WEBVTT 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 I 13:30.000 --> 13:36.000 I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going till I ain't got no more. 13:43.000 --> 13:46.000 Okay, so we work from there, and then I think we have everything settled. 13:46.000 --> 13:50.000 Yeah, I think the show's set. And you know what? It's so nice to be back in the studio. 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 Last week when I missed the ML Play Day, because I had a power cut, it was truly awful. 13:54.000 --> 13:57.000 Actually, I preferred it with Tim. What? 13:57.000 --> 13:59.000 No, not this shit again. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Actually, I got you. I got you. 14:29.000 --> 14:36.760 We are so back! We're in the studio for the EML kickoff playoffs and just a few days 14:36.760 --> 14:40.840 we'll know our EML representatives for the Salt Lake City Major. My name is Anne and 14:40.840 --> 14:45.480 I'm joined in the studio by Alphama and the fresh guys. We're back in the fortress. Must 14:45.480 --> 14:48.800 be feeling very good. And that's light. And that's light, yeah. Now it's so good. It's 14:48.800 --> 14:52.720 so good to be back. We had a couple of online days, but we're back in the studio. It feels 14:52.720 --> 14:55.640 like we're in elegant. It feels like home. It feels like home. We've sent so much time 14:55.640 --> 15:00.640 the team in the studio together with that logo, with EML, with those teams. It feels right. It just feels right. 15:00.640 --> 15:05.640 Unfortunately, we don't have all of our teams with us. In fact, we started with 10 teams last week. 15:05.640 --> 15:12.640 We only have eight of those remaining and put them in a bracket phase, a double elimination bracket phase for shots at the Salt Lake City Major. 15:12.640 --> 15:16.640 We have eight teams remaining in their respective seats right now, but only four can make it to the Major. 15:16.640 --> 15:22.640 Yeah, absolutely. That's the four that will win games, five, six, eight and nine. 15:22.640 --> 15:26.720 today will be focusing on matches one and two of course. These are the teams that finished 15:26.720 --> 15:30.120 in second and third position, which means they want the best, but they certainly want 15:30.120 --> 15:34.440 the worst. That gets them an upper bracket lifeline. So it means they can progress into 15:34.440 --> 15:39.400 the game to qualify for the major, give themselves two spots. But if they happen to lose today, 15:39.400 --> 15:42.800 their benefit for finishing in second and third place is that they do get the extra life, 15:42.800 --> 15:44.240 they will drop down to the lower bracket. 15:44.240 --> 15:47.240 And I think some teams were not expected to have that extra life. If you look at teams 15:47.240 --> 15:51.160 like fnatic, like twisted mines, even like rebels as well, those are teams that we're 15:51.160 --> 15:55.880 expecting still to decide their fate on a very last day of kickoff of the group stage, you know. 15:55.880 --> 15:59.640 So I think for them, they must be really happy about these placements because I don't think many 15:59.640 --> 16:03.640 people were expecting on it. That was really nice that we had all the tension until that final day 16:03.640 --> 16:08.280 to determine the positions inside of those two groups. But that does leave us with two best of 16:08.280 --> 16:12.760 threes forward today. Best of threes, very exciting once we look at the schedule for our two matches 16:12.760 --> 16:17.720 for today. And we always talk about it right with a best of three, the real depth in a team 16:17.720 --> 16:22.720 Yeah, and I think I've been especially expecting this for some teams, Virtus.pro for example, Jack. 16:22.720 --> 16:24.720 What does the best of three allow you to do? 16:24.720 --> 16:28.720 It allows you to expose your map pool or show, or, you know, flex your map pool, Leo. 16:28.720 --> 16:32.720 What was the team that had the smallest map pool of all of the other teams? 16:32.720 --> 16:33.720 That would be that as per... 16:33.720 --> 16:35.720 And what do you think have changed now? 16:35.720 --> 16:36.720 I think they're going to flex it. 16:36.720 --> 16:40.720 Exactly. Now with Neko at their helm, with the roster change they went through, 16:40.720 --> 16:42.720 I'm so excited to see them play even more maps. 16:42.720 --> 16:46.720 You didn't get to see that many maps or different ones either during the group stage show. 16:46.720 --> 16:49.420 stage show. Can I excited to see what they will cook in the VF3 setting? 16:49.420 --> 16:53.000 Yeah, I'll move over to the couches as we get ready for our first day, but before we 16:53.000 --> 16:57.640 start with the bracket phase, I kind of want to look back at the last two weeks in our 16:57.640 --> 17:01.040 group stage shows. What were you doing if you were in Morshing? But we got you covered. 17:01.040 --> 17:05.360 We want to talk about it in three categories, like we normally do, jumping into the panorama, 17:05.360 --> 17:10.480 starting off with the monster. But it felt wrong to just select one monster from five 17:10.480 --> 17:13.680 play days, so we decided to go with an all-star team of monsters. 17:13.680 --> 17:17.120 That's exactly what we did. And we did this completely statistically, by the way. 17:17.120 --> 17:20.800 This wasn't about roles. This wasn't about feelings, about what would be a good team. 17:20.800 --> 17:25.600 We picked the five best players, rated by EPS inside of our league. And you know what? 17:25.600 --> 17:29.440 I actually think this team would absolutely slay. They've got stomping on the back line 17:29.440 --> 17:32.880 in the spot. They've got Jumu linking it up as a bit of a luck and three of the best 17:32.880 --> 17:36.400 entry players in the world. What a lineup. I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, 17:36.400 --> 17:41.920 this may be the biggest nightmare to face in ranks. Actually, looking at that lineup, 17:41.920 --> 17:46.920 I want to see an old star team of EML, facing an old star team of SNL and NAL as well. 17:46.920 --> 17:52.920 Do you know what? I think our team would absolutely slap the SAL team and the NAL team. 17:52.920 --> 17:58.920 Ooh, like with the NAL team putting up JJ Blast, he's going to do nothing against Noah, nothing against Shaco. 17:58.920 --> 18:03.920 Oh, that line up. That line up. I want to see them play against them. I just want to see it happen. 18:03.920 --> 18:06.920 And certain Titans like Faze, for example, dropping down to a lower bracket as well. 18:06.920 --> 18:09.920 So maybe we do have the strongest region back in action again. 18:09.920 --> 18:11.360 with the individual players as 18:11.360 --> 18:12.320 well by when we talk about the 18:12.320 --> 18:13.680 moment, the craziest thing had 18:13.680 --> 18:15.280 happened inside the group stage. 18:15.280 --> 18:16.560 We have to talk about a one 18:16.560 --> 18:18.080 before clutch, which was also an 18:18.080 --> 18:20.080 ace from fascia. Yeah, it was 18:20.080 --> 18:21.840 absolutely crazy. Of course, he 18:21.840 --> 18:23.760 got an ace and the one versus 18:23.760 --> 18:24.800 four was in that playday against 18:24.800 --> 18:26.320 heretics. It all starts off with a 18:26.320 --> 18:27.920 C4 onto glass. This was actually 18:27.920 --> 18:29.200 really good push by heretics 18:29.200 --> 18:30.320 using the glass to try and push 18:30.320 --> 18:31.440 through the top floor. Fascia 18:31.440 --> 18:32.880 shut it down. He does then end up 18:32.880 --> 18:34.480 in a one versus four. Isolates 18:34.480 --> 18:36.080 a kill onto the ventures window. 18:36.080 --> 18:37.440 Key thing about that is that the 18:37.440 --> 18:38.720 Monty has to jump out to try and 18:38.720 --> 18:39.840 get the diffuser to play for a 18:39.840 --> 18:43.800 plant and the diffuser is outside. There was a player bench in the window doing absolutely 18:43.800 --> 18:48.280 nothing and when you give people one-busts, especially a player of Pasha's quality, he's 18:48.280 --> 18:52.440 going to isolate them. Gets another one there, gets it down to one-busts. And then from there, 18:52.440 --> 18:55.960 Heritage nothing, you will say this way, they made the right, the wrong choice to stuff the 18:55.960 --> 19:00.160 plant, but Pasha played it. Yeah, he played it perfectly, but on so many occasions there, 19:00.160 --> 19:03.920 Heritage was doing nothing, like nothing of importance. Though our big bench window for 19:03.920 --> 19:07.800 no reason, you have Rea speaking in with Flores and then the wrong decision of going for the 19:07.800 --> 19:14.800 I think there were many different things they could have done better, but what a play from him. 19:14.800 --> 19:22.800 Beautiful stuff coming out from him there. Now the one match that you should have seen during the group phase is our musty or must have watched in this case. 19:22.800 --> 19:30.800 Quite of a personal one. We got June playing against his former team, former organization, and that organization was there to show, hey, this is what you like. 19:30.800 --> 19:34.800 absolutely team secret in an 19:34.800 --> 19:35.800 absolute roller coaster across 19:35.800 --> 19:36.800 this whole stage. They ended 19:36.800 --> 19:38.800 up finishing in the lower 19:38.800 --> 19:40.800 bracket. But across that across 19:40.800 --> 19:41.800 that group stage, they had a 19:41.800 --> 19:43.800 massive game against the 19:43.800 --> 19:45.800 Falcons as well and showing 19:45.800 --> 19:46.800 this know again, an absolutely 19:46.800 --> 19:47.800 huge quad kill. It was 19:47.800 --> 19:48.800 absolutely crazy, but that's 19:48.800 --> 19:49.800 the highs. That's the lows. 19:49.800 --> 19:50.800 That's what you get for 19:50.800 --> 19:53.800 supporting a team. But what 19:53.800 --> 19:58.800 again? That was on your seat. 19:58.800 --> 20:05.300 But then, we talk about one thing, and we don't talk about it often enough, making sure that you stay well-nutrition, right? 20:05.300 --> 20:11.800 That's why we saw a lot of those, I think, over the group stage as well, snacks, drinks, and we thought we could play a tier list out of them. 20:11.800 --> 20:16.800 Yeah, I think it was important to take a look at some of those player camps, and maybe try to see who's got the better game. 20:16.800 --> 20:20.300 And you came up with this rank, so we've got S here, I assume that's the best, right? 20:20.300 --> 20:24.800 Yeah, great snack, great drink, perfect. Would choose it myself as well. We got healthy, very important. 20:24.800 --> 20:28.960 We got to think of being well nutrition making sure we can perform to our best levels 20:28.960 --> 20:34.000 We got normal just basic basic, but fine, and then we got what is going on 20:34.000 --> 20:36.880 I think people can already come up with a few that they've seen maybe during that all right 20:36.880 --> 20:39.800 I'm interested to see let's take a look at one of the first players 20:40.840 --> 20:45.880 All right, we got J.L.A. drinking from a water bottle, which seems to be like a one liter water bottle 20:45.880 --> 20:51.000 That's fine. It's not enough to be fully dehydrated for the full day, but I think it feels quite 20:51.000 --> 20:53.000 It feels healthy? 20:53.000 --> 20:54.000 It's water after all. 20:54.000 --> 20:55.000 It's healthy. 20:55.000 --> 20:56.000 It's a leader of water. 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 I think it's fine. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 It's probably a good pace as well to drink a leader per day. 20:59.000 --> 21:00.000 So where are we? 21:00.000 --> 21:01.000 Is it normal or is it healthy? 21:01.000 --> 21:02.000 I'd say we put it healthy. 21:02.000 --> 21:03.000 Healthy. 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 Alright. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Healthy for daylight with the water. 21:05.000 --> 21:06.000 That's fine. 21:06.000 --> 21:07.000 Alright. 21:07.000 --> 21:08.000 Let's take a look at another player. 21:08.000 --> 21:09.000 That's Benja. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 Look at that. 21:10.000 --> 21:13.800 Benja is drinking from a protein shaker, which I feel like is a little bit confused because 21:13.800 --> 21:15.000 it misses the cap. 21:15.000 --> 21:17.000 Don't know what's going on there. 21:17.000 --> 21:32.560 It's either a protein shake or water, but I'd say just because it's a protein shake or water, it's not normal, but it's healthy. 21:32.560 --> 21:37.400 If it's a protein shake or water, it's so far, you know it's doing good. Only healthy players. 21:37.400 --> 21:40.200 Wonderful. Who else? 21:40.200 --> 21:44.360 That one is cool. Drinking the tears of your enemies. 21:44.360 --> 21:50.360 Yeah, we will allow us to drink in from a secret cup, a team that we played against, or the former organization that we played against. 21:50.360 --> 21:52.760 I mean, Tchak, I think you agree, this has to go into ST, right? 21:52.760 --> 21:56.760 Yeah, that's called. That's a flag. Just a BM. Yeah, that's called from Alums. 21:56.760 --> 21:59.960 Alright, absolutely. I'd love to see that. Our next clip. 21:59.960 --> 22:02.560 Alright, let's go. Jume. Ooh, what is that? 22:02.560 --> 22:08.560 Ooh, alright. I'd say it's... I would like to put it healthy because it's sugar-free, right? 22:08.560 --> 22:13.960 But maybe that's a little bit too much copium. It's an energy drink, so I'd say we put it in normal, because everybody... 22:13.960 --> 22:16.440 In their life, I've been drinking the energy drink before. 22:16.440 --> 22:18.840 And its water line may be healthy, but... 22:18.840 --> 22:20.440 It's not an energy drink. 22:20.440 --> 22:22.640 Why does the energy drink actually hit though? That's the problem. 22:22.640 --> 22:25.440 Yeah, it's gonna get during the game, shall we? It hits after the game. 22:25.440 --> 22:29.280 It is 100% placebo. I used to play alongside Ryze. 22:29.280 --> 22:33.120 Ryze had a 50-centiliter energy drink every single time. 22:33.120 --> 22:35.280 And he's just buzzing after the game. 22:35.280 --> 22:37.240 Working out the heart. Heartase, yep. 22:37.240 --> 22:40.080 Alright, we've seen it here. Let's take a look at the new one as well. 22:41.400 --> 22:42.160 Oh, uh... 22:42.160 --> 22:46.160 That one is from my personal folder, I just make stuff up. 22:46.160 --> 22:48.160 That is not a consumption. 22:48.160 --> 22:50.160 Let's move on to the next one. 22:50.160 --> 22:52.160 Very quickly, please. Thank you very much. 22:52.160 --> 22:53.160 That one is really good. 22:53.160 --> 22:56.160 Maybe people were thinking about this one when they saw that what is going on in categories. 22:56.160 --> 23:01.160 Why are we drinking from a, well, it seems like a 10-liter bottle during a game. 23:01.160 --> 23:03.160 That is way too much for you to drink during one game. 23:03.160 --> 23:05.160 You're going to drown yourself at that point. 23:05.160 --> 23:07.160 Yeah, that needs to be, that needs to be what... 23:07.160 --> 23:10.160 He took him less than 20 minutes to finish the game 23:10.160 --> 23:13.360 And he still has that huge, huge water bowl. 23:13.360 --> 23:14.560 That one is really weird. 23:14.560 --> 23:16.960 I think we kept the best one for the last one, right? 23:16.960 --> 23:18.560 Yes, we absolutely did. 23:18.560 --> 23:23.040 One more clip, and that is of course the one snack inside here in the consumption list. 23:23.040 --> 23:25.840 We have drinks only, but we of course have Shaco, 23:25.840 --> 23:27.840 eating popcorn, clip farming during the game. 23:27.840 --> 23:29.840 That can't be anything else than S tier. 23:29.840 --> 23:30.240 Thank you. 23:30.240 --> 23:31.120 There has to be S tier. 23:31.120 --> 23:32.400 There has to be S tier. 23:32.400 --> 23:33.840 There should be a tier higher than that. 23:33.840 --> 23:36.960 I mean, dropping casual triple kills and eating popcorn in the middle, 23:36.960 --> 23:38.400 because that was not even at the end of the game, 23:38.400 --> 23:40.000 that was during the game in between rounds. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.120 After a triple kill. 23:41.120 --> 23:47.200 There's plenty of choices I feel like, from water to energy drinks to snacks and maybe some tea as well in this case. 23:47.200 --> 23:52.160 I wonder what Chad thinks about that, but now that we at least have our consumption sorted for the day, 23:52.160 --> 23:56.160 we can get going with our matches, our two best of threes for the day. 23:56.160 --> 24:01.680 As we dive into that first one here, we're gonna look at Virtus Pro going up against Rebels. 24:01.680 --> 24:06.240 And now whilst these two teams have never really played against each other with their current rosters, 24:06.240 --> 24:10.680 It kind of feels like that oil leak that I called from Gen.G last week, right? 24:10.680 --> 24:15.240 That team that now moves into all these different rosters and finds themselves playing against each other. 24:15.240 --> 24:16.440 The French are everywhere. 24:16.440 --> 24:19.440 They are, everyone. They're taking over every single roster. 24:19.440 --> 24:21.640 They used to just live in for 10 minutes to talk about French. 24:21.640 --> 24:25.840 They used to be... Listen, we used to only have one French-speaking roster. 24:25.840 --> 24:29.040 Now we have one, and on top of that we have French leaking everywhere. 24:29.040 --> 24:32.240 Let's take a look at some of the players that were on these rosters, you know? 24:32.240 --> 24:35.840 If you look at Ellens, Assa, they were former teammates. 24:35.840 --> 24:42.400 Yeah, of Neko and obviously it's a special one because they went through, I think, different iterations. 24:42.400 --> 24:44.760 On one side, LMs used to be with ENCE and was dropped. 24:44.760 --> 24:48.080 ASA was one that came later with a certain rookie role. 24:48.080 --> 24:51.000 And looking at this, there's a duo that fares better than the other. 24:51.000 --> 24:55.240 However, Rebels dominated way less than VP and has to do with the roles. 24:55.240 --> 25:00.000 On one side, we've got on the right side, I think, the voice and the vision of one team. 25:00.000 --> 25:04.840 On the left side, really just the backline that seems to overperform compared to the rest of the Firepower. 25:04.840 --> 25:07.080 different rules, Jack, but also different impact. 25:07.080 --> 25:09.040 Yeah, I would say. And also, let's not forget, 25:09.040 --> 25:12.000 Nacro is the best clutch player inside of BML right now. 25:12.000 --> 25:13.680 He's got three 1BX clutches as well, 25:13.680 --> 25:15.360 as well as Argyllum, as well as Plague Shield. 25:15.360 --> 25:17.120 So the stats don't necessarily matter so much, 25:17.120 --> 25:19.680 but it's kind of poetic these guys playing against each other 25:19.680 --> 25:21.920 to go back to try and make the major. 25:21.920 --> 25:23.640 Yeah, Worcester have done better in the crew phase, though, 25:23.640 --> 25:24.920 so I like that we're looking at the backline, 25:24.920 --> 25:27.440 but I want to make sure we look at the frontline of this roster 25:27.440 --> 25:29.520 as well, pulling up all the stats in general. 25:29.520 --> 25:31.000 Two players that pop up. 25:31.000 --> 25:34.160 Yeah, honestly, if we look at the third floor on their side, 25:34.160 --> 25:36.400 You know, guys like Pasha, guys like Rorik, 25:36.400 --> 25:39.360 it's very important that, you know, 25:39.360 --> 25:41.400 you just pay attention to the frags here. 25:41.400 --> 25:43.880 I think that some of them are actually, you know, 25:43.880 --> 25:45.360 were not expected to be hot carries. 25:45.360 --> 25:47.000 I think Rorik especially, you know, he came in, 25:47.000 --> 25:49.320 this was his first season as a professional player. 25:49.320 --> 25:52.440 I think many people had seen him train in tier two 25:52.440 --> 25:55.080 for years, he actually said in six years of experience 25:55.080 --> 25:56.200 to lead to this moment. 25:56.200 --> 25:57.720 I think he really came to fruition 25:57.720 --> 26:00.040 when he joined this roster. 26:00.040 --> 26:02.280 And I'm looking at this and players like Dan, 26:02.280 --> 26:07.500 There's like Pasha as well like the old guard are still putting up the fireballer and the French is there with a vision 26:07.600 --> 26:11.680 So far it seems to mesh really well. Yeah, and the main issue is that they were slow in some of these rounds 26:11.680 --> 26:16.720 Right, I think a big comparison that we could put now with this new kind of eye-gelling style is to look at some of their newer gameplay 26:16.920 --> 26:21.440 Yeah, absolutely, and do you know what Leo? I'm actually just gonna admit it. I'm gonna admit it 26:21.440 --> 26:23.960 I was a little bit of a Virtus.pro hater on their old style 26:23.960 --> 26:30.880 And do you know what actually I'm gonna show you just what their old style was this is Virtus.pro of last year stage one 26:30.880 --> 26:38.400 up against G2 on Consulate. Notice the time, 20 seconds left. Where's Dan? He has two floors above the bomb site. 26:38.400 --> 26:43.520 They're pushing late. They're basically doing nothing. They're actually just going to walk into a doorway and all die. 26:43.520 --> 26:47.360 You see Dan? He's pushing down the stairs here. He's going down yellow stairs. What do you see? 26:47.920 --> 26:52.880 Yellow door is still open. Sorry, that is J-Lad. And then you've also got barbed wire as well. 26:52.880 --> 26:57.200 They just push in and then they die. So what has Virtus.pro done? Well, they've brought Naquo in. 26:57.200 --> 27:02.400 they bring shields onto their roster. So let's review the exact same team that they are against, 27:02.400 --> 27:07.280 the exact same bombsite that they're playing, that's inside of this stage up against you too. 27:07.280 --> 27:12.080 They have a Blackbeard, they have a Dokerby, they have much faster style and the one thing 27:12.080 --> 27:16.800 that they're going to do is they're going to force in all at the same time within 30 seconds. 27:16.800 --> 27:22.000 This player here inside of Tellers, he's going to get targeted by three separate players all at 27:22.000 --> 27:26.960 the same time and this is Newverts Pro. It's fast, it's direct. You've got Fatcher pushing 27:26.960 --> 27:34.480 holding for a refrag. You've got switch, pushing deep, holding for a refrag. Suddenly, within one minute of play, it's a five versus two for Virtus.Pro. 27:34.480 --> 27:41.360 Virtus.Pro of old did not know what this meant. They get the plant down and they secure the round. I am absolutely in love with this version. 27:41.360 --> 27:43.680 This is why they are so good these days. 27:43.680 --> 27:53.280 And whereas, where as for was almost so close to getting first, it's kind of a surprise that we see Rebels here inside this upper bracket as well, but it has to do with some of their mixed results that we're seeing in the group stage. 27:53.280 --> 27:57.200 Yeah, looking at this roster, I just feel like this is the song of ice and fire. 27:57.200 --> 28:01.320 One day they can be ice-cooled, get 7-1 by Foulton, 7-2 by Twisted Minds, and then the 28:01.320 --> 28:02.880 day after, they can go crazy. 28:02.880 --> 28:08.720 They have 7-2 Geekies, 7-4 Secret on the most critical matchup, the very last one of Kick-Off. 28:08.720 --> 28:13.840 You know, it's a team that has potential, we clearly see that, much more than heretics 28:13.840 --> 28:18.240 have showed coming from Challenger series, but at the same time, do they have it in them, 28:18.240 --> 28:19.240 in a pure free setting. 28:19.240 --> 28:22.360 against a team that has beaten G2, for example, 28:22.360 --> 28:24.880 do they really have it to take down a team like VP? 28:24.880 --> 28:26.120 You kind of expect it with a team 28:26.120 --> 28:28.680 that's got free rookie players in that are making the step up. 28:28.680 --> 28:30.560 You kind of expect that inconsistency. 28:30.560 --> 28:31.760 That performance can be secret. 28:31.760 --> 28:33.120 To even get into the upper bracket, 28:33.120 --> 28:35.120 I think it was absolutely monumental. 28:35.120 --> 28:36.680 But what that does is it raises the bar, 28:36.680 --> 28:38.040 it raises the pressure, 28:38.040 --> 28:39.320 because you're now into best of reach, 28:39.320 --> 28:40.520 you're now into upper bracket. 28:40.520 --> 28:41.480 You're now in with these players, 28:41.480 --> 28:43.520 thinking we've got a serious shot at the major here. 28:43.520 --> 28:45.840 So for them, it's about proving it. 28:45.840 --> 28:48.200 It is, and you two hinted towards it before 28:48.200 --> 28:51.040 in the pre-show, the maps, especially for Vrotus Pro. 28:51.040 --> 28:53.160 I'd like to see it, you know, it's really getting tested, 28:53.160 --> 28:55.160 a map pool inside of the Vesta3, 28:55.160 --> 28:57.080 but looking at these three maps selected, 28:57.080 --> 28:59.320 it's nothing too, you know, experimental 28:59.320 --> 29:00.160 as we're looking here. 29:00.160 --> 29:01.480 No clubhouse, Lair and Bank. 29:01.480 --> 29:03.480 Now I will say this, I think the clubhouse pick 29:03.480 --> 29:04.840 makes a lot of sense for VP. 29:04.840 --> 29:06.560 One of the only maps that Rebels showed 29:06.560 --> 29:08.520 at the tier one level that was against Wisted Minds 29:08.520 --> 29:11.160 and they got absolutely smashed, 7-2. 29:11.160 --> 29:12.800 On the side of VP, they haven't shown it yet 29:12.800 --> 29:14.480 and it's the same thing for Lair. 29:14.480 --> 29:16.360 So they're protected by the fact that 29:16.360 --> 29:19.480 Neko came in and reworked entirely their playstyle in a map pool. 29:19.480 --> 29:22.680 Not having shown it at the top level really helps them. 29:22.680 --> 29:25.960 And then Bank has a decider. I think a good one overall. 29:25.960 --> 29:29.720 Neko loves to call that map as well. He used to absolutely love it on Gen.G. 29:29.720 --> 29:33.560 So over looking at this, it's still, I think, heavily at the advantage of VP 29:33.560 --> 29:35.560 if we look at the facts and the previous results. 29:35.560 --> 29:37.720 Yeah, I think so. I think you'd expect them to have a bigger map pool 29:37.720 --> 29:39.880 just because the players have been feeding around a little bit longer. 29:39.880 --> 29:41.320 I'm excited to see them in the clubhouse though, 29:41.320 --> 29:43.400 because obviously that is the map that you would have said. 29:43.400 --> 29:45.160 We've seen everything, we've done everything, 29:45.160 --> 29:50.000 especially the best for you always knew what was coming. It's now going to be very, very different in terms of the new best pro. 29:50.000 --> 29:51.920 So I'm expecting a show of strength from them. 29:51.920 --> 29:57.880 Plus, a good day today. We've got the best of three. We're back in the studio. Another nice thing to add with that is that we actually get to talk 29:57.880 --> 30:03.960 to the casters before the game as we're joined by Nef and Pengu. We saw you two for the last two weeks. 30:03.960 --> 30:09.440 We think it gets a chat with you two. How are you feeling? Maybe starting with you, James? It's like in the middle of the night for you, not? 30:09.440 --> 30:16.440 I don't know. Who cares? It's 30:16.440 --> 30:18.440 like two in the morning, but I 30:18.440 --> 30:19.440 don't care because I'm so 30:19.440 --> 30:21.440 stoked to be here. Also, it's so 30:21.440 --> 30:22.440 nice to see you guys back in the 30:22.440 --> 30:24.440 studio. I got to admit it was 30:24.440 --> 30:25.440 kind of weird seeing you guys 30:25.440 --> 30:27.440 online. I'm just associated you 30:27.440 --> 30:29.440 so much with the Copenhagen 30:29.440 --> 30:30.440 studio, and it looks phenomenal. 30:30.440 --> 30:32.440 It's so great to be back 30:32.440 --> 30:34.440 involved in email and into the 30:34.440 --> 30:36.440 playoffs. It really is, but I 30:36.440 --> 30:38.440 just heard that the game is 30:38.440 --> 30:40.440 You took it, take it away for the first match of the day. 30:40.440 --> 30:42.440 Nice to see you guys. 30:42.440 --> 30:44.440 Do you want to have your moment now, Nick? 30:44.440 --> 30:47.440 You can, you know, respond to them after the VCR. 30:47.440 --> 30:53.440 I, um, I didn't clock for whatever reason that they weren't in studio when we worked EML last week 30:53.440 --> 30:57.440 because it's so normal for you to see them in studio, but you're right, we were online before. 30:57.440 --> 31:00.440 Now we're back on land, if you will. Super excited, super stoked. 31:00.440 --> 31:03.440 And we got some new teams, flash, new rosters. 31:03.440 --> 31:07.440 Obviously, a vote here, favoring VP, and I'm not surprised. 31:07.440 --> 31:11.640 been looking scary in the server. I mean, Fresh broke down and pushes their aggression. 31:11.640 --> 31:14.600 This is a whole new look for LoL's pro. 31:14.600 --> 31:20.200 It's a completely revamped roster for the formerly Russian bears now. They have this 31:20.200 --> 31:25.440 mixed team and as they talked about in the pre-show pick, we have two French boys on 31:25.440 --> 31:30.960 this Virtus.Pro roster that are very familiar with two French boys from the Rebels roster. 31:30.960 --> 31:35.720 Of course, formerly Gen.G last year in the EML. That roster actually performed really 31:35.720 --> 31:40.520 I think they ended up fought the end of the year. They had some pretty deep runs went to a couple of its national tournaments 31:40.520 --> 31:42.680 Yeah, unfortunately didn't continue 31:42.680 --> 31:49.400 I think the kind of spiritual continuity of that roster ended up being this rebels team with the limbs and ass of it 31:49.400 --> 31:54.720 Of course, we have the ex teammates on the other side of it as well in Mako and 31:55.000 --> 32:01.000 Sky so this is gonna be a fantastic showing and an opportunity for the first program really assert themselves and 32:01.000 --> 32:03.300 And there we go, there's a lens. 32:03.300 --> 32:06.600 Man, I'm so keen for this team in Zerda's pro 32:06.600 --> 32:10.600 to see what they can really do after finally making some figures to take us. 32:10.600 --> 32:14.000 I'm also quite keen, and I think the thing that makes me even more excited 32:14.000 --> 32:15.700 is the fact that we're starting on Clubhouse, 32:15.700 --> 32:19.100 because we spoke about Conchlitt and the aggressive push from Virtus Pro, 32:19.100 --> 32:22.400 where it's like how they do like this good theory, that new style of speech. 32:22.400 --> 32:27.600 But Clubhouse is probably one of those maps that speaks the least in Zerda's aggressive playstyle. 32:27.600 --> 32:33.840 Sure, you can have more time on the clock to go for your execute if you're much quicker and successful on the roam clear, 32:33.840 --> 32:39.120 but at the end of the day, Kappa's very commonly won't come down to that bomb site itself. 32:39.120 --> 32:44.640 So, we're gonna have to speed up this pro and the fundamentals, their strategy, their counter adaptations, 32:44.640 --> 32:48.800 and that's something where, if you like, rebels might be quite good at themselves because they have a lynch. 32:48.800 --> 32:55.520 They have an agile, a captain who is playing with that old BDS roster, Slash the current Falcon's roster that cuts the disease, 32:55.520 --> 33:00.160 and he is a person who's been playing for 10 years straight at the highest level in Europe. 33:00.160 --> 33:04.160 Yeah, he was in skill for a little bit, but no, he's back in someone else, so 8 years to get one more in us. 33:04.160 --> 33:07.600 They should have a good idea of how to pick up the point of the zone, so how to stand up or defense. 33:09.520 --> 33:11.600 It doesn't get much more classic than Clubhouse, 33:12.480 --> 33:16.720 either in Rainbow Six, so it's just so great. I mean, this map is so well-rounded, I know that 33:16.720 --> 33:21.600 you're a big fan, I am a massive fan, it's just like the best map to kind of test every different 33:21.600 --> 33:26.240 element of attacking and defencing whether it's roaming, whether it's anchoring, whether it's 33:26.240 --> 33:30.560 hard breaching, whether it's execute utility, there are so many mini games and so many things 33:30.560 --> 33:35.360 going on on this map, one of which is actually an aggressive C4 from a LEMPT. I believe that might 33:35.360 --> 33:40.960 have been actually up through the office hatch onto someone on the route, so goodbye to Skies and 33:40.960 --> 33:46.800 now Virtus.Pro already struggling to execute what they intend to do without a bit of a fight from 33:46.800 --> 33:50.320 Rebels. It's a huge pick. They're only downs to here for Rebels, so they don't really know what 33:50.320 --> 33:56.480 Operator Scott is playing but he is from Hibana leaving only two so much parts left now for the ace 33:56.480 --> 34:00.560 They can get a single or hatch with all the remaining heart destruction and that's it 34:00.960 --> 34:05.280 Obviously Reversal is falling back but that blind will cause it but Elimps is caught on the way down 34:05.760 --> 34:11.440 So Neko finds a pick back to even numbers, but that's gonna be the time where it was before all the way back towards the basement 34:11.680 --> 34:16.160 Loosing one player and trading one player is perfectly okay because they burn a half the cost 34:16.160 --> 34:25.520 I feel like it's the real crux of this, they might not know until you're right, they might 34:25.520 --> 34:29.720 not know it but they might be able to figure it out, even just based on obviously knowing 34:29.720 --> 34:34.480 Skye's very well, Alem's and Asa used to play with him, they might be able to guess from 34:34.480 --> 34:38.720 Vodding that it's probably even though they haven't seen a clubhouse, what maps, what 34:38.720 --> 34:41.800 role they like to play that Skye's might be on the Hibana, but at the moment there is 34:41.800 --> 34:46.760 little bit of aggression. It's Mato in kitchen right now. They spotted him. Nowhere he is. 34:46.760 --> 34:52.600 He will drop all the way down but gets caught on his retreat. That is a dangerous and expensive 34:52.600 --> 34:57.800 loss for Rebels. It's practically that middle line for as long as possible. Stay to get that 34:57.800 --> 35:02.280 one more drone, that one more bit of information, but also fall back fairly enough to put me 35:02.280 --> 35:07.080 don't get caught off. He stayed for five seconds long. He paid the price. Also Rebels, they can 35:07.080 --> 35:09.960 maybe deduct the fact that they killed Dibana, right? They've seen the blitz, they've seen the 35:09.960 --> 35:12.660 the factory in peace they see the summer charges and now the nose heads on 35:12.660 --> 35:16.800 board so they should know that there is in fact no more hungry but these two 35:16.800 --> 35:21.600 summers and fight at night immediately wall bang from dad takes a lingo full 35:21.600 --> 35:25.600 control from vp 20 seconds ago they could drop the hats with the blitz they 35:25.600 --> 35:30.960 got smokes to do this well all that you walk down that means there is a lot of 35:30.960 --> 35:39.560 pressure now the fire what's the explosion under the gas pipe finds 35:39.560 --> 35:41.560 Two kills, Pasha's the last one left! 35:41.560 --> 35:45.560 Asta goes absolutely nuclear with three kills. 35:45.560 --> 35:49.560 Rebels had no right winning that round, but they stole it from VP. 35:49.560 --> 35:52.560 Oh, Heartbreaker, so many things going so well. 35:52.560 --> 35:56.560 They catch the rotations, they catch the guy flanking, they have 25 seconds, 35:56.560 --> 36:01.560 and the hardest thing about that Basement bombs that execute is actually getting into the bombsite. 36:01.560 --> 36:04.560 Either you're dropping down the hatch, or you're stuck in the air, 36:04.560 --> 36:07.560 or you're walking down the bottom main staircase, which we just saw, 36:07.560 --> 36:12.280 you have so many different lights on sight and you're exposed to so many different gunfights. 36:12.280 --> 36:15.800 But when you have a blitz, when you have those spare smoke grenades that I mentioned, 36:15.800 --> 36:20.840 you can just kinda go in the kitchen hatch, smoke off AKs, smoke off that third box towards blue, 36:20.840 --> 36:23.720 and drop down with the blitz shield, almost, and that's it. 36:23.720 --> 36:25.480 This wasn't PAPA, it died so quickly. 36:25.480 --> 36:28.200 That blind bolt was so many things and wrong, I mean... 36:28.200 --> 36:29.000 What is it? 36:29.400 --> 36:31.560 The PIPE bottom main getting a double kill. 36:33.160 --> 36:34.280 That was so funny. 36:34.280 --> 36:34.920 Fall in, guys. 36:34.920 --> 36:35.400 Look at this. 36:35.400 --> 36:38.400 Oh that's the impact we need. 36:40.400 --> 36:48.400 Yeah that could be more perfect. It's funny like if he hadn't got the impact, if he just shot it, it probably would have blown him in time to get the double kill. 36:48.400 --> 36:51.400 So it was actually the perfect play there. 36:51.400 --> 36:56.400 Wow. That's an explosive first round. Pardon the pun for Rebels. 36:56.400 --> 37:00.400 And yeah, great start because it's funny though, really did feel like a tug of war. 37:00.400 --> 37:07.400 like you said in Star Penguin, lose your Hibana up front and even though it becomes a 4v4 rather than a no doubt Tager, 37:07.400 --> 37:12.400 then pick off the pick VP easily the winning team in that round. 37:12.400 --> 37:18.400 It just came down to one impact grenade and the detonation of the gas pipe. 37:18.400 --> 37:23.400 It goes to show you, obviously a lot of people say there's not a lot that has changed in Steejects. 37:23.400 --> 37:28.400 It's still the same old game, but those gas pipes can really move you around. 37:28.400 --> 37:39.400 And it's true, there is a bit of an archery work, you have like a little mini IQ scanner kind of, or a hard-greed sense of the different game and it shows you electronics that are both pre-placed and being tossed in the air. 37:39.400 --> 37:46.400 So he saw you disabling the Medusa Banshee behind the breach, then he saw like a potential climb on the scanner that's gonna be the Kai-Floor. 37:46.400 --> 37:54.400 He catches both, while it's open up successfully, and without a banter, that's just not possible. It has to go downstairs to bird, etc. 37:54.400 --> 37:58.940 I also think that the last round is a good example of you winning the round 37:59.440 --> 38:01.460 Slash the enemy losing the round right? 38:01.620 --> 38:05.820 Virtus.pro didn't want it strategically, man advantage, 4v2, etc. 38:05.980 --> 38:11.060 But they still lost the round. So you can play the round as perfectly as possible on your own end 38:11.060 --> 38:17.000 And they get punished by like one small mispiming, one small magnification, or in that case, the speech x-pipes 38:17.720 --> 38:21.840 This one is interesting to me though because Rebels are throwing their catwalk control for free 38:21.840 --> 38:22.840 Yeah. 38:22.840 --> 38:23.840 And Garage. 38:23.840 --> 38:27.720 They're not playing lounge downstairs, it's playing deeply in the bombsite and then Master 38:27.720 --> 38:33.920 Bedroom and Gym, but this is easy to defend, like this is the bombsite, so they kill everything 38:33.920 --> 38:37.840 for free, maybe hoping the Kite will forget more value than they did. 38:37.840 --> 38:46.680 Oh, nice dodging that C4, it's a very risky place for grapple 3, I'll be giving up so 38:46.680 --> 38:47.680 much for free. 38:47.680 --> 38:51.400 They're looking to try and play for Platinum and Retech, which really puts extra pressure 38:51.400 --> 38:54.720 on Virtus.Pro to get this decision right. Asher going with the platform, 38:54.720 --> 39:00.080 just to go deep and be careful. Down below is C4 could completely unhand the round 39:00.080 --> 39:01.920 and a double kill from Feno. 39:01.920 --> 39:06.480 Virtus.Pro able to find a couple of picks though and maybe make it look possible. 39:06.480 --> 39:11.800 I believe that fire was a goyo that detonated VP getting a little bit too overzealous here. 39:11.800 --> 39:15.400 They didn't respect that. Well, if Rebels are giving us this for free, 39:15.400 --> 39:17.240 then probably there's something that worked down below. 39:17.240 --> 39:22.680 they didn't try and clear this out and they've been punished as a result. Now it's up to Dan and 39:22.680 --> 39:28.280 Neko to look for an execute and Dan makes his way inside to the breach. Misses an opportunity but 39:28.280 --> 39:34.600 finally does take down Linko. Now it's Mato, you know one versus two. He's heard that plant start to 39:34.600 --> 39:40.520 go down. He's gonna be able to revive his buddy in it and go for a retake so this means the diffuser 39:40.520 --> 39:46.040 will go down. Training your post plans for a revive is so worth for VP. They can take catwalk and 39:46.040 --> 39:49.720 breach with two strong positions, no one player is low, they know they have to 39:49.720 --> 39:55.480 win some from defense. Neko surely should kill Liko. Hasn't as of yet. 39:55.480 --> 40:01.400 Liko has a chance, but doesn't land the shots. Neko finds both kills and Virtus 40:01.400 --> 40:06.520 Pro make amends for the errors of their ways and get themselves there first 40:06.520 --> 40:11.480 around on the board. It's again another great example of Virtus Pro. Plan A, we 40:11.480 --> 40:15.120 see the vision, they have the glass, they take catwalk, they take what is given to 40:15.120 --> 40:19.280 them from rebels, right? They say, okay, this is free for the taking. We're gonna take it 40:19.280 --> 40:23.680 and we're gonna use it. The moment the round goes sideways to a C4 and the fire and the 40:23.680 --> 40:27.680 kill speed from both teams, it's not the installing saying, okay, what are you now? 40:27.680 --> 40:34.320 Um, let's think, let's don't know. They say, guys, we're gonna have to push for a kill or two. 40:34.320 --> 40:39.520 We cannot go for a C4 plant. It's a two-year-old and they're covering. So they go in, push in top red 40:39.520 --> 40:44.480 from then, Neko push the Cattle Grafters, and the moment they get the injured, you saw that they 40:44.480 --> 40:49.200 made a very conscious decision, because they go from being the aggressive players pushing 40:49.200 --> 40:54.320 for the kill to sprinting backwards and going for a peaceful plant, because they know that 40:54.320 --> 40:59.480 two things can happen. The first one is that Rebels don't go for the revive, now it's 40:59.480 --> 41:03.960 a 1v2 in Vertice's favor. One guy plant and one guy cover it on rappel, they should win 41:03.960 --> 41:08.040 it every single time. And if Rebels do go for the revive, then it's free plant into 41:08.040 --> 41:13.200 a 2v2 which once again, Vertice Pro should always be winning. So, in specific terms, 41:13.200 --> 41:18.560 a win-win scenario for themselves and a lose-lose for Rebels. It's really well done because it 41:18.560 --> 41:20.720 goes so quickly and so effortlessly. 41:26.800 --> 41:29.680 If you're saying I'm impressed with Rebels, it takes a lot of 41:29.680 --> 41:32.720 Gahonas to go for that kind of a defense. 41:32.720 --> 41:37.520 Scash is a pretty technical side, to be honest, you know, it's funny it's still kind of the primary 41:37.520 --> 41:39.520 I throw a lot of things 41:42.120 --> 41:46.640 Very hard to hold on to rafters with the slew of you till you make your capitao your mom's aim 41:47.160 --> 41:50.600 Ace Hibana makes it really hard to get it on that spot 41:50.600 --> 41:53.460 And so a lot of teams trying to do that and then eventually die 41:54.640 --> 41:58.560 Changing the strap look it was a risky play it almost worked out 41:58.560 --> 42:03.960 But again, I feel like that was VP maybe not giving enough respect to some potential vertical pressure with that C4 42:03.960 --> 42:05.960 But 42:05.960 --> 42:12.960 Anyway, yeah, I mean they didn't have Factor with 4 EMPs or 3 EMPs, no they didn't have 4 EMPs in the pocket 42:12.960 --> 42:19.960 But he was on the bridge rappel covering, so in the perfect world maybe Factor, Aston covering with a gun but as a gacha for the support toss 42:19.960 --> 42:24.960 But then there's some new things I did that I think it was clear, I mean so they didn't have any, so many possibilities 42:24.960 --> 42:26.960 But I think both teams did a pretty good job 42:26.960 --> 42:31.960 Rebels could also play around the mirror and trooper out to get the width they could pay for more tricking off the walls 42:31.960 --> 42:33.960 They didn't, now they could bring out the mirror 42:33.960 --> 42:39.960 He's been up from spawn almost, Neko, and this thing is distracting because he's not pushing, he's not on threat of dying, 42:39.960 --> 42:44.960 he's to enable down on the glass and he can play elsewhere on the map, but he gets from down by a limbsch. 42:45.960 --> 42:51.960 Asher though able to find the one. He gets very active on the top of main stairs, it's likely to find the second one, 42:51.960 --> 42:54.960 but not a lot of ammunition in that then dead of the revolver. 42:54.960 --> 42:58.960 He has six shots, or he has to reload. Good catch though, by Neko. 42:58.960 --> 43:04.960 Mako, Markso goes down, Feno is completely exposed in his position and now they know 43:04.960 --> 43:10.360 exactly where Linko is as well. Nice shot though, makes it a 1v1 with Pashik on the 43:10.360 --> 43:15.360 floor. Revive now by Rorik. The two Russians will try and hold for line but Linko's got 43:15.360 --> 43:19.760 some information here doesn't he? Yellowpings come out. I don't know what camera that is, 43:19.760 --> 43:24.160 it must be a Valkap. Somewhere at the top of Main Stairs that PP haven't found, doesn't 43:24.160 --> 43:27.840 matter though because they'll find the kill and put the round to bed regardless. 43:27.840 --> 43:35.160 It is so crazy watching this round and I'm seeing Virtus Pro, the jersey, the team name 43:35.160 --> 43:38.680 because the playstyle, it is a night and day difference. 43:38.680 --> 43:42.520 Again, there is so much pressure in very small details. 43:42.520 --> 43:46.960 Again, the ying is flashing the entire bomb site from spawn and it's a big difference between 43:46.960 --> 43:51.960 doing it from downstack all the way in spawn that's very safe and being on that massive 43:51.960 --> 43:56.680 bedroom balcony because you're seeing a defender there swing on a CC window, you can get shot 43:56.680 --> 44:02.440 a pre-fight, you're exposed, you're doing something very high in value with essentially zero risk. 44:02.440 --> 44:06.600 And it's not because you're going to make a play, it's setting it up for someone else. 44:06.600 --> 44:12.760 Yes, you have your intro glass go in, then he dies immediately, but the entire team is behind 44:12.760 --> 44:17.960 them. Nobody's making a solo play, nobody's doing something random. Team Bravles, I mean, again, 44:17.960 --> 44:21.960 I gotta praise them. They're fighting back really well. Every single round has been super, super 44:21.960 --> 44:27.920 close you know 2v1s 2v2s and it wasn't because clockhouse is so hard to defend 44:27.920 --> 44:30.680 this could very easily been a very different start from the storyline 44:30.680 --> 44:34.200 because rebels are making the most out of everything around last make who was 44:34.200 --> 44:39.640 getting like every shot by the way he's nasty I give a lot of credit to rebels 44:39.640 --> 44:44.280 they are doing a really good job but VP like you said it's a nine-day difference 44:44.280 --> 44:51.600 to the old furthest pro they are playing with a lot of intelligence and 44:51.600 --> 44:59.980 A lot of methodical plans, they've got a good idea with a lot of it, but they're also just knowing how to get around these 45:00.740 --> 45:03.980 Unideal situations even when things look a little bit rough 45:04.580 --> 45:08.140 Even when rebels go crazy and the Neko's getting a couple kills 45:08.700 --> 45:12.140 Somewhat, you know, Linko that last round, I think it was from now 45:12.860 --> 45:20.020 the CTTV like, the VP are very good at dealing with when Plan A goes wrong, which is the biggest problem that old VP had 45:20.020 --> 45:27.460 Yeah, it's a good old 21 step to perfect siege. Oh, we lost the guy. I guess now we 45:27.940 --> 45:29.440 stole 45:29.440 --> 45:31.440 And then you start struggling 45:31.440 --> 45:33.540 So now there are a lot of 45:33.540 --> 45:39.100 Just be very different for Dan and Pasha because obviously those are the two remaining players like what a what a crazy 45:39.420 --> 45:46.520 Change for them going from that old playstyle. It was Shepard and the OG Empire boys that classic 45:46.520 --> 45:55.020 If the chronicle slows destruction, we have a plan A, we don't need a plan B, because that plan A is so good, and we can't play seeds like that anymore, if we keep on the seeds. 45:55.020 --> 45:57.020 No contrast it would be for those players. 45:58.020 --> 46:08.020 We like how Dennis used to test his Nethatum in these rounds. He's used to me at almost like an IQ, looking for potential C4s that are pre-placed, and the bar chemist up and alive, because that is what we do with action now. 46:08.020 --> 46:12.020 You can just scan it around and see what is actually in the area. 46:12.020 --> 46:15.940 Now, there is no doubt keeping both the sound, for example, but let's see if there was. 46:15.940 --> 46:19.740 You can quite literally use it as a mini IQ and even disable things. 46:19.740 --> 46:21.540 It gets 16 keys, by the way. 46:21.540 --> 46:23.220 All six of spirit pocket. 46:24.100 --> 46:25.420 It's great value. 46:25.420 --> 46:26.700 And I mean, again, I always say this. 46:26.700 --> 46:28.940 When you play clubhouse based on the attack and go for room here, 46:28.940 --> 46:32.300 if you can get full map control, which actually they miss chip block, 46:32.300 --> 46:34.460 but they don't know what, that they think it's clear, 46:34.460 --> 46:35.940 because it's in the back to it, 46:35.940 --> 46:39.220 I think, oh, there's already a gnaw actually with two drones, now they know. 46:39.220 --> 46:41.900 But 1 minute 30, you actually ride on the curve, 46:41.900 --> 46:44.100 if they're slightly ahead of where he's supposed to be. 46:44.100 --> 46:47.380 But now they split playing Strip, they can upholstern the Blitz super quickly 46:47.380 --> 46:50.300 and deal with Fenno as, you know, within the next 10 seconds or so. 46:51.220 --> 46:53.140 Impact as well, that's the last one that Fenno has. 46:53.140 --> 46:55.660 He's just gonna try to delay it at the right time as possible. 46:55.660 --> 46:56.500 This is really smart. 46:56.500 --> 46:59.740 Yes, he's back into a corner, but it doesn't matter. 46:59.740 --> 47:02.140 All that matters is delaying as much time as possible. 47:02.140 --> 47:04.980 He eventually tries to retreat, Rorick will take him down. 47:04.980 --> 47:08.460 Yes, well played by VP, but I wouldn't be that upset if I'm Fenno. 47:08.460 --> 47:10.780 Waste as much time as humanly possible. 47:10.780 --> 47:15.020 I mean, you could argue that you run out to the door and it's going to spawn, and yes, you're as good as dead, 47:15.020 --> 47:17.680 but you are stalling one player out for a bit longer, right? 47:17.680 --> 47:20.940 Because somebody has to answer to you, you're just fighting them for 20 seconds now. 47:20.940 --> 47:23.540 They have dropped on top speed on the main staircase. 47:23.540 --> 47:27.100 Early usage, but again, we're stalling that push that's about to come, 47:27.100 --> 47:29.060 can get us being driven to respawn as well. 47:29.060 --> 47:32.260 This means when it's free, then they go right now, or they won't have those in the net. 47:33.900 --> 47:36.340 Yeah, but the gas is keeping them at bay. 47:36.340 --> 47:38.900 Jager wants to make his way forward! Great usage! 47:38.900 --> 47:44.660 The shot comes from Pasha with the ying and the Blitz goes in as well, Mako takes down a lens and looks to get a defuser planted. 47:44.660 --> 47:52.900 Asa is the last one and he will fall. It's a fiery close to the round from Ferdinand Pro as they go up three to one. 47:53.620 --> 47:59.140 I mean, it's ridiculous and women to touch upon it, but I believe the third operator band there was going to be the Kaid, 47:59.140 --> 48:05.460 so Kaid and Bandit are both removed. This further enables the playstyle from VP to keep up the aggression. 48:05.460 --> 48:11.060 And despite banning both of the Electro bros that are denying the hatches and the walls, they still bring the Thatcher! 48:11.060 --> 48:13.560 But the Thatcher, it stops everything. Think about it, right? 48:13.560 --> 48:16.760 They play Milusie on the door for a Bomb Set Rush, we're disabling it. 48:16.760 --> 48:19.660 They're playing Dark Reak Camps, we can find them, we can disable them. 48:19.660 --> 48:21.560 Preplay C4, we can EMP it. 48:21.560 --> 48:31.460 No matter what kind of stop they have for these pushes, the Thatcher can quite literally stop every single item, besides the Goyo slash the Shankar Fire, or maybe Toxin babes that are tossed out quickly. 48:31.460 --> 48:32.160 It stops the rest. 48:32.160 --> 48:37.160 Even in that round there was an Ella and obviously you don't want to be dropping down the hatch into an Ella mine 48:37.160 --> 48:43.840 Especially if you're the shield right plastic thing as you drop that kitchen hatch with the shield so that you're protected while you drop 48:43.840 --> 48:48.800 And then you look to try and get the plant down the Ella mine could disrupt that the fact you can't as the Ella 48:49.000 --> 48:55.260 Another one which people often forget about is the water the water is obviously one of the only ways they can you can see through 48:55.260 --> 48:58.720 Smokes on the defensive side. We've seen a lot of glass. There's been a lot of smoke played 48:58.720 --> 49:03.080 There's been a lot of ying you could just rub the warden's glasses with the thatcher as well 49:03.080 --> 49:09.040 Now you only see him on the thatcher's kind of visor device when he's actually got the glasses active 49:09.040 --> 49:13.780 But if you know where he is you can be impede him through the wall regardless and even if he's not using them at the time 49:13.820 --> 49:16.380 He'll still get impede it won't be able to use them. I 49:17.900 --> 49:19.900 Love a bit of innovation here 49:21.140 --> 49:24.260 And it's gotta feel fun like you raised the question earlier 49:24.260 --> 49:27.380 How would it feel for passion down to change the place of the strategy? 49:27.380 --> 49:33.340 But it's gotta be fun to relearn a game even playing the same way or most of the same way for such a long time 49:33.700 --> 49:37.900 To get a new kind of appreciation for the creativity in the the possibilities 49:38.420 --> 49:42.460 Maybe get dark as a coach who came from a pack whose who's he seems some shit, right? 49:42.460 --> 49:44.460 Like he seems talking 49:46.620 --> 49:52.060 Yeah, I mean dark when he was with fear X his main rival was CIG and 49:54.260 --> 49:56.260 I've been plenty by playing against those teams. 49:56.260 --> 49:58.260 These own stuff here was RIN. 49:58.260 --> 50:00.260 RIN is the big question mark of Doom 50:00.260 --> 50:02.260 because either you send, like, four kills in a round 50:02.260 --> 50:04.260 or die in the first four seconds. 50:04.260 --> 50:06.260 There's no betweeber player. 50:06.260 --> 50:08.260 So I really feel like Dark has been 50:08.260 --> 50:10.260 the perfect coach for this roster, 50:10.260 --> 50:12.260 given how they've initialized the game. 50:15.260 --> 50:17.260 Yeah, such an exciting team. 50:17.260 --> 50:19.260 Definitely one of the most exciting rosters in the EU at the moment. 50:19.260 --> 50:21.260 Arvort is pro. That's saying a lot, 50:21.260 --> 50:23.260 because we've got Stompin' and Shaka on the same team. 50:23.260 --> 50:28.780 And we've got jude moving over the falcons VP the fact that they have a case with the big dogs 50:28.780 --> 50:34.140 The fact that they've been such an exciting prospect to watch then it just it's a great time to be a 50:34.300 --> 50:36.380 Virtus Pro fan three rounds on a road 50:36.380 --> 50:39.840 Can you as their attacks continue to look so deadly? 50:40.020 --> 50:43.420 Mind you they've actually picked the non EMPable pounder the fastness 50:43.780 --> 50:49.160 EPs have no interaction with this is the gacha so these windows will stop you from jumping on it 50:49.160 --> 50:51.960 Gory of fire popper. Oh my god a Nash jar again. 50:51.960 --> 50:54.760 They're starting from Skies and they're facing him at opening. 50:54.760 --> 50:58.120 That binds you like 15-20 seconds before you gotta go for this bombsite. 50:58.120 --> 51:00.360 Actually good because guys, we have to miss Vantage. 51:00.360 --> 51:03.240 We don't gotta throw our bodies into the grinder but Linko finds a pick. 51:03.240 --> 51:05.720 But again, a trait immediately from Ben. 51:05.720 --> 51:07.160 They're always fighting 2v1. 51:08.760 --> 51:11.400 And you can see now Rebels feel like they need to get aggressive. 51:11.400 --> 51:11.800 And they do. 51:11.800 --> 51:13.720 Got it to Linko. He made a big play. 51:13.720 --> 51:14.840 He was roaming in the base map. 51:14.840 --> 51:18.440 He came up oil pit and that was where he eventually found his kill and was traded back. 51:18.440 --> 51:26.540 But yeah, I mean, you're right. There is a necessity here for rebels to get active Feno and Mato together tried to get aggressive in office before now Feno 51:27.140 --> 51:33.820 almost takes down Rorick, but doesn't fully get that kill. Low HP of Rorick, then we have the Skies, but a good shot from Skies 51:34.060 --> 51:39.980 And the round is almost done. A Lems in a 1v3 quickly makes it a 1v2. This could be massive 51:39.980 --> 51:46.020 It was a 1v4 originally. Rorick is low HP. He gets him on the floor. Skies forced off 51:46.020 --> 51:51.700 but another big kill for the Frenchman as he puts the round in the ground and 51:52.100 --> 51:54.620 Finds a fourth in a row for third is pro 51:55.340 --> 52:00.740 Again team rebels are fighting back and making so many good decisions that I think in that particular round 52:00.740 --> 52:05.180 It comes down to a gunfight where you just miss one bullet, right? 52:05.180 --> 52:10.540 When you watch me that you goose a breach if you check on the thermite then the demos in the window you get two free picks 52:10.540 --> 52:13.180 It's completely free, but you miss the first shot 52:13.180 --> 52:19.420 He dies at the second player and then the round is kind of cooked it literally comes down to those 50 50 gunfights 52:20.020 --> 52:22.180 But I will say this is in Virtus Pro 52:22.180 --> 52:25.780 They always make a play together they two you on the flanker, right? 52:25.780 --> 52:29.900 The solace gets taken out of the equation and then we see Tim Rebels kind of responds guys 52:29.900 --> 52:32.320 We had to get proactive they double swing office 52:32.820 --> 52:38.100 Apaches outside the building holding the tiniest pixel known to man with an ACOG and the moment he gets 52:38.100 --> 52:43.060 met with two enemies, he backs away. He presses S and D in his keyboard and he 52:43.060 --> 52:48.620 surrenders the angle, because he says it's not worth me dying at the chance of 52:48.620 --> 52:52.740 me getting a kill. We already have a very strong position, it's not worth the risk 52:52.740 --> 52:55.460 versus reward. 52:55.460 --> 52:57.460 They went back to their... 52:58.460 --> 52:59.460 Quick! 53:00.460 --> 53:02.460 Great rounds of Skies there from the windows. 53:02.460 --> 53:05.460 The fact that he's down to three kills at the end of it. 53:06.460 --> 53:08.460 Big moments for Skies. 53:08.460 --> 53:12.460 And of course to clutch the 1v1 against his old captain in a Lens. 53:12.460 --> 53:16.460 You can see the energy, you can see what it means to these VP guys. 53:16.460 --> 53:19.460 A lot of excitement in the team. 53:19.460 --> 53:20.460 Such a new roster. 53:20.460 --> 53:24.460 It's funny, I was thinking about this matchup before we started today, Pengo. 53:24.460 --> 53:33.460 It's a tier 1 team, consistent tier 1 team in Virtus.Pro that did information, versus a tier 2 team that's just got promoted into tier 1 in Rebels. 53:33.460 --> 53:46.460 And I thought more about it, and I thought, well actually, Virtus.Pro are a newer team than Rebels, and yes, they retained their tier 1 spell, but you can't deny that like, oh, they've got a tier 2 player in Rorick coming in through. 53:46.460 --> 53:52.140 this is his debut into tier one like on paper if you didn't know anything about how good 53:52.140 --> 53:57.940 Virtus.Pro would be based on the coaching staff and the Calibri's players then honestly 53:57.940 --> 54:02.940 I feel like this could be a fairly even matchup. Once you take into account how much of a glove 54:02.940 --> 54:07.900 this is for Virtus.Pro, how much gas it brings to the roster, how much Roarick is such a 54:07.900 --> 54:14.340 rising star and of course Neko and Sky's founding their new home here on VP it's just it's 54:14.340 --> 54:20.340 match-fighting effort. He goes, Warwick being interviewed last week after victory and he was 54:20.340 --> 54:24.660 asked like, how does it feel to be in tier one? And he goes, ah, I played tier two for so many years. 54:24.660 --> 54:29.380 It's like literally the same thing, but like fighting other enemies. He's like, okay, I mean, 54:29.380 --> 54:33.300 you're not wrong, but usually people have a little emotional response to it, right? But for 54:33.300 --> 54:37.300 humans, it's very much like, I know how people are playing the game. I know how I play the game. 54:37.300 --> 54:41.300 It's just a slightly more elevated level. That's literally it for him. It was so simple 54:41.300 --> 54:45.220 in these times, how it's going to pose these matchups. Despite, like you said, going against 54:45.220 --> 54:50.660 some star players, some star teams, some big names, didn't care too much about it. But I think 54:50.660 --> 54:55.300 having a ton of, yeah, and that experience of me, which is a something, having all that experience 54:55.300 --> 55:01.060 in 1v1 tournaments, he's like the least shaky player in a clutch. He's been in so many more 1v1s 55:01.060 --> 55:05.460 and so many pro players, obviously there's two levels, but still in that console or not, but the 55:05.460 --> 55:10.020 experience, it teaches you what to do in the moment when it gets real, because instincts take over, 55:10.020 --> 55:12.020 rather than emotions. 55:16.660 --> 55:21.220 We go back to this top floor, Cache CCTV defense. Thank you and uh, 55:22.260 --> 55:29.220 not the, not the best bombsite as we've established already and very much a different interpretation of defense. Now from Rebels, 55:29.220 --> 55:34.260 they are extending into Rafters, which does put a lot of pressure on VP to get this right. And the Capitals 55:34.260 --> 55:39.240 primary instrument to achieve that where it would have been if Feno had not just 55:39.240 --> 55:42.680 killed him but yeah wow the fact that he managed to get that fire off and 55:42.680 --> 55:46.560 essentially trade himself back Dan being the one that finds the killing blows 55:46.560 --> 55:51.420 but we cannot discredit Neko in landing that firebolt is what guaranteed Feno 55:51.420 --> 55:55.320 would die. Rebels again they don't give more wall breeze now no mirror windows 55:55.320 --> 55:58.820 they don't play any ADSes or Midas for the Carol grafters it feels like they're 55:58.820 --> 56:02.700 not really fully committed to one thing it's kind of playing around the map but 56:02.700 --> 56:08.060 How do you play bar? How do you flank main door into blue that's almost impossible doesn't met main door from the outside 56:08.060 --> 56:12.780 It has been opened up every single time by VP. There's a gap here. No, it's a bait 56:12.780 --> 56:16.200 There's no gas at all. I'm just watching it and yet they shut down the flanker 56:16.200 --> 56:18.460 Now they know one more play beneath almost at this week 56:21.380 --> 56:23.380 I shot from a lens down below 56:25.220 --> 56:30.080 Doesn't have a C4 but of course beat the smallest is the perfect opportunity to call the plant and then deny it 56:30.080 --> 56:34.180 But I feel like VP have enough bodies to prevent that from happening. 56:34.180 --> 56:40.380 Rebels are together looking to try and peel back and look to play a retake play plan that I could cover from Dan. 56:40.380 --> 56:44.880 He's had a big round on the Kali, and the SMG is great to help out. 56:44.880 --> 56:49.980 But Lemz has a feeling that there's a player down below, he sees that Claymore, he can't go for a full jump out. 56:49.980 --> 56:54.980 He could try and vault and shoot it, but that's very risky when Rorik is there and waiting. 56:54.980 --> 57:02.740 Now it's just Astor, no gas, no Util to speak of, Pasha to find it, and my god, what a half from Virtus.pro. 57:02.740 --> 57:11.700 They are back with their vengeance, and they're making Rebels look like they pale in comparison to the greatness of this new team. 57:11.700 --> 57:17.220 I mean, it's again exceptional. The only small error there is, guys, fights the Limchants that are bobbing. 57:17.220 --> 57:19.700 You can play a little bit further back and lock down the flank beneath. 57:19.700 --> 57:24.980 When they lose that downstair's control, they have to rotate a second player that went blue window and held it. 57:24.980 --> 57:30.900 The desk wouldn't let me talk earlier, but I'll still give them the chance now to talk about what happened in these previous rounds. 57:30.900 --> 57:35.620 As you should be doing Nick, thank you so much for the explanation on that final round there, 57:35.620 --> 57:41.140 but we haven't been able to see a 5-1 half so far on the attack on Globhaus from Frodo's throw. 57:41.140 --> 57:42.660 They're showing us all kinds of innovation. 57:42.660 --> 57:45.620 Yeah, the variety is really what attracts to our eyes. 57:45.620 --> 57:49.860 I think the first and foremost like the one playstyle that we did not expect what is that is new 57:49.860 --> 57:53.900 It's the fast-paced playstyle right there bringing of ying of blitz of demos 57:53.900 --> 58:00.120 I think round four is a perfect example of that the fact that they managed to find a solis go and fight her they combo of the 58:00.300 --> 58:06.260 The demos the blitz someone to trade it ying gets aggressive and flashes everywhere in blue as you can see at the same time 58:06.260 --> 58:12.380 The blitz is pushing you church killing the church player. It's beautiful. It's explosive. It's coordinated Jack 58:12.380 --> 58:17.600 It's great and then whenever they river to default like around six they can still make it work. They've got it all 58:17.600 --> 58:20.220 This this isn't a happy accident. This isn't so indefinite 58:20.220 --> 58:24.220 This is deliberate from birth pro in terms of that style the people they brought in 58:24.220 --> 58:29.280 I just I kind of emphasize how much this team has improved in terms of their chances that they've made 58:29.280 --> 58:34.780 I think everyone when they saw it maybe raised a little bit of an eyebrow for that shown is it and five one attack half 58:34.780 --> 58:40.120 Uncle boss who a week's question. They're going to defense. I mean at this point like it's almost in the bag for the first time 58:40.120 --> 58:45.440 Yeah, it's difficult for girls, right? Because they have the second half still to go and they've already taken that technical time out as well 58:45.440 --> 58:49.160 One round before the half-small. I was that was questionable Jack 58:49.160 --> 58:50.560 It is always a questionable one 58:50.560 --> 58:56.240 But the fact of the matter is they do get this timeout that we're in now to then completely reset and then focus on their attack 58:56.240 --> 58:59.560 So maybe their coach thought that it was absolutely crucial. They got the round of the line 58:59.560 --> 59:00.880 They didn't in the end 59:00.880 --> 59:07.560 But I can see why because I think timeouts mass slightly less now that we have this this mandatory one in the middle of the game 59:07.560 --> 59:10.960 What do we want to see from Rebels into the second half going into that one? 59:10.960 --> 59:16.460 I need a spark of reaction so the main thing is they could not react very well to either the fast-paced, either the default. 59:16.460 --> 59:21.160 I know some of the players, Feno, especially Elend, were fighting back trying to get a little bit aggressive. 59:21.160 --> 59:24.160 Yeah, I need to see a spark of surprise on their own. 59:24.160 --> 59:26.960 I'm not sure I like the default bands right now. 59:26.960 --> 59:32.360 You see that, Jack? If they ban the bandits again, they're just going to be removing the world denial and that's just plain and simple. 59:32.360 --> 59:33.760 What everyone expects, yeah. 59:33.760 --> 59:36.160 Yeah, I think that's the big thing. They get rid of the band, okay? 59:36.160 --> 59:39.280 they've removed the wall denial. In theory, all the breaches are now really, really easy. 59:39.280 --> 59:42.240 They're going to have a problem in the light rounds. You know, these armies that clash 59:42.240 --> 59:46.160 is me raise up the mirrors that you started to see the castle as well. It's going to be difficult 59:46.160 --> 59:49.840 in the light round for them. We'll definitely be. We'll have a look at how the second half goes when it 59:49.840 --> 59:56.080 continues. I would love to see more commitment from the side of Team Rebels because the death 59:56.080 --> 01:00:01.040 spoke out of this perfectly. It's about how some players are getting provided a server and sometimes 01:00:01.040 --> 01:00:05.200 some people were making plays. I want to see them full commit. If you're going to play on 01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:09.400 For example, a wall denies strategy. You play the 2-brow and the kaiid and the mirror. 01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:12.560 Don't just play one of those three. If you're not playing that aggressive roam game, 01:00:12.560 --> 01:00:18.340 I want to see everybody getting on that roam game. When you're in the attack and side, you need to pick enough utility 01:00:18.340 --> 01:00:24.720 to full commit to the original plan at hand. So if I let me say, guys, on this base and roam clear, 01:00:24.720 --> 01:00:30.560 we're gonna go for a fast blue dirt rush. I want to see people rushing dirt and blow, 01:00:30.560 --> 01:00:34.520 and nobody lingering us at the map, drawing through something else that I supposed to be doing. 01:00:34.520 --> 01:00:39.920 So kick utility and then utilize it right because that's how you're gonna be by these attacks 01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:45.720 It's that it's super fast like we're just brought it was not about how much you have to give it's about how fast we can go 01:00:49.160 --> 01:00:53.640 Switching sides puts a lot of pressure on the in-game leadership here for apples no task 01:00:53.640 --> 01:01:00.720 Yeah, I mean VP you first round attacking a VP defense and they've got castle mute as army 01:01:00.720 --> 01:01:05.780 really creating a fortress on the Rome game and a fortress on the bomb site but 01:01:05.780 --> 01:01:10.780 here's something nice. Brand new fellow Snake comes into action and put info he 01:01:10.780 --> 01:01:16.020 gains as well onto that Roma on the top floor it's Rorik on the LL and he's got 01:01:16.020 --> 01:01:21.780 two Grishmore mines in pocket now thank you Snake you can see again that Rorik 01:01:21.780 --> 01:01:27.180 is retreated now the shield of Montier Marzo has spotted Pasha as well on his 01:01:27.180 --> 01:01:31.460 run he's gonna try and fall back but no in fact Rorick has come to support bring 01:01:31.460 --> 01:01:36.660 those Grishmore mines to play around that Montaig 01:01:36.660 --> 01:01:40.780 walk right in there I'm using my top floor those maybe those things won't get 01:01:40.780 --> 01:01:43.540 the full picture but look at this man just walks at him come behind him 01:01:43.540 --> 01:01:48.980 so we can get on here again where is the WP order in connector is not only one 01:01:48.980 --> 01:01:53.220 you can win both of those and almost all things the third this is for this pro not 01:01:53.220 --> 01:01:58.660 can close enough together. Yeah, they're trying to have a lot of confidence on their individual ones, 01:01:58.660 --> 01:02:02.900 but you're right. They're now getting two behind everywhere. It's pretty much impossible to win a 01:02:02.900 --> 01:02:06.420 gunfight against someone who's playing behind a montane because they have the advantage 01:02:07.140 --> 01:02:12.660 in every possible way. Close to the catch here. Neko does not have enough bullets to repeat that, 01:02:12.660 --> 01:02:18.740 and Feno will take him down. It's now 5v2. It's Dan and Skye's back on the bombsite. Need to decide 01:02:18.740 --> 01:02:23.300 Do they play aggressively now? Do they try and re-prize this run? 01:02:23.300 --> 01:02:25.740 Or do they sit back on site and just wait to be picked? 01:02:25.940 --> 01:02:29.400 That's the issue, right? You stay on the bottom side, you have the Monty's Solisnake 01:02:29.500 --> 01:02:33.220 Capitao and every hatch working over by the Hibana. That's fucking up all will. 01:02:33.220 --> 01:02:33.720 Wow. 01:02:33.720 --> 01:02:39.160 But if you go on the offense and push up the staircase, you're also looking into a Monty and a Solisnake that has the gadget available. 01:02:39.160 --> 01:02:42.460 It's so like, you don't really have a way to win on paper. 01:02:42.660 --> 01:02:44.660 So now you gotta go off that paper, 01:02:44.660 --> 01:02:47.540 Wing a hatch, wing a gunfight, look for a kill. 01:02:47.540 --> 01:02:50.380 Just capitalize on small mistakes from your enemy. 01:02:50.380 --> 01:02:52.620 But when you're up against five attackers 01:02:52.620 --> 01:02:54.380 with just the two defenders, 01:02:54.380 --> 01:02:56.380 they should be in a past around to win. 01:02:58.380 --> 01:03:00.740 Yeah, there's no way you're still to deal with this Monty. 01:03:00.740 --> 01:03:02.900 One gas babe is not going to be enough. 01:03:03.900 --> 01:03:07.580 Damn, you're P&M and that's all he's got to work with. 01:03:07.580 --> 01:03:09.900 Now, it does back up a serious punch these days, 01:03:09.900 --> 01:03:12.620 but there's a lot more damage from a weapon 01:03:12.620 --> 01:03:14.260 to win in the 2v5. 01:03:14.660 --> 01:03:21.660 This guy has continued to just poke and look for a chance, but the way to play this here for Rebels is just to form up behind this Monty. 01:03:21.660 --> 01:03:26.660 Trust Marto to give you all the information you possibly need and threaten these defenders. 01:03:26.660 --> 01:03:31.660 Force guys and down back. It does work for the first one. Now, Sky is the last one left. 01:03:31.660 --> 01:03:37.660 I'm sticking down. He's found a second kill. Marto needs to force the plant down as things look a little bit sketchy for Rebels, 01:03:37.660 --> 01:03:42.540 But, Venno tucked away in the corner of the solid snake, will find the final kill, and 01:03:42.540 --> 01:03:44.700 finally, break the streak. 01:03:44.700 --> 01:03:48.060 Five rounds on a row for VP, Rebels finally get one back. 01:03:48.060 --> 01:03:51.860 Definitely was holding my breath there at the end, a little bit too close for comfort, 01:03:51.860 --> 01:03:53.260 but they had it under control, right? 01:03:53.260 --> 01:03:57.260 The Monty was planting in a safe position behind Black Box, they had people in various 01:03:57.260 --> 01:03:59.700 positions and they did the right thing. 01:03:59.700 --> 01:04:03.420 Monty walked in, got the intro on one player, then they pushed in three different angles, 01:04:03.420 --> 01:04:04.740 they're gonna get that kill regardless. 01:04:04.740 --> 01:04:08.360 And yes, they did lose two members in their process, but that's all they needed. 01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:10.840 Because if they didn't want to defend the left and the other end of the bomb site, they 01:04:10.840 --> 01:04:11.840 can't deny the planter. 01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:15.480 But this opening right here, there were three people there. 01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:19.300 Rorik was in construction, right on the office road today, didn't have his teammate. 01:04:19.300 --> 01:04:22.440 And then it was, I mean his naked was playing like a master bedroom kind of area, but the 01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:24.600 office road was too cold. 01:04:24.600 --> 01:04:25.600 Also ran away. 01:04:25.600 --> 01:04:31.160 So I felt like maybe they were just gonna surrender, pass chance to hit your own body, 01:04:31.160 --> 01:04:33.040 do what you can. 01:04:33.040 --> 01:04:37.280 But then Rorik walks back in after he dies and then tries to help it fit after the fact 01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:38.880 and that's the mistake in my mind. 01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.400 Either you're sacrificing Pasha or you're helping Pasha. 01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:46.640 The sacrificing then tries to help, now you're both gonna fight the Monty and the gun behind 01:04:46.640 --> 01:04:47.640 him. 01:04:47.640 --> 01:04:48.640 Yeah. 01:04:48.640 --> 01:04:54.000 Obviously, you tool aside, that is the number one most effective counter to a Monty or any 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:55.000 shield for that matter. 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:56.000 It's a crossfire. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:57.000 Yeah. 01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:58.320 And you don't need anything in your pocket to get that. 01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:01.560 That doesn't matter about your element, that doesn't matter about your impact grenades. 01:05:01.560 --> 01:05:06.560 There is a crossfire from the Rotator to the top of Red Stairs, into Connector, into Construction. 01:05:06.560 --> 01:05:13.560 And that was just not watched for a brief moment while VP had some indecision about how they were going to roam there. 01:05:13.560 --> 01:05:20.560 And so, it was looking a little bit rough in that first round, but of course, they just swapped one side, swapped Pace a little bit. 01:05:20.560 --> 01:05:26.560 They have a massive leap here, I think. It would be incredible for Rebel to make it. 01:05:26.560 --> 01:05:28.560 What is that? That's aggression. 01:05:28.560 --> 01:05:32.840 You just shoot, you got those, yeah, so what's the Selva? 01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:38.200 When the wall opens up, you're gonna hop the wall and shoot down, there's a bit of soft debris on the outside layer, 01:05:38.200 --> 01:05:41.240 and if you shoot that you can destroy the Selma itself actually. 01:05:41.240 --> 01:05:47.480 It's kinda tricky because, you know, if you're watching it, or rappelling or whatever, you're gonna die most likely. 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:53.240 And upon the Selma detonation, there's a lot of smoke in the air, that's what it's called. 01:05:53.240 --> 01:05:56.160 Neither player could see the other enemy for a good while there. 01:05:56.160 --> 01:05:59.160 It's not much as a lot. 01:06:00.160 --> 01:06:08.160 They're expensive setup. I mean they just spent 3 Salmas and some Candlebunners. 01:06:08.160 --> 01:06:11.160 And they got the first step done. What are they up against? 01:06:11.160 --> 01:06:15.160 It's not a bomb site, it's the room because it's a Shuntive, right? 01:06:15.160 --> 01:06:20.160 But they got Maestro Evilized. They got some 2 Brows spent earlier to buy this timer. 01:06:20.160 --> 01:06:23.160 They've also been spent in the walls. So what you see is what you have here. 01:06:23.160 --> 01:06:26.360 what you have there are no supports there's no one supporting and the only 01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:31.200 real tank denial is gonna be no ice throw so that's a very kind of even round 01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:34.480 if you will there's no way to cheat on the offensive against like a leg up 01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:38.080 where's Pasha losing sacrifice against her bit I think completely zone some 01:06:38.080 --> 01:06:41.720 I should make Neko still the door 01:06:41.720 --> 01:06:45.760 good flash onto Pasha is he gonna try and pick up in front of the shield he is 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:49.920 Pasha is committing some shenanigans today and it's not working out for VP 01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:56.920 Also from the window is able to find Neko before he's able to retreat so VP two players down 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:02.600 The solid snake is such an incredible operator especially to convert his advantage to put that in the montain 01:07:03.520 --> 01:07:07.080 One of these operators is gonna get banned after next round you can guarantee it 01:07:07.080 --> 01:07:12.020 It's just a question of which one VP think that they have a better chance at dealing with the evil eyes 01:07:12.720 --> 01:07:15.320 Fury very powerful, but not when you're in a 1v5 01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.080 And that's where the guys find themselves right now. 01:07:18.080 --> 01:07:21.080 One, two kills, but that's all he is going to find, 01:07:21.080 --> 01:07:24.280 and Rebels will find a second very confident 01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:27.280 and comfortable round on their attacking side. 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:28.880 We're going to build that momentum back. 01:07:28.880 --> 01:07:30.800 The comeback is going to be a long road, 01:07:30.800 --> 01:07:33.880 but a possible one if they continue fighting this hard. 01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:40.640 I'm a little bit confused, and it's actually 01:07:40.640 --> 01:07:43.400 feeling very similar to when Rebels were defending. 01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:45.800 Because I mentioned how then both of them... 01:07:45.800 --> 01:07:49.000 Team Rebels, there's five people, please, on TV. 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:52.600 The person who's up here is watching the flank downstairs, there's a Lems. 01:07:52.600 --> 01:07:57.200 All the first of Koshir is in the last big window, cutting off the rotations on the Bumside. 01:07:57.200 --> 01:08:00.800 That's how they catch the player of Ella inside of Konnaker. 01:08:02.600 --> 01:08:05.000 But when I'm looking over at his throw, what's the Maestro for? 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:07.200 All three G-Valors were on the Bumside. 01:08:07.200 --> 01:08:10.200 We never saw the Bumside, it was like a 2B5 at that point. 01:08:10.200 --> 01:08:15.200 So, are you playing Maestro and like a Warden and stopping them from planting? 01:08:15.200 --> 01:08:17.700 Or are you fighting them in CCTD? 01:08:17.700 --> 01:08:22.700 They're kind of doing both at 50% which meant the roam was kind of weak 01:08:22.700 --> 01:08:26.200 and when the roam is kind of leading people to die, the bumps are only weak shortly after 01:08:26.200 --> 01:08:29.700 because you just don't have the manpower to watch them single-angle, right? 01:08:29.700 --> 01:08:33.700 All the sets of things here, Stoikus, Breeze, Two-Windows, Condor, Obvious Rotate, 01:08:33.700 --> 01:08:37.700 is a lot of things to worry about and Maestro has to turn cameras to even use the gadget. 01:08:37.700 --> 01:08:40.420 So, I'm not sure why nothing's Bp. 01:08:41.300 --> 01:08:42.980 There's still Vibe Chicken, I think. 01:08:42.980 --> 01:08:43.940 Talon and Basement. 01:08:43.940 --> 01:08:46.980 They got a more stable Rumble's Castle Barricade. 01:08:46.980 --> 01:08:48.140 They got the new Jammers. 01:08:48.140 --> 01:08:50.820 Again, same tools as the previous one. 01:08:50.820 --> 01:08:51.940 Do have the Denari. 01:08:51.940 --> 01:08:53.540 Mech instead of Ships and Pushing. 01:08:58.380 --> 01:08:59.740 They caught me. 01:08:59.740 --> 01:09:01.380 I feel like Basement's the ultimate test 01:09:01.380 --> 01:09:02.780 of the attack on Clubhouse. 01:09:02.780 --> 01:09:04.620 Yeah, of course, the top fours are hard, 01:09:04.620 --> 01:09:07.620 but Basement is so much more to deal with. 01:09:07.620 --> 01:09:11.660 Rome game, execute, full map, you really see. 01:09:11.660 --> 01:09:13.940 You're only bombsite where you can really use the full map. 01:09:13.940 --> 01:09:15.820 There's not much point to be using the full map 01:09:15.820 --> 01:09:17.220 in some of the other bombsites. 01:09:17.220 --> 01:09:19.460 At the moment, Rome clear is just step one. 01:09:19.460 --> 01:09:21.060 I didn't notice to catch how many of the hatches 01:09:21.060 --> 01:09:22.740 are already pre-opened. 01:09:22.740 --> 01:09:25.860 But in the Rebels defense of the basement, 01:09:25.860 --> 01:09:27.340 they actually opened up a lot of the hatches, 01:09:27.340 --> 01:09:31.180 which meant that even when VP had lost their Hibana, 01:09:31.180 --> 01:09:32.860 it kind of didn't matter util-wise. 01:09:32.860 --> 01:09:36.380 I just noticed that the Moto hatches open here in bar, 01:09:36.380 --> 01:09:38.540 But the kitchen hatch is closed, that's the pivotal thing. 01:09:38.540 --> 01:09:41.860 If Asus stays alive, it doesn't really matter. 01:09:43.860 --> 01:09:49.020 So, I always say the benchmark is one minute and thirty seconds ish for full map control 01:09:49.020 --> 01:09:50.660 and you start it opening things up. 01:09:50.660 --> 01:09:55.460 They're at 140, they have full topper control, they now know that all our first floor is open 01:09:55.460 --> 01:09:56.660 and they've reached the blue hatch. 01:09:56.660 --> 01:10:00.060 So once again, team rappels are a little bit ahead of the curve. 01:10:00.060 --> 01:10:04.100 They got more time to spend at picking apart the second step, the setup. 01:10:04.100 --> 01:10:07.300 The setup means you gotta get all the things they want in control. 01:10:07.300 --> 01:10:08.940 So probably what a kill means is here, 01:10:08.940 --> 01:10:12.340 if you have that full defender, you can make him run away and take the space to free, 01:10:12.340 --> 01:10:14.260 or get the kill and play 5 vs 4. 01:10:14.260 --> 01:10:15.780 That's the perfect ideal scenario. 01:10:15.780 --> 01:10:17.220 Then you reach up and on the hatches, 01:10:17.220 --> 01:10:18.300 you've already done that, 01:10:18.300 --> 01:10:20.940 and then once you get those two things, this last player Borek, 01:10:20.940 --> 01:10:22.540 then you can go for Bones and execute. 01:10:22.540 --> 01:10:23.700 So how about all this? 01:10:23.700 --> 01:10:25.220 He's got the laser, 01:10:25.220 --> 01:10:27.380 and he retouches every 30 seconds. 01:10:28.220 --> 01:10:30.220 Oh wow, now I stop to deploy a different feather. 01:10:30.220 --> 01:10:32.620 There needs to be some kind of feather to treat the effort. 01:10:32.620 --> 01:10:34.880 Rorik, great shot from Rorik! 01:10:35.380 --> 01:10:40.380 He wants to try and take this 1v1 with the Monty as soon as that gadget from the Tenara reactivates as well. 01:10:40.380 --> 01:10:42.720 The Monty will be trapped, yes, and now the gadget... 01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:44.780 No, they're from the pocket! What a play, though, from Winko! 01:10:44.780 --> 01:10:47.620 To drop down the Moto Hatch and look to try and backstab VP. 01:10:47.620 --> 01:10:49.480 It works out for 1, but he gets traded back. 01:10:50.180 --> 01:10:54.520 And while Rorik survives, it does make him fall off the main stairs. 01:10:55.920 --> 01:10:57.320 I have you covered. Stay close. 01:10:57.320 --> 01:10:59.220 Push not over, though. Monty's alive. 01:10:59.220 --> 01:11:03.060 They got a lemmish bottom blue looking to make the play with the information first. 01:11:03.060 --> 01:11:06.420 Rorick again in new prime position, walking down bottom main, 01:11:06.420 --> 01:11:08.740 but now then feels the pressure Vassal walking on in. 01:11:09.460 --> 01:11:13.300 Wow, such a split push here for Rebels, but Skye's finding one. 01:11:13.860 --> 01:11:17.460 Makes it extremely difficult now for Rebels to convert. 01:11:17.460 --> 01:11:21.540 Dropping straight down into the barbed wire, Asa needs to land some big shots. 01:11:21.540 --> 01:11:26.420 Barthia's army's gave a barrier, protects Dan and allows him to play aggressively against this 01:11:26.420 --> 01:11:31.860 This Monty to finally get the kill and you know what also with it why not a match point. 01:11:31.860 --> 01:11:34.060 6-3 is the score line. 01:11:34.060 --> 01:11:37.620 Three opportunities for VP to take clubhouse. 01:11:37.620 --> 01:11:43.140 It's crazy how one small thing will change the entire outcome of the clubhouse round 01:11:43.140 --> 01:11:46.180 and it comes down to again you need to play for execute. 01:11:46.180 --> 01:11:50.900 If you don't clear main stairs in a clean way the round can just turn upside down and 01:11:50.900 --> 01:11:51.900 that's what happened. 01:11:51.900 --> 01:11:59.600 Rorik was playing Main Stairs, somehow got two kills, somehow got back towards the bottom side, and just lived the entire C of that round. 01:11:59.600 --> 01:12:01.700 Which, quote on quote, should never happen. 01:12:01.700 --> 01:12:06.700 And there are pretty much like two big things that could have changed, that could have been done better. 01:12:06.700 --> 01:12:11.700 First of all, when you're playing that Monty, you're un-extending, and you're extending continuously. 01:12:11.700 --> 01:12:14.200 Shield up, shield down, shield up, shield down. 01:12:14.200 --> 01:12:21.200 But any human that has decent level of pattern recognition will notice he never actually ADS the shield. 01:12:21.200 --> 01:12:25.920 He never applied any real pressure. He's just saying, look at me, don't look at me, look at me, don't look at me. 01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:29.520 He never said, I might actually kill you right now, I might as well take the gun fight. 01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:34.720 And, Rorik saw that. He was never worried about Matso and the Muncie at all. He was worried about the gun behind them. 01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:41.600 If Matso says 3, 2, 1, push together right now, Muncie can un-extend ADS with the twitch swinging. 01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:48.800 You will guaranteed get a 1 for 1 trade worst case, or in best case scenario, you get a 1 for 0, you get the free beat. 01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:52.240 When you're playing the Monti Shield Operator, you know that you're very important. 01:12:52.240 --> 01:12:55.120 You got the diffuser, you got a bit of utility in your pocket, 01:12:55.120 --> 01:12:58.640 and you are the primary way to get information and get down at the diffuser. 01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:02.400 However, what's that worth if you never see the bombsite? 01:13:02.400 --> 01:13:03.520 It's worth nothing. 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:06.720 So it's better to hear that Marshal has a bit more receive, 01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:10.320 ADS's Rorik's dealing with Fennel, and they get the kill. 01:13:10.320 --> 01:13:15.120 Because if it's not to die, they still get the map control. 01:13:15.120 --> 01:13:17.200 Whereas to happen there, they never got it. 01:13:17.200 --> 01:13:21.360 it was surrendered to them because Warwick created a man advantage by getting two kills. 01:13:22.000 --> 01:13:25.280 So I really want to take a bit more commitment there, a little more aggression. 01:13:25.280 --> 01:13:29.680 Mapso is also, and this is not about his performance, but he is 0-7. 01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:34.000 And there's nothing about him himself. It's about if I'm a player versus Probe, 01:13:34.000 --> 01:13:38.720 and I see a 0-6 player pick Monty, I'm saying this guy's scared. 01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:41.840 This guy doesn't want to take a gunfight because he's not winning them. 01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:44.080 So he's probably not going to take the fight amongst either, 01:13:44.080 --> 01:13:45.920 because that one uses blitz, he's a Blackbeard. 01:13:45.920 --> 01:13:52.920 So when I see Malta do this, and I'm worried, I will never think that this guy will take the risk of spanking. 01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:55.920 And that's why the shields are actually such a mental game. 01:13:55.920 --> 01:14:00.920 A lot of the value in being a shield operator is the mental warfare. 01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:04.920 And the more that you're in the opponent's head, the more value you get out of that shield, particularly the multi, 01:14:04.920 --> 01:14:08.920 because as you said, you could just sit there, this ever-present threat. 01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:14.920 But if you never actually ADS or never even pretend to ADS, then you're not really putting out as much pressure. 01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:16.920 If drama clowns, you gotta sell it. 01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:19.920 And this is why a lot of it comes down to the micro. 01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:23.920 We talk so much about macro strategy, are they roaming, are they playing 4 or whatever. 01:14:23.920 --> 01:14:25.920 Micro makes a massive amount of difference. 01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:31.920 And Mato just making sure that he aimed down sides at that exact moment when his teammate could also take. 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:35.920 If the defender is fighting two players at once, he can only kill one of them. 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:38.920 You guarantee that you will trade out and get that kill. 01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:40.920 Unfortunately, that's not what happened at the end. 01:14:40.920 --> 01:14:46.920 And the reason why I want to do that is because you want the round to progress, you don't want to get stuck on main stairs and lose the round then and there. 01:14:46.920 --> 01:14:50.920 It's the same logic with C.A.P.L.A.S. and Yang, and enemies are roaming in front of us. 01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:56.920 Well, you should send some ink into that as some gladus when you throw some grass to roam kill those people. 01:14:56.920 --> 01:14:59.920 Because if you die to the roamers, you're not going to see the bomb site. 01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:00.920 So why are you saving your utility? 01:15:00.920 --> 01:15:04.920 You spend it as the round progresses to get to that ingrown drain. 01:15:04.920 --> 01:15:06.920 That's that round done and dusted. 01:15:06.920 --> 01:15:11.160 Rebels down, down three rounds, they're on the attack, they have to make a count. 01:15:11.160 --> 01:15:15.880 They got Mato one to once again, good info here on the catwalk Rathar's player. 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:20.920 But what are they gonna do about it? Well, finish this kill, then treat it right back. 01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:23.880 Still, that's a worthwhile trade here for Rebels. 01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:25.400 Well, Mato, they're on the Pasha fight. 01:15:25.400 --> 01:15:27.480 Oh yeah, not if Pasha's gonna fight too, I guess. 01:15:27.480 --> 01:15:31.320 And now, Linko and Mato, the last two remaining, Linko's deep in sights. 01:15:31.320 --> 01:15:33.880 And Mato has found his worst kills. 01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:35.800 However, now he's the last one standing. 01:15:35.800 --> 01:15:39.800 He was always stepping, and now he is one and seven and one and done! 01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:45.800 Rebels cannot stand up to the might of Ft.Spro on Clubhouse, 01:15:45.800 --> 01:15:50.800 and the 7-3 scoreline shows how dominant this team could be! 01:15:50.800 --> 01:15:55.800 I actually liked that fake push there from Rebels, because they always send the monster with the main push, 01:15:55.800 --> 01:15:59.800 it's the one where they're attacking from, this time they're bidding against the monster so long after his throw. 01:15:59.800 --> 01:16:02.800 No? Yeah, they didn't win the round, just a good idea. 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:05.800 Ready, Spitty? We'll back show it to the desk. Don't go anywhere. 01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:12.800 I think VP really got surprised on their extensions. I think they tried twice, on Basement, also on Gym, to have an extension towards Cash. 01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:22.800 Two times where I see VP players trying to hold their ground, one of them gets aggressive, and then you're waiting for a teammate to come, and they're either delayed or disjointed, and they just ruin the round. 01:21:22.800 --> 01:21:27.800 Two times where I see VP players trying to hold their ground, one of them gets aggressive 01:21:27.800 --> 01:21:31.800 and then you're waiting for a teammate to come and they're either delayed or disjointed 01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:33.800 and they just rune the round in the room. 01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:37.800 But you fought yourself that luxury when you set yourself up so well on the first half, right? 01:21:37.800 --> 01:21:41.800 That's the thing, you get a 5-1 split, you get yourself dominant, you get yourself into opposition. 01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:45.800 Even if a couple of rounds do start to go wrong, it's not the end of the world, you can cause corrective. 01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:49.800 Now the most important thing is when that comeback starts mounting, you need something to stop it 01:21:49.800 --> 01:21:53.640 And I think, who stopped it? I think that was Rorik, especially on that basement round. 01:21:53.640 --> 01:21:57.880 When they choose to once again get aggressive, but they stand closer to the one side. 01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:03.160 It's Rorik with the main stairs push here, gets aggressive, gets a crazy pick on to slow his snake. 01:22:03.160 --> 01:22:06.360 And then here, he does not give up yet. He just steals by time. 01:22:06.360 --> 01:22:08.440 He's still being really aggressive to that Monty. 01:22:08.440 --> 01:22:12.760 He burned another 10 seconds, he waited for the motogai to drop, trades his teammate here, 01:22:12.760 --> 01:22:14.920 and then the rest of the team can play around. 01:22:14.920 --> 01:22:19.000 The role advantage gained by Rorik, a massive round for him. 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:21.440 And that's what brought, basically, VP's victory. 01:22:21.440 --> 01:22:24.280 That was the stop to the comeback, a clean one. 01:22:24.280 --> 01:22:27.840 This time, they decided to extend much closer and around each other, 01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:28.920 so they can trade each other. 01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:30.360 That was the beautiful part about it. 01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:32.600 We're looking at two players in particular as well. 01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:33.840 You talked about Rourke already, 01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:36.320 really being a spearhead for the side over to Sproul. 01:22:36.320 --> 01:22:39.000 If it wasn't for Feno, maybe this game would have been done earlier as well. 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:41.400 Yeah, the Turkeys stepping up, really. 01:22:41.400 --> 01:22:43.080 I think Feno was the bright light. 01:22:43.080 --> 01:22:46.200 We've been saying a lot, Jack, that we were thinking that in Rebels, 01:22:46.200 --> 01:22:48.720 they were lacking a real entry line, right? 01:22:48.720 --> 01:22:53.600 They were lacking real fraggers that would step up because the two best players statistically were Aston and Ems 01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:58.920 I think Feno in this playoffs so far really showed a pass because already in defense 01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:02.040 He was the one that was fighting. He was the one that got aggressive and got a couple of picks 01:23:02.040 --> 01:23:07.000 It was a sad truth that the rest of his teammates were not following that and even in attack 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:09.440 He's the one to find the opening kill. He's the one that played solid snake 01:23:09.440 --> 01:23:12.400 He's the one to play the critical role. I think overall he works for him 01:23:12.500 --> 01:23:15.320 Yeah, I think so. It's nice seeing actually two rookies 01:23:15.320 --> 01:23:20.080 I called him a rocky then. Rorick the rocky the rocky step up into the game 01:23:20.080 --> 01:23:24.060 You know Rorick had huge effects. Fena was a shining starfish team and I actually think on Rebels 01:23:24.060 --> 01:23:30.040 They didn't play particularly badly. I just thought they came up against a better team by team in the side of that as well 01:23:30.040 --> 01:23:32.960 There was a lot of those first half rounds that they could have won 01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:34.540 They maybe would have won against other teams 01:23:34.540 --> 01:23:37.720 But that's where we're finding the way to get over the line in the late round 01:23:37.720 --> 01:23:41.880 So I think for Rebels as they focus on the next map they they shouldn't get to this 01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:44.880 We'll talk about the next map in a little bit as well. 01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:49.880 Before we have the summary of this matchup here, we're already looking at those best performing players on either side here. 01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:54.880 The tiny comeback almost happening for the likes of Rebels there on that second half. 01:23:54.880 --> 01:23:57.880 But going into the second one, we want us to improve when it comes to Rebels. 01:23:57.880 --> 01:24:00.880 We talked about the team play that was better over on the side of Virtus Pro. 01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:02.880 This was Virtus Pro's map pick, right? 01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:04.880 So you expect them to win that as well. 01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:10.880 Misa, we're going on to Rebels' map pick after this, and we'll see you after the break if Rebels can bounce back in a series. 01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:13.880 I 01:24:41.880 --> 01:24:44.880 I'ma keep it going till I'm done 01:24:47.880 --> 01:24:49.880 I'm going to hurry and run 01:27:41.880 --> 01:28:07.120 to the right and that's 01:28:07.340 --> 01:28:08.580 both these teams find themselves 01:28:08.680 --> 01:28:09.320 in the upper bracket with a good 01:28:09.420 --> 01:28:10.380 reason why they have that extra 01:28:10.380 --> 01:28:14.420 the game. It's a very good 01:28:14.420 --> 01:28:16.020 game. It's a very good game. 01:28:16.020 --> 01:28:17.620 Extra life very soon inside this 01:28:17.620 --> 01:28:18.820 matchup. A dominant first map 01:28:18.820 --> 01:28:20.220 We're looking at Rebels map 01:28:20.220 --> 01:28:21.380 big now, Jack. What do you need 01:28:21.380 --> 01:28:22.260 to go into the series? Well, 01:28:22.260 --> 01:28:23.020 they pixel are, and I think 01:28:23.020 --> 01:28:24.020 that's a tricky amount to play 01:28:24.020 --> 01:28:25.420 on. They clearly very 01:28:25.420 --> 01:28:26.620 confident, and I think for that 01:28:26.620 --> 01:28:28.220 map. It's all about the right 01:28:28.220 --> 01:28:29.260 decision making and the right 01:28:29.260 --> 01:28:30.260 trigger points because they'll 01:28:30.260 --> 01:28:31.260 be starting attack. That's a 01:28:31.260 --> 01:28:32.180 very dangerous place to be 01:28:32.180 --> 01:28:33.060 online. I think if you think 01:28:33.060 --> 01:28:34.380 of all the different sides top 01:28:34.380 --> 01:28:35.760 floor, you got make a decision 01:28:35.760 --> 01:28:37.180 to go to operations room side 01:28:37.180 --> 01:28:38.180 or you go for our six room is 01:28:38.180 --> 01:28:40.180 the army in play. That's the 01:28:40.180 --> 01:28:42.540 And then the Bunk's briefing site as well, 01:28:42.540 --> 01:28:44.740 where they play top floor and try and clear out the top floor, 01:28:44.740 --> 01:28:45.620 or do they go direct to site? 01:28:45.620 --> 01:28:49.540 That usually, getting those decisions right on Lyre is absolutely massive. 01:28:49.540 --> 01:28:50.980 So that's what I want to see them do. 01:28:50.980 --> 01:28:53.340 I think so far they've really used Martel well on the shield. 01:28:53.340 --> 01:28:55.620 I know he doesn't, you know, he struggles in terms of statistics, 01:28:55.620 --> 01:28:57.340 but I think that the pressure he creates, 01:28:57.340 --> 01:29:00.820 actually was one of the main stakeholders of the two rounds they won in attack 01:29:00.820 --> 01:29:02.060 when they were really wearable to problem. 01:29:02.060 --> 01:29:04.140 So I think his ability to play on the shield 01:29:04.140 --> 01:29:06.100 and the rest of the team to play around him, 01:29:06.100 --> 01:29:07.780 to gain the initial control into Lyre, 01:29:07.780 --> 01:29:10.420 And to gain the man advantage is the key to the victory here. 01:29:10.420 --> 01:29:14.020 The main thing is, I don't want another scenario or on the main stairs of Clubhouse, 01:29:14.020 --> 01:29:17.860 where you have a Monty, one solo guy playing behind him, if he dies he's done. 01:29:17.860 --> 01:29:20.420 No, we want everyone to commit to their sum care. 01:29:20.420 --> 01:29:23.700 Make sure you gain the initial advantage, then you speed up for the execute. 01:29:23.700 --> 01:29:25.860 And then speaking of the map feature really quickly as well, right? 01:29:25.860 --> 01:29:28.740 We've seen this map a little bit from Rebels, but mixed results. 01:29:28.740 --> 01:29:32.900 Yeah, in Total United Secret Academy before that in the full year of play 01:29:32.900 --> 01:29:35.460 and all the competitions they played, they only showed it seven times. 01:29:35.460 --> 01:29:38.820 It was very social some losses some victories on a set of VP 01:29:38.820 --> 01:29:44.540 They've not shown it yet under the realm and leadership of Neko. So right now. It's a big question mark 01:29:44.540 --> 01:29:49.020 It's gonna be a glimpse into VP's map pool really. Did they play it? How good are they at it? 01:29:49.020 --> 01:29:52.660 You know, we're expecting them to really flex that map pool. This is the time to show it 01:29:52.660 --> 01:29:58.160 We might be in for some surprises is what I'm hearing with the second series here that that might end badly for Rebels 01:29:58.160 --> 01:30:01.820 If they lose this one as well, we're looking for a bounce back from Rebels on map 2 01:30:01.820 --> 01:30:05.820 Yes, we are, we are, man. 01:30:05.820 --> 01:30:07.820 But is it gonna be possible, PENGOT? 01:30:07.820 --> 01:30:08.820 Maybe. I'm gonna ask you. 01:30:08.820 --> 01:30:09.820 Possibly. 01:30:09.820 --> 01:30:10.820 Is it possible? 01:30:10.820 --> 01:30:11.820 Is it realistic? 01:30:11.820 --> 01:30:17.820 Because I didn't say a lot on Clubhouse that makes me feel confident about Rebels. 01:30:17.820 --> 01:30:24.820 The one thing about Clubhouse that makes it better than Rebels can still have a fighting chance here is that VP has so many clutch rounds. 01:30:24.820 --> 01:30:29.820 The 2v2s, the 2v1s, just gunfights that they may do, a ring that they shouldn't have every single time. 01:30:29.820 --> 01:30:35.600 If Rebels have an even game, and VP don't touch up, they can take it, but it's gonna be close. 01:30:35.600 --> 01:30:39.220 It's not gonna be a one-sided Lair affair. I don't believe that at least. 01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:42.660 No, I don't think it will be one-sided. 01:30:42.660 --> 01:30:46.860 I hope it's not one-sided because we've seen some good things from Rebels, there are a few good moments there. 01:30:46.980 --> 01:30:52.380 One thing that I liked, we talked about a loss. At the very end of Clubhouse, 01:30:52.380 --> 01:30:58.420 Mato found his first kill. He was gonna change that Monty for the entirety of the attack half for Rebels. 01:30:58.420 --> 01:31:04.420 I'll do it again. Yes he is. When you're going 0-7 it's really hard to get your head into the game 01:31:04.420 --> 01:31:10.420 and you cannot have this kind of avalanche start to form when you just can't get any level of confidence. 01:31:10.420 --> 01:31:17.420 I'm glad that he's now got off that donut. A little bit common. He's still not going to be super happy with his performance on CloudHouse. 01:31:17.420 --> 01:31:23.420 No doubt, but Lair is a new map. It's a fresh start. You're not going for a donut on the series. You didn't donut on the map. 01:31:23.420 --> 01:31:31.060 Gigi, go next, make a comeback. Leia is of course the map pick for Rebels, so they're gonna feel a little bit happier here than on Clubhouse. 01:31:34.940 --> 01:31:41.660 Rorig is hiding in the clash in the corner of the bomb site, got Nature wants him to tend the Nile and the Shungap, got the Asami, 01:31:41.660 --> 01:31:47.620 so it's a big push in that first race in the desk thing, was slightly pushed forward and he's the Asami in play. 01:31:48.340 --> 01:31:50.020 Such a big win, I noticed you're in there. 01:31:50.020 --> 01:31:52.020 fresh to be making a lot of 01:31:52.020 --> 01:31:56.020 like, jik-tok type content about the Azami on this one side. 01:31:56.020 --> 01:31:58.020 Yeah, shortfall, there you go. 01:31:58.020 --> 01:32:01.020 I know you've been, there's been a lot of convo's on Twitter 01:32:01.020 --> 01:32:03.020 that the trash is good initiating about, like, 01:32:03.020 --> 01:32:06.020 why are people not banning Azami on this boss? 01:32:06.020 --> 01:32:09.020 I'm so damn good. How the hell are you meant to clear 01:32:09.020 --> 01:32:12.020 a player around this death position where Dan is right now? 01:32:12.020 --> 01:32:15.020 I actually haven't seen that new barrier that he's got, 01:32:15.020 --> 01:32:17.020 kind of, like, tucked into the wall there before. 01:32:17.020 --> 01:32:19.020 That's a really nice one. 01:32:19.020 --> 01:32:23.820 created more positions to play between the asami and the clash man how the hell 01:32:23.820 --> 01:32:27.180 are you gonna try and clear that bomb side out that's gonna be tricky and 01:32:27.180 --> 01:32:31.180 that's gonna be a lair it can feel a bit claustrophobic when you're having these 01:32:31.180 --> 01:32:35.380 particular operators in play and again like to clash the asami but if they're 01:32:35.380 --> 01:32:39.060 both being banned or not picked in a round by the defenders it can be very 01:32:39.060 --> 01:32:42.700 different for it. Well it's not that the map feels quite open actually for the attackers 01:32:42.700 --> 01:32:46.620 especially when you got a shield operator. Martyr was back onto the Monty in the very 01:32:46.620 --> 01:32:52.140 first round. And again, this drop is not gonna be to get the kills, it's about getting in 01:32:52.140 --> 01:32:56.100 the building, get that map control and give continuous information so they can make the 01:32:56.100 --> 01:33:01.280 correct decisions on where to go when to push. First throw, again, wherever Rory gets 01:33:01.280 --> 01:33:06.900 next hacked, on this patch you can completely stop Mato, because the elitification from 01:33:06.900 --> 01:33:12.180 the patch gadget will slowly guard break you, and you get that mini stun effect onto his 01:33:12.180 --> 01:33:16.340 multiplayer and that's just unplayable so it's very cautious in these hallways. 01:33:16.340 --> 01:33:22.660 Don't you feel like Flash takes a little off? Maybe increase the asian time by 50 percent? 01:33:22.660 --> 01:33:28.100 How's that? That's how the developers know it. They just came out on the media like they 01:33:28.100 --> 01:33:32.460 are a Twitter group. Gems and I watched them before this game went live. And yeah, the 01:33:32.460 --> 01:33:37.940 math came out and said yeah, they buffed it from 10 second duration for Flash to 15 seconds 01:33:37.940 --> 01:33:44.820 Activation timer and Mark is the first kill. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It's a good day to be a clash 01:33:44.820 --> 01:33:50.340 man. That's for sure. A couple off red is a present in the in the patch mode, but we'll get to that later. 01:33:50.340 --> 01:33:56.420 For now, really, grapples are stalled out. Skies has also taken down a left. Oh, that's devastating for Mark. 01:33:57.620 --> 01:34:04.420 Skies finds a second one, brings out the SMG-11 and forces Linko into a very unenviable position. 01:34:04.420 --> 01:34:06.420 It's time to get active. 01:34:06.420 --> 01:34:08.420 Oh, big C4 from Skye. 01:34:08.420 --> 01:34:10.420 It's a 3K for the Frenchman. 01:34:10.420 --> 01:34:15.420 And now his old teammate of Assa has a lot of work to do. 01:34:15.420 --> 01:34:21.420 You know, 1v5 with two flashbangs and no Selmas. 01:34:21.420 --> 01:34:24.420 Oh, there's a clash and the Nazami on the board. Good luck, mate. 01:34:24.420 --> 01:34:27.420 Yep. 30 seconds. 01:34:27.420 --> 01:34:31.420 I mean Skye said this round accepts me well here on the top of the rock and stairs. 01:34:31.420 --> 01:34:34.660 There's a bit of a one tap, but they're feeding him to kill us in the angles. 01:34:34.660 --> 01:34:37.420 Rorik! Rorik! He never stopped moving! 01:34:38.060 --> 01:34:40.780 From Skybrids, Thor all the way to Obstum. 01:34:41.340 --> 01:34:46.500 Can I just say, I am so not surprised that the one guy who died in that round for VP was Pasha. 01:34:46.500 --> 01:34:49.700 Look at this guy right here. He's such a memester. 01:34:50.060 --> 01:34:53.940 And in map one, he's peeking everybody. 01:34:53.940 --> 01:34:57.060 We saw him time and time again, kind of solo on his roam. 01:34:57.060 --> 01:35:01.540 He's playing with no respect. He's peeking in front of his shield on Clubhouse. 01:35:01.540 --> 01:35:05.140 He had like a shield top red, peeks in front of it, runs through a smoke. 01:35:05.140 --> 01:35:08.180 He actually ended up with two opening deaths and no opening kills, 01:35:08.180 --> 01:35:13.380 because I think his very highly aggressive, risky playstyle is being read pretty well. 01:35:13.380 --> 01:35:18.420 And it's just, it's so funny, like, that I'm not surprised that with guys, they're like jiggle peeking. 01:35:18.420 --> 01:35:23.140 And then quickly a one tap comes up for Asa and who it's going to be. Of course, it's going to be Kassi. 01:35:23.140 --> 01:35:25.980 Who else is frontier than this guy? 01:35:25.980 --> 01:35:27.340 Classic for VP. 01:35:27.340 --> 01:35:29.260 It wasn't for that, it would have been a flawless round. 01:35:29.260 --> 01:35:34.900 It effectively felt like what Rebels could be scratching their heads. 01:35:34.900 --> 01:35:37.580 That was a pretty disappointing start to L.E.A.M. 01:35:37.580 --> 01:35:40.260 I don't know if you saw, but when Skaius got the 3K, 01:35:40.260 --> 01:35:42.820 he got the Nomad Killgoo to C4, 01:35:42.820 --> 01:35:45.300 but the airgems still got pushed on the doorbell. 01:35:45.300 --> 01:35:48.060 Then he told Pasha to tank it. 01:35:48.060 --> 01:35:51.700 So Skaius who was made Pasha with full health, 01:35:51.700 --> 01:35:56.180 Right after the air gets, the guy's gonna look for the 4k, like he wanted more of that. 01:35:56.180 --> 01:35:58.980 So yeah, I'm literally full supportive from Pasha. 01:35:58.980 --> 01:36:02.260 I get the vibe Pasha's the kind of guy that like, you dare to do anything, he's gonna... 01:36:02.260 --> 01:36:02.980 Like he'll do it. 01:36:02.980 --> 01:36:06.420 Anyway, do you reckon he could like survive if you jump off this bridge? 01:36:06.420 --> 01:36:07.220 Yeah, I reckon. 01:36:09.700 --> 01:36:12.340 So he uh, he's definitely here. 01:36:14.500 --> 01:36:19.940 I spoke into him at a fair, fair amount of tournaments after like a heartbreak and lost 01:36:19.940 --> 01:36:27.220 for Empire's last VP. They were my iteration. And he's always like positive about the losses, 01:36:27.220 --> 01:36:31.540 where Joystick, you know, the veteran was like, ah, we played bad, and instead I made it further, 01:36:31.540 --> 01:36:37.140 and we had these computations. Pasha's like, hey, remember, we have fun, we did good. You know, 01:36:37.140 --> 01:36:41.940 like, you always want to be the positive guy. Also, like this, Pasha's hiding from Soda Snake on a 01:36:41.940 --> 01:36:46.500 jammer in silver room he heard him though so the figure is being faked out 01:36:46.500 --> 01:36:53.300 reloading and Patrick cannot help himself he really can't be right there 01:36:53.300 --> 01:36:57.780 like that was so cheeky they're hiding from the soul of the snake but thankfully 01:36:57.780 --> 01:37:02.620 Feno has played enough soul is fake to be a little bit careful when he trusts his 01:37:02.620 --> 01:37:07.060 ears even when he doesn't trust that scanners and here's the thing right how 01:37:07.060 --> 01:37:11.140 you cannot solve a snake or visual alibi in mid-jammer is either will not be seen 01:37:11.140 --> 01:37:15.460 in the gadget and they add by prismas they will show as a player even though they aren't a real one 01:37:16.180 --> 01:37:20.420 the issue is you hide behind an obstacle and Slyldersnik walks past your door 01:37:20.420 --> 01:37:25.300 now you make a movement sound trying to chase him so ideally you uh get an angle and hold him 01:37:26.900 --> 01:37:34.100 either way nice to the mini-play goes punished a second mini-play this time fenrir with another 01:37:34.100 --> 01:37:38.980 jammer again just hiding from the Slyldersnik roam clear while robert gets a kill in the bird 01:37:41.140 --> 01:37:48.580 Rorax had a phenomenal day so far. Pop frag, the last map. Pop's EPS, 10 and 4 by the way. 01:37:48.580 --> 01:37:54.660 Marto goes down. That's... guys! He's seemingly unstoppable until he gets stung by Astor but 01:37:54.660 --> 01:38:02.500 the damage has been done. 2v3 now. The Hibana and the Ram. And at this point I feel like VP 01:38:02.500 --> 01:38:08.260 can just happily fall back. As long as they're not vulnerable to the Vert. The problem is Rebels 01:38:08.260 --> 01:38:12.860 can't play on the verdal too much because you need one player to get that diffuser towards 01:38:12.860 --> 01:38:17.700 the bomb site and the second player to deal with it instead of upstairs on that verd. 01:38:17.700 --> 01:38:23.060 So instead of playing above both of these Rebels players, keep up together and Neko's 01:38:23.060 --> 01:38:24.060 found one. 01:38:24.060 --> 01:38:28.700 Now shut out of the bomb site with the keeper barrier, Asa has a lot of work to do, brings 01:38:28.700 --> 01:38:33.660 up the bearing knife, secondary and he's just being teased as he cross fire and Neko takes 01:38:33.660 --> 01:38:37.740 a tiny bit of damage but deals far more than he receives. 01:38:37.740 --> 01:38:40.580 And it's another convincing round for Virtus.pro. 01:38:40.580 --> 01:38:44.260 I mean, these rounds, they gotta be so frustrating for Rebels, right? 01:38:44.260 --> 01:38:47.940 You're coming from Cloudpiles' lair, you're putting clutched swimming rounds against you 01:38:47.940 --> 01:38:51.060 and just kept fighting back and losing positions. 01:38:51.060 --> 01:38:54.620 You go on to lair, you're a map pick, and they're just running over you, right? 01:38:54.620 --> 01:38:57.940 They're ego-peaking, ego-challenging, they're doing these mini-paces of the roaming nude 01:38:57.940 --> 01:39:01.300 jammers where, yeah, they find Pasha, right? 01:39:01.300 --> 01:39:04.220 But they never found Defend Rear, and Skye finds two kills. 01:39:04.220 --> 01:39:06.980 So it's like, we're good, we're good, we're good. 01:39:06.980 --> 01:39:10.420 Oh shit. And then the round is practically over. 01:39:10.420 --> 01:39:14.980 Because we lose two bodies like that, and important operators, what are you supposed to do? 01:39:14.980 --> 01:39:16.480 How do you stabilize? 01:39:16.480 --> 01:39:18.140 They didn't even get the staircase control. 01:39:18.140 --> 01:39:22.060 That was surrendered by Virtus Pro when they fell back to the bomb site. 01:39:22.060 --> 01:39:27.420 So it feels like Rebels are only getting what they're being given. 01:39:27.420 --> 01:39:31.660 They're never taking things away from VP, or even beating things by VP. 01:39:31.660 --> 01:39:33.300 Yeah, you gotta check both areas. 01:39:33.300 --> 01:39:35.300 They only heard pasta, they never heard cinder flare. 01:39:35.300 --> 01:39:42.780 Yeah, it's funny. It's a good little counter to the the solid snake 01:39:44.700 --> 01:39:51.540 You know was really perceived as a wall denial operator and then through time he's had his 01:39:51.900 --> 01:39:55.820 Kind of limelight moments as all drone denial operator 01:39:55.820 --> 01:40:01.740 But these days I feel like people really prioritize mute as a hard counter to some of these power use or so 01:40:01.740 --> 01:40:03.740 Yeah, doc a beat lion 01:40:04.680 --> 01:40:11.600 Daimus and most recently it's solid still it's very different to playing like a vigil where you can move freely 01:40:11.600 --> 01:40:15.140 But small team here as jammers around the map makes a big difference 01:40:15.140 --> 01:40:19.540 I think I'm just lying do the new new changes. Oh, okay 01:40:19.540 --> 01:40:24.620 I was lying it's like a it's a vibrating makes you that tracks movement, right? It's not like a signal thing 01:40:24.620 --> 01:40:28.860 I thought it actually left it right in the case going and I was giving very much 01:40:28.860 --> 01:40:32.860 That doesn't make sense, which is like, they don't disrupt this. 01:40:32.860 --> 01:40:36.860 Do game UAVs, which is what mine is, so I don't know. 01:40:36.860 --> 01:40:40.860 The things that are internal versus... 01:40:40.860 --> 01:40:42.860 I don't know how to code it, man. 01:40:42.860 --> 01:40:43.860 Okay, I would say it's about 40. 01:40:43.860 --> 01:40:44.860 At least not at my rank. 01:40:44.860 --> 01:40:45.860 I'm falling. 01:40:45.860 --> 01:40:47.860 No, I trust you, mate. 01:40:47.860 --> 01:40:53.860 What was the single biggest change to Mute that made him from not playing much in the past 01:40:53.860 --> 01:40:55.860 to playing much in the recent history? 01:40:55.860 --> 01:40:57.860 What's the single biggest change? 01:40:57.860 --> 01:40:59.860 There comes the money. 01:40:59.860 --> 01:41:01.860 Uh, it was stupid. 01:41:01.860 --> 01:41:04.860 What? Well, you didn't have... 01:41:04.860 --> 01:41:06.860 It's in G11, originally. 01:41:06.860 --> 01:41:08.860 Oh, mate, you said recently. 01:41:08.860 --> 01:41:09.860 Okay, no, no. 01:41:09.860 --> 01:41:11.860 You said it's in G11 for years now. 01:41:11.860 --> 01:41:12.860 Yes, of course. 01:41:12.860 --> 01:41:14.860 My bad on recently. 01:41:14.860 --> 01:41:16.860 But it's like, I've had a lot of people that... 01:41:16.860 --> 01:41:18.860 They forget it, because, like... 01:41:18.860 --> 01:41:19.860 Yeah. 01:41:19.860 --> 01:41:20.860 It's smug. 01:41:20.860 --> 01:41:21.860 Mute, they have the same loader, right? 01:41:21.860 --> 01:41:22.860 No, mute did not have... 01:41:22.860 --> 01:41:24.860 It's in G11 for the longest time. 01:41:24.860 --> 01:41:25.860 I was the... 01:41:25.860 --> 01:41:26.860 I was a mute man. 01:41:26.860 --> 01:41:35.860 My first operator that I asked you about, and I played the game, so yes, I was MP5K and the P2-2-6 mute back in the OT days, my favorite operator. 01:41:36.860 --> 01:41:45.860 Oh, we still got the Muncie by the door, the Sten's wall, we've seen this attack a thousand times across all the regions of Siege Pro League, and it rarely works out. 01:41:45.860 --> 01:41:52.860 You understand, you strike the solid with the Sten's and block off the ward and push up off the distraction once I get out of the fuse there. 01:41:52.860 --> 01:41:55.860 You gotta get a win either upstairs or get the plant down downstairs. 01:41:55.860 --> 01:41:58.260 It's hard because you've got to fight players on site. 01:41:58.260 --> 01:42:01.140 Skye's getting so insane tonight. 01:42:01.140 --> 01:42:03.860 Five and one so far in the first two rounds. 01:42:03.860 --> 01:42:08.580 And of course, popped off on the first map as well for VP. 01:42:08.580 --> 01:42:10.100 He needs to be targeted here. 01:42:10.100 --> 01:42:11.980 Well, Rebels try and have a little bit of a backstab, 01:42:11.980 --> 01:42:14.180 but Feno is definitely his position. 01:42:14.180 --> 01:42:17.180 Has been made aware of so much top-up control here 01:42:17.180 --> 01:42:18.580 for Verdes Brolinco. 01:42:18.580 --> 01:42:21.300 Extremely low on HP. 01:42:21.300 --> 01:42:25.380 And of course, Grouped Skye's to go big yet again. 01:42:25.380 --> 01:42:28.820 It's the massive two kills, most critically taking down the Montaigne. 01:42:28.820 --> 01:42:31.100 And now, deeply crossing into the long side, it's a Lens. 01:42:31.100 --> 01:42:34.660 He wants to try and get that plant down, but it's a 3K for the Frenchman yet again. 01:42:35.580 --> 01:42:39.140 He is absolutely decimating Rebels. 01:42:39.580 --> 01:42:41.260 Fennelow HP, but he finds a pick. 01:42:41.260 --> 01:42:42.700 1v3 for him. 01:42:42.700 --> 01:42:45.300 This Aster can't help out, and Aster taken Darylo. 01:42:45.300 --> 01:42:46.300 Finds a pick. 01:42:46.300 --> 01:42:48.500 Now, it's time to get that diffuser planted. 01:42:48.500 --> 01:42:49.620 But guess who? 01:42:49.620 --> 01:42:51.540 It's Dan up above. 01:42:51.540 --> 01:42:54.020 He spots the player, denies the plant, 01:42:54.020 --> 01:42:57.260 and wins the round, three straight on defense for the Otis Pro. 01:42:57.760 --> 01:43:00.060 Oh, it's another heartbreaking round. 01:43:00.060 --> 01:43:04.180 Right, step one of that attack is you're gonna clear that one player buying the bomb slide 01:43:04.180 --> 01:43:07.780 with a bunch of different crossfires, and you toss like grenades, and you kill the C Adam. 01:43:07.780 --> 01:43:11.340 That's guys, somehow the player that you're supposed to kill first 01:43:11.340 --> 01:43:14.420 takes down two or three players' view over the course of that round. 01:43:15.020 --> 01:43:18.780 The Monty, the guy covering the Monty, in the sense in the middle of the bomb slide 01:43:18.780 --> 01:43:20.260 with the defuser shortly after. 01:43:20.260 --> 01:43:26.700 And there is one small thing here that kind of, it could have been a good thing, but it didn't find much value. 01:43:26.700 --> 01:43:32.900 Rebels clip the nirg in their previous round, that has one of the set of grenades that you can utilize to maybe clear out skies. 01:43:32.900 --> 01:43:37.500 But the nirg is top floor, ratcheting around the barricades and can't find an angle. 01:43:37.500 --> 01:43:41.700 So you pick a nirg for a specific niche purpose that doesn't get a kill, 01:43:41.700 --> 01:43:48.060 and it's all thanks to British Pro hoping F and barricades are one of those chores stopping the rat play above. 01:43:48.060 --> 01:43:54.380 So this tiny tiny detail has made the nuke completely useless, and rebels never had a pistol in the ground. 01:43:54.380 --> 01:43:57.580 Because nuke was stuck watching basically nothing from most of it. 01:43:58.300 --> 01:43:59.620 It's uh... 01:44:00.060 --> 01:44:07.420 Verdi's pros aggression, their confidence from hokobomb's side, and not getting pressured enough in the server has just led to these very one-sided affairs. 01:44:07.980 --> 01:44:17.740 And now, well, the flash will stay open, the mirror will stay open, all the panacea tanker stays open, rebels have banned utility in other forms. 01:44:17.740 --> 01:44:26.580 Electrobrows, Kite, and Bandit, when Obelisk reinforce walls, I get that, and they ban the Asami, which we said, that first said, very important operator. 01:44:26.580 --> 01:44:33.220 Yes, but Asami hasn't been the thorn on their side, that's just like an overall really strong operator for a beast with a bomb side. 01:44:33.220 --> 01:44:39.740 How are they gonna deal with the Tashna? Because Kite's not banned, and they think, no matter previously, but it found nothing. 01:44:39.740 --> 01:44:43.180 So I'm a bit curious how they're gonna pick up this round, on attack. 01:44:43.180 --> 01:44:48.020 thing about how VP are playing is there is no singular thorns that they have on your side 01:44:48.020 --> 01:44:52.460 there's the atomic there's the clash and even if you get to it then there's a check 01:44:52.460 --> 01:44:53.460 out. 01:44:53.460 --> 01:44:54.460 He shot his chest. 01:44:54.460 --> 01:44:57.460 I'm gonna like, he clipped his ceiling down. 01:44:57.460 --> 01:44:59.260 It's good, he's got some more. 01:44:59.260 --> 01:45:01.140 He could have picked it up again. 01:45:01.140 --> 01:45:04.340 Well it isn't the tub of the ceiling, I'm not sure you read that. 01:45:04.340 --> 01:45:06.340 If you repelled, you could pick it up. 01:45:06.340 --> 01:45:07.340 Can you do it? 01:45:07.340 --> 01:45:08.340 Make repellent? 01:45:08.340 --> 01:45:09.340 I actually don't know. 01:45:09.340 --> 01:45:11.540 I've never, okay I've never been that precision in my life before. 01:45:11.540 --> 01:45:13.540 I guess you're just too good, you've never missed a shot. 01:45:13.540 --> 01:45:14.540 No, but you, um... 01:45:14.540 --> 01:45:15.540 Yeah, whatever. 01:45:16.540 --> 01:45:18.540 If it has to start detonating, you can pick it up. 01:45:19.540 --> 01:45:20.540 Missed a shot as well. 01:45:21.540 --> 01:45:22.540 Yeah, sure. 01:45:22.540 --> 01:45:23.540 Okay, okay. 01:45:24.540 --> 01:45:26.540 Yeah, trust me, trust me, trust me. 01:45:26.540 --> 01:45:28.540 Just, trust me, I've missed a few helmets in my time. 01:45:29.540 --> 01:45:31.540 Well, that was my mistake, I haven't done that one before. 01:45:32.540 --> 01:45:33.540 Not in that area. 01:45:34.540 --> 01:45:37.540 I'll tell you what, you said Fresh was talking a lot about his army. 01:45:37.540 --> 01:45:39.540 He just, he just, oh my god, what?! 01:45:39.540 --> 01:45:44.340 What? Wow, Roryk tanked that and only took about 40 HP damage. 01:45:44.340 --> 01:45:45.840 Welcome to shields. 01:45:45.840 --> 01:45:47.840 Wow, that resisted the mains. 01:45:47.840 --> 01:45:52.580 I thought he was dead for sure, but the fact that he just faced the nade for a split moment 01:45:52.580 --> 01:45:56.340 and that you're right, he tanked that hit with the explosive resistance of the shield. 01:45:56.340 --> 01:45:59.340 He last, like, frame the frame perfect man. 01:45:59.340 --> 01:46:03.340 Once upon a time, shields didn't have explosive resistance, but they do now. 01:46:03.340 --> 01:46:04.340 Bit of a gap here. 01:46:04.340 --> 01:46:08.840 Lehmish didn't get skinned by the verticality, was still held, and he's just a thorn trap. 01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:10.840 With confidence, doesn't run away. 01:46:10.840 --> 01:46:13.840 Please, very known health has one more typical infotainment. 01:46:13.840 --> 01:46:16.840 Final push marks with a wake stop on the D-Rolls to fight the pick. 01:46:18.840 --> 01:46:21.840 Big chance now for Linko to go massive with a twitch as well. 01:46:21.840 --> 01:46:26.840 F2, get some a kill on the skies, but Feno on the backstab gets shut down. 01:46:27.840 --> 01:46:31.840 The best chance we've seen so far, the Rebels, to find a round and Linko goes big for another one. 01:46:31.840 --> 01:46:33.840 Dan trades with DMR work here. 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:37.840 On the tube around, Neko's the name's his life, Neko for a double! 01:46:37.840 --> 01:46:46.680 It's Mato now, but Neko goes big with the LMG and the Lord will retain his throne. 01:46:46.680 --> 01:46:51.560 It's four round straights and ZP are becoming untouchable. 01:46:51.560 --> 01:46:54.600 Nah, Neko is the main character right there. 01:46:54.600 --> 01:46:59.320 He is saving his teammate, left, right and center, frame perfect like he catches the 01:46:59.320 --> 01:47:00.320 ace mid-bulb. 01:47:00.320 --> 01:47:05.880 Astros is about to execute his teammate, he says, no, not today, not now, and absolutely 01:47:05.880 --> 01:47:07.680 again saves the round. 01:47:07.680 --> 01:47:12.320 another case of VP probably shouldn't be winning this one, but they're so goddamn 01:47:12.320 --> 01:47:16.400 caution when the round gets chaotic. They are reacting so quickly. I mean look at the 01:47:16.400 --> 01:47:21.280 highlights here. Every single time a fight happens on the map, there's somebody in VP 01:47:21.280 --> 01:47:26.960 instantly responding. Rorik, there's the hallway. He dies. Xan, 1 degree, Flix Blue is trying. 01:47:26.960 --> 01:47:30.400 Then once it's over, Nage covers both the angles in meantime, gets those kills, 01:47:30.400 --> 01:47:34.800 and then he establishes another crossfire for this final run fight. Like, it is so hectic, 01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:38.400 in his full carry, and VP are not missing a single beat. 01:47:39.400 --> 01:47:42.800 And they're a new roster, then I suppose they have to spell us in it again! 01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:49.200 Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know when exactly Virtus.pro, the organisation, the team, 01:47:49.200 --> 01:47:53.760 decided to make the big roster shuffle, but I know from talking to Dark when he was with 01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:58.160 Fyrex at the Sixth Invitational that after that team was eliminated, it was pretty clear 01:47:58.160 --> 01:48:03.120 that he was moving on. I assume he was already in talks with Virtus.pro at that point. I assume 01:48:03.120 --> 01:48:08.120 that some of the players make those guys, and Rorik that got picked up, maybe you would know that Rorik obviously knew. 01:48:08.120 --> 01:48:12.120 We're involved somewhat with GK back in the day, which was his former team. 01:48:12.120 --> 01:48:17.120 I don't know how long exactly these guys have been streaming for, but man, they have stuck with chemistry. 01:48:17.120 --> 01:48:24.120 They are so instinct, and obviously they have phenomenal preparation work from their support staff team, 01:48:24.120 --> 01:48:27.120 as we would expect from a coach like Dark. 01:48:27.120 --> 01:48:34.880 But these guys are certainly making a case to be maybe even in a top three team in EML if they can keep this form up 01:48:37.880 --> 01:48:44.520 Well, then good here's down the wrong here. This might be a little bit of a laser-lazed VP and then someone dies keep going 01:48:46.520 --> 01:48:51.160 Next they go in five and oh guy. He is insane. Nobody guys 01:48:52.720 --> 01:48:54.720 I want you 01:48:57.120 --> 01:48:59.720 Right, on 12 pounds simply, so the men's every south, 01:48:59.720 --> 01:49:02.040 and at once, the two is the three here, logical siege. 01:49:02.040 --> 01:49:03.480 They just watched the building. 01:49:03.480 --> 01:49:06.000 Double shield, both the B, they most, 01:49:06.000 --> 01:49:07.520 they get the pick, they pop the hatch, 01:49:07.520 --> 01:49:08.920 the looking for the staircase, 01:49:08.920 --> 01:49:10.920 but then fire, it's gonna slow them down 01:49:10.920 --> 01:49:12.960 from the floor of the soil. 01:49:12.960 --> 01:49:14.440 Talks to Bex as well. 01:49:14.440 --> 01:49:15.560 This is where this boys staying. 01:49:15.560 --> 01:49:17.320 We're gonna hold our ground infiltration 01:49:17.320 --> 01:49:19.000 and stall you in terms of time, 01:49:19.000 --> 01:49:21.040 but then as the finds pass ya, 01:49:21.040 --> 01:49:22.440 make your skill alive. 01:49:22.440 --> 01:49:24.280 You might have to go absolutely massive 01:49:24.280 --> 01:49:26.840 on the staircase infiltration, doing this. 01:49:26.840 --> 01:49:29.420 Oh, of course, guys, peeks it vertically. 01:49:29.420 --> 01:49:32.520 Man, he's popping off tonight on the Tachanka now, 01:49:32.520 --> 01:49:34.380 and he's got nine kills. 01:49:34.380 --> 01:49:37.280 Him and Neko together are really doing the heavy lifting. 01:49:37.280 --> 01:49:39.240 Pasha, by the way, is still 0 and 5. 01:49:39.240 --> 01:49:40.440 Poor guy on VP. 01:49:40.440 --> 01:49:43.880 He's dead for the round, but it's the three newbies 01:49:43.880 --> 01:49:46.920 on the VP roster that try and hold on. 01:49:47.920 --> 01:49:49.920 They've got two shields to deal with here. 01:49:49.920 --> 01:49:51.640 They are kind of the three perfect operators 01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:53.120 to counter his fields, aren't they? 01:49:53.120 --> 01:49:53.960 Yeah, they are. 01:49:53.960 --> 01:49:57.000 One toasty babe and then two decent fire operators. 01:49:57.000 --> 01:49:59.120 So, honestly, if the Raccoon can't go for a plant, 01:49:59.120 --> 01:50:00.880 you know there's a cap to go fishing for a kill, 01:50:00.880 --> 01:50:01.720 but that's a freebie. 01:50:01.720 --> 01:50:02.560 Way shot. 01:50:02.560 --> 01:50:03.400 Then you just walk straight down, 01:50:03.400 --> 01:50:04.240 and you can scroll peek, 01:50:04.240 --> 01:50:06.600 you toss mid at him, take flat damage. 01:50:06.600 --> 01:50:07.440 Then you get shot down, 01:50:07.440 --> 01:50:09.120 roll right towards the cross list. 01:50:09.120 --> 01:50:10.520 If you've got a couple of good advice, 01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:11.360 you can watch the science, 01:50:11.360 --> 01:50:12.920 and that final toxic babe, 01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:14.240 Nekyo's been holding on to this 01:50:14.240 --> 01:50:15.960 for as long as humanly possible. 01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:18.040 He knows if he has toxic babe, 01:50:18.040 --> 01:50:19.560 the plant cannot go down. 01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:22.600 The prop is a no-glare counter to the blitz here. 01:50:22.600 --> 01:50:23.440 This is still upstairs. 01:50:23.440 --> 01:50:27.760 finally drops down into Toxin, comes up from behind and Mato finds the kill. 01:50:27.760 --> 01:50:32.720 That's exactly what we needed. The player that we said has been far too passive on the shields, 01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:37.520 needs to get active, needs to do it on the blitz, and he does to close up the round and finally 01:50:37.520 --> 01:50:44.320 get Rebels to join VP on the scoreboard of Lair. All it took was a very big adaptation since 01:50:44.320 --> 01:50:49.520 a pace. Don't play slow, don't play predictable, just hit the building, hit the side and play for 01:50:49.520 --> 01:50:53.840 kills do not play for the plant and it's so important that rebels they kept that 01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:56.960 mindset because I think a lot of time when you get there like three versus 01:50:56.960 --> 01:51:01.000 two you know guys we can just plant now it's free and you start planting and 01:51:01.000 --> 01:51:05.320 like oh they actually had one month to be able all that one more before we lose 01:51:05.320 --> 01:51:10.040 that planter chaos panic and you start fumbling the round they didn't do that 01:51:10.040 --> 01:51:14.840 they push through the sacrifice right here that case guys by surprise and then 01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:18.720 just keep fighting fighting fighting I mean they keep up the space style 01:51:18.720 --> 01:51:22.160 Although, you need to squeeze just one more round in the half, then it's side-swap. 01:51:22.160 --> 01:51:25.440 And you gotta re-learn how to play it out again from scratch. 01:51:25.440 --> 01:51:28.480 So, we really gotta see Rebels get that second round, 01:51:28.480 --> 01:51:32.560 to get a little bit of a weaker room on side-swap for mistakes and defense. 01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:35.760 Otherwise, I mean, you lose for more, and it's matched for VP. 01:51:35.760 --> 01:51:37.360 Like, a serious point for VP, to that point. 01:51:40.560 --> 01:51:43.280 Yeah, 2-4 is the goal here, that's what you can do. 01:51:43.280 --> 01:51:47.600 But the other thing, if Rebels do go 2-4, it's not just, obviously, 01:51:47.600 --> 01:51:50.560 2-4 going into the second half gives you a lot more leeway than 5-1. 01:51:50.560 --> 01:51:54.240 But it's the fact that you've then broken that momentum completely. 01:51:54.240 --> 01:51:58.560 You go into the second half, you have the halftime vibe check, as we like to call it, 01:51:58.560 --> 01:52:01.200 the roll swap timeout that's new in this season. 01:52:01.200 --> 01:52:06.640 You've also broken the momentum, VP have finished off their half by losing the last two rounds. 01:52:07.680 --> 01:52:10.480 Of course, VP, they're a really good team. 01:52:10.480 --> 01:52:13.520 When they take their tactical timeouts, we saw that on CoVas took their tactical timeout. 01:52:13.520 --> 01:52:16.000 I believe it was straight up the next round, they won. 01:52:16.000 --> 01:52:22.300 and finish the map. Rebels here need to lock in, and they're throwing everything at the wall for this one, Pingu. 01:52:22.300 --> 01:52:30.300 The double shields come out again, Mato has now found three kills in the game, and we need him to have a lot of confidence when you play that Blitz. 01:52:30.300 --> 01:52:33.300 You need aura with Blitz, otherwise it just doesn't work. 01:52:34.500 --> 01:52:40.300 Finally, we have an Echo in Valorant here, right? There's mostly counters, Dmg of 4, and there's a lot of key for fine-to-nothing. 01:52:40.300 --> 01:52:47.080 the place we want room to elsewhere and while VP they do find a kill the big one 01:52:47.080 --> 01:52:52.140 of that is gonna be Blackbeard so that shield's power cut into half now only 01:52:52.140 --> 01:52:55.060 miles remaining whose full of room clear on top of what no somebody's lingering 01:52:55.060 --> 01:52:58.660 above there is impact toss power fix doesn't 01:52:58.660 --> 01:53:01.860 damage but posture without any more impacts in pocket can no longer stick 01:53:01.860 --> 01:53:05.620 around he needs one counter for this shield now he has to follow away and 01:53:05.620 --> 01:53:07.620 You love that map control 01:53:08.820 --> 01:53:15.380 Pasha just needs to trade positions with someone that has a nitro cell Dan skies both have nitros maker 01:53:15.380 --> 01:53:19.080 Obviously, I want to get too aggressive because he's getting in he's got two in packs 01:53:19.080 --> 01:53:26.060 I think my though is checking a position knows exactly where he is needs to take the fight against guys finally gets him 01:53:26.060 --> 01:53:32.220 But it's taken very long the process a single shot to his foot and he should be down so VP are still in good stead 01:53:33.260 --> 01:53:35.260 Speaking of toes 01:53:35.620 --> 01:53:41.360 Curse into a death once again, the motto falls, and he's being watched now, you're dead. 01:53:41.360 --> 01:53:42.880 Does he sneak around in a spring for it? 01:53:42.880 --> 01:53:45.360 He's tensed it, and someone crosses the hallway. 01:53:45.360 --> 01:53:47.900 Now he's gonna be stuck in the wrong game. 01:53:47.900 --> 01:53:50.380 A player above him is staircase, hunting for him. 01:53:50.380 --> 01:53:51.780 There's redling, but it's too late. 01:53:51.780 --> 01:53:53.100 Fennel gets the kill. 01:53:53.100 --> 01:53:56.020 And now Fennel on very low health and lends him half. 01:53:56.020 --> 01:54:00.620 His health is not looking good, James, but he keeps finding another pain. 01:54:00.620 --> 01:54:03.580 Very aggressive from Rorick, and maybe a little bit ill-advised. 01:54:03.580 --> 01:54:09.640 something 3v3 near the end of the round, still have the yokai drones. I feel like VP just 01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:13.240 needed to play back on site. Obviously we can see as well there's no ram, there's no 01:54:13.240 --> 01:54:18.240 vertical operators. It's just Aston's breaching charges has now been used. So you know 3v3 01:54:18.240 --> 01:54:23.240 this would have probably faked the notice. Because it's a 2v3, Rebels do have a shot. 01:54:23.240 --> 01:54:27.560 You're right, the time is going to be on VP's side. 20 seconds to go. He's playing 01:54:27.560 --> 01:54:32.560 Yosha and Neko, which means that Neko can get on his yokais with Pasha to protect him 01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:45.160 in the late round. The Yoka comes out. It just looks to harass the attackers. Assa plant the knife. Yet again, he shoots through the smoke from Pasha! It goes massive! And there's no time on the clock! 01:54:45.160 --> 01:54:51.360 Virtus.pro, finish up the half! Five rounds to one for Rebels! 01:54:51.360 --> 01:54:59.560 They crossed each other like two ships in the night. In the smoke grenade, with the red ping, with the Yokas on the worst part of the stage, they hacked the cameras. 01:54:59.560 --> 01:55:05.560 The dead attackers were watching the Yoka drone, it's about to lose them the round, there's nothing they could do about it. 01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:07.960 No more Tokyo P4nkos, no nothing! 01:55:07.960 --> 01:55:13.360 And another huge clutch, I wanna hear the desk. What do you guys think about this VP performance? 01:55:13.360 --> 01:55:18.960 Well honestly, I'm not gonna lie Nick, that was insane. That was an insane way of losing the round. 01:55:18.960 --> 01:55:23.760 I will say this, there was one thing that was way more consistent in the way VP played and that was Skys. 01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:29.160 I mean if you take a look at the way he's been playing around the entire matchup, especially in the outside, it's actually insane. 01:55:29.160 --> 01:55:32.840 He always manages to find the right gaps on the room here with the double kill. 01:55:32.840 --> 01:55:38.200 And then on the next round, you see Moe, he's gonna hold with one eye here, gets aggressive on the Monti, gets the peek here. 01:55:38.200 --> 01:55:42.520 Jack, it's a consistent flow of kills on his side that really are pushing VP together. 01:55:42.520 --> 01:55:49.560 And do you know what's been quite funny? It was actually Skies and Neko before this game were not actually the hottest players in terms of VP's actual playstarts. 01:55:49.560 --> 01:55:53.800 Skies was in the mid-round and then Neko was clutching up those big moments in the late-round. 01:55:53.800 --> 01:55:57.320 And we're looking at another 5-1 split at the halftime. That's absolutely crazy. 01:55:57.320 --> 01:56:04.320 Yeah, honestly, looking at this player, I just want to see the stats as of now, right now it's 10 and 5, I mean, it's completely insane. 01:56:04.320 --> 01:56:07.320 It's 6 rounds in a row, he was already double digits the game before. 01:56:07.320 --> 01:56:13.320 I think we're seeing one of the main win conditions here, and once again, that's one more side with a 5-1 lead. 01:56:13.320 --> 01:56:19.320 I think they've capitalised actually really, really well on, I thought it's about Rebels in the free game, can they make the right decisions? 01:56:19.320 --> 01:56:26.320 I thought they made horrible decisions, they didn't run away the Azami, they only tapped Opsides into the Azami, and then the next time they did it, it was against the Clash, 01:56:26.320 --> 01:56:30.040 And who was there? Even when they dealt with the clash, Naco's clutch up. And I think realistically 01:56:30.040 --> 01:56:34.200 that's what they've had. They've had Skye's hitting well, they've had Naco hitting well, 01:56:34.200 --> 01:56:36.480 and they've had a team attacking against them, but that's probably why the team is 01:56:36.480 --> 01:56:39.280 attacking against them. That has not been that consistent. 01:56:39.280 --> 01:56:43.280 Yeah, and we look at the statistics right now, and Skye's is going crazy right now. 01:56:43.280 --> 01:56:46.480 Yeah, he's getting really impactful kills as well. That we're seeing in these rounds, 01:56:46.480 --> 01:56:50.000 absolutely amazing performance from him on this series so far, but he's putting a lot 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:53.920 of pressure on the shoulders of Rebels. Jack, you already talked about that decision making 01:56:53.920 --> 01:56:59.680 is absolutely not the way that it should be. We're going on to defense now. How could that be changing their decision making? 01:56:59.680 --> 01:57:04.160 Yeah, I think so. I think it's another 5-1 split. They will of course be going into a band phase. 01:57:04.160 --> 01:57:08.320 It's going to be very, very important for which bands come out. They've decided to take the Monty away, 01:57:08.320 --> 01:57:11.680 and I think actually that's really smart. We've seen how good Manko has been. We've seen how good 01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:15.520 Bert's probably been, particularly behind the shields. It should be a bit sort of like good. 01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:21.040 Let's not block me. It's glass. Okay. So I thought it's not a bad execute operator on that specifically. 01:57:21.040 --> 01:57:26.320 I'm just not sure about it. I'm not sure how I would buy it, you know, Blackbird is still up, Blitz is still up, 01:57:26.320 --> 01:57:30.960 Neko can still be terrorizing them on it. And look at what he's picked, Blackbird as soon as he did it. 01:57:30.960 --> 01:57:36.680 Straight away, even just a fast-forward lineup, there's a Grim, there's a Teimos coming out, there's a Blackbird. 01:57:36.680 --> 01:57:38.440 This is the lineups we want to see from them. 01:57:38.440 --> 01:57:44.720 Maybe if you two are confused, we can ask our casters in specific pingu, how are you feeling about the Alfredo Banz and the Alfredo Selective for the match? 01:57:44.720 --> 01:57:50.320 I'm not gonna lie, you know, I said, nah, not the double shield, surely not. 01:57:50.320 --> 01:57:53.640 And I don't think it's because of that idea from Alpha from Leo, it's like diminishing 01:57:53.640 --> 01:57:54.640 return. 01:57:54.640 --> 01:57:59.280 I'm actually a big disliker by double Harbridge ban, Bandit Khairi, double shield ban, because 01:57:59.280 --> 01:58:04.400 you leave so many power-ups open and available, like you said, the Grim, the Deimos, the Blackbeard, 01:58:04.400 --> 01:58:05.400 etc. 01:58:05.400 --> 01:58:09.400 And you can ban the Blackbeard and the Monts, but then there's no Blitz, like that's the point, 01:58:09.400 --> 01:58:10.400 right? 01:58:10.400 --> 01:58:14.240 Yeah, it's so tempting though, particularly the double Electro-Brow ban, I feel like as 01:58:14.240 --> 01:58:15.240 This is the best one. 01:58:15.240 --> 01:58:18.400 NKAA, you're like, well, we just don't have to pick that, 01:58:18.400 --> 01:58:19.400 so we don't have to pick MPs. 01:58:19.400 --> 01:58:20.680 We just complete changes. 01:58:20.680 --> 01:58:23.200 Same when you ban all three shields, for example. 01:58:23.200 --> 01:58:25.200 You're like, well, now I don't have to worry about shields. 01:58:25.200 --> 01:58:26.280 But there's a four. 01:58:26.280 --> 01:58:27.760 There's a few shields. 01:58:27.760 --> 01:58:30.800 Yeah, but I'm not anything we'll pick for you. 01:58:30.800 --> 01:58:32.680 Well, that's all those people. 01:58:32.680 --> 01:58:34.640 Yeah, yeah. 01:58:34.640 --> 01:58:35.480 Oh, man. 01:58:35.480 --> 01:58:39.080 I do love the little moment where the guys on the desk 01:58:39.080 --> 01:58:40.840 had a chance to talk about Skies. 01:58:40.840 --> 01:58:43.400 And it's not just him, but also NAKA, obviously. 01:58:43.400 --> 01:58:49.880 won the 1v1 at the end of that round and had a big 3k earlier on in one of these rounds. 01:58:49.880 --> 01:58:56.280 If the former Gen.G was who were rising up for VP and it's funny because this Gen.G roster right last year 01:58:56.280 --> 01:59:01.240 they were always like consistent mid-pack but challenging the top. They ended up top 4 at the end of 01:59:01.880 --> 01:59:08.120 EML and while they went to the EWC they failed to qualify for 6-in-1tation because they lost to 01:59:08.120 --> 01:59:13.840 Twisted minds and you know that was the moment I think all the team realized maybe we're best of when we're not together 01:59:15.520 --> 01:59:21.940 Guys are already looking far better with those pros than they ever did with Haster and a lambs on Genji 01:59:25.280 --> 01:59:29.880 This first I can say half of her makes me mean she's good and then the 01:59:30.800 --> 01:59:36.240 Differently there's some sounds I yelling at how you view the games be played a lambs you know 01:59:36.240 --> 01:59:40.460 years what we call like an old-school RGL he does come from that year one OG 01:59:40.460 --> 01:59:45.000 generation and maybe that's the different taste of what the other players 01:59:45.000 --> 01:59:48.280 that the newer blocks was because the fuckers look at this oh what are they I 01:59:48.280 --> 01:59:52.680 mean this is ridiculous right you're just fighting you're sacrificing like if you 01:59:52.680 --> 01:59:56.520 lose that run fight you lose all the key that's with us then trash it back onto our son 01:59:56.520 --> 02:00:02.280 that's a good pick at all you're right it's very risky from Linko but I do like it I do feel like 02:00:02.280 --> 02:00:06.380 I think Arte, using the T'Chang of Fire was probably a little bit overkill. 02:00:06.380 --> 02:00:09.880 I don't know what that really gave them, especially by investing so much. 02:00:09.880 --> 02:00:13.980 I guess he still has 11, so he has a decent amount left. 02:00:13.980 --> 02:00:16.180 But it looks like VP completely flipped the switch. 02:00:16.180 --> 02:00:18.480 They found the pick at the top of the other stairs, 02:00:18.480 --> 02:00:20.280 and now they're looking to try and poke on server. 02:00:20.280 --> 02:00:22.180 They got the Blackbeard very close by. 02:00:22.180 --> 02:00:24.080 I really like that deep edge. 02:00:24.080 --> 02:00:25.580 That's very unusual. 02:00:25.580 --> 02:00:27.680 It does prevent an aggressive peek. 02:00:27.680 --> 02:00:29.680 Gives a lot of a damage now to Dan. 02:00:29.680 --> 02:00:31.280 So they have Rorik on a display window, 02:00:31.280 --> 02:00:33.640 cutting off the bomb site. If they know that D-Test is clear, 02:00:33.640 --> 02:00:35.960 Levy can walk and just go for a plant here, and they can't really stop him. 02:00:35.960 --> 02:00:38.840 They have one C floor, that's the only win condition here, that's the lane. 02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:40.960 If he hits his C for the plant here, they might win the round. 02:00:40.960 --> 02:00:42.640 If he misses, the plant goes down. 02:00:42.640 --> 02:00:43.480 Oh, he's dead! 02:00:43.480 --> 02:00:44.160 He's dead! 02:00:44.160 --> 02:00:46.160 Tarzan is about to cut him down, there's good trade, 02:00:46.160 --> 02:00:48.480 but Pasha has been worth his weight for gold 02:00:48.480 --> 02:00:49.880 by finding that critical pick. 02:00:49.880 --> 02:00:52.120 Press shots though from Venom and Linko, 02:00:52.120 --> 02:00:54.960 Neko now has the clutch to 1v1, 02:00:54.960 --> 02:00:57.760 and Marzo, what? 02:00:57.760 --> 02:01:01.240 They got revealed outside, now he knows exactly where both of them are. 02:01:01.240 --> 02:01:03.800 He has the defuser. He can go for a plant if he wants. 02:01:04.300 --> 02:01:05.600 Put the shield on his back. 02:01:05.800 --> 02:01:07.500 You're right. Time is of the essence. 02:01:07.600 --> 02:01:08.840 It's a very risky play. 02:01:08.840 --> 02:01:10.400 He decides to put the shield on his back. 02:01:10.400 --> 02:01:12.800 It makes it a much faster aim-down sidestime. 02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:14.300 Martho and Link go for it. 02:01:14.300 --> 02:01:15.440 Put it up together. 02:01:15.440 --> 02:01:17.700 Humbling up, the shield protects him for a brief moment, 02:01:17.700 --> 02:01:19.300 but it doesn't matter in the end. 02:01:19.440 --> 02:01:21.600 The 2v1 will work out for Rebels. 02:01:21.940 --> 02:01:23.700 And it's no match point just yet. 02:01:23.700 --> 02:01:26.340 Zertis Pro Rebels find their second round. 02:01:26.940 --> 02:01:28.340 Really well played round. 02:01:28.340 --> 02:01:30.240 If you want to get very particular 02:01:30.240 --> 02:01:34.720 about some of the things that could be done better there for the attack of VP, it's how aggressively 02:01:34.720 --> 02:01:40.560 they were holding the rotation, right? They know that it's a vault rotate. They defend it to vault 02:01:40.560 --> 02:01:44.640 through that rotation, make a big sound cue, be stuck in animation, they can't ADS take the 02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:49.600 gunfight. Everyone's holding a very deep angle trying to cover Neko, but the second they take 02:01:49.600 --> 02:01:53.200 down Lemm's that only C4 and they knew that, right? They knew there was some more C4s because 02:01:53.200 --> 02:01:56.960 they saw all the up-and-down lineups revealed earlier than the gunfights. They could have just 02:01:56.960 --> 02:02:02.800 planned it, held the roadside very safely, and then when you fall through, that's when you kill Fennel and the Legion. 02:02:02.800 --> 02:02:07.140 But they wanted that deeper angle, and they just lost the prefire gunfire, that's really all that happened. 02:02:07.140 --> 02:02:12.120 Look at this, very aggressive angle number one, and for all that, that was the second one as well. 02:02:13.300 --> 02:02:21.300 Honestly, great, she did the NAFU trying to savage the round, going for a swing getting off the plant, but it's so tough in that 1v2, there's just no chance for teams in the second one. 02:02:21.300 --> 02:02:27.180 Now the one of those rounds that feels like a game of tug-of-war, you just keep flipping 02:02:27.180 --> 02:02:28.180 that coin. 02:02:28.180 --> 02:02:29.180 Alright, well who wins this fight? 02:02:29.180 --> 02:02:31.860 Oh, okay, now surely if you feel it, oh who wins this fight? 02:02:31.860 --> 02:02:33.340 Oh, surely Rebels are gonna win. 02:02:33.340 --> 02:02:36.260 Never mind, VP's back again. 02:02:36.260 --> 02:02:39.740 It's the chaos that 2026 Siege brings us and I really love it. 02:02:39.740 --> 02:02:44.540 Obviously that's a soft spot in my heart for the good old 20-second meta or the util sync 02:02:44.540 --> 02:02:45.540 meta. 02:02:45.540 --> 02:02:48.940 I prefer, I feel like it's a pro apps name than 20-second meta. 02:02:48.940 --> 02:02:55.860 These days, we just have so much variety in the way Siege is playing. It's all about the mid-round adaptation. 02:02:55.860 --> 02:02:58.860 VP did that perfectly. Rebel's full of that. 02:03:00.360 --> 02:03:02.860 VP is showing us some really good signs, though. 02:03:02.860 --> 02:03:06.360 Even after losing the first kill, there's a nice usage of the ram. 02:03:06.360 --> 02:03:11.360 Just to have a quick entry there for Pasha, breaks down the barricade and enables the jump very quickly. 02:03:12.360 --> 02:03:14.360 Sounds familiar, no? 02:03:14.360 --> 02:03:17.360 We were talking about this off-camera before, weren't we? 02:03:17.360 --> 02:03:21.600 Yeah, you're playing ranked and a ram did that to you, just killed him, that was it. 02:03:21.600 --> 02:03:31.600 It was so tilting bro, I was playing night haven labs on rafters and like yeah, ram just throws a thing into the window and chomps on him like dude why you playing ram on top floor? 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:40.400 Maybe he was proud of you, he did the same thing here, he roams clear, he gets a kill, he's gonna say worth it, even if there's no burst he's gone after the fact which of course passable to you. 02:03:40.400 --> 02:03:44.400 Dude, you get your one, that's the solo kill in the silencer right there, I got my kill. 02:03:44.400 --> 02:03:59.400 I had too long to get redundancy in the event as well. Not only have they got the ram, not only have they got the sledge, they even have breaching charges on Skies, so it allows them to play individually a little bit more aggressive, and I think that's another beautiful thing about 2026 games. 02:03:59.400 --> 02:04:06.400 No more is in the days if we have one operator for one role, and if he dies then we're done. No, we have everyone can do a little bit of everything. 02:04:06.400 --> 02:04:09.400 allows you to play a bit more unpredictably, a bit more aggressive. 02:04:09.400 --> 02:04:13.400 Didn't get the Goliath to the pretty big actually, the Nade went a little too deep, 02:04:13.400 --> 02:04:16.400 so second Nade gets tossed one out, and then clear it. 02:04:16.400 --> 02:04:21.400 Very important because if you don't clear that with a grenade, the smoke can pop it when he desires to, 02:04:21.400 --> 02:04:23.400 and his stall evens 20 straights back in. 02:04:23.400 --> 02:04:26.400 By donating it first, you take that ATC away from the defenders, 02:04:26.400 --> 02:04:29.400 and now you can force the play only being stopped by the toxic babes. 02:04:29.400 --> 02:04:32.400 There's a backup though, and as is the spare key back, 02:04:32.400 --> 02:04:37.960 You can patch up the floor and enable a limb to fall back or to push up and maybe hop on that staircase. 02:04:37.960 --> 02:04:39.400 It goes to Braxton BB. 02:04:39.800 --> 02:04:44.160 Oh, perfect. It's the legendary laser that's got to be burned, and indeed, 02:04:44.660 --> 02:04:46.660 Rorik walks right through it. 02:04:47.360 --> 02:04:51.520 But it's a big kill there from Naked. Great usage of the flashbang from Rorik to support. 02:04:51.520 --> 02:04:54.020 And now Rebels are really under the pump. 02:04:54.320 --> 02:04:57.400 Ashes forced back. Taking down from the vert, from Pasha. 02:04:57.400 --> 02:05:00.440 Indeed, our question has been answered, Pengui. 02:05:00.440 --> 02:05:03.480 He will not just use that ram for a fickle purpose. 02:05:03.480 --> 02:05:04.840 He will use it for the vert as well. 02:05:04.840 --> 02:05:06.120 Great shot onto Neko. 02:05:07.080 --> 02:05:10.040 Liku is under so much pressure vertically. 02:05:10.040 --> 02:05:11.560 A triple for Pasha on the round. 02:05:11.560 --> 02:05:12.920 It's just Matso left. 02:05:12.920 --> 02:05:17.160 One versus four, and this TCSG will not save him. 02:05:17.160 --> 02:05:18.440 The flashbang's coming out. 02:05:18.440 --> 02:05:19.720 The flooding to site. 02:05:19.720 --> 02:05:21.880 Rorrik to start forcing down that plant. 02:05:21.880 --> 02:05:23.800 I don't think he's going to be able to find an angle. 02:05:23.800 --> 02:05:26.440 He won't dedicate a round deep enough. 02:05:26.440 --> 02:05:35.440 and with two players upstairs on the third and two players deep inside, it's a classic lock-in for Virtus.Pro and with that, it's match point. 02:05:37.440 --> 02:05:52.440 I feel like if you took that exact same round, but flipped the teams, Virtus.Pro would somehow win it, because they'd have Skies or Neko on the staircase where a Lemsh was playing and then get two or three kills, playing somehow, right? 02:05:52.440 --> 02:05:57.440 But instead, it's like you put a Lemsh there, who's one of your more passive players, I would argue, right? 02:05:57.440 --> 02:05:59.940 And he just gets flashed and then killed by Blackbeard. 02:05:59.940 --> 02:06:04.740 There was no real fighting back. He tossed out a toxic babe, but it doesn't need to pop it before he dies. 02:06:04.740 --> 02:06:11.740 You kind of need to either play for time and just smoke, smoke, smoke, and now you're just kind of coped, and then whatever happens happens. 02:06:11.740 --> 02:06:19.940 Or you fight back. You swing, you jiggle, you look for that opening, because mind you, he could play at the top of that staircase against the Blackbeard. 02:06:19.940 --> 02:06:22.380 That's not a blitz. They can't blind you. 02:06:22.380 --> 02:06:26.140 So, maybe a bit more aggression, maybe a bit more full commitment. 02:06:26.140 --> 02:06:28.580 Ask the criminal, as I said, keep it off the floor, 02:06:28.580 --> 02:06:31.460 spread up the staircase, try and trade off his teammate, 02:06:31.460 --> 02:06:36.180 or keep something off and help Elimge escape back towards the bomb site. 02:06:36.180 --> 02:06:40.060 It doesn't feel like they're fully helping each other as much as they could have. 02:06:45.380 --> 02:06:48.100 Well, tactical timeout from Rebels now finished off. 02:06:48.100 --> 02:06:54.620 four match points and I'm talking match series points against them now and they have to make 02:06:54.620 --> 02:06:57.140 a big comeback on their defense. 02:06:57.140 --> 02:06:59.740 If they go to the split bomb side, it's not really split. 02:06:59.740 --> 02:07:00.740 Feels like a split bomb side, doesn't it? 02:07:00.740 --> 02:07:05.740 Because you have to play on the top floor to try and protect here in bumps and man, 02:07:05.740 --> 02:07:09.140 this is going to be a big investment into that top floor. 02:07:09.140 --> 02:07:11.540 A lot of roam game likely as well from the vigil. 02:07:11.540 --> 02:07:14.980 I don't know if that's going to be a loose roam or if he's going to be one of those 02:07:14.980 --> 02:07:21.980 player is hard playing on the zone above like a lens. 02:07:21.980 --> 02:07:27.100 Regardless, there's no second chances. You can't get anything wrong in the next four 02:07:27.100 --> 02:07:32.140 rounds. We have seen, so we've got people behind the curtain, people at home paying. 02:07:32.140 --> 02:07:37.700 We've got this beautiful, like, kind of tool round tracking device thing, website, thing. 02:07:37.700 --> 02:07:42.300 Okay, explain it very well. The DEZ has built and it shows the number of multi-kills and 02:07:42.300 --> 02:07:49.140 clutches per round. So we've had two 3ks from Skies, a 3k from Neko, a 1v1 from Neko, and 02:07:49.140 --> 02:07:55.940 a 3k from Pasha. No, no 3ks from Rebels, no clutches from Rebels. If you look at the 02:07:55.940 --> 02:08:00.380 first map as well, it's very much the same story, 1 3k from Asa and all the rest, it's 02:08:00.380 --> 02:08:06.900 Neko, Rorik and Skies. This has been sadly quite a one-sided game. Virtus.pro have been 02:08:06.900 --> 02:08:10.580 Better in the strategy, they've been better at the fragging, 02:08:10.580 --> 02:08:14.020 and overall, they are just so much more of a ready team 02:08:14.020 --> 02:08:16.340 to fight for a spot in Salt Lake City Major. 02:08:16.340 --> 02:08:18.580 That's what I was talking about before Lair's start. 02:08:18.580 --> 02:08:20.580 I was asked, can the Rebels come back? 02:08:20.580 --> 02:08:22.980 It was like, well, if Reefy don't get all these clutch rounds 02:08:22.980 --> 02:08:25.060 in huge moments, it's going to be a close game. 02:08:25.060 --> 02:08:28.100 But if they can shut them down, it could be a one-sided affair. 02:08:28.100 --> 02:08:29.820 They've not shut down their clutch ability, 02:08:29.820 --> 02:08:31.380 they've not shut down their star players, 02:08:31.380 --> 02:08:33.060 and honestly, Rebels, 02:08:33.060 --> 02:08:35.820 simplest way to describe how they lost these rounds tonight, 02:08:35.820 --> 02:08:42.060 They're just losing their gun size. They're not individually challenging V8 vs Pro 1-1 as effectively. 02:08:42.660 --> 02:08:47.100 But, in the last game strategy now, and not so much about the guns, look at the attacker line-up. 02:08:47.100 --> 02:08:51.860 Badger, Sends, Capital, they're on the green stairs with their rappel, watching down at a flank. 02:08:51.860 --> 02:08:56.700 And rebels don't have maybe estimated tools to counter, as you sometimes would. 02:08:56.700 --> 02:09:00.340 They're playing Vigil, who's just like a bit of a selfish operator, right? 02:09:00.340 --> 02:09:03.020 Can hide from certain gadgets, and the drones, the intel. 02:09:03.020 --> 02:09:05.860 What doesn't help you lock down the bombs particularly well? 02:09:05.860 --> 02:09:09.860 Let me have Ella, who's great when you're pushing into them taking those gunfights, 02:09:09.860 --> 02:09:12.460 but they're mostly out the building watching long angles. 02:09:12.460 --> 02:09:16.900 So it does feel a bit right now that Rebels don't have necessarily the best tools for the job, 02:09:16.900 --> 02:09:18.580 but you can go back to gunfights. 02:09:18.580 --> 02:09:21.460 They need to win their individual fights when they start to happen. 02:09:23.460 --> 02:09:27.500 We got eleven and seven skies, that's gonna be hard, but I guess here we go, okay? 02:09:27.500 --> 02:09:28.940 That's one for one? 02:09:28.940 --> 02:09:32.060 Not the end of the day for either team realistically. 02:09:32.060 --> 02:09:37.620 Obviously you lose a C4 on the valve, but yeah, you're right guys has already done his job on the thermite 02:09:37.620 --> 02:09:43.580 You lose your top frag which kind of sucks, but at the end of the day you back in all these other players to go big anyway 02:09:43.580 --> 02:09:45.340 So here in the side 02:09:45.340 --> 02:09:49.740 Deep here happy the fact of the thing of the ice is nothing actually will be executed because can't stop it 02:09:50.140 --> 02:09:52.860 They're since wall ways out and the impact the wall 02:09:56.860 --> 02:10:02.020 How do you afford to lose that that is such a critical kill and a critical 02:10:02.060 --> 02:10:06.920 Lots for rebels with lingo going down. That is surely the round and therefore the game 02:10:06.920 --> 02:10:09.340 It's a 4v3 the post plan for vertus pro 02:10:09.860 --> 02:10:17.300 And rebels seemingly have no idea how to play this on the retake as Dan shuts down a lens from the repel 02:10:17.540 --> 02:10:22.360 Ass with the boss fee. It's not what he needs, but it's all that he's got and voters pro 02:10:23.420 --> 02:10:27.740 Dominate over rebels. They squash this rebellion 02:10:27.740 --> 02:10:34.740 7-2 on left, it was 7-3 on clubhouse, and they retain their spot here in the upper brackets. 02:10:34.740 --> 02:10:41.740 It's another hard breaking round, the 1-1 trade is okay, yes move from side control, but they can't, you know. 02:10:41.740 --> 02:10:45.740 The impact grenades, the sense for the gap, there's all the scanners, the appendage going down, 02:10:45.740 --> 02:10:49.740 but man, at the end of the day the gunfire and this little window takes everything. 02:10:49.740 --> 02:10:54.740 Ah, don't go anywhere, we're back shortly for the desk breaking that game down. 02:15:57.740 --> 02:16:05.660 A dominant 2-0 victory, and therefore we get to speak to the victors. 02:16:05.660 --> 02:16:08.500 We should have an interview live from the studio here with Neko. 02:16:08.500 --> 02:16:11.260 Congratulations on the victory here. 02:16:11.260 --> 02:16:14.580 You're beating your former teammates, you're one step closer to Salt Lake City. 02:16:14.580 --> 02:16:15.580 How are you feeling? 02:16:15.580 --> 02:16:16.580 Yes. 02:16:16.580 --> 02:16:17.580 I'm feeling great. 02:16:17.580 --> 02:16:23.020 I think we did a good match, but on the two maps it was okay. 02:16:23.020 --> 02:16:24.020 So I'm feeling great. 02:16:24.020 --> 02:16:27.460 focus on semi-final for the major spots. 02:16:27.460 --> 02:16:31.460 I've got two questions for you Nekka. How did it feel to play up against your former 02:16:31.460 --> 02:16:35.460 teammates or a couple of your former teammates, fast and formless? 02:16:35.460 --> 02:16:45.140 I would say I feel a bit bad because like I love like it's still my close friend 02:16:45.140 --> 02:16:50.260 almost all of them I like them so like I mean in the game I don't care I'm here 02:16:50.260 --> 02:16:53.380 to win so I don't care what I'm playing against but now after the game I feel 02:16:53.380 --> 02:16:59.620 bit bad for them but I hope they will just bounce back from it and maybe they'll do a great run 02:16:59.620 --> 02:17:05.220 in the lower bracket. And then the second one is more about you and your team's map pool because 02:17:05.220 --> 02:17:08.980 you'll know you played against Virtus.Pro last year famously they struggled with some of the 02:17:08.980 --> 02:17:16.100 newer maps. Have we seen Virtus.Pro with a big map pool? I guess you will see for the next playday 02:17:16.100 --> 02:17:23.500 but I see some tweets about us having a very small map pool, but how do you know? 02:17:23.500 --> 02:17:26.100 Like, stop it, come on, you will see guys. 02:17:26.100 --> 02:17:30.100 You cannot say, still criticise, we are not the same team, three different players, 02:17:30.100 --> 02:17:32.100 one different coach, everything is different. 02:17:32.100 --> 02:17:38.100 So I think people should stop tweeting about us when they are not screaming with us. 02:17:38.100 --> 02:17:43.100 Yeah, and another IGL by the way, so I think that just changes things. 02:17:43.100 --> 02:17:48.060 I think looking at you, Neko, the last time and only time I think we had in an interview face to face 02:17:48.060 --> 02:17:54.140 was at EWC, your first international event and I just want to basically hear by winning you 02:17:54.140 --> 02:17:59.260 basically guarantee yourself that you have two BO3s post potentially and that if you only win 02:17:59.260 --> 02:18:05.340 one of the two you will make it to the major. Do you think that now with this team you have 02:18:05.340 --> 02:18:11.340 better chances to perform internationally and have a deep run at a major than you did going into EWC? 02:18:13.100 --> 02:18:30.600 I would say yes, like I'm not gonna lie, I'm really confident with this team, I think we have a huge potential from screen and even from match, from pressure, everything, like I'm just so confident with this team, I just love this team, so I think we could go far and major and qualify for it. 02:18:30.600 --> 02:18:43.000 Do you think that the experience from Pasha and Dan, because every time I saw these guys at LAN they went far, like they had something, do you think that their experience is going to help you guys, whether it's Neko and you, who don't have a Stimula international experience, 02:18:43.000 --> 02:18:46.360 but for Auric as well that didn't play on the video stages do you think they will 02:18:46.360 --> 02:18:51.560 help you guys have a deep run? Yeah I think so as you said full experience from 02:18:51.560 --> 02:18:56.160 them full just good runs everything they go to international event and they're 02:18:56.160 --> 02:19:00.520 already like I know sometimes in Russia I hear them like giving some advice to 02:19:00.520 --> 02:19:07.160 to Auric so of course whether it's like online any match anything for so far LAN 02:19:07.160 --> 02:19:11.800 event they will give us maybe some some advice from their experience and it 02:19:11.800 --> 02:19:13.800 it will definitely help us. 02:19:13.800 --> 02:19:17.100 It's awesome. I feel like the guys want to have a lot of things that they want to ask you. 02:19:17.100 --> 02:19:20.100 So I'm going to release you for now. I think you just have to win another game 02:19:20.100 --> 02:19:22.900 so they can ask you even more questions in the future. 02:19:22.900 --> 02:19:24.600 Thank you for your time, Neco, and good luck with your next game. 02:19:24.600 --> 02:19:26.400 Thank you guys. Have a good evening. 02:19:26.400 --> 02:19:27.400 Thank you, Niko. 02:19:27.400 --> 02:19:30.100 And in theory, the next time that we see Neco in the interview, 02:19:30.100 --> 02:19:33.200 you should be a qualified manager. Otherwise, we're not going to see him. 02:19:33.200 --> 02:19:36.300 I hope you're not going to manage himself on the right. 02:19:36.300 --> 02:19:37.700 Tell him how deep he's going to go. 02:19:37.700 --> 02:19:44.700 I feel bad, he said, with a smile on his face, you owe victory, he says, oh, it's okay. 02:19:44.700 --> 02:19:52.700 Evil Neko, unhinged Neko, that's what I'm going to call him. But now, like, why would you not, like, have a smile on your face when you're playing, playing with this roster? 02:19:52.700 --> 02:20:00.700 But I can't even describe it. I've gone from, like, a generational VP hater in their style and their map pool to, like, VP's number one fan. 02:20:00.700 --> 02:20:05.700 You know, they're playing a modern meta, they're doing it on big maps, they've got a good team play. 02:20:05.700 --> 02:20:10.700 And even when the team play slightly breaks out, as you would expect it to, because it's a new team, 02:20:10.700 --> 02:20:15.700 they've got big clutch players. Once again, he had three clutches coming in today in 4 maps. 02:20:15.700 --> 02:20:18.700 I think he picked up another couple across his best of 3 as well. 02:20:18.700 --> 02:20:21.700 That is absolutely phenomenal for a guy who's IGL in them. 02:20:21.700 --> 02:20:25.700 And then even when it doesn't quite go right, he's managing to find a way in the late round as well. 02:20:25.700 --> 02:20:31.700 Yeah, the impressive thing with me is that when I was talking to some of the top players on Falcons, on G2, 02:20:31.700 --> 02:20:34.240 When I spoke with Shaco about VP, he was like, 02:20:34.240 --> 02:20:37.240 Orgle will always be and try to pressure them enough 02:20:37.240 --> 02:20:38.740 so that the Cums will be like Luster, 02:20:38.740 --> 02:20:41.240 because we expect that it will create some kind of shift 02:20:41.240 --> 02:20:43.160 between the Russian players and the French players 02:20:43.160 --> 02:20:45.680 because they won't have so much of an English. 02:20:45.680 --> 02:20:49.320 And I'm still waiting to see them test it so hard 02:20:49.320 --> 02:20:52.520 that I see that communication struggling. 02:20:52.520 --> 02:20:53.840 Yeah, they look uncomfortable, don't they? 02:20:53.840 --> 02:20:54.680 Yeah. 02:20:54.680 --> 02:20:55.520 They do. 02:20:55.520 --> 02:20:57.920 And especially with people in that transfer window saying 02:20:57.920 --> 02:21:00.640 that like, oh, Virtus.Pro has lost this transfer window, 02:21:00.640 --> 02:21:04.080 But it more so seems that the skies is the limit for this team. 02:21:04.080 --> 02:21:05.800 The skies is the limit. 02:21:05.800 --> 02:21:07.000 I see what you did there then. 02:21:07.000 --> 02:21:08.000 I see what you did there. 02:21:08.000 --> 02:21:09.000 That was a pretty good one. 02:21:09.000 --> 02:21:10.000 He was phenomenal too. 02:21:10.000 --> 02:21:11.000 Look at him. 02:21:11.000 --> 02:21:17.240 He spread in his wings and he was flying for that as well. 02:21:17.240 --> 02:21:19.920 22 kills across the whole best of three. 02:21:19.920 --> 02:21:20.920 Pretty decent on the interest. 02:21:20.920 --> 02:21:23.480 It's worth noting you know, he's not the one that's playing the Flashy Operators as 02:21:23.480 --> 02:21:24.480 well. 02:21:24.480 --> 02:21:28.000 He plays some of the more cut off roles, some of the flank watchy roles, the breach of roles 02:21:28.000 --> 02:21:29.000 as well. 02:21:29.000 --> 02:21:32.140 doesn't play the best roles, and the fact that he was still excelling today is real 02:21:32.140 --> 02:21:33.140 testing. 02:21:33.140 --> 02:21:37.060 Yeah, what's important to me is that he's done that by doing it, like you said, on 02:21:37.060 --> 02:21:41.140 YouTube, the Bezo Berter, that was a triple kill that he had on Ying, by the way, and 02:21:41.140 --> 02:21:42.820 doing it on Smoke here on the basement. 02:21:42.820 --> 02:21:47.660 I'm looking at a player that was by far one of the worst raided on the roster. 02:21:47.660 --> 02:21:51.260 Neko was the worst raided, but he was the Agile, he was the shield player, so like he 02:21:51.260 --> 02:21:52.260 has an excuse, right? 02:21:52.260 --> 02:21:56.060 Force guys, despite him playing more of a passive role, it was still annoying to see 02:21:56.060 --> 02:22:00.660 We sort of had to head between him and the LEMs and us at the beginning of the match, Jack. 02:22:00.660 --> 02:22:04.160 And he was far behind, in terms of PPS, in terms of KD. 02:22:04.160 --> 02:22:07.960 I think it's also important for him to prove that he deserves his spot on the roster. 02:22:07.960 --> 02:22:11.960 His French teammate is the Agile. He has the voices, so he will always be worth it. 02:22:11.960 --> 02:22:15.560 Forced guys, he needed to prove it in another way, and I think he's proven it today. 02:22:15.560 --> 02:22:19.860 And it's a strong sign for VP as well, by the way, because we've gone through a whole VP game, 02:22:19.860 --> 02:22:22.360 basically where they've gone clean 2-0. 02:22:22.360 --> 02:22:25.460 We've not spoke about passion, really. We've not spoke about Dan. 02:22:25.460 --> 02:22:30.260 We did speak about work a little bit, but really, it's been the two French impulse into this roster that have shown. 02:22:30.460 --> 02:22:34.760 Yes, I want to give you guys something to think about because we've been talking so much positive about Verdesboro, right? 02:22:34.960 --> 02:22:39.460 Feel like in previous iterations of the EML, we've always had that top three that is untouched. 02:22:39.660 --> 02:22:44.960 It's always the Falcons, the Cheetsu, the Secret, but Secret's position being a little bit unsure right now in that lower bracket. 02:22:44.960 --> 02:22:49.160 Do we think Verdesboro might merge themselves inside that top three or even a top four? 02:22:49.160 --> 02:22:55.360 I think there's a huge opportunity to. I think the hour expectations of the big three in EML really, so far in kickoff has been shattered. 02:22:55.460 --> 02:22:58.860 with with secrets downfall and with really how well that's pro played and 02:22:58.860 --> 02:23:02.060 slot in there but there's a couple of back all teams in there as well you know 02:23:02.060 --> 02:23:03.900 twisted minds are not out of question 02:23:03.900 --> 02:23:07.100 secret cancel come back I would say realistically we're probably looking at 02:23:07.100 --> 02:23:11.700 a big two of falcons g2 with a cluster of teams fighting to be in the top four 02:23:11.700 --> 02:23:13.980 behind them. Exactly consistency is there the only 02:23:13.980 --> 02:23:17.340 reason I would say to that is I actually believe that VP's head and shoulders 02:23:17.340 --> 02:23:21.540 above every other contender in the top three. I think looking at this right now 02:23:21.540 --> 02:23:25.100 just based on kickoff I do think there's a clear top three I think it's falcons 02:23:25.100 --> 02:23:29.740 G2 MVP and I think that after this comes the fourth spot that is heavily in 02:23:29.740 --> 02:23:32.900 contention. Well they are the current top three instead of that upper bracket 02:23:32.900 --> 02:23:35.900 right in the next round. We have already an opponent for Falcons, they will be 02:23:35.900 --> 02:23:39.320 playing that Votersboro roster in their next matchup but we also need an 02:23:39.320 --> 02:23:43.500 opponent for G2. That opponent will either be Phenetic or Twisted Binds and 02:23:43.500 --> 02:23:46.460 will determine it after the break. 02:27:25.100 --> 02:27:32.780 We are moving to the day fast here at our first day in the studio for the email playoffs 02:27:32.780 --> 02:27:33.780 for kickoff. 02:27:33.780 --> 02:27:35.940 Our second best of three is just about to start. 02:27:35.940 --> 02:27:38.900 We have Trist of Mines going up against Fanatic, the last time they played against each other 02:27:38.900 --> 02:27:43.500 inside a best of one it was a near victory for Twisted Mines. 02:27:43.500 --> 02:27:46.900 Rusters may have changed and things may have changed on the side of Twisted Mines as well. 02:27:46.900 --> 02:27:51.180 When we look at that roster in particular, there are some big differences over on their 02:27:51.180 --> 02:27:52.180 attack and defense. 02:27:52.180 --> 02:27:56.680 Yeah, I think it's been an issue that was raised by many players that faced them in the matches, in post-interview. 02:27:56.680 --> 02:27:58.680 When they won against them, they were like, it's crazy. 02:27:58.680 --> 02:28:04.380 We faced a fire when they're in defense, they go crazy and then when they're in attack, what happens? 02:28:04.380 --> 02:28:08.180 If we look at the statistics, actually, you'll see the heavy difference between the two sides. 02:28:08.180 --> 02:28:13.980 You know, in one side we've got a heavy defense win rate, but they're quite aggressive, they're the false best rated, 02:28:13.980 --> 02:28:16.180 and then we look at their attacks and they're struggling. 02:28:16.180 --> 02:28:20.380 The entry rate is also much better in defense than in attack. 02:28:20.380 --> 02:28:26.520 Almost everywhere the entry is much quicker when they're in defense because they go very aggressive compared to the attack 02:28:26.520 --> 02:28:28.520 Yeah, there is something like that is 02:28:29.280 --> 02:28:32.880 Really wrong with the way that they play the attack versus the defense 02:28:32.880 --> 02:28:34.720 I agree and it's all well and good good 02:28:34.720 --> 02:28:38.080 I was just saying it and putting it on the start and throwing it on the graphic 02:28:38.080 --> 02:28:40.840 But actually I wanted to show you because I wanted to show you just how crazy 02:28:41.320 --> 02:28:48.000 Twisted mines can be this is one of their rounds in punch like a GK kill outside of the building onto a player plays in your play 02:28:48.000 --> 02:28:53.600 That's the very first kill of the round outside C4. They're getting aggressive. They're getting in your face 02:28:53.600 --> 02:28:57.440 They're not waiting for utility. They're not waiting for plants doesn't stop there 02:28:57.880 --> 02:29:01.720 Absolute floorbind based off of our camera. It's aggressive. It's in your face 02:29:01.760 --> 02:29:06.080 This is what I talk about and what people have to play against when they play because Swiss demand 02:29:06.080 --> 02:29:07.040 They know it's coming 02:29:07.040 --> 02:29:11.440 They're gonna be in places that you don't necessarily expect you hopped on the other skylight 20 a minute left 02:29:11.440 --> 02:29:16.040 You don't expect somebody there. You keep they carry on peaking even in the fourth versus one here by the way 02:29:16.040 --> 02:29:18.880 This is to stop peeking at an attacker in a 4v1 squad. 02:29:18.880 --> 02:29:21.640 That's their identity, that's what makes them strong, 02:29:21.640 --> 02:29:24.120 and that is what they do well on their defense. 02:29:24.120 --> 02:29:26.520 So they're relentless, they're unpredictable, they're chaotic, 02:29:26.520 --> 02:29:28.360 and they abuse their individual power. 02:29:28.360 --> 02:29:29.800 They all have incredible aim. 02:29:29.800 --> 02:29:30.120 Yeah. 02:29:30.120 --> 02:29:33.080 Now let's switch to attack, and let's take a look at that playstyle, 02:29:33.080 --> 02:29:35.240 because I'm still expecting that to happen. 02:29:35.240 --> 02:29:35.960 Well, look at this. 02:29:35.960 --> 02:29:38.600 Two minutes and 17, that was the first breach. 02:29:38.600 --> 02:29:40.600 156, that's the first guy in the building. 02:29:41.160 --> 02:29:43.320 20 seconds later, second guy in the building. 02:29:43.320 --> 02:29:44.280 Okay, cool. 02:29:44.280 --> 02:29:45.800 First encounter with a defender, 02:29:45.800 --> 02:29:51.720 that's at 1m30. First kill. They die here at 1.15. They have zero control. That guy is still 02:29:51.720 --> 02:29:56.440 outside the building at 1.12. That guy just barely got into Vizag at 1.12. And that guy is still 02:29:56.440 --> 02:30:01.560 also outside at 1.12. What are these guys doing? They're planting at 45. They're in 45. They have 02:30:01.560 --> 02:30:05.880 zero map control. So obviously, the defenders are gonna go and collapse on these guys because they 02:30:05.880 --> 02:30:10.680 had zero map control. So a first player dies. It's a 5v3. The smoke can just retake towards the 02:30:10.680 --> 02:30:15.960 the Monty and the rest of the opponents collapse on them. What do we learn here, Jack? That 02:30:15.960 --> 02:30:21.480 at 112, two players were still outside. They love to be outside, but in defense. 02:30:21.480 --> 02:30:25.920 And I think that's from the same game. Both of those clips are from exactly the same game. 02:30:25.920 --> 02:30:29.000 It feels like it's a completely different identity. I don't know if they're just getting 02:30:29.000 --> 02:30:32.520 a little bit stuck problem-solving, but we're expecting them, and all the teams are expecting 02:30:32.520 --> 02:30:35.000 them, to take so many more risks on their attack. 02:30:35.000 --> 02:30:38.800 So you're playing very two different halves of what you're playing, Twisted Minds, but 02:30:38.800 --> 02:30:49.800 Nadek can add that even more, right? They can play two different halves inside one round, especially on the attacks, it can start so well and then somehow they find a way to throw these attacking rounds away. 02:30:49.800 --> 02:30:59.800 It's always the same issue with Nadek, is that you can see the game plan, you can see that it's a great game plan, you can see the first step is good, the second one is, oh wow, and then there's the end. 02:30:59.800 --> 02:31:05.400 always happens somehow in the late round there's something that just does not work. They are the 02:31:05.400 --> 02:31:09.880 certain best team when it comes to planting Jack, but they're the worst one still in tournament 02:31:09.880 --> 02:31:15.320 when it comes to winning an attack. It's crazy and I mean look at those stats by the way as funny as 02:31:15.320 --> 02:31:23.480 the meme is, it is funny. 38.1% plant rate, 38.1% attack win rate. They want to have won every round 02:31:23.480 --> 02:31:27.880 that they plant, so what does that tell me? It tells me fanatic are actually a little bit weak 02:31:27.880 --> 02:31:29.880 that. You can see that 02:31:29.880 --> 02:31:31.880 actually they're good at the 02:31:31.880 --> 02:31:32.880 entry. The fourth best team in 02:31:32.880 --> 02:31:33.880 the ML entry. That's not bad, 02:31:33.880 --> 02:31:34.880 is it? Especially considering 02:31:34.880 --> 02:31:35.880 some of the teams that we've 02:31:35.880 --> 02:31:37.880 got in there. Conversion, though. 02:31:37.880 --> 02:31:38.880 Getting that entry kill into 02:31:38.880 --> 02:31:41.880 around when nine best three 02:31:41.880 --> 02:31:43.880 three K slash 4 K rounds. 10th 02:31:43.880 --> 02:31:44.880 best. They don't really get 02:31:44.880 --> 02:31:45.880 them. They don't really have 02:31:45.880 --> 02:31:47.880 the pop off players. They don't 02:31:47.880 --> 02:31:48.880 really have a lot of what she's 02:31:48.880 --> 02:31:50.880 won. And that's the one thing 02:31:50.880 --> 02:31:51.880 that I would say about 02:31:51.880 --> 02:31:52.880 fanatic is and we saw this in 02:31:52.880 --> 02:31:53.880 the game against G2. They're 02:31:53.880 --> 02:31:55.880 doing things right, but when 02:31:55.880 --> 02:31:59.680 that's where they seem to be 02:31:59.680 --> 02:32:00.880 like. Maybe a bit of a voice 02:32:00.880 --> 02:32:01.880 inside of the team as well. 02:32:01.880 --> 02:32:02.880 That might be like in some 02:32:02.880 --> 02:32:04.880 situations that we talked about 02:32:04.880 --> 02:32:05.880 the players about that voice in 02:32:05.880 --> 02:32:06.880 the team a little bit, but 02:32:06.880 --> 02:32:08.880 they'll have to prove it today 02:32:08.880 --> 02:32:09.880 inside a best of three. I want 02:32:09.880 --> 02:32:10.880 to see the maps because if we 02:32:10.880 --> 02:32:11.880 talk about the attack and the 02:32:11.880 --> 02:32:12.880 attack being such a big 02:32:12.880 --> 02:32:14.880 struggle for both these teams, 02:32:14.880 --> 02:32:15.880 I wonder how that's going to 02:32:15.880 --> 02:32:16.880 unfold on a map like cafe where 02:32:16.880 --> 02:32:17.880 it already is, but I think 02:32:17.880 --> 02:32:18.880 it's going to be a little 02:32:18.880 --> 02:32:19.880 different. I think it's going 02:32:19.880 --> 02:32:20.880 to be a little bit different 02:32:20.880 --> 02:32:21.880 from what we're talking about 02:32:21.880 --> 02:32:22.880 today. I think it's going to 02:32:22.880 --> 02:32:23.880 be a little bit different 02:32:23.880 --> 02:32:24.880 from what we're talking about 02:32:24.880 --> 02:32:28.900 matchup. Well, were you 02:32:29.000 --> 02:32:30.140 more excited to see a cafe 02:32:30.240 --> 02:32:30.840 where it already is so 02:32:30.980 --> 02:32:32.800 difficult to tell you what I 02:32:32.900 --> 02:32:33.840 did not expect to ever see 02:32:33.940 --> 02:32:34.840 fanatic play cafe again 02:32:34.940 --> 02:32:35.500 because they didn't win a 02:32:35.600 --> 02:32:37.500 lot in the whole of 2025. In 02:32:37.600 --> 02:32:38.200 fact, they should have been 02:32:38.300 --> 02:32:38.880 relegated based on their 02:32:38.980 --> 02:32:42.080 results. The map that they 02:32:42.180 --> 02:32:42.940 did win was on cafe, so I was 02:32:43.040 --> 02:32:44.740 actually very, very surprised 02:32:44.840 --> 02:32:46.400 to see this allowed through 02:32:46.500 --> 02:32:46.740 the veto. No surprise 02:32:46.840 --> 02:32:47.780 therefore that for nothing 02:32:47.880 --> 02:32:49.740 affected straight away. And 02:32:49.840 --> 02:32:50.280 then the final map that stands 02:32:50.380 --> 02:32:51.340 up to me actually is going to 02:32:51.440 --> 02:32:53.380 be fortress because the last 02:32:53.480 --> 02:32:54.040 two times speaking only from a 02:32:54.040 --> 02:32:59.000 twice, including last playday against G2 where they got 7-0. And Twisted Minds, that was the map they 02:32:59.000 --> 02:33:03.560 came out the blocks on when they played up against Team Secret and they were aggressive and we thought 02:33:03.560 --> 02:33:07.400 hey we've got Twisted Minds in this league that's going to go for. And then in the middle, even that 02:33:07.400 --> 02:33:14.440 one, Labs, Fnatic, they played it twice last stage. G2, match go, lost it every single time. A 0% win rate 02:33:14.440 --> 02:33:18.760 at the tier 1 level. And then Twisted Minds, I don't think I recall seeing them play that map, 02:33:18.760 --> 02:33:24.840 So I have no clue on how good they are, but the record from Fnatic alone makes it interesting to pick into. 02:33:24.840 --> 02:33:27.320 Feels like Fnatic, certainly subjective in my mind. 02:33:27.320 --> 02:33:30.040 Feels like I've got to get it done too, because I do worry about my fortress. 02:33:30.040 --> 02:33:34.360 Yeah, so it's a worrying sight, and if we do get to that final map, when the game is almost ready, 02:33:34.360 --> 02:33:37.960 and I've got good news for you, Jack, because your favorite caster is... 02:33:37.960 --> 02:33:38.460 Ace! 02:33:38.460 --> 02:33:39.720 It's Ace the final caster! 02:33:39.720 --> 02:33:41.640 I thought you were just going to go on about this! 02:33:41.640 --> 02:33:42.600 Here I get it in the background! 02:33:42.600 --> 02:33:43.720 Ace is caster, there we go! 02:33:43.720 --> 02:33:46.520 My name's Eddes, for this final game of the day. 02:33:46.520 --> 02:33:50.320 to be a little bit more. But 02:33:50.320 --> 02:33:51.640 what I mean is, obviously, 02:33:51.640 --> 02:33:52.280 guys. How are we feeling about 02:33:52.280 --> 02:33:54.840 the matter we got for ourselves 02:33:54.840 --> 02:33:56.540 today? Yeah, really good. But I 02:33:56.540 --> 02:33:57.540 am falling for that bait and 02:33:57.540 --> 02:33:58.680 newest. You're still saying 02:33:58.680 --> 02:33:59.480 you and I weren't falling for 02:33:59.480 --> 02:34:00.420 that. I wasn't having it. I 02:34:00.420 --> 02:34:02.380 wasn't having it. Go on. Go on. 02:34:02.380 --> 02:34:03.640 Save you. If your favorite 02:34:03.640 --> 02:34:04.440 cast can respond. I was having 02:34:04.440 --> 02:34:06.120 all of it to be fair. I was 02:34:06.120 --> 02:34:09.440 having all of that. That seemed 02:34:09.440 --> 02:34:10.520 very legitimate and genuine to 02:34:10.520 --> 02:34:12.080 me. Tim did beat me in the go 02:34:12.080 --> 02:34:13.040 cart and so I do have to 02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:14.080 respect him, but there's I 02:34:14.080 --> 02:34:15.640 managed to beat you. Very 02:34:15.640 --> 02:34:17.640 I think it's time to talk about 02:34:17.640 --> 02:34:19.640 a match that is ready to start. 02:34:19.640 --> 02:34:21.640 So you do take it away. Thank 02:34:21.640 --> 02:34:23.640 you very much. Yes, this is 02:34:23.640 --> 02:34:25.640 going to be one hell of a series 02:34:25.640 --> 02:34:27.640 team really excited to see how it 02:34:27.640 --> 02:34:29.640 plays out because the last two 02:34:29.640 --> 02:34:31.640 times it's been pretty fateful 02:34:31.640 --> 02:34:33.640 out there. I mean, it's been a 02:34:33.640 --> 02:34:35.640 lot of fun. It's been a lot of 02:34:35.640 --> 02:34:37.640 fun. It's been a lot of fun. It's 02:34:37.640 --> 02:34:39.640 been a lot of fun. It's been a 02:34:39.640 --> 02:34:41.640 lot of fun. It's been a lot of 02:34:41.640 --> 02:34:43.640 fun. It's been a lot of fun. It's 02:34:43.640 --> 02:34:45.640 the first time in a while. 02:34:45.740 --> 02:34:46.640 It's been a long time. It's 02:34:46.740 --> 02:34:47.640 been a long time. It's been 02:34:47.740 --> 02:34:49.640 pretty fateful outcomes between 02:34:49.740 --> 02:34:51.640 these two teams. It was in the 02:34:51.740 --> 02:34:53.640 SI polls. Guess if that's it 02:34:53.740 --> 02:34:55.640 lost both of those calls to 02:34:55.740 --> 02:34:57.640 Tim, who did they lose both of 02:34:57.740 --> 02:34:59.640 those calls to test? They lost 02:34:59.740 --> 02:35:01.640 it. Tim to twisted mind. Well, 02:35:01.740 --> 02:35:03.640 would you believe it today is 02:35:03.740 --> 02:35:04.640 the one that sent them home 02:35:04.740 --> 02:35:05.640 from both goals. They're not 02:35:05.740 --> 02:35:06.640 quite send them home today. 02:35:06.740 --> 02:35:07.640 So this is the upper bracket, 02:35:07.740 --> 02:35:09.640 but it's still quite a fateful 02:35:09.740 --> 02:35:10.640 reencounter. We get to kick 02:35:10.740 --> 02:35:11.640 things off on cafe. So let's 02:35:11.640 --> 02:35:15.500 to get to you. It's been on 02:35:15.640 --> 02:35:17.240 this roll, of course, to ride. 02:35:17.340 --> 02:35:18.440 You could look at it and say, 02:35:18.540 --> 02:35:19.640 you know, those results through 02:35:19.740 --> 02:35:21.340 kickoff maybe expected losses 02:35:21.440 --> 02:35:23.340 to G2 VP. Okay. Um you know, 02:35:23.440 --> 02:35:24.540 wins against the other two, but 02:35:24.640 --> 02:35:26.540 I look at that and I think it's 02:35:26.640 --> 02:35:28.040 the performances that have 02:35:28.140 --> 02:35:29.540 surprised me as well. It's, 02:35:29.640 --> 02:35:30.540 you know, like they just 02:35:30.640 --> 02:35:31.540 haven't turned up for some of 02:35:31.640 --> 02:35:32.540 those games and then others 02:35:32.640 --> 02:35:34.540 look quite dominant. So, um, 02:35:34.640 --> 02:35:35.540 yeah, funny old team at the 02:35:35.640 --> 02:35:38.540 minute of fanatic and in terms 02:35:38.640 --> 02:35:40.540 of results, they've got, you 02:35:40.540 --> 02:35:43.420 up. And we have a lot of 02:35:43.520 --> 02:35:45.380 players who have a lot of 02:35:45.480 --> 02:35:46.480 results and positioning this 02:35:46.580 --> 02:35:49.280 is better than anything they 02:35:49.380 --> 02:35:51.280 achieve last year, so. Being in 02:35:51.380 --> 02:35:52.580 the upper bracket great for 02:35:52.680 --> 02:35:55.520 fanatic. Just got to do 02:35:55.620 --> 02:35:57.020 something with it now? Yeah 02:35:57.120 --> 02:35:58.520 I mean, I was looking back at 02:35:58.620 --> 02:35:59.520 all the stages. It's 2024. 02:35:59.620 --> 02:36:00.720 Admittedly, this is, of course, 02:36:00.820 --> 02:36:02.240 a different roster, but the 02:36:02.340 --> 02:36:04.240 fanatic organization has had a 02:36:04.340 --> 02:36:04.740 little bit of struggle to 02:36:04.840 --> 02:36:06.140 think only one of the stages 02:36:06.240 --> 02:36:07.680 they've played since the start 02:36:07.680 --> 02:36:11.920 back of the stage and obviously they want to put on a little bit of a show. And you heard the 02:36:11.920 --> 02:36:15.680 dare-speaking about their losses near the attacking win rate versus the plank win rate. 02:36:15.680 --> 02:36:19.440 A lot of the losses they've taken have come through Fortress, which is why I'm quite nervous 02:36:19.440 --> 02:36:24.640 that it's part of this map veto. They've only won one of 12 potential attacking rounds on that map 02:36:24.640 --> 02:36:28.960 throughout the stage. Yes, against our two of our besties in the competition, but it still makes 02:36:28.960 --> 02:36:32.960 me nervous to be getting there. And basically, looking from these two teams, I would be sure 02:36:32.960 --> 02:36:35.960 I don't know if we can get to the three maps today. 02:36:35.960 --> 02:36:37.960 Well, let's get into it. 02:36:37.960 --> 02:36:44.960 We've got round one of Café and it's going to be up on the top floor. 02:36:44.960 --> 02:36:46.960 Exciting stuff, Des. 02:36:46.960 --> 02:36:48.960 It's thrilling for you, mate, I'm sure. 02:36:48.960 --> 02:36:55.960 Hmm. Do you know what is the current worst defensive side on Café in EML's hit-off? 02:36:55.960 --> 02:36:57.960 I don't, Tim. What is it? 02:36:57.960 --> 02:37:01.960 Statistically, this might surprise you, Des, but it's the top floor. 02:37:01.960 --> 02:37:07.960 Um, it's a small sample size. We've always seen it play three times, but guess what? 02:37:07.960 --> 02:37:17.960 We've seen it lost three times by the defence. It's currently size zero percent, but continues to be the first choice size. 02:37:17.960 --> 02:37:25.960 Somebody explain it to me. Explain it to me like I'm five, because I just don't get it. 02:37:25.960 --> 02:37:30.960 You know, I'm going to be very curious. I'm going to go and find out what it is globally throughout all the kickoff, and I'll let you know in a minute. 02:37:30.960 --> 02:37:37.460 You going on a little with the minute into the round here. We don't have an entry kill yet, which is bang on par for fanatic 02:37:37.460 --> 02:37:42.360 It's what we were talking about on the desk, but that is significantly quicker for them crops 02:37:42.600 --> 02:37:46.680 Managers to get that opener within the first minute taking down your lad 02:37:46.680 --> 02:37:48.000 That's the mute gun as well 02:37:48.000 --> 02:37:53.720 So you're not gaining much in terms of utility, but you do take away some big big weaponry 02:37:53.720 --> 02:37:58.880 What is your laughing? What's the defensive win rate globally in kickoff my day? 02:38:00.960 --> 02:38:06.240 It's 56% Tim, which don't sound too bad, but it decides it's 61, 62 and 70. 02:38:06.240 --> 02:38:09.120 So it's the worst site on the map, is what you're telling me. 02:38:09.120 --> 02:38:11.280 It's been for many years now, I believe. 02:38:11.280 --> 02:38:13.680 And it still continues to be picked. 02:38:13.680 --> 02:38:14.560 It's number one. 02:38:14.560 --> 02:38:15.440 It's going to carry on. 02:38:15.440 --> 02:38:17.040 Look, because now it's a currently unmarked spot. 02:38:17.040 --> 02:38:18.160 Continue to rant about it. 02:38:19.600 --> 02:38:20.400 I'm going to try to catch up. 02:38:20.400 --> 02:38:23.600 I've not got any idea, but if a 3B tricks it again a little bit, 02:38:23.600 --> 02:38:24.960 but 3B back for his side. 02:38:24.960 --> 02:38:28.320 It does seem to be a 3 versus 4 for twisted minds, but Tim, 02:38:28.320 --> 02:38:32.960 Surely for now they can't sleep themselves giving away what I started out as a great advantage for them. 02:38:32.960 --> 02:38:34.800 Here we go, Crocs and him for one. 02:38:34.800 --> 02:38:37.440 Deeper come to a note that this is now looking much better. 02:38:37.440 --> 02:38:40.960 And they're letting the one versus four doves downstairs on the Solis. 02:38:40.960 --> 02:38:44.400 One of their most played operators on this team is worth stressing as well. 02:38:44.400 --> 02:38:47.280 But I don't think even he could pull off a 1v4 to him. 02:38:47.280 --> 02:38:49.120 Now it's going to be tough. I mean he does have the Solis. 02:38:49.120 --> 02:38:53.200 He could play around, you know, preventing a plant or anything like that. 02:38:53.200 --> 02:38:54.640 But what of the opportunity? 02:38:54.640 --> 02:38:56.800 Crocs manages to get it big round from Crocs. 02:38:56.800 --> 02:39:01.800 the game. I'm not sure if 02:39:01.800 --> 02:39:02.800 he knows. He knows. He knows. 02:39:02.800 --> 02:39:04.800 I love this. Um we've got this 02:39:04.800 --> 02:39:05.800 kind of new vein from the 02:39:05.800 --> 02:39:07.800 players. Haven't we where it's 02:39:07.800 --> 02:39:08.800 like, you know, they really are 02:39:08.800 --> 02:39:10.800 playing up to the cameras. Some 02:39:10.800 --> 02:39:11.800 of it, and I'm here for it. I 02:39:11.800 --> 02:39:12.800 love it. We've seen Shackle 02:39:12.800 --> 02:39:14.800 eating his popcorn. We've seen 02:39:14.800 --> 02:39:16.800 a lens sipping out of his secret 02:39:16.800 --> 02:39:18.800 mug. Um you know, we've had 02:39:18.800 --> 02:39:19.800 we've had some beauties to kick 02:39:19.800 --> 02:39:21.800 off so fast. Carry it. Oh, what 02:39:21.800 --> 02:39:22.800 was the other one we had? Who 02:39:22.800 --> 02:39:23.800 was it that was putting players 02:39:23.800 --> 02:39:25.800 in his pocket? I can't remember 02:39:25.800 --> 02:39:29.400 the other day. Thank you very 02:39:29.400 --> 02:39:31.800 much to our wonderful 02:39:32.000 --> 02:39:33.900 Observers who just whispered 02:39:33.900 --> 02:39:35.900 that to me. Um, but yeah, 02:39:35.900 --> 02:39:37.900 brilliant stuff coming in from 02:39:37.900 --> 02:39:39.900 fanatic. Let's focus on them 02:39:39.900 --> 02:39:41.900 for a moment. They just walk 02:39:41.900 --> 02:39:43.900 on the desk heavily about 02:39:43.900 --> 02:39:45.900 fanatic struggle on attacks. 02:39:45.900 --> 02:39:46.900 They're great at getting the 02:39:46.900 --> 02:39:47.900 diffuser down bad at winning 02:39:47.900 --> 02:39:49.900 the attacks. You know, overall 02:39:49.900 --> 02:39:51.900 attacking win rate 38% three 02:39:51.900 --> 02:39:53.900 kickoff. So to improve on that 02:39:53.900 --> 02:39:57.900 that. Anything more than two 02:39:57.900 --> 02:39:58.900 attacks here and they've 02:39:58.900 --> 02:39:59.900 improved on that performance 02:39:59.900 --> 02:40:01.900 that they've given us throughout 02:40:01.900 --> 02:40:02.900 the stage. So, uh, really, 02:40:02.900 --> 02:40:03.900 really important start for them. 02:40:03.900 --> 02:40:05.900 I think getting that first 02:40:05.900 --> 02:40:07.900 attack cafe, not always an easy 02:40:07.900 --> 02:40:08.900 map to attack. You know, you've 02:40:08.900 --> 02:40:09.900 gone over the stats there does 02:40:09.900 --> 02:40:11.900 and the worst defensive side 02:40:11.900 --> 02:40:13.900 has a 56% defensive win rate 02:40:13.900 --> 02:40:15.900 globally. So, you know, it is a 02:40:15.900 --> 02:40:16.900 map that can be difficult to 02:40:16.900 --> 02:40:18.900 attack. The defensive blues does 02:40:18.900 --> 02:40:19.900 at the minute have a bit of an 02:40:19.900 --> 02:40:21.900 advantage here. So yeah, great 02:40:21.900 --> 02:40:27.580 that the death mansion was having those players that can go head-to-head with a stomping with a 02:40:27.580 --> 02:40:31.740 June with these players that are going to put up big numbers having that hero player that's going 02:40:31.740 --> 02:40:36.620 to deliver. Perhaps just come out and put that beautifully in 4-0 or so. You know what I was 02:40:36.620 --> 02:40:42.220 digging to find out? A time range where it wasn't the worst site and the closest I've got in the 02:40:42.220 --> 02:40:48.700 last year is actually the entirety of the last year and Tim you will love this in Hyde for work. 02:40:48.700 --> 02:41:06.700 I've been making of it for the last three years, this which is me start looking at defensive side being picked first time every I think it's just comfort me and I've even had teams I've even had players and cars and so you really hit top look at the lap what's the problem. 02:41:06.700 --> 02:41:10.600 time every I think it's just comfort me and I've even had teams I've even had 02:41:10.600 --> 02:41:14.060 players and coaches and say oh you really hit top look I feel like what's the 02:41:14.060 --> 02:41:17.980 problem another opener for Freckler for a Crocs in this low so I'll be talking about 02:41:17.980 --> 02:41:21.700 Freck's celebration he's not playing Crocs manages to get another one wizard is 02:41:21.700 --> 02:41:25.340 there they get dead shot back on his feet as well important stuff and another 02:41:25.340 --> 02:41:29.140 great attacking start from Fnatic but yeah I've literally had players and 02:41:29.140 --> 02:41:32.140 coaches asked me and be like why and I've said why are you playing it it's no 02:41:32.140 --> 02:41:36.020 Like, they get it's lost more than any other site by defenders on the right. 02:41:36.020 --> 02:41:37.820 They're like, well, we really like it. 02:41:37.820 --> 02:41:39.300 It's a good site for us. 02:41:39.300 --> 02:41:42.500 And I'm looking at the numbers thinking it's a good site for anyone. 02:41:42.500 --> 02:41:45.300 But, here we stand. 02:41:45.300 --> 02:41:47.740 Now, this is something the guy spoke about in the first part of the game, 02:41:47.740 --> 02:41:50.100 was the aggression that you often see coming out of twisted minds. 02:41:50.100 --> 02:41:52.100 We remarked in this cast in them last week as well. 02:41:52.100 --> 02:41:54.860 They've always been this aggressive group of players. 02:41:54.860 --> 02:41:56.860 But ever since you first saw the appearing numbers here, 02:41:56.860 --> 02:41:59.260 all those years ago, aggression has been the name of their game. 02:41:59.260 --> 02:42:01.260 And they've added depth to their game. 02:42:01.260 --> 02:42:04.460 The thing is, they had a bit of risk in playing some aggressive very early on here. 02:42:04.460 --> 02:42:09.660 Like, three players upstairs have gone down very quickly, unless they can get something like this on the go, 02:42:09.660 --> 02:42:12.940 which is a little bit of magic out of a shot and needs to really find another here. 02:42:12.940 --> 02:42:16.060 Then I was going to say, it gives Spanak a lot of time to make these attacks work, 02:42:16.060 --> 02:42:21.020 but they get down towards Wizard Thim. They were 3v5 and now suddenly it's time to look like a 3v3. 02:42:21.580 --> 02:42:23.980 Yeah, for that I didn't need to make sure that I don't give this round away. 02:42:23.980 --> 02:42:27.740 We've spoken about the importance of them improving those attacking stats, 02:42:27.740 --> 02:42:29.940 and this was a great opportunity to do so. 02:42:29.940 --> 02:42:31.340 Croft comes out, pick again, 02:42:31.340 --> 02:42:33.820 we spoke about these hero players for Fnatic. 02:42:33.820 --> 02:42:35.980 Somebody's stepping up and grabbing hold of the game. 02:42:35.980 --> 02:42:37.580 Croft is doing exactly that. 02:42:37.580 --> 02:42:40.620 6 and 0 at the minute 2 inside the round. 02:42:40.620 --> 02:42:42.020 But you've got to deal! 02:42:42.020 --> 02:42:44.980 You've got to deal with that VIP position trick! 02:42:44.980 --> 02:42:46.380 He hits them for a double! 02:42:46.380 --> 02:42:48.740 Are they going to allow it to continue? No! 02:42:48.740 --> 02:42:49.540 Oh, my. 02:42:49.540 --> 02:42:51.820 Keep it, goes in and gets what? It's traded. 02:42:51.820 --> 02:42:53.460 But it's that man, Croft. 02:42:53.460 --> 02:42:54.980 What's talking about hero players? 02:42:54.980 --> 02:42:56.940 Is he going to be able to cause this down? 02:42:56.940 --> 02:42:58.940 He knows where his pizza. 02:42:58.940 --> 02:43:00.940 Oh, I'm just looking for it. 02:43:00.940 --> 02:43:02.940 But a shot goes massive. 02:43:02.940 --> 02:43:03.940 We spoke about him on brown 02:43:03.940 --> 02:43:04.940 stairs, popping up and getting 02:43:04.940 --> 02:43:05.940 that kill on the second floor, 02:43:05.940 --> 02:43:06.940 then dips back down to the 02:43:06.940 --> 02:43:08.940 basement and gets a couple more. 02:43:08.940 --> 02:43:10.940 Great round from him. 02:43:10.940 --> 02:43:11.940 But for now, they're going to be 02:43:11.940 --> 02:43:12.940 heading hands over that tin. 02:43:12.940 --> 02:43:13.940 They were five feet three with 02:43:13.940 --> 02:43:15.940 half a round still to go. 02:43:15.940 --> 02:43:18.940 And they've bottled it. 02:43:18.940 --> 02:43:20.940 There was one big mistake from 02:43:20.940 --> 02:43:21.940 fanatic there. 02:43:21.940 --> 02:43:22.940 They've got a player in VIP. 02:43:22.940 --> 02:43:23.940 They were fighting with him. 02:43:23.940 --> 02:43:25.940 And then decided to run into 02:43:25.940 --> 02:43:29.140 to be able to run into 02:43:29.140 --> 02:43:30.940 freezer from bottom wise. Um 02:43:30.940 --> 02:43:32.940 you know, I think they were 02:43:32.940 --> 02:43:33.940 maybe hoping that he didn't 02:43:33.940 --> 02:43:34.940 away. They left the angle 02:43:34.940 --> 02:43:35.940 because they've been a bit of 02:43:35.940 --> 02:43:37.940 the fight there. You really 02:43:37.940 --> 02:43:39.940 have to deal with that player 02:43:39.940 --> 02:43:40.940 before you try to move in and 02:43:40.940 --> 02:43:42.940 take free because otherwise 02:43:42.940 --> 02:43:44.940 this is exactly what's going on. 02:43:44.940 --> 02:43:46.940 Um you know, tricks is it's 02:43:46.940 --> 02:43:48.940 just it's so free, isn't it? 02:43:48.940 --> 02:43:50.940 It's so easy. You know, the 02:43:50.940 --> 02:43:51.940 fact that he gets to over my 02:43:51.940 --> 02:43:52.940 nose, ultimately they get the 02:43:52.940 --> 02:43:54.940 trade, but it puts them in a 02:43:54.940 --> 02:43:56.940 you know, it's like you're 02:43:56.940 --> 02:43:58.940 going to be in a position to 02:43:58.940 --> 02:44:00.940 get aggressive onto that spot. 02:44:00.940 --> 02:44:02.940 So, you know, what are you doing? 02:44:02.940 --> 02:44:04.940 Even tricks that standing, I 02:44:04.940 --> 02:44:06.940 think, you know, fanatic. We 02:44:06.940 --> 02:44:08.940 start to see where maybe some 02:44:08.940 --> 02:44:10.940 of those attacking walls have 02:44:10.940 --> 02:44:12.940 come from just, you know, a 02:44:12.940 --> 02:44:14.940 little bit of a poor decision 02:44:14.940 --> 02:44:16.940 there and it cost them the 02:44:16.940 --> 02:44:18.940 round, but look so far 50 50 on 02:44:18.940 --> 02:44:20.940 attack still better than they 02:44:20.940 --> 02:44:22.940 have been. If it can continue 02:44:22.940 --> 02:44:24.940 Well, we'll see how they play out. 02:44:52.940 --> 02:44:56.860 You've got to be mindful of it and it's more the frustration that Fernandes can let that one slip through their fingers 02:44:56.860 --> 02:45:02.700 But don't take it away from the swisted mind boys. They play brilliantly while they just keep on making fantastic feel uncomfortable 02:45:02.940 --> 02:45:05.860 And get away with a crucial round as you say 50-50 02:45:06.340 --> 02:45:10.140 Where's you go here as if nothing has happened now? No shield coming through in this round 02:45:10.140 --> 02:45:14.820 We have got this in a cross-walls playing on the gap of the towel, but they've missed out on p-9 entirely 02:45:15.020 --> 02:45:21.100 It's out on slow-door and it's just about evade the watching eyes of defense, but he's finally traded out and yet again 02:45:21.100 --> 02:45:22.900 and then felt like they've got a man advantage. 02:45:22.900 --> 02:45:24.660 What can they do with it? 02:45:24.660 --> 02:45:26.860 Yeah, good start again from Fnatic. 02:45:26.860 --> 02:45:29.420 You know, another thread that we will continue 02:45:29.420 --> 02:45:33.340 to look at throughout this one is that entry time. 02:45:33.340 --> 02:45:35.180 You know, I've been playing a little bit quicker 02:45:35.180 --> 02:45:36.660 and they continue to do so. 02:45:36.660 --> 02:45:38.540 Again, within the first minute, pretty much there. 02:45:38.540 --> 02:45:39.820 They get that entry kill. 02:45:39.820 --> 02:45:41.580 And also important, they get in it 02:45:41.580 --> 02:45:43.740 because it's another one of the stats that they've looked at. 02:45:43.740 --> 02:45:46.540 Entry on attack is far worse for Fnatic 02:45:46.540 --> 02:45:47.900 than entry on defense. 02:45:47.900 --> 02:45:50.060 And again, they are now three for three. 02:45:50.060 --> 02:45:51.420 you're going fantastically well. 02:45:51.420 --> 02:45:53.540 They've got themselves popular killing the rounds as well. 02:45:53.540 --> 02:45:55.340 Four versus one, you have to look at it 02:45:55.340 --> 02:45:57.180 and think if there's a good chance this is over. 02:45:57.180 --> 02:46:00.420 Joe had sort of play that's definitely capable of doing this. 02:46:00.420 --> 02:46:01.500 He's on thorn at the minute, 02:46:01.500 --> 02:46:05.220 who is just, you know, super charged as an operator right now. 02:46:05.220 --> 02:46:06.540 After those recent buffs, 02:46:06.540 --> 02:46:08.180 she's very, very popular. 02:46:08.180 --> 02:46:11.380 We're gonna do absolutely nothing as dead shot managers 02:46:11.380 --> 02:46:14.100 to find that vertical angle fanatic using the map. 02:46:14.100 --> 02:46:15.860 Well, using the ground they've taken, 02:46:15.860 --> 02:46:18.780 using, you know, that advantage that they've gained 02:46:18.780 --> 02:46:22.780 they're getting themselves that 02:46:22.780 --> 02:46:24.780 round to one. So now the way I 02:46:24.780 --> 02:46:26.780 look at it, they've got their 02:46:26.780 --> 02:46:28.780 minimum amount of attacks in the 02:46:28.780 --> 02:46:29.780 bank done and dusted pressure 02:46:29.780 --> 02:46:30.780 can come off a little bit and 02:46:30.780 --> 02:46:32.780 they start looking for the next 02:46:32.780 --> 02:46:34.780 three rounds to see, you know, 02:46:34.780 --> 02:46:36.780 what else can they do? I think 02:46:36.780 --> 02:46:37.780 that was a bit stood up and 02:46:37.780 --> 02:46:38.780 twisted minds. Yeah. The fact 02:46:38.780 --> 02:46:40.780 that was it managed to walk up 02:46:40.780 --> 02:46:41.780 white and just look from lumber 02:46:41.780 --> 02:46:42.780 straight to into cocktail kill 02:46:42.780 --> 02:46:44.780 one player seconds after a 02:46:44.780 --> 02:46:45.780 second one has died kind of 02:46:45.780 --> 02:46:47.780 says. Yeah. Why are we still 02:46:47.780 --> 02:46:50.460 White wants to start getting pressure from inside a bar. 02:46:50.460 --> 02:46:52.500 They'll just drop the hatch down towards utility 02:46:52.500 --> 02:46:54.220 and rejoin teammates on site 02:46:54.220 --> 02:46:56.140 and look to play C4s from below. 02:46:56.140 --> 02:46:58.060 Now, Jack spoke about this a little bit on the desk 02:46:58.060 --> 02:46:59.580 as well about how you've seen the aggression 02:46:59.580 --> 02:47:01.060 on console from Twisted Minds. 02:47:01.060 --> 02:47:03.220 C4s out windows trying to catch players out. 02:47:03.220 --> 02:47:04.060 That's their memo. 02:47:04.060 --> 02:47:05.060 That's what they love doing. 02:47:05.060 --> 02:47:06.420 But the problem then I think is that 02:47:06.420 --> 02:47:08.660 overstayed their welcome and been punished for it. 02:47:08.660 --> 02:47:11.860 Again, but on that I think Wizard is walk up 02:47:11.860 --> 02:47:13.940 while it was Winderfeld and they got him a crucial kill 02:47:13.940 --> 02:47:15.940 to see two players then inside a cocktail. 02:47:15.940 --> 02:47:17.140 But for me, Twisted Minds should have 02:47:17.140 --> 02:47:22.740 that's going to be so. This 02:47:22.840 --> 02:47:24.940 going to be the two taking 02:47:25.040 --> 02:47:28.940 away twisted minds choose not 02:47:29.040 --> 02:47:31.040 to go back to top floor. Um 02:47:31.140 --> 02:47:33.040 that would be following their 02:47:33.140 --> 02:47:35.040 rotation. Instead they are this 02:47:35.140 --> 02:47:37.040 time going to take the fourth 02:47:37.140 --> 02:47:39.040 side long that we haven't seen 02:47:39.140 --> 02:47:43.040 so far. It's going to be 02:47:43.040 --> 02:47:50.640 it's going to be fireplace and mining. So we'll see. Again, it's going to be a scrap over top floor, I would imagine. 02:47:50.640 --> 02:47:58.640 This always has been taken away, so again, that's going to give maybe just a little bit more freedom. 02:47:58.640 --> 02:48:03.640 I think for that it will maybe look into what's top floor attacks in doing so. 02:48:03.640 --> 02:48:10.640 There is still some opportunities from below. I'm thinking kind of in train from kitchen. 02:48:10.640 --> 02:48:16.040 So you are cutting them down a little bit, but it's not too often that we see teams play in that fashion. 02:48:16.040 --> 02:48:21.240 But on the defence of these mid-floor sites, so I think Fnatic definitely walking more towards that top floor. 02:48:21.240 --> 02:48:29.440 But look, it's always never a bad one to remove, because she's just taking away a ton of intel and canon knowledge that's going to be passed around the team. 02:48:29.440 --> 02:48:34.240 So let's see if Fnatic can keep up that aggression, get themselves a 4-4 on entries. 02:48:34.240 --> 02:48:38.240 Nice and early, we're going to have straight away Croc just racing in there, 02:48:38.240 --> 02:48:44.240 but is punished by Jalan using that Rooney DMR so popular at the minute 02:48:44.240 --> 02:48:47.240 and taking that entry kill. So first one for Twisted Bines, 02:48:47.240 --> 02:48:50.240 they've been great so far at securing rounds, converting them, 02:48:50.240 --> 02:48:54.240 when they get the entry, can they continue to do so today? 02:48:54.240 --> 02:48:58.240 Yeah, Croc's become a little bit of a nemesis of Jalad throughout this game, actually. 02:48:58.240 --> 02:49:00.240 The first two rounds, both the entry kills went away a croc, 02:49:00.240 --> 02:49:02.240 and Jalad was the one who was on the receiving end of it, 02:49:02.240 --> 02:49:04.480 the receiving end of it, whereas this time around we've changed things over. 02:49:04.480 --> 02:49:06.640 He's got the entry and now he's starting to, 02:49:06.640 --> 02:49:08.720 he just demands build into things a little bit. 02:49:08.720 --> 02:49:10.880 And to a level here, I say I'm just using something that we see 02:49:10.880 --> 02:49:12.480 Fnatic employing a lot throughout the stage, 02:49:12.480 --> 02:49:14.800 just a Goyo being used in this round. 02:49:14.800 --> 02:49:16.600 Now a lot of teams too, make use of Goyo, 02:49:16.600 --> 02:49:18.880 but Fnatic have got, I think as you heard freshly on the desk, 02:49:18.880 --> 02:49:21.760 one of the slowest entries in the whole league right now. 02:49:21.760 --> 02:49:23.720 I think that's intentional, they play a lot of stall, 02:49:23.720 --> 02:49:25.720 they slow teams down an awful lot with Goyo. 02:49:25.720 --> 02:49:27.720 You see in the same being done, bats have been added here, 02:49:27.720 --> 02:49:28.720 because look at the difference. 02:49:28.720 --> 02:49:31.040 Yes, Swiss demands are willing to take gunfires onto them, 02:49:31.040 --> 02:49:33.200 but they're not aggressively getting out there with C4s. 02:49:33.200 --> 02:49:35.160 They've got a pulse playing downstairs, for example. 02:49:35.160 --> 02:49:36.680 They're playing more behind their utility, 02:49:36.680 --> 02:49:38.280 she's being much more cautious, 02:49:38.280 --> 02:49:39.980 and now Fnatic are looking a little bit 02:49:39.980 --> 02:49:41.080 just straight to derisive. 02:49:41.080 --> 02:49:43.600 They've lost the sends, they've lost the day most of year. 02:49:43.600 --> 02:49:44.720 They're giving themselves away. 02:49:44.720 --> 02:49:46.120 We're going to let Tafara couple of bullets 02:49:46.120 --> 02:49:47.680 and Dobbs out there with a freebie. 02:49:47.680 --> 02:49:50.560 This is a much better round coming out from Twisted Minds. 02:49:50.560 --> 02:49:51.760 Yeah, it's quite interesting as well, 02:49:51.760 --> 02:49:53.320 because taking away the gridlock, 02:49:53.320 --> 02:49:55.120 that's going to suggest to Fnatic, 02:49:55.120 --> 02:49:56.680 we're going to be hitting you on the flanks. 02:49:56.680 --> 02:49:58.480 We're going to be playing that aggressive playstyle. 02:49:58.480 --> 02:50:00.720 We're going to be chaotic and unpredictable. 02:50:00.720 --> 02:50:02.720 I mean, it's not like they've 02:50:02.820 --> 02:50:04.420 got a lot of work to do. They 02:50:04.520 --> 02:50:06.420 haven't really done that. You 02:50:06.520 --> 02:50:07.720 know, instead, they've lent into 02:50:07.820 --> 02:50:09.420 a completely different kind of 02:50:09.520 --> 02:50:10.920 playstyle here, and they've 02:50:11.020 --> 02:50:11.920 given fanatic a little bit of 02:50:12.020 --> 02:50:13.520 time in the round and a little 02:50:13.620 --> 02:50:15.220 bit of space. And just instead 02:50:15.320 --> 02:50:16.620 use the map and use the angles 02:50:16.720 --> 02:50:18.220 that they've got to find the 02:50:18.320 --> 02:50:19.320 kills. So you manage to find 02:50:19.420 --> 02:50:22.120 themselves up for versus one. 02:50:22.220 --> 02:50:24.620 Now twisted minds and. A lot of 02:50:24.720 --> 02:50:26.120 work for however to do can't 02:50:26.220 --> 02:50:27.620 find himself the first and that 02:50:27.720 --> 02:50:29.120 is going to be twisted minds 02:50:29.120 --> 02:50:32.120 I think just find the pace down a little bit there. 02:50:32.120 --> 02:50:33.120 Probably the previous round as I said, 02:50:33.120 --> 02:50:35.120 they held their position a little bit too long there. 02:50:35.120 --> 02:50:36.120 Didn't want to back away. 02:50:36.120 --> 02:50:37.120 The attack utility was good early on, 02:50:37.120 --> 02:50:39.120 but in this round, the fact they got the entry, 02:50:39.120 --> 02:50:41.120 then turned it into a quick second. 02:50:41.120 --> 02:50:42.120 And off the back of that, just hold their positions, 02:50:42.120 --> 02:50:44.120 let Fnatic be the ones to try and figure this out 02:50:44.120 --> 02:50:46.120 and break the problem down. 02:50:46.120 --> 02:50:47.120 They quite simply can't, 02:50:47.120 --> 02:50:49.120 and that was definitely the most convincing round 02:50:49.120 --> 02:50:51.120 I think we've seen from Twisted Mind so far. 02:50:51.120 --> 02:50:53.120 I'll always bring up that classic line there, Tim. 02:50:53.120 --> 02:50:55.120 There are two hearts to a game of siege. 02:50:55.120 --> 02:50:56.120 I'm very curious to see what happens 02:50:56.120 --> 02:50:58.120 when we get Fnatic on the defense. 02:51:28.120 --> 02:51:34.120 I'm going to be playing on and 02:51:34.120 --> 02:51:38.120 using into the animal to begin 02:51:38.120 --> 02:51:40.120 with, but the washroom mirror 02:51:40.120 --> 02:51:42.120 just gives them the opportunity 02:51:42.120 --> 02:51:44.120 to kind of cut off across 02:51:44.120 --> 02:51:46.120 towards new balcony as well. 02:51:46.120 --> 02:51:48.120 Sorry, new hatch and keep that 02:51:48.120 --> 02:51:50.120 default spot inside of there. 02:51:50.120 --> 02:51:52.120 Pause, but look at this 02:51:52.120 --> 02:51:54.120 aggression again coming out of 02:51:54.120 --> 02:51:56.120 fanatic. She's going to be 02:51:56.120 --> 02:52:01.120 to get back into the game. 02:52:01.120 --> 02:52:04.120 Coming out of fanatic straight 02:52:04.120 --> 02:52:06.120 in the building inside 15 02:52:06.120 --> 02:52:08.120 seconds, hoping to catch 02:52:08.120 --> 02:52:10.120 somebody out as it is. There's 02:52:10.120 --> 02:52:12.120 nobody down there on the bottom 02:52:12.120 --> 02:52:14.120 floor. Dover is on the second 02:52:14.120 --> 02:52:15.120 boys inside and reading at the 02:52:15.120 --> 02:52:16.120 minute, but for that, I think 02:52:16.120 --> 02:52:17.120 we'll have to move quickly if 02:52:17.120 --> 02:52:20.120 they want to catch it. 02:52:20.120 --> 02:52:21.120 Here's a bit of a classic you 02:52:21.120 --> 02:52:22.120 normally see being used by the 02:52:22.120 --> 02:52:24.120 other side in deep. It's the 02:52:24.120 --> 02:52:25.120 old trip. The employee back in 02:52:25.120 --> 02:52:30.120 of course rogue lifting at the 02:52:30.120 --> 02:52:31.120 trophy. It's one of the popular 02:52:31.120 --> 02:52:33.120 eyes and awful lot making very 02:52:33.120 --> 02:52:34.120 aggressive use of those echo 02:52:34.120 --> 02:52:35.120 drones to get outside the map 02:52:35.120 --> 02:52:36.120 and we jump big up and down to 02:52:36.120 --> 02:52:37.120 see where players were and then 02:52:37.120 --> 02:52:38.120 feeding that information across 02:52:38.120 --> 02:52:39.120 the rest of the team to make 02:52:39.120 --> 02:52:40.120 things happen. Tricks can't 02:52:40.120 --> 02:52:41.120 look into the same year. What 02:52:41.120 --> 02:52:42.120 about the information that is 02:52:42.120 --> 02:52:43.120 feeding over to the other side? 02:52:43.120 --> 02:52:44.120 I think that's why you've got a 02:52:44.120 --> 02:52:45.120 little bit of respect being 02:52:45.120 --> 02:52:46.120 played by dead shot bringing 02:52:46.120 --> 02:52:47.120 along the IQ to deal with those 02:52:47.120 --> 02:52:54.120 that. I mean, that's it's not 02:52:54.120 --> 02:52:56.120 unusual for deep. We do tend to 02:52:56.120 --> 02:52:57.120 see, you know, when he locks in 02:52:57.120 --> 02:52:59.120 on something, he locks in on it. 02:52:59.120 --> 02:53:00.120 We've seen it in the echo as 02:53:00.120 --> 02:53:02.120 you mentioned previously. And, 02:53:02.120 --> 02:53:04.120 you know, other operators, so 02:53:04.120 --> 02:53:05.120 doesn't surprise me to see that, 02:53:05.120 --> 02:53:07.120 but it's not a bad operator to do 02:53:07.120 --> 02:53:08.120 it with so much value. You know, 02:53:08.120 --> 02:53:09.120 it's not a bad operator to do it 02:53:09.120 --> 02:53:11.120 with so much value. It's not a 02:53:11.120 --> 02:53:13.120 bad operator to do it with so much 02:53:13.120 --> 02:53:15.120 value. It's not a bad operator 02:53:15.120 --> 02:53:21.120 a bad operator to do it with so much value can be found in Capitao. We do have the opener coming 02:53:21.120 --> 02:53:26.720 through. It's going to be a shot that gets taken down, but does manage to find a late response 02:53:26.720 --> 02:53:32.320 on to Wizard taking the lion off the board. Big Oscar does he want these guns going, but it 02:53:32.320 --> 02:53:37.520 doesn't matter when Cox is just going to walk into sight. I was going to say he had a couple of 02:53:37.520 --> 02:53:43.200 quiet rounds after one and two, but he makes amends with a big double when his team needs it, 02:53:43.200 --> 02:53:46.800 a little bit. I'm going to 02:53:47.100 --> 02:53:48.840 go for it. Put any milk down to 02:53:48.860 --> 02:53:50.640 eight and three. You want to 02:53:50.700 --> 02:53:52.700 hear up here? He's delivering 02:53:52.740 --> 02:53:54.540 big time make it three in the 02:53:54.640 --> 02:53:56.540 round and fanatic. They get 02:53:56.540 --> 02:53:58.540 themselves that third attacking 02:53:58.540 --> 02:53:59.540 round. And that is better than 02:53:59.540 --> 02:54:01.180 we've seen from them as an 02:54:01.180 --> 02:54:03.240 average throughout kickoff. I 02:54:03.240 --> 02:54:05.220 think that is criminally 02:54:05.220 --> 02:54:06.220 underrated. Well, plastic of 02:54:06.220 --> 02:54:07.980 just done then they've seen a 02:54:07.980 --> 02:54:09.480 gap and the gap I'm referring 02:54:09.480 --> 02:54:10.520 to is that there are no bullet 02:54:10.520 --> 02:54:12.260 proof cameras anywhere. No real 02:54:12.260 --> 02:54:15.220 cameras back inside a cocktail to see what's happening inside a bar, but 02:54:15.220 --> 02:54:18.460 they've identified right. Both mirror windows are inside of storage and 02:54:18.460 --> 02:54:21.320 they're inside a bathroom looking into wall's piano. They can't see someone 02:54:21.320 --> 02:54:24.140 walking into wall's bar. We brought along the IQ and we dealt with the 02:54:24.140 --> 02:54:27.460 yokais. They can't see us from that either. No drones have been captured away or 02:54:27.460 --> 02:54:29.820 if they have, they've been dealt with because the IQ has seen them. So they 02:54:29.820 --> 02:54:33.060 have no idea if someone goes crouch walking through the middle of bar and 02:54:33.060 --> 02:54:36.100 then pops up and starts killing people. I thought for a second they had a 02:54:36.100 --> 02:54:38.780 stiff arm to him because they had to really start shooting from inside a 02:54:38.780 --> 02:54:41.260 cocktail. I thought, oh, he knows he's there. But I think that was just a little 02:54:41.260 --> 02:54:43.260 that's a really good opportunity 02:54:43.260 --> 02:54:44.260 to get the ball out of the 02:54:44.260 --> 02:54:45.260 corner. We're going to have to 02:54:45.260 --> 02:54:47.260 take a quick peek out to see 02:54:47.260 --> 02:54:49.260 what was going on, because then 02:54:49.260 --> 02:54:50.260 he stands up and gets free fire 02:54:50.260 --> 02:54:51.260 on towards the mirror inside 02:54:51.260 --> 02:54:52.260 the storage and we saw what 02:54:52.260 --> 02:54:53.260 happened from there on the whole 02:54:53.260 --> 02:54:54.260 round just folded. So I think 02:54:54.260 --> 02:54:56.260 that was really, really good 02:54:56.260 --> 02:54:57.260 opportunity to spotting out 02:54:57.260 --> 02:54:58.260 there and, of course, props 02:54:58.260 --> 02:54:59.260 for one being to make it all 02:54:59.260 --> 02:55:00.260 happen. Really well played 02:55:00.260 --> 02:55:01.260 involved. So third round on the 02:55:01.260 --> 02:55:05.260 on the ball from them. Okay 02:55:05.260 --> 02:55:06.260 defensive brain coming up 02:55:06.260 --> 02:55:07.260 towards the minds back down to 02:55:07.260 --> 02:55:09.260 kitchen. It is one that they 02:55:09.260 --> 02:55:13.300 they've got on the board. I think with the way that Fnatic have attacked, actually Twisted 02:55:13.300 --> 02:55:17.660 Mine's probably aren't too bad to come in away with the 3-3 split. The problem that 02:55:17.660 --> 02:55:21.900 they've got is Fnatic, historically so far through kickoff, have been better on the fence 02:55:21.900 --> 02:55:27.940 and Kafe has been fence-sided. So it is going to be a more difficult second halfboard. Again, 02:55:27.940 --> 02:55:32.700 look at this aggression and speed coming out of Fnatic. You know, we said on the desk how 02:55:32.700 --> 02:55:38.540 they have been slow on those entry kills, on that opening aggression. That has been 02:55:38.540 --> 02:55:47.540 and recognize them dealt with and I have a Sean picking up the opener on to Croc's door however they're for the trade so four versus four fanatic two things lovely. 02:55:48.540 --> 02:55:50.540 Yeah, a little back and forth nature again. 02:55:51.540 --> 02:55:55.540 It's far these rounds it feels like Croc's been involved in almost every single entry in fact casting my eyes down. 02:55:56.540 --> 02:55:58.540 That has been now four entries that has been involved in. 02:55:59.540 --> 02:56:06.540 Like two that is one that is lost and this one here of course is a little bit of a strap with the bravery start but for me at least so far has been player of the half for me. 02:56:06.540 --> 02:56:12.780 for me. He's at 9 and 4 for God's sake. He really is making a big impact, but he just seems to be 02:56:12.780 --> 02:56:16.780 involved in everything. He stays like a Wednesday entry. He's getting himself a silver or a 3k off 02:56:16.780 --> 02:56:21.820 the back. Don't forget that 4k, he got him round 1. A 3k in the previous round. Brilliant impact to 02:56:21.820 --> 02:56:25.580 the bar. Now the rest of his team have got to make do that. I know for the remainder of this round, 02:56:25.580 --> 02:56:28.700 but I think they'll be fine to give them the operators they've got available through them. 02:56:28.700 --> 02:56:33.180 Deepak looking to get busy on the shield. Wizard has had a wonderful kickoff so far. And over here 02:56:33.180 --> 02:56:35.740 with the scents, there's a lot they can get done. 02:56:35.740 --> 02:56:38.380 The big question is, do they deal with P9? 02:56:38.380 --> 02:56:41.740 He's out in VIP, they lost the round to that area last time. 02:56:41.740 --> 02:56:44.620 Did they just avoid it and play for Peer Kree instead? 02:56:44.620 --> 02:56:48.460 Or if they do try to work down white, keep an eye out for that area, 02:56:48.460 --> 02:56:50.940 instead it's Shilada who's going to do the damage. 02:56:50.940 --> 02:56:54.860 Wander's up Brown, Fnatic not quite aware or certainly not within 02:56:54.860 --> 02:56:59.180 the timeframe that they needed to be and they get hit for one. 02:56:59.180 --> 02:57:01.340 It could have been worse, it could have been better. 02:57:01.340 --> 02:57:07.300 They've lost the sense who could have dealt with this VIP problem at bottom-wide by rolling some of those 02:57:07.300 --> 02:57:09.800 Arc screens across as it is they either need to 02:57:10.300 --> 02:57:15.100 Reduce and push the bakery or if they need to find another way of dealing with P9 02:57:16.900 --> 02:57:21.540 So one more supposed to go through they could just try and solve that if they wanted to draw it out and go for a drop 02:57:21.700 --> 02:57:24.020 But there might always be the fear that's been counted of course 02:57:24.020 --> 02:57:28.660 And see whether or not any are less standing and they're only the one and that's one in the back pocket of shillard 02:57:28.660 --> 02:57:32.980 Maybe they'd be mindful of that knowing okay. Actually, there is only one C4 on the side of you know to go off 02:57:32.980 --> 02:57:37.220 Yes, we have this you know that drops okay, but instead it's completely another size 02:57:38.380 --> 02:57:43.080 Attention given out to start now. I've got a full clear this side of the map and this players holding them here 02:57:44.140 --> 02:57:49.740 Yeah, it's really struggling to get anything cool. It's I think been a good defense from twisted minds there 02:57:49.740 --> 02:57:54.360 They've had the answers all over the map. I love the push-up brown stairs managing to get that kill 02:57:54.360 --> 02:57:58.360 that was you could see fanatic 02:57:58.360 --> 02:57:59.360 kind of crumble a little bit 02:57:59.360 --> 02:58:01.360 after that. It was like they 02:58:01.360 --> 02:58:03.360 just fell into. I won't say 02:58:03.360 --> 02:58:04.360 despair, but just really in 02:58:04.360 --> 02:58:06.360 decision losing that sense. It 02:58:06.360 --> 02:58:07.360 was a big loss for them. Let's 02:58:07.360 --> 02:58:08.360 go to the studio here. They 02:58:08.360 --> 02:58:09.360 think now we're going into a 02:58:09.360 --> 02:58:11.360 half time, guys. What you make 02:58:11.360 --> 02:58:13.360 of that? Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh 02:58:13.360 --> 02:58:14.360 dear fanatic. The more things 02:58:14.360 --> 02:58:15.360 change, the more they stay the 02:58:15.360 --> 02:58:17.360 same free free attacks, but you 02:58:17.360 --> 02:58:19.360 think in that's actually pretty 02:58:19.360 --> 02:58:21.360 good. But in reality, in 02:58:21.360 --> 02:58:22.360 reality, it could have been 02:58:22.360 --> 02:58:23.360 thought to it should have been 02:58:23.360 --> 02:58:33.760 They were in man advantage. They had the Blitz, they knew exactly where the player was, and even then they lose a 2 vs 1, allowing the player that plays inside a Christmas to get a big kill. 02:58:33.760 --> 02:58:44.220 Not pushing him in the Blitz, not re-fucking out, he has 2 kills before the Blitz eventually pushes in, but where's his teammate? There to trade him, and Croxton then loses the 1 vs 1 clutch to Hushong. 02:58:44.220 --> 02:58:51.040 Realistically, Fnatic have been excellent then at half, but they've only come away with it with a 3-3. Will they ruin it? I don't know. 02:58:51.040 --> 02:58:53.600 But it should have been a 4-2 on the balance of things. 02:58:53.600 --> 02:58:56.800 If you're just shooting in, a 3-3 is actually really good on the attack. 02:58:56.800 --> 02:59:00.120 We spoke about our worries for both these teams, kind of, on the attacks, 02:59:00.120 --> 02:59:04.160 such as the Fence favourite map, but it seems like it's a positive thing 02:59:04.160 --> 02:59:06.080 we were even hoping for more for Fnatic. 02:59:06.080 --> 02:59:08.440 Yeah, it's hesitation, really, that costs them. 02:59:08.440 --> 02:59:11.240 I think in that round, in particular, I think so far, though, 02:59:11.240 --> 02:59:13.160 I want to give praises to Croxton. 02:59:13.160 --> 02:59:15.320 I think he's the one that finds the increase. 02:59:15.320 --> 02:59:19.000 He's the one, for example, in that long bar that goes aggressive and gets a 4k. 02:59:19.000 --> 02:59:25.880 You know, 9 and 4 with only 6 rounds, being the one that plays in the weaker side as an attacker. 02:59:25.880 --> 02:59:28.920 He's the one that opened up most of the gaps for Fnatic. 02:59:28.920 --> 02:59:29.960 He's the only right now. 02:59:29.960 --> 02:59:30.760 Yeah. 02:59:30.760 --> 02:59:34.280 But then you're like, ooh, they are a better team strategically. 02:59:34.280 --> 02:59:36.120 They should be further than that. 02:59:36.120 --> 02:59:39.560 They feel you with so much hope, but then they feel you with so much frustration at times as well. 02:59:39.560 --> 02:59:41.640 I can't even imagine what that coach and staff are going through. 02:59:41.640 --> 02:59:43.320 On Quarkson, I will say we kind of mean them. 02:59:43.320 --> 02:59:45.480 We kind of mean Fnatic a little bit in the pregame. 02:59:45.480 --> 02:59:46.440 Well, certainly you did. 02:59:46.440 --> 02:59:49.600 But we also said they don't have maybe the big pop-off player. 02:59:49.600 --> 02:59:53.840 I think Korkson showed us in that half, he can be that big pop-off player. 02:59:53.840 --> 02:59:56.520 We just need to see more of it, but he's certainly been the front runner. 02:59:56.520 --> 03:00:01.520 And now the good news don't stop, because they will go in defense, this is a side that should be easier for them. 03:00:01.520 --> 03:00:04.880 And most importantly, that should be way trickier for Twisted Nines. 03:00:04.880 --> 03:00:08.520 It is the one side where they're slow, where it's hard for them to problem solve. 03:00:08.520 --> 03:00:10.640 We've seen it and we've showed it on Consulate. 03:00:10.640 --> 03:00:15.640 When they go on a map that is heavily defend-assided, they struggle to go step-by-step. 03:00:15.640 --> 03:00:19.640 And then there's the Operator Bands as well that we're seeing coming in right now for the second half. 03:00:19.640 --> 03:00:21.640 A Shield seems quite reasonable. 03:00:21.640 --> 03:00:28.640 Yeah, I would hope so. They've abused it on Dove, especially for a team that struggles to problem solve. 03:00:28.640 --> 03:00:32.640 The Shield is very often a crutch. You want to go and remove that, so far I'm not surprised. 03:00:32.640 --> 03:00:36.640 The Nomad, I'm not so sure. I assume that can easily be fixed with a Great Luck. 03:00:36.640 --> 03:00:37.640 I don't know. 03:00:37.640 --> 03:00:41.640 I think it's just so that you can pot him, poke him, and get the Sons off. 03:00:41.640 --> 03:00:45.240 in the Mariband. It does leave the Azami up. I know Ace and Dez love talking about the top 03:00:45.240 --> 03:00:49.400 floor. Azami is devastating, played inside that piano on the top floor defense. So surprised 03:00:49.400 --> 03:00:53.240 that they've left that one up. Ooh, we're not seeing the Azami so far forward this first round. 03:00:53.240 --> 03:00:57.080 However, we're going to stop talking right now, I guess. Then back to the cast to talk about the 03:00:57.080 --> 03:01:03.400 second half. Thank you very much, Ann. Yes, second half is ready to get underway. And Tim, I always 03:01:03.400 --> 03:01:08.600 say, two hours to a game of siege. Let's see how things play out now that the shoe is on the other 03:01:08.600 --> 03:01:14.400 But, immediately looking at Fnatic, I spoke a little bit about that Goyo in the first half, and we saw Twisted Minds running it. 03:01:14.400 --> 03:01:18.400 Not at all surprised to see the Croson has leapt straight onto it. 03:01:18.400 --> 03:01:24.200 Yeah, exactly. You can see from the operator set up here, there's a couple of things that they're looking to do. 03:01:24.200 --> 03:01:29.000 One is, I think, you know, I don't think it's just about denying Intel here. 03:01:29.000 --> 03:01:31.200 I think it's about gaining a little bit for themselves as well. 03:01:31.200 --> 03:01:35.000 If you can catch a couple of drones with those Mawson pests. 03:01:35.000 --> 03:01:40.160 Yes, we can create a little bit of safety for themselves if they want to play up on the top floor for example 03:01:40.160 --> 03:01:41.320 Which is where we see that shot now 03:01:41.320 --> 03:01:44.040 We can kind of create that like drone back out area 03:01:44.040 --> 03:01:47.720 But also if he grabs one or two of them as well and can get them repositioned 03:01:47.720 --> 03:01:51.440 It could be something valuable for the later round particularly get them on that mid floor 03:01:51.440 --> 03:01:53.840 And Twisted mines are trying to play vertically 03:01:54.600 --> 03:01:58.640 Nitro goes out there. I think they were asking for an awful lot from the arm of wizard 03:01:58.640 --> 03:02:00.560 He gives it a go doesn't catch anybody 03:02:00.560 --> 03:02:04.800 It might have been a little bit of damage onto Dover, but nothing too serious to Twisted 03:02:04.800 --> 03:02:05.800 Minds to worry about. 03:02:05.800 --> 03:02:09.360 But yeah, on the other, on the flip side of that, a lot of denial. 03:02:09.360 --> 03:02:11.600 So, a lot of time wasting here. 03:02:11.600 --> 03:02:15.920 You've got your Goyo, you've got your Tachanka, you've got those laser gates, you've got so 03:02:15.920 --> 03:02:20.920 much utility there that Twisted Minds need to problem solve, need to think about, need 03:02:20.920 --> 03:02:21.920 to work their way through. 03:02:21.920 --> 03:02:25.920 I don't know, you know, whether sort of chaos and aggression will win the day against this 03:02:25.920 --> 03:02:26.920 kind of lineup. 03:02:26.920 --> 03:02:34.920 We're going to find out, I suppose, thinking about it, but I also do like the idea of being able to disrupt and isolate players on Twisted Minds if you can. 03:02:34.920 --> 03:02:39.920 You know, shield an isolated player who's trying to pull off his own sort of flank all alone, you get three versus one against him. 03:02:39.920 --> 03:02:45.920 That could turn the round around, but I don't know that it's just the mind's of the king, but it's to acknowledge that and go hyper-aggressive on towards site, for example. 03:02:45.920 --> 03:02:51.920 Not when you look at all the line-ups coming out from the side of Bananic and all the things they've brought along to slow the other side down. 03:02:51.920 --> 03:02:56.520 So, unstoppable force, immutable objects, that's kind of what the lining up was here, Tim. 03:02:56.520 --> 03:02:58.720 Drex is working his way through though already. 03:02:58.720 --> 03:03:02.920 Joe might be taking out his way through on his way towards White Stairs here. 03:03:02.920 --> 03:03:05.120 He's got a couple of defenders to worry about down below too. 03:03:05.120 --> 03:03:08.320 The minute it feels like they're slowly working their way through about the halfway mark, 03:03:08.320 --> 03:03:13.320 and this is when really, Tim, you want to start ripping up their floorboards and getting eyes on what's going on downstairs. 03:03:13.320 --> 03:03:15.320 So, so far, so good. 03:03:15.320 --> 03:03:18.120 Yeah, that's how Wizard were playing inside a fireplace. 03:03:18.120 --> 03:03:20.320 They've burned about half of the round there. 03:03:20.320 --> 03:03:24.600 So I think they have to slow things down a little bit. I think Twisted mines are still fine 03:03:24.600 --> 03:03:28.380 I think it's kind of like both of them. You know one team have done okay 03:03:28.380 --> 03:03:33.620 Just putting a little bit of time and making Twisted mines. They expect things and Twisted mines have done a pretty good job of clearing 03:03:33.620 --> 03:03:39.120 out and getting them back down all the time. They've also done a much better job by clearing VIP. 03:03:39.180 --> 03:03:45.600 That's how you need to do it for that team. We see two kills come in. They're both gonna go to Twisted mines. Five versus three 03:03:45.600 --> 03:03:49.400 They've still got the tachanka on the board here, so they do still have some denial. 03:03:49.400 --> 03:03:53.680 But, Tristan Mansell can super smooth and slick on this tack. 03:03:54.440 --> 03:03:56.920 I mean, look at how much work Tricks has got done there. 03:03:56.920 --> 03:04:00.080 Look at the piece that Thresh is analysing at the halfway point, right? 03:04:00.080 --> 03:04:02.640 It was a 3v1 for Fanatic in a very, very similar spot. 03:04:02.640 --> 03:04:04.280 That was a 1v2 for Tricks. 03:04:04.280 --> 03:04:09.440 He smirks one off, charging towards Christmas, got the player with the support of a teammate coming in behind him. 03:04:09.440 --> 03:04:13.360 They played that absolutely beautifully to him, but now they've got to convert the round. 03:04:13.360 --> 03:04:21.040 You can't go for 5v3 and see it lost, you will criticise the tonalic for the same thing, it'll be a similar story here, if they see this one split away from them. 03:04:21.040 --> 03:04:25.880 Drex got the fuser in back part, waiting for this fire to burn out, but see, time is not on their side. 03:04:25.880 --> 03:04:36.040 Look what it is doing, the job does, it's those operators we spoke about, it's the Goyle canisters, it's the laser gates, it's all this utility that they brought to slow things down. 03:04:36.040 --> 03:04:41.040 the game plan was 3.5, one and 03:04:41.140 --> 03:04:46.040 well deserved. What a defense 03:04:46.140 --> 03:04:48.040 from fanatic. Wonderful round. 03:04:48.140 --> 03:04:50.040 Indeed. I really like how they've 03:04:50.140 --> 03:04:51.040 played that one out. I mentioned 03:04:51.140 --> 03:04:52.040 about playing a little bit more 03:04:52.140 --> 03:04:53.040 slow, maybe trying to isolate 03:04:53.140 --> 03:04:55.040 out players. What did surprise 03:04:55.140 --> 03:04:56.040 you was twisted minds with the 03:04:56.140 --> 03:04:57.040 one they're looking for the 03:04:57.140 --> 03:04:59.040 isolation chances that blitz going 03:04:59.140 --> 03:05:01.040 1v2 absolutely nuts. But like 03:05:01.140 --> 03:05:03.040 we sort of said, like the issue 03:05:03.140 --> 03:05:05.040 is the operator line up Tim and 03:05:05.040 --> 03:05:09.040 back to fight them massively 03:05:09.140 --> 03:05:10.640 all that fire in the closing 03:05:10.740 --> 03:05:12.140 moments. Deepak having himself 03:05:12.240 --> 03:05:13.340 racking up inside a small 03:05:13.440 --> 03:05:14.840 break. Just a very, very good 03:05:14.940 --> 03:05:16.040 about for that. But I'm also 03:05:16.140 --> 03:05:17.140 very impressed with what I saw 03:05:17.240 --> 03:05:17.940 from twisted minds really 03:05:18.040 --> 03:05:18.940 understanding first round. I 03:05:19.040 --> 03:05:22.940 hope it carries on down that 03:05:23.040 --> 03:05:24.940 trend. Yeah, they certainly 03:05:25.040 --> 03:05:26.940 looked good for it. Like I said, 03:05:27.040 --> 03:05:28.940 it was good on both sides there. 03:05:29.040 --> 03:05:31.940 It was like fanatic have been 03:05:32.040 --> 03:05:32.940 schooled in better to be happy 03:05:33.040 --> 03:05:34.940 and deal with that player 03:05:35.040 --> 03:05:42.040 you know, but ultimately, I think it was, I'm not gonna say it was all part of the plan for Fnatic, obviously, you know, they want to hold on to that area, 03:05:42.040 --> 03:05:49.040 they want to hold on to the whole map as long as they can, but that really wasn't the core of their defence, you know, there was another core of their defence, 03:05:49.040 --> 03:05:59.040 and it was one of those big layers, that was one layer that Twisted Binds were able to remove, but let's not overlook as well the work done by Wizard and Deadshot, 03:05:59.040 --> 03:06:03.580 So, halfway through the round, I said that the Mozzie muted actually dropped away from 03:06:03.580 --> 03:06:04.580 fireplace. 03:06:04.580 --> 03:06:06.380 But there was quite an investment up there. 03:06:06.380 --> 03:06:10.220 There was mute jammers, there was mozzie pest, there was reinforcements to try and burn 03:06:10.220 --> 03:06:11.660 as much time as possible. 03:06:11.660 --> 03:06:15.820 It was 1 minute 30 before they dropped away, which meant that twisted minds were behind 03:06:15.820 --> 03:06:20.380 that mark, not massively, but kind of behind that mark that we talk about of trying to 03:06:20.380 --> 03:06:23.100 open up those verticals halfway through the round. 03:06:23.100 --> 03:06:25.380 They weren't confidently in control at 1 minute 30. 03:06:25.380 --> 03:06:29.020 It was another 10, 15, 20 seconds before they could start really doing that. 03:06:29.020 --> 03:06:32.500 So now everything starts to become a little bit of a rush, you know, 03:06:32.500 --> 03:06:35.880 you behind the pace because it's taking your time to clear out their shot on 03:06:35.880 --> 03:06:38.880 Wizards. So I think there was a lot of factors for the fanatic in that round 03:06:38.880 --> 03:06:43.540 that all came together. It was kind of 10% here, 10% there, 20% there, 03:06:43.540 --> 03:06:47.140 and all those added together won the round for them. It was really nice. 03:06:48.040 --> 03:06:50.980 Well, let's leave the guys on in this one or if we get some different ideas coming out 03:06:50.980 --> 03:06:53.440 from Chris Devine because it sure looks like it's him. 03:06:53.440 --> 03:06:56.960 Of course, got Solid Snake onside, the glass, the one that I've got my eyes on most of all. 03:06:56.960 --> 03:06:59.520 But more interesting to see how they make use of the JkB. 03:06:59.520 --> 03:07:02.680 Then he would use it for clearing through the map, but a couple of teams over the years, 03:07:02.680 --> 03:07:08.320 and looking back at old school Falcons would use it as part of an execute to defeat them all the until they need on their push in. 03:07:08.320 --> 03:07:11.040 Now look at this, you know where the player is, he's got a win, he's got a fight, Tim. 03:07:11.040 --> 03:07:15.680 It's officially comes out on top, loose, a bit of HP, but Croxton is down on the deck. 03:07:15.680 --> 03:07:18.800 Azadok and B'Kul comes out. This is when the pressure starts to mount here. 03:07:18.800 --> 03:07:21.680 Switched to mines looking for some early advantages. 03:07:21.680 --> 03:07:29.680 Yeah, P9 is going to continue doing that work across top floor, mid floor, with solid snake, just looking to drive those wheels out in position. 03:07:29.680 --> 03:07:34.180 But Dover does get taken out. That's the Blackbeard obviously we spoke about. 03:07:34.180 --> 03:07:40.480 The analyst spoke about how Monty was banned to try and prevent Dover being on that operator, but instead he brings the Blackbeard. 03:07:40.480 --> 03:07:45.180 Doesn't matter, he's been neutralised. Four versus three as a Nitro finds its mark. 03:07:45.180 --> 03:07:51.740 The F2 keeps on singing three versus three as Twisted Mind's scrap to keep themselves in this one. 03:07:51.740 --> 03:07:52.460 Yeah, company. 03:07:52.460 --> 03:07:57.860 Come at us in the first half, and when we saw Twisted Mind defending this site, they didn't drop away soon enough. 03:07:57.860 --> 03:08:03.380 What have they done? Drops away, managed to get Cropped up, got a kill on the way out, and then collected a C4. 03:08:03.380 --> 03:08:07.980 They're in a golden chance to be able to close out this round, however, it's still nail-bitingly close. 03:08:07.980 --> 03:08:13.580 Two versus two, we're coming down to the last 45. Still, one C4 in the bad pocket of over here. 03:08:13.580 --> 03:08:20.580 I think he's going to be pushed on that door by Deepak, but Deepak knows he doesn't need to do anything here, really. 03:08:20.580 --> 03:08:24.580 He's baited out a little bit by the sound of P9's gadget. 03:08:24.580 --> 03:08:28.580 He plays it smart and gets back. Doesn't feel he needs to push there, however. 03:08:28.580 --> 03:08:33.580 Does get taken down by P9. Deepak with the trade though, 1v1. 03:08:33.580 --> 03:08:36.580 Fuser has been recovered by her shaman. 03:08:36.580 --> 03:08:40.580 Deepak now is surely going to start playing the time game. 03:08:40.580 --> 03:08:45.580 He's got to be so careful here as well, D-Pekashom has got a great idea on where he's going to push him from. 03:08:45.580 --> 03:08:48.580 There's only really one or two places he can make it happen, but we're down to the last five. 03:08:48.580 --> 03:08:52.580 He's got to go for a kill now, Tim, but there's a shotgun out there, and D-Peksy here. 03:08:52.580 --> 03:08:55.580 Who comes out on top? He gets down on his belly! 03:08:55.580 --> 03:08:58.580 The good ol' Shump Beaks in. He's working in for the magic, Tim. 03:08:58.580 --> 03:09:02.580 Gets away with the kill, and gets it for his team. 03:09:02.580 --> 03:09:05.580 Managers to find it with the bailiff. Beautiful stuff. 03:09:05.580 --> 03:09:09.580 There's a bit of that unpredictability that twisted minds bring to the table. 03:09:09.580 --> 03:09:14.880 to the table. 4-4, and what a cafe we are seeing so far. 03:09:14.880 --> 03:09:19.140 These two absolutely fighting tooth and nail for this one. 03:09:19.140 --> 03:09:22.180 Seeing great seeds on both sides of the table. 03:09:22.180 --> 03:09:23.380 They're all enjoying it. 03:09:23.380 --> 03:09:25.780 Kroc's just getting dealt with at the beginning there. 03:09:25.780 --> 03:09:27.780 Just a beautiful use of nades. 03:09:27.780 --> 03:09:30.020 Obviously, it's not a new, it's quite an old change now. 03:09:30.020 --> 03:09:33.020 But since we saw that change so that they can't be cooked 03:09:33.020 --> 03:09:37.340 anymore, the fuse activates once it bounces off the surface. 03:09:37.340 --> 03:09:39.140 You've then got to think about four seconds. 03:09:39.140 --> 03:09:45.460 just bouncing that need in there just to give that warning to proxy has to move or he takes the death from the need 03:09:45.460 --> 03:09:51.260 But the angle is covered P9 had a great round on that F2 as well did some great work 03:09:51.900 --> 03:09:55.380 Ultimately it was enough to get to us the minds over the line 03:09:58.340 --> 03:10:00.340 Really very very 03:10:03.900 --> 03:10:05.900 You 03:10:09.140 --> 03:10:13.100 Ridiculous versus a like a psycho P Queen country the head just popping around the corner 03:10:13.100 --> 03:10:17.060 It was more of a I'm gonna stay on my belly rather than get back up and dip away 03:10:17.260 --> 03:10:21.060 So it's more trying to be a little bit cheeky, but I'm buzzing for him 03:10:21.060 --> 03:10:24.140 It's what it's out there that has come out on top and kept things equal 03:10:24.140 --> 03:10:27.100 We were saying after the series earlier on to go. You guys have a nice 03:10:27.100 --> 03:10:31.700 Good to zero watch this series go with the distance all three bucks 45 rounds. Well 03:10:32.060 --> 03:10:34.060 so far 03:10:34.060 --> 03:10:41.060 that. I'm just looking at the 03:10:41.060 --> 03:10:44.060 entry game so far as well. Um 03:10:44.060 --> 03:10:46.060 it was an area that that we 03:10:46.060 --> 03:10:48.060 have spoken about and fanatic 03:10:48.060 --> 03:10:50.060 did well on the attack four and 03:10:50.060 --> 03:10:52.060 two one and one so far with 03:10:52.060 --> 03:10:54.060 fanatic on the defense and 03:10:54.060 --> 03:10:56.060 twisted minds on the attack, 03:10:56.060 --> 03:10:59.060 but it's 5050 almost five and 03:10:59.060 --> 03:11:01.060 three depending as to where the 03:11:01.060 --> 03:11:02.060 teams have been able to close 03:11:02.060 --> 03:11:07.100 able to close out the rank based on that entry. We often see quite a high conversion rating 03:11:07.100 --> 03:11:10.940 games for entry kills being, you know what I mean by that, where a team gets the entry 03:11:10.940 --> 03:11:15.820 kill, it goes on to win the round. It's certainly been a little bit of a mixed bag of sorts. 03:11:15.820 --> 03:11:21.100 See how it plays out this time around. I have that good lot of just preventing the run-out, 03:11:21.100 --> 03:11:26.780 the concern being unsurprisingly from Fnatic really. We know how unpredictable first advance 03:11:26.780 --> 03:11:31.100 can be, so unpredictable that you can kind of predict a little bit of that unpredictability. 03:11:31.100 --> 03:11:35.900 You know that there's going to be jump out. You know they're going to be sticking the first set of windows if you get the opportunity. 03:11:35.900 --> 03:11:41.100 So they try to prevent that happening. Deadshot managers to get the kill on to Dover. 03:11:41.100 --> 03:11:47.100 That's going to be five versus four now as we start off for Fanatic once again. 03:11:47.100 --> 03:11:50.100 Their great run of entry continues. 03:11:54.100 --> 03:11:57.100 An exception, as long as you're speaking about in that round, Tim. 03:11:57.100 --> 03:12:02.540 on the way. So unpredictable. 03:12:02.540 --> 03:12:04.860 They become predictable. 03:12:04.860 --> 03:12:06.640 Almost. Yeah. Some of the 03:12:06.640 --> 03:12:08.500 numbers. Yeah, I think I just 03:12:08.500 --> 03:12:11.260 have the point. I think this is 03:12:11.260 --> 03:12:12.940 it. This is it. This is mine. 03:12:12.940 --> 03:12:13.940 So that you know, they've brought 03:12:13.940 --> 03:12:15.260 the gridlock. They're trying to 03:12:15.260 --> 03:12:16.940 protect the runouts themselves, 03:12:16.940 --> 03:12:18.140 but fanatic reading into that 03:12:18.140 --> 03:12:19.140 and saying, we know you're going 03:12:19.140 --> 03:12:20.140 to try and cover you. We're 03:12:20.140 --> 03:12:21.140 going to make it. You know, 03:12:21.140 --> 03:12:23.140 they're trying to lean into it 03:12:23.140 --> 03:12:24.180 by being unpredictable 03:12:24.180 --> 03:12:25.180 themselves. That's it. Two for 03:12:25.180 --> 03:12:27.740 a 5B3, they've now lost one back. 03:12:27.740 --> 03:12:30.420 Sean, we've won for the fact that this is far far here, 03:12:30.420 --> 03:12:31.780 but now they know that it's coming as a player 03:12:31.780 --> 03:12:33.420 on white stairs, does he know? 03:12:34.540 --> 03:12:37.060 Sure he does, they're back to the way he hits him. 03:12:37.060 --> 03:12:39.340 Left in taking the end, well, it's not a utility instead, 03:12:39.340 --> 03:12:42.220 but there we go, it's out front in, he falls down 03:12:42.220 --> 03:12:44.300 and surely this is a fanatic round to win, 03:12:44.300 --> 03:12:46.580 and all orchestrated off the back of a couple 03:12:46.580 --> 03:12:50.340 of fantastic C4 kills, they made it look easy. 03:12:50.340 --> 03:12:53.300 I think fanatic are just leaning into those power weapons 03:12:53.300 --> 03:12:54.140 at the minute as well. 03:12:54.140 --> 03:12:58.140 the game. We've got a lot of 03:12:58.140 --> 03:13:00.140 players. We're seeing them bring 03:13:00.140 --> 03:13:02.140 the DMR's along. We're seeing 03:13:02.140 --> 03:13:04.140 deep out playing the warden 03:13:04.140 --> 03:13:06.140 plenty of SMG 12. We've got a 03:13:06.140 --> 03:13:08.140 lot of SMG 12 enjoyers at the 03:13:08.140 --> 03:13:10.140 minute. You know, we're seeing 03:13:10.140 --> 03:13:12.140 that as a secondary used often 03:13:12.140 --> 03:13:14.140 as a primary, and it just gives 03:13:14.140 --> 03:13:16.140 that opportunity to kind of keep 03:13:16.140 --> 03:13:18.140 the shotgun in the back pocket 03:13:18.140 --> 03:13:19.140 for but that's it looking good 03:13:19.140 --> 03:13:21.140 here on cafe. It was their map 03:13:21.140 --> 03:13:23.140 choice, I believe, and they are 03:13:23.140 --> 03:13:28.820 like the edges there for fanatic. It does. Yeah. We've seen this a few times in the past and I said 03:13:28.820 --> 03:13:33.460 a few times now, a number of times, like a lot of times in the past even, where it feels like one 03:13:33.460 --> 03:13:37.860 side has really got kind of the tactical side of the map down. Like you look again at some of the 03:13:37.860 --> 03:13:41.940 issues that we've seen from Twisted Minds throughout the game. When they've had to kind of play the 03:13:41.940 --> 03:13:45.620 macro game is where things have fallen down, the more strategical side of things. Where they've 03:13:45.620 --> 03:13:50.020 been very, very good, I think, is more in the micro like tactical moments. And I refer to things 03:13:50.020 --> 03:13:54.420 like the Blitz play into VIP with the smoke onto the doorway and the 2v1 they're slaps at the back of that. 03:13:54.420 --> 03:13:58.820 It was fab. Where they've fallen down is when dealing with double C4 kills coming from below, 03:13:58.820 --> 03:14:03.940 fired denials on towards plant spots. It just feels almost like fanatic of like one step ahead 03:14:03.940 --> 03:14:07.300 and know what's going to happen and how to deal with it or their setting up traps here that 03:14:07.300 --> 03:14:11.780 were not quite seeing twisted mines yet overcome. They can do a brute force, but I feel they've got 03:14:11.780 --> 03:14:16.820 to find that opportunity and maximise, maximally capitalise on it to come out on top. I do think 03:14:16.820 --> 03:14:19.380 I think they've got more of that clutch capability in them compared to that. 03:14:19.380 --> 03:14:21.020 They could still save them here. 03:14:21.020 --> 03:14:23.820 But I do feel like so far for now they could be in the stronger team, 03:14:23.820 --> 03:14:25.220 playing strategically. 03:14:25.220 --> 03:14:27.020 Yeah, I agree. 03:14:27.020 --> 03:14:30.020 You know, we can't expect it, it is their map choice. 03:14:30.020 --> 03:14:35.020 But they definitely seem to be on top in those respects. 03:14:35.020 --> 03:14:37.220 I think Twisted Minds have had some great gunfights 03:14:37.220 --> 03:14:40.220 and a couple of good passers-by, but it's kind of kept them in this. 03:14:40.220 --> 03:14:43.420 But Twisted Minds are much more keeping themselves in it, 03:14:43.420 --> 03:14:46.420 whereas I think you're looking to win this one. 03:14:46.420 --> 03:14:52.020 So, 5-4, we stand. Fnatic are completely avoiding the top floor. 03:14:52.020 --> 03:14:55.220 I could not be happier. We're going to go to kitchen. 03:14:55.220 --> 03:14:57.420 In round 10, we've got those extra bands coming. 03:14:57.420 --> 03:14:59.100 No surprise, we see the Aruni there. 03:14:59.100 --> 03:15:00.940 I spoke about that then in another way. 03:15:00.940 --> 03:15:04.580 The Fnatic are using those power weapons, those power operators. 03:15:04.580 --> 03:15:08.100 Take away the DMR, but also we saw it in their last defensive kitchen, 03:15:08.100 --> 03:15:11.740 using the laser gates really well, positioning really well to burn time, 03:15:11.740 --> 03:15:13.020 to burn utility. 03:15:13.020 --> 03:15:15.180 So, no surprise to see the Aruni taken away, 03:15:15.180 --> 03:15:17.380 and it's gonna be game-os on the other side. 03:15:19.260 --> 03:15:21.140 We'd love to see this again. 03:15:21.140 --> 03:15:23.900 There's Trap up right, like 3D and Loadadult, 03:15:23.900 --> 03:15:25.900 or the Intel's an R from the way plus. 03:15:25.900 --> 03:15:27.860 We'll make sure they're gonna see for in that pocket. 03:15:27.860 --> 03:15:29.420 They're just actually gonna rip some ready here 03:15:29.420 --> 03:15:30.540 till he's stood with it. 03:15:30.540 --> 03:15:32.780 Just waiting to see if they come up towards that half 03:15:32.780 --> 03:15:35.020 and he gets a preview of the back of it. 03:15:35.020 --> 03:15:36.380 Not quite sure that he will, 03:15:36.380 --> 03:15:37.620 but even if they fail on the C4, 03:15:37.620 --> 03:15:39.300 there's still so much more 03:15:39.300 --> 03:15:40.740 that Twisted Mind's gonna work through. 03:15:40.740 --> 03:15:42.260 And I think we'll have fast they wanna go 03:15:42.260 --> 03:15:44.180 looking at things like the Blitzcon sign, 03:15:44.180 --> 03:15:46.000 Okay, he's been able that as well. 03:15:46.000 --> 03:15:47.600 Then it gets clung by it later on. 03:15:48.880 --> 03:15:51.680 Ooh, just taking down off the repel, 03:15:51.680 --> 03:15:55.440 yet another entry going to fanatic deadshot, 03:15:55.440 --> 03:15:57.080 managing to take down Hashom, 03:15:57.080 --> 03:15:59.840 and that is a big loss for a kitchen attack. 03:15:59.840 --> 03:16:01.200 Look at what's gone. 03:16:01.200 --> 03:16:02.240 It's the Ram. 03:16:02.240 --> 03:16:05.960 There's gonna be no boogie none down in this round, guys. 03:16:05.960 --> 03:16:07.120 It's been taken away, 03:16:07.120 --> 03:16:10.080 has, has the verticality, pig loss. 03:16:11.040 --> 03:16:11.880 That's it. 03:16:11.880 --> 03:16:12.720 You go on to start. 03:16:12.720 --> 03:16:13.720 You've still got this edge on side. 03:16:13.720 --> 03:16:18.400 It's not the end of the world, you know, we saw the same happen to Fanatic when Kroc was on in the ravine, so he died in the entry. 03:16:18.400 --> 03:16:24.720 Still had a buck on side to make things happen, so Tritz can get work done, but my Arnie's will always be on that seat for which is now being wielded by Deadshot. 03:16:24.720 --> 03:16:29.720 Is he gonna throw it off to look somebody? Yes he is, but no kill secured this time around. 03:16:29.720 --> 03:16:32.720 Dover's still doing great work on the shields. 03:16:32.720 --> 03:16:35.720 Could have been a cast of Curse there though as he walks in. 03:16:35.720 --> 03:16:44.020 Floor opened underneath, smart moving from Wizard, manages to take down another really important part of the Twisted Bands attack. 03:16:44.020 --> 03:16:48.920 The people thing is, I've seen Fadalik do that twice this half, now that isn't a new thing. 03:16:48.920 --> 03:16:52.320 Twisted Bands maybe only seen it last time round and missed out on it, that's fine. 03:16:52.320 --> 03:16:57.620 But we've had seen that same hole open up twice, both times we've had a player start under it, waiting for someone to run through. 03:16:57.620 --> 03:17:03.420 And this time Starves just walks in, absolutely blindsided, and they lose the main spearhead of this round. 03:17:03.420 --> 03:17:08.860 Let's not forget, Blitz has done a lot for them throughout this half so far, and now it's completely not available. 03:17:08.860 --> 03:17:11.340 This is going to be a rescue after this divine. 03:17:11.340 --> 03:17:15.180 It is. It's not the end of the way for them at the minute. They've still got the sledge. 03:17:15.180 --> 03:17:19.100 That results from under the Ram problem a little bit. They get into work and doing it now. 03:17:19.100 --> 03:17:24.140 Deadshot is going to take a bunch of damage as well. So they've still got the tools that they need for this job. 03:17:24.140 --> 03:17:29.820 They've got time. It was a minute 15 when they were opening Freezer Wall and have control of VIP. 03:17:29.820 --> 03:17:34.580 So they've got a lot of good work done, it is possible, but they have to stop losing bodies. 03:17:34.580 --> 03:17:41.580 Deadshot manages to find Jalad, 3 vs 2 now, steps up, wizard, double in the round for him. 03:17:41.580 --> 03:17:45.500 And it is all up to Tricks on the sledge, 20 seconds he drops, 03:17:45.500 --> 03:17:50.260 Freezer is going to push on him to site, but this bullet's raining in all around him. 03:17:50.260 --> 03:17:53.300 There is absolutely no safe space for the sledge. 03:17:53.300 --> 03:17:59.020 Shutout by Deadshot, big round from him, and Fnatic put themselves on match point. 03:17:59.020 --> 03:18:06.480 I really don't want to dog too much on twisted mind because that was a wonderfully played round by fanatico overall from the early C4 attempts 03:18:06.480 --> 03:18:10.520 On towards red hatched the entry they got and then basing it out again and the kill for the floor 03:18:10.960 --> 03:18:15.640 But what it really again shows is that on this macro level fanatico always a step ahead 03:18:15.640 --> 03:18:19.560 It's what we said a couple of rounds ago. Everything that it felt like was coming out twisted minds 03:18:19.560 --> 03:18:23.360 It was a bit labored a little bit like that stop and think about what was it? 03:18:23.360 --> 03:18:27.520 What they need to do next to try and deal what was going on and every time I felt it regained their composure 03:18:27.520 --> 03:18:33.520 the game. It was a constant 03:18:33.620 --> 03:18:35.420 battle to try and keep the cells 03:18:35.520 --> 03:18:36.520 in that game. Well, in that 03:18:36.620 --> 03:18:38.520 round sorry, that means that 03:18:38.620 --> 03:18:40.520 next point. Wonderful play by 03:18:40.620 --> 03:18:41.520 them. So far across the time 03:18:41.620 --> 03:18:42.520 out the air couple of hours 03:18:42.620 --> 03:18:43.520 that could have been over the 03:18:43.620 --> 03:18:45.520 while already. But that's just 03:18:45.620 --> 03:18:47.520 how things go. Sometimes again, 03:18:47.620 --> 03:18:49.520 brilliant play. The golden 03:18:49.620 --> 03:18:52.520 chance to go one year on. Yes 03:18:52.620 --> 03:18:54.520 the start that you feel fanatic 03:18:54.620 --> 03:18:56.520 need as well. You know, they've 03:18:56.520 --> 03:19:01.520 I think to be honest with you. 03:19:01.520 --> 03:19:03.520 This is I'm going to say the 03:19:03.520 --> 03:19:04.520 best fanatic performance that 03:19:04.520 --> 03:19:06.520 we've said through kickoff so 03:19:06.520 --> 03:19:08.520 far. Um you know, I guess there's 03:19:08.520 --> 03:19:09.520 been a couple of mistakes in 03:19:09.520 --> 03:19:11.520 there, but overall, I feel like 03:19:11.520 --> 03:19:13.520 they're looking really good today. 03:19:13.520 --> 03:19:15.520 And if I was a twisted minds 03:19:15.520 --> 03:19:17.520 fun, I'd probably be a little bit 03:19:17.520 --> 03:19:18.520 concerned. Obviously we've got 03:19:18.520 --> 03:19:20.520 labs coming up. That's plus the 03:19:20.520 --> 03:19:21.520 mind's map choice. There is an 03:19:21.520 --> 03:19:23.520 element there where an attic 03:19:23.520 --> 03:19:24.520 wanted to play cafe. This was 03:19:24.520 --> 03:19:26.520 I think they've really come in 03:19:26.520 --> 03:19:28.520 with some great ideas on this 03:19:28.520 --> 03:19:30.520 map overall. And again, the 03:19:30.520 --> 03:19:32.520 track gameplay that played the 03:19:32.520 --> 03:19:34.520 way this flow these rounds down 03:19:34.520 --> 03:19:36.520 and not really giving to 03:19:36.520 --> 03:19:38.520 mind the chance to play their 03:19:38.520 --> 03:19:40.520 game or get themselves really 03:19:40.520 --> 03:19:42.520 rolling on the attacking side. I 03:19:42.520 --> 03:19:44.520 think it's been wonderfully 03:19:44.520 --> 03:19:46.520 done. Will you get the same 03:19:46.520 --> 03:19:48.520 freedom? I think on laps 03:19:48.520 --> 03:19:50.520 probably not because there's 03:19:50.520 --> 03:19:52.520 more optionality on that 03:19:52.520 --> 03:19:58.240 Because there's more optionality on that map, because it's bigger, because it's a bit more chaotic at times, I think, at least anyway. 03:19:58.240 --> 03:20:02.040 I think you're finally going to see Twisted Mines finally find their way back into it. 03:20:02.040 --> 03:20:04.560 When we get to Fortress, very different conversation. 03:20:04.560 --> 03:20:08.560 That is going to be a very, very interesting map, if you find ourselves getting there. 03:20:09.760 --> 03:20:12.560 Let's see where the Twisted Mines can keep things going on. 03:20:12.560 --> 03:20:14.080 Café to begin with then. 03:20:14.080 --> 03:20:16.960 They've got two rounds here that they have to win back-to-back. 03:20:16.960 --> 03:20:19.360 Map 0.4, Fnatic on both of them. 03:20:19.360 --> 03:20:21.440 So just one will do. 03:20:21.440 --> 03:20:41.940 not all the chances in the world, but they are back in a reading room now. This is the site that they have lost so far. It was a successful attack, but it came down to that one. The one if we remember, if I'm having to hit the deck and take the pistol fight was the bailiff actually against the shotgun of Deepak. 03:20:41.940 --> 03:20:47.780 to get a shot in on the 03:20:47.840 --> 03:20:49.780 Blackbeard. But how much 03:20:49.840 --> 03:20:51.880 success a fanatic found with 03:20:51.940 --> 03:20:53.880 the explosives? It continues. 03:20:53.940 --> 03:20:55.880 Blackbeard taken down. Your 03:20:55.940 --> 03:20:57.880 life manages to find the trade, 03:20:57.940 --> 03:20:59.880 but Deadshot is there for one 03:20:59.940 --> 03:21:00.880 on two tricks. He's continuing 03:21:00.940 --> 03:21:02.880 to fight while it stares. He 03:21:02.940 --> 03:21:03.880 was in a bad position, but 03:21:03.940 --> 03:21:05.880 again, this is something that 03:21:05.940 --> 03:21:07.880 fanatic have done well throughout 03:21:07.940 --> 03:21:09.880 is to trade those deaths. Really 03:21:09.880 --> 03:21:17.880 Always a step ahead Tim. It's really all I can say about this half. It just feels like they've always got something else in mind. 03:21:17.880 --> 03:21:21.880 There's just the minds to give it to them. It's not all that often you'll see two players playing on white window there. 03:21:21.880 --> 03:21:25.880 So the second player here, they've got a freebie. I was like, oh, nice, that surprised them. 03:21:25.880 --> 03:21:30.880 Now they've got themselves another from the similar position. He and I are bringing it down to a two versus two. 03:21:30.880 --> 03:21:34.880 They're not out of this yet. They can still do it, but we're coming down to the last 40 seconds. 03:21:34.880 --> 03:21:36.880 the back pocket of croc, for 03:21:36.880 --> 03:21:37.880 example, and a keeper barrier 03:21:37.880 --> 03:21:38.880 still to go. There are still 03:21:38.880 --> 03:21:40.880 ways for that. It can cause a 03:21:40.880 --> 03:21:42.880 headache here. 03:21:44.880 --> 03:21:45.880 You can see P nine on white 03:21:45.880 --> 03:21:46.880 stairs. They're looking to get 03:21:46.880 --> 03:21:48.880 aggressive into war. Fire 03:21:48.880 --> 03:21:49.880 bless is able to take the 03:21:49.880 --> 03:21:50.880 challenge as he's in the 03:21:50.880 --> 03:21:52.880 boat. Animation takes down 03:21:52.880 --> 03:21:54.880 crocs and leaves wizard. No one 03:21:54.880 --> 03:21:56.880 V two. One thing twisted minds 03:21:56.880 --> 03:21:58.880 need to make sure here is that 03:21:58.880 --> 03:21:59.880 they don't give him anything 03:21:59.880 --> 03:22:01.880 for free. Don't give him those 03:22:01.880 --> 03:22:03.880 one V one nicely done. 03:22:03.880 --> 03:22:07.920 to win the game. They've got 03:22:07.920 --> 03:22:09.920 to be extremely done working 03:22:09.920 --> 03:22:11.920 together. They create a little 03:22:11.920 --> 03:22:13.920 bit of a diverging get wizard 03:22:13.920 --> 03:22:15.920 into a fire and then dovetakes 03:22:15.920 --> 03:22:17.920 the peak around the corner 03:22:17.920 --> 03:22:19.920 finds the kill and twisted 03:22:19.920 --> 03:22:21.920 minds. They get themselves to 03:22:21.920 --> 03:22:23.920 round 12. One more to win to 03:22:23.920 --> 03:22:25.920 take us into overtime. Yeah 03:22:25.920 --> 03:22:27.920 honestly. Fantastic there again. 03:22:27.920 --> 03:22:29.920 Big peanuts and so much in that 03:22:29.920 --> 03:22:30.920 round around White window two 03:22:30.920 --> 03:22:31.920 kills on that same repel and 03:22:31.920 --> 03:22:32.920 then as you saw at the end of 03:22:32.920 --> 03:22:38.800 I was just like the rounds over. They've lost a freebie to the C4. They've annoyed their dead choppers to the side of white 03:22:38.800 --> 03:22:40.960 They've been traded out when they got the kill even back on to him 03:22:40.960 --> 03:22:46.020 It felt like there was nothing the system mines could do right without fanatic being had to repeat it and relay it back 03:22:46.020 --> 03:22:50.920 Onto them, but they managed to find a way through with a little bit of a big hero moment 03:22:51.000 --> 03:22:53.360 And it was one thing actually speaking of like hero moments 03:22:53.360 --> 03:22:59.840 They speak about hero rounds from individuals when they can have a player that just gets 3k or a 4k and basically wins the round for the team 03:22:59.840 --> 03:23:04.840 I was looking at the numbers, like Fnatic are the least hero play team I believe it was so far. 03:23:04.840 --> 03:23:10.840 Others generally are looking at like teams like Falcons, just endless, as you can imagine, 3Ks and 4Ks coming out of their ears. 03:23:10.840 --> 03:23:17.840 He's seen a couple today so far, I think from both teams now. Both of them are really up for this, and it's not just fans of team effort, 03:23:17.840 --> 03:23:21.840 it's individual brilliance as well as shining, and that always makes for a fantastic series. 03:23:21.840 --> 03:23:25.600 Yeah, Croxton and Deadshot are the obvious two to pick out for Fnatic there. 03:23:25.600 --> 03:23:31.320 23 kills between the two of them, and you know, they've all had some big, big rounds. 03:23:31.320 --> 03:23:35.160 Deadshot with a 3K round, Croxton with a 3K and a 4K round, 03:23:35.160 --> 03:23:38.160 and it's just having those big moments from players. 03:23:38.160 --> 03:23:41.960 You need, like you said, the full sweep, you need the combination. 03:23:41.960 --> 03:23:43.840 You need the players that are going to come out and do that, 03:23:43.840 --> 03:23:47.560 but you also need that solid, strategical foundation as a team. 03:23:47.560 --> 03:23:53.160 And I think, you know, in parts, I'm not going to say the performance is perfect, always round, 03:23:53.160 --> 03:23:56.920 but I feel like that is something that Fnatic have shown us a little bit of both today. 03:23:57.640 --> 03:24:01.960 And that is a really positive sign for them. Not twisted minds though, takers to 12. 03:24:01.960 --> 03:24:06.120 They've certainly had some impressive moments themselves. They've dealt with some difficult 03:24:06.120 --> 03:24:11.800 problems and they've made life a bit of a misery at times for Fnatic in some of these rounds. 03:24:11.800 --> 03:24:15.160 So, can they get it done? Fnatic bringing the clash this time. 03:24:15.160 --> 03:24:17.720 Is that going to be the difference maker? 03:24:19.000 --> 03:24:22.520 It's another thing to get in the way of twisted mines to slow them down, isn't it? 03:24:22.520 --> 03:24:25.640 And now that's being the constant threatened annoyance throughout the half, 03:24:25.640 --> 03:24:29.160 twisted mines to hate to have to face off against, and it might probably be the same again here. 03:24:29.160 --> 03:24:32.680 They've had, what, two frags run out so far, shield of course is still standing, 03:24:32.680 --> 03:24:38.440 Jalaz got two more to use, but look again, it's a little bit of a stalemate that falls, albeit it's very early in the round. 03:24:40.120 --> 03:24:42.680 Going to see another Camdello going in here, I think. 03:24:42.680 --> 03:24:47.400 two left on the board after that, like that it's dealt with so quickly and easily by a wizard, 03:24:47.400 --> 03:24:53.240 just applies that keeper barricade, shoots out the cantella, keeps himself safe for another 10 seconds, 03:24:53.240 --> 03:24:57.640 is so halfway through the round now, and twisted minds, it feels like they're struggling to get 03:24:57.640 --> 03:25:03.000 themselves really established in their state here. They've managed to take some top floor, 03:25:03.000 --> 03:25:07.880 but otherwise it's a lot of window play, and they're not working the verticals too much, 03:25:07.880 --> 03:25:13.720 they do manage to get that entry though, Hasham picking up D-Pick and that is a big one to remove. 03:25:13.720 --> 03:25:20.040 That is the class, the shield, gone off the board. And just when it was a 6-4 we were thinking surely 03:25:20.040 --> 03:25:23.800 Twisted Minds are going to find themselves trying to catch back up. Well Tim, they look like they're 03:25:23.800 --> 03:25:28.600 on to do it. A five versus three, but now they can try this really aggressive hold-around one that 03:25:28.600 --> 03:25:32.760 hasn't yet paid off. Right, gets at least one back but now it's a little off and scrap, into 03:25:32.760 --> 03:25:37.080 fireplace and self-carnity, pushing, but look at it from below. Wonderful play from Hasham 03:25:37.080 --> 03:25:38.080 to get the assist down. 03:25:38.080 --> 03:25:39.580 Jalakim Rida dead shot. 03:25:39.580 --> 03:25:42.580 They have sliced that sides up to him like a good old pizza, 03:25:42.580 --> 03:25:45.080 and now they've forced us to overtime. 03:25:45.080 --> 03:25:47.580 We're going to get a few extra rounds of this. 03:25:47.580 --> 03:25:51.080 Twisted mines digging deep in those last couple of rounds. 03:25:51.080 --> 03:25:55.080 Fnatic are going to kick themselves for not being able to get it over the line, 03:25:55.080 --> 03:25:59.580 but I do think it is more about the adjustments that Twisted Mines made 03:25:59.580 --> 03:26:02.080 than necessarily anything that Fnatic did. 03:26:02.080 --> 03:26:05.080 I think dealing with the clash as a priority, 03:26:05.080 --> 03:26:09.120 that round. It's going to be 03:26:09.120 --> 03:26:11.120 a little bit of a. Not early in 03:26:11.120 --> 03:26:13.120 that round, but as the first 03:26:13.120 --> 03:26:15.120 thing that they did in that 03:26:15.120 --> 03:26:17.120 round was a real big moment for 03:26:17.120 --> 03:26:19.120 twisted minds. Recognize where 03:26:19.120 --> 03:26:21.120 the kind of linchpin of the 03:26:21.120 --> 03:26:23.120 defense was what was going to 03:26:23.120 --> 03:26:25.120 be the big hold up. They 03:26:25.120 --> 03:26:27.120 managed to remove it. And then 03:26:27.120 --> 03:26:29.120 also the use of the verticality 03:26:29.120 --> 03:26:31.120 but from beneath rather than 03:26:31.120 --> 03:26:33.120 from above. Beautiful stuff. They 03:26:33.120 --> 03:26:35.760 Certainly made it interesting those last couple of rounds. 03:26:35.760 --> 03:26:37.880 Because again, there's six, four hours like that. 03:26:37.880 --> 03:26:39.720 They just want to keep on saying that. 03:26:39.720 --> 03:26:40.880 They've always got to figure it out. 03:26:40.880 --> 03:26:42.400 They've always got to wait through. 03:26:42.400 --> 03:26:43.600 But in the last couple of rounds, 03:26:43.600 --> 03:26:45.680 you've seen twisted minds really step up, 03:26:45.680 --> 03:26:47.840 both individually in round 11, 03:26:47.840 --> 03:26:51.720 but then as a team in that final round of regulation. 03:26:51.720 --> 03:26:53.600 Now they're trying to hide away half of here on the echo. 03:26:53.600 --> 03:26:56.200 You see him lay down here, not wanting to reveal himself. 03:26:56.200 --> 03:26:57.360 They've got something cheeky in mind, 03:26:57.360 --> 03:26:58.560 but maybe so do you decide. 03:26:58.560 --> 03:27:01.320 So we're looking at their line of those hopping across. 03:27:01.320 --> 03:27:05.560 a bit of an hour of coming out of course got a what I call like a major buff I wouldn't even say it's 03:27:05.560 --> 03:27:09.640 a major buff but it's certainly an improvement now it gets all off the doors at the very very 03:27:09.640 --> 03:27:12.840 start of the round they can be used at longer range all that kind of good stuff to come and look 03:27:12.840 --> 03:27:17.000 forward to but here we're not yet at the point where those guys are out so it's not available 03:27:17.000 --> 03:27:21.560 at this stage you of course want to look forward to in the future all eyes now turn towards things 03:27:21.560 --> 03:27:25.080 like the sense and the blitz there to work a bit of magic on the other side though we're talking 03:27:25.080 --> 03:27:29.800 to the match him. Looking at the Kai, looking at the thugs, looking at the flash, and the 03:27:29.800 --> 03:27:33.760 Goyo of course. It's all about slowing them down. How well that is there as an insurance 03:27:33.760 --> 03:27:36.440 policy. So let's see what they can get away with. 03:27:36.440 --> 03:27:41.080 Yeah, we'll keep an eye on Jalad on the Roura. It's an operator. I've been playing quite 03:27:41.080 --> 03:27:45.880 a lot of in-ranking recently, nice DMR, and then especially when it's solo, if you just 03:27:45.880 --> 03:27:50.840 want to give a go in your own games at home, she can be very good at creating that bit 03:27:50.840 --> 03:27:56.200 that you sometimes need, you know, to avoid those flanks getting hit and just create a 03:27:56.200 --> 03:28:00.840 little bit of a safe space to play in, especially as a solo hockey player, where you can't always 03:28:00.840 --> 03:28:07.560 guarantee on having that support put. Here we go, in round 12, we get a goalie with twisted 03:28:07.560 --> 03:28:13.080 minds, they're sending the shield, they get a double fanatic, starting to crumble here, 03:28:13.080 --> 03:28:18.360 they're on the defensive game, they've got the clash, 100 people die, DPEC becomes less 03:28:18.360 --> 03:28:24.920 powerful because he can't keep playing behind that shield. They need a gun up, able to take a fight. 03:28:24.920 --> 03:28:28.680 Jill admires the fine wizard. He's not going to have to take one fight. He's going to have to take 03:28:28.680 --> 03:28:34.120 five right now. Flawless round and twisted mines. There's, they seem to have found another gear. 03:28:34.120 --> 03:28:41.480 They've hit the accelerator pedal in a big way. Wow. They really can't, they don't just use most of 03:28:41.480 --> 03:28:46.280 their users here in that round, Tim. They just rolled one kill into another, just breeze their 03:28:46.280 --> 03:28:50.280 the game. I think that's a 03:28:50.280 --> 03:28:51.980 thing that's going to be a way 03:28:51.980 --> 03:28:52.580 through and correct me on 03:28:52.580 --> 03:28:53.780 mistaken. Have we seen a 03:28:53.780 --> 03:28:56.280 fanatic time out this game? 03:28:56.280 --> 03:28:58.280 No. We saw a twisted man, Tom. 03:28:58.280 --> 03:28:59.280 I really feel like attack time 03:28:59.280 --> 03:29:00.280 has to come in now not to try 03:29:00.280 --> 03:29:01.280 and come up with the strategy 03:29:01.280 --> 03:29:02.280 to win. Thank God for that. 03:29:02.280 --> 03:29:03.280 This isn't to do with a 03:29:03.280 --> 03:29:07.280 strategy to win the game. This 03:29:07.280 --> 03:29:08.280 is a mental thing. Those last 03:29:08.280 --> 03:29:09.280 three rounds have just got 03:29:09.280 --> 03:29:10.280 progressively worse from the 03:29:10.280 --> 03:29:11.280 boys. Yeah. Around 12. They 03:29:11.280 --> 03:29:12.280 just looked a little bit lost 03:29:12.280 --> 03:29:13.280 there getting sliced up inside 03:29:13.280 --> 03:29:14.280 a fireplace in the one part of 03:29:14.280 --> 03:29:15.280 that. Yeah, P. Man went big. 03:29:15.280 --> 03:29:18.540 to the last round. They got 03:29:18.540 --> 03:29:20.080 absolutely rushed their pants 03:29:20.080 --> 03:29:21.280 up by the side of twisted 03:29:21.280 --> 03:29:22.780 minds. It's gone from bad to 03:29:22.780 --> 03:29:23.780 worse across those three 03:29:23.780 --> 03:29:25.580 rounds. They just need a mental 03:29:25.580 --> 03:29:27.180 reset right now. Otherwise this 03:29:27.180 --> 03:29:28.880 map's done. Yeah it was far too 03:29:28.880 --> 03:29:30.180 easy for twisted minds. There 03:29:30.180 --> 03:29:31.080 wasn't the whole round was 03:29:31.080 --> 03:29:32.780 over in about 15 seconds. You 03:29:32.780 --> 03:29:34.580 know, they just spotted that 03:29:34.580 --> 03:29:35.980 opportunity. I think they had 03:29:35.980 --> 03:29:37.480 locations. You know, sort of 03:29:37.480 --> 03:29:38.980 pinpointed for a few of those 03:29:38.980 --> 03:29:40.480 fanatic players and just went 03:29:40.480 --> 03:29:42.780 in and to the I think that 03:29:42.780 --> 03:29:43.880 fanatic have done a good job 03:29:43.880 --> 03:29:50.040 their game, which is chaos and aggression. And they found it. They just found it there in round 13, 03:29:50.040 --> 03:29:55.080 so a sub-mind's able to just dash in and say, you know what, we're going to play our way for this 03:29:55.080 --> 03:29:59.720 round. And as soon as they did, Fnatic really struggled to stand up to that. So, you know, 03:29:59.720 --> 03:30:03.480 what do they do? First of all, they've got to win an attack. That's something that they did pretty 03:30:03.480 --> 03:30:08.600 well, I think, in the first half. They went three and three. So there's no real advantage there, 03:30:08.600 --> 03:30:13.000 but I feel like Fnatic were in the driving seat when they were on attack. So if we do see this 03:30:13.000 --> 03:30:26.000 I think something fanatic need to do is kind of lean into the the theory of that clash pick of, you know, maybe brings some of the trap up for it as we've seen them use the Goyorkan system and maybe they bring out a lesion. 03:30:26.000 --> 03:30:34.000 You know, maybe they bring out a frost, bring plenty of barbed wire, just do everything they can to prevent that chaotic aggression from twisted minds. 03:30:34.000 --> 03:30:39.000 Slow them down, spread out a little bit, just a lot of problems to solve. 03:30:39.000 --> 03:30:44.760 I think where they found the most success, honestly, was, as crazy as it sounds, like, 03:30:44.760 --> 03:30:47.680 the rounds where they had to be able to cross a couple like Skyward of the early parts of 03:30:47.680 --> 03:30:51.240 the round, is where they found success, is where they found the early kills and been 03:30:51.240 --> 03:30:53.240 able to get themselves on the leading foot. 03:30:53.240 --> 03:30:55.840 They've had the entry, at least a couple of the last couple of rounds went by, and the 03:30:55.840 --> 03:30:59.280 majority of these rounds, they've done really, really well on the entry, and they were like 03:30:59.280 --> 03:31:04.600 8 out of 11, they were flying, and those last couple, that's tight, let things slip, and 03:31:04.600 --> 03:31:06.760 The means across those last few rounds in total, 03:31:06.760 --> 03:31:09.160 that's if you've only found four kills. 03:31:09.160 --> 03:31:11.600 Now it's not looking good, and that is one open. 03:31:11.600 --> 03:31:14.640 That timeout will turn things around for them. 03:31:14.640 --> 03:31:15.880 For now, they've got a deal, though, of course, 03:31:15.880 --> 03:31:16.720 with the other side. 03:31:16.720 --> 03:31:19.080 Now, Trix is the one that Paul's got my eyes on here. 03:31:19.080 --> 03:31:20.480 He's got the super hyper early aggression 03:31:20.480 --> 03:31:21.320 he might be used to, 03:31:21.320 --> 03:31:22.720 but I think he's playing currently on the stairway. 03:31:22.720 --> 03:31:23.560 Trying to look for wards. 03:31:23.560 --> 03:31:24.560 Sorry, I thought he was on the stairway 03:31:24.560 --> 03:31:26.040 up towards the museum side, but no. 03:31:26.040 --> 03:31:27.400 He's sat back inside a train, 03:31:27.400 --> 03:31:29.360 just feeding out what's going on on these windows. 03:31:29.360 --> 03:31:30.680 We saw for now they get a freebie 03:31:30.680 --> 03:31:32.880 onto a blackbeard playing here and here on, 03:31:32.880 --> 03:31:34.280 and maybe they're hoping they'll get there looking, 03:31:34.280 --> 03:31:36.280 to get a free beat into 03:31:36.280 --> 03:31:39.280 was piano on the side of 03:31:39.280 --> 03:31:42.280 the night as well. Okay, then 03:31:42.280 --> 03:31:44.280 crocs is taking the drop at 03:31:44.280 --> 03:31:46.280 top red. We saw him have some 03:31:46.280 --> 03:31:48.280 success on the entry in the 03:31:48.280 --> 03:31:49.280 first half around one and two 03:31:49.280 --> 03:31:51.280 both went to him. He's going to 03:31:51.280 --> 03:31:53.280 find this one as well. I drown 03:31:53.280 --> 03:31:55.280 14 to his bike. We just needs 03:31:55.280 --> 03:31:57.280 to go to the checkout and try 03:31:57.280 --> 03:31:59.280 to purchase the rest of this 03:31:59.280 --> 03:32:01.280 round. It's going to be five 03:32:01.280 --> 03:32:10.280 a little bit here, and at it, not wanting to get anything back to twisting mines, wanting to keep at an advantage before they continue sweeping across the top floor. 03:32:10.280 --> 03:32:15.280 The droning does go on. Look at this utility use. Very little that could be done there. 03:32:15.280 --> 03:32:17.280 Amazing. Again. 03:32:17.280 --> 03:32:19.280 Push it a bit to bad positions. 03:32:19.280 --> 03:32:29.280 Yeah. I mean, they managed to get away with the C4 kill from Tricks, which is what they've been aiming for for a long time, but after the damage had been done, Croxton again, like he did on Bar before, just crouched, walked his way through, still haven't gone, 03:32:29.280 --> 03:32:33.580 Still haven't got, oh hey, there's a free kill in towards storage for me, because no one's really paying attention. 03:32:33.580 --> 03:32:36.220 They haven't got the intel on the other side, or at least they should have. 03:32:36.220 --> 03:32:39.160 That was Tricks job, but he's missed that one and let... 03:32:39.160 --> 03:32:41.940 ...cross and get away with quite literally murder. 03:32:41.940 --> 03:32:43.260 It's a 4v2. 03:32:43.260 --> 03:32:46.740 Surely, Fnatic can't bustle this. 03:32:46.740 --> 03:32:50.020 Tricks is a big thing that Twisted Minds have got going for them here. 03:32:50.020 --> 03:32:55.780 Having that intel on the pulse, tries to go for a run out, but due diligence has been pitted. 03:32:55.780 --> 03:33:00.820 over earlier in the round had that air jab there for that possible runout good stuff they're going to 03:33:00.820 --> 03:33:05.940 drop all the kit behind the sense walls they don't quite get away with it but the trade is there so 03:33:05.940 --> 03:33:11.860 no big loss for fanatic dpeck finding the man it's going to be the plant going down as well now 03:33:11.860 --> 03:33:17.860 Tricks is trying to get movement going here but he cannot find an angle wizard picks up the kill 03:33:17.860 --> 03:33:24.260 and we are going all the way to 15. A very well controlled round by Fnaticus thought as well like 03:33:24.260 --> 03:33:28.960 They weren't dropping until the very bitter end and maybe a bit too much reliance on the sense wall there 03:33:28.960 --> 03:33:32.460 But I'll give it to them again. This is the aggression that we used to seeing out twisted mines 03:33:32.460 --> 03:33:37.200 They're willing to step up and be aggressive there and try and isolate out the 1v1s and it almost worked out beautifully 03:33:37.540 --> 03:33:41.900 Just D-Pet managed to get the closing shot down that forced that to be a 3v1 on the close 03:33:42.220 --> 03:33:46.500 Well now Tim we get that switch we've seen both teams do well. They've had a 3-3 half 03:33:46.500 --> 03:33:48.500 They're both on their attacks in overtime 03:33:48.540 --> 03:33:54.220 Is that what carries on the twisted mind? Take it or do we see a defense win come through here for the first time in five rounds? 03:33:54.260 --> 03:34:02.100 I think that's a good chance. 03:34:02.100 --> 03:34:04.200 As long as they don't go to top 03:34:04.200 --> 03:34:06.200 floor, there's there's always a 03:34:06.200 --> 03:34:08.200 chance. There's always a chance 03:34:08.200 --> 03:34:10.200 hold your breath in. It's going 03:34:10.200 --> 03:34:12.200 to be reading. It's going to be 03:34:12.200 --> 03:34:14.200 reading now. Come back. Come back 03:34:14.200 --> 03:34:16.200 to what I said a second ago, 03:34:16.200 --> 03:34:18.200 right where I think they found 03:34:18.200 --> 03:34:20.200 good success. It's been in C 03:34:20.200 --> 03:34:22.200 foreplay and that is very 03:34:22.200 --> 03:34:24.200 simplistic. You can't always 03:34:24.200 --> 03:34:34.200 The question now comes, it's a twisted mind, see that on the left side, you know what, they show respect to us, they brought the IQ, they dealt with the yokais, it's how Croxton managed to crouch, walk into bar and kill two of us and win the round. 03:34:34.200 --> 03:34:43.200 We're going to bring the IQ as well, or they're just going to leave it, they can lean into what the doc could be of desire, but as a note, I'm not 100% solid on this, this is brave. 03:34:43.200 --> 03:34:51.200 It is, as you said, they can use those calls a little bit, you know, if you're going to take an area, 03:34:51.200 --> 03:34:55.540 Yeah, if you're gonna take an area that you think could be dangerous. Oh, this is interesting 03:34:55.540 --> 03:34:58.660 No, I'm you used to be able to play about comes out years ago 03:34:59.120 --> 03:35:05.020 That's a real sacrifice to try and get that early peak as we can will now be out of action 03:35:05.180 --> 03:35:09.940 They're gonna take it out anyway, but it would have stopped giving a speed much like the echo comes to 03:35:10.340 --> 03:35:13.200 Yeah, interesting use of it there kind of a little pocket 03:35:13.200 --> 03:35:15.840 Can't throw it out there so you can get a kill doesn't work out 03:35:15.840 --> 03:35:18.860 But back to you know what I was saying the way that you can use that 03:35:21.200 --> 03:35:24.960 It forces when that call comes in it forces all the defenders off the camps 03:35:24.960 --> 03:35:27.280 So if you've got an area that you know is a high risk area 03:35:27.680 --> 03:35:30.560 Something like piano and you haven't found a cam in there 03:35:30.560 --> 03:35:35.760 But you're worried about getting hit with a C4 when you go in and take that area as you're about to progress through there 03:35:35.760 --> 03:35:37.520 Bang you hit your door could be cool 03:35:37.520 --> 03:35:43.160 You force everybody off the cams you work your way through you're forcing them at best to a blind C4 attempt then 03:35:43.520 --> 03:35:47.600 So it is you know one way of dealing with it at least but I agree the actually 03:35:48.320 --> 03:35:50.320 more 03:35:50.320 --> 03:35:53.360 All right, well, let's see if any C4s 03:35:53.360 --> 03:35:56.080 sets in the rounds, if those black eyes come back 03:35:56.080 --> 03:35:58.240 to bite just to find them. 03:35:58.240 --> 03:36:00.080 Now, taking things very slowly themselves, 03:36:00.080 --> 03:36:02.160 there's only worries to get a bit more of a self-dust 03:36:02.160 --> 03:36:03.360 on yourself, ain't gonna help. 03:36:03.360 --> 03:36:04.880 Only worries to get a little bit scared here, 03:36:04.880 --> 03:36:07.080 a little bit hesitant to start slowing things down. 03:36:07.080 --> 03:36:08.880 Where they've found successes in the aggression 03:36:08.880 --> 03:36:10.400 and I feel taking your foot off the gas now 03:36:10.400 --> 03:36:12.480 would be the worst idea you could take. 03:36:14.560 --> 03:36:17.400 Just continuing the sweep across the top floor. 03:36:17.400 --> 03:36:19.840 They do still have Crocsons to deal with this, 03:36:49.840 --> 03:36:57.600 Four fanatics 7-7 on the scoreboard for versus four in the round could not be closer than this 03:36:59.080 --> 03:37:04.320 That's what I think that it could play for here. They've done such a great job losing crop though. That is not super ideal 03:37:04.440 --> 03:37:09.640 We know that it's been must have fallen throughout this game 15 and 12. He will end on one kill per round 03:37:10.040 --> 03:37:11.480 Perfectly averaged out 03:37:11.480 --> 03:37:14.560 Here we go with the drops coming on through this black being here 03:37:14.560 --> 03:37:19.260 It's put pressure down inside the fireplace, a key spot to be in, because that spot's not a playing range, it's an aisle. 03:37:19.260 --> 03:37:22.060 They're looking nice and close to going for a door fight here as well. 03:37:22.060 --> 03:37:25.260 I expected to find someone in behind the fallen bookcase, but there is no one. 03:37:25.260 --> 03:37:27.760 But that could have been a freebie, but no, it's the Blackbeard. 03:37:27.760 --> 03:37:30.360 Plant is going down and for that it looked powerless to stop it, Tim. 03:37:31.960 --> 03:37:34.760 How will she say death? How will she say otherwise? 03:37:34.760 --> 03:37:38.360 Pops himself up onto the washing machine and cleans house. 03:37:38.360 --> 03:37:41.560 Gonna take him down, but then, but then, 03:37:41.560 --> 03:37:47.560 Twisted mines, they just run in, they close the net, they bind the kills and they take map one. 03:37:47.560 --> 03:37:51.560 Ashop's straight in all chat, surely Sage easy, easy enough points him. 03:37:51.560 --> 03:37:54.560 That was a back and forth game, right until the bitter end. 03:37:54.560 --> 03:38:01.560 But when it matters most, twisted mines, they put their brains to the challenge, and they find a way over for their next map game. 03:38:01.560 --> 03:38:08.060 Strategy vs Chaos and it comes down to a chaotic final two seconds where 03:38:08.060 --> 03:38:11.760 Twisted Rhymes were able to turn it around and get it done. 03:38:11.760 --> 03:38:17.760 A fantastic first map series in all 15 rounds. That was a joke about 45 rounds but it could be on the way. 03:38:17.760 --> 03:38:20.760 Let's stop next. We'll see you after a short break. 03:43:01.560 --> 03:43:24.160 I think we need a VAR check on what the hell happened inside those final few seconds. 03:43:24.160 --> 03:43:28.040 Again, it starts them off with a nick and then they seem to throw it away. 03:43:28.040 --> 03:43:36.040 Yeah, of course, this is the run that I spoke about, actually, the halftime where they threw away an attack, that would have been a 4-2 split instead of a 3-3. 03:43:36.040 --> 03:43:40.040 Had they won that round that was very, very much in their hands, they would have won the game entirely. 03:43:40.040 --> 03:43:51.040 And it must be so frustrating to be a fanatic fan. It must be so frustrating to be a fanatic coach, player even, you know, like, because the game was in their hands and they really let it slip. 03:43:51.040 --> 03:43:55.040 It's worth noting, both of these teams had really, really good attack arson cafe, 03:43:55.040 --> 03:43:58.240 which traditionally is not the most attack-as-ide of the map. 03:43:58.240 --> 03:44:01.640 It is leaning more and more attack-as-ide as teams figure out more and more, 03:44:01.640 --> 03:44:03.840 but yeah, they managed to find a way to get the job done. 03:44:03.840 --> 03:44:08.640 Even here, 6-4, you know, the fact that Twisted Rounds were able to come back in the 6-4 round 03:44:08.640 --> 03:44:11.640 whilst being at man disadvantage is another slight on the Fnatic. 03:44:11.640 --> 03:44:13.640 When they've got the round and the game in their control, 03:44:13.640 --> 03:44:16.040 they just seems have this soft underbelly right at the end. 03:44:16.040 --> 03:44:19.040 And look at this, he brings back the round in 3v3. 03:44:19.040 --> 03:44:24.960 Hovak has gotten the most important kill and then suddenly, boom, the 3v3 just disappears. 03:44:24.960 --> 03:44:27.360 Two player pushing two ways, no one is expecting them. 03:44:27.360 --> 03:44:31.400 All the major gunfights, Jack, they are lost to the side of Nadek. 03:44:31.400 --> 03:44:35.040 And I think it is a consistent issue that in the most critical moments, when they do 03:44:35.040 --> 03:44:39.320 need these impactful kills, the critical skill is just stacking. 03:44:39.320 --> 03:44:40.320 Yeah. 03:44:40.320 --> 03:44:44.400 I mean, this is one of those games that on the balance, you could play out ten times 03:44:44.400 --> 03:44:47.000 and Fnatic would probably win it nine times. 03:44:47.000 --> 03:44:49.160 We just happened to view the one time 03:44:49.160 --> 03:44:50.200 that Swissenmann's found a way 03:44:50.200 --> 03:44:53.680 because Fnatic would just snatch in defeat 03:44:53.680 --> 03:44:54.520 from the jaws of victory. 03:44:54.520 --> 03:44:55.840 Well, what's that coupion like? 03:44:55.840 --> 03:44:57.880 Do you really think they've replayed that? 03:44:57.880 --> 03:44:59.720 There is a 90th-century stage wins this? 03:44:59.720 --> 03:45:02.320 No, no, but at least three rounds we've watched there. 03:45:02.320 --> 03:45:04.840 Fnatic have completely thrown it away. 03:45:04.840 --> 03:45:06.200 Yes, Swissenmann's have brought it back, 03:45:06.200 --> 03:45:07.560 but Fnatic have completely thrown it away. 03:45:07.560 --> 03:45:09.240 Okay, but at some point you've got to ask the question. 03:45:09.240 --> 03:45:10.080 Fnatic has done that. 03:45:10.080 --> 03:45:12.200 And they've done that, exactly. 03:45:12.200 --> 03:45:13.360 They've done that every single match. 03:45:13.360 --> 03:45:17.840 So in history, if they do that every single match, I expect that if they replay it again, 03:45:17.840 --> 03:45:19.840 I will know that probably too. 03:45:19.840 --> 03:45:21.840 Do you know what happened? 03:45:21.840 --> 03:45:23.840 My point started out strong. 03:45:23.840 --> 03:45:26.480 My point started out strong and then we got to the front of the half. 03:45:26.480 --> 03:45:28.480 Do you realize really weakly? 03:45:28.480 --> 03:45:30.480 Do you realize the logic behind it? 03:45:30.480 --> 03:45:32.480 It is just a fanatic thing. 03:45:32.480 --> 03:45:34.480 They are a great team. 03:45:34.480 --> 03:45:36.480 They are a great team. 03:45:36.480 --> 03:45:38.480 They do things the right way. 03:45:38.480 --> 03:45:40.480 They have a good game plan. 03:45:40.480 --> 03:45:42.480 They have good players. 03:45:42.480 --> 03:45:48.680 And I've got to hate it that in the last 30 seconds of every round, I'm like how are they going to lose this one? 03:45:48.680 --> 03:45:52.880 And somehow 50% of the time they will lose it and I'm like how? 03:45:52.880 --> 03:45:55.580 Because they've got everything they need? Yes, this is a crash out. 03:45:55.580 --> 03:46:01.680 But because I expect these guys to do better, because I'm like they have it in them, they deserve to win. 03:46:01.680 --> 03:46:03.280 But they just keep throwing it away. 03:46:03.280 --> 03:46:03.680 Yeah. 03:46:03.680 --> 03:46:05.880 I mean, that's not even just a soft underbelly. 03:46:05.880 --> 03:46:09.880 That was a lot more that we saw on the horse there causing a very valid crash out here. 03:46:09.880 --> 03:46:15.100 And especially thinking that this was for that XMAP pick right yet want to see them take that one if they're show 03:46:15.100 --> 03:46:17.980 Confident to pick that first in a series right? We're talking about best of three 03:46:17.980 --> 03:46:20.760 We're talking about death being shown with these teams here 03:46:20.760 --> 03:46:25.140 We're now going on a map that twist of mine apparently is very comfortable because it is their MAP pick in this series 03:46:25.140 --> 03:46:27.980 I want to see improvement from the side off medic 03:46:27.980 --> 03:46:32.580 I want to see the two endless here not have another crash out when we're gonna go into the second map 03:46:32.580 --> 03:46:35.440 We'll talk about all this in for the second series out of this 03:46:39.880 --> 03:46:41.880 I'm breaking next to the body now. 03:46:41.880 --> 03:46:43.880 Check this out, I'm never sounding out. 03:46:43.880 --> 03:46:45.880 I'ma keep it going till it ain't a night. 03:46:45.880 --> 03:46:47.880 I'm breaking next to the body now. 03:46:47.880 --> 03:46:49.880 Oh, it won't stop, I'm running out. 03:46:49.880 --> 03:46:51.880 Cause I can't get down from the funny love. 03:46:51.880 --> 03:46:53.880 I'ma keep it going till it ain't a night. 03:50:09.880 --> 03:50:33.400 Welcome back to the EML kickoff. I need your help because these two gentlemen, even when 03:50:33.400 --> 03:50:39.080 the break continued, continued crashing out about what we saw from Fnatic in that first 03:50:39.080 --> 03:50:41.080 I'm very serious about this 03:50:42.480 --> 03:50:48.920 They just kept going on that I I need something I need a bit of hope crash out. Okay. We're over it now 03:50:48.920 --> 03:50:52.800 I need a glimmer of hope for the phonetic fence. We're over it. We're over it. Okay 03:50:53.240 --> 03:50:57.480 The reality is is fanatic actually for the most part even close up to the G2 game 03:50:57.480 --> 03:51:02.560 They can control round 12 they can show as good theoretical knowledge and control of the round 03:51:02.840 --> 03:51:06.520 They just let it slip and it's very easy to say don't let it slip 03:51:06.520 --> 03:51:08.640 They need to find their own way of doing that. 03:51:08.640 --> 03:51:13.240 Maybe, you know, just committing a little bit harder without any fear, without any hesitation. 03:51:13.240 --> 03:51:14.680 That's maybe how they do it. 03:51:14.680 --> 03:51:18.440 But yeah, that's the hope, is that they actually are still in a lot of these rounds 03:51:18.440 --> 03:51:19.880 because they're controlling them well. 03:51:19.880 --> 03:51:21.080 I think the back line works well. 03:51:21.080 --> 03:51:24.440 I think Deepak has shown it multiple times with his double-digit games. 03:51:24.440 --> 03:51:26.040 Three times in a row, by the way. 03:51:26.040 --> 03:51:28.920 I think that if you look at the entry, I think that Kroc, for example, 03:51:28.920 --> 03:51:32.280 with our players that are stepping up, that can't put up the numbers. 03:51:32.280 --> 03:51:35.160 The roster on paper, it has some abilities. 03:51:35.160 --> 03:51:37.720 The main thing is trying to stuck together and play well. 03:51:37.720 --> 03:51:41.640 It will be hard because Twisted Minds, they beat shifters on that map. 03:51:41.640 --> 03:51:44.600 They beat Gen.G on that map as well during SAQ. 03:51:44.600 --> 03:51:45.880 They're confident on that map. 03:51:45.880 --> 03:51:48.520 On the other hand, Nadek, they've never won it last year. 03:51:48.520 --> 03:51:49.880 They lost it to Matchco. 03:51:49.880 --> 03:51:51.160 They lost it to G2. 03:51:51.160 --> 03:51:52.440 0% win rate on the map. 03:51:52.440 --> 03:51:54.920 It's supposed to be type-in fanatical. 03:51:54.920 --> 03:51:57.400 Yes, but I'm supposed to be objective as well. 03:51:57.400 --> 03:51:58.840 Okay, but there is hope. 03:51:58.840 --> 03:52:01.320 Even if it's just a tiny bit, there seems to be hope. 03:52:01.320 --> 03:52:03.560 And hope could be a very dangerous thing. 03:52:03.560 --> 03:52:07.240 is something that Fnatic eats as well if they want to keep themselves inside this upper bracket 03:52:07.240 --> 03:52:08.920 as the second map of the series continues. 03:52:11.960 --> 03:52:17.000 Well, hope is a wonderful thing, Tim, and I'm sure right now there are a number of Fnatic fans 03:52:17.000 --> 03:52:21.240 that are hoping they can recover it here on Lads. Just to remind us though, we were talking 03:52:21.240 --> 03:52:25.240 during the break and we have a feeling that this game is probably only going one way. 03:52:26.600 --> 03:52:31.560 Yeah, look, I just feel like that last map is going to come as a real blow to Fnatic. What we're 03:52:31.560 --> 03:52:35.560 that. We're going to see here 03:52:35.560 --> 03:52:37.560 from them is how is the mental 03:52:37.560 --> 03:52:39.560 resilience? How's the mental 03:52:39.560 --> 03:52:41.560 fortitude? Because I feel like, 03:52:41.560 --> 03:52:43.560 you know, I'm not just said on 03:52:43.560 --> 03:52:45.560 the desk there. They did a lot. 03:52:45.560 --> 03:52:47.560 Right. There was there was a lot 03:52:47.560 --> 03:52:49.560 of moments where for that it 03:52:49.560 --> 03:52:51.560 wrong top of things. If one 03:52:51.560 --> 03:52:53.560 round goes differently, you know, 03:52:53.560 --> 03:52:55.560 one failed push goes 03:52:55.560 --> 03:52:57.560 differently. They win that map 03:52:57.560 --> 03:52:59.560 and we come away. It's one zero. 03:52:59.560 --> 03:53:05.360 the way they did in round 15 and coming in here. I'm not saying they can't do it. Of 03:53:05.360 --> 03:53:09.400 course they can, you know, they've got this crocs and deadshot of both had a great day 03:53:09.400 --> 03:53:15.360 so far today on Cafe, but I just think they've got a real mountain to climb. 03:53:15.360 --> 03:53:21.480 They have, however, seen the number of series that you and I have cast where the teams win 03:53:21.480 --> 03:53:24.760 each of us might mix and then we're left with that third map like God knows which way this 03:53:24.760 --> 03:53:28.000 one goes. Maybe that's why this is going to go, because the latter two get to start out 03:53:28.000 --> 03:53:32.880 on the defense. They were always one step ahead is how we described it back on cafe and maybe it's 03:53:32.880 --> 03:53:37.840 going to be a similar story here on labs. Let's see how things go starting things off up on that 03:53:37.840 --> 03:53:42.640 top floor. See if they can back on their way back in or if tonight is going to be the night of two 03:53:42.640 --> 03:53:43.440 true zeros. 03:53:47.360 --> 03:53:50.640 I think we've had only a few rounds off to be fair about our last map being as long as the 03:53:50.640 --> 03:53:55.680 entire previous series. Always the way it is. It's always the way. 03:54:25.680 --> 03:54:30.880 not signal the end for fanatic no matter what happens if they do lose here on labs they will 03:54:30.880 --> 03:54:35.680 just drop down to the lower bracket so they will still have further chances in the fives to make 03:54:35.680 --> 03:54:41.040 that salt lake city pager um things will just get obviously a little more tricky because they will 03:54:41.040 --> 03:54:46.080 then be on the precipice but there's a lot of stage to be played before we get to that if they 03:54:46.080 --> 03:54:52.240 can win here on labs then we will see a naturally decided on fortress don't think anybody could 03:54:52.240 --> 03:54:57.240 I could say at the minute they don't want to see that given the way these two teams have gone at each other on Catholic. 03:54:57.240 --> 03:55:04.240 Absolutely, we were saying we'd be really cool to see us get that third, especially given the history of Gnadec on that map and not attacking what I'd like to see him turn it around. 03:55:04.240 --> 03:55:08.240 And also, let's just remind that we've got a little bit of bananas on fortress at the same time. 03:55:08.240 --> 03:55:10.240 But let's get ourselves through labs first. 03:55:10.240 --> 03:55:12.240 We're going to focus on towards IT wall now, Tim. 03:55:12.240 --> 03:55:15.240 There seems to be a bit of a cursed wall in Rainbow Six Siege. 03:55:15.240 --> 03:55:20.240 We have seen many a protein completely mess this look over the years. 03:55:50.240 --> 03:55:56.400 defense having that as army with the keeper barricades holding on to catwalk both lost. 03:55:57.440 --> 03:56:01.200 And this is before any walls have really been opened up except for the one you just saw us 03:56:01.200 --> 03:56:06.160 left on the ground. Right here there's a player here but he's going to go around and win the fight 03:56:06.160 --> 03:56:11.360 here and P9's down on his belly. Learning a thing or two from a shot on the way through but it's 03:56:11.360 --> 03:56:17.280 been constant 1v1s being fought by the Gnastic and constant 1v1s that they are losing giving 03:56:17.280 --> 03:56:19.280 to be able to do that. We're 03:56:19.280 --> 03:56:21.280 going to be able to do that. 03:56:21.280 --> 03:56:23.280 We're having themselves over to 03:56:23.280 --> 03:56:25.280 twisted minds. We're now five 03:56:25.280 --> 03:56:27.280 versus one with only minutes 03:56:27.280 --> 03:56:29.280 ago. This is done. Yes, it looks 03:56:29.280 --> 03:56:31.280 that way. Tricks is going to 03:56:31.280 --> 03:56:32.280 start putting the diffuser down 03:56:32.280 --> 03:56:33.280 just to make things that little 03:56:33.280 --> 03:56:35.280 bit more difficult. You need it 03:56:35.280 --> 03:56:37.280 to one be five. Now you need it 03:56:37.280 --> 03:56:38.280 against the clock. He's going to 03:56:38.280 --> 03:56:40.280 get caught with the smoke 03:56:40.280 --> 03:56:41.280 canister in his hand. It's 03:56:41.280 --> 03:56:42.280 happened to the best of us. It's 03:56:42.280 --> 03:56:43.280 going to be the final kill 03:56:43.280 --> 03:56:45.280 coming in, and we see a 03:56:45.280 --> 03:56:48.280 I'm a little bit nervous right now. 03:56:48.280 --> 03:56:53.280 Yeah, I think you're going to be on. Yeah, it's not looking the prettiest for them so far. 03:56:53.280 --> 03:56:59.280 I'll be it. It's only been one round. You didn't have any time to walk into the map. However, it was the fashion which was lost. 03:56:59.280 --> 03:57:03.280 The kind of worries me to be honest with you. Again, it was the fact that this was the constant 1v1s. 03:57:03.280 --> 03:57:07.280 And the constant was hoping it had been spotted there, but you know, there's always going to be a good chance as a drone. 03:57:07.280 --> 03:57:11.280 So I'm watching it already shot out a few throughout the rounds that in different parts around aqua. 03:57:11.280 --> 03:57:14.960 throughout the round starting different parts around Aqua so that the information was there 03:57:14.960 --> 03:57:19.200 of Swiss admins and obviously the end of paying the price of the nothing by being a little bit too 03:57:19.200 --> 03:57:23.040 slow coming into those gun fights should we say so a good start from Swiss admins taking their 03:57:23.040 --> 03:57:27.600 first attack since they're not picked the last thing that it want to do right now is let them 03:57:27.600 --> 03:57:30.880 start getting ahead here otherwise this could be a pretty quick series 03:57:30.880 --> 03:57:40.880 to be able to do this. Okay 03:57:40.880 --> 03:57:44.880 then. Have a bit of it. It will 03:57:44.880 --> 03:57:48.880 continue to move around. Valkyrie 03:57:48.880 --> 03:57:50.880 five seconds. Roxanne. So let's 03:57:50.880 --> 03:57:51.880 see again. It's it's not 03:57:51.880 --> 03:57:52.880 something that seemed to worry 03:57:52.880 --> 03:57:54.880 twisted minds. We spoke about 03:57:54.880 --> 03:57:56.880 this back on cafe. They didn't 03:57:56.880 --> 03:57:57.880 lean into it with an IQ pick. 03:57:57.880 --> 03:57:58.880 For example, they were happy to 03:57:58.880 --> 03:58:02.800 into a direct response to that. Don't even have the doc at this time. I'll stand around. 03:58:02.800 --> 03:58:07.360 They did choose to bring it off the beer. At least give some disruption to players on the camps 03:58:07.360 --> 03:58:12.720 when you do decide that a push is going to be put in. Barbit tricking. Will be successful. 03:58:12.720 --> 03:58:18.880 Eight ex-Karros pellets lost. Not an ideal start to a survive. Reloading! 03:58:18.880 --> 03:58:22.480 This start indeed though. It's nice being able to know those way. And I think again that may 03:58:22.480 --> 03:58:26.320 welcome down to knowing a little bit about these boys. I mean, part of the people who just bought 03:58:56.320 --> 03:59:01.040 the minute they are ready for any fight that comes their way Jalad is going to start moving into 03:59:01.040 --> 03:59:09.040 top floor and be chasing down the wizard who is up there at the minute and is no longer up there 03:59:09.040 --> 03:59:15.840 at the minute. Trixie is going to be the one to take him down. Mike! Come on, I don't know. 03:59:16.880 --> 03:59:21.200 It's a bit pedestrian, isn't it? It's a bit easy. Nowhere there's one more. 03:59:21.200 --> 03:59:31.380 it's a little bit of a new idea 03:59:39.340 --> 03:59:43.200 all together. Just some letting 03:59:43.200 --> 03:59:45.340 that opportunity pass by in 03:59:45.340 --> 03:59:46.440 there. I think maybe just a 03:59:46.440 --> 03:59:47.200 little bit of trigger 03:59:47.200 --> 03:59:48.660 discipline feeds the Intel 03:59:48.660 --> 03:59:54.260 to his team. Gillard is going to pick up dead shot. Just again, you know, you don't need to necessarily 03:59:54.260 --> 03:59:59.060 expose your position. You can just give that information and let your team do the job. Gillard 03:59:59.060 --> 04:00:05.460 manages to find Crocs as well, four versus two now, and it is not looking great for Fnatic, 04:00:05.460 --> 04:00:10.180 how he's going to relocate himself towards cargo. He needs to be careful though, because 04:00:10.180 --> 04:00:15.460 is there in position to have a little EF3 now who needs to readjust because he 04:00:15.460 --> 04:00:20.460 could find himself getting hit from the bottom of the hatch and it just to find 04:00:20.460 --> 04:00:24.900 this plant 2 vs 3 25 seconds off the go 2 vs 2 and the prowess with the 04:00:24.900 --> 04:00:29.900 nitros continues there's past the panacea curse lift here they the ones I'm 04:00:29.900 --> 04:00:33.940 gonna we're around from a losing position the wolfies down to the last 15 04:00:33.940 --> 04:00:37.180 11 tricks have really got to get a wiggle on them because there is very little 04:00:37.180 --> 04:00:40.460 time left. Now running themselves, they're trying to go for the gunfight. They get another one. 04:00:40.460 --> 04:00:43.900 Can they find the next? And no doubt the call will be on where he is. Tricks taking a couple 04:00:43.900 --> 04:00:49.260 of shots. Deep-Pek is full HP. Tricks had to go for it, but Deep-Pek lies it. Well, 04:00:49.260 --> 04:00:54.940 honkers himself down. Three kills there in that four versus two to give the round to Fanatic. 04:00:54.940 --> 04:01:00.300 Yeah, real big turnaround from Fanatic there. And it just, I was asking about that mental resilience, 04:01:00.300 --> 04:01:04.060 that mental fortitude coming into this one. And I don't think the last match has done them too 04:01:04.060 --> 04:01:08.100 the game. It's not going to be 04:01:08.100 --> 04:01:10.100 too much damage, which is what 04:01:10.100 --> 04:01:12.100 I was concerned about. They 04:01:12.100 --> 04:01:14.100 kind of reeling after that loss 04:01:14.100 --> 04:01:16.100 on cafe, but the mood seems up 04:01:16.100 --> 04:01:18.100 and the second round result was 04:01:18.100 --> 04:01:20.100 good for them. If anything, 04:01:20.100 --> 04:01:22.100 that's going to be a real blow 04:01:22.100 --> 04:01:24.100 for twisted minds. They were in 04:01:24.100 --> 04:01:26.100 a four versus two. They should 04:01:26.100 --> 04:01:28.100 have won that round comfortably. 04:01:28.100 --> 04:01:29.100 Reversed conversation. I'll 04:01:29.100 --> 04:01:30.100 make this again. It was the 04:01:30.100 --> 04:01:32.980 The clock definitely a big helper there the six man for the defenders 04:01:33.460 --> 04:01:37.980 It sees them over the line and what a piece exactly the same as how cafe started 04:01:42.980 --> 04:01:48.100 See where we go then it's gonna be storage and control for our final site before we'll get those 04:01:48.420 --> 04:01:51.400 additional operator bands and then no doubt through the same 04:01:52.020 --> 04:01:55.980 rotation I can't see if it's doing anything as cold as playing kitchen 04:01:55.980 --> 04:01:57.980 I wonder what they're doing there. 04:01:57.980 --> 04:02:01.980 They're wanting to take those sorts of risks with what is on the line, 04:02:01.980 --> 04:02:02.980 being that upper bracket spot. 04:02:02.980 --> 04:02:07.980 I remind you as well, in terms of how this sits inside of the tournament, 04:02:07.980 --> 04:02:10.980 obviously I've spoken about the fact that it's an upper bracket game, 04:02:10.980 --> 04:02:13.980 so losers will still have the opportunity to continue. 04:02:13.980 --> 04:02:18.980 But the particularly important point here is that the winners get an opportunity 04:02:18.980 --> 04:02:20.980 to fight for a position in Salt Lake City. 04:02:20.980 --> 04:02:23.980 So the winners of this game will first need to, 04:02:23.980 --> 04:02:25.980 win. If you win, you'll get 04:02:25.980 --> 04:02:27.980 that opportunity. You'll get 04:02:27.980 --> 04:02:29.980 that opportunity. And whoever 04:02:29.980 --> 04:02:31.980 wins that will qualify to 04:02:31.980 --> 04:02:32.980 Salt Lake City, but not only 04:02:32.980 --> 04:02:34.980 do you get that opportunity, you 04:02:34.980 --> 04:02:36.980 actually get two opportunities 04:02:36.980 --> 04:02:37.980 because if you were to lose 04:02:37.980 --> 04:02:39.980 that game, you then drop down 04:02:39.980 --> 04:02:41.980 to the lower bracket and you can 04:02:41.980 --> 04:02:43.980 continue fighting through again. 04:02:43.980 --> 04:02:45.980 You know, so again, another 04:02:45.980 --> 04:02:47.980 win would then see you into 04:02:47.980 --> 04:02:49.980 that Salt Lake City bracket. So 04:02:49.980 --> 04:02:51.980 big, big deal here. The winner 04:03:21.980 --> 04:03:25.740 being especially now that you look at what Fanatic have got to play with, got the 04:03:25.740 --> 04:03:28.380 keepers of course being able to lock themselves down and play these more 04:03:28.380 --> 04:03:32.580 difficult spots for a lot but most crucially it's 2c4s and a hell of a lot 04:03:32.580 --> 04:03:36.820 of utility coming out of the poles and the Valkyrie. This ain't a fantastic spot 04:03:36.820 --> 04:03:39.980 for twisted minds to be in. At least making use of one of those stuff could be 04:03:39.980 --> 04:03:43.300 cool. Here's to try and get the size marching force but deep back that 04:03:43.300 --> 04:03:46.580 train just will not stop delivering. Okay now maybe it does, fine it's off the tracks. 04:03:46.580 --> 04:03:50.060 It has crashed but it's got three in the round. Dead shot on Wizards to get one 04:03:50.060 --> 04:03:53.360 I'm not sure if he's going to 04:03:53.360 --> 04:03:55.160 be able to get a good start. 04:03:55.160 --> 04:03:56.960 One more each fanatic take 04:03:56.960 --> 04:03:58.160 round three doesn't matter. 04:03:58.160 --> 04:03:59.160 Does it when he's already done 04:03:59.160 --> 04:04:01.160 so much damage, not something 04:04:01.160 --> 04:04:02.160 that we don't get me wrong. 04:04:02.160 --> 04:04:04.360 Deepak brings a phenomenal 04:04:04.360 --> 04:04:05.560 amount to this team, but kills 04:04:05.560 --> 04:04:06.760 is not usually something that 04:04:06.760 --> 04:04:08.160 you know, we're seeing in this 04:04:08.160 --> 04:04:09.160 sort of volume from him 04:04:09.160 --> 04:04:10.760 necessarily certainly not this 04:04:10.760 --> 04:04:12.160 level of aggression. Great 04:04:12.160 --> 04:04:13.160 stuff from him in the first 04:04:13.160 --> 04:04:14.360 couple of rounds, though, 04:04:14.360 --> 04:04:15.960 really getting his team off to 04:04:15.960 --> 04:04:18.160 a good start fanatics it to 04:04:18.160 --> 04:04:23.320 that was twisted minds map choice that they get to pick the side. Um, but yeah, I think, 04:04:23.320 --> 04:04:27.960 you know, all's all's good so far. They need a four to half minimum and they are on course 04:04:27.960 --> 04:04:36.240 for that. Absolutely. Not looking too shabby at all. Now really cross the owners turns 04:04:36.240 --> 04:04:40.360 on the other side to see what twisted minds can do. I have to say lighting doesn't strike 04:04:40.360 --> 04:04:43.920 twice. All right, it hasn't two rounds there because the effects gone big. Will it happen 04:04:43.920 --> 04:04:51.320 again, it's unlikely, but I will not write off the possibility. It could yet be a thing, 04:04:51.320 --> 04:04:55.320 but let's see how the site rotation pays out this time around. Hopefully a stronger start 04:04:55.320 --> 04:04:57.120 team in round four. 04:04:57.120 --> 04:05:01.280 From for that, it compared to a sort of round one because it was a big control over, wasn't 04:05:01.280 --> 04:05:02.280 it? 04:05:02.280 --> 04:05:05.920 Yeah, it was a little bit. As I said at the end of it, you know, if I was a fanatic fan 04:05:05.920 --> 04:05:09.480 at that point, I'd have been very, very nervous. I think they could be sitting somewhat more 04:05:09.480 --> 04:05:13.520 the game. We're going to see 04:05:13.520 --> 04:05:15.520 the game. We're going to see 04:05:15.520 --> 04:05:17.520 the game more comfortably now, 04:05:17.520 --> 04:05:19.520 given the round two and three 04:05:19.520 --> 04:05:21.520 that we have seen. So it was 04:05:21.520 --> 04:05:23.520 the binds on the attack just 04:05:23.520 --> 04:05:25.520 looking at that line up. Nothing 04:05:25.520 --> 04:05:27.520 too wild. They're given that we 04:05:27.520 --> 04:05:29.520 see in that capital brought 04:05:29.520 --> 04:05:31.520 along. We may well see them 04:05:31.520 --> 04:05:33.520 looking to take control of 04:05:33.520 --> 04:05:35.520 that walk. We will see whether 04:05:35.520 --> 04:05:37.520 that is the case or not. They've 04:05:37.520 --> 04:05:38.520 got the group as well. So just 04:05:38.520 --> 04:05:44.360 that. It's a lot easier for 04:05:44.420 --> 04:05:45.820 them to open. It was 04:05:45.880 --> 04:05:47.020 something that they did sort 04:05:47.080 --> 04:05:48.420 of estimate with a little bit 04:05:48.480 --> 04:05:49.860 last time. You know, getting 04:05:49.920 --> 04:05:51.060 that line across it, they 04:05:51.120 --> 04:05:52.660 started losing bodies, but 04:05:52.720 --> 04:05:53.920 they did ultimately still get 04:05:54.000 --> 04:05:55.200 the round, but deciding that 04:05:55.260 --> 04:05:56.460 they just want that process to 04:05:56.520 --> 04:05:58.100 be a little bit more straight 04:05:58.160 --> 04:06:01.200 forward. All right, then on to 04:06:01.260 --> 04:06:03.900 the wall. We go for a little 04:06:03.960 --> 04:06:05.440 bit of sticking this on the 04:06:05.500 --> 04:06:06.780 round, but that's the game of 04:06:06.780 --> 04:06:11.040 He came back to bite them here, looking less willing to go for that challenge. 04:06:11.040 --> 04:06:14.080 How was hopped across on towards the clash, who once again slowed things down, 04:06:14.080 --> 04:06:18.200 and that ever hasn't bore him in the fanatic line of his, rearing its head at the same time. 04:06:19.040 --> 04:06:22.440 And what I really want to see Fanatic not do is believe players in silly positions near. 04:06:22.440 --> 04:06:24.600 You've got a lot of useless play behind. 04:06:24.600 --> 04:06:28.600 You've got a lot of the architects of the game in the form of the clash and the Azami 04:06:28.600 --> 04:06:34.040 to pop these fourifications slow down the other side to really to straight-skiss the mines. 04:06:34.040 --> 04:06:36.040 It's all good if you can get a kill like they've done here. 04:06:36.040 --> 04:06:37.480 Keep yourself alive afterwards. 04:06:37.480 --> 04:06:38.760 Good play by Croxton. 04:06:38.760 --> 04:06:41.160 Yep, manages to get the opener, takes down the Hibana, 04:06:41.160 --> 04:06:42.880 but a lot of the breaching is done. 04:06:42.880 --> 04:06:46.000 So not necessarily a huge loss of twisted minds 04:06:46.000 --> 04:06:47.880 other than the fact that they've lost a player. 04:06:47.880 --> 04:06:50.720 We're gonna see the EMP just thrown at the class shield 04:06:50.720 --> 04:06:52.360 to prevent that electrification. 04:06:52.360 --> 04:06:54.320 Doesn't do any damage anymore, 04:06:54.320 --> 04:06:56.920 but it does still have that slowing effect. 04:06:56.920 --> 04:06:59.360 So it's a real disruption if you're trying to push yourself 04:06:59.360 --> 04:07:00.880 into an area, for example, 04:07:30.880 --> 04:07:35.120 bad that there's a lot of the focus on fanatic here but we spoke about this 04:07:35.120 --> 04:07:38.480 fact the head of the show they are ninth in the league for entry conversions 04:07:38.480 --> 04:07:42.640 just 53% they sit at the average is normally somewhere in mid 70s they 04:07:42.640 --> 04:07:47.120 are shocking at converting entry kills what's happening in that rounds 04:07:47.120 --> 04:07:50.480 they've got the entry they're five versus four they then haven't got a 04:07:50.480 --> 04:07:55.360 single kill out of the next five that ultimately saw them lose the round 04:07:55.360 --> 04:07:58.880 i don't understand how they keep on finding themselves in these positions 04:07:58.880 --> 04:08:03.920 where they get the entry, they start out strong, they can afford 2v1 players and they can hold 04:08:03.920 --> 04:08:08.960 certain bottlenecks, they can use utility, all this clash shields and the key of barriers, 04:08:08.960 --> 04:08:14.320 everything else they've got to play behind, they should be able to win. But look, there's not 04:08:14.320 --> 04:08:20.080 even a bullet going back the other way, they've lost a few players out of nowhere. I'm just on baffles. 04:08:21.040 --> 04:08:28.160 I'm rattled. I don't understand. You've got to ask questions there, you know, with the lion DMR, 04:08:28.160 --> 04:08:32.480 the shots are already coming in. Yeah, he's always going to get that kill. I get it. But like you said, 04:08:32.480 --> 04:08:37.440 there's no light return fire. It was just kind of turned around. Oh, well, you know, where am I 04:08:37.440 --> 04:08:41.520 being shot for? You know, it's going to be from my T door. Actually, not a call that we're inside 04:08:41.520 --> 04:08:45.920 of that. You know, that, you know, there's going to be an indication that it's coming from that 04:08:45.920 --> 04:08:50.800 direction, at least sort of kind of prefire it that, you know, maybe you pop a headshot, 04:08:50.800 --> 04:08:55.280 maybe you get a training, maybe something. But like you say, you know, handstand is a wonderful 04:08:55.280 --> 04:09:00.880 thing and I'm sure there was maybe as much time as it appears but talking about not much time 04:09:00.880 --> 04:09:06.240 Tricks doesn't need much time to get things kicked off 15 seconds into the round he's going to pick 04:09:06.240 --> 04:09:11.360 up the opener it's going to be deadshot on the malusia taken down. Well Tim the last three rounds 04:09:11.360 --> 04:09:15.120 we've got the entries lost around so maybe Fnatic are really trying to break bane this one by having 04:09:15.120 --> 04:09:22.160 deadshot die first. I'll choose to surrender to Copian and to cope to God that that's the legit 04:09:22.160 --> 04:09:24.400 Yeah, that's right. Reloading. 04:09:26.760 --> 04:09:29.200 We'll find out over the next two minutes to see 04:09:29.200 --> 04:09:33.960 that there is one still upstairs looking to hold on to meeting Corridor. 04:09:33.960 --> 04:09:36.080 Just going to be continuing to charge, was it? 04:09:36.080 --> 04:09:38.800 He needs to be careful that he doesn't overstay his welcome and he does. 04:09:39.000 --> 04:09:40.840 He was on the score post to the opportunity 04:09:40.840 --> 04:09:43.280 was there for him to get out of Dodge may be however, 04:09:43.400 --> 04:09:46.840 taking down as well, twisted minds are starting to speed things up. 04:09:46.840 --> 04:09:48.960 They're starting to increase the pressure here. 04:09:49.040 --> 04:09:51.640 They will start the vertical work in honesty. 04:09:51.640 --> 04:10:04.640 And I don't think they need it, there's one versus five, they've got crocs and cornered in the kitchen, they could just continue to push, they could flood here, that's what they need, a good flood come, just get on in and find this kill with aggression. 04:10:04.640 --> 04:10:08.640 Just get in there, man, they're all screaming at each other now. 04:10:08.640 --> 04:10:10.640 Nobody wants to go first. 04:10:10.640 --> 04:10:11.640 No. 04:10:11.640 --> 04:10:20.640 I can't help but sort of look at what's in the due to finding moments for that in this game. And that has been two, three case coming out from the outside of that. They're really not off the 04:10:20.640 --> 04:10:31.640 north. A lot of afraid now crossing nowhere is is about to get flooded to make it a flawless round. Fantastic couple of rounds out of twisted minds to really ride themselves back into this game. And this 04:10:31.640 --> 04:10:33.640 not to be in a position where 04:10:33.640 --> 04:10:34.640 you're not going to be able to 04:10:34.640 --> 04:10:36.640 get to the top of the mountain 04:10:36.640 --> 04:10:37.640 and then you're going to be 04:10:37.640 --> 04:10:38.640 able to get to the top of the 04:10:38.640 --> 04:10:39.640 mountain. But the thing that 04:10:39.640 --> 04:10:40.640 I mean, it's what we've got to 04:10:40.640 --> 04:10:41.640 see attack time out coming from 04:10:41.640 --> 04:10:42.640 for now. They've got to break 04:10:42.640 --> 04:10:46.640 this because this is not 04:10:46.640 --> 04:10:47.640 looking good. Yeah I'm always a 04:10:47.640 --> 04:10:49.640 bit sort of dubious with 04:10:49.640 --> 04:10:50.640 brown five timeouts because I 04:10:50.640 --> 04:10:51.640 think how much do you gain 04:10:51.640 --> 04:10:52.640 from it? True. That's what 04:10:52.640 --> 04:10:53.640 kind of time out you're looking 04:10:53.640 --> 04:10:54.640 for. If you want into come in 04:10:54.640 --> 04:10:55.640 with a very specific 04:10:55.640 --> 04:10:56.640 strategic time out and you're 04:10:56.640 --> 04:10:57.640 looking for you know, maybe 04:10:57.640 --> 04:10:58.640 giving a blueprint for the 04:10:58.640 --> 04:10:59.640 next couple of rounds. I think 04:10:59.640 --> 04:11:00.640 it's a little bit difficult 04:11:00.640 --> 04:11:21.640 I think really at that point, you've kind of got to, for me, it's round four, or it's not at all, it's still the second half, because you've kind of got to look at it and think, you know, play out the last round, then we've got the two-minute halftime, time out anyway, that I can prepare, you know, the team for the second half, and then I've got the opportunity if it's still not going right. 04:11:21.640 --> 04:11:24.640 So, I'm not too surprised there that we don't see it. 04:11:24.640 --> 04:11:26.640 In the shade, Gemma! 04:11:26.640 --> 04:11:28.640 He will see. 04:11:28.640 --> 04:11:29.640 He will see. 04:11:29.640 --> 04:11:33.640 I feel like going into the second half down 4-2, though, is going to be pretty ugly. 04:11:33.640 --> 04:11:38.640 And it just feels like they are careering towards a 2-0 loss, 04:11:38.640 --> 04:11:40.640 at least with how things are set up here, motivation-wise. 04:11:40.640 --> 04:11:42.640 We'll see if they can turn it around. 04:11:42.640 --> 04:11:44.640 It could be X-8 time of the Twisted Minds. 04:11:44.640 --> 04:11:47.640 Well, Peter, gravy train rolling, it started out a little bit shaky, 04:11:47.640 --> 04:11:49.640 and Deepak was popping off the way that he was, 04:11:49.640 --> 04:11:52.640 and the clock was working against Twisted Minds. 04:11:52.640 --> 04:11:57.640 Since then though, they've only grown into this game and I just think here you might see them just shift to third gear 04:11:57.640 --> 04:12:01.640 or put to fourth and then fifth, by then they're a bit too far away. 04:12:01.640 --> 04:12:15.640 In terms of the performances that we've seen through kickoff from Twisted Bands, like you said, they've maybe not been quite as aggressive or quite as speedy as they always would be. 04:12:15.640 --> 04:12:17.640 I think there's definitely more 04:12:17.640 --> 04:12:19.640 in the tank that they can bring 04:12:19.640 --> 04:12:21.640 as well, and that is a serious 04:12:21.640 --> 04:12:23.640 danger for fanatics. So we're going 04:12:23.640 --> 04:12:25.640 to see storage and control as 04:12:25.640 --> 04:12:27.640 fanatics last defensive round. 04:12:27.640 --> 04:12:29.640 Twisted Binds again, working quickly, 04:12:29.640 --> 04:12:31.640 like to see this getting that IT 04:12:31.640 --> 04:12:33.640 while we're working within the first 04:12:33.640 --> 04:12:35.640 minute, starting to put a bit of pressure 04:12:35.640 --> 04:12:37.640 onto Catwalk. We're going to send in the 04:12:37.640 --> 04:12:39.640 Ratero drone up to clear out that utility. 04:12:39.640 --> 04:12:41.640 They've got Denari gadgets, Mute 04:12:41.640 --> 04:12:43.640 Jambers, they've got Keeba Baron kids. 04:12:43.640 --> 04:12:46.040 All sorts there for twist advice to deal with. 04:12:48.400 --> 04:12:50.320 Really good buying what I said last round. 04:12:50.320 --> 04:12:52.600 But yeah, Raffold and Raffold, let's call it. 04:12:52.600 --> 04:12:53.440 Raffold. 04:12:55.800 --> 04:12:57.880 I'm absolutely raffled, Tim. 04:12:57.880 --> 04:12:59.800 Best way to summarize it. 04:12:59.800 --> 04:13:01.880 Anyway, they see him on a drone. 04:13:01.880 --> 04:13:02.800 He must have to move away now. 04:13:02.800 --> 04:13:04.400 He's gonna keep themselves away a little bit. 04:13:04.400 --> 04:13:07.000 The drone, which is supposed to back up slightly. 04:13:07.000 --> 04:13:08.320 Not going in for a last-hitting. 04:13:08.320 --> 04:13:09.160 I'm gonna swing there. 04:13:09.160 --> 04:13:10.000 I thought the player was still there. 04:13:10.000 --> 04:13:12.200 That would have been an absolute travesty. 04:13:12.200 --> 04:13:13.520 Just a good thing that they got themselves. 04:13:13.520 --> 04:13:17.520 and away from that pretty far. 04:13:17.520 --> 04:13:19.520 Still secure here, dead shot, holding his position. 04:13:19.520 --> 04:13:21.520 A minute forward to hit to the ground. 04:13:21.520 --> 04:13:23.520 D-Pecto is really down, and this is the problem. 04:13:23.520 --> 04:13:25.520 The defence is falling down around him. 04:13:25.520 --> 04:13:27.520 They can keep holding the top floor. 04:13:27.520 --> 04:13:29.520 All they want to keep feeding. 04:13:29.520 --> 04:13:31.520 Hashom, the diffuser goes down. 04:13:31.520 --> 04:13:33.520 Croxton manages to find one along the way, 04:13:33.520 --> 04:13:35.520 but he's going to need another four. 04:13:35.520 --> 04:13:39.520 It'll have to be an ace coach, and we know how rare a beast that is. 04:13:39.520 --> 04:13:42.520 He's looking, peeking, hoping that he can find 04:13:42.520 --> 04:13:47.080 he could find something to get him, go in he sees a fight up on the top floor, flashbang 04:13:47.080 --> 04:13:52.480 does its job, the distraction is there, P9 with the final kill, it's going to be a 4-2 04:13:52.480 --> 04:13:58.560 half on the attack for Twisted Minds and it's all smiles heading on to defence. 04:13:58.560 --> 04:14:03.240 Such a wonderful round again, the pressure pushing all the players from east to west 04:14:03.240 --> 04:14:07.280 up towards Aqua and then they have the trapdoor to Snapshot, but let's go and hear what our 04:14:07.280 --> 04:14:10.000 desk thought about that half Tim. 04:14:10.000 --> 04:14:14.240 concerned there might be some more crash house coming here because I feel like we're watching the 04:14:14.240 --> 04:14:20.720 grounds right? Looking good for Fnatic and then somehow... Do you know what Ann? You asked us, 04:14:20.720 --> 04:14:28.240 the desk, the analysts, the couch, the sofa, to give Fnatic Fanto, their team needs to start doing 04:14:28.240 --> 04:14:33.440 it. They really, really do because other than Deepak getting two free Ks and a clutch himself, 04:14:33.440 --> 04:14:39.120 Fnatic have not been in this game. They have been absolutely steamrolled. Swiss Mines have been so 04:14:39.120 --> 04:14:42.740 So good. It was the aggressive attacks that we wanted to see out of them. We said that 04:14:42.740 --> 04:14:45.880 the defense is aggressive, but their attacks have been so aggressive as well. And they've 04:14:45.880 --> 04:14:50.620 just snowballed. They get one kill, they're snowballing it into two, three, four, and boom. 04:14:50.620 --> 04:14:52.120 Suddenly the rounds over. 04:14:52.120 --> 04:14:55.560 Multiple slowish rounds, and at the same time, the ones that are not supposed to win, 04:14:55.560 --> 04:14:59.020 a top-float one, for example, that was supposed to be, by the way, that was supposed to be 04:14:59.020 --> 04:15:03.240 a 4v2, they were supposed to win that one. So it should be a 5v1 split. But later down 04:15:03.240 --> 04:15:07.120 the road, there are some rounds where they lose the entry. Just some rounds where Fnatic 04:15:07.120 --> 04:15:12.120 actually get that, that open kill, and when that happens, that was the round, for example, 04:15:12.120 --> 04:15:16.200 where they got the opening kill, initially, and then some guys look in IT, two players 04:15:16.200 --> 04:15:22.320 just died from that, and Goyo is still completely clueless, like, if you needed an example of 04:15:22.320 --> 04:15:26.720 the lack of communication and of the panic state in which Fnatic players are, this is 04:15:26.720 --> 04:15:31.640 the statement to me, and the main thing is, I don't understand why. I don't understand 04:15:31.640 --> 04:15:36.440 why because Fnatic has no pressure on himself, in the sense that, there in the upper bracket 04:15:36.440 --> 04:15:38.440 when many people would not have put them there. 04:15:38.440 --> 04:15:42.440 Most people would have said that it's fine they would be enforcing your group and they would already be in lower bracket. 04:15:42.440 --> 04:15:44.440 They have a life to spend. 04:15:44.440 --> 04:15:46.440 Spend it in a way. Go out the big door. 04:15:46.440 --> 04:15:49.440 Go aggressive, go crazy, change things around. 04:15:49.440 --> 04:15:51.440 Because you're in a state where it's fine if you lose. 04:15:51.440 --> 04:15:53.440 You will end up in lower bracket. 04:15:53.440 --> 04:15:55.440 So you have nothing to lose here. 04:15:55.440 --> 04:15:59.440 And this is exactly the kind of moment where a panic state should not happen as a professional player. 04:15:59.440 --> 04:16:03.440 Now, you'd say that maybe the hard work's already out the way for Twisted Minds, right? 04:16:03.440 --> 04:16:05.440 We know how sometimes they struggle on the attack. 04:16:05.440 --> 04:16:10.440 I don't think that's. I feel 04:16:10.440 --> 04:16:11.440 that's exactly what they should 04:16:11.440 --> 04:16:13.440 go for. If I'm being honest, as 04:16:13.440 --> 04:16:15.440 we see the bands coming in, 04:16:15.440 --> 04:16:19.440 you're going to be a band 04:16:19.440 --> 04:16:21.440 because. As Emmy will be up 04:16:21.440 --> 04:16:23.440 because Murabia because 04:16:23.440 --> 04:16:25.440 glass will be a mirror in his 04:16:25.440 --> 04:16:27.440 army for the catwalk. If that 04:16:27.440 --> 04:16:29.440 is okay, that means top four 04:16:29.440 --> 04:16:31.440 is an easy one. I think that's 04:16:31.440 --> 04:16:36.640 as army for the catwalk if that is the case that means top four is an easy win at least once 04:16:36.640 --> 04:16:41.920 for twisted mines. The mirror on the basement if it's not a mirror band it also open for the 04:16:41.920 --> 04:16:46.080 basement as well which forces you to do a full clear which forces you to lose around on time 04:16:46.080 --> 04:16:50.000 it's really difficult especially on night heaven because you choose do I open the walls or do I 04:16:50.000 --> 04:16:56.480 deal with loads of utility in the later on. So on Azany, Mira, Ella, there you go. Alright lots of 04:16:56.480 --> 04:17:00.560 annoyance I guess as well trying to be throwing into the faces of Fnedikas 04:17:00.560 --> 04:17:03.080 They're trying to survive inside this upper bracket. 04:17:03.080 --> 04:17:06.760 They need the second half of this game to go their way to stay there. 04:17:08.880 --> 04:17:11.920 Thank you, Anne. We spoke a lot about hope at the very start of this game. 04:17:11.920 --> 04:17:13.840 And I think now they need a bit more than hope, 04:17:13.840 --> 04:17:18.120 and they need divine intervention if they're going to fight their way back in. 04:17:18.120 --> 04:17:19.320 They've not looked themselves. 04:17:19.320 --> 04:17:21.120 This is a painful thing, I think, for fanaticists. 04:17:21.120 --> 04:17:22.960 They've looked good throughout the series strategically. 04:17:22.960 --> 04:17:24.520 I've liked what they've seen from them. 04:17:24.520 --> 04:17:26.960 The ideas they've got, the responses they've had. 04:17:26.960 --> 04:17:30.120 But sometimes all you need to put through some undue and some fancy stuff 04:17:30.120 --> 04:17:35.160 It's a rock solid fist and that's exactly what twisted minds have brought time and time again. 04:17:35.160 --> 04:17:38.920 They go on the defence now. Let's see just how aggressive they can really be. 04:17:40.440 --> 04:17:45.080 That's it. This is their opportunity now to take the game too far. They've got that advantage 04:17:45.640 --> 04:17:51.320 and now they kind of dictate the pace a little bit as Rush quite rightly said. You know, if you 04:17:51.320 --> 04:17:56.120 want to start with those spawn peeks, you can already see it coming. Trickster is on the door, 04:17:56.120 --> 04:18:00.520 he's getting out there and putting barbed wire down, they're going to be fighting this 04:18:00.520 --> 04:18:06.040 right up at the boundaries and as Leo said, those bands have just lined up by Fnatic wanting 04:18:06.040 --> 04:18:10.920 to guarantee themselves quick opening of the walls. You've seen this an awful lot recently, 04:18:10.920 --> 04:18:16.760 the bandit KU band, and I get it, you're trying to secure those walls quickly, but it leaves 04:18:16.760 --> 04:18:23.000 this situation where you're playing into a ton of utilities. So is Thorne, Azami, Ella, so much there 04:18:23.000 --> 04:18:25.220 and then the power of the mirror as well. 04:18:25.220 --> 04:18:28.920 Fnatic have got so much work to do in this round. 04:18:30.420 --> 04:18:32.960 Now, with pace left, I think it's going to be more pronounced 04:18:32.960 --> 04:18:34.760 that's more important than that. 04:18:35.560 --> 04:18:37.000 But the last thing to do on the attacking side 04:18:37.000 --> 04:18:38.620 is you do tend to dictate the pace, Tim. 04:18:38.620 --> 04:18:40.260 You choose where the action happens, 04:18:40.260 --> 04:18:41.760 and basically where it happens. 04:18:41.760 --> 04:18:44.420 Yep, human point is to make any wrong decision on those things, 04:18:44.420 --> 04:18:47.000 but you should give Fnatic a bit of control 04:18:47.000 --> 04:18:48.420 to be able to work it. 04:18:48.420 --> 04:18:50.000 Now, at least I had tough questions already here 04:18:50.000 --> 04:18:52.000 of the Catwalk wall. 04:18:52.000 --> 04:18:55.360 the impact coming over the back of it as well. Miro window being shot out here. Got to be careful 04:18:55.360 --> 04:18:59.360 about aggression coming in again. I was going to say we've already seen one impact come through 04:18:59.360 --> 04:19:06.880 Tim. The second one does just that and gets him down as well. Alva paying the price. So that was P9 04:19:06.880 --> 04:19:12.320 from Aqua Stairs by the way. Launching those impact nades across the gap and through the window. 04:19:15.200 --> 04:19:19.600 There's your aggression. You know they're willing to find twisted minds, alternatives, 04:19:19.600 --> 04:19:25.060 where it was to take these fights. They've probably got a good idea at this point that the lion has been downed. 04:19:25.060 --> 04:19:32.980 Wizard was downed as well. He's been revived and he's up to 20 health, but where it looks like Fnatic was starting positively, 04:19:32.980 --> 04:19:38.640 getting Catwalk, taking the mirror window away from them. They've actually gained nothing for it. 04:19:38.640 --> 04:19:44.520 P9 manages to take the first kill. Havers gonna bleed out pretty soon. They've lost the capital utility. 04:19:44.520 --> 04:19:48.480 This is effectively 5 vs 3 at the minute. 04:19:48.480 --> 04:19:51.520 I really thought for a second they'd go for a swim in his house and get picked up. 04:19:51.520 --> 04:19:53.800 There's two players out of action and there's a freebie for ya. 04:19:53.800 --> 04:19:54.800 Oh really? 04:19:54.800 --> 04:19:56.800 Er, Sean must've even got a move for him. 04:19:56.800 --> 04:19:57.800 Like... 04:19:57.800 --> 04:19:59.800 How did they not know he's there even? 04:20:00.800 --> 04:20:03.680 Do not dice that drone hole. I swear to God. 04:20:04.280 --> 04:20:07.160 He diced the drone hole again. I'm out. I'm done. 04:20:07.160 --> 04:20:08.680 It can't happen. 04:20:12.560 --> 04:20:16.440 And he's off, er, managing to take down Rizzo. 04:20:46.440 --> 04:20:48.440 that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure 04:20:48.440 --> 04:20:50.440 it's coming across and the 04:20:50.440 --> 04:20:52.440 elder in some work, but not 04:20:52.440 --> 04:20:53.440 I'm pretty sure it's the 04:20:53.440 --> 04:20:56.440 yeah. Yeah. Either way. Yeah. 04:20:56.440 --> 04:20:57.440 Twisted minds are basically 04:20:57.440 --> 04:20:59.440 finding a way. The P nine was 04:20:59.440 --> 04:21:01.440 absolutely gagging at that door 04:21:01.440 --> 04:21:03.440 for someone to show himself at 04:21:03.440 --> 04:21:06.440 the window and they just 04:21:06.440 --> 04:21:07.440 again, the fanatic have taken 04:21:07.440 --> 04:21:09.440 ground quickly, but you get 04:21:09.440 --> 04:21:10.440 the feeling that they've not 04:21:10.440 --> 04:21:12.440 really taken much more than 04:21:12.440 --> 04:21:22.440 you. Well, it's not pretty, 04:21:22.440 --> 04:21:24.440 and that is why we are into a 04:21:24.440 --> 04:21:26.440 tactical time out just one 04:21:26.440 --> 04:21:27.440 round. That tells the whole 04:21:27.440 --> 04:21:28.440 story team that clearly there 04:21:28.440 --> 04:21:30.440 is something very much wrong 04:21:30.440 --> 04:21:31.440 behind the scenes here. 04:21:31.440 --> 04:21:32.440 Communication wise, 04:21:32.440 --> 04:21:34.440 motivation wise. Either way, it 04:21:34.440 --> 04:21:36.440 is not going according to plan 04:21:36.440 --> 04:21:38.440 and things need to change now. 04:21:38.440 --> 04:21:39.440 Well, I spoke about mental 04:21:39.440 --> 04:21:41.440 resilience. Didn't I at the 04:21:41.440 --> 04:21:43.440 I think we've started to see 04:21:43.440 --> 04:21:45.440 that resilience kind of a road 04:21:45.440 --> 04:21:47.440 in a little bit, you know, as 04:21:47.440 --> 04:21:48.440 when they've got those couple 04:21:48.440 --> 04:21:49.440 of rounds at the beginning, 04:21:49.440 --> 04:21:50.440 everything's good. We're all 04:21:50.440 --> 04:21:51.440 smiles. Yep. You're actually, 04:21:51.440 --> 04:21:52.440 you know, we're back into this 04:21:52.440 --> 04:21:54.440 one. No problem. But as 04:21:54.440 --> 04:21:56.440 twisted minds started to take 04:21:56.440 --> 04:21:58.440 round after round and in more 04:21:58.440 --> 04:22:00.440 sort of convincing fashion each 04:22:00.440 --> 04:22:02.440 time, it feels like that's being 04:22:02.440 --> 04:22:04.440 like the final straw and that 04:22:04.440 --> 04:22:06.440 the resilience is crumbling now 04:22:06.440 --> 04:22:08.440 for fanatic and we're going to 04:22:08.440 --> 04:22:14.120 the resilience is crumbling now for Fnatic and you know they just feel further and further off the 04:22:14.120 --> 04:22:19.560 base as this one goes on they get more and more rattled with time we're starting to see those 04:22:19.560 --> 04:22:25.800 mistakes creeping. Well it's going to be fixed at some point Tim and hopefully this is going to be 04:22:25.800 --> 04:22:29.160 the round where their fortune is turned around a bit of an attack time off we say it's in the 04:22:29.160 --> 04:22:34.840 back room and maybe get them back on the right foot I'm enjoying the lineup here there's clearly 04:22:34.840 --> 04:22:41.840 Still an idea being cooked, but as long as those fundamentals, the communication side isn't fixed, I don't see how this improves no matter what. 04:22:43.840 --> 04:22:46.840 I mean, that's certainly a way to break the mental once again. 04:22:46.840 --> 04:22:48.840 Well, look, that's- 04:22:48.840 --> 04:22:53.840 Not before now, right? Listen, listen, listen, listen. You know how twisted minds play. 04:22:53.840 --> 04:22:57.840 We've seen them get kills from inside the map, what outside the map in was multiple times. 04:22:57.840 --> 04:23:01.840 They keep on falling for the same basic shit time and time again. 04:23:01.840 --> 04:23:05.840 At least we're trying to make an rescue happen, Tim, but there's going to be a C4 coming from somewhere, surely. 04:23:05.840 --> 04:23:08.840 I thought that the first C4 is going to sit you down, there you go. 04:23:08.840 --> 04:23:15.840 Tricks managed to find the kill onto the planter, that leaves the defuser down in No Man's Land, 04:23:15.840 --> 04:23:19.840 and Tricks was down in the process, but I thought, oh, he managed to get picked up as well. 04:23:19.840 --> 04:23:21.840 Absolutely brilliant stuff from Twisted Minds. 04:23:21.840 --> 04:23:26.840 But the problem that they're going to see now, Fnatic, comes back to that entry kill as well. 04:23:26.840 --> 04:23:33.080 So, P9's playing above, they have to deal with him because otherwise he's just going to keep preventing them from getting in through that wall. 04:23:33.080 --> 04:23:36.360 Now, why have they not been able to deal with P9 and play as above this? 04:23:36.360 --> 04:23:42.320 You'll add above as well by the way on the solos, and that's because that lack of attention at the beginning of the round, 04:23:42.320 --> 04:23:47.920 running out in front of a very well-known spawn peak and taking a death, who did they get killed? 04:23:47.920 --> 04:23:51.560 Croxon on the snake, who would have been on that road clear? 04:23:51.560 --> 04:24:01.560 He would have been able to go through the entire map quickly with spoken at length repeatedly about solid snake in his gadget and his ability to solo Rome clear at speed. 04:24:01.560 --> 04:24:09.560 That would have been his job, but now they've got to start doing it in a two versus five and twisted minds can commit to this. They can get back. 04:24:09.560 --> 04:24:14.560 They can just they can play with their food at this point because they've got all the time in the world. 04:24:14.560 --> 04:24:24.560 I've never seen a clutch like this. 04:24:24.560 --> 04:24:26.560 In a long time. 04:24:26.560 --> 04:24:41.560 This has been a pretty big fold, and I know again, and I'll say like it did back on the first map. I know we're focusing a lot of fantastic here because we've seen the strategy be welcome to it. We've seen them have some really good moments throughout the series show. 04:24:41.560 --> 04:24:46.000 Deep Earth early in this game, wonderful 3Ks. Back on the first map, they were always one step ahead. 04:24:46.000 --> 04:24:52.280 They just couldn't deal with the outright aggression sometimes. On this map, that has been dialed up to God knows how much. 04:24:52.280 --> 04:24:56.080 Again, two kills in a single round outside the building from windows and doorways. 04:24:56.920 --> 04:24:58.120 That's... 04:24:58.120 --> 04:25:00.120 That's ranked stuff, team. 04:25:00.240 --> 04:25:02.240 That's right, round one on one. 04:25:02.240 --> 04:25:04.560 Twisted Mines have played this absolutely perfectly. 04:25:04.560 --> 04:25:08.400 Oh, they have. They have abused every possible weakness that you can see in this classic side right now. 04:25:08.400 --> 04:25:12.260 I'm loving what I've seen from them. Yeah, it's it's been 04:25:13.620 --> 04:25:18.980 Almost the part from the fact that for night I could've got two rounds. It's been almost perfect. It's just about the game 04:25:18.980 --> 04:25:23.080 Finally, there's been perfect from them and they've executed it really and 04:25:23.720 --> 04:25:26.540 I'm not sure that fanatic have another round in them 04:25:26.540 --> 04:25:31.820 You know, I will be impressed if they fight their way back and get themselves a couple of attacks because right now 04:25:32.580 --> 04:25:37.060 You know, whereas cafe felt like a very close game fanatic fell on top for 04:25:37.060 --> 04:25:47.060 I still thought they were going to come away with the win even in overtime. They didn't quite get it done. Right now, it feels like there's only one team in the server. 04:25:47.060 --> 04:25:57.060 Alright, I'd say maybe there's still a chance they could turn it around, Tim, but I think even I'm a little bit out of ideas and hope for them at this point. 04:25:57.060 --> 04:25:58.180 So come back to the start of the game, 04:25:58.180 --> 04:25:59.740 hope it was the one that we felt they had, 04:25:59.740 --> 04:26:01.580 but this has been an absolute collapse here 04:26:01.580 --> 04:26:02.740 on Night Haven last by a fanatic. 04:26:02.740 --> 04:26:06.980 Twisted minds are not taking their foot off the gas at all. 04:26:06.980 --> 04:26:08.180 Suppress them as they can possibly be. 04:26:08.180 --> 04:26:09.340 They want to take the fight to the final 04:26:09.340 --> 04:26:11.420 if every single chance they possibly can. 04:26:11.420 --> 04:26:13.180 And there we go again, Tim. 04:26:13.180 --> 04:26:15.420 Start of the round, a 3C4 kill. 04:26:16.500 --> 04:26:19.220 Yeah, exactly what a fanatic did. 04:26:19.220 --> 04:26:21.460 They've been so unfortunate there, a fanatic. 04:26:21.460 --> 04:26:25.420 So the reason that they've been so unfortunate is, 04:26:25.420 --> 04:26:32.420 They do have themselves to blame, at least for the last round, but that entry down that they've taken each time, 04:26:32.420 --> 04:26:35.420 they've maybe got themselves to blame a little bit there as well. 04:26:35.420 --> 04:26:41.420 You know, just sitting around the entry breach quite that close, it's so common that it gets Nitro'd, does. 04:26:41.420 --> 04:26:49.420 They've lost Nick at the beginning of the last round, they've now just lost Bram at the beginning of an attack onto storage in control, 04:26:49.420 --> 04:26:53.420 where Bram is so important to get that verticality, 04:26:53.420 --> 04:26:56.860 They don't have any other options to open up the verticals 04:26:57.020 --> 04:27:00.420 They don't have any hard breach charges left even to slap on the floor 04:27:00.420 --> 04:27:05.100 You know this very little they can do with it and fanatic has been so unfortunate with me 04:27:05.100 --> 04:27:10.040 The black beard gets dealt with as well. She'll add managers to find in the shop. They're doing takes down wizard 04:27:10.500 --> 04:27:12.500 two versus four fanatic and 04:27:14.060 --> 04:27:16.060 Many many wounds at the minute does 04:27:16.500 --> 04:27:19.900 Not playing as a team and paying the price for it as a result 04:27:19.900 --> 04:27:23.580 more of that aggression that we used to see in Deepak at least going to get to pot out that Kady, 04:27:23.580 --> 04:27:27.420 a little bit more. Two, three K's to his name and it's two K's in this round. It's all that he 04:27:27.420 --> 04:27:32.380 will probably find. Two players left to go with the minutes filled to play out, but this only ends 04:27:32.380 --> 04:27:41.260 one way I'm afraid. Let's see what Deepak can do. He's got a slither of health, so he can't take 04:27:41.260 --> 04:27:48.140 any shots. He needs to create positions here where he can find and take some chip damage at least 04:27:48.140 --> 04:27:53.660 to three off these players. You know, where you start with this, you don't start anywhere, 04:27:53.660 --> 04:27:59.820 to be honest. Over. Manages to get the kill, twisted minds. Absolutely electric in that second 04:27:59.820 --> 04:28:05.140 half of things. Once they got themselves onto the defense, it was absolutely over for an 04:28:05.140 --> 04:28:10.860 after fanatic. I think they've gone with a bit of a crash out there, does, that will 04:28:10.860 --> 04:28:14.460 only be rivaled by our best, I would imagine. 04:28:14.460 --> 04:28:20.140 I feel really aligned with Leo. I completely get where he's coming from and I'm sure there 04:28:20.140 --> 04:28:26.140 are places to stay on the desk. I can't wait to see Twisted Mind vs G2. What if that will 04:28:26.140 --> 04:28:30.140 be for now though? We'll go to break in our desk. We'll break it down for you afterwards. 04:33:44.460 --> 04:33:48.220 the decision-making adaptation, everything was so much faster and better. 04:33:48.220 --> 04:33:51.740 Yeah, and it starts off with, I would say, not the weakness we identified, 04:33:51.740 --> 04:33:56.700 but the criticism that we had of them pre-game, which is that their defenses were really, really strong. 04:33:56.700 --> 04:34:00.140 But their attacks were maybe a little bit of a fault, maybe a little bit lacking. 04:34:00.140 --> 04:34:03.100 We didn't see that today. When it got to overtime on cafe, for example, 04:34:03.100 --> 04:34:06.700 they had a quick rush through Bakery and really stepped on the front of an attic. 04:34:06.700 --> 04:34:09.500 That continued all the way through Night Hate. 04:34:09.500 --> 04:34:12.540 And then, yeah, I think that's the main thing is as soon as they gained their momentum, 04:34:12.540 --> 04:34:17.420 As soon as they won that 15 round game, that was their opponent smack big as well. 04:34:17.420 --> 04:34:18.460 They knew that mentally won the match. 04:34:18.460 --> 04:34:21.580 Exactly, they won mentally and then I think it's very much like the Sharks, you know, 04:34:21.580 --> 04:34:24.060 they smell blood, they're ready to get more aggressive. 04:34:24.060 --> 04:34:26.380 As soon as you understand that's not expanding a bit, 04:34:26.380 --> 04:34:30.220 as soon as they give you a little bit of rounds that you should win, rounds that you should not win, 04:34:30.220 --> 04:34:34.620 you know, rounds that you go in 4v2, you will go and get aggressive and pick that up and honestly, 04:34:34.620 --> 04:34:35.420 that's what they did. 04:34:35.420 --> 04:34:39.020 Well, I think there's a certain person hearing your praises from behind the scenes. 04:34:39.020 --> 04:34:43.580 We're talking about the brains of Twisted Minds joining us for the interview. Congratulations. 04:34:43.580 --> 04:34:46.460 Hi, congratulations on the victory today. How are you feeling? 04:34:48.220 --> 04:34:55.340 I'm feeling fantastic. I'm really happy to go. I think it's upper final, right? I don't know, but 04:34:56.220 --> 04:35:00.940 I'm doing fantastic. Feeling fantastic. Yeah, the semi-finals, if I'm not wrong. So that means that 04:35:00.940 --> 04:35:06.460 basically you have two BO3s to play if you lose the first one. So you have two chances at making 04:35:06.460 --> 04:35:11.900 taking so long, which is honestly such a good one for you guys, especially because I anticipate 04:35:11.900 --> 04:35:15.940 that in the last day of kickoff you could not play, so you're all watching the games 04:35:15.940 --> 04:35:20.580 and just crossing fingers about the results on the very last day. 04:35:20.580 --> 04:35:24.660 I guess the question for you, because we've talked about it a lot, was we felt like in 04:35:24.660 --> 04:35:30.140 defense you guys were super aggressive, always trying to get the opening pick, always trying 04:35:30.140 --> 04:35:34.380 to jump out, and we did not see that playstyle when you guys switched to attack. 04:35:34.380 --> 04:35:39.520 were multiple examples last week where you guys were a little bit slower and we didn't see that much aggression. 04:35:39.520 --> 04:35:43.500 And today, I felt like your attacks were actually amazing, much better than before. 04:35:43.500 --> 04:35:46.600 So what did you guys do to try and improve that part? 04:35:49.100 --> 04:35:55.140 I mean, we know they have a good cafe, for example, and we think, 04:35:55.140 --> 04:35:57.980 oh my god, we're gonna face it or not. 04:35:57.980 --> 04:36:04.980 We are ready and we are thinking to hide something for the game against G2 or some games in the Major. 04:36:04.980 --> 04:36:11.980 But if I say, guys, let's do our best, let's use everything to qualify for the next game. 04:36:11.980 --> 04:36:18.980 So basically we are hiding some good strats, some good maps in the group phase and we are showing it now. 04:36:18.980 --> 04:36:30.980 as a coach how much does it how much do you have to balance like you team obviously has a very very unique style of play with their aggression and you know we saw even in the five versus one they're chomping out of it 04:36:30.980 --> 04:36:38.980 reaching the running out of the cat locked off how do you balance that with letting them express themselves but not wanting them to take unnecessary risks. 04:36:38.980 --> 04:36:48.980 It's hard to think. I mean, I'm graduated from psychology and I became from Brazil, 04:36:48.980 --> 04:36:52.980 so it's a different game style, it's a different culture, everything is different. 04:36:52.980 --> 04:36:57.980 But when I joined the team, I tried to bring more of these things about the mental, 04:36:57.980 --> 04:37:03.980 about when we do something, when we do this thing, or when we're going to take the risk, or we're not taking the risk. 04:37:03.980 --> 04:37:11.980 I'm not saying it has a magic formula because they don't have it, but every time, every game, every situation, I say to them, 04:37:11.980 --> 04:37:18.980 guys, this situation is here, is this, so let's try to do this, this situation is this, so let's try to do this. 04:37:18.980 --> 04:37:29.980 I try to work more like the best of their talents and try to make the things safe. 04:37:29.980 --> 04:37:36.480 I feel like it's really working out so far. I mean, as you mentioned, your next game is against G2, which is a qualification game for the Major. 04:37:36.480 --> 04:37:42.480 Thank you, too. You and G2 are some of the most aggressive teams that we have in the email right now. How are you preparing for that game? 04:37:42.480 --> 04:37:51.980 As I said, also, I think you guys already saw it. Sometimes we scream against them and it was a mess. 04:37:51.980 --> 04:37:54.780 And I think the game will be a mess too. 04:37:54.780 --> 04:38:00.180 So, preparing, I know they have good strats, I already watched their games. 04:38:00.180 --> 04:38:08.380 But I'm gonna look how they're gonna play and, you know, I'm just trying to prepare the best way I can. 04:38:08.380 --> 04:38:13.280 That sounds awesome. Sounds very exciting for a big bra between you two for the next game. 04:38:13.280 --> 04:38:15.780 Thanks so much for your time and good luck against you too. 04:38:15.780 --> 04:38:19.080 Thank you, guys. Thank you. Nice to meet you. 04:38:19.080 --> 04:38:23.080 Thank you very much to the Brazilians and to all of you who are here today, and to the Alemão. 04:38:23.080 --> 04:38:27.080 Hachun is just trying to get his head back. Thank you so much. 04:38:27.080 --> 04:38:30.080 I need to know what you just said. I need you to tell us a little bit. 04:38:30.080 --> 04:38:33.080 Are you coming for his head? 04:38:33.080 --> 04:38:34.080 Is that what I heard? 04:38:34.080 --> 04:38:37.080 Yeah, exactly. I say Hachun once he said. 04:38:37.080 --> 04:38:38.080 Nice. 04:38:38.080 --> 04:38:44.080 Okay, nice. Thank you so much. Once again, beautiful. I guess I'm going to stress put out. 04:38:44.080 --> 04:38:50.080 I spoke Spanish and I was like, I missed it. I was like, okay, he's going for his head. 04:38:50.080 --> 04:38:54.080 All I just heard was the word LMO and I was like, wait, we need to catch up. 04:38:54.080 --> 04:38:56.080 He's not even going to do that quickly. 04:38:56.080 --> 04:39:00.080 Oh wow. Honestly, I am so excited about that game. It's only Thursday, right? 04:39:00.080 --> 04:39:01.080 Yeah. 04:39:01.080 --> 04:39:02.080 They're like, wow. 04:39:02.080 --> 04:39:05.080 We're going to have to wait, but like, he's saving himself. This is going to be a mess. 04:39:05.080 --> 04:39:08.080 This is going to be a brawl. The two most aggressive teams. 04:39:08.080 --> 04:39:10.080 The two most aggressive teams in the league. Oh my God. 04:39:10.080 --> 04:39:14.280 I can imagine that, but on both sides. 04:39:14.280 --> 04:39:17.680 But it's much a different game than what Twisted Mines got today, right? 04:39:17.680 --> 04:39:19.280 Could you get that impression from Fnatic? 04:39:19.280 --> 04:39:22.280 And I feel like this is the kind of quality that we're seeing from Twisted Mines, 04:39:22.280 --> 04:39:24.680 the fact that they are able to adapt to a Switch show. 04:39:24.680 --> 04:39:26.680 It will be a boxing match where you have two boxers 04:39:26.680 --> 04:39:28.280 instead of one boxer and one punching ball. 04:39:28.280 --> 04:39:31.280 Like, that's the big difference between this match to this. 04:39:31.280 --> 04:39:32.280 What are you laughing about? 04:39:32.280 --> 04:39:34.080 No, but the reality was that... 04:39:34.080 --> 04:39:35.280 What did you just call them? 04:39:35.280 --> 04:39:36.280 A punching ball. 04:39:36.280 --> 04:39:37.280 A punching ball. 04:39:37.280 --> 04:39:39.480 Because if you just look at the last map, 04:39:39.480 --> 04:39:42.760 that he does not react. They get pushed again and again and again, 04:39:42.760 --> 04:39:47.240 even outside when they're playing against defenders, and they do not react. 04:39:47.240 --> 04:39:50.840 We've done a lot of criticism of Fnatic, I think on this desk, and I think very, very far 04:39:50.840 --> 04:39:55.880 it's very important to price with Simone. They got their game plan right, they got the maps 04:39:55.880 --> 04:39:59.960 more or less right, I would say, given Fnatic's cafe was, I would say, a calculated risk, 04:39:59.960 --> 04:40:03.880 but they managed to get over the line, whether they should have or not. They did manage to do it, 04:40:03.880 --> 04:40:08.280 and once they got over the line, once they won the mental game, they really did not relent whatsoever. 04:40:08.280 --> 04:40:13.400 They didn't like the fall of the gas, and it was thoroughly, thoroughly a performance now. 04:40:13.400 --> 04:40:18.360 But we, I will say this too, we did see some great signs from Tadec. 04:40:18.360 --> 04:40:22.600 I think in the early game, I think on cap especially, you know, I think the attack side 04:40:22.600 --> 04:40:25.800 clearly should have been a 4-2 or a 5-1 if they played the right way. 04:40:25.800 --> 04:40:28.360 I think they have the right ideas most of the time. 04:40:29.320 --> 04:40:32.600 It is such an easy and hard thing to fix at the same time, right? 04:40:32.600 --> 04:40:34.920 The lay around means composure and communication. 04:40:34.920 --> 04:40:37.480 Those are the two hardest things to learn to teach to players. 04:40:38.280 --> 04:40:41.320 So they need to do a reaction somehow, but in such a short amount of time. 04:40:41.320 --> 04:40:46.160 There's also kind of a theory in sport as well, that like winning or losing can be a habit. 04:40:46.520 --> 04:40:51.000 And winning rounds from the draws of defeat and also losing them can be a habit. 04:40:51.240 --> 04:40:53.880 You know, it must get in the finite players mind. 04:40:54.160 --> 04:40:55.720 Later on, like, oh, no, here we go again. 04:40:55.720 --> 04:40:56.680 We're on the contrary. 04:40:56.680 --> 04:40:58.440 I feel like this might really help to survive. 04:40:58.440 --> 04:41:01.680 This is the first time we've got to speak to their coach studying psychology 04:41:02.120 --> 04:41:04.920 as well, which can really help with that kind of mindset inside of the games. 04:41:04.920 --> 04:41:12.560 We have some very smart speakers in our own as well. We have a quote. I'd like to let you guys look at and see which of our 04:41:13.000 --> 04:41:14.100 philosophers 04:41:14.100 --> 04:41:16.100 came up with this beautiful 04:41:16.180 --> 04:41:21.900 Quote who said this? Oh, I did. Oh my god. I didn't say that I did say that. Did I already say that? 04:41:21.900 --> 04:41:26.500 Yeah, you regret saying it now. No, I think out of context it is go out the big door 04:41:26.500 --> 04:41:32.260 door. Leo, I don't listen to you. When did you say this? 04:41:32.260 --> 04:41:35.820 That was the... Oh, wow. Did I already say go out the big door? 04:41:35.820 --> 04:41:38.140 You said that before going into map 2. I swear that you... 04:41:38.140 --> 04:41:43.220 But you were in your mid-tentrum. I swear it makes sense in French. I swear 04:41:43.220 --> 04:41:49.100 it makes sense in French. The literal translation sounds very weird, but I did not speak of 04:41:49.100 --> 04:41:52.300 that kind of door anyway. You were so mad you defaulted to your native 04:41:52.300 --> 04:41:53.300 language. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 04:41:53.300 --> 04:41:58.260 anything that's happened. Exactly it happens. I mean I was I was I was hurt 04:41:58.260 --> 04:42:02.580 because I thought that Fnatic had the potential. Yeah I played for that 04:42:02.580 --> 04:42:07.260 organization before. I know what it means to bear those colors. I know that 04:42:07.260 --> 04:42:10.700 you're supposed to give it your all and there's prestige involved and you want 04:42:10.700 --> 04:42:15.180 to perform at the highest level and I just felt like they were not giving it 04:42:15.180 --> 04:42:18.500 their all despite not being in a situation where they can get eliminated 04:42:18.500 --> 04:42:22.020 and I think that's what really I was trying to get at is this was a bracket 04:42:22.020 --> 04:42:27.020 They could still lose and be safe and so this is exactly the kind of it was afraid 04:42:27.020 --> 04:42:31.940 It's the exact moment where you're supposed to go and take risk and I did not see there is taking 04:42:31.940 --> 04:42:36.660 And that was just free back to the siege side of things that was compounded in in the second map as well 04:42:36.700 --> 04:42:40.380 They took a timeout work clearly very clearly 04:42:40.380 --> 04:42:44.260 They would have been told twisted minds are playing uber aggressive just bait it out 04:42:44.260 --> 04:42:50.300 Just bait it out what happens within 15 seconds the next round swampy and in the run after see for from outside 04:42:50.300 --> 04:42:53.420 And you've got to kind of wonder like, are they taking that bit? 04:42:53.420 --> 04:42:54.620 Yeah, it's tricky. 04:42:54.620 --> 04:42:59.020 And that's where, yes, we've made them quite a lot and we have, but it comes from a point of 04:42:59.020 --> 04:43:02.300 frustration that we kind of probably hold them to a bit of a higher standard than we 04:43:02.300 --> 04:43:03.900 hold some of the newer teams. 04:43:03.900 --> 04:43:08.780 You know, Swiss Amands were a tier two team last year, so we hold them to a higher standard. 04:43:08.780 --> 04:43:09.500 Oh no! 04:43:09.500 --> 04:43:13.420 And yeah, and I think that's the reason why you've obviously played for them as well. 04:43:13.420 --> 04:43:13.820 Oh no! 04:43:13.820 --> 04:43:16.220 It does come from the point of frustration with them. 04:43:16.220 --> 04:43:17.820 It's not even the right logo, by the way. 04:43:17.820 --> 04:43:18.940 It's the old one as well. 04:43:18.940 --> 04:43:19.340 Yeah. 04:43:19.340 --> 04:43:23.340 They just went by ten years ago. 04:43:23.340 --> 04:43:25.340 Is that when you was five? 04:43:25.340 --> 04:43:26.340 No. 04:43:26.340 --> 04:43:27.340 Do you know what? 04:43:27.340 --> 04:43:30.340 There are still two hours left in this day to have plenty of crash hours because I think 04:43:30.340 --> 04:43:32.340 this is one of the fastest e-mails that you've ever had. 04:43:32.340 --> 04:43:33.340 That's going to be really fun. 04:43:33.340 --> 04:43:39.340 You realize that I literally, I was on the analyst desk with Milosh for ACL last playday 04:43:39.340 --> 04:43:42.340 and we went through a third 7-0 and I said, wow, this is going to be a quick day. 04:43:42.340 --> 04:43:46.340 Then we went to a second 7-0 and I was like, wow, Milosh, this is maybe history. 04:43:46.340 --> 04:43:51.460 We went to a third 7-0 and I was like Mila, what black magic did you just do like right now? 04:43:51.460 --> 04:43:56.560 Like I did you just like and then and then eventually we went to having a really good game 04:43:56.560 --> 04:44:00.880 Yeah, but I think that I'm on a record right now for the shortest play days I've ever seen so far 04:44:01.600 --> 04:44:04.760 That is insane. We'll keep you around I say oh and then the email 04:44:04.760 --> 04:44:07.820 I mean hey, we can look at the results right two times at two oh 04:44:07.820 --> 04:44:11.540 Even though that first map on the second series did go to an overtime right? 04:44:11.540 --> 04:44:16.820 So it's a bit of of competitiveness there, but I feel like in general these are probably the result you were expecting. 04:44:16.820 --> 04:44:21.380 Yeah, absolutely. Everybody, everybody loves an underbox story. Everybody loves a big upset. 04:44:21.380 --> 04:44:24.620 I think that is pro just looked that good just some eyes today. 04:44:24.620 --> 04:44:30.260 That is pro looked that good and that confident that it was all always it felt inevitable that it'd be a two zero. 04:44:30.540 --> 04:44:33.940 Their game, the next game that they play will be against Falcons is massive. 04:44:34.300 --> 04:44:36.700 And then in twisted mind, yes, map one was a lot closer. 04:44:36.700 --> 04:44:40.100 But once the once they really hit that stride, it was a clear two zero. 04:44:40.100 --> 04:44:44.040 that they've pushed themselves 04:44:44.040 --> 04:44:46.040 into in the bracket now really, 04:44:46.040 --> 04:44:48.040 really excited when we get to 04:44:48.040 --> 04:44:50.080 Thursday because due to 04:44:50.080 --> 04:44:51.080 twisted minds, as you said, 04:44:51.080 --> 04:44:52.080 it's a brawl. There's two teams 04:44:52.080 --> 04:44:53.080 that are not going to be too 04:44:53.080 --> 04:44:54.080 worried particularly about the 04:44:54.080 --> 04:44:55.080 strategy. That's maybe 04:44:55.080 --> 04:44:56.080 understanding a little bit, 04:44:56.080 --> 04:44:57.080 but because I've got so much 04:44:57.080 --> 04:44:59.080 talent and they can just get 04:44:59.080 --> 04:45:01.080 into these creative, wacky, 04:45:01.080 --> 04:45:03.080 crazy plays and big moments 04:45:03.080 --> 04:45:04.080 and then you get falcons 04:45:04.080 --> 04:45:06.080 by which is a little bit more 04:45:06.080 --> 04:45:07.080 structured a little bit more 04:45:07.080 --> 04:45:09.080 structured. But actually also 04:45:09.080 --> 04:45:10.080 I know, I know. 04:45:10.080 --> 04:45:11.080 You have a lower bracket for it. 04:45:11.080 --> 04:45:12.080 We've done sets of play. 04:45:12.080 --> 04:45:13.080 I can't wait for it as well, by the way. 04:45:13.080 --> 04:45:15.080 I mean, look at that Fnatic vs Secret. 04:45:15.080 --> 04:45:16.080 Two big organizations. 04:45:16.080 --> 04:45:17.080 Yeah. 04:45:17.080 --> 04:45:18.080 Neither of them we want to see go out. 04:45:18.080 --> 04:45:19.080 Two minor organizations. 04:45:19.080 --> 04:45:20.080 No more brackets, by the way. 04:45:20.080 --> 04:45:24.080 And then, in the first one, for Yulio, which of the Frenchies are going to have to back 04:45:24.080 --> 04:45:25.080 up to... 04:45:25.080 --> 04:45:26.080 It's a lot of French, again. 04:45:26.080 --> 04:45:27.080 I'm not like this. 04:45:27.080 --> 04:45:28.080 I'm objective. 04:45:28.080 --> 04:45:29.080 But I will say this. 04:45:29.080 --> 04:45:30.920 I think this feels like Redemption Day. 04:45:30.920 --> 04:45:34.400 It feels like Redemption Day in one sense that I think that Secret were not expected 04:45:34.400 --> 04:45:38.600 to go from being an S.I. finalist to lower bracket from Fnatic to play like they did today. 04:45:38.600 --> 04:45:43.460 They won Redemption. For shifters, they should not be in that position. They were the last 04:45:43.460 --> 04:45:46.240 one to be top four in ML. They qualified to be the leading major. 04:45:46.240 --> 04:45:47.240 They're an organization. 04:45:47.240 --> 04:45:48.240 Yeah. 04:45:48.240 --> 04:45:49.240 Exactly. So it's Redemption. 04:45:49.240 --> 04:45:53.240 And I think actually, based on what we've seen in kickoff and what we've seen in today 04:45:53.240 --> 04:45:57.560 as well, that is probably the lower bracket we would have expected out of all those four 04:45:57.560 --> 04:46:01.600 teams. It's not really a surprise that those four teams are in there with what they've 04:46:01.600 --> 04:46:02.600 shown us so far. 04:46:02.600 --> 04:46:06.520 Yeah. And it's an increase, I think, as well. We mentioned Secret being in the lower bracket, 04:46:06.520 --> 04:46:08.640 going from the SI final to being there. 04:46:08.640 --> 04:46:10.440 In fact, their opponent from the SI final 04:46:10.440 --> 04:46:12.320 also finds themselves in the lower bracket. 04:46:12.320 --> 04:46:14.600 FaZe also dropped down to the lower bracket 04:46:14.600 --> 04:46:16.160 in the most recent SAL play days. 04:46:16.160 --> 04:46:18.400 So they also face elimination tomorrow. 04:46:18.400 --> 04:46:18.740 I know. 04:46:18.740 --> 04:46:20.920 People were hating on W7M through the group stage. 04:46:20.920 --> 04:46:22.400 And they managed to find a way. 04:46:22.400 --> 04:46:25.640 Oh, did you see, was it, did Hertz tweet about like, 04:46:25.640 --> 04:46:27.560 oh, freak, on occasion. 04:46:27.560 --> 04:46:30.560 And then the response from the Flux service, W7M players 04:46:30.560 --> 04:46:33.200 were like, oh, remember what happened when we played each other 04:46:33.200 --> 04:46:33.920 in Paris? 04:46:33.920 --> 04:46:34.720 We should be at home? 04:46:34.720 --> 04:46:35.800 That's going to be a barrier. 04:46:35.800 --> 04:46:41.000 that's going to be absolutely dang it as well. I just love Playoffs. I love Best of for Alibona. 04:46:41.000 --> 04:46:45.160 Yeah, me too. And then of course we're talking about the SAO a little bit here because whilst we 04:46:45.160 --> 04:46:50.200 are in a bit of a super week here with the email running off our playoffs all within one week, 04:46:50.200 --> 04:46:54.440 you will have to wait until Wednesday before you see from us again with the continuation 04:46:54.440 --> 04:46:59.400 of that lower bracket inside EML. We're talking about the SAO, their lower bracket run continues 04:46:59.400 --> 04:47:05.400 tomorrow especially for the EML folks. That'll be a late one starting at 11pm CEST for the first 04:47:05.400 --> 04:47:08.940 game. We'd like to thank you 04:47:08.940 --> 04:47:09.580 very much for watching here as 04:47:09.580 --> 04:47:11.940 our show is over, but we'd 04:47:11.940 --> 04:47:15.140 like to see you again on 04:47:15.140 --> 04:47:15.780 Wednesday, 6 PM CST for now. 04:47:15.780 --> 04:47:19.740 Have a good rest of 04:47:35.400 --> 04:47:50.400 I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going for all you want now. 04:56:05.400 --> 04:56:19.080 Thanks for watching guys!