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G2 vs SK - VCT Game Changers EMEA 2026: Stage 2 - Group Stage - Week 3 Day 2
05-12-2026 · 5h 58m
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I got a reputation to uphold, so don't reach out your hand,
let me to hold, and once you tell the world that I'm your girl,
right now, I'm gonna start my leaves swiftly, just based on my history.
Been on a take-and-flight, set deaf a sight of trouble,
maybe this is something about the way you stop and stare.
Something hit those eyes, tell me you care.
I'm still learning how to trust
So can we keep this faith sweet in us?
If you choose to stick around, don't say
I let you down when I burn into the ground
We got steps learning how to trust.
So can we keep this between us?
I
No
with the ace in my team where it goes.
I'll give it one more try
But I keep coming back every time
I want it born in my life
I don't know why
It feels so right
Why am I playing this time?
It's just taking away
It's taking away
My mind's don't hide
It's just taking away
It's taking away
Take it away, away, away
Take it away, away
Take it away, away, away
I could never plan it, but keep on breathing when I run it
Do you give me a piece of your heart, do you?
Easy when we are close to our rules
I could be nothing, maybe something
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes on me
With me
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes on me
With me
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes on me, keep your eyes on me
In the dark, you fuck a butterfly
You flip a switch, keep a snicker
Let me come inside
When you run, you run again
But you could never find it
You keep on breathing when you're in it
If you give me a piece of your heart
It keeps, easy when you're out
I'm a part of two worlds
I could be nothing
Maybe it's something
to crush me
Give me a piece of your heart
Easy when we are part of two worlds
Give me the peace of your heart
Easy when we are part of two worlds
Don't do anything, baby it's something
you
you
you
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you
you
So how long have you been already in?
I'm still close to death
And I know life's gonna be plain and safe
And I ain't here with fear, and I'm a flame of faith
But we've always mistaken all my aims
I'm facing the sky, and I'm looking for a reason to break
I'm not wasting any death, but I'm visiting you next
Let's put my name on it next
And I'm a very last bird
I'm caught in the sky
There's a fire
And I'm gonna get out of this fire
I'm caught inside, I'm blinded
Fire again
I'm caught inside of the fire again
I'm cold and grey, so I just lost it, fire again
From the intense and pounding, we're already there, it's too close to starin'
Another life we might be playing, it's said that night, you're a flame, now the flame is flame
But before you're mistaken, all I ain't don't face is the high, I think you've got a reason to break
I'm the wizard in death, I'll come visit you next time, my name on an X and you'll break your leg.
I
I'm trying to control myself, I'm trying to control myself, yeah, we can control the world, yeah
Baby, I'm just an oldie, just trying to be trolly, trolly, yeah
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stage two now where we have some
insane matchups coming on for
today. I'm touch body alongside
Zobi and we are here as your
casters. Yes I am so so high
of we're getting in the nitty
gritty. We're getting into
punching players tickets to the
up as we get towards the middle of week three, Tasha, were there any surprises or anything
that is pretty on par with what we were expecting for this stage so far?
So far, I am actually really surprised at who's at number one.
The gentlemates look really good right now, unbeatable on top of that as well.
Personally, for me, I was sort of expecting it to be a little bit closer in terms of scores,
but if you ask me who was going to hand out the very top, I wouldn't have said gentlemates
this season.
I mean with them being stage one defending champs, I think we weren't sure if it was gonna be a honeymoon phase or not
We definitely think they're proving that it definitely wasn't a one-time thing
I think for me the biggest surprises are SKNVLA being 5-1 right now
I'm also happy to see that Carmine Core after a rough start to the group stage or starting to turn things around and are on
far for playoffs but are still in that kind of danger zone so need to finish strong and I am
Heartbroken I think for Zenit as well again
and they get their first victory on land
and then just get a little bit burnt out
and unfortunately go one and seven.
But what frustrates me is they're pushing playoff level teams
three maps every single time.
They do.
So like to me, I look at this listen,
I'm like to me, they aren't the worst team on this list
and it pains me that like, again,
we only have those limited number of playoff spots.
Yeah, and I think one thing's for sure this season as well
is that we're looking at teams such as, you know, Zenit,
like you mentioned, you know, pushing three teams.
Barca has really been surprising us as well
because some games they look like
they're a little bit more lost.
certain games, they seem that they have their game plan in mind.
I think we talked about in the last game that we cast it together, right?
So that's why it's so, I wouldn't say confusing, but surprising will be the better word.
What we're expecting to see this season as well.
And of course, on top of that, as always, you see the top side of charts really shift hands
compared to last year and this year, what we have, SK and Giants both at five wins each.
And then we're looking at, I think, G2 and Twisted Minds with four wins each as well.
And we were thinking like, for me personally, if you asked me last year, G2 all the way.
G2 goes in and then suddenly this year, you're seeing
gentlemen is just completely overriding the rest of the teams.
SK Nebula looking really, really good.
Giants as well, still maintaining the consistency that we see them there through and through.
So if anything, I think this would be the season that you want to keep watching the games
just because of how unpredictable things are.
100 percent.
I feel like everyone's kind of on par with each other and pushing each other the distance.
And again, this season is especially special because only one team
right made roster changes and that's twisted minds who are also finding stable results.
while trying to incline Misu into the system.
So again, I think everyone's kind of thriving,
at least in that playoffs kind of side of the bracket.
Yeah, now coming into this today,
I mean, we already saw the games happening
and the first one off the top of that as well
is going to be G2 goes in up against SK Nebula.
G2 goes in for me personally,
they look at they had a pretty bumpy,
I think rough to the season,
they've had, I think out of the seven games played,
three losses and four wins in total.
And sometimes you thought they'd be unbeatable.
They suddenly look super shaky.
All right, all right.
And I completely agree.
I think they're on par right now for playoffs,
but this is a team that just barely fell short
of winning out stage one of Game Changers EMEA.
And I think right now they're not definitely,
not to play understand that they want to be at.
And I think that's coming from them adjusting to a map pool
that isn't in favor of their strength as much
and also just trying to get the players
into more comfort roles within a shifting meta, right?
You mean me, right?
the vice, which he had never played prior and is doing an amazing job on that. So again,
I think they're following that late stage, late year kind of progression line that they're
very known and very characteristic for, but they're not careful. They could fall into the
zone of like those lethal tie breakers. Yeah, I'd really see a lot of those as well. Not
that you mentioned, you know, something that is there's a team that I would say they're
still trying to figure things out. Like you mentioned before, I think like throughout
this season, they had like a mall, they had, they tried multiple maps. I think I was five
maps in total this season the plate and I think out of everything they're still trying to find
that sweet spot for a map that can they can really really call their map pick. Compared to
other teams they'll really stick to one to two maps and they just keep that that they've been
really experimenting. It's such that like you mentioned it's such a 50-50 because you you
just kind of progressing through a year you're trying out new things but again it could be a
double-edged sword if you do fall like you mentioned into that time record situation because
other teams right now are also catching up. Other teams right now are also finding stability.
You're not going to be as flawless as they were at the very top competitor they were before,
I think a year or so ago. 100%. And speaking of that normally flawless
fiery squad that we're used to seeing, I feel like that hasn't defined G2 this stage, right?
They've lost to every other playoff team that's in the top four, right? And it's been because
of small mistakes. Again, you see, I'm clutching out like a 3v1, right? You're seeing Marty,
right? Basically playing out of 1v4 even though she has a teammate alive. Again, it's situations,
numbers, advantage, positions that G2 are losing out on, making small timing mistakes even,
of not clearing common corners, like in this clutch versus Safia. And I think that's where
they're struggling a little bit is maybe they've gotten too complacent, too comfortable. And that's
where I do think these lower, typically group stage teams have been able to push them, have
been able to challenge them. And I do think that's where SK Nebula also could today. And
And that's also for me where I really need to see G2 goes and kind of find their sound again, you know, pitch perfect to style because right now things are definitely different this stage than previously.
Yeah, and I'm looking at Vanya right now as well as comparing their stats from stage one all the way to stage two. You could definitely tell it's a bit of a difference between these two seasons as well.
I think you mentioned before something about G2 goes in, no one really standing out, something a
little bit more stable between the teams, and I think it shows in Vania stats.
Oh, 100%. I feel like they depended on Vania to kind of pick up the slack when they made these
small mistakes, so then they weren't as prominent, right? You would forget about, oh, they accidentally
like starting to toss a 4v2 when Vania swoops in and gets the clutch, right? And I feel like she
hasn't been able to do that as much this stage. She's still super strong individually, but again,
It's not as flashy right and I do think in terms of like the well-roundedness of on you when you look at like the cast for example
I do think her being on the open in the brimstone a lot more like she doesn't play extra once this stage when that was her primary agent
Stage one plays a big impact. You know the global utility
She gets herself in every engaging to support her team from afar and I kind of didn't realize I might like Bonnie is
Astra as her favorite agent now. I'm not going to lie and I kind of miss it in the current meta
Yeah, not coming into this one as well. I really like see I mean again
it is something that I think the team wants to shift on to in terms of style of play in terms of how you want to go
How aggressively you want to play and it's understandable
But at the same time do you think in your opinion her stats is just showing us that she has sort of like kind of regressed a little bit
Or do you think that it's something a little bit more stable for the team and you prefer this moving forward?
I think it's a wake-up call that G2 goes in need, right?
Like again, you cannot solely rely on any player 100% of the time
And I do think that's what I mentioned. This team's got complicit because Bonnie has been such a steeple for this team again
She's always that first-place player no matter what system she's in whether it was the old BBL queen day or right now her place in
G2 goes in as well
So I think when they still have that safety line that safety net of not necessarily falling out of playoffs
But then they don't aren't in playoffs falling between you know uppers and lowers them them figuring out the the full picture
Is a good time to sort there then put their ducks in a row for say
Fair enough. Now let's have a look at the next team. I'm going to be looking at SK Nebula.
Now this team has surprised all of us. Like you mentioned, you know, they're looking really good.
They're looking, I think, because I think when we looked at them last season, they seemed a little bit more 50-50.
They seemed a little bit more shaky. They're still trying to find that team identity.
But this season, though, look at them.
Oh my goodness, 100% in stage one. This was one of those rosters, no long said.
Bars that they were like, super team, super team, super team.
especially since Escanabula departed from that very developmental kind of focus into like we want results and they definitely feel
Sure with that promo relegation
They fought their way back in and they have been seeing ever since again
This is what we expected to see out of them right out the game and now that they've kind of found their identity and found their place
They have been so impressive without the pressure of those expectations and for me Tash
I think one player that sums up that freedom is rescue in particular, right?
She had such high expectations right from leaving the G2 goes and system where we're like, okay
without that support right without this stellar veteran line up behind her was
she gonna be able to be that primary duelist and that's exactly what happened
stage one where she was on yonder like 82% of the time and wasn't putting up that
individual levels of results and now that she's in this flex role it's kind of
freed her a little bit. Yeah it gives her a lot more freedom, loves her different
styles of play and I think that once you're already in that duelist role it
gives you an understanding on what your teammates also want and when you already
have that aggressive style play kind of embedded in you. It really shows in whatever role you move
onto as well, which is why it shows here throughout the entirety of what agents she
play as well. I think what's really important as well was that people were kind of wondering,
okay, now that rescue has left the team, what will G2 look like and rescue without that team?
What kind of support will she need? I'm glad that the coach for SK Nebler sort of understood
what kind of enables rescue and it's really showing in that style of play in the team
composition and aggression this team can bring.
100% and I hope we get to see her Phoenix today because I'm
going to catch too many of her matches but I know it's going to be a stellar
standout again. So Phoenix is that nice support
and standout role encompassed in one right now where he is in the meta as an
agent again replacing the yotter from the previous stage and I feel like
having the second lifeline of the ultimate has been a big factor in that
as well. So just sum it up and put rest you in
that very very pretty situation. You killed her once
and then you thought, oh my god, finally that big player impact is already out of the game.
And so you're like, oh crap, I have to do it again. So you have to deal with the rescue
twice, you know, on each round. It's already kind of, you know, very, very painful for some of these
teams. I think would also would say what would be a bit more impactful for those teams that you
really need to have that swing rounds. Regardless, as we go into today as well, I think we really
want to talk a little bit more about like what is going to be happening for both these teams,
like what's the outcomes, right?
Like I think you mentioned tiebreakers before.
Oh, 100%.
So this match today, if G2 win 2-0,
they get to playoff spot.
But for SK, if they win here or up against ATN
in their final match, they also make playoffs.
And that is huge for SK.
And every when you look at last stage,
they were in this triple tiebreaker versus Zenits,
who now is the first team eliminated from playoffs pension.
And Giant X, who made third place in stage one,
and it was a heartbreaker for them.
Again, that team we mentioned that we had high expectations
not even making it to playoffs and I do think that's why they came in so
firecracker energy so full of life is they were like okay we need results early
into the season so we can figure out and round out the rest of our map pool in
the rest of the group stage and that's exactly what they've done what do we say
they were five and one right yeah so they want to be able to this being able to
get yourselves out of that precarious situation I think is something that a lot
of people all teams really want to get through you know being in a situation
you have to rely on other teams to win or to lose is kind of really scary. It's a very
helpless feeling and I think a lot of people don't want to go through that. Regardless,
let's have a look at a head-to-head between two players now. And I am very excited about this
because it's going to be Akita and Julina. Personally for me, when you look at the scores,
when you see this neon head-to-head, it tells a big of a tale. But what's your thoughts, Sobi?
I think for me, this kind of completes the picture of like what G2 goes and needs and what has
is set as Canabula a part right now, right?
Jolena and Rescue as that joint system
has been super, super impressive
and it has what's made as Canabula a threat.
And Akita, I feel like has been the player
that's been stepping up into the limelight.
Again, has shed that rookie title,
has been picking up the slack of most four Vanias
against lower performance this stage, right?
She has a, I'm pretty sure that clutch percentage is wrong.
I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
I wanna say it's 20% or something like that.
Yeah.
I'll double check it later, but all in all, again,
that's why she stood out to me, right?
because she's kind of filled that void that GT needs when there are some mistakes that are trying
to slip through the cracks. And Jolina, that lower headshot percentage, I'm like excited to see a
Nian with a shotgun before it gets nerfed in the server. I mean, it's the last few, I think,
moments that you can be expecting, right? Whether it be a Nian or the shotgun plays, it's going to be
super insane. And I think for me personally, when you look at the score, it just feels like with
Akita, her, I would say her ACS is a lot higher because there are some rounds where you can,
because she goes completely nuclear.
Maybe two, three pick offs all the way to the back side
and she pushes out even more all the way to the back,
which is something that she always does.
But I feel like a lot of teams have started
to really understand how to deal with this,
I think this aggressive, very hot style play
that comes from Akita.
Now for Julina, I think for Julina,
it's a lot more team-based style play,
but it doesn't mean that Julina can't shoot though.
It's just something that's a little bit more
in terms of survivability,
in terms of making sure you can stay alive with your team,
is something that I think the team prioritizes
compared to what we see from Akita's side.
Oh, 100%.
It's like Escanabula went through that transformation
of being very dependent on solo players,
kind of like G2 feels like right now this stage,
into that kind of team synergy momentum, that vibe,
that kind of like Giant X has found success,
kind of pioneering and utilizing to define their high levels
of performance and success in stage one.
So I really want to get like an SKGX rematch later
in playoffs, for example,
because that was an entertaining match,
but here and now I think this one is going
to also be a blockbuster.
We were talking about it, right?
We're like, okay, map twos with OTs and map three.
It's hard to say because that's cannabula.
They've also had those weird map threes, right?
Like against, again, those lower bracket teams.
Like, well, like we saw Zenit just even last week, right?
Take a map off of them pretty one-handedly.
And I think that goes back to what we mentioned.
They have very defined strengths and weaknesses
in the map poll, Tash.
Yeah, and I think that, I think we talked a little bit
as well about the map videos before the show as well.
And then we talked about like how many maps
that G2 has played this entire season, you know,
they're just kind of like rotating around so many maps.
I think they played what, Fracture, Bind,
Breeze, Blit and Lotus, all of that
in just about three weeks is actually insane.
And they're still trying to find that sweet spot
on whether or not they liked it.
Compared to SK Nebula,
I think they've only been picking one map
unless it's banned out.
And it's kind of like the comfort map.
You can really tell that there's a reason
why they like that map.
They look very dominant on it.
I think their last one was like 13-4 win again in their last matchup as well.
So it does paint a picture on what we can expect from that map.
But there is a downside to that, right?
If you are going to be picking one map, there's a lot more, I think, resources
for other teams to use against you.
But it doesn't mean at all that whatever the SK Nabila is doing,
that map has been, I think, broken or dissected quite yet.
Oh, 100%. And for G2Goes, we needed to see them develop that map pool.
That's what cost them kind of stage one.
it felt like when they picked Haven and the upper bracket fell to the lowers and still
hadn't figured out what was going wrong and looking at the map Vita today I think that
is going to be the big takeaway who has learned from their losses and found improvement and
the reason for that dash is because with Breeze and Haven G2 and ST have purposely picked
in to the weakest maps of the opposing sides. Now for us, can you have a look at those two
maps they tried out and haven't necessarily gotten thorough reps on our fracture and Breeze
and so they were going to have to play one or the other which have both been strengths
actually in that G2 goes in pool and they ended up on Breeze and on the flip side it's like Haven bread and butter
Why did you two have problems with it?
Off to see because right now they're one and three on it in this stage again to me
That's the map that cost them stage one because it was a gentlemate strength
They had to the face off against in the uppers and in the grand finals
And I want to see if they are not gonna make as many mistakes as we saw in their KC match actually super recently
And I think one thing's for sure though if you come and see Breeze
I think a lot of teams are still trying to figure that map out. I think in the the last few maps that we've seen
G2 goes and play against breeze. I think it was been dominating wins at beckham mistaken
It was a 13 for win up against Barca
Esports GC and I have to say that it does paint a picture on how good they are navigating the map
How good they are taking the space especially such a big one especially those long-range fights as well
I can actually see it especially coming from Akita coming in from Eva as well
Well, meanwhile, if you were to look at SK Nabula, Breeze is, as you mentioned, a map that they didn't win, but it wasn't necessarily a dominant loss either.
It was like a 13-8, if anything.
And they do have a few rounds that I think they did quite well on both sides.
And this is where I think that, I mean, if they've played Gentlemaid's GC on this map, they have an idea on how to navigate it.
But it does make me a little bit nervous.
So you, I don't know, what do you think?
You two, oh, perhaps map one, favor of who?
I think in my mind, if SK Nebula have figured out their breeze, this is a 2-0 for SK Nebula.
I just have seen Giant, I just have seen G2 play Haven too many times and not seen those fixes come in,
versus again, once SK Nebula get more reps under their belt, they've made substantial improvements
with each passing time, for example, on a map like Lotus, where they've even shifted compositions.
And I think that's where, again, I need breeze to go G2's way, and I think that once you've made
It's like I think it's gonna be on their side just because they are running such an interesting composition
Right they bring out the harbor for Vanya and we talked about how maybe there's material to go off of this is still a wonky
Composition to play against again the space taking it's very effective
You can set yourself up in these KO flashes very effective and I'll say that Mimi string when we mentioned
She's been in the vice jail as well
And I love that G2 goes and actually experiment with this composition because it feels like it has that Carmine core flare
that set apart their breeze last
stage, but they adapted it to
their own and their own roles
and their own strengths, right?
For example, again, Annie on that
Viper instead of, you know,
bringing out the the Astra
again and and Akita as well
on the jet. It's not as flashy
and that's where again, I feel like
Akita is going to have to have that support from her team
super, super effectively. Yeah, and I think
that this is where things get interesting
because I think some some teams prefer that jet
because it's going to be very sharp, it's going to be quick for space taking, you have a get out of jail free card
but at the same time the same could be said about the Neon as well
so in this situation, I think we're so used to seeing the Neon head to heads right across so many maps
I think it's starting to change now
I am really excited to see how exactly Resky will be moving around this map with Neon in terms of rotations, in terms of site takes
and how exactly the rest of the team would actually be moving around with there as well
especially with Jolina, who will be that, I would say,
the more, the sharpshooter from the back end,
especially with the updraft,
you can get so much more value to see
all the way to the backside.
And I'm so glad actually that you bring up the fact
that it is this double duelist for Escanibula,
because that's a change from their last iteration
of this map.
They were playing a double initiator with rescue
on the sky, we talked about that flex roll,
and putting her back on the neon means
this team isn't going to have flashes,
but I do think that's gonna be okay
when you're playing up against the harbor.
And I was actually looking at this composition
I'm like, doesn't strike fear into my heart when I look at the agents, right?
They're starting composition.
You're like, Oh, that would be a pain to play against.
And that's what this SKNA composition right now says to me a lot.
I think it's going to pay some heavy pressure on Flexi.
I think to be that major set up agent.
Again, we talked about how Astra is so supportive and Flexi is usually also
kind of a fracking stylized jail.
Um, but I also do think that I'm going to be one of those issues.
And in the previous previous breeze was that Jelena needed some help.
And again, we mentioned how rescue is that help when she has some
that pressure lifted up off of her of being the solo, the star duelist.
Yeah. And I think that when you have a bit more help, you can give that fire
fire by firepower, excuse me, into, uh, you know, into the entire team as well.
Now, uh, again, this is a situation where, you know, you said that if say that
G2 goes and does lose, it's a situation where we might just be seeing a 2-0
entirely. Um, because I do agree with you in terms of the veto, this is a
must win map for G2 goes in, but at the same time, you know, I feel like SK
Nebula as one of those teams that's really, how do I see this nicely? It's a team that
has really not just improved, but you could tell that after every game or every loss if
say they had on this, on a map, they can go back to the drawing board. They can really
just start to restructure themselves and you know, bringing this new comp into the game
shows that maybe either it's going to be an anti for G2 goes in style of play on this
map is a question for me or do they maybe like the speed or they maybe would prefer faster
map take so they just want more firepower. So that's why I'm trying to figure out here.
Yeah, no, 100%. And I think they're trying to replicate maybe this to Haven's success, right?
Again, there's 6 and 0 on that map and they run a double duelist there and on no other map, right?
So I think that's where I'm going to be super excited to see how this functions and if it's
similar to Haven in that regard. I can also see it working like Lotus a bit where maybe Jolina
and the Jets more like a lurking ops and she also plays the chamber at times while rescue them
becomes that primary entry or that chaos factor, that faking out factor. But we'll have to wait
wait till the second half to see that because S.K. Nebula will be starting on the defense.
G2 goes in on that attack. And again, I think this is going to be a great lift. This test
is exactly what we asked for. A well-rounded team vision for G2 goes in. They have found
their sound again because you look at this comp. Again, there's not very self-propelling
utility for Akita unless you're just having a really, really strong aim day like warm
dub or not one out the gate. You need, again, those walls. You need someone flashing through
those like Mimi to set Akita up on these dives and then starting the attack, especially
means it's going to have to be there from the get go.
Yeah, I'm very excited for this one as well, especially since G2 goes and just came off
a loss in their last game as well.
So you could tell that they're hungry.
They want to try and see whether or not it can just really fix whatever that needs to
be fixed coming into the games today as well.
And as Kei and Nabilah, I would say, is not going to be an easy team to win over either
from their last matchup as well.
coming into today as well. I do agree with you. I am very excited for this one. I want to see what the
speed is looking for for both G2 and SK Nabula. And we talked about speed SK already pushing down mid.
And so is G2. So both starting the tempo, starting the pace early, but it's silent from G2.
And it could catch Fluxy Orange off guard. Not really, I guess. She has a bit of an idea that
they're all coming to site, pushes all the way back and Eva finally shuts her down. So that's an
open site for them to take as the rest of SK slowly is going to come together for this retake.
Yeah, they're going to have to play the 4v5, but they clear out the entirety of the map. You see the
split off, you see the set procedure, they're okay with Flexi falling. They really wanted to find one,
but now they have all the answers. They need to full focus this retake.
Yeah, and I think that G2 has really tucked themselves all the way to the front of that
site as well in the corners. This two-way take is going to be interesting, but I have to wait for
that wall to come down first. The recon finds no one. As Eva does those little tiny peeks, hoping
to catch Jogina's head. She does great job for her between her and Mimi. As SK also rallies back
by Zleezah alone here and G2 looking fast and quick with that take gets the pistol.
Wow, I really like how structured that post plant was. I also like the adjusted toxic screen. Again,
it's not very characteristic of a standard ATK, but it was very meant for that post plant, right?
They lean into the harbor to get themselves onto the site, and that is meant to delay any sort of retake angles through mid-door, through that backside space.
So again, it felt very, very planned out, very intentional.
So G2 goes on the board with that pistol first, and as Kei Nebula, go for the Gamble Stack B site, and it'll be up to Fluxy, and these deep A main stars to hold them off until the squad arrives.
It's the knife to the front site, and it does actually catch onto Fluxy.
Pushes her back and I don't think she has access to her stars either right now. So
Walls are up cuts the site in two and fluxy has no access at all to wherever G2 has taken the
Rotations this time around a bit faster for us K
Hmm. I don't know they got the gamble wrong. I like the fluxy survives here
There's an aspect the high tide wait for the rotates to come through and see what they can do
But Akita is the one playing on the forward line off of Mimi's contact. This is a brilliant setup off the force Vandal
It's really being really good Akita wants to go a little bit more aggressive and we have seen that fireworks coming from her before
S.K. really taking the time. I don't think they want to lose anyone here
Maybe still ahead or two and it's fluxy to come through takes a bit of chip damage finds nothing the recon to the front side to the middle side
Excuse me also finds nothing
S.K. I think they just want to see whether or not I can steal away an exit frag or two
But if anything they just want to go down to that spike but doesn't stop ever for sort of moving around
Steal your head and she does trade it by rescue but nothing more than that
So G2 gets another round on the board and personally for me
I was sort of hoping that eski would kind of like get that and then that you could win
Yeah, I was hoping eski would try and go for it to some degree
But I think they understood what G2 goes in by strategy was and that's what makes it extra dangerous, right?
They went for again two pistols
They could force up into the additional vandals for the bonus and I love that they set of a farming as well for those final kills
just because now she's one off from Hunter's Fury, which again lends the idea of a snow-bolly attack half here on Breeze if they can get this round through.
And SK, now with the perpetual alien from G to the first two rounds, stacked the double duelist here, and we're actually seeing G to with the Beast start.
There again, the solo anchor lives for SK Nebula.
Oh, I like that they use the the cove shield to just give a little bit more cover so that they can have access
To the orb and Akita already getting very active toward mid side area here
But Lisa shuts it on that timing from Jolina is also really good both rotators from mid caught out
As there's a G2 rush out to the side three
gets hers
The rest of G2 now only two left a quick flash, but SK not showing their hand quite yet
Shock dart to move them to the front of the site, sends out the relay bolt, three with
the swing, finds nothing.
Gonna try and play around with the snake bite, rescue looks down, perfect flash, set up for
her teammate, as Vanya trades her quickly, but it's pain from above from rescue, flash
your way to bring the team into the game.
Yeah, looking like they're having fun denying that BodusRG2 goes, and I like how they close
around with the back side containment again letting nothing slip through the cracks keeping it clean
and I like how the early round productivity that they displayed on the pistol finally finds its mark
this time around that crunch on a mid-tunnel especially from Jolina is perfectly executed and
is exactly what I think we're gonna have to see from their defense with a double duelist independent
or not they have this viper after that is meant to be hard stop anchors and I mentioned the viper
B side did do a good job fending them off for those rotates so we'll see if she can maintain that
level of performance, but for the time being G2, finally fighting. Yeah, into, uh, the same to rescue.
Yeah, it's nice that they actually put rescue on the site as well this time around. It's really
up the firepower here. Maybe deny a bit more. But the positions for the backside of SK is seen,
and Mimi walks up alongside Urethra and Vanya. So both players holding the site both gone down here.
We have three members of us cakes set to see that hesitation
Jolina is going to come in through the mid Amy should catch her here, but Amy's already quite low
Should know she's here
And if they win that 3v3 this round becomes extrovertable aside from the g2 goals and ultimates online. Oh, there we go
That's Amy down, which means that the round has been equalized
And coming in from different areas of the map makes it a little bit more interesting and g2 knows this
So they took themselves all the way far back on the site.
Julina upping the ante there with the speed, the cloud burst.
Gonna give her a little bit more space, but Kitan Vanya find the other two.
Now since three is alone, I don't think she wants to try for this 1v2,
force to move away, and I think she wants to bring the rifle to next round.
Yeah, I thought Julina was about to crack that round wide, open out, paces.
Again, that horror ultimates, and I was able to kind of pick out that main player,
But the trades from back site immediate again Vanya taking space off that old
Re clearing angles off that old was it was really really well done and again now that they've used that they can now lean the others and again
Maintain this safe kind of caliber of rounds ahead of sk nebula and for sk nebula
I do feel like we need an a side solve because we've yet to kind of see that again
They won the b side they haven't won a and that's where I think we're seeing rescue deciding to fight hefty in the mid
and we're seeing a Jolina as well with the operator sights scoped into the space as well.
This is interesting this time around. All they're just putting is just putting the
little stars. They have what the cove set up as well as Vanya hopes to catch someone walking
down mid here hoping to find maybe I would say maybe Jolina or maybe rescue to walk up. I think
the SQ sort of realizes this. Yeah, I like the deep toxic screen as well. From Eskenebula,
Of course the drone out early on to see if someone's taking space behind it, but
Your hope here is that the ops stays in the dark and gets that loyalty factor of the opener
Yeah, Julina was very patient waited there for quite some time as well and SK just look at how far back that you're really tucked in
They don't want these early fights
Well, let's take it with them. Yeah, Lisa huge contact huge kill. That's one of the primary initiators gone
That's the flashes gone to get you into a site and now without a drone you're contacting into a bucky
Yep, and it's gonna be a one tap and no G2 moving away here
Stunned really bull and immediately into the overdrive a spray to the face and uh, you've got rescue was stuck with you
Now you're stuck with her
And in a round where SK nebulous economy was calling the line if they lost that is a brilliant time to
invested the overdrive to upgrade from that Bucky after the opener. It all kind of came
together for SK Nebula. Again, the slow scaling was not the answer for G2 towards the A side.
It was that fast, pasty energy from Akita in A main that was kind of shifting fluxy,
was getting them into the space. And I think that's why that's exactly what they've won
80 back into a 5-stack. Not even an Amy Lurk to a company, and we'll see what they can do on this eco.
This time around, G2 realizing that Speed is in the name of the game, and they want to do that
entirely but Jolina has planted herself here. Moves off that site but here comes the hunter's
fury. She's got a three challenge that space. Akita steals away Fluxy by rescue. Also,
to kind of pick up her own, Jolina finally found off that site off the back of a frenzy on top of
that as well. Vanya instead worked quick to trade her teammates leaving only Lisa and Twi to their
their disposal. That recon immediately broken, Lisa looking to just really swing out and
she does, wins it too, disrespects the snake bite. And Lisa finally is off angles, just
nasty work as well. And SK getting the equalized plus the AWP back into their hands.
Wow. I really thought G2 goes and we're about to steal away an eco round out of SK Nebula.
And again the pacing, the pathing there around the operator's timeline was really, really
well read into one again we were asking us to fix this aside defense but it was
this decision to reach challenge and fight Lisa then that tunnel visioning
in without respecting I think the position in the scaling that was coming
out of two either I think definitely stripped away their chances went in
there out they stayed talked with the weapons and only let Vania go for those
engagements with that operator and put her on a steady line from the gecko very
very different outcome so three to three this round is going to be huge
favoring SK Nebula. It's for the lead and we'll see who can take the early premise.
That's a flash in the front of sight as well. Immediately put down. Yeah.
Because you can tell that she was really hoping to catch those early fights and this time around G2 is just holding back.
Fluxy is already so low, barely alive. I'm not sure what happened there!
But still wins ours! 2HP! Unmoved! And rescue replay in front of sight.
loveable challenger.
Yeah, I mean, I was looking to clean up
Flexi, getting that calm that she's 148,
but unfortunately, again, the slow,
thought approach for G2, not working.
Flexi says, I'm a good woman walking.
Let me get some answers for my team ready to
swing out of this cove as soon as it drops.
You'll be insane because there's three people
not looking right at her at all.
They have moved all the way to the top side here.
Jolina has elbow covered.
Oh!
Barely.
Now the good thing hurt, they knew she was already there.
That was one of the angles she played before.
But Lisa is at the bare least close by.
Finds Vanya's head.
But they find a different way onto that A site.
Coming in from main and slowly moving forward.
This flash could be huge.
Gives them access to that site, but Thuy undeterred.
One shot to the backside, she knows she's somewhere there.
Thuy and rescue gets one each year.
G2 finally crunched from multiple angles,
spots at Liza, but where is it with the rest?
No, you don't need the rest.
Liza just turns it on and pops your head.
Wow, I think now what Escanibo is most impressed
with me about is as soon as contact is made
from these split defaults from G2, they group up
and they manage the chokes with numbers, right?
It has not been a solo endeavor,
unless it's at eco, right?
Like a Bucky for rescue or an operator.
Again, those things that are typically left
to their lonesome, right?
with that regroup from it to Anlisa collectively that shot down that B pivot, which was really
well planned, right?
That split attention between the initiators from G2, right?
Mimi with the flash, like you mentioned in the early round, juxtaposed against, again,
Evana shocked our barrage on the Flexi A. It was hard to call around, and SK Nebula never
overcommitted towards either side, and I think when G2 goes and finally losing a lead, that's
where this tactical break is coming from.
Again, I think that the high tempo. I'm not gonna lie the team fights have been their strongest aspect
And I'm hoping that's exactly what your spark is going to call them back towards. I
Am excited to see how it's gonna go here
And I think that it's really good
They see an SK sort of like start to really figure out how exactly is gonna go because at first, you know
That fast kind of take really I think G2 goes and has been doing well with that
I'm not too sure why exactly they decided to slow it down when it's been working very well their favor
I think it was those post plans getting a little dicey.
There's Escanabula again.
They've been getting some heroic multi-killers.
We look at Liza and how the eco, the anti-eco for Escanabula went, right?
Yeah, that wasn't singing it.
Yeah, that was pretty strong.
But this is a hard read from Escanabula coming out of the timeout.
The most stacked the A site has been without a long eco killer, it is going to be up to
Akita and his blaze storm to really kickstart this take.
There's the Hunter Fury, it really popped as well.
Akita gets completely sprayed by Fluxy and Fluxy has been a problem for them.
Getting that first contact picked, keeping them off that site,
immediately a stun sent out to push G2 goes in back.
And now they're trying to find a different way onto the site.
I'm not sure if that Elder was put on anything, I don't think it did.
And that read was so good for Mascannabla,
to the early investment from Lee's and that Hunter's Fury to the A side stack.
And now G2 goes in the left reeling after their time, not trying to pick up the pieces of a broken eco attempt.
The 4v5, there's still chances, there's still odds, and they're trying to take the closest engagements they can, but...
Amy... has to be on par with this timing against Fluxy, cause she has sights aimed on mid-door, and it's a massacre.
Yeah, just two taps to the head as well.
Immediately you have her teammate watching the other line, and Fluxy not afraid to push out!
But you have made me aware of that, Sheriff!
Both players caught out here and she decides to go for an adventure down mid.
Flash is huge, finds two, and is stuck, moving away, pushes through the fast lane.
Well, Rescue will be able to find her in the end, insane round from her,
but I have to say SK still will be able to tie those last few knots.
And it's that body system that ultimately saves SK,
Gabriel it's a good balance between that and the individual heroics and Mimi I mean these sheriff kills work Chris board clean
She's back in her prime her element
But you wish that there was that coordination between Amy and the squad mid-door
Prior to it being a 2v5 right prior to fluxy already mopping up to outside of that code and that's where again
They need that communication that synchronization on these egos and as can Abula pulling ahead here trying to solidify themselves one more
By lost and it'll be six and probably more and Jelena
Oh, it was primed for the opener, now they know.
Yeah, they have an idea where she is.
Still gonna send out that Aldrune instead for that to see if anyone's there.
Didn't spot anyone, so forced to move back here.
Please angle is huge, but will be moved off by the Aldrune.
Rescue the rest of the forward, loses the crucial fight, and Fluxy will try and play a little bit more forward.
This is a good call for the pivot for maybe a late A split from G2, and this is where Eskeneva have broken the pattern, right?
we mentioned okay one player is allowed to go off on their loans and go to hero players but not more
than that because now numbers are firmly in G2's favor and it'll be exponentially more difficult
for a 3v5 to go SK Nebula's way on this retake but G2 still going slow waiting for the full toxin
and surprise it SK Nebula didn't rotate earlier. SK Nebula was just hoping to see whether or not
it's gonna be a commit before finally coming through and now they know we've already lost
two members here because I have to see the shift, but it's taking a bit of time.
This is a save call from Escan Abula. They're like, hey, a 6-6 on defensive grease. It would be
huge. So let's not again go for substantially too early. Let's play the long game here. Again,
we can take an 8-4. We're happy with that, but we do not want that 6-6 later on. So all in all,
I think that's a respectful call up against G2. And again, I think I understand that
We kind of broke the mold of what was working, right?
Flexing maybe that double peak was like a heroic, it's like, okay, if it works, it works.
We can try and go for this round.
If not, we go next.
And I do think that again, a humble call from SK Nabula.
And honestly, I think the turnaround that G2 goes in the EU because we mentioned how fragile
their economy is right now.
And now it's been bolstered a little bit by that being pretty flawless.
And also look at the optimists on their side dash.
Yeah, they are like three online already.
Personally for me, I was quite surprised that SK decided to go for this early fight, something by rescue, sure, but I have Fluxy playing so far forward and even Peking was also another, I think, question mark for me.
I guess they weren't sure, hoping to catch maybe one straggler, maybe was expected to see the whole team, regardless, this time around, I'm wondering what SK has in mind, especially since they also do have some big ultimates of their own to use here.
with rescue kind of planted in the front of that B-side this time around having an idea that this
time around it might be a B-side push. Oh, I mentioned the first bloods for rescue falling has
been a determinant feels like for us cannibal in the course of these rounds and I do think that's
where Q-Dempic in this operator has lent to success on the G2Go's attack side and they're
realizing that if they are going to slow default they need something that'll guarantee these openers
So again, it's instead of leading into the quick pace find a solution to the slow pace that's worked out the last few
See if it continues to you because I can ever have reeled themselves in again without even taking a time out
Pick up the problem
Ship a quick troubleshoot fix in there looking good so far with less than a minute left no contact made again
They're praying into the parent away that I gave it hasn't had no rotation and no command commitment
I think that
Yeah, a lot faster this time around, Mimi already just checking to that back side.
Unfortunately for her, cannot take down Liza.
She is primed to get picked up here, I don't think her teammates have access to her.
No, they do, is Vanya and brings her back into the game.
A bit low though, but Jolina does finally find her teammate, trades her.
Excuse me, as the rest of the team waits for the high tide to fall.
Rescue, huge, quick to find Akita's head.
And G2 still hasn't been displaced from the back side.
But the aggression will finally be found with Tui getting a huge two-piece toward the end of the round there.
Insaki gets that six. Nicely done.
100%. I mean, they kind of used the hard wall and the ultimate against them,
taking space effectively around it, isolating the late rotates, and I think for us, Ken Ebula, again,
they feel like they know what G2 goes and is doing every single round.
Every time they've caught a certain rotation or a certain anchor, they have been corrected.
Maybe aside from the pistol and the follow-up, but again, that's the pistol and the follow-up. Very volatile times.
Once we've gotten the meat and potatoes again, the stable course of the meal, it's been a show, 100%, 6 and 4.
We mentioned that 8 and 4 possibility, and this is that feeble time economically speaking for G2.
This is great! Akita, red, where Jolina might probably be, shuts her down early.
I still have to worry with the majority of the other members.
Bit too wide there as the rescue's 13th kill for this game already with Akita's head pop.
As the rest of G2 trying to find a way onto site, then they finally decided just when
I hit onto that B site, where the majority of the SK players are already there, we're
going to try and delay a bit more, breaks the recon.
Ow, please, at the very edge of that smoke.
Oh, I like the second the deep space early on. They know they haven't been getting the spike down. They want that it factor
It is
Rescue has been really creative with the off angles and plays overdrive online once more
Nimi knows the stun is huge gives her a bit of space, but that one way keeps her at bay two way falls rescue already with the three
Only two more players of G2 to worry about here and it's a crossfire between these two players
Fania finds her as the double swing is good and leaves out left alone and this buddy system coming off from G2
This time around gives them dividends of 6-5 and we're still looking at a very competitive game. Oh, what a hundred percent again
This is exactly what G2 has been doing every round. They wait to plant
They want full site control trying to seek out these engages and this time asking Nebula gave them to them early partially because that's
that overdrive. It's it's hard to tell. But again, I think I was I was hoping that rescue
is going to get that little ace with the 15 five score line. But that one way sucked
quick thinking from Bonnie saves the round virtually. That's what's put us in that rumble
we mentioned a tide half.
Jolly, I still got to try and challenge mitt. No, just dip away. Can't see anything. It's
a high possibility of a push up. So these are will find a different way onto that mid
side here rescue gets attacked off it just moves straight onto that site but
they haven't cleared out Lisa quite yet here so I think the lack of
information makes a G2 double twink double think yeah it's not the player
expect to be on a deep mid anchor again the only source of information for the
SK Nebula the squad but all in all Jelena again on the off-line to QT this
time without an op we'll see how she does against the opener there's a lot of
I saw Mick here, Jolina has a deeper hold through double doors this time around.
It's going fast forward, further forward, excuse me.
So I think this is really good.
Lisa getting traded, so it's one for one there down mid.
It's a brawl and a flash through onto site.
Yeah, and Jolina, she's flashed away, brings out the blades, challenges.
And unfortunately for her, that Hunter's Fury throws her off, so it's Vanya to get her head.
Luxie has been noted that NICE knows where she is and ever.
I think the gun barrel gave the game away.
I hope not. That would have been a nice shot if it's just, uh, you know,
just crazy intuition for rescuing.
Can't expect her, and not intuitively.
The backstab E-Me, the 2K to follow, and just like that,
the players in the post-play are crumbling around E-Me and her hit.
It's getting very scary right now.
The rescue is just moving around.
Through the slots.
You're making a 1v1?
Yeah, I don't think she's going to be able to see where she is at all.
I think you might have an idea or a bit of a hope that Rescue might know where or how exactly Amy plays as she does!
Big 3Bs for Rescue to get that round, saving them from a 6-6 half!
Oh my gosh!
Wow!
Of course, it's Rescue again. We mentioned the first up-first down mentality for her in these rounds,
and prior teammates duking it out for the lead at the half is just so entertaining to witness.
And he mentioned the importance of G2 and winning this map.
Let's see if they can switch up the pace after the break.
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Welcome back everyone. We're looking at a lead by SK coming into this first map. And honestly,
I would have thought it's going to be, I think you predicted an eight, four, half,
Zuby, but no, I think G2 wants to stop the property, so we're getting a seven, five.
I think that does come off of
rescue and is this composition
shift 18 and five when she
ended their last breeze on sky
eight and 16 and that was that
813 loss versus gentle mates.
So double do it on the attack.
The pacing is fast.
No surprise there.
We'll see if you can handle it.
Have rescue walking down mid already
and the amount of players is
already looking at this crisis,
making me a little bit more nervous.
So one angle covered up by the smoke.
that smoke spotted out, Eva, the jump peek forward.
There's a lot of damage, in fact, as Akita plays so aggressively, there's a lot of space
that they're trying to deny from SK.
Oh, I like this call, though.
Look at this Escanabler, like, can we need to help?
Twoy here, we're gonna go into the ace, but hopefully crunch these players in top in A.
Main, but it's a bit too late, so now it's just gonna have to be a deep A re-clear, or
a back side flip.
Are they gonna go B?
I love this.
No, okay, there's plenty of back side.
All right.
Do you think she would have been crazy for pistol strats?
That would be crazy though.
Yeah, Fluxy already getting one head here. Rescue a very aggressive angle.
Which is read by G2, understanding how aggressive rescue could be.
But it doesn't stop the rest of the team from going super far back to the back side here.
Fluxy steals one mid. There's gonna be two players.
Gonna be looking right at her in return.
2v3 on the pistols here. Mimi tucked all the way main.
And Jolina watching all the way from a bridge is so interesting to see here.
Unfortunately for Lisa, that whiff costs her, leaving Jolina alone here.
Finds nothing. The bandit bit hard to get damaged this far back.
And on top of that, Cove as well.
The D.F.E.O.s should come through as G2 fights forward here,
and the pistol much needed to bring them closer to SKScore.
And at the tip of that round, just making sure the orb goes to the right person,
funnels it towards Avania, and that is a perfect pistol record on Breeze for G2.
goes in. And honestly, that round, again, I liked the proactive
space taking from SK. I liked the idea to as well crunch on those
main players. It just feels like the pieces fell into place a
little bit late and we saw G2 playing with their wind condition
again, zoning these players off the postman utilizing that
Harbor kid again, that high tide, completely neutralizing any
sort of coordination between those late players and and
fluxy as well. I am usually all against a lurking IGL. But
again, that was called very well. And we're starting to hear
functionality on alert play too but we'll see if that maintains here as he go.
Ah crazy start. Yeah insane. Rest your speed this time around no fear at all
despite all those praise. Give some access to the site this time around.
They're not gonna overthink this. They're not gonna go too far back. They're just
gonna plant default here and wait for G2 to come to them. The recon finds
nothing as Akita slowly tries to find her way out the site. That knife as well.
not finding anyone.
See, walls come through both ends here,
Eva with the shotgun, but runs forward here
is Jolina not checking one corner.
Asvanya, insane.
Two heads to her name.
Possibility of three if we'll see where to peek through
and I think it does.
Make it a four?
No, yeah, huge stuff coming from her.
I have to say, this round, save on top of that
the majority of guns coming to the next 7-7. I think this is a good start for G2.
And the phenomenon of getting called out on broadcast and immediately flipping the script
needs to be studied, right? We mentioned Various having a slower stage, not being an
it factor per se for G2 goes and right now she is 100% on breeze, very intrinsic to the
wind condition on these retakes and delivering that individual level performance. 14 and 7
right now, RivalNet2KDA, RSU was previously putting up and not a tech break, although
I would have maybe been able to do a digital one for SK here, a tech one coming in real
quick. We'll see how long it lasts. It seems like it's going to be pretty short though
because we can see the future.
And 4SK Nebula. I mean, I think it's a worthy breather. Again, you're coming into an important
round and I get another bonus on the G2 sign. I don't want to get the lead in this fashion,
Yeah, in this situation, I think, I think we saw something a bit similar in the first half.
I think G2 starts off really good on the pistols, on the anti-eco.
And then after that, as soon as Eski gets the, I would think the, the rifles,
and it starts things to start, I think, gosh, I can't English, it starts to change around.
And I think that if anything G2 wants to prevent that from happening,
they do have, I think, one rifle in their hands, two Bulldogs,
I think are still very high impact weapons, uh,
regardless of whether or not Mimi and Vanya does buy up next. So in hindsight,
I think a possibility of G2 getting the bonus is quite high.
Yeah, we, we said that though. Didn't we last half two,
Tash in round three and the rescue just comes in and was like, no, no,
no, uh, that's insane.
1997. Yeah.
Definitely a standing apart right now, a hundred percent. Uh,
She was like, put me back on the duo sun breeze, please.
I beg of you.
And I guess she was seeing why.
But I think that's where now they're
seeing us connect on the bonus.
I was worried, but I still do like this G2 buy strategy a lot.
Again, when they're keeping the second round as clean
as they did in the first half and in this half,
I do think it is a very smart strategy.
And I also do think it's a great way to, again,
establish sustainability.
Well, we mentioned again how close the first half was and that G2 never really got trapped in that that by say by save
because they were winning big swing rounds. I think when it is a 7 7 that is going to be super, super vital here.
And I think we were sort of like expecting to see I think this the second half is where SK to go super nuclear.
We haven't seen that yet. I think G2 has an idea of how to play against SK is I think double Jules comp, which is honestly really
interesting as well. They had really good holes and off angles. I love their mid control as well
coming through and I think a lot of teams, not just these two in general, start to see a bit more,
I think, priority to just leaving one player or two players just watching down mid for
these later lureds as well so they don't get backstabbed. I would like to see that happening.
Now, as we go into this one, I think it's really good. We saw, I think, multi-frags from Vanya.
This game has been phenomenal, especially the second half for her. Two, three pick offs,
just being able to walk onto that side.
The buddy system by G2 really punishing SK as well
for daring to play very separately.
And I'm hoping that they start to realize
that doing what they did prior in that first half,
having a buddy near them,
that you'll be able to trade is something
that they want to utilize in the second half as well.
And that's a great point.
I feel like SK, they always had a buddy system
in themselves in the defense.
And you actually, when the comp came up,
said rescue needs to play cohesive,
not outpacing the rest of her team.
And there'll be an issue here, especially for the Zika.
Look at G2, they have a crunch in mid
and the Bucky setup, this is gorgeous.
Yeah, they literally really want to fight this.
Sands of the relay ball and Rescuers
just pushed away off that angle,
not allowed to play super aggressively,
but not waiting here with the Bucky and Rescu falls,
giving her a taste of her own medicine.
Now, SK Force just really paused the round,
can't really go super aggressive.
Wants to see whether or not
I can go for a fight one more time,
and Jitu just hoping they push toward them.
They haven't cleared out one player
that's hiding behind Box as Mimi,
and she's so low right now.
Yeah, they have a good understanding of how this attacks functioning.
Trotting.
And they're searching for that solo Viperalerk out of SK Nebula on the B side,
while it's poking and prodding from SK Nebula starting to stabilize the round just a touch.
I don't think they're gonna peek out to a toy here as well, that's really hoping.
I think too, he's just really hoping that someone will go super aggressive,
because they have to see the boundaries and the lines that G2 aren't willing to cross.
the first steps this time. Yeah,
talks extreme for the confirmation
that this is going to be end all
the all of the runs. It's good.
As I keep that will be the one to
come up on top here. Zobi,
what the heck is that? That is the
bang for the buck they hope for on
their bonus is what it is. Again,
the hero like it's forced up in the
second catered by the third to
basically secure the leading one V3
in 15 seconds from Jolina would be
a major wake up call and that alarm
unfortunately has been snoozed.
Yep, no time forced to bring the round to,
and again to the next round here as well.
I think G2 just really hoping to catch Julina somewhere.
Oh man, no, not happening.
So Julina just tucks herself back inside.
Yep, there we go.
And G2 finally gets that lead.
Okay, and off the bonus as well.
So one for one on these heavier third round bonus buys.
I think that's a worthy inclusion here.
And it does change off of Akita in that multi-kill.
So that's enough for the first break from SKNN.
But after they again ended the half up,
didn't have to dive into the reserves in that regard.
And that's what's difficult.
It's only been three rounds.
You're like, what's going wrong?
What to change?
And I don't even answer that.
So it's a fun place to be in for a coach
because it's more like, you just need to kickstart the system,
right?
You need to just get that heart beating
with one round, it almost feels like.
And then you trust in Fluxy to navigate the ship once again.
It's like that like that the lot where we're like pulling the crank until it starts and then once it is it just keeps on moving and grooving through the grass and I
I'm trying to think of where that strategy come from especially considering it's looking like an eco without
Ultimates and the chance of a hero rifle or two
Yeah, it could possibly be a thing that they what they can do
But there are just so many rounds that we see an eco that just comes up swinging this really bring it becomes
becomes a snowball for the team to bring themselves back into the game and
it's understandable why SK was really trying to figure out you know needed this
timeout as well. They couldn't figure out how the defenses are going, they couldn't
figure out how exactly G2 is moving around that map. I hope that right now
they have an idea on how their fights are supposed to be. How much pressure on
what part of the map should they put in before they finally decide onto a site.
And this time around I think it's a faster take onto the site. It's what they want to do.
as rescue to the backside, no.
Amy was waiting for the Bucky,
knows that everyone was lighting up for her.
Hell, give us an ace.
Fluxy, the last person standing,
she swings out and Fluxy says, not today.
No ace for you.
Bonnie says, not today, unfortunately.
That's right, Amy's like, hello, put the wall down.
Oh, the eco ace that could have been.
And now Fluxy said, may as a hero,
rifle and all of things go to the wayside.
There's a way the crunch is going and the round gets secured.
All right, G2 up, 9-7.
We mentioned how important this map was to the greater scheme of the series, and they
are definitely playing like so.
I feel like right before Neon gets nerfed, all these players finally know how to track
a running shotgun, and Amy is an example of that, and some lucky shots as well through
the poison cloud will definitely get the individual confidence and adrenaline surging for sure.
Yeah, and then a shot by him. He's honestly you see you got one through the smoke fine
You got call that kill on top of that as well. Okay, you know crazy stuff coming in here
This is a good round to
Yeah, and we're talking about that by save purgatory SK nebula is about to fall into it and
With the ult's on G2 side as well
And only that Armageddon. They'll be good to go
We're not spotting anyone down mid as well. This time around G2 has really tucked themselves down back.
Isn't it quite similar to see how G2 tucks themselves further back to what SK did in that first half?
And this time around is Mimi waiting, looking down toward Tunnel as Rescue somehow finds Amy,
but not ready for Eva. Rushes through onto that site. Her teammate does find Mimi as well before Eva finally shuts her down.
Make it two. Fluxy wasn't expecting that quick swing onto the site.
G2, despite Akita having an Operator, I'm so inclined for them to still try and go for
this, right?
You have that Harbor Ultimate, you have Vania, you get your Ace up your sleeve, and if they
can clear our wall, they can get that Gun Swap, and this round becomes a lot more feasible,
but alright.
Feel like Vania will take first contact if she doesn't win that engagement, and then
you save the op that is also a do-path on the behavioral chart.
So it's going to be SK Nebula winning a very important round, as we mentioned economically
speaking.
And now the big concern is that if G2 are going for this methodical kind of splintered
old investment, it's going to be a grand finale-esque nature, and SK Nebula are going to have
to withstand it.
Yeah, and I think it was really good that SK really started to figure this out now compared
to much later.
They started to understand how exactly they want to play around that map, instead of really
forcing those mid-fights and that just really full-set it from mid as well. And I think speed just really catches G2 off guard.
You have the players of G2 playing far forward, but I think SK was very much ready for those first contact aggressive plays.
100% and with that,
again,
it's funny to see that G2 are the ones that are getting a little overficed, Steve, because that's typically not their MO.
But SKNabula and these early engagements look like we're gonna get one pretty early on.
Ruckin' invested off the barrier drop.
It's only the left side player and this mid break is crazily supported from the snake bite.
Yeah, on top of that as well you lose out on that offshot you have another two more players
waiting in the wings ready to receive.
Jolina this time around walking up Ness coming up all the way CT side hoping to catch head
as their mid rotation but all eyes are on to main here Eva still hasn't been
displaced from her corner and SK caught Jolina and Fluxy all fall down cannot
do more than that you get around you thought you figured it out and G2 just
comes back swinging yeah I mean it was a nice trap basically from G2 goes in
right we mentioned the barrier drop ultimate investment that's automatically
going to force these players, as can be a logical call to to scale into a and I think
because it was so lightly invested into behind that ultimate from G2, they didn't expect
the up. They didn't expect the numbers on that a side and who a very, very quick back
to back tactical break. It feels like out of S K nebula again. Maybe I hope that G2 will
take one right before that O T potential if they turn the game around now. But again,
a big if and with a half by here, I guess there's not liking what flux is coming up with or what the
team solution is right now to this half. And it also is just a nice way to reinstate confidence
when you've kind of fallen into enemy trap and enemy call in the fashion that SK just did.
You know, it's really interesting the fact that G2 in that first half, they looked a little bit
more lost. They couldn't really figure out how to play against SK's defense, SK's retakes as well.
and now on their own defense it just feels like not only are they being given a taste of their own medicine
but there's a lot more I would say control by G2 whether it be from mid whether it be from main as well
I'm not sure how they're able to do that on such a big map but they've somehow figured it out
hmm 100% and coming out of the timeout here SK nebula
going for looks like a neon fake from rescue in the overdrive and then they're going to try and
end day I'm curious again what the pace is gonna be like because that's been the
major issue press game ever on this half and rescue not actually committing to the
solo fake which I'm also okay with that the double duelist just joins forces and
goes for a hefty dive in day yeah we haven't seen that look just yet either
I'll do a definitely give an idea that the majority of them are here and they
said okay since the fast style is working out let's just keep going through
again yeah the knife come through catches two of the duelists of SK this
time around but Akita unrelenting, fluxy falls. Can't find an angle anymore but she can't
just swap to the blades if she wants to get a little bit more active with the updraft
as well. Get the plant this time around and SK they are really really tucked for the back.
They do have one person moving around toward the I think back side or mid side area. I
hope they catch them off guard but they're not going to find G2 there.
Oh and Liza on the late late flank as well can play the Hunter's Fury from afar. This
all about delay. Oh, they're all lit up in the corners and the wings of that recon. Rescue
does drop down Akita in the end alongside Tui. And rescue, big numbers taking this round
and SK that second time out finally gave them the dividends. But my question is whether
or not they can change the rounds in a row because they weren't able to do that last
time. I mean, if you found what work, I kind of wanted to say replicate it until fail.
You still have that second end of at least a few rounds before, again, map point and G2 goes in favor and here, again, G2 misses so many ultimates.
Hunter Spirit has had a key to up on that dive, but the blade falls short because of the timing and because of the productivity and the restructuring around that in the mids, pyramid space from rescue.
Again, 23 and 11 right now.
And hey, look at that! They're doing exactly as asked.
If it works, go and run it back.
But that's where G2 goes in A.
Me have a quick fix.
The Viper's pick will go down and I like the challenge.
Yeah, they're already far into that smoke and Amy is just keeping away from it. Oh, spot it out!
Unfortunately for her, as rescue moves up forward, that's the pit gone.
Oh, gotta even be able to get to the site. Yeah, fairly easily.
Luxie as well, so far back here.
I actually heard the footsteps, but I think G2 definitely heard her.
Yeah, unpunished. Slinks away. That was back. She's so perceptive.
with the killer in tow and Lou they know that Mimi is gonna be late and this
feels like a dumbness and round-up surprise G2 aren't already calling for a
save. They still want to try it I think. They also have to pull on this pit. Yeah I think they are hunting the bugger.
I think you save here yeah okay G2. There we go. I'm hoping to see if I can get
a catch an exit frag or two I think and I think G2 finally said okay we want to
challenge it and you mentioned the alts you mentioned the pit you're like yeah
let's see now the only player that should be going for an exit here would be me
me right one off from the null command would be huge but again I like ask
kind of you love it no one to respect when to disrespect and rescue
understanding that exactly says let's try to not just save it up in their face
see if we can find your exits but unfortunately no dice we're tied double
digits 10 to 10 and this is where that prediction test comes from where it was
to be two maps OT if SK Nebula maybe take the first map and and there's that possibility
of three maps as well and G2 this is exactly what SK were hinging on if they got the rounds
subsequent following that 810 score line G2 were to call their final timeout they would
get again that consistent pulse of communication of ideas flowing through the system to try
and steal away this map pick.
I think this is why I think G2 starts to figure out okay since full sending it there are two
rounds in a row that Eski has done that those fast ones weren't able to hold what exactly are we
going to do here are we going to go for a full early fight gamble or are we just going to I think
give away the site a little bit more quicker and play for a five man retake because it's something
I think G2 does pretty well as well we saw how Akita was able to navigate this off-angles we saw
how they were able to just really you know take these I think off-angle those fights
to admit as well. So I think it's really good if G2 were able to replicate that because in those
situations, the re-ticks look really good compared to SK. Yeah, and I think that's where they hadn't
looked as strong as they were earlier in the half, right? And then, absolutely, that came from G2 taking
early space and finding those early pinch plays as well. And if they can shut rescue down, all
that's to say at this point is also a win condition it feels like. And my biggest concern is we're
winding down breeze that would look at how far ahead the SK Old Cycle is compared to G2. Again,
You have the no command for me and that is it versus overdrive blade
You have at least I've been sitting on this hunt your series feels like the perfect drawn conclusion
Gap in the wall almost gets exploited on the Amy jumpy. I don't think spotted anybody out
nothing on
It's a sea rescue slowly moving up closer, but still tucking herself back here
I did anticipating an aldron, but the aldron had actually gone down to another part of the site from SK
There's the gap in the wall!
Yep, which Rescue was able to use to chip away a bit of HP from Amy.
Slowly they take away that space, finally spot each other out.
It merely moves around the pillar, hoping to find an off angle here.
Once that fast lane falls is going to be interesting and Amy wants nothing to do with that,
Rescue does get pinged, moves away.
Surprised that she didn't take any damage out of everything and she's still moving forward.
They've only seen two players though, right? Sova, Yuto, and the Neon.
Subway, the Spike Plant. They weren't completely sure this was a B end.
As a result, the rotations are going to be late from Vanya and Mimi and Fluxy.
They're ideally coming off and rescue other plans about this retake from G2.
Love rescues Audacity to peek there. Steals away at one.
notes where Akita's hold is and for the rest of SK is just about waiting near.
Look see it mid find nothing but it's okay because Twi is here but Akita catches Vimy,
utile in hand or flash to the face so G2 completely crunch her then a feed views comes online.
There's no destroyer. The Cove will save them. The Hunter's Fury where are you here?
Can't see anything. Cat hold SK. Questioning why this Hunter's Fury is a bit too late against
the picks and the kills but not the round win. Oh my goodness and you asked for a cohesive
retail from G2Gos and that is as clean as it gets. The grab well body block by a teammate,
that's why the Hunter Shiri was delayed. They were layering, staggering the post plan utility
and that was perfectly balanced from SKNegal understanding the harbour scaling potential
as well so they had like you mentioned just a little bit further ahead of it as well to play
played an extra Stalfactor again. SK played that so well and G2 goes and we're just a few
quick micro steps ahead and that is a huge huge round. Let's see, Ult's kind of reset
for the time being and there's also no command saved for another rainy day and okay, asking
Nebula, mentioned okay they can play B retic, I guess but they've yet to solve the A retic.
Let's see if we can weasel our way in here once again.
Three people from G2 are already on this site, jump peeked by Akita, and she's not shy to show
her presence onto the site. The recoil immediately broken, so that's Sabanya's position noted, but not Mimi's though!
Her and Mimi, nice crossfire! Catches them with the knife as well as Jolina still holding down the line.
Finally, Mimi does fall by three, but that mid-side area feels a bit more vulnerable, which I think, uh, why SK decides to move away, but they don't have the spike in their position.
I like Akita's Raycler here, should catch up this mid-space off guard perfectly.
Eva here as well, don't need Akita when Eva is just that sharp.
Fluxy, three, falls, Fania knows exactly where Jolina is as well.
Pupburst will be used, jumps over the side which Amy quickly finds.
A headshot on top of that as well, nasty work and G2.
Finding this, I would say, flow state toward the end of the game is insane.
Oh, 100% that last time out.
Honestly, sawed the A site.
They said, if we can't retake A, let's set up this cross.
Let's hard anchor this space.
And that was what Vaughn and Mimi had been waiting
for the entire time, was for them to hit A again.
And it's unfortunate for us, Keenambula,
that they thought they were gonna have that B rotate
so seamlessly that Jelena pops the Blazdoms
when she's stuck in a one of the four situations.
That would have been huge to kind of bolster the economy
in this last few rounds leading up to overtime.
But G2 goes and feels like momentum's in their control.
It feels like they're in the dodge bullet
maintain their map pick so let's see what Escanibla has to say about it.
So, start by SK this time around.
Immediately gonna change it up though with that overdrive.
Rescue already deep onto the site.
And Jolina and Amy just really trading off on another tweet.
Joins in the lead.
At this point, Mimi not only finds a pick, flashes that backside, keeps the rest of SK at bay!
and somehow Jolina still steals away Akita's head through everything. Rescue, off angle,
health, don't need to worry about it, since Jolina is there, and Vanya alone in a 1v3.
Gonna set up a little bit of space for herself with the utility, but at this point I think
she just wanna see whether or not she can steal away a pick or two. I don't think she
wants to fully commit this, and I think it's gonna be a save.
Yeah, part when they're not giving you too many overfights this time around. Pepper playing
just for contact for answers and talk about rescue.
Usually in these late hens has been going for solo.
And even that time, Jolena was at her side.
So we mentioned the pacing and synchrony.
It hits its mark this round.
We'll put Escanabula one round away from overtime
and resetting the scoreboard as predicted.
This situation here, I'm glad that SK finally found a bit more.
I would say fight in them.
Just to make this game a little bit more competitive.
If one more round from that overtime,
if you ask me if it's gonna be an overtime breeze,
I would have said no not probably not since G2 has an idea of playing this game
But that's game making it very very competitive on top of that as well. You already see rescue with
25 kills far ahead of the from the rest of our team
That's crazy to see and that no command gets invisted
Vania one off here is nice, but she's not really the one that's been taking deep space to get an orb early into the round
Neither is it very characteristic of breeze so
So let's see, that's okay.
I wanna try the ace side again this time.
They had a counter set up for this crossfire
for this early contact, and unfortunately the zero points
are really gonna foil that plan.
And G2, look at Emma and this elbow space
taking off of this toxic spring, right?
They wanna know if that was just a fake and a default,
or if that was the end goal here.
Gita again that pressure she puts on aiming really really makes SK a
double thing how exactly they're gonna be approaching this A site but for the
rest of the team this B site looking a little bit more weak with Eva waiting in
the wings here this elbow SK I'm gonna check it so they are gonna cross the
and Chiyao's actually- oh they saw the cape! oh they saw it in the end finally here comes
that cosmic divide and rescue already deep into site as Eva still hoping
to see whether or not SK would push through finds nothing and here's the small pause. Oh wait, Lisa.
A lot of this that's heard as one head checks her in the end but bit too late!
Wins two in fact! G2's timing gives her a wind of opportunity for these 1v1s.
Asova-Mimler, sure! And just like that SK Nagler, three kills away from overtime and they know exactly
where these fling forces are coming from. Evel was elbowed the entire time but Amy's joined her
side and it's still on Lisa's shoulders we here waiting that recon is huge but
we'll be traded by eva quickly 3v2 not the worst in the world here as rescue
will be waiting the wings Lisa kept off that site of Vanga in the smokes making
it so hard for skate to do anything and suddenly the advantages for us skate are
gone a 1v1 time going through the fuse is here the shot get in hand and Jolina
Now manages a red full clutch, pulling them, pushing them through that overtime!
Oh, and Julina, despite having a quiet map so far, comes through when it matters most
to get this team to overtime, trying with all their might to steal away G2 Gozen's map
pick.
And again, it feels like FK Nebula just has this handle and they're consistently coming
up with new ideas.
And this coordination as well, the timing, Lisa just that round, even though the crowning
kill comes from Angelina. She's the one that's at that foundation. And while Vani and again
this Harbor Yutul has been a major learning curve for Eski Nebula, they are now riding
it towards a successful roller coaster of a map. And sides reswap, the ops come out
and rescue in mid-door. It's going to be the hot zone of contention it feels like.
Both teams look so good on defense. Is that attack side that I want to really curious
see what exactly the adjustments are going to be.
All right, so to pacify, rescue this time, not challenging.
Like the Viper, you have to take mid space as well.
It's going to keep the options open for G2.
It's a lot faster, but it's still that default that G2 we're going for in the first half.
To tell them G2 is just really taking their time here, poking and prodding,
hoping to see if SK would be the one to make that first move.
SQ is just not giving it to them except for that drone. Yeah.
It uh...
Oh, spot us to rescue here. Rescue hasn't seen her at all.
One Tito's gonna take her and she uh, thankfully I did not burn her.
So Akita's position noted. The op also noted. That's a lot of info already.
Again, the breaking point has been these solo players for SK.
We mentioned how they manage the chokes effectively with duo's grouping up
and this tunnel position is exactly that up on one line, three on the other.
Jolina's position hasn't been noted at all.
They're nearly gonna send out that one Nade, but Jolina will answer in kind to Mimi as
G2 had moved toward that A site.
They do still have two more members here.
Rescue hasn't been noted at all, and she's just played the annoying fly on the wall
that pulls away the crosshairs, a three piece from her as well for round win.
it's SKNabula never wavering, never over rotating until the point of certainty, and that's exactly
what gives them this round. They had the three stacks on A because of the certainty in the operator
and the Viper's management of Tunnel of Main effectively, and that's where we needed to see
this divide and conquer mentality on these execs from G2 or a more thorough fake out because it
clearly was not convincing enough. In G2, taking their only overtime time out here after losing that,
they know that it was kind of a give and take on their defense. They know that SK Nebula are the
ones that were winning those coin tosses a lot, right? I feel like it was G2 when they made those
adjustments out of the first time out on their defensive path that they found the solutions
to A, but those solutions might not stick in overtime. Yeah, overtime is a different B. Sometimes
you really need the overtime. You both teams get a mental reset coming into these last few rounds
and then suddenly it becomes a shift because every round matters and I think
that in this situation I mean we saw big highlights from rescue we saw big
highlights from Jelena in the last one I think G2 just try to figure out what
exactly has SK been doing they've been doing very well this defensive side they
want to be able to just bring it further forward. 100% and just like that get to
see what it looks like coming out of the timeout. I'm not surprised as the SK going back towards A.
They're hoping that this timeout changes from G2 in regulation stock. They have again the
Asher set up to try and counter this one. No! To counter this one way and one way or another
they are trying to break through these site anchors. I saw a bit of damage taken by Amy as well. Forces
off her that aggressive line of hold. Now the rest of G2 just holding a little bit more further back
compared to main. Okay this is a dangerous position we've yet to see it but I also feel
like this kid don't backpedal into these bankers too frequently and this is the
first time for everything here on a breeze. Eza trying to spike over the drone.
My expectation is for it to go up elbow but if it goes in the main, this
position is not gonna do you much! Yeah she's stuck but still Amy is coming in
from the front line and rescue was ready for it rushes forward doesn't know what
the other members are the two duelists already on to the side but where are the
rest the trigger discipline from Mimi gives her dividends really both send
stun as well and she's patient two picks just from that corner equalizes
It's her howling for G2.
3v3.
They're all here immediately and that's where Liza before even planting is poking and prodding backside setting.
Jolina up. The facade is nice.
It's good.
VanVania will find Fluxy here and so does Liza alone.
But Jolina fires the perfect timing.
Blades online.
You could tell that Eva does not want anything to do with this.
Five seconds to go.
She has to force this, but a swing from Eva.
No, it's not!
Jolina gets off that spike, a right click for a 4k and SK manages to just bring themselves right to that finishing line.
I don't know, I'm gonna take a look at that replay later on to see how close the round was to conclusion.
You cannot fault Eva for how uh...
She did it twice.
She did it twice!
I'm in shock!
Jolina!
That is crazy!
And just like that, 14-12 at Skenebula, steal away Breeze, rescue Thordid from the 30 bomb,
but you cannot fault there for the 20-15, five first bloods as well.
I'm impressed. I mean, it really did come down to as well. I feel like the fakeouts there
from Skenebula were very well invested, right? It was like a perfect economy to like the fake
that failed from G2 in the prior OT cycle to then SK selling a successful run, right? That's why
Amy felt so confident scaling they made
She's like, oh that whole team is not gonna be there or rolls up at its rescue
And we did see some of those again double duelist issues the kings they're still working them with their way out
Since again, they don't know double duelist a lot on certain maps for Escanabula, but I've been rescued just standout performance
Right 291 ACS that feels low for 30 bottomless, but the T1 is is crazy
Yeah
I think in this situation that you know like you mentioned just now you know put rescue on that duelist let her do her thing
but her, you just shake it up, you could really tell that she's feeling really good about herself.
She's very free, she's very dynamic in all of her plays, and it gives her teammates so much space
to do other things. If she's not getting the frags, she's pulling away the crosshairs from
her teammates, and her teammates are just quickly able to really get those pickoffs if she's not
able to as well. But let's have a look at team performance right now, and I'm really curious
to see how exactly it's going as well as we look at the entirety of this game, because this game was
Hella, hella close.
Oh, yeah, it sure was.
And just like that, when we get it up,
I'm expecting a really strong post-plant,
I think percentage from SKM.
I don't know, I'm thinking back to the map actually.
I'm not too sure.
I think it's gonna be like 50-50.
It was very 50-50.
I mean, there are so many rounds
where it was just down to the wire,
one V1, a two V1 sometimes.
I mean, we do have some flawless rounds, right?
but we didn't really get to all in see that.
Regardless, let's have a look at that as it comes online,
but I am really also excited to see that,
I mean, I'm not gonna lie,
the high-five reel coming in from Julina,
she has managed to get, and there we go, here it is,
as we look at the team performance there,
both teams doing a 12 to 14 first kills
says a lot about how the first contact plays happen.
And in situations, SK got one clutch out of everything,
It felt like there was two or three, maybe.
Okay.
I'm generally shocked that the first Bloods were so consistent,
but I think that's where Akita and the Operator
kind of stabilized maybe the attack half for G2,
but I do think this post-plant trend tracks, right?
I think the few that were lost for SK,
I think worked out.
And I think it shows again how neck and neck this was
when you look at the team performance
and they literally like there's virtually no differences
aside from those major tipping point rounds.
Yeah, I think it's always really fun to see how this is going to go.
Again, we talked a little bit about how SK Nebula navigates around the map,
how this map was a must win for G2 as we go into Haven,
especially since Haven hasn't been the best of maps for G2 Gozen,
as a lot of teams has really started to figure out how they play,
have a little bit more counterplays.
And I think the last, and in this situation,
I think your prediction just now was saying that it might be a 2-0
if SK Nebula takes breeze.
Now that it's this close, what are your thoughts?
I think I'm still feeling an SK Nebula 2O based on what we saw on Breeze.
Again, I think there were some small mistakes and some small missed timings that you two
goes inside that get exasperated when you don't have a.
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game changes. EMEA stage two. We are looking at a bang up a match between G2
Gozen and SK Nebula where it went into overtime with Jolina bringing them to the
end of the line in that overtime was honestly crazy to see and now we are
going to Haven where apparently right now SK Nebula is currently 6-0.
Oh 100% they are and I think that's what's so daunting for G2 Gozen right? We
Entered the series saying you have to learn from the losses an SK
I believe definitely did change the composition change the pacing and it changed their record one in one now on
Breeze following that series again when they get the reps explain the map pool
They find success and I feel like we haven't had that same answer that conclusion for G2 goes and but I will say streaks
Are meant to be broken right and then pushing this to a map 3. It's unfortunate actually G2 didn't they need?
They need to 2-0 to punch their ticket to playoffs here. 2-1, I think they're dependent on the other results
So they're they're gonna have to I think now be playing even further for their last few matches
Again, I believe they have both alternate attacks. They just have ATN after this, right? Versus SK have ATN and
Carmine course. So again, Carmine course is gonna be a hefty opponent for Escanabula
So they really want this one here and now and
Ah, what? What?
Wait, that reaction is great.
We're seeing a lot of mirror matchup. Yeah, we're seeing a mirror matchup.
But it was a G2 shift away from a double senty,
which was the vice chamber that I'm not going to lie, I was not a fan of,
into the Mimi Phoenix debut for this stage,
which brings her a total of different agents, by the way, I think, to four.
She's played the vice the breach the KO but just add another flash agent to her arsenal. Why not and
Honestly with the I'm getting flashbacks of that breeze like Sheriff multi-kill. I think she's gonna fire this game
Yeah, I'm very excited for her. I think she's gonna be a situation where she's really good with the the flashes as well
Right. She's really good. I think her team stops and if anything as well
She's in a position where she can play either for her team or play a little bit more aggressive for her own for her
own self, which is going to be super, super fun. And I think that our understanding that
perhaps speed is the name of a game, the chamber is great. I mean, we saw that by doing on
PaperX. But let's be honest here, sometimes there are some things only certain people
can do. I mean, he says, you know what, perhaps I'm a Phoenix main, perhaps chamber is not
for me. And I'm all in for that as well. In this situation as well, you have a rescue
kind of swapped off that neon into the Phoenix. And Jolina will be taking the helm of that.
And this is where things get interesting because I would have gotten you just want to leave
rescue on that neon. She's hot from off that breeze game. You just want to let her play
up the momentum. But you know what? Well, if rescue is better than Phoenix, if she's
able to be playing alone, if she's able to really set things up for teammates, especially
she's been playing a lot of other agents as well that set things up for teammates, why
not? Right?
Yeah, and I'm thinking back as well. I believe rescue is a 100% win rate on the Phoenix.
When we look at the agent pool, again, she only plays on Haven and they're 6-0 on Haven,
therefore she's 6-0 on the Phoenix. So I'm actually excited, I think, for that rescue
you mean we had to head on the Phoenix as well, right? Because both of these players were
orders for their teams in the prior right before he got nerfed as an agent and I think
that's where the success is going to come through but I mean look at the results it's
screaming right a 60% attack win rate the 100% win rate the comp itself like they they are
so wrapped prepared and I am worried that it's gonna be like hey let me copy your homework
and then the results aren't as good as the initial person who put in all the work and
that's scary yeah I feel like that's what G2 goes and they're gonna be like working to
play catch up essentially. And I think I've never seen like a somebody who picks up like
a mirror comp later than the team that was already running it find success. But again,
I feel like this is a go to meta composition right now. So I think that's where that exception
can be granted for G2 goes in and in a time where it's really, really needed for them.
I don't know that as well. I think when SK Nebula is going six and oh yeah, but a lot
of thoughts to see how exactly we play this map, how exactly it's going to go. I am curious
to see how exactly they have, anyway,
you have this mirror matchup, you have this skill matchup,
and it's gonna be a bit more interesting.
How are you gonna outmaneuver the other team?
You have the, if you have an understanding
how SK Nebula plays, the execution of it
is how exactly you're gonna be able to do that.
Those reps for SK Nebula is important.
By the same time G2 goes in having this information,
would you be able to do anything with that as well?
So that's also another question I have for this team.
Yeah, I mean, you got the go JT there
on the assistant coach position for G2 goes.
So I hope they have some antsy lined up when you're not banning Haven up first against a team that is six and on this map
It feels like you knew know they're going to pick into and you have to a prep accordingly
And it's more gonna be that fast turn around time
I think it's gonna be daunting for g2 goes and to see if they have an action plan ready again this group stage
Schedule can be on for giving so let's jump on into the action right as can you have a look in the series after stealing
way G2 goes in the map pick and G2 has to be unthinkable to push us to that map 3 of split.
Yeah and if anything as well you know there's also you know the head-to-head coming in as well
and what exactly is needed by G2 and I think it must be a heartbreaker that I actually lost that
first map coming into this game. Regardless this time around here Jolina will be eating the full
force off that early shock dart dropped out to 61 HP but Eva as well did take a bit of damage.
Well, opener then, solid for G2, but the response immediate for Mascarnabula, lean into A, and
G2 we're now chasing right after.
The timing is so good if you think about it, Akita inside of the wings and the smoke paranoia
and flashed as well, but it doesn't mean that you're safe because Vanya is there for a double.
Tui, great, two picks back to her name as Fluxy, right Flix are good.
It's messy, it's extremely skirmishy, as to not able to seal the deal, it's Amy will be the one to take this pistol G2 once again with the pistols.
3 for 3 on the series so far, and if that is just kind of the teaser, the sample chapter to what this map is going to entail,
the Brawly heavy team fight just to try and get spiked down, and then calling toe to toe timing overlapping,
I think this is going to be at the furthest escalator have been pushed and I think G2 are gonna have a real shot at this map
But again, it is just the pistol and sometimes again the teaser doesn't live up to the whole fuck the whole
Novel and for now have you mid-stack from SK only a pistol. Maybe the hot challenge it
Yeah, but doesn't mean that Jolina doesn't and that's a trip to a Molly with me these shots to the head
Doesn't matter gonna come to back with their own flash
lot of pressure, a lot of fights happening inside a garage, and this cage is not giving SK any space to move.
They're stuck.
Really liking the Sack to pick up already from G2Goes and Amy feeling much more in the zone.
In the meantime, trying to find an outside, you're only going to find a barrel of an outlaw.
Gita, okay, she's going to move by them as well from there.
So this time around, SK, that villa probably is crashing their heads saying,
Okay, garage is a no-go, mid is probably another no-go, and instead of going in different places,
just push forward here, crossing down B, Vanya definitely spotted the members of SK Nabula there.
Finally, they figured to hop on to C, gonna plant for that back site, so they still don't know
that you have a resident cipher inside of Cubby all the way in long.
Yeah, Amy can't talk to the garage, they have no idea.
We need position noted. They're gonna try and challenge her, but maybe shows her hand a nice spray with the inspector
I'm also a body in the back side means the clean retake once again G2 goes in. This is nice
We're coming into this round perhaps much needed after that loss
hoping to see whether I guess no ball that uh, that uh that bonus into a few more rounds as well
Yep, more standard buy this time around than what we were seeing over on Breeze, but you know your requirement of a map with super long sight lines
But again, it's probably a very team-coordinated effort
Which I think is the best kind of highlight for G2 goes in there
And I think Amy's understanding of the gaps as well was super informative too and you saw the k-ish are playing
Waiting for that time to come in from the CT because they knew they had given up and Vani as well filling that gap
That's the kind of give and take the push and pull we're gonna have to see from G2 goes and that was lacking on Breeze
for the time being G2 with this bonus bar that you were looking towards going for
early fight to head off this a-take it's triple stack there we go oh yeah I like
this I mean if they do go for this full stack fight it's gonna be good that
all go in spots one-off and you get flash and a swing forward Vanya just that is
still way of kill regardless of everything and Eva is still running away for
her life stuck inside Tewer's probably wondering if someone is coming from
short swaps nothing here and Lisa ready for her Amy timing good and that's a
lot of damage done with just a spectre leaving Akita alone at 2v1 only I think
an outlaw in hand with Twi later rotation if her timing is good this
could be massive but don't need her Lisa is just that sharp I was nervous there
for a sec I was like okay we're giving Eva the one sure Amy finds a massive
Spectre tab issue 61 right now, by the way with another old theft, but in this flash and dismantle the ATREF really really nice
And we mentioned how rescue I think was always a step ahead on the neon
I feel like Jolina is always the one kind of behind that lets the rescue set the pace
So I think I do like Jolina on the entry duelist a bit more and rescue more on that support so far
All right, yeah, it was a bonus so we don't get too far ahead of ourselves
But again, it's looking a bit more ingrained as so we'll see it coming at the first right for round
we get the clean 2-2 as expected and this heavy patient towards garage they
want to fix the mistakes so the second round you go see what they can do to
dismantle Amy's setup. Yeah I think it's good that you have Akita running
further forward just avoid SK from being a little bit too aggressive just
aggressively pushing into garage as well so as it's noted a flash will be used
which flushes the members of G2 goes and out of garage but still have to worry
about the cipher on that C site if they want to. Jolina waiting steps away
Hey, Nostvania is close.
So the rest of Eskimoabula says,
okay, we don't want anything to do with that.
Let's just rush over, let's try.
What can we do to A?
Really nice default there.
You get paranoia, that's a huge investment.
And G2 are quick to re-clear, but not quick to rotate.
A lot of pressure gonna be on Akita and Eva here.
And I like the silent tuck short,
praying off the lurk, playing off the weak side.
Good, instant trade as well.
By Eva, one for one as well.
Look how far up she's gone.
Lisa waiting in the wings,
knowing that Eva might be somewhere close.
Spots her out, but inside of Sewers,
you still don't know that rescue is here.
I've had this spotted, they know she's there,
but Jolina is just so very low.
The soft angle by rescue is huge,
and here comes that flame wall.
Can't do much, as Vinek immediately sprays her down,
and Jolina will be the one to walk up next unseen.
It could be massive here.
The wrong way, and she whiffs!
No, no, no, no, no, this is not how you wanna go down as well.
player advantage for this team and AV from heaven side makes it dangerous and
Lisa catches her down as she's jumping from heaven side. Avanya is there to
band-aid and remedy the situation. Wow Avanya comes through trying to bolster
that clutch percentage for this stage and we'll keep a G2 in the lead for the
time being that is just unfortunate again as to how good calling that minute
I mean, I think it was more suppressed that 3 was able to get 1 here. Again, it was a nice
re-clear. The trade's just for G2 and that flank pressure. Something that definitely
had to be noted for later, but Amy right now, I want to say she's like a 100% cast at this
point so far into this match. And I think stability, the information that she's been
bringing to the table has been so refreshing. And it's unfortunate that the first round
SK actually won a hard hit C-side on the C-cove down long, and the round on Amy's not there.
They know where Vanya is, and the instant reaction is just smoke it up.
SK got the Utila and they're happy with that, so they're gonna move away, but look at mid-side.
Ooh, for Niko, it's risky business, but I like the confident look from G2.
It gives them answers, it can have their rotation back towards A.
I'm just gonna cycle it.
Yeah, they're tucked in mid.
They have one person watching through window if someone were to peek out.
They're expecting it. It doesn't seem like it.
What's the timing on the flank?
Looks like now for Makita is the big question.
The Camel make contact is my assumption. The triple make contact.
And Makita probably scales immediately.
TP as well.
Well, Vanya had all the information in the world.
And look how fast Eski is now upping the ante,
rushing straight into the site.
There is still one more trick they have to deal with.
But one player lit up there, rescued, just manages
to just move away.
You know what?
Never mind.
You have Fluxy that somehow walked into the area.
And now here comes the flash.
Immediately, Vanya, maybe, walk up, gets the kills.
The paranoia keeps Liza at bay as well.
They're running back now gone,
but it doesn't mean that Liza is out of the game.
G2 looked at it going on a rampage.
And I will say it looks like they are copying word for word
because Amy right now, the implementation and the coordination
off of Evo on that A side kill trip set up was text book.
Like the timing was nice.
The timing as well from a key on that flank off of the contact
from the from the shadows.
All of it was it was really pristine from G2 and looking super, super stable
for a first time implementation of it.
And SK, this is the biggest surprise of them to be down one and four right now with a double
duelist.
And if there's anything that can kickstart the system, save them.
It would be a four out of five, almost five out of five, old round.
Yeah.
So let's see what they've got.
I think, I do think the A-takes been their strongest, but they need to be aware again
of Amy and her setup here, which now that they know what it looks like, they're looking
to tackle it.
My camera is destroyed.
Camera does go down, but there's a lot of info noted.
And look at the shift coming from G2, knows that a majority of players are A, decides to go push forward, but Twei in the mid-side will catch Vanya.
People are to be nice, guaranteeing one, guaranteeing info, and you're expecting the expedition to be up here on the A space.
Amy forced off no kill trips this time around.
Yeah, but Tripp does find one person immediately broken, both of them found in fact, but she's not there to follow up anything.
Tway still waiting around mid-tier, catches Akita, perfectly done, and still wants to go for more somewhere there.
The Outdoor does come through, from G2 goes inside, but still not enough info for her to play off of.
Amy's head could immediately be broken as well, since they do have two players just watching her angle.
Bit of silence coming in from G2, yeah.
Might be a save this time around, and SK finally perhaps cracked the coach.
coach. Yeah Mimi could get the flank pressure because she was worried about 2a and on top
of that again you didn't really have a player either accounting for her and b or still not
having a player accounting for her and b. She finds the triple and I do think that could
be the key for SK Nebula maintaining these rounds in a healthy fashion is her finding
this impact because she has now a few times. Looks like no one's gonna get their weapons
stripped away and I think that was a nice balance of investment and saving these ultimates to
prolong the comeback here.
And I think the biggest or most impressive point is that they've done it without time
up being taken, Tash, on the SK Nebula side.
Yeah, not like you mentioned it.
It looked like a round that looked very, very different, right?
Without that time out, loved the adjustment coming through.
But again, this does show SK Nebulas, I would say, experienced from that 6-0 streak they're
currently having.
And I was a bit worried just now before asking Abula because G2 looked so good with the retakes.
I think it was 3 out of the 4 rounds or all retake rounds.
And now, now that I've figured out, I'm wondering whether or not G2 is going to be able to take that momentum back
as Rescue will start the round with the running back immediately online.
I'm really going to send out that flash swing out by the youth in the hand, means GV takes them out here.
But Jolina already on the side, Overdrive will be used.
In fact, the back side will be cleared.
Fluxy finds Amy in the end, so no more worry about those trips, as Vanya does try to save the round here.
Fluxy, lead her to the site, will be going huge with a 3k, and that's two rounds in a row with SK,
and that's not off a timeout. Whatever the call was, that's changed. It has to be really, really good,
and I'd love to see how they're doing this.
Yeah, I don't think I had a secondary entry of Fluxy alongside Joludina.
We're gonna overdrive in my bingo card, keeping up the pacing there, toe to toe, and Fluxy, usually,
the ashes a bit better for her because she can have that global information and
Utah management here, but the aggressive style exactly like they needed to shut
down that reflood from G2 in the back site. And again, we circle back to SK and
Nebula without any time out finding these fixes. G2 goes and I'm gonna take their
first. And I think for SK, the reason why they can know what they're up against is
because it's their exact game plan, right? Being set and executed. So while there
was a learning curve of the exact set of the exact trips that felt like Amy was
playing off of and that given Pulse supporting the escape from Amy, they
now hit the marker on the head. It feels like one round away from tying things up and it's
neat. Go round from G2, goes in so that feels inevitable at this point, Tash.
Yeah, and I think in this situation, I like the fight that SK is starting to get a little bit
more active with the map control. They're not really just trying to go for these aggressive
fights inside of garage. They did, which I think looks like a three of the rounds. They had lost
so many players trying to get to garage. A few of the rounds, they lose players just peeking down
mid this time around. It's like to go I think a little bit more faster to the sides to make G2
really have to try to rotate a bit faster. We shall see for now G2 on the eco looks like the
A plan is to set up a trap A short. Maybe some paranoia some sliding action for Akita but that's
okay surprisingly defaulting for the eco a little fake heavy presence A off that recon to try and
and draw it out perhaps is the idea and how players pushing out sewers there is a
trip there though so positions should be noted Lisa is there as well as her
teammate there we go Akita can't push out further I think they want to try and
break it and then rush forward since they are gonna be going through that
B site the plant is out there we go there I know it well friend well supported
Yeah, double go up grass
Outweeeeee
Wheelback caught in the end
That's a perfect kill coming in from Amy
Still unclear from garage yet
As the other members of G2 goes and still trying to find their way into the B site
Majority of the ASCII members are already inside of the site itself
Except for rescue which happened to find a pick off onto Eva
Amy also gets a shock dart death
Looks in the high ground area as well
Lisa there with the shorty in those smokes
Don't need her at all as there's a team to spray it out Akita.
Let's find one to her name, but this time around Eskade, they just turtle-shelled at B site, and G2 now I go pick through.
Yeah, it's a funny occurrence, I feel like, for an eco in G2 goes in favor, but the crossfires are super effective.
Fluxy, I feel like, has been so consistently finding impact this map from not being alert for playing on the site in the moment with the rest of the team.
Nice look for her.
Showed again why this haven might be so well rounded for the squad again
We've seen that success on a B and a C at differing times
Ties us up four to four G2 though in a good spot
I think to again maintain a steady pace which has been the definition this entire stage against the mult some weapons online
If they lose this the half I think shifts drastically in favor SK nebula once again
No way!
Run!
Mr. Flash, and immediately the response to send out that Hunter's Fury, Eva, does steal
away Rescue, perfectly done, and Jolina just tries to move away, can't do that!
A lot of Util, used by G2, and it's effective!
Stealing away almost half the team!
Yeah, doubled out of a five, lose it all, it feels like.
They've done okay picking up the slack when it's just Rescue following early, but not
Jolina too.
Fluxy on the lurk timing found an opening be but not enough to occupy it permanently the spike to rotate in
Very clear on the drone ever
definitely spotted that
And now it's a matter of survival
You're gonna give up be here actually G2
Look at the show and respect
We'll go for the plant as well in this situation. We still have
Three just moving to word that seesight there. Oh, no catches one out there
Akita movement, god, I guess. Moves away, matrixes away from the bullets and still manages to steal
away a kill. In fact, go for one more, Lisa. Fluxy, alone. Eva. Oh no, that is a valorant timing
moment. If I've ever seen one, moves away here. Here's the defuse. Pass lead used. Cannot get a
single person. That's two flawless rounds, I believe. Already ready for G2 Gozen.
Yeah, again, it's okay from the depth of the scrapbook, despite them running this composition,
for the first time they recognized we mentioned again learning from losses that that vice chamber just wasn't working out the way they wanted to to shut down these
Neons and that time it was that sea trap off the hunt history off the relay bolt that was really nice and the ability to speed it as can ever has been setting to establish themselves on these defaults in the early round and I do like that as can
Everyone are calling their bluff saying you're not going to do it again. You'll have a hundred series again and G2 goes and says we're about to do it again.
This time around G2 wants to go for a fight, relay ball, a flash as well.
No one sees anything and Akita should fall.
SK Nebula was very ready for the early fight and Vanya has just forced the TP all the way
back site here.
And I think SK Deble happy with that first pick, decided they want to go and prod a different
area.
No, they want to try and double down.
I think that's smart.
You know that Vanya has already invested the paranoia so this hold is going to be incrementally
weaker.
I'm worried about the 3A timing on rotating back towards C, but she hits that nail on the head as well.
And now, I'm asking Heaven what kills on C and A have a decision to make of where to end.
I don't know if Cypher Yutzel spotted. I think they're making the right call so far.
Oh no. 2A finally shut down, and that's already one big, I would say, massive headache taken out of the way.
Here's how those backsides spray through the smoke so they can find something.
But it does keep G2 at bay for the time being here.
The timing for Mimi could be huge.
Spot out by Lisa, forced back, so she's just going to hold a bit more deep as I think Mimi
tries to find her way through garage.
Yeah, you need to flash back into the site.
You can't be on alert place.
I like the rigor raptors who's gotten the answers.
Let's see if they can...
Somehow went out this 3v4.
The issue is, time has now a major factor against them.
SK looks for this further forward fights. That flash is good, Amy finds the look-see, and in fact Jolina probably bit too much more than she can chew.
Rescue Lisa, last alone, they know where rescue is. Lisa, not showing the right areas there, and Mimi very conduct with this as well won't be stopped.
And this is a pros-do-not-fake moment if I've ever seen one.
6-4. G2 get the job done on the defensive half of Haven, at least guaranteeing a tie. Very,
very impressively done in that round. Finally forces up the first break from SK Nebula as
well. And in that round, it was very intentional individual decisions that set them apart.
Vanya, re-clearing grass there, fighting through A who you mentioned was a consistent headache.
And then I'm like, I'm so glad the enemy doesn't double down the flank, but then regroups in
garage to blaze all them out.
And again, that backside fight just tips the way of G2 and Bonnie surviving is everything
there because without that dark cover, that round does not come to a conclusion.
So again, I think her, her, her, her definitely showcasing that well around in nature and
understanding how pivotal she is to the team's success.
And whereas Canabula, these post plans need some work.
I'm really curious to see how exactly I think Eskin Abla is going to try and wiggle the way forward.
I mean, there are a team that has excessive iOS experience on this map, but thoughts are available to G2.
And I think that G2 has done a great job of understanding how they're playing here,
they're understanding how the mid-learn side, I think Toya has been shut down quite a few times already.
You can't do the same thing over and over.
I agree. With two rounds left, I think Eskin Abla has the room to spice things up,
play a Stroud or two that they haven't seen on the G2 codes inside just yet, but G2 the
big difference after their initial time out was to take the fight to SK Nebula.
Look at this again.
We were trapping C, now we're trapping A. The logical thing is C's not been working
anymore for SK Nebula to lean into and last time they waited for them to contact into
the trip this time they're fighting out in front of it.
Oh, but it's off angle by Jolina does take away a head and she gets two in fact really
both sent out and even Mimi should fall there.
Julina, taking a fight into her old hands and despite everything they only lost Fluxy. Out of that, Vanya will try and find a way to back step them in the end.
The timing is good if you ask me, but there is a trip. It's gonna be a bit problematic here, but she can't TP over.
Hmm, I think just out of audio range as well. Was it hard or was it red?
It was definitely red, Vanya took a lot of damage there.
Wall bang, kill onto Vanya as G2 left scratching their heads.
Evanna 1v4, maybe easy as retake and I think she's gonna go for the save.
You want the best chances to get this through the 7-5 half at this point over the heroics of a 1v4.
And uh, someone hunting for maybe Jolina's ultimate to cap off the half.
Is this smart?
You're gonna have a buy no matter what's not around it. It's all Jolina, right?
I think I was so funny like Jolina finishes off the three-piece and I'm looking up
And I still see the trio stack in mid like Jolina's like I got this doesn't even recall like help or assistance
Just handles it and without smokes they stabilize the round so personally and I mean
Yeah, I'm gonna take her down one, but rescue wanted to feed that kill to Jolina anyways
Yeah, now you have the overdrive online and you really expect Jolina to just really up the ante go a bit fast
And this angle by Jolina is just so good.
I was really worried for her.
I thought she's going to be able to get two, and then just maybe call it a day, but she
still wins on the last one off that relay bolt.
So I have to say, crazy stuff coming from them as well.
And suddenly, SK looked very, I think, weak early game.
Now making, not only can you come back about to hit that 6-6-5, they really want to do
that.
And on top of that, four ults on line.
Oh, and things come out. Looks like the head towards the B space.
Oh!
Drop default to start, yeah.
Hot hands extended.
I feel like they've done a good job just setting the groundwork and good defaulting all this
utility out from G2 really, really early.
Whether it's via the traps G2 has set, or again, the poking your prod and getting rid
of the Cypher utility.
Look up and within 20 seconds there's no more trips on the entire map.
Jokes over, you're dead!
Here comes the Phoenix Alt as a mini.
Runs it down mid, finds nothing.
Asking Evlia what nothing to do with that.
The spike is still so further back.
Vanya still hasn't been dealt with.
Run it back from rescue will be used.
So that's Vanya down, thanks to Lisa.
And in fact, the shard done killed?
Akita does try to make it competitive though.
Finds two turn in, but Jolina and Lisa tie it down.
Crazy work and SK finally get those crucial rounds for a 6-6 half and I think the second half gonna be just as great
Red Bull gives you wings
Welcome, welcome back a 6 6 half year on map two of day two and we three of game changers
EMEA where G2 goes in are the big surprise all that coming into a haven a revamped mere
matchup composition.
Mini Phoenix debut looked strong and fending off SK Nebulas high-paced strong defaults
and just like that, maybe attached with this flawless pistol record G2 goes in and snaps
the lead right back.
Yeah I think G2 has been having a great day on pistols if you ask me so that
early you could give them a little bit more of a leg up or we could see a
repeat of Breeze.
Oh, I'm on a flash. We'll see. I think the rotate's really fast from Escan Abula.
Very anti-characteristic to what we saw on Breeze but correct nonetheless. Look at
the split. I think it's a click to the head there for rescue as well. I think rescue
waiting inside the smooth Jolina, sends out that really bolt finds nothing but it does do enough to
keep the rest of G2 goes in out of garage and Amy is already so very low. Wow they've run circles
though around Escan Abla for the first time adding into a basically deserted A site.
Lisa we've seen her crazy anchor multi kills let's see if she can do it again.
Holy flash and we'll take the full brunt of that headshot from Mimi the plant comes out here
and SK rushing this retake, but it's good.
The first shot traded out, but Akita goes nuclear for two.
Tui alone in 1v4, oh no, this looks very scary.
They got the crossfires coming in from the front of sight.
They have graffiti fully in check as well.
Gonna try though.
You need a response, it's for triple peak perhaps, yeah.
Eva gets the last one, so again, that's four out of four pistols already.
Yeah, it's a nearly impossible crossfire to break in a pistol round and on a cipher at
that with no Yuto left.
And G2, they looked so fluid, so simplified, but it was perfect every step of the way.
SK Nebula on the other hand, that simplification really cost them.
And it shows they could be getting some jelly legs on a map they're otherwise comfortable
on when G2 goes in or playing their own game, but better possibly.
So we'll see what happens here on the eco.
Every B front staff, it feels like they, as soon as contact's made from Liza, would just
flank or immediately pivot into a reflod.
G2 goes in really really taking their time here majority of SK players really
want to take this B site fight so I think A B definitely has been able to see
takes a bit of chip damage but the rush from G2 goes in on to that A site is
great Molly will keep the rest of the team at bay as well and Mimi's wall
will delay even more. Kita over two massive headshots before finally going down to
Jolina. So after all of that, they get Akita, they don't get Akita, sorry Akita falls, but
they do get that battle back and around win. So I think I could tell, I could really tell
that G2 really wants a snowball forward. But it is after all going to be Eskies by round.
Yeah, that was very, very good. Fluid, very flawless if I was like from G2. Again, Mimi
is playing that, that support duel is perfectly, again, the hot hands come out, the Molly,
that's probably needs a nerf at this point, just kind of single handedly prevents that
of reflood and frame the double back-site fight between Akina and Vanya. We complete that
full house, get that 8-6 up, and again, we saw them win one bonus conversion prior, see
if they can do it again in the series, to cement themselves on this map too.
Busky here waiting, takes the full brunt of that flash, forced to move away there, even
I would say taking the relay bolt.
The very least he may have traded out by Tui.
Luxie's position hasn't been noted quite yet, so moved away from that site.
Tui, what a shot through the head even for one more!
Navigating logs to perfection.
Still haven't noted Jolina that's crossover, has an idea where she is.
Amy clears her out though.
The book sees Bailey live 25 HP, but still a menace.
Eva falls, attacked to the head by Amy,
but where exactly is Lisa?
Is the question, a lot of people work with.
Yeah, timing is good.
Lisa gets it, that's a very labored
byron by Eski and Ebula.
Yeah, they're not hindered, it feels like,
by the Cypher utility in the same way
that Eski and Ebula was out the gate, right?
That was perfect punishment for Makita
on to rescue that sort of thing, started drawing weapons out.
If it is, then get that three piece,
which you shouldn't have wanted to begin with.
I think from this reposition logs,
that is a very, very different round.
NG2 goes in favor, and again, Fluxy as well.
Low HP, not a problem for her.
We started with two HP getting kills over
on three solo anchoring sites.
So all in all, they get the round that they desperately need,
but I agree, it was labored,
and you can see the guardians come out as a result,
and G2 then, Outlaw comes out as well for me.
looking for openers.
Oh my god, I don't know how many didn't die there.
She's so low.
Even really, Bolt keeps them at bay.
Lisa putting a bit more pressure
to make sure that her teammates able to cross over
as she does with Fluxy pushing out slowly down mid,
but there is still a trip there.
So I hope she's going to be able to do more than that.
Mm.
The pause, waiting for the re-fight from SK.
That ominous surprise.
The drone should completely spoil.
It's not real.
And it'll be marked.
Thoughts too.
Nibirra also gets tagged.
So the idea that Liza is somewhere close
also going to be a problem.
Flash does find no one.
The rest of SK Nibirra not eager to peak that as Tui.
Well basically, if I cross this on B, that's going to be huge.
Shot's a bit too wide.
Can't cross through.
And now Fali does.
Going to tuck herself away, backside there, toward gond.
But she's so very low.
Waiting for teammates to start off that fight.
A good flash forward, and somehow Mimi still gets it.
Liza trades and Liza falls.
Vanya, big numbers coming into this round
as Eva still hasn't been moved off her area hold.
White's in for Twain, a perfect headshot too.
This is timing, this is massive!
Vanya's ahead of Mimi.
Hell, give one more, no!
Vanya's gonna be able to get her first.
A fake TP, don't know where she is.
Jolina, front forward, fight.
Window of opportunity here as they go for half defuse
and Jolina keeps her at bay,
gets the perfect head shot.
Twi's so very low, gonna tap, gonna shoot.
They know she's off, and Vanya gonna count
till three, five, three on the midst of that as well.
A red bull clutch by Vanya, a four piece as well.
And G2 are just not letting go of the gas.
Vanya is so back, right?
We mentioned her being that band-aid for G2 goes in
when you know you get the paper cups,
and I mean, we can say flex that you definitely
tried to inflict that wound here,
And even Jolena was doing a good job patting, but that follow up is not enough.
Even at 45 HP time, not on the way side and I don't know, risky business here.
Money reset, G2 should get up to double digits.
And I think that could spoil it.
Maybe Jolena gonna get killed ripping it overdrive, but
see how far back G2's playing.
G2's doing great.
I mean, they have that.
Oh no, that orb as a Mimi is going to find Julina somewhere there.
Overdrive.
Big problem.
This contacting.
It's framed so well as well, just to reap kind of plunge.
If Mimi does get killed, just like that.
They missed their timing, just like that.
Akita now in the plain makers chair, deep into a makes it seem like it's
deserted without any retaliation. With player top short here, Lisa on the recluse, she gets
a gun here. There's less than a minute left, G2 would have a strong decision to make and
ah, unfortunately I don't get the answer she's searching for. This should just be a
free sight, a free round, because a 4v5 retake on a without weapons doesn't feel very doable.
Hands immediately to that back side and yeah like you mentioned a free site in this situation
I'm not sure what SK is gonna do or they're gonna try at least steal away a kill or two
or just gonna go down to that spike.
They do have sheriffs in hand at least for Liza and Fluxy.
They set down the smokes, gave a bit of leeway and a bit more space to move forward.
It's an idea where to look.
A relay bolt to the backside to A.
Peaks and immediately Fluxy as well will go down as a two piece Fragita.
rushes forward here with the shorty, but our teammate is there to immediately trade, but
Lisa, oh my gosh, that's a two kill with just those sheriffs.
And Amy, denying any space for Esq to come forward here, so the possibility of dying
the spike is definitely not there.
Flash to the head and a kill to the face though, Amy is very much ready for that.
Okay, okay.
Esq dying there is good, one off in the run and back should be able to get an orb in the
early round that set up hopefully a play and oh no I feel like G2 are just
looking really really clean well-rounded those small mistakes that
add up either Vaani has patched up or they've been not as existent as they
were in the Carmine Core match and that's where SK take the time out here I
don't know I feel like I want to see SK taking more risks is that crazy to ask
ask for, Tash, with this composition?
No, I mean, in a way, I mean,
we did see them try to play contact early, right?
Down mid, down A, but then suddenly you have-
Ecos?
Yeah, those are Ecos, you're right.
They're not taking risks for those buy rounds.
They're tucking themselves very well back
and I'm not gonna lie, I think SK's rotations
have been kinda slow, if you ask me.
You already had one player, two player down.
They're in a situation where it just feels like
they're just not on that same page
when it comes to the retakes.
are giving G2 so many isolated fights.
And it's making me a bit more worried
because they just don't have that numbers advantage
in so many of these rounds.
G2 just prod around, I think B, prod around garage,
prod around scene and say, okay,
I think there's a lot more players here.
What are we gonna do?
Are we gonna rush down A?
And in many situations, they just rush down A
and still get the stress out of that.
100%.
And I feel like, again, it's like a broken dial for SK
that they jump from like overrouting too fast
to not being fast enough.
And it makes me feel like Breeze was the map.
They were six and oh one, right?
because they looked so repetitive in those rotation timings.
And on the flip side,
when we talk about taking risks on the bar rounds,
you look at G2 in the first half, right?
You're running the same column.
They were doing C traps, A traps, the works,
once they started getting stagnant,
and that's what got them to that six six.
And the other side of that, the other solution,
I would say, aside from early trap plays,
would be picking up the operator here,
but coming out of time out, you expect something new,
feels like G2 are aware that this novelty could be online.
This is where things get super interesting
because you find Eveve, you see that Jolina is here,
you displace her and suddenly that off
is just not going to be as impactful
since you know she's there.
She's still going to hold it though,
but there are so many rounds that G2
has been able to just really get those orcs,
go a bit more active and aggressive.
Mimi's running back does go down,
but it's not the mark that you want to take.
Even a lot of, I think Hunter's Fury sent out
as well finds nothing.
Oh, Fluxy, biggest fake in a century
from the Shadow Sea off of the running back
Thunder's Fury, cancels to try and draw them into a rotate, but G2 goes and don't bite.
They go into the default formation, refake A at the double duelist, look for answers,
split up gang got her clues style, and I like the double scaling garage and C from Amy.
I think SK Nebulae about to get tricked again.
Yeah, Neva just breaks that, sends out the recon, and immediately tipi to the backside,
though, but 2A is still very much on the side and the paranoia is good. Immediately, I think she got stuck there.
Both players think he had the damage, but the Neural theft will give the game away.
They know exactly where they're gonna be coming from here, but Eva has to be displaced.
Yeah, garage still very much in her control.
If Tami is good,
it could be a huge, I think a three headshotter coming in from that player. And Eva, there we go.
That's the time you were looking about, looking for. Spooksy to get completely wall banged there.
Recon finds nothing and SK one more time forced to give the round away especially since Julina is so low
They want to hold on to their rifles economy and shambles. Yeah, seven HP or you need the operator
It already did some packed full stop angering the sea space
The G2 goes and that mid-route was so creative was was was a G2 trademark
Basically from Mimi again
Those are where her experience I think shines through and coming up with the sort of refakes and
and re-rotates in the moments. Again, you could see Escanabler were off position and
the way scrambling back in gets refluttered off the overdrive paranoia combo, so
that is the G2 ghost that we know. Again, very creative, very
in control, and they look pretty good with this new composition.
Even though he needs 6-11 guys, by the way, 11 assists again. She is calling
and setting up these rounds really, really well. I honest, her first time in life, I don't know
I'm not gonna lie, Dash. I don't know.
Supported Phoenix. We like that. We like that.
Yeah.
Oh, we're rated. Let's just go. Supported Phoenix. Why not, right?
As we go into this round, it's an early shock dart straight down to main as Eski and Abila look to free fight early.
It's gonna be folksy that gets caught out mid here. Mimi is just knowing where exactly Eski will be peeking early.
Call up Mimi for being in support. Duelist, she says, okay, fine. I'll get her first blood.
on the smokes player as well.
That's what called SK into saving last round,
was losing their smokes, not being able to play the retake
and now it's been stripped down from the get go.
Rescue could be the saving grace again.
This is the killer off angle.
The discipline there might just catch me in the...
Oh, she's on cross.
Or she plays.
Why is she moved though?
I think she knows there's probably one more player
that hasn't crossed yet.
That's why I think Amy is just holding that angle as well.
So if she had shot there,
I think rescue would be immediately traded.
Oh, that's the perfect timing!
A Valorant timing at that gives Rescue a big advantage!
We can always buy Anakita for those quick trades back.
Hunter's Fury will be used here.
The plant to come out as well.
Can't resituation?
Yeah, a retake with an AWP?
Good not gonna be easy.
Liza will at least try here.
Spots on the head of Eva, but takes a lot of damage.
7 HP? Nope.
Yeah, she has to. No chance.
No money, no HP either.
I will require five rounds and for Escanabula to get to overtime G2 on my point threatening
to add the 6-0 undefeated streak of Escanabula on Haven with their own composition as well.
Oh, you know that G2 has not only dissected this map, they probably spent an ungodly
amount of time just trying to break it down to be D-team to break the streak.
What a big dump.
crazy because they literally just played it against KC with the old composition so maybe
cooking it in the background saving it for when it mattered most locking their spot in
for playoffs but fortunately that don't have to be delayed until the ATN match but so here
putting respect on their name on learning from their losses and I'm not very encouraged
by this buy even with rescue finally getting to run it back with no shield lights of guardian
the whole dog littering their arsenal. If I'm being so honest right now, rescue has been shut down.
6 and 15 after being 29 and 15. Jolina is doing better but at the expense of rescue in this trade off.
It just feels like this time around they already know what Jolina is. I'm not too sure if the teammate
is on the back side and they probably do. It's the default style hold that Eskimo has been doing
This past few rounds life is from ladies the last time she peeled off too early this time
She's taking that risk that commitment that we've been asking for
For surely outlaw that was one of the close corner repositions gets the info and that's the speed-up moment for G2 into B
There's that flash as well coming online rescue does take a full flash to the face is just moving around shut down
Foxy cannot get more than one as Vanya
already to
Suddenly so three versus four in a situation where I think it's still very much vulnerable from SK
But the players of G2 goes in already talk to for a really really far out off that side as well
You're a city position where you have to really I think fight
Yeah post plant protocol activates got one shot you tell me the flush is nice
Yeah, I get that one player keep getting tagged off of that as well
but you still have to worry about three other players there. Vanya, nuclear with the four P's, but Tui,
once again, alone, tries to go for a defuse, hoping that Vanya would peek, but Vanya is just not biting.
Forced to do it one more time, and Vanya will swing, and Vanya will get it. G2 goes and break the streak.
On top of that, an ace from Vanya, what a way to end Haven.
22 and 9 is absurd for her on this map. They break the Crumble SK Nabula's empire on Haven,
making them now 6 and 1. I mean, that's their comp, their new comp. Like, I just need to
see it more. I want to see Nini more comfortable on the Phoenix. Like, I cannot wait to see
this is the answer we were looking for, for them well rounding their map pool, but the
series isn't even done yet, Tash. That sends us to split, which is a less rep, less answered
pool for both of these teams, right? 2-0 for SK, 1-0 for G2 goes in. It's going to be kind
of uncharted territory adaptations in the moment. And I will say G2 goes in, I think, has that edge
over SK Nebula in the Solve department, an experienced department. And Vanya, Vanya,
Vanya's back, that's all I can say. Yeah, it's nice to see Vanya back in that driver's seat,
going super aggressive, getting those multi frags is actually insane seeing her play that
round as well. And in this situation, it was such an interesting situation to see this shift,
not only in momentum, to see the shift in how comfortable the teams are going to be. For me,
personally, I thought we're going to go into this match looking at a very uncomfortable G2 as they
try to figure things out. But if anything, G2 not only felt very comfortable, they were in the
the driver see 13 first kills and a lot of situations. Some of those kills were a
situation that SK Nebula were pushing out on defensive side and Amy were waiting
for them in the wings and winning those early, uh, first contact fights.
Yeah. And again, G2, seven out of seven posts, they weren't getting sites unless
they knew they were going to win around as a result of it. The default and like
you mentioned, drawing out those win cons was so strong. And SK on the other hand,
again, they started out like a little like slow getting into the sites, losing
some players on the way, but G2 would give it up and then play a really, really well structured
retake. So again, as Kevin looking towards these post plans, especially when you look
at a map that is so retake and post plant centric like split, I am worried that they
might have some issues.
This is where things get interesting, right? When you look at a situation where you haven't
played a map too much, like you mentioned just now, I think a two versus a one, I see
onto the split as well coming into this next one. I mean it's not as many reps. We don't know if
they're gonna go to that comfort style play what they're used to or they have something in mind
that's different because if anything G2's change in composition looked really good and you could
tell that I think you mentioned in the pre-show as well right about how G2 really takes their time
coming into the map. They really warm up toward the end of the season. They go through a big
restructure. They kind of like really find that sweet spot and I think today is a great example
off the now coming into this next one I'm not gonna lie I'm pretty excited to see what exactly G2
has cooked up for us so do not go anywhere we'll be right back for Split. Red Bull gives you wings.
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Welcome back everyone streaks are meant to be broken and g2 goes and breaking the six zero streak coming in
in for SK and Nebula is actually insane,
taking their own comp and using it against them.
Whoo, we love that.
As now we are gonna go into Split,
the final map for the day.
Now, I think Zobi, in the beginning of the game,
you said that if G2 goes in to not take Breeze,
you were gonna be seeing a 2-0,
but now you're convinced that you're seeing magic happen.
What's your thoughts?
I think G2 have control of the momentum right now
and with the issues and productivity and retakes
and post plans that we saw from Escanabula on Haven.
I feel like it's very anti-criticalistic
to what the success looks like on Split,
making me think that they're just gonna sweep through it.
I also feel like Escanabula haven't pushed further
by less challenging teams on Split than G2 has.
So I think, again, the indicators are stacking up
favoring G2, and I do think as well,
their reinvention, again, playing out their composition,
the same comp that Escanabula was running better.
I think it was just that proactivity and that aggression, that confidence that G2 was playing with that set them apart.
And I think that's exactly what they need to maintain.
And I mean, like if Vanya is being Vanya and putting up again, number one player in league level, level stats, like a return to form, that's something that's like day of you do sometimes just can't shut down.
Yeah. And I think that one thing is for sure though, right now, not only is G2 goes and feeling very good and we're in a situation where both teams are, I think in a lot of question marks.
Yeah, it's, I think SK did play this map a little bit more than G2 goes in, but I like the fact that for G2 goes in, they're okay with reinventing the wheel, they're okay with kind of like being in a situation where they are being very uncomfortable and trying to find what exactly works for them, being a late season team is looking very well, they're living up to that expectations.
In this situation, they needed to win map 1 to be able to be in a safe spot, going to playoffs later.
But in this situation, they're just going to try their best. I suppose you can win this.
We'll get those a little bit closer to that as well.
And more than anything, if they only did play one map up as opposed to SK that's played 2,
my question is, are you going to just play it as usual?
Or are you going to try and counter what SK has?
Since there are two bots, they can use against them.
I feel like they didn't prep for this map. I feel like it's the bottom of barrel again. To me map 1 and map 2
were predictable to a certain degree in the pick department. This one was more like, okay
where was it going to land, right? Between, you know, I think it was Fracture was the other one up in the air, right?
I feel like G2 had control over where the end of the series went, but all in all I think this is gonna be again riding the momentum, riding
the systematic calling that G2 goes and was leaning into on Haven. And again individual players as well, both Akita and Vani,
were in form. We need to see that return to form for players like Rescue, who was kind of the tip of
the spear while the rest of the team were warmed up on that map number one. And it looks like
heading into this every into the agent select, analyzing, analyzing, analyzing. I'm seeing
the same compositions as their previous iterations on both sides. Yeah, I think it's really good.
If anything, and the last time I think they played this game, I think it was, I think both teams
doing well across the board, across all the maps as well. Like you mentioned, they didn't really
feel like they got super tested on this map. I think the only one that came really close was
Eski Nebula versus Focus. I think it was like a 13-10. So, if anything, it was, I think in that
match between Eski Nebula and Focus Echo, I was rescued. That went huge. I think 26 kills
as a Sky on that particular matchup. So, maybe they were going to see an aggressive
duel as a Sky. Why not, right? Yeah, we're refagging Jelena as well. It could be the
the difference maker there. Again, I still am under the impression that I like to rescue
setting the pace and Jelena falling behind that we saw from the Phoenix. But again, I
think that that didn't really happen on the defense as much as the did setting the pace
on the attack. And so that's where I do think rescue playing her own game on the defense
on a sky over a Phoenix could be really, really effective. You just think about how usually
it's the duelist and then the sky holding a main space, you know, rafters and ramps
accordingly. I think it'll be a nice against system that will hopefully allow them to hard
anchor a bit more and not play as much retake, that's very characteristic to Split, because
we know they're having some issues there, I'm like, what was, what was it, like, almost
a, it was 7 out of 7 on the post plans on Haven for G2 goes in, like, yeah, it's, it's
gonna be rough and on the G2 goes inside. Hmm, what is there to break down here? I feel
like, Keto obviously has been on par. I will say Amy on the Viper, I'm still not convinced
that I'm not gonna lie, I really like her Cypher, I really like her Jember, I'm still
get in there on the Viper and maybe on the Vice again, haven't gone to see it today, but
it's become a staple of this meta for G2 goes in. So let's see why.
You know, I was kind of like surprised to see how not, I mean, I mentioned already about
like the focus across top fragging, right? 26 and 13 frag, but in the other matchup that
we saw asking them to play, it was also still a rescue top fragging. And I'm wondering if
G2 has thrown like kind of like put a finger on it and thinking, okay, perhaps you want
take contact with the sky early, shut down rescue, and see how exactly can I overrun and not let her
just really feel herself. I think one thing is for sure, we saw rescue on that map one, she's
feeling really good, she can really frag out, and she becomes a bit off on menace. And this
situation where she is a sky, and we see so many skies that can play a little bit more aggressive
as well with those flashes as a way that you want to expect, I suppose just only being a supportive
sky, is something that's different that I think rescue will be able to pull off.
Well, getting into the action, a map 3 decider, SKNabula can punch their ticket to playoffs
with a map 3 win here versus G2 goes, and unfortunately for G2, their other opponent
at alternate attacks will have to wait to see if they can solidify their place.
This wasn't a 2-0 victory, so to say they're anger out here, perhaps that momentum out
in map 3, but speaking of momentum, look at Jolina!
Oh, that's insane. This time around SK, Nabila not only moving a lot faster, but as a unit when things go hard, just move together as a unit, just not Jolina.
Despite being, I think, flashed, one thing's for sure, that haunt lineup did so well.
Okay. We'll see what exactly shapes up for the rest of this pistol. It looks like it's
pretty done, dusted, and flawless. Out of SK? Okay, Amy, Amy, there's a lot low HP, a little
launch on aim labs, routine, but a bing, but a boom. Nope, sorry. It's SK Nebula. They got
their first pistol out of the day. Yeah, I'll have to say, if we're gonna be seeing a, what,
out of six out of G2 they'll be kind of insane. I did this one as in this situation I have to say
I like this key coming in from ASCII and Avila. This is good when they don't really question
themselves when they remind it that they are a team that's just really really hot in their uh in
attack side when they know how to bring momentum to their side they are good and they need to remember
that and not allow G2 to control the temple and momentum and make them question themselves.
Oh, and we are getting a little sideline report from one of our amazing admins, Casey Barsa,
crazy upset has gone to map 3.
Alright, and so the winner of this now, suddenly in the middle of the game, you learn that
the standings here in map 3 actually might matter.
If G2 win here, they actually do make playoffs.
Guys, that is crazy to think about this after SK already got their first pistol in the round
and are sailing into a second.
Yeah, and it's great.
I think you can really see right now
that was a heavy skirmish down mid-side as well
as one player each does go down.
Amy now has access to that nasty judge.
And the situation, the rotates are gonna come through
as well, Amy really hoping to see if someone
actually ventures out ramps into heaven side.
But wait, this is great.
You have that point toxic orb set up as well.
Vivaana stealing away a rescue's hit.
Shutting him down early should at least make things a little bit less annoying since it is going to be a player advantage for G2.
Oh no.
The climb comes through and the rest are just planted.
Quad formation.
Yeah, quad formation to come out and it's only just Fluxy waiting down the line.
They're gonna swing her, they're gonna see her immediately Akita, banks her down.
The 2v4 and I don't think that SK does have the biggest of guns either.
Eva has a bulldog in hand for God's sake and is looking very nasty as G2 wins the eco and
this is going to be a back and forth.
They're like you you you you you maimed our Arpysoul flawless record on this series how
dare you we're going to eco you back and the early pacing there was nice from SK to take
and establish that mid space but I'm going to start looking back at the the replay to
see where things started going wrong on that pivot in to the A space a bit
later down the line and we can really get an answer on that for the time being
but that's already what we've kind of talked about is again G2 and a better
on our 10 times stronger now than SK Nebula it feels like SK when they
weren't challenged and they had pretty definitive solutions and set plays like
on Breathe, things went smoothly.
Here, they're gonna get challenged,
they're gonna get pushed, and G2.
Ready, we're here to go with a judge on this mid-hold.
I'm pretty sure that Eski might anticipate this judge.
And Joy didn't want to, I think disrespect those smokes,
will wait in the wings.
But still, Amy delays even more right as the smokes
dissipate, even sending out a stun forward.
Julina, that's gonna still kill away with that Bucky,
but Mimi shuts her down, and Amy is still waiting.
Oh, Lisa somehow walled by Damien to death as a headshot, in fact.
And suddenly it's so equal between these two teams.
Nice pivot, just need to be thorough, clear out Eva.
They check her though, that's the problem, she's just really hidden away behind this box.
And Fluxy, not looking the right way, so will be immediately sprayed to the head.
But Util in hand means Twi will be the one to shut her down.
On the side already, gets a tap forward, a jump peek to see if anyone's down heaven.
finds nothing but Tui still holding hasn't spotted anything at all.
2% hold on heaven nearly takes out the head of Liza there.
Doesn't seem to check for Tui there so no maybe finds her in the end.
Liza the only sheriff in hand 31 HP here's the drop down.
She does have a cease to play with barely enough time for that haunt to come back online.
The arc rose has been set up even a smoke as well.
coming in from main side and Mimi or Red Her like a book another round to G2 goes
his name okay and it was that slow methodical take retic of rafters from G2
that I really thought doing was gonna be able to find that impact that's right
for answer and that's where again when it comes down to the finish line G2 tighten
up don't make as many mistakes like not hard clearing a cubby corner and it's
like SK you cannot rely on those moments and that's where SK, I wish they'd be took the
advantage of the weapon upgrades along the way for fighting, racking up those kills,
maybe eco them back, but nope. G2, firmly control for him to time being. Old dog bonus
for another round. SK feels like this is a must win and they are going, it looks like
quick off probably the nightfall into this A space, so Mimi, challenge as you will and
it's probably going to be a G2 retake.
See, he's still waiting for a ramen here, kind of expecting a push down and I think this is a good read.
G2 is already anticipating a fluxy, you don't get the first shot, that means you're immediately going to be taken down.
Immediately they just walk back onto that site.
Now Liza will take a bit of damage from those thorns forced to reposition herself.
There's a G2 rift at the time to really rotate over there, if I get the plant finally.
kill blazer sent out Emily broken spots out two members so the other idea for
me to send out the nightfall and a great answer back is to send out the
paranoia so the very least s.k. cannot follow up on that you till
Juliana can't go diving the screen because you can't hold ramps alongside
to a and just like that fight there I keep the false g2 that's Bonnie I'm going
huge once again the wall be triggered it's not playing it for them you know
It's not and they're really just far off that site once again g2 gets a defuse for free
We start to see all these mistakes. We got to see all these situations where
SK is just not able to hold on to that post plan
Yeah, they're breaking down just a little bit if it was pointed for heaven that there's still a world
You two things still wins it just because the sheer wall
Kind of allows them to get it to half
But it would have been a very very different round and when your post plan framing is so having centric with both Jolina and
To a holding that space
It's again things that cannot be happening on the Escanabula side and it's like leading to as we've mentioned this
Hasty post-plant conversion rate that we saw previously in the series on a map like Haven
So G2 getting right now seizing that momentum for the time being and they're forced up because of that
Uh, but that's safe I should say from Escanabula here
and uh very slow
Methodical this time around poking prodding prowler missing. Oh
Oh!
I have to go do this to check back one more time.
Look at the layers on Heaven's side as well.
If Eva were to fall, it's gonna be an immediate trade,
but immediately gonna send out the haunt,
and Akita says good night and good bye.
This is a little fight forward.
This is really just judge you to the face.
But the better at least the rescue does find Amy.
One for one on different parts of the site.
Sure.
And you two just waiting the wings.
That flash is just nasty to deal with.
Forces Vanya off wrapped and wrapped side.
Excuse me.
Mimi, Jolina.
Looking really good right now, and then suddenly it's just a back and forth, and it becomes a 2 vs 1 in SK Nebula's favor.
And after a while, it took a while, and SK Nebula finally figures it out. They get a round win.
Yeah, there wasn't a greenish round from both sides, because for SK Nebula, right? Yes, to a falls really early, but she sees an arcro, a knee on Reliebel, and obviously Eva in her face.
That is the three-stack leaning A-side, so they speed up into that B-split, and Vania, while she bought enough time out that paranoia for Akina to rotate over,
I think it's Fluxy who had a quiet start. Again, we were 4 rounds in, 5 rounds in, had 0 kills, gets that 2 piece that keeps a lid on that B take.
So, real nice ability element brought in to get SK Nabila that important swing round. So they wouldn't be broke again.
G2 already knocking upon that second hit of the 6th, and we go into a round where a tie potential is on the line.
Amy.
And forward, info denial, and yep, she's gone.
Even sent out a, I think a problem as well.
Now, Fluxy will be just pushed off that off angle.
Paranoia used as well, a star recalled.
And SK gonna send out those seekers, gonna try and find their way onto the A site
where you have a bunch of thorns set up there, including an archer always.
So, the delay is about to be really nasty to deal with.
Yeah, SK.
Whew, you successfully did that on the weak side, but it's Mimi.
We're talking about Steel Garden, retake potential.
and showed something needs to give a rescue stride.
No way.
Immediately traded though,
but it's enough to just deny
that Akraus were being played in this round.
Today coming into what Heaven's side,
and unfortunately for her, looks the wrong way.
So Amy takes full advantage of that mishap.
Alisa hasn't been displaced quite yet there.
Gonna push through and spray down Akita.
You know she doesn't miss,
Jogina and the smokes will be bit down
but they're probably, they know she's in there.
But here comes Overdrive online.
It won't matter because Akita will
immediately do more damage, looks alone 6 HP, and just completely taken down as a huge
round coming in from Akita showing us what fire looks like.
And that is another A post fight that does not go SK Nebula's way.
This time we'll explain it for Heaven, but again the double re-clear and through a falling
to that rotation from Amy, just not exactly what the doctor ordered.
And I like the idea here from Rescue, but again it's individualistic.
not supported by the entire team, and that makes it quite fragile.
And here again, I like the identification, right?
The A trap comes through from G2.
The logical conclusion is to lean into the A fight, but it all feels orchestrated by G2.
They are firmly in control and the money raised
that only further solidifies that vision.
And look at this G2 hard read, hard fighting into A.
All economy is also insane as well.
And the fact of the matter is Eski and I were still want to challenge the pit.
They crossed through and Jolina already all the way up onto the wings into rope
But Mimi is on this B site still got it. I didn't get used last time will be used by
Exactly the knife will go in spring the other way
So we'll take away the guns so by a key time. He made do their job. Just really just spray them down
They don't have to work with here
Jolina has been found quite yet waiting in the wings and immediately shoots her in the head
Rescue alone spot out by Amy
I can't get the spike off women's land, pop flash forward and 4 people scary at her, that's
a flawless round.
Those didn't get around the box, that's unfortunate, but yeah, great eco denial from G2.
I think an issue that we're starting to see is these thorns are getting so much impact
from me that normally the vice doesn't get against the neon, they're not destroying
them, they're not being thorough.
They're not doing what they were actually doing on Haven which was a strong aspect of
their attack which is getting every nook and cranny that's sent to you to out the gate
early on, wiggling it away one sip at a time. That's not
existent here, right? They're like, let's just finish this
game, right? We have ATN, KC up next. We have other ways to
punch it at the playoffs. Like, I don't know, it looks like it
feels like a very different team in the server here for SK
Nebula and G2, again, are hitting all their highs. The
things are known for. And again, it's that confidence on the
defense to this become characteristic. Worked on Haven is
working here. I mean, look, they're about to like, have some
crazy setup to fight for this dark cover.
I'm gonna brawl here and immediately send out the paranoia by rescues on the other end there just to take down Akita early
So great that I think crossfire set up here by the two teammates
So they're just gonna move away. They got their one here
But G2 has been doing a great job of just stabilizing these rounds. It's like you were losing a player early
Thorns judge a lethal combination in Amy's hands and now they've a pinched their vent to
you. Just stop it. Oh no.
Jolena with the slide. That is
nasty. We're coming out as a
little Mimi on the backside
there. She's been annoying to
deal with. But this time around,
Jolena will be the one
aggressively pushing forward.
Finds Mimi to a still holding
on male as well. Eva is going
to be the one to win this.
Vanya as well. Still G2 this
time around. Understanding
that they don't have the
people, the more people to push
through here. Vanya is still
going to try though. But Lisa
Can't win that 1v1, and Vanya has been lethal in these situations.
Equalized as well, and Vanya jumps out.
Jolina there already with a three-piece, and Eva gonna try to come in from main.
Pretty sure that she's already been marked by Jolina here.
Almost exact timing, yep.
Winters, Eva.
Her time is ticking.
Still wants to find Fluxy.
stun and pulled off that side, Fluxy is going to swing out and win it in the end, SK another
leg of the round and everyone goes down as well.
And I'm not going to be three favoring Escan Abula, it felt like G2 flipped a switch just
from their position alone, that spoke of containment, like they conceded they weren't going to win
the round but they knew they could do damage.
Every weapon being lost for Escan Abula when everyone had like 500 credits left in the wallets
is not going to be sustainable. Look at this! Again, Light Shields, Guardian! It's not going
to get Escanabula out of this two-round deficit they're currently sitting. Even if we can
try to be celebrating that SK's finally gotten around on the board.
I'll have to lean into these ultimates and then I want to keep it up. Try and catch up
to G2 at the 5-3 and with an operator online, and it's not going to spot it out!
Akita's still stuck, though. It jumps through. Oh my god, made me so nervous that they're
going to still cross that's a cost me divide even used as well and Amy the
thing is G2 goes and hasn't really been changing anything they're knowing that
their holes have always been working very very well here how long this place is
Amy she could just delay with the snakebite her teammate will be able to
walk up once again and refill that space
okay slow pause after asking them to get established we mentioned trying to
Whittle away you till on the G2 side
They're gonna just play sightlines. They just play contact
The composition like this that goes so far
Now once again with 45 seconds left. They're running into the vice setup site. They're running into the operator again. I
Don't think this round's gonna be a retake sort of scenario
I think this is gonna be a snuff them out of an exit scenario. Let's leave them a nightfall and open up the can
Kita just saw a rescue right as these smokes come down and now they're delayed because of the thorns which Mimi loves and thrives to play in as well. Relaybolt sent out.
Eva is also here. Vanya as well. The whole G2 goes in team against the rest of G2 goes in with only 12 seconds to go. I don't know if they can do much here.
Spike stuck on site and I think the call is to save unless someone finds Twi.
Trisha doesn't get fined here.
Yeah.
You're gonna be forced to save two guardians again.
You look at 45 seconds left, you see it up and double four and still online,
which we know they've had issues getting destroyed.
Yeah, G2, 6 and 3.
Making the vice work double time here on splits and...
I mean, I'm trying to look at this composition and be like, okay, maybe there's a double
or sword, maybe this is more of a defensive added comp, and I do think it is to a certain
degree, but when Akita's having a great day, when Vaani is heating up as well, I just cannot
say that.
And I think that's why SK are taking this time out now.
They realize this cannot be like a 9-3.
They're not going to win it.
And I think that's where a 6-6, very, very winnable, despite the slow start here, despite
How was I brazen the approach has been to a lot of these attack rounds?
Yeah, and I think is if I were to look at SK right they've been they've been trying to go up mid didn't really work out
They've been trying to get control of a main didn't really work out
I tried to go for me me man is didn't really work out they poke and prod and somehow still walk into me me if anything
I would say that Mimi has been a big problem for them to deal with because they want to hit the side a bit later and
and those delays coming in from the thorns is a problem by so much time for G2 to rotate.
And on top of that as well, you have Amy with the Snakebites as well,
that's just really being such a problem for them.
Yeah, just delay upon delay upon delay. And I feel like again, the operator was introduced at the
perfect moment to just change the formula slightly and multiply the results that come out of it.
So with it on mid and a mid start being SK's go-to for defaults,
feels like the issue's gone from bad to worse and that's where that timeout came in.
And I think my concern is, okay, it looks fairly similar to previous rounds.
The only difference is a bait-A contact immediately stack.
Oh, completely destroyed this time around, Tui.
A different mindset perhaps coming into this mid-side area.
and tell me, I'm gonna say completely open, Amy's flashed off, jumps off that side and
Eva's still waiting on the other side of the smokes.
Now movement is not gonna save Jolina and Eva goes big as well, but it doesn't mean that
SK will not shoot back here, but Amy is not going to go down without a fight, this fight
has been dropped as well, they hurt the rope.
She showed respect, plays out, the delay waits for the rotate from Amy, look at the main,
Lisa so aware of the toss ability or not despite me me or she's just gonna save
as the question she's gonna walk knife out in a minute that's exactly what's
gonna be happening there wow I think G2 is read for this round and most
rounds has been so good they know exactly where exactly the rotation is
gonna happen I like to corral them I mean I don't even know this is
necessarily a read in a rotate it's more just the anchor anchors right if you
If anything, I think the fake AMAIM put, it feels like Akita in off position with the
AWP and that got overwhelmed.
It was more I think, Escanabula, they tunnel visioned in on to Amy and Eva and suddenly
Avaniya gets a really nice timing there as well.
So all in all, timeout conversion moot from Escanabula, but that was an eco, half buy
out of the safe, which already wasn't a great save with two guardians.
And so this is where they picked up the Slack Seekers, Viper's Pit.
we need something to believe in.
Once again, it's a pressure mitt this time around,
but it didn't really force into Heaven's side.
Instead, they're gonna try and move that way into B
where there is still another thorn
onto the front of that site.
I've got your trial.
Teeth are abused.
You're really gonna answer back with the paranoia.
Oh no, Jolina just slid straight into those thorns
and it just completely wrecks Jolina.
Jamie's still in the wings, spraying with a teammate to have a nice two-way angle held
in Spikes, even Akita with the Overdrive.
And it just feels like SK and Nebula is just kind of brute-crushing every onto the sides.
They don't really have an idea on how to break this defense.
Yeah, this defense, it's just so nice, right?
The B side anchor feels impossible to break through.
The retakes on it are so clean around Mimi and the Thorn anchoring there.
I'm going to key to hear the reflood after rotating as well, right?
They're playing off the speed of her rotation as a solo player, super effectively as well,
so that they don't over rotate on this map either.
Again, despite only playing at once this stage, this feels so well versed.
And I think the pace change of a slide slope cannot come fast enough for SK Nebula.
They know they can get into A usually, so that's what they're trying to pioneer here
on this broken by.
They cap off the half, it's the post that's been rough, and this time G2, they realized
Oh, look at the staff, that's four gear!
Yeah, you could tell that Amy was just doing everything to keep SK off this site.
Lisa, huge with those pick-offs, but you still have to deal with final boss Mimi deep into that site!
The very least rescue does get a different upgrade there, thanks to Vanya.
We'll move away into that B site.
And I love the fact that Mimi had put thorns on two different sites as well.
Mentioned it though, Akita and his rotate timings.
George in a hand though, not the best weapon to run interference on this B-Post.
Might just have to wait for Mimi once again.
No?
The Shruhyakita bit too impatient will be taken down this time around, SK!
A good idea to just come onto that site.
You don't want to get into a 9-3 half.
Mimi is here though, and she does have a steel garden to use.
Taking away guns would be massive as well, but it doesn't hit the back of that site
where the majority of the SKW players are. A jump peek by Liza. I don't think she spotted out Mimi quite yet.
The hunt will be broken. They have an idea that she's somewhere here.
Wallbangs a corner. Two players there, keeps an eye close by as well. Rotates to the site as well.
Rescue falls. Liza, you do not want to lose this. Gonna go for the defuse. Gets it to half and it does.
Gonna try and challenge. Peaks one more time and Mimi will win it off in the end!
taking away a 2v1 a red bull clutch for the 9 3 1 half that is like one of the
longest runs we've had and to come to the same g2 dominant conclusion I I'm
just in awe right they finally can have a really nice rotate I have a really nice
post plan I thought the timing of that circulation was great too and I I'm
I'm just at all that it's been this dominant a nine three half. We'll see if the curse favors S.K. Neville
Let's punch the ticket to plus after the break
Red Bull gives you wings
and stealing away SK's map pick and they're gonna seize it here right get all the way to playoffs
the rest of this time around here SK pushed forward there and Amy
1v2 no problem two heads immediately popped and then immediately gonna go for that plant
it's really tell that g2 goes in and starting this are not only hot but they also
are looking for these early fights
Okay, and now we know they were salted about losing the pistol in the first time this just
drives that point home it'll be five out of six unless the 3v5 comes to fruition and I think
ever is that insurance policy. This year as well Eva nice paranoia played as well only good for one
though Bakita is going to be there on that site as well clean pistols to G2 goes in and oh my gosh
This is a bit frustrating for SKW definitely really needed to get those pistols and that eco just to really bolster
You know you're way into the lead after this
And I'm a I'm usually not a believer, but I throw that belief out the window as soon as the pistols won by the team up
Yeah, and we're not seeing a force out of SK
We even see the confidence enough that I think get that that win condition through so I think that just kind of further shakes that that
Copium a little bit all in all and that's can I bill up have the mid fight in the making Bonnie get a set up with a
Paranoia I'm surprised. I don't have like a judge on Nikita dashing in behind it
Immediately a flash as well. Oh G2 was very ready for the aggressive eski debla push
You can really rely on a key to be a sharp shooter expression is round to she always like forces the
vandals
Now Amy is slowly gonna move on to the A site. Yeah, they're still cashing in on her lurk play even they got eyes on fluxy
So let's see what fluxy can do. I think the timing has been missed
Oh, that is good. Nah Amy was very ready for fluxy to jump down as well. There we go
This is a very flawless quick round as well. And Amy with only off that ghost
Does a lot of damage. I have to say this is looking really good. G2 goes in not only their momentum in hand
But I think they just want to quickly wrap this up from the looks and speed of things
I was kind of expecting four rifles and a spectre here. Could still happen, Amy, if she rethinks the purchase.
Yeah! Again, you just a by-spote confidence, the double vandal that I carried over.
I'm not saying that it's a round bonus incoming, but I'm feeling it, especially with, again,
as not seeing Jolene and Raskin's coordination as I tested just yet, this is going to be one for the ages.
G2 goes in and look that they don't want to slow down at all by Zakita that loses it in the end.
This time around, SGA Nebulous says, you know what, doesn't matter, I've been losing as many rounds
and our speed will not slow down here. We love our early fights and G2 goes in.
This time around, we'll be receiving the short end of the stick. Rescue? Pop flash comes through there as well.
And immediately, Jolina will try the challenge and be ready for it. And so is the rest of the team.
G2 goes in looking so untouchable right now.
I like the early confidence, the early fight, but they stay too long and get re-balanced out to a 3v3.
The rotates are here though, it's gonna be a brawl in heaven.
Yeah, and Fluxy is still waiting down inside here, Mimi looking good, but Lisa, she's gotten two kills already.
The haunt sent out, Mimi with only one HP left and a 2v1, I don't know.
Not gonna be the easiest.
So, SK will deny that latch point.
Alright, sometimes you have to double down to go big, I guess.
The refight there and have an after, again, a rescue in July to fall and I need to get
praised too.
I think it's just rescuing a lucky shot through the toxics tree in there because the setup
you tilted this man to the coordination between that typically setup, again, rafters and ramps.
What did we see?
The paranoia, the arc rows, a snake bite on the main choke, but there was so much you
told to try and splinter those players and they still came together in a cohesive hold.
just gonna adjust accordingly play both on the lower angle instead because they know now what that
Ito combo looks like and let's just a prowler coming through to set up the lurk. We'll see what
the rest of the players across the map are expecting from G2. G2 Ghostmaster has really
slowed it down this time instead of just full setting it out of down mean this time around
they're understanding that Eskia wants these early fights and they want to deny that from happening.
Alright, there we go.
I'm happy here.
Yeah, it's gonna be a happy here.
Yeah, there we go.
The double swings come through here and G2 goes and that gets our first contact kill and rushes through as well.
Rescue doing well to steal away one, but no more than that.
But it doesn't mean that Eva is barely alive right now.
Akita being very patient with those thorns can be slowed,
but it doesn't matter.
She's gonna push all the way down towards screens.
But it's not alone, Amy's at her side.
Yeah, and that's enough info as well with Amy tucking back a little bit more, Akita moves away.
So I'm wondering if Eski and Nebula will be in this idea of it being like only a one person push and hold.
As Mimi waits in the corner here, the wall goes down, it's gonna be nasty coming for Eski and Nebula.
I think that G2 goes in, is already anticipating this.
Here comes Flash, and Mimi had already anticipated.
She anti-that, hasn't been moved at all.
The stun be damned, trade it off, one another that, Liza.
And Amy's still waiting, double swing on one side,
but it doesn't mean that she can't win hers.
Fluxy gets two, time ticking, 15 HP left.
How are we gonna be winning this?
Fluxy is stuck in a corner and Eva still gets hers.
Around win, and on top of that, a match point as well.
G2 goes in, once they're in the driver's seat,
they cannot be moved off.
Wow, and that round, you mentioned that they expected the main reflux, the reframing, the
answers that Akita and Amy found, and the 90 difference again of how the posters address
we flashback to rescue solo engaging in this screens, right, and getting traded.
It's those nuances that said G2 goes in a part and in the moment flexing around that
reactivity to what Eskenebula was procting and last time I already called here for Eskenebula,
They just needed to like you mentioned pull the emergency break out from under the driver here that is G2 goes in
Even if they have a mountain to climb they needed that drink of water
So we'll see if just a little bit of breathing room here is enough to reset a
probably very
battled and bruised mental for eight rounds in a row for overtime and
Again, much the importance here now that KC Barca match has gone to a map three is that the winner of this is
is confirmed into playoffs. And G2 goes in our playing like so, asking Neville this map
makes it feel like, I don't know, that team that wanted to avoid tiebreakers could be
in a slippery situation, right? ATN, an underestimated team, and KC having an upward surge. It's
going to be a prickly business if they don't make the rest of this series competitive.
Competitive is what they're going to be doing here at the very least here. They did have
the time out. I'm wondering what they've learned as well. I mean, I like the early round fights,
but they haven't been winning it this time around. G2, what nothing to do with that early
mid scuffle. And on top of that as well, I don't think that the Flash actually hit anyone, so
that's no information given to it. SK Nebula. Okay. Just like that. G2 again, slow it down.
expect the change of SK or perhaps I want to feed the egos and kills.
Yeah, they get answers immediately with these starts.
It's very quiet coming in from Eski and Nebula. They're not pushing this time around.
They're taking more, I think, reactive approach.
Yep, have to with the shotguns. They've established on close chokes.
E2.
That's got a lot of Utah just to try and bait out and overswing and overengagement and it
hasn't worked.
Fluxia, that bait for the judge, well-meaned by the Outlaw, survives, lives to tell the
tale and rescue is close by with a regrowth.
So all in all, great opener.
In the meantime, leaning towards A is the weak side.
Leesha, she has one of the hero rifles and she's in a good position to capitalize off
the bucky, but there's 15 seconds left and we're nightfalling?
Got a nightfall, rush onto that side here, Amy also finds Twy somewhere to have inside
as well there.
No time and the whole site is completely lit up here.
Leesha hasn't been displaced at all, their teammate is trying so hard to keep her alive
and the plant does come through, barely at the nick of time.
That was very risky, but only a team like G2Gozin would be able to pull that off and escape Nebula.
Gonna try and break into the site.
A 2v3, you got that cosmic divided, they want to use that.
But it's done.
The back of site gets a bit of chip damage towards screens as well.
Akita wallbites the hack out of here and Jolina tries to make a difference and cannot.
G2Gozin showing us what they cooked up onto Split.
and it's dominating.
Terry the momentum from finally solving Haven, a map that has plagued them since stage one.
And that confidence that they had on the defense translates to tenfold.
I like this new look. Again, we saw this not more than anything. A well-rounded team effort.
Again, Mimi, crazy on that defense. Akita, the operator, now the re-entries.
And even just after that last round, right, Vaani and the smoke time in there completely stopping Lisa from capital eggs off of three players being fully pinged out by that hunt, like, it was so, so impressive to witness.
And I think this series laid out everything we wanted to see corrected from G2 goes in every step of the way, right? Akita, Vaani, both delivering the small mistakes and team miscoordination, nonexistent.
like this is the team that we expected to see that is trying to return and and
steal away first place this stage this time.
Yeah I think I fell short this time or I mean last time but now they look really prepped and
primed. There are a lot of I think things not only just picks but also that confidence you find again.
Akita I think was I think in situation where she got shut down in map number one and map two,
map three she looked really good she's back on peak form she's getting those multi frags most
importantly, but I have to say, you could say Akita is the MVP for this match, but if you ask me,
I would have given it to Mimi just because of how much delay she was able to do with just those
torrents. It was nasty, it was annoying to deal with, and it just really shut down any speed that
Eski and Nebula wanted to bring in the early rounds. I think I'll agree, she's definitely the
MVP for Split for this series. I think that's really, really hard to call because I feel like both
with Vani and Akita had their fair share of moments.
I think Vani is why they won Haven 100%, I will say.
But then you look at Breeze and it's like,
I wonder who did enough there.
But again, looking at what went wrong for SK Nebula,
I mean, look at the first map where we had
like a really skewed first kill to score to Conchal.
But again, it's that post-plant percentage
that's screaming for SK Nebula,
desiring improvement that we didn't get to see.
And again, it went from like just over 50% conversion now to 2 out of 7.
And that was the big issue in why I thought this map was going to be a stomp, right?
I wasn't seeing enough promise on Haven.
I'm out there comfortable with Innos postplants, and it just kind of had an exacerbated here on Split.
So all in all, Serious concludes with a 2-1 in G2's favor.
And with that, again, thanks for the lovely admins, we confirmed that G2 goes and have earned their spot in playoffs.
There we go. We love to see that happening as well. And right in the nick of time,
where things have started to change, it's just really kind of rebuild themselves into the end
of season. And let's have a look at the standings right now as we speak, because we are going to
be looking at G2 Gozen coming up to that top two, which means that they have already qualified,
pushing SK down. And honestly, in this situation, if you ask me, I thought that SK would look at
looked a little bit more convincing in the previous games that played by G2, right at the
at the make of time coming up and on top of that as well pulling out some new strats from
the playbook at the very end to just really swing around everything probably like the
SKNB probably got whiplash out of that game.
100% and I do worry then if they bounce back and match like KC they have left up to kind
of close out their series again both of these teams also have to face off against alternate
attacks who I think there's the biggest surprise I think that we thought they were going to
be like unburdened they weren't going to be as nervous after making their first playoffs
that one in five is just.
Slap to the face and I do think that
honestly, that's cannabula lost today.
Makes it so spicy that like just
below qualified tier like a twisted
in the next match like five threes
across the board.
Let me suck in a different style
of tiebreaker, but one nonetheless
that would be entertaining to witness.
Yeah, we love seeing that as well.
I think overall right now again,
when we look at today and G2 goes
and showed us why exactly they
are a team to be feared if you
If you they looked really, I think we can the beginning of the season.
They're probably just experimenting and they are no strangers to that.
I think that's a big reason for their success because they're always open to
trying out new things now coming to today.
I have to say I was very impressed by them on to Haven side bringing out a new
comp that you've never played a mirror one at that against a team that's very,
very seasoned really caught me off guard and they showed us that they are
definitely a team that has done their homework done about reviews.
execution wise looks really really good as well because the idea for me book smart and executions in game are just very two very different things you mentioned that as well because so many teams that try to do that get completely destroyed but again they are G2 goes in for a reason and it's very fun to see I am excited for the next few games as well because this iteration of G2 goes in is something that we expected to see and we very well know but this is not going to be the end of the night because after this we still have another banger series coming out
That's right. So we have a two awesome casters coming up as well. We have a
Zack and Akka Musk, I believe as well. So you're gonna be surprised to see by them.
We'll see you guys later.
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And we have a special matchup today for the first time ever in the main event, alternate attacks and focus.
The two Dach Mainstays will face off against each other, one of the most historic matchups in Germany.
One of the most historic matchups in EMEA and for the first time ever, those two teams will face each other on the big stage.
Yeah, I'm really excited to see this. I mean, I know that you've seen a lot of this, like, of us seeing that you do the Dark Project Queens, and it's a very repeated magic.
I'm sure we're going to talk more about that later, but let's take a look at the lineups first here, because we've got these teams coming up, and I'm really excited to introduce them.
We're going to start off with alternate attacks here. I'm sure that you have a lot to say about these players, so let's take a look.
Yeah, I mean, alternate attacks and focus. They played each other on Sunday, two days ago in Berlin, at an offline LAN final.
alternate attacks, winning this one, taking this one home, it's Darkseid number four for them,
and Lossy, Jade, Karina, Purity, all of them, their Gaia, subbing in once again for Celia
in the main event. So this is a slightly different look for alternate attacks compared
to their win two days ago against Focus.
I think that, yeah, they definitely look super strong. I think that even if the stage hasn't
exactly gone the way they've expected, a lot of the games have been closer than you'd expect.
And I think that this is a team that's consistently showing improvement, right? This time last year,
they were struggling to even make it to the main events and not even consistently doing it for a
year. I think that they deserve a lot of credit. But before we talk more about them, let's take a
look at the second lineup that we have, which is going to be their German counterparts of
Focus.
Yeah, and Focus, they are back in the main event ever since 2024, they were struggling
to make it back to the big stage.
Now they are here and they want to reach playoffs, they are in a much better position compared
to Alternate Attacks.
If ATN loses today against Focus Akura, they can end their playoff dreams, right?
If Focus wins this matchup, Attacks is out of main event, they will go to promo relegation
and that's in general the big problem here in that matchup.
There's a lot of pressure for alternate attacks going up into this one,
but on the other side for focus,
there is a big pressure to break one of the longest standing streaks in EMEA,
because in Project Queens, in the Dach region,
you know, DevTexas and alternate attacks beating Focus Sakura,
because from the last 10 games they played against each other,
In Project Queens or in Contenders, AT&T all 10, they are 10-0 in the past two years against Focused.
The last win Focused had against AT&T dates back to September of 2023, basically two and a half years ago.
And you know, that's a streak if we ever had one.
I think Streak is an understatement there. I was just thinking about this, you know,
Like recently we had two teams that have never defeated another team to feed them for the first time to make it to London.
So who knows 10 times the charm for them.
Nine times the charm for these guys.
Sorry, 11 times the charm for these guys.
Who knows? I mean, like you said, though, I mean, we have talked a lot about pressure and what it takes to win a game.
And often that pressure is a cause for losing.
I think that in some interviews as well, players have mentioned that.
So maybe what they're being no pressure at all.
I mean, if you're already eliminated at this point, right?
You might as well take a little bit of revenge on the way out.
Yeah, you might as well be focused on your way out of many of the heroes and attacks.
And they kind of did that on Sunday already.
We talked about it, Dachlan finals offline in Berlin and the results were pretty pretty
dire.
13-7, 13-6, purity went plus 23 kills on two maps here, like it was one of the most dominant
Grand Finals I have ever witnessed on a LAN stage and attacks kind of redeemed
themselves after a shaky start to that second split into the main event.
The focus today, they looked like the better team throughout the entire split.
I'm not gonna lie, approaching that Grand Final in Berlin, approaching that
offline final, I really thought focus would win this one. I predicted focus to
win 2-0 in that Grand Final to put this into perspective. My predictions are
Historically pretty pretty good, but you know in the end
Ultimate attacks destroying focus in that LAN environment just shows how good this team is offline
They just need to translate that performance to that online matchup against focus today
Yeah, 100% I think that the map veto is also gonna play a role in it
But more than that looking at this it's pretty clear that it's a dominant victory
And when you play a team so many times at that point both of you are gonna kind of know each other strats kind of know
What like the defaults are agent comms there's so many I know that in project queens people tend to mess around and play some funky
Coms it's thrown off my stats before but even if you leave out the comps right at that point
You know your play styles so it's just another day at the office quite literally we do it in doc. We do it in GC
EMEA. What's the difference?
Yeah, they're just they're just walking into each other's room all the time and
and annoying Jarvis, it's like an annoying sibling
that you're having the same household, right?
And it's kind of that with alternate attacks and focus.
Like, there's two teams trading blows back and forth
in the beginning of Dach, but like in recent years,
especially since ATN moved to the core of JT and Blossy,
it went more and more the way of ATN
and that's something focus has to break in recent times
to go back to being the best team in the Dach region
because they were there in 2024.
Focus was the team people knew from the Dach region
because they consistently went to the main event.
They consistently made the big stage
and that's only recently got up to the top.
I think that rivalry, watching it a longer stretch
is something to look out for.
100%, I mean, you've been watching it over the years
and I mean, eventually, right?
team is going to have that breakthrough. The question is more when rather than if, I would say,
and I think that that's the story that you can tell for both of these teams to some degree as
well individually, right? They've spent like several years in the GC circuit, but only in the
last two years have we really seen them, seen them like be able to consistently qualify for
game changers and for, you know, the playoffs and everything like that. So they're definitely
improving individually. Now that they have gotten to that level, the fact that we're going to be
we've seen them clash on this main stage.
Like you said, for the first time,
after four years of them playing each other,
that is pretty wild to me.
Yeah, for me as well.
And I think two of the biggest factors we have to take
into consideration today are like purity and star.
Those are the two players coming into this matchup.
I want to take a look at Star.
The four times on the Omen,
that's a little bit of an inflated stat,
if we're going to be honest,
because she's playing that on Haven
and that's the focus most played map.
On all the other maps,
Star is playing more of the traditional duelist roads.
And on the other side, Purity, the shining beacon of hope for alternate attacks.
Her and Jade are like the two players that you have to keep in mind when you're looking at alternate attacks.
The rest of the lab, a little bit struggling throughout the entire split.
But Purity and Jade, they are consistent.
They can frag with everyone in main event and they have to do this today as well.
But Star on the other side, top 10 ACS, top 5 ACS, if I remember it correctly.
NGC EMEA 4 team that's fighting for a player spot, that's absolutely insane.
100% degree, and I mean, purity, like I want to touch upon them.
I think that, honestly, in terms of just duelist gameplay, whatever agent they're picking up,
they have been so consistent over the time that they've been in EMEA,
not just like this particular split, but every split pretty much.
I think since this player joined this team, it has been a banger performance,
almost every single game coming out of them.
On the other side, those star, I mean, like you said, the stats a little bit biased
because it's on their best map, on her best agents,
but nevertheless, it's still damn impressive.
237 on a controller is pretty darn good.
That said, though, we said it before,
I mean, both of these teams, they played each other
like so many times.
I think that at the end of the day,
what this matchup is gonna come down to
in terms of a win is probably going to be that map veto.
So I'm interested to see if we are gonna be seeing,
like you mentioned, the most played map of Haven here
for focus if they're going to let it through the veto or if we're going to be seeing anything
repeated from Project Queens?
I think the most interesting part about the map veto is that both teams have the same
permaban and in the Project Queens finals nobody banned Fracture.
It got to this, it's actually basically the same map veto compared to the finals, right?
ATN taking our bind, focus taking our brace, then split and taven going in the first rotation
and we're having Fracture and Lotus taken off.
I think Lotus was the decider in the Finals in Berlin, so it's a change there, but first
two maps are going to be the same ones that we already saw in Berlin, Attacks, slightly
different roster, we talked about.
They have Gaia in there instead of Selya, and Selya had a great game, especially her
split was insane in Berlin, but still, I think going into that same veto, Focus is confident
that they can turn it around online, right?
It's different.
It's a different stage.
It's, you know, once you're getting online,
you have to deal with all sorts of things,
especially with your nervousness,
with your nerves having fans there,
especially alternate attacks.
It's just one of the loudest crowds in all of Dach.
And, yeah, that's something Focus had to deal with,
all offline.
They don't have to deal with it online.
Different environment, different perspective on the game here.
I think that the one thing that I am worried about is that the same maps in the same order
and the last time the results weren't really pretty if I remember it was 13.7 and 13.6 we
just took a look at the slide so like you said of course maybe offline and in different
tournament and the results could be a little different and of course you know you've come
back from all that you've done you've got your water view you've got you know maybe
able to patch up those mistakes so we might be seeing a little bit of a change here I
I suppose, but honestly speaking, the fact that it's the same two maps in the same two order
makes me worried just a little bit for focus. Sorry about that, but it does.
Yeah, it's also for me, it's a little bit worrying, but I think focus online, different team non-offline.
Right? Beating alternate attacks, five players with that much long experience.
Like, Purity has five Dachthaitans now. Like, nobody in Tier 2 EMEA is as decorated as Purity.
And I think beating those players on the stage in front of people is very, very hard.
It's a different challenge compared to beating those players online from your own comfort, comfortable home,
you know, where you can just be in your chair, chill, be comfortable in your own apartment.
And it's different from a stage.
We will see the agent select coming up right now, right there next.
Let's see if something in the comps changed.
I think alternate attacks has to make some changes maybe and it's gonna be it's gonna be the race for purity and neon for guy
I think I think too
surprising here I would say except for
I mean honestly nothing too surprising because ATM the double dealer state rocked a velocity has been a star on that
Astro and Karina with the viper as well very very consistent
I think this is a this is a very good
comp as well for the map in its current state, and because Neon hasn't been nerfed yet, it's
still going to be pretty overpowered.
On the other side though, I mean, it's pretty much a mirror comp except for that initiator.
Personally, I favor fade a little bit more just because of the amount of utile and how
much more aggressively you can play it, but I mean, Sky does the job just as well, it's
a meta pick for a reason, and I think in particular, the fact that Fokusakura is bringing the big
guns out, this comp on attack, they need to find a lot of value with it.
I think that, yeah, sure, in the beginning, you gotta get that momentum, because we've
seen multiple times before that ATN, they are a team that once they start running away
with it, they are very capable of just running away with it.
Oh yeah, for sure.
I think the alternate attack scomp is a little bit more difficult to play.
I think the focus scomp is very straightforward, right?
You're having Skype with Nian, you have that classic initiate, a flash, you tell, that's
a little bit more straightforward compared to what alternate attack is trying to set
up.
around the timings of your haunt, and a lot about your info utility from your initiator
and on the other side also, Astral Utility is insanely important for those choke points
combined with the NAID.
But we have a German derby here in Game Changers, the EMEA, also the DeTex facing focus on
the big stage for the first time ever.
And it's gonna be an absolute cinema matchup of two teams with historic clashes in tier
you now facing each other into your one here we go it still commences nice
little wall to deny that early mid space although it does seem like they're
waiting for it to go down before taking contact the second layer as well with
the astra smoke has to be very careful about approaching this because God knows
there could be somebody with a shorty sitting inside it either way though no
harm done they managed to scale up towards mid the angle is only going to be
Watched by Purity, although the lurk already a lot of damage done to Gaia.
I love damage early on done to Gaia.
I mentioned that and Purity is gonna be the one
who's tested first shot since Adi down.
Purity has to retreat, has to go away from her,
find the middle and see where Shade gets another frag onto star.
In her career, Jades only once lost to focus back in 2023
and she's starting that game off.
We're bearing purity aiming up onto the heavens waiting for the next contact that focus is trying to take
Niko
dueling in skyah
Tries to get away from there a sight seems to be the target for focus akura right now
Oh
Dear the rotation has come through as well jade with the kill gets the information of the last player as well
It's just Molly versus the world a 1v4
That she has to pull off at least she has this bike if she can take Gaia down
She does have the a site to get least get a plant get some money for the next round
But there's just no information the last call that she had is that gaius towards side, but look at gaius
She's falling back happy play with the rest of the team here to try and make sure that somehow a 1v4 doesn't come out
Ten seconds left. That's the information the spike is gonna go down at the very least ever mind
Yeah, it does go down for a second
I thought that there was a pull but it was just done and the diffuse comes through at and take the first run very very
Convincingly almost a flawless in fact, it's just four players alive
I will pop lives alive and the Sheriff will take an attack into the next round.
This one seems very very comfortable for us on an attack at the start of that map here.
Purity that headshot!
Got her in a lot of trouble.
Jade pushing into there from it as well.
It's just that smart pinplay that also that attack is trying to set up the team play, working
off perfectly for them.
Mali, the fracking IGL for focus, can only take up one of the players and we see shotgun
plus neon.
something that Focus should do.
They're trying to inflict at least some damage on Dorotan.
They have to ball a big into that round, right?
No, no FPX, trying to, no risks.
They'll be taken up here.
They're trying to contest that round and trying to convert the bonus to nearly full scale, hopefully.
Just scaling up mid, three players holding hands, all good.
This time, though, it's double push towards A main.
they know that the Viper likes to lurk around here. This time around though, just gotta be
Niko playing passively, falling back with the rest of the team. It looks like they just want
to full send it into that B site, and look at this purity, that first point of contact,
Marshall at the ready. Nobody really with armor, so it's just gotta be purity farming if they
don't flash correctly. Caught it up at the farm as well and still gets the kill. That's disgusting.
Yeah, that's an important one at that purity. Thank you, Pertis, for both.
trying to get out of the situation but in the end it's... wait sorry the end is focused
at least getting towards the sport but Mali falls down against Karina from the
heavens as well. 2-0 for alternate attacks and they are trying to make it as
far as possible with purity stacking up that shows the Parallion.
That second shot was just absolutely nuts. Like okay, this was fine
But the fact that you know your stun, your satchel or neon in the air and then you shoot them out with a no scope
While your stun is just absolutely crazy to me
I know it's a martial and it has good no scope accuracy
But still I'm pretty damn impressed like you said purity halfway to that raise alt already and on the opposite side
It's been Molly who's been farming their alt two away from the seekers could be very impactful in another round bonus on the cards here
For the side of ATN and they want to take this fight early, but instead stars the one to find a kill
Yeah, Star, early on opens up against Blossy. That's a flexible smoke out of the game for alternate attacks.
Trying to scale up towards that B site from Focus. The door has been hurt.
But also shut down from the heavens so they not know. They're not aware on the positioning the purity has been taken.
One bullet to contest that. Look at Gaia already down there in form. Purity!
But the double kill on the sheriff all of a sudden! More stacks into the showstopper! More damage inflicted!
Come on to focus Sakura and Gaia on the back step.
Need to find something, need to be basically flawless here, one world is free, slowly but
surely scaling towards the focus player, Sneeko is holding that back step, last threat goes
to her, two and one, the focus at least catches up over at the end.
Their play, I mean it's a pretty good bonus, all things considered, they only leave three
players alive but three players is enough to build up the economy and buy your teammates
So it's not as much of a blessing as you'd like it does keep them from building an eco
But they're still gonna have a full buy on this round as well as the seekers
But purity like you said has the operator one away from the showstopper huge alts already on the cards possible in round number four
And yeah, I mean purity has just been absolutely crazy. You mentioned it plus 28. No joke looks like she wants to do it again
looks like
She's trying to set up herself to be focused as nightmare
I feel like she already is, Loki.
I mean, she was alternate attacks at Nightmare, and if you can't beat them, then you should
buy them, right?
Yeah, perfectly, first point of contact once again, destroys the Doctor of the Orb.
Adi is in a very, very uncomfortable position, tries to move out of there, and Jades scales
up and takes in a lot of space right now, Focus can't go for a split play.
They will be aware that it's going to be a straightforward execute, it's into the B
side focus. Pushing down, Blossy trying to hunt the IGL, trying to hunt the flexible smokes.
Purity up there in heaven. Already has a great position, but Niko finds Gaia the lurk successful
with fear and dare. Blossy will be hunted. Karina and her both know and Strahan puts up into heaven.
Take the prime position to challenge the go. Coming up from Ali, both the Attacks players.
It's great for Karina, Niko still tries to find a headshot.
Still got something in the way and it's time to say fault and it attacks as you already mentioned.
Triple for Niko, secures that round.
Yeah, Niko with the triple, Niko with the flank and Niko with the kills.
You get the score, equalize. It's just gonna be Purity and Jade left, of course.
Just gotta be able to hold on to this AWP and this Vandal.
this Vandal, I mean the rest of the team, economy-wise, it's not going to be much of a buy because this was
their full buy round, but I mean if you can make some magic happen with the AWP and with this Phantom,
it's going to be what you need. I think that the biggest problem for ATN right now is that
they don't really have anything good to hold this B site with, like once those Astral smokes run out,
they've just been getting absolutely cooked in terms of like the utility that's coming through,
as well as the damage that's coming through. It's also that they're playing aggressive consistently,
Like, even in that bonus round, you could see that they were always peeking, and even with that lesson weaponry,
like, yes, Pyrridae got two kills with a Sheriff, but in that 2v3, if the player on site hadn't peeked main so widely and waited for the flank,
it could have very well been around that AT-N converted.
Yeah, you already said that those B-holds are very, very crucial.
But now to get a hang of.
And it's just, like, very awful by that AT-N house right now.
Now Gaia with Sheriff onto the site, saves while Karina fully buys into this round.
Focus easily taking the site.
Even a slightest contestion for alternate attacks, they really want to play this one on retake.
Gaia's position unknown.
Has to be the sacrificial lamb to be thrown into this round to secure some position against
focus.
Once the ball goes down, Karina might have some bigger problems.
Niko up there and has as well Gaia goes in for a target to kill.
but charged more and more purity is also still one of the star on the headshot Karina in heaven
5 sickles but a triple of stars in CQs around for Fokusakura once again
ATM can't retake that sight of the utility in hand with them
Yeah, I don't think the retake is working out very well for them right now
I think they're gonna have to be a little bit more aggressive the comp that they're running
You want to take that initiative to your opponents and yeah, it's gonna be a timeout called
probably by the ATN side because yeah so far it's not been a pretty sight on this defensive
hold. They're not able to hold nor are they able to retake and you got to figure out one if not
the other. I think the biggest problem right now is a sheer amount of utility slash ultimates that
focus are willing to invest to get onto site and the problem is that they take too much space with
their right even in all the B sides that we've seen. There's always that lurk from Niko coming in
towards mid and also towards CT you can see that Strollen as well as Mali or even Addy are
willing to take that space they're willing to take those fights it's not just a passive bullspot
that we're looking at but there's just no gaps for AT&T and to work their way back into site so
either they got to hold something like CT or they got to you know be proactive try to catch
Niko on the lurk try to fight them head on because they've got a pretty aggressive comp.
Yeah look at the eco difference those two teams are having right now focus swimming and money right
They are rich after those three rounds in a row and attacks back on the safe and Gaia
The saving that last round she can buy a hero rifle into this one
But I'm not quite sure if that safe was worth it last round because if Gaia has a gun there
Gaia has a rifle to work with maybe something
Would have developed else on that side because she can be the first point of contact
She can be the first person to contact and to fight off the focus stack
Lossy? At least destroys the ball. Jade has a cease-blast.
And eight consolation together with 30-months star!
Another headshot! Another entry make-a-two!
Focus!
Are not going down! They want revenge!
For that loss on Sunday in Berlin!
Lossy! Last player standing on the B site!
Get erased by star as well!
Taken out of the game! Karina!
Last player standing.
Just have a weapon at least.
Still some problems for ATMs to get back into that matchup, Karina might just be able to save here.
Yep, just gonna be another save, Karina doing their best to...
Maybe get away, hold on to this gun all the way back towards ACT, but...
Yeah, they know where she is. They're gonna be on the hunt. Five players with more than enough money to make this one hurt.
It's gonna start with that neon stun. Karina able to get out of the way with some nice movement,
but now there's enemies on all sides and the neon slide. A little bit awkward.
Sure, at least the flawless is denied, but Niko happy to find that cleanup and it's 4-2 for focus now.
I don't know that that was a bit of an eco round and after the time out, we're gonna be seeing something come through hopefully,
but yeah, showstoppers on both of the raises here. My eyes are gonna be peeled.
I think that Focus have been great at using these opening ultimates in these buy-arounds to take that space,
whether it was the Seekers in that first round or even in previous games.
So yeah, with this showstopper and with this cosmic divide, it's going to be a pretty straightforward execute, I think.
Yeah, pretty sure that's going to be a pretty straightforward execute.
And ATN is pretty ready for an A-play.
Four players stacked up there, only Blossy, solo anchoring that B-side.
Something we see from a lot of the teams, right?
A lot of teams trying to get their smoker into their solo anchor roles on certain sites.
G2 is doing a Proof 1 there, that's the prime example of it.
Focus does not fall into the trap of like that straight forward execute.
They are trying to play it a little bit slower, trying to be a little bit more spread out on the map.
Mali has a flash.
Gaya gets it for a second!
Showstop out of the game! Mali trades!
But this one might just be a little bit too late. Two duelists on the ground, 140 headshot for Blossy.
Strahlen und Tenetvieh!
I don't think there's much more that you're gonna be able to do here, but uh...
I mean, you could try to pivot, you could try to maybe make something happen.
They're running into...
...the author, Walton, and that expurity might have a timing here and look at Jay behind all of the players
from focus Akura Stralen, just up the angle.
They hurt you up, they know where they are and change.
Here's all the steps, gets one, the second one denied by Stralen.
Adi has a great position on site, Karina checks that call to Leipzig.
Great trade against Lossy Mali, makes this one much more doable.
Purity, one versus two, open hand.
Third one to pull off, does not know any of the positions.
I'm trying close the set last one the player behind the shields goes down
unknown to his purity drops and focus Sakura sends ATN back into another
ecoron sense them packing
like that's what you thought never bite they've got another bite five thurs with
light armor I would love to see an outlaw and yep adding is gonna be the
one pulling it out excellent read coming in there look at this look at these
ultimates 4 on the side of ATN, 3 on the side of focus. The seeker is already almost trying
to jump again. It's been 7 rounds and this is 7.0. It's no joke. Sorry, 8.0, no joke.
So yeah, it's been pretty impressive coming in from this focus side. A big difference
from their game, like you mentioned, on Sunday. Two more rounds and they already beat that
record. So things are going super well. Huge lead against ATN and if they can convert this
round, they should pretty much guarantee themselves an even half or a lead at the half.
Focus slowly but surely approaching that B site.
We already talked about it.
It's, you know, that last buy for Alternate Attacks.
If they drop this round, they're going to be on another eco,
another round of problems, another set of problems,
and Focus is preparing for a 5 player execute into that B site.
They're probably going to do it on the back of the showstopper for ZAR,
together with the dog of Molly.
That's a great setup for Focus, but ATN has 3 players down there on the site.
They can try to force their way into this one, Adi, hit by the ultimate, two ultimates
traded for ATN, Karina finds their kill on two Adi, star in the backside, still no showstopper
wrestled them to the round, Jade gets one as well, the sake of ATN worked out perfectly
for them, they wrapped them like a book, opens up, Jade another headshot for her, round number
three secure for ATN, focus shot down, momentum shifted.
very, very important round to buy, AT&T are now going to have a little bit of a backbone
in the economy with a bit of a recharge. Early time of being called here by Focus, a little
bit surprising seeing that they won so many rounds, but you want to catch the road earlier.
That makes a lot of sense. So what went right for AT&T in that round? Now, like you said,
number one, it was the stack, but also you can see how proactive they were this time,
not playing for the retake, taking the fight to focus on the site and trading old for old,
making sure that they don't have the space to work with.
And in that kind of cramped constraints
that you're fighting with, right?
Towards pillar, towards B main,
you're gonna just be able to spam so much utility.
We saw that in this round, right?
The Nades coming in from purity,
the stun from the Astra and the neon.
There's just so much utility that at that choke point,
that's gonna be super hard to get through
if you do fight for the site as a team.
And I guess that you can't really risk
stacking every single round,
but that round, it was an excellent read
an excellent call that ATN used to full avail.
I mean, that V-side execute with the showstopper
and with the Neon Ultimate is a lot easier
compared to the A-side where you have to worry about ramps,
where you have to worry about having a lot.
Like it's a different skill set
that you have to use for this one,
but Styrus holding onto that showstopper,
like we are a lot of rings
and she's trying to bring it to the volcano, right?
It's been the third round that her showstopper is up, but they are not trying to get a second one on the round.
But now it's been used. Straight going to have an ATN is pushing backwards, giving them the space over.
Purity slows them down on the stand. Nobody's hit by the showstopper.
They're spotting star in heaven. Gaia and Blossie impact frags for them.
in the back side port on a good timing.
Finds the Neon, Mali gets the second one,
chimes in there as well, Niko falls on the lurk all over the map,
focus on crumbling, crashing down.
Their lead melting away in the face of alternate attacks,
the pressure is mounting and it's just one round
differentiating those two teams.
Jade puts a close on that round.
The momentum shifted, it seems,
and the ultimate is absolutely in vain.
Yeah, that showstopper, we were hyping it up for so long and it just goes, foot, no no no kills, no damage, nothing really done there.
I mean, it was a nice counter punch by Strahler and Molly to be able to find those kills and bring the numbers almost back down to even.
But again, they're so separated, they have no space to get the spike down, they know there's a player towards CT, they know that there's players towards Heaven.
Maybe one flanking, who knows, right? You gotta take the fight and at that point it's just too much.
Karina wins it out, and it's gonna be another round for ATN operator back online here this time in the hands of Gaia towards mid.
That's good, a good thing that they're shifting the operator over towards Gaia, because yes, the overdrive, she can adjust.
In a weapon choice, that shot against Molly goes away, unscathed, no damage.
Jade gets another one to Nico. That lurk becomes predictable really, really fast.
Niko always trying to scale up on that A site and Jade
They're trying to read focus at every angle at every corner
Called out the viper on A. Look at the position of Jade giving away so much information against those focus players
Spam through the smoke now. They're getting lucky as well.
Charity gets two from the heavens on the setup of the smoke a flawless round for atm economy shifted
Pressure is mounting and ATN a little bit of a comeback into this map.
It looks so much more like they are in their comfort zone and a lot of these rounds and I think it has to do with the confidence boost.
You win one round, you feel like you have, for a second I thought that was going to be a collat.
I just got to say, if I hadn't been a headshot it would have been a collat. The way that the players were positioned there, I was very worried.
but yeah either way first blood first kill for Gaia the rest of the team
following up real quick and pretty much another flawless round on the cards look
at the money they're gonna have enough for the rest of the half by far again
this op in mid and again oh dear oh my is just jumping mid with utility in hand
completely disrespecting the op the possibility of Gaia being up there once
once again. I also want to give a shout out to Karina for putting down the wall at the
right time. That was pretty nice timing. Those tiny mixups for alternate attacks make this
team so dangerous and able to run and split one. They would be out for the play of contention
if they lose this one. But Karina has something to say into this matchup. A double for her.
Viper's pit is up!
They might be able to contest that site once again,
or take the pit in the last round, over towards middle,
Jade, another peek on the horns,
Star's position known.
Try to fight back into the heavens, Jade.
Drops onto the site, but Shran denies this one as well.
Focus has a way back into it.
They are trying to jump over towards Karina.
Shranport has been caught!
Has been caught out! Karina makes fall!
What a name switch!
Four kills, ATN back into the driver's seat, back into the lead!
Beautiful work there at the end of it all, and I mean it starts with this off kill.
Very nice timing on the wall there by Karina.
And after that Karina just playing hardcore anchor,
first of all able to trade out her teammate, get two kills,
and then gets two more when they try to TP onto site.
I think that was really, really well done.
Again, the operator now towards B main,
I think that with the Skylde as well as his Viper's Pip,
probably gonna try to do a B mid-split knowing that it's it's else is just a
little bit more effective on B that said though I mean on the opposite side
you've got that viper spit I'm gonna be interested and see if they're putting it
down early towards mid or if they're just gonna hold on to it and it seems like
Karina's holding on to it. She's trying to use it as a reactive pit if focus is
executing onto that A site or for a retake once they're planted to spike
glossy trying to set up a nade constellation both of the realists
focus will shotgun in hand so they need alternate attacks to walk into them
this little prowler to clear out vents just to be sure and oh my god the main guy has
strikes that's the smokes down and you still got the viper but to what the veil yeah i don't know
you got to go towards a you've got the wall there they're gonna regroup and try to make
something work except for the rays on the lurk left towards that angle with the judge nobody
He can't really rotate through there for an hour though.
And then until the guy makes contact.
And once Purity gets contact there, they will slam down the Viper's pit.
This is a death commando.
Into the side of Volta and Attax.
No real choice to take this one.
Because you have to work around the Viper's utility that you're still having on the map.
No flexibility for Focus, Star.
It's trying to fight on the Purity.
Doesn't get to kill, they're still forcing their way over towards the B-side.
ATN has three players over there.
Karina's the information now that nobody on focus is trying to force their way towards AJ, the Blossy, on the side they're getting to!
They're mauling down focus over on that beast side over into heaven and with a flawless round ATN, convert the lead at halftime!
Wow, what a- what a- what a-
Red Bull gives you wings
You got a push
Yeah, welcome back everyone. It's alternate attacks versus focus. The German derby happening
in game changers EMEA and yeah, we've got we've got 75 lead at the half 80 and making
the comeback from being too far down to 75 winning five straight rounds in a row as you
can see and if they can get the pistol as well is going to be pretty nice because they look like
they are demolishing teams on that attack side. That said though, I mean for ATN this is more of a
match for the ludes of it to keep their perfect record against Focus because unfortunately they
can't really qualify for playoffs but Focus if they win this they have a chance. So at this point
I mean ATN is still in this. If they lose against Focus today they are out. Also because like KC
lost against Barca today, so there's no chances for ATN to lost against the playoffs, but a focus
destroys them today, there won't be a chance! Shate has something to say in that regard!
Two quick kills to the initiator of alternate attacks, get shut down by Mali in the end,
but that comes too late to give focus a realistic chance at holding aside
purity, RA over two words, hey taking space, Spike goes down there as well, ATN in full control
all of that this surrounds.
Spike planted.
Two, three, four, Spike planted.
The clock is ticking.
And all of these defenders look like they want to come in
from heaven or main.
They're just going to be clearing out a possible late lurk
or late rotate towards mid.
The problem is that Dyna gets that first kill.
There's nobody to trade her.
And she's just able to slide out of danger.
Even the heaven smoke.
I mean, at least Niko's able to get one,
gets two before Karina takes her out.
1v2 right now for star. She's been incredible in this game, but how much more can she do? She gets the first 22 HP
Just needs to hit the shot, but the clock is ticking and purity
I mean she's been follows before tries to drop the gun tries to mess around and
Yep, finally gets the kill for a second
I thought star might be able to do it
But either way the clocks ticked out and it is going to be an 8-5 at the end of that round
Two out of two pistols for ATN so far.
That's another terrible start for purpose, right?
Two out of two pistols, fight x
But for Focus, this one was about, you know, feeding Stars some ultimate points in the end.
Two kills for Niko before she gets traded.
And then Star at least finds something to play around with.
At least finds something to account for.
Her and Molly, the two only positive players for Focus Akura right now.
That's not a big investment that they are throwing into this round.
Just trying to buy up some pistols.
Yeah, I see the Sheriff melee on star and I mean could us a star in that 1v2 almost got it done
Like gets that first nutty hitch. I don't know how she flicked onto it that fast
But yeah, I mean here's a sound towards be main is going to be
Execute I think it's a bit of a stack though by this focus roster for players haven't made any noise
Haven't been detected by the horn. So this could be very dicey. They're not careful
There's a dangerous fire tax first players watered now. They know their share of to
There in the heaven Nico gets one kill but trade but lossy this one goes a little bit too late
But jade is ringing to the back side perfect
Great timing for a dire Dyson
Over to the nade star on a double kill
All of a sudden focus back into the leap at look at Karina's timing might be there from the heavens behind everyone
unfocused but star
Free kills for the star duelist
Just chatting down what their text was building towards Blossy might have a timing here.
Sports here's two players down there in the spot, but nobody sees you're Blossy!
Get one!
Get the second as well!
That takes a little bit too long of a timing star.
Only player remaining for focus, Akura Blossy is trying to plant, trying to worry about
too many angles.
That's a nice reposition as well, it's an open plant so yeah, I mean at least Star is
gonna know that Blossy is probably not gonna be able to make it towards Heaven but oh Blossy
is spotted.
You're able to find the time and can't you get the shot?
Yes she does a 1v3 clutch and the 4k for Blossy to save this anti-eco here for Altered
attacks.
The Red Bull clutch in a time when she was needed the most, the Astra becomes the Star
instead.
That was gorgeous stuff from Lossy.
Yeah, the IGL stepping up for alternate attacks at a time of need.
Gaia dropping there to the Nate and Star, doing all the heavy lifting.
But nobody in focus is able to get their hands onto a bigger gun.
Just starting picking up shotgun.
She can't be the angel for her team, the Red Bull Clutch converted by Lossy.
And yes, that's a problematic bonus round, if we're gonna be honest.
A lot of damage by also the ATKs guy up is trying to overrun this one quick.
ATKs as fast as possible onto the side purity, goes down already.
Star has a second one, Blossy just there with the trade, but this time no bullshit, no one be free.
Adi gets a double and Niko clouds us around, just one kill for Blossy.
Showstopper ready for Starnex rounds and focus is still in this one.
I know we were talking about Starzoma, but I feel like we should talk about our reasons to play
because it's been pretty damn good.
Especially that last round, right?
The fact that she was able to get one with the Nade
and two with the Sheriff after doing some damage.
Oh, it's just absolutely insane.
Almost managed to single-handedly convert that 30 for her team.
And now, like you said, does have a showstopper
for a dicey situation on the opposite side,
though there's that cosmic divide available for Blossie
as well as Jade being only one away from that nightfall.
Two huge ultimates that could make or break the round here.
And once again, it does look like ATN,
instead of hiding for the sides.
This time they're going to be going for mid, they're happy to take these aggressive fights
early on here, and even though Vents isn't being held, you've got plenty of players on
either side if you want to go through mid, so it's a little bit of a gamble, but it's
just a default for Metian for now.
Those over to the side of alternate attacks they know that a main belongs to focus right now
Have to move back. That's a great timing especially for guy a map that has been split up
Focus has to worry about too many angles right now. Oh
That's a beautiful flash gets that crucial information that all right there are players towards a they're not sure if it's alert
Or if it's somebody else either way though
It's gonna be guy out to take some contact towards mid maybe cause of ploy that this is where the it is coming
but with that Skydog being broken, they know for a fact that the Execute is coming into
aid.
They've got Blossy's cosmic divide to keep the site completely out of sight and out of
mind at least for a few seconds for these defenders and they get the spike down.
Nightfall going down there as well, Jait has her ultimate ready.
They're trying to force their way out of there with a flash, Addy!
Get to her purity threads!
Star on the showstopper!
Open some things up!
Some possibilities for focus!
From purity as a timing!
Right behind everybody on focus!
Two surviving members of halter attacks.
Yastra still in the game!
Addy has no chance to defuse this spike!
4-3, Addy!
Gets a triple!
8-10 on 10!
On their own epic split stairs sent a showstopper inches closer for purity more high-impact ultimates on the horizons
For the German gamechangers mainstay
I really like that play coming in there from purity not only does she get that first kill onto site
But the wraparound coming in from heaven to do some more damage and end around with the triple
I mean, that's just beautiful second time. I'm gonna be called here by focus right now 10 to 6 things not looking nice
It's their last chance at a buy and even that is a very mixed by yes
You've got three rifles
You've got the overdrive almost there for Adi and you've got star with the sheriff who has been pretty good with the sheriff all things all things
Accredited they're seeing how we've seen her perform during this game, but on the opposite side
I mean, I don't know if it's gonna be enough against a fully charged up ATN who have by the way pretty much one eight rounds in a row
I mean, yes, they lost their bonus round, but apart from that, it's been pretty smooth sailing, consistently keeping more than three players alive in most of these rounds in the half.
I think it's been pretty nice for them.
Split overall seems to be the new home ground of alternate attacks. All things accounted.
Star and Mali are the only players that are keeping focus alive at this point in time. ATN, it seems to be too much of a mental hurdle for the focus teams to beat those ATN lineups.
Even at a time where ATMs playing with a substitute, playing with a stand and this one looks dire.
For focus Sakura after their land or some Sunday.
Another fast go forward and that takes taking the low space.
I need to retreat.
Focus on the arrow side also pushing out of AMA and a lot of information for them.
They clear out all of aiming, and then come back.
So Karina has a little bit of space to work with.
I mean, time's trawling, gotta be able to spot out Jade here, but Jade is just kind
of selling the fake right now.
Man, just to bait out the Nade, getting a lot of value on the utility here.
And I mean, I don't know if it's a fake or if they're gonna come in towards mid.
There's three players currently on the site, a fourth one rotating in as well.
And the moment Jade knows this, right?
Yeah, she's cooked.
She gets the info though.
They are gonna be probably looking at
Running into the stack jade for the terrible surprise everyone will focus on that side purity
Double swing with Karina has a place serve on their star a surprise on her own as well on Christmas
It's not near this one looks terrible for focus
Rotations up and running center does not come
and so no rotation in the spawn just Mali over on that side spike has been going down
11 seems inevitable for ITN so much map control look at them in CT putting down smokes Mali
is the one who has to make something happen I don't know if guys wanted her out yet the
paranoia connects even if it's not there yet stalling and Mali get two headshots with the
share for well Molly gets a body shot because most he was low but same
difference it is gonna be a 2v2 at the end of it they pick up rifles are they
gonna peak together is the question it's a 1v1 at the end after the trade and
Purity gets it done 11th round on the board nice try there by focus for sure
knowing that it was an eco round but yeah Purity 13 and 8 just being an absolute
I mean I don't know if they can call a raise ballistic without being ironic but
but she's been pretty ballistic this game.
I mean, on ATN, four players are on 13 kills.
That's the team effort, if I've ever seen one, right?
True.
All together, they're hoisting themselves up,
trying to keep their player of hopes and dreams alive
by beating their fellow Dach competition
for the 11th time in a row.
We have to say this once again.
I mean, this sound, right?
It's kind of do or die here. You got to recover. You got to pull things back from the brink and I don't think ATN wants to let them do it.
Nice little stun to get them onto site. This time around though, there is an, I don't know, a little bit more of a flood retake situation available.
Most of the players have rotated over. It's just the Omen that's pending right now.
And I mean, Purity playing already this very defensive angle. In fact, ATN, they want to fight for Heaven.
More delay found by the showstopper. And even if the showstopper doesn't get the kill, Blossy and Purity are farming right now. Holy.
Yeah, and it's the backstab of strion that's get taken out of the game as well.
Purity up there in Heavens.
Threat kill for her.
Another showstopper is nearing, but I think ATM, they won't be needing a 12 and 6.
A choke job needed to get this one back to focus.
I mean, I don't even know.
This is ATM's map and the last time around it was 13.6, like you mentioned on Sunday.
If we, we might just see history repeat itself at this point.
the way it's going. I think the one saving grace here is that it's going to be kind of a buy around
here. They've got three rifles in the hands of focus and more than that they've got four
ultimates been including that Viper's Pit which could shut down mid or some other laynail. They
also got the Seekers and the Overdrive for the retake here. Compare that against the opposite
side which only has the Overdrive but if Karina gets a kill or a plant it's going to be a Viper's
Pit and yeah they're just swinging together holding hands.
The lines will stop ATM from crossing anywhere!
Just Karina, stuck there in main, starred us free.
Everyone's falling to the ground to start player, to focus Akura once again hoisting
up her team, once again bring Sam back into contention, four kills for her, twelve and
seven, the focus is not out of this!
And the best part is they didn't even use any of those ultimates that we were talking about, they managed to hold on to all of them, it's just contact, it's just headshots, and it's just kills coming through from Star with a little bit of assistance from Molly.
I don't know if I like the way Tien were playing that, seems a little bit overconfident, a little bit hasty in the kind of push that they were doing, I think they should have waited for Karina's wall to come back up, but hey, you learned from mistakes, you've got five more chances to close it out, and you have two ults of your ult,
and we've seen that the cosmic divide has been pretty strong on A so far.
The third one as well! Dead judge! Peek value!
It's just on to Jade.
One versus four.
Get everything in the world.
Kids to get all of the kills.
Headshot against Ali but Mali gets the last one! 12 and H! Focus!
Mounting a comeback!
4 more, 4 more, 4 more, I don't know what the economy looks like here for ATN, I like
this call from ATN, you know, like, you know, like the cosmic divide, get a kill, maybe
cause a rotation over, but 2 things stop that, number 1, the fact that Star only saw one
player and number 2, the bigger problem that Adi is in your face with a judge and you
have no real way to clear it apart from using a trailblazer early, right?
You want to sneak into A, you want to contact into A after faking B and yeah, you're just
Greta with a judge in your face. I would not be very happy if I were ATN and yeah, they're
going to be calling a timeout. Four chances to close it out. Economy starting to dwindle
down. You can see that this is going to be their last full buy round here. And they still
caught themselves that Viper spit as well as that Overdrive. Purity three away from another
showstopper. So yeah, a couple of crucial ults could very well load in.
And I need to get something going here.
And I mean, purity close to that ultimate on the other side, if you're focused you need
to trade your old economy against the round, right?
You need to force your way into this one by taking your old economy into account.
So having the low drive ready is still the Seekers up and running, something you can
utilize to get back into it.
At some point you have to, but focus mounting that comeback down from 12 and 6, piece by
piece, round by round.
a star in a lot of these rounds is like, alright, if you all would do it, I'll do it myself
and just walk with a 3k and a 4k. The problem is you can't depend on them to do it every
single round, right? It has to be a team effort, like APN has been putting in, like you said.
Like sure, Purity might not have the same stats as Star right now, but the rest of the
team more than makes up for it. And I think that has been one 18 in a lot of these rounds.
The last two rounds, they've been playing very separate and it hasn't worked out for
them. Maybe like a straightforward execute would be the call that they need to close
this map out and send us over to Haven. Already though, early info, Garner there by Strollen.
Yeah, slowly but surely, ATMs are closer to the map, closer to that b-site.
We will be back in a second, it seems like something there crashed.
We will be here in a second back again.
You have to stay with our faces for the time remaining, but in the end what we were talking
about is like, if you're focused right now on that round, we saw them taking space over
towards the A site, saw them getting into the territory, all faults and all attacks,
and that for me was like the important part, like they had a great map positioning, now
Now you need to use the ultimates and that information game to somewhat get back into the round.
Yeah, true. I think that, like we were saying before, where we had to take that little tech pause, the round will be restarting by the way.
So don't worry, you're not going to be missing any action.
What I did notice that these last few rounds, Ateen have been kind of picked apart.
Like, Star has been getting absolutely free deals and one is to one.
The way that Star is playing, I would not want to pick that.
She has just been incredible in this match with our 20 kills already, by the way.
I think she's the one topping the server charts right now.
It has to be a little bit more of a step up and a little bit more of a group effort.
I mean, they're all the rounds that are atn or triple peeking people.
They buy and just WK and triple peek people.
That's it. And then once you get the spike done, you've got the Viper's pit.
That's your win condition right there.
Yeah, it's a team effort for our attacks.
Like we saw it in the scoreboard.
Everyone sitting there with 13 kills after like 16 rounds.
That's a team effort to go down and in the end,
attack-playing together, attack-playing as a squad is what we need from them.
That's the current situation we are in and on the other side, focus.
It's always like single-player efforts that we are seeing,
always like the moments where someone like a star shines in the greatest moment,
in the greatest moment, gets a triple kill on the Guardian,
over towards main to stop everything Atex was building up for, and in general, I don't know,
I think if you're focused, you should rely a little bit more on applying together, on keeping
those holds over as a spot, over as a team, and not only leaving it to solo anchoring,
solo anchoring if you're a duelist.
Solo anchoring with your duelist, who would have thought that would be a major win condition here
for focus. I mean, that said, let's talk a little bit about the strategies that both
these teams have, right, since they have some time. We're almost there. We'll be
right there, but before we get back into the game, I want to talk about focus a
little bit because on this defensive side, they had a pretty abysmal start, like,
let's be for real, but they started adapting a little bit. I think once they
managed to figure out that push and pull towards a main too, and the fact that
A-T and Havn kind of faking a little bit, pulling their leg, doing some
shenanigans, I think that they've been able to kind of figure things out in
that regard and they have been able to compensate for it. Of course some rounds are just individual
heroics, I've knocked a lot of rounds, they're just individual heroics, but the last round
before that, sorry, the last round after that Star 4K was a pretty clean round. I mean, yes,
it was the judge, but it was good, it was a good read because I think a lot of teams, they see that
cosmic divide, they hear that ultimate coming in as well as the neon sliding in, you're gonna
probably be like, hey guys, it's B, rotate over, but I think that, like we said, these teams have
that lived under their skin for so long in Doc that they know,
okay, I have seen this before.
I don't think they're actually going to go B.
Let me just sit here with my judge and get four kills for it.
Yeah, I mean, they know each other perfectly.
Both of those teams, they have played so much against one another.
I think overall, if you're focused on the career right now,
you should be aware of what attack is trying to set up on your attack.
And that's the entire thing that I want to see from them.
I want to see focus resetting their own value system, 12 and 8, 4 rounds to go.
You need 6 in a row to even stay competitive in that matchup.
4 in a row to push it to overtime, 6 to take a win.
Let's see if focus how it takes.
They've got the momentum in their favor, so it's definitely a possibility.
All they need is 4.
If they can win this round, they're going to shut down the economy here for ATN.
That's basically one more round guaranteed, and they only need 2 more after that.
Like, 6-12 looks very different from 10-12 in terms of confidence levels for your team.
And we can see that ATN, they're once again looking towards that mid side of the map,
looking to put some pressure, looking to find some damage.
And yeah, no one's really biting from the focus side.
They're happy to play for these sites, to deny these executes.
And once again, it's going to be ATN regrouping towards this B site.
Strahlin has been doing a pretty good job of playing for information.
immediately we should be seeing if not a rotation at least the two players
towards haven't possibly helping them out
now Stein, on the backside, needs to do some other lifting
get some support from players up haven't also look at the position that focuses
having on the map look at the A site getting pushed out by Adi and Mali
three very deep angle they're holding and Stein can't all peek that's the
important one. Stryan should not overpeak on that side. Stryan dies early, there's
those flexible smokes that are out of the game and you can't really commit on
to anything. ATM on the other hand has to be aware of the C-Cuts, has to be aware
of the old fangirls, Gaia finds that opening, gets out down, Niko treats back
but it might be a little bit too late, 30 seconds on the clock, ATM still stuck
in heaven. They got to get on to site and there's so much resistance waiting for
them in their face. Adia as well with the flying takes out
purity and yeah it's just 50 seconds nowhere to go they want to
book it towards a but I don't even know if they have the time
to plant at this point the TP from Stalin as well to deny the
spike plant and anything to come through because all the
strong has to do is deny the spike from going down to let's
all dead wrong should be gone jade gets another kill but the
round still goes over total it's actually to to focus the
No time? No dice. That sucks.
I really like that play there coming in from the defenders to just hold down, hunker down
on site, as well as Adi getting so much control, pushing out through A main, clearing out mid
and then coming in for the flag. A lot of free information that lets Focus put themselves
in the right position to win this round and yeah, just no time to rotate over towards
A. That round was lost. The moment people were stuck in Heaven at 30 seconds, 12 to
No economy left three rounds if
Focus can close it close this round out the gap gonna be narrowed considerably and they also have the operator in their hands
So another tool in their arsenal that they can work with
And if they lose this round we slowly but surely looking into another time affair
For ATM Jade holds the angle because just jiggling doesn't get a kill Jade nice headshot
Addy immediately commits the ultimate, immediately tries to slow them down
with the overdrive Jade dies down to her.
Purity can't find the aim, can't track.
The enemy Neon just overrunning her, late kill.
The 48e unduelist player picks up the spike, needs the support of Karina,
but it might just be a little bit too late.
Hatchot sat down there as well,
star last player standing for focus,
but brings it down to a 1 versus 1, and gets Purity as well.
Red Bull Clutch will stop!
Yeah, I mean a little bit unlucky there could have played for some time
But instead it is going to be the rebel clutch and a tenth round on the board for focus once again guy up playing with just a
Bucky, all right if they lose this round, they're not gonna have money and we are very well looking at OT
So one more round that realistically focused have to push through they have to deal with these alts as well
Though again that my perspit
It's been online for the last six rounds purity with another show was not ready to go
So the problem is that with this mid-hole being given up by Focus, they are able to put their resources towards molding down the sites instead to counter the aggression of ATN.
And here comes the showstopper.
Look at the three players coming from middle all of a sudden, Jade overrun by Addy, strained on the site, too steady, gets shot down by Gaia, but too late trade.
Niko finds success from the backside, Karina on the double, needs to tear them all down, needs to kill all of her old teammates.
Tops on the boombox but star once again converts for focus
One round away from OT ATN a crumbling
My focus is thriving
pressure is a privilege and I think focus are thriving in exact that moment
Like you said, they need to win
Both teams it's a must win match to have a chance to make it to those playoffs and the pressure is hitting the better team
other this outcome will be the one to take it forward and look at the economy
here I mean there's still gonna be a buy here for the side of ATN but no real
attacking Alton on the opposite side they've got that Viper split two away
from the show so showstopper one away from the open alts as well for Stalin
who in the second part of this half has been stepping up so huge for her team I
mean once again Karina left on this lurk while the rest of the team kind of
defaults ATM though they look nowhere like the team that they were in the first six rounds of this half
Things falling apart for them 12 to 6 now 12 and 11 and Jade. Oh my god. They're gonna triple swinger. That's a problem
Strangets and entry to J. Abby find purity as well the triple swing brings success over to the sites of focus
We're looking at overtime
FATM can't convert that free versus five
All of a sudden, Focus brings this one back from a 12 and 6 deficit.
They need to enter the Viper's pit.
They need to enter the forbidden territory that Ultimate Attacks is trying to set up on the site to bring their overtime dreams into fruition.
But the spike is not covered by the pit. Karina has the timing outside of the pit, but get shot down by Nico, Mali finds Kaya as well.
Blossy has to find Heroics for a team has to be the hero, gets one, but Niko shots her down, we are going to all the time, Focus brought this back.
Holy, that is some mental and some consistency in these last six rounds.
Focus pushing it to OT, digging in deep, and remember this is ATMs map pick, the last time these two teams played it was 13-6, I thought we were going to be very well, we could very well see a repeat of that,
of that but instead focus they do what seems to be impossible and they managed
to bring things back very very well done and only two only I think one or two of
those were clutches everything else was pretty convincing in terms of a win so
they've managed to crack the code to defending against the aggression coming
in from ATM now though it's going to once again be over time things reset to
zero zero you got to win two rounds in a row otherwise we're just gonna keep
going again and again and again. This could be very well all lives now, Jack.
The covins. The ultimates to be used in those rounds.
Just have to rely on utility and gunplay.
They didn't have a triple stack for alternate attacks over on that A site.
That's a dangerous game Focus is playing here, four players, the up ramp, real space on the map, once that smoke fades.
Wide situation, Jade spots all of them, I think.
I'm able to create a timing here.
Oh, that's such an important kill.
30 gets that impact frag, Jades spotted on by the boards!
Some problems!
Fur for Rokas to get onto the site, but the traits are good, Mali and Adi!
They bring it back, Stran!
Ports in there as well, but the 2v3 situation, Adi!
I might just bring it back here as well, another Nade!
The spike has to go down.
They don't check the corner of Jade's slings in time and it's all down to Strahlin, gets
the first, brings it down to a 1v1 and oh my god that's the clutch, a double headshot
and the Red Bull clutch for Fokusakura to get them from 12 to 6 to 13 and 12.
Seven rounds in a row, incredible resilience from this team.
I mean in the first half Stralen was so bad down like six kills or four kills
But in the second half she has stepped up so huge in so many of these rounds and this one if
Focus win might just be the ones to look at and I mean Stralen coming up clutch in that rounds
Crucial for focus Sakura because Adi has a whiff from that corner on to jade
Adi would be able would have been able to close that rounds
but in the end they have to rely on Strahlen getting a double kill and it's
courtesy of Jade and Purity peeking one by one into her crossfire giving her the duels
giving her the one versus once and that's something you can't do in a
situation like that especially we're talking about Jade and Purity the two
best players alternate attacks have on their lineup probably the two best
players of all time, and they are not swinging together, giving Schraen
those one-we-one duels. Focus is coming back round by round after that
devastating loss, after that embarrassing loss offline in Berlin.
I mean, that one was Project Queens. I mean, you lose the LAN, you're going to feel bad,
We talked about it. There's been a curse at work nine times losers ten time winner
Maybe ten times loser love a time winner who knows this go very well be where focus break that curse and it starts by taking
ATMs map away now on defense ATN of course I think for the last six rounds
They haven't been able to find a breakthrough on this side
So let's see if the impenetrable defense can be continued to be kept up here
Guy had the one left in the lurk, spots out at least two players, maybe three, got to be running it back to reconvene with the rest of the team and
Seems like they want to go towards it. Look at how deep Karina is
Have you already got some damage?
61 HP and that's a swing from Karina! Get the kill on the star! Get the second one as well! The headshot is crazy from Karina!
Double kill, double entry to open up A site! Haven't cleared out!
out! Just Shrine and Niku, just the two controller players still in that game. Fishing closer to
the side, J-Jiggles. Pots Shrine, that paranoia gives away the position. Niko on ramps needs
one kill, at least. Hatch up the guy I denied. Just Shrine, up and available for focus. Spotted
out by Jait, needs to do some more heroic, but Jait closes that round, 13-13, we need
another pair of overtime.
You know, I said it at the beginning of overtime, it's gonna go again and again and again,
and I feel like I might have called it right, I feel like this is an old game that could
very well, I don't know, set a new record the way it's going, so I'm not really sure,
Atean already have used their timeout, it's just gonna be one more timeout left in the
hands of focus so I'm gonna be curious to see how that goes or sorry it's the
other way around focus use it after getting match point but now ET and the
only ones left with the timeout here operator in the hands as well of purity
and gets that first blood clean and star picking utility enhance a little too
over aggressive too over eager going to be made by Kaia in mid fine small e as
Well, they're peeking one by one, replicating them as fakes that alternate attacks were giving them on the first half.
Might just be another match point.
Our current Dach Champions, Strahlen and Niko.
On their own again.
Hit their invents.
Power position for her. Same goes for Vlossy. Ten bullets in her weapon.
spots of the players drops onto site retreats away from what his focus is
trying to set up Niko
and gives him something to work with
here the reload on site but yeah I mean they're surrounded on all sides by
enemies try to pull the AT instead of walking a strat of walking in maybe
towards spawn but decided it's a bad idea 30 seconds left they gotta commit
somewhere and the operator from purity is still gonna be on this angle like they
have to get on the side and purity might be able to find a timing never mind
okay there's some hope folks can't afford to take much more time 19 seconds
on the clock
and trying to plant in the safe angle
bossy can't hit it with the pole can't get anything going can't stop the spike
from going down. Re-smoke towards the lay-bumps. ATM, very, very stacked over into Havn, Jade
and Karina. The swings are going well, Blossy Clothes around 14-14, another match point
for ATM. They choked so many, now they have to convert it to bring their map back home.
A little bit of celebrating tactical shooting, tactical crouching, whatever you want to call
It doesn't count unless you can close out the map and you know 12 6 to 14 13
We've got one more chance to do it. Otherwise, you're just gonna have to go again
So let's see if they can do it this time around
It was the attacking side that they struggled on towards the tail end of that second half
So I don't know if they managed to find out a solution quite yet for it
I think that the rounds where they get that first kill and then push together where the rounds that they won
Except for of course that one time where they just went jumping around
I think so far for focus the strategy of pushing out with three players consistently has been netting them kills
The problem is that ATM they're kind of expecting it now and look at them just lying in wait
I'll start get to flash support, but a great job from lossy impurity all of a sudden focus
After a great comeback start
Attex is moving closer and closer to closing off that map. They just can't throw away the numbers advantage star
But he's set up behind them singles for Schreien.
I have no info though.
They might be able to crunch them on mid.
At least him, coursing their way over towards the A-side.
Just Adi there.
Has to get one.
Has to get two, maybe.
Gaia is baiting for it to get purity, opens things up, throws another essential to get
Nico off the angle, but she spots purity, another headshot, all of a sudden that game
is pretty doable.
Jade! Power position in vents!
Oh, shorthy!
Might just seal the deal for alternate attacks.
Eiko and Star have to do some heavy lifting.
Brings down Gaia, but the position has been known.
Star in a 1 vs 3!
Karina set up the undecided double kill!
The fate come back for focus!
They're converting their own map pick in the end!
6th entry for Gaia or MVP of that map, but Karina the one who closes it out.
Man, that was a stressful game for sure.
You're a fad of either team, I gotta say, and I'm sure it was double stress for you because you're a doc coaster,
but what a performance coming in from both of these teams.
I mean, shout out to ATN, they kept their mental strong, and they managed to win it out in the end.
I'm not very happy with losing 7 rounds in a row after getting to 12-6,
But aside from that, really good performance from them.
On the other side though, I mean, focus, I gotta give them a shout out.
They got defeated.
12-6, 13-6, the last time we played, they played this map against ATN,
but they had the resilience to come back from 12-6.
Really gotta give a shout out to them.
That said though, we're gonna take a look at the MVP.
I mean, we already announced it, but yeah, it's gonna be Gaya, the stand-in.
It was actually going to be popping off with 223 ACS,
but more than the ACS, it's the first ones that I'm impressed with.
One out of five fights that this player takes,
it has ended up in her favor. What you think is a bad start until you consider that she's the one
who's always going in, which just makes it pretty impressive. Yeah and it seems like Gaia is getting
more and more comfortable with the alternate attacks core. It seems like she's getting better
with every game she's playing with them and you know today is the most important game for ATN
in that season because if you lose it you're out of competition. Like you will be in promo
relegation again and you could go down to tier 2 purgatory once again 17 first plus by the way
for ATN and that entire game not converting all of their own stairs starting off two clutches
for focus also enabling some of the things they were setting up and yeah I think I think that
was a very very entertaining game in the end. Entertaining is an understatement that was a
banger game for sure. However, that was just map number one, ATN pick it and ATN get it done.
However, we're going to be heading into focus's pick for map number two. And you mentioned this
Akamask. This is the map that focus have played the most, the map that they have,
you know, they just have a lot of practice on that set. I mean, you mentioned it in the beginning.
Last time around, this was a 13-7 loss for focus. However, they've shown that they've been able to
recover from that loss on Sunday and make some in rows as to countering their opponents as we
saw on map number one. The question is can they do it and find a way on map number two because
remember whoever loses this is not going to have a chance to make it to playoffs either way though
before we head to map number two. We're going to be taking a short break so stay tuned and see you
on the other side.
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take us in. The Dach Derby is delivering on epic proportions, focus, Sakura and alternate
attacks delivering an absolute cinema map here on Split because you know, 15 or 14 after
focus got destroyed online, they got destroyed in Berlin and now they're delivering like
this, you see the improvements.
100%. Yeah, I mean, they've definitely done some work on it. Like you said, from 13, 6
1513. Yes, it was still a loss, but it looked so much better. Generally, I mean, it felt
like they could come back and take the win, especially at 1312, but ATN they persevered
through, they keep their heads down and they managed to get it done. That was their map
pick, though, and it was damn close. So I don't know. Now we're going to be heading into
focus is map pick, which is going to be that haven their most played map, probably the map
that they're the most comfortable on. That said, we said this before we went into the
break and it was ATN finding that 13-7 win against Focus the last time they faced this
team on this map, which was just a couple days ago.
So yeah, not exactly ideal, I mean, either way though, Haven, I think this is still considering
how close Split was and how dominant ATN have been looking on that map.
I think that Split is definitely, sorry, Haven is definitely going to be something that's
more of Focus's alley.
Yeah, for sure, especially since like Focus from the beginning, since the beginning of
year they are playing this team comp right they're playing Omen, Neon, Sova, Killjoy and Viper
that's one of the bread and butter tried and true cons that we are seeing and we are used to on
Haven and on the other side alternate attacks they played around a little bit with the comp after
the Euro nerfs now adding the Phoenix back into the mix like some of the other teams are doing this
as well you know similar cons to what we are used to from those two teams will be something to
to look out for in my opinion 100% yeah and I mean ATM they haven't had a very
good time on Haven and GC EMA even if they've done well outside of it but they
did find a glimmer of hope this weekend so maybe they can change that zero person
record to know something that's a little bit more positive
focus started off in the Duff Finals 4 and 0 on that map to get destroyed
14 and 7. Afterwards, you know, they had a really great start where snowballing their
health and all of a sudden Atex just decided to win this. They were just like, okay, guys,
we just lock in now and win this. Again, purity plus 23 kills in that matchup. Like, that's
that line I haven't seen in ages. And in the end, ATN, you know, they have to reconsider
what they did right and on the finals because on the airside focus they're very used to him that's their home ground that's their map and
let's see if all time FX can deliver here and
proportions as they did in the finals I
Mean I just want to point out one thing about focus is Haven it's looked they have a 40 person win rate
But we also have to talk about the kind of wins that they've been getting right
They found a 13-7 win against Zenith and a 13-1 win against KC
So yeah, that's that's some pretty damn impressive wins that they have on this map and ATM this stage
Just have not been able to open their accounts on Haven. I mean, they already do have a map under their belt
So they're gonna be going in with probably a little bit more confidence
Knowing that there's at least that map three even if they lose this but for focus. This is their best map
They have dominated or at least done really well on at this stage
Being able to find wins and get it to almost 50% and their comp is pretty pioneered for defense
You've got that Killjoy able to shut down.
You've got that Viper screen to cause some damage
as people try to get through and look at this Viper screen.
It's for C and B as well as Mid and Garage.
So it's just covering so many of these crucial pushing points.
The lyrics get covered as well.
So yeah, you're going to have to be very careful about executing
if you are ATN.
It's a free player stack over to the C side
from Fokusakura right now that actually troubles ATN.
They are trying to move into the B site slowly, but surely focus at some space over to our base
Shocked up destroys the bot
And purity moves backwards. No focus has to be on the hills. They have to
Move into somewhere the B site opened up, but that takes haven't planted the spike. So
focus not worrying a lot
About what that's like is trying to set up. That's a great art ATM trying to get onto the site
Addy has been tracked. They're trying to lure Attacks up into the smoke. That's a great flash by Purity!
The backside go! Goes into the hands of ATN, Jaden Purity, getting those frags, Karina lurking from the garage!
One more into her books, free for all sorts of Attacks and focus.
Struggling to hold that triple stack onto their seaside. Purity, another one.
And it's just Niko going down to Gaia in the end. Pissed around for ATN.
Okay, last fight was really funny, three people looking at you and nobody's able to get a
shot.
But yeah, very, very nice push there coming in from ATN.
They realized that there's probably a likelihood of a push.
They wait patiently to make sure that there's nobody in front of them before they go into
unison towards backside, off the back of that flash from Purity.
And talking about Purity, I mean, this is one of the few agents in this game with an
ult that is not only six points, but also useful.
Actually, I think at this point it's the only 6 points left in the game, but I bet Chris, 4 out of 6 points already there.
Got to be having this ultimate if necessary for this bonus round, and this time around it looks like they just want to run it down on Z.
And little point number 5 was PurityBull for sure beyond the bonus round, ultimate here, that run it back to run down the site.
Very very useful as you already mentioned, and focus. They're trying to use their A-Stack to their advantage, taking a little bit of space towards Sewers.
But ATM won't just push into lobby without a drone, right?
like
They would track star here has to destroy the drone has to retreat
And ATM will be very very cautious in moving towards towards those angles
Dark was up close in person about a long space belongs to ATM
All the stars already walking up behind them
It's gonna be very dangerous if they don't check these corners
However, the player towards short actually misses, so there's gonna be another chance for purity to find this kill spotted out star as well in purity.
Just on cleanup beauty, Blossy and purity between them, find every single kill.
And although Karina does go down, it's still gonna be a pretty substantial bonus that we're looking at here for 8th scene, especially, you know, if we do see that Vandal from Karina going over towards the Phoenix for that ultimate.
And Karina going down is completely fine for ATN, right?
That's a player that had a pistol.
You wanted to buy up that Vandal anyways.
So her going down, yes, you lose the shield.
Maybe there will be a small shield on run number three if ATN does not convert their bonus.
That should mean more than just fine.
Two small shields also onto the side of Focus Akura so that Outlaw and Jade's hands
might be very, very substantial.
The purity has to run a back ready. They will use it onto the site.
Third round. Phoenix ultimate, absolutely crucial.
Flash is going into the site. Mali gets a kill into the Phoenix.
It's just a decoy, just a fake.
Three players from Focus already rotated over and C is completely open.
The problem is that you've still got that KJ util and you've still got that Viper util.
You also, I think, used that neon wall to get onto site, so...
Luckily for them, nobody's home on the seaside, but Molly catches purity on that A-hold.
Trying to play for Lurk instead does get tagged up and Blossy as well, for V5.
And that takes a second, a little bit of a risk. Gaia and Blossy pushing towards Garage.
Gaia going down, Blossy, has the off-angle, but Strahan drops in her face!
And drops her dead on the ground! Karina can only trade so much!
A little bit too late of a kill, Niko, forcing her way into this one as well, but it's just
down to Jade!
Converse is free, it goes down to Adi in the smoke as well, everything goes according
to the playbook, focus retaking!
Over to that B side, 1 and 2, HEN can't convert their bonus.
Oh, at least they got the plant, but yeah, this is a little bit sloppy towards Garage,
They take control of it, but instead of just staying put and holding the crossfire, I don't
know, I think they were worried about the cross-pushing and being caught out by it, but yeah, I mean,
I don't know.
You've got to push somewhere, but I don't know if that's a cheat.
Either way, those three guns held onto here by the side of focus, they're starting to
build up those ultimates in particular.
Molly won away from that Hunter's Fury.
Molly has also been kind of playing solo, it's been quick rotations coming in from
that B site, as every round you're going to be seeing Adi push out a little bit, that
high low set up coming in from the omen as well. It's just that Atean haven't been pking
mid much, they've just been sending it down towards Scythe's.
Especially that A long space. The last few rounds very very crucial for what Alternate
Attacks is trying to set up. Lossy down there in sewers. Impact position for her. If someone
is trying to peek Star, might be the one testing her grounds, but Jade shuts her down. Purity
Spots the second player as well, Mali no chance!
Against the old Thetex Phoenix, Blossy over on Sadi as well, all of a sudden ATM
has a position, over on that A side, Spike Plant goes down as well, Karina on the lurk
late hitting into what focus is trying to hold
towards the left of the focus, the Kura defense
round number three seems inevitable for ATM
Strollen at least able to find a little bit of a consolation prize, get closer to the
lockdown.
Might be able to find another one as well.
I mean, to be fair, if you're purity, you don't mind going down already halfway to that,
run it back, get a couple of Ultrams and a couple of kills, you're going to be fine.
But yeah, the rest of ATN just probably looking to save their guns here.
Strollen, no time to really go in for the 1v2 clutch, even if she believed she could
do it.
That's just gonna be another round on the board for ATN3 and one start right now.
It's been blistering coming in from them.
And yeah, probably still gonna have a buy here for the side of Focus.
But yeah, they gotta be careful.
Maybe you remember what happens when ATN starts snowballing the sking.
I mean, we have to talk a little bit about the Focus, that Focus has on that map.
Because in most cases, if you're looking at the Focus Team comp, you would say, okay,
It's very good on defense, it's very catered towards holding side with a lot of blocking
power with Strah and Ennico.
But overall, if you're looking at the statistics, Focus is one of the best attack side Haven
teams in all of Game Changers' EMEA right now, and with around 70% win rate on that
attack side Haven with that team comp.
And I think that speaks volume to what Focus is trying to set up.
They shouldn't worry too much about their defense, they shouldn't be too worried about
What ATN is doing there as long as they get like 4 to 5 rounds and don't let ATN run away with the game completely.
But still they're one of the best attacking side, attacking side, Haven teams in the current league.
And that's something Alternate Attacks needs to be careful about, especially since they're running a double duelist comp that it's much more catered towards the attack compared to their defense.
I definitely agree with you, especially that point you made about the Attackers' defense there.
Looking at the ult here, a lot of post-bounds available with the help of Jade's...
Hunters' Fury, sorry, my brain farted there for a second.
But yeah, I mean, for Purity, 3 away from that ultimate, it seems like they want to push towards a seaside stall and willing to play aggressive,
actually gets the dink and gets the shot as well, looking for another, although Gaia is able to find 2.
Oh, Star goes down for free there and just like that, Seasight once again open.
You cannot go down so fast if you're the Killjoy.
He belongs to Alton and Attacks.
Shrine going down this early.
A little bit of a problem for Focus Sakura, Adi.
I think at the old point, she has to get a kill to head onto that overdrive.
Karina's spot is in the mid, so Focus knows they can't really leave.
We've garaged in on Molly.
Hatch out against Blossier.
All of a sudden, this is doable once again.
Addy trying to get onto the side,
trying to get close and personal with ATN,
having a shotgun in hand.
Gaia fights on the center box.
No kills for her.
Molly on the defuse already.
Jade has to spray this one down,
but the half already stick Molly as a 3k,
as a 4k focus.
They are coming back into it.
The IGL of them.
Kicking the door into ATN's hold.
brings focus close, one round differentiating those two teams.
Really nice shots there and it seemed like a difficult situation in that 4v3,
but Molly just goes super scion there getting kill after kill after headshot after headshot.
And it's just beautiful work coming in.
Recovery from focus very neatly done there.
It's gonna keep their economy in good shape.
A little bit of a witch shock dart.
That's okay though.
I mean, at least you know that consistently it's been the Sova on the side,
but also the KJ has rotated over the mid push,
detected as well.
I don't know if they spotted Star with the drone to boot,
but yeah, having spotted at least one, if not two players towards mid.
Once they see this killjoy though, I'm wondering if they're still gonna be committing.
Any question for me as well?
Focus leaving their stack more over towards the beside, but Adi...
Rotating over is a clear sign that focus is committed.
Some keeping alternate effects away from the day side.
The paranoia comes out in a great timing.
But ATN did not show any commitment in any way.
Still moving out of there. A long.
Abandoned.
And focus rotates to all of their forces over B site.
Caught into question by alternate attacks.
The paranoia will take some time off the clock for 44 seconds.
Not enough star. Aggressive angle. Aggressive peek.
Spray through the smoke. Down goes Blossy.
What's the advantage for Focus and Karina? Has to find something on her luck.
I don't know. Has to... I don't even... I don't think they know that she's here.
But also the problem... Oh, okay. Yeah, never mind.
Instinct speaks louder than anything 15 seconds left guy able to find one kill
But the problem is they don't check the corner and it's just gonna be the kills coming in for adi
Six seconds left no time to realistically get the spike
Are you gonna save are you gonna look for kills and it is going to be purity peaking?
But star winning out that confrontation three and three things equalize here for focus
And what a beautiful round coming in from them, right? They they look so
good in terms of this defense once they have a little bit of patience and they've
been doing wonders and it has to be a timeout fault in the attacks in that
situation right you can't really let focus run away with their defense of
half like this purity has her ultimate a run-up back possibility for attacks
For sure, ATN seems very very disconnected on their executes.
They seem very very disconnected on their overall map movement and idea of a game plan.
I want to see a little bit more mid-rounding from the ATN side, a little bit more structured
executes after their initial plan fails.
I think once ATN can't find a way towards one of the sites, it all scrambles into a
little bit of chaos. Chaos is the right word there for sure either way though
after this timeout already we've seen early timeouts from both of these teams
they really want to win it kind of see that coming through I think that for
ATN the timeout probably is gonna be a little bit of a momentum breaker for
their opponents but also I think it's gonna be important for them to be able
to figure out how to crack the code here right because it's very difficult for
them to make their way into these into the KJ side without the KJ going down
early mid is just consistently being fought for so we don't see them advancing much into it and
there's a stack on C this time they've decided to leave the A side just to the killjoy and I mean
Stralyn also does have that lockdown so a lot of crucial ults available no counter available either
for Jave so yeah even if they get the site which looks a little bit dicey with that spam coming
from Stralyn yeah I think that yeah I think I think this round is pretty much over like yes okay
guy I guess the spike could be able to get the plant but oh we're actually gonna be seeing the
the lock down here very nice focus invest a lot of dirt around jade fight
the kill to Molly this one is important spike goes down on a as well guy I has
to retreat out of the city creation glossy a stun into the corner I the
bunch of shorter time to glossy adi can't convert anything Karina on her
look successful as well but they need to get out of this fall as fast as possible
They refuse to get stunned!
Six to defuse, a red ball clutch!
By the focus sentent of where they're up in the lead!
Because Strahl and holds the defuse down!
I feel like that one way that was put down by Blossie,
Lowkey actually worked against them in all the confusion.
Because look at this, they push through, they go for the fight,
and they get the kills, but it's just a little bit too late.
I don't know if it's a target selection problem or just the timing issue,
issue but yeah too close for comfort they get the kill but it's not gonna be
enough to get them the round and it is gonna be the red bull clutch here for
the side for four star here or rather for strawland here getting through that
omen smoke to be able to just take that diffused nice try by blocy for sure but
not gonna be enough and now an additional tool in the mix the operator
to come through yes that was a great eco round for alternate attacks not gonna
a lie but still you want to win this one after for starting off like that
take that first peek into star and wins to you wins to one-on-one against the
star player of focus all of a sudden hian is in the lead might be able to run away
we're for round but Molly if she has something to say within this one the
means the focus leads and still holding that numbers of months trying to go over
to the seaside
those times time take position into window Karina
I'm gonna take an ounce gets information spots the KJ I knows where
she's having. Still holding that angle. I'm not sure if Sean communicated that something
can be up there in Garage because Karina has a perfect timing to shut down her Sentinel
counterpart Purity, finds Adi as well and Mali on her own. One versus five. Needs to
be exceptional for focus. Needs to tear down everything, but it will be as safe as it decides
to take that weapon into the next round. Yeah, I mean, at least Holly able to find one, a
little bit of a consolation prize, but the 1v5, not exactly going to go their way, not
even going to be attempted in fact, and yeah, four to four ATN, tie things up real quick
after losing three rounds in a row. Another second timeout being called here by Focus,
But that before the first half even ends, that is wild.
That equalizing moment for ATM, important both timeouts, haven't taken by focus.
That seems a little bit much for me, especially since that team has such a successful attacking
half normally.
It seems like there's something off in the voice call.
like there's something when it comes to nervousness for focus because not if
like if you're the coaching staff of focus accura and you see oh we are four
and four on the normally worst half for us after eight rounds and within the way
that focus played those rounds you should be pretty fine with the outcome
right you should be pretty pretty fine with getting five or six rounds at the
off. It seems like they're struggling a lot.
Honestly both teams, it's very, very back and forth here, right? It's not like we have
a clear favorite so far on this map. And yeah, this round though, I mean, it should be an
ATN win. Attacking up on Gaia, three ultimates as well. The overdrive for a nifty situation
and that Nero left to, you know, catch somebody, get some information, catch players out on
guard who knows but yeah early stun to try and take some space here focus couldn't be
pushing up and holding this A lobby early on yeah that might be the sign to just get
out of here Karina also has a decent amount of space and with that kill what a beautiful
shot from Gaia.
I hope the kill alternates, Kench is still over into the seaside.
Pull the information, give an over, strahlen.
Press the boy over purity, planting the spike, moral point.
Into the Phoenix, a third rounded back, on the horizon already.
Four away, Gaia has her ultimate.
If she wants to try and force her way into garage.
All of the four remaining focus players stuck in one area of the map.
And Jade has a cheeky little wrap around the headshot onto strahlen, but Adi still tries
to get into the site.
to get something going with the overdrive. Karina shot Soundstar. Purity, a kill into the backside
as well. Gossy, no more hope for Focus and sustaining their deco rounds. 4 and 5 ATN back
into the lead after Focus started building some momentum. They only use the Neural theft as well,
so they still got the Hunterscree as well as the Overdrive available. Really nice opening shot there
from Gaia catching the Viper on that jump peek, Nico just probably not expecting the
operator to be in play or I don't know just a little bit too wide on the jump peek gets punished
for it and on the opposite side I mean this time around you've got to buy around you've got the
op versus op battle on both of these neons for the defenders it's going to be towards C for the
attackers it seems like it's more towards A early understood you know gotta be pulled here by Jade
to find that opening hill that it hits perfectly and Jade on the back of that utility finds an
entry a crucial one at that Karina how does she get this one Nico not aware of the possibility
a one netx player might still be in mid focus over rotating to the A site
it speaks the volume how scrambled and nervous focus seems to be at the start of those rounds
perma over rotating strion another jiggle nobody checks for Karina
another perma into the frontside glossy needs to get something going but
purity shots down star the only one who shines in for some of the kills for
focused akura jade's rotating on her lark just adi and haven needs to ring
that all to the next rounds.
He already expects this position though. Gonna be watching for the push out.
Yeah, Adi has to be very careful how she plays this.
I think the best chance might just be to sit in heaven and hope that nobody decides to come up and check.
It should be another round for ATN barring some kind of insane miracle, which I just don't see happening, frankly.
frankly but you know I want to break down that round a little bit start having a
little bit of hold towards that short position almost able to get a couple of
kills okay purity gonna be walking into the offense this is impurity pulls out the
gun at the right time to get that headshot not even gonna pick it up they've
got one of their own in ATN guaranteeing themselves at least an even Stevens
scoreline at the half if not a lead
Jade's absolutely elite on the ultimate.
Important frag for Karina as well, spots the information on to Strahan later on and around.
And Stardust every ping she can.
It's just not enough, it's simply a round fault on the latex.
One away from Modest first, run it back, focus.
They're looking for a paceship, three players pushing down A long, but ATM they're on the other side of the map.
They used the run-in back as well, not really hesitating in the eco round and yeah, there's nobody home.
That's kind of gonna be the indication that it's blanks that's coming in.
One for one, not very nice for Karina, but it's a gun here for focus and they could try to swing back into the round with this.
We've seen the damage that these sheriffs can do and I'm pretty interested to see how this post plant is going to look coming in from this ATM side.
In fact, you're looking to play aggressive. First shot comes in, gets the kill.
Lossy, just absolutely farming right now, headshot simulator going on for the Omen
and almost a 4k, Purity Steals last one though, and it's gonna be a guaranteed lead for ATN.
7-2-4, and they are starting to really pick up the pace in some of these rounds.
Yeah, if you're ATN, you won't round number 8 as well.
That's the important one for you, because like, the focus sitting around that 70% win rate mark
on their attack, if you get round number 8,
then you are somewhat safe and you're somewhat in the territory where you can
have that focus have their good health and still bring that lead over after the
halftime. Pistol up will be crucial anyways. In the ATN they are setting up for another
fast go over on that A side of the Viper Spit. He's slammed on C. There are even more reasons
to contest that a long space.
Ali and Adi push in position,
but purity points another entry!
Shut down Adi!
Sucked out does not enough damage.
Two players spotted.
4 ATNs, just purity,
remaining over on that a long space.
Spots two.
And we'll call the rotation off.
a little bit of a dangerous game there to not take the shot on the first player attempt at trigger discipline goes wrong
I don't know if this drone spotted out strawlin one more kill and she's gonna have that lockdown
They're not even gonna be able to get the spike down and I mean C is just locked down completely with that vipers pit
How are you even gonna get it again is the question here and Nico eyeing this?
Opening onto garage if they do push in it's gonna be very dangerous the recon comes through though
Can I be enough?
Watch, get the spam done, and that's the Viper all down to each of you.
Why do you have your tools?
You're hesitant to do it straight!
Has a timing!
Double for her, 8 and 4, it's Yen!
They're overrunning the Viper's goods!
Finding that last few rounds to secure a half-time lead at 8 and 4.
Crucial one at that, as we're going in 12th time.
Red Bull gives you wings
I'm the one short. You just can't fish.
Can't really say but make a project.
So ready for the competition for love.
I'm the best.
Right.
Oh, sweet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Welcome back everyone to the second half of map number two between focus Sakura and alternate attacks.
We saw a map number one going to OT and ATN when it out in the end on map number two as
Well, they have a pretty nice lead 8 to 4 in the half the last time these two teams played on Haven
They walked away with a 13 7 win and a 2-0 win to take the project Queens trophy
Let's see if they can keep their chances towards GCE and a playoffs alive by winning today
I remember winner has a chance loser is pretty much out
So a lot to play for here for both of these teams and AT&T so far
They've been dominating these pistols. It's been three out of three and most of these pistol rounds
They've had at least three or four players alive, so it's not like it's been a close win either I have for sure focus on those
Pistols it seems like they have some mental blockade
Only but surely there and closer
Over towards the seaside purity. I just have a timing here
She gets shot by the headshot immediately, so it's on the enemy Phoenix
and tries to hold it. That's a weird timing against Blossy.
Or HotExplodes. Blossy gets a pick up on the gun.
A second smoke as well. Gaia goes down on the back step. Niko holding the line. Karina
on the late trade. But she gets a double! There is some way in fault on the latex to
bring this one back. But Karina goes down to Mali. The IGL steps up and they're in the
frontside star called out in the teleport, Jait has another arrow, both players in frontside
and Jait did not see the main safe, they are closing it for out of 4 blister rounds for
ATM.
You know, I just want to say that was a 5v3, they had a huge dam attack, uh, advantage on
this attacking route and, well, I mean, at least 4 focused, they get the plant, so it's
going to be a little bit of extra money, but that is a retake that should not have happened.
Karina though, just absolute insanity with this double kill and after that the share through the wall even onto the players
It might not be a headshot, but it's enough damage and it is going to be enough for ATN to win
And maintain their perfect pistol record six rounds in a row now starting to run away with it
And it's gonna be a full buy for ATN and outlaw in their hands as well versus just a Bucky in the hands of Addy
I mean, we're still on the old patch. So I shouldn't say just a Bucky. It's a neon with a Bucky
You never know to be fair
I don't know if a Bucky has my general nightmare fuel.
I've gone live for Spectre, spot into this run by Alternate Attacks.
They really want to win it. They really want to get onto the double digits.
Addy has some support. Dart destroyed. Blossy. Spam's in there. Bucky on the ground.
No more possibilities for Focus to realistically break that B-side hold and Alternate Attacks.
They are already on the read, already on the move, into garage purity, the timing is perfect, four players blinded, Blossy has a paranoia in the follow-up, the utility layering, Rooks out, Foul to net attacks, Nico close range angle, doesn't get to kill, 4k for Blossy, the IGL, topping the scoreboard for ATN.
this game might just be over quicker than we expected it to be focus after an
embarrassing loss at long might just fall to alternate ethics for his 11th
time in a row
is it a rivalry if alternate ethics wins all the time Zach I have no comments I
I would say it's a little rivalry because you know at some point the curses gotta get right like look at fanatic and vitality
Look at PaperXNG they all thought they were messed up, but eventually they managed to find a win
So who knows I mean to be fair I feel like yeah
It was Purity's a transfer that kind of started ATMs winning ways against this team
So yeah, if you can't beat them join them just pick them up, you know, it's a pretty good pretty good policy to have
I like it. I like it. Oh god. Here we go. That's the first kill
There's a second and finally Karina at least finds a trade, but yeah, it is just
Focus finally managing to find their focus and find some kills to be for remember. This is the bonus round here
Nice kill by Jane
Great headshot
And they're still moving into this one. Focus has to win the pistol round
That's a win that win against the bonus
That's how spikes going down. That's good position
They're playing from long, Jade.
Only weapon she picked up.
Some buggy up until now.
Switched it up to a random position.
Now we're getting a red shot.
Put Furity into a 1 vs 2 situation.
That might be doable, but not over-spector realistically.
Furity on the defuse needs to get a little bit closer.
Press 1, take the 5, but Sarr on the 3k!
Focus!
Winced the follow-up round and it wasn't expensive one at that,
But still they are prevailing and bringing it back against alternate attacks
Yeah, I mean you got to be careful about the judge in the in the basement there
Either way though nice damage like you said three players taken down and yeah
The only three rounds needed for ATN to be able to close out this map
I mean they needed one round and we saw the comeback on map number one
So I can't exactly say that it's only three rounds the way today has been going but yeah full by finally kicking
in for ATM, ready down close to that Hunter's Fury 4G, on the other hand though it's just
gonna be Purity holding this off angle perfectly, gets that kill, gets a little bit of sustain
and throws down the Molly for good measure and nobody else is really outside garage though,
it's just gonna be a C hit but this is the Cypher site. This one has those pesky trips,
all those cages and of course Karina herself.
And she will hold the line for all to the extra points, but Karina has two!
Where does that come from?
Niko trades, but it's a little bit too late.
Mali in the back side finds Lossy, dual of the IGLs.
One by the Norwegian player.
Fixed the plant.
J.T.A.T. has an ultimate.
Would stop that spike from going down.
First tag.
Kill onto Mali.
JustNiko goes down to purity alone 11 and 5, ATN 2 more rounds to keep their playoff dreams alive
to stay alive and get a change of the MIA
We talked about it, fresher, very doubt best, sometimes and ATN definitely using that reinforcement positively I would say
Hunter's Fury as well. They don't hesitate to invest it in a 3v2 where they have the advantage because
they've seen these rounds without their hands and it's pretty much a guaranteed kill with that tag.
Jade has been getting, I think Jade has almost a perfect attack rate with the Hunter's Fury at a snap.
She's been getting a kill every time she uses it.
Talking about Jade right now, here's all of this pandemonium towards A main.
Actually gonna be investing this drone early but I don't think it's gonna actually clear the Viper smoke.
The current by focus is having it's probably inevitable that ATN will go into match point.
I mean you have Mali's on the Fury, especially for the post plant.
And that swing from Gaia might be a little bit much plus the elevator angle.
Elevator position but Mali insane entry for our team.
one at that, but they are not checking for Blossy. This one comes in a little late.
Jait jumps in there in the backside for one kill, but still numbers of extra focus. They
need to convert that round. Also, they have to keep their playoff dreams alive. Star
shuts down the ultimate. Numbers still there for focus, but Karina has something to say
in their dirty order 3k. Steps up! The star player to bring this one to 6 and 11. Focus
This is not out of this one!
There's what I say, 12-6, it went to 15-13, so I would not count this team out by any measure yet.
That said, it was a little bit sloppy there coming in from AT, and they had a clear numbers advantage, and a lot of...
I don't know, I feel like the trades just didn't go their way, it was well played for sure by Fokusakura,
but also the spacing on that re-entry from CT, too many isolated fights, like there were so many times where the kill trades just didn't come in,
And yeah, the 3v3 really don't want that to be the case.
Now the operator is going to be online for Gaia.
Oma not heard.
It's going to be just for information, I would say.
And focus.
Another fast go into the site.
Wanna overtake the alternate attack.
Seahawk Karina gets all of the info in the vault.
There's not a spot to hide.
Are you in the backside?
It gets attacked by the wire.
and AT-End is free to set up for this one.
Gaia finds a kill in the smoke.
Cure it, he's got some wall up as well.
And Nico, Sackler and the Samba shrine,
gets jaded on the valley.
Nico and the double kill in the backside.
Focus!
They're bringing it back.
Another comeback required for them
to even keep that map alive.
Seven and 11 follow up road for them,
stabilizing their economy.
Focus still clinging on to their hopes. This one's far from over
Yeah, I mean it's not over I definitely agree with you there and again really nice round they're coming in from the side of
Focus very calm compared to the chaos that we usually see from the side
And they break the economy with that round win for ATN
Which is super crucial because that's kind of what we saw on split at twirlington
They win that 10th round economy broken. They're able to power through and take it to OT
So they got to do this one more time
This one's gonna be an eco assuming they close it out without messing up
Yeah, they gotta do it one more time to break the economy once again
And after that it should be momentum in their favor relatively smooth sailing
They've managed to win two rounds in a row so far
So all they got to do is kind of keep it up and this is the perfect round to kind of do it looking at the ultimate
I mean, there's a hundred fury available for Molly one away from Stalin's lockdown as well
could be used to push into that A site for that next round unless you want to use it in this particular one
But on the opposite side, I mean you only really got the Omen ult
You could try to charge up that Phoenix ult in this round and at least if Gaia can get two kills
That's gonna be the neon overdrive available in an ifty situation
And I think that would be the L to look out for if it somehow gets on life
It could be a clutch condition in this round
But yeah unless unless there's some really aggro various share of shots
Which again we can't dismiss because this is GC and that is the Digo
I think it's gonna be a very difficult round for ATN to convert here.
Yeah, and that triple-second garage might be a little problem for focus of their offering to execute.
My ultimate is ready.
Let's see site.
Lockdown ready.
I don't want to invest this one.
GAIO is able to get some early information for alternate attacks.
If they are trying to execute on that A site.
But Shade already wrote it as over.
Frankling that's Holt.
The information game by Purity is the crucial part here.
100% yeah, the alarm bot being there is just a giveaway that alright, people here were alert.
And they're probably gonna go towards A, that's the one drawn being the second clue.
Atm they just fall back to try and hunker down on site.
Focus might have just overplayed their hand here.
here yes run some lineups for for back side
convert onto this one Karina in the back side doesn't get a kill
Blossy on the double! Jade finds one as well! Adi not able to get the impact
going to shut down ATM! Jade gets to the corner on! Can't clutch up! 54 ATM 12 and
7 match points!
54 match points. I said it, that was around that they probably should win,
unfortunately does not go their way and it's that rotation over too much time
taken there by focus and they could have still saved it if they decided to
inverse that lockdown, but I think that's been the biggest difference between
these two teams today. ATN have no hesitation in investing those outs
even when they have advantages, but yeah I mean for the side of focus a little
bit messed up there too much time given for ATN to rotate over and now yeah just
one round away from things going extremely south operator in the hands of
Gaia and she walks away with a headshot a kill for free has moved operator shot
by Gaia to the focus players ATN we talked about it they have to win this
one to even be competitive in the playoff race.
Focus needs to come back from a 3 to 5 deficit.
12 and 7 come back needed.
Well, who humiliated him, Berlin, by ATN on Sunday,
and it might just be a double up.
If they can't break that crossfire,
Strain and start, double swing, rockblossy, steps up, keeps the numbers alive,
Strain, double entries, brings focus back, they're far out of, from all of this.
Ali needs one more.
Slowly but surely,
working in that backstab, needs one kill, gets the headshot, Strain on her own, one versus two.
He needs to get perfect shots here, but Gaya closes it, Gaya ends it, ATN, the play of
three is alive, focus falls to them, 11 times in a row you can't beat ATN if you're focus.
And it's a 7 and 13 on their own home growth and their own map because Jade does not lose
to focus.
And the same result as last time, it's gonna be heartbreaking but at least map number one
was much closer. Yeah, map number two though. Yeah, just 13, 6, 37, still a very depressing
loss. But yeah, looking at the scoreboard, let's take a look at the MVP of this match
to see. I mean, we can already see it here. It's going to be the IGL. It's going to be Jade
stepping up huge. I'm sorry, it's going to be Jade stepping up huge. No, no, no, Blosty,
it's going to be Jade here. And yeah, I mean, that's just crazy stats on your initiative player.
Yeah, the cost is one thing, but also I mean I just want to point out that sighing in with the cost here every single time
Jade used her hunter's fury. I just want to point out that you gotta kill. That's that's pretty rare. Yeah, pretty impressive
Yeah, for sure and
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This is now win number 11 in a row for alternate attacks against focus this matchup
It's just been I don't know what what focus needs to get over the hump
What focus needs to get that next step, to get past alternate attacks, because it seems
harsh for this organization. They can't get a hold on that ATM lineup. No matter who's on the
server, it seems like alternate attacks is just too much of a mental challenge for focus to overcome.
I think it's, yeah, 12 times in a row, not exactly ideal, especially when this is the
match that matters so much for your seating, for your placements, and for your chances of making
it to playoffs. AT&T though, with this win, managed to clutch up and stay alive here, which I mean,
all things considered, yes, this was a game that they already played. It's a repeat of the maps that
they played, but I think after that first map, when things got so close, I felt like Focus would
have been able to perform a little bit better on this map, but AT&T just looked ready for everything.
their C site attack was impeccable and after they won that pistol on defense as well they
were doing all the right things they had the reads and that 30 was just the final nail
in the coffin I mean looking at the stats here things pretty close together in terms
of the first skills and the post plans but I mean to be fair focus didn't really get
more chances to put that post plan down otherwise we might have seen the stats tilting towards
their team. Yeah. Yeah. And in the end, same veto as Sunday, same results as Sunday, but
with just a little bit of a different map count. ATN winning 2-0 against Focus Sakura in a matchup
that most experts would say Focus is probably the favorite team. The team going into this one,
coming into this one with the better form, with the better momentum, but ATN, it seems like they're
getting more and more comfortable with their substitute, getting more and more
comfortable with Gaia coming into this matchup and I don't know, in the end
the focus had to reassess what they were trying to do, especially their
pistol rounds seemed so inconsistent and yeah this has big implications for
the standings because we said at ATN they keep their play of dream alive.
Place number six is the important one to look at because there are a lot of
teams right now fighting for that last playoff spot. ATN coming close to Carmine Corp. GiantX,
SK, G2 and Gentleman. They are all qualified. If Twist wins their next matchup they will be
qualified as well. But that last playoff spot it's four teams fighting for one spot and basically
all of them have to be flawless and we might just see Carmine Corp dropping out of the playoff
picture if ATN, Barca or Focus are playing this one out flawlessly in the end.
Yeah, true. I think that Twisted probably has the best chance to make it of these teams,
especially since they've been looking pretty convincing, even the games that they've lost
have been closed. But like you said, that's the spot. So much on the line here. Casey barely ahead
off the pack. I mean, I think that for ATN, Focus and Barca, like you said, it's going to have to
to be a flawless run. Their last two games have to be done, have to be a perfect win
for them for sure. And yeah, I think that it's definitely a long road ahead, but at
least ATN, they can breathe a sigh of relief. They're not going home today. They're not
being eliminated today. It's okay. They have some time before the next
confrontation.
Yeah, all of them have like two games ahead of them, right? And you need to win your
last two matchups to secure that last playoff spot. I'm sure you can't go through with
just three wins in the end.
And I think, like I think the roughest program in the end is the one of alternate attacks
because they have to play G2 and SK, if I remember correctly, for their last two matchups.
And I mean, if you win against G2 and SK, to secure playoffs, then you deserve it.
But this one is a rough path and for Karmine Corp.
As much more smooth sailing, I'm intrigued to see who clinches that last playoff spot,
which teams we will see next week in some higher caliber matchups.
But I think that was it from game changers today, tomorrow, for Kassakura vs. Bazaar.
Direct confrontation for the playoffs, and Gentlemates vs. Twists.
If Twists wins, they will secure playoffs as well.
Yeah, but I don't know about that, because Gentlemates has a perfect record so far.
They won Stage 1 and they've kept winning since then.
So I'm not sure if that's going to be a game that they can win, but like you said, if they
manage to win it, Game Gentle makes their first defeat by all means.
They deserve to qualify to playoffs, but even if they don't be Gentle makes, they've got
another game, so it's not entirely over.
But yeah, two exciting games for tomorrow.
One might decide whether a team qualifies.
The other will also at least shape up whether another team qualifies, but I'm pretty excited
to watch both of these games either way, though.
I think that's going to be it from Akamask and me.
This is Valorant Game Changers, EMEA, and we'll be back with some more games for you.
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