
somehow able to escape with her life.
It's actually Grahms that find the opener,
but she tries to push for more, gets cut down.
Gentlemates, this should be one that they're winning.
It's time to press their advantage here. The spams through the smoke continue to do their work.
Ness had a shotgun from that long range. It did not look likely.
Gentlemates now take the lead yet again. We're heading to the final round of this half.
It's been so back and forth after a very strange beginning.
Yeah, it's been chaotic for sure, but I think that we still have the resources in this final round.
three huge ultimates on the opposite side, gentlemates with just the from the shadows,
though they could get very exes showstopper online with an ulti orb and of course she's been
fragging out as well. Marty though has been the real hero attack operator now going to be online
and with the aggressive way not to serve playing it's definitely a weapon that could find a lot
of value it does seem like B site is the one that they have their eyes on and uh okay a bit of a
I don't know, maybe a way of firing the gun or giving away her position, now that the
off shot barely misses through the box there, and in the meantime, I might find the timing
on this peek.
Yeah, she does, and that's another timing that Sara takes to perfection.
Nami just bought unaware there, the rolling thunder sent on out as Brown's trying to prevent
this push from coming through and might fall sent through as well, but
gentlemates continue to find the kills that they need. The showstopper pops very
wisely. I think Latio staying away from this one until that rocket launch
against sent out, but it's a 1 versus 3 with the spike planted, and surely there's
no way you take this one, right? I would agree with you there. Again, a couple of
throws there, took out putting the final nail in the coffin and confirming the
lead four gentlemates at the end of the half. Ultimates used too early I would say
if you look at it whether it's the rolling thunder not able to really find
the value off of it. The knife fall as well I mean just mistakes being made and
again not aware of how far they've pushed.
Red Bull gives you wings.
You do have to play for every win still remember top two. Do you get a playoffs buy into the second round and I mean you to already first
So all hands on deck to fight for that second spot
twisted minds now on the attack looking to again take their chances with a victory
First kill from Marty. She's so aggressive out of garage, but is able to escape
and traded again just the value of that yoru. Didn't expect to push out of the smoke and now
looks like they want to bum rush their way onto this peace site. They've got a decent amount of
utility though it's not gonna really find or catch anyone lean though on this heaven lurk.
Might be the difference maker able to possibly spot out one or two players but timing not quite
there and Barry expines that first kill. Marty continuing to throb out and twists Sarah and
and that's between them. The OG duo themselves doing a couple of kills, but Barry, X, I mean,
I think that gives Jettelmaids a huge lead today when it comes to the pistols. Both as well
confirmed on this map should let them extend their view even further. Just a tragic round there for
Twists. Again, they're so behind on the positioning. So many of these round's mates are ahead of them
and they're just not aware that they've lurked into XYZ spots. Map control is not their forte.
It's very painful to watch.
A gentemates found double pistol on Pearl.
It's not a bit closer than we maybe were expecting,
but they found double pistol again here.
And that's always a way to set yourself up for success.
Twisted mind, so not deterred.
Despite not down, they can't really force anything here,
so just classics sent forwards into this one.
And I mean, Wenz is looking for them as they exit this dark cover.
Wenz don't land just yet.
Tommy does have a judge and that is also, as we saw in the first half, a dangerous prospect.
Especially if you're distracted by the prowlers towards CT, but I like this call.
They're not going to be walking into the church, they're going to be walking away from it towards CT.
Soka, the only player here in timing on the peek gonna be there, but now she's there to push out and collect High Sum into play though, never mind.
Yeah, not quite, almost.
How would the Twisted Minds do? They found a full vs 4, upgrade in hands for Ness, now with a Bulldog to try and fight back into this B site it looks like.
30 seconds left. Don't we have a player up in heaven and well Wenz has completely caught
unaware now Sara trying to fight on in she's going to discover that judge and
it's not going to be best pleased about what she finds. Berry ex now fighting in from CT
those paint shells should be enough to do the job and it's again the judge for a second.
Gentle mates all things considered a pretty decent round.
Yeah, they hold on to most of their guns, Barry X is going to be able to pick up that
judge.
I think two of their players only had a go, so they managed to carry over all of these
weapons into the next round, or rather, they lose some players that are keeping the spectre
instead of the judge seeing that the judge costs more, but yeah, anyway.
Three out of four weapons saved, and I think it's not a bad round for Twisted either because
they're able to get the spike launch, should stretch their economy a little bit further,
them to get two buys but yeah I think the judge once again playing spoilsport here at least his
flight wasn't dropped but problem is Graham's watching the wrong angle just not able to do too
much there and a ninth round on the board for gentlemates if they can convert this boat as
somehow it's going to be huge and once again we're seeing a repeat of what we saw on Split
the operator coming in early into the map already willing to risk it all here on the line so we're
still playing patiently. You're not trying to force it too much. Do you like that just
playing to your outs at a certain stage?
Again, the refresh of the gate crash here.
Hang on the same angle. Nice discipline now, starting to get a little bit curious.
Justin, as soon as all of those players are spotted, immediately getting away, removing
herself from those bodies, but Sara is still good for the first on the entry, and that
you teleport up into heaven, the childhood step, gets her the kill, and that's the mates
trying to fight in from a disadvantage.
And 3v4 and also not the greatest weapons in hand, losing that operator also has a
character because it's got a derailer chance of being able to buy another one anytime soon.
Grahams, the boombo, slides by her, I don't think I've ever seen that before.
Boombo to come out though, and actually it's the Nate that gets that final kill, they
can down to a 3v3, the peak perfect though on the outlaw, the gun he wants, giving Barry
X the showstopper, the vulnerable comes in though, you know exactly where one player
is the problem is let's say you can only find one and it's gonna have to be Sarah in the clutch
spike in the not exactly planted for her one you want at the end of it no HP no one it's the bonus
a 3v4 conversion that almost gets through but not quite the Red Bull clutch at the end of it all
one second that's all that stands between them and that bonus win but gentlemaids even if they
lose the round they're gonna be happy about that charlotte because they took away every single gun
on this by round. What a red
will clutch to come through as
well. Just enough to get this
kill here onto Berry X fourth
talker off of the diffuse. And
like say it is. One and a
quarter seconds enough. What
balance. No possible for twisted minds to come back into this. Remember, on Pearl, they
started out 0 and 3 and still came out with 75 half. So, still plenty to fight for and
twisted minds fighting over the same main presence. Creating things out. Now, play it
to the good.
I like that adaptation. They were peeking a little bit early. This time, they expected
the flash peek from Marty and Toka, they've been doing this consistently so
positioning just a little bit better in terms of trades like it's like those
double rooks and chests protecting each other I suppose and yeah first one's
attack is the first one to be able to lose I suppose. Now though,
Twisk is walking to the site, went at the angle but not the kill and that's
heartbreak for me too.
Again, difficult situation for Gensokmates now to try and negotiate themselves into an advantage.
Looking for double digits in this one and if they can find the clutch it would certainly be nice.
The very least an upgraded hand for Bariax and it looked like Nami was already saving and now with the fans in retrieved,
Bariax is going to join her on the western side.
So, Gentlemates, that's the round, but Guns still aren't safe as Matthew finds that kill.
That very ex, I think, should just about be safe, but actually these players are about
to converge inside of Garage.
And thanks for your take, Sal!
Phantom of her hands as well!
practical crouching we love to see it seven and nine twists starting to bring
things back here round by round you know of course this play right it works one
shame on me it works twice or shame on you whatever it's the other way around I
think but yeah the second kill as well made ones has been consistent incredibly
consistent in the series so far but that was just one with that might have cost
them the route right there looking at the scoreboard the duelists for the side
of the gentlemen firing on all cylinders along with Toka 16, 16 and 15. On the opposite side,
the twist starting to catch up and look at the ultimate starting to come into fruition. One
off of that Viper's pit, one off of that nightfall, two big ultimates that could very well change the
round if necessary, although I hope they don't have to use them because this is a full eco for
gentlemates. But what scares me is not the sheriffs, actually it's the sheriffs as well, but mainly
the two buckies in the hands of Wends and Barry X, a terrifying prospect to look into.
again so much danger in this one and nice to it there's something fishy going on with
that smoke
I mean, if I say that's what I'm not walking into, I'm not risking it, I know there's a
shotgun waiting for me, as much as I would like to try my luck there.
Either way, though, you've got the rays on the site, you've got to be able to isolate
the way they are, though, I mean, with that gun advantage, you're not going to be able
to do too much isnami.
I know it goes down, let's take the site.
And the control force.
What do you do as gentlemen mates?
I mean, you're going to be playing from these further away angles.
The Bucky probably not going to find much success.
Try and go down to the spike here.
I mean, I suppose there's always a chance.
Especially, oh, I'm about to say with Marty having a sheriff, but immediately taken down.
That's probably Curtains, Twisted Minds vacating the site.
They know that they've got this one locked down.
So, just a one round deficit now, Twisted Mind Snack to bring things back.
8 and 9, this next round huge swing around here, look at the ultimates for both of these
sides, Dimensional Drift 2 off of the nightfall, and I think for Twisted there's a little bit
more of an advantage here.
Finally Timeout gonna be called here by Gentlemates, second time out of the map.
I suppose I haven't used a single one by the way, I just want to point that out.
They've been playing purely on Vibes and to be fair they've been playing really good in that regard.
Just a couple of mistakes that they've been very quickly fixing in terms of spacing and those isolated fights
that have been letting Marty and Barry X get away with absolute crap that should not be allowed in a Valorant game.
Once again though, I think it's going to be important where you're positioning your players.
I don't know if they're going to be able to invest in an op.
I guess Toka could drop one to Marty and maybe get a rifle in exchange.
I'm not sure if she's gonna do that or also play for the full armor, but on the opposite side man nightfall
Vipers pit one away of rolling thunder one away conversion pots two away
That's just so many ults coming in for these next two rounds
And it could just be such crucial win conditions twist can very well take a lead off the back of them
Especially with the economy that they've built up in the last two rounds
They definitely have a bit of an advantage heading into this one
I certainly do
Again, like you say, this is a really big swing round to come in.
I'll see you picking up the operator for this.
I have some kind of set strat that the sentiments have considered in that timeout.
I'm going to chat with the coaching staff and immediately, there's the impact you wanted
to have.
out lean who on pearl put in one hell of a performance make things as close as they were
yeah i mean i like that again like we called it a call that out during the tech pause the
possibility of the operator thanks to toka having the money for it oh no it's not pops i'll tell you
gonna be able to get herself onto site just to fall victim to the op once again.
Not exactly the play you want to make without that paranoia used or at least without waiting
for your teammates. Now a 3v5 here for Tristan. They need to be able to find some kills before
sinking in these ultimates otherwise it's gonna be very difficult going now. The call to possibly
leave this A site head towards mid instead to the actual drift though gotta be popped for the
additional bit of information. I don't think it's spotted anyone though in going into vents.
And yeah, it's just Twists trying to regroup themselves towards this B site. The problem is
the dimensional drift has caused them to expect it. 30 seconds left. Again, the timer. This time
around running out for Twists here. Methodical take. Two players will anchor in this site. It has
to be perfection. Three players in fact, if you count BariX towards main. It's a fake though.
It's like itself back towards the site. You still have to be able to get yourself that plant the shardie coming into play
Get the kill what the heck?
That's an unbelievable kill and now the viper's pits online for Sara
It's the a massive factor to bring some parity between these teams as low on health these twisted minds players
Still starting to be dealt with grand sir
falls at boom block gives the information away elbow now a point of real
contest and the real press it's Sarah 25 HP but the shorty only that has so much
power in the Viper's pit now a one versus one and the right-click classic
gets the job done when saves the round for gentle mates how many times we have
to say that but now they find themselves on double digits 1v3 Sarah
almost able to get it just a little bit of awkward positioning and wins with the
right click to close things out that said so many mistakes by Tosin this round
that because of Sarah they were able to recover from for sure could have been the
four cake clutch but instead gentle mates able to get themselves up to you like
you said double digits three rounds away from walking away with the win and
confirming themselves basically either second or third seed if you go by the
staging here I would say Marty still with the AWP in her hand still going to
not the best weapon but still a good one.
How many stun though? I mean I like this. The problem is it doesn't connect him, he
still could be a victim here. Oh god.
Then called out by the operator. Rolling Thundercent 3 towards A to clear that space. Marty though
wants to look for more. Fishing forward with those operator shots through the smoke.
I don't come to fruition, but I mean now we've got the judge here instead Barry X
Spams through and Zara gets taken out. If one seems like it's crumbling and falling apart for twisted minds
Yeah, they got the spike plant, but nothing else a flawless retake to come on in from gentle mates
And it feels like they found their form again
11-8 I mean starting to really run away with the lead here economy struggling as well
I would call a timeout if I were twist right now
I don't know about that round though. I mean every single player so many mistakes
I mean we saw the same thing in the previous round as well, right?
All of these isolated fights no chance for a trade at all and gentle mates happy to not just win out those duels
But take them any day of the week because they're taking them in conjunction together Marty as well
It's just been so good with the operator as soon as she got it back into her hands this half
Tragic really twist now last by chance. They both lean with the attack off of her own
They've got the conversion path. They spend most of their other alts and yeah
I don't think they're gonna have a chance to really charge them up unless the miracle happens once again
Up in the right place at the right time
Whether it will work is gonna be the question
Holding the angle the beautiful
made go to try and stop it although it's the need that claims the victim on that
double swing that is disgusting
trying to fight back from such a difficult position just in mind to recover
the operator
I suppose. What to look for those silver linings?
I certainly feel like there's plenty more clouds in the sky.
I'm just going to run the clock down here trying to find a way back into this.
And it's so difficult. Do you choose to try and fight in and win the round and if you lose?
Have really no money at all
Do you choose to just save these guns and definitely give over that 12 round? Well now this is gonna have to clutch
It's not gonna happen. So it is a 12 round. Yes again gentlemen find a 12 to 8 score
Just a repeat of Pearl at this point, I mean, Pearl also had a really good first half, but
his attacking rounds from Swiss have been less than Stellar for sure, just the aggressiveness
and the combination of Util for this gentlemen side of him, so perfect.
Like you said, economy in the greatest of shape, they should still be able to have a
the vibe put together. But yeah, I mean, on the opposite side, Marty, 20 bomb already,
Barry X right behind her, this double duelist pairing, having the game of their, that's
game of their lives. I mean, it probably helps to know that you've already qualified. So
you're just playing for the vibes right now. But yeah, I mean, for gentle mates, it's just
gonna be icing on the cake if they can close it out today. They've got the showstopper and
nightfall available, Viper's fed as well to shove down mid. It seems like it's going to be a very
uphill battle for Twist to be able to bring this one back and I mean the way that they've been
playing they have been consistently getting isolated by different bits of util. They've been
blindly walking into operators across the map so yeah I mean it's it's difficult when you're
making all of these minor mistakes that a team like Gentlemates is happy to capitalize on any day
off the week but over quite yet though Twist they've taken their time out they have a buy
Okay, have the conversion pots. Maybe they can try to figure out a way to break through this impeccable defense that Gentlemates are putting together.
Last year it's already been taken out. The aggressive garage push and showstopper hits its mark.
The very least, the flawless round denied, but you can't help but feel like
gentlemates were in control and pretty much flawless throughout that entire
second half.
100% agree with you here there, the defensive half just insane coming in and of
course 20 bomb for two players, nobody on twist crossing that limit while you know
just Marty and Barry X running away with it. The util as well from this team was
so precise. Let's take a look at the MVP though. I mean, I'm very excited to see if, you know,
the stats here for Marty as an individual. I think that she was very consistent throughout
this whole map, especially when she got the AWP in hand. There was no stopping her. I mean,
looking at this first blood percentage, at least one out of five kills. That was the first blood.
That's just beautiful work coming in. Team performance as well. I mean, if you take a look
at it, I'm pretty sure we're going to see some abysmal stats in terms of the post plans here,
Unfortunately, for the side of Twist, yeah, 3 out of 6, that is less than ideal, I would say, despite the first kills being neck and neck.
Yeah, and I mean, I kind of just want to go back to Marty's performance just for a moment as well with the operator.
Those first Bloods, like, I think it was Lean getting shut down a lot of the time.
And when we looked at Lean to be one of those real star performers here for this twisted Miden side,
I think it really does show that she was just getting shut down on the entry again and again,
and not able to find that impact again on the way they were. You think that you'd be able to
really put a put a fight on forwards and just get themselves into that really, really solid spot.
100% I think that the impact there for Marty as well in terms of the map rotation,
since you brought up the Yoru have been incredible I would say. And overall I mean
Beringex as well, just no breaks at all. You could even see the Yuto coming in
in that final round, the combination of the haunts as well as that showstopper.
Yeah, I mean just gorgeous work coming in from them. And yeah, I mean looking at the map,
despite Twisted Minds being able to find that dominant map one, it was the reverse
sweep from Gentlemaids at the end of the day. And finally, Gentlemaids can prove that they have
Authoritatively fixed their split. It's no longer an abysmal 33% win rate. It's 50 which is something that's gonna look much better on the stat sheet
Let's take a look at the stat things though with this win. Gentle mates have guaranteed themselves qualification for the playoffs
They're gonna be feeling very very happy about it and one step closer for locking in that guaranteed second seed
Especially if they can win one more match
But on the other hand twisted minds that continue to stay second the problem is even if they're able to
to win all of their next games in a row because of the head-to-head. I don't think they have
a good chance of being able to overtake Gentlemates for that second seed. So yeah, overall though,
Twisted Minds, a good showing coming in from them. I just think that a lot of mistakes were
being made, especially on those attacking halves on both Perlins, but that really could have
cost them the map very badly. Yeah, I mean, it absolutely could have done, but again, I mean,
I mean, a player that I really want to shout out is, is Wenz who I think twice on that spring map was able to prevent a 1v3 from happening being that last stand and it just works out really, really well for them.
like gentle mates have got to be thanking wens I think after this after this game and just being like
you saved us on this but yeah ice cream uh I don't know bag of sweets whatever whatever you want to
go for like just what what a performance and again on on that viper role was just putting on a master
class I think 100% yeah talking about um I think that overall I think just more consistency coming
from gentle mates but it's not over quite yet we still have a couple of more
days left in this precursor to the playoffs tomorrow's games here they
are we definitely have a banger match up here KC vs twist in mind having built
these teams KC coming we're able to win their game against Zed so they're the
ones coming off of a win today well twisted minds coming off of a loss on
second game though G2 with they're really to play for they've gotten their first
seeding they've gotten the playoffs by they've gotten themselves a
qualification, it's just for the glory points these days, but they're going up against
Joblife, you kind of have to win this to stay alive at this point in the
bracket.
They're already up, unfortunately.
Oh, they are really?
Not bad, not bad.
I miscalculated that, I thought they had a small chance for Andrew, okay, fine, yeah,
a qualified team playing against the Nog team that has no chance of qualifying, it's just
going to be a game happening for the vibes, purely for the vibes.
For the vibes, I think.
I mean, if there's ever a time to get a win, I think when there's nothing on the line, that's that's the moment, right? Like, I still feel like I mean, G2 are a team that are never going to take a game for granted.
So, you know, job life is still going to have a fight on their hands. But, you know, if there's ever a time like the pressure's off now, I think, like job life maybe could get something done there.
100% yeah and I mean if job lights is already out of
contention they are going to be dropping down to the contenders if they can make
their way through it they should be able to at least get some experience that
might set them up to return to this stage the next year not the next year
sorry the next stage. Oopsie a little bit of an oopsie there but yeah that's
it I mean Twisted Minds it's not over for them yet they have another chance
tomorrow to be able to push themselves and get themselves closer to that
qualification. That's the the
Gentlemates going to be happy to
breathe this sigh of relief. Even
if they had it one today, I think
that thanks to that KC win, they
would have been able to make it
because there was no way that
this was going to qualify and
Gentlemates wouldn't, but to be
able to have both the French
teams win today, that is
definitely a victory for the
French.
Yeah, I mean, it's a joyful
for watching everyone we've had it's been a it's been a banger of a series let's face it's like we
we had some some crazy moments a lot of crazy plays and let's not forget we are we are back on
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the games the games tomorrow are going to be bangers casey twisted binds i think a particular
highlight there and again excited yeah just keep in thought that the game change is seen there's a
lot happening, there's a lot going on and soon it will be playoffs as well so all that to look
forward to and more but for another day we're gonna take our leave now I've been Charlotte
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