WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 You 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 I 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 I 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 I 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 I 11:00.000 --> 11:02.000 I'ma keep it going till there ain't nothing left 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 I'm breaking next to the party now 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Oh, it all goes back to my money now 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 If I can, it can't count till there's nothing left 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 I'ma keep it going till there ain't nothing left 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 Goin' till there's nothing left 11:30.000 --> 11:55.000 Hello everybody and welcome back to SAO. We closed off our kickoff group stage just last night. Today we dive into the next big thing. The question for this next week of competition or so will be all about who will be the four teams to qualify from this playoff spracket actually represent the region at the Salt Lake City Major. 11:55.000 --> 12:01.800 I'm your host Milosh by my side is my beautiful friend Jesse J chick and Mr. Chick you've been on the 12:02.200 --> 12:08.680 Commentating end on the viewing end of SAL and now on the desk and how you doing? I'm doing great Milo 12:08.680 --> 12:14.560 So I'm excited to be back here this morning for a little South American action and to kick off the playoffs as well 12:14.560 --> 12:16.560 I mean you couldn't ask for a better day to join 12:17.360 --> 12:22.440 Yeah, my favorite analyst ever is returning to the desk so for me that is a good day regardless 12:22.440 --> 12:25.960 But I want to ask for some of your opinions now that you're in the space. 12:25.960 --> 12:30.720 Of course, remind everybody, your matches today are focused on that first leg of the upper bracket, 12:30.720 --> 12:34.000 which is ninjas of pajamas versus lows and face clan versus flux. 12:34.000 --> 12:39.920 So W7M, both of whom, the winners of these matches, that is, will advance the faceoff against Team Liquid 12:39.960 --> 12:41.160 and Team Liquid Alienware. 12:41.160 --> 12:43.720 That is N Furia, respectively. 12:43.880 --> 12:47.320 However, if you lose in this match, you are not out of the running. 12:47.320 --> 12:50.280 You'll drop down to low bracket play, INTZ and Black Dragons. 12:50.280 --> 12:55.680 So today is more about who can advance and be one match away from qualifying to Salt Lake City 12:55.920 --> 13:02.120 It's not over for all the fans out there. So be it, but I do want to take a look of what has happened 13:02.960 --> 13:07.960 Kind of in that group stage because as I said just see you've seen it from the casting point of view 13:07.960 --> 13:11.880 You've seen it as a viewer watching these matches now that you're here with me 13:12.200 --> 13:17.200 What has been kind of your biggest takeaway from this group stage with all the groups in front of us? 13:17.200 --> 13:23.640 I mean Milo's we've had a real wide range of teams playing. I think that was maybe showcased the best yesterday when we have 13:24.200 --> 13:29.600 3-7-0's on the broadcast there was some skill discrepancy for sure between some of the top and bottom teams 13:29.600 --> 13:34.200 But what I'm most excited about now that we're getting the playoffs is we're starting to see you best or threes 13:34.200 --> 13:37.720 We're starting to see some of the best teams go up against the other best teams 13:38.000 --> 13:42.680 Certainly we got a little bit of a taste of that in the group with Team Liquid Alienware playing up against FaZe Clan 13:42.680 --> 13:46.920 even some of the mix ups that we had in Group B with Furia being a huge surprise, 13:46.920 --> 13:51.000 a brand new roster there that have really I think taken a lot of people off guard that 13:51.000 --> 13:54.560 have been really really cool. Loose a similarly new roster who have been 13:54.560 --> 13:58.340 performing pretty well maybe not as well as Furia but have had some really big 13:58.340 --> 14:01.880 wins under their belts as well this season so yeah honestly I think the 14:01.880 --> 14:05.040 group stage was a ton of fun but playoffs is what I'm really hyped for. 14:05.040 --> 14:10.160 Absolutely this is where you kind of swing away from best of one series 14:10.160 --> 14:14.400 where you really can plan out BO3s even though all the matches are online. 14:14.400 --> 14:19.040 Now one thing to mention about our playoffs bracket and we talked about it yesterday on the show 14:19.040 --> 14:23.920 is that yes there are four teams that will qualify two from the upper bracket and two from lower 14:23.920 --> 14:30.080 however the team that loses in the lower bracket final gets to go and has to play through phases 14:30.080 --> 14:35.040 one two and three to make it into a final should that be the case for them whether for the 14:35.040 --> 14:39.840 other three teams that win the lower bracket final and of course play in the 14:39.840 --> 14:45.080 upper bracket finals well they get to skip that step and be immediately in 14:45.080 --> 14:48.800 phase two of the sort of the city major which is pretty big we've seen how 14:48.800 --> 14:54.800 cutthroat that first phase can be back in the days where it was be quote-unquote 14:54.800 --> 15:00.880 tier two regions yeah that were playing it yeah exactly me lotion listen 15:00.880 --> 15:04.760 we're here in South America I would expect even whoever finishes fourth in 15:04.760 --> 15:08.480 this region to still make it the phase two of the major, but you never know, right? 15:08.480 --> 15:12.200 And it's always better not to take on that extra risk, not to have to take on 15:12.200 --> 15:15.600 that extra pressure of playing those games because some of the teams, especially 15:15.840 --> 15:18.720 with this season, with the Chinese teams coming in for the very first time, 15:18.720 --> 15:20.840 you really don't know what you're going to get in phase one. 15:21.880 --> 15:27.400 Yes, indeed, though, from our general playoffs bracket and what's in it. 15:27.680 --> 15:29.320 Let's take a look at our first matchup. 15:29.360 --> 15:33.360 NIP versus loss, our first best of three of this kickoff stage. 15:33.360 --> 15:40.480 And NIP is up first on the block. We'll bring it up and talk about them second place in groupie at eight points 15:40.480 --> 15:46.040 Pretty decent performance. I would say throughout this stage. They only got to play for this event 15:46.040 --> 15:52.600 Obviously not a lot to work with but overall performance aside from the game that they had against Furia 15:53.320 --> 15:58.180 They were showing up and putting up the numbers where it was needed as always 15:58.180 --> 16:02.380 Seems like Jesse at the start of every competitive year. We look at NIP MC 16:02.380 --> 16:06.800 Oh, there's one player that's different than the year prior and suddenly changes everything for them 16:06.800 --> 16:13.140 Yeah, I think this season especially that was true bringing in the setto a brand new IGL a new captain to this NIP squad 16:13.140 --> 16:17.460 In many ways, they've only been making small changes ever since the very beginning 16:17.460 --> 16:23.580 And then you can trace this roster's lineage all the way back to 2018 when Pino very first joined this roster 16:23.580 --> 16:26.780 It made a lot of moves since then it's not the same core exactly 16:26.780 --> 16:33.140 but even still the way they've been building up over the years has been really fun to watch from a viewer's perspective and now this season 16:33.140 --> 16:36.500 I think they're really starting to showcase exactly what their potential is 16:36.500 --> 16:40.780 I mean they didn't have to haught a start to the season but once they had a couple games to warm up 16:40.780 --> 16:45.340 They look like a really formidable foe. I think fantasy has been excellent on some of those entries 16:45.340 --> 16:50.300 You've seen real pop-off players from Pino and Hates as well and even across the board 16:50.300 --> 16:52.620 You're seeing really solid play from all of these players 16:52.620 --> 16:58.200 I think the setup has worked in really nicely to this team and they're absolutely going to be top contenders for top four 16:59.040 --> 17:02.460 Of course taking a look at how they ended 2025 17:03.060 --> 17:07.460 Immunic and the improvements that they've had after reload was pretty darn impressive 17:07.860 --> 17:14.480 Didn't translate as well. Maybe for them in the invitation all but still looking ahead into a much better 17:15.060 --> 17:22.200 2026 however, their opponents on the other side or loss and loss have gone through multiple iterations as 17:22.620 --> 17:29.100 an organization and now here in the way that they are very different than we got really used to 17:29.100 --> 17:35.980 in the past squeezing in at position three that was the main fight for them in their last playday 17:35.980 --> 17:41.580 which is we're going to make sure we're doing our best so that come play day five when we are not 17:41.580 --> 17:47.820 playing we'll at least be safe and maybe should things go our way we'll be in position three 17:47.820 --> 17:52.220 so that we don't have to start in the little bracket which is a very difficult run to go with. 17:52.620 --> 17:55.940 Absolutely third place is a huge victory for Loser this group stage 17:55.940 --> 18:02.040 I think the biggest thing that when you look at this most team versus NIP is just how brand new they are that NIP 18:02.040 --> 18:03.960 Core again going back to 2018 18:03.960 --> 18:09.940 But this Loser roster really had been assembled from scratch this season bringing in a brand new look 18:09.940 --> 18:12.000 It has nothing to do with any of their old cores 18:12.000 --> 18:14.580 It's being kind of captain and led by that 18:14.580 --> 18:18.960 So I think it's taken on a lot of the identity of this team a lot of the responsibility on this team 18:18.960 --> 18:25.560 Not just being the IGL and being the captain but also getting so active in some of those early gunfights being a really important player 18:25.560 --> 18:27.560 You can play a wide range of operators 18:27.960 --> 18:34.400 Just kind of enable some of the more pop-off plays from his young aggressive guys like Perez like dark would been really solid 18:34.400 --> 18:36.400 I think of some of those active engagements as well 18:36.560 --> 18:40.680 There have been maybe some issues and disconnect as you would expect with any new team 18:40.680 --> 18:44.360 I think sometimes Nuxga and bash have had some tough moments with working together 18:44.360 --> 18:50.960 But on the whole I'm really impressed with how quickly this roster has been able to come together and show up as a formidable force in the SAO 18:51.800 --> 18:56.680 Today is a big challenge for loss against NIP because NIP we said it 18:56.680 --> 19:01.560 They only had the one player change more a core that's been around for a long long time 19:01.560 --> 19:05.320 At least for the past year that is and they've gone through the gauntlet together 19:05.840 --> 19:11.960 SAO itself any match any stage is a gauntlet for any team and NIP have definitely surprised in that 19:11.960 --> 19:19.960 However, if we're looking at win rates, attackers specifically, well, the number one is FaZe and 19:19.960 --> 19:26.960 are we surprised that the best team in the world, two-time back-to-back world champions, are the best attacking side in the region? 19:26.960 --> 19:30.960 Not a huge shock. Me, Loach, FaZe, can't team into this as the favorites. 19:30.960 --> 19:35.960 In NIP and Loach on the offensive side, they're going to be more middle of the pack. That's kind of to be expected. 19:35.960 --> 19:40.960 But I want to focus on when we look at these team stats here is just how the entries have really worked out for these teams. 19:40.960 --> 19:46.280 In my opinion, Los will live and die in this game based on their opening pick. 19:46.280 --> 19:49.980 You won't see it in these numbers, but Los throughout this stage so far through the first 19:49.980 --> 19:55.900 four games have an 82% conversion rate, which is a 17% recovery rate. 19:55.900 --> 20:00.440 That means they're winning about four in every five rounds if they can get the entry, 20:00.440 --> 20:02.960 but just one in every five rounds if they don't. 20:02.960 --> 20:08.400 So that first frag of the round is so critical for Los, far more so than what we've seen 20:08.400 --> 20:11.920 from any other team and that makes it a little bit interesting when you work 20:11.920 --> 20:15.920 through some of these attacking and defencing defensive win rates because 20:15.920 --> 20:19.520 sure sometimes you know you're gonna have teams that are stronger on one side 20:19.520 --> 20:23.160 or the other I don't think that's really the case for these two teams we'll see 20:23.160 --> 20:26.640 the defense is a little bit higher for NIP up there at 60% that's maybe the 20:26.640 --> 20:30.560 one thing where you could look at it as a little bit stronger side but more 20:30.560 --> 20:33.120 so than the team stats I really feel like it's gonna come down to those 20:33.120 --> 20:37.640 open and picks if Los can find a way to consistently get those entries it 20:37.640 --> 20:40.920 going to turn this series on its head and give them the best chance to win the game. 20:41.880 --> 20:46.600 And I really love the conversation between all three different pieces of this conversation, 20:46.600 --> 20:52.200 which is one, yes, attack and defense win rates, but them alone are not enough to tell you the 20:52.200 --> 20:57.720 whole story. You have to see opening, opening win rates basically for these opening kills, 20:57.720 --> 21:03.080 how well have they really been going for teams, whether it be on attack or defense, 21:03.080 --> 21:08.360 but then on top of that is the conversion rating look are you able to turn an opening kill into a 21:08.360 --> 21:12.520 round win and in the ones where you're losing that opening kill is there a way for you to bring 21:12.520 --> 21:17.800 it back that's been a hot topic conversation within the statistics community I guess the 21:17.800 --> 21:23.720 opsec of rainbow six analysis over the past few years and I've been very intrigued to see all of 21:23.720 --> 21:28.280 it though the two players that you had mentioned fantasy and dash why do we have an I had to 21:28.280 --> 21:31.720 hit today well Milo should kind of build off that point because these are the two players 21:31.720 --> 21:35.720 that we kind of expect to see going head-to-head in those opening duels. Now fantasy makes sense, 21:35.720 --> 21:41.880 but why is Dash the hard support IGL on this graphic? Well, he's actually been taking around 36% 21:41.880 --> 21:46.760 of all entries for loss across both sides, which is kind of insane to think about. And if you 21:46.760 --> 21:50.280 will go back and watch some of his games, it really does feel like Dash the type of guy who 21:50.280 --> 21:54.440 will start a game kind of hot. He'll get somewhat confident and then he'll start taking a 21:54.440 --> 21:58.920 lot of gunfights. Sometimes that works for him, right? Their last game, Block Dragons, 21:58.920 --> 22:04.600 work fantastic. But Alaskine is going up against guys like Linda and Swag. It will be a very different 22:04.600 --> 22:09.960 story of Dashar taking more of those early fights when fantasy is on the other side of things. Fantasy 22:09.960 --> 22:14.280 is probably the single most aggressive player that we have in the South America League. He is 22:14.280 --> 22:20.520 incredible when it comes to his entries. He's got over a 60% win rate on both attack and defense 22:20.520 --> 22:24.600 when it comes to those opening picks. And sure maybe his overall KD isn't something that's 22:24.600 --> 22:28.600 It's not numbers that are going to make you say, wow, this player is the best in the world. 22:28.600 --> 22:36.600 But when you focus it into those early rounds, fantasy is an incredible enabler for NIP to get them that advantage into the game. 22:36.600 --> 22:44.600 I'm going to be very interested to see how Dash plays this matchup and see if he tries to take a step back, let his entry players like Dark, like Perez, 22:44.600 --> 22:48.600 match up with fantasy more in the early game, or if he is going to take that head on. 22:48.600 --> 22:53.600 In either case, shutting down fantasy has to be the main goal for Los today. 22:53.600 --> 23:00.640 And that's a challenge for any team, especially a team that is yet to really find their full footing as we're playing explaining with loss 23:00.920 --> 23:07.200 Do the spearheads on losses side actually come up and can go toe-to-toe with fantasy and Pino 23:07.200 --> 23:08.840 This is only focusing on fantasy 23:08.840 --> 23:14.320 But there are more players of course on the NIP side that either enable or also side-by-side 23:14.680 --> 23:23.420 With fantasy on those front lines to convert those opening kills into round wins for NIP who again so far pretty 23:23.600 --> 23:31.600 good, but this is based off only best of ones. We heard it from the phase analyst point of view, 23:31.600 --> 23:37.600 we heard it from the team liquid alien air coach point of view in Igor and he's saying like at the 23:37.600 --> 23:43.200 end of the day these are best of ones. Online BL ones are not fully representatives. Once we get 23:43.200 --> 23:48.240 into playoffs, Dan will have the real challenge and I think that applies to all the teams that 23:48.240 --> 23:54.720 that we'll be seeing competing over the next eight days, well four play days of competition 23:54.720 --> 23:58.760 though on our map veto we'll go for a border bank and consulate. 23:58.760 --> 24:02.200 Alright, Mr. Statsman, I'll leave it up to you. 24:02.200 --> 24:06.000 Yeah, I mean very interesting to see NIP let bank go through this map veto phase, it's 24:06.000 --> 24:10.040 not something we've seen a lot from Loach, not super confident, but I will say bank 24:10.040 --> 24:15.120 is not a map that NIP won even a single time at official competition last season, it's 24:15.120 --> 24:20.560 over a year since we've seen NIP win bank in a tier one setting. So it's been very interesting to 24:20.560 --> 24:24.720 see them let that go through the van phase. Los has clearly seen a weakness there trying to pick up 24:24.720 --> 24:29.520 onto bank. I'll go back to border as well. This is a little bit more of a standard pick. NIP have 24:29.520 --> 24:33.680 loved border throughout the kickoff. They played it twice. They won it twice getting both fluxo 24:33.680 --> 24:37.600 and ints. Los have not played this map even a single time. Now that does give a bit of a 24:37.600 --> 24:42.240 vaude advantage maybe over to Los. They will have some hidden strats but at the end of day 24:42.240 --> 24:47.180 It's border whoever shows up and it's going to be gunning first thing in the morning is going to be the team that's favored 24:47.180 --> 24:53.320 And we end on consulate a team that both are a map that both teams tend to play from now and then they both have a win on 24:53.320 --> 24:57.900 This map this stage, so I think we'll get an even playing around if we do end up going all three 24:59.120 --> 25:04.460 There's a question then the starting side and both border and bank will play very much into this 25:04.900 --> 25:11.200 Test for both teams. There's no need to test our next two persons on the broadcast 25:11.200 --> 25:17.520 Of course, some of our favorites, Lynx, Exeter Turca, please welcome to the SAO broadcast 25:17.520 --> 25:21.980 one that you're both definitely not unfamiliar with. 25:21.980 --> 25:26.760 Over the years, it's good to see you again, it gets you vibing, Lynx, how are you doing? 25:26.760 --> 25:31.760 I'm doing pretty good, SAO has always been just a region I really enjoy casting, it's 25:31.760 --> 25:35.560 always especially like obviously NA is our main bread and butter, but SAO is always 25:35.560 --> 25:40.720 like a little treat that we get to do a few days for and honestly, I know they're 25:40.720 --> 25:45.160 not in like in this game, but given all the crazy changes like Team Liquid Alienware with 25:45.160 --> 25:49.760 Furia, like, I don't know how this region is always so exciting year after year, but it 25:49.760 --> 25:50.760 always is. 25:50.760 --> 25:55.480 I think for me, it's just the quality in this region. I'm always going to be biased 25:55.480 --> 25:59.160 for it because it was the first sort of one of the first regions that I really anchored 25:59.160 --> 26:04.520 into and did a lot of the broadcast for. I was at the stats that you guys were 26:04.520 --> 26:09.120 pulling up talking about the attack and defensive win rates and contrasting that 26:09.120 --> 26:15.680 with what we're used to seeing over in NAL, it's night and day different. The top to bottom gap 26:15.680 --> 26:21.520 between these teams in NAL is far narrower than the top to bottom gap in other regions, 26:21.520 --> 26:27.920 specifically looking at NAL, just on a statistic basis, which lends itself to better competition 26:27.920 --> 26:32.160 and technically should be more entertaining games because they should be a little bit closer. 26:32.160 --> 26:36.240 Although I'm saying that and yesterday was an absolutely wild watch for this region, 26:36.240 --> 26:38.520 So you really know what you're going to get. 26:39.680 --> 26:41.040 You're going to get entertainment. 26:41.040 --> 26:42.120 That's the least of it. 26:42.160 --> 26:46.160 And for those shop fire rebellion fans out there, welcome to the SL broadcast. 26:46.160 --> 26:50.520 I guarantee you'll be having a lot of fun as we go on with our playoff 26:50.520 --> 26:54.020 bracket, exploring different teams and what they would have to offer. 26:54.020 --> 26:57.480 Now, focusing on our series here, NIP loss, right? 26:57.480 --> 26:58.320 We've described them. 26:58.480 --> 27:01.520 We've shown the differences that they would have against one another. 27:01.520 --> 27:05.160 But when it comes to border, the way that it would play out between them 27:05.160 --> 27:10.520 How do you see this playing out as just like a general prediction of finally now best of 27:10.520 --> 27:18.320 threes that really switches things up? 27:18.320 --> 27:19.320 I think we have lost all of us. 27:19.320 --> 27:21.760 I'm going to throw that question on to you, Lynx. 27:21.760 --> 27:22.760 Oh boy. 27:22.760 --> 27:26.160 No, that's so funny. 27:26.160 --> 27:27.600 So I'm happy to answer that question. 27:27.600 --> 27:28.760 It's an excellent question, Nilo. 27:28.760 --> 27:31.720 Thank you so much for asking it. 27:31.720 --> 27:33.720 I think for me, it kind of goes back to Jesse's point. 27:33.720 --> 27:38.160 I think on boarder the entries are particularly important and I know for last year even though 27:38.160 --> 27:40.160 the entire roster is different. 27:40.160 --> 27:45.280 One player who is the same on Lowe's is Dark Eyes who is a fantastic entry player when he 27:45.280 --> 27:48.480 was like performing well, when he was getting set up very well. 27:48.480 --> 27:51.440 And so, well obviously the entries are important for Lowe's generally. 27:51.440 --> 27:56.360 I think if Dark Eyes can have a really good game, I think Lowe's might put up a stronger 27:56.360 --> 27:57.360 fight on boarder. 27:57.360 --> 28:01.240 Whereas with NIP, I mean you have Pino, you have Fancy of course, but NIP have 28:01.240 --> 28:04.320 always been a little bit up and down like I was super hot on them last year 28:04.320 --> 28:09.840 and they disappointed me a little bit and so I am still reluctant to get my 28:09.840 --> 28:13.320 predictions and also I really like Dark Eyes as a player so a little bit of 28:13.320 --> 28:18.920 subjectivity coming in there. Thank you welcome back Ollie. Hello. Your opinions 28:18.920 --> 28:23.960 if you could hear it again. No my only opinion at the moment is my ISP is a 28:23.960 --> 28:35.960 a lot of rubbish. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the question, unfortunately. I feel like it was a prediction-based question, though, which I'm always a little bit dubious of. 28:35.960 --> 28:44.960 Yeah, well, in this case, we're finally in best of threes, right? That really changes up what you'd expect. I'm going to shy away from that question now and just go to something else because it's the spice of life. 28:44.960 --> 28:49.580 But more about, I know you've been seeing it in every single region, a common operator 28:49.580 --> 28:53.280 I've been seeing a lot on the attackers, our latest operator to enter the map pool, none 28:53.280 --> 29:00.080 other than Salt Snake himself, and the question is with how Border is playing out, it's been 29:00.080 --> 29:05.400 seeing more and more play, where, okay, you're going to bring this down, Salt Snake 29:05.400 --> 29:10.760 is going to end up messing up the defense quite a bit, defense try to slow it down, 29:10.760 --> 29:14.400 you got the reaction of the shield on the other side for the attackers, back 29:14.400 --> 29:19.440 and forth and back and forth. How do you see this now playing out because it seems very difficult 29:19.440 --> 29:25.200 to deal with a coordinated team supported by Salt Snake at the moment? Honestly, and this might 29:25.200 --> 29:30.640 be unpopular, I believe attack have the advantage at the moment just through the bands. I think 29:30.640 --> 29:35.760 there is too much that you can bring now as an attacker. You can fall into like one of three 29:35.760 --> 29:40.960 different camps. You can either go global ability, which is essentially information and 29:40.960 --> 29:44.960 or you can go full disruption which is going to be yings. 29:44.960 --> 29:48.960 You capitalize things of that nature or you can go down the shield route. 29:48.960 --> 29:54.960 And then there's all sorts of different supporting operators that kind of transition to those sort of styles, if you will. 29:54.960 --> 29:59.960 So for me, the attack really have the run of the teeth at the moment and they can basically play whatever. 29:59.960 --> 30:03.960 And if you've got a team that's very flexible and can either play the shields if they're available, 30:03.960 --> 30:09.960 or either play all the globals or either play some of the more disruption based operators, you've got a winning formula. 30:09.960 --> 30:16.120 just how powerful Snake was on Friday night when we were doing the NAL. First game last round, 30:16.120 --> 30:20.600 if you haven't seen it, go back and watch it. Like, if I was a tiktoker, I would have made a tiktok 30:20.600 --> 30:25.320 about it. But just the fact that Snake was able to, and it was actually Snake that was playing 30:25.320 --> 30:33.160 it as well, achieve that unbelievable. I believe it'll be unbelievable, Jeff. Indeed, 30:33.160 --> 30:37.080 let's get into our matchup then. Our first best of very in the playoffs 30:37.080 --> 30:43.080 to see who advances and plays against Team Liquid Alienware that's an inch of the pajamas versus Los. 30:43.080 --> 30:46.520 Please, my friends, extra Troika links, take it away. 30:47.880 --> 30:51.640 Thank you very much, Miloche, and not only the first best of three for the SAL, 30:51.640 --> 30:56.680 but the first best of three for Ali and I, as well. So very excited to get started. First 30:56.680 --> 31:01.720 back, we'll be border between Los and NIP on one side, a roster that is almost entirely 31:01.720 --> 31:05.720 different from last year, except keeping the star player. And on the other, just making one 31:05.720 --> 31:12.160 small chain and IGL so see how this one goes Ali we can talk about strategy y'all 31:12.160 --> 31:15.820 we want but making more NAL comparisons the last time we casted 31:15.820 --> 31:20.960 border it was kind of an all-or-nothing game wasn't it a little bit I was like 31:20.960 --> 31:24.600 going over to SAO because it's just an entirely different play style it's 31:24.600 --> 31:29.200 really refreshing and you get to see some players that we've watched through 31:29.200 --> 31:33.080 the ages I remember some of these guys joining the SAO way back in the day 31:33.080 --> 31:38.240 players like Paris players like fancy and and seeing what they've been capable of 31:38.240 --> 31:42.200 doing throughout their time here and where they've gotten to now so what's 31:42.200 --> 31:45.700 gonna be starting off on the attack tonight and I beat on the defense and I 31:45.700 --> 31:49.540 beat of borderline made their kickoff off the back of border as a map played 31:49.540 --> 31:54.020 it good number of times throughout the stage so far and it has been a very good 31:54.020 --> 31:57.800 map for them I think that he suits that new sort of style of playing 31:57.800 --> 32:01.160 they're looking to bring which really does lean into some of that 32:01.160 --> 32:05.180 fighting potential and obviously now with a little bit more sort of leadership 32:05.180 --> 32:09.180 coming in from Beceto and the experience that that player will bring so 32:09.180 --> 32:13.300 gonna be gonna be a little bit tricky for Lost maybe to get their foot hold here 32:13.300 --> 32:17.840 speaking of the operators that we were we're talking about inside of the 32:17.840 --> 32:21.620 pre-show there with Ben Milosh and Jesse that we see any snake this time 32:21.620 --> 32:29.220 instead going to be the second, it's going to be a little bit damn much, still providing some of that important information and as we 32:29.220 --> 32:34.220 note with Deimos and that Vendetta pistol a great ability to work from below. 32:34.220 --> 32:38.220 What I was talking about last year just from operator VSide Dark Eyes play a lot of and 32:38.220 --> 32:42.220 if you're going to rebuild the roster with him as kind of one of the core players keeping 32:42.220 --> 32:46.220 him on that role, keeping him where he's comfortable makes a lot of sense and could be quite dangerous 32:46.220 --> 32:49.220 of course for any team playing against them but something I imagine NIP will at least 32:49.220 --> 32:52.220 be aware of whether or not they're able to counter it or not. A lot of information 32:52.220 --> 32:55.220 on the side of NIP of course we see the pulse and the solos, a couple different 32:55.220 --> 32:59.460 double different ways to get information through walls or through floors. 32:59.460 --> 33:04.620 With some traps as well, even some indirect information to be acquired from those razor blooms. 33:04.620 --> 33:07.460 So, an Alive from NIP that is doing a bit of everything. 33:07.460 --> 33:11.220 Can get it until early, can delay late with the C4s and the smokes. 33:11.220 --> 33:15.220 And then, you have Wizard being able to just kind of place his utility whenever he wants 33:15.220 --> 33:19.320 and play as aggressive as he would like. With support from Basetto on the Armory Wall. 33:19.320 --> 33:23.320 Hates creeping around down below, seeks to meet Lowe's head on inside a bathroom. 33:23.320 --> 33:25.200 I was gonna say, getting awfully close. 33:25.200 --> 33:26.920 Couple defenders are in fact, 33:26.920 --> 33:29.240 wizard thinking about looking over towards the flores, 33:29.240 --> 33:31.920 but at least for the moment, I think that's so ever. 33:33.240 --> 33:35.240 I love this position inside of CCTV, 33:35.240 --> 33:36.600 but we've got wizard playing in the moment 33:36.600 --> 33:39.040 with the door open, ready for that aggressive swing, 33:39.040 --> 33:41.520 ready for somebody to come in through break. 33:41.520 --> 33:43.440 Our guys actually gave me the first player to fall here 33:43.440 --> 33:45.240 as Hates was able to take him out 33:45.240 --> 33:47.480 and should be able to make that rotation. 33:49.080 --> 33:50.560 All that smoke to the planes 34:20.560 --> 34:26.760 as well though of course. Oh Pino! Going in for the trade. Not even necessarily too late 34:26.760 --> 34:32.800 just daffo quick with that reaction. Now it's on Becetto. Now things have shifted though 34:32.800 --> 34:37.600 he's got a direct line on whether he knows it or not both remaining attackers. And with 34:37.600 --> 34:44.160 40 seconds Nux has plenty of time to use this Selma. Find some more information and 34:44.160 --> 34:49.040 get set up for this secondary utility Becetto. Making the right play but I'm worried 34:49.040 --> 34:53.000 that this wood panel might end up covering the ace as Nuck swings. 34:53.000 --> 34:55.480 Sort of spots him for just a second. 34:55.480 --> 34:58.800 Backs down metal as Daffo moves deeper into fountain. 34:58.800 --> 35:02.640 He could easily swing around in this goya who finds himself in a bit of a crossfire. 35:02.640 --> 35:06.480 Nade goes out to force him back with a B and he follow up from low. 35:06.480 --> 35:08.920 He'll go for the plant instead, creating an alternate angle. 35:08.920 --> 35:10.240 Finally making his way through beepers. 35:10.240 --> 35:12.200 A great flick by Vesetto. 35:12.200 --> 35:17.280 While the diffuser goes down, could easily catch this ace on the fall off with only one HP. 35:17.280 --> 35:21.180 And how much damage that TCSG can do, only one shot needs to land. 35:21.180 --> 35:25.680 He just has to find one opportunity and it's still slipping by. 35:26.240 --> 35:30.080 They trade, but because of the defuser, the round goes to Los 35:30.080 --> 35:33.080 and it's a nailbiter for round one. 35:33.080 --> 35:35.380 You got to feel really sorry for Bissetto there. 35:35.680 --> 35:38.280 His teammates have absolutely trolled him. 35:38.720 --> 35:40.420 Hates, you know, hates less. 35:40.420 --> 35:43.680 So I think Pino on the, you know, trying to get that quick trade back, 35:43.680 --> 35:46.780 just instantly throwing into the gunfight. 35:46.780 --> 35:50.380 But Daffo was just way too prepared for that kind of play. 35:51.180 --> 35:54.780 And then with Nox only being on one HP, one bullet needed to land. 35:54.780 --> 35:57.260 There was a bit of a pre-fire through the soft wall and you're thinking, 35:57.260 --> 35:59.180 oh, just a millimeter to the left. 36:00.060 --> 36:01.340 It would have been a different story. 36:02.620 --> 36:04.540 That plant going down was crucial. 36:04.540 --> 36:05.580 That was the win condition. 36:06.380 --> 36:09.340 Often we'll talk about if it's, you know, two versus one, 36:09.340 --> 36:12.060 you sometimes in a better position to try and force the kill. 36:12.060 --> 36:14.300 But if you've got someone that's on zero HP 36:14.300 --> 36:19.020 and you're going up against a truck like the TCSG, you've sometimes got to play for the plan. 36:19.900 --> 36:23.580 Getting that plan down was crucial, especially as you mentioned there, 36:23.580 --> 36:27.420 links to the final kill coming as a trade, but because the win condition was already in place 36:27.420 --> 36:32.460 for the attackers, that plan being down meant the attackers were always going to win the round. 36:32.460 --> 36:35.740 The defender had to remain alive to disable that activated diffuser. 36:37.420 --> 36:42.460 To start there for NIP, that's a round that we may look back on depending on how this series 36:42.460 --> 36:48.540 goes it could have been a bit more pivotal than it was led to believe at the time but it's still very 36:48.540 --> 36:55.100 early days and loss will happily take a one round lead here as NIP slip into their site's rotation 36:55.100 --> 37:01.340 going to be going downstairs, ventilation and workshop this time. Early days indeed and around 37:01.340 --> 37:05.980 in which that was had to come back to v3 to get a chance at winning that so a close game through 37:05.980 --> 37:11.340 and through we'll see how the next site of ventilation workshop will go for this defense. 37:12.460 --> 37:16.300 Paris sees some tracers flying through the Armory Wall. 37:16.300 --> 37:18.620 Maybe Baceto on the warden, as we can tell. 37:20.620 --> 37:23.060 With Warden and Thorne playing around this position, 37:23.060 --> 37:25.060 that's what I'd say. Baceto... 37:25.060 --> 37:28.260 Surely be leery of any potential presence on the balcony. 37:28.260 --> 37:30.260 He'll face-check, won't lose his life in the process, 37:30.260 --> 37:31.660 and Paris will fall back. 37:31.660 --> 37:34.260 Some information acquired by both the attack and the defense, 37:34.260 --> 37:36.260 but a lot of the same positions being held by NIP 37:36.260 --> 37:38.660 as was the case in the last round. 37:38.660 --> 37:40.460 Even then, while... 37:40.460 --> 37:45.540 Paris might spot somebody on the soliton scanner. It's not information that he necessarily wasn't already aware of 37:45.740 --> 37:48.220 But at that point you see an IP begin to fall back 37:52.340 --> 37:56.100 Just show our powerful the scanner is like you say he knows there's a player there 37:56.100 --> 38:01.260 But now he knows about players either rotate an hour on the edge of rotating so it might lead them to take 38:01.500 --> 38:04.900 CCV a little bit sooner nice run out be at a time 38:04.900 --> 38:06.900 Oh, it's a Tooth! 38:07.460 --> 38:13.160 Fancy! Look at him go! One of the more explosive players on this NIP side. 38:13.780 --> 38:15.780 He's gonna be proving it right now. 38:15.980 --> 38:16.980 Hello? 38:16.980 --> 38:18.980 That shit! 38:18.980 --> 38:25.260 Just lost two teammates from the exact same spot. It's gonna be a flawless round for NIP to fight back. 38:25.500 --> 38:27.500 That's a hell of a response. 38:28.300 --> 38:30.940 Fancy with three kills outside of passport. 38:30.940 --> 38:36.600 And not not just three kills might add a very nasty spray transfer with a gun with 38:37.160 --> 38:39.960 Extremely limited ammunition and a rapid fire rate 38:39.960 --> 38:45.960 That was very impressive for fancy to get both with basically the same magazine and on top of that dash going up for the repel 38:45.960 --> 38:51.660 I mean you see the idea in theory right like okay, I'm gonna go to the top floor. I'll join my team 38:51.660 --> 38:54.580 We'll apply pressure there on black beard. Let's see what happens 38:54.580 --> 38:56.320 But then you do get that goofy moment 38:56.320 --> 38:59.700 We're like surely the solace won't run out again and that she does and you're entirely compromised 38:59.700 --> 39:04.700 Right as you're getting off the repel, you can't ADS. You can barely even shoot. The shield's on your back. 39:04.700 --> 39:08.700 Unfortunate timing for Dash, and a great round for Fancy. 39:08.700 --> 39:12.700 Flawless round for NIP to answer back. Los' narrow victory. 39:12.700 --> 39:15.700 1v1 trade in the first. 39:15.700 --> 39:18.700 So continued their sight rotation down to Tellers and Bathroom. 39:18.700 --> 39:21.700 It seems to be a pretty, I would say similar lineup between all of these rounds. 39:21.700 --> 39:24.700 There seems to be a constant thorn presence, smoke presence. 39:24.700 --> 39:27.700 But of course the introduction of the Malusi and the Oryx. 39:27.700 --> 39:30.420 I need to get a little bit of a looser hold for NIP. 39:30.420 --> 39:36.060 Yeah, NIP aren't going to be too bothered about anchoring down at the site this time. 39:36.060 --> 39:39.300 They're going to be looking at the goreos to do that sort of heavy lifting for them. 39:39.300 --> 39:43.460 They've got the Vulcan canisters also with a deployable, sorry, also with a default 39:43.460 --> 39:44.460 camera. 39:44.460 --> 39:45.460 What camera am I trying to say? 39:45.460 --> 39:46.460 It's a broken camera. 39:46.460 --> 39:47.460 All approved camera. 39:47.460 --> 39:50.940 They're going to be in pocket for Wizzy's going to place that out there. 39:50.940 --> 39:56.180 So with the oryx, that will speak to a bit more rotation and the playing with 39:56.180 --> 39:59.460 The patch open inside of office as well, more importantly. 39:59.460 --> 40:03.460 Changes aren't only on the side of NIP though, loss of bringing some changes of their own. 40:03.460 --> 40:07.380 They're going to be bringing the Blitz this time, going to use that to flip those players 40:07.380 --> 40:10.940 and force them around that top floor. 40:10.940 --> 40:16.140 With similar positions being occupied, you don't necessarily need Crystal Ball to know 40:16.140 --> 40:19.260 that Wizard is going to be playing inside of CCTV. 40:19.260 --> 40:22.780 You've still got a question of how are you going to try and deal with that? 40:22.780 --> 40:24.500 The Blitz is going to be the main key here. 40:24.500 --> 40:27.500 ROU project's coming out, but I don't think it's gonna do the job. 40:28.500 --> 40:36.500 No, one gives a little bit of gap for the defense to find, but Lose still sprints on in, capitalizes on the thing, and NIP drawing quite a bit of blood in the process. 40:36.500 --> 40:44.500 Before I even realized, gap was effectively the only one left. Nutz was down early on, the entire attack collapsed around him, and it seems whatever Lose had prepared might... 40:44.500 --> 40:52.500 It wasn't, maybe a slightly missed ROU project, but that was the issue. NIP had a clear heads up as to what the attack's game plan was. 40:52.500 --> 40:56.500 They all fall back, moved to the east stayer side of the map. 40:57.500 --> 41:03.500 Now I guess Lois with a welcome reprieve, that got over half the round to go and hopefully 41:03.500 --> 41:08.500 some intel gathering remaining as you can see, no EE-1Ds but two drones in the pocket for both these attackers. 41:10.500 --> 41:14.500 Still a camera available for Pino as well, he's watching the main hall they come. 41:14.500 --> 41:18.500 Gonna have a little bit of information that he's gonna be able to feed three to a scene. 41:18.500 --> 41:24.260 stairs is being occupied pretty heavily right now and I think know that that's 41:24.260 --> 41:30.140 likely where this attack has to try and transition through. Fancy gets caught out 41:30.140 --> 41:33.860 through the soft wall though. It does level things up. There's now a definite 41:33.860 --> 41:37.060 opportunity there and there's a worry that a plant's gonna go down. 41:37.060 --> 41:40.900 The worry of the plant's gonna go down and with Hates not really in a great position, nevermind. 41:40.900 --> 41:43.860 Perfect position. I was thinking about the toxic canister. Hates has decided to 41:43.860 --> 41:46.660 shoot the blitz in the face or the back. Probably more the accurate one. 41:46.660 --> 41:52.060 Gaff on the 1v2, not an unprompt position for Loos and the 1vx spots the head but can't land the shot. 41:52.060 --> 41:58.660 NIP 2 in a row. It's not that the first round seemed like an anomaly, but when NIP fight back they fight hard. 42:01.660 --> 42:03.660 Brilliant position in there for men IP in that round. 42:04.660 --> 42:10.660 Soon as they get a couple of kills, boom, everyone's moving, everyone's consolidating around East Stairs and Office, 42:10.660 --> 42:12.660 and they can just play for the next stage of the plan. 42:12.660 --> 42:15.860 You don't need to continue to hold the hallmark from the gates to attackers now 42:16.020 --> 42:21.920 There's only so much that two attackers are going to be able to do and it's just gonna slow down further slow down their progress 42:21.940 --> 42:27.080 Now knowing that they have to clear all the way through armory all the way through archives and then in toward offices 42:27.080 --> 42:31.980 Now, yeah, sure they get the kill on to fancy, but again as soon as that kill comes in there's no overreaction 42:31.980 --> 42:34.100 It's not all we need to chase the guy inside of office 42:34.100 --> 42:34.620 Nope 42:34.620 --> 42:37.700 We just need to drop back down to the site because they've got good information 42:37.700 --> 42:41.360 They've got a bulletproof camera and they know that the plant is now a factor 42:41.360 --> 42:46.220 loss during the best really to pick up the pieces on what was a little bit of a 42:46.220 --> 42:50.180 scrappy round to start with they seem a little bit all on the foot at the moment 42:50.180 --> 42:55.700 for me the initial sort of push that initial pressure that they were applying 42:55.700 --> 42:59.140 with the RAU projection the blitz running off the back of it wasn't really 42:59.140 --> 43:03.660 much of a backup plan if that didn't go well that was kind of demonstrated 43:03.660 --> 43:07.580 with how the round ended it was we need to get these kills onto these key 43:07.580 --> 43:12.140 players and we need to do it pretty much for free otherwise we're going to be 43:12.140 --> 43:16.180 under some serious problem and certainly found those problems as the round 43:16.180 --> 43:20.780 develops. Round four then back upstairs we go. The only side the loss have been 43:20.780 --> 43:24.860 successful in so far again as we've mentioned a couple times it came down 43:24.860 --> 43:30.020 to a 1v1 which eventually was a traded kill but the diffuser was already 43:30.020 --> 43:34.980 down. See how loss choose to deal this time. And the honest links I am a 43:34.980 --> 43:39.000 a little bit surprised if they're gonna continue to let a player, whether it be 43:39.000 --> 43:42.500 Wizards or Fancy, play inside a CCTV like this. 43:42.500 --> 43:44.300 Oh, he's off the air. 43:44.300 --> 43:46.700 Oh, he just fluffs it. 43:48.040 --> 43:50.540 Narrow and missing out there. 43:50.540 --> 43:52.940 But, I mean, it sends a message at least. 43:52.940 --> 43:55.100 Dark Eyes is like, uh, no, I'm good actually. 43:55.100 --> 43:58.440 I'm just, uh, I'm just, I'm not, not dealing with that. 43:58.440 --> 43:59.900 You want to risk getting hit by Boss G. 43:59.900 --> 44:00.700 I agree with you though. 44:00.700 --> 44:03.380 I mean, Wizards, this has been a pretty consistent element of NIP's 44:03.380 --> 44:08.280 Defenses so far has been this pretty early aggression around both armory and CCTV 44:08.800 --> 44:11.920 Whether it's wizard playing it or in that case fancy playing it a little bit early 44:13.600 --> 44:18.760 I don't know what I don't know what loses exact remedy for it'll be just yet, but I agree you'd have to think that just play the book 44:19.000 --> 44:22.480 Well, I was gonna say play the book or you can send our class below the game 44:22.480 --> 44:24.480 It's not that option either 44:24.480 --> 44:28.000 The first round is see dark eyes play the day most I'm like, yeah, they're not they're not playing the book because they play 44:28.000 --> 44:32.160 in the demos. No worries, this is absolutely fine. We haven't seen him go into customs once. 44:32.160 --> 44:35.000 I might be sure if we've seen Death Mart tracker. 44:35.000 --> 44:42.180 Oh, I will say. Gotta get fancy credit for that soulless run out, but flash round caught 44:42.180 --> 44:45.700 in front of radio and that one caught on a run out seems that at least for one particular 44:45.700 --> 44:49.920 player, Los have a decent read on what their kick abilities or what their tendencies might 44:49.920 --> 44:54.960 be. Perez holding another caught off lands the shot onto Hades. Seems like he's 44:54.960 --> 44:59.360 taking a different posture instead of a rapid thrust into the broader defensive 44:59.360 --> 45:04.240 setup this time holding a bit further back playing cutoff angles and waiting for 45:04.240 --> 45:07.560 NIP to either rotate or swing and it's been an excellent strategy in round four 45:07.560 --> 45:11.720 so far as they might not have dealt with wizard yet but he's running out of 45:11.720 --> 45:16.800 support and NIP is a hole running out of room on this defense. 45:16.800 --> 45:19.040 I think there's a good strategy for dealing with NIP, isn't it? 45:19.040 --> 45:21.560 You've got to make them uncomfortable and they're often just going to 45:21.560 --> 45:24.840 can do themselves by maybe trying a little bit too hard. 45:24.840 --> 45:26.840 Finally, we see a deathmark tracker out there 45:26.840 --> 45:30.480 sent over onto Pino, but dash, he's good for the follow-up, 45:30.480 --> 45:32.800 is able to utilize that information. 45:32.800 --> 45:35.320 The day must eventually fall. 45:35.320 --> 45:38.640 Merez finds himself one, but is immediately traded. 45:38.640 --> 45:40.760 Still, Plunt going down here is that his loss 45:40.760 --> 45:42.760 is objective for attacking the top floor. 45:44.680 --> 45:46.960 Oh, I was gonna say maybe he could spot the other head, 45:46.960 --> 45:49.220 but I think the office chair blocks his line of sight. 45:49.220 --> 45:54.220 Unfortunate for an ID, but great round by Lois and great adjustment by the attacking team. 45:54.220 --> 45:58.260 You had just mentioned that going a little bit too quickly, I mean going with this rapid 45:58.260 --> 46:01.060 pressure and getting caught, then what do you see in the next round? 46:01.060 --> 46:05.420 Lois playing further back, waiting at CCTV, understanding that players like fancy, players 46:05.420 --> 46:09.980 like hates are getting in their face, which is a perfectly viable strategy, but it requires 46:09.980 --> 46:11.300 some kind of response. 46:11.300 --> 46:14.940 That's exactly what Lois do, and it works almost perfectly, only losing a couple 46:14.940 --> 46:17.940 bodies in the process most of them biased towards the end of the round. 46:17.940 --> 46:20.940 And a tired, competitive game once again. 46:20.940 --> 46:24.940 Armory Archives though, the only site that has worked for Lowe so far. 46:24.940 --> 46:26.940 Now we have a new one being thrown into the mix. 46:26.940 --> 46:29.940 It's not bathroom or ventilation that NIP will go to. 46:29.940 --> 46:32.940 It's instead custom, so we'll have all four sites played on-border, 46:32.940 --> 46:37.940 but also a new site that Lowe won't have experience on in this particular matchup. 46:37.940 --> 46:43.940 Kinda like this from NIP. Keeping things fluid, mixing it up a little bit. 46:43.940 --> 46:50.940 If we think back to the workshop round, we didn't really get to see too much of it because Fancy gets three kills from outside of Passport Door. 46:50.940 --> 47:02.940 So, it makes sense to kind of mix things up a little bit. There's been a constant difficulty, really, for lost to consistently clearing to CCTV and armoury. 47:02.940 --> 47:05.940 It's an area that NIP are very happy to play. 47:06.940 --> 47:09.940 That is kind of the linchpin of this whole site. 47:09.940 --> 47:11.940 You've got to keep control of upstairs. 47:11.940 --> 47:13.940 You have to keep control of CCTV. 47:13.940 --> 47:15.940 You're in directly above customs. 47:16.940 --> 47:22.940 Still not too convinced with the whole visual boss G sort of situation that Fancy's rocking in. 47:23.940 --> 47:25.940 We're trying to hit live shots. 47:25.940 --> 47:28.940 And I don't know if this is the game for it. 47:28.940 --> 47:35.300 Well, it's also, you know, he did so well with the 17 bullets earlier with that SMG-11. 47:35.300 --> 47:38.460 It's like, you need to make it harder, bring yourself down to two. 47:38.460 --> 47:41.500 Like, I'm kind of at the same mind to you. 47:41.500 --> 47:46.140 I think, you know, what it reflects, I like the confidence, but I definitely think as we 47:46.140 --> 47:48.460 saw in the last round, which of course we'll see how it translates here. 47:48.460 --> 47:53.020 I think Loser's starting to get a read on this style of play, but how small that 47:53.020 --> 47:54.020 border is. 47:54.020 --> 47:56.420 N.A.P. can't exactly just bunker on the side, they don't have a whole lot 47:56.420 --> 48:02.180 of options, but we'll see if NIP end up paying for some of this intransigence. 48:02.180 --> 48:05.540 The castle will make things a bit better to hold these positions and a C4 48:05.540 --> 48:09.140 prepped them down below, but not forcing Fancy to take these fights. They're more 48:09.140 --> 48:13.700 so maybe using him as bait trying to pull the attacking in and throw that C4 48:13.700 --> 48:17.660 out the door. They're certainly baiting out utility. One of the Grim Canisters has 48:17.660 --> 48:22.460 been launched. Ooh, but look at this drone in sight. Excellent find by Lowe. 48:22.460 --> 48:25.500 So where are you this C4 and that play with fancies not gonna work 48:27.700 --> 48:31.960 Great information here, and it's a bit of a stalemate. It's almost a who will blink first 48:32.660 --> 48:34.500 Lots of know that they can't move in through break 48:34.500 --> 48:38.340 You know they have to deal with that player inside a CCTV, but that ruins the site 48:38.340 --> 48:40.340 Are you just gonna directly push the site? 48:40.380 --> 48:43.420 No, you still need to push upstairs so you might have the information on the drone 48:43.420 --> 48:47.780 But it's gonna take someone to make a bold play to really make good off that Intel 48:47.780 --> 48:53.860 North student at the moment is just further slowing things down. Nooks still gathering a lot of value out of that drone 48:54.180 --> 48:56.740 Could Daffo come and be the savior here 48:58.980 --> 49:03.460 Oh my upper stairs who can't quite land it. No another single shot on to the defense 49:03.460 --> 49:06.060 It seems like you know and fancy both good for two 49:06.060 --> 49:10.820 Don't know if it's a live shot but fancy at least gets something for that boss g dark guys on the entry 49:10.820 --> 49:12.820 I'll even less success than the rest of his team 49:12.820 --> 49:19.820 It's Dash, the only one to kill so far for Loose and today he goes, check off C4, detonates at his feet. 49:19.820 --> 49:26.820 Another 1v2 for Loose. A Twisted Infuser, not a lot of HP, but still some bees that can gather information. 49:26.820 --> 49:28.820 One player above him, so he'll rotate sights. 49:28.820 --> 49:32.820 Thus, verticality. Still must worry about the hatch, and any players on the horizontal. 49:32.820 --> 49:39.820 Halfway down, opened up right above him. The settle with the secondary retakes NIP's lead. 49:39.820 --> 49:45.100 Boston even make their way into CCTV that round and it's not through you know 49:45.100 --> 49:48.340 it wasn't that it wasn't a close round it comes down to 1v2 we've already seen 49:48.340 --> 49:53.660 them win 2 versus 1 and we know that it's possible however you've got to take 49:53.660 --> 49:57.940 control of upstairs and whilst it was a flashy play from Daffod trying to make 49:57.940 --> 50:01.620 something happen up through metal stairs that that isn't always the avenue to 50:01.620 --> 50:04.500 being able to take control you're always gonna be fighting a losing gun 50:04.500 --> 50:10.260 fight there. The angles up staircases are not very kind at all, especially when you've got 50:10.260 --> 50:15.180 so many different places that people can be in quickly rotating in and out of. NIP will 50:15.180 --> 50:24.380 take the lead then, just ahead of the halfway point, and reattempt upstairs. I will stress 50:24.380 --> 50:29.980 it, this is the only site that loss has been successful in so far. We've won it twice. 50:29.980 --> 50:33.820 NIP made it easy time of things downstairs in bathroom 50:34.780 --> 50:40.780 The choosing not to go there equally. They had an easy time over inside a workshop. Yes, sure fancy got three kills on the run out 50:40.780 --> 50:43.340 But who's to say that that won't happen again 50:45.220 --> 50:49.000 Feels more like an ego challenge to go back up to this top floor again for a third time 50:49.420 --> 50:55.060 And and if you want if you won't think they were just around one right like, you know that close one to one trade 50:55.060 --> 50:58.940 We're technically speaking if the diffuser weren't down you would have one 50:58.940 --> 51:02.940 Yeah, that'd be one thing, right? But helping this situation where, you know, 51:02.940 --> 51:08.140 Loos have a good round on this site and much more reach to the recent history in the first. 51:08.140 --> 51:11.500 It seems like it could be a bit of an ego challenge. It could be a bit of a risk. 51:11.500 --> 51:14.300 We'll see if it pays off for NIP. If it does, they'll take the lead. 51:14.300 --> 51:18.780 It's not working out so far. First 23 seconds and Hades goes down immediately. 51:18.780 --> 51:24.220 And what seems to be about the same position he went down on the last Armory Archive's defense. 51:24.220 --> 51:31.900 I'll scratch my head a little bit for this one, decent info on the drone, Daffodil gonna 51:31.900 --> 51:36.740 go for a little bit more, they won't get that drone all the way up to the roof, Loser's 51:36.740 --> 51:39.820 still just trying to find these angles from outside to in, they know that they're there, 51:39.820 --> 51:45.220 they know that they reveal opportunities, Peris gonna climb the bridges this time, 51:45.220 --> 51:49.940 wanna see if we can lock on boarder, keep that loud, trusting there's never a bad 51:49.940 --> 51:54.280 thing to deter players from jumping out. Hans is still looking for a very 51:54.280 --> 51:59.600 success with this boss key here in round six as well. Razor Bloom is going to be 51:59.600 --> 52:03.440 going off as well so that's some good information you know roughly where these 52:03.440 --> 52:07.360 attackers are occupying or at least the space that that is. Paris will find 52:07.360 --> 52:12.280 himself down their wizard, he'll get one back as a trade. 52:12.280 --> 52:20.800 The follow-up kill on the Fancy, this is the exact same order of the last Army 52:20.800 --> 52:25.120 Archives, why the exact same, it was Fancy first then Hades, but both the same two 52:25.120 --> 52:29.320 players falling via a similar strategy, most playing a bit more passive, sitting 52:29.320 --> 52:33.840 outside Breakdoor, sitting on East Stairs. Fancy ends up p-ding, gets caught 52:33.840 --> 52:40.160 out, Hades caught in the exact same position. Rounds not over yet, but a lot 52:40.160 --> 52:45.680 of warning signs for NIP on Armory Archives that we saw in previous rounds re- kind of 52:45.680 --> 52:49.240 just re-asserting themselves here. 52:49.240 --> 52:54.960 Wall open up, more hard breach being laid down, most really taking their time with this. 52:54.960 --> 52:59.360 DarkEye still down below, takes a big 1v1 but doesn't deal any damage to the opposing 52:59.360 --> 53:00.360 party. 53:00.360 --> 53:04.280 Now with that information, seeing somebody's down below, Nux moves on in, puts the diffuser 53:04.280 --> 53:06.480 down with that lack of vertical support. 53:06.480 --> 53:08.720 The Settel could rotate down with that C4. 53:08.720 --> 53:10.080 Nothing for the pulse, so maybe they can get it 53:10.080 --> 53:11.960 through the floor, we'll force him off the plant. 53:11.960 --> 53:13.840 Dash pushing deep, gets a great kill. 53:13.840 --> 53:16.760 Nothing over the trade, it's a massive whiff on beepers. 53:16.760 --> 53:19.200 The Daffod puts a seal on that. 53:19.200 --> 53:20.360 You know, now he has to walk up, 53:20.360 --> 53:22.280 he can find that information, but with no C4, 53:22.280 --> 53:24.480 he's gotta win this off-gun fight. 53:24.480 --> 53:26.320 Flashbang around the corner, he'll swing around. 53:26.320 --> 53:28.360 Dodge is it, that's a big moment. 53:28.360 --> 53:30.080 He'll take this upward momentum, 53:30.080 --> 53:32.840 sees the next kill, but Daffod's got the line. 53:32.840 --> 53:34.640 Tygane at the half as Loser 53:34.640 --> 53:38.960 putting up an impressive fight, though, on only one particular site. 53:39.760 --> 53:40.440 You can't blame them. 53:40.440 --> 53:42.240 They can only play the game that's in front of them. 53:42.400 --> 53:46.280 And if NIP are going to consistently take them to that top floor bomb site, 53:46.560 --> 53:49.280 then they're going to consistently walk away with rounds. 53:49.680 --> 53:52.800 Definitely a little bit of a strange opening half here 53:53.000 --> 53:55.640 for our first best of three here tonight. 53:56.080 --> 53:59.240 We've got our desk to further break down the first six rounds 53:59.240 --> 54:01.640 and let us know what they were thinking. 54:01.640 --> 54:17.640 Thank you very much, my friends. A good start to this game back and forth in between, but it takes us back to a topic that Jesse and I were discussing in the pre-match for Lost NIP, which is about opening kills and conversions through that. 54:17.640 --> 54:24.640 With a tied game like that, how have those numbers been going so far, Jesse, and their actual literal impact on the game? 54:24.640 --> 54:29.000 Yeah well I think that's exactly what we wanted to focus on right Milosh we said 54:29.000 --> 54:33.200 that Los would live or die based on their entries and NIP clearly got that 54:33.200 --> 54:37.760 message they came into this game making entries very difficult with creative 54:37.760 --> 54:41.200 plays like this double run out from fantasy and even this one the very 54:41.200 --> 54:44.740 next round or on round four I should say going for more of those aggressive 54:44.740 --> 54:48.840 runout plays you can see that NIP are trying to find different ways to work 54:48.840 --> 54:52.640 these picks they're not just letting Los go for the initiative and trying to 54:52.640 --> 54:56.460 take some of these frags on their own, they're making it difficult. And sometimes it works 54:56.460 --> 55:00.680 like in that round 2 runout. Sometimes though, I think especially as the game went on, Loser 55:00.680 --> 55:04.200 doing a better job at reading that out. You saw how good their drones were in rounds 55:04.200 --> 55:09.520 5 and 6, having that information. So Loser clearly learning as this game went on. As 55:09.520 --> 55:13.680 we swap sides, this is going to continue. NIP will continue to be aggressive on his 55:13.680 --> 55:18.480 opening frags. Fantasy loves to get active. The last time he played Border, he played 55:18.480 --> 55:23.680 a ton of dope with me and was involved in four of the seven opening engagements so don't expect this 55:23.680 --> 55:28.240 to slow down any time soon. NIP will continue to get aggressive to hunt for these entries 55:28.240 --> 55:32.960 and if they can be successful with it they're likely to win this map. That's perfect timing then 55:32.960 --> 55:37.360 as they head on to the attack we'll see what operators will be brought by the NIP sign 55:38.000 --> 55:42.640 and how loss will adapt in their own way on the defense to slow things down. Thank you 55:42.640 --> 55:46.640 Jesse that is it from us. We'll send it back to Lynx and Ollie. Enjoy. 55:48.880 --> 55:53.040 Thank you very much you too and honestly I want to focus on something Jesse said not like any 55:53.040 --> 55:58.000 the actual content of it that was very good. I wanted to talk about the pace as well because 55:58.000 --> 56:02.240 I just got to say it's been a fun six rounds so far like I've had a lot of fun at watching these 56:02.240 --> 56:06.160 two teams and you know I always have a lot of fun typically with the games we cast but the 56:06.160 --> 56:10.240 pace has been really good like there's been a lot of you know some downtime there's been 56:10.240 --> 56:13.360 some action sometimes you don't get games that are like that sometimes they're super 56:13.360 --> 56:17.120 weird it's kind of hard to follow it just in terms of like the momentum but it's been like 56:17.120 --> 56:23.600 a very good roller coaster so far i'm a big fan of what's happening that's because we've 56:23.600 --> 56:29.920 been we've been watching too much nl that's true honestly we just have a slower region 56:29.920 --> 56:38.000 and i don't say that as like in you know intrinsically that's not just a fact it's 56:38.000 --> 56:43.760 true. Don't see the messenger. It really is just what it is. And I'm loving having 56:43.760 --> 56:49.960 Jesse back on the desk. It just feels like we're back, you know? I just, there's, how 56:49.960 --> 56:57.280 do I say this? Anything? Like, there's just, there's something about, there's just something 56:57.280 --> 57:02.160 about Jesse with glasses on the desk. That just makes sense. And he's always had glasses. 57:02.160 --> 57:06.840 It's not a new thing. But like, it's just, it's just something about, like, 57:06.840 --> 57:09.900 of our analysts have glasses so many of our analysts in any specifically but it's 57:09.900 --> 57:14.600 just like guess it just it just works you know it just works you can't even 57:14.600 --> 57:18.600 explain it you can't quantify it some of those things it's like it just works I 57:18.600 --> 57:24.900 like it I love that guy let's see if NIP can make it work on the attacks here 57:24.900 --> 57:31.020 now got a lot of flexibility here switch and the ying back so when you 57:31.020 --> 57:37.200 start thinking about the top operators to ban on the attack which doesn't really 57:37.200 --> 57:43.140 enter the picture. Now it's of course going to allow Lost to play certain things 57:43.140 --> 57:46.020 that are going to be a little bit more difficult to deal with. You're removing 57:46.020 --> 57:51.020 the shock drum, the Denari's trick, Elegrismox. Everything's gonna have a 57:51.020 --> 57:54.300 little bit more value because it's gonna be slightly harder to get rid of 57:54.300 --> 57:59.620 and if that trap style is what we're going to be seeing in fair play 57:59.620 --> 58:01.620 I don't think you don't care about that. 58:01.620 --> 58:03.620 This is probably better. He's gonna go for it. 58:03.620 --> 58:04.620 Look at this. 58:04.620 --> 58:06.620 Straight up. Shotgun in the face. 58:06.620 --> 58:07.620 Two pump down. 58:07.620 --> 58:08.620 Daffodil. 58:08.620 --> 58:09.620 Knucks up for the next one. 58:09.620 --> 58:10.620 Tread around. 58:10.620 --> 58:12.620 Oh, Paris has got no idea. 58:12.620 --> 58:14.620 That bit of a silencer, folks. 58:14.620 --> 58:16.620 We got John Wick over inside of Tellers. 58:16.620 --> 58:17.620 Up and down. 58:17.620 --> 58:18.620 Control on the metal. 58:18.620 --> 58:20.620 Knucks down for the count as well. 58:20.620 --> 58:22.620 Very little chance to loosen this one. 58:22.620 --> 58:23.620 Oh, down for the low. 58:23.620 --> 58:25.620 Dark guy's a crazy rotation, in fact. 58:25.620 --> 58:28.620 Maybe I spoke too soon as Knucks picked back up. 58:28.620 --> 58:31.740 Not alone inside of the site. We got to rely on these guns 58:32.940 --> 58:38.740 Swing around outside. You know people on the vents window spots the head but Pino just has the more consistent angle 58:39.380 --> 58:43.700 How about number two is the Monty backs out? No Pino will line up the final two 58:44.260 --> 58:48.300 And I'd be taking a page on a Losus book blasting into the site and it works 58:48.780 --> 58:49.940 excellently 58:49.940 --> 58:54.020 The dream position to be in in the post plant two people on vents 58:54.020 --> 58:58.380 That means that one person can play aggressively like Pino did there for those final couple of kills 58:58.380 --> 59:02.420 And if it all goes horribly wrong if he gets absolutely burned on a one-shot headshot 59:02.420 --> 59:07.480 It's what you've still got another body there to take advantage of the angle. You've got the Monty 59:07.480 --> 59:13.820 Post plant with a Monty up. I mean just it should be GG. You should never be losing that and that was demonstrated right there 59:13.820 --> 59:17.820 Monty can just plant themselves right in the doorway and give constant information 59:18.220 --> 59:21.500 As to where these defenders are gonna be coming from. They've got no choice 59:21.500 --> 59:30.100 but to try and challenge onto vents window and then there's always the fear that the Monty is going to drop the shield and just pop you in the head anyway when you are not looking. 59:30.100 --> 59:37.800 And I've been moving very quickly there in round number seven. Really a display of how bored it can be played on the attack. 59:37.800 --> 59:44.400 It doesn't always have to be slow and steady and clear in the rooms. You can just go for site executes. 59:44.400 --> 59:48.000 And more than that, if you've got certain tools available, you can make them work. 59:48.000 --> 59:52.400 The Monty is a massive swing, getting those site executes going early on. 59:56.400 --> 59:58.800 Shoes are a powerful tool, but Monty in particular for that. 59:58.800 --> 01:00:03.800 On this map, I also feel like, you know, people tried, and Jesse's gonna get triggered when I say this. 01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:08.600 You know, people tried to bring the OSF to that plant, and it, you know, wasn't really working out that great. 01:00:08.600 --> 01:00:12.000 Jesse and I did this agreement on OSF, but on that one, Jesse's 100% correct. 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:16.640 I would say not really the best for that you just can't you can't really go wrong with the Monty for that plant 01:00:16.640 --> 01:00:20.520 It's still the best option. I think like I think oh 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:23.680 The orange on the OSA is good in any situation 01:00:25.160 --> 01:00:28.560 I'm not at listen. There's not an OSA in play. I'm not gonna have this argument 01:00:28.560 --> 01:00:32.920 Okay, like Jesse just thinks OSA is like one of the worst ops in the game like that feels like shit 01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:35.640 I think she's like probably it's fine. Anyway 01:00:36.200 --> 01:00:38.200 Speaking of opposite or fantastic 01:00:38.200 --> 01:00:42.680 Deathmark tracker going out. Dark guy's getting a taste of his own medicine though. Funny that you say that. 01:00:42.680 --> 01:00:47.420 I don't remember a lot of deathmark trackers being used in the first half. I remember a couple of them saying 01:00:48.200 --> 01:00:51.460 Nothing said. We'll certainly not be happy being on the receding end though 01:00:51.460 --> 01:00:56.200 However, I didn't say that seems to be calming his location to dash and then fancy just caught in a 1v1 01:00:56.300 --> 01:01:01.260 By himself down inside of tellers if we've seen any referring motifs Ollie 01:01:01.260 --> 01:01:06.400 It's gotta be fancy in very forward positions and sometimes maybe not with all the support he needs 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:12.480 Yeah, very on an island on his own, no ability to trade that at all, the rest of the team 01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:17.120 kind of pulling in the same direction to get the job done and start to make a bit of headway 01:01:17.120 --> 01:01:20.320 on this top floor and fancy just really out there. 01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:23.520 I mean he's playing that lurk role, it's a difficult role to play isn't it, it attracts 01:01:23.520 --> 01:01:28.320 a lot of attention when it goes wrong, it attracts a lot of attention when it goes 01:01:28.320 --> 01:01:32.200 right but it's also just something that's really easy to call out, it's like that 01:01:32.200 --> 01:01:35.360 wasn't probably the best play at that time but if he'd have gone in and got three 01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:39.600 kills would have been sitting and calling him a hero so I think they're a really difficult 01:01:39.600 --> 01:01:44.640 spot and a fine balance to try and tread but it is regardless going to leave NIP in a 01:01:44.640 --> 01:01:49.080 4 vs 5 headed into this and they haven't really got any significant control right now. We 01:01:49.080 --> 01:01:55.480 still have Paris able to operate here inside of CCTV. Also we've still got upstairs presence 01:01:55.480 --> 01:02:00.400 as well, Dash is going to be hanging out there inside of Armory. There's no one 01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:03.840 that's immediately trying to challenge on to that, we've still got Passetto trying 01:02:03.840 --> 01:02:08.800 knock onto this bathroom toilet window. We'll put a couple of points of damage in onto Dark Eyes, 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.320 but Dark Eyes is wiser than that. He knows he just needs to tuck himself in the corner, 01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:19.440 play this cop further. Oh, great shot by Dash. Zero complaints about that whatsoever, 01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:23.120 creating a vertical angle to support Dark Eyes too. The communication between Dark Eyes 01:02:23.120 --> 01:02:27.200 and Dash, or at least just the coordination, has been excellent. Firebolt goes out, 01:02:27.200 --> 01:02:31.280 seems to miss their intended target, seems as Dark Eyes heals. This one should be a bit 01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:34.960 bit more direct, he'll hop up, yeah, down he goes, and I'd be taking their time with that one. 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:40.760 But using every second of the few, they have remaining 22 to go, and still in a 3v4. 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:45.920 Rosetta with the cross, so he'll evade nukes for the time being, but with the vertical angles in store for Los. 01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:50.080 It's gonna be difficult to see how Rosetta walks in, and Dash doesn't get this kill. 01:02:50.080 --> 01:02:53.000 We've talked about just shooting through the smokes, a couple will go out, but maybe we're 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:55.480 correctly in front of this castle, there he goes. 01:02:55.480 --> 01:03:01.000 Not to play with the user. Rosetta actually evades entirely the C4 instead, thrown from the opposite site. 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:04.780 most able to win that one on time and nobody can get a lead on board. 01:03:05.980 --> 01:03:10.340 And a good example of, you know, how the horizontal take has to be performed 01:03:10.680 --> 01:03:14.580 not perfectly, but it has to be performed in synergy with everybody else. 01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:18.980 And losing that first opening player and not having any ability to affect 01:03:18.980 --> 01:03:22.700 on what's going on above because you've chosen not to go up there is 01:03:22.700 --> 01:03:26.060 or you've indeed lost the gunfight that was trying to affect on that angle. 01:03:26.060 --> 01:03:29.600 I think we did get office wall into archives opened up. 01:03:29.600 --> 01:03:33.740 But immediately, the player that opened it was just sent into the cameras. 01:03:33.740 --> 01:03:38.380 He weren't able to cut a line through the sights and in effect on those vertical players. 01:03:38.380 --> 01:03:44.340 He kind of glitched in the straws and that's one of the downsides of just having one person to do one job and not having any redundancy. 01:03:44.340 --> 01:03:53.540 You lose that gunfight, it puts a heck of a lot of pressure on that individual to win that gunfight and get the job done otherwise the ground will fall at your heels. 01:03:53.540 --> 01:03:59.860 So, Lost leveling things up four rounds a piece now, they themselves will go up to this top floor. 01:04:02.180 --> 01:04:07.460 Remember that this was the side that Lost has an absolute lockdown on their own attacks, 01:04:08.260 --> 01:04:12.740 but NIP be able to leverage that same sort of success here on their own side. 01:04:15.380 --> 01:04:19.940 It'll have to be by a different method. I don't think the Gora hook up small office hatch will 01:04:19.940 --> 01:04:23.540 Castle is off guard quite like it did in round 7. 01:04:23.540 --> 01:04:27.700 The planet had already gone down by that point, but he did get two kills. 01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:32.060 That was the important thing, it wasn't it, it wasn't so usually you do that just before 01:04:32.060 --> 01:04:35.940 or as the plant is going down to kind of add into the confusion, but he's waited until 01:04:35.940 --> 01:04:37.940 the plant had gone down until he was going up. 01:04:37.940 --> 01:04:43.940 Just a little bit of delay with the Amaru to your point, he just makes all the difference, 01:04:43.940 --> 01:04:46.940 because if you start with the hook it's just such a loud sound cue that it basically 01:04:46.940 --> 01:04:51.180 everybody knows exactly what to do, but having it once all the chaos has gone down, just a 01:04:51.180 --> 01:04:54.220 small time and thing, but it really just like makes it 10 times better. 01:04:59.260 --> 01:05:03.100 Is it just going to be primed and ready at break door? I'm reloading! 01:05:03.100 --> 01:05:08.700 What, hate? How do you sense this time? They're all going to try and go for some sort of 01:05:08.700 --> 01:05:14.460 distraction and confusion. Create those ROU projectors, block off lines of sight, 01:05:14.460 --> 01:05:21.660 whereas typically we see players with the door open onto the balcony instead 01:05:21.660 --> 01:05:25.300 Paris has got the whole roll over from their opposite armory just inside a CC 01:05:25.300 --> 01:05:30.660 maybe in a slightly off angle you might not just expect that could know that 01:05:30.660 --> 01:05:36.820 someone's there and know they're gonna be in that rough area but it's a little bit of an off angle that he finds himself in 01:05:36.820 --> 01:05:40.100 Dash forced to drop out and as the castle he's gonna have to get himself 01:05:40.100 --> 01:05:43.700 back up the staircase somewhere that have a good effect on the round. 01:05:48.660 --> 01:05:51.620 Our U-projector falls as one player close around the corner. 01:05:51.620 --> 01:05:54.580 It's not the shotgun out, it's the SMG-11 right now with half ammunition. 01:05:55.140 --> 01:05:56.500 Against the Blackbeard, 01:05:56.500 --> 01:05:59.700 much like it to switch guns pretty soon, season in the corner. 01:05:59.700 --> 01:06:01.620 The shots go out, fancy with the first. 01:06:02.660 --> 01:06:04.180 A double crossfire through the wall, 01:06:04.180 --> 01:06:06.900 there is no way Nux is having a chance of that engagement. 01:06:06.900 --> 01:06:09.700 She's like, close, don't even have a single bit of chance in this round. 01:06:09.700 --> 01:06:14.740 We got a 100% win rate for Armory Archives for attacking teams so far this map I do believe. 01:06:14.740 --> 01:06:16.880 Maybe Paira's got a 1v5 in him. 01:06:17.520 --> 01:06:20.320 We'll make those odds a little nicer for Lose. 01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:23.560 Two kills, and one of them being the shield that's gone down. 01:06:24.220 --> 01:06:29.200 None of the remaining players, well I was about to say have the diffuser, but Pina changes that right before the words leave my mouth. 01:06:29.580 --> 01:06:32.940 I want the diffuser halfway down, and the tracer's hitting the wall. 01:06:32.940 --> 01:06:36.560 One player prone on the floor, seems like Hates will figure it out. 01:06:36.560 --> 01:06:40.560 100% win rate for army archives for attacking teams and unfortunately with 01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:47.360 nip starting out this half with a win that just means they still remain one round ahead of their opposition 01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:54.640 another round where the opening kill is converted into a round win as well that's happened every round 01:06:54.640 --> 01:07:01.200 but round one and as we've spoken about round one a little bit of an anomaly you've got a single 01:07:01.200 --> 01:07:05.600 HP player that's planted the defuser and is desperately trying to defend it and the final 01:07:05.600 --> 01:07:11.760 kill comes through as a trade. That doesn't always happen. So a very convincing stat line 01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:16.720 for not only Armory Archives being won by the attackers every single time we've had it played, 01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:21.920 but also that the opening pick has been converted into a round win. Further putting a bit more 01:07:21.920 --> 01:07:28.320 pressure onto these entry players. The side of NIP, you're really going to be looking 01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:37.280 toward fancy the side of yes the side of loss it's maybe a little bit more up in 01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:41.600 the air they've had a fairly fairer share of that opening pick it's been nooks and 01:07:41.600 --> 01:07:47.320 peres in and out a little bit of dash action in there as well so it's more 01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:52.520 spread and the sort of fancy hates domination that we've been seeing it 01:07:52.520 --> 01:07:57.000 for the side of NIC on that very opening pig around number 10 I'm gonna 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:03.800 going downstairs into a bathroom and tell us. Again, we're the good side. NIP were able 01:08:03.800 --> 01:08:08.960 to defend on their own defensive side, and one that weirdly, we only saw once. Maybe worried 01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:15.200 about the sort of quick-execute that is a potential for this bomb site. I can pretty 01:08:15.200 --> 01:08:19.960 much say with a fair degree of security there, I'm not going to be seeing any sort of intent 01:08:19.960 --> 01:08:24.960 here from and I've just based on the lineup that they have on the boat. 01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:31.960 This would seem to be the case. 01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:36.960 The character on the boat is to destroy some barricades and destroy some quick utility, 01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:39.960 but with no shields or extra utility like we discussed, 01:08:41.960 --> 01:08:44.960 I have a whole lot you can do to take this quickly. 01:08:44.960 --> 01:08:50.560 I can ask traps to go through the wall, so, will be a full player of some kind? 01:08:50.560 --> 01:08:54.520 Or a half clear, but at least there will be a decent bit of presence on the top floor 01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:55.520 early on. 01:08:55.520 --> 01:09:03.000 Got some Denari shenanigans going on around the break room position and a snake outside. 01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:04.160 Understandable to lock off that area. 01:09:04.160 --> 01:09:06.000 Seems to be a common position for snakes to be played. 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:10.600 You can just sit outside these indestructible walls, activate the scanner and get good 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.320 visual on CCTV, break room, even a little bit into 90 hall depending on where 01:09:14.320 --> 01:09:21.440 you are. And indeed, one of them will be spotted. Paras, hopping around this rotate, 01:09:21.440 --> 01:09:25.920 hopping around the 90 position. Then I'd be taking things quite slowly and holding these cutoff angles, 01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:33.360 hates and wizard both. With those long angle DMRs, find two beautiful picks, take CCG off the back 01:09:33.360 --> 01:09:38.400 of it, and have a 5v3 with over half the round to go. But now that I've been getting killed, 01:09:38.400 --> 01:09:42.160 you tend to get more than one as well. It's really like they're setting themselves up before 01:09:42.160 --> 01:09:47.360 success. A lot of pressure and time spent on that information gathering. As soon as they're 01:09:47.360 --> 01:09:51.720 ready to go, better not blink because you very might miss it. Hates has been taken down 01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:56.640 now though. It's going to somewhat make things a little bit easier for loss, but they need 01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:00.960 to get another kill. They need to do it without being traded to level things back up here. 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:06.000 See, Blizzard, if you try and move through here and will find one on Staffo, but fancy, 01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:09.920 he's going to get there first and lose out on his engagement. Still, it's a trade 01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:14.600 the favours NIP. And with how quickly they've been moving through this map, they've still 01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:17.920 got a full minute to try and work this into a bit of a conversion. 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:27.000 A lot of utility they're disposed of too. Two flashes, a nade. We've still got three 01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.480 Rateratrons. I mean, that's a lot of utility you can destroy that might still be up whether 01:10:30.480 --> 01:10:35.920 it's banshees, broken canisters, not Dark Eye's deployable shield as that's currently 01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:42.640 pocket. Quite a bit. Pino just sees one snake into the bathroom. Dash and Bassetto trade. 01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:49.680 That advantage for NIP is to remain steadfast throughout the entire back half of this round. 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:55.440 Pino moving down. Oh, oh, dark eyes. Feels like you might have them for just a second, 01:10:55.440 --> 01:10:59.280 but not so. NIP string together two in a row and have loosed down six to four. 01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:05.520 We live in a DMR dominated world, unfortunately. Dark eyes, you haven't got a DMR, 01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:08.920 So you just by default lose the gunfight. 01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:11.080 I think it's like an absolute truck. 01:11:11.080 --> 01:11:14.520 And NIP have started to streak a little bit of a lead here 01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:16.800 in a game that has been very competitive. 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:18.600 And we haven't had more than a couple of rounds 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:20.560 difference throughout. 01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:23.760 The difference here for NIP comes at the most important time. 01:11:23.760 --> 01:11:26.960 One round away from securing map number one in this best 01:11:26.960 --> 01:11:29.160 of three, as such loss are going 01:11:29.160 --> 01:11:31.000 to choose this as their opportunity 01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:33.880 to use their tactical timeout. 01:11:33.880 --> 01:11:37.120 Also with the introduction of the halfway timeout 01:11:37.120 --> 01:11:40.560 that is now mandatory and free for all teams and all games, 01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:42.440 it has changed the landscape a little bit 01:11:42.440 --> 01:11:45.720 on how teams are choosing to use their own tactical timeout 01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:47.920 that they get one off per map. 01:11:47.920 --> 01:11:51.400 We are starting to see them used a little bit later. 01:11:51.400 --> 01:11:53.320 Or a little bit earlier, if things are going terribly, 01:11:53.320 --> 01:11:55.640 you know that you've got that chance at the halfway point 01:11:55.640 --> 01:11:58.280 to reset and solve any problems 01:11:58.280 --> 01:12:02.440 that aren't necessarily side specific. 01:12:02.440 --> 01:12:04.040 They are going to be leaving it quite late. 01:12:04.040 --> 01:12:06.600 This is an AP's map choice, so I don't think the loss 01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:08.920 are going to be beating themselves up too much about it, 01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:09.920 as we've already mentioned. 01:12:09.920 --> 01:12:12.680 An AP have played quite a lot of, 01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:16.200 oh, sorry, in the run-up, all kickoff. 01:12:18.080 --> 01:12:19.680 Bank cross a little bit less, sir. 01:12:21.320 --> 01:12:24.000 We'll be on next map, loss is choice. 01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:30.080 So I'm going to see how this new loss roster 01:12:30.080 --> 01:12:32.280 performs, and I say this new loss roster, I mean, 01:12:32.280 --> 01:12:44.020 We've seen so many of these players in different combinations, I mean, Nux has been around for quite a while, Daffodil making his way on quite a few different lineups over the past few years, basically kind of, I would say everybody except DarkEye as the new entry has been, 01:12:44.020 --> 01:12:56.780 the journeyman SAL player is kind of moving around the lower echelons of T1 to T2, then of course Dash, the exception, high level T1 inside of NA in the past year, this stint on Wildcard. 01:12:56.780 --> 01:13:10.780 It's kind of difficult to know if that kind of that newness, you know, the bit of raw chemistry that's rough around the edges on a map like Bank can be difficult, but probably difficult in any map. 01:13:10.780 --> 01:13:17.780 So the more consistent product of NIP will fare, even though it's not their pick in this round. 01:13:17.780 --> 01:13:24.780 Ventilation workshop defense with NIP once again as with every site on-border defending the second floor 01:13:24.780 --> 01:13:28.780 excuse me, LOS defending the second floor just a little bit. 01:13:28.780 --> 01:13:31.780 Interaction of a solos into their lineup. 01:13:31.780 --> 01:13:38.780 Deathrattle moving around CCTV at the moment, hunting two drones, but also imagine if you're trying to channel some of that fancy energy from the first half. 01:13:41.780 --> 01:13:42.780 That's all. 01:13:42.780 --> 01:13:45.780 Giving himself a couple of options here on that Armory wall. 01:13:45.780 --> 01:13:53.140 been supported at the moment from a player inside of CCTV. Should be able to keep a reasonable 01:13:53.140 --> 01:13:59.300 hold of this, but as we've come to see Snake is just so good at determining what exactly 01:13:59.300 --> 01:14:05.220 is going on inside of CCTV. And finally we're seeing the vertical comment to expect as 01:14:05.220 --> 01:14:10.900 well Perez conscious of the player that could be underneath the lurking. Dark Eyes 01:14:10.900 --> 01:14:13.220 is actually trying to move in for a little bit of support right now. 01:14:13.220 --> 01:14:17.740 This could be a big flank. The Doki call goes up. I could have stopped to it. How 01:14:17.740 --> 01:14:22.480 focused is that player just outside of Tellar's dark eyes? Not daunting. What's 01:14:22.480 --> 01:14:27.940 ever pushing deeper catches Fancy off guard. Him and the rest of Loos, the 01:14:27.940 --> 01:14:33.100 three kills their way and yet hates, doesn't care. Wizard is across the map 01:14:33.100 --> 01:14:38.380 effectively and still the Doki alone and stranded puts the diffuser down. Loos 01:14:38.380 --> 01:14:41.780 scrambling a little bit as Wizard maybe on cleanup duty. Ella going for the peak 01:14:41.780 --> 01:14:47.380 Reveals his position with one tap alerts the elo to his presence two players looking to get a gun for this kill 01:14:47.700 --> 01:14:50.740 Can't quite land the shots. It's the first and the second to go down 01:14:51.380 --> 01:14:57.380 Lighting up for the 5-5-2 and it's even game with only like 18 seconds to go until this is beyond the pail 01:14:57.780 --> 01:15:03.380 Smoke can still go out, but it's the last one for nukes dark eyes on the cover needs to make this work wizard down going to the 01:15:03.380 --> 01:15:05.380 flank there's one there's both 01:15:05.460 --> 01:15:08.820 Three in a row for nip and their map it goes their way 01:15:08.820 --> 01:15:14.340 way. Absolutely staggered how Haze was able to get that plan down. He was on his own. It 01:15:14.340 --> 01:15:19.140 was two versus four. There are four defenders alive and everyone on the side of losses just 01:15:19.140 --> 01:15:26.780 so distracted elsewhere still defending upstairs inside a CCTV wizard is still just running 01:15:26.780 --> 01:15:34.340 an absolute riot upstairs and allowing that to happen. Mental really, really crazy. I 01:15:34.340 --> 01:15:37.340 can't believe that he's got that plan down. You really should not have been allowed 01:15:37.340 --> 01:15:41.900 to be allowed to do that. And the fact that we're able to see two kills coming as well 01:15:41.900 --> 01:15:46.740 as the players try to double up and deal with the player wizard outside of CCTV. Really, 01:15:46.740 --> 01:15:50.520 really impressive stuff from that from NIP. We're going to have a very short break after 01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:54.780 that we'll be back with map number two. Don't forget we are very early on in our day here. 01:15:54.780 --> 01:15:56.780 So don't go anywhere. We'll be back in just a few. 01:16:07.340 --> 01:16:07.840 But... 01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:09.000 Orginal, right? 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:11.840 Virula, a lot of media and now a football player? 01:16:11.840 --> 01:16:12.680 Orginal. 01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:13.400 I don't know. 01:16:13.400 --> 01:16:15.680 All the developments, the polemics, all these things... 01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:16.500 I think it's Virgis. 01:16:16.500 --> 01:16:20.100 He's always hurt, he's always getting a lot of things there, he's Orginal. 01:16:20.100 --> 01:16:25.100 Badero plays a lot, but he's not in the top of the world. 01:16:25.100 --> 01:16:30.100 And more than that, he's a very slow guy, he's very good at it, and he's funny. 01:16:30.100 --> 01:16:31.100 I think it's Messi. 01:16:31.100 --> 01:16:33.740 He's very good, but he didn't have a lot of titles there. 01:16:33.740 --> 01:16:36.600 I'd say it was Pascal, because he started very well, 01:16:36.600 --> 01:16:39.680 There was a great wave, but it was to fall down a bit. 01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:40.880 Guard Jogger is 6-0. 01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:41.520 It was a stroke. 01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:42.200 It was a stroke, right? 01:16:42.200 --> 01:16:44.320 My partner, Guard, already called him a stroke. 01:16:44.320 --> 01:16:46.840 His nickname is Guard Jogger, he's already got it. 01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:48.960 Because he's poor, he's poor. 01:16:48.960 --> 01:16:50.200 He's Guard Jogger, it was his nickname. 01:16:50.200 --> 01:16:51.920 I think Liga is left-handed, Guard Jogger. 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:53.200 Liga is left-handed. 01:16:53.200 --> 01:16:54.800 My father. 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:57.040 Me, a lot, a lot, a lot. 01:16:57.040 --> 01:16:57.880 It's a monster. 01:16:57.880 --> 01:16:58.600 You can play with another. 01:16:58.600 --> 01:16:59.880 I'm not going to play, it's just me. 01:16:59.880 --> 01:17:01.920 The guy who has the most good title yet, 01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:02.920 because he's a Rapadel too, 01:17:02.920 --> 01:17:04.280 who's coming to the next one, 01:17:04.280 --> 01:17:06.400 but I think the number there will be... 01:17:06.400 --> 01:17:06.900 I'm gonna die 01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:11.600 I'm gonna go to the base, I'm gonna go to the front 01:17:14.320 --> 01:17:15.320 Ok, ok 01:17:16.440 --> 01:17:17.640 2, it's ok, ok 01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:18.440 I'm gonna go to the base 01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:23.400 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop it 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:26.480 I'm gonna die, god damn it, calm down, just one more ball 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:29.600 Cool 01:17:30.160 --> 01:17:31.400 My god, viado 01:17:32.400 --> 01:17:33.480 What is this viado? 01:17:33.480 --> 01:17:34.600 What is this viado? 01:17:34.600 --> 01:17:36.600 It's a shit, I don't like it. 01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:38.600 It's ridiculous, the other guys don't know, the guys are desperate. 01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:42.600 When the ball comes, the guy is shooting at her, trying to get up. 01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:44.600 It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous. 01:17:50.600 --> 01:17:51.600 107.16? 01:17:51.600 --> 01:17:52.600 107.26. 01:17:52.600 --> 01:17:53.600 Chano Ronaldo. 01:17:53.600 --> 01:17:54.600 I would say 15. 01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:55.600 Utiló. 01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:57.600 The man, the only 107. 01:17:57.600 --> 01:17:58.600 KDS. 01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:00.600 Then you got me, man. 01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:02.600 He did perform in all the important games. 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:05.600 He says he got a R7 and a R6 for his ego 01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:07.600 I'm going to put the Hex 01:18:07.600 --> 01:18:09.600 It's a gift from the titles 01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:12.600 He might be Cristiano Ronaldo, he's very dedicated 01:18:12.600 --> 01:18:15.600 I think he's not the same as you, I think he's Cristiano Ronaldo 01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:17.600 Flamengo and R6 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:19.600 Flamengo? 01:18:19.600 --> 01:18:21.600 Flamengo and R6 01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:26.600 Flamengo and R6, I'm going to put W7M 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:27.600 W7M 01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:29.600 I don't know man, I don't know 01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:30.600 I don't know, I think 01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:33.400 I was in the same team as Furi, but now I'm in the same team. 01:18:33.400 --> 01:18:35.200 Before, it wasn't very relevant, 01:18:35.200 --> 01:18:37.800 but I think it was already in a very bad situation. 01:18:37.800 --> 01:18:40.600 I started to win the tournament and it became very relevant. 01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:41.800 I think it's W7. 01:18:41.800 --> 01:18:43.400 I think it's W7. 01:18:43.400 --> 01:18:45.400 I'm from Brasília, Brasília, Brasília, Brasília, Brasília... 01:18:45.400 --> 01:18:46.000 That's it. 01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:48.000 It's a big international competition. 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:50.000 I think they just got a lot of good results, 01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:51.400 a lot of good games. 01:18:51.400 --> 01:18:52.200 It's a huge thing. 01:18:52.200 --> 01:18:54.400 They won a little title there, 01:18:54.400 --> 01:18:56.200 and they change the technique all the time. 01:18:56.200 --> 01:18:57.600 The good guy is banned, he's out. 01:18:57.600 --> 01:18:59.600 Go, go, go, change the technique. 01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:01.600 I make it 01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:39.600 I think I left a little bit of desire there too, the guy is always driving the steering wheel and I couldn't do it. 01:19:39.600 --> 01:19:42.600 I think it's a lot of trouble, man, I think it's a lot of trouble, man, he does it. 01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:44.600 It's a bit of a challenge, man. 01:19:44.600 --> 01:19:48.600 I think we left a little bit of desire there in the distance. 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:28.400 Let's go. 01:21:28.400 --> 01:21:33.680 series having won their pick of Border Ollie but this being Lois's pick, this kind of strains 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:36.760 that were going to a map that they most recently lost in 7-5. 01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:42.360 Yeah, last time though, so Lois played on Bank, they played against Liquid Alienware and 01:21:42.360 --> 01:21:46.680 they weren't successful. Now, of course, that isn't a good enough reason to not play the 01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:50.920 map or never play it again but it's worth bearing it in mind. It isn't a map that 01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:56.280 NIP have played at all yet inside a kickoff, although if we cast our minds back a little 01:21:56.280 --> 01:22:00.720 But further, you know they played it over at SI and they played it a couple of times. 01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:04.800 Successful against Team Heretics, that was actually the last time that they played it. 01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:08.680 Now, we're going to really compare NIP to Team Heretics. 01:22:08.680 --> 01:22:11.760 We dig too deep into how that's going to go, 01:22:11.760 --> 01:22:14.400 and how that means that the loss we're going to be playing up against them, 01:22:14.400 --> 01:22:16.200 and what that's going to look like. 01:22:16.200 --> 01:22:17.800 I don't think it'd be fair to do that. 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.840 Instead, we can base ourselves on what we saw a lot of inside a border, 01:22:21.840 --> 01:22:26.200 which from the NIP camp looked like a good amount of coordination on their attacks. 01:22:26.200 --> 01:22:31.960 Definitely an ability to get it done, but it wasn't all roses. There was some glare and errors there 01:22:31.960 --> 01:22:34.460 And I think that lost in a really good job of capitalizing 01:22:35.480 --> 01:22:41.980 Yeah, and I think we're an IP were particularly strong was it feel like nothing was happening and it feels like an IP were taking a long time 01:22:41.980 --> 01:22:45.300 Not that they were stalling out, but they were really taking their time and then all of a sudden 01:22:46.420 --> 01:22:50.740 Water to opening pitch would fly their way and we're barely even a minute in it around and as you can see here 01:22:50.740 --> 01:22:53.460 This was easy the most fast paced round we saw from an IP 01:22:53.460 --> 01:22:57.480 But all of them generally speaking were pretty fast 01:22:57.480 --> 01:23:00.100 And at least when it comes to the beginning of the game 01:23:00.100 --> 01:23:05.520 And so is there a strong performance on their attacking side and there were certainly some things that was capitalized on I think in particular 01:23:06.140 --> 01:23:10.080 NIP's willingness to get aggressive on the defense on well 01:23:10.080 --> 01:23:14.180 I guess one particular site being Armory and archives, but it worked out for three rounds overall 01:23:14.180 --> 01:23:16.820 And that's something that could easily play as a factor on bank 01:23:17.620 --> 01:23:20.460 Have to consider roaming and contesting that control a little bit on bank 01:23:20.460 --> 01:23:24.540 if you have somebody who's on a bit of an island like say fancy was a few times in that series on 01:23:24.540 --> 01:23:29.420 both sides it could be something that Los do in fact exploit and something they did in fact exploit on 01:23:29.420 --> 01:23:38.540 board yeah I think for me border was always going to be an nip favorite just in that we know it's 01:23:38.540 --> 01:23:43.420 a suit their play style bank is a very different beast and we're gonna have to judge that on 01:23:43.420 --> 01:23:48.300 its merit when it arrives it can have a look at the scoreboard now for the map that we just 01:23:48.300 --> 01:23:51.600 just watched NIP versus loss on border. 01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:55.240 Wizard and hates both topping the pops. 01:23:55.240 --> 01:23:57.440 Over 10 kills, a piece for those two players. 01:23:57.440 --> 01:24:00.320 100% cost on the side of Wizard as well 01:24:00.320 --> 01:24:02.920 and decent on that entry. 01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:04.840 Whereas we look over toward the side of loss 01:24:04.840 --> 01:24:06.680 and we're maybe a couple more gaps 01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:07.680 a little bit further down, 01:24:07.680 --> 01:24:10.000 but still that one dash putting in the shift, 01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:12.880 both achieving double digits in the kill department. 01:24:12.880 --> 01:24:13.800 Although it was a seven four, 01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:14.720 there were some rounds in there 01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:16.680 that were very close indeed. 01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:21.680 And I do see a world where loss come away with at least an overtime there inside of border, 01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:26.680 especially with the couple of swing grounds that we did see links, but it was just not convincing enough for me. 01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:31.680 No, and especially going back to what Jesse talked about, that the idea that Lois might live or die by their entry game. 01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:37.680 I mean, only one player positive for the team by and large, vastly negative overall with their entries and dark eyes in particular, 01:24:37.680 --> 01:24:40.680 somebody who can be such a strong entry player having such a rough game. 01:24:40.680 --> 01:24:45.680 Honestly, the fact that it's a seven four, given that factor, assuming you believe it's validity, which I do. 01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:47.880 I do. I kind of agree with Jesse's logic. 01:24:48.480 --> 01:24:49.780 That's there's something to be said for that. 01:24:49.880 --> 01:24:53.280 And so as we look forward on to bank, some of the things we'll 01:24:53.280 --> 01:24:56.280 need to see are dark eyes making a comeback. 01:24:56.280 --> 01:24:59.280 That is a huge thing, especially if we're going to see sites 01:24:59.280 --> 01:25:02.280 like CEO get played, having a player who can play Bakker and 01:25:02.280 --> 01:25:04.780 dark eyes case, Deimos effectively, whether entering or on 01:25:04.780 --> 01:25:08.280 the vertical, it's going to be highly, highly, highly 01:25:08.280 --> 01:25:10.880 important beyond that for NIP as well. 01:25:10.880 --> 01:25:13.280 I mean, it's hard to kind of criticize the team when 01:25:13.280 --> 01:25:15.280 you're up one on the leaderboard, but also they have 01:25:15.280 --> 01:25:19.520 bit of a stranger history on this map as Jesse mentioned when it comes to Banka not a map of 01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:24.080 even them playing it a fair bit that wasn't exactly one of their favorites or one of their best maps 01:25:24.080 --> 01:25:28.800 last year so we'll have to see how this new iteration of NIP with the introduction of the 01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:32.640 setto can navigate that large control which by the same token we'll see how this brand new 01:25:32.640 --> 01:25:38.800 team in Loats can do the same. Yeah I'm really looking forward to Banka. I think that this 01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:43.680 series in itself is going to be a good one and map one was a great testament to that. 01:25:43.680 --> 01:25:51.180 It's exciting siege isn't it? It's siege that is played, you know, quite quickly, but you're still getting all the thrills and all the spells. 01:25:51.180 --> 01:25:57.680 I just love how the decision making goes for these SAO teams. There's very little hesitation in what they're trying to do. 01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:01.980 It's like, this is the plan and we're just going to work with it. And bam, that's exactly what's going to happen. 01:26:01.980 --> 01:26:07.480 You really know what you are going to get when you start watching teams inside of SAO player. 01:26:07.480 --> 01:26:11.680 And that's one of the, one of the charms for the region here at the moment. 01:26:11.680 --> 01:26:16.980 I'm going to be going in the favourites or at least on the series as a whole given that they are one up so far 01:26:16.980 --> 01:26:20.940 But contextualize it into the fact that bank is losses map choice 01:26:21.060 --> 01:26:24.580 We very well could see all three maps played here today 01:26:24.820 --> 01:26:29.380 But for me, I've got to give a little bit of an edge over toward an IP 01:26:29.580 --> 01:26:33.020 Just in the fact that we haven't seen them play inside of kickoff 01:26:33.020 --> 01:26:36.060 Isn't a good enough reason for me to sort of count it out as like a 01:26:36.060 --> 01:26:42.140 a loss favorite or a loss favored map. Kickoffs are very short stage as we've you know all sort of 01:26:42.140 --> 01:26:46.300 come to understand and especially when the groups are the way they are and we're split up into two 01:26:46.300 --> 01:26:51.580 groups there's not a lot of cross-pollination until you get to this playoff stage. One especially 01:26:51.580 --> 01:26:54.700 when you look at how they won border I mean the coordination they showed in that attacking 01:26:54.700 --> 01:26:58.540 side that's probably the most important skill on a lot of maps but on bank in particular with 01:26:58.540 --> 01:27:02.060 how much control you have to wield. Now of course borders are very small map bank is much 01:27:02.060 --> 01:27:05.900 larger you kind of have to extrapolate that ability to a larger map size and 01:27:05.900 --> 01:27:09.100 assume that NIP aren't just capable of doing it on the smaller maps that they 01:27:09.100 --> 01:27:12.460 are capable of doing it on the larger ones but if they are one of the most 01:27:12.460 --> 01:27:15.820 important skills on bank they had down pat on there you know out of four or five 01:27:15.820 --> 01:27:18.780 rounds on their attacking side on border and so it could be a very real 01:27:18.780 --> 01:27:21.900 possibility they take away with that I'm also leaning a bit towards NIP for 01:27:21.900 --> 01:27:25.820 this map but it is Lois's pick for a reason hopefully we can see some of 01:27:25.820 --> 01:27:29.100 those more powerful players like dark eyes get activated hopefully we can 01:27:29.100 --> 01:27:33.180 see them replicate some of the successes that are some of these strengths that NIP had on their 01:27:33.180 --> 01:27:37.580 attacking side when we actually get into the map. I believe we're still getting the lobby set up, 01:27:37.580 --> 01:27:42.460 we're taking some time to get it set up. So that's for just a little bit longer, but hopefully it 01:27:42.460 --> 01:27:46.940 shouldn't be too much because I mean, with Bank coming up, if it's going to be anything like 01:27:46.940 --> 01:27:50.300 Border, it'll play out very differently. But I had a great time, Mathworn. I kind of don't want to, 01:27:50.300 --> 01:27:53.260 I don't want to push map 2 off any longer. I'm really enjoying this. 01:27:53.260 --> 01:27:57.020 No, we need to get into it, right? We need to carry on with that momentum. And I agree, 01:27:57.020 --> 01:28:02.540 I think that, you know, map one, it's border. It's always going to be, uh, it's all love it or hey, it kind of map. I quite like it. 01:28:03.100 --> 01:28:08.620 I think bank is probably one of my favorite maps in the pool as well. So really getting treated to be honest in this, uh, in this 01:28:08.620 --> 01:28:15.180 Vesvesta 3 here for SAL. Um, but like you say, it plays very differently. Bands can structure the map a little bit differently as well. 01:28:15.420 --> 01:28:23.420 Border with its options of, you know, just being able to hop into site. You've quite literally got many options of just walking into site or hopping in from outside. 01:28:23.420 --> 01:28:27.580 There's a lot less of that on bank. There are still some sites where you can just hop in, you know, upstairs 01:28:28.220 --> 01:28:35.620 Or of course downstairs inside of tellers, but you know, you've kind of got a you kind of still got to do a lot more work there 01:28:35.620 --> 01:28:40.660 And everything of course hinges around that basement and how that is set up in the bands that go into that 01:28:40.660 --> 01:28:44.260 So you might see a little bit more focus on the on the shield bands for this map 01:28:44.660 --> 01:28:46.660 Whereas on boarder whilst it is a factor 01:28:46.660 --> 01:28:49.700 It isn't something that you're looking at for every single site and going yeah 01:28:49.700 --> 01:28:52.260 I need to bring in that full for the siloers. 01:28:52.260 --> 01:28:55.540 Frank does lend himself for a few more of those opportunities. 01:28:55.540 --> 01:28:57.260 Yeah, especially when you think about Montaigne, right? 01:28:57.260 --> 01:28:59.420 Like the Monty, you know, it's good for maybe the office 01:28:59.420 --> 01:29:01.300 plant, but not much else beyond that. 01:29:01.300 --> 01:29:04.060 Like he's, Monty's useful, but can't really facilitate 01:29:04.060 --> 01:29:06.420 and execute quite the same way you can on, I mean, 01:29:06.420 --> 01:29:07.580 we got basement. 01:29:07.580 --> 01:29:10.460 We have a whole take on CEO from spiral side 01:29:10.460 --> 01:29:12.260 that usually revolves around a Monty 01:29:12.260 --> 01:29:13.860 as the main party pushing. 01:29:13.860 --> 01:29:15.460 And then even finding ways to do it, 01:29:15.460 --> 01:29:18.860 like crossing cafeteria from the double door 01:29:18.860 --> 01:29:20.460 all the way behind to go for the plant. 01:29:20.460 --> 01:29:22.100 There's very clear Monty applications 01:29:22.100 --> 01:29:23.780 on most of the sites on Bank, 01:29:23.780 --> 01:29:26.660 whereas for Border, there's one very clear one 01:29:26.660 --> 01:29:27.620 to get into the site, 01:29:27.620 --> 01:29:29.380 but the others it's kind of a lot more just, 01:29:29.380 --> 01:29:30.500 you know, maybe you're outside of break. 01:29:30.500 --> 01:29:31.420 There's not a lot of room to go. 01:29:31.420 --> 01:29:33.340 I think part of it is just Border is such 01:29:33.340 --> 01:29:34.940 like a claustrophobic map. 01:29:34.940 --> 01:29:36.180 There's not a lot of room for the Monty 01:29:36.180 --> 01:29:37.540 to kind of like do his thing 01:29:37.540 --> 01:29:38.980 and walk around as the human drone. 01:29:38.980 --> 01:29:40.300 So likely a reason, 01:29:40.300 --> 01:29:42.580 and also likely something we will see considered on Bank. 01:29:42.580 --> 01:29:44.100 This is the bracket as you can see, 01:29:44.100 --> 01:29:45.740 and I'd be currently up one to zero, 01:29:45.740 --> 01:29:47.180 but after this game, 01:29:47.180 --> 01:29:50.340 we will have these clans versus flux so w seven m 01:29:50.340 --> 01:29:53.900 i would not be too worried about phase being outside their normal spot way 01:29:53.900 --> 01:29:57.500 ahead of the bracket than anybody else uh... highly competitive group they were 01:29:57.500 --> 01:29:58.120 in 01:29:58.120 --> 01:30:00.580 uh... featuring all i don't know that 01:30:00.580 --> 01:30:03.620 team liquid former theory roster now with uh... 01:30:03.620 --> 01:30:04.780 mya 01:30:04.780 --> 01:30:07.820 alongside for some of the best players who ever played the game so that's 01:30:07.820 --> 01:30:09.500 really 01:30:09.500 --> 01:30:12.060 can't really blame them for that one now can you but of course after that 01:30:12.060 --> 01:30:13.100 we'll see who 01:30:13.100 --> 01:30:16.620 out of this series goes on to play team liquid alien where will it be 01:30:16.620 --> 01:30:24.380 NIP winning this map to close out the series 2-0 or do Loos have something to say on their own 01:30:24.380 --> 01:30:29.580 pick. Ban phase will start and as Ali mentioned the bands more so than other maps I feel like can shape 01:30:30.220 --> 01:30:34.460 bank a bit more actively in some of the other ones. I think in particular the breaching bands are 01:30:34.460 --> 01:30:38.860 not nearly as default to some of the other ones though I say that probably you see a Hibana if 01:30:38.860 --> 01:30:44.700 we're going to see any of them. Well we've already seen the Cade, Ying of course removed as well. 01:30:44.700 --> 01:30:48.700 Garner is always a good one. Maverick can be a choice as well. 01:30:48.700 --> 01:30:54.700 I'm going to go for a Capitao. The hatches are pretty much going to be fair game. 01:30:54.700 --> 01:30:59.700 I mean I suppose with the secondary utility now, you can assume that the hatches are going to get opened regardless. 01:30:59.700 --> 01:31:04.700 The Capitao ban from NIP is quite a specific one though. 01:31:04.700 --> 01:31:12.700 Of course the Azami ban, I mean Azami just should be a permanent ban anyway on any map because it just makes everything a little bit better. 01:31:12.700 --> 01:31:18.980 And so as we head then for our first round NAP starting off this map on the defense 01:31:21.380 --> 01:31:23.700 Look at that for a while to go into 01:31:24.540 --> 01:31:30.300 Very hot and heavy you have got some of the more of some of the slower operators in the game 01:31:30.500 --> 01:31:35.580 And you've also got some of the hotter operators in the game. You've got the go-in, you've got the tachanka 01:31:35.860 --> 01:31:38.300 We've also got one of the coldest in two rounds 01:31:38.300 --> 01:31:45.480 That is just going to assist those hatches being closed for a little bit longer, or ultimately 01:31:45.480 --> 01:31:49.780 the two brow is not great unless you are using it in conjunction with something that is going 01:31:49.780 --> 01:31:54.780 to then destroy that opening device or that hard breach device, whatever that might be, 01:31:54.780 --> 01:31:59.140 instead you can look to all this and you'll be slowing down tactic, whether that's slowing 01:31:59.140 --> 01:32:03.540 down the hatches or indeed just slowing down players on their approach. 01:32:08.300 --> 01:32:10.100 It's going to slow down on the approach. 01:32:10.100 --> 01:32:11.860 Nux will be bringing that Monty. 01:32:11.860 --> 01:32:14.580 First round out, the gate. 01:32:14.580 --> 01:32:17.980 I mentioned one of the more powerful defenders on this. 01:32:17.980 --> 01:32:19.980 Or defenders, one of those more powerful attackers 01:32:19.980 --> 01:32:21.500 on this site. 01:32:21.500 --> 01:32:23.300 Then again, talk about powerful attackers. 01:32:23.300 --> 01:32:24.140 Look at Paris. 01:32:24.140 --> 01:32:27.060 30 seconds in, already down marble stairs, 01:32:27.060 --> 01:32:29.060 or over towards marble stairs. 01:32:29.060 --> 01:32:30.780 That's all Tom's scanner moving through the map 01:32:30.780 --> 01:32:32.380 with Thompson's, likely off the back to be fair. 01:32:32.380 --> 01:32:33.540 Some pre-placed drones as well. 01:32:33.540 --> 01:32:35.900 Not just individual efforts, I imagine. 01:32:35.900 --> 01:32:42.540 goes out, store any utility on top of blue stairs. Most have officially taken second floor within 45 01:32:42.540 --> 01:32:49.740 seconds. Clearly confident in how they can take different sections of this map, but of course, 01:32:49.740 --> 01:32:53.740 then we'll have to deal with now, will be the players tucked inside of open area. And what do 01:32:53.740 --> 01:32:58.060 you know? To grab this other canister is so much stall on the side of the NIP, there's no reason 01:32:58.060 --> 01:33:03.580 to hold on to control for a second longer than you really have to. A very old vulcapilot 01:33:03.580 --> 01:33:05.580 Let's get and put down there inside of garage 01:33:06.940 --> 01:33:09.100 Really want to see if that comes into play this round 01:33:09.980 --> 01:33:12.220 Hates is gonna be upstairs inside of elevator 01:33:12.860 --> 01:33:18.580 Just eating up a couple of these drones and see if you can soak up any flashes in the process 01:33:20.020 --> 01:33:26.740 You see Banji will just slow down the approach on those main stairs and more importantly give the sound cue away that somebody is gonna be pushing there 01:33:27.660 --> 01:33:30.460 Hatch is now getting open or opened already 01:33:30.460 --> 01:33:39.080 sort of move into the real utility phase that is a bank defense downstairs. 01:33:39.080 --> 01:33:44.000 Two Zotel pastors remaining from Fancy as well so we can chew up quite a lot of time 01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:45.000 here. 01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:50.160 Stop that hatch from being opened, the longer that you can do that for the better. 01:33:50.160 --> 01:33:53.960 Still with the C4 to try and make the play off the back off as well. 01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:54.960 Hard breach. 01:33:54.960 --> 01:33:56.960 This is something that we have in Skades. 01:33:56.960 --> 01:33:59.800 We do have a couple of 10 help misses should be able to get that several 01:34:01.080 --> 01:34:04.060 It might not matter. Let's just the kills keep going the way they are 01:34:04.880 --> 01:34:10.200 Doesn't seem to matter dark guys going for I think a hatch drop in vaults it ends up being by himself 01:34:10.200 --> 01:34:15.160 It just gets taken out by the defense who are ready for it. Dash also now falling using these 01:34:16.400 --> 01:34:19.780 Nux has support by using losing a lot of the angles you really want 01:34:19.780 --> 01:34:23.140 There's a chance that daffo could make this hatch angle work alongside 01:34:23.140 --> 01:34:29.580 Paras is behind the Monty. There's no chance they make this work now. I mean 2v5, Nux, if he wants to go in for the defuse plant, 01:34:29.580 --> 01:34:33.140 that Daphne just cannot watch every single angle from this hatch. 01:34:33.780 --> 01:34:35.380 Wind shield's down. 01:34:35.380 --> 01:34:42.700 C4 lands. That's pretty much the round done and dusted for NIP. Flawless all things consider it as even if Daphne gets a kill at this point, 01:34:42.700 --> 01:34:44.700 I don't think a single bit of NIP's plan 01:34:44.740 --> 01:34:47.060 pays to hiccup or any kind of bump in the road. 01:34:47.060 --> 01:34:51.060 Yeah, a little bit strange there from the loss really. 01:34:51.060 --> 01:34:54.060 You've kind of got to do a little bit more, right? 01:34:54.060 --> 01:34:59.060 But they lost a couple of opening engagements and it was really just the snowball effect. 01:34:59.060 --> 01:35:05.060 Just goes to show that even with the Monty available, you're going to need a little bit more to try and get the plant down there. 01:35:05.060 --> 01:35:10.060 The two brow putting in a lot of work. Just to slow those hatches being opened. 01:35:10.060 --> 01:35:16.660 If you can allow somebody to play inside of sight for a little bit longer than they really ought to be 01:35:16.660 --> 01:35:19.660 because if that hatch gets opened you can't play inside. 01:35:19.660 --> 01:35:23.660 If the hatch gets opened you also are going to struggle to try and deny that plant 01:35:23.660 --> 01:35:26.660 if you've got sufficient guns looking down through it. 01:35:26.660 --> 01:35:30.660 Obviously Nux's position was just too many angles to try and hold 01:35:30.660 --> 01:35:32.660 and he's not able to always account for a C4 coming in deep. 01:35:32.660 --> 01:35:34.660 You need that alternate pressure. 01:35:34.660 --> 01:35:37.660 You can see any pressure in through garage. 01:35:37.660 --> 01:35:41.660 I don't think we really saw anything happening on the backside as well, you know, sort of dropping gold or 01:35:41.660 --> 01:35:45.260 a little bit of a lurk down main stairs. There wasn't enough distraction going on. 01:35:45.260 --> 01:35:50.260 NIP just won a couple of really crucial gunfights and then can just relax and continue to hold angles. 01:35:51.260 --> 01:35:56.660 When you've got more people holding angles than people to push them, you're always going to come off a little bit better. 01:35:56.660 --> 01:36:00.660 Now such NIP will transition onto this top floor now. 01:36:01.260 --> 01:36:05.260 Again, it's basic stuff, isn't it, Lynx? It's not that they're not trying to be around the wheel. 01:36:05.260 --> 01:36:08.680 So here it is, a hot floor bank, what are you going to bring to bring a castle, you're 01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:12.640 going to try and make a play, some of those longer lines of sight and long angles, you 01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:16.260 want a little bit of bandit protection or catchy utility, whether it's a Yagat war or 01:36:16.260 --> 01:36:20.420 why my both would be fine, and then you're free to kind of do whatever you want, Fancy 01:36:20.420 --> 01:36:24.260 obviously wants to play the DMR and have a C4 and have an ability to slow things 01:36:24.260 --> 01:36:27.860 down with the Zoto, but 9 times out of 10, I mean last round was the exception, 01:36:27.860 --> 01:36:31.500 but a lot of the time when you see the T-Rail played, it isn't really for the 01:36:31.500 --> 01:36:36.500 so it's just you go right on and come to scene 4, and the utility's kind of nice to have. 01:36:36.500 --> 01:36:41.000 Not going to be anything that's crucial to keep hold of in this round, heart breach-wise. 01:36:41.000 --> 01:36:43.000 Again, just freeze them up a little bit more. 01:36:45.500 --> 01:36:50.000 And to your point, I also think it's the kind of strategy that bomb paper seems most likely to disrupt a team like Loos, 01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:53.000 whose system is still developing, who's still getting things flushed out. 01:36:53.000 --> 01:36:56.500 Two rounds in a row and an NIP are just presenting them with different little obstacles, 01:36:56.500 --> 01:37:00.500 things that either stall time or force them to coordinate, that might just trip them up a little bit. 01:37:00.500 --> 01:37:04.820 Pastron was the Zodokaniskers and basically everybody being on the site from the first minute disco around 01:37:04.820 --> 01:37:09.100 It's the Castle Barricades hates being in this classic spot normally we see the Azami play 01:37:09.100 --> 01:37:14.900 But of course Azami's band some said bringing the Magnus try to recreate some of that position from first principles 01:37:14.900 --> 01:37:17.260 But written down below while fancy's able to get one 01:37:17.260 --> 01:37:21.220 They got a direct line on hates his position DMR rips up the floorboards 01:37:21.220 --> 01:37:24.580 That will my is dealt with before we pick up the halfway point of the round 01:37:24.580 --> 01:37:27.080 You could see why Azami such a necessity for that position 01:37:27.080 --> 01:37:31.080 quite impressively that wasn't it it was like a guided missile just running 01:37:31.080 --> 01:37:34.440 directly to the spot and instantly looking up and just pre-firing through 01:37:34.440 --> 01:37:38.600 the floor still it weakens that IP but it doesn't put them in a terrible 01:37:38.600 --> 01:37:42.840 position right now this pressure it really is still on loss to try and get 01:37:42.840 --> 01:37:47.000 something done they will get open top square to have access into the bomb 01:37:47.000 --> 01:37:50.480 site if they want to try and get that plant down and play around the 01:37:50.480 --> 01:37:54.840 objective I don't know where this blitz is going nooks is on the blitz and 01:37:54.840 --> 01:37:57.240 You don't always see the blitz before this top floor. 01:37:57.240 --> 01:38:00.340 Typically, your gun fights are at a lot more distance 01:38:00.340 --> 01:38:02.240 and you're not able to always close that gap. 01:38:02.240 --> 01:38:04.640 So blitz isn't always the best choice, 01:38:04.640 --> 01:38:08.140 but the blitz looks through the bomb site now regardless. 01:38:08.140 --> 01:38:09.140 I was going to say I probably seem 01:38:09.140 --> 01:38:10.240 trying to take the damage of the position, 01:38:10.240 --> 01:38:12.240 but so much of the supports fallen by the wayside 01:38:12.240 --> 01:38:16.040 slim disadvantage and capitalized by NIP. 01:38:16.040 --> 01:38:19.240 That's a good for two kills with that DMR gap. 01:38:19.240 --> 01:38:21.340 Might have been a guided missile early on in the round, 01:38:21.340 --> 01:38:24.440 but you'll need to find a place inside of the site. 01:38:24.440 --> 01:38:30.780 And there's only good for one and IP two in a row on the primary sites defended on the bank and if they got a win on open 01:38:30.780 --> 01:38:33.620 area, it'll be the hat trick to start off on their opponents pick 01:38:34.880 --> 01:38:40.460 If you played it to perfection, didn't they they got the opening pick? They were able to work around sure you've lost out 01:38:40.460 --> 01:38:45.020 You are my but realistically doesn't matter. I just don't think that loss had the game plan right there 01:38:45.020 --> 01:38:49.260 I mentioned at the time the blitz and guess sure the blitz is gonna go and try and play Genesis 01:38:49.260 --> 01:38:55.540 But you can't just turn you back to the player that you just shot at through the wall like of course they're gonna try and repeat 01:38:55.540 --> 01:38:57.540 Of course they're gonna challenge you again 01:38:59.760 --> 01:39:05.180 Real strange one there from loss quite one-dimensional as well not too much going on from the windows nobody 01:39:05.260 --> 01:39:10.520 Coming up spiral stairs nobody inside a main lobby with a long angle cutting off no pressure inside a stock 01:39:11.420 --> 01:39:16.820 NIP could basically play wherever they wanted to and they weren't harassed. They weren't affected at all 01:39:16.820 --> 01:39:24.260 downstairs now to complete the three-site rotation never know an IP might make it 01:39:24.260 --> 01:39:29.660 fall they really choose to go for the alternate mid-floor site as well I'm 01:39:29.660 --> 01:39:36.900 gonna get to ahead of themselves at the minute see how round three goes for now 01:39:36.900 --> 01:39:41.700 how loose they can play this as well there's a mirror available and they're 01:39:41.700 --> 01:39:45.380 still not bringing it right I think that just goes to show how confident 01:39:45.380 --> 01:39:49.980 NIP are right now. When do we see a mirror available and not being in play? 01:39:49.980 --> 01:39:55.040 A mirror is fantastic. You can play mirror in janitor, the top floor, you can play mirror down here for this defense. 01:39:55.280 --> 01:39:59.900 There's so many different options for playing that mirror window and NIP are just going now, you know what? 01:39:59.900 --> 01:40:03.820 We'll just bring other things. We'll bring things like an Ella. We'll bring things like that. 01:40:04.940 --> 01:40:06.940 Exactly. Bring the valve. 01:40:06.940 --> 01:40:08.940 At least he's punished this time. 01:40:08.940 --> 01:40:16.540 I mean he's punished but 7-7-2 and you lose Goyo who's already placed all of his utility and you get the Hibana 01:40:17.900 --> 01:40:21.500 Who is the only person who could probably open up the? 01:40:22.020 --> 01:40:27.540 the Kanto position and the angle directly down Beethers Hall outside of the site 01:40:27.940 --> 01:40:32.220 That's tough. That is a rough one to say. No, nothing said fancy 01:40:32.220 --> 01:40:37.940 so basically the only one with kills everyone else only has one so it's not the only one with kills, but 01:40:38.940 --> 01:40:41.700 Having the lion share of the impact throughout these first two rounds 01:40:41.700 --> 01:40:48.060 We'll see how it impacts NIP, but I can definitely tell you how losing those ex kairos will impact lows hates playing quite an aggressive position 01:40:48.060 --> 01:40:50.420 It's like really thick don't be called goes out 01:40:50.940 --> 01:40:53.740 You can try and find that player on the rappel 01:40:54.340 --> 01:40:57.700 Another one outside printer window trying to cut him off can't quite land the shot 01:40:57.700 --> 01:41:03.540 So hates makes it back in time, but again with no hole in that angle that was gotta go inside his loan office 01:41:03.540 --> 01:41:05.540 And there's not much he can do 01:41:05.540 --> 01:41:10.540 I think all of this stalling just favours kinda free this man. 01:41:10.540 --> 01:41:11.540 Ohhhh. 01:41:11.540 --> 01:41:16.540 I mean that should just be a free kill every single day of the week. 01:41:16.540 --> 01:41:19.540 Nox getting caught severely off guard. 01:41:19.540 --> 01:41:22.540 It looks like Becetto knows that there's one inside of Electric as well. 01:41:22.540 --> 01:41:24.540 I thought he was outside. 01:41:24.540 --> 01:41:26.540 He's been sold by the sound there. 01:41:26.540 --> 01:41:28.540 It's gonna level things up. 01:41:28.540 --> 01:41:30.540 It could be crucial. 01:41:30.540 --> 01:41:33.540 Especially with that kill that Perez is able to achieve onto Wizard. 01:41:33.540 --> 01:41:36.020 pressure now on P-Node to get the job done. 01:41:36.020 --> 01:41:38.300 Oh, and really good swing. 01:41:38.300 --> 01:41:40.380 I mean, even Davos swinging ahead of the flash there, 01:41:40.380 --> 01:41:43.940 it seemed, taking his timings excellently. 01:41:43.940 --> 01:41:46.540 Might be risky, but it pays off. 01:41:46.540 --> 01:41:49.060 Things go for Los in a big way with 50 seconds to go, 01:41:49.060 --> 01:41:51.940 taking the time to clear out utility, gather information. 01:41:51.940 --> 01:41:53.900 Perez also holding that long angle. 01:41:53.900 --> 01:41:57.140 Might allow Hates to slip by, but won't expose him 01:41:57.140 --> 01:42:01.500 to any danger as the rest of the attack breaches the site. 01:42:01.500 --> 01:42:05.660 affidl with that long angle but on the smd 12 how to be a bit careful on that one 01:42:05.660 --> 01:42:09.580 no switch to the dmr lands the shots nicely lows take their first on the 01:42:09.580 --> 01:42:13.100 off-site as they go to retry some of the primaries and see some of those 01:42:13.100 --> 01:42:15.180 improvements applied to stronger territory 01:42:15.180 --> 01:42:18.780 lows did a really good job there of picking off defenders that were a 01:42:18.780 --> 01:42:22.500 little bit lone and on their own obviously we saw fancy get the open 01:42:22.500 --> 01:42:26.260 and pick and that's going to be around that isn't converted by that 01:42:26.260 --> 01:42:29.260 opening engagement which has been a bit of a rarity between these two 01:42:29.260 --> 01:42:34.300 team so far. We've tended to see the team that get that open and pick run away with the round. 01:42:34.300 --> 01:42:38.700 It was very quickly traded this time. Then Loaves were able to turn their attention to some of the 01:42:38.700 --> 01:42:44.380 more isolated players. I think about Pino, who's fairly isolated on his own and didn't really have 01:42:44.380 --> 01:42:50.380 a great chance in the gunfight. So Lost doing a really good job of scrambling to complete and 01:42:50.380 --> 01:42:57.580 to pick up round number three there. The Alarm Bells still remain for the other bombsites 01:42:57.580 --> 01:43:01.740 because we can't sit here and say that round one was particularly close 01:43:01.740 --> 01:43:07.660 down in Lockers and Armoury, but it really wasn't, was it? It was very one-sided, it was a flawless round 01:43:07.660 --> 01:43:13.180 before NIP, so Lost have still got quite a lot of work to do here and it's going to start now in 01:43:13.180 --> 01:43:18.780 round number four. Now I'm going to go for a slight different approach and I really like the 01:43:18.780 --> 01:43:24.140 introduction of the Knook into the lineup. That speaks to me immediately of a garage lurk. 01:43:24.140 --> 01:43:30.480 Afo likely going to do his job early on into the round but his eventual position will be 01:43:30.480 --> 01:43:35.420 trying to lurk up through garage and it's an avenue that just got entirely ignored last 01:43:35.420 --> 01:43:41.920 time by a loss on this attack. Somewhere the NIP had focused and they placed some utility. 01:43:41.920 --> 01:43:46.820 Now with the addition of the Echo they should have cameras able to watch that. So right 01:43:46.820 --> 01:43:52.420 of the somebody is on those yokai drones, Afo's impact will be questionable but then 01:43:52.420 --> 01:43:54.420 of course you can't trust that by the fact he's playing the nuk. 01:43:54.420 --> 01:43:57.420 They do like this from loss. 01:43:57.420 --> 01:44:02.420 I think it's a good opportunity also a good question for 01:44:02.420 --> 01:44:05.420 truly how lengthy NIP's foresight is, 01:44:05.420 --> 01:44:08.420 because as you mentioned they probably didn't shoot the default cam 01:44:08.420 --> 01:44:10.420 and so they saw that and NIP were like, oh cool, 01:44:10.420 --> 01:44:12.420 we'll go play some Vulcan packs in deep. 01:44:12.420 --> 01:44:14.420 So if it's a garage lurk, 01:44:14.420 --> 01:44:16.420 they see the default cam is shot which as you saw, 01:44:16.420 --> 01:44:18.420 Daphne was shot early on. 01:44:18.420 --> 01:44:20.420 What kind of attention will they start paying to it? 01:44:20.420 --> 01:44:25.420 Also, will Daffo even lurk garage? Will he try to like weave his way through the middle of the map and take the fight to Pena? 01:44:25.420 --> 01:44:27.420 Take the fight to the side of the open area. 01:44:27.420 --> 01:44:35.420 Dark Eyes gets the fight taken him early on, put 50 HP on the rappel, still struggling to find impact throughout the series so far. 01:44:35.420 --> 01:44:41.420 As admittedly for both teams, it is kind of a 2 on 2 or 2 on 1 of the model. 01:44:41.420 --> 01:44:43.420 Against the kill counts. 01:44:43.420 --> 01:44:51.620 It takes a lot of damage as Perez and Daphne are going into the pinch, but they've completely discounted the possibility of a player inside of archives. 01:44:51.620 --> 01:44:58.020 Pino gets both, seems neither Daphne nor Perez are ready for it, and Hades gets picked back up as well. 01:44:58.020 --> 01:45:02.020 That is a disastrous start for Los. 01:45:03.020 --> 01:45:04.020 Pretty terrible. 01:45:05.520 --> 01:45:09.920 I mean, you bring it around, so for me, you've got to be going upstairs to try and clear that mid-floor. 01:45:09.920 --> 01:45:13.020 So why we've got two players dying in the mid-floor? 01:45:13.420 --> 01:45:19.060 I'm I'm struggling at the moment like I really am because there's no soft floor 01:45:19.060 --> 01:45:24.660 into a basement you specifically limited to your hatches that's why basement is 01:45:24.660 --> 01:45:29.460 so good for the defenders so you bring the ramp so surely that means you're 01:45:29.460 --> 01:45:35.540 gonna go above and and work down and try and do a full clear set up so you're 01:45:35.540 --> 01:45:40.980 gonna find one here got the shuttle in close range you always fancy it 01:45:40.980 --> 01:45:47.980 Ho ho ho ho ho! Blind and one pump gets the job done, NIP. Dominantly in round four. 01:45:47.980 --> 01:45:52.980 Darkire starting the field trapped in server rather than actually maintaining control of it. 01:45:52.980 --> 01:45:57.980 Yokai goes out, though Dash clearly ready for what the follow up might be. Lengthy pre-fire. 01:45:57.980 --> 01:46:01.980 No chance he's getting control of this diffuser. The Sutter just swings back down, 01:46:01.980 --> 01:46:06.980 and surely not a shotgun from this distance. Please now... 01:46:06.980 --> 01:46:14.100 I forced Dash back out, and he okai hunting him down, this is just for sport, for ninjas 01:46:14.100 --> 01:46:16.900 in pajamas at this point. 01:46:16.900 --> 01:46:18.900 All for the fun of the game. 01:46:18.900 --> 01:46:23.140 Through one, no likelihood for NIP, as it doesn't seem like Dash has a single opportunity 01:46:23.140 --> 01:46:25.140 to blue stares, let alone this round. 01:46:25.140 --> 01:46:30.620 Oh there we go, there's 5-1. 01:46:30.620 --> 01:46:37.140 Settle hitting him with the Zeds, 15 seconds, 3 hits, 5 kills, 5 seconds, a kill. 01:46:37.140 --> 01:46:38.140 There's 5-1. 01:46:38.140 --> 01:46:39.140 Get all of that fire. 01:46:39.140 --> 01:46:40.140 Oh gosh, please, I have my misery. 01:46:40.140 --> 01:46:41.140 I'm just waiting to let someone take the kill. 01:46:41.140 --> 01:46:42.140 Okay, he's saved. 01:46:42.140 --> 01:46:53.140 Not even, not even thought of the R.R.U. projectile to the fans. 01:46:53.140 --> 01:47:00.020 If he throws an RRU project, everybody gets free chicken sandwiches, so it would have 01:47:00.020 --> 01:47:01.020 been nice. 01:47:01.020 --> 01:47:02.020 That's a deal. 01:47:02.020 --> 01:47:04.220 I'll take that deal. 01:47:04.220 --> 01:47:05.220 That's an excellent deal. 01:47:05.220 --> 01:47:06.220 He's got four of them. 01:47:06.220 --> 01:47:10.260 Well, four chicken sandwiches to give? 01:47:10.260 --> 01:47:11.260 Each person. 01:47:11.260 --> 01:47:12.700 I might need more than that. 01:47:12.700 --> 01:47:14.820 Might need more than that. 01:47:14.820 --> 01:47:21.260 Talking about timeouts like we discussed earlier, one of the benefits of the mandatory half 01:47:21.260 --> 01:47:25.240 a side-spot pause. Is that you're not really punished for taking timeouts quote 01:47:25.240 --> 01:47:29.940 unquote too early or too late anymore? Even the 6-4 timeout which used to kind of 01:47:29.940 --> 01:47:35.780 the six-round timeout like teams up six points losing team takes a timeout. Not 01:47:35.780 --> 01:47:40.400 really that egregious anymore. I mean like it we could if people who are more 01:47:40.400 --> 01:47:42.900 experienced and have actual coaching experience can have that conversation I 01:47:42.900 --> 01:47:45.660 will speculate on it but it does just seem like because you have that 01:47:45.660 --> 01:47:49.100 timeout you can take timeouts later in the game or right now at one to 01:47:49.100 --> 01:47:54.300 You've got two attacks left, things are clearly not working for Lois and around that, I mean 01:47:54.300 --> 01:47:59.420 Ali, I think you and I both agree, it wasn't a flawless victory for NIP, the beginning of 01:47:59.420 --> 01:48:05.220 that round was probably one of the weakest attacking rounds we've seen from Lois, or 01:48:05.220 --> 01:48:08.980 weakest parts of attacking rounds from Lois, this entire map and this entire series. 01:48:08.980 --> 01:48:13.540 Yeah, it wasn't a final star at all, it just looks a little bit confused and I mentioned 01:48:13.540 --> 01:48:17.220 that at the time of the operator selection, just where people were falling. 01:48:17.220 --> 01:48:21.240 you've got the ram falling on the main stairs like you know maybe bring some 01:48:21.240 --> 01:48:24.400 tunnels bring some it's gonna assist you in clearing that room you didn't bring 01:48:24.400 --> 01:48:30.560 a lot of information no snake no you know don't know don't be no day moss it 01:48:30.560 --> 01:48:34.060 was very limited and I'm looking down down I'm seeing Daphne on the dope 01:48:34.060 --> 01:48:37.800 wing I think yeah actually I thought always plays a lot of dope be like 01:48:37.800 --> 01:48:41.280 where's that being all my life you know where's that being for the first five 01:48:41.280 --> 01:48:46.560 rounds and it's been present in on occasion but maybe would have been 01:48:46.560 --> 01:48:51.200 something that would have really helped him back in round number 5 or round number 4 excuse me. 01:48:51.200 --> 01:48:56.320 So yeah a little bit of a strange one from loss maybe just chalk it down to just a bad round and 01:48:56.320 --> 01:49:02.160 maybe not too worth sort of deep diving into but the momentum and the flow is certainly on the 01:49:02.160 --> 01:49:08.000 side of NIP and for a player that was really trying to make it happen on boarder, fancy has 01:49:08.000 --> 01:49:13.840 been making it happen here on bank 5 and 3 right now yeah he got taken out in the previous round 01:49:13.840 --> 01:49:20.120 but he's been a part of two of the entries so far and he's really had a big part to play in this map as a whole 01:49:21.120 --> 01:49:25.400 That's someone that you really can't let get too much momentum under their wings 01:49:26.280 --> 01:49:32.960 Dark Eyes dash, nukes, two kills between him, but he's struggling in that gunfight department at the moment 01:49:37.880 --> 01:49:39.880 She's been a struggle throughout this whole series 01:49:41.280 --> 01:49:43.280 Dark Eyes in particular 01:49:43.840 --> 01:49:47.120 It's not all the fault of one player, but, again, with a player that is so impactful. 01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:52.240 You just need to see more impact. Maybe the axe will be the case this round, at least with the utility. 01:49:52.240 --> 01:49:58.080 Quite good out the gate. Cracking that mirror window. No magnets in place, so it wasn't going to get caught by anything necessarily, but still. 01:49:58.480 --> 01:50:04.080 Going to take down that important piece of utility this early on on a site like CEO. A tarot drone's also being put to good use. 01:50:04.400 --> 01:50:07.920 It's going to send a barbed wire and other gadgets around these entrances. 01:50:08.400 --> 01:50:10.400 Come on, thread that needle. There we go. 01:50:10.400 --> 01:50:13.460 They take down the core of the shield outside of stock as well. 01:50:13.460 --> 01:50:14.540 All good things. 01:50:14.540 --> 01:50:18.600 All good boxes that Loos are ticking off in the first half of this round. 01:50:18.600 --> 01:50:22.740 The NIP have shown a, not only a comfort but a willingness to play slow and just play 01:50:22.740 --> 01:50:24.240 power positions and hold the sight. 01:50:24.240 --> 01:50:25.240 That's what they're doing. 01:50:25.240 --> 01:50:28.840 They've worked extremely well around the one on Basement, worked well around two 01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:32.760 as well, and Hades running outside, only gets one. 01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:37.760 Probably not a bad trade, he's the bandit, so provided that he wasn't going to try 01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:39.760 It's just a bandit trick. 01:50:39.760 --> 01:50:40.760 Fancy. 01:50:40.760 --> 01:50:43.760 It takes nooks down. 01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:46.760 Ace gone out of the picture. 01:50:46.760 --> 01:50:47.760 Oh, he's just up the aisle. 01:50:47.760 --> 01:50:49.760 Let's just snail Fancy's POV. 01:50:49.760 --> 01:50:52.760 He's probably good for another one here at least. 01:50:52.760 --> 01:50:53.760 Stale. 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:58.760 Took him there with no signs of slowing down. 01:50:58.760 --> 01:51:00.760 You gotta go for Dark Eyes right there. 01:51:00.760 --> 01:51:01.760 Switching to his POV, you're just like, 01:51:01.760 --> 01:51:03.760 oh, we're about to watch the guy get shot 01:51:03.760 --> 01:51:04.760 rather than the guy get the kill. 01:51:04.760 --> 01:51:06.760 And that's not because anything Dark Eyes, 01:51:06.760 --> 01:51:11.280 guys. Fancy just 9 and 3 right now. There's some rounds where he's been quiet, but when 01:51:11.280 --> 01:51:17.560 he's been active it's been for 2 or 3 or potentially more. Depending on what he decides to do in 01:51:17.560 --> 01:51:25.560 this round, long angle into open area or into square. But now NIP playing passive, not 01:51:25.560 --> 01:51:28.840 giving up any of these angles. Daphne finds a kill on a wizard, but there we go. Final 01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:33.440 2 for NIP. As we move up 4 to 1, you can't help but get the feeling that at least 01:51:33.440 --> 01:51:38.440 But for these defences, NIP have plain and simple outclass their opponents. 01:51:38.440 --> 01:51:40.440 Yeah, absolutely. 01:51:40.440 --> 01:51:47.440 NIP are by far and away the better team on bank at the moment as the sides currently 01:51:47.440 --> 01:51:49.440 sit. 01:51:49.440 --> 01:51:53.440 Regardless of how round six goes here, they will have built themselves a very healthy 01:51:53.440 --> 01:51:57.440 lead heading into their attacks or their own attack, should I say. 01:51:57.440 --> 01:52:01.440 And let's be honest, it's a very different map but it's what we can reference because 01:52:01.440 --> 01:52:06.880 because we've seen it just earlier today and Appie's attacks on border, they looked impressive. 01:52:06.880 --> 01:52:12.200 There were some really good moments of coordination. I think back to round number seven, the first round that they attacked. 01:52:12.200 --> 01:52:16.080 There was a brilliant plan that went off and there was a lot of different moving parts in it. 01:52:16.080 --> 01:52:21.680 It wasn't just, it wasn't one-dimensional by any stretch of the imagination. 01:52:21.680 --> 01:52:27.720 So you've really got to give it to them here that they are putting themselves into a very powerful position right now. 01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:30.560 And we'll all sit here and say, yeah, Fancy's 10-3. 01:52:30.560 --> 01:52:33.440 But look across the board, he knows 4-1. 01:52:33.440 --> 01:52:36.560 He's only died in one round so far. 01:52:36.560 --> 01:52:40.280 That survival is as important as a slew of kills, 01:52:40.280 --> 01:52:43.840 because he's still there able to be ready and waited. 01:52:43.840 --> 01:52:45.360 He's just in reserve right there. 01:52:45.360 --> 01:52:47.320 He's like, oh, Fancy doesn't get the kill. 01:52:47.320 --> 01:52:50.600 I'll get my call up. 01:52:50.600 --> 01:52:53.640 Good team performance so far for NIP. 01:52:53.640 --> 01:52:55.640 And they'll be looking to finish this first defensive 01:52:55.640 --> 01:52:58.520 phase as strong as they start today. 01:52:58.520 --> 01:53:01.280 What's however, they're gonna be bringing their own ideas. 01:53:01.280 --> 01:53:02.120 They'll be bringing a glass, 01:53:02.120 --> 01:53:03.240 they'll be bringing a blitz. 01:53:03.240 --> 01:53:06.000 Maybe looking to try and make something happen. 01:53:06.000 --> 01:53:08.640 A little bit more of a cheese playstyle you could call it. 01:53:08.640 --> 01:53:10.320 It is valid nonetheless. 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:14.120 I mean anything that gets the job done 01:53:14.120 --> 01:53:15.760 is valid for Los at this point. 01:53:19.080 --> 01:53:22.400 Just something to get another round on the board. 01:53:23.360 --> 01:53:25.600 Open area was good and we are going back to that site. 01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:26.800 So it is worth considering. 01:53:27.800 --> 01:53:29.600 Maybe drones going out as well. 01:53:30.600 --> 01:53:33.000 We didn't see some big usage of it on basement, but... 01:53:33.300 --> 01:53:34.400 it's been a different site. 01:53:34.700 --> 01:53:37.900 There is a good opportunity to get some well-needed vertical destruction. 01:53:37.900 --> 01:53:41.400 Drone spotted, but not before finding the player inside a stock. 01:53:41.400 --> 01:53:43.900 Loose taking a lot of time... 01:53:44.400 --> 01:53:45.600 to find these positions. 01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:48.400 Wow, HATES gets away with that! 01:53:50.400 --> 01:53:51.400 Oh my god. 01:53:51.400 --> 01:53:56.400 And that's the story of the day, isn't it? 01:53:56.400 --> 01:54:00.400 There's been a couple of occasions where you get down that's an NIP player and you're like, 01:54:00.400 --> 01:54:03.400 they've actually just pulled that off, like they've actually done that. 01:54:03.400 --> 01:54:05.400 Couldn't have reached. 01:54:05.400 --> 01:54:08.400 Maybe we're about to see Mooks try and make a play into the site. 01:54:08.400 --> 01:54:10.400 Lost us get a kill back onto Bissetto. 01:54:10.400 --> 01:54:11.400 Dark eyes. 01:54:11.400 --> 01:54:14.400 Making that R4-C workout for him. 01:54:14.400 --> 01:54:19.400 It removes the mirror, it removes likely a C4 as well. 01:54:19.400 --> 01:54:21.520 There is a little bit of a chance here. 01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:25.200 What's happened got the most amount of time to work with just less than half the round going. 01:54:25.200 --> 01:54:28.200 Nook takes a ton of damage as he makes his way in through stock. 01:54:28.200 --> 01:54:30.200 This is a must win engagement for him. 01:54:30.200 --> 01:54:32.600 Who trade between dark guys and fancy. 01:54:32.600 --> 01:54:34.800 By the way, it took down the ram with a pistol. 01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:38.400 Who draw at the end just to level things three to three. 01:54:38.400 --> 01:54:41.200 And Nox running into every Gershmont on the planet at the moment. 01:54:41.200 --> 01:54:42.200 Same be said for Gash. 01:54:42.200 --> 01:54:45.200 That is every L of mine hit all around the same position. 01:54:45.200 --> 01:54:47.000 That Loos ultimately decided to end her. 01:54:47.000 --> 01:54:48.400 Clearly whatever intel gathering. 01:54:48.400 --> 01:54:51.600 Might have missed those traps placed at the beginning of the round by Hayes 01:54:52.240 --> 01:54:55.080 He's been getting away with far too much in round six 01:54:55.800 --> 01:54:59.760 Manually clearing archives and tellers. Nux has made his way up to the ladder 01:55:00.520 --> 01:55:02.920 You can find a powerful line down the middle of the site 01:55:02.920 --> 01:55:08.000 But he's not exactly the operator to do that literally anybody else either the DMR is alive would be better 01:55:08.080 --> 01:55:14.800 But Nux has to go in and put this diffuser down with nobody holding it as he moves on in on reduced HP 01:55:14.800 --> 01:55:18.440 Wizard ends up cutting down one with the TCSG. 01:55:18.440 --> 01:55:25.800 Nux now needing to pull the pistol out as NIP feel even more power to reassert control of their sight, 01:55:25.800 --> 01:55:27.300 to box out the attack. 01:55:27.300 --> 01:55:31.300 Daphne will spot one, but it's a quick trade down on the floor. 01:55:31.300 --> 01:55:33.800 C4 shut out of midair. 01:55:33.800 --> 01:55:35.300 We gotta give Daphne credit. 01:55:35.300 --> 01:55:37.800 He survived a lot longer than we thought. 01:55:37.800 --> 01:55:39.800 As long as one of you want ahead of him, can he find the next? 01:55:39.800 --> 01:55:40.800 No, he will not. 01:55:40.800 --> 01:55:45.120 not five to one for NIP and it seems their thoughts are turning to Team Liquid Alienware. 01:55:46.080 --> 01:55:51.040 You'd just like to see Lost get themselves into that position with a little bit more coordination 01:55:51.040 --> 01:55:56.560 and a little bit more time on the clock because NIP's position there, whilst it was fine, it wasn't 01:55:56.560 --> 01:56:00.880 round winning. They didn't have the option to try and retake the vertical and kill the planter 01:56:00.880 --> 01:56:04.880 from upstairs. They were faced with pretty tough angles there and I thought it a really good 01:56:04.880 --> 01:56:09.440 job of breaking down those engagements. I'm excited to hear from our desk and see how 01:56:09.440 --> 01:56:15.600 their takers on this first six rounds. Thank you very much, extra trigger and links now. 01:56:16.400 --> 01:56:22.000 We can look back at the first six rounds, but I think it's clear NIP are ahead. Jesse, 01:56:22.000 --> 01:56:27.760 what if you looked into the future? Is there a way for recovery? What's the plan here for Los? 01:56:28.960 --> 01:56:33.360 It's going to be a tough uphill battle, Milo. No doubt this has been a hard game so far. 01:56:33.360 --> 01:56:38.640 It's not going to get any easier. When Los played bank last week versus team Liquid Alienware, 01:56:38.640 --> 01:56:44.560 They started off with a very strong 4-2 attacking half. Then they played six rounds on defense. 01:56:44.560 --> 01:56:49.360 They played basement three times, lost it every time. They played top floor twice, lost it every 01:56:49.360 --> 01:56:55.280 time. The only bomb site Los were able to win in the last time they played bank was open area. 01:56:55.280 --> 01:57:00.400 They went one for one on that site. So Los will have to come into this game with a completely 01:57:00.400 --> 01:57:04.000 different plan compared to what we've seen previously from them on bank. Last time they 01:57:04.000 --> 01:57:07.360 were playing a lot of Valkyrie, a lot of Goyo. They were trying to stall things out, 01:57:07.360 --> 01:57:12.320 will also getting aggressive. It just was not working for them. So NIP, they should have an 01:57:12.320 --> 01:57:16.880 easier time on this second half. Keep an eye out for Los' operators. If they're still playing a lot 01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:20.640 of that Valkyrie, if they're still playing a lot of that Goyo, there's a good chance of running 01:57:20.640 --> 01:57:24.960 similar strats to what we saw from them previously and NIP should pick it apart. I want to see 01:57:24.960 --> 01:57:29.120 something bold from Los. I want to see something new because it is drastic and their upper 01:57:29.120 --> 01:57:34.720 bracket hangs in the balance. It is a big advantage that NIP can use that information, 01:57:34.720 --> 01:57:39.840 the VODs of old and look back at them and see this is exactly what we can play around with exactly 01:57:39.840 --> 01:57:46.480 what we can adapt to and when it comes to also having support staff in this there's clear advantages 01:57:46.480 --> 01:57:53.280 in it but the uphill battle is kind of just playing SAL in general for any team any player in here 01:57:53.280 --> 01:57:57.280 and we'll see if loss can recover and advance into the bracket will they fall to lower one 01:57:57.280 --> 01:58:03.920 we'll send it back to our casters to kick things back off enjoy it seems like a lower 01:58:03.920 --> 01:58:09.160 Our bracket run is destined for Los at this point given NIP's strength on the attacks 01:58:09.160 --> 01:58:14.400 and Los's dramatic fall off from even in a 5-7 loss, the strength of their team liquid 01:58:14.400 --> 01:58:16.440 alienware game being their attacks. 01:58:16.440 --> 01:58:20.840 The question is Jesse put it, how much have they changed for these defenses and is even 01:58:20.840 --> 01:58:25.960 a comeback to push it into OT, let alone a potential six round comeback to close us 01:58:25.960 --> 01:58:27.720 out 7-5 on their own pick. 01:58:27.720 --> 01:58:29.720 Is it possible for Los? 01:58:29.720 --> 01:58:38.040 still out but it seems like they're reaching a verdict yeah I just I don't know I find it very 01:58:38.040 --> 01:58:40.760 difficult to get behind loads at the moment because I just don't feel like they've helped 01:58:40.760 --> 01:58:46.760 themselves today you can look at you know border as an example we could we I think people maybe 01:58:46.760 --> 01:58:51.960 had a little bit more hope for the bank pick that they brought out but ultimately if you're not 01:58:51.960 --> 01:58:58.600 able to win rounds on the defense on bank like last time they played this map doesn't really 01:58:58.600 --> 01:59:03.280 spell like the recipe for success or it doesn't really give you a good enough reason to pick 01:59:03.280 --> 01:59:07.800 it again. If you just think, whoa, unless they put a lot of work into it, unless they feel 01:59:07.800 --> 01:59:13.320 like it's similar to the Alienware we're just having one of those days, it kind of feels 01:59:13.320 --> 01:59:16.800 like NIP are having one of those days because a lot of what they are doing is working out 01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:17.800 for them. 01:59:17.800 --> 01:59:25.320 Now on 7, downstairs to the basement we go then for loss. Grim and a Ying ban, 01:59:25.320 --> 01:59:31.040 with a mirror and a castle ban off NIP's own, so no restriction really when it's 01:59:31.040 --> 01:59:36.200 gonna come to opening up the hatches. It's a K-debatable if Loose choose to play it. 01:59:36.200 --> 01:59:40.000 Instead they just gonna be rocking the tube route for that little bit of denial. 01:59:40.000 --> 01:59:44.400 Fancy not wasting any time. Straight down garage ramp and he's gonna try and 01:59:44.400 --> 01:59:50.480 lock off garage with glass and that decent DMR that they possess. I guess 01:59:50.480 --> 01:59:53.600 the card or the ace up the sleeve at the moment for losses potentially give 01:59:53.600 --> 02:00:00.400 this clash that's gonna buckle quite nicely okay it's not only the blitz but also very seldom seen osu 02:00:05.360 --> 02:00:09.680 mentioned mentioned her earlier i guess it might be happy right now 02:00:16.000 --> 02:00:19.280 i will say osu can he be a bit of a clunky operator to use 02:00:19.280 --> 02:00:22.900 for I imagine some of the reasons be honest you probably will end up seeing 02:00:22.900 --> 02:00:27.240 in this round that when it comes to a shield moving into the breach and getting 02:00:27.240 --> 02:00:30.920 the plant down Monty's just kind of better at times. Ose gives you better 02:00:30.920 --> 02:00:34.160 option or gives you some options that are better in theory. Put down the 02:00:34.160 --> 02:00:37.720 Talon Shield. Assuming you do so successfully you've got the gun. You 02:00:37.720 --> 02:00:40.880 can pop up behind cover especially at this ends at the back of server can 02:00:40.880 --> 02:00:45.280 be effective. I see it ends up panning out extremely well timed smoke. 02:00:45.280 --> 02:00:49.440 splits up the settle from the gun behind him and now he's got to consider do you 02:00:49.440 --> 02:00:52.200 I push a deeper to our weight for wizard to catch up 02:00:52.200 --> 02:00:55.440 he's a lot of probably just want to play but a player close around the corner 02:00:55.440 --> 02:00:59.160 sprays through the wall him and the settle both pounce and the blitz is 02:00:59.160 --> 02:01:03.760 pushing deeper into the site fancy dropping on the backside his NIP and 02:01:03.760 --> 02:01:09.600 explosive start to round seven looking deeper over towards elevator bearing 02:01:09.600 --> 02:01:15.440 nine in hand might explode indeed he will fire extinguisher and pipe alike 02:01:15.440 --> 02:01:19.280 blow up in his face but the set-up taking that momentum and taking that 02:01:19.280 --> 02:01:23.480 position has wrapped around all the way through gold is looking to ensnare the 02:01:23.480 --> 02:01:27.440 site which hates on the other side catching the player on the doorway and 02:01:27.440 --> 02:01:30.840 finally the blue stairs player we saw all the way the beginning goes down at 02:01:30.840 --> 02:01:36.040 the very end six to one for NIP I think we're calling the jury back to 02:01:36.040 --> 02:01:38.040 the chambers. 02:01:38.040 --> 02:01:40.040 Pansy thought that he was on the defense that round. 02:01:40.040 --> 02:01:44.040 He was like, for some reason I've spawned outside of the building. 02:01:44.040 --> 02:01:46.040 I need to get myself right into the heart of the bomb site. 02:01:46.040 --> 02:01:49.040 We were on defense right, guys, because he was inside of gold 02:01:49.040 --> 02:01:53.040 within about 30 to 40 seconds of the round. 02:01:53.040 --> 02:01:56.040 How has he been able to run in toward gold? 02:01:56.040 --> 02:01:59.040 He's gone all the way through garage, all the way up the stairs, 02:01:59.040 --> 02:02:00.040 through the whole site. 02:02:00.040 --> 02:02:01.040 No one's seen him. 02:02:01.040 --> 02:02:02.040 No one's bite an eye. 02:02:02.040 --> 02:02:04.040 Everyone's just invited him in for tea and bomb. 02:02:04.040 --> 02:02:05.040 He's there. 02:02:05.040 --> 02:02:09.600 kill. We look at the other positions that that then freed up. We've got Passetto on the blitz, 02:02:09.600 --> 02:02:14.960 quite literally just able to walk into servers despite the fact that there was a smoke there. 02:02:14.960 --> 02:02:19.440 It's got some really good timing on the toxic bait canister being a little bit late, a little bit, 02:02:19.440 --> 02:02:24.720 you know, miss trade and immediately picks the kill and then bam, straight into the site and joins 02:02:24.720 --> 02:02:31.600 him. NIP are wasting no time. They are an aggressive force on the attack and where we've seen 02:02:31.600 --> 02:02:38.600 you know, quite, quite sort of socially spoken, quite life-lossed in getting themselves into the building, into the site. 02:02:38.600 --> 02:02:42.600 NIP are bold and they let themselves be known that they are there. 02:02:44.600 --> 02:02:50.600 And it just bears out in the stats. I mean, seven opening picks in a row, most of them not traded by Loos. 02:02:50.600 --> 02:02:53.600 Happening at all sorts of the rounds. We got stuff later in the game. 02:02:53.600 --> 02:02:56.600 We've got stuff literally from the first 20 seconds across the series. 02:02:56.600 --> 02:03:01.960 It's just been NIP in firm control and sure they dropped open area at the off-site one time, but 02:03:02.520 --> 02:03:05.320 Beyond that I mean these rounds have not been particularly close 02:03:05.320 --> 02:03:12.080 These rounds have featured multi kills. They feature strength in all phases of the game on both sides now as well 02:03:13.580 --> 02:03:19.360 It was an extremely tall hill for those to climb anyway, and the fact that it's getting caller only serves to disservice them 02:03:19.880 --> 02:03:22.580 It seems a movement down to the lower bracket 02:03:22.580 --> 02:03:28.940 likely transpire and if not the next two minutes and 20 seconds at some point in 02:03:28.940 --> 02:03:33.700 the next five rounds heats down below so we didn't see a whole lot of from Lois 02:03:33.700 --> 02:03:36.260 was that verticality something I mentioned before the game maybe seeing 02:03:36.260 --> 02:03:40.940 dark eyes use that Deimos or use that buck to go below not even a thing not 02:03:40.940 --> 02:03:44.860 even a factor whatsoever hates will do it this round look to use that skeleton 02:03:44.860 --> 02:03:49.380 key to to place anybody playing on these soft floors 02:03:49.380 --> 02:03:55.380 The fans are going to be on the rappel there, and the round and the DMR in his hand. 02:03:55.380 --> 02:04:01.380 It's time to lie in. Not something that you want to be challenging onto and he's got a decent angle already. 02:04:01.380 --> 02:04:07.380 I love this from Hates. Live ping information, knows where the clock is, blows bang him ready with the skeleton key. 02:04:07.380 --> 02:04:13.380 Nukes is a disregard of the shield. The plant was going down there for a time. That's diffuser cold on the ground. 02:04:13.380 --> 02:04:18.380 This might be an occasion where our idea just jumped the gun ever so slightly. 02:04:18.380 --> 02:04:23.380 Could it be the case, and who with Nux winning a key 1v1 against Hates? 02:04:23.380 --> 02:04:27.380 Seems that any defeat that might happen will certainly be saved off for this round. 02:04:27.380 --> 02:04:35.380 As NAP are trapped outside the building, attempting to CEO execute with the defuser now trapped inside the site? 02:04:35.380 --> 02:04:39.380 Yeah, it seems like a low swim just based on some of the fundamentals and the way this is trending. 02:04:39.380 --> 02:04:41.380 But I'm going to go. 02:04:41.380 --> 02:04:46.380 Now there's a lot of power utility on the defense side. I think Flash being public enemy number one at the moment. 02:04:46.380 --> 02:04:50.180 If Lo start over-aggressing and they start taking some of these gunfights and if he 02:04:50.180 --> 02:04:54.540 approve and quite capable at winning them, there's a possibility that if he 02:04:54.540 --> 02:04:58.540 could start to crawl his advantage back. You can see Fancy knows somebody might 02:04:58.540 --> 02:05:02.780 follow up with a swing from vending. Are you projecting her out? How is it 02:05:02.780 --> 02:05:06.100 makes his way inside? Don't get directly inside a janitor, but Filipino 02:05:06.100 --> 02:05:09.940 Fancy go down. Nice little frag by Whizzer. Ooh, could find a second. Will 02:05:09.940 --> 02:05:13.500 indeed. Unfortunately just too much to deal with. Potential if maybe that 02:05:13.500 --> 02:05:18.140 was a 3v3 but everybody falls before the last remaining player can get any impact. 02:05:19.100 --> 02:05:22.860 Yeah I think if the clash wasn't there either you'd be maybe fancying it a little bit more but 02:05:23.900 --> 02:05:28.140 there's a really nice kill there from Daffo through the floor through the vert you think about 02:05:28.140 --> 02:05:32.780 Hades' position where he was playing he was downstairs on the book with the skeleton key 02:05:32.780 --> 02:05:37.500 ready to try and rip open the floor and that must have been a bit of a reverse vertical angle 02:05:37.500 --> 02:05:43.500 that was the kill that saw him off. It's about time for loss it's been a while since we've credited 02:05:43.500 --> 02:05:49.820 them with a round win way back in round number three but they have pulled one out when it matters most. 02:05:50.700 --> 02:05:55.500 Note they don't have a tactical timeout anymore. We've obviously been through the 02:05:55.500 --> 02:06:00.620 half waypoint timeout of the game as well. NIP do still have a tactical timeout and 02:06:00.620 --> 02:06:06.140 a four round buffer and if that wasn't enough they have map one as an advantage so all they 02:06:06.140 --> 02:06:11.500 All they need is one round here and they will advance through this upper bracket here for 02:06:11.500 --> 02:06:12.500 SA-L kickoff. 02:06:12.500 --> 02:06:18.620 And let's not forget, the prize for SA-L kickoff is of course going to be an invitation to 02:06:18.620 --> 02:06:23.780 the Salt Lake City Major, which it seems as though no one's too interested in as we 02:06:23.780 --> 02:06:26.980 have had everybody leave the game and leave the lobby. 02:06:26.980 --> 02:06:30.220 You can only imagine that we have some sort of tech issue. 02:06:30.220 --> 02:06:34.700 Rest assured, we'll be working to get everyone back in as soon as possible. 02:06:34.700 --> 02:06:41.840 I was honestly probably perfect timing the price for kickoff five players leave the game 02:06:42.080 --> 02:06:45.860 No one wants it. No one wants it. Some people just don't want it at all 02:06:46.040 --> 02:06:50.320 Some people don't want it enough, you know, yeah, some people have some some people want it 02:06:50.320 --> 02:06:54.900 Some people want it more some people don't want it enough. So we'll just don't want it all and that's fine, you know 02:06:55.820 --> 02:06:58.720 Find your thing in life. You don't have to do this. There's not a cash prize 02:07:01.780 --> 02:07:03.780 What bye 02:07:04.700 --> 02:07:08.860 For the record, I'm not sure if there's a cash prize or not and for the for the record 02:07:09.380 --> 02:07:12.340 Even if there were they are playing for the Salt Lake City spot 02:07:13.380 --> 02:07:17.220 Absolutely and this eye points by the way, true good point beginning of the year 02:07:18.180 --> 02:07:20.260 You know getting us now 02:07:20.780 --> 02:07:24.980 But yeah, but it's interesting that the qualifier for SI the qualifier for a major 02:07:25.180 --> 02:07:29.200 Which is of course where a lot of SI points are distributed also gives us eye points 02:07:29.200 --> 02:07:37.640 So if you call for the major in a good position and then place well at the major light, you're 02:07:37.640 --> 02:07:38.640 going to be untouchable. 02:07:38.640 --> 02:07:42.960 I'm not running the maths, but it's going to put you in a very good position. 02:07:42.960 --> 02:07:47.560 Well, I mean, I can tell you the exact thing we needed going into this year was Faze getting 02:07:47.560 --> 02:07:51.640 more SI points at the start because my philosophy has always been the rich should get richer 02:07:51.640 --> 02:07:55.520 and just with no boundaries whatsoever. 02:07:55.520 --> 02:07:58.240 Just give them all the SI points right now, actually. 02:07:58.240 --> 02:08:03.560 I feel like that's I don't believe you. I don't think that is your philosophy 02:08:06.440 --> 02:08:11.040 What it's the closest that's the closest I've ever come to actually becoming Parker on a broadcast 02:08:12.120 --> 02:08:17.800 Given how much given how much time we spend around each other you you'd think I would have just like manifested into him at some point or just like 02:08:18.640 --> 02:08:21.360 Transformed in him. That's probably the first time it's ever actually happened. I 02:08:21.360 --> 02:08:30.160 I can hear you face next don't yes we do because the next matchup as you can see phase clan versus fluxo 02:08:30.160 --> 02:08:35.280 W7M winner of that will go to play furia of course if you've been living under a rock the old furia roster 02:08:35.280 --> 02:08:40.080 is now actually team liquid alienware with the addition of mile and furia has herds with a whole 02:08:40.080 --> 02:08:46.560 bunch of people we got lawyer on the envelopes you got some new players under an old banner 02:08:46.560 --> 02:08:52.960 But yeah, we'll see faceclan reflux versus fluxo w7m after this in a series that I am very excited for. I like both those teams. 02:08:54.800 --> 02:08:56.800 Which one do you like more? 02:08:58.480 --> 02:09:00.080 Come on. 02:09:00.080 --> 02:09:02.080 Come on, the genuine question. 02:09:02.080 --> 02:09:04.080 Oh, faceclan. 02:09:04.320 --> 02:09:06.320 I know you're a VPS Lucas fan, you see. 02:09:06.560 --> 02:09:10.160 That is true, actually. I do, I will say, I do, I do love Diaz Lucas. 02:09:11.120 --> 02:09:15.120 I love Diaz Lucas, but you know, that's feria, different, you know, not fluxo w7m. 02:09:15.120 --> 02:09:21.040 But to your point, yes, I like Diaz by the face they I've been on a bash 02:09:21.040 --> 02:09:24.160 They're my favorite team like in the history of the game for the past like three years 02:09:24.160 --> 02:09:26.280 Oh, yeah, of course they get to play here. I sorry 02:09:26.280 --> 02:09:30.360 I was like I saw an opportunity for a bit there and it didn't work. They do play for so sweet 02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:32.480 Maybe I'm looking too far into the future 02:09:32.480 --> 02:09:37.400 Maybe I maybe I've just spoiled that that phase are gonna get the win tonight and then then I'm gonna go on to play 02:09:37.400 --> 02:09:37.720 Fury 02:09:37.720 --> 02:09:41.960 Yeah, I mean listen like I I don't want to handle this on this should be a private matter 02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:48.040 But like you did just break the NDA leaking the script like that and my attorneys will be contacting you now 02:09:48.800 --> 02:09:53.720 Why blast new besides have put me in charge of enforcing the NDA about leaking the script for every single match? 02:09:54.120 --> 02:09:57.340 That was a bit of a weird quirk and the contract negotiations will tell you that much 02:09:57.340 --> 02:09:59.340 But you will be hearing from my attorneys presently 02:09:59.920 --> 02:10:02.640 I look forward to putting that in the filing cabinet 02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:06.560 The bin what that's messed up 02:10:08.120 --> 02:10:10.120 Like you should at least read it first 02:10:11.960 --> 02:10:19.200 I'm looking forward to that next game. I think there's potential for it to be. It feels rude 02:10:19.200 --> 02:10:23.080 because this game is still underway, but it kind of feels dumb. 02:10:23.080 --> 02:10:28.120 Like just just to remind everyone, it is 6-2 currently and there are a lot of rounds that 02:10:28.120 --> 02:10:33.480 came between that one and two for loss. Like a lot of a lot of stuff for NIP happened between 02:10:33.480 --> 02:10:38.840 the second round victory. That's a bit why we're treating this as starting to potentially 02:10:38.840 --> 02:10:45.200 reach the closing portion of a matchup and IP have looked indomitable on banks so far 02:10:45.200 --> 02:10:54.200 I think would be an accurate statement Ollie. I would agree. Okay, well that was alright. 02:10:54.200 --> 02:10:59.160 I thought I thought it was more. No, no, no. I could you get me to like chain agree to 02:10:59.160 --> 02:11:03.160 a few things and throw something rogue in there and like it was like a gotten moment. 02:11:03.160 --> 02:11:05.740 Oh, no, no, no, I'm not like that. 02:11:06.380 --> 02:11:10.420 I'm not, I'm not about to cross examine you on the South America League kickoff broadcast. 02:11:10.420 --> 02:11:15.180 That just doesn't, like, not the time of place, really. 02:11:16.900 --> 02:11:17.940 Back into the game we go then. 02:11:17.980 --> 02:11:21.460 Thanks so much for bearing with us while we got all the players back into the lobby. 02:11:22.660 --> 02:11:27.480 For a semi-rudely interrupted, we were saying that the prize, of course, for the entirety of 02:11:27.480 --> 02:11:32.260 kickoff across every region that we have is a spot at the Salt Lake City Major. 02:11:33.160 --> 02:11:39.160 SL are going to be fighting for that spot just the same as every other region. 02:11:39.160 --> 02:11:43.160 So it happens that their playoffs are a little bit earlier. 02:11:43.160 --> 02:11:47.160 Hence why we are in best of three territory, which is good news for loss 02:11:47.160 --> 02:11:51.160 because it means that if they do win four rounds in a row and they do take it to overtime 02:11:51.160 --> 02:11:56.160 and they are successful here on bank, then we have a third map in store. 02:11:56.160 --> 02:12:01.160 However, the likelihood of that at the moment is a little bit questionable. 02:12:01.160 --> 02:12:04.160 a little bit like this Valkyrie camera. 02:12:04.160 --> 02:12:09.160 She's only going to be alive for a very short period of time 02:12:09.160 --> 02:12:14.160 and I can't help but feel like it was maybe thrown a little bit too prematurely. 02:12:14.160 --> 02:12:18.160 Either that or just nobody spawned there anyway. 02:12:18.160 --> 02:12:22.160 I was going to say, I'm not entirely sure if they even shot the default cam. 02:12:22.160 --> 02:12:26.160 They might have to be clear, but it would be very funny if they didn't even shoot the garage default 02:12:26.160 --> 02:12:29.160 and then they also put that back their cam. 02:12:29.160 --> 02:12:35.920 She'll be really certain and I get it to be fair. I do see the vision, but it doesn't seem to pay off at a moment 02:12:37.380 --> 02:12:40.640 So that's giving me a bit of a throwback though the amount of outside 02:12:40.640 --> 02:12:45.560 Valkyrie cameras that he used to be able to play especially on bank it was fantastic look at this 02:12:46.280 --> 02:12:49.200 Not an outside Valkyrie camera, but just an inside Valkyrie 02:12:49.760 --> 02:12:52.120 Puffed inside a loan office and there is not a chance 02:12:52.120 --> 02:12:57.560 chance that MIP are aware of it. C4 goes out too. Oh, misses the Hibana. 02:12:57.560 --> 02:13:02.200 They're still going for it. Look at this guy. I mean, okay. Unfortunately, I think he wanted 02:13:02.200 --> 02:13:06.880 to gather the information and that give Pino the perfect time to react. Sure, you lose 02:13:06.880 --> 02:13:10.240 the nook and you lose fancy, that sucks, but one for one, all things considered, that 02:13:10.240 --> 02:13:13.600 could have gone a lot worse for NIP and, hey, it's gone anyway. 02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:21.760 Their prayers did fancy a bit of a failure there, allowing him a quick re-join into the 02:13:21.760 --> 02:13:22.760 lob. 02:13:22.760 --> 02:13:26.040 We hope we'll be getting back before the round concludes, but he was dead anyway, so it's 02:13:26.040 --> 02:13:27.200 an even four versus four. 02:13:27.200 --> 02:13:30.800 I suppose the only disadvantage is he's not around to watch a camera. 02:13:30.800 --> 02:13:33.720 He should be able to get himself back into the lob. 02:13:33.720 --> 02:13:36.440 Blizzard, they kill onto Dash. 02:13:36.440 --> 02:13:40.960 NIP again just further dismantling this defense. 02:13:40.960 --> 02:13:43.440 Still really concerned with taking this top floor. 02:13:43.440 --> 02:13:48.440 guys with a challenge and a successful shot over onto Hades. It's gonna level things up. 02:13:50.440 --> 02:13:52.440 Him and Daffodil both getting down on the action there. 02:13:53.440 --> 02:13:56.440 Caught by the player inside of Archives. Or Tellers, excuse me. 02:13:58.440 --> 02:14:02.440 Daffa not really worried about this. Drone on the floor. Ooh, just barely missed the shot. 02:14:02.440 --> 02:14:04.440 Still, here's the presence inside! 02:14:05.440 --> 02:14:08.440 And through the wall. One slug lands at Pinot's head. 02:14:09.440 --> 02:14:11.440 Now, Wizard from the percentile fighting from behind. 02:14:13.440 --> 02:14:16.740 aware of the fact that he's trapped in a potential crossfire because of the 02:14:16.740 --> 02:14:18.900 rotate hole and the beepers door 02:14:18.900 --> 02:14:22.240 not a whole lot of ground for wizard to move 02:14:22.240 --> 02:14:25.760 you'd want to go downstairs but walking to that barbed wire will only trigger the 02:14:25.760 --> 02:14:26.580 sound cue 02:14:26.580 --> 02:14:30.640 the set of hoping that this Azami makes an improper decision 02:14:30.640 --> 02:14:34.720 and decides to hop up. Excellent free fire 02:14:34.720 --> 02:14:41.280 gets the trade as well! Beautiful shots by a wizard and that might just be the door shutting 02:14:41.280 --> 02:14:47.220 unless Nux hopping back in a site with 15 seconds left can evade notice for long enough. 02:14:47.220 --> 02:14:52.220 C4 gives him a chance at evading a gunfight entirely if the setter decides to plant close 02:14:52.220 --> 02:14:56.500 or go for the kill might be able to land but just waiting on time hops him through the 02:14:56.500 --> 02:15:00.420 door can land the cross he gets them both. 02:15:00.420 --> 02:15:02.500 Stay alive for one more round as well. 02:15:02.500 --> 02:15:06.180 Wizard gets a double Nux answers back with the most important two kills. 02:15:06.180 --> 02:15:10.820 Nux hasn't been known for getting many frags so far in this series but those 02:15:10.820 --> 02:15:18.100 are two very important kills. He's just got himself keeping his team in it. And I pay they 02:15:18.100 --> 02:15:22.580 were given such a big opportunity there wizard able to break down. They had so much information. 02:15:22.580 --> 02:15:25.880 You could see that in the yellow things. They knew that there was a player prone inside 02:15:25.880 --> 02:15:30.420 of open area. They knew that there was somebody tucked in toward tellers. All they had to 02:15:30.420 --> 02:15:33.620 do was just play those cards. Right. And they did. They played him perfectly wizard 02:15:33.620 --> 02:15:37.780 got two kills there. And it was like bish bash bash. But they had no idea where 02:15:37.780 --> 02:15:42.100 that final defender was they had no idea where nukes was kept himself slippy kept 02:15:42.100 --> 02:15:45.700 himself mobile and at that point there just wasn't the amount of time required 02:15:45.700 --> 02:15:50.020 to either push in and get the plant down and hopefully try and bait it out or to 02:15:50.020 --> 02:15:53.900 flood and pick up the two kills another impressive spray transfer from an SMG 02:15:53.900 --> 02:15:57.660 12 or SMG 11 excuse me which let's be honest doesn't have the most amount of 02:15:57.660 --> 02:16:06.300 bullets nukes big impact a lot after doing again and again and again they 02:16:06.300 --> 02:16:11.000 still need three rounds here. That was only the first step in what is a much larger journey 02:16:11.000 --> 02:16:15.440 ahead of them here if they want to try and stay in this upper bracket. Bands at the end 02:16:15.440 --> 02:16:21.380 are going to be the Blitz and the Clash, both of those coming out. It's going to round 02:16:21.380 --> 02:16:26.660 out our Bands entirely now, a couple of shields removed there. The Clash was a little bit 02:16:26.660 --> 02:16:30.460 of a problem on that top floor site if we cast our mines back, so N.I.P may be 02:16:30.460 --> 02:16:35.380 looking a little bit more towards the future for that one. I think that's how this 02:16:35.380 --> 02:16:39.940 around in particular played out last time, Link's. Blitz was a really big focus from 02:16:39.940 --> 02:16:43.980 NIP and obviously now that's been taken away. It's gonna be down to the Blackbeard to try 02:16:43.980 --> 02:16:50.640 and get some similar value in that. Fancy. How quickly he was able to take control of 02:16:50.640 --> 02:16:54.700 Garage and make his way all the way into site. If he looks to try and do something 02:16:54.700 --> 02:16:57.820 like that again, but this time on Snake, he's gonna have a lot more information 02:16:57.820 --> 02:16:58.820 to work with. 02:16:58.820 --> 02:17:05.820 It's always just a big concern with Snake. Oh, Masi down early. Finished off by Fancy. 02:17:05.820 --> 02:17:10.820 That one spotted at the, oh, this is just a brutal start, is it? 02:17:10.820 --> 02:17:18.820 I don't know if he got all that information from the Soliton scanner or what, but an active drone spots two defenders and Kanto, and Fancy gets both. 02:17:18.820 --> 02:17:23.820 What seemed like basically a single spray of his F2. Lose a lot of HP. 02:17:23.820 --> 02:17:27.160 You're sitting here thinking that, okay, Lose have got two in a row. 02:17:27.160 --> 02:17:31.100 All they have to do is win basement, win lockers and CCTV, and you've got a game on 02:17:31.100 --> 02:17:32.100 our hands. 02:17:32.100 --> 02:17:35.900 Now they've got to crawl out of a three to five deficit. 02:17:35.900 --> 02:17:42.220 The time where the thing they needed most was any glimmer of hope and any bit of momentum. 02:17:42.220 --> 02:17:45.660 Especially when you look at the lineup and you look down and you think, okay, they've 02:17:45.660 --> 02:17:47.660 got one C4 to get out of the plant. 02:17:47.660 --> 02:17:50.460 They've got one C4 to slow down the approach. 02:17:50.460 --> 02:17:52.020 No go-yo notes, Janker. 02:17:52.020 --> 02:17:53.340 No smoke canisters. 02:17:53.340 --> 02:18:00.540 nothing. This is an absolute layup for an IP. They might not even fully realize it just yet. 02:18:00.540 --> 02:18:06.220 Baffo is getting trapped out there inside of Teller's. We've got Dark Eyes and Archives as well. 02:18:06.220 --> 02:18:10.380 Just trying to play a little bit of support for this Blackbeard. Should be able to bear down 02:18:10.380 --> 02:18:14.460 on him. Pino at the back. Bansi for a third. It's a wrap. 02:18:14.460 --> 02:18:24.740 Nux was able to get a 1v2, but 1v4 will be beyond his capabilities in this round. 02:18:24.740 --> 02:18:29.860 And if he swung very individually last time, though admittedly they were low on time. 02:18:29.860 --> 02:18:34.100 Here, they've got double the players, about 10 times the time. 02:18:34.100 --> 02:18:42.620 Nux has no C4s, no primary utility, and he's in a decently good position, 02:18:42.620 --> 02:18:50.100 But he's just been spotted one player on the hatch will be the end of him to out for NIP on there and their opponents pick 02:18:50.380 --> 02:18:56.460 They'll move on to play team liquid alien where the upper bracket match to decide who goes to Salt Lake City 02:18:57.620 --> 02:19:00.500 NIP getting the job done there regardless of map choice 02:19:01.820 --> 02:19:06.960 Because of who this map it was they just looked like the better team here today and loss 02:19:06.960 --> 02:19:11.340 I think just a long way off the pace NIP brought a lot of aggression 02:19:11.340 --> 02:19:17.340 They brought a lot of firepower and everything that NIP had in spades. We were looking toward loss and thinking 02:19:17.780 --> 02:19:19.980 We know that you've got a little bit of this in your locker 02:19:19.980 --> 02:19:23.100 Like this is the time to bring it out. But unfortunately for them 02:19:23.100 --> 02:19:26.460 They are going to drop down into that lower bracket for an IP 02:19:26.460 --> 02:19:31.180 Of course, they are going to continue on and they will have a fight against team liquid Alienware 02:19:31.620 --> 02:19:34.940 Only in a couple of days to continue through that upper bracket 02:19:34.940 --> 02:19:38.980 We've still got plenty of seeds to come and we've got a desk to break down what we have just seen 02:19:41.340 --> 02:19:46.860 Thank you very much my friends. A big difference that we saw. We're trying to look into the 02:19:46.860 --> 02:19:52.100 future. I guess Jesse trying to do his best. That's our even impression there. Trying to 02:19:52.100 --> 02:19:56.740 predict what loss would do. And unfortunately it did not work out for loss, especially in 02:19:56.740 --> 02:20:01.620 the last round. They tried it. They gave it their best effort. But NIP at the end 02:20:01.620 --> 02:20:07.780 of the day, the more experienced team take the win in advance on in the upper bracket. 02:20:07.780 --> 02:20:12.940 beautiful surprise I would say in a happy one of anything for NIP supporters 02:20:12.940 --> 02:20:17.940 that have been starved years in the past now they're they're living large their 02:20:17.940 --> 02:20:23.820 lobster is way too juicy yeah it's it's a good time to be an NIP fan honestly 02:20:23.820 --> 02:20:26.700 Milo she feels like everything's going so well for this team they played 02:20:26.700 --> 02:20:31.420 expertly in this matchup against Loves they didn't have any fear in this game 02:20:31.420 --> 02:20:35.420 they took a lot of aggressive fights early they wanted to go active when it was 02:20:35.420 --> 02:20:40.520 6-1, my main point was going to be how they won every single opening gunfight. 02:20:40.520 --> 02:20:43.680 Rounds 8 and 9 lost and managed to get a couple of fights back. 02:20:43.680 --> 02:20:47.920 Paris did some sneaky shenanigans, but that was kind of all they had on the side of Lowe's. 02:20:47.920 --> 02:20:52.820 Paris in defense wasn't doing something that caught NIP off guard to get them that early lead. 02:20:52.820 --> 02:20:58.420 It just felt like there was nothing they could do to stop NIP from getting active, getting that mad ground advantage, 02:20:58.420 --> 02:21:01.720 and then converting with usually quite a bit of time on the clock. 02:21:01.720 --> 02:21:13.220 Again, that open area bombsite, maybe a bit of an exception where they were a little bit slow for the execute, couldn't close down the 2v1, but start to finish, it really felt like you were in control of this map. 02:21:13.220 --> 02:21:25.220 I'm sure having some VODs was certainly helpful to them. Again, that team with the only one match that most played later in the season was probably a big help, because it felt like NIP had a really good lead, and Weper's going to go down throughout this matchup. 02:21:25.220 --> 02:21:31.220 But yeah, I mean when they're done in the way of the guy on LHT, I just don't know if there's anything you can do with it. 02:21:32.220 --> 02:21:38.220 Absolutely. At the end of the day, there was an attempt. Let's give it their all, but if anything for lost fans out there, 02:21:38.220 --> 02:21:44.220 I'd be looking at this thinking, oh it's a logo, it is not, because they are dropping to the lower bracket. 02:21:44.220 --> 02:21:52.220 And that's something that, at least, yes, there'll be one life down, but they have a life still to compete with. 02:21:52.220 --> 02:21:56.860 be playing in that little bracket and joining ANTZ at Black Dragon Sprint, NIP fans there looking good. 02:21:57.420 --> 02:22:04.540 If anything it guarantees us a pretty cool match of NIP versus Team Liquid Alienware next week. 02:22:05.180 --> 02:22:10.780 Just want to really look forward to in their playstyles, both will have a lot of vods to go 02:22:10.780 --> 02:22:15.660 through both you know on another really really well support staff as well and that just means 02:22:15.660 --> 02:22:22.020 We get a better viewing experience at the end of it. There it is Daffo trying his 02:22:22.020 --> 02:22:27.380 utmost darkness on Los. On the other side it's it's fantasy that's leading the charge 02:22:27.380 --> 02:22:32.340 and everybody else rallying behind him. Good job today Wizard honestly especially 02:22:32.340 --> 02:22:36.900 in the last couple rounds the man is just a magician. Yeah no Wizard had some 02:22:36.900 --> 02:22:40.220 huge pop-off moments. I also want to say our head-to-head at the beginning 02:22:40.220 --> 02:22:44.220 of this series was fantasy and dash. Fantasy top of the lobby dash at the 02:22:44.220 --> 02:22:48.460 very bottom you hate to see it as for those fans but it's kind of how the cookie crumbles 02:22:48.460 --> 02:22:53.020 I said it they needed to find some way to shut down fantasy this series if they wanted to be 02:22:53.020 --> 02:22:57.500 able to win this and continue in the upper bracket most could not do that today and they suffer 02:22:57.500 --> 02:23:02.620 their consequences because of it so let's glaze fantasy one more time because I know he's going 02:23:02.620 --> 02:23:07.100 to be the MVP right we're going to bring him up after this but there's our match summary 02:23:07.100 --> 02:23:13.660 you see things in detail this is a combination of both maps on border and bank wizard remaining 02:23:13.660 --> 02:23:19.660 MVP actually yeah because we are tallying both games were so used to be a once at least for me that my brain is right and thinking oh 02:23:19.900 --> 02:23:24.000 I completely forgot the border was around and that it played quite differently 02:23:24.260 --> 02:23:28.800 So how we saw bank but wizard is at the top pretty impressive 02:23:29.220 --> 02:23:33.260 22 to 9 in this be a 3 in what the 02:23:33.860 --> 02:23:36.140 21 rounds that they played he had 02:23:36.780 --> 02:23:38.780 1.05 02:23:38.780 --> 02:23:42.780 Not to go on numbers on you 1.05 kills per round. 02:23:42.780 --> 02:23:45.780 Yeah, no, honestly, he was really popping off as well. 02:23:45.780 --> 02:23:47.780 It was a team effort, fancy getting a lot of those opening gunfights, 02:23:47.780 --> 02:23:49.780 and then Wizard often following him up. 02:23:49.780 --> 02:23:51.780 Had his own couple of opening frags too. 02:23:51.780 --> 02:23:53.780 I mean, when he was playing the solid stake back on board, 02:23:53.780 --> 02:23:55.780 he was having some really big impact. 02:23:55.780 --> 02:23:57.780 When he was playing the thorn on board, 02:23:57.780 --> 02:24:01.780 he was such a problem player to try to get out of those aggressive positions. 02:24:01.780 --> 02:24:05.780 But frankly, it was just a team effort coming through from ninjas in pajamas. 02:24:05.780 --> 02:24:07.780 It felt like every single player was doing their job. 02:24:07.780 --> 02:24:11.620 their job, they're completing their role, they were dominating the early game and just made 02:24:11.620 --> 02:24:16.420 things so much easier for their late round anchors. This is going to be a tough team 02:24:16.420 --> 02:24:20.020 to beat going forward in the playoffs, frankly, Milos, I don't know if any team is going to be able 02:24:20.020 --> 02:24:25.060 to look at this NIP team and say, all right, this should be an easy one. When Wizards jumping 22 02:24:25.060 --> 02:24:29.620 and nine, it's always something to watch out for a 95 cost too. That's just insane. 02:24:30.660 --> 02:24:35.460 Exactly. And on top of that, you could see the entry kills from NIP, how effective they 02:24:35.460 --> 02:24:43.580 were. Yes, they lost some of the entry gunfights, but overall remaining far and ahead. 5-1-4-1 02:24:43.580 --> 02:24:49.020 of players hates, I believe, for NIP on the entries, which obviously then cascades into 02:24:49.020 --> 02:24:54.260 a round that goes into your favor more often than I was. You have the numbers, probably. 02:24:54.260 --> 02:24:58.660 Jesse was like 80% of the time you win the round if you get the opening kill or 02:24:58.660 --> 02:25:02.700 something or the like depending on the region, depending on the team. But it is quite 02:25:02.700 --> 02:25:07.380 high up there in that conversion going really well for NIP though we've glazed 02:25:07.380 --> 02:25:11.160 them enough we need to glaze them to their faces though as Pino is joining us 02:25:11.160 --> 02:25:14.380 on the interview let's bring them up 02:25:16.980 --> 02:25:21.180 hello hello Pino thank you so much for joining us congratulations I know we're 02:25:21.180 --> 02:25:25.980 getting used to this chat via BO1s or BO3s and that leads me into the 02:25:25.980 --> 02:25:30.780 question of for you what was this big change going from best of ones to 02:25:30.780 --> 02:25:36.380 BO3s because between you, your entire team, support staff, there's a lot more to prep for. 02:25:38.700 --> 02:25:43.100 Yeah, I think the main difference is the best of trees. We have more margins to 02:25:44.220 --> 02:25:51.100 take risks like playing more aggressive on defense, make some pocket plays on attacks. So yeah, 02:25:51.100 --> 02:25:55.900 I think that's the main difference. We are more comfortable to make mistakes. 02:25:55.900 --> 02:26:00.580 and yeah the match today was was really good for us and then made a really good 02:26:00.580 --> 02:26:06.940 threat and everything went sorry early yeah I mean Pino congratulations on the 02:26:06.940 --> 02:26:10.460 victory today you guys played so well I'm glad you mentioned that aggression on 02:26:10.460 --> 02:26:13.380 the defense because it was something that we really noticed in your game 02:26:13.380 --> 02:26:16.540 today felt like you guys were always getting active whether it was runouts 02:26:16.540 --> 02:26:20.500 on border whether it was sneaky plays on bank this is a really good job 02:26:20.500 --> 02:26:24.020 securing those opening picks was there anything that you saw in Los's 02:26:24.020 --> 02:26:29.900 gameplay that enabled you to make plays like that? Or was there anything in specific that really allowed you to get aggressive? 02:26:32.140 --> 02:26:50.460 Some of the plays was more rap things like we saw how they played their gaps on their differences. And some plays was just the feeling of us like, like I said, like we had, we have less pressure playing best of trees, like we can, can take some opening 02:26:50.460 --> 02:26:55.620 death and try to cover their home later. So yeah, that fantasy and Hakes made a really 02:26:55.620 --> 02:27:00.340 good job and bother. Like Hakes was getting everywhere on the opening kill. So yeah, it's 02:27:00.340 --> 02:27:01.340 pretty good for us. 02:27:01.340 --> 02:27:06.780 Nice. Well, one more question for me and Pino. You guys, since dropping your opening 02:27:06.780 --> 02:27:11.660 game of kickoff have now won five straight maps. You guys have been really solid over 02:27:11.660 --> 02:27:14.860 the last couple of weeks. What are the vibes like for your team? Are you getting 02:27:14.860 --> 02:27:17.900 excited for the potential of going to Salt Lake City? Are you trying not to 02:27:17.900 --> 02:27:18.980 think about that too much. 02:27:20.860 --> 02:27:23.780 Yeah, we're pretty confident, but we're trying to play game by 02:27:23.780 --> 02:27:27.500 game, like we are, we are getting confident because every 02:27:27.500 --> 02:27:30.700 week on on screens, we're, we're feeling that we're 02:27:30.700 --> 02:27:34.900 evolving as a team. Like Frisone was an analyst brought so 02:27:34.900 --> 02:27:40.300 much for us like the touch cost us. So yeah, I think that we 02:27:40.300 --> 02:27:43.260 are evolving and we are the path of becoming a better team 02:27:43.260 --> 02:27:44.140 than the last time. 02:27:44.140 --> 02:27:51.640 I will up next you'll play a team liquid Alienware in the upper bracket that's of course for 02:27:51.640 --> 02:27:54.980 a spot directly at the Salt Lake City Major. 02:27:54.980 --> 02:28:00.300 Anything you'd like to say to this new roster of Team Liquid Alienware ahead of that match 02:28:00.300 --> 02:28:01.300 P&O? 02:28:01.300 --> 02:28:11.500 It's going to be a great one, it's always good to play that XW7, X4 line up, it's 02:28:11.500 --> 02:28:13.020 So it's a great game. 02:28:13.020 --> 02:28:17.060 Like they have so many great ideas to play their attacks. 02:28:17.060 --> 02:28:19.900 Like they were the best team for three years in a row. 02:28:19.900 --> 02:28:22.620 So yeah, we are very excited to play them 02:28:22.620 --> 02:28:25.060 and it's going to be a great one, hope to win. 02:28:26.460 --> 02:28:28.220 I can't wait to see Femme to see if it's Maya. 02:28:28.220 --> 02:28:30.860 That's one head to head that I'm looking forward to. 02:28:30.860 --> 02:28:32.220 Pinio, thank you very much. 02:28:32.220 --> 02:28:33.300 Congratulations on the win. 02:28:33.300 --> 02:28:35.860 We'll see you in the upper bracket in a few days. 02:28:35.860 --> 02:28:37.340 Have a good night. 02:28:37.340 --> 02:28:38.180 Thank you. 02:28:38.180 --> 02:28:39.000 See ya. 02:28:39.000 --> 02:28:47.520 And there it is a victory for NIP and for Pino our victory. We've had him so many times at 02:28:47.520 --> 02:28:52.760 this point. And like I said, fantasy versus Maya is going to have to be a head to head 02:28:52.760 --> 02:28:57.560 that we bring out and talk about because I'm expecting big things from that match and 02:28:57.560 --> 02:29:04.680 I P themselves with their improvement from each stage each event onwards and upwards. 02:29:04.680 --> 02:29:08.600 They set the expectations higher and higher themselves. 02:29:08.600 --> 02:29:13.560 And I think we've hit that breaking point where finally we get to see two in their own 02:29:13.560 --> 02:29:17.440 in the making Titans going up against one another and best of three Jesse. 02:29:17.440 --> 02:29:18.920 Yeah, I have to agree. 02:29:18.920 --> 02:29:22.920 Mailers, I mean, people will look at just the history that that roster has and even 02:29:22.920 --> 02:29:23.920 Pino brought it up. 02:29:23.920 --> 02:29:28.200 They're the best team in the world for so long, but NIP man, they've really been 02:29:28.200 --> 02:29:29.720 impressing me the last couple of weeks. 02:29:29.720 --> 02:29:33.800 I feel like they are going to be a sleepy or a sneaky underdog coming into that 02:29:33.800 --> 02:29:37.840 game. If people are putting out predictions, I really think you should give us some credit 02:29:37.840 --> 02:29:41.840 over towards the ninjas because there have been a couple of slips for Team Liquid Alienware 02:29:41.840 --> 02:29:46.240 this season. It's not been flawless for them throughout the kickoff and with five straight 02:29:46.240 --> 02:29:50.640 maplins now under their belt, NIP are really been on a tear through group stage and now 02:29:50.640 --> 02:29:51.640 playoffs. 02:29:51.640 --> 02:29:57.880 Hey, you bet the TLN were watching this match with eager eyes trying to dissect everything 02:29:57.880 --> 02:30:03.000 that NIP were doing as were we though. There's only one match out of the two 02:30:03.000 --> 02:30:08.360 that we have for you today. We're going to take a quick break when we get back. We'll refocus 02:30:08.360 --> 02:30:15.240 on this upper bracket with face clan versus fluxo w7m who advances to play against feria. We'll talk 02:30:15.240 --> 02:30:26.520 about that after the break. Everyone's talking about it. What's up with the r6 competitive calendar? 02:30:26.520 --> 02:30:30.760 The structure of our competitive calendar has changed a bit. 02:30:30.760 --> 02:30:38.200 That means more tournaments, and a slightly different path to the 6th invitation. 02:30:38.200 --> 02:30:44.360 But let's break it down. First of all, we now have a brand new addition to Siege, 02:30:44.360 --> 02:30:51.000 the CN League, the Chinese League. That brings us to 5 regions total, 02:30:52.200 --> 02:30:55.080 all following pretty much the same structure. 02:30:55.080 --> 02:30:59.360 Now, let's focus on what matters most to us. 02:30:59.360 --> 02:31:03.520 How things will work in the South America League. 02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:10.160 Before anything else, it's important to remember that the 20-26 season actually started way 02:31:10.160 --> 02:31:15.960 back with the Challenger series, where Rising Teams fought for a shot at the top tier and 02:31:15.960 --> 02:31:19.800 secured the final two spots in the SA-L. 02:31:19.800 --> 02:31:25.220 Then, and that's where we are right now, we have the kickoff. 02:31:25.220 --> 02:31:29.040 Think of it as a stage 0 for the SAL. 02:31:29.040 --> 02:31:34.160 Shorter, faster, but still super important. 02:31:34.160 --> 02:31:41.300 You know what's 4 major spots and distributes 970 ass side points. 02:31:41.300 --> 02:31:45.200 Next up, in May, we've got the first major of the year. 02:31:45.200 --> 02:31:54.340 For any teams, over 30,000 aside points on the line, live from Salt Lake City, USA. 02:31:54.340 --> 02:32:00.720 After that, between June and July, we officially kick off Stage 1 of the SAL. 02:32:00.720 --> 02:32:03.680 Same classic format you already know. 02:32:03.680 --> 02:32:10.680 One group of 10 teams, round robbing matches, and the top 6 advanced to the double elimination 02:32:10.680 --> 02:32:12.440 playoffs. 02:32:12.440 --> 02:32:18.920 This time though, the 4 available spots are for the Esports World Cup, taking place in 02:32:18.920 --> 02:32:20.400 Saudi Arabia. 02:32:20.400 --> 02:32:27.960 Plus, we've got another 1,695 Sight Points up for grabs. 02:32:27.960 --> 02:32:35.800 Speaking of that, the Esports World Cup kicks off in August, with 22 teams competing for 02:32:35.800 --> 02:32:39.520 a $2 million prize pool. 02:32:39.520 --> 02:32:41.440 No Sight Points here. 02:32:41.440 --> 02:32:46.720 But the winner gets a straight ticket to SI 2027. 02:32:46.720 --> 02:32:53.720 Then between September and October we move on to stage 2 of the SAL. 02:32:53.720 --> 02:33:03.320 Same format again, 10 teams, round robbing, playoffs, 4 major spots, and another 1695 SI 02:33:03.320 --> 02:33:05.200 points in play. 02:33:05.200 --> 02:33:12.680 In November, we'll see the debut of the final international event of the year, and the first 02:33:12.680 --> 02:33:22.760 major ever hosted in Japan, 20 teams and 13,650 SI points on the line. 02:33:22.760 --> 02:33:28.880 Finally, closing out the calendar between December and January, we've got the last 02:33:28.880 --> 02:33:32.320 chance qualifiers in each region. 02:33:32.320 --> 02:33:37.600 This is the final shot at making it to the biggest tournament in Siege. 02:33:37.600 --> 02:33:45.840 And those 5 teams will join the top 14 teams from the AsciiPoint ranking, plus the EWC 02:33:45.840 --> 02:33:53.320 champion, making a total of 20 teams qualified for the 6th Invitational in February. 02:33:53.320 --> 02:33:57.000 The tournament that always wraps up the season. 02:33:57.000 --> 02:34:02.120 And by the way, it's happening right here in Brazil again. 02:34:02.120 --> 02:34:09.720 enough, right? So let's get into it. The kickoff is ready, everything set, and now it's time to sit 02:34:09.720 --> 02:34:18.040 back and enjoy the games. Thanks for watching everyone, see you next time! 02:34:18.040 --> 02:34:35.800 Welcome back, my friends. After seeing those very heartfelt bits of footage that you see 02:34:35.800 --> 02:34:40.240 with all the teams, especially here at Fox with W7M and FaZe Clan, the way they enter 02:34:40.240 --> 02:34:44.600 in their holding hands, they're all having fun, they're playing football. Once we 02:34:44.600 --> 02:34:50.600 get into the server things are going to look a lot more I guess tense than you 02:34:50.600 --> 02:34:54.360 saw them with the way that they were having fun over there welcome back to 02:34:54.360 --> 02:34:58.920 SAL it is our first day a playoffs or second matchup our last one for today 02:34:58.920 --> 02:35:03.240 I'm going to watch by my side is the one and only Jesse J chick that only an 02:35:03.240 --> 02:35:10.200 hour ago links was calling looking great on the desk link it's Jesse with 02:35:10.200 --> 02:35:18.520 the glasses. So I will take it as is. But what does Jesse with the glasses have to say about 02:35:18.520 --> 02:35:25.160 our teams in this case and really to talk about the phase lineup in this case other than pure 02:35:25.160 --> 02:35:26.160 glaze, I guess. 02:35:26.160 --> 02:35:30.640 Well, there's going to be most positive things that me and my glasses have to say about 02:35:30.640 --> 02:35:35.600 phase clan. This has been one of the best teams in the history of rainbow six siege 02:35:35.600 --> 02:35:39.720 back to back world champions. Of course, they've been really crushing it so far here 02:35:39.720 --> 02:35:43.000 in the South America League as well. Of course, they didn't get that number one seed, lost their 02:35:43.000 --> 02:35:47.800 best of one earlier to Team Liquid Alienware, but we're in best of three territory now. 02:35:47.800 --> 02:35:52.200 This FaZe Clan team still look fierce as they played through the group stage, 02:35:52.200 --> 02:35:55.720 securing that second seed spot now going up against Flux with W7M. 02:35:56.520 --> 02:36:00.360 I feel like for FaZe Clan, it's been their defenses and their attacks, but 02:36:00.360 --> 02:36:05.000 particularly their defense locking things down for me have been maybe some of the 02:36:05.000 --> 02:36:14.760 stronger points for them. Their attacking rate is ridiculous. 78% is the highest that we have here in the league. We actually covered that right before our last game on the defense. 02:36:14.760 --> 02:36:21.360 Sometimes maybe there's a bit of a weakness there where if they lose the opening pick, their gunfights or their conversion rates are a little bit lower. 02:36:21.360 --> 02:36:29.400 But if they're able to wrestle back those advantages, man, they are still such a deadly team and we have just seen them be on a war path over the last couple of games. 02:36:29.400 --> 02:36:34.760 I mean, their attacks have looked incredible as we saw with the stats of the start of show. 02:36:34.760 --> 02:36:39.880 The only team to really give them any problems was in our game against the team liquid Alienware. 02:36:39.880 --> 02:36:44.920 And that was banger of a match where they were completely outplayed, but both coaches of 02:36:44.920 --> 02:36:49.960 or analysts really and coach for either phase or team liquid Alienware said, yeah, 02:36:49.960 --> 02:36:50.960 it's just the best of one. 02:36:50.960 --> 02:36:52.400 That's just how it is. 02:36:52.400 --> 02:36:55.680 It's very different than when we get into the nitty gritty vita king. 02:36:55.680 --> 02:37:00.400 however, there's no two ways around it. Jesse, this man, no matter what the situation is, 02:37:00.400 --> 02:37:04.640 will always show up. He'll save the round. He'll open it for you. Who'll do whatever 02:37:04.640 --> 02:37:09.280 needs to be done to get the W? Yeah, Vitaking has to be highlighted, Milos. You see his stats 02:37:09.280 --> 02:37:13.440 on your screen now and we can even give a deeper dive into that. My stats go back to 02:37:13.440 --> 02:37:19.520 when Blast joined the scene. So the beginning of 2023, March 2023, and at least since that 02:37:19.520 --> 02:37:25.920 time. Vittekings performance yesterday will mark the record for the best single map performance 02:37:25.920 --> 02:37:32.960 from any FaZe Clan player in history. As he put up 210 EPS in yesterday's game against 02:37:32.960 --> 02:37:39.520 Black Dragons on Clubhouse, he absolutely dominated that game as he has multiple games. 02:37:39.520 --> 02:37:44.240 Okay, he has broken records every match, but he has been the MVP in three out of 02:37:44.240 --> 02:37:48.480 their three victories throughout the group stage. He has been so ridiculously good 02:37:48.480 --> 02:37:52.640 for this team. And you know, in an era of hyper aggressive IGLs, 02:37:52.640 --> 02:37:55.680 talk about guys like Volps, guys like Licky Path, even guys like 02:37:55.680 --> 02:37:57.840 Bash, who we just watched in our last game, 02:37:57.840 --> 02:38:00.640 Vidit King takes a more traditional approach. He is a 02:38:00.640 --> 02:38:04.080 very late round player. You watch him play. He'll spend 120 02:38:04.080 --> 02:38:06.960 seconds either taking space on a shield. He's one of the best 02:38:06.960 --> 02:38:10.000 multi players in the entire world or just on drones calling 02:38:10.000 --> 02:38:13.040 for information. And then in the last 60 or so seconds, 02:38:13.040 --> 02:38:15.440 he'll call for the execute. His teammates will start forcing 02:38:15.440 --> 02:38:17.680 players out of position. And because he has all the 02:38:17.680 --> 02:38:22.320 info. He knows exactly what position everybody's going to swing him from. His crosshair placement 02:38:22.320 --> 02:38:27.680 is insane. He is always right there ready for the head. And his reaction time is insane 02:38:27.680 --> 02:38:31.560 as well. I mean, the second you peek him, he's ready for it. He's watching you and he will 02:38:31.560 --> 02:38:36.760 hit your head before you're able to shoot back. Biddy King has just been insane this 02:38:36.760 --> 02:38:37.760 stage. 02:38:37.760 --> 02:38:42.360 There's a very good reason why he's got King in the name and why he's considered 02:38:42.360 --> 02:38:49.000 one of the best players to ever touch Rainbow Six Siege for really years in a row. At this point, 02:38:49.000 --> 02:38:54.120 we've all expected him to perform at the top level because he's always set the standard to be 02:38:54.120 --> 02:38:59.480 quite high. The flux of W7M has been a squad that has been on a lot of people's mouths 02:38:59.480 --> 02:39:04.040 over the past couple of years, especially last year, once Palu joined the team. There was a lot 02:39:04.040 --> 02:39:09.400 of conversation around, oh Palu is no longer on Team Liquid, on Team Liquid Alienware. Then 02:39:09.400 --> 02:39:15.260 Now you got him on board with Lobin with dots. This is a squad that can accomplish a lot 02:39:15.340 --> 02:39:19.940 Although they have faced some difficulties during our kickoff group stage 02:39:20.380 --> 02:39:28.040 Still managing to get into the upper bracket of our playoffs. Yeah, I think that's a great way to put it 02:39:28.040 --> 02:39:32.120 Milo's fluxo are a better team than what they've shown so far this season 02:39:32.120 --> 02:39:34.960 We know the history for the squad former major champions 02:39:34.960 --> 02:39:38.880 They only improve when they add Paul to onto the roster at the beginning of last season 02:39:38.880 --> 02:39:44.680 I would say they even maybe improve adding cons onto the roster this season the way that they've looked at their highest highs 02:39:44.720 --> 02:39:46.720 Has been really really strong 02:39:47.120 --> 02:39:49.800 Unfortunately, they've had a couple of rough games are at this stage 02:39:49.800 --> 02:39:55.680 They've not been flawless and they're I think they're still trying to work through this new roster change getting cons instead of wolfs 02:39:55.800 --> 02:39:58.600 It's something loben talked about in yesterday's interview where 02:39:59.120 --> 02:40:02.600 Obviously, it's gonna take some time for them to adapt to having cons on the roster 02:40:02.600 --> 02:40:07.320 But it opens them up to be a little bit more flexible. They can have a larger number of play styles 02:40:07.320 --> 02:40:13.560 Whereas with bolts that kind of had to be that hyper agro team that we talked about in Brazil who are always getting active and always getting in 02:40:13.560 --> 02:40:16.520 Your face now with cons they can switch things up a little bit more 02:40:16.520 --> 02:40:21.200 I do think up against face plan you do have to get active and I want to see them kind of go back to their old 02:40:21.200 --> 02:40:26.080 Play style because they have a positive record playing up against face plan over the last year or so 02:40:26.960 --> 02:40:28.960 But it's clear that this team is on its own 02:40:28.960 --> 02:40:33.320 Yeah, absolutely the phase best team in the world, but still flux with w7m 02:40:33.320 --> 02:40:37.280 They're working through some things the moment in this stage and I hope over the last couple of weeks 02:40:37.280 --> 02:40:40.000 They've been able to improve because we know how good they can be 02:40:41.400 --> 02:40:44.580 Absolutely then our maps for this series again 02:40:44.840 --> 02:40:51.400 Our second and final best of three for today as we will close off that little bit than phase one of the upper 02:40:51.480 --> 02:40:54.040 Bracket and playoffs are gonna go to night even 02:40:54.040 --> 02:40:59.360 Consulate and ended all should we need to go to on the chalet night even and 02:40:59.960 --> 02:41:05.560 Consulate yeah, no just what do we got? No surprises at all here. Milo's fluxo love night Haven labs 02:41:05.560 --> 02:41:11.960 They dominated loud on it this season and played it five times back at the six of a tational and likewise face clean love 02:41:12.240 --> 02:41:19.140 Consulate they haven't been at all season long and actually the ten game winning streak playing on consulate getting back to the SI in 02:41:19.140 --> 02:41:25.320 2025 back in Boston. So they haven't lost console in over a year. That'll be an incredibly 02:41:25.320 --> 02:41:30.600 tough game for Flex with W7M to win. If we end up on Shelly, as I suspect we will. Both 02:41:30.600 --> 02:41:34.800 teams are very good at their own map picks. Shelly seems like need to play around to Mimi 02:41:34.800 --> 02:41:38.520 Lush. It's fourth or fifth preference for both of these teams. They both play at a decent 02:41:38.520 --> 02:41:42.680 amount, but this map, you know, pretty much as even as you could expect. 02:41:42.680 --> 02:41:48.840 Starting side of green might even labs quite an even way over there. We've been 02:41:48.840 --> 02:41:52.680 been talking about the impact of Solid Snake overall gameplay 02:41:52.680 --> 02:41:56.000 has been brought in constantly that impacts things we've heard 02:41:56.000 --> 02:41:59.520 it from, only that you know maybe they're just means we're 02:41:59.520 --> 02:42:02.880 pushing more things towards the attack. That's something else 02:42:02.880 --> 02:42:06.640 though to try to worry about the casters though are set let's 02:42:06.640 --> 02:42:10.120 bring them in and have a quick chat with our beauties here 02:42:10.120 --> 02:42:14.320 links and x or Troika my friends. We've ended our 02:42:14.320 --> 02:42:18.320 first matchup it went to zero to NIP now we restrict so 02:42:18.320 --> 02:42:23.920 reset things up. There's those issues that we've been talking about with Fluxer W7M in 02:42:23.920 --> 02:42:29.320 comparison to the form that we want them to be at that they've set the bar for Ali. And 02:42:29.320 --> 02:42:33.640 are we seeing this as the challenge that they need to overcome against FaZe? 02:42:33.640 --> 02:42:38.680 I mean, I think the challenge for any team in C just to overcome against FaZe isn't 02:42:38.680 --> 02:42:43.480 it? You know, you could put any insert any good team versus them and you're always 02:42:43.480 --> 02:42:46.680 going to be scratching your head and leaving yourself with a little bit of a question 02:42:46.680 --> 02:42:50.160 mark and you've just got to give face the benefit of the doubt they've been too 02:42:50.160 --> 02:42:54.320 consistent for too long and any team going up against them it is going to be 02:42:54.320 --> 02:42:58.620 a big battle and obviously interregionally it becomes a little bit 02:42:58.620 --> 02:43:02.640 different domestically like we are at the moment maybe it's slightly fairer 02:43:02.640 --> 02:43:06.960 obviously it isn't an event it isn't you know where face seem to shine although 02:43:06.960 --> 02:43:10.600 they do very well domestically and it really is events where they get going 02:43:10.600 --> 02:43:13.640 but then you question is that because they're very good at Pester 3's which 02:43:13.640 --> 02:43:18.840 is where we are right now so I don't know I'd be hard-pressed Milosh to give anyone the advantage 02:43:18.840 --> 02:43:26.840 other than FaZe here. I don't really know what else to say to be honest like this is a team that 02:43:26.840 --> 02:43:31.400 has been together as a roster for like three years now they've won two world championships they 02:43:31.400 --> 02:43:36.360 you know going in the past couple years had a one-time a four game domestic champion streak 02:43:36.360 --> 02:43:41.000 inside of the SEL formerly the Brazil League like this is a team that is quite literally 02:43:41.000 --> 02:43:45.840 just about the perfect package. Now, on the flip side for Fluxo W7M, I've always liked 02:43:45.840 --> 02:43:50.000 Kahn's as a player quite a bit, so seeing him make a debut on this roster is very exciting 02:43:50.000 --> 02:43:54.400 and I hope that this series will be closer. The thing about FaZe is it's not that you 02:43:54.400 --> 02:43:57.200 think they're necessarily going to dominate their opponents, it's just that you think 02:43:57.200 --> 02:44:00.680 they're going to win no matter what the scoreline ends up being. I think that's always the 02:44:00.680 --> 02:44:05.680 tricky team when, even when it's close, even when it's 1v1s, that they're still 02:44:05.680 --> 02:44:08.180 feeling like they're the favorites. 02:44:08.180 --> 02:44:13.740 It seems to be the million dollar question of how do you be phase, not just for W7M fluxo, 02:44:13.740 --> 02:44:18.540 but for really any team out there will have to see it all put in practice on map one of 02:44:18.540 --> 02:44:23.140 this mess of three, Night Haven Labs to take us through it, beautiful here by the beach 02:44:23.140 --> 02:44:27.340 and the sunlight, which is exactly where we are at in real life. 02:44:27.340 --> 02:44:29.540 I'll leave you with that note. 02:44:29.540 --> 02:44:31.140 Link, Mr. Turka, take it away. 02:44:31.140 --> 02:44:36.020 Yeah, hopefully the sun will shine on whatever team you, the audience member, yes, you 02:44:36.020 --> 02:44:37.020 specifically. 02:44:37.020 --> 02:44:42.060 the sun shines on me, whichever team you want to win. I don't say which one. I don't know who you are, 02:44:42.060 --> 02:44:46.540 or even if you have a favorite in this matchup, it's okay not to. But Ollie, I think we can both 02:44:46.540 --> 02:44:50.300 agree that FaZe Clan are probably objectively the favorites going in for all of the reasons we 02:44:50.300 --> 02:44:54.140 have said, but all right, I'm just gonna drop what I'm about to say. We have a solid snake 02:44:54.140 --> 02:45:02.060 band out the gate. Yeah, it's at a quarantine, should we say? Yeah, it can be banned, 02:45:02.060 --> 02:45:07.980 of course in competitive and I think that that shows just how powerful Solid Snake can be. 02:45:08.860 --> 02:45:14.620 And that being said, if actually mine back six months ago, 12 months ago when Solid Snake wasn't 02:45:14.620 --> 02:45:19.020 a thing and you start wondering well you know if we if we cast our minds into the future and we 02:45:19.020 --> 02:45:23.340 think oh we're gonna actually get a free attacker pick inside of you know when the next attacker 02:45:23.340 --> 02:45:28.540 releases does that make the attack more more powerful? Yes absolutely it does. You are now 02:45:28.540 --> 02:45:32.620 unlimited. You can play things like a Monty. You can play things like a Glass. Phase one, 02:45:32.620 --> 02:45:36.140 two, one. Championships without a solid snake. I don't think that they're going to be stressing 02:45:36.140 --> 02:45:42.220 it that they are banned, but just further adds in to how strong the attack can be at the moment. 02:45:42.220 --> 02:45:47.180 Faze themselves have chose to ban a good deal of denial, as is the way, typically, 02:45:47.180 --> 02:45:49.820 on Night Haven lives. You're going to want to get rid of your bandits. You want to get 02:45:49.820 --> 02:45:54.060 rid of your Cades. You want to give yourself an easy time opening these walls because 02:45:54.060 --> 02:45:58.860 You don't always want to bring in dedicated Harbreech, or at least in school Harbreech. 02:45:58.860 --> 02:46:04.780 You want to bring in tin openers and maybe one primary breacher, and different games, different bands, 02:46:04.780 --> 02:46:07.340 depending on who that is going to be this time. 02:46:07.340 --> 02:46:11.820 Maybe Cyber, Rocking the Ace, a couple of secondaries on both KDS and Taptile, 02:46:11.820 --> 02:46:13.820 and the Kitter King on that Monty. 02:46:15.980 --> 02:46:20.380 And Vittac King and Monty, a classic combination at this point that I think every viewer is 02:46:20.380 --> 02:46:25.020 pretty well acquainted with just a powerful tool in their arsenal that also teams will expect but 02:46:25.020 --> 02:46:30.780 still something you have to consider. Cyber not having the uh solid snake he's been using 02:46:30.780 --> 02:46:35.020 the best some of the best the ones we've seen in kickoff so far well definitely not be great but not 02:46:35.020 --> 02:46:38.460 be the worst thing because i think kind of similar to the point you're making earlier there are 02:46:38.460 --> 02:46:43.100 different iteration of it you know cybers been playing lurking attackers without the solid pump 02:46:43.100 --> 02:46:47.180 scanner and then one of the best players in the world without it so define yourself in 02:46:47.180 --> 02:46:52.700 comfortable positions using all of these cell nose swords if you get near the round and then just walking around with an AK-12 after that 02:46:52.700 --> 02:46:59.540 Tandy, who got a lift mark trackers in hand though, will likely try to put some pressure on anybody playing around this mirror window that you see 02:46:59.540 --> 02:47:06.720 Dodez playing behind or anybody playing around the B-bomb chassis, which I believe is Kahn's, it's likely going to revolve around those pressure 02:47:06.720 --> 02:47:12.320 points and where Vita King can maybe break through and push any defenders back into Handy's line of fire. 02:47:12.320 --> 02:47:13.320 there. 02:47:13.320 --> 02:47:18.000 Both teams have very good recent records on this map. 02:47:18.000 --> 02:47:23.120 Again, I know that I gave the benefit of the Alts of FaZe coming into it, but you can't ignore 02:47:23.120 --> 02:47:25.240 recent performance. 02:47:25.240 --> 02:47:29.360 Both Fluxo and FaZe have had very good successes on Nighthaven, on the inside of kickoff. 02:47:29.360 --> 02:47:30.360 It's King. 02:47:30.360 --> 02:47:33.640 He'll be dealing with a little bit of barbed wire here as he tries to get himself in 02:47:33.640 --> 02:47:34.640 onto catwalk. 02:47:34.640 --> 02:47:36.160 He will of course have the Azami to deal with. 02:47:36.160 --> 02:47:40.200 One of the downsides of prioritizing getting the walls open is that you are going to 02:47:40.200 --> 02:47:41.200 leave an Azami open. 02:47:41.200 --> 02:47:45.440 That is going to be played inside of Catwalk with the conjunction of the mirror window. 02:47:45.440 --> 02:47:49.440 It makes a bit of a labyrinth, though Soxic Babecast is certainly going to slow down and 02:47:49.440 --> 02:47:55.200 it's going to try now. KDS will make his way in from below and he tries to deal with some 02:47:55.200 --> 02:47:59.520 of those keyboard barricades and assist Vittacan clear the path, so to speak. 02:48:00.080 --> 02:48:03.520 Control so far for FaZe is looking good. They've got themselves into warehouse, 02:48:03.520 --> 02:48:08.720 have IT breach open and they've still got 50 seconds, pacing as expected at the moment 02:48:08.720 --> 02:48:11.280 and Fluxo, they're dropping off at the right times as well. 02:48:11.280 --> 02:48:13.280 They've dropped them in the windows to lean back into. 02:48:13.280 --> 02:48:15.680 They can afford to just play a little bit further from the back, 02:48:15.680 --> 02:48:18.000 but that opening here from the side up could change things. 02:48:19.440 --> 02:48:22.480 It's down in the process, but FaZe is flooding to the side afterwards. 02:48:22.480 --> 02:48:24.560 Solz with two, pushing on through the smoke. 02:48:24.560 --> 02:48:26.640 Go does can confirm the kill onto the down ace, 02:48:26.640 --> 02:48:29.280 so it's only a slim advantage for FaZe Clan, 02:48:29.280 --> 02:48:32.560 but one in which they take control of the ace site, at least directly. 02:48:32.560 --> 02:48:36.400 So opportunities for dots or Polly who can test. 02:48:36.400 --> 02:48:40.140 He's got KDS crossing, just tucked on the opposite side of the doorway. 02:48:40.140 --> 02:48:43.360 Dots with a shotgun will find a third kill of a Flux, so W7M. 02:48:43.360 --> 02:48:46.160 Whereas there's coverage, and Vidic King gets the diffuser down. 02:48:46.160 --> 02:48:47.800 Got a full shield on the Monty. 02:48:47.800 --> 02:48:52.700 Knowing Pekrinades, it's low HP, but Vidic King has been in this position so many times. 02:48:52.700 --> 02:48:56.200 I've seen him do it on this exact site in particular. 02:48:56.200 --> 02:49:01.800 Surely he'll be able to pull Dots back deeper and deeper into the site to season for a second. 02:49:01.800 --> 02:49:05.000 Peppering him with shots so close. 02:49:05.000 --> 02:49:08.360 Just one more bullet necessary, just spot the feed. 02:49:08.360 --> 02:49:12.960 He's wishing he had an impact grenade right about now, but does he find them? 02:49:12.960 --> 02:49:14.640 Yes, he does. 02:49:14.640 --> 02:49:20.060 In ace for dots, Vidikings succeeded so many times with that exact play. 02:49:20.060 --> 02:49:23.840 And yet in round one of Nighthaven, he makes a rare falter. 02:49:25.240 --> 02:49:27.280 It's never easy as the Monty. 02:49:27.280 --> 02:49:28.880 You've just got to try and hold on. 02:49:28.880 --> 02:49:30.480 And it's all about positioning. 02:49:30.480 --> 02:49:32.920 It's all about which way you are looking. 02:49:32.920 --> 02:49:34.840 And as that shield gets bashed away, 02:49:34.840 --> 02:49:40.580 You have to be ready to correct it and to counter the movement that that is going to inflict on your character. 02:49:41.080 --> 02:49:45.280 Vittor King, as you mentioned, uncharacteristically, isn't able to get it done. 02:49:45.280 --> 02:49:50.560 I was looking up at the time there and I was thinking this is a long time to be playing that game because it is very difficult. 02:49:50.560 --> 02:49:54.520 It's very stressful and it's obviously super high stakes. 02:49:55.160 --> 02:49:56.440 Defenders, protect your bombs. 02:49:56.440 --> 02:50:00.900 They did a decent job of getting the plant down, but Dots was just unstoppable. 02:50:00.900 --> 02:50:07.900 A full 5 kills, a full 8 for them in round number 1, set Fluxo off to a flying start. 02:50:07.900 --> 02:50:11.900 He misses only one of those, it's a very different outcome. 02:50:11.900 --> 02:50:20.900 As it stands, Fluxo W7M can go downstairs into the basement and continue or start a little bit of a sight rotation here. 02:50:20.900 --> 02:50:27.900 They start going to feel too hard going to, they've lost round number 1 but a planted diffuser should be around that you are converting. 02:50:27.900 --> 02:50:32.900 You can't fault the Monty for being the sole survivor in such a close course of engagement. 02:50:32.900 --> 02:50:37.900 Just having to try and hold on and being unable to do so isn't really Wittekings fault. 02:50:38.900 --> 02:50:43.900 No, it's like, that's the thing. It's objectively something quite difficult to do, especially on the HP. 02:50:43.900 --> 02:50:46.900 It's more suppressive that Vittekang wins those more often than not. 02:50:46.900 --> 02:50:51.900 And it's excellent work for Dots. Ace out of the gate. See a lot of aces in the games you and I have cast. 02:50:51.900 --> 02:50:55.900 I think that's the third ace you've casted in the past few days. 02:50:55.900 --> 02:50:59.340 Always mix the games a bit more entertaining. 02:50:59.340 --> 02:51:01.820 Down to the basement. 02:51:01.820 --> 02:51:05.260 It's a shield introduction by FaZe. 02:51:05.260 --> 02:51:08.260 Alright, well, that'll be it. 02:51:08.260 --> 02:51:12.540 So we've got a bit of a tech pause going on. 02:51:12.540 --> 02:51:16.740 It's going to say, see if we have an introduction of a shield into the line-up, but a much different kind. 02:51:16.740 --> 02:51:20.020 So I've had a king on the Monty in the first round, and a black beard, the more 02:51:20.020 --> 02:51:24.060 aggressive iteration of the shield to scour on, but we'll have to wait a little bit longer 02:51:24.060 --> 02:51:30.980 Before we see what exactly phase or flux or W7M had in store keep in mind. It was a basement defense 02:51:31.380 --> 02:51:34.220 So lobin roaming around on the top floor big shock. I know 02:51:34.980 --> 02:51:41.100 But it seemed to be that Ali that a flexor W7M were going for something more spread out in light of switching at the basement 02:51:42.180 --> 02:51:47.760 Yeah, I think they're gonna be feeling a bit more confident to spread their wings a little bit top floor of night 02:51:47.760 --> 02:51:49.760 of the tree when it comes to 02:51:49.760 --> 02:51:51.760 teams inside of siege. It's 02:51:51.760 --> 02:51:53.760 always going to turn into quite 02:51:53.760 --> 02:51:56.760 a techy bomb site. Whereas the 02:51:56.760 --> 02:51:57.760 basement you maybe get a little 02:51:57.760 --> 02:51:59.760 bit more room to breathe. Sure, 02:51:59.760 --> 02:52:00.760 you can go for a very horizontal 02:52:00.760 --> 02:52:02.760 approach and try and just open 02:52:02.760 --> 02:52:03.760 up breaches and make something 02:52:03.760 --> 02:52:04.760 happen from there, but 02:52:04.760 --> 02:52:05.760 typically it involves much more 02:52:05.760 --> 02:52:07.760 of a full map clear or at least 02:52:07.760 --> 02:52:09.760 a half map player to get 02:52:09.760 --> 02:52:10.760 a little bit more room to 02:52:10.760 --> 02:52:11.760 breathe. So it's going to 02:52:11.760 --> 02:52:12.760 be a little bit more room to 02:52:12.760 --> 02:52:13.760 breathe. So it's going to 02:52:13.760 --> 02:52:14.760 be a little bit more room to 02:52:14.760 --> 02:52:15.760 breathe. So it's going to 02:52:15.760 --> 02:52:19.760 to get that same level of 02:52:19.760 --> 02:52:21.760 space afforded to you. Especially 02:52:21.760 --> 02:52:22.760 with the mirror window open, you 02:52:22.760 --> 02:52:23.760 are just going to be staring at 02:52:23.760 --> 02:52:25.760 a mirror window. If you open that 02:52:25.760 --> 02:52:26.760 breach and that's not something 02:52:26.760 --> 02:52:28.760 that any attacker really wants to 02:52:28.760 --> 02:52:30.760 have to deal with. I want to get 02:52:30.760 --> 02:52:31.760 apologize. Unfortunately, we did 02:52:31.760 --> 02:52:33.760 lose the place, so we will be 02:52:33.760 --> 02:52:35.760 looking to round them back up 02:52:35.760 --> 02:52:36.760 and force them back into the 02:52:36.760 --> 02:52:38.760 lobby so that we can continue 02:52:38.760 --> 02:52:40.760 and can hear players joining in 02:52:40.760 --> 02:52:43.760 my as well. So we certainly 02:52:43.760 --> 02:52:49.320 from that. But as good a start as Fluxo W7M could hope for in this matchup. And of course, 02:52:49.320 --> 02:52:53.160 these players, they're not too bothered about it being FaZe. They just want to get in there 02:52:53.160 --> 02:52:58.040 and get the job done. They will play up against whoever it may be. And it is just a byproduct 02:52:58.040 --> 02:53:02.800 of being inside of SAO domestically that you do get to play against some of the best 02:53:02.800 --> 02:53:06.840 teams in the world on an almost week to week basis. So they're going to be more 02:53:06.840 --> 02:53:09.240 than familiar with dealing with this opponent. 02:53:09.240 --> 02:53:15.580 phase on the flip side. It's got a little bit of time to reflect and get into round number 02:53:15.580 --> 02:53:17.860 two as fit as it can be. 02:53:17.860 --> 02:53:25.220 What you can imagine they will, I mean these players have been in similar positions for 02:53:25.220 --> 02:53:32.060 quite a long time together, both online and in person. Imagine they'll take this opportunity 02:53:32.060 --> 02:53:36.660 to reflect just as you said, especially since you know the concert got highlighted 02:53:36.660 --> 02:53:40.500 as you know the 10 game win streak that phaser on since boston last year but as 02:53:40.500 --> 02:53:44.500 ollie you mentioned as well it's not a map that's poor for phase whatsoever 02:53:44.500 --> 02:53:48.580 and south hollow is way in our rear view nearer at this point 02:53:48.580 --> 02:53:51.860 the checkered history at one time at phase head on night haven is 02:53:51.860 --> 02:53:57.940 long long long past it is still a seventh map preference for him which 02:53:57.940 --> 02:54:01.860 is kind of worth bearing in mind and i know that it is a hell of a long 02:54:01.860 --> 02:54:05.460 time ago but you can't help but think about when you see phase playing 02:54:05.460 --> 02:54:12.020 this map you can't help but think back to that iconic map. It does rear its head in your mind's eye 02:54:12.020 --> 02:54:17.060 sort of thing and you can only think it does similar things for the players. So if a Fluxo is top 02:54:17.060 --> 02:54:21.860 pref, it is their most preferred map but there are only five and five on it so you can kind of 02:54:21.860 --> 02:54:25.780 take from that what you will. I would then throw that into being you know a very middle of the 02:54:25.780 --> 02:54:31.380 pack preference or at least middle of the pack performance map for them. I probably agree 02:54:31.380 --> 02:54:34.920 with that as well I mean especially in terms of performance like even if they 02:54:34.920 --> 02:54:38.360 prefer it a lot if it's a bit inconsistent sometimes you have that 02:54:38.360 --> 02:54:42.840 weird thing I remember I heard I never heard Nick talk about this like years 02:54:42.840 --> 02:54:47.220 ago I think it was on a stream about how they'd be playing in scrims and they'd 02:54:47.220 --> 02:54:49.140 be like we're most comfortable on this map we're most comfortable on this 02:54:49.140 --> 02:54:51.640 map and then they look at the stats it's like oh wait we actually suck on 02:54:51.640 --> 02:54:56.000 this like like sometimes sometimes those two things aren't always the same 02:54:56.000 --> 02:54:58.800 thing and Nick's point was a different one the one I'm making right now 02:54:58.800 --> 02:55:01.240 but it's like even if you have like kind of just an okay record on the 02:55:01.240 --> 02:55:05.320 map. If it's the place you feel most comfortable, like that can be entirely independent of your 02:55:05.320 --> 02:55:09.240 actual record on it, and that's worth keeping in mind. You obviously have to approach the other 02:55:09.240 --> 02:55:14.680 issue, but especially in recent history, bringing in somebody new, especially a new IGL, as well 02:55:14.680 --> 02:55:19.160 as Jesse mentioned, is trying to implement a new system. If one roster change has got to be made, 02:55:19.160 --> 02:55:23.080 that can trip things up. It's got to be the IGL change, and so it might be their top preference, 02:55:23.080 --> 02:55:28.120 but of course, things can always take a little bit of work to iron out whenever you make 02:55:28.120 --> 02:55:32.960 important change like that. Back into the game though. So reminder it is 1-0 for 02:55:32.960 --> 02:55:37.360 Fluxo W7M at the moment. They defended second floor, command and server. It 02:55:37.360 --> 02:55:40.280 seemed like Faze were getting very good momentum and pressuring the site quite 02:55:40.280 --> 02:55:45.080 effectively. Then Fluxo W7M made a late rotate and Dots in particular ended up 02:55:45.080 --> 02:55:47.960 acquiring an ace over the course of that round, but particularly in the 02:55:47.960 --> 02:55:51.640 latter half giving Fluxo W7M their first victory. Now we go down to 02:55:51.640 --> 02:55:55.200 basement for Fluxo W7M. We're initially running a pretty wide and 02:55:55.200 --> 02:55:58.600 expansive role and face clan ran a blackboard we didn't know what else they 02:55:58.600 --> 02:56:01.640 had in mind beyond that 02:56:02.480 --> 02:56:09.360 well the run the blackbait again so at least get to see that in play rather 02:56:09.360 --> 02:56:15.000 we run with this alliance as well we've got the okay are we gonna be rocking 02:56:15.000 --> 02:56:18.960 that it should be some really good information there that you couldn't 02:56:18.960 --> 02:56:22.600 use to assist some of the more lurking walls that you're gonna get 02:56:22.600 --> 02:56:27.640 into all that mid-floor. The mirror window for me is just really something that can't 02:56:27.640 --> 02:56:32.040 be ignored though and I like the change from Bitski and Goff the day most onto that ramp. 02:56:33.320 --> 02:56:43.160 Vertical control is paramount in phase clan. They obviously feel the same trifecta of soft breach. 02:56:43.160 --> 02:56:46.840 They've got the sledge, they've got the buck, they've also brought the ramp. 02:56:46.840 --> 02:56:51.240 They are going to leave no stone unturned when it comes to ricken open this floor 02:56:51.240 --> 02:56:56.940 because they know that with the mirror windows in play, it's going to be so difficult just to flat press onto sides. 02:56:58.440 --> 02:57:01.040 Equally, those mirror windows could be being used upstairs. 02:57:01.040 --> 02:57:04.640 I don't actually recall seeing where they've been placed just as of yet. 02:57:04.940 --> 02:57:07.540 The Fluxo players are spread far and wide. 02:57:08.340 --> 02:57:12.940 We've got players as far as kitchen, upstairs inside of control, venting stairs. 02:57:12.940 --> 02:57:15.340 There's a reasonable spread at the moment. 02:57:15.340 --> 02:57:19.780 now maybe leaving themselves in a position where getting the trade off isn't 02:57:19.780 --> 02:57:22.340 going to be the easiest thing in the world. 02:57:22.340 --> 02:57:26.340 Okubiko coming through, and they want to get forward to fight back as well. 02:57:26.340 --> 02:57:28.340 Great kill there from KDS. 02:57:28.340 --> 02:57:31.340 Off the back of the Okubiko, Lobin just feeling the pressure 02:57:31.340 --> 02:57:33.340 and trying to make that rotation back down. 02:57:33.340 --> 02:57:35.340 Cyber, he's such a good spot now. 02:57:35.340 --> 02:57:38.340 We'll spot the Yokadron and we'll be able to take it out. 02:57:38.340 --> 02:57:40.340 Further chipping away the information. 02:57:40.340 --> 02:57:43.340 Dots tries to make good off the back of that Intel. 02:57:43.340 --> 02:57:47.500 the pilot was feeding him, but he's only able to do so. 02:57:47.500 --> 02:57:48.660 Unfortunately, no more aids for him. 02:57:48.660 --> 02:57:49.380 And this go around. 02:57:49.380 --> 02:57:53.820 Cyber straight into the fray in round two. 02:57:53.820 --> 02:57:56.380 KDS waiting outside, holding a cutoff position, 02:57:56.380 --> 02:57:59.220 but moving into the building just from Aqua Stairs. 02:57:59.220 --> 02:58:03.500 It's a clean double kill. 02:58:03.500 --> 02:58:05.260 Conson Dode has in a difficult position right now. 02:58:05.260 --> 02:58:06.660 The latter still upstairs. 02:58:06.660 --> 02:58:09.460 Dopey called those out, but I was about to say it. 02:58:09.460 --> 02:58:11.340 Mainly because they're focused on different positions, 02:58:11.340 --> 02:58:12.700 especially with the boogie drone. 02:58:12.700 --> 02:58:17.300 They are not going to be able to hear that call ringing in the Azami's pocket from across the map. 02:58:17.300 --> 02:58:21.700 C4 goes out trying to maybe gamble on something, but won't find it. 02:58:21.700 --> 02:58:25.300 A minute ten seconds phase have to work with, with five bodies left alive. 02:58:25.300 --> 02:58:28.300 The Dota's deals quite a bit of damage to KDS. 02:58:28.300 --> 02:58:31.500 That's something to consider, does a lot of damage to Cyber as well. 02:58:31.500 --> 02:58:37.300 Huge amount of fight luck in this Azami and going down to keep us away, ready to keep it moving. 02:58:37.300 --> 02:58:42.500 Fully secondary, but once they realize that the Azami's up top, they realize it's quite empty on the site. 02:58:42.500 --> 02:58:44.180 Good for the trade though. 02:58:44.180 --> 02:58:49.700 This was a 5v2 and now all Dota's needs is just two more kills. 02:58:49.700 --> 02:58:51.260 So good with that second area of the car. 02:58:51.260 --> 02:58:53.260 FaZe watching. 02:58:53.260 --> 02:58:54.140 This position's been revealed. 02:58:54.140 --> 02:58:55.500 But he'll dodge that flashbang through the road. 02:58:55.500 --> 02:58:56.540 J. Cole gets ahead. 02:58:56.540 --> 02:58:57.040 But no! 02:58:57.040 --> 02:58:59.340 Vita King ready for it. 02:58:59.340 --> 02:59:01.420 FaZe tied the game early. 02:59:01.420 --> 02:59:06.260 But it was scary how well W7M were fighting back. 02:59:06.260 --> 02:59:09.220 Started to fall apart quite quickly there, didn't it? 02:59:09.220 --> 02:59:11.180 It was a little bit reminiscent of what 02:59:11.180 --> 02:59:21.580 We saw maybe inside of round number one as well where kills and the early advantage definitely goes phases way, but Fluxo have got that fight in them to keep things close. 02:59:22.700 --> 02:59:32.380 He's just having too much time to work with there. And I think that's in part due to how quickly they were able to move through that opening portion of the round. The Rome game, it just fell apart, didn't it? 02:59:32.380 --> 02:59:37.020 It was exactly as we predicted it was the yokai being played upstairs to try and assist those romas 02:59:37.020 --> 02:59:39.520 But they were not in position to be traded 02:59:39.520 --> 02:59:46.320 They were playing just a little bit too disconnected from one another and they needed a better link than just the yokai drone on its own 02:59:46.400 --> 02:59:48.840 Because as soon as you got cyber walking down those feet 02:59:48.840 --> 02:59:51.440 I mean the damage was all almost done to be fair by that point 02:59:51.440 --> 02:59:56.940 But cyber walking down the fish stairs and giving the kill on spots was it was a really big moment in that round 02:59:56.940 --> 02:59:58.940 So great job from FaZe 02:59:58.940 --> 03:00:04.340 phase. They need our sort of commendation for a good job on the Rome clear, but it's 03:00:04.340 --> 03:00:09.460 worth highlighting nonetheless, and toward the mid-floor we go now for round number three. 03:00:09.460 --> 03:00:16.220 Look so. Still going for this sort of mirror window and C4 lineup, but I'd maybe like to 03:00:16.220 --> 03:00:19.580 see them double down on it a little bit more. Obviously, Collins is going to try and play 03:00:19.580 --> 03:00:23.300 from below, and I imagine he's going to reinforce downstairs as well to give him 03:00:23.300 --> 03:00:28.100 that little bit of surety, or at least in the meantime he's going to be just inside 03:00:28.100 --> 03:00:31.800 of storage but he does have the hatch open so you can only assume that that is 03:00:31.800 --> 03:00:35.840 set up ready for him to go down there. The things are going to know exactly how they 03:00:35.840 --> 03:00:38.760 want to try and deal with that. 03:00:41.760 --> 03:00:45.880 I have a pretty good idea at least. It's been the first half of this round looking 03:00:45.880 --> 03:00:49.760 to put that plan into action though one drone quickly spotted as they see Logan 03:00:49.760 --> 03:00:53.400 swinging out to the Z-Hallway. He's checking that window he's not dying 03:00:53.400 --> 03:00:58.800 this time. Oh, but I've got to check another one in front of garage where there is actually 03:00:58.800 --> 03:01:06.000 somebody but nobody actively holding the angle. So I'll rotate back into site. 03:01:06.000 --> 03:01:09.880 The zombie in play always makes this position so much easier to defend. That and the mirror 03:01:09.880 --> 03:01:12.960 that you mentioned earlier though, it's the Kivas that are doing the heavy lifting 03:01:12.960 --> 03:01:18.800 for fortifying garage and upper garage specifically for flux RW7M. 03:01:18.800 --> 03:01:22.520 These dots continues to make some vertical holes into the late round. Good information 03:01:22.520 --> 03:01:29.640 spotted on the ramp, not in a position to really use that C4 quite effectively. 03:01:29.640 --> 03:01:34.040 Oh, but look at that information! Directly on the low bend hand, he walks around the corner, 03:01:34.040 --> 03:01:38.920 but Dott's creeping up, getting aggressive. Not only finds one, but that and another put 03:01:38.920 --> 03:01:43.080 Fluxo W7M in the lead and where it seemed like FaZe might be able to hit the site quick. 03:01:43.080 --> 03:01:46.760 It's Fluxo W7M who are basically holding all of their pre-existing positions. 03:01:47.880 --> 03:01:51.960 Especially the fact that they've still got the sub-stars hold in full tact. 03:01:51.960 --> 03:01:55.880 There's still 3 players up here. It's going to make it even more difficult to move in. 03:01:55.880 --> 03:02:01.180 Handy somehow has managed to find a little bit of space to get the flank down, but he will be stopped in the process. 03:02:01.180 --> 03:02:06.420 Paolo's going to find one onto Vita King. That's his Q to call. He's now going to drop off onto the site. 03:02:06.420 --> 03:02:09.180 And there's still information for Fluxo to work with. 03:02:10.880 --> 03:02:15.700 Two kills. I was about to say, two kills could go Handy's way. Maybe the second ace? No, not today. Paolo... 03:02:15.700 --> 03:02:19.880 I'm pretty easily dealing with that one. Just plays for the trade. His Handy's got too many angles to check. 03:02:19.880 --> 03:02:24.320 Tip for tat game at the moment on Night Haven Lambs but having won the first 03:02:24.320 --> 03:02:28.520 flux of W7M still in the lead they will have the benefit and the advantage of 03:02:28.520 --> 03:02:32.440 being able to go back to Command Center where they started it off. 03:02:32.880 --> 03:02:37.560 What do we see? Do we see the mirror band or do we see the Azami band? It's got to be the Azami band right? 03:02:37.560 --> 03:02:39.920 The Azami band is a little bit like yeah I'm not too bothered about the 03:02:39.920 --> 03:02:43.440 Attacker band that can kind of be whatever but I think the mirror or the Azami is the 03:02:43.440 --> 03:02:45.440 big one here. 03:02:45.440 --> 03:02:47.440 Really the Mira? 03:02:47.440 --> 03:02:49.440 Honestly, I back it because the 03:02:49.440 --> 03:02:51.440 Azami can be dealt with. 03:02:51.440 --> 03:02:53.440 You know, you're just going to play a Flora, you're just going to play DMR. 03:02:53.440 --> 03:02:55.440 I mean, people play DMRs anyway. 03:02:55.440 --> 03:02:57.440 Yeah, that's a good point. 03:02:57.440 --> 03:02:59.440 I think you've still got the Shield, 03:02:59.440 --> 03:03:01.440 which is a big boon for 03:03:01.440 --> 03:03:03.440 Victor King because we know that he likes to play 03:03:03.440 --> 03:03:05.440 on that Monty where, given the chance, 03:03:05.440 --> 03:03:07.440 you've got the ability to deal 03:03:07.440 --> 03:03:09.440 with those 03:03:09.440 --> 03:03:11.440 team barricades. 03:03:11.440 --> 03:03:15.080 I didn't say it's carousel because I just thought you could use the ex-carousel as well. 03:03:15.080 --> 03:03:19.720 Maybe that's where the souls are coming in instead of the ace because you can still assist 03:03:19.720 --> 03:03:23.280 to get the wall open and then you've got another way of dealing with those keeber barricades. 03:03:23.280 --> 03:03:25.400 But we're saying all this links. 03:03:25.400 --> 03:03:26.880 Azami isn't even in play. 03:03:26.880 --> 03:03:29.560 It's like you've gone, oh, you've taken away the mirror, fine. 03:03:29.560 --> 03:03:31.360 We won't play the Azami either. 03:03:31.360 --> 03:03:34.640 Like, full dummy out of the pram sort of job. 03:03:34.640 --> 03:03:39.680 Well, it's also funny because, again, talking about kind of last map on bank, how Azami was banned 03:03:39.680 --> 03:03:43.820 and so Hates brought Oomai to play the position on CEO of the Azami normally plays. 03:03:43.820 --> 03:03:48.240 Dota is also on Oomai. He's just decided, well, I don't play Azami so I'll 03:03:48.240 --> 03:03:49.520 play something that is 03:03:49.520 --> 03:03:53.360 a general ballpark kind of approximation of, you know, something that allows you to 03:03:53.360 --> 03:03:54.920 hold the power position. 03:03:54.920 --> 03:03:57.140 It's kind of funny how that works. 03:03:57.140 --> 03:03:59.480 But to your point, 03:03:59.480 --> 03:04:02.180 you can just bring DMRs 03:04:02.180 --> 03:04:04.760 because of how common they are. 03:04:04.760 --> 03:04:05.800 Magnets as well. 03:04:05.800 --> 03:04:08.620 Just varies things up nicely though. I will say dots. 03:04:08.620 --> 03:04:10.080 ran it 03:04:10.080 --> 03:04:12.940 when they were defending the site last time so it's just changed hands more than 03:04:12.940 --> 03:04:15.980 anything instead they brought in the clash 03:04:15.980 --> 03:04:18.700 and part of the reason i'll policy now that i think about it 03:04:18.700 --> 03:04:20.980 i wonder if the reason they didn't bring the key was is that they might have a 03:04:20.980 --> 03:04:21.780 clash 03:04:21.780 --> 03:04:26.540 we want one of the clout of the clashing 03:04:26.540 --> 03:04:30.180 i think they would i don't think they would have a do that 03:04:30.180 --> 03:04:35.620 you could do i guess but maybe they just try to keep i t a little bit more 03:04:35.620 --> 03:04:40.420 in in their control and not sort of give it away the key was a great for a bit of a retake and like I wonder where you are and 03:04:40.420 --> 03:04:42.260 and force a little bit of drone work 03:04:42.260 --> 03:04:46.540 if we've got a little bit of play inside of IT as it stands with the clash 03:04:46.540 --> 03:04:50.100 it's gonna force a reaction and the reaction is the Kali of course Kali is gonna 03:04:50.100 --> 03:04:51.380 assist getting the 03:04:51.380 --> 03:04:54.700 the clash dealt with in some way so 03:04:54.700 --> 03:04:57.800 I can see the balance it's a very fine 03:04:57.800 --> 03:05:01.660 tuned balance though 03:05:01.660 --> 03:05:03.220 the problem with the clash is that 03:05:03.220 --> 03:05:04.500 you really have to 03:05:04.500 --> 03:05:09.660 do something to try and move that. KDS's utility is going to be under even more scrutiny now 03:05:09.660 --> 03:05:11.500 as well. 03:05:11.500 --> 03:05:17.060 I'll just be playing inside a pillar, he's got a nice long angle there to work with as 03:05:17.060 --> 03:05:18.060 well. 03:05:18.060 --> 03:05:20.940 Some of these laser gates aren't going to slow down but it's just going to force a 03:05:20.940 --> 03:05:23.140 little bit of utility to be used. 03:05:23.140 --> 03:05:28.220 Those are arrows from KDS and the start off with the smoke but it is enough to at 03:05:28.220 --> 03:05:32.500 least for the time being reposition dots on this clash. 03:05:32.500 --> 03:05:34.700 Dronework is quite heavy though. 03:05:35.900 --> 03:05:37.860 Phases have got a really good handle of IT 03:05:37.860 --> 03:05:40.380 and a great idea of what's going on in Connector, 03:05:40.380 --> 03:05:42.580 but they are yet to take significant ground. 03:05:44.580 --> 03:05:45.660 That's what I was just thinking. 03:05:45.660 --> 03:05:48.460 Clash is able to rotate, constantly keep Phase at bay. 03:05:50.660 --> 03:05:52.860 Excuse me, electrify cyber outside of the breach as well. 03:05:52.860 --> 03:05:54.220 Souls finds one with the Cali 03:05:54.220 --> 03:05:56.740 and it's ironically not the Clash. 03:05:56.740 --> 03:05:58.740 Somebody else playing around the pillar position. 03:05:58.740 --> 03:06:01.700 Wow, Dots planted a shield, gets one, 03:06:01.700 --> 03:06:11.360 W7M Fluxo. Solid man advantage. Moving into this late round. Seems emblematic of 03:06:11.360 --> 03:06:14.460 phases issues. They have this Cali. They're trying to hunt down the clash but 03:06:14.460 --> 03:06:18.480 second of the earlier pick, they are just stuck outside these walls, outside these 03:06:18.480 --> 03:06:23.060 angles. Nothing is really going their way at the moment. So try to push deeper but 03:06:23.060 --> 03:06:27.460 the clash just plants her feet and Solz is firing blind using a sniper at 03:06:27.460 --> 03:06:28.740 at close quarters. 03:06:28.740 --> 03:06:31.340 Lowman's able to piece them both up. 03:06:31.340 --> 03:06:33.260 And so for the third time, it feels like 03:06:33.260 --> 03:06:36.220 after a set of engagements, Bazar, again, 03:06:36.220 --> 03:06:40.100 completely stunted outside of the site. 03:06:40.100 --> 03:06:42.100 Only three rounds for Fluxo, W7M, 03:06:42.100 --> 03:06:44.540 and all likelihood, as the Retrived Command Center 03:06:44.540 --> 03:06:47.020 doesn't require an ace or clutch of any kind. 03:06:48.660 --> 03:06:50.940 Fluxo, really good control of this top floor. 03:06:50.940 --> 03:06:53.140 It was the last time it came to the plant going down 03:06:53.140 --> 03:06:55.220 and they've been able to kill the Viteking 03:06:55.220 --> 03:06:56.860 on the shield this time. 03:06:56.860 --> 03:07:01.260 they also came down to an ace last time. So this time is far more convincing and it was a very 03:07:01.260 --> 03:07:06.860 different line landscape operator wise. And I just think that for all that you've removed the 03:07:06.860 --> 03:07:11.740 mirror and should have made things a little bit easier for you, forcing fluxo into the clash 03:07:11.740 --> 03:07:16.060 was kind of the undoing of the round because clash was able to very easily transition 03:07:16.060 --> 03:07:20.460 either between it breach and connector and just be where they were needed most where the 03:07:20.460 --> 03:07:26.380 most value was being able to be found out of that utility. Fluxo were very easily able 03:07:26.380 --> 03:07:31.420 to rotate that player around. I said it at the time and I'll say it again, they didn't really gain 03:07:31.420 --> 03:07:37.660 meaningful control of either rafters or connector. They were occupying it for a very brief time but 03:07:37.660 --> 03:07:43.260 it was for a gunfight that once it came they were losing those gunfights. So a little bit of 03:07:43.260 --> 03:07:47.500 action maybe on the on the fish side of things and just coming up with a third dimension 03:07:47.500 --> 03:07:51.900 to that attack could have been quite useful because that sort of pincer move that they 03:07:51.900 --> 03:07:53.900 they were attempting to pull off. 03:07:53.900 --> 03:07:56.060 Didn't really work out all too well. 03:07:56.060 --> 03:07:58.620 Fluxo now firmly in the driver's seat here 03:07:58.620 --> 03:08:00.580 on Nighthaven Labs and FaZe, 03:08:00.580 --> 03:08:04.660 our best attacking team inside of SAL at the moment, 03:08:04.660 --> 03:08:07.700 are looking, well, a little bit lackluster, 03:08:07.700 --> 03:08:10.620 having only won one out of the previous four rounds. 03:08:10.620 --> 03:08:11.940 Play, we're in the fifth round now, 03:08:11.940 --> 03:08:13.820 so there is chance here for them, 03:08:13.820 --> 03:08:14.780 but they're gonna need to pull out 03:08:14.780 --> 03:08:17.420 both of these round five and round six 03:08:17.420 --> 03:08:20.340 if you look to walk away with an even split. 03:08:20.340 --> 03:08:24.180 Worth pointing out by the way that Faze have also got every single opening pick so far this 03:08:24.180 --> 03:08:28.140 half or failed to convert it so many times and the reason you've seen this is massive 03:08:28.140 --> 03:08:30.540 counter swing from Fluxor W7M in the early game. 03:08:30.540 --> 03:08:34.780 The past two rounds Faze get the opening pick and immediately two Fluxor W7M players 03:08:34.780 --> 03:08:36.180 swing that two kills of their own. 03:08:36.180 --> 03:08:39.540 Makes it very difficult to get set up and get all your proper positions that Faze 03:08:39.540 --> 03:08:43.140 are so good at when Fluxor W7M are kind of doing what Jesse said which is take 03:08:43.140 --> 03:08:46.980 a page out of the old scrapbook and get it really active against Faze and never 03:08:46.980 --> 03:08:49.620 let them get quite comfortable even when they have an advantage. 03:08:49.620 --> 03:08:55.460 If you look at how that might apply to this round, like sure, you've got Dodez up top, 03:08:55.460 --> 03:08:59.940 you've got this clash moving around the middle, I mean even Lobin ratting in on the top floor. 03:08:59.940 --> 03:09:04.500 But even one of these positions can work. 03:09:04.500 --> 03:09:08.940 You've got a great chance at worst, burning a lot of time, and maybe even getting a flank 03:09:08.940 --> 03:09:12.140 kill or two, even if something else works for FaZe elsewhere. 03:09:12.140 --> 03:09:17.860 F-naught's going off, we'll stall Sol's entry into the kitchen just a little bit, 03:09:17.860 --> 03:09:21.340 tracing some of the steps the clash had walked just a few seconds prior it felt 03:09:21.340 --> 03:09:25.480 like but Polly's already dropped down the XO stairs and moved back towards the 03:09:25.480 --> 03:09:27.720 site. 03:09:30.820 --> 03:09:35.920 The opening kill conversation for phase isn't a new one either. It was an area 03:09:35.920 --> 03:09:39.560 that they kind of strolled with at SI a little bit regardless of the fact that 03:09:39.560 --> 03:09:43.780 they ended up winning the whole thing. It was still an area of a little bit of 03:09:43.780 --> 03:09:49.780 concern and just think it speaks to how well they can play but not always this 03:09:49.780 --> 03:09:54.820 class should be dead and will be Palu is gonna fall there either I need to go 03:09:54.820 --> 03:10:00.040 back on to all pretty much a three-way crossfire up at the top it's quite easily 03:10:00.040 --> 03:10:03.860 been dealt with exo stairs now in the hands of souls with that don't be 03:10:03.860 --> 03:10:07.420 called we should be able to give some fairly accurate information great 03:10:07.420 --> 03:10:10.740 kill there from cyber onto cons you can see the big difference but not 03:10:10.740 --> 03:10:15.180 in the mirror when Bill makes. They're so keen to just go towards side get that 03:10:15.180 --> 03:10:20.420 wall open and start to cut lines through it. Ores and Dots now in what seems like 03:10:20.420 --> 03:10:26.860 an impossible position the next 45 seconds. And Krabsflexer W7M spreading 03:10:26.860 --> 03:10:32.460 out just a little bit too much. Every single 1v1 not only ends in a phase 03:10:32.460 --> 03:10:37.540 victor but done in style. Some nasty shots hit by the phase clan squad 03:10:37.540 --> 03:10:42.340 throughout that round particularly by Vita King and Cyber. All just holding angles really. 03:10:42.340 --> 03:10:49.220 Cyber just sitting outside of the assembly breach holding that position gets two players 03:10:49.220 --> 03:10:52.580 towards the middle of the round and later in the round. Vita King does something quite similar 03:10:52.580 --> 03:10:59.220 on the top floor as well. Fluxo W7M taking a bit more spread out of an approach on basement and 03:11:00.500 --> 03:11:03.780 that not only does it not work out but especially with the loss of the mirror window the side 03:11:03.780 --> 03:11:08.940 is just a bit softer because of that operator taken out. However, it is the one-site phase, 03:11:08.940 --> 03:11:13.980 have one on the attacking side so far. Instortion control was where things started getting really 03:11:13.980 --> 03:11:18.580 problematic for phase because, you know, the first command set around is a 2v5, which 03:11:18.580 --> 03:11:22.980 is itself problematic, but hey, you know, those things happen. Who knows. But this 03:11:22.980 --> 03:11:27.660 is where the opening woes we saw in rounds three and four, and more specifically the 03:11:27.660 --> 03:11:33.420 very impressive recoveries by Flexor W7 and occurred in rounds 3 and 4 starting off on this site. 03:11:37.420 --> 03:11:42.700 Yeah they were really big focus on going for that sort of top down clear wasn't there previously 03:11:42.700 --> 03:11:47.740 when we saw this bomb site. You know that's likely going to be there at the game plan again. 03:11:49.100 --> 03:11:51.980 Yeah I'm going to need to be a little bit more careful about how they go about that. 03:11:51.980 --> 03:11:58.920 A very different line up to when we saw it previously as well, we've seen Striker and 03:11:58.920 --> 03:12:05.180 a Blackbeard previously this time, we've got Ram, we've got the Game Ox, a little bit of 03:12:05.180 --> 03:12:08.920 line action coming in there as well, so yeah, I'm going to be having to go for that full 03:12:08.920 --> 03:12:13.800 clear, opening up downstairs as well, just to delete the option for someone to lurk 03:12:13.800 --> 03:12:18.400 there with a C4, but a great bit of aggression shown from Lobin to take Vittor King down. 03:12:18.400 --> 03:12:26.700 If you're bringing the RAM and going for a top floor clear, well that is not gonna help things at all. No redundancy, no sledge, no book to try and back that up. 03:12:28.800 --> 03:12:38.100 Whereas War Might get opened, but this top floor hold is gonna be as strong as ever, especially given that there's no option to open up that soft floor. 03:12:38.100 --> 03:12:40.700 It's gonna make the site even more impenetrable. 03:12:40.700 --> 03:12:49.740 provide so much leeway deflection W7M and incurred with basically little cost 03:12:49.740 --> 03:12:54.060 lobin might be on reduced HP but happens within the first 20 seconds a 03:12:54.060 --> 03:12:58.820 minute in and I mean it's a bit too soon for phase claim to have recovered but 03:12:58.820 --> 03:13:02.620 just on paper it's gonna require something be something completely 03:13:02.620 --> 03:13:07.980 separate from verticality to make up for that loss you can even see right 03:13:07.980 --> 03:13:12.660 right now. Dota just can move around this site. Maybe Solz can open up the floorboards 03:13:12.660 --> 03:13:17.020 with some DMR, maybe take some targeted positions. But the best chance he's got at the moment 03:13:17.020 --> 03:13:21.180 is using these holes created by the defense. That one has a nice angle on a rotate, though. 03:13:21.180 --> 03:13:27.340 So that's nice at least, but Dota is able to find one. Lee does not slip away. Lee 03:13:27.340 --> 03:13:34.860 only grows, in fact. We still have a minute, 15 seconds left, might I add? And I mean, 03:13:34.860 --> 03:13:38.820 Cyber and Sol's got a clash in their way, they keep up the areas, making an entrance 03:13:38.820 --> 03:13:41.860 back into the game after being dropped up to around three. 03:13:41.860 --> 03:13:45.940 It's difficult to see what they might be able to do in this position. 03:13:45.940 --> 03:13:50.580 Flux with W7 and I've seen to get the better of them strategically on their defensive side, 03:13:50.580 --> 03:13:55.260 and now Cyber stuck in a two-way crossfire, I believe, through two different floors. 03:13:55.260 --> 03:13:59.420 And I think that just goes to solidify how difficult this was always going to be 03:13:59.420 --> 03:14:02.420 for FaZe after the initial loss of Viddicking. 03:14:02.420 --> 03:14:10.180 able to find one, digging around the 90 hallway, flashbang goes out, but has to reload, there'll be a brief moment for Loben to recover, 03:14:11.180 --> 03:14:13.900 let his eyes, eyesight come back, 03:14:14.780 --> 03:14:17.620 falling back deeper into the generator position. 03:14:17.900 --> 03:14:22.700 So, Cybert does have his cutoff covered, because of the breach he made earlier. 03:14:23.980 --> 03:14:25.420 So, he'll drop down the hatch, 03:14:26.060 --> 03:14:27.900 into the site, spotted by the VP. 03:14:28.940 --> 03:14:32.220 Only 17 seconds left in the clash, right in his face. 03:14:32.420 --> 03:14:42.420 Player down below, oh no, sorry, above with a C4, got a 1v2, but again with the clash in play, you see the impacts going out into the right spot, finally. 03:14:42.420 --> 03:14:48.420 And that should be the end of Cyber, and indeed, the end for FaZe Clan's hopes at coming out of this with a winning half. 03:14:48.420 --> 03:14:57.420 I really thought it was going to be where he's going to perish there to the slow and steady burn that is the clash electrics, but it wasn't to be... 03:14:57.420 --> 03:15:04.420 So, making a really good go of their first defensive phase here on Nighthaven Labs. 03:15:04.420 --> 03:15:10.420 It's one way of starting for them, especially given phases sort of prowess on the attack. 03:15:10.420 --> 03:15:15.420 I think you can be safe to assume that everyone was maybe expecting a little bit more from them, their links. 03:15:15.420 --> 03:15:18.420 I believe we're on our own for the halfway point this time. 03:15:18.420 --> 03:15:23.420 So we're going to, we're going to gap our guns about what we've seen and what we might see coming into it. 03:15:23.420 --> 03:15:28.420 into it, but I think big highlight for me, links, just almost a little bit disappointed 03:15:28.420 --> 03:15:31.900 from phase. I feel like their attacks have been sort of big up a little bit more than 03:15:31.900 --> 03:15:32.900 a two-four split. 03:15:32.900 --> 03:15:36.940 Well, I also think, I also think it's always tricky to just kind of like look at those 03:15:36.940 --> 03:15:41.860 statistics because I mean, you know, don't get me wrong. The attacks they pulled out 03:15:41.860 --> 03:15:45.780 against Black Dragon yesterday were excellent, but it was also six out of six attacking 03:15:45.780 --> 03:15:52.180 rounds one in a kickoff where they have just not played many rounds period of any 03:15:52.180 --> 03:15:56.340 kind whatsoever. So I think always with kind of those that there's some important context, 03:15:56.340 --> 03:16:02.340 I mean, I don't think phase have played more than like 1617 attacking rounds inside of kickoff so far 03:16:02.340 --> 03:16:10.580 in total, not including this matchup. Yeah, so small sample size is what you're saying. Yeah, 03:16:10.580 --> 03:16:17.140 essentially, small sample size. I mean, agreeable, agreeable as well. I think, 03:16:17.140 --> 03:16:23.060 I don't know, let's have a let's cast our minds back. I mean still an above average attacking 1% 03:16:23.060 --> 03:16:27.940 over SI which obviously you can kind of reference for this phase team given that they haven't made a 03:16:27.940 --> 03:16:32.900 change. So even if it's even if you're not looking at kickoff on its own and even if you're going to 03:16:32.900 --> 03:16:38.180 sort of register a larger sample size there you could still say that there was maybe opportunities 03:16:38.180 --> 03:16:42.900 there for them. I certainly think back to some of those rounds where they maybe had an advantage 03:16:42.900 --> 03:16:46.420 and it was looking a little bit dicey and especially given that they were able to get the 03:16:46.420 --> 03:16:47.700 the opening killing so many rounds. 03:16:47.700 --> 03:16:50.460 They got the opening killing all but one of those rounds. 03:16:50.460 --> 03:16:53.500 So definitely cracks there and Fluxo W7M 03:16:53.500 --> 03:16:55.380 knowing exactly how they want to try 03:16:55.380 --> 03:16:57.380 and exploit those cracks. 03:16:57.380 --> 03:17:00.060 They've been left in a very good position here. 03:17:00.060 --> 03:17:01.780 Of course, it is a best of three 03:17:01.780 --> 03:17:04.780 and this is gonna be Fluxo W7M's pick. 03:17:04.780 --> 03:17:06.180 It is their number one preference map 03:17:06.180 --> 03:17:08.180 despite a five and five record on it. 03:17:08.180 --> 03:17:10.340 It's a map that they are very happy to go to. 03:17:10.340 --> 03:17:13.420 We're gonna move now into the opposite side of things. 03:17:13.420 --> 03:17:19.020 So we'll be on the attack phase on the defense and see where we head with these bands. 03:17:19.020 --> 03:17:22.120 So already a little bit of a different landscape for the attacker band. 03:17:22.120 --> 03:17:27.620 You're removing the ace phase wanting to make it a bit more difficult to try and open up those walls. 03:17:27.820 --> 03:17:33.820 And likewise, looks would be so them wanting to make it a bit easier getting rid of both the Cade and the bandit. 03:17:36.020 --> 03:17:38.220 Which is a sensible start for phase clan. 03:17:39.020 --> 03:17:40.320 Well, for both teams to be honest, 03:17:40.320 --> 03:17:43.360 I mean especially getting rid of those that double hard breach denial 03:17:43.360 --> 03:17:45.120 it's always going to be something you'll want to do. 03:17:46.560 --> 03:17:49.520 On maps specifically like clubhouse and night haven labs. 03:17:50.360 --> 03:17:52.680 So sensible start. 03:17:52.680 --> 03:17:55.560 I'm not intrigued to see what they do for the defenses because we saw kind of 03:17:55.560 --> 03:17:58.520 the running theme of Mira and Izami for the first three rounds and 03:17:59.080 --> 03:18:01.720 not actually the Izami on our own, but specifically the two operators in 03:18:01.720 --> 03:18:04.520 tandem and after this band phase that will mean of course 03:18:04.680 --> 03:18:06.600 because you want to take out the hardware now it's an option for 03:18:06.600 --> 03:18:09.880 face clan and they'll bring them both in the first round on their 03:18:09.880 --> 03:18:13.960 defenses on the second floor where those two operators are most powerful, probably most 03:18:13.960 --> 03:18:18.880 powerful in tandem. But I am intrigued that we have a pulse make their way into the lineup. 03:18:18.880 --> 03:18:22.600 We saw this once from Fluxor W7M, but it was on the first floor site where you can kind 03:18:22.600 --> 03:18:26.520 of look up into the second floor against the information there. KDS picking the 03:18:26.520 --> 03:18:31.080 pulse while being on the top floor site is interesting, likely to try and rotate 03:18:31.080 --> 03:18:33.680 down later. It's not either planned in the later round with either the C4 or 03:18:33.680 --> 03:18:36.280 the shotgun, but that's something we always see for this particular site. 03:18:39.880 --> 03:18:44.040 So I was going to be rocking that as army on that top floor as well 03:18:45.320 --> 03:18:51.160 Control of that catwalk. No shields in play. It's the first round of this game. We've not seen a single shield 03:18:51.400 --> 03:18:55.800 Oh, we've had a bit of clash with three rounds of clash on the defense plenty rounds of 03:18:56.600 --> 03:18:59.560 Monty or maybe one one of the round where we've not seen a shield brought 03:18:59.960 --> 03:19:08.200 But only one only one. Yeah, it has been a staple feature of the phase clown fluxo w7m clash on night haven lab so far 03:19:08.200 --> 03:19:11.640 but shieldless in round 7 regardless. 03:19:13.320 --> 03:19:17.960 Thermite, of course with the thermite change now and the fact that you've got three thermites 03:19:18.600 --> 03:19:22.200 the ace ban again sort of draws a little bit of question because you can kind of be like well 03:19:22.840 --> 03:19:28.280 how impactful really is it obviously you've got the ability to breach from afar but you've got 03:19:28.280 --> 03:19:34.840 more than enough firepower as it were in thermite now to be getting everything open so 03:19:34.840 --> 03:19:38.680 Again, it just sort of brings into question that band just somewhat. 03:19:38.680 --> 03:19:42.360 But the mirror windows are going to provide a nice portion to trick from. 03:19:43.360 --> 03:19:46.680 There are going to be a set of impacts in Sol's hands. 03:19:46.680 --> 03:19:52.120 We'll likely try and make use of them, but with the impacts over the holes that have now been made. 03:19:52.120 --> 03:19:54.880 Ooh, see a forethrown there for plays. 03:19:54.880 --> 03:19:57.720 Cyber able to take Palu down. 03:19:57.720 --> 03:20:00.280 Palu just flying a little bit too close to the wind. 03:20:00.280 --> 03:20:04.680 It's kind of funny because they've made that a barnahole so that nobody can do that. 03:20:04.680 --> 03:20:08.520 and cyber's gone, no actually I'm just gonna do that straight away I'm gonna throw the 03:20:08.520 --> 03:20:12.280 uh throw the seaport straight on through you're worried about an impact trick I'm 03:20:12.280 --> 03:20:16.520 worried about getting myself a kill which is fair I think especially when you see 03:20:16.520 --> 03:20:20.280 so much focus on the it breach it's a sensible reaction 03:20:20.280 --> 03:20:23.880 you see by the way IT spotted the pulse but the pulse focused on a 03:20:23.880 --> 03:20:27.720 different player seem to be the zero they were looking at cons outside of it 03:20:27.720 --> 03:20:31.880 KDS pepper view the floor by lobin down below 03:20:31.880 --> 03:20:37.160 So now moving to take, I think, a safe haven on the indestructible floor. 03:20:38.680 --> 03:20:42.360 And it's a nice shot from Lobin. It will dissuade KDS from pushing, but garage 03:20:42.360 --> 03:20:45.720 still in the hands of the defense. The broader site, still under their control. 03:20:46.520 --> 03:20:49.720 Can you see something more from Fluxo W7M? Sure, they're in the disadvantage of 03:20:49.720 --> 03:20:53.800 positioning as well as quite difficult. Sol's tantalizingly close behind that 03:20:53.800 --> 03:20:59.080 quiba, but some toxic canisters being thrown for cover. But down below, Lobin creeping up. 03:20:59.080 --> 03:21:05.660 He put his rifle right in Sol's face and down he goes, 25 seconds remaining. 03:21:05.660 --> 03:21:11.440 KDS getting some important information will influence Cyber to swing outside on IT. 03:21:11.440 --> 03:21:15.680 And Flux O W7M meeting a similar fate that FaZe did when they were attacking the second 03:21:15.680 --> 03:21:16.800 floor. 03:21:16.800 --> 03:21:22.160 Having these angles, creating opportunities but just never fully realizing them. 03:21:22.160 --> 03:21:26.480 Stuck and controlled by the defense inside of the site. 03:21:26.480 --> 03:21:30.480 Now, Lobin, who has been trying to make something happen on Garage for ages now, 03:21:30.480 --> 03:21:33.480 killed by a shotgun if you can't even see. 03:21:33.480 --> 03:21:36.480 First round for Faze, since they won Basement a couple rounds ago, 03:21:36.480 --> 03:21:39.480 first on the attack as well, but hopefully, most importantly, 03:21:39.480 --> 03:21:42.480 the signs of this game will end up being a close one. 03:21:44.480 --> 03:21:48.480 Well, 3-4, still a long ways to go inside a map 1 here. 03:21:49.480 --> 03:21:51.480 Looks like so. 03:21:51.480 --> 03:21:53.480 Not quite lagging behind. 03:21:53.480 --> 03:21:55.480 Not able to realize the full 03:21:55.880 --> 03:22:01.240 Advantage there a rare occasion links where we see a phase get the opening pick and win the round 03:22:01.400 --> 03:22:06.080 We could say it's a rare occasion a phase winning around so far, but that would seem a little bit too cruel 03:22:06.080 --> 03:22:10.860 I think from the opening pick one is a nicer lens to look at that through 03:22:11.160 --> 03:22:15.400 But it was cyber to grab that opening pick and this time able to convert it 03:22:16.440 --> 03:22:19.120 three kills for him on the round as well, so 03:22:19.120 --> 03:22:24.320 But it almost feels a little bit like we're looking for almost big individual performances 03:22:24.320 --> 03:22:25.760 for FaZe to get the job done. 03:22:25.760 --> 03:22:31.680 You can think back to round two and five as well, where five was an ace round. 03:22:31.680 --> 03:22:33.680 FaZe just looked like a lash-out round. 03:22:33.680 --> 03:22:38.120 They were just absolutely over the place, and everyone was alive at the end of it. 03:22:38.120 --> 03:22:43.200 So not quite anomalies, but certainly not the sort of standard fare of ways that we 03:22:43.200 --> 03:22:44.400 see teams win rounds. 03:22:44.400 --> 03:22:47.840 Certainly not the way that folks over here say, remember, we win theirs just by decent 03:22:47.840 --> 03:22:53.000 all-round contribution. You can see that demonstrated in the kill spread below on your screen, 03:22:53.000 --> 03:22:57.780 whereas on the side of phases, maybe a little bit more weighted toward a couple of individual 03:22:57.780 --> 03:23:01.000 cyber and handy being those two people. 03:23:01.000 --> 03:23:06.040 Oh, particularly after the last round, I mean cyber and handy. I think the only two-phase 03:23:06.040 --> 03:23:09.280 players who actually get kills in that round, I think it was a 3k for cyber and then two 03:23:09.280 --> 03:23:14.200 for handy right at the end. So, born out in the round that we just saw on the 03:23:14.200 --> 03:23:18.800 defense. Command center going their way they will go down the basement only side 03:23:18.800 --> 03:23:22.960 the face of one so far but of course well sorry before last round only side they'd 03:23:22.960 --> 03:23:29.200 want on the attacking side see if that luck continues on the defense as Luxo 03:23:29.200 --> 03:23:33.760 W7M begin to place some of those ex Kairos on the exterior breaches face 03:23:33.760 --> 03:23:39.040 plan it is fully stopped up garage but Keebas on the exterior doorway also 03:23:39.040 --> 03:23:43.440 allowed for an opportunity to rotate further across the hatch open up to fall 03:23:43.440 --> 03:23:48.440 back should fluxo w7m need to take the site very quickly montey dropping 03:23:48.440 --> 03:23:52.960 freezer though nothing open just yet you can see the possibility of a quick push 03:23:52.960 --> 03:23:58.600 manifesting by fluxo w7m woven needs to create a bit of a wider opening but you 03:23:58.600 --> 03:24:03.440 see the ying with the shotgun already prepped the breach already open the 03:24:03.440 --> 03:24:07.960 seeds of something are being sown by fluxo w7m 03:24:07.960 --> 03:24:16.040 That's going to be moving through the map now on this Monty, Cyber in a good position 03:24:16.040 --> 03:24:18.160 here and with a C4 rips and ready. 03:24:18.160 --> 03:24:22.080 I'm not sure how much info he's got but he's going to send out the C4 regardless. 03:24:22.080 --> 03:24:27.400 Dot's put to just a little bit less than half HP in his location well and truly known 03:24:27.400 --> 03:24:28.400 now. 03:24:28.400 --> 03:24:30.040 A couple of foot shots and he's going to be a goner. 03:24:30.040 --> 03:24:34.400 Cyber doesn't waste any time whatsoever as soon as the Grasmus DNA, it bammies 03:24:34.400 --> 03:24:35.400 in there. 03:24:35.400 --> 03:24:42.400 Kind of reaction to U101, especially with KDS, who following up quite nicely, but lovin' ready for it. 03:24:42.400 --> 03:24:47.400 Pre-fire on the opposite side of the mirror, a cyber, ready that he'll blink, that's incorrectly. 03:24:47.400 --> 03:24:50.400 Brief pause, not inside a Z, though. 03:24:50.400 --> 03:24:56.400 He's on the bottom of Aqua, a handy firing, quite a few shots down range, but will fall back. 03:24:56.400 --> 03:25:04.400 Don't want to abandon souls, want to try and keep this tag team alive, especially with the important cross they have covering the barrel staircase. 03:25:04.400 --> 03:25:07.200 It's Lobin who's on the opposite side of that. 03:25:07.200 --> 03:25:10.960 The Fuse are not in hand currently outside of the breach on the opposite side. 03:25:10.960 --> 03:25:16.520 Lobin as well, not with many friends at the moment will take one great pre-fire but sprints 03:25:16.520 --> 03:25:17.920 directly in the souls. 03:25:17.920 --> 03:25:19.760 He's ready for that exact situation. 03:25:19.760 --> 03:25:23.640 Pauli is all of his wing candelas, nothing remaining, nothing remaining on the side 03:25:23.640 --> 03:25:28.040 of Fluxor, W7M whatsoever, two to rope on these defenses for Faze. 03:25:28.040 --> 03:25:30.560 Looking like this is by far and away their better side. 03:25:30.560 --> 03:25:41.860 Phase of seem to come alive over the last couple of rounds, levelling it up, excuse me, to 4-4. 03:25:41.860 --> 03:25:43.900 Is this a sign of things to come here? 03:25:43.900 --> 03:25:49.680 I'm so going to start to capitulate under the pressure and phase on the defense, being 03:25:49.680 --> 03:25:51.740 a little bit too much of a force to be reckoned with. 03:25:51.740 --> 03:25:57.340 Still early days, I think we can throw a little bit more weight into the map choices 03:25:57.340 --> 03:26:00.460 for this game in particular. 03:26:00.460 --> 03:26:06.980 can quite safely assume that this is WS7M Fluxo's map preference of choice is 03:26:06.980 --> 03:26:11.220 their number one preference. They are going to be looking to walk away with a 03:26:11.220 --> 03:26:16.420 win here. Consulate of course for map number two and shall we should we 03:26:16.420 --> 03:26:24.140 require it? We get all that way I think delirium is the only option but for 03:26:24.140 --> 03:26:27.460 round nine at least we're gonna be headed once again into that mid-floor. 03:26:27.460 --> 03:26:33.460 This is the site that FaZe really did struggle with on their own attacks. 03:26:33.460 --> 03:26:42.460 Mid floor was somewhere that they attacked into twice and failed to attack into quite spectacularly, to be perfectly honest with you. 03:26:42.460 --> 03:26:46.460 So I'd like to see what Fluxo's approach is to try and counter that. 03:26:46.460 --> 03:26:48.460 Already the lineup is very different. 03:26:48.460 --> 03:26:51.460 We're not seeing much soft bridge and toe, cyber. 03:26:51.460 --> 03:26:55.460 We're just looking around there inside of storage. 03:26:55.460 --> 03:26:59.900 some intent but more just a lucky roll of the dice to see if he could pull 03:26:59.900 --> 03:27:04.140 something magic out of the hat there but it wasn't meant to be. 03:27:04.860 --> 03:27:09.180 Not at this moment in time but with the way these defenses are going not the 03:27:09.180 --> 03:27:13.240 kind of thing that is necessary for FaZe at the moment. They started off well 03:27:13.240 --> 03:27:17.340 with these opening picks and they've come in later portions of the round. So 03:27:17.340 --> 03:27:21.200 the slower game has been the correct one for FaZe Clan throughout these 03:27:21.200 --> 03:27:23.200 first couple defenses. 03:27:23.200 --> 03:27:29.080 Both are 37 on the other hand trying a little bit of a different approach bringing that black 03:27:29.080 --> 03:27:30.080 beard. 03:27:30.080 --> 03:27:35.160 We're going to open up the IT breach, get control of this lane on the top floor. 03:27:35.160 --> 03:27:40.440 You don't necessarily need to take it out right afterwards but just hold that angle and 03:27:40.440 --> 03:27:42.280 deny it as an option for the defense. 03:27:42.280 --> 03:27:45.560 Make them take a fight against you if they want to try to retake and contest those 03:27:45.560 --> 03:27:47.680 vertical angles. 03:27:47.680 --> 03:27:55.120 creeping out to the exterior of command center or control. So as they move in 03:27:55.120 --> 03:27:58.960 closer, they can start feeling this pressure, especially with the block here 03:27:58.960 --> 03:28:02.200 outside of the breach. You can't help but wonder when this is going to pop off 03:28:02.200 --> 03:28:06.680 as the boards break in front of handy instead the block here goes back on their 03:28:06.680 --> 03:28:12.360 repel. And it's bad this time right now with the natives gonna force it out of 03:28:12.360 --> 03:28:18.000 position there gots good for the follow-up able to make good off the back of 03:28:18.000 --> 03:28:23.440 his own information there and his own his own need Ali will have a little bit 03:28:23.440 --> 03:28:28.320 of information as well. Top floor hold is starting to fall apart especially with 03:28:28.320 --> 03:28:33.400 cyber falling just on the just outside of warehouse excuse me. 03:28:33.400 --> 03:28:37.000 Lobin now starting to see a little bit of damage but Fluxo they've got time to 03:28:37.000 --> 03:28:41.320 press this advantage. Time indeed. 03:28:42.440 --> 03:28:45.400 Conza eager to take the fight with souls, taking back and forth. 03:28:45.400 --> 03:28:49.080 Meanwhile, I was seeing a leather gun fight is going flux, so W7M's way. 03:28:49.240 --> 03:28:54.120 Unfortunately, that cons is the one who takes the L, but can't deny the things 03:28:54.120 --> 03:28:56.520 are were going well for the team. 03:28:56.520 --> 03:29:01.600 But now Viniking retakes up top, just leaves one player up above and another 03:29:01.600 --> 03:29:04.000 down below, both separated from each other. 03:29:04.000 --> 03:29:06.720 The tax forces have shifted rapidly. 03:29:06.720 --> 03:29:08.900 Dots cannot be covered on this diffuser. 03:29:08.900 --> 03:29:12.200 Polly can cover something just a little bit, but nothing direct. 03:29:12.200 --> 03:29:13.980 It's the complete opposite site in the process. 03:29:13.980 --> 03:29:16.400 Dots falls off, spots viticking through the floor, 03:29:16.400 --> 03:29:18.600 but it's the hip on it that goes down. 03:29:18.600 --> 03:29:20.840 It's FaZe Clan's own clutch to answer 03:29:20.840 --> 03:29:24.560 Fluxo W7Ms that started off this entire map. 03:29:24.560 --> 03:29:27.680 It's currently threatening three defenses in a row. 03:29:27.680 --> 03:29:30.120 Shield not facing the vertical holes. 03:29:30.120 --> 03:29:31.960 Dots can be shot from that position, 03:29:31.960 --> 03:29:33.560 and there we go. 03:29:33.560 --> 03:29:39.600 Almost goes down. That's when phase clan strike three and are on their defenses now fluxo w7m in hot water 03:29:40.800 --> 03:29:44.660 And this is where a long bell starts a ring for fluxo w7m, isn't it? 03:29:47.000 --> 03:29:49.760 Unsuccessful on every single attacking round so far 03:29:50.800 --> 03:29:55.520 They do fall the risk of looking like a bit of a one-sided team at the moment 03:29:55.520 --> 03:29:59.880 But the same could be said for phase the difference being they were good for two rounds on their attacks 03:29:59.880 --> 03:30:06.280 Fluxo running out of time to be good for two on their own. Final round of bands, 03:30:06.280 --> 03:30:11.320 Thermite and the Mirror. They've kind of rounded out a primary hard breacher band 03:30:11.320 --> 03:30:16.040 there in having the ace and the Thermite both taken out. The Mirror comes again as 03:30:16.040 --> 03:30:20.240 a late ban as it did for FaZe when they were on the attack themselves and no 03:30:20.240 --> 03:30:25.200 real surprise to see Fluxo take their time out here and now. It's their map 03:30:25.200 --> 03:30:29.040 choice and they don't want to fall behind in the series. They really need 03:30:29.040 --> 03:30:31.760 to figure out what is going wrong on these attacking rounds 03:30:31.760 --> 03:30:34.520 because we are consistently seeing FaZe walk away 03:30:34.520 --> 03:30:35.560 with these defenses. 03:30:39.160 --> 03:30:41.400 I mean, even then it seemed like things were going so well. 03:30:41.400 --> 03:30:42.880 The control of the early game, I mean, 03:30:42.880 --> 03:30:44.280 winning some very important fights, 03:30:44.280 --> 03:30:45.800 also making good progress in the attack 03:30:45.800 --> 03:30:48.680 and yet still they're able to recover in the late round. 03:30:49.600 --> 03:30:50.920 Totally one round lead for FaZe Clan 03:30:50.920 --> 03:30:52.920 and especially I think that attack by and large 03:30:52.920 --> 03:30:55.360 up until the very end looked very good. 03:30:55.360 --> 03:30:58.240 It's not necessarily a revamp that, you know, 03:30:58.240 --> 03:31:00.640 I say it's not as a revamp that needs to occur, but then again, 03:31:01.560 --> 03:31:04.920 three rounds lost in a row going back to the second floor. 03:31:04.920 --> 03:31:07.440 What can Fluxer W7M adjust? 03:31:08.000 --> 03:31:10.640 Was the Azami in the mirror before, but like we have the first half, 03:31:10.640 --> 03:31:11.440 the mirror band will go. 03:31:12.640 --> 03:31:16.960 Unlike Fluxer W7M, they just keep the Azami in the lineup, 03:31:17.280 --> 03:31:20.200 giving some options to retake garage behind those keybos, 03:31:20.200 --> 03:31:22.920 making it a bit more difficult for the attack to push in. 03:31:24.640 --> 03:31:25.960 Even then, we still got the pulse. 03:31:25.960 --> 03:31:32.460 I mean, honestly, I think this is actually the exact same lineup except instead of the mirror, it's the Warden entering the field. 03:31:36.460 --> 03:31:37.460 Yeah, I think so. 03:31:38.960 --> 03:31:41.460 Don't know, quick scan back over it and... 03:31:41.960 --> 03:31:44.460 I mean, I guess there was a pulse as well. 03:31:45.460 --> 03:31:48.460 Oh, we've got the pulse on KDS there. Yeah, so it is pretty much exactly the same. 03:31:48.460 --> 03:31:51.460 You're all right. The Warden being the big difference maker. 03:31:51.460 --> 03:32:02.460 You're going to be grateful of that warden, especially if Lobin starts to let those smoke casters fly on the glass, although portion tread lightly isn't always as easy as it seems. 03:32:05.460 --> 03:32:10.460 ADS just hopping on the cameras in the early portion around. Something great's taken to your own ranked games as well, by the way. 03:32:10.460 --> 03:32:15.280 As soon as that prep phase is done, and just as the attack is spawned in, geese off the 03:32:15.280 --> 03:32:19.500 corner, hop onto the cams, have a quick click, they'll just give you an idea as to where 03:32:19.500 --> 03:32:25.380 the push could be coming from, and at least if cams are still open, it gives you a reasonable 03:32:25.380 --> 03:32:30.020 idea of where people aren't as well, because unless people are missing them, they likely 03:32:30.020 --> 03:32:31.980 do get shot out regardless. 03:32:31.980 --> 03:32:36.420 Andy, I'm already looking for a bit of early action on those fish stairs. 03:32:36.420 --> 03:32:40.420 Holmes isn't going to waste any time getting that breach open. 03:32:40.420 --> 03:32:43.420 I'm not going to waste any time getting in the fray. 03:32:43.420 --> 03:32:45.420 Hi there, what a shot on the cyber. 03:32:45.420 --> 03:32:48.420 My area is clear. 03:32:48.420 --> 03:32:53.420 Always very confident, but swinging the IT breach so brazenly like that, 03:32:53.420 --> 03:32:55.420 it's good on cons to punish it. 03:32:55.420 --> 03:32:59.420 Send a signal to phase clan that even if it's not a new flux at W7M, 03:32:59.420 --> 03:33:02.420 that kind of stuff just won't fly. 03:33:02.420 --> 03:33:07.420 It's good as well, because if those smokes go down, LoBin still got both of them. 03:33:07.420 --> 03:33:11.420 So you don't have the player who can peer through and take that advantage away from him. 03:33:11.420 --> 03:33:15.420 It'll be a competitive one that will be solidified for Fluxo W7, 03:33:15.420 --> 03:33:19.420 but Vitteking also tagged up quite extensively by the Gloss DMR. 03:33:19.420 --> 03:33:23.420 It seems to be treading some of the same successes we actually just saw in storage and control, 03:33:23.420 --> 03:33:25.420 even though they lost that site. 03:33:25.420 --> 03:33:30.420 There's a lot of success outside the building, just holding angles, kind of damaging base claim defenders. 03:33:30.420 --> 03:33:32.420 Seems to be what's going on on 2nd floor this time. 03:33:34.420 --> 03:33:38.420 We don't have information available for Fluxo here, but it's nice to be able to do something about it. 03:33:38.420 --> 03:33:41.420 So, as you know that he's up on Catwalk, but do you want to challenge it? 03:33:41.420 --> 03:33:45.420 Do you want to challenge that Azami? But he's holding pixel angles like this? 03:33:45.420 --> 03:33:50.420 I don't think that you do. There's still a whole minute for him to try and hold on here with the window open behind him. 03:33:50.420 --> 03:33:52.420 This is getting pretty uncomfortable up here. 03:33:53.420 --> 03:33:57.420 Extremely uncomfortable. In fact, the Azami ends up creating her own prison, 03:33:57.420 --> 03:34:00.660 isn't yet. There's just the slightest gap between the Keeva and the fire and that's 03:34:00.660 --> 03:34:04.920 where souls can stay alive. Struggling especially through the smoke. Keep in mind 03:34:04.920 --> 03:34:08.260 depending on where they are, Loben could get this. Barbed wire actually kills the 03:34:08.260 --> 03:34:13.860 Glyze! Souls saved by secondary utility. See like that might have been the end of 03:34:13.860 --> 03:34:17.740 him. Hendy looking to rotate up as the sights been completely seated to the 03:34:17.740 --> 03:34:22.540 attack. They get on this long angle. How is soul still alive? And having this 03:34:22.540 --> 03:34:25.460 kind of impact. Straight around the corner, 03:34:25.460 --> 03:34:27.380 Handy catches Ponds. 03:34:27.380 --> 03:34:30.220 It is all falling apart for Fluxo, W7M, 03:34:30.220 --> 03:34:35.780 as control of the diffuser is in the hands of the defense. 03:34:35.780 --> 03:34:37.820 Eight on the floor. 03:34:37.820 --> 03:34:40.820 So Polly with one in pocket can maybe throw one at one player, 03:34:40.820 --> 03:34:43.100 especially Handy tucked in the doorway. 03:34:43.100 --> 03:34:45.020 But they've done so much work with so little, 03:34:45.020 --> 03:34:47.820 and a shotgun around the corner might still be too much, 03:34:47.820 --> 03:34:49.300 even in that small gap. 03:34:49.300 --> 03:34:50.620 Sends it down the long hallway. 03:34:50.620 --> 03:34:51.660 It doesn't get anything. 03:34:51.660 --> 03:34:57.660 There it goes. Four in a row for phase clan and another come from behind victory. 03:34:59.660 --> 03:35:04.660 This is this is the thing about phase like you doubt them for a second 03:35:05.360 --> 03:35:08.360 when they have a poor or below standard attack phase. 03:35:08.560 --> 03:35:10.960 And then they bring out a defensive masterclass like this. 03:35:10.960 --> 03:35:14.860 And you just think in your head mentally, I'm sorry, I doubted you. 03:35:15.260 --> 03:35:18.360 But I just I'm disgusted myself that I doubted you. 03:35:18.360 --> 03:35:33.360 You know, it's so good to see handy was like, I've never seen anyone run that quickly for just to control a diffuse that was on the ground. But recognizing, look, we've got the kit down. We need to go and play this. That's now our new win condition. 03:35:33.360 --> 03:35:47.360 How soul stayed alive. God only knows everything was fighting against him there. He had pressure from the window pressure from downstairs to capital fire arrows and then about two steps of safety on the catwalk that he could operate in. 03:35:47.360 --> 03:35:56.360 He somehow manages to get the kill onto the glass or at least do enough damage to the glass that as soon as they hop in and hit the barbed wire, bang, they're out of the equation as well. 03:35:56.360 --> 03:36:09.360 Really impressive stuff from FaZe when it matters the most and Fluxo now having used their tactical timeout are going to be left wondering what the hell they do from here. 03:36:09.360 --> 03:36:13.080 I mean it's difficult even from a strategic standpoint you know it's easy to write off 03:36:13.080 --> 03:36:16.200 you know kind of a clutch that we saw around on but when it happens two times in a row like 03:36:16.200 --> 03:36:21.520 that and especially because of what is just arguably an act of God event being souls surviving 03:36:21.520 --> 03:36:25.200 on rafters like what do you do? 03:36:25.200 --> 03:36:26.200 What do you do? 03:36:26.200 --> 03:36:27.200 You can't change anything about that. 03:36:27.200 --> 03:36:30.560 You can't change what fate had ordained for that situation. 03:36:30.560 --> 03:36:35.960 Like you can't fight luck and that's not to say that souls was entirely lucky. 03:36:35.960 --> 03:36:42.960 He had to get those kills afterwards, but that inciting incident, that fire just being slightly too far to the right, 03:36:42.960 --> 03:36:49.960 and that Keeba being just far enough back to give him a space that not only kept him in that middle, but covered as well. 03:36:49.960 --> 03:36:59.960 I mean, even then, small things like the movement working against Loben, the barbed wire keeping him in that line of fire for a lot longer. 03:36:59.960 --> 03:37:05.860 So many things had to go right just to get souls out of that situation and give him the opportunity to win it off skill 03:37:06.300 --> 03:37:10.040 It's really impressive stuff. I like you kind of you know, you ask the question like what do you do? 03:37:10.040 --> 03:37:14.220 Like I don't know like what do you it's hard to counter against that? It's two times in a row now though 03:37:14.680 --> 03:37:20.440 That we're phaser struggling to convert those opening picks two times in a row cons has started things off with a 5v4 03:37:21.120 --> 03:37:24.160 Flux of W7 and have failed to reap anything from it 03:37:24.160 --> 03:37:31.160 I don't know what JoJo means. 03:37:31.160 --> 03:37:44.160 Sounds an anime. 03:37:44.160 --> 03:37:47.160 No, be real. 03:37:47.160 --> 03:37:49.160 That is real. 03:37:49.160 --> 03:37:51.160 That's a real thing. 03:37:51.160 --> 03:37:53.160 What do you want from me? 03:37:53.160 --> 03:37:57.840 I just looked up Jojo Portuguese, guess what came up? 03:37:57.840 --> 03:37:58.840 What? 03:37:58.840 --> 03:37:59.840 De-anime. 03:37:59.840 --> 03:38:00.840 Really? 03:38:00.840 --> 03:38:01.840 I did. 03:38:01.840 --> 03:38:08.440 Well, I don't know how we've got an anime bug in Night Heaven Labs. 03:38:08.440 --> 03:38:09.440 I don't know. 03:38:09.440 --> 03:38:10.440 Maybe it's a skin issue? 03:38:10.440 --> 03:38:11.440 Maybe it's a skin issue. 03:38:11.440 --> 03:38:15.440 Yeah, that maybe needs some looking into. 03:38:15.440 --> 03:38:16.440 Maybe. 03:38:16.440 --> 03:38:19.440 Is it short for animation, maybe? 03:38:19.440 --> 03:38:22.440 Oh, that's a good question. 03:38:22.440 --> 03:38:26.960 question. I like that I like that. I like that we're trying to recreate 03:38:26.960 --> 03:38:33.560 Portuguese from first principle. Yeah. It's like, what could this word mean? 03:38:36.880 --> 03:38:40.240 Regardless, we are going to wait until all the players get themselves back into 03:38:40.240 --> 03:38:43.560 the lobby before proceeding because that's the fair thing to do in a game 03:38:43.560 --> 03:38:48.400 of Siege and especially when it is match point or map point, excuse me, for 03:38:48.400 --> 03:38:54.960 phase planet right now. Fluxo might be glad of a little bit of a reprieve because let's be honest 03:38:54.960 --> 03:39:04.720 for the last what five rounds nothing has gone their way so far. It's uh it's been a bit of a dire 03:39:04.720 --> 03:39:09.920 attack in half I think is fair to say and again one way we're seeing that opening pick 03:39:10.640 --> 03:39:16.480 for Fluxo W7M not be converted in rounds 10 and 9 cons was good for the opening in both 03:39:16.480 --> 03:39:20.560 of those and phase of thought from behind phase of sorted there's out a little bit it's fair to 03:39:20.560 --> 03:39:24.800 say and we need to credit that where it's where it's happened cyber and bit king both given the 03:39:24.800 --> 03:39:29.120 opening picks in seven and eight and face still being able to convert all of those rounds but 03:39:29.120 --> 03:39:34.080 opening pick or not phase of just looked a little bit unstoppable a little bit scary on this defensive 03:39:34.080 --> 03:39:38.000 side I think the any fears and any sort of questions that we had from the attacking phase 03:39:38.000 --> 03:39:42.480 of certainly being put to rest now that we have seen a full side or at least nearly a full 03:39:42.480 --> 03:39:47.680 side of siege. There is still chance for Flux OW7M to get themselves back into this game, 03:39:47.680 --> 03:39:53.680 but it is going to require them winning the next two rounds, otherwise it is going to be a phase win. 03:39:57.040 --> 03:40:00.960 You know Flux OW7M have it in them. I mean, they have been starting off these rounds 03:40:00.960 --> 03:40:08.720 decently well, specifically the last two. I mean, well, that was what a 5e2 that we saw in round 03:40:08.720 --> 03:40:16.520 9 on storage, and that round was, I mean, a 2v4 for phase. These are rounds that are 03:40:16.520 --> 03:40:21.960 unequivocally fluxo W7Ms, it seems like, until there's a massive recovery by two particular 03:40:21.960 --> 03:40:27.640 players on phase. But there are still plenty of good attacking moments preceding that, whether 03:40:27.640 --> 03:40:32.120 it's creating good pressure, getting the right amount of control. It's not a half 03:40:32.120 --> 03:40:35.400 that has been unwinnable for them. In fact, it could very well be a possibility 03:40:35.400 --> 03:40:41.360 that this is, you know, a 2-2, you know, phase get the first two, Fluxor W7M follow-up with 03:40:41.360 --> 03:40:46.400 the second. Just given the situation we're in that allowing those recoveries ended up 03:40:46.400 --> 03:40:51.080 costing them in such a key moment, yet two rounds to come back. This isn't like an NIP 03:40:51.080 --> 03:40:55.040 low situation. It feels a lot more doable. There are a lot more moments to look at 03:40:55.040 --> 03:41:00.520 for Fluxor W7M that make you feel that when we never really get back in and phase 03:41:00.520 --> 03:41:07.040 load up, load up tank and assembly like they picked. Makes you feel like they have a much 03:41:07.040 --> 03:41:11.880 better shot though. That's supposed to be kind of my own argument Ollie. That is one, 03:41:11.880 --> 03:41:16.520 that is one of the sites in which they struggled quite a bit, especially around a mirror setup 03:41:16.520 --> 03:41:19.240 on the middle floor. Now I guess they won't have to deal with anymore. 03:41:19.240 --> 03:41:24.440 Yeah, the mirror has been removed since hasn't it? I'll be honest, it's maybe a 03:41:24.440 --> 03:41:27.960 little bit of a talking point. Now we've got a bit of downtime. We can maybe go sort 03:41:27.960 --> 03:41:30.200 of on the track, but off the beaten track. 03:41:30.200 --> 03:41:33.080 I'm very surprised at how little mirror banning 03:41:33.080 --> 03:41:35.400 we've seen so far today inside of SAO. 03:41:35.400 --> 03:41:37.720 I think it's something that maybe we get quite a lot of, 03:41:37.720 --> 03:41:40.120 maybe a bit of an overload of it inside of NAL, 03:41:40.120 --> 03:41:42.640 but it's often a must ban. 03:41:42.640 --> 03:41:44.520 And there are occasions really where 03:41:44.520 --> 03:41:47.460 it's been available today and played or not played. 03:41:47.460 --> 03:41:49.560 And we've really seen the impact of it fell, 03:41:49.560 --> 03:41:51.680 I think back to the phase round 03:41:51.680 --> 03:41:53.480 where they were attacking into tank 03:41:53.480 --> 03:41:55.200 for the second time that banned out the mirror 03:41:55.200 --> 03:41:56.840 and their approach was entirely different. 03:41:56.840 --> 03:42:03.240 the approach in the first round wasn't you know any good it was just a lot easier I guess um I can 03:42:03.240 --> 03:42:07.160 that round number five but it looks like we are back in the game so I do thank you for bearing with 03:42:07.160 --> 03:42:13.000 us while we uh flap our guns and wait for the uh technicalities of things to get taken care of 03:42:13.000 --> 03:42:19.960 we will join where we left off six four to phase tank and assembly being the chosen bomb site 03:42:19.960 --> 03:42:29.680 a slightly cheeky lineup change here from cyber. I think given how much siege we saw 03:42:29.680 --> 03:42:34.920 and when the rehost was called we can maybe allow it. We certainly wasn't playing the 03:42:34.920 --> 03:42:38.200 solace last time, that's for sure. It was rocking the warden. It's time, however, 03:42:38.200 --> 03:42:45.640 sorry, not the solace. He was rocking the warden. So it swaps one set of glasses for another, 03:42:45.640 --> 03:42:50.040 you could say, but I'm sure that is different. 03:42:50.040 --> 03:42:55.920 Fluxo looking to make good here on this pick of Knighthaven Labs and not let it be a 7-4 03:42:55.920 --> 03:42:56.920 phase win. 03:42:56.920 --> 03:43:05.840 End of the few seconds from seeing what their idea might be to make that happen. 03:43:05.840 --> 03:43:09.080 Damos and Dokibe both entering the field, the Ram as well. 03:43:09.080 --> 03:43:12.680 That one is pretty obvious was going to enter the field at some point. 03:43:12.680 --> 03:43:15.480 Boogie Drone is being what they are and based on being the site that it is. 03:43:17.800 --> 03:43:20.680 But a much looser setup, I would say, on the attack than what we've seen so far. 03:43:20.680 --> 03:43:25.800 It's been a lot of hard breaching, you know, some shields as well, but, you know, 03:43:26.160 --> 03:43:28.920 it's a capitao, it's obviously been a main state like he is here, 03:43:28.920 --> 03:43:32.040 but this is the first real time on this half that we've seen, you know, 03:43:32.040 --> 03:43:34.440 Dokibe and Deimos. In fact, I think it's actually the time we've seen, 03:43:34.440 --> 03:43:37.280 not only both of them at the same time, but I think both of them at all. 03:43:37.280 --> 03:43:45.080 So you can see that Fluxo W7 might be taking a bit more of a lurker approach to this, or 03:43:45.080 --> 03:43:49.840 at the same time just trying to increase as many possible avenues of information, which 03:43:49.840 --> 03:43:54.100 they could possibly get their hands on, and with handy roaming on the top floor of cyber 03:43:54.100 --> 03:44:00.760 on Solace, a very common roaming operator he likes to play, Solace also upstairs. 03:44:00.760 --> 03:44:03.960 Pretty evident why all that information might be necessary. 03:44:03.960 --> 03:44:09.960 Info is the aim of the game quite often. 03:44:09.960 --> 03:44:13.960 I'm not sure anyone knows where KDS is right now though. 03:44:13.960 --> 03:44:19.960 Cyber is jumping into a solid scanner just to see if there's anything that he can glean from that information. 03:44:19.960 --> 03:44:24.960 Dots, the eastern drone of the site is going to be able to call it as majority clear. 03:44:24.960 --> 03:44:29.960 I mean we can see from the outlines that a lot of these base clan players are going to be off-site in Roman. 03:44:29.960 --> 03:44:35.600 Falls. Looking to try and burn a lot of time and a lot of utility with these 03:44:35.600 --> 03:44:41.960 Keeber barricades upstairs. The C4 rips and ready as well and unfortunately it's 03:44:41.960 --> 03:44:45.480 gonna swing and miss with that but it'll be KDS to pick up that opening kill and 03:44:45.480 --> 03:44:51.440 that has been such a key factor in these last couple of phase rounds. 03:44:51.960 --> 03:44:57.960 But look at this. Cons down below halfway. Three quarters. Plants are already down. 03:44:57.960 --> 03:45:02.760 He's just crept on in off the back of God knows what as we've been focused on the top floor 03:45:02.760 --> 03:45:06.960 You can see Dota's stoic clearly ready for this play a 03:45:07.840 --> 03:45:11.760 Fully well thought out plan by fluxo W7M that nobody saw coming 03:45:11.800 --> 03:45:17.040 That's we'll fight back level things up as if we that plus the post plan certainly gives them the advantage 03:45:17.600 --> 03:45:22.520 KDS running back in looking through animus as another drops in front souls with a teagle 03:45:22.520 --> 03:45:27.940 finds one, maybe the second just around the corner, spots him on the quick peek, can't get him on the spray. 03:45:27.940 --> 03:45:34.640 So KDS falls back, flames erupt in his face. It's a tight game, but low on time and flames covering the diffuser. 03:45:34.640 --> 03:45:43.640 There is nothing for FaZe Clan to do. What a beautiful play by Fluxo W7M and they are just one round away from OT. 03:45:43.640 --> 03:45:50.640 Fluxo saw a gap there and they grabbed it with both hands. A really good drone through the side to see that, hang on a minute, 03:45:50.640 --> 03:45:55.840 this is a little bit clear. There are no phase members occupying this space. Instead, they are 03:45:55.840 --> 03:46:01.440 fighting shadows and defending up on the upper floors of the map. We maybe have a plant on right 03:46:01.440 --> 03:46:06.080 here and they did. We're able to move through, get the wall open, nice little plant inside of 03:46:06.080 --> 03:46:11.840 Animus. Nothing too fancy, nothing too extravagant. And you know, phase, I mean, what are you 03:46:11.840 --> 03:46:15.760 going to do? You've got to overreact there in that sort of a situation, especially when 03:46:15.760 --> 03:46:18.880 you're holding up on the top floor. You've still got to transition down. You still 03:46:18.880 --> 03:46:21.440 still don't even know where you're being held from. 03:46:21.440 --> 03:46:23.520 Really good round from Fluxor W7M 03:46:23.520 --> 03:46:27.080 and one that they so desperately needed. 03:46:27.080 --> 03:46:28.480 Downstairs bombsite though, 03:46:28.480 --> 03:46:31.320 it has not been kind to defenders today. 03:46:31.320 --> 03:46:33.800 It is the bombsite that FaZe were able to walk away 03:46:33.800 --> 03:46:35.600 with both of their own attacks 03:46:35.600 --> 03:46:37.480 when we were on their side of things. 03:46:37.480 --> 03:46:39.760 And it is gonna be the side where Fluxo break 03:46:39.760 --> 03:46:42.160 that losing streak that they've had themselves 03:46:42.160 --> 03:46:43.600 on the attack. 03:46:43.600 --> 03:46:45.560 So downstairs, taking a box. 03:46:45.560 --> 03:46:47.600 Now Fluxor W7M have got to do something 03:46:47.600 --> 03:46:48.800 that FaZe couldn't. 03:46:48.800 --> 03:46:52.560 and they have to win in a side that isn't downstairs. 03:46:52.560 --> 03:46:54.880 So far, neither of these two teams on attack 03:46:54.880 --> 03:46:56.080 have been able to do that. 03:47:01.080 --> 03:47:02.960 It's been quite difficult, unfortunately. 03:47:02.960 --> 03:47:04.480 Well, to your family attack. 03:47:06.760 --> 03:47:09.380 See, Flux of W7 can mount that hurdle. 03:47:11.000 --> 03:47:13.880 Bit of a cheesy operator line up being brought. 03:47:13.880 --> 03:47:15.600 The shield, a dope of the Andy Ying, 03:47:15.600 --> 03:47:16.960 some of the most powerful features 03:47:16.960 --> 03:47:19.440 of all the main categories of defense, 03:47:19.440 --> 03:47:21.560 globals, execute utility and shields 03:47:21.560 --> 03:47:22.680 that you were talking about earlier 03:47:22.680 --> 03:47:24.560 all the way back at the top of the show. 03:47:24.560 --> 03:47:27.480 With no warden present for the defense, 03:47:27.480 --> 03:47:30.280 those yings, candelos could be quite powerful. 03:47:30.280 --> 03:47:33.080 Cyber instead, on the pulse of all operators, 03:47:33.080 --> 03:47:35.680 not something I typically see them on at least, 03:47:35.680 --> 03:47:37.240 require them to use a bit of active utility 03:47:37.240 --> 03:47:39.240 inside of the site in a way that is 03:47:39.240 --> 03:47:41.000 a bit uncharacteristic for the guy. 03:47:41.000 --> 03:47:41.840 We'll see how it works out, 03:47:41.840 --> 03:47:43.120 especially with the C4. 03:47:43.120 --> 03:47:45.200 If you want somebody going for a solo rotation 03:47:45.200 --> 03:47:48.520 later on in the round to hit a C4 to deny a plant. 03:47:48.520 --> 03:47:49.680 It's not usual for them. 03:47:49.680 --> 03:47:52.400 Cyra's a pretty good candidate. 03:47:52.400 --> 03:47:54.120 There's still a default camera alive. 03:47:54.120 --> 03:47:56.280 And that sort of thing really stresses me out a little bit. 03:47:56.280 --> 03:47:59.320 You could see Vittagang was just flicking it there. 03:47:59.320 --> 03:48:03.040 It's just got off at that very second phase. 03:48:03.040 --> 03:48:04.080 Now no. 03:48:04.080 --> 03:48:07.680 Quite a lot off the back of that default camera being up. 03:48:07.680 --> 03:48:10.320 They're able to see a couple of the attackers on it. 03:48:10.320 --> 03:48:11.600 I'll do one phone call coming out. 03:48:11.600 --> 03:48:14.000 Oh, Andy just turns away at the wrong moment. 03:48:14.000 --> 03:48:18.000 unfortunate time in there is going to allow Dudes to pick up that opening pick. 03:48:21.000 --> 03:48:24.000 Just a clean three-way pinch from Fluxor W7, I'm at the start. 03:48:24.000 --> 03:48:26.000 Exact kind of thing you want to see. 03:48:26.000 --> 03:48:29.000 If you're hoping they can level this and make it overtime. 03:48:29.000 --> 03:48:36.000 Cyber taking some damage down below as the next target for this coordination is likely going to be Vitaking inside of its generator. 03:48:36.000 --> 03:48:40.000 Nate destroys the Banshee, Flashbang takes away his vision and where's Vitaking going to go? 03:48:40.000 --> 03:48:43.000 Absolutely nowhere. 03:48:43.000 --> 03:48:48.000 He stands fast in this position knowing that there's a C4 below to stop anybody from pushing through the doorway. 03:48:48.000 --> 03:48:52.000 Part confidence, part luck, keeps him alive. KDS on for the next. 03:48:52.000 --> 03:48:56.000 Now, Cyber, with pistol in hand, taking a fight with another. 03:48:56.000 --> 03:49:00.000 Just outside a garage, him and KDS holding down this position. 03:49:00.000 --> 03:49:06.000 And by the slidest of margins, Fluxo W7M's push is backed off, his dot's downed on the floor. 03:49:06.000 --> 03:49:10.000 Eats up a big chunk of their time. 03:49:10.000 --> 03:49:18.000 Hittikin will be allowed to rotate inside of IT there. Not sure how known he is at the moment, I think this next move will tell us. 03:49:18.000 --> 03:49:24.000 Hittikin is going to get taken out so I guess he was known. Either that or there was some snapper reaction, regardless. 03:49:24.000 --> 03:49:31.000 Odess has quickly found himself in an unwinnable position. They're in a far less than favourable one. 03:49:31.000 --> 03:49:34.000 The fuser called on the ground. 03:49:34.000 --> 03:49:40.000 Three defenders stand between him and getting this round set and done in only 20 seconds to do it in. 03:49:40.000 --> 03:49:46.000 That seems like unfortunately Fluxo W7M's chances seemed bright at the start with that opening pick, 03:49:46.000 --> 03:49:52.000 but another mid to late round recovery by FaZe Clan might end this one in 12. 03:49:52.000 --> 03:49:55.000 Moving down the staircase, not enough time to get the plan, enough time to get one kill, 03:49:55.000 --> 03:49:58.000 maybe another, a FaZe feeling generous and no. 03:49:58.000 --> 03:50:07.700 Stingy as Misers at the moment are phase clan 7 to 5 on their opponents pick and one of their strongest maps after this. 03:50:07.700 --> 03:50:16.900 Faze looking really good there on Nighthaven Labs. I think we doubted them a little bit on that attacking phase and maybe doubted if they are either on or off the boil today. 03:50:16.900 --> 03:50:25.100 But I think with that defensive form that they have just given us that showcase, you can fairly say that they're back, you know, they never really left anywhere. 03:50:25.100 --> 03:50:31.180 they are still the face that we know and love still very capable of getting that job done and done 03:50:31.180 --> 03:50:35.900 entirely that's gonna do it for the cast so far we are gonna hit a very short break after that 03:50:35.900 --> 03:50:39.260 we'll be back with our analyst desk and map number two in this series 03:50:55.100 --> 03:50:56.100 So, what's up with the other guys? 03:50:56.100 --> 03:50:57.100 I'm gonna put a razz there, you know? 03:50:57.100 --> 03:51:00.100 I'm already present, but I'm gonna criticize the boss of the team. 03:51:00.100 --> 03:51:01.100 What's up with the other guys? 03:51:01.100 --> 03:51:02.100 What's up with the other guys? 03:51:02.100 --> 03:51:03.100 What's up with the other guys? 03:51:03.100 --> 03:51:04.100 What's up with the other guys? 03:51:04.100 --> 03:51:05.100 André Balada. 03:51:05.100 --> 03:51:06.100 André Balada 26. 03:51:06.100 --> 03:51:07.100 André Balada 26? 03:51:07.100 --> 03:51:08.100 Difficult. 03:51:08.100 --> 03:51:11.100 André Balada 26 is my best friend. 03:51:11.100 --> 03:51:12.100 JV902. 03:51:12.100 --> 03:51:13.100 Man. 03:51:13.100 --> 03:51:14.100 André Balada 26. 03:51:14.100 --> 03:51:15.100 Man, André Balada. 03:51:15.100 --> 03:51:17.100 Do you have to be a player? 03:51:17.100 --> 03:51:18.100 Can be a 192. 03:51:18.100 --> 03:51:19.100 I'm home, man. 03:51:19.100 --> 03:51:20.100 You have to be an artisan, man. 03:51:20.100 --> 03:51:21.100 Man of the night. 03:51:21.100 --> 03:51:23.100 I love drinking on the weekend. 03:51:23.100 --> 03:51:25.100 I'm not a loud sound at the end of the week. 03:51:25.100 --> 03:51:27.100 It's because he goes all night, right? 03:51:27.100 --> 03:51:30.100 He's possessed of the ballads, but he's always on the street walking. 03:51:30.100 --> 03:51:34.100 I'm a Bota West. He never played anything, he talks a lot, and he's crazy. 03:51:34.100 --> 03:51:37.100 And as a player now, there's no other name, man. Who fits? 03:51:37.100 --> 03:51:40.100 Vile Jr. He has to be at the top, right? 03:51:40.100 --> 03:51:42.100 Vile Jr. 2-6 is the winner, because... 03:51:42.100 --> 03:51:45.100 He's a guy who's at the top, and he's playing a lot. 03:51:45.100 --> 03:51:47.100 He's Firo Lento, and when he needs it, he solves it. 03:51:47.100 --> 03:51:49.100 2-6, 2-6, 2-6. 03:51:49.100 --> 03:51:51.100 We're going to the top, we're going to the top. 03:51:51.100 --> 03:51:54.600 Zagheiro is going to play against Dias, he just wants to stay on the map 03:51:54.600 --> 03:51:56.100 Zagheiro is a lot of Zagheiro, but he's very good 03:51:56.100 --> 03:51:57.100 He's a solo, right? 03:51:57.100 --> 03:51:59.600 Colum, Zagheiro is very solid, he's very good at defense 03:51:59.600 --> 03:52:03.100 Zaga is a lot of Zagheiro, but he's very good at defense, and he has a lot of titles 03:52:05.600 --> 03:52:06.600 It's a tie 03:52:07.600 --> 03:52:08.600 But what is this? 03:52:10.600 --> 03:52:12.100 But what? Guys, what is this? 03:52:12.100 --> 03:52:13.600 How are you playing? 03:52:13.600 --> 03:52:15.600 Look, he's hitting on Pecky, let's go here, man 03:53:15.600 --> 03:53:16.600 It's not easy, man. 03:53:16.600 --> 03:53:19.600 The players themselves know that we are in the BD, 03:53:19.600 --> 03:53:21.600 to the minus-prison, so who is out there, 03:53:21.600 --> 03:53:23.600 they won't say that they don't want to play. 03:53:23.600 --> 03:53:25.600 But you always remember the name. 03:53:25.600 --> 03:53:26.600 Fluxen, you know what I mean? 03:53:26.600 --> 03:53:28.600 The guys managed to compete in the old Fluxen, 03:53:28.600 --> 03:53:29.600 ok? 03:53:29.600 --> 03:53:31.600 Now there's no respect for this tag. 03:53:31.600 --> 03:53:33.600 God is a little capet, man. 03:53:33.600 --> 03:53:34.600 God is a little capet? 03:53:34.600 --> 03:53:35.600 Wow. 03:53:35.600 --> 03:53:37.600 Look at these guys, they're not friends, you know? 03:53:37.600 --> 03:53:38.600 Look at them. 03:53:38.600 --> 03:53:39.600 God is a little capet, Fluxen. 03:53:39.600 --> 03:53:41.600 I think God is a little capet of the 6-0. 03:53:41.600 --> 03:53:42.600 I'm the one who is a little capet. 03:53:42.600 --> 03:53:43.600 I don't know. 03:53:43.600 --> 03:53:45.100 Keep the best idea, bro. 03:53:45.100 --> 03:53:46.100 Good? Good player? 03:53:46.100 --> 03:53:46.600 He's a good player. 03:53:46.600 --> 03:53:48.600 He's always playing with Farp, with the others. 03:53:48.600 --> 03:53:49.900 Are you in the controversy now? 03:53:49.900 --> 03:53:50.900 I'm in R6. 03:53:50.900 --> 03:53:51.600 I'm in R1, right? 03:53:51.600 --> 03:53:52.600 I'm in R2. 03:53:52.600 --> 03:53:54.300 Are you in the controversy with the ballads? 03:53:54.300 --> 03:53:56.100 I'd like to see if they're exposed. 03:53:56.100 --> 03:53:58.600 Because the guy likes to provoke, it's controversial, 03:53:58.600 --> 03:53:59.600 but he still plays a lot. 03:53:59.600 --> 03:54:03.100 He talks a lot, he already had his target, but today he doesn't. 03:54:04.600 --> 03:54:05.600 Oh! 03:54:08.100 --> 03:54:09.100 Ah! 03:54:10.100 --> 03:54:12.100 Send it in my way, Christopher! 03:54:13.600 --> 03:54:16.600 I'm not going to die, I'm not going to die. 03:54:22.600 --> 03:54:24.600 Wait, I got it, Viadu! 03:54:24.600 --> 03:54:25.600 I got it, Viadu! 03:54:25.600 --> 03:54:27.600 If I get it wrong... 03:54:27.600 --> 03:54:28.600 My bad! 03:54:28.600 --> 03:54:29.600 Horrible! 03:54:29.600 --> 03:54:31.600 No, let's talk about who was the worst. 03:54:31.600 --> 03:54:33.600 Let's talk about who I saw... 03:54:33.600 --> 03:54:34.600 You! 03:54:34.600 --> 03:54:35.600 I saw you! 03:54:35.600 --> 03:54:36.600 You know that? 03:54:36.600 --> 03:54:37.600 You know that? 03:54:37.600 --> 03:54:38.600 You know that? 03:54:38.600 --> 03:54:39.600 You know that? 03:54:39.600 --> 03:54:40.600 You know that? 03:54:40.600 --> 03:54:41.600 You know that? 03:54:41.600 --> 03:54:43.600 I don't want to do anything else because it was my fault. 03:54:46.600 --> 03:54:49.600 We have the will, we have the will. 03:54:49.600 --> 03:54:51.600 We have the will, we have the will. 03:54:51.600 --> 03:54:53.600 We have the will. 03:55:11.600 --> 03:55:18.560 Every single round everything that's happening should have just it was all coming up W7 and flexors and what happens 03:55:18.960 --> 03:55:24.720 well phase harness a six fence of a strategy which is 03:55:25.160 --> 03:55:31.780 Just pray and be yourself and be confident and somehow they're able to bring it over the line Jessie 03:55:31.800 --> 03:55:34.040 Yeah, I mean Milo's from the very first round 03:55:34.040 --> 03:55:39.560 We had a thoughts ace 1v1 against the best Monty in the world and I think not what you kind of knew 03:55:39.560 --> 03:55:45.600 This was gonna be a great map of siege. We really were thinking Flux with w7 and we're gonna run away with that 03:55:45.600 --> 03:55:52.060 I mean I thought the defensive half was so good to come up through these first six rounds the a zombie play from docks in particular 03:55:52.060 --> 03:55:57.460 I thought was kind of the driving factor if there was first three where it felt like he was able to make some really good moves 03:55:57.760 --> 03:56:02.280 Locking down the top floor here in rounds three making sure they never gave up too much map control 03:56:02.280 --> 03:56:06.280 But then after the near got banned out based on stuff a little bit on Flux though 03:56:06.280 --> 03:56:07.720 They started bringing out the clash. 03:56:07.720 --> 03:56:09.580 We started seeing this round after round 03:56:09.580 --> 03:56:12.480 and it was a huge problem for FaZe Clan. 03:56:12.480 --> 03:56:14.360 Round four particularly was a big problem for them. 03:56:14.360 --> 03:56:16.040 Round five they actually got past the clash 03:56:16.040 --> 03:56:17.260 pretty nicely here. 03:56:17.260 --> 03:56:18.920 But even as things continued to go on 03:56:18.920 --> 03:56:21.520 we saw Flux of W7 and getting more aggressive, 03:56:21.520 --> 03:56:23.160 finding more of those opening picks 03:56:23.160 --> 03:56:25.720 and we're able to cure that 4-2-1 half. 03:56:25.720 --> 03:56:28.560 Really take the lead here in the match. 03:56:28.560 --> 03:56:31.560 Unfortunately, despite I think also playing maybe 03:56:31.560 --> 03:56:34.160 a better game of Siege on the whole 03:56:34.160 --> 03:56:35.080 in the second half, 03:56:35.080 --> 03:56:37.400 Their attacks were looking really well structured. 03:56:37.400 --> 03:56:40.000 FaZe Clan just had some miraculous moments. 03:56:40.000 --> 03:56:42.480 Cyber was getting a lot of these really strong entry picks. 03:56:42.480 --> 03:56:45.920 A lot of that was being fed off of near windows or pulse play 03:56:45.920 --> 03:56:47.200 that was being given to Cyber. 03:56:47.200 --> 03:56:49.720 He was fed a lot of information by his teammates 03:56:49.720 --> 03:56:51.120 to go through these kills. 03:56:51.120 --> 03:56:53.520 And then a couple of rounds there just at the end, Milo, 03:56:53.520 --> 03:56:55.640 should not have gone FaZe Clan's way. 03:56:55.640 --> 03:56:59.480 But 2v5s, 2v3s, crutches, galore, 03:56:59.480 --> 03:57:02.480 FaZe Clan always found a way to win. 03:57:02.480 --> 03:57:03.840 You know you have it entertaining 03:57:03.840 --> 03:57:09.160 actually competitive match on your hands when both sides are playing really well 03:57:09.160 --> 03:57:15.600 on the attack on any map really but especially on Night Haven where it more 03:57:15.600 --> 03:57:21.120 and more becomes a map that tests your skills and and fundamental knowledge 03:57:21.120 --> 03:57:24.960 and team play in-seat. How you playing the verticals? Are you playing soft 03:57:24.960 --> 03:57:29.640 disruption, heart reach? Playing close angles? How do you pull defenders out 03:57:29.640 --> 03:57:32.360 out of power positions that they might be in. 03:57:32.360 --> 03:57:34.440 All of that exists and more. 03:57:34.440 --> 03:57:36.680 Not very happy about it, but that does mean 03:57:36.680 --> 03:57:38.640 that we have a tight match between the two 03:57:38.640 --> 03:57:40.600 when they're both competing so well 03:57:40.600 --> 03:57:41.840 on their attacking side. 03:57:42.680 --> 03:57:45.960 We expected this match to actually be 03:57:45.960 --> 03:57:48.240 an entertaining romp, a banger, 03:57:48.240 --> 03:57:51.880 as some of our English fans and friends would say. 03:57:51.880 --> 03:57:54.560 But at this point, I'm just looking forward 03:57:54.560 --> 03:57:56.040 to get into more of it. 03:57:56.040 --> 03:57:58.720 However, before we do, 03:57:58.720 --> 03:58:04.960 I think Jesse, we have to look back on some of the more linchpin moments during this match 03:58:04.960 --> 03:58:08.600 because it feels like there's too many to even bring back. 03:58:08.600 --> 03:58:09.600 Yeah. 03:58:09.600 --> 03:58:11.100 I want to focus on two in particular, Mila. 03:58:11.100 --> 03:58:12.100 She's found nine and ten. 03:58:12.100 --> 03:58:16.900 First, the 2v5 from FaZe Clan, and I just want to showcase how FaZe Clan are always 03:58:16.900 --> 03:58:18.400 thinking about the win con. 03:58:18.400 --> 03:58:22.000 In this round, they've got two players up above, and they're both able to isolate 03:58:22.000 --> 03:58:23.000 important fights. 03:58:23.000 --> 03:58:27.360 We see souls getting active over towards IT, Vidkin smoking E-box, and once they 03:58:27.360 --> 03:58:32.240 in both kind of isolate two different parts of the top floor. They trust each other to win those 03:58:32.240 --> 03:58:36.160 fights and then once the top floor is fully secured, once there's something they don't have to worry 03:58:36.160 --> 03:58:40.400 about, they can just focus on denying this plant. Now Dott's could have finished the plant just there. 03:58:40.400 --> 03:58:45.360 You saw him pull off of the plant. That's because an impact came out from Sol's and scared him off 03:58:45.360 --> 03:58:49.680 of it. If he sticks that, it could be a different round. But small mistakes, small, little 03:58:49.680 --> 03:58:54.960 fearful moments coming out from Flex with W7M allow FaZe Clan to buy the time that they 03:58:54.960 --> 03:59:00.000 need and eventually come out and win this final 2v1 taking down dots seconds before he gets the 03:59:00.000 --> 03:59:06.400 plant down and then this one I mean I think it's the round we're all watching. Sol's a miraculous 03:59:06.400 --> 03:59:11.280 play as the Azami inside of Rafters but what I want to focus on is Handy. He moves himself into 03:59:11.280 --> 03:59:15.760 this warehouse entrance because he knows that a few skits get dropped there. He runs down the 03:59:15.760 --> 03:59:22.160 Aqua Stairs at like a minute 22. He's downstairs so early so that when that play gets made by Sol's 03:59:22.160 --> 03:59:29.160 He can retake that space, play around the defuse kit, and then Soles and Handy just set up this crossfire that Paulu has no chance of winning. 03:59:29.160 --> 03:59:36.160 They make it impossible, completely changing up their defense off that play from Soles, and it really does come in clutch to allow FaithClan to win this game. 03:59:36.160 --> 03:59:43.160 It's just a beautiful matchup. No matter how you break it down, and the numbers is our scoreboard. 03:59:43.160 --> 03:59:51.160 Handy at the top of FaithClan, 11-8, but you can see both teams quite close in terms of raw numbers, 03:59:51.160 --> 03:59:55.960 Which I think is quite expected when a match is so back and forth though 03:59:56.560 --> 04:00:01.120 First the four rounds of that defense for phase. They had it on lock 04:00:02.440 --> 04:00:09.580 Personally for for flexo they could not really break that phase defense early on and then there were 04:00:10.200 --> 04:00:15.660 Really lost the time the very final round though. This was just night haven laps 04:00:15.660 --> 04:00:21.000 I would like to take a look at our map and just one more time to give an idea to people 04:00:21.160 --> 04:00:25.880 Here's what we started with. This is Nighthaven. We're going on. We still have potentially and I 04:00:25.880 --> 04:00:33.240 certainly hope that we go all the way to a map 3. Consulate is our second map, followed by Shalei. 04:00:33.240 --> 04:00:39.720 Should we need to go there? Question is, how do you recover now on Consulate if you're fluxed with 04:00:39.720 --> 04:00:49.480 W7M? Close match, clearly both teams very tight, but Jesse on the ground. Can this happen 04:00:49.480 --> 04:00:54.920 and with face starting on the attack for consulate? I mean the attack start side is maybe a boon for 04:00:54.920 --> 04:00:59.560 flux with w7m the fact the face clan to start there but I fear the series might already be over 04:00:59.560 --> 04:01:05.560 milosh face clan once again have not lost consulate in over a year they have a 10 game win streak this 04:01:05.560 --> 04:01:12.600 is by far their best map there is maybe no single team on a single map that is better than face 04:01:12.600 --> 04:01:17.560 clan on consulate flux with w7m took a big gamble not banning this out in their first couple 04:01:17.560 --> 04:01:23.480 of bands. I fear to win this series that kind of had to win Nighthaven and Chalet. The fact 04:01:23.480 --> 04:01:28.560 that they have now lost Nighthaven Labs puts them in a really awkward situation where they're 04:01:28.560 --> 04:01:32.880 going to have to do something no team has been able to accomplish over the last 365 04:01:32.880 --> 04:01:36.960 days and beat the best team in the world in their best map. 04:01:36.960 --> 04:01:40.800 What do you change and there's not a lot of time to move in from Nighthaven into 04:01:40.800 --> 04:01:45.720 Consulate. Quick lessons that can be learned because it was clear that it was the second 04:01:45.720 --> 04:01:50.600 half that really punished Fluxo W7M where the phase defense looked unshakable in the 04:01:50.600 --> 04:01:51.600 beginning. 04:01:51.600 --> 04:01:54.600 You have to be able to close down these advantages when you're on the attack, whether that means 04:01:54.600 --> 04:01:59.320 sticking to the fuse when you have it in a good spot, whether that means just delaying 04:01:59.320 --> 04:02:03.760 enough time, taking that space and making sure that you don't give up these 1v1 fights 04:02:03.760 --> 04:02:07.440 because phase will be hunting for them to take the man advantage back. 04:02:07.440 --> 04:02:09.520 They have to be good on the offense. 04:02:09.520 --> 04:02:12.720 That is going to be harder on Consulate than it was on Nighthaven, but it's the 04:02:12.720 --> 04:02:14.720 job in front of them. 04:02:14.720 --> 04:02:16.800 Well then, this is from you and me, Jesse. 04:02:16.800 --> 04:02:18.480 Let's bring up our wonderful commentators, 04:02:18.480 --> 04:02:23.480 Lix, Lix, Lix, and I'm sorry to have a little chat. 04:02:25.440 --> 04:02:30.400 My friends, Meow, Lynx, I assume that's how Lynxes go. 04:02:30.400 --> 04:02:32.920 What are we expecting out of this second map here 04:02:32.920 --> 04:02:37.920 in Consulate because it was so close on Nighthaven Labs 04:02:38.240 --> 04:02:40.320 and really came down to micromaneuvers 04:02:40.320 --> 04:02:43.840 as Jesse was mentioning in our post-map. 04:02:43.840 --> 04:02:47.880 I mean micro maneuvers and if you want to go back to that souls clutch and garage 04:02:47.880 --> 04:02:51.640 I mean even just like just luck in certain circumstances even get into that position 04:02:51.640 --> 04:02:54.080 It was just a lot of things inside a phase of control 04:02:54.080 --> 04:02:59.500 But also outside of their control to put them in that position as Jesse pointed out to close out night Haven labs now in 04:02:59.500 --> 04:03:04.240 Consulate will obviously be starting out on the attack flex of W7 and we'll have the favored side to start 04:03:05.160 --> 04:03:10.440 Like Jesse said, you know, whereas once Oregon when it was in the pool was a map that you just seemed like couldn't be phase 04:03:10.440 --> 04:03:22.440 This is one of those similar ones where they are just so masterfully good at these defenses on this map that even a couple rounds on attack, that might be enough to put a faceclan over top. 04:03:22.440 --> 04:03:33.440 Well it was only a couple of rounds on Nighthaven Labs wasn't it? It really came down to a game of attacks. You know Nighthaven is not going to be looked back on as a particularly great map for either team. 04:03:33.440 --> 04:03:41.440 I think it was a good map overall, but individually, yeah, defense did really well and attack struggled on both sides. 04:03:41.440 --> 04:03:44.440 I kind of believe that that's what we're going to see again moving into this consulate. 04:03:44.440 --> 04:03:50.440 Now, interestingly, Fluxo do have a better percentage win rate when it comes to the attack on consulate, 04:03:50.440 --> 04:03:56.440 but like we've already said, and like Jesse stressed, FaZe have a current very good win rate on there. 04:03:56.440 --> 04:03:59.440 They haven't lost it any year and you really can't ignore that. 04:03:59.440 --> 04:04:03.920 So regardless of the wind rate and that sort of percentage, that's going to count for more. 04:04:03.920 --> 04:04:08.160 And I think that I mean, I've got it down as an 82% wind rate, nearly 83%. 04:04:08.160 --> 04:04:12.640 But I don't think that that's maybe including all the data that you are, Jesse. 04:04:12.640 --> 04:04:14.800 But it's still an incredible feat. 04:04:15.840 --> 04:04:21.040 That is pretty damning and pretty huge from a pure number view. 04:04:21.040 --> 04:04:23.600 But these are kind of number statistics, right? 04:04:23.600 --> 04:04:25.760 We saw how close that first map was. 04:04:25.760 --> 04:04:33.680 We know that Fluxor W7M can perform at the level of phase and this is even from JP the analyst from 04:04:33.680 --> 04:04:40.160 the phase side. We also heard it from Igor from Team Liquid Alieners that this is SAL. Any team can 04:04:40.160 --> 04:04:46.080 beat any other team on any day. This is just part of it. Vest of Threes make it a bit more complicated 04:04:46.080 --> 04:04:50.320 but it's not the first time that Fluxor W7M have had their backs against the wall 04:04:50.320 --> 04:04:55.720 in this sort of situation where they can fire back Jesse it just depends on 04:04:55.720 --> 04:05:00.120 what sort of little changes do you do is it something that has to do with bands 04:05:00.120 --> 04:05:04.600 how do you play that first defensive half to the point where you collect as 04:05:04.600 --> 04:05:08.280 many rounds as possible and you're able to get that morale going so you're not 04:05:08.280 --> 04:05:11.640 you know you can you give yourself a better flexibility on the second half 04:05:11.640 --> 04:05:15.200 yeah I mean I think it has to come off the back of some of your star 04:05:15.200 --> 04:05:18.440 players and when there's flux of W7M in the room the star play 04:05:18.440 --> 04:05:21.940 Everybody likes to talk about as Paulu didn't have a great night in even labs 04:05:22.040 --> 04:05:25.640 Obviously four in ten the lowest rate of player in the lobby in our first map 04:05:25.640 --> 04:05:29.560 And I hate to call them out because I don't think there were any big mistakes that he made in that game 04:05:29.680 --> 04:05:36.280 But he's a type of player that we are often talking about top-fragging the lobby for flux of W7 and he plays very late-round 04:05:36.720 --> 04:05:38.160 passive roles which 04:05:38.160 --> 04:05:43.060 Usually puts him in a good position to kind of clutch up and and get the most amount of kills for his team 04:05:43.060 --> 04:05:47.360 But in the late round really phase were just dog walk and flux of W7 04:05:47.360 --> 04:05:54.360 We need to see Paulu and the rest of the team be able to step up and be able to win some of these late-round situations where they have man advantage. 04:05:54.360 --> 04:06:03.360 They have site control. They have tools to win the round. You just got to find some way to stop Solz from doing what he does in Rafters or handy from rotating. 04:06:03.360 --> 04:06:09.360 I mean, face clan, they are an incredibly tough opponent, but they're your opponent today. You've got to find some way to break through. 04:06:09.360 --> 04:06:16.560 I know it's a bit of a tough question to try to, I guess, materialize an answer for 04:06:16.560 --> 04:06:24.480 Lynx and Oli. You very clearly have seen like every single point of the first map. 04:06:24.480 --> 04:06:29.840 As Jesse said, things are kind of falling apart for Flux to W7M later in the round. 04:06:29.840 --> 04:06:34.840 What do you feel if you've thought about it or crossed your mind has been kind of that 04:06:34.840 --> 04:06:38.520 inflection point where, okay, flex to W7M are in control, 04:06:38.520 --> 04:06:41.600 and then suddenly things shift massively. 04:06:41.600 --> 04:06:44.080 Has there been some sort of pattern forming 04:06:44.080 --> 04:06:45.000 maybe in your mind? 04:06:46.060 --> 04:06:47.600 You know, that's a good question. 04:06:47.600 --> 04:06:51.720 I think if I could just like take the moment to start, 04:06:51.720 --> 04:06:53.360 I think for me, it's not like, 04:06:53.360 --> 04:06:55.280 it's not one particular thing. 04:06:55.280 --> 04:06:58.880 Like it's not an angle that goes completely uncovered. 04:06:58.880 --> 04:07:00.960 It's not some like core weakness 04:07:00.960 --> 04:07:02.440 in their attacking strategy. 04:07:02.440 --> 04:07:04.560 I just think that, and I feel like this is probably 04:07:04.560 --> 04:07:08.000 the most common way attacking teams lose late rounds is like 04:07:08.000 --> 04:07:11.880 one thing happens and then independent of that one small 04:07:11.880 --> 04:07:15.640 action occurs that the defense ends up taking advantage of and then one moment 04:07:15.640 --> 04:07:16.480 is like 04:07:16.480 --> 04:07:19.520 uh... i remember who was that the player sprinting outside of the warehouse 04:07:19.520 --> 04:07:23.360 entrance in handy's able to spring it uh... swing ahead and kill him 04:07:23.360 --> 04:07:26.320 it seems unlikely that handy be in that position but he was 04:07:26.320 --> 04:07:30.240 and so even though the odds for art that high that he'd be there just 04:07:30.240 --> 04:07:33.920 because it was that kind of one in ten situation that he was they get 04:07:33.920 --> 04:07:37.760 punished for it and that's usually how at least when I saw W7M that's what they 04:07:37.760 --> 04:07:40.880 were losing those rounds it wasn't some core failing it was a lot of small 04:07:40.880 --> 04:07:44.800 things building on top of each other and sometimes started in again bat round 04:07:44.800 --> 04:07:48.480 literally just luck that souls had enough the gap between that and the 04:07:48.480 --> 04:07:51.600 fire it's just a lot of small things that ended up again going wrong for 04:07:51.600 --> 04:07:56.160 them it's the small things but as you say it compounded and making the 04:07:56.160 --> 04:07:59.680 bigger picture the thing about phase is that they're very good at taking 04:07:59.680 --> 04:08:02.160 advantage of all the small things and there's not much that really 04:08:02.160 --> 04:08:06.400 slipped through the crack. And I think that's the difference. You get teams that are able 04:08:06.400 --> 04:08:11.280 to take advantage of moments or, and then Fluxo W7 ended a great job of that. There was an 04:08:11.280 --> 04:08:16.080 occasion where we were defending downstairs, FaZe were defending downstairs inside of Tank 04:08:16.080 --> 04:08:19.280 and they'd left the bomb site really light. There was basically nobody on site and they 04:08:19.280 --> 04:08:23.240 just committed to our own Fluxo. So, so that planted and won the round. Now that's 04:08:23.240 --> 04:08:28.240 a big picture opportunity that's been taken from Fluxo. He's very good at all 04:08:28.240 --> 04:08:31.840 small bits. 04:08:31.840 --> 04:08:35.600 Well my friends thank you very much and thank you for all those at home waiting. 04:08:35.600 --> 04:08:40.640 We finally have our lobby together and we're gonna leave it at this point at 04:08:40.640 --> 04:08:44.960 least for our pre-game analysis. All the things they said, all the things they 04:08:44.960 --> 04:08:48.080 said running through my head. It's links and extra 04:08:48.080 --> 04:08:51.840 truck to take you through. Map number two can flexo take it back to map 04:08:51.840 --> 04:08:54.160 three. We'll phase one away with a 2-0 in 04:08:54.160 --> 04:08:57.160 advanced to play Furia, only time will tell. 04:08:57.160 --> 04:09:02.240 Only time will tell who will come out the victor in this heated rivalry between 04:09:02.240 --> 04:09:07.240 FaZe Clan and Flux.w7m on Consulate and at least to start with FaZe on the 04:09:07.240 --> 04:09:12.040 attacking side. First bands they will take off the board will be Clash and 04:09:12.040 --> 04:09:17.680 Cade on the flip side. Grimm and Monty taken off the board as well. But 04:09:17.680 --> 04:09:20.680 Ollie's we mentioned earlier it was just a couple rounds that put FaZe over 04:09:20.680 --> 04:09:23.440 the top on Knighthaven and on Consulate just a couple attacking 04:09:23.440 --> 04:09:30.800 rounds could do the same here? It's one who's going to come down to it. It feels reductive. 04:09:30.800 --> 04:09:34.440 It doesn't necessarily feel like... Defenders protect their bombs from being diffused by 04:09:34.440 --> 04:09:40.840 a tower. I have labs played. I believe it's the way that conchlets can play as well. 04:09:40.840 --> 04:09:44.840 one of the hardest parts we've got in our full attack. 04:09:44.840 --> 04:09:46.840 He's hitting me. 04:09:49.840 --> 04:09:54.840 He's trying to feed back against a Monty and a Grimban. 04:09:54.840 --> 04:09:58.840 So a little bit of a mixture there, but the shields being the headline axe, 04:09:58.840 --> 04:10:02.840 they're both getting punished for both the size individually here. 04:10:02.840 --> 04:10:07.840 They still have a couple of different shields that they can choose to go with. 04:10:07.840 --> 04:10:13.840 I find it quite funny, because I've got a feeling that we're going to have slated this as a difficult map to attack and blah blah blah attacking them same dudes. 04:10:13.840 --> 04:10:17.840 What if Faze just come out and win 4 rounds on the attack? Like what do we do there? Where do we go? 04:10:17.840 --> 04:10:19.840 I close the mix and go to that. 04:10:21.840 --> 04:10:23.840 It's early for you though. 04:10:23.840 --> 04:10:26.840 It's not 29 for me, so it must be early for you. 04:10:26.840 --> 04:10:28.840 It is currently 239. 04:10:28.840 --> 04:10:31.840 That's too bad, that can't happen. 04:10:32.840 --> 04:10:35.840 Have you heard of a nap? We would have been a nap, Ollie. 04:10:35.840 --> 04:10:38.440 I'm really worried about that. 04:10:38.440 --> 04:10:43.280 Listen, man, you sit in your corporate controlled only sleep at night system. 04:10:43.280 --> 04:10:46.280 I sleep when I want, but man doesn't tell me anything. 04:10:46.280 --> 04:10:52.440 Yeah, of course, because it's the culprits that make us sleep at night. 04:10:52.440 --> 04:10:56.520 Well, there's a whole lot of discourse we could go into, but I will not. 04:10:56.520 --> 04:11:02.720 Ooh, well, Scorpion being fired down yellow stairs after the king running downstairs. 04:11:02.720 --> 04:11:09.440 Faze Clan not looking across this position just yet, seeing if there's a gap, there's 04:11:09.440 --> 04:11:10.440 clearly not. 04:11:10.440 --> 04:11:15.440 So they'll focus on some other objectives for the time being, it's a CEO defense to start. 04:11:15.440 --> 04:11:19.800 The bulk of the presence from Fluxo W7M will be up top. 04:11:19.800 --> 04:11:24.440 So the question of course is always, well do we go for a straight CEO, repel, execute, 04:11:24.440 --> 04:11:28.200 or do we try to do an across from the admins side? 04:11:28.200 --> 04:11:34.200 It seems that FaZe Clan are leaning towards the ladder, as one candela goes off in that position. 04:11:34.200 --> 04:11:38.200 And while there's nobody in these immediate rooms surrounding the building, 04:11:38.200 --> 04:11:42.200 there are some further beyond, as Vidikin will come to recognize just now. 04:11:44.200 --> 04:11:49.200 Well, a pre-fire is through the wall, but it's going to be souls credited with the first kill on to Dots. 04:11:49.200 --> 04:11:54.200 Its king might be down, but you can count that as a late trade, but a trade nonetheless. 04:11:54.200 --> 04:11:58.600 Logan in and amongst his spiderweb of Denari trips there 04:11:59.480 --> 04:12:05.360 Waiting to catch the victim as they fall into his net the global shield as well for people to play behind 04:12:05.720 --> 04:12:10.320 And of course the chemical launcher inside of its chain to parlor next player to fall 04:12:11.040 --> 04:12:16.320 Will go down as a trade. They were everything pretty rapid and being responded to here. So far 04:12:17.040 --> 04:12:19.040 I 04:12:19.040 --> 04:12:28.640 I mean, it might as well be cap A that's taking FaZe out to lunch right now, 3 kills for Lobin, 3 to 1, so 37 out. 04:12:28.640 --> 04:12:32.640 And Cyber, good for one, might be good for another, depending on what he can find. 04:12:32.640 --> 04:12:40.140 Two players clown-carring into the long desk position. Got to be a little careful here, for everyone involved. 04:12:40.140 --> 04:12:43.640 Especially with Cyber, having to deal with that deployable shield to his left though. 04:12:43.640 --> 04:12:49.640 Lobin peeking out and nobody has actually been behind the shield. They're instead playing very conservatively inside a long desk 04:12:50.000 --> 04:12:53.920 So we're trying to bait our swing from one of these angles provides he throws the nade 04:12:54.080 --> 04:12:57.800 Lobin gets his fourth first win on the defensive flux of W7M 04:12:57.800 --> 04:13:01.880 And the name of the game will be run up the scoreboard as much as you can in these first six 04:13:03.200 --> 04:13:08.160 You can't afford to make a single mistake because it's going to get punished. It is going to be capitalized on 04:13:08.160 --> 04:13:13.040 So, whilst Fluxor on the air quotes easier side of things, the pressure is still on to 04:13:13.040 --> 04:13:19.380 make sure that they perform and they have to be walking away with, if not 6, 5 as a minimum 04:13:19.380 --> 04:13:20.880 of these opening rounds. 04:13:20.880 --> 04:13:25.400 That was a great start and they were able to convert that opening pick into a round 04:13:25.400 --> 04:13:29.520 advantage eventually into a successful round. 04:13:29.520 --> 04:13:35.560 There will be a bomb site though that falls in that gray area of just being a little 04:13:35.560 --> 04:13:36.560 bit more vulnerable. 04:13:36.560 --> 04:13:42.720 Whether it will be the basement or the third choice bombsite time will tell, but at least 04:13:42.720 --> 04:13:48.080 for round 2 it will be headed downstairs to that basement. 04:13:48.080 --> 04:13:54.920 The bandit coming into play as well, some of that hard breach now to make breaching 04:13:54.920 --> 04:13:55.920 a bit more difficult. 04:13:55.920 --> 04:13:58.920 There were cons all the way on the top floor, see if he maybe decides to dedicate something 04:13:58.920 --> 04:13:59.920 upstairs. 04:13:59.920 --> 04:14:00.920 I don't think he would. 04:14:00.920 --> 04:14:03.920 The single wall might be perfectly fine to do so. 04:14:05.920 --> 04:14:07.920 It's in the swaps on the attacking side as well. 04:14:07.920 --> 04:14:13.920 Cydre bringing in that Snakeshot Band on Nighthaven Labs by Fluxor W7M against FaZe. 04:14:13.920 --> 04:14:17.920 So yeah, the opportunity to see him in action with that Soloton scanner. 04:14:17.920 --> 04:14:21.920 See why Fluxor W7M felt it was such a threat. 04:14:23.920 --> 04:14:25.920 And, additionally, the Boogie drones as well. 04:14:25.920 --> 04:14:28.920 A lot of opportunity not only to get a good clear of the top floor with that information, 04:14:28.920 --> 04:14:35.000 But then as well get this great verticality from the boogie drones already one throat in the building creating a nice little line on the inside 04:14:37.440 --> 04:14:40.560 All the ready and waiting here just outside of the castle barricade 04:14:40.800 --> 04:14:42.400 Maybe hoping for 04:14:42.400 --> 04:14:46.040 Ran boogie don't just to get thrown through it or maybe even to get sledge open 04:14:46.040 --> 04:14:51.640 But handy with his positioning in the way that he's waiting. You'd like to think that he knows what's going on a little bit here 04:14:53.200 --> 04:14:55.200 Yellow thing comes out to confirm it 04:14:58.920 --> 04:15:07.520 He just gets taken out. He just presented himself at the window on a silver platter, and Pauly didn't need any invitation. 04:15:09.520 --> 04:15:16.120 That's criminal from Pauly right there. I mean, that is about as good of a read as you could have. 04:15:17.520 --> 04:15:23.120 Just waiting with the shotgun. Beautiful play there. Now, Faith Plangers have to continue down a body. 04:15:23.120 --> 04:15:27.520 Sludge wasn't going to be adding much, but at least he could have taken down the Castle Barricades and given you another gun. 04:15:27.520 --> 04:15:33.520 Lobonon 1 HP from where? Seems to be the main door. Souls the culprit of that with some 4-17 shots missing. 04:15:35.020 --> 04:15:43.520 His other remnants of his team begin to take control of admin. No 4v4 just yet. Will Dodez, I was about to say, confirm? No! 04:15:43.520 --> 04:15:52.520 Not able to get the kill and instead two go-phase clans away with Lobonon low HP. This round might have just shifted hands much quicker than Fluxo W7 unexpected. 04:15:52.520 --> 04:15:59.080 big chance here for phase spoke about fluxo not being able to afford to make a 04:15:59.080 --> 04:16:03.680 mistake phase also after capitalized on these situations man count advantage in 04:16:03.680 --> 04:16:07.960 a very low low bin with a kill onto vittacan that doesn't make things any 04:16:07.960 --> 04:16:12.280 easier at least now they'll know where Palu is but they have to try and get 04:16:12.280 --> 04:16:16.280 this kill back as soon as possible it's only 55 seconds and I say that 04:16:16.280 --> 04:16:20.640 because he still plays up on this top floor the cyber falling it just adds 04:16:20.640 --> 04:16:29.000 on to the pain. And KDS in a 1v2 again there were chances for phase clan especially with 04:16:29.000 --> 04:16:33.640 that brief advantage they had but there still is some for KDS. It's got the flashbangs 04:16:33.640 --> 04:16:38.280 and lobens on such low health. Also depends on how active he's going to be with this 04:16:38.280 --> 04:16:42.040 heartbeat scanner. What information can he gain or what has already been gathered. 04:16:42.040 --> 04:16:46.480 These vertical angles will cut against the attack at this point. KDS looks to put 04:16:46.480 --> 04:16:50.160 this diffuser down. Nobody directly above his position but Flux of W7M could easily 04:16:50.160 --> 04:16:53.760 get in that spot also concerned with anybody rotating down below with that 04:16:53.760 --> 04:16:59.820 c4 KDS here's it ripped instead will make another attempt as Logan continues to 04:16:59.820 --> 04:17:04.960 scan he falls off again dodging that c4 there's another one that could be sent 04:17:04.960 --> 04:17:09.920 up by the flexor W7 inside trying again said this time not able to find much 04:17:09.920 --> 04:17:13.920 of anything just keeping him guessing keeping him at bay and always keeping 04:17:13.920 --> 04:17:20.120 those doubts alive that could be the opportunity that phase were looking 04:17:20.120 --> 04:17:25.960 for ahead of this matchup, knowing what they were going into. And you can't help but feel 04:17:25.960 --> 04:17:28.760 like it has slipped through their fingertips. 04:17:28.760 --> 04:17:34.120 Fluxo W7M, a really good job of stabilizing there, not giving the opportunity over to FaZe, 04:17:34.120 --> 04:17:37.840 even though they had an advantage in the man count. They just weren't able to trade 04:17:37.840 --> 04:17:42.360 it back. Pauly played it beautifully in and around CEO and connector, picking up 04:17:42.360 --> 04:17:46.560 a kill, managing StaleEye for a little bit longer, and then his teammates on site 04:17:46.560 --> 04:17:52.160 in the hard yards as well. Loebing. He's a fantastic game so far. He's 5-0 at the moment 04:17:52.160 --> 04:17:58.800 ahead of round number 3. Loeb has only died once, Cons only died once. There's a lack 04:17:58.800 --> 04:18:03.600 of kills for this phase side and it's not. It weren't set high as saying that in night 04:18:03.600 --> 04:18:08.120 here in labs. They were giving kills for fun. We saw plenty of performance from everybody. 04:18:08.120 --> 04:18:14.400 It's early days here on Consulate, but it's still a little bit of an alarm bell. 04:18:14.400 --> 04:18:18.880 Is the basement going to be the weaker site of the three here, or are Fluxo going to make 04:18:18.880 --> 04:18:21.880 it a full three site rotation? 04:18:21.880 --> 04:18:28.080 Could be possible. 04:18:28.080 --> 04:18:30.760 On console especially it's not unheard of. 04:18:30.760 --> 04:18:35.520 On the basement as well which will carry some fundamental principles from the other sites. 04:18:35.520 --> 04:18:41.120 Here though, as you can see, the pulse coming back through for Fluxo W7M, addition of 04:18:41.120 --> 04:18:45.880 the castle, create a bit more of a maze for FaZe Clan to search through. Those black mirrors 04:18:45.880 --> 04:18:49.920 as you highlighted last map that has been really impactful in a lot of the matches that we've 04:18:49.920 --> 04:18:55.240 casted in the past few days. A lot of problematic utility that FaZe Clan will have to concern 04:18:55.240 --> 04:19:00.840 themselves with. And on their side, they got the black, but they got the snake. But 04:19:00.840 --> 04:19:04.400 definitely I will say for one of those rare iterations where there's some, a lot 04:19:04.400 --> 04:19:09.600 more big name utility for Flexor W7M than on the opposite side for once. Dots gathering 04:19:09.600 --> 04:19:15.340 good information over by the tunnel? Can't find quite anything just yet, just gathering 04:19:15.340 --> 04:19:21.080 numbers mainly, seeing if the attack is present in this area and if not, that kind of crosses 04:19:21.080 --> 04:19:26.240 out locations which they're not and that mirrors down where they might otherwise be. John 04:19:26.240 --> 04:19:32.360 Runeclear, the player's slowly reinforced road as his position, is of massive importance. 04:19:32.360 --> 04:19:37.320 Flanking out, climbing the block beard able to attack souls up quite a bit, nades threat 04:19:37.320 --> 04:19:42.300 sent out while lobin confirms that kill handy is quick on the trade it seems 04:19:42.300 --> 04:19:46.560 for the broader roaming presence there's only one body remaining inside a piano 04:19:46.560 --> 04:19:51.800 they've got a trapped in art and KDS has shut him down this can't be another 04:19:51.800 --> 04:19:55.760 situation where phase have an advantage and let it slip they have to try and 04:19:55.760 --> 04:20:00.960 capitalize on this but it comes just drags one back I don't know where 04:20:00.960 --> 04:20:05.520 lobin in a bit of a dicey position but I'm the option to rotate up through 04:20:05.520 --> 04:20:08.160 the top floor of the building. 04:20:08.160 --> 04:20:10.360 Oh, an opportunity and shots land. 04:20:10.360 --> 04:20:11.920 Docs takes vicking down as well. 04:20:11.920 --> 04:20:14.960 That's two kills caught on the reverse vertical. 04:20:14.960 --> 04:20:17.320 Now if Loebbing can get himself back to site, 04:20:17.320 --> 04:20:21.080 this is a great position that Fluxo W7M find themselves in. 04:20:21.080 --> 04:20:23.680 Not only have they fought back from a disadvantage, 04:20:23.680 --> 04:20:25.760 but they've got three bodies down there 04:20:25.760 --> 04:20:28.280 to try and hold for this final push. 04:20:28.280 --> 04:20:29.440 They've even got the heartbeat scanner 04:20:29.440 --> 04:20:31.000 getting all of this information 04:20:31.000 --> 04:20:33.360 on just two remaining players. 04:20:33.360 --> 04:20:35.000 Taking themselves up so well in these defenses, 04:20:35.000 --> 04:20:38.200 He's got a great pre-fire by Cyber, he'd be followed up by another 1v1. 04:20:38.200 --> 04:20:40.200 Oh no! 04:20:40.200 --> 04:20:44.880 Hopping on the palace unfortunately denies the very angle he needed to take. 04:20:44.880 --> 04:20:49.400 And when KDS gets that trade, just a 1v1, switched to the pistol. 04:20:49.400 --> 04:20:51.400 Surely this man is not out of ammo. 04:20:51.400 --> 04:20:53.400 Not enough time to reload. 04:20:53.400 --> 04:20:56.240 You know, LoB is far enough away to let that happen, but taking the aggressive line gives 04:20:56.240 --> 04:20:57.240 it up soon after. 04:20:57.240 --> 04:20:59.240 That was his last flash, he just sent out. 04:20:59.240 --> 04:21:04.360 So it'll be a raw 1v1 for KDS, slowly creeping around the corner, only six shots 04:21:04.360 --> 04:21:10.000 for Lobin. They all need to hit but only one matters. It's KDS instead. First attacking 04:21:10.000 --> 04:21:12.920 win for FaZe Clan and a 1v1 to do it. 04:21:12.920 --> 04:21:17.120 FaZe weren't going to have the wool pulled over their eyes two rounds in a row. They 04:21:17.120 --> 04:21:21.760 needed to clutch that one out and they were forced to do so. They had an advantage at 04:21:21.760 --> 04:21:26.040 around the halfway point in the round but Fluxo on that reverse vertical. Just the 04:21:26.040 --> 04:21:29.920 sheer determination to challenge onto some of those angles. Not something that you 04:21:29.920 --> 04:21:34.320 always see but they were able to drag it back. It was really all on Lobin. And 04:21:34.320 --> 04:21:38.360 forget he started that little loose 04:21:38.360 --> 04:21:43.000 pasture of play all the way all the way over inside a visa office was able to 04:21:43.000 --> 04:21:46.840 rotate all the way through the top floor of the site and then get himself back 04:21:46.840 --> 04:21:52.680 down was in the right position in the vicinity just not able to land the 04:21:52.680 --> 04:21:58.520 shot phase are going to choose a start of round four to take their tactical 04:21:58.520 --> 04:22:03.760 time out don't forget we always get the halfway point one as well and the 04:22:03.760 --> 04:22:08.380 FaZe recognizing that they are very good on the defense of Consulate probably 04:22:08.380 --> 04:22:12.400 thinking there's no point saving it. We may as well use it now and see if we can 04:22:12.400 --> 04:22:15.980 get ourselves a favorable split here. 04:22:16.180 --> 04:22:21.300 And it makes sense again with that halfway point coming up to be able to 04:22:21.300 --> 04:22:25.380 game plan for the defense pretty effectively and if this is you know the 04:22:25.380 --> 04:22:27.340 sense of being a close game like Knighthaven you're gonna waste this 04:22:27.340 --> 04:22:30.340 opportunity especially since that round just came to a 1v1 as Ali just 04:22:30.340 --> 04:22:35.620 kind of dissected, so FaZe Clan, now that it has ended, they will get to retry an attack 04:22:35.620 --> 04:22:36.620 on CEO. 04:22:36.620 --> 04:22:40.700 Let's see what they change, especially as they opt to take down the pulse for Fluxo 04:22:40.700 --> 04:22:41.700 W7M. 04:22:41.700 --> 04:22:44.900 Probably an unexpected but consistent pick for Fluxo W7M going into this map. 04:22:44.900 --> 04:22:48.940 Didn't think that would be the, you know, present in two rounds, let alone banned by 04:22:48.940 --> 04:22:49.940 FaZe Clan. 04:22:49.940 --> 04:22:53.340 Clearly concerned enough about it that they want to take it off the board. 04:22:53.340 --> 04:22:55.580 Conversely, Fluxo W7M picking the twitch. 04:22:55.580 --> 04:22:59.460 I was going to say, maybe we'll see a bit more traps in play, but no actually. 04:22:59.460 --> 04:23:01.460 Yeah, yeah, you were my combo 04:23:05.820 --> 04:23:08.740 We're back on cafe or you back on like utility don't matter 04:23:08.740 --> 04:23:13.380 I was gonna say honestly your cafe come earlier actually ended up being prescient 04:23:13.380 --> 04:23:18.780 I was gonna say it's like spoken into existence, hasn't it? It is like we're back on cafe. I mean, I mean hey 04:23:18.780 --> 04:23:23.660 You look at that like sure. There's a single window right behind you, but like you look at that position in ceo 04:23:24.820 --> 04:23:28.300 Like Patty corner from the window. It's kind of like pixel 04:23:29.460 --> 04:23:37.380 I get it. I do get it. I just think it leaves a lot on the table when the 04:23:37.380 --> 04:23:40.380 defense have so many tears that they can go with. 04:23:40.380 --> 04:23:46.140 And DOS still got all three in his pocket at the moment as well of the ADS's so 04:23:46.140 --> 04:23:49.740 starting to get placed down. 04:23:51.740 --> 04:23:55.540 Yeah, it's not like there's loads of stuff that's gonna be thrown in either, you know 04:23:55.540 --> 04:24:24.540 We've got the Capitao balls, sure we've got, it's a fear but there's only a couple of nades, two sets of nades, it's not the world's amount of utility, it's not like we're bringing Ying or something of that nature, maybe it's something that Fluxo were expecting, as Ying of course is available to be played, but at least for the early portion of the round we're going to be watching Loeb and Challenge on to the roof with the SMG, it's always a bit of a scary time, only because I look at it and think that looks incredibly difficult, but more incapable of making that challenge. 04:24:25.540 --> 04:24:30.900 Unfortunately for him, no one is going to be in the vicinity. Instead, Faze is looking to try and get himself onto the repel 04:24:30.900 --> 04:24:35.740 and shape up for what he's looking like, a fairly admin-side approach. 04:24:35.740 --> 04:24:45.540 It's looking like it. Especially now that Hanyu or Apollo are in, but it can't make this first. 04:24:45.540 --> 04:24:51.940 Why going down? That's just a crazy pre-fire. Setting up all those ADSs and for what, unfortunately? 04:24:51.940 --> 04:24:56.460 dots on top of the filing cabinet and oldie but a goodie not necessarily in this 04:24:56.460 --> 04:25:02.700 case as handy just walks in and the dots a bit slow to the punch one HP for 04:25:02.700 --> 04:25:06.420 handy low HP for souls but a five to three advantage for phase clan that's 04:25:06.420 --> 04:25:09.940 why cons you can see trying to play aggressive on this doorway I hope that 04:25:09.940 --> 04:25:13.060 there's a little gap in information that phase can make a little bit of a 04:25:13.060 --> 04:25:16.820 stumble kind of like we saw handy take advantage of last map because we're 04:25:16.820 --> 04:25:19.060 hearing the 3d5 you got to do something to try to win this back 04:25:19.060 --> 04:25:22.540 whether it's Peek Skylight or Peek Dead Doorway. It's unfortunate for them, Face Clan aren't 04:25:22.540 --> 04:25:23.540 biting. 04:25:23.540 --> 04:25:28.540 How they're going to be if it's trying to challenge onto the Automa Spiral here, globally. It falls 04:25:28.540 --> 04:25:34.540 to the hands of Vitzking, and that should be freeing up the passage of those Vizzestairs, 04:25:34.540 --> 04:25:39.540 but with KDS falling on Spiral and no one there from Face to take that place, they 04:25:39.540 --> 04:25:44.660 may hold their vantage, but it's only a man cow, certainly not in HP. Andy Vitzking 04:25:44.660 --> 04:25:47.660 and souls have barely got enough between them to make a full body. 04:25:48.160 --> 04:25:49.820 Candy well is not long for this world. 04:25:49.820 --> 04:25:51.720 Cons takes him out there. 04:25:51.720 --> 04:25:55.060 Can continue to try and hold onto this meeting door at close range. 04:25:55.060 --> 04:25:57.060 Is he able to find himself another? 04:25:57.060 --> 04:25:58.660 I thought he was going to swing for the third there, 04:25:58.660 --> 04:26:01.060 but he's probably going to get gifted in anyway. 04:26:01.060 --> 04:26:04.580 Three kills on the round and leave souls in the 1B1 with Polly, 04:26:04.580 --> 04:26:07.660 but there's still 30 seconds left. 04:26:07.660 --> 04:26:10.860 It's another one where FaZe might end up winning around from behind 04:26:10.860 --> 04:26:13.160 when they had a lead at some point. 04:26:13.160 --> 04:26:17.760 And so Pauli wrapping around, one of the people that started all of this, impact goes out. 04:26:18.400 --> 04:26:21.760 And so now Solz puts the diffuser down, trying to send the signal. 04:26:21.760 --> 04:26:25.080 And so Pauli runs over, moves to the doorway, can he get the angle in time? 04:26:25.080 --> 04:26:27.080 And Solz puts it down, yes he can! 04:26:27.680 --> 04:26:31.560 Another 1v1, but this time going the opposite way and it just compounds. 04:26:31.560 --> 04:26:33.560 Flux O W7M's lead further. 04:26:36.160 --> 04:26:39.320 Well, Flux O W7M, another round that comes down to the wire. 04:26:39.320 --> 04:26:44.520 I'll tell you what, for as decisive as we thought that this first half was going to be, we could 04:26:44.520 --> 04:26:49.320 be sat here calling this a score line in exactly the other direction. We could be sat here saying 04:26:49.320 --> 04:26:54.360 phase of 1-3 rounds and fluxo of 1-1 because there's two rounds that come to my mind that 04:26:54.360 --> 04:26:58.920 have both come down to 1 versus 1 or very narrow clutches. Even the round that phase were good 04:26:58.920 --> 04:27:04.120 for downstairs, it was a 1 versus 1. If not been a million miles away from picking up some 04:27:04.120 --> 04:27:10.760 of these rounds here, Fluxo have just been able to hold on on those few occasions. Round 04:27:10.760 --> 04:27:18.480 five, back to the mid-floor, we go. Every trap line up with that Fenrir and the Mozzie, 04:27:18.480 --> 04:27:23.840 and then a little bit more of a traditional setup, and the double SAS operates as Mute 04:27:23.840 --> 04:27:28.440 and Smoke both being brought to the party. Mirror window is going to be a factor 04:27:28.440 --> 04:27:32.480 as well, and that's likely going to get played both on the site and potentially upstairs 04:27:32.480 --> 04:27:37.000 as well just to try and hold on. You think back to the way that this round went, Lynx, 04:27:37.000 --> 04:27:44.320 it was another very narrow margin wasn't it? It came down to a two versus one, plant being 04:27:44.320 --> 04:27:49.440 attempted, chance there, I think it was a big round from Paolo if I remember rightly. He 04:27:49.440 --> 04:27:53.240 was able to pick himself up a couple of kills on the top floor and really drag that advantage 04:27:53.240 --> 04:27:54.240 back. 04:27:54.240 --> 04:27:59.680 I mean all these rounds have been very close from 2-1 VWZ and as you pointed out on 04:27:59.680 --> 04:28:03.680 Last time I went to X-Vision in Kenyanya it was a 2v1. Faceclan ended up losing. 04:28:05.200 --> 04:28:09.680 So all these rounds have been quite close. This was certainly one in which 04:28:09.680 --> 04:28:14.000 Flux of W7M started off, at least in terms of the man count with a lead. We'll see what happens here. 04:28:14.960 --> 04:28:17.360 Put that trap heavy lineup as you mentioned earlier, the F-Nauts. 04:28:18.800 --> 04:28:21.680 Actually, turn the traps, just the F-Nauts, but still you have the 04:28:21.680 --> 04:28:25.520 Mazi pass as well. A lot of gadgets is generally that can be placed on the floor and if 04:28:25.520 --> 04:28:31.780 attacking team's life a little bit more difficult could see it quite loose play 04:28:31.780 --> 04:28:35.240 on this top floor as the air jabs go out handy will look to control that exact 04:28:35.240 --> 04:28:39.080 style I should know if you can retake positions a gopher flanks without first 04:28:39.080 --> 04:28:43.840 destroying an air jab and potentially giving away their position 04:28:43.840 --> 04:28:55.560 It's King down for the count C4 might be in a position to be paid so I think it was should 04:28:55.560 --> 04:28:59.760 be recoverable at the moment but it's going to drag somebody from FaZe away from a job 04:28:59.760 --> 04:29:03.240 that they otherwise would have been doing. 04:29:03.240 --> 04:29:08.040 Tiber convinced that someone's going to jump out and at least challenge onto the window 04:29:08.040 --> 04:29:09.040 but it's going to be KDS. 04:29:09.040 --> 04:29:16.800 Pays a little bit of a price for picking up his teammate and vitt king, but at least maintains all five players alive for the time being dots 04:29:17.120 --> 04:29:18.720 C4 ready 04:29:18.720 --> 04:29:21.660 I don't think he realizes how close he is if he sends that out there 04:29:21.660 --> 04:29:27.760 Especially with the low HP on vitt king and KDS. You might have a chance, but maybe handy to fall despite the chipped players on 04:29:28.040 --> 04:29:30.040 Phase it's the full HP handy to go down 04:29:34.280 --> 04:29:36.280 And so it's good for the follow-up 04:29:36.280 --> 04:29:40.620 So, dead even as we move into the final minute. 04:29:40.620 --> 04:29:45.060 Something needs to start breaking phase is where you don't have a clear entry at this point. 04:29:45.060 --> 04:29:48.400 Don't have an exact amount of control, but they do have quite a bit of utility, the concussions 04:29:48.400 --> 04:29:52.040 and capitals for utility, as well as both nades and flashes as well. 04:29:52.040 --> 04:29:56.300 For a lot of different ways they could crack something open, even if they haven't done 04:29:56.300 --> 04:29:57.300 it just yet. 04:29:57.300 --> 04:30:01.680 A lot of utility going out, but Pau is swinging it from behind actually, flanking up spiral 04:30:01.680 --> 04:30:02.680 stairs. 04:30:02.680 --> 04:30:07.680 Faye's not expecting that. Fluxo W7M constantly keeping the attacking team on their toes. 04:30:07.680 --> 04:30:10.680 And that this ends up being a Faye's victory like a lot of us predicted. 04:30:10.680 --> 04:30:13.680 It's looking like it'll have to be a hard fought one on the opposite side. 04:30:13.680 --> 04:30:18.680 It's the most dominant victory for Fluxo W7M, this defensive half. 04:30:18.680 --> 04:30:20.680 On a retrive expo, no 2v1. 04:30:20.680 --> 04:30:24.680 Instead, it's Cyber to need four kills in a row. 04:30:24.680 --> 04:30:28.680 The first takes almost all of his HP in exchange. 04:30:28.680 --> 04:30:33.720 need will go out just so he can get some security moving through the opposite side but on these vertical angles 04:30:34.440 --> 04:30:39.080 What is he going to find just death on the opposite side four to one for fluxo w7m 04:30:39.640 --> 04:30:45.080 Consulate is always a defensive side at map, but that doesn't mean they are not performing at some damn good siege 04:30:45.960 --> 04:30:47.960 They're playing really well 04:30:47.960 --> 04:30:49.960 You can't take that away from them at the moment 04:30:50.360 --> 04:30:55.160 Phase are having opportunities as well. There's been a couple of rounds where we've looked at it and said phase 04:30:55.160 --> 04:31:01.160 maybe we ought to be walking away with that one there regardless of if this is a good map for the defenders or not. 04:31:01.160 --> 04:31:06.160 Fluxo consistently walking away the better here in these rounds, the last round. 04:31:06.160 --> 04:31:15.160 And as the sides currently sit, either going to be a 4-2 to Fluxo or a 5-1, this will tell us the full story. 04:31:15.160 --> 04:31:18.160 Only sight so far that FaZe have been successful in. 04:31:18.160 --> 04:31:23.160 Garand and Cafeteria downstairs isn't being the played. 04:31:23.160 --> 04:31:28.680 seeing for the first time split bombsite. Now there's question marks over the split 04:31:28.680 --> 04:31:33.080 bombsite because well it's split and there are not many sites in the game 04:31:33.080 --> 04:31:38.000 that hold over two separate floors and just naturally from a defending point of 04:31:38.000 --> 04:31:41.240 view it can make things a little bit more tricky because it's not just one 04:31:41.240 --> 04:31:46.200 area you're worried about or one floor you're kind of worried about too so it 04:31:46.200 --> 04:31:51.360 does really stretch you a little bit thinly. We do often see teams try to 04:31:51.360 --> 04:31:56.240 avoid it but looks like the option to pull it out here for their final stand on the defence 04:31:56.240 --> 04:32:02.880 in regulation typically requires a bit of a full map clear which I mean just in certain sites 04:32:02.880 --> 04:32:07.120 into consulate and it always requires a full map clear right because it's so compacted you need 04:32:07.120 --> 04:32:12.480 to be able to clear large areas be able to gain control because the vertical is just so powerful 04:32:12.480 --> 04:32:19.120 great c4 sense out there oh that's again you are so lucky to be alive the blitz with one hp 04:32:19.120 --> 04:32:24.120 Well, it's not much good to anyone as far as I know there's a smoke on the table. 04:32:25.120 --> 04:32:31.120 Even small things like barbed wire on the floor like even if you just make one misstep or 04:32:32.120 --> 04:32:37.120 even if you're the blitz and attempting trying to bait sound in a position that option isn't available anymore. 04:32:37.120 --> 04:32:42.120 So if it can throw some smokes and they end up occluding the wrong spot you might just walk in and kind of 04:32:42.120 --> 04:32:46.120 die the same way Lopin did on Night Haven, right before that Souls Clutch. 04:32:46.120 --> 04:32:48.120 He's hit by a Gershmont this time it seems. 04:32:48.120 --> 04:32:51.120 So dopey call goes out, so not much cheering he'll be doing at the moment. 04:32:51.120 --> 04:32:54.120 The rest of his team will flood in through the Yellow Stairs side. 04:32:54.120 --> 04:32:57.120 Sol's actually the first to go down despite Vidikings reduced HP. 04:32:57.120 --> 04:33:03.120 Whatever information or plan FaZe Clan had is falling apart in the first minute and 10 seconds. 04:33:03.120 --> 04:33:07.120 Yeah, through the drone hole, Lobin was ready for that one. 04:33:07.120 --> 04:33:12.120 Don't want to make the call early, but a 5-1-1 half seems very likely for Flux or W7M. 04:33:12.120 --> 04:33:16.680 If Cyber's not able to either use this information to get some kills or find a gap through the middle 04:33:18.120 --> 04:33:20.780 Odds of them running away with this seem quite low 04:33:22.680 --> 04:33:28.320 Fuse a cold as well can only think that it is in the hands of the king should be a freebie and it will be cyber 04:33:28.480 --> 04:33:33.720 grabs one onto dots and maybe look to move upstairs and think about recovering that diffuser book 04:33:33.720 --> 04:33:36.080 If there's still players hopping around inside of admin 04:33:36.080 --> 04:33:39.760 It isn't gonna be as straightforward as just walking up and taking it Andy 04:33:39.760 --> 04:33:48.760 vertical weights in eyes, feet and narrow chance there, and they sent out two plays inside of Admin, and Cyra's got one. 04:33:48.760 --> 04:33:50.760 He needs to grab the second. 04:33:55.760 --> 04:33:57.760 Oh, it was outside. 04:33:57.760 --> 04:33:58.760 And it's just been simply diffused. 04:33:58.760 --> 04:34:03.760 I thought he'd left it inside of the corridor outside, but Cyra's actually, he's got the ability to leave him here. 04:34:03.760 --> 04:34:04.760 You can catch him on the rotate back. 04:34:04.760 --> 04:34:06.760 Might be able to. 04:34:06.760 --> 04:34:08.760 Might just be able to in the 3v3. 04:34:08.760 --> 04:34:12.760 Now the odds were low, they'd increased since a minute and ten seconds ago. 04:34:12.760 --> 04:34:19.760 Now moving downstairs, there's some kind of 1v1, some kind of momentum, big kill by Cyber, 04:34:19.760 --> 04:34:25.760 paying for his weight in this round, so much momentum gained by this one player. 04:34:28.760 --> 04:34:30.760 Still pushing further. 04:34:32.760 --> 04:34:34.760 I've completely frozen, so... 04:34:34.760 --> 04:34:40.040 It's called the Vert. He knows exactly where at least one player is, but Andy's gonna start 04:34:40.040 --> 04:34:41.320 getting that plant down. 04:34:41.320 --> 04:34:49.440 Sider. Ties a bow on what was a fantastic Sider round and I think again another showcase 04:34:49.440 --> 04:34:55.040 of just how powerful Solid Snake can be there. That Soliton scanner really coming into its 04:34:55.040 --> 04:35:01.880 own. Navigating the players inside of Admin oh so beautifully as well and FaZe. They go 04:35:01.880 --> 04:35:04.840 go into their attack in a defensive phase, excuse me, 04:35:04.840 --> 04:35:07.320 with another win on the attack. 04:35:07.320 --> 04:35:10.880 Two rounds to four, that was the exact score line 04:35:10.880 --> 04:35:13.560 that was good enough on Night Haven Labs. 04:35:13.560 --> 04:35:15.640 We've got our desk to give us their opinion 04:35:15.640 --> 04:35:16.800 on the first six rounds. 04:35:17.680 --> 04:35:19.200 Thank you very much, my friends. 04:35:19.200 --> 04:35:21.640 Now, we can talk about the first six rounds, 04:35:21.640 --> 04:35:24.280 but first I think it's important to give the context 04:35:24.280 --> 04:35:28.080 in which this match is happening, Jesse. 04:35:28.080 --> 04:35:31.360 Consulate is a stronghold for phase. 04:35:31.360 --> 04:35:35.200 How deep does duty's water run really? 04:35:35.200 --> 04:35:37.120 Yeah, I mean Milo, if you've talked about it already, 04:35:37.120 --> 04:35:39.880 I already told you this is a 10 game winning streak 04:35:39.880 --> 04:35:40.720 for FaZe Clan. 04:35:40.720 --> 04:35:43.740 They dominate on this map, but I went and took a look back. 04:35:43.740 --> 04:35:45.200 The last time they lost this map 04:35:45.200 --> 04:35:48.360 was going to be February 9th, 2025 against SSG 04:35:48.360 --> 04:35:49.440 at the Sixth Invitational. 04:35:49.440 --> 04:35:52.480 That was an 8-6 loss to FaZe Clan. 04:35:52.480 --> 04:35:55.800 Suppose they had won that match just for a minute with me. 04:35:55.800 --> 04:35:58.400 What do you think their win rate would be at that point? 04:35:58.400 --> 04:36:00.280 What their win streak would be if they'd won that? 04:36:00.280 --> 04:36:05.960 to be 11 maps, maybe you're taking 12, maybe even 13. If FaZe had not lost that 8-6 game, 04:36:05.960 --> 04:36:15.080 they would be on a 20 map-winning streak, beating in a row since August 22nd, 2024. 04:36:15.080 --> 04:36:21.160 W7M Black Dragon's NIP W7M again, Liquid Space Station E1 Furious Secret, 04:36:21.160 --> 04:36:25.160 then it's the Space Station 8-6 game, then they beat Liquid, BDS, Furex, 04:36:25.160 --> 04:36:33.740 QuraZinehow, sorry Tier 2 Brazilian team butchered that, NIP, W7M, BDS, M80, Liquid, and of course 04:36:33.740 --> 04:36:39.220 Team Secret Map 1 of the 6th Invitational, Fluxo had played a great game so far, spearheaded 04:36:39.220 --> 04:36:45.020 by Lobin and Kons with some master class rounds. If they can get just 3 attacks in the next 04:36:45.020 --> 04:36:49.620 6, they will do something that is nearly unheard of in Rainbow Six. 04:36:49.620 --> 04:36:55.940 Or the other side cyber could always exist and then all your planning just goes out the window, right? 04:36:55.940 --> 04:36:58.180 But that'll be for our second half 04:36:58.180 --> 04:37:05.060 We'll see if fluxo can lock it in and dig us the map three back to your wonderful commentators links and I enjoy 04:37:06.900 --> 04:37:10.820 Well, you will Ali. I mean now we got the defensive side a console 04:37:10.820 --> 04:37:11.820 It always 04:37:11.820 --> 04:37:16.500 You have never quite as I would say like hotly contested as some of these 04:37:16.500 --> 04:37:18.500 Everyone else is finding that a crazy set. 04:37:18.500 --> 04:37:21.060 We'll see if FaZe can take advantage of the defenses here, 04:37:21.060 --> 04:37:22.820 but I also think more importantly, 04:37:22.820 --> 04:37:25.180 just recover from some of the woes we saw in the attacking half. 04:37:25.180 --> 04:37:26.980 Consulate, like I said, might be defender sided, 04:37:26.980 --> 04:37:31.380 but I mean, you only win one attack because of a 1v1 and another 04:37:31.380 --> 04:37:34.620 because Cyber got a 4k and a 3v5, that's just insane. 04:37:34.620 --> 04:37:37.500 That's a seven thing entirely, isn't it? 04:37:37.500 --> 04:37:40.220 Yeah, but that's the FaZe effect. 04:37:40.220 --> 04:37:43.540 And you wonder about who on the side of Fluxo W7M 04:37:43.540 --> 04:37:50.820 is capable of either of those two things. Are they capable of pulling off a 3k or are they 04:37:50.820 --> 04:37:56.100 capable of pulling off a 4k? It really comes down to those sort of margins because that's 04:37:56.100 --> 04:38:01.540 what it took for FaZe to get attacking wins here on Consulate. And it's likely what it's going 04:38:01.540 --> 04:38:10.820 to take for Flux OW7M as well. They are loving that salt on scanner ban, that snake ban. 04:38:10.820 --> 04:38:16.820 Monty also removed a Cade and a Mute on the Flux side as well from Fluxo. 04:38:18.820 --> 04:38:24.820 Think that FaZe may be early adopters of Solid Snake. They know just how good it can be. 04:38:24.820 --> 04:38:28.820 I think Cyber demonstrated beautifully in that last round as well, round number six. 04:38:28.820 --> 04:38:36.820 If there's a reason to remove it out of your game, if there's a reason it's worth a ban, that's probably a reason in itself right there. 04:38:36.820 --> 04:38:41.220 right there. But you've got the F2 and the F2 is great at the moment as well, especially 04:38:41.220 --> 04:38:46.260 now that you can place the grip on it. So it really has changed the game somewhat. 04:38:47.540 --> 04:38:51.540 This is the side that everyone's been talking about, Faze, with this mega impressive 04:38:51.540 --> 04:38:55.460 win record. I mean, I'm expecting this to just be like a layup, really, 04:38:55.460 --> 04:38:58.980 Lynx at this point. They've got two rounds on the attack. This surely should just be 04:38:58.980 --> 04:39:03.620 another day at the office. Well, you'd always think so. The things can go quite 04:39:03.620 --> 04:39:07.780 differently in Fluxer W7M have shown not only enough prowess in their defenses, I mean five out of 04:39:07.780 --> 04:39:12.100 six opening picks and good moments in their 1v1s as well, but also showed quite a lot of prowess 04:39:12.100 --> 04:39:16.420 on attacking on Nighthaven. The philosophies might be different, but I think it says a lot that 04:39:16.980 --> 04:39:23.060 for that side it was a lot of, you know, hero plays, great skill, but also enabled by a bit 04:39:23.060 --> 04:39:28.020 a lot from FaZe Clan to save what otherwise could have been overtime or even a Fluxer W7M map. 04:39:29.060 --> 04:39:32.180 They were definitely, I think, you know, to co-adjust the overall strategically the better 04:39:32.180 --> 04:39:37.140 team on night haven with those attacks. So even though they lost, it's still important 04:39:37.140 --> 04:39:41.820 to consider going forward here. This is not a team that will go quietly even if they end 04:39:41.820 --> 04:39:46.460 up going. And that is, well, that's a much different question. Starting on the admin 04:39:46.460 --> 04:39:50.980 side, clear orders going out, getting a little bit of a fortress. The attacking team on the 04:39:50.980 --> 04:39:56.020 side of the map and a long angle for cons, cutting straight down the middle of the 04:39:56.020 --> 04:39:57.020 top floor. 04:39:57.020 --> 04:40:01.980 Looks like I've got pretty good pace in here. Round the halfway point into the round, 04:40:01.980 --> 04:40:06.100 They've got that admin control and crucially they haven't lost a body in the process. 04:40:06.100 --> 04:40:10.740 Dotz is a little bit concerned about pushing up too far at the moment. 04:40:10.740 --> 04:40:14.420 I'm not sure if anybody knows about Handy's position at the minute. 04:40:14.420 --> 04:40:17.660 It's a kind of ability to support him there as well. 04:40:17.660 --> 04:40:22.420 ADS, tiny little murder holes through the floor. 04:40:22.420 --> 04:40:26.660 I'm sure that makes Handy feel a lot safer knowing that he's got a couple of bodies upstairs 04:40:26.660 --> 04:40:29.100 that have the ability to watch down onto him. 04:40:29.100 --> 04:40:39.100 And if he's left unchecked, he can just flank these stairs at the right moment, and it's going to be wrapped, soles kicks off with a kill over onto dot C4, sent as well, beautifully! 04:40:39.100 --> 04:40:45.100 Cyber finds his man handy, successful as predicted on the flank. 04:40:45.100 --> 04:40:50.100 Flux O W7M's attack has crashed like water onto rock. 04:40:50.100 --> 04:40:57.020 I'm not one particularly for authority player for the side of the phase clan just sat prone 04:40:57.020 --> 04:40:58.020 in the middle of the doorway. 04:40:58.020 --> 04:41:01.180 Polly with a nice flick to take down Vittacang. 04:41:01.180 --> 04:41:03.300 Looking for another one if you wanted the double door down below. 04:41:03.300 --> 04:41:08.420 You have to be careful, don't start overstepping and you will back off. 04:41:08.420 --> 04:41:12.660 Polly makes note of that, not a whole lot he can do with that information, but at 04:41:12.660 --> 04:41:15.260 least it's a gunfight that FaZe will not give away. 04:41:15.260 --> 04:41:17.260 We never covered the diffuser. 04:41:17.260 --> 04:41:19.660 There's an opposite side of the halls for him. 04:41:19.660 --> 04:41:22.580 This is one of the most difficult positions for a player to deal with and it's for that 04:41:22.580 --> 04:41:23.820 exact reason. 04:41:23.820 --> 04:41:26.700 Look one way, you get the counter swing from the other. 04:41:26.700 --> 04:41:30.580 FaZe Clan with a bit of a hill to climb, but building off Cybers 4K, it's fitting 04:41:30.580 --> 04:41:32.300 he gets the last kill. 04:41:32.300 --> 04:41:35.580 And they take their first win on CEO. 04:41:35.580 --> 04:41:37.460 It just didn't even look close to it. 04:41:37.460 --> 04:41:41.820 Flux only made good progress, they got into admin, didn't cost them much, but it 04:41:41.820 --> 04:41:45.340 was kind of because it wasn't really being held too hard by FaZe Clan. 04:41:45.340 --> 04:41:46.840 They had other ideas. 04:41:46.840 --> 04:41:50.980 I love the synergy between handy and the players upstairs on site. 04:41:50.980 --> 04:41:57.500 Little tiny holes, like they're not even shotgun holes, they're just made by pistols or even just SMGs, just whatever you've got at hand. 04:41:57.500 --> 04:42:04.980 Just make a little hole in the floor, the accuracy and the position of the hole is obviously very important, but it isn't obvious, it's not overbearing. 04:42:04.980 --> 04:42:10.180 You don't sort of look at it, you won't look at it on a drone and go, oh we really need to check that out, like maybe someone's playing there. 04:42:10.180 --> 04:42:17.180 He's just got that little bit of support from a bill. They just freeze them up to not have to worry about every single angle 04:42:17.180 --> 04:42:18.580 Of course you play on Ella as well 04:42:18.580 --> 04:42:20.380 So you've got some grismots at your disposal 04:42:20.380 --> 04:42:23.140 But then just being positioned in the right place at the right time 04:42:23.340 --> 04:42:29.340 All that sort of a flanking play because that's one of the difficulties really with Consulate is that for all that 04:42:29.340 --> 04:42:33.600 It's a great matter for the defenders to get a flank off isn't really that straightforward 04:42:33.600 --> 04:42:34.980 Yeah, you've got a couple of hatches 04:42:34.980 --> 04:42:41.280 but your staircases are so hotly contested that it can often be very difficult to use them to their full potential. 04:42:41.280 --> 04:42:44.280 So if you're going to play below, you kind of need to be there from the start. 04:42:44.720 --> 04:42:47.180 That's what we saw, handy play in round number seven. 04:42:47.680 --> 04:42:50.120 So, in round number eight, you've got a different idea. 04:42:50.680 --> 04:42:52.820 You've got SMG 12 and he's going to go for a run out. 04:42:53.120 --> 04:42:53.920 Oh, boy. 04:42:58.680 --> 04:42:59.280 Well. 04:43:02.180 --> 04:43:02.980 It's a couple shots. 04:43:02.980 --> 04:43:03.880 Fire. 04:43:03.880 --> 04:43:04.580 No. 04:43:04.980 --> 04:43:09.680 Nothing to happen from it. He is tempting us quite like that 04:43:17.780 --> 04:43:20.900 Are you still buffering? Oh, oh, yeah big dog, don't you worry? 04:43:22.220 --> 04:43:26.060 Well, we'll just keep going. Thanks radio. Please. Yeah, I was gonna say thank you 04:43:26.060 --> 04:43:28.060 I appreciate that. I mean 04:43:28.620 --> 04:43:31.620 I think that was the first half of the broadcast of my phone hotspot. So I feel it 04:43:32.140 --> 04:43:33.300 4-4 04:43:33.300 --> 04:43:37.700 KDS and Docs, and they're getting that one for one trade. We've seen three of them so far tonight. 04:43:38.820 --> 04:43:42.340 We're positioning him from parlor at the moment. He's really in the hot seat, 04:43:42.340 --> 04:43:45.940 but he just needs a little bit more support. I don't think he knows about handy. 04:43:45.940 --> 04:43:51.220 You may know about cyber. That's about as much as his knowledge is going to hold, and 04:43:51.220 --> 04:43:55.380 handy just needs to sit tight for the time being. We'll be able to shoot the drone, 04:43:55.380 --> 04:43:59.620 throw that, throw out the form. Actually, of course, open. A little bit unusual for this 04:43:59.620 --> 04:44:02.900 sort of bombsite, but if you know that you're going to be committing to this whole 04:44:02.900 --> 04:44:07.780 and you've really got no other option either way back down to the site and they might have it but 04:44:07.780 --> 04:44:12.740 they won't be able to use it because they have been sent to the cameras. It's King & Souls now 04:44:12.740 --> 04:44:17.940 just under half the round to try and hold on to. Souls does still have three toxic babe canisters 04:44:17.940 --> 04:44:22.500 and the players on Fluxo W7M are a little bit soft but this is one of those opportunity 04:44:22.500 --> 04:44:26.580 rounds that we often spoke about when Faze were on their own attacks. These are rounds that 04:44:26.580 --> 04:44:32.500 Fluxo really can't be taking in any other way than mega seriously they need to be walking 04:44:32.500 --> 04:44:36.020 away with these and giving themselves the best chance. They've got the time to do so 04:44:36.020 --> 04:44:40.580 and they've also fortunately got a good bit of utility still at their fingertips. 04:44:41.940 --> 04:44:45.540 Although handy might be gone is Razorbloom's Remain and that's going to give a good bit of 04:44:45.540 --> 04:44:50.820 information just to where these attackers are. You can see there are a couple of defaults still 04:44:50.820 --> 04:44:56.020 available. Cadius and Cyber both operate in one of those each. See we'll have a rough idea 04:44:56.020 --> 04:45:02.740 here. But regardless of which way you cut it, they are at a man disadvantage. Solz, a really 04:45:02.740 --> 04:45:06.740 good job to hold onto those toxic babe canisters for as long as he has. 35 seconds and they're 04:45:06.740 --> 04:45:11.940 gonna start to go out now as well. See the rotation down banana? There's not too much 04:45:11.940 --> 04:45:17.940 that dude can do at the minute. Cut off by the toxic babe gas. Solz again, massively 04:45:17.940 --> 04:45:22.580 playing this smoke, really pacing those canisters out quite nicely. Oh, it's the player 04:45:22.580 --> 04:45:27.620 to watch because he has the capable big kill coming in there on to lobin the souls does fine on with 04:45:27.620 --> 04:45:32.820 the toxic babe that's the problem if you've already taken an engagement and you're a bit soft so there's 04:45:32.820 --> 04:45:37.380 no option but to push for the kill instead it's going to go for the plant it's a very interesting 04:45:37.380 --> 04:45:44.660 move hello what do you think's gonna happen you have to go for the kill there well that's a bummer 04:45:44.660 --> 04:45:54.500 1v1 dies to Vitteking running around the corner. I mean, I would love to give like more eloquent 04:45:54.500 --> 04:45:59.980 thoughts in that round, but I only saw like half of it. That being said, the last thing- 04:45:59.980 --> 04:46:04.140 You may have seen one screen for quite a long time, so what can you tell us about the freeze 04:46:04.140 --> 04:46:07.220 frame that you saw? Maybe you could paint it. 04:46:07.220 --> 04:46:13.060 So there are three freeze frames I saw. One was Cyber sitting on a balcony, 04:46:13.060 --> 04:46:17.400 Which honestly was quite idyllic early in the round. It was honestly kind of pretty. I was a big fan of it 04:46:18.160 --> 04:46:22.320 After that there was a blitz in a hallway at one point saw that for quite a long time 04:46:22.720 --> 04:46:24.480 Then at the end I didn't get too much of anything 04:46:24.480 --> 04:46:30.240 However, as is the more general broad trend point because doing any like particular or nuanced analysis of the specifics of that round is going to be 04:46:30.240 --> 04:46:33.380 impossible for me. I'm sorry about five pixels, but I 04:46:34.220 --> 04:46:41.320 Think one thing that is you know worth to make note of is that this bad trend for flux of W7N keeps ruining its head 04:46:41.320 --> 04:46:52.840 which is rounds they should probably win keep being lost by hero plans plays from phase small mistakes like Lux or W7M both sometimes neither an acts of God and 04:46:53.320 --> 04:46:57.340 At this point when the game is looking once again to be quite a close close contest 04:46:58.120 --> 04:47:01.880 For you to almost have a win on a primary site and lose it another one be one 04:47:01.880 --> 04:47:06.100 This is looking an awfully lot like night Haven awfully lot like the first half of consulate 04:47:06.100 --> 04:47:11.460 which despite lots of W7M's best efforts, it is, as I believe you said perfectly earlier, Ollie, 04:47:11.460 --> 04:47:15.220 it is a space capitalizing on these small moments that they can do so reliably. 04:47:16.260 --> 04:47:21.300 Yeah, I do agree with that, and I think what you're saying is perfectly valid. 04:47:21.940 --> 04:47:26.100 We did throw similar criticism towards FaZe. There were a couple of rounds that FaZe could 04:47:26.100 --> 04:47:30.740 have won on the attacks here. We could be sat here now already with FaZe on map and series 04:47:30.740 --> 04:47:35.300 point. Now, they were only able to walk away with two of them. I think maybe the reason 04:47:35.300 --> 04:47:40.260 why we're coming down a little bit more heavy on the fluxo side of things because they're not in a 04:47:40.260 --> 04:47:45.540 position that they've got any sort of buffer. They've lost map one. This is do or die time and 04:47:45.540 --> 04:47:53.060 they really don't want to give FaZe a sniff of success. So yes, I agree, but FaZe weren't 04:47:53.060 --> 04:47:58.020 entirely not guilty of that either. I think there was a little bit of that flowing around 04:47:58.020 --> 04:48:02.900 there as well. But we can only call what we see in the there is a flow and an edge to the 04:48:02.900 --> 04:48:06.900 the game. Whatever the moment is, that phase is what they open a cave for, not such to get 04:48:06.900 --> 04:48:07.900 into contact. 04:48:07.900 --> 04:48:12.820 Phew, and Dota is on for the cover. So whatever flow is going on, Flux or W7M certainly riding 04:48:12.820 --> 04:48:16.740 it quite nicely, even in the disadvantage, completely confident in executing their plan 04:48:16.740 --> 04:48:21.180 of attack. All that despite the fact that Syra is a soulless up above. I'd be distracted 04:48:21.180 --> 04:48:25.060 by some of the players, but understandably throwing a lot of energy his way. It's a 04:48:25.060 --> 04:48:27.860 good setup for the moment, and even though they're from behind and demand advantage 04:48:27.860 --> 04:48:30.780 the positioning. Seems to be better for Fluxo W7M. 04:48:30.780 --> 04:48:32.980 Vittakingen will creep in spotted by the E1D. 04:48:32.980 --> 04:48:34.980 Dodes goes down, but from above again 04:48:34.980 --> 04:48:38.420 and a big kill by Paulu, with cons on the finisher. 04:48:40.220 --> 04:48:42.380 Going to the man count is it might be deceiving 04:48:42.380 --> 04:48:47.020 as it seems Fluxo W7M's plan never once faltered. 04:48:47.940 --> 04:48:50.060 That was a very similar to the tank round 04:48:50.060 --> 04:48:52.580 we saw in Nighthaven Labs, Fluxo W7M. 04:48:52.580 --> 04:48:53.980 They're not a team that's scared 04:48:53.980 --> 04:48:56.780 of taking advantage of an opportunity. 04:48:56.780 --> 04:49:03.020 Recognizing there's a gap. We can get in and get the plant down here and just immediately put the pressure on Swar opponent 04:49:03.500 --> 04:49:05.500 That's what they did 04:49:05.660 --> 04:49:07.220 I need you to move through 04:49:07.220 --> 04:49:10.500 Nailed the diffuser to the floor grabbed an opening kill in the process 04:49:10.900 --> 04:49:13.660 From that point it was just a butterfly effect 04:49:14.100 --> 04:49:16.860 Blitzner Warden have both been removed now and 04:49:17.500 --> 04:49:21.260 In a similar vein to when the face took their time out 04:49:21.260 --> 04:49:27.180 couple of rounds into their attacking phase looks like W7M are going to do exactly the same. Round 10 04:49:27.180 --> 04:49:33.620 they've seen a good portion of these defenses now from phase and how phase wants to try and hold on to 04:49:33.620 --> 04:49:38.700 some of these particular rounds they too are going to choose now to take their time out at the 04:49:38.700 --> 04:49:46.540 halfway point of the halfway point. I have just won the round of course so there is that sort of 04:49:46.540 --> 04:49:49.740 question mark thrown in there but these guys aren't thinking about the last round they're 04:49:49.740 --> 04:49:51.460 thinking about the next round and the round after that. 04:49:51.460 --> 04:49:53.860 They know which rotation they're going to be going in. 04:49:53.860 --> 04:49:56.460 The Nils are going to be going upstairs. 04:49:56.460 --> 04:49:59.420 They likely know that they're going to be going to garage. 04:49:59.420 --> 04:50:00.540 There is always the option though, 04:50:00.540 --> 04:50:03.700 that phase throw in that curveball that is the split site. 04:50:03.700 --> 04:50:05.380 That is something that Fluxo themselves 04:50:05.380 --> 04:50:06.660 did do on their defense. 04:50:10.940 --> 04:50:11.780 I mean, just, you know, 04:50:11.780 --> 04:50:14.540 being nice to them to throw it in for us. 04:50:14.540 --> 04:50:16.660 Always very, I was like when things get varied up, 04:50:16.660 --> 04:50:17.980 especially since no pole span, 04:50:17.980 --> 04:50:18.820 like we saw last time. 04:50:18.820 --> 04:50:23.700 So, have one of the mainstay defenders for split defense, but it'll be upstairs on CEO. 04:50:24.980 --> 04:50:28.420 Instead, the defensive band will be warden and the attacking band will be Blitz. 04:50:31.300 --> 04:50:38.980 Flux of W7M still have plenty of shields available, and by plenty, I mean Blackbeard, which still is one of the most important ones. 04:50:39.980 --> 04:50:45.740 Arguably, for the playstyle that Flux of W7M like to go for, on CEO as well, Cybers still with that bandit in hand. 04:50:45.740 --> 04:50:51.460 I think by and large a similar setup to what we saw in the first round. I want to check that real quick 04:50:51.460 --> 04:50:59.260 So I believe the bandit the smoke and the thorn are consistent. Yes couple changes to my and the century being brought in 04:51:00.580 --> 04:51:02.580 As this honestly is 04:51:03.020 --> 04:51:08.340 Kind of a weirdly sparse lineup when it comes to like big utility alley kind of makes me uncomfortable 04:51:12.580 --> 04:51:15.520 I don't know if I get by necessarily uncomfortable by it 04:51:15.740 --> 04:51:21.480 I think it's just it's one of those things where it's like because of how many crazy operators there are when I don't see an operator lineup 04:51:21.480 --> 04:51:22.380 with our 04:51:22.380 --> 04:51:28.120 Azami mirror and also like some other crazy nonsense. I'm like I get scared 04:51:30.300 --> 04:51:35.020 Yeah, true the remain got when you've got a Kade mute and 04:51:36.620 --> 04:51:42.060 Warden band you've still got a lot of nasty stuff in there. Where's the where's the where's the book? 04:51:42.060 --> 04:51:46.860 you know where we're seeing this little element of something that's just so 04:51:46.860 --> 04:51:54.580 egregious to deal with. Yeah, maybe this will go a bit tame. Well, it's not on the utility just yet. 04:51:54.580 --> 04:51:57.700 Who's all those bad lorries can say, yeah, they should have brought this down in the middle of the book. 04:51:57.700 --> 04:52:02.540 That's not a great idea. I think it does raise a little bit of an alarm bell. I mean, 04:52:02.540 --> 04:52:05.900 Fluxo's lineup is the entire opposite of that. You've got bees, you've got capital, 04:52:05.900 --> 04:52:10.180 and you've got ying. That's just straight up honking. That's the kind of lineup you need 04:52:10.180 --> 04:52:14.800 to be running your AnkySack if you want to be walking away with Samilo because they're 04:52:14.800 --> 04:52:18.720 the tools that are going to win you games. They'll look so. And the balance things for 04:52:18.720 --> 04:52:23.960 me, yeah, they've brought some pretty good tools to this job. Still got to try and use 04:52:23.960 --> 04:52:29.840 them. They're the same sort of system again with these little murder holes through the 04:52:29.840 --> 04:52:35.000 floors. Where do you angle that? 04:52:35.000 --> 04:52:38.200 And such a difficult one for the attack to deal with just because coming out of 04:52:38.200 --> 04:52:44.120 doorway and then also looking up. Especially you'd be pre-firing out of diagonal basically and 04:52:44.120 --> 04:52:47.560 that's just with the rafters and everything it just seems quite difficult to deal with compared 04:52:47.560 --> 04:52:52.520 to the compared to vittekings, compared to the quite clear view of the door frame. 04:52:52.520 --> 04:52:57.400 Men in 50 seconds have passed by the way, so not only is FaZe Clan running a sparse 04:52:57.400 --> 04:53:01.400 defense, it's been quite a sparse round for action. The only shots we really saw get 04:53:01.400 --> 04:53:06.440 fired were into the floor by vitteking. Now even then feels like eight hours ago. 04:53:06.440 --> 04:53:12.880 Flashbangs going in and this is what you can save up all that utility for to dump it at one time flashbangs in 04:53:13.240 --> 04:53:15.240 Candela's and bees being thrown 04:53:16.880 --> 04:53:20.800 Freaking up see if you can catch anybody off guard with a smoke canister choking off that exit 04:53:20.920 --> 04:53:27.360 Good foresight by a good a king aware of the possibility of alert so dots sprints on in but hit by the razor bloom not dead 04:53:28.120 --> 04:53:29.320 definitely 04:53:29.320 --> 04:53:34.920 Hulted for the time being pushing in with the pistol put even lower and then finished off by cyber on the cross 04:53:34.920 --> 04:53:41.920 So it's long desk control fluxer W7M, but defenders still in close quarters ready to map a strong comeback. 04:53:41.920 --> 04:53:45.920 FB7 good for two through the floor, the pellets hitting more metal than flesh. 04:53:45.920 --> 04:53:49.920 The next one far more direct. SMG11 out with Palu quicker to that. 04:53:49.920 --> 04:53:53.920 Looking further to defenders inside of CEO. 04:53:53.920 --> 04:53:59.920 Front of the site might be clear about trumping the back lines, souls with the cutoff, too with the TCSG. 04:53:59.920 --> 04:54:03.520 There's plenty to get the job done 04:54:03.520 --> 04:54:07.160 there. It just goes to show that 04:54:07.160 --> 04:54:10.440 traditional or good old fashioned 04:54:10.440 --> 04:54:11.940 operators with you're not the 04:54:11.940 --> 04:54:13.480 flashiest of gadget but something 04:54:13.480 --> 04:54:15.040 that does a very specific job is 04:54:15.040 --> 04:54:17.780 often good enough really like the 04:54:17.780 --> 04:54:19.840 way that phase play is so much 04:54:19.840 --> 04:54:20.680 verticality inside of meeting 04:54:20.680 --> 04:54:23.220 that consistently causes 04:54:23.220 --> 04:54:28.580 phase play so much verticality inside of meeting that consistently causes problems. 04:54:29.700 --> 04:54:33.060 Little bit of shotgun action at close range again. All it really took. 04:54:34.340 --> 04:54:38.500 Pali tanking tons of damage as well through his own teammates. Capital fire arrow like 04:54:39.220 --> 04:54:42.340 I did the double takedown I was like I'm sure we discussed this I'm sure they didn't have a 04:54:42.340 --> 04:54:46.820 go yo why is Pali like getting burnt alive almost and cut off or just a bit of a misplay 04:54:46.820 --> 04:54:52.500 of utility on the fluxo side of things. 558 you ever got now phase of done the 04:54:52.500 --> 04:54:59.620 done the hard part really in bringing this back to a game that only has one round in it, despite the 04:54:59.620 --> 04:55:07.300 very one-sided nature of both of these sides. Bazaar finally on the up and up. We're going to go 04:55:07.300 --> 04:55:13.620 downstairs to try and cement this lead and the match and series point more importantly. 04:55:13.620 --> 04:55:16.580 Looks like they've used their time out. This is really where the pressure starts to mount. 04:55:16.580 --> 04:55:20.180 They will have discussed how they want to deal with the top floor and likely discussed how 04:55:20.180 --> 04:55:23.300 how they want to deal with Garage in that tactical timeout. 04:55:24.300 --> 04:55:27.220 Cast our lines back to how Garage went last time. 04:55:28.220 --> 04:55:31.220 It did come down to a 1 vs 1 more since then a 1 vs 2 04:55:31.220 --> 04:55:33.180 and it was Vittaking that was good for both of them. 04:55:34.100 --> 04:55:36.300 For a round that came down to a very fine margin 04:55:36.300 --> 04:55:38.580 and really you'd look at that and think, 04:55:38.580 --> 04:55:40.740 well, there's opportunity there to fix over, 04:55:40.740 --> 04:55:43.620 should be able to work around that and figure a way 04:55:43.620 --> 04:55:46.060 making sure that they walk away with around this time 04:55:46.060 --> 04:55:47.460 instead of letting it slip. 04:55:50.180 --> 04:55:55.180 I believe that my great friend links inside. 04:55:55.180 --> 04:55:59.180 I'm still here, I think the video is just... 04:55:59.180 --> 04:56:03.180 We don't talk through the same thing we watch through, that's the problem. 04:56:03.180 --> 04:56:09.180 Cyber. A little bit of a ratty spot, but it's a spot that is going to make you a kill at once in a blue moon. 04:56:09.180 --> 04:56:15.180 That's exactly what it does. Bottom of yellow stairs, just watching the door as it gets opened up. 04:56:15.180 --> 04:56:19.580 none other than Pahlu who has been taken out with Lossi Hibana. 04:56:19.580 --> 04:56:23.180 All of you half-reach, do you still have the ace? 04:56:23.180 --> 04:56:26.180 It's a good portion. Dots. 04:56:26.180 --> 04:56:30.380 It's kind of knocking on sight though, you feel like you might be a little bit ahead of the pack right now. 04:56:30.380 --> 04:56:34.580 Especially given that you've got Lobin looking to clear all the way through this top floor. 04:56:34.580 --> 04:56:36.780 Kind of trying to fill the shoes that Pahlu was 04:56:36.780 --> 04:56:42.220 left behind. Even though Selma's to open up the hatches is far from ideal and you would much rather have 04:56:42.220 --> 04:56:44.220 It's how it's called us to do that job. 04:56:44.220 --> 04:56:49.220 When you bring the format as well, you do have that redundancy, you do have that fortune. 04:56:49.220 --> 04:56:53.220 Cyber, still playing on the hatch inside of exposition. 04:56:53.220 --> 04:56:56.220 It's going to be handy the next player down, lobin. 04:56:56.220 --> 04:57:01.220 Through the partially open hatch, it's the only advantage if not of opening it in an ace. 04:57:01.220 --> 04:57:06.220 Excuse me, it means that you don't always give the full game away and you just get a little bit of a line of sight through there. 04:57:06.220 --> 04:57:08.220 Just be able to make good off that. 04:57:08.220 --> 04:57:15.220 Cyber still showing no signs of moving and can just continue to watch on to this yellow door, really for no consequence. 04:57:15.220 --> 04:57:21.220 Subsequent kills that are really gonna matter and neither trade fourth trade of the night. 04:57:21.220 --> 04:57:31.220 We've been separating these players inside of SAO this evening, with an a little bit of internet latency but even then, Cyber, kill onto cons. 04:57:31.220 --> 04:57:37.300 The other cements disadvantage and goes back to watching his ever favorite bottom of yellow stairs is since drop the hatch 04:57:37.580 --> 04:57:42.620 Instead is just gonna play this statically KDS. He's still upstairs. Love it. That's no idea 04:57:43.260 --> 04:57:45.580 Dots barely moved all round 04:57:45.580 --> 04:57:51.020 He spent the majority of it here at the bottom of yellow just knocking on the door to the side now as the black beard with 04:57:51.020 --> 04:57:53.540 One HP as a mountain to climb 04:57:54.540 --> 04:57:56.060 KDS 04:57:56.060 --> 04:57:58.060 You gotta parachute to the top 04:57:58.260 --> 04:58:00.380 He's already taken the high ground 04:58:01.220 --> 04:58:04.220 still kicking around inside a panel upstairs. 04:58:04.220 --> 04:58:07.820 Not good enough losing one player from Fluxo 2 and they have to lose two. 04:58:07.820 --> 04:58:10.820 Match and series point now for FaZe Clan. 04:58:10.820 --> 04:58:14.340 So, it started buffering 04:58:14.340 --> 04:58:18.340 five seconds after the round began. It stopped buffering 04:58:18.340 --> 04:58:22.140 three seconds before the round ended. It knows. 04:58:22.140 --> 04:58:26.740 It honestly, it genuinely feels like it knows. 04:58:26.740 --> 04:58:30.180 Attack, it genuinely feels sentient 04:58:30.180 --> 04:58:34.340 at times, but I was casting earlier to start buffering. 04:58:34.340 --> 04:58:36.140 I'm like, I literally was about to start playing by playing 04:58:36.140 --> 04:58:36.980 and started buffering. 04:58:36.980 --> 04:58:37.820 I'm like, that's crazy. 04:58:37.820 --> 04:58:39.340 And I have multiple times. 04:58:39.340 --> 04:58:41.020 My computer's fighting against me. 04:58:44.900 --> 04:58:46.780 Here's the thing though, right? 04:58:46.780 --> 04:58:47.940 Like, here's the thing. 04:58:50.220 --> 04:58:53.220 At the end of this game, my phase favoritism aside, 04:58:53.220 --> 04:58:56.620 I just feel bad for Fluxo W7M. 04:58:56.620 --> 04:58:58.820 I just feel like really bad 04:58:58.820 --> 04:59:02.520 because they have played so objectively well 04:59:02.520 --> 04:59:04.420 across night haven and consulate 04:59:04.420 --> 04:59:09.500 and genuinely both maps might come down to some very very important one-to-one 04:59:09.500 --> 04:59:10.620 or two-to-two x's 04:59:10.620 --> 04:59:13.760 and a night haven a two-to-five 04:59:13.760 --> 04:59:16.100 there's a chance they might go to lower bracket by the way i don't think is 04:59:16.100 --> 04:59:17.540 like a guarantee at all 04:59:17.540 --> 04:59:19.020 it's been a very close half 04:59:19.020 --> 04:59:21.540 or two w seven m have proven capable 04:59:21.540 --> 04:59:23.900 in the second attacking one on consulate might be difficult but phase 04:59:23.900 --> 04:59:27.380 we're able to do it and hey they just started with an opening pick 04:59:27.380 --> 04:59:32.540 in front of the yellow door trying to give them a favor look at this he's 04:59:32.540 --> 04:59:36.980 actually just taking for a little bit of walk holding the cutoff position 04:59:36.980 --> 04:59:39.740 three toxic babes cast as lost as well 04:59:39.740 --> 04:59:44.740 that's a line of all is designed to try and deny a plant and gather information 04:59:44.740 --> 04:59:47.340 those toxic babes are going to be crucial 04:59:47.340 --> 04:59:48.060 it's a king 04:59:48.060 --> 04:59:50.500 below on the solace 04:59:50.500 --> 04:59:52.020 doesn't know 04:59:52.020 --> 04:59:54.500 that Pali is going to be on those yellow stairs 04:59:54.500 --> 04:59:57.500 may get caught off guard here and his core sprints around the corner. 04:59:57.500 --> 05:00:00.500 Paolo doing what he does best and it's that lurk roll. 05:00:00.500 --> 05:00:04.500 Take a little bit of space, don't make any noise, and just let something happen. 05:00:05.500 --> 05:00:08.500 Cyber. 15 and 8. 05:00:08.500 --> 05:00:10.500 He's gonna have to have another cyber round. 05:00:10.500 --> 05:00:13.500 That or either KDS and souls are gonna have to step up. 05:00:13.500 --> 05:00:16.500 Neither of which is unlikely, by the way. 05:00:16.500 --> 05:00:19.500 It just really doesn't put a phase in the best position 05:00:19.500 --> 05:00:22.500 when they arguably need it the most inside his head. 05:00:22.500 --> 05:00:29.900 His salings, it has been a fairly close game at times and there's not that much in it right now. Fluxo well in this fight 05:00:32.420 --> 05:00:34.420 Yeah, well wellness fight in round 12 05:00:35.220 --> 05:00:40.380 Now face clan are not short on at least ability or abilities to gather information 05:00:40.380 --> 05:00:44.820 I mean black eye cameras heartbeat scanner F knots you can't get a much better of three remaining players or three 05:00:44.820 --> 05:00:46.700 member three remaining operators for this position 05:00:47.500 --> 05:00:51.140 The same time you have the black for you to break through all that you get the air jabs to control any 05:00:51.140 --> 05:00:56.340 flanks that might be making use of that information. Got the smoke to occlude secondary utility to 05:00:56.340 --> 05:01:01.940 blind or to move out of position. Now as KDS falls as well, one of the most active iteration 05:01:01.940 --> 05:01:06.340 of it, the heartbeat scanner, is gone. The cyber moves for this flank. Is there anybody 05:01:06.340 --> 05:01:10.580 who can actually find somebody close in the stairs? But Palu's been here for like 8,000 years 05:01:11.620 --> 05:01:17.940 and his time has come now. Was that four kills for Palu all through round 12 and it'll be 05:01:17.940 --> 05:01:25.340 overtime to get flux. So W7 M another shot four kills for parlor and he barely 05:01:25.340 --> 05:01:30.640 has to move his feet to get them as well. Like just out of nowhere, the strangest 05:01:30.640 --> 05:01:36.120 round transpires in a game that has been dominated by the defense. The attack 05:01:36.120 --> 05:01:40.180 walk all over it and get basically a flawless had the last kill not been a 05:01:40.180 --> 05:01:44.540 trade. And that's the fifth or sixth trade today. It would have been a 05:01:44.540 --> 05:01:52.260 flawless round so we can fairly comfortably give them that that honor. 05:01:52.260 --> 05:01:59.660 Pressure now on. Pressure maybe more so for Flux Road W7M because at the overtime 05:01:59.660 --> 05:02:03.820 they actually remain on the attack. Now okay we've just seen them have a couple of 05:02:03.820 --> 05:02:08.460 well I have a successful attack in round and they also did well upstairs in 05:02:08.460 --> 05:02:15.860 exposition and piano as well. A 2-4 split, not really going to be going on an attack inside 05:02:15.860 --> 05:02:21.500 of the OT phase of course on that defensive side, so still holding that major inherent 05:02:21.500 --> 05:02:26.220 advantage, but that doesn't matter if you're giving bodies away so early on into the round 05:02:26.220 --> 05:02:34.760 and allowing Parley a lot of space to operate within. 17 and 9 right now. Not even Heaven 05:02:34.760 --> 05:02:36.480 and shoulders above the rest of his teammates, 05:02:36.480 --> 05:02:38.720 out of which is both Lobin and Kong's 05:02:38.720 --> 05:02:41.120 apparently ten kills a piece. 05:02:41.120 --> 05:02:43.280 He covers the side of FaZe and it's 05:02:43.280 --> 05:02:46.440 really the Soul, Cyber and KDS show, 05:02:46.440 --> 05:02:48.800 but a much more equal split, 05:02:48.800 --> 05:02:50.560 or Victor King and Handy. 05:02:55.040 --> 05:02:57.200 That's very cool. 05:02:57.200 --> 05:02:58.960 He's also taking a breather, 05:02:58.960 --> 05:03:01.640 pushing his hair back as he goes prone behind the desk. 05:03:01.640 --> 05:03:05.640 We're much more active getting into the fray of Hobson. 05:03:05.640 --> 05:03:09.640 Sheets of default cam backs out. 05:03:09.640 --> 05:03:12.640 This looser set up in round 13. 05:03:12.640 --> 05:03:15.640 We're quite lethal if ace clan aren't concerned about it. 05:03:15.640 --> 05:03:19.640 There might be barbed wire, there might be things blocking off these positions. 05:03:19.640 --> 05:03:24.640 If some nades are thrown early or if loading just finds a gap somewhere, even through one. 05:03:24.640 --> 05:03:27.640 Could be problematic, especially with the Blackbeard brute forcing things. 05:03:27.640 --> 05:03:30.640 Mirror window being brought, looking straight into admin. 05:03:30.640 --> 05:03:34.600 Then nobody funded the attack actually in there just yet. 05:03:34.600 --> 05:03:36.640 So V's going out to clear the way. 05:03:36.640 --> 05:03:43.200 Gathering information by crossing things off Fluxo W7M's list, but as they see this mirror window, 05:03:43.200 --> 05:03:47.240 possibly that somebody might be behind it confirmed once they move that drone forward, 05:03:47.240 --> 05:03:49.440 and so FaZe plan take their fallback positions. 05:03:51.440 --> 05:03:55.040 FaZe not looking to try and contend too heavily in the early portion of this round. 05:03:55.040 --> 05:04:00.040 I really want to try and move through and guarantee this first round of overtime. 05:04:00.640 --> 05:04:02.640 Lobin. 05:04:02.640 --> 05:04:07.640 He's positioned himself on white stairs at the moment. We'll send out the logic bomb. 05:04:07.640 --> 05:04:12.640 You can see that the phase players are fairly tight on the site at the moment, 05:04:12.640 --> 05:04:17.640 whereas historically when we've seen them play the site, they've been spread with at least one player below, 05:04:17.640 --> 05:04:20.640 just looking for a bit of backstab or a bit of vert angles. 05:04:20.640 --> 05:04:24.640 That isn't really the case this time, so the logic bomb is just going to kind of clear the way. 05:04:24.640 --> 05:04:31.640 the way it's gonna more tell Huxo W7M where FaZe aren't rather than where they are, but 05:04:31.640 --> 05:04:36.640 in a bit of a dicey position here inside of the hallway, it looks to try and move through 05:04:36.640 --> 05:04:43.640 but the toxic babes batting back. If all been used now though, with 55 second mark, it's 05:04:43.640 --> 05:04:47.640 not giving much to kind of lean into and rely on later especially given that Cyber 05:04:47.640 --> 05:04:51.640 has already used his C4. Those two kills aren't going to help Mars either. 05:04:51.640 --> 05:05:02.640 No, no, it's not our flawless for Fluxo W7M, the exact kind of omen you want to close out OT and push us to map 3 of Chalet. 05:05:02.640 --> 05:05:10.640 So much prep work going into that round, starting off with the admin clear, eventually hollowing out the mirror window behind it. 05:05:10.640 --> 05:05:18.640 And now at this point with the defense next on the cards, there is a hell of a burden placed on FaZe Clan. 05:05:18.640 --> 05:05:22.440 have to win one attack and one defense in a row, 05:05:22.440 --> 05:05:23.920 lest they go to Chalet, I'm at that. 05:05:23.920 --> 05:05:25.000 You know, the grand scheme of things 05:05:25.000 --> 05:05:27.800 is recently under their pool in the past year or two. 05:05:27.800 --> 05:05:29.560 It could be quite difficult to figure out. 05:05:29.560 --> 05:05:33.160 Consul CEO will be the site for Flux O W7M. 05:05:33.160 --> 05:05:37.640 I have to think that given that we just saw 05:05:37.640 --> 05:05:42.640 how easy it was for Flux O W7M to maneuver around admin, 05:05:42.880 --> 05:05:45.160 but probably consider how easy it was for face clan 05:05:45.160 --> 05:05:46.920 to do something similar when they attempted 05:05:46.920 --> 05:05:52.480 aggressive control that position which is probably why we see as opposed to I think 05:05:52.480 --> 05:05:56.120 was the second attempt by them we don't see any either one might just go around 05:05:56.120 --> 05:06:04.080 so admittedly did still win that round so all the hard work that FaZe have put in 05:06:04.080 --> 05:06:08.520 on their defenses they have now once again found themselves trailing in this 05:06:08.520 --> 05:06:15.560 game look so they need to win this round need to try and get it done on the 05:06:15.560 --> 05:06:20.360 easier side of the container. They've already done not the impossible but the hard part getting 05:06:20.360 --> 05:06:26.920 that win on the attack. A flawless one at that as well. Just go to show that seeing that side 05:06:26.920 --> 05:06:30.680 so many times they've eventually managed to pick the weaknesses in that defense. 05:06:31.480 --> 05:06:34.760 Not that it was exactly the same every time but with definite similarities. 05:06:36.920 --> 05:06:41.960 The phase now with Pasha on themselves. If a stamen round as well links you know flawless 05:06:41.960 --> 05:06:47.560 from Flux or like, they just won't even anywhere close to getting the job done there. Now they've 05:06:47.560 --> 05:06:51.880 got to come in and try and battle back, they haven't got that security of two defensive overtime 05:06:51.880 --> 05:07:02.360 rounds inside of the OT. Homs, round them ready. We've seen him do great work on the Tachanka 05:07:02.360 --> 05:07:09.640 already tonight in this very position. LNG can be a bit of a truck. Dumpy fire, 05:07:09.640 --> 05:07:15.420 but at close quarters it really gets the job done. Time being at least Vittor King will 05:07:15.420 --> 05:07:23.560 be moving into Visa Office. Conscious of those Visa Stairs, Dots picing with death and danger 05:07:23.560 --> 05:07:33.320 there will be able to retreat out of Abben. Get some self back onto the side. Not the 05:07:33.320 --> 05:07:39.320 healthiest, but he's got important utility and now needs to stay alive. 05:07:39.320 --> 05:07:43.760 The canary trip is going to be a little bit annoying for Faze to deal with and they're 05:07:43.760 --> 05:07:46.920 going to have to send a nade out there and get that dealt with, or even a 05:07:46.920 --> 05:07:52.440 Retailer drone to destroy. That would be a problem that we'll be starting to 05:07:52.440 --> 05:07:55.160 come up for them. Bell embraces approach to the drone work that was 05:07:55.160 --> 05:07:59.360 handy, leaving any stone unturned inside of Admin. 05:07:59.360 --> 05:08:04.520 Oh yes now knows pretty much with sure so that you can just walk upstairs as well 05:08:05.200 --> 05:08:10.340 When the push starts to come from this admin side, he will be there ready and waiting on spiral 05:08:11.680 --> 05:08:13.680 And but not out 05:08:13.920 --> 05:08:16.760 There is an ability to pick him up there and they're playing for so players 05:08:16.920 --> 05:08:18.920 He's trying cover as that happens 05:08:19.280 --> 05:08:25.380 She'll be launched it is gonna do a good job of some area as well so that no one comes in with a nasty swing 05:08:25.380 --> 05:08:26.380 There we go. 05:08:26.380 --> 05:08:30.380 It's a little bit of a king that eventually makes his way up the top of the spiral stairs. 05:08:30.380 --> 05:08:31.380 He's joined. 05:08:31.380 --> 05:08:34.380 There are going to be two of them on this side of the approach. 05:08:34.380 --> 05:08:35.380 Ooh. 05:08:35.380 --> 05:08:36.380 Hey, it's burning me. 05:08:36.380 --> 05:08:37.380 We're going to get it. 05:08:37.380 --> 05:08:40.380 It can decide to commit to the cross. 05:08:40.380 --> 05:08:43.380 Checking one corner, but handy down first is a bad omen. 05:08:43.380 --> 05:08:44.380 Apparently that LMG ring. 05:08:44.380 --> 05:08:46.380 It's more players in phase falling though. 05:08:46.380 --> 05:08:48.380 On the face value it seems even. 05:08:48.380 --> 05:08:51.380 Yet as they take a breather, pick handy back up more. 05:08:51.380 --> 05:08:52.380 Off the board. 05:08:52.380 --> 05:09:00.380 In the 3v3, Dott's and Polly both low, one on the long angle, but Dott's in a better position, shot gun around the corner, instead it's a nade, banked at his feet. 05:09:00.380 --> 05:09:05.380 But Loben creeping up just behind them. Will somebody from FaZe make the fateful decision? 05:09:05.380 --> 05:09:11.380 The inadvertent arrowed across Long Desk with a full HP player with a bullet hose aimed right at their direction. 05:09:11.380 --> 05:09:16.380 Will it play passive? Play more shot. Realizes his position, handy goes forward, but down's KDS in the process. 05:09:16.380 --> 05:09:21.380 Moving into the post, trying to fall back as quick as possible. Loben gets them all! 05:09:21.380 --> 05:09:26.200 That three indeed shall way next up 05:09:28.500 --> 05:09:36.320 Talks of W7M doing the impossible there and breaking a very hefty record that phase plan held on consulate 05:09:37.280 --> 05:09:41.880 There is a reason that do you 7m have the head-to-head advantage here? 05:09:41.880 --> 05:09:45.220 I have all the times that these two teams have played one another 05:09:45.220 --> 05:09:47.220 and we're going to be in the 05:09:47.220 --> 05:09:49.220 next round. We're going to be 05:09:49.220 --> 05:09:51.220 in the next round. We're going 05:09:51.220 --> 05:09:53.220 to be in the next round. We 05:09:53.220 --> 05:09:55.220 still have a slight edge seven 05:09:55.220 --> 05:09:57.220 times to six. They have 05:09:57.220 --> 05:09:59.220 better phase plan. It doesn't 05:09:59.220 --> 05:10:01.220 look like tonight is going to 05:10:01.220 --> 05:10:03.220 be much different, at least 05:10:03.220 --> 05:10:04.220 on consulate. Shall we will 05:10:04.220 --> 05:10:05.220 tell us all we need to 05:10:05.220 --> 05:10:06.220 know, and we're going to be 05:10:06.220 --> 05:10:08.220 there after a short break. 05:10:08.220 --> 05:10:10.220 I think Neymar is the best. 05:10:10.220 --> 05:10:11.220 What's the best? 05:10:11.220 --> 05:10:12.220 Orgina is the best. 05:10:12.220 --> 05:10:13.220 Pirula is the best. 05:10:13.220 --> 05:10:15.220 A lot of media and little football. 05:10:15.220 --> 05:10:16.220 Orgina? 05:10:16.220 --> 05:10:17.220 I don't know. 05:10:17.220 --> 05:10:19.220 All the developments are in the controversy. 05:10:19.220 --> 05:10:20.220 I think it's the best. 05:10:20.220 --> 05:10:21.220 I've always been hurt. 05:10:21.220 --> 05:10:23.220 A lot of things are there. 05:10:23.220 --> 05:10:24.220 It's the best. 05:10:24.220 --> 05:10:26.220 Baladeiro plays a lot, 05:10:26.220 --> 05:10:29.220 but he's not in the top world. 05:10:29.220 --> 05:10:31.220 Neymar is the best. 05:10:31.220 --> 05:10:32.220 Bicha is the slowest. 05:10:32.220 --> 05:10:33.220 He kills a lot. 05:10:33.220 --> 05:10:34.220 And he's the best. 05:10:34.220 --> 05:10:36.220 I think Nesquick is very good, 05:10:36.220 --> 05:10:38.220 I'm good, but unfortunately I don't have a lot of titles. 05:10:38.220 --> 05:10:41.220 I'd say it was Vasco, because he started very well, 05:10:41.220 --> 05:10:44.220 he had a great outage, but he fell down a few times. 05:10:44.220 --> 05:10:45.220 Guard Joga, 6-0. 05:10:45.220 --> 05:10:46.220 It was Stroker. 05:10:46.220 --> 05:10:47.220 It was Stroker, right? 05:10:47.220 --> 05:10:49.220 My partner, Guard, right? His nickname is Stroker. 05:10:49.220 --> 05:10:51.220 His nickname is Guard Joga, he already got it. 05:10:51.220 --> 05:10:52.220 What? 05:10:52.220 --> 05:10:53.220 Obviously. 05:10:53.220 --> 05:10:55.220 He's Guard Joga, his nickname is... 05:10:55.220 --> 05:10:57.220 I think it's Igor Citigel, Guard Joga. 05:10:57.220 --> 05:10:58.220 Igor Citigel. 05:10:58.220 --> 05:10:59.220 The father. 05:10:59.220 --> 05:11:00.220 Me. 05:11:00.220 --> 05:11:02.220 A lot, a lot, a lot of TV. 05:11:02.220 --> 05:11:03.220 He's a monster. 05:11:03.220 --> 05:11:04.220 You can play with another player. 05:11:04.220 --> 05:11:12.220 Ah, the guy with the title even more, because he's also a Rapadel, right, who's coming next to me, but I think that number there will be the leader. 05:11:34.220 --> 05:11:35.220 Hey, what's up, bro? 05:11:35.220 --> 05:11:40.220 I want the real Madrid. 05:11:40.220 --> 05:11:41.220 Real Madrid? 05:11:41.220 --> 05:11:42.220 What? 05:11:42.220 --> 05:11:43.220 Real Madrid? 05:11:43.220 --> 05:11:44.220 Hey, what's up? 05:11:44.220 --> 05:11:46.220 Man, i think it's FaZe, FaZe Planter. 05:11:46.220 --> 05:11:47.220 FaZe, bro? 05:11:47.220 --> 05:11:48.220 Real Madrid 2 vs. FaZe. 05:11:48.220 --> 05:11:50.220 A lot of tradition, a lot of history. 05:11:50.220 --> 05:11:51.220 It's a change, bro. 05:11:51.220 --> 05:11:52.220 I guess it's G2. 05:11:52.220 --> 05:11:53.220 Liquid. 05:11:53.220 --> 05:11:54.220 Liquid, right? 05:11:54.220 --> 05:11:55.220 Real Madrid 2 vs. FaZe. 05:11:55.220 --> 05:11:59.220 Because the guys I see in the back to back are good enough. 05:11:59.220 --> 05:12:00.220 They are too good. 05:12:00.220 --> 05:12:02.220 I feel that's a big deal. 05:12:02.220 --> 05:12:06.220 I don't have money, but I don't have money to buy chips. 05:12:06.220 --> 05:12:10.220 I don't have a lot of gold, but I think it's clean. 05:12:10.220 --> 05:12:11.220 Pelé. 05:12:11.220 --> 05:12:12.220 Pelé? 05:12:12.220 --> 05:12:13.220 Nah, man. 05:12:13.220 --> 05:12:14.220 Pelé? 05:12:14.220 --> 05:12:15.220 Wow. 05:12:15.220 --> 05:12:18.220 I think it's Pelé from R6. I'm going to go with R6. 05:12:18.220 --> 05:12:19.220 Got it. 05:12:19.220 --> 05:12:22.220 I'm going to put the Cyber there. 05:12:22.220 --> 05:12:25.220 Pelé would have to be a penguin if it was logical. 05:12:25.220 --> 05:12:26.220 I think it's a penguin. 05:12:26.220 --> 05:12:28.220 There's a great story in the CIS. 05:12:28.220 --> 05:12:34.220 At the beginning, he kept his target there for ten years and everyone remembers him as a roach. 05:12:34.220 --> 05:12:36.220 There's no way, there's only one. 05:12:36.220 --> 05:12:38.220 It's a turn signal. 05:12:58.220 --> 05:13:10.460 Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to SAEL. 05:13:10.460 --> 05:13:15.060 We promised you a banger of a match, and I think that second map definitely, definitely 05:13:15.060 --> 05:13:16.980 plays into our promise. 05:13:16.980 --> 05:13:23.060 Jesse, how long of a streak that was just broken is how many times have face clan one 05:13:23.060 --> 05:13:25.700 unconsolidated over the past year and a half? 05:13:25.700 --> 05:13:32.780 i was a nineteen and one record me los a ten game winning streak shattered by 05:13:32.780 --> 05:13:41.220 fluxo w seven and who do the impossible just an amazing game from them 05:13:41.220 --> 05:13:44.940 beautiful to witness the way the flexor able to 05:13:44.940 --> 05:13:49.660 hold on go into overtime and win the back to back rounds 05:13:49.660 --> 05:14:02.660 Is it like everybody was firing all cylinders here for the Fluxer W7M side? I'm wondering, what sort of fire was lit under their butt cheeks really after how close they gave the lab spot, Jesse? 05:14:02.660 --> 05:14:10.660 Yeah, well, they obviously came off to a hot start, me and Loesch. The defensive side of Consulate is what we know and love with this map. It's always been very defender-sided. 05:14:10.660 --> 05:14:18.660 Fluxer did a great job. And I thought to say these rounds were easy by any means. As you're watching them here, you'll notice a lot of low man count situations. 05:14:18.660 --> 05:14:24.420 We're playing I thought very well on their attacks, but despite that fluxes with Bobby seven in the late round 05:14:24.420 --> 05:14:27.800 We're always finding ways to trade things out to clutch up 05:14:27.800 --> 05:14:29.800 I thought their team play was excellent 05:14:29.800 --> 05:14:34.820 Paul you're getting a ton of it really important perhaps the midst of these and of course some pop-up rounds from low 05:14:34.820 --> 05:14:36.260 But in cons as well 05:14:36.260 --> 05:14:38.340 And so it started to look like okay 05:14:38.340 --> 05:14:41.500 Maybe based on a struggling a bit they had an early tack time out 05:14:41.500 --> 05:14:47.180 But when the half swapped everything seemed to go back normal face number one the score out on the defense just like flux 05:14:47.180 --> 05:14:51.860 So good. We saw some really big plays out of cyber and exit math in particular 05:14:52.100 --> 05:14:56.940 But a couple of massive plays changing things around some unfortunate early deaths 05:14:56.940 --> 05:15:01.820 I think from phase plan deep into regulation around 12 some deaths that go and traded 05:15:01.900 --> 05:15:05.180 Kind of tilt the scales back in favor of flux of W7M 05:15:05.180 --> 05:15:10.320 It opens the door back up for fluxo to take this game and even if it's just an inch 05:15:10.320 --> 05:15:17.100 Even doors just creeping open at the end there flux of W7M did everything to break it wide open to close 05:15:17.100 --> 05:15:20.820 at this game and their overtime rounds were just spectacular to shot a win this 05:15:20.820 --> 05:15:26.160 one back 8-6. And all of that despite Cyber's best efforts as half of the 05:15:26.160 --> 05:15:30.460 game could just be highlight reels of what Cyber has been doing for faceclan 05:15:30.460 --> 05:15:35.340 really keeping them at the top for as long as possible until the inflection 05:15:35.340 --> 05:15:41.420 point of Flexo closing things out in that overtime side. The question is 05:15:41.420 --> 05:15:49.380 what happens once we get into map number three and I think we can talk about 05:15:49.380 --> 05:15:53.060 that right after we pull up our scoreboard and kind of close out this 05:15:53.060 --> 05:15:56.540 map here big lessons that were learned though Jesse going from Night Haven 05:15:56.540 --> 05:16:02.260 into Consulate and really in preparation to our third map what do you 05:16:02.260 --> 05:16:05.820 think it's been for Fluxo? Well I called it out a little bit after map one 05:16:05.820 --> 05:16:08.820 we talked about how Palu didn't really have the pop-up performance we're 05:16:08.820 --> 05:16:13.420 used to seeing from them 10 or 4 in 10 in our first map of night Haven Labs. 05:16:13.580 --> 05:16:14.620 What an answer. 05:16:14.620 --> 05:16:19.860 You saw the stat line there 17 and 9 coming into that final round. 05:16:19.860 --> 05:16:24.060 I believe he finished 18 and 10 overall because there was a kill in the very first 05:16:24.060 --> 05:16:27.020 round that of course got rehosted and the stats got lost. 05:16:27.300 --> 05:16:30.940 Regardless of what the final number was, he absolutely came alive. 05:16:31.140 --> 05:16:35.420 Didn't have like that many big moments where he was taking a man advantage 05:16:35.620 --> 05:16:38.500 in favor of his team, but always closing things out. 05:16:38.500 --> 05:16:41.780 making sure that he was there in the late round to trade his teammates, 05:16:41.780 --> 05:16:44.500 secure the rounds when they were already in an advantage state. 05:16:44.500 --> 05:16:48.260 And then again, I think round 12 really having the impact with that 4k, 05:16:48.260 --> 05:16:53.380 where he's able to get some early unanswered picks and just cause havoc in the face clan side. 05:16:55.380 --> 05:17:01.780 I really think there is a feed to listen to what's happening here, specifically on our desk 05:17:01.780 --> 05:17:06.180 and specifically a direct line to you, Jesse, just in here. 05:17:06.180 --> 05:17:08.420 Hey, this is just into Palu's ears. 05:17:08.420 --> 05:17:10.100 Like, Jesse should talk to me. 05:17:10.820 --> 05:17:13.140 Because I have to fire back. 05:17:13.380 --> 05:17:18.020 And like you said, he indeed did cons, souls, cyber, kid, everybody. 05:17:18.020 --> 05:17:22.500 This is what's beautiful, but watching these two Titan teams going up against one another 05:17:22.500 --> 05:17:26.660 is that you know you're going to get a good match out of everybody, especially when 05:17:26.660 --> 05:17:31.780 you line this up on the context of a best of three, and not just a singular 05:17:31.780 --> 05:17:41.100 B1 and I'm very happy that this will be the case. However, Chalet is our third and final map in this situation. 05:17:41.660 --> 05:17:46.420 Unfortunately, Jesse, we won't have much time for your clips because we're almost set and ready. 05:17:46.420 --> 05:17:51.060 Let's talk about Chalet and set us up for it because if I'm seeing there's a lot of 05:17:51.620 --> 05:17:57.680 aggression on more defense-sided maps as we saw many consulate a lot more than Night Evil Labs, 05:17:57.680 --> 05:18:02.680 What are the exact thing out of a map like Chalet where things get flipped on their heads? 05:18:02.680 --> 05:18:06.680 I mean this is going to be where I think the mental gets tested the most Milo. 05:18:06.680 --> 05:18:13.680 Chalet is a map that's very frag heavy. It's similar to Border in that sense where the attackers can take a lot of early gunfights from outside the buildings. 05:18:13.680 --> 05:18:18.680 The window play is absolutely massive here. I don't think it leans one way or another. 05:18:18.680 --> 05:18:24.680 And even if I did, it maybe don't listen to me because I said it fluxed a lean heavily on Nighthaven Labs and it didn't work out for them. 05:18:24.680 --> 05:18:27.160 but Colotsa was supposed to lean heavily for FaZe kind. 05:18:27.160 --> 05:18:29.180 So even if it did lean towards one team, 05:18:29.180 --> 05:18:32.200 I wouldn't read into it just given the series that we've had. 05:18:32.200 --> 05:18:33.840 But it's really gonna come down to who can, 05:18:33.840 --> 05:18:35.880 after still long day today, 05:18:35.880 --> 05:18:37.560 maintain that high level of play. 05:18:37.560 --> 05:18:40.760 Who is still hitting shots three hours into this series? 05:18:40.760 --> 05:18:43.520 Who is still being able to show up in round 14 05:18:43.520 --> 05:18:44.360 when we get there? 05:18:44.360 --> 05:18:45.840 Is it gonna be Loven clutching out 05:18:45.840 --> 05:18:47.960 in another one V3 situation? 05:18:47.960 --> 05:18:49.160 Or is it gonna be somebody like Cyber 05:18:49.160 --> 05:18:50.480 who's able to step up to the plate? 05:18:50.480 --> 05:18:52.400 I would say that favor space plan 05:18:52.400 --> 05:18:54.480 because they've been in difficult situations 05:18:54.480 --> 05:18:59.360 this before their back to back world champions for a reason the flexors w7m have looked really really 05:18:59.360 --> 05:19:05.440 good especially on that second map which was not easy there are bo3 you're not stretching things out 05:19:05.440 --> 05:19:10.400 like in a bo5 we're really exhausted by the end of it and you're on the edge of all the energy you 05:19:10.400 --> 05:19:16.400 have you really have to maximize things within that three or so hour uh context but i'm told 05:19:16.400 --> 05:19:22.320 that there is a package ready for you jesse shall we play it we'll see what arrived in the 05:19:22.320 --> 05:19:24.860 in the mail for a dear Jesse J chick. 05:19:24.860 --> 05:19:27.000 I believe we've got some replays here, Milesh. 05:19:27.000 --> 05:19:29.200 And I just wanted to showcase some of the big multi-kills. 05:19:29.200 --> 05:19:31.520 And I wonder if focus on some of the refrags 05:19:31.520 --> 05:19:33.600 that were coming down from Flux O W7M. 05:19:33.600 --> 05:19:35.400 You know, it really is a team game. 05:19:35.400 --> 05:19:36.960 Ground 1, it's Lobin from Top Spirals. 05:19:36.960 --> 05:19:38.160 He's getting a lot of these kills. 05:19:38.160 --> 05:19:40.480 But notice that a lot of them are coming off of trades. 05:19:40.480 --> 05:19:42.040 They're coming off of other players 05:19:42.040 --> 05:19:43.360 who have given their position away. 05:19:43.360 --> 05:19:44.520 Here's another situation. 05:19:44.520 --> 05:19:47.440 2v3, Flux O W7M have information. 05:19:47.440 --> 05:19:49.760 And Khan's able to step up because his teammates have 05:19:49.760 --> 05:19:54.880 died and he's able to trade back a lot of those kills. Even right here it's Palu coming in, late 05:19:54.880 --> 05:19:59.040 trade on the souls but a trade nonetheless. In that first half I think it's really the team 05:19:59.040 --> 05:20:04.160 play and the trade games that were given Fluxo by the 7MB edge. Towards the end of it, right, 05:20:04.160 --> 05:20:09.840 rounds 12, round 13, 14. That's where we just saw some big hero individual plays from guys like 05:20:09.840 --> 05:20:14.400 Palu and even guys like Kons but in the early game when it was maybe a little bit easier on 05:20:14.400 --> 05:20:18.000 that defensive side I thought it was the team play that was so solid and brought Fluxo up to 05:20:18.000 --> 05:20:25.360 to that early lead well we'll see if that can be recreated on shalei I'm expecting 05:20:25.360 --> 05:20:31.000 more action in here more energy and more what's how does the song go after 05:20:31.000 --> 05:20:37.400 bullet up let's bring in our resident musical expert links and slash or extra 05:20:37.400 --> 05:20:41.000 trigger let's put him up in here have a quick little chat before we start off 05:20:41.000 --> 05:20:48.040 with our third map. More energy, more action. We got it on map two links now. 05:20:48.040 --> 05:20:55.240 We're going to Chalet to cap off this exciting as hell matchup. It's it's 05:20:55.240 --> 05:20:58.120 always funny to hear the words action and energy be used to describe a 05:20:58.120 --> 05:21:01.520 consulate match because not normally what you would use to like describe 05:21:01.520 --> 05:21:03.840 anything that happens on there but it's objectively correct just to be 05:21:03.840 --> 05:21:07.240 clear and if that's what we had in store on consulate then I mean Night 05:21:07.240 --> 05:21:10.720 Haven was exciting as well but for Chalet it should be particularly exciting as 05:21:10.720 --> 05:21:15.700 Well, it's much more, I would say like smaller map because it just is an extremely small map generally 05:21:15.700 --> 05:21:18.160 I think also for both of these teams 05:21:18.160 --> 05:21:22.520 They have been very good at winning their fights and a map that revolves a lot around the attack 05:21:22.840 --> 05:21:25.920 Holding angles from outside the building to try and cut off defenders 05:21:25.920 --> 05:21:30.280 I think whoever can get the better of that situation whether who's able to kind of swing around the window 05:21:30.280 --> 05:21:35.320 Who's better able to like react or pre-fire an anticipation of somebody rotating that could be the name of the game on 05:21:35.440 --> 05:21:37.360 Chalet and I don't know 05:21:37.360 --> 05:21:40.800 I'm just personally excited because I this is also what my favorite map in the whole pool 05:21:40.800 --> 05:21:42.680 So I'm not I'm gonna have a good time no matter what 05:21:42.920 --> 05:21:47.880 All these shall a your favorite map on the whole pool. No, I believe that I said that bank was my favorite map 05:21:47.880 --> 05:21:49.840 I'm hoping which is a fair pick which is a fair pick 05:21:50.560 --> 05:21:53.060 a fair one indeed. I think 05:21:53.600 --> 05:21:58.520 It's difficult, isn't it because you got to be careful how how much you look into the numbers and you know 05:21:58.520 --> 05:22:00.240 It's it's the game of seed at the end of the day 05:22:00.240 --> 05:22:06.160 You know the numbers tell one story and then the game tells another and I think that last consular map was a really good example 05:22:06.160 --> 05:22:08.160 you look at the numbers for 05:22:08.160 --> 05:22:09.160 shale and you think, yeah, you 05:22:09.160 --> 05:22:10.160 know, probably it gives the edge 05:22:10.160 --> 05:22:12.160 to phase again, but we looked at 05:22:12.160 --> 05:22:13.160 the numbers for consular and we 05:22:13.160 --> 05:22:14.160 thought that it gave the edge to 05:22:14.160 --> 05:22:16.160 phase there and you know, in a 05:22:16.160 --> 05:22:18.160 lot of ways it did, but to be 05:22:18.160 --> 05:22:20.160 7m, we're just able to dig a 05:22:20.160 --> 05:22:21.160 little bit deeper, I think in 05:22:21.160 --> 05:22:22.160 the moment, and I think that 05:22:22.160 --> 05:22:24.160 the context of it being, you 05:22:24.160 --> 05:22:25.160 know, the map two in the 05:22:25.160 --> 05:22:26.160 series, they've lost map one. 05:22:26.160 --> 05:22:28.160 We're now in a situation where 05:22:28.160 --> 05:22:29.160 both teams have won their 05:22:29.160 --> 05:22:30.160 opponents map choice and it's 05:22:30.160 --> 05:22:31.160 the best of one and it's on 05:22:31.160 --> 05:22:33.160 shale and we all kind of 05:22:33.160 --> 05:22:34.160 like shale. These two teams 05:22:34.160 --> 05:22:35.160 certainly do both like 05:22:35.160 --> 05:22:40.440 So it's going to be a really good game regardless and I think that's maybe the headline for me 05:22:41.520 --> 05:22:45.440 I'm trying to kind of scrounge around and see what sort of topics that we can go through until 05:22:45.760 --> 05:22:51.200 We're told that our matchup is ready because we already talked about the solid snake point. Yes. Yes, links 05:22:51.200 --> 05:22:54.880 What do you say? Well, you said I was a musical expert earlier and I'm no idea where that came from 05:22:54.880 --> 05:22:58.220 So I'm kind of in curious if we're where that label originated 05:22:58.560 --> 05:23:00.560 well, I 05:23:01.120 --> 05:23:03.280 Don't know actually because you actually okay 05:23:05.160 --> 05:23:07.900 This is a really successful bit, you've done. 05:23:07.900 --> 05:23:11.760 I can reference it because you did catch the reference. 05:23:11.760 --> 05:23:19.400 You didn't understand maybe you knew where the song actually comes from, but from all 05:23:19.400 --> 05:23:26.240 the things she said, the original tattoo song that was played in hit of rivalry. 05:23:26.240 --> 05:23:32.280 I like that you're impressed for being a member of Gen Z, watching one of the popular 05:23:32.280 --> 05:23:38.160 shows among Gen Z. Like, yeah, I've seen the show. Like, shout out. 05:23:38.160 --> 05:23:40.840 But the song is not, it was more about the song. 05:23:40.840 --> 05:23:45.720 I know the song is not from the show, Gassan. I'm aware it's not from the show. 05:23:45.720 --> 05:23:49.320 Technically, it's two songs that are being played. It's one that's a remix of the other. 05:23:49.320 --> 05:23:54.240 I don't care. I don't care. I've seen it from the show. It made it relevant again. 05:23:54.240 --> 05:23:57.440 I don't even know. The only tattoos I know of are on people's bodies. They didn't 05:23:57.440 --> 05:24:00.200 even make music. You just made that up. Right now, it's what he did rivalry 05:24:00.200 --> 05:24:03.200 said it. I'm not dealing with it. 05:24:03.200 --> 05:24:05.200 For the... 05:24:05.200 --> 05:24:10.200 Ali, all I'm saying, I'm doing all of this because I really miss links. 05:24:10.200 --> 05:24:17.200 And I haven't heard the rants, the references to judicial matters, 05:24:17.200 --> 05:24:20.200 legal opposition. 05:24:20.200 --> 05:24:23.200 In a while, to me, it just brings a lot out of me. 05:24:23.200 --> 05:24:27.200 I'm hoping for more gardening references from you, Ali, 05:24:27.200 --> 05:24:31.700 maybe maybe fishing references doys would be sick right fishing reference yeah 05:24:31.700 --> 05:24:36.980 let's see some fish let's see let's see if phase can really back after that loss 05:24:36.980 --> 05:24:43.020 on map to all right Ollie links to get away let and you know let's see if phase 05:24:43.020 --> 05:24:47.720 clay and reap would they so that is that like a good gardening or farming 05:24:47.720 --> 05:24:51.420 analogy for you Ollie I think that's maybe more farming isn't it yeah I 05:24:51.420 --> 05:24:53.940 kind of realized that halfway through but I had to commit I'll take it though 05:24:53.940 --> 05:24:58.940 I mean, it's better than the tenuous link that Milosh tried to come out with. 05:24:58.940 --> 05:25:00.940 I've no idea what that was about. 05:25:00.940 --> 05:25:06.940 I think I've heard the song that I know, I know the band's tattoo, but I mean, aside from that, I was lost. 05:25:06.940 --> 05:25:11.940 So there's a show called Heated Rivalry. It's very popular amongst people in my cohort. 05:25:14.940 --> 05:25:17.940 Yeah, it's not on my radar, unfortunately. 05:25:17.940 --> 05:25:20.940 Well, that's, that sucks for you. 05:25:20.940 --> 05:25:25.940 You're living a much bleaker existence than me. 05:25:25.940 --> 05:25:26.940 What? 05:25:26.940 --> 05:25:27.940 No, it's not bleak. 05:25:27.940 --> 05:25:28.940 Shelly. 05:25:28.940 --> 05:25:30.940 This is my favorite map of the pool. 05:25:30.940 --> 05:25:31.940 No bank is actually my second. 05:25:31.940 --> 05:25:33.940 I love both maps quite a bit. 05:25:33.940 --> 05:25:39.940 So as we get into the map, I am frozen again. 05:25:39.940 --> 05:25:42.940 I at least have a clean feed now. 05:25:42.940 --> 05:25:46.940 That's behind, but I can kind of see what's happening. 05:25:46.940 --> 05:25:47.940 Well, that's okay. 05:25:47.940 --> 05:25:52.580 Well that's okay. I'll run through the bands and we can see if we can warm you up a little bit. 05:25:52.580 --> 05:25:59.700 So, as army, why am I? Why am I the question mark? And then of course, Monty and Blitz. No real 05:25:59.700 --> 05:26:07.220 question marks there from the Fluxo, sorry from the W7M side of things. Instead, the question 05:26:07.220 --> 05:26:11.140 mark for me will be the why am I band. Like the Fluxo I've gone with there. They're obviously 05:26:11.140 --> 05:26:16.340 wanting to have free reign of throwing in projectiles and I think that'll maybe come 05:26:16.340 --> 05:26:21.140 into more effects when we start defending down in barren games and potentially trying to hold on to 05:26:21.140 --> 05:26:27.060 fireplace. It's a bit of an airy but you'd think of Wami when you think of this map. Shall we? But 05:26:28.260 --> 05:26:31.620 they start off on the defense, folks would abuse 7M, starting off on that attack. 05:26:33.060 --> 05:26:36.820 Sol's in the downstairs in the kitchen for the early portion of the round, just on a little bit 05:26:36.820 --> 05:26:42.580 of drone hunt. It's only if you can find any way to place those mosaic pests and capture a 05:26:42.580 --> 05:26:46.860 a drone that has been set up as a bit of a flank cam or a bit of a moveable default cam 05:26:46.860 --> 05:26:53.500 that the attackers so often like to do. Andy? Who'd be allowed to rotate in and around the 05:26:53.500 --> 05:26:57.180 site at the moment? I don't think that double window is open just yet. Instead, a lot of 05:26:57.180 --> 05:27:00.900 the pressure is coming from the solar side of things. Think that it glimpsed the double 05:27:00.900 --> 05:27:04.660 window being out of here. Always going to be careful with W7M. They've shown us 05:27:04.660 --> 05:27:10.500 tonight that they still like to spot an opportunity and if they see that a site is looking particularly 05:27:10.500 --> 05:27:15.500 vulnerable, they won't waste too much time giving themselves in. 05:27:18.500 --> 05:27:21.500 I'll just keep going. 05:27:21.500 --> 05:27:28.500 I believe Lynx is still iced out, we say. I think that's what the kids would call it. 05:27:28.500 --> 05:27:31.500 Yeah, that's what they say in Heated Rivalry. It's a hockey show. 05:27:31.500 --> 05:27:36.500 Oh, okay. I'm feeling it now. I'm understanding the references. 05:27:36.500 --> 05:27:38.500 souls are still downstairs. 05:27:38.500 --> 05:27:40.500 That's a lobin. 05:27:40.500 --> 05:27:44.500 Should be able to walk up library, fairly uncontested. 05:27:44.500 --> 05:27:46.500 His attention might be turned. 05:27:46.500 --> 05:27:48.500 Ooh, certainly will be now. 05:27:48.500 --> 05:27:50.500 He'll be turned his attention towards the cameras. 05:27:50.500 --> 05:27:56.500 I don't think he was expecting Sider to be there at all, playing underneath, inside of games. 05:27:56.500 --> 05:28:00.500 And it's now for cons to make a rotation. 05:28:00.500 --> 05:28:02.500 Back up stairs. 05:28:02.500 --> 05:28:07.940 So much going on really inside of the basement for Fluxo W7M1, dealing with this top floor attack. 05:28:07.940 --> 05:28:13.260 They obviously know that there are roamers out there, but it just seems like they're incapable of dealing with them in time again. 05:28:13.260 --> 05:28:19.100 Souls is going to put cons into the dirt, he's still got some angles that he can try and challenge onto. 05:28:19.100 --> 05:28:26.220 I think that's the two players that were really charged with dealing with some of that roam game and both have failed to do so. 05:28:26.220 --> 05:28:32.940 KDS will be taken out as the first board at first foot, so it doesn't feel like it's going to be too impactful 05:28:33.140 --> 05:28:40.580 When it's only Palu and Dota's alive at the moment. Sure, they've got control of fireplace. Got a bit of control over toward breach 05:28:41.160 --> 05:28:43.160 May even be open, but 05:28:43.200 --> 05:28:48.800 What they're gonna be able to do with that? Only time will tell. There's only 25 seconds for us to find out 05:28:50.000 --> 05:28:52.540 Breaching practice left part soft, so 05:28:52.540 --> 05:28:55.540 really does leave it an open invitation 05:28:55.540 --> 05:28:59.540 while we do best, last player alive 05:28:59.540 --> 05:29:01.540 and the exit frags can be fine this time 05:29:01.540 --> 05:29:03.540 and this is going to be normal 05:29:03.540 --> 05:29:04.540 and these swings with the shot one 05:29:04.540 --> 05:29:06.540 takes them out, face secure round one 05:29:08.540 --> 05:29:11.540 Hey on the bright side I actually saw some of that round 05:29:12.540 --> 05:29:13.540 Oh good 05:29:13.540 --> 05:29:16.540 We got new video, we got new video for me 05:29:16.540 --> 05:29:19.540 big update, huge for the program 05:29:19.540 --> 05:29:23.220 the program. That being said, I only saw lost 20 seconds, so I really can't comment on much 05:29:23.220 --> 05:29:26.900 of anything. But I at least saw part of it. I saw the 2v5. No, he's at Fragg's for Palu. 05:29:26.900 --> 05:29:32.420 That's unfortunate. And a victory on, I believe that was Master Betterman. Office for FaZe Clan 05:29:32.420 --> 05:29:36.820 to start. Yes, that's correct. So, we decided to go to the opposite side of the map or just 05:29:36.820 --> 05:29:41.300 defend it again, but one floor below. We'll go to Bar and Games this go around. 05:29:42.820 --> 05:29:48.020 Of course, continuing our discussion from earlier, Mira is available but not being 05:29:48.020 --> 05:29:53.340 brought by FaZe Clan. Sometimes we'll see teams bring a mirror and put a mirror window 05:29:53.340 --> 05:29:58.540 kind of inside a library for piano other times you can bring it and it's not old but not 05:29:58.540 --> 05:30:02.900 going to be a factor here. But for my band as well, and a zombie gone, this makes defending 05:30:02.900 --> 05:30:05.420 mezzanine actually quite problematic. 05:30:05.420 --> 05:30:07.420 I 05:30:13.980 --> 05:30:15.980 Pissed out of some problems my own now 05:30:21.740 --> 05:30:23.740 No 05:30:35.420 --> 05:30:43.420 What's this? What's going on? That's so funny. The ironic thing is I actually have video. 05:30:45.420 --> 05:30:50.420 I didn't have it, so I can cast. I can cast. Look, I see a guy rappelling up. 05:30:50.420 --> 05:30:54.420 He's rappelling up to the office balcony. He's upside down. 05:30:54.420 --> 05:30:58.420 Souls is in stock. I can actually see it. This isn't even a bit. I can see what's going on. 05:30:58.420 --> 05:31:03.420 But all seriousness to my point earlier, it is actually kind of difficult to defend mezzanine with the operator bands. 05:31:03.420 --> 05:31:06.420 I am not bringing them here. It is possible. 05:31:06.420 --> 05:31:08.420 I mean, we didn't even have a deployable shield. 05:31:08.420 --> 05:31:13.420 You just have the warden sitting behind the reinforcement on mezzanine. 05:31:13.420 --> 05:31:18.420 Got a player on library stairs and, you know, Loeb and Kandex actually just jumped in just yet. 05:31:24.420 --> 05:31:27.420 I can hear Jesse. This is just going off the rails. 05:31:27.420 --> 05:31:29.420 That's not being smoked. 05:31:29.420 --> 05:31:30.420 Finding cyber. 05:31:30.420 --> 05:31:32.420 That's what I mean though. 05:31:32.420 --> 05:31:36.420 What DPS do you have but you don't have this deployable shield when you don't have the mirror window for security? 05:31:36.420 --> 05:31:39.420 Just one nade sends you out of position. You could be in a very difficult spot. 05:31:39.420 --> 05:31:40.420 So Cyber goes down. 05:31:40.420 --> 05:31:41.420 How would the old skin with the new? 05:31:41.420 --> 05:31:43.420 He is still defending mezzanine. 05:31:44.420 --> 05:31:47.420 Seems we've reached a bit of a lull, so that's what every seven of them are. 05:31:47.420 --> 05:31:49.420 Still building on their plan at the time. 05:31:53.420 --> 05:31:56.420 If you're digging home to the library at the moment, there's a little prefire there from Souls, 05:31:56.420 --> 05:31:58.420 and that's exactly where at least one player is, 05:31:58.420 --> 05:32:00.420 but Loven will hop into piano. 05:32:02.420 --> 05:32:07.140 try to work an advantage here and make some impact on the cyber being down 05:32:07.140 --> 05:32:11.820 out of the count, fuck so, I inherently have quite a bit to work with here 05:32:11.820 --> 05:32:15.980 Vittor King, shows no mean or 05:32:15.980 --> 05:32:19.820 any respect that E1B scan that came in 05:32:19.820 --> 05:32:23.180 he saw them in the right one, maybe on the wall here but 05:32:23.180 --> 05:32:27.180 saying that he has survived, and he can grab himself another here 05:32:27.180 --> 05:32:31.220 oh my goodness there might be something on, Vittor King in handy 05:32:31.220 --> 05:32:34.900 I mean this location is known he was running through the YN Scalp for goodness sake. 05:32:34.900 --> 05:32:38.020 Cons now. He should not be in this position. 05:32:39.780 --> 05:32:44.260 What, five versus four? Then it's like a five versus three? 05:32:45.940 --> 05:32:46.780 Something like that. 05:32:47.780 --> 05:32:50.580 Razor Gloom about to go off, but shot by cons in the process. 05:32:50.580 --> 05:32:53.700 I went over 1v2 with both players on low HP. 05:32:53.700 --> 05:32:55.780 Session of the diffuser. 05:32:55.780 --> 05:33:01.780 Guarantee thing, what's level of one player around the corner is keeping information directly on him. 05:33:01.780 --> 05:33:05.780 Tempting the flick, but a lot of difficulty making it happen. 05:33:05.780 --> 05:33:10.780 The defense very spread out, and I have the ability to win this straight up and handy around the corner. 05:33:10.780 --> 05:33:12.780 We'll take him down. 05:33:12.780 --> 05:33:16.780 Faze up, facing a lot better success on bar and games. 05:33:16.780 --> 05:33:22.780 Well, you say that, but that rounds a massive comfort behind victory with three crazy kills. 05:33:22.780 --> 05:33:26.020 but phase up to zero 05:33:26.020 --> 05:33:28.500 i'm not going to sit here and tell you that phase are going to be annoyed that 05:33:28.500 --> 05:33:32.060 they've lost their impressive win streak over on consulate 05:33:32.060 --> 05:33:36.460 but they come out here and make a bit of a statement on chalet 05:33:36.460 --> 05:33:41.900 certainly would do something for uh... confidence 05:33:41.900 --> 05:33:44.740 rounds like that round we've just seen round number two they're going to make 05:33:44.740 --> 05:33:47.140 that happen 05:33:47.140 --> 05:33:51.060 going to kitchen now try make a full three round rotate office defensive 05:33:51.060 --> 05:33:58.740 phase or the first half of their defensive phase. I don't know, Fluxo feel a little bit 05:33:58.740 --> 05:34:03.500 off the boil. Like, I don't want to say that, that, that Consulate Wing kind of took everything 05:34:03.500 --> 05:34:08.580 out of him or took everything for him to get there, but an overtime game, fairly, you 05:34:08.580 --> 05:34:12.820 know, a fairly lengthy Night Haven labs as well. Like, we're really starting to get 05:34:12.820 --> 05:34:17.460 into the, into the thick of it, into the, the really gritty part of a Vesca 3 now 05:34:17.460 --> 05:34:22.820 when you start entering into map number three and particularly if one team starts to run away with things a little bit 05:34:23.260 --> 05:34:26.740 But then again, that's been the trend of the night, so maybe that's just what's gonna continue 05:34:27.460 --> 05:34:32.060 You can still see a little bit of a trend at one later on, maybe the time certainly will tell 05:34:32.980 --> 05:34:36.460 Andy, hot property at the minute for phase 5 and 0 right now 05:34:37.980 --> 05:34:42.500 Then some early default cameras are being left out just giving phase a little bit more information 05:34:42.500 --> 05:34:44.500 They should be having at this stage 05:34:47.460 --> 05:34:52.940 Just a little bit of information, there's always a worrying thing to give face. 05:34:52.940 --> 05:34:58.940 Keeping that Amaru secret for whatever Flux or Devisit and have in store will be very important as well. 05:34:58.940 --> 05:35:03.940 Especially when it's kitchen dining. 05:35:03.940 --> 05:35:08.440 And the main areas we're probably all looking towards will be that dining hatch. 05:35:08.440 --> 05:35:10.440 It's usually the obvious area. 05:35:10.440 --> 05:35:14.940 Play out down below, going through the hatch and not a shocker in this case, using the G8. 05:35:14.940 --> 05:35:23.940 So, we'll see something like we saw in the NIP Loose game earlier, something you have to be worried about in this position. 05:35:23.940 --> 05:35:26.940 It's running through the middle floor. 05:35:26.940 --> 05:35:29.940 Namely, Top Floor Presence has often the case on this site. 05:35:29.940 --> 05:35:35.940 So, how is Fluxor W7M, of course, going to establish some control on the top floor, but how far are they going to activate Loben? 05:35:35.940 --> 05:35:37.940 Now that they've acquired this control. 05:35:37.940 --> 05:35:45.620 The lion's gun comes out there around the halfway point in the round, Cyber caught out 05:35:45.620 --> 05:35:46.620 in solar. 05:35:46.620 --> 05:35:51.740 I think he'd chosen to route himself to the spot and stay still, but Palu had the read 05:35:51.740 --> 05:35:59.220 and was able to find quite a narrow angle onto it. 05:35:59.220 --> 05:36:04.180 Cyber was first down and down two as well, but he didn't slow phase down in the conclusion 05:36:04.180 --> 05:36:05.180 of the round. 05:36:05.180 --> 05:36:08.300 Okay now tracks out on the day most death mark 05:36:10.780 --> 05:36:13.700 A little bit of sanctuary if it's able to be found 05:36:14.660 --> 05:36:21.300 So should be able to feed a little bit of information across souls next place to fall because we're vertical handy is there to save 05:36:22.900 --> 05:36:26.560 Who bit of king it's slow to the trigger on that one 05:36:27.740 --> 05:36:33.220 Lacking and dots also finding handy down for the count flux of W7M with their first victory 05:36:33.220 --> 05:36:37.780 I didn't really see all that much play from the Amar just hopping in a window more than 05:36:37.780 --> 05:36:38.780 anything with a big kill. 05:36:38.780 --> 05:36:43.540 I think Fluxer W7M just slowly probing at some of the extremities of the face clan defense 05:36:43.540 --> 05:36:49.020 and it felt like every single player took a 1v1 and won it. 05:36:49.020 --> 05:36:50.020 Sometimes that's what you've got to do, isn't it? 05:36:50.020 --> 05:36:53.580 Everyone's just got to win their 1 and that can be in itself the way that the round 05:36:53.580 --> 05:36:55.820 plays out. 05:36:55.820 --> 05:36:58.300 Bans ahead of round 4, Lyon. 05:36:58.300 --> 05:37:01.380 This is like this is back in pro league days 05:37:04.220 --> 05:37:10.060 Lion bands were like the go to our energy team band lion for like a whole stage or something 05:37:12.340 --> 05:37:15.000 That's been a long old time since I've seen the lion band 05:37:16.060 --> 05:37:18.060 417 then 05:37:18.060 --> 05:37:20.860 You look at it a different way and you say it's a DMR band 05:37:22.000 --> 05:37:24.000 quite rightly 05:37:24.000 --> 05:37:32.520 It's like, you know, like Twitch 417 obviously it's the same gun, but you know, you can shoot 05:37:32.520 --> 05:37:34.400 a Twitch drone. 05:37:34.400 --> 05:37:35.400 I can't shoot an E1B. 05:37:35.400 --> 05:37:39.720 It might be if you could though, because you can see it on the map when you load in. 05:37:39.720 --> 05:37:45.240 Can you imagine, like, like the, um, like the spawn on Lighthaven, when you can like 05:37:45.240 --> 05:37:49.120 trap out the window, and the attack just can't get to you for like 10 seconds. 05:37:49.120 --> 05:37:52.360 You just hop out of that window and shoot the E1B of the day around every time. 05:37:52.360 --> 05:37:54.680 Just put a full clip into it and it's gone. 05:37:54.680 --> 05:37:57.320 It's like in Call of Duty, you could shoot the UAV. 05:37:57.320 --> 05:37:58.320 Yeah. 05:37:58.320 --> 05:38:02.280 Honestly, that could be a balance and change. 05:38:02.280 --> 05:38:04.520 You should submit that as an idea. 05:38:04.520 --> 05:38:07.640 I- We're- Formal submission right here. 05:38:07.640 --> 05:38:08.640 On the record. 05:38:13.440 --> 05:38:17.200 It's, you know, it's an idea. 05:38:17.200 --> 05:38:19.520 It's one we've had. 05:38:19.520 --> 05:38:21.320 No, no, I think we're onto something. 05:38:21.320 --> 05:38:23.320 I think it's going to be the next best thing. 05:38:23.320 --> 05:38:25.320 I think we're on the round four, 05:38:25.320 --> 05:38:27.320 as we're going back up to Master bedroom and office 05:38:27.320 --> 05:38:29.320 for the phase plan. First set, they're able to win 05:38:29.320 --> 05:38:31.320 on this site. And what do you know, an OSU 05:38:31.320 --> 05:38:32.320 back into play. 05:38:32.320 --> 05:38:34.320 Why is this default camera still up? 05:38:34.320 --> 05:38:36.320 That's, okay, that's great. 05:38:36.320 --> 05:38:38.320 It looks like W7M are terrible at shooting default cameras. 05:38:38.320 --> 05:38:40.320 This is like the fourth time tonight 05:38:40.320 --> 05:38:42.320 we've seen a default camera. It's 40 seconds 05:38:42.320 --> 05:38:44.320 into the round. 05:38:44.320 --> 05:38:46.320 There's also, there's like three to four people 05:38:46.320 --> 05:38:49.320 all on that camera. That's crazy. 05:38:49.320 --> 05:39:00.200 hello oh yeah no worries that's like the epitome of not my job well it's not my 05:39:00.200 --> 05:39:04.360 job to shoot the default come just check once over you even saw it there on your 05:39:04.360 --> 05:39:08.800 screen hey listen we all make we all make mistakes sometimes these things 05:39:08.800 --> 05:39:12.800 happen it's okay but links again it's a mistake but it's happened like four 05:39:12.800 --> 05:39:17.840 times it didn't happen it didn't happen it didn't happen he's correct 05:39:17.840 --> 05:39:25.960 Well, either way, not great, but nothing bad has happened to it yet, aside from FaZe 05:39:25.960 --> 05:39:27.600 Clan getting information for what they're going for. 05:39:27.600 --> 05:39:29.100 They will have spotted the Osa given her. 05:39:29.100 --> 05:39:30.100 I'm not sure. 05:39:30.100 --> 05:39:32.600 I spotted the Ace as well. 05:39:32.600 --> 05:39:35.000 It definitely will have spotted the Ace given Dota is his position. 05:39:35.000 --> 05:39:39.320 They have a good idea of what the Ace is doing for the position of itself, as we 05:39:39.320 --> 05:39:41.320 just said, could be quite powerful. 05:39:41.320 --> 05:39:43.320 I hope that's a little turn below. 05:39:43.320 --> 05:39:45.320 Aided by the Grimby's loading dog hunting. 05:39:45.320 --> 05:39:47.320 I can't quite find the angle. 05:39:47.320 --> 05:39:48.320 So what can I start... 05:39:48.320 --> 05:39:50.320 Might force cons off the window? 05:39:50.320 --> 05:39:52.320 Might be just... 05:39:52.320 --> 05:39:53.320 Flash this more than anything? 05:39:53.320 --> 05:39:56.320 And then be flashing with blind dots. 05:39:57.320 --> 05:39:58.320 It's a brief moment. 05:39:58.320 --> 05:40:00.320 They might have been able to go beyond their balance, 05:40:00.320 --> 05:40:01.320 but nothing quite happening. 05:40:01.320 --> 05:40:03.320 Instead of just holding firm in their positions, 05:40:03.320 --> 05:40:05.320 not really pressing further beyond, 05:40:05.320 --> 05:40:08.320 dots start things off well with the kill on the KDS. 05:40:08.320 --> 05:40:10.320 But actually getting into the side is improving quite difficult, 05:40:10.320 --> 05:40:13.900 difficult because KGS is all the way over inside a library for most of the round. 05:40:13.900 --> 05:40:18.660 Now with Vidicang dead, that is where things become really problematic. Souls 05:40:18.660 --> 05:40:23.960 the next to fall, and so it is just a 1v5 on the site at the moment, but if 05:40:23.960 --> 05:40:27.320 Fluxor W7M are aware of it, Cyber will get back in the nick of time, but 05:40:27.320 --> 05:40:31.400 they're cutting off his rotation back outside a piano. 05:40:31.400 --> 05:40:36.840 That big peak he will almost make it across. Well, Handy gets one, maybe two, 05:40:36.840 --> 05:40:43.640 some outside and inside the building free-fire scot-a-land and one sniper shot will be the end of it 05:40:43.640 --> 05:40:47.840 Tigame has W, Fluxor, W7M have marched back into Chalet 05:40:47.840 --> 05:40:51.840 I'm not sure what's worse. Do you fuck him up or are they still losing the round? 05:40:51.840 --> 05:40:54.840 Even though they know exactly where everybody is 05:40:54.840 --> 05:41:00.840 Oh dear, oh dear. Fluxor, W7M successful in round number 4 there 05:41:00.840 --> 05:41:06.600 that's two attacking rounds on the bounce, two opening picks that have been converted as well. 05:41:07.320 --> 05:41:10.440 And for the first time in what feels like a long time, we've seen a plant. 05:41:11.320 --> 05:41:18.200 Plant hasn't been a factor so far, shall it? In round four it was nice hold from big window, 05:41:18.200 --> 05:41:24.680 nice hold from piano, just cutting that top floor in half essentially, restricting the flow 05:41:24.680 --> 05:41:29.240 of defenders. Everyone on the side of phase, obviously the side from the last two players, 05:41:29.240 --> 05:41:34.960 but I guess even I think it's cyberlost his gunfight in the end that we've been held so it wasn't a particularly 05:41:35.320 --> 05:41:41.320 Fair gunfight, but killing the first couple of players on the side of phase to fall just straight up losing those engagements 05:41:42.680 --> 05:41:44.040 Look so 05:41:44.040 --> 05:41:47.320 It's potent as ever and lead of course by Palu 05:41:47.880 --> 05:41:53.440 7 and 3 at the moment after only all four rounds of play moving into the fifth round now 05:41:54.560 --> 05:41:58.680 Showing no signs of slowing down and where it's been cyber historically on 05:41:59.240 --> 05:42:02.680 Both Knight, Havermabs and Consulate that's been stepping up for FaZe. 05:42:02.680 --> 05:42:06.040 This time he's 1-4 instead it's Handi doing a lot of the heavy lifting. 05:42:06.040 --> 05:42:09.160 Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I mean, FaZe is a team of fraggers. 05:42:09.160 --> 05:42:11.400 Everyone can go out there and put a big scoreline. 05:42:11.400 --> 05:42:14.280 The days where you see other games in particular, 05:42:14.280 --> 05:42:16.200 where you see Saibot go a little bit quiet, 05:42:16.200 --> 05:42:18.040 tend to be the ones that cost him a little bit. 05:42:18.040 --> 05:42:20.840 So something to keep an eye on if it's a trend that continues. 05:42:20.840 --> 05:42:23.080 It could spell disaster here at 4 FaZe. 05:42:23.080 --> 05:42:30.080 It could be quite a big problem, especially given his strong performance in the last map. 05:42:30.080 --> 05:42:33.080 Just in terms of the kill count. 05:42:33.080 --> 05:42:36.080 It's good to keep an eye on kitchen dining. 05:42:36.080 --> 05:42:39.080 A re-attempt from Faye, so Loeben brings the Amari back into play. 05:42:39.080 --> 05:42:43.080 Something that Faye's clan would have spotted in the first attempt. 05:42:43.080 --> 05:42:48.080 Not because she wanted the hatches, because she actually just popped in the rescue window. 05:42:48.080 --> 05:42:52.080 Something that could be rare is a possibility. 05:42:52.080 --> 05:42:55.080 They're pulling out the silo-tone scanner. 05:42:56.080 --> 05:42:58.080 Try to find some information. 05:42:58.080 --> 05:43:04.080 On this side of the building is there is, shockingly, quite a heavy contingent of defenders on the upstairs. 05:43:04.080 --> 05:43:07.080 Two-brow and a combo to burn out the time. 05:43:07.080 --> 05:43:09.080 Maverick is meant to cut through that. 05:43:09.080 --> 05:43:14.080 More information gathered. The direct positions are playing around the top floor, though. 05:43:14.080 --> 05:43:16.080 A lot of it is around piano and bathroom. 05:43:16.080 --> 05:43:20.080 A lot of the standard positions you'd expect to defense, but that confirmation is always nice. 05:43:20.080 --> 05:43:22.080 W7M setup. 05:43:50.080 --> 05:43:56.440 It can be Logan and Dodez, the two big impact operators, the Amaru obviously to fly in through 05:43:56.440 --> 05:44:00.560 a window and Dodez with assault on scanner to gather a lot of information. 05:44:00.560 --> 05:44:05.520 It's something that we'll be very handy to have now in a position like Palu's, is that 05:44:05.520 --> 05:44:08.720 unsure on whether somebody is still inside a piano or not. 05:44:08.720 --> 05:44:14.560 Well look at the confirmation, it's going the worst way possible, KBS swinging around, 05:44:14.560 --> 05:44:18.360 taking down Kaa, pushing in on the Blackbeard, Palu, decimated by the DMR and handy 05:44:18.360 --> 05:44:23.080 getting both making up for the loss of cyber's impact on Chalet handy with a 05:44:23.080 --> 05:44:26.800 double kill towards the end phase regaining the lead off the back of his 05:44:26.800 --> 05:44:33.660 efforts the two kills there at least for handy in that round and sticking up to 05:44:33.660 --> 05:44:38.280 double digits before the halfway point in the in precedence we're gonna hear 05:44:38.280 --> 05:44:42.600 it from our wonderful desk though but only at the end of round number six 05:44:42.600 --> 05:44:52.600 we still have one round left to go. Fluxo W7M with an opportunity of clutching this up to a 3-3 scoreline 05:44:52.600 --> 05:44:58.600 and stopping phase from really starting to streak away with things. Good for phase they were able to put 05:44:58.600 --> 05:45:05.600 quick stop to that couple of rounds that Fluxo W7M were able to win there. This has been the most back and forth 05:45:05.600 --> 05:45:12.000 back and forth we've seen tonight so far with two rounds being won relatively early on and in succession 05:45:12.000 --> 05:45:18.320 by the attackers at least by W7M on this map of Chalet whereas typically on night even in Consular 05:45:18.320 --> 05:45:24.240 it was really feast or famine for those attackers but it seems like normal service has resumed at 05:45:24.240 --> 05:45:29.440 least for the meantime here as we enter into what is the final round of regulation attacks 05:45:29.440 --> 05:45:31.440 Also, it's her degree 7m. 05:45:37.320 --> 05:45:39.320 We'll see what they do here. 05:45:39.920 --> 05:45:46.120 Not a whole lot of X2 utility. You know, Grim's not really a factor, kind of like we saw in the previous Master of the Iron Office attack. 05:45:46.120 --> 05:45:50.160 But then the things will be as biased towards the solar size they were, then again. 05:45:51.280 --> 05:45:52.280 No. 05:45:52.280 --> 05:45:54.280 It's on the office balcony for the moment. 05:45:55.720 --> 05:45:57.720 It's your interesting stuff. 05:45:57.720 --> 05:46:01.720 I wanna say, that one repel on this side smoked an 8-doll now. 05:46:02.720 --> 05:46:09.720 I mean, I think that the play is very good in the use of utility for what seems like a very good attack at the moment, but 05:46:09.720 --> 05:46:14.720 I think Flux of W7M, as you can see, opening windows on a lot of different aspects of the map, creating a lot of 05:46:14.720 --> 05:46:18.720 pressure about to spot a player on the exact opposite side of that window. 05:46:18.720 --> 05:46:25.720 Well, if there's a fire shot in turn, take a wild guess who that is on the opposite side of the map from the rest of FaZe Clan. 05:46:25.720 --> 05:46:27.720 Oh, there's only one player it can be. 05:46:28.720 --> 05:46:30.720 It's usually a cyber. 05:46:30.720 --> 05:46:32.720 KS is also there to be fair, but... 05:46:32.720 --> 05:46:34.720 Yeah, KS has joined him, hasn't he? 05:46:34.720 --> 05:46:37.720 He's upstairs on the upstairs equivalent of the other side of the map. 05:46:39.720 --> 05:46:42.720 You know, they fancy footwear there from the comms keeping his drone alive. 05:46:45.720 --> 05:46:48.720 Just how powerful is Solid Snake? 05:46:48.720 --> 05:46:51.720 You don't even need someone to drone you in anymore as an entry. 05:46:51.720 --> 05:46:57.360 entry you just find yourself here at the bottom of fireplace stairs and it's 05:46:57.360 --> 05:47:02.680 cost you nothing to get there and literally just wait now scratch your 05:47:02.680 --> 05:47:06.920 chin and figure out the next move jump into the salt on scanner learn where a 05:47:06.920 --> 05:47:11.200 couple of people are cyber isn't too far away from him right here though 05:47:11.200 --> 05:47:16.480 she needs to be cautious but there's no one on the side of days is really 05:47:16.480 --> 05:47:18.640 They're just gonna know his location in a moment. 05:47:18.640 --> 05:47:19.480 Ooh! 05:47:20.480 --> 05:47:23.800 They're just hopping in another 1v1 ripe for souls! 05:47:23.800 --> 05:47:25.560 Lobin' next up on the docket. 05:47:27.200 --> 05:47:28.800 See, Fluxer W7, I'm trying to do some kind 05:47:28.800 --> 05:47:30.280 of spread out strategy and they just ended up 05:47:30.280 --> 05:47:32.200 giving 1v1s to the defense. 05:47:33.480 --> 05:47:35.680 Got a couple more kills to cement phase his lead 05:47:35.680 --> 05:47:37.840 coming out of the first half. 05:47:37.840 --> 05:47:40.640 KDS caught standing as dots lurking in the late round. 05:47:42.040 --> 05:47:44.120 They're standable to get a bit of a lax in that 05:47:44.120 --> 05:47:51.160 position but now is the time to tighten up. 24 still. Long odds to overcome. 05:47:51.160 --> 05:47:56.120 As we play on the extremities taken down, the setup now needs to hold. 05:47:56.120 --> 05:48:00.120 Seed boys aimed at smoke canisters in faceclans possession. 05:48:00.120 --> 05:48:06.120 Flashbangs from 4-2-7 M are the only tools they have to try to hit the odds. 05:48:06.120 --> 05:48:10.120 Around the corner, who almost? Crosshair placement seemingly good but the 05:48:10.120 --> 05:48:14.720 Shots not landing, and lots hit by a razor bloom. 05:48:14.720 --> 05:48:17.200 I'm thinking about treading the path, 05:48:17.200 --> 05:48:19.000 littered with the corpses of his teammate, 05:48:19.000 --> 05:48:21.720 out in the door at P.A. 05:48:21.720 --> 05:48:25.200 A brutal way to end this round is slowly limping around 05:48:25.200 --> 05:48:27.560 the balcony, almost finished off, 05:48:27.560 --> 05:48:30.840 and he will be so by bedroom four to two 05:48:30.840 --> 05:48:33.200 to phase plan these defenses going about as well 05:48:33.200 --> 05:48:35.760 as you can expect on Shallow. 05:48:35.760 --> 05:48:37.080 They should be really happy with themselves 05:48:37.080 --> 05:48:39.360 with that defensive split. 05:48:39.360 --> 05:48:47.000 not really left any opportunities open. Therefore, FW7M to take full advantage of another game 05:48:47.000 --> 05:48:52.200 or another map where we see a 4-2 split at the sideswap. We're going to throw it over 05:48:52.200 --> 05:48:55.800 to our desk as they're going to do our halftime interlude here. 05:48:55.800 --> 05:49:00.800 Thank you very much, my friends, and I'm afraid to say that the physical desk itself cannot 05:49:00.800 --> 05:49:07.440 say much, but Jesse can speak quite well and eloquently in this case. Focusing on 05:49:07.440 --> 05:49:12.960 What happened a couple of rounds ago, it kind of led to a crash out of certain people. 05:49:12.960 --> 05:49:17.920 You're very valid. That lion ban, please, can you go through that, Jesse, and 05:49:18.640 --> 05:49:23.840 elucidate a bit what's going on to me? Yeah, absolutely. I think the lion ban kind of reveals 05:49:23.840 --> 05:49:28.160 itself when you take a closer look at the three opening gunfights that happen in rounds one, 05:49:28.160 --> 05:49:32.960 two, and three. Notice how in every single one of these fights, cyber is either winning 05:49:32.960 --> 05:49:35.360 It is using it, but he's being pined out on a drone 05:49:35.360 --> 05:49:40.520 He's being lion scammed so he can't move and then usually he's losing these gunfights 05:49:40.520 --> 05:49:43.520 You see it again here in round number three where it's just playing top solar 05:49:43.520 --> 05:49:46.340 This round one is the only time that he actually wins the fights 05:49:46.680 --> 05:49:52.360 He ends this one the round goes the way of face clan round two he dies. They should have lost this round 05:49:52.360 --> 05:49:58.640 It's a 2v5 ridiculous clutch from handy and viticking then round three of course another early death from cyber 05:49:58.640 --> 05:50:03.260 he does go down and face plan do used around so the lion banner really comes 05:50:03.260 --> 05:50:07.240 into allow cyber to just have a bit more freedom on the map to not always be 05:50:07.240 --> 05:50:10.800 getting into those forced early done fights and you saw it work wonders her 05:50:10.800 --> 05:50:14.400 face in rounds four five and six they don't get into those early fights that 05:50:14.400 --> 05:50:19.120 are heavily damaged for fluxo w7m they force more team v team engagements 05:50:19.120 --> 05:50:23.240 and on the whole it looks a lot better for face plan they get away with that 05:50:23.240 --> 05:50:26.400 four two half could have been three three if they can convert that second 05:50:26.400 --> 05:50:30.180 around on the side of fluxo, but in the end, very nice adaptation for faceclan and 05:50:30.180 --> 05:50:33.980 they set themselves up nicely going into the final six. Four rounds in the fence 05:50:33.980 --> 05:50:39.300 is an excellent, excellent score line to have on Chalet, especially when we're 05:50:39.300 --> 05:50:44.100 expecting so much aggression from both sides. Question is, can I continue or 05:50:44.100 --> 05:50:48.820 will it be a defensive side of Chalet just to blow our minds a bit more 05:50:48.820 --> 05:50:53.380 than what we've already had this wonderful evening. That's it from me 05:50:53.380 --> 05:50:58.380 and Jesse listening back to our counselors. Thanks, Nick Sartorico. 05:50:58.380 --> 05:51:01.380 Happy to take it from you guys. Good analysis by Jesse. 05:51:01.380 --> 05:51:06.380 Always nice to think that they can observe that when they aren't, you know, in the throes of whatever chaos is happening in these rounds, 05:51:06.380 --> 05:51:09.380 because the Lion Band makes a lot of sense with that additional context. 05:51:09.380 --> 05:51:14.380 It's very helpful to provide. Also, in particular, I imagine Cyber was quite the vociferous advocate for the Lion Band, 05:51:14.380 --> 05:51:17.380 given what he had to go through in the three opening engagements there. 05:51:17.380 --> 05:51:22.540 But now as you switch to the opposite side, there's a lion band just out the gate this 05:51:22.540 --> 05:51:23.540 go around. 05:51:23.540 --> 05:51:27.180 Flexor W7M don't want to deal with that whatsoever and that'll be a bit of a tell towards Faze 05:51:27.180 --> 05:51:30.580 what kind of defense the defense wants to play. 05:51:30.580 --> 05:51:35.900 It's really interesting how the game can sort of morph and change isn't it? 05:51:35.900 --> 05:51:38.420 Just his point about the lion band is perfectly valid. 05:51:38.420 --> 05:51:42.740 But it's also like a stubbornness from Cyber to play in the way that he wants to play 05:51:42.740 --> 05:51:47.440 and like a lack of willingness to adapt and to recognize right I'm getting 05:51:47.440 --> 05:51:50.840 drone then I'm getting Lyon all the time maybe I need to do something different 05:51:50.840 --> 05:51:53.640 but no I'm not gonna change you're gonna change and we're just gonna ban the 05:51:53.640 --> 05:51:57.320 lion instead and and still leave all these things open now for face-clan I 05:51:57.320 --> 05:52:00.360 didn't really matter because ultimately end up coming away with a favorable 05:52:00.360 --> 05:52:04.560 split so from that point of view you can kind of just say well yeah just give 05:52:04.560 --> 05:52:07.560 it then if it's gonna cause you that much inconvenience and you really 05:52:07.560 --> 05:52:11.080 want to play the way you want to play then yeah sure on the line I guess 05:52:11.080 --> 05:52:17.480 the teams maybe aren't as fortunate in their ability to sort of mold the game to suit them 05:52:17.480 --> 05:52:24.840 as opposed to mold themselves to suit game. Mira and a clash have been removed by FaZe, 05:52:24.840 --> 05:52:30.120 the Lion and the Grim likewise by LuxoW7M. They're still going to leave. 05:52:30.120 --> 05:52:40.120 I'm getting up toward the library. 05:52:40.120 --> 05:52:46.120 The position for handy to be. 05:52:46.120 --> 05:52:49.120 I'll be able to do that single window. 05:52:49.120 --> 05:52:52.120 The sprint around the corner to blitz the player on mezzanine. 05:52:52.120 --> 05:52:54.120 I've been meaning to make that one. 05:52:54.120 --> 05:52:56.120 Indeed, this is a stupid little difference. 05:52:56.120 --> 05:52:59.120 It's evaporated on the opposite side, cutting off on the cross. 05:52:59.120 --> 05:53:00.320 She twitched on the opposite side. 05:53:00.320 --> 05:53:01.080 Actually, they're both there. 05:53:01.080 --> 05:53:03.820 So I was trying to get kind of right in the way. 05:53:03.820 --> 05:53:07.820 That is just a clinical execute onto the mezzanine position 05:53:07.820 --> 05:53:09.280 within the first 45 seconds. 05:53:09.280 --> 05:53:10.880 You get the 5v4. 05:53:10.880 --> 05:53:12.160 Whatever ephanots are activated, 05:53:12.160 --> 05:53:14.320 they'll be stagnant for the rest of the round. 05:53:14.320 --> 05:53:17.160 And as we can tell, there's only three players on the site. 05:53:17.160 --> 05:53:19.120 Hans is lurking around down below. 05:53:19.120 --> 05:53:20.760 Now, if they don't know this, 05:53:20.760 --> 05:53:22.520 that means the site is comparatively pretty weak. 05:53:22.520 --> 05:53:24.080 And if they do discover that information, 05:53:24.080 --> 05:53:27.760 things should get quite rough for a Fluxer W7M. 05:53:27.760 --> 05:53:33.720 We've got the opportunity to discover that just in that they can use handy on the blitz to kind of move quite quickly 05:53:33.720 --> 05:53:35.720 Looks like you can try and get himself onto snow balcony 05:53:36.160 --> 05:53:42.320 The drone action going up these main stairs as well now from Victor King souls has a decent flank drone in place as well 05:53:42.920 --> 05:53:45.440 And we should definitely take into your own game 05:53:45.880 --> 05:53:48.800 Nice little ledge that you can just go on up there 05:53:49.080 --> 05:53:53.800 If you have a great line onto what's going on at the top of the fireplace and push outside of the breach 05:53:53.800 --> 05:53:57.800 When that is going to help cyber, take out Vardotas. 05:53:57.800 --> 05:54:00.800 CCSG doing a lot of work. 05:54:00.800 --> 05:54:03.800 Fortunately, Fitz King is there to maintain an advanced interface. 05:54:08.800 --> 05:54:13.800 Keep it solid, she has more guns to back up Handys and close the CPU Piano, which could be quite difficult. 05:54:13.800 --> 05:54:16.800 The heroes remaining, but with Zotokanister and a C4, 05:54:16.800 --> 05:54:19.800 a lot of players stacked up around this Hubblebore. 05:54:19.800 --> 05:54:21.800 You gotta be careful as the Erudy pushes in. 05:54:21.800 --> 05:54:25.040 It's clear without that utility in the more forward position. 05:54:25.040 --> 05:54:26.540 Oh, but it's handy ADS's! 05:54:26.540 --> 05:54:31.520 Logan ready for it, gets one, another DMR with the next, and FaZe betting everything on 05:54:31.520 --> 05:54:35.880 a push in with your piano double, and they get slaughtered at the gates. 05:54:35.880 --> 05:54:40.320 Going to keep a barrier and put you to free fire at the opposite angle. 05:54:40.320 --> 05:54:47.440 I'll catch Palu off guard, spots another, but Flux or W7M just hold firm. 05:54:47.440 --> 05:54:49.880 Around basically one and lost in piano. 05:54:49.880 --> 05:54:54.600 It really was wasn't it that as army keeper barrier putting in a lot of work 05:54:54.600 --> 05:54:59.200 I mean if it's not a keeper barrier, it's likely going to be a shield or something that we saw phase play 05:55:00.080 --> 05:55:03.100 But it's it's really down to personal preferences what you've got available 05:55:03.100 --> 05:55:06.720 What fits in the line up the best in that instance of flux though? 05:55:06.720 --> 05:55:09.720 It was certainly that keeper barricade only one shot as well 05:55:09.720 --> 05:55:13.600 So could have been dealt with but I mean it's still you've got three players to choose for you 05:55:13.600 --> 05:55:18.360 You're asking a little bit much out of one individual there at that point 05:55:18.360 --> 05:55:24.480 So we're going to drag one back and take us downstairs into the bar and games in a site 05:55:24.480 --> 05:55:27.780 that revolves around this vertical hold. 05:55:27.780 --> 05:55:33.460 Not really a site that we saw be favoured by FaZe. 05:55:33.460 --> 05:55:37.800 They only play it once in their run through of all the bombsites. 05:55:37.800 --> 05:55:42.800 Typically you'll see bombsites played at least twice, but this was one that they only 05:55:42.800 --> 05:55:46.680 opted to go through one time and part of me does wonder if that was because of the 05:55:46.680 --> 05:55:52.600 Wami Band, something that Dogez has at his fingertips in round number 8. It just assists 05:55:52.600 --> 05:55:56.680 that hold upstairs a little bit more. You can play it in and around fireplace. A deployable 05:55:56.680 --> 05:56:00.840 shield is something that is always nice to have, but that is lacking out of the lineup 05:56:00.840 --> 05:56:06.160 sometimes. So, keeping control of the top of library stairs isn't going to be as straightforward 05:56:06.160 --> 05:56:12.160 or easy. Especially with a Monty in tow. You may be going to want something to 05:56:12.160 --> 05:56:17.160 try and hide behind there because once that human drone gets moving, there's not much that 05:56:17.160 --> 05:56:19.160 can stand in its way. 05:56:19.160 --> 05:56:20.160 Cyber. 05:56:20.160 --> 05:56:24.560 Confidently straight up to the building, sold some scanners for a quick check and boom he's 05:56:24.560 --> 05:56:30.720 in something that would have taken 10-15 seconds of drone work and a pre-placed drone historically 05:56:30.720 --> 05:56:32.720 is now achievable very quickly indeed. 05:56:32.720 --> 05:56:34.920 Depends on how often he's in this scanner. 05:56:34.920 --> 05:56:38.800 So at least gonna know that Loben's there just through the pre-fire that was sent 05:56:38.800 --> 05:56:39.800 out. 05:56:39.800 --> 05:56:43.500 Certainly gonna be cyber's first mark. He's gonna be chasing down 05:56:47.680 --> 05:56:54.080 Runs back upstairs it replicates in the same thing so the actual forward party for a sure face plan with the Monty Palu 05:56:54.800 --> 05:56:58.720 spots not only the Monty but the holes open up by the maverick in that wall 05:56:59.400 --> 05:57:03.700 Gotta be careful with positions like that and said oh, I don't know what the hell happened there 05:57:03.700 --> 05:57:08.700 There may be dots rotating in front as they're firing some shots down the hallway. 05:57:08.700 --> 05:57:13.700 Not entirely sure, but that will put one player down for Flux RW7M. 05:57:13.700 --> 05:57:17.700 So the Mezzanine and Library stairs position a bit strapped for manpower. 05:57:17.700 --> 05:57:22.700 Might be able to alleviate some of that burden. One player falls back down the staircase. 05:57:22.700 --> 05:57:27.700 I'm sure the other one went inside the library. Might have dropped down as well. Yes, they did. 05:57:27.700 --> 05:57:33.120 So, complete, completely vacating the top floor and we are just hit the midway point. 05:57:33.960 --> 05:57:39.200 That's the crazy thing about having the Monty in play and especially when you've got someone as good as Vittacke on that Monty. 05:57:40.120 --> 05:57:47.500 Clear in top floor, it's just a process, it's just a checklist that you go through, you literally just walk these people down and send them back to the site. 05:57:47.500 --> 05:57:55.200 I'm surprised that Faze weren't able to pick up a kill from the player rotating down, but still, they're able to grab another one there onto Loven. 05:57:55.200 --> 05:57:58.280 and it's still gonna slow things down somewhat. 05:58:00.280 --> 05:58:02.160 Nice thing here is that you've still got cyber 05:58:02.160 --> 05:58:03.480 and that's all Tom's got to discover 05:58:03.480 --> 05:58:04.800 the final couple of players on site. 05:58:04.800 --> 05:58:06.520 Was that Victor King de-shielding there 05:58:06.520 --> 05:58:08.360 as he was pushing on through? 05:58:08.360 --> 05:58:10.840 Oh, two players down, make it a third. 05:58:10.840 --> 05:58:13.760 Victor King eventually accredited with that kill 05:58:13.760 --> 05:58:16.560 that he dropped the shield for. 05:58:16.560 --> 05:58:19.000 With FaZe having such a man count advantage, 05:58:19.000 --> 05:58:20.300 you can hardly blame him. 05:58:20.300 --> 05:58:31.300 Also, just beautiful Monty work from FaZe Clan, again showing why that operator is such a powerful force for them. 05:58:31.300 --> 05:58:34.300 Look to W7M will take their time out after that. 05:58:34.300 --> 05:58:39.300 Things have been going very, very, very well for FaZe Clan. 05:58:39.300 --> 05:58:43.300 And, I mean, in that round, you obviously get the early information, somebody's lurking down below. 05:58:43.300 --> 05:58:46.300 So any kind of initial early advantage you might have gained from that. 05:58:46.300 --> 05:58:50.600 But once you're spotted by the snake, you know that at a minimum, they're probably going to be watching the flank. 05:58:50.600 --> 05:58:55.000 So that's going to just have to wait to the back half of the round if you want to. 05:58:55.000 --> 05:58:57.300 Otherwise, there's a good chance that you'll be ready for it. 05:58:57.300 --> 05:59:00.100 And so then when they go upstairs, they see all those positions. 05:59:00.100 --> 05:59:05.600 And unfortunately, the team kill kind of applying a lot of pressure to Flux or W7M early on. 05:59:05.600 --> 05:59:10.300 I mean, Loben takes down one of the three players in a position that kind of needs as many bodies as possible. 05:59:10.300 --> 05:59:15.300 Mezzanine, library stairs, and then also somebody else playing inside a library if nobody's pressuring that side. 05:59:15.300 --> 05:59:18.900 and so once they fall back and then of course lovin ends up pulling back down 05:59:18.900 --> 05:59:24.660 library stairs faceclan can just completely take the top floor in only 05:59:24.660 --> 05:59:28.140 half the round which is a wildly impressive time in which to take that 05:59:28.140 --> 05:59:31.680 control and you know part of that is the team kill kind of advancing them part 05:59:31.680 --> 05:59:34.460 of its snake but a lot of it is also the Monty who wants to see a bit of 05:59:34.460 --> 05:59:37.620 control is free you don't have to worry about somebody creeping back up 05:59:37.620 --> 05:59:41.940 and taking it down if you can just full shield walk in take 05:59:45.300 --> 05:59:47.960 That Monty has to be a ban at the end of this round. 05:59:47.960 --> 05:59:53.660 I don't think there's a world where Fluxo W7M leave it in for a round longer than they 05:59:53.660 --> 05:59:56.180 have to. 05:59:56.180 --> 05:59:59.300 Especially if it can see successfully here and now and even what happened in the previous 05:59:59.300 --> 06:00:07.980 round is enough evidence in itself to warrant to get him rid of it. 06:00:07.980 --> 06:00:10.780 Bull six pick minus the Monty though. 06:00:10.780 --> 06:00:12.780 Cyber 06:00:12.780 --> 06:00:14.780 I don't know why it's the only time he wants to play the snake 06:00:15.780 --> 06:00:18.780 I think the speed at which he can move with it just suits that 06:00:18.780 --> 06:00:20.780 That playstyle that he's got so well 06:00:21.780 --> 06:00:25.780 It must be such a relief for people that have this horrible just drone entries in 06:00:25.780 --> 06:00:29.780 Because now you're so free, like you don't have to drone your entry in as much 06:00:29.780 --> 06:00:32.780 Sure, you're still going to need to use a drone 06:00:32.780 --> 06:00:35.780 I'm not saying that you're going to sit there and never go on the drone all around 06:00:35.780 --> 06:00:39.780 But I'm just going to free you up in the early portion of the round to be a little bit more effective 06:00:39.780 --> 06:00:46.780 You know, do your own thing and instead of having to help your entry, you can kind of help yourself and then try to help the entry, they can just get back. 06:00:46.780 --> 06:00:50.780 Early presence and early foothold into the building. 06:00:50.780 --> 06:00:53.780 A.S. faced with laser gate. 06:00:53.780 --> 06:01:01.780 Too difficult for them to burn through given that they are playing on the striker. Plenty of throwables knocking around there. 06:01:01.780 --> 06:01:06.780 I just want the default camera gone in the first instance though. 06:01:06.780 --> 06:01:11.540 A little bit of a pre-father is a player that's actually moved up and must be some info 06:01:11.540 --> 06:01:16.700 on a drone because the yellow ping did back that suspicion up that he had, at least for 06:01:16.700 --> 06:01:18.860 the meantime nothing coming of it. 06:01:18.860 --> 06:01:21.460 It schemes a player that I'm interested in, I want to know why that Monty is making the 06:01:21.460 --> 06:01:24.980 charge, it looks like it's going to be happening over toward that trophy area which 06:01:24.980 --> 06:01:28.260 could speak to us into that a little bit more direct. 06:01:28.260 --> 06:01:34.660 Could very well but Vittacind is piping in the site down to 1 HP, not a lot 06:01:34.660 --> 06:01:38.100 of vertical angles whatsoever. You can see why they might have made this decision but unfortunately, 06:01:38.100 --> 06:01:44.340 yeah, the horizontal presence from Fluxor W7M I think is much stronger than FaZe Clan anticipated. 06:01:45.380 --> 06:01:49.140 Earlier damage done to VitaKing will make that C4 a one-shot kill and now 06:01:49.860 --> 06:01:54.420 FaZe have made a lot of miracles today, but another 2v5 in these owls when both attackers 06:01:54.420 --> 06:02:00.980 are trapped in trophy seems a bit too long. There's three firework at one. There is only 06:02:00.980 --> 06:02:03.700 only one more player actually in the site down below. 06:02:03.700 --> 06:02:06.660 And so that's why Sol's dies from above. 06:02:06.660 --> 06:02:09.940 Five to four now for Fluxer W7M round successfully 06:02:09.940 --> 06:02:11.780 after the timeout and maintain a winning record 06:02:11.780 --> 06:02:13.860 on their defense and so far. 06:02:13.860 --> 06:02:15.620 I'm a little bit surprised to see FaZe Gold 06:02:15.620 --> 06:02:17.060 for something so horizontal there. 06:02:17.060 --> 06:02:19.300 I was really expecting the Monty to be used 06:02:19.300 --> 06:02:20.700 to just push the players in, 06:02:20.700 --> 06:02:22.660 maybe even get the Monty in the library side 06:02:22.660 --> 06:02:24.660 and just start to work through that top floor 06:02:24.660 --> 06:02:28.020 and take vertical control because attacking into kitchen, 06:02:28.020 --> 06:02:29.180 you've got no option really, 06:02:29.180 --> 06:02:34.380 to try and take control of that top floor. The hatching itself is always going to be played open 06:02:34.380 --> 06:02:39.180 and that's just going to allow defenders really easy lines of sight regardless of if you make any 06:02:39.180 --> 06:02:44.140 verse or not. So I feel like it was a bit of a missed opportunity there from phase, especially 06:02:44.140 --> 06:02:48.380 knowing that the Monty was going to get removed at the start of round number 10. That was kind 06:02:48.380 --> 06:02:52.780 of your last chance to really sort of leverage it and to put yourself on a map and series point 06:02:52.780 --> 06:02:57.740 as it stands as predicted. Looks like I've gotten rid of the Monty and a force of it 06:02:57.740 --> 06:03:04.580 on to something a little bit different. The Azami will also fall. That's really with a 06:03:04.580 --> 06:03:10.900 mind and a nod toward that top floor bombsite which was so masterfully locked out with the 06:03:10.900 --> 06:03:18.900 addition of the Azami earlier. We won't be there until next round. Around 10, we're 06:03:18.900 --> 06:03:23.860 going to be going to bar and games. The change here is a deployable shield. Something 06:03:23.860 --> 06:03:30.100 commented on at the time links that really would want to see that deployable shield played upstairs 06:03:30.100 --> 06:03:35.220 either in library or on library stairs or on fireplace just somewhere to give you a little bit 06:03:35.220 --> 06:03:41.780 of a point of reference to retreat back to a little stronghold if you will that if things 06:03:41.780 --> 06:03:45.540 did start to get a little bit too much which let's be honest they're going to you are going 06:03:45.540 --> 06:03:49.540 to be able to play behind that and then try and go a little bit a little bit of time and 06:03:49.540 --> 06:03:53.140 I just have to give up that top control so quickly. 06:03:53.140 --> 06:03:59.140 Especially with the Azami in our band, and opting not to run the mirror, it's something you kind of have to do. 06:03:59.140 --> 06:04:05.140 If you don't actually do, but it just makes it just it just alleviates things a little bit and allows you to focus on other things. 06:04:05.140 --> 06:04:09.460 Also feel the clock clock in to hold that position. It's just nice to have 06:04:09.460 --> 06:04:13.460 reloading, cocking, and make sure you know the Monty Band will be able to see 06:04:13.460 --> 06:04:18.660 phase plane play that attacking around the exact same way they did before, which it's the only Victor in the attacking side so far. 06:04:18.660 --> 06:04:20.660 So some more context we go forward 06:04:21.460 --> 06:04:24.500 Monty itself was not a sufficient condition for their victory and 06:04:25.700 --> 06:04:27.700 The one case it was 06:04:27.700 --> 06:04:32.760 Now no longer present so bring another shield handy on the black beard local shield 06:04:32.760 --> 06:04:39.060 Hmm. That's an interesting position placed deeper into library to allow them to more aggressively contest library window 06:04:39.460 --> 06:04:43.460 Normally, we kind of see it facing more like the Ivy window that position 06:04:43.460 --> 06:04:48.460 We have an interesting spot that Flexor W7M have decided to place it, we'll see if it ends up mattering. 06:04:48.460 --> 06:04:52.460 As right now, the vast majority of the attacking team is actually coming from the Solar side, 06:04:52.460 --> 06:04:54.460 so that shield is currently facing no one. 06:04:54.460 --> 06:04:59.460 I wonder if they were banking on the fact that the Monty's band, they were going to push Library direct 06:04:59.460 --> 06:05:04.460 and not come across through Solar, because I agree, it's a really weird position to play that. 06:05:04.460 --> 06:05:07.460 If you were going to play it anywhere, you'd play it at the top of Library's stairs, 06:05:07.460 --> 06:05:10.460 but with shots like that, it's not really going to matter. 06:05:10.460 --> 06:05:16.460 Kodes, able to find himself one. We do have a player that is able to sneak back into library. 06:05:16.460 --> 06:05:21.460 Pali's found himself down as well. The opening pick did go to phase in this round. 06:05:21.460 --> 06:05:26.460 They are stalling out without that ability to really bully players around with the Monty. 06:05:26.460 --> 06:05:31.460 You've just not got that same leeway, that same room to work on the Blackbeard. 06:05:31.460 --> 06:05:38.460 You can see that Handy is quite carefully checking his corners, making sure that he's not going to get caught out looking the wrong way. 06:05:40.460 --> 06:05:43.460 A lot of this from the two guys, wow. 06:05:43.460 --> 06:05:44.460 Yeah. 06:05:44.460 --> 06:05:48.460 Loben, when you're taking that position, this phase is facing a lot of resistance on this 06:05:48.460 --> 06:05:50.460 place from the top floor. 06:05:50.460 --> 06:05:52.460 Well, it might be a dead heat. 06:05:52.460 --> 06:05:53.460 Oh! 06:05:53.460 --> 06:05:58.460 Globster W7 have so much fight left in them, both Loben and Dodez, wrapping around the 06:05:58.460 --> 06:06:02.460 shield and the doorways respectively. 06:06:02.460 --> 06:06:05.460 Globster W7M in very real territory of tying this game. 06:06:05.460 --> 06:06:07.460 They can just maintain their positions. 06:06:07.460 --> 06:06:09.460 Souls on 50 HP around the corner. 06:06:09.460 --> 06:06:15.460 He just catches Logan as he drops through the floor, can only tag in the 1 HP, follows him up on the next! 06:06:15.460 --> 06:06:17.460 Slobid walks right underneath it. 06:06:18.460 --> 06:06:20.460 29 seconds remaining. 06:06:20.460 --> 06:06:24.460 Might not be able to recover the diffuser depending on the angle held, but no, we'll be able to do it. 06:06:25.460 --> 06:06:27.460 No secondary utility. 06:06:27.460 --> 06:06:29.460 Cons of the smoke canister. 06:06:29.460 --> 06:06:31.460 Force him off the plant. 06:06:31.460 --> 06:06:35.460 But it goes out a little bit early and there's just a gap! 06:06:35.460 --> 06:06:39.860 How does he keep finding these moments he goes into plant but now cons will walk around the corner 06:06:39.860 --> 06:06:44.740 He still has the advantage on time will back up quite deep on library stairs as souls looks to 06:06:44.740 --> 06:06:49.860 Commit to the plant and as we hit triple zero falls off instead hoping that the smoke will push 06:06:49.860 --> 06:06:56.340 blocks of W7M tie things up three rounds on their defences it so far has not been a contest for this half 06:06:57.780 --> 06:07:01.780 Cons played that just about as well as you could in a sort of bait and switch 06:07:01.780 --> 06:07:07.020 situation like that. So often we see players mess that one up and either go 06:07:07.020 --> 06:07:11.860 too soon or don't go far enough and give too much space away. You can't just bank 06:07:11.860 --> 06:07:15.340 on the fact that the toxic wave caster was enough on its own. There was just a 06:07:15.340 --> 06:07:21.420 narrow gap that souls was able to try and work in. And then for souls it's you've got to try and 06:07:21.420 --> 06:07:24.180 hold your nerve. Haven't you either come off the plant or you stick it and 06:07:24.180 --> 06:07:28.620 cons is kind of left wondering but knowing that he's done the right 06:07:28.620 --> 06:07:32.580 you know he's played the right way and done the most to make that an advantage 06:07:32.580 --> 06:07:39.120 situation. 5-5 for Fluxo then. Slowly starting to run away with it and again 06:07:39.120 --> 06:07:44.640 we draw into question. Pace-cans attacks which okay through the small sample size 06:07:44.640 --> 06:07:48.980 that we have in kickoff for SAO at the moment have looked fantastic. 80 odd 06:07:48.980 --> 06:07:55.180 percent at the top of the day. It's gonna be nowhere near that now. I've 06:07:55.180 --> 06:07:59.220 They've only been good for one attack so far on Chalet. 06:07:59.220 --> 06:08:00.980 If you don't get one quickly, 06:08:00.980 --> 06:08:03.060 but SW7M are gonna find themselves 06:08:03.060 --> 06:08:04.660 on match and series point. 06:08:06.100 --> 06:08:06.940 Drain mine now. 06:08:06.940 --> 06:08:08.580 How'd you get back? 06:08:08.580 --> 06:08:09.900 I know! 06:08:09.900 --> 06:08:11.660 I could have very well be trending that way. 06:08:11.660 --> 06:08:12.940 There's some how these rounds have gone. 06:08:12.940 --> 06:08:14.340 Bar and gaming at the Monte Push 06:08:14.340 --> 06:08:16.380 was the only thing that's worked out so far 06:08:16.380 --> 06:08:19.100 and every other site has been won by Flux of SW7M 06:08:19.100 --> 06:08:21.120 at least once. 06:08:21.120 --> 06:08:22.220 Varying up their strategy now, 06:08:22.220 --> 06:08:24.220 bringing in the castle into play. 06:08:25.180 --> 06:08:32.200 Moving themselves a little bit more room to breathe a little bit more room to maneuver around on this top-floor defense Logan falling back as well 06:08:33.960 --> 06:08:37.680 No mirror of course, but still this reinforcement on the opposite side 06:08:38.600 --> 06:08:40.600 Why then the look into like it? 06:08:41.880 --> 06:08:46.880 Not a direct take from phase plan at least for the moment could rotate up there later as we give a couple players 06:08:46.960 --> 06:08:51.880 Droning outside of these windows presently again a deployable shield allowing them to rest of the contest 06:08:51.880 --> 06:08:57.340 And given the fact that now the shield is set up to counter a full clear rather than a direct 06:08:57.340 --> 06:09:00.520 I think it's just a general much higher likelihood that phase might run into this 06:09:05.640 --> 06:09:10.720 Float drone actually there is Cyra. It's going to be good if they open up immediately traded handy 06:09:11.320 --> 06:09:12.960 In for the backup 06:09:12.960 --> 06:09:15.560 Advantage phase in the first minute and ten seconds 06:09:16.200 --> 06:09:18.200 cons 06:09:18.200 --> 06:09:22.840 Maybe gonna go and try and grab something back. He's playing very aggressively on snow door right now 06:09:24.880 --> 06:09:26.480 Palu 06:09:26.480 --> 06:09:28.080 Just hooked in 06:09:28.080 --> 06:09:31.200 I'm gonna want to try and overplay his hand right now 06:09:32.200 --> 06:09:37.240 You need to be too much of a reaction here if you fix up a V7 and it's okay that there are only one man down right now 06:09:37.240 --> 06:09:39.240 The important thing is don't let it be to 06:09:39.800 --> 06:09:43.280 Try and look it down these attackers and they're gonna do just that don't ask 06:09:43.680 --> 06:09:46.640 Brows one onto handy isn't done there 06:09:48.200 --> 06:09:54.120 Just a massive influx of kills for Fluxo W7M in a position that has been all too familiar 06:09:54.120 --> 06:09:56.960 for FaZe Clan on every single map. 06:09:56.960 --> 06:09:57.960 Somebody's got to show up. 06:09:57.960 --> 06:10:00.120 On Night Eve and the hero plays with air. 06:10:00.120 --> 06:10:02.840 They were shaker on Consulate and on Chalet. 06:10:02.840 --> 06:10:05.600 There is just no time for those shenanigans. 06:10:05.600 --> 06:10:11.680 Four rounds on the defense for Fluxo W7M and one round away from playing Theria in 06:10:11.680 --> 06:10:13.480 the upper bracket semi. 06:10:13.480 --> 06:10:17.600 Big game for Fluxo W7M right now. 06:10:17.600 --> 06:10:21.040 This has not been one that's come easy to them, but they find themselves on match and 06:10:21.040 --> 06:10:26.800 series point phase faced with no other option but to use their tactical time out. 06:10:26.800 --> 06:10:32.400 There's an argument to say they ought to have used it a little bit earlier on. 06:10:32.400 --> 06:10:36.720 Games at this point in the best of, in a night of two best of threes are almost melding 06:10:36.720 --> 06:10:41.280 into one and I'll hold my hands up and say I'm guilty of sort of forgetting that 06:10:41.280 --> 06:10:45.360 phase had that tactical time out because I would have expected to see it far sooner 06:10:45.360 --> 06:10:52.360 than this they are going to pull it out at the last opportunity see if they can 06:10:52.360 --> 06:10:57.240 try and stabilize themselves you likely know where they're going to be going 06:10:57.240 --> 06:11:05.520 here rotation has been fairly fixed so far losing out on that bar games site 06:11:05.520 --> 06:11:11.680 that they were successful in previously not being able to repeat that 06:11:11.680 --> 06:11:18.120 success in round number 10. Very likely going into kitchen and dining room where 06:11:18.120 --> 06:11:22.120 it was kind of the beginning of the end for phase this is the last round that we 06:11:22.120 --> 06:11:26.320 saw them have the Monty available and we just saw a very flat take we didn't see 06:11:26.320 --> 06:11:30.560 much verticality on it. I think this time it has to be much more vertical 06:11:30.560 --> 06:11:33.200 they have to go upstairs and they have to try and clear those players out 06:11:33.200 --> 06:11:37.600 because if they don't they're just gonna fall foul to them again on that 06:11:37.600 --> 06:11:45.440 vertical. Two may powerful angles to ignore going for that top floor clear. This time it's 06:11:45.440 --> 06:11:51.320 going to be vittaking, not handy on the blitz. Maybe that speaks to a little bit more of a 06:11:51.320 --> 06:11:55.760 clear out going on that top floor. Might be trying to use that in a similar way to 06:11:55.760 --> 06:11:57.760 we've seen used them on to previously. 06:12:03.760 --> 06:12:05.760 Trying to channel the success of the one attack. 06:12:06.760 --> 06:12:10.760 Once attacking success they had so far was by doing something similar to that. 06:12:11.760 --> 06:12:13.760 So maybe it's something to try and blast that. 06:12:14.760 --> 06:12:19.760 The pond's also hiding in the tub from all of that prep phase and now placing the EDDs around us. 06:12:19.760 --> 06:12:25.160 that they are really trying to try to trip phase up and that pun is very much 06:12:25.160 --> 06:12:29.840 intended. Three different fab operators can have a K2 brow. The lay time, the 06:12:29.840 --> 06:12:33.880 strategies, the lay time on the front end and then hope that that results in some 06:12:33.880 --> 06:12:37.800 kind of information gap in which phase won't see the razor balloons, won't see 06:12:37.800 --> 06:12:41.320 the F knots, won't see the EDVs, or even if they do they won't be able to 06:12:41.320 --> 06:12:45.000 clear it. Forcibly to start the Kade, spot it early in library, then 06:12:45.000 --> 06:12:48.920 finished off by souls immediately entering that position, likely taking 06:12:48.920 --> 06:12:53.920 down from the double window so while a lot of what I just said is still intact 06:12:53.920 --> 06:12:58.920 in terms of utility that's already placed now if that utility falls there are much 06:12:58.920 --> 06:13:04.160 less people defending the actual structure that's meant to protect 06:13:04.160 --> 06:13:10.160 Khons is still just going to be hanging around inside a bathroom and I don't really think he's moved too far this whole map. 06:13:12.160 --> 06:13:15.160 I wonder where those EDDs are placed. 06:13:16.160 --> 06:13:23.160 Troll at FaZe will have a bit of a read on it by now. The drones should have moved through that top floor even fleetingly. 06:13:24.160 --> 06:13:27.160 We're able to use the Thatcher to try and get this wall open though, but... 06:13:27.160 --> 06:13:30.160 Oh, just manages to fluff it. 06:13:30.160 --> 06:13:33.160 It's going to slow him down considerably. 06:13:33.160 --> 06:13:37.280 Obviously the Cade is dead so they can't replace another Cade Claw. 06:13:37.280 --> 06:13:41.400 The Two Brow, still with his Auto-Cannister in hand. 06:13:41.400 --> 06:13:44.400 And absolutely replaced that Zotel. 06:13:44.400 --> 06:13:48.400 Dota's interesting, not opting for the DMR. 06:13:48.400 --> 06:13:54.160 C4, Rip sent out, ooh, we'll destroy the Exothermic, would have been a bigger problem 06:13:54.160 --> 06:13:59.640 before but, Thermite has now got Exothermix to spare. 06:13:59.640 --> 06:14:04.640 We didn't have to try and deny this wall though, so it is going to get opened on the third attempt. 06:14:04.640 --> 06:14:08.640 Still trying to go to us for a little bit of destruction here. 06:14:11.640 --> 06:14:12.640 Could maybe try. 06:14:12.640 --> 06:14:16.640 Right around the corner. This is a hell of an off angle to try and trip up handy. 06:14:16.640 --> 06:14:18.640 You'll move around the corner. Oh, it pays off! 06:14:18.640 --> 06:14:21.640 Pops up immediately after and makes direct contact with the blocker. 06:14:21.640 --> 06:14:23.640 Keep in mind, this is not the site. 06:14:23.640 --> 06:14:27.640 Pays are getting bloodied on just a clear of the top floor, but they gain an advantage. 06:14:27.640 --> 06:14:30.840 An important and necessary one. 40 seconds remaining. 06:14:32.640 --> 06:14:35.640 Just Lobin and Kahn's down below. No C4s. 06:14:35.840 --> 06:14:41.140 A lot of the traps upstairs might be present, might not, but in terms of actually denying the plant. 06:14:41.940 --> 06:14:47.740 The strategies the Sandwich would go against it, hold off angles and hope that information gap is as wide as you think it is. 06:14:48.240 --> 06:14:49.540 It can keep kicking down. 06:14:49.540 --> 06:14:52.540 Drone up front might have been spotted. Indeed Kahn's will hop up. 06:14:52.840 --> 06:14:55.640 Two different players coming at him. KDS will take him down. 06:14:55.640 --> 06:14:58.120 So it's just Lovett trying to stave off overtime. 06:14:58.120 --> 06:15:00.760 Our second of the series doesn't get it. 06:15:00.760 --> 06:15:05.560 FaZe with another shot at an old rival we were with a new face underneath. 06:15:06.520 --> 06:15:09.000 Whoever wins this, go play Fury on the semi. 06:15:13.400 --> 06:15:16.520 FaZe finally committing to that top floor clear. 06:15:16.520 --> 06:15:18.280 It really coming down to the wire though. 06:15:18.280 --> 06:15:23.240 20 seconds as we've got Blackbeard transitioning down those trophy stairs. 06:15:23.240 --> 06:15:32.120 really didn't expect it to sort of get down to that finer margin but it was close 06:15:32.120 --> 06:15:35.480 kind of answered lobin for one as well through the through the punch hole that 06:15:35.480 --> 06:15:39.360 he'd made right at the bitter end which may be a world where lobin could have 06:15:39.360 --> 06:15:44.280 rotated all the way up library stairs or something to that nature but would 06:15:44.280 --> 06:15:49.280 have been leaving his teammate pretty high and dry inside a trophy 06:15:49.280 --> 06:15:58.280 Regardless of which way it flopped, it's left us 6-6 and it's left us with Flux OW7M still on the defense. 06:15:58.280 --> 06:16:06.280 And that defense inside the overtime is going to be pretty critical, although we set that for Consulate and it didn't transpire. 06:16:06.280 --> 06:16:12.280 It didn't turn out to be as important as it had been early game long, which is in regulation. 06:16:12.280 --> 06:16:17.280 And Flux OW7M were on the attack on Consulate, they were successful. 06:16:17.280 --> 06:16:23.320 quite nicely so flawless round that they were able to get really catapulting 06:16:23.320 --> 06:16:27.760 them toward this third map they're gonna be looking to recreate some of that same 06:16:27.760 --> 06:16:34.040 success here it's the attack so far hasn't been too kind to them 06:16:35.040 --> 06:16:41.760 that was not lobin oh spotting the capitol through the trees the boss 06:16:41.760 --> 06:16:44.720 she has not been good for anybody that's usually 06:16:44.720 --> 06:16:49.720 You can't entirely blame him, just not one of those days. 06:16:49.720 --> 06:16:56.720 Also reveal T-Faze Clan, a kind of defense that Fluxor W7M might be running and even if 06:16:56.720 --> 06:17:00.720 they're not running a very loose roam that Loben could be anywhere at any given time that 06:17:00.720 --> 06:17:02.720 someone else will have to consider. 06:17:02.720 --> 06:17:06.720 If they can spot him, get him on a deathmark tracker, that'll be nice as well. 06:17:06.720 --> 06:17:07.720 Master enemy in office. 06:17:07.720 --> 06:17:08.720 It's a bit split right now. 06:17:08.720 --> 06:17:10.720 A couple players over by Solar. 06:17:10.720 --> 06:17:13.720 Actually no, most players are by Solar, excuse me. 06:17:13.720 --> 06:17:19.560 be a solar-sided direct take but look at the actual utility meant to flood the 06:17:19.560 --> 06:17:23.560 staircase there's not a whole lot there are some flashbangs and nades but no 06:17:23.560 --> 06:17:28.360 grandma we see because it's banned no ying in play either so we'll have to be 06:17:28.360 --> 06:17:33.280 a bit careful for how much utility you put into this area because just even 06:17:33.280 --> 06:17:37.840 some of it goes awry you have very little to fall back on 06:17:37.840 --> 06:17:43.840 Yeah, like you say, the placement is in a true shot. 06:17:43.840 --> 06:17:48.840 Homs shooting shadows there. 06:17:48.840 --> 06:17:53.840 He's turning attention towards Solar as a benefit of the outlines, and that's where the push is going to start. 06:17:53.840 --> 06:17:54.840 Handy. 06:17:54.840 --> 06:17:56.840 He's himself in. 06:17:56.840 --> 06:17:57.840 Playing on the Blackbeard. 06:17:57.840 --> 06:18:01.840 I thought it'd be a little bit more aggressive and work off back at some of this intel, 06:18:01.840 --> 06:18:06.840 but isn't there a count for Lobin just blindly swinging the corner and hitting a hell of a spray with the SMG-12? 06:18:06.840 --> 06:18:07.840 and G-swell. 06:18:07.840 --> 06:18:14.840 Cyber keeping a little things outside of fireplace door however, so any momentum gained 06:18:14.840 --> 06:18:16.840 by the defense is short lived. 06:18:16.840 --> 06:18:18.840 The fuser dropped inside though. 06:18:18.840 --> 06:18:20.840 This is a hairy position for both sides. 06:18:20.840 --> 06:18:22.840 It's just difficult to make heads or tails up. 06:18:22.840 --> 06:18:26.840 The attack's got to recover the fuser, but they don't end up losing a body. 06:18:26.840 --> 06:18:29.840 The body they lost is the Blackbeard and the Vitikings on low HP. 06:18:29.840 --> 06:18:32.840 Dots follows it up with a kill on the cyber roaming around down below. 06:18:32.840 --> 06:18:35.480 And the soul's not long for this world either. 06:18:35.480 --> 06:18:39.480 Bidikings only kills on flank watch, and he's the only one left. 06:18:41.480 --> 06:18:46.120 Based off this play, just not giving up a single inch inside a solar. 06:18:47.000 --> 06:18:50.840 Flux or W7M, match point a second time. 06:18:52.760 --> 06:18:54.840 Oh, they've done the hard work there. 06:18:54.840 --> 06:18:57.880 They put themselves in a very good position right now. 06:18:57.880 --> 06:19:04.940 now. Defense is the round or is the side that you need to win. They will have another bite 06:19:04.940 --> 06:19:11.600 at the cherry here if they fail to convert this to the third and final chance at the 06:19:11.600 --> 06:19:17.320 match in series point. But hey, who knows, maybe they get it done on the attack here 06:19:17.320 --> 06:19:25.040 and now. Maybe FaZe have just gone a little bit too far. It's kind of the expected 06:19:25.040 --> 06:19:28.160 I'll come links. This is what I was expecting to happen when we were on 06:19:28.160 --> 06:19:34.800 Consulate an hour and a bit ago. I wouldn't be surprised to see all 15 06:19:34.800 --> 06:19:39.920 rounds here either, especially after the results of that first round in overtime. 06:19:39.920 --> 06:19:43.760 Looks like I'll have a chance though. You can't count them out because when 06:19:43.760 --> 06:19:48.480 they've needed to tonight they have pulled attacking winds out. 06:19:48.480 --> 06:19:55.740 going to be attacking upstairs. Reminder, the bands will revert back to necessary or 06:19:55.740 --> 06:20:04.580 the appropriate bands at the time. We'll see the lion band four phase as was spoken about 06:20:04.580 --> 06:20:10.660 Ios and the desk at some great length. Jessica went up with a very valid reason as to why 06:20:10.660 --> 06:20:15.620 that band was in place in the first place. Sirel should be able to Google a little 06:20:15.620 --> 06:20:18.300 bit of a sigh of relief with the style that he wants to go for and he's gonna 06:20:18.300 --> 06:20:21.940 kick things off with a bit of a spawn peek here. 06:20:21.940 --> 06:20:26.340 Doesn't appear anybody spawned on that side of the map though so at least good for everybody 06:20:26.340 --> 06:20:27.340 involved. 06:20:27.340 --> 06:20:30.700 Either the attack or the defense will lose a body, so I'll just spend some time waiting 06:20:30.700 --> 06:20:35.220 and put a spent... anything else? 06:20:35.220 --> 06:20:39.220 Not a good... not a good... surely not. 06:20:39.220 --> 06:20:45.140 I mean you don't know, maybe it's... maybe he shot it when the camera was off him. 06:20:45.140 --> 06:20:48.140 Hmm. I don't buy it. 06:20:48.140 --> 06:20:49.140 Well... 06:20:51.140 --> 06:20:55.140 You know, if there's an ace, not, you know, not the worst thing on the planet. 06:20:55.140 --> 06:20:58.140 It's kind of an assumption, I think, that there's gonna be a hard breach here. 06:20:59.140 --> 06:21:04.140 It's the upside of not- oh, that's the charitable interpretation of not shooting a default camera. 06:21:04.140 --> 06:21:07.140 The Fluxer W7M still have the advantage on that point. 06:21:07.140 --> 06:21:09.140 Series point as well. 06:21:10.140 --> 06:21:14.140 The direct line of sight on one defender downstairs inside a kitchen. 06:21:14.140 --> 06:21:18.140 There's outside a trophy looking to pressure him from below as well. 06:21:18.140 --> 06:21:20.140 A cyber-joining in. 06:21:20.140 --> 06:21:24.140 He's drawing a lot of this attention from Fluxo W7M. 06:21:24.140 --> 06:21:28.140 Biring a lot of shots trying to catch their eye. 06:21:28.140 --> 06:21:37.140 So as of right now, it's unclear to what degree the attack actually has any will to push them. 06:21:41.140 --> 06:21:43.140 This is slow round, isn't it? 06:21:44.140 --> 06:21:46.940 It certainly feels that way. You can almost feel the weight of it right now. 06:21:47.740 --> 06:21:50.040 Robin is starting to move through downstairs. 06:21:50.040 --> 06:21:52.540 I don't think he's going to come to blows with handy at the moment. 06:21:53.640 --> 06:21:54.940 That's an engagement that we 06:21:56.040 --> 06:21:58.840 put on the shelf for a slightly later point. 06:21:58.840 --> 06:22:00.440 Oh, D.O.P.S. 06:22:00.440 --> 06:22:01.940 Absolute! 06:22:01.940 --> 06:22:04.040 Turn him dead onto cyber! 06:22:04.640 --> 06:22:06.240 The soul's falling as well. 06:22:07.040 --> 06:22:09.040 It's not a good sign at four phase. 06:22:10.040 --> 06:22:13.240 That feels like the bell tolling. If cyber's missing shots like that, 06:22:13.240 --> 06:22:18.960 Seems that Fluxer W7M might just have their moment and send FaZe down to the lower bracket 06:22:18.960 --> 06:22:22.160 against Black Dragons. 06:22:22.160 --> 06:22:25.520 That's on low HP, but still enough bees to matter. 06:22:25.520 --> 06:22:28.560 Two remaining, and then some fire bolts and smoke bolts as well. 06:22:28.560 --> 06:22:31.160 This is quite a lot for Fluxer W7M to do. 06:22:31.160 --> 06:22:35.640 He'll force Vidicang out of this position, then reveal his spot inside the corner. 06:22:35.640 --> 06:22:36.640 Flashbang as well. 06:22:36.640 --> 06:22:42.680 You can see him recoil from the bright lights, KDS at the window, taken down, and handy 06:22:42.680 --> 06:22:44.680 The only one whose position is not known 06:22:45.360 --> 06:22:50.800 Coming around might be stuck on solar takes an aggressive line spotted by cons the next one up 06:22:50.800 --> 06:22:52.800 It's got to be vatican good for two 06:22:52.880 --> 06:22:57.360 It's a quick reload one player rotating around with the piano double got the information 06:22:57.880 --> 06:22:59.880 But Paul who shuts him down 06:23:00.520 --> 06:23:05.280 No qualification just yet. You'd be forgiven for confusion of their reaction 06:23:05.280 --> 06:23:11.080 But they are just that excited to take down the world champions and move on to the upper bracket semi 06:23:11.080 --> 06:23:16.080 to have the head to head 06:23:16.080 --> 06:23:19.080 advantage. Well ahead of 06:23:19.080 --> 06:23:21.080 tonight, W7M had their head to 06:23:21.080 --> 06:23:23.080 head advantage against phase. 06:23:23.080 --> 06:23:25.080 And at the end of the night, 06:23:25.080 --> 06:23:27.080 they continue to have the head 06:23:27.080 --> 06:23:29.080 to head advantage eight times 06:23:29.080 --> 06:23:31.080 to six in the history of these 06:23:31.080 --> 06:23:33.080 two teams playing one another, 06:23:33.080 --> 06:23:35.080 a very closely fought rivalry, 06:23:35.080 --> 06:23:37.080 links. We are in a world now 06:23:37.080 --> 06:23:40.080 where we could not see phase 06:23:40.080 --> 06:23:45.400 position that granted or to at least guarantee it should I say which is you 06:23:45.400 --> 06:23:48.120 know a little bit of a scary spot. You can't go from winning their side to not 06:23:48.120 --> 06:23:51.360 attending the next major. The Fluxo W7M, they continue through the super 06:23:51.360 --> 06:23:54.880 bracket. We're gonna go over to our desk for one last time tonight over to 06:23:54.880 --> 06:24:01.160 Milosh and Jess. Thank you very much, Ling Sinali and I have to say this 06:24:01.160 --> 06:24:05.400 bodes really well for the continuation of this bracket. It's crazy 06:24:05.400 --> 06:24:08.720 that we got to a situation like this because I'm just gonna come out and 06:24:08.720 --> 06:24:12.800 say it, you know, you're not going to be able to restrict my freedom of speech here, Jesse. 06:24:12.800 --> 06:24:18.080 I'm going to say it. Flexo W7M, if they can take down faceclan, they can take down a Fiora, 06:24:18.080 --> 06:24:24.080 and they can get their spot at the Salt Lake City Major. This is incredible news for everybody 06:24:24.080 --> 06:24:29.600 out there still thinking that SAL is not one of the most competitive regions in the world, 06:24:29.600 --> 06:24:33.520 if not the most competitive region in the world, because you never know, 06:24:33.520 --> 06:24:37.560 even big teams can take else. Yeah, exactly me. Loach. I mean, 06:24:37.560 --> 06:24:40.720 we saw some miraculous play coming out from flux with W7M 06:24:40.720 --> 06:24:43.820 today from night Haven, where I thought they had a really good 06:24:43.820 --> 06:24:46.720 chance of going to that map to console it, where they somehow 06:24:46.720 --> 06:24:49.480 took down phase claim, the champions of console it for so 06:24:49.480 --> 06:24:52.280 many years. And now here on Chalet, just keeping the 06:24:52.280 --> 06:24:55.120 pressure up, man, the way that they were able from start 06:24:55.120 --> 06:24:57.720 to finish to keep at least four out of five of their players 06:24:57.720 --> 06:25:00.160 done and cons getting a big frag in that final round to 06:25:00.160 --> 06:25:03.120 it felt like everybody was on point for flux with W7M 06:25:03.120 --> 06:25:06.720 today, despite how long the series was, despite how exhausted I'm sure they're 06:25:06.720 --> 06:25:10.360 feeling a massive victory for them here, taking down the two-time world 06:25:10.360 --> 06:25:14.940 champions. Yeah, there's a five, seven, eight, six, eight, six through this. 06:25:14.940 --> 06:25:20.000 Like this is just intense. We almost went the full distance in this matchup. 06:25:20.000 --> 06:25:23.520 And I think deservedly so we got to see a lot of excellent plays from 06:25:23.520 --> 06:25:28.560 both of our teams. And we're talking about every single encounter that we 06:25:28.560 --> 06:25:31.280 might get, the differences in operators, the bands and what it 06:25:31.280 --> 06:25:36.160 comes down to them. There's one piece that we're discussing you and I during this. I know 06:25:36.160 --> 06:25:42.640 you mentioned the Lion Band during our half time spot here on Chalet, but there's also 06:25:42.640 --> 06:25:47.680 the Double Shield Band that had an impact. What was the attempt here to remove both the 06:25:47.680 --> 06:25:48.680 Monty and the Clash? 06:25:48.680 --> 06:25:53.040 Yeah, I mean, I think the Monty Band obviously in that second half, so important to be 06:25:53.040 --> 06:25:57.400 able to take it away from Vidicang. I would say the best Monty player in the world. 06:25:57.400 --> 06:26:01.800 proven that over and over again. He was so good with it. Even back on Knighthaven Labs, 06:26:01.800 --> 06:26:06.040 we saw some big stuff coming out from Vida on that operator, but once it gets taken away, 06:26:06.040 --> 06:26:09.160 you know, it feels like you take away that tip of the spear for FaZe Clan or for, 06:26:09.800 --> 06:26:13.560 yeah, for FaZe Clan a little bit. They don't really have that same information coming out from 06:26:13.560 --> 06:26:18.040 their IGL. And unfortunately, it just didn't feel like everybody was on the same page sometimes 06:26:18.040 --> 06:26:22.280 for FaZe. Flux though said that we were doing a great job of isolating some of those players, 06:26:22.280 --> 06:26:26.120 getting those early frags. And honestly, some of the shots they were hitting were just 06:26:26.120 --> 06:26:31.080 unbelievable today. Milos, we say Chalet is it's a map for Gunners. It's a map to show 06:26:31.080 --> 06:26:34.920 your mechanical skill and today Fluxor were absolutely a better team in that department. 06:26:35.720 --> 06:26:42.680 There's absolutely something in me Jesse here that's telling me if the wind blew a different way, 06:26:42.680 --> 06:26:50.040 if this was a different day that you toss a coin and now we're celebrating face plan as 06:26:50.040 --> 06:26:54.040 wow look at them the two-time world champions and they're going to progress and play Furia. 06:26:54.040 --> 06:26:58.920 It just it just shows how close the matchup is regardless. 06:26:58.920 --> 06:27:02.520 Plexi W7M incredible performance for FaZe fans out there. 06:27:02.520 --> 06:27:06.840 Do not be disappointed because they're going to be playing in the lower bracket 06:27:06.840 --> 06:27:10.600 but they're going to still be playing for that spot at the Salt Lake City Major. 06:27:10.600 --> 06:27:14.680 However, our victors are awaiting. Let's bring in Lobin for a little chat. 06:27:17.560 --> 06:27:23.640 Hello, hello Lobin. Congratulations on a massive massive win against FaZe Clan. 06:27:23.640 --> 06:27:24.860 No two ways around it. 06:27:24.860 --> 06:27:27.700 I just want to ask you the first bit. 06:27:27.700 --> 06:27:31.300 Three maps, you almost played every single round in this. 06:27:31.300 --> 06:27:33.620 How do you conserve your energy through a game 06:27:33.620 --> 06:27:36.060 that is so intense where there's so much preparation 06:27:36.060 --> 06:27:37.020 and adaptation through it? 06:27:37.020 --> 06:27:39.180 Cause it's all you guys just throwing your chairs 06:27:39.180 --> 06:27:40.020 at the end of it. 06:27:40.020 --> 06:27:41.060 You would think you would have won 06:27:41.060 --> 06:27:42.500 the whole major at that point. 06:27:42.500 --> 06:27:43.580 Yeah. 06:27:43.580 --> 06:27:45.500 I think this kind of match is the one that we love 06:27:45.500 --> 06:27:46.340 the most. 06:27:46.340 --> 06:27:48.540 Just like when you win it, it's the best feeling ever. 06:27:48.540 --> 06:27:50.660 It's so, so, so good. 06:27:50.660 --> 06:27:52.740 And I think we are just used to it. 06:27:52.740 --> 06:27:56.900 like we've been to a size, major, so best of five. 06:27:56.900 --> 06:28:01.300 So I think now I can already say that I'm a veteran 06:28:01.300 --> 06:28:03.380 in that, like in the department. 06:28:03.380 --> 06:28:06.140 So yeah, I'm just used to it, like those long games. 06:28:06.140 --> 06:28:09.180 And yeah, I think it was very, very nice. 06:28:10.660 --> 06:28:13.100 Well, when it was excellent to watch you guys 06:28:13.100 --> 06:28:14.640 in this incredible series, 06:28:14.640 --> 06:28:16.500 congratulations on the victory. 06:28:16.500 --> 06:28:18.340 I told you I'd see you in Salt Lake City 06:28:18.340 --> 06:28:20.700 and we're very close to that happening. 06:28:20.700 --> 06:28:26.220 So I won't jinx it, I won't jinx it, but congrats on the less I want to talk to you about mountain number two 06:28:26.220 --> 06:28:31.580 You leave consulate up on the board and we're hyping up face plans the best consulate team in the world 06:28:31.580 --> 06:28:36.140 You shattered a 10 map winning streak today when you beat them on it 06:28:36.140 --> 06:28:41.300 What gave you the confidence to bring consulate into this map veto and how did you do what no other team could? 06:28:42.940 --> 06:28:46.460 I think we like always has this total mind 06:28:46.460 --> 06:28:52.420 And since the last lineup that we could beat this Consulate, we always feel very console 06:28:52.420 --> 06:28:53.420 on it. 06:28:53.420 --> 06:28:58.740 And I think the last time we faced them was like a 7-5 with like we throwing some rounds, 06:28:58.740 --> 06:29:00.660 it was really to our side. 06:29:00.660 --> 06:29:04.900 So and like looking to the other maps that we are not really playing right now, the 06:29:04.900 --> 06:29:09.580 bank and Lair, was like, guys, if you're going to pick Consulate, let them pick, 06:29:09.580 --> 06:29:12.580 because like the pressure is not on us, like we're going to start on defense. 06:29:12.580 --> 06:29:17.940 We just have like a 7-0 on the map, so we are confident on map 2, so take all those things 06:29:17.940 --> 06:29:22.780 around, just do it together and we were like pretty confident that we could beat them. 06:29:22.780 --> 06:29:23.780 Nice. 06:29:23.780 --> 06:29:28.460 I also just want to quickly ask you, I mean obviously it's not been a flawless stage for 06:29:28.460 --> 06:29:33.140 you guys, there were some losses earlier on on kickoff, but right now feels like the 06:29:33.140 --> 06:29:37.740 best iteration that we've seen of Flux with W7M, at least since Kons has joined the 06:29:37.740 --> 06:29:41.380 roster, where do you feel your team is at the moment? 06:29:41.380 --> 06:29:45.220 Is this better than what we saw, the peak of you guys winning the Major, do you feel like 06:29:45.220 --> 06:29:49.260 you're playing at that level still or how does it kind of compare? 06:29:49.260 --> 06:29:55.220 I think we are getting to that level of winning an international event and being a top tier 06:29:55.220 --> 06:29:57.460 team in the region. 06:29:57.460 --> 06:30:01.740 So like I said, in the last interview we knew there were going to be some losses and 06:30:01.740 --> 06:30:04.900 some tough timing at the start because we changed not only our player but we changed 06:30:04.900 --> 06:30:05.900 roles. 06:30:05.900 --> 06:30:10.380 But now they were getting used to it or maps are just getting better and better. 06:30:10.380 --> 06:30:17.180 confidence is out so high right now right very good now how often loben are 06:30:17.180 --> 06:30:24.180 going we gonna expect you to ban line and Monty from this moment on I don't 06:30:24.180 --> 06:30:28.460 know just Norris in his counterstrat you just say that the guys just believe 06:30:28.460 --> 06:30:35.380 in it those two they're smart yeah he's a smart man Norris I know I know he 06:30:35.380 --> 06:30:39.300 likes to make a lot of jokes and mess around but there is a massive brain 06:30:39.300 --> 06:30:43.700 in there. Now that master brain was one of the many reasons why you're able to 06:30:43.700 --> 06:30:49.380 advance in this bracket and move on to play against Furia, the new Furia in this 06:30:49.380 --> 06:30:53.860 case. Is there anything you want to say to that squad that mishmash of players 06:30:53.860 --> 06:30:57.340 from all over the world or at least Brazilians that came back from all over 06:30:57.340 --> 06:31:02.860 the world ahead of your match to qualify to Salt Lake City? I just want to say 06:31:02.860 --> 06:31:06.020 that they're gonna face a different team that they faced in the first time. 06:31:06.020 --> 06:31:12.940 this I wasn't sure it's gonna be a tough match and the best is gonna win well for 06:31:12.940 --> 06:31:17.140 you the best is you so I can't wait to see how all of that it classes lobin 06:31:17.140 --> 06:31:21.540 thank you very much congratulations one game away folks at every seven M for 06:31:21.540 --> 06:31:25.660 making it so like city major we'll see you next time I hope until you have a 06:31:25.660 --> 06:31:29.260 good night yeah see you guys 06:31:29.260 --> 06:31:35.260 I was a pleasure of course to have a chat with Loben. I really appreciate the honesty. 06:31:35.260 --> 06:31:38.260 Also the bit of cockiness. He kind of happened to have that right. 06:31:38.260 --> 06:31:44.260 When you're someone who's competed at the Tivity Top, not just at Brazil, but of course internationally in majors, 06:31:44.260 --> 06:31:47.260 etc., you deserve it, right? 06:31:47.260 --> 06:31:53.260 Yeah, I have to say so. I mean, Loben is one of those guys that you can tell if you ever see him at an event or anything. 06:31:53.260 --> 06:31:58.260 He cares so much about this game, so much about his performance, so much about the results. 06:31:58.260 --> 06:32:02.500 He wears his heart on his sleeve sometimes and it's always good to see him get into W. 06:32:02.500 --> 06:32:06.700 This game was so hard, but he set it himself. These are the games they enjoy the most, 06:32:06.700 --> 06:32:11.300 even though it's the most difficult one. Once they can get over the hump, once they can get that success, 06:32:11.300 --> 06:32:14.540 I mean, it really does speak for itself the joy that they must feel. 06:32:14.540 --> 06:32:19.460 Job is not done, of course, but you can't not be excited for what is to come. 06:32:19.460 --> 06:32:22.620 They're going up against Fury, a bit of a rematch from the group stage. 06:32:22.620 --> 06:32:25.100 And, God, I can't wait to see that match. 06:32:25.100 --> 06:32:32.540 I think within the context of BO1s, that's one thing in the groups, BO3s with a spot 06:32:32.540 --> 06:32:37.740 at the Salt Lake City Major on the line, who that adds a lot to it. 06:32:37.740 --> 06:32:43.220 Remember, this match between Fluxo, the 7M and Face Clan was not at the right qualification. 06:32:43.220 --> 06:32:46.860 That was just the first leg of the playoffs bracket. 06:32:46.860 --> 06:32:50.740 That just tells you that we're supposed to, at least they're raising the bar for 06:32:50.740 --> 06:32:55.220 us to think that way to expect a great match against Furia. 06:32:55.220 --> 06:33:01.060 Lobin set it himself and I'm sure whoever we'd speak to from Furia would probably deal 06:33:01.060 --> 06:33:05.500 us in this case to be like yeah absolutely something that you should have in mind to 06:33:05.500 --> 06:33:09.540 expect a close game between us two. 06:33:09.540 --> 06:33:12.220 You see more and more of these highlights that are playing here. 06:33:12.220 --> 06:33:15.900 I'll ask you then Jesse with such a long series there's a lot of great plays that 06:33:15.900 --> 06:33:20.540 happen is there anything that kind of stood out as this is the big play to remember 06:33:20.540 --> 06:33:27.540 or the V player that has stood out more than just in stats in your mind. 06:33:27.540 --> 06:33:31.460 I think it has to be that round 14 clutch from Loeb and Miloche. 06:33:31.460 --> 06:33:33.860 I felt like that was kind of the moment. 06:33:33.860 --> 06:33:36.100 That's what saved the series in many cases. 06:33:36.100 --> 06:33:37.540 It won them Consulate. 06:33:37.540 --> 06:33:41.860 I still think Consulate was the toughest hurdle that Flex of WWE 7M had to face in 06:33:41.860 --> 06:33:46.540 this series and not only did they face it and come up, come over top of it, but 06:33:46.540 --> 06:33:48.540 they did it at a time where they were facing the nation. 06:33:48.540 --> 06:33:49.780 They lost their own map, Vito. 06:33:49.780 --> 06:33:51.620 They were in such an awkward spot. 06:33:51.620 --> 06:33:54.580 And the game hadn't been easy at that point either. 06:33:54.580 --> 06:33:56.220 The FaZe were mounting a comeback. 06:33:56.220 --> 06:33:59.140 They did so well in that second half on their own defenses. 06:33:59.140 --> 06:34:02.700 They were down 6-5 at the one point, going into round 12. 06:34:02.700 --> 06:34:04.700 And it's just some big moments from Loben, 06:34:04.700 --> 06:34:07.740 from Kahn, from Paule, that get things over the line. 06:34:07.740 --> 06:34:10.860 That's gotta be the one that stands out the most for me. 06:34:10.860 --> 06:34:12.540 But there were so many moments like that 06:34:12.540 --> 06:34:13.380 throughout this game. 06:34:13.380 --> 06:34:15.700 Even for FaZe, then you go back to Nighthaven Labs, 06:34:15.700 --> 06:34:21.340 souls on rafters at the Azami, a handy down below holding a fuse kit. Just an incredible 06:34:21.340 --> 06:34:25.460 rounds coming up from these two teams and I think I've wasted enough time. Here's the 06:34:25.460 --> 06:34:29.980 clutch that I was just talking about from the low end. So, so difficult in the hallway 06:34:29.980 --> 06:34:32.180 shooting the Claymore. Perfectly played. 06:34:32.180 --> 06:34:36.580 Yeah, you oftentimes forget about the Claymore in a situation like that that could absolutely 06:34:36.580 --> 06:34:41.020 ... you're going to flounder all the efforts that you might have. But like you said, 06:34:41.020 --> 06:34:48.400 that was necessary for the victory to get Flux of W7M over the hump on map to 06:34:48.400 --> 06:34:54.180 consulate and hey maybe they're able to recreate this against Fury in a few days 06:34:54.180 --> 06:35:00.540 nobody going to consulate themselves in person to get their visas for the US to 06:35:00.540 --> 06:35:04.620 go to the Salt Lake City major I know visa processes are always something very 06:35:04.620 --> 06:35:08.100 very fun if anything you'd have won you're just excited to get on that 06:35:08.100 --> 06:35:13.540 playing get on with your ticket and just play online because there's a 06:35:13.540 --> 06:35:18.260 difference between watching online and playing online and then being online 06:35:18.260 --> 06:35:22.620 with all the players together everybody interacting probably having 06:35:22.620 --> 06:35:29.140 somebody screaming at one another through the usual play area that they 06:35:29.140 --> 06:35:33.500 have it's it's one of those experiences that I think all the 06:35:33.500 --> 06:35:37.100 players live for, to say the least. 06:35:37.100 --> 06:35:40.340 It's why you play games like this that get low and excited, 06:35:40.340 --> 06:35:44.900 I guess, us excited, and to make it all to the LAN event. 06:35:44.900 --> 06:35:48.120 Flux of W7M, in some ways you could say upsetting, 06:35:48.120 --> 06:35:51.500 face clan, but in reality, we've been seeing 06:35:51.500 --> 06:35:54.860 and expecting Flux of W7M to play at this level 06:35:54.860 --> 06:35:55.700 for quite a while. 06:35:55.700 --> 06:35:57.260 They've shown us their potential. 06:35:57.260 --> 06:36:00.620 We've known it for the past two or so years. 06:36:00.620 --> 06:36:02.060 I think it's fair to, uh, 06:36:02.960 --> 06:36:05.500 projects and be happy at this result. 06:36:05.500 --> 06:36:07.420 And with that, that's the match summary. 06:36:07.760 --> 06:36:09.080 Paalu is MVP. 06:36:09.140 --> 06:36:09.620 Cool. 06:36:09.660 --> 06:36:10.820 Loben had great plays. 06:36:11.180 --> 06:36:12.980 I, in general, it was great. 06:36:13.040 --> 06:36:17.780 I would like to move on then from this game and focus on our bracket here for 06:36:17.780 --> 06:36:25.580 just a moment as we wrap up our show, because this has, I guess, a lot of 06:36:25.580 --> 06:36:30.380 reverberations on what will happen in SAO. 06:36:30.380 --> 06:36:34.540 Again, Palu MVP, negative on the entry, 60% cost. 06:36:34.540 --> 06:36:37.740 Cool, it was a team effort, not one specific player. 06:36:37.740 --> 06:36:39.340 I think we'll agree with that. 06:36:39.340 --> 06:36:42.620 Yeah, I mean, everybody had to step up and have big individual moments. 06:36:42.620 --> 06:36:46.700 Palu may be a little bit more consistent on just getting those frags in the late round. 06:36:46.700 --> 06:36:48.860 You were back to conflict, especially that was big. 06:36:48.860 --> 06:36:52.460 Palu played incredible today, but all five players had to step up 06:36:52.460 --> 06:36:54.940 to beat FaZe Clan, and all five players absolutely did. 06:36:56.700 --> 06:36:59.500 They very much did, and here is our bracket. 06:36:59.500 --> 06:37:06.860 as requested. NIP absolutely mopped the floor with loss actually expecting a bit more in that matchup. 06:37:06.860 --> 06:37:13.260 NIP versus Team Liquid Alienware are very much a game to look forward to. It is NIP's big challenge, 06:37:13.260 --> 06:37:19.660 but also a way for Team Liquid Alienware to prove themselves as the spranier roster. Of course, 06:37:19.660 --> 06:37:23.980 Foxy did a seven-in-a-match they just had against FaceTime, the victory that leads them to play 06:37:23.980 --> 06:37:28.480 furia and I'm gonna repeat myself but once again if you can beat phase you can 06:37:28.480 --> 06:37:32.920 beat furia Jesse. Yeah I think so and for phase obviously they're still in this 06:37:32.920 --> 06:37:36.680 they play black dragons but that was a scary looking bracket Milo's they will 06:37:36.680 --> 06:37:40.880 fall down play that game against BD. I think a winnable game most people would 06:37:40.880 --> 06:37:44.140 tell you that's a match that they can probably come out the victors of but 06:37:44.140 --> 06:37:48.200 even if they do after black dragons they would have to beat the loser of 06:37:48.200 --> 06:37:51.900 Team Liquid Alienware versus ninjas in pajamas that will be a very 06:37:51.900 --> 06:37:57.880 difficult game no matter who goes down to the lower bracket so tough path now for 06:37:57.880 --> 06:38:01.440 phase clan they couldn't get it done today they will have to prove themselves 06:38:01.440 --> 06:38:07.840 with no more second chances and a reminder is that even if you qualify from 06:38:07.840 --> 06:38:12.840 the lower bracket if you don't win the lower bracket final you will be seated 06:38:12.840 --> 06:38:17.840 into phase one of the major so you'll have to play what like three or so extra 06:38:17.840 --> 06:38:23.440 days of competition. It really adds a lot pressure because phase one a lot can happen 06:38:23.440 --> 06:38:28.120 in that format regardless of how it's going to be and how it's actually going 06:38:28.120 --> 06:38:32.120 to be set up but when it comes to qualifying from phase into phase two 06:38:32.120 --> 06:38:36.040 sure you might have a lower seed but at least certain phase two you can fight 06:38:36.040 --> 06:38:41.120 your way out of that position very comfortably. Though Jesse we're 06:38:41.120 --> 06:38:45.120 getting to that time of the evening I want to thank you very very much. I 06:38:45.120 --> 06:38:47.120 I hope you enjoyed your stint on the desk. 06:38:47.120 --> 06:38:50.280 I know you're familiar with the desk very, very, very well. 06:38:50.280 --> 06:38:54.840 And you and I have shared a desk in the past, but hope you have fun today. 06:38:54.840 --> 06:38:55.680 Absolutely did. 06:38:55.680 --> 06:38:59.840 Meal always should help that the games were incredible, especially that second best of three. 06:38:59.840 --> 06:39:04.640 But honestly, both games, the start today of Loose versus NIP was really entertaining as well. 06:39:04.640 --> 06:39:08.400 So it's always good to come back to the desk, call for a little couple of replays, 06:39:08.400 --> 06:39:11.240 watch a couple of highlights, do a couple of interviews. 06:39:11.240 --> 06:39:14.080 It's always good to return to your roots, right? 06:39:14.080 --> 06:39:19.520 Absolutely. And those are routes that are very, very deep to say the least. Jesse, thank you again. 06:39:19.520 --> 06:39:24.480 Thank you for all those watching at home. We'll be back on Tuesday for more action. As always, 06:39:24.480 --> 06:39:29.600 as we're only three days away from wrapping things up here in SAL, that'll be Tuesday, 06:39:29.600 --> 06:39:36.320 of course, Saturday and Sunday for all the action. EML, NAL, APL, CNL, everything is 06:39:36.320 --> 06:39:41.920 happening in this week. We're trying to lock everything in. And I'm very excited to see 06:39:41.920 --> 06:39:50.160 the four teams that qualify from every region to the Salt Lake City Major, which is going to be a 06:39:50.160 --> 06:39:57.840 great start to 2026. Thank you all. We'll see you next time. Have a good night.