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Hi, Tom!
Uh, Alberto was looking for you by the way.
Really? Yeah, you better get it quick.
Okay, I'll go check.
Have a break. Have a KitKat.
Tom, Baze.
You've had your fun.
It's my turn.
Welcome back everyone to
Valorant Game Changers, E-M-E-A.
I'm Kaizarin and I'm joined once again by the lovely
Mdante and Mdante.
We have quite a show going on today.
Quite a couple of matchups.
We have quite a lot of matchups, Kaizarin.
We have a difference that feels in venue.
We have a difference that feels in overall vibes.
getting close to the end of the group stages here.
We are on the final two days of the VC game changes,
EMEA so far.
And yeah, you can see it beneath us,
KC and Twisted Minds for the first best of three.
All of these maps coming up both today and tomorrow
will be certified bangers,
but we get to start off with a phenomenal,
phenomenal intro, Kai, we really do.
Yeah, I am so excited.
I think, I mean, at this stage, right?
We'll get to look at the standings later,
but there's a lot of teams still looking to qualify.
And so it's kind of crazy we're nearing the end.
All of these matches are really starting to matter,
including this one that we have today.
So I totally agree with you.
And I think what a way to start off your Wednesday
or to end your Wednesday,
depending on where you guys are right now, of course.
But what a way to celebrate your Wednesday,
maybe I should say.
that we're going to have to
get to the end of the game.
Time zones are weird, ladies
gentlemen, but regards the fact
there is violent here for you.
And why not let have let why
don't we have a look at the
rosters at the end of it? See
who we are looking at coming
through into this initial best
of three Carmine core here. I
mean, the names should not be
as unfamiliar anymore. Kai
Maybe that's just for me, but
we've been seeing a hell of a
performance from all of these
players. Just a quick shout out
to Jax who's been a
a rated player in the entire of all players, all teams for the group stages so far, but
we've got a little bit more of a deeper dive coming up after this.
Yeah, and I think, I mean, at this point, right, when we're talking about two teams
in a banger matchup, all of these players at this point are putting in work in the lobby.
And so when you're looking at a team like CarmineCore, I mean, this is just a solid
roster.
They're comfortable together.
You highlighted Jix.
We can highlight all five of these girls.
Oh, we could.
Easy.
Easy.
But we will have a look through.
We've got some more entire discussions, but twisted minds as well,
just as a recap for anyone that is needing a look at as well.
Let's see.
Leen, who's currently the second highest performer of the entire region of the entire group stage,
only one player managing to just kind of beat her out on top.
That, of course, being a key from G2, no surprises there.
Again, another roster we could shot at the entire team.
Yeah, I mean, Lean's ability, it's almost like you leave Lean alive, the round's over.
You have to really kind of pinpoint how you're going to deal with Lean,
but the problem is it's not just Lean, like you said.
It's the way the rest of Twisted Minds is able to set up Lean to pop off like that.
And so you talk about a strong player and a strong roster,
Twisted Minds also very much in the conversation.
and we can have a look exactly
how much in the conversation by
just having a rundown of the
standings here. So Twisted
Mines and Carmine Corps just
two, just two kind of games
separating between them. The
reason very simply the map
differential ladies and gentlemen,
they've won and lost the exact
same number of series, but
Twisted Mines actually just
edged out Carmine Corps on that
one additional or yeah on that
one additional map. So I mean
really much of a comparison, Kai?
Well, it's not.
And when we're looking at this, right, day three of week three,
there's only two teams that have qualified so far.
So you're looking at the rest of this roster.
There's a lot of variability.
And so when we're talking about this matchup we have today,
whichever team wins here will qualify.
It doesn't matter if you're third right now,
it doesn't matter if you're fifth right now.
Right, the winner is going to qualify,
and you want to solidify that spot,
because like we said, there's a lot of variability.
And when you're looking at all the games
these teams have played, I mean,
some teams have more series left to play than others.
And you don't want to get into a situation
where you're waiting on other matches to determine your fate.
You want to solidify your fate now.
So I think we're going to have a banger series
because qualification is on the line here, Medante.
I mean, that's exactly it.
You want that top spot.
You don't want to be giving,
especially like G2 or Gentleman,
it's now that they have already qualified.
Them having more of an impact on your future
is wilder just because of the fact that you're going to be dealing with all of those additional
unknowns. You're going to be dealing with the fact that, you know, all that is their performance
tomorrow going to impact how we do it. If you just play well now, get yourself seated, get yourself
sorted, you can move on. You don't have to worry about everyone else and how they play. You've done
the hard part because at the end of the day, how you play and how your team coordinate are the only
variables you can control. Yeah, absolutely. You want to solidify that qualification spot because,
Like you said, that's the only variable you can control and I'm so glad we kind of got the chance to look at the rosters because
If we want to take a deeper dive into that
I mean we have a couple players who have really been flex players on their team and so first, you know for the side of KC
I definitely want to highlight Anacilia. I mean has been a solid flex player as you can see and
Yeah, not not as many wins on that yoru
And I think later when we talk about many maps in their pool, we'll be able to see exactly why I don't think it's necessarily
Her as a player, but I mean just a solid look at that
I mean solid initiator that she is a pretty solid, you know secondary duelist as flashes that the maps just haven't gone their way
But solid Sentinel
I mean you talk about a flex player to be able to play four agents throughout this entire stage and to do it
Relatively well like we said, I mean one went away from qualifying
that's that's a pretty strong player you're up against.
Anacilia has been very much a near cornerstone for KC. It certainly feels like, but on the other side, again, we could have we could have highlighted every single one of these players, ladies and gentlemen, we could have been yapping your ear off for another 10, 15 minutes on this spot.
We just get to jump over and look at Graeme's now and the yoru a little bit more of kind of sample size than what Anacilia was getting.
She's only kind of had those three opportunities and Yori 8 picks the one the Yori from Graeme's and that three to five records
You know that win rate the that thirty seven point five percent
That can be a little bit shaky
However, with the double kind of duelist initiator controller meta that we've been seeing and lots of teams picking things up
It is very much down to kind of your support duelist your support controller
And you do then get to see I think that with the killjoy
Once you let Graeme's just play maps that allow sentinels to be played on
because some of them have just been phased out on to support that double controller style just kind of run
You know viper and then maybe Bremer and omen or something so hundred percent winery on a killjoy is a scary
Scary stat to have
Yeah, and I think especially when we're looking at these win rates
Maybe I don't think that's necessarily indicative of the entire picture because like we said a lot of that has to come down to
Okay, our team plays this agent on this map and our team hasn't been winning this map quite as much
But yeah, I mean another solid flex especially you're looking at you know
She's able to play Yoru her killjoy obviously like you said I mean strong
So you you go to a map where you put grams on killjoy, but you have the rest of the team supporting that
I mean you don't want to go into that pick and of course like also a breach
I mean we're talking again about something to play secondary duelist you have flashes you have that Sentinel you have that initiator
So to be able to have these really key components of your team in these Flux players that can really kind of flex to fit any sort of
Meadow whatever your team wants to run. That's pretty impressive
It's by no means a there's a reason why and this is not to highlight anyone specifically
But one trick pony does get thrown around particularly in kind of those tier 2s kind of lower echelons of tier 1
Right where players are just so confident in that one role that they will make everything work kind of for them
They want to kind of just force the play styles because they know how to maximize an agent
They know how to maximize utility or even a composition that
Suddenly changing that around suddenly kind of adapting flexing lots of team struggle lots of roster struggle
And I think it's just very indicative that neither KC nor twisted minds do and that means the map pick and ban here
Some aspects gonna be less relevant than potentially other matchups
but some aspects may be the most relevant, okay?
Can you come up with something that's a bit more of a surprise?
Can you come up with something that either of these teams
can't flex to deal with?
Because so far, the adaptability is from both.
Yeah, and if we want to get into those map betas,
I mean, let's see where we're headed to exactly for the series.
But, you know, starting off on that Haven,
I'm a little bit excited to see,
and we're going to get a chance to break down those comps later,
and I'll give more thoughts on that later,
but definitely excited to be going to Haven.
I think that's been a staple throughout the stage with a lot of teams.
I think it's also one of those maps in the pool that everyone,
especially in GC, knows how to play Haven, right?
Yeah. They should not fear.
Haven is a map that only one team is allowed to fear,
and that's because G2 have been insta-banning it since they have been given the opportunity.
The moment they are allowed,
the picks and bans are entered, people just look at G2 and go,
We're not playing Haven and G2 go.
And that's it.
And that's it.
That's the only discussion for at least a map one anyway,
which we were surprised about being kind of alloyed in
because these maps Haven specifically
hasn't been as successful for some of these teams as others.
Again, we can get to kind of look at those compositions.
We do it in just a little bit of a second.
But Breeze as well in particular has always
been a phenomenal one to watch.
And Jax particularly, I highlighted her.
She plays Harvard and that's again.
Well, I mean, also, you know, you talked about G2 and Haven,
we got to talk about G2 and Breeze, right?
I mean, they've been so dominant on Breeze for so long, but.
You know, they, they also, I mean, they recently had a loss on Breeze as well.
So not surprised that we're seeing teams start kind of picking that back up.
I'm excited to see KC on this breeze, of course.
And then bind as a decider.
I think that's another solid to set.
I'm not surprised with the pearl and corrode because especially how the
the state has been going, I think you want a solid map and I think fine fits really kind
of well into that. But I mean, if we want to talk a little bit more about these teams
on these maps, right, we can break down the comps that they've been running the stage
a little bit. So if we want to look at KC, I mean, you kind of said it, right, that harbor
on that breeze that I'm looking at and 100% win rate on breeze, not surprised they picked
it. I am interested in this Haven, not necessarily their comp, but I'm interested that we are
going there because then we'll get a chance to see Twisted Minds comp, but every time
Carmine Core with this comp that they run on Haven have played against the comp we're
going to see coming from Twisted Mind, they've lost. So I think they're going to have a little
bit of a hard time there on Haven, but we go to Breeze, right? I mean, they're looking
strong, they're looking confident. So I would not be surprised if we go to this Decider
I'm buying either would I and again a big thing about both of these rosters is you cannot just look at these agents and guarantee who's on what
But you can you can look at maybe Harbor and say that's Jax
Everything else for all of these maps is a little bit right up in the air
It's not adds just okay, you know, we've got like Jax on controller
We've got kind of you know the rest of the roster one person's on the support controller one person on the drill
It's not gonna quite work that way and then we jump over to
twisted minds picks as well just to give them a full rundown and this is why
Kai I'm noticing a big a big number that's a lot more different than what
KC were kind of putting up especially remember this was KC's pick if I'm not
mistaken. I think KC might have actually picked freeze and I think that kind of
goes down too right we're looking at these what's standing out to me is we're
looking at the win rate. So the top rate you're actually seeing is the amount of
times they've played these comps, right? 100% win rate for Twisted Mind on Haven.
We took a look at KC just before 0% win rate, right? So definitely a map that
Twisted Mind is confident in and comfortable on. Not surprised they
picked that. Then we head over to Breeze. Now Twisted Mind have only played it
twice. They got a win and a loss. 100% win rate for KC from Breeze. So not
surprised to see that being pulled out. So as we get ready to head into bind,
You're looking at and of course we're looking at the puts in mind and I'm excited that we don't have mirror comps on this map
But 50% win rate right going to be a close matchup. I'm excited. I think for a qualification match
I don't think we could have asked for a better map. Well, I think there's a very high possibility that we go to that decider
We do I'm with you on that guy
I'm hundred percent with you and bind has now been the site for anyone that's maybe picking now just to join
join us on the game changers kind of hype train A, you have a lot of matches to catch
up on that agree and B, bind has been a scary map for some of these rosters, KC and SK have
both kind of dealt with the entire E 12 0 half into winning the series and that is something
that has happened on bind twice over the course of this group stage casering.
It means the putting bind at the end doesn't give you the chance to reverse sweep from
the kind of flip on that map veto, right?
You can't play bind first, get 13-0 and then swing it back.
You have to now do or die if it gets that far.
Yeah, and I mean we did say this, but...
And it is lack guaranteed we're going to map three.
When you talk about these two teams that are both solid, same standings, a little bit different in map
round differentials, but of course that's to be expected when you play different number of rounds.
But same standings, similar comp win rates, not non-mirror comps.
I'm excited. I don't want to jinx it, but going all three, going all three maps on a qualification match, banger.
It's a banger. I think this is gonna be a great series. I'm so excited to get into this. I mean, that's the thing, right?
We get more maps. The round differential gets a little bit bigger.
You get an opportunity to catch up to G2 and Gentlemates.
But why would we talk any further? Ladies and gentlemen, we can get in to this map number one penultimate day of the group stages.
It's game one, Casey, Twisted Minds, and your agents are now in front of us.
I mean, is it really, you know, too much variability, not really.
And that's why we got a chance to look at what they choose, their typical comps.
I am so excited.
I think there's a lot of variability.
And we've talked about this one other teams have played Haven, but I personally love this
like kind of Viper KJ combo right now.
I think there's a lot of info with that wall.
I think it's so strong and especially, you know,
on attack, you have that AWOL,
it really just cuts off a lot of sight lines
from those defenders.
But then you look at a team comp,
like Carmine Core, you have that cypher.
There's a lot of information you can get
without having to overextend yourself, right?
You have the cam, you get a lot of different ways
to kind of combat that.
So I think it's gonna be who can adapt
to the other play styles.
And I mean, like we said, historically,
Casey has had a hard time adapting to this Viper comp,
But with, you know, qualification on the line,
if there's ever a chance to kind of
vodka view and practice, it's got to be now.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see a little bit more
come out from them, but I mean,
twisted minds have just been looking so strong at this map.
Yeah, they really have.
And I mean, that compositional pick rate percentage 69.6,
that is on attack as well in defense
with that kind of setup as you talked about Kai.
It's going to likely be pretty simple for them
hold that till you've got neon for the fast rotates. You don't have the gate crash for
kind of the insta rotates. That's where Carmine Claw again that extra utility to be able to
spot a dimensional drift I think is still regardless of the nurse and such who came through a phenomenal
piece of utility. Just as that kind of invincible Sofa Tejo drone right. Yes okay you don't kind
of stun people you don't you can't even flash them anymore but just to give your opposition
or just to give sorry your teammate information on where the opposition is how to aim even the
Hunter's Fury, just keeps someone a little bit distracted and from rotating off of the site
immediately, that is going to be down to Karamankor of course. That is going to be if the Retech's
come through. If you're re-taking against Twisted Minds, especially with a 70% attack win rate,
which sounds likely, it's going to be tough. It is definitely going to be tough and when you're
looking at a map like Haven, there's so many lanes, it's a three site map. So retaking is so
important and it's also important to have like those active lanes of information. And so I think
what we're going to see coming in with the difference in these team comps is a little bit
of this, right? The Viper comp is slower. It's not as aggressive. It's not as kind of all in with
all this util. It doesn't have that fast rotate like you said, but it denies a lot of info and
that's kind of the trade-off you get for this heavy retake util. Also, I mean, it's so volatile,
especially right and let's say you're trying to retake from a or or c you have
that Viper orb down you have Molly's to slow you have shock darts from sova you
can you have the paranoia for when they try to push right there's a lot of times
or when these teams are retaking they have small chokes to retake from and so
if you're able to just really kind of dumb stalling you tell them that you have
KJ Molly's to right that's gonna be really tough on the other hand like you
said you have this explosive comp coming out from KC fast rotates you have this
Cypher which can kind of hold down the site and has a lot of information so I mean there's ways to combat this there are different channels you can also
Kind of retake from but you have to be really strong in your set retakes because with the three-site map
retakes are going to happen
Retakes are almost certainly going to happen as well
We get into this
Ladies and gentlemen and a big thing as well for anyone that is just wanting to follow up
You know, we've got the cash cups and stuff now online as well
So even if you're not seeing you know everything from from these players that maybe you wish or you just want to see some
More they will be doing that as well
So there's plenty of valorant plenty of action for you here, but we're gonna get underway
Seems like a pretty standard compositional split so far
You'll get to see the lineup from Graeme's here exactly how those killjoy needs get all the control and presence
Fisted mines we're gonna need in so far. It's that little bit of a slower style here
Really going to rely Twisted I've got to say on lean getting that entry you don't have a second backup
Jullus to really get you that space so it's all down to the fast lanes all down to the slides
potentially just all down to lean's mechanics
But it's also denture right like look at that wall
That we see from Sarah over on a right if you notice early in the round
You had sova and you're just kind of popped up there because that cuts off a sight line
You can control when it goes up and down so
So you're still able to kind of spread those defenders a little bit thin, so it's not just
on lean if your whole team can kind of deny that info before those rotations come in,
but it doesn't look like it's going to matter too much just how I'm in this pistol round.
All the rotations already came in, everyone's kind of posted up during the C site, but it's
going to be on TysnMind, so play out the site.
They've taken that, they've taken that as an instruction, Kai, and what was just such
Such a tentative easing for the site here has now become that control going the web
twisted.
As I said, that's not the easiest.
Her timing is perfect, shots a little bit late, so is he able to get traded out instead?
Could have potentially walked away with the frag there.
But Anacilia, the flex, the highlight we talked about for Carmine Core.
Last woman standing 2 vs 1, 82 HP with the ghost online.
She could isolate these fights, especially Ness here on the lower HP, but it's a beautiful
single shot and twisted off of a not dominant C site, but essentially a certain bit of give
and take they walk away the victors.
I mean, I really like, obviously it's a pistol round, so if you're hitting your shots, things
are going to go your way, but I kind of like the, just kind of like all push the site and
brawl it out.
I love to see pistol rounds like that.
I think, yeah, it's fun to see all this utility really coming to play, and we did see that
a little bit, but that's what the later rounds are for. I just love seeing gunshots. I just
love a fast pistol round. I'm a little biased.
As the zoomer brain it gets you. If you can't pull out the eye-catch, you need some form
of stimulation going on, but stimulation certainly is what's going through here, KC.
Having just hear all of these gunshots echo throughout the map and went for this really
kind of heavy stacked B site means they can rotate fast on to C but with no
presence here a decent bit of utility might be able to get them something
certainly Kai but a five-person stacked all defense spawn is going to be a lot in this dark.
Yeah that's tough when you're not kind of on the weapon to vanish but they're doing a very very great job
lots and lots of damage. Akiyya is able to recover, there's Bulldog going up the ice
and does get Sarah so now just have to find grams and does it
beautiful red bull clutch from out here nice 4k recovered that bulldog and wow
really really great re-take hi days I'm talking about I'm talking about lean
right I'm talking about that neon what could it possibly do not giving the
credit where it potentially is due. An absolutely dominant performance from Al-Qaeda gets the
spacing off the back of the silver dart, gets the bulldog, gets the frags and a very, very
good answer back, honestly. Twisted though, I mean they did do a decent bit of damage there,
so the economy bit back and forth actually opting just to go for the lower pie and Aniselea
showing exactly how scary that can be an outlaw versus no shields
yeah I think that lesson was a very important round win for KC right didn't win the pistol they need to get as many rounds as I can so
beautiful beautiful recovery there and like you said now able to full buy you put a scope in the hands of Anacilia and bye bye smokes
still have Sarah with this wall though orb already placed
Alright, exactly the difference maker is going to be, but the difference maker is twisted
just getting all of this control, all of this presence, Kriams is even pushed up so it's
not going to be the immediate pushback from Safia, she's going to have to spend some time
getting that frag, she does manage to, but not down to 10 HP here, the shock dart's just
going, going to bounce off of any angle, get any damage coming through here, but Casey
off the back of that kind of answer back from Twisted they're not gonna want to
give this away they want to make sure the defense can come through Safia gets
away with her life barely until the snake does by a one versus two Sarah versus
Jax Amalia is still there but the angle just does in favor Sarah and Jax gonna
have plenty of time for the defuse
Little shopping maybe.
Has the time to do that.
That defuse is going to come out another round on the board from Casey.
It was expensive.
But because they were able to kind of win that eco earlier, thanks to 4k from FDF.
Still in a pretty comfortable spot.
I love that double grenade.
That was really nice from both of them there.
I didn't get that control, and Sarah just really trying to tanz her back where she tried.
It just wasn't quite gonna be enough.
But so far we're really seeing, I mean the back and forth here, everyone in these first
three rounds, Kai has had a moment to shine, has had a moment where the round rested on
their shoulders, and we expect nothing less from these teams that are both so evenly showing
up on the group stages, and have had such evenly kind of banger maps in the rest of their stage thus far.
I mean, that's the thing, we can talk about macro and matchups and comps as much as we
want, but if you have shooters online, that's at the end of the day, that's what this game
is about.
Speaking of shooters though, an AWP in the hands of Alchya means I'm going to be wrapped
to push that A site, good thing you have that wall from Sarah.
The Twisted just trying to see where they can find any sort of intel, and I'm looking
at the fight over them at C.
See, that information, that information, just get in, poke a little bit, gatecrash
on you, and no, Jax has to do everything, make it one, the second as well.
Saran's in back, just seems to be these two at the moment, at least the initial head's
clashing, and then the rest of the body, much more willing to just kind of back it up afterwards,
but Twisted's still able to get this present on site, and that's you with a beautiful TP
off the back of the paranoia, twisted get the sight of three versus two and another retake
required from KC but an extra obstacle in their wake, I might cause them to consider this differently.
Yeah and it looks like that Vibra's pit is enough to make them say all right we have two guns,
we have that off, we're gonna save it. Like not electing to push that, I don't blame them.
Twisted did a really great job getting in there like you said.
Tattoo, off of that paranoia.
Did a great job just clearing out the rest of sight.
Really good scan, I think they know.
Not sure, I don't think Alchia's shot, so I don't know if they know this off is in play.
But they definitely will next round get the peek at the credits.
I'm seeing 4 out of 10.
No, unless I'm completely misremembering, the operator's gonna have five bullets, so at some point, a shot was loosed, whether anyone heard it or whether it was just a free fire remains to be seen, but you would think someone would have that information.
However, it doesn't really matter if you've got that information twisted just to be able to get on the site as comfortably as this
Ultimates coming online and another aspect right guy
It's gonna be really different who can get these these ultimates as valued as possible because
Not only from the shadows for less you right now
You can still make something off of that
Okay, and ultimate economy is so important one off lean salt as well so
So, he's able to find a pick.
You have the overdrive you can work with.
Fun round still.
I certainly need to invest it.
It's gonna be the other neon of Alchia,
though, to find that first pick with that operator.
We talked about it so deadly,
and it looks like Twisted Mind electing to head over.
Right, but gotta look out for Anacilia
on the other side with the shotgun.
Hold on, hold on.
You heard the Cybertrap.
You heard the information being gathered,
but not a single person from Twisted decides to up-left every single person turns right.
And right it was, it stops them walking into that bucky, gets the spike planted with very little incident,
decent bit of damage really being chipped through, but last year, you and Sarah are still more than healthy enough to take this engagement.
And here's the aspect of the operator, that kind of double-edged sword, right?
Sometimes it is difficult to attack in with it, it's difficult to kind of force any presence you need to pop over drive,
which is exactly what Alki has done.
Fries up one mix, a second.
Lean at least.
Panthers back, Glantz having to do it,
although she can't quite do the rest of it.
Kareem's going to fall one versus three,
and back and forth, the tug of war really isn't gonna end.
I wanna stop this before, but I,
and I think there's a time and place.
I'm not always in favor of just electing to start
to start on that B side, especially after you show that presence grass and they find
one, but it's a little bit harder for you to post plant from and pick kind of old for
those three takes.
And so that allows Casey right to have Alchie pop that overdrive and kind of run in there
that allows you to kind of do whatever I mean.
And you're right, they did not bless, but had the gun left, I mean, I think Anacilia
would have been good for at least one.
I think it's a little bit tougher.
It is twisted though, at least going to be answer in five minutes.
Got the round of overdrive.
And the buy is kind of half there, right, Lane?
Decided not to go for the overdrive.
It looks like at least at the moment.
Twisted wanting to get all of this position, all of this advantage first,
and then go off to the ultimates once the advantage has been gained.
But there's three people stacked, the overdrive now popped.
The information is very back and forth.
So far that pinstripe going through.
I'll care just watching her team though dismantle twisted eSports as soon as
The smokes fade as soon as those operators can get the sight lines coming through
It's KC walking away with a dominant hold
I think KC heard us talking about their stats going into this. I wanted to prove us wrong because they certainly are right now
That stats can only tell you stats can only paint so much of a picture, right?
I mean eventually sample size is going to be a factor or occasionally
Upsets do happen hundred percent as a rare statistic to ever have in anything
And KC really wanted to upset twisted mines
100% success rate on this haven thus far and with the performance we're currently seeing from KC very possible
See how strong that blipers wall is right you have that up holding long not even able to clear it
You have to invest the use of the silver dermit so you're able to bait out utility because
of that wall because it denies so much information.
So yeah, you have Alchia holding that up.
She can't even leave because she doesn't know if someone's on the other side.
It's a lot of information to die so you can see how Casey spread, right?
They don't know really anything at this point.
They have to just kind of hold where they are.
You can see, right?
We saw Jicks have to invest that omen smoke in case someone goes garage.
They all posted up here A and that's all off the back of Sarah able to create space already baited at the drone
They're thinking that's the lurker
Ready for them to peek out and find Graham
Don't wear glances set up to glances in that corner
So if she can just stay up alive she can get everything but it does mean you've just dedicated so much
Present to work short that the rest of the site can get walked on to at least a little bit mess
Ness trying to hold it down here, but Glantz certainly gonna be doing that!
Ness tries to get the double swing, tries to get the timing before the neural theft gives Safia any information,
but the shots are gonna be fired, the communications ring out.
And KC, typically something that they struggle with, I mean, retakes are a little bit shakier and twisted.
I've been having such a good performance, what was it? 69% win rate on the attack.
Whatever is changed, whatever case he have researched here, Kai, is doing them absolute wonders.
Now whether this was just off the back of Bodger viewing and practicing and maybe server work on Haven,
or whether this is just them showing up and shooting today, I think it might be a little bit of both.
Right, because I like Twisted Mind's game plan, right? I mean that was a beautiful wall,
But then, you know, you have that reposition coming out from Alpheia
And you don't use any utility to clear that you're not all pushing up even double swing so you can't even trade
It's it's kind of forcing
Casey's defense right is kind of forcing twisted to
They're taking the rest of the present right on a site, but they're sometimes not taking enough for the most valuable
valuable aspect right and I think that last round really did pivot that the
rest of Twisted Minds got comfortably on the site got to their frags but Alchia
and Glance in that kind of short angle near Sears had done so much right just
to keep control of that positioning and then we see what happens Safia taking a
little bit more kind of initiative she goes for that initial swing on guard
and because it's the first time she gets her frag however Cypher comes and the
I'm going to cause a little bit more information.
I'm going to cause swiss to kind of struggle back and forth.
Here, Glance and GX are just able to find it.
Has lean lost the backside?
Has she been cleared?
She will indeed.
No information.
No stone unturned.
Can you see already at least an equal half?
I mean, Hacy just looking really, really strong right here.
I like what I'm seeing from them coming out.
This really strong shooting, strong playing. I mean look at this right? These are just, these are literally just gunfights. They're not able to clear outside and then you have the rest of the KCA. Well they're fixing that up. Beautiful.
very nice and the tech pause ladies and gents might just be a little bit long so we are
just going to be throwing it to a very short break and of course then we'll be giving you
the updates in the times of how long the tech pause will last but do not be going anywhere
because the doubt is going to last that long and I mean we've got the rest of this game
to return whenever it is fixed we'll be back with you in just a minute.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Welcome back everyone, we told you that wasn't going to be very long so I hope you all had
at least enough time to get a KitKat during that KitKat technical break.
I did not, now I'm hungry.
I should have definitely bought in that month, but that can be the reward for us after this.
It can be the reward or the commiseration as well, depending on how the teams are wanting to cope with it.
But, I mean, we've got to really commend KC here so far, right?
Especially in the defense against Twisted Minds.
The attack has been solid from Twisted.
It's been very great presence gain.
It's been very great, kind of, use of the utility.
But KC really are managing to kind of adapt around it perfectly.
Yeah, I mean, I think part of this comes off the back of, right, your twisted minds, and
you're going, we have 100% win rate on this map.
This is our stronger half of this bloodbath and garage is going the way of PC.
And then on the other hand, you have KC who isn't as strong on this map, clearly, and
certainly not on this half.
So when you talk about preparation for a series like that, it's definitely KC who's
been putting in the work and they're showing that great positioning, great reads coming
up from them and you see them getting twisted mind on their back foot.
That's a beautiful flank up from Sarah. That's a beautiful flank up from Sarah to get the
control to get all the way into the back line just to get behind Casey's up player.
But look what happens, I mean we see this paranoia, this set play.
Jackson Saphir, even the response paranoia just coming through the opposition, not really
enough, our timing just not great. I mean yes Sarah all her work to get that operator off the hands,
out of the hands of Alchia and she just gets kind of killed at the end as a consolation for her
attempts and off of the back of that yet twisted, given a lot of space, taking a lot of presence,
the KC seem to have it absolutely scripted and they're answering back perfectly.
Yeah, and I think part of that comes down to, like we said,
Twisted Minds are not bad on this map.
They know how to run their comp.
So yeah, we did see really good positioning from Sarah,
especially on an eco.
But what happens, and that might be a hard run to talk about
because obviously the guns are in favor of Casey.
But if you saw the replaying, I don't even think it matters
what guns are in their hand.
That's what we've been seeing the rest of this half.
So Casey are doing a good job answering to Twisted Mind.
Twisted Mind know how to play it.
They know how to position themselves.
They know what to do.
But they don't know how to play against a team who's kind of bread up and now has to read on them who's winning these fights.
This isn't what Twisted Minds is used to. And so I hope that was a well placed time out.
Hopefully it'll be enough to get them a couple more rounds.
And I hope they're coaching staff and we've highlighted the coaching staff for a lot of these teams earlier.
But hopefully they were able to identify some of what's going on because we know Twisted Minds is good.
But they're just having a hard time adapting to Casey being able to read them, right?
Yeah, I mean really it is down to Frenya needing to get that support and being able to do a lot for this twisted mines organ roster, right?
Being able to kind of show them up again and kind of juggling around that three to fifth spot in terms of the entire group stage.
KC have been a little bit shakier on it but to kind of return to form here, especially off the last couple of games which has put twisted mines again from other teams' performance on that kind of third and fourth slot being juggled behind there.
behind there in case he really wanted to change or surf that spot from Twisted and again it
is just this slower push through the GX getting punished off of that aggressive push up from
short and yet again the space that Twisted are so so certain they want to take this spread
from them. Running down the timer however 40 seconds is still plenty, it's going to be
fast how quickly that can run out especially from that double swing Alchie
and Anacilia managed to put down Sarah and that's one of your big viper walls
that's your big aspect to get yourself on the A site so how do you adapt we'll
rush it back over to site
really really good read for growth 8 it's also it's gonna spot out that lurker
and Graham's fine Alchie knows that Anacilia is nearby
It's not going to matter that gunfight goes the way of Anacilia and now, it's going to
be a 3v3 retake, but these retakes have been going so well for Casey.
Yeah, especially with the Scythe, having that Scythe at the right, it gives the distraction,
it gives everything but Ness deciding she doesn't want to give that opportunity, don't
give Casey any time, because that's what they work with, that's how they do it all.
They hit you as well, she's able to get the smoke, but she's just going to have to swing
would maybe take a little bit too long to get the dark cover down as well, so Glance
at least afforded that one versus one fight, not being distracted by the one-way, even
still let you able to land the shot, and it keeps Twisted at least somewhat competitive
for this attack.
I do believe Twisted Man could land two rounds. I think this could end as a 7-5 half. I know
they have it in them obviously but in this case he looks so so strong here.
Madanda.
Four ultimates at least.
Nearly a bit if you want to count lane to offer the overdrive she's not able to quite
get the frag but I love this from the shadows.
It's one of my favourite open ult spots in the game and I don't see enough people run
it but speaking of open you might not need the ultimate if Jax is just able to cut down
to ensure and the third and final on the site itself she answers back and she answers back hard
i mean the gunfights are also just going the way of kasey that's the thing and
i think if you're twisted you maybe are used to the sonata info and being able to kind of
position yourself where those gunfights are going to go your way so you just can't bank on that and
And so now you tell me you maybe would have preferred to utilize for a post-plant.
You might need to start using to clear out some of these.
Honestly, I'm really right there with you.
I mean, you've got a lot of utility that would make post-plant phenomenal,
but we're struggling to get to post-plant, and even when we are there,
KC just do have a complete level of...
It's not a control and a presence, right?
Because that's completely going to twisted mines.
with the one with the initial control, the initial presence, in case he just opting to answer back.
And the way the Cypertrips are set up, you're not just able to shoot them, right?
You have to sacrifice the shock dart, the Sova Arrow, just to get that one piece of utility dealt with.
But you're still managing to Safia here, and this time she's operating on her own, right?
Alchia and Jax now working together on that midley, actually three of them, all working towards B entirely.
gives Safia just any time, any kind of player she decides to work with, that flexibility,
and yet again, timer kind of cut down to half. Locked down now being used alkea though seemingly
ready just to wait in the smoke and greet the attackers. And with the last turn in the half,
definitely a good time to invest that ultimate. Impaired with the Viper's kit, but
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The score line is right, maybe they expected the numbers to be similar, but they should
not be next to who they currently are. There's a three and a nine involved. I just don't expect
Twisted thought it would be like this. I mean, hey, we know what can happen with three nine.
So I wouldn't have to list it out of it just yet. I mean, I think part of it was last half, right?
Oh, let's see who's gonna be the first to peek out here. They're gonna be Jix,
Celine, both, both shooters, but I think this was going the way of Casey. But one thing that
that really stood out to me from Casey last time right is that they have this
explosive comp that should make it easy to to retake but they're going against
such a volatile comp that they didn't even have to do the retake they did such a
good job of using those active channels because it's so hard to retake that if
they can stop the plant from going down it doesn't matter good shots coming out
all across the map. Both sides, a 3v3 here. Looks like everyone's gonna meet up here in mid!
Glance with two! All gonna be down to Ness here.
Two players, half HP with a bandit in hand.
Ex and Glance down, no slouches in their positioning.
Turns for me, she says she's bought the gun out though.
A 3k already online. The silver dart as well, not gonna scan.
Glance has all the time in the world a single shock dart as well and there's so much space that nest has to clear out here
She should get the inkling from now, but it is an a link and she is especially off the back
Shock darts essentially being thrown back passed back to each other first spike gonna get tapped the bullets do land
Go and put down to even lower HP so the dirt being used though
Offing for the ghost instead to get the wall bang just get that additional fire rate and with a 4k
Ness manages to secure the round for Twisted a beautiful retake a beautiful
red bull clutch and these pistol rounds have in no way been common or easy to
protect Kai. They definitely have not that was a much needed pistol round from
Twisted but they're gonna have to hold on to this next one too right last time
they went with the pistol wasn't exactly as close as this one but they couldn't
hold on to it they allowed that clutch to come in at the end and they don't
really have the rounds to work with here so loved what I saw love love love what
I saw come out from Ness but I'd like to see more from the whole team because
things are looking dicey on their map pick yeah I mean now they just get to
get across to the farm and those beautiful speaking of a headshot here oh
Oh, Graeme! Oh, Graeme! The trigger discipline is absolutely stunning!
But it might backfire, but it might have been answered back on.
Glant suddenly steals a specific, just one eyeful of her opponents.
She lands the shots, hunters fury only one away from coming online.
It's the second round of the half-kaisering.
That's a dominant performance from your Sova.
Latio and Ness need it to get this retake came through,
and a bandit was so solid on the pistol ring, Ness.
She's gonna have to do it again, but the wallhack's already through the spike and there's the tag
You're gonna come through from the cypher cam here. I'm not sure how feasible this is
Definitely possible but listen to this utility to clear it's all down to Latteau finds one
Was looking to get it to half of that right click is gonna finish that off and Casey do it again
I'm really starting to see, is Trigger Discipline bad?
Is Trigger Discipline actually just not a good thing because I am seeing a lot of
particularly for this entire group stage.
It's not just one team run up, but you get that kind of lurk and then all of a sudden
it collapses on you, right?
I don't think, I don't necessarily think that's bad.
I think they're right Grimm's trust with their teammate who was able to sign one.
Grimm did get two there before getting cleared out.
I think it just came to right then lean they found the lean as well.
I don't think the trigger discipline was bad.
I think that was good teamwork.
But I think there was just a heavy pushing garage and once those trades came out and
you didn't have the rest of your team there to take that out, okay also taking out your
kill joy a little bit tougher to hold down sights now but yeah that came out
and I know weapons recovered it just tough see it seems that twisted or not
just ready for Casey's like they're not ready for the attack either right I mean
they had that look set up from Grahams on the on that garage site she gets the
frags but still not enough because Casey are just that overwhelming their
presence is that strong and look exactly what's happening yet again an
overwhelming presence is the only way I can describe it Sarah tries to answer
back the glance just has the better weaponry has the HP needed to survive
Hunter's Fury online Alki essentially holding an operator here next has to
swing and gets the sprague at the very least has to do that three more times
and get the diffuse could opt for the hunter Hunter's fury if she so wishes
but at that rate, at that pace, probably be too late, Ness 2. Yeah, she's just gonna opt for the save.
Yeah, Adam Blymer with time ticking and still three of them did a good job opening that pick and
was just hoping someone else would swing and peek her, but because they didn't, there's not really
enough time to do the impossible good save coming out helps the economy, but that also means in case
you're about to be on 11 points and so you're doing seven rounds in a row to even tie.
And we're quickly, quickly approaching this match point here. Casey looks so strong and it almost
looks like Twisted Mind. Maybe we're like, hey, I don't think we need to focus on our haven. Our
haven is solid. There's isn't. Let's focus on other maps. We'll choose it. It works out well for us.
And Casey had that answer locked up and ready to go into some answer like wait, what's going on?
We didn't prepare for this. We're not ready
Because we know they're good we we know they're a good team and we know they're good on this map
But like this is not what we've been seeing from Casey on Haven right and I really like their answer to
Kind of maybe previous matchups
us
I mean it's just coming through right I mean
Jax gets that information, she's currently locked in, she takes the damage sure but
I don't have that neon anymore, that is your duelist gone, you now have to kind of pivot
everyone here from Twisted onto the B site because the rotates are going to happen f**king
fast regardless, KC again just so great at just testing the extremities from that and
going for a complete push through, even that corner of the Viper wall being checked from
the shadows to get the plant site all under control, all under lockdown.
Ness though, just deciding the Hunter's Fury, it's now is the time and she
finds a frag on Anna Celia. The timing from Sarah's good. The shots though just
can't quite land here. She manages to get the regroup for Grahams at 4 versus 4
with Glance on line for the post-plant Hunter's Fury. She doesn't
immediately just rotate the wall the way down C long, right? She wants to still
support Safi to get the rest of her team packed up. She's a aggressive push. The
The distraction off the silver door is absolutely clinical.
It's really harder for the set retake when you only have your two controllers there. Make that just one.
That too. Doesn't want this to go to match point but has three to deal with and it's going to be forced to save once again.
I mean, this and for anyone that was really wanting it, and performance upon this was
going, ME, who have qualified by the way, twisted, absolutely, like, dealt with them.
It may be the nicest way to say it, right?
You know, ME, it's just nested comfortably beneath G2.
Nested made Haven just look like their map, right?
Again, if you are really dealing with the second highest performer of the entire group stage,
that comfortably and suddenly KC are coming through and answering back saying,
we've done our homework, we've done our practice,
it really does make Twist a little bit nervous, especially because we've seen KC, right?
We looked at the map breakdown, Breeze is not an uncomfortable map for KC,
it's not awful for Twisted, but, I mean, they've got eight rounds to get to OT,
I guess before they have to worry about that.
I mean, and you said earlier, too, we can't just go off of that.
So maybe Twist and Mine could pull something back on Breeze as well.
Just like KC were able to do here.
Wouldn't it be a surprise?
We've seen stranger things happen, but KC just look like they figured
out how to play this map of Haven.
They figured out how to play this comp.
They figured out how to play against this Viper comp that has been giving them trouble.
It really just looks like they did their homework and it's showing. It is showing.
Look at that. I mean, you see the relay bolt come through and then the disengage.
The disengage here, KC, just not needing to opt for anything. And look what it's forcing.
It's forcing a rotate from Twisted. They believe it's going to be an A push.
The alarm bot just gets pre-fired. Very standard setup there. I mean, the things with your research, right?
For instance, becoming the alarm bot, they're all pretty similar every single time.
and you can see the Killjoy kind of updating the utility to really reflect that but it's still
getting caught out. Asaphia, she's stuck kind of in the middle of the viper's den here but
gets this presence, this distraction. It could be ever since the Hunter's Fury just being
vaulted does have to give a little bit of hope. Really poor at the opposition of Twisted Minds
but KC pick up there's two already. Good answer back from Twisted but the spike is ticking.
like sticking in a smash point there's no saving here it's all down to lean and
Sarah highlighted lean before but it's not gonna matter that's gonna be map
win for KC on Twisted Minds map pick and wow was that not a dominant
performance from KC we were talking about everyone there I mean we were
really mentioning can you know Anna Celia and Grahams were your two kind of
discussions at the start and all love to them, right? But they weren't the ones that showed up,
Kai. They were both kind of 7, 13, 6 and 17. You know, could have done a little bit more. But
it's GX and Sarah, the controllers really the ones to pop off and look at GX's for four of us
there. She's been living that controller life her entire valour and career. Well, and you know,
I will say this very much looked like a team difference there.
It just looked like KC as a team were comfortable.
Another thing I think that really helped them though early on and throughout the entire map is
we're looking at Jix the obviously the MVP 22 and 10 phenomenal numbers.
I mean, it's 2.8 KDA, but when you look at the entire like the entire rest of the team,
everyone was putting up numbers.
Everyone was hitting their shots.
But really, I mean, this was a team game, it honestly was.
KC really did their homework on how Twisted Mind plays,
how they do this.
And a lot of what we're seeing from Twisted Mind,
especially that first half,
is you would notice that Twisted Mind would kind of do
what always works out for them.
And they weren't expecting KC to play the way they did,
which obviously was KC doing their homework,
but they weren't investing, you tell,
the gun fights were going the way of KC.
and it's like, well, now suddenly you're twisting mind, you're on your back foot and you're going,
but this always works. But this always works. And Casey is going, well, not always, not always.
14 first kills really does go to show it. And now we get to look at the map hole for anyone
that needs a reminder, split and kind of a best, you know, more standard, more standard kind of
bands there, the Corode, or the Corode and Pearl, a little bit less and now breeze. It was Casey's
pick and twisted really no on the back foot here kind really need to dig in
deep if Carmine can manage a 2-0 series with a 9 round differential on the
first map even if Breeze is close. Carmine core have certainly done so much of
an effort here to really upset the standings and potentially trade places
with their opposition. Yeah I mean they definitely will be trading places if
they take this series 100%.
That is what's going to happen around differential
would also definitely help them out.
And then the other thing you have to consider, right,
is with qualification on the line,
if Casey are able to take this,
that they're sitting pretty theirs.
But no, that doesn't mean, of course,
it would be the end for a Twisminder either team,
but definitely want to solidify that qualification.
We're going to breeze next.
So we're going to see if those shots
are still hitting when those long sight lines are involved.
So we're going to pop into a quick little Kit Kat break coming up.
And when we come back, it'll be KC's MAPPIC.
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I'll be in the wind, baby, I'll get you tomorrow.
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Well, KC puts so much effort into Haven, it's such a popular pick map, it's second overall in terms of the entire group stage thus far behind Binds, so it has been very much an aspect of if you don't understand your maps, if you kind of struggle with the ones that are more commonly being picked, and Twisted were not usually that right, KC were the ones, and now the sides are flipped.
KC on a map that they have been so dominant on, twisted on a map that maybe not, and we have learned just from that first map at least
that all of that prior information may be for nothing.
Yeah, it turns out stats actually
don't matter as much as we thought they did going into this
because
wow, I mean
Honestly though, I was gladly proven wrong. I will eat my words
I really like that I saw from KC. Now the question, like we said, is gonna be can twisted minds do this?
But a couple of things that are sticking out to me is one this is breeze with a lot more open sight lines
Casey we're winning a lot of those gunfights
So to some mind I think are going to have to invest some of that utility that they weren't quite doing on Haven
The other thing and not not to bring other teams into this because I think at this point right these are all good teams
But right we know G2 have qualified the only team to even take a series on them has been
Casey obviously G2 still have one more match
But G2 won on Breeze, which previously, I mean G2 have been undefeated on for so long.
Greated!
Breeze has been out of the mat pool for a bit, but I mean they had been so strong, so dominant,
undefeated and KC the ones to kind of, you know, tear all that down.
So now, I mean, now KC are really the ones to beat here and yeah, maybe, maybe Twisted
minds we're like hey let's not let's not worry about our haven that's strong
let's put all this work in the breeze I'm just saying hey all the eggs in
baskets sometimes it can be sometimes they don't hatch but sometimes sometimes
everything hatches the exact way that you would plan and you're talking about
the amount of eggs in baskets I mean twisted mines here they've got to have
all of their eggs in this basket. That Haven map could cannot be something that they think about
anymore. Yes, okay. Carmine Core came in, they answered well. You've got this breeze and so far,
I mean, the wind differentials, right? Not meeting as much as we initially thought the
composition pick rate, though, certainly going to be relevant in the attack win rate. Carmine Core,
it is going to be Jax on that harbor. And for anyone that doesn't know, this is Jax pre-buff.
Harbor is about to get completely essentially buffed in every single capacity. So if she is
a terrifying presence on this map beforehand for Carmine Core, we can only imagine what that
will be like afterwards. And if Twisted Minds Orchid cannot manage to kind of cope with this,
we can see it quick too. I really hope the devs aren't watching this going, wait maybe actually
Harbor is perfectly balanced. Maybe we're not going to have those changes
actually come through, because the way that GX plays makes you look like, wow, I guess
Harbour's already been buffed, right. Beautiful, beautiful. Love the Harbour. Love that we're
also getting to see him shine here, and wow, does she shine on that Harbour, but we're
going to have to see if Toast & Mind are able to shine on their agents because if they
don't take it home here on Breeze, well, unfortunately, they're still in contention for a Playoffs,
They don't have that comfortability of falling. Good shot from Glance.
Go down and meds. You're already seeing the change to double doors, how it's impacting,
how teams want to play this pistol round. And you're seeing it come through a lot, right?
Basically three players fall out that double door angle. One on the lurk and main just to make sure
that Twisted can't get the defense set up. The shots aren't quite hitting any marks. And because
of that, the player advantage just means that Latu's gonna run out of bullets before anyone
else does the spike gonna go down and to be fair while this round may and
certainly looks to be going the way of KC nothing to be worried about yet for
twisted right that was just an engagement in mid and it happened to go
KC's way there's another world entirely we're just the sheriff you know a
pixel or two difference twisted able to get the person advantage online and
unless Jess can do what she did with the band on Haven okay started to believe
Not gonna be enough KC get the pistol round on the board
Yeah, I definitely agree with you. That's not enough for me to write
Put some I know it like you said a lot of shots happening here. I was a lot to not able to find
Any sort of kind of contact that she wanted there holding down an anchoring the site
So not too worried just pistol and hey on Haven we saw both of the pistols
Oh, those sifties come out, just sayin'. Just sayin'.
He did, I mean, that was the thing. The pistol rounder was immediately answered by Twisted
doing something pretty shocking and for the most part it's still the same here, but Lean,
she's invested, okay? There's a little bit of a potentiality here. Marshall comes online
and looks like basically everyone can at least take one shot to the body, but regardless
if it's light shields or no shields, right, one headshot from Lean could be all the difference
the difference in the neon is a very difficult agent we've seen her run it on
Haven and maybe it was just a bit much but that is confidence that lean it
typically has that is an excellent first shot and suddenly right Alchie is full
shields not much more to talk about yeah and you also can look at it they bought
up they bought up here nice headshot from lean and again right a map like
breeze has these long sightlines so maybe would have a scoped weapon like that
especially when maybe full shields not invested. Definitely worth it if you can
hit shots like that. Twisted mines now do have the numbers but it's still gonna
be hard for them to hold site. That's really the only gun they've invested in
and who remembers on B site without lean there. It'll be hard to hold a paper for people to win.
I'm not able to wait. Harbour wall comes through. Does it manage to get
Sarah at least though she's good for one but the fall does mean the Viper wall
not going to be online and we're seeing what kind of where we will be seeing this double
controller setup right twisted wanting to make it work on Haven and despite the pick
rate and despite how much they've ran the composition it didn't do them some favours
this time though a lot more to work with it's beautiful just kind of blind shot dart thrown
through from Ness gets a little bit of damage on and twisted they're just playing this patiently
right I mean they're not really slated to win this round anyway but if they can get
some damage and if they can get this control before giving their presence away they might not
be ready for them those classics and such but long range engagements they have been talked about
gonna be a tap on the spike here right from last year at least answers back she gets the guardian
cannot do anything more a decent bit of damage though three frags for Twisted of the least
honestly that was a very very good I guess we can't even call it a save because there's a little bit
bit of an introduction, but definitely paid off. And I think again, we're talking about
a map like Breeze, we'll get all of these long sightlines. You still have made you have
a few pop out A there and B. So being able to take those weapons offline when you're
going into your buy up, that's huge because now you have such an advantage with those
long range weapons.
A breeze does not, a breeze is not nice to the economy game. It really isn't. Abyss at least, you can opt out of some rounds. You can just jump off the map. You don't have to worry about it, but in breeze it is a lot more savage, right? I mean, again, vandals are coming through. Teams have been really much been rocking the phantom for every map, really, except maybe this and Abyss, and it's good to see why, right?
It's good to see that potential of just a one-tap headshot is so impactful, especially at this rank, especially at this level, right?
At those ranges, when the mechanics are just gonna be clean, when everyone is just gonna be able to comfortably be trusted for the shots.
And the two already landed up there for Twisted here.
Casey on the back foot, the information being gained as well here, stuck in this mid with how many options to really work with.
And now they know this is headed towards the B. Sarah wasn't ready for a glance to wrap
around that way she's not with it.
I'm going to have to have some sort of set retake come in but they're waiting for those
rotates from Lean and Ness.
Plenty of time, right?
Spike's only just gone down but Glancing in particular, her timing just seems to be
a thorn right in the back of the twisted every time there's something being executed, something
being attempted. Plants is the one that kind of shuts it down and then the rest of her team
pack her up. The outlaw shot doesn't quite land, Ness gets away with her life.
Tram's just firing the guardian shot right, but at this point time is not going to be
a bit more of a factor. Four versus three, you see Astro Star, you see the body blocking
as well, just to buy all the time. Twisted just say, you know what, why do we need to
take the engagement, just walk in, just diffuse. And KC potentially taking a little bit of
back by that decision casering the defuse comes through with three players still alive. I mean
honestly like that's what you need to do when you have the numbers because you're able to hold for
any person even though they hear that defuse going off there's nothing really they can do at that
point in time because every time they try to peek like look I mean lean is just there stalling time
and even though yes lean falls it doesn't matter defuse already came off so really really well
play from crazy I was good I got a little bit nervous because they knew it was a
speed hit and just that timing there from glance on to Sarah I thought is there
miss calm like what's going on like she was just kind of based the entire other
way but honestly very good job from twist answering to that and a good opening
pick from lean as well of the fact she's not disherred right you know that
first pestle round it didn't go her way she lost that fight but she's willing to
still push through, she still wants to take those engagements and you can get
yourself again that advantage. Jax as well, so far kind of the star for KC, right?
You're not gonna get anything more online for the Harbour All, you're not gonna be
dealing with any additional utility there, so a massive opening frag. In fact,
it's leaning Saphia, it's still the double controller setup for both sides, but the
fact that Saphia's at least a little bit more flexible, really gonna rely on stars
on her worth to get something done on Acelia especially just a voice the
flash gets herself won an answer spot.
Good answer coming out but like we said I mean lean is just kind of locked in and
she's shown up on the server she's having a rough time there on Haven but it
doesn't matter now finds four I can't find that fifth one but that's okay all
all the information given to Sarah and Gliant. Able to just turn it out, but man did Lean
put in a lot of work.
And she put in short of getting that round converted, she'd done everything she could,
but Glance is just there. She gets the opening frag, she gets the control, the trade from
the outlaw shot, the regress into the sight.
Lane got every single piece of work done that she could,
and she gave a haircut to Glantz.
Each side getting trimmed short back inside.
That is no longer how Fade looks in that character,
or, but still, off the back of it,
a heartbreaking performance for Twist,
even off the back of what could have been
something so beautiful for Lane.
I think also part of it too is like at that point Sarah had all the information
He knew exactly
where
She was going to find glance so glance has to be actively checking and ready for those engagements
So she's I mean she's able to pre-fire she can do that
But man, I mean lean put a lot of work put in a lot of work
And she's just looking so much more comfortable than I think we saw her on
on Haven especially when things weren't going the way of twisted minds and I think a lot of that too is just
Said how a lot of those gunfights were favoring Casey last time and I think that had to do with their active positioning
Especially on defense, but now that this is kind of a new map a new server leads on jet
She's so comfortable. She hits her shots, right?
I mean we saw that investment the second round totally totally worth it
So if she's able to continue to hit shots like this and if the rest of the team can support her
I think twist of mine do have a pretty good chance coming into here. I mean we saw
the
Obviously stats don't matter and we said that after Haven but 50% win rate. It's not like they haven't won on breeze
They definitely have so they have the chance to still bring in to bind. I mean, I'm I'm a believer. Oh
Oh, I want to believe it again for anyone that maybe doesn't I am I am 100% totally biased and it's against the team that are winning
I want to be seen as close to a good series that we can right and that's that's how you do right
I want to see exactly how twisted are gonna answer back because lean certainly is I mean she's eating for a
Very different showing from what we've seen on the neon and sometimes just playing that agent is a little bit more comfortable a little bit
more straightforward is just allows you to focus on your mechanics, focus on the play
and not get yourself bogged down and unfortunately that's you. The idea is fantastic but she
goes in on her own one versus two, she can't even get the kill on Danyaselia, she gives
her life away, she gives the all orb and positioning away. And KC, yet again though, they don't
move off of that. In KC just hoping that maybe another member of Twisted are gonna peek out and
be a little over aggressive but Twisted doing a good job of just kind of holding where they are.
Venus taking a bit of space as well. There's two here posted up should they elect to go that way
and they're posted around this B site so if they get to lead some damage but not a confirmed
kill and now that's only coming out they're gonna make their way on site, Saska finding
the lifer and it's all down this area.
It's not really been given the chance to have her 1v1s the way she gave you life and so could
start on the GX plans again 180s no real concern there just been clipping apart the members of
Twisted and just as a highlight for anyone that really is interested in how much we've been seeing kind of the breeze and
That's what comes through. We've been picked 13 times
Band 24 times over the course of this entire group stage
So bit of a risky business to be going up against KC and the attack as well breeze
Not looking like an attacker side of map. You've nearly got 60% on the defense
This is Twisted's moment to really answer back because if KC get the momentum started on the attack on the weaker half
Which they're certainly doing Kai this time I could already be the difference maker. I
Think this is a very well placed timeout from Twisted Minds
I think on Haven they waited a little bit too long that first half and we did see the timeout
Did work, but I think they waited too long
This is a good time to put it because these have been pretty close rounds
I mean, you know, we have to think of the round with lean 4k where glances are stable to clutch it out
I mean, it's not that things aren't going well for twisted
But I feel like twisted minds is very much in this if we hit our shots we do okay
If they're hitting their shots better than we can do anything. What's this is at the end of the day
This is a tactical FPS shooter. Yeah, but there's a little bit more involved in that too and you can use your utility
to favor
Bites in in your favor if you want to if you're able to and so hopefully that's what they're able to
I didn't find this time out because I do think there's might have a really good shot, especially on this out
Love to say it. I mean again we from what we did kind of see you know the shots were there on Haven
Everyone's so other than this. She certainly was
See speaking of who is it to get the frag Jax and Anacilia have just been there time and time again
Love this work up and twisted though at the very least if you're going to be taking that amount of space as the attackers if you're
Going to be kind of showing your presence that early it means you're not looking at these angles
It means you're not supporting these areas, but
You might be a little bit too much here. Look at the dude
But it's all the space so it's to have all of the map in the world except for the part that matters most guys are in
The spike gets planted and now it forces a retake coming through three versus three
hunters fury and viper's pit for twisted if they want but I'm really excited
I'm sure KC fans are too how this reckoning is gonna be played.
Like you said, Ultimates online.
Both teams definitely have the capability to use it that ultimate.
Maybe not funding as much as they quite want to but loud footsteps are gonna notify KC the presence not gonna matter
Time is ticking and Molly's coming at us well.
Oh man, Molly was a red bull clutch for Man of Celia, and all she actually has to do is throw a single grenade.
This is what happens when you take the timer too literally.
This is what happens when you respect every second your opposition have gotten.
And again, Casey, don't care about the rest of the map, it's complete opposite from Haven.
heard about every extremity showed every avenue, their presence.
This time it's twisted trying to do the same in case he going on a map this size.
You two, you were on the site.
The spike is ticking.
You've got to come back and meet us.
I mean, I think a lot of times when we think of Breeze line up Larry's,
we're thinking like, oh yeah, Sarah's playing Viper.
We're going to see some mollies come out.
But Kale can do the exact same thing.
And that stalls so much time.
And when you allow the timer, like you said, to get so low, there's nothing you
can do at that point. Very very well played. I mean that's the thing, those
nades do damage, right? It's not on a separate. The nades never do damage just
on their own, it's never on a separate circumstance where you can just say all
the nade was the difference maker, right? It's the time, it's the context, it's the
fight, it's the exit, everything kind of stacks on and speaking of an execute here,
that you's already done, the cosmic divide not gonna be online for twist
today. Monumentally important, also in the long breeze, to get you any sort of
present by, yes it is a lower by, so maybe off of time, maybe off of Sheriff's
Nes too, she's good for exactly that number, but there's still three left alive.
Gonna be a little bit harder with all these ultimates coming out.
Really, really good Sheriff's shots.
Unfortunately, then not a lot of weapons are covered on the other side of this wall.
And the Celia, but it's not gonna matter.
They're gonna find her all down to Glant and Safia.
They have the weapons.
They have the time.
But that wall, this is so much denial of sound.
And again, that timer's gonna be all she wrote.
Nothing to do, nothing to do.
Unfortunately for Twist and Mine, and then another one going to KC,
but a very good attempt from Twist and Mine when they don't have the guns.
I mean, you do force out a lot, right?
You do force out me. Vipers pet you, the cockroaches bite you,
So it's not a heartbreaking one from Twisted, but Safia just manages to get that spray through.
Safia just manages to get everything done for her team.
That's a lot of utility being burned.
I mean, it's only the Viper's pit for Twisted, so they've survived a decent bit.
But KC already on a decent lead to just getting those ultimates, getting back online.
It's just a difficult position Twisted keep finding themselves in.
The group play, excellent, but when it's coming down to them, when they need to take that extra additional step, that seems to be where it's all crumbling.
At least online for Kistinmind this time. It is lean with that operator.
He's really posted up anywhere near here, but he's able to find a couple picks here.
I went towards the side of this mine. Unfortunately though, the best positioning in terms of Warrantasy
are kind of stacked up. She's just going to allow herself to get found by Safia there.
The AWP could be the difference maker, but that's suddenly offline. Your numbers are offline.
Your shooters offline. And now Ultimate for Casey are online.
At least though, I mean, there's two ultimates that are deadly, Hunter's Fury, and that dimensional
drift can't come through and handle the Hunter's Fury, it's going to be used immediately, though,
to kill a bit of time, to kill a potential member of KC's roster, does half damage to
Anisealia, doesn't really get to do much more to block off that spike plant in the operator.
It's doing work, but it's not in the hands of the team that bought it.
Saphia just deciding to take it, huge control of these angles, Sarah, a good pivot lurk,
2 vs 2 especially, isn't Saphia able to find herself a second, her swing, her swing is
everything and Alchia, she walks away the victor and Sarah cannot deal in a 1 vs 2 with
the spike ticked down as much as it has, these retakes are just a little bit too slow and
KC, their minds are just too solid, their understanding of exactly what they want to
do exactly how long they want to wear every single round. They're kind of writing the
work on how to play against Swisted while reading it, Kay.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate for Twisted because I also am a sucker for an underdog
and it's so crazy to even think that we're calling either of these teams at this point
I mean, that's first of all just a crazy statement to ever utter, especially saying twisted minds is an unstopped, but I mean, it's tough and then you find yourself in positions where it's just so heartbreaking, like you have a lien with that 4k, beautiful, ultimate invested, you have those really good share shots come through, but you just can't close up the round, and then like that round, leans alone with that operator and the timing from Safia, right?
allow yourself to be exposed by that you have to be aware of any timings that could come through because
That operator really could have been a game changer pun intended for a twist
I mean
You're Casey and you just know how to deal with that and it's good time in good position and good map awareness
And that's why they're so strong and comfortable
Look at that, to get Lean out of the way, no one's entirely sure where she's standing
but we'll throw out a pro, we'll throw out a flash, and we'll be able to deal with her
perfectly.
Seren not able to back her up in time instead just follows her into the afterlife.
Ness, good for one, it's a little bit of a spray, it's just reliance on that.
Now look what's happened, look when all of Twisted are distracted on Aimeen, who just
She comes through double doors, whoo budgex, and now she's done everything she's required.
Orange is clear, the rest of her team just pushed through main, and Graem's lurk, everything
that she could have done, completely dismantled by a single use of the null point there.
And yet again, utility being used to a master class, Kai.
I mean I think this round really is just a kind of good picture of what's happening in the series, right?
It's that KC are able to put themselves in favorable positions so they have really good positioning where they can flush through from different angles.
You also have twisted minds not winning some gunfights they really need to win.
Even if they're not necessarily losing the gunfight the problem is all that time stalled and they're not getting that pick
They want allows that rotation from KC to come in
write them out when they're focused on another fight that they can't finish and
Then you know you have another member on site that has to deal with both sides and also is losing a gunfight
So on top of that you're not even getting these initial picks that could help you and so yeah, you have really good
good rotations coming in and lurks from some of your plays but it doesn't matter because
you don't have anyone anchoring on site.
I think the anchor is struggling in here.
Okay, twisted, we're just deciding.
You know what, you're right.
We're not going to anchor anyone on site.
We are fully committing to this mid pressure.
We are fully deciding that KC's pace is no longer what we are playing against and look
at how fast that round was.
The moment they twist themselves back into shape, the mines are now straightened, firm,
and casey fall.
All in all, in about 10 seconds.
Wow, I think that's where Twist and Mines really shine, is when they're able to do something
a little bit unconventional.
And maybe it's not even unconventional for this map, but definitely not how they've
been playing the previous 10 rounds, right?
So they're able to pull something out like that case he's not ready.
I mean, you saw Anacilia just with her utility out.
She wasn't ready for that, certainly.
And when it fell, great timing.
So unfortunately, you can't do that every round.
But we'll see.
Twist in mind to answer.
And it looks like it's a 3-2 stack.
It doesn't matter.
Outlaw in the hand of Anacilia, but at least a pick.
Let me have a show up for the side of Kristen, mine's Nimbus, once again, equalized, but that
KO Ultimate's gonna make it a little bit harder, you don't know that utility you would normally
have to work with.
Alright, so you're taking the lead to clear through the season, everything has been thrown,
so it's not gonna be there for a post-plan, Glance actually just falls, Lee gets her frag,
she has been the kind of blessing that Twisted Require but reckoning it comes down and it
last a lot longer than it used to that is a scary wall to see coming down you
they stand the tide though they just hold their ground twisted retake walk
back onto the site through KC's reckoning and suddenly one more round on the
board here for twisted if they could get their fourth that's looking a lot
better than the potential kind of ten and two half we were maybe looking at Kai
Welcome back Twisted.
Welcome back.
Honestly, we've missed you.
We've missed you.
Annoyance time, ladies and gentlemen.
Either if you just want Twisted to get the round differential
because we like round differentials
or if you'd rather Casey get the round because you're superstitious.
This is going out to the Twisted mind.
Fans out there, Casey.
So a win-win for Twisted.
It's a win-win right here for Twisted.
That's what I'm saying.
If you put another round on the board,
Activate the strongest of curses in Valorant.
I'll curse for KC, a blessing for you.
Barely spied should be up.
The last round and a half, of course these ultimates are going to start pouring out
and it's gonna be a little bit harder for Twisted Mind to hold.
Sight, but they're gonna try their best to do it anyway.
Good shots from Sarah.
I guess the lower bias of Glance is the only one able to get herself a pick.
3 for 1 is a bigger deal, make that a 4 for 1.
And no ultimates really as well, the KC had saved up to work with.
You've still got Graem's on the dimensional drift, you've still got the cosmic divide as well,
if they somehow end up being relevant.
And Celia though, she's got her timing here, she seems to have fully snuck around the opposition,
and she's used the dimensional drift.
Oh, she's behind 2s! She could make it a 3 late to you though!
A beautiful 180 there, potentially.
Steal that from under KC's nose, that could have been scary.
That's a rough shoot just in to have the gun, but I really liked the positioning.
But what I liked even more was this hold from 2 to 9, even in the face of all these ultimates.
I did a really great job A4 at the half, and we'll see if they're able to bring it back.
the final pistol round of this series already.
And if you're a Twisted Mind fan, that's not exactly what you want to be hearing.
Now, although I will say, Twisted Mind, get this pistol in the next round,
you're only looking at two rounds separating you from Casey,
so that's definitely what Twisted Mind is going to be electing to do here.
They're all grouping up together.
They want to make sure that even if those traits have to come, it goes their way.
to just the lurker there in lack two.
They're expecting this mid push that we've seen
kind of the other pistol round.
Now they know this is an A-hit.
Rotations are gonna start to come through.
Just might have already made their way onto site.
There's still that lurk on mid though, right?
The difference here twisted very much on the defense.
They were giving that up, KC.
Now they have done the same.
Yes, they're getting themselves information.
Sarah is slowly paroding to the snake bite,
She's able to actually pick up her one, find a corner where she's safe, and the lurk up as well, gets the frags, causes a distraction.
Glance not able to do it, Safia 1 vs 3, and as good as she is, she cannot be that good, and twisted answering back.
Not really caring about the double door positioning as much, all going to that initial lurk here.
They just came through main, and they came through swinging.
Okay a couple things a couple things I have to note here okay one I didn't
notice there took a couple steps of her and Molly but it happens to the best of
us so the best she powered through and got hers it happens to the worst of us as
the way to me I believe I can speak for the worst of us
happened to me, happened to me too.
And it's just a pistol round, but I'm not supposed to have
a pistol round like that because we started to see that come out
from Twisted the last couple rounds in the half.
They did a really great job.
And now we're talking about Breeze, how important it
is to have these weapons with the longest sight lines.
Casey, not electing to purchase up anything.
You know, last time we saw the outlaw,
but this time it's going to be scoped open in the hands of Sarah
to find the opening.
But things should be a little bit easier here for Twisted.
I love what I'm seeing from Graeme's too, this being it in hand, but look at this space
given, and look, beautiful.
So far okay, Twisted, now this map press is on attack, looking to do them a lot more
favours right, Anacelia, Jax, we're trying to go for that same level, she's just kind
of hopping about that, or Graeme's kind of hopping about, yes Alchie picks up the frag
but gives away the information, gives away everything on her sight line here, if Twisted
can walk away without giving glance any additional frags, any additional sort of things to work
with here. They'll be very happy with how that economy works. Four players still alive,
a spike planted as well. KC, now having to answer back, twisted catching up to them.
And I mean, you had Grahams just kind of lurking here trying to find info, didn't buy up a
weapon, so just had that bandit in hand. You still have the economy to put a weapon back
I can't believe it.
Graham's hands should use so much shoes here.
And it looks like they will choose to do just that.
So although yes, the weapons are favoring KC a bit,
you still have a pretty, pretty good firing squad
on the side of Twisted.
And they definitely turned up.
We said welcome back, Twisted, but we meant that.
Like welcome back.
I love to see it.
Let's make this a close series.
You're doing a great job again.
Just finding your footing on Breeze.
They want to go to bind! They want to go to bind, man, don't they?
Anaceli, here's that. And she disagrees. She does not want to be going anywhere near bind.
And right now, the only place that Twisted are getting close to is onto this A site behind the Viper wall, behind the flashes.
Sera though is actually good for the first frag despite the very, very solid initial U-Tile statue.
The shots are going every which way. There's two players on one head.
One head, three, Sarah can only find one here, can this?
She finds the second seven bullets in a dream.
Spike is down, but it is basically at her feet.
She's not gonna really have the space though
to go for it, right?
She's just gonna have to go for the easy death.
She swings, glances ready, though.
A beautiful crouch, beautiful pick up there.
And a nice hold from KC, but again,
twisted on the performance of those previous rounds.
Not exactly going to be hurting for the utility
Just yet hurting for the economy at the moment, but they need again to dig their heels in.
And they made it expensive for Casey, a good sighthold from Casey, but an expensive sighthold from Casey.
Still not too dissimilar from what we saw the first half, although of course that's not twisted winning the pistol and now
weapons favoring twisted mines, so if they're able to keep it up, they could again put another round on this board and just keep inching
In chipping away at that here round differential between them right now
The blind side off the top of the wall the cable flash through double doors a disgusting setup and who is it glance
Consistently a century. She is no sentinel in terms of agent role
but she is certainly a sentinel how much control she has been giving for her entire team.
Any time the members have twisted or pushing up, gaining that bit of space,
she's always prepped to hold that angle, and with the way the rest of her team are performing, right?
Sometimes losing that player or holding an angle is a bit of a struggle, but this double flash set play,
Alkiya lands her shots, Clance doesn't need to worry about what the rest of her team are doing in mid.
They have more than got it coming.
That was a nasty double flash
This nasty in mid and they knew
That there would be at least a couple mid
I don't know if they knew there would be three, but there were
Nasty double flash really good use of utility by KCM. That's exactly what they needed to do in that position
I'll see if their sideholds just as good because just in mines on that weaker buy
And they'll like to push it fast and furious, but Safi is ready
Okay, yes okay, Sarah manages to do the damage, help out Graeme, she gets the kill and the
upgrade here, the spike is already down as well.
A very aggressive swing though, Glance doesn't care, she doesn't respect the utility and
checks that's got that midler more than locked down.
Glance is just disrespectful on a whole other run in, it's unfortunate how do you deal with
this right Sarah, she gets the frag but she's still surrounded by three opposition, has
to get the spike down has to find everyone and do it all on her back and it's just a touch to Farakai
two rounds for KC a lot of ultimates willing to come online and Twisted have that second timeout
literally was about to say it needs to be seen and thankfully for them it does come out.
I think again this is a well placed timeout I think
I don't think they always necessarily go the way they want them to, but I think just taking
the time to one, pause Casey's momentum to get a chance to speak with your coach and
identify what can we do a little bit differently.
I do think can only help them.
I, again, I mean, a very sharp team, they're very bright girls, and we see that in that
gameplay.
But unfortunately, right?
The last one, that was a tough ask of her on any way.
They were on that very, very light buy,
but like you said, all comes down to Sarah.
She has to isolate these fights.
She's kind of forced to be in that position,
but she has no information as to where they could be.
You can see her kind of looking towards arches there.
They're all on site, and she doesn't have that information.
So although she had that good,
well, I mean, obviously a good wraparound in the first pick,
but then, you know, she finds GX.
Like, without other information, that's a tough ask.
And so hopefully they're able to kind of identify some of that,
because now they're on their buy-round again here.
You can't be on this, we're buying or not.
They lose this, Casey's on match point,
and series point, and you're like, it's a mess.
Everything needs to just be done in a street.
No, I twisted it, need to dig deep.
That discussion, that timeline needs to have been everything
for them.
They are dealing with Casey in a manner
locked and loaded to be honest I don't think we've seen KC looking this strong
we've seen them absolutely show up we've seen them do very impressive stuff
beforehand but that SK that SK kind of set comes to mind that 13-0 followed by
the reverse sweep you know that that is really what reminds me of it but he just
locked in definitely review definitely have read everything yet again what
happens 30 seconds 40 seconds take down nothing nothing happens and suddenly
three members of Twisted have fallen off of that single med swing from KC and
Twisted aren't doing anything bad Twisted are playing fine but KC just
have a different scope of the game right now. Yeah I think hit the nail on the
I mean, I think I like what I am seeing laid out from Twisted, but
they see are just a little bit more consistent, and it often seems like it comes off the back of some of these.
I don't even want to say hero plays because that's not even just it, but
great in grand plays coming out from Twisted mind like that.
I mean that came off the back of Sierra. Now she has her ultimate.
She still has a snake bite, lots of utility, but she's got to be ready for Glance who's just been so comfortable
on these cut situations.
Oh, but look!
Sarah, looks the wrong way.
Glance is ready for that.
And that's going to be a serious point here for Casey.
Oh, she cannot catch a glance.
Figuratively, literally, every way.
The timing just doesn't work out for Sarah.
They're trying to get the reposition,
trying to get the replacement.
Understanding that, because the Viper Pit was online there,
right you can use it but the nightfall would just come through the nightfall
would just come through from glance and essentially equalize it like in any other
edge and any other player is alive you do just use the vitreous pit immediately
it's not even a choice but yeah I have to imagine there that Sarah decides okay
if I pop this all in the vitreous pit I have to dance around the nightfall
Anyway, but now you're working with it. It's a full utility
I mean, it's hard and getting that opening pick as well
But even in that situation right here, Sarah, you don't have any information
You can't allow yourself to be in a position where you can get pushed
Okay, Sarah, she's been the one she answers back
But they still need to get onto the site right the vipers pit really effective once you're on that site one of the cosmic divide
for Latiu as well. Glance, however, the Thorn. She's not been playing Vise, but
May as well have been for the difficulty she's been causing Twisted Minds.
Four versus four. All Ultimates May as well be online here, Kaiserin. It's gonna be a
bloodbath. Can Sappia do what she's done so many times before? She's not being
looked at so lean the first to fall. She's gonna be collapsed upon here. Yes,
able to take the timing. The Ultimates not gonna be allowed online because of
null commands here this alone could be what gets KC back onto this site.
Oh, they're ready though.
For the mistake, all down to glance here, Anacilia just a little bit of a
rather good shot, but Sarah is better just at the end. Able to put one more
on the rat on the board for twisted but again these are really expensive, these
These are really close, really, really tough matchup for Quisit.
I'm covering my eyes. I'm covering my eyes. I'm very scared, Kaisarina, an absolute hero double-swinging.
I mean, Ness, really, she's been one there as well.
We've been really kind of giving the heads up to Sarah. Ness, it does feel like, has been doing a decent bit of work getting those multi-kills online.
line she's only one behind lane the Ultimates again still gonna be relevant
still gonna be a factor and every time that Twisted take an additional second
to use one it's potentially a second that they're never gonna have again
there's never gonna be an option to use it the Bladestorm falls Jax at least
follows up so no reckoning to worry about or Twisted Nightfall comes through but
dimensional drift to match it just to get the control of the space here
ultimates either forced out or been dealt with by twisted they've got a shot on
this attacking site they've got a shot cosmic design pops as the cosmic divide
pops as well spike goes down and the fighters pit follows it here kaya top
three take
really really tough three take but that's okay
I also have a little bit of utility that they can use to their favor.
All these ultimate twists are going to clear it out, but what worries me is just the sheer
amount of ultimates that were used there because you don't have those online.
You do have Bladestorm or Lean, which I mean, if she continues to hit shots the way she
has been hitting some of those back in me deadly you still have especially for
post-plant you have that so well but I mean you invested so much for a good
reason it worked out you in those alts I like that we're kind of doing the
cycling also now you still have to you said I went for around it's a very
scary decision right because you don't want to burn all your old times but you
may never get another round again that's the thing you may never get another
opportunity here, lean, oh she's wanting to force this opportunity. A little bit
shaky, some ranks have been absolutely phenomenal, some ranks have left a little
bit more to be desired. In fact she's not popping the Bladestorm yet, just kind of
show me here that. He is just really taking into account how this ultimate's
gonna change things, but Ness too, she just falls, Jax picks her up here, the
Astro Stars to give a lot more space coming through, Sarah on the back line
though, she's kind of filling in for Glance, right? Doing the same thing that Glance was doing,
checking the backline, making sure the flanks don't come through. She has to either get these
frags or go and join her team, she manages to sidestep the first blindside. The reckoning,
not able to find quite as much as maybe hoping, thus far, especially if Jx and Glance cannot go
off of it, and Aselia gets at least a commiseration frag, make it a second actually, one versus one
here for everything. Leem just looking down, admiring her guns, she's definitely confident,
regardless, Anacilia taps the spike, gets the frag, but cannot get anything more.
Twisted are still in this! And with a confidence of looking at your gun like that, maybe she
knew she had the time. She knew she had the time. Because she definitely did not unfortunately
have the frag there, but well played by Twisted, but again, a lot was invested considering
that case he didn't have guns.
He did not have guns that round.
And so to allow it to get as close as it did,
I mean, you have the economy to build back up.
But at least with all the deaths coming through from Twisted,
those are extra spots towards those ultimates
that you can start to recycle and get back up and look.
Grahams has his operator in hand too.
He said that could be a win condition last step in lean.
It could also do the same here on this half from Grahams.
They're waiting for any aggression towards mid, but KC not electing to give them anything.
Answer to the AWP in the hands of Althea, so which one's able to find that impact first
because I can make or break?
Really could, and speaking of broken, currently KC have burned all their ultimates, right?
They don't have Reckoning anymore, they don't have Nightfall online.
You're likely not going to be seeing, definitely not both of those online before we get to
If we get that far if Twisted could bring this back. So Casey and I actually have a lot less to work with than maybe they were hoping for it
Is this operator versus operator?
Grahams versus Alchie have potentially on what that first frag comes through
They may not actually be able to even get an opportunity to see each other just yet
The execute from double doors coming in a little bit slow to start off
But is gonna pick up the pace so if it's our hits scan doesn't find anyone yet
checks and clans here very aggressively pushed up the blade store finally pop the wall disrespected
but clans only able to get their one nest she finds another two the spike is going to go down
it's not going to have any utility to deal with you you've still got nests here she gets the
information she has the hunter's fury if she can pivot away zappy is still keeping an eye on
mid cream's falls because of it and honestly nests you kind of need to get out if you want to get
Get value off of this hunter's fury, the gravitational pull from Letiu finds 1 of 2 versus 3 here, with one operator on Algae.
She has to go for the rebound for the jump peak!
The jump peak from Letiu suddenly gives it all away, Ness 2!
1 versus 1. The shot that comes through does a little bit of damage.
Sabi immediately taps, but she immediately jumps off. The roti already came through here.
Ness has the information, she needs pivots away.
Sabi essentially has to stick here, she gets a half, she goes for the swing, there's not gonna be enough time regardless.
She gets the kill despite blow it doesn't know it does not
Last than a second left and sapphire takes it away
I really thought we were seeing double digits for twisted, but KC and it suddenly oh
My god, I mean that just shows you how important time is in a game like this
It can be your friend or it can be your foe less than a second is what separates you from double digits
going home. For the day. For the day. For the day. For the day. But, but I mean that
doesn't mean KC is going to qualify. They've qualified to playoffs.
Oh, it is. Yeah, they qualified for those playoffs. And I want to talk about these MVPs.
Sarah on the 25 and 17 trying to do everything that she could. Anisele, the one to make it
work though for Carmine Core, she just kept popping up. The kill, the KO was an absolute
Joe Stopper there. The flashers were so solid. I mean everything was great for Carmine Core and
a second, a second change is everything, Kai. We could have been going to bind. The spike was
just halved and the timing was just everything working out for Carmine.
I mean, it couldn't be any other MVP than Anna Celia.
We hired her, highlighted her, highlighted her as one of these flex players to look out
for and she did just that.
I loved the KO.
I loved the team comp coming out from KC unbound.
15 first kills.
I mean, they were just locked in.
They were just locked in today.
one up to their first kills that they had on Haven. They had 14 on Haven which was already
quite a master class and suddenly to get 15 on Breeze, it's understandable why they
dethroned the original Queens G2, considered the Queens of Breeze for the longest time in
the group stage. KC suddenly walked in, upset the Orchard, and that was exactly what happened.
upset twisted minds orchid in a way that I don't think anyone could have
predicted at least to this level of a statement from Casey. I absolutely agree
and I mean I think they really did show why. Yeah we're the new queens of
Breeze Goodman but what really I think really stood out to me was that Haven
that 13-4 I mean nobody expected it everyone expected that to go Casey's
way, but they did their homework and they showed up. Gunfights going their way throughout
both maps. You could see the cohesion, the team play, the strats. I mean, whatever they
worked on on Haven, 100% came through. That was so hard for Twisted Minds to deal with
on their map pick. And if that's not enough to put KC in the conversation for the top
teams in the stage, like, I don't know what is because, wow, did they show up when it
Yeah, they really did. And commiserations to Twisted. They've still got games and they've still got a solid placement, so not counting them out yet and just genuinely, just to make sure Haven gets looked after would be my big note for them.
But for the moment, we have one more set of games just coming up. It is going to be G2 versus Job Life again. Typically for anyone that's a bit surprised by the fact that we are on this channel, it's normally the EMEA2 channel.
channel, but we have been allowed
just to give a little bit more of a spotlight on this channel as well.
So jump over there if you want to be keeping up with the game,
game changer stuff.
Of course, there's the cash cups as well going online.
So plenty of work from these players, and it's not done just yet.
But, Kai, before we throw it over to your other two beautiful casters,
anything else you want to say to these wonderful folks?
I mean, yeah, make sure you follow the other channel
if you want to see the rest of stage one, because it's really near the end.
and of course, players will be coming up.
But also, I mean, I just have to say,
congratulations to KC for qualifying.
The OR are now third team to qualify.
And remember only the top six move on.
So like you said, now the Infra-Twisted Mines,
we will be following a Twisted Mind series tomorrow.
Of course, on that other channel,
so make sure you give that a follow.
But congratulations to KC.
He definitely played like you earned your Playoff spot today,
and I'm excited to watch them
as we get ready to go into this Playoff stage.
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Welcome back to the Stygianchangerz EMEA, my name is Zakhar and I'm next to you here
as a great Zobi and we have G2's last matchday here on stream and it's going to be one that's
very different from a circumstantial perspective because they are playing against ShopLife,
first place against last place in our current standings but still I think for myself personally
this is going to be a banger matchup nonetheless.
Oh, absolutely. We've seen it time and time again, right? When there are no stakes for
either team, particularly the losing end team, that they will suddenly awaken a new force
inside of themselves and upset these greats more just for honor, right? For showing that
they belonged to be here and for a team that rose up through that open qualifier and now
is likely to be relegated and have to fight back in. It is the exact comments that you'll
need so you can re-secure your spot later on this year coming back for stage two.
Yes, the exact practice that job lives needs right now. They can test some new things
They can bring some new stuff to the table and we can look at we can look at the current standings because three teams are already qualified for the playoffs
It's a jitter mates and coming up a jitter mates qualifying yesterday
Come on cop qualified just through the match. We witnessed I think and G2 goes and with 7-1 up there in the standings first place right now
They can bring it to an 8-1 at the end of the day if they're beating job life
some more teams to follow right behind them, and we will get some qualifications today, I think.
Absolutely. I mean, that second matchup happening with our co-stubers is going to be a great,
great match. Giant X is having an insane bounce back right now, and I'm excited to see kind of
how they end their group stage run. Yeah, it's basically about the end of the season, because
there are a lot of teams fighting for those last few playoff spots, and one of those teams,
who is not fighting for anything because they already achieved what they wanted to do is G2Gaussian.
We can look at their current lineup for those who aren't aware it's a Mimi, Akita, Amy,
Vanya and Eva. Eva joining the team at the start of the year even elevated that G2Gaussian roster
to some new strategies, to some new heights and to some new especially like looks on the map
on the map rotations on the map movement. It's been a new lookout for them and I think especially
from the perspective of Mimi as an IGL, it's interesting to see how this team developed throughout the entire Europe.
Yeah, I think it's just more fun to see the G2 goes in effect on different GC players, right?
When they cycle in this fit that we've kind of seen happen, whether it's being New Rookies, right?
From when we went from Light Rescue to Akita, whether now it's support players, right?
I think that process in seeing how these players shine when in such a supportive environment
has been the most rewarding part of seeing the evolution of G2 goes in over the years.
Yeah, if you're joining G2Gozen, you're expected to make a jump, right?
You're expected to elevate your gameplay overall, and I think Eber has done that throughout the entire year,
especially her with her Turkish partner in Crimevania.
They are stepping it up on those two supporter roles a lot recently.
I know a lot of the praise is on Akita right now.
She is possibly the best player mechanically in GCAMEA,
but the supporting cast of G2G around her and surrounding Akita has been exceptional without any doubts.
No, absolutely. We talked a little bit about Eva there and there's a reason for it. Aside from Akita being that star duelist,
it's been Eva and Vanya that have been at the crux of success, honestly, defensively for this squad, the entirety of the group stage.
you have Vanya, this insane defensive anchor on the controller roll. I was only filling in for a
scrim on controller the other day and I'm like, how do you anchor these sites with this Util and
not Sentinel Utility? So that just made my appreciation for her as a player skyrocket.
And you have Eva, who on maps like Abyss, her ability to use her Util to get one kill and
stay alive because she understands how important her Util is on the retakes for those g2 protocols
has been super, super impressive for me as well.
And like the Vanja stat line for me is insanely impressive.
It's not only about the ACS rating, which is already high, but a 40% clutch rate,
70% cast on the controller role.
And as you said, playing mostly in anchor scenarios,
Vanja is not the upfront player who's just trying to fight into the enemies.
She's just like more in this anchor role, more in this defensive setups,
and the Astra's that playstyle incredibly well.
When Vanja switched more over from the open to the Astra,
I was a little bit worried because Vanja was, for me,
like this aggressive, dualist type,
controller player who always opens things up for G2Goes
and who always creates situations
where G2 could thrive in and G2 could shine.
But now, more of the defensive role,
more of the tactician role coming over with the Astra,
and that's an evolution.
Yeah, even from Vanja that I did not expect,
But she pulls off perfect and giving like when she made the initial switch and was on Elman a lot in the meta
I called it like the 10 swap right because she found that same level of translation area effect
And now it's kind of like similar act me being my NA brain to like the demon one as well
We're like again
You're really really strong in these controller roles these lurk roles and I honestly think that's mean they're gonna have to lean into
In what has been one of their weak spots, right Akamask
Which is that attack half in a lot of the series we've seen in the group stage, right?
Is there one kryptonite?
Yeah, like we have to say it, G2 is not a team that loses a lot.
Like as we've always seen on the standings for a place 7-1, but if you want to beat G2,
to put out an old quote from a football coach is to say to park the bus in front of your
site, anchor this one down, don't let G2 get comfortable on the attack.
But because I think what especially KarmannCorp did well was bringing G2 goes in an uncomfortable
scenarios where they had to execute into Carmine Corp's defense on Carmine Corp's terms.
And that's something I want to see from job life today as well.
Like the maps against Gentelmates and against Giant X that they lost, same story.
They executed into a team that was ready for what G2 is doing and the later G2 executes
into sites that are maybe stacked, where it's maybe the anchor, then it's gonna be harder
for them to to win those matchups. Still like I said, we still have to talk about like the
standings because you do is upfront on first place. But that's the the one weakness that
maybe job life can exploit today to get their first one. Yeah, I completely agree. It's that
I've been running into stacks without any time to lean back towards the plan B. Or honestly,
what I was thinking of Casey as well was just disrespect around the mid space in particular,
just taking the fight to them. So now, yeah, we're getting spike plant down. They didn't have enough
forces enough players and if you tell to hunkered out and ride out that timer so
that'll be something I'm looking forward to as well maybe being a little bit
more direct and with the composition we see on this side of job life I do think
they're you till super impressive I think some of the devil do with com say
runner are super confident men speaking of a job life we should probably talk
about them as well right this team that started off free agent earned their
spot through the open qualifier and got signed immediately Akamos
Lou Nello, Teya, Ella and Ashira on that roster.
It's been a French core, especially with Lou and Nello coming into this one that we know, right?
Lou and Nello played together in the last year on that Zeross team,
which had some mixed results.
Ella coming up from the death soft tier 2 is very interesting for me because she played a lot in Dach,
which is, you know, my home country, played a lot there with a mix called Emuse.
They were the only team besides SK Gaming to beat the old Alternative Ethics Core in the playoff setting.
And that's an impressive feat to pull off.
And I think Illa is a player for me with incredible potential, but a player that showed already the potential in the entirety of GC was not alone.
Coming here into this one, seeking some revenge against old friends.
Oh my goodness. I mentioned how there's this system that G2 goes and has built, right?
and how any player that you bring into that core
is just elevated to the next level.
Nello was one of those players, right?
Coming in for stage one and stage two last year,
she did really, really well, right?
Top 15 statistically in that first stage.
And then honestly, it was just because G2 goes
and wasn't finding the best results
in terms of those deep playoff runs,
she kind of got the short end of the stick
and that's when they reintroduced Petra
into the system, right?
A return to old, they said they had made mistakes
trying to test two things out
and went for that reversion effect.
So Nello now, I completely agree.
She is out for that kind of blood.
She has been again,
when there's been these close maps for job life,
the one they were trying to push over the finish line,
she's been at the one at the helm.
And I hope that she's in that same form today
and fueled by the fact that she is up against past teammates.
Yeah, and another not so fun for Nello statistic,
but fun statistic is Nello never beat G2.
Like in every iteration of her old teams,
she never has managed to get over this mental arm
to beat G2. You need some form of momentum and it's difficult to beat them on home turf.
It's difficult to beat them in the MEA because G2 has been the dominant force there. And
I think for her it's important to pull that off right now. To enter a season on a high
note that's what job life has to do. I think they have a chance. Especially if you're looking
at chat, if you're looking at social media right now, a lot of people will just write
job life off and be like, okay, it's first place against last place. But like, I think
they have a realistic shot at doing some damage here against G2. First of all, because like,
G2 is qualified for first place, like they have nothing to fight for other than going
8-1. And that's like, that's like something that maybe job life can can abuse here. We
can look at the playing arounds, those teams will will face off against each other.
Yeah, no, absolutely. We set kind of the winning stakes for this series. And now we can see
how they applied the maps that are going to be played. And it's going to be Abyss, Breeze,
and Bind. This one is super, super interesting to me, right? I think Job Life is perfect
that they get to go to Abyss. It's been one of the maps we haven't seen too much out of
G2 goes in for. It's been one win, one loss. But then they have to go immediately into
Breeze, right? A map that has been G2's bread and butter, right? They had a Shriekable over
a year that was only upset by KC. And honestly, I do think that could be a fun map too, just
because Job Life, one of the maps that they did have almost success on, was a map like
breeze where they pushed, I believe it was Zed Orange in 11-13. So again, I think, again,
if they're in form, they can pose several similar levels of disrespect that KC was able
to do.
First map, Isabel G2 found some form onto this map towards the end of the last few matches
as well, beating alternate attacks there, the then second place team with who are playing
with like a wild triple duelist comp that we'll talk about this any further. And now
Like JobLife is up for the task, looking at, they might just have some ideas how to beat them.
I really like the comp that JobLife pivoted on previously on Ibis.
And it's coming up. Let's see if they pivot into this one again, because
we talked about in the green room, there is a lot of potential for them to fight around
what G2 is trying to set up going over to the Jett. And yeah, I think we're having the exact
same comp from JobLife. Yes, we are. And I agree. I really like this composition.
We talked about it already talking about how job life needed to have a really strong defense of against this G2 goes and attack
And I think that does come out of the fact that if G2 goes and it's caught lacking
Exit with not a lot of time left. You're gonna see them dump kits, right?
You're gonna see the gravel you're gonna see the aftershock you're gonna be the salvos
And I think they could sneak out a few of these rounds without taking head on confrontations with G2 goes and but I'm a flipside for G2 goes
And I do really like this composition search that they made right going into that alternate attacks
rematch after they had that previous loss on Abyss. And it was just simplifying things so that players
were in more comfortable roles, right? You have Akita switching from the waylay to the jet, and you
have Amy switching from that Viper to the Vise. And it's just allowed a lot better anchors on that
defense, I think, towards the B site. And I think it's been a Nibby and Akita paired up perfectly
over towards that A side. And I think for G2, that's more of a classic approach to Valorant,
right now, because they're playing, like, classic double initiator, one sense, another one duelist,
fun controller, which streamlines a little bit more of what they were trying to do, which streamlines
a little bit more of their executes. And especially with the Jett here, yes, I still think it's not
the best agent to play on a business, it's not the best duelist currently right now, but sometimes
Comfort is the thing that you're seeking out. You know, easier comps and more telegraph comps,
sometimes for better teams, perform better because they can just focus on their execution and how
they play with compared to some cheeky ideas that other teams might have with more difficult
to play comps.
I think the jet wars with this one in particular because you have Mimi who basically plays
KO like a duelist and that can make that space for her so that she can dive in safely
and the flashes are so perfectly coordinated and you honestly have Vania get anchoring
so you can play super effective retakes anyways without having to worry about, okay is there
a player in this corner?
No, because that space was never given up.
going in to this map. It is going to be Job Alive GC starting out on the attack. G2 goes
on their stronger side that defense, so Job Alive now coming in. Yeah, may not be leaning
into the wind cone that we were necessarily laying out from the Deco, but then you're
thinking, okay, every round we need this round. How many rounds we can get is going to be
super helpful in the long run on our map pick.
Yeah, and I still think the attack is something you can look out for, especially like one
A map extremely, extremely huge if you gather in mid control, nice flash setting up to
Road in G2, Akita first swing into the main area, but immediately goes back into formation
for G2 Gosen.
Only the solver in middle, only Ava holding that very important area over 4G2, but a little
bit of hesitance from job life to crash into that, the two should hear some steps.
Hmm, you can see they
force the players onto this A-Rotate, Ewa
hyped her up in the free-show, has to handle a lot of this pressure in a perfect shot dart
lands the salvage push off the angle, but then you see immediately Amy
instead takes the front of the contact
Yes, you're up, finding the entry frag
a late trade by a Babatias on the site as well
this one belongs to Dublice in this case
and we haven't talked about like the post plan potential for this team comp
they still have the Astro, they still have the Tejo
It's a rough time for D2G to retake this one.
They need to find singular picks.
And I think Vanja is the player to look out for here,
because she is in the back step.
She might find the tech hole, or might find the outspreader.
And especially that's the kill.
They're getting Akita on the side to trade for her as well.
Finding the counterpart Lu needs to find something.
Needs to find at least one of those two Gozen players
fighting her up front, because she doesn't have any support.
Right, they're successful against Mimi.
Duel of the IGLs decided for job life, but Akita and Vanya flooding it back and getting Hustle for the goals and goals.
Oh, Nakamasu laid it out so perfectly, the win cons in those post plans, the agents, their positions, right?
And it felt like the priorities got a little bit askew there, right?
It should have been kind of the bridge, it should have been Nello trying to play bodyguard for that Asher with that post plan utility,
but she was worried about trying to set up the way they set up, right?
Take for that success on site instead and the timing is misaligned you have Vanya win that exchange and then wall bang the second
And that forces Lou who's another post plan machine into fighting his head on
Battles instead and while she bought a lot of time
It was not enough g2 goes and we joked about their pistols they get one on the board they get the ball rolling early
early starts to have my job like job life losing in a situation where you have
the numbers advanced which must be especially devastating your post plan
should be the golden golden part of that comp right once you're you're having
the spike down you maybe have a salvo up again you maybe have one or two osprey
stars the dead spike shouldn't be diffused from the side of the two gozen
especially if you're in a situation with numbers going up, Vanja, Heroics coming off from her in the back-step now.
Job-life refocusing onto that beat.
Yeah, it's interesting. You've left your dive agent deposit deep towards A. Vito Lurking makes sense here.
So I'm curious to see who is that entry force now onto the site, or are they even gonna end here?
Is it just ult or obssingulator? And I think that was just the attempt that's been interrupted by the double sniper rifles on the G2 side.
And a little bit of a fight, then ensuring towards the middle, the rotation from Joblap coming
here through Akita, falling down early, but no view for Top Mid, Ewa has a timing.
Another arrow for her, both players, discovered!
Not out of their hideings.
Six bullets left, a nice Ressho Mimis sets up Ewa Perkeke, triple kill from Top Mid,
gets some weapons into that next round.
And the second one for G2 goes in.
Nice.
Yeah, no absolutely and I like the two fixes that we kind of saw there right they understood that okay on the pistol job
Life was able to
Exploit that mid gap. So what do they do?
They have these sniper rifles on a swivel and they particularly have ever who I mentioned on this defense is going to be one of the best players at
Applying pressure applying kills safely from a distance without getting punished without getting traded and it's exactly what we're able to
Saw which feel what you mentioned Akamos is this really strong bonus now coming in
And we are already free of that Hunter's Fury, which is something to look out for for G2G.
They're trying to push this one more graciously, admit.
G-Ride and Ella were ready for this one, but moving away a slight bit too early.
Gita might have spotted them both. They're not looking behind them, Ella.
Great frag for- No, double kill!
For the controller player, nice stun, some more action going on there on the A-Sports.
Because Jotlife is executing Gerevanya, needs some more heroics for her.
Sucked into that smoke and timing with the tail find set kill, but only a trade clue
Therefore the task side belongs
Over to the side of job life important part now is to not lose any weapons
Into Amy because want to stabilize your economy after that soft arms
Why even majority of the round but she gets the final crown and kill and honestly that round was perfect
That's the win cons for Job Life, right?
That perfect coordination between Nello setting up
that dive entry from K.A.
And I liked that our alert players were able to play
this tag team, these very, very effective trades.
And while Vanya did Vanya things right,
pulling the shenanigans of the site anchor
around those site smokes, it really just put a small dent
into the economy there for Job Life.
The full functionality found, regardless,
now they're even gonna have that convergent paths
to follow through on what feels like it's gonna be
a very, very direct AXEK.
Yeah, it feels like you're especially at 1, some pressure over towards A.
It was the weak side from G2Geldan for the majority of those first few rounds.
A little bit of a push, but gets back with her E ability.
Side control established over by Jopla, but a trade from Wania on the backside keeps the numbers even.
Wait, arrow from Ava?
Some information of the position, but nothing too crazy.
Sheera finds the second frag into this one.
Akita was low already, but a little bit too far forward.
We get support from our teammates, they're up there and have an important position, but
repositions towards security, we get a triple swing, over for our teammates, they air another
frag for her, job life might be doing this nearly flawless round, on the follow up and
G2 immediately back on an eco.
And wow, I mean G2 purposely played that weak site because they knew the convergent paths
was coming in and they wanted to play it really far back against it, they trusted Envadia
to hold her own, but then we never really saw a coordinated retake effort until they
had no numbers to do so. And I mentioned in the pistol how the priority is in that post
point where a little askew for job life. This round they were utter perfection, right? You
have your ashtray tucked away main safely, you have the other post point player, Liu, not far
ahead. And then you have the two players that need to play aggressive, She-Ra and Thea, who can get
out of dodge, playing that first sign of contact with a really nice high low. So that ties us to
two and coming in to the next. You can see a little bit more of a split utility. Vanya has
Stars and hopefully support Amy here, but this eco don't expect job life to overcomplicate the ante
Yeah, for G2 and in this case, it's just like important, you know to get your old ups and running maximize the value
You're getting over onto the map
Maybe get some weapons of job life me look aggressive peak forward
Pause dino attack both initiators here Amy tucked into the corner might try to break but new first on the trigger
a tear on the backside, a double crash into this one as well.
Sight belongs to Job Life, no more lurks, no more stretching out on the map, Bania just
drops down there to not give over an ultimate point, but up to Fury, who's up forever now,
falls into the gun of She-Ra.
Job Life is up and running and suddenly in the lead on that first map.
And we're starting to see that oppressive utility, Euryria's head right from denying
the swings out of the chokes there on the eco for immediately training back, right?
we saw in the previous two rounds where we saw like a special delivery into having at
the spike plant, we saw it there with that no-but-pulse-flash combination to ensure that
AME would find no more.
And just like that, I mean, it's been looking clean and this is why I've gotten the lead
back from that final kill and surprised that we don't see a G2 timeout just yet if they
lose the next one might before the subsequent buy, but this is going to be at the ground
for them as well, Hunter Shira online, Cognitive Ideonline.
I'm expecting them as you can see to go up a lot of B-Space and play retake,
especially when it was juxtaposed against his A main control that they thought they had,
but Shira has ripped it away, and now the mid-round call from Joblife is...
Okay.
We're common framing for a B-split here.
That's something you normally don't see from G2, right?
Akita is just two steps ahead of what the rest of the team is trying to do,
and normally G2, playing as a unit here,
some peeks, some solo adventures.
Really, not really sticking this one together.
Ultimates are also up and running for joblights, they have to hammer get on.
They are on the site already. Try supports this one. On to the ultimate of the Terro.
Mimi, at least down there with a trait, drops just the ultimate.
Still on the site. Still tries to anchor this one down, but falls to Ada.
Great string for her. Sheerah on the lurk. Impactful as well.
And Vanja, you have no choice but saving that one. They'll bring it to the next round.
basically haven't moved out of spawn and now that's to stay there for the rest of it.
Job life just looks so prepared for dissecting this g2 defensive side, right, their strike,
their bread and butter.
I mean, we talked about how they usually haven't maintained that B site space and they just
completely isolated Amy and Mimi there in one fight after another from the initial kill
that they was able to find that Mimi did trade, yes, but then you had this three, two, one
swing through that mid-sight smoke. So again, just going back to the micro, going back to the basics,
job life is excelling in that zone right now. And again, big picture-wise, G2 isn't necessarily
doing anything wrong per se. It's just, like you mentioned, Akita getting picked off AMA without
as much support as she's used to, right? This, again, split up of the B-sight anchors as well.
So small things that need to come through, and that's where I'm thinking like, it should take a
time not to get that easily corrected if G2 decides to, right? This could be a test then for Mimi
without the time-outs, without the input, okay, I was just saying, to make those calls on the fly,
but you don't want to lose a, you don't want to lose a series, just to lose a series.
I kind of want to see Akita playing more with an initiator on our side, because we saw her
mostly playing either off mid or playing with Vanya on that A site. And I think for me personally,
I would like to see Mimi and Vanya swapped to have like Vanya more in that B site heavy anchor role and Mimi
Giving Akita more options to fight off a main because that's an area where you typically can go in with some more aggression
I would agree, but also you don't want your Astra and your vice stacked on the same site
I think that's where they're finding issues right now. It's like every time that we're having Amy play A
They're going B and vice versa every time she's A. They're going B. So I think
maybe you you should put put ever there instead right put ever and vice be and
then have that that initiative combo that you mentioned or you just switch
a key to away from a main this also to me works a little bit there you can have
the the rose right to set up some B main aggression which feels like the call
that they're going for and you have the double info mid which is again a space
that we've seen Shira that veto taking advantage of a lot but can we have a
timeout looks like job life want to keep it simple they don't want any players
off on isolated fights to get overwhelmed so the beaming group is strong but
did they recognize this exact play?
Akita needs to dash out, they're all her knives!
I think the target's playing together with Amy, a lot of utility dumped by
job life! Akita and Amy both fall from here! Nice setup from Nilo and suddenly
job life once again crashed onto that beside the big weak spot for G2 up until
now. They're not really getting this one under control.
Can you go there? You gotta go for it.
Mind is that here rifle and Vanya's hands, they haven't hunted you, they have the costum
divided and get a kill or two.
There's one, there's two.
There's one, there's two.
Fighting her way into this one, as well, it's suddenly only down to Vanya and Mimi and
Triple from Vanya up from the heavens, making this one real possible for G2 girls and Mimi
and Vanya.
Slowly walking into this one, you still have some utility on your hands.
Are you playing this one, Chira?
A timing needs to be perfect, but she too, they find a way back, they find momentum into their sight and all of a sudden there's just one round differentiating those two teams.
And there's the Vanya, that we know, alive and well in the server disrupts the job life momentum that got four rounds in a row.
when we just need her POV of how that round went,
how she was able to find those Heaven Kills
because the fight onto Akita with the blades
and Amy here was near perfection.
And you thought they would keep that space,
but I think giving up was the main fault in this round, right?
The last player you went fighting alone
is that Ashtrop so close and personal.
And while Shira did a good job trying to fight back
into that smoke on the plant location,
just G2 played their own timing,
played their own round and inverted the 30 off of it.
So now coming into the next with the money recovered
off that blaze storm they have the operator online towards the B site
they're playing heavy for this retake on A
the ultimate for Teya might be coming in
will you get to play back?
retaggled a little bit with just one, Mimi is playing
on backside, has her ultimate as well on the execute
the origin pops, more towards 7, no side control giving over to it but
they're expecting G2 to play far off back
Ultimate ready for Mimmy immediately used.
Thaerus stuck there now, has to fight, has to go aggressive, needs to get a timing,
doesn't spot Amy, who has to first kill onto this one, who's not retake from G2,
is perfect right when the spike starts to drop G2 and stop there, going onto the site,
a double for Mimmy, and this round also goes into the hands of Gozen,
they're not going quietly, equalizing the standings and bringing this one back.
And that is probably something that Drew Spark pointed out as well, right?
The post-pand positions have been pristine for job life when they're given the time to get in to
position and then immediate reflow, that immediate pressure applied from security, right?
Prevented that and you coupled that with being able to find there as effectively as quickly as they did in a that a heaven space.
Meet it really really difficult to hold on that spike plant positioning.
So all in all that stabilizes thing four to four that might now make the call for job life to get a little bit deeper of roots here
Right to set the groundwork before following through on the plan on the round which I think is what has prompted this mid-start
Been a little bit chaotic in the last two rounds for for job life. Yes, you're getting on site
You're getting a lot of pressure over there, but it's chaotic in the upper plant and that's something you don't really want to see too heavy
Invest ultimate could be up and running once again. Oh
High investment already from the start of both teams, and there's a great flash coming
off there, but the first frag that's falling goes over to the site of JobLife, they're
now running into that utility of Amy!
Double kill!
For an elevated position, JobLife!
Not really coming into that site.
And with advantage secured by G2G, even though JobLife has thrown the Astral Ultimate into
it, Blue might have a timing here, but two enemies right in front of her, chaotic execute
we're talking about this one.
Gira all on her own doesn't survive the own sort of G2 girls and they're back into the lead after the one pistol job life
It might be time for a timeout here
Yeah, I mean that is a chaotic round that got hard countered by G2 and particularly
Amy right that operator gets overwhelmed and we leverage that asher utility and that hunter's fury from evident
Perfectly put Amy in the position to frag and then after that she gets out and stays and somehow sets up this perfect double
2v1 up against Lu, the one way back into the round that job life could have had.
And yeah, all those Olds down the drain on the job life side, no timeout called.
And expected this round go south, we might just get it, because it would be another forced
constrained buy on their side right before the half is up.
But they did like the mid space found in the previous rounds,
so try and exploit that again, trying to get Ev out early on.
And Baya can't be disrespected or like that.
What's utility heavy? Invest top mids.
Now they are trying to clear out an angle that has already been cleared out by the body of Tear.
Drop life, scrambling, looking for time answer to the questions that G2G0 is throwing at them.
Execute onto that A site needle, but it has been stacked by G2EVER and Mimi already rotated over to support Vanja.
Vanya normally the solo anchor the fragments giving away some of the information great flash
Well, I mean set up ever from the heavens Vanya there with the trade as well numbers
Going into the sides of G2 girls in Amy go some noticed Nilo all on her own one versus four against her old team
But that's too much to handle for six and four G2 girls and just running away with the half
Four rounds in a row might set up them for a very very good economy
And this is where I circle back to that question from the beginning of this map, how many rounds
is enough for job life, right?
Considering that G2's defense is typically stronger.
And right now, I mean, another round or two would be amazing, and that's why we wanted
to see a timeout, but it has not come just yet for job life.
But on the flip side, when you look at that last, that previous round, and it's again
We mentioned Eva from Heaven, quite consistent support and interference there and now I mean
they're on the opposite side of the map, but luckily this time around Akita in a different
position and that timing?
Was that a team flash?
Or was it no one with the Arcgrows?
No, it was Arcgrows, great timing.
Amy making this one look easy.
Job life already on the way to the other side.
We talked about the G2 girls in defense, we talked about Vanja being that sight anchor
they need.
Full is coming out there as well. A lot of fresher, a lot of utility from job life.
They're peeking into security. Vanya goes unharmed.
Position is no, Mimi has her back, has some support. They're a trait coming in there as well.
Vanya stuns, dead! Fighting into security even more. Job life.
They know that they need more to take more space. They know that they need to be a little bit more stretched out into their post plan.
Sheerah at aggressive angle has to fight the 1v1 versus Akita the smoke is coming
through and job life taking rotation suddenly both them up in heavens but
the spike isn't planted for that angle they need to be fast
we need to rely on the astral to meet Lewis into that backside and then a
frag for her a double kill illa they might be doing it they might be coming
back in our gross later before any of the aim is there fight sad shot and roll
Oh, number seven!
That is a hard-breaking round for job life.
They had the perfect adaptation in that late round, right?
You have both the Teiho and the Astra alive,
and, well, you want them to play out the post their Yuto,
so as soon as they confirm every single player in that retic from G2 goes inside,
it's coming from security.
They flip through Heaven, and it just came down to the wire.
And all of that after, right? A perfect B to A pivot
it when you've lost your entry duelist and you were still able to get the spike down.
I mean big coolest for how close and how far that round went but again the momentum not disrupted
from g2 money now sour coming into the last round g2 starting to pull away and we need that
disruption factor and shira could just provide it with this evolution and this fake entry towards
the b site. They're taking a lot of shira but she has a good timing, she has a good position,
Amy's ultimate should go without any drawback here.
Skira's trying to fight him to this point, while Drop Life is just easily executing on
the A side.
Skira finding a kill onto Amy, all of a sudden, that vice is dead, but G2 rotating over to
the other side.
Blue still stuck on B. Same goes for Skira, they need to take the long way, the long round
about their own spawn.
Cosme Divide goes in over the back side, they give that space to G2 but try to prevent them from getting this front side space and also set up there for success.
Fundy1 was slow in spawn, makes this one much more doable for G2, the big ultimate out of the equation no more on my get-ons.
This one is a bad kill for job life and that situation Teya has a great timing, finds Akita upgrade on the Vandal.
G2 already onto that side, Astro wall, without any big investments there sticking the spike.
this back, stopping this one into that situation, but Vanya gets an impact, cracks all of a sudden,
and one versus three, Shira gets it back, job life still alive, still into this one,
we're going on seven and five half-time.
Red Bull gives you wings.
I got a reputation to uphold So don't reach out, you're helping me to call
And once you tell the world that I'm your girl, I don't concern
I might leave swiftly Just based on my history
And I'm gonna take things like the deficit of trouble
Baby, this is something about the way you stop and stay
Something hit those eyes, tell me you care
I'm still learning how to trust
So can we keep this bit's weakness
If you choose to stick around, don't say
I let you down when I burn it to the ground
I hope you're all still here, welcome back to the stick and channel CME AG, two girls
and had a very very good first half with some ups and downs, job life is very competitive
in that matchup and we talked about the big maybe flaw that G2 goes and might have, which
is their attack.
And now JobLife needs to shine with Wippleteam comp.
Oh, absolutely.
And you can already see why we think it's going to shine.
Look at this trap placed it up over towards A-Main.
G2 pinging and recognizing that it's going to come in.
So I'm curious what the head-on collision is going to look like.
The Kao knife might destroy a lot of the world for this one.
Both players, but the stun goes through anyways. Good start for job life, trading out a Kita for their own entry dollars
That's a very fine trait, but a lot of damage onto Lu as well
And you need that, but look at the timing and the position that Sheila and Hela are having there
They're already on the back set, they're already behind the entirety of T2G, and I don't think that they're expecting that sort of timing
over from the other team
Flash is going through as well, that stun coming in that takes a lot more time of what G2 goes in the strength to do right now
and the back steps still in the game. They need to be fast, they need to be quick and illa
if they're not looking at them, gets a kill! Ever! Basically saving that round, Shira! Only they have to trade for G2.
It has to find the strike yet.
And they're running over to B. That could be a timing for Nello.
Spotted them, all of them. But G2 has the timing and has the time to run over.
What a car, right? You flipped the site and you realize you've taken a security player.
You can cut off your main rotations just from holding your ground.
He might not even see the Spike Land though.
They're gonna respect Nello. Their former teammate.
Let Amy maybe clean up the rest since she's at full HP,
but they know this round was getting dicey a few extra shots at this ghost and it could be a clutch.
Nello, 10 HP on the clock. This one more than just hard to get back.
No time to wait for another fault line so utility is off the table.
Oh, a good hold from Vanya and Amy.
It will spot her, but Amy?
Looking away at the wrong timing, but comes back to our teammate, 8 and 5 G2.
We need a crucial pisteron, because if Jotlight would have won this one, we would have had
a game for sure.
100% and we mentioned again them being ready for this fight, but they weren't perfectly
ready, right?
We still saw the first blood come through, but the effective trades and I like that
Consistent pressure on the flank immediately from that mid control from the job life side as well
Right both of the push and pull from both of these two teams the decision making was good
I think at that last minute though when it was that 2v3 and you're trying to get that timing on mid
That's when things fell apart for job life
They weren't able to play out that B side retake as effectively as it could have been but no there's like no
Stinger force shown coming into the second
It's just mid space and Lou trying to make early B contact here to set up those mid players and in the meantime
G2 on the prowl trying to figure out where this is coming
But that's already there stacked towards the b-side only Nelo and Teya
Reclearm it getting some control there, but they know where to do this right now. They spotted them
rotating over towards the A site
I think that gets the first track long range fight something you don't really want over from job life
They're taking them anyways Teya on the back step known
No one needs to be eliminated, Nilo on the side, a good frag for her, one amazing, one
expensive, one expensive, but only one kill for her, two guns on the ground.
Something G2 should be very fine with going into that 9m5 and then bottom ground, a cruiser
round for Jotlife coming up next.
Absolutely, and looking back at that round, the setup was perfect, you're right, you mentioned
the Gamble Stack on B was correct, but then it was this awkward, wide-swing, unsupported
dry with no utility thinking that they caught G2 off guard but G2 was prepared
and you look at Nello and how she was able to hold her own with her own
utility. Imagine what could have happened if she was setting up that double swing
and that's where things started to get a little bit fall apart there and I like
the speed-up rate from G2 and they realized the flank was compromised from
Thaia and you mentioned they keep that clean, they keep a strong bonus coming in
they even will give Akita a vandal to try and upset which mentioned was this job-life
swing round trying to gatekeep g2 from double digits.
Arrow from Jutah.
They are having the reeds for the weeks that I fought.
It's pass rotation from Jutah like over and over again.
Tegelsal was coming at Akita! How did you hit that shot?
And second one! Up towards the heavens!
Akita going crazy! Double entry in the side!
Jutah life! Having some struggles here.
Suppliers tucked into that smoke.
A timing on the board for them, but Akita doesn't look behind her.
Now the turn around G2 already on their way towards stage.
Free wills, free situation, and it all makes us one much more doable for job life.
Turning into a 2v2 is Amy taking a little bit of a risk.
Finds the rotation of Teya, spots the first player, spots the second one, both of them known as Bingo, for G2 on the board.
And then Psych is going down.
It's crazy how even while Rotim, they're able to cover their backs like that,
Amy's able to get those trades and that shift damage sets them up for this 2v2 Vanya
I like that she's tucked away as well waiting for the Amy regroup
HP the one job life side they just really need to fight in
to aim aim it break this crossfire with the utile Nello still has
Just one slash still has a fault line everything on the board for Nello and they need to be aggressive
They need to fight there is no way that there is tapping spike or something great spring from Nello
great fault line covering the angles that the swing doesn't cover round number six for job life
it was an expensive one but at least they're taking it home yeah no again g2 just the mid rounds for
me and he have been so strong that's what made this round close right the call to keep akita fixed
after she found two on the entry to try and get more to try to cut more rotates off and it got
dicey because of the call from job life right being able to pick up part a few of those mid
frags on the rotate is what allowed that 2v2 to come into fruition and we mentioned again seeing
that breach duelist combo that was also perfect textbook play to break up this crossfire and play
out what was a post plant from bonya and this astra i mean you could not have played that late
round more perfect yeah very intelligent utility usage overall g2 is just uncompromising in their
gameplay not allowing for job life to abuse any of their mistakes it's just uncompromising playing
trying to get her as a team. Teya in the middle, finds a swing on trainee. All time coming
there as well. A lot of utility early into that run. It tries to segregate Amy, but Holt
stuns, fully detains, gets another kill. Vanya is second on the She-Ra. The backside
swing doesn't work out and obviously Haki-Tai is going to fight into this one as well, gets
Nello in utility. Vanya shoots up towards the heavens as well. Sight has been taken
over by JobLife, sending Ella into a 1 vs 5. Basically unwinnable round for the Astrone.
for a player of job life needs to find so many, one-on-one, so many angles.
And even if she does, there's still a back step in the game.
Her position, known by G2, and she will just save the band and bring it to the next round.
If she can, look at Amy, about to run in her fear and see her into a length.
The timing is perfect, with the shots followed through.
This is Amy, we're talking about a flawless round for G2.
Double digits on the board, and we saw the effects of the work G2 put into that bonus
rear its head with sub optimal weapons and honestly we kind of went back to what I mentioned earlier
in this half has been a little bit of an issue for job life right you want your video to take
those timing fights but then it was this right just nobody to swing off the uter that they were
trying to dump into the site a little bit of its timing and as well lack of recognition for it being
that close. I'm a little bit I was I was sort of second thinking that's the first time all job
job life is taking on the second half, even though not everything was perfect in the first
half.
And yes, the win condition for job life is possibly more catered towards the defense
compared to the attack, but there were some very chaotic rounds from them and it's one
of two signs for me.
Either the coach was like, okay, we will come back to them on defense, or the voice
comes for clear even though the game play was chaotic and those are one of the two things
why the time was so late possibly
and
delight this late time out though because now you take one here you take one
when you're like
about to hit like a g2 match point right
and those are the perfect timings because they were able to again end it
with a
a pretty strong seven five half but
nothing's getting dice you're coming to the eco in the next buy which you lose
this it would be that g2 twelfth that we mentioned
so just getting through this next kind of relay of the race
We're going back to the Amy and fight. We're going back to
Over-aggressive duel as well from Shearer the Vita, but in a more safe position, right?
You can't really cross over that backside B space as effectively as you can jiggle this front bookcase line
Yeah, dear of the ball that they're playing
Of course a lot of the back step. I love Amy's bevel
Like I think the Vice from Amy is just so incredibly hopeful of what she too is trying to do.
And they're just contacting over to the site, no one on job life wants to fight them, Akita
is already up into the base of Shira and she finds security, Ela alone on the site is
down from Elos coming through, might be a timing for Ela to swing out of this one, she's still
We're stuck in that smoke, but Mimi, Segregate, finds her.
No more security and no more options for job life.
It's just a little tear.
I'm trying to at least find something, some damage to what you two are trying to do.
Something to work with.
Going into that next round, only sheriffs won't really want to take this one.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no.
Oh, no, no, we're suppressed.
Honestly, with this many G2 players, this close to getting ult orbs, I might have been staring at that abyss as my way out, like...
Because look at now, maybe he's gonna get the null command online, ever, Amy can also get this...
The steel garden online, right? Like, and that's a G2 flawless.
Now you're coming into what we mentioned was one of the most important rounds on your map pick,
which is gonna be this buy trying to deny that map point before your econ's broken again.
Again, it's a long run call, that kinda falls short.
Sure, and you mentioned this, Joblade not being able to take a single fight on his entry off of Nello's utility,
and it was because this team just completely ignored that side smoke, ran a lap around the entire site and completed the circle of this B-take, and it was...
We don't care if you have a smoke there, that's not a wall, we are just going around it and are in your faces.
And now you have high impact ultimates on the side of G2, which might even push this lead further, which might even get them to a match point.
You have the world divided and you have Mimis ultimate as well all of them online to try it for sighted here
And you should pull something into this one because
It's around there you need you want that map point on 12 and 6 spike burn already going down job life has to go for a retake
Kita keep line off the ashtar as well pulling set up there's no way they can get to security, right?
What a shot! What a knife into the hat! The job life is right clicking forward! Just pressing
double view, no going back for Akita! Just pressing it forward into enemy lines! Job
life! You're fighting against match point now, G2 goes in! It's not an easy enemy to
fight up against 12 and 6. They're just pushing and pushing into enemy territory and their
attack looks flawless. I mean the deep positioning fueled by the steel garden to deny that rolling
thunder on the retake which was hopefully the end for that eco round I mean they just sunk their
teeth into that deep A site space and there it is the final job lifetime at six rounds needed to
get them to overtime and I do think this is a well-placed one right you're gonna share with
that evolution you have to have and Lou super close to these round flipping ultimates on the
retake, I think it's just going to take that extra ounce of recognition that G2 isn't just
going to completely fall back. They're going to find ways to, again, head off or disrupt
these ultimates that should kind of flip the round for the typical opponent. And G2, I
mean, they also then get this opportunity to think of exactly what job-life fight's
going to go for, and I'm expecting them just to have that default info collection kind
of start with, with, me, me outside of A, with Amy outside of mid, and the others get grouped
outside of B and then they'll respond to that kind of aggressive pressure that has now become the trademark of Joblife around the day side of the map.
Like I think Joblife is playing for me right now and as I already said I need to be a little bit more aggressive and we talked about in the pre-show on like G2 can't get comfortable on their attack and they are very very comfortable in what they are doing right now.
Job life. Not really forcing their way into something not here. It's already in spawn.
A fast dash, but G2 read this like a book. Already pushing towards middle, and it's two players tucked all into their resides.
And G2 is just running up at them. W, key press down.
Chira, and Eilac. You need to make it work. You need to get at least one kill each.
It's great ultimate coming here from Luce.
Let's take this site.
One kill for Ela, but get straight it out.
Spike should go down for G2Gosen.
Cool, and now you have this long, fast flank starting to brew Akita, tasked with holding
it down while Mimi tries to forward fight alongside Amy and Alink.
That flank might be a little too late.
Ultimate's coming through left and right.
Mimi!
On the confusion of the job-wide players and connector, finds another kill too for
her and this might be just the end of that map tail. One versus four might be a little
bit too much to handle for her.
We get into that side slowly but surely approaching G2Gosen's hold. Needs to find the spike. Needs
to find where G2Gosen has set up their post plant.
Don't ever escape but still two more players to fight her out. An ultimate setup for success
but Amy says no. Amy closes it out. 13 to 6. A flawless attack for G2Gosen.
What a great 1v4 attempt there from Thage, just unfortunately not close enough.
And I mean you look at how well rounded this G2 squad was with this 13-6 on the board.
They definitely looked researched putting Amy back in her comfort position on this map
from the Viper in it to the Vice and we can see the impact it has had, 78.9% cast, 2.6
KDA.
And I mean that's impressive when you look at the sentinel syndrome that's set in on the first half where a lot of the
Time she was on the opposite side of where the exec was going, right?
But it was this mid control
It was this back step potential that she had on the attack that we were saying okay
Vaughn or Eva could be the win conditions and fix in their attack. No, it was Amy
and
That vice gave them a little bit more of a little bit more of a bigger threat in their dose attacks as well because most
Sentinels are very passive when it comes to attacking a side, right? They're just like, are we chilling a little bit here?
We're trying to luck. We're trying to find some some kills on late swing
But if you're playing with Amy and with your playing with the vice you have that extra flash, right?
you have this deep walls to cover some lurks coming from the middle and
I think that's something that made that even elevated what you two was doing on the attack and I think it's even more of an
extension compared to the alternate attacks game where they played the comp the first time.
This one felt even better and even more secure. Like adding to this was that like alternate
attack free duelists which brought in a lot of chaos even into G2Gosen. But like this one,
at least for me, felt a little bit more secure even though JobLive found the first rex more
consistently. Yeah, I think it literally, you can see they had the first kills were basically even
across the board, but it's that post plant percentage six out of seven, right? In the
pre-sure, we looked at, again, the maps that were lost by g2goes and up against, you know, kc,
up against gentlemates, up against giant x, and they were having at best a 50% post plant conversion
rate on that attack, right? And here it was six out of seven. So, again, job live going to breeze,
they're going to have to figure out a way to get on the same page because when we saw, again, these
really effective initiator field fights that set them up for success. It was really really nice
and they're going to be coming into a double duelist comp that it's going to require that that much
more. Yeah like like Bea I think had a thread on Twitter where she talked about the long wind
streak of the two girls and on breeze. It snapped against KC but it's still a map where G2 should
feel at home. It's still one of their best maps, one of their home ground maps, and if
JobLife doesn't make a huge jump in performance and doesn't find their center into that last
map, find something to work around with against G2 and learn from the map that Kamenko played
there, it might be a very, very fast evening for both of those teams, and we might not
even see Bind because, like especially the attack, the defense of JobLife looked shaky
at best here. Absolutely. Well, I mean, there's not going to be a harbor likely on the job
life side that threw a wrench kind of in to the matchup that KC had versus G2. But with
that double duel and some of the shots they were seeing and the confidence that they had
on those executions, I do think that they could replicate some of the strategies. They looked
prepared for that G2 defense and we'll have to see if they have that same level of preparation
going into breeze. But that will be after a quick break. So stick around. There's more
JC EMEA action on the way.
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I'm gonna celebrate like we never have Slow down with your better hands
Never hesitate to get the fat Money talk so we always try
That's why hard work and dedication Can get you to a better place than a space
You ain't got time to be wasting But don't chase me in control
Hey, uh, I'm trying to get you to my side, my side
I'm trying to get you to my side, yeah, yeah
We think you're too loud, don't get lost
When we call baby I just get home, hey
Let's try and get you to my side, yeah, yeah
Let's try and get you to my side, just try and get you to my side, yeah
Get it ah, la la la la la la la la
Just your heart, it'll keep you true
That's what it takes so much from you
From the dark unto the light
It'll come in the middle of the night
You were raised in a sacred place
Evil runs when it sees your face
So from those who make the noise of time
Good will stand and the shadows will hide
Nights and souls are standing on the side
Taking people into the light
They won't take your life
I'm taking my life
And I can't get back home
And I can't get back home
And I can't get back home
And I can't get back home
year that this map strikes into the hearts of the enemies has, but we saw some nice preparation
right out of the side of job life and we saw the confidence that they're going to need
to replicate the success KC had in terms of taking the fight right to the opposition of
G2, especially around this mid-stace.
But there was no way to settle back to Akavask.
I had doubts about the G2 attack sign on this map because KC were able to just kind of group
up, gain up, and isolate their lurk players like Amy time and time again. And I was worried
that we could see JobLife do the same. But after what we saw from Amy on map 1, I don't
know if they're going to find similar results this time around. It might just be like we're
not in the best form on the day of, and now that they're at their peak, she's going to
be a debatable force even on the Viper.
I'm going to be honest, I don't know if you want to find Amy in that form. Because if
The big question here is, do you find Amy?
Or does Amy find you?
Because that one-on-one is something
I wouldn't really love to take
in a situation where she's shooting on all cylinders.
And she did that on the first map so well.
That switch to device is incredibly beneficial to Amy.
Like, I like the double controller comms
that we mostly see nowadays.
And I also love the double duelist comms.
But in general, G2, they are thriving
on double initiator as well.
Like, if you're having, especially like Mimi on that KO, is something I really love to see.
Because KO is such an underrated agent.
Yeah, she's on Yorou on this map, but talking about like, talking about like, talking about like, the last map,
I love to see Mimi on the KO, here she's on the Yorou, which is a little bit of a different outlook,
but still, you can, you can, you can fight those aggressive areas on the defense.
You can use it for an execute, and I'm intrigued to see how G2 goes and
manages to get this one over the line here after their heroes against Kamii Kopp and
struggling a little bit on Breeze.
Well, we get to take a look at Breeze and see if there's any changes that throw a wrench
into our analysis or into our expectations.
And ooh, this is interesting, alright?
So Jobliff have played this map three times, they've lost it three times, it's been a mixed
bag of results as well, right?
They had like a 7-13, 11-13 most recently and most maybe traumatizingly, a 1-13 up against
SK Nebula.
And they had switched in I think that 1-13 match to there on the Yoru as well.
But they switched back to the chamber.
So I'm curious to see how she's going to fare, especially after she just played that
deep dive Waeli over on Abyss.
So I'm excited to see that, but on the G2 goes inside, not much changes on that front
in particular.
Yeah, they're really going back to basics, right?
Shira on the Jatt, they tried to play a little bit around with the Yoru, but they had the
greatest success on Raze with that comp. They had the greatest success playing their double initiator
plus jet constellation with Ella on the Viper. I think what's inherently interesting for me is
that you don't have flexible smokes on this team composition, right? You only have the Viper giving
you some sort of control and normally that's something we only see on Icebox and sometimes
race. But mostly Icebox. And I think that could be the huge problem that job life might have,
because you can't really smoke off mains on defense. You only have to set wall that you
have to adjust into certain situations. And I'm not the biggest fan of it, even though it's
technically possible to do that. Yeah, they played this composition out only in a Toast
of Mine orchids game. Every other time it was that double controller, right? It was that
Ashera it was that that viper and they even played it super super recently as in like four days ago in
The ebc cash cup for game changers as well
So this is a big switch up again. Maybe just trying to get there in a more comfortable position
That's literally my my only thought process here because most success they did have was with
the
Please it was it was a double initiator. It was that it was a chaos over viper chamber jet
But it's this, yeah, so, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it's like they put like this comp against Zenit in their first matchup, and I think
they want to just go back to basics, back to what worked before for them with the just
single controller Viper.
It's an old comp, but it's something to look out for, and we're going into that matchup.
Life might have a lifeline here against G2Gosen who wants to end the season on a high note,
want to end in an HN1 spot, not having any questions asked about them going into the play of Serious
and we're starting on this. Here we go, G2 on the attack, the spotlight on them to repair the
issues that we've seen and I mentioned one of the win cons for Job Life is going to be disrespecting
getting their face, they're taking all this mid space trying to, I think that Lurt play, but
but they're all grouped and already into the T-Stace.
They might have some problems here.
Is that just crossing her? No shots hit, 9 HP.
And 20 on the tail of both of them. Incredibly, incredibly low, but G2 has full access.
Over towards the T side, there's a double dex step in the game, but look out for Vanya.
Has an angle, has the timing for them to swing, but whiffs the headshot.
When HP onto Vanya, uncharacteristic shots for her.
But she knows she can give all of the information, tells the tales of the three players in their backs that Mimi finds not a frag as well
G2 is fighting away from that triple stack into their backs
Fighting more and more forward, numbers bunch secured
And look at Amy, you're right, going over towards the elbow, nobody looks at Mimi
Doesn't hit the shot that Akita is there, finds the timing
Onto the bait of Mimi tries to escape the shots of Lu
But she has to get to the spike as quick as possible. Both players known, but Lu can't find the angle, can't find the opening first round. Goes over to G2 goes.
Wow. And once that flank, that trio was exposed by Vania. Yes, she was stuck running away with one HP, but it gave all the information G2 had.
They had a decision to make. Either regroup and defend Vania fighting those flank players, or take that deep space, flip the site and play down the timer.
They took the ladder and it worked out perfectly and the extra security as well of Amy reflanking and reclearing elbow worked
Like a charm in splitting that attention from Lou enabling
I should say disabling the fact for her to isolate those fights and try to get on the spike for a stick
So G2 again another pistol found job life though another bold play
But it's falling apart a triple for Akita ever finds one in there as well
Well, just donating some old points over there, it was a nice idea from JobLife going to this one and also Teya finds the luck of Mimi.
I always liked those aggressive stack plays into smaller angle areas but it doesn't go well for JobLife at all because Akita just chooses to hit every single headshot in the books.
Second round should be secured by G2, whooping the next few seconds.
Spock is down, and it's a long walk into the gunfire of Akita, fourth kill for her, stacking that overdrive early on.
I mean, it's Niko, you mentioned that you have to group up, have to fight somewhere.
Maybe they could have applied a little bit more utility to fight, but, you know, this head-on collision just perfectly handled, prepared from Akita and Eva.
And while the alert player was ticking out when they were thinking of back-stepping towards the A site,
When they had all that conflict, you'd expect everyone to rotate towards B, it just more
so solidified the call and solidified the round post there on the B site.
So coming now into the first buy round here for job life, full rifles, a few light shields
here that makes me worried for the implications of the guardians, but it's a confidence in
this hold.
You have the anchors double stacked towards B, they've gone B so many rounds, it's a good
call.
Yeah, there's actually two people to the beach side as well, Teo!
Fuck that entry kill!
Akita's already on a mini!
A trade-off there and she too finds a way!
A double entry!
My AIGR for a right-hand person!
Eh, well, that's the answer's theory.
Might use it in that round because you're throwing job life back into the pit of E-Coin.
During your spot snowballing, slowly but surely into this game, drone spot to AVI.
Gives them a chance. Gives them an angle to go back into that site ever.
Tries to play back. Tries to play with the ultimate. Tries to play under fury.
They still have Vanya's utility under fury and play. You have star stare.
Makes it even easier to hit that ultimate. Second tap onto that spike, but need to get onto this one.
They know it's just sticking a cheera with another frag potential sticking at all.
He needs to stop job life, secures the bronze, gets to frag onto Vanya and somehow they bring it back.
Oh, now that would have been devastating if G2 could have converted the bonus, but Job
Life, the team fights on that site off of the drone and Baxite finding Mimi were so clean
and so fluid.
And I think if I was reading the timer, the refresh there from Bonilla correctly, she
utilized the gravel instead in conjunction with that Hunter's Fury instead of splitting
them up for maximum delay and without it finding any kills, that's why we had no able to stick
it out the entirety of the way so post plant fall spot a little bit and g2 have had enough
of the b side pretty direct towards there trusting your alert players and trusting your double
duelist diving on and overwhelming that little feral that toxic screen.
All of a sudden the lowest down gives them an advantage in the utility department no
more flashes no more like second info option.
Job life for G2, small noise cancel, trying to lure the job life somewhat into the arms of Vanya, but Akita is already there in the backside, infinite crossfires onto this new A site on Breeze and G2 are using that perfectly.
Last player is not as well, ill-positioning. No, Akita makes short work of this one, three and one, G2 goes and running away with that first half, you know, the ultimate on Akita, it might be a cross-drawn once again.
Yeah, I mean
That was just unfortunate
I can't quit talking the wall came up in time if it was blind for the wall
But this pause in the late round from G2 was everything right peace to the curiosity of job life
They get searching and they get punished in every single 1v1 from that double duelist across that A site between Mimi and
Akita and I mean as an eco you might not even need that overdrive coming into things
I mean they've been doing a good job just waiting and playing contact into those aggression points
And that's exactly what they're doing here again really far away in window ever really far away down slants and I
Like the crossfire out of it. I like that. They haven't fully committed to the fight this time around on the job life side
Like right now it shows that there's only one control on that
You know you have that white midwall, which is great
but you're so unflexible with throwing down your smokes and you're basically playing on the terms of G2 girls and onto your own
And that's something you don't really want to see. You don't really want to get G2 gold and comfortable
But don't come ever trying to set up a key top
But right now you're playing into that viper and you possibly spotted a shot up there
They're gonna be very aggressive this smoke
Very very aggressive now they heard it G2 is hearing the steps Akita trying to execute somewhere else
They are she's quite a kill doesn't get one. They know where the job life players are right now
Everyone spotted. G2 executing onto the other site, but they get to backstab onto Mimi. A gun has been fallen down, can be picked up by Illa.
A-Side over to the G2, but numbers advantage for job life.
Oh, spiky to go down. Amy had the toxic tree and the orb as well to hunker down.
And this is where things could get dicey despite the groundwork job life of Lade.
and here thoughts down singular kill for G2 goes and isolating her from the
rest of her team back step implied from Lewis well but they need to get this one
quick done spiky's been planted already Amy shot a double kill for a
keytop make it three you don't get through double doors no way on site you
shall not pass as a key to her and so there's a one and four job life not
getting anything out of this round aside from one kill.
Well, I mean, again, how they played the B side of the map on this eco was perfect, right?
I got flashbacks to a base where they swung to early after getting the gamble stack correct.
This time they didn't do that, right? We had the flash from Nello, and then we had this
regroup quad-fighting to be made that forced that aggression, that forced that rotation,
and G2 in a very uncomfortable position. But once they got over to the A side,
it was that fragmentation. It was they playing alone over towards ramp,
and it was that delay utility from Amy that allowed Ekita to get in a fragging position.
So again the bounce back from G2 that keeps them so stable that keeps this breeze
So fearsome was picking a fearsome there. What a force it's walk down elbow
A lot of space creators and all of G2 are running into that gun you need to
Receive that space they're using your ultimate has cross but it's the first right foot there
Good start into that run for job life
I think to find the car, I like what they're doing as well, a lot of space taken by G2.
Sight has been given over to them, targeted.
Kinda know where Mini is right now, Teya needs to find another angle and you especially have
to fight Vanya.
Shot in the back of the head, it lies down Teya, has a second one for her, it's wild
and tripped the kill!
From spawn the fourth one doesn't go over to her, Sheera, stepping on the back step.
No kill for her, but Spike is down.
The Spike has been dropped needle, spots it now.
To get through that crossfire, she manages to go more aggressively, a little bit more
flexibility for G2 Gold, look down, smokes, Vanya, one with a still situation, Spike!
On her side, needs to find anything, needs to isolate those suppliers, the mainstays
from the French team, Nello and Lu, her former teammate, running at her, spots her out, 17
seconds on the clock.
Need to be quick, need to be fast, get the headshot onto Nello!
No!
No, shock dot.
No HP for Vanya.
At the timing, you're just the headshot!
Vanya, Cleanset, Red Bull clutch, the new one versus two, a quad kill for the G2 goals and control.
Oh my goodness, and now it's back to back rounds where Joblike have forced the G2 into uncomfortable positions,
And then, Roics have dragged them back kicking and screaming, right, from Akita to now Vanya in that Red Bull Clutch.
I mean, Vanya kept this round with a lid on it from finding Shiro on that backstab to keeping them in rotate and check.
This was disastrous how this round did it.
And yeah, after two rounds like that, Joblite desperately need that timeout because they've had G2's number again in these early rounds.
The positions have been there.
They've been forcing G2 into mistakes, but it's this lack of closure,
which honestly has defined JobLife's entire stage, right?
So many 11-13s, so many map 3s that could have existed
in their series, and honestly, it's starting to bite them.
And now here on Breeze,
what could be the last map they play this stage?
And it's like the slight lack of discipline
because I love the ideas that JobLife has right now.
Like, I like what they're bringing to the board.
They're having some, they're bringing some creativity into those rounds, because you need to, right?
You're playing with the chamber, like they're playing intelligently, getting those first tracks and Teya heavy-lifting on that last round.
But then it's like a little bit of overheating, a little bit of not playing together as a team that costs some rounds in crucial moments.
And as you've already said, that defines their entire season up until now.
Yeah, good luck towards those closers.
Taking a closing G2, looking to wind down this series, this half up 5-1, back to basics,
back towards a side of the map.
Haven't really experimented too much last time, they got onto the site pretty easily,
but last time this operator wasn't here.
And here's the intro, Frank. Again, also Mimi, but now you have to convert.
You have to fight into what G2 is trying to do right now. Don't let them plant a spike.
Hunter's Fury already taken, but Teo falls in backside. Banya in stream kill.
And second one forever as well, because Sheera is overheating a little bit.
Akita just swings onto Nello. Last player behind Orange.
There's two players stuck behind Orange. Both spotted Akita, lying Samar perfectly.
And as you already mentioned, Job Life has to do with like a French other band and go back to basics.
I get it, it hurts right there, playing smart gets first, gets out, but
they have not on the G2 side given any breathing room over to Job Life to play a single retake
towards this A site. Have seen it on B and more so forced by Job Life, but
no solve yet found to the side of the map and G2 after poking and prodding A where they're
They're gonna try and draw a response out of job life, maybe a more aggressive fight into AMAIM, they go back to this default.
I'll try to do it.
Progressive.
Spotlight is trying to do spotting out Akita.
The entry frags are good, like they are finding the angles.
They are finding those first player spots.
And follow-up is needed.
NG2 is just so clean and so decisive on what they are doing after losing the first player.
forward another drone, Sam needs to, might need to port out of there
he's going on there with the full strike, he goes back to job life once again
that hurts right, last time Evigra killed by the ops, what should he do, she drones at this time
and it's the same outcome this time, from the tip of your spear falling
now you have to lean towards Mimi, you have to lean towards Vania
players have been poking and prodding all their portions of the map.
The regroup towards B is good, but it is for job life as well.
Jira, hella grouped back site.
They are already...
Having a Viper out there, no?
So, you have to fight through the smoke, fight through the control.
30 seconds left.
Uplight is trying to set up, 30 seconds left.
You need to be fast, you need to be decisive,
never fight the first wreck.
Jira needs to do some heroic, some avanjia trait, sir.
Mimi has a timing there as well, on the up!
Gatsukil!
brings the numbers over to G2 goes into another numbers advantage has been
thrown away by job life look at Amy in the middle cuts all of the rotations
I say what is trying to set up but I bring the guns to the next round nothing
to do here one and seven duo Germany versus Brazil in the standings but bring
the guns to the next round and you mentioned Akamos the over fighting
after they very intelligently find these numbers advantages usually off a
they and this round it was Shira right like they didn't have any noise they saw the fake clone from
mid tunnel and that's it and they were like we don't have enough info to keep anchoring the site
when they had the call right and even though it was trades it just the trades ended in G2's favor
over towards that B site and that's when they got the space where maybe could comfortably
work then arches with that operator and yeah 7-1 here again the late rounds
Like three late rounds in a row that I think that job look have had the numbers and that things have not gone their way
Out of the last five and it is an issue that's now not been resolved even with the time not taken
Right if you're
Using after your first loss of your trades on perfect G2 is just gonna run away with the game
Because they are just so consistent in finding kills and finding like those small
Mimi, fast enough on the trigger!
Might kill, overdrive has to take because the Kita has stopped for like the last 12 rounds or something like this.
You need to use it at some point, just running over Job Life 2, quick kill it into the path to the G to go, take it free, a great flick!
Over from Mimi, the IGL, it's shooting the North Cylinders as well, only two kills!
Going over to Job Life 1 and 8 will be on the server after that round.
If the player isn't...
some hero is pulling something out of her pocket that's extraordinary it needs to be
magnificent for her no more frag swanja close us this one out g2 goes and is running away
with their attack health piece by piece a drop lives games falling apart and there
was difficult right g2 was taking up to an up fight finally best they're on that ace side and
i mean they rotate that win condition off and we've seen that look at steamroll now a few times
around the base they just not enough to lay utility in this composition which it
makes me hopeful for when the sidestop happens but you gotta at least have some
leeway some safety net to fall back into in this half and right now we're not
seeing that they're on a tightrope nothing below and we're already into the
action next round the ego wire we don't even get to breathe Agamus and no
breavers for us no room and time for the caster to chill a little bit out there
It's another one into this awkward timing for Ela and Amy in Midlands somehow. The numbers are even once again
The team getting the numbers advantage seems to not being able to complete those rounds Vanya
Now get some more stability into what G2 is trying to build
Elantria both are up and running still into Viper utility. That's important, not Mimi. Nice flick from her
Has been great on the op so far and Ela needs to save her team got a triple for Mimi
The IGL still got it, still shooting.
And the 9 and 1 for G2 goes and they are just running over job life.
We talked about them maybe slacking a little bit after securing first place, but no signs of that.
That's not the second time out, Taken. You have to at this point.
I mean, again, we mentioned they're getting the first blood.
They're having really smart plays and then it's just singular players fighting alone.
when that wall drops like Lou in the elbow,
that completely flips it back towards G2's favor.
And that's what I'm really hoping
Coach XMS is instilling in them.
They're like, hey guys, we're getting the numbers early on.
We just need to group up after that fact.
Don't take these risks, right?
G2 are amers, we can't bully them in that fashion.
And honestly, I mean, Mimi's been the full display of that.
I feel like her operator is so underrated at times
and honestly putting on an MVP level performance
with it in this map for the time being.
And you know what's so impressive about Mimi for me?
She reinvents herself constantly in different iterations of that
G2 goes and raw stars.
And now on like playing Yoru and stuff, right?
Like it's been, it's been an incredible journey for her throughout the
entirety of game changers, being the first champion and reinventing her
playstyle over and over again with different teammates, different
iterations, different supporting casts.
And now going back onto dualist aggressive roles is very very impressive to me and Mimi is just doing all she can.
Sometimes a little bit overlooked in the firepower that's around her.
Absolutely. And that's again what makes this system work, integrating anybody when the roster switches up and speaking of integration, speaking of perfection and execs, there it is, the Yachter-Hunter-Sherry combination to overwhelm this Viper's pit, or at least try to do so.
So and for the first time we have seen they are now able to find a first blood the poking and prodding around it around that
Rondi buenker doesn't work but look at this from job life
They're about to flash out of the smoke and they've caught ever
Chira doesn't look into spawn Vanya is still still talked into the corner
That's an important frag three players off G2
stuck in middle they need to fight against a viper spit but nello one step ahead one step to four forward
No gets a trade onto a cheetah. That's an important one
No, it's just a line to a vipers pit is going down. They know that job life is rotating away
Give honey on that beast by this bike still in middle so they can go back to be anywhere in might cut a rotation
onto a lot of vipers pit is done and
So any is reuniting with her controller buddy in crimevania. Get some support onto the site
Just some spam through the smoke
Reload can be used as a 140 dink.
Vanya with that off-shot, but important track for Amy.
Gets them into a 1v2, 10 HP onto Vanya.
Can't overpeak anything, Viper's split.
Might be ready for a pulse-site, but do you really want to use that into a 1v2?
Vanya has no coverage, they're 10 HP onto her.
She wants me to be segregated, but Lu doesn't get a 10 and 1 G2 gozen.
Round and round again.
They get new ideas, and they are running away, 10-1.
JopLife, they're fighting, they're struggling, but they can't get those rounds.
And even though all of these rounds, even though the score is 10-1, JopLife, every single round, they're getting the early stars,
they're getting either even or advantageous positions.
This one was a 3-3, right, and they clearly forced G2's hand with that mass rotation towards the A site,
and with that amazing B-name play.
And this run nobody overheated this time right you saw Lou wait for the regroup there in the back side a space and then
Just somehow got fragmented with Nello and here it is another really strong team fight a really strong start
Question is how long are they going to keep it?
I'm not interested in how a job life starts that round at this point. I'm interested in finishing it
Mimi execute onto that side her nakita the size of even after losing one of her players
There's nobody who looks into Mimi. Nobody spots that angle.
And Mimi gets in what? What a double kill from Nello. Has enough from losing those rounds.
Finds timing. Finds kills. Finds the important moment.
That job life needs right now.
Banya all on her own. Spike in no man's land.
She kept those two. It needs to
get the hole into that triple hold.
You have flexible smokes. You can still walk around those.
We're filming, covering it.
What the fuck are we going up?
Hey, about three hours to kill.
10 and 2, we are going into a halftime
where G2 goes and is already onto the double digits
and Drop Life has some struggles.
Yeah, we are probably just together with Bonilla 1v4.
I thought we were going to see these players piece off Manello, right?
The Friar teammate.
So I've had enough and they give hope to going into halftime.
Red Bull gives you wings.
Job life is struggling, job life is fighting for their lives, but they can't quite get
over with those rounds. First blood after first blood and G2 goes in is still up 8 rounds, 10 and 2 out of the half.
Yeah, small mistakes have added up, right? Clutches, left to right and center from players like Vania on that G2 side.
I've just put a spanner in the works for job life and getting any momentum on their enemies' map pick.
And this is the breeze we know from G2.
This pistol would be everything for the job life supporters and they are trying to direct all their attention towards this A side.
If there is some drop life stuck there, throwing down the Viper wall they have control, they
have the site.
Sheera has the timing, might have the timing here.
That arrow from Ewa might be great but our players spotted Spike planted for the main
area but she too is there 5 or 5 retakes and they need that pistol.
If drop life loses out on that pistol it might be over quicker than we expected.
Sheera behind between those pyramids important timing important position
She needs to get something there that crossfire set up for success Mimi going on to that side gets the first break
Sheera overrun a double from Mimi the IGL
Finds a way in double entries against shop life and quads kill
From the game changes legend a second tap
Are they giving her the ace Mimi is diffusing Amy says that last one for for Mimi to open the side to bring it over
over for G2 killsin'.
And that's a team play I've ever seen one.
Gets four kills with the GC Sheriff
and he's the first one getting on that spike hold
for the team and honestly,
even though JobLife got this site,
even though it was a 5v5,
I was like, this is gonna go bad really fast
because they never took that deep site space.
That wall was a little bit too far to the left in my eyes
and you saw G2 just waiting, mulling it over,
waiting for that refight from JobLife through the wall
that was never going to come since they didn't have enough Utah to fight out that post plant
and now they're not going to have enough rounds, it feels like, to replicate that sort of situation.
Saving.
Unless they thought about a force up and it hasn't come, it's just full classics across the board.
G2 feel like they will inevitably get to 12 amines in the position to try and secure so.
It's all of that spot before the night hits.
That's the important part, Vanja. A little spray for that smoke and a full save over to the side of Job Life!
Just running into that neat grinder of G2, already free for X-Town Trailer, falling in middle!
No chances for Job Life!
Your life is running out for all of us!
For G2 in the end, 2 and 12, they're running it over, making quick work, making swift work, out of those Job Life players.
Job Life chose this path.
No Stinger Force, no nothing, means 10 rounds in a row needed to get to overtime, needed to possibly push us to bind, and
we'll have to see near perfection. We'll have to see those strong starts to rounds
converted.
This is the first round, we're seeing them defaulted as well, right full trust in Therna.
Play on her lonesome with the double pairing an elbow and mid and look at the double pairing from G2 fighting into it,
or ready to do so off of the contact.
But Shira finds an entry. Shira, clear out the area and double for her!
Job life in the lead! Job life in the driver's seat! To at least get themself onto a throttle front!
And you need to be there! You need to snowball the economy! If you want to secure that second half, G2 can't get off the gas.
Can't bring themselves into a position where job life might taste some blood for a comeback.
I love this rotation towards A but it's coming a bit too slow. G2 have caught a wave of it and are tracking it through mid.
Could have gotten the timing to spawn but a little late and said let's get the confirmation since nobody's into elbow.
They as well didn't get into the deep A space just waited and said for the team regroup so now we're going to have that issue again where G2 are going to flood in immediately after the spike plant goes down.
We'll see what job life can do with numbers in this situation.
Going up, timing his numbers. You can't let that slip, you can't let that go.
Amy never fighting forward.
There's a kill.
Get an entry, get the second one.
Vanya on the trade, but that's all they get.
One weapon down, everything else into the hands of JobLife.
G2 is on 12th, but JobLife has a third to their name.
And the 4 by Volves, 4 by coming up.
To the next match point.
Really nice run from Sheeran from there right from again the opening it kills
Really really pushing any pressure that she too had in the early round or in that
Retake attempt then keeps it clean keeps full shields on the board
This is the first rifle round now for G2 one off as well from a dimensional drift
This is a big round where we might start believing in job life stability at least to make the series close
Maybe not complete the full comeback just yet and
G2, if the elbow walk down was predictable instead, the double duelist is ready to pounce on mid if contact is made.
Double life fans, do you believe in miracles? Because you have to...
...for the sake of your team.
Back down into middle. You already mentioned the double duelist stack.
From Mimi.
From Makita over to middle. Mimi spotted.
I thought it's a little bit of a problem.
Minute left, still not into a site.
Finally decided to commit through mid-haul.
Your tunnel and Eva's playing the Jiggle Contact here.
Ok, finally, Flash is coming out. Execute, it's supposed to go down onto the base.
I've got a Q-tile! I've got a double kill from backside!
I've got a position there to destroy Job Life's hopes!
To destroy Job Life's entry!
Three quick kills into the pockets of the young duo.
A strong D2 goes, and then a full horse Raphania!
Secures the 13 and 3.
G2 makes it an 8-in-1 group stage, and Job Life has one more chance left.
To win a game, to win a series, because against G2, that doesn't work out today.
and it's not gonna be much easier
on opponent and you can argue right KC the one team that has bested G2 in the cards
but we've got to talk about G2 again this map even though it's a 13-3
I want you to like pause halfway through round and guess who's gonna win them round
and so many of the times you're gonna think it's going to be job life
and that was the difficulty here
and it also shows G2's flexibility, resilience and Mimi's mid-round calling
that got them through those hard times
times and it leans into these star players that Mimi can again flex to her whim like Akita 21 and 10, Vanya 18 and 5, which leads you in
to the MVP for this map.
Yeah, which will be Akita, no first bloods, but
354 ACS. Like if I'm gonna be honest, we will go to the next graphic soon
and there will be a first blood number and I'm like about
I have 50% sure that job life is leading in the first lot department and that takes that gives even more credit to
Mimi's mit rounding because like losing your first player consistently on that map and
Coming somehow back into that round
Just just give some some weight toward Mimi is doing what the calling and G2 goes and is doing and here we go
Oh, it's an 8 and 8 in first bloods.
While G2 dismantled them 13 and 3, that's something that cannot happen with your job life.
You can't get 3 rounds out of 8 first bloods.
And I think that inconsistency in the mid-rounding is what defines their entire season a little bit.
I mean, not in a 10-post plan as well, right?
It's like one spike was going down, it was those clutch moments that got handed over for a job life.
It's like out of those ten posts. It's like how many were clutches? I think like
It's it's insane as I think about how different this series could have been if there was that discipline if there was that closure
From job life, so it shows to me that there is promise right in the next day for them
They can fight back through contenders right because hopes for them not getting relegated this pointer are kind of snuffed out
but I mean 13 6 13 3 kind of how the series was expected to go and
I want us to bounce back from JobLife. That would be the best storyline.
I gotta admit that Serious, if you're looking at it from the raw stats perspective,
it went the way we expected it to be. But I think JobLife is played much better than those numbers suggesting.
They played a lot better brand of Valorant than a 13.6 and a 13.3 Suggest.
This looks like a stomp, but job life on the first half of Abyss and in the first blood department on Ries at the start of those rounds
were insane. Like they played great wellerums in
like if those rounds on Ries only go like 30 seconds, they win every round because they were just so
confident and so strong in those round starts, but they lost it in the mid-rounding, in the later stages of the round, which for me is an
experience thing. They have like Nello and Lu, who have game changers, many of them experience a lot of
that, but the rest of the team is very inexperienced. They need time to adjust to the bigger stage and
that's something that we saw today in a lot of situations. And I think if job life works on that,
if they are sticking together as a team, they have a chance to look much better going into split 2
and avoiding relegation. Well, we'll have to see how that story unfolds later, but today,
the standard performance from G2. And I mean, the performance result from Casey as well up against
Twisted Minds. I expected that to be a three map, honestly, for game one. So that was a big
surprise for me in particular. But I think this has been one of the faster days we've had and we
might have a similar occurrence tomorrow. But when it was a 13-6 and it's a 13-3 G2 goes and already
had that first seed position locked up, but it's going to pull that much further ahead. And for
job life, they kind of needed a win today, if there was any chance, or if you win today,
if you win tomorrow against KC, there was a chance of pushing Barkey Esports, I mean,
the head to head might have made it inconceivable, but now, I mean,
again, that round differential is even weaker. So now it's just getting reps against harder teams
and being confident in the games you play, it's that when you get to contenders, you can once
again just be that team we saw on Open Qualifiers that was able to strong hand their way through it
and earn their spot in Stage 1.
Yeah, they earned it.
And I don't want to take anything away from Jopla right now, because they played very
good Valorant today.
I think that was one of their better series actually, even though the numbers don't suggest
that.
And we have to take some eyes on the second stream for today, because like, Alternate
Attacks was playing Barca there, and I think Barca, like, if they're winning they still
have a chance of making playoffs, if they're losing, it's going to be a little bit dicey
for them.
find themselves into the relegation tournament.
We have some games tomorrow for you as well, by the way.
So tune in tomorrow at VistaeMEA2.
We will be back on that channel because the main VistaeMEA
will be here on the main channel against, you know?
It's either M8 or BBL going to Masters then.
So tune in at Vela and EMEA2 tomorrow
for Vistae game change section.
Absolutely.
We got to check out what those matches are going to be.
We kind of hyped up obviously the KC versus Job Life game.
And I hope that we get to see again and clean up some of the issues we saw today.
But I also really excited for the alternate attacks,
Trested Mind game.
That's one like the KC, Trested Mind is that today that I could see being a
3-Bat banger.
And I also like this dichotomy between Job Life and alternate attacks, right?
Two teams that both came out of the open qualifiers, having vastly different results,
But playing fairly similarly in terms of how they prepared themselves, right?
You have JobLife, who was playing through the Cash Cup, you have Altanid Attacks,
who was playing through EQ, Simon, while teaming easily, right?
They're both trying to make up the headway that these main event teams,
these GCC level teams have on them, and the time they've had as a core roster,
and it's just who's caught up fast enough.
And also, the Attacks played like 56 maps in January alone,
which is a crazy number to go out.
And just to his mind, AT&T matchup might be a little bit more interesting if AT&T loses against Barcelona today.
Because then it's an instant playoff decider who goes to relegation, who goes to playoffs.
This might be a little bit dicey, and afterwards we have the French fanfest between KC and JoppoLive.
Expect the chat to be blue.
And I want to give a short, I expect the blue wall to be here, as our production just set into my ear.
I want to shout out to Production Requick of today, Jam as our Observer and Corribon of our Reply Ops,
and also the Lapply Friend being here with us in this court the entire evening.
Has to hear us, yeah, much love to everyone involved with Dive.
It's been a pleasure, as always, and a great time being on the broadcast with all of those people,
Because everyone here is very passionate about GCMEA and all of them are loving their jobs.
So, you know, give them some love and chat, give them some hearts up and that should be it for us today.
I'm giving you the last few works, Zobby, and then we're out, and then...
I mean, it's been a pleasure of a group stage as we wind things down and get those final teams through playoffs.
I'm excited to see some of those playoffs rematches since this was a one-group round.
Robin is a guarantee to happen one way or another and display how these teams have grown,
that we did. I mean, we had
a fun time here. And honestly,
we've grown alongside these
teams. So thank you for
checking it out. Like you said,
Thank you to production in the
back end and make sure to tune
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