That window is closing, we only have one shot at this.
The stars in the sky and the stars around us fade to black
Run until the night and there's nothing that can hold us back
Just feel the salt out of my heart till the lights go out
If I go down into the dark, won't be turning now
I'm gonna flag, break on through
Cause I'm sure, but just like you
We get totally proved
Cause I'm sure, but just like you
Like you
It's gonna last too long
If I go down into the dark, we'll be turning now
I'm gonna say, break on through
Cause I'm human, just like you
We get so badly proved
Cause I'm human, but just like you
Like you
Just like you
I'm gonna
Stay
Freak all too
Cause I'm too
Just like you
We get to
Have
Prove
Cause I'm too
Like you, like you
the next week. Welcome to the
playoffs at the six
evotational where are 16
remaining teams battle all the
way to next Sunday, one is
going to make history and lift
that hammer. My name is and I'm
joined in the studio by Foxy and
Alexing. We're starting to feel
the excitement a little bit.
Yeah, we sure are. I mean,
groups was amazing. It was so
competitive and we were talking
about that. We didn't know how
competitive this event was
I feel like that's kind of the theme at this point we all talk about we don't know what to expect. We don't know what it's going to be, but what we do know it delivers.
We'll have a look at the bracket to see where our 16 teams are placed inside of this double elimination bracket. For all the teams that placed fourth in groups who already start in that lower bracket.
But if you were first, you have an extra round or a lead by inside the upper bracket and all the other teams on your top left of your screen.
screen. In the upper bracket, you have an extra life, so if you lose a game, you're
not going to send home immediately. Yeah, ideally you want to be at the top of the
bracket, you get an extra life, but it's not the end of the world. We've seen teams
at the bottom go for an under bracket run to be able to lift their own hammer. One
of those teams is actually G2, and they find themselves in that lower bracket
alongside Daystar, OXG, and IP. So yes, the pressure is on the shoulders, but
sometimes pressure makes diamonds, and going through the lower bracket is your
best run. Yeah, it's certainly not the prettiest place you want to find yourself,
but if you do want to find yourself in the prettiest of places, it's definitely
gonna be that game where you're one round away from if you make it you are one
then you're on main stage no matter what win or lose so you're looking at
wildcard you're looking at fades you're looking at weibo gaming you're looking at
team secret they just need that one win and they're making main stage no matter
what yes a big thing of course then keep in the back of their mind but it's
clear that the groups are over and only the best teams are here
And just like we always do, we jump into the panorama to review what has already happened.
But this time we're taking it for the whole group stage.
You're looking back at the first five days of action and we'll let you guys aside in
the Twitch chat as well, but I'd like to have you do the bait a little bit about the monster,
the best player of the group stage, coming with you.
Certainly has to be June for me. I mean, when you look at the way that he plays and what he does for his team,
he plays that disruptive role. Whether it's on the bot, whether it's on the dopey,
he is such a key piece for all of Secret's success so far here.
And he's also the second high-rated player I think that's on his own. He's my pick.
I mean, June was a good pick, but it's from an expected team.
Secret is making their names day as a team that always makes it the main stage.
For me, it has to go with the underdog.
Wave-O reaped specifically. He's been such a pivotal piece to Wave-O getting first in their group,
in their group having such amazing success and he's that player that is
always consistently dropping double-digit kills regardless of who's up again.
So from, you know, an under-appreciated region in the APL and Waybo, a team that we don't talk about too much,
I think it has to go to the underdog.
I feel like you got longer than 15 seconds for me. I think production was
throwing me out of the bus right now. That felt a little longer, personally.
That's not the chat to pick. It's not a test.
You can voice your opinion in the Twitch chat with the poll running currently as well.
We do have the movements, the biggest thing that happened inside of the group stage.
I mean, we had to pick one thing, the final game, G2 punching their way into the playoffs
by beating the reigning rule champions.
I mean, it could have been any single round.
It had to be the whole game when it came to phase G2.
The elimination game for G2 to potentially go home.
Things are dire.
They're playing against FaZe, a team that has been dominating throughout the group stage.
All the pressure is on the shoulders of G2 and wow, did they perform?
Did they show up specifically stomping in this beautiful round 10 to be able to save the
hopes of G2?
to one round further for him to be able to clutch.
I mean, it was legendary to be such a young player
in a situation like that, pull it off.
I mean, even in this next one, I mean, I said this lawyer
was such a beautiful play to sneak up metal stairs
to be able to go for one frag for the next
and then to close it out and reach.
And again, to beat face, this was the team
that was deciding your future year at Invite.
That you had to fight tooth and nail,
and they succeeded.
It was insane.
Yeah, it was the only game all that time
you were watching it with a few celebrities
in the green room, and that boom was just going crazy.
with every round, the closer that G2 got.
And we see it time and time again.
When G2 is with their back against the wall,
they seem to be so much better.
They lock in and they secure play.
Also, for a lot of European fans, this is a big thing.
Yeah, you'd like to hope so.
I mean, for G2, it takes sometimes a little bit
of discomfort, almost being sent home to be able to power up,
get a big win.
And maybe it'll propel them to play a lot more confidently
going towards the hammer.
We're seeing some.
Hold on.
I was about to say, I feel like I'm
run in a seat. I guess what this is. We'll talk about that one when we put the schedule
and we talk about our games for today because you do see team heretics over on the side
here at the A-Street. We'll be playing a game momentarily, but in general the must-see
for today's game. So of course we had to pick a game that is already fully decided, right?
Every winner of these early games today will have to play another game later today, but
when we pick about the must-see, we have to talk about Falcons and Shopify Rebellion.
Two teams that we always see at these international events going up against each other and I'm
sure there's going to be fireworks inside of that game. We hear all the Acer will talk about Fyria
and the heretics know Fyria coming into this matchup as the second place team, meaning they got to
pick their opponents and normally with Fyria, you know, they've been here before, they, uh, they
plan it down perfectly. They do their research, but every single time they seem to lose that game.
So in speaking to the players, we heard that this time around, they did a coin toss and they let
Faith decide the opponents. I mean, it's a good way to go about it. If you're Fyria, you're one of
of those teams that it's about confidence, about pride for them.
If they go too long without winning a trophy, winning a tournament, they power up.
They bring everything to the full aspect.
And a lot of that comes down to players on the team that consistently put up
amazing stats for me.
Fellypox is definitely that player that you want to wash out for because he is
always so consistent, but leading the team as well is something that is so
difficult from an IGL perspective.
Yeah.
I love that you mentioned Fellypox because we're at the sixth
invitational.
This is a team that is comprised of world champions.
They won the invitational back in 2024.
And again, if you're going to highlight one player, it's going to be Felly Pucks.
Look at all these first place finishes.
There isn't someone that's doing it better than him outside of his teammates, of course, but he is the goat.
Undisputably, you can't say his name without adding goat next to it.
Yeah, I feel like in the group stage though, you know, having dropped the map against Deyser, having dropped the map against Felicans.
Of course, the Felipos being the goat, I feel like people are slowly starting to figure them out.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's funny you mentioned that because in Munich, he was the ninth highest rated player at the event in comparison to the rest of his teammates.
So it's interesting when you're looking and comparing the two currently at the six-inventational something that stuck out to me
Was you're looking at the operator bands?
All of these operator bands are kind of depicted and directed at
Fellypox and for me it's a big question of why are you going towards Fellypox?
Are you trying to target the brain?
Are you trying to make sure that they can't find success? Fact of the matter is Fellypox sure statistically
He isn't performing at his peak like he was in Munich, but he's still able to lead very decisively
They're still winning their rounds. They're still winning their matches. They're still finding themselves in a very good position
So it's a big question of now our team is going to see that okay
Maybe it's not worth going this route
Maybe we need to look at another key of the puzzle and focus somewhere else. I mean it's impossible to ban out the IGL
He has all of the strategy in his brain. He knows what to be able to flex if something is taken off the board
It's very common for the IGL to be able to have all of those questions answered and that being said fury has always looked human
I mean when we talk about the inter-regional play in the SAO
Yeah, absolutely
They don't necessarily look like the dominant fury that wins trophies, but then they come to an event
they power up and it's a different beast all together.
It is and I'm so glad we're talking about Felly Fox so much.
So we decided to have Milos check in with him for a chip thumb and reeling.
When I say Redskull Esports 2019, what does that make you think of?
Good old times with my friends.
Can you give us a bit of background for those that are not in the know?
It was my amateur team when I was playing underage.
It was with Fallymão, who is now in G2,
Lagoanis, head coach from Wildcard, reps from Elevate, so a lot of names that are now in the scene and we were playing together under age
amateur
tournaments, so really nice.
A great history for him inside of this game as we look at fear inside this hurdle and yeah
we talk about it so often this team is at every single international event a stark contrast to their opponents from today
For some of them only their first events here when we look at heretics and I mean
They're making out moves and getting into this position.
Maybe a bit of a surprise for some people,
but it's really good to see a team from Europe make it this far.
Yeah, absolutely.
I said this is a moving goal post with this roster.
Every single win, everything that they do
is going to be an accomplishment.
Can't write that off.
I mean, factor the matters, they're
going up a very big opponent today against Spirit,
but it's not to say that they can't do it.
They have a phenomenal roster who is still
managing to prove why they are the underdog
and why they should be taken very seriously.
Yeah, and even though they are a very young team,
They have a very experienced play style.
They have the most amount of operators played throughout all the teams in the tournament,
but there is one constant that has always played an operator.
Would you like to guess what operator that might be?
On attack?
On attack.
Say Dokeby?
Dokeby is second, but it's actually Grimm.
And both of those operators, thank you for mentioning Dokeby,
come down to information gathering, and that's Heretic's play style,
something that is a very experienced play style to be able to go up against.
There's teams that have been playing for years that don't establish a play style like this,
of taking all of the time early round to figure out where their execute is going to come from
and then pinching down the last couple of seconds. And it's something that shows their flexibility.
We commend teams like M80 for having that flexibility. I think Heritage deserves that same commendation.
Speaking of their experience, it's only the second time ever for this roster they go up against a team from Brazil.
So that's certainly something, but I want to talk about the flexibility as well, right?
Would you have to pick two players from this roster to really point out as the best before her so far? Who would you pick?
I mean, it has to be obviously the flex players.
When it comes to Groobie and Flexi,
those two players have been skyrocketing in the charts,
both within the top 15 players of the tournaments individually.
But when it comes down to the flexibility,
they play any single wedge operator they must need
for the execute for the strategy.
And we commend Flexi for his interviews off server,
but inside of the server,
he's individually putting up immense numbers
of just being put into positions, closing out rounds,
and Groobie on his entry abilities.
Being able to entry on different uncommon operators
like Flores, any single operator is something that is very difficult for a rookie entry
to do, so his experience is definitely shining through.
Oh, it's definitely shining through.
One thing I really enjoy about watching Groobie's playstyle that you can even watch today, I'm
sure through their fury match, he's very elusive, he's very precise and when he decides to attack
now, well sometimes I will say he does overstep a little bit, but the fact he is doing so
well on that entry, I'm really curious of how Fury is going to try and deal with that
because if they can't stop Groobie, they are going to set airtips up for a lot of success
down the road.
I want to talk math veto as well to see where the series will be taken to and something we've noticed in the group stage is that heretics seem to always lose the first map in these best of threes.
They get the first big though and we're going to bet.
I mean, honestly, I just I just got to throw my card away at this point. I mean, this is a very, very risky pick for the side of heretics.
I mean, yes, both teams have currently played this. Both teams did lose, but you have to look at the team of fear and the teams that they even lost.
and lost to sure they start wasn't the best performance.
But again, Feria Bank being such a big map in the S.A.L. region,
one of the favorites by far.
It really makes you question why they're going there.
And for me, it's more of if they get that win,
their mental game going into that clubhouse
is going to be astronomically high.
I don't know.
I think heretics is pretty well set up when it comes to bank.
I mean, when you look at just the fundamentals,
how the map is played, heretics has been able to show us
info gather and be able to show us what it's like to use the utility to deny
plants to be able to focus in the objective game. Shuria, what's their
bang going for gunfight? So it's a little bit of a hot and cold situation but
for me I'm always going to favor the more defendants side of team and
heretics going on a map like bang. Clubhouse is anybody's game. That's where
I would give it more to Furia because it's a very common ground. You have to
be flexible. You have to be able to throw something that the other team has
never really seen. In individual players, Furia has that beat. But if I'm
heretics, I'd imagine they need to get map one or else they're not getting map
two. So far to term it, that's a little bit difficult. Do you think we're going to
get to a decider if we get to Shelly? I think if we do get to a decider, honestly
I won't be able to tell you who's gonna win at that point because it should be a
miracle if we do get to a decider given the like I said just bank really is a
big head scratcher for me but again if you're gonna go against the Giants you
should go in swinging and I think that's exactly what they're doing with set
themselves up going into bank. Yeah I agree completely. I think it's gonna be a
two either way but that being said I really like that the giant you go up
against the Giants you got to go and swing that's exactly what heretics is
bringing to it I mean going to a map like clubhouse going to a map on the
third one like Chow Lay I don't think we see that if it goes to a Chow Lay it
very aggressive side and map that's where Fury is gonna have the edge
heretics will be challenged we'll be able to see a new version of them if they
can match that aggression in the second and third map that being said I believe
I believe in the heretics I like to see the vibes at least I mean they must be
feeling happy must be in our country though we see a little bit of a yarn
We're going to have to go
to the next round. Maybe if
you're just not having fully
woken up. We get to chat to
our cast is there because this
match is almost ready. We're
joined by ace and this. We got
the quality matchup for for
you to. We do. We always have
an adult. Don't we, Tim? I mean,
what a way to start the day. We
had a little young from her. You
know, looking for this one group
is like, Yeah, Hey, yeah. It's
just chillin. Yeah. I love it.
What do you two think, though? Do
you think we're going to get to
I'm a little bit worried for
heretics if I'm honest. Look,
they've got a fantastic tournament.
It's a beautiful Cinderella story.
We're going to keep cheering and
screaming for him. Everybody wants
to see the progress. I think this
this might be a bit of a big hurdle.
The way I look at it, they're very much
middle of the group as well, Anne,
right? Like, they're bang in the middle.
They beat those that are below them.
They've lost to those above them.
Yes, it was 2-1, but still haven't
shown up, I think, to really tangle
with the top. And, sadly,
Furia are the top, though.
That said, Brits, loving on the dog
story. Yeah.
Oh, fingers crossed.
They are the big on the dog inside
the story, though.
the story though can they finally get the first map of their own map pick over the line let's go and find out.
Let's do that indeed and thank you very much yes back to get things under way to see what a series
to get moving with as well because also the winner of this goes on to face Waybo later today that's
going to be a scream of the game as well brilliant games coming out of the back of the start today
so let's see what happens as you might expect I see you at home I'll be right here here and it's no
big surprise yeah it's understandable I mean everybody had a day off yesterday I remember when
You know I was a fan at home watching you down that day off games and it was always like you're itching to get back into them
And I certainly the case with this one
It is rather less getting to the narrative starting off on the defensive side. Furia are on the attack
so
Maybe you look at this and say for Furia being on the attack on a map like back
You're gonna see them
First half team but hopefully heretics can show a little bit of something they have played this map a few times this week
It hasn't been their best if one wants on it and lost twice
I think it's why it makes a lot
of sense to pick for them. Yeah,
I'd agree. I think the bands are
going to be particularly
interesting, of course, at the
disc of Spoken, length on both
sides, really, about how the
bands have been affecting
Fury, particularly for Leapox,
a lot of our popular bands,
Monty Grimm, for example, are
the operators that he plays as
well, and we're seeing it have
that knock-on effect onto his
stacks and on the side of
Heretics, they've spoken about
that use of duckabee, of
that. You know, it's going to
be a really big building Intel
and it's going to be particularly
important. They are going to be,
um, you know, looking towards
that second half when they're on
attack to be developing that kind
of strategy, but we'll see, you
know, when we get there, how
those funds come in, but Monty
cars, both big bands that kind
of target fellow box in that
like, but target for your area
in general. Yeah, this is their
style of play. The glass
right now, way ahead of anyone else, and I just think we've seen this real lean towards
Monty's wasting a lot of Blackbeard being brought out, which, Tim, funnily enough, is
Furious's most played operator. The problem is that you ban away operators like these
two, you do leave the Grim available, and Grim has been, I think, our second most picked
attacker behind Dockabee. Yeah, we don't speak about Dockabee all the time, crazy strong
operator, but just behind that is the Grim, so you will see it throughout the game, no
doubt, already seeing her jumping onto it in round one, and for Leapbox, Tim is going
a little waddle through the
guy, do you think, here on the
note? Yeah, very possibly. Uh
we will keep an eye on for
epoxy exactly where he's going
to push with that one for
anybody unfamiliar with knock.
Of course, she's able to remove
kind of like vigil and remove
her visual signature from the
cams so can sneak sneaky sneak
in there without being seen
any actions that she takes
like sprinting or shooting
things like that. Then it will
cause a bit of a glitching, a
bit of a touching view on the
camera, but obviously it will
rise on the side of the
camera, so that's what I'm
going to do. I'm going to
do that. I'm going to do
a bit of a touching view on the camera, but obviously it relies on somebody watching them,
it relies on somebody seeing it. So a real opportunity for Leapox to maybe get himself
into some difficult spots. I'm just having a look through the positioning of heretics.
They've got a number of players up here outside, away from site, just looking to get active
in the map, which I think is definitely the right way to play it. Bank, flexing, opens up
A big double, make it three!
Taking down a good portion of Furia.
Unless you're living up to the name there, it's a bit of a flex.
In round one, three for himself.
All in the same spot as well.
Furia's giving you a little bit too much time,
but look at this, Tim, this is the problem.
You can go bigger against Furia,
but they can just do it right back to you.
KZ on the three.
Got the track coming out of the wire.
Imagine Flexi, he's going to be his target.
They need him dead.
Yeah, absolutely. I like the territics of now.
Both got themselves back to Sark.
they know that they don't want to be losing another play out on the Roman ending up in that 2v1 so they've dripped themselves back but also, the Deimos tracks are going to have caused that as well because when he's thinking to get down stairs there's not really much they can do he knows that the Deimos is up above there's not a lot of verticality here outside of the hatches so it just creates that safety for him down inside of sight.
No mute jammers of course mute hasn't been played so there's no way to get away from those Deimos tracks when they come.
So they have four frags in back pockets.
There's still a lot that they can do here to force Flexi and Yupa to move around.
So far from the end of the world for Furia,
they are of course at the disadvantage having to push into the defensive setup here.
But you still got two Damos tracks left on side.
You can't of course rely on that bulletproof camera inside a CC
to see for Leapox once he pops on that gadget.
So still a lot that Furia can get away with.
Exactly that.
The game for heretics here is recognizing if and when that plant is going down
because that's your opportunity.
It puts you in a 2v1.
As it is, he's going down looking for kills and I don't think they've got any idea.
He is, speaks around the corner, he will manage just to prevent this coming in and leaves us now in a 1v1.
Filippox is low health as well, but Stor is you, but this is anybody's theirs.
What around what it's proven to be so far?
Uper ready, just waiting for the step up board. It's gonna be Filippox trying to get the plant down.
Uper holding his position for now, forced to move away for Filippox a little bit scared,
He's got the right idea Tim,
bros don't fake, turns out he's just
my, sprays it through the softball,
doesn't quite find the man, he's got
the right idea Tim, but can't find
him just yet, defuse it down, and
now he's got a punch, and believe
box, he just don't lose those
Tim, he's just so good.
Just no emotion, just stone, cold,
focus, absolutely brilliant
first round from both teams.
We have Flexi coming in with a huge
3K, heretics have already
I think that's welcome to big
school. That moment, isn't it?
It's like you've come in with a
three K and we've still lost
the round to fury like we're
going to have to do something
real special today.
They are.
I've actually thought that
special would have been showing
a lot in that starting point.
Wonderful kickoff from the
round from him.
Easy to drop a full case.
Of course he would.
Why would they three K in the
first 52nd?
And it wasn't special enough.
That just gives them an idea of the size of the task that they're facing.
Gleeper just absolutely, look, it's just so cold here, look at it.
Just, like, 1v1, puts the case down, finds the kill, like, so difficult.
You've got to feel for Yupa as well, he was doing the right things.
He's open the wall, he can't climb, see him can't get the line.
So, so close, with Furiotic around 1.
I wasn't even touching this as he came into the game,
but it proved to be such an explosive run.
one of their zero complaints from me. Flexi and Grubba, you know, despite the outcome they've had,
when they've had these two-one wins, they've lost a couple, they've lost down, there's one-two spots,
and of course, one-two-zero as well. Both Flexi and Grubba are amongst our top two players rated in
the whole tournament, and this is because you see them doing what they're doing in the previous round.
They like to be aggressive, they like to be disruptive. Against most teams, I've said this
a lot overcast in the last few days, when a team is really, really execute-focused, our exterior
often are nade, has got the second highest number of plants at the whole tournament, just to kind
kind of prove that point. Get
up in their face, disrupt them
in the early round, don't let
them actually go for an
execute. So that's a good game
punt from the boat to take. The
problem is, you're against
Fiora, who are very, very good
at any part of the game it feels.
So the work is cut out with
Flexi and for Grubby to work a
bit of magic.
Well this box is on the yin here
keep an eye on him again.
He'll play again. He will play
anything. We've just seen how
important he was in that last
round that was on the knock.
This time he's going to be much
more focused on, you know, being
a part of that execute. You've
He's got Nade on the sense as well, so this screams a window up onto me, giving that we're up on the top floor.
Polypox has now got himself onto the repel as well, there's three of them there, but the big problem they need to deal with, I always talk about it, and I'm gonna talk about it then, again, there's Yupo inside of Janitor, he's got the mirror windows, he's the one, he's there to try and deny any plan to take that's going to come in.
And now he's on a great spot as well on the mirror, Doug here inside of Janitor.
He's got a fresh start coming from below and it's crazy!
Brilliant!
Here's KZ!
Look at his point of view!
The plant is indeed going down to the base to get in behind us,
right behind us, right behind everything.
And there's still a KZ below for covering case anyone wants down there
with a C4.
All templates still tapping, Tim.
And the plant's been down for more than five seconds.
Absolutely brilliant from Furia.
We'll speak more about this round once it's done for now.
Let's focus on the retake from Heretic.
So lucky to find any kills they can here.
Flexi is gonna take a bit of damage. The big problem. They've got his fury on the repels for leapbox JV
Need all want a piece 5v2 in a heartbeat. This is not looking good as herds managers to get skeptic
It's a flawless round and it is flawless. There's in so many ways not just talking about mankind the strategy
The plan was perfect JV goes in opens the wall. He's there ready to go on the thermite
You got the sense. You got the smoke. She got the ying all coming in
You've got KZ underneath on the book. He opens up Janitor floor. It was the key position
It was the linchpin of the defense. It was the one I pointed out
They smoke off the mirror window and he can't go back near it because he's got KZ on the book underneath fighting with him
Brilliant stuff from Furia. You said yourself earlier Tim
Welcome to big school. It really is. This is that rude awakening
We all get what I think he's on that same wheel step into year seven of rude awakening yet
But around the world, year seven probably won't mean all that much.
Probably not.
Very much as you take care of.
The first year of secondary.
The first year of high school.
See, the second year in high school, you've got a seven to lead there.
You're covering all this, is it, Des?
So a furia.
They absolutely are.
It has been a pretty terrifying first couple of rounds.
Again, for heretics, it will be that constant question of what more can we do?
We started so strong in round one.
We've absolutely been destroyed in round two.
Let's see how the third goes as we step into that off-site,
There's Mercury here, down and open, and Staffen.
It's going to look a little bit similar to the previous round.
We've got players from Janitor, players around this top floor.
They're full wealth, that Fury are also going to control on that top floor.
That's why they've got JV on the round.
Looking to rip those floorboards up,
giving the verticals an enabled flippo thing
to work a little bit of magic on the blitz.
Which, by the way, is his third unique operator picked in three rounds.
Looking at how the heretics get themselves into this game.
How did they're going to face the rush here?
He's better be ready for this, I'll tell you now.
Kasey, he's gonna get an extra turn,
extra hit and goes, the Blitz didn't know where they're going.
That's gonna be the first kill, is it?
The backup is here, Kasey manages to find Grubin,
and the Blitz will continue pushing forward.
Is there an opportunity to get the plant there?
Not yet.
Ubud does manage to find Kasey.
That might just put the stoppers on Furia a little bit,
but Leapost does still have the diffuser in hand.
He's keen to put it down, you can see his movement,
but he just hasn't committed to it just yet.
Making great hits with Smurfs as well,
just in case there is a plant going down,
it keeps on pulling them forwards,
but Oscar has managed to get René,
that is passing, the drop comes in,
and off towards the right-hand side,
there is one more waited for Leapox,
he managed to win out a 1v1,
but can he do a 1v3 tip?
Probably a little bit of a tall order,
gets a couple of shots down onto his opposite man,
but all three still stand.
He's got a lot of time to work with him,
but this is rough.
He could almost have a full round,
he could go back outside,
he could start drawing,
I'm not going to get the opportunity.
Skeptic takes him down great round from Heretics.
And the reason is I was, unfortunately,
Fury took my time away from it because they decided
to just throw themselves into sight.
But I was going to say, how did Heretics
go about turning this around?
You know, they've been knocked about a bit by Fury
in those first couple of rounds.
But how did they stop it?
How did they put the stoppers on a side like Fury?
And they've just found the answer there.
the reality is, it's not even so much I think about what they do in the server, it's, don't get rattled by Furia, yes they've come in and had two very good rounds, heretics just need to play their game, that's the thing, they need to stay out of the heads, don't let Furia into the, you know, don't be thinking about what Furia are doing, just focus on their own game, they've proven so far throughout the tournament that they are more than capable of getting wins, winning rounds, winning maps and that's the focus for them.
I think and that's what they did in that round three, you know
They've got fury a right up in their face a rush with a blitz
Smokes all this going on and they didn't panic they weren't rattled
They got the round one good stuff for heretics and it just gets them a little bit of a tour hold in this matchup
You guys will sort of second ago
We've had the mirror and the sense taken away by the two teams respectively
Which is interesting because you've only seen those two operators on that top floor side
We didn't see them on either of them on the other two sides
So I chose more towards what they've seen there.
A bit more fun, heretic side, so we don't really have an answer to that, and we need to get rid now, of course, as we all know.
Warden does not give you the ability to see through those walls as he once did.
Senn's got the little power bump a little bit last year, and Mira on the other side.
This is a fun thing I was looking at in stats yesterday, looking at EPS per operator rather than just by player.
And Mira has got like, 10 pot chopper opportunities.
Whoever's playing Mira has won 9 of them.
Highest EPS of any operator in the game.
You all know that she's strong and by virtue of her gadgets, she was of course powerful in that concept.
But also thinking about things like the Vectrin, just how clutch she can be with it.
No surprise that team still turned towards her as a go-to band.
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of value there. I think in this situation as well,
Fury are recognising that they might not get away with clearing that mirror as easily as they did last time.
KZ wandered in underneath, so once they're on top floor again,
Heretics are gonna play somebody underneath to stop that, to stop the book.
They're going to play, you know, to avoid the smokes just cancelling out the mirror.
They're going to factor all those things in, and I think Furia are thinking, you know,
what, we don't really want to have to bring a ton of utility to deal with it in a different way.
So they take it away. But back into this round, we've got Nade marching forward on the Blackbeard.
They are going for that top floor clearance. Last time around, Furia got stung when they were
attacking onto basement frags. They were breaking. I think they got a little bit too aggressive,
moving in too quickly. They were punished. And it happens again.
gaming knowing where Oscar is, but Tim, this is the problem with the game lights
needs, you can have all the intel in the world, you can have all these players
surfing around like sharks, waiting to snap up their prey, but the prey can still
bite back. Two kills from Oscar, now down to a 4-3, so big comeback here to stage
Furia for Leapox, yet again left in a 1BX, he's third of the game it's worth
stressing, as I've said last time, now he won out a 1B1, he couldn't win a 1B3 and he certainly
cannot quite pull off a 1v4. Turns out Tim, he is the human.
He is, he's still putting the numbers up, they're still putting the numbers up.
Obviously, you know, the best spoke about those bands and how they've been impacting his stats,
it just goes to show the difficulty in playing against his furious eyes.
You know, you can try to kind of tick full epochs out of the game a bit,
you can try to impact the strategies that Fury are going to play,
and they always seem to have an answer, they always have another way around.
But right now heretics, I think are doing a fantastic job of controlling Furia the strength of that room for the basement floor is
Brilliant to see heretics not afraid not backing any plays into what I said again
Don't get right away
The fact that it's Furia getting to your head
It's just another game a stage go and play your game and that's what they're doing
They could easily have set up to turtle on site. Let's not give him anything. Let's keep it tight
No, we're gonna play we're gonna play flexing. We're gonna hold open
We're going to hold our caps. We're going to hold two thirds of the map and take the fight to them.
And I love that. It's not, I want to say it's kind of like almost a lack of respect.
It's not a case of like disrespect in Furio, but it's saying, no, we're not going to play our game based on you.
We're not giving you that level of respect. We're going to take the gun fights and we're going to win them.
Brilliant stuff. I'm loving this from Heretics.
Well, more of the same here on this top floor, a set of course with no mirror on side, they've got to change things away!
Oscar's trying again to do some magic to him.
The pain is, he's on the water!
You can expect to see the Ying being brought along by the other side, as we've already seen throughout that first half,
and that's the main upgrade that you need to be willing to fight that.
You know, there is still an element right if you don't offer enough respect to the real teachers, sir.
I'm really lost in there.
You'll learn one way or another. Now without the mirror on side, what they've actually gone for instead is the bandit's honor-grade gaiter wall.
They can still play a player inside. There you present that spot.
There's got smoke holes opened up above the reinforces.
Now you follow, of course, the classic rotation that we see between this and the sides itself.
So this spot where he can deny Tim, but as we've already seen last time round,
and then the player in below can cause an awful lot of trouble.
But if those look onside, I think I, instead of going to turn no doubt towards for Leapox on that block here,
which is Fury's most played operator at this tournament.
Yeah, he's coming in through ATMs.
So what I think they're going to try to do here for Fury here is share puck to push up metal
and start putting a bit of pressure on from that side.
It's Flexi in that position on the Aruni.
Herds is actually just jumping in through
on-off this window now.
So he's going to team up with the lead box.
They're trying to push and they create this pinch.
So Flexi is now in a super important position
and that's a brilliant kill from there.
That's all the way from the window
so he's managed to pick him up.
Skeptic does get Herds, but Nade with the same angle.
He can't keep giving them that same view through
and fall into it.
Eritix now, two versus four.
Brilliant play from Nade on the window
and he's repelling in with the fuser.
Ruby, at least, finds one.
It's KZ going down.
That means Square actually is down in control of Herosix,
which we decided that that wasn't really secure
to fly on at this point.
A little bit of confidence to be found,
but Fury, they go, cool, we're in a three versus one.
Let's push on.
I believe that's a 4K for Nade in the round.
Really well played in a different game plan being taken.
The thing is, I'll say here,
what I've seen in a few streams this week,
is it's very easy to look at that round
and go, what the hell is Herosix doing?
That was so stupid.
They were taking so many fights and losing early round.
What's going on?
And the reason is look at what happened last time and they sat still Tim the plant went down. It was still five versus five
They got battered for being static and sitting still and so what was the same back in round one?
Sometimes you got to get out of the map and try and fight and that's exactly what they try to do
But you're doing it against fury a team that and all two y's and know how to deal with teams like this
It's gonna be hard
But I'm the time that it does work. You look like absolute geniuses. I love that three man play from fury there
You've got herds comes in through law office. Yeah, you've got herds through law office
You've got fully pop through ATM
They put a lot of pressure towards metal
But are confident that like you say it does all they're gonna do is they're just gonna suck players into that kill box for
Need he's got the angle from the window. They know exactly where they look and he's going all the way through those double doors
Towards top metal and he manages to get himself to there taking down both flexi and skeptic
Not only is that a nice work play to get those two kills to create that situation, it then has an added benefit that you've also then, in a man-advanted situation, got herds and Fully Pops walking up Metal stairs because there's nobody left to prevent it, so then they had pressure on from the marble side, they can come round for Nanna as it was there, just flew in and just went and killed everybody inside the side anyway, but it's just a really, really beautiful round of siege from the area.
But both teams here are delivery.
This is what I was hoping I would escape.
They are both having passages of play where all five rounds have been won.
None of these have been lost.
I do agree.
It has been hard fought by both sides.
I think it's fair to say.
Furious so far.
He's up to the expected attack.
What?
Didn't expect to find a player there.
He's up at the window.
It's KZ to get rid of Flexi in a bad spot and gets taken out pretty quickly.
Yet again, Furious.
Just like lightning when they strike.
anyone who's out, but at a line loses their life.
Skeptic and Oscar are now the two charged,
tasked with holding on to this top floor.
You've got Skeptic at top marble,
you've got Skeptic and Janity,
you've got Oscar at top marble.
They're gonna be now the next sticking point for Furia.
The big question is,
when do they choose to give up those positions?
Really, they need at least,
Erisic's need at least one of them,
escaping with their life.
They can't have both of them dying up on the top floor.
That will be catastrophic for the round.
You put underneath going, archives and tellers could be a big one to help defend them, but no.
Skeptic sure's too much of himself and nerd cuts him down.
There's been this sort of like three layers set up here, characters, three very cool scenes
that have to be fought in with the verticals on towards that white breach.
They've got all sorts of things lined up here to make sure that they can hold comfortably
and you put it in and they get pressured.
But as you've seen, they just lose one after another.
Fury always find a way through.
They have to start their engines on drones like, uh, what do we do? Is that enough?
the last one left alive. And
for leapox to leaps him from
the server of four to half a
fury a team dominant as we
probably come to expect.
They really are, you know,
giving them no quarter here.
They are not sparing anything.
They are giving them the full
experience. Um you know, that's
one thing for heretics at least
no matter which way this matchup
that's what I'm saying. I don't
know what they're doing. They
at least fury gave us everything
whether they beat them whether
they don't. They'll know that
this is all the full works
because right now, you're looking
at their electric best. So let's
see what happens with these
bands. We're spoken on the desk.
Fox broke it down fantastically
about how heretics play the
Intel game days. They know
everything that is going on
towards the end of the round.
That is the big part of the
that's what we're going to do.
We're going to have to get
somebody else. It hasn't been
being banned against them. So
that's furious. Obviously looking
into that and saying here's what
we're going to do. Doca bit is
available isn't picked up by
heretics yet. Maybe that will
change my concern for heretics
here and something that we need
to watch in line with that that
Fox was speaking about is bank
is such a big map. There's a
lot of it to get your drones
the game. I think it would be
a very good idea because otherwise
fury will punish you if you play
that Intel game. Do you still
have the time you need to
execute? There's a lot of
stall on the side of fury for
sure. And I'm really going to see
fury trying to match them around
the map in this game. I think
it's going to be a good idea to
play that Intel game, which I
think would be a very good idea
because otherwise fury will
in the same way heretics were trying to do to Fury, when Fury, they were the ones attacking.
Imagine you see a mix of being a little bit dug in a couple of rounds, being more aggressive
in the majority of the game, because that is how Fury like to be. They don't like to let their
opponents breathe, certainly not on a map like this. And I've said it a few times ever,
we've come to casted Fury on Bank. The first time I saw that OG roster, this like group,
was actually on Bank. And I remember thinking when they're on the attack inside, I was like,
my God, it feels like you're against 10 players. It feels like they're coming out of the wall.
It might not always be their top rated or top preferred map, but they're always terrifying on it, and sure enough,
there's-
RELOADING!
COVER ME!
Well, he's gonna punish them, Tim, down goes Yupa, they had no idea he was there.
And there is the Intel Gear question.
Bank is a huge map, so you start having to-
I don't say this in a negative way, you have to cut corners a little bit,
you can't necessarily check every single corner of every single room,
because you have that time factor that starts to come in an issue,
and this was my concern for Heretics that they play into that Intel Gear,
but caught quite a hundred percent it because of the size of the map and it starts causing them trouble.
Now it has done that. They lose the entry, they lose the class as well.
There'll be a big part of holding down site whilst the plant like that.
Compare that to what you might have seen from Fury back in that first half.
They've known the player who was inside of the room there, had a player in below on principle,
waiting to catch him out. Two players pushing into, to force the drop and they're collecting the kill.
But because Heretic were blindsided by Herds, they had no time to get there.
He knew how long he could play before his time would be up and someone would be underneath.
He's played that brilliantly well, gets the glass, gets out of danger, gets back in towards site.
What more can you ask for?
Just waiting for the hatches to be opened.
Usual dance.
Yep, with the braver of JV92 just holding them close with the Zorto canisters for the time being.
I like actually doing all hatches at the same time, because it kind of creates a situation.
That's where you have to get them open, because you get them open quicker as well,
because you've got the Zorto canister on each and you can't focus on one.
So good stuff from heretics to tick the boxes and get those opened up. They are applying a little bit of pressure everywhere here
I actually like this view towards vault, but we can see that Furia are rotating around it pretty nicely down inside
KV's got to play underneath the vault. We've got Ned there as well to support him. Brilliant stuff again defensively from Furia
Just showing a great command of this site. KZ manages to pick up plenty. You're gonna stay in a 2v5, 30 seconds left to go
It's not walking good for heretics.
This is a game where you're really going to see the difference between two teams starting to watch.
The area just know when they can take gun fights.
They know when they can get away with certain challenges, and they're just taking heretics apart.
One piece at a time, like stripping the car for all of its valuable pieces.
So for heretics, there's a lesson, Tim.
Got to change things around next time around.
Maybe more pushing in as a team rather than trying to split and control a lot of the map.
Completely appreciate Bank is massive.
There is a lot to cover, but there's been someone out having any drones
the game. I think they're
not going to be able to play
anything. They're not going to
be playing any drones than
chase the shadow throughout
the entire map. It just
wasn't pretty for a first
attacking round. It's been a
Cinderella story for heretics
so far days, but I think we
might have found the villain
in this fairy tale at long
last. And it is definitely
furious right now, and I think
they are more than happy to
play the part. They are coming
in here and boiling the party
for heretics because they just
look absolutely electric. You
because they've chosen before and they've always lost the game so it didn't really matter whatever
we'll play anybody it was a choice between ssg and heretics that i believe they had him
honestly i can see why fury would sit there like this and think you know what we don't care who we
play you just put somebody in front of us because they are looking they're looking phenomenal to
do i don't want to start speaking too early about this but i'm probably gonna have however however
They lift it the hammer!
Not quite. No.
The winner of this game, as we know, goes on to play Wave-O later.
The loser goes on to play LHG in the lower bracket.
Now, we cast LHG today, Tim.
They've actually started a really good one.
A couple of theories of tournament has gone by.
They managed to get away with the one-point prize to their final game,
after which they won quite a concentration course
and managed to qualify in fourth place.
They seem to start out in the lower bracket.
I'm not saying this heresy is playing yet, Tim.
It's a bit too many. We know what heresics are like.
We're coming back to win second match in their series.
However, I finally said they'd say it for you, Tim.
in. Fiora are that team there. It'll be really hard to keep on remarking on and even here
they're just ready for everything coming against them. Nick's a drone away on the
multi-a-line. Checking outside the window. Who's out there on repel? What's going on?
So cheeky. We've seen some great class play from Nade through the tournament as well. I think it'd
be an easy one to overwalk. You know, we often look at that operator and you kind of think
that's the teams are scratching for a round. They'll bring along the class, but no, not at all.
It is very much a part of the locker, you know, one of the tools that Furia will employ and need.
There's a phenomenal job of playing that class with Simpson. Real, real special rounds from him.
So, keep an eye on him. He's tasked with holding on to kind of janitor top square at the minute, but
JV's gonna have a wander down. They could well be punished here if they are aware. They're definitely
aware. So, that's the Intel game. You've just seen it first hand there. Heretics. They were on those
as soon as JV goes down for a look boss they just drop down to the ground they knew that was coming really nice from heretics
Thank God they were aware. Could have been a horrible double kill being set to brother-wise. You already see now how low they're having to play
Gonna look some pressure there, but no JV's words his way back upstairs everyone on the second floor expecting heretics to pull something off
Because they have got all the utility to play with him, but so far
It hasn't been used now it's coming out. This is their time to step on for the Skeptics one down Tim
The last player you want to lose here on the blitz at least to get rid of the cage on your desires
Yeah, we've got a bit of a push coming from the side of actually coming through the windows and decided to just flush that
They are winning one gunfight after another
You know 1v2 effective
What's my say 1v5 on the top, but it's effectively 1v3 they get a step back from on his feet
I think it's a good choice actually get the shield
I have all of them that were downed.
Oscar manages to pick up JV at the end there.
That was a little bit of a chaotic round coming in from heretics,
but I like it again.
It shows their willingness to say,
you know what, we're not going to respect you too much here.
If you've given us a bit of space, we're coming in,
we're going to take gunfights.
They're just all repelled in.
They recognize what they were doing.
We're trying to get the diffuser down, wasn't working.
So it was a quick adaptation.
Let's just rush them and go for kills.
I like it. They played round the back of Nade.
The clash was causing the problem for the Blitz from top square.
So we play in behind him through janitor could stuff
What I really liked about it was for the first what minute and a half of that fury were trying everything to disrupt them down to
Putting a throw up on the windows on the scene who's outside to maybe threaten a jump out
Unlikely because some of them that would have been in the back of heretics mine had a player going into lobby because they realized okay
They aren't gonna hit us we're gonna try and hit them but they still haven't answered to that as well
Everything fury were trying to do to upset them so they couldn't execute
he just couldn't get away with it.
I'd love to hear the team comes back
because I can only imagine how it comes at some point.
They say, guys, we've got to go.
They keep on trying to find us here.
C4 is waiting for us.
You name it.
Let's go now, while they're not all fully ready for it.
And obviously, did catch Fury off guard.
It's a really good attack.
Still a two-round deficit to catch, Tim.
It's that infamous round nine that we love speaking about.
Why is it so important to us?
You tell me.
It depends on the score when we get there,
but in this case, at a 5-3, it is, I think,
at its most valuable is round nine.
You know, if you're sort of 6-2, then you're already way ahead.
If it's 4-4, it's everybody's the fight for.
But in this case, it gives us the difference
between a 6-3 score line and a 5-4 score line.
If you're a heretic's particular, believe me,
there is an ocean of difference between those two things.
If they can get back within one round, it feels doable.
At 6-3, you look at Furia on bank,
and you say they're going to grab a round somewhere,
almost certainly so.
Big, big one and it does not start.
Loaded, heretics fair, but look at this aggression.
Herds does manage to get the open and Flexi takes him down.
Kasey's gonna back out of that fight a little bit.
He was keen to have a little bit of a look out of electrical there,
but you know, he decides he doesn't want to be losing his life.
Let's not throw it away.
Kind of all square after that opening engagement.
It is, but it comes back to exactly what I was saying in the previous round.
Furia, every single round are looking to get aggressive and up in their face.
I thought he might see one or two.
They do just tank down a bit and play off angles and play off utility, but they're shown their own need to.
They feel so confident against heretics that KZEspecialy is so willing every single round to be somewhere,
challenging them and looking to get up in their face, and he's doing a wonderful job of it.
Yeah, exactly that. Furia playing, you know, like the big boys, they know that they are, you know, the former world jammer.
They're doing absolutely everything. They're not going to commit and give anybody any breathing space.
He's just going to be holding that line of sight through the smokes, into sight for the time being, hoping to just pick up a cheap one if he can as somebody moves across there.
Just wanted to punish them, in goes the Blitz.
Now he's going to get aggressive and try to move into a position to plant, but KZ is the one to punish Skeptic.
Yupa goes around the corner, but Nade, he's got his teammate. KZ will be down, he is collectible, the glass is gone, Uriel looking good.
A little bit easier this one afraid at every single player of her at six stacked up around square and looking to force their way in through
This doorway and then made hasn't had to move at all is that support along from JV
You'd even still hear got fully pox looking to pull off a little bit the flank on the mossy. Yes
It's a 1v3 for Ruby a lot to ask of one player of a price in a fury, but it's ready for everything
Unquestionable that made is one of the smartest players in the world. He's absolutely phenomenal
I'll come back to that in a second.
Four versus one, as Groupie continues fighting from above.
He manages to bring it back to a 1v3,
but the Chit-Cannons will start to add up.
He's challenged on the top floor.
JV92 with the kill, and Furio win the big round nine,
puts them 6-3 and 1 round away.
I just want to come back to Nade there.
We didn't quite see it there,
but you had KZ down just inside the doorway,
in the spot, kind of hard back on yourself as you come in.
Uper had managed to down him with the glass.
Nade was playing in behind the bomb chassis and you look at that situation and you think,
KZ is collectible here, he's in behind a reinforcement, there's a hard wall to the side,
they've killed three of them, you know, he's definitely collectible but Nade, he's switched on
and he can hear Flexi on the other side of that reinforcement and Flexi quite rightly is looking
in, he comes to have a look through where they've opened the soft wall to look into lower square,
he comes in to have a look to see if he can get the angle onto KZ, Nade knows that this is coming,
So he just hangs back and he takes the kill. There it is. He takes the kill on Zubaxi.
He knows it's coming. He baits his teammate for it perfectly and then goes and gets the collection anyway.
Just honestly, beautiful stuff. I know these are small things, but Nade is just...
He makes the right choice almost every single time and it's just brilliant.
Well, the advance have come on through, Tim.
There's towards two operations that the team played in every single round this half.
coming away from heretics, IE, away from Furia.
What was the challenge for Furia to take care of?
Show us what you've got. You've tried a bit of cheating,
so you've tried playing with your glass every single round.
Show us what you've got.
And their answer is to go towards one of those operators
who spoke about a lot, Tim.
It's Get Tick on to the Monty.
Robbie's going to jump on to the Deimos.
One thing that is surprising me is still not Tim.
Here he is, Inoue Dockabee.
We've talked a lot about how proficient she is as an operator
and how big a map Bank is.
We've seen Alex's damage, what we've been doing,
how aggressive both teams have gone.
No, the team really kind of saying yeah, that's when the doctor be in deal with that
They seem quite contempt without it and you know, I agree with you
I think bank is any map is a perfect map for for some doctor bit to be honest
But bank is perfect for it. You know if you're gonna have players out in the map, which we do JVs and tell us
We've got herds and staff, you know, they've got KZ up on top floor. They're absolutely everywhere
They're all over this map. So dealing with those Romans is really important last time around theory managed this that really really well
So the start man as they have now spread across the map they dip back into sight at about the halfway mark
And they recognize exactly where the pressure was coming from heretics JV
Managing to get a kill up the vault hatch for example just recognizing where they were going to be Oscar does manage to track down
One of those roamers finds the opener onto JV
They need to think about what's happening down here in server KZ
He manages to get Oscar in the trade as well
Well that's the ace gone, so that is the hard breach apart from Skeptik, and Skeptik's down in server, and he's in trouble, Dad!
Just look at this! Big trouble!
Big Skeptik! Become a Beyblade, my son! Can't hold on long enough! Knifed out in the end, and he was just left for dead there inside his server!
You're it yet again, showing, and bearing their fangs, the aggression has been unreal, but flexi!
Same as he was back in round one, it's coming up big for his team, Tim!
And more importantly, Yupa somehow has managed to get a quiet drop and into red.
He's stood in gold bars at the minute, just holding angles, and I'm not sure whether Furia
are aware of that because it was flexed from Servo.
Who got both in the kills case, he gets one, but they didn't know about Yupa.
He comes around and gets a trade, and now finds himself in a 1v1, but look who he's against.
I came into the round saying how big for it he can be.
He always makes the right choices, but not this time!
You barricade the one to fight the kill and heritage keep on fighting.
What a crazy round that has turned into Tim.
It's more the same about what we were speaking about.
The aggression back and forth has been absolutely barmy.
Pushing that hard into a Monty like that, very rarely will you see that done at the top level.
But of course, Furia is going to pull it out.
Infra attack timeout from Furia.
you can work there a little bit, but we do that cross step, I want a guy in the
little hole and I want a guy inside the SPT you waiting for the guy in the garage,
we will be crossed very good, you know, and then we can reinforce our points
too, they are taking a lot of ribbon, they take more kitchen dolls,
sure that they will not be able to open the hat all, they will not have the option
to split, they just go forward there in front of us, you know, then you play
gaining time there in the server, open the hat, you come back and take the position, you know,
You go with some words of wisdom there Tim, because there's two rounds for Furia to get this one done.
They've played this very aggressive game so far that it sort of feels like heretics have begun to adapt to here.
They've figured out what's going on in the game and we spoke about this in one of our games today.
I want to say it was actually Fury's game on Fortress, where we had in a push in towards Office and Bathroom, a push coming up through dorms and games, and there was a shield on the doorway that posed real problems for them in towards briefing.
The next time we came back to that site, see the portion below, pre-placed, it's worth stressing, to get rid of the shield and remove that threat entirely. It was beautiful mid-game adaptation.
I feel like heretics have began to do the same here. They've kind of got Fury figured out, which is why Igor I think wants to step in and say, right, how do we get this over the line here and now?
to have this done. We can not
let heretics keep on building
in confidence. We've just got a
little bit of a tech post coming
in, so we'll get everybody out
and back into the lobby and
we'll be underway. Plenty to
talk about with this one, though.
As you say, there's both sides,
I think, delivering some top
level seed year. It's been an
absolutely brilliant game to
watch. Coming into this, you
have to weigh things in the
favour of Furia, and it still
sits that way as it is at the
minute, but I love that
heretics are just not giving
them that respect. They're not
they're not giving them that
space. They are quite happy to
go in there and say you want to
play aggressive. You want to
take too big to be to three V3
gunfights and these big your
bros. We're down. We're going to
come in and we're going to fight
them with you. And quite often
they are coming out on top. So
brilliant stuff from heretics at
the minute. I think you know,
we clearly seen a team that, uh,
you know, I'm sure they'd love
to go and win the tournament. But
to them they've got it. They've
got it. You feel like they kind
of already won. You know,
they get every match win, all the support that they get, and it's all that bonus, it's
all that next step, and they play in kind of like, there's no pressure there, and I think
that's great.
You look like on day one when they won their game, you know, Oscar had an interview with
me, Losh, and he was saying, it's such a different environment, like as a tier-three
team coming into SIV greatest tier one event you could possibly come to, it's so different
to playing in your bedroom at home, like, there's lots of noise around, you can fist pump each
other.
For a lot of these guys, it's not the first time I've seen a victory at one thing, but
to play together on land itself is such a massive step up and we saw the shakes a little bit in the first map of day one since then I feel like they've really settled into themselves and that is why they're here playing against former world champions Tim and putting on a pretty good show I think it's fair to say.
Yeah, well today they're just, you know, I think they're handling it fantastically, they seem to be playing kind of without that pressure and that's what you need, you know.
What was that thing that was? Like Grubby hadn't won a map at an SI prize to come in here and then they'll have to come on and won what a few.
you. You're going to have to
win this one. I don't know. What
a few that's not. That's not
what's not. Still a chance that
they win this one 64 at the
minute. I believe we are going
to be going back in a second,
but we'll just get the game
loaded up to make sure
everything is nice and smooth
and crisp and functional
before we take you back across
there. But don't worry. It is
on the way 64 stands. If you're
joining us is round is map one
bank theory versus heretics.
They will have another game to play down in that lower bracket. I believe you say it was against OX G does it?
So that is who the loser will face the winner will go on to face weibo later on today and the winner of that game
Tim makes it to main stage. Yep
You'd already know in just a few hours time who our first team is playing in front of that crowd in just a few days time
Or I'll tell you what I'm already just out here thinking about the opening theme
We all love every single time you got that you just hear the
Yeah, I was gonna try and do the best you know, but I just know it'll go wrong.
I'm not gonna butcher it.
You cannot wait until that...
You love a singing song though.
I love singing. Every time I sing in the green room, you're just there singing something or other.
I know.
Or it's a song from the 60s, cos that's what you grew up with.
Oh, I'm out of catching strays already. It's too early for this.
Uh, six more. We go then into round eleven.
Uh, if you're interested, they're gonna try down in the basement again.
I think they know that last round was just absolute chaos.
you know, that's not how I think maybe I expected that round to play out. So if you're
here coming back and thinking, you know, let's, let's play to the game plan. Let's get this
done. Interestingly, last time around, they had three players out on the road. I want
to see what they do with that this time. So JV was playing upon first floor. That's not
the case this time. He's downstairs. We've got Philly Pox up on the clash and we've got,
no, Herds has actually returned as well. So this is quite different. Nade is up there
to support Philly Pox, but other than that, he's ready for a hatch drop. So he's, in fact,
I mean, he's dropped that if they could just put I'd be fantastic. Thank you for you. Um, they've got one player pretty much
If he's got instead two players are gonna be
First one they've got me and it is let alone her
Um, you know, they've just been cycling so much there, but they've got two players up on the first floor
That's what the role is restricted to this time last time they had one up on top floor
They have two on this floor
They're on it one really strictly in sight
They always have to fall so you know
They play this a bit safer a period. I did say back at the start of the half
I thought we'd see a couple of like more entrenched rounds where they'd really dig in and try and play off utility and playoff feature
That as we've seen them do on the attacking side really good with their three-way crossfires at multiple points throughout this game
That's what they've gone for and that probably was Igor's call was to slow things down here
Let's see if we can run the clock down as best we can and then watch heritage struggle
We're always trying to play off heretic is inexperienced here and how to deal with breaking down a tough team
JV is gonna pick up Grubbit and that's gonna be the
The opener, five versus four for Furia, and now on, that is the signal.
Everybody's back to site now.
Everybody's back to site, we've got the open kill, you know, we've won that.
Now, just let them play the round, and Furia are confident
that they're going to be able to absorb that pressure.
So, let's see how it goes.
Heretics have got plenty of time to be able to play into that Intel game
that we know they love, you know, they should be able to get a really good picture
of what's going on inside.
Where's the execute going to come from?
How are they going to create that space?
Let's hit him on the shield again. We saw him on the blitz earlier on, of course.
Really, he is the linchpin in this attack, as a Monty often is. He's got the diffuser in that pocket.
He's the one who can take ground relatively comfortably. But again, Tim, it's the stall factor that starts to make me nervous.
We've got 16 Shumikas left. We've got all three smokes to sit behind.
No doubt they haven't managed to get rid of all those Glyos yet with no Twitch being onside.
And we're down to the last 45.
Aerotix are going to have to work a bit of magic here, Tim. Really kind of channel that underdog energy
if they're going to come out on top because they are most certainly the underdogs in this round.
Here comes some of the Candelas from Flexi, at least getting into the water spot here.
Outgo the light screens as well, final 30 seconds.
As they bring out Skeptics, they're going to be looking to go in.
They're going to drop in. Instead of using this as a bait, but no!
Oscar goes to the F now, they know where the shield is now, Tim.
You see the shots coming on through down there, it's Flexi.
JV's got absolutely deep here, Tim.
Found three, Oscar, getting one back.
But he's got a 1v2 with just 15 seconds to go.
He steps in, almost gets through the hurts, but no, just about falls, turns round for the one!
Can he spin for the left? Has no idea where he is, so Tim, he's got to chase him, unless there's a pull from his team.
They've seen the pin, come on through, but he's going to try and go, no, he'll try and make the plant happen.
But Katey's eating, and Dara's going to lose this one out, they'll know where this is coming in.
He sees the light screen, can he get off in time? That is heartbreak!
A couple of hundred milliseconds was what separated them, but Fiora will take Matt 1, 7 and 4.
Brilliant response from Fiora, they're all down to that attack timeout I think.
Igor recognising the weaknesses in heretics.
I think we've had the translation from Maria, he picked up that they weren't playing Hibana,
said let's play around those hatchers, calls them off, make life difficult, make them do the work
and it paid dividends. What a fantastic turn around for Fiora, they had a great attack timeout, gets it over the line.
I will say Tim, there were some close rounds and they're more wanty ones than Fiora would have wanted.
If it's for this series, it's anything but over.
Come after me, though, after a short break.
Welcome back, everybody.
We're here at the Telestrator.
I want to talk about round two.
I mean, this was a 7-4 series for Fury.
It was a great map.
But overall, yeah, I want to focus on round two.
Now, factor of the matter is, like I said,
you can ban off Felly Pox.
You can get rid of these operators,
but you can't ban the brain,
because they had a very simple execute step-by-step
on how they were going to get CEO.
The first step is they were going to use the projectors
to block off any of the line of sight from CEO.
Second step, they are going to buck out you poor
to apply that ghost pressure.
You can't play off the mirror.
You can't play off the rotate hole.
Step three and four is they are going to open up
the CEO wall, go for a plant inside the smoke,
and step five, the Ying Candelas
are gonna go into long desk to apply any bit of pressure
to stop anything from thwarting off this plant.
And as you can clearly see with every step by step,
the pressure's being applied, the walls open,
the candelas are popping,
there is nothing on the side of heretics
that they can do to stop this diffuser from being planted.
And the beauty of the diffuser being planted here
is the simple fact that everyone on the side of Firaia
can just now play safe.
Their offense now turns into a defense.
All of heretics has to play aggressive.
They have to go for trade.
They have to try to be able to stop this diffuse and get the diffuser off.
But the fact of the matter is, you have every single player playing safe.
Herds is outside.
Fellypox is outside.
JV92 dropped down.
KZ is playing in archives.
You can't see Nate, but he rotated to the skylight to add a little bit of layer and
pressure to make sure that this diffuser is going to go down no matter what.
And it's going to seal the deal.
And KZ is a little bit of a failsafe from there.
And it really just plays out, like I said, everything from the side of Heretics.
They can't manage to fight their way through this.
just slaughter after slaughter death after death there's nothing that they can do outside
of accepting the fact that they were going to lose this round but more on the information
game as you can clearly see they had an echo they lack the information but box has a lot
more on the information from the side of heretics the information was the downfall for heretics
they didn't really run it too much and when they did like that echo in that round lacks
they did not use it they brought back another round and that was around they won and then
they stopped bringing back all together and on the attacks was the biggest issue because
Furia actually banned out the Grim forcing heretics to have to adjust to having no information look at this beautiful setup
They have everything they need for a direct take, but there's no information
There's no Grim there's no dope to be able to hint out this three-man crossfire from Furia that is locked down in this site
And what does heretics do they decide to do it anyway to push through the site with the blitz despite nodding having any
Information and it doesn't work out
They go for the rush into the site after all of the smokes have been used up out of all of the fires have been used up and the
Crossfire just takes apart everybody from heretics the onslaught comes in and that's good preparation from curia
Understanding the info game was heretics strong suit
They take it off the board and what does heretics have they have force pushes that don't work out in this three-man crossfire
Beautifully played from curia and we put a lot of pressure on Feli Fox being banned out teams are gonna look at him
But he's the brains behind the whole operation. It doesn't matter what the bands are
He's able to facilitate everything the attacks the defenses
The heretics did not have a response and the information game is exactly where they lack and it's exactly where they fell short
Yeah, it's something we mentioned right? I mean they play of that information, especially on the attacks a lot
But if they get banned out in this case see they're considered difficult for heretics
I mean they do lose the first map quite often it turns out that is the case here once again
We're going into clubhouse after so we already talked about bang being a risky pick clubhouse
What are things looking like for these two teams?
I mean I thought bank was going to be favorable for a more defensive side of team, but they didn't use the information
They tried denial operators clubhouse is not the same map that you can do that on you can't focus on down
You have to be able to crutch on that utility if your heretics you have to go back to the basics and understand
We need more information and we need to understand where fury is coming from because if we just let fury a half
Whatever they want with no information. They're going to be able to get their picks. They're going to be able to go for the main execute
That's not where heretic strong suit is is fighting back on that initial entry. I think despite losing seven four
I think it really was a good showing still from the side of heretics
I thought they were playing really well.
Ace and Des mentioned that they weren't getting aggressive.
They were willing to take those 3D3s, those 2D2s.
So I think it's important to note that,
because clubhouse is a very small map.
It's very restrictive in how you're going to play it.
So if they can play it off of each other, as you're saying,
just adding a little layer and more depth
in terms of information, I think they could possibly
push this through a map 3 oddly enough.
All the pressure over potential,
Loa Brekken is looming over the shoulders of heretics.
Can they bounce back in this series?
We're going to find out.
Indeed, thank you very much, Ann.
this is one for the books. I think heretics are showing they can give a little bit of fight
on bank, but now they've really got to do the business on a club and I don't think it's going
to be an easy one, Tim. It's furious, Matt Pick. I'm feeling a little bit worried for heretics,
but hopefully given they start on the defense, they can give us a good showing to get this one
moving. Yeah, I think Matt was their real opportunity, wasn't it? That was the one that they needed to
take, but they couldn't quite get it done, so they'll head to Clubhouse, see if they can survive.
I'm going to go to the left.
There's. Dali indeed, Tim. Of
course, operated bands will see
what comes out of this one.
We've already heard that they're
speaking an awful lot about
grim. The glass being taken away.
They also noted just a second
ago about that same lack of
talk will be that I really thought
we'd see both teams bring them
even speaking about it during
the break. And I was like,
is that actually both sides
saying, you know what? Actually
no stay out of it. What come
and kill you? It's not
going to scare you back
towards site. We don't want to
give you any indication that
we're even coming. Maybe we
see it a little bit on the
you know, an area that you can deal with that we overlook a little bit sometimes.
And that's that corner down in Arsenal, you know, there's army corner just inside a dirt tunnel
that players love to get themselves a little fortress built of Keeber barricades.
If you get your capitate down into blue, you can get those asphyxiation arrows into that corner,
you can block the line of sight on the ball with the smoke. There's a lot that can be done with the
capitate to deal with, you know, a number of positions around the map. So you sort of super
that's why we see that you have
Amrit, particularly here on
the third exothermic. There's no
surprise that it matches up with
the fact that there's three walls.
You want to breach up on that type
floor. You've got CCTV wall. You've got
construction wall. You've got your
two easy wall. If you can get all
of those wide open with those nice
really big something holds.
It's you know, it does you a lot of good on the attack.
Indeed.
Just for a second when we had to get to
It was laid down inside the bedroom.
I think he was looking for drones inside the bar the whole time,
but doing it so far from above,
so that he's able to stay upstairs in the genre of Java.
It's a really interesting little start to the other round play down,
but, hey, it's a little bit of a sliver to play behind, of course,
but Tuber out here, even out of the kai,
is still able to keep these walls locked up for a little bit longer.
Shakaran Tim, it's going to be an extended hold out
towards the east of Kashin CC,
and that is what the Tuber out here is being used to slow down.
But Sean Furrier has seen this a billion times over by now, Tim,
while he's getting focused on getting that one opened up.
This team will do the business over towards the QZ side of things opening up the other key wall they need
They've also got single VIP open. It's already a lot of the hard yards been done by the side of furia
It's just slowing things down a little bit on that CCTV side
So for the time being furia will take the opportunity to send in the Rateros
But really decide where that one's gonna go. I think just I think you know using those seconds using those seconds to get a little bit
of Intel as well and I like that. You know using that multiple functionality of the gadget
just try and get yourself every little bit out of it and then get it into position to
take that Vulcan canister down, which it does. CZZV will finally be open, that's going to
lock flex it inside of cash or it can drop back of course through construction societies.
Just kind of rotate in between there and top red at the minute and it's going to be supported
by Groob it up there. They are going to be coming under some pressure fairly soon I would
Here it comes around the corner, JV looking to push in with the Hibana.
Drone goes ahead of him as well, they know that he's in precision, but he's flexing.
Absolute beauty, look at the aggression, they're just sporking about it on the desk.
Heretics willing to take the fights, they open up, cash wall, does that force Flexi out?
No, it gives him a window to find his kills.
You've got Flee Pops and Herz, both pushing in towards construction here,
and Herz has just walked in towards site and got one for free.
So while the extended hold is being broken and attacked by the side of Furia,
they're also hitting sites in there trying to keep paratix distracted.
They know that Ruby's snuck top ready, he's got two choices, fight through them or work underneath,
so they've decided to push into site. They've got Oscar pinched and taken him down,
so it's all up to Grubby, he chooses to fight rather than to rotate. He manages to find the
first taking down Filipec, but diffuser will be glanced at Nid, finds that final kill and that
that is going to be round
course out for Furia. That was
a textbook pinch from them.
Beautiful, beautiful stuff. We
know that Furia are a confident
team, but I really want to
highlight what they've just
done in that round and trying
to break open the extended
hold about two players pushing
towards construction as others
pushing towards the breach. That
is so rare. At most what you'll
see is a player holding a
construction window in case
players trying to treat. Maybe
missing this from Furia. Perg
to drop onto war's gym window
and get a three case on there
like he did the other day, but
players at the same time, the extended hold is being broken.
That just screams the confidence that Herds had in his teammates
to make sure that extended hold was dealt with,
and no one will come behind him.
Because he walks into site and just kills a player for free.
They've got site. They've rushed inside.
Get the plant down.
What more is there to say?
They've almost done two phases of the round at once.
And so often, do we talk about Claude Powell's
being a checklist map?
You break the extended hold.
You get control of construction.
You have a player inside a logic.
You get to choose the open door.
You do this.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
They've cheated a little bit and done two things at once.
and it is caught at the other side off guard.
Really smart round from Furia, they go at 1-0 on the attack.
Five seconds left before insertion.
For them, heading into round two, and you just...
Starts to get a little bit worried for heretics now,
with the way that first round played out
and how clinical Furia were.
This is their map choice, this is a map they are phenomenal on.
I think that they are going to continue to show us that it's...
If it does end 2-0, I'm not saying that it will do.
Heretics have certainly got the capability to back into this.
It'll be a little bit...
I don't think he'll tell the whole story. I think the history books will show too. No fury against heretics and you kind of look at it
I think I'm here pretty much as expected
But they do look to get aggressive again and take the fight here to heretics
They're not gonna be
Down by the rush coming in from fury they managed to get Oscar along the way, but otherwise
It is too silly
So if your boy, Derial, will not be stopped. Committed is the word, but they shouldn't.
Static, it's going to rack up the kills from the go-all canisters, but it was the man on the hatch that was doing the damage.
And he knows the player's bottom main as well. Now he's going to retreat back from that one as he's based.
Come on through, trying to isolate the 1v1, but they ain't giving him nothing, Tim.
Great discipline being shown. Surely, he sees the pixel of VR. We can see the outline, Tim.
to get into a great spot. To
shut the whole thing down. Just
another great example of what
like mentioned on the desk, and
that is that heretics on the
side of the table. They're going
down both fantastic response
from the other side. They went
for players exploding towards
pool table of thought. Oh God,
Tim. They're going down. Moto
They're full sending it, but
Oscar held them up for just
long enough on that castle that
that is that heretics are not scared here. They will not back down. They are happy to
take the fights. The rush comes in. They'll think, 2v2, we'll fight you 2v2 and they came
out on top. Really well done from heretics to hold on in that one, one, one and it does
just make us feel like a nice extra minute to that round for your real upgrade on your
base. We know that they can win here. Heretics, they're certainly here to play still. Is
this here? Yeah. Let's get to the shooting at the globe just before he gets down as well.
timing and honestly we said it a few times and it feels so easy to repeat but I am genuinely
really impressed by heretics. I can think of so many tier 2 teams that would have showed
up here and been terrified against the former world champions. They wouldn't play the way
that heretics are playing into Furia right now, they are taking the fight to them, they
aren't being scared and that is absolutely wonderful to see. I just worry that Furia
has got so many of these ideas in my life we saw back in round 1 where they have that
other gear they can kick into when it's required.
Yeah, I love the mentality.
This is one hell of a stall up there.
Absolutely, it's got on. We've got multiple layers of Vulcan canisters there.
Keep an eye on that second one. It's quite deep.
My concern for the second Vulcan canister there is, like, kind of...
I guess you activate it from the elbow, maybe,
but I don't know if you're already in big trouble,
but at the time that second one's getting shot out,
there's not really too much of an option to get it from inside of sight.
it could be difficult especially if CCC has been briefed, which is going to be immediately, so we'll see how that plays out.
But overall, yeah, I like the set-up, and I think I'll start by looking to hold off to Catwalk.
Javing a little bit of fun some artwork on the wall here as well, of course, make sure they can definitely get inside with the bottom of the left of the other three.
This gives you enough of a one-way angle that they might not really be able to see you here unless they're catching around that corner,
and you're already in a losing position there.
I think you're seeing why you don't really tend to play mirrors on that wall, though it has been shot out, however.
However, it is the head height hold, and that's maybe the key one for you to know here, is they can now use it on the defensive side to shoot and support their player inside of Garage.
I'm just going to see the Selma charge being taken off, which is going to slow things down a little bit. I think they'd want him to try and work from that jacuzzi wall, but he knows now.
But he's going to be matched up head to head with a few gunfights if he wants to try and take over there. Goobit is inside of Gib.
Ooh, almost.
Gonna take a lot of damage there as he just tries to move through that rotation.
That leaves Oscar and Groovy both low health at the minute.
That's not an ideal start for heretics,
but actually filling position in the shower is an important point.
They just knew what to expect there.
Herse is ready and waiting.
They were so desperate to kill.
Nade, that leaves Frizz above that.
Well, Klax is gonna swing. Doesn't quite find his man.
Nade down to 1 HP and they're still groovy here to support as well to the right-hand side.
They've been killing off here.
He's a down and advanced football herds them.
Horns inside construction window.
For the second time this game walks in towards site, murders everybody,
and now it's got you pinned down inside of site itself.
And that's the end of the round, Sinfuria.
Yet again, start slow.
But when they say go, bloody hell do they put their foot to the floor?
That's it. It's just a swarm, isn't it?
It's just like, you know, sort of angry bees just swarming all over you.
Are you scared of bees, Tim?
I'm not.
I mean, I'm not scared of you buzzing at me, that's not, you know, am I carefully cautious around animals or insects that can sting me?
I've definitely seen you, I've seen you brick yourself when I wasp. No, no, no, no, no, I'm not having that. No, that's slanderous.
Others in the UK chat can definitely corroborate that theory. No, no, no, there are other talent members that are concerned about wasps.
a story I'll tell you over time.
All right.
I'm fairly chill, all right.
Easy with an anonymous name.
What happened?
Damn, I was terrified.
All right, fair enough.
Sorry.
All said, Florence, it's very good.
A wonderful round of said, like, yeah,
it hurts me to get to move his feet,
but when he did move his feet and bolted through that window,
he's already found himself three kills.
And again, it's a reliance on your team
to give you the right information,
to tell you when is the appropriate time to go,
excellent stuff, yet again.
And heretics, the second time I've watched her,
face Brintz towards site there and is completely overwhelmed.
Poor Yupa.
That's the second time back in round one.
It was on the Goyo inside of site and no idea how it was coming in behind him because
he thought the extended hold undetected and here I don't think he quite realised just
how close Hurds really was.
Two onto Furia.
Great start on their attacks here.
Back to Jim and bettering we go.
I'm feeling that Furia can break it down again as well as they did last time.
it was very much a problem for heretics kind of all over the map really there was the challenge
into cctv that we would expect but then there was pressure immediately through instruction
to create the pins really quickly. It's great stuff from furia and even though we're controlled
a bit more interestingly we do have you put on the clash though on garage catwalk so it's
a problem that furia need to figure out. You've completely swallowed those up. I'm
30 I was going to say the clash is a great way to slow down this aggression from furia
at the very least it gives you air quotes safe information behind the shield you can
see what's coming you can tell your team okay precious building up here there's a player
pushing in that way I've slowed him down for you come and help me out I've been saying
all week the real threat is a really good clash it's the teammates that come around the
clash and in this case Tim KZ is the real danger getting rid of Plexi found the entry
to a delayed trade is still a trade Tim.
Five of the versus sorry four versus four as it's flexing you can take it down the
to brown he's gone so level pegging jv92 is looking at it he wants to move in
through cctv as we saw last time but he's just having to wait for the fire
soon as you find it's time for Kosh to leave and they will do that
just gonna plant that shield on the cash door so they can kind of continue
fighting but they're near to clear that out and again fury they just see the problems ahead of them and they have all the answers
Master's feels like a turtle without a shell,
introduces the shield, don't she?
Yeah.
Just running around with it,
seemingly going just like,
yeah, I can do this still.
It's all good.
It's painful to lose that shield
as it would have stalled out
a lot more time for them.
We've got an excellent break
of the extended hull so far by Furia.
Now they know they've got this
advantage in half a round to work with.
They haven't got to keep on pushing
in this direction they don't want it to.
They can rotate away then get back on the roof.
They can look over towards Jacuzzi.
It's so desired.
They've got that Havana onside,
although only two pellets left means
they aren't going to be able to get
that breach open up.
So this does make things
things that little bit more tricky just getting on to construction window now and again all
this is about is just made cutting down the options for heretics here just you know limiting
the ways that they can move around and they can just sort of furious start to lock them
down inside a site and that's exactly what we're seeing kind of the mobility from heretics
is all gone now 45 seconds left to go it's about furious just getting into positions
Nice to be able to challenge these gunfights, Casey.
Absolute beauty onto Oscar.
The trade is there.
Doesn't matter.
He will likely be left down because they
know that they can just flood in, pick up the final man,
and Furia really starting to hit the accelerator.
Another wonderful example of they can slow things down
and then speed things back up.
You asked most teams what kind of teams you struggle with.
The ones that go fast or the ones that play
during the ring slow?
Let's listen to that.
We're actually playing very well.
We're getting open play every fucking, every fucking round.
But we're getting the opening pack and we're still denying them all, like it's an open crowd.
Now see when that happens at ELC, fucking hell of a loud and kidding us with what we're playing today,
and we're playing play aggressive, and we're playing with the YG, and we're playing DB,
like what the fuck do we want today? Because when we get that opening play, we don't communicate.
We're not responding to one another. We're not right. We have to fucking talk, right?
What have we got to do when we get that fucking opening kill? And that's the most important thing for me, right?
If right now when we get the opening pill, there's no really quality, if I'm not wrong.
What is the plan? Right, okay, we're falling back here, we're going to be down here,
We have a hard zone, the next one will be hard zone, like talk to one another, right, and we'll be fine, we'll be fine, we'll be fine, we will be fine.
Let's go guys, look at his last fucking defenses, what type of feeling.
Moving the very, very thick Scottish accent over that is DMC, he's the coach of the boys on Heretics.
I think his message was pretty loud and clear to me, he didn't use the whole 45 seconds to basically say, we aren't talking to each other.
And they are playing Malton, as we said throughout Bankers, as we've seen throughout this map, they do start strong.
Flex is getting a good number of entries. They're being competitive early on, but the problem is them.
Fiora is leading down. It makes it hard who heretics them ready to kind of go, okay.
Now, what do we do next? Where do we go? Do we all fall back and stay together?
Do we push them to go more aggressive here? Fiora just kind of let them have their moment in the sun
and then go, cool. Now we'll all step up the heat. And as I was saying before, we got into that attack time.
Now, if you ask teams, do you struggle more with slow teams or fast teams?
The most when I've asked that question to them say, we struggle more with teams that can change between the two.
They could all to the tempo mid-round. They can go slow, then they can be really, really fast,
and they can slow things down again, you just don't know what to expect and I think back to
walls back in the EUL back in the day they were an excellent team of being silent for half the
round then suddenly inside 10 seconds they've brushed you in everybody's dead, most of you
listened to Beahead for them it was an absolute nightmare to deal with at the best of times
and I think you're seeing a little bit of that from Fury here today just being very unpredictable
and Heron Ticks are struggling they've lost three defences now and that is not a good start to
to clubhouse I'm afraid. No, it's not ideal the last place that you want to be on clubhouse with furia attacking in the first half is behind because they've got that defense to go on to in the second and they are going to be so so difficult for heretics to break down. I think part of the problem there as well. You know, as you say, the MC
you know, we're not talking, we're not communicating.
As the desk has said throughout the day today,
heretics are a team built on intel and information.
If you start cutting that communication down,
you're starting to lose one of your big strengths there.
You know, it's not kind of the droning intel
from attack that you might get,
but it's the, you know, the people,
cams, the noise, the sounds of defense.
You know, we were talking to Doki yesterday,
it was fascinating listening to him about
what the players could pick up on defense
from signs I can hear one speed running so that tells me it's probably the
he's operating up all that information that's being missed if they're not
communicating. So despite here where I've got themselves the entry once more it's
the Hibana that falls down and the lovely vault level hold to have to go and
jump through here for the side of Furia. You do get lots of that animation so
angles can be held by heretics onto it knowing the Furia can't simply kick back
out again once they start the animation to climb on through. So looking good here Tim
there's still a good amount of info they've got one of those drones falling away on the
And of course, have those black eyes, no IQ on you, that can be quite effective just about getting away with it though.
Robbie, gonna remove May, KZ in for one in for two, make it three, Tim!
They did all the hard work and now suddenly we're down to a 2v2, and they've gotta retake the site!
FullyPox is putting the diffuser down as well, big up, backhanded from Aerotix and this is the problem.
Playing against Furia, manages to take down KZ, so it is all up to FullyPox, he's gonna go with the Reaper, he's on the ying,
He kills half-candellers that he can play, he sends one of those in, that's going to give him a bit of an advantage at least.
He's just trying to move around, he's right on top of that, the views of the gunfights are going to have to come surely.
Last, no he's got one more candela on top of this, but he's going to win the fight, but it can't do it!
Fights the manages to find his man, and heretics fight their way back in, just in time.
Outside of a slight moment of terror from KZ3, kills pushing in from blue.
They managed to recover at the round and they'll be delighted about that one team does show that they can do it
But that stark reminder that it can all end in an instant if they're not careful
Crazy doing exactly what he did back at the side of bank and just absolutely terrorizing them
However, they hold on to him. Cassie see gonna be where they close out the half here in round six
Let's see if they can get that three three split
It'd be a real turnaround for heretics to be fair with the way that fury are a played
that. You know, what a result
that would be for them because
you're on the attacks that they've
won. Quite frankly, it's
unbeatable, but heretics are
digging their heels in and they're
not giving anything away again. A
lot of teams could have crumbled
there when Casey gets that
triple kill inside the side of
that you think you know this
one's probably over, but
heretics they know that they can
the game. We're going to go to
CCTV and cash. Let's just have
a look at the set up. They've
got they've got the mirror
again. Looks like the Jager
for skeptic is going to be
towards holding catwalk again.
I think you pull will be the
one playing there on the
clash. I imagine that we will
see who actually finds
themselves out there and very
similar holding to her. It's
recognize where the players were and when they fought and told them.
So it didn't really matter what utility was there.
They recognized that there was three over, gym and bedroom side.
So they just went in there and got some fights.
Swapping man!
At least he has shown himself as on the garage door.
Try and give a little bit of attention over here from you.
Of course, Clash is over here.
It isn't out towards gym and bedroom, which is where Fury found so much success last time around.
But as you say, it's that same investment again in the garage hole.
We've got the three ADSs down. We've got two glow canisters.
a clash inside that mirror window that's been placed and opened up to give them a line of sight through
and we're really going for it and I would be very very surprised if we see fury trying to break
this open especially without that capitol available to them.
This is going to be opening stop, but I'm just going to prevent him from rotation already
sort of working and as well something that heritage needs to be aware of. He always likes
to have somebody underneath here or able to get underneath if possible for this sort of a defence
So far so good. It's certainly better than last time.
They've got Ruby moving around underneath as well actually.
So, you know, back on trust, something fury you need to be aware of.
Ruby has moved down there. He's got...
Doesn't have any impact near its left. They are aware of it.
Here he goes again.
That's why KZ was playing in clean stop.
He's been walking KZ for a minute to put himself in the most difficult positions, isn't it?
He wants to be the one that's going in there and just really asking questions of heretics.
Ooh, the foreswash all the utility here as well,
because there's now an air drop between you first.
I was going to say, he had very little choice there.
If you stay, he's probably going to get stayed,
toss that empty, he was in a bit of a difficult spot to be in,
and now there's all that utility on there
that no one is currently available to shoot out.
And Oscar, who was the closest to that mirror window
that had been shot out to shoot them,
has now been taken down too.
So everything is working against them here,
almost in terms of reliance on the utility
for the side of heretics.
This is what I said the last time they set this up,
I was a little bit concerned about those Hulking canisters,
and how do you detonate them,
are going to be the first half
of the game. I think it's
going to be a very difficult
game because as soon as the
CCC wall is breached, you can't
play them from inside of there.
You're reliant on the catwalk
player. And as we saw a full
re-adult with that perfect
but once again heretics are
fighting back. He's going to
look to put the diffuser down.
Perfect opportunity. One V3 for
Leapox finds him with the glass.
It's going to be a four to half
for Furia. And as they move on
to the defense, heretics have
the game. The first half went
then to fury were up four and
two on the attack. They moved
onto the defense. My slight
worries Club is a more defend
decided map than bank, and I
think fury Aaron is spot here
where they know that they
really got heretics on the
road. It's looking to be that
two zero would be furious. Go
on to play way vote in our third
game of the day, which will be
a stellar game. By the way,
way vote the best attacking
team at the tournament so far.
It's going to be a lot of
stuff coming up against fury.
If it goes this way, heretics
to fight for survival. Yeah,
they've been a lot of fun to watch
of way, but definitely looking
work over in that game as well.
We've got to say, no, I think it's
tomorrow. Should they play way
by first? No, first round, the
lower bracket is tomorrow. Yeah,
that's right. There's nobody goes
on today. Um, we have we've got
the week over the way, but game
on game three later on today
when we see the winner of this
game. Take them on and very much
looking forward to that. They've
been a project to watch so far
of way above. Um, I hope they're
watching what we're doing right
now because it looks like that
It looks like that's probably gonna be the match open.
Mm.
You're not in the mood for playing games, I don't think.
Well, I was looking at it earlier when it came down to our map picks,
and these are like middle-of-the-road maps of Fury.
Like, they can deal with that, and they can leave them as a decider.
Given the choice, they wouldn't pick them as their go-to maps,
and I think that's quite intentional by them.
It's not disrespect to Heretics,
because these are maps of Fury are played and are known to play,
but I think they're keeping their stronger ones in the back pocket
when they need to fight off against a team like Waybo
to make it to the main stage.
you can't show all your bars in one go.
So think you're going to see something a little bit different
for the matter about veto phase later.
However, that's assuming, of course, they get there.
There is still every chance the heretics can blow us away here
on the attacking half and take us through to Shelly,
which is our decided map.
7, an important one, I think, here.
You know, normally we look towards maybe a little bit later
in the game, that kind of round-nive.
Particularly important here, because we're going to see
how fury are defending and how heretics going to go.
So, I think we're going to see a little bit later in the game.
are defending and how heretics go about breaking that down. Can they bring that intel game? They've
got the docker bee onside. Again, we're going back to Fox's original point about how this team
play, quite an advanced playstyle, an experienced playstyle of using all that intel they've done
well, given that they're not an experienced roster in terms of play. They've developed that, but they
are going to get caught out this time. They might have the intel, but they don't have the shots as
This kills rain in for Furia, his attackers falling apart quickly and that is not a good
signal for Heretics in the beginning of this one.
Find yourself completely concussed here, and I mean by the bullets, the gadget just
helped at that point as well, JV with the close.
Nice idea I think from Heretics, they were trying to push into 3 or 4 places at once,
front door, kitchen and into ward stock.
We've seen Furia do exactly the same throughout the entirety the first half, with how they're
trying to flood certain rooms of the map and just overwhelm their opponents. Fury, though,
it's fury it's in there. You get a struggle to overwhelm them when they're seen and experienced.
All there is to experience throughout Siege's history, and they dealt with that very, very
handily. And again, I'll come back to a point I made back on bank. Just because an idea doesn't
work out, it doesn't mean it was a bad idea. You just list out in the execution there and you lost
all your gunfights. It's going to happen. It is, it is. Yeah, I'm a little bit concerned. I think
that's what's going to happen.
And heretics thought they have
shown us time and time again that
they are able to overturn expectations
that they are able to win the rounds
that should be unwinnable for them.
I think they're going to need to do that
a couple of times in this one at least.
They will this time be attacking onto
CCTV and cash.
We'll be looking towards garage catwalk
to see how far we are going to go about
doing that.
And I think that's what's going to happen.
to see how fury go about dealing with this. I think it's literally going to be JB92 on
the Azar, taking the gunfights and holding onto it behind the keeper barricades. He's
got some barbed wire out there as well just to prevent a push upstairs, but looking at
what heretics have brought along, I don't know how they really deal with that catwalk.
They've got two nades and they've got the candelas. They're probably your best chances
if you want him to go in there and actually take that area. Maybe they play to work from
the other side. It's true.
Let's see Casey jump back here and try to do it.
He's moved on towards the top side of the platform.
Yes, they can't find it so easy.
Casey, I think he's really fancying something.
Have to impact to jump out or to spray.
Hope to try and get rid of his Ophir, but no joy in that one.
Dupert lives to fight another day.
Just seeing the Echo Drones inside the site.
They're going to be a little bit of support for JV
from one of those Echo Drones as well.
you know, maybe obviously a thought always towards the denial of a plant towards the end of the round,
but also a good counter should that Monty be brought along. It's a good opportunity to get the shield break
or any others trying to bully JV up on the catwalk. He's just deploying those keeper barricades slowly
and keeping himself mobile to challenge onto door, but the first clash is likely to come around this main door.
I think although we're here, the Candela's pushing in the flashes, come along with it.
It's pressure towards JV92, is the aim.
Are they able to get the kill?
This is what I said, I just didn't feel
that they had enough utility to push him out of there.
We know that JV is fantastic at holding down this location
without the WMI, without the Yeager.
He will just lock himself in there and get mobile hurts.
Manage us to get Grubbit.
Too easy. He's the flawless round.
Exactly that. Furia, a little bit too easy from them.
6-2 and cruising towards a two-map win.
the whole fort for himself up there on that catwalk and it was one that heretics could just not
breach the front gates of. Very, very decisive and I think like you Tim, it's quite clear to see
which way this game is going unfortunately for heretics. I still believe that they've got a
good attack in them. The problem is Furia have got very many very very good defences in them
that's making it hard to get anything away. We always used to say you know it was kind of like
a right of passage to have Nesk run over you on one and you know obviously Nesk isn't here this
I think that baton is going to have to pass now to the right of passage is having fury a runoff for you
I just saw one of the players on the side of fury pop in the chest saying you don't play the glass screams
You can't assume means don't you don't play screams against bazillions therefore you have absolutely no idea
What it is that you're getting hit by right now because it is
I'd expect and pretty much just convert what you can see on your screen
that we're going to have the extended hold out towards cash and cc is a staple of the site
I actually can't think of the last time I was in the site but spend the time where we haven't had an extension into
Cc. Yeah, it doesn't really exist anymore. You kind of look at the top floor as it's almost one big time
Even when you play cash and cc you have the extension out towards master bedroom
And you know we very rarely see one without the other beautiful start
Oh
It was easy as that. Skeptic looked like he was checking that angle, to be honest with you, but this is what you're playing against, Des.
I hope it's getting warmed up for that Wave-O game, Tim. No, depending on the same kind of aggression later, it's definitely a good way to get yourself warmed up and ready for it.
Jay-Z is down, though. Skeptic is also offline as you saw earlier on, and that's only inside the first 30 seconds thing.
It's losing that Grimm. You don't get to, we say it all the time, you don't get to choose your opening pick.
If it was gonna if you did get to choose you'd have one of the half breaches or you'd have the grim grim being the one heretics
Have used for him more than anybody else at this tournament and so taking him away
That's gonna remove a lot of their intel and a lot of their ability to opportunity spot
And prevent you from moving back into space that they've claimed so furia to great start for them
It is it's absolutely wonderful. You know as a operator grim
I've already spoke about the second highest picks at the tournament so far with a fantastic attacking win rate
It's quite similar to Dr. B in terms of how it works out, but of course the extra flood
of room to prevent defenders moving into it if they stay there, they're dead to rights
because you have a constant real-time thing on where they are inside of that space.
With either of those to drop down, it's fair to say Grim can take over a good chunk of
anywhere surrounding a would-be execute or room that you want to get control of.
So, since carry on forward here, down to halfway point of the round, and Harris six
at least feel they've got the control they need on Crap the CC, which they do to start
being able to challenge onto these balcony windows.
But we've got two players from Furia now holding up inside a construction team.
They've fallen back from the first defence point, they're at the second and they've still got the site.
Yeah, they're making it very difficult for Oscar to be able to move forward here.
Keeper Barracay has continued to be deployed by Herds.
He has taken quite a lot of damage though, so that is one concern for Furia at least.
Nade goes in, forces the player away from spot behind.
Bed, it's fully pox, manages to get away with it and they get very little done there on the back of it.
It was a great near from heretics, but Furia again just...
Oh, the great movement.
Oh, ho-ho! Nice!
Grubby getting rid of at least hers on the flank.
That could have been disastrous,
because there were two players on that balcony, him and Yupa.
Perz gets out there with a great pre-fire,
could potentially have killed two and ended this game here and now,
but he has been dealt with.
Now we've got a three versus three.
Flexi joining for the attack as well, as you can see,
in towards construction.
So, the next hurdle has been removed.
Now you've got to pass on Scythe to get that off Tim.
Eupor has taken a lot of damage there on the window from an aggressive full Epoxy who was holding that angle with the Frost.
They know that the push is coming into logistics.
JV does get flexied, Groovy however finds one of his own on to near.
That's the clash gone, JV.
Taking a lot of damage, him and for Epoxy have been forced right back now.
It is 2 vs 2, 15 seconds left to go.
Eupor just trying to bait out a little bit of movement with that attempt to the plant, but it doesn't work.
Groovy gets one, can he make it four for the round?
Needs to get to the one here as well, but no, believe what?
Is that man again?
He's knocked him out of the lot today, Tim.
You can ban him out, but you cannot stop his impact in these games.
Furia, with a possible 2-0, they move on to face Wave 0 later today.
You can ban the operators, there's what you cannot ban the brain.
That is the reality, heretics just finding themselves.
I've done a little bit against Furia there,
but there is no shaming that many that have come before you.
They've also found the same. A great performance from them. They will now drop down into that lower bracket match against OHG that will be played.
I think it's tomorrow. That will be for their survival in the tournament.
The area they move on in the upper bracket and now playing for a spot on the main stage, later today, against Wibble.
I said on social media between maps that it feels like the score line is too inherited to be served as I think they can do it against OHG.
But of course we'll find out what that looks like tomorrow. So now we'll go to a break.
The moment we come back our desk will break down Furious excellence from this series.
I
Big victory for Fury here, making it look a lot like a real game.
Big victory for Fury here.
it look real easy now, Philly Pox, thanks for joining me. Before this, I was talking to Heretics
and they told me we're not afraid to play Furia. We're going to come in and take it map by map,
but you look like you were controlled the whole time. Yeah, they said that, but I think in the
server they were afraid. So you guys were comfortable the whole way, even throughout the
onslaught, the clubhouse, the way things went down. It was kind of scary to witness, but
you play Wable after this, a team that a lot of players here and viewers at home have been looking
looking at as a scary team, an APL team that can go the distance.
Anything you want to say to them in preparation?
They are playing really good Siege, Wabble.
They were always a good team like Joe, Gleed, that car.
And now they have Gohan, and I think they are playing really good Siege.
And I don't want to trash talk them, but I think it's going to be a good match and
we're going to win.
See, this is the thing you take.
You have Gohan, a Brazilian on there.
Do you think the key success in Siege, just get a Brazilian?
Yeah, everyone should get a Brazilian coach, bro.
and someone player everyone and I don't want to trash talk them because Gullhain is really strong so
I don't want to mess with him smart man that's why that's why he's world champ thank you very much
A2-0 for Furia means they match with Webo and later today if they win that one they make it to main stage
it sounds so easy but it might be more difficult this one though for Furia turned out to be quite easy
yeah map one is a little back and forth the map two is just all furia the whole time yeah
and I really want to pay attention to the opening kills engagement something that we said heretics
was lacking on they did fairly decent when it came to this match but still
furia the experience under their belt is something that carried them all
throughout this match they understood exactly what they needed to do and
denied the information game they understood everything when it came to
the preparation of this match which is why it was so easy for them. Yeah and I
think when really push came to shove when you look at the strategic prowess
from the side of furia and how that we already highlighted belly pots I mean as
we said you can ban out his operator but he is going to facilitate round after
and what we were seeing each time,
just due to their success on attacks.
I mean, it really did fall on Felly Pox's shoulders,
but just from the side of everyone on Furia
so far throughout this tournament,
they've all really been playing very well in their spots.
Now, although Felly Pox didn't have to be
the most amazing game when it came to the stat sheet,
it really was a very transparent game
on how the IGLing was able to lead Furia.
Everybody that is putting up amazing numbers,
heard JV90D with KZ, it all comes down to strategy,
the positions that you wanna play,
understanding your team and all of that brain power comes from the shoulders of
Felly Pox to be able to say where we're gonna go how we're gonna play against
Heretics and the game plan was just flat out brilliant from Furia and it
understood perfectly on what the game plan how to break apart Heretics was and
that looked like exactly what it was. Heretics does not have a response and it
really came down to onto the shoulders of Felly Pox all for him so I have to
commend him because I understand how difficult it is to be an IGL to be
getting banned out to still always have a trick up your sleeve and you have the
teammates to put in the positions where you aren't able to physically play it with the stats and with the player response as
Well, I feel like it looked like just another day in the office for fury with a 2.0. That's very
I mean that's fitting to say as well
With the struggles, I guess they've shown us earlier. No losing them up today start losing much of topics
It feels like they're really ramping up now to be a serious force to be reckoned
Yeah, and that's the scary thing because even when we even highlighted back during the SAL
That was by far the strongest fear that we said with each and every single game we saw them improve
We saw them get stronger. We saw their dynamic ship that made them look like the elite fury that we saw back in 2023
And this is not for everyone's sake here
This is not the fear you want to start seeing come alive because once this beast starts waking up
They are going to be a threat for every single team going forward. Yeah, I completely agree
I mean fury is just the team that just because it shows that they can bleed doesn't mean that they can't turn it on
It instantly be the team that has won the invitation all before and that's the fear for furious once they get the ball rolling
There's no way from stopping them.
And before we do go to the second match of the day,
we put two of NA's biggest jeffers together in one room,
both in different ways,
but we're going to talk about some of their own generations in Siege.
How we doing?
What's up?
All right.
I watched Troy.
I mean, I first watched CG Sports with Paolo when I was like 12.
Yeah.
Like I got climbed on.
It's like, oh, you're a trokler.
It's like, hey, you're not going to win.
Second place for life.
I want to say a year, maybe two years before, so like 16, 17.
I'd like heard your name and like, okay, like he's going to be good when he's 18.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I remember on console, I'd steal some of his pulse threats, so I'm Oregon, I play pulse
a lot.
So yeah, I mean he's definitely a role model from all the way back in the day.
So yeah.
Oh my god, okay, well that's fine.
Okay, I've seen this like a million times.
This one's iconic, yeah.
This one's iconic.
Wasn't it the flank drone?
It was the flank drone.
The flank drone.
That's why you get on cams.
Well, so I'm pretty sure they were saying this was back when, if you had two drones,
If you threw your second drone, it would delete your first one and if you threw his second drone, it would delete the kitchen door.
Yeah, I didn't see that guy.
He can kill this Blackbeard before he gets around this corner.
Blackbeard's on his drone! Canadian doesn't see him! Canadian peeks over the top, kills the third by George, but then will fall!
Yup. Oh my god. How old were you there? I don't know, I think it was 19.
But that's the second kill! Retro, they're gonna get more than enough time to defuse!
Continuum of the first North American team to win Rainbow Six Pro League!
Holy sh-
Yeah.
10 years ago.
29 now.
What did I actually feel like? Like, cause this was, like, this was a side, yeah.
Yeah, this was the first S.I. Yeah.
I mean, obviously it felt great, but I don't remember a ton.
time yeah I lose my mind so yeah also they were like they were like NA rivals
that we played the mobile time yeah okay this was like the first big crowd yeah
that was on your favorite yeah like this was the first big crowd I ever
experienced which is really cool at this point like like I said it was like
just it was just knowing the maps in my head like I felt confident the whole
time and I think the team always kind of fed off that anyways and like I never
seemed like we doubted much. Yeah. I think that's the strong thing, right? Like you have
the belief, even when you're down, right? Exactly. As long as you have the belief that's
all that matters. Yeah. As long as you know that you're still in it. I mean, I always
say it's not over until it's over, but like, if you truly do believe, then like, anything
can happen. Exactly. That was, again, like that, that Si-2020 was a huge part for me,
because, yeah, like I got climbed on, it's like, oh, you're a trokler. It's like, you're
not going to win second place for life. Basically said, fuck you, like, yeah, I'm going to win.
They need to find one person. That's it. He'll head in towards archives and get cut.
The hammer heads into holdings, but it's home once again in North America.
Space station gaming are your world champions.
And I think that's always been a motivation for me. I like to have a chip on my shoulder.
So I think the qualities back then I think I think nowadays you have to have
more qualities to be good I think the qualities are the same I think back then
though you could get away with like you know only being mechanically good or
only being like smart strategically I think that was always my edge and I
put and then I'd play with at the time mechanically gifted players yeah I
I think for my team especially, it's a lot different than most because our culture is
so, you know, obviously they say it's like a brotherhood, but it's kind of like, you
see it in sports, you know, our teams ran kind of like a, you know, a very high tier
like sports team, you know, we have our coach who, he sets the standard and it's a lot,
a lot of it is what he preaches is coach driven, but it's on the players to hold each other
accountable. And I think that's where there's a big difference between our
team and a lot of other teams because you know usually a lot of players
they'll just you know let the comfortable things slide and you know not
push your teammates and our coach preaches that and he shows what we
should you know the right thing to do. My coach isn't just a siege coach you
know he he is a nutritionist a personal trainer you know he teaches a lot
about like mindfulness and he's brought a lot of good stuff that you know in the
The game may not help, but overall, to make us a better person, it helps a lot.
If we could call kill, and then, yeah, I went wide, I think, which was a troll.
I mean, that would have been rough even though I...
Yeah.
I remember we were down like 5-2, I think, and it was just about the belief, like we said
earlier.
Yeah.
It's like finding a way to win, no matter what.
For us, the solution was to bring to Monty and Walk in Tiles.
It's down to action and folks to try and keep them on the Earth's map and series point.
It's regardless for what is the one versus one in action.
I said it needed the proper, but it does.
Shows when it needs and ties us back up five apiece.
I mean, again, I think you seem to have a good attitude, but I've...
Other than what I said earlier, I think it's just enjoying it.
Like, I think that's something I still just try to do.
And I think, honestly, I think I'm glad I do that more now.
I think I already did before, like, so in it,
that it's like, you can't have fun and not, like,
enjoy it as much as possible.
But taking a step back every now and again,
and just, like, realizing the moment of, like, yeah, like,
this is, like, it's something special to do.
And yeah, later on in your life,
like, eventually you're not gonna be playing,
and these are, yeah.
Being great for you.
It'll be a special thing to look down on, for sure.
All right.
Do it.
available now
the next match. Ashen versus
M. A. T. on the B stream with
Canadian with Shopify belly
playing against Falcons here on
the A stream very any.
Dominated I feel like so glad
to have my two EU and less
with us surrounded surrounded
everywhere by Americans. Yeah,
what's going on? Los
Americans. I mean, do you know
what? We've got to give it to
them. Americans are playing very
the other team. We have to go
for the Falcons. Falcons are
playing very good season.
Obviously front major
champions. All of them in the
upper bracket. It's not going
to badly for the phone.
For now, not to say that I did.
I said that's a great team.
Yeah, no, I very much understand
that we have to go for Falcons
and shop firebell in here on
the A stream, though. Let's talk
about both these rosters shop
firebellion amongst the chaos
inside of that group. A very
nice second finish for them in
the match up there. We look at
Falcons on the other end as
But they still seem to be the tournament favourites.
I feel like they're still the favourites, but Chaos eventually had them for both teams, actually.
Both teams actually won two matches, but also dropped two maps.
If we look at these rosters, they were expected to be super teams, Jack,
and I think it kind of failed in a group stage to come in with full confidence and top the charts.
Yeah, I think it was kind of, I would say, inconsistent for both, but I keep referencing this.
Where you want your inconsistencies to come through is the group stage.
We've now closed the door on the group stage, so group stage almost, in a way, doesn't matter,
it's all about the bracket. It was a warm-up state. It was a warm-up stage. Both of these teams got
themselves into the upper bracket. That's where they want to be because they get an extra life
and therefore when they get the extra life they can now level themselves up in terms of performance
and this is where you want to be playing your best Siege. Now you see these two teams at international
events all the time, the last time they faced off was in Munich at 86 for Felicans back then,
so given that they're so competitive, both of them, I want to know what would be the key to win
the match today? I mean if you think of the two teams together, obviously there is two names,
two guys that were supposed to be Goats of Siege, and that is Shaco and Spoit.
If you think of them, different generations, yes, but you could see them as some of the best,
if not the best, fraggers in the world at a certain point in history, in Siege history.
There is one thing, that Shaco, right now, second-rated player in the tournament, incredible
EPS, incredible entry, he's living up to expectations. It's his event, he's supposed to win a side
finally, and he wants to do this in Paris. Jack, when I look at Spoit, I'm still missing the mark.
Yeah, 68th player, and I mean, we asked for the roles, so those roles came from Schrupp-Farber,
he's in his flex slash entry and what we're seeing inside of this tournament is actually he's a lot more flex than he is entry
You think of who are the operators that the entries are playing really at this event grim day must a day must
They're the two for me
Now sport hasn't played a single round on either of them look at his top attackers ace preacher striker
Sure, you can play strikers an entry gridlock flank denier three rounds on glass glasses in his top operators play top attackers play
It doesn't make sense to me
So for me, what I want to see is I want to see sport really lean into this lecture and be better at it
because he's currently being outperformed statistically by Canadian, which you wouldn't expect inside of this team or that environment or
He needs to shift in roles onto the entry. Yeah, I think that's my theory is that I think that support has been missing the mark multiple events now
And I think the main thing is not about sports level. I think it's always been there
I think the skill is very much there
The main thing is he's not in the right roles because Canadians ideal style needs utility base operators
That's why you see glass. That's why you see capital because they need utility and smart fragevi
If they had a brazilian IGL
I think spot would be in a fragger role on top of envy and that would be a very different scenario if we look at this two roasters
In fact, I might look at two of the most accomplished agils in the world
You have Canadian on one side and like a fact on the other one is former former generations
It has been very accomplished the other has taken over and is now probably a favorite and both of these guys actually won events
where they were young, you know, on the one side here,
Leakefac, who was 19 when he won his first event, 24 Canadian,
it's just now a big battle for two IGL Titans
that will face each other with very different eyes
and vision for the game.
And I actually think Leakefac has a really good way
of doing it with his team as well.
Obviously, maybe this is a little bit of the EU bias
coming out for me, but the fact that he has a solotov
and a shaco, he's got the same problem that Canadian has
with a spoilt and an ambi, but he manages to get the best
out of both of them, and they set their teams up accordingly.
We want to have a look at the map feed very soon as well because as we saw in Munich it was really close between these two teams.
I hope it's not us sleeping in the server.
Why is that with everybody yawning today?
I mean, is this too early for gamer hours at 1PM?
Everyone had a day off yesterday.
Yeah, as a reminder also some of the teams have played late matches going into groups and going into playoffs, the chances, the rhythm.
I mean, if you win this best of three, you have a whole nother series to play later today and that is for Spot on Mainstage.
So pressure is on, that's why these maps could be so important inside of the series as well.
to take a look at the Vito Falcons will be starting out with their own MAP pick and it
seems like it will be hanged to a constant.
I'm not surprised about this. If they got the opportunity to pick on Charlotte that
was a trap set up by Shopee Ferribilion. My story for this is that Shopee Ferribilion,
it used to be a permaband. They banned it in fact 20 times in the last 6 months. They
only played it once and it was against Team Cruelty which really, it feels to me that
it was just nothing to say, hey, we can still play that map. So it makes sense for them
to go and pick that one.
Yeah, I think so. I think, um, you know, obviously, for the league, he's gonna have to walk out away because he doesn't necessarily know what's coming.
And speaking of not knowing what's coming, where you're seeing Shopify rebellion picking into fortress now?
We are there in 18. We've not seen them play this map yet.
But what we can reference is how strong North America's a region are on fortress.
They've played it five, well, six times as a region. They've won it five.
The only team to lose it was OHG. And even then, OHG played it a lot through the qualifiers.
So I'm raised on the constant right now and saying that North America currently has the best fortress.
So I'm expecting paid drinks from chocolate.
I like the ambition from Falcons by the way.
They picked attack on fortress, which right now is not really favoring them.
It is still a weaker side on that new map.
And then all the way to the Sider Night Heaven maps, I will say this.
I've seen Shopify rebellion, win versus G2, win versus FaZe maps.
They absolutely love it.
But on the other side, Falcons have a 7-1 record on it.
In fact, they should have had a perfect record if it was not for the Grand Finals.
Remember that they lost 87 against a mate you're not having yeah finals in Munich
They absolutely love them out if he goes to the side here
I'm so excited because we will see a big clash of Titans now
I mean of course there's a few things that are difficult to predict because we haven't really seen focus maybe
Or just yet we know is very strong for the likes of an a we know so much about not even left as well
Does that give us any idea of who might have won the map veto here? I?
Am not entirely sure because I think it's 50 I think it's 50 today
I'm not entirely convinced by Falcons fortress, but I think when they lost fortress they they put out a display that
Maybe wasn't up to scratch of the Falcons that we deserve
We obviously don't necessarily know what's coming from shop for on that map. I would say that's the big question mark for me
I think the other two maps it sets up very nicely for a 50-50 at the same time should be fair
We didn't we don't know what's coming on control it and that's not exactly as well
Right, they could have prepared it for six additional after all it is the main event of their year
They want to come here with new strategies and new maps
So now is the moment in playoffs to try and show that it might be a trap
It might not be the only way to settle this is to watch the game
Then one more question before we do introduce our castles
Do you think we compare the front line versus the back line kind of inside a smetcher?
Who has more pressure? Is it the front line the exploit the shaco that needs to perform?
Is it the IGLs that need to come up with ideas on how to tackle things?
I think we have a very different balance of power right now because if I look at the two rosters
I have a younger IGL that has a younger vision for the game
It has better frags on the side. If I look at should be Fire Rebellion
I have an older IGL with frags that are struggling. So if I look on paper right now
I feel like the pressure is more on the front line because the frags are the one that are they have to because this very team power
Yeah, two teams and I think coming back to that there there is
Ultimately one fragger that we're looking at we've already referenced him in sport that needs to be the one that's stepping up
When you've got a team wire Canadian
You're never expecting Canadians put numbers as an IGL on a roster put the four guys around him
What that means is they can't have a bad event sport is currently having a bad event
So he's the one that needs to step up.
You will need to step it up though if they want to come out victorious and have a chance to remain inside this upper bracket.
The match is ready to start. Guess what? We're joined by more and more folks.
It's Aaron and Jesse. Take it away.
Thank you so very, very much. Two huge organizations with lots of pressure and high expectations on their shoulders.
And some incredibly legendary players. And yet Jesse, success?
While it's been there for both of these teams, has not come as easily as we might have expected.
the dominance from both the Falcons and the rebellion hasn't quite materialized yet.
Well, guess what?
Where in the upper bracket is this where these teams start to build towards a grand finals
run?
I think so, Parker.
This is where everything comes together at the sixth Invitational.
There's no denying the group's pick was Rocky for Shopify Rebellion and the Falcons, but
that is okay.
Through the last three years, every single team that has lifted the hammer has started their playoff run with a loss.
Part of becoming an SI champion is learning along the way it's about making mistakes and growing as a team.
Given that's that I mentioned, the superstitious fans amongst our viewers might be willing for a loss for their favorite team in this game.
But the lower bracket is terrifying and even though it's given success to many teams over the last couple of years, it has taken away far more tournament runs than it has delivered champions.
So both Falcons and Shopify Rebellions are hoping to avoid such a fate.
We did get on constant and frankly, one of these map pools that Shopify Rebellion have either created the greatest fumble of all time,
Or have really been putting in some work and I brought a sneaky map veto to the series versus Falcons and
Give a little bit of credit to the two-time world champion and super
I think they've been cooking Parker consulate and fortress our first two maps only one play across both maps from job
Fireball in since the season began. This is dangerous for the Europeans. Yeah
But I mean as the desk pointed out sometimes you save it all for the biggest moments in hard press to find out your moment
in the beginning of this run.
Again, I guess a bigger moment would be playing on main stage,
maybe simply for that pivotal best of five,
should you make it to the grand finals, of course,
but with these teams being in the upper bracket,
they know that they cannot go down to play up against teams
like G2, D plus, Daystar, Heretics, OXG,
and Ninjas and Pajamas.
Yes, those teams are in the lower bracket for a reason,
and that reason is because they just simply weren't good enough,
but you still have to be concerned
done especially with the consistency issues that these two teams have had.
It's about managing expectations and if you are a fan of these teams,
your expectation is that you will win.
We can only have one winner, so which one comes out on top?
Wow, the Desk likes to highlight kind of the star players on both these teams.
Shiko and Spoight will be going head to head in this series.
Two teams of two players that I know the community is excited to see popping off,
but they've had very different journeys.
Obviously, Savoy has not performed to the level that we have come to expect from him at the 6th Invitational.
Meanwhile, Shiko, you heard Leo say it on the desk, second highest rated player at this event.
Then it's very close. It's less than a single point on the EPS rating to that first place spot.
So Shiko has been playing very well for the Falcons so far.
He opens things up on the floor as an actually holding the diffuser for this top floor execute on Onslaught.
So he'll be very anxious to see if he does stick that.
A CEO plant with the capitao does look doable,
but we've also got pressure towards the admin side now
coming in from the Falcons.
So on top of the main entries, so,
yeah, he'll be the first one to come to blows,
but Shaco, the man on the screen,
is chasing not just a hammer, but another record, Jesse.
He is fast approaching 1,000 kills
of the Six Invitational and barring an utter implosion.
He will likely hit it in this series.
Long angle from the balcony gets that shot, Rexon caught lacking a little bit, not aware
of the angles open up on him.
Early advantage now for the Europeans, the Yuzl game has gone well as well, puts a lot
of pressure on young guys like ambi to step up and make an aggressive play to try to get
this camp back.
You got double denial in the smoke and the tacharga on the board, so...
...Bellion very easily can shut this one down, and while he might be dead, Rex, the Volcanocaster...
...canister will continue to do some damage when they get popped, running for 20 seconds, buying time...
...for this Rebellion Team. Use this on the board next down to the Zambi, he was playing over by bending, and...
...Shiko now, taking some damage himself as the solid top of nothing to be found...
...start tucked into a corner where we've seen a couple clutches up to this point.
It's now Shaco, over by Long, searching for something with just a little under a minute.
Both Mokens and Chanka can deny this plan for a very long time. They do take down the Chanka, but Falcons will still need the press for kills.
There goes one of your denial, as the Chanka dies after getting one kill for Canadians, much better for a fragging potential.
Play it going down by three days. Shaco watching with coverage. Leaky back. It's not been much of a factor yet.
A missed opportunity from Spoit. Shaco finds his second.
Now three players remain!
Spoight a nice shot onto Shaco.
Elisha's off.
Spoight can be a wild dog to chase these last players from Falcons.
Has to manage time effectively.
What's an effector for most of the round?
He gets the final kill nicely done for Leaky Facken.
Falcons take round one.
They had a really good round, I think, coming out from Falcons.
They obviously come through with a couple of early picks.
A couple of players not maybe watching the right directions,
getting caught through windows,
Getting caught from that admin position as well.
Once it's in that two-man lead, it's really tough for shop firebellians to walk away with a win-con.
They have to juggle, keeping their guns up to keep their players alive while also juggling the plants out.
Canadian did his best there. I bought Key and Surf to support players in shop firebellion where they're bright as stars,
but in the end there was just too much pressure.
Popping for the great job of continuing to push while that diffuse kick was being put on the ground.
Continuing to grab that space and make their way across the map.
Very nicely done coming out from Team Falcons. They get an early lead on
conflict which attacking is usually very double-plated.
Yeah, a little surprising with how easy that looked for Falcons. They took a bunch of individual gunfights
and broke open a part of that map and made it so that the rebellion were much farther back inside the site.
Fighting from your back foot is never really a strong position to be in rebellion understood that.
But again, what the desk says is to be believed. And I believe it because I wouldn't.
This might be a rough go for Rebellion. I do like the next two maps for them though.
Yeah, I do like that we go to Fortress. North America has come in prepared on Fortress, and they have put the entire world on notice.
And the Nightingale Labs might be one of the statistical best maps for this Rebellion team.
We've seen the Falcons played a few times, Jesse, but dare I say it, not against particularly tough opposition so far, hard to glean.
Whether or not that will ultimately be a good map for Falcons or if SR will have the very
decided upper hand.
Jack always loves his drone operators and after Flora is in round one he moves to the
Brava in round two.
Does a great job of having some of sports canary tripwires, they're going to give a little
bit of an advantage over towards the Falcons.
This clash will reveal itself in Canadian.
Up on the top floor they get some pings on it.
They also ping out Ambien on the Malusi who's trying to take advantage of the space Canadian
you can try to make top floor.
There is no Shopify rebellion players on that mid floor.
Actually locking down the site is a five man hold
on the top floor after the moment.
Which means, look at back, if he does head towards site,
could find a bit of a gap.
Obviously getting a plant down
when the enemy still has control of above the site
is nearly impossible on piano.
Typically have to go pretty crazy with smokes,
capitalable, shields, all that.
And Falcons don't really have the utility.
Solotov took down Rexon to round number one and looked very close to happening yet again, but it's Shiko, who's spotted by Surf above.
The first blood on the side of Rebellion is pretty good. They have Intel on Rexon, and now head over towards Long Desk.
That was the point who was spotted there, swatting away at the drones. EFAC in pursuit.
Out will go the Bs as well, and the Swede looking to get away, playing this tight angle.
Oh, Willings surviving for the time being. Rex has been found and punished.
Solotov gets two for his troubles. Surf swings on over, there was the smoke
credit with the first kill looking for the assist. Unless Rex can be retrieved,
that's an advantage for the birds.
Nice shot by Ambi, though, gets things back closer to even.
So three on three, the downs finished, and Ambi gets another one.
So shot the Fire Rebellion, steal the man count, advantage the malusia of Ambi
from inside the CEO, peeking around this reinforcement, finding those frags,
Putting his team in a really nice spot, now you get in an awkward position if you're Falcons.
Do you commit to trying clearing this top floor up against the clash, up against Ambie who's been incredible this round?
Or do you just go to hit the site? I do not think they can get a plant down Parker, so I feel like they have to clear top, but that's not easy either.
Now things fell away in a hurry. Ambie gets a very streaky set of kills throughout much of this event, and well,
he's shown up to match up against these fraggers. The front line as they were called by the DAS.
Use this in leaky fact now we'll walk on in the Canadian will give these calls
tucked into the quarter use this will look for a relative of default plant
he fact with one ambi with three kills and it's a Goyo Canadian that will
actually get the job done is that fire is too much for the Brit on Falcons to
handle tie game between these two really cool really cool Goyo can serve a
edge of it just barely enough to stop that plant so really nicely placed
coming out from Shopify rebellion smart to move Troy back down onto that bomb site
He was going up and down those yellow stairs throughout the entire round Parker started up top
dealt with the roamers a little bit when Shaiqo was lurking inside Canadian came back down as you can see in their screen here in the
Replay then Canadian these back up to the top floor try to assist and be to get a couple of these really high impact kills like this one right here
Bit of information being feed by Canadian and then right at the end he goes back down to make sure they have somebody on site
They cannot just let you this sneak that alone Falcons
I think to the best they could splitting up one up above one down the ground floor
But in the end jobfire rebellion are just too good. So nice left side game want a piece
Start kept contrasted the earlier matches that were played the just to included here on stream
A for those of you that don't watch obviously spoilers inbound
Furia and Heritage did battle and it was a relatively fast 2-0 for the Brazilian squad, 7-4-7-2.
And now Team Heritage goes down to the lower bracket to square off against OXP.
Tomorrow, you and I will actually be casting that game.
And then D plus Kia.
The APAC team comprised entirely of Brazilians, did not have the greatest outing against their former counterparts.
Though not number one was pretty close to Fluxo W7M taking map one eight seven but then a blowout
72 for the former Montreal Major champs and now Fluxo W7M will square off against another Brazilian team
In phase plan later today
Furia and Weibo will be a fascinating matchup. That'll be going live shortly
The winner of this game will be in action yet again against team secrets
So a long match here and a quick match after that means you might be right back in action against a terrific team.
Ami will start things off as Solotov dies and be now at four kills, three of them.
All in the previous round of the youngster. He's showing up really strong.
Spoiling him will now look from the double swing over by Vendings.
There goes Leaky Fak. There was nowhere for the Joke of E to go and this round is already fallen by the wayside for Toppings.
His voice got some mystery at the top of the spiral, one of his cleanest aces that he's had in pro play last year at SI, coming from that very spot, so knows exactly what needs to be done to make those plays happen.
Canadian on map Paul is able to give a lot of good information, of course, with all the intel that SR have, they have been really clean at spotting these players on Falcons early, once again giving themselves a massive man advantage, in part due to the roost of Ambi, so very clean start from the entry duo of Shopify Rebellion.
They very much knew Falcons were going to pick this map, Parker.
They came into this, they left it open, it is their prime event, but they decided we're
going to leave it as an option for Falcons to pick.
Falcons have taken that gamble, they want to kick shop Fire Billions to this map.
So far the defense is a bit very clean from SR.
Very very good.
Put again your car slid defense.
We have to set reasonable expectations here Jesse, we don't want to trip over ourselves
too much.
We already called NA homers enough, even though I tend to cheer up against North America
more frequently than not.
enough.
NA viewers are having a good time, does it Shopify Rebellion in action right now and
over on the B-Street, you've got the all NA matchup of Space Station vs. M80, the winner
of that game will play Wildcard so an endless NA bracket it seems on that side.
No NA teams going home just yet, good information Canadian once again I mentioned this before,
his pulse is going to be so huge to stop in this plant for it to go down, you've got to
be careful though which one is actually the planter, already 50% now from Breed Egg.
I think he's got the reed on it, and he gets it right as it was about to hit the point of no return which would've thrown them in to a post-plant.
Now it's UZIS to pick up the case.
Check out what's in the stairs, but Ambi's just so damn good. UZIS shuts him down.
He's concerned of the sweep-up spiral. That's the first kill for Falcons. It comes with 15 seconds left in the round.
Four more players upright, and they're just gonna play keep away. Wrexon swings out with a super shorty. That looks clinical.
Yeah by rebellion. This is a team that
Really didn't look like the same squad we saw in phase number one a lot of confidence here for the North Americans
No, they're looking very good today Parker and of course it all comes back down to the eye
Jailing from Canadian the information being gathered on the pulse Troy's been doing stuff like this for 10 years straight at this point
Okay, if there's anybody you trust to lock down a pulse C4
It's gotta be Canadian so really nice stuff there also
You've got to give credit to ambi that second gunfight that he won just on the on the server stairs was so clean
Parker, I mean advantage should have been to shaco in that one
But ambi has been one of these young frags really popped off for quite a while now in a
I feel like
The worst thing they can do just starting to play really aggro. No, I feel like if your attack as five
Is good for us because they're kind of better to take you know
They can't regain space. For CO we can add me again. I feel like it was good to just watch out the effect.
Like, pulse below or just the guy we're taking. You can even develop a spiral on. Just push there.
For piano, they have full setup above, no? We can either just push above or just do the first, first push, no?
Like, if it goes low again, it's back. They're gonna go in again, a lot of pressure. Just do some more fast stuff, okay, on piano.
And then, remember, we have to look up a demo, so even if you want to go slow, you can do like it.
You can put your finger on it, okay?
Talking about how quickly this Rebellion team plays is not something you usually hear associated with them, especially when they're defended.
Yeah.
But, Julio did say one thing importantly, we have a good defense. Don't worry too much yet, guys.
That's how we know!
But clearly, using the time out now, shows that the coach side of Calvins do not like the way the team has started.
Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
I also think it's fair to say, maybe he has some confidence that he could be seeing more of a partner.
He wants to see those shields coming out, maybe a little bit of monty for some of these attacks.
Believes that Falcons can get two or three rounds when it's attacking half,
despite the fact that this is maybe a defender-sided map.
This is obviously part of their game plan, choosing this Consulate map, coming into it against SR.
Good tack time about coming out from the water.
Julio, of course, has been coaching this team.
Ever since they got signed by the Falcons, Ord was coaching them for a little bit back on BDS as well.
So there's a lot of experience with this team.
Taken over is the new head coach now standing behind them.
As I believe the last six-invitational, it was still...
It was still StuFlex behind them, yes.
They made that swap kind of at the start of this season.
I think Julia's been a big impact for Falcons to allow them to have so much success this season.
Yep.
Let me try it.
He's a brilliant player.
He's been all over the world.
He's played in a bunch of different regions.
He has lifted a hammer and himself run a pro league finals on that black dragon squad if you recall
He was formerly a player on that w7 m roster right when they
I don't want to say
Invented the aggressive Rome that we saw where defenders were playing like attackers, but I watering 76%
opening kill and
Defender win rate and then of course winning a hammer with nip
That is a double sling, a nice kill from Stalvatov.
And he could not get out with his life intact.
He's shut down by Leakey Fack in that position.
That aggression that Julio pinpointed through the first three rounds,
still present for round four,
but it does not do the rebellion enough
as Falcons come out ahead in those trades.
That's trade city up on the top of the spot on the stairs, Parker.
Really cleaned by both teams,
but just that entry frag is a little bit better for Falcons.
Now they've gotten themselves an advantage.
This top floor, where they were successful previously,
attacking here on what is close to being the hardest bombsite to attack on consulates.
Bending Hall, usually the main stall point for teams when they're clearing admin side over.
That's what we're seeing once again from the Valkans.
But the early pick on Thorexling kind of makes me think that this Bending Hall will become a little bit more free.
Canadian has had to rotate from Yellow Stairs over to this part of the map.
Now, very obvious where the push is coming through.
Gotta be a little bit careful with this flash here because being hunted down by the Florens,
drones does not want to let that thing get blown up, but Canadians better than that
dodges it a little bit and all of the utero in vending hall has now been cleared
with Canadian choosing to back off play a little bit closer towards the bomb site
this will be free for Falcons to take they just need to get past surf on the
Sochanka who will stall out the plant indefinitely if they don't.
The leading back position is known as he hits that dreadmine down goes
spoilt Canadian and the surf will now need to keep us one together.
Take it out of Shaco collects to very fast kills ifac again with the exit frag
And whether or not it was the timeout or frankly just this bomb site
Falcons managed to take two successful attacks, which is about where you want to be
Grim band designed to slow down solid talk make it so that they have to take a more jack of all trades utility up
Hmm down go those secondary hard breach gadgets down go those bees that are so good for scouting Intel
Well, as Julio said, when he expected that grim ban, we still have the Doka B, we still
have the Deimos at our disposal, so we've got tools guys, let's use them, well, use
the Deimos, but we don't really see too much because we don't really saw a top guy yet.
Still, Falcon's excellent scouting those defenders.
Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up, Parker, because I think the Deimos was so critical
for Falcons to win this round.
If only one kill, he gets immediately traded out, but it sets the pace, it gives them the
initial man advantage, and it opens the door for Licky Factor to then go and hit the flank,
Go towards the EO side, make that pinch on a shopfirebillion players, which you really don't want when you're playing on the clash.
So that entry frag and the follow-up from it, I think, was so important to come through from Falcons.
And the desk touched a little bit about how important Deimos was as an entry fragger in general this event.
We don't really see Saltol picking that up, because it is a signature operator for Shaco.
He grabs it now, but prior to this map, Saltol only played Deimos two times through the 6th Invitational group stage.
He's not an easy operator sometimes you might wonder okay, if you don't really play the off
Are you even going to be a strong damos player clearly salt off has shown that he can be
They move it over to the other entry now as Shaiqa will pick up that role once again
But you've got to be so careful if you're playing against this coffee scene because they have long been one of the best demos
To the world chop fire belly and have not chosen to use one of their bands so it will be an issue throughout this series
A three-way tie for the Falcons now for most kills.
The Solotov sets the moments of brilliance.
Shako himself got a 2K.
I believe he's the first friend to research correctly.
He's already taken quite a bit of damage, but Ambie has as well.
I said, spoits been let off the leash, but it's really Ambie who's just running around
wreaking havoc on this Falcons team.
If Ambie spawns in, they allow him to play his game.
He can easily take down anybody on this EU's squad.
Chaco slowed down by Canadian now,
as he got maybe a bit too close to that top floor.
Now reposition himself, staring towards the bomb sites.
Ambio with six kills, leading the lobby,
but with how limited his HP is,
don't know how many engagements he'll be able to take
before he gets straight up my confidence.
Yeah, well, for you, certainly all you need is one HP
to hit a couple of heads, and Ambio's done that before,
So still potential from the young gunner on shop of fire rebellion. I like Falcons line of adaptations
SR are running basically the exact same defense we saw on round number two that Falcons have worked a couple new options to the
into their lineup including the capital which has been a really good operator on this bomb site
You can use the fire arrows to try to burn out some of those top floor positions
Which can often make it possible to go for a plant less
Do you do not have the top floor control the smokes?
Of course also always good when you're trying to make a plant happen that made will get tossed up
I think aiming at the bow yo canister which is what denied the plan to run to
That can get cleared up and that would be a big help for falcons when they try to work this plant down
I don't see them clearing top floor again. I mean Jesse all ten players alive with 40 seconds left
This is by far and away the slowest round
They do wonder how much of that is a lack of comfort for falcons
But they found a pick number one on the spoi breeding shut down solid top trades out and again there you go
Ambi got that pick on the breeding so only good enough for one kill, but again if you're gonna get a single kill
That's pretty good. Falcon's now attempting to get the diffuser down while they
Overwhelmed this rebellion team and outnumbered them by one
Soltop does not like this position stopped by surf is that gas wheel linger now?
It's rexen taking damage e fact going down to a sweep in from Canadian
Manages to down to players e fact can use this fill alive and diffuse kid needs to be picked up as they are running out of time
Rebellion now hoping that they can't get it done, he backruns into the smoke and the rebellion will clip the Falcons wings and take their third round of this first half.
And Shopify Rebellion truly are the masters of plant denial on piano exhibition Parker. I said it was the same defense from SR and it basically was.
The one swap of operators that they made which I neglected to mention was that surf moved from Warden onto the smoke and that made all the difference.
difference. Whilst the Goyo canisters were still there and Falcons adapted to them, SR
expected those Goyos to not be enough to deny the plant. So they said, Surf, jump on another
plant denial operator. He's clearly practiced those lineups, tossing the toxic babes through
the floorboards. He's managed to stop that default plant spot from going through. I believe
a triple from Surf in that round. So really nice stuff coming out from, again, the support
players of SR. Canadian doing a great job moving on that clash as well. The reason Canadians
to get those two kills is because of Seraph's toxic babe denying the default plant it makes
a much more awkward position for Falcons to have to play so a really good coordination
and really good small adaptations coming out from Shelf Plier going in.
Both of these teams came into this matchup having played 99 rounds through phase number
one Shiko came in chasing two records number one breaking 100 kills at SI this year.
There was a period of time where Shaco looked like he'd be able to clear that hurdle during phase one
But he cooled off the rest of the team caught up and despite the fact that Shaco is
Inarguably the top fragger on the team. He has 93 kills
11 back is solitob and then you have to go down to leaky back at 69 after that
There's a huge golf between Shaco and the rest of this team. Yeah
Shaco started with 93 kills as you see he's sitting at 98 currently
He's also just a few kills shy of a thousand total at the Six Invitation.
I believe it was Souls who hit that mark just a few days ago, so these are incredible legacy
records for some really tenured and experienced players that will almost certainly be hit.
I mean I guess there exists a possibility Shiko doesn't hit a thousand kills.
He'd basically have to unspawn every round for the foreseeable future.
So we'll keep our eyes on that stuff.
In terms of the Shopify Rebellion squad, far more even than lowest amount of kills
was Canadian at 59, their highest is Surf at 78, so not a big difference between bottom
and top.
In even spread, where as Falcons, Shiko has been carrying the way.
First kill is going to come to EFAC as Solotov.
Kets dropped.
Shiko actually credit it with the kills, so I imagine that EFAC just got the secure on
that one.
Shiko opening on a Canadian, LickyFax second frag onto Rexon, so really strong start for
the french squad making their way in through garage they were able to shut
down this pause very early into the rounds and they think it's safe enough to
pick up salt off they should be correct and he is lurking nearby but he has a
floor below so it shouldn't be a problem for them the push is coming in through
the basement very different look from the falcons they know they can't get a
clamp down inside of the mid floor as they did attempt previously so why not
clear through this basement and take the plight this point takes us all the time
the guns and Falcons are good!
Shaco will hit kill number 100 at this event
to give the final round of his first half to his team
and on their own map, on the harder side, Falcons muster a draw with the Rebellion.
That is, well, I want to say that's about as good as it gets,
but I mean, technically they could do better than that,
but if you're expecting more than three attacking rounds on Consulate,
you know something I don't.
I don't yeah, I think you're happy with this if you're falcons
You're not out of the woods just yet keep in mind shop firebellions still have their tax time out
Falcons do not so that could play a factor through this second half
SR have also let this map through for a reason previously their perma band
They have come to cause that they have allowed falcons to choose it in what is a risky move for them for sure
But one that they thought they was they were ready to take they'll come through they ban out both the warden and the
Now a warden ban is always something I raise my eyebrows at Parker because it telegraphs to your opponents a little bit what you might be going for.
And if you just look at the operators on your screen, we see a blitz, a glass, a capitao, they might not stick these, of course, for round one.
But I think you will see a lot of these operators coming through these next three rounds until Falcons get a chance to ban some of them out.
The Alpha Fire Rebellion walked to limit the visibility on Falcons.
And it shows to me that they've got some pocket strats that they've probably saved just for this occasion.
I want to go back and just highlight that smoke play that we saw from Serp,
already getting reports that this is some of the first tech that we've ever seen on that.
It was lineup upstairs because the power that Capitow has to isolate the players that are playing on that bomb site
and prevent them from swinging on the spot that I believe always uses to try to get the defuser down.
Yeah, sir having that lineup that is ingenuity. That is incredibly creative and it's something that we haven't seen before
I'm sure it's probably been played at a t3 maybe t2 level, but actively at t1
It's got some of the co-streamers wagging their tongues and how exciting I mean surf has been one of the smartest players to this entire
Sixth invitation, of course
He had that famous century clip where he uses the beeper to beta the battery and people for tossing out the nitrous out one of the
ULIS 15 is at the sixth invitational, so...
It's obviously not a mistake.
No, and so we've seen some really cool stuff coming out from the surf since this tournament began.
One of the most underrated players I think we have here at the sixth invitational,
so keep an eye out for him to make more cool plays just on this drone now,
but it's a teammate of Canadian who is battling with Ligivac on the visa window.
Best rated player on the Rebellion and highest kill totals,
Sporting a very fashionable plus 12 before a single round of this series was played. I
Remember when surf was yanked up to tier one
So two years ago
And we have never really heard of him before people were a little surprised
Boy oh boy as he made a name for himself
And then with what ambe's doing everybody else is having to fight desperately for kills on the side of shop
My rebellion you always know surf's gonna be in contention for most of my eggs
I don't have to run.
Maybe it might be about to die.
I don't know.
LickyFax gets this one up, so he shows exactly where he's at.
Takes a lot of damage from the soft wall, actually.
Rexon dealing some bullets into the body of LickyFax,
but he still maintains the position despite the phone ringing.
They are all trained on this spot.
The glass is staring through the smoke.
The LickyFax played this smart so far.
He completely backs off, Parker.
Loading to magazine.
Very direct hit on that part of the map.
and a lot of players lined up on the side of Rebellion can't be too disconnected from the push
if it's going to be a very linear clear and it does look like with the exception of Surf and Ambi
the rest are all focusing very heavily on the basement at some point Ambi and Surf will link up
with the rest of the team. I get a bit worried here that your two best fraggers are disjointed
but down goes Shigel with the hands of Surf. Now Ambi has an opportunity on Spiral as well.
Well, not gonna find anything just yet.
Canadian gets baited in by Leaky fact.
Installatob has now worked his way up to catch the cross too.
This is a great response from Falcons.
Yeah, that's done a great job of grabbing the fuse kit.
Now another body for the captain of Falcons.
He gets a two piece and the man advantage now for Falcons.
They can hit the site.
Spoyt's got some smokes to play with,
but in the end, that's an abuse kit.
Does it even matter, Spoyt gets skills here?
I don't think so.
It's gonna be a strong position for Spoyt to be in,
but yeah, you've been limited in numbers.
Again, Ambien surfs still remains, so there is some hope.
Ambien holds the Diffuse Kit, and with limited HP,
that's a little concerning, as there are impacts and nitros.
Still on the board, four Falcons.
Ambien is tempting fate here, though.
Three days waiting for them.
Three players in on this active uses with two kills.
Leaky back.
Yet again, another exit kill for the captain.
And they'll go to the lead now.
Four Falcons as they are successful
in their very first defense.
Despite the glass, but despite the warden ban, I should say the glass pick coming out from shop firebellion not really finding the value that it needed to they went for a push server side two players upstairs clearing through kind of piano and mid spiral.
Felt like they had something going there felt like they could have gone that golf that link up but I think Licky Fox positioning on those spiral stairs really catching us are off guard down in that diffuse kit wasted so much time and then you're not really able to distract to get that glass in through yellow all eyes are still focused on that direction.
a little bit this coordinated coming out from shop fire a billion a really strong defense from the Falcons
He's just tight here on map one and how well would have that round gone for the rebellion if they'd managed to get
Ifak in his position early, right? Yeah
Hey, that would have given you server control so much faster
It would have required somebody on the side of Falcons to rotate to cover that position more aggressively or just outright give it up
Those are both bad options
Maybe somebody on Falcons rotates your cafeteria to be a bit more active on that hallway
If not, you try to rely on utility who knows maybe they assess the numbers aren't there and they send somebody up to
Roan earlier, which gives ambience serve more pressure, but a potential
extra kill
Right if one player goes down all the other remaining players need to respond in some capacity and now don't kid yourself
Not changing anything is a response
So who knows what happens with Falcons rebellion just a little disjointed to get the fact in his position earlier and allows him
to just tear through them. I think he got three kills in that round, but again, hard to tell which ones he got himself versus were secured by other players.
A terrific round for the captain, and he's grabbed the lead in the server and on his team. That's a terrific spot to be honest.
We're bringing out the zero, one of the least played operators of the Sixth Invitation. It was brought ten times for the group stage.
So if it wasn't played earlier on today, this will be the eleventh time we see this information off.
Can't be good to get some intel, of course we saw him throwing it into the skyline, using
on the hard breach wall here as well, if there were some kind of knee jam or something, could
have popped those out.
But we can just use it to get a little bit of information, not seeing anything directly
in the breach.
Nothing to do with the operator himself, but a nice bit of lore, it sure looks like Zero's
about to get a friend in the game as the new operator reveal will be coming the weekend
on the sixth invitation.
Canadian dying early yet again is a very bad sign for rebellion.
He was not as effective on the Blackbeard as he wanted to be, and now he's been countered
on the blitz, the two minutes left to go in the round.
Not the start you want for the North Americans.
Falcons giving a huge boon for that one.
Yeah, and the shield drop into the fuser once again here.
Another problem for shopfire Valiant is they will have to pick it up.
Ambi's not too far away, but he's currently being stalled up by smokes at the top of yellow,
so he looks towards the bottom to see if anybody's pressuring his flank.
Nobody at the moment is coming that way.
Can't move over to bathroom and maybe try to find a back angle onto Breidae.
He has been smoking him out, but Breidae is very deep still over towards CEO.
Oh, that spiral stairs is worrying.
Ampy walks right into Solotov's waiting arms.
Didn't drone it at all.
Rebellion getting a little bit too antsy at this point in time.
And now lack of information is coming back to bite them.
This is why Consulate is known as a Defender Fortress.
And no, I'm not talking about the map we're going to see next.
I'm talking about how grim things can get.
No, I'm not talking about the operator.
I'm talking about how bad things can get for the attackers.
So far, the real lack, power from this rebellion.
The team uses tearing through Starf.
Spoil manages a desperate kill, but Solotov is there
in a massive round for Solotov.
His Falcons are soaring.
5-3 the score line.
I would not be surprised if this prompts a timeout
from the rebellion.
Yeah, let's take a look to see if that does come through
from SR.
They now lost both of their attacks
through this group stage.
You must have now.
No, I can't hear him.
Can't hear you.
Can't hear.
They can't hear me.
No, we can hear you.
Hello? Okay. Uh, guys, we're doing too much standing around. Uh, also, when we're counting
shit down, if you're not ready, you need to say we're not ready. It needs to be three,
two, one. We're all going at once. It's very staggered. To be honest, we need to stop playing
like posies, right? If we have gaps on the site, like they're contesting us like three
basement right there. There's one spiral. One, make sure we're listening because two
people done spiral. We were calling the guy spiral the whole time, but just make sure
we're specifying lower spiral. But just in general, guys, we got to get moving. We got
to look for gaps. If they're running to fight us, that means part of the map is free. They're
running a lot of traps, maybe bring twits, things like that. Also, we need to play into
our bands. We're not like trying to rush site or anything. We're just going very slow
doing this shit. Let's go.
He wasn't able to be heard for 10 seconds, but super. The master of efficiency gets it
all out in 35 seconds, but many teams take 45 or longer to do. Sometimes you go a little
bit over that 45 seconds just to squeeze in a second or two and that can make all the
difference. He's not Brazilian. But if you hear the Brazilian rap gods do their time
We're going as from Haya, etc. The amount of words they spit out 45 seconds make me blush
But he wants to see the team move a little bit more to I think we're seeing that with SR stalling out a little bit on some of these
Clear's also playing toward the band was the last thing he said in that attack time though
But it's something that we've been talking about this whole half is they banned out the the warden in theory
That needs to be kind of what they're playing around the band of the soulless as well
So they've got some ideas and how they want to play with this we have seen the glass of every round so far
I don't think it's really been able to make a big impact for Shopify rebellion
It was really saw top that shut down that top floor roam clear for Falcons in the previous round and saw top
Maybe had an inconsistent group stage
He had his worst map of the season up against wild card back on Wednesday
Just to go 14 through eight rounds to finish the groups against day star
So that's had some really high highs some low lows as well
but 8 and 6 leading his team nearly with one frag still being led by Electric Bags.
He's been very strong so far for the Falcons.
I suppose you expect every player to have a career game but at least a little bit better
performance than what you saw in phase one. Pressure starts to build on every team at this
point in time. A reminder that the loser of this series goes down in the lower bracket.
They are not gone. They're not eliminated. The winner on a very busy day
as they have a quite a formidable flow of team secret who have been probably alongside
Weibo the two best teams at this event so far and if June wakes up choosing violence
like he has done most days boy oh boy whether it's Falcons or Rebellion you're gonna have
your hands full so prep for this game and immediately prep to be in action later tonight.
This is gonna be a round of utility Parker Goyote Chonka smoke all being brought by the
Falcons trust here a map point up against the North Americans.
Shelf-fire bind have run a lot of tools as well. You've got the Grim, you've got the Sends, you've got the Capitao,
you've got this classic game with the Warden band.
So you've got a lot of tools to try to work with on the Shelf-fire belly inside.
They will start with an admin clear, and it's the MVP of round 8,
who will be the first one to meet them, staring into printer,
seize the drone, and will likely back off with that information, although hungry for more anyways.
That's a hard gun.
Troll and Solotov remove Spoit and his head from the round.
Jeez.
A rough go of it, first Spoit.
The desk talked a little bit about Spoit's struggles.
Leo, particularly, saying that because of his application,
via Canadian's IGL, he doesn't really matter.
Spoit has millions of fans, and they are not going to be happy with this performance.
Blast coming through from the surface. He saw somebody for a second,
and he wasn't able to hit the shot on it.
Smoked out and fired out by Breedage.
So this utility is now coming in from Falcons.
So much anti-plants.
That kind of forces Shropfire Billion to adjust on the fly.
They need somebody to go deep. They need somebody to work a pick. 4v5, this is not looking good.
And Rexton, who so far had a lot of troubles finding kills, that will persist team managers to get Solotov.
Solotov and Leaky Fak topping Falcons at this point. 35 seconds remain and Leaky Fak is going to call back to the site.
Down goes Canadian. Surf dropping uses Breede eliminating Surf, so the trade's still favoring Falcons at this point.
Preedy's been most of a non-factor from a gun perspective, but you know how good he can be in a clutch
He might not need to clutch up because he's got two teammates here hunting for these kills
Rex and Andy standing against these European players
Falcons looking for the knockout punch in this round moving to map point. Rexon will find yet another
But they need to get the diffuser in. Rexon will do just that. He's got all the kills so far
They'll have to suffer. Oh the flames and he gets knocked off with the spots
It does not matter if you still survive, T'Chanka tucked into a corner will win the round for Falcons and they'll move to that point.
And Brede, only a single kill through this map, Parker. It came in that round, but what an impact he had perfectly played with those Shamiko grenades to stall out the plant for so long and then right at triple zero just has to guess where that plant is happening.
don't believe he had intel in the midst of that,
unless there was a camera I didn't see,
but perfectly places it.
Rexon's on a sliver of health.
He cannot stick the plant.
Rexon, there's nothing he can do.
Another player who hasn't really been popping off
in the kills, but Breide, I mean,
it's kind of par for the course.
He's averaging just 4.4 kills per map.
Since SI started, Breide has not been a heavy fragger
as he never really is for the Falcons,
but he makes that up by being the SI leader
in terms of the fuse kits put on the ground 13 heading into this game and
plant them out. Obviously one of the strong ones as well.
Flying up at Shanka, showcasing it in round nine.
Really nice round to come through from Falcon's utility game was perfect.
I thought Rexon was maybe going to fire up this round.
I thought this was his moment to step things up.
He was in a really difficult spot because look at that was behind him for so long.
Down those visa scares, he gets both kills that he needs to, but forced off the
nothing he could do on triple zero.
Common in Andy to go deep there
while the fire was coming in from
today and didn't account for that
until they come in through and it's
just going to be around win for
Falcons. 10 seconds.
I really value an effort by Rexon,
who for his own sake and for his team
said needed to find that next year
because coming into that round one
in six as the guy who admittedly is
not having the single greatest SI he's
had and has been with the shadow of
surf and Andy who had a much harder
so far, Rexon needed something big.
You look at his 4 and 6, you go, okay, that's not terrible.
Three of those kills came in the previous round,
which ultimately was a loss.
So once again, it goes back to impact versus impactless frags.
Rexon needs to step it up
and might have to worry about map number two.
Well, Rexon's always been struggling against Shaiqo
his whole career.
He first met him in DreamHack Montreal 2019.
He lost that game to Shaiqo 2-1.
And across his lifetime,
the pro player has an 0-8 record
when playing against Shaiqo.
largely on the Stonic Slap Rebellion Cores that they've been playing on, so this has
long been a mashup that Rexon particularly has struggled with before, particularly the
core of this team has really struggled with this fresh powerhouse player that is Shiko.
And I mean, it's just happening again, Barbara, the history seems to be repeating itself.
Chop Fire Rebellion need to turn to tides if they don't want to go down one hour early
in the series.
Again the stakes you win you play team secret later today. You lose you go down to play ninjas in pajamas tomorrow
Nip has been an interesting team. They've had some signs of brilliance. They've had some incredible shelling fantasy
At one point competing with June for most kills at this event so fragging comes easy on this nip squad
But I mean you never want to do a particular lower bracket run against a team that can get really really hot because when that nip team is on
They can beat pretty much everybody here
Even if you want to go down to the lower bracket because that's where most of the winners come from, you don't want to be one loss away from getting bounced from the event.
Of course, it's always the balancing act that you need to play at SI. Here comes the server side push from Stropify Rebellion. The glass is spanned out so we can't use that anymore.
Still got Canadian on the splits, trying to work with some of the flashes, but it's a licky-back and strikes first once again for the Balkans.
And the most consistent player has gone, spoil joint as well, the captain of the fact, finding two.
He's as good as gone, Rex in the Lone kill so far, serve as miles away from the action as we saw in previous rounds.
His job is not to be linked up and yet compute, but he's not linked up with anybody least of all his life.
An easy first map for Falcons. They showed a little bit of trouble through the first three rounds, but they called the time out, they course corrected, and they dominated the rest of the way.
They'll take their own map, 7-3.
And how about that 12 kills coming here from the captain?
A massive performance from Licky back.
He promised it after this last year's 6th invitation.
He promised that they will come back stronger next year.
As far as this playoff run goes, Parker,
they're looking like it.
There were some speculations on the desk as to whether SR
had studied for this map.
They might, but it was not shown today.
Falcons as cool as ever.
And that's map one.
It blocks Fortress up next.
I
of the game, and we're going to
I would say one of their key strengths is their communication coordination and team play and I want to show you this round where it was perfect
This is what I want to see more of going into map to we roll the clip
What we're going to see is ambi pick up a devious little pick onto the side of Solotov five versus four
But that's not where this round gets good where this round actually gets good is you can see
You can see back here up on the top spiral and he is actually
At the same time pushing him you've got spoilt ambi Canadian and rexson all at the same time
and is he gonna win this fight out?
No, is he not?
He's gonna just get absolutely gunned down.
So, Shopify, they've set themselves up now
into a five versus three.
So what do they do?
They give up all of the grounds to Falcons.
They let them have all of the map.
Canadian makes the call for all of his team to now
just clear off.
Don't get retried, get back down to site.
This is the split site on Consular.
So it's all about playing down into the late round.
So what do Falcons do when they're in a three versus five?
Well, they make a decision to go for the plan
inside of tellers.
Why is this important? Because it's playing into the hands of Shopify.
You can see that you've got Ambi and Canadian, the two information operators on the Solace and on the Pulse.
And anybody who's not directly relevant to denying the plant, which is Wrexen, who's controlling the garage side and the hatch drop,
Surf, who's controlling both of the hatch drops, and Sport, who's controlling the spile staircase for any Falcons players walking down,
well, they're just holding for the Falcons players, and Ambi and Canadian are all about denying the plant.
and the first things out the
plan that's going down from the
side of Falcons and then gets
an updated location and then
Canadian is going to get the C4
killed that turns it into a five
versus two. Now for me, this is
everything about what's great
for Shopify. Billion is the
initial entry game with ambi with
sport and then the communication
and coordination that the team
has. This is something that I
want to see more of on the map
But if we look at round 5, they do the same thing. The win condition is, let's deny the plant light.
If you look at this, 20 seconds left, they're on the Keanu Exhibition bomb site.
And you see Serf upstairs with a gas binade denying the plant a first time.
Kanega is making himself forgotten here in Keanu with a clash, takes his gun out,
and gets the two players that were walking in to try and replant again.
And upon this, Serf can hear it here with a Q. He stands up with a gas binade,
which makes it impossible for the guys on Liquef, for example, here to go and try and plant.
He dies here through a smoke and it was beautifully played by Shopee Fenerabellion.
The problem, Anis, you cannot win a game only by playing passive.
No, no, I hear you. I mean, this is maybe too passive on the side that they lost the map.
It went the way of Falcons and even their coach on the side of Shopee Fenerabellion was saying that
White Super was agreeing or Dewey Joe was standing around.
And that's a big problem because if the sole win condition is playing passive and slowly and steady,
when you reach attack, you cannot win a single one.
And that's the biggest problem we've seen. We've seen Falcons pick up on that.
They started increasing the pacing, being more aggressive.
And if Shopify Rebellion is the ice, they were the fighter.
They were melting that ice again and again.
And when they reached attack, it was beautiful.
Three attacks won.
When they reached defense, they get aggressive,
and they abused the slow and steady pace of Shopify Rebellion.
Now, they're going on to fortress.
It's a map on which they've played before.
They barely lost it to Wildcat.
To me, that's one map where you can even more punish
the slow and steady pace.
It's a newer map.
Of course, they're going to be slower.
They're still figuring things out. So it's a big, big waiting point for me for 25 billion. They need to be more aggressive
They need to change the pacing event again because right now all I see is I'm predictable
Hi, well Falcons on the verge of making it into the upper bracket
There's many more teams that are doing that today progressing in the upper bracket earlier on the B stream W7M flux
So versus D plus and the Marta has nothing for us
What's going on a stream? We just wrapped up D plus Kia versus flux
a really grueling and promising series.
It started off on border and man,
D plus looked so strong.
They won the first half and then
Fluxo took their tactical time out.
Norris beat something in this team and
five rounds in a row gave them a massive lead.
D plus managed to come back,
find two match point opportunities,
but Fluxo W7M closed it in overtime
in the aggressive fashion.
They always seem to be moving on to cafe.
D plus is Matt pick.
We thought maybe they'd be able to push it
the distance. They've had some good results on that map recently, but Fluxo W7M completely
ran away with it. Their defenses impenetrable and their attacks were terrifying. 2-0 for
Fluxo W7M. They're going to play phase later today on the B-Stream for a spot at the main
stage at the 6th Invitational. Thank you for the update, Dev Marta, and we're going to
continue with our game here because it's Fortress, the second map of the series with
of Tarot and Jesse.
flying high with a 2-0 Jesse.
Well Parker, it's gonna have to be something big from Shopify Rebellion.
As you mentioned, if we go to Fortress, the map that they tell me is in Morocco,
I believe it's situated in Ohio because we have seen North American teams dominate on this map
since SI started practically unbeaten here on Fortress.
Shopify Rebellion have yet to actually play it as an individual team.
It was left up as the decider in their match versus G2,
but that was a 2-0 clean win to start the tournament for SR.
So they never played this map in an official VOD.
Consulate was a similar story. They had basically no footage.
Falcons still were able to walk away with the win.
Falcons need to be able to walk in and do much the same here on what is North America's best map.
They often call Ohio the Morocco of North America.
So many people say that.
I've heard it many, many times.
Yeah, well, listen, it's gonna be an interesting one regardless.
I've seen some really cool mirrors set up here on on fortress and soft mirrors some hard mirrors, of course as well
You're always expecting to start on this top floor. We've seen this both bathroom and office site as well as the games of Bunk site
The
Highly favored by every single one of these teams then kitchen cafeteria has been relatively popular as that first year he sites
Shop Firebellion ban out the Monty and the Grim those are both operators that are very good at pushing players out of positions
very good at pushing players out of positions if you want to take map control if you want to clear from the top side over from
North to South or South to North those are two operators that would be really good to do so
Well rebellion is going to get to start defending on fortress
This is a bit of an interesting one that Falcons want to go to attack every time fortress
Shut up Jesse. We always say this is a map that looks like it will be very favorable to the attackers
But it's not quite there yet
Defenders by far and away have their day on this map
So Falcons have opted to go on to attack.
Now maybe that's because they want to start out on the weaker side
so they can ride things out for the latter portion of the map once they've settled in
or maybe Falcons know something we don't.
I think it's that Falcons truly believe in their attacks on this map.
They played Fortress a few days ago up against Wild Card
and they did lose but it's a 15 round and they won their attacking side 4-2.
So we have seen Falcons put together some strong attacks on this map.
Game theory-wise, most people are suggesting this will be attacker-sided once it gets fully figured out by all teams.
So I think Falcons are trusting in their abilities to go for the pushes on this map.
Now they'll start on the south side, of course. They're trying to make this breach happen into bunks.
They've been stalled out a little bit. The drones have been shot out by SPOIT.
We see the impact coming out as well to stop that bunks breach from fully opening up.
up, it's Ambien's ploy. The entry duo were holding down this block of floor, and so far
they have not let Falcons into the building.
What are they thinking to do as well? Rebellion are a terrific attack in D. So if you decide
to shell Rebellion from that more favorable side, the entry stance Rebellion across the
board would be very good for this event. Maybe they'll struggle a little bit defending,
I'm not entirely certain.
Shaco coming to blows, both he and Ambien had terrific gains, and yet they were not
the two best players in the server. Ambien, to his credit, could very easily have been
called the best player on rebellion the previous map was all or not though they
only had three great rounds for rebellion shaco was standing in the shadows of
de facto
good c-spoil opening up with the kill he takes down salt of it was nice from
surf as well was playing that horse position on the is on the came down to
help his roamers block off that main hall window to allow ambi and and sport
of course to escape from that roam game so they've delayed quite a bit of time
now on the side of the rebellion. They've gotten a man advantage and they've fallen back and
fully reinforced the bathroom wall. So there's no easy angle for Falcons to attack this site
from. They've got good control of the south side of the map, but the time is really not
fantastic. Just over 60 seconds still to go from here and Breidae has moved a good a few
to get over to New Tower, over to books to try to get a plant down on their office side.
Now it's Canadian taking some damage presumably from the fire. Oddly fact that they've been
shot out from that capitol again. Capitol, a terrifically strong operator whether you
want her in the DMR or the pair of both are good options. I'm really surprised we don't
see more of that brand new DMR in hand. You can do some substantial damage. DMR in the
hands of Yuzus though as it's a double swing from Rebellion. My goodness, E that down,
Shaco down, Yuzus taking a beating, Brede left to his own devices and now it's all up to
to the Brit of Usus in a 1v5.
Technically, could have gotten me back up,
doesn't get the job done.
All around a terrific set of contributions from Rebellion
as they take the first round.
And Parker, we've talked a lot about Spoyt this day.
And of course, we always talk about Willie
when he's on the screen, because it's
the guy that the fans love.
Hasn't had the best tournament so far,
but I think was instrumental in giving
Shopify Rebellion that round.
But of course, got the opening pick out there on the roam.
But then he kind of rotated it over to play with Surf in that horse position
once they'd given up the south side of the map and in doing so he was able to move around Surf
used a death mark that was being tracked I believe by Shiko as bait
Shiko tried to track down Surf, tried to make that push into into horse and then instead of fighting Surf
it was Boyd who stepped up first to get that frag it was really beautiful this is the kill from Boyd I'm talking about
the second one there then he moves over he's a bit of a distraction to let Andy get that third kill in the hallway
And then from there, it's an easy clean up from the support of Shopify Rebellion.
So really nice play coming through from Willie again, struggled so far this event.
He has not had a positive map since December 13th,
but this could be the one given how we started the first round.
It's been a rough go for it for Spoyt at every event since he won the Berlin Major.
As he won it as a rookie, it was an incredible performance from all players
on that rogue team, but since then,
Spoight has taken a bit of a more
backseat role on these squads with
their B because of Canadian, as Leo
said, but it was because it was time
on rogue with her.
It was his time on M80.
That M80 team did have some issues
as a roster, so I don't think you can
just pinpoint it or just pin it all on
Spoight.
But you know what he's capable of.
You know that if given the tools,
if given the leash, and if given the
right role, he can still overpower
just like any team just haven't really seen it materialized chest yet.
And eventually he gets to a point where he needs to be a bit more comfortable on his role,
get the kills he needs, even if it's not flashy he can still contribute.
Well he's picked up the anchor position, he's picked up the Azami to start things off here on the bottom,
or on the top floor of Gorge just for the second fight.
Still here to get into an unfight with Licky Fat.
Breidae also taking a ton of early damage, but it's the French captain who does strike first.
It'll be Rexon who goes down through the horse door.
And it was Breidae hopping onto a razor bloom that did all of that damage.
The fact that he was able to survive it in and of itself is quite impressive.
Thorn getting a whack of buffs and now is far stronger and can be used inside the site or on an extended room.
Surf roaming upstairs right now situated in bathroom miles away from any active attacker, though, if he wants to, he can bring the heat to eFAC and it looks like Surf is going to do just that.
Time's ticking down, Pirate. We've seen the Goyos, we've seen the stall potential that SR have.
Now the push will start to come through through the books wall into office,
3-day gets that open. Now, second time in a row,
Gautn's are committing to full clearing the top floor. They don't want to just go direct.
They aren't a man disadvantage, or a man advantage I should say this time around.
So that makes things a little bit nicer for them, but Andy, a beautiful equalizer,
coming in through briefing, takes down, uses, and everybody escapes back to site.
And Falcons are now working in a big group upstairs to clear out what role remains with one minute still left to go.
Shiko spent much of this outside of the building while the rest of his team gets ever closer.
But the thing with Fortress is you can see this site quite effectively from those exterior windows.
South Spoilers existed in this position for quite a bit of time.
On that, Azamias can wisely point it out.
She's an anchor in this bomb site.
That exploit is playing herself effectively.
Spoigt getting active, down goes Shiko.
The advantage goes back to Rebellion
with 35 seconds left on the clock.
Hatches him on the bunks brief,
and now we see even more of an advantage
for Shopify Rebellion.
All these players coming to Northside,
salt salt may be gonna tangle with Spoigt as well,
but it's so hard.
Leaky back to Breeday, both at just about a single point
of HP.
If you sneeze, they will be knocked down.
So Rebellion looking to catch their breath.
A little over 10 seconds left in the round.
How does he to wander on in?
They will do so to their demise.
Down goes Breide, E-Fack will join the surf.
Now it's up to Solotov.
He'll even give them that opportunity.
He tries a beautiful shot from Spoyt.
Is that just a single kill across two rounds for Falcons?
Not exactly the start that they wanted.
Maybe Fortress isn't in Morocco or Ohio, Parker.
Maybe it's in Sunsville, Sweden,
because Spoyt looks right at home playing on this map.
His fan has found some really high impact kills
across the first two rounds.
credit to the rest of the team as well though. I think being able to delay so much time on
the north side of the map was instrumental in helping them win that. The time was starting
to put a lot of pressure in on Falcons. They didn't have the utility that they wanted,
nor the trades that they wanted to clear that Bunk's position, largely because of how much
time it took them to get into office, to get control of bathrooms, to start to work their
way in through briefing. And even once they did that, of course, it was not without its
casualties so very good from shopfire
belly and twin both plot floor
defenses seems like this attacking
side-start has not panned out for the
Falcons no not at all and again it was
a great early start back on map number
one for rebellion then they fall off
Falcons call a timeout they settled
themselves down they make a couple
changes
rebellion removes the grim Falcons
start bringing the shield junior calls
that really effectively shield starts
getting brought religiously by Breede the
tide turns and then Falcons going to the
better half of their own map and that was it. Rebellion are on the better half of their own map
really early at least with the way Fortress plays out. Again there's some credibility here where
ball knowers say it's probably going to be an attacker side of map. It just has yet to materialize
so if rebellion cannot escape this first half higher than 3-3 I think they find themselves in
the same predicament they found themselves in on Consulate. That is a troubling position to be in
and accept Valkyrie's up for what could very possibly be a 2-0.
We've spread all across the mid-floor here for Shopify Rebellion,
choosing not to hold up above. A lot of teams have done this.
You see what teams hold above the bomb site as well,
but there are a lot of positions to play on the main floor,
so if you want to give it up for free, you can absolutely do that,
and that's going to be the game plan for Shopify Rebellion.
The main place, the new cameras are all watching on up here to slow down the fear,
but it is free as the key factor's finding out now.
He throws out some of these fucking drones and starts to get to work on the floorboards.
Now you've got to be worried about some of the players that are on the exterior of the bomb site.
We saw Ambicoin for a bit of a spawn peek to start things off.
Boy was playing over towards him on as well.
So you've got players around the site that can make your life difficult.
For now there seems like a great g-ball push from Falcon.
They've got full control up above.
They're going to open up this waiting hatch.
I've seen teams try to go for a drop through this waiting hatch to get the plant down.
I've seen teams try to push through medical.
Of course, you kind of need that med bay area where surface currently playing if you want to get a plant down on that side of the map no matter what
But they've got a lot of the early control that they were looking for for Falcons and it came without the need for bloodshed
He's gonna this time has to call
In one of those pocket EMPs a lot of value from this drone two new chambers and a ruining gate
Sir leading off by taking down Solotov lots of zeros across the board for Falcons
Only one kill through those two rounds, and it was at the hands of D-Fact, previous round, did not really amount to too much.
Start getting an opportunity on the Capitao Breede on the board. Falcons are with a minute to go in a much healthier spot in the previous two rounds.
Yeah, Rare early tilt coming out from Breede, trying to open himself up to go for a flank.
It's a drop down now onto the Capitao Smoke, and they have medical to clear up, serve earlier things to that hatch play, but Spoyt has found Shaco.
This wall is something that they'd like to open to go for.
A plant, the gauntlet isn't going to do them any good,
so they're going to have to run through the door
if they can't get it open otherwise.
Spoigt 5-0, and he hasn't even really
got much of a factor in this round,
so there remains an opportunity for him
to amass even greater kills.
Now Breedy has found his way in, tucked next to the bomb chassis.
Getting defuser down inside of raiding.
Spoigt dies for leaky fat.
Good coverage so far for Falcons.
This defuser gets planted right under their nose.
Canadian gets a single kill then gets dropped immediately Falcons of the upper hand in this post
Andy and rex and hanging on for dear life battling the clock battling these players. It's all up to efak now
Andy and rex and searching for that kill rexing gets on to the spot efak compelled him to action
He has to shut this down. He has good opportunity and he swings and shuts them down though
And the youngster will get the kill and the case
Rebellion off to a screaming hot 3-0 start
close but no cigar nice attempt with that plants coming down Parker that's a
really difficult plant spot to deny kind of need the up above control a 3-0 lead
from Shopify rebellion I'm curious if that does prompt attack time out we'll
get the operator bands in first before we reveal if we will be taking a quick
pause but really good from Shopify rebellion it's not panic after that
happened they played their trades well they were always in an advantage even
when man count was early, mute setup inside of medbay was fantastic from surf even though
it only got a single kill.
We can either play full nekered, just push in the rear, just fast, just speed up the game, you know?
Because now they're in their comfort zone, you can just like play like this, or you can just bring 4 executeers that will keep doing this, you know?
Bring more executeers, direct, full execute, fire, execute apparatus, you know? Whatever, I think the 2, we're gonna make them game more annoying, you know?
I think, the two, we're gonna make them more annoying, you know?
Let's make them uncomfortable.
I think Shaco and Horace, if you feel like,
you can double jump, cause someone,
yeah, cause someone, or rotate,
or if you can't do shit, cause someone to help you,
or you just rotate and you go with them, okay?
Yeah, yeah.
You can just jump into the window,
like, once someone made Earth, or I can push them.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's be annoying, okay?
Yeah, let's go, let's go.
Might be some of the most urgency I've heard
in Julio's voice in quite some time.
I mean, Julio is usually as cool as a cucumber.
If he's getting mad and he's starting to show some signs of concern, I think they're probably very well-founded and I mean that was a much better round for Falcons, Jesse, but beyond that, it has been quite a bore showing so far, even in that round they only got three kills.
Yeah, I mean their attacks really aren't going the way that they need them to be going.
You heard the frustrations happening around a horse, that's Shaco trying to take that position up against Cerf who has primarily been playing that spot for shopfire and belly.
I think the zombie band should help them in taking horse control because they played that operator around there a couple of times now
But there really are some issues that I think thousand and a half to get thing get together
When it comes to the speed of these clears when they're choosing to clear through the entire top floor
They have been losing on time more often than not
Second time as well in two maps that we've heard Julio call a very early attack time out Parker
The last one on costlet came early as well
Both in the same round, both right after the operator band.
Both right after round three, yeah.
To be fair, it was a good attack time, but it worked for Falcons.
It got them the 3-3 split they were looking for.
It's going to be a little tougher to get the 3-3 split here.
Shot the firebellion can play all three bomb sites.
Again, it's only going to get easier to choose your bomb sites,
and you're going to have more options as this first half continues.
I'll be interested if Falcons do ever commit to going direct to site
to site and not clearing up the roamers. For now, Parker, they are doing the same ace
breaching salt off on the Bunk's wall. It looks very similar to round one.
I was going to say, four of those five operas have been played previously.
Daymos has been present in all but the most recent round. Striker, the only new
addition. Uses has been swapping around ops quite frequently. That's something
that we expect. Playing those entry-ish ops that are still very utility heavy.
Going from Brava to Flores to Doga B now to Striker, he played three rounds of Intel Ops with more to it than just that.
Now just going for pure utility.
Looking for that first pick.
E-Fact, the only player on this team with anything close to resembling a good EPS.
59 for Breidae, everybody else below Solotov right now, rocking a 6 team of an LPS,
of an LPS, which through three rounds just might be one of the worst EPS we've seen at this point in time in the turn.
It's still plenty of time to turn that one around, but ineffective on utility, ineffective on droning, ineffective on killing, that's going to land you in a rough spot.
So we're not really clear into the south side of Parker. They opened up the wall, but then it decided to mostly focus towards the north.
We saw that pressure coming out from the licky-falk on the white stairs. Chose not to commit to it, the vert angle's a little bit too strong.
It's really awkward to push up those white stairs when the defenders are holding vertical angles from inside of office
Licky back up the main stairs will try to go for a swing
But it's surf who swings first to find Shiko as the opening pick and it's taken over ten minutes
For Shiko to get his first kill here on fortress as almost unheard of
It's been a stifling defense from rebellion shutting down these good gunners of Falcons
They have a good deal of time to work with it out
Now we'll go a death mark to make this a little bit easier for the EU squad.
They track Ambie, he's playing in bathroom, he's got a spoilt by the side, so he can try
to use that as a bit of a bait, but for now just trying to vacate the bathroom and it's
spoilt going for a hunting kill on a Usus.
Brede taking down Canadian, spoilt's only death occurring in the previous round, around
it's one by his teammates, so even if he dies, that's okay, but six kills for him, mighty
impressive.
Ambie's strong on map number one, keeping up with that on map number two, but shut down
by Shaco who finds number two, won't find a third as Rexon punishes him.
The 2v2 with Spoint wounded Breide getting diffuser down Solotov, watching from afar.
They're giving him nothing just yet! Solotov turns around, Spoint with yet another kill,
and now the two remaining players on rebellion will look to isolate Breide who's got the
shield put away. Gunbear allowed. An advantageous position for Breide should they push from
that angle he will get one but turns around a great pinch by the rebellion
spoiled with a huge round and an easy disable from SR yet again the timeout
not paying off immediately for oh an incredible beginning for fortress and
no matter what happens over the next two rounds Shopify rebellion have done what
needs to be done on this first half an unwinnable 1v2 for Breidae Rexon and
spoilt put that perfectly Parker they pinched him from two different angles
They had one in front one behind that shield does not go 360 so easy to clean up that final clutch in the post plant shop
A firebillion get their fourth round in a row, and I feel like they've been reading Falcons exceptionally well
Credit to Shaco despite what he was saying in the tack timeout, and I can't repeat it
He got a couple of really important kills around the horse
This was the first one shutting down surf who was going for that swing then he gets really deep into bathroom right here
and he finds the frag onto ambi once he gets all of that space once he controls the bathroom site
Shaco has kind of given his team all the opportunity to win that round
But unfortunately the movements from Shopify rebellion are too strong that swing coming over man being the top floor over towards
Over towards sport. I should say meds was so good
Post plant once again also perfectly played by willy and brexon so all together a clean defense from Shopify rebellion and they are
on the path to 7 0 numbers getting a lot better after those previous two rounds
four Falcons but still just not quite where they need to be fortress a newer
map one that again North America seem to come in this event with loads of prep
on now too many need to stop out of your bats guys grab you'll just always
ban fortress you're not gonna need to go to it and a lot of teams were just
thinking either we banned fortress because we know we're bad at or we leave
it open and we basically hope that our opponents are equally uncomfortable so that when we play it
it becomes a coin flip almost like a game of chicken who bans fortress first are there more
higher priority maps that we can get rid of that will aid us and then we can have fortress setup
as a designer of sorts rebellion we're obviously very well equipped to handle this map it is
showing so far falcons giving rebellion the better side on the first half is a pretty intriguing
decision and it's so far not looking like it's gonna pay off, but
Falcons can do the same thing when they swap sides, and if they do that means we go to overtime.
They only won two of their defenses versus wild card earlier in the group stage,
so I feel they were banking on the attack, being strong for them. Not over yet, 4-2 split still on the cards for Falcons.
That's what they're playing for, and horse will once again be the position that Shaco finds himself in. Walks in straight past the crowd.
I don't think so.
Drops you the hatch, nervous of the ghosts that are not there, but still blinded as
looking back, there is really no contestant happening from Shopify rebellion on this spot.
How do you know they're there if you can't see me?
That's a real question.
Shaggle might have a premonition, but that's not, that's not Serp.
That's just a hunch.
Ambi now involves an early action, as we have been saying so far in this entire series,
but it's Serp to get his kills.
Serp will find another before Breeding shuts him down.
was very good on that thorn in this previous attempt.
5,000 to attack this site.
They're getting tripped up a lot by the Fenrir town,
goes Brede to Rexon, and things have fallen apart
for Falcons over a minute to go,
and there are just two players left.
Serf of Rexon playing around bathroom,
that being the difference makers.
Rexon's still here, you see his silhouette,
Saltov knows where he's at too,
but Rexon's not giving him anything.
Patiently playing in the short haul,
knows where this player is at.
They finally get the pinch on him,
but it took so much time Parker, they're in briefing,
They've got this control of the map. Canadian, the smoke on the other side is going to be a very difficult thing to move.
Solotov with his very first kill. It comes at a time when they desperately need it.
Shaco on two at this point.
They're going to draw the bandit on Spoyt.
Oh, but Lily wins it!
Oh my goodness!
Nah.
Sit down, Solotov.
Shaco with three targets defined and here's the shotgun blast.
What does he do next?
He gets Spoyt.
Could potentially get Canadian next as that shotgun is pointed at the doorway.
This will be tough for Shiko.
Down he goes.
Canadian punishes him and oh my my.
What an incredible run is it's 5-0.
And Parker, I mean, what a crazy, ridiculous round we just witnessed as well.
I mean, coming in through that top floor clear, it is that duo of Rexon and
surf that really pop off, give them the momentum that they needed.
Even when Falcons have the answers, even when they could move in with that Flora's drone, force Boyd to step up, somehow he wins that fight.
There's no world in which it should be favored for Team Falcons, but it starts off strong, it finishes strong.
This map might be going back, going by a very fast Parker.
A very quick best of three could potentially await us. Is that what it looks like we are set up for?
Number three the tiebreaker if needed will be night Haven labs
This is good territory for both teams
But I have to give the nod to rebellion when it comes to that map
So you can pull off the reverse sweep and manage to make your way into the upper bracket
The winner of this match goes up against team secret who have looked phenomenal so far
Undefeated through phase one. They have been world beaters. They had a terrific run at Munich
They won EWC back in the summer of last year
It has just been an upward trajectory for this European team.
And of course, the player that we always have to reference when Team Secret comes up is June.
He's been so, so good.
Rebellion's got some tools, though, and it boasts point and serve.
And Andy, too, who's had a bit of a backseat in this map.
Show of the way they have over maps one and two.
Map three remains to be seen.
June might have his hands full.
Bit of a backseat, and he's four and one.
in one. You're not wrong, but I think that speaks to how dominant this Shopify rebellion
team has been on fortress. We go to the final bomb site Parker of kitchen cafeteria.
Chopfire Belly to do the exact same thing. It's the identical defensive lineup coming
out from them that spread themselves across this mid floor. Surfers previously playing
in med bay and he could get cut off by Shaiiko. Shoots a couple of shots and does back off.
Medical is usually the power position that surf likes to play and he was so important
get that opening pick on round number three. He switched things up a little bit. If he can get the drop on Shaco, maybe make something crazy happen.
That could be even more devastating without these chances of getting this final round.
He seemed to have a good idea of where he's at. They've definitely got him on drone now though, and with that hard ping, Shaco can go for the death mark track.
Don't try to hunt somebody down, look at the reed on the mutes, but immediately lose it.
I guess, nothing venture, nothing gain.
I'm just going to miss for Falcons.
Now the halfway point of this round.
Extreme makeover.
Hold it in solid top.
Upstairs.
Make the leg as uncomfortable for the defender as possible.
Taking away that roof above their very heads.
But no looking present to punish, Galgo's uses two surf and that's the opening pick for the Rebellion.
He's so good at playing in that med position. At the same time, LickyVac doing with Ambly on the other side of the map.
LickyVac all by himself trying to make something happen to distract for this plant.
The logic problem for Try to do so as well is the med bay push comes.
Oh, Shaco gunned down by Canadian.
An honest attempt by Falcons, but Rebellion just beat them every single step of the way.
Every day inside of infirmary now dead.
That's not where you want to go.
Almost another flawless round.
Rebellion though with a flawless first half.
All six rounds going in their favor.
A suspect choice for Falcons to start them off as defenders.
You got a lot of time to make up.
As only one more round for the rebellion
will punch us to map number three.
At some point we got to start just banning Fortress
against North American teams Parker.
It seems like the meta has developed far farther than what we've seen in any other region.
Shopify Rebellion, a really nice five-man bottom floor hold to come through.
It's the exact same that we saw on round three.
It's a perfect attempt for Falcons to try to adapt and crack that same nut again.
But Surf continues to be a problem on the east side of the map.
We see that push in from LickyFack, get spotted out by Ambi.
That didn't do as much as they were hoping for.
And then the site play from Canadian really strong as well.
It just didn't feel like Shopify or rebellion were ever under that much pressure.
And if they were, they were striking back with good nighter cells, good swings, good trades if they ever lost anybody.
A 6-0 half is not what most were expecting after Team Falcon's 1-Map 1 dominating through the second half of Consulate.
The partner of this third map of Nighthaven Labs is well on its way.
There's so much time almost tripping over ourselves to praise this falconstein all the
way back in map number one.
And then the desk started to give some final rest to rebellion for this second map.
Well after consulate had been concluded there was a bit of skepticism as to whether or not
some of that praise was warranted.
Rebellion had made us look like, or any doubters rather because we didn't openly doubt them,
made us look like fools because the rebellion showed up ready to play. Look at the numbers
on the bottom of your screen they tell the full story uses without a kill. Solotov just
on a single kill. Shaiqo held to three kills at this point across the board. You are looking
at 11 kills for this Falcons team. Surface at 9, spoid is at 9. There's a gulf between
these teams and I don't know if Falcons have what it takes to cross that divide. Now they
do have the upper hand on sides but lack of comfort, lack of adaptations and inability
to read this rebellion team. All of these things have doomed the EML squad. Now it's
up to the rebellion to crack what could be any threat of the defender side of
this boy nearly guaranteed his first positive map of the invitation will be
a big boon to get him jump-started into this playoff run good droning coming
through from sport as well sometimes not all about the kills finds a little bit
of information there over on the main staircase of this top floor we spread
all across the top floor as we tend to see uses one of those south roamers
Shaco is well really barreled up inside of course so you've got a couple of strong defensive positions
You're gonna have to clear if you are on on the SR team
Spoil and Shaco likely to toss so as the first flashbang goes through the door
Just baiting things out that'll be a gunfight to happen later in the round instead
Surf is using all of his own intel as he spots the Ella of Solotov right now playing in games
He'll get a read logic bomb will go off
Solotov is a little bit smarter than this. He is not taking the bait. He will allow that call to expire.
Ambi, meeting Uzes, head on and opening pick for Falcons as Solotov gets on the board as well.
Serv had all the information but could not land the shots.
And with the flick of a switch, Rebellion has gone down by two players.
Solotov and Uzes, that former M&M duo doing a great work there on the roam game.
Solotov, a bit of a bait as Uzes is the one to really strike versus Solotov for two more right after.
where Spoyt goes down and this might just be the longest round from the Falcons.
I mean you have plenty of time if you're a rebellion, you still got your time out to boot!
Solotov killing everybody inside the server, there's a reason why we call him the Turkish Terror.
He's been terrorizing this rebellion team for the last minute and a half.
The quad kill is available as Rexon still remains, but he's the only hope for rebellion.
Solotov had information to prefire on the door, but the bullets go over the head of Rexon.
directs of raster trying this one. They've got him locked down with the yokai. Shiko will get kill
number one thousand to win this round flawlessly. But I don't know if he actually got it will
wait because sometimes they give the kill to a player who gets the down. It sure looks like it
will have to wait until we get into live action to see the scoreboard. If it shows four for Shiko.
There's a headshot. That's certainly got to be it because it was the finish of the down
It was a headshot straight win with the scorpion. So that's got to be it
And we are getting confirmation from the admins 1000 kills for Shaco souls got 1000 yesterday or well two days ago
Shaco will net it an incredible tally for the Frenchman and weirdly he doesn't seem that thrilled I
Don't even know if he knows that he got a thousand kills
I don't think players track these numbers anywhere near as much as we do
Maybe a little bit more concerned with the numbers at the top of the lobby, which is 6 and 1.
It starts to dig themselves out of this deficit. Falcon's a really nice roam game coming through there.
Again, I think Yuzus and Saltov working so well as a duo through that round.
Also want to give some credit to Breidae. I mean, everybody was participating in that round for Falcons,
but his Yo-Kai drones gave a lot of that information that allowed the roamers on Falcons to step up and get those frags,
have so much success in those aggressive engagements, so really nice team play coming out from team Falcons.
Shaco, of course, stepping up for that final frag, exactly what he needed to hit four digits on the SI scoreboard.
It's so impressive from him.
Just a terrific player through the group.
Hot take? I think Shaco is a good player.
I'll say it, I'll be brave.
Not to get political, but I think a thousand kills is a lot.
What a legacy. The only thing now he needs part of is a hammer.
He's won a major. He did it with the team BDS back in Yomchaping, Sweden,
defeating Team Liquid in a thrilling matchup. But outside of a couple EWCs,
there's been no big moment for him on any of his teams, and now they're competing.
So most teams will tell you they don't really care where they win the hammer.
They just want to win one period. But if you're a space station,
winning it in North America as a North American team, if you are
or W7M to be more specific, winning it in Brazil or if you're Falcons, potentially winning it in Paris.
Even though the team in the order no longer a French team, the core and identity of this team for so long has been French.
They have a majority of French players. It would feel mighty good for Falcons to lift the hammer here in Paris at the live event next weekend.
He's got to get out of this match up first, because right now it certainly seems like map number three will determine things
Unless Falcons can go on a 6-0 run of their own,
Lubella is still sitting on that point.
Trying to find some way to get into this map.
Of course, it wasn't really successful,
so Andy goes in for the bottom floor.
Finds the frag on the licky back of the main stairs.
That's their opening that they needed.
Could open up some space now for the players
to try to jump into the window,
maybe get in through that four-store still.
Worried of what somebody's flying from in from behind,
so Saltov is down inside of the music,
so he is right to think that he might get flanked.
Later on through this one, he will track Saltov,
So now aware of the lesions positions
And we got a solo mission right now his whole team just using this as an opportunity to get space and solotov got mighty close
You almost had an opportunity to see ambi
But we'll peel off of that position yokai drone strategically placed around this map
And they are aiding falcons for the second round in a row. You rightly credited how important those yokai's work for Intel
Breeday is a terrific support player. He calls. He's an active talker
he's gonna get a lot of value out of these gadgets.
Every single player on F-Sollard just outside of Bunkster
are very grouped up at the moment, Parker.
So there will be no backstab coming in
for this rebellion attack.
The information's still good from Falcons.
They might not have numbers,
but they are in strong positions.
Canadian will wander on into the Bunk site,
disoriented for a moment by the F-NOT.
He's got two pairs of eyes staring at him
on the side of Falcons.
It's out gone.
Another death mark.
The last one will emerge now for Ambi to use.
10 seconds to go, nine players still alive.
Canadian toying with the warning, users staying alive.
A thorn in the side of Shaco now gets taken down by Rexon,
down by Solotov as well.
It's all up to Breide.
He might get the job done.
Taking Madison to his own hand.
He knocks him off the plant, but he's shut down
by the bodies of the Rebellion.
And a 7-1 victory sends us to a third map.
What a drumming for the Falcons.
That could have been a 7-0 for Rebellion,
But 7-1 is about as good as she gets.
Yeah, statement for the very first time.
Chopped Fireballing have played fortress
in an official competitive matchup.
Really nice play here against the Falcons.
Forcing that third map of Nighthaven Labs
start to finish, they own the European team.
No player on Falcons amassing more than four kills.
Shiko hits kill number 1,000,
but I bet he's more worried about the score of this round.
Nighthaven Labs is next.
My window is closing. We only get one shot at this.
I
the game. They were in the
game. They come victory. They
caught themselves back in this
matchup a very dominant map,
especially on the defense.
Really weird take by the way
from Parkinson's to go and
pick attack on fortress because
if there is one to that knows
how to layer their defense, it's
going to be here. Billion Yeah,
and I think ultimately shop
firebellion did that really,
really well. There was two key
individuals for me, which was
quite and staff and I think
really school the way fortress
will play out is you will often
be spread up across the top
floor, mainly controlling that
and the backline right spot amazing on that Ella especially like you said
holding the strong areas abusing the elements and winning his gunfight
surf on the other hand was to get it was playing on site either with a phone or
with the mute he was the one holding it as an anchor getting the important
frags honestly the work of the two the backline the front line amazing to see
from Shopify rebellion and they're the ones the real kings yeah ours to be
praised for the six year on defense their reactions were so good they really
were they knew exactly what Falcons were gonna do when they were trying to do
the full clears across and when it was time for the execute they were ready
holding all the different areas of entry that Falcons were going for. When
Falcons start going direct they will bait in the mouth for just the
individuals why they could find the 2v1s they were getting them every single
time. I feel like we put a lot of pressure on Spoyr of course with the
heads ahead we put him versus Shaiiko earlier so far he's definitely delivering
at least in this map too. Yeah we've said multiple times it's never been about
the skill with Spoyr, it's about putting him in a position where he can actually
frag out. With that ELA in strong positions, he's actually, I guess in a perfect position
to go and get aggressive, get the details that he wanted.
Now that wasn't the only one for you, or the head to head we did earlier today. We also
talked about the IGLs, about the Sochi G gameplay, and there's something you want to show us
on Nighthaven Labs.
Yeah, I think so. Obviously, this is the map that we're heading into. On the very first
clip, it's actually SAAF, and I think it's just worth re-showing this one, where he throws
out the proximity alarm to fade out the structure to get rid of the proximity alarm, and then
And the C4 is free to not be fractured and to deny the plan.
That was absolutely beautiful to see.
And if you look at the overall theory from Shopify Rebellion, on that map, look at Ging
here from Canadian.
He's baiting the backline of the bomb site here.
He's gonna die actually coming into a clock.
But he's there to buy time to be a distraction.
As he does that, Ambi, Rex and they flash out the bomb site and they go aggressive and
take it against FaZe.
And then towards the end of the round, 7-7 by the way, against FaZe, the world champions.
Look at the views of the smoke, exactly like we saw it on Consulate in earlier this match against Valken, that gets rid of the Division.
And then after this, the clash of Canadian takes over, buying time, slowing down the attackers 15 seconds left, nothing they can do here.
And as much as the phase will go and get aggressive and get some picks, as long as Canadian and Serb the backline lives, the only two remaining player, buy enough time.
time here Canadian with the clash will buy enough time to win the round and that was how they beat
stays on that map. And obviously we're talking about shock firebellion a lot and I think that's
because being consistent when they play with the team play when they play with the coordination
and communication they are so high in terms of their level they can take on anyone we've seen
them just do that to Falcons we've seen them in the clips just then doing it to face they can do
it to anybody when it doesn't quite pay off it doesn't look as good so it's the big win condition
in my mind for shock firebellion is can they place that level with their coordination. So they
I want to come to Falcons. What are we looking to see from them on this final map to really stay in the other bracket?
I think the important thing is we've seen multiple times the split takes track
And they're so spread around and they get picked up one by one
They take individual gunfights and they're used to win them fair enough
But when that doesn't work, you need to start playing as a team. We heard Julio call the right strategy
What was it? It was go direct everyone together. Shaco, if you're on one side of the map and you don't get a kill and you don't feel useful
Go join the execute play as one team as five as a squad
That's the one thing that we need to see from them.
All they need to show is that if they want to stay in the upper bracket,
just one more match, it comes down to a best of one.
Who stays in the upper bracket, and who loses their extra life?
Night here for last is up next.
Winner gets to face Team Secret later today.
Loser goes down to the lower bracket to fight up against ninjas in pajamas tomorrow.
Falcons won their own map.
7-3, a far more convincing win for the Rebellion.
is on fortress now a map that should be well suited for both teams awaits us
Jesse if you have to predict or if you don't want to predict but at least
explain mistakes here who do you think's got the upper hand on that
even laughs. Parker you can call it in a bias if you want but the way I started
looking on the previous map was just devastating in my mind falcons they've
had these tough moments in high pressure situations they've fallen in those
spots before and listen every time an SI champion has been crowned the last three years they've
done it after falling in the first round so listen the storybook kind of writes itself for team
falcons here in the city of lights off against shopper firebellion they'll still have to prove it
though nighthaven labs as you mentioned and this is going to be one that shopper firebellion have
a long history of success on of course 2-0 at the 6th civilization of being face clan and g2
the game. They were very close.
They were very much.
Nailbiter matches, but in the end,
shop firebellion have shown consistency
on this match before Falcons are
also two and oh since
they lost it, of course, in the Munich
finals, but those games were against
not quite the same opponent. One of them was the same
to beat G2 at the EML finals, then they
beat daystar here at the six
invitation of their games much faster,
but I would say less impressive given the
stakes of both games. Absolutely
It appears that we have a small tech issue, so we will stall for a little bit more time.
Over on the B-Stream, you've got two North American teams colliding in what will be just
one of a handful of times we see North America today.
If SR wins this matchup, they will be in action later against Team Secret, as we mentioned
just moments ago.
MAD and space station will do battle for the privilege of playing wild card their regional counterparts
Later on down in the lower bracket. You've got one North American team right now
The only North American team in the lower bracket and that's OXG
We know their matchup. They're playing team heretics tomorrow. You and I will actually be casting that game
Yeah, I am very excited to do that
You and I have some experience with this team heretics team because while they are a tier 2 squad
We had to cast them in Toronto with that sport contender series before yes
rebranded
Getting picked up by a giant Spanish organization. They were formerly known as project zero
Oh XG has looked like the weakest team in North America by quite a bit. Yeah, but there's still a top
16 team they could still surprise and as you have said many times Jesse
The lower bracket is the fields upon which the future grand champion
and we'll read absolutely.
And there's been a lot of conversation in North America
about who's the best second best third best
in a lot of people's minds.
Chopfire billion have fallen down that ranking.
So as we see the NA teams participate
across this upper bracket,
and they're going to be compared to their regional rivals
in space station in M80 in wildcard,
even in dark zero,
if you haven't watched the game in over a year.
So it really does.
the game. He's not just a
player. He's not just a
player. Letting itself to
he's not even here in their
catching to showcase how well
they can do against this
Falcons team. We highlighted
surf actually just in a brief
graphic a few minutes ago, and
Jack also highlighted his
play on the desk. I've been
really impressed with how well
surf is done, not just in this
game, but. Over as I as a whole,
he's been the highest rate of
player on shop fire, belly and
coming into this, but he was
with all of the players on shopfire rebellions.
The vibe kinda was that surf was struggling in that
and the team kinda recognized that,
surf recognized it in himself
that maybe his performance back at the Munich Major
wasn't what they've come to expect of him.
This six-invitational has been different.
A different level has been shown by surf in Paris
and I think it's made all the difference for the rebellion.
Through two maps,
surf is the best rated player on his team
and in the lobby so I took the cap to him,
Spoyt had a really terrific previous map. Rising up against the best gunners of falcons. He sat down
soliton a few times. He outdouled Shiko. These are things that kids that are growing up to play
this game can only dream of saying about themselves. For Spoyt, it's just another day in the office.
He has yet to go positive at this event. But if you go back to Fortress, very positive. Very positive.
Only three deaths for Spoyt. So hey, look at that. He turns on the jets and with it rebellion goes up.
Now mind you, everybody on the team did well.
The only player who went negative in that map was Rexon, who went 4 and 5.
Rexon also went negative on Consulate.
I don't know if maybe they made a very subtle role change for this team.
Maybe Spoit is playing a more aggro, more active style, and Rexon has been more passive.
But Rexon's numbers have not been particularly good compared to, say, Spoit's.
to his credit, Rexon, to enter as the perfect middle-rating player on this squad, so he does what needs to be done,
but he has not had a particularly good series so far, if Rexon could turn around that would be great, but right now the stories are indeed spoiled.
Sometimes the impacts aren't always seen on the scoreboard, Parker, like when you get an electroclaw trick,
you can have a high impact on the round without getting the stat sheet going your way.
Now, Canadian dies in the midst of this, he was trying to protect Rexon's retreat.
As he went for another trick on that connector wall, he loses his life for it.
At the same time though, Shackle gets traded back by Ambie.
So, we're seeing everybody on SR working together to accomplish some of these goals.
In the end, they don't keep the wall fully closed off,
but you're not going to be able to walk into the connector breach,
and it starts to limit the options that Falcons will have as they go for this attack.
Canadian's been every round defending on Fortress as smoke,
so now he'll go with the shield operator.
Clash has a ton of value on this map, particularly this bomb site.
You'll see Clash get trotted over towards those awkward fish spares, which is where Surf is now playing as the smoke.
You can position yourself bio-electrical.
You can even put down the shield and frag so effectively as we see Clash's do.
Canadian will have to call from the bench, as he died very early on.
Eusis will go down to Spoit, who seems to have remembered that he can left click, and the advantage goes to Rebellion.
Yeah, nice play coming out from the Swede, and this is really in a new strategy from Sharp Firebellion,
despite the fact that they've played this map so many times with the Sixth Invitational,
this setup with the Two Brown, the Kaid, is brand new from their play.
So it's not something that Falcons will have likely come in expecting.
Split already getting good value of that Two Brown DMR, hitting a beautiful shot,
and this IT, or this garage wall, I should say, is going to be really tough for Falcons to open up.
They don't really have the tools for it anymore. They've wasted all of their can openers on the
other walls. So whilst they have to wrap their position, Parker, I don't really know what it's worth.
It's a great call.
This Capitao has been a very instrumental for Falcons, but it's not only working out
all that effectively at least for the time being, Solotov finds Starft through the wall,
Breide on the board as well.
The advantage that rebellion has, completely gone.
Spoight and Rexon now playing far, far back, but both of their guns were the ACOG, so they
can engage with it more comfortably.
These long range duels in Breide will understand how hefty damage is done by the DMR.
of Spoigt will now freeze the ground in front of him. He's hoping to defang that
Grim push does not work. The bit belated. Spoigt drops Rex and will have to cut
here. He redeems himself. He heard us critiquing his play and Richie will clutch
to give the Rebellion round number one. Speaking of the devil there he goes.
What a pop-off round that again it's not just about the kills Parker. I really
think the utility was the key focal point for Shopify rebellion in that round.
keeping the walls closed with that two brow Kaid combo.
It wasn't something Falcons were expecting coming into things.
It wasn't something that they had the tools to play against.
Really smart play coming out from Shopify Rebellion.
And honestly Parker, it reminds me of a conversation that was had between Shaco and Milosh.
Where Shaco said to Milosh that, listen, we don't feel bad when we lose to teams
because every single time we play against a team, they're bringing it their all.
They're always bringing out their newest strategies, their newest maps,
their biggest tricks to try to take us down. Falcons for the Vast Medlaff are a very large majority of people are the favorites for this event.
They can feel it when they play against opponents and this game is no different.
Jobfire Bellion have brought a lot of new stuff to the series, playing Consolip for the second time all season, playing Fortress for the first time all season,
playing a brand new strategy in the first round on Night Haven Labs.
They're bringing so much new stuff to the Falcons, and it's very hard to adapt to stuff like that.
You've got to be 100% on point as an IGL. Your prep phase drones have to be good,
and for Falcons, I think they were decent in that first round, but not good enough.
I mean, I don't think it's correct to clutch a 1v2, right?
I mean, I understand.
I like this positioning, to be honest.
I think a 1v2 was favored.
I think his positioning was very, very good.
But I'm just saying, clutching out a 1v2 after you've used all that utility,
I agree with your point, but I'm not condemning you.
I'm condemning the rebellion.
You cannot rely on that to happen every single round to save the day, so still some structural
issues from rebelling as the Falcons were very good at getting in.
We will see now what takes shape here in the second round.
I promise, I'm not mad at you.
I could never be mad at you.
Barger, I don't think you are.
Don't worry.
I just think that
Rexon inside the control hallway playing over by crates
Of course gonna be something that they have to deal with this top floor maybe a bit more pressing of a concern three of these
Rebellion players are up here Canadian sport Nambi the entry duo plus the old man
Trying to get a little bit of information to allow ambience boys do some pop-off things up here
Yeah, he reaches not a problem and Rexon's still not having any problems in that main floor
he finds salt off outside the window and it's just been so big of a thorn in their side.
And this comes back to our point that we talk about with depth, right?
If you have a bad map, if you have a bad second map, you've got to redeem yourself from map number three.
If you have a bad second map, maybe you have a big social map.
Epson flows to these players. So Rexon off to Hot Start is particularly great.
If you exclude round number one of Consulate, Canadian has played three operators on every single round as a defender.
defender. He has played clash, he has played smoke, and he has played pulse.
He played to chunk around number one consulate. It was a little experiment.
Nothing more beyond that happened. But yeah, he's gonna play these intel ops on
smoke a little bit different with a map like Fortress. I trust Canadian to call
on this pulse to go through.
Mr. Orcling plays the Mira on this site, but of course that gets banned out, so it's
adapt a little bit over towards the ball. Still a comfortable role for him.
He uses in a potential plant position. Now there is still rex in a very close
I don't know if Usus is aware of Rexxon's spot or if Rexxon's aware of Usus, they are right next to each other and now they will both reveal that information.
Rexxon sees the blunt of the shield, doesn't get the 3D with it, and worried about what he might be playing around the shield player, but not dead yet.
Rexxon's in a precarious spot, he has to tempt 3D over on the window, they will close in on him.
multiple players with an accident dragging from this position,
getting them all cannot outdo a Usus.
So finally, his run will end,
but he struck fear into the hearts of this Val'kin's team.
Shiko and Usus will very quickly need to get into the site
and punish these remaining defenders.
They are outnumbered two to one.
Here comes Usus, trapped in the corner as Surf Shiko gets in,
and now the Brit will attempt a diffuse plant
with Shiko to watch.
Canadian down below, Necrosel cost a perfectly
blowing the round to Smithereams for Falcons.
The big brain on Big Bad Nadian, and it's a 2-0 start
for Shopify Rebellion.
He thought he had him planting on the cabinet,
but nope, Canadians got the shot cut
so he can make the angle so perfectly played by SR.
And it all comes back to the entry frags
to Parker, Richie Coronado, the flex support
from Fresno, California, stepping up.
Keep in mind, has never beaten Sheiko through eight matches
that he's played in his professional career.
That goes all the way back to his time on Luminosity Gaming.
He has always struggled against his French court,
but today he has been stepping up
and has been the key player on Nightwing and Labs,
such an impossible position just beside those crates
in the hallway.
It feels like they know where to use that.
They should be able to get a free kill,
but he walks away with three in that round
and opens the door for Canadian to close it.
I mean, that round was over
whether Canadian gets the natural sell or not, right?
Amidst that melee, Shaco had died to amb2,
so it was just Breede all by his lonesome.
Suppose there is a situation
where the plant goes down successfully.
Breede will then turn around, fully extend,
and there are three rebellion players
that'll all be competing to knock you left and right
while one goes on the debuser.
Exactly.
It was Kirk, it was four Falcons on that round.
I did say before we loaded into Consulate,
I liked this map pool for Rebellion.
I think they're very comfortable here.
I think if it went all three rounds,
you start to tip this match in favor of the North Americans.
And again, both of these teams had some very pronounced
stumbles through that first phase.
They both looked off of their game.
It's very easy to look at them with their history.
Maybe the Rebellion not because they haven't really
been able to achieve what they had hoped
and what this roster can possibly accomplish.
But for Falcons, they are a team
that we know can go to a grand finals.
They've gone to so many.
They had some issues through phase one,
and now here they are looking for an upper bracket run,
and they have had a rough start to this third map.
Who knows, we talked about the victory
we set for the rebellion after Consulate.
Maybe now it's up to Falcons to center themselves
after the beating they were handed on fortress.
Tertiary site from Stratfire Valley
in basement is the only site of the three
that they play where they do not have above a 50% win rate
through the six-invitational.
So you'd think this is the opportunity for Falcons
to turn the tides and get themselves on the board.
It's a very hefty roam coming out.
Exploit the force playing on that position top floor.
A lot of mid-floor players as well in Falcons.
No interest in clearing it already.
Down the exo stairs in a very fast move in pace.
Watch your bombs and now finish.
Canadian goes back to old reliable here on Clash.
Again, you pointed out the mirror being banned,
and you thought it would need to be a change
in the roster for this rebellion team.
And we'll do that.
By the logic bar, we'll now go off.
No need to stop these calls.
So for about 10 seconds or so,
this will be very good information for Falcons.
Canadians spotted by eyes, not by gadgetry,
and they'll dance backwards from a name.
He's holding off in cargo.
He needs to be very worried about his position.
He's got a plethora of blue silhouettes in front of him.
EFAC taking some damage.
If Canadian can draw them in and the rest of the rebellion can sweep them into the dustbin,
I'd say that's a victory.
Hughes is getting diffused, kicked down, and there's chaos inside the site.
They know exactly where he is, so he needs to go quickly when we get Rustin to a post-plan as Rexon gets the lead off pitch.
The remainder of this round now drops to 45 seconds.
As nine players still alive, Rebellion will need to do the job of disabling.
For else, this one will go to the Europeans.
They get on the board with Solotov, taking care of Ambi.
Time continuing to run away.
is not going to help the rebellion at this point.
They need to get in and start bragging.
They're running out of time.
Shaco holding him at bay.
The rest of the falcons lined up so far,
a very successful post plant.
Rexon finds his second kill.
Sidearm out with Canadian now going for the counter disable.
Can they shut him down in time?
From above, Rexon holding court.
Canadian might get the job done.
He's shut down at the final moment by Brede,
and the round is won by the falcons on time.
The clutch minister himself, he wins reelection.
And the Frenchman and Cole win their first round!
Parker, Breede did not enter the building until there was 13 seconds left in that round.
He was outside of cargo window for the vast majority of it, but instead, last second decides he's got to go to the bottom floor.
His teammates are getting picked apart inside the site, makes it in through assembly, finds that disable or the denial of the disable.
Wow, what a round coming out from Breede. It's a really risky gambit by Falcons.
They send three players barreling down the stairs and they get the job done.
I mean, just beautiful play coming out from the Europeans.
They had two players up above as well.
Saltov was at Doka being, he was the player that was supposed to be stopping the perk denial.
He did his job, he put the plant down at the end.
If Rexon is a split second faster, literal nanosecond.
He denies that plant and it's GG.
It's gonna be three overshocked by Rebellion, but he's a little bit too slow.
The plant goes down before he gets the opportunity and I really think three days
rotation was not in that map for the best majority of it was the difference
maker just an unbelievable round where you just you're on the you're you're
just on baited breath the whole time yeah a nanosecond difference the plant
doesn't go down you start Canadian right there in the replay he was under a
second to go before he gets shut down it is a literal game of millimeters at
this point in time inches are too big. It's up to millimeters between these teams. What
an incredible and thrilling conclusion to that round. Very hard fought by the Falcons
and they get on the board because of it. Maybe concerning that that's the only way you're
winning round is by barely finishing the pledge and then barely stopping the disabled.
But hey, a win is a win and Falcons will get on the board. They don't call the top time
out after that when I kind of expected it from Julio because he loves going these top
time was after three rounds and the score line doesn't look good for Falcons
but they need to know how they can adapt to this next couple of rounds.
They go back towards that top four, they stand out to Kaid.
He's still playing up with being so strong for Rex and back at round number one.
Won't be a factor anymore. He's moved over to the go-yo.
You know, he's still staying on this clash, so the familiar operators being used.
I mean, why not? These calls from Canadian have seemingly been quite good,
though I don't know what exactly happened with the comms in the previous round
Because if you think about it, Jesse, Shai-Kou even pointed it out in Deal Chat afterwards.
He said, you have a Solus, by the way.
A Solus is only good if you think the diffuser is going to get planted.
Yeah.
If the cons are crowded, if there's chaos happening round by round by round,
it doesn't matter if you have a Solus, you're not expecting for the diffuse kit to get planted.
You're not going to be on your gadget, and that's exactly what we saw.
Surf got on it a bit too late.
Rexon responded, but as you pointed out, seconds making the difference here.
Another early frag from Rex, and what a shot on to Shaco with a TCSG, I mean, he hits exactly what he needs to
over towards IT, shuts down that quick entry from Shaco. The pace has really been picked up from Falcons these last few rounds.
They went for a bit of a rush down through the Exo stairs in round three, now round four we see that early aggression into IT as well.
Raptors not really being contested, that's why they get in so quickly, but they want them in Raptors Parker because Rexons got the angle.
We have to finish round four and Richie is in double digits.
Jesus.
I don't even think he had 10 kills combined across the first two maps, and yet here he is
beating every member of Falcons to a pulp.
Solotov swinging in, eliminating Rex and Andy. That's two of the three heads of this Hydra up the rebellion.
Canadian drops very quickly thereafter, and the advantage now goes to Falcons. I don't know how Stalton's existing. He's in
surrounded by toxic babes right now. They start to fade as he does still survive.
Green has got the defuse kit still outside the bomb site in connector.
Spoight and Serp have 45 seconds to kill.
That's too much time Parker.
They've got to either deny this plant or make the flank happen.
Serp is not being expected.
And once again the defuse kit going down.
This time they seem to know it's Spoight gets two!
Blowing the round wide open!
E-FAC will need to pick up the pieces as now he attempts his own plant.
Out goes the final toxic, Babe.
Fraggs will be the way forward for this Falcons team. 20 seconds to go.
E-Fact's swearing himself off, but he knows that Spoyd and Surf are coming.
Good patience so far from Surf.
Another attempt from E-Fact. They're gonna wait this one out.
Plant started at 9 seconds. There is no room for error.
And error will not be had.
Surf gets the job done.
And North America's team of the Rebellion go back to a two-round lead.
And that's not an easy round to win, Parker.
Shopfire Rebellion didn't have the numbers in the midst of that.
I feel like they're just giving you space
and you guys are trying to do solo plays.
No, they're just out together.
You don't need to do this, okay?
Just take space, for example.
For now, for stock, just fucking open IT,
just ram, just take garage fast,
and then you see what you can do, okay?
Same for basement, open side, ram the stock guy,
just make them pressure, then we see what we can do, okay guys?
Yeah, remember we have, I think we bring the Dokkape, but for me my guys, they're giving us space, you guys we don't find easy gaps you know, like they're just going together, then just take the initial space and then the 2 to 1 and fucking refact them, okay?
Because we are doing this without, without vintage and getting the kills, okay? So just do it together.
That's why piss me off guys, we are losing this game because we did the same mistake as Fortress.
Stop talking about driving.
Uh oh.
Leaky fact, status?
PISSED OFF.
He's absolutely pissed Shaco is abnormally red I think frustration is running deep across this
entire team and look at these replays Parker I mean they're absolutely right
they're solo plays coming out from Falcons they're playing as individuals that's how
Rax can get a couple of those early picks because there's one guy at a time walking out
I'm through wrappers, I'm through IT.
He's holding the angle with the Thesis G.
I mean, they're great shots coming out from Rexon.
Don't get me wrong, but they shouldn't be so easy for him
to hit.
I can't help but getting in these opportunities.
Rexon right now sits with 10 kills.
The rest of his own team only have nine combined.
So he's doing more, at least by the numbers,
than everybody else on his team.
We see the impact there of Ailes, too.
I thought Spoight and Serp played that TV through so well.
Serp throws those toxic babes, goes to the flank,
comes back at the right moment, the nitrofi-spoil
perfectly placed in time.
And you replaced it with the racers on me.
They're great late rounds coming up
and sharp our belly, don't get me wrong,
but Falcons are opening the door for them
by having these individual plays early.
I have to wonder if a little bit of this
is teams underestimating the rebellion.
Yeah.
There has been some chatter, and I have taken some time
to speak to some teams offline and confidentially
Okay, that there is a belief among a not insignificant number of teams at this event that Shopify rebellion are a bit of a paper tiger
They look really good on paper. They've got great braggers. They've got one of the best IGLs in the game
They've got a huge organization with tons of money backing them. The expectation is that this team will always do well
But yet they haven't met that same level of success
What is happening for people dead 50 seconds into the round? I
I mean they listed to Julia they went quick and this round is gone quick
Canadians will ask one standing on rebellion with two minutes still to go
If Solotov can be retrieved that means Falcons will have four still fighting a nitro cell goes out Solotov confirmed
Canadian track by the death mark Shifo getting the final kill and the round is over before it even began
I didn't even get to finish my point
Parker the pacing is still fast room from Falcons
But it's all together this time around and that was an immediate adaptation coming through with the tax time though from Julio
I mean they were all in at the same moment pressuring in through Raptors
You would saw tops coming in from bottom garage
Of course Shai go in through the rafters door pressuring in with the with the daimos as well
You would use this coming in kind of through aqua side too
So from all different angles you saw players on Falcons pushing that top floor roam game together
And that's all you really need to do right if the utility is not strong enough for shop fire billion to slow you down on the walls
or slow you down with things like banshees or barbed wire or whatnot and take that fight go together
There's gonna be some anchors down the bottom floor. So you have numbers in a situation like that
It's a fast call from the Falcons. It pays off for them. It feels like they might be back in this game
Because we're in the prep phase and there's no way for action to occur
But yeah, I mean it's one thing for you to go into a game and a lot of teams here will tell you yeah
They're all relatively even yada yada yada
When you talk to teams in private, they get a little bit more forthcoming about what they really think and then honesty starts to come out.
Falcons no doubt fashion themselves as one of the best teams at this event.
Most teams will tell you, yeah, we're going to win the whole thing.
Even if Hard of Hearts, a lot of players know that that's just not the case.
Falcons is one of the few teams that can make a very credible argument that they can go all the way and our favorites to win it.
The Rebellions are in most teams' eyes, at least from what I've heard, not.
So the fact that the Falcons come in and are struggling so hard on Fortress, frankly, getting embarrassed and now having some very obvious problems.
I imagine that frustration starts to get to you.
E back is mad, uses with quite pissed off, Shiko is redder than a tomato.
But hey, they've listened to Julio, they've fixed their problems, they've picked up the pace, they blew that previous round open and now here they are doing the same thing.
with Shaco punishing Canadian of all players, the clash of all operators in the first 40 seconds.
Yeah, and it's another fast paced round. Parker shopfire, belly and attempting to defend
kitchen cafeteria for the third time this tournament. They tried it against G2,
they tried it against FaZe Clan, they failed both times on the defense,
and all three times it's been very similar defensive lineups coming through from SR.
I think Falcons have done their homework, they know where Canadian likes to play,
they clean them up without any problems. Now you've got to try to figure out some way to adapt
without your key player right without your IGL and without that important shield that you like to have playing above that long sides
They've all vacated meeting it all vacated up above instead choose to hold in towards Lobby and in towards the site itself
Chyco and Breeday starting to make that attempt to push in through this lobby side uses there as well
Opening up the floorboards opening up the windows
Rexon was the only one to really play there. He is now backed off at the 90 second mark deciding
it's not worth his time.
But Scythe's not favorable either, Parker.
There's a Scythe right here, which Rexon will now find out.
So it becomes very awkward when there's no place to play.
And a marginally defender-sided map here
should benefit Rebellion.
So if we end up with the 3-3 first half,
you know we're going to get an absolute screamer
of a second half.
And boy, oh boy, does it feel like things have tightened up
just over the last, how long was the previous round?
45 seconds.
Combined with the two minutes here, it's been a tense one for fans of SR. No doubt the opening pick on the clash is
Oh, so important. You do not need to worry about all that info that's going to come
You do not have to fear that late round whatsoever
There might have been some issues with fragging but not this time around solid top walks
He takes no prisoners serpent Rexon with two of their own
It's all up to Rexon know the clutch. He's been the best player. He just struggles to hit that a three day
And we hit the reset button.
Now they're pumped up and now they're back in it.
Two incredibly motivating rounds for the Falcons.
Tie up this game and the sideswap comes in with the Falcons
getting some wind at their backs.
Dare I say it, under their wings.
I hope you didn't think this game was over
just because we had a 3-1 lead.
The Falcons have looked very good
to end out that first half Parker
and it comes off of a good tack timeout
and some good prep work. Once again, that setup from Shopify rebellion has already been seen a few times at the six invitation on despite small adaptations.
Falcons knew exactly how they wanted to break it apart. They would have prepped that the night before all they had all of yesterday off, of course, try to get their strats in order.
I have heard a rumor that Eagle knees prints approximately 200 pages for every best of three that they end up playing. That just shows the prep work that goes into some of these matches.
Eagle needs of course the head analyst for team Falcons. So there's so much work that goes in behind the scenes
There is so much effort that gets put into prep for these strategies and Shopify rebellion
Unfortunately not able to adapt enough to get that 4-2 split they were looking for
And while we take a brief moment for these teams to settle into the prep phase of this second half
Let's talk a little bit about what's happening over on the B stream
Yes, we will have two streams running until we get to the main stage on Friday
If you don't have the option to watch both, don't worry, we got you covered.
It was M80 versus Space Station to start off that series.
And Space Station took M80's asses.
My, my, that one was over before we had even finished that number two.
They started their first map after our first map, and they finished their series.
I'm pretty sure right as we were loading into Nighthaven Labs,
So space station will move on to play wild card and maybe goes down to play G2
Oh god is going to be an electrifying match. That'll be tomorrow loser of this
Perth contest on your screen will go down to play Ninjas in pajamas tomorrow the
winner will be a little bit busier as they play team secret later today
open the B stream their next match set to start in about 15 minutes or so that
That'll be FaZe Clan versus the team that won earlier today of Flux 0W7.
Well, as enticing as an all Brazilian battle is, Parker, I'm pretty locked in on this one.
Shop of Firebellions.
Oh, I am too.
I am too.
Has been an insane match to start in.
I think we're in for an insane next few rounds as well.
Six more in regulation and potentially three after that.
The Utah game was incredible in round one and it will be again in round seven.
It's not a kaid trick, but a bandit instead.
It was kind of funny, Falcons bans the bandit and then got tricked by Kaid, the rebellion
bandit Kaid, and then get tricked by the bandit.
It is so rare that you see active bandit tricking, this is one of the few maps where
if a Maverick's not brought you can very easily bandit trick an IT wall.
And it's always nice to see, I know you're one of the few people who genuinely get so
excited for good bandit tricking, there is no way to reflect on the score sheet.
How important a good bandit trick is, but that singular battery might have just been
able to win the round for Falcons. Well, Ami does have another can opener in pocket and he is going
to be able to get a breach in onto the connector wall. They're also of course doing good work on
the IT breach. Surf with that Maverick. He's done a great job to break that one open. It's a little
slow with the DMR, but they do get the job done eventually. As the drones come in through connector,
it kind of signals this is where the plant is going to be focused from. If they want to take
this side of the map, they can kind of leave rafters alone. As I say that, they are pushing there as
as well. So maybe just deciding
that the rebellion wants a lot of
different angles for this push.
Spoil it and rex it over towards
rafters that got ambi over
towards connector as well.
So a lot of different points
for this push.
Tenari agreed out there that
could stretch through multiple
rooms. You saw that there was a
set up with those tripwires to
slow down the advance from the
rebellion onto that rafter's
position. Falcons have now
determined with the minute left
we don't need that anymore.
So they could break that line
of sight, reinforce that other
rafter's wall, set themselves up
so, so strongly. This is a great round for Falcons. Their defensive structure is exceptional.
And here come the Kandellas Parker. This is going to be the entry point for Shotfire Bellion.
How they break through. Five players alive on both sides. How do they make the space on SR?
Canadian very worried about that Maluci Vansi. Shaco, it's all top-swinging.
Ami doing it on the board. Breeday now in on the fun as well.
Falcons spreading these kills around, spreading the wealth amongst all of their players.
Spoy and Cerf find themselves with a heady task.
Awaiting them. What do they do? How do they get into the building? Do they even bother?
Cerf's found out that he dies to E-Fat.
A team kill is still very doable, but E-Fat will find two.
Spoy gets shut down and the lead goes to the falcons.
Pasha, if there's anything structurally wrong with SR's, push that time, Parker.
But Falcons doing a great job of getting aggressive before the candelas come out,
come out before they get aggressive and that push really begins for the North Americans.
They decided they wanted to go connector rather than over towards Raptors.
They had both control, but they decided that connector was going to be a bit better for
them likely due to the band of batteries not being placed on that side of the map, but
Shiko a disgusting shot onto Canadian of the Ying.
I think that was the big one Parker because without your real disruption operator being
use to open up that bomb site five and five I think you're always just gonna
favor the defenders. Let's focus on this a little bit right usually what you do is you want to open up that in your first of all those. That's goal number one. If they're actively defending rafters you gotta flush them out that's usually step number two. You want to lock down around that connector around electrical. That's usually one of the next step. Step two might not actually be step two that might happen later in the round. So how do you structure your defense if your focus? Well you actively hold so that they can't get you to the next step.
so that they can't get value out of their heart breach gadgets.
At that point in time, the Rebellion were so limited on utility
and so limited on the clock that all they could really do
was try to make their way in towards Connector, or try to take rafters,
but then that gets reinforced by Falcons later into the round.
Great call-in response by Falcons to shut down the Rebellion.
It seems like they knew exactly what the Rebellion would do.
They were very well-prepped.
Maybe it's in those hundreds of pages of documentary reference.
Who knows?
But either way, a great read from Falcons strategically,
an incredible round, and then their guns just
mopped up the rest.
Comes off the back of great IGL-ing, right,
to make sure that that can happen.
And I know LickyFact has been working hard all year for this.
After they lost the finals versus Spaceplan in Boston,
he tweeted, we worked all year for this moment,
but it just wasn't enough.
I promise we will come stronger next year.
That's what they're hoping to deliver on in the upper bracket round number one against Shropfire Rebellion.
They have taken the lead for the first time here on map three, the first time they'll lead in the series since they won the first map.
So it really does feel like Falcons are starting to bounce back, starting to make good on that promise.
And it comes off some aggression.
But you guys just saw a laser.
So no one's on the other side of that doorway, but wasn't able to commit just yet.
Extensive Rome now spread out for this Falcons team as they brace for the final
minute and a half of this round. An opportunity to stretch their lead, a
very hard fought lead that, well, they've yet to lead up until that previous round.
So a good time for them to find their footing and again, strategically,
young boys, Falcons should do better on this side. They do forfeit first blood
a minute and 40 into the round and they have found one of the roamers on the
the side of Falcons, efak in the ground, rebellion with a small advantage.
Good entry coming out from ambi, shopfirebellion, the number one entry team through the group stage,
so we expect them to be good at striking early.
Trying to convert on that now, top floor is largely under their control.
Use is still playing towards vending, but broadly what shopfirebellion wants, they have gotten.
They've got now control of control, they've got authorities, they've got cargo as well.
They're going to want to try to walk their Monty down these cargo stairs, get a plant in behind pillar,
They've got the first they need to make sure that doesn't get denied the go-yos are a bit of a problem and watch out for these
Goominds to these little things adding up salt off throws that do exactly where shopfire belly and walk the plant
In a very default spot for tears to play in as well
Give you some coverage from the pillar and forces engagements on just two small angles that can easily be watched
Should the attackers still have control of that top floor now obviously that's never a given but as you can see
Rexon is controlling this site.
Rexon had a very hot starting 10-1.
He's come back down to only 1-5 since the rest of Rebellion
need to show their own powers to match his total.
Serve with one kill, Rexon traded off, spoiled on the board,
and now a big advantage for the North Americans
as they continue to trade back and forth.
Shaco up against the World Down goes and the missing out,
not expecting serve so close.
Canadian all the while was about to get that defuse kit down,
down so oh boy a 1v1 between Canadian and Shaco would have been quite a treat all
the same we're in for a treat because through eight rounds neither team with
an advantage four for the score line and we are gonna go deep into this map I
think Shopify or ballet and really making the most of their kaid ban you
know we saw them shooting those bandit batteries off of the assembly wall or
from up above Parker once they have that little breach that allows her to open
this lap panel which gets him this frag on debris a the white panel is still
electrified because that's how bandit works of course but surf then after he
gets that take is able to walk in he gets this final frag on Shaiiko to avert
a disaster we know how good Shaiiko can be in some of those low-flying clutch
spots but just beat in that moment and shopfire belly and tie us at four. For
those that did not watch the first two maps you'd know King observers those
with memories and brain. This is now the longest of the three maps. Consulate went
10 rounds but it was a 7-3. Fortress was quite quick. It was a 7-1 meeting 8 rounds.
We are in round number 9 but we know we will need at least 3 more. So bare minimum we will go 11
of 12 rounds but with the way these teams are playing over time would not surprise me in the slightest.
After what we saw on Consulate, I was a little worried that it would be a quick 2-0, not because I disliked the Falcons and not because I liked the Rebellion, but because SI only happens one time a year and I want as many maps as is humanly possible from a competitive perspective.
The fact that we might go to OT, it tickles me pictures. The viewers deserve a few extra rounds of Shai-Kouki. I agree. I agree. Viewers, do you think you deserve OT? I think you do. Please, sound off in the car.
Well, neither of these teams want to get there.
They'd like to finish us off with a regulation win and save themselves the heartbreak, but
I've got to get there for a shopfire rebellion on the attack, opening the windows, opening
for a loopy fire.
I'm just wish the shot's quite survived with his life, so there's one bullet to the body,
but will live to tell the tale and back off towards his teammates, his teammates in the
meantime, doing work on the talk floor, opening up that IT breach, getting the twist drones
track here some of this utility as well. The third round of the road, Breidae is also bringing that bandit, so there are still attempts to keep these walls closed, like over towards IT, but they've mostly dealt with that by now.
The brave swing by EFAC could have very easily been us saying, what are you doing swinging that? Two major downsides to the SMG11, number one, obviously small magazine size, number two, if you're hitting the body and you only hit one or two bullets, that thing is like a little kiss.
I think it actually makes huge at that current rate, and that's why you can see almost no damage from this point, so...
Still plenty of utility now for Rebellion. They've got the Bs, they've got their logic bombs.
They will find this is a perfect opportunity to use one of each.
With a minute 20, go on, ambi firing away, Shiko down, Surf traded out shortly thereafter.
Losing the Maverick at this point in time might not be the worst operator to have in the ground.
This is one in seven. He's been having a bit of a tough day so far, Jesse.
This round, not much better. Rebellion with a small advantage.
Solotov has been phenomenal. He and Shiko now go down 11 kills,
joining Rex in all three of them in a three-way tie for most kills.
And with just under a minute to go, fucking being able to equalize is great.
And you trade things out to a 3v3, mostly full-taught floor control, but watch out for Breidae.
He has sat himself inside of servers. Shop of Fryebellion might assume they've all fallen off,
and often they will do so now.
They can try to work with that bird.
They can try to work with the advantage that they have.
But eventually this plant has to come in
and there's still a nitrous out being held on Falcons.
Ambi has surprised these Falcons players twice in a row
and they will pay dearly for it.
Breeday and EFAC, the last two standing.
They got control of Warehouse.
They got control of Rafters.
Defuse getting the hands of Canadian.
He will trust Rex and Ambi to watch
as he gets ever closer to this bomb site.
Running outside, you'll have to go for this defuse plant.
Leaky Fack and Breeday will be compelled into action.
They have a read inside of the site.
Canadian ping.
Knight just out goes out.
It does not connect.
Ami taking some damage.
Canadian still sitting on it like a mother hand.
Breeday engaging.
Ami would pistol out.
He's found every kill so far, except for one.
Breeday gets cut down a huge round from the homster.
And the rebellion will take the lead.
And a massive round coming up from Shaw-Far-Bellion,
playing with their food a little bit,
drawing their attention this way and that.
The top floor clear wasn't immediately committed to by all parties.
They had some bodies over towards the mid floor instead.
But once they got into that 3D3, they did a great job of resetting the mental.
Shopfire Valley did not just go for the default.
They didn't just jump inside a storage and say,
hey, let's try to get a plant down because it's obvious what they were going to do.
Maybe they had the vert for it, but it's too predictable.
So instead they go through the breach.
Canadian makes his way through that garage, gets the plants inside of assembly,
chooses a really smart spot too.
He's up on the table tucked so close that that nitrocells isn't able to get the distance to deny the plant from Breede
That is a brilliant plant spot coming out from big bat Nadion and then ambi
He's just driving into chaos Parker
He's upstairs taking advantage of players not looking his way hits them insane shots in the midst of that round as well
There is nobody you
playing those positions then and be easy
I'm a little 4k that is very deserved gets him up to that 11 kill total as well
Parker. Four players now on 11 is that? That was like when we casted Flex RW7M
two days ago and there were three players on their team all sitting at 99
kills through this event and it's like which one's gonna break it first? I don't know, let's see.
Yeah. Take a look, there's gonna be Volks, there's gonna be Palu, there's gonna be Lobin. Lobin was the one we were watching because he had far and away the most kills in the team, he was the last one of the three.
Yeah to break 100 kills for those who didn't tune in to fortress shaco joining a very elite group of players
Breaking 1,000 kills at the six invitational souls broke that same number just two days before
They're all in great company most kills in SI is it next is it cyber who cares both of them
absolutely unbelievable. Nesca announcing his retirement a month ago. So, Cyber has an
opportunity to continue to add to that tally. Cyber's team of Ace Clan is about to be in
action over on the B-stream as they play up against Fluxo W7 and all Brazilian bonanza
that will be intriguing to watch. You and I will be watching it. What's stopping from
having a kickback?
Yeah, I'm going to end this one out first. We might be here for a while Parker as these
rounds have been going back and forth and for round 10 of course you're gonna
see the band-a-band come out there's no surprise from Shopify rebellion as they
want to remove that last wall denial operators so Falcons they're gonna take
a different approach instead of denying the walls they can try to deny the
plant slow you down a little bit three-day jumping on that Chonka instead of
what we've seen him play over on the bandit use us on the clash saw top on the
a zombie these are all operators that are gonna be really annoying for shock
barbellion to get past to get that map control to get space where they need to
get the plant down and without surf existing either, that's not going to do it. A good night comes out from Licky Fag.
I'm not sure if we're able to get a replay on that, but, uh, must have hit a brilliant shot out the IT reach down a glass with the Scorpion.
Scorpions have just been the weapon of the day, haven't they, Ben?
Yeah.
Being rocked by both Ella and Denari reminds me a lot of that TCS Gduo threat of both Goyo and Kaedeen's attack in 2020.
And that was a huge part of what made nips such formidable competitors as they used them very effectively.
That was back when there were much more limited options for caliber destruction as well.
So you almost always had to bring a smoke or a mute to do sight rotation, but if you had a Kaedeen and a Goyo,
it wasn't exactly falling on those British hops.
One minute to go, down goes Shaco.
Ambi with a super shorty out, engaging as the Brava getting ever closer.
Now, Ambi on 12 kills, leading the lobby.
Clanked up through meeting hall, Parker.
It caught them off guard as most of his push is coming rafters, is coming to IT.
No good plant spot for Canadians, but he's found so far.
And 3D takes a world of hurt from those fire arrows.
Now out comes the smoke for Spoyt, waiting for it to land as he gingerly looks across.
Rexon gets punished by Solotov.
having a bit of a rough go of it after those first triumphant rounds,
in fact now taking some serious damages. Rebellion realized they have to get going.
They're at the mercy of the clock, they're at the mercy of this Falcons team.
They're at the mercy of just not everything that these bombs like you give them.
Ami vacates the premises of Solotov, collects his third kill.
No more for him as Ami takes him down, but very limited time.
Falcons attempting to knock them off their stride as Ami gets another,
but it's relatively impactless
The fingers in chat as the Falcons trying to get under the skin of the rebellion back and forth we go
Falcons will equalize
The rounds that the rebellion are winning are pretty flashy desperate scrambles the rounds that the Falcons are winning are
Nowhere near as exciting. They look so routine. Yeah, but dear god. Are they a scary squad?
We will go all the way as it's a 5-5 scoreline next round
I mean, this club or bombsite is so hard to get into, Parker.
They had all the space they could have wanted to chop firebellion.
They were in IT.
They were in Raptors.
They were in Electrical.
Didn't have the connector breach, but ultimately, they just
could not get into the bombsite.
All the Shamika fire coming out from Breidae.
All the Kiba barriers coming out as well.
And Solotov, a nice little three piece in the midst of it.
Just good solid site play happening from the Falcons.
And it will tie the match up here at five.
We expected this one to go long.
It will continue to deliver on that promise.
Solkov up to 12 kills and you up to 14, but not good enough for a lead
Uses entered this series with a plus 5 KD allowing the three day in particular to take a more prominent support role
But it's been used as a stock on a lot of these thankless low frag high agency
But low action roles
particularly on defense. And his numbers are suffering for it over the last two
maps at the conclusion of Fortress now through 10 rounds. He uses just his three
kills. Now he's not the reason why the Falcons are doing so poorly, but it is
intriguing to me to see that Falcons are using him in a far more sheltered
position. Breeday to his credit has been doing very well for the kill
perspective. So it looks like based on the map that flexibility can help this
Falcon's team. But part of me is a little bit more of a useless. Yeah, I mean, as the support duo uses and Breeday
can't kind of have that flexibility, even though we don't always see it out of users, he definitely can step up and provide utility when
that's required from him. Opportunity is limited. Oh, he's also on the clash. This is again going to be more of a direct
site hit park, but they're going to run into users sooner rather than later, because Shopify Rebellion have no interest in clearing
these roamers. They know they exist. They've seen them running across the map. They just
want to take control of cafeteria, get down these vending stairs, get into Exo, and try
to force some kind of a plant. LickyFax angle is going to make that quite difficult. He is
looking down in towards vending, so he's got a strong spot to play on this map. And that's
why Canadian might be wanting to go up top now. A bit of a pivot halfway through this
round, just like through the top floor.
Nice yourself to go out. Canadian turns very well, blocking that explosive damage.
As he's now in pursuit of Solotov, who manages to get away.
Canadian wise enough to see that their reports coming from multiple angles,
and Spoit is there for good coverage.
Down goes Leaky Fax. Solotov will join him.
Falcon's suffering through two losses in very quick order, and those are two very good players.
Leaky Fax numbers might not be anything particularly stellar at this moment,
but you know he can go on a heater at a moment's notice.
Mm-hmm.
I'm a little worried if I'm a fan of this EU team.
Well, it's a really good clear from Shotfire,
but I don't think it was being expected by Falcons.
Canadian makes the space on the blitz,
and he follows it up with some really nice frags.
Puts them in a good spot to make this push happen
without worrying about the flank,
without worrying about the vert angles
that'll be facing them
if they want to go down those vending stairs.
45 seconds is a bit of a problem.
It took them time to clear those roamers.
That's the one advantage Falcons have
going into this execute, they need to play the clock.
And there's another nitro cell to go out.
This one will do some damage to Canadian,
but he still remains a nice attempt from Breide.
Rex and take the beating, Shiko taking down Breide, falls.
The ability to get out of that one without losing a single player,
flawlessly moving us to series point for the North Americans.
And Parker, that's a strong IGL leading a team of ridiculously talented players.
They pushed through the top floor. They pushed through the bottom floor.
Didn't have to force a plant there. They knew that planting wasn't going to be their easiest task.
The time was way too low. So they said, let's just flash everybody, make sure no one can see.
Get in, get those kills perfectly played from SR. And they are now on series point,
tempting fates to knock Falcons down to the lower bracket in the very first round,
just like G2, just like W7M, and just like FaZe claimed before them.
would be an incredible run.
If you want to lift the hammer on home soil,
what's the little adversity in the process, right?
A lot of good teams will go down to that lower bracket.
Only one team will make it to the finals
from that upper bracket.
So what a gauntlet it would be for Falcons.
Ditto for the Rebellion.
This won't be an easy run for either of these squads.
You know that Ninjas and Bejamas are sitting,
watching this matchup.
They have the day off today.
They will be fighting for their lives tomorrow.
They will face one of these two teams.
There's no winning here.
It's not like Nip is like, we need this team to lose.
Maybe they match up particularly against Rebellion
versus Falcons, you don't really know.
But the real story is Team Secret.
One of the most dominant teams,
if not the most dominant team that we have seen
outside of maybe Waybo gaming.
They play the winner of this match.
So if you're the Rebellion,
You get this one over at Freak Team.
You got maybe two hours, maybe three hours,
until you have to go up against the Beasts from EU.
Falcons will have a lot more familiarity with them,
so there'll be a little bit less prep required
because of all the times they clash in the EML,
but no matter which of these teams wins,
they will have their work cut out.
The Beast from EU is sometimes a title
that goes to this Falcons squad.
Of course, so much international success
over the last couple of years.
So many second place finishes
that weren't able to get converted and now,
danger of not even making it to that second place.
Ambi, 16 kills.
The young gunner of Shot Firebellion, 19,
playing in his third Invitational,
hoping that this one can be the one
where he goes all the way.
The mid-four bomb site is what gets chosen for thousands.
It's the one that's still left open.
It's the one that Shot Firebellion
will have to close out for a 7-5 win.
IT's been no problem.
There are still players up on the top floor.
Shaco in warehouse, gonna be the big issue.
He's in Raptors.
He was slammed on that angle with the Keeba previously,
so he's gotta be careful about where he positions himself.
Two Keebas in pocket, but it's his teammate.
It's UZIS still on that top floor to strike first.
He will take down Spoyt and give the early advantage to Falcons.
And just a C-star of a match.
Technically, three consecutive rounds, one by Falcons,
but that was after the side swap.
There has not been a team that has won more than two consecutive rounds
on either of these halves.
Rebellion knocking spuit off of the board or spuit being knocked off the board for rebellion is particularly bad
But there are still players on rebellion who can shoot back and be sitting at 16 kills right now has really come online through this
Final four rounds final five rounds that means being another huge round out of him might be enough to tip the scale watch out the clock
Shop of fire rebellion. They know they've got full top floor control. It was conceded by the Falcons
They're doing a good job of clearing each other so far
but they only have one more boogie drone to work with.
This control room plants could be a little bit appealing to them,
but they've still got to clear out a lot of these player positions.
A couple of Grim Beads from Rexxon, the shields from Canadian.
All the util is there, but they have to get put together.
I don't know if they have any intel on Canadian,
how close he is in proximity to the Z-bomb sites.
They'll take down the default cam,
march his way on in, flashed by his own teammate,
but it's still in a powerful position.
He's got the lesion now on the run, dancing around that goo mine.
The pulse effect down below can be so crucial here.
Canadian knows that they are too about expecting a pulse.
Time running out, Jesse.
Down goes UZIS, Surfl joined him, Falcon's fighting for their line.
Peerland in time, left Canadian getting the plant down.
Go coverage so far, Breidae comes in.
Rexon will need to close this out as the diffuser goes down.
Knight's got self-tossed, it secures Canadians.
Rexon had a stellar start to this map.
He fell off through the mid-portion.
and how does he do now in the dying moments?
Getting himself up above the defuse kit,
E-FAC will also retake from above,
trying to gain as much time as possible
for his teammate, Abrede, to hop on that defuse kit,
which he will do.
Rexon now rotating on over.
Abrede off of the plant.
Rexon gets the right call, now just waiting out the time,
expecting to swing a good jump.
And Rexon, but E-FAC is there, sending us into overtime.
He has but a few seconds, but he makes it work.
The captain and Frenchman with the Falcon punch to send us to overtime.
Is your heart beating yet?
Falcon's barely clutch us up to send us all the way into extra innings.
That was a ridiculous play coming out from them.
I thought it was over when they lent the plant go down Parker.
They had the pulse down below.
They should have been able to stop it.
It felt like the blunder with the time running out from SR,
with the stall they had on that top floor.
It really felt like Falcons wincon was denying that plants, but they managed to wrestle the man count back into 2v1
Rex and he played that as well as he could but in the end
They played it too perfectly on the side of Falcons one gets off the disable they flank up those aqua stairs
I mean they played that to a tee how you need to in the 2v1
What a story in that final round
Rex in a massing 10 of his 11 kills in the first
10 minutes of this map and then going completely invisible from that point
onward and he very narrowly gets a 3k to send his team further up the upper
bracket but then the captain who's had a bit of a quiet game himself gets it done
with seconds left on the clock and now we've got at least maybe three rounds
between these Titans, a nail-biter of a third map to determine who faces Team Secret in the upper bracket,
and who goes down to fight for their lives against Ninjas in Pyjamas tomorrow.
Oh, my, my. What a story.
Parker rounds 14 and 13 will certainly be played on the top floor bomb sites.
While this map has been 50-50, we've seen six attacking round wins and six defending round wins.
The top floor still has a 100% defender win rate.
Shopify Rebellion and Falcons both found their strength defending this bomb site.
It will be the pick for Shopify Rebellion. It will for Falcons 2 and round 14.
If things continue on that trend, if the defense continues to hold strong on top floor,
the 15th bomb site could be anything.
But you've got to get to that point first, and if I drew these teams can win an attack in the next few rounds,
they are looking so good for walking away with the 8-6 win.
Shopify Rebellion, burning out the clash once again for Canadian, hoping to stall these players out once they get in towards the site.
Spoyce, loving the two browns, didn't really play the operator on this site before today, but now has played it almost every time that they needed to defend the top floor.
But he back down below takes the first bit of damage is making too much noise with the demos
Being able to answer back from that play down on that bottom floor oh so strong
Rexon what a performance from him. It actually does look like he did it of getting the 3k with 3 day
My math was a little off, but I mean you can't blame me with what happened in that previous round
Halfway point not a single person dead a much slower pace remember when Falco's turned things around in that first half
it was the tempo that really helped them.
Julio called the timeouts and guys, we need to go faster.
Just playing like individuals were way too slow.
We need to be aggressive together.
Grounds five and six were Falcons going for the throws.
Both opportunities, and they came out ahead
against the Rebellion now.
It looks like they're going back to old form,
which is a bit concerning for friends of this EML team,
because when they were slow, they might have been steady,
but they did not win the race.
This boy being shocked now, they know where he's at.
LeakyFact down below is going to be the target to try to hunt him down.
They are still playing in rafters, but they give it up.
Won't be able to reinforce that wall taken too quickly by the Falcons,
but they strike first.
Spoigt finds Shryko in the head-to-head matchup to start us an overtime.
Two giants colliding.
Spoigt playing in EML for long enough.
He knows these players.
LeakyFact will trade right back, looking for more solid top will gun down once.
Spoigt now staring his surf swings into action.
Down goes the Turk on the side of Falcons.
I heard 30 seconds to go and neither team now with the numbers advantage back to even footing.
A Daimless track will come out to push the surf out of his position
but they already knew that the smoke would be playing over towards that aqua side.
Start taking a lot of damage from that volcanic canister.
Diffuser going down. Breeday will pull this one off.
Where is the panic on the side of Rebellion? No urgency whatsoever.
Start living on borrowed time. A good lockout from Falcons as they have the cross established
It will really just come down to these gunfights.
Breeding in particular, in a very advantageous position.
Rebellion stalling out, they've done almost nothing
for 20 seconds, just being fed into Breeding
who sits over top of the case, he used a sweep through,
and now it's series point for the Falcons.
Parker, that's one of the most beautiful rounds
to watch him a top down POV.
Everything Falcons had to do there, they did.
Shopify Rebellion still with a tack timeout in their pocket.
Did they take it here as their opponents
series points will give it a second to see if it comes through before we dive
into the analysis of that round because you've got to imagine it is on the
docket for super. Hey guys can you hear me? Yeah listen I think this round we
should just get IT, Ace open the rafter wall and we played the ying to take fish
and we just worked that side okay. I think that's all we need to do pretty
pretty simple they have no denial just be careful of Valq if there's a Valql
Obviously go under but if we plant safe we're fine there for command when we win this round go back to command
We should be reinforcing off the rafter wall. I think
I think that was honestly the only mistake they just keep finishing conside. They're super slow
We just need to make sure we have a plan we can bring a big 40 killer because of how they do it then though
Because like this guy can just go Jarvis and the cap is on the consets
We can't I think you could just bring a Goya or extra denial or a C4
Okay, okay, we're like Val'Kunners.
Strategies being given.
Last couple of rounds, they know they've got two to win Parker.
That's the critical factor for Shopify Rebellion.
They've given up an attack on the top floor defense.
You heard Super Saiyan. They're going to play it again in round 15, assuming they can get that far.
But that push from the Falcons, it was just so clean.
With that Raptors breach open, and that's what Canadian and Supo were talking about.
With that wall open, it gave them the perfect crossfire because they cleared the players out of coal and it cleared the players out of close electrical.
And it was just three guys inside of the other bomb site trying to build onto that.
But still, you saw two players locking things down, breeding with the plant down.
I believe it was used outside of IT that were looking at each other with an impossible task to cross through there.
Previously, we've seen Shotfire Bellion cluster up with the Nitro Cell, but Toad wasted his Nitro earlier in the round,
around, tossing it at the demos towards bottom rafters.
That was a big waste of utility that didn't find the value
he was looking for.
And the one bomb site that had yet to be broken does crack.
And your point about that, Netsha Sel,
goes back to the comment that I made about the bandit
battery, a single piece of utility,
either used perfectly or used improperly,
can have a profound effect on the outcome up around.
And sometimes there is no stat on the screen
that will show you just how vital that decision was
in either guaranteeing a win or costing you the win.
So we try to impart this wisdom on you as best as we can.
Who makes the fewest mistakes in this round?
Balkans sitting on series point.
Rebellion, dare I say,
it has looked like the better team through this series,
but they still might end up coming up just a bit short.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter
which team looked the best.
It's the team that is the best.
And right now, Falcons have the slight lead in that regard.
I think Serf on this glass is going to be critical.
It was apparently a beautiful shot that shut him down
on the IT breach.
Last time they wanted to go for this play,
he was openly deaf, playing up on that glass.
He needs to stay alive for longer this time.
He's got to get value out of those smokes.
Now, there's been some adaptations from Falcons.
They've brought out the warden.
They didn't have this previously.
So they're shifting their op line up around in order
to expect what Shopify rebellion might want to bring.
IT breach hasn't got a problem. They've started to open this up now. They're playing very safe as they shoot that gone six in through the breach to clear out the camera utility.
The question becomes, do we go for Rafters? Do we go for connector? It seems like Rafters is the call.
Bambi was instrumental in getting opening picks when the rebellion had to attack.
These where my eyes will be.
He brings in that sledge.
Let's stop destruction, but the nades, the gun, that will be oh so important.
Looks like he might be focusing a bit on that aqua side.
Falcons cannot panic, you know?
They respond through that smoke that's used over towards IT with some key barriers to block things in.
Canadian eliminating Solotov and he's got another player there, but it's a clash.
I'll use this. Those bolts will bounce over.
The shield, the E-Fax, that yourself goes out and doesn't find anything.
A quick retreat from this Balkans team.
Heading back towards CC, but still persisting on the clash for the time being.
How long does E-Fax stay? And more importantly, does he overstay as well.
Boy, he's getting an angle on both the back of this clash,
but he's got to use these capital bolts to give himself a little bit of safety too.
to chop our rebellion, our rafters and IT, so these players need some help.
Kedel will go off the back, engaging the smart goggles, down goes Thurth.
So all the while, the rest of the Falcons players are still responding to this push.
You cannot get bogged down if you're the rebellion, and it doesn't look like that's the case,
that all users put the shield away.
Four consecutive kills for the rebellion, and a 15th round will be needed for these two juggernauts
to determine a victor.
He hit the gas, he walked in through the rafter's breach and forced two kills in for his team.
Everybody was focused on what was happening, AquaSide. The clash was looking that way.
A lot of the other defenders were worried about that, but instead it was the rafter's push that came through.
They didn't have that a fuse kit, but they provided that second dimension to the execute.
Really good push from Shopify Rebellion. Both teams now doing what they couldn't in regulation and winning the top floor bomb sites.
doesn't this always happen though it always we go to we go okay defenders
win 5-1 and then all three rounds of overtime are attacked literally like
where what happened it needs to be studied in a lab at this point in time
now super made a big gamble he trusted his team to win that round and he talked
about what are we gonna do when we defend here again yes like you pointed out
You've got to get there first half of the job has now been done
We are gonna see the fury crown thing that has been done on the side of the rebellion does
Because the last time they attacked Falcons sunk their talons into this B bomb site
three day
Not flinching at all. Yeah, would not release his grip in such a strong spot. The strategy was great
You can't let them do that. I agree
I think the rebellion need to stop this push before they can get the plant down before they can get their crossfire
set up. That needs to be the goal for SR. That 3v3 post plant in round 13 just was not
winnable when Falcons played it correctly. So Shopify rebellion looking to strike early
that doesn't mean they got to get aggressive. Although they do have Canadian on the pulse
and be not too far away from his captain. So potentially looking to guide an aggressive
move but for now SR happy to sit on their hands and play their spots in the bomb site.
You're going to have Spoyt inside of rafters. The first time this map that he's not playing
Tuber out in this position, by the way, finally bringing out the Azami, which of course is
the more common pick, often a third band that we see teams bring out to try and deny this
position, but Spoyt will bring it out here in the 15th round.
IT breach opens on up, and they start to get set up to clear through Spoyt.
One big move they did was, Canadians, I can't play on that spawn as Clash, right?
So what do they do?
They bring the pulse.
Yes.
A very killer operator for him.
I mean, he's got a pulse skin in the game for NG for crying out loud.
This is an early reinforcer from Spoyt. Two minutes to go on the block and he decides to complete that space.
Doesn't want to take the gamble, doesn't want to allow himself to potentially go down to Falcons.
This is very similar to what Falcons did when they were defending this site back in, I think it was round number eight, round number nine.
When they realized there would be no rafters focused, let's just box things up and stall them elsewhere.
Falcons obviously knew that very effectively. Now Rebellion are trying to do the same thing.
I think this push is going to come connect your side Parker. I'm looking at the top down and I do see Breda with a few hits on that side of the map. That's where LickyFac is underneath right now as well.
So trying to force some of these players out, they will track the pulse. Information being given on both sides, but it's Andy who's able to strike first. He went down the lobby stairs and he gets that pick.
And he's giving them a big styrelief, down goes the Deimos, down goes Leaky Fack, a man
who knows how to clutch out, and be close to breaking 20 kills, an absolutely Herculean
effort from him to give his team every advantage possible.
And beyond the Aqua Stairs, sorry I was able to get that frag, and now they're in a very
strong position.
Solo path falls, next is Rexon with a long angle of the TCSG.
Canadians in some trouble inside the site, does go down Parker, but they still have numbers.
And Breda is still there.
This is a tenuous grasp on the sight for Falcons.
They were able to succeed in a similar position before.
Does lightning strike twice.
Shai goes searching for a kill.
He finds Thor of Dances around the bullets,
breeding, getting diffuser down.
It looks like history is about to repeat itself, Jesse.
They manage to pull it off.
Shield goes away from Usus.
Now holding against the hordes,
rebellion with three players, ascending the stairs.
Rexing goes, point follows, and is swept through.
And it happens again! An incredible performance as the Falcons go onward!
My God! An incredible final round from the EML squad!
There's no stopping these demons, Parker. At least until they get to the grand finals.
The Falcons are in full form at the 6th Livitation. It is identical to round 13 where they get the bombslade around Pillar.
They have the plant go down and the post plant just is not doable in the 3d3
I mean that's gonna be one you think back on for a long long time
Hey, if your fans of Falcons and you're hoping for a lower bracket destiny run
You're now here in for team secrets and knocking down there in their matchup later today
Shot of I rebellion go down the lower bracket. That's it for them. They will play up against ninjas in pajamas tomorrow
What is showing from these two teams an incredible best of three and we still got more to come.
Lebo and Furia are the next match, but first a short break, we'll be right back.
My friends, what an incredible matchup.
Team Falcon is able to pull it across the line, advance it to the upper bracket.
is the one and only the Goat Lide on the support now of Lide.
What a game. How are you feeling at the end of all of this?
Because you guys were jumping up, you're celebrating.
I have not seen you celebrating like this in a while.
So basically, yeah, we just relieved the stress about this game
because they were taking a lot, of course.
You could see on the chat that they were thrashing us.
So of course, at the end, we take the win and they take the lose.
So we are happy.
And I want to talk to you about that map too.
Fortress, a 1-7 for you on there. Tell me what happened because it was completely
disconnected from what happened in 1-3. I think it's a mix of everything mostly
bad communication and we didn't enter into the game in the start so if you
combine everything it is in how to say it comes out like this we played just
just bad that's it and they play better. Your cover come that Haven Labs thinks
that worked out really well for you. It went to distance.
It's kind of what you expect in a matchup against Shopfire Rebellion in this case.
But next up you're playing against Team Secret.
A team that historically you'll play against a million and one times, beat online, offline.
What do you expect to happen in that game?
I think it will be a tough match.
I think Team Secret is really confident right now, sorry.
They went to the group 3-0, I think, or 4-0, I don't know.
They won every game, sorry.
So, yeah, they will be confident. It will be a tough match for us and I hope we will take the win. Let's see.
A 1v2 to push into overtime and another 3v5 to win the final round.
And Falcons find themselves now 1 win away from making Main Stage on home soil. Absolutely incredible.
And watching this, I had Gabrielle Lachting on my side. He was playing for the NA guys. He could not believe it.
I was watching the game. I was
watching the end of guys with
and then when I started to see
the Falcons come back, I just
was laughing. It was just
amazing. You know what? Come
back as a neutral. That was
such a good best of three because
it had everything. Didn't they
have close first game had a
blowout second map, and then it
goes all the way to round 15 to
a clutch scenario to get it
done. That was two really,
really high level teams playing
and I was there for it. Well, I
had us on the edge of the sea,
but I'm pretty sure in that
person was a little bit of a
on the edge of the sea, but I'm pretty sure a lot of person was on the edge of their seat as well.
We have Leakify joining us in the studio. Congratulations on the win here.
First of your reactions, a very close final round.
Yeah, what a game. What a game. So the first game was really good. We were planned perfectly.
Then we were expecting a fortress. We can scream everyone on fortress, everyone screamers. So
we know each other already and we just got stoned and we didn't know how to go back in the game.
I feel like, uh, Dan just resettlemental going to the labs labs really good for us really good but for them
When you would be a banger of match and I think it was during the the time out in map three
Julia was talking about the same mistakes and you actually spoke about we're making the same mistakes as fortress licky fact
Um, I'm not going to repeat it word for word. We're losing for the same reasons that we lost on fortress too many won't be ones
Um, if you feel like the level was a little bit lower today, particularly on fortress, but then also going into night haven
I think uh
I don't think the level was low, I think their trap to give a space and do the mistake works.
Because they were just like doing really fall back defense.
And what you do with this, you just take the control, just wait and execute together.
And everything was like, oh, take my drone, take my drone.
I have a free kill and then you died and then 45 and then it's out.
Absolutely, you're away from your original object.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it felt very open that you had a spread attack, you had a core working the bomb site
and then you had one or two guys maybe Shaco maybe use this in the backstab and they take a 1v1 they lose it
Yeah, and at that point like the round is ended what I like is after attack timeout
We go we can take a look at around five for example
That's after attack timeout you call for full push
It's two fifteen in a round and you guys go crazy all together. Can you move me through that call?
I mean winner Shopify is playing their full backstab because they don't like when people play this way like crush them
So we just see an opportunity to do it and we instantly like didn't think everything was good on this run
I feel like they try to swing us. We're all close to each other. So yeah, it was the other way to play against them
I feel like watching at that last round. I think we have we have to come back to it
It's a 3v5 like in no scenario should you win this can you walk me through what's going on in the pubs?
Like how do you bring it back?
So basically the same thing they give us space
I think they play good on me this round like impacting me from below from above and be chased you down
Yeah, MB, MB, destroy me, bottom blow, whatever.
But then I go, I'm on flank him, and that's not even that bad,
because after I can see where the gags, the flank, and how can we execute.
And the last part, why we want this hand is just Shaco doing what he does,
win gun fights, one ear, one ear, dead, dead, dead, and that's it, yeah.
That's awesome, I love that. I want to ask one more question about 4.
I mean, you say that you're screaming a lot, but we see it in the action.
There you go.
I think the playstyle they do like relate to a lot of executes just less crazy and
a bit more on execute and team play and this map is mainly about this, I feel like.
And defense, I don't think any have something particular compared to Europe or Brazil.
So yeah, I think it's mainly more on the attack side.
They use the exec really well and on this map executor are key.
Any final questions?
Close it out.
I think the main thing for me is how do you guys reset during that match?
You're usually going to play someone that you know very well, which will be Team Secret.
You've played that many, many different times.
What are you guys going to do during the few hours that you have left before that match?
I think chill, chill because after a tense match like this you have to chill down a bit
and be ready for the next one.
Like you said, there is not that much things to do, we know Secret, they know us, we'll
see during the lobby but here you go, relax and prepare yourself for the next match.
Thank you so much for joining us, good luck in your match, but later today, earlier today
we also saw Fiora move through inside of this upper bracket, we thought it was a great
opportunity to sit down two players from either side together and really kick their brains on a strategy on boarder
So the Goyo Armory or my Inlong Box Rotate, Headors Armory, Feetal CC, Headors
I will put like this but it's basically headers and rotates and about the TET the one eye is playing here on east
He's putting the one eye for himself. The recruit is putting wire on metal and one wire
Easter's in case 5 per square so ash is going to spawn here
And it's going to throw an ash here and on the table because you can break the oil like if you throw an ash
So really really fast is going to throw this ash and already break the oil
Glaz is going to come here with the Blitz to do the plant and patch her here on the window.
Ash comes here and breaks the other Goyle.
And then Ash is going to enter below with the drone that Capitone that's going to play here is looking for her.
She enters below, plays there, just to guarantee the C4s and stuff like that.
And on the time of the plant, she's going to climb the meadow stairs.
Glaz is going to smoke here with the Blitz, so far as moaks, they are just going to spend smokes.
And Glac is going to come here, push, and kill the guy he's doing C4, maybe kill the guy in the armor as well.
Capitone is going to throw a fire here on this position, that's very common.
And a fire here, Ashe is going to push the stairs, and Blitz is going to plant right here, because it's not really common.
And if the guy can't throw a C4, but he has Tetris, so it's really hard, maybe Blitz is going to tank it.
So that's it.
We can go next round.
But I mean, that's actually really good.
And I guess when the hash is destroying the goyo,
you just open this door, you open the other side.
So you basically can't guess you will do this.
And then after the hash pushing you up metal,
if you don't expect this, then the round is literally over from there.
We don't have smoke, we don't have warden, we are dead.
So, yeah, I think by far it's a fairly pox from this round.
Thank you very much. You won this time.
The window is closing.
We only have one shot at this.
to be able to keep up with
this. Things are heating up
here at the six invitation in
Paris and I'm excited for this
one because as we step away
from the opening two matches on
stream a we now look to who
will make main stage here in
Paris. It's an exciting one to
get underway with. But of course,
Of course, it's been tough.
There's been four games played already.
I mean, I'll be honest, Fox.
There are some huge surprise results in here.
Yeah, I don't think many people expected SSG to be in MAD.
You didn't?
I said the only one team that would be able to take on MAD,
that would rival them between SSG and SR, would be SSG.
It's an NA team.
And if you're a team that is playing right now
in the upper bracket, it just takes one more win.
And then you'll be able to be inside the main stage
when it comes to Paris.
Also right now, Flexo, I believe just one map one against FaZe.
Yeah, damn, that is a very big start for their campaign here as they make their wad toward main stage as well.
I'm excited for the upper bracket because this is really where you start to show your determination, your grit as a team.
And if we were talking about that, we couldn't go past Wave-O.
I mean, they have been phenomenal so far.
I don't even know how to contextualize this from an APAC point of view.
I actually don't even feel like an APEC team anymore.
Not at all, and it's still the best thing in general to come out of APEC.
All of Weibo we highlighted Reefs himself as being one of the monsters today.
Individually, they have great performers.
That's something we always commended about the APL region.
But since bringing on Gohan, they've been able to elevate their structure in the strategy department,
essentially just competing with all of the other teams in the region.
And maybe it only took a Brazilian to join for a Weibo to essentially be that much better.
Yeah, definitely shaving out to be some beautiful, but you know, we've highlighted players.
We've highlighted coaches.
We've highlighted how fun their place has been able to watch.
Let's look at the history of the eight pack region as a whole here at the six
invitation going all the way back to 2019 for, especially for someone like
yourself, senior Ozzie boys there.
They did come first out in the groups.
They would end up finishing fifth, eighth.
Then we fast forward to 2022 where we would see that dam on Kira roster, notable
players being coated, Rin and Woogie.
They did end up making their exit here on fear acts, but they did place ninth, 12th.
Now, WBG is the third team in SI history to come out first in their groups.
The big question is where are they going to finish?
Are they going to punch above the rest and make it to a main stage?
Possibly win the entire thing?
Who knows?
Or are they going to go out early here?
I don't think so because this team has been on fire since coming into the Six Invitation.
They really have.
I think that you have to commend, as you were saying, once Gohan joined this roster,
the whole team just looked completely different. And I think we were talking about this in the
green room a little bit earlier on Friday. The thing that Gohan has brought to the region that
I think most other coaches struggle with is not adapting the team to a play style, but you
adapting yourself to the team. Absolutely. Well, I was going to say, I mean, with what Gohan was
telling me that he was, you know, able to take from NA, able to take from EML and then just be
able to implement into their own play style, it really has been a beautiful thing to watch how
well they've been developing. Well the biggest increase for Weibo is being able to connect all of
the dots. Everything is for a purpose as opposed to other APL teams that have good individual play
but they don't know what the end goal is. They don't know what the structure is, what the objective
is, but that's what Gohan has brought to this roster is being able to have that good explosive
gameplay but connecting it all together. A team that has been here time and time again, Furia,
are absolute world beaters. This is the roster that I think is probably one of the scariest.
in all of the six invitations.
I mean, not only do they look good,
but their gameplay is very scary.
And just recently, what we saw in their matchup
versus Heretics earlier today, they were absolutely dominant.
And the man of the hour that we highlighted
throughout that series was Felly Pox.
And I have no doubt that he's going to be turning heads
yet again going into this series.
You'd like to think so.
I mean, the grit of Fury really came down to their gameplay
when it came to the shoulders of Felly Pox,
essentially just being able to IGL,
the good understanding, the prep.
And it's a scary Furia to see when they have to prep
alongside the amazing individual performers.
I mean, you can see KZ there topping the charts,
but in their matchup against Heretics,
it really came down to that prep.
Understanding to take the information game away from Heretics
to be able to blind them
and then use that explosive gameplay later in the round
to get those picks to give them the advantage.
And that was the whole plan.
And that's something that Furia does better than most,
is being able to not only have the amazing individual play,
but understanding their opponent
that they're going to be going up against.
and heretics and Wave or do share a common similarities of being very information based
for having good players, but if they're put in the right situations.
So if you're in this game plan won't really change too much when it comes to this matchup.
They're playing for that hammer and you can see it in their game.
It looked really dangerous.
There's no two ways about it.
It looks really dangerous.
The game against heretics, I was only watching peripherally, right?
So I kind of had it on in the background.
It looked easy for them.
It looked like they were in motion and that scares me going into this game.
Again, it talks about the prep that Fox highlighted.
I mean, I have no doubt coming into this matchup, it's going to be the exact same result in
terms of how facilitated those attacks are going to be looking.
Let's have a look at where we're heading for this one.
A reminder for those at home, the stakes couldn't be higher.
The winner goes through through the arena.
The loser, of course, will have to go and fight through the lower bracket.
We kickstart on Clubhouse from Waybo's pick.
Now, it is a good pick for Waybo.
I mean, we say clubhouse is one of those maps for the APL region in general, but way votes
One up if not their strongest maps to be able to go toe-to-toe a theory
It's a very gunfight oriented map
So that's what we're going to see the adaptation doesn't come in the strategy
But more from the individual players way below or really be able to show their best foot forward against a team like theory
But that being said we just saw theory a slow
Heretics on that map and they looked lights out they had understood the game plan of being able to shut down the information game
I don't imagine it'll be too different well both webo and feria did knock out heretics pretty convincing last time
They both played heretics on clubhouse and then for the side of layer. I mean, this is a very interesting one for webo
This is a good map for them similar to what it is for the side of feria
I'm expecting no less that this is gonna be quite a gunfight oriented heavy in your face sort of style
It's really who's gonna find that opening kill and then who's gonna further that man advantage
Who's going to be able to find that open and connect those dots and like I said go for that mid to late round execute
That's where we're really going to see them shine going into that lair if we were was able to win that one
I don't know if they'll be able to put up a good fight on layer
As intimidating anything like that. No, we never did that is intimidating
They're hot to play that being said if we go all the way to three maps on cafe when it comes to how scary a team
Fury is that's a map that they've been able to revolutionize being able to play aggressive angles on piano
extending all sorts of areas and being able to take those gunfights to wave up.
It's something that no team has really been able to approach cafe against a team like Furia and feel confident against them.
Well, one thing is for Dan Shaw, I couldn't think of two better castes than to bring you this game.
Ace, there's how we feelin', boys.
Very, very excited. Like, you've got the best attacking team at the tournament coming up against former world champions.
Oh, come on now. Not to say no to that.
It's going to be spectacular, couldn't it? Well, the way Furia played earlier, I think anybody in the tournament
would want to avoid them today.
So I think we've all got their work cut out,
but they've shown us they don't really care about the odds
or expectations.
They could be good for it.
The last time these two teams versed each other,
they were completely different.
W7M and Bleed.
But the last time we saw these rosters versed each other,
it didn't end too good for Bleed.
Now, Wave, let's hope they lock in.
Boys, enjoy.
Thank you very much, guys.
Yes, indeed.
This is one of those series that we've been looking forward to.
And we saw that we'd cast this once and we were just like,
You can't really say no to that because we've loved watching way both right this week
We've seen fury a light self-performance earlier against heretics and remind everyone that they should be in the conversation for eventual winners of this event
comics tell it goes no absolutely can see the solution
We must get a good backing. I knew this would happen. I think the neutral fans really getting behind them
But no, no, that's just Robin going it's going off his top over and over again
I'll wait. Oh, Jersey on is that there with his army of bots smashing vote on that one?
I think at this point many probably would expect Yuri to come away the winner, however,
something tells me Wavo are going to cause a nice upset and it's a good first map to
start on with club.
Let's see how they come out on the back of this one.
Of course, it is the best of three like all the other games here at SI and this is Wavo's
map pick.
They are eight and two on it over the last six months.
One thing I will say and there's not really numbers or anything to back this up.
I'm not saying that they're
definitely going to today, but
what I will say and I always say
this is that teams all teams
will generally have a bit of a
bad day at the tournament through
a tournament. You look at
anybody who's won a tournament
and generally there will be a
match during that turn. The
only one I can think of as an
exception was to be seven M in
Copenhagen. Nobody got near
them through the entire tour.
If I remember right, I'm pretty
sure it was corporate. Um
normally there'll be an off day
the team. You know, I'm not
sure what I'm saying is. Some
but it's unusual for teams to
just continue winning, winning,
winning, winning, winning,
winning every single day, and
it's sometimes about. Kind of
having that off day at the right
time. You know, if you look at
any like you look at the big G
two win, they dropped down to
the law bracket. They had
their off there and then they
went on a run through, you
know, York. It was the same
with with many many winners of
tournaments have gone through
that process of having a bit of
an off day. So hopefully today
and they continue putting in solid performances as we have seen so far, four games, four wins.
And you know, the next big challenge will be to play.
Well, I think a lot of the success from Wabo has come this week,
and it's certainly not so to me in Reaps here because he is one of our top-rated players at the competition.
He's played lights out, but eyes turn to wars.
The best players over the last six months of this lineup, which is Hoven and Ape.
Those two have been lights out in the series that we cast for the day.
They both played brilliantly.
Now, I thought maybe we might see a band come into autogon and his Balutie absolutely loves playing it but in this round at least he's on towards the back and speak easy, he's going to slam her to start things out, Tim.
Not often that you think you're going to say that line, is it?
Well, that's how you kick things off against Furia, get up in their faces, look, Heretic showed it earlier. This team can be susceptible to losing rounds when you get up in their face.
their face if they want to go for a 3v3 gunfight get into it with them they want to get into it
and the heretics did that and had some really good results and I think we're going to sort a team
to take that lesson and think we're going to come in here just like that we're not showing your
respect we're not showing you any fear we're going to come in and go for the gunfights they've just
got the opener they've taken out the IQ as well which is going to protect some of those electronic
talk for them and it's a great start for me.
I mean it's in the nicest way towards heretics.
It feels like Furia are having two very similar games on the day,
but this is the evolved form of heretics.
A lot of these players have played at international events for a while.
Now they know the field, they've got themselves grounded in,
whereas the heretics is their first time as a tier two team.
Does it certainly mean that way better than heretics?
I'd say on the day yes, but of course,
you never know what happens to the game.
One thing is for sure is a quite going to be as straightforward
as what it was for Furia earlier on against heretics.
Now all focus is coming onto the verticals inside the kitchen hallway.
You come to expect this one by now.
They pop their way through and I was going to say, I'm going to try and look for the hatch for Hoven.
Casual as anything, Tim.
He's just set up in blue.
Someone tells him, yep, pull the C4 now and he's like, yep, no problem boss.
You've got it.
And they found themselves a kill.
JV getting one back.
This is the real fear I have, Tim.
We saw how many times earlier on today, but JV and KZ would just find a 2K or a 3K out of nowhere.
And suddenly any advantage that Heretic's hand was lost.
Yeah, they've been doing it for years.
you know, you can never really think that a round is over until that number pops up on the scoreboard
against this Furia lineup, especially today. Look, you know, they're always good,
which seems some solid performances from them again here at TI 26. But today, against heretics,
they just felt a little bit different, like they're taking it up and off. So let's see
whether they can deliver that same sort of energy against Wave or Turnman, and just to pick up
full E-Pots. That's going to be speakeasy. In behind that shield, just taking down JV as well. It
He walks like the first round of bullshit.
Sure, it could be done and dusted for Waybaugh here, really.
One versus four, it's KZ who's going to get himself
to a little bit of safety out in IOPIC.
For he hits the reward and just takes his way back.
Ooh, something up towards third down for a second.
However, like you say, Tim, there's four players to get through
and nowhere near enough time.
Third, finally rewarded for his aggression, collects the kill
and a fantastic first round coming out there.
Dare I say, Tim?
Waybaugh certainly putting the money where the mouth is
and putting Furia to task.
The focus of the desk from likes, of course,
was around that history, you know, that Wabble are playing into.
They're the third APAC team to come through
in SI number one spot in their group.
And now it's about proving that they can go on and go further
than other teams have done in the past.
That will be, you know, it will put a weight of expectation
on the shoulders of these players, you know, it's a tight-knit region.
They'll be well aware of all those previous achievements
and accomplishments, the big player names that goes along with them and they will be very,
very keen to put themselves in and amongst. I mean, I personally, I think their names
are already going to be spoken up in those kind of special ones, up in those kinds of
discussions, but now, you know, the more work they can do, the better they get the win here.
They're going to venue. That's absolutely massive. It's always a bit of a threshold.
Always feels like a bit of a, you know, aligning the sand really for the air pack teams. Get
yourself onto that live stage, get yourself, you know, with those kind of neutral fans
getting in behind you, you just never know what might happen.
100%.
Okay, that's all we have.
We've seen runs like that before from APAC teams, when they get themselves into the venue,
you know, scars, I think back to a good few majors ago now, the whole crowd was behind them
and wanting to see them deliver. Because it has been a long time since we've seen them
near that top end, you heard the guys speaking about Fnatic over on the desk,
of course Noraranga made to the semis at SX Invitational 2019.
the format was different back then, so there's not really a probable thing here, but if Weibo can win this, and go on and win their next game,
I think you can't really say that that isn't a top forward finish, because they'll be in the final.
I guarantee if Weibo get to the venue, they will have a huge great presence.
100%.
Unless they're against the EU team, and even then, as they are against Falcons, maybe not, even some of the EU teams, I guarantee there will be a big backing in the venue for Weibo should they be able to get there.
But if I'm not casting something, I'll be there screaming.
Me too.
Full E-Pox manager to pick up Horvatham.
That's a good response from Duria.
Coming out here in round two, managing to get that opener,
taking down Horvatham on his beloved Maluci.
He plays a lot of Maluci.
And the banches will still be out there,
but we saw the impact Horvatham had in the last round.
And that's a good step for Duria.
Absolutely.
And of course, the other thermo,
by the way on this map earlier on, it is available here.
In case you've been sleeping under a rock,
he now has three exo-therma charges.
So on a map like Clubhouse where you've got to open up jacuzzi, open up the single wall
and towards construction and the main breach, well, you can do it all by yourself now which
means you've got that extra spot free that would normally go towards something like
an ace of course here, it's bound away for a little bit less.
So, Prince of Harbour is gadgets instead and then use that extra pit spot for another operator
to make you attack that little bit more deadly.
Appair just got caught out there, he was trying to get aggressive on the jacuzzi breach at
the other side of the map, KZ was just stood waiting for him, open arms and picked up a
nice easy kill and so that leaves him now in a five versus three nade has gone running into
sight here thinking about putting that diffuser down but he's not going to be able to as speaky's
he manages to pick up the kill case he does get the instant trade but the damage is still kind of done
but it's keep on going for way above and it's not looking good one before there's great to be
wanting to reach there a second ago just on construction door as well he did actually win
the 1v1 onto the window player but for leapbox just like clockwork with these guys pushes him
the game. We're going to go
into the game. We're going to
get him from gold and gets
himself to kill onto Reeps. And
again, this is what we saw
coming out of these guys
earlier on today. They were so
good at making three V ones and
two V ones. Every time you saw
a player died to him, we just
saw countless like gunshot
lines rips in across the screen.
And it was a little bit like
how do you deal with that
pressure? Well, as you've just
seen when they've got the man
advantage team is very hard to
wrench it away from them. Yeah,
this is it. They're talking
the victim in the sights and then there's three or four of them just all taking nibbles
and bites at them and making it super difficult for those enemy players to keep themselves
alive but if we look at it just to look a little bit ahead at this one in terms of the
map bans I'd be very concerned about that second map where is a map that fury are phenomenal
on we know that if you look at their recent record on there it's I think there's one
lost. It's eight and one. Yeah,
not to pile the pressure on way
but they really need a result here
on for those. I feel like it's,
you know, if we're going to win
it, it's going to be two on the
win on Kathy. Yeah, I do agree.
I do agree. Kathy, I'd be great
to severely highly confirm that
by both teams. So that would
just be a straight shoot out.
I would love to see that. Now,
the just hit the speakeasy
was our observer, of course,
pointing out to you while we
were yapping on. Speakeasy was
hidden away inside a bathroom
there out towards you and
bedroom and there's now got
the ability to move around and
and drop down those mirror windows.
One which you believe he placed out towards the West,
even though that weeps, red weeps.
You got Reeps sat on looking out towards the keys.
He's not weeping yet.
He ain't weeping yet.
He could be later, Tim.
We'll find out.
But he's got the window, watching as you're cruising wall,
and then you've got speed keys you set, of course,
on towards sites itself.
Now, this is cool, because since they've hidden it away,
they can get rid of one of those hybrid charges, Tim.
They may even fail to get the wall open here as a result.
There's a bit of me just wondering
whether if he positioned it just right,
Maybe you could have got both of them.
I'm asking for two more.
They've got six.
They've got six hard breach charges, Tim.
They know what they wanted to get them in the round.
They brought the right tools to the job.
It's a good thing as well.
Otherwise, that war point does stay tightened up.
Yeah, I mean, the thing is, look,
they haven't got clean access in there.
It's not like a third man for each or something,
but it doesn't matter.
All they want is the lines of sight,
because what it's done is it prevents anybody
from wear ball playing inside of CCTV.
That's the important part,
so now they've created this divide.
You've got defenders in cash.
You've got turd, you had turd on Catwalk, and so you've created this big divide, and what you're trying to do on this side is you're creating a big safe space.
So you've got the angle that we've just seen there from JV92, he's going to watch towards Catdoor, nobody can now push across that threshold.
So you can think about going in and getting the diffuser down.
Appier has gone underneath on the solar storm, so they need to be aware of Appier, but there we go, they've taken him out.
I think you're right with Oregon.
No, no, it was on. Shelly. Was
it Shelly? Yeah, 100% is on
Shelly. Yeah. I've watched that
clip many a time. I know it was
Shelly, but the one that you said
in that round that really got me
was safe space. That's the new
really tickled me. Hold on to
that one. I had to let you know
afterwards. However, let's look
Yeah, we're going to be honest a little bit off the pace so far in terms of keeping up with furia. That's what you've got to remember when I say that off the pace of the off the pace of the average game siege.
that off the pace, are they off the pace of an average game siege? No, they're not. They'd be absolutely tired.
Are they off the pace against absolute full throttle? Furia, yeah, as many people would be.
And they need to get control on this. The reason I'm saying this, I understand you might be looking at
thinking, it's three rounds less, it's just three, you know, it's not a, no, it's not. But believe me,
with a team like Furia and how we saw them earlier against Heretics and how they're continuing to look
But now, that's who you want, in the blink of an eye, we'll be 5-1.
And so, you've got to get a group on it now.
Label can't allow this to continue snowballing.
Because otherwise, if you're only 5-1, heading on to the defense,
then it'll be over before you know it.
So, they really do need to get themselves into this one.
Entry would be a big part of that thing.
Start getting those entry kills, getting yourself in that advantage.
It's not a guarantee against the sides, but it will help you significantly.
So you're saying from last year's case, Tim?
It didn't look like it in the last couple of rounds.
Yeah, it did not.
And you're speaking of entry, that has been the way that every round has gone.
Overfines the entry, takes the corner, wins the round,
and Tirders died in exactly the same space as last round.
It turns into a second kill, Tim.
Inside 40 seconds, QR at 5 versus 3.
Yeah, and this is the thing, QR are so good in this position.
If they've smelt blood in the water,
there is absolutely no mercy from them.
They won't back off the drones,
they won't back off taking map control,
They will still keep ticking boxes doing everything and they'll just grind you down and as soon as they see an opportunity to push somebody
3v1 they will do this is what we will have to do. They've got to trade. They've got to fight.
Speak easy with a big double. They're going to need these big hero moments in the rounds to keep themselves in some of these
3 vs 3 great response. Capitao gone. That is a big moment.
There we go. Push them, you're deep there as well. JV being tagged out by his tripmines is certainly not going to help too much
But he lines them up by the head of Ovid on his push-up forward,
he's got them two sides, and C-4 from Rees is going to find his man down to a 2v2.
So good recovery efforts for Tim. There's still half the round to play here.
There is so much time.
Kasey getting rid of Roots.
Speak easiest in all the world this round, Tim.
And he has to do a hell of a lot more.
Kasey with the final couple.
And Furia move ahead.
Dare I say, it feels like the discipline in these early rounds
is slipping away a little bit from way above Tim.
They are taking these gunfights,
but they're just ready for everything that comes out than Furia are.
Is it just me that feels like Furia have got about seven players in every round?
What's happening is very simple, you're trying to end the shit in the most difficult way.
Like I was shooting you, you say, I got you, I got you. Bro, you just stay, don't move,
and you kill both. No, I got neither. Yeah, yeah, okay, so forget this. But what I'm saying is,
the start of the round, you guys know what to do, you guys know how they're gonna play,
and still we have no refrag, you know, no team play, no coordination. Next time, bro,
They start to come garage. Let's move together.
Up they play the third. You know, we need to react fast guys.
The only thing, the only problem is heavies. You guys are trying to win this shit in the most difficult way.
You know, not playing together.
So we fix this and let's win this shoe hunt guys.
Let's go guys, let's go.
Let's hunt my hunt guys.
Let's go guys. Let's go, two more hunts.
So guys, come on.
This fucking, the 91.
You know what I'm pointing at far more elegantly than I could ever could as well.
I was speaking about the discipline that was lacking in the early round.
But it's like you said there, we're swinging alone, we're going for wands, we're paying the price.
And you can see it, you know, there's a number of kills coming in here where there's no response from Wabble.
You know, if you start hoping, well, you know, how do I see that? How do I watch that? How do I see if it's improved that?
One thing that you'll see is trades. When somebody dies, they'll be able to return kill comes in.
You're in a position to be able to assist your teammate. You're not doing things in wands.
You're not just taking those fights on their own. So, definitely something that can improve for Wabble.
Yeah, you know as I jokingly said before we went into that some so many rounds with you
It feels like they must have seven or eight players because
There was speaking to kill two at the beginning there
And then there's all this chaos and all this round and you look at its TV three and you're like what?
I'm sure you had a bunch of players killed and still and it just shows
Value and ability there is in each individual player because you know
They'll still just turn around and it feels like they are everywhere in the map so I fury up
They are looking electric today
Yeah, that's him
Part of the challenge, but I wouldn't say it's unsavable on the side of wave only knows go on steps in and we heard it speak
Yeah, it's not like it's a major disaster
We've just got to recover untied a few things in the early man
You might find ourselves coming out just that little bit better and sure enough
There's no one trying to go crazy on the early spawn peaks or being aggressive up on the top floor here
You are playing a little bit more defensive in this round.
Tim, are they playing them for it?
Tighten things up here, because if you find yourself going down 4-1,
or dare I even say 5-1 come the end of the half,
it already feels like it's over.
Yeah, I'd agree.
There's no roam whatsoever from where,
but if you look bottom right of your screen,
you can see all of the positions of the players,
and there's a B next to all of their names for the baseman.
So they're all downstairs at the minute.
Furia, they've got to recognize that to begin with.
I think they're reasonably comfortable in that
because JV's already looking towards the tunnel
that tunnel and off your screen hoods is moving down main stairs as well.
So I think they're pretty comfortable that top floor is available for them
and that they can move in and start thinking about hatches.
They're starting to take that mid floor now.
So Furia, they are not messing about it.
Within a minute, they're already getting active inside of the map
and taking that control.
Got the right idea.
They know that Reeps has pushed quite deep through dirt here
and he's taking a little bit of a rest.
This team is almost losing sight for it.
This is where patience is key.
It is a virtue sometimes to...
I think reach reminding us all of exactly why still though
This is why it's all three spoke still remain
You can get back into all side of the rest of the scene or at least hold a little closer to the rest of the scene rather than pushing up so
Aggressively yeah, this is good stuff from pure ear as well. JV gets himself inside a kitchen
They're gonna stay next to thermic just
Impacted away there, so he now needs to be careful as well because close. Yeah exactly that it's gonna just needs to be kept
That's exactly what he needs to be careful of it's concerned about nitrous
He's concerned about impact, and he's concerned about bullets.
There's all sorts of things that could rain up through those floorboards to damage him.
That is going to open the kitchen hatch!
And Fury are now getting themselves in a position to think about and execute.
There's a couple of times right this half that we've seen Waybo come up
with some cool ideas on how to deny this stuff.
It's looking really, really interesting.
Now, here we go.
Potentially, with the candels come flying on through onto these trips.
We're going to disable all of them as the main frustration.
I imagine he hits him.
The motion roll it on just on through.
He'll have to drop in here and take the damage at least for a moment,
moment or at least pop the mind another way all he's doing is making room for his team team and they go!
Ned's gonna go for the drop and there's a fact elsewhere after he picks up JB92 but if he's got enough
assistance to put the diffuser down herbs what's coming down blue tunnel can no challenge from this
tag the question is are they aware of his position they're going straight on to the diffuser and I
think they're gonna get this way ball great decision! Yeah he hasn't got time to get to this one a good
I think he thought he was planting
deeper inside of Arsenal than he
hears the diffuser go off and
he's like, Oh, he's behind me.
Turns around and gets the kill.
Thank God. Otherwise, that could
have been calamitous. Most
importantly, it's a second round
on the board. Yes. We're both
definitely needed that. I'd say
you got to stop the rock. You
can't allow theory to start
running away with this on a 3
three half actually very good
for wearable. No problem with
that at all. I still think
they've kind of got it stacked
up against the net. I think
kind of got it stacked up against them a little bit in the second half given that fury or got three attacks
You have to look at fury on defense and say, you know, there's a good chance. They're gonna be good for four rounds
So not ideal, but I think if we're both can at least lock this out 3-3 then who knows, you know, they can get in
they can start playing their game style
I think the tax suits we're a little bit more they've been the best attacking team that we've seen in the tournament
So far today and they just they can play with a bit more freedom a bit more aggression. They can take the fight to furious
I don't think it's the end of the world for the three three
Essential, but okay
I'd like they won't feel great
But by the same token way those are said are the best attacking team we have at the tournament team
63% attacking win rate 63% defender win rate
Perfectly balanced as all things should be. So do I favor them coming onto the attacking side? I think that's a favor.
But do I not think able for them to be able to get at least three rounds and this floor is empty?
Absolutely not. I'll be shocked if they win four truthfully. I don't think Fury will let them do that.
But if they get to give themselves a bit of a better chance here, this is looking a little bit cheeky.
So he actually hits him there as well, and it's scared, turns off away, he drops. Love that.
He thinks I'm having absolutely no more of that. Thank you very much.
and he's going to relocate and make sure he's not giving up that entry death so
we're both looking pretty comfortable at the minute. Speakeasy in turn is still
holding down the cash-in CCTV side. Furia have opened CCTV wall but they're not
really doing too much more work towards that side. They've opened construction
wall now as well to try and prevent kind of the cut off the rotation back to
site but Speakeasy's aware that there's no pressure because he's able to start in
CTTV so he knows nobody's pushing this guy. They can't see it for granted that they can use the
Serif Alchemy at the minute, can't see it here.
Thought for a second they're seeing another G2 moment, it's herds dropped as that exothermic was going off
by enough time to get away.
Now that Shakuza is open up, that's where the pressure is going to start building.
Probably got FleeFox looking at Lodgy as close to them on pause.
They've got to start their march on 40. It's going to march on exactly where it is.
They're pushing prompt. Intercept one in front of us here is KZ working his way down main stairs.
Nade also looting on through, two kills coming away from Furia, this is what they need to see, Tim.
I'll be getting at least one back, but they need more!
What's going on there, Tim?
Casey's turned it into a 2k!
Our babes looking completely the wrong way, sprinting off towards the bathroom.
And that may be enough for Furia to get a 4-2 half.
Bullybox is going to be putting the diffuser down, I think it's academic at this point,
I don't think it really matters to be honest.
Herb manages to pick up one, but he is low health, it was a matter of time.
and he's got a lot of
players in the middle of the
game. I'm made managers to
close it out. The plant was
successful in the midst of all
that, but what an absolute
blood bath in the middle of
that round. So what happened
was furious rushed in from the
breach and it was KZ down
across the top of main stairs,
but at the same time for
epochs gets into logistics and
starts pushing from that side
through the rotate, and this
just kills going down
first half before moving on to the defense. I think the Brazilians are going to be very
happy with the way that one has started.
You might just be like for like bands here as well, Tim. We had the kind of the band
that's taken out in that first half. No, okay. The second one's that changed over. And the
Hibana is left open, interestingly. Now, we spoke earlier on about the Thermite bands
that came through Inferiori's game against Eretix. They're sticking with that script
because they know just how effective it can be. It's why they ran the Thermite in all
but one round in that first half.
I'm just seeing how Wave will get on without the operator onside.
Of course, the fact that we still do a lot, but I don't think we're able to create a third.
It's nothing really stacked up, so...
No, no, they don't.
I think that taking the Azami way is a great shot.
JV92 plays a mean Azami up on Catwalk.
We've seen it today already.
We've seen it in the past.
So, taking away Azami, opening Catwalk up for yourself a little bit possibly.
Great idea from Wave.
also makes this site, Church and Arsenal a little bit easier to attack onto as well as army super powerful
in that corner of Arsenal near Dirtunnel that we see so often
Farakated up turned into a little bit of a makeshift fortress in that corner with those keepers
So that should remove or alleviate a couple of problems for Wave-Up at least
We will see how this attack goes. They've got a sense on side. They've got a black beard and a dork, a beard, a damos
This is a hell of an attacking line on this it is the energy to wait for their initial plan was with
Operators what's out here, but the ones they've got I think a pretty solid like if you could pick a bread and butter like execute focus line
Up this probably would be a special clubhouse
I've done a spoke about a lot loads of hatches to work
You a third-hand sense of course, you know excellent for the execute itself even awarding can't save you
But here's one of the most picked operators because most shields get banned away
And then I spoke to death about Dr. B and Deimos as a parent very very good for forcing rumors away
and knowing the aggression that we've seen from Furia throughout the group stage.
Do you remember the one today?
I don't blame them at all to try and use this operator to shut them down
and get them back towards site.
I'm going to see JV will be tracked for the time being on the score pass.
He's up on the top floor.
Going to be down to Acre to feed that information back into his team.
So he sees himself joined by KZ up on that top floor as well.
Where we're going to be opening up the cruises.
They are going to go to the full map clearance. Oh, come on. It's not going to start off fantastically well KZ does get a bully though
Over there for the trade. The need was well placed and he was struggling to get himself out of trouble JV92 is
He's got himself back to sides as well
Beautiful from home and if you didn't know that angle exists
They're going to give it a try in ranked if you open up the hatch you can see just over the wall onto main stairs
Heard second down, four versus three.
He was a great read as well because that information must have flowed so fast.
Yeah.
Because Heard's first team running up the main stairs to try and assist KZ,
to try and get a couple of kills at the back of it.
And the read must have come in the cave, he was on main stairs.
Fair chance, he's still there on the lower level.
Ready to take out a drone, just go for it.
And look at what it led to.
Wonderful bit of coordination and communication from Weibo as Reeps finds Nade, a 4v2 team.
This is looking like a great position for Weibo to be in.
Yeah, it really does.
This is exactly the start of the Fully Pops, however.
Do you see what I mean?
It feels like they've done so much killing Weibo,
and it's two versus three after,
but it just feels like you can never get this huge gulf
between your team and Furia.
It's an absolute night.
It must be a nightmare to play against.
Fully Pops got that one, dropped himself back to site,
so it's him and JV trying to hold things down,
one in church, one in Arsenal,
so they're just spreading themselves
across the entire site.
Weibo do have a bit of time here, 35 seconds.
They can't take forever, but they can get a good idea of where everybody is.
They've no tracks left for our base, so that utility is gone.
They need to go and try and find that first kill.
They do. They know where these two players are.
They know that there's one on Church, so well, they know that there's one sat just on Blue Door as well.
They have to be able to move as a team off this team.
Like you say, there's a real lack of utility, so it's all about the guns.
They've got the light screens they can still run in with, and JV's got another.
This is looking bad, Tim. It's down to a 1v1.
Holmen's got to go absolutely massive here.
Steps in. Moses behind the box. It's a 1v1 note to the JVs down low!
Over his to shot. And Waybo take the round, but my God!
Did Furia make that one hard?
I'm not sure my heart can take much more of this.
There's 1v1 going to the pistol. JV just can't get it done.
Well held by Waybo. They put their first attack on the board.
That was what they needed. That was the round from me.
Get round seven, send a message to Furia.
Yeah, you might have four to you might be on the defense, but this map isn't yours yet
And I love that from way below continuing that great attacking streak that they've had at sR26
To continue getting some rounds that this was great fresh on stairs. Yeah, I hope they lost
You know the opening kill on to speaking to initially, but it was just great pressure
And then the fall with the second kill on to her just really set them up for the round
It was one of those rounds that it's just a war from start through to finish and it leaves us right down to closing 1v1 to settle the winner.
As I've said, JV and Casey have had unbelievable performances already today.
That is continuing here on the other side.
the side, cornering down to C. The key players on Weibo waking up, Reets currently at 3 and
5, R-Pace 3 and 6, Hoven at 5 and 5, but the most important thing here is the score
at the top of your screen, and Weibo are still within striking distance. They are only one
behind. Speakee's you're rolling back the years here, jumping on towards the Monty.
Ready to say something about 2020, he's on Giant Tim, and that was his go-to, and I tell
you what Tim, I'm speaking about Reets, just to elit the soulist there at Round Star.
I think it's fair to say he's walking up there, he's gone in there and got himself a big opener, and who better than the solace?
This is literally the perfect solace style. Captain CCTV is all destructible, you can play in stock, you can play in lines, you can disrupt the plant anywhere
So long as you can keep yourself alive, and Casey has failed to do so. Really big pick up for wearable.
5 vs 4 early in the round. Speakeasy can start bullying Catwalk now. It'll be JV. It's always JV up on the Catwalk.
He's got the one-mile because of his army's ban though. This is really doable for the attackers.
Well, so of course, Steve and I on the maestro that we spoke about a little bit a couple days ago.
Everett's towards and not tried to hide it away. I was watching in the prep space
would he try and hide it away somewhere and the answer was no.
It has got reaped across on towards the bra and of course to try and steal those away and he has got one thing
hacked out, don't know if it was a mysorecam or not, but I saw at least two go down inside
the captain's, so you've got to be really careful of that. Ape, a man that I also said
was being quiet to him, it's like they're listening to us. Get themselves a couple of
kills for free, and I've been out in this round getting involved, and speedpeasy's
starting to smart and jump through garage, down goes JV, way by making this look easy.
Yeah, this is great from the airpack team, absolutely love what we're seeing, they are
in a position to put the diffuser down, I'd like to see them do that, there's no real
reason not to you know they might be a little bit concerned about a Nitro but
that's just come out so you know there's one in the hands of herds but
they've got five players they can just have somebody down in lounge for me
we're both get one get the diffuser down herds almost wants us for an ego
chunk up to me too he's talking a little bit of smatcher in the tech time out
earlier on he really wants this win but if Reeves can hold him here and lean his
teammate into one versus four that's completely fine by the side of Wave oh
you've got me downstairs with the C4 and hand the belief that we used to earlier
on. It's only in herds his back pocket. So he's in a bit of a dangerous spot here. So he's
about to get down and get rid of one, but there's a trade to be secured and reach. He wins out that
1v1 against herds. They're warming into it, Tim. Yeah, well played from Wabble. They chose to go
for the kills. There was an opportunity to get the diffuser down as well. 5v2, CCTV catch.
You know, I think they were a little bit concerned about nitros or other elements, but they definitely
could have been handled and dealt with. Doesn't really matter. Outcome is the same. They choose
to go for the kills. The call was made and the round was successfully won 4-4. We sit on the
scoreboard now and Furia losing back to back rounds and to maybe go back to the drawing board
for them is going to be over to Jim and Bedroom. If they lose this site as well Tim, that'll be a
three-zero start for Weibo in the half and they'll have won every single site. Curio went all to do
with themselves. Yeah they won the first three rounds two and one and obviously Furia win this
This one we have a mirrored result on the other side, but it's going to feel very, very concerning if they lose it.
No doubt going to be an extension out towards Cache and CC as you're now seeing on your screen.
See it milling a one-time sim.
Always have players out here.
Normally it's a shield, which you'll get from herds, being joined up by the shield of the clash.
And between them both, it can be ridiculously frustrating to try and clear top red in that position.
So, we'll see exactly how much they can make out there and where we're going to have to find a way through,
which probably means a good bit of team aggression at the start of the round.
The second round of what you see is that this round can be decided on the extension alone.
It isn't always about what's going on site.
If you lose two or three players out on the extension before you know it, round is done.
It's well prepared. Nate's performance is on clash earlier on,
which did, you know, some really great plays in the news in that operator.
He's going to be bringing it along again this time and he will be helping out over.
I would imagine Top Red Nate usually plays the clash on this hold.
So we'll keep an eye out there and see how successful he is.
He's currently bottom right, but I would imagine...
start asking questions or inside of construction in towards the sides itself.
Hovland is currently sat in that position on the Grimm, just waiting for the kind of
go sign from his team to know what's going to happen next, but you can see everyone's
really starting to gather around, mainly out towards CashionCC, but that will begin to
develop an imagine some pressure will come in towards Lodgy very shortly.
Whereby, just allowing for the time that they've got in the middle of the round here to get
back in. They've, they, I, I like what they've done here. We've gone in, we've
played behind that tower as we now set up shop again. We go through the same
process. We rinse and repeat and then we push forward. Once we know exactly what
we're playing into, Ned, is a key factor here. He's just playing on that
rotate from construction through into logistics. He will now get a little bit
more aggressive and push forward onto the door again and he's just backing up
They're going to be careful. They're exactly that. They just don't want to waste too much time.
But, Speakeasy gets things underway with a kill on to JV.
Ape tries to go in through Jacuzzi. Does it get away with it as for Leapox takes him down?
Three versus four.
I think it's Speakeasy who really wants to go a bit more aggressive here and push in towards for Leapox inside a bathroom.
He's got Reeps joining him in.
On the black though, we've seen this one before.
It hurts. Always up by himself, but always find the kill necessary.
It's a story. Tweekie's all alone, blinded out by the FNAT.
Almost fighting off a little bit more than they could chew their way,
but when trying to go deep and play a couple of players around Main Stairs,
it did not work out.
And that's that 2-1 quarter that we saw back at the start of the game as well.
Yeah, as you say, I think, you know, maybe just stretching themselves a little bit thin there.
They didn't ever really deal with the cash-seid.
So what that meant was that you had Nade and Herds kind of unaccounted for
and able to flex their position and move about.
And one of the kills came in from there at the end of things.
And so it also then left you kind of short handed to be dealing on the other side with players like
for Leapox and creating that space in gym, not ideal on the attack from Wave all that time.
Furia keep their lead, but only just this one round.
It's 5-4.
And this one continues to rumble on on full post.
Over time, honestly, would not surprise me in the slightest there.
We're just eating out of those bands. Come on through.
Capital's taken away. I'll say not really the end of the world because we haven't seen that
We've actually brought it once in round two and that was about it and even then it's used a case in that round wasn't massive
So not too worried about that on the other side the clash being taken away. I feel it's quite noticeable
It's the only operator that's having a round where they've won furia and so we both looking at okay
Here's the main thing that they've won with what we need to get rid of it
Yeah
this remove time problem. Like I said, Nade has put in some real rounds, some real performances
on that clash, so yeah, get rid of it, and then you don't need to think too much about
it. So 5-4 on the scoreboard as we head into what will be our final three rounds. We might
only get two of them if you really get them back to back, but I've got a feeling that
there's going to be a little bit more of a twist in this tale than you might expect,
he's going to be barricaded
in pretty much. He's got to
go one door escape through to
go table. But other than that,
he's locked in for a bit of
strip. Going to keep himself
over that backside. I think to
try and keep himself kind of
off the radar and then he can
maybe have that middle late
round flank that we see into
bar. The execute style set up
coming out from a bone minus
the doc could be this time as
well. So really similar in
and maybe minus the duck will be this time as well.
So really similar in set up,
just a little bit different in execution
because you're rolling in towards that trim,
very, very good for hitting the site itself with.
The Royal Enters are baiting this time around,
they won't need as much good resistance around there.
I'm pure in for the most part,
are down towards site itself,
but come on the first floor,
and Flee Pox, the main one being a little bit
of the bother up here on the two ground,
but as we know, it's mainly focused on trying to waste time.
I actually like this one, Flee Pox,
just changing up his location there.
The assumption is often gonna be
you'll be upon the catwalk. So by dropping down, he gives himself an opportunity to drop
Alpit and return to site, which he has done just in time as well, because he's been targeted
out by the Demos. Or, you know, you maybe mix up the angle that you're going to be going
into that fight on, but using his Zoto canister to support himself, smart player from full
epochs means all five, no, four, a back, third is still out in strip. I'm not sure that he's
been picked up yet. He could play serious spoiler in this round.
They've really got to pray that they've got flank drones on the go, Tim, because right now no one's actually flicking through them.
He could get into a pretty dangerous position.
Those that they want this bar hatch opened up, no one's yet around that spot on the map sniffing through, but reach for descendants.
I swear to God, he's just trying to hunt Reach down.
It's all he really cares about, Tim.
This is all about timing from Herds realistically.
If he holds his position and just plays this patient play, he could easily win this round single handed.
There we go.
Important from Wabon.
Good Intel game.
That's what we wanted to see. You commented they weren't on the drones at that phase of the round.
They moved back onto them, but it doesn't necessarily solve the problem, Dez,
because Herds is still out there. He still exists, and they've now got a minute to deal with him and Sight.
I turn towards Ape for that one. He's got the last track boss, two more tracks that he can make use of at some point.
Just the one sorry left. Can track onto Wars the Bandit, but it's the one they've got track onto instead.
Not too sure about that one.
Reeps is just playing inside a kitchen at the minute. He's the big problem here in terms of Herds.
to the left. He's got a big
problem. You see he can't focus
down the hat because he knows
he's got this bandit playing in
behind him. He's just being kind
of pulled pillar to post and as
he goes to the drop case, he
picks him up. Casey with a double
at the end to cause it out and
it's not looking good for way
but as fury move onto match
point.
Truthfully, this is how I would
have expected it to play would
have been the downstairs site
being won by fury. We often talk
about it being the one of the
most defender sided sites that
that we have in the entire game.
The upstairs sites is where you tend to see
a little bit more joy for the attackers.
So, don't count them out just yet.
There's still much they can do to try and turn it around.
We'll jump on towards Moncia, I imagine.
Again, to try and get that catwalk control.
They did kind of stroll their way through last time, Tim.
Only losing one player.
It was Reep's getting the opening onto KZ, if you remember.
Very early in the round.
They can find the same again, or just get a little bit of look
on their side. Then this could take us up to six and five before you know it.
Either one who got a win, Jim Betruemann,
were knocking on the doors of overtime.
Yeah, exactly, guys.
You know, it's still very, very doable.
It's still very, very doable for Weibo.
Don't count them out just yet,
but it's not going to be easy either.
You know, it seems to get more difficult
with each passing round.
Also, if we have a look at the entry,
there's 11 rounds, 10 rounds in,
only four entries that have gone in the favour of Weibo.
So, 6-4, Fury are leading there in terms of entry.
It hasn't quite lined up that every round with those with the entry.
There was two where it was flipped, one where we overturned it,
one where Viria overturned it, so we do end up in the same position.
But I think the entry is very important for way of all this round.
They need to be getting themselves a man advantage.
No one to start the garage door, place cuts to spot when a push starts coming on through.
Could be massive for them of course, you can deal with them on to you as well.
up those stairs and you get a yokai blast down shield break comes on through and jv may be able
to walk away with a kill off the back of it as strong as shields are to just feel like it's
a dangerous time to be a shield player with some black bears dying all the time this week it's yeah
it's hard interesting change as well of course the classroom's taken away from mid so he's brought
along the echo this time furia with even more intel than he's checking what's going on on the
rooftop he's going to have an opportunity to deny a plant if needs be it's this is this is the problem
One more time to pick your poison, don't you? You take the clash away from him, it brings the Echo.
It's another super powerful operator.
Retero drone is going to be sent in.
Will be taken out, so still not quite been able to take out the utility on the stairs, but that's a big one.
That's one Echo drone gone.
If you have to shoot the drone out here in time, not too sure they will.
Up he goes, baby gets the second asset around surely.
And also, they did it out and doesn't pop out the corner. That's really impressive.
to get rid of one and now they'll get rid of the second. And they've also got to JV
things to everything done inside about 90 seconds. Yeah, that's really good from
Wable. They're working through those problems one at a time and they've got
themselves the leaf oil, by the way. Yeah, that's going to be a big player again.
Heard last time was often stripped this time is played down into the basement.
He's just going to buy this time. They're going to give him the opportunity, but
he misses it. Orvin still alive takes a ton of damage, but this will waste some
will waste some time because again,
Weibo are going to have to pay attention to that.
It's his whole job this game is to just be an absolute nuisance to the side away,
but because once again, it's the same as last round when he was out towards strip,
they haven't fully cleared him out.
And just knowing that he's out there, sits in the back of your mind,
there's an attention soak away from you,
that you always have to be mindful of.
You will be able to strike at some point throughout this round,
but Speakeasy is now asking questions of sight itself.
The other thing that Heard's could play for here,
he's got himself onto blue space,
he has two impact nades left in pocket.
So Weibo need to be aware of that, they've done with it, I was going to say,
somebody needs to be underneath because otherwise he could deny a plant attempt.
Four versus three after an excellent kill from Reeps, really starts to clear things out for them.
They're just waiting for these toxic babe canisters to burn away at the moment.
FleePox has two more in pocket though, he can take out a lot of the rest of this round.
So instead, they've tried to push up Red to get aggressive and it's worked.
We are getting at least all 12 on Clubhouse. Absolutely wonderful closing point from Weibo. It's like watching Fury in reverse team. We saw so many. Have you ever seen them? Yeah, well, you've got the mic. I was having a drink.
I'll just hold mute and talk as well. I'm sure everyone will still hear me.
But again, it was just so well played.
They had the one player coming in from Logi, pushing into construction.
At the same time, two players sprinted at red, as well as speaking as you walk in forwards.
Everything apart from the playoff, concluding how this bit felt with this very early on,
JD was wonderful, but the trade being guaranteed by Hoven there, everything was fantastic.
A really good execute.
And like I said earlier on, it's almost a mirror of what we saw from Furia against Heretics.
It is so nice to watch, and you can see why they are our top attacking team at the tournament.
One more team and we get our tea.
Yeah, the level of organization on the attack and the, you know, the teamwork, the interplay between them all is absolutely brilliant to watch and I'm glad to see that they aren't able to bring it and deliver it for us in this matchup against Furia.
So let's get into round 12. Jim, I'm bedroom will be the final regulation defense for Furia. Just looking at the lineup.
We've got the Valkyrie onside at 4hz. Again, playing into that intel. We saw it was the Echo.
Last time, this time, it's going to be those black-eyed cameras. We've also got Fully Pucks on the Frost.
Not one that we see too often, but we have had some big moments. It is an operator that
Fury of Ring we saw near the course having. I think it was a big 4k with Frost on Fortress
earlier. It was at least the three, if not the four. It was a really nice round for me. Also,
disable the active defuse. I don't know how long to debate there, is it a three or four?
Because it's just such a long thing. It's just such a long thing.
But yes, but it's not unusual for them to be frost. You know, you've got that shield,
you've got the frost marks, which they do occasionally catch people, given that you've
got to be in your ADS ready for those fights at this sort of level, so they're easy to knit.
So, well, here we go. It's not quite a Monty, but it's still a shield, just marching its way up the
stairs here. Al Trang gets some control onto this top floor, because they have got to break
this extended holders two of them he actually is well with the grim also coming on through but
look where he is again Tim. Herds still being an oil rat down there waiting for his chance
maybe I'd climb up here this could be absolutely massive and game ending if he gets it but they
seem somewhat aware Tim. I think Hovind might know Hovind's concerned about lounge at the minute
if I'm not wrong he has actually kind of backed out of that door this is going to be one that
develops and I think it's going to lead to one of them being dead but if they're not aware of Herds
and they just push on into CCTV. I think you're quite right. He climbs up, goes up the stairs
and hits them on the flank. He's just waiting for his opportunity though, and you just know
it's going to come. Oh man, this would be such a harsh way to lose the map, but he's got himself
up there too. Sees one, but they've already won the fight. He's got a KZ onside, Tim. He hasn't
got to hit the shots himself. They get two, and this could be what ends the map. The beauty of
that though is that it leaves her out there on the flight with them, not really knowing where
he is or being comfortable if they try south-balkan you know. Herds is just gonna pop into cctv for
example big big problem four way ball five versus three and it's not looking good up here wants to
get aggressive moves on into site is currently at elbow shots are fired towards main stairs gives him
an idea of the location and then it sets him to try and develop a bit of movement. Herds on the
flank doesn't get one eventually KZ with a double to close it out it's flawless for furia they take
It's a tough challenge, it is a tall order, but let's see what I've done in the pub house first.
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Welcome back, Furia. Just barely win map one and it comes off of a big explosive attack
on the gym bedroom. Now it's such an easy strat that you guys can do it at home and
I'm going to break it down for you. So first, let's look at what Furia is doing. First,
Felly Pox is going to drop down the Lodgy Hatch, but before that he throws a Candela.
The candela is going to cause a bait and then a chain reaction.
We're going to see Nate drop down connector in assistance of JV92 jumping in the connector.
Felly Pox then drops down the hatch.
KZ pushes up the main hallway and herds right behind him is going to be holding the crossfire.
And it works off of that candela.
The chain reaction starts.
Everybody drops.
Everybody goes to push.
Now the reason why this execute is so strong is because of the coverage that the pushers
have from the support of players.
We see Nate locks down connector.
JV92 pushes into master.
Felly Pox dropped down, putting pressure onto gold,
forcing everybody inside to look at him.
KZ walks down the hallway and Herds is there for support,
and he can also flank later in the round.
And it goes flawless, and KZ pushes up,
connects with Felly Pox.
They're able to put the pressure again.
JV92 walks in the master, gets the pick.
They've completely forgotten about Herds.
Herds walks into the back and is able to get the bathroom kill,
and they lock down the site beautifully.
The last remaining Waybo player is all the way in connector locked down by Nate on the glass and he had no chance
Now the strap was such a beautiful execute that and it was so simple that you guys can do it at home
And if you do it home very well, maybe we'll see you here next that side
We'll have to see if you can take a map to the first we have to go back to the desk
Obviously, this is a monumental task for Waybo, right that going up against
absolutely god tier furia if there's one player that we're just not seeing in the server that has been so consistent at this event
Yeah, it's a little unfortunate Steve Reeves going five and nine
But I think that really is a true testament in terms of the level and caliber of play that they're experiencing out when we look at
The teams that they played in their groups. They played and maybe they played heretics. They played an imp. They played fearx
If you look on the side of furio
They were playing some big heavy hitters
Maybe some teams that weren't punching at the level
But it really just speaks into the aggressive nature that Fury has, is why Reeps wasn't finding that success.
He's going against a team that wants to take those gunsfights, that wants to bring the fight to you and not allow you to
breathe and choke you out. Even in that round that box demonstrated, we talked about Clubhouse, you win on your attacks.
That was the fourth winning attacking round that put them over.
So once they got into that defense, they were able to close out the Sears strictly because of how flawless that attack was.
Yeah, to contextualize it, Reeps, I think, was coming into today sixth overall at this event.
He's been phenomenal.
The last three players directly after him are all Furia players.
He is not going up against one individual player.
He's going up against a team of gunners.
And right now, to be honest, Wayboat, they still hold it, right?
7475, I think it was 7475 in the end there.
That is the kind of performance that still puts you in the right trajectory.
But my big concern now is where are we going next?
I mean, we go to lay you're gonna go to furious pick and obviously having such a strong start and
They're gonna feel very comfortable and electric starting on that attack now now for the side of
Wbg they should feel comfortable
They're gonna be on defense knowing the ins and outs of maps the blueprint is gonna be a lot easier understanding
What can hand what can't happen and the fact of the matter is they need to be able to double up and play those traits because if they
Can't I mean what we just immediately saw from furia is they were getting those traits
They were being able to play off one and they were able to take the man advantage away
So that's what WBG really needs the folks on here is getting that early pick and then slowing it down playing into those little layers
playing into the crossfires and forcing furious him because that's the best way to deal with an aggressive team
Furio played it 14 times over the last year and have only lost it twice for his way boat
We haven't seen it on Munich. It's time for us to get out of the way with lap two
Thank you very much gentlemen indeed it is
is there. And Tim, I know you've
got a particularly scary stat
about Furia on this fact. You
want to share it again, given
you shared it earlier on. Well,
in recent history does they are
eight and one eight wins to just
one loss. The loss does come in
the middle, so it's not an eight
win streak. Um but yeah, they
are very good. And look who
they lost it to as well. Tim
they lost it to first time. You
know, champion. So big deal.
the game. We've got a lot of
players. They've got two the
scores. Um the big falcon 71.
They'd be Nip 7 to the be
Flux or W 7 M 7 3. The be
Cyclops 7 2 like these. These
are not close games. There's
no, and obviously the last time
that we saw way, but play this
game was against G2 at the
Munich major. They lost it 7
and 4. Now G2 are a very good
I'm going to go back to the
story and I imagine my vote
expected to be coming into this
map. So no doubt Gohan and the
boys behind the scenes have been
hard at work and they're ready
to go Super Saiyan for this
game. Let's get into our map.
The map bands are up. Bands
first. It's not taken away along
with the day. Most followed by
the chat. Now that is really
spicy. We see a lot of chancre
on this map, but burning away
the smoke and the chancre means
a lot of what would be really,
really good. Plant denial is
taken away. Turn towards C fours
you're going to be able to
get to that. That's I love
that me from you're honestly
did not see that coming. You
know, but when you actually
take a second to think of the
ramifications and the knock
ons and how difficult that is
going to make certain
positions to hold on to.
Absolutely love that from
them. Is it going to work? I
don't know. We'll have to see.
If any team can, you know,
take advantage of that. You
know, it's going to be
furious on the attack, but I
would immediately be looking
a little bit. You know, if you're aware, but you're thinking, right,
mask all undisplayed, we need to be really worried about those two areas.
Sock mezzanine, you know, the, that's the side.
That's where Furia's attack is likely to come from.
Maybe Furia then mix that up and, you know, over to our six room side.
Who knows, but we'll keep a close eye on exactly where they're shaping up.
Given that they've just got rid of the thermite,
it holds us switched across onto the ace instead.
They've got the hard breach charges on the side of Fully Pox.
Maybe it won't be quite as well clear, we will have a watch as they get underway, but initially it does seem very much towards ops and mass war.
Yeah, I mean the Grim was taken away from Fury the other day in their game against Falcons, so no surprises there, the day was made for them a little bit, that's where you can change for them.
I went back to look at the last time we both played this map actually and what operators they brought along, they didn't play smoke once because Chanka was available.
available. And I think Fioria are just thinking one step ahead. You ban the
chank of our defaults of the smoke. We ban that away as well. Have they got a
third operator in their mind on what to do instead? Maybe the clash certainly
helps to pause that symbol. I look at supplies to see if that is the band that
we get at the end of round three, because then you're starting to run very,
very short on options that can take the place of any of those three
operators. KZ's gone straight away to deal with the electrification on
Masked Wall. He's using the sledge to do so. He's brought along the shotgun.
Sends up the mid, and he's just trying to help clear out for his team mate to the minute.
Hobbit is playing in that position.
Hobbit is going to take a lot of damage from a mid there as well.
Hurts is down.
Yeah, they need to be careful here, but as you say, this has been taken down in the middle,
a little too bad a start for Wabur.
And Faleepoq's taking a lot of damage there and trying to get Hurts up.
They may have to leave him, or he might have to try and crawl outside, but I don't think
he wants to pull the expose himself.
I'm just gonna finish off KZ as well, he was downstair slightly and dropped him back in that, and there's his point of the lead box, Tim.
This has been an absolute stonewall on the Ops push.
Yeah, what a performance this has been from Wave Oak.
Given that they've had the T'Chanko and the Smoke taken away from them, they've had to play this in, you know, a considerably different way to how you would do normally.
And despite going below with KZ on the sledge, trying to open up, nothing's been opened up.
You know, they haven't opened up MassWall, they haven't opened the wall from Mezzanine through into that plant spot.
Weibo have been able to completely deny them.
I paid some, Harry, to liviate most of the grenade,
but it's still up with the shield intact.
I think Weibo will win this round,
and a good start from them on later.
Looking excellent, absolutely.
Now, we've said so many times about how it feels
like you've got a massive advantage over Fury,
and in half a second, that can all transform.
Very much can't hear, and it's gonna start to JV,
getting one and looking for a second.
It's just scary how they can turn it on like this
to the flick of a finger.
Like I say, you're never far away from them. It feels like we're both in complete control.
Got all the kills and then it's still 3v4 when it's still possible.
But, Speekies, he does manage to take down JV as he swings on into sight.
We've got herds on low health after being collected as well.
The cost shield doesn't do any damage anymore. It's just slowing, but still,
it is going to have that impact of affecting what he wants to do.
Reet is there to pick up Nade from display and Hoven gets the last.
a great defense from Wabble with spoken with wax lyrical about their ability on the attack so far at this tournament. And they've just given us a little bit of a top floor masterclass. Love that from Wabble.
Really key, I think that our pay was still alive to a nose down to a single point of HP or two off the back of it, but him being alive just meant that he could step back up to Ops feed the information on what's going on.
and that's when turd then stepped across and got the shots down onto the capitol for leapbox
So we couldn't get herds up
Just as we both said really well played there in terms of their aggression
Denying fury of the ability to barely enter into the map itself and from there
It all just went from bad to worse afraid for the Brazilian side
All sorts in on towards the leapbox who's in that back corner again
Just saw the work that was being done by the clash there to feed the information back and forth
that is the strength in depth
within the team. So they've
come in there and yet that
attack hasn't worked and they've
had a bad round and then they'll
just come in and play the next
round completely different way.
They can just go with a
completely different style and
a completely different energy
and attitude just round to round
to round as it is. They've got
the warehouse wall breached
immediately by herds on the
thermite. So that's giving
access into that side. Meanwhile,
they're going to be sending the
I mean, KZ is the one who
pops up big time last map. 17
and five. You went absolutely
new clear, but I'll speak to
our players. I J here also able
to get those kind of positions.
We've seen it out of herds
many a time over than a bit
quite from the series, but
you don't mind that too much.
That little bit of a Nemesis
bit of a rival arc on the go
with Reeps on the other side
gagging to kill him in many,
many gunfights, but often
coming out on the receiving
end of a gunshot to the head
of afraid is quite ahead in
that one be one doll. But here
is more the focus on the
But here's more the focus on the warehouse itself.
Reeps looking to try to be challenging onto multiple players entering here.
But they have now forced him back, Nade stepping on forward
and also making use of the Capitale utility to get them moving.
Jibby is around Yellow Stairs, manages to get one off the third,
but it's not really going to matter for much on the side.
If you're here as Reeps manages to get the second of two kills that come in there from Weibo,
so again, they have the advantage for Leapox,
is able to get himself down into that basement level,
He's looking to push forward in towards site, but pretty well set at the minute a late reinforce speak easy
He wants to sit and play in his spot as well, but it's just been deleted by JV
Oh look, he's in a great spot there to be able to challenge him
But he's gone swinging for no real reason other than to give his life away and now things are down to a 3v3
That'll be the kind of mistake that go home won't be pleased with
No, they can't give away that manpower
They've got to take those opportunities to make sure that this day on top for leapox and nade then they're teamed up together at one side of site
And then it's gonna be up to JV 92 to maybe make a move
He's up above at the moment
He's gonna look to I think take a little bit of attention and create a little bit of space
So these two can move in but they are sat waiting as it is for JV to get into position
They've had to just impact one of their own bulletproofs as well, because it was hacked away by the Dockabee.
It was feeding all the information on what was going on inside of the B site.
So they've at least started to blind now, so that's when it becomes a through.
But Harlan's going to find one down, goes for Leapost.
Good start here, as we get into the last 25 of sims.
Surely they can hold off.
Great timing and play with the Vulcan canister.
JV manages to level it up, though.
Holven just showing a little bit too much of himself,
and this is what we keep saying.
There's Furia and Nevajohn.
They never buried Nevajohn.
He's going to go away and hope to get the plant there,
But he doesn't need it because it's JV92 picking up the final kill again
How many times are we gonna say that how many times are we gonna see fury or just come back from what look like
unwinnable positions
It's JV and I hate to say it Tim
They didn't really have a choice at the very end of things there
But the pride so you play as both swung on swimming a 1v1 and paid the price
These are the things that we can't keep on giving away to them and get it
You want to make your impact you want to try to put them relatively early on
It's got to feel pretty rough.
It's got to feel pretty rough
for way before here. You've done
some great working early round,
and it just hasn't been enough
to get you over the line.
They move on anyway.
They're not going to go back
to the basement this round.
It is up to that mid-floor.
Bumps and briefing will be
our next site.
And Furia, just having a look
at their lineup.
They've got the glass.
They've got the door crevated.
They've got the black beard.
The class has been slain.
They've got the black beard.
The pass has been switched out, but otherwise...
That's looking like a pretty tough line-up to deal with.
It is, yeah, it is, Tim, but I'm not sure.
At this point, I'm almost, like, less bothered by the line-up,
I'm much more bothered by the fact that we're taking these gunfights into players that we don't need to be.
But, you know, can't take it away from JB. He's played that brilliantly well.
Won every single challenger, but has got his way despite things starting a little bit chaotically out towards Warehouse.
They lost both players inside of there,
and no idea what was going on in that part of the map for a while, and they still managed to recover.
So much patience from JV as well. He waited for the opportunities to come. He knows that they will present themselves
and he doesn't try to force it. He doesn't try to put himself into even more dangerous positions.
He's just confident in what he's done and he waits for his opportunity and on it comes.
For now, he's going to get to work on the external wall with the Maverick.
This is going to be really interesting because you look, you talk about attacking line-up a little bit by,
but there's no sense on-side, there's no smoke they can play behind here.
very much got to rely on their ability to go in and go deep.
They've got to go in and push and kill people off the back of it, Tim.
Is that easy to do?
Not strictly not on this site, it's certainly not anyway.
So I'm very curious to see what the game plan is going to be.
Correctly got no one going on my top four to try and push out the defenders.
I feel like you need top four control if you are planning to smoke
and toss down those SENS light screens.
I know it's kind of the standard thing that we see
and maybe Fury have cooked up a new evolution towards this site itself.
But kills are needed.
Here's the one to start things out.
The curve goes in with a textbook ash entry there.
Just gets aggressive, it's through that softball breach
and finds himself the opener.
Five versus four with the Arunic.
Imo, action now, Reeps losing that DMR off site as well.
Not ideal, and that means that Furia can now
start posturing to break down this top floor hold.
They've got turds still in there on the mirror.
Flashbang's coming, it's not gonna have the effect
that they might have hoped,
and they've got a little bit of intel coming in
from that utility.
The thing is they're so good at pushing at the same time.
KZ will not repeat here until his teammates are ready to join.
They've got a Selma going down onto the wall
and towards Herd's room.
And in fact, a tub comes across to keep that locked up
a little bit longer.
He's going to get hold of it.
He's got a C4 that he can play behind as well.
But now he's going aggressive, looking for Herd's
around the corner.
He's got the right idea.
Misses his chance to get a freebie to him.
That's really bad.
Turns off for a second, but now he's getting squeezed in.
The Furia patience pays off.
They get two kills.
Hop on one back, but it's a 1vx.
to 1v4 coming out for Hovind on the site.
This is not looking pretty.
No, it's that word again, isn't it, Patience?
I said, JV92 in the last round.
It's the whole team this one, just, you know,
they were happy to wait for the Selma charge
to detonate Hovind, manages to get one,
but Nade is there for the trade, no problem at all.
Furia wrap it up, and they're starting to really pick up
a bit of pace here on Lair,
and Waybaugh need to be aware of that, though.
Gonna have an opportunity to ban out another operator now,
but yeah, Patience, fantastic.
We don't need to push third here.
We don't need to take those fights with the vector because we could quickly lose one or two.
Just wait for that to detonate.
Just hold and we'll get him and they know that it's coming.
Well, turn out the right idea as well.
He did. He did.
You can't stand still when you know they're starting to circle around you like sharks.
Like you have to go and try and fight one of them here.
And fighting sharks generally is a terrible idea.
Do not try it at home.
But he had the right idea.
Like I say, he stepped out.
Went to try and find herds.
Missed by a matter of milliseconds really.
They think of all the explosions going off around him.
explosions going off around him, a little bit distracted, didn't manage to find the shot,
but if he had, he can then push a little bit deeper. The problem being, Herds was then
immediately around the corner to his left, even if he gets a kill, there is probably
a trade coming back the other way. It's again just further proof that even when players
are doing the right things, like Third Was, Fury are prepared for every single outcome.
2-1 they stand on their map pick, makes me nervous about how the second half will go.
Let's see what they've got now that we've returned back to the ugly site they have lost
on this map. So far at the
tournament, we've all been very
good at trading out the opening
kit in terms of, you know, the
tournament as a whole compared to
other teams. A little bit of a
struggle for them today. Again,
it's something that I think Goa
and picked up on, you know, as
in the tactical time out that we
saw on the last map was this,
you know, taking fights on your
own, making sure you're working
together. It's something that
we're not really seeing them
improve upon. We've only seen
entry deaths so far today that was back on clubhouse round seven other than that
every time an entry kill comes in there's no response from webo and again in
this map I said last time I think it you know it was where it was fury that
were on top in terms of those entry this time it's to want to fury they are
again taking the lead into in grabbing that initiative we've both got to start
hitting those trades they've got to start working together
Ok, he was in quite nice and quick as you saw there, running in.
Lasting his way through a barricade and getting in underneath,
so he can try and cause some bother a little bit later on.
May well take on the role of a buck for a while if he's able to get underneath from here.
You're really getting hopeful for a kill here, my friend.
Throw you in the center helmet going up the note.
Here he goes marching on forward, looking to do what he can.
But there's two players and the C4 comes over, not quite going to find him.
But he is down, but there's a rash of HP.
And somehow it's happy, who dies along the way.
All that noise elsewhere and he goes in and takes his opportunity.
Reeps dies to one of their own traps!
No, Reeps! I hope you've managed it!
And now, as we flush that out, Speakeasy all alone,
KZ in, Speakeasy finding one.
Mother just to get a second, but there are four players swinging him out once.
Tim, you don't walk away from that one.
You haven't got unlimited ammo, Furion.
That round is over in the blink of an eye.
I'm going to go out on a limb and go so far as to say,
I think that's the first time in competitive Siege
we've seen a Thorne die to their own Razorblade.
very possibly while we're in for a timeout Tim, let's take a listen in.
Guys, come on, what's missing is early aggression, right?
Like on this out, you understand, oh they are coming main stairs, you guys know,
they like to go main stairs, bathroom, R to Indo, so we need to be prepared and play together.
Like if you're going to repeat top, put this mirror on ops, you know.
Let's start putting more pressure on guys, early hound, we need to control the early hounds,
that's is only the problem. And when I have advantage guys, remember 2v2, 2v3,
Wait for the best moment, wait for the plant, wait for the click, you know, play Basement.
High chance to repeat the same situation, you know?
We're gonna help with some kills, we're gonna bank, but we need to understand how to play.
You guys need to talk more, huh? You guys need to talk more, how to play.
Let's go guys, let's finish it guys!
Let's go!
We're gonna do it, come on, come on!
Yeah, right, we can see from opposite one to clear, and then if the clear...
I think again a little bit similar to, you know, what I was picking up on as well before that,
and it's similar to what they heard before and on clubhouse, you know, a lack of aggression in the early round.
I said, Furia have been getting these entries, that's now three out of four that they've picked up.
You know, communication, talking to each other, working with each other, they're not trading those deaths,
they're not impacting on each other's deaths. You'll see, you know, you'll get Furia,
kill, kill, kill and it'll be two or three in a row and they're able to snowball them together.
So, yeah, definitely it's something for Weibo to work on.
This one is starting to to run away from them quickly here and
Furia are the sort of team that you give them any sniff of an opportunity to win a game and they will not pass it by
Early aggression they didn't even let fury in through up so let's see if things change after that tack time out
I'm only worried what he said towards the end now. We're not really talking to each other things are a bit quiet
That energy can be hard to inject in 45 seconds to get everyone communicating again. I really hope they can
I didn't quite see a lot of energy at the end of it, Tim.
It feels like one of the first times.
If you remember coming in, I said,
Weibo haven't really had a bad day yet.
They haven't really, you know, been...
They have been tested. They've had some difficult games.
They were their wins, came in two-wons.
But have we really seen them face losing and being pushed around?
Generally, they've been the team on top a lot of the time,
and it's just now, they're basically in how they respond to that.
I was hitting on our individual players,
but it has been up here with a pretty quiet series so far, you know.
He's got a great first map, too.
But Ape, as I said, has been one of their top players
over the last few months.
If he stays quiet throughout this series,
they're really going to miss him on the other side,
because, as I said last about,
Kasey was 17-5, he's here in three now.
The disparity between maps always absolutely
astounds me.
But where he's gone quiet, JV has gone absolutely
massive.
JV has really stepped up 10-1.
Absolutely terrifying at the minute.
He does have a great first map,
It's just right place, right time, constantly.
It's like, you know, any gap, any opportunity,
and it's gonna be JV that is stood in the right place
to take advantage of it.
As it is KZ, gets himself inside of the map on the book.
He's gonna be looking to do a little bit of work underneath.
Label R defending top floor.
Auburn is in position to hold them out of ops,
but for the time being,
FuryR aren't really going near there.
They have opened the mask wall,
so now it's time to take advantage of it.
put the mask wall. So now it's about where did this year put for this next push. I think
we can maybe see a bit of action towards our sixth room and then maybe a bit of pressure
out towards this blue window. We'll see whether they get anybody on there later in the round.
I'm just trying to get a focus on to get more walls open up, but from below they're in for
this one, Tim and Nate has just ran straight towards site, turned quite rightly, but it's
going to cut. Yeah, great response from Wabble there. They've not been caught, surprised.
Nid just tried to get in there with the diffuser and I think he just kind of mixed it up and see what happens
But it has not panned out well for them
They've lost the blackbeard and the diffuser is down cold inside a site 50 seconds and Furia have got a scramble
Yeah, more of the light being opened up as well KZ really trying to make it
So there isn't a single floor ball left a lot of them being exposed
Which means he of course could support from below before the plant's even down can pressure those defenders force them back into less than ideal positions
I've got two or three of them now all sat on top of each other to be fair just outside of sight itself
The fury not in an awful spot here, but seeming relatively unbothered so far way bro
They know the block is about to become the sixth man for them and fury and they've got to get something done soon
Yeah, she's in that important position again. He's on display window. They really need him to get something going
There's a lot of pressure coming in from the other side KZ manages to get one creeps is there with a response
This is better from Wabble as we've said impacting on death being there to do something JV gets one traded out immediately
Wabble they play for each other. They're in contact with each other way better from the airpack side
Real iron is Tim. It didn't require a lot of early-round aggression
They were very dug in and playing very defensively there
More my worry starts to come now and what happens in this next round because we step away from the site that they've had
2 victories on in this half the only 2 they have found has been on that top floor now
We go down to the basement truthfully
I don't think there's a lot they need to correct because they had a brilliant start last time they were down here two kills in warehouse
They were laughing the problem was they kept swinging JV and this is where there's kind of like nuance and context of the word be aggressive
In the early round, it's all a good saying it that doesn't mean swing one after another on to JV and lose your life doing it
Yes, oh
I'm not really sure. I'm gonna watch that round back after the game's finished. I think they would a little bit premature
Their fury and trying to send a day
He just went charging through the door across that he was it looked like he was trying to get in behind the plant spot
You know behind the diffuser for a plant spot with the black beard, but they still happy out in display
I'm not certain that JV was even on display window by that point
They just seem really far ahead of themselves, especially if that native just decided I'm going in by he's we'll see what happens
It'll be a classic where he's fighting back. Yeah, I just think I'm going in there
But as we saw already else was it ready turd was also still an arctic shrimp with it. Yeah, okay pop easy
Yeah, no problem. Whatever. They just got ahead of themselves. Yeah, I had the right idea
But again execution the bottom out of the way that they wanted right let's get into it
Not only that basement once more has set,
they've got currently turned up on the top floor.
So looking to waste a good chunk of time, I imagine.
It makes you use to dip away as you start seeing pressure build upon this top floor.
But for now, he's got orders to try and pull drones and pull players from Fury onto that top floor,
forced it to lose time.
That seems really interesting to see because KZ is already asking questions downstairs here.
Moving a little bit quickly as they find reach to Mayfancy,
a fast sight hit here, but they're rushing into them all five of them.
Yeah, they're really not messing about here.
managed to pick up the opener so they kind of smell that blood in the water and continue with that
Aggression to get that map control to get that advantage. They have moved forward
But they've hit the brakes a little bit here for lepox is going to go in to take miss out
And then they can continue building from there
They're just checking the long angle for him as well
Lepox actually just didn't back out, he picked up that diffuser, he's moving around but they're paying the price
of not doing everything they should here. Furia getting hit from above Turb,
managing to find one. Weibo just hitting the stride a little bit now, Dez.
It's a bit of a stinger because Jamie's been sat on drones now for ages,
just running on that top four, feeding information back to his team on where Turb is
and he's still got away with a freebie. It is why his low HP, he just happened to
win out the gunfight. They were aware of him but he has come out on top.
Third's going to make his way back down yellow stairs and into site so that is a good result
really for Waybaugh there.
I pay managers to get one, one for Wabble's down and another one on to for Leapox and again Waybaugh by just playing that little bit tighter.
As you said, they are in a position to be able to help each other, to be able to contribute when those attacks come in to make Furia be put into lose-lose situations.
Two versus four now.
We're trying to recover this tonight side the last 60 Tim. They've got a lot of
utility they can work with, especially in Nades by pocket. Well you see in that
discipline from Waybo. I only work sliding on where I was. I pay is probably
ready to swing in on this one. We take the bait and try and swing onto KZ. No, not
at this point. They've still got Yo-Kai's dancing around too. So they should know
where Nade is. They know where KZ is. With all information they've got no reason
they should be losing this round. You know what I'm whatsoever, they manage just to get one, but again
we've got a lot of people
going on this map. I said
okay, three, three, half. What
would we say? We'd say that's
pretty fair because there is
our second most attack aside
in map. I don't think it's a
massive complaint. The things
that's that to power they have
now into our bands, Tim, we're
gonna get a chanker and smoke.
We getting a mirror on the other
side. Not literally a mirror, a
mirror. I'm gonna say you can't
ban three. There's not at this
point. You're gonna wait for
around four there. Um no, we
will have the day must come in
alongside the key. So they are
walking yesterday that you
the top floor. We've seen
some of the players in the
top floor. We've discussed
previously to chunk becoming a
real means that particularly
that top for defense looking
to hold off the plant on my
squad playing behind the desk.
Smoke will be available for
that. Also crash will be
available as well. We've seen
some real big performance is
in behind that desk from
hot and cold. It always stands
out to me on the clash. This
time it's going to be full
epochs and I think we might
begin with. We're born. I'd
really does then put it in the
mixer. This could be very
interesting indeed. And you
start now with the glass scene
this band away against Fiora
already today. The death spoke
about it in our previous series
that a glass band was targeted
in against the leaf box. Of
course, from the reverse side
here as well, Fiora opt to knock
to buy it away means have it
Skyhuncher for the majority, the half from here.
Otherwise, a lot of vertical control, maybe coming from Reeps here, looking to get underneath on the book
in the same way that KZ did rip up those floorboards and force those defenders to
dance around a little bit. Play the floor is lava.
Herds is in a really advanced position, I will call it, inside of Ops here.
He's got himself a little Kieber barricade fort set up, so he's covered from the window and the door,
but he can't be aggressive. Straight away they've opened it up, it was Ape with the name.
He's actually moved across to look at Skybridge as well,
but turd is over that side of the map as well. I think they're going to want to get ops, but for
lepoxes also supporting herds, it's definitely going to be a flash point, I think. Yeah, we
still need to kind of hold quite commonly. Sometimes you'll even see a mirror placed on that ops
wall way just to help you support towards the army. But now no one's charging there though,
for the most part, waybrow have ignored it, Tim. They've been looked towards the north side,
they're pushing towards green. Yeah, they're just out of the door, they don't want any part of what's
going on there. Oh, the Razorblood doing some big damage. No, it didn't, it just definitely tickled
I'm trying to say, yes, these things he's just managing to keep himself safe behind that shield, but they have been back to him.
It really did, hasn't it? The animations, I remember feeling like, ah, he's done something.
They've been back to quite well by the smoke though. The Toxic Bear canister has just prevented Hope from pushing in when he deployed his own smoke.
So Furia aware of where the pressure's coming from and holding it on quite well at the moment.
There's three of them all gathered together here, just trying to watch out for Reeps, he's underneath them right now.
damage towards the Leibos, but no, Reeps put down on his backside, hits him and a doubting
be recovered unless someone is prepared to push down green and go and get him off, but
no, KZ through the floor finishes him off and that is a lot of threat and a lot of pressure
removed away from Furia.
Yeah, I think that's a good commitment to the kill there from KZ, dropping down the
hatch.
Yes, it leaves his team short-handed for a little bit, but it means that that book is
not going to come back online and it is the last thing they needed was that skeleton key
opening up beneath them. KZ has the shock in himself. So if anything, he can play this vertically now from beneath.
I like that from Fury, a nice adaptation in the middle of the round.
One minute left to go and it looks like Wabo are on a little bit of a
rotate, a little bit of an attempt to try and deal with KZ below.
It's Turdu picks him up. He was supported by Hoven down there, but my big question is,
will this now cause a time crunch for them?
Giving us a clash on the other side to fill Tim, I think it will, and we've got the C4 in Nades' back pocket.
They've got a lot of tools to get the job done, but equally so do Weber, still a full inventory of utility available to turn here,
to start making use of it to give them at least some angle in speed keys.
You're trying to eye up here, what an execute looks like, but no, off-pace falling down to Nades.
Things going from bad to worse here is clearly now half the man advantage.
Yet it's all coming down now to this one-dimensional push and they're just feeding into the meat grinder and Furia right now.
Fully pop-managers have picked up one-foot-two, he backed back with one of his own.
Ten seconds left to go, diffuser collected, but effectively now, and one versus three, cut down!
By, I think it was her too, got the final kill on the door, and that's gonna be Furia taking their first defence.
All they need to do there is to win this out and take themselves guaranteed to the live event is to just get their first and second choice sites.
The third is a bonus, but if they can get top floor and basement twice over, Furia do the job.
Giving themselves that 4-2 would be the dream split, Tim.
See if they get there. Let's not forget as well. The team that will be waiting them, if they do go through to those upper bracket semis, will be the winner of Secret vs Falcons.
That'll be one hell you imagine falcons versus fury at this stage in the tournament all versus secret
Who's you said many a time of really come on a tear over the last year or so winning our EWC?
Really showing the story what it is that made of that'll be an incredible game to see
But they've got to get there first if you say it's looking good the cow things are starting in the half
But there's still more to do
I think losing that's so nice by the way losing reason Denise in that round
It felt like it really hurt, but because when you look at the end of the round, particularly
Furia were all set in their positions. There wasn't really a lot of disruption. That's it.
There wasn't a lot of disruption and they could just hold those angles and you just feel like maybe
if that book could have stayed alive and done a little bit more work through the round in ripping
up those floorboards beneath those safe positions, it might have had things go a little bit differently.
You might have had the option to come up as an in, for example, and put pressure onto herds in
and display and just just try and split that furia retention a little bit and that's why that killed from case he was so important.
But let's look to the now it's round eight, furia 4-3, one map to the good and three rounds away from securing themselves a spot at the live finals here in Paris.
Alright into the base we go for round eight.
Again, I said you're going to see a lot of shields this half from Speakeasy, Monty, Blitz, it'll be all he really sits on.
It was black here in the previous rounds. Maybe others will fall shriveled to him and we'll get to see all three, but maybe one gets banned away once we get towards the end of round three.
On the other side of things, it's leaning again into all these trap pops, we're seeing the LR on site, we're seeing the Thorn coming out, the Goyo and the Echo to slow things down.
They're ready for them to, no matter what they've got in mind.
Yeah, interestingly, absolutely no roam, really, coming out of fury here.
They're happy to just play this on site.
Herds is the only one.
He's kind of in and out.
He's looking on to blue stairs.
He's kind of come back now.
He's found himself in site.
So it's actually switched with Fully Poxy
on the warden who's moved out there
and decided he's the one to hold it.
I think probably on the call with the Blitz, maybe,
has just left them to rotate that.
So Fully Poxy's going to be the only one outside.
We've got speak easy taking a little bit of damage along the way there that might just back him up a bit and
So of course
What sounds like pre-placed nitro? It's a bulletless free
Just a bit just just going back a little bit. You know, we pop it anytime. They can't shoot to put it down the corner
It's actually a really nice place to be for the leapbox getting rid of speak easy
It's again the scene the shield player take a lot of damage early on has then resulted in his death
They're really leaving the line for late from the round.
The Leapox is just so good.
Continues to five, picks up another on to third,
Reaps with a double though.
Manages to clear for Leapox out,
but the damage was largely done.
Three versus three, 45 seconds left to go,
and keep your eye on Nade.
He's on the Echo, still in a position to be able to deny
should this plant start to go down.
He must know that there's a serious drone there.
He's got to move it away somewhere else,
and they'll know that it's being ratted into a corner
somewhere inside of here,
Just to help disrupt, of course, no longer useful for the shield breakers, the blitz is dead,
but the information that it provides could be invaluable.
They've got 20 seconds to work with him, they're taking a lot of time, but Ape's ready.
Utility coming on out, they've got plants in mind.
Yet, Horvind's gonna find JB92, great start, managed to get away from the razor bloom as well.
Ape is putting the diffuser down, it's all up to Nade, 8 seconds left to go.
He just needs the time, that's right, but he loses the drone.
They've got an opportunity to go again.
He was just a bit too soon,
and they were a little bit too quick for him.
Weibo, get in there with enough time to get the job done,
and they grab and attack in round to level things up 4-4.
Good job, Guts.
You never guessed the breach to just hit a 3K there
to basically drag that round over the line for them.
And what could have otherwise been absolute calamity?
But he has, and everything is pulled square.
All is forgiven.
All you said, Tim, was they had to win the primary in the secondary.
They couldn't do the secondary.
Can they do the tertiary?
Because this could be what defines which way leg goes.
Yeah, this just became really, really interesting now.
Because as you see, if they get first and second choice,
if they just hold on to top floor and basement,
Furia are good.
They cruise home with a 7-5 win on that two.
But that might not be the case anymore.
They're going to Bucks and Briefing
after Waybaugh take away the basement.
So all eyes go to the top floor, Des.
The first question, how many do Furia play up there? How much do they commit above?
Do they go with four up top? Sometimes we'll see other teams maybe just with two.
We'll see how much they want to hold on to this.
And we're going, what do you do about it?
On their side, Tim, it's actually very similar to what we saw from Furia.
They're not bringing along the stands, not looking for crazy vertical control with the operators.
They're brought in here, there's no ram, there's no bot, there's no sledge.
But he's taking, yeah, it's a slightly alternate approach
towards attacking this side.
Can't bolt him for it, but they're
going to have to work a little bit of magic.
Also, no hard reach to get that green wall over.
The main wall opened up towards site itself,
even with the note being acared on site to keep it closed
and locked up tight.
So I'll do it so that there'll be a little bit of an exchange
going on early on.
Speak easy again, and really to see him in these early rounds,
not be going down so early.
In round 70, he wasn't the entry,
but he did die quite early on, because it took so much damage.
He really couldn't fulfill his role, really, on the shield.
Sorry, this round's got to be...
No, he's just going to back up KZ there,
but it means that he knows somebody's dead at that main door.
And he's to be careful, because it is speakeasy on the Blackbeard,
so he's not only going to get himself necessarily an easy challenge there,
but of course, being the ELA,
depending on where those smart mines are,
there's not going to be an opportunity just to get that shield break animation out,
if you look at the damage,
but I don't think they're going to come head-to-head just yet.
But my question has been answered.
there is five. All five does, uh,
fury are up on the top floor.
So I think you can call that
committing to the top floor hold.
I think you can't.
And they could probably commit a little bit.
There's no way they can do that.
No, I think for a second,
they saw the dance around
from the block.
It is toss both names up super
quickly and force KZ not even back
but to actually swing
expecting them to push really aggressively
and then didn't.
So I'm kind of already asking questions
like speak easy.
What are we looking for there?
You've usually utility and gain nothing for it.
Well, this is it.
I'm looking at the positioning of everybody.
You know, we're a minute and a half into the round, and Wavell are four of them inside Ops.
They haven't really made any progress across this top floor.
It's not the end of the world. You don't need to rush, but you do need to make sure that you've got time at the end of the round.
App here picks up JV, Heads, on to Speakeasy. That is the Blackbeard.
God, not ideal for Wavell.
Same thing again, but now he's got Oppy coming in the back as well.
He just hops inside Bathroom, Winderwall. The rest try and push their way forwards,
and they've got the kills they need. Tim Mez is theirs.
They've got rid of herds in behind the desk,
Hoventon a great spot.
They can look for a plant here on Masked Paul
without even having to open it, Tim.
Weibo are really starting to prove
why they are the number one attacking team in the world.
They're getting that top floor control.
They just need to think about it right now.
Is it possible for Fury to hold on from above?
Can they cover the angles?
Because Weibo, with 30 seconds left to go, have got a choice.
Do they go for kills on top floor?
Or do they drop underneath and try to put the defuser down?
But now they're saying upstairs, Tim, and the problem is they're a little bit split on the side of Wave-O.
Some have dropped, some have carried on. What's going on here, Tim?
They've managed to lose the one, and that is a real car crash situation.
Art Pace of the Real, good job pushing in on this back side.
But now he's left in a 1v1 against Faleed Box, who's got the door, Nades coming over,
through to assist 2, turns up by himself here, looking for site.
It just feels like they've gone in different directions, Tim, and they could well pay the price for it.
But this plant might just stick, Turd manages. No, he does not!
So I was gonna say he gets back onto his gun, but for Leapox was well aware again
He's big brain that he knew that the plant was going down drops a hatch picks up the final kill
I thought for 90% of that round that it was going to wave or I feel like the split that they made partway through
It's kind of like right to go below and plant to stay above and challenge
I feel like maybe there's an opportunity there to say you know what we've got a minute left in this round
We are 4v2 up here. Let's just take a bite.
That's the call that you often make as a team, right?
We're going for plant or we're going for kills?
Normally everyone commits towards one or the other.
I don't fault them for what they've got before there.
Look, you've got a mecha choice.
Two of you, apply a bit of pressure.
We're going to focus on getting the plant down and make sure there's a bit of cover.
This will be easy.
But the time in which those things were done is where the issue existed.
There was no pressure in towards R6 through.
They had the verticals on to reach, trying to push in towards site.
along with turd and everything just started falling apart from there.
Really well played by Fiora to yet again to, we've said it so many times today,
after our groups to win what looks like an unwinnable situation.
These guys just do not know when they are beaten.
I think there's an element where you have to kind of allow for that Fiora effect to go on here.
You know, you can say, right, yeah, we can just keep them busy.
2v2 up here, you go on, but you have to allow for that Fiora effect to the...
They could just hit a couple of shots here really quickly.
And you know, what is the upshot of that going to be?
But look, you know, like you say, it's no criticism to Wave or Handstacks 2020.
We can see, I've got a perfect top-down view of everything.
You know, you can see what's going on.
It's just the other option there was to chase those kills.
And in a 4v2, maybe they come away with it.
Maybe they don't.
As I say, you've got that fury effect.
And I wouldn't put it past, you know, the remaining players there.
It's over!
Oh!
What a beautiful shot!
Hits him on the reverse, sit downwards, back versus war.
Perth has been kept pretty quiet by the majority of Wavebo
throughout this series so far.
I spoke about the rivalry that started forming back on Clubhouse.
Well, here it's carrying on.
Five and nine he currently sits at.
But as I've said already back on Clubhouse,
his role hasn't been to be this out and out fraggler
in the way that Jamie and Casey has.
His job was to be annoying to straight the side of Wavebo.
In this round, he will not get the chance
to do that on his army.
I'm going to take the top, which means that Ops is now much easier to push into.
Ape is just going to be following Speakeasy through into Ops for the time being.
I like this, it's quick progress coming in, but they need to be aware.
They've got KZ underneath on the solace.
They are aware.
KZ is going to be taken out by Hoven as well.
Much better round from Weibo. 5 vs 3, a minute 50 on the board.
Don't want to see them rush this, there's really no reason.
Back on the drawns, start ticking boxes, taking ground.
You don't need to get sucked into big gunfights now.
Let's remember last round.
We were 4v2, we had a two-man advantage
and we managed to let Furia back into the game.
That cannot happen.
It simply cannot be a thing.
Otherwise, you're at 6-4.
The series feels like it's done.
The mental will break.
They will struggle to fight their way back in.
It'll be as good as over.
If they win this one,
we're guaranteed all 12 rounds of regulation.
They should be able to get it done.
You're shield players on full HP.
You've got all the resources you need to see this one over the line.
Do you either, in...
Just wait for them to come around the corner.
Do they do?
That's just going to back up, mate.
Can he deal with this in front of you?
Oh, no!
Ho-ho-ho-ho!
There's a second there.
I thought Ned was coming away with a double,
but it's always.
Furia keep themselves in touch.
JV manages to pick up Ape, but Waybaugh.
Still in the driving seat.
Speakeasy has the fuser in hand.
Full HP almost on the Monty.
50 seconds left to go.
I still back the impact team for this round.
They've got time here, Tim. I thoughtfully, post my fancy,
but I go towards that one, tries to take for the headshot, misses it out.
Big easy move, get away with this one. The shield can go back up,
but they're pushing in deep, and he has to come off the diffuser.
They're flying twice to plant, and not again! Not again!
They crumble as they get in the previous round,
and with that, Furia are up to map and series points.
That is going to be one of the rounds. That is going to be one of the rounds. As I said Furia, they are always in touch. They're always there breathing down your neck, but in a 3v2 with a Monty with that plant 90% of the way down, JV does something really smart.
I'm not sure if it triggered at the time, or if it was just enough that it came in, I've got to get off this, what's going on, I'm being chased down, but JV just played that brilliantly.
say the best things coming three is Tim and that is JV's third 4k off the map. It was
KZ at 17 and 5 back on fourth. JV, fun to make sure his name stays in the conversation
is at 16 and 5. And with you, maybe we'll all look back at this game later ahead as
they're gaming the lower bracket and there'll be so many rounds they look at and say we
should not have lost that. Both on attack and defense, things have just gone horribly
that should be avoided. The
Fiora factor is the Fiora factor.
They will given any opportunity
and sometimes not even given an
opportunity. They will find an
answer and they continue to do
so. They've just looked
phenomenal today. This is the
best. I've seen them at the
tournament so far and it is no
surprise that they've now got
themselves two match point
I wouldn't feel negative about this. You've just come up against you've you've been furious
You know it happens, but like you say a couple of rounds that maybe they will walk back on
When a player goes one bit in this case, it was 2v5
When you're in that position and you lose it out
You're the one given the two players the opportunity to put you up big and I think they will probably look at back on this pretty hard
But how digress that may well not be a thing
They have to do if they can get this up over the line still as you say it's two chances
The good news is, they've looked close. Across both rounds, it has been winnable. This map could have been all but over already. It could have been 6-4 to Wave-O.
I still think the Wave-O we've seen today would have beaten other teams. I think the Wave-O we've seen today would have had different results against other teams. It just doesn't help that it's against theory.
They've got themselves the opener. Herdsman, I should pick that up. Reeps has taken down. That's going to be the sledge off the board.
not ideal when you're trying to attack on to basement.
They would have been looking for some verticality there.
Speakeasy's taking a little bit of damage.
We saw for Epox playing this.
We got two kills up there last time.
You know, they cannot allow that to happen again.
They need Speakeasy for that execution, really.
So what are we going for here?
That's what's heard on the chat.
And disable it.
Oh, for lightness, this is a good response.
I didn't say anything to him.
Carry on.
Look, no, you were right, this.
It was really well played.
bringing the Thatcher along to deal with that,
because that held him up last time.
So bringing that along to deal with that,
to take that Nitro out of the running was a great idea.
Unfortunately for Leapox.
Bro.
He got two kills last time.
He got two kills this time.
Look, for Leapox is a bit of a king on blue stairs.
That much is clear.
Four versus two now,
and Fury will look like all they need to do
is just hold on for 40 seconds,
and they will have this one done.
They're just gonna start locking it down.
They won't take rights that they don't need to.
Hurts manages the people, one onto Horvath.
That is it. Wevo have found favourites so far through 6th Invitational.
Drop them to the lower bracket and Furia, they continue to stake their claim
for being the best team in the world for lifting the hammer again.
They've got themselves through to the live finals.
If this is the start of Furia's reign and long may it continue.
They have played some phenomenal scenes today.
2-0, Heretics. 2-0 here over Webo.
And they've looked brilliant across both series, Tim.
Not any wrong, room for improvement in places, but I think the way that they've gone about it, the multi-kills they've collected, the big clutches they've had,
the unbelievable executes they've pulled off into 3v1s and the like, has been absolutely outstanding.
And I can't wait to see how they face off against Falcons or Secret when it comes down to it.
But, let's go to Bricks!
I
stronger than us too, but Furia looks stronger than Wable right now. Well, some people, some
Furia fans made fun of the first game of Furia today being easy, so how interested was it
for you to play against Wable?
It was good that it was kind of easier the first game because it was faster and we had
two games today, so we could prepare more and rest more for the second game. And against
Wable we knew that they were playing well, we screamed against them and they were really
good in streams but today was different. Game days different. Yeah, game days
totally different and you were actually the first thing to beat them in the
S-Sci. So tell me the secret. Yeah, when we started them we saw that the map was
really good to play against them and they also helped us because they picked
Clubhouse. I don't know why because we screamed them and we gave like 9-3.
We gave 9-3 in Clubhouse so I don't know why they picked that and it made easier
the series. Sure, two strong maps for Fira, but which map is not? I mean, come on. Okay,
you just answered about the map video questions that I had for you. So, you're now in the
main stage. It's not the first time. So, send a message for those who will face you there.
First of all, I'm glad to be in the main stage again. I've never missed the main stage in
Six Invitation, so I'm glad that I'm keeping the legacy. And to everyone that we are facing,
You better be scared because we are coming strong.
Okay, better be scared.
There are some big takeaways from that one.
Waybo look good out of the server, better than in the server, unfortunately.
And the map pool, I think that, you know, it's important to contextualize,
especially for non-APAC viewers.
APAC generally has a small map pool, but back in a major qualifier,
Waybo actually played every single map that they possibly could.
They've played six out of the nine maps at the moment.
And so that obviously goes to talk about what we're seeing.
However, likes, unfortunately, that doesn't matter when you come up against a mount.
Yeah, I mean, that mountain being feria, and I think this match really illustrated that in and itself.
I mean, from the beginning of clubhouse on that attacking half, we really saw come to fruition.
And then even here on layer, it's not to say that way, but didn't put up a fight by any means.
But it's just when it comes down to those last rounds, those last seconds to be made,
feria makes it work every time.
This is so genius by JV92.
I mean, it looked like Wavell had a lot of these rounds
in the bag, but good individual playmaking.
I mean, you use the Alamot to be able to stop the plant,
pushes up, gets the first kill, gets the second kill
on the peeking Monty.
I mean, questionable peek when you know your teammate
is so close, and that was the story for Lair.
It looked like a lot of these rounds.
Wavell was well set up to be able to get the diffuser down,
have the control, but Furia just had amazing individual
performers, and you can see it right here.
I mean, JV92, top in the charts.
Everybody from Fury did very well, but he really came alive on Lair and wanted to shut Weibo down going into their main stage.
It's just one of those things. You're always going to look at this in the 7-5, 7-4 against Fury. You've got to be happy with it, but you can kind of see, then, Lex, Weibo is very clearly not happy with how this one is ended.
Yeah, absolutely not. I think there is a lot that they can't take away from this game, though, especially with them being so close of possibly getting to an OT.
I expect them to really learn a lot from this and how they can move going forward because playing an aggressive team like feria
It's going to be hard. It's gonna constantly be it up here about they're constantly be putting their foot on the back of your necks
So I don't want to have way both get on you know a sad route focus on the negatives
I think what they can really take away from this matches
How can they dial back their own aggression if it's not working?
What can they do to facilitate around to put it back and swing it back into their favor and then fix it from there and not have
the game. We've got a lot of
different things going on.
We've got a lot of different
things going on. We've got a
lot of these little mistakes
as you were talking about the
Monty peeking ahead when the
players come to swing with
that. Yeah, it's a learning
experience for whether I mean
you have to be in a situation
like that. Go up against the
best to be able to learn. I
don't think the score reflects
no elbow. They played. It was
just those late round
situations that you don't find
yourselves in in Lester in a
game day scenario. So that's
why Felly Fox said scrims is a
different story. Yeah, but in
the game day, we saw Webber
just cracked in the pressure.
Yeah, if you're locked in,
gents, thank you very much
You don't want to go anywhere team secret go head-to-head with Falcons for a main stage performance
But before we get there what happens when we lock two castes in a room. Let's find out
After you think you get sir, let's go escape Wow
Oh my god
Look at the camera.
I've never had one of those.
What do you get from this?
We meant to match the button to the gun.
Well, what are we matching?
What do we get?
We'll see.
15 minutes.
We actually, I'm going to walk in now.
Right.
Is there a code on this?
Yeah, there's a code on this.
There's a lock on this.
OK, I did the gun.
Let's try 1, 4, 8, 7, 4, 9.
No idea.
I'm so lost.
OK, it's not 1, 4, 8, 7, 7, so it's OK.
What's with the SI pictures?
Does this do anything?
Oh, which SI team won first?
Four, one, eight, seven.
There we go, I knew it.
I knew it.
Two, okay, the first number's two.
Okay, so the proctes are two,
the claymore is 17, and the flashbang is eight.
Times two, 16 minus 17.
One.
Is that right?
Jake, have you done anything yet?
No, I haven't done anything.
I haven't done anything.
Two numbers.
There's a whole picture missing, though.
I see a teammate right now.
This is just like every SI.
But there's so many cases.
I never have a teammate to win me the Tamer.
Like, it's only just me.
Well, you know what?
Maybe this is the time you win your own Hema.
Is it how many players there are?
Are there any numbers or something?
Is it how many people standing in the picture?
Jay, did you figure this one out?
I didn't, because there's a whole picture missing.
So I'm assuming that's part of the puzzle.
What's number four?
Canada, SI 23.
So it's Buc, first.
Oh!
Then it's 24, Brazil.
So, Cav, who's U.S. here?
Thermite.
And then it's...
Lawrence?
Well, Doc, Doc's Persian too, no?
French.
Oh!
Oh my God, what do we get?
What do we get?
Six.
That is six.
Seven.
Can I get out?
You haven't helped me at all.
I have!
I've literally...
I've done all three.
I literally helped you understand that puzzle.
I'm looking closely here.
I don't see much except one of the greatest matches
of all time.
I'm looking closely!
Oh my god, wait, wait, wait!
Fuck!
There's an A, Tia!
Oh, shit.
Oh, is there a num-
Well, that's the lighting, that's the lighting.
How am I meant to know that that's the thing?
Come on now.
I feel like I'm about to kiss the Tia.
Some of the guys are how close I am right now.
All right.
This could be anywhere.
I feel like I'm playing with his-
Oh, I found it, nine.
I found it, four.
Okay, come on.
Three!
What's the number, Jack?
I turned that over to the c-
Oh, fuck.
Oh, what am I doing?
What's the number?
The box is the hardest thing in this whole room, I guess.
Oh, okay.
Why is there a double...
Everything's upside down in Austria.
Okay.
Seven.
Wait, have we...
Let's go.
I didn't even know it was open.
Why, why am I holding it?
I think you need this.
No, you're right.
I should.
Wait, that's it?
I didn't realize it was that easy to win a hammer.
I
to the left.
this is the first time we've
seen a team like this. We've
seen a team like this last
year on the A stream. This one
is exciting. It's tantalizing
because we've been here before
we've seen this time and time
again. Team Falcons going ahead
to head the 10 secret just
in the UL play day, right? Just
another one. It's the same. We're
here. You're not on, but apart
from that, the teams are here.
Now now you're on. Thank you.
the same way, Jack, does it?
Yeah, it really does. I mean,
especially in the big games,
I think it's important to talk about
this is a decision of big games
versus the regular league games.
It's a bit more equal in the regular league games,
but in the big games,
Falcons seems to have it on lock against Team Secret.
They always managed to find a way
to play each other events,
in the finals of course,
but also playoff finals of the stages that we see.
EWC, they played each other
and then we go back to last year
when they were under BDS,
there's Falcons roster
and then they played in the Montreal Major,
Sorry, two years going early now.
Montreal Major and Manchester Major on the quarterfinals,
on the main stage where they were denying Team Secret,
who at the time were an open comment team.
Listen, Jack, it's all beautiful to have all this history,
but I think this might be different today.
Why is that? Because Jume is part of that lineup
and Jume has consistently progressed through the years.
I will say this, I ask every one of his teammates
to give us something about Jume.
What does he bring to your lineup?
Well, formulgly, he grabs kills out of nowhere.
He makes the game easier.
For Noah, he brings confidence,
and for Twister, he brings that X factor in the team.
that one guy that can make hard stuff easier and easy stuff perfect, he's the one guy that
dropped 42 kills in three months to get here, let's jump for you, the German beast.
And I really like, I really like these two quotes from Mowgli and Noah, because that's
the effect of the front line that are in front of him, and if he's inspiring them, if he's
confident, they're able to take the risky place, knowing that if it goes wrong, they've
still got a quality player behind them.
As we start to, I guess, take a step back and look at the wider team, Sacred Jack.
I feel as though this roster has certainly stepped into their own here at SI 26.
Is this potentially their moment?
Is this their year?
Yeah, I would say they've really ascended in terms of their performance.
I think secret.
Over a longer time, over a longer period, we talked about them maybe making main stages
in 2024.
They, of course, will need to do this in 2025, but this event is the one that they're focusing
on.
They're looking like the strongest team coming out of Europe so far.
We've seen them absolutely waltz their way through the group stages.
and of course they've got the
players like June that we just
spoke about that has life games
to still do it. But there's so
much quality and the way they
play siege is with a young up
and coming right yell in
Savage. It's it's really
exciting to watch. You just
can't help but fall in love
with this team. You certainly
can. Another team that you
could very easily fall in love
with a team that has been here
time and time again that keeps
getting so close but just can't
get across the line. It's team
It's Team Falcon's Lair. How did they get here in the first place?
Well, we have to take a look at that game against Shopee Fire Rebellion,
and something happened all the way back on that last map, Night Heaven Labs.
It's 7-7, 50 seconds left in the round.
It's a 3v5 for Falcons. They have to attack somehow the top floor.
You see five different players on the side of Shopee Fire Rebellion holding that top floor,
and you think, how on earth is Falcons able to beat them?
Well, the first thing is if you look at that layer of defense, Rexten and Canadian.
They are the first layer here. They're holding server.
Rexon will drop, which leaves Canadian alone.
And look at what Breede does. He rushes through the fire on the gas to get rid of Canadian.
Now, that allows the rest of the team to take server.
Rexon has dropped, Canadian is dead. At this point, they can just go and get aggressive.
Look at Yuzus with the Blackbird pushing away everyone in command.
The plant here, it's going down.
And you might think, wait, Rexon is supposed to be downstairs.
Rexon could go downstairs and could go and deny the plant.
But look at this. He's actually gonna go.
Instead of going there, he's gonna go and go towards Garage.
He could go and deny the plant, but instead he chooses the wrong way.
And so Shaiqo gets aggressive, gets a peek on command, and at the same time, Rexon is
all there, still running, going towards Garage, trying to achieve a flank that is in the end.
Not really useful.
And if you look at this, notice something here, Liquefac.
Liquefac is dead, he's watching a drone, he calls for that flank.
They're well aware.
Shaiqo turns his attention to him and gets a free peek at this point from the 3v5, it's
a 3v2.
Jesus is still holding the cover, the plant is down, he gets the double kill, and that's how you win for Falcons, an impossible 3v5.
Very much, an intense game was the Shopify rebellion comeback in the end. That last round obviously played with everyone's heartstrings, but the fact of the matter is, they still look strong.
Yeah, they do, they really do. I think realistically Falcons had to improve from the group stage, it was a little bit hit and miss from them.
and actually even inside of our best of three. It was a little bit hit and miss from them. I know
Leakeyfax still, you know, in the time I was talking about how we're still making the same
mistakes in map three that we were making in map two that they've clearly spoken about.
What's good is that they've now got levels to go up. And I think we saw that. Obviously,
they've got the big game players, the big moment players as we're just seeing in Leo's
illustration when it comes to it as well. One moment, I guess, that's you've just broken down
for us, Leo. It plays out a little bit better in real time. Let's take a look back and see how
I can't work out. I feel for
his headset and he's in years
there. I can't work out if he
is euphoric in that moment. If
he was relieved of what emotions
were going through for leaky
ricks. It was about to go and
bash that wall and it goes to
shoot would run through it by
He would run through it by the way. He would run at the wall. He would run straight through it.
I will say this. It just goes to show the emotion there. I think that this blow of emotion.
It goes to show how much it means for that roster.
As a reminder, they went through so much to get here. They went through so many finals that they lost.
Going in lower bracket now would be such a terrible sign for that roster. They are looking for confidence.
They want to win not only 6th Mutational, they want to win 6th Mutational in Paris, in their home turf.
That's how much it meant to keep being there in the upper bracket.
I'm not surprised that he said after this game, we're going to do nothing. We're going to bring ourselves back down
Yeah, because they then had a what a tune it was quite quick from fury wasn't it but a two-ish hour break to then get themselves back up
For this game because they've got to prepare for another formidable opponent in some secret
It's not like this is just gonna be a walk in the park
They needed to reset themselves mentally emotionally to be able to go again
We highlighted June before on the side of team secret, but
But to do so, you can't.
Serious.
Impossible.
But to do so, you couldn't do it without looking at the other side of that coin.
Shaco, both of these players are phenomenal.
And right now at SI 24, at 26, sorry, my head's gone back in time, they have seriously put themselves in an unbelievable position.
Are you missing the beaches in Brazil, Bob?
I am.
No, you know how much I was struggling in Brazil. I don't need that's actually okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, obviously, I think
Realistically, we're gonna be looking at who's gonna win the game for that team. We've seen Shaco do it
We've seen June do it. We see him zoom in on us and look at us
He did he did that space to see when you die. Yeah, that's that's the guy right right you you can hear me you can hear
He did one cells actually that he never has life games
he's only ever just above average, but that last game that he put in was an absolute life game.
And I think both of the two players that we've just highlighted,
Shiko and Joom, the people that for the team won, it's not just about the strategy and the
on paper stuff, it's about reading the game in the moment, in the instance, and being able to just
pull out of play. We've seen Joom do it time and time again for secret. We've seen Shiko do it in
the very last round of the last game that they played today to open up a round. And these two
players. They're going to be
going to be the best of three
players. They're going to be
the best of three players.
One of the two players of the
ones that you're going to keep
an eye out for any of them.
Yeah, they'll be the ones that
will make something happen
for that team. Now we put the
context there. Winner. They
make main stage. Let's find
where we're going for both of
these two teams. Let's set the
tone ahead of what should be
one of the best of threes. One
of the best best of threes. One
of the most competitive best
of threes we might see today.
Okay, so Falcons. They're going
to back themselves. They're
I think they read on the map the way that they're backing themselves
It's a no-brainer when it's left open because you've already won it once today
Yeah, and also on top of that, you know, they've showed that they can attack on the map
It is the more the funnest-sided map in the meta and yet they're not afraid of secret being defense in that point
They already had the three three split now for secret. They're gonna go on to Shelley
No, that's a map that they love it fits their play style
Yeah, they love that speed take because they know they can wield those 1v1s
It is the map that fits the most their strategy along with bank and hey if we get that a European team is gonna get win on
the game. You know, that's
actually a good idea. And
I'm not even fortress because
we've got any well played a
Ml play day coming right up in
a best of three. Now Falcons
of play fortress today, and
they got whacked. They got
absolutely whacked by shock
fire. Bellion mainly on the
reads on how that way they
were attacking. It was very,
very split. Their picture
identified. I know, at least
that came on and said, Yeah,
we kind of understood and we
knew the mistakes were making.
But they basically they didn't
map they can then exploit it. They did not win a single attack on that fortress
that's why it might be scary. The one thing is from what we got from Liquefac
they understood the main reasons why they were losing. Like I said I think
they went and rebutted that as much as they had a time to chill here there is
one scene that has such beautiful and impactful fundamentals that they can
turn around this in about two hours and they can be the best attacking team on
that map you know just after that. So I'm not worried about them I know they can
turn it around and I think that's what they led you through here as a decider.
Context is great for this one but ultimately you know both teams you're
looking at them outside of the game we've got so much that we can lay out for
the audience but Jack my ultimate question for you is a short one of that
what side do you want? I would back my eyes I don't know I don't know I really
can't back it Falcons tend to get it done in the big games but there was a
lot of emotion and I think they're for Team Secret. Well I love your opinion but
I want to hear from the Canadians themselves how we feeling about this one
We're good. I'm just wanting a good match. That's really it as you saw from the little gravity folks showed
I mean Falcon should win this so that means that secrets probably gonna win either way
I won all three maps. That's all well for a good game. You know what Jesse?
I'm sorry to cut you off there, but I'm gonna cut you off only to get it back to you
Enjoy the match. Well, thank you very much. I know that we enjoyed our very first matchup earlier today
Obviously, as North Americans, Shadow of Firebellion didn't really show up the way we want, but it was still an incredible third map and an incredible best of three series.
Falcons really brought the heat when they needed to. Secret has been doing that this entire event.
I don't know if you've watched the Furio Wabo game on the other stream, but yes, gods can in fact bleed. Will Secret bleed today against the shark talons of Falcons?
Parker, I have to imagine that this is one that Secret has been prepping for for not
just this event, not just the last couple of days, but for years now. Falcons have been
there kryptonite. They've been their roadblock that they can't get past. Event after event,
EML finals after EML finals. Falcons always seem to be that team that Team Secret cannot
get past. What a moment it would be here to make it to main stage, to get at least top
6th at the 6th invitational. I mean, this would be the time to do it and they look so good after a flawless group stage.
Absolutely. And they got to watch the matchup earlier today. So they sat back. They already saw a consulate, Jesse,
which is the craziest part if you think about it. So
Falcons had this map open. They're gonna go right back there. It's a very strong map for them.
Shopify Rebellion were only able to take three rounds off of them earlier today. Is that the high water mark?
for secret or the expectations that secret should to owe this and show up on
consulant. I don't expect it to oh Parker I think this is probably going to to one
one way or the other and given they've got fortress and given what I just watched
from from Falcons on fortress my expectations if I've got to make a
prediction would be to one secret but this is Falcons pick they came to it for
a reason and Team Secret historically do not love this map either they've got a
a losing two and three record throughout the season, going back to reload.
They did win it versus Fluxo W7M last week.
That is a, you know, maybe a strong point in their column.
But in the day, Falcons are able to watch that as well.
There is broad footage for both of these teams to look back on.
And I don't think if you're Falcons, you're going to choose to come back to this map
two hours, three hours later, if you're not ready to bring some things up, you know,
they clearly believe in their strap book.
They clearly think they can go deep and find something.
I really like this Damo's ban from Team Secret, we know how good Shai-Go is on Damo.
Solotov even had a really good round on this back in map number one versus Shapa Fire Rebellion as well.
So I love the Damo's ban, Grim Super Standard, stuck in over from Secret and the defenders as well.
Not bringing a zombie, just two strong choices.
So what is on the line for these two teams as they square off to do battle starting on this Falcons map?
Well, as you've heard other broadcasters say across today's show,
the winner of this game will make main stage, not in their immediate next match,
but in the match after.
Why?
Because if Team Secret makes it into the next upper bracket semi-finals,
so that's a great start for them with an intro,
so blowing up Shaco and all the players to get,
that's a big fish for them to land.
The loser of Furia versus the winner of this matchup goes to the lower bracket, which will be at the main stage.
So their next match won't be in front of a live audience, but if you win or lose that next match, you are guaranteed a spot on the main stage.
And yes, you heard us here correctly, Furia, dominating Waybone 2-0.
What was a stunning match? If you haven't watched it, I think you could spend the worst couple hours.
Yeah, I definitely want to go back for it.
You've been spoiled for the results of your already watching this game.
Of course, Falcons securing the victory in that battle to be here versus Team Secret.
But now it's the real test.
Now it's going up against your EU rivals to see what can happen.
The Nitro under Shai-ko is so important, Parker, not just because he's Shai-ko,
but because that's your Florida off the board.
That's your main tool to get rid of some of these Goyo canisters,
to get rid of some of these Denari trips as well.
You saw it.
They saw good drones here in the hallway,
But they haven't actually used any of them to clear things out and it's tuned for another great shot for a two-man lead
A name that I'm certainly will say many many times over the course of this broadcast gets his first kill
He trades out a tiny bit of HP in the process
Everybody's still up right on the side of Seeker with a little bit over a minute left in this round
And Falcons have lost two of their most prominent points of this spear and the two highest rated on their team
Losing telecom at Shaco means way more on the supportive cast and leaky fact to make up for lost time
They're trying to do that, but they're not really finding much successes. Another member of Falcons goes down secrets advantage will grow
Breed and E back either worked their way to the site no drill without breeding now and E back stuck on spiral stairs
They call us around him. He does get a kill right as the round ends
So not a flawless start port by secrets, but about as close as you're gonna get
And Parker I want to go back to map three versus Shopify rebellion earlier today when team Falcons took their tactical timeout
And you got to hear Giulio the coach of this team talk with the squad and call them frankly a bunch of individuals
It wasn't a team game that falcons were playing early in that map
I felt like that's what we got early in this map to the nitro to Shaco's obviously unfortunate
But every other play was so solo coming out from the Falcons that fling in through
through the Falcons, he was a very individual, then GlickyFack all by himself here as well.
Even the two players that were somewhat pushing together over by Admin were still taking 1v1
gunfights where there was zero potential for a trade.
So something to keep an eye on as this match goes farther along.
Do Falcons continue to struggle with some of that trade game or will they be able to play as a team?
Focusing it out well enough in map number one to secure the winner, in match number one I should say,
But match number two, it's a long day of siege for Falcons.
Those fundamentals, those basics can start to slip away.
I'm going out.
Have to keep your head in the game.
Have to keep yourself level.
The graphic that was shown right before we got into this match
just demonstrates the drubbing that Falcons gives
this secret team, secret them.
Barely been able to beat this Falcons squad.
So when we talk about ownership, Falcons have only secrets,
secret in this head to head.
As of late, that has obviously caused for concern.
Yep.
But I mean, if you want to win a 6-invitational, you have to throw all that stuff out the window.
You simply have to be the best team, and you have to forego any potential bad vibes you might have, or curse that might have been cast upon you.
Piano Exhibition, this was the one-bomb site. Falcons were unable to win up against the North American team,
and our first game of the day, they went over to attacking here on the mid-floor.
They did have a new strategy, though. It's Aston's default floor in the trade.
Solotov knew that Savage was there.
Shako will get a kill as well.
So both of the S named players of Falcons,
the two early deaths in the previous round,
have now gotten on the board.
Shako still upright.
Solotov will lose his life and uses,
who had a disappointing first series
of the Shopify Rebellion earlier today.
He's still searching for his first kill.
Breeday will rock the shield.
Hold on to that defuse kit,
with Shako not too far off.
They attempt to pin down these remaining Falcons players, or they attempt to pin down these remaining secret players.
Yeah, they're on the main floor, looking back to give some coverage, three-day, and Shaco were both over by Yellow Stairs, but here comes Adrian with tons of intel.
Yeah, they're all down towards the bottom of Yellow, this cloth and secret, not seen since the November Major, so it's been a while since they've played this defensive lineup,
but it is something that Falcons should have in one of their 200 pages of prep work that supposedly they do print off for every game.
Really tight how everyone is cornering this one side of the map and Adrian strikes first.
Shiko's not gonna miss that! They overrun Noah Fleschman, his position mostly is down two.
Adrian's actually committed an unfortunate team kill and a bit of bafflement over on Yellow Stairs.
Pre-Dance Shiko, her last two remaining in Diffuse Kit getting down.
Shiko will watch as the pulse now appears with a sidearm.
The look for a little dodgy at first, but Shaco manages to get the job done and answer
back from Falcons as they tie the game.
It reminds me of two Roman armies just clashing as they head straight first into each other.
I mean, obviously for Falcons they'll have an idea of what that defensive setup looks
like for Seeker.
It's been played in the past.
I think that explosion to the top floor was really well placed.
They clearly identified where that CEO player likes to play and maybe where he'd be looking.
The trades were quite good.
A little surprise to not see secrets spread out a little bit more on that mid-floor.
The pulse obviously down below was kind of their one off-site player, you could say.
The one guy that was not clutching around yellow, but even he was quite close.
Close enough to team kill at that.
So, yeah, really just a big, mortgaged board of players in the yellow stairs
where it ends up going the way of team Falcons.
I think largely thanks to Brady on the Blitz.
And Brady doesn't need to land that kill.
That is useless for that matter that got enough depth on this team to make you hurt, even without two of the better flexed-slash-support players.
And for a long, long time, Breeday's name is often in the conversation of pretty simply the best support player.
I think you make a very credible argument that this Falcons team has among the best players in the world on every single wall.
The question that trips up a lot of people is, well, if you were to make a roster move on Falcons, who do you bring in?
Mm-hmm. I mean Europe has had this problem for quite a while
I mean this was the old Penta G2 roster where again it was when things would go bad for the team
You have to ask yourself. Well, who do you drop and more importantly who replaces them because it's almost always gonna be a step down
Yeah, there's a couple players on secret who's trying to make themselves household names
The big one is June he's gonna to kill in both rounds so far
And they'll be playing on that goya over top of the bombsite for the time being
Let's play this position with a thorn before Parker. I think probably preferring the go-yo just for a little bit more stall on the site
Maybe a bigger fan of the gun as well
I know the vector a huge comfort gun for a lot of players myself and cute included to be honest
I love this gun. We'll see what you can find up on the top floor
It's gonna be the blitz entry once again from muses this time around so they pass the field from one support to another
And he's done a great job of clearing so far
There has really been a lot of ground taken very quickly and Jume has left that position to go down those visa stairs
Sheik is in a very dangerous spot here in yellow
Very quick to get to this bomb site just a little over a minute has elapsed at this point
Mowgli roaming above beside Jume was in a very similar position over top of this bomb site secret
were spread out quite heavily on the previous round.
It did not work.
They were hunted down one by one.
Most of that action occurring over in the CEO's side
of things.
But now it's yellow stairs and beyond.
First launching bomb will go.
Savage gets baited into an engagement.
EFAC playing that one so well.
He's sitting on top of two separate mute jams.
Yes, Falcon's still new.
Yeah, lots of players in this mid-sort of hunt down,
but LickyFack is up for the tap.
Takes down Nova for his second kill all around.
And now if you're a Jume or Mowgli, you start to question to yourself,
do I need to get aggressive?
Do I need to make something help happen?
Mowgli baiting a little bit, making himself known,
potentially trying to bait someone for Jume
who's hiding in the main entrance to go for a flank or catch someone as they cross.
That shield is still going to be such a huge issue.
Secret on the better side of this map and already behind the eight ball
when it comes to this round.
Let him go on by.
He just escaped, didn't he?
I know, he did.
They keep away at this point, a pre-fire by Jume knowing that the shield was coming but
all those bullets deflecting off of Yuzus will now be in hot pursuit down below dodging
one of those impacts keeping Jume busy is great that means Adrian and Mowgli are the
last two standing they will fully clear out this basement.
Mowgli takes down Shiko gets Brede as well turns on Ober and goodbye to Leaky Fack.
He gets knocked by the air jab but can't get out of Solotov's way.
Duncan skids two together and are off to a strong start.
That's the start of a highlight reel, Parker,
that has put to bed thanks to the air jab just at the end.
Came so close to clutching that one out.
If he makes it up yellow, playing above in piano with the solos,
I mean, that is a very winnable position for Mowgli.
But that air jab was placed very early on into the round
from Shaiqa way back at the beginning.
Team Secret started that round, of course, by taking top floor
and opening the breach and taking yellow.
They really had two dimensions to start that push and then it was just a job of hunting down those mid-floor players
Expecting when that aggression would come through towards yellow towards spiral making sure you caught the aggressive moves and then continue to hunt
Those mid-floor players that work as aggressive through the midst of it
I think this is a clear sign of two teams that are extremely familiar with each other of course the EML rivals going back and forth
People forget how strong that Italian primary shotgun is
I do, and I don't say players, I mean like the general audience here because they don't use to use that secondary
ITA shotgun, which frankly is kind of not good. So, yeah
It can be quite strong and solace having access to that SNG 11 as a secondary can easily run a shotgun
Very similar to what we see out of Mute and Smoke
Well, we will start to repeat bomb sites now as we go to the top floor for round four as it
It reopens for Team Secret. This was the one and only round where they were able to walk away with a victory.
Now, Bans have come through and they actually two removed the Solus.
So something to watch out for obviously could have been huge remotely back in round three,
but he won't have access to it once again.
The top floor there, the bomb site set up is relatively similar.
Noah deciding that the pulse was a bit of a one trick and he's gonna go over to the Ella.
I don't think he would have gotten another Niger sub with it,
So I think this is the more cautious operator pick to come through from Noah.
No caution from Savage.
The captain's had a few opportunities, but yet to find the opening pick.
Going on on the B-Stream, by the way, is our final matchup of the day over there.
If you have any downtime, and maybe Falcon's Secret isn't quite your bag.
I don't think that anybody would feel about that, but we have two inter-regional matchups.
Number one is here, Falcons vs. Secret, both competing out of EML and then an NAL bash up on the other stream.
The Space Station plays up against Wildcard in their matchup earlier today.
Space Station dominated NAD. NAD has shown some very, very big struggles and they've got their hands full now in the lower bracket.
And we'll be running through who all makes it to the lower bracket and when the eliminations start tomorrow you best know
That we will be saying goodbye to some pretty good teams neither of these teams in jeopardy of going home
Of course, this is the upper bracket
Winner will make fame stage no matter whether they win or lose their match
Only caught a bit of a go-yoke trap so a little bit of damage done to the french player on the secret
Still this this vending hallway is a nightmare to clear out with all these denari trap
They need to be able to clear some of it with that Flora's gonna have some Shaco
But nothing being clear just yet. I managed to pop some of these goyos good drone inside the hallway spot June
And then retreats back to the vending hall. So lots of damage done
I don't believe that Flora's drone hits June absolutely not
But starts to clear even more of that utility and more trash still being set up now for Team Secret
It's a very calm round so far, Jesse.
It's a little over a minute to go, and confronting those tripwires will be the biggest issue.
I think Shaco intended for that first flashbang to hit it, but instead it will flash over
towards Long Desk.
He hits the tripwire the second time around.
And now from down below, the IQ of LeakyFact, finding all of those wires, taking power away
from this team's secret defense.
about to happen at a moment's notice. Secret are now locked up, ready to go on in. Breeding
the first kill, Falcons will add to it. Breeding with several as users as the focal point.
Breeding holds the defuser, got the shield. Savage and Noah fighting from their position
but in a very rough spot. A single kill. Four team secrets so far. Falcons looking for the
3-0 at this point. What can they do? Perfect rotation before the attackers. It's definitely
on the cards. No one took out Shaco in round number one, but it seems like that was ages ago,
three in a row for the Falcons. As a single round for Team Secret is the only thing they
have to show for it. This is dominance from the French-Saudi-Arabian team.
That's just pretty much the same sense. If you guys want, you can pick up the ankle,
so you guys can have the influence and make the cyber plays onto them. They're scaring their fans,
That's why they're playing so slow, layer over, you know, trying to take step by step and execute.
We can just not let them go into that last step. If you guys need more info where there are boots or
aqua, just go for it. And if you guys need more resources so you guys know when they are clearing
Jagger, Wamaira, whatever. We just need pause for like, we just need pause. Like, this is also
like, they're not even, they're not doing flashes, they're not doing anything. We'd like the ramp
piano, we need the blizzards pushing, but we just don't have any pause to actually make a play on that.
They are actually doing this, they need to pull down the time over there and you guys have to read.
We just need to choose something to do and do it, okay?
Like, even on the piano round, they were going for the default plan after.
We know that they were going to do that, so we just react out of it.
Twister may be hoping for a little bit more action coming out from his players.
They know what's going on with being come from Valkans.
They know what to expect, and they have to just react to it.
They have to find ways around it.
Playing the pulse could be a good answer.
We heard that get brought up in the midst of it.
But I've got to say as well, I think Valkans are playing a really good style of siege.
Look at this, use this and look at that, distracting from Spiral, it's the big bad blitz, it's what you're focused on if you're a defending player,
but as this user player is rotating through the site, it's distracting everybody.
It's just a really simple walk-in from Breide, who just goes to default plant spot, finds two picks on the opening,
and for the third to finish off that round, a barely rare 3k from the hard support of Team Falcons.
I said in the last series that he had his average in 4.4 kills a map before today's game, which is
Expected for a player of his caliber
We expect Breede to generally be more focused on the plant in the diffuse kit and playing those shields
But really able to pop off in that last round
Breede did
Okay, again shot by rebellion he exited in that bout with 19 kills and
and 20 assists but he had 5 successful plants across those 3 maps. That is nothing to sneeze at.
19 kills in 3 maps is far above his average, if 4.4, so that's good.
4, 4, 4... Yeah, that'd be 12. Wow.
Broke the rule of doing a map on stream. Nobody in those 3 maps
get a below 16 kills, uses which towards the bottom.
The lion share of his kills coming in that very first map, exactly half of those 16.
But when you look at overall team stats, Bredade still does sit in the negatives.
Minus 16, his entry is 1 and 7.
The fact that Bredade's been involved in eight entries to begin with across this tournament is
really quite surprising. I mean, next closest is Yuzus, who's been involved in 17.
So it does go to show you that over 132 rounds played by Bredade,
the fact that eight of those, he's been the main entry.
I mean, it's bound to happen. He will find himself on a shield or something along those lines,
potentially getting picked early. Breeding has been really damn good. 18 plants, which is among
the highest here at this event, and I expect to see good things from him for the rest of this
Falcons attack. Server and Tellers is our bomb site. Very rare for Team Siever to go here,
but it starts off well. Jume finds Licky Fact to open things up on the kill feed. The one time
they played this was earlier on in this tournament against Fluxo W7M. They lost it as defenders,
So struggled to really find success on this site the Monty from uses witnessing to retreat now for the top floor flash comes in from
Shaiqo is the piano players drop
They scatter as soon as they hit piano only June continues to play around this hatch
Shaiqo is maybe hunting for something there, but it's Mowgli who cleans them up for the two-man lead
Falcon said some opportunities
To come back from a 3v5 a 2v5
etc. in that Shot of Fire rebellion game, but it was on a map that they seemed a little bit less comfortable on.
This time around, this is a great map for Falcons.
So I do have to wonder what their chances are of clawing this one from Team Secret.
Mowgli's the only casualty for Secret, so Falcons now suffering even more damage as Yuzus and Solotov will link up.
And Noah, firing from this position, finds one before Yuzus takes him down, but the damage has been done to the shield.
Brede and Usus, if you merge them into one player, would still be below 100% HP.
So not exactly where Falcons want to be with 20 seconds left.
Now it's Savage looking for this opportunity, the same position that we saw out of Noa and Usus will get dropped by the Scorpion,
caught with the Pokeball.
And it's Brede in a 1v3.
Who will be the one credited with this kill?
It's Savage from the same spots.
And a good bounce back from the secret after taking that time out. That's more like it
It's a little bit too much to pull back from that tall floor room coming out from from June
And of course Savage is well playing on that tall floor getting a couple of early picks
It was a jump into the bathroom from lucky fact which ended up being the opening death and then Shaco
I think just dies on the hatch on a long angle from Mowgli playing down below the piano hatch
And once you've got that two-man lead it gets you've got to play perfect really Parker to pull things back
There's the opening and that jump in after the after the monty spot to player right here the kill from salt off a little bit messy
He seems to think the players to the left or in reality
He is standing over to the right could be a miss calm a little bit of this communication very fast moment there
But it's gonna take a second then for salt off to readjust his aim and in that moment
He gets shot in the head by Noah so unfortunate bit of miscommunication from the Falcons
They still retain the lead at three to two, but after attack time of secret are starting to pull it back
Yeah, I mean a 3-3 scoreline would be the best you're gonna get for a defender side of map team secret
I have already lost the plot here. A 4-2 is the bare minimum on the most defender side of map, but
secret don't really excel on console. That's true. And honestly, I mean, this is exactly what we saw from Shopify rebellion versus
Stockings a few hours ago, Parker. It was a 3-3 split. We said, okay, you know, not that bad for Shopify rebellion
They did least lose half and then two came around and Falcons kind of walks or walk the floor, you know
Walked all over them. You found the floors. You found the walking you found, you know, it's good. Yeah, you got there. I
Mean my brain still hasn't recovered from that final round of sr. I feel you on that one
And of course we got to watch the dual spectacles
Fluxo w7m versus phase and then way bow versus feria
both of which were pretty interesting matches.
Luxo FaZe were far more competitive than I thought it would be
if I'm being frank with you.
I expected Wave by Aferia to be a deeper matchup, but so she goes.
Mawzy Pest being spotted out by Stolikov now.
They know how important it is to take this top floor.
Again, we do see teams try to shortcut it
by just trying to go for a plant, but as shown by the surf
in the previous matchup, there are
very creative ways you can deny a plant, well so you have that top floor control, so most teams figure that it is essential
to get control up there, but I don't know if you'll have the time at this point from Falcons. A lot of pressure on this mid floor.
Actually have Lickifact decently deep, only a wall away from the bomb site as the A starts to breach it open. Now,
users will make that hole into the site and
honestly, although, it's not like it's shot out, it's soft though Parker, so I suppose they can just sledge in whenever they're ready.
This could be an explosive rush and leaky fact is
Aware of what's about to happen and he's prepped and ready for June missing the opportunity on the Mowgli
But I think that was set up as a bait Jesse
Sledge the wall half of the meeting we follow up on you
Breakdancing
You know it on the fun Noah gets to out of nowhere
They have salvaged this first half the best the team secret could muster was three three
That's what they get. It is still a net loss compared to where they should be as defenders
on consulate. The road will likely get harder for secret, but you got to play with the hand
your delts and secret wasn't dealt a very good hand on a map. They don't know very well.
I'll take it. Yeah, I mean, frankly, it's much better than the five one half. It could have
been if not for that attack time. Oh, so you got to get some credit to twister there. Falcons
are the final attack. You know, I like the idea sledge in quickly to the bomb site, make
something crazy happened, but you just had too fast of a reaction, maybe stalled
out a little bit too much there in the benches hallway, where you've got to see
some of those entry players come on back down, Mowgli walk down spiral stairs,
we got to see, I believe Noah come down the yellow stairs as well, and so once
that pinch happens, it's just impossible to try to find all of those players
looking left and right, needed to go a bit faster if you're Falcons, but end of
the day 3-3 not anything to complain about. Really nice shots from Licky Faction, even
though he didn't come around.
I honestly thought he had no leads at the right side.
Yeah.
The Scorpion is a hell of a guy and is back in a quarry. Denari is very firmly in the
meta at this point. Ella has found good execution as well. If you watch that Furio Weibo game
that just happened on this stream, you would have seen JB92 throw Gijmotmine out to stop
The plant it is something that most people I don't think consciously think with the operator
Yeah, I'm glad it was pointed out by some of the pros when Thorne got her box about how a razor bloom can be used to stop a plant
Because my mind can as well one of the best shield counters are those who's my mind, but
That's if you keep them in pocket that is something that seldom happens
Ella usually uses them to facilitate a roam to gain intel to the story on the phone
2S to GV-92 for keeping them in back pocket and it was a really pretty clever way to use that gadget
and for those that watch this game and play this game, it is a nice reminder of what the Polish operator is able to do
it has been a while since we've seen Ella firmly cemented in the met up and here she is
the Scorpion is not too bad right now either
this is very similar to what we saw in around nine of SR versus the Falcons for defensive line-ups on
on team Falcons. Chonker coming out from Breeday, of course.
We've got the Warden coming through, still the Smoke.
Sorry about the Mute coming through from Likifak as well.
Definitely try to make something happen from Falcons
to stall things out with this plant,
maybe get some of those Nitro Cells going out of Uses
and Likifak.
Thal talk with one as well.
And all three were again for a moment, Likifak.
The opening death once again is Noah,
has been able to find him consistently
from outside the building.
That's just on one of those windows upside down repel. It will get you
Admin side of the road now has to play things a little bit more passive partner have to fall back and allow them in
They've taken that admin control now from above Mowgli's the first one in and first point of contact eight kills
for Mowgli in that position
They could take advantage of leaky facts early depth and use this to snowball and even greater lead a response down from Falcons as they
They'll hit themselves closer into harm's way
and Saltop will find out very quickly.
There are some bodies there and maybe to be concerned
with the danger presented by them.
Halfway point of this round,
not a single point of damage has been done
to this team's secret squad.
In a pretty good spot,
Jim down below could try to work his way up spiral,
but of course he's got some great angles being opened up
onto the site players as well.
Eusis does find Mowgli.
He was one of those admin side players
was the one holding the diffuse kid as well.
No one's gonna have to pick that up.
The distraction play comes from Savage's top spiral.
And this is June two.
Falcons have answered back.
The best they can do at this point in time
is a tie in player numbers.
Sawtops naturally will catch the bars.
It misses.
A whiff from Falcons might be there undoing.
Diffuse kick not in the hands of Team Secret
at this point in time.
It is quite a ways away over towards admin.
So Noah will have to burn about 10 seconds of the clock
to go retrieve it and then get back and the bigger thing is whether it's being
actively watched by Falcons. That bit of hesitation can be a real killer just.
He wasted a lot of time going to get it. This T'Chonka means he can't really
plant default markers so they have to go deep, try to get a plant to the outside
and get some kills. And of course because of being a 3v3 the moment that Noah
starts that defuse kick on the ground you'll have to watch with lower numbers
than it is to take out users. Those are not all as bad for secret. Adrian finds one too and
Now it's Breeday to clutch out the Chaka, unloading that LMG.
But all those bullets reflecting off of the Blackbeard,
Savage has his attention completely
boxed out of the appropriate bomb site.
Breeday is hopeless right now.
The teams kit will run away.
Time are going down.
Breeday pushing in.
Flattened and finished off by Savage.
Savage's lightning rod for that round.
And it will work out so effectively secret,
taking their first attacking round.
Genuinely, Parker, that 3v3 was such a smart execute from Secret.
That's what you have to watch from a top-down POV,
because the Sen's play coming out from Noa was absolutely brilliant.
I said they couldn't play a default because of the Chancha, and that was true.
So what did they do?
They go to the north side,
they toss one of the Sen's rollers right through the site,
and cut off line of sight for the Chancha.
Now the only person who could in theory even see that a Fiat is good as it goes down
is Yuzus on that ward, but then they rush in with the Blackbeard.
Just take that close range 1v1, Savage has a free kill onto the player there, easily able to shut down that play.
At the same time, Adrian's hitting from the back, he's able to take down Salt off, playing on that mausy.
What an excellent execute coming out from Team Secret, and that is the type of thing, Parker, where I feel they are better than nearly everyone in the world.
There's a reason why they finished top third group and got a buy in the very first set of matches today.
Team Secret could have very easily soaked up a little bit of fall down.
I don't know if I could have had a plus seven stages run, but they have looked mighty, mighty good.
And they're doing well against Falcons right now without a single climb that we have uttered
June's name. And I think the last four rounds give or take. He's been awfully quiet today.
He's only trailed by Adrian in terms of fragging potentials. The French player of Mowgli seemingly
getting a locals only buff. Leading the team. The rest of the squad is going to play well
again. Death is the name of the game for these teams at this level.
Doesn't seem like we're seeing the same style of play that Falcons went for on their piano
execute. Not so much of a grand rush into the bomb site from the north side, bottom
spiral instead. We're seeing Seeker take this standard. You've got players inside of
already. You've got players maybe looking into Admin as well. They go up there,
they're gonna find Licky Factor downward. They fight for Solotov instead. That's
Jume who's taking this face down on the visa side of the map. Worried about
anybody flanking up from the basement? We know there's nobody down there, but
later on of course there certainly could be. Falcons seem fine to let them have
this space for now. They're not contesting Visa, they're not contesting Admin, but one
step farther, and I think Falcons will look to take some fights.
Mowgli has been so fearless, taking that part of the map two rounds now in a row, and I think
for good reason, he's beating just about everything that comes across his screen.
There must be stuff going through our territory, and you have to wonder if that was delivered,
if he actually meant to make it onto that lift, if he was not intending for doing the
first floor, then things will get tricky, but we have to talk to Adrian after the fact.
will soon run out in the vending hall which will allow some of the top floor players to make their
move through the top. That's why Savage is now rotating up through Spiral. I hope it'll be a
distraction but everybody from Falcons terrified of what they hear. They are falling off at Speed
Parker. A great cross. Bre Day will have his revenge as it was Savage who kept him so busy in the
post-playout before. Final minimum this round and they toy with Leaky Fack but he is just so strong
in that position. Adrian having trouble hitting his marks in several ways. Do they know that
that there's a second player inside of that position.
I don't believe so.
Still tucked in, still waiting ever so patiently.
This could be a rude awakening as Breed emerges
and tears through this team.
The man of the hour, the top fragger on the squad,
Jume, the only player to have broken 100 kills
before the first map has been played today
as Mowgli has now broken that title with.
His eight kills?
We'll have to do it all.
1v3 for Jume, he's been terrific, but so have the Falcons across the board and Shiko will swing!
Jume sits him down, surveying what openings might be there from above. He's been able to isolate
Yuzus in this position, but what a breed. Super shorty out, waiting for a play over towards
Yellow. He will not get it, a fallback from Yuzus, and he does it with his own secondary shotgun.
Falcons equalize. Probably not winnable given how far that a fuse kit was for Jume. I think Falcons
play that really well whilst they did let one player take the fight. Breide was ages away,
so he wasn't really going to be able to get into that gunfight. But Falcons, such smart play happening
on the top floor, they don't fight them in admin, they don't fight them top spiral, they lure them
in, they let them come all the way over the CEO side of the map, just outside of bathroom, and
that's when they start to engage, and they only get involved when they know all five of the defenders
can participate in that gunfight. It's kind of crazy, you had the duo of Breide and Shaco from
all the way back on that original BDS days, where you got to see Shiko firing up through
the floorboards until the players and CEO, while Breide hit them horizontally.
If you look down, you're dead by Breide.
If you look horizontal, you're going to be dead from Shiko.
So it was a really cool little combo they had going on there, luring Secret into their
trap and then shutting them down as soon as they took that space.
Can't help but know how good Falcons have been on the map that probably displays the
French flag.
I know you pointed out that this map is actually in Africa.
is the French consulate in Cote d'Ireal, which is Ivory Coast for those that do not speak French.
Just again, another home field advantage for this Falcons team. Much of that first game earlier
today against Shopify rebellion, Jesse, we talked about how Falcons want to go through that
swapping run in the lower bracket. I mean, we say it mostly as a joke. There is some theory behind
it, because all of these winners as of late have been coming out of a lower bracket, but
You never want to be in a position where you were a single loss away from going home and yet
Weirdly perversely that has been the case for most teams over the last couple years
Falcons obviously want a big victory here against the team that they typically beat
And well, I think this map's a little closer than we expected
Yeah, I mean, I think the map just works out Parker that most teams end up the lower bracket at some points
And at the end the lower bracket is really a battle of the fittest
The best team coming to the lower bracket will be very very good
Not to say the upper bracket won't produce a good winner as well, but you've got to go through so much more as a lower bracket team
Start to see the breaching come through now forces these visa players back staffing the Blackbeard once again
We're seeing this operator take the space through the map try to find some way to get that aggression get that space for the team
On all the way down to server though not really choosing to clear through those roamers instead. They're headed straight towards the site
Maybe not expected by Falcons
Quick one, a savage walks in, there's the drop, they've got the intel now, shield put
away, no Avalida, pick the Blackbeard, he's left stranded, uses the only kill for Falcons
at this point.
Tinker comes out ahead, in these blows, more drops.
As Falcons are actually hitting their marks at this point in time, and they blow everybody
up, Adrien suddenly finds himself alone.
How did things go so bad for secrets so quickly?
Jumi is a recover of Ulfant.
Adrien needs to pick his battles very wisely.
They will have a cut and a cross held.
Never mind.
Adrien attempts to rotate.
He gets punished by the Falcons.
They will take the lead.
I think at the last possible moment,
they caught on to what was happening.
Falcons did.
They returned to the bomb site, Parker.
And then it's Breda's flank.
He ends up going down.
I think it's the Visa hatch,
where he ends up right behind that push
as it's coming through construction.
He hits that nitro cell on the soft construction wall,
takes down Noah, makes himself known,
and get the final kill at the end there.
Some really critical late round kills coming through
from Breede, the hard support from Falcons,
who oh so often is not hitting the scoreboard
in ways that some of the other players on his team often can,
but the impact he's having from every single frag today
in the Shopify game and this one has been massive.
Yeah, I mean the timeout's already been called
for Team Secret to settle them down,
and we get to hear Twister try and knock some sense
into this team, maybe imbue them
with a bit more confidence than they had,
and confidence started to come in spades
Towards the tail end of that first half, since they've just been trading back and forth.
You know what he's trading at this point in time?
You need to start cleaning up these rounds.
I think Falcons needed a reminder that they're defending on console.
You can't see?
You need to make this map work in your favor.
They've done just that in the previous round.
While we start the site rotations, once again, the second set of Operator Mans to the second half have come through.
Secret ended up banning the mute in an attempt to turn the tides of the rounds.
There was a mute brought last time they played top floor, that was leaky back,
so he moved over to the go-yo and another chance to try to slow down the push as it comes on in.
But they also won that top floor last time they came to it, so Team Secret should know exactly what they want to do with the bomb slate like this.
Again, I was a huge fan of that 3v3 execute that Secret put together with the sends.
It was frankly brilliant. They haven't brought it again though, so you've got to imagine there's a different idea coming into this round.
likely revolving around that smokes that they've got on the glass, the smokes they've got on the capitao, and how they're gonna see through it.
A Shaco spawn peek is certainly something, and he presses his luck, cause he
Wakes away from the window that, I believe those of you who know it still work, again, is still getting used to thatcher silhouette with that big cannon on his back that he uses to knock things out.
No more fukin' laser sights, as they say it, or HE sights it rather.
Steady sights. I actually have no idea what he's saying when he shoots it. I don't usually play with my ears when it's coming in.
Fair enough. That honestly explains a lot.
I also choose to cast with my ears off, so I'm gonna continue here.
That also works pretty well.
Nobody from Team Secret ends to the building 60 seconds through this round.
It's pretty much riding off and Abyn side clear, although it is being droned at the moment.
moment they spot a roamer down below that's leaky fact not the same that we saw it on the spawn peak of course was Shaco in towards piano
Fact finds his way back up to these the stairs though
So for all this time that they spent secret outside the building droning the middle floor looking for one of these roamers
They haven't come away with much it's gonna start putting some pressure on this plant if it starts going down 5v5
It is going to get messy for the attackers
They're starting to take care of those volcanic canisters
You saw those nades go in, leaky-fack, and place this, place them in positions where you typically will want to walk the diffuser.
In the default plant spot by the window is the main one. That was where the nade had gone.
Breede looking for a bit more success in denying the plant. This time though, it didn't fall on his shoulders before.
That's why you bring it to Chonka, and he's already started shooting out those Molotovs from his Shumiko launcher.
Slowing down the advance over towards the yellow stairs now pushing the secret team back on to the window of C.U.
And Jun's about to start doing things from below. He almost takes down Liffy 5, but he's the one that needs to deny this to Chomp just for this thing.
They can't go for a plant as long as Brede still up.
Fire for fire! Savage walks in! He manages to get out with his life intact. Brede taking some damage from the cap.
It's all fire arrows as well. They can continue to do this.
denying that plant with 35 seconds left there is still utility here and oh my
now it's Adrian to go in to endure the flames he has to hop out as well
creating way more successful this time Jesse and shutting this down Shiko in
the midst of smoke will swing on the savage he's gonna line up for the lion
as well uses his there with two all the kills for falcons coming from two
individual is doomed down below. And it's the same to yet again, Shaiqo sealing the
deal on this round, sending Falcons to a map point on their own map. And they're
playing mind games with them Parker Falcons. They showed themselves two
different players on that mid floor in the first 60 seconds. They showed Shaiqo,
they showed Licky Fack. And then immediately once those players got
drawn out, once they were found, they rotate back up the bottom from the
bottom floor. What does that mean? Well that means doomed, the buck below the
bomb site is spending the entire round terrified of getting flanked so cautious
about what's coming his way he never gets flanked he never gets pushed he
never gets pressured but he also never does his job he's not able to force the
warden out of the CPO he's not able to force three day out from his position and
then a plant at that point is just impossible nobody stops uses and he's stepping up and making this play just because the pressure from the
box down below he's opened almost none of the floorboards and he hasn't been able to
maintain that position and if you look at that round you're gonna give a lot of
credit to use this in particular for shutting down those swings through the
window into your main plant spot. But really it's frankly Brede who
prolonged that fight. He started shooting out those Molotovs with a minute to go.
How many times did players from secret get in that window, take damage and get
out? Almost dead. First it was Adrian, I believe it was Mowgli in the previous
round who also found themselves in that position. Maybe it was Noah, but he was
able to play an impunity. The reason why you put a buck down there is exactly what you said.
You want to make life uncomfortable for those defenders to shove them out of position so that
you can get in and take back control. Ju wasn't able to do it, but because of that, the planters
and the entire cavalry that was sent in by Team Secret were unsuccessful at their job, and if they
use this, look like a superstar getting all those cleanup kills. But honestly,
Three-day reserves, the lion's share of credit.
Looking to lock down Consulit for the second time today.
Six-four lead.
Falcons just need one of the next two defensive rounds.
This push is going to come in through Admin.
They want to clear the whole map.
Look at that. It's very close here.
Just inside of the left room, falls back to the bending hallway.
He's got Solotov with him.
So the two Rome combo of often-aggressive players
are trying to make something happen up there.
Worried about a visa push as well with Likifac at the bottom of the visa stairs.
Secret secret moment to drone.
Likifac does not want to follow up on this intel. At this point in time, the intel is no longer relevant.
He's waiting pretty all clear. He don't know if they still have a read on him at this point in time.
Jume is fighting all by himself in that area.
Likifac could really surprise him and that would be not the first time it's happened.
Four team secret Falcons have at the end of the surprise multiple times breathing.
probably most notably inside of that connecting room from top yellow in the
CEO. It's all a top now. In a world of hearth taking some serious damage, savage
getting hurt as well. Leaky Facts still biting his tongue. Gown goes Nello. We didn't even
think he was involved in the action. The Breedane shuts him down with a Nitro Stone.
90 seconds gone, almost a full two minutes and they've knocked on a lot of
space parking. They need to get kills now. There's Mowgli for the first on
Debreeday but they still are over. Oh they do! Mowgli turning around and
shredding evac in his position.
Solotov eliminates Jume.
Jume was living on borrowed time.
It seemed fighting against players
that since had moved on.
Solotov has switched drones, or rather robots,
bought on bot as Shotfire Rebellion
referred to the Mexico Post earlier on.
All six players live in the server
and vacated the top floor parker.
They're all going to hit this site horizontally.
A couple of players in the yellow stairs,
But it's salt on the strikes first.
He swings on Mowgli, that's the Frenchman down.
Savage and Adrian are the only hope that Secret has.
And that staying in this very first map,
Alka's picking the do-so, comfortable on it.
Adrian dies at Shaco's hands, both of them do.
And Nista 1,000 manages to add more to that tally,
now in pursuit of 2,000 kills at SI.
He's got a long way to go.
But you've got to start somewhere.
Falcons win their own maps, 7-4 Team Secret,
only getting one more round
when Shabba Vi Rebellion was able to do early.
The French consulate feels like home
to the French team Parker,
and they are just one map away
from main stage of the sixth Invitational.
What will happen as we go deeper into this series?
We'll find out after the race.
It took secret way too long to adapt into that once you get a free free half
That was the second time today
They've got a free free attack half on consular our strongest defender sided map currently you set yourself up for great success
Yeah, it was a game in three phases if you look at it here on the round summary by the way
It starts like you said very good on the early with the blitz and three attacks in a row
Yeah, then there's a turning point after the tactile man
They understand the play style of Kim Falcons
They understand they need to pick them apart and he works well for three rounds in a row
The problem was, as soon as Falcos is in defense, they can capitalize on the individuals, they can go aggressive, and they can also punish the lack of sometimes adaptation from this threat.
I want to say, what was that about forcing that CEO plans to touch and fire, for example? There were some examples that were like...
That was calamity.
I was like, why do you keep going there? You know, there's 25 canisters in that thing, you know? So, I don't know.
There were some weird examples of Team Secret failing to do that at some point.
So do we feel as though potentially this was a game of, I guess, uh, individuality?
By any means?
Um, I wouldn't say individuality.
I would say realistically defensive power, especially on console.
You get to sit behind a lot of utility and you get to have individual gunfights that are
in the favor of the defenders.
And I think Falcons are always going to win those out.
They've got the big players in the big critical moments, you know, so soul top, massive amount
of kills, shaco massive amount of skills on those defenses.
And that's what it added up to.
The thing for me though is it's not all bad news for secret right? Yes, they looked very good, but it's not all bad news
No, because whenever we see mistakes from secret we can also praise where they do well
I think round seven was a perfect example of that look at that adaptation during this 3v3
They're trying to attack on the meeting bombsite and look at what Noah will do on the sense here
It's critical here. He will completely cut off a single player
That's not in Kobe look at C4 the C4 is failed here because they have no information because of the sensible
the Blackbird can rush upon the cover of the same spot.
At that time, Noa can go for the plant.
Look at the top of your screen here.
Solotov dies to Adrian, who stayed to hold the backstab.
And at this point, Noa can use the cover of his own stand spot
to go for the diffuser.
And at the same time, look at the Blackbird, creating pressure,
pushing away the last remaining defender.
It's a beautiful 3v3 clean execute.
Goes to show Secret has the level,
which just need that consistency,
because right now, F**k has it.
I agree. We need to see more of that.
The one thing that Secret did really well in that round
was get it once he got back to a 3v3. They almost paused. Savage was kind of just lurking on the
side door as the Blackbeard to try and work out right what's the game plan here and they come up
with a game plan on the fly within seconds, execute it perfectly. Now that's what we do need to see
more of during this challenge. Now Shelly is all about the gunfight and there will be a critical
change that I need to see. Right now the gunfights are going to wear Falcons. It needs to change with
a full confidence on Shelly as Mugli seems to state it here. It's a big one. No doubt about it
team secret, the backs are up against the wall, but we just saw a very hot and heavy
consulate. It's time for us to head to Chalet.
Well, from one French, quote-unquote, map to the other, we cannot shake this country
just like we can't shake it in real life. Will Falcons have a slight edge because of
the location? I don't think so. This is a very good map for team secret, so that number
seems quite likely, but Jesse, what are the win conditions or singular win condition for a team secret here on shall I?
Well, I think the death broke it down Parker. We've seen excellence from team secret
I'm so glad that Leo chose to replay that round where they had the sends execute in the 3v3
We know what secret are capable of it's about getting that consistently
It's about getting that over and over again making sure you can have that mental reset in some of your attacks
starting on the offensive side in a map that can be offensive sided in certain circumstances that gives them the opportunity to showcase
exactly how good of an attacking team they are.
Team Secret, of course, come into this matchup with the highest defending win rate of any team in the tournament, at least before today's matches had occurred.
But their attacks still need to be strong when playing up against the Falcons.
It's two European rivals. We're going head to head in an all-EML matchup.
up Parker they ban out the Azami's you have to they ban out the Valkyrie which I think is a really
smart play and then doge be capital to be removed by team Falcons operators that we do see played
quite often Noah on the capital one of his favorite operators to bring out here on shellay so it makes
a lot of sense to take that off the board strong ups for both of these teams nuisance ops gone
falcons removing the capital that has caused them so many issues on previous maps falcons
adoption capital as one of their own earlier today. I think even you touched upon that in the
Shopify Rebellion matchup that Falcons had earlier. Shopify Rebellion losing that matchup,
of course, down to the lower bracket they go for the people that were not here for map number one.
The winner of this series is guaranteed to make the main stage because while their next match
that will be on Tuesday when they'll be played at home to five crowd.
Should they lose that game, then they make the main stage be at a lower bracket.
So let's say Falcons 2 are a secret.
And then they lose their next match.
That's okay because they'll be on main stage in the lower bracket,
but just for a single opportunity,
should they lose that when they would go home?
Earlier today, we started off with M80 Space Station.
Space Station.
Oh, this is the groups, obviously.
Obviously we actually started off this dream here with the theory of heritage
theory of winning that series to oh and then beating radio game just about an hour ago with the two oh as well
Very and mighty good form
Then it was us on shop of firebellion versus team Falcons
It was a scrappy matchup with an incredible third map team Falcons winning that one and now here
They are against team secrets on the other stream
We had M80 versus Space Station and SSG taking that series 2-0 and then Fluxo W7M
defeating D-plus before going on to narrowly lose to FaZe Clan.
So FaZe Clan awaits the winner of Wildcard Space Station, which should be going on on the B-Stream.
And Furia awaits the victory of this matchup here on your screen right now.
Those games will go live tomorrow as this is our final match on the A-Stream today.
And it starts with Falcons going down to the basement and was potentially our final map of the series and a lot of teams choose not to play bottom floor bomb site here on
Chalet, they prefer to go top three sites Falcons at least in the previous game against enter against star I should say
Furia on the first day of groups did not choose to play pop or even once
So Falcons maybe suggesting that they don't like that top floor even with an Azami banner
especially with that, might just decide that it's too difficult of a site to hold onto.
It's not really a roam, there's a slight roam from Shaco and Yuzus here over towards the library side.
Solotov actually top-floor as well.
So they're not roaming dining, which is where you'll see a lot of teams go for a roam on this side of the map,
but they're happy to hold onto the library, they're happy to hold onto games,
and even Yuzus on the clash, playing very forward to try to get information to feed Solotov a kill.
Yuzus paying off in terms of his ability to communicate with his teammates,
He's been playing these shield ops quite frequently and I mean it's been working while his numbers might be taking a bit of a beating
The rest of the team tends to flourish in that situation. I think everybody's kind of united here
Jesse is breeding if we need off picking it's Mowgli
You gladly will get no kills if it means your team is better situated to win
This is imitation of Adrian Bushing in and down goes, Breidae down goes, Shiko
Just like that, Team Seeker will take a numbers advantage with 30 seconds left.
Now the Goya of Solotov being hunted down by Noah, that's got everybody on the run on the side of Falcons.
They know where the clash is, they knew where Solotov is. The only question is, what is LeakyFact doing?
He's over on lobby stairs, running up to a drone, fearlessly engaging with Adrien Solotov,
going down Savage, they trade, Dekuzer has been surrendered. Time running out, Noah and
Solotov in a 1v1 and Solotov is just going to hide at this point in time, running outside
and giving Falcons the first round. A cheeky end to the round, but hey, wins a win. You
do not need to take the engagement. If you were a defender, the clock will give you the
round.
A messy, strange round to start us off on Chalet. The Rome is only library game side,
So nobody's over towards dining.
In secret, they identify that and they see it as an opening.
They push towards the wine side of the map.
They take big garage.
They try to get a plant down in through the wine cellar.
But as soon as they finally get into that position
where they can go for the plant,
that's when the clash starts to hunt them down.
That's where the information comes through
from Team Falcons.
They respond to that by moving more players
into the basement.
At the same time, there are secret players
on the top two floors trying to hit those players
that were roaming around library, roaming around games.
They don't quite have as strong of information.
So it allows players like Ligavac to run up those snow stairs,
get some of those picks, but most very disconnected
as some of the line players and then some of the fireplace
players were just very far away from each other.
Met that in that 1v1, there was just no time
to cross the map to get back over to where your teammates died
and refrag their bodies.
At that point, it was Falcon who had spread out really,
really nicely and clutched slimes up.
So very creative first round here on Chalet.
Not an easy defense to attack.
secret to get it done.
Keep your tongue straight.
I'm sorry.
Sorry for secret on the very first round.
It was the coordination that I think is the bigger issue here.
You can lose around and you can go, ah, you know, that's found to happen.
As we've said many, many times on this broadcast, you can do everything right and still ultimately
lose.
But it was obvious that secret were not in lockstep with one another on that previous
round.
They had those same issues on Consulate if they carry over.
Two secrets, map pick.
If they carry over, do secrets map pick.
That's when you start to sound the alarm bells.
Falcons already have you on the ropes by winning their map.
Now secret needs to do the same because if your team's secret, you're looking at Fortress,
a map that Falcons just had their wings clipped on by Shopify Rebellion earlier today and
you're thinking, we can do this.
You just got to get there first.
This is a clean little setup again from Falcons.
Look at the captain on the clash running around the top floor trying to protect his teammates who are also up here with them
They don't protect Shai-ko. He still manages to take about 50 HP damage from that case's window
So we do see a first strike coming up for secret, but it's not enough for a kill
Player in library corner, of course
That's uses on the Womai, gonna be very tough to get him out of here
They've got lots of nades, lots of flashes, so in theory burning him out is possible
But it will require a lot of utility at the same time stall top is ADS and they're trying to catch that you too as well
Seems to be working Jesse as far as I can tell
Ades is Magnus one of which was just tossed out by uses as they pilot drones on him to give themselves more information
Nades have also been used only one remains in pocket for June and I mean if worse comes to worst you've got stall top there to assist
Yeah, I think the U2 worked perfectly for them. Barclay threw a lot in, but it wasn't enough.
Still holding that library position. Noah gets the first pick, but U2's trade won back.
They're just gonna continue to trade as they land blows. Left and right, left and right.
Shaco inside, side gunning down. Mowgli. They will see Noah rush up.
Clash coming in for an assist. Adrien and Jude last two. U2's finds yet another secondary shotgun out.
Who will get this final pick? Adrien in this spot. Dancing around in leaky fact.
The captain himself gets the job done.
2-0 for Falcons, and they have looked really confident in the process.
It's excellent utility play Parker with the Womai plus Jager combo,
a classic alongside the clash, and then it's the 25-year-old from Chester, England,
who really steps up and hit our shots.
The infos there, we're just not being able to catch it up, so please reset,
so you guys can move along each other a little bit more.
Like these clashes, it's been down a pain in the ass over there,
to the kitchen take on the other side right now, and we just adapted to this, right, to the
other corner so we can have an easier time into this. But for the rest guys, overall, I think
you guys decided to plan it later. It was about these haptakes, it's still a good idea against them,
like as we did in basement, you know, but we need to be able to be playing at the same time over there.
Like, even into the previous round, it was really good to read that you guys were having,
and the reactions as well, but we just lost something into the middle over there, you know,
Nice try to gather information that you guys are having and then let's force this
No panic yet
No, they know that starting on attack on Chalet is usually with the wind working against you the most played map here at the six
Invitational
Ever so slightly to the defenders, but Chalet as we have seen can be really favorable turf for the attackers
Of course, depending on operator bands and teams, individual stats when it comes to attacking and defending.
So no real cause for concern, but still, Sino-E, Sino-E's there that...
They're lipping in the bottom of the Sino-E's secret before it gets moving out.
We are hyped on the side of Falcons. You can feel the energy all the way from the other room where you and I are casting.
They're absolutely into this matchup five rounds away now for making main stage at the sixth invitational. You're right
That's a time-out from twister not a panic tax time
Which is yet the feels there's things that need to be improved worried about the clash which is being brought now for the third round
In a row which has been head coach of this team's secret squad for over almost two years
Exactly actually so has been with this team for a very long time helped build it
Respected as one of the longest-standing coaches in the game
And despite failing to shoot some default cans immediately, they are still, I think, in a strong place to bring this map back.
It is their pick. You've got to imagine they've got some tricks coming later on.
Down goes Noah, though. Shaiqo on the runout. He's been plain loose.
It's been nice to see going for spawn peeks, going for runouts, unpredictable factors that your opponent's not prepared for.
can easily knock them off stride.
Seeker's been knocked off stride two rounds in a row.
Even if their coach Twister said they had a good read on it,
they weren't able to execute on it.
And some days tripped them up.
That hold inside a library is an old one
that needs to be a bit frustrating for Seeker to deal with.
ugly almost gets a much belated trade back.
As now, a minute off of the clock,
Seeker finds themselves in a disadvantage.
And Seeker want to clear this off the position, Parker,
but it's so difficult when there's a tuber out
playing in the office position. That's where Solotov is. And as long as he's playing there,
that office wall is likely to stay closed for a very long time. You can see Mokri's
a little frustrated, wants to get it open, might have found a one-in-a-langle where
the Zoto canister is not covering, although it does look kind of frozen to me. Managed
to breach the wall one way or another, though, and that starts to give him a bit of an entry
point. Now we see the Ace Charges coming through, too. Those were thrown long ago, but finally
the freeze wear is off, and they can get some drones inside of office. Players have fallen
back for now from Falcons, but they can't give up much more space before they start the fight.
Flashbacks go out to give Mowgli maybe some coverage here as Savage peels off of his position.
They are spread out trying to clear out this top floor as best as they can.
Drones working on those solarium slash trophy stairs they had covered over by Chano.
In a lot of this map marked down, but two of these players, almost three of these players,
not even inside of the map just yet.
Two minute quiet first map.
He'll collect two as patients rewarded
as Shiko and Solotov both peek that window.
Solotov to his credit was backing up,
not looking for an active fight.
Can't say the same for Shiko.
And with that secret, we'll now take the man advantage.
There's the Azami band coming into play.
It makes those windows so powerful for the attackers.
It's Julu strikes twice.
And now with the man advantage,
Seeker can have a little bit of room to play with.
Top floor is fully conceded their way.
uses and really the only two guns on the bomb site and now it's really falling
it'll be just use this in the clash to lock things down not just free day the
users will join leaky fat will die shortly thereafter in secret well once
again successfully convert their time out so being able to talk to Twister
paying off immediately in math number one and exactly the same thing now
unfolds here on secrets map I think comes down to the patience Parker I mean they
had really good information as to what that hold was gonna look like they
He seemed aware that it was going to be an office hold, that they had to deal with that
too, Rao.
They had to get in through Piano.
Joom spent a good bit of time just out on the West balcony, watching in through the
bathroom window, watching in through Piano window, waiting for his opportunity, and when
the 2K presented itself, he went and grabbed it.
Joom sometimes thought of as the single best player in all of Europe, maybe the world he's
been hyped up to such levels before.
Some players on Falcons would like to say something about that, I'm sure.
Maybe a bit older than he used to be, but still in the prime of his career, having some ridiculous shots here at the 6th Invitational.
Coming into today, Jume and Shaco were the first and second highest rated players at this event.
And it was less than a single point in the EPS score that differentiated them.
So really, it has been a battle between these two EU boys.
Jume out on top on that one, but plenty more game to play.
Jume has played fewer rounds than Shaco, quite a lot fewer rounds.
Jume entered this matchup playing 108, Shaco was at 132, and yet just 18 kills separate them.
So much more efficient there from Jume, but again, there was a period of time where Shaco was averaging over a kill around.
And I know that that doesn't sound that impressive, but every single round you spot it and you get one kill
Whole boy teams will be clamoring to have you on that roster
It's still be of course that those kills are actually high-impact and nobody is doubting themselves
About Shaco's efficiency and his impact. He can absolutely dominate games
He doesn't usually clean up in garbage time
He's typically the one at the forefront getting early kills and then dying shortly thereafter
So Shiko being able to trade himself out massive boon.
He's done just that so far through three rounds.
He's two for two.
Flash ban absolutely necessary for Team Secret.
It was such an important part of the Falcons defense
on all three bomb sites.
It won't be available anymore.
UZUS actually played it back in round one, not Licky Factor.
He moves over to the Malusi to try to continue to slow down
some of these attackers a little bit more stationary.
But same idea, this push, this hold is very similar
from Falcons with Solpah still trying to play up
aggressive game towards library doesn't have the class to protect him this time Parker but still call for me in the
Xamarin especially for a kill right now on the window he's caught the cross Noah has him
Back a library out on that under balcony window
Demonstrating loss for solid top efak will also be dropped so secret
They are much more confident now than they were just moments ago, and it is showing and it is showing hard
It's getting hotter in here. Parker Jume is heating up these last couple of kills. These last couple of rounds
They've been very impactful for him hoping to catch one as they walk up the blue stairs users might do just that
Saw some play from Shaco on the snowmobile stairs, but he's not really looking to get aggressive
That can be successful if that can catch someone off guard then it could tilt its scales back in favor of thousands
Obviously, there are four other players on the side of Secret, but Jume was only able to net six kills in map number one across 11 rounds.
Jume's already two-thirds of the way there, and we haven't even finished round four, so still time for him to eclipse that total.
Down goes Usus, two Jume, don't you believe it? Mowgli is gone, and, well, it's Secret to double up on Falcons with a little bit more than 40 seconds left on the clock.
Infuser will need to be retrieved as now Juma's up to a bit of damage.
He's been dropped by the guns of Falcon Shiko.
Securing that kill, down he goes to the hands of Adrian and Brito.
Finished inside of Blue by Noah.
Secret finally waking up and showing what you can do on attack, on Chalet.
Tygane.
Again, I think a really good round from Juma singing his praise in the midst of that.
Obviously, the entry to get in from Library was really big from him.
Also, was catching that flank from Usus.
That was I think another big point because that was Falcon's attempts to get back into the round after they lost a heavy man count advantage
On the top floor. They know how shall a works
They want to play aggressive
They want to swing to get into those early gunfights because if they don't often the attackers can just bulldoze over the site
So tried to play aggro up and towards library didn't really go their way
Then we're watching for the flank really smart play to come up from June and even when he dies the trades are there
It wasn't too much of a focus on the baseman's are really like they recognize that a lot of these talking skies want to leave the basement
They want to roam they want to get aggressive and you know in the end people were very ready for that
So very good play coming out from the European team
We're back to being tied at to the partner
Again attackers can have an advantage on this map of some of the bombsite skew towards their side
But it does come down to bands. It does come down a familiarity
Falcons have already taken more rounds on their opponent's map pick here than they did on that fortress map.
And Fortress is what awaits us as the tiebreaker. It was 7-1 for the Falcons.
They were on the one side on that fortress map against Shopify Rebellion earlier today,
so being able to improve upon that score is good secret.
Took more rounds off of Falcons on console than Shopify Rebellion was able to as well.
as well so just goes to show that secret just in terms of braw numbers
starting up a little bit better against this other EU team
uses gets chewed I don't know if they cleared out library at all no has been
dropped as well the only one on the ground for Falcons is Solotov
Adrian dies, Moteley or Savage will need to retrieve Nela if not this round goes in
Falcons favor and he'll do so in a hurry here all the 50 seconds into action in
round five.
UZUS is so good in that corner man.
I feel like he has been unstoppable for Secret.
They can't get past him.
They tried the previous attempt to throw all of their utility at him and it wasn't good
enough so this time they said, what if we just pop a lion and jump in and try to coordinate
something to get us going but even then UZUS was ready for really clean shots to keep that
man in the favor of Secret.
Savage hunting for something in Mudroom.
Breaks open the Barricade.
doesn't find a head with it, so he has to retreat and reposition.
Team Secret are going to take this as an opportunity to re-clear over towards Pienaure.
Take this off this space. It's not being held by Falcons right now,
and as soon as they become aware of that, they can use it, try to mount a second push.
This is something they actually did quite well on console, working with man disadvantage.
They've got to be able to do that again now on Shelly.
Mowgli taking a bit of damage, marching on in after that F-knot is shot.
Now it's Leaky Fat getting tore in a thunder, but still firing back.
Two of the three remaining players on secret are gone and Savage finds himself with a wealth
of time, but no real idea as to where to go next.
That diffuse kit, several walls away from him and he will have to cross basically the
Rubicon to get over towards it.
Try to free up some space over on Blue Stairs in the name going out of Pre-Fire using that
fire extinguisher for some coverage.
Well one of the downsides of Blackbeard Jesse is you make a lot of noise. They know exactly where you're coming from
There's no discreet way for Savage to go about this.
I appreciate how much damage he's doing to that reinforcement. Unfortunately, he's not going to be able to get uses on the other side of it.
Uses might be able to see him if he continues to move in this direction. Yes, the carbine gets put to good use.
Falcons will regain the lead after surrendering the previous two rounds. It's the secret.
Same player, same corner, same site.
I mean, the Brit just really does it the best on anyone on this team.
Uses really clean play from the corner once again.
That could have been even more of a dominant round
if the boss G was in the same state it was a year and a half ago or so
because that spawn peak that was initially attempted by Solotov
could have been a kill on a previous patch, not so in 2026.
Uses again.
Just train in the right direction, you know,
focus on where this push is going to come from, not caught sleeping.
Obviously, there were no Util thrown in to support that bush, right?
You might look at it and say, oh, there's a Secretariat.
You know, they should have used some Util there,
but they tried the Util in Round 2, and it didn't work at all for them.
So they tried to catch them off guard.
They tried to go fast instead of using Util and telegraph what their plan was,
but it just didn't matter. Uses was so ready for it.
And you know what a piece of Util is that people don't have an account for?
Drones. So if you're not going to use your drones either,
the element of surprise is something that you've got to be concerned with.
Imagine how much map control secret would have had if they won that engagement against uses you control library
By now you can exert a lot of pressure on the chimney if you're playing chimney as a defender
Now you need to worry an awful lot about a little too many lobby blue stairs
You have to hold or die all of these things just kind of coming together in this perfect harmony
And obviously losing that engagement losing June so early
Well, that's not where you want it to be and use it to hold that spot
Nothing could be done the rest of the way from Falcons who now set themselves up
Chesson to be able to take this first half for two.
Saltoff has retaken the corner. I thought it was users who once again just went right back
to the spot where he was dominating but different player this time Parker and
probably less success.
He passes off immediately with the Nade being tossed his way.
And they'd accounted for that right? The moment the Nade went in he got pinged by a drone
he knows the one two punches there you gotta get out of the way or you're gonna
to get hit. You saw a tough man just escape with his lives in with his life intact.
This last time they were here to Parker, don't forget. I mean, they tried to really
hunker down inside of the office. This time they've spread themselves a lot
farther around the map. They've got players inside of games. They've got players
that were starting library. They've got players who were trying to get past the
crossfire and they do just that with more map control being held by the
Falcons, gonna slow secret down and then hopefully the players who are still in
office in piano will have a better time holding on to this, despite the fact
They don't have the two browns great disappearing out from Falcons must be frustrating secret at this point in time
a couple players dead to rights, but didn't get any of them Adrian the first casualty as we hit the halfway point of the
Round Falcons looking to make a statement here on Chalet
Imagine continuing their rampage against team secret by taking their own map
Pudging a ticket to the upper bracket or to rather the main stage through the upper bracket
But Team Secret's got something to say about that. They find two very quick kills to snatch that advantage away from the Falcons.
Reload!
Well, punches when views get come down, Parker. They drop it just outside of the dining wall, and that is filled fully reinforced.
No more hard breaching, any brand to begin with on this round, done through the striker and none anywhere else.
So they find some other way to get to the outside. If you're just trying to get through that door into dining, that's going to be a really awkward attempt to make it.
They do have the shield, even Jume is on low HP, and Breeday is holding a Nitro as he speaks,
so this is going to be really awkward to get a plant down despite the numbers.
That soft wall there is Prime Fodder for the Blackbeard shield to charge on through.
Ah, the Tunny Utilities still remaining. They got Smokes and Nades, so that will have to do the trick.
What little remainder Jume has gone, that's the Defuser dropped as well. A huge play by Breeday
that might have just saved this round. Nade goes in, uses, dies,
So martyrdom for both Lee and 2v2 and a wild swing over in West Maine.
Preet, a last man standing.
Noah and Savage are trying to tie this one together and Noah is so good.
We say Junes name a lot, but don't ever count out Noah.
The lead for Falcons is gone.
The first half perfectly tied up 3-3.
Boyfans cover your ears, but Noah is quickly becoming the best Swedish player in Rainbow Six Siege.
the way he's able to play around some of these positions that get opened up by Mowgli or even
June have been really, really impressed to watch through EML and through this tournament as well.
Noah, just some brilliant shots to clutch that one back. I really thought Brede was in a position
where he could have won that. As soon as he downs the diffuse kit with the Blackbeard,
there is nobody else in a position to pick that up. But I think time was just a little bit too
high still. The speed from Team Secret was really, I think, a benefactor for them in that round,
as they just had so much to play with 20 seconds, I believe, when that 1v2 starts.
So, lots of time to play with Noah, able to hit those shots, readjust his aim,
and have a really clean round to tie this at 3.
Could have been kind of awkward if it was a 4-2 falcon split on their opponent's pick.
Yeah, absolutely, and I feel like what you said about Noah quickly becoming one of the best Swedish players,
is a small shot across the bound, who are good friends.
I told him to cover his ears, okay? They didn't hear that.
Now they have.
Do you think they listened?
Yeah, if I say the Boyfans cover your ears, they would a lot of them wouldn't keep listening.
But now we've had a discussion about it, so now they're probably not gonna get some messages, most likely.
I did an interview with Spoight for some supplementary content yesterday or two days ago, and I've been tagged in it.
Spoight basically rated Ambie higher than Stompin', and let me tell you, I have to put on a hazmat suit to wade into those comments.
So, hearing spoits, stomping and ambi fans all collided for another over and over and over again.
Let me tell you, it's not a fun way to spend an afternoon.
So, the NOAA fans are now going to get involved too, so it's going to be a real brawl.
I'm sure Noah is amassing a steady group of fans, but he has not exactly had a ton of time at the top of EML and Tier 1 to have so many.
many and again we do tend to say jeans name and awful lot of it having a very
good day so far the stack up against the Falcons that's by the impressive no one
has the second best KD and the second highest rating right now of all
competitors barely trailing a little known guy called Traco all I've heard of
Yeah. E1, um, on the Washington?
I think so.
Is that the guy?
Yeah, be genius.
Way back in the day.
Breida is jumping into the building on the monty inside of games.
There was a roam here, but it's still kind of just June now,
walking down this spot, his phone will ring,
and he will keep watching the hatch.
Breida is not too far away from the middle, Parker.
No, and Breida and Salta both taking some licks now from this team's secret team,
as they just continue to fire bullets away, Breeday, inside of games.
He's got a good read on this back bar. He's got a read on Bar as well.
This outgoes the Nitro cell. Mowgli will take down Solotop, Breeday, impervious to the Nitro.
Linky fact, tears through the Frenchman on Team Secret, and back to even footing these teams will go.
You still haven't been able to root to him out of this position, nor have you been able to take down Savage.
So this is map control that Secret are fusing to give up.
Yuzus gonna fall to Savage.
That continues to be this two-man roam, finding success here in bar and games.
They've gotta find some way to root him out, Parker, but they've got only a standing wall.
Flash, they don't have a whole lot of utility.
Looking back, finally gets an angle.
But it took you so much time, even with Tomb going down,
Secret could maybe fall back and still find themselves in a good position.
I like this recovery from Falcons. It's been quite graceful.
Adrian and Noel will now walk towards library hoping to catch these Falcons players mid-rotate
But then opting instead to take the safety of the bomb site as their next step
I think ultimately the right call a lot of info will be gained from breeding
He stares down Noah whose last standing Shaco punishing Adrian to go for the run out
He spotted and immediately breeding reads him like a bug
Shiko gets him on the cut heading back to the site and Galkins will take their first attack.
Shiko looking so good as he yells across to his opponent. Not often a yapper, Shiko, but feeling himself up against his domestic rivals.
And again, a really good clear through that game. I was worried about how long it was taking Parker, but as I was saying my sentence,
they ended up collapsing on a couple of those frags. Looking back in through mudroom with absolutely massive, this kill right here
started that turn in the round which started to get the bad advantage then
once June goes down to the hatch he's left all alone the moment Savage goes
down no idea how Shiko wins that fight and I think in that 2-3 we just started to see
secret playing aggressive in order to par aggressive in order to get some kind of a chance in the round
lots of energy being felt by Falcons three rounds away from main stage
Every single round counts. It's a game of inches, a game of centimeters, as far as if you were over here in Europe, you and I...
...the proximity to America, no inches, quite. How good are we to use them in daily life?
Falcon's just edging out secret on so many of these rounds, and what I will say is that if you go back and you watch Consulate, and now here on Shall I Team...
Yes, Secret has committed small missteps here and there, but they've not been playing a bad game.
No, this is just Falcons and all of their practice carrying over from their matchup earlier.
Yes, they obviously know how Team Secret plays. They've played an awful lot in the EML.
They've played in the live events. They've played in the UWC and Falcons really do have their number.
But with the way Secret has turned it up a notch at this event, you've got to think eventually that trendline will break at this present moment.
moment it doesn't seem like it will be this match. I mean Jack and Leo have that great graphic at the start of our show. We know how much thousands can dominate secret especially at international tournaments. We've seen it over and over again and right now it feels like we're repeating history.
three days once again taken from space inside a game.
This looks identical to the round we just witnessed Parker,
but the bomb site is technically a floor below where it was
previously.
Why change your strategy though?
I guess if you're secret, you're confident in it.
It didn't work for you last time.
You did trade out quite well.
You got quite close with it.
Human Savage remain that duo around games who want to get
these opening picks.
Lodge bombs will go off.
The solid top will immediately hunt for one of those players.
He knows there's fun sitting upstairs at chimney.
sure looks like Adrian. So what a savages now absorbed an awful lot of damage.
They decide to scout for this raw. Do they go for it without any intel? It's all
top taking some damage. So I think the jig might be up on his position as an
entering in the basement under the eyes of secret. Uh oh. What are you doing there?
June gets taken out by savages and jumpscare. That is a devastating loss for
team secret. Just mistakes. Parker. They're trying the exact same defense that
They just tried. I mean, there's little tweaks, but in the end Falcons are adapting to it, too
They've got players in different positions. They've got Saltop coming up from the snow stairs as well
Now over to blue they start to work Brede over this spot too lots of damage onto the buck
But no kills yet and now the Monty will continue to assert himself Brede chasing away these defenders a drop
But the Malusia is there Mowbly slaughtering Saltop in this position savage regimes himself by taking out the captain of the Falcons
from long enough rain, jesus able to control that smg 12. He wants more, but he bites off more than he can chew.
adrian shutting him down. Now the advantage goes back to team sneaker at bredade with only shiko as his escort, but through the wall, shiko gets the job done.
This one's going to be tricky. Not inside the bomb site. This is not far games. Jesse with 30 seconds to go, they now need to pivot over towards kitchen.
They have to be wary of that main lobby player, Shiko, dodging in game, dodging in real life
as the bullets go over his head.
He's got to flush out Adrian, he's got to flush out Savage and he has to do so quickly,
Breeday has the attention.
Oh my God, Shiko kills them all!
Sacrifice!
Five rounds for Falcons, two away from a 2-0 victory over their regional rivals.
He just does things that shouldn't be possible, Parker.
Not from an individual, not from one man.
He's playing of course somewhat with Brite, Brite's being at destruction on the shield,
but everybody is looking for Shaco.
Everybody is trying to hunt him down, but it doesn't matter.
He's still the guy to hit those shots.
He's still the guy to step up.
Even when the time is low, even when he's got no teammate to play around, the 2v3 from
Shaco and Brite, it's absolutely perfect.
And just watch these shots again, please.
with the long angle and then he finally finds
Andrew who he could fight in all round long.
Great distraction from Breide,
but Shiko, such beautiful shots.
And yet again, I'm gonna talk about the guy
who's not getting all that love.
You gave him his flowers,
but Breide played that perfectly.
He played it so well up library stairs
to flush these players out.
He's directly responsible for the Malusi dropping down
and then ultimately getting picked off by Falcons
and then he perfectly draws out.
The last player playing on fireplace in name lobby while Shiko picks both of them off.
Without Breide that is not possible.
Go back to Consulate, talk about Breide playing inside of that small office connected to CEO.
He was also a great distracting play when he went undrown, then on the Tachanka, same
thing.
Breide had great numbers on Consulate.
He hasn't really needed to do that much from a fragging potential here on Chalet.
The point, oh boy, is he finding ways to impact these rounds without getting kills.
There is a reason why breeding is widely considered to be one of the best support players to ever
touch this game, and moments that we have seen in just this series show exactly why.
This looks like the team that's been to five grand finals over the last two seasons.
They look absolutely unstoppable.
to the basement now. Falcons need two more rounds in order to lock secret down and kick them to the lower bracket.
Thrones are strong to start. Another shield being dropped by Falcons as well. They are not ones to shy away from this.
Thumine's in library, but not really an issue. They can start to take this base and Noah's under fire.
News is starting things off. Noah is gone again. Another formidable player from secret to die.
early solotop does not expect you on that roll
Impact will go out damage has been done to use us. We're still in hot pursuit run as fast as you can
Falcons tearing through secret and just like that. It's all up to Adrian and savage to hold down this bond site
Half the round still to go Jesse I
I'm starting to smell a 2-0 the electric types need to step up from team secret
They have to be able to get aggressive to take to get this man account back in their favor of the
Valkyrie cameras unlikely to be so effective just because look at that
His hacks them first of all and sheik was able to see them as well with that scanner
And so this information is fully in the hands of falcons every advantage you could want the time is excellent
The numbers are excellent the offer is excellent still can dollars to play with as well. I don't know what the wing con is for secret
It's gonna have to be an amazing play
I think you gotta get a 2k with one of these nitro cells
which will obviously come from the Falcons stack up you can only be good
enough for a single pick at that angle and now Savage has given his position
away out goes the Nitro nothing to be done there one more remains in pocket
but now Adrian is taking quite a beating in his position. Savage trying to stay
alive as best as he can as three players from Falcons all stacked up by that
wine wall looking for an opening looking for an operator to find themselves in
the long side of their crosshairs.
Shigun and Yuzus have been taken quite a beating,
but they just rushed in,
and Falcons will ground the two electric operators
on the side of secret,
finding themselves on series point.
They just can't be stopped, Parker.
The momentum seems way too great at this point
to clear so fast through that top floor,
and don't forget, secret burned their attack timeout
ages ago, which means they have no way
to slow this Falcons team down.
They've been incredible on the roam clear.
The Blitz coming out from users, why not?
He's already been so good so far today.
On Chalet, it feels like Falcons have total momentum,
total control.
They will ban the Monti.
I like the ban.
The Shield have been a big problem, but does it matter?
Is it going to be enough when you still have
the Blackbeard to play behind?
You still have the Blitz to play behind.
Falcons have been using these Shields to get the space,
and I don't think that's gonna stop
just because of the Monti ban.
I think the timeout is a perfect example of that.
They were able, it's a perfect thing to talk about.
They were able to immediately convert two rounds off of it,
but that's all she wrote for Secret.
They have been held off the store sheet now for so long.
Their confidence looks shattered.
There's no energy on the team whatsoever.
Motivation, very clearly driving this Balkans team forward.
And is this not exactly what happened on map one?
I mean, Falcons go off to an early lead.
We get attack timeout from Twister and Secret get remotivated.
They start to win rounds over and over again,
but then once that momentum stops,
once Falcons figure out how to adapt
and they don't even need to take their own
tactile to do so, they just grab a hold of the game
and they never let it go until they hit seven.
Secret have to find some way to grab that momentum
back the same way that Falcons can.
And even if they start to do that,
Falcons have their tactile.
To their credit, Secret did win a round after three rounds.
Falcons took another round.
So timeout was called, team secret wins a round, Falcons a rather timeout is called, team secret wins two rounds, Falcons win one, team secret answers that.
That did not happen on Colorado. They won a couple rounds, then immediately they flamed out and Falcons drove it home from that point on, largely enabled by the sideswap.
But here, on the sites, on the sites,
well, Falcons have won three consecutive attacking rounds.
On Chalet, again, Chalet can be favorable to the attackers.
It just looks like Secret are finally meeting their match.
Falcons own them in EML.
Falcons have owned them internationally,
and it sure looks like they're about to hand Secret their first
loss of this event.
Top floor bomb site from Team Secret.
They've got a couple players very far from the site.
Savage all the way in the basement.
You've got Zoom as well, who's over the library side.
But I don't think Falcons care about any of that.
They're in below the site that Blitz is causing chaos.
Saltop has been downed.
Adrian's done great work from inside of dining,
but he's all by himself.
There's looking back, finding Savage now.
That flank up from the basement, finding no value at all.
And they pick up Saltop to keep that advantage on their side.
And now Flash over to Solarium,
trying to get rid of that player from Secret
who holds court in that position.
They know they've got the lesion over there.
Mowgli will draw even.
Fire air is about to go out.
Oh my, Noah's evaded in a pixel perfect position
and he will survive.
Do they get the all clear to rotate in?
What a spot for Noah to be in.
I cannot believe he evaded those flames.
Saltop now goes down to Jume's toxic babe.
Noah persisting in this spot.
Three out of Gumi, after Gumi and Falcons
went for a quick swoop into the bomb site
but it did not work.
Trying to take map control so quickly.
Secret just held steady at this point in time.
Leaky Thack very obviously wants this one away.
Maybe he's dead.
He's about to find his third kill
if he can catch Jume in his position.
Noah Mowgli the only two still standing
in the Falcons with players alive.
It's all up to Noah in a 1v3 and he gets shut down.
Team Secret undefeated.
No more.
Mowgli the Frenchman will play in front of the French crowd.
Falcons continuing their winning ways, and they move on with a 2 of victory.
Falcons look as good as ever. Look at that, hitting the flank halfway through that round, made all the difference.
They have no clue of his lurk up the blue stairs, and he takes that final round for his team.
Excellently played attacks from Falcons all day long.
They played 5 maps today, Parker. It was not a short day, but they never slowed down.
And I mean hey everybody's talked about the Falcons getting to France and lifting a hammer on home soil for three of the players because
They've got a Turk and they've got a print on the squad
These two teams know each other so well they collide in the EML they collide internationally the Falcons always has their number today
There's no exception driven largely by incredible support from uses in three day
The Fraggers were able to play so well and the Falcons take an
Unbelievable 2-0 over secret nobody played that on Falcons today. They played extraordinarily in secret, you know
In the lower bracket, I'd be afraid if I was any other team knowing these guys were coming down to face me for
Elimination they are not out of the tournament yet. They will still play tomorrow
But man scary spot to be for one of the favorites of this tournament absolutely the studio wants to talk about this match
on certain of it let's not keep them waiting. The French take flight here on
day one of phase two Leo you've got to be proud. Yeah I'm super proud but at the
same time I'm a bit sad you know team secret also our brothers they're
absolute a unit of a team. Yeah I just have to say like right now there was no
match right I think I'm looking at Falcons we said it before going into
Chalet it was all gonna be the key the gunfights and I had that one run in my
In my eyes, where I saw users sitting on site. The site is completely empty. Secret has given up entirely
They're just so so focused on fighting on the room and fighting and gunfights that they completely left side
And you know what? Falcons didn't take site. They chose the gunfights instead
Yeah, and they went and fought the roamers instead of taking the site because it was just a TDM map
Can you imagine the covers up guys guys? I'm on site. No, no
When you look at the amount of multi-kills that were achieved just by Falcons alone in the
This series, I don't know on this map,
I think I looked at the map,
and it's seven of right rounds in,
we had four multi-frags.
It's just running out of control.
I think momentum is a crazy thing.
When you've got a team that's talented
and as frag heavy as what Falcons can be,
you let them start getting on the roll.
You let them start with that momentum
and continue it through from Consular
and get on a frag heavy map like, shall I?
And it's really, really difficult to stop it.
It's like an absolute train.
And one main echo of that was Saiko.
I think on the first back, you just saw that
he was very, very beautiful to the wiener Falcons.
but I think especially on Shalei with some super important rounds.
Yes.
Like we said, if the goal and the main win condition was taking care of the runners,
look at this one, the 2v2, really baits them perfectly.
He gets the long angle and the post one afterwards.
Shaiiko was the main actor, and he was getting hyped.
He was the one getting buckled.
He was the one hyping everyone.
What I'm saying is, he's event, and he's there to win a side.
It's also there in terms of momentum and energy.
When many people said that the guy had mechanics, but he didn't have comms,
look at this piece, look at this reaction from him.
It goes to show that it's not only about the frag,
you know, it's also about the comes.
Yeah, I think so.
And he's added a lot to his game.
He's had to go through, not just being a fragger.
He's had to play a little bit more of a team oriented game.
You know, Flores is one of his main operators now,
but the energy, the hype, the comms,
it's something we seem to come into every event,
saying Falcons are focusing on this,
Falcons are focusing on that.
And they just seem to keep levelling up
through to their final form.
I think even today, like across the two best of three today,
We've seen that performance level up while focusing on different wind conditions as well.
In that first game against Shropfire Rebellion, it was very tactical.
It was about the strategy.
In the second game against Secret, it was about rolling that momentum,
winning those key gun fights, and they excelled in both today.
Shropfire Rebellion made a mistake that is very dangerous right now for any team in this tournament.
They gave hope to bathrooms.
On that 7-7 moment, on the very last map, where it could have been.
It feels like the second point.
Exactly. It could have been.
It should have been Falcons in lower bracket.
It should have been. They were in the 3D5.
There was no way out, 50 seconds left.
When they won that match, the hoop and the match was there.
The fire grew, and at that moment,
look at the Falcons we just saw, destroyed Secret 2-0.
Secret we were actually undefeated going into this.
So look, I think we're just witnessing
a rebirth of Falcons right now.
We certainly are, and you know what?
That's a really scary prospect,
because they have just made Main Stage.
I'm sure they'll talk about it in the interview.
So we're going to play in the Main Stage again,
but this time in France, their home country.
Congratulations on that.
You were really happy as you should be.
We are talking about that.
Your grandma usually calls you after the games on Snapchat.
So I wanted to really have her reaction to that.
Do you have plans on taking your family
to the venue to watch you play?
Yeah, I bring my friends, my brother,
that's my girlfriend right now in the hotel.
So, yeah, I'm really, how to say, I'm just misling word,
but I'm really happy and excited to play
in front of the crowd, the French crowd is special.
Let me, so cool.
What does it mean for you to play in France?
It's been a lot because all my friends take their tickets.
I wanted my grandma, my mom, my sister,
my girlfriend to come as well.
So this win is really special
because that will be the first time
for all of them to see us playing.
So it's amazing.
Yeah, it's going to be an interesting thing to watch.
And the crowd might be cheering for you, right?
I think so.
They should be.
Because we have three French people.
And then the staff is French from Poland, so yeah,
I think everyone will be for us.
And we'll try to bring the SAO.
OK, well, let's talk about the game.
We just watched.
I told you that I thought it was going to be three maps.
But OK, tell it.
We are done.
That's it.
What was the main thing that you focused on while prepping for Secret?
They are not an easy team to play against.
I think after the first game we just chill a bit and after that the most important thing is to be confident on what we will do
and follow the game plan and just be active on the communication and that's it.
Yeah, you told to Marlish about the chilling after game one, how important is to take care
of your body, of your mental health, how does that affect you during the tournament days?
I think it affects a lot.
If you sleep well, if you work out a bit for your health and also for your mental and your
brain to do something else than just working on the game, on my side it affects a lot.
It's meant a lot to be a good player and a consistent player.
Did you take a nap after the other game one?
No, we even could not because the free game was 2-0.
Yeah, it was too fast.
So, no, that was too fast.
We didn't have like the time to order food, eat, and then instantly pay.
So, I'm happy it was only two maps.
Well, okay, I took much of your time, but I need to talk about the fortress map in the
game one.
It was a 1-7 for them and for you.
But you still left it open.
So it shows how confident you are in that map, even with the mistakes that you made.
I think she's more out of shape.
She will give the good answer for that.
I think for Tres we work on this map a lot.
We are still confident on the map.
Some bad map can happen. I don't think for Tres is the problem.
I think we just did some idiot mistake, I would say.
And that's why we are not scared to play secret on this map.
Okay, okay. Go call your grandma, go call your brother, your family, congratulations.
I'm happy for you both. And we see you all in the main stage. Bye-bye.
Not yet. We're not there yet. I don't worry about it.
Two more days, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But honestly, I mean, I think it means so much.
Like we saw it in Sao Paulo when we saw the Brazilian teams make main stage, right, Leo?
Like there is something about home turf that just changes an approach.
I think it's a double, it's sure. Obviously, I didn't go to an Asai in Paris,
but I played, okay, the Grand Final of French Cup.
But I will still say that having my family there for the first time,
having my brother and my parents watching me on stage, playing the Grand Final,
it made me nervous.
You know, it either can boost you, either can give you some extra stress.
You don't want to disappoint them as well.
I'm wondering how much that will have an impact on a team that has suffered stress and nerves before.
Is that going to impact them early on on the main stage?
Or will they manage to go to Grand Finals and this time maybe win it?
That's going to be a big question. I think many eyes will be on that. They might might be used on the hope though
I will say it's scary off every of a team in the lower bracket
And with the way the routine is gonna go we might have all of the rest of the European teams going home tomorrow
Well, let's actually have a look at what you're talking about there
It's just like back on the results of today. Yeah, because it just it really hasn't looked all that great for the European rosters granted
I think, what, we only saw two play today?
Am I mistaken?
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
I mean, two drop down, that's my apologies.
But Tim Heretic's losing early on.
I mean, that was a pretty pivotal moment for their campaign,
but by God, the fury will look good.
Yeah, and I think that was expected.
I mean, they were facing the world champions.
And let's just remind everyone that these guys were
still in here to only a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, some big surprises as well.
I'm thinking Space Station taking over M18 or 2-0.
I thought I was going to be a bit closer.
And looking at this, I think that Flux
So taking a map of phase with the way face I'm looking that domain as well.
Yeah, he's still surprised looking now at the upper and lower bracket.
And that's exactly what you say, Jack.
Yeah, could be a dire, dire day for Europe tomorrow.
Yeah, of course.
So phase, Furia, Falcons, all confirmed main stage in the winner.
Currently of space station, a wild card will then confirm main stage.
But that top line of the lower bracket is where it could go very wrong for Europe.
These will be the games when we talk about tomorrow's fixtures.
Well, MAT against G2 in the lower bracket.
Loser goes home.
The winner of that play secret loser of that goes home. Let me remind you, I made
sure the current major champions and believe they play their best siege when
they're under the coach and when they're against great teams. That could be
crazy. Obviously, Heretics been a tier two team. We don't necessarily expect them
to progress through to the main stage. Sure. Even if they get through, they've got
Fluxo W7M to play. So for tomorrow, for Europe especially, it could be a very
dark day at the Sixth Invitational. Rob, did you just treat the break-ins?
Am I noticing three teams of APL facing each other in the low bracket?
I thought I saw Daystar and D-plus facing each other and going up to Able.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see you there.
Let's go back and look at reload, either.
Let's just focus on that tomorrow's matches instead.
As you said, at Daystar and D-plus, they go head-to-head on the B-stream to kickstart the day.
But it is the A-stream that I think we all have eyes on.
G2, N80, Fabian, G2, it just does not give up here at PSI, does a big dog, Leo.
No, absolutely not. I'm looking at this too and I'm thinking, wow, whatever happens,
we're looking at a super team after G2 who had their struggles throughout the group stage,
but also that have hundreds of thousands of fans behind something that want to see him
lift a trophy, sure. And it's not looking good. And on the other side, you've got the major winners
that once again, just like when they did in Manchester after winning an event, they disappear
and they're looking shambles and this comes back to the fact that you know group stages and the first placing groups was actually secured by
Teams that were maybe not expected, you know the way bozled wildcarts of this world that sorted the bracket into this way
It's a ps fault and run
Okay, there we go
What'll use just in it's all my fault. It's all small okay fair enough
You know what? I'll take the blame, but fortunately you won't have to sit with this blame for much longer because that is all we have for phase
two day one on the A stream but as we just mentioned Wildcard and SSG are
going head-to-head right now we'll leave you watching what should be an
incredible map two and potentially map three take care
Ashen into CEO is the only one left he dies to the repel
so many ways to counter that play more than anything the fact that they have
the yokais but credit to wildcard he went fast played off the smokes the glass
combo with the quick blitz plant and it worked tenth round wildcard retake the
lead with the last two rounds straight that's a massive kill from Bay down
below by the way freed up more repel played later in the round which
which ultimately wasn't necessarily needed, but there is a world in which that control
could have been pivotal. If Asher was able to get on the fiaso with some presence everywhere,
it could have been very difficult for Wildcard to win that in the post. If they landed that
key shot, the rest of the team also did their job, and despite losing the first pick, that
plant inside of the smoke ended up being a really great heads-up play from Wildcard.
It gives them lee in the series as we enter into round number 10. We go down to basic objective
An ssg electing to go double info denial with both the echo and the maestro on this occasion
in play the chanker can lay it down utility as well so the expectation will be that ssg probably
hold off on much of a roam, could be a fall off potentially with right hatch open, but
I've already used the bent strap once of him lurking over the wall to open. The anticipation
will be that it's a far more traditional basement site this time around than the defense.
Two rounds away for Wildcard, how are those nerfs for them? They lock in a main stage
appearance. The lockers and CCTV will certainly be a difficult ask and it's
going to be mainly a bunker hold for SSG. Newellers will start open area, you
imagine he'll drop pretty quickly.
I did not get that drone by the way.
He wants to play low risk as hypothesized earlier.
the key operators really to look at later on are going to be the Ashen on the
maestro and vaults on the other side. Oh I like this a little bit of info towards
Square just to get a bit of an idea are they setting up for a default server side
here if they're not then more so maybe Lobby side obviously they've opened up
that vault have opened up elevator and what that then means for SSG is they can
then reposition off this information get Jano known to a better position to use
that to Chenka.
Fault is on that square Yokai, so he's getting information now by Kansan opening up with
secondary hard breach towards square, he'll communicate that over, he also spots a dash
over towards electrical.
The benefit of having that whole actual Yokai, that gets shot, it's like, okay, well, I got
two more.
Yep, check the garage lurk, the echo is so powerful.
Nitrosol from Ben to the baby shark.
Well that's perfect heading into the final 45 seconds of this round and it will be rather
default by Wildcard.
The monster came as being a nuisance, look at Dasher's health from that.
another camera inside of CCTV room itself to potentially chip him down later on as well.
I don't know if you can go default here. You're gonna have to spread. Go vault,
go elevator, try and wrap around the site. Dash will probably be the one that has to
come in from server almost by himself. A plant seems incredibly unlikely.
The plant can happen if they draw presence elsewhere and that's exactly what they're
doing but they lose spike on the drop. Over towards open hatch. Kensen does get one but
Dash then losing his life and this round's done. No time for Bay to clutch this one.
They're gonna go 5-5. SSG holding strong in the basement of Bank, but the real test for them
defensively will be above basement. I mean the amount of UTL they had was great. Yeah, I mean that's
exactly right. And Wildcard would never have any point in the round in a position to plant and
and they also couldn't paymate because of the amount of information that was on offer against the split push too.
MyCup probably could have had another 30-45 seconds in that round,
but I still think it would have been a very similar end result.
I mean, the Microsoft didn't help either.
You're 4-5, the Maestro can down blue stairs, nothing's working.
And to be fair, I will say, I think the adaptation for Wildcard
to understand that if we all just push server, not gonna happen.
It went for vault, elevator, open hatch, drop.
But it then just becomes you basically all have to hit your shot and win the 1v1s that you create
And not enough of that happened double digits for Benja
And double digits for Dash have been the best for their respective teams in terms of the KD department
Round 11 5-5 on this second map wild card winning fortress 7-2
It started bank with a three-nothing lead as well
It was a nine round win streak for Wildcard until SSG finally woke up.
Four rounds straight back from them, took the lead.
Then Wildcard started to gain the ascendancy once again.
And here we are, now all tied on the second map.
Clubhouse the decider, if SSG could get the job done.
And they bring the blitz.
Staff open, expecting this top floor clear.
You heard from you as he wanted to bring the Azami and play stock.
He will do that.
So there's not me hold over to it, so I'll keep the Newellers in a position where you can still heal back if required.
Oh god, top-square entry point, canzen.
To get aggressive ones to try and catch Newellers maybe.
Oh, but Ashen!
Wow!
Double kill with the Nitro, Benjara Newellers in the meantime.
Find one, a piece, and in the blink of an eye,
It's a 1v5. It's over, the round's done.
It's a 2, you're gonna have a map point.
Bash needs a 1v5 ace. A 1v5 ace.
The round never even begun. You could clearly see what Wildcard wanted to do, and they did this last time out.
If you think back to the 8th round, it was a big success for them.
Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what you have to answer to that if you wildcard. It's just a free round for SSG
They go 6-5 locked up overtime good nitrosol usage prepared for that blitz rush up above
Not your bomb rings for Dash knows that no one's close by that stock has been vacated
Benja is actually able to war front desk
They've been very disciplined to not just rush a dash and give him a 1v1 to then make
it a 1v3.
Of course, dash is not going to give up on this.
If it was a regular player, they maybe just send it.
This is an upper bracket quarter final.
What's Ashley got to say?
Six five to SSG.
The round was done about a minute ago.
I thought the Towers called us a troll, but they actually are going to go Towers.
Well, they're actually going Towers archives.
I respect it.
At 6'5", map point for SSG, they've elected to go tell us archives.
How many times have we seen tell us archives so far at SIGOS?
Would you like to take a guess?
No, I don't want to.
I'm just going to follow suit and take a guess anyway.
Ten times?
Once.
Damn.
I was one in there.
100% take a win rate.
with a 100% attack at win rate. And SSG, elect to go, tell us archives for the final round
of regulation on this second map. What have they got cooked up in the strapbook?
Well they bring the castle that utility likely some what to be invested up above here I presume
to try and defend against the third airlock in the best position to place those and I
think that ends up being the case for the newers. They would want to prevent the wildcard
from getting in up above and activating the ram. So the Kali is like an extension.
Yeah, the Kali in play, so Tool Lidge available to deal with that at range.
This could shape up to be one of the more interesting tactical rounds between the two so far.
Yeah.
And the pressure more on Wildcard now for this at least one single round.
This is Janker Overtime, secured at minimum.
There's Clubhouse on the way. Welcome Wildcard Force Overtime.
You hear the next car is going off as they have got Dash on that repel looking towards Canto.
How long we're top spiral?
Nua's just very lucky.
Could have easily got shot there by Dash, it would have been a big open kill for Wildcard.
Dash is away towards elevators.
Nitro line up from Ashen, Wildcard still yet to get boots on the ground despite the peel
back from the rest of this SSG defense.
It's newest, over towards elevator shaft, Jane, I know it was well stock haul, but you'll likely peel down main and does so, chip it away a bit of that drone economy.
There's a yokai square and there's a yokai lobby, so both sides of the map are being watched by faults, a lot of information being received for SSG.
Kansan now makes his way in. Top floor, towards CEO.
Benjo Nitro down below, he's got it in his hand.
Benjo, can he fight an impact with this nitrocell?
It's the only one that they've got left remaining.
While they have got position to be able to play it,
it could have a huge impact.
But he puts it back in his pocket and wants to hold it for a little bit longer.
Can Foltz lobby maybe feed information? Does he have an angle to support Bender on that Nitro?
Or maybe even newest before to meantime start the plant?
Into archives going for the plant.
Bender is still at least close into Talos, but the plant will go down.
There was no response, no movement from Bender.
Wildcard, get the plant down inside of archives.
Bender held his position with that, got the kill onto Spiker, dashed through lobby.
Makes the move now on the Carly in the post plant.
We hear the Razorbloom in the background and it gets the kill on to Dash.
Big utility for J9O.
Has one in pocket, false to get on, but a huge kill from Bay, creates a 1v2.
Seven seconds, another one on to J9O, it's only Ashen that's left.
And he's running out of time.
He has no time.
We go to overtime as Bay clutches up for Wild Card.
Let's go!
Don't do this!
We need to speed up on attack, if they were taking too long to get in, though.
The pocket pick from SSG, falling short.
They take a massive risk, and it doesn't pay off.
Great attack from Wildcard.
Good work in the post.
Over time is theirs.
And they'll continue on that attacking side.
A more traditional selection this time out from SSG basement for the opinion. I mean, it's a ballsy move
They go tell us archives when you got the one opportunity to close the map out and go to map three
But you had overtime secured you got double defense over time
Just allowing that plant to go down though with benjamin towards talus
You had yokai's that could have been in play to deny the plant archives just
Well done from wildcard to their credit
Really stepping up here in this series.
At least we get a close one on the Sackermap because Fortress was just incredibly one-sided.
Across the series in terms of the numbers, only one player.
Who's been able to cross 20 kills?
Kansan.
Bander on 19 and Bay on 19.
We heard of course that Wildcard want to speed up their attacks, but if I'm gonna be honest,
I don't think you can go too fast here to begin overtime on Lockers and CCTV.
Naturally, it's got to be slow pace
SSG offering nothing here in terms of a roam they're gonna play very much for site defense
Yeah, Neewer's open at the moment, but again, he'll chip away
Maybe a drone or two if that's what you can find alongside our main stairs
And then he'll make a very low risk effort feel back towards the site and default for J9O smoke blue stairs
Oh, this isn't oh
Into the black beard it should be opting to fall back and drop this hat
But he does have the help with the yokai bursts
So that's the reason why he has stayed there. The yokai goes down
And so does new as he's now dropped all five SSG towards the basement
Janano will hold blue stairs three gas babes
And that will be the next task for wildcard to click his position
I don't mind that little heads up opportunity maybe for SSG to pluck the Blackbeard but
it doesn't quite work out and Neewers hit that glass as you till it will be much better
served in the late round.
Oh Nitros I'll throw through the hatch will not hit that was from Neewers.
There's one left for SSG.
No to Chanker in play so there'll be a reliance on the smoke and the Echo for Aerithanile.
I
Tense around to begin overtime J9o
How much does he commit he commits blue because he's gonna have to be for people he's got the yokai to help him
So it's not just J9o. Yes, it's J9o plus false
Plus four players from our card looking to calm him down and we got a hatch opened up
He's now stuck here. This is a big battle as long as you can get at least one kill
Oh, headshot onto the black beard drop done. You'll take it one for one
but here come the ROUs now from Bay as Wildcard start to push through default
server there is a yokai inside CCTV, FOLTs will need that to be around to stop
this plant he can't lose this one. Love this angle from FOLTs if he can commit to
an Asher Nitro. Ripped. I don't think it's been effective though. 20 seconds, time running low. Wildcard are gonna have to start to
Flood this site, allow someone to get the plant down, Kansan hits the hedgerow on to
Benja, Volts will have to stay alive and trust in this Yokai and he falls!
No Echo, no Warden, no SSG, Wildcard!
Straight on through, take Basement Bank!
Match series point!
Great Flood there from Wildcard, it felt like the utility shortage from SSG,
Improving costly with no to tanker up the smoke committed to blue the nitro is used the both miss nothing was working
Nothing worked. They got nothing out of the nitro's they couldn't they couldn't I mean the only thing they got at least was Jane
I know shut down the blackbeard
So you playing that blue stairs position if you can get at least one and it's on to a powerful operator like the blackbeard
That's fine. He at least gets that but nothing else works for SSG
Game's not over yet. Look right here.
So, wildcard. Two opportunities.
They can book their place to the main stage at 6th invitation on 26th.
And it has been so deserving.
But you have to finish the job to be rewarded.
So to top 4 we return, it was a talking point back when we had these bands in play.
And this was won twice by SSG by the way, and only once by Wildcard, because the Habana
has remained available.
It's been a big talking point counter, there's been a lot of pressure SSG centering these
attacks over the wards lobby.
We could see a change in theory here for the reattempt and maybe something more over the
wards top square, it's certainly not impossible, it could be Cypher piles in play as well with
the sense. Very very very intrigued to see what kind of strategy SSG wants an
employer given past success but the pressure of this moment. The pressure
certainly is at a high point if SSG lose this round they're gonna go low or
bracket.
For dismantling M80 earlier today they looked in hot form but Wildcard
of pink just even hotter. You're up from baby shark towards long desk.
Kendo wall is still electrified.
He's that spy crew in bay can play this hallway safely for the time being.
Our forces over on Cypherpile so he's in no position to open that wall.
SSG again, likely sent him for direct hit based off the ROU, unless they like to pivot their limits back.
Okay, I'll be there, not close by to site though, for, say, Flame Boltz to push out the Janitor player in Kansan.
So if they do this, it's not gonna be fully in sync, and a big open kill though, for Dash onto Ashen, no more ROUs.
Those screens that you see, once they go down, they stay down.
You no longer have the sends, you no longer have Ashen.
Player advantage for Wildcard. Four players left up for SSG. Lower bracket seems now likely.
Who's going to be the one to stand up as Jane I know finally rotates over.
The repel the smokes, blocks off the vision to Janitor. But it's a little bit limited.
One of them got caught that the layering here from SSG is so volatile.
Bay over the wall. Star goes for the peek. Almost got the kill onto Benja.
But he too himself is now at half health from that mishap. Oh, Bench are caught lacking, but the trade was quick
They should go down no one close by for the rest as the DMR from dash connects on to false as wild card now
Me a moment away from main stage at SI down to J90 a spiker confirms new is it's a four versus one
It is done Wild Cards! Cinderella year continues to new heights here at the Six Invitational.
They are off to the main stage as they defeat SSG 2-0.
I'm breaking next and I'm running out, though I can't go and stuff in my money life, cause I can't, I can't dance on this running up, I'ma keep it going till I'm not left.
I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going till I'm not left.
That window is closing. We only have one shot at this.
Run until the night and there's nothing they can hold to strike
Just feel the fault in my heart till the lights go out
If I go dead into the dark won't be turning out
I'm going to slap every contour
Cause I'm human, just like you
We get totally proved
Cause I'm human, just like you
Like you
You and I, it's like we're in a dream
That I can't sleep tonight
Every shadow had to spark in size
As to what I've discussed
Will become some more night
I still afford to ring my heart
To the last word
If I go down into the dark, I won't be turning now
I'm gonna break on through, cause I'm sure they just like you
We get so high, we'll live through
Cause I'm sure they just like you, like you
Oh
the game. Welcome to the
playoffs at the six
evotational where are 16
remaining teams will battle
all the way to next Sunday.
Want us going to make history
and lift that hammer. My name
is and I'm joined in the studio
by Foxy and Alexing. We're
starting to feel the excitement
a little bit. Yeah, we sure
are. I mean, groups was amazing.
It was so competitive and we
were talking about that. We
didn't know how competitive
this event was going to be.
There's teams that we really
haven't seen make it this far,
and so I'm excited to see them
continue to say, I feel like
what to expect, we don't know what it's going to be,
but what we do know, it delivers.
Well, have a look at the bracket to see
where our 16 teams are placed
inside of this double elimination bracket.
For us, all the teams that placed fourth in groups
will already start in that lower bracket,
but if you were first, you have an extra round
or a nearby inside the upper bracket,
and all the other teams on your top left
of your screen in the upper bracket,
you have an extra life, so if you lose a game,
you're not going to send home immediately.
Yeah, ideally you want to be at the top of the bracket,
you get an extra life, but it's not the end of the world.
We've seen teams at the bottom
go for an under bracket run to be able to lift their own hammer.
One of those teams is actually G2,
and they find themselves in that lower bracket
alongside Daystar, OXG, and IP.
So yes, the pressure is on the shoulders,
but sometimes pressure makes diamonds,
and going through the lower bracket is your best friend.
Yeah, it's certainly not the prettiest place
you want to find yourself,
but if you do want to find yourself
in the prettiest of places,
it's definitely going to be that game
where you're one round away from,
if you make it, you are one then,
you're on main stage no matter what, win or lose.
So you're looking at wildcard,
you're looking at bades, you're looking at Wave-O game,
and you're looking at team secret,
They just need that one win, and they're making Main Stage no matter what.
Yeah, it's a big thing, of course, for them to keep in the back of their mind.
But it's clear that the Guts are over, and only the best teams are here.
And just like we always do we jump into the panorama to review what has already happened
But this time we're taking it for the whole group stage
So looking back at the first five days of action and we'll let you guys aside in the twitch chat as well
But I'd like to have you to debate a little bit about the monster the best player of the group stage shopping with you
It certainly has to be June for me
I mean when you look at the way that he plays and what he does for his team
He plays that disruptive role whether it's on the box whether it's on the dope
He is such a key piece for all of secret success so far here and he's also the second high-rated player
event so I mean June is a good pick but it's from an expected team secret is
making their name stay as a team that always makes it the main stage for me
it has to go with the underdog Waybo reach specifically he's been such a
pivotal piece to Waybo getting first in their group having such amazing success
and he's that player that is always consistently dropping double digit
kills regardless of who's up against so from you know an underappreciated region
in the APL and Waybo a team that we don't talk about too much I think it has to go
to the underdog I feel like you got longer than 15 seconds for me I think
production was still on me on the bus right now. I felt a little longer personally.
That's up the chat to pick. Yeah, that's how it goes.
You can voice your opinion in the Twitch chat with the poll running currently as well.
We do have the movements, the biggest thing that happened inside of the group stage.
And I mean, we had to pick one thing, the final game, G2 punching their way into the
playoffs by beating the reigning world champions.
I mean, it could have been any single round. It had to be the whole game when it came to
phase G2, the elimination game for G2 to potentially go home.
Things are dire. They're playing against FaZe, a team that has been dominating throughout the group stage.
All the pressure is on the shoulders of G2, and wow, did they perform, did they show up?
Specifically, Stompin and his beautiful round 10 to be able to save the hopes of G2.
Push it to one round further for him to be able to clutch.
I mean, it was legendary to see such a young player in a situation like that pull it off.
I mean, even in this next round, I mean, I said this lawyer was such a beautiful play
to sneak up Metal Stairs to be able to go for one frag for the next, and then to close it out in three.
And again, to B-Face, this was the team that was deciding your future year in Invite.
That you had to fight tooth and nail, and they succeeded, it was insane.
Yeah, it was the only game on that side you were watching it with a few telemembers in the green room,
and that room was just going crazy with every round, the closer that G2 got.
And we see it time and time again when G2 is with their back against the wall,
they seem to be so much better. They lock in, and they secure a playoff.
So for a lot of European fans, this is a big thing.
Yeah, you'd like to hope so. I mean, for G2, it takes sometimes a little bit of discomfort.
It's almost being sent home to be able to power up, get a big win,
and maybe it'll propel them to play a lot more confidently going towards the hammer.
We're seeing some...
Hold on, I was about to say, I feel like I'm ruining a seed right now.
Seed bonding, I guess, what this is.
We'll talk about that one when we put the schedule, and we talk about our games at Fort today,
because you do see team heretics over on the side here at the ace room.
They'll be playing a game momentarily,
But in general, the must see for today's game.
So, of course, we had to pick a game that is already fully decided, right?
Every winner of these early games today will have to play another game later today.
But when we pick about the must see, we have to talk about Falcons and Shopify rebellion.
Two teams that we always see at these international events going up against each other.
And I'm sure there's going to be fireworks inside of that game.
We hear on the ace, and we'll talk about Fyria and Heretic's Doth.
Fyria coming into this matchup as the second place team,
They got to pick their opponents and normally with Fiora, you know, they've been here before they they plan it down perfectly
They do their research, but every single time they seem to lose that game
So when speaking to the players we heard that this time around
They did a coin toss and they let faith decide opponents
I mean, it's a good way to go about it if you're Fiora you're one of those teams that it's about confidence about pride for them
If they go too long without winning a trophy winning a tournament they power up
They bring everything to the full aspect and a lot of that comes down to players on the team that
consistently put up amazing stats for me.
Fellypox is definitely that player that you want to watch out for because he is
always so consistent, but leading the team as well is something that is so difficult
from an eye-to-eye perspective.
Yeah, and I love that you mentioned Fellypox because we're at the six-invitational.
This is a team that is comprised of world champions.
They won the Invitational back in 2024, and again, if you're going to highlight one player,
it's going to be Fellypox.
Look at all of these first-place finishes.
There isn't someone that's doing it better than him outside of his teammates, of course,
but he is the goat undisputably.
You can't say his name without adding goat next to it.
And I feel like in the glue stage though,
you know, having dropped the map against Deyster,
having dropped the map against Felgans,
of course the Felgans being the goat.
I feel like people are slowly starting to figure them out.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's funny you mentioned that because in Munich,
he was the ninth highest rated player at the event
in comparison to the rest of his teammates.
So it's interesting when you're looking
and comparing the two, currently at the six inventational,
something that stuck out to me was you're looking
at the operator bands, all of these operator bands
are kind of depicted and directed at Fellypox.
And for me, it's a big question of,
why are you going towards Fellypox?
Are you trying to target the brain?
Are you trying to make sure that they can't find success?
Fact of the matter is, Fellypox, sure,
statistically, he isn't performing at his peak
like he was in Munich,
but he's still able to lead very decisively.
They're still winning their rounds,
they're still winning their matches,
they're still finding themselves in a very good position.
So it's a big question of,
now our team's gonna see that,
okay, maybe it's not worth going this route.
Maybe we need to look at another key of the puzzle
and focus somewhere else.
it's impossible to ban out the IGL. He has all the strategy in his brain. He knows what to be able
to flex if something is taken off the board. It's very common for the IGL to be able to have all
of those questions answered. And that being said, Furia has always looked human. I mean, when we
talk about their inter-regional play in the SAL, they don't necessarily look like the dominant
Furia that wins trophies, but then they come to an event, they power up, and it's a different
beast altogether. It is, and I'm so glad we're talking about Felly Pox so much. So we decided
to have Nemals check in with him for a chip down memory lane.
When I say Redskull Esports 2019, what does that make you think of?
Good old times with my friends.
Can you give us a bit of background for those that are not in the know?
It was my amateur team when I was playing underage.
It was with Alimon, who is now in G2, Lagoones had coached from Wildcard, Raps from Elevate.
So a lot of names that are now in the scene.
And we were playing together under age, amateur tournaments.
So really nice.
A great kiss for him inside of this game as we look at Fiora inside this hurdle.
And yeah, we talk about this so often. This team is at every single international event,
a stark contrast to their opponents for today.
For some of them only their first event here, when we look at heretics.
And I mean, they're making a lot of points and getting into this position.
It may be a bit of a surprise for some people, but it's really good to see a tier 2 team from Europe make it this far.
I said this is a moving goal post with this roster every single win everything that they do is going to be an accomplishment
Can't write that off. I mean fact of the matters
They're going up a very big opponent today against spirit, but it's not to say that they can't do it
They have a phenomenal roster who is still managing to prove why they are the underdog and why they should be taken very seriously
Yeah, and even though they are a very young team. They have a very
Experience play style they have the most amount of operators played throughout all the teams in the tournament
But there is one constant that has always played an operator.
Would you like to guess what operator that might be?
On attack?
On attack.
Say Dokubi?
Dokubi is second, but it's actually Grimm.
And both of those operators, thank you for mentioning Dokubi,
come down to information gathering.
And that's Heretic's playstyle.
Something that is a very experienced playstyle to be able to go up against.
There's teams that have been playing for years that don't establish a playstyle like this,
of taking all of the time early round to figure out where their execute is going to come from,
and then pinching down in the last couple of seconds.
and it's something that shows their flexibility.
We commend teams like MAD for having that flexibility.
I think Heritage deserves that same commendation.
Speaking of their experience, it's only the second time ever for this roster they go up against a team from Brazil.
So that's certainly something, but I want to talk about the flexibility as well, right?
Would you have to pick two players from this roster to really point out as the best performers so far? Who would you pick?
I mean, it has to be obvious that the flax players, when it comes to Groovy and flaxy,
those two players have been skyrocketing in the charts,
both of them the top 15 players of the tournaments individually,
but when it comes down to the flexibility they play any single which operator they must need
for the execute for the strategy and we commend flexi for his interviews off server but inside of
the server he's individually putting up immense numbers of just being put into positions closing
out rounds and groovy on his entry abilities being able to entry on different uncommon operators like
flores any single operator is something that is very difficult for a rookie entry to do so
his experience is definitely shining oh it's definitely shine through one thing I really
enjoy about watching Groovy's playstyle that you can even watch today I'm sure
through their Fury match. He's very elusive, he's very precise and when he
decides to attack now I will sometimes I will say he does overstep a little bit
but the fact he is doing so well on that entry I'm really curious of how Fury is
going to try and deal with that because if they can't stop Groovy they are
going to set heretics up for a lot of success down the road. It's a good
objective for Fury. I want to talk map veto as well to see where this series
will be taken to and something we've noticed in the group stage is that
Heretic seem to always lose the first nut in these best of threes. They get the first big though and we're going to bet
I mean honestly, I just I just got to throw my card away at this point
I mean thanks. This is a very very risky pick for the side of heretics
I mean yes, both teams have currently played this both teams did lose
But you have to look at the team of fury and the teams that they even lost to sure they star wasn't the best performance
But again, fear ya bank being such a big map in the sal region one of the favorites by far
It really makes you question why they're going there and for me it's more of if they get that win their mental game
Going into that clubhouse is going to be
Astronomically high
I think heretics is pretty well set up when it comes to the bank
I mean when you look at just the fundamentals how the map is played
Heretics has been able to show us info gather and be able to show us what it's like to use the utility to deny
Plants to be able to focus on the objective game. Sure. Yeah, what's their bank going for gunfight?
So it's a little bit of a hot and cold situation, but for me, I'm always going to favor the more defendants
Sipsided team and heretics going on a map like bank clubhouse is anybody's game
That's where I would give it more to furia because it's a very common ground
You have to be flexible you have to be able to throw something that the other team has never really seen an individual players
Furia has that beat, but if I'm heretics, I'd imagine they need to get map one or else they're not getting map two
So far determined. That's a little bit difficult. Do you think we're going to get to a decided if we get to Shelly?
I think if we do get to a decider honestly, I won't be able to tell you who's gonna win at that point because it should be a
Miracle if we do get to a decider given that like I said just bank really is a big head scratcher for me
But again if you're gonna go against the Giants you should go in swinging and I think that's exactly what they're doing with
Set themselves up going into bank. Yeah, I agree completely
I think it's gonna be a 2-0 either way
But that being said I really like that that the giant you go up against the Giants you got to go in swing
That's exactly what heretics is bringing to it
I mean going to a map like clubhouse going to a map on the third one by Chalet
I don't think we see that if it goes to a Chalet it very aggressive side and map
That's where theory is gonna have the edge
Heretics will be challenged
We'll be able to see a new version of them if they can match that aggression in the second and third map that being said I believe
I believe in the heretics. I like to see the vibes at least
I mean they must be feeling happy must be in our country though
We see a little bit of a yarn maybe if you're just not having fully woken up
We get the chat to our cast is though because this match is almost ready
We're joined by Ace and Dez without a quality matchup for for you two. We do. We always have an undone. Don't we, Tim?
I mean, what a way to start the day. We had a little yawn from her, you know
This one was like, yeah
Yeah, I love it. What do you two think though? Do you think we're gonna get to it a cider?
Do you feel like there is a big possibility one day two teams wins? I'm a little bit worried for her. It takes it from on itself
I think this this might be a
bit of a big hurdle. Well, okay.
They're very much middle of the
group as well. And right like
they're banging the middle. They're
beat those that are below them.
They've lost to those above them.
Yes, it was to one, but still
haven't shown up. I think to
really tangle with the top. And
sadly. Furia are the top, though.
That said, Brits love it in the
dog story. Yeah, I think it's
crossed. They are the big on the
dog inside the story, though. Can
they finally get the first
They are the big on the dog inside the story though. Can they finally get the first half of their own magic over the line?
Let's go and find out. Let's do that indeed and thank you very much
Yes back to get things under way to what a series to get moving with as well because also the winner of this goes on to face
Wave-O later today. That's gonna be a screamer of a game as well
Brilliant games coming out of the back of the start today
So let's see what happens as you might expect
Most of you at home are behind Furia and it's not a big surprise. Yeah, it's understandable. I mean everybody had a day off yesterday
I remember when you know I was a fan at home watching and you'd have that day off games
And it was always like you're itching to get back into them and I certainly the case with this one
It is right well
Let's get into it and heretics fighting off on the defensive side. Fury are on the attack
so
Maybe you look at this to take a fury of being on the attack and I'm not right back
You're gonna see them right away that first half team
But hopefully heretics can show a little bit of something they have played this map a few times this week
It hasn't been the best and one once on it and lost twice to fury
I've got a lot of recent tape to go on, which I think is why this makes a lot of sense to pick for them.
Yeah, I'd agree. I think the bands are going to be particularly interesting.
Of course, our desk is spoken at length on both sides, really, about how the bands have been
effective fury, particularly for Leapox, a lot of our popular bands, Monty Grimm, for example,
are the operators that he plays as well. And we're seeing it have that knock-on effect onto his stats.
and on the side of heretics, they've spoken about that use of duckery, of grim, of building
Intel, and it's going to be particularly important. They are going to be, you know, looking towards
that second half when they're on attack to be developing that kind of strategy. But we'll see,
you know, when we get there, how those bands come in, but Monty, Glass, both big bands that kind of
target Feli Pox in that, like, but target Furia in general. This is their style of play.
The glass definitely will say more is a target and the monty is like our most fun. Yeah true.
Sitting at like a 60, 65% pan right now, way ahead of anyone else.
And I just think we've seen this real lead towards Monty.
He's wasting a lot of black beer being brought out, which Tim, funnily enough, is Furious's most played operator.
The problem is that you ban away operators like these two, you do leave the Grim available.
And Grim has been, I think, our second most picked attacker behind Dockabee.
Yeah, we speak about Dockabee all the time, crazy strong operator, but just behind that is the Grim.
So you will see it right this game. No doubt already seeing her jumping on to it in round one
And for Leacock, Timmy's going through a little waddle through the garage. I think you're on enough
Yeah, very possibly
We will keep an eye on Fairpox see exactly where he's gonna push with that one for anybody unfamiliar with knock
Of course, she's able to remove Kevlar vigil and remove her visual signature from the cams so can
Sneak, sneaky sneak in there without being seen any actions that she takes like sprinting or
shooting, things like that, then it will cause a bit of a glitching view on the camera, but obviously it relies on somebody watching,
it relies on somebody seeing it. So a real opportunity for Fully Pox to maybe get himself into some difficult spots.
I'm just having a look through the positioning of Heretics. They've got a number of players up here outside, away from site,
just looking to get active in the map, which I think is definitely the right way to play it.
Hike Flexi opens up with a big double, make it three!
Taking down a good portion of Furia.
Unless you live up to the name,
that's a bit of a flex in round one, three for himself.
All in the same spot as well.
Furia is giving a little bit too much time,
but look at this, and this is the problem.
You can go bigger against Furia,
but they can just do it right back to you.
KZ on for three, got the track coming out of the line.
Imagine Flexi is gonna be his target, they need him dead.
absolutely. I like that.
They know that they don't want
to be losing another player out
on the road and ending up in
that 2v1. So they've driven
themselves back, but also the
game, which tracks are going to
have caused that as well
because when he's thinking
get downstairs, there's not
really much they can do. He
knows that the moses up above
there's not a lot of
verticality here outside of
the hatchers. So it just
creates that safety for him
down inside of sight. No
mute jammers. Of course, mute
hasn't been played. So there
have been played so there will be no way to get away from those Demos tracks when they
come. I was going to say there are four frags in bad pockets, there's still a lot that they
can do here to force Flexi and Yupa to move around so far from the end of the world for
Furia they are of course at the disadvantage having to push into the defensive setup here
but you still got two Demos tracks left onside, you can't of course rely on that bulletproof
camera inside of CC to see for leap-ops once he pops on that gadget to still let the Furia
can get away with. Exactly that. The game for heretics here is recognizing if and when that plant
is going down because that's your opportunity. It puts you in a 2v1 as it is because he's going
down looking for kills and I don't think they've got any idea. Here he is, he speaks around the corner,
Yupa manages to prevent the A's coming in and leaves us now in a 1v1. The Leapox is low health as
well but still is Yupa. This is anybody's dead. What around what it's proven to be so far? Yupa
ready and just waiting to step on board. It's gonna be Filipe Fox trying to get the plant down.
Yippee, holding his position for now. Forced to move away for Filipe Fox a little bit scared,
Tim Brosdon fake. Turns out he just might. Sprays it through the softball. Doesn't quite
find the man. He's got the right idea, Tim, but can't find him just yet. Diffuse it down,
and now Yippee's the one that's gotta push! And Filipe Fox! He just don't lose those, Tim.
He's just so good. Look, just no emotion, just stone, cold, focused. Absolutely brilliant
first round from both teams. We have Flexi come in with a huge 3K. Heretics have already
after round one going to be asking, I think that's welcome to big school. That moment,
isn't it? It's like you've come in with a 3K and we've still lost the round to Furiel.
Like, we're going to have to do something real special today. They asked him, and I
bet Flexi thought that special had been shown a lot in that starting point. Wonderful kickoff
from the round from him. Only for KZ to drop a 4K, because of course he would. Why wouldn't
I think he's going to be
a three K in the first 52nd.
Yeah, and it wasn't
specularly. No. That just
gives them an idea of the size
of the task that they're facing.
Just absolutely. Just
just one V1 puts the case down
finds the kill.
So difficult. You got to feel for
you, but as well, he was doing
the right things. He's open the
wall of the can't quite see
and can't get the line.
4 Claws for Furiotic around 1.
I was going to touch on this as we came into the game,
but it proved to be such an explosive round,
one that there are zero complaints from me.
Flexi and Grubbier, despite the outcome they've had
when they've had these 2-1 wins, they've lost a couple,
they've lost down those 1-2 spots, and of course,
1-2-0 as well.
Both Flexi and Grubbier are amongst our top 2 players
rated in the whole tournament.
And this is because, if you look at what you saw in the previous round,
they like to be aggressive, they like to be disruptive.
Against most teams, I've said this a lot over the last few days,
a good game. We have a lot of
players who are going to be
playing this game for the
past few days. What if he is
really, really execute focused
how it's furious off and our
name has got the second highest
number of plants at the whole
tournament just to kind of
prove that point. Get up in
their face. Just drop them in
the early round. Don't let them
actually go for an execute. So
that's a good game from them
both to take the prog. The
Proc mystery against fury who
are very, very good at any
part of the game. It feels so
the work is caught up and
flexing and for growing to work
a bit of magic. The boxes on
how important he was in that last round that was on the knock. This time he's going to be much more focused on, you know, being a part of that execute.
You've got Nade on the sense as well, so this screams a window up onto me, given that we're up on the top floor.
But Leapox has now got himself onto the repel as well, there's three of them there, but the big problem they need to deal with, I always talk about it,
and I'm going to talk about it again, there's Yupa inside of Janitor. He's got the mirror windows, he's the one.
And he's there to try and deny any flans attempt that's going to come in.
But now he's on a great spot as well on the mirror, Doug here inside of Janitor.
He's just laying a fresh flan in the below that's crazy.
Brilliant.
He's crazy looking for the flans as well.
Because the plant is indeed going down, so the plant should get in behind those walls, behind this wall, behind everything.
And there's still got KZ below.
If you could bring KZ anyone wants down there with his lead four.
All said plan, still timing Tim, and the plant's been down for more than five seconds.
Absolutely brilliant from Furia.
We'll speak more about this round once it's done for now.
Let's focus on the retake from Heretic.
They're looking to find any kills they can here.
Flex it. It's going to take a bit of damage.
The big problem they've got is Furia on the rebels for Leapox.
JV need all one apiece.
5v2 in a heartbeat.
This is not looking good.
As Hertz manages to get skeptic, it's a flawless round.
And it is flawless, there's in so many ways.
Not just talking about mankind, the strategy, the plan was perfect.
JV goes in, opens the wall. He's there ready to go on the thermite.
You've got the scent, you've got the smoke, you've got the ying all coming in.
You've got KZ underneath on the book. He opens up Janitor Floor.
It was the key position. It was the linchpin of the defence.
It was the one I pointed out. They smoke off the mirror window
and he can't go back near it because he's got KZ on the book underneath.
Fighting with him. Brilliant stuff from Furia.
You said it yourself earlier, Tim. Welcome to big school.
It really is. This is that Rude Awakening. We all get what I think he's now about to say when we all step into Year 7, the Rude Awakening.
But around the world, Year 7 probably won't mean all that much. Probably not. Very much is UK. The first year of secondary. The first year of high school.
Is he the second dream high school you guys have been in there? I've been covering all this, has it? Saw a furia?
They absolutely are. It has been a pretty terrifying first couple of rounds. Again, for heretics, it'll be that constant question of what more can we do?
We've started so strong in round one, we've absolutely destroyed in round two.
Let's see how the third goes, as we step into that off-site, this cursory here, down and open and staffed.
Let's get a look a little bit to most of the previous rounds.
We've got players from Janitor, players around this top floor, knowing full well that Furia Argo also controls on that top floor.
That's why they've got JV on the ramp, looking to rip those floor boards up,
giving them the verticals and enable Fleetbox Beng to work a little bit of magic on the blitz,
of which, by the way, is his third unique operator picked in three rounds.
He's keen to put it down, you can see his movement, but he just hasn't committed to it just yet.
Maybe great use for smokes as well, just in case there is a plant going down, it keeps on pulling them fours.
But Oscar has managed to get Runeade, that is massive, the drop comes in, and off towards the right-hand side there is one more waiting for Leapox.
He managed to win out a 1v1, but can he do a 1v3 to him? Might be a little bit of a tall order, gets a couple of shots down onto his opposite man, but all three still stands.
He's got a lot of time to work with Tim, but this is rough.
you could almost have a full round.
He could go back outside, he could start drawing,
and he could check out his own slav.
He's not going to get the opportunity.
He's getting tears in the great round from Heretics.
And the reason is I was, unfortunately,
Fury took my time away from it,
because they decided to just throw themselves into sight.
But I was going to say, how do Heretics go about turning this around?
You know, they've been knocked about a bit by Fury
in those first couple of rounds.
But how do they stop it?
How do they put the stoppers on a side like Fury?
and they've just found the answer there.
The reality is, it's not even so much,
I think, about what they're doing in the server.
It's, ow, don't get rattled by Furia.
Yes, they've come in and had two very good rounds.
Heretics just need to play their game.
That's the thing.
They need to stay out of the heads,
don't let Furia into the, you know,
don't be thinking about what Furia are doing.
Just focus on their own game.
They've proven so far throughout the tournament
that they are more than capable of getting wins,
they've got a lot of
players in the team. They've
got a lot of players in the
team. They've got a lot of
players winning rounds, winning
maps, and that's the focus for
them, I think, and that's what
they did in that round three.
You know, they've got fury
right up in their face. A rush
with a blitz, smokes all this
going on, and they didn't panic.
They weren't rattled. They got
the round one good stuff for
heretics, and it just gets them
a little bit of a tour hold in
this matchup. You guys that saw
a second ago about the mirror
and the sense taken away by the
two teams, respectively, which
the other two sides. So I
chose more towards what they
seen there. A bit more fun,
heretic side, saying we don't
really have an answer to that
and we need to get rid now.
Of course, as you'll know,
Warden does not give you the
ability to see through those
walls as he once did.
This ends up with a little
power bump a little bit last
year and Mira on the other
side. This is a fun thing I was
looking at in stats yesterday,
looking at EPS per operator
rather than just by player.
And Mira has got like 10
clutch opportunities.
We have as playing Mira as
one, nine of them.
Highest EPS of any operation
in the game.
You all know that she's strong and by virtue of her gadget, she is of course powerful in that concept.
But also thinking about things like the Vectrine, just how clutchy she can be with it.
No surprise that team still turned towards her as a go-to band.
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of value there. I think in this situation as well,
Fury are recognising that they might not get away with clearing that mirror as easily as they did last time.
KZ wandered in underneath, so once they're on top floor again, heretics are gonna play somebody underneath to stop that.
They'll stop the book, they're gonna play, you know, to avoid the smokes just cancelling out the mirror.
They're gonna factor all those things in and I think Furia are thinking, you know what, we don't really want to have to bring a ton of utility to deal with it in a different way.
So they take it away, but back into this round, we've got Nade marching forward on the Black Veid. They are going for that top floor clearance.
Last time around, Furia got stung when they were attacking onto basement back. Let's see what they're breaking.
I think they got a little bit too aggressive moving in too quickly.
and it happens again. Oscar
picking up KZ. This is Furia
recognizing the home that
heretics brought to this time
around Oscar on a triple. This
time it was quite the last time
heretics are really putting
Furia through it at the minute.
It is the second time, like you
say, across these lights that
we've seen a big challenge from
heretics in the early round.
The scary thing is you're going
to do where it was for Leapbox
The team's just keep on coming through.
They've been really good with their intel game in nowhere, Oscar is, but Tim,
it's the problem with the game light siege.
You can have all the intel in the world.
You can have all these players surfing around like sharks,
waiting to snap up their prey,
but the prey can still bite back.
Two kills from Oscar, now down to of course three,
so big comeback here to Stage Furia for Leapox.
Yet again, left in a 1BX.
He's third of the game, it's worth pressing.
As I said last time, Nani went out a 1B long.
He could have went a 1B3,
he certainly cannot quite pull off a one before turns out to him he is but human he is he's still
putting the numbers up he's still putting the numbers up obviously you know the desk spoke
about those bands and how they've been impacting his stats it just goes to show the difficulty
in playing against his furious side you know you can try to kind of take full epochs out of the
game a bit you can try to impact the strategies that fury are going to play and they always seem
to have an answer they always have another way around but right now heretics I think
are doing a fantastic job of controlling furia the strength of that role for the basement
floor is brilliant to see heretics not afraid not backing any place into what I said again
don't get right over there don't let the fact that it's furia get into your head it's just
another game of siege go and play your game and that's what they're doing they could easily
have set up to turtle on site let's not give them anything let's keep it tight no we're gonna play
We're going to play flexi. We're going to hold open. We're going to hold out our cash. We're going to hold two thirds of the map and take the fight to them. And I love that. It's not. I want to say it's kind of like almost a lack of respect. It's not a case of like disrespect in
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
But it's saying, no, we're not going to play our game
based on you. We're not giving you that level of respect.
We're going to take the gun fights
and we're going to win them.
Brilliant stuff. I'm loving this from Heretics.
More the same here on this top floor,
except of course with no mirror on side,
they've got to change things away.
Oscar's trying again to do some magic, Tim.
The pain is, he's on the water.
You can expect to see the Ying-Bing brought along by the side
as we've already seen throughout that first half
and that's the main upgrade that you need
You know, there is still an element where if you don't offer enough respect, you won't teach yourself.
You're not even losing it.
You'll learn one way or another.
Now, without the mirror on the side, what they've actually gone for is there is the bandit, Arnett,
who's down to the wall, so they can still play a player inside.
There you present that spot.
There's got smoke holes open up above the reinforcements.
It's now controllable course.
The classic rotation that we see between this and the site itself.
So, when it's what Ori can deny to him, but as we've already seen last time round,
in the playerium below, he can cause an awful lot of trouble.
But there's no good from Sari.
I think the eyes instead of going to turn no doubt supports for leaps on that black beer
Which is furious most played operator at this tournament. Yeah, he's coming in through atm's
So what I think they're gonna try to do here furia is shape up to push up metal and start putting a bit of pressure on from that side
It's flexing that position on the Aruni herds is actually just jumping in through on off this window now
So he's gonna team up with believe box
They're trying to push and they create this pinch so flexi is now in a super important position and it's not that's a brilliant kill
from there, that's all the way from the window so they do manage to pick him up.
Skeptic does get herds but made with the same angle, you can't keep giving them that same
view through and fall into it. Eritix now two versus four, brilliant play from
Nade on the window and he's repelling in with the fuser.
Preview at least one, it's KZ going down, that means Square actually down control heretic
which means this side of the map isn't really for Fury to play on at this point.
A little bit of comfort to be found but Fury they go cool with a three versus one,
Let's push over and I believe that's a 4K for Nade in the round.
Really well played in a different game plan being taken.
The thing is, I'll say here what I've said in a few streams this week.
It's very easy to look at that round and go,
what the hell are Heretics doing?
That was so stupid.
They were taking so many fights and losing early round.
What's going on?
And the reason is, look at what happened last time
when they sat still, Tim.
Their plant went down, it was still 5 versus 5.
They got battered for being static and sitting still.
And so what was the same back in round one?
Sometimes you've got to get out of the map
and try and fight, and that's exactly what they tried
to do, but you're doing it
against Furia, a team that
and all too wise and know how
to deal with teams like this,
it's going to be hard, but
on the time that it does work,
you look like absolute geniuses.
I love that three-man play
from Furia there.
So you've got Herds comes in
through one office.
That's the bait.
Yeah, you've got Herds through
one office.
You've got Fully Pops through
ATM.
They put a lot of pressure
towards Metal, but are
confident that, like you said,
that's all they're going to do
is they're just going to suck
players into that kill box
for need.
He's got the angle from the
from the window they know exactly where they're looking he's going all the way
through those double doors towards top metal and he manages to get himself to
there taking down both flexi and skeptic not only is that a nice work play to get
those two kills to create that situation it then has an added benefit that you've
all saw then in a man advantage situation got herds and Fully Pops walking up
metals there because there's nobody left to prevent it so then they have pressure
from the marble side thinking come round banana as it was there just flew in and
just went and killed everybody inside of that anyway but just a really really
beautiful round of siege from Furia but both teams here are delivering this is
what I was hoping out of this game that I'll both have in Passage as a player where all five rounds have been won
none of these have been lost. No I do agree it has been hard fought by both sides I
think it's fair to say. It's furious so far I've been missing this one. It's all going to be expected.
It's the centre part of the player there, he's up at the window, it's KZ to get rid of Flexi.
In a bad spot, he gets taken out pretty quickly, yet again Furia, just like lightning when they strike.
Anyone who's a foot at a line loses their life.
Skeptic and Oscar are now the two charged, tasked with holding on to this top floor.
You've got Skeptic at top marble, you've got, sorry Skeptic and Janity, you've got Oscar at top marble.
They're gonna be now the next sticking point for Furia.
The big question is, when do they choose to give up those positions?
Really, they need at least, heretics need at least one of them escaping with their life.
They can't have both of them dying up on the top floor.
That will be catastrophic for the round.
You put underneath going, archives and sellers could be a big one to help defend them,
but no, Skeptic shows too much of himself and nerd cuts him down.
There's been this sort of like three layers that could be imperative.
Strubering cool scenes that have brought him with the verticals on towards that white breach.
They've got all sorts of things lined up here to make sure that they can hold comfortably and Yupa isn't going to get pressured.
But as you've seen, they just lose one after another.
Fury always find a way through.
They have sat there and jumped on drones like, uh, what do we do exactly now?
They've always got an answer. Yupa, the last one left alive.
And Filippox deletes him from the server.
A 4-2 half for Fury. It's him dominant as we've probably come to expect.
Fury, yeah. They really are, you know, giving them no quarter here.
they are not sparing anything.
They are giving them the full experience, you know,
and look, that's one thing for heretics, at least,
no matter which way this matchup goes.
Let me tell you, guys on heretics will know
at the end of the day, at least Fiora gave us everything.
Whether they beat them, whether they don't,
they'll know that this is all the full works
because right now, Fiora are looking at their electric best.
So, let's see what happens with these bands.
They've spoken on the desk,
the game. They're not
the way they were. Fox broke
it down. Fantasticly about how
heretics play the Intel game
days. They know everything that
is going on towards the end of
the round. That is the big part
of the start of their round.
Grim has been taken away.
Heretics have played more grim
than anybody else. It hasn't been
being banned against them. So
that's furious. Obviously looking
into that and saying here's what
we're going to do. Duker bit is
available isn't picked up by
the game. I think that's a
big question. I think that's
what we're trying to find with
that that Fox was speaking
about is bank is such a big
map does. There's a lot of it
to get your drones around. There's
a lot of it to find that intel
on. And if that's the plan for
heretics, they need to make sure
that it doesn't burn too much
time doing it. So my big
question here is a do they
continue playing that game
whereby they're looking and
gathering all this Intel or do
I think it would be a very good idea because otherwise Fiora will punish you.
If you play that Intel game, do you still have the time you need to execute?
There's a lot of stall on the side of Fiora for sure.
I'm really curious to see if Fiora are trying to match them around the map in the same way
Heretics are trying to do to Fiora, where Fiora are the ones attacking.
I imagine you'll see a mix of being a little bit dug in a couple of rounds,
being more aggressive in the majority of the job, because that is how Fiora like to be.
They don't like to let their opponents breeze.
certainly not on a map like this and I've said it a few times when we've come to Casting Fury on Bank.
The first time I saw that OG roster, this like group, was actually on Bank and I remember thinking
when they're on the attacking side I was like, my god, it feels like you're against 10 players,
it feels like they're coming out of the wall, it might not always be their top rated or top preferred
map but they're always terrifying on it and sure enough, I was going to punish them, tip down
goes Yupa, they had no idea he was there. And there is the Intel Gear question. Bank is a huge map
So you start having to, I don't say this in a negative way, you have to put corners a little bit, you can't necessarily check every single corner of every single room because you have that time factor starts becoming an issue.
And this was my concern for heretics, but they play into that Intel game, but can't quite 100% it because of the size of the map, and it starts causing them problems.
It has done that, they lose the entry, they lose the class as well, it's going to be a big part of holding down stack whilst the plant went down.
You might see it from Furia back in that first half of know the player was inside the room
They had a player in belong Prince away to catch him out two players pushing into force the drop and then a collected the kill
But because heretics were blindsided by a hurt
They had no time to get there
He knew how long he could play before his time will be up and someone would be underneath
He's played that brilliantly well gets the glass gets out of danger gets back in towards site. What more can you ask for?
Just waiting for the hatches to be open
two banks, with the power of JV92, just holding them pause with the Zorto canisters for the time being.
I like actually doing both actions at the same time, because you can create this situation.
You get them open quicker as well, because you've got the Zorto canister on each and you can't focus on one.
So good stuff from Heretic to tick the boxes and get those opened up.
They are applying a little bit of pressure everywhere here, actually, like this view towards vault,
We can see that Furia are rotating around it pretty nicely down inside.
KB's gone to play underneath the vault, we've got K there as well to support him.
Brilliant stuff again defensively from Furia, just showing a great command of this side.
KZ manages to pick up playtip.
You've got to stay in a 2v5, 30 seconds left to go.
It's not looking good for heretics.
This is a gameplay you're really going to see the difference between the two teams starting to widen up.
I think Furia just know when they can take good plays.
They know when they get away with certain challenges.
and they're just taking heretics apart one piece at a time like stripping a car for all of its valuable pieces
So for heretics, there's a lesson Tim got to change things around next time around
Maybe more pushing in as a team rather than trying to split and control a lot of the map completely appreciate bank is massive
There is a lot to cover
But they've been someone having any drones and then chase the shadow throughout the entire map
It just wasn't pretty for a first attacking round
It's been a Cinderella story for heretics so far days
But I think we might have found the villain in this fairy tale at long last and it is definitely
Furia right now, and I think they are more than happy to play the part. They are coming in here and
Boiling the party for heretics because they just look absolutely electric
You know I mentioned this
Furia
So I decided who they were gonna play on the top of the coin because they've chosen before and they've always lost the game
So it didn't really matter whatever will play anybody
It was a choice between SSG and heretics that I believe they had and honestly I can see why fury would sit there like this and think you know
What we don't care who we play you just put somebody in front of us because they are looking they're looking phenomenal
today
Start speaking to you about this, but I'm probably gonna have a word
This game of course we know goes into play way below later the loser goes on to play our HG in the lower bracket now
Now, we castle it, shouldn't they, Tim?
They've actually got a really good one.
They've got a feel as the tournament has gone by.
They might actually get away with the one point prize
for their final game after which they wouldn't quite
concentrate at four, manage to qualify in for a place.
They've just passed out in a lot of bracket.
I'm not saying that's her as it's playing yet, Tim.
To Nick's team, maybe we know what her as it's alike.
We're coming back to win second match in their series.
However, I finally said they'd say it for you, Tim.
Fury are that team, they're going to be really hard to beat.
They keep on remarking on, and even here,
they're just ready for everything coming against them.
Nick's a drone away on the Marcia.
Checking outside the window. Who's out there on repel? What's going on?
We've seen some great class play from Nade through the tournament as well.
I think it'd be an easy one to overwork.
You know, we often look at that operator and you kind of think that's,
you know, teams are scratching for a round over and over on the classroom.
No, not at all. It is very much a part of the locker.
You know, one of the tools that Furia will employ and Nade does a phenomenal job
of playing that class. We've seen some real, real special rounds from him.
So keep an eye on him. He's tasked with holding on to Canada top square at the minute
But JV's gonna have a wander down they could well be punished here if they are aware
They're definitely where so that's the Intel game. You've just seen it first down there heretics
They were on those repels as soon as JV goes down for a look boss
They just dropped down to the ground. They knew that was coming really nice from heretics
Thank God they're aware. They've been a horrible double kill being set up otherwise
You can already see now how low they're having to play
But it looks some pressure there, but no, JV's work is way back upstairs. Everyone on the second floor expecting heretics to pull something off, because they have got all this utility to play with Simba so far.
It hasn't been used. Now it's coming out. This is their sign of step on four for Skeptics. It's gone down, Sim. The last player you want to lose here on the Blitz, at least to get rid of K7 in the side.
Yeah, we've got a bit of a push coming in from the other side. They've actually come through the windows and decided to just flush out. They are winning one gunfight after another, at least getting out to V2 in a 1v2 effect.
I think it's a good choice actually get the shield out of all of them that were downed.
Oscar manages to pick up JV at the end there, that was a little bit of a chaotic round coming
in from Heretics but I like it again, it shows their willingness to say, you know what, we're
not going to respect you too much here, if you've given us a bit of space, we're coming
in, we're going to take gunfights, they're just all repelled in, they recognise what
They were doing we're trying to get the diffuser down wasn't working. So it was a quick adaptation
Let's just rush them and go for kills. I like it
They played around the back of need the clash was causing the problem for the blitz from top square
So we play him behind him through janitor good stuff
What I really liked about it was for the first what minute and a half of that fury
We're trying everything to disrupt them down to putting a very poor the windows on the scene who's outside to maybe
to be threatened and jumped out.
Unlikely, because it would have been in the back of Heretic's mind.
Had a player going into lobby because they realized, okay, if they aren't going to hit
us, we're going to try and hit them, but they still hadn't answered to that as well.
Everything Fury were trying to do to upset them so they couldn't execute, they just couldn't
get away with it.
I'd love to hear the team comes back because I can only imagine Heretic's comments at some
point they say, guys, we've got to go.
They keep on trying to find us here.
C4's waiting for us.
You name it.
Let's go now, Bob.
They're not all fully ready for it.
And obviously, did catch Fury off guard, so a really good attack.
Still a two round deficit to catch, Tim.
that. It's that infamous round
nine that we love speaking about.
Why is it so important to us? You
tell me it depends on the score
when we get there, but in this
case, it a five three is, I think
at its most valuable is round
nine. You know, if you if you
sort of 62, then you're already
way ahead. If it's four four is
everybody's the bite for putting
this case, it gives us the
difference between a 63 score
line and a five four score line
the
two things. If they can get
back with him, one round, it
feels doable. At 6 3, you look
at the urea on banking, you
say they're going to grab a
round somewhere, almost
certainly so. Big, big one, and
it does not start out in
heretics. But look at this
aggression. Hurds does manage
to get the opener. Flexi takes
him down case he's going to
back out of that fight a little
bit. He was keen to have a little
bit of a look out of the
electrical there, but, you know,
kind of all square after that opening engagement. It is, but it comes back to exactly what I was
saying in the previous round. Furia, every single round are looking to get aggressive
in their face. I thought you might see one or two, but you just tank down a bit and play
off angles and play off utility, but they're showing their own need to tip. They feel so
confident against heretics that KZ especially is so willing every single round to beat somewhere,
challenging them and looking to get up in their face and he's doing a wonderful job of it.
Yeah, exactly that. Furia playing, you know, like the big boys, they know, they know that they are, you know, the former world champion.
They won't ask for anything. They're not going to come in and get anybody, any breathing space you've got.
He's just going to be holding that line of sight through the smokes, inter-site for the time being, hoping to just pick up a cheap one.
If he can, as somebody moves across there, just wanted to punish them, in goes the Blitz.
You know, gonna get aggressive and try to move into a position to plant, but KSZ is the one to put his skeptic.
Upagos around the corner, but Nade, he's got his teammate. KSZ will be down. He is collectible. The glass is gone.
Uriel looking good.
A little bit easier this one, I'm afraid. Got every single player of her, 6th, stacked up around square and looking to force their way in through this doorway.
Nade hasn't had to move at all, he's had support from long from JV.
You've even still here, got fully pocked, looking to pull off a little bit of a flank on the mossy.
Yes, it's a 1v3 for Ruby. A lot to ask of one player I'm afraid,
so now Ruby's ready for everything here that's brought the Trouts.
Unquestionable that AID is one of the smartest players in the world.
He's absolutely phenomenal. I'll come back to that in a second.
Four versus one as Ruby continues fighting from above.
He managed just to bring it back to a 1v3, but the trick damage will start to add up.
He's challenged on the top floor. JB92 with the kill and Furia win the big round nine.
and the middle of the
ball. He's a guy who's a
guy who's a guy who's a guy
who puts them six, three and
one round away. Just want to
come back to need there. We
didn't quite see it. There's
but you had Casey down just
inside the doorway in the
spot kind of hard hard back
on yourself as you come in.
You could manage to down him
with the glass. Need was
playing in behind the bomb
Chassis and you look at that
situation and you think Casey
is collectible here. He's in
behind a reinforcement. There's
a hard wall to the side. They've
Flexi on the other side of that reinforcement and flexi quite rightly is looking in he comes to have a look through where they've opened the
Softwall to look into lower square
He comes in to have a look to see if he can get the angle onto KZ
Nade knows that this is coming so he just hanks back and he takes the kill there it is
He takes the kill onto flexi he knows it's coming he bates his teammate for it perfectly and then goes and gets the collection anyway
I know these are small things but Ned is just, he makes the right choice almost every single time and it's just brilliant.
Well the bands have come on through Tim that's towards two operators that we've seen played in every single round this half.
The glass coming away from Heretic's, IE, away from Furia.
What was the challenge for Furia to take out? Show us what you've got. You tried a bit of choosing, you've tried playing with your glass every single round.
Show us what you've been doing.
What they're answers to go towards one of those operators spoke about a lot Tim
It's get ticked on to the Monty
Yeah, we're gonna jump on to the day most woman is surprised when he's done what Tim is in our dr. B
We took a lot about how proficient she is as operator and how big a map bankers
We've seen how it's damage robbers have been doing how aggressive both teams have gone
Now the team really kind of saying yeah, let's make a dr. B and deal with that
They seem quite contempt without it and you know, I agree with you
I think bank is any map is a perfect map for for some docus to be honest
But bank is perfect for it. You know if you're gonna have players out in the map, which we do JVs and tell us
We've got herds and staff, you know, they've got KZ up on top floor. They're absolutely everywhere
They're all over this map. So dealing with those Romans is really important last time around Curia managed this site really really well
So they start as they have now spread across the map
They dip back into site at about the halfway mark and they recognize exactly where the pressure was coming from heretics
JV managing to get a kill up the vault hatch for example, just recognising where they were
going to be.
Oscar does manage to track down one of those roamers, finds the opener onto JV92, but they
need to think about what's happening down here in server, KZ.
He manages to get Oscar in the trade as well, that's the ace gone, so that is the hard
breach apart from Skeptics and Skeptics down in server, but he's in trouble there.
Just look at, look at this!
Big trouble!
Spinks getting!
Become a Beyblade, my son!
Can't hold on long enough!
Knifed out in the end and he was just left for dead there inside a server.
Fury yet again showing and bearing their fans the aggression has been unreal, but flexi.
Same as he was back in round one, it's coming up big for his team, Tim.
And more importantly, Yupa somehow has managed to get a quiet drop and into red.
He's stood in gold bars at the minute, just holding angles and I'm not sure whether Fury
We're aware of that because it was flexed from Serban, who got both and the kills case, he gets one, but they didn't know about Yupa, he comes around and gets a trade, and now finds himself in a 1v1 but look who he's against.
I came into the round today and how big brave he can be, he always makes the right choices but not this time! Yupa is the one to fight the kills and heretics keep on fighting!
What a crazy round that has turned into, Tim!
It's more the same of what we were speaking about.
The aggression back and forth has been absolutely barmy.
Pushing that hard into a Monty like that, very rarely will you see that done at the top level,
but of course, Furia is going to pull it out.
And for a time out from Furia.
And I want a guy inside the SMT to respect the guy in the garage.
We're going to be cross-cut, very good, you know?
And then we can reinforce our points, too,
because they're taking a lot of damage, they take more kids from the kitchen.
I'm sure they're not going to be able to open all the points,
they won't have the option to split, they'll just go ahead of us, you know?
Then you play, gaining some time there in the server, open your hat,
you come back and take your position, you know, Box?
We play cross-cut a little.
There's a cap, no, you don't need anything, just take your track,
the next time we came back to
that site, see portion below.
Preplace this word stressing to
get rid of the shield and remove
that entirely. It was beautiful
midgame adaptation. I feel like
heretics have began to do the same
here. They've kind of got fury
figured out, which is why Igor
I think wants to step in and say
right, how do we get this over
the line here and now we need to
have this done. We cannot let
heretics keep on building
in confidence. We've just got a
little bit of a tech post coming
in, so we'll get everybody out
and back into the lobby and
we'll be underway. Plenty to
talk about with this one, though,
as you said, we've got a little
bit of a tech post coming in,
so we'll get everybody out and
back into the lobby and we'll
you know, it's been an absolutely
brilliant game to watch. You
know, coming into this you kind
of have to weigh things in the
favor of furious and it still
sits that way as it is at the
minute, but I love that
heretics are just not giving
them that respect. They're not
giving them that space. They are
quite happy to go in there and
say you want to play aggressive.
You want to take too big to be
two three V three gunfights and
3v3 gunfights and these big, you know, brawls.
We're down, we're gonna come in
and we're gonna fight them with you.
And quite often they are coming out on top.
So brilliant stuff from Heretics at the minute.
I think, you know, we clearly see in a team that, you know,
I'm sure they'd love to go and win the tournament,
but to them, they've got here, they've got here.
You feel like they kind of already won, you know,
everything's a bonus, isn't it?
You know, every round that they get, every match win.
All the...