I'm breaking necks and I'm climbing up, though I can't roll the stuff and my money out,
cause I can't get down so let's wrap it up, I'ma keep it going till I ain't got nothing.
I'mma keep it going, I'mma keep it going, so hang on now.
Leo, I like the fit, the jacket's really nice.
Thank you, I like your jacket even more actually.
Thank you.
Do you know what, I like bow free jackets, but I'm having a terrible day.
I've lost my shoe, Leo.
What is that?
I had to seal your slider.
Jack, it's fine.
You're gonna watch Team Secret, you're gonna watch your favorite things.
No.
Everything's gonna be okay.
No, no, no, Anne, you don't understand.
In the lower bracket everything is going wrong for me this stage.
Jack, it's fine.
You will still see some of the best teams and the best players in EML.
No, Leo, also you don't understand the best player in EML, Hungry.
He's been eliminated.
Everything is going wrong for me.
Hungry.
it is lower bracket day here at the
I think it's good that we find ourselves here because judging that cold opener, I don't know if there's a cure acting career for us out there.
What do you mean? We're actually pretty good. I thought it was great acting. Hungry. Yeah. See you could believe. Yeah. The disbelief. I believe you're not hungry. Hungry is genuinely my favorite player and there is no acting about that.
That's fair. But yeah, the shirt and everything. Yeah, the shirt and everything. Yeah, the shirt and everything. Yeah, the shirt and everything. Yeah.
no acting about that's fair but yeah the shirt everything it was it was fun to
do I love doing these little bits that we do here we are hungry as well for some
siege we'll talk about the brackets we've had a team starting in that we said
goodbye to two of those at the end of the group stage 18 now find ourselves in
the brackets and on Monday we had those matches in the upper bracket but
today we're diving down into the lower bracket into the alligator's yeah it
is elimination day and it means that we're gonna stand teams home and it
means that some dreams will be crushed but it also means that you know
I'm looking at the game sister Jack. They were no big surprise. I think the two fabrics really come on top. Yeah
No, absolutely
They did and of course lower bracket now that we're in it
We're in the bottom two games on the left hand side of your screen now
We're in those games
Should you win you advance through to the games to qualify to yourself in Salt Lake City on Friday?
Should you lose it? You are eliminated from Contention
You will not be going to the major and you will be also at this point
We put yourself in the back foot for SI standings and all that wonderful good stuff
That's very far ahead still, but it's worth thinking about that already at the kickoff here
We'll have a look at our schedule for today just to best of these and we saw on Monday thought that could go by
Very fast. We had some really dominant matches, but looking at these ones
I hope and I think they'll be more competitive today. Yeah, you would expect so I think the lower bracket
I think from what we've seen from all of kickoff groups plus Monday's play days really sets itself
You know a side is there's the teams that have had their trials and tribulations that have had their struggles
But because a lot of them aren't so in the same boat you would expect quite competitive games because of that
Yeah to game of inconsistencies right with team some really high highs from every team seven very low lows as well
It's just a question of who's gonna turn up today fix the most mistakes and be the better team
Yeah, before we jump in our matches today
I think we have to talk about something that we saw yesterday
Fresh off the press so near a player or or operator balancing changes that came out yesterday
Yes, we could say some smaller ones
So we could say they might be bigger, but at least we have a few of them that really affect what he's yeah
Exactly, it's just a small tweak, but they've had quite a big impact particularly the he's that here's the four that we're looking at in terms of
The ones that will influence our e-sport you've got Raora with the panel times
But also the panel distance and Okudos has been posting a lot about the different things you can do with this one because believes
That will have a big impact particularly the big change there is actually the time to deploy for the
for the defenders to raise those gates is now six seconds, which is massive. Grimm's had a slight
nerf with a lower deployment time in terms of, oh, a higher deployment time. So that means that
if I see a Grimm now, I have like 0.2 seconds more to shoot at it. Exactly. Exactly. Clash just
had a buff. I have no idea in the world who was asking for that apart from you, Leo. I
would be honest. I wanted it. And then everybody, everybody can rejoice because smoke has got a
shield back which makes it massive in our esport because shields are a big part of it and smoke with
the shotgun is a big part of defensive self and i know that big anybody also probably requested the
clash buff as well yeah so much power in that man let's focus on riora because i i think like
you said kudos has showed some of the examples i think let's take an example of gash for example
the new wrench so 10 more meters that means that you can directly take gash control you can
close off the three steps and look all the way from gash steps you could close off directly
the cash door. That one is OP and that means that basically if you want to go and you can close
oil pit as well, in this scenario if you've got cash control that way I can be super effective
and just keep in mind it's got a DMR, a really good one, it's got smokes, so right now it becomes
a little bit more of a meta operator. It's difficult, I mean I hope to see some of those
changes already coming into action today with our two matches that we have here. We can jump
into the first match all the day. We got Rebels and shifters going up against each other
they're in a best of three and there are 14 French players in total inside of our
league eight find themselves inside this matchup despite that they've never
played against each other before but they should know each other. When we look
at Rebel's dough there's a reason they find themselves in this lower bracket I
think it's very clear that they stood absolutely no chance against Verge for
one day. Yeah there was clearly a big gap between the two teams I think like
you said some of these players know each other obviously LMS has been
around so long in this game that you know as a sample French player
he knows the other very well. Asa has played with P4 and Asmo before.
He was part of the Wolves rework around EWC last year, so we look at players
and we look at improvements. I think in general, I want to highlight Feno because I think that
we've mentioned before that the only two strongmen that were really stepping up were LMS and Asa,
the two players that had the most experience. I think that we're expecting some of the younger
players like Feno, for example, to step up. That was the case, Jack. However,
still such a mess to get between them and VP. Yeah, and that really was the big difference for me between them and VP because I actually thought that Rebels put in an okay performance for most of the game, even though the scoreline wouldn't suggest it, was composure. I think realistically, composure, as the definition says here, is the state of feeling of being calm and in control of oneself.
Now there was multiple rounds across this best of three with verse pro where it didn't feel like rebels had the composure
If we take a look at the very first round as an example
You will see that this is a CCTV attack that VP are doing rebels are ready for it. Actually they've got Goyo
They've got C4s. They actually take all of these kills out this big flurry of kills down to two versus two
They even have Goyo go and collect the guy main door who was there to counter the solace
That's great two versus two
So what are you gonna do have the composure see it out when the guy's planting?
No, what the rebels do, they hide in construction, they hide red stairs, get themselves injured,
and then have to pick each other up during the down, which allows Naprol, which allows Vp to then go and plant and see out the round.
That lack of composure costs them around, even though they have the right win conditions.
And that was just, you know, equal man count.
If you take an example where they actually have a massive man advantage, they still lack the composure.
When they attack on Lair, for example, in this setup, they're in a 5v3, they're gonna get traded a little bit.
As you're going to see, they're surrounding the bomb site, they're moving forward, they lose one of their player that's fine,
Twitch uses that momentum to then go aggressive, go through the smoke here, get aggressive on a clash with baby by the other.
Cool, 4v2, you surround the bomb site and you should just isolate the gunfights here.
Problem, a player runs in, he's not traded. Another player runs in, not traded.
DKB is just baiting at bathroom, not going in, which means that she gets killed as well.
killed as well. And look at Demos, the whole time, missing all of his shots everywhere here,
staying at the door, all of his teammates are dying, and he takes ages to get in.
We've just seen four different 1v1s, and they just did not use the 4v2 at all.
And those were two examples of multiple rounds in that best of 3, which as pro,
who were one of the top teams in this league, where Rebels strategically won it,
but in the late round, were just making the wrong decisions because they lacked that composure.
Well, the good thing is for Rebels that they started in the upper bracket,
And today they will be using an extra chance against shifters a team that we didn't necessarily expect to see in this lower bracket either
And especially when we pull up the roster and we look at the stats because they do have some big haters on this roster
Yeah, I think it is a little bit of a surprise
I think we gave this roster realistically a lot of luck me and you on the desk last year Leo
But we also give them a lot of leeway in that they were growing
It was a surprise to see them in that fourth position going into the lower bracket because we expected them to improve to an extent
they didn't prove Robbie, particularly, was one of the players that we identified as being
a player that needs to step up alongside Prec. He did that, top 10 rated player. So I think
from that point of view, it's been good, but the fact that they were still in that fourth
position and lower bracket, Leo, probably not good enough.
Yeah, it's not good enough because they were at the Munich Major, because they were
expected to try and retain that top four position in EML because they improved technically
the roster on paper by rotating Virtue out and gaining Blast, who's also a top 10
competitive player in EML. And so if you look at this roster, you might ask yourself,
How did they end up in this position? For me, there's one clear reason and that is their
defense. Their defense side is so weak right now, it's actually insane. They've got a 35
win rate in defense and that is a big issue. It seems that they only rely on rugby for
the clutches to win it out. And that is something that I did not expect from a team
that was doing so well and progressing so much last year and only changed one player.
Yeah, we hope this team's a high standard. They've got an incredible coach and staff.
got now actually quite a lot of experience. They've got P4 who's had a year eye gelling
in English and realistically was expecting to step up. So to see such a low defensive
win rate, to see Robbie Neven's clutch, it's something doesn't quite add up there.
No, it's definitely doing a lot of damage to them in this roster here, but today they
play a best of three so they can really test those errors that they've been making
and see if they've already been able to find the right improvements for them. Looking
at the map, we're going to bank as the first one. Oh, you look...
Yeah, there are a few surprises.
I'll say this.
The first one is to see shifters speak bank
when they lost it to Fnatic.
Yes.
They had a convincing victory.
Yeah, I mean, they had a Heraldics 7-1.
Everybody was being Heraldics.
Yeah, OK.
Exactly.
I wouldn't take it as a staple.
And on top of that, it was a game where they could
converse at heavily.
They lost to Fnatic, a team that we've seen yesterday
does not play at the highest level of this game
most of the time.
And so you look at Rebels on the other side
and you look at their map pool.
And you look at the last time they played bank,
They played it seven times during Challenger's series.
Jack, they won it six times out of seven.
So it is not a bad map whatsoever for them.
You know what's even more surprising?
Rebels pick Cafe.
How on earth do you let Rebels pick Cafe?
The map on which they beat Team Secret
and on one side, Shifters, previously BDS,
had not played that map from the entirety of the season of 2025.
They just played it once at Reload, got 7-1 Baffiria and said,
ah, that's it. We're not playing it from the year.
So it is a very big surprise for me. And that screams shifter stuff. You know why? Because they love the Counter-Stratz, they knew that if they left Café Open, Rebels would pick it, which gives them the advantage because they were starting defense, and I think they heavily Counter-Strat at that one.
Yeah. It's one of those on the face of it that has to be upon behind it from shifters. And I have no doubt there will be. Like I said, we say often we really do trust the staff on that team.
that will be upon behind it, but certainly picking back feels a little bit different, especially when you've lost it's fantastic this stage.
Well, it's part A as the support step to come up with the ideas of how to counter strategy.
It's part B then through the IGL to call that strategy and to execute it well, right?
And that's another issue that we're seeing with these two rosters in particular.
If we compare their IGLs to another French IGL that is currently performing better.
Yeah, and obviously we did not want to compare them to Leakey fact, for example, in dominating a lot.
I actually took a player that has, I would say, average experience.
Neko has had a couple of seasons, two seasons at the tier one level.
If I look at before, he's even more experienced.
I have a problem with before and after right now on the rosters
because I think that they are too selfless.
I think that, yes, being the ideal gives you an excuse to not be there
in terms of fragging power.
However, you cannot drop significantly that bad.
You know, you know, the Canadians of EML, basically, you know,
like in a situation where you don't have a sport, where you don't have
Huge fragger on your side. If you don't have to support Rex and Andy, like some heavy eaters on your side
It becomes really hard for you to drop that number, right?
Yeah, and then the second thing to me is that if I look at before especially he's not playing the shields
Las Moines, so he has no excuse, you know, Mato is playing the shields all the time
And on top of that I'm looking at some player that has more experience than everyone here
So I'm still waiting to see him step up in terms of statistics. Yeah
That's the problem. We're holding a cross that pedestal is a good idea in the sleep with that similar experience look at a girl
He is negative
But he is playing on the shield and he is clutching up as well
Which is somewhat we what we'd be expecting people and Marta to be doing all right?
Well, it's a lot to be tested for these ideas a lot of pressure on the shoulder inside this best of three
The message almost ready, which means we can call our casters in for today
We're joined by ace and the best and guys when I ask you a question
Which I feel like I'm gonna get a different answer depending on who answers it first
I'm going to surprise you. I
actually love sending teams off.
I think it's a really exciting
point of the tournament when we
get down to decisions. It's
Oh, it really means to me. So it
gets more excited. I don't love
the teams going home, but it's
just a really exciting part. I'll
give you some of that question.
That was a great question to
last time. I'm probably the
same side naturally, because I
like chaos. I'm not going to
get into that. I'm not going
to get into that. I'm not
going to get into that. I'm
not going to get into that.
I'm probably the same side naturally because I like chaos, but I surprised you from Tim. Good question.
Alright, then if we like chaos and we like saying teams home, who do we think is going to get them home today?
We were talking about all four teams playing today and which one it's going to be.
Tim, you can go first again. I don't know.
I think if we look at the other game, I think Team Secret beat tonight.
This one I think is absolutely on a knife edge. It's a 50-50.
I'm not sure if they would
symbol teams play well if they
both play the best that they've
shown us. I go 51 49 in favor
of shifter. Guys. Can I
remind you what Tim was saying
probably about a week ago that
he thought shifters would be a
top 14. He did. Don't remind
you of that. It's this weird
world that we live in, isn't
it? Where things can change?
What a strange world that we
live in where you can have
an opinion and things can
I'm going to go to the top four.
They're very serious dangerous.
I'm going to talk about it starting too soon.
The match hasn't even been gone yet,
but it will begin now.
So take it away.
Thank you very much.
And I've seen you've got my glasses.
I've seen them because I'm so annoyed with you.
Oh, excellent day.
Well, Tim, as we've heard,
it is a pretty big one to get into between these two.
The loser is eliminated.
the winner goes on with a
chance of still making it to
Salt Lake City. It is a hard
once cool, but I'm very excited
to get into it. I feel the same
as the socials there. 5644
Super super tight. I just I'm
sticking by what I said. I feel
this some real potential in
this shift is roster the
back room staff. All the rest
of it rebels of great as well,
but just feel like if they
come out and really deliver
the next step, you know, we'll see whether that happens or not either way. I think one thing we've got to remember
Obviously moving on from here. There's tough games coming up for these teams next. There's tough tough games coming up
There is yeah, you get through this game here
Which already feels like a bit of a dogfight down at the bottom
And you got a face up against potentially some real big boys coming down from our top four teams
It feels like there's a little bit of a gap
But hopefully they can surprise the day to him and surprise us on Friday when we have even more games to break out and see exactly how this player bracket ends.
Any key players in your mind that you want to watch out for today Tim?
I know you were quite excited by some of what you saw the other day and shifted to know you're the number one fan.
So who are you excited about?
I'm not fighting again. You've already had me in the net once. I'm not doing it again.
The thing is Tim, you don't even look like a fish. You don't even know if you're still in the net.
I think picking up on what the desk has said there, I think it's a really important point
We've got to get in it's not to pile pressure on a play like people but he's super experienced
He's running this team in terms of our yelling which unfortunately the modern world of siege being what it is
We need that bigger contribution
We need to see that little bit more. It's gonna be super helpful for his team
It might just unlock those big players
players, Blaz, Brett, Robbie, you know, the ones that we're really going to see kind of
at the forefront of it, you know, a lot of opportunities there for this team and I feel
like people could be the key.
He could beat him, he could well be, but as of long as there are times you can be
that 10-1 player, sometimes you can be that 1-10 player and of course it's got to do
you.
He does more in the games, you know, as I said, he's an eye gel at the same time,
but there's a bit of work to do with him today against Rebels who are no looked
pretty, disappointing against Virtus Pro, but Virtus Pro are really looking up on
our best teams.
good start to miss Robbie getting rid of a lens there who had no idea he was
being watched from on high good start good start shifters get themselves off
to a nice entry especially on a Rome clearance of bank one of the you know
features of bank one of the things that I think of immediately when you say bank
to me I think of roaming I think of all that lovely space that there is it's
one of our biggest maps so shutting that down early is brilliant we've seen a
11s countless times on the old BDS roster wanting to get out there wanting to grow
Yeah, they're on the vigil making a nuisance of himself this time
It was the new he gets shut down and that's gonna give shifters control of this map pretty much
We've got answer and then or just on blue stairs
Everything is shifters already time can be no excuse there's if it is at the end of this round then it's a big problem
Yeah, so like criminals gore often in towards gold by the looks of downstairs to get themselves fully
We had to put him the downstairs. They've abandoned their hold at Blue Stairs.
Abandoned out of service and have got themselves well and truly dug in now here on the Defenders side.
So feeling they've got that halfway mark in the round and a lot of it they can now
let's try and play behind the utility of which Tim, there isn't a hold turn.
I'm looking at those three smoke canisters on the C4. Yes, you've got the trucks coming
out of the full but that's pretty much the feel like enough to be able to hold out here
for this dance. But no doubt about to see from the Hibana opening up the full.
Fennel does pick up one onto Robbie. They need to be careful here as well because
the ground fennel back up onto the top floor this could be disastrous from shifter's perspective
blaz managed to get linked it's all about what fennel does here because there's an opportunity
for shifters here to recognize hang on there are a little bit light on site we can just push p4
i said we need even more from him and he delivers in round one he cuts off that flank he cuts off
whatever it was the fennel was up to that is massive shifters are seriously in the driving
seat now i was going to say what the hell's martin walks through he knows that they're trying
to play this dance around the execute here. What's he thinking he can do playing up on
main stairs to the second floor? And this execute is going down. The man's in Narnia.
All right. Okay. I mean, it's quite coincidental because Leo was the one who pointed out
Marto's missteps the other day back on there, being miles back from the rest of the team
when they were executing and trying to get kills and they threw away a four versus two.
Maybe he had a reason for what he was trying to do, but he was holding inside the teller's
I was like, you know the plants to go down the second right smoke hasn't got a limited canisters and that was a very weird first round
Love that from shifters. It was
It's one of the most textbook attacks in all the stages and it really that serve as attack on on bank
We've all done it a million times
I love what they did they go in there. They take out a lens
So the reason that that's important is because then they know that they've got the map
So you've got a couple of choices, but there's only one thing you really need to do
that. And that was leave people
on the fight. You can sit up
there and just prevent anything
then coming through top floor.
He can prevent anybody pressuring
from cafeteria because he's on
those steps. He can hold his line
aside, and they can only really
hit shots onto blue stairs. Nobody
is going to be at the top of
there once you down and serve
anywhere. So people just hold
that position and he gets to
for his free time. It gets
Shifters have known that they are secure inside a server. Nobody can challenge us from the hatch, because people are on steps on the flight watch, so nobody can get to it, and you know, it just puts it off, and also, as P4 is finding these people pushing into him on top floor, he's saying, guys, there's only three inside, there's only two inside actually, and you can see the pressure increase from shifters pushing for that plant, pushing for everything to happen, finding them kills, being willing to get a bit more aggressive inside a site.
Really nice. Really, really good first attack from Chef. He's impressed.
Well, let's see how things build out from here, then.
Like you say, Tim, it could yet be your number four team.
Still always those spots to fight for.
We know that at least two teams are guaranteed to mount up a bracket.
Whoever wins those theories, whether the one's going forward into Salt Lake
and there's two more to fight through here in the lower bracket,
one of them could be held by one of the teams on your screen now.
Now, at least there's a big focus on trying to get this main double wall opened up,
which it has been done, and very commonly on this map,
Maxing with double hard breach band coming away.
Ace, the banner being banned away.
Means you can play the entire season at the corridor
because it's not then available to be opened.
Obviously the bands we've got here,
it does mean you're just gonna take full advantage of it.
Get that open dog and restrict the ability
the defenders to move.
Got to say by the way,
very rare that we see both mirror windows
inside of Janice like this.
Yeah, we're still there once or twice,
but like you see it not too often.
It's usually just the one that's in there.
But by having the double there again,
just increasing the work that needs to be done from those windows.
I'm just going to see Lem's feet intel back in, but another round, another entry.
Blast manages to get second of two, taking down Lincoln.
That's now going to leave us with shifters on that man advantage five versus four
and starting to build something here, starting to create a little bit of space.
But the question is going to remain, what are they doing about janitor?
At this point, it's kind of what the last thing you have to worry about, right?
They can get control of Janus from the back side or just smoke it up like they've kind of carved them here.
They haven't really got to worry about these two mirror windows, but pressuring them from the back side
means the mirror can't sit and watch on towards windows, and that just lets everyone then flood in towards the side and look for an execute.
People may be looking to do it from the other side here. In fact, they've got a lovely big hole here opened up by the ace.
There you go. Both are gone. Smoke's being used to make sure they can get that done.
At least one was from Freck. Two down was come down, and it's gone.
Wonderful stuff. And now it's opened like it's in a bean's team.
and they can see absolutely everything in there.
And this is where it's gonna start
getting really rough Rebels to hold on and less.
Marto on the plank, he gets rid of one,
Brack Elzberg gets one,
but those shifters still in charge,
40-3, and the plan is going down.
I think Marto's maybe hoping for the possibility
of a Nitro from underneath, he had to leave Janitor,
so why not then play to those strengths?
The Lens manages to take down P4, stops the plant,
but Lasmu manages to find Fenno,
three versus two, as Marto works his way back upstairs,
but this is where Rebels could start getting caught out
because as soon as shifters are aware they have to push back into the site and there it is.
Last more picks at one, Robbie the other, they'd lost site control.
Shifters had gratefully taken it and caused out the round 2-0
and another solid round for him, shifters.
Yeah, really, really good round that one.
And at least the turnaround revels the recovery effort at the end was better,
but just never going to be in a fall with them.
They were always fighting a long range.
You saw a lens get thrown on the flank during as well.
No doubt they had the same info on Marto.
It was never going to be recovered from there.
But I did like the patience that we saw in the attack side of that round from shifters.
Just piece by piece, open up stock, force the player out of there, get rid of the two mirror windows,
combine utility to make that happen, deal with the player that's coming up from Lobby.
And yes, they lost that on the flank, but then we saw immediately eyes from the windows
returning on towards Banana to make sure anyone coming round that way was going to find themselves caught out.
So it just feels like it's just about everything considered at the moment.
And this is where Rebels are thinking they're going to really struggle.
They've got to change something, Tim, because they're being battled around at the minute by shifters.
I know we're only 2 rounds in, you know, there's plenty of seats to play yet, but it is nothing like mattershifting, is it?
You know, they're just doing the basics really, really well. It's like they're just ticking all the boxes for each attack.
So, you know, I already explained that basement attack and why it worked and why it was good.
And then the top floor, they've got the capital, they've got the ace.
It's nothing like revolutionary, but they've used it well.
They've recognised that the linchpin point of that defence is Janitor with the double mirror,
and they've dealt with the utility, cleared it out and forced the players away.
Just, you know, simple stuff, but stuff that we often see teams get wrong or get missed.
And, you know, that's how defenders pick up rounds,
but shifters have dealt with what's in front of them really well.
Ticking boxers, really good kind of checklist, see you in a minute.
I'm just going to say, Tim, something really don't look right in this round on that rebel side.
Had a great time.
And now, on the vigil, that's surely the Alem's roles you're playing.
Well, we'll see.
That would be his go-to.
I don't ever think of vigil.
I always think of Alem just back in the day.
That would be his go-to operator.
But here is one very much on new tomato being dealt with on the entry here by Robbie.
Seemingly no bother at all.
Losing out with the DMR onto the Daymark.
And that was inside his car cleared out very quick.
Yeah, this is the problem at the minute.
Rebels are trying to play those kind of cute little roles on the floor above or floor below
where they're playing, and it's just not working at the minute.
Shifters are picking them up every single time, that's three rounds, three entries, and that
means there's three rounds that Rebels have had to play effectively 4v5 throughout.
This time you 4v5, actually quite rightly said, also includes a Vigil as well, which could
be a problem.
Quite a selfish operator, doesn't bring a lot of utility for the team, so all you're
The left wing now is the gun, and he's trying to get the SMG 12 working, does manage to find one, kill on to LASMO, but they did lose the smoker along the way, Vigil dealt with, shifters have got him in their pocket at the minute, there's...
Yeah, he's a bit of no-man's on there, two players, three players around him on that top floor, at the very least he managed to get rid of one, but the problem is, every other player on his team has collapsed around him.
It's all down to link you by himself inside his body people are given for not thinking we were attacking into basement right now
But again, there are three players flooding in around him
There's nothing you can do to hold on another collapse here from rebels
They've only got four kills team here across three rounds. Yeah, and you picked up on that vigil there
I'm not putting the whole round on the vigil
But I think it is an important point to make we talk about vigil a lot
He is a little bit of a gamble of an operator because he brings nothing for the team. He's very selfish
There's two jobs and that's not to say that the players pick it himself. It's just there's an operator choice
You know there's two jobs that vigil has to do one is get kills the other is burn time and unfortunately
Then we achieve neither of those on that top floor arm
So all of a sudden you've had a basement defense without a key operator
They didn't have you know mirror for example last time they played with thorn they played with Valkyrie down there
The thorn I would pick up specifically that's who Fennel played last time around
you know, really valuable
operator now you've lost all
that utility. You've lost those
razor blooms from your lineup to
have that vigil. You've got to
make the wrong work. You've got
to get the juice out of it, and
it just really hasn't happened
for them there. And I'm not
surprised at all to see rebels
calling in at this tactical
timeout. Well, how things are
going to in the down to lose
the half six zero if it carries
on at this pace, like I said,
four kills across three
first quarter of the game in the second one could only go the same unless they
changed things around. I think part of the battle is, like back in round one we
saw them do that exact thing on calling for to change things around. They played
more turds or they dug inside a site, but then things went a little bit weird when we
had Martha roaming up towards the second floor. The smoke was left alone
outside the site. And what has happened very repeatedly throughout those three
rounds is Schipter's just got very very good at isolating single players
on the side of Rebels, knowing that Bank is quite a big map and forcing it
two or three versus one if it isn't coming down to that and it's one versus one that there are yellow
pings everywhere there are drones feeding information they just look like a very very well put together
team like that there are safe in like a top 14 imagine that there's oh i don't want to get ahead of
myself oh the bait oh i'm having a nibble but i'm not talking about it i'm not going to get
ahead of myself but i will say if they win this game they are top six so you know do with
You win this one, Tim?
It's a tough one.
Well, actually, it's not...
It is a tough one.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That gives you this one point.
Both of the next games are tough, no matter which way you look around it.
I just think the other side of the bracket, Team Secret and Fanatic,
side is slightly tougher, because they've got Falcons or VP.
On this side, you've got G2 and Twisted Bands.
Both extremely good teams. I am not downplaying either.
But for arguments sake a world where say twisted minds get knocked down to the lower bracket. Is that a game shifters can win?
I think it is we've seen twisted minds be a little bit up and down over the kickoff group phase
You know when they go they're very good, but they can be counted and played against as well
So I can see a world where you know shift was have a path to Salt Lake
Tell you what shift just to the person how to play this person rounds if they come up against twisted minds
that will be a phenomenal game.
I agree. I agree, especially with the prize that's on the line, just as a reminder to everybody,
these are the lower bracket quarterfinals, so a loser goes home, winner moves on to the lower bracket semis.
The point that you need to get to, you don't have to win the lower bracket final.
Both lower bracket finalists go through to the major, as do both upper bracket finalists.
So just winning the next game after this, is enough to get to the merger.
Well, here we go.
Top is coming out, trying to look for the way it's for,
but it's been eight really coming out there,
and it's asked to start stepping on four,
while looking is going from 80,
and it's again, shifters just in full control,
knowing every single move the Rebels are going to take.
And we're in the face of another four versus two here,
Lames and Fenno, try and hold on,
but can't even hit the shot they need to.
Frack finds his third in the round,
and Lames has got to do something.
Notice the players from the side of ACM for great C4, he's going to find Blast, but it isn't going to find him in the round too, because that C4 was normally intended to try and deny what's going on upstairs, but a good spray to the wall, we'll get rid of Freck, a 1 vs 2 to go, 11's winding back the ears here, Tim, he's got 20 seconds to get it done.
It's absolutely doable. He's got full HP and the problem that he's got is the time that's passed by because shifters have been able to get themselves
Into positions you've got one outside on the repel. It's impossible to win now really with 50
And there's a good reason why a lens has basically called it a day and he's having a chat with his team and giving him that
Opportunity here. There's two things playing against him
He'll know that he's got an IQ below that can just watch for when he gets on that diffuser
And he knows that he's got last mile on the windows
because of the changes that we had a while ago on the windows. Now, you vault animation out of the windows, you can't really like ADS and shoot on the way down.
So getting the players off those windows, you know, we used to see players throw themselves out of the windows, get the kills, get back in, get upstairs.
It's just really not feasible anymore, especially with 20 seconds left on the clock. So, Elems knew that the game was done there.
So he's, I think, used his time wisely to, you know, have that kind of unofficial
additional tact time. Obviously the coach can't get involved, but the rest of the
team at least can have a chat between themselves and try to further pinpoint
what's going wrong here, because things are going wrong for them. They've lost
all four entry battles. They've lost all four rounds. You've got Robbie at the
minute was five and one coming into that round. I'm not sure how many he
picked up during the round, but, you know, you've got a shifters team that
just starting to run away with
it. You know, Fred went to be
in that one. He's now 61
Blast 4 and 2 P4 is getting in
on the action. You remember I
said they needed that little bit
more from P4. A couple of those
came in round one holding the
flank facilitating those of the
players on site as I was talking
about brilliant stuff so far.
Really impressive. Four zero
shifters. Surprising no one
Tim. I'm actually going to
disagree with you. I think I
I could understand the Tatsumai if you had like 60 plus seconds on the clock in a round, it was like a 1 vs 4.
But I think that is kind of more speaking volumes about the mentality in the Rebels camp right now.
We see now Animated Mato has been up to the first three rounds, he hasn't got like a happy bunny.
I think for a lens planned aside for the 30 seconds left and although it's highly unlikely you win that round
to give up with 30 seconds left in the post-plan and just think I'm just gonna sit here now and we'll chat
could do if you try and lost the round as well.
Just feels a little bit...
Out of that, more like a mental breaker
than anything else to me.
And that's more again, the sign probably right now
of the morale inside of Rebels
than it was so much innocent decisions
having an unofficial timeout.
Hopefully, they've used that time well
as something is gonna change
because like we said during the timeout,
they kind of have to get things moving now.
If they get even one round at this point,
it's gonna feel like a little bit of a miracle
to be honest with you.
Let alone the two, they've still got a chance to get.
I think had the operators running and being different, I would agree with you.
But knowing that there's an IQ underneath and somebody on the repair.
I can see both sides of that argument. I would say that.
It's on your fence, man.
Well, you know, I think you knew that the round was done at that point.
It's not about giving up, I think he knows there was no winning.
I think that's what comes down to a mental point and that's why I kind of edge with agreeing with you a little bit, in that I think that Rebel's mental is gone right now. I think they need to give their heads a wobble, they're absolutely rattled.
Shifters are just running over them at the minute. There's nothing they can do to get anything working.
I tell you what they could really do with it, obviously you could always do with this.
But they could just really do with the big 2v4 clutch here from these two.
Master and Martau can like, lock this out. It'll just give them that fire moment of like,
Right, come on, like, we've got a red...
And they could come away 4-2 from the half, which, you know, would be there like robbery.
They're probably not gonna, but it'd be there like robbery.
Well, I also want a pink unicorn, but we can't all have what we want.
I don't want to be a world in which they can hold this tower.
They can stall a bit longer with Marco here getting out with more of these folks.
Still got Barbarian by pocket, interestingly, by the way.
He forgets one.
Marco at least trades it out, but they know exactly where he is.
Every single time a Rebels player fires a bullet,
there are two guns on the side of the shifters pointed in their direction,
and there is always a response.
They look on fire right now, but like I've said,
I think the mentor on the side of Rebels is just crumbling before our very eyes.
If there is anything even left to crumble.
you know, it's a lot of
trouble. Yeah I agree with
you. I think I think they
need a break at this point. I
think halftime. You know that
halftime two minute time out
cannot come soon enough for
rebels right now. They're just
even two minutes need to get
out of this game. Just have
that opportunity of like right
we're up. We've got the side
switch. It needs something to
cling on to. You know whether
it be a clutch, whether it be
a side switch, whether it
And they just packed it in that for the shifters at the minute, you know, we can see why shifters have picked back here.
They are absolutely running over them. Really, really good stuff from them.
And we're going to see, they're not going to take their foot off the pedal, they're bringing the glass along again.
It's worth mentioning in the patch notes, there was a bit of an adjustment to glass as well.
They picked up on the main ones, which was really interesting on the desk, kind of the grim, the glass.
Sorry, the clash the rower and all really important changes, but glass
It's only a small change, but you know I when you move in with it
your targets get fuzzy and
To kind of reduce your accuracy and reduce the sort of value of his spoke when you move into preventing playing like an entry player
If you were and we've seen that change a little bit move of time
To reach maximum distortion has gone up three seconds. So it's 15 seconds rather than 12
now so they just maybe be a little bit more stable in his scope when he's moving around
but it shouldn't be a huge change.
Well, sort of vivid things to worry about in the marker of details granted for Revolves
so far.
Tim and Eason have been real special puts together.
Now, I did say everyone wants to see a bit of change coming out of them.
I don't hate what they've gone for here.
They've gone for this more aggressive track base set that they've gone for these
roamers and the soldiers from the visual.
They're looking to keep themselves busy.
And to a point, it did start out that way.
I'm like the other trucks trying to deal with the shield and they've got rid
Good stuff. Again, as soon as the bullet comes out, there's an immediate response from the other side.
However, I think as you just saw, we've got one player wrapping it out inside the CC right now, so that could be very interesting.
And it's dead, never mind.
That's going down. There's P4's got into position.
He sees an opportunity and he's called it. He's going for it.
And again, Rebels have been called to wait off-site, and now they have to start fighting back in.
Freck manages to get a double. It's all up to Fano. He manages to get one.
He's got two more to find. There's the first. 1B2 becomes a 1B1.
He's downstairs now and he's searching for Breck, but Breck knows exactly where he is!
It doesn't matter! Make it four in the round! Make it a clutch!
I said Rebels needed something to cling to and Fenor just gave it them!
Fenor the Fabulous! What a round from him at 4k!
But again it says a lot when you look at the reaction from him.
Not a shout, not a fist in the air, nothing.
I think because Rebels still know there is a long way to come but I'll give it to
a little bit nervous when he was still top square after the defuser had gone down.
Let's go and hear what our desk got to say about that half though Tim.
Thank you very much guys, a good comeback we saw there, briefly from Rebels, but in general in this first half
it feels like shifters woke up today and all the sudden remembered who they were.
These attacks have been flawless.
Yeah, they're super clean. I think one guy that I want to highlight for this,
we mentioned it during the pre-match was before.
I think he's done an incredible job on the droning.
You see him most of the time sitting on it, and then you see the Europeans
and you see people dying again and again and again.
The coordination led by the intel gathering is actually insane.
And then the work of Frank as well, who's doing crazy.
And some of these executes, if we look at them, you know, some of these executes are absolutely crazy.
They do it perfectly. Look at this. The Drone Info P4, the opening kill, beautiful.
These guys are aware they know he's in CO, it's fine. The trade is coming straight after.
Two guys were ready to take it. The roam clear has been absolutely insane, Jack.
The coordination from these stairs on the top level.
And that's exactly what you want to see. You want to see in terms of P4, the fact that he's maybe calling not just for strats and calling like, hey guys, we do this strat, but actually the information calling players around, you need to push him, double ping, you know, yellow ping, double push him together, get the kill, get the advantage and roll out from that.
In comparison though, we've got to talk about Mato as the IGL of Rebels because he had probably quite one of the biggest crash outs that we've seen in terms of the visual of the cameras, in terms of the crash out as well.
Clearly looking as you can see here, very, very stressed inside this game.
We were also fortunate enough to be listening to team comms and we're fortunate enough to be joined by a French-speaking man next to me who can kind of translate a little bit as well.
Yeah, yeah, the reality is that the comms are going crazy, like in a team, they're overreacting to everything.
You can see that as soon as they lose a player, once someone else will go pick, but they're all picking one by one, so they're getting picked up one by one.
And then the reaction after this crash out is not the right one.
They're supposed to play together and they're supposed to come things down.
They didn't do it. They continued aggressing.
They continued to play a wide extension.
It got room cleared all the time.
It was the wrong decision and the inexperience is really showing here.
And there was only one clutch.
That's the only reason they've won a round was a clutch that's gone wrong.
As we move into this band phase as well,
you see in Rebels actually take away these army, I think that's pretty far.
Normally it's about breaches or utility on the side of bank.
So, his army, maybe the merit to follow is actually going to be decayed as well.
Very, very sensible. It still allows us to throw the bottom floor with getting rid of our electricity.
I think the main thing to me is that it seems that right now they are struggling to react to whatever
shifters were doing. Now they're in a position where they can be proactive. They're supposed to
be in attack and that means that they have more opportunities to do something different here.
Okay, both giving hope for rebels going into the second half. They need it as well.
A clear reset is needed if they want to get a good score on this first fight.
attackers. Thank you very much,
Sean. Well, let's see what can
transform here, Tim, in the
second half. We so often say
that there are two halves to a
game of siege, both factual
and metaphorical, that things
can transform massively once
decided what. But also, we're
going to have to get away
with this. And let's see if
that's going to be the case.
The blitz we had taken off
line, I think the main one
for me here, in terms of
pace, being denied away from
rebels. Yeah, that's a
shift to say, you know,
They've just got that last round, you know, not letting them have those kind of crutches to play behind,
not giving them anything easy to build some momentum, you know, actual physical momentum within the game.
You know, maybe take away, like you say, those opportunities to go fast, to get aggressive
and just make them fight for it a little bit more.
Shifters, I think, the gameplay here leans when I'm looking at their operators.
It's towards the frustration of them now.
They know that they can.
Got them on the ropes, they've put a couple of body shots in,
they've got them where they want them.
So now on the attack frustrate and give them plenty to think about.
You've got the smoke for the Nile, you've got razor blooms,
you've got F-nats, you've got Faltcams to worry about.
All this utility to play behind
and just make life as difficult as possible for them.
Well, with it being a little slow down,
it's been a bit of flying the Monty being there.
It does mean it's slightly slower.
They've gone for a very execute heavy focus here. The docker be coming out along with the
The the day must and they could have them some reason I don't know if you have no idea what it was
They must the doc could be coming out together good for the Roma hunting side of things and also for moving through the map also both great
For execution first resting, but the crucial thing about this is you have to then get to the point of execute
Good make make me use the shield those that a lens get in and get rid of freck on the entry
That is very critical entry as well to my thing because as we've seen they lost the majority of the first kills in the round
the first half. Yeah,
definitely. That's again, giving
them a good foundation to build
up and you couldn't take
anybody better than Freck out at
the minute 11 and three
absolutely flying right now.
But I like this first round
attempt. You five one up. You've
got an opportunity to say let's
get out in the map and just
see if we can, you know, make
a real nuisance of ourselves.
I think I'm wondering for
Blasio. No, there's no I was
going to say there's no
mute jammer and stairs or
anything. We just saw the
death marks failing, but I
because we do see that he is in a new genre at the minute, does manage to pick up Linky.
And we're going to have a lens as well, getting one back onto Blast, so it leaves us still 4 vs 3.
The Shield's doing great work as well, a minute 10, and they've actually cleared them back to site,
and got a man advantage really well. This is better from Rebels.
It is better, though, compared to about the first half, it was about a minute 30 when Rebels have fallen back into the basement.
So I'm still a bit concerned here about how much time can be wasted
by the side of shifters once we see rebels start asking the question you've got a what 30% hp
monty here right now c4 has spoken to a hell of a lot of damage they've got a c4 they've got three
spokes they've still got a lot of stools i think rebels are going to have to flood and go for kills
here things they're not really a chance to play a round go for the diffuser i don't think
35 seconds left to go they definitely need to get moving we see the first of those toxic
babe canisters come out natural ripped and ready in hand of robbie he's going to send it but
But there's nobody there waiting to receive it.
The minute the plant is going out, no, he gets him.
And that was that prior damage done.
Even with a little bit of distance
between the Nitro and the Montage, he gets the job done.
That's going to find the defuser down on the ground.
But they've managed to get in.
Asta's got it in hand and he's going for it again.
Will secure the plant.
Kill does come in from P4.
This is very winnable for shifters from this position.
But Rebels have managed to relocate.
They've got themselves back upstairs at least.
He's going to need to find a kill-up of surely they really thought someone would come and try and play towards open here
But there's no one actually on that side that the minute they're playing out towards square by the looks of it
Tim got a force to your players into the retake upstairs perhaps who plays it from this first floor
But now they've got to find them 11th from what after good for another this one is definitely done
And this is a good post plan being played out by rebels was very nervous for a second that bottled it
Tim
It's been a great job there with the two left alive to finally get themselves over the line and now find
the game. We saw a lot of
players in the game. They
were playing themselves with two
rounds on the board. Good
decisive play on that
diffuser. We saw the nitro
drop it inside a site as there
was in there very quickly. Got
a hold of that after the
smokes had come down hatch. We
saw the hatch drop as well.
Everything snapped into place
really quickly for rebels to
say it's gone wrong. Here's
plan B execute it now, and
there was no dithering. There
was no holding back. They
just all through themselves
into that next role that
first defense.
They were very, very critical one indeed.
Again, maybe not as clean as what we've seen out of shifts before,
but they managed to make it work.
I think where the danger came in, really, for the defenders,
was the fact that we were able to do this little dance here
when they were still smoking out the door.
Knox, they might have opened up that stuff all
on towards default to try and go for a plant spot there instead.
And again, it was maybe the also the retake style of it.
They were expecting more contention inside of open and office,
but just didn't get it.
And ultimately, they had some real strap around the square
to try and recover the ground.
So the ballplay Bobbock is, definitely gets you just on their toes and trying to figure out exactly what it was they had to do.
Now I don't think we're going to see that conch change too drastically, like I don't think we're changing it from the Monty here.
Ooh, okay, so the front of the Monty, Tim, what I worry about is, it gave them a real good advantage of different parts in that round,
but most importantly, getting map control.
The entry was timstepping the side of Archive, sniffing around where the players were, pinging them out,
and then you have players coming in behind him, like the lens, you then got that entry, that second entry of the entire game.
So I'm a little bit nervous to step away from shields in this round.
Let's see how it plays out.
Yeah, Lars and Robbie have got a big job to do up up here.
The LLM's has brought the Rams, so that just screams straight away.
They need top floor control if they want to make the most out of that utility that they bring in.
Plas has got Nitro in hand.
One of these needs a big game. It goes out, but Katty just throws it a second too soon
and it catches on that barricade but hadn't been shot out at that point
and means that Assa was safe.
They also know now for sure that somebody is up on that top floor.
Kings are raining out actually as well
and we're gonna see so much pressure that Robbie is gonna dip himself away and last has as well.
Top floor has been gained in 45 seconds for Rebels, that's been really good.
This is not bad so far, however that's more of a reconnaissance by having that early C4,
there's still two more they've got to play the dance around and when they get inside the map
they start working their way through as they are now. Well there's a lot of jammers around,
they're muted, mostly these captives are seemingly everywhere so you don't quite know if they're
still gonna be a defender somewhere just walking around hoping to capitalize on those flying
Spots around the map.
Now take it all off!
Mainly really here, looking down towards the base.
We did just have two players down there a second ago.
In Bobby and Blast.
He's now worked his way back up a little bit.
No, no, he's back downstairs again.
He's playing this happy little dance around for now.
And that's where I get a little towards going.
But this deep water is not behind us.
That has some questions on a K then.
But maybe inside of the site itself,
behind him you jump up behind the boss and press.
Brett just having his opportunity.
He sees the man and pull him.
Can't do anything about it.
he's been flushed into danger, Feno was there waiting with open arms and he gives him a little squeeze as he sees him, takes him out of the round five versus four.
Asa has taken some damage up there, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem for him. I like this from Rebels, but again, we asked the question of time last time around.
I'm going to ask the same question again this time. Will it be an issue for them? They've got last underneath of them in it.
He's got to be looking for that blue stairs push that little flank at the end because he's got no natural in hand at the minute
Can't do anything from down there and Marta closes him out and takes him down rebels are looking like a different team on the attack
Looking ironically like shifters did to a degree as well
Well, they've been very very good at forcing these players these solo players on the side of shifters into to the ones
Overwhelming them with Intel and then capitalizing off the back of it
And that's what I think we should try and deny in this round with the new Adam Mosley obviously hasn't really worked out for them
But we're at the last 20 seconds Tim now it's time to drop it over the execute. And here it goes the utility
We see the Grim beans going in we see the Capitao doing the job on the angles to try and create space for the diffuser to go down
It has to take some damage, but not enough he sticks it
I love that from him P4 cannot get there quickly enough four versus one now as it's Robbie on the fight back
the man in the back. One B4
becomes a one B3 after he finds
Fennel tries to get his way back
into site sees the man knows
that there is one across on the
opposite side of cafeteria, but
can do nothing about it at the
minute cannot find an angle is
fighting instead with the man
inside of our cards cut down
by a lens from that copy
window and that is another
good round from rebels. And if
you're a shifters fan, you
start looking a little bit
worried at this now. The
where is it that shifters will be able to find their bastion and get this over the line?
Again to me, it just really comes back to what I said at the turn of the half is,
you literally are seeing two very different halves of each year.
One where Rebels are completely imploded.
As the guys in the desk were saying that Martyr was having a meltdown inside of the chat
by the sounds of his team and really morale was at an all-time low.
We've gone to the second half and I wouldn't say spirits are high,
but crowns look relatively convincing.
What I will say, Shifters are being quite active in playing it, mind you.
I think they're not really kind of someone just getting there and waiting to get 2v1'd or get droned out and flipped out by someone.
They're trying these little cheeky suits for us. They're trying to play for inside of the base, but they're doing these little odd jobs that at some point I think will pay off.
If Rebels slip up for even a second, that's when Shifters will be able to gain the edge.
So I still kind of say it's not as like, this side is just pretty sore as compared to about the first half.
It's closer than that, and I think Shifters will find a round at some point across the next couple.
I didn't see enough there to lock in and call this a mistake, but I am interested and I look back after the game as to just what happened with Assa planting there because it appeared that P4 on the bandit could maybe see me taking a lot of damage and there was a lot of stuff going on at once and this is why I'm not sort of clean calling it as a mistake.
I think it was being challenged from other places as well and just because he downs the partner
It doesn't mean that the round would have gone differently necessarily
But it was like literally one bullet he could have he could have sneezed on on aster and it would have got the kill
And it appeared on the free camp that we just thought the end
The he kind of asses in behind the smoke and and people
Behind him and there's many things he could literally be in his scope and he could be hidden by the housing of the scope
You know, there's many things that could be going on there.
I don't know that it was people doing the damage to him,
but I'll be interested to watch that back
because I think shifters have got really unlucky there
because there was an opportunity, definitely,
to pass it down on the ground.
But continuing on, we're in round nine.
We're going to see shifters going down to the bottom floor again,
completely avoiding that top floor for now.
Interesting, they've chosen to come back to a start
that they struggled to win last time around.
They have not committed to the rest of the map as heavily
as they did last time.
I said in round seven there were five one-up absolutely fine throws from there in the map see what happens
Well, they saw what happened. They lost it this time
They're going for a little bit more of a turtle strategy
Trampon time to burrow causes many problems as they can
Causing problems into a level wasting time right they really want to play the stall here and I've got the smoke on side
They have C4s once again quite physically to grow out
which you've already observed, and then also Goyo.
But the big difference to me in this round,
Tim, is how fast Red Bull's actually got inside the building.
They have not got a Monty, leaving them in.
They can afford to go that little bit quicker.
Marto's already dropped into wall space for years,
already trying to ask questions.
This is looking really interesting.
Now, if he gets a kill inside the vault,
suddenly a lot of gold starts to become very explosive.
Here we go.
Oh, he's trying to do his best, Tim,
but Freck has hit the deck and turned around
and got a freebie.
The glass falls because he's gone
a little bit too far ahead, Tim,
because look at everyone else.
They're upstairs.
They're on drones.
They're holding angles.
Yet he's tried to basically pull up
I do get that small on the way that's the guy you're taking down because the
Balkan canisters will be in play so it doesn't really matter. Robbie is getting
tracked by the game-offs at the minute so he knows that was beautiful team work
from shifters there that's like kind of the unseen team work we'll come back to
that. Freckin' Blaz managed to get one a piece after the latest taking down
Feno does get the trade, hits him with the F2 but they are now caught in
No Man's Land. Robbie with one, Blaz picked up the Nitro kill and that
the back closes out the round,
but I love what I saw from
shifters there. So you've got
Robbie deep in garage down by
the big fan and he's just
hanging around because he's got
that day. Most rock track on him,
but it doesn't matter because
he can see that day. Most is on
marble and he's calling that out.
He's calling that out. And
they've got across fire through
the door from vault and all
that comes because the class
Marto was unable to get that
first kill. It didn't clear
out vault so then vault can
and all of a sudden, shifters are in a serious advantage there.
Beautiful teamwork, beautiful crossfire.
They put themselves on to map point.
We're doing our final couple of bands coming out.
It's going to be Mira and the doccan being taken away,
which has been a bit of a mainstay, I'll say so far, for the attackers.
It's in two of the three rounds that we've played on,
just not that previous one in which the defenders, of course, came out on top.
So maybe that's the way we've formulated them, and they've realised,
oh, we can be a little bit cheeky here.
We can afford the place time.
We can play out around the map a little bit more if we want to.
He can hold, but they can't always get a full read on to exactly where we are.
So the doctor we've been taking away is a crucial one.
But for me, the main thing that happened in that last round, like I mentioned,
was Marta was the guy playing the backstop down Elevates.
He went so far ahead of everybody else.
They've sat on drones upstairs, still they weren't looking to lose,
trying to make an execute happen or go for the drop.
Just felt very, very de-signorized from the rest of his team.
We could be, we could be in our final round here, at round 10, Rebels have got to be right
here every single time now, they've got to get this gun and interest, the shifters have
chosen this point to bring themselves up by the top floor, so Rebels are going to have
to go up against the defence that they haven't seen as of yet, just looking at the line
up that we've got, we've got a little bit of a shift in some of those operators,
We've got the L a brought along can be powerful when dealing with the shields, but also kind of area denial
We do see now more of a style from the propers and you see in it here
But the good spot lines are kind of kept in pocket and are used as a more kind of active
Gadget rather than kind of a place and forget this risk involved in that if you lose the L a really in the round
You're losing that utility with her
But it means that last more can be a little bit more adaptive there a little bit more flexible depending on where this
you know, if they found themselves
fronted up by a shield, which they
don't know until they get into the
round, something like that, then they
can adjust and get that gadget over
there where it is most useful.
Alright, well let's take a look at what
the folks are going to be here on the
attacking side. As you've seen already,
we've had those florae stones rolling
on through, taking out soft wall,
giving them a route directly into
wall sides itself. We've got a couple
dancing around on plas ready to play
piece coming together they need here someone's pushing towards square or
potentially towards and towards stock got a couple of kids play on windows
they've got they've got the space control they need right now inside the
only second as we saw we had shifters attacking here who's big folks are making
sure they have control of them by opening it up with the ace so watch
where the salmons go for some me that's the big read first one by in fact
two here have gone inside a stock now that's interesting that means we're
going to get full coverage into war chance for itself but they will get
Right? We're really going to
get into the game. And it's
really going to be an awful
looking straightaway into
wall white corridor itself. Yeah
I think that's fine. Um I think
getting that spot position Yeah,
I think getting that spot
position clear is very
important. I think one whole
in janitor. You can live with
rather than having the whole
wall open, but like you said,
we'll see, you know, as that
develops through the route,
whether it was proved to be
problematic or not. Now then
One takes down a lems, can't find the second though.
Feno really could have done with being in position to prevent them losing the man on the window
because that last Selma charge has gone within days.
One thing in part that really missed the sim was the player to open up the double wall
and watch that kind of thing from happening.
That's what left break, get inside and get a freebie.
They've traded it out, it's got the end of the world
but this is now only a really scrappy
because they haven't got full control of Hallway.
It's quite having the operator available to make it happen.
Shifters are going to sit and play behind Utility behind there,
Traps behind the Intel coming out from the Valkyr and potentially see this one done and over the line.
Two players left, otherwise Mat 1 only goes certain weight in.
It's a 1v3 for none other than Mato.
He's got to do it now. Put his team on his back and get him through this round and keep them back.
If 1v3 becomes 1v2, can he find the man on the long angle?
No, not yet. They know where the push is coming from and Robbie, he just glides to the side.
Shuts his man down and causes outmatch one, that is bank going to shift us 7-3.
Very dominant if you fare, Tim. A couple of rounds during that second half where Rebels just show a sign of life, I think on the attack.
But those last two, just a little bit limp as they're in that last one especially, I think they were missing a very, very crucial part of it.
Definitely worth to do before we get into match two. Let's find out what happens after a short break.
I
They finish off well what they started and it's down to two players in particular that
we're seeing actually popping off.
We mentioned one, the halftime show, but Robbie also really stepped up.
Yeah, absolutely.
It was both Frank and Robbie.
They both stepped up phenomenally.
It feels like a question ages all the time.
Who's going to step up alongside Frank?
That was Robbie.
And I think both of us are really happy with the way P4 was thrown in, as you can
with the animation to enable these guys as well,
felt a very complete ownership as well.
For me, exactly, it is the execution based on the enablers, right?
Either A, the Intel gathering by P4, and their reaction,
and the fact that they do it so well together,
and then there's the overall plan, the game plan.
Look at Frequence playing on Glass, for example.
It's a utility-based operator, he's not there as an entry,
he does not miss though, he covers everything,
he gets the kills that he needs, both of them on double digits.
It's a good work on the entry, but on top of that, on the utility gain as well.
Is our general belief, I think, really sick play for shifters to go far,
for them to go to international events, for them to compete at those international events?
These are the two that really need to be on the song.
And I think there's one last thing that I love with Blaz integration, is Blaz is talkative.
Blaz has shot. Yes.
He brings value to the table because that roster before, I think, lacked a bit of voices.
Before I had to carry a lot when the voice comes.
I think another voice on top of Frank that can shot call, like Blaz, is perfect.
frag on the entry line, blast in the middle, and end before the way to end. Perfect! In every step of
the round, you've got someone I can talk. Yeah, we'll keep it short here because as we hear a lot
of positive things from the talking inside of shifters, there's some worrying things that
we're hearing on the side of Rebels. We'll talk about that and how they should set them up
for the second map after the break.
I think we're going to have
a lot of fun with that.
Before we go into that, we want to highlight once again our IGLs, right?
In the post, we hired another P4 positively.
We want to talk about Marto as well because there are some concerns right there.
Yeah, concerns.
I'm not sure if you're going to
be able to see that, but I'm
especially disappointed he had a
bit of a generational crash out
as we've highlighted on the
graphic there. Um didn't play
well, particularly himself in
terms of the stats as well. But
that shouldn't matter for Nigel
for Nigel. If you're you know,
I gel is in game leader leader
being the big word that you
have to leave your team around
now. Crash out is necessary.
We've seen fuzzy and crash
out time and time again, but
in the right way. Um and
I've actually got a clip
I'm wondering how does an IGL do well, hiding as Mitchell?
Here, this round, critical rounds for Rebels.
They win it, they're back in, four, five, they can go for it.
Makes it here of play.
Completely on his own in a five versus five.
Look at where that's with team one.
Upstairs, on his own, so detached.
I really worry that Matso as an IGL
is not leading this team also.
I think the main thing to me
is that whenever we see Spiricam
and we see how much he seems to be yelling,
the problem is when you do it so much,
at some point he loses value.
You can have one crush out from time to time, every three months maybe, because it matters,
right?
But when you do that every single round, everyone loses faith in you.
And the problem is, it affects other players.
If you think of a player like Linko, for example, a player that is supposed to be the Hyped
Man, supposed to be someone that's a bit jovial, that's bringing the jokes, that's known
to trash talk a little bit.
When you have someone on your team that's so negative in the comps, that impacts
very much players that are emotional.
I look at the result from Linko from the first map, he's 1-9.
I'm not saying that's the fault of Mato.
I'm just saying that when an IGL goes crazy like this and it goes heavy on his teammates,
you're crushing the self confidence of your player.
And you can see it in the statistics right now, because it does not come back from it.
It can have that kind of opposite effect where you want your IGL to inspire and enable those players,
but if they feel like they're under a lot of pressure because the guys are crashing out in 24-7,
then they get timid, they get scared, they start second guessing, and you can get performances like that.
So knowing that, going into map 2, do you think it's going to be a 2-0?
is this over soon? Or is there
a chance for them to get their
fresh air and get back in?
It would have to be a huge
turnaround. It would have to be
a huge turnaround and a complete
mental reset. I think that's
the same to what I was saying.
It's the mental theme. So it's
completely gone from Rumbles
inside that game. They need to
turn that back around and
build into it. Is that my pick?
So, you know, maybe there is
something in that. Yeah, that
is true. That's the kind of
comfort that they have
inside this match. They
already made secrets on this
map. But then again, future
or best results rather don't
guarantee anything for the
future. We'll see how this
doesn't fall to him after you.
And even Will-Anne, thank you very much.
Into cafe, we go sim.
Now, I ain't saying that I need to repeal my former words,
sim, but you could be looking at one of the top four teams
right now.
I'm not getting carried away, this.
I'm not getting carried away.
Oh, I do.
You weren't getting carried away last week either, then,
no?
No, I'll just wait until they are.
I'll just wait until they are,
and then I'll say, oh, look, I was correct.
was incorrect and we'll just leave it at that no more will be said about it.
Yeah that sounds like a great deal to me. That sounds like a great deal to me.
If we get to that point you've heard the Death Star speak about things that we were speaking about
on the cast itself in terms of Marcel's crash outs being quite alone at times
and also in terms of the gameplay it was very dominant coming out of the side of shifters.
My smoke worry now is that the going bronzer cafe one of the more dependant maps we have in the game
and look he starts on defense team, it's shifters.
to rebels and really going to have to put a shift in.
Yeah, that's one moving.
I can't believe I've never made that joke before.
Well, you know, you've got to keep some of the good ones, haven't you?
Well, I just thought of it just then, as I was saying in the sense, and I was like,
hang on a minute.
This is genius.
Well, you're playing a bit fast and hoax with the word genius there.
Genius in that joke territory is genius.
I think it's fair to say, uh,
Freck being top of the pops so
far coming out 14 and six four
and two on entry 80% cost. Do
I need to go on? He's done a
fantastic job so far. Shifters
are going to be looking for
more of the same. And I think
it's worth mentioning before.
I'm going to say numbers
It's worth mentioning before I'm gonna say numbers that you know, they're not gonna like the world on fire
But the point is that contribution level that even as an iron
Just need to see that little bit more doesn't need to be a lot better six and seven solid 80% cost
You know he's involved in those rounds
He's surviving where he needs to and he's is helping the team as as Leo pointed out with a lot of
The cronin is doing a lot of things, facilitating the other players, so hopefully we'll see that continue from here as well.
On the side of Rebels, we're going to need some change, we're going to need some improvement.
Feno was the man to watch on Bank 10 and 9 overall, so a little bit off the pace in terms of what we saw from Shifters.
And Rebels, it feels like they just need someone to, whether it be Mato or somebody else, to really leave from the front here.
Grab the game, buy the scruff of the neck, have a couple of big rounds,
And just, you know, giving that opportunity to think,
this one's not over, we're in this, we're in it.
First thing that makes me a bit nervous too is about the complete lack of half-reach.
It's completely lack.
They've got half-reach gadgets on side, yeah, but look again.
This is the thing about shifters, same as on the last part,
there is always another gun pointed the way of any rebels pilot shoot.
They've always got an idea in mind, which is always great to see.
Try Rebels or Kit, get figured out, and it's a good response from last part.
a rebels okay they've just lost Marta underneath they've got linker just just
walking in through long barred I'll see what I can find and he finds nothing
very very quickly I don't hate that though because I think that's a risk
versus reward player that he's taken that oh we think there's a gap here I'm
gonna step in and try and get this player free just so happens he's
missed crucial shot on towards the cocktail player let's not forget
the exact same play on Monday kills a cocktail player, it's failed, it's been under the storage
player, gets a double kill, the round is won there. Because that gets him to spell, he
looks a bit silly for it, but he didn't have as much information on what was going on and
then they weren't under as much pressure elsewhere, 100% agree with that, but it's cost him
still.
Yeah, the problem I've got there is that he dies either way, there's a player in
freezer, it just, I feel like there's a lack of intel at the minute and that's
why they lost, you know, Marto to the refrag to blast underneath, to blast underneath as well.
So that was more my criticism that they're just basically walking into a problem,
much like they've just, you know, pushed up there into a long angle. It just feels like they don't
have a clear picture ahead of them in that round as to where everybody is. Like I say,
you know, walking into a crossfire, getting the kill on to the solace underneath, but
they're not being aware that
Lazarus there for the refrag.
Just yeah, little errors again
for rebels, but it's just
cost them the opening round, and
that's the worst thing that
could have happened. Losing
that first round is bad news
for rebels very ironically,
they've actually kind of hurt
themselves with that. Also
quite couchwalk into the
middle of bar. They've hurt
themselves by banning away
the mirror because if you
look at the exact same
situation two days ago, like
I said here, that mirror
was being distracted by
player. This was when
Croxton made the same
for stories into War's piano because it's a player fresh from Windows and they knew they had to keep
their eye on it. That's what Lekros and Crouch walk in, kill the cocktail player, then spin straight
under the mirror inside a storage and kill them. Here, there's nothing really pinning that storage
player to have to watch inside piano. They can't peek it because they've already died to the
Windows. They've got no other choice but to sit and watch bar. So, very ironically, Rebels'
own band choice kind of led to that failing. Very, very interesting. But I think larger
than that, again, let's come back to what we heard the guys speak about in the desk,
That's what we spoke about in our last map.
It's Mato again going a little bit solo,
Bola there walking his way down red and towards side,
thinking guys, it's okay.
I've walked in, I've killed everyone.
At least that's what he wants to be able to say to them,
but he gets the kill and immediately gets traded.
Almost identical to the glass on bank basement
last time around where he walked in,
didn't get a kill and died anyway.
Back to them.
We're gonna have Mato bringing along the Blitz.
I do like to see Linko on the solid snake.
That's the way we can push Buster by himself.
That's all it is.
What have I done?
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, with him, yeah.
There's no drone at his feet.
There's nothing.
He's just going for it by himself.
I was thinking about it.
He might be right.
This is what I wanted to see.
So I criticized the Intel last time around.
They walked into several situations where it felt like they didn't have a full appraisal
of what they were going into and they lost lives because of it.
Bringing along the solid snake, great idea.
He's going to really help that player and see if he can do that solo or just
be using that scam out.
It's going to give him the Intel and it can take over a large area of the
map quickly and that is exactly what we've done.
So I actually think from Rebels, looking for the positives, that's a really smart pick there.
And to switch it up and to bring the solid to make it long, I think that really helps them this way.
Alright Mr Positive, you'll find your way, you'll find your way.
Asking questions though down there at the very, very least.
There's still a lot of utility they've got to work their way through.
And last time around they did really bring a solution to the tie-in.
At least they've got a batch of, but that's not the reason they brought it so long I think.
Because then they've not really got too much to open up.
All of the more focus on the hatch itself, like this, and there we go.
So I'm going to worry about things like Bakery will be in lots of time.
Normally it is obviously kept slightly open, but look at that.
She's both in the election clause, both stay a little way,
and that guarantees our hatch is open.
So at least that one, they need to get Lars shifted out of VIP.
That might actually be Marto's job later in the round
to get up in his face and bully him with that blitz shield.
This is going to be key to them being able to do anything.
The other key is dealing with P4 on the clash.
They've got to have a plan in place to prevent him playing spoiler as well.
currently inside of Sight, and then it's time left to go, and it looks like the attention
is just shifting towards Bakery a little bit here as well. They just want a bit of pressure
on both sides, which I don't actually hate.
Yeah, it does look like you're up here a little bit, you know, uncontested right now,
but that's okay, like you say. The problem is you've got the flash on this side, so
then look, it's way if it's a hop in, so they can bring him down. He knows that
the fuck is there, though, so it's kind of like a, it's a weird situation. They
can't make much happen unless what makes something happen is what can they really do about
The clash is in here now as well to give a little bit more threat and they've been information down the corridor
The Bobby turns into a kill that is wonderful. And now they've got a crossbar on towards the blitz
It's got to go somewhere else. Mark says based on really valuable time I've been here for the last 45 seconds
They need to push double doors
They try to do so they lose two bodies there P4 with a double at the end great clash play great team play
Fantastic round from shifters. I look forward to freshers breakdown of that one
I feel like that hold from wedding was really nice little bit of an unusual position from freck on the one. I you don't tend to see
Anybody play that aggressively on that window, but it worked fantastically well, didn't it just completely held up the blitz at the window
The player on red it allowed p4 time to get in there on the clash and support Robbie on the long corridor
Brilliant stuff from shifters
And this is the day it's almost like again the incomplete picture we were speaking about on top floor of banker last map
They didn't open up the wall, they had no pressure coming in from Lobby.
It was just a little bit, a bit limp, it was missing a very, very key part.
And it's a similar story in this run because they don't have VIP control.
They haven't got front door control or coat control or really like true red control.
They didn't have a player there, but they couldn't safely push down
and challenge them towards wedding itself or into a small bay.
And off the back of that, well, like you saw, the clash posted up.
We had the second player inside of there as well because they knew
they were never getting challenged from down red.
And so then two players like, well, we've kind of got a force now.
We haven't got time to control the rest of the map, so we've got to go double door.
One's got to go through a small bait window, and the problem is that they knew that was the only card they had left to play, so it was very well read by shippers.
But again, rebels are leaving themselves like one part of the map, or one that will check this fight too short, and it's costing them.
I'm just looking at the line-up for rebels here. We've got largely unexpected. Hard to see the continued use of the Solid Snake. It will continue to address that intel issue from round one.
I feel like actually back to was okay in that perspective. They took over those top two floors. They did really well. They've got that open. They just didn't really then use that too much. You know, going towards the end of the round. So, federal, let's see if you can do that great job again of helping clear out.
He's going to have a little bit more of a direct force meeting in this time. We do have players up on that top floor. It's going to be Robbie left the lawn. No, last most of their women as well. Sorry on the water.
So there is still two to clear out and I want to see rebels just with a little bit more of a structured approach to getting rid of those two
You will see
But a lot of the right tools on side to make something happen
But then the case of actually making it take place and then getting the plan to come to live from the outside
It is often the challenge we see things fall apart
Sees the feet and now they know he's upstairs
But they've always said and bullets then to come from rebels players guns tend to look up to wars where they came from
Elsewhere these skills going either way not involved in the same gun fights in a trade
a separate league, some Robbigo, and some Linkugo.
Yes, that's one of those top four players has been to it.
Too easy. A beautiful double from Blaz.
I just want to pick up on this at this point as well.
We saw in the last two rounds of Bank, Blaz got Nitro kills.
In this round, round two, so within four rounds,
he's got three Nitro kills.
He has been using that utility fantastically on the Valk.
And it is such a key thing, whatever operator you're bringing,
you've got to be an expert in that secondary use
to get the most value. And again the trades coming in, you said it in the last map days,
and it is so true still of Shifters. Every time there is a death on their side, there is another gun
there to find an answer. And right now it's all up to Fennault with the F2. He's trying to work
something for his team here. We've already seen him have one big clutch today, one B3, it's
possible. He has the skills, we know that, but Shifters have the patience. And right now
that's what it is. It's a
discipline. The composure.
Just being ready for anything
that comes at them here as well.
Not even really requiring all
three than just one in the end
is enough to get the final shot
they need. And this map starts
out very similar to the
previous team. It's absolute
domination by shifters. Yeah,
they just they look fantastic.
You know, for the mistakes
that we can find on the side
of rebels. I think we can
also find lots of positives
really, really nice siege
from them. And it's no wonder
that rebels are struggling to find
rounds against them right now. So we have
our additional bands come in. We're going to see
the Kaid go and we're also going to
see the Grim taking away as well
as that rebels tactical
timeout coming on in.
All right. I would like to
say I'm surprised, but obviously I think we are after how
the game has started. And this again is
the exact replica of what we saw back on bank.
Three rounds went by and our bands come
to attack timeout. Of course,
or a number of crashouts across
those first three rounds.
Hopefully the same thing isn't
happening again though. I know
we didn't have Marta on camera
at least at the beginning of
the start of this game. So
maybe there's a reason for that
still as morale remains low.
Can't imagine it feels any
higher team after a bruising
three zero start. No, that's
I don't know if it's maybe
too far gone at this point.
You know that. Yes, you can
go in there and you say,
right, this is how we're
going to set up doing. We
can look at the strategy and
else, but surely the management of the mental has got to be the big focal point at the minute.
This team has no two ways to make it, take and reveal the batting so far. Turning that
around is going to be the big one. Turning that around is going to be surely the path
to finding a few rounds before anything else. It's such a difficult job to do because
You know, once you know yourself, once you're in that position,
when you're feeling stressed, you're feeling the pressure,
everything just becomes much more difficult.
We know that Rebels have had better performances than this.
We've seen them have better performances than this.
Throughout kick-off, it's a tough day for them.
I tell you what, Chifters, I love it.
They are not making it any easier for them.
You know, as a professional team, you look at that situation
you think we've got them where we want them and you know you keep them down you keep the
pressure on them and you just cause out the game and shift us into any prior job of that.
We saw a fracking nibbling a little bit in the whole shot, like me with you Sim and
the whole top four seeing anything using them, oh yeah the juice is down guys, just give
them a little nibble dot yeah you just give them a little bit and that's all it needs
sometimes to just you know it doesn't have to be wild, it doesn't you know it
done have to be. There's a good chance Rebels have got the old chat off and maybe there's
absolutely nothing. But those things work both ways. Maybe Rebels don't even see it,
but what does it do for the confidence of the shifters players? What does it do for
their confidence seeing that and being like, yeah, we're all over and we're all over.
These boys are on the bros. It works both ways.
Well, Vars is going to try another shield operator. That's the third different one
that he's tried across the two maps so far. On the entry to the lens, it's
and down here losing the brown early on nice not ideal to break
Okay, and that's upstairs people good spread of damage there doing a lot on tools link with marto not finishing up either
And breck himself falls down to a nade not able to switch shells and time there and get himself out of danger
He asked a good nade coming in from marto there linko manages to go through and get a kill as well onto
Robbie leaving us now in a three versus three last more hello
Oh, picks up a nice knife up to Asta and another one.
Three on the top floor.
Last one goes absolutely ballistic.
How have they missed him?
They've pushed through bar.
They've pushed into storage.
They've made it a player out.
They've sent it deep on lumber.
Well, completely forgot about the shifter.
Bust through was right there.
And last one was like, guys,
they're not pushing me guys, guys.
I'll go for it.
absolute chaos and anarchy on pixel against Capitile that leads to a knife kill. Like look at this
look! They know that he's there! Where is the call that he's here? Does the player on my window
should have him at least? You know, there's a known player that he's here doing damage,
but he gets away with a massive 3k. Like I think we have the same reaction as Fred there,
that was slippery, but my god rebels you cannot be letting that happen.
and I think it's going to be
really good. And in terms of
rebels like and if you what did
I speak about in immediately
around wonders lack of intel
and that's how it appeared to me
that we were going into areas
without pulling away exactly
what they were against and
where everybody was and they
were maybe just trying to
snatch opportunities to get
something going and that to
me looks like exactly the same
I mean, okay, and we're going last morning that case to slip the net and do untold damage to them.
They were, the thing is, I'm not, I wanted to go as far as to say,
oh, they were in a winning position. It was early in the round, but they've done some good work.
They've got rid of the warden, they've taken Frack out, you know, it was a nice
need kill, cleared out the freezer. They were doing some good work, and it's all been
done by this lack of intel and knowledge okay okay we are very quickly hurt
into wards a similar score lines that we had back on bank where it'd be a 5-0
start to shifters rebels need a round team a single round I feel would be
enough because with the mental in the state that it is I don't see them coming
back from the 60 depth split and I don't see them doing it's him and they
missed shots like that. I noticed the F2, I know it can be hard to control. He hadn't
dead to rise for a good three seconds and still couldn't land a single shot.
I was going to have a little peek around the corner and I try and get that F2, doing some
work for them but Fennel can't find anybody as yet. Losing the run as you said, not
great at all, big loss of utility and it means that shifters, the main thing there
Now the shifters can actually play those power positions inside of sight that they want to because they're not going to find that floor getting opened up above them.
There's not many options, Ass has got a couple of hard preaches, but other than that they can struggle and maybe some holes with BMRs will be about as good as it gets.
P4's good game continues. I want to keep this thread of P4 running, you know, we've picked upon him on the desk.
We've mentioned him along the way as well, you know, we said he could be that extra 10%
for shifters to start evolving their performance into one that is a team that you look at and say,
you know what, there could be a salt work place on the way for them and I look at his performance to
the 4-1 so far in the second map, very solid from P4, really facilitating his team and it's been
another important part of what's going right for shifters. You know it's crazy, he's playing
Well, he's nine and eight across the series you look from top down freck plus nine blazz plus seven Robbie plus seven
Like we're not even talking about close up. There's not a player on the other side except
I know he's 13 and 13 but not the others
Positive link who's two and 13 after it's born 13
They really haven't showed place. I'm about saying it's showing in the score at the top of the screen
That said they get one back on towards blazz not the end of the world and convert it into a second
This is a good little turnaround here from Rebels.
An execute that is actually looking like it could work here.
But that's a freebie and instant trade is there.
Good from Linko to bring it back.
And now we've got to see a retake.
Come on in this two versus two from the shifters boys.
Yeah, Rebels have done some good work here
to give themselves an opportunity.
Going to get sprayed down over.
Okay, managing to find Linko.
Frank gets the other.
Shifters again have the answers.
They are at least put to the test this time,
but they get the job done.
They always know what to say.
always know what to do and where to look. There's right now. They just feel like they
are ahead of time in this game. They know everything before it happens.
And there's probably going to be no better mental breaker than around where you feel
like, okay, something actually went good for us then. We played out three players
that were on site. We've got the plant down and a post plant. And then to see it completely
collapse in the three versus two is only going to shut our confidence even further.
but for shifters it does nothing more than in fold and them 5-0 up at this point it looks like they're on for a cruise in 2-0
Like you say Tim got an interesting next game waiting for them against potentially twisted minds
I think they're in the B and one of the best series in the tournament so far given the play style of those two teams
And given that there is quite literally a major spot on the line during the game
Yeah, absolutely, you know massive
We assume already that Twisted Binds are going to lose to G2.
This is it.
Let's not write Twisted Binds off.
They've got an unpredictable playstyle.
They're tough to play against,
and they can deliver on the big stage.
We'll see them do it time and time again now.
So that matchup is far, far from decided.
That's it.
Let's see how that goes tomorrow,
and then we'll see exactly how this concludes him on Friday.
We'll be back casting. It should be good fun.
It certainly could be a very, very whirlwind tournament,
but some very interesting game style to build up here as things progress forward.
Now, Amato is back on the bit, since things started this half.
It didn't quite work out for many.
Ended up staring at this window off to his right for the majority of that round, unfortunately.
Hopefully to God, the guys got something a little bit better formulated here.
Dr. Moose banned the wave, for example, so instead they turned out towards the lion
and alongside the Deimos.
Should give him a lot of information to be able to work the way through the map,
but then equally there are some good roamers here on the side of the shifters.
look it towards Brake and blast, there'll be a headache that are anywhere you put them.
Just still in that, I was going to say, prep phase really, the leftovers of it,
as the attackers were getting themselves positioned around the building, but they
have been punished again from has been able to take down Feno, and that's the day,
Master, be a blast, you know, when you're looking at somewhere that you're going to need
to cause people down, shut down roamers, shut down these extensions, the day must
can really help you to do so. So big loss there. But a big loss on the other side as well.
P4 going down and the Tugerae going with them. That might just give a little bit of an opportunity there.
The Warden not able to react quite quickly enough to the impact of that Nitro. But Blas is there to
support taking down Mato as they did find the kill. Three versus two now as Rebels again managed
to get themselves a little bit of a toehold in round six.
bearing in mind that is the top floor. Now they came away with the numbers advantage which is really big for them
but as I've often said it's the attackers who lose out when you, if you were going like 2-2 there
on the road and top floor it tends to be the attackers that are losing out because you can't
control as many points of the execution you might want, you can't have someone covering the plant
while they're going down and the vertical and trying to go for a backstab at the same time.
Risky Cfee away from Fred but he does get away with it here Tim as Linky falls to Robbie
sure they don't lose a three versus two team.
Surely not, I mean, it wouldn't be the first bad thing that's happened to them today, would it?
So let's just hold that thought, Robbie, inside of the door here with the DMR
and I don't think they've got any idea that he's stood on top of the plant spot right now.
Acer is half health, that is a dangerous spot to be pushing into a DMR.
He's one or two shots max, they now know his position.
Are they going to find a prefire onto him?
No, they are not! Robbie still finds a way into a or not.
Frank found the other elsewhere.
You really don't want to go up against Frank and Robbie today.
They are putting up numbers and continue to do so.
6-0!
Yeah, I bet that's got a lot to say about this, Tim.
Let's see from what they've got to say to us now.
Yeah, I think you guys have mentioned it.
There is Frank, there is Robbie,
and there is also the brain behind it.
I think we've mentioned before a couple of times already,
but really, I just want you guys to pay attention
to just how well they've been able to read rebels.
we're on the basement right now and as you can see rebels they're trying to open up the hatch now
there is a gate trick from shifterside that's fine it's problem solved by the toucher freezer
hatch is open and as you can see actually rebels are drowning here and what do they notice they
notice here p4 is on the clash on the boost and so what they want to do is they want to avoid
the gunfight here they want to avoid that execute so as soon as they drum them
actually they decide to go for the backside now the thing is many people would think
As soon as you open the freezer hatch, oh, they're going to execute freezer.
And so, Rebels right now, they think they're ahead of shifters, but shifter is actually ahead of them.
Because I want you to pay attention to one player, P4 on the clash, has completely given up freezer,
and he's already rotated towards bakery.
And why is that important? Well, he's read everything, and you will see in terms of positioning,
how he scores impacting everyone.
Because Mato, they're clearly setting up a trap with Feno here on two frags.
But look at the positioning from P4.
Because he rotated there, P4 can go aggressive on the Bakery door with LASMO.
Robby is holding right stairs if Feno goes down, effectively shifters have read them perfectly
and they're ready for that trap to happen. So if we play here, what you're going to see is
P4 and LASMO play together towards ASA and make sure they get a kill on the Bakery player.
As soon as that pressure is removed, P4 can go and aggressive towards WEDDING,
making sure that Blitz does not go in. Red stairs player dies to Robby holding the flank
and at this moment, Marble jumps in each way too late. All of the gunfights have already
happened and all of this because of flash because before the whole time it's
created pressure on everyone rotating making sure there's to be one at every
point honestly what are it from shifters they're just way ahead in terms of
design in terms of strategy but also they commit to that so well all the
time coordinating together it's a beautiful player from shifters all
around that they do shit to see the absolute flow state right now not just
before every player on this roster because what do you mean that gets away with a 3k
in the freezer upstairs?
Yeah, they've got the perfect read and then when they've not got the perfect read you get
the big gameplays, you get those aura plays where you're just running into Big Cell, getting
a knife kill and then getting a big triple kill off the back of it.
Chifters are putting a perfect performance, it starts at the top, it starts at the
top with the read from the support staff opening up the map in the map veto.
It then goes through to P4 in the agileing.
He was calling that that rotate was going to happen one minute into the round well
before he even got drunk because we were listening to the team comes he's not
muddled up in his thinking he's able to see that completely and then even then
we're finally seeing that from free come alive for shifters it feels like a very
perfect performance right now.
What about the operator bands that we're seeing?
I think so far nothing out of the ordinary you remove the Azami so it's easier to attack
Piano side you remove the Cade so it's easier for the hatch of Basement of Beastly
but also for the double reinforcement towards bathroom and freezer it's
very clear that shippers are going for a traditional game and to be
honest I won't blame them they're heavily in the lead here well they just need one
round there's much point for a shift there's a elimination point of four
rebels let's see how this one goes
I don't know you guys keep it you keep it we don't need it all this is done
you've got about three minutes worth there again let's rest a little bit of
air time so we can get a little bit of chat doesn't the game go back on the
desk anywhere are you fine
oh thanks certainly will be um but at the minute rebels have got the problems
We can see that. It's one round at a time, isn't it?
You've just got to work your way through.
They've just got to try and get something at the start,
which here a couple of defences.
I know it didn't prove enough previously.
I don't think, honestly, it's going to prove enough.
Now, they are likely to be eliminated
from the playoff phase at this point,
but you've got to start somewhere, haven't you?
You're still in the game.
It's still happening.
We've seen 6-0 come back to before.
you know, it's not really, she can return a little bit of sanity to the performance if nothing else.
Difficult to their faces in that game where they beat Seagrot on this very map.
You know, three attacks is what they walked away with. They walked through with zero here,
which is why I'm very, very nervous for them now. Going onto the defensive side,
of course, to see any kind of turnaround, but I hope we do.
This German game can be this decisive, but that's the way they're just working out right now.
Starting things out, of course, on the east side here, looking to get themselves in towards
Coptail, I'm putting a bit of pressure on players up on the top floor, she's just looking to
massage players away from this top floor first and foremost, get top floor control,
then worry about the vertical and then they can start thinking about that site itself.
Gonna take a little bit of space up at bottom right stairs there, hold the angle that we
can see the aggressive drop come in, Robbie Ceezy's man in pixel goes for the challenge,
loses it. Great start from a lens manages to give them something five versus four and a big entry there for rebels in the
Looking to get aggressive
People he's ready for that one
To get out a bed sooner than that if you want to catch him out Frank manages to find a lens as well four versus three
And what is a very late trade there?
We see the track going on to the Ella of Lincoln as well
Both are easy.
Two as Blast picks up Mato.
Isn't that looking good right now, Des?
They've had one locked away by the gridlocks.
They've had Yellowpings coming through on to them.
They've had Trax coming through on to another from the Daymast.
They've had Lyon scans going off.
There is nothing that the other side of the group
can do right now to surprise them.
They won a gunfight.
That'll certainly help.
But look at that again.
Beno gets a kill.
Immediately another gun is pointed away to secure the trade.
Shifters have played a brilliant attack,
a brilliant series overall,
and they deserve this one at 2-0.
and they move on to face the loser of G2 against Twisted Mind.
Yeah, brilliant stuff from shifters. They're asking every question asked of them.
They've played some beautiful strategic siege, built chocolate stuff at times,
one take after another, getting the job done, and they just did not give rebels the time to breathe.
I love the professional performance from them, you know, putting a team down who was there to be beaten.
Great stuff, and they move on to that low rackets semi-vinyl.
It's all a little bit too pedestrian, it's just us today, but I imagine it'll be a very
very good confidence builder, and if they can win that next move, as we said, Salt Lake
City awaits.
But what awaits that little bit still that's in, is a break.
We'll go to that now, when we come back out of death, we'll once again break that
down for you.
See you in a few.
to keep swimming in this lower
bracket of 70 on map two to keep
themselves alive in these
players and therefore we get to
speak to them as well to ask
a few questions about this game
as we're joined by Frank
good albums. How are you feeling
about this game? Did you
expect it to be that fast
as you
like we knew the weaknesses
This is, we played to it and it made it quick, I don't know.
Yeah, I mean, looking at you guys play against them, it felt like you had them number the whole time.
Like, literally you were reading them so well.
I'm just wondering how much of that was heavy prepping or adaptation in the game?
I mean, we already knew what they were going to do.
So I think it's mostly prepping and then it's always like,
are they going to do it in the game and then they do it and then you just play on to it.
So mostly after Larry Thelon.
Do you think that is a tier 2 team's mistake coming into tier 1 to just play the same maps
and play the same strategies again in a BO3, not expecting that the teams in front of you
will counter strategy?
I mean it's kind of hard for them right, because there's only one, there's two players
that play tier 1, so it's all new for them and they're just trying to learn and yeah,
it's hard to learn everything and if there's only two people that like have played higher
I can teach you or your coach, of course, but the other way is just to play to learn, so it's going to take some time.
Freck, it feels like a long time since we've spoken to you, so congratulations on the win, first and foremost.
Last year we spoke about Robbie and about Lazmo alongside you on the front line, and I suppose we saw at some points across the year in consistency.
It felt like that front line was really working today, so is that something that you put a lot of effort into?
Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's just confidence because you can see like the stuff that he pulls out, like it's just nice in people and
I don't know what he's doing
but like he does the crazy stuff every time and he's so good mechanically and I think for Rob, Rob is already getting into it
Rob was playing a lot better already. Yeah, and he's just consistently showing it
All right, then one more question before we let you go
Your next match in this lower bracket is going to be against the looser versus of twisted mines and g2
Who do you think you play against and how do you feel about that game?
Probably to be honest, we've played them in the Invite qualms finals, or no finals, it was like semi-finals.
We lost, but we play pretty shit. Again, we know how they play, so we'll be ready.
It's going to be a very different game style if it is that right?
Compared to today?
Yeah.
I mean, they're kind of like the same chaos plays style you know,
But I think Twisted, they're more experienced. They know how to play it, want to play it a lot better, so yeah.
Fair. We'll see if that's the match that you get for tomorrow for now. Good luck with your operation and we'll speak to you soon.
Thank you very much. Bye-bye guys.
Bye-bye. I think that there was something very interesting what you said is that Rebels has got the same chaos play style as Rebels.
As Twisted minds, yeah.
But they don't have the pacing, which I think is so true.
is that if you look at the way they're aggressing, by the way, look at the way Rebels are aggressing.
They are always aggressing at the wrong timing, never together, and also at the wrong moment in the round.
And without making this necessarily about Rebels, because obviously, Schiff just played amazingly.
Where did Rebels find success in their group stage to get them through the bracket
when they played aggressive, when they played that kind of KO-thick style of scene, so I see it,
but on a much, like you say, more inexperienced scale, a much lower scale.
I mean, it's fine to make it a weapon, right? It's fine that what? What is that?
What is that?
That's, I guess, a secret weapon as well.
But I think on the side of the rubble, I think it's fine to organize that your aggression is your main weapon.
I think the main thing is, weaponize that at the right moment.
No one to aggress, wait maybe till one minute before the exit, when everyone has got their utility and get aggressive then.
But I think they were really struggling to find the right moment to do it.
And when you do it all the time, shifters were ready all the time to punish it.
And that's why they got punished all the time.
I feel like a lot of mature words as well that you were hearing from Freck about the experience
or the confidence that you're having, the kind of improvement that they're working on
with that roster because for players like Laszlo and Robbie as well that are fighting
their footing in this roster again.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, he kind of spoke about it.
Last year for those two players was very, very up and down.
Freck was kind of the runner across that front three the whole time.
But even when he came on into your last year, he was gassing those guys up.
He's like, I know we've got it inside of us.
And I think that's the story of Shifters.
You know, we both say, there's a team there.
There really is a team that can go far, especially inside of the EML standing from go to these
international events, but it's just about refining the consistency.
Because some days they'll look like Wild Beards, today they look like Wild Beards, and then
other times, like in the group stage where they lost Fnatic, completely unexpected.
I think overall though it is a good buy moment for Rebels.
A few takeaways for me, I think some highlights first.
LMS has still got it, I think he played really well.
It was nice to see him back.
So, you know, they were drafters, of course, of his age.
He's the eldest right now, he's 30 years old,
and he still plays at the right level.
I think Asa still showed some great statistics
despite the worst role.
Yeah, I think Feno especially, if you want to impress me,
as the fragger, coming in, making a lot of moves,
I think the other players,
there's something that they need to fix,
either in terms of behavior or comes.
Yeah, I saw from the IGL,
from Linko a little bit more self-confidence.
He went 3 and 14, I think, in this match.
Yeah, that's rough.
and he also had the bad game before.
So those are the things that you grow onto.
Yeah, grow is a great word.
Grow, maturing into it.
I think, you know, we seem to come across
quite an inexperienced team.
Naturally, they came from challenger series.
They were a tier two team not that long ago.
Now they're in the big leagues, in the big games.
They've really got a maturing into it
because we will see them back in state one of course.
Yeah, as we say goodbye to variables.
We see shit's progress in the bracket.
Very important to mention is that it flips as well, right?
Those losers from match five and six tomorrow
will be dropping down to the other side of that loser's bracket. That's why, for example,
Shirtz will be playing the loser of G2 Twisted Minds, and that'll mean for, you know, the
next match that we are coming up, there will be a difficult opponent too, right? That is
going to be the loser of Falcons, Virtus. Pro, certainly not an easy match to go for,
but hey, it is why people call the lower bracket an alligator swamp, because there
are so many good contestants inside that lower bracket, and we have two more coming
up after the break. We'll talk about phonetic and secrets.
It is only one of the three
four to the again. We're flying
through these matches. We
haven't had a two one a
competitive game inside the
because we have two big organizations.
We don't want to see either of them go home,
but one of them will have to,
if you want to make it to the top four teams,
that'll make it to the Salt Lake City Major.
We're talking about FEDEC, we're talking about Secret,
starting off with Secret,
because there is the potential for Secret
to lose a enormous streak of events that they've attended,
should they lose as much today?
I think for Savage,
especially it would be the end of an incredible journey.
These guys have attended every single event
since the Manchester Major,
that's two years in a row where they go through every single S tier event.
Obviously the last one they missed was SI, 792 days ago in 2024.
You know, if they lose today, it's elimination.
It's Jack losing two of the favorite players during the transfer period.
It's going from being the SI Grand Finalists and winning in a vote time
that was crazy to missing the next major.
It is a massive low when you've reached such a high. Yeah, only a few months before and also superstars
Superstars about same secret are full of them. You know, no, no particular. Yeah, Mowgli
But even even citizen back in the day was a superstar G2 having such these players and that cover player not a major would feel wrong
That's the risk today for team secret because of their group stage performance
They've ended up starting out in the low bracket, you know losing losing that game
Ultimately, it's rebels, is what cost them and then put them in this position.
Previous when we talked about Seeker, we talked about their two new pickups and how people were kind of
disgusting that they would have lost the transfer window. I feel like people were kind of saying the same
about that. If you did too, Jack, right? East of the day were the big losers of the last transfer window.
Looking at this now, Leia, with their two new pickups, do you agree with us?
I think the stats are showing that Jack was right in a way, that it's going to start for
these players because I do think that they had potential. I think Hova was looking a lot of promises
I think that that shot especially was a stand-up player for the Genji roster, along with Skye and Neko, but it just doesn't seem to work.
Was it really the players they needed when they had so many more options on the table during the transfer window?
When you had so many tier 2 rookies, when VP got Rorik from DK for example, there were talents available,
and I'm not saying that that shot and Halva are not talents, I'm just saying that so far, these two new recruits on the set have started.
doesn't seem to click and so either this is wake up time either they should really be annoyed and not
having picked up the best players. There are some good signs Jack but you need to tell me about some
more positive stuff about Fnatic. Yeah because you've been going on the run non-stop about Fnatic.
Do you know what? I actually worked out a win probability cycle for Fnatic and let's show you
it because for Fnatic most of the round goes really well. As you get through the threat
phase, the setup phase, the action phase, all goes pretty well. Quite high win probability,
and then it hits crunch time and this is the bit where fanatics start playing not to lose rather than playing to win.
In fact, let's not just show you graphic, let's show you a clip as well of a game that fanatic lost.
They lost this game convincingly against G2 and in reality it's a game where they basically had top-floor control.
They had side control. They were setting themselves up with an execute. No problem, 5 vs 4, man advantage.
Everything's perfect, right? Everything is absolutely perfect, right?
Apart from when they get to the post-plant scenario, with G2 having four players alive,
where are they hauling the post-plant from? Ying, outside, passively.
Player inside of the room there, very, very passively.
The player's upstairs, holding the post-plant, so, so, so, so passively.
This is what I mean about playing not to lose.
No one's being the diffuser there.
Rather than playing twin, exactly. Look how Ying dies here, very, very easily.
Don't get spotted on the drone, flanking.
They managed to kill the diffuser. They know doki swanking who's taking control of that doorway nobody because they're playing passively
Nobody wants to be the man to step up to win the round for his team
Oh my god
The sledge just allows the sense to die and then the sledge dies themselves
This is what I mean about them just sitting trying to wait out somebody else will be the one to win the round
Nobody's taking ownership. Nobody's going to win in the round, but the 80% was so good
That's rough. The last 20% when it gets to crunch time when it gets to play into win the round
That's why they seem to struggle time and time and time it hurts not today Leo
No, it hurts. It's just hurt because they do everything they do the hot was good
They do the hot pot well that the simple part of just covering that it's just not done ownership is a problem
Take a deep breath. We're not gonna crash out. I trust in them. I trust in them
Okay, we're gonna be fine and we're gonna look at the map feature
Okay, we're gonna see where the series will be taken to which three maps are selected for this matchup
So the first one that we're going to be seeing is Lair.
Yeah, Fnatic are going to pick into Lair.
This has been a map that they actually won this stage.
I think it was against Heretics.
It's a map they've liked for a long time.
It's generally a map that they leave open inside of the map.
Vito, of course, is Team Secret.
We've seen them play that map a lot.
The one that's the worry for me
is the fact that Team Secret have been allowed to play
Shallow because Team Secret's a map they absolutely
love in times of Shallow, but it's a map Fnatic
absolutely hate at the same time.
So they never seem to let it through in the veto.
I think Fnatic are getting exposed a little bit
I'm not sure that's going to be enough to step up against in secret. I look at some of the signs here and I look at some secrets starting in defense against a team that struggles to finish the rounds. I think that is a very important one. I look at Chalet, a team where the individuals on the server secrets are known to have some of the best gunners in the world.
when I look at Team Secret starting in defense against a team that struggles to finish the
rounds. I think that is a very important one. I look at Chalet, a team where the individuals
on the server secret are known to have some of the best gunners in the world. Noah Mowgli,
Evan Citizen to a degree. These are players that will really be allowed to be completely
free roaming on Chalet where most of the gunfights are the key to victory. And then
you go on the last one, Bank, the one where they had the longest standing win streak ever.
Wow. That is a gamble of a map, Dito.
I think it's getting exposed
just a little bit in this
veto. And I like what you're
saying there because that's
what we see in these best
of threes, right? Like the
teams that have the more
depth will continue inside
these records, especially
here in the lower record as
well. But it's time for more
chaos. Time to send another
team home. Time this one to
send this one to ace and
this. Thank you very much
and indeed it is and Tim
for the series where I
think it's hard to really
call which way it goes. I
want to say secret. But you
you've heard of the desk speaking about fanatic. They could do this, right?
Well, until they show me that they can do it, I'm fully back secret for this one. Sorry,
fanatic, I've got to say. But the last performance we saw from them, it was a rough watch. It was
not good. We're going to have to have seen major changes, major improvements before this
today. Secret, yes, have been on a roller coaster ride. I know that I've been one of the first
I'm not sure that they will
finish top four. Um in the
AML kickoff that we might not
see them at Salt Lake. I still
back what I'm saying with that.
Do I think that they've been
comfortably better than
fanatic in what we've seen?
Yes, I do. Um so it's my back
secret for the win on this
one. All right. Let's get
into it and find out which
way it goes. Then shall we
kicking things off with
operator bands as you can
see secret start on the
taking away the Walden Isle. Absolutely fine. You know there are breaches that need to happen on there
but what they do by doing that is expose themselves to a lot of other utility that they are going to
have to play into. It means that the mirror is up. It means that the Azami is up. The Goyo is
available. The Clash is available and that's just the start of it. The Aruni is still a bit.
You know there's so much utility now that they're going to have to play into and play through.
That's fine, but you've got to have a plan for it, you've got to be ready for it and you can't let the
round be wasted away in that way. You know, and immediately look at what's being brought along.
Did I mention a Zarmine? Did I mention Clash? They're both on the bone. We've got the bone,
more utility. They've got the Tachanka, the Nile. There's an awful lot there. You know,
and this is a map where those creatures can be dealt with. If they are electrified,
You want mask wall go underneath and open it up. You've got the damage on side with shotgun
I add you know, it's not a massive job to do and you could take away
Things like this army. I know that they'll say the same thing about those army. It doesn't matter. There's army
You'll play desk and we can go underneath and deal that with their must and they correct
But let's see how it happens and let's make sure it happens
All right focus them to muscle to get things off here for deeper eating with a nice long arm
With that Salma over towards the wall to start getting get opened up before them unless there's a jammer waiting to fight C.
Very reasonable to assume that you will have a jammer on that wall from the citizen to slow down and push forward.
Yes, it's not un-preventable as you say. You can get him below and destroy.
It also, of course, can deal with it in other ways.
But it does mean that she has to move up a little bit for a truck coming in from below.
I'm hoping to find someone up above it. I'm hoping he's playing that dance of death right now.
But you've jumped it down, I cropped it on the other side, but neither has taken any damage so far.
For now Savage is just going to be playing looking into ops trying to slow down any progress into there
They have to play the clash there really with having that wall soft
It gives the view all the way down mezzanine so soon as that clash has been forced away
It means that essentially secret of giving up mezzanine and unable to play there and need to be careful
About that rotation so something that they just need to be aware of but savage will stay there for now
I think later in the round depending what happens remotely in this army
We might see him drop back to play. We see hot and cold play the shield on the desk quite often
Reads of great success a lot of the time
So we might just see Savage get a little bit deeper back into sight or he might even switch over to like the R6 room side
If there is any attention from Skybridge and that side
Yeah, really should they've got the clash in mind of course
It could be a real headache later in the round as we saw Leo speaking about in the desk clearly with this analysis of
B4's excellent play in the last series
So far so good though, Savage just kept himself mobile and kept him slow down for a large part of it here.
Even asking questions, right towards three stairs, towards the entryway through.
Now looking too bad and quite a lot of stools still to work on the side of Secret in the form of the Chanka.
No Secret remains in the course of Citizen as that was used earlier on.
But Noah's going to get first blood, so that's Deadshot falling down.
Pretty crucial first kill. Was it getting one back though? One apiece.
Yep, Citizen is the one to go for 3-45 seconds left to go.
left to go. If you remember beginning of the round I spoke about time. I spoke about dealing with
utility, getting through it and creating yourself the opportunities to get in and plant. They haven't
done that yet. 35 seconds left to go and time is ticking down. They're starting to pressure
onto bathroom. We can see the Deimos track is there as well. Direct triad, wizard on to Noah.
That kind of suit, Fnatic Noah's over. Manage us to pick up Morgan. That's this army gone
as well. This is good from Fnatic. Last 20 seconds the views are going down, creating problems,
The bully in that clash, but look at Savage, manages to get the kill onto the Blackbeard.
He's actually going to go and get his shield, relocate, and see what he can do in this one
versus two with the user down.
A little bit much from Halber there, like you know the folks playing are completely understand
the play and pressure, but being so broad from the rest of your team means there's
no chance of a guaranteed trade.
However, the last two players left standing, Croc and Deepak, are playing this properly.
The Villas with the spots go to get underneath the ad, go outside and play at range.
to see where it's coming from.
And there we go. Both players
bring into action. They get the
down they need and do my eyes
to see if he did around just get
better. The longer it went on
for fanatic. Weird right? That
was certainly an answer to
Jack's graph that he showed us
beforehand. And there certainly
wasn't a drop off in the crunch
time of the round. Then that
was good from fanatic and you
know, fresh was absolutely
right in what he was saying.
We've seen that repeatedly from
them throughout kickoff. He's
out kickoff. He's getting themselves into good positions and struggling to cause it out,
but have Fnatic found the answers? They certainly did in round one. Like I say, I asked questions
at the beginning. You know, are the electro bros the correct ban? Is that going to leave
them susceptible to that other utility, which did get brought along heavily? But they had
the answers. They found the kills created crossfires dealt with that utility, didn't
really suffer to it and got the plant down with 20 seconds left to go. It was very
Nice room for nothing.
It's this round one, there's still plenty more to go of course, but
actually the fans at home can start to more buoyed by what they've seen to start things off.
Round two, we're going to find ourselves heading down stairs just a little bit here.
Of course, that means we're going to find ourselves probably holding on this first floor,
second floor, whatever you want to call it.
First floor, it'll stay in the game, we'll go first floor,
holding up there and looking to try and hold some angles.
At least we'll have room for that to slow down the aggression
coming out of the side of the nothing.
There's some progattor right back in towards sight, at which case it comes about trying to hold on.
The dear life as the heavens come down above you and all the pressure starts to mount upon the side of the Nasty.
To that end, they've got a lot of utility and information for this team.
I'm looking at the KAB, the DayMars, and of course them towards Solid Snake.
Yeah, good luck to anyone on the side of Secret not being inside of sight here.
Yeah, they're going to be, uh, they're going to be tracked and chased down.
Absolutely no doubt about it.
it. We see the breach coming
on through immediately, which
we would expect. So again, good
quick progress. Nice and
decisive siege coming in from
fanatic looking to just make it
very difficult to hold on to
too much of this map and
looking at the effect that it's
hard. We need to do is look
across the bottom right of
your screen. You'll see that
citizen is the only one left
out in the map. And as I
And he will now try to hold those yellow stairs. You've got savage over on blue stairs other than that
Everybody's back inside good quick progress from finatic within a minute
And I'm out of all the game when you got these three operators on side
I feel like you've got to make it process right a lot of progress story
Otherwise what's the point if you say you two minutes to clear them out with these three on side
It would be devastating because you're investing a lot of your thing
It was like a power budget in the five operators if you bring along and you kind of put in that budget in different parts
the round. If you're looking at robo hunting and clearing up then after being a large investor
with their power in this round, they don't have as much for an execute. They won't have
like a grim on side. Then you've got a lion on side. Other things that make the execute
itself that little bit stronger. They're very much blind. Overwhelm, get kills early out
on the road and then hopefully just win through Sheen numbers late one in my opinion without
them to set it up. So far, they've already given the side away. They've lost the
Yo-Kai's on that side. That's a real sting and Deepak comes in for the second.
Biggie Thieve running around on Daymoss. I didn't know I needed him.
I was just going to say it's not a familiar sight, really, is it?
Don't take that kind of aggressive look and taking the warden out,
but he dealt with it brilliantly.
Deadshot manages to pick up Morgally as well.
Citizen gets one back onto Hauver,
so it leaves us now in a four versus two,
but surely a round of fanatic can close out.
We're getting into that critical crunch time once again.
So let's see how it progresses for them over the next 40 seconds.
Are they aware of Noah's presence?
It looks to me like they are.
They're waiting.
They find the kill and that is going to be four versus one effectively now. Deadshot with a double, closes it out, takes Citizen down and Fnatic with a double of their own, 2-0.
A classic not seeing a player lay down the ground because of your gun. That is unfortunate. That's the way the cookie grumbles sometimes.
Another really good round that, like I said, was a bit of a strange one. I'm not shocked that we're having a timeout coming in.
It is from TC. Crit not from shifters as you're seeing in the top left. Forget that. I've dated for you in a second.
But like I said, a lot of the power budget in that round from Panathic went into Roma hunting and hopefully getting kills out on the road to overwhelm them.
So when it came around to like a 5v3 on site or a 4v3, whatever, they would just have the numbers to overcome them because they didn't really have a lot used to see to actually execute with and secret.
Like don't play a very heavy role game.
They do fall back, but they still play aggressive and it just gives a couple of kills over towards the side of Panathic who can then capitalize and accelerate the advantage in that round.
really good stuff, but can't help feel like secret and making get a little bit easy for them.
It feels like it's been a little bit of the story of some of Secret's performances so far.
You know, I've mentioned this kind of roller coaster ride that we've seen them on,
and it just seems to continue for them. We're very early on, yet we're only two rounds in.
We know that just there's a plan of an early time out if he feels that it is needed.
So, you know, let's see what he can turn around there and where the secret can get themselves into this
I feel like it's probably more a slow start from secret rather than it is
You know, just not switching on at all. I don't think we're gonna see Jonathan run away with this
But looking at the positives so far for dramatic
They are playing really nicely over those first two rounds the problems that they've dealt with and how they've picked those positions apart
We just saw the replay of deep at dealing with the warden on filtration stairs. Absolutely beautiful stuff again
I'd say the same as I said for shifters. Is it anything, you know, like meta shifting?
Is it anything completely like, you know, mythical or unreal and unusual? No
Is it the basics done really well and needs to take down a day most tracker player on the window and take the fight with the Vendetta?
Beautiful stuff, you know, I love to see and it's done fantastically well and it's got the rewards that it deserves
I'm going to continue on with
a little bit of early attention
towards ops. I think it was just
there being sent in, but. Yeah
you can have the people barricades
still up. There we go. There's
the attention towards those
ups that I was expecting. Just
going to be working from that
repellence. A nice little angle.
You can take that one away.
Give it a whirling round. If
you haven't before and you're
trying to clear it off. You
give it a whirling round if you haven't before and you're trying to clear out off so you have trouble winning those gunfights on to that double door.
It's too easy, Citizen. Sold himself. He steps out into the doorway and Wizard comes him down with ease.
Noah is there for the trade, but then, however, is there for the trade back four versus three.
And again, something fanatic of him doing well is keeping themselves in an advantage on top of things
keeping themselves with those extra men when they have them they use them love to
see this so far four versus three a minute four to into the round and again
another key point of fanatic success so far has been able to work quickly
and been able to make their way through it which I think that's just going to have a position there so they maybe can't rely on that
I think they were hoping to stop anybody walking into bathroom but it's just caught the door here
I think it's honestly going to matter as Deadshot manages to find one onto Savage, 4 vs 2, now 4 vs 1,
Deadshot's playing with some serious confidence, we see Morgan managed to take him down, another was down,
but however, is there for the final kill and Secret's tactical timeout has not done them any favours in that round?
It's 3-0.
Sorry, it seemed you still by yourself but that was fantastic radio commentary.
the game again. Well, you
will do eventually this. You
will do one day. Um I was good.
You know, you're missing a bit
of a treat really fanatic again.
Another good round there in
round three. Um you know the
way that they've particularly
impressive there was the
trading that we had in
Impressive there was the trading that they did every time they lost somebody. There was an answer coming back the other way
It means that secret always in bad positions
Not necessarily, you know, that's in their wrong positions. It was that's fanatic of put them in bad positions
They've put themselves in spots to always be able to you know, create a lose-lose for them
So yeah, maybe you get the kill, but we're gonna find you as well
We're always gonna get that trade so great team play
the. Um from the attic. They're
three zero leaves us into
round four, and we're going to
be through the third choice site.
This time around, I'll be honest.
At the minute I don't hold out
too much hope 14 secret on this
that given the struggled with
the primary choices so far. This
one is going to be a little bit
I'm back there. There we go.
We've got a four man
Commitment upon top floor does
As we would expect and it's going
to be the Bunk site.
Before okay. Let's get things
going. So not on this site, but
on the mascot of this site is
tried to hold onto top floor.
It's just not work for them.
So I expect more of the same
from fanatic and try to get
their way in there and take
them apart. How many of a
secret are upon the top floor
at the moment? We've got
Okay, now let's see how things build out from here then.
Now, for Fnatic, obviously,
we've seen them, like, lean to shields a little bit more.
Harvath played the Blackbeard earlier,
he's on the Monty in this round as well.
A little bit nervous when I saw it, I half get it.
He did out some interesting moments on Kafe the other day,
especially just being blindsided
and having not even a dog's chance
in hell of winning a gunfight.
Looking him on shields here does, of course,
seem a little bit extra security,
the extra information that you can feed up back of it.
So far, it's getting in the results
that they've been looking for,
so no major complaints about it.
And this is a bit of a different component
it looks very esquipocus back in round two it was more focused on the Rome games so
if we're seeing them change rounds around and try different strats all the time imagine our secret
field dealing with that. The possibility is going to be key for team secret and to be honest with
you getting around is going to be key for team secret right now um three zero down and this
one's running away from them quickly it's not their map choice or not the end of the world
And the death they talk about those map bands and how, you know, Bank and Shallow both gave a team secret.
So, but I'm sure they're not going to want to be looking at it like that.
Because the thing, the problem for me is I feel like a secret
I struggled a little bit through the kickoff when they've been put under pressure with this new roster.
And so, you know, it's not uncommon for a new roster while you're kind of jelly and working together.
But do you want to go into map 2 and 3 having to win them if, you know, you've struggled a little bit under pressure
Things are not getting any easier for them here as kill after kill after kill reigns in 4 and 0 for D for Dpeck
We've got deadshot on 7 and 3 with it on 4 and 2 it's there's only crocs who's not been involved
And he hasn't taken a death yet, so it's not even the end of the world that he doesn't have a kill
He's just playing the pasta fist this game Tim
He's just showing out and that's all he's really got to do because the rest of his team
Again, everything done, which is excellent to see.
That's their third entry in the row as well.
It's not like a case where C grow back into the game.
I'd say they're still wilting here,
and Fnatic are just building in confidence
as they add round after round to their tally.
This is just going to have a little peek around the corner,
but can't get it done.
Citizen manages to find his man.
But again, what have I said?
What have I said about the trades?
And they continue to do it to them.
Citizen taking down seconds after.
However, shield on back gets the plant down.
Even at this third choice site, they've been able to go in here fanatic pick apart that top floor defense
And now no one is all that is left tries to have a look around the corner
Dpex there with the pistol and fanatic again have completely controlled that round
It's just building a bit like I say that confidence is building the looking more and more in control as each round passes by
And they think there's this very much secret in three four
They've now lost three different sites as well
we played second floor a couple of times here as well. Of course, haven't seen the outcome
of that change. It's just a little bit concerning because they've got to find a way to bounce
back into this. Yeah, I expect in the attack inside of Lairday will do better. But like
we were saying back in our previous map, the mental damage that it does, the fact
that you don't have any breathing room going into that second half. If you go in into
it six zero down, I'm just not feeling super optimistic for secret right now. This
that's going to be a good
chance to get back to the
next round. This could be a
bruising next couple of rounds
as well. I agree with you. I
agree with you right now. And
you know, we asked about the
mental resilience of rebels and
we're going to be asking about
the same. Then when it comes
to secret, you know how is
their ability to bounce back?
We have seen it. Don't get
me wrong. We have seen them
come back. Don't forget from a
61 deficit here in the ML
getting carried away. Yeah, I
always say there's a lot of
stage to play, but fanatic
have looked now and day
different in the first four
rounds compared to what we
saw in their last outing.
The last day in this we had
default cameras being left up
and I'm not talking just on
their side. I'm talking on
the other side when they were
on defense with a default
camera left up a player
walked through on the default
cam and still got two kills
in that last game, and this time this just seemed a lot more polished.
They do, and they hopefully it's used into the other side of this map, and also of course into our second.
It's certainly not going to be a one-and-done. It is their map, it had come in here with a
lofty lot of counter-prep known what it is to play in up against, and they've got some brilliant ideas.
Let's see how they end out the half. They're not quite there yet, of course. They've got round five
and round six to play. But the comp is kind of a bit of a blend really, so it's looking with the
the clouds that we saw before along with the Monty, but have that Dr. B on side here as
well as we're pushing moving across towards playing the DMR on that switch.
So lots of work can work with them really I'd say here Wizards use his getting in and
getting rid of a lot of these traps that are scattered around. Got to deal with
the Thorn Racer Blues, got to deal with the Goyo Canisters. There's a lot of things
here to slow down this fanatic side when they're already a little bit slow because
of the Monty. Here we go, he's on the march on through.
Okay, then we're going to see that pressure continuing, I think, from Fnatic here.
They've got the intel, the last few drones are going in, and they're going to look then
to take some ground.
I've just been doing a good bit of work with those shields, and we need to add them to
go in there, create space, get the fuses down.
We're going to be looking for a little bit more of that in round five, to which drone
goes in, just looking to see exactly what's going on around the display window.
So that maybe gives us a little bit of a suggestion as to where pressure might mount later on deadshot.
Just saying that answers a little bit far there.
It takes a little bit of that toxic beard canister probably doesn't need to.
And on Skybridge they start coming up against the Schumacher canisters of Nerf on the Tachanka.
Absolutely.
Again, it's more of that time wasting. Now we're down to this point where what, we've got 60 seconds left.
So actually, even with the twitch threatening a bunch of that utility early on,
we're going to roll through the drop zone here by Sneaker to run the cart down.
but now Fnatic are going to start asking very crucial questions at these main parts of sight.
This looks like a bit of a distraction really coming in through the master wall as well,
the one coming in towards Ops, one inside Bathroom, a lot of angles being pushed at once with Deadshot,
even hailing that smoke goes down to that, approximately Stevens it back out,
4v4 Tim, final 40 seconds.
Yeah well done, become the factor here for Fnatic, they have the day most removed,
a couple of rounds ago obviously they've done some good work with him in the past,
We've seen it on this site where they've been able to go in on the internet and really sort of looting secret
They haven't had that opportunity this time and maybe they're gonna start paying the price however manages to find savage 15 seconds left on the clock
And we've got a three versus three fanatic not really in a position to put this the views of down crocs quiet game
So far is gonna send in that last logic form just to try and get a bit of intel
But secret of the deep and they're holding on a beautiful double from citizen crocs gets one traded out
the game, but it's not going to
be a good start. We're going to
have to go a better defense from
team secret. Much better. And
again, it came down to that
time game and one thing that we
saw at the very start that we
were a bit worried about the
amount of store that was on the
side of secret there really came
to life. And I think again,
partly enabled by the fact that
we also saw fanatic going
towards a slower comp at the
same time, and it was just a
case of how much time can we
waste and how long does it
take this Monty to get towards
a spot where they can
execute. Excellent stuff. And
to be there. We're going to
get a little bit of a chance
on the board. Secret will be
buzzing. That's one halber
recovery, giving him a down 40
. Okay then. Secret start the
turnaround here and now it
feels like if you come away
with the two four, I said it
in the last game as well. If
you know they didn't manage
to achieve it, but if secret
come away with the two four
here, then it's it's
absolute daylight robbery to be
fair, given what we've
seen from fanatic so far. I
to be able to do that. I
think that's definitely been
the better of the two sides. I'm
sure you know, fanatic are
going to want that five ones
kind of steady the nerves a
bit. Um. Get themselves that
little bit of breathing space
going into the second half
where they move on to the
defense, but honestly, I think
they're going to be good
comfortable on the defense. It's
their map choice. You know,
you'd expect them to come
into there with two good
sites, top floor and
basement and you know, even
themselves through overtime, but a 5-1 just really gives you an opportunity. You just need to lock down one side.
One side though will be enough here, so at least keep secret barring. Again, if it goes with 5-1 down, I'm a little nervous for it, because like you say, one side plus another is more than enough.
But, two halves to the game of speech, let's see how things go. Once you get the side swap and see how this one concludes first and foremost.
Almost. Got that shield on side once again and although it's different operators it's still really the same intent I'd say.
The sense coming along of course being the big focus on the SQQ here where previously it was the glass on the other side, it's still looking in towards stall.
Got the Goyo on side, got the spokes on side, got the yokai's on side and a couple of truck operators to really force the other side to think.
on the DMR with descents so we know what the player is going to be here, we know how they're
going to try to get that space that they need underneath to put the diffuser down over just
on those green stairs looking to push up and start this top floor clear and something
that they did really well last time around. Fanatic, they were able to take over this
top floor pretty much decimates everybody who was trying to hold on, Noah was the only
one who really survived. But we're going to be looking at four more of the same secret.
Did manage to switch things out a little bit. Here comes the start of the pressure into
sight at least. We've got the Selma charge letting it in on the wall. That's just
to give the line a sight in through there. So Deadshot is able to just hold that long line
through there and Citizen's going to have to be careful about his movement. It's not too much happening
from Fnatic towards those players above though. That would be my concern at the minute. We've
got the air jabs going out and that's just going to prevent them kind of being flanked from
top green stairs but the question is have they done enough to really buy the space that they
need below here. Deadshot does manage to find Citizen. It felt a matter of time after that
Selmer opened up the long angle. Citizen strayed a little too far and was punished.
Sickle for sure and again that's the pain now. You start losing these players on the early entry
if an athlete has shown throughout this whole map how good they can be when they've got these
entries and pushed on and won the majority of those rounds. It's not good when you've lost
one out too early on but admittedly with it being a Roma, Citizen know we're here really
with two players you expect to go down earlier on. Losing one is at the end of the world but
but already Latika asking questions inside itself.
It's a lot of bait going on though,
through because smokes have come out.
We've had, of course, the send screens go out.
It has drawn one smoke out of Savage,
but it can just keep on rolling these out.
It's kind of feel like Latika's overplayed
their hand a bit here.
Yeah, very possibly.
I think maybe a little bit too reliance
on that horizontal.
Croxton's going to send out the logic form,
and Latik just seems to be stalling out a little bit here.
They've not got the progress
that they hoped for.
does take out D-Pect Wizard,
manages to get up there and get the trade.
Can he get himself another 15 seconds left to go?
They're going to have to try and brute force this, really,
if an attic just push themselves on in
and try and get the plant.
That's exactly what happens,
but the Echo Drone continues to be a nuisance.
Now is there opportunity?
Surely they're having to be okay to drone,
and however goes for it again.
It could just be one scun away
that managed to get the Echo Drone,
though, and however is successful.
No, it's not.
He's taken off the plant,
off the blunt and that's going to be the round for Team Secret 2-4.
It was that dance upstairs that's the worst part because the Echo was in a spot where
he was being covered off by the Goyo.
We just had to push through the Goyo to try and get onto the Batman to stop that Danial
coming on through.
But when the Davak and Fort is going on through with the Goyo, you just got no chance there.
Really well played by Goyo, but let's throw it to our desk and hear what they've
got to say to him.
Thank you very much guys.
What an amazing half by Fnatic so far despite the last round not going in their favour.
We have to say there's two players.
kind of get a little bit slick before this game started, but they're picking up the pace.
Somebody kind of gave me a little bit of a start. Yeah, Detsha and Halva, they were identified as the
weaker players on the side of the Fnatic roster, and both have come alive today. I think it's worth
saying. I think Detsha was really, really good, played a lot of those cut-offs. You know, had a
very, very impactful round on the base, but round. And then Halva, since he jumped on the
shields, yes, you know, low in terms of the kills and in terms of the deaths, but high
impact as well. Yeah, I think it was easy to point them as basically culprits for the lack of success
from Ftatic because when we looked at the roster, they were the one with the Vostats and there were
the two recruits. So there were the two players that were supposed to help elevate the core of
the players. And I think so far what I've done is pretty good. I think I liked the Dutch
position most of the time as the flex player. They did a lot of estimates but got a lot
of kills as well from doing that. Looking at the first few rounds, I look at Ftatic and I
and I think there's too much respect here.
What's happened?
Well, what's happening is that they're
playing into a time-waste strategy most of the time.
You see them bringing the clash, the Tachanka, the Azami.
They are trying to burn time, which I understand.
They think that Fnatic will be a slow team.
What I love to see from Fnatic is that the problem
solving is much quicker.
Look at Deepak on demos, going quickly.
Look at the hover on the shelf, pushing them away.
We're seeing a Fnatic that is proactive,
and that is really quick.
I mean, the 80% has been gross.
The 80% for Fnatic across the Netherlands.
However long has been good today. It feels like the final linking up the 20% they work
cause for a lot and really could have been agglisix a lot. Both of those two rounds they
lost in the end. We're really hanging in the bounce very, very close game. But you know,
when you're second on to a lot, that's not an easy map to attack on to. It's not
straightforward. It's quite very all based on the buns that are put in against you.
And then therefore it can be quite difficult, but the fact they've got a four to will
give them a lot of confidence going forward into their defensive path. 100%. And then
Again, this is the time for them to wake up right if we talk about that punch that needs to be good for like
This is the moment with your final chance inside that lower bracket
We can have a look at the operator Benzo because you say that that really determines an attack in half on layer
Yeah, particularly so this there's kind of two operates for me that really determine the top floor
Which is as army and mirror?
So you'll often see teams go for like these army the mirror clash to out of the free on the defense
All they'll go for the breaches if you ban away the breaches you've got to deal with all of that crap
ultimately in terms of attacking into it or if you go for the as army mirror or clash then you
have to deal with the wall bridge as it is actually secret i've gone for one of each yeah one one of
each we're still into the caves in place some of these armies in place so i'm not sure i feel like
you'd probably commit to one lane or the other really i think secret are now able to play
two shields by the way i don't understand the black dot band and then you go into that
That's a questionable one as well. Half-half of Narek as well.
Yeah. It's a bit of a weird thing.
It feels like these teams have maybe been, I don't know,
scrimmaged for a lot of something.
They've got to read into it.
They were of course in different groups.
But certainly, yeah, I think both teams,
you stick to a line, really.
Well, yeah, half-half.
The first half is also already done,
and we're going to have a look at how the second half plays out.
Thank you very much, and guys, indeed we shall.
Very much for the day to stop the run.
I think maybe looking back at the previous games,
they've played with these fans that have come on through.
I agree with what they were saying, it's like a negative balance, it's fancy, it definitely looks strange and you've come to the side of the secret, leaving a car heat up, panning away a bandit, normally you'd always keep them goes a pair, right?
Yeah, yeah, you really would. We see it, clearly, I guess.
I look at it, I think, you know, again, it's the...
A lot of value in having the Kaid here, I think that the Electricals will be reasonably easily dealt with.
out with. The biggest problem you're going to have against the Kaid is down in the basement
where he can obviously electrify the hatches, but I think in general terms it's only going
to be that one round and we might actually see the Kaid come out as the third band, so
it may well be that they're just looking at it thinking, you know what, we could deal
with it for a few rounds especially on that basement, we can do it once and then we'll
ban it out anyway and we won't have to worry about it again. So we'll see how that
comes out, but I think let's see how this first round closes out. We're definitely
getting ready for a little bit of attention underneath. And I like this from Fnatic just trying to get a little impressive with it.
Actually, we're going to put a couple of holes in the floor there. We're going to start taking up some of those counter angles.
And we're going to try and make it, you know, a little bit difficult to to get in underneath.
You know, you're going to know that you're walking into a challenge.
So we sit as an on the day. Most he is going to be working underneath.
We can see that now he's trying to get himself into maintenance and see which way that falls for him.
For now, let's see how fast it can move through the map.
They've got all the upgrades they need.
I'll say, oh, they've got two upgrades they need to be able to clear through and deal
with those that are being a little bit problematic downstairs for them.
This wizard who's gulping himself around here on this first floor.
Just keeping them asking the question, reminding them this ain't a free walk-in downstairs.
Deimos, you are not going to have a free chance to get in and start blowing things
up from below and deal with those electroclaws.
For example, it's a different form of wasting time just by stopping them from being
able to achieve what they want to.
trying to, for example, make use of Goya canisters to completely slow things down on the other side,
but so far, it's been good. Half the round is gone, so you do need to get a wiggle on here,
as most of them are still trying to figure their way into the building in the first place.
Oh, I like that. The little team up there, however, does manage to find one,
but the trade is immediate. It wasn't actually a citizen from Alpov. It was
Noa who managed to, or Savage that managed to get the trade out on that one.
It was a little bit more. Sorry it was 4v4. It leaves us as secret continue to try and sweep across that top floor.
They've got themselves a good bit of ground here. I actually really like this.
Nath is going to use an exothermic on the floor to try and get that wall open, given that there's electrification on there.
But we'll see the turnaround coming out. There's auto-cannister. We'll just delay that for the time being.
But Secret have made good progress.
40 seconds to go.
They have control of Mezzanine.
They've now got themselves another kill.
Beautiful use of the made great teamwork
to flush him into Citizen's line of sight.
But here comes Deadshot with a double two versus two.
Nitro in hand now.
The last was a hot mess.
He held a right second there then Secret
and he's going to start his march on board.
That could have been very different.
Steps across from the shot but does not find his man.
Instead takes a couple of buttoons
but it's still enough for him to keep on walking in the round.
final 10 seconds here and this is where Secret start getting his unforced errors Tim to get
down towards the 1 vs 1 deadshot versus Savage and he's trying his very best 10s in once but
Deadshot is out of here Tim, he has left the building and Savage there is nothing that
he can do, they will just about hold on but I think they get a crucial round 7.
Deadshot just slipped the trainers on then didn't he? He was like no chance I am out
he was on low health, so he
just did a runner set off.
Played it absolutely perfectly.
That's all he needed to do to
secure the round for his team,
and it's a good first defense.
But look, let's not take away the
positives from secret that it was
a good attack. They almost
kind of suffered, you know, from
similar to what the desk said
about fanatic before the game.
You know, it was that kind of
crumbling crunch time, wasn't
it? They came down to the
coming out, Daymasters are basically always as faithful it feels at the top two of play
anyway, but also a monster to help you move through. The other side then leads into Wars
of Things, by trap operators leading into Wars Goyo for example, and you saw that clot become
the enemy there at the dying part of that round, we saw it clop-polatize back in the
first half as well, but it's certainly making for a very interesting game. See, you can
close that gap otherwise at a 6-2 deficit, kinda feels like the snap can only go one
to get it back to a five-three,
something that we start having a very different conversation.
Monty is going to start marching on into warehouse,
so, secret again, taking ground quickly, not messing about.
I like the, you know, use of the utility
that has been left up for them.
Blackbeard has been taken away,
but Monty is still available, so we're going to use that.
We're going to get in there. We're going to take that space.
We're going to let Monty do his job.
I love this from the braver as well,
to be able to do that. But
you know, it's just kind of
flying around and getting a lot
of those electronics dealt with
and so that's going to again
make things easy when it comes
to that final push. First
minute has gone by. However.
For the good work secret of
done. Just be aware of
wizard upon that top offered
finatic on the solace.
A constant different. That
feels like it's kind of role
They want to say it's an aggressive entry roll because he's not doing pretty good at the kills,
he's more looking to try and waste time.
It's typically we'll say for attackers, entry is about trying to make space for the rest of your team to step into.
But here it's denying space for the other players on the enemy team to be able to step into.
And if I'm one, but there is a response back the other way,
truthfully Tim, I'd take losing a Zidarei and picking up a counter tower any day of the week.
Luckily it's just going to be holding this angle on the door for now,
I agree. I think the trade is very worthwhile. Donary's gadgets, the trip
connectors, they're all out already. I would have expected it at least, maybe not all of them,
so I think we'll be held in pockets if we play it actively, but more than likely they've
already been put out there. And it just leaves you in a great position, taking that capital
utility off the board. So now four versus two, Coxson there for the traders,
Savage does manage to find Deepak, 50 seconds left to go. It's all up to
to be a good choice for the
city. He can't do any of it.
Was it manages find the final
kill and fanatic put themselves
on to map points and it's not
comfortable for them on layer.
It has to be said, I know that
it's their map choice, but they're
really shown why. Sure. And
again, this really well played
out round because even down to
the bitter end of it, they
still had control upstairs. They
still had presence above. It
wasn't ever really a moment in
that round where you saw secret
get a firm control of the
And so it's again one of those where it just feels like again, but that's it could be in a little confusing and no doubt
Very annoying the secret to deal with right now and it's leading to these little
Confusing moments and mistakes that are really signed to bite them and cost them a number of rounds like I said six to down
I think it's gonna be really hard press now for secrets to be able to call their way back into this map
They're gonna already be thinking properly about what happens on their map pick a pick of Charlie. I
I think you're exactly right, I think you know you're already kind of thinking beyond the end of this one
But like I said, let's not forget team secret did have that big comeback
During the kickoff phase we were able to come back from six one down
So it is in locker is a possibility for them, but I would say as well with the way the performances have gone so far
It is not something that I am overly expecting right now
I'd say that I'd say I'd have said the same on the day that they did the six one come back to be honest because they didn't look very good at all through the first half of that and they've managed to turn it around so let's see if secret can do it or not but I'm sure secret fans going to be getting a little bit concerned here.
Never fun to have to go and play the second and third map of a festive three when you're already won down because
Kind of almost become best of ones in a sense
So at a time however just straight into no man's land or hasn't recognized that that barricade was partially open
And if picks up a nice three
Then I was been causing quite a few of these early engagements in these rounds
And it's it's strange because again when I look back at the game the other day when they were playing at
at Swisted Minds. He was one of them being left in these 2v2 situations or a 3v2 for
Fnatic and would die in a very, very weird spot. He's been involved much more up front
in a number of these rounds. Only really involved directly in one entry and that was the one
that he got back in round 7. Here of course is the entry depth but it's just really
interesting seeing that change of play whereas Role is less passive and far more involved
in the game.
This is on the talk and we're just pausing for the time being whilst the team gets
into position around him.
He's just waiting on the X-Call to build up as well.
No utility for him, so it's just about holding
and preventing flanks and movement.
You see a little bit of a trade there.
Morglodon is just a fine DP,
but Wizard is there for the response.
Again, Fnatic continued to trade.
Well, how about that, though?
Citizen managing to find the tight shot around the corner
to take off Wizard's head.
And Secret are well on their way
to another successful round.
I don't think they know where he is, but in all honesty, I don't think it's going to be much of a problem.
He maybe gets one now as he pops up as the door could be called, goes out, takes down there, but it still leaves in 1v3.
And Noah is there for the answer. This is looking exactly like they did in the 6-1 comeback, to be honest.
Well, maybe they just need to be playing against that round deficit. Maybe they just need to be fighting against Matt Pine.
to be fighting against Matt
point and then they just
become you know that the meme
of like the little dog and the
big dog and maybe they just
need to be against six rounds
to be the big the big beef
kick. Maybe that's what it is.
You know the whole world
against them. And then they
just unlock a secret buff
and online they come maybe
but it's still three rounds
to recover. Like I said, it
feels like a hell of a
stretch. And remembering the
fanatic is still got the
option of attack time out
here to try and get the
And remembering the fanatic has still got the option of attack time out here to try and spin things back around the right way
See how things develop capital being taken away and there's that second Electro boat
Electro bro band that we expected Tim Kairi to be taking away to
It is worth mentioning. I've obviously brought up that six one come back a couple of times
It was against GK
It's worth mentioning the Cosm layer as well
and it was the other way round they went on to the defense and they were able to come back and
actually they got seven rounds in a row on the quite on the defense because obviously two of those
were over time so there was one attack thrown in there but seven rounds in a row to get the job
done so fanatic need to apply caution at least and try to make sure that they get this one done
before a secret breathing down the neck. Honestly, now would be an ideal time to get that done.
I know that's easier said than done, but yeah, I think once you get to four to five, you know,
and you're looking at one or two rounds of comfort is not very much comfort.
Absolutely. All right, let's see how this big round goes now.
Then we'll be able to continue to fight back. Will we start to see some pressure coming on
to fantastic or is the round end here? I think as we expected visibly it was going to
probably a couple of rounds ago for now. We keep the fight going.
The defensive side with a lot of stall almost taking out the leap out of the
foot from Team Secret that we saw back in the first half, in that clutch on side of course.
Coming out the smoke, the key missed the shoe through and a hell of a lot of barbed wire as well.
It just means we're going to see if he could be busy in this round.
And I come back to what I said back in the first half where I'm a little bit nervous.
That when Fnatic are playing a comp that's intending to try and slow the other side down
and Secret are then playing a relatively slow comp that is mostly execute
focus let's say I'm looking more towards the Grim in the Monty there yes you got
the ability to move quite quick with the solid safe on side but it's more of a
lurker role citizens looking to kind of play vertically as well there's just a
lot to get done here so keep an eye on how long it takes
oh golly just holding that angle on to rocket stairs sees the guy or canister
detonated and that's his cue to get on to the drones a little bit because he
he knows at least he can't be pushed for that 15-20 seconds from that position,
so it creates him a little bit of a stir.
Hermione gets on in and opens up that Ops wall.
Does see the clash, staring him down immediately,
but that's at least two of the Vulcan canisters gone so far,
so good progress again from Team Secret.
And look at this, they've got the snake there.
Bad bathroom window just feeding them all that intel
about where these players are positioned.
Let's see all the major countries trying to put out a lot of utility
get their march on forward and very much pushed back straight away by the spokes here. So slow down,
hit the half-way point around and they're at least asking questions at the top floor here.
Just the main focus but again this is just getting actually set up itself. Not tons of
stall left to play with. Still a smoke or two in back pocket I believe to work behind in that clash,
ever looming and able to cause damage. Then they've got to deal with the actual setup inside
of its side itself. This is where I start to feel a bit nervous for them. The blessing
being, I tell you what, forget about the blasting team, how on earth is Deathshock on
the way with that one? Manage your dance right in front of the Monty, kill the
Harcric going down, get rid of Movie on Main Stairs, that might just be enough to
stay cake, the players flow, now suddenly we're very very quick and now the
round is over, Blink can you miss it?
You really go for versus three and they did manage at least secret to get the response
to try and limit the punishment, however by this the Monty has worked as a magnet
has created a lot of attention on himself there but it doesn't matter as Wizard manages to find a
double it's all up to Citizen 1v3 but he can't do it the clash is feeding his position and just
as I said they might want to but that's it causing 0-7-3 on map one. Very very good performance
well done, where was this team? I think they're gonna say that they had some very good rounds
of the day it's just late round we see things that the way but in this game I think we've
we've seen a very, very different than that, but the big question that stands is can that
carry on to a map that isn't their pick? We find out after a short break.
of this matchup. What an
amazing start for phonetic
inside this matchup. They come
away with the victory there.
We'll see it in the highlights
as well. That final play that
we're seeing from that show
absolutely game winning in that
one, but we're seeing that
more and more individual
I love the momentum being carried from one side to the other. I think the four zero stops really helped them
I think that you know when you start them up that way to the statement
It creates pressure on secret. They're here to the fabric
They are also I think feeling the pressure of being you know back against the wall of losing a streak of qualifying to every
Steer tournament in the past two years or a sports medic
They've not been to the search element in the end of time except for reload once a reload where they didn't have to qualify
So the reality is, you know, for Fnatic's roster right now, pressure is down them, despite being in a good orientation like this, and his move from the top.
Yeah, I think a staple of also his performance throughout the map, Jack.
Yeah, I think so. I thought Fnatic were really, really good. It was a map clearly they picked into, they were very, very confident.
I think they maybe brought a few things that Secret 1 expecting.
Yeah.
really surprised them. And then
crucially, they saw out the end of the
rounds, which, you know, as you can see,
I'm going to get memed on for my graphic
just a little bit. But previously, what
we saw from Fnatic was when it got to
Crunchtrap, they really, really fell apart.
But against Secret, they managed
to get it over the line. We saw a couple
of the highlights. Oh, yeah.
We saw a couple of highlights there,
where it was 4B2 situations, where it
was 4B3 as it was getting to late rounds.
The defense, when Secret won the defense, were able
But for that I will shorten it down.
What was the keyword? Composer.
It was there. Finally, it's like all of the hard stuff that has been doing well.
Finally, kicking in together.
But also the last bit, the last moment.
Also that moment was important, was well done for them.
And I think that it looks like really all they needed was a big slap in the face, which was yesterday.
To really be like a guy, seriously.
Especially them up to.
Exactly, seriously, we're not reacting, we're just losing to our own heads.
Let's re-watch the game on Labs.
It was not even a game.
I mean, it was just like...
They were toys for this game.
It's like it took them to get embarrassed and that was the time point for them.
And I just love that kind of thing because I think this is where you learn the most.
And the four Rebels, they got slapped in the face yesterday.
They got slapped again today and no reaction.
And I think Fofnatic were starting to see a reaction.
And that puts them on edge compared to Secret.
Yeah, Reaction's in and around as well because what you were saying is that
Xenok were bringing out some things that Secret weren't expecting. We saw that in the final round as well, right?
That play by DeadShield, a player that we need to give phrases to because
we did have our current insurance at the beginning of this map, but actually showing up now.
Yeah, he really did show up. He got a lot of important kills. You saw that play in the very final round.
That was looking like it was going to be a Team Secret round until somebody makes a play.
And that's what we were talking about. When we showed the clips at the start of this game,
we were talking about somebody taking ownership of being the one to win the round,
Exactly.
I.E. the whole team not trying to not lose the round.
And it's a very fine distinction.
Today, Deadshot was the one who stood up and was the one that was saying, it's not me guys,
I'm going to be the one to make the round win in moments.
And that's exactly what he did.
Playing to win, not playing not to lose, you know.
Yes exactly.
And I think this is really what we were expecting for Fnatic.
Finally that change in dynamic, in identity.
It's working right now.
They need to carry that moment to not lose the map.
Yeah.
That is their big pressure of course, their challenge to connect that into the second
We'll talk so much more about that second map after the break.
Cause I can't get down from this runnin' up
I'ma keep it goin' til there ain't nothin' left
goin' til there ain't nothin' left
Secret arm just on the verge of elimination, they are also on the verge of losing.
There are two years' tweak of making it to every single international event.
Now, they don't want that to happen.
The main question is, what needs to happen for Secret to keep the streak alive?
I think the main thing to me is if they continue to play behind the show of Savage,
they need to all be aligned behind the vision.
I think Noah shared in an interview that they brought in Citizen, they brought in Nath.
Those are guys that have a great vision, they can't shut call.
The problem is in this situation, it's both a strength and a weakness.
Because then you have too many cooks in the kitchen and I can see that hesitation in the game.
I can see Savage calling with his Monty, and then hesitation, people playing for themselves,
or playing for different games. And I think right now, if you want to keep playing default,
a line behind Savage. Yeah. But we are going on some map of Shelly, so you don't necessarily
have to play default. Obviously, that's a good thing they could do. If they want to get a little
bit crazy, they could go a little bit twisted mines on Fnatic. In theory, secret. I've got
better players than Fnatic from a gun skill point of view. So be a little bit erratic,
but do it together. I want to see him hiding, ratting. Think what Hachan would do.
He would be prone in some shrug way, someone, you know, inside of Ivy, on Shella, you know,
that type of stuff that really can throw Fnatic off their game.
We've seen it. The template is there for it as well.
So I have a control, unite behind Savage and his sole vision for risk or go risk.
Okay. Yeah.
Well, it seems like there's many ways to roam or to stay alive inside this competition as well.
Shella is where you find out a secret compound spec.
Indeed, Michelle Anne. Thank you very much.
We were having a little chat actually in the break just now and you were saying,
You know, I can't really see that 6-0 in this.
I just came to pick your brains on why that is, Tim.
I think... I just think Secret have already shown...
That's very the deep end or anything.
I just think that Secret have already shown a weakness on layer.
You know, it was a good comeback against DK,
but DKB and the team that was eliminated,
you know, took them right to the brink already.
I think we're now coming into maps
that they're going to be more comfortable on.
So I honestly think that we see a little bit of difference.
You know, there's the mental question, of course.
You know, they've been beating up a little bit on that first map.
Are they going to come back in and play their normal shallow to their normal standard?
That's what we're going to find out.
But personally, I think, yes, they probably do.
There's a lot of experience across the team.
So I don't think Fnatic are going to have quite the run of things
as they have done on there.
I'll stand corrected if I'm wrong.
But yeah, I think we're going to see secret come back.
I wouldn't be surprised to have a little bit of bank at the end of this.
Mostly mostly of a system.
great performances in a couple of months, S.I.
bringing now Halkins, Furia, but
this is a very, very different secret team
as you've seen, you know, it's,
it sounds weird to take the card,
you change a couple of players to transform the team.
Putting it into a different number,
it's 40% of that team that has changed,
and actually that's different voices,
different ideas, play styles, synergies,
like relationships that change in the team itself,
you can really drastically affect how a team plays,
not just overall, but also how certain maps run as well.
And that's what I'm kind of concerned here that we may actually see.
But that's it walking away with a 2-0 over secret, which no one had on their bingo card
after how they played the other day. Time it will tell.
Do you want to shut the coffee just in time for the game? Ain't that perfect?
You know what, Tim? You would actually love one of these mugs that I've got.
I thought you were going to say coffees. I was going to say, you know how to drink coffee, but...
You don't know. But it's the mug.
Because it's the picture of a cat with its two middle fingers up.
And the line across the top and bottom is, I do what I want.
Five seconds to go.
How come the things I'm looking at are you and me?
I'm literally the perfect look for you.
It's phenomenal.
A little quite literally is.
Right, we're going to have Deadshot.
Ooh, I was going to say he's just taking a repeat there.
He did have a look.
He didn't want to over commit to it.
He dips himself back away a little bit
and only gave it a couple of seconds.
to be attacking onto that top
floor immediate presence on
towards the roof. I think
that's going to be, you know,
looking towards the piano
window. There we go. And either
above the piano window, looking
towards Ivy window, that's going
to be the initial point of
pressure just to have a look
at and make sure that he's
rotating to freely around the
area. Back towards back from
the students. You saw that
blitz on it with the show,
where they have gone.
Turn tail and run, Deadshot!
No, no, it's right there behind him to get rid of.
Which is sorry it was.
On the flip side, Albert's a ball, this is a great star.
The secret here, Deadshot gonna get one back,
but again, the response is there.
Noah looking good in the round, good for two to be precise.
And now it's a four versus two.
Croxton, very, very quiet.
Last match, as we said, he was zero, zero, zero for a long time.
He starts out at least with a kill here,
but there's a lot to turn around.
Like that, though, secret and down to a two versus two.
Almost down to a two versus one.
One is cabbage, eats the face for the bullets, but stays standing, close to being put down here as well.
One more shot will be enough, there is no way they turn this on its head, right?
Right, it really is possible though, they've got Nerf underneath at the minute,
he's going to have to battle his way around, they've gone over to the diffuser as well,
they're going to start that process, the job done, does the job.
Deepak completely faithful in his teammate to get the job done there, didn't look around,
didn't come off that diffuser just got the job done fanatic one zero Wow Wow and
I was so I was so full of optimism at the start of that round about how they were
approaching it smoking off Ivy window jumping into the wall's bathroom
flooding in putting pressure on to a player and having your teammate then get
the kill over your shoulder it's beautiful like this start here wisdom is dead
surprised yet nothing he could do they've got three kills in the back of
you. You know, it's a big
loss. You know, you lost only
one player to those shot in the
middle. Even he was traded
straight after it could not have
gone better. How you go from
that kind of position down to
this without killing a single
of the remaining two players
are. Twist is going to be
raging. Afe knows they've messed
that up big time. Yeah, it's
a big losses that one that
those are the rounds that
they cannot be given away.
You know, if they lose this
matchup and they're going to
He's gonna get himself absolutely free then.
It's snake, it's snake.
It's unforgivable.
He's got a gadget in his pocket.
I'm crashing, I'm crashing, aye.
Here we are, I was so here for a team crash out.
We'll see if the map gets much worse,
and then you and Marto can have like a rage off
on who can crash out the most.
I think I am. I think I am. Right, okay, Kroxy's gonna get himself out to another Thor.
He's thinking about causing more of a nuisance of himself. Maybe they'll let him kill the
I don't know what to do with that tracking and dead shot manages to get another that's going to be more clear off the board as well one of the hard breaches what we the Hibana what necessarily
What is that?
Hard breaching, dead shot does find, well I think I've run it all over secret I mean honestly they're in free folders and I really, the thing is that I'm frustrated but I didn't expect this
I was back in secret. I really thought we were gonna see, you know, more from them. We expect a good attack on Shalya, and right now, secret are in free fall. If you remember earlier, I said, you know, the question marks are there when they're under pressure, and right now, I think we're seeing exactly what I was saying.
I you have no idea how badly I wanted croc to get the kill on to citizen by the way
Just we could have got the kill without being trapped and that would have full sent you over the edge
But I'm with you secret. Ah in freefall once again
It just looks like fanatic of Turner patina. They simply aren't used to and fanatic
I or what the hell do we do like how do we respond? What do we do?
How do we deal with this? They came close in round one and honestly, I think lost their own accord
ground 2 was much more controlled from Fnatic and I say controlled and that is
crazy is what you see in here you know dead shot with the kills with a couple
of soft soft walls cropped with the early kill that you got onto mud for
example onto a solid state no less. One of them turned out to be very very
interesting. Okay then on we go Fnatic continue their defensive rotation
They're going to go to bar and gain and setting up on this and then they've got the Yague of a small, the Stork.
Perhaps they have great success with the Stork.
It's not so much through the gap, just through the loadout, I think, and kind of the ability to move quickly freely around the map.
He's been doing a great job, so I would absolutely agree to just leave him on there.
It's not too much verticality from the law for him to use, but if they can keep themselves above the resource, the possibility.
I like this from Deadshot, getting at the windows, having a couple of bullets out of the window and just, you know, keeping them on their toes, making them know that they're now going to be pressed at every opportunity, because it seems to be that that's what Secret are finding difficult to deal with.
As I said, it's that little bit of pressure, maybe in their own heads a little bit here, and then not playing their game, they're not playing as well as they can do.
So absolutely, just keep right on top of them, just like we saw in the first game as well.
Absolutely. I mean this is the question how fast can he put the cover and start getting
themselves back into it before the game well and truly does run away from them.
Just how this round goes out. They, of course, from the brava running through to
take out what you'd normally expect to be a pretty standard bulletproof camera
up on the stairs but it wasn't there. And what I love is that they're waiting for the
bravas to get commuted out here and stuck and I was gonna say Dan Croft's
been showing his face but no, they're shot it out now and they'll know that
someone is stalking around but using this information to dart his way around a
little bit sticks towards bar and game in the end was a bit of a headache if
anyone tries to walk in through that front door now we go again dead shot
with the entry on towards citizen what is mad Tim is we came into the big day
saying oh that's a beautiful shot we were saying how good they've been on
the entry 55% overall conversion has been their problem low 50s today I'm
sorry I'm sorry slow down hold him on wait a minute what's he doing he's just
He walks around like he's playing ranked and picks up three freebies,
receiving no bother at all.
You're chatting away, there's headshots to him.
I've had the great time.
Dead shots just get his guns.
Okay, finally.
Damage is done.
He's taking the damos, the striker, and the ace off the board.
They've got no hard breach.
They've got very little utility.
The damage is done.
And they have to try and work their way through.
The rest of the hold.
They've got nerf down on bottom floor,
nowhere upon top floor, which isn't ideal,
because it means that they're massively separated now.
So they're going to have no opportunity to impact
on each other's kills.
This is the stuff from Fnatic to be fair.
However, gives himself up on the stairs,
and that's then the second one.
Noah's actually laid down really quickly to support his man.
It's just being great close to positioning,
but Noah's relocated, as I was saying it,
and that's really good for them.
It's a fantastic recovery, but...
What is going on in this game?
I can't blast secret in the previous round
and not do the same to Fnatic here.
Fnatic a five versus two. Now they're 1v2. What is happening?
I think Deepak knows that the pressure is gonna come from downstairs. He's got the shot.
Go nuts to walk. No.
Surely he gets the second. He goes a little bit soon. The knif's gonna move and create the distance, but it doesn't matter.
Deepak gets the 1v2 and rescues Fnatic's knif's. They're blushers, Thaz.
Oh my god. I tell you what, man, they're even funnier.
I got I was getting a couple of messages on what's that from someone on the fanatic back bedroom staff right that round
They're sure got his 3k who's like I generally don't know what's happening playing so good
Then they got down to the 1v2 and they were like, yeah, never mind. That's what's happening
I was like lol no way and then defect does that. He's like never mind. I've not got a clue again
That was bar me absolutely bar me up and down from start through to finish what around that was to witness
I'm surprised. I'm surprised.
We're going to see, uh, to us
to take the tactical time out
for team secret. Uh, the best
word I think that I've used to
describe this secret side so far
on this performance is what I'll
say again. It is freefall at
the minute. They are just in
freefall and they have to find
a way of putting the brakes on
here. Um that was what it's
I said that at the time didn't
know. I said that at the time I
was kind of so just being like
prone on the on the stairs. Look
there's a few things there that
I think secret or unlucky with
look the real I was I was
critical of nerf and noise
position. They were so far
separated one in basement one
on top floors like this. They
so open to one V ones. You
know they're in a two V X.
It needs to be kind of
playing together so that they
can use each other and trade
I think real. Okay. It's really really quickly, Nathan gets a kill on to however is kind of left himself in no man's land. He's led prone, but all that does when you're on a platform at the top of stairs like that is actually just leave you at eye level. So he's, you know, he gets killed, but there's no is there to pack his teammate up and gets the kill on to the man just, you know, inside the wall.
from secret to that point. And then another thing that they do right is the need in through
Bardoa. The need in through Bardoa is particularly important because it forces the Pec away. And
if you know that a player's on a shotgun, you want to force them away. You want to create
a longer angle of engagement if you can because the shotguns will be less lethal at that
greater distance. But again, there's just a bit of bad luck creeps in there because
they don't quite create enough distance and it's still then just a single shot gets
and it doesn't help that they're up against the SCS Shotgun, which as we know is particularly lethal.
So there's a couple of moments of a little bit of bad luck for Secret there,
and you know, Deepak does really well to dig his heels in and turn that around for Fnatic.
All right, let's see if the madness continues, or if that tax timeout is going to have any
impact for them. Savage working towards Office Storeway joined up there by
I think they can fare as well. So, Halvin might be back to come under a little bit of pressure here.
Of course, your 60 players come and go through Lobby at some point as well for now keeping the shield very, very quiet here.
They want to catch them off guard here. I think they want to go fast.
They're trying to go fast. The Blitzcores are racing in through the smokes. The path is already going down.
Wizard does manage to stop the Blitz, but do they know about the plant? Can they do anything about it?
They cannot flow versus four as Mowgli completes putting the case down
Noah manages to find one with the DMR a spray through the software will find nothing from deadshot
Who's then taken down summarily dispatched by Noah with the pistol four versus two
Secret fighting back as Mowgli gets one for himself and surely it's all over deep it might have rescued them last time
But not this time. He's gonna be taken out and secret gets their first round
Absolutely essential for them
I think it's a good one. Yeah,
really good round from nowhere,
especially there. Imagine find
the gap getting inside the
bathroom window and from there
just planted his feet and found
three massive kills. The main
one on towards how Bruce playing
around half wall. He was really
the main agent of despair for
secret. He was the one who
could stop that plant going
down who could do some real
damage. So once he was dealt
with. They have been it was
in the redmore like a retake
scenario for banana to play
into. So it was what secret
I'll make it continue. Okay,
it's round five. We're going to
be down in dining and kitchen.
For our second to last defensive
round for fanatic. I still feel
like they are very much worth
a five one half if they're able
to secure it. They've looked
really good through round one
to three. That being said, a
the
game.
We're all cooking for so they
are starting to show some
signs of weakness, and it may
be just suggests that, you know,
there's been a few rounds there
that you could have lost that
were maybe winnable.
But I think we'll I'm sure
look to continue that
momentum.
Okay, let's see if the
Madness settles or to continue
Top floor take to begin with, of course.
Hopefully not some more crazy shots out of dead shots.
Just completely kill off any of the real pressure coming through into the round itself.
It was mostly a belief, actually, that someone was trying to challenge through library
into World's piano where dead shot was then suddenly really sort of causing him some headaches.
Right now, dead shot's the one dancing around on library hall itself.
So could side step across into being where he was before,
but we usually just kind of set up on the top floor here when you look across mares,
across the library stairs, cause a little bit of bother.
You don't want to hold it super aggressively on wager here when defending on this side in particular
because you're more moved towards the topside. Baron gaming is absolutely perfect, but here
it needs to be that little bit lighter, which is why I think he started to stop a library stairs
and then has a shield to sit behind, which is that just off the piano itself, so you can still look to challenge.
Nerf takes down Crocs. It's going to be the opener. Again, a good start for Team Secret,
just keeping that momentum going for them. As Nerf manages to find another, it was actually
as you can see, and they're
building up to that point.
Actually, they're who did a lot
of the work last time and that
big comeback that they had the
six been the 61 comeback against
GK Citizen, managing to find
another. If we have a look, it's
actually a big fight back from
secret to get that entry
because so far up to that point,
it was three one in favor of
fanatic on the entry. They've
got one and they've built from
there and got the round. Not
only have they got the round.
They've got it.
again. Well, you know, secret had just been kind of away at the races for the first couple of
first couple of rounds. She's not really present and then all of a sudden just wake up.
What I will say is if you look at all the kills that happened that round, I've got about the
one of the fifth one. I can't remember, but the first three in the very last one,
so we wanted to get the fourth one. I know they all came from outside the building.
And I think what's secret of red during that time out and what's been communicated
by twister is look these guys are playing aggressive they're getting up in our face
crocs that is getting up and waiting for our snakes trying to come in through mud
the headshot is peeking everybody who's outside the map they're trying to disrupt us
and we're giving it to them we're trying to be too fast we're trying to move in
probably because of the map itself shall we we're trying to accelerate things
in a more than we should slow things down play outside the map
we know if we're actually moving in towards you and trying to make things
happen just pick off players from that spot and I think that's what
you see especially in that round just then is the change in playstyle for
secret has rewarded them and now really comes on to fanatic side of things and
they're into that to be able to say okay if they've done this they're changing
play style what are we gonna do to respond and honestly Tim what they're doing
in this round I think it's the right idea to play much more in behind the
utility you've got the mirror you've got the Warden coming along you've got the
Doc who's a big old chunky boy and then a lot of thrown utilities in our
between the Jager and the Warden who yes can get out in Rome but they can
also make sure that that site is very very hard to break open so that I
I think they have a goalie here.
Does that mean they'll get round six over the line?
We'll find out they'll feel robbed to think if they don't
because the three-three split.
I'd have taken that at the start.
They're going far with Ceca, probably.
Yeah, I agree with you.
They'll be looking to skewer the next two.
Twitch strong goes in and drop that mirror window.
So that at least makes library box a little bit trickier
to play inside of.
However, does get taken down.
that's going to be no managing to find that kill bringing along the dock. Interesting choice
could be for the bulletproof camera, of course, but not one that we see too often used at
this sort of level. And again, secret I've got. I don't know anymore. Secret just seems
to have given the red to wobble. Is it the time out? You know, what's been said
in that time out that, you know, is created. We're going to have two flawless rounds
to make sure that doesn't
happen. Finds a kill on to
more click. But right now he's
going to close this out. You
know, he's getting some until
he finds one. Get shot on to
another. Yeah, he gets a few,
but they were always likely to
just be exit kills. There's
because you know that the
sharks were circling at that
point, secret get another what
looks like fairly comfortable,
casual round over line, and
all of a sudden it's three
I don't want to say.
Noah is the diff, but Noah is the
diff team he is absolutely flying.
Let's go. Let's go to say about
a domain talk more about Noah's
privacy during that first half.
Thank you very much guys.
We're looking at his first half
and we're kind of looking at two
halves inside this first half as well.
Yeah, it was a half of two halves.
It really was, you know,
fanatic babe raced out to a
three no lead that was off the
back of being aggressive really secret.
Didn't really know what what was going
to hit me. Looked like same old,
same old secret and we're thinking,
Hey, Fnatic really are there.
I think that was off the back of Dead Shop.
Dead Shop played really, you know, really, really well.
Wrapped up a whole load of kills
across the first half of the first half,
and he was enjoying himself.
He was really enjoying the way that Shallay plays out.
He's been on a lot of good Shallay teams,
so maybe he brings something different.
Notice in his play account here on these kills,
on these kills, how he smiles.
He's really having a good time.
This round actually came down to Deepak
getting one versus two clutch to actually win it out.
But, fantastic race since we're free middle league.
But then, Twister called the timeout,
and his timeout was Uber effective.
And one player that carried all of that was Noa.
So you see Noa right now, 13 kills, only four deaths.
And he's the one that starts the whole thing together.
After the tech timeout from Twister, they go for a rush.
Let's take a look at round four,
because it's really when everything starts shifting
on the side of secret.
That's the moment where we see
all of that potential come together.
They call the rush and ready surprise Natty.
This is the blitz being killed here to bait for the plant.
At the same time you have some flashes going on on master window.
Look at Noah that went in from bathroom window at the top of the screen here.
Gets a first peek, confirms piano pressure, gets a second peek onto the piano player
and then will continue to hand down every single player here.
Another kill onto the master player and then will go back to piano and again
challenge the office and piano player.
That is an incredible round from Noah that kicks off the back of secret.
come back a secret. Coaches are worth their weight in gold or they can be worth their weight in gold.
Twister when he called his timeout he said guys and he hadn't even seen round three at that point
he said guys don't know what happened in round three. Rounds one and two I've noticed two things
they're not bringing a bulletproof cameras and they're not bringing a warden. Do direct takes
and you'll find success. We've just seen that round that kickstarted secret and then they're
back. The other thing to note actually was that it was actually very much citizen and a nape that
that were shotcalling and jailing the team around,
very little of savage inside of the half-bought
that combat came primarily because of Twister's call.
Greenman the most removed.
If you wanna carry that moment to be sure,
continue to be aggressive.
If you wanna leverage the skill set of Secret,
which is the Royal Firepower,
this is exactly the bands that you do.
It's kind of what you were suggesting,
right, bringing in more of that Twisted Minds.
Yeah, maybe a little bit, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, we're seeing that aggression
and so far it's working well,
especially in that second half of the first half.
The real question is now,
Secret can continue that and get the second buff in the bag.
Thank you very much, Anne.
We will see if they can get it in the bag.
We'll see if this turns into a good combat for them after,
like you guys said, a pretty disastrous first half of the first half,
i.e. a quarter.
We're saying a half or two halves, and I was like, guys, it's called a quarter.
It was pretty disastrous a secret, but it has been recovered.
Let's see how things go down.
The boots are on the other foot, so fanatic.
I'm going to kick things off on the attack team here on the top floor.
to be a third map of bank. It
didn't look very likely for the
first three rounds, but then
it is completely flip flopped. It
has gone the other way and the
secret look like never losing
another round again over the
last three. So who knows which
way this one will go for
attic? I know I'm going to
have a slightly tougher time of
things. I would expect now that
they are on the attack
because I'm going to be
is slightly tougher time of things I would expect now that they are on the attack. Secret
get three rounds and are able to play the game at their pace now that they are on the
defence. We've got Morgler with Nitro, Writter ready out and the window it goes. Not going
to do any damage up and they managed to avoid that one so the first trap has been sidestepped.
That's for now. Just a little quick second to come back and talk about it Tim. We're
going to mention there and of course the despector getting at the half-time in
to share their thoughts too, but 3-3 case in that first half, I think it was rounds 3, 5 and 6,
really made himself known and I think it was very instrumental in part of that combat that
Sifra had. Round 4, 5 was the floor to the front over also, because he was trying to get himself
through on that one, he gets because he's getting involved too. But if he carries on playing
the Alcibiac, if he carries on playing the way that he has been, then nobody's through cruising,
but no, he's the first to fall in this round. Now where are the rest of the kills on his
team. Very spread. Very fit.
Maze manages to get 1-0 of the things up
forward versus forward, but deep back onto
Morgley. Again, Secret just finding a
little bit of difficulty in getting
space on this defence. Everywhere they've
tried to move around the map there has
been a fanatic gun pointing.
Game working well as a team is
creating difficult situations for Secret.
There's no escape route for them
I mean, essentially, we're gonna see it's only utility dealing with the shield there, though.
There was a razor bloom, there was a stun, there was all sorts going on,
but again, fanatic at the end for the trade wizard.
Manages to get it, gets that F2 singing, three versus two.
Salt, Teneff and Savage.
It is here. This is where the question comes in when we see the top frag running to the side
who has dragged them through at least two of those rounds that they won in the back end of the last half.
How do they recover? Who then steps and makes themselves count?
We're about to find out. So we've seen both teams.
It was recovered by Fnatic.
So let's see if both teams throw away a four versus two
or at least a couple of men in advantage.
A three versus two Fnatic here isn't a guarantee win,
especially not on the attacking side.
And there's the jump.
As he was sat on the drone, he's literally watched his own death, Tim.
Yeah, you hate that, don't you?
And you just know you're not going to be able to get off the drone in time.
Nerf manages to find Wizard at Leaves, Crocs in a one of E2.
He does have full health.
that's something at least but everybody against him does as well. I'm sure it's a matter of
time until that peak for Tiff, Fnatic, they were struggling, Secret had a nice crossfire
there, they knew that he was just going to move into that kill zone and when he did,
it was going to be good night game over and that's exactly what happens. So, that
sees Team Secret take themselves another round and on we move.
You know what I was saying about the whole multi kills thing, like literally solo winning
rounds they should just walk to 4k. He should just walk to 4k from a similar position where
everyone it felt seemed to know where he was and there's just some praise being cleaned up there.
The scene is occurring at the beginning with as well which is what makes it even worse.
Real pain to experience on the side of Fnatic but the name and the rest of secret
it's a bit of a reprieve because for the first time in the series they are now ahead.
That's the secret hand of that, that I said that they were struggling to kind of play against the pressure at times.
And that's certainly how it seemed, but maybe that takes a little bit off, maybe that lifts the weight.
Nerf has gone one way towards doing a lot of that work, supported by Nord.
21 kills between the two of them, seven between the best of the team.
Difficult to find them, of course, Redmore and Nerf are poovering them all up as they are.
It just means that maybe Cepat have got...
It's one of two things, either if those two guys go quiet secret could be in trouble again, or alternatively, it means that secret have got more strength and depth, because the others are just waiting, poised, ready to get into this game in a more meaningful way, so that's it.
They continue this time attacking onto kitchen and dining, so they're going to want some top floor control office is going to be the area particularly, that they need to stop secret hanging out.
And then they can think about getting downstairs for a plant inside a guy and that's based on them shaking up around
The lively side of things is no pressure on solar or trophy at the minute
So it suggests that they're not gonna be going for a push from that side
He's off early on towards the Ivy window and then the pressure burning of the scene at any of time before
Sticking around a tune through a bunch to shoot facility. We saw rush you how we're in the previous round
I think we're going forward through it, which smoke was being tagged out by 4-1 as well,
at the same time being shot at by a citizen.
It wasn't a pretty affair.
So you might look at it and go,
is it really worth it to clear out a razor bloom?
I'd say yes, given me a part that has happened before.
The door is going to get opened.
And you can see more utility being cleared away.
Piano window is clear, Savage takes a peek,
takes an aggressive fight onto deadshot and wins it.
That's going to just release a little bit of the pressure
that was about to start mounting a round fireplace and so it gives them at least a little bit of
breathing space, a little bit of a reprieve here for secrets.
The attic have got themselves on into library and can start pushing forward from there.
The crouch just saving citizen there as he moves across doesn't get spotted out wizard,
however, does find there's no saving him. So part of that question that I asked
Are the others able to step up when things have been quiet for them previously?
Is in part going to be answered, Noah.
The last of that dynamic duo left alive with Nerf being taken out.
It leaves us 4 vs 4, 59 seconds left to go.
Wizard feeding that intel back into his team.
Yeah. How they are active for that information is the most critical part.
They get the notifications that they know where you are.
You've of course got the recharge, have to worry about two.
Several things that I mean they've got to step forward at this start again.
The kills they find one but it is traded out and they're into another that name again
Just keeps on coming up on your screens. Alva stepping in look at what he can
It's got one nice and close to it, but it's got away out this fight gets the knockdown now be the
But Morgan from behind managed to get it back as a trade now down to a 1v1 is deep back coming up against savage with
20 seconds on the clock
He's got
Real job ahead of him here, 15 seconds left to go, Savage.
He's just holding a long angle, he's just waiting for him to appear,
although he does take a little bit of movement had he waited.
He might have had an opportunity, Deepak stunned out,
does have defuser in hand, but he knows he needs to try and find the kill.
He goes around the corner, gets his man, Deepak rescues Fnatic again.
Again, twice in one map. Without that, Tim, we're staring down the barrel here
of this map basically being cut. We could have been by this point,
It could have been well up past six over on towards seven and the mat would have been done or we'll be looking on towards our next
It's the same as how just a couple of days ago someone we watched fanatic play
He was to save you for them on labs. You remember down the basement here a wonderful 3k and then a clutch in the following round
He just will not sit down doesn't matter if he's the old guard of this roster
They'll still keep on shining. However, but that's it calling attack time out here to see if they can get these wheels
So just a little bit faster
I think this is a good time to take it really on the back of that win. You know talk about maybe what the difference was what went right what went wrong. It still came down to a 1v1 so it certainly wasn't an ideal round. And I think now you could provide a blue parent for the next couple of rounds the big focus for fantastic for now I think is going to be getting themselves on to six obviously it's easy to say you know yeah of course they just want to go on and get the win and get this done.
I think if they can focus on getting a couple of rounds and giving themselves that match point opportunity guarantee a little bit of overtime
Then who knows what might happen. I think that's kind of gonna be immediate focus. Let's get five. Let's get six
Let's go from there and then we've got every chance of turning them over on their map pick
But it's gonna be a hard loss is that round four secret as well
The thorn didn't really know kind of which way to turn at that point and it was always gonna be a difficult one for Mowgli
Sorry for Savage at the end there and yeah it's a tough loss for them to absorb really.
Savage had a long angle that he was holding but then decided to move up and just caused
that gap a little bit, got himself a bit stranded on West Main Stairs and ultimately ended up
having to take that fight and lost it so I'm going to deep pick and we go on, 4-4.
Game onwards we wrecked.
For a second I was really excited we were going to see Rara coming out there.
We heard in the pre-show and you and I spoke about it a little bit as well, of course, to change the she's got.
And that make her a very, very interesting operator for, since she rushes, early executes.
Even executes in general because of the increased range that she's now got.
It was really cool to see her team try and start finding out more ways of making use of her now, just a little bit stronger.
Another bunch of teams that we spoke to in the early days when she first came around were like, yeah, we've got some, you know, real cool little, like, knee-straps to try and use and ways to use,
but still quite experimental for now.
the worst of every operator in the game, the worst round win percentage at any of the operator.
And a lot of teams then sort of stopped playing. It was very rare we saw her for a while. So
at least personally, Tim, I'm hoping to see more of her as the weeks go by.
Patero's doing big work again. We've already seen this previously from Kanati-Kona-Tak,
just taking away a lot of that utility. We've got Barbed Wire and Banshee's being cleared
away ahead of the pass. It's likely to be a good report on the pass that Haver
will be taking on the Blackbeard.
He's going to do the one that they want to make sure
is free to move as required.
How about that though?
Mowgli manages to get himself out of trophy window,
free beyond to wizard.
That's a big pick up to start things off
of 15 secret, big advantage taking the Twitch drone
off the board.
I'm not sure how much of the other utility
that the Twitch would normally focus on,
things like the bulletproof cam, the proximity alarms.
How much of that has been dealt with
before they've lost that line?
I've got to press on as they might do for the man down, fortunately here in half the round, still some work with it.
Got the light of control that was beaten, but not an instant target.
There's still two players looking to challenge deadshot, getting rid of Noah.
If you can kill anyone on that secret side right now, he feels like the best one to be catching out.
It isn't at least reminding them though that they have another layer of defence to fall back to,
and they still haven't cleared top library just yet.
the corner. He's the man just
sticking his head out of IV
tries the little pop shot
through the wall but doesn't
get any joy with it for
natic in a situation where
they've got a little bit of
damage taken as well. However,
and dead shot with a little
bit of chip on there that
they just need to be aware
and cautious of and.
Continue trying to dislodge
the secret players. They're
still inside a bar stock. I
be fairly happy with their positions at the minute. Mowgli is there ready for if
anybody jumps in through that double window. That's the peak that we keep
seeing him look around with. They have the Ratero moving there for the time being, but
he'll just maneuver back in there as soon as that detonation's gone off.
There's nobody in position from Fnatic to be able to really take advantage of
that somebody in, you know, sort of double window or in fireplace, for example,
that have that angle through the door maybe. They've not really been able to
secure those areas and take advantage of that utility that they're using.
Now without that last 15, it's going to start getting very very low. Each starting with the word.
A little bit wrong here for Fanatic and sure enough, two kills flying through for Nath and Mowgli.
Denying the entry into the site of Fanatic themselves, however, two kills are going on back through.
They're going to try and stick this. You might try as he wants to, but he's got a kill stab at you.
Rightly so, backs away into War's Lobby. Doesn't want to get involved there in the dying seconds,
and they see the round over the line.
line. Yeah, we start seeing
this one become much more
competitive than it was in the
first map and the beginning of
the second secret now really on
the trail looking to get their
map secured and take us into
number three on bank. They
will continue working at
shallow, but it is a good
round from them in round nine
where they're able to get it
over the line. I've for this
one. It is still anybody's
don't discount fanatic at
this point. But you do feel
that secret now are in the
that advantage at least things are starting to creep in their favor things
like the entry kills they've just gone five four now on the entry so they've
taken the lead on the entry for the first time as well as now taking the
lead on the scoreboard so everything's kind of edging in their favor it's you
feel a matter of time as the way things stand until they get themselves at
least on to that map point opportunity. Yeah looking good aren't they?
Then if you keep synpanatic staying lockstep and keep things nice and tight, then overtime
may be a bomb.
Because we were very optimistic the day saying, oh yeah, we're sure we'll get some overtime
at some point in one of these games today.
And then we just had two zeros that were absolutely rollovers to the most part.
And it felt like we were having that a little bit today in our first series.
It was definitely the case.
We weren't super optimistic for this game and we thought that might be a bit of
a stomp by secret.
We really got to synpanatic fight their way through.
If this then mandates that we go to bank to see how things close out, that feels
It was like the perfect battleground to set it on, baseman team for these two to use so far tonight.
Five seconds to insertion.
It's like we've done the denarii. We get a lot of denarii setups over this side of shallot.
On the top floor you see though I really kind of lock connected to use the middle point over the top of...
You go up half the wall, up small wall, up the wall with the piano, and use the kind of connecting point over the top of there, and it means that you can get an entire gun from bathroom down to piano window, so it does make them super popular up here, and very difficult to take care of, actually, to take care of.
I'm afraid. No, he gets out
there gets the job done and
gets back in safely, even though
it was being watched. Big
loss for fanatic. Fortunately,
yeah, because again, the sense
being lost spoke about a lot of
the utility, maybe not being
used to his best effects
in the previous round. Tim and
the fox certainly didn't help
and I think you see more of
that here as well.
Well, where does it isn't?
That was Halva died there.
I think the other end of the line
is how three secret players died there.
Fernandes have got themselves back into an advantage here.
There's three versus two, despite losing the sense
and the monty.
This is still very doable.
The problem that they've got is that lack of utility now.
Of course, you know, a lot of the plant
will have been focused around those two.
They do still have Deepak,
who's got those arrows on the capitao, both smokes and both fires still available.
And they've got time on their side as well, that's the other one at the minute.
They're just waiting for a little bit of intel here.
Look, they don't know how close he is.
Look, he just dances away.
The challenge is there, wizard.
Almost has his man.
Yeah, and Wally's here as well.
They're constant. Right now, they've got to be careful.
The ploy is basically lava, they can't safely step into plants seemingly anywhere.
So at least if that cover coming off it should force them backwards, secret should be pushed back into the other site and then they can look for a plant here.
I guess the nice thing for fanatic is they haven't got to rush this team. They've got 60 seconds to play with another phone call, they've got smoke, they've got fire, they've got flashes.
On paper now, looking at the current state of the round, fanatic should not lose this.
I pray we don't get the fanatic in the desktop route, then we get to see more of map 1 fanatic, but let's see how it goes from here.
Mowgli and Nerf are playing this nicely though. They're not over-committing, they're burning time down, that's 30 seconds that they've done so far, using utility, playing behind it and keeping themselves in 12 angles.
The diffuser is going down, as you say, so Nerf has to make a move, deadshot punishes Mowgli, and that changes Nerf's situation drastically, D-Pick picks him up, and that levels us up again.
Five, five on the scoreboard, as I said, this one continues to rattle backwards and forwards between the two of them.
Well, another interesting round where in the middle of it it just felt like a lot of bullets were fired and a bunch of people died and Fnatic came out with a bad advantage.
It was very, very strange again because for me, like, however in the Monty, I was like, you can't be dying there, that's your, this is your spots being.
Like, you're facing in towards the door where Citizen is and then somehow he's gone. Very, very strange. However, they managed to recover well and the 3 vs 2, like I said, on 34 and 50 seconds were left.
They couldn't be losing that. It looks absolutely perfect for them.
So, make it what you will,
I'm looking away from that one in very, very good health.
Now, let's see how things go from 5-5 to more,
at least guaranteed to see all 12 rounds of regulation
may yet see overtime come our way.
Whoo, an exciting prospect between these two, to be honest.
This has turned into a really good game here on Chalet,
especially the really hot battling backwards and forwards,
and just as soon as one feels like they've got themselves
to work forward. The other is able to find a way back into it. We're going to see this
time secret bringing along the clash, the malusia, the lesion. This is all about slowing
them down. Deepak on the blitz says they've read into that beautifully because that's
exactly what it's aimed at. You bring those traps, you bring those slowing effects to
try and prevent that kind of speed and aggression that an operator like the Shield
previous map as well often dealt with by things like Twitch, but it has been this dance of like
utility clearance by both sides. Just something that they can move through the map a little bit
more effectively, especially the shields. Yeah, in the middle it's been things like Monty quite a lot,
but here D-Pex across onto Walls of the Blitz. On the other side though, Nathan's matching off
with Flash on side, but here we go to Brassit, they're just going to say go for it. I was
going to send it, there's a guy behind you, but either way they've been absolutely
Yeah, that's just full and flat, hasn't it? Croxton now trying to rescue something.
Managers to take down Savage, they've lost the Blitz, they've lost the Snake.
Not ideal, but they do still have some utility to work with.
However, on them, Afrika as well can do a bit of work on any reinforcements,
but he knows that he's there.
He's looking through that line that he's drawn,
but he's not able to find his man.
Deadshot's kind of in behind here inside a trophy.
He's got Haver on the other side on Mezzanine.
on mezzanine they're kind of trying to pinster them in between themselves but yellow pink here he knows
dead shot takes down citizen good intel from fanatic 5 5 2v2 on the scoreboard it could not be more
even there's a mini term left on the cock load there's plenty of time here that was risky it's
how you are getting on the middle of the start like that was high risk but how we've been watching
all this time towards nath he's letting slip unfortunate in simi's managed to get himself
of the drop. He's managed to
pick up dead shot and now Halvah's
got a clutch shot by himself.
He's not been having a good kick
off. Admittedly, I don't imagine
this round is going to change
all that much more. No against
the shots. Secret move up to
map point. Excellent stuff.
Excellent stuff from secret to
cause that out there at the
end, maybe a little closer than
they might have liked, but
they managed it well,
especially that kill onto
dead shot and like you say
managing to escape past
however just really gave them
the opportunity to be able to
one down so if you fanatic here it's time to dig your heels in isn't it you need to be coming in here
they tried the fast brush it really didn't work out they haven't paid enough attention to what was
above I think we saw the shots coming on to deep heck from above there and despite their shots
hard work from the back it just misses a few shots there listen are you think there's an
opportunity in another timeline that he actually gets that kill but yeah I think fanatic maybe
just getting a little bit ahead of themselves there you know wanting to kind of snatch
the top floor. I think it was
fanatic that was cracked a
little bit that time just
trying to get in there a little
bit too soon. They haven't
dealt with the top floor. They're
not aware of the top floor
properly. I just lose the
They haven't dealt with the top floor.
They're not aware of the top floor properly.
They just lose their bullets very, very quickly along the way.
All right.
Let's see if they can force O.T. then, Tim,
or if it is going to be map three back to the side,
which way this thing goes.
Again, the loser overall is the first of three,
where I set the map.
Loser is out.
Winner goes on for a pretty,
I'd say, unfavorable match for the thing.
It's better to say it's in Falcons or Virtus Pro.
can't stay up until playing either of those two teams.
I mean, they give it how effectively both are playing.
I think the secret, it would be a cruel reunion
with their former teammate now that Jume has gone
and joined Team Falkas too.
Wouldn't be an exciting affair,
or maybe they'd have a point to prove.
You just don't know.
Let's see if we can, of course, even get there first.
We'll see if it comes down to it,
at least here on its chalet.
I hope you're ready with this pre-ripped C4.
Right, idea is there is a player out here
on the solar side, but they are way down the floor.
He really has to let it sail for a while,
and then hopefully connects on towards the player to find him.
Where is Haver going to go all the way to the non-T? That is the big question.
Picks it up, the diffuser isn't going to go straight in through trophy
and try and get himself up trophy stairs, create a little space, wouldn't make sense.
E1D scan comes in, which would suggest there might be a little bit of movement.
Morgly actually pockets that nitro.
He could well just be glad that he did because Haver is indeed moving up those stairs.
It's going to give them the opportunity to use that Nitro, maybe not even to get a direct kill, to do the damage,
but at least to create a shield break that could give them the opportunity.
However, moves on to Bedroom Door, was looking to be a stoic presence, looking in through the door, feeding Intel to his teammate.
Things out the player will be reporting that they are lead prone, but there's nobody on the side of Fnatic able to do anything with that just yet.
Not quite, yeah. I was gonna say who's gonna fall first.
This Moby here picks up my deep back here.
Albert and a good spot to be the host of his team.
All he's gotta do here, Tim, is survive.
They've thrown me in back to him, and he's remained standing.
This is where he's gotta communicate now and call, and sure enough, he will.
He called out Savage here on this doorway.
They have to know and have to deal with him some way, shape or form.
The citizen is gonna get too bad the longest way coming in from Savage.
Doesn't quite find his man.
Albert coming up close to apply a little bit of pressure.
Both players left on the side of Secret, doubling up here,
but it's against him as three versus super fanatic.
They played it so well last time,
surely they do the same again.
It's happened just to get the reverse angle onto wizard,
and this is where the Monty kind of gets
a little bit less powerful here.
As soon as you come into that 2v2,
you've kind of lost the gun there,
and you've only got one active ADS versus two, effectively.
It can be tough.
Howver's thinking about going for it.
He's got the cover from Epec,
but no, he's gonna be cut down.
That is not ideal.
overcomes off the plant and it is surely going to be over as Team Secret pressure forward
citizen gets the final kill and Team Secret takes Shaleh to mean we're going to that third
mark. It's going to be back.
A real rollercoaster map overall I think Sim has barred. I think after those first three
rounds he was starting to think, oh man, this is going to be a 2-0 and what the hell
has happened to Secret today but they have recovered and they get to step into bank
next which for them it's what I remember has always been actually a solid map. Can't
We can't wait to see how it goes though, Sim.
For now, we'll go to the break and when we come back,
we'll see how this series ends.
I
Oh
Oh, the more it changes, the more it says the same.
Fnatic, you know, unfortunately, were, you know, they racing to leave.
They were good, I think is what I'm saying.
They were good.
They're competitive on the map, really, that they don't play, you know,
in all fairness, it is a very, very low preference map for them.
So arguably a 5-7 loss against a team that was in the SI Grand Final
in the context of that isn't that bad.
But the very final round for me, it was just they were thinking too much.
They were in their own heads.
The round was in their control.
You just need them to play with the confidence play with the balls and just go for it and they didn't ultimately
And that's why we're sitting here talking about some five victory to secret rather than
A 6-6 going in for now. I think that confidence was shattered
Ever since the the tactical time that was from twister
Yeah, I think he finds something in the game that gives them an edge, right?
Yeah, which is that cool about the fact that they don't play wild and the fact they can go and play for the rush
Right that gives them then the rush and then after that they snowball they get along this one
And like, you wonder, right? Phase 3 at this point, it's looking so good, yeah.
And then where's the trade potential?
Yeah, I don't know, it's looking so good.
And I think the fact of the matter is they got a bit blinded.
They wanted to maybe do things a little bit too pathetically.
They wanted to try throwing flashbangs, using the Monty to plant.
Just, you know, I said Z division, Monty to plant, hold the cover,
they've got to push the Monty, you kill them as they push it, get it completely.
But, I don't know, they were just a bit too flustered in that end round there.
It's a game of two players, really. If you look at this, look at the stats from these two players.
I mean, Deadshot is at 30 kills in two maps, Noah at 24, incredible cost for the two of them,
really aggressive. Both of them have been involved in opening engagements,
in opening engagements out of the two maps for the two guys, now 15 actually.
Incredible DPS. I mean, it's really up to who's going to be the best here.
Yeah, I agree. Noah's kind of been on the main character arc for a while now as an A-ball.
I mean, he had two because of Jume leaving right.
And especially now in terms of the new team secret, yeah, but I am actually quietly happy for that shot because I don't think so far this stage in this team
He's really put in a great account of himself up until this fixture if he can then be the guy to spare his team on to get them into the next game
Yeah, it'll be absolutely phenomenal from him
But he's you know, certainly both players have had very positive games so far. They have and regardless of who wins this match
I'm just really glad that we're getting a final competitive game
first one. Yeah it is the first
time we're actually going to
have to go to a third map to
decide the victory inside of
our bracket. That's kind of
crazy to say. It takes four
games to get to that point.
But as we said, we will need
to decide to see who stays in
the competition and we'll talk
about bank after the break.
I
Just one more map, stands between these three teams and their hopes and dreams of making
it to the Salt Lake City Major.
Now we're going to go to Bank as our decider and I feel like we talk about Bank quite often
in the form of Secret being a really good Bank team but if we look at the numbers, Leo,
it's they're a great Bank team.
As soon as we started to see the comeback of Secret, I was thinking, wow, what happens
if they go to Bank?
Secret they've won 16 out of the last 17 times they played the map. In fact before a second final before facing fame in one bank
They had a 16 win streak on it. They were the best bank team in the world
So you tell me they did lose it last time they played it. They did
But they're a phenomenal bank team and we think that Savage is probably the best actor in the world on this map
Just has a way has an answer for everything
Directs his trooper rounds his troops around that being said obviously we now know that especially on the attack
There are some more voices, so even though we've not seen this secret on bank, we'd still expect it to be phenomenal.
I do think, however, that looking at the set of SMADIC, a team that has the tendency to lose their composer in the late round,
that has the tendency to feel the pressure, and that will not be on the back foot after having led 3-0 on a map where they already had 1-0.
They just needed to win that map. I think they will feel the pressure. I think mentally right now,
The team that has the momentum is secret, and I just don't see how Fnatic gets that momentum back
if it's not for Death Note going crazy again.
I mean, I don't want to be in their shoes right now trying to find out this final map here.
It's a do or die situation for both these teams.
You lose, you lose your chances of the Salt Lake City Major.
You win, you keep those hopes and dreams alive.
Just one more map and we'll send it to our casters.
Thank you very much, and you are right.
One more map stands between these two teams and either going home or going home.
the game. You're going to be
going on to face falcons or
first not particularly enticing
prospects either way Tim, but
only one of those two past
could see you going to Salt
Lake City.
Well, it all comes down to this.
It's the best the wonders.
They've won one a piece and
right now feel like you've got
a back secret at this point.
Fnatic, it feels like the
chance might just have sailed
them by like a ship in the
the night does. Look how well
they started both maps.
Incredibly well. Do I think
fanatic can win it? Yes. Do I
think they will? I'm not sure.
I genuinely think secret now come
out of that. I always like the
team that wins the second map.
You know that in a best of
three. If we go into the third
map, especially in this
matchup of the way that
secret finished the back end
of that, whatever said,
whatever twist they said
and yeah I think I'd do fair but I'm.
My worry is, I think we saw a very very planer down that previous match,
we've seen them make changes compared to a couple of days ago.
The big note to one on my side has been the role that Halvers can play in, right?
You put him on shields a lot today and it's good because on shields you still get to put pressure down
you still get to force defenders away, they have to move and react to you.
But outside of that, you think just in a few situations we really have to be asking a little bit more from him.
I was looking down at the numbers during the break, for example.
I think overall now he stands at like 31 to 65 on KD.
And it's not all about the numbers of kills, but it's the manner in which we've seen those kills and deaths go by that is, I think, probably really frustrating.
It just feels like having to play around, you know, him by forcing him onto shields for the minute.
And that's not the way that the fanatic of trying to play as far as we saw during the first cricket kick-off walk stage and back on Monday.
It was a different affair.
So I hope we see him step up and perform now.
Because if he isn't on a day that with different players, well either is very, very frank.
Croc's on a very, very quiet first map. It's mainly been Deadshot that had a really good day so far today.
We've got to see other players stepping up, but I'm still waiting for that day when we see how we'll be in that play to step up.
Today would be a very good day to do it, Dez.
Today would be a very good day to do it, as you see it comes down to this.
This one is for all the marbles who's this and will be eliminated from kickoff phase.
you will be sat at home watching the Celtic City edge.
Gonna have the long angle being held by Noah for the time being.
I don't expect Deadshot to be giving himself away to that one.
He should be familiar with that.
And there is indeed more opportunity
to take any pot shots at him for now.
I just don't know what you have the old elevator with hell there,
but there's not gonna be any opportunity to find anybody.
Now, lastly, the question is to make sure
that they get that part of the map, right?
It's about the march on forward.
the other side of things. You
can see it. They've got a good
few players still around here on
this top floor, but now it's
going to cut off their retreat
back into war site. This could
be genius to be fair to them. Get
away with it. They can stop
everyone getting back into
war site, even get rid of a
couple of them. That makes the
execute downstairs that little
bit easier. And again, it's
however that's been picked up
first with that. Just a
missed opportunity there. It
was only a fleeting one, but
the back does see the man
the man move past on the repel.
It was a fight in position and ready to do anything with it.
A bit of support is probably going to be needed here.
Oh!
It's absolutely running over Croxton.
You thought that Croxton's going to win that fight all day long.
And then Citizen just comes around with a beautiful pre-fire.
The Blizzard is in and Bud.
The Blizzard is in and Bullying.
And we've got now a 5v1.
And it looks like round one is going the direction of Team Secret
that's the way the previous
two maps have started. It's
great for that. Normally, but
here secret have come out and
put a statement down in round
one. Yeah, great start from
them. That's kind of what I was
expecting. Coming with that
momentum that they've built up
on shall it's a map that they
are very, very familiar
and comfortable with the
on. It's a map that they are
very, very familiar and
comfortable on as the desk of
said, and you know, I think. The
thing is as well, they've
started on the attack, and if
they can come through here and
get three or four rounds, I
don't see them giving anything
up on the defense. So I feel
like it piles the pressure on
fanatic as well. This is the
map that we actually saw.
If you remember, I was a
little bit critical earlier of
I was saying that they were actually different tonight and they'd done, you know, that was something they'd done previously.
And I spoke about when they had a default camp, and I think it was, I can't remember who they were playing against.
But they'd had a default camp left up by the end of the team.
It was a must have mind to have a brass there.
It was a must have mind, yeah.
And it was a both spiral and they had every opportunity to watch exactly what was going on in the air.
I think it might have been Michelle Walker through and got two kills.
I look at Bank and I think it doesn't fill me with confidence for their defences on Bank,
so I feel like they need as good a half as they can to start things off.
We shall see.
This one's always a fun sight to play through.
We've seen it quite a lot, as you and I lately, I guess.
We've always seen different approaches in terms of attacking it, some very, very smart, some really interesting.
The one that was missing earlier on, the one we spoke about it, was the focus on the lobby side, right?
And look at what we've got here, on the lobby side. How weird is that?
Peter has to really note though, of course, that he's not playing hard bridge, he's under the KB.
So when he's looking at this, he's poking a few holes around, and that's a few questions.
That wall should very much stay closed here, and that means that fantastic has got a lot of security
to be able to play through Whitehall itself and accept a much more resolute defence.
He's the man he knows he's there.
Surely they're aware of somebody hanging out in lawn offices.
One of the first places that you know you need to check.
They've got to hit the phone if you're right.
Absolutely not.
Oh.
Crock misses his chance and loses his life.
That's the one.
That's the one that you've really got to pick up.
You know, he's got to wear with one to be allowed to be there in the first place.
You know if you go in on that repellent usually one of the first places you check is there anybody in lobby?
Is there anybody in law office? So I don't get picked off
You know they've actually given him the opportunity by not doing so and not finding him
And then he hasn't got the kill on the back of it. DPEC does manage to find there
That's it's the doctor off. So they at least have one less call to deal with that's something savage finds dead shot
Seeker continue to find themselves in the advantage four versus three
Not just my eyes, the very reflexive event cast down towards where each other would appear, right?
When Savage just paused for a second and he was lurking in the camera, I was like,
he's getting an old chat here, he's got something he wants to say.
But nothing follows, however, the thing about what we saw was the big turning point back on Charlie,
it was kills from outside the building.
We're seeing a lot of that stepping up now.
The two kills we've got from Secret in this round were from outside the building.
They let it for us to just kind of play themselves with their own death.
Mowgli manages to take down Wizard, we've got a citizen just having a look at the little
Spider-Man attempt there, he decides he's going to come down on in and get on to the
action because he knows if he doesn't, Mowgli's going to find all the kills because he finds
another one at least, how many times has Deepak been left in these situations?
This is at least the fourth that I can think of between Bank and Shallie, he was
in round one and round two of Bank, he's been left in a 1BX and then we saw it twice
to be a little bit more dangerous
now. The smiles the laughs, the
old chat. It's all starting to
come together. I think it's
entirely avoidable, though,
being honest, like the back to
what I said during that round.
A couple of players on fanatic
just a bit too keen. They're
exposing themselves to players
that aren't even inside the
box, but they're trying to
make sure that they're
going to be able to get
into the box. They're
going to be able to get into
the box. They're going to
in the middle of the building
in the middle of the building.
And then there's the on even
inside the building, admittedly
yeah, crocky. He had a massive
cock up there when he could have
got a free beyond to the player
at the top of loan. And then
obviously died to know inside
of 80 m to free the second
player died from outside the
building from Savage on the
windows that is going to happen
sometimes. But both deaths
there were avoidable. It was
just trying to do things a
little bit too trying to do a
bit too much a bit too extra
thing that is cost them a
as well, because they realised very early on, it's going to only carry on going one way and
less changes are made.
Yeah, I think early intervention is probably needed here, because I can say, we've seen
that bank isn't necessarily kind of, you know, they're more solid of maps, especially
not when you look at it, you know, in comparison to the performance time secret, are going
to be put in up to, I think, yeah, you've got to stop the bleeding early if you
think there's something that you can say to do that, especially with the manner
of the two rounds that we've seen so far as well. I can say they've both come down to serious one VXs for the PEC, you know, they can't just be allowing that to continue. So hopefully, that's enough of, you know, recognize something there that's going to be able to turn things around for them for a couple of rounds, get them back into this one.
you know, let's not forget this is the first time they've actually been behind pretty much in the entire series
They started out really well on that one went on to win it seven three
So all of shally is just secret catching up to them and now that they go one or two rounds behind here
That puts them behind in the overall series
So this is the first time that we're seeing that this is where they really under a little bit of pressure and start thinking
You know those thoughts creeping of maybe this is the end of
of EML kickoff for us and so yeah that's where we're really going to start seeing how the fulfillment of pressure
Okay well I think that timeout has any impact or if it just goes from bad to worse for the side of the
NADIC. This time around changing into a few track comps where it's being brought along here as well
mainly towards the timeways so we can go of course but again it's how can they slowly
the side down. We know that Savage lost playing on shields and good response towards that is to bring
something like the lesion. Is that open sight we're stepping into now as well? Was it maybe the one
looking to get a little bit busier and about the bulletproof and the barbed wire already being
deployed? He's having a pretty good look at a forward to go and do whatever the hell he wants
to around the map. But now it's out towards Sellers and a very very minor extension. Croc upstairs
along with Halva and Deadshot. Three of them all playing above looking to deny. We'll probably
of the man that's going in clear that top floor before they think about the size of themselves.
Just on the edge there wanting to get himself onto that stop window I think. We're just having a
look at exactly what's going in and we see the drop in front of us there. Crocs is going to take
a little bit of damage but that does mean that stock is now available. I think we're going to have
Savage where are you going? He's going to go into electrical actually as Mochlet manages to
pick up D-Pect 5 versus 4 I thought he was maybe going to push in through top
square and try to push down and work and get access to the wall that way, he's gone
back up and he's now going to go into the top square thanks Savage.
So he does ultimately push in where I thought he was going to push in but I think they were fairly confident that there was nobody else upstairs but then
as works his way back up there now drops back down so Savage is probably a little bit more free now once they
Realize that to be able to go in and start pressuring that says
What's the straight in there for deep at dying is he knows the crocs and took shots from Mowgli playing on that Prince of window
20 seconds ago
There's a very good chance that Mowgli hasn't moved because of how early it was in the round
But it's exposed himself to that window and died for free hasn't landed a single bullet back
If he was trying to tell me to kill him right it was a failed attempt nice try
If he wasn't then it's a mistake of game sense there and just not being aware of exactly what it is
that you're exposed to. So a little bit of a misplacing at the start there by
D-Pet that's left him without the legion and of course those Goumines come online
slowly over time. That can only be a good thing to savage which may be part of the
reason why he's changed the way where he wants to approach from.
Citizen holding that long dangle down through into archives. I don't think he's gonna get his
opportunity. No one manages to find Crox, I just can't see Wizard pushing that far forward,
but it means that he can't. That's the more important point.
Deadshot does take down Morgley.
Ooh, manages to get himself a second as well.
Onto Savage, three versus three.
Fnatic fighting back into this and
the words spoken during that tactical time out
are doing some serious work.
He's making a third citizen,
causing and tries to get aggressive.
Noah there for the ultimate trade,
but three happy killers.
You feel like Fnatic are just going to let
another one pass by, are they?
The diffuser's going down.
Now's the time, it's all up to Noah
man. You know a famous caster once said why are you asked why are you sprinting? I'd probably
ask the same to wizards. That's the time to be gun up. You know that you're 1v1 for a
brief amount of time while that diffuser is going down so yes time is of the essence
but you know full well the player that is covering him is going to be looking for where
you're coming from. They're going to hear you, they're going to take that gunfight
and you do not have a gun at the ready, you're gonna lose it.
That's a rough one to solo, I think,
because Halver has sat there in a spot
where he's been easily gunned down by Noah,
who's had another wonderful round is worth stressing,
and then with it has really horribly misplayed that 1v2.
It's not saying that they should have won it,
but it should have been far closer than it was.
Oh, dear, oh dear, fanatic.
It's starting to look very, very difficult
for them, three rounds down,
And with Secret being on the attack,
it's going to be a tough second half.
One Secret get themselves onto the defense.
You really feel like now might have been their opportunity
to get some rounds on the board.
Like he said, just sprinting in there.
It's easy to get, I think, tunnel vision,
especially when you hear that the fuse is going down.
Maybe he thought it was an opportunity
to get into a position where he could do something about it.
Maybe he thought that the situation was a bit more
time limited than it was, but ultimately,
as you quite rightly said, sprinting was maybe not
the option there.
loses his life and that's going to be fanatic losing the round 3-0 then to secret and they
are going to be attacking on to the basement level once again like a CCTV they want it back
in round one just looking at what the additional bands come in it's the blackbeard that's been
taken away and so you're going to see instead a no shield approach this time just a yin
instead.
I was just trying to reason why you sprint there did he think he was 1v1 he couldn't
because he had two pings, but both players are p- he could have wall banged it as well, like,
I don't know. That was just a very, very weird end to that round. Very weird, very weird,
and Seeker are up 3-0. That's what the back of Attack Timeout is worth stressing,
which means things that probably only go from bad to worse. The Goiwa has been taken offline
and away from the side of Fnatic, one of the most played operators. They love it for
stalling out rounds. If you look down at all of our teams, in kickoff, they have the
the other team that has played going the most by quite away as well and now that's not available
to them so they're going to have to turn towards other options and that's what we're seeing coming
out here, things like the fire coming out from Halver or of course Tuber out coming
out. They are trying to replace it here but I think things just got a little bit easier
for the side of the secret.
That bridge charge is going to be going on to the tower's wall that's going to
maybe make fanatic think about this elevator position or was it supposed to think about
There we go. Drops away. I thought that was going to be coming.
It has a little look through the drone hole. Doesn't get his opportunity.
I think I've lost you, Tim.
I'm going to assume you're still speaking and I'll say nothing.
Another line to Tim's gun.
Woohoo! It's the deadshot! Let's go!
In which case we'll crack honestly how the round plays out.
Mainly focusing around square here. Three players on the side of St. Croix are being matched up against deadshot.
On that smoke, two of those canisters already burnt.
Now all three, gone as we get down to the last 60 or so.
It's worth noting that Halva hasn't used a single fire canister yet. They are available, and if Tim was here, he would wax lyrical about the...
Come on, man!
Hal!
Halva!
His job is to be there to deny the plant. You can rotate through two of those pellets at the same time and stall that for a solid minute.
There is less than a minute on the clock. You could have had a big impact here and forced secret to have to go deep.
That is no longer an option.
So, now they're pushing.
They get rid of Deepak.
They're into a 5 versus 3 with 30 seconds still to work with.
Savage looking pretty damn low.
Laksa Candela's he can yeet in towards Scythe.
Smokes him back pocket.
They've got the utility to get this one done.
But Wizard of course is available on the movement as well.
A C4 at the ready at the same time.
Being so careful about what Hovered the die to,
which was a play down towards Garage,
but they moved away.
He's left 1 versus 5.
This one is a washed secret.
Yet again, pull off a brilliant attack
and go up four and zero.
And again, for Fnatic, it's gonna feel
like a bit of heartbreak here, unfortunately.
They really can't fight their way back in.
We've got Jack joining me.
Woo! One Northerners will die for another.
How are we doing, Jackie Boy?
Hello, Des. This is a strange one.
I lost power last week.
Tim covered for me. Tim's now lost power.
And I'm covering for Tim, but yes.
Welcome. I made the joke at the time last week.
Like, you guys at North are only just starting
to discover what electricity is. I'm glad that we're getting there, and at least here
by you being in Copenhagen, powers online, real good.
I know, I know. I tell you what, powers not online, but all the fanatic defences so far
because they're going to fall down. Wow. We've actually just had a look at Vintype.
The analyst has got the ability to listen to teams during the game, and listening
to the secret attacks is so clean. It's so clean. Such good information from absolutely
everybody across the attacks. Savage is absolutely singing like a songbird and everybody is giving
so much energy. It is night and day difference from map one and the first half of map two
in showy as well. They're really flicking their muscles on this map right now.
Having a lot of fun and you can see why even with the roster changes you know it's their
favourite map. They've got like a 6-1 record on it over the last six months or so. This
is their battleground and it feels a bit crazy that they're even here in the
first place but this is the battlefield that Panalik have chosen for us to come
to and so far only one team has turned up to actually fight it's it seems it is
to turn around these last couple of rounds though before we get the side switch
and then maybe just maybe she's fantastic show a little bit on the inside hey yeah
absolutely it's all about just getting a little bit of a point at this point
for fantastic it's not going well so far you know you've got three players
sitting there looking like they're on doughnuts with it how about and Croxton
with to be honest deep-heck and dead shot not going too well either I felt
like Wither had a big, big, big brain fart in the room that he could have clutched, because
there were players that would be in red ping as well. But anyway, like you say, they move.
They've gone through an area, they've brought a little bit of information, they've got a mirror
window set up on the upstairs, they're going to try and bait Secret into coming for this top floor
attack and then hopefully capitalising when they do, trying to kick them off on that push.
I heard Tim's back on his way by the way, sounds like he's got his hamsters running in
in them wheels again to generate a little bit of power so his PC can come back on so
it's been fun mate it's been emotional it has as much as i wanted to keep you casting solo we
couldn't have done it for an unlimited number of rounds good information i'm on the market mate
it would have said it does follow podcasts but it was bad that's great still there's no dead shot
dead shot should have had him dead to right there but no no as well i tell you what mate
i'm sure you feel the same no has been absolutely phenomenal these last three months
yeah he really has he's been so good and i think he really had to take over the month
After June left the roster and he's done it perfectly in the end
You know Nate found a kill as well. You've got secret. They've taken top floor control
They've got a minute 15 now to work with for them
It's all about establishing control. Can they clear this player outside of teller's office deep?
It could be a problem if they don't have information if they can't how are they going to make their entry into site?
You see Nate from defuser elevate hallway. You've got the game. It's going to be savage
It's going to have to force his way through teller, but there's going to be some resistance until deep breaks found
Yeah, that's big, because when 3 vs 4 you feel you might be able to recover.
You see that happen a lot throughout the series, the 4 vs 2 is a much harder affair.
Here we go, down goes Wizards, it's going to be another secret round going up to 5,
and Watt, sorry, 5 and 0 here on the scoreboard, plant going down.
However, trying to do what he can with the C4 going, not really anywhere,
full flashed out, swung on the corner, Savage finds his kill, and then they find the round.
the game. I think that's a
good point. Yeah, when the
goings getting good, it's
carrying on being good 14
secret. I think too big
engagements there for me was
the walk up the main says the
lobby stairs, even though
fanatic had the information,
they lost the gun fight. That
tells me that they're stressed.
Tells me that they're a
little bit. You know, they're
not as confident as they
previously were in the last
couple of months. They're
losing those ones, and
sometimes it does just come
down to losing that entry
engagement. They win that
they retain top floor for
a little bit longer. They
He got shut down as well. And from there, it was a team secret controlling the entire round and the pace of the game.
Yeah, it's just, again, it's just their battleground. They know what they're doing here and no one, even with the constant changes, looks like it's going to be an easy fight against Secret.
I'm right there with you deep back I'm afraid. Not a massive head shake in the
screen but it's very very gentle side to side it gives off that kind of I'm not
angry I'm just really disappointed kind of vibe isn't it? Yeah.
Looking good. Well let's see if anything can transform here. We look pretty
dire a bit like we speak for earlier on today and then we should turn it around.
Maybe we see the same for Thalada Keer but I feel to do that they need to get
this round over long. This is their best chance. They're down in the basement.
They've got the smoke, of course, got the chanker.
Let's not die first time round, this time round, however.
They've got the board on the side to be able to deal with the smokes that come out.
They have got all the tools they need to pull up an offensive bunker defence here,
but it requires the players playing their part in that defence.
OK, I've been told that your wonderful co-caster is back from his couple of rounds out,
so this is where I'm going to depart here, Derry,
and wreck him to keep his head back into the mix.
Boo!
Trash, I am back indeed, and I see that things haven't changed!
I've reached it!
Um, we had a little spontaneous power cut second in 15 years, how about that?
You're a bad luck.
You missed, uh, you missed a little Halver crash out for me, mate, when they were defending
downstairs, as they are now, basically.
Another one.
And he was playing Shanker, yeah, 40 seconds on the clock, 5v5, oh great, he's Shanker.
He's got 20 shumma, because they can win this, and then he dies to Garage.
Oh, it's me.
Not ideal.
It's not ideal, it's a nice and easy way to put it short.
That was that you use when G2 killed themselves twice and came round on laps against Secret.
Not ideal was the exact phrase that you used there and I agree it's still true.
We try to find the positive guys.
Let's see if there's any positive in round six for Fnatic to be found.
It is five versus four so they've got a little bit of something going for them at least.
Noah has been taken down so that's this entry off the, sorry, the striker off the board
and a lot of utility gone with it and much like Secret did previously, you know,
you know, they were behind on
it's about getting that first
round for them. They're gonna
be now working the utility
which runs going in just to
get that hatch open, which is
now gonna be successful. They've
got a little bit of access
into word service. So things are
at least starting to work for
secret on the attack. Yeah, I
can't imagine. Stop how many
houses have you had to get
in wheels running around? Easy
Why is he there? Why is...
You're playing a bunker strat with denial.
Why is Halberd at the bottom of garage ramp?
What is he looking for?
And you've had a player run down main stairs and go,
oh, thank you very much. I don't get it.
By some miracle, the rest of his team
have managed to recover this deadshot.
It's been a wonderful job on blue stairs
to potentially save this round.
They have not... They've got 2c force.
That's what they've got left to play with here
inside 40 seconds of denial,
I think secret now have to go for kills.
Yeah, Savages, unfortunately.
It looks like he's disconnected partway through the round.
I think he was still alive.
So, certainly not ideal for them.
At least it is in a tough spot.
Deepak takes him down.
But, well, you know, as far as fanatic are concerned,
however they've got across the line there,
whether, you know, a player drops out, you know,
things happen.
It doesn't matter.
They've got the round one
and it gives them something to work from.
Before I have another crash hour about Halberton,
let's go to the studio, please.
I love how everyone has become with just crashing out about what's happening with team so far
But I want to take us back to one round in particular in this first half
Again, we could crash out about that
Oh, yeah
Well, I could do it by super
What was this round?
Yeah, it was. Well, it wasn't because Deadshot was over here
Deadshot was killing everybody
He killed absolutely everybody
Even look at this shot
For no, no
Then he dies
And then he gets to two versus one
Zero seconds
Sorry
Wizard, he's been red pinged
He's been red pinged
Red ping, why?
Two players are here.
Two players, red ping, just killed upon that, and you're sprinting.
One V2.
Why?
One V2.
Timer is at 0.00.
You see two red things.
So that means that someone is planting, and that means that someone is covering.
Two?
Two red things.
One is planting, one is covering.
Perfect.
That's where he is.
Either you peek the guy that's covering.
It's just basic late round composure problem.
Once again.
Yeah.
But at the same time, it's just Dechat brings their own back and even then he made the
mistake by the way, because when he gets a triple kill, he's safe behind the couch in
kitchen.
Someone jumps in, print a window, and he tries to pull his pistol and stands up and
he dies there.
If he just stays hidden, they win the round.
We can joke all we want, but so far this has been a really good half from Seagood
and we get to give them credit, we're credited with you too.
Yeah, no they have.
I think, you know, Savage just, I said it was such a good IGF.
He really, really understands everything in this map.
The way he frame works so quickly in terms of knowing, okay, we're doing this, we need
this.
If we're not doing this, we need this.
Exactly.
This target, this target is down.
Next target, this target is down.
There's this guy.
Okay, let's follow this opportunity.
And the main thing is, no one, no one is speaking around him.
It is literally savage, pinpointing every target and they just achieve that after,
after, after.
Which is not indicative.
It's beautiful, it's proactive, it's exactly what we need to see from Secret.
And I think we will ask him eventually if he wins that, but I want to know how much of an impact was a tactical timeout at the end of the quarter of Basique of Chalet, and since then, we're seeing a team that is playing so well together, it's very impressive.
Like in the look of these bands coming in so far, hopefully it's a banner, that's kind of what I'm thinking. It caused fanatic problems in the early round and then they're not going to have too many problems in the long run.
They do leave the Hibana open, but they have got rid of the ace.
I'll cap it down again for the excuse.
Mirror and clash coming in from Fnatic.
It makes a lot of sense, but what it does leave open
is the strongest site on Bank, which is the basement.
It leaves open the Cade and the Tubra,
which means Fnatic in this round, in Round 7,
are going to have a very big problem in the late round.
You can see already Smoke, T'Chanka, Cade, Tubra picked from the defensive.
We very clearly know our secret win condition is going to be in this round.
Alright, well seems like a lot of problems for them to solve. Not just in this upcoming round, but this round deficit that they've got going on for themselves, going into the second one.
Yeah, they've got problems alright, and probably if you see what I'm going to count at this point, it is looking rough.
See what we're asking secret? And this show is over there. Chances of making Salt Lake just right side in the upper bracket.
He's gonna slip through their fingers, and I think Nerv probably claimed that he was the main perpetrator of their downfall tonight, Tim.
Yeah, look, the main problem that Fnatic have got right now is that fifth round.
It's always the... If you lose the fifth round, if you go five-one down when a team's going on to attack, it's a problem.
And the reason it's a problem is that all he needs to find one side, which is he's found one side that the team went past.
You know, if top floor's not there jam today, it doesn't matter. Just win server twice. If that doesn't work, just win over the twype.
You just need to find one start to lock down. I think they're actually probably going to do it, you know, quicker, probably a little bit more convincingly than that.
But it just ramps the pressure up for the team that's facing that situation.
You know, a fanatic knows that at some point they have to win all three of the sites that Secret choose.
and that is going to be tossed. As it stands, we're going to have an early track coming in.
It's on to that man who has been a serious headache
for them over the last few rounds now until he stands.
And the information will be relayed. It will relay rather. It will find himself being challenged
by Haver on the shield. He drops away to safety and secret continue to operate the five players.
All right, well they've got control pretty early on as well as off the gap only 60 seconds in and they've got all they need
Every player on the side of secret is down in the basement
Did he get down by the C4 from Mowgli? I think he did exactly that's all right
I need like a live action replayer that I'm dead confused how the Halish has gone down
By the way, he's back on his feet and they still have all those sense gadgets to be able to work with here
Another truck of the round may be coming out from deep-wrapped, testing it for a couple of seconds, can confirm. They still work.
And they need to get themselves set up for the site itself, and let's not forget
Touch wood, Nathan's on the chanca here, sat deep inside a lockers able to deny the default plant spot.
We aren't gonna dive to the entry. We aren't gonna go wandering down garage ramps too early in the round,
are we? We're gonna do sensible things here, and he will enable us to stall out a lot when you can't wait up with things like these
Well, thanks for those people's also free smokes to work behind here. This is a lot of potential
Yeah, this is a perfect example of a to change the defense is just burning out that entire
You know plan spot. I was not taking any damage
This should be launched deep enough. He's just gone people. He's not gone for the additional
I think it's always a good idea to fire two at a time in there get one default and one slightly deeper on to door to
to prevent that happening because it forces them deeper into sight to be able to put the plant down.
So that's actually really big from Fnatic being able to get that diffuser down
whilst the chemical launcher is active and bringing them in.
It's a big play, with a huge double hominest.
There's stopping that flank from coming up.
There is no reason that Fnatic should be losing this now.
Deepak picks up Nerve and it is all up to Mowgli.
He's trying to get anything he can going.
He picks up over.
That's going to be a dead shot with the final kill.
And Fnatic get themselves another round.
That's Halber. He did the hard work, got the plant down, still really wants to go for it.
He did a job that round!
He did, he did, he did, it was a good round, it was a good round overall, but Aliq as
well. Well played the most in the pre-plot and in the post-plant I thought too, executed
as a round overall, very effectively. And it's why I'll always say there are two
halves to a game of siege. Don't count a team out just because you didn't play
bad on one half, things can turn around quite drastically afterwards. I'll not say
So that's what we'll see for the rest of this half.
They've been out with one of the five brown win streak here.
They're good, but I think he's still looking promising here.
They can pull off a very good execute
onto baseman side of bank.
Now we go to the top floor.
Let's see how they fair up here, Tim.
Well, this is it.
You know, we've always got to base,
we've always got to base it on what we've said.
And what we've said so far
is Team Fit being very dominant.
So yes, the reality is they possibly are probably winners.
But are we right in Finastercoff?
absolutely not any team that is in the server can turn it around can bring it
back and fight their way into a match and Fnatic can only do that one round at a
time they promised inside there if you're a Fnatic fan is that they've taken
the hardest site they've dealt with or arguably the hardest site server has been
cleared out they've got the attack in win there they will need another one
down there likely because I think we will see secret go there again you
know should Fnatic come back into this but for the time being they are
not going to be attacking up onto that top floor. Just having a look at the line-up.
We've got the big slide. Expect to see how Vamir be going in from top square or stop,
trying to create a little bit of space, trying to deal with Janitor.
And then you've got DPEC. On the ying, you've got Crocs on the class.
So it's going to be a window-heavy focus, I would expect.
Yes, no realism is that right.
Let's pop all the players up on there is what we look for.
And the rest of the looking is trying to ease the pressure,
or at least create the pressure, unless you get stuff going elsewhere.
I stopped and spoke about earlier a player no one looking to open up the wall so you can see down the hallway
And get the ocean to do that in this round the banner was available chosen not to take it
I'm trying to remember just go more direct towards fighting. How is the point pan?
I hope this works out in here. We go. Let's step in on four juiced up as well
Now back at least for a moment though while they deal with everything else
Classes up and over the top to try and make more room for the rest of the now
It's a push on fours. It was wizard creating that distraction for them
Not a whole lot of ground game so far team, but at least they're inside the building
Cross manages to get the opener. Crocs takes down Savage, with one onto Wizard himself.
He's got a little bit of a blind spray through the smoke. Not going to find any joy, but it doesn't matter
because Crocs is doing serious work with that Flasko. Manages to make it a third in the round
and that could be a real critical moment because it swings the balance now to four versus two.
Four versus one as Deadshot picks up Mowgli. Fnatic is just running around side
I think it might be. I mean there's a two really good attacks on the two primary sites of bank. Unsurprisingly, just like
to get the kill at elevators.
That's going to be fanatic
taking a second attack in a row.
Is it on? There's is it on?
You tell me, Tim. Is it on?
I think it might be.
I mean, those are two really good
attacks on the two primary sites
of bank. Unsurprisingly, just
like that did back in the in
the first half after just two
rounds secret calling an attack
timeout because they've
realized, Oh, we've been
slammed two sites in a row
now. We need to turn our
now, we need to turn our fortunes are out. Yeah, we're going to have another one of those
mythical twister timeouts. We saw what happened last time around. It had a big impact on the
game. Can he do the same here to get his team over at the line? You know, I've spoken about
secret playing under pressure with Sinem, kind of wobble one sort twice. There's not been
under huge pressure, you know, and that's the ones in the group phase. Fourth place
was fine. You get yourself through into the playoffs. You know, there wasn't
that's a huge pressure there.
But yeah, I think when we've seen teams kind of go at them
or sort of come back at them,
they seem to be susceptible to losing a few rounds here
and there back to back.
We've seen that happen.
And if that continues two more, it's level
and it's absolutely anybody's.
So I think Twister needs to be having
as much of an effect as he can right now.
We've seen them down in the basement.
We've seen them on the top floor.
I'm now wondering, do they try one of those again?
They're every day most comfortable, and yes, they do.
I was wondering, do they do that, or do we go to open area?
I always think open area is a difficult site
if you've lost the other team.
So, yeah, we're gonna take them back down to server.
I do agree, it'd be weird when I think to go to here.
Let's stick to the primary side,
which is always gonna be the base,
but the second club really,
teams will always default to going downstairs first.
Similar vibe here,
I'm gonna worry about verticals being opened up
or be ahead anywhere near as much as you might
on somewhere like club,
which makes it a lot more defendable,
lots of utility, you can just stack to
lock things away,
It dictates really tight time for attackers to be able to plug in overwhelmed defenders that are otherwise unbunked and I think,
and looking at how they're setting up for this side, again, it's a similar sort of story.
Maybe even going back to the days of Alton, when I've seen this one for a while, having a pulse playing inside of gold to call when the defuse is going down.
The pick on the Deimos. Actually going to relocate.
He'd gone down there to have a little look at the book, decides maybe that support is needed for his team elsewhere.
of course on the day more she'd expect him to join him in the room clear the one
manages to take down dead shot again continuing his great run he's going to
be on the Fenrir upstairs I'm just a little bit concerned of how Fnatic are
dealing with Noor or whether they are he manages to escape he's got a way Scott
free with an opener onto a sledge there not the biggest loss necessary for Fnatic
the biggest loss of dead shot going here is the kills that he's been
getting and the utility not the end of the world there's not too much
you're going to be wanting the
hatches. That's about it, and
you're going to need our breach
for that anyway, which they've
got. So, you know, maybe the
needs, but they can live without
the, like I said, the bigger
problem is the man himself. But
four versus five at the minute,
they know that there's
somebody on blue stairs. Deep
actually just going to hold
that angle for the time being
three versus five as citizen
managers to find crocs. They
still haven't got open area
control. Well, that control
yet and secret have the
luxury now of being able to
hold those positions for much
for much longer than the otherwise might have done.
It's taken another death by the...
It just feels like the first few deaths in the round they've lost needlessly.
The number of times that we've watched old Virtus Pro was Team Empire's mobile thing to come out,
where we'd have joystick pushing in top floor on stage and there would always be a drone at his feet.
You've had deadshot try pushing upstairs, died for free.
Cross the bush towards open area without knowing if it's clear, died for free.
At least I was one that's come back, but these are wholly avoidable deaths
I don't know, she's very, very weird to see.
Access has somewhat been gained, but I fanaticly put themselves established in server at least.
But what is their answer to this? The classic pulse in gold bars just start feeding all that intel with the pulse scanner throughout the war.
They brought the nerd to deal with the shield. Fantastic.
Recognize that the janker was part of the problem last time they did manage to work around it
They didn't want to have to again
So they've removed the shield and that will force nerf to step away from that cover
So a good first step here in comes to my utility. You expect to see fanatic making a way with it
Was it nice to get off drone here really? I think
Okay, we've got the diffuser down it's in a good spot
and then he's going to go to
the back of the car. If you
come for the retake here, which
they should do and send to
upstairs. He's done but know
that watch him on the reverse
angle. And like that they will
deny. Unfortunately, how we're
very much left a man on the
island. As was have watched on
from a drone inside a garage
and that unfortunately is cost
them. If really confident of
the cover being provided by
final kill and fanatic any momentum that they felt that they might be building
has now seemingly been lost as they find themselves on the receiving end of three
match points coming up from Team Secret which we'll see them any one of them
one will see fanatic eliminated from the ML kickoff phase secret will progress
into that lower bracket semi-final where they will have a tough match up
no matter what happens tomorrow there's they will face either team
Falcons or Virtus. Pro neither of them will be easy and secret of what I work to do to get themselves to
start work, but it has to start here and now. Yeah, you also can't spend a thing as much time as it is today
warming into this series like now. It's cool it has to house. They were very slow to start things off
and you can't afford to be dropping a map against one of those teams if you are going to make it.
I think you've got to come out the gate swing and really have them on the back foot from the off
rather than playing a recovery game yourself like you're already at a disadvantage and then having to
the game. It's just no way you
come out on top there. So
hopefully you've got a lesson to
learn and hopefully a different
secret that we see turn up. Of
course, assuming they get this
one over the line here and now
there are still three rounds of
a fantastic good fight back, but
it is a tall order. That's
pretty noticeable deficit him.
I'll be surprised if it gets
to O. T. Yeah, well, again,
the big problem is secret.
I've got a full rotation now,
haven't they? And you know,
they can go top floor. They
can go open and then they'll
have servers open to them
again as well. And it was
So yeah, pretty good, you know position for secret to be in. But again, let's not write. Let's not write fanatic off just yet. They've certainly shown improvements today, you know, over some of the issues that they've had throughout kickoff and they did enough ultimately to get themselves into the upper bracket.
down here to the lower bracket. And it is filling the wheelhouse. It is still possible,
but it is going to take a mammoth effort from all the team in order to get themselves over the
line. For now, the Rateros will start raining in. That is not ideal. Noah takes down. However,
the grin is lost. It's going to be a big part of the execute. That Nitro, absolutely on point
from Noah on the Tuber Owen. His great break game continues. It does. Yeah, really
really been a bit of a terror-hazardly so far.
Unfortunately for Howard, and I'll put him down
at, I think, at 8 and 26 throughout this series,
really hasn't been his days, he's tournament,
it's not been a good tournament overall for him unfortunately.
And it only goes from bad to worse here at the time,
and I feel like they really could use him.
You know, yes, if you've seen Grimm have a Nerf,
he's still ridiculously powerful as an operator.
We've seen him banned out a couple of times
so far tonight as well.
Really could have done without for the execute
now instead.
I'll have to turn towards,
look at that, he's all the turns of operators,
to try and keep them going, but there's a lot on the other side to contend with, and
they've only got half the rounds to work with.
Dron just having a look around site. Can they locate anybody? I think they're just trying
to get anything to go off here. DPEC didn't see anybody. He's going to be leaving that
for Haver to watch. I have no doubt he's scrolling through the drones at this point
in time. Just trying to feed a bit of intel. He needs to be careful, though, because
sabbages done, the Nitro written ready. It was taking a bit of damage there, I like that,
I've been spotted out, those drones doing their job, that does just force him back away, Nitro
back in pocket, and it also means that Janitor, really playable at this point, and Deepak is able
to open up that wall, that it needs to be careful though, giving a few too many chances there to
lose a body at top square. They're really fighting it up all tired here, it feels unless they can
and get off the board and just equalize things a little bit more, but there'll be Ghost Savage.
He had so many chances inside of Janitor, inside of the Declan Death sorry, to try and get a kill.
Wasn't able to find it and eventually he's been bitten back.
Bosses come on through and the stream on four pushes in, but another kill goes the way of Secret Team
and they manage to get Savage back up. They get at least one back, but it's a 4v3 here
and not a lot of time left to work with.
And look at all the damage that Mowgli's done.
I know he doesn't get a kill, but he damages Crox. He damages Deepak.
Noah manages to pick up Deepak. These are one shot now.
Cross as well, quad kill, could be an ace to finish it off and push them into the semifinal
No, Wizard says he's not having any of that, what magic has he got left in his pocket though
1 vs 4 becomes a 1v3, becomes almost a 1v2 but can't quite find his man, 3 seconds left
to go, and surely this is done, he shakes his ADS, he knows the outcome and it's going
to be in teams secret, take the map, take the match and move on to the lower bracket
semifinal
Very well deserved, I think it shows some real resilience tonight.
I think to battle back when things are going so bad on that first map and turn things around just shows
that that fighting spirit is still there in secret despite the recent roster changes
and that they could still be building something pretty useful here.
Commissarations of course to Fnatic, they will be out and not home to Salt Lake City,
but that's the end of the game, so we'll go to a break.
When we come back to our desk, break down what just happened for you.
Oh, I don't know what's up in my running out
Cause I can't make it down from the starting up
I'ma keep it going so there ain't no left
I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going
I'ma keep it going so there ain't no left
What a great comeback in this series by Secret. They keep that great streak alive on Bank as
well and therefore we get to speak to Secret. In fact, we get to speak to Savage to ask
him a few questions. Savage, congratulations, keep your hopes and dreams alive of making
it to the Salt Lake City Major. My main question is how did you guys manage to get
to such a big comeback?
I think the maps helped a little bit, like I felt like we were quite a linear team, we don't really have that many variabilities, like in kind of plays on the tag, so that kind of doesn't help us, and I think as well like we just went into the game, not on the wrong mindset, but like on the wrong playstyle, you know, like we knew these guys are good individuals and like they'll be more than happy to take that one V1s and we just kept feeding them that one V1s, and just giving them solo swings.
Nick were punishing us so that was quite hard to play online. I think then on Chalet, we understood
changing maps, kind of what we needed to do in order to get the best out of us and to actually
win the game, to play a different playstyle than what we were doing at the start.
So Rij, talk to me about the timeout from Twister on Chalet particularly because you guys
with down zero three. Um I just just lost the clutch and then you guys were able to come back and
really set your dominance after that. Yeah, it was a good timeouts. Like you uh call for a very
good play there like the brush. Um mostly to try to go more to the direct play because they were
very extended on the map. They wanted to take off one of you once. So kind of like getting away
from that kind of like how we did the first round like it worked but then we lost it
but like just doing that again so we could focus more on the direct plays there like catching
and then like extending the map, start off a map and focus more on the game,
then bomb down rather than you know just giving these guys gunfights.
So do you think after winning Chalier you had won the game already going into bank?
Because you guys have such a crazy record on that map.
16-1 and then obviously the only listed to phase, I mean command.
And now that's 17 out of 18 left and you played it.
Yeah, I didn't say a lot, but I'm not losing points at these guys,
there's no way, so it's okay.
Honestly, I'm just debating right now, I'm thinking about Noa more and more because every game is just proving to be so consistent.
I mean, this game entirely, every single map, even the one you lost, he has double digits, you know?
And I'm just debating, and it's an open question to you. Do you think that because of Jum's departure, he has more place to shine?
Yeah, I think that's the case because because I saw roles wise like he's still playing most of the same role
But like even there as you guys could maybe see like he for example bank is no all windows play anymore
Ben is citizen is and he's taken out more a free role
No, he's actually lurk but more like more aggressive like playing like I'm trying to get him as much as possible like behind me
On the shield because I feel like every time like he's behind me. Just I can't work
The guy just destroys him, yeah.
So, like, he's been able to even shine a bit more,
like, taking more aggro, like, roles.
And I think, obviously, like, he kind of stepped up
to the lack of gym, in a sense, you know?
Like, obviously, gym would always, like, show up
and be the saviour for us.
Sometimes, not always, but all the times,
now it's taken a role, you know?
Like, now it's Noah, the guy that's trying to understand.
Yeah, I think you've wrote it really nice.
So thank you so much for giving us all these insights, Savage, and best of luck on the continuation in your bracket one.
The saviour of this roster is what Savage is saying right now with the departure of Dune,
but we're seeing that so well in these games, keeping up an insane KD over all three maps.
So many triple kills, so many, so many...
You wanted the ace, you wanted the ace in that round just to cap off an amazing performance.
Probably look at his reaction, I mean, he's really becoming the main character of that roster, I think it was hard for him to really full this shine
when you already had Jume that was achieving similar statistics, and now that player that is beyond everyone else, that is one in a lifetime player,
is not on the same roster, he's been given better roles, he's also been given more space, and he's also been forced to step up
because you don't have that player getting multi kills anymore, he needs to be that one.
if you look at the series of Rome 39 kills he was one kill shot of 40 kills
Jack out of three maps yeah that's just phenomenal that's what you want from
your frontline player that's what you want from a player to be that consistent
in the best of three the second best has 22 kills yeah it's crazy it's
absolutely crazy but when you're in and let's be fair it's a secret they
played really if we're gonna be honest well for a map and a half yeah when
you're in those types of best of freeze when you're facing not going to your
first event in a long time a long time over two years you need some of this
step up to just drag you through it now of course it was a team from the
special on bank it was really really good but no one was the one that was
the driving force behind that step up it's just that when I look at the map
scores. I can't help but feel bad for Fnatic. I mean it's...
They tried that well. Yeah, but yeah.
They got 40 kills. Yeah, and they got the first map. They look really good in the first half of
Shelly, or the first quarter of Shelly. Oh no, no, no, no. Again, we're looking at a day of the life
in the life of Fnatic or Fnatic Fence, and then again it just...
It really felt GG after Shelly. It really did feel GG after Shelly, and that is
completely by the place alone. I feel like Fnatic really messed themselves up. There was
a couple of rounds on Shelly
Yeah, it's hard to say because they've had to that stage and up until the start of this game where they've not looked great
Especially in those late rounds the crunch time the crunch points then they showed us la and again
It's fantastic. It's in a way kind of similar shippers. There can be a team that they can chose that
They went and dominated a team that was just in the SFI final
But it was only for one map which isn't good enough inside of a whole you know a whole stage
map pool, depth being exposed, all these kinds of things are the best of three.
Leifron Composer as well, some players clearly missing the mark, Lid Virial,
like I think all of the two recruits that we highlighted before the match,
however, and the chat needed to step up, one stepped up, dropped 40 kills, the other struggled.
He's playing a rough role to be fair, he's playing Monty, he's playing the anchor at the same time.
I think that's new as well. I think over the way some of the group stage went,
I think they've kind of put him on the shields, and he had a couple of bad shield moments
what I've said inside of particular Chalet as well, when he was playing the Blackbeard in the Monty.
Just try and force him to, you know, force a team play around him.
But that, it kind of speaks to me that they made us a lot more trust in him in that game,
if I'm being brutally honest though. So yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the solution is for Fnatic.
That's a question that they will have to find an answer to in this upcoming time before Stage 1 starts.
But before we get there, we can take a look at our updated brackets and look at the
a game. We're going to be
lower brackets of how it's gone
out so far how it's turned out
so far today. We say goodbye to
phonetic and we say goodbye to
rebels or two losers from today.
That means that secrets and
shifters move on and mind you
the losers from match five and
six will drop down to the
lower bracket as well. But
that's where the bracket
flips right so secretly playing
against the loser of Falcons
like either way, you've put in such a show today and then looking at the opponent that'll drop down tomorrow is not going to be easy.
It's formidable opponents across the board. I think realistically, G2 Falcons VP look heading away the best three teams in the ML.
You obviously, two of them probably will qualify. But even to its mind, should they fall to G2, which isn't a given by the, but should they fall to G2?
They're a tricky proposition to anybody in this league, just because of how unique they are as well. So, you know, realistically, we're in for some bangers tomorrow and Friday.
And the top truth is that if you looked on paper at EML before the stage started,
you would have said that the top four would have been secret Falcons G2 and VP.
And in the current IO, you know that they cannot all four qualify because one will have to full.
Falcons, VP or secret, one will miss, so like city.
Yes.
Because of the way the bracket works.
And that's down to secret coming forth.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And so that basically triggers the whole chain reaction of like one of these three big names
are going to miss it despite being quite good at this in the in giga. But that means one of
shifters G2 and two of shifters G2 and Twisted Minds are going to go to the Fault Lake, which is a
great story for other shifters of Twisted Minds who were probably coming to the stage considered
outside on the top four. One of them will go. Yeah, but that's a good thing, right? When the
bracket gets really difficult on one side, it's opportunities on the other side. It's a
really kind of profit off of what's going on there and the matchups that you might be given
in that situation. If you did have a good look at our schedule for tomorrow, you noticed
that we have a bit of a busy day going on tomorrow, not two, but three best of threes in total. And for
that reason, we're starting one hour earlier as well. And so if you want to make sure that you
do not miss all the action tomorrow in the upper bracket of the email playoffs, make sure to tune
in at 5pm CEST for now. We'd like to thank you so much for watching. It's been a great pleasure
to have you with us here in the evening and we'd hope to see you again tomorrow. 5pm CEST.
Have a good rest of your night.
I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, so hold on now!