WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.060 you 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 Thank you for joining us. 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 Thank you. 00:34.000 --> 00:36.000 Thank you. 00:36.000 --> 00:40.000 Thank you. 02:30.000 --> 02:37.000 I 02:37.000 --> 02:40.000 I 02:40.000 --> 02:42.000 I 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 I 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 I 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 I 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 I 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 I 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 I 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 I 10:27.000 --> 10:56.960 Hello everybody and welcome back to S.A.L. 10:57.000 --> 11:02.520 We're so happy to have you with us to start off our final weekend and not only are we going to be 11:02.520 --> 11:08.920 qualifying four teams over the next two days, but we're also ending all of kickoffs, I guess, 11:09.560 --> 11:16.200 international, national plays here for SAL and awaiting our final regions to lock in CNL 11:16.200 --> 11:24.440 and NAL to have all of our teams ready to go. And my, I guess, but my co-host today 11:24.440 --> 11:32.200 is the one and only AlphamaR6 who somehow has teleported himself across Europe from the EML studio 11:32.200 --> 11:39.000 just like that and he's joining us all nice and fresh how you doing? Good, good. I remember 11:39.000 --> 11:42.440 something Jack told me when we were going to the studio yesterday and he was like, 11:42.440 --> 11:48.600 you know what Leo? I feel like I live in Siege. I just go to the studio, I watch EML, I do my prep, 11:48.600 --> 11:52.840 after EML, I do my prep for the day after, I go to sleep, I dream about Siege, I wake up, 11:52.840 --> 11:57.640 I create content about Siege and somehow I feel I can relate to that today. 12:00.200 --> 12:05.240 It's part of it. You know, we're people and you've done from the competitive point of view as well. 12:05.240 --> 12:10.840 So that's on a different scale compared to me, but you've lived Siege in more ways than one and 12:10.840 --> 12:16.200 for a game that has been able to, I guess, change our lives in the way that it has and 12:16.200 --> 12:21.160 give us 10 plus years of excitement, it is a privilege to continue being part of it 12:21.160 --> 12:26.840 after so many years and today to spend the day with you. I said that I am to not have laxing 12:26.840 --> 12:34.040 by my side. I'm always happy to be here with Al Fama. But we have a busy day today because 12:34.680 --> 12:39.880 there's three matches as you can see and the focus will be on the winners of our 12:39.880 --> 12:47.000 two first matches because those are the teams that will qualify to be Salt Lake City Major. 12:47.000 --> 12:51.880 So those will be the first two out of four that will represent the region on site. 12:51.880 --> 12:53.960 Now lastly, it'll be the upper bracket final. 12:53.960 --> 12:57.480 The winners of the two matches that comes down to the seeding one or two. 12:57.480 --> 13:00.360 It's going to impact how their phase two might look. 13:00.360 --> 13:02.040 Which opponents are going to be facing? 13:02.040 --> 13:04.520 Something to look forward to in the future. 13:04.520 --> 13:08.040 But team Liquid Alienware NIP is where we're going to kick things off 13:08.040 --> 13:12.440 and go to Furia versus Fluxo W7M. 13:12.440 --> 13:14.120 And this is the bracket. 13:14.120 --> 13:15.720 This is how we got here. 13:15.720 --> 13:19.680 And I don't know if you got to watch anything from our last playday on Tuesday, Leo 13:19.680 --> 13:22.400 I know you had a very very busy week with EML 13:22.760 --> 13:26.360 But those two matches went by really fast and low bracket. Yeah 13:26.680 --> 13:30.880 Yeah, I'm not surprised because you know when I was looking at the matchup from today 13:30.880 --> 13:34.120 You usually it's supposed to be the matchups of the biggest teams in the league, you know 13:34.120 --> 13:40.840 And and there was one big missing component in there where was phase in that top four and I think well 13:40.840 --> 13:47.340 I think I understand why we had such a one-sided quarter-final in the other bracket when you know that phase is there and 13:47.520 --> 13:51.640 That they play against the team that they 7-0ed at the end of the kickoff group stage 13:51.640 --> 13:54.720 I just did not expect it to be anywhere closer 13:54.720 --> 13:58.600 So a 7-1-7-1 for phase not a big surprise loss 13:58.600 --> 14:04.280 I think it was a team that had the most potential after the roster mania that didn't belong in the top five 14:04.280 --> 14:08.600 So I'm not surprised to see them advance all the way only one B or three away from 14:08.600 --> 14:15.440 So like city but the main thing remains a middle. What is there to gain for the twins in the upper semi-final here on your screen? 14:15.960 --> 14:19.500 Which will be in the good anywhere an IP theory a fox or w7n 14:19.960 --> 14:26.900 Basically if you win that be a three you guarantee yourself a spot at a subject city major in phase two directly 14:27.960 --> 14:34.240 $8,000 and a hundred seventy five a site points. So that is a lot. So you you want to get that way 14:34.240 --> 14:39.880 It'll be something that will propel you forward and in the lower bracket that's where things 14:39.880 --> 14:45.720 kind of flip. If you lose in the upper semi-final, so let's say TL Alienware and NIP, the loser 14:45.720 --> 14:50.260 of that match is going to drop down to the lower bracket, then we're playing against FaZe 14:50.260 --> 14:55.640 Clan, where as the loser of FURIO Fox 2 W7M plays a loss. And at the end, in the final 14:55.640 --> 15:00.120 of the lower bracket, that'll be tomorrow, you will have two teams that are both qualified 15:00.120 --> 15:04.800 to the Salt Lake City Major. However, only the winner of that match will advance directly 15:04.800 --> 15:10.000 into phase two, whereas the loser of the game will have to play from phase one, which means 15:10.000 --> 15:15.240 adding more, I guess, potential for things to go wrong. You've got upper-low bracket 15:15.240 --> 15:19.200 in it and seeing which will be the four teams from the eight that actually qualify into 15:19.200 --> 15:23.640 phase two. They'll have the lowest seed really compared to everybody else, qualifying 15:23.640 --> 15:28.240 into that second phase. And in Swiss, in this Buchholz system also, it's going 15:28.240 --> 15:32.880 get very complicated really really fast about winning those three matches but 15:32.880 --> 15:37.040 that's in the future not long from now around three weeks or so but it is in 15:37.040 --> 15:42.800 the future regardless but there's teams that have already made it Leo to the 15:42.800 --> 15:51.000 Salt Lake City Major for EML teams going there and G2 VP Falcons and my boys 15:51.000 --> 15:58.320 most importantly you just mentioned it if you're the fourth seed in your region 15:58.320 --> 16:02.160 which means that you make it to the select city major through the lower 16:02.160 --> 16:06.480 bracket final but you lose that very bad record final right you are sent to the 16:06.480 --> 16:10.600 phase one of the major where only four teams out of the eighth qualified to 16:10.600 --> 16:17.560 face two Falcons Falcons is the worst seed of eml so they will have to 16:17.560 --> 16:22.200 star the major through phase one. So all the teams that barely get their tickets 16:22.200 --> 16:26.120 scrapped their way to the Seoul Lake City Major, they're gonna find themselves 16:26.120 --> 16:32.240 facing Falcons on day one of the major. Isn't that insane? That's incredible. I 16:32.240 --> 16:37.000 mean, it's to say that the one player change is something big obviously for 16:37.000 --> 16:43.000 Falcons slash G2 in their own right, but still Virtus Pro had a very, very 16:43.000 --> 16:47.400 big change, a very core change I would say, going into the stage. I don't 16:47.400 --> 16:52.040 many were expecting them to come out as number two in the entire region. That's something 16:52.040 --> 16:58.060 pretty exciting in its own. Twisted Minds brand new, we finally have an actual MENA team 16:58.060 --> 17:03.160 in the EML, the Europe MENA League, and they are third place in the region. Of course, 17:03.160 --> 17:07.000 Twisted Minds being the old Falcons, well the Falcons of old a couple of years ago 17:07.000 --> 17:12.600 or a year and a half ago, their team and players that are incredibly talented. It's 17:12.600 --> 17:17.120 probably the best of the best from the entire region. And so seeing them performing despite 17:17.120 --> 17:22.560 like ping differences all that it's clear that they have a lot more to show and the back-to-back 17:22.560 --> 17:26.720 best of threes that they had especially that game versus shifter just the comeback story from 17:26.720 --> 17:32.640 to submits is beautiful everything from to turn like the victory the victory over static even that 17:32.640 --> 17:37.840 loss against g2 they are the team that puts them the most pressure on g2 by the way they are the 17:37.840 --> 17:41.600 only ones that made it close in one map that border game i thought that g2 was going to go into 17:41.600 --> 17:47.760 over time. And then after that, to take down shifters, yes, it's a fit in itself, but take 17:47.760 --> 17:54.880 down Falcons, what a way to do it. Honestly, completely reworked over EML, but I like it. 17:54.880 --> 18:00.640 G2, super team makes it with the first seed, VP, great roster overall, a team that plays the mix 18:00.640 --> 18:06.000 of the firepower of the Russians, of Dan, of Pasha, of Florik, and then all of the 18:06.000 --> 18:11.040 IGL-ing and vision from the Frenchies and from the coach Dark, and then twisted minds who 18:11.040 --> 18:14.420 to come in swinging with a super entertaining playside, 18:14.420 --> 18:15.680 super aggressive. 18:15.680 --> 18:18.520 And then Falcons, despite starting the major in phase one, 18:18.520 --> 18:20.280 I'm not too worried about them. 18:20.280 --> 18:22.720 As I said on the desk yesterday, I will say this again, 18:22.720 --> 18:25.880 I think that we're sending four of the best possible teams 18:25.880 --> 18:27.320 we could have sent from EML. 18:27.320 --> 18:29.680 It might be the best EML has looked 18:29.680 --> 18:31.240 at an international event, I think, 18:31.240 --> 18:34.000 at least in terms of potential that we're sending. 18:34.000 --> 18:36.480 Thank God, because I think a couple of events ago, 18:36.480 --> 18:38.560 the things were quite different. 18:38.560 --> 18:40.960 We're really unsure of how EML would be, 18:40.960 --> 18:44.800 But I don't want us to dig into EML because that's the second best region in the world, 18:44.800 --> 18:45.800 not the best one. 18:45.800 --> 18:48.680 The best one is right here in SAO and we're locking things in. 18:48.680 --> 18:52.200 I know we can talk about EML all day every day, but that's not what we're doing here. 18:52.200 --> 18:57.960 Let's talk about our first matchup team liquid Alienware going up against Ninjas in pajamas. 18:57.960 --> 19:05.160 We'll focus in on team liquid Alienware in this matchup because they have had a 19:05.160 --> 19:06.400 huge change. 19:06.400 --> 19:10.800 Obviously, this is a huge name in the region and globally as well. 19:10.800 --> 19:17.040 You bring in the four of the ex-ferial players, you put them in with Maya, and according at 19:17.040 --> 19:23.120 least to their steam, to Felly Pox and to Igor their coach, things have completely shifted. 19:23.120 --> 19:25.080 Everybody's in different roles pretty much. 19:25.080 --> 19:29.320 Things have completely been flipped on their heads, and Maya is leading the team in 19:29.320 --> 19:30.320 stats everywhere. 19:30.320 --> 19:34.240 He's the only one left where we're from the old team, you're Quiddilling or 19:34.240 --> 19:39.600 roster really really spearheading the team pushing them across every one that they had 19:39.600 --> 19:46.960 but this is their first challenge in a BO3 league. Yeah it is a tricky one because they started with 19:46.960 --> 19:52.720 pressure I feel like joining a new organization making such a huge roster overhaul, four new 19:52.720 --> 19:57.680 players integrating Maya, changing all of the roles and so it started off the wrong way they lost 19:57.680 --> 20:02.880 to Black Dragons as a reminder the same teams that lost 7-0, 7-1 and 7-1 to Faze. 20:02.880 --> 20:09.880 And despite all of this, after this, they recovered, I think, beating most convincingly, beating phase to me. 20:09.880 --> 20:15.880 In group stage was a big one, 7-4. And after that, a statement 7-0 victory over Imperial eSports. 20:15.880 --> 20:21.880 That's a team that has looked very confident. As you can still do on the far right of your screen right now, 20:21.880 --> 20:27.880 JV was one of the best rated player on the roster at SI, and then he was changed to a more flexible role, 20:27.880 --> 20:32.880 role, a bit more of a support role, and so far he's still adjusting to that. 20:32.880 --> 20:38.880 However, on the left side, the two guys to highlight, Maya and KZ, still there, still performing very well. 20:38.880 --> 20:43.880 What a replacement for Herds for Maya, who seems to slot right in with the new lineup. 20:43.880 --> 20:49.880 But like you said, it can be tricky for them because it will be the first BO3 as a team ever. 20:49.880 --> 20:54.880 They've not played one yet as a team. So an IP on the other hand, they've already had to warm up. 20:54.880 --> 20:58.880 they had to go through quarterfinals, they had that experience and that confidence of their 20:58.880 --> 21:03.840 weighing against their loss on Tuesday. So it's a different setup here. They need to be one that 21:03.840 --> 21:09.760 already going into this matchup. And looking at the last game that Ninjas Bajamas had against loss 21:09.760 --> 21:14.480 and I feel super comfortable in that game. I think they should have won it even better than 21:14.480 --> 21:19.920 they did. I believe it was 7473 in the two match that they played and they put in a lot of 21:19.920 --> 21:23.840 effort in there. The entire team was working together and this is what we want to see. 21:23.840 --> 21:29.200 the central putting in numbers, Pino always doing the impact that he's supposed to and then of course 21:29.200 --> 21:33.280 Fancy trying to keep up with him is kind of a tough job for any player out there 21:33.280 --> 21:39.440 but this man in front of you is definitely a dream come true. It's not gonna be easy I think for 21:39.440 --> 21:45.920 Team Liquid Alienware to deal with NIP maybe for those that haven't been watching SAL regularly 21:45.920 --> 21:50.960 enough. Let me tell you this is a squad that you should definitely never underestimate. 21:50.960 --> 22:11.960 No, definitely not. I think it's a well-built roster, by the way. Many teams were, I think, not really writing them off, but at least saying that they were weakened, because they had lost Colm's to Flux at W7M, they had lost their IGL, and that they recruited Bassetto, who's supposed to be a bit more passive, who came from loud, a team that was known to be very passive, and so most people were doubting them. 22:11.960 --> 22:17.080 but I think that Vasectov is a great fit. Yes, he brings another vision, but that vision is not 22:17.080 --> 22:21.000 necessarily worse than this one. And I think that for the rest, Pinot, Wizard, Hite is still 22:21.000 --> 22:25.480 performing really well. The most important thing with fantasy that does not appear on his stats 22:25.480 --> 22:31.800 right now is the opening engagements for me. He's been involved in 17 opening kills and 10 22:31.800 --> 22:37.720 opening deaths. That's 27 opening engagements, three times more than any office teammates, 22:37.720 --> 22:42.360 by the way. So he's been really the big spearhead of that team. It does not look like he's 22:42.920 --> 22:47.320 succeeded in that much in the statistics, but I think he's been the key player for their entry 22:47.320 --> 22:54.120 line. And I think that Pino without haters, they all benefit from it. Absolutely. Now, 22:54.120 --> 23:00.040 we're looking at these two teams in their own little bubble, but we can talk about individual 23:00.040 --> 23:05.800 players. And I want to take our head-to-head of Maya versus Fantasy, two players that if 23:05.800 --> 23:10.520 If anything, you want them to play at their tapety top today. 23:10.520 --> 23:11.360 It's a big challenge. 23:11.360 --> 23:14.120 They both need to show up at their best in order 23:14.120 --> 23:18.000 to push their specific teams across the line layoff. 23:18.000 --> 23:18.880 Yeah, they do. 23:18.880 --> 23:21.280 I think I want to see the consistency of Maya so far. 23:21.280 --> 23:23.880 After what we've seen from him during the groups 23:23.880 --> 23:26.160 and being like, I think he dropped double digits 23:26.160 --> 23:28.200 on almost every single match. 23:28.200 --> 23:30.640 If you look at 44 kills, he paid four matches. 23:30.640 --> 23:33.440 So that's more than double digits every game. 23:33.440 --> 23:34.840 The cost is very important. 23:34.840 --> 23:40.480 EPS also leading the charts for the one player that was brought on from the previous liquid 23:40.480 --> 23:44.920 roster. I think it's very important for him to keep that star role. It's a very difficult 23:44.920 --> 23:50.040 thing to come in and replace herds who was by many, you know, seen as the face of the 23:50.040 --> 23:56.200 former Fiora roster. And I think he's done so in such a way that I just love he, you 23:56.200 --> 23:59.960 know, listening to Igor and interviews or Feli Pocs telling us like, you know, 23:59.960 --> 24:03.240 Maya is not only there in the game, he's also there like in terms of energy in 24:03.240 --> 24:05.960 in terms of shot goals, in terms of carrying the team again, 24:05.960 --> 24:07.360 and that's what we needed. 24:07.360 --> 24:09.120 And like to do that, to be that guy, 24:09.120 --> 24:10.400 the hype man of your team. 24:10.400 --> 24:12.580 And on top of that, also be the best rated. 24:12.580 --> 24:13.840 I mean, what could you ask more? 24:13.840 --> 24:15.800 So if there's one player I want to look at today 24:15.800 --> 24:19.080 in that victory, a single BF3 to make it to the select city 24:19.080 --> 24:20.480 is Maya. 24:20.480 --> 24:23.080 But this is the front line of these two teams. 24:23.080 --> 24:25.680 What if we looked deeper back from an IGL 24:25.680 --> 24:28.880 or support standpoint, who are we really pushing 24:28.880 --> 24:32.320 to see today to get that victory? 24:32.320 --> 24:33.760 So that fight will be different, right? 24:33.760 --> 24:36.880 It will be Bassetto versus FeliPox, two very different styles. 24:36.880 --> 24:41.280 However, with the recent world changes on the side of Team Liquid Alienware, FeliPox 24:41.280 --> 24:44.920 has said himself he's been put back on a hard bridge, on shields. 24:44.920 --> 24:46.960 So it basically Bassetto's role. 24:46.960 --> 24:50.440 So there will be the two calling the shots from the back line. 24:50.440 --> 24:53.040 Let's be real in terms of achievements and pay-gree. 24:53.040 --> 24:56.600 FeliPox is supposed to win that head-to-head. 24:56.600 --> 25:02.160 But again, Siege is never made on paper, NIP, they showed great consistency throughout 25:02.160 --> 25:07.120 all of the kickoffs so far. I mean, they only dropped to 3R. Let's remind everyone, 25:07.120 --> 25:12.800 this team beat Fluxo WCNN in the B01. So they had that confidence for them. And like I said, 25:12.800 --> 25:16.720 they are warmed up. They played a B0 3R AD. They work on the league against us. 25:16.720 --> 25:20.000 And to me, that is an advantage that Tim Liquid and Lignin where it doesn't have. 25:21.120 --> 25:25.520 Well, my friends, let's move on to our map veto and see where this will take us. 25:25.520 --> 25:32.080 Team Liquid Alienware versus Ninjas in pajamas. Winner makes it to Salt Lake City, 25:32.080 --> 25:38.120 Loser drops a lower bracket to play phase and that is going to be a tough match no matter how you 25:38.520 --> 25:43.060 Cut this be a three first up night even lab and that is the liquid 25:43.560 --> 25:50.800 Pick layer for NIP and we'll move on to bank should this go the distance the night even laughs thought on that 25:50.800 --> 25:52.800 We're bringing our casters leave 25:53.320 --> 25:58.200 Weird one to me because an IP's family that's come up because they don't like them and laps 25:58.200 --> 26:03.840 At least I haven't played it since Copa's with America last year which was against the former Freya roster by the way 26:03.840 --> 26:09.200 Which they did but since then it's been a perm a band 19 times. They banned it by the last six months 26:09.600 --> 26:13.920 So I'm assuming if they let it through you're cooking something and if there is one match where you want to cook something 26:13.920 --> 26:15.920 It's the one qualified Newton major 26:16.400 --> 26:20.860 It's been a while since you've seen this team liquid the Alienware roster 26:21.240 --> 26:25.840 Being online. I wonder if that's gonna be an extra bit of pressure on them to get across the line 26:25.840 --> 26:31.240 I mean, yeah, maybe that has to do with the organization itself. 26:31.240 --> 26:35.680 I think, I think, yeah, I think looking at that roster, you know, I'm not too worried 26:35.680 --> 26:39.600 of one of the most experienced roster in the world. 26:39.600 --> 26:43.520 Even when it comes to my ass, so like, I wouldn't be too afraid of that. 26:43.520 --> 26:47.480 Just looking at Lair for the set of an IP, it was such a crutch map for these guys. 26:47.480 --> 26:50.480 I don't know if you remember, but like, we saw them crushing on it during a meeting 26:50.480 --> 26:52.080 major that played so much. 26:52.080 --> 27:00.580 I remember them 7-0ed space station on the map and this crazy 15 round game against shifters, which was absolutely insane. 27:00.580 --> 27:07.380 And then bank to finish it, I'm excited. We've seen Timbukulaniya were played recently in kickoff, he had a really good result on it. 27:07.380 --> 27:12.380 So a balanced map pool, but not having laps is where my question mark is. 27:12.380 --> 27:15.380 The Parabana-Fanatici. 27:15.380 --> 27:39.980 Then let's call in our casters demo and extra trucker joining us today. Our first couple matches here demo Oli. How you doing? We got a big game on our hands today. Oli, it's team liquid alien. We're playing NIP and winner goes to Salt Lake City. Simple as we certainly do. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into it. It's it's a play day that obviously as we're getting closer to kickoff and I'm sat there the other night watching 27:39.980 --> 27:45.860 I'm thinking toward next week about NaL concluding with SAO concluding over the next couple of 27:45.860 --> 27:46.860 days as well. 27:46.860 --> 27:50.340 We're really starting to get close now to find out who is going to be making it to the 27:50.340 --> 27:51.340 major. 27:51.340 --> 27:55.740 And I think that SAO in itself is one of the maybe more exciting ones for me. 27:55.740 --> 27:59.540 You know, former world champions in the lower bracket, like there's a bit of a gap 27:59.540 --> 28:02.540 potentially for a team to sneak in and for FaZe to miss out. 28:02.540 --> 28:06.020 Obviously, we've already had the almost upset inside of Europe. 28:06.020 --> 28:09.020 So I guess it's just about, you know, seeing if these upsets are going to come 28:09.020 --> 28:11.020 I'm sure you're on it. 28:13.020 --> 28:16.020 So I'm surprised he hasn't said anything that he's casting me today. 28:16.020 --> 28:18.020 I thought that would have been straight in his mind. 28:18.020 --> 28:19.020 We're bringing it back. 28:19.020 --> 28:22.020 We're bringing it back to you know, while since I've had this guy, 28:22.020 --> 28:26.020 especially back to Brazil, which is really where we started. 28:26.020 --> 28:29.020 There's still companionship only, so it could be back. 28:29.020 --> 28:32.020 Just want to also bring up about Leo's point, he's talking about labs. 28:32.020 --> 28:35.020 I mean, this is also deep and liquid alienware. 28:35.020 --> 28:38.020 I'm not really very curious. I never played this map either. 28:38.020 --> 28:43.020 So for both sides, it's a map that they don't play. So I really don't have a clue what we're expecting here. 28:43.020 --> 28:48.020 I looked at the maps and I honestly think that NIP have really tried in this map ban. 28:48.020 --> 28:55.020 Because if you look at what they've taken away, okay, so Consulate is just Team Liquid Alienware's permanent ban, that's fine. 28:55.020 --> 28:59.020 Shall I come in as the next one? It's not a map that NIP like. 28:59.020 --> 29:06.020 Border is where it gets interesting for me because I think there's a world where Team Liquid Alienware were expecting NIP to pick border 29:06.020 --> 29:11.380 border and to ban the labs potentially and then bang coming in as the decider is it's 29:11.380 --> 29:17.140 like an IP's favorite map so I feel like they've really tried quite a lot of these and a solid 29:17.140 --> 29:21.140 snake been on top of it to kick things off that's exactly what I wanted to see my friends 29:21.140 --> 29:26.660 all yours demo extra drinker enjoy oh it's been a while since we've heard that hasn't it demo 29:27.300 --> 29:33.940 back on the cast again back in Brazil I'm not in place for the reunion to take place 29:36.020 --> 29:47.460 Yeah, it's, you know, it's the three best of three days. So we have a team of cast, one game, one game only. Yeah, we've literally back for one, back for one last show, like a band getting back together. 29:48.180 --> 29:58.020 That's it. This is, oh well, well, you never know, it might turn out like the like kiss where it's just constant reunions until, you know, it keep going for it. But who knows, ever say never. 29:58.020 --> 30:05.080 I think coming into this series, obviously I think that the favorites you have to look 30:05.080 --> 30:06.580 at team Liquid Alienware. 30:06.580 --> 30:12.020 I think just with the prestige that this team has, it's still that core of the fury team 30:12.020 --> 30:15.220 we know are just so darn good. 30:15.220 --> 30:17.260 They should be the expected winners here. 30:17.260 --> 30:22.900 But I think aside from NIP, it's certainly been my most improved team from last year. 30:22.900 --> 30:25.060 I thought they did really well to get themselves back 30:25.060 --> 30:29.100 connected to the outside inside of SAL. 30:29.100 --> 30:31.220 And again, I think so far this stage 30:31.220 --> 30:32.580 they've done a really good job. 30:32.580 --> 30:34.940 I would agree with you. 30:34.940 --> 30:38.140 And NIP is a team that I want to do well as well. 30:38.140 --> 30:39.980 You know, it's, I feel like because we only cover 30:39.980 --> 30:42.700 a little bit of SAL, you can almost be a little bit more 30:42.700 --> 30:45.020 biased than we are in our airport. 30:45.020 --> 30:48.180 And I feel like this NIP side is a side 30:48.180 --> 30:49.980 that I want to see succeed. 30:49.980 --> 30:51.300 I like what we're trying to do here 30:51.300 --> 30:53.900 with the team, with the players that they've got. 30:53.900 --> 30:57.220 And I think that they play a really exciting brand of Siege. 30:57.220 --> 31:00.540 Obviously Team Liquid Alienware kind of speaks to themselves. 31:00.540 --> 31:04.340 And yeah, this is a team that's star studded SI winners. 31:04.340 --> 31:08.020 You've got a very serious core of players. 31:08.020 --> 31:10.500 And then with now the introduction of Maya over the last, 31:10.500 --> 31:13.220 you know, whatever it is, kick off however many weeks 31:13.220 --> 31:15.100 that's been going on, we're slowly 31:15.100 --> 31:16.260 starting to see this build. 31:16.260 --> 31:19.140 But again, it's quite a seismic shift 31:19.140 --> 31:21.100 that they've gone through in that roster. 31:21.100 --> 31:24.480 speaking in the pre-show about JV's roles and I mean look at what he's playing in the 31:24.480 --> 31:28.380 thermite now it's not unusual to see JV on a hard breach but it is stats 31:28.380 --> 31:33.300 certainly have suffered as to where we're used to seeing on other roles so 31:33.300 --> 31:37.340 this more flex role it's it's something that's you know it's brand new for 31:37.340 --> 31:42.500 Team Liquid Alienware. Yeah I think for the side it's just adjusting to their 31:42.500 --> 31:47.420 new home in the new colors and certainly I think for the side the fact 31:47.420 --> 31:53.180 that they're playing one of their perma bands that they've had over the past year is very 31:53.180 --> 31:56.540 surprising. They don't know if that's because Maya's here and Maya's going to try and teach 31:56.540 --> 32:00.540 them a few things, but I think for anyone in the world, I mean, if Team Liquid Alienware 32:00.540 --> 32:05.180 have added another map into their arsenal, it just makes it a much more scary to go 32:05.180 --> 32:09.460 up against. At the moment, it is just this pressure in towards Rafters. Very standard 32:09.460 --> 32:12.820 take here from Team Liquid Alienware. They put the hard breaches in and opened 32:12.820 --> 32:15.740 up, and now they're starting the assault. And Rafters, down goes with their first 32:15.740 --> 32:16.740 player dead. 32:16.740 --> 32:24.940 Yeah, there's army is always gonna be a high target there on rafters a very tricky position to play and something that team liquid alien 32:24.940 --> 32:26.940 We've dealt with quite nicely there 32:27.260 --> 32:31.120 He's still gonna be up on the clash though, and that's gonna be a little bit of a problem 32:31.380 --> 32:38.060 We all know clash can just be an immovable object at times with the pressure that team liquid alien where I've got right now 32:38.060 --> 32:42.320 But not looking in too bad a shape because I will find one back onto JV 32:42.320 --> 32:46.040 But they are really knocking on the side door case. He's gonna go down as well 32:46.040 --> 32:50.160 And what about that for a flank coming in from fancy eventually taken down 32:50.200 --> 32:57.400 But damage already done for leaps now left in the one versus one low health diffuser in hand nose 32:57.760 --> 33:03.480 C4 for seto needs to play this carefully, but he's giving him the space demo. He's letting this diffuser down 33:03.720 --> 33:07.360 That's not the play inside of the 1v1 but seto now has to act 33:07.360 --> 33:13.500 He's the two hard supports going up against each other this was the head-to-head that Leo and Millish are talking about 33:13.800 --> 33:18.040 And there's only gonna be one winner for Epox there a plant and a kill to seal the deal 33:18.760 --> 33:24.360 Oh, he's robbed that rounds. I really should not have been allowed to get that plant in 33:24.900 --> 33:26.900 but somehow 33:26.900 --> 33:31.720 He's made it work and that's because the cell just just stood off. He was in connector 33:31.720 --> 33:33.560 He didn't want to move he didn't want to go for it 33:33.560 --> 33:38.640 It's probably down to a lack of information. Obviously from the settle. He just want to try and run the clock down 33:38.640 --> 33:45.200 He wasn't expecting fully box to go for the plant, but he did I mean for team liquid earlier where a very slow 33:45.360 --> 33:47.360 Kind of start wasn't it the first few minutes 33:47.360 --> 33:51.520 It was just kind of doing your general basis of getting those walls open setting up 33:51.520 --> 33:53.960 They don't a really good job good entry in towards rafters 33:53.960 --> 33:58.960 They were also able to pick off the clash, but then they let a retake happen in towards rafters 33:58.960 --> 34:00.680 That was one of the main issues for them 34:00.680 --> 34:16.680 and they lost a lot of bodies from it. And yeah, for Leapox being able to clutch up. I mean, that is around to kick things off. And it's got to get team liquid alien. We're out for it now. Absolutely. The top floor is where you go as a defending team on night Haven labs to pick up an early round. 34:16.680 --> 34:29.680 It's the reason that a lot of the rotations will start up there. And I'm going to go straight down to the basement, not fancy in another attempt, even though it only came down to a one V one, obviously feeling like the flank from fancy maybe isn't too much. 34:29.680 --> 34:38.680 maybe isn't something that's necessarily repeatable and it might be something that Team Liquid Alienware are going to get a little bit wise to as the game develops. 34:38.680 --> 34:45.680 Still, no cause for panic just yet, but definitely the start that Team Liquid Alienware would have wanted here. 34:45.680 --> 34:52.680 Hates, he's going to be way out of town at the moment, all the way upstairs inside of meeting for this basement defense. 34:52.680 --> 34:59.240 I'm not really liking what I'm seeing here, a glass is always a big nightmare especially 34:59.240 --> 35:03.920 when these walls get opened. Nothing's trying to deny this breach. Obviously the bandit is 35:03.920 --> 35:08.920 banned but Cade and Tuber are both available. And then I appear just sort of giving this 35:08.920 --> 35:12.960 away for free. You must have some sort of a strategy but I'm not really seeing a warden 35:12.960 --> 35:16.360 or anything there Demo. And the plan's going down already. Oh they are here for 35:16.360 --> 35:23.640 one thing and one thing only. Burn off the Leapox Astor reposition on very low HP on the edge of 35:23.640 --> 35:29.320 the smoke and Hates for Love can take him down. Yeah not checking the Goyo canister and that was 35:29.320 --> 35:34.440 enough to stop that push from happening and it should just be a lockout from NIP. Obviously for 35:34.440 --> 35:39.880 Team Liquid Alienware on this strategy you basically go all in and if you well if you don't 35:39.880 --> 35:44.360 get the hand you're not gonna not gonna win the pot. That is certainly the case here for Team 35:44.360 --> 35:47.880 Team Liquid Alienware. You know, if they're gonna be trying to resmoke and... 35:48.760 --> 35:54.560 ...for the Glaz, that's really their only wing con, as if Maya can maybe try and get some kills here through the smoke, but... 35:55.260 --> 36:00.060 ...for NIP, they'll be fully aware of what they're up against, they'll be aware of the Glaz. 36:00.360 --> 36:02.160 So as long as they don't peek the smoke, it should be fine. 36:08.660 --> 36:11.660 Oh, you've got a tech issue, alright. I'll keep it rolling then, but... 36:11.660 --> 36:20.160 And the point still stands, I think, for Team Liquid Alienware, if they are able to win this round, it will be down to NIP, giving away bullish kills. 36:20.160 --> 36:24.660 If he's upstairs, actually going to say he's going to try and ping off. I believe that's going to be one of the echo cameras. 36:24.660 --> 36:29.160 I'm going to try a replant now. He's going to go and pick up the diffuser. Is he going to go for it? Yes he is. 36:29.160 --> 36:34.160 Again, the echo camera has been disabled. And surely not. Surely there's no way they're going to get away with this. 36:34.160 --> 36:38.660 And yes they are. Somehow the plant goes in. It was beautifully played by Team Liquid Alienware. 36:38.660 --> 36:43.220 Look at the two people on the breach. There's solo HP and one of them goes down Nate 36:43.220 --> 36:46.500 I am self in his JV to rotate down with him to 36:47.080 --> 36:52.860 This planted in a really good position to try and hold the cross Nate able to find one here comes JV 36:52.860 --> 36:54.660 But it's gonna be the full retake here from that IP 36:54.660 --> 36:59.260 But the need to start working on that diffuser in goes the oryx able to find one the diffuser 36:59.660 --> 37:06.780 Should get stuck get it will do Pino is there on IP just had more bodies and team liquid a England where they just threw it 37:06.780 --> 37:12.100 right at them and yeah for liquids just couldn't get through it. 37:15.100 --> 37:20.980 Granted there's fairly low HP on the attacker but still outside already 37:20.980 --> 37:25.780 detected very narrow angle always the danger there when you get in the plan 37:25.780 --> 37:31.660 down in a I was a three versus five planter than dies two versus five you 37:31.660 --> 37:36.740 should have the bodies to throw at the problem. NIP did just exactly that 37:36.740 --> 37:43.740 something I've noticed in demo and obviously I didn't see a good portion of that last round but in the in the early portion of the 37:43.740 --> 37:50.740 Round the intention is so crystal clear at the moment from Team Liquid Alien where they just want to get in and they want to get that 37:50.740 --> 37:59.740 Diffuser down which whilst that's not unusual isn't necessarily something that we've seen them do tons of throughout the course of the 37:59.740 --> 38:06.260 If not being there, you know, no diffuser planted at all, but we're looking at three diffusers 38:06.260 --> 38:12.060 planted throughout the course of kickoff so far, and already in the first two rounds of 38:12.060 --> 38:14.060 labs we've seen two. 38:14.060 --> 38:18.420 So you can very safely assume that over the course of the day, we're going to get them 38:18.420 --> 38:23.260 planting more times today than we have done throughout the entirety of kickoff. 38:23.260 --> 38:27.980 So definitely a different strategy coming out here, Team Liquid. 38:27.980 --> 38:33.360 We'll tell if it is a winning one or not round number three back upstairs. We go 38:35.080 --> 38:38.380 Happy you're gonna be giving it another attempt up on that top floor 38:41.060 --> 38:45.620 Yeah, we'll see what the change up is gonna be for NIP I mean immediately 38:45.620 --> 38:49.960 I'm seeing that the the clash is no longer with us. They've switched off that operator 38:50.620 --> 38:55.580 I'm to say though. He has went down the first pick does go in favor here if team look at Alienware 38:55.580 --> 39:00.060 I mean, that's a really good start considering you've been able to pick off a player and you 39:00.060 --> 39:05.340 haven't lost anyone as of yet. I always think for the top floor, you need your hard preachers 39:05.340 --> 39:10.980 to stay alive. As if you are kind of situation where you don't have the heart breach. I mean, 39:10.980 --> 39:14.380 this bomb site is really difficult. 39:14.380 --> 39:22.580 Henry have fallen. Cade now being employed this time. Breaches have typically been 39:22.580 --> 39:27.340 something that haven't been so hardly fought over, hates, brilliant murder hole there through 39:27.340 --> 39:34.220 the floor and IT. That's a really big problem now for Team Liquid. They need to deal with 39:34.220 --> 39:38.580 this Cade. They do have some EMPs on KZ, but they're going to need to get a little bit of 39:38.580 --> 39:43.300 a visual as to where that is as we all know the range and the radius on those secondary 39:43.300 --> 39:48.020 EMPs. It ain't that much. You need to be in the vicinity to disable that K-Club. 39:48.020 --> 39:50.860 Of course you've got the shock drone as well, but it looks as though Nade has 39:50.860 --> 39:55.980 spent both of his. Unless one is watching a flank, that would maybe be a little bit unusual. 39:55.980 --> 39:59.900 Another kill coming in for Hayes. He's feeling it this round and the last. 39:59.900 --> 40:03.540 I mentioned there that he'd hit a worthy in the last round and he started this round off 40:03.540 --> 40:11.340 with two for himself as well. Ooh, nice angle. Found by Meyer. Hayes eventually just overreaching 40:11.340 --> 40:16.180 a little bit. T4 sends out close range with the shotgun, Bissetto. Tryna make something 40:16.180 --> 40:19.260 happen here on the IT breach, but he's going to get stunned again. 40:19.260 --> 40:23.480 Well, this is the danger player though. If your team look at Alienware, that's the player 40:23.480 --> 40:29.040 that you need to try and kill. But every has a shotgun closest. Very difficult to deal with 40:29.040 --> 40:34.040 and that time is slowly ticking away. Pino has used another smoke, he still has one left. 40:34.040 --> 40:38.400 In goes the final flashbang here from IA. Is he going to make the push off of it? No, 40:38.400 --> 40:42.620 he's going to get caught out. Wizard goes aggressive to settle with that shotgun. Able 40:42.620 --> 40:47.520 find full Epox and this should be a lockout here for NIP. Unless Nade can do something 40:47.520 --> 40:52.260 Unholy but no not going to be the case wizard shots him down and I pee that's two in a row 40:53.880 --> 40:59.000 Talk about how impactful opening picks can be and the pick inside of that round on to fancy 40:59.000 --> 41:04.760 It didn't really mean too much because the impactful kill came when JV died on the Deimos 41:04.920 --> 41:07.560 That was the win come that was the way that team liquid 41:07.560 --> 41:09.160 We're going to get that wall open 41:09.160 --> 41:15.080 They were gonna shoot open the floor destroy the cave claw and then move on from there get the wall open and start to work 41:15.080 --> 41:19.800 with the round instead they're not able to do that they have to pivot they have to go through 41:19.800 --> 41:24.040 connector they managed to open up that side obviously half of it's usually already left open 41:24.040 --> 41:29.320 anyway looking in arms pillar into the site but it just wasn't enough it wasn't enough space to work 41:29.320 --> 41:34.680 with an nip feeling no pressure from the vertical nobody in through fish no one really in through 41:34.680 --> 41:40.440 rafters either very easily able to just hold on that and the fact that hate's picked up a couple 41:40.440 --> 41:47.680 really nice kills for himself and IP fight back and respond with a round of their own on that top floor 41:47.680 --> 41:51.160 As such can take us into their third choice site 41:51.160 --> 41:57.720 We go to the mid floor and we've also had our final round of bands for this half a clash and a 41:57.720 --> 42:03.800 Deimos both taken out nothing too surprising there, but the clash. I mean it's been played in one round demo 42:04.640 --> 42:06.000 Yeah 42:06.000 --> 42:13.320 If your team look at any where maybe it's just the wall out what if they do bring it again, so it is you're trying to cover themselves as best as they can 42:15.280 --> 42:20.720 In terms of that demos I mean yeah, thanks all second demos that has been that the name of the stage hasn't it those two operators 42:20.720 --> 42:28.080 Also for a doko be my nose free in terms of the information you can gather on attacks is it's a lot to deal with and 42:29.040 --> 42:32.480 Yeah, it's what I like to call. It's the Shinko show isn't it those operators? 42:32.480 --> 42:39.400 Yeah, I mean, you're obviously not the biggest Shaco fan in the world, but it's your favorite 42:39.400 --> 42:41.600 player and now on your favorite team. 42:41.600 --> 42:44.600 I mean, Benches, I don't forget. 42:44.600 --> 42:46.600 Yeah, but I'm in. 42:46.600 --> 42:47.600 What are you? 42:47.600 --> 42:48.600 Come on. 42:48.600 --> 42:53.400 We all know you're a Shaco fan. 42:53.400 --> 42:54.400 It's okay. 42:54.400 --> 42:55.400 Sorry, Pengu. 42:55.400 --> 43:02.400 Well, I mean, that would have been a throwback, wouldn't it? 43:02.400 --> 43:06.240 They're like, hold the timer, back in the day. 43:06.240 --> 43:11.800 Look at this from Hates, very aggressive standpoint, inside a garage, I mean this is where NIP, they're 43:11.800 --> 43:17.360 looking to take risk and try and catch this team liquid alienware side by surprise, which 43:17.360 --> 43:22.120 I mean, I'm kind of a fan of, I think against this side, you need to try and hit them 43:22.120 --> 43:23.120 where it hurts. 43:23.120 --> 43:25.840 I mean, I think for team liquid alienware, they're always going to have clutch potential 43:25.840 --> 43:27.640 with the players that are on this team. 43:27.640 --> 43:30.960 But at least make it so they have to try and clutch and go for these aggressive 43:30.960 --> 43:38.400 place don't allow them to have this set up. So, okay, tricking. That's your though is up so it will 43:38.400 --> 43:43.680 cause a bit of an issue for him. And yet easy enough for the factor to remove both the cave 43:43.680 --> 43:48.800 walls and allows the firm might be a very easy breach. Again, pretend we're here, Ollie. 43:48.800 --> 43:53.440 It's just running for the motions again. It is. I do just worry a little bit about the 43:53.440 --> 43:57.840 time. We're at the halfway point. Two kills for Maya though is going to speed things up 43:57.840 --> 44:04.360 beautifully but it's responded JV and KZ both down for the count but Maya isn't 44:04.360 --> 44:11.640 finished yet very well net himself another two here I see for is gonna 44:11.640 --> 44:17.600 bring things level for a time being Pino shot the C4 quite early there in the 44:17.600 --> 44:21.200 context of the round there's still a minute and nothing else to try and hold 44:21.200 --> 44:25.560 on to space with got fully pox on the bees Pino is gonna be able to give 44:25.560 --> 44:30.920 great information, but Hates is less than half HP. He's asking a lot of his teammate 44:30.920 --> 44:36.960 here to try and hold on to the whole site, fortunately. Allway camera's still up so doesn't 44:36.960 --> 44:42.040 need to swing and give his location away at the moment and just waste the time here. 44:42.040 --> 44:45.720 Team Liquid Alienware, they've got 40 seconds of it to play with and I feel like that's 44:45.720 --> 44:47.720 probably going to be enough. 44:47.720 --> 44:54.720 You know, we've just formed an OC4, and I'm going to go for 4 vines. 44:54.720 --> 44:56.720 We're good. 44:56.720 --> 45:00.720 Just also, I think, if you look by himself, if you look at Alienware, 45:00.720 --> 45:03.720 maybe try to isolate that 1v2 engagement. 45:03.720 --> 45:06.720 That'd be pretty good. 45:06.720 --> 45:07.720 EMP. 45:07.720 --> 45:11.720 Just stop that razor bloom from Activate and get rid of the Banshee too. 45:11.720 --> 45:13.720 And you need to try and go for the plant here, 45:13.720 --> 45:15.720 but surely this is where Pina's going to come in big with the shotgun from below. 45:15.720 --> 45:21.200 Yeah, the leapbox has to scour now but elsewhere and I just have to try to hold on. He's gonna go for the button the death 45:21.200 --> 45:24.240 That's perfect right right into his line of sight 45:25.520 --> 45:29.800 NIP had it covered team liquid alien where none the wiser of that pulse I 45:32.160 --> 45:37.520 Can't help but feel the team liquid alien where I've just bottled that and there it is the timeout 45:38.920 --> 45:45.640 They had so much time all they had to do was take two separate two versus one 45:45.720 --> 45:55.000 It's beyond belief. Okay, you've got the pulse. I get that. So there is a good chance the NIP are 45:55.000 --> 45:57.760 going to know where you're coming from. There's a good chance the HACES has got that information. 45:57.760 --> 46:02.360 But you've still just got to roll the dice. We didn't see the bees used. Not that they would 46:02.360 --> 46:05.400 have done too much, but it might have given you a little bit of an inkling. It could have 46:05.400 --> 46:09.760 at least zoned off a few areas that you then know that you necessarily don't have to watch. 46:09.760 --> 46:18.820 Poor old Maya, three kills in the round for pretty much nothing. 46:18.820 --> 46:22.840 Alarm bell's starting to ring there, if those sort of attacks are going awry, where you've 46:22.840 --> 46:27.320 got one player getting three massive kills to open it up and sure you ended in 2v2, that's 46:27.320 --> 46:28.320 fine. 46:28.320 --> 46:32.120 But it's a fairly straightforward sight to get a plant down on. 46:32.120 --> 46:37.320 Pick your poison, go and flush out the pulse from below, or deal with the thorn 46:37.320 --> 46:38.320 in the site. 46:38.320 --> 46:42.400 It really is just that simple. It's one or the other and you have to take one engagement. 46:42.400 --> 46:46.080 You can't afford to just do nothing and just hope to get the plant down instead. 46:53.760 --> 46:58.400 This is about worrying for Team Liquid Alienware as this is not the half that they would have 46:58.400 --> 47:03.600 wanted. I mean this is always going to be the worry though from a side going to a map which 47:03.600 --> 47:08.160 which was one of their permabands, you know, this in Consulate, this is the maps that the 47:08.160 --> 47:13.680 Furia Core never played. I mean, same as I suppose could be said with 47:13.680 --> 47:19.760 NIP, because they don't play this map either. Certainly for Team Liquid Alienware, they're 47:19.760 --> 47:23.600 the ones who have went for the choice of playing their permaband, you know, they've 47:23.600 --> 47:28.040 went for it. I mean, you mentioned, I mean, Border, maybe could have been what they 47:28.040 --> 47:31.080 are at, but I think for NIP, you're not going to take this side to Border. I 47:31.080 --> 47:35.100 I mean, it was like one of the best maps that they have, um, in Furious. 47:35.100 --> 47:38.160 So I think it was always going to be difficult if you did go there. 47:38.280 --> 47:40.280 But I mean, I think just Leo kind of summed up. 47:40.280 --> 47:41.320 He just wasn't expecting this. 47:41.320 --> 47:42.360 I don't think any of us was. 47:42.360 --> 47:45.760 And that's a weird game at the moment, but maybe it kind of shows why 47:45.760 --> 47:47.720 Team Liquid Alienware just don't play this map. 47:47.720 --> 47:48.640 Maybe there's not that good on it. 47:52.760 --> 47:53.640 Happy to bring it out. 47:53.640 --> 47:56.320 You know, you can have bands, you can have maps that you don't prefer 47:56.320 --> 47:59.160 and you can have maps that you, I quote, it's permanently banned. 47:59.160 --> 48:02.460 But it doesn't mean that you're not putting the work in, it doesn't mean that you've not 48:02.460 --> 48:03.980 got a good handle of it. 48:03.980 --> 48:05.480 Now granted, it's the defence. 48:05.480 --> 48:08.600 I don't think the bands are necessarily leaning one way or another. 48:08.600 --> 48:11.480 We've got Snake in there for goodness sake, he's brand new. 48:11.480 --> 48:15.760 There's plenty more siege without Snake from where they're at this point, so that's 48:15.760 --> 48:18.880 not really tipping the scale in either direction. 48:18.880 --> 48:23.200 There's a fair shot at the moment for an IP to get round, it doesn't seem like 48:23.200 --> 48:26.360 we're dealing with it to get rounds on the board and they're kind of just letting 48:26.360 --> 48:27.860 it slip through the fingers. 48:27.860 --> 48:32.860 We're back to a little bit of Blitz action here as Fully Pox is going to be picking up that shield. 48:32.860 --> 48:38.860 And a lot more destruction along with the couple of globals in there as well. You've got the dokebeat and the lion. 48:38.860 --> 48:43.860 The good ol' Factory Firmite combo to try and get open. Those walls. 48:43.860 --> 48:47.860 For NIP I feel that they can afford to be very loose at the moment. 48:47.860 --> 48:51.860 And even Francis positioning right now is all the way over inside the kitchen. 48:51.860 --> 48:55.860 I think he knows that the drones have worked ahead of him. He knows that there's people going to be pushing in that corridor. 48:55.860 --> 49:01.300 or he also knows obviously that he's getting pushed from kitchen window and be rapid engagement 49:01.300 --> 49:04.340 so that's for sure. Picks the first onto JV that's the fact you're down. 49:07.780 --> 49:10.660 That's trying to get out of there and he has the impact to make it happen. 49:11.460 --> 49:16.260 Aitz is also trying to get out of there so the roamers are in full retreat. 49:17.700 --> 49:21.940 In looking earlier though, so they've got great control of that mid floor and they've only 49:21.940 --> 49:26.900 got themselves into the kitchen that's really it. Storage is what you want to try and eye up. 49:28.500 --> 49:31.460 Or it's upstairs inside of storage and if they want to try and go for 49:32.180 --> 49:36.260 your plants in this site you will have to take this room at some point and maybe that's where 49:36.260 --> 49:42.020 Nades is going to try and see if he can clear it up. No, hey, it's a cracking shot onto the head 49:42.020 --> 49:46.820 of the Fermite and another one for Hates! They're defeating him! Let's try to come in. 49:47.380 --> 49:51.060 Finally he goes down but for Hates he's done the job he's got too. 49:51.940 --> 49:53.940 Absolutely! 49:53.940 --> 49:55.940 Flee Pucks and Maya now have got to make it work 49:55.940 --> 49:57.940 and they've got less than ideal kit for taking 49:57.940 --> 49:59.940 multiple engagements here. 49:59.940 --> 50:01.940 Ooh, the fire. 50:01.940 --> 50:03.940 That's gonna keep him out of the sight for a time being forced 50:03.940 --> 50:05.940 and just to push back all of a 50:05.940 --> 50:07.940 Oh, the teacher's here! Close range! 50:07.940 --> 50:09.940 Bissetto! Finish him with the revolver! 50:09.940 --> 50:11.940 Come on, get your kill! 50:11.940 --> 50:13.940 Eventually taking down Maya! 50:13.940 --> 50:15.940 Credits him with another two there as he grabs Wizard! 50:15.940 --> 50:17.940 Oh no! 50:17.940 --> 50:19.940 Four seconds! 50:19.940 --> 50:28.600 If you use that Myers got it, needs to get himself into a position fancy, has to play this perfectly, dodges out of the way, but turns his back to the Blitz. 50:29.480 --> 50:35.460 Doesn't matter how much HP the Blitz has, if you turn your back, that is the opportunity. 50:36.060 --> 50:38.460 Rebooks very well versed on those shields. 50:39.460 --> 50:45.360 Team Liquid Alienware snatching around there out of absolutely nowhere. I wouldn't know how Wizard died. 50:45.760 --> 50:48.760 It's another steal, isn't it? It's the same as the first round. 50:48.760 --> 50:55.720 would you dare say that the two rounds of team liquid Alienware of one it's not 50:55.720 --> 51:00.400 from great sage it's from getting the punch factor but what did I say about this 51:00.400 --> 51:08.200 side they're always gonna have the players who can clutch I agree and I 51:08.200 --> 51:12.480 don't think you're wrong there have been a couple of rounds for NIP now that 51:12.480 --> 51:17.720 you think back on anything actually their rounds the NIP have you know had 51:17.720 --> 51:23.660 the risk of being clutched on they're not not in clear court have they it feels 51:23.660 --> 51:27.220 like one of those games then we could be sat here at like a we honestly could be 51:27.220 --> 51:31.100 sat at the end of this round with like a 5-1 in a slightly different world where 51:31.100 --> 51:35.020 just a couple of different shots go a different direction it really is a very 51:35.020 --> 51:39.860 tight game and often the scoreline is is giving it entire justice at the 51:39.860 --> 51:44.900 moment it could be so one-sided 51:44.900 --> 51:54.900 I think whatever you look at the labs and the kind of win rates that we've had, it does lean a little bit defender sided. It's not a master. I think it's maybe 6% in it. 51:54.900 --> 52:04.900 But that is kind of what we're looking at based on the stats at the moment inside the current meta. Labs is leaning to more of the defenders having more kind of run of the green. 52:04.900 --> 52:12.900 But I still think it even has been pretty common too. I think for Team Liquid Alienware, if you get that even half, it's not a bad showing all in all. 52:12.900 --> 52:17.900 I don't know how some of the rounds have went, but I have been pretty decisive in NIP's favor. 52:20.900 --> 52:24.900 We go back to this top floor again. 52:24.900 --> 52:29.900 This has certainly been the bomb site that we've seen the most so far in this map. 52:31.900 --> 52:36.900 We have seen it one once by Team Liquid Alienware and also one once by NIP, so... 52:37.900 --> 52:39.900 And that has been a mixed bike for both sides. 52:39.900 --> 52:45.320 But again, for Team Liquid Alienware, pretty much the exact same setup again here, Ollie. 52:45.320 --> 52:46.820 Just getting the walls open. 52:46.820 --> 52:50.520 I'll be honest, I'm really surprised that they're not playing the Maverick. 52:50.520 --> 52:54.260 Because the Maverick's something that you kind of need in this sort of lineup. 52:54.260 --> 52:59.180 NIP have kind of held the ace up their sleeve for this final round and they're now bringing 52:59.180 --> 53:03.940 out the K-2 Brow combination, which is just a nightmare for getting the wall open. 53:03.940 --> 53:07.660 Obviously, you've got the Thatcher, but that 2 Brow is just going to slow things 53:07.660 --> 53:08.660 down. 53:08.660 --> 53:13.840 It expedites it, it speeds things right back up again. 53:13.840 --> 53:21.380 Still the minigame going on here, next to thermic, frozen once again. 53:21.380 --> 53:23.540 One shot left for the Thatcher here. 53:23.540 --> 53:27.720 If you're interested to see if this wall does end up getting open, you can hear it sent 53:27.720 --> 53:31.780 out there now and I believe that was the wall getting opened. 53:31.780 --> 53:33.580 A minute and ten? 53:33.580 --> 53:36.380 You typically want that open in the first fifty seconds. 53:36.380 --> 53:40.620 I know, I know, but I was anxious for the ban jab, the kick in the top like you mentioned. 53:40.620 --> 53:45.820 Idjuz is gonna kind of take your time, but still for Team Liquid Alienware, they've got the breach of them, 53:45.820 --> 53:49.020 that's the main thing, and they've also got the opening pick as Hates. 53:49.020 --> 53:54.780 Hates a bit of a peek, he gets punished, KZ goes big alongside. Maya, Team Liquid Alienware, flooding in with kills. 53:55.980 --> 54:01.340 Fancy, we'll find one back in response, Bissetto, and him after putting a big old shift now. 54:01.340 --> 54:04.940 Filippox has the kit in hand and they know that they've got players pinned down. 54:04.940 --> 54:11.820 down. Where is it? Where is it? It's going to be fancy moving up through there, trying 54:11.820 --> 54:16.700 his trademark flying, but it isn't going to work this time. Bissetto taking down inside 54:16.700 --> 54:23.060 a connector. Team Liquid Alienware there proving they didn't need a lot of that clock because 54:23.060 --> 54:28.580 once that wall was opened, they would just go, go, go. Might only be a minute and 10 54:28.580 --> 54:33.820 seconds on the clock, but they didn't even need all of it. Even half after the siege 54:33.820 --> 54:39.860 that we've seen. Very surprising. I'm interested to hear what our wonderful desk has to hear 54:39.860 --> 54:43.460 about these first couple of rounds. 54:43.460 --> 54:48.180 Thank you, Ollie. Thank you, Demo. And if I'm not mistaken here, Leo, it seems like Team 54:48.180 --> 54:53.700 Liquid Alienware are able to get entries, but not always really convert them into a 54:53.700 --> 54:58.860 round win. What's been going on here? And how did we end up getting, I guess, a different 54:58.860 --> 55:01.500 result at the end of the sixth one? 55:01.500 --> 55:06.660 Yeah, I think the word that was used by Demo, which I agree with, is just stealing the way around. 55:06.660 --> 55:08.180 Look at this, look at this situation. 55:08.180 --> 55:13.540 20 seconds left, Philippox has a sliver of HP, he's a 1v2, somehow he grabs the kill on Pino, 55:13.540 --> 55:18.580 and then grabs the kill on Bassett, like that one already should have been for free around 4 and IP. 55:18.580 --> 55:25.100 That was another 3v1, by the way. Maya gets a double kill here, raises his teammate with 6 seconds left, 55:25.100 --> 55:40.100 One goes for the plant, the Blitz is then sent to chase fantasy away and look at this, once again, because he's playing for the time of year, another still, and only round six really is an actual one where they win the advantage and really convert it. 55:40.100 --> 55:43.100 But you know, it should be a 5-1 for an AP right now. 55:43.100 --> 55:51.100 So, Team Liquid, they can be really happy about how they got away with this, and I think it goes back to what we said in the pre-game match. 55:51.100 --> 55:54.200 If there is one guy that steps up on the side of Tim Liquid, 55:54.200 --> 55:56.320 one guy that we want to see play in a B3. 55:56.320 --> 55:57.520 It has to be Maya. 55:57.520 --> 55:59.920 Well, Maya is here because Maya is the one that saves the round 55:59.920 --> 56:02.760 here with the DKB that gets the triple kill on that wall, 56:02.760 --> 56:04.720 the triple kill on the fence. 56:04.720 --> 56:07.000 And then he's the one that gets three opening engagements 56:07.000 --> 56:08.160 as well. 56:08.160 --> 56:10.880 My memory was, if you get that opening engagement, 56:10.880 --> 56:13.560 somehow you need to find a way to snowball on it. 56:13.560 --> 56:14.720 And I think that's not something 56:14.720 --> 56:15.820 that we've seen in Tim Liquid. 56:15.820 --> 56:17.920 I didn't work with it so far in attack. 56:17.920 --> 56:19.880 So there needs to be a reaction to play better 56:19.880 --> 56:21.460 as a team when they're in defense. 56:21.460 --> 56:23.460 Keep that composure, keep that advantage, 56:23.460 --> 56:26.660 because so far in IP they're not giving it back. 56:26.660 --> 56:28.180 The question is, will Team Liquid Alienware 56:28.180 --> 56:30.500 get more aggressive on the second half on the defense 56:30.500 --> 56:33.020 and really push NIP to the edge? 56:33.020 --> 56:35.060 Will it be a different result? 56:35.060 --> 56:36.860 We'll see NIP on their attacking side. 56:36.860 --> 56:39.580 Now, is there half time, is it kicking off 56:39.580 --> 56:41.900 in our first bans, in our ace, 56:41.900 --> 56:44.780 and do you want to have a chat about this, Leo? 56:45.860 --> 56:48.140 Get out of the casters right for a second. 56:48.140 --> 56:51.380 I think that they want to, you know, the NIP, they don't want to be bothered. 56:51.380 --> 56:56.220 They've just abused a hell of Kaid and Woldenayle, the entirety of their defense. 56:56.220 --> 56:59.420 And they even paired it with Tubero on the last round, didn't look so good for them. 56:59.420 --> 57:03.140 So they want to take it the safe way, remove the two Woldenayle parters. 57:03.140 --> 57:05.780 In my opinion, I think that's a waste, because when you do that, 57:05.780 --> 57:07.820 you look for the lineup that you see on the screen, 57:07.820 --> 57:11.980 the stronger parters like Mirar, like Azami, they're all available for the opponents. 57:11.980 --> 57:16.180 And that makes it so much harder after you bridge the wolf to actually bridge the bomb site. 57:16.180 --> 57:31.220 Thank you very much Japs. Enjoying the little insight on the bands there as well. You can 57:31.220 --> 57:36.400 almost think of it as just sort of delaying making something. You know you delay in the 57:36.400 --> 57:40.020 hard work really. Yeah okay you can ban the wall now, you can get the wall open easily 57:40.020 --> 57:43.860 but end of the day you've still got barriers to go up against, you've still got as armies 57:43.860 --> 57:49.820 to go up against, we've still got all of those toys at the defender's disposal. Of course 57:49.820 --> 57:56.820 with the advantage of having a slightly longer angle onto that from outside to in. I don't 57:56.820 --> 58:01.500 think the LAPP are going to be too concerned though given that line up demo. It looks fairly 58:01.500 --> 58:02.500 aggressive. 58:02.500 --> 58:07.420 I think what Leah was saying, you know, where yes you're going to speed things up certainly 58:07.420 --> 58:12.140 with you know with the electrifications, but again as you mentioned too, you have 58:12.140 --> 58:17.340 the mirror you have the exam and when it gets those two operators you almost need to bring in the 58:17.340 --> 58:20.860 specialized counters like you're going to start bringing an ash into the lineup you may need to 58:20.860 --> 58:25.740 bring a floras into the lineup whereas if you're just dealing with the electrifications that you 58:25.740 --> 58:31.020 will be able to kill both of them you know so i think that's a little bit of an issue for it 58:31.820 --> 58:36.620 also what if we think of it in a different way then oh sorry i need to cut you off in the 58:36.620 --> 58:40.620 flow what are we thinking in a different way we ban the electrification but we still bring 58:40.620 --> 58:46.380 the facture. Are we thinking about that decision? I mean Leo may have an issue with it but facture 58:46.380 --> 58:49.100 is still going to get a lot of value. Whenever there's still a lot of traps in the matter, 58:49.100 --> 58:53.580 you're still going to get some good stuff out of that. However, not going to get the most 58:53.580 --> 58:58.060 out of this lineup. You know, we're not seeing the kind of classic form, which is being 58:58.060 --> 59:06.780 everywhere, even Ella to an extent too. Henry. Yeah, I mean you search now like 59:06.780 --> 59:12.420 like, banshees and new jammers at this point. Maybe a BP if you're going that specific, 59:12.420 --> 59:15.900 but we don't need to be bringing a whole operator just for that. 59:15.900 --> 59:19.980 Hey, let's try and get a little bit of value out of those shock drones. The wall has been 59:19.980 --> 59:22.260 opened and in fairly tidy time. 59:22.260 --> 59:28.140 You should be able to destroy a good portion of these Vulcan packs. It's got at least 59:28.140 --> 59:34.500 two so far. They're going to be key for players like Bissetto. Notice his lineup 59:34.500 --> 59:39.900 when he gets out of his drone he's actually rocking the 6-12 shotgun so he's looking for close-range engagements there with that 59:41.020 --> 59:43.800 He's gonna be trying to take full advantage 59:43.980 --> 59:51.020 What the facture is nice you can destroy inside of electrical disable that vanishing that is gonna speed up a little bit 59:51.380 --> 59:53.980 The ability for your Ying to move through fancy 59:55.180 --> 59:57.900 Making sure that that floor is indeed lava and 59:58.820 --> 01:00:00.820 distracting those defenders eyes 01:00:00.820 --> 01:00:06.340 It's the time where they've got to be careful. Can hear the Candela's going out now. That should be the cue to call for Bissetto 01:00:06.580 --> 01:00:13.220 Be looking to try and move through. He's got himself into electrical now for Leapox first to fall. Fancy making good on that vert 01:00:14.020 --> 01:00:16.700 Feeling the pressure on the catwalk as well Bissetto 01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:22.060 She's bad in this time. I just send the candela get yourself around the corner KZ falls as well 01:00:22.060 --> 01:00:27.180 Oh look at the shot when at close range and I beat her in a party demo 01:00:27.180 --> 01:00:34.180 Oh, Nate in the 1v5, thought about the clutch gene to look at Alienware do possess, but I 01:00:34.180 --> 01:00:37.620 don't think this is going to happen for him. Just too many players to deal with, and you 01:00:37.620 --> 01:00:43.140 have flawless for NIP. I just want to highlight that Deimos in that round has essentially 01:00:43.140 --> 01:00:49.180 got two kills and also an assist because he went below and just played the very 01:00:49.180 --> 01:00:53.420 simple role of track somebody downstairs and light them up through the floorboards. 01:00:53.420 --> 01:00:59.740 he was able to get one kill. And then whenever the Ying swung electrical into sight, did you 01:00:59.740 --> 01:01:03.340 notice that the player that they killed was looking down the verges trying to fight that 01:01:03.340 --> 01:01:07.660 demo? Was he even aware that somebody was inside electrical? That's the power that 01:01:07.660 --> 01:01:08.860 Daimler's brings to that site. 01:01:08.860 --> 01:01:15.340 It just distracts the attention. As a defender, you cannot look everywhere. You're getting 01:01:15.340 --> 01:01:18.460 shot through the floor. The breach is open. There's drones running around your feet. 01:01:18.460 --> 01:01:21.980 You're hearing candelas go off. You've got teammates asking for a bit of assistance 01:01:21.980 --> 01:01:27.100 here or there or can you watch this? There's just so much to do in that moment that yeah you are 01:01:27.100 --> 01:01:33.180 just gonna get swung by somebody with a 6-12 shoving it into your face and it is in inevitability. 01:01:34.060 --> 01:01:41.340 Fancy. A great player at finding that space. That surely got to be the band. 01:01:41.340 --> 01:01:48.540 Team Liquid Alienware and muster. And we get to that next portion. Until then the two rounds 01:01:48.540 --> 01:01:53.580 yet to play this being one of them we're going to be headed downstairs to the basement for it 01:01:55.260 --> 01:01:58.860 it's like a slightly different lineup on both sides really we've got 01:01:59.580 --> 01:02:04.380 Valkyrie being brought by Team Liquid Alienware here KZ looking for information that is going to be 01:02:04.380 --> 01:02:11.980 the aim of their game in addition of the book for Pino so far less direct than the 01:02:11.980 --> 01:02:16.780 attempts that we saw Team Liquid Alienware have downstairs and they were very focused on getting 01:02:16.780 --> 01:02:21.180 in that wall open, we can try and leverage the glass and utilize those smokes and really 01:02:21.180 --> 01:02:26.540 quickly get a plan down. This to me speaks much more of a, well it's going to be a format 01:02:26.540 --> 01:02:28.040 clear at this rate, isn't it? 01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:32.300 Yeah, you got the top down. You have the Monty. You've also got the Buck. So you've got that 01:02:32.300 --> 01:02:38.060 little bit of soft destruction, which certainly not what we've really seen from Team Liquid 01:02:38.060 --> 01:02:42.260 Alienware. Whenever they were attacking into this basement, they didn't bring 01:02:42.260 --> 01:02:46.980 any soft breachers whatsoever. So they just really couldn't play that kind of traditional 01:02:46.980 --> 01:02:52.280 playstyle I suppose you could say. Already with a minute gone. Not a lot has happened 01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:55.820 here for NIP. I think it's just they kind of drone phase for them to get themselves 01:02:55.820 --> 01:02:59.420 into the building. Well there is quite a few roamers. We've got KZ in towards the top 01:02:59.420 --> 01:03:03.660 floor here now. Quickly drops down to the safety of his teammates as that Monty 01:03:03.660 --> 01:03:09.820 did. Straight in towards them. Yeah it's just slow and steady here for NIP. This 01:03:09.820 --> 01:03:13.980 This is where the Romers' Routine Liquid Alienware just need to be very careful because, I mean, 01:03:13.980 --> 01:03:18.440 it's also the Monty is going to be there, is the potential threat that's going to kill 01:03:18.440 --> 01:03:19.440 you. 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:21.820 He's going to feed the information to everyone else who will kill you. 01:03:21.820 --> 01:03:22.820 Yeah, absolutely. 01:03:22.820 --> 01:03:28.580 It's fancy and, and Pino on the book behind the Monty, it's going to be the real deadly 01:03:28.580 --> 01:03:30.580 force in this lineup. 01:03:30.580 --> 01:03:31.580 Vassetto. 01:03:31.580 --> 01:03:35.140 He managed to take quite a lot of ground quite quickly and shoved these defenders 01:03:35.140 --> 01:03:37.420 around knowingly or not. 01:03:37.420 --> 01:03:42.020 Gathering some key information right here, it's gonna assume that somebody's on 01:03:42.020 --> 01:03:46.660 those cargo stairs and I'm sure the drone will confirm it if he doesn't. With that 01:03:46.660 --> 01:03:50.380 hatch being open, maybe look even to try and beta out a little bit of utility at 01:03:50.380 --> 01:03:56.380 this early stage in the round. The team are pretty much free to go now and start 01:03:56.380 --> 01:04:00.460 opening up this floor. We've got Animus hatch open and rotate round over 01:04:00.460 --> 01:04:05.020 toward Exo as well. So it's a good place to send them on to you down 01:04:05.020 --> 01:04:11.340 later on into the round. The key for this now is information and I think that what we've just seen 01:04:11.340 --> 01:04:16.980 there happens Pino, drone going into the Mute Jammer. You just feel like they're a little bit starved of 01:04:16.980 --> 01:04:22.220 it. Those Mute Jammer's going to be very well placed down there and Maya, still unaccounted for upstairs, 01:04:22.220 --> 01:04:26.540 is going to pick up the opener for round number eight. And he's got a low and he's got a friend 01:04:26.540 --> 01:04:30.580 with him for Epox also looking to try and go for a flank. You can see that if you look at 01:04:30.580 --> 01:04:36.100 Alienware are all trying to hit these angles at the same time even made on that smoke walking up in towards cargo 01:04:36.100 --> 01:04:40.000 And they're just wasting time here being 15 seconds that I think need to get a move on 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:43.540 They need to try and get themselves into the bomb site by Sophie that's gonna happen 01:04:43.580 --> 01:04:47.320 They are now gonna go for the plant there should be the response to 15 looking alien 01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:53.180 Whereas they will try and retake a pop peanut holds his ground upstairs into the fusion when down the smoke was too late 01:04:53.980 --> 01:04:59.500 However, the Monty does go down. It's gonna be a slaughterhouse in towards Adam. It's another player above Maya 01:04:59.500 --> 01:05:05.560 takes down Pino and our wizards and the one V for the fuser is gonna try and get 01:05:05.560 --> 01:05:11.200 stuck made those go down is it how it's towards the player upstairs in the 01:05:11.200 --> 01:05:16.060 fuser gonna be stuck again have to go bodies in front oh JP goes down if the 01:05:16.060 --> 01:05:20.660 stick it to the Alienware just about get it over the line 01:05:20.660 --> 01:05:28.960 whoa almost a catastrophe there for team like an Alienware what a game what 01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:33.280 What a game this is turning out to be. I knew it was going to be a good one, I just didn't 01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:38.960 realise it was going to be like this from map number one. I can't breathe. What a clutch 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:48.640 there. Fantastic positioning from KZ. Had no choice. Had to go for the opposite angle. 01:05:48.640 --> 01:05:53.400 Had to tuck himself into the corner, hide away from the window and just hope that 01:05:53.400 --> 01:06:03.180 his team through bodies at the problem. The problem of course being wizard. Incredible 01:06:03.180 --> 01:06:09.940 stuff 4-4 as well by the way. I can't believe that the plant even went down that round demo. 01:06:09.940 --> 01:06:12.380 I feel like I just want to watch that round over and over. Probably need to watch it 01:06:12.380 --> 01:06:18.180 six times. I think the issue was is that they obviously called the snook to go aggressive 01:06:18.180 --> 01:06:21.840 to get in. But the time he 01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:22.440 got back, yes, he was able to 01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:23.680 nail the smoke onto the monkey, 01:06:23.680 --> 01:06:25.680 but the fuser already went down. 01:06:25.680 --> 01:06:27.680 So it was just the case of they 01:06:27.680 --> 01:06:28.680 maybe overextended their site 01:06:28.680 --> 01:06:29.680 player who maybe should have 01:06:29.680 --> 01:06:31.680 been. And I think it okay. There's 01:06:31.680 --> 01:06:33.680 15 seconds left. They're going 01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:34.680 to have to try and flood free 01:06:34.680 --> 01:06:35.680 animals. That's all they have. 01:06:35.680 --> 01:06:36.680 Maybe I should say I'm saying 01:06:36.680 --> 01:06:38.680 go for the smoke spot. Suppose 01:06:38.680 --> 01:06:40.680 where the call gets made, you 01:06:40.680 --> 01:06:41.680 just have to trust, you know, 01:06:41.680 --> 01:06:43.680 your team and say, okay, I'm 01:06:43.680 --> 01:06:44.680 going to go for it. You know, 01:06:44.680 --> 01:06:45.680 if you're dating that scenario. 01:06:45.680 --> 01:06:50.600 area. I mean, NIP were dreadfully slow. Like, I don't think that that's an unfair 01:06:50.600 --> 01:06:53.600 assessment. There's 15 seconds left and they didn't really have much to go on. 01:06:53.600 --> 01:06:58.560 That multi-plant is a Hail Mary. And the amount of bodies that were laid on that 01:06:58.560 --> 01:07:03.720 plant spot just went to show that it wasn't, you know, plant A, B, C, D, or 01:07:03.720 --> 01:07:08.400 E. It was way down the alphabet in terms of plans for that round and how 01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:14.520 it could go. But I don't think that we can criticize Team Liquid Alienware 01:07:14.520 --> 01:07:20.420 too much for the way that they dealt with it, but again another round that's far closer than it really needed to be. 01:07:21.040 --> 01:07:25.140 Round number nine, the Seto is going to be on a different shield this time, going to be on the black bit. 01:07:27.160 --> 01:07:28.920 Going to use some nades now to... 01:07:29.460 --> 01:07:30.820 ...and destroy... 01:07:31.420 --> 01:07:35.660 ...some of these uh, new jammers and other gadgets that are going to be on that breach wall. 01:07:36.160 --> 01:07:36.660 Was it? 01:07:37.460 --> 01:07:41.220 Now use one of Monty's three exteriors to get that open. 01:07:41.220 --> 01:07:47.060 We've got sight wall, oh sorry we've got upstairs open, nice and quickly sight of course being mid-floor 01:07:47.940 --> 01:07:50.940 But IT is usually a pretty good place to start fancy 01:07:51.300 --> 01:07:53.300 This time on Snake 01:07:53.420 --> 01:07:58.140 The surprise is taking us this long to round the nine to see, obviously it was banned for the first six rounds 01:07:58.260 --> 01:08:00.540 There's been on the Deimos up until this point 01:08:01.020 --> 01:08:07.580 Maybe this is one of those classic round nine bates where you play a little bit of Snake and hope that they ban that instead of your beloved Deimos 01:08:07.580 --> 01:08:10.940 But for me snakes just as good if not better in some situations 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:15.360 Yeah, it could be the case off. They've kind of noticed okay. We've been too slow 01:08:15.440 --> 01:08:19.340 Let's get this all snake to kind of amp up things and try and get the speed and speak the speed off 01:08:19.340 --> 01:08:22.900 Let's see tries to go for a quick little slip into sight 01:08:22.900 --> 01:08:28.740 But Nate is ready for it. You know gone the hard preacher, but one of the hard preachers is dead 01:08:29.220 --> 01:08:31.220 I think the main worries would be best out of it 01:08:31.780 --> 01:08:34.780 Probably kind of isolate it away from his team, but has our rotators 01:08:34.780 --> 01:08:40.540 Hates is inside of IT right now, but has to kind of pull himself out, I mean it's not 01:08:40.540 --> 01:08:43.960 affordable starting from that idea, they still be able to get killed back, but the Blackbeard 01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:48.540 now just got to go for it, I mean 40 seconds, surely there's got to be a response here 01:08:48.540 --> 01:08:51.540 from people looking at Alienware, but no, they're getting slaughtered, Casey, they're 01:08:51.540 --> 01:08:55.300 able to find Wizard, Defuser gets planted and no one's above, one's going to be inside 01:08:55.300 --> 01:09:00.500 the site, oh no the Blackbeard, they've still lost the engagement, Hates, does 01:09:00.500 --> 01:09:01.860 Does he have the angle? 01:09:01.860 --> 01:09:04.860 Well, if he does, the retake's gonna happen from upstairs. 01:09:05.740 --> 01:09:10.380 They're trying to hold it with the flashbang, but he doesn't know who does he go for, does he go for the guy defusing? 01:09:10.380 --> 01:09:12.220 Does he challenge him for the guy in the afters? 01:09:12.220 --> 01:09:14.220 He comes up from a gaze-y! 01:09:14.740 --> 01:09:17.740 Oh, or Rufflin' for Hates, caught between a rock and a hard place. 01:09:18.940 --> 01:09:22.180 Hates was on that BP for the entirety of the round. 01:09:22.180 --> 01:09:24.900 Everything that was going on, all the kills that he got, the lot. 01:09:24.900 --> 01:09:27.020 There was just nothing that he could do about it. 01:09:27.020 --> 01:09:30.100 He just had too much distance between him and the BP. 01:09:30.100 --> 01:09:36.260 as the ram what have you got you've got nothing to deal with it at range you need to get that side on angle to shoot it 01:09:36.260 --> 01:09:38.760 Or you need to get up close and personal and hit the melee 01:09:39.820 --> 01:09:47.260 Tim look really and we're gonna take their first lead of this matchup. It is a very narrow lead indeed 01:09:48.100 --> 01:09:50.100 thermite to round out our 01:09:51.260 --> 01:09:53.260 Round 10 bands 01:09:53.260 --> 01:09:55.260 along with a mirror 01:09:55.300 --> 01:09:58.460 Nip I'm gonna choose now to take their tactical time out 01:09:58.460 --> 01:10:03.660 Now, feel the last couple of rounds, whilst they've made a really good showing of it, 01:10:03.660 --> 01:10:06.220 and it's exciting siege to watch. 01:10:06.220 --> 01:10:09.460 I don't think that they're going to be happy with the way that they've transpired, are they? 01:10:09.460 --> 01:10:10.460 They're quite scrappy. 01:10:10.460 --> 01:10:19.260 Yeah, I guess one of those games for NIP were, obviously, they looked really good in that 01:10:19.260 --> 01:10:23.460 defensive half, but you have to, again, go and do it on the attacks, you know, 01:10:23.460 --> 01:10:27.460 and this was maybe the worry whatever you're dealing with NIP who equally same as Team 01:10:27.460 --> 01:10:32.140 liquid Alienware. It's also a map which has been a perma ban. And you know, typically it's 01:10:32.140 --> 01:10:38.100 the attacking side, which we see teams struggle with a lot more, uh, on, on labs, cause it 01:10:38.100 --> 01:10:42.700 is, uh, defender sided. And this is maybe just the consequence of that. But I will 01:10:42.700 --> 01:10:48.220 say though, for NIP, that's twice now where the diffuser has been able to go down and 01:10:48.220 --> 01:10:52.180 they've not been able to hold it. That's two retakes coming in from team liquid Alienware. 01:10:52.180 --> 01:10:55.620 So obviously they're doing the right thing all the, to get these plants down, but 01:10:55.620 --> 01:11:00.380 They just cannot hold the way that Team Liquid Alienware are playing for the retakes. 01:11:00.380 --> 01:11:02.780 I think that's one way of looking at it, isn't it? 01:11:02.780 --> 01:11:06.100 But then the other side is, do you look at Team Liquid Alienware and think this is such an 01:11:06.100 --> 01:11:09.980 experienced team, they may be playing for a bit of a retake and they're going, yeah, 01:11:09.980 --> 01:11:10.980 you know what? 01:11:10.980 --> 01:11:11.980 Let them get the plant down. 01:11:11.980 --> 01:11:12.980 They've wasted the entire... 01:11:12.980 --> 01:11:15.940 I mean, we've seen every second of these rounds at the moment. 01:11:15.940 --> 01:11:18.380 The last two rounds have really come down to the wire. 01:11:18.380 --> 01:11:22.340 And I don't think that NIP are getting the plant down through anything other than 01:11:22.340 --> 01:11:26.740 just a bit of determination at that point and Team Liquid either way just like yeah cool like we're 01:11:26.740 --> 01:11:31.060 not going to overreact we're gonna we're gonna just gently play this retake because we we know how 01:11:31.060 --> 01:11:35.860 to play them we've been in that position so many times now so I think it's maybe a bit you know 01:11:35.860 --> 01:11:42.260 six and two threes almost certainly a good portion for Team Liquid to take the lead in this 01:11:42.260 --> 01:11:48.740 matchup and IP's timeout will be coming under question over the next couple of minutes as to 01:11:48.740 --> 01:11:54.740 whether it's had sufficient effect or not. Mirror was removed by them at the start of round number 10. 01:11:55.860 --> 01:12:00.260 Something that we've seen played a little bit is mainly going to be used as a wall denial tool, 01:12:00.820 --> 01:12:06.340 strange as that sounds. Get the mirror on the wall and open it up and you're able to impact C4, 01:12:06.340 --> 01:12:11.860 whatever you like really, through that opening. It does make breaching the wall a little bit 01:12:11.860 --> 01:12:15.060 of a pain. So that isn't going to be a factor now. There's pretty much nothing standing in 01:12:15.060 --> 01:12:19.780 in the way of these walls now being opened. I guess the only thing standing in the way 01:12:19.780 --> 01:12:23.140 is maybe the small matter of an ace in a third might bomb, but we know that there are ways 01:12:23.140 --> 01:12:27.700 and means around that now as well. Although no secondary hard breach has been brought and 01:12:27.700 --> 01:12:31.300 Pino is going to be doing all of the hard breaching duties with Hibana. 01:12:31.300 --> 01:12:36.620 Yes, a little bit of risk here having the one hard breach, I'm always worried just 01:12:36.620 --> 01:12:43.260 in case that Hibana gets picked off. But nobody from Team Liquid Alienware looking 01:12:43.260 --> 01:12:48.620 the play aggressive, happy enough to let them use the Habana. The Habana is all out of the 01:12:48.620 --> 01:12:55.020 palace now too. So what's open is open, that's the way it's going to be. NIP, last time they 01:12:55.020 --> 01:12:59.420 were up here they played with that Daemons downstairs. That worked really well for them, 01:12:59.420 --> 01:13:03.700 so a little bit shocked that they don't have it here again. It has still got that ying 01:13:03.700 --> 01:13:09.900 shotgun though, which was pretty strong swinging in towards electrical. NIP again 01:13:09.900 --> 01:13:14.780 this is slow and steady approach, picking off little bits of util here and there. I wonder 01:13:14.780 --> 01:13:18.020 maybe if team look at Alienware, if they got the spare reinforcement, looks as though they 01:13:18.020 --> 01:13:22.260 do. I mean, a little bit risky to go for it, but if they are able to maybe block up that 01:13:22.260 --> 01:13:27.260 site wall, that could be pretty big. You can see two players around that position now, 01:13:27.260 --> 01:13:31.860 one to hold, one to maybe reinforce JV with the first kill onto Pino. Maybe they 01:13:31.860 --> 01:13:34.220 want to keep it open, maybe they're going to win the round through. It puts the 01:13:34.220 --> 01:13:38.820 damage in onto Pezzetto as well. You can hear those candelas going off, but 01:13:38.820 --> 01:13:41.740 Nothing really coming of it at the moment. 01:13:41.740 --> 01:13:44.420 Fasetto crying out for help at the moment. 01:13:44.420 --> 01:13:46.300 So much so that JV's even looking for where 01:13:46.300 --> 01:13:48.660 this next man's coming from, but he's got no option 01:13:48.660 --> 01:13:51.060 but just to swing it blind himself. 01:13:51.060 --> 01:13:53.620 Pates is gonna make good with the shotgun, 01:13:53.620 --> 01:13:56.380 but it's likely not gonna be enough here. 01:13:56.380 --> 01:13:58.340 Rizzard chunked down, taken out, 01:13:58.340 --> 01:14:00.860 three kills for JV, one for Maya. 01:14:01.940 --> 01:14:04.420 Team Liquid Alienware, map point. 01:14:04.420 --> 01:14:12.780 You picked up all I you look at the blackbeard by himself is nobody gonna help the guy. It 01:14:12.780 --> 01:14:20.060 just felt so disjointed from NIP. Whenever they're already gonna be limited in terms 01:14:20.060 --> 01:14:24.220 of what they can do, based on the fact that they don't have an ace and they don't have 01:14:24.220 --> 01:14:28.860 a firm, I don't think you have the options to try and open up everything. You almost 01:14:28.860 --> 01:14:32.540 just have to try and commit to one side, which I know it's gonna be really difficult. 01:14:32.540 --> 01:14:34.540 But I think there's ways around it 01:14:35.300 --> 01:14:41.580 Whenever you've kind of got players jumping in rafters window whenever it's blatantly all of your pressures coming in from connector 01:14:41.700 --> 01:14:47.140 It's a little bit strange. You know that blackbeard sat there by himself as soon as he lost that Habana 01:14:47.460 --> 01:14:51.540 Somebody should rotate around said okay. We need to help the shield here in the current meta 01:14:51.540 --> 01:14:57.520 We know that shields are a win condition and they're a big win condition if that shield can get himself into position 01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:14.520 the cross a bomb site safely and go for a diffuser plant. That's all it takes to win around these days, but you need to try and support back shield. And to be fair, credit to JV, he assessed that situation like, okay, this will black be by himself. I'm not going to let him get anywhere near me. 01:15:14.520 --> 01:15:18.360 He played it perfectly. He played it absolutely perfectly. He's so worried about there being 01:15:18.360 --> 01:15:22.280 somebody behind it and I think as soon as he realized hang on, this planet's on their own. 01:15:22.840 --> 01:15:27.640 Right now we can focus on this engagement and it kept kept great distance like you say and 01:15:27.640 --> 01:15:32.520 just made it awkward. Something for me as well like obviously you've got the BB being out there 01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:38.040 on the on their own but Deimos was such a big factor. Last time that we saw NIP attack that 01:15:38.040 --> 01:15:44.280 top floor and the combination of Deimos and the Ying working together it was devastating 01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:49.940 And we didn't see that either so NIP just and it's frustrating because we've seen it before 01:15:49.940 --> 01:15:53.600 It's not like we're asking him to do something that we haven't seen we're just asking him to do something again 01:15:55.780 --> 01:15:58.940 Unfortunately that is the way it goes sometimes 01:15:59.680 --> 01:16:03.420 Team Liquid Alienware now in with a shot of taking map number one 01:16:05.980 --> 01:16:07.980 Again a bit of a strange map to be 01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:11.100 first choice in this best of three is 01:16:11.100 --> 01:16:18.100 Not necessarily a top favourite for either team, but given the job dough when it matters. 01:16:18.100 --> 01:16:21.100 Ooh, Windi potentially upstairs, KZ. 01:16:21.100 --> 01:16:24.100 Just going to get himself out of the breeze. 01:16:24.100 --> 01:16:28.100 Got a bit of information, only a few shots going awry. 01:16:28.100 --> 01:16:32.100 A couple of nades spent so far as well by NIP. 01:16:32.100 --> 01:16:36.100 They need to be a little bit cautious because there are going to be some goreos to get through. 01:16:36.100 --> 01:16:41.540 You can see he'd be banking on himself getting a couple of kills and being able to collect 01:16:41.540 --> 01:16:45.100 a couple of those needs for use at a later point in the round. 01:16:45.100 --> 01:16:49.820 Another switch up though from NIP, they're not bringing in the soft breach, which I mean 01:16:49.820 --> 01:16:55.620 the really good work at just limiting what kind of team liquid anywhere can do in this 01:16:55.620 --> 01:17:00.740 site and I mean, JV's went to the swing, but that F2 is very powerful of that grip 01:17:00.740 --> 01:17:02.380 being attached to it now. 01:17:02.380 --> 01:17:12.380 Quite the favourite, not only just on Soul State, but even the Ryzen Twitch players using it, even the Wizard will tell us otherwise, but it's a lot damaged on the fantasy so he has to be very, very careful. 01:17:12.380 --> 01:17:22.380 But this loose Romer, AZ, going to go all the way upstairs now. Don't forget about KZ, he has got two impacts so he can make himself rotate if needed. 01:17:22.380 --> 01:17:27.500 He's the loose player at the moment isn't he, he's the player that really NIP needs 01:17:27.500 --> 01:17:31.580 to be conscious of but you don't really know that he exists at the moment and especially 01:17:31.580 --> 01:17:36.100 being on the solace and destroy those flank cams as he goes. 01:17:36.100 --> 01:17:41.060 Time again really starting to creep by, 40 seconds or so left in this round and another 01:17:41.060 --> 01:17:44.940 switch over onto the drones for a little bit more information. 01:17:44.940 --> 01:17:48.780 Very different approach here and maybe a lack of soft breach starting to rear its 01:17:48.780 --> 01:17:53.480 ugly head because there's just not very many angles that Pino can start to work with here 01:17:53.480 --> 01:17:57.380 as opposed to when we've seen play this angle on the book. 01:17:57.380 --> 01:18:02.740 Pissetto will get himself into sight though, but KZ that danger man will be found out here. 01:18:02.740 --> 01:18:06.700 I'm sure the impact was attempting there maybe destroying an air jab but he's got to 01:18:06.700 --> 01:18:11.140 try and make this challenge and Pissetto continuing to get this plant down will 01:18:11.140 --> 01:18:12.140 be successful. 01:18:12.140 --> 01:18:14.500 Two kills for Nade though in the response. 01:18:14.500 --> 01:18:17.340 Full HP for both Pino and Wizard. 01:18:17.340 --> 01:18:22.380 vertical angle sufficient it isn't even going to matter the kit never got put on the floor 01:18:22.380 --> 01:18:28.540 team liquid alien where they're going to be successful on map one here fantastic from made 01:18:28.540 --> 01:18:32.620 knowing that his teammates upstairs are going to try and attempt the retake it's going to 01:18:32.620 --> 01:18:37.900 drag those players who were playing on the verge he should be there covering the blitz covering 01:18:37.900 --> 01:18:42.620 the solid snake and what happens nobody's to cover they can just walk across the bomb site 01:18:42.620 --> 01:18:47.580 and kills both of them. Unbelievable for me to make that happen and from there round stun and 01:18:47.580 --> 01:18:52.700 dust it but Team Liquid Alienware just thriving on the defenses. I think there was some really big 01:18:52.700 --> 01:18:56.700 individual performances as well from Team Liquid Alienware. We had it on the side of NIP. I think 01:18:56.700 --> 01:19:00.780 Hates has to get a bit of a mention there of how we played inside of map number one but as you say 01:19:00.780 --> 01:19:06.940 Maya made some of those really big late round plays. It really came out from Team Liquid Alienware. 01:19:06.940 --> 01:19:10.140 We're going to have a very short break after these messages. We'll be back with our desk 01:19:10.140 --> 01:19:14.140 to break down map number one and set us up for map number two. 01:19:40.140 --> 01:19:42.140 No, wait a minute. 01:19:42.140 --> 01:19:46.140 I think we got 64 of them. 01:19:46.140 --> 01:19:48.140 I think it was a good presentation. 01:19:48.140 --> 01:19:50.140 I think he was pretty wrong. 01:19:50.140 --> 01:19:52.140 Because he cut some of them. 01:19:52.140 --> 01:19:53.140 He cut some of them. 01:19:53.140 --> 01:19:54.140 But it was 64 of them in 3 years. 01:19:54.140 --> 01:19:55.140 I think it's okay. 01:19:55.140 --> 01:19:56.140 It's okay. 01:19:56.140 --> 01:19:59.140 It will appear in the VLOG of Liquid in 1964. 01:20:05.140 --> 01:20:06.140 We are Nemmar from N6. 01:20:06.140 --> 01:20:07.140 Nemmar from N6. 01:20:07.140 --> 01:20:08.140 Nemmar from N6. 01:20:08.140 --> 01:20:09.140 Nemmar from N6. 01:20:09.140 --> 01:20:12.140 I think Neymar is the best. 01:20:12.140 --> 01:20:13.140 What's the best? 01:20:13.140 --> 01:20:14.140 Ordina is the best. 01:20:14.140 --> 01:20:15.140 Virula is the best. 01:20:15.140 --> 01:20:16.140 A lot of media. 01:20:16.140 --> 01:20:17.140 And now a little soccer? 01:20:17.140 --> 01:20:18.140 Ordina? 01:20:18.140 --> 01:20:19.140 I don't know. 01:20:19.140 --> 01:20:21.140 All the developments, the controversy, the things. 01:20:21.140 --> 01:20:22.140 I think it's the best. 01:20:22.140 --> 01:20:23.140 He's always hurt. 01:20:23.140 --> 01:20:25.140 There's always a lot of things there. 01:20:25.140 --> 01:20:26.140 Ordina. 01:20:26.140 --> 01:20:30.140 Balladero plays a lot, but he's not in the world cup. 01:20:30.140 --> 01:20:32.140 And what about these yellowbacks? 01:20:32.140 --> 01:20:33.140 He's the best. 01:20:33.140 --> 01:20:35.140 Bicha Firulento kills Paparambu and does the best. 01:20:35.140 --> 01:20:37.140 I think Messi is very good, 01:20:37.140 --> 01:20:39.140 But he has a lot of titles. 01:20:39.140 --> 01:20:42.140 He was the 4th, because he started very well. 01:20:42.140 --> 01:20:45.140 He had a big house, but he fell into the fire. 01:20:45.140 --> 01:20:46.140 Guardialder 6-0. 01:20:46.140 --> 01:20:47.140 He's a striker. 01:20:47.140 --> 01:20:48.140 He's a striker, right? 01:20:48.140 --> 01:20:49.140 My partner is the 4th. 01:20:49.140 --> 01:20:50.140 His nickname is a striker. 01:20:50.140 --> 01:20:51.140 His nickname is Guardialder. 01:20:51.140 --> 01:20:52.140 He already got it. 01:20:52.140 --> 01:20:53.140 Because it's a chicken. 01:20:53.140 --> 01:20:54.140 It's a chicken. 01:20:54.140 --> 01:20:55.140 He's Guardialder. 01:20:55.140 --> 01:20:56.140 It's his nickname. 01:20:56.140 --> 01:20:57.140 I think it's Igor Skidja, Guardialder. 01:20:57.140 --> 01:20:58.140 Igor Skidja. 01:20:58.140 --> 01:20:59.140 The father. 01:21:00.140 --> 01:21:01.140 Me. 01:21:01.140 --> 01:21:02.140 A lot, a lot. 01:21:02.140 --> 01:21:03.140 A lot of land. 01:21:03.140 --> 01:21:04.140 You can play against him. 01:21:04.140 --> 01:21:05.140 I'm not going to play against him. 01:21:05.140 --> 01:21:12.140 Ah, the guy who plays with his title in the ring, because Rafael is coming next to me, but I think by the number there will be the ring 01:21:15.140 --> 01:21:17.140 Look, I'm going up to the base, the little hole 01:21:19.140 --> 01:21:20.140 Alright, Bas, alright 01:21:21.140 --> 01:21:22.140 2, alright, alright 01:21:23.140 --> 01:21:24.140 Get up to the base 01:21:25.140 --> 01:21:27.140 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no 01:21:28.140 --> 01:21:29.140 Stop it, man 01:21:29.140 --> 01:21:32.140 Take it, my God, calm down guys, this is a good one 01:21:32.140 --> 01:21:34.140 What the hell is this, Viado? 01:21:34.140 --> 01:21:36.140 What the hell is this, Viado? 01:21:36.140 --> 01:21:38.140 What the hell is this, Viado? 01:21:38.140 --> 01:21:40.140 What the hell is this, Viado? 01:21:40.140 --> 01:21:42.140 What the hell is this, Viado? 01:21:42.140 --> 01:21:44.140 It's ridiculous, the other guy doesn't know 01:21:44.140 --> 01:21:46.140 what he's waiting for. 01:21:46.140 --> 01:21:48.140 He's trying to get up. 01:21:48.140 --> 01:21:50.140 It's ridiculous. 01:21:56.140 --> 01:21:58.140 166? 01:21:58.140 --> 01:22:00.140 166. 01:22:00.140 --> 01:22:01.140 What's your name? 01:22:01.140 --> 01:22:03.140 The man, the only one with 107. 01:22:03.140 --> 01:22:04.140 KGS. 01:22:04.140 --> 01:22:06.140 You got me, man. 01:22:06.140 --> 01:22:08.140 He doesn't perform in all the important games. 01:22:08.140 --> 01:22:10.140 He says he has 107, 106, 106 for his ego. 01:22:10.140 --> 01:22:12.140 I'm going to put the lights. 01:22:12.140 --> 01:22:14.140 It's always present in the titles too, 01:22:14.140 --> 01:22:16.140 because he can be Cristiano Ronaldo, 01:22:16.140 --> 01:22:18.140 the guy very dedicated there when he wants. 01:22:18.140 --> 01:22:20.140 I don't think it's the same, I think it's KZ. 01:22:20.140 --> 01:22:21.140 KZ is Cristiano Ronaldo, 106. 01:22:21.140 --> 01:22:22.140 Flamengo, 106. 01:22:22.140 --> 01:22:24.140 Flamengo, 106. 01:22:24.140 --> 01:22:26.140 Flamengo, 106, no? 01:22:26.140 --> 01:22:28.140 Flamengo, 106, no? 01:22:28.140 --> 01:22:30.140 I don't know, I don't know. 01:22:30.140 --> 01:22:36.140 I think it's not a good time to talk about Esfúria, 01:22:36.140 --> 01:22:38.140 but now it's in the nether. 01:22:38.140 --> 01:22:39.140 Because before it wasn't very relevant, 01:22:39.140 --> 01:22:42.140 Flamie had her situation not so relevant. 01:22:42.140 --> 01:22:44.140 There was no time to talk about it, 01:22:44.140 --> 01:22:46.140 everything started to get better and that gave me a lot of trouble. 01:22:46.140 --> 01:22:48.140 I think it's W7. 01:22:48.140 --> 01:22:50.140 I think it's W7, 01:22:50.140 --> 01:22:51.140 I think it's W7, 01:22:51.140 --> 01:22:53.140 because we broke the BR there and that's it. 01:22:53.140 --> 01:22:54.140 With the national competition it's a big deal. 01:22:54.140 --> 01:22:57.140 I think he had a very good chance too. 01:22:57.140 --> 01:22:59.140 It's a great thing to get a title, that's it. 01:22:59.140 --> 01:23:01.140 Change of technique all the time. 01:23:01.140 --> 01:23:03.140 The beautiful one comes the other. 01:23:03.140 --> 01:23:05.140 Go live, go change technique. 01:23:05.140 --> 01:23:06.140 It's not the same. 01:23:06.140 --> 01:23:07.140 Liquid! 01:23:07.140 --> 01:23:09.140 I'm talking about D6. 01:23:09.140 --> 01:23:11.140 Only BR, only Brazilians. 01:23:11.140 --> 01:23:12.140 I'm talking about G. 01:23:12.140 --> 01:23:13.140 Go there. 01:23:27.140 --> 01:23:31.600 and think whoa liquid really ran away with this once the half swapped it's not 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:35.180 really the case and we're able to dive into it before we set you up for map 01:23:35.180 --> 01:23:43.240 number two I'm not Leo watching all of this falling apart for NIP it looked 01:23:43.240 --> 01:23:48.800 like liquid was finally fixing their entry game and then NIP would just 01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:51.920 struggle to close it at the end. Yeah I mean the entry game was always there 01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:54.680 right there were always dominating opening engagements I feel like they 01:23:54.680 --> 01:23:59.160 just managed to keep on that man advantage most of the time. Obviously looking at the few rounds 01:23:59.160 --> 01:24:04.200 and the highlights here we'll see the first side which was honestly still from Team Liquid like 01:24:04.200 --> 01:24:09.080 they win the first round when they shouldn't. They will win eventually around five when they 01:24:09.080 --> 01:24:14.840 shouldn't as well. You know overall I thought that NIP's game plan in defense at least was solid 01:24:15.480 --> 01:24:19.400 but I think the main thing to me is that whenever they switched to the defense side where 01:24:19.400 --> 01:24:24.860 where they could really abuse this time the opening engagements they were getting by just 01:24:24.860 --> 01:24:29.620 falling back and abusing the real weakness of the way an IP had been playing, which in 01:24:29.620 --> 01:24:33.960 my opinion is, I don't know if it's due to Bassetto or I don't know if it's due to 01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:39.780 the playstyle he used to have on loud, but it was very slow, very step by step, 01:24:39.780 --> 01:24:44.740 and which means very predictable. So, they were not afraid of actually letting 01:24:44.740 --> 01:24:48.580 an IP take control, they were not afraid of fighting a little bit and peeling off 01:24:48.580 --> 01:24:53.060 and play of time and in fact if you look at the opening kills, whenever the switch happens, 01:24:53.060 --> 01:24:59.300 whenever Tim Liquid switches to defense, the opening kills happen with less than one minute 01:24:59.300 --> 01:25:04.900 left in a timer in most of the rounds. It's actually insane for a region that is supposed 01:25:04.900 --> 01:25:10.740 to be super aggressive. We ended up with opening kills super super light into the round and 01:25:10.740 --> 01:25:16.700 And a very slow-paced labs still, even though it's a small map. 01:25:16.700 --> 01:25:18.940 And yeah, just looking at this, it's 01:25:18.940 --> 01:25:23.160 a mix of Maya performing well, of the opening engagements 01:25:23.160 --> 01:25:27.700 going in their way seven times out of 12. 01:25:27.700 --> 01:25:30.380 And then the last thing is NIP. 01:25:30.380 --> 01:25:31.780 They could just not pull it off. 01:25:31.780 --> 01:25:34.740 Whenever they had the plan down, they would still lose 01:25:34.740 --> 01:25:35.380 around. 01:25:35.380 --> 01:25:37.580 So the biggest strength, I think, really 01:25:37.580 --> 01:25:40.100 showing for Team Liquid here is their ability 01:25:40.100 --> 01:25:41.880 to consistently find the opening engagements, 01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:43.580 but this time really convert on it. 01:25:44.980 --> 01:25:48.060 That's where I guess the question of, 01:25:48.060 --> 01:25:51.440 is the pressure of this being a qualification match 01:25:51.440 --> 01:25:53.740 getting to either one of the two teams, 01:25:53.740 --> 01:25:55.060 just why things are slowing down, 01:25:55.060 --> 01:25:59.820 but especially for NIP is a lot for them 01:25:59.820 --> 01:26:01.620 because they have been looking at 01:26:01.620 --> 01:26:04.060 trying to get back into the swing of things, 01:26:04.060 --> 01:26:07.180 an actual event for a bit now, 01:26:07.180 --> 01:26:08.980 having ended 2025, 01:26:08.980 --> 01:26:12.860 the way that they did in Munich, you want to see them back and I know they want that 01:26:12.860 --> 01:26:13.860 for themselves. 01:26:13.860 --> 01:26:17.020 That'd be something extra to think about here for them. 01:26:17.020 --> 01:26:21.620 But Team Liquid Alienware, at the end of the day, great performance, managing to slow 01:26:21.620 --> 01:26:24.860 things down, managing to play around things themselves. 01:26:24.860 --> 01:26:28.780 There was the question at some point that we raised, and Leo where in the second 01:26:28.780 --> 01:26:34.220 half NIP banned both the Clyde and the bandit really to get them out of the way. 01:26:34.220 --> 01:26:38.340 And yet the Thatcher was still in play just to try to deal I guess with the mirror 01:26:38.340 --> 01:26:42.660 window with any nitros like that? Yeah, I think the plan was simple for them was just like, okay, 01:26:42.660 --> 01:26:46.820 let's get the bridges going as quickly as we can. And then let's just try and really work 01:26:46.820 --> 01:26:51.220 on to the bomb site. The problem was, and it's exactly what we anticipated when you do that, 01:26:51.220 --> 01:26:56.740 then you're facing Azami, you're facing Fenrir, you're facing Taun, you're facing Mira. And so 01:26:56.740 --> 01:27:00.740 cracking the bomb site is not as easy as it seems. They did try to do it by bringing 01:27:00.740 --> 01:27:05.620 message on the shelf as much as possible. And actually, you know, if we take a look 01:27:05.620 --> 01:27:10.740 at round 8 and round 9. They eventually managed to do that, you know? They managed to get in, 01:27:10.740 --> 01:27:16.900 they managed to push, and yet they're still missing something. So like looking back at those rounds, 01:27:16.900 --> 01:27:23.540 I'm like, you know, you can clearly see that Team Liquid are trying to give as much space as possible, 01:27:23.540 --> 01:27:29.380 but even though the diffuser is planted and everything is there, the map control is always 01:27:29.380 --> 01:27:32.980 nowhere to be seen, like Team Liquid are just surrounding the bomb site, and they can go and 01:27:32.980 --> 01:27:35.380 going to retake it easily and just win the right gunfight. 01:27:35.380 --> 01:27:37.740 Eventually, we got almost one man round, by the way. 01:27:37.740 --> 01:27:41.740 But I think the game plan, as such a Simliquid Allerware, 01:27:41.740 --> 01:27:44.060 switch to defense was so obvious. 01:27:44.060 --> 01:27:45.340 We're just let them burn time. 01:27:45.340 --> 01:27:47.020 Let's just burn their burn time. 01:27:47.020 --> 01:27:48.900 Let's build up as much as possible, 01:27:48.900 --> 01:27:50.260 especially because most of the time, 01:27:50.260 --> 01:27:51.340 they had the advantage. 01:27:51.340 --> 01:27:53.260 Here, once again, plan goes down. 01:27:53.260 --> 01:27:55.220 Good retake from Simliquid Allerware. 01:27:55.220 --> 01:27:57.060 They know the players upstairs. 01:27:57.060 --> 01:27:58.420 And they're just playing it together. 01:27:58.420 --> 01:27:59.180 One is coordinated. 01:27:59.180 --> 01:28:00.500 One stays on the diffuser here. 01:28:00.500 --> 01:28:01.980 The other one is retaking garage. 01:28:01.980 --> 01:28:12.480 They are fooling fool because of the VP, the VP of the all the time, and then all he has to do here is just cut the swing, make sure this guy doesn't cross back, and look at this, beautiful play. 01:28:12.480 --> 01:28:21.280 It's a bit of panic on the side of an IP like you said, maybe because of the stakes I don't know, but at least the experienced team is working right now, they are the one winning. 01:28:21.280 --> 01:28:28.480 and a lot's coming down to Maya. There's the round 8 replay that I just saw once more, but 01:28:28.480 --> 01:28:33.200 we'll take you into that Maya profile to really focus up on the spire once he's 01:28:33.200 --> 01:28:37.120 been ringing. This is something that in the beginning we thought, well, you're bringing 01:28:37.120 --> 01:28:44.560 the Xferia roster in here. He's just gonna be a slot in that roster where KZ was in the past. 01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:52.040 That's not at all what's happened. The entire team has been reformed around him 01:28:52.040 --> 01:28:56.080 and he's putting in the numbers when they need it. And this is definitely a game that is 01:28:57.000 --> 01:28:59.240 Important to show up in Leo. Yeah, absolutely 01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:06.040 Honestly looking at this player we just saw him in the pregame 44 kills in four games, right? 01:29:06.040 --> 01:29:11.200 So double digits every time. We were saying he's the one that we're gonna be looking at in terms of consistency 01:29:11.200 --> 01:29:15.760 consistency in terms of driving the team, not only does he get another double digits, 01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:21.560 he goes 12 and 7 on the first map, but he has 4 opening kills and 0 opening deaths. 01:29:21.560 --> 01:29:26.360 It's like the guy cannot be less consistent and he's got KZ on his team. 01:29:26.360 --> 01:29:30.520 The one player that I would call the most consistent in the world, and despite that, 01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:31.920 Maya is still the best one. 01:29:31.920 --> 01:29:36.480 Honestly, if it wasn't for him, I think the game would have been so much closer. 01:29:36.480 --> 01:29:41.680 actually very impressive to see him perform that well for so long. Every single matchup is there. 01:29:43.920 --> 01:29:47.760 We consistently glaze this man because every time he's bringing in the numbers that are needed, 01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:52.560 no matter who's on here, no matter who's discussing him, we always get a Maia glaze at the end of 01:29:52.560 --> 01:29:58.320 it. We'll see if Team Liquid Alienware can bring it across the line and qualify for Salt Lake City 01:29:58.320 --> 01:30:03.520 by winning two maps in a row. Let's bring up the map veto one more time. Maybe we'll get 01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:10.320 get to a third map? Maybe not. Because if things don't improve real quick, we might have 01:30:10.320 --> 01:30:14.280 a problem here for NIP because their next game in the lower bracket will be against 01:30:14.280 --> 01:30:18.280 face clan. That's not a game anybody wants to play in either Team Liquid nor NIP nor 01:30:18.280 --> 01:30:23.080 anybody else. And that's going to go now to a layer. The NIP pick, they're starting 01:30:23.080 --> 01:30:27.920 on the attacking side with TLNWR and defense Leo. How are things looking? What's the 01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:28.920 pronostic? 01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:34.200 It's tricky for many reasons, right? There was a huge difference in level and an overall team 01:30:34.200 --> 01:30:37.960 play and cohesion when they switched to attack. They will have to start attack on Lair. The second 01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:41.640 thing is, yes, it is a map that they like. Yes, it is the map that they've played a lot 01:30:41.640 --> 01:30:46.120 in international events before, last year. But despite all of that, the last time they played 01:30:46.120 --> 01:30:51.240 it against Furia was during SL finals, former Furia roster obviously, and they lost it 01:30:51.240 --> 01:30:57.080 7-2. And then before that, you know, Furia, the ex Furia roster, they loved the map. 01:30:57.080 --> 01:31:03.240 They played it three times at SI, one every single time, be Daystar, Weboo, and Falcons on the map, 01:31:03.240 --> 01:31:06.200 so it is a really big gamble for NIP to go on it. 01:31:07.800 --> 01:31:12.840 Layer then is the one we'll go for, that would be the question, can NIP take it to a map 3, 01:31:12.840 --> 01:31:18.280 or a Stimulco to Alien, we're going to close it out right here, and just go, get set and ready 01:31:18.280 --> 01:31:21.640 for the final on the upper bracket, we'll leave it to Demo and I start Troika to take you 01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:22.840 through the action, enjoy it. 01:31:22.840 --> 01:31:30.520 Milosh Leal, thank you very much. Indeed, a wise person once said that whoever wins 01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:36.320 map two in the best of three usually takes the whole series. And is that going to be 01:31:36.320 --> 01:31:39.640 the case here today? 01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:45.640 Brilliant. 01:31:45.640 --> 01:31:57.800 I mean, the start of a game will always lean into the data, because the data is the only 01:31:57.800 --> 01:31:59.440 thing that we have going into the start of a game. 01:31:59.440 --> 01:32:02.960 We are not privy to every single stream that goes on between all the different teams across 01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:04.400 all the different regions. 01:32:04.400 --> 01:32:08.920 So with that caveat, we only have the data ready to go off. 01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:12.640 And the data for NIP and LAIR doesn't look great. 01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:23.640 And I'm starting to scratch my head as to how and why we have ended up here because they have an abysmal 30% win rate on the attack. 01:32:23.640 --> 01:32:38.640 Now, as I'm sure you're going to tell me in a minute, the players on Team Liquid Alienware, even though Team Liquid Alienware themselves haven't got the most amount of data on there, the players themselves love it demo. 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:45.560 Yeah, whenever we kind of look at teams like with Alienware, there's still that Fury Accord. 01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:50.940 So obviously this is the first time, this is their first time as this organization. 01:32:50.940 --> 01:32:55.680 So all the data, again, you're still kind of basing it off how they were, whenever they 01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:56.680 were Fury. 01:32:56.680 --> 01:32:58.920 But for the additional money, you kind of treat it like a new pickup, isn't it? 01:32:58.920 --> 01:33:03.040 It's still the majority of that team has made that move. 01:33:03.040 --> 01:33:07.920 And yeah, if we look at the Fury Accord, how they performed over the past year 01:33:07.920 --> 01:33:15.040 on a map like layer. The stats are absolutely terrifying if you're NIP. They have got a record 01:33:15.040 --> 01:33:21.680 of 13 to 2. That's the record. They've put it 15 times over the past year. They've lost 01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:28.560 it twice and they want it 13. That's insane. And the attack stats is 61% and the defense 01:33:28.560 --> 01:33:34.240 stats is 67. They can do it all. It's a map that they were early adopters 01:33:34.240 --> 01:33:40.560 to and obviously Larry's still relatively early if we're talking about all the maps in our competitive 01:33:40.560 --> 01:33:44.880 pool inside a siege they were an early adopter to the map and I think they had a very good understanding 01:33:44.880 --> 01:33:51.680 of it early on and that continued so it makes sense for from a team liquid team liquid alien 01:33:51.680 --> 01:33:56.000 where perspectives to why we're here but we do sort of scratch our heads or at least for the 01:33:56.000 --> 01:34:01.920 first few rounds we will because there is a lot for nip to prove on this map we're gonna be 01:34:01.920 --> 01:34:05.640 kicking things off attacking into that top floor again going with that trademark 01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:10.600 band that was it did a little bit of work for them over on labs but it didn't do 01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:13.800 the most amount of work. They've banned the cave, they've banned the bandit, so they're 01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:19.080 looking to get in these walls open nice and easy. However you think about what 01:34:19.080 --> 01:34:23.720 that leaves open on a map like there things like the tachanka, things like 01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:29.000 the goyo, massive time denial and that's where attacks seem to live or 01:34:29.000 --> 01:34:35.320 Die if time is a factor well, we can we can already tell you we already know from what's happened in the last half an hour 01:34:35.960 --> 01:34:42.640 NIP have struggled with the time on their attacks often coming down into those final 20 seconds 01:34:43.400 --> 01:34:48.960 And it looks like this is gonna be no different hates bottom of rocket stairs pretty low shotguns out now 01:34:49.120 --> 01:34:51.960 Bissetto finds one where's it backs it up 01:34:53.080 --> 01:34:56.980 Sled shotgun putting in a little bit of work there and a bit of teamwork as well 01:34:56.980 --> 01:35:01.980 Well, Mr. Chanke is the ace up Team Liquid Alienware's sleeve. 01:35:01.980 --> 01:35:04.980 I think we'll lose in two players if you're NIP. 01:35:04.980 --> 01:35:10.980 You could also just avoid the Chanke and try and find your picks towards the other side in towards server. 01:35:10.980 --> 01:35:12.980 And I think that's where the Blitz is maybe eyeing up. 01:35:12.980 --> 01:35:16.980 I think for eights, maybe the HP is kind of putting them off going for these aggressive plays. 01:35:16.980 --> 01:35:18.980 I mean, there is still a lot of clashing. 01:35:18.980 --> 01:35:23.980 He needs to be very careful off, but also for NIP, this, I mean, it could still go either which way. 01:35:23.980 --> 01:35:31.380 Which way and it's a big engagement the cover is going to be there is fancy able to pick off Philippe box and JV all by himself 01:35:31.380 --> 01:35:36.180 Now is a clean sweep for NIP after that disaster 01:35:36.700 --> 01:35:42.340 Over-toward bathroom NIP just grab that round by the cover this neck and say you're coming with me 01:35:43.940 --> 01:35:47.820 Really well played there from NIP obviously though they've got to the wall now 01:35:47.820 --> 01:35:53.020 So that really isn't a conversation point in any of these rounds. We know these walls are going to be getting opened 01:35:53.020 --> 01:35:58.140 But the way that they navigated around the clash and around the Chanker in particular, 01:35:58.140 --> 01:36:02.300 because you look at the lineup, the team that Kudaili Mera are bringing, they're not done. 01:36:02.300 --> 01:36:04.500 They know exactly how to beat NIP. 01:36:04.500 --> 01:36:08.940 They just need to burn the clock, and they are bringing the best operators in the game 01:36:08.940 --> 01:36:09.940 to do that. 01:36:09.940 --> 01:36:12.820 And NIP didn't get dragged into the trap. 01:36:12.820 --> 01:36:14.980 They were able to reset. 01:36:14.980 --> 01:36:18.100 When they got the advantage, they didn't try and press it too soon. 01:36:18.100 --> 01:36:23.700 worked the clock really well and they were able to execute without any casualty at that point. 01:36:25.460 --> 01:36:30.660 Brilliant first round, great gap finding and it's so different to the previous attempts demo 01:36:30.660 --> 01:36:35.140 you know and our reference labs because it's it's most recent it's what we've just seen. 01:36:35.140 --> 01:36:39.700 On labs we had shields playing out on their own, we had you know very disjointed sort of setup 01:36:39.700 --> 01:36:46.580 going on. That just looked like the whole team pulling together. I mean I also find that 01:36:46.580 --> 01:36:50.180 just very puzzling from Team Liquid Alienware. If you looked at the lineup that they had, 01:36:50.180 --> 01:36:56.020 they had about four win conditions. And for some reason, they've decided to go aggressive. Whenever 01:36:56.020 --> 01:37:01.700 they could easily have just played very passive, whenever you know he gets NIP, who are already 01:37:01.700 --> 01:37:08.100 like fairly slow, give them a two man lead in the kill department. That's just not going to 01:37:08.100 --> 01:37:11.380 help you. What's up? And there's just too many things you have to try and watch. So I think 01:37:11.380 --> 01:37:15.380 from a Team Liquid Alienware perspective, it's going to be a lot better if you bring them 01:37:15.380 --> 01:37:19.740 that line up. You have to play that certain way of wanting to stall the round out instead 01:37:19.740 --> 01:37:25.620 of finding the kills. And if you look at Alienware, same again. You've got win conditions. You've 01:37:25.620 --> 01:37:29.940 got a clash. You've got a Goyo. You've got ways of slowing down this NIP slot side. 01:37:29.940 --> 01:37:34.580 But I do think this is an element where maybe they're respecting that shield a heck 01:37:34.580 --> 01:37:41.860 of a lot more because you've got the foreign and the Ella to great answers to a blitz. 01:37:41.860 --> 01:37:45.640 But you've got the blitz you've got the clash as well which is a brilliant counter to the blitz 01:37:45.640 --> 01:37:50.580 You just saw the engagement there not wanting to walk down the stairs because you've got nade at the bottom of it 01:37:50.580 --> 01:37:52.580 Just toggling electrification 01:37:53.540 --> 01:37:57.960 It's gonna take fancy pushing down and chucking a nade out there to really displace him 01:37:58.460 --> 01:38:01.140 And they will perform two duties 01:38:01.940 --> 01:38:06.380 We'll destroy the barbed wire as well just freeing that open for a little bit later in the round 01:38:06.900 --> 01:38:09.500 Ram can now come in start throwing in those boogie drones 01:38:09.500 --> 01:38:14.500 Hades is starting to see a little bit of value out of their utility as well. 01:38:14.500 --> 01:38:20.500 Classic from NIP in terms of time, half way through the round and they're fairly well situated. 01:38:20.500 --> 01:38:25.500 They don't really rush to get to this point, but you can't really blame them because it's not really cost them anything. 01:38:25.500 --> 01:38:30.500 They haven't paid with it with their life just yet, just a bit of HP that Fancy's had taken away from him. 01:38:30.500 --> 01:38:35.500 The Leapox attempted for a bit of a walk up here on these blue stairs. 01:38:35.500 --> 01:38:41.000 He knows that he's got a very good chance of picking up a kill, especially with the shotgun at the sort of range. 01:38:46.500 --> 01:38:50.000 Well kills, as of yet, that is good news. 01:38:50.000 --> 01:38:54.500 If your team looked at Alienware, oh, missed air jab from Wizards. 01:38:54.500 --> 01:38:56.500 That's not going to help him out. 01:38:56.500 --> 01:39:04.000 Now for NIP, have to try and go pretty fast using that blitz and we'll see if the traps are going to be in place. 01:39:04.000 --> 01:39:07.800 looks like it is, I mean KZ's work for the retake, the fuse are gonna go down, anyone 01:39:07.800 --> 01:39:10.160 from Team Liquid A we're gonna respond. 01:39:10.160 --> 01:39:16.560 There's nobody home, Paseo gets it down for free, they've still got a vert control as well. 01:39:16.560 --> 01:39:20.640 Pase might be low but he should be able to watch this from above, Fancy finds one onto 01:39:20.640 --> 01:39:21.640 Maya. 01:39:21.640 --> 01:39:25.560 Nade, you can walk up and get on to that diffuser but I don't think he's gonna be 01:39:25.560 --> 01:39:29.600 able to disable it from there, for Leapox, he's taken out as well, ESC4 in his hand 01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:31.440 was trying to pull a fast one. 01:39:31.440 --> 01:39:36.880 JV eventually finds one, Pissetto takes down the clash and the final. 01:39:38.160 --> 01:39:43.200 Blitz drawing for the pistol to bring us to a conclusion for round number two. 01:39:44.520 --> 01:39:46.040 Oh, how wrong we were. 01:39:46.640 --> 01:39:50.560 We were dangling a 30% statistic in front of you all at the start of this match. 01:39:50.840 --> 01:39:55.160 And NIP have come out of the gate and won the first two attacking rounds on layer. 01:39:55.160 --> 01:40:07.780 It's very sloppy from Team Liquid Alienware on both of those rounds. 01:40:07.780 --> 01:40:14.680 I just don't think that Naid was expecting the Blitz just to plant right in front of him. 01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:15.680 No. 01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:19.360 That was a just... well there's no way they're gonna go for that are they? 01:40:19.360 --> 01:40:20.360 They just smoked the door. 01:40:20.360 --> 01:40:23.240 They're probably gonna try and see if they can sprint in and take the bomb site but 01:40:23.240 --> 01:40:24.240 no. 01:40:24.240 --> 01:40:29.860 I think he was expecting him to sprint him wasn't he and I think that there was maybe an expectation that the clashes 01:40:30.360 --> 01:40:36.360 Electrification would would be enough. Well as we could see on the on the overview the range. It was just a little bit too far away 01:40:37.880 --> 01:40:43.160 Planting them in the small like that always a mega risky move because where do you see for the cloud of smoke? 01:40:43.160 --> 01:40:46.760 Where do you throw smoke canister the cloud of smoke? Where do you prefer the cloud of smoke? 01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:53.400 They're in the cloud of smoke. It's not that big right? It's always a mega risky move to make a play inside the smoke 01:40:54.240 --> 01:40:58.240 Maybe that's why it's a little bit unpredictable sometimes. 01:40:58.240 --> 01:41:04.240 NIP have already over-performed here on their previous records for all that. 01:41:04.240 --> 01:41:08.240 They are doing better than we expected them to on this attacking side. 01:41:08.240 --> 01:41:14.240 And again, maybe it's bringing into the reason as to why we ended up here in the first place. 01:41:14.240 --> 01:41:18.240 Kind of just goes to show them all that both these teams are really pulling out all the stops 01:41:18.240 --> 01:41:22.240 to avoid a playing phase in that lower bracket. 01:41:22.240 --> 01:41:27.920 Just get the job done now. Make sure you can get to the state safe and sound. 01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:34.440 I'll have to play against, again, as you mentioned, FaZe. Nobody wants to try and go up against me now, 01:41:34.440 --> 01:41:37.840 I guess that side is, despite maybe the woes that they've had as of late. 01:41:38.840 --> 01:41:44.240 The last matter for a Team Liquid alien where they've got the opening pick and they've done a heck of a lot of damage here to the Black Room, 01:41:44.240 --> 01:41:47.640 but Sett was having an absolute nightmare, he goes down, JV! 01:41:47.640 --> 01:42:02.640 This shit's his feet off the center though, able to get a nade on the JV beforehand, I don't know what happened there, KZ's also been downed, what's going on, another one is gone, it's like Hase was trying to walk into the bomb site, what a weird opening minute. 01:42:02.640 --> 01:42:13.640 This is very uncharacteristic for a game between these two teams at the moment, NIP have been kind of slow in their approach and it's not been a bad thing, we've been, you know, sort of praising them for it. 01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:20.640 We get the Mart Stumb grenade onto JV, KZ falls, the advantage at the moment naturally is with 01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:27.280 Team Liquid Alienware, they have three bodies left standing, one toxic babe, a C4, plenty 01:42:27.280 --> 01:42:28.280 of Keeber barricades. 01:42:28.280 --> 01:42:33.680 An IP though, are they going to be able to whittle them off one by one? 01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:41.280 Nade, first player to fall, no mega-overreaction from Team Liquid Alienware at the moment, 01:42:41.280 --> 01:43:04.200 What a funny old round that was, eh? 01:43:04.200 --> 01:43:05.200 I mean. 01:43:05.200 --> 01:43:10.360 team like an either just like headloss full headloss 01:43:14.360 --> 01:43:20.040 I don't think I've ever seen that side play that way. I don't think I've ever seen that side play out that way 01:43:20.040 --> 01:43:25.440 Oh, we gotta get the side open you need that. Oh, I think we'll get the time out after the buns 01:43:26.240 --> 01:43:28.240 No 01:43:28.240 --> 01:43:32.760 Okay, okay, we're there. We're not there. We're in we're in the thick of it 01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:39.880 I mean would it be would it be the bomb back getting back together if we didn't lose our head 01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:42.520 SL 01:43:44.520 --> 01:43:46.520 What we need to do is just 01:43:46.520 --> 01:43:49.160 We just need to catch your mind but you just need to imagine that this is like 01:43:49.880 --> 01:43:54.040 NIP versus MIBR from like five years ago. Oh, no 01:43:54.920 --> 01:43:56.920 Take me back 01:43:56.920 --> 01:44:03.920 I mean, the only person who would still be on that side is, you know? 01:44:03.920 --> 01:44:05.920 Uh, Fully Pucks. 01:44:05.920 --> 01:44:06.920 Yeah. 01:44:06.920 --> 01:44:07.920 Is that it? 01:44:07.920 --> 01:44:08.920 Is that anything? 01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:09.920 Playing on a controller. 01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:10.920 Broken shoulder. 01:44:10.920 --> 01:44:14.920 Broken shoulder, so playing on a controller. 01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:16.920 Still absolutely frying. 01:44:16.920 --> 01:44:20.920 Yeah, actually once, which was insane. 01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:22.920 Weird old round. 01:44:22.920 --> 01:44:29.040 round. First three rounds for NIP. No timeout at the start of round four, which is the next 01:44:29.040 --> 01:44:33.360 round of bands. Again, it's a little bit of an elongated pause in proceedings, so teams 01:44:33.360 --> 01:44:38.880 tend to like to use that just to gain a few more seconds out of their tack. It's the 01:44:38.880 --> 01:44:45.200 clash and the thermite that both get removed. The clash makes a lot of sense. That's 01:44:45.200 --> 01:44:49.080 been something that has been a bit of a problem, but I mean NIP, they could have 01:44:49.080 --> 01:44:52.400 kind of banned anything because everything that they've been coming up against has 01:44:52.400 --> 01:44:57.400 been dealt with. He's not lost a round yet. 01:44:57.400 --> 01:45:08.640 This is a big round. Team Liquid Alienware. They need to try and get their first round 01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:13.120 on the board. They will go back upstairs and I mentioned it last time. They had a 01:45:13.120 --> 01:45:18.280 lot of win conditions. Look, the clash is off the board. They don't have that luxury 01:45:18.280 --> 01:45:24.000 of that operator to not only slow down the round but counter through the shields. Whenever 01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:29.800 you've got the smoke, you've got them to chunk it. That's your wincon. Play around that. 01:45:29.800 --> 01:45:35.280 That's always going to be the issue for NIP. I mean, for NIP right now, it's, what about 01:45:35.280 --> 01:45:38.960 that demo that's down there, just pestering these players and also look at all the Bs 01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:43.520 being sent in too that's getting a lot of value. A lot of information being fed 01:45:43.520 --> 01:45:46.640 for the NIP but sadly no picks for them as of yet. 01:45:46.640 --> 01:45:51.740 And it's all about breaching these walls though isn't that's what they need to try and focus 01:45:51.740 --> 01:45:55.940 on making sure they can get away into that default plant position in through that interior 01:45:55.940 --> 01:45:56.940 breach. 01:45:56.940 --> 01:46:02.440 Now mirror window is there to make things a little bit awkward and oh no a misty nade. 01:46:02.440 --> 01:46:07.040 When I get the salva I think we still have one more though but I'm just making a viscous 01:46:07.040 --> 01:46:08.040 impact trick. 01:46:08.040 --> 01:46:09.040 Oh no. 01:46:09.040 --> 01:46:10.040 Okay. 01:46:10.040 --> 01:46:13.040 Oh, no, no, no, we're, we're in Balder. 01:46:14.040 --> 01:46:19.040 Yeah, this is where alarm bells really start to ring, isn't it? You're in a single doorway, push into sight. 01:46:19.040 --> 01:46:21.040 Maya picks the first onto Fancy. 01:46:21.040 --> 01:46:26.040 Vassetto, what a great game so far. Five and one at the minute. 01:46:26.040 --> 01:46:30.040 You might need another five here if you're going to try and pull this round out of the bike. 01:46:30.040 --> 01:46:34.040 Primed and waiting to hop in on that Blackbeard. 01:46:34.040 --> 01:46:36.040 and 01:46:36.040 --> 01:46:39.040 you know and wizard both yet to die in this map by the way I 01:46:40.040 --> 01:46:45.040 Feel like it's only a matter of time in this one wizard will find one Maya in with the trade 01:46:45.040 --> 01:46:50.940 There is a flank up rocket as well, and it will be successful JVs three. Oh 01:46:51.320 --> 01:46:53.320 Line them up and he'll knock them down 01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:58.160 It must have been a cracking lineup for him to get that Wow 01:46:58.160 --> 01:47:06.160 I mean, for NIP, it just shows how punishing that top floor is if you just have that one slight slip up. 01:47:06.160 --> 01:47:16.160 And look, the slip up was the nade going on for the Selma, having only one Selma remaining, and then that gets impact trick, and they've got no way into the bomb site except through the door. 01:47:16.160 --> 01:47:23.160 And I also noticed too, we had a minute left, and all of the util from NIP was gone. 01:47:23.160 --> 01:47:26.820 They had no nades no flashes all the all the bees were used 01:47:28.580 --> 01:47:31.840 They're using utile and they're not following up kills with it 01:47:32.340 --> 01:47:38.220 I mean the grim was just firing the bees into her slot mess and nobody really looked as though that you're interested in playing off 01:47:38.220 --> 01:47:41.380 I mean sure the day moves to maybe downstairs playing with the vertical 01:47:41.380 --> 01:47:45.980 But he'll have to be careful himself. He can also get shot and die, which you know, he wants being challenged 01:47:46.460 --> 01:47:50.260 Then something as simple as somebody coming up rocket stairs. Yeah, I 01:47:50.260 --> 01:47:55.180 I think for me it was the deployable shield. You know that just stopped the hole push there 01:47:56.940 --> 01:48:00.420 Yeah, because you can't throw your cell phones because you don't know if they're gonna get impacted 01:48:00.420 --> 01:48:04.580 You can't push down on the blackbeard or the mark or the blitz or whatever you're playing just because you know that 01:48:05.140 --> 01:48:09.580 Someone could swing out at any second and it just took so long to deal with that shield 01:48:09.980 --> 01:48:15.140 The everything had already been spent and often that everyone else kind of knew that that was the main hold up 01:48:15.140 --> 01:48:19.980 That should have been the main focus to try and get rid of I mean that and the fact that breaching was always gonna be 01:48:19.980 --> 01:48:24.340 difficult, the thermite has been taken away, and NIP, I'm not going to sit here and say 01:48:24.340 --> 01:48:28.300 they've got a problem with breaching, but they really do try and make it as easy as possible 01:48:28.300 --> 01:48:33.220 for themselves. I say that, in this round, they haven't brought a single primary hard 01:48:33.220 --> 01:48:38.820 breacher, instead we've just got a couple of tin openers on Basetto. So, who knows 01:48:38.820 --> 01:48:42.020 how this is going to go, because last round it all came down to the hard breach, or 01:48:42.020 --> 01:48:45.860 the lack thereof. Now okay, you're attacking Basement, so you need a little bit less 01:48:45.860 --> 01:48:50.660 of it and previously when we've seen them successful down here it's come down to a 01:48:50.660 --> 01:48:54.220 bit of a flood into sight and get the plant down under the cover of some smoke 01:48:54.220 --> 01:48:57.900 that isn't going to be an option this time and much more heavy in the nade 01:48:57.900 --> 01:49:03.180 department maybe there isn't the same level of extension going on from Team 01:49:03.180 --> 01:49:07.620 Liquid Alienware there's only a couple of silhouettes upstairs that we can 01:49:07.620 --> 01:49:16.800 say but again quite a horizontal approach right now from NIP. A bit of a scattershot I mean 01:49:16.800 --> 01:49:20.680 you enter in through a garage and now they're looking to rotate the shield upstairs I think 01:49:20.680 --> 01:49:25.040 it's just a case of trying to get that shield into position to challenge onto those roamers. 01:49:25.040 --> 01:49:32.080 What's the lion though? C4 and oh no the Grim 2. So a lot of util operators gone straight 01:49:32.080 --> 01:49:36.640 away you've lost your grim, grim information equally can be the same for lion. Really 01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:42.800 get information. The thing is now with with NIP you still have rumours upstairs and now 01:49:42.800 --> 01:49:51.280 you have two men who can help you with that. Team Liquid Alienware dug in at the moment. 01:49:51.280 --> 01:49:57.280 Maya on the stairs, a favorable angle as always. You've got the high ground on the 01:49:57.280 --> 01:50:03.200 shield. You are winning a flawless round for Team Liquid Alienware. Pretty much out 01:50:03.200 --> 01:50:06.360 I know where this game has swung in the balance 01:50:06.720 --> 01:50:13.760 We've seen three rounds in a row go the favor of NIP and then a very quick response no timeout either 01:50:14.160 --> 01:50:17.240 From team liquid Alienware and they've chained two together themselves 01:50:17.880 --> 01:50:23.720 Again shaping up for a flawless half a between these two teams have NIP run out of steam already demo 01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:25.720 Have they only got three good attacks in him? 01:50:26.680 --> 01:50:30.240 It's still not bad though. I think three attacks. It's okay 01:50:30.240 --> 01:50:46.240 Okay. Certainly on on on layer. I think you can work with that and for an IP getting onto the defense and it will be a lot more comfortable so still for team liquid Alienware probably why they didn't call the time out only because they want to try and keep that for the kind of tougher side as you'd say on the attacks. 01:50:46.240 --> 01:50:51.240 the game. I mean, certainly 01:50:51.240 --> 01:50:53.240 for Team Liquid Alienware. If 01:50:53.240 --> 01:50:55.240 they can get the even half here. 01:50:55.240 --> 01:50:56.240 It really does open up the game 01:50:56.240 --> 01:50:57.240 and it's a good kind of recovery 01:50:57.240 --> 01:50:59.240 process would be in three old 01:50:59.240 --> 01:51:00.240 down all of a sudden. Now it's 01:51:00.240 --> 01:51:02.240 free free. You've got the 01:51:02.240 --> 01:51:04.240 momentum and I and I fear going 01:51:04.240 --> 01:51:05.240 to be thinking. Well, we've 01:51:05.240 --> 01:51:06.240 kind of like this slip a little 01:51:06.240 --> 01:51:07.240 bit. We sort of really well 01:51:07.240 --> 01:51:08.240 now look at them. We've gave 01:51:08.240 --> 01:51:10.240 them confidence. And obviously 01:51:10.240 --> 01:51:11.240 for team liquid Alienware, 01:51:11.240 --> 01:51:12.240 we've seen what what they 01:51:12.240 --> 01:51:13.240 were able to do on live 01:51:13.240 --> 01:51:15.240 server. They got just a 01:51:15.240 --> 01:51:20.600 On lab so it just shows it aside and very quickly snowball our control 01:51:22.640 --> 01:51:24.640 Yeah, it really doesn't take much does it 01:51:25.720 --> 01:51:30.000 Doesn't say much from to put the afterburners on leave their opponent in the dust 01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:35.560 Kind of feels what happened on labs. It kind of feels again. What's happening here on 01:51:36.560 --> 01:51:37.760 layer 01:51:37.760 --> 01:51:42.480 This was the weird round for me. Oh good bit of damage there, but another successful impact trick 01:51:42.480 --> 01:51:50.640 He's going to be mindful, and that second placement is a lot better though, because at least 01:51:50.640 --> 01:51:55.360 can you get something open, but you've got one cell on the left, and you still need to 01:51:55.360 --> 01:52:00.840 get something meaningful open on that wall, can it be a really difficult task? 01:52:00.840 --> 01:52:06.360 This was the round where we sort of looked to get in and questioned, was it worthy for 01:52:06.360 --> 01:52:10.120 Team Liquid Alienware to take the time out at the end of round number three because 01:52:10.120 --> 01:52:15.480 of how poorly it went. I just don't get the impression that that's going to happen again 01:52:15.480 --> 01:52:22.080 here. Another attempt at the Selma on the wall. Finally, this time they're both going 01:52:22.080 --> 01:52:28.440 to go off. I think there's going to be something able to be worked over on that breach. This 01:52:28.440 --> 01:52:33.380 time with two opening kills for Fancy. One on to Nade, one on to KZ. It's already 01:52:33.380 --> 01:52:38.680 looking a lot more reminiscent of what we saw in round number three. 01:52:38.680 --> 01:52:43.280 pressure now Team Liquid Alienware and Saito is still alive. He's going to be the main key 01:52:43.280 --> 01:52:48.600 component for getting this plant off for LIP. He can just sense off the entirety of the bomb 01:52:48.600 --> 01:52:53.760 site and just simply walk in, avoid those vertical holes. We'll see if Team Liquid Alienware are 01:52:53.760 --> 01:52:58.840 going to be really snapping onto that, but looking at the lineup, don't really have much 01:52:58.840 --> 01:53:02.400 apart from the one C4 who could deal with that. It is going to have to be Team Liquid 01:53:02.400 --> 01:53:07.040 Alienware on the back foot, having to try and recover this round, but this feels 01:53:07.040 --> 01:53:12.000 I can say a matter of time before NIP are going to make this happen, however, for Leapox 01:53:12.000 --> 01:53:17.120 with a cheeky kill, peeps down for the green stairs and able to pick off fantasy. 01:53:17.120 --> 01:53:22.360 So that is a kill back, but still for NIP, just try and go for the plug-back, so they 01:53:22.360 --> 01:53:23.760 should be focused on right now. 01:53:23.760 --> 01:53:27.120 I think you're right, but I know that it's going to be difficult to get down. 01:53:27.120 --> 01:53:31.040 If they've not taken sufficient vertical, it's going to be a nightmare. 01:53:31.040 --> 01:53:35.960 You've got direct lines onto the doorways going into sight here, but two massive kills 01:53:35.960 --> 01:53:42.020 there with the taking full epochs down that's what they needed the doorway being 01:53:42.020 --> 01:53:45.920 watched there was only one conclusion there and it needed to come through some 01:53:45.920 --> 01:53:53.840 kills whether it was one two or all three and IP there choosing the kill route 01:53:53.840 --> 01:54:00.880 as opposed to play in that diffuser grab themselves around back and throw over to 01:54:00.880 --> 01:54:05.280 our wonderful desk and they're gonna break down the first six rounds 01:54:05.960 --> 01:54:12.760 Oh, apologies, I was told we're not going to the desk. 01:54:12.760 --> 01:54:13.760 Yeah. 01:54:13.760 --> 01:54:15.360 My bad, they're not ready for us. 01:54:15.360 --> 01:54:16.360 My bad. 01:54:16.360 --> 01:54:20.520 Well, maybe we're not ready for them, though, I was about that. 01:54:20.520 --> 01:54:26.200 Oh, well, so we'll have to entertain it. 01:54:26.200 --> 01:54:31.440 Oh, now he said, oh, don't worry, I'll have a go now. 01:54:31.440 --> 01:54:33.640 Oh, no, you missed your opportunity. 01:54:33.640 --> 01:54:35.640 You missed the booking. 01:54:35.640 --> 01:54:45.920 Well, four rounds for an IP overperformed, I think, as far as I'm concerned, on that attack 01:54:45.920 --> 01:54:49.760 inside. I really feel like we've got a game on our hands in our demo. There's a massive 01:54:49.760 --> 01:54:55.000 opportunity for them. They've done nearly all of the hard work inside of this fixture. 01:54:55.000 --> 01:54:59.000 I think the benefit that Team Liquid Alienware have got going into this second half is, 01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:01.960 of course, going to be that they've got their tactical timeouts still because they 01:55:01.960 --> 01:55:07.740 chose not to use it. But it kind of felt like they weren't too worried about whatever 01:55:07.740 --> 01:55:11.620 this split was going to be because in their mind isn't an insurmountable task. 01:55:11.620 --> 01:55:22.860 Tell me you've got me as well, don't know. No, no, no, I'm not. I mean, this is where 01:55:22.860 --> 01:55:29.740 I think for NIP, they have to have the confidence now to say, you know what, this is our 01:55:29.740 --> 01:55:34.740 We chose the go here. We've had a fantastic attack enough, which is kind of unlike them. 01:55:34.740 --> 01:55:40.740 You know, we're going to mention how the attacking win percentage on layer for NIP hasn't been great. 01:55:40.740 --> 01:55:47.740 This is where they want to be on the defense. This is where it can be absolutely stellar on their side. 01:55:47.740 --> 01:55:50.740 And for Team Liquid Alienware, they kind of know they're up against it. 01:55:50.740 --> 01:55:55.740 You know, they also would have looked at layer and said, OK, if they're going to, we're going to leave it open. 01:55:55.740 --> 01:56:00.960 They can pick it if they want because we know we're going to have that defense start and we can really ramp up the rounds 01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:06.820 That hasn't happened for them. They start off really sloppy. They lost rounds down to not playing their win conditions 01:56:07.780 --> 01:56:11.480 So this is it for an IP to try and push us into that third map. I 01:56:12.120 --> 01:56:17.700 Think this first round is gonna be really important because we ever go with team look at a we're getting the first attack 01:56:17.700 --> 01:56:23.840 They're gonna be feeling confident. They bring it back to one round difference between them or an IP are gonna have a free round gap 01:56:25.740 --> 01:56:32.740 Well, there is potential for a bit of a gap to start developing here if NIP get a bit 01:56:32.740 --> 01:56:34.860 of a run on this defense. 01:56:34.860 --> 01:56:38.820 We could very well be seeing Bank. 01:56:38.820 --> 01:56:43.140 And I opened this map demo with the old, you know, the team that wins the second map 01:56:43.140 --> 01:56:44.900 usually wins the series. 01:56:44.900 --> 01:56:48.700 And the reason that I did it, obviously, I think it's funny nobody else does, but 01:56:48.700 --> 01:56:49.700 I enjoy it. 01:56:49.700 --> 01:56:53.100 But the reason that I did it is Bank's NIP's favorite map. 01:56:53.100 --> 01:56:59.780 Now, I understand that Team Liquid Alienware, the old Fury Accord, they're no stranger to Bank either. 01:57:00.500 --> 01:57:02.500 But it's a very good map for NIP. 01:57:03.220 --> 01:57:10.340 I think that if they have the sufficient tank on them today, if they've got it in their lock and to go all three, 01:57:10.740 --> 01:57:17.420 there's a very real possibility that they move on this upper bracket and we send Team Liquid Alienware down into that lower. 01:57:17.420 --> 01:57:23.920 But a lot depends on this next half of layer because, you know, I'm talking like it's already done. 01:57:23.920 --> 01:57:25.920 It is by no means over yet. 01:57:31.920 --> 01:57:32.920 Here we go. 01:57:34.920 --> 01:57:39.420 First defense for NIP, setting up in towards that top floor. 01:57:39.420 --> 01:57:42.420 And the extension in towards operation, using it as a me. 01:57:42.420 --> 01:57:46.420 So, off of the idea here for NIP, it's waste a lot of time early on. 01:57:46.420 --> 01:57:52.260 such as using the exam and using the clash to try to hold in towards ups and also in towards mess 01:57:52.260 --> 01:57:55.060 And then you try and hit them in the light game using the smoke 01:57:55.060 --> 01:57:59.080 I will say I think they maybe could have brought in a little bit more 01:57:59.260 --> 01:58:06.180 Plunk denial this I make the chunk is having like the staple pick hasn't he so I don't think it's a massive amount 01:58:06.180 --> 01:58:08.660 The team look at a limb need to be worried about based on time 01:58:09.060 --> 01:58:13.320 They've tried to force him with a shield now. However, you've got the ally you've got the four 01:58:13.320 --> 01:58:15.320 You've got ways to counter this shield 01:58:16.420 --> 01:58:19.000 Or for Leapox. 01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:21.420 I'm sure he's shield counted. 01:58:21.420 --> 01:58:23.420 So the shield disorientated. 01:58:23.420 --> 01:58:26.940 The screen only just starting to let up now. 01:58:26.940 --> 01:58:30.620 He doesn't need much visual to see that the kills are starting to come in in that top 01:58:30.620 --> 01:58:31.980 right of his screen. 01:58:31.980 --> 01:58:34.420 Casing the only casualty at the moment. 01:58:34.420 --> 01:58:38.420 Aside from that a very successful first attempt. 01:58:38.420 --> 01:58:40.420 We've lost the smoke. 01:58:40.420 --> 01:58:41.420 Yeah. 01:58:41.420 --> 01:58:43.420 Part of time denial here. 01:58:43.420 --> 01:58:45.420 Well, overpeaking. 01:58:45.420 --> 01:58:48.500 My only guess is that he was shot through side door. 01:58:50.500 --> 01:58:53.000 So weird one to see the smoke go down. 01:58:53.000 --> 01:58:56.600 I don't know, were they playing the smoke aggressive in towards rock? I'm not too sure. 01:58:57.160 --> 01:59:00.160 But if he was just on site then yeah, certainly an over peek. 01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:04.600 Off for NIP now. He don't have the denial. 01:59:05.100 --> 01:59:07.520 They also got the man advantage and you look at the time. 01:59:07.520 --> 01:59:10.720 A minute fifteen, that's more than enough for Team Liquid Aliyah here. 01:59:10.720 --> 01:59:15.440 maybe after a bit of a pivot here only they're going to go and try and hit the green side of things. 01:59:17.840 --> 01:59:20.560 Well they've got the clash to try and dance around a little bit haven't they? 01:59:21.280 --> 01:59:24.880 I think they feel like the job's kind of done over in ops they can maybe leave that to a bit 01:59:24.880 --> 01:59:29.680 of a lurk roll later on. They've still got 55 seconds and there's loads of information 01:59:29.680 --> 01:59:35.760 that can be gathered here by full epochs. These remaining players for NIP need to be super 01:59:35.760 --> 01:59:41.880 cautious. No hard breach active in this line up either as KZ did fall. Hates finds one onto 01:59:41.880 --> 01:59:48.480 Nade, make it a second. His double kills tonight have been so impactful. Wizard is down though. 01:59:48.480 --> 01:59:54.480 Maia will be recovered. JV can find the space and the time to get that done. Finish is 01:59:54.480 --> 02:00:01.080 off wizard. The Settle and Hates. Not beyond the realms of possibility here. 25 seconds 02:00:01.080 --> 02:00:05.480 and a clash to go up against is no mean feat when you've got zero util. 02:00:06.400 --> 02:00:10.600 The lion and the glass, two DMRs going up in this battle. 02:00:10.840 --> 02:00:13.160 Maya gonna start to try and get that plant down. 02:00:13.160 --> 02:00:16.040 Bissetto is able to navigate around successfully. 02:00:16.040 --> 02:00:19.240 Hey, he's just missing out on his shots and that's going to be the diffuser. 02:00:19.240 --> 02:00:22.360 Confirm Bissetto, the shield pulls out of the pistol. 02:00:22.600 --> 02:00:24.800 Maya has to hold on. 02:00:24.800 --> 02:00:27.600 He's got a great angle outside from him, but you've got the clash. 02:00:27.600 --> 02:00:33.200 Bissetto surely can just block up this rotate and give an angle for hates to work with 02:00:33.920 --> 02:00:39.500 My solo surely can't be going for it on his own, but no Bissetto with the time 02:00:40.800 --> 02:00:42.540 Perfectly played 02:00:42.540 --> 02:00:46.760 He might have lost to one versus one clutch on labs, but he's not losing one on there 02:00:47.320 --> 02:00:50.160 Yeah, very important that he clutches that one up 02:00:50.160 --> 02:00:54.680 We could see that the glass he knew what he was up against 02:00:54.680 --> 02:00:57.960 He made the right call where he needed to kill the second player 02:00:57.960 --> 02:01:02.240 You know let the clash have the diffuser for a little bit went for the jump in but 02:01:02.920 --> 02:01:08.760 You're gonna get one and then straight away the clash just knows that they kind of get off go for the easy pick 02:01:08.760 --> 02:01:10.960 But yeah that shield the real kicker 02:01:11.880 --> 02:01:15.680 For NIP or team liquid Alienware. I mean it was a 4v3 02:01:15.680 --> 02:01:19.080 They did have the advantage and they went for that ever and it didn't really work 02:01:19.080 --> 02:01:25.540 I just think that they rotated that clash really well, you know, it nullified that Blitz. 02:01:25.540 --> 02:01:30.720 Blitz also had a nightmare to deal with Alamines with the forums, I'm sure too. 02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:36.600 It was really, really tricky lineup, I think, with what Team Liquid Alienware went for. 02:01:36.600 --> 02:01:40.360 Whereas, I think if they went a little bit more hard breach-orientated, a little bit 02:01:40.360 --> 02:01:44.000 kind of plant-focused, they would have had a better time because we've seen the lineup 02:01:44.000 --> 02:01:45.000 from NIP. 02:01:45.000 --> 02:01:48.120 It wasn't screaming, we're going to kind of stall the round out here. 02:01:48.120 --> 02:01:50.120 It was much more aggressive 02:01:51.060 --> 02:01:55.300 Well, there was only really a smoke wasn't there a smoke in a clash and a clash kind of falls 02:01:55.600 --> 02:01:59.720 It falls on the line between the two doesn't it because you can play it in either sort of style 02:01:59.720 --> 02:02:03.860 You can either play quite aggressive or you can play for a little bit more sort of area denial 02:02:04.160 --> 02:02:08.120 There was only really the smoke that was the big signal of like this is the you know 02:02:08.120 --> 02:02:12.400 The denial portion of the round and well, I got taken out in the first what 30 seconds 02:02:12.400 --> 02:02:14.400 So it never really became a factor either 02:02:14.400 --> 02:02:20.820 Alarm bell starting to ring now, is it really going to leave it until the end of round 8 02:02:20.820 --> 02:02:21.820 to take that time off? 02:02:21.820 --> 02:02:30.400 That risk leaving NIP on a map point here, that's very strange in Team Liquid Alienware. 02:02:30.400 --> 02:02:33.320 Certainly no time being wasted here in round 8 however. 02:02:33.320 --> 02:02:38.660 KZ straight in clearing that top floor on the blitz, Maya going to be moving through 02:02:38.660 --> 02:02:47.620 as well just behind. As all of that is being called as clear, we can start to work through. 02:02:47.620 --> 02:02:53.700 Full top down as well with JV on the sledge, made on the ram so Soft Breach is in abundance 02:02:53.700 --> 02:02:59.140 this round. And the sledge's job is really trying to flood some of these defenders around 02:02:59.140 --> 02:03:04.260 from this mid-floor, but it doesn't look to me as though anybody is home, and I think 02:03:04.260 --> 02:03:07.260 you've been very quick to rotate as soon as they've realised what's been going 02:03:07.260 --> 02:03:11.660 only players now hold in half positions I peed up on these blue stairs 02:03:16.140 --> 02:03:21.860 Think for NIP they're very swiftly realized, you know, they kind of set up here the team look at anywhere 02:03:22.100 --> 02:03:24.500 I've never kind of hear the blitz as well 02:03:25.980 --> 02:03:29.940 Clang around the map. You want to just try and get back to the bomb site and in the arm 02:03:30.620 --> 02:03:34.420 Leashing some C4s up to see if they can try and pick off some players, but that's both of them 02:03:34.420 --> 02:03:38.020 They're going to absolutely knock it all away like one of your fishing trips 02:03:39.980 --> 02:03:41.980 Don't remind me 02:03:42.420 --> 02:03:44.420 They're very unsuccessful recently 02:03:45.500 --> 02:03:48.140 Need a new lucky token or something 02:03:49.260 --> 02:03:51.260 Not sure what it might be yet, but 02:03:51.740 --> 02:03:54.060 Willing to take any ideas if you got idea call in 02:03:54.940 --> 02:03:56.460 Not enough for a bit 02:03:56.460 --> 02:04:03.260 You'll catch on now going out as that's the setto and you starting to know the turd these attackers a little bit. I 02:04:03.260 --> 02:04:10.700 I mean that's a trade but it's a trade that I would take as NIP. You've lost you know playing in aggressive position 02:04:10.700 --> 02:04:15.620 But what have you taken out? You've taken out KZ. That was your key into the bomb site 02:04:15.620 --> 02:04:20.300 Okay, you've still got some candelas from Maya so you can still make a bit of impact there 02:04:20.300 --> 02:04:25.900 But it's not quite the same as a blitz. Maybe we can start to work his way down these blue stairs now 02:04:25.900 --> 02:04:31.780 But you've got no idea fancy is gonna be sitting just enough angle in front of the reinforcement 02:04:31.780 --> 02:04:38.860 And that's likely going to be the first of another three players here to fall or team liquid alien where the seto 02:04:39.380 --> 02:04:42.140 Still with yokai drones in play 02:04:42.760 --> 02:04:46.240 He's tucked you can deny anything that's going on here 02:04:46.240 --> 02:04:49.400 There's not a good read on where that plant's going down though and is instead gonna come off 02:04:49.400 --> 02:04:53.540 That's gonna open the door and allow fully pox to get it on but no stopped in the nick of time 02:04:53.680 --> 02:04:57.880 Nine seconds left if you use a cold fully pox picks it up again for another reattempt 02:04:57.880 --> 02:05:02.040 He's on super low HP, Haste doesn't need to land much, but it's the head anyway. 02:05:02.040 --> 02:05:06.600 Two versus two as this is going to be scrappy, but time's going to do the job. 02:05:06.600 --> 02:05:10.280 NIP, taking it there on time. 02:05:10.280 --> 02:05:14.120 Oh my word. I thought Team Liquid Alienware were going to get away with one. 02:05:14.760 --> 02:05:18.920 Planting in the midst of the smoke, but the Echo forces them off. 02:05:19.800 --> 02:05:22.120 It was very, very close. 02:05:22.120 --> 02:05:26.120 I mean, they've went for the 02:05:26.120 --> 02:05:28.120 time out, but is it a little bit 02:05:28.120 --> 02:05:30.120 too late here, Ollie? I think 02:05:30.120 --> 02:05:32.120 it is. We're smoking about it a 02:05:32.120 --> 02:05:34.120 few times. I was even doubting 02:05:34.120 --> 02:05:36.120 myself at the start of the last 02:05:36.120 --> 02:05:38.120 round, and I was thinking, are 02:05:38.120 --> 02:05:40.120 we sure they've not used it, 02:05:40.120 --> 02:05:42.120 but are we this? There's so 02:05:42.120 --> 02:05:44.120 many breaks now. We've got 02:05:44.120 --> 02:05:46.120 the halftime break. We've got 02:05:46.120 --> 02:05:48.120 the time out for each team. Oh, 02:05:48.120 --> 02:05:50.120 are we sure we've maybe 02:05:50.120 --> 02:05:55.640 team. Are we sure we've maybe not? No, we didn't miss it. It has been saved from that point. 02:05:57.400 --> 02:06:04.680 Now, the value at this point in proceedings, I guess, is that you've seen what two of the 02:06:04.680 --> 02:06:09.240 defenses are going to look like. So you can discuss two defenses instead of just one. 02:06:10.360 --> 02:06:14.600 I kind of get it, but it just puts a heck of a lot of pressure on you. But then again, 02:06:14.600 --> 02:06:17.640 that's sort of accounting for the fact that we're thinking a timeout is going to be really 02:06:17.640 --> 02:06:20.880 valuable anyway and sometimes there's just not too much you can do you've got to 02:06:20.880 --> 02:06:25.980 try and figure it out yourselves in the round so maybe Team Liquid Alienware I'll 02:06:25.980 --> 02:06:30.920 go in with that sort of line of thinking but whichever way you slice it 02:06:30.920 --> 02:06:44.400 and I appear on that point and we are barreling towards a bank this is gonna 02:06:44.400 --> 02:06:49.920 be a big part of soul searching here from Team Liquid Alienware to try and get themselves out of this 02:06:51.760 --> 02:06:57.680 has not went to plan. NIP though credit to them. They've played it very very well I mean obviously 02:06:57.680 --> 02:07:02.960 that opening half that was the key for NIP and I mean they've had a pretty comfortable time here I feel 02:07:04.560 --> 02:07:11.840 on their defense and this is where now we go into the tertiary bomb site into our bunk 02:07:11.840 --> 02:07:17.840 So what we have at our disposal, not for a team look at Alienware, I mean this is like the lineup you expect to see. 02:07:17.840 --> 02:07:22.840 You've got that sense coming in, so I don't expect them to try and go above. 02:07:22.840 --> 02:07:25.840 I think that would, would that be the greatest of the idea? 02:07:25.840 --> 02:07:30.840 I don't think they've got the best lineup to kind of deal with a lot of that room presence upstairs. 02:07:30.840 --> 02:07:32.840 So I think maybe this direct insight could be key. 02:07:32.840 --> 02:07:35.840 However, NIP, they do have the solace. 02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:39.840 So even though the sense is going to be used to try and block off all those lines of sight, 02:07:39.840 --> 02:07:44.260 sight, the sense can still check to see which is the real diffuser being planted. Speaking 02:07:44.260 --> 02:07:48.660 of them, finds Fully Pox, Monty's going down, how's that happened? 02:07:48.660 --> 02:07:55.340 It's a disaster for the lineup that you've got ahead of you. You're thinking that Monty 02:07:55.340 --> 02:07:59.360 is going to be a big portion of your pushing power in this round. You've chosen not to 02:07:59.360 --> 02:08:02.700 bring the Ying, you've chosen not to bring a Capita, you've chosen not to bring 02:08:02.700 --> 02:08:07.940 a Blitz, a Blackbeard, you chose the Monty. That's the first thing to fall. 02:08:07.940 --> 02:08:13.340 KZ sends the nade in, destroys the barbed wire for later, the diffuser will be recoverable. 02:08:13.340 --> 02:08:19.940 It's called on the ground but outside so not as big a problem as what you have lost in the process. 02:08:19.940 --> 02:08:26.140 I think this is just going to spiral Team Liquid Alienware into a secondary plan and one that 02:08:26.140 --> 02:08:30.740 you've not really got the kit for. You need to go for this vertical clear. 02:08:30.740 --> 02:08:33.340 They haven't got the safety of the Monty to plant behind. 02:08:33.340 --> 02:08:37.540 Sure they've got a couple of smokes, sure they've got the ROU projectors. 02:08:37.540 --> 02:08:41.900 I think even they know that that isn't going to be enough. 02:08:41.900 --> 02:08:44.580 Are you prepared to get sent into site? 02:08:44.580 --> 02:08:46.100 Nade has the kit. 02:08:46.100 --> 02:08:50.420 He can try and work his way in, but it's vertical. 02:08:50.420 --> 02:08:52.060 It's just got to be too powerful. 02:08:52.060 --> 02:08:53.060 You've got the solace. 02:08:53.060 --> 02:08:57.820 There's no way that this goes down without an IP knowing about it. 02:08:57.820 --> 02:09:00.780 Now they're going to have to go now or never. 02:09:00.780 --> 02:09:04.300 I said they're not going to have the utility to try and challenge these players above, 02:09:04.300 --> 02:09:07.420 so it's all in, using that sense. 02:09:07.420 --> 02:09:12.520 So now we have to kind of look towards Hates. He's the player who needs to make this happen 02:09:12.520 --> 02:09:19.640 for NIP. All pressure on him. In goes the util, in goes the smokes, up goes the sense, 02:09:19.640 --> 02:09:24.420 in goes the plump, or gadget, or takes the damage. Just gonna stick it though. Any solo 02:09:24.420 --> 02:09:27.700 fates, where are you? Never mind, just kill them. 02:09:27.700 --> 02:09:32.820 Well, yeah, Wiz is gonna do the job anyway. Warden, almost as good as a soloist in 02:09:32.820 --> 02:09:37.560 In that situation, JV and Nade left to try and pick up the pieces. 02:09:37.560 --> 02:09:39.660 30 seconds though, we will find one. 02:09:39.660 --> 02:09:43.880 It's a great start, but with the diffuser cold and still players upstairs, the face 02:09:43.880 --> 02:09:49.440 for that impossible task of challenging the vertical from down to up, Nade has recovered 02:09:49.440 --> 02:09:53.560 the diffuser, maybe starts trying to get it down, but I come back to the same old 02:09:53.560 --> 02:09:54.560 point. 02:09:54.560 --> 02:09:55.560 You've got the Solace. 02:09:55.560 --> 02:09:57.060 This should be known right now. 02:09:57.060 --> 02:10:01.100 I mean, the stats were against 02:10:01.100 --> 02:10:03.100 them and all the metrics. But 02:10:03.100 --> 02:10:04.100 they have done so well. I mean, 02:10:04.100 --> 02:10:05.100 it's that opening half was that 02:10:05.100 --> 02:10:07.100 that was the scary half. We knew 02:10:07.100 --> 02:10:09.100 the defense was going to be 02:10:09.100 --> 02:10:11.100 fine. It was the attacks. We 02:10:11.100 --> 02:10:13.100 had question marks with NIP, but 02:10:13.100 --> 02:10:15.100 they really showed us how it was 02:10:15.100 --> 02:10:17.100 on a 4 to 1. So, you know, 02:10:17.100 --> 02:10:19.100 the defense was going to be 02:10:19.100 --> 02:10:21.100 fine. It was the attacks. We 02:10:21.100 --> 02:10:23.100 had question marks with NIP, 02:10:23.100 --> 02:10:25.100 but they really showed us how 02:10:25.100 --> 02:10:29.420 really showed us that was on a four to half and they just cruise in the defences. 02:10:30.700 --> 02:10:35.340 I mean, this is why NIP for me is one of the more exciting teams to watch inside of SL. 02:10:35.340 --> 02:10:39.420 I know there's the big names. I know there's the players that have been there and done it. 02:10:39.420 --> 02:10:44.620 I like watching the players that could be next up. And for me, NIP feel like they're on the edge 02:10:44.620 --> 02:10:48.700 of being that team at the moment. This series though, it is still not done. 02:10:48.700 --> 02:10:52.380 We have bank as a decider map and it's going to be coming up just after this. 02:10:52.380 --> 02:10:59.220 Everyone's talking about it. 02:10:59.220 --> 02:11:02.460 What's up with the R6 Competitive Calendar? 02:11:02.460 --> 02:11:06.820 The structure of our Competitive Calendar has changed a bit. 02:11:06.820 --> 02:11:14.260 That means more tournaments, and a slightly different path to the 6th invitation. 02:11:14.260 --> 02:11:16.420 But let's break it down. 02:11:16.420 --> 02:11:24.340 First of all, we now have a brand new addition to Siege, the CN League, the Chinese League. 02:11:24.340 --> 02:11:31.660 That brings us to five regions total, all following pretty much the same structure. 02:11:31.660 --> 02:11:37.860 Now let's focus on what matters most to us, how things will work in the South America 02:11:37.860 --> 02:11:38.860 League. 02:11:38.860 --> 02:11:46.460 Before anything else, it's important to remember that the 20-26 season actually started way back 02:11:46.460 --> 02:11:52.700 with the Challenger series, where Rising Teams fought for a shot at the top tier and secured the 02:11:52.700 --> 02:12:00.060 final two spots in the SAL. Then, and that's where we are right now, we have the kickoff. 02:12:00.060 --> 02:12:09.940 Now, think of it as a Stage 0 for the SA-L, shorter, faster, but still super important. 02:12:09.940 --> 02:12:17.100 It awards 4 major spots and distributes 970 SA- points. 02:12:17.100 --> 02:12:25.140 Next up, in May, we've got the first major of the year, 20 teams, over 30,000 SA- points 02:12:25.140 --> 02:12:32.900 on the line, live from Salt Lake City, USA. After that, between June and July, we officially 02:12:32.900 --> 02:12:41.240 kick off Stage 1 of the SAO. Same classic format you already know. One group of 10 teams, 02:12:41.240 --> 02:12:48.220 round robbing matches, and the top 6 advanced to the Double Elimination Playoffs. 02:12:48.220 --> 02:12:54.540 This time though, the 4 available spots are for the Esports World Cup, taking place 02:12:54.540 --> 02:13:04.380 in Saudi Arabia. Plus, we've got another 1,695 aside points of photographs. Speaking of that, 02:13:04.940 --> 02:13:14.220 the eSports World Cup kicks off in August, with 22 teams competing for a $2 million prize pool. 02:13:15.180 --> 02:13:21.340 No aside points here, but the winner gets a straight ticket to SI 2027. 02:13:21.340 --> 02:13:29.500 Then, between September and October, we move on to stage 2 of the SAL. 02:13:29.500 --> 02:13:39.180 Same format again, 10 teams, round robbing, playoffs, 4 major spots, and another 1,695 S-I 02:13:39.180 --> 02:13:40.940 points in play. 02:13:40.940 --> 02:13:47.740 In November, we'll see the debut of the final international event of the year. 02:13:47.740 --> 02:13:58.400 the first major ever hosted in Japan, 20 teams and 13,650 SI points on the line. 02:13:58.400 --> 02:14:06.060 Finally, closing out the calendar between December and January, we've got the last chance qualifiers 02:14:06.060 --> 02:14:08.080 in each region. 02:14:08.080 --> 02:14:14.000 This is the final shot at making it to the biggest tournament in Siege, and those five 02:14:14.000 --> 02:14:22.700 15 will join the top 14 teams from the SI Points ranking, plus the EWC champion, making 02:14:22.700 --> 02:14:30.000 a total of 20 teams qualified for the 6th Invitational in February, the tournament that 02:14:30.000 --> 02:14:32.760 always wraps up the season. 02:14:32.760 --> 02:14:37.880 And by the way, it's happening right here in Brazil again. 02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:39.440 Simple enough, right? 02:14:39.440 --> 02:14:41.360 So let's get into it. 02:14:41.360 --> 02:14:43.480 The kickoff is ready. 02:14:43.480 --> 02:14:47.920 set and now it's time to sit back and enjoy the games. 02:14:47.920 --> 02:14:50.480 Thanks for watching everyone, see you next time! 02:15:13.480 --> 02:15:17.800 for NIP that bring it back and tie it up and take us into the third map. 02:15:17.800 --> 02:15:24.480 Before we talk about that, we have to dig into Hive Haven and what happened NIP looked on another level here. 02:15:24.480 --> 02:15:29.800 Yeah, it's basically like they didn't change their core playstyle compared to labs. 02:15:29.800 --> 02:15:32.600 It is still very slow. It is still methodical and step-by-step. 02:15:32.600 --> 02:15:36.280 What I do not understand is the game plan on the side of Team Liquid and anywhere. 02:15:36.280 --> 02:15:39.000 I think they were trying to play and peel off like they were on labs. 02:15:39.000 --> 02:15:42.600 The reality was NIP just attacked much more efficiently on that map. 02:15:42.600 --> 02:15:47.000 And I think by not going for full extended rooms, they can have shot themselves in the foot here. 02:15:47.000 --> 02:15:50.760 Let's take a look at round two, for example. If you look at the lineup on the side of 02:15:50.760 --> 02:15:53.560 Team Liquid anywhere, you know, they bring the clash, they bring the goalie, they bring the 02:15:53.560 --> 02:15:59.320 warden. They are trying to basically play against an execution, but they gave the whole map. 02:15:59.320 --> 02:16:03.640 So, every 50 seconds, let's look at this. The execution is perfect. You've got Hades, 02:16:03.640 --> 02:16:09.080 who's coloring the plant from above and kills the Romer. The clash is completely used 02:16:09.080 --> 02:16:13.080 They have no idea, no denial, nothing to deny the plant. 02:16:13.080 --> 02:16:15.080 Warden didn't even use a C4. 02:16:15.080 --> 02:16:18.080 Mind you that the plant went down inside a smoke. 02:16:18.080 --> 02:16:20.080 Where's the warden when that happens, you know? 02:16:20.080 --> 02:16:23.080 So it feels like they're just trying to play a weird wind condition 02:16:23.080 --> 02:16:25.080 and not even committing to it. 02:16:25.080 --> 02:16:27.080 And on the other side, you can see an IP. 02:16:27.080 --> 02:16:30.080 If you give them too much space, they will take that space 02:16:30.080 --> 02:16:32.080 and they will coordinate the perfect execute. 02:16:32.080 --> 02:16:35.080 I mean, in this position, there's nothing JV can do at this point. 02:16:35.080 --> 02:16:38.080 What's beautiful is, if you look at this, honestly, 02:16:38.080 --> 02:16:42.080 So smart take on it. Not that many teams would go through stock to actually plan the diffuser. 02:16:42.080 --> 02:16:45.080 Most teams are used to the plan going down on filtration side. 02:16:45.080 --> 02:16:48.080 So I think it was a great bit of innovation. 02:16:48.080 --> 02:16:52.080 We were having doubts, I think, about an IP and this map in general. 02:16:52.080 --> 02:16:55.080 Also because an ethic demo pointed in that as well. 02:16:55.080 --> 02:16:59.080 Team Liquid previously, as for you, had a crazy win streak on that map. 02:16:59.080 --> 02:17:02.080 But I love the innovation that we've seen. 02:17:02.080 --> 02:17:05.080 And now you might ask me, Lush, okay, that's cool. 02:17:05.080 --> 02:17:09.460 Great attacks, but how do they do it in defense? How do they do it in defense then Leo? 02:17:10.060 --> 02:17:13.480 Well, if we look at the round 8 for example, right? 02:17:14.020 --> 02:17:18.900 It's exactly the same game plan that you liquid any other where I put again. It's the same one 02:17:18.900 --> 02:17:20.740 So we're gonna burn time, right? 02:17:20.740 --> 02:17:25.400 And if you look at around it, it's the same thing this time they bring it to brawl 02:17:25.400 --> 02:17:30.080 They bring a code they try to slow down so you know, it's it's I don't know 02:17:30.080 --> 02:17:35.160 It just feels like it was a game of who waits and who stares in the eyes the most possible 02:17:35.160 --> 02:17:36.760 and who has the best composure. 02:17:36.760 --> 02:17:42.120 And at that game, I think that Basseto, who was the king of that gameplay or that playstyle 02:17:42.120 --> 02:17:48.320 could be the previous loud roster, I think it just so worked so well for him. 02:17:48.320 --> 02:17:53.520 One thing during this second round especially I know our good friend Davo was talking about 02:17:53.520 --> 02:17:56.280 is like, yeah, here's all these stats, all these things that you need to keep 02:17:56.280 --> 02:17:57.280 in mind. 02:17:57.280 --> 02:18:01.120 And yet at the end of it, look at what happened. 02:18:01.120 --> 02:18:03.520 That win streak really did not last long 02:18:03.520 --> 02:18:06.240 against the way that NIP were playing their tack. 02:18:06.240 --> 02:18:08.680 And this is your round eight here, Leo. 02:18:08.680 --> 02:18:11.360 Yeah, it's just a great example of that denial 02:18:11.360 --> 02:18:12.320 that I spoke about, right? 02:18:12.320 --> 02:18:14.080 We're more chaotic on the side of Team Liquid 02:18:14.080 --> 02:18:15.240 for some execution. 02:18:15.240 --> 02:18:19.280 The UK road to diffuses, the defenders, 02:18:19.280 --> 02:18:20.440 they're running around the boom side. 02:18:20.440 --> 02:18:22.160 Look, this way is retaking from filtration. 02:18:22.160 --> 02:18:26.320 The cover is not as clear, not at all as thin as with NIP. 02:18:26.320 --> 02:18:28.160 And then the Bassetto just spins the round, 02:18:28.160 --> 02:18:29.760 sitting on UK runs here. 02:18:29.760 --> 02:18:31.120 So same win condition, right? 02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:32.760 Burn time, denied of net. 02:18:32.760 --> 02:18:34.840 And I just felt like one team was just better at it. 02:18:34.840 --> 02:18:36.360 And I think it comes from, 02:18:36.360 --> 02:18:38.760 or it stems from Bassetto's all based on love. 02:18:40.480 --> 02:18:43.280 It's beautiful to see that despite Maya's best effort, 02:18:43.280 --> 02:18:45.840 and my God, did he put in a lot of effort in this round, 02:18:45.840 --> 02:18:46.840 this game in general, 02:18:46.840 --> 02:18:48.000 there's not enough to win the round, 02:18:48.000 --> 02:18:50.200 there's not enough to pull the game back 02:18:50.200 --> 02:18:53.120 from the clutches of what ends up being 02:18:53.120 --> 02:18:56.000 a massive loss for Team Liquid Alienware, 02:18:56.000 --> 02:18:59.400 especially compared to how map 1 went on Naive Labs, 02:18:59.400 --> 02:19:02.200 with a very clearly one-sided layer, 02:19:02.200 --> 02:19:04.400 Naive and IP outplaying on the attack, 02:19:04.400 --> 02:19:07.680 and the defense wants the halftime swap came in, 02:19:07.680 --> 02:19:11.240 and this does not bode well for Team Liquid Alienware. 02:19:11.240 --> 02:19:13.040 However, both teams, they ended up winning 02:19:13.040 --> 02:19:15.400 their own map picks, Leo. 02:19:15.400 --> 02:19:17.520 That's something that we're gonna at least think about 02:19:17.520 --> 02:19:19.840 as maybe this is the ultimate equalizer, 02:19:19.840 --> 02:19:21.840 now we can actually go to a map 3 02:19:21.840 --> 02:19:25.000 that might fit the two of them in their own way. 02:19:25.000 --> 02:19:29.680 You'll see Maia, Beceto, everybody on the board, but I want to talk about our map veto, because 02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:34.280 our third and final map for this series, and a reminder, whoever wins this map, effectively 02:19:34.280 --> 02:19:38.040 a B01, just qualifies to Salt Lake City. 02:19:38.040 --> 02:19:42.320 It is simple as that, though, we're playing for seeding later on versus the winner of 02:19:42.320 --> 02:19:48.240 Fluxo W7M and their opponent, Saphuria, but for now the focus is on this one specific 02:19:48.240 --> 02:19:50.920 map, and that is Bank Money in the Bank. 02:19:50.920 --> 02:19:56.400 This is the game on it, but statistically speaking, what's going on here, Leo? 02:19:56.400 --> 02:19:59.240 Well, let's celebrate one thing. 02:19:59.240 --> 02:20:03.840 It is the first map where Maya doesn't drop double digits out of the whole of Kikaf, and 02:20:03.840 --> 02:20:05.600 then he was just one kilo away from it. 02:20:05.600 --> 02:20:08.160 This guy is still losing 7-2, so how crazy is that? 02:20:08.160 --> 02:20:11.160 And then on top of that, I just want to point out one player that is Bassetto. 02:20:11.160 --> 02:20:13.240 I just want to mention it again. 02:20:13.240 --> 02:20:16.920 The IGL, many teams were saying that NIP would be weaker with them as an IGL. 02:20:16.920 --> 02:20:19.000 I thought that was going to mean to him. 02:20:19.000 --> 02:20:26.120 Yes, he has a slower vision of the game, but look at this place the shields place all of this and he's still the best rated player on the roster 02:20:26.120 --> 02:20:29.680 It's not often that we see that from an HL and it was worth pointing it out now 02:20:29.680 --> 02:20:30.880 You've stated yourself 02:20:30.880 --> 02:20:37.800 Bank is an X map and whoever wins it makes it to not only phase two of the so they see the major but also guarantees a hundred seventy five 02:20:38.080 --> 02:20:40.080 aside points guarantees 02:20:40.320 --> 02:20:45.920 $8,000 of cash price and that's from kickoff only so this is a massive one right if you look at bank 02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:52.480 Most teams would say that three on bank, you know, we're really good team on it initially that would carry on onto team liquid 02:20:52.480 --> 02:20:58.080 I'm not aware that makes a lot of sense one thing that most people don't for now or tend to forget is that actually 02:20:58.560 --> 02:21:00.640 An IP have a pretty good record on it 02:21:00.760 --> 02:21:06.920 They played it during kickoff and beat loss seven three at SI they played it twice and they beat both team meritics 02:21:06.920 --> 02:21:11.680 But also a matey on the map that to me is a huge statement and during a sale finals 02:21:11.680 --> 02:21:18.040 they had beaten Liquid on this as well. So it's by no means one of the flashiest map of the map pool. 02:21:18.040 --> 02:21:23.880 However, they're still a forward streak and a forward streak against teams like MAT, teams like Liquid, you know, 02:21:23.880 --> 02:21:30.360 big international teams. So it's not to completely rule them out here. I actually believe it is a strong map of them. 02:21:30.360 --> 02:21:35.240 And with the momentum they've had so far, they could very much carry it into the decider. 02:21:35.240 --> 02:21:42.240 The main thing to me is, it is a very slow-paced game all over, from laps to lair, both teams 02:21:42.240 --> 02:21:46.880 are very, it feels like both teams are trying, not to lose rather than trying to win, just 02:21:46.880 --> 02:21:51.240 how slow they are playing, and I'm very worried, especially for the side of Team Liquid 02:21:51.240 --> 02:21:56.240 LL where they have the form of Fury, a core roster, I know you lost herds, I know you 02:21:56.240 --> 02:21:59.040 lost the most aggressive player on your team, but you're still supposed to have 02:21:59.040 --> 02:22:03.000 some of the best gunners, so I'm just wondering, is there maybe a way to win this by changing 02:22:03.000 --> 02:22:08.600 the playstyle a little bit, taking a bit more risk, trying to play to win? 02:22:08.600 --> 02:22:11.640 That's something that I definitely don't want to see on the final map, where both teams 02:22:11.640 --> 02:22:17.560 are slowing down even further, I don't know if it does not give it maybe a less enjoyable 02:22:17.560 --> 02:22:22.860 viewing experience from our end, but you also don't want the game to ground to a halt 02:22:22.860 --> 02:22:27.740 where either one really wants to take the, it really takes the first step into doing 02:22:27.740 --> 02:22:32.600 something more creative, because this is the moment to get things done and creative. 02:22:32.600 --> 02:22:36.040 If you lose this, you're going to have a tough time against FaZe. 02:22:36.040 --> 02:22:41.640 You really have to throw out all your stops just to get the position through. 02:22:41.640 --> 02:22:44.680 You can argue that the final game that you'll be playing today, 02:22:44.680 --> 02:22:48.440 should you win this game, that you can kind of conserve your strategies. 02:22:48.440 --> 02:22:52.120 It gives you a seeding, but it's not the most important thing in the world. 02:22:52.120 --> 02:22:57.120 Sure, but for now, show up and show up as a team to Liquid Alienware. 02:22:57.120 --> 02:22:58.520 We need that for you. 02:22:58.520 --> 02:23:01.400 NIP right now, they are looking hot after lane. 02:23:01.400 --> 02:23:04.040 like you said Leo, that momentum is dribbled way 02:23:04.040 --> 02:23:06.840 to the formula later, they carry it through. 02:23:06.840 --> 02:23:08.320 Depending on the starting sign of the bands 02:23:08.320 --> 02:23:11.400 that can get really complicated for Team Liquid Alienware. 02:23:11.400 --> 02:23:15.680 They're at some point held, I guess, a lot of esteem 02:23:15.680 --> 02:23:18.880 and respect for their qualification potential. 02:23:18.880 --> 02:23:21.120 Though that is it, from us we'll give it to Demo 02:23:21.120 --> 02:23:24.360 and extra trucker to Karius, all through the action of bank. 02:23:27.400 --> 02:23:30.560 Melishly, I'll thank you both very much indeed. 02:23:30.560 --> 02:23:35.880 We are going to be headed into our third and final map for our first best of three of the 02:23:35.880 --> 02:23:44.360 night here, Team Liquid Alienware, NIP, On Bank, little bit of a classic demo and a big 02:23:44.360 --> 02:23:51.640 old prize at the end of it, direct qualification to the Salt Lake City Major starting in May, 02:23:51.640 --> 02:23:59.120 175 SI points guaranteed and of course a cash prize as well and maybe the bigger 02:23:59.120 --> 02:24:05.040 prize out of it all is that you don't have to play a phase that is currently scorned in that 02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:10.880 lower bracket because let me tell you they are going to be on a warpath to get themselves to 02:24:10.880 --> 02:24:16.240 Salt Lake City and I would not want to be the team stood in their way. So a heck of a lot to play 02:24:16.240 --> 02:24:25.280 for over this next map. I think overall that the map is really good for both sides. I mean 02:24:25.280 --> 02:24:30.700 I mean, for LIP, it's their most preferred map, you know, that is the map where they have really good success on. 02:24:30.700 --> 02:24:37.500 If only we're lost at once, it's a team that, or it's a map that's always going to get banned against them. 02:24:37.500 --> 02:24:44.500 And I think you kind of look on the side, though, team like an area where, again, it's, for that kind of period of core, 02:24:44.500 --> 02:24:49.000 it's also always a good map, you know, they, they're definitely the world for this map. 02:24:49.000 --> 02:24:57.000 What a way to kick things off of Boschie! 02:24:57.000 --> 02:24:58.000 It's over. 02:24:58.000 --> 02:25:01.640 It's quite simply over. 02:25:01.640 --> 02:25:07.200 You've lost your Hibana and yeah you've got some 10 Openers on Maya. 02:25:07.200 --> 02:25:10.040 Oh boy, oh boy. 02:25:10.040 --> 02:25:11.760 What a way for round one to kick off. 02:25:11.760 --> 02:25:12.760 I was going to make a... 02:25:12.760 --> 02:25:18.240 I had it in my mind to talk about Fancy in this map and it feels a little bit early 02:25:18.240 --> 02:25:24.360 to be jumping the gun and diving into that topic of conversation. And there it is. He's 02:25:24.360 --> 02:25:30.480 taken out by JV. Coming into today, the only person that had more opening engagements than 02:25:30.480 --> 02:25:36.200 him inside of the whole SAO was Cyber. He has an insane amount of opening engagements. 02:25:36.200 --> 02:25:40.900 Now this opening engagement hasn't really opened around for his team. What it has 02:25:40.900 --> 02:25:44.160 done though is removed the Hibana, which means that these hatches are going to be 02:25:44.160 --> 02:25:54.160 bit of a nightmare. Well, if it doesn't look as though that's really bothered in Liquid 02:25:54.160 --> 02:26:00.200 Alienware in the slightest, is now with half the round still applied, it's a 2v4 in the 02:26:00.200 --> 02:26:04.560 basement. Bizzards! No one's going to have to try and go aggressive and find a kill 02:26:04.560 --> 02:26:14.720 go back. Yes, people can do that. See now if NIP can try and weather the storm, look 02:26:14.720 --> 02:26:18.360 at the utils still on the side of Team Liquid Alienware, they've got the Dope Recall Olly, 02:26:18.360 --> 02:26:22.160 they've got the bees, they've got the nades from the Blackbeard too, they've got everything 02:26:22.160 --> 02:26:27.160 that they need to make this a success and you can see KZ has baited out another smoke 02:26:27.160 --> 02:26:34.000 canister hates down just just the one but really for NIP they just you know 02:26:34.000 --> 02:26:36.520 that they're actually are they just they don't know what they have to watch just 02:26:36.520 --> 02:26:41.600 so much I mean this just feels like an open goal right now team liquid alien 02:26:41.600 --> 02:26:45.160 where all we've got to do is tap it into the back of the net they've got the 02:26:45.160 --> 02:26:49.000 man advantage they've got positional advantage and they have a utility 02:26:49.000 --> 02:26:52.600 advantage they've still got a dope because they've still got four bees 02:26:52.600 --> 02:26:57.720 and they still have Blackbeard and that horrible shield. 02:26:57.720 --> 02:27:01.200 Wizard and Hates are both going to have to hit some pretty serious shots. 02:27:01.200 --> 02:27:06.040 They are doing their best to try and pace out what little utility they have but as the bees 02:27:06.040 --> 02:27:09.160 start to come in now the dole can be called is threatened. 02:27:09.160 --> 02:27:15.480 As we've said, they should be fairly straightforward to convert, but NIP are really making them 02:27:15.480 --> 02:27:16.480 work for it. 02:27:16.480 --> 02:27:18.840 15 seconds, Final Toxic Babe canister goes out. 02:27:18.840 --> 02:27:23.700 The diffuser is in the hands of the leapbox. He's waiting for that to dissipate before making his play. 02:27:23.700 --> 02:27:29.380 Hates. He played beautifully up until that moment, but just overheated ever so slightly. 02:27:29.380 --> 02:27:32.100 Felt like he had to try and make something happen. 02:27:32.100 --> 02:27:35.300 And as such, he left Wizard in a similar spot. 02:27:35.300 --> 02:27:41.180 An inevitable end, but one that Team Liquid weren't taking any chances about converting. 02:27:42.180 --> 02:27:45.440 I think the two remaining players knew as soon as that doggly call came in. 02:27:45.440 --> 02:27:50.160 that's whenever Team Liquid Alienware were gonna make their maneuver and you know that they've tried to 02:27:50.720 --> 02:27:54.000 go aggressive, tried to challenge, but the hatch cover is just too strong. 02:27:54.960 --> 02:28:00.080 You can see that that last Goyle canister, it wasn't going to really affect the Blackbeard because 02:28:00.080 --> 02:28:04.640 he could sidestep it and plant on the long angle. So that's why the smoke was kind of thrown at 02:28:04.640 --> 02:28:09.680 the 15 second mark, but once that was going to dissipate, the NIP knew they were beaten and 02:28:09.680 --> 02:28:13.360 they had to try and go for aggressive play. But yeah, overall for Team Liquid Alienware, 02:28:13.360 --> 02:28:19.360 They just suck the life out of that round, didn't they? As soon as they had that man advantage, they just kept on to it. They knew they had the U-Tile. 02:28:19.360 --> 02:28:23.360 And they were just never going to be, you know, out of sorts to lose that. 02:28:23.360 --> 02:28:28.360 So for Team Liquid Alienware, they get the first round. They set the tone. They set the pace. 02:28:28.360 --> 02:28:31.360 Red IP, they're actually going to run it back. 02:28:31.360 --> 02:28:40.360 I don't mind them run it back, mostly because if you're looking at the lineup, you're spec-ing, okay, kind of traditional bike baseman, Goyo smoke, all of that. 02:28:40.360 --> 02:28:45.780 Whatever you lose three people with inside the first half of the round you're thinking what we doing 02:28:46.900 --> 02:28:48.160 Yeah 02:28:48.160 --> 02:28:51.080 For me it was a weird one because you get fancy with the opening pick 02:28:51.720 --> 02:28:55.220 but then instead of doing like a 02:28:55.960 --> 02:28:59.400 Retraction and sort of saying show we've got an opening pick we can just sit deep 02:28:59.400 --> 02:29:02.460 You know we just get ourselves back to the site we can challenge on blue stairs 02:29:02.460 --> 02:29:05.120 We can challenge on main stairs, but we don't need to work too hard for it 02:29:05.120 --> 02:29:09.560 We can even hold inside of elevator and drop off at a point once we've shot a few drones or whatever 02:29:10.360 --> 02:29:13.920 Then for three people go for two other people to die after fancy did 02:29:14.240 --> 02:29:15.880 For me it was just a bit of an alarm bell 02:29:15.880 --> 02:29:19.920 It was like why are we why we put ourselves in that kind of position like we've got the opening pill 02:29:19.920 --> 02:29:22.200 We just need to we just need to chill out a little bit 02:29:22.200 --> 02:29:26.400 We just need to work this advantage and they kind of just gave it right back to seem liquid Alienware 02:29:26.400 --> 02:29:30.840 So we'll see how it goes round number two is a bold attempt to try and run it back 02:29:30.840 --> 02:29:31.760 But again, I agree 02:29:31.760 --> 02:29:38.080 I think it's worth doing and it's bank is baseman is the best site on the map arguably one of the best sites in the 02:29:38.080 --> 02:29:41.880 the game. Why wouldn't you 02:29:41.980 --> 02:29:43.080 want to play it back again 02:29:43.180 --> 02:29:44.980 another time already differences? 02:29:45.080 --> 02:29:45.980 Well, it's a little bit slower. 02:29:46.080 --> 02:29:47.980 Fancy is being a lot more 02:29:48.080 --> 02:29:49.980 reserved with the boss G. This 02:29:50.080 --> 02:29:51.980 time isn't getting himself into 02:29:52.080 --> 02:29:54.980 as much bother. 02:29:55.080 --> 02:29:58.980 It's better from an IP. Make 02:29:59.080 --> 02:29:59.980 sure you can keep everyone 02:30:00.080 --> 02:30:01.980 alive. I think if you are 02:30:02.080 --> 02:30:02.980 defending side in this 02:30:03.080 --> 02:30:04.980 basement, you kind of want the 02:30:05.080 --> 02:30:05.980 525 execute because you've got 02:30:06.080 --> 02:30:06.980 a lot bodies that you can 02:30:06.980 --> 02:30:12.740 Hope that you can try and stop the plant going down which I'm sure is going to be the game plan here for Team Liquid Alienware 02:30:13.060 --> 02:30:14.580 once more 02:30:14.580 --> 02:30:17.820 These agents need to be careful as a player inside the elevator 02:30:18.620 --> 02:30:21.580 Doesn't know which one. It's like a game show. All right, what's behind door number one? 02:30:22.340 --> 02:30:26.800 Well, you can pretty safely assume that there's gonna be somebody behind door number one 02:30:27.540 --> 02:30:29.420 Ace will drop off 02:30:29.420 --> 02:30:31.420 Just take a bit of damage for it though 02:30:31.420 --> 02:30:37.420 NIP are really making Team Liquid Alienware work for this map control at the moment. 02:30:37.420 --> 02:30:40.420 A minute, and they've got it. So fair play. 02:30:40.420 --> 02:30:44.420 But there's hatches to be opened. They still serve it to clear. 02:30:44.420 --> 02:30:50.420 Main Stairs, Garage, all of these are areas that NIP are going to be looking to try and hold. 02:30:50.420 --> 02:30:55.420 Vulcum Pack detonated at the top of blue. That's just going to buy a little bit of time for Bissetto. 02:30:55.420 --> 02:31:00.420 He's in a prime position though. Playing on the mute. He's placed his utilities, doing his job. 02:31:00.420 --> 02:31:04.000 More time and if he can burn a body here, even better. 02:31:04.500 --> 02:31:05.740 Caught out fancy. 02:31:05.740 --> 02:31:08.300 Finds one. Make it two. Where is he getting these kills from? 02:31:08.300 --> 02:31:09.800 Tucked in on the server. 02:31:09.800 --> 02:31:12.080 Oh, he's directly underneath the hatch as well. 02:31:12.080 --> 02:31:13.680 How's he getting away with this? 02:31:13.680 --> 02:31:16.180 Full white flashed and still there for the challenge. 02:31:16.180 --> 02:31:19.240 Bissetto able to back him up a little bit on the stairs as well. 02:31:19.240 --> 02:31:22.280 Eventually will be taken out, but fancy can just get back. 02:31:22.780 --> 02:31:24.980 Get himself in behind the server rack. 02:31:24.980 --> 02:31:26.820 Feed this information across. 02:31:26.820 --> 02:31:31.520 And Nade takes for Leapox down! Oh, it's beautiful! Pino! 02:31:31.520 --> 02:31:35.880 He comes in to join on to the action and Nade smoked out. 02:31:35.880 --> 02:31:40.800 Ten seconds, and all he can see is a cloud of yellow. 02:31:40.800 --> 02:31:44.520 The final touch of wave canister from Pino gets sent out there. 02:31:44.520 --> 02:31:48.560 And he's little to do, but pre-fire hoping for a miracle. 02:31:48.560 --> 02:31:51.520 NIP quite right to run back to the basement. 02:31:51.520 --> 02:31:56.520 Hey, Miracles on Black Dragons, Ollie, did you get them out? 02:31:56.520 --> 02:31:58.520 Oh, you get home. 02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:02.520 He doesn't play for this team. 02:32:02.520 --> 02:32:05.520 He's in another team. 02:32:05.520 --> 02:32:07.520 You need that. 02:32:07.520 --> 02:32:09.520 Oh, he's already taken. 02:32:09.520 --> 02:32:11.520 You've been training a long time for that, Miracle. 02:32:11.520 --> 02:32:15.520 There's also a Miracle in CNL2 as well, by the way. 02:32:15.520 --> 02:32:16.520 There's another one. 02:32:16.520 --> 02:32:18.520 There's two Miracles running around. 02:32:18.520 --> 02:32:19.520 Is that? 02:32:19.520 --> 02:32:20.520 There is. 02:32:20.520 --> 02:32:27.020 America and cnl. Yeah. Brilliant. I mean, one guy has just won them that round because 02:32:27.020 --> 02:32:32.880 he swung the hatch. And that just shows it's the confidence. I mean, look, you remember 02:32:32.880 --> 02:32:38.300 ever like whenever fantasy first came onto the scene, never. He was on the old furious 02:32:38.300 --> 02:32:42.380 side. You're beloved. And remember, he hit the back to back gazes. We were thinking 02:32:42.380 --> 02:32:45.900 always he's next up. He's going to be the next world be here, but he never got 02:32:45.900 --> 02:32:49.340 himself onto a big side. And that was always weird because we've seen the drop 02:32:49.340 --> 02:32:54.340 He was kind of in like a limbo phase. We're just kind of it just a player who played in the stages 02:32:54.340 --> 02:32:56.340 We've never really seen him in the international level 02:32:56.620 --> 02:33:00.600 That's the soul for the NIP and you can start to see him have that ignition again 02:33:01.100 --> 02:33:05.520 Yeah, I mean don't forget he's super young like he started playing at 18 02:33:05.660 --> 02:33:09.040 So in terms of you know time 02:33:09.540 --> 02:33:14.920 It's on his side at the moment to find himself on that you know more powerful stronger 02:33:14.920 --> 02:33:20.920 a better team in a lot of senses. And he's finding himself in that position right now. 02:33:20.920 --> 02:33:27.560 He really does fulfil that cyber-esque role for me, where, let's be honest, quite separate 02:33:27.560 --> 02:33:31.440 from the rest of the squad. And that's very similar to the way that you'll see cyber-play 02:33:31.440 --> 02:33:36.280 on FaZe, is very much out on Nylon, very much out on their own, but a lot of the 02:33:36.280 --> 02:33:42.800 team does a lot of things to enable that as well. Oh, good opportunity spotting. Hates. 02:33:42.800 --> 02:33:48.720 You will have wished you checked the garage. Unfortunately they let the door open. 02:33:48.720 --> 02:33:54.280 It's a big door, big shutter, isn't it? I can't understand it, I bet it's a pain to 02:33:54.280 --> 02:33:57.960 close. And there's also a police car in the way. 02:33:57.960 --> 02:34:00.120 A nightmare. Who's parked that police car there? 02:34:00.120 --> 02:34:03.320 You can't park there mate. You can't park there. I think for a team 02:34:03.320 --> 02:34:05.320 that opening pick. It's kind of 02:34:05.320 --> 02:34:06.320 monitoring things. Yes, it's 02:34:06.320 --> 02:34:07.320 great that you've got the pick. 02:34:07.320 --> 02:34:09.320 However, you have shown the 02:34:09.320 --> 02:34:11.320 Amaris, which I expected would 02:34:11.320 --> 02:34:12.320 have been used to maybe try and 02:34:12.320 --> 02:34:14.320 target the echo inside of 02:34:14.320 --> 02:34:15.320 elevator because that's a very 02:34:15.320 --> 02:34:16.320 classic position. You have an 02:34:16.320 --> 02:34:18.320 echo inside of elevator. You'll 02:34:18.320 --> 02:34:20.320 sit in his drones and because 02:34:20.320 --> 02:34:21.320 he sat on his drones, you'll 02:34:21.320 --> 02:34:22.320 lean down the wiser that 02:34:22.320 --> 02:34:24.320 somebody. Gara hooks right 02:34:24.320 --> 02:34:25.320 beside him and we get the kill. 02:34:25.320 --> 02:34:26.320 We've seen that time and time 02:34:26.320 --> 02:34:27.320 again. That's the only maybe 02:34:27.320 --> 02:34:28.320 slight issue, but still a 02:34:28.320 --> 02:34:29.320 kill is the kill and that 02:34:29.320 --> 02:34:30.320 sort team liquid Alien where 02:34:30.320 --> 02:34:32.320 we're looking for. 02:34:32.320 --> 02:34:37.320 Wizards somehow managed to get himself out of position there. He was getting heavily flashbanged. 02:34:37.320 --> 02:34:41.320 Couple of kills coming in here. I mean it's not gonna stop the plant from going down. 02:34:41.320 --> 02:34:43.320 I don't think I'll stay again. Nate comes off. 02:34:43.320 --> 02:34:47.320 Maybe the Yoke Hydro on there has stood him off the plant. 02:34:47.320 --> 02:34:49.320 Three versus four now. 02:34:49.320 --> 02:34:51.320 Veseto and Fancy both low. 02:34:51.320 --> 02:34:53.320 And Wizards and Fancy taken out. 02:34:53.320 --> 02:34:57.320 Veseto is down to the revolver. This is not ideal. 02:34:57.320 --> 02:35:00.320 The recoil on that is a nightmare. 02:35:00.320 --> 02:35:05.180 back into your kidro peanuts try and stop this plant from going down that all 02:35:05.180 --> 02:35:09.340 push up no now's not the time you don't comment all this body's everywhere 02:35:09.340 --> 02:35:13.780 did liquid alien west scrapping for that last scale and it's gonna be JV 02:35:13.780 --> 02:35:20.700 credited with it oh well that is around where a lot of big engagements just 02:35:20.700 --> 02:35:24.420 went in favor of team liquid Alienware I mean imagine if that cave was able to 02:35:24.420 --> 02:35:27.860 get one though then it really would have been interesting I just think 02:35:27.860 --> 02:35:34.360 that one V3 just a little bit too much or for Pino the deal with. I mean, I think you kind 02:35:34.360 --> 02:35:41.660 of look at the time there, 14 liquid Alienware, they gave himself enough. So even if there was 02:35:41.660 --> 02:35:46.300 going to be an echo, you know, they had enough time to kind of re-plan, challenge him, whatever 02:35:46.300 --> 02:35:49.660 they needed to do. It wasn't as though they were going to lose based on time. So you 02:35:49.660 --> 02:35:53.660 really simply picked up the pace and they went for that free to one exit very, very 02:35:53.660 --> 02:36:00.660 I mean, the Echoes are only showing the one time and it was for that top floor and straight away it's gone. 02:36:00.660 --> 02:36:02.660 It's a big ban, isn't it? 02:36:02.660 --> 02:36:04.660 Attackers have located a bomb. 02:36:04.660 --> 02:36:08.660 That's a big ban from Team Liquid. I think it shows their intention though. 02:36:08.660 --> 02:36:14.660 I mentioned it in NightAven Labs. They've only planted three times throughout the entirety of kickoff until today. 02:36:14.660 --> 02:36:19.660 Dancing has been on the cars. It's been something that they've been looking for that opportunity. 02:36:19.660 --> 02:36:22.660 If there's an opportunity to get the defuser down, they're going to take it. 02:36:22.660 --> 02:36:30.900 Now is that because this is where it really matters, this is the qualification series, 02:36:30.900 --> 02:36:32.740 so they're pulling out all the stops? 02:36:32.740 --> 02:36:38.380 I don't think there's going to be a big fundamental change on the team. 02:36:38.380 --> 02:36:41.500 The Echo player is certainly going to assist them getting that plant down if they find 02:36:41.500 --> 02:36:43.220 themselves in a similar position again. 02:36:43.220 --> 02:36:44.720 Did you think about it? 02:36:44.720 --> 02:36:49.540 If that Echo player had been a bit more tucked, had been away in Narnia, then it would 02:36:49.540 --> 02:36:51.540 have become maybe a little bit of a problem. 02:36:51.540 --> 02:36:55.540 Obviously there was enough time to do it, there was no bodies, you would have shot here but 02:36:55.540 --> 02:36:58.540 under slightly different circumstances could have been a round winner. 02:36:58.540 --> 02:37:01.540 Again, I agree, it just seemed like a big bang. 02:37:01.540 --> 02:37:04.540 Who threw to the mid-floor? Round number four. 02:37:06.540 --> 02:37:11.540 It seemed like we're dealing well with success on both sides played so far. 02:37:11.540 --> 02:37:15.540 We have seen basement twice, hence NIP with a round of their own. 02:37:16.540 --> 02:37:20.540 You don't have to wait a little bit until we can go back down there, at least to the end of this one. 02:37:21.540 --> 02:37:26.220 I think a lot of it is going to hinge on them holding control of this upstairs. 02:37:26.220 --> 02:37:27.220 Oh, hello. 02:37:27.220 --> 02:37:35.180 I mean, that's one of the downsides about going for a run out in 2026 on bank windows. 02:37:35.180 --> 02:37:37.700 It's not the same as it used to be, is it, Demo? 02:37:37.700 --> 02:37:43.460 It's like that, I think he's kind of lucky not to get a kill, look at my HP. 02:37:43.460 --> 02:37:47.140 You know, it's a rough one, I think, for Hates to take in there. 02:37:47.140 --> 02:37:49.140 But you dragged out of the ADS. 02:37:49.140 --> 02:37:50.140 Yeah, I get that. 02:37:50.140 --> 02:37:55.400 I get that. I get that you should have got the kill, but you're asking a lot for a spray on a hip fire. 02:37:55.400 --> 02:37:57.640 I mean, either way, it was always going to be a one for one. 02:37:57.640 --> 02:38:04.840 That is the best case scenario. Hates was never going to make it back into the building again once he went for that jump back, so... 02:38:04.840 --> 02:38:06.440 But, yeah, it just hasn't worked. 02:38:06.440 --> 02:38:09.440 Oh, look at this. Really good information here from the drone. 02:38:09.440 --> 02:38:15.340 The leapbox. Call out that there's a prone player with a shotgun, but Jamie makes a bit. 02:38:15.340 --> 02:38:17.940 However, he's been down for the hatch! 02:38:17.940 --> 02:38:19.940 Oh, my word! 02:38:19.940 --> 02:38:22.240 That's something you don't see every day. 02:38:22.240 --> 02:38:27.140 I mean surely he'll be in a position to get revived here Ollie, he's got to be, he's in the middle of onsite. 02:38:28.140 --> 02:38:30.640 Ground floor's like an onion, there's layers to it! 02:38:33.440 --> 02:38:36.640 Half of that bled out at the moment but he is gonna get up. 02:38:38.340 --> 02:38:40.840 This only comes back on 20 HP. 02:38:41.540 --> 02:38:45.640 It's still a body that you've got for this final 55 seconds, fancy. 02:38:45.640 --> 02:38:47.240 Finds one onto Maya. 02:38:47.940 --> 02:38:49.540 It's an important kill. 02:38:49.940 --> 02:38:55.940 Not really for the Twitch, but mainly just to remove Maia from that F2, Bissetto back 02:38:55.940 --> 02:39:02.180 from the dead, takes KZ down, even wishing that he was finished off, speaking about kills 02:39:02.180 --> 02:39:08.820 that go unfinished, Alepox falls, Nade might find himself too here, certainly gets the 02:39:08.820 --> 02:39:14.420 down on Topino, he's put himself in a fairly winnable position, but he's still asking 02:39:14.420 --> 02:39:21.300 quite a lot. One versus two, no defuser and everybody on the server knows exactly where 02:39:21.300 --> 02:39:26.540 he is. Shot through the soft, reaching charge isn't going to help you mate. You've got 02:39:26.540 --> 02:39:32.420 one HP and you've got no time. A sniff of a bullet here and you are going to be gone. 02:39:32.420 --> 02:39:37.700 Hold out the bearing nine. Means to hit some live shots there to make it happen and isn't 02:39:37.700 --> 02:39:42.740 going to be given the space. Fancy top through bottom here on bank has been a 02:39:42.740 --> 02:39:50.180 star performer but NIP are holding firm. Oh he has he has been the reason why the 02:39:50.180 --> 02:39:58.160 NIP are sat with two rounds he's got eight kills inside of four rounds and also 02:39:58.160 --> 02:40:03.700 dominating in the entries two and oh in the entries and for Team Liquid Alienware 02:40:03.700 --> 02:40:06.780 you think okay I'm pretty good standing they kind of get gifted freebie at the 02:40:06.780 --> 02:40:11.060 start able to down that smoke even though JV did lose it but they just 02:40:11.060 --> 02:40:17.700 could not convert to kill. But I don't know, it was, it's not what I was expecting. I mean, 02:40:17.700 --> 02:40:22.100 whenever you kind of look at the lineup, you would, you would straight away expect, okay, 02:40:22.100 --> 02:40:28.100 you're bringing the Habana, so you're probably going to be iron up using that Habana to open up 02:40:28.100 --> 02:40:32.020 the kind of angles in towards the quad war. But they never really went for that. They tried to 02:40:32.020 --> 02:40:35.540 kind of flood in through lobby in through the kind of horizontal take that we see. 02:40:36.260 --> 02:40:39.940 But it just didn't work. I think for NIP, they double up really well, they will 02:40:39.940 --> 02:40:44.860 the trade kills back and forth then the time just got away from me and also I 02:40:44.860 --> 02:40:47.680 think it was a tough one you know considering what he was up against two 02:40:47.680 --> 02:40:54.100 kind of DMR shot under the ACOGs, not fun to play against. But here is what it is, 02:40:54.100 --> 02:41:00.640 NIP, maybe we'll get another defense. I mean I think in terms of like I think it's an 02:41:00.640 --> 02:41:05.020 attacker side of the map so the fact that NIP have got the two defenses is pretty good. 02:41:05.020 --> 02:41:10.700 I really like this lineup that they're showing us now as well. An IP of entirely switched gear, 02:41:10.700 --> 02:41:15.860 whereas they've had fancy just let off the leash like a loose dog. He's now playing the 02:41:15.860 --> 02:41:23.820 two brown. Ooh, I'm telling you, this garage! Get a tow truck, move the police car and close 02:41:23.820 --> 02:41:29.900 the door. Two times now that we've seen Team Liquid Alienware opening pick just by walking 02:41:29.900 --> 02:41:36.900 down into that garage. PC didn't even get really into it, it was just outside, but still, 02:41:36.900 --> 02:41:42.060 the point remains. I really hope that Wizard of Guts placed down all of those Vulcan packs. 02:41:42.060 --> 02:41:51.340 Because as I mentioned, the lineup very different, NIP, much more soak orientated. Not only have 02:41:51.340 --> 02:41:56.140 they got the Goyo, but they've also got the T'Chanka and the Smoke. Two C4s, they 02:41:56.140 --> 02:41:59.740 are going for denial they're not going to map control here they'll contend and 02:41:59.740 --> 02:42:04.780 they'll contest on half stairs but not with any sort of vigor instead it's all 02:42:04.780 --> 02:42:08.020 going to be down to the cave close it's all gonna be down to this techie 02:42:08.020 --> 02:42:14.180 utility game forcing out the Maverick to get those hatches open and hope that 02:42:14.180 --> 02:42:18.260 they've got enough time denial to really make it happen a C4 sent out 02:42:18.260 --> 02:42:21.940 through the hatch that was very ambitious didn't come anywhere near 02:42:21.940 --> 02:42:23.140 Yeah, JV-92. 02:42:24.740 --> 02:42:27.340 Now we'll be able to get this hatch opened up. 02:42:28.340 --> 02:42:30.440 Not much that really hates can do here. 02:42:32.340 --> 02:42:34.440 Listen as that site hatch goes. 02:42:34.440 --> 02:42:35.840 Blind in behind that bomb chassis, 02:42:35.840 --> 02:42:37.540 there's not gonna be a thing. 02:42:39.940 --> 02:42:42.440 Just take the side, try to save us what you can. 02:42:42.440 --> 02:42:44.040 He did, I think he's in the hat, but... 02:42:45.240 --> 02:42:47.540 If you saw what you can really do, there is. 02:42:47.540 --> 02:42:48.840 That's gonna be opened up. 02:42:48.840 --> 02:42:50.040 Doesn't have the C4 though, 02:42:50.040 --> 02:42:52.040 So he can't really leash that back back brick 02:42:53.240 --> 02:42:56.840 A few bits and aids as well being tossed in but in really net much 02:42:56.840 --> 02:42:59.340 Still for Team Liquid Alienware though Wally 02:42:59.340 --> 02:43:01.340 They've got what they wanted, they've got the hatch open 02:43:01.340 --> 02:43:04.340 So now they can start eyeing up, moving in towards blue 02:43:04.340 --> 02:43:07.340 In towards server, start eyeing up that plant 02:43:07.340 --> 02:43:09.840 They're popping the goya's too in the bomb site but 02:43:09.840 --> 02:43:11.840 This was the issue last time we hear though Wally, wasn't it? 02:43:11.840 --> 02:43:12.840 It was getting into server 02:43:14.340 --> 02:43:16.840 Server was the big problem, Pinoe gonna play aggressively now 02:43:16.840 --> 02:43:19.340 He wasn't expecting it to be a Black Bear Doa 02:43:19.340 --> 02:43:27.060 Beats into the ground and takes him out of the situation five versus three now and a successful take of server is 02:43:27.440 --> 02:43:32.360 Likely gonna be the key for setto. You've got 20 to me cuz you need to get firing them 02:43:32.360 --> 02:43:37.380 And you need to get firing them now. There's 20 seconds left to hold on smokes getting sent into the site 02:43:37.380 --> 02:43:43.160 Oh box gonna move in deep KZ now down for the count Maya provide an overwatch 02:43:43.160 --> 02:43:46.100 This unique is good enough to force fully box off once 02:43:46.100 --> 02:43:50.020 Are they gonna force him up again trying his best to find an offside? 02:43:50.020 --> 02:43:55.780 But just left in the middle of the site, but his team floats through and picks up the kills required. I 02:43:57.000 --> 02:44:03.160 Feel like with the time that was the only way that that round was gonna conclude safely because Flee Pogs didn't have the HP 02:44:03.160 --> 02:44:08.420 To be tanking fire at his feet. He wasn't a great spot and it was really good reaction 02:44:08.420 --> 02:44:11.680 I think from team look at Alienware to I can't realize. Oh, no 02:44:11.680 --> 02:44:16.880 No, our guy is getting absolutely smoked, we need to get in there and try and find these 02:44:16.880 --> 02:44:17.880 kills. 02:44:17.880 --> 02:44:24.100 It was a flood come, a serious flood come, flood the site, take him, get him alive, we 02:44:24.100 --> 02:44:29.600 need him gone, there's nowhere to plant the floor, his lava, save me. 02:44:29.600 --> 02:44:34.600 And obviously the issues with the chanker, you even have your chemical launcher out 02:44:34.600 --> 02:44:38.320 from the dial but then you don't have a gun, that's always going to be the disadvantage 02:44:38.320 --> 02:44:42.840 that they're trying to get. I've said it plenty of times before. If you know he's got the launcher 02:44:42.840 --> 02:44:49.540 out, you just rush him because he doesn't have a gun. Did I have a gun? Just kill him. 02:44:49.540 --> 02:44:56.480 Chance here for NIP to get an equal half. And another rounder. I mean, it came down quite 02:44:56.480 --> 02:45:00.620 close there. Obviously, we saw it from the PRV of Fullypox trying to plant the defuser. 02:45:00.620 --> 02:45:05.160 We don't know how close those gunfights really were. And that was all from NIP 02:45:05.160 --> 02:45:10.640 getting basically from the start with a man behind. They lost that early kill so early 02:45:10.640 --> 02:45:16.080 on from the garage bush. Team Liquid earlier were definitely switched on over the course 02:45:16.080 --> 02:45:21.600 of this series and they've only held a lead for what two or three points throughout the 02:45:21.600 --> 02:45:28.520 whole thing so far. It's been very hotly contested. Round number six, another round 02:45:28.520 --> 02:45:33.960 and another DMR in the hands of Fancy. He's going to be looking at trying to 02:45:33.960 --> 02:45:39.420 contest some of those longer angles onto the repel. 02:45:39.420 --> 02:45:46.800 Teamplay the two brow, teamplay the Aruni. The reason is the same, both have a DMR. The 02:45:46.800 --> 02:45:53.280 utility is very much secondary. Although those laser gates are very nice for CEO, it is just 02:45:53.280 --> 02:45:58.520 going to be one more thing that the attackers have to burn. And I don't think the Team 02:45:58.520 --> 02:46:02.620 Liquid Alienware are going to be too concerned for the epochs of the minute. Just heading 02:46:02.620 --> 02:46:08.160 up onto the rappel. Couple of players joining them out here and with the launcher in hand 02:46:08.160 --> 02:46:13.540 usually speaks of something that's about to happen. Nade has got the kit. Maybe a bit 02:46:13.540 --> 02:46:17.900 unsure which line of utility we want to be going for here. KZ needs to make a bit of 02:46:17.900 --> 02:46:22.740 progress up square before they go for anything on the windows. 02:46:22.740 --> 02:46:29.140 I think Sloane's down here. Four team Liquid Alienware. It seems to be a much more traditional 02:46:29.140 --> 02:46:32.840 kind of attack where you're looking to prioritize getting that plant in, for the 02:46:32.840 --> 02:46:38.540 third might, make that breach now. In terms of denial, 1c4, that's it. So all they 02:46:38.540 --> 02:46:41.620 have to try and get through, so this is gonna be quite easy, but you can look at 02:46:41.620 --> 02:46:45.580 Alienware, and they go also to the Baturalee to deny the c4, but H just 02:46:45.580 --> 02:46:51.140 sprays through the smoke and finds the kill of the player going for the plant. 02:46:53.140 --> 02:46:56.540 Xotel is all the time, where's he planting? Probably in the smoke where you 02:46:56.540 --> 02:46:59.660 can't see him just spray the smoke even with the fact that they get the job 02:46:59.660 --> 02:47:06.220 KZ's having to go nuclear to close this round out three kills so far you know 02:47:06.220 --> 02:47:11.620 fancy still just about in the fight draws for the pistol Maya with the trade 02:47:11.620 --> 02:47:20.180 Pino tucked inside of meeting 50 seconds and three players who are gonna be 02:47:20.180 --> 02:47:24.060 baying down on swim the only advantage that he has at the moment is the 02:47:24.060 --> 02:47:28.380 diffuser is called inside and there are eyes on it but he has now just been 02:47:28.380 --> 02:47:32.580 droned player on the window just gonna push in it through janitor as well little 02:47:32.580 --> 02:47:36.620 pre-fire through the wall picks the first he can separate these out he's got a 02:47:36.620 --> 02:47:40.740 very good chance this needs to be a hell of a pistol shot though to try and win 02:47:40.740 --> 02:47:45.420 the round it looks as though KZ thinks better of it retreats well epochs has 02:47:45.420 --> 02:47:49.100 now made his way in picked with a diffuser can look to try and guarantee 02:47:49.100 --> 02:47:52.980 this round instead of separating instead of giving one versus ones this 02:47:52.980 --> 02:47:56.420 This is Pino's time to shine though, he needs to nail this kill and he needs to do it now. 02:47:57.300 --> 02:48:02.380 He's able to take KZ down whilst it was 1v1, land some shots, but both players trade. 02:48:02.380 --> 02:48:05.580 The leapbox is better on the second chance though. 02:48:06.580 --> 02:48:10.660 A narrow end, that felt much more like Night Avenlabs do than a big bank. 02:48:12.060 --> 02:48:15.820 Those rounds haven't been close for a while in this series demo. 02:48:16.940 --> 02:48:18.820 Oh boy, oh boy, we're gonna take a breather. 02:48:18.820 --> 02:48:22.620 And we are gonna let you hear from our wonderful desk as they break down the halfway point. 02:48:22.980 --> 02:48:29.700 Yes indeed my friends we are at the halfway point with very close round that would have gone the way of 02:48:30.420 --> 02:48:33.540 NIP at some point and it kept flip-flopping between them 02:48:33.820 --> 02:48:38.340 Tactically speaking team liquid Alienware are winning pretty much every single round 02:48:38.940 --> 02:48:45.380 But there's something that's keeping NIP in this and keeping liquid Alienware from running away with every single one of them here on 02:48:45.380 --> 02:48:46.620 Ben Cleo 02:48:46.620 --> 02:48:48.620 Something Minosh or someone 02:48:48.620 --> 02:48:54.380 I think looking at it, looking at what you've seen it, right, you've seen fantasy, he's 02:48:54.380 --> 02:48:59.260 nine and five right now, and for me it starts with this, first kill, first kill of the map, 02:48:59.260 --> 02:49:04.100 a one time with a boss G, when Tim and Ligunelli were trying to attack server, look at this 02:49:04.100 --> 02:49:10.300 guy, he's on vitro in server, picking the hatch, everyone would die here, instead fantasy, 02:49:10.300 --> 02:49:15.540 he gets a triple kill somehow, and that's just, that is the only guy keeping NIP 02:49:15.540 --> 02:49:21.460 in the race because if it's not for him going crazy and pulling these kills out of nowhere honestly 02:49:21.460 --> 02:49:25.460 an IP wouldn't send a chance that was the impact on the Blackbird by the way that figure later 02:49:25.460 --> 02:49:31.540 and then that's the infantasy 8 and 3 here getting the final kill on to the round the 4 on open area 02:49:31.540 --> 02:49:37.060 now honestly I look at this and I think okay it's all great that's it no it's not the slow 02:49:37.060 --> 02:49:41.220 pace team that we expected an IP they've changed things they tried to go on the room 02:49:41.220 --> 02:49:46.420 They try to have the vigil and then was it together, but it just doesn't work because on the side of team liquid 02:49:46.660 --> 02:49:51.260 You have a team that plays behind the black girl of Feddipox that goes through the motions 02:49:51.260 --> 02:49:57.380 That has some direct takes with the glass the ying and the amaru and another fight to do it all this the last round 02:49:57.380 --> 02:50:01.000 For example around six. It's exactly what they do and even when that fails 02:50:01.140 --> 02:50:07.220 They have KZ to unlock the situation. So they've made the most out of the out of the attack side the weakest side 02:50:07.220 --> 02:50:13.600 for Ben Kelly in my opinion his defense so NIP was still not weak side and we'd 02:50:13.600 --> 02:50:17.480 love for fantasy to continue being this aggressive when he switched to attack 02:50:17.480 --> 02:50:20.680 and for the rest of the team to wake up a little bit alongside him because right 02:50:20.680 --> 02:50:24.620 now he's the only player keeping them in a race. Everybody should be checking 02:50:24.620 --> 02:50:27.980 their monitors here to see if they're up and awake and ready NIP 02:50:27.980 --> 02:50:32.080 collecting two rounds on their defense like said Leo the tougher side but 02:50:32.080 --> 02:50:38.520 what happens when you swap it and will that teamwork that we saw in map to come 02:50:38.520 --> 02:50:43.520 back and play will have to see we'll hand it over to XR Turcan demo to get us 02:50:43.520 --> 02:50:46.640 to do the action. Enjoy. 02:50:49.080 --> 02:50:55.720 Milagio thank you both very much indeed we joined back round number seven here. 02:50:55.720 --> 02:51:00.280 I agree I think we always hit the nail on the head. 02:51:00.280 --> 02:51:06.600 Fancy his main force. Well, I mean, it is kind of his job, isn't it? Yeah, we're actually 02:51:06.600 --> 02:51:11.720 we're talking about yesterday. You know the way that he's, you know, we kind of teach 02:51:11.720 --> 02:51:14.400 him to say words, you know what I'm saying? Well, you teach like a like a five year old 02:51:14.400 --> 02:51:17.880 like a word that they shouldn't be saying. Anyway, you've kind of taught him a lot of 02:51:17.880 --> 02:51:22.600 words. You've got any new ones for him that he doesn't know yet. Oh, like sayings. 02:51:22.600 --> 02:51:26.720 Yeah. You know, you taught him like Nackery. He loves Oh, you're completely. Yeah. He 02:51:26.720 --> 02:51:31.920 love that one. Yeah. She's usually like more northern England sort of slang words, isn't 02:51:31.920 --> 02:51:38.320 it? Nothing rude or anything, but I don't know. They just sort of come out. But phrases 02:51:38.320 --> 02:51:42.560 can be one as well. Cam on the pigeons is a favourite of mine, and I won't guess it. 02:51:42.560 --> 02:51:51.080 I don't know if he does. Leo and he cats amongst the pigeons. They probably sound quite good 02:51:51.080 --> 02:52:02.120 in french as well that you can be still you're fun you can be careful okay turn them off turn off 02:52:02.120 --> 02:52:09.800 the boxes he's gave us a translation and chat and me lude the pigeons yeah I think it was the same 02:52:09.800 --> 02:52:15.720 you know I've got a new I've got no saying what is it there it there is to do you've been saying 02:52:15.720 --> 02:52:22.160 that for a while though. No, that's recent. Listen to anyone. No, it's not. Like, you 02:52:22.160 --> 02:52:26.800 were pulling that one out last night when we used to cast together. No, no, no, no. 02:52:26.800 --> 02:52:31.400 I've had it before. It's not new to me. You got to get up earlier than that to catch 02:52:31.400 --> 02:52:37.280 me out with a new saying. Round number seven then. A grim and a ying band that counted 02:52:37.280 --> 02:52:44.760 with a castle and a goreo. Yeah. And happy again. I think they recognize their weakness, 02:52:44.760 --> 02:52:50.040 It is the time. They are a very slow team and it's not necessarily a bad thing and is it necessarily a weakness? 02:52:50.040 --> 02:52:56.240 But they just try and make that late round a little bit easier for themselves and the go-yo removal is going to do just exactly that 02:52:57.080 --> 02:53:00.200 Kind of surprised to not see this chanky here, but we move 02:53:00.920 --> 02:53:05.760 It is available for a later point. Bissetto is going to be allowed a shield to play around at the moment though 02:53:05.760 --> 02:53:07.040 But that shield 02:53:07.040 --> 02:53:12.920 It's going to be getting harassed a little bit the roaming Yo-kai good pinch onto Maedo 02:53:12.920 --> 02:53:19.720 brilliant cover and a great cutoff from Pino. As with Habana and that DMR now you can hold 02:53:19.720 --> 02:53:25.640 some of these really long nasty angles and have a great effect especially with that Monty shoving 02:53:25.640 --> 02:53:31.200 the players around. That is going to be the C4 gone out of this lineup. So in terms of what 02:53:31.200 --> 02:53:36.320 you've got to chew through later on, yes you have the clash and yes you've got KZ with 02:53:36.320 --> 02:53:40.480 only one toxic bait canister. You've given yourself a little bit of an easier option later. 02:53:40.480 --> 02:53:47.280 I mean look at the time, minute remaining, still have yet to clear out these players in mid-floor 02:53:47.280 --> 02:53:52.720 KZ, enable a fine wizard, the Monty is there to try and feed out the information, they hasn't 02:53:52.720 --> 02:53:58.280 dropped just yet, JV goes down as he was challenging onto that Monty and gets picked 02:53:58.280 --> 02:54:03.000 off from quad wall, in 40 seconds you've still got a clash up, more importantly you've 02:54:03.000 --> 02:54:06.200 got the Echo, I mean the Okai drone is obviously going to be the kicker that can 02:54:06.200 --> 02:54:11.960 maybe win them the round or not. But NIP, they really need to start moving 30 seconds remaining. 02:54:11.960 --> 02:54:14.760 Where are they going to go? 02:54:14.760 --> 02:54:17.880 I mean, as far as I can tell, the Yo-Kai drone's in the square, so that's going to need to be 02:54:17.880 --> 02:54:22.200 moved across. You're not going to be able to deny the plant from there unless you've 02:54:22.200 --> 02:54:26.840 got a worldy angle through the hatch. Anthony knows that there's a player inside a server 02:54:26.840 --> 02:54:32.040 right now, and a trade going to come out. Leapox takes Pino, but Hates is there 02:54:32.040 --> 02:54:37.280 for KZ. This is where you need to find that value out of the Monty. Big kill coming in from 02:54:37.280 --> 02:54:41.560 Nade though. Takes Hates down. Assetto, you might have the kit, but you've got to do a 02:54:41.560 --> 02:54:45.920 bit more than that. You've been left in the 1v1 by your teammate and it's Shield V Shield 02:54:45.920 --> 02:54:52.400 for the showdown. Zero, zero, Plank going down. Well, Assetto isn't going to give 02:54:52.400 --> 02:54:57.600 Nade the satisfaction of grabbing that kill and patting the stats. Instead, he's going 02:54:57.600 --> 02:55:01.680 going to come off and time will do the rest. 02:55:01.680 --> 02:55:05.960 NIP, I'd love to see what they're capable of with an extra 15 seconds, like they could 02:55:05.960 --> 02:55:09.680 just buy 15 seconds at the start of the round. 02:55:09.680 --> 02:55:13.720 Like where do they lose it because that's all it takes, that's all they need. 02:55:13.720 --> 02:55:15.120 They just need a little bit more. 02:55:15.120 --> 02:55:19.640 I'll be honest with you, they've kind of bought an extra 30 seconds with the Goyal 02:55:19.640 --> 02:55:20.640 Bump. 02:55:20.640 --> 02:55:22.760 And they still can't do it. 02:55:22.760 --> 02:55:26.120 Like it's not even like they're unaware of it, they know it's a weakness, they 02:55:26.120 --> 02:55:30.280 know it's a problem so they banned appropriately and then it still bites them 02:55:30.280 --> 02:55:39.440 you imagine that round with an echo but with a go-yo in play I mean taken mid 02:55:39.440 --> 02:55:44.000 floor with a minute remaining it you need to be snappier yes we know there's 02:55:44.000 --> 02:55:47.800 gonna be hold in towards open area but you just need to run through the motions 02:55:47.800 --> 02:55:52.160 and there's what maybe two players upstairs and that was it 02:55:52.160 --> 02:56:00.440 Oh well, I mean for NIP it is a heavy round to lose because similar to what I kind of 02:56:00.440 --> 02:56:05.360 mentioned whenever we seen NIP 4-2-2 up against Team Liquid Alienware and we came 02:56:05.360 --> 02:56:10.640 in to that kind of side switch, you had a situation where you could either 02:56:10.640 --> 02:56:16.080 drop the game back one round apiece or you've gave Liquid now the free 02:56:16.080 --> 02:56:20.000 round extension similar to what Liquid did with NIP. 02:56:22.160 --> 02:56:24.160 Yeah, it feels like exactly that 02:56:25.920 --> 02:56:33.140 For me big round round 8 must win at the moment for an IP you can't give team liquid alien wear that match and series point 02:56:33.840 --> 02:56:37.000 At what feels like quite an early point in bank as a map 02:56:38.840 --> 02:56:40.840 Gonna be attacking up to that top floor 02:56:42.080 --> 02:56:47.040 Side that we've seen successfully attacked by team liquid alien wear today 02:56:49.880 --> 02:56:51.880 And they successfully defend it 02:56:52.160 --> 02:56:57.580 Bit of information gathering here as Fancy is going to be below. 02:56:57.580 --> 02:57:01.680 Often finds himself in these vertical positions. 02:57:01.680 --> 02:57:04.560 Very rarely will play like a typical VR operator there. 02:57:04.560 --> 02:57:08.160 Game of Snake, it's time to go could be. 02:57:08.160 --> 02:57:12.080 All of which can do the job just in slightly different ways, a bit more pinpoint accurate 02:57:12.080 --> 02:57:15.960 when you haven't got the skeleton key to rip open everything. 02:57:15.960 --> 02:57:16.960 Crazy. 02:57:16.960 --> 02:57:17.960 Daisy. 02:57:17.960 --> 02:57:20.400 In good position to put it up with Filippox here. 02:57:20.400 --> 02:57:25.520 Team Liquid Alienware aren't leaving massive gaps between each other at the moment. 02:57:25.520 --> 02:57:28.360 They're not giving that opportunity for players to just walk in. 02:57:28.360 --> 02:57:29.360 Dokebycourt comes out. 02:57:29.360 --> 02:57:33.400 Once he might find something vertically off the back of that, that DMR will rip the floor 02:57:33.400 --> 02:57:34.400 open. 02:57:34.400 --> 02:57:35.400 Big C4 attempted. 02:57:35.400 --> 02:57:38.880 It's going to put Puzetto down low. 02:57:38.880 --> 02:57:40.040 Immediately down as he moves in. 02:57:40.040 --> 02:57:44.640 Fancy has to make a big play now in through Janitor, the diffuser, going down. 02:57:44.640 --> 02:57:45.640 Pino. 02:57:45.640 --> 02:57:50.800 to be successful with this. It should be holdable from the windows. Get yourself outside. The 02:57:50.800 --> 02:57:57.320 post plant is on the repel. Pino in position. Fancy. Another logic on phone call. Chance 02:57:57.320 --> 02:58:02.520 to kill onto the player inside a stock and doesn't waste any opportunity. Ripping Meyer 02:58:02.520 --> 02:58:08.480 to shreds. Fully pox. Next on the chopping block. Chunk down to just less than 20 HP. 02:58:08.480 --> 02:58:16.000 This is advantage. Further favours NIP, Nade with one. Shuts fancy down but the rest of 02:58:16.000 --> 02:58:20.600 the players are external. They're on the roof, they're on the repels. You haven't got the 02:58:20.600 --> 02:58:27.440 angles to challenge onto that. JV, a long rotate, up spiral. Six seconds. We all know 02:58:27.440 --> 02:58:33.320 that time is too short in padded stats, but the round will be given to NIP. 02:58:33.320 --> 02:58:38.100 They're nice from NIP, the Wing Kong or Team Liquid Alienware. 02:58:38.100 --> 02:58:42.580 They were hoping their main form of denial was going to be the Maestro cameras. 02:58:42.580 --> 02:58:44.540 But what do NIP have? 02:58:44.540 --> 02:58:46.660 They have the Doka B. 02:58:46.660 --> 02:58:51.020 So as the player goes in for the plant, you use the Doka B call, you force the Maestro 02:58:51.020 --> 02:58:56.940 off the cameras and there's no denial from Team Liquid Alienware. 02:58:56.940 --> 02:59:02.100 So overall for NIP they assess the situation, they see the defense and they counter it 02:59:02.100 --> 02:59:03.100 perfectly. 02:59:03.100 --> 02:59:11.740 The theory and the strategy behind it, second to none, the execution, second to none. 02:59:11.740 --> 02:59:14.400 They did exactly what they needed to do. 02:59:14.400 --> 02:59:15.900 Nobody overcommitted to the building. 02:59:15.900 --> 02:59:20.540 I think it was Fancy and Pino, the only two players that actually made it inside the 02:59:20.540 --> 02:59:23.620 building because that was all that was required. 02:59:23.620 --> 02:59:26.420 Let's be honest, you need Fancy to go in and get some kills and you need Pino to 02:59:26.420 --> 02:59:28.260 go in and put the plon down. 02:59:28.260 --> 02:59:31.300 After that, everything else is done from externally. 02:59:31.300 --> 02:59:36.660 Get yourself on the rappel get yourself on the skylight find the pics pics are gonna come to you 02:59:36.660 --> 02:59:38.660 You can see the diffuser. You know where the post plant is 02:59:40.580 --> 02:59:41.980 Brilliant stuff 02:59:41.980 --> 02:59:46.220 I'm surprised we didn't see more of a challenge onto those players that were on the rappel 02:59:46.300 --> 02:59:49.620 There was no aggressive run out. There was no one playing downstairs in ATMs 02:59:50.340 --> 02:59:54.900 Nothing really from Team Liquid Alienware as soon as they knew that that was gonna be the game plan 02:59:54.900 --> 02:59:59.140 I would have expected them to play a little bit more aggressively for that control 02:59:59.140 --> 03:00:03.560 And we just didn't really see it. I'm not saying that they rolled over and let the plank go down 03:00:04.060 --> 03:00:09.000 Their version of what the plant denial was going to be was very different to what actually transpired 03:00:09.580 --> 03:00:13.140 As an IP as you say demo just circumnavigated it 03:00:13.660 --> 03:00:18.280 Oh, they've got a maestro. Oh, you might need to play the problem. Nope. We'll just play the okabe 03:00:18.280 --> 03:00:20.280 We'll get them off the cameras one way or another 03:00:22.700 --> 03:00:26.780 I mean there is a one-man army on an IP right now isn't it? 03:00:26.780 --> 03:00:36.780 And that's honestly the only reason why they're stolen this game is because this one guy, he is miles clear from anyone else in the server. 03:00:37.780 --> 03:00:44.780 He's got 14 and 7. Remember I said he was what, 8 and 4 earlier? He's still on a 2KD. 03:00:44.780 --> 03:00:53.800 Big performance from Fancy, but this is why you need those players that have got the big 03:00:53.800 --> 03:00:56.480 performances in them sometimes. 03:00:56.480 --> 03:01:02.400 Speaking of big performances, great opening pick, Wizard, tasteful Epox down, Epox playing 03:01:02.400 --> 03:01:05.640 on the YMI upstairs, ooh another down as well. 03:01:05.640 --> 03:01:09.960 Oh dear this is going from bad to worse, this is going to be a flawless demo. 03:01:09.960 --> 03:01:14.480 Fancy, Presetto, Wizard, all contributing here in round number nine. 03:01:14.480 --> 03:01:20.320 fire. Just headless. Doesn't know whether to run in the site or rotate back upstairs. 03:01:20.320 --> 03:01:25.520 Nade with just less than half the round is now getting Damos tracked. Don't could be 03:01:25.520 --> 03:01:29.840 called. Full white flashed. Pushed by a shield. Finds two. 03:01:29.840 --> 03:01:36.600 I mean the end was written on the wall from the start but I'm surprised he got two. One 03:01:36.600 --> 03:01:41.320 was a razor bloom granted. But it wasn't looking great. 03:01:41.320 --> 03:01:44.760 almost a flawless round for N. I. P. 03:01:44.760 --> 03:01:45.720 You think back to a couple of 03:01:45.720 --> 03:01:46.760 rounds ago when I said that was 03:01:46.760 --> 03:01:48.220 a must win round for N. I. P. 03:01:48.220 --> 03:01:49.720 They have taken that and ran with 03:01:49.720 --> 03:01:52.220 it. They are now within one of 03:01:52.220 --> 03:01:53.820 leveling up with team liquid 03:01:53.820 --> 03:01:55.620 Alienware. I mean, that was a 03:01:55.620 --> 03:01:58.120 whitewash of around, wasn't it? 03:01:58.120 --> 03:01:59.880 And just everyone flooding in 03:01:59.880 --> 03:02:01.620 through the top floor in 03:02:01.620 --> 03:02:02.620 liquid Alienware of trying to 03:02:02.620 --> 03:02:03.620 fight against it. They've lost 03:02:03.620 --> 03:02:05.980 their engagements. I mean, 03:02:05.980 --> 03:02:08.580 going to the bands. 03:02:08.580 --> 03:02:10.580 Capital as the ban 03:02:11.340 --> 03:02:13.340 haven't played it once 03:02:13.420 --> 03:02:18.800 Running the the doka be and the blitz down the past few rounds, which has been successful for it might be 03:02:19.100 --> 03:02:22.180 That's allowed to stay up. Maybe it's the fact that they think okay 03:02:22.740 --> 03:02:28.700 We know that we're going into a basement. Oh, maybe try and use that operator for the basement 03:02:29.380 --> 03:02:32.060 They have a weird one. I think it's just more of a preemptive ban 03:02:32.060 --> 03:02:36.100 it's not enough to attack a 03:02:36.100 --> 03:02:38.100 band is that. Because there's 03:02:38.100 --> 03:02:40.120 so many good attackers at the 03:02:40.120 --> 03:02:43.060 moment. You spoil for choice. 03:02:43.060 --> 03:02:48.100 You can really just go in any 03:02:48.100 --> 03:02:52.100 direction with it. You know, 03:02:52.100 --> 03:02:54.100 snake Game. Us. Both of those 03:02:54.100 --> 03:02:56.100 are just not enough to attack 03:02:56.100 --> 03:02:58.100 a band. You know, you can 03:02:58.100 --> 03:03:03.580 you know snake game us both of those are going to be fantastic pics 03:03:03.580 --> 03:03:07.220 don't be has already proved to be a huge operator 03:03:07.220 --> 03:03:11.100 but what nip want to play for how nip want to play 03:03:11.100 --> 03:03:14.940 in this series don't think you could have made it 03:03:14.940 --> 03:03:18.940 bad choice really with the band but you just not got enough of them to 03:03:18.940 --> 03:03:22.100 you know close every avenue down and it's 03:03:22.100 --> 03:03:24.980 you basically left with just picking what your most comfortable playing 03:03:24.980 --> 03:03:29.860 against or maybe what you're least comfortable playing with and that's the 03:03:29.860 --> 03:03:36.020 way that you've got to make your decision. Team Liquid Alienware again slightly 03:03:36.020 --> 03:03:41.900 different approach. Cade isn't available. It's a forced onto the two brow. Banshee. 03:03:41.900 --> 03:03:44.500 Might be looking to try and make something happen a bit quickly here. 03:03:44.500 --> 03:03:49.140 He's gonna send the Nade into dirt tunnel, potentially just trying to burn a 03:03:49.140 --> 03:03:52.660 little bit of utility. Might not fully know what's down there at the 03:03:52.660 --> 03:03:58.260 moment, but he's not going to make his approach there. Instead, quickly get himself out there 03:03:58.260 --> 03:04:05.700 onto safety. Zipino once again trying to play this cutoff angle. We've already seen him have 03:04:05.700 --> 03:04:06.700 success with this. 03:04:06.700 --> 03:04:14.620 I mean first minute gone, but the NIP really got the show for it. Guests have been able 03:04:14.620 --> 03:04:18.940 to take spot four, but that was always going to happen. Look at Alienware are interested 03:04:18.940 --> 03:04:22.540 in that part off the map, they want to try and hold in towards open area. 03:04:23.840 --> 03:04:28.440 To be fair, I mean they dropped off a lot earlier than they did last time. 03:04:28.440 --> 03:04:32.840 They still got Maya upstairs, but I don't think it's going to be too long until he also goes down. 03:04:34.240 --> 03:04:38.440 After I'm gone, NIP just have to try and get out the last player, 03:04:38.440 --> 03:04:40.840 which they have done now as Maya has dropped. 03:04:41.640 --> 03:04:44.240 So at least they've got themselves into open area now. 03:04:44.240 --> 03:04:46.140 That just is going to be open to them too. 03:04:46.140 --> 03:04:51.140 That's that blue stairs. That's the next minigame. That's the next fight that we're going to be eyeing up. 03:04:51.140 --> 03:04:55.140 I mean dealing with full epochs on the 4 and with a shot gone as well to boot. 03:04:59.140 --> 03:05:03.140 They must call. Form. Position known. Bissetto. 03:05:03.140 --> 03:05:10.140 Has to try and make this work along with Fancy and they can go in. That's likely going to force them back down the stairs. 03:05:10.140 --> 03:05:13.140 Fancy not really in a position to try and hold that angle. 03:05:13.140 --> 03:05:22.140 He knows how powerful this hatch can be. We've already seen how capable he can be played on the reverse and just has to show a little bit of patience here and now. 03:05:22.140 --> 03:05:32.140 The Sector will clean that kill up. An opening kill coming at around the 45 second mark. The trademarkly slow round here for NIP. 03:05:32.140 --> 03:05:39.500 They are not leaving turned, but as such, Nade still has two toxic babe canisters. 03:05:39.500 --> 03:05:43.620 They're going to choke out a lot of this round from that server side. 03:05:43.620 --> 03:05:47.300 As such, players like JV92 can turn their attention. 03:05:47.300 --> 03:05:49.780 He needs to be worried about a gold drop. 03:05:49.780 --> 03:05:53.100 Where is the second element of pressure going to be coming from? 03:05:53.100 --> 03:05:56.460 Feet shots in onto Maya as Bissetto is trying to get this defuse down. 03:05:56.460 --> 03:05:57.980 I think he's got a pocket there. 03:05:57.980 --> 03:05:58.980 The smoke's been missed. 03:05:58.980 --> 03:06:01.180 Wizard finds one, dodges out of the way. 03:06:01.180 --> 03:06:07.820 The C4 beautifully. That's the only one. The cover now has to be perfect. And it's all down to JV92. 03:06:07.820 --> 03:06:12.820 He's getting shot left, right and center. And eventually, Wizards finishes him off. 03:06:12.820 --> 03:06:20.420 A flawless round and a plant. NIP using every second, but using it to perfection. 03:06:20.420 --> 03:06:29.820 I. P. with three in a row. They've been able to win the full rotation. Against Team Liquid 03:06:29.820 --> 03:06:37.660 Alienware who were cruising at five to they've called the timeout because momentum. It's been 03:06:37.660 --> 03:06:41.940 taken away from them and I. P. on cloud nine right now. 03:06:41.940 --> 03:06:49.420 And for NIP, all that you look at that last round, the difference was, team Liquid Alienware 03:06:49.420 --> 03:06:53.900 kind of left a little bit maybe too soon. I don't know, I feel as though they could have 03:06:53.900 --> 03:06:59.220 maybe stuck up there for a little bit longer. You kind of leave at what, a minute 30? NIP 03:06:59.220 --> 03:07:02.660 are thinking, you know what, we got the extra 30 seconds, all he was talking about, 03:07:02.660 --> 03:07:03.660 we have it now. 03:07:03.660 --> 03:07:11.340 And it's incredible to see how they can perform when they've got it. 03:07:11.340 --> 03:07:13.860 And from Team Liquid earlier in my point of view, what do you do? 03:07:13.860 --> 03:07:15.740 Do you risk the roam? 03:07:15.740 --> 03:07:18.100 Or do you just try and double down onto the site? 03:07:18.100 --> 03:07:23.860 You've lost the go-yo, so you've lost a lot of that ability to double down on the site. 03:07:23.860 --> 03:07:27.020 But that's the direction that they're going to go in. 03:07:27.020 --> 03:07:28.500 They're going downstairs. 03:07:28.500 --> 03:07:30.300 They're bringing the clash. 03:07:30.300 --> 03:07:32.180 They're bringing the T'Chank. 03:07:32.180 --> 03:07:36.020 bring in the smoke again. 03:07:36.020 --> 03:07:41.500 NIP get a good read on this and recognise, hey, they're doing it again, maybe they've 03:07:41.500 --> 03:07:45.460 got KZ out on the road, maybe they'll leave KZ as like the unknown entity. 03:07:45.460 --> 03:07:49.060 Fenrir, it could be fairly self sufficient out there. 03:07:49.060 --> 03:07:52.180 Maybe you can waste some time, maybe you can shoot some drones. 03:07:52.180 --> 03:07:55.900 Might be enough, but when you've still got the Monty available, and NIP have already 03:07:55.900 --> 03:08:01.100 just so masterfully showed us that they're capable of taking that control and really 03:08:01.100 --> 03:08:06.100 carefully dealing with people. I was so worried when we had the fancy engagement on blue stairs 03:08:06.100 --> 03:08:11.100 and we've got Bissetto on the Monty. Like how many times today have we seen a Monty go 03:08:11.100 --> 03:08:15.100 a little bit too far on their own from NIP? It's not been so often but it's happened, 03:08:15.100 --> 03:08:18.380 hasn't it? You know, there's been a couple of really key occasions that you can think 03:08:18.380 --> 03:08:21.100 of. I genuinely don't think they could have played it better. 03:08:21.100 --> 03:08:29.100 Another thing as well that I think we need to take note of is the opening kills. The 03:08:29.100 --> 03:08:35.580 past five rounds, NIP have had the first pick and it has not been traded back. If our team 03:08:35.580 --> 03:08:39.340 look at Alienware, that is certainly something that they have to look at as the entry engagements. 03:08:40.060 --> 03:08:43.980 They're constantly going into these rounds at a man disadvantage. 03:08:45.900 --> 03:08:51.260 But we run it back into the basement as where we go. More focus, of course, on that denial, 03:08:51.260 --> 03:08:55.980 we'll have to check it being brought in alongside the clash too. For NIP, 03:08:55.980 --> 03:09:03.860 I wouldn't say they have a great line up though to really deal with the clash specifically. 03:09:03.860 --> 03:09:07.500 They've got one Nade and that's it. 03:09:07.500 --> 03:09:11.380 Even then, if you have to get the clash to put the shield down before you get the value, 03:09:11.380 --> 03:09:17.460 so I certainly think that shield is going to be a kicker here for Team Liquid Alienware. 03:09:17.460 --> 03:09:18.460 N.I.P. 03:09:18.460 --> 03:09:20.180 They're always working against the clock. 03:09:20.180 --> 03:09:23.780 There's the first minute gone and once more. 03:09:23.780 --> 03:09:27.680 not quick enough to get in the build and I fear early yeah not too much has 03:09:27.680 --> 03:09:32.720 happened you've got the hatch open toward gold that's a big tick in a box 03:09:32.720 --> 03:09:36.480 like you say with the position that Maya's playing at the moment on that 03:09:36.480 --> 03:09:42.280 clash it can be fairly safe in there gave you gonna get called in the garage 03:09:42.280 --> 03:09:47.680 as is the rest of Team Liquid Alienware fancy trying to make something 03:09:47.680 --> 03:09:52.360 happen in through server he's gonna smoke himself off an attempt try and 03:09:52.360 --> 03:09:56.540 work through that. The toxic babe kind of state is just going to force him out briefly 03:09:56.540 --> 03:10:01.000 a very important engagement but doesn't finish it off. Maya in the right place at the right 03:10:01.000 --> 03:10:05.940 time stops Filippox from getting finished and there's a chance that Filippox can be 03:10:05.940 --> 03:10:12.220 picked up here. There's nobody from NIP to secure that kill onto the blue player at 03:10:12.220 --> 03:10:16.720 the moment. Hates just going to be playing the hatch inside of open. Filippox picked 03:10:16.720 --> 03:10:26.760 up and more importantly with it two toxic babes. Oh and I think up against it I mean 03:10:26.760 --> 03:10:33.520 unless somebody can appear big old double or triple kill to really turn this 03:10:33.520 --> 03:10:36.320 round on its head I just think it's gonna be the lockout here for Team Liquid 03:10:36.320 --> 03:10:40.360 Alienware and so they've been able to stop the bleeding it was what's 03:10:40.360 --> 03:10:44.120 happened on this half currently well there's percent one but oh no it's a 03:10:44.120 --> 03:10:49.980 Clash that he's looking at who can easily rotate their way back into the bombsite never mind my actually gonna go for the 03:10:50.340 --> 03:10:54.680 Server take instead. I'm gonna try and hold his ground as long as he can and waste time 03:10:54.680 --> 03:10:56.600 He will get finished off 15 seconds 03:10:56.600 --> 03:11:00.920 But we know that the chanke is still up in the life after the global shield and I can you're gonna have to try and go 03:11:00.920 --> 03:11:06.360 Deep now using the smoke, but surely the flames are gonna ricochet. They're gonna bounce the cell gets it off 03:11:06.440 --> 03:11:08.960 No, Casey stop sick 03:11:09.360 --> 03:11:12.520 We'll point second ago. It finds a double two 03:11:12.520 --> 03:11:17.520 I almost was worried there. 03:11:17.520 --> 03:11:20.520 At the chanker. Maybe not doing 03:11:20.520 --> 03:11:22.520 enough. I don't think the 03:11:22.520 --> 03:11:24.520 chanker did enough. And if 03:11:24.520 --> 03:11:26.520 Casey misses a couple of bullets 03:11:26.520 --> 03:11:28.520 there. It's matching series point 03:11:28.520 --> 03:11:30.520 the opposite direction, isn't it? 03:11:30.520 --> 03:11:32.520 Team liquid alien where holding 03:11:32.520 --> 03:11:34.520 on when it matters most. And 03:11:34.520 --> 03:11:36.520 you just get the feeling that 03:11:36.520 --> 03:11:38.520 NIP bought it. Whereas the 03:11:38.520 --> 03:11:40.520 momentum gone that they've had 03:11:40.520 --> 03:11:48.240 see it. There wasn't as much confidence. There wasn't as much team play. Very individual solo 03:11:48.240 --> 03:11:55.520 pushes and none of it really transpiring. It got close towards the end. But again, you're 03:11:55.520 --> 03:12:00.240 planting in the smoke like you kind of need to still have control of upstairs in open 03:12:00.240 --> 03:12:03.120 area. And the only reason that they don't is because they've already lost too many bodies. 03:12:03.120 --> 03:12:06.280 and there's only so many places that the remaining players can be. 03:12:08.660 --> 03:12:10.860 NIP, a late timeout. 03:12:12.280 --> 03:12:15.360 It's just got to be good for one round to take him into an OC. 03:12:16.680 --> 03:12:20.420 They've had the run of their teeth so far on this attacking side of bank. 03:12:22.060 --> 03:12:25.220 And it'd be a shame for them now to let that slip. 03:12:26.560 --> 03:12:28.260 Team Liquid Alienware. 03:12:28.260 --> 03:12:30.660 I don't think they're necessarily going to be pinching themselves demo, 03:12:30.660 --> 03:12:32.860 but they're going to be breathing a sigh of relief. 03:12:33.120 --> 03:12:38.480 that they've got themselves within a shot here and overtime is at least guaranteed for them. 03:12:44.320 --> 03:12:47.760 NIP, that last round slipped, but if 03:12:48.800 --> 03:12:52.720 Dave could roll back over to Team Liquid Alienware, who because though they want to try and finish 03:12:52.720 --> 03:12:57.680 it here on that top floor. However, last time they were at the top floor, I mean NIP had a great 03:12:57.680 --> 03:13:01.520 lockout, really good plant position using the skylight to make it so easy to hold. 03:13:31.520 --> 03:13:33.520 I'm looking forward to it. 03:13:33.520 --> 03:13:35.520 Where's the shields? 03:13:35.520 --> 03:13:39.520 The shields have been the big thing, I think, for NIP winning. 03:13:39.520 --> 03:13:41.520 Where are they? They've gone. 03:13:41.520 --> 03:13:43.520 The last round, they didn't have one. 03:13:43.520 --> 03:13:46.520 Just look at the sheer amount of soft destruction as well. 03:13:46.520 --> 03:13:50.520 We've got the ash, there's the fear, and the flores. 03:13:50.520 --> 03:13:53.520 What are they expecting to have to go through? 03:13:53.520 --> 03:13:55.520 There's not even an employable. 03:13:55.520 --> 03:13:58.520 Yeah, that's what I mean. They've banned the capsules. 03:13:58.520 --> 03:14:01.520 Do you look at anyone that aren't playing me as army? 03:14:05.520 --> 03:14:11.520 They've got the ace to open up the wall instead of the thermite, which works so well. I mean, it's a choice, isn't it? 03:14:11.520 --> 03:14:12.520 Bancy. 03:14:12.520 --> 03:14:15.520 He's making his choice right now and he's spotted a gap. 03:14:15.520 --> 03:14:19.520 There is going to be a player just tucked into canto right now. 03:14:19.520 --> 03:14:21.520 He's on the nook. 03:14:21.520 --> 03:14:23.520 Creeping his way up there. 03:14:23.520 --> 03:14:26.520 There is allegiance. There could be a goomite up at the top here. 03:14:56.520 --> 03:15:02.800 got another one. So it is going to be all square. NIP, where do they go now without 03:15:02.800 --> 03:15:07.240 honestly leading the charge? It's up to these three players now to try and make a 03:15:07.240 --> 03:15:11.120 success Team Liquid Alienware. I'm sure they've still got the information from 03:15:11.120 --> 03:15:14.560 the Echo that they can have and also that BP. So I think in terms of the 03:15:14.560 --> 03:15:18.080 information game it should be Team Liquid Alienware on top. They've got a 03:15:18.080 --> 03:15:23.440 minute left. They've got two C4s still that they can utilize. NIP, it just 03:15:23.440 --> 03:15:27.600 feels a little bit of a slower paced time here for them. We're almost waiting to see 03:15:27.600 --> 03:15:31.640 a Team Liquid Alienware going to expose themselves and get them some kills. Obviously, you have 03:15:31.640 --> 03:15:37.920 to also wait out the top two as they try to open up those breaches. 40 seconds, NIP, 03:15:37.920 --> 03:15:40.960 need to start iron up the bombsite and go in for a plant soon. 03:15:40.960 --> 03:15:44.520 Yeah, timing space isn't something that you want to be given Team Liquid Alienware 03:15:44.520 --> 03:15:50.720 right now. Hates going to take Maya's time away from him and KZ's for Lepox tries 03:15:50.720 --> 03:15:55.160 to deny the plan, but Bissetto is able to reposition. There's nobody to shut him down 03:15:55.160 --> 03:15:59.760 and Pino from the window seals the deal. Overtime confirmed. 03:15:59.760 --> 03:16:08.160 Oh, it's fitting that we see the OT come in. There's been one heck of a map. I mean, what 03:16:08.160 --> 03:16:15.600 if you think about just how this game has went? It's kind of been dominated in large 03:16:15.600 --> 03:16:19.160 portions by one another, hasn't it? We had seen Liquid going a good run, NIP, 03:16:19.160 --> 03:16:24.560 little bit back and forth for the start back and forth now, but for two splits. I mean, 03:16:24.560 --> 03:16:30.360 it is bank. I think this is what we expected. It's four to an attacks and who gets the attack. 03:16:30.360 --> 03:16:35.800 Well, you look at alien where they get the favored side. 03:16:35.800 --> 03:16:43.480 That could be defining for this series. It really could. I don't think the NIP's 03:16:43.480 --> 03:16:47.960 performance on the attack can be stressed enough. I understand that team liquid alien 03:16:47.960 --> 03:16:53.720 where it came away with exactly the same split, but the sheer dominance in that opening kill 03:16:53.720 --> 03:17:01.680 statistic, every single round, bar one, NIP got the opening pick on attack. It really 03:17:01.680 --> 03:17:08.280 controlled the pace, I think with a bit more time and with a little bit more speed, there 03:17:08.280 --> 03:17:13.360 going to be a devastating team on that attacking side, but it just felt like they weren't 03:17:13.360 --> 03:17:20.800 there yet. They are in some rounds, but not in all of them. This is where it really starts 03:17:20.800 --> 03:17:26.840 to get tested. Now if that isn't a signal, then I don't know what is demo, but Fancy 03:17:26.840 --> 03:17:32.960 is on the clash. He's 18 and 10 and he's on the clash. Now is this because they just 03:17:32.960 --> 03:17:36.200 want him to stay and play inside and they don't want him on the vigil roaming around 03:17:36.200 --> 03:17:39.360 all over the place? Surely, I mean he's going to play in open and he's got the 03:17:39.360 --> 03:17:44.880 hatched a drop so needs to burn a little bit of time that's a big statement for 03:17:44.880 --> 03:17:50.340 your best fragger of the series not that clash is particularly bad in that 03:17:50.340 --> 03:17:53.520 department but it's just not what you think of when you think of the clash 03:17:53.520 --> 03:18:02.200 player big risk David pays off for them and look at Alienware one for the 03:18:02.200 --> 03:18:05.000 motions and I mean look at the difference between the two teams look 03:18:05.000 --> 03:18:09.880 quickly Team Liquid Alienware in the building could NIP in their attacks, you 03:18:09.880 --> 03:18:14.520 know, and also if you look at the kind of setup here from NIP they've got a 03:18:14.520 --> 03:18:21.680 clash in open by himself that's it nobody else so should be pretty simple for 03:18:21.680 --> 03:18:25.160 Team Liquid Alienware to gain control of this mid-floor and goes to the clash. 03:18:25.160 --> 03:18:29.600 She look at the difference 30 seconds quicker than what we've had NIP in 03:18:29.600 --> 03:18:37.400 these attacks. Two left over reinforcements as well. I mean not that it's going to be 03:18:37.400 --> 03:18:41.800 you know the biggest thing that elevator hatch isn't reinforced, because there's an option 03:18:41.800 --> 03:18:46.160 that someone can open if fancy and needed it at a point in the round, but something to 03:18:46.160 --> 03:18:53.440 take note of. Hatches now can start to be opened. Davy92 is just going to need a 03:18:53.440 --> 03:18:58.120 little bit more time on the maverick to get that job done. As we know he's very 03:18:58.120 --> 03:19:01.440 proficient with that blowtorch so it isn't going to be a massive problem. 03:19:01.440 --> 03:19:07.240 Assetto, a very crucial part to play. They start to get droned here on these 03:19:07.240 --> 03:19:11.260 blue stairs. Fortunately this time for him there's no shield that he's going to 03:19:11.260 --> 03:19:15.000 swing around into so anyone that is going to try and challenge him is going 03:19:15.000 --> 03:19:20.160 to have to face the full wrath of the shot when at close range. His players 03:19:20.160 --> 03:19:23.840 almost lining up right now to be that person. 03:19:23.840 --> 03:19:31.440 Bully pox, Maya, and KZ joining this action. Banshee can feed away that information, but 03:19:31.440 --> 03:19:34.840 the air jabs are just going to force him back to side. 03:19:34.840 --> 03:19:39.360 Well they need to try and prop in and see if they can find the guy in blue stairs, but 03:19:39.360 --> 03:19:44.280 KZ is ignoring that. The shotgun swings, it misses though. Bias take a lot of damage, 03:19:44.280 --> 03:19:48.240 show us KZ. I mean Basel is still fighting for his life. Oh he's fully blind but he 03:19:48.240 --> 03:19:53.240 finds the shotgun. However, Maya's been able to kill him before KZ was finished 03:19:53.240 --> 03:19:58.660 off. You still have this clash, though, that's up. They need to try and deal with fantasy, 03:19:58.660 --> 03:20:03.460 but he's going to try and make his heels in as best as he can. The smokes are being panically 03:20:03.460 --> 03:20:07.020 frowned and Pino only has one more remaining. 03:20:07.020 --> 03:20:13.780 This Twitch drone sent in as a last ditch attempt. Naya, Nade, both desperately pre-fire 03:20:13.780 --> 03:20:17.740 and trying to make something happen. Fully pox is down. He's usually in the Fuse carrier. 03:20:17.740 --> 03:20:22.540 Two for the Toxic Babe canisters and two for Wizard. Naya might have the kit, 03:20:22.540 --> 03:20:31.260 He's got a second to work with and with two defenders left alive. It's gonna be impossible and happy. No, just how big around that was 03:20:32.980 --> 03:20:34.980 What was that? 03:20:35.900 --> 03:20:39.700 To people dying to the smoke and only do I think it was 03:20:41.220 --> 03:20:44.940 Because they'd used their own smokes for the glass 03:20:44.940 --> 03:20:52.160 I didn't know they run they run in deep so that they didn't know that what they were going into it was it was it was bad smoke 03:20:52.160 --> 03:20:54.160 It was bad smoke 03:20:54.800 --> 03:20:57.120 The second-hand smoke that's what it was 03:20:59.780 --> 03:21:01.780 Oh 03:21:03.280 --> 03:21:08.200 Keep looking alien where it was the sort of like the one of them fell for two of them fell for 03:21:09.440 --> 03:21:11.440 Well, they didn't really have much choice 03:21:11.440 --> 03:21:19.000 the time was so low like you know you can understand the mistake but it was in 03:21:19.000 --> 03:21:28.840 part due to the lack of time I'll tell you what this has been a hell of a series 03:21:28.840 --> 03:21:34.860 we have seen a lot of these rounds like we've regularly been in the last 10 03:21:34.860 --> 03:21:39.700 seconds we've regularly been in red time I know about a seven four and a seven 03:21:39.700 --> 03:21:44.740 but to finish off with an OT I think it is fitting especially for what's on the 03:21:44.740 --> 03:21:54.820 table here a spot at the Salt Lake City Major guaranteed 175 SI points and a 03:21:54.820 --> 03:22:01.220 seeding match to play later on between the winner of course of our second best 03:22:01.220 --> 03:22:04.420 of three of the day. 03:22:04.420 --> 03:22:14.060 area versus fluxo. So whoever wins today, I mean, they're not out of the fire necessarily. 03:22:14.060 --> 03:22:16.620 They're not, you know, they're jumping out of the frying pan and straight into a fight 03:22:16.620 --> 03:22:19.100 because they're gonna have a best of three. Obviously they've got to wait for that best 03:22:19.100 --> 03:22:23.220 three to happen. It's gonna have plenty of time to rest up. There is still some siege 03:22:23.220 --> 03:22:24.220 going to be played. 03:22:24.220 --> 03:22:34.740 That's for now. NIP onto this favorite side. Could be. Big window of opportunity for him. 03:22:34.740 --> 03:22:42.740 They need to get it done here and now. I mean, does it smell like a Team Liquid Alienware 03:22:42.740 --> 03:22:49.460 versus FaZe? Do we smell red on blue? I know. I know. I could be on the way. Oh my 03:22:49.460 --> 03:23:01.500 Oh no no no! Hates pulls off a double that he has no right binding. I think that's it. 03:23:01.500 --> 03:23:06.180 Is that the nail? Is that the final nail in the coffin? 03:23:06.180 --> 03:23:10.700 It's either the nail or the hammer that's hitting it. 03:23:10.700 --> 03:23:16.220 This is now a massive task. Oh and then I appear flooding. Hates, he's hit the third. 03:23:16.220 --> 03:23:21.220 IGL, what have you got to show us? 03:23:21.220 --> 03:23:26.220 A massive extension into that top floor that hasn't paid off. 03:23:26.220 --> 03:23:31.220 Fancy to finish things off and to wrap up the flawless for NIP. 03:23:31.220 --> 03:23:36.220 They have confirmed Salt Lake City, they will be at the major. 03:23:36.220 --> 03:23:39.220 They will be at the major. 03:23:39.220 --> 03:23:41.220 They will be at the major. 03:23:41.220 --> 03:23:46.100 They've confirmed Salt Lake City, they will be at the major. 03:23:46.100 --> 03:23:48.100 And they deserve it. 03:23:48.100 --> 03:23:52.860 I said MIP last year were my team that just went from strength to strength and proved 03:23:52.860 --> 03:23:57.660 and proved and proved and it was coming into this year, having a roster change. 03:23:57.660 --> 03:23:59.820 How was that going to impact the side? 03:23:59.820 --> 03:24:03.420 Ollie, I dare say I think they look better than what they did last year. 03:24:03.420 --> 03:24:05.300 Yeah, I would totally agree. 03:24:05.300 --> 03:24:09.340 They've ironed out a lot of the creases that we were seeing inside of this roster 03:24:09.340 --> 03:24:13.540 and the for me they've moved from call you know I don't even I don't really call 03:24:13.540 --> 03:24:17.220 them that young roster anymore they're getting that experience they are gaining 03:24:17.220 --> 03:24:21.340 that exposure and I think it's beautiful to see as a team they are really 03:24:21.340 --> 03:24:25.740 starting to come together I mean a bit of a one-man show on bank at times from 03:24:25.740 --> 03:24:30.060 fancy what hates is certainly at his moment in the sun today as well some 03:24:30.060 --> 03:24:32.900 of those rounds on night even labs were massive I understand it's a map 03:24:32.900 --> 03:24:37.460 that they lost but the point still remains and IP have done an incredible 03:24:37.460 --> 03:24:42.980 job today, securing their spot at the Salt Lake City Major and sending Team Liquid into 03:24:42.980 --> 03:24:47.640 that lower bracket. We're going to jump over and hear from our wonderful desk, but we have 03:24:47.640 --> 03:24:51.140 got plenty more siege still yet to be played today. Stay tuned. 03:24:51.140 --> 03:25:00.420 I'm a bit speechless, Leo. I'm a bit speechless. Oh my god! 03:25:00.420 --> 03:25:02.940 I am as well. Hello, Kanen. 03:25:02.940 --> 03:25:07.940 I think she speaks this as well. She's restless because she's like, how did 03:25:07.940 --> 03:25:15.620 Team Liquid Alienware throw that away? They had it all! So, so many rounds and the first 03:25:15.620 --> 03:25:20.740 half we glazed the hell out of TL Alienware. We're talking about them as, wow, this 03:25:20.740 --> 03:25:25.940 looking great. You go to the second half and NIP just keep rolling. It's not just a fantasy show, 03:25:25.940 --> 03:25:32.420 it's the entire NIP show. It's my mic. Absolutely destroying people's ears right now. 03:25:33.460 --> 03:25:40.740 I feel like I'm the only one that hear you properly. So I'll just take over on this. But 03:25:40.740 --> 03:25:45.060 you remember when we said a half time? We remember when we said that overall I felt like 03:25:45.060 --> 03:25:49.220 Tim Liquid was in control of the attack. One player, the one on your screen, fantasy, 03:25:49.220 --> 03:25:54.100 was the one keeping NIP in the race. In defense he was the one that pulled the crazy triple kills 03:25:54.100 --> 03:25:58.660 on the VGO. He was the one that tried and retained as many defense rounds as possible 03:25:58.660 --> 03:26:03.300 because let's be real at the highest level of siege this map will always be at the side of 03:26:03.300 --> 03:26:09.540 actually that's what we thought. And so whenever Timberlake goes and gets 4-2 on their side 03:26:09.540 --> 03:26:15.060 you think that you know there may be another advantage? Well I thought that if NIP got 03:26:15.060 --> 03:26:21.060 their stuff together and managed to really, I guess, leverage the advantage that was, 03:26:21.060 --> 03:26:25.780 the fantasy was creating every single time. They was a space for them to come back. 03:26:25.780 --> 03:26:31.140 And as soon as they switch to the attack, it's exactly what happened. Fantasy, once again, 03:26:31.140 --> 03:26:37.700 either finds the opening engagements, either finds the critical kills in so many moments, 03:26:37.700 --> 03:26:43.300 and based from that, they manage to snowball. I mean, honestly, incredible game from him. 03:26:43.300 --> 03:26:48.180 I think he's got more than 18 kills in the end, but also props to the rest of the team, 03:26:48.180 --> 03:26:55.300 you know, that knew how to react, that won five, four different attacks and continued then in the 03:26:55.300 --> 03:27:03.220 defense. It's not a given to take down the liquid, especially when you know the scale that was 03:27:03.220 --> 03:27:09.300 there. And I think in a very obvious way, I believe that the fact that they had played the 03:27:09.300 --> 03:27:15.220 the BF3 on Tuesday that they want that they played more official games really helped them, 03:27:15.220 --> 03:27:19.060 especially because they have a new RGL and Timnick could have changed all of their roles. 03:27:19.060 --> 03:27:23.140 So there you remember what I told you about getting punished because you were top of the 03:27:23.140 --> 03:27:28.020 roof and you were only playing one BF3? That's exactly what I feel has happened here to Timnick 03:27:28.020 --> 03:27:36.260 with Alienware. We saw how NIP played in their upper bracket match and they looked very comfortable 03:27:36.260 --> 03:27:42.020 against loss even more comfortable than the score even lets on to if you ask me but 03:27:43.300 --> 03:27:49.780 going into this match is that this is the first real test for team liquid Alienware the first 03:27:49.780 --> 03:27:55.060 time they see it and that's the first time that we're seeing against a tough opponent in that 03:27:55.060 --> 03:28:00.740 setting other than the bo1 that they had against face and that themselves they knew that it's 03:28:00.740 --> 03:28:02.300 It's just the B01 and good. 03:28:02.300 --> 03:28:04.540 It doesn't really say much or do anything. 03:28:04.540 --> 03:28:07.780 That's out of Team Liquid Alienware themselves. 03:28:07.780 --> 03:28:11.100 Kudos to NIP for playing it the way that they did. 03:28:11.100 --> 03:28:14.180 Fantasy at 20 kills to Will and Death. 03:28:14.180 --> 03:28:17.140 Insane performance in this map. 03:28:17.140 --> 03:28:18.980 Insane performance in the entire series, right? 03:28:18.980 --> 03:28:21.900 But especially in this map where it really mattered 03:28:21.900 --> 03:28:24.660 to get NIP across the line. 03:28:24.660 --> 03:28:26.540 Beautiful, that is no longer a fantasy. 03:28:26.540 --> 03:28:28.620 It is real what you're seeing here. 03:28:28.620 --> 03:28:35.900 NIP have the team liquid Alienware 2 to 1 8 to 6 on bank and they qualify to the Salt Lake City 03:28:36.140 --> 03:28:42.340 Major what seed that'll be a question for later depending on who they'll end up facing the team liquid Alienware 03:28:42.340 --> 03:28:48.180 They're gonna drop in that bracket. They're gonna play face time. That's gonna be an insane match a lower bracket game 03:28:48.180 --> 03:28:50.780 Or only one of them can qualify to Salt Lake City 03:28:51.420 --> 03:28:57.360 If that doesn't get you watching on Sunday, I don't know what will a best of three like that 03:28:57.360 --> 03:29:02.680 But I'll tell you we got Pino on the line and I hope that today he's very excited and 03:29:03.760 --> 03:29:07.680 Happy and there he is. I'm seeing a smile from Pino. How's he doing? 03:29:09.360 --> 03:29:11.360 Very well, it was a 03:29:11.800 --> 03:29:17.360 Very pressure match like when we got 5-2 on bank it was really difficult to come back like 03:29:17.480 --> 03:29:21.480 On labs it was our first time if we were not playing it, we were hiding it 03:29:21.480 --> 03:29:26.240 And we played really bad because we don't have much experience on tournaments yet 03:29:26.240 --> 03:29:33.540 I feel like we could have won 2-0 if we won lads, we trolled many rounds on difference. 03:29:33.540 --> 03:29:36.740 I think that the match should have started 5-0 for us. 03:29:36.740 --> 03:29:45.240 On bank it was really hard that at the beginning of the comeback 5-2 we have trolled some close rounds as well. 03:29:45.240 --> 03:29:52.240 But yeah, proud of the team with the resilience, with the job done and free zone, did a really good prep for this game. 03:29:52.240 --> 03:29:55.240 And yeah, hope to do well for the major. 03:29:55.240 --> 03:29:58.520 And what's the game from fantasy by the way that that and one with the on bank 03:29:58.520 --> 03:30:01.560 I don't know if he I don't know if he was getting crazy in the voice comes 03:30:01.560 --> 03:30:06.920 But like the shots that he was eating did you say anything after the first skill not very first round with the boss G? 03:30:07.480 --> 03:30:09.480 I want to know 03:30:09.480 --> 03:30:12.040 No, he didn't say anything. He just he just said that he would have and 03:30:13.160 --> 03:30:15.160 And then 03:30:15.960 --> 03:30:19.080 It was a great shot for him. I didn't see where where he came 03:30:19.960 --> 03:30:21.880 He was tough. Yeah, okay 03:30:21.880 --> 03:30:29.480 and then Hibana is rappelling main, he just quick-speak main and through the window, just one taps with the bodge, he's straight in the head and then goes back down. 03:30:29.480 --> 03:30:30.480 It's just... 03:30:30.480 --> 03:30:33.880 In between the bars on the window, he's sitting in the cat, it's insane. 03:30:33.880 --> 03:30:39.480 That was one of the rounds we tried, we killed Hibana and didn't fall back, so yeah. 03:30:39.480 --> 03:30:44.280 It was good, the open kill, but really frustrated those after it. 03:30:44.280 --> 03:30:47.880 Yeah, but I mean the end result is the one that matters. 03:30:47.880 --> 03:30:55.880 you made it to select CT, you're guaranteed to go to phase 2, you're guaranteed to be at least top 2 seed of SEL, 03:30:55.880 --> 03:31:03.880 and 175 SI points as well. I think I'm wondering, is this victory tasting even better, 03:31:03.880 --> 03:31:07.880 because you're sending two of your biggest rivals to face each other, 03:31:07.880 --> 03:31:12.880 and you know that either phase or Team Liquid are not going to make the major because of you. 03:31:12.880 --> 03:31:19.320 Yeah, it feels really great because last year we qualified for all tournaments, but in the 03:31:19.320 --> 03:31:25.960 qualifier matches we played low tier teams, but this time we beat one of the top dogs. 03:31:25.960 --> 03:31:27.640 So yeah, it feels really great. 03:31:27.640 --> 03:31:33.200 The way we did it with the resilience, with the adaption, with the strats and mid-hounds. 03:31:33.200 --> 03:31:36.880 So yeah, it feels even better than the last year. 03:31:36.880 --> 03:31:41.000 And yeah, for sure, we are playing better as a team with you. 03:31:41.000 --> 03:31:47.000 And then I guess one last question for me, Pino, I think when we talk to other players from other teams, 03:31:47.000 --> 03:31:53.000 they seem to think that because you had lost cons and you got Bassetto instead, that you would be weaker. 03:31:53.000 --> 03:31:59.000 And I think that the results has proven them wrong. What would you say to these guys now that you have Bassetto? 03:32:00.000 --> 03:32:08.000 I think most of these comments is because loud performance, but the team there was not playing well for a long time 03:32:08.000 --> 03:32:11.160 and they had a wrong impression of him. 03:32:11.160 --> 03:32:12.000 He's really good. 03:32:12.000 --> 03:32:16.720 He's helping us a lot with coordination on the attacks. 03:32:16.720 --> 03:32:20.080 And yeah, we proved all these people wrong 03:32:20.080 --> 03:32:24.940 and we hope to keep proving them wrong at the major. 03:32:27.400 --> 03:32:29.560 Today an incredible day that you've had here at Pino 03:32:29.560 --> 03:32:31.600 for yourself and for the entire team. 03:32:31.600 --> 03:32:33.120 Like we said, you dropped him liquid in, 03:32:33.120 --> 03:32:35.440 we're to lower bracket to face face plan, 03:32:35.440 --> 03:32:37.040 but you still have one more match to go. 03:32:37.040 --> 03:32:39.960 It is a seeding match, and that's for later. 03:32:39.960 --> 03:32:43.000 Fiora plays Fluxo W7M in just a bit. 03:32:43.000 --> 03:32:47.920 Who do you think is taking that match and qualifying directly to Salt Lake City 03:32:47.920 --> 03:32:50.680 and playing you today for number one seed? 03:32:51.960 --> 03:32:53.960 Sorry, which matchup you asked? 03:32:54.680 --> 03:32:56.680 Fiora, Fluxo W7M. 03:32:57.880 --> 03:33:04.920 I think that if Fluxo knows how to play against the fast pace at the start of the round, 03:33:04.920 --> 03:33:07.440 that's where it has, they should have an advantage. 03:33:07.440 --> 03:33:10.200 I think there may be learns from the last bar 03:33:10.200 --> 03:33:12.280 that they played in the best of one. 03:33:12.280 --> 03:33:14.280 I think that they triggered the adults 03:33:14.280 --> 03:33:17.280 that the pace that we are placed, 03:33:17.280 --> 03:33:19.680 it could be so I think they have an advantage. 03:33:21.320 --> 03:33:22.160 Very good. 03:33:22.160 --> 03:33:24.040 Thank you very much for your input, your insight 03:33:24.040 --> 03:33:27.120 and for I guess an incredible matchup 03:33:27.120 --> 03:33:29.320 that we just had Pino, congratulations to you 03:33:29.320 --> 03:33:31.200 and NIP anything like to end with 03:33:31.200 --> 03:33:33.240 to the NIP fans out there 03:33:33.240 --> 03:33:37.240 that are excited to see you at yet another event, Pino. 03:33:39.540 --> 03:33:43.240 Yeah, the NAP fans can expect always the best from us. 03:33:43.240 --> 03:33:46.180 We are dedicating very hard. 03:33:46.180 --> 03:33:48.740 We are playing better as a lineup 03:33:48.740 --> 03:33:51.240 and we are coming for more than last year 03:33:51.240 --> 03:33:52.740 as we are going to be better. 03:33:52.740 --> 03:33:57.640 Hope to make some more large runs of the playoffs. 03:33:59.640 --> 03:34:01.140 Very good. Thank you very much, Pino. 03:34:01.140 --> 03:34:05.340 And I'm sure Bob is going to be very proud and happy of you in the entire team. 03:34:05.340 --> 03:34:07.480 I'll let you go, rest up before your matchup. 03:34:07.480 --> 03:34:09.480 We'll be seeing you later this evening. 03:34:09.640 --> 03:34:10.440 Have a good rest of it. 03:34:11.540 --> 03:34:11.840 Thank you. 03:34:13.240 --> 03:34:13.540 Bye bye. 03:34:15.640 --> 03:34:18.440 And there it is, the man of the hour that is Pino. 03:34:18.440 --> 03:34:23.140 Of course, we've been hearing from him and about him for many years. 03:34:23.540 --> 03:34:27.540 And on the NIP side, they've managed to beat expectations in more ways than 03:34:27.540 --> 03:34:33.180 one and qualify to the Salt Lake City Major to defeating Team Liquid Alienware. A huge 03:34:33.180 --> 03:34:40.740 comeback on Bank to bring it home. A big, big performance on Lair. Everybody's playing well 03:34:40.740 --> 03:34:45.100 really to their best fantasy in terms of the kills department. Excellent, but he is not 03:34:45.100 --> 03:34:52.460 the MVP in numbers because Hates overall in the series has put in an even better performance. 03:34:52.460 --> 03:34:59.740 It's just crazy to think of Leo, because you just saw what fantasy and Pino have been doing in this game. 03:34:59.740 --> 03:35:02.060 This team has it all. 03:35:02.060 --> 03:35:30.380 He just kept on playing, not all the operters, but like roles and play style that are entirely 03:35:30.380 --> 03:35:37.380 either very passive, either very aggressive and doing so in such a way that he was consistently getting fries. 03:35:37.380 --> 03:35:40.380 You know, I think that I think I'd be really proud of that lineup. 03:35:40.380 --> 03:35:44.380 Remember when many people say that, you know, they had lost cons and they would be weaker. 03:35:44.380 --> 03:35:48.380 I think in most of these moments, many teams would see this as a setback. 03:35:48.380 --> 03:35:53.380 I think this is an opportunity to bring in an IGL that would bring them a fresh vision. 03:35:53.380 --> 03:35:57.380 And I think that so far what I've shown shows that it works, you know. 03:35:57.380 --> 03:36:03.860 You know and and I like what Pino said with confidence here. We think we're gonna be better than next year than last year 03:36:04.160 --> 03:36:10.060 Yes, we made every event, but let's be real Pino is the guy that has an and won an SI, you know 03:36:10.060 --> 03:36:14.380 So I think I think in terms of ambition you can't really get higher than that 03:36:14.380 --> 03:36:17.220 So for him to say that you know, they're gonna do better this time 03:36:17.380 --> 03:36:22.340 I'm quite confident on it and especially now that either team liquid all phase are gonna miss the event 03:36:22.340 --> 03:36:27.000 So this will a huge huge blow to to their chances 03:36:27.380 --> 03:36:35.300 The conversations around Salt Lake City are going to be huge, especially for SAO. 03:36:35.300 --> 03:36:41.180 If you're a fan of like any big NA or EU team or whatever it is, really any other region, 03:36:41.180 --> 03:36:44.580 then you're thinking, oh, either FaZe or Team Liquid Alienware are going to get knocked 03:36:44.580 --> 03:36:49.620 out and not play at Salt Lake City, you're probably going to be extremely happy because 03:36:49.620 --> 03:36:53.140 that maybe gives your region a slightly higher chance. 03:36:53.140 --> 03:36:58.140 honestly looking at had an IP play today I'm not really sure that you're 03:36:58.140 --> 03:37:04.660 getting an easier game at the Salt Lake City which is great for us good to see 03:37:04.660 --> 03:37:09.580 we're talking about big dogs right that's an IP but we got a big dog joining 03:37:09.580 --> 03:37:14.900 us later on that's links swapping in on the commentary because we have match 03:37:14.900 --> 03:37:18.960 number two of three today is a longer day as well tomorrow as will be 03:37:18.960 --> 03:37:25.760 tomorrow and now we get to decide who plays against NIP in that grand final 03:37:25.760 --> 03:37:32.440 for seeding Furia versus Fluxo W7M. A game that I expect to go really really 03:37:32.440 --> 03:37:36.840 quick in the rounds. We'll talk about that after the break. 03:37:48.960 --> 03:37:50.960 No, it's just my will, it's just my will 03:37:56.960 --> 03:37:58.960 Man, I got it, Viadu! 03:37:59.960 --> 03:38:00.960 You guys are wrong! 03:38:01.960 --> 03:38:02.960 I'm terrible! 03:38:02.960 --> 03:38:03.960 Horrible! 03:38:03.960 --> 03:38:05.960 No, let's talk here, who was the worst? 03:38:05.960 --> 03:38:07.960 Let's talk there, because I saw that... 03:38:07.960 --> 03:38:08.960 Ah, I saw that! 03:38:09.960 --> 03:38:10.960 I'm dead? 03:38:10.960 --> 03:38:11.960 No, I'm not dead! 03:38:11.960 --> 03:38:12.960 I'm dead! 03:38:12.960 --> 03:38:13.960 I'm dead! 03:38:14.960 --> 03:38:16.960 I want to do it again, I want to do it last, because it was horrible 03:38:18.960 --> 03:38:20.960 It's a good thing we're here. 03:38:20.960 --> 03:38:22.960 We're here to get back! 03:38:22.960 --> 03:38:24.960 It's a good thing we're here! 03:38:24.960 --> 03:38:26.960 It's a good thing we're here! 03:38:26.960 --> 03:38:28.960 We're here to get back! 03:38:48.960 --> 03:38:50.960 Jogging 03:39:18.960 --> 03:39:24.960 We practice in the office, and we play like 50, 60, every day. 03:39:24.960 --> 03:39:27.960 Here I think the game is not really helpful. 03:39:27.960 --> 03:39:29.960 And the box, the box is not very good. 03:39:29.960 --> 03:39:32.960 But that's it. The inside of the box is made. 03:39:48.960 --> 03:39:53.960 I'm not sure what I'm doing here. 03:39:53.960 --> 03:39:58.960 I'm just going to go back to the room and get some water. 03:39:58.960 --> 03:40:03.960 I'm just going to get some water. 03:40:03.960 --> 03:40:08.960 I'm just going to get some water. 03:40:08.960 --> 03:40:13.960 I'm just going to get some water. 03:41:13.960 --> 03:41:15.960 I 03:41:43.960 --> 03:42:03.960 Welcome back, my friends, to 03:42:03.960 --> 03:42:05.960 S. A. L. Leo. We just had a 03:42:05.960 --> 03:42:08.960 wonderful match number one. 03:42:08.960 --> 03:42:10.960 That really changes things or 03:42:10.960 --> 03:42:12.960 conversations of the team liquid 03:42:12.960 --> 03:42:18.320 and FaZe Clan, they'll be playing in that lower bracket, but now we have to see who 03:42:18.320 --> 03:42:24.800 plays NIP in the upper bracket final. That is a seeding match who gets seed one 03:42:24.800 --> 03:42:30.160 and two going into phase two of the Salt League City Major. You get to skip the 03:42:30.160 --> 03:42:35.000 first step that has eight teams divided into two groups and four of them will 03:42:35.000 --> 03:42:40.360 be able to survive in advance into the Swiss Buchholz system. Everybody's 03:42:40.360 --> 03:42:45.700 playing everyone and seeing who gets to make it out and into the main event. 03:42:45.700 --> 03:42:50.520 That comes down now to Furia vs. Fluxo W7M. 03:42:50.520 --> 03:42:55.840 So remind everybody, Fluxo W7M, that game they had against FaZe was super tight, 03:42:55.840 --> 03:43:01.520 you flip a coin and it's FaZe still in this upper bracket, not Fluxo, which is 03:43:01.520 --> 03:43:06.840 pretty scary if you ask me, Leo. 03:43:10.360 --> 03:43:20.360 I think it's a good idea to do 03:43:20.360 --> 03:43:21.360 this. 03:43:21.360 --> 03:43:26.360 Mm-hmm. 03:43:26.360 --> 03:43:32.360 It's so against face clan, the two 03:43:32.360 --> 03:43:34.360 times as I champions and beat them. 03:43:34.360 --> 03:43:36.360 In that opinion, that is the only 03:43:36.360 --> 03:43:38.360 more experienced also is more 03:43:38.360 --> 03:43:44.980 matches for the 0-1s have not played a BO3 yet as a roster, an entirely new team that 03:43:44.980 --> 03:43:49.780 yes has players of experience, but still players that don't have a lot of experience together. 03:43:49.780 --> 03:43:54.660 In my opinion, once again, I think it's Favour's Flux of the W7M, because when I look at this 03:43:54.660 --> 03:43:59.580 career roster, I look at the team that is made of superstars, but that has, they still 03:43:59.580 --> 03:44:01.780 have to prove that they can do well together. 03:44:01.780 --> 03:44:06.420 I think topping their group was a big statement, and I think doing so in the way they 03:44:06.420 --> 03:44:10.700 they did it by dominating loud by 7-1 in Fluxo WCNM, 03:44:10.700 --> 03:44:13.660 by beating NIP was such a statement, 03:44:13.660 --> 03:44:16.020 but also a proof of inconsistency. 03:44:16.020 --> 03:44:18.900 How can you do that and then lose to INCZ, for example? 03:44:18.900 --> 03:44:21.900 And to me, it speaks a lot about what Pino 03:44:21.900 --> 03:44:23.700 just told us about them. 03:44:23.700 --> 03:44:26.660 If Fluxo WCNM is ready for their aggression, 03:44:26.660 --> 03:44:27.940 then they will win. 03:44:27.940 --> 03:44:31.540 Because we all knew that if one roster was gonna be built 03:44:31.540 --> 03:44:34.660 around Hertz's play style, it would be relentless aggression. 03:44:34.660 --> 03:44:39.340 You take Volps, the most aggressive player on the side of Fluxolomu7M, last year. 03:44:39.340 --> 03:44:43.380 You take Boxzera, the most aggressive player on the side of ENX, last year. 03:44:43.380 --> 03:44:47.940 You take Loira, arguably the most aggressive player on the side of G2, and then you bring 03:44:47.940 --> 03:44:52.500 the backline that was holding everything together with Liquid previously, which is DS. 03:44:52.500 --> 03:44:56.260 And I look at this and I think, yeah, they have one clear vision for the game. 03:44:56.260 --> 03:45:01.460 That vision is aggression, it's chaos, it's being unpredictable, however, if 03:45:01.460 --> 03:45:04.900 If you expect it, then it's not a surprise anymore. 03:45:04.900 --> 03:45:08.500 And if you know how to control it, then it becomes a weakness. 03:45:08.500 --> 03:45:09.340 Absolutely. 03:45:09.340 --> 03:45:12.180 And Diaz has been around the block, 03:45:12.180 --> 03:45:13.860 quite experienced player at this point. 03:45:13.860 --> 03:45:16.100 So has the lawyer, but Heard's has been someone 03:45:16.100 --> 03:45:18.340 who's grinded a lot after SI. 03:45:18.340 --> 03:45:20.340 I think at that point he had already known 03:45:20.340 --> 03:45:22.940 that things were gonna change after the Invitational 03:45:22.940 --> 03:45:24.820 and they would split. 03:45:24.820 --> 03:45:26.780 Basically, he would remain on Fioria. 03:45:26.780 --> 03:45:28.100 The rest of the squad would go over 03:45:28.100 --> 03:45:29.780 to Team Liquid Alienware 03:45:29.780 --> 03:45:33.920 and he grinded for the entire month right after SI. 03:45:33.920 --> 03:45:36.340 Basically the moment he landed back in Brazil, 03:45:36.340 --> 03:45:39.940 just because he knows that this team has a lot of potential, 03:45:39.940 --> 03:45:41.380 but they have to work together 03:45:41.380 --> 03:45:43.340 and they have to play as much as possible, 03:45:43.340 --> 03:45:46.860 scrim and play the game on their own and together. 03:45:46.860 --> 03:45:48.940 And so far, they've done well. 03:45:48.940 --> 03:45:49.860 This is a big test. 03:45:49.860 --> 03:45:51.500 Flex to W7M on their end, 03:45:51.500 --> 03:45:54.740 they are not gonna give them any quarter. 03:45:54.740 --> 03:45:58.180 We talked so much about this roster 03:45:58.180 --> 03:46:00.740 and how high it will go. 03:46:00.740 --> 03:46:03.180 You're seeing some incredible players on here. 03:46:03.180 --> 03:46:05.460 Conjure the one, of course, that the conversations 03:46:05.460 --> 03:46:06.940 kind of surfaced around. 03:46:06.940 --> 03:46:10.020 But Loeb and Palu are also two that have really 03:46:10.020 --> 03:46:13.700 put up numbers when it was necessary, especially Palu. 03:46:13.700 --> 03:46:14.860 Yeah, definitely. 03:46:14.860 --> 03:46:17.140 I think looking at the statistics that we'll see later, 03:46:17.140 --> 03:46:18.900 you'll see what we're speaking about. 03:46:18.900 --> 03:46:21.460 I think in terms of records with that team, 03:46:21.460 --> 03:46:22.900 I think they had a slow start 03:46:22.900 --> 03:46:25.480 and maybe got punished a little bit by the format 03:46:25.480 --> 03:46:27.700 in the sense that they were in a group with Feria, 03:46:27.700 --> 03:46:32.760 They were in a group with an IEP and so when they had to play them, you know, it was rough. 03:46:32.760 --> 03:46:37.820 They had two regulation loss, 1-7 to Furia, 5-7 to an IEP. 03:46:37.820 --> 03:46:42.260 It really hurts their chances to make it into the upper bracket. 03:46:42.260 --> 03:46:46.860 Eventually because of their dominant victories over LL and IETZ, they still managed to 03:46:46.860 --> 03:46:47.860 do it. 03:46:47.860 --> 03:46:51.340 But I think when a really redemption happened and you spoke about it, Milosh, that was 03:46:51.340 --> 03:46:56.300 a 2-1 victory in our face plan, taking them down in the B03, doing so in a very 03:46:56.300 --> 03:47:02.140 close fashion but also dominating. I'm looking at this roster, I like what I see here. Because 03:47:02.140 --> 03:47:07.860 the main thing that Flux.0.7m was lacking last year was direction. Dots became the AGL and 03:47:07.860 --> 03:47:12.820 on top of that they got cons, was the AGL of NIP who can then shot call from the flex 03:47:12.820 --> 03:47:18.420 slash front line. So now not only do you have strong players like Palu, Lobin, Dodes 03:47:18.420 --> 03:47:22.420 in terms of fragging power, you have cons that's able to shot call in a flex position 03:47:22.420 --> 03:47:26.100 and dots who can both play the shield and IDR at the same time. 03:47:26.100 --> 03:47:30.340 To me, that's a roster that works on paper, is it enough to take down Furia? 03:47:30.340 --> 03:47:33.540 I think so, I think I have more experience together. 03:47:33.540 --> 03:47:39.460 It's just overall a question of can they punish the aggression on the other side? 03:47:39.460 --> 03:47:44.020 Well then, that is a big question for us to try to solve in this one. 03:47:44.020 --> 03:47:49.220 How can you adapt and kind of guess how your opponents are going to go, 03:47:49.220 --> 03:47:51.220 In the sense that 03:47:51.860 --> 03:47:53.500 Furia can be predictable 03:47:53.500 --> 03:47:54.700 Flux so adaptable 03:47:54.700 --> 03:47:58.260 But is that enough in a game with so many stakes on it? 03:47:58.260 --> 03:48:03.300 We saw the pressure getting to other teams though in this head-to-head between Paolo and Vulp's both 03:48:03.660 --> 03:48:08.780 Leading their teams in performance both gonna need to keep that up today Leo 03:48:09.020 --> 03:48:12.580 And most importantly this one has special emotional meaning 03:48:12.740 --> 03:48:15.980 Not only is it for Vulp's he stick it to the soul like CD major 03:48:15.980 --> 03:48:21.660 It is him leaving his former roster, a roster that, in the Munich Major, for example, was 03:48:21.660 --> 03:48:25.320 looking up to him to find solutions whenever they were getting eliminated. 03:48:25.320 --> 03:48:30.540 A roster that demoted him from being the IGL and sent dots to be the IGL in this place 03:48:30.540 --> 03:48:31.760 when they played at SI. 03:48:31.760 --> 03:48:37.660 A roster that meant a lot for him because it was representing the W7M colors. 03:48:37.660 --> 03:48:40.820 It was playing with a roster that achieved so much in the past. 03:48:40.820 --> 03:48:44.980 And a roster that he left to join Ferian on a whole new project and rebuild everything 03:48:44.980 --> 03:48:50.820 from scratch. For him, it's more than just the ticket to the major. For him, it's proving 03:48:50.820 --> 03:48:55.700 that he made the right career choice, that he chose the best project in this huge Ross 03:48:55.700 --> 03:49:00.820 Germania. So four Volbs especially, this must feel emotional. And for his foremost teammates, 03:49:00.820 --> 03:49:01.940 it's the same story. 03:49:01.940 --> 03:49:06.620 Well then, Armand Vito, what do we have for this best of three series? This is the 03:49:06.620 --> 03:49:11.140 second out of three that we're going to get today. And with our first four bands, 03:49:11.140 --> 03:49:16.260 We're going to go to Fortress, alright, that is the Furia pick in this case, they played 03:49:16.260 --> 03:49:20.260 against Loud only a week or so ago. 03:49:20.260 --> 03:49:26.100 How deep does this go, Cafe and Night Haven, Leo, thoughts before bringing our casters? 03:49:26.100 --> 03:49:30.380 Yeah, I think there's a little bit of contrast writing involved, I think that, you know, 03:49:30.380 --> 03:49:34.140 Foxy Little 7M, they played it against Faze, they lost it against Faze, that gives 03:49:34.140 --> 03:49:36.060 Furia a blueprint to play it. 03:49:36.060 --> 03:49:43.400 Feria who were already comfortable at SI, the old roster showing it, but the current one 03:49:43.400 --> 03:49:47.240 have played it also and managed to be loud on it during kickoff. 03:49:47.240 --> 03:49:51.960 It was a close one, closer than expected, and it was very heavily defecated, which is 03:49:51.960 --> 03:49:56.000 not always a good sign for Feria, we will be starting in attack. 03:49:56.000 --> 03:50:04.880 And then looking at Café, it is a map that I think we have seen Feria play recently, 03:50:04.880 --> 03:50:09.440 twice in Geek-Off, including a victory over NIP, which I think is a statement victory. 03:50:09.440 --> 03:50:12.160 However, it's also the one they lost against ANTZ. 03:50:12.160 --> 03:50:18.600 But, most importantly, on the side of Flux2WCNM, it's a map that no one want to play against 03:50:18.600 --> 03:50:19.600 them. 03:50:19.600 --> 03:50:23.440 They're so used to being so good on it, no one wants to play against them. 03:50:23.440 --> 03:50:26.360 They didn't even have a choice to show it yet in Geek-Off. 03:50:26.360 --> 03:50:27.680 That's how good they are on it. 03:50:27.680 --> 03:50:29.600 And then Labs was one of their favourites. 03:50:29.600 --> 03:50:35.560 Yeah, we'll leave the in-depth conversation about labs if we need to get to it later on. 03:50:35.560 --> 03:50:39.320 For now the focus on fortress, let's bring in our commentators and have a quick chat 03:50:39.320 --> 03:50:42.840 before we dive into our live matchup. 03:50:42.840 --> 03:50:47.600 Joining us now live, our ex Sartreka, of course back at it again, and Lynx, my friend. 03:50:47.600 --> 03:50:48.600 How are you doing? 03:50:48.600 --> 03:50:51.880 What did you get to see so far from our previous match? 03:50:51.880 --> 03:50:54.160 Did it get you fired up for now? 03:50:54.160 --> 03:50:56.720 Who can go up and face an IP in the final? 03:50:56.720 --> 03:50:59.320 Oh, I mean, obviously it gets me fired up. 03:50:59.320 --> 03:51:02.840 fun thing and I'm sure all I can speak to this like when you're casting a really long match 03:51:02.840 --> 03:51:07.960 you have to balance both like excitement and also just like the fatigue of like being actively 03:51:07.960 --> 03:51:12.440 engaged in that casting process the whole time. The benefit of not casting watching a match like 03:51:12.440 --> 03:51:16.520 that is I feel like a fan all over again is like I get to appreciate everything I don't have the 03:51:16.520 --> 03:51:21.720 strain of casting it I just get to be like wow this rules so now I had a great time watching 03:51:21.720 --> 03:51:25.400 the last series and while I'm excited for this one I too am also just thinking about 03:51:25.400 --> 03:51:29.960 team liquid Alienware versus phase tomorrow. So I'll be a bit distracted by that thought the whole time. 03:51:31.160 --> 03:51:35.560 I think everyone's going to be thinking about the El Classico that is going to be happening tomorrow. 03:51:36.360 --> 03:51:40.760 Looking to this one, honestly, I looked at the bands and obviously the series that we've just 03:51:40.760 --> 03:51:45.480 been through was a very good series and I look at this and I think it's going to be a three 03:51:45.480 --> 03:51:53.080 mapper again. I genuinely do. I agree. The odds are just stacked against one another at the 03:51:53.080 --> 03:51:56.600 the right point to really round it out. 03:51:56.600 --> 03:51:58.000 Maybe I'm speaking into existence. 03:51:58.000 --> 03:51:59.640 I don't know, Milesh. 03:51:59.640 --> 03:52:01.880 It's the cast of Curse, as some would call it. 03:52:01.880 --> 03:52:03.920 We heard it from Pino in our interview. 03:52:03.920 --> 03:52:07.280 He's thinking that Fluxo W7M have an advantage, 03:52:07.280 --> 03:52:10.360 but it comes down to shutting down Furia's early round 03:52:10.360 --> 03:52:10.880 aggression. 03:52:10.880 --> 03:52:13.520 That is from the horse's mouth, in this case, 03:52:13.520 --> 03:52:14.760 former world champion. 03:52:14.760 --> 03:52:16.600 Of course, how does it actually play out 03:52:16.600 --> 03:52:17.200 on Fortress? 03:52:17.200 --> 03:52:19.600 That's the question that we look to discover here. 03:52:19.600 --> 03:52:20.280 I'll leave it to you. 03:52:20.280 --> 03:52:22.800 Link, Senex, or Turica, take it away. 03:52:22.800 --> 03:52:24.200 Thank you very much, Milosh. 03:52:24.200 --> 03:52:26.840 And straight from the horse's mouth is what Pino, 03:52:26.840 --> 03:52:29.720 or is not what Pino said, but we heard from Pino earlier 03:52:29.720 --> 03:52:32.280 that potential strategy that Fluxo W7M could win. 03:52:32.280 --> 03:52:34.720 We'll see how it pays off. 03:52:34.720 --> 03:52:36.600 As Ali, we have our first set of bands 03:52:36.600 --> 03:52:38.360 come through on fortress. 03:52:38.360 --> 03:52:41.400 My first time casting the map that I've watched it play before. 03:52:41.400 --> 03:52:43.000 And what do you know? 03:52:43.000 --> 03:52:44.600 Cade and banded band, might be a new map, 03:52:44.600 --> 03:52:46.160 but usually the same old defensive rotation 03:52:46.160 --> 03:52:47.600 we've seen quite a bit. 03:52:48.600 --> 03:52:50.440 So I was thinking about this. 03:52:50.440 --> 03:52:53.280 Are you sure we haven't cast a fortress? 03:52:53.280 --> 03:52:56.680 I am actually very sure that you might have, 03:52:56.680 --> 03:52:59.520 I don't know, I have not casted Fortress. 03:52:59.520 --> 03:53:03.680 I am, I don't know who I would have done it with though. 03:53:03.680 --> 03:53:04.920 So that is the interesting thing. 03:53:04.920 --> 03:53:05.760 I don't know. 03:53:05.760 --> 03:53:08.520 And we went through a whole stage of NAL without casting it? 03:53:08.520 --> 03:53:11.280 We have not cast Fortress in any of the games for NAL 03:53:11.280 --> 03:53:12.120 that you've not casted. 03:53:12.120 --> 03:53:13.520 I say a whole, we've cast like, 03:53:13.520 --> 03:53:15.200 we've cast a few days of kickoff. 03:53:15.200 --> 03:53:16.200 I don't know. 03:53:16.200 --> 03:53:18.640 A whole kickoff without Fortress. 03:53:18.640 --> 03:53:22.720 We've got the whole three games, yeah, I mean, who knows. 03:53:22.720 --> 03:53:25.200 All we know is that we are here now. 03:53:25.200 --> 03:53:27.840 Furia and Flux O W7M, as Leo was putting it, 03:53:27.840 --> 03:53:31.160 there's a little bit more between these two rosters 03:53:31.160 --> 03:53:33.480 that maybe first meets the eye. 03:53:33.480 --> 03:53:35.840 Obviously, there's the vaults angle, 03:53:35.840 --> 03:53:39.040 the vault storyline that is gonna be woven through 03:53:39.040 --> 03:53:41.240 these two teams going against one another. 03:53:42.600 --> 03:53:45.080 I think that that in itself is always a nice thing 03:53:45.080 --> 03:53:47.400 to pick upon when you've got two teams that, 03:53:47.400 --> 03:53:53.660 Let's face it, either one of them is going to make it to Salt Lake over the course of the next three maps. 03:53:54.320 --> 03:54:00.400 It just depends on how well either of those two teams play as to how many of those maps we end up seeing. 03:54:00.400 --> 03:54:05.680 But at least for now, we'll be starting off on Fortress, period, on that attacking side. 03:54:06.040 --> 03:54:10.560 As you've mentioned, they have made the breaching nice and straightforward. 03:54:11.060 --> 03:54:14.700 That's demonstrated there. We've only seen around 30 seconds of play and already 03:54:14.700 --> 03:54:22.540 of key walls being opened. On the flip side, it's a little bit of the outside to end. There's been targeted. 03:54:22.540 --> 03:54:30.780 Glass removed. Last thing you want if your walls are going to be weak and vulnerable is somebody being able to sit out there in a cloud of smoke with glasses 03:54:30.780 --> 03:54:37.660 scope, picking you off through it. Of course, the ying taken away some of those more quick disrupts of plays. 03:54:37.660 --> 03:54:47.660 But both those bands mean the absence of any shield bands whatsoever and so what will still bring some explosiveness with the blitz in down through the old tower. 03:54:47.660 --> 03:54:55.660 I look and progress deeper through the second floor though of course with that early bit of control established in the first minute hesitant to press their advantage upstairs instead. 03:54:55.660 --> 03:55:05.660 It will isolate the lone defender down below about as clean as a press as you can get in the first half of a round of rainbow six spot the player down below the shield goes into push and back. 03:55:05.660 --> 03:55:10.620 the gun not too far behind to close in for the kill. Minimal effort extended by Fioria to get this 03:55:10.620 --> 03:55:14.060 5v4 advantage and now they continue their march across the top floor. 03:55:17.500 --> 03:55:19.820 All off the back of vaults on that shield as well. 03:55:21.420 --> 03:55:25.580 Shouldn't have too much of a difficult time of things right now as they start to move through. 03:55:26.220 --> 03:55:30.620 As you mentioned with loading going down, with benefit of going down as the Valkyries 03:55:30.620 --> 03:55:35.100 you can at least man your own cameras, but it's not as if there's a C4 to make good on 03:55:35.100 --> 03:55:40.920 on any of that information. The sheer amount of smokes that are getting sent around. No 03:55:40.920 --> 03:55:45.720 surprise that it's going to be a difficult job to really pinpoint any of these attackers 03:55:45.720 --> 03:55:52.620 at the moment. Fury aren't rushing into this. They're moving very cautiously throughout 03:55:52.620 --> 03:55:56.400 this map so far. Talks to a big caster on the window that a slow box area is approached 03:55:56.400 --> 03:55:59.180 down somewhat and the clash is starting to make a play. 03:55:59.180 --> 03:56:03.980 And she's got to make a play as now that the smoke canister is gone and two bodies 03:56:03.980 --> 03:56:08.940 down. The clash is really the only tool left to stall out this Fiora aggression. And well, 03:56:08.940 --> 03:56:14.220 she's not seen the fall soon after I make note of her presence. Kansan Dodez in a 2v4. As Laura, 03:56:14.220 --> 03:56:18.460 the first player to bleed on the side of the attack and it seems herds, he'll bleed at the last 03:56:18.460 --> 03:56:24.460 second but not before Fiora take victory in round one. As you mentioned, they moved very 03:56:24.460 --> 03:56:27.980 slowly throughout the top floor and then the moment they find their opportunity, they launch. 03:56:27.980 --> 03:56:35.220 And often they needed to rush in to things really did they had everything nice and open 03:56:35.220 --> 03:56:38.500 obviously the ban the hard breachers so that isn't going to be too much of a factor and 03:56:38.500 --> 03:56:43.720 they can just start to move through the map and especially with the power and the proficiency 03:56:43.720 --> 03:56:48.460 that Volps can play the shield with it just makes things a heck of a lot easier when you 03:56:48.460 --> 03:56:49.980 start to move on through. 03:56:49.980 --> 03:56:50.980 and defuse barbwire. 03:56:50.980 --> 03:56:57.520 Random one chalked up for Furia there, isn't going to force too much of a reaction out of 03:56:57.520 --> 03:57:02.800 Fluxo W7M, it's still going to be running that clash, it's still going to be running a little 03:57:02.800 --> 03:57:05.720 bit of information, this time instead of the Valkyrie we're going to be switching things 03:57:05.720 --> 03:57:07.240 over onto the pulse. 03:57:07.240 --> 03:57:15.040 I'm not sure about you Lynx, but do you think that Fluxo W7M have enough barbwire? 03:57:15.040 --> 03:57:18.160 You know I think it's an excellent question one we might be considering long after this 03:57:18.160 --> 03:57:23.200 map ends however it goes. Eight different sets of barbed wire being brought and on top of that 03:57:23.200 --> 03:57:29.920 I'll leave the clash again. It's just a bit jobless isn't it? I mean how much more could you possibly 03:57:29.920 --> 03:57:35.120 slow the attack? Anyways it's ironic because we just commented that Furia didn't I mean did they have 03:57:35.120 --> 03:57:40.880 quick like bursts of speed and pace? Yes. Were they particularly fast to necessitate eight pairs 03:57:40.880 --> 03:57:46.240 of barbed wire and a clash? I don't know about that. For about eight minutes into a best of three 03:57:46.240 --> 03:57:52.860 You drop in the jobless comp. I mean, it's literally it's four sets of barbed wire in a clash and in a zombie 03:57:52.860 --> 03:57:54.860 I didn't mention that I 03:57:54.860 --> 03:57:59.780 Mean at least it's all been used. I will can see that they have found a huge for every piece 03:57:59.780 --> 03:58:03.280 They've actually managed to find enough space. You've had to put an extension on though 03:58:04.140 --> 03:58:06.140 to get 03:58:08.180 --> 03:58:13.920 They rework the map so fluxive every seven of them could put this farbed wire down. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah 03:58:13.920 --> 03:58:15.920 I heard that myself as well 03:58:16.240 --> 03:58:22.400 I mean, it's a play, isn't it? I think we focus quite a bit on secondary utility sometimes 03:58:22.400 --> 03:58:27.680 because it genuinely does interest me. Obviously, the primary utility gadget is so important, 03:58:27.680 --> 03:58:33.520 but that secondary utility equally so, and so many rounds come down to AC4 or information 03:58:33.520 --> 03:58:38.560 that A-Bulletproof camera provides, when you do see a real hefty investment onto one 03:58:38.560 --> 03:58:44.000 particular type of that utility, it is always worth a bit of a mention. At least for the 03:58:44.000 --> 03:58:49.560 moment and causing too many problems. Flora should see to it that a lot of that barbed 03:58:49.560 --> 03:58:55.320 wire is destroyed and if the barbed wire on the stairs will go, dots. These are the places 03:58:55.320 --> 03:59:00.800 to shield down for a time being and I can try and challenge off the back of that. Lobin, 03:59:00.800 --> 03:59:05.560 coming over to join him as well. Asferia, again, not over-committing. They're just 03:59:05.560 --> 03:59:08.760 poking and prodding at the building right now. 03:59:08.760 --> 03:59:12.040 So they found much less success than they did before. 03:59:12.040 --> 03:59:15.560 Herds and Volbster able to hop in for a quick 5v4 down below. 03:59:15.560 --> 03:59:20.560 But as the defensive here is much more consolidated on the old tower side, they've yet to find that same gap. 03:59:20.560 --> 03:59:23.200 There's a quick trade as you pass the halfway point of the round. 03:59:23.200 --> 03:59:27.240 Bok will reveal some kind of lurk on this side by the Razor Bloom, but no, a lobin. 03:59:27.240 --> 03:59:30.360 Self-focused on the front side, Bok still goes unnoticed. 03:59:30.360 --> 03:59:34.920 Herds really making up for those poor stats we saw at the beginning as Loira! 03:59:34.920 --> 03:59:39.420 4 F2 kills by two separate players. Here we get their second in a row. 03:59:40.420 --> 03:59:47.920 And that's what we talk about, or at least that's what Leo was talking about when he was saying that this fury aside can be very aggressive. 03:59:47.920 --> 03:59:54.920 Not that there was loads of aggression being demonstrated there, but just the ability to perform in the gap that you spot. 03:59:54.920 --> 03:59:58.420 Everybody on the side of fury hitting those crucial shots. 03:59:58.420 --> 04:00:04.980 Couple of them thrown in there as well and Flux OW7M. They look so flat footed at the moment 04:00:05.100 --> 04:00:10.480 Like they know that this is an aggressive side. We made the joke about the barbed wire that they're trying to stop people 04:00:10.480 --> 04:00:14.500 From just walking in and all fury of do is they just play floras 04:00:14.620 --> 04:00:19.980 They just destroy the barbed wire open up the open up the corridor open up that lane and all of a sudden 04:00:19.980 --> 04:00:22.280 You've got people walking down picking up kills off the back of it 04:00:22.280 --> 04:00:28.160 really straightforward stuff when you look at the furious side of things and for 04:00:28.160 --> 04:00:32.820 Flux on not to be able to find solutions in all of that it feels like there's a 04:00:32.820 --> 04:00:36.860 bit of an alarm bell starting to ring I think this is why we're seeing Fortress 04:00:36.860 --> 04:00:41.820 as map one in the series and again it sort of furthers my thought that there's 04:00:41.820 --> 04:00:45.020 a very good chance this goes to all three because there are some very good 04:00:45.020 --> 04:00:50.900 Flux on W7M maps coming up. I've also got to acknowledge I mean the herds making it look easy 04:00:50.900 --> 04:00:54.820 so far throughout these first couple rounds. Obviously the 4k in round one, but a double in 04:00:54.820 --> 04:01:00.100 round two in which case it seemed to be that that sort of weird quality Herds has where everything 04:01:00.100 --> 04:01:04.420 he does just looks like the easiest thing on the planet when he's playing well. It looks like the 04:01:04.420 --> 04:01:08.260 shot like anybody could hit those shots and obviously that's not true. He just makes it 04:01:08.260 --> 04:01:11.300 look that way when he's performing well and that energy seemed to carry through with both 04:01:11.300 --> 04:01:15.140 Moira and Box here. I think it would be Moira in that round as well. Perhaps it's just 04:01:15.140 --> 04:01:18.260 the quality of the new F2 feeling particularly smooth. Who knows? But either way, 04:01:18.260 --> 04:01:19.360 coming out to play. 04:01:19.360 --> 04:01:22.860 Fiora moving to the map quite nicely and clearly with a lot of comfort. 04:01:22.860 --> 04:01:26.740 Snake also helping gather a lot of early information on these defenders. 04:01:26.740 --> 04:01:30.100 Fiora multiple times has gone up to a wall, activated the scanner and 04:01:30.100 --> 04:01:34.060 tried to spot what possibilities might be involved in this defensive setup and 04:01:34.060 --> 04:01:35.780 who might be playing close. 04:01:35.780 --> 04:01:37.780 Unclear if they know Loven's exact position but 04:01:37.780 --> 04:01:39.900 he'll take some damage as the barricade falls. 04:01:41.580 --> 04:01:43.260 Much defensive presence on this top floor. 04:01:43.260 --> 04:01:46.260 Three different defenders spread out along its length. 04:01:46.260 --> 04:01:51.180 Once again enters their I suppose normal positions in the beginning of these rounds probing for any weaknesses 04:01:51.180 --> 04:01:55.220 But again, they start off in the deficit dots spraying through cuts down box Zera 04:01:55.820 --> 04:02:02.500 We'll see if a trade falls furious way like it did in round three, but it seems the defense might just have got away 04:02:04.020 --> 04:02:08.020 That's the benefit of just that gentle roam on the top floor 04:02:08.380 --> 04:02:14.420 So when the sights downstairs if you can get a kill and get out of there, you are gonna benefit quite considerably from that 04:02:14.420 --> 04:02:18.940 The worry that I have for Furia in this line up is a bit of a lack of soft bridge. 04:02:18.940 --> 04:02:22.980 Oh great kill from Lobin up the hatched lawyer just suffering some really 04:02:22.980 --> 04:02:27.300 unfortunate time in there. He had to read on the Solotone scanner as well so 04:02:27.300 --> 04:02:33.340 even more unlucky to not come away with a kill off that. The soft bridge is 04:02:33.340 --> 04:02:37.740 really where I start to worry. Three smokes. Yeah you've got ace but I mean 04:02:37.740 --> 04:02:42.020 the hatch is already open like they've ever reinforced walls. You can bear down 04:02:42.020 --> 04:02:47.620 with this Monty with a brilliant crossfire being held. Don't expect some to close out the round. 04:02:48.740 --> 04:02:54.820 Furia, fight back. It's amazing what a little bit more space is going to give them here in this 04:02:54.820 --> 04:02:59.700 matchup. That top floor has been really punishing for them just because of how much or how easy 04:02:59.700 --> 04:03:04.820 I should say it is for attackers to quite literally just walk in as soon as they just 04:03:04.820 --> 04:03:07.460 just get given a little bit more space, 04:03:07.460 --> 04:03:10.700 they find a bit more confidence. 04:03:10.700 --> 04:03:14.460 Clash and a snake removed at the start of round four. 04:03:14.460 --> 04:03:15.820 I don't think there's too much surprise there 04:03:15.820 --> 04:03:17.620 with the snake ban a-links. 04:03:17.620 --> 04:03:18.940 No, I don't think there's too much surprise 04:03:18.940 --> 04:03:20.020 with the clash ban either. 04:03:20.020 --> 04:03:21.600 I mean, sure she wasn't played in round three, 04:03:21.600 --> 04:03:23.780 but it was a focal point of both 04:03:23.780 --> 04:03:26.020 of Fluxer W7M's primary defenses, 04:03:26.020 --> 04:03:27.460 so it makes sense to take her down, 04:03:27.460 --> 04:03:31.100 and that's even ignoring the intrinsic weight 04:03:31.100 --> 04:03:32.340 she can bring to a defensive lineup. 04:03:32.340 --> 04:03:33.420 But to your point about the snake, 04:03:33.420 --> 04:03:36.100 I mean, it's obviously the Salaton scanner has proven 04:03:36.100 --> 04:03:40.140 quite invaluable and not strictly speaking necessary. 04:03:40.140 --> 04:03:43.980 They highly valued tool in the attackers overall box. 04:03:43.980 --> 04:03:45.580 And as we've seen with Loire, 04:03:45.580 --> 04:03:47.460 just walking out to the outskirts, 04:03:47.460 --> 04:03:49.300 gaining in for quite a lot of information 04:03:49.300 --> 04:03:50.740 for whole segments of fortress 04:03:50.740 --> 04:03:52.420 by triggering that scanner. 04:03:52.420 --> 04:03:54.780 It's enabled Furia to, at least in theory, 04:03:54.780 --> 04:03:56.220 be a bit more decisive on their attacks. 04:03:56.220 --> 04:03:58.580 And you can see that in the way they move for control. 04:03:58.580 --> 04:04:01.060 And even though Fluxer W7M were able to kind of 04:04:01.060 --> 04:04:05.540 Leave them in and then cut them off either individually or through crossfires. 04:04:05.540 --> 04:04:10.960 That skater still gave Fiora a lot of comfort in moving through and trying to acquire that control. 04:04:10.960 --> 04:04:16.000 So it makes quite a lot of sense why even though it didn't really stun Flux or W7M that much in the last round, 04:04:16.000 --> 04:04:19.240 it's still a powerful tool that won work twice and two, 04:04:19.240 --> 04:04:24.320 but definitely a lot give Fiora a lot more confidence moving through these rounds, win or lose. 04:04:24.320 --> 04:04:32.440 So to be said I'm still hammering on that information game. I like the addition of the 04:04:32.440 --> 04:04:43.480 Lucy. Something that is going to be crucial. And something they brought before. Something 04:04:43.480 --> 04:04:47.280 that they are going to need to just stop this walk-in that they seem to be suffering 04:04:47.280 --> 04:04:52.440 from when defending upstairs. Do you have a little bit more space to work with this 04:04:52.440 --> 04:04:56.080 time though. Nice thing that Fury have got going for them at the moment is that because 04:04:56.080 --> 04:04:59.720 they played a little bit of clash and it's been enough to attract a ban, they've got 04:04:59.720 --> 04:05:04.760 a mirror available. So Dots is going to be able to play those black mirrors in some really 04:05:04.760 --> 04:05:10.680 good, powerful positions. Again, just stopping that horizontal approach. Parker 04:05:10.680 --> 04:05:16.360 Kammer's now getting spot out by Herds. Herds always a fan, never needs too much 04:05:16.360 --> 04:05:22.920 of an excuse to jump over onto the IQ. And there's quite a liking for the gun there for 04:05:22.920 --> 04:05:31.000 Hertz. Ooh, mirror window place, but both sides of the panel fully reinforced. That is a horrible 04:05:31.000 --> 04:05:36.720 place, George. How is that on this? That's maybe more of a visual thing. This is the problem 04:05:36.720 --> 04:05:41.480 with the mirror. Not only does it give you great information, also a vessel for a bit 04:05:41.480 --> 04:05:46.120 of impact trekking. Unfortunately for Fluxo the Weaver 7, they only brought one set, and 04:05:46.120 --> 04:05:48.320 voters has used both. 04:05:48.320 --> 04:05:54.200 DS has one more Selma at least, so could get some additional form of hard breaching, but 04:05:54.200 --> 04:06:00.080 the remaining supplies are growing minimal. So with that remaining hard breach charge, 04:06:00.080 --> 04:06:05.560 the Volts probably the slowest round I've had so far despite the presence of both these 04:06:05.560 --> 04:06:09.520 shields yet. The one that's gained prominence in this round is the Monty slowly moving 04:06:09.520 --> 04:06:14.800 their way out from old tower into the broader setup. Moira taking a fight spotting one player but 04:06:14.800 --> 04:06:18.320 not knowing that there's two around the corner loses the fight against the one he's aware of. 04:06:18.880 --> 04:06:24.400 In fury again the very lengthy deficit only compounded by a double from both dots in the 04:06:24.400 --> 04:06:29.760 late round a triple overall and Diaz often finding themselves in these clutch positions. 04:06:29.760 --> 04:06:35.120 No one for winning them but being quite expert at navigating them. A 1v4 on 50 HP seems a bit 04:06:35.120 --> 04:06:42.480 it beyond the pale for the moment. The barrier is in his way. The fuser on the opposite side 04:06:42.480 --> 04:06:47.360 of quite a few rooms. We'll still try with 30 seconds remaining, sending out one of these 04:06:47.360 --> 04:06:52.360 two flashbangs and finally Dots puts an end to it. Believe it, that's a 4k from Dots in 04:06:52.360 --> 04:06:56.400 round 4, and it's all tied up for Fluxo W7M. 04:06:56.400 --> 04:07:03.320 Oh, Fluxo W7M back in the fight here. I don't know if it's timeout worthy just 04:07:03.320 --> 04:07:07.440 yet from either of these two teams. Oh, there it is. It was timeout worthy. I was on the 04:07:07.440 --> 04:07:10.920 edge links. I had my little spider senses of tingling on whether the timeout was going 04:07:10.920 --> 04:07:15.560 to get called or not. But I think for how straightforward, I kind of want to say, that 04:07:15.560 --> 04:07:20.000 the first couple of rounds went for Furia, it makes sense that after coming up against 04:07:20.000 --> 04:07:23.600 that much opposition, struggling on the first floor site, struggling on the second 04:07:23.600 --> 04:07:27.440 floor site, again after going back to it, it makes sense that they bring out 04:07:27.440 --> 04:07:32.880 that timeout now. The landscape hasn't changed too much. The bands aren't drastically 04:07:32.880 --> 04:07:37.920 different. They've removed the snake. These players know how to play without a snake. So 04:07:37.920 --> 04:07:43.440 it should be a fairly straightforward correction here. And I don't think they need to do anything 04:07:43.440 --> 04:07:47.960 that's like world changing. They just need to alter a couple of little pointers, a little 04:07:47.960 --> 04:07:51.880 bit more of that teamwork, a little bit more of that coordination, isolating those players 04:07:51.880 --> 04:07:56.920 out there on the roam. But likewise, as the game's gone on, Flux O W7M have started 04:07:56.920 --> 04:08:00.240 playing a lot better. They've started giving less of those options available. 04:08:00.240 --> 04:08:04.880 Yeah, I think that's the big thing, isn't it, is that Flux of W7M have made a good adaptation 04:08:04.880 --> 04:08:06.080 they realized. 04:08:06.080 --> 04:08:09.560 It's not that they were playing too spread out in terms of the relation between the off-site 04:08:09.560 --> 04:08:11.460 positions and the on-site positions. 04:08:11.460 --> 04:08:14.920 They were playing too spread out in terms of each player's relationship with their 04:08:14.920 --> 04:08:16.600 other players. 04:08:16.600 --> 04:08:18.640 There are a lot of gaps in between their positions. 04:08:18.640 --> 04:08:21.760 There were some roamers who were solo on the bottom floor going back to the first 04:08:21.760 --> 04:08:22.760 round. 04:08:22.760 --> 04:08:26.160 And once they started actively denying those positions or when they were there, they 04:08:26.160 --> 04:08:30.960 a quick retreat. Fury have completely lacked not only the kinds of opening kills but also just 04:08:30.960 --> 04:08:35.840 openings for map control that they had in the first couple rounds. But really if you think about it 04:08:35.840 --> 04:08:40.000 only majorly in the first, even in the second they went down in the opening pick, 04:08:40.000 --> 04:08:44.720 they also were trading that out and needing to rely on some mid-round blurks which often you have 04:08:44.720 --> 04:08:49.520 to in Siege. That strategy was a quick read by Flux with W7M1 that's continued to pay it off 04:08:49.520 --> 04:08:54.000 and one that Fury will need to work around as now. They again go with a double shield like they 04:08:54.000 --> 04:08:58.880 they did in the prior round but now this time going with the Monty and the Blitz 04:08:58.880 --> 04:09:07.680 we've not seen since the first. Back on the pulse in the tent to gather that 04:09:07.680 --> 04:09:12.160 information and as you mentioned double shield being brought here for round five 04:09:12.160 --> 04:09:16.680 it was for the top of the time out play around that shield and really bully 04:09:16.680 --> 04:09:21.960 these defenders around a little bit. Nothing really to deal with these shields 04:09:21.960 --> 04:09:24.740 I mean, you've got the razor blooms, I guess. 04:09:24.740 --> 04:09:26.260 I've got a couple of C4s this time 04:09:26.260 --> 04:09:27.600 where we've only really seen them bring one. 04:09:27.600 --> 04:09:30.040 Oh, the great kill there from Lobin. 04:09:30.920 --> 04:09:32.880 I don't know if Heads was assuming 04:09:32.880 --> 04:09:34.600 that wall was reinforced or not, 04:09:34.600 --> 04:09:36.680 but that's hardly each gone. 04:09:36.680 --> 04:09:38.320 Yeah, Vulture's got a little bit of secondary, 04:09:38.320 --> 04:09:40.640 but you're lacking the thermite now. 04:09:42.800 --> 04:09:44.360 And also just lacking a player who, 04:09:44.360 --> 04:09:46.240 well, he's been quiet for a couple rounds now. 04:09:46.240 --> 04:09:49.520 You still always have to worry about a gun, 04:09:49.520 --> 04:09:51.680 the exothermics, massive loss for Fioria, 04:09:51.680 --> 04:09:55.760 We've only hit a minute in it feels like so much is happening in the first minute of this round 04:09:55.760 --> 04:10:00.120 We have C4 is going up don't be calls being used the shield's trying to find greater initiative 04:10:00.120 --> 04:10:03.640 The Monty by himself at the moment is a blitz with the other two attackers 04:10:03.920 --> 04:10:08.160 You can see Flux W7. I'm wondering if maybe they can bounce but no not the moment 04:10:08.280 --> 04:10:13.160 They're continuing to employ the lessons they learned from that first round playing a lot more stable playing a lot more together 04:10:13.160 --> 04:10:16.200 You're gonna pocket mirror window to keep that position intact 04:10:16.200 --> 04:10:20.960 The Selma charts will end up getting Palu another angle from which he can peek around that black mirror 04:10:20.960 --> 04:10:25.240 And so again, even when Fury of 8 progress, they're still in the same position 04:10:26.960 --> 04:10:31.740 It almost feels like two shields is too many for this map in this style of play 04:10:32.700 --> 04:10:37.540 Boxer a great kill there on Topalo off the back of the information gathered by Volves 04:10:37.840 --> 04:10:40.360 Maybe I'm about to eat my words about the shields, but 04:10:41.400 --> 04:10:45.320 It's not getting the same level of value. Yeah, they're able to bully these defenders around 04:10:45.320 --> 04:10:49.080 But because of where they've been defending because of the slight extension 04:10:49.080 --> 04:10:51.720 into areas like bathroom and briefing. 04:10:51.720 --> 04:10:54.040 You've just got a little bit more room to move. 04:10:54.040 --> 04:10:56.760 Dodez takes a ton of damage through the drone hold 04:10:56.760 --> 04:10:59.960 and Toxic Babes can now start to force off that doorway. 04:10:59.960 --> 04:11:02.440 D.A.S. great kill there onto cons. 04:11:02.440 --> 04:11:05.760 That finally gives a bit of an advantage here for Furia. 04:11:07.760 --> 04:11:10.120 Oh, and you could see D.A.S. sensed his opportunity 04:11:10.120 --> 04:11:11.880 with Dodez on low HP, 04:11:11.880 --> 04:11:13.680 but the Azami ready with that pre-fire. 04:11:13.680 --> 04:11:15.000 Furia maintains their lead, 04:11:15.000 --> 04:11:18.440 not over yet as the last bit of toxic canister is detonated. 04:11:18.440 --> 04:11:23.760 Not any more utility to delay, so must be one with guns and lobin trapped in the corner. 04:11:23.760 --> 04:11:28.800 Two shields just enough to get the job done for Fyria, meeting plenty of obstacles by 04:11:28.800 --> 04:11:32.800 the defense, but countering them at every single turn. 04:11:32.800 --> 04:11:35.640 Well, here I am to eat my words. 04:11:35.640 --> 04:11:36.640 Fyria did make it work. 04:11:36.640 --> 04:11:41.200 They had 30 seconds left on the clock as well when the final kill happened. 04:11:41.200 --> 04:11:44.880 So the double shield play, clearly working for them and they're going to run it 04:11:44.880 --> 04:11:45.880 back. 04:11:45.880 --> 04:11:46.880 They are going to run that again. 04:11:46.880 --> 04:11:50.040 It would be a different landscape this time though. 04:11:50.040 --> 04:11:56.760 I think it's okay for that top floor where they are able to open up a couple of the walls. 04:11:56.760 --> 04:11:59.480 They are able to really navigate through. 04:11:59.480 --> 04:12:04.160 I mean that was after losing the thermite as well, don't forget. 04:12:04.160 --> 04:12:08.000 For this first floor, it was kind of the soft destruction that they really struggled 04:12:08.000 --> 04:12:09.000 with. 04:12:09.000 --> 04:12:12.200 So I wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of six-picks here, but the moment 04:12:12.200 --> 04:12:16.040 He has just switched over onto the ace, really doubling down on that. 04:12:17.320 --> 04:12:22.320 Again, two shields, it doesn't matter which two, it's just gonna be two that are played 04:12:22.820 --> 04:12:26.240 to the Monty and the Blitz, it's looking like the Blackbeard and the Monty. 04:12:27.160 --> 04:12:28.800 Same sort of sentiment though. 04:12:30.720 --> 04:12:34.040 Shuri looking to recreate the success they found in round five. 04:12:34.040 --> 04:12:41.680 And it felt like Slim's success at every turn until at the end they were able to move 04:12:41.680 --> 04:12:43.160 beyond that 3v3. 04:12:43.160 --> 04:12:48.280 Bucks at W7M did a good job at keeping them at bay, but when you have those two shields, 04:12:48.280 --> 04:12:49.960 it's probably one of the best tools to break it. 04:12:49.960 --> 04:12:53.480 Just barrel on through a ying would be great, but of course she's banned, so can't rely 04:12:53.480 --> 04:12:55.800 on that nearly as much. 04:12:55.800 --> 04:13:02.320 Lobin running around over by the museum's side very early on trying to gather some 04:13:02.320 --> 04:13:03.320 information. 04:13:03.320 --> 04:13:06.960 What they might find as you mentioned, all of the vertical destruction can be very important. 04:13:06.960 --> 04:13:10.680 It's something that Fluxor W7M will have a mind to as they pick this site. 04:13:10.680 --> 04:13:14.240 The part of the reason they bring the castle, either to allow them to extend or give them 04:13:14.240 --> 04:13:17.920 some greater cover, not from the vertical necessarily, but allow them to play in greater 04:13:17.920 --> 04:13:22.240 areas in the horizontal to avoid any vertical angles that might be created closer to the 04:13:22.240 --> 04:13:23.240 site. 04:13:23.240 --> 04:13:24.240 Heard spots one. 04:13:24.240 --> 04:13:28.560 And so we'll look towards the area we saw Loeb and running earlier. 04:13:28.560 --> 04:13:32.640 Museum, the bedroom to try and see if in either of these rooms the aid of a 04:13:32.640 --> 04:13:38.480 blitz out front. They can clear this position and get another 5v4 like they did right at the start. 04:13:39.520 --> 04:13:44.720 Smoke grenade will go out, and yet they buy their time. Bucks at W7M doing a good job at the moment 04:13:44.720 --> 04:13:48.880 of destroying a lot of the information gathering devices on this side of the map. You can clearly 04:13:48.880 --> 04:13:53.280 see it's halting fury a little bit. Next, smoke canister goes out and Fulves loses quite a bit 04:13:53.280 --> 04:13:57.600 of HP. When he tries to run down the central stairs, spotting another, these stairs always 04:13:57.600 --> 04:14:02.160 so difficult for attackers. Your shield attacker specifically to run down exposes the feet 04:14:02.160 --> 04:14:06.400 or the head, but still gives Volts the information and Herds moves in for the kill. 04:14:08.080 --> 04:14:11.920 Dot's gonna be the first player to fall there. Herds takes a good chunk of damage. 04:14:12.640 --> 04:14:19.120 Clown the beeper. That isn't gonna give him up just yet. Still well and truly in the fight. 04:14:20.800 --> 04:14:25.520 Tuck is gonna be holding on for another here. Lobin isn't too far away on that solace. 04:14:25.520 --> 04:14:32.400 Like Heads, that second life that he seems to have gained might just go hunting or at 04:14:32.400 --> 04:14:36.440 least hold the angle and stop this backstab from materialising. 04:14:36.440 --> 04:14:40.360 Furia, all but ignore the top floor here. 04:14:40.360 --> 04:14:42.400 All we've done is just move through it. 04:14:42.400 --> 04:14:46.800 There's the kill on to Lobe and the backstab has been stopped and Heads can now just 04:14:46.800 --> 04:14:50.760 move on and look to pressure onto the site with the rest of the team. 04:14:50.760 --> 04:14:55.360 Continue to be the thorn in the side, but no, Palu rips it out. 04:14:55.360 --> 04:15:00.360 gonna buy a little bit of relief here for Fluxo. 04:15:00.360 --> 04:15:01.360 There's Army. 04:15:01.360 --> 04:15:03.360 Doing a great job at keeping those shields at bay. 04:15:03.360 --> 04:15:06.360 Is it gonna be enough? 04:15:06.360 --> 04:15:11.360 The barrier's doing okay work, but Kahn's ends up framing himself perfectly for Boxera to take that fight. 04:15:11.360 --> 04:15:15.360 Volts will fall off the defused plant where this is Army effectively pinned down. 04:15:15.360 --> 04:15:19.360 I was about to say the only hope remaining is Dodez and it seems that one's vanished as well. 04:15:19.360 --> 04:15:23.600 So you got four total finds the next one now with box Zara 04:15:24.040 --> 04:15:29.640 Apparently lower HP both impact to cut off the approach another one detonated this pollute himself force out 04:15:29.800 --> 04:15:32.860 Might just give box era enough time to get this diffuser down 04:15:32.860 --> 04:15:36.160 Yes, it will and move back up in full shield in the process 04:15:36.560 --> 04:15:42.240 No impact grenades to speak up but one key but a cover and box there a full shield and keep him at bay pull the 04:15:42.240 --> 04:15:48.640 Vita King special and secure the four to half for feria firing some shots, but box Zara 04:15:49.360 --> 04:15:53.860 What decision does he make with safety behind the wall? 04:15:53.860 --> 04:15:57.860 He overheats and Palu burns him alive. 04:15:59.360 --> 04:16:05.860 I've never seen a more blatant multiplayer in all of my life. 04:16:07.360 --> 04:16:14.360 I've been watching and playing this game for 10 years and I've never seen anything that incriminating. 04:16:14.360 --> 04:16:17.360 Look at the range he's deshielding on. 04:16:17.360 --> 04:16:19.360 Oh 04:16:22.600 --> 04:16:27.980 He has a big moment every single series and he's already in map one desk 04:16:27.980 --> 04:16:30.860 I mean we got to send it to the desk the desk needs to take over. I need a breather 04:16:34.800 --> 04:16:41.920 Let's just say that that was probably one of the worst things that you can do in a situation like that obviously 04:16:41.920 --> 04:16:50.840 P9 great pistol for ranged combat. Anyways, I almost lost my cool there, but it's clear 04:16:50.840 --> 04:16:56.600 though strategically, Leo, if we peel back the layers here, that there is a bit of a 04:16:56.600 --> 04:17:01.400 Testudo that's being forming here, a Fabian strategy, as one would call it historically, 04:17:01.400 --> 04:17:06.600 starving out your opponents the way that Furia have been closing everything in with 04:17:06.600 --> 04:17:08.400 some very specific operators. 04:17:08.400 --> 04:17:10.520 Yeah, two different ways to do it, right? 04:17:10.520 --> 04:17:13.240 For them, and let's take a look at one of the first rounds, right? 04:17:13.240 --> 04:17:15.560 Let's take a look at round two, for example. 04:17:15.560 --> 04:17:17.200 You don't see a single shoulder in line up. 04:17:17.200 --> 04:17:19.120 What they're trying to do with Solid Snake 04:17:19.120 --> 04:17:20.600 is trying to get a gap somewhere. 04:17:20.600 --> 04:17:22.320 If they find a gap somewhere, look 04:17:22.320 --> 04:17:24.560 at how everyone is split around the map. 04:17:24.560 --> 04:17:27.000 But everyone is ready to react to a first gap. 04:17:27.000 --> 04:17:29.280 As soon as someone dies, they know the movement will create 04:17:29.280 --> 04:17:29.780 move. 04:17:29.780 --> 04:17:32.240 Well, the first guy dying will create movement. 04:17:32.240 --> 04:17:33.600 And because the first guy is dead, 04:17:33.600 --> 04:17:34.520 everyone moves around. 04:17:34.520 --> 04:17:36.720 And three to one, the rest of the team executes. 04:17:36.720 --> 04:17:40.040 Now, that's the aggressive theory we spoke about in the pregame. 04:17:40.040 --> 04:17:42.640 If you leave them a gap, they're going to exploit it. 04:17:42.640 --> 04:17:45.600 Now, let's take a look at the adaptation on the side of Fuxo. 04:17:45.600 --> 04:17:47.680 Let's take a look at one of the round in defense. 04:17:47.680 --> 04:17:50.480 When this time, they choose to close the gaps. 04:17:50.480 --> 04:17:52.240 Round four, what do they do? 04:17:52.240 --> 04:17:54.280 They decide to go back to their roots, 04:17:54.280 --> 04:17:56.160 closer to the bomb site, bring the mirror, 04:17:56.160 --> 04:17:58.320 bring the melozy, break top operators, 04:17:58.320 --> 04:18:00.240 and the valkyries, so you have information. 04:18:00.240 --> 04:18:03.280 And then, instead of just letting yourself get picked, 04:18:03.280 --> 04:18:05.600 you swing the guys, because they're isolated, 04:18:05.600 --> 04:18:07.600 because that's the way FURIA has been playing 04:18:07.600 --> 04:18:10.360 entirely split around the map without trade potential. 04:18:10.360 --> 04:18:12.280 Now, so far, you think this is a great comeback 04:18:12.280 --> 04:18:15.240 from Fluxo W7M, but then, then, 04:18:15.240 --> 04:18:17.880 if we go out and play out the last two rounds, 04:18:17.880 --> 04:18:22.120 what do we see Fluxo W7M are struggling 04:18:22.120 --> 04:18:23.600 to contain the double shields, 04:18:23.600 --> 04:18:25.800 and that is the adaptation on their own for FURIA. 04:18:25.800 --> 04:18:27.280 They bring out the double shields, 04:18:27.280 --> 04:18:28.800 they bring the Blackbird and Monty, 04:18:28.800 --> 04:18:30.520 or they bring the Blitz and the Monty, 04:18:30.520 --> 04:18:32.680 and that is the testudo you spoke about. 04:18:32.680 --> 04:18:41.280 It is a moving core unit that creates movement because of the shield and then the rest of the players like Harrods can get punished or they can get free kills. 04:18:41.680 --> 04:18:48.480 I wish the players that are moving too much and that was with accounting for Palu Hayes and what was that out there? 04:18:49.080 --> 04:18:52.180 Why do you extend there? Why do you extend? That was crazy. 04:18:52.580 --> 04:18:54.880 Anyway, yeah, speak of shields. 04:18:55.080 --> 04:18:58.080 Monty comes out, Fury I know that there's going to be adaptation. 04:18:58.080 --> 04:19:03.140 Flux overbending out the clash from their own side. Maybe we'll have a bit more of an even set here 04:19:03.140 --> 04:19:07.260 But it's not us casting it. That's links and extra Durika all yours my friends 04:19:08.940 --> 04:19:13.500 Thank you very much. Oh, no Ali. Sorry. That was Milo. She's entirely different person 04:19:13.500 --> 04:19:18.660 I don't be honest. I still I still am frozen right after he like that guy ADS'd 04:19:19.200 --> 04:19:21.200 I'm still living that moment 04:19:21.960 --> 04:19:25.740 like Leo's analysis was great and I was paying attention but like 04:19:25.740 --> 04:19:30.740 like, Jesus, that's just, it's a rough play to end on. 04:19:32.820 --> 04:19:35.940 It's a rough play for the sides to switch on, isn't it? 04:19:35.940 --> 04:19:39.060 That's gonna sit pretty heavy on, 04:19:39.060 --> 04:19:40.900 well, the professional players aren't they? 04:19:40.900 --> 04:19:42.940 At the end of the day, it's a mistake. 04:19:42.940 --> 04:19:44.420 It happens, doesn't it? 04:19:44.420 --> 04:19:49.420 I think from the standards that we hold these players to, 04:19:49.980 --> 04:19:51.580 which we can hold that standard 04:19:51.580 --> 04:19:55.020 because all we're here to do is lend a voice to the game, 04:19:55.020 --> 04:19:56.820 We look at it and we call it what it is 04:19:56.820 --> 04:19:59.740 I think in the heat of the moment when you are on the team and play in the game 04:19:59.780 --> 04:20:02.320 You've kind of just got to chalk it up and you know 04:20:02.320 --> 04:20:05.040 It'll come out in a debrief at a bit of a later point 04:20:05.040 --> 04:20:09.300 You can't really let it define or you definitely can't let it define the way that you day goes 04:20:10.180 --> 04:20:14.560 But this I mean this should be 40 absolutely should be 40 04:20:14.820 --> 04:20:18.880 Give him probably that little bit of an option. He doesn't need too much of an invitation 04:20:18.880 --> 04:20:22.900 They were the only five kills that he got by the way in those first six cons 04:20:22.900 --> 04:20:28.900 A little bit of a slow start from a main player and a star player on the side of Fluxo to be 7m. 04:20:39.900 --> 04:20:46.900 Early kill, dots the blitz going down, unfortunate batch of I believe a C4 tossed out by Fioria. 04:20:46.900 --> 04:20:55.380 So looking to recover very quickly from that lost momentum on at the end around six good pinched by flux of W7 good follow through as well 04:20:55.660 --> 04:21:01.620 Notice might be on low HP, but a 4v3 advantage is flux of W7m can spot some gaps of their own 04:21:03.060 --> 04:21:09.540 Vertical control seems well and established as the first side being defended by fear as you can see waiting room and cafeteria 04:21:10.260 --> 04:21:12.060 And with the vertical positions controlled 04:21:12.060 --> 04:21:16.720 They can throw down these bookie drones create some new angles and like to take a bit of a reset in the mid-round 04:21:16.720 --> 04:21:22.900 I think about what to do next box era currently has all four of his keep a barrier stocked up likely waiting for the actual push 04:21:22.940 --> 04:21:27.580 The local also taking a lot of damage from beneath this might be a 3d4 04:21:27.580 --> 04:21:32.100 But you're not kind of fury adjust yet still plenty of tools to throw against the attack 04:21:34.140 --> 04:21:38.900 Logan Dota is both a little bit low at the moment, but a four versus three nonetheless 04:21:38.900 --> 04:21:43.840 Solt on scanner is going to provide some crucial information right now 04:21:45.000 --> 04:21:48.220 Flobin can make good on that or feed it through to the rest of his team 04:21:48.860 --> 04:21:55.000 Might be able to leverage this advantage right now. They have a man cat advantage, but certainly not a HP advantage 04:21:55.840 --> 04:21:59.540 Sometimes that's really what matters big kill there from parlor 04:21:59.720 --> 04:22:04.880 You can only hope and only think that that was information gained from that salt on scanner 04:22:04.880 --> 04:22:09.640 see for their from Diaz intentionally placed on the frame I think he's just 04:22:09.640 --> 04:22:14.960 trying to deter anyone from trying to push in at the moment still time here 04:22:14.960 --> 04:22:19.000 fluxo to be so known to work this advantage salt and scana again coming 04:22:19.000 --> 04:22:23.800 into its own this pinpoint information in the fall versus to it might not be 04:22:23.800 --> 04:22:27.840 enough no I might not you can see the feed holes oh but Diaz who's not an 04:22:27.840 --> 04:22:32.520 initial opportunity and then walking under the vertical holes yours for the 04:22:32.520 --> 04:22:38.120 The briefest of moments of 2v2 within his grasp, and just the moment slips by. 04:22:38.120 --> 04:22:42.560 Boxterra, another 1vx down below, this one falls short, but in a much more expected way. 04:22:42.560 --> 04:22:44.520 Not much you can do in that position. 04:22:44.520 --> 04:22:48.360 Boxo W7M, two rounds in a row, finally realized their lead. 04:22:48.360 --> 04:22:55.960 I feel like Fluxo W7M are on the precipice of chaining a few rounds together here. 04:22:55.960 --> 04:23:00.520 Purio have used their tactical timeout and they used it at the end of round four. 04:23:00.520 --> 04:23:04.580 then they've only been good for one round. Likewise Fury are only good for two 04:23:04.580 --> 04:23:07.720 in his early days. We've got a side swap thrown in there as well so it's a very 04:23:07.720 --> 04:23:12.280 turbulent point in the game. But you do just feel as though they're starting to 04:23:12.280 --> 04:23:17.560 slowly but surely come alive. Vesta 3 it's a long occasion you don't want to 04:23:17.560 --> 04:23:21.940 peek too soon. You equally don't want to fall behind the pace. 04:23:21.940 --> 04:23:27.220 Now Fury are came out of the gate pretty much swinging and we get to see 04:23:27.220 --> 04:23:32.200 that same level of aggression from them. Now granted they have swapped over onto the defence 04:23:32.200 --> 04:23:35.800 so it's going to be a different type of aggression as to what we were used to seeing in rounds 04:23:35.800 --> 04:23:38.800 1 and 2 on the attack but still the sentiment remains. 04:23:38.800 --> 04:23:45.680 So it's going to be so an M, round number 8 looking to make it 5-3 now. Now they're 04:23:45.680 --> 04:23:49.920 going to be getting rid of the snake or at least swapping it off for another equally 04:23:49.920 --> 04:23:53.720 as annoying operator. It wasn't going to be the doggie, now it's the daemons. 04:23:53.720 --> 04:23:59.320 point still stands. Just insert awkward operator on Zalobin and you've pretty much got the full picture. 04:24:00.040 --> 04:24:03.640 Whether it's the Deimos or the Snake, you know that it's going to be a nightmare. The thing that I 04:24:03.640 --> 04:24:08.440 like in this lineup is I love the addition of the Rora because there are so many doors, 04:24:08.440 --> 04:24:13.960 so many windows on this map and so many corridors that all it takes is for a couple of those 04:24:13.960 --> 04:24:17.880 to be blocked off and you've pretty much got a highway right to where you need to be. 04:24:17.880 --> 04:24:26.620 Just a direct line to your destination, but of course by the same token, sometimes the 04:24:26.620 --> 04:24:32.560 door can end up boxing the attack in, both can be true, and sometimes even despite your 04:24:32.560 --> 04:24:35.360 best intentions luck might have completely different plans for you. 04:24:35.360 --> 04:24:38.160 We'll see what it might have in store for cons today. 04:24:38.160 --> 04:24:41.680 So with the solid snake, you should be able to get some good information where these 04:24:41.680 --> 04:24:45.920 positions are and then place the doors accordingly and mitigate some of those downsides 04:24:45.920 --> 04:24:50.400 it a bit or at least more effectively. Dot's breaking the barbed wire, moving up the barricade, 04:24:50.400 --> 04:24:55.520 you can see it's in quick acquisitions by Flux or W7M, but one just around the corner. 04:24:55.520 --> 04:25:00.800 Doral block them off, and so Dot's it backs out. As I said, they look to the opposite side, 04:25:00.800 --> 04:25:06.240 more towards old power. The C-Ware to effectuate their push, Breach is going out, 04:25:06.800 --> 04:25:10.880 but despite how close the attack has come, the Roardor is just saving any kind of conflict 04:25:10.880 --> 04:25:11.880 like it's occurring. 04:25:11.880 --> 04:25:15.080 Just keeping everyone safe, isn't it? 04:25:15.080 --> 04:25:18.240 It's keeping everyone in their own lane, keeping the defender safe. 04:25:18.240 --> 04:25:20.280 It's also keeping the attacker safe. 04:25:20.280 --> 04:25:23.240 But at a point, we are going to have to see a clash. 04:25:23.240 --> 04:25:25.280 We're going to have to see a little bit of violence. 04:25:25.280 --> 04:25:28.320 That's kind of what these rounds are all about. 04:25:28.320 --> 04:25:30.560 Dias going to kick things off, takes dots down. 04:25:30.560 --> 04:25:34.400 And I think the Selma's have already been placed. 04:25:34.400 --> 04:25:37.120 It's not too much of a concern. 04:25:37.120 --> 04:25:38.840 There's an opening pick that you don't want to lose. 04:25:38.840 --> 04:25:42.720 trying to make good on that Soliton scanner. Lobin taking down to low HP, we've got 04:25:42.720 --> 04:25:46.560 Hertz tucked in behind the desk. He's got a great angle here for the ACOG. 04:25:46.560 --> 04:25:50.440 It just depends on how long he holds on. 04:25:53.120 --> 04:25:57.800 Spotted position on that Soliton scanner. Again the attack so close to the 04:25:57.800 --> 04:26:01.720 rest of the defense. Oh just spotting one behind the shield as he really 04:26:01.720 --> 04:26:04.200 goes out to take the fight from the opposite position. 04:26:04.200 --> 04:26:07.400 Notice this is a bit of an opportunity. Polly good for that one. Just straight 04:26:07.400 --> 04:26:12.840 up 1v1. There's the trade from DS. So on point so far in this round for Furia. 04:26:12.840 --> 04:26:17.420 Run down the Keebas, great a new forward position. Bringing outside the breach as 04:26:17.420 --> 04:26:22.640 Box Zera joins at his right flank. Spotted by Loben with two deathmark trackers 04:26:22.640 --> 04:26:28.020 remaining. Thirty seconds. As the final bit of these Keebas go out to block, 04:26:28.020 --> 04:26:31.520 DS spots one on the other side, can fire through the soft wall. It has all 04:26:31.520 --> 04:26:35.280 been DS for Furia at the moment. He might be able to find five. 04:26:35.280 --> 04:26:42.460 DeLobin on such low HP and Dota's worse for rare 2. He's looking directly at the position, but now his numbers up 04:26:42.620 --> 04:26:47.080 How to be spotted by the Deimos and turns around, rides the Deimos, swings, but on such low HP 04:26:47.220 --> 04:26:51.580 He knows and Loven does too that if one bullet hits him, that'll be the end 04:26:51.580 --> 04:26:55.420 But Dota is off that information. He's able to mitigate any damage with such low time. 04:26:55.620 --> 04:27:02.740 DS by his sacrifice might have just given the round to Furia. Unless Bot can find him around the corner 04:27:02.740 --> 04:27:07.540 He dies all tied up for the third time. No for the second time this series 04:27:08.380 --> 04:27:11.060 The timing on that was atrocious wasn't it? 04:27:11.060 --> 04:27:15.380 Diaz just looks do like just the tall opposite way just all scaring at the wall 04:27:15.380 --> 04:27:20.460 I'm just thinking. Oh, no, like this is the time strike lobin swing the corner 04:27:21.380 --> 04:27:23.380 so close 04:27:23.380 --> 04:27:25.060 Are you never know? 04:27:25.060 --> 04:27:28.220 If it was both Aaron the one versus one who knows what might happen 04:27:29.020 --> 04:27:31.540 Maybe D shields on the Monty from a hundred yards away 04:27:32.740 --> 04:27:37.900 I wouldn't like to predict what would happen next. 04:27:37.900 --> 04:27:42.260 Furia do level it up though, four rounds apiece. 04:27:42.260 --> 04:27:49.180 A very hotly contested fortress on our hands at the minute. 04:27:49.180 --> 04:27:56.340 Able to hold on to that top floor and now going to transition into that bottom floor. 04:27:56.340 --> 04:28:00.660 This is, I think the lineup that Flux O W7 ever bring in, it's much more what I would 04:28:00.660 --> 04:28:01.660 expect. 04:28:01.660 --> 04:28:05.220 So for this sort of a bomb site where you're going to want to take control upstairs 04:28:05.220 --> 04:28:06.660 You're going to use the black bit to do that 04:28:06.660 --> 04:28:10.540 And then you've got the sledge element to really rip open the floor 04:28:10.540 --> 04:28:16.660 The vert just wasn't something that we saw furia do when they were attacking on to these first floor bomb sites and 04:28:17.540 --> 04:28:19.500 You know it didn't go terribly well 04:28:19.500 --> 04:28:22.980 It didn't go terribly wrong for them, but it was a bit of a gap 04:28:22.980 --> 04:28:26.540 It was something that you looked at and thought there's maybe a bit of a missed opportunity there 04:28:26.580 --> 04:28:31.580 because they were just trying to bang there and against the site and they would have been successful and 04:28:31.660 --> 04:28:38.080 Obviously, had it not been for the dreaded one versus one, but I just like this a little bit more from fluxo to username 04:28:38.080 --> 04:28:41.280 It just feels a little bit more stable. It feels a little bit more predictable 04:28:46.600 --> 04:28:52.840 Creatability surely makes our jobs a bit easier able to foretell the consequences a lot better or even the possible benefits 04:28:53.480 --> 04:28:55.920 But as consequence is not inherently negative concept 04:28:55.920 --> 04:28:59.880 On consequence of this native, it lands at the feet of that defender, will be de-forced 04:28:59.880 --> 04:29:03.360 amount of position, but it seems especially not with any guns to the follow-up, it would 04:29:03.360 --> 04:29:06.680 be more like a null event rather than anything impactful. 04:29:06.680 --> 04:29:10.920 Very strange to see a note creeping up a staircase with a DMR one-handed in the process, but 04:29:10.920 --> 04:29:16.840 I will say, probably brought the right tool for the job, lobin, massacring DS at the 04:29:16.840 --> 04:29:21.160 top of the central stairs, now looking deeper into the bunk's position, but the rotate 04:29:21.160 --> 04:29:23.080 hole has already been reinforced off. 04:29:23.080 --> 04:29:29.880 It's no easy kill like you just found cons up with the next looks so w7m confident the first minute 10 04:29:30.040 --> 04:29:35.720 Swinging around the corner as an aid and impact trains trade positions the lawyer the only one to deal any damage 04:29:35.720 --> 04:29:43.280 Detonates the Vulcan in response likely needs to start contemplating an exit two players bearing down in his position a Selma charge opening up 04:29:43.280 --> 04:29:46.840 The wall he will retreat to the single door for a bit more conservative of an angle 04:29:46.840 --> 04:29:55.900 two brown Zoto kind of just freezing out that Selma briefly it's gonna stop the initial 04:29:55.900 --> 04:30:02.260 flow at the moment for fluxo dots takes a sniff of damage as it eventually detonates 04:30:02.260 --> 04:30:05.540 couple of needs getting sent through there that's going to do a good job of moving these 04:30:05.540 --> 04:30:10.600 players on the top floor but nobody knows about box there at the moment say again 04:30:10.600 --> 04:30:12.600 Oh, brilliant shot there! 04:30:13.360 --> 04:30:16.360 Dodez, no flies on him at all! 04:30:16.720 --> 04:30:19.480 You don't think that was a sound call or maybe even a drone, but... 04:30:19.800 --> 04:30:24.600 The fight isn't over, just there! Lawyer for two, eventually taken down! 04:30:25.000 --> 04:30:26.840 But damage already done! 04:30:27.240 --> 04:30:27.960 Herds! 04:30:28.720 --> 04:30:31.120 Left in the clutches right now, Dodez. 04:30:31.240 --> 04:30:34.840 Getting that plant down quite early on, still over 40 seconds left in the round. 04:30:34.840 --> 04:30:40.680 And now another 45 seconds as we enter the post, herds moving in deeper, no C4 to rely 04:30:40.680 --> 04:30:47.400 on, but a DMR always a lethal weapon, and especially in the hands of him, we might need to reload 04:30:47.400 --> 04:30:49.180 at some point. 04:30:49.180 --> 04:30:50.500 His first goal is the information. 04:30:50.500 --> 04:30:52.300 Where is this diffuser? 04:30:52.300 --> 04:30:56.600 Better question might have been where is Dota's on a long angle on Overwatch watching 04:30:56.600 --> 04:30:58.200 that exact position. 04:30:58.200 --> 04:31:02.040 We'll take him down and Fluxo W7M reestablished their lead. 04:31:02.040 --> 04:31:10.360 on their narrow lead but a lead nonetheless. Round 10 sees our final round of bands for fortress. 04:31:11.880 --> 04:31:17.720 Even if we do venture into an overtime, bands will remain dependent on the sides that the 04:31:17.720 --> 04:31:24.040 team sit on of course. What is it going to be Ace and an Azami? 04:31:25.720 --> 04:31:30.760 Makes sense. I think that the Ace is maybe a weird one because Fury have done a really good job 04:31:30.760 --> 04:31:35.160 of impact tricking and sort of fighting against that a little bit and it is going to force the 04:31:35.720 --> 04:31:40.120 it forces the thermite play. His army always a good thing to get away from. 04:31:42.600 --> 04:31:46.040 Downstairs to wait and room we go then for round number 10. 04:31:47.400 --> 04:31:52.440 Fluxo. There's not been a serious like chain together of rounds so far it's been 04:31:53.160 --> 04:31:58.120 very stop start from both teams. Couple of rounds for Furia, couple of rounds for Fluxo, 04:31:58.120 --> 04:32:05.420 couple of rounds again for Fluxo with one from Furia just sandwiched in the middle, a little bit 04:32:05.420 --> 04:32:10.740 swingy in terms of the opening pick as well I mean for a large portion of the game W7M had that 04:32:10.740 --> 04:32:16.580 up a hand they got four in a row it only netted them two rounds though likewise with Furia the 04:32:16.580 --> 04:32:21.220 opening pick hasn't always meant that that round has been won it's a stat that's been struggled 04:32:21.220 --> 04:32:27.300 to be converted on. It's held true for the last few rounds though but without big pop-off 04:32:27.300 --> 04:32:31.580 performances from... although it doesn't parlor. 04:32:31.580 --> 04:32:34.740 Tuxedo W7M would be way out of the fight here today. 04:32:34.740 --> 04:32:38.220 They're really relying on these big solo pop-offs. 04:32:38.220 --> 04:32:42.060 Not necessarily solo, but just chaining a couple of kills together in quick succession. 04:32:42.060 --> 04:32:44.380 And that is the playstyle that Fury are going to give up against you. 04:32:44.380 --> 04:32:48.620 They're not going to come at you one at a time. They're just going to flood. 04:32:48.620 --> 04:32:51.100 They're not playing right. 04:32:51.100 --> 04:33:03.900 Well, long way away from a flood, but I can imagine Flux W7M always ready for that kind 04:33:03.900 --> 04:33:06.220 of play style, especially when you're going to be moving in with a blitz. 04:33:06.220 --> 04:33:10.260 You've got to be careful getting overwhelmed by a shield if you're too overwhelmed as the 04:33:10.260 --> 04:33:13.020 shield if you're too isolated. 04:33:13.020 --> 04:33:18.180 And so the attack, taking a lot of these standard exterior positions, especially we've 04:33:18.180 --> 04:33:22.180 seen saw a lawyer holding this exact position with the soliton scanner trying to gather information 04:33:22.180 --> 04:33:25.940 on the interior. Hertz will likely be the number one target they're looking to find. 04:33:26.580 --> 04:33:29.060 There's going to be anybody by themselves. It'll probably be him. 04:33:30.660 --> 04:33:33.540 Can he hear the shield drop across the way or is he detonating? 04:33:34.580 --> 04:33:37.700 We'll give Hertz double information as the blitz position. 04:33:38.420 --> 04:33:41.060 So the smoke goes down to cover the angle. Wolves the first to fall. 04:33:41.620 --> 04:33:44.740 Go very fast trade. No defies any impact brought. 04:33:44.740 --> 04:33:48.820 though with the loss of the capital some active utility that looks at every seven 04:33:48.820 --> 04:33:52.980 I might otherwise desire spotted lobin ripping up the wall in front of him to 04:33:52.980 --> 04:33:57.380 get at his target and a lot of individual performances from fury and some of these 04:33:57.380 --> 04:34:00.860 rounds herds on attack deus on defense and how lawyer as well getting 04:34:00.860 --> 04:34:05.320 involved finally an advantage breaks their way three to two my dodez and 04:34:05.320 --> 04:34:13.100 Polly remain on the top floor uncontested within the disadvantage the 04:34:13.100 --> 04:34:15.420 The round has sort of happened in reverse, hasn't it? 04:34:15.420 --> 04:34:18.220 We've seen a bit of a side-execute attempted in, 04:34:18.220 --> 04:34:20.540 yet we're now only getting Boogie Jones 04:34:20.540 --> 04:34:22.860 sent out onto that top floor parlor. 04:34:22.860 --> 04:34:25.500 He's gonna fall, get shot through the soft wall there. 04:34:27.260 --> 04:34:31.020 Lawyer hits him with the business. 04:34:31.020 --> 04:34:32.180 I don't think it was Lawyer on the swing. 04:34:32.180 --> 04:34:33.860 I think it was, actually Diaz. 04:34:34.780 --> 04:34:37.220 Dota is now in a bit of a do or die. 04:34:37.220 --> 04:34:38.460 I has to find three kills. 04:34:38.460 --> 04:34:40.420 He's got tons of time. 04:34:40.420 --> 04:34:41.980 And I don't think he's got too much information 04:34:41.980 --> 04:34:44.180 given that none of his team are sat there watching the drone, 04:34:44.180 --> 04:34:47.300 but default cameras are flashing all over the place. 04:34:47.300 --> 04:34:50.080 Oxera and I saw Crouch Pete to seal the deal. 04:34:51.060 --> 04:34:53.980 Inferior tie things up once again. 04:34:57.860 --> 04:34:59.540 As close to games you could probably get 04:34:59.540 --> 04:35:00.940 on Fortress so far. 04:35:00.940 --> 04:35:03.780 I mean, I think the leads at one point in time 04:35:03.780 --> 04:35:05.780 were two rounds and that was all the way 04:35:05.780 --> 04:35:06.620 at the beginning of the game. 04:35:06.620 --> 04:35:08.140 Since then it has been very tit for tat 04:35:08.140 --> 04:35:09.460 between these two teams. 04:35:09.460 --> 04:35:16.140 And for Fluxo W7M in particular, that might favor them because they are in the lead. 04:35:16.140 --> 04:35:21.460 It's also evidence that Furia, if they just start making the right adjustment or make 04:35:21.460 --> 04:35:26.220 the right play or even just get lucky once, that lead is a whole lot more fragile and 04:35:26.220 --> 04:35:27.540 you might otherwise think. 04:35:27.540 --> 04:35:31.380 And as we move up to the second floor, of course, turning our attention back to that 04:35:31.380 --> 04:35:35.500 ace in the Azami ban, how did Furia adapt to those defenses? 04:35:35.500 --> 04:35:38.940 Well, bringing the presence of a bit more trap operators, you've got the introduction 04:35:38.940 --> 04:35:42.580 of the Fenrir of course, but in tandem with the Ella, 04:35:42.580 --> 04:35:44.680 finds a lot of information for what Fluxo W7M 04:35:44.680 --> 04:35:47.420 are going for, and if you're going to bring those shields, 04:35:47.420 --> 04:35:49.100 the possibility of running into one of those 04:35:49.100 --> 04:35:50.900 could end up stalling your approach, 04:35:50.900 --> 04:35:53.300 could end up delaying a lot of time 04:35:53.300 --> 04:35:54.900 and providing information to the defense 04:35:54.900 --> 04:35:57.500 as well as disvanaging you in any kind of gunfight. 04:35:57.500 --> 04:36:00.300 Fluxo W7M will stick with that strategy in this round. 04:36:00.300 --> 04:36:02.340 They will bring the shield again, 04:36:02.340 --> 04:36:03.860 though it's a last second change 04:36:03.860 --> 04:36:05.900 from the Blitz to the Blackbeard. 04:36:05.900 --> 04:36:07.100 The presence of those traps now, 04:36:07.100 --> 04:36:10.460 razor blooms instead of the Gershmots is going to be a factor they'll have to contend with again. 04:36:14.220 --> 04:36:21.980 Thorn increasingly popular at the moment. Great gun, really in gadget, something that can be really 04:36:21.980 --> 04:36:27.340 good at not only dealing with shields but sort of forcing attackers into really less than 04:36:27.340 --> 04:36:32.380 favorable positions. You trigger a razor bloom, you're left with one option and if you just 04:36:32.380 --> 04:36:37.380 just hopped in a window. Turning round and hopping back out isn't really one of them. 04:36:37.380 --> 04:36:41.380 You're likely just going to have to firm it and push through and hope that you find a 04:36:41.380 --> 04:36:47.620 pocket. Notice, quickly dealing with one of the Castle Barricades that Volpe has popped 04:36:47.620 --> 04:36:52.060 out there. It's going to be a plethora of nades, so there's not going to be too much 04:36:52.060 --> 04:36:56.740 of a problem in round 11. It feels like a really big round, just through the back 04:36:56.740 --> 04:37:02.100 and forth nature that Forged has been so far. The first team to guarantee that 04:37:02.100 --> 04:37:06.420 over time. It's going to give themselves a heck of an advantage here. 04:37:06.420 --> 04:37:12.700 Otis, I'm going to try and blank off. Those treksing is getting sent out there, box 04:37:12.700 --> 04:37:16.700 aira. Trying to challenge onto some of that vert as well. One of the razor blooms can 04:37:16.700 --> 04:37:21.780 be heard there going off. That's enough of a reason as any both herds and box aira 04:37:21.780 --> 04:37:26.540 to dip out and just retreat back into command. 04:37:26.540 --> 04:37:29.900 You see the idea from Fluxo W7M there, use the nade and then cut them off through 04:37:29.900 --> 04:37:33.820 that vertical angle. Unfortunately, CAG's up herds doesn't end up finding any kills, 04:37:33.820 --> 04:37:38.500 but we'll push the defense back. Second half around to secure this minimal control as Orchard 04:37:38.500 --> 04:37:45.660 W7 never made progress. They are a bit claustrophobic at the moment, just outside of command. 04:37:45.660 --> 04:37:50.180 Loven taking down the first, from neither side gaining a lead. They continue to find 04:37:50.180 --> 04:37:54.820 their advantage and the defense seems to be holding strong! Oh, Dodez! Sides to reload, 04:37:54.820 --> 04:37:56.840 the exact moment that Fenrir crosses. 04:37:58.840 --> 04:38:00.420 Here you're keeping them at bay quite effectively. 04:38:00.420 --> 04:38:01.580 A quick swing around the corner 04:38:01.580 --> 04:38:03.620 as Volts with a better positioning. 04:38:03.620 --> 04:38:04.500 It's his furious pick. 04:38:04.500 --> 04:38:05.940 Taking the lead wouldn't be a surprise, 04:38:05.940 --> 04:38:07.340 but holding this strong. 04:38:07.340 --> 04:38:09.580 Taking the lead away from Flux or W7M 04:38:09.580 --> 04:38:12.680 as they started out so strong on the second half. 04:38:12.680 --> 04:38:15.020 It's a must win at the moment. 04:38:15.020 --> 04:38:17.780 It's now Doad as the only one left. 04:38:17.780 --> 04:38:21.180 No needs to speak of 45 seconds sometime. 04:38:21.180 --> 04:38:23.380 The moment he swings one, the others will go next, 04:38:23.380 --> 04:38:27.020 but Lawyer takes him down, very narrowly cost his life, 04:38:27.020 --> 04:38:29.260 but finally somebody gets to in a row 04:38:29.260 --> 04:38:31.500 and it's Furia one round away from their pick. 04:38:32.500 --> 04:38:33.940 It's been a while since that's happened, 04:38:33.940 --> 04:38:36.700 but Furia managed to cement that OT 04:38:37.660 --> 04:38:40.180 on a chatter in the old chat there. 04:38:41.420 --> 04:38:43.740 Sounds like this that I wish I understood. 04:38:45.180 --> 04:38:49.100 Look, so gonna choose now to take their tactical time out, 04:38:49.100 --> 04:38:51.660 try and give themselves a little bit of clarity 04:38:51.660 --> 04:38:59.580 the move into what could be the last round here on Fortress into hold off. 04:38:59.580 --> 04:39:04.060 Curia, they're really successful round. 04:39:04.060 --> 04:39:05.900 And again, a round where they open and pick. 04:39:05.900 --> 04:39:09.820 Lobans had the opening pick in the last three rounds, links. 04:39:09.820 --> 04:39:14.860 And Fluxo W7M, they've been able to convert one of them. 04:39:16.140 --> 04:39:19.500 And I think part of it is based on what you can see from the shift in 04:39:19.500 --> 04:39:25.580 strategy. It's we saw this shift a bit earlier on from Flux of W7M when they were on the defenses, 04:39:25.580 --> 04:39:31.340 but when you have an attack that is generally good at well in Flux of W7M's case using the shields 04:39:31.340 --> 04:39:35.420 to kind of break through and create gaps and isolate engagements, a natural solution is to 04:39:35.420 --> 04:39:40.460 bring those trap operators, which if you look at the sort of lineups we saw, we had one maybe 04:39:40.460 --> 04:39:44.860 in the lineups from Furia, but then since I would say around 10, we've seen double both 04:39:44.860 --> 04:39:48.180 times, Ella then Fenrir and then Thorne then Fenrir. 04:39:48.180 --> 04:39:49.460 And now is actually the first time 04:39:49.460 --> 04:39:51.260 where we don't see that straight up, 04:39:51.260 --> 04:39:52.940 but it comes in an important moment. 04:39:52.940 --> 04:39:55.140 When Fluxor W7 are taking that tactical time out, 04:39:55.140 --> 04:39:57.300 they're thinking, okay, we want to use the shield, 04:39:57.300 --> 04:39:58.460 we want to break that control, 04:39:58.460 --> 04:40:00.140 they're going to bring traps, what we can do. 04:40:00.140 --> 04:40:02.060 So if you rotate to a kind of operator 04:40:02.060 --> 04:40:03.460 that honestly I'm kind of surprised 04:40:03.460 --> 04:40:06.220 we've seen so little of this half, 04:40:06.220 --> 04:40:07.340 which is the hard breach denial. 04:40:07.340 --> 04:40:09.140 We saw the K last round, 04:40:09.140 --> 04:40:11.560 but that was basically the first time outside of mute, 04:40:11.560 --> 04:40:13.580 or I guess Tuber Al as well, 04:40:13.580 --> 04:40:26.780 Now we're seeing the full and electrified hard bridge now despite the fact both of them were banned in the first go around so you can see Fioria rotating to a new play style anticipating some kind of response from Flux or W7M instead moving to something entirely different. 04:40:26.780 --> 04:40:31.780 Of course, tackles can be picked. We'll see what Flux or W7M's counter is and the Thatcher gives us a clue. 04:40:31.780 --> 04:40:38.980 The Thatcher is going to be required here if you want to try and get this wall open. 04:40:38.980 --> 04:40:42.740 Of course you've got so much more that you can do with that Thatcher. 04:40:42.740 --> 04:40:48.340 The Grismo mind you can disable, play for C4s, you can also deal with Warden and stop 04:40:48.340 --> 04:40:49.740 those glasses. 04:40:49.740 --> 04:40:55.260 And here a C4 already ripped, pretty early for that to be a Factor, but it makes Lobin 04:40:55.260 --> 04:40:58.300 think twice before just walking in main door. 04:40:58.300 --> 04:41:04.300 I think he'll settle for the default camera for now and just cautiously back himself away. 04:41:04.300 --> 04:41:08.300 I'm not giving any options open heads. 04:41:08.300 --> 04:41:10.300 Trying for a bit of a rat play. 04:41:10.300 --> 04:41:15.300 Just took him there to tower, maybe hoping he could catch someone unawares unprepared. 04:41:15.300 --> 04:41:20.300 I'm gonna bandit trick attempt there and it's gonna work to a degree. 04:41:20.300 --> 04:41:26.300 Still 12 pellets for cons though, so shouldn't be too much of a concern about getting these walls open. 04:41:26.300 --> 04:41:30.460 open. You just don't really want to be stacking up in that position when you've got the single 04:41:30.460 --> 04:41:35.980 window that looks onto the breach. Maybe this vert play is going to be the key that opens 04:41:35.980 --> 04:41:39.500 the lock for Fluxo. 04:41:39.500 --> 04:41:43.900 It certainly unlocks the first kill. The third who's riding at the beginning, not 04:41:43.900 --> 04:41:48.660 necessarily right then, but goes down to the attacking team making watch of that angle 04:41:48.660 --> 04:41:54.980 Oopalu with the flank watch reveals Vulp's flank who is none the wiser to that information 04:41:56.180 --> 04:42:03.300 Lot of damage done to these attackers so Dots, Dota's and Palu quite susceptible to enemy fire 04:42:03.860 --> 04:42:08.740 but Dots knows it's got the warden's exact position figured out well bait him in but 04:42:08.740 --> 04:42:13.540 it's getting revealed in the process and so the warden wisely retreats well I'm not sure that 04:42:13.540 --> 04:42:18.740 he will know just how close he came to death. We certainly won't have the impact that he might have 04:42:18.740 --> 04:42:23.780 otherwise because of that information. That being said though, only a minute remaining and Fluxer 04:42:23.780 --> 04:42:27.860 W7M have not made much progress in the game for an scheme of things. One of the only full health 04:42:27.860 --> 04:42:31.700 members of their attack has now gone down and they've not made too much progress beyond that. 04:42:33.540 --> 04:42:38.180 It's still struggling to get this wall open. It's still causing them a lot of concern. 04:42:38.180 --> 04:42:41.620 50 seconds left on the clock and they're gonna be attempting it again. 04:42:42.900 --> 04:42:44.820 A couple of Thatcher's getting sent out there. 04:42:46.420 --> 04:42:48.180 Plenty of Xcaros pellets. 04:42:49.860 --> 04:42:55.460 As you say, the HP advantage, it just isn't there for Flux OW7M Furia. 04:42:55.460 --> 04:42:57.220 They just need to play patiently right now. 04:42:58.020 --> 04:43:01.620 This is gonna be a very flat push when it eventually happens. 04:43:01.620 --> 04:43:04.500 A low HP blitz is not really where you want to be. 04:43:04.500 --> 04:43:06.980 There's not too much that you're gonna be able to do to mount off the back of it. 04:43:06.980 --> 04:43:10.860 A C4 burn out, but still toxic babes remain. 04:43:12.540 --> 04:43:14.660 And one will choke dots even further, 04:43:14.660 --> 04:43:15.940 Lawyer at getting the next kill, 04:43:15.940 --> 04:43:17.900 Codds crushed to fall, 04:43:17.900 --> 04:43:19.820 Furia just not even, 04:43:19.820 --> 04:43:23.140 not even phased by Fluxo W7M's attack. 04:43:23.140 --> 04:43:24.940 A known quantity and a constant 04:43:24.940 --> 04:43:28.260 around which Furia have ensnared. 04:43:28.260 --> 04:43:31.340 Seven to five, three defensive wins in a row 04:43:31.340 --> 04:43:34.100 and Fortress is certainly Furia's map. 04:43:34.100 --> 04:43:39.100 the defensive side in particular. 04:43:39.100 --> 04:43:54.100 Looking fantastic and equal split on the attack. I don't I don't think you can ask for much more. They did everything. They played at different levels. They knew when to turn it on the new one to dial it back a little bit. The new ones play time. They even were able to fight back from losing the man advantage so many times. 04:43:54.100 --> 04:43:59.100 Those last three rounds that they won. They lost the opening picking every single round. 04:43:59.100 --> 04:44:01.740 one they lost the opening picking every single round 04:44:02.700 --> 04:44:09.020 v7m just off the pace at the moment and if the ultra has anything to go by i think that furia 04:44:09.020 --> 04:44:14.460 would given it the biggin in there as well despite the little bit of a whoopsy that we saw at the 04:44:14.460 --> 04:44:18.940 end of round number five they've walked away with map number one we're gonna hit very short 04:44:18.940 --> 04:44:23.660 break and after that we will be back excuse me with map number two which is gonna be cafe in 04:44:23.660 --> 04:44:28.460 in this series. 04:44:28.460 --> 04:44:29.460 And it's official! 04:44:29.460 --> 04:44:32.860 The Kingdom Hearts of FPS games is real! 04:44:32.860 --> 04:44:38.060 Okay, okay, that's obviously a joke, but unless you've been hiding in the cave for the past 04:44:38.060 --> 04:44:43.140 few months, you already know that the main character from the Metal Gear franchise is 04:44:43.140 --> 04:44:50.180 now on a mission inside Rainbow Six, the legend himself, Solid Snake. 04:44:50.180 --> 04:44:56.540 So let's break it down and see what this iconic creation of Hideo Kojima can actually do in 04:44:56.540 --> 04:44:58.120 the world of Siege. 04:44:58.120 --> 04:45:04.320 Snake is a brand new attacking operator introduced in Operation Silent Hunt, and his stats is 04:45:04.320 --> 04:45:06.960 got 1 health and 3 speed. 04:45:06.960 --> 04:45:13.480 His loadout is just as spicy, the beautiful F2 has his primary weapon and the exclusive 04:45:13.480 --> 04:45:20.140 Tassid.45 has this secondary, which by the way is basically the same suppress pistol he 04:45:20.140 --> 04:45:21.920 uses in his own games. 04:45:21.920 --> 04:45:26.160 Now, when it comes to secondary gadgets, you've got options. 04:45:26.160 --> 04:45:27.640 A lot of options. 04:45:27.640 --> 04:45:33.360 Frag grenades, stunts, impacts, smokes and even breathe charges. 04:45:33.360 --> 04:45:40.160 But the real highlight here is his signature gadget, the Salaton Raider MK3. 04:45:40.160 --> 04:45:43.080 This thing doesn't just reveal defender positions. 04:45:43.080 --> 04:45:48.920 It also shows which direction they are facing, but don't get too excited. 04:45:48.920 --> 04:45:52.600 Charges are limited and enemies will know when you activate it. 04:45:52.600 --> 04:45:55.400 So yeah, timing is everything. 04:45:55.400 --> 04:45:56.400 And that's not all. 04:45:56.400 --> 04:46:02.480 Snake can also pick up secondary gadgets from eliminated defenders, giving him even more 04:46:02.480 --> 04:46:05.200 adaptability as the round goes on. 04:46:05.200 --> 04:46:11.760 Now to me, everything sounds pretty solid, maybe a little too solid if I'm being 04:46:11.760 --> 04:46:12.760 honest. 04:46:12.760 --> 04:46:17.760 to the bros think about this new and very famous operator. 04:46:42.760 --> 04:46:45.840 I dragged him and he knows what you're doing. 04:46:45.840 --> 04:46:47.680 At the same time, you're going to get a gun, that's it. 04:46:47.680 --> 04:46:49.680 But if you give him a gun, it's going to get worse. 04:46:49.680 --> 04:46:51.180 I don't think the guy 4-1 is good, isn't it? 04:46:51.180 --> 04:46:55.340 Perfect, efficient, adaptable, and with an easy-to-use gadget. 04:46:55.340 --> 04:46:57.180 Nothing to complain about. 04:46:57.180 --> 04:46:59.520 Editor, go ahead and stamp it. 04:46:59.520 --> 04:47:00.680 Approved! 04:47:00.680 --> 04:47:02.520 But what about you guys? 04:47:02.520 --> 04:47:03.980 Do you like the new operator? 04:47:03.980 --> 04:47:05.760 Do you think he's going to be meta? 04:47:05.760 --> 04:47:07.460 Drop your thoughts in the comments. 04:47:07.460 --> 04:47:09.660 I'm out for now. Thanks for watching, everyone. 04:47:09.660 --> 04:47:10.820 See you next time! 04:47:10.820 --> 04:47:11.520 I'm IBS? 04:47:11.520 --> 04:47:12.220 IBS? 04:47:12.220 --> 04:47:13.520 IBS is easy, man. 04:47:13.520 --> 04:47:14.720 Worst team in the world. 04:47:14.720 --> 04:47:15.820 IBS is 6. 04:47:15.820 --> 04:47:17.620 Wow, I have a special activity. 04:47:17.620 --> 04:47:19.620 Wow, how boring it is, right? 04:47:19.620 --> 04:47:21.320 I think it's very cool. 04:47:21.320 --> 04:47:22.120 I'm going to put BD. 04:47:22.120 --> 04:47:23.520 The old NTC. 04:47:23.520 --> 04:47:26.020 Wow, what a bad team, man. 04:47:26.020 --> 04:47:26.820 It's BD, I think. 04:47:26.820 --> 04:47:27.820 I don't know. 04:47:27.820 --> 04:47:29.920 A lot of tradition, a small team. 04:47:29.920 --> 04:47:31.320 It's true, I think it's the same, man. 04:47:31.320 --> 04:47:33.620 But these guys are very bad, it's hard, man. 04:47:33.620 --> 04:47:35.320 The players themselves, the team, 04:47:35.320 --> 04:47:38.220 they say we're in BD, to the minus-prez, I don't know. 04:47:38.220 --> 04:47:40.800 Who is from outside, it's not like I'm from a different place. 04:47:40.800 --> 04:47:42.460 But you always remember the name. 04:47:42.460 --> 04:47:43.760 Flutin, you know what I mean? 04:47:43.760 --> 04:47:46.260 The guys managed to compete in the old Flutin. 04:47:46.260 --> 04:47:48.860 Now there's no respect for this tag. 04:47:48.860 --> 04:47:50.260 I'm a Capetinha, bro. 04:47:50.260 --> 04:47:51.420 I'm a Capetinha, bro. 04:47:51.420 --> 04:47:52.060 Wow. 04:47:52.060 --> 04:47:54.960 Look at these guys with no humility. 04:47:54.960 --> 04:47:55.560 Holy shit. 04:47:55.560 --> 04:47:56.960 I'm a Capetinha, bro. 04:47:56.960 --> 04:47:58.660 I think I'm the 16th Capetinha. 04:47:58.660 --> 04:48:00.300 I'm Dina. 04:48:00.300 --> 04:48:01.000 I don't know. 04:48:01.000 --> 04:48:02.160 Bro, you have a better idea, bro. 04:48:02.160 --> 04:48:02.700 Good? 04:48:02.700 --> 04:48:03.200 Good player? 04:48:03.200 --> 04:48:03.660 I'm Alemão. 04:48:03.660 --> 04:48:05.700 He's always playing with the other guys. 04:48:05.700 --> 04:48:07.000 It's just a few problems now. 04:48:07.000 --> 04:48:08.000 I'm in the R6. 04:48:08.000 --> 04:48:10.000 I was already playing No. 2. 04:48:10.000 --> 04:48:12.000 You were playing all the problems you talked about. 04:48:12.000 --> 04:48:14.000 You wanted to play PVV, being in spools. 04:48:14.000 --> 04:48:16.000 Because the guy is a pro player, he's a problem, 04:48:16.000 --> 04:48:17.000 but he still plays a lot. 04:48:17.000 --> 04:48:19.000 He talks a lot, he already had his target, 04:48:19.000 --> 04:48:21.000 but today he doesn't. 04:48:38.000 --> 04:48:43.880 won the map. Yeah, in the grand scheme of things it was bait. At the end of it we 04:48:43.880 --> 04:48:49.840 still got a victory for Furia 7-5 hard fought here on map 1. Fortress, how do we 04:48:49.840 --> 04:48:54.560 get to this point here? Because Furia were locking things in that the 04:48:54.560 --> 04:48:58.520 Studo was playing well. We had the 3-3-1 half and then on the swap things 04:48:58.520 --> 04:49:03.320 just were not flowing well for Flexi-7-7. Yeah, they just look in the 04:49:03.320 --> 04:49:06.960 defense which is in theory where the play style of a team like Furia that 04:49:06.960 --> 04:49:11.280 that thrives on the individual players holding individual areas is just going to thrive. 04:49:11.280 --> 04:49:13.880 I think that's just where it's going to work. 04:49:13.880 --> 04:49:18.800 For them to already achieve a 3-3 side, on full trust that's a little bit different 04:49:18.800 --> 04:49:24.280 as I said right now in the meta was already in my opinion the best heads out possible. 04:49:24.280 --> 04:49:28.120 As soon as I saw 3-3 I was like okay it's probably in their hands now to just take 04:49:28.120 --> 04:49:29.120 it 7-5. 04:49:29.120 --> 04:49:32.840 Like if they have a full 3-3 defense it's very doable. 04:49:32.840 --> 04:49:37.280 It was a game that we expected, you know, when we expected that this to have some crazy 04:49:37.280 --> 04:49:40.600 multi-kill, some crazy moments, I think we got what we wanted. 04:49:40.600 --> 04:49:41.600 I think we got what we wanted. 04:49:41.600 --> 04:49:46.040 I think some crazy individual plays from there and here and there. 04:49:46.040 --> 04:49:51.240 Lobin gets a 3k on that one, by the way, in round 4, just the round before. 04:49:51.240 --> 04:49:55.080 And then finally, the round after that, by the way, the round 6, this was one 04:49:55.080 --> 04:50:00.040 of the cleanest attacks, the round 6 here, oh my god, like, it's a 5-3-3-1, everything 04:50:00.040 --> 04:50:04.680 and then there's the execute. Here comes the execute, 3v1, 04:50:04.680 --> 04:50:08.400 probably gets the first kill here, there was a triple kill, fourth kill, 04:50:08.400 --> 04:50:14.840 and then, oh, the extension of the shield. Why? This should have been a 4 to speak. 04:50:14.840 --> 04:50:17.640 This is why I think that strategically Feria won the game. I think first and 04:50:17.640 --> 04:50:20.440 foremost they attacked way better. 04:50:21.600 --> 04:50:26.680 Beginning to adapt to the way that Flux of the Shield was playing, I thought 04:50:26.680 --> 04:50:30.660 It's smart on their side, you know, to bring the solid snake consistently, bring a demo's 04:50:30.660 --> 04:50:35.660 or a shield, try to gain the advantage early on when you thought that Feria was going to 04:50:35.660 --> 04:50:36.660 be aggressive. 04:50:36.660 --> 04:50:37.660 It was. 04:50:37.660 --> 04:50:41.220 Feria, yes, some of the players are aggressive, but they also know how to peel really well. 04:50:41.220 --> 04:50:44.820 And so as soon as they had the advantage, they knew how to abuse it. 04:50:44.820 --> 04:50:46.700 This is a perfect example, by the way. 04:50:46.700 --> 04:50:52.500 This was a 4v2 round, and obviously they made it back to a 2v2. 04:50:52.500 --> 04:50:54.300 That's the problem in the way that Feria plays. 04:50:54.300 --> 04:50:57.260 That's what the 5v3 that they brought back and they won it by the way. 04:50:57.260 --> 04:51:00.860 That's the problem when you face Ximac Feria, is that every single player on that lineup 04:51:00.860 --> 04:51:05.820 can go and get a crazy 3k and make a round that was seemingly impossible to win, suddenly 04:51:05.820 --> 04:51:07.380 become possible to win. 04:51:07.380 --> 04:51:12.220 And that's how, if you look at the last few rounds, consistently Fox 2.0 and Ximac 04:51:12.220 --> 04:51:16.460 win the opening engagement, and yet despite that man advantage, Feria will always find 04:51:16.460 --> 04:51:20.220 a double kill, a triple kill here and there to bring back the man advantage. 04:51:20.220 --> 04:51:25.340 It is so frustrating for Flux to lose to them because they do the first step well, but then 04:51:25.340 --> 04:51:27.020 get punished afterwards. 04:51:27.020 --> 04:51:30.820 And I just want to praise Lobbyn here because he's playing against some of the best guns 04:51:30.820 --> 04:51:34.340 in the world, and he goes 5-1 in the entry. 04:51:34.340 --> 04:51:38.020 And yet despite that, his team is just full shot because they are unable to have the 04:51:38.020 --> 04:51:40.860 discipline to shut down the aggression from Furia. 04:51:40.860 --> 04:51:45.780 Yeah, losing, like gaining that entry kill, which is why you're highlighting Lobbyn 04:51:45.780 --> 04:51:49.820 in this case, 5-1 on entries, you're getting entries, it's working great, and then 04:51:49.820 --> 04:51:52.960 you're not able to capitalize on top of it and the reason why we mention it is 04:51:52.960 --> 04:51:56.260 that statistically speaking and this is not new this is over the entire 04:51:56.260 --> 04:52:00.940 existence of statistics in Rainbow Six we're going back to the times where you 04:52:00.940 --> 04:52:06.980 have to manually track everything by hand the entire point was you get the 04:52:06.980 --> 04:52:11.460 opening kill and suddenly your potential to win the round spikes to 70 04:52:11.460 --> 04:52:16.580 to 80 percent which is huge so there is always the chance of get the 04:52:16.580 --> 04:52:20.900 opening kill, slow it down, solidify your position, and then play after that. 04:52:20.900 --> 04:52:24.380 That's where attackers, you see them always ganging up at one player in the 04:52:24.380 --> 04:52:28.340 beginning on the roam, or maybe a bit off position. There was a lot of that for 04:52:28.340 --> 04:52:32.600 Furia, but what Furia were doing so well is lurking in little spots the 04:52:32.600 --> 04:52:36.900 whole time. Is that yeah, you take out one, but on the other side you got two 04:52:36.900 --> 04:52:42.540 or three others that are lined up as if using that player's bait to shred 04:52:42.540 --> 04:52:46.620 through whatever frontline you have and by the time you get to the point where 04:52:46.620 --> 04:52:50.780 you're pushing for a site you're going for a plant you have a very limp attack 04:52:50.780 --> 04:52:54.580 going into the site because you've lost all the utility and the manpower that 04:52:54.580 --> 04:52:59.300 you need for it that's where fury are really really shine that Panther that 04:52:59.300 --> 04:53:03.620 represents the team it's there for a reason because they know exactly when to 04:53:03.620 --> 04:53:06.820 strike and they hide all around the jungle that is whatever map they're 04:53:06.820 --> 04:53:09.820 on they'll jump on you when the opportunity comes 04:53:09.820 --> 04:53:18.460 strong for them. Like, to be honest, they were the second best team in the all-of-kickoff 04:53:18.460 --> 04:53:24.860 and group stage in defense win rate, 65% when most of them. And I think it's just because 04:53:24.860 --> 04:53:29.820 of just the talent on the roster. Like I said, most of that defense relies on the individual 04:53:29.820 --> 04:53:34.300 initiatives. One guy holding one area, another one holding one area and calling to each other. 04:53:34.300 --> 04:53:37.900 Those macro plays, they know how to do it perfectly. That's why they're not worried 04:53:37.900 --> 04:53:42.940 than 4v5 because they know that they can still get aggressive and grab that man at his edge back. 04:53:42.940 --> 04:53:47.900 Now why is it a problem? Let's take a look at the map veto again. And why is it a problem for 04:53:47.900 --> 04:53:53.100 FuxxLW7M? Because right now, three are just on their map pick, which meant they were starting 04:53:53.100 --> 04:53:57.740 in attack all good. Now they're headed to cafe. Cafe again, one of the most different 04:53:57.740 --> 04:54:02.700 selling map in the meta. A map that they know very well. And they're going to start defense. 04:54:02.700 --> 04:54:09.420 So the main thing for me is, I'm sure they're going to continue on that momentum, you know, 04:54:09.420 --> 04:54:14.420 the fallback idea, the traps of use, and the idea that whatever happens, your backline 04:54:14.420 --> 04:54:18.580 will be able to fight themself, you know, around the bomb site, even if you're in the 04:54:18.580 --> 04:54:20.460 heavy man disadvantage. 04:54:20.460 --> 04:54:24.900 For the side of Fluxor 7M, what I need to see change is the discipline once you get 04:54:24.900 --> 04:54:25.980 that man advantage. 04:54:25.980 --> 04:54:28.460 You know that, Fiora, they're going to go and aggress you. 04:54:28.460 --> 04:54:31.900 Most of the time, it's around the 1 minute, 1 minute 30 mark. 04:54:31.900 --> 04:54:34.860 When you're just preparing for the execute, you have utility in their hands. 04:54:34.860 --> 04:54:36.460 That's when Feria gets aggressive. 04:54:36.460 --> 04:54:38.460 So they should be expecting that. 04:54:38.460 --> 04:54:42.820 As soon as you get that injury kill, you've done half of the job, stay close to each other, 04:54:42.820 --> 04:54:48.140 have great discipline and punish the aggression because it's going to be coming. 04:54:48.140 --> 04:54:50.220 I am very fearful here. 04:54:50.220 --> 04:54:54.100 There's going to be something that the Flux of W7 have to bring out on their attack. 04:54:54.100 --> 04:54:58.300 thing is you might be thinking oh well they can run the same Testudo Roman 04:54:58.300 --> 04:55:02.460 set up that Furia were running on fortress right a lot of things are 04:55:02.460 --> 04:55:07.660 translating for fortress into cafe pretty well but you think Furia are not 04:55:07.660 --> 04:55:11.580 gonna actually just be ready for that and immediately fight back against you 04:55:11.580 --> 04:55:15.060 they're gonna ban the big shield that you might rely on maybe it'll be the 04:55:15.060 --> 04:55:19.620 Monty maybe it'll be a Blackbeard or the Blitz it's gonna be a tough time 04:55:19.620 --> 04:55:20.620 time. 04:55:20.620 --> 04:55:21.620 Yes. 04:55:21.620 --> 04:55:25.020 Could also be, you know, I think you have two options on the setup area. 04:55:25.020 --> 04:55:28.860 It's either you remove the shields and you make dots blind, basically, and it becomes 04:55:28.860 --> 04:55:33.180 really impossible for them to get into the building and its struggles to IGL from there. 04:55:33.180 --> 04:55:36.780 Either remove the solid snake and the Deimos, because those are the ones that have made 04:55:36.780 --> 04:55:41.300 it really hard for the guys to roam and to win the initial opening engagements. 04:55:41.300 --> 04:55:45.220 This is something we talked about once the, I think a couple rounds into the second 04:55:45.220 --> 04:55:54.480 where you're seeing the the demos the snake and the ducati come out just to try to help out with or without a lion depending on the 04:55:54.480 --> 04:56:01.800 situations where the three operators together are meant to corner in a different way it's like a sidegrade to playing shields when none are 04:56:01.800 --> 04:56:09.460 available in a situation like that. I like the idea execution unfortunately did not go well in the attack for Flux of W7M I wonder if 04:56:09.460 --> 04:56:14.580 they're gonna replay that and bring it back here for cafe if not at least have 04:56:14.580 --> 04:56:19.060 something that's that's solid now I'm not gonna discount anybody because we saw it 04:56:19.060 --> 04:56:25.220 in game one and Tim liquid Tim liquid Alienware and an IP how map one went 04:56:25.220 --> 04:56:29.660 and wrote a map to and things were completely flipped on its head each team 04:56:29.660 --> 04:56:34.700 won their own map pick and I would say that map to went in very distinct 04:56:34.700 --> 04:56:39.820 fashion for the Ninjas and Pajamas. Can it be recreated here in a completely different 04:56:39.820 --> 04:56:48.340 scenario? I'm not sure yet. I'm not saying yet also that Pino has maybe I guess cursed 04:56:48.340 --> 04:56:57.420 the Fuxxer W7M but that's just all a theory in here Leo. So from a comeback 04:56:57.420 --> 04:57:02.860 perspective what do you got to lock in for the attacking side on cafe even if 04:57:02.860 --> 04:57:05.300 This is your map pick as fuck, so they're 7-M. 04:57:05.300 --> 04:57:07.540 Well, I think I've already explained the blueprint for me, 04:57:07.540 --> 04:57:11.340 is that you know that Friya have a very unique playstyle, 04:57:11.340 --> 04:57:12.580 but it's very readable. 04:57:12.580 --> 04:57:14.220 As soon as you will get an advantage, 04:57:14.220 --> 04:57:16.940 they will try and find a way either to conflict you, 04:57:16.940 --> 04:57:19.260 either when you try to go for the execute, 04:57:19.260 --> 04:57:22.020 to have someone hidden somewhere and go for a crazy kill. 04:57:22.020 --> 04:57:24.460 So the easiest thing to go about this is, 04:57:24.460 --> 04:57:28.300 as soon as you get an opening engagement and you win it, 04:57:28.300 --> 04:57:29.940 you hit that reset button, 04:57:29.940 --> 04:57:31.460 and you make a clear win condition. 04:57:31.460 --> 04:57:32.740 We're gonna take this pace, 04:57:32.740 --> 04:57:37.540 we're going to execute here, everyone stays close to each other, and someone sits on flank 04:57:37.540 --> 04:57:38.860 drones the whole time. 04:57:38.860 --> 04:57:43.700 So long as you have that, and you play anti-Roma parryters such as Dian, such as the KAD, Evan 04:57:43.700 --> 04:57:46.440 Deimos, or even Soul Snake, whatever is open. 04:57:46.440 --> 04:57:50.660 So long as you have one dedicated flank watch, I can assure you, especially on a map like 04:57:50.660 --> 04:57:54.460 Café where Gridlock has played a lot, that you will get free kills from just sitting 04:57:54.460 --> 04:57:57.040 on drones and waiting for Phyria to come to you. 04:57:57.040 --> 04:58:00.900 Because that is the one way, the one trick thing, the best way for them to 04:58:00.900 --> 04:58:01.900 just win rounds. 04:58:01.900 --> 04:58:03.900 So they abuse it as much as they can 04:58:04.620 --> 04:58:10.640 Well, that's from us. Let's bring it to casters here and have a quick chat as I believe our game is almost set 04:58:10.640 --> 04:58:16.100 Oh, no, it is it is. Oh my god. We hear it in the back. We've summoned it links Olly 04:58:16.100 --> 04:58:21.180 I'm not gonna ask you much going into this, but are we believing and a comeback for map three? Yes or no 04:58:21.840 --> 04:58:23.260 now 04:58:23.260 --> 04:58:25.260 Oh nice 04:58:31.900 --> 04:58:40.080 Literally I get asked a question. I answer the question because we are low on time and I am getting flack for it 04:58:41.440 --> 04:58:43.440 Assaulted for my opinion 04:58:46.080 --> 04:58:49.680 But in all seriousness in all seriousness, I actually think 04:58:50.080 --> 04:58:52.860 To give Leo the credit he did not extend to me with that answer 04:58:52.860 --> 04:58:56.260 I actually think the last point that Leo brought up is a particularly good one 04:58:56.260 --> 04:58:58.260 on specifically playing the 04:58:58.260 --> 04:59:00.260 flank watch operators on not 04:59:00.260 --> 04:59:02.260 only against Furia Ali, but on 04:59:02.260 --> 04:59:04.260 cafe. I mean how many times over 04:59:04.260 --> 04:59:06.260 the past year I feel like have 04:59:06.260 --> 04:59:08.260 we talked about gridlock's 04:59:08.260 --> 04:59:10.260 importance on this map and while 04:59:10.260 --> 04:59:12.260 she's never important enough to 04:59:12.260 --> 04:59:14.260 get banned. She's always 04:59:14.260 --> 04:59:16.260 important enough to get played. 04:59:16.260 --> 04:59:18.260 Yeah, I mean, it's just too 04:59:18.260 --> 04:59:20.260 popular contested, isn't it? 04:59:20.260 --> 04:59:22.260 Attacker bands are a real hot 04:59:22.260 --> 04:59:24.260 commodity and you have got to 04:59:24.260 --> 04:59:29.060 They'll play the, you know, they'll play the Nomad, Frankin's still difficult anyway. 04:59:29.060 --> 04:59:34.060 It just doesn't attract the right amount of attention, but it sits on that precipice. 04:59:34.060 --> 04:59:39.100 Because as you say, we will see games where somebody only ever plays that gridlock. 04:59:39.100 --> 04:59:42.460 Um, as it stands, looks like Loeb is going to be switching off. 04:59:42.460 --> 04:59:45.460 He is going to be going over to Rora. 04:59:45.460 --> 04:59:50.860 As I imagine that it's a bit of a surprise that Fury have chosen to go downstairs to 04:59:50.860 --> 04:59:52.340 kick things off. 04:59:52.340 --> 04:59:58.720 From the flux of W7M, we're maybe expecting something a little bit different. Maybe one of the middle floor sites 04:59:59.400 --> 05:00:03.320 Reading and mining or of course reading and dining. However 05:00:04.000 --> 05:00:06.560 Doesn't seem to be the case downstairs. We go 05:00:07.520 --> 05:00:11.180 Herds, very ambitious C4 right off the rip 05:00:11.880 --> 05:00:16.840 Four of them so we can afford to be pretty loose with the first. Oh, yeah 05:00:16.840 --> 05:00:20.520 I think we can see from the outlines. It ain't gonna net too much if he lets it sling 05:00:22.340 --> 05:00:29.540 There's a, oh, we actually threw a completely different C4 out of a window. 05:00:29.540 --> 05:00:33.820 This one's sent out of dining more towards where the attack actually spawned, but similarly 05:00:33.820 --> 05:00:37.700 does not meet any kind of success, unfortunately. 05:00:37.700 --> 05:00:42.540 But with that surplus, with the presence of an additional three after the fact, I don't 05:00:42.540 --> 05:00:47.020 think anybody, including Fyria, will really feel all that bothered by the loss of it, 05:00:47.020 --> 05:00:49.500 seems like we got a bit of a setup nearly around here. 05:00:49.500 --> 05:00:55.100 How long did the deathmark tracker goes out with some smokes already prepped to be sent through the VIP double window? 05:00:55.860 --> 05:01:03.300 Another another c4 goes out, but this one also doesn't meet anything early trade between these two teams 05:01:04.260 --> 05:01:07.940 Collie's 1v1 that might be something that makes it a little more decisive 05:01:08.260 --> 05:01:12.540 But if he wins in the backside where the fury holds him off just by their presence 05:01:12.540 --> 05:01:18.260 They have the warden that did what the hell dots is in the site dots has walked in through bakery in the prep 05:01:18.260 --> 05:01:22.940 is halfway to getting the defuser down and the defense has no answer for this. 05:01:22.940 --> 05:01:27.940 The war doors blocked them off perfectly. He's denied every single angle and now 05:01:27.940 --> 05:01:31.660 it's a retake that Fiora have to effectuate. Dott's holding inside of the 05:01:31.660 --> 05:01:35.380 site will bait in a defender as Dodez on the cross takes him down. 05:01:35.380 --> 05:01:39.940 Diaz, waiting in the smoke with one player just on the opposite side will 05:01:39.940 --> 05:01:43.100 look to buy his time and land his opportunity but Loeb in ready for that 05:01:43.100 --> 05:01:46.500 one as well. Every eventuality considered but Dott's floored by one 05:01:46.500 --> 05:01:53.220 Bob of the M five nine still an elegant cross held from Bakery has heard so little ammo in that p-10 Rony 05:01:53.220 --> 05:01:58.620 I've got to land a lot of shots only three seconds ago door pops up and what a beautiful round to start 05:01:59.580 --> 05:02:06.700 Right was on the wall ever ever since looks out chose their lineup ever since that six pick where they picked up the Rora 05:02:06.700 --> 05:02:11.660 It was always going to be a direct to site push. They had no soft breeze. They didn't have a sledge 05:02:11.660 --> 05:02:15.020 They didn't have the RAM they had no intention of Roman 05:02:15.020 --> 05:02:20.720 No intention of doing a Rome clear. They just wanted the site little bit of pressure in the bottom of white 05:02:21.240 --> 05:02:27.860 Brilliant Raurador at the bottom of red stairs cutting off wedding and just a stroll on in the defenders 05:02:28.180 --> 05:02:33.800 Scattered to the wind more concerned with throwing seafoes out of windows and really what was going on 05:02:33.800 --> 05:02:38.160 I think at the point where you don't get pushed on the top floor in the first 30 40 seconds 05:02:38.160 --> 05:02:40.560 You've maybe got to think hang on a minute 05:02:40.560 --> 05:02:46.080 are they just going direct because if you know where they aren't you can guess where they are 05:02:46.080 --> 05:02:56.080 and Fluxo W7M have just stolen around in broad daylight here on cafe and this attack is statistically 05:02:56.080 --> 05:03:02.960 the hardest side of the coin here so getting around on the board nice and early is only 05:03:02.960 --> 05:03:08.160 going to be a good thing for Fluxo especially seeing is that they are fighting this series 05:03:08.160 --> 05:03:09.160 warm-up down. 05:03:38.160 --> 05:03:42.480 you time to really think out the plan you want to do and surprise Fiora much later in the game as 05:03:42.480 --> 05:03:47.280 it appears at the moment. I should know flank watch operators at least the stereotypical ones that 05:03:47.280 --> 05:03:51.120 we talk about you know Nomad of course but specifically the gridlock on this map. You have 05:03:51.120 --> 05:03:55.440 the doki though who will give that anti-roam information that the desktop particularly important 05:03:55.440 --> 05:03:58.880 and with players like Herds and Lawyer are roaming around the map it's something you 05:03:58.880 --> 05:04:05.280 have to consider but at the same time Ollie well before I say that seems low bin oh it's 05:04:05.280 --> 05:04:07.660 It's just found somebody going for a little bit of a walk. 05:04:07.660 --> 05:04:12.780 And unfortunately for Laura, he's not that sneaky today. 05:04:12.780 --> 05:04:19.680 Volts takes Doris down, as you say, not before Laura falls. 05:04:19.680 --> 05:04:21.360 What can we call answered box error? 05:04:21.360 --> 05:04:24.640 Just playing on those cocktail windows. 05:04:24.640 --> 05:04:28.400 A little bit of a stalemate at the moment for Fluxo there. 05:04:28.400 --> 05:04:30.040 They've got a good amount of information. 05:04:30.040 --> 05:04:31.880 They know where a couple of players are. 05:04:31.880 --> 05:04:34.000 I mean, they've got Polly on the salt on the scanner. 05:04:34.000 --> 05:04:38.320 know exactly where at least a few are you know move through and take box error down 05:04:39.600 --> 05:04:45.040 he knows that somebody's in the vicinity in piano he's not got the quite not quite got the pin 05:04:45.040 --> 05:04:52.080 point just yet but all it takes jump into the salt on see where they are assuming someone's 05:04:52.080 --> 05:04:56.800 on the bar but we know this looks into shop the dangerous angle right now and he's has to 05:04:56.800 --> 05:04:59.180 Hey, shut up, but no, Kong's gonna fall. 05:05:01.000 --> 05:05:03.540 Kong's falls and it's herds. 05:05:03.540 --> 05:05:05.120 The next body for Fyria. 05:05:05.120 --> 05:05:06.720 Not, I do not know how Paul, 05:05:06.720 --> 05:05:07.800 who made it out of that crossfire, 05:05:07.800 --> 05:05:10.280 but he somehow evades it entirely. 05:05:10.280 --> 05:05:12.720 Lopes forced back down as DS 05:05:12.720 --> 05:05:15.040 with one press of a button levels things. 05:05:16.580 --> 05:05:18.880 Paul was weaving his way through the top floor 05:05:18.880 --> 05:05:20.640 will not ever see the middle. 05:05:20.640 --> 05:05:21.960 Instead it's a lobe and he tried to pick up 05:05:21.960 --> 05:05:23.680 some of that same success. 05:05:23.680 --> 05:05:25.440 Tucked in Z, a very difficult position 05:05:25.440 --> 05:05:27.960 Given that defender, he turns around at just the right time, 05:05:27.960 --> 05:05:31.240 and now might be DS who's trapped, locks on the low bin. 05:05:31.240 --> 05:05:32.760 No C4. 05:05:32.760 --> 05:05:34.720 Since this will have to be a gunfight, he wins. 05:05:34.720 --> 05:05:36.440 Can God duck down? 05:05:36.440 --> 05:05:39.240 Start playing as defuser, and instead he pushes deeper. 05:05:39.240 --> 05:05:42.280 Looks to take the fight, or make it behind the reinforcement. 05:05:42.280 --> 05:05:44.440 He's checking quite a bit. 05:05:44.440 --> 05:05:46.080 The two foes spot each other. 05:05:46.080 --> 05:05:47.560 God's still looking for the angle, 05:05:47.560 --> 05:05:49.520 but DS is keeping him at bay, 05:05:49.520 --> 05:05:51.840 and ready for it when he peeks through the fireplace, 05:05:51.840 --> 05:05:54.560 perfectly framed in the other site. 05:05:54.560 --> 05:05:56.560 one round for Furia. 05:05:56.560 --> 05:05:59.800 Furia look up for the fight today. 05:05:59.800 --> 05:06:02.160 That's the second round of map two. 05:06:02.160 --> 05:06:05.640 We've got people out of their chair. 05:06:05.640 --> 05:06:08.160 These guys are firing. 05:06:08.160 --> 05:06:11.480 Reading room and fireplace going to be round number three 05:06:11.480 --> 05:06:12.640 for us. 05:06:12.640 --> 05:06:16.960 Again, another round that comes down to a one versus one. 05:06:16.960 --> 05:06:22.040 Been a fairly consistent theme of the game so far. 05:06:22.040 --> 05:06:28.240 There was a couple of wanders, wand thrown into the mix. 05:06:28.240 --> 05:06:34.280 It seems as though Cafe is going to be no different. 05:06:34.280 --> 05:06:38.280 From Flutto's side of things, I think they did a really good job on the roam clear, but 05:06:38.280 --> 05:06:43.440 there was just that little bit of de-sync with Polly like, I was watching him and I 05:06:43.440 --> 05:06:46.240 was expecting to pull out that scanner at any moment. 05:06:46.240 --> 05:06:51.160 Like, that was one of the real key moments that you should be using the salt on scanner 05:06:51.160 --> 05:06:53.500 because you don't quite know where somebody is. 05:06:54.760 --> 05:06:56.520 And we just didn't see it. 05:06:56.520 --> 05:06:58.600 I don't know, it just really confused me. 05:07:00.200 --> 05:07:01.040 Five seconds remaining. 05:07:01.040 --> 05:07:03.520 It was a bit strange, definitely just one of those moments 05:07:03.520 --> 05:07:05.080 that like, narratively you're like, 05:07:05.080 --> 05:07:06.200 okay, this will appear, right? 05:07:06.200 --> 05:07:07.840 This is like, solid snake, it's a snake. 05:07:07.840 --> 05:07:10.080 But no, it didn't, and unfortunately ends up, 05:07:10.080 --> 05:07:11.440 I think just impacting. 05:07:11.440 --> 05:07:13.920 Flux of W7M in a pretty critical way. 05:07:15.880 --> 05:07:17.040 So these will be looked to what fury 05:07:17.040 --> 05:07:18.200 it could possibly do on this side 05:07:18.200 --> 05:07:20.480 as they tied things up quickly. 05:07:20.480 --> 05:07:28.680 Fluxer W7M rotates to the presence of a shield, something we saw in round one, which they were able to sneak. 05:07:28.680 --> 05:07:33.700 Ho-ho-ho! Loyra probably could have killed Dota's right there. 05:07:33.700 --> 05:07:39.460 Decides to make the safer play. Maybe the Nomad was ready, but just misses an opportunity. 05:07:39.460 --> 05:07:41.860 Founds with his Quicksilver. 05:07:41.860 --> 05:07:46.100 It is second floor, so maybe could get a rush, but I don't think it'll be any sneaky play like we saw in round one. 05:07:46.100 --> 05:07:50.920 We'll see a lot of time expender fluxer W7M earlier on into information of these extremities 05:07:53.660 --> 05:07:55.660 Yeah, I don't know if I mean to 05:07:56.660 --> 05:07:58.660 Overplay the hand of gap spotting 05:07:59.420 --> 05:08:03.060 It's cafe. It's going to be difficult attacks are gonna be hard for 05:08:04.100 --> 05:08:06.100 Know that 05:08:06.700 --> 05:08:09.100 Nice little angle just trying to cut off the bottom of those browns 05:08:10.100 --> 05:08:12.100 Oh my goodness 05:08:12.340 --> 05:08:14.420 birds 05:08:14.420 --> 05:08:17.420 Prefire, Intuition, Information. 05:08:18.420 --> 05:08:22.420 Any of the above credited him with that kill on to Loving. 05:08:23.420 --> 05:08:28.420 Loving no slouch either at the start of this map at 5 and 2, that's only the second time he's been taken out. 05:08:30.420 --> 05:08:33.420 You've lost a big portion of that soft breach. 05:08:34.420 --> 05:08:39.420 So many times we see these mid-4 rounds and that soft breach. 05:08:39.420 --> 05:08:47.360 Have you got in upstairs in time to destroy sufficient of the floor to then transition into a plant are you able to move the defenders out? 05:08:47.860 --> 05:08:49.860 successfully into cries 05:08:49.860 --> 05:08:51.860 Announced that both those 05:08:52.000 --> 05:08:54.000 Should gonna be dull here 05:08:54.300 --> 05:09:00.440 Not only because look what time's gonna start to be a factor. We still got three players out on the repell 05:09:00.440 --> 05:09:06.180 There are about three players out on the rappel as the E1D goes out. 05:09:06.180 --> 05:09:09.600 I was able to get some good impact on the flank watch from this position. 05:09:09.600 --> 05:09:12.860 Now the shields need to be a little bit out of the shield. 05:09:12.860 --> 05:09:15.640 Singular needs to be a little bit active. 05:09:15.640 --> 05:09:22.420 Moving their way through the top, on space checking at every single angle. 05:09:22.420 --> 05:09:27.320 Of course finally, securing complete control of that position. 05:09:27.320 --> 05:09:32.280 What's better success than he was before, or what do you know? 05:09:32.280 --> 05:09:37.680 One guy sitting right there on the opposite side, the Foxy are riding on this position. 05:09:37.680 --> 05:09:39.600 We know what Furia were going to do. 05:09:39.600 --> 05:09:44.480 We know their game plan entirely, so as the next one crosses the corner, it's an easy 05:09:44.480 --> 05:09:46.120 one for Valk to figure out. 05:09:46.120 --> 05:09:49.640 Furia up three to one, as Polly finally making his way to the inside. 05:09:49.640 --> 05:09:56.640 He's got to pick up all the pieces of an attack that is dead and gone. 05:09:56.640 --> 05:10:02.640 Well, in classic parley fashion, he'll get himself an exit frag, but that's all it will 05:10:02.640 --> 05:10:03.640 be. 05:10:03.640 --> 05:10:10.480 Heards again out of his seat, letting his team know just how much it means to him, hyped 05:10:10.480 --> 05:10:12.640 up and ready for the fight. 05:10:12.640 --> 05:10:15.640 This is a qualification match, don't forget. 05:10:15.640 --> 05:10:22.560 directly qualifies to Salt Lake City. Loser drops down into the lower bracket. 05:10:22.560 --> 05:10:28.720 Winner of course plays against NIP later on tonight. It's a three best of three day 05:10:28.720 --> 05:10:35.400 here, may I say I'll broadcast. There is plenty of siege yet to come. 05:10:35.400 --> 05:10:40.120 Round four we see the Mirror and the Nomad are both taken out and I don't 05:10:40.120 --> 05:10:43.160 think it's too much surprise to see Fluxo use that time out here. 05:10:43.160 --> 05:10:47.300 regardless attacks always going to be difficult and I don't think they feel 05:10:47.300 --> 05:10:50.800 like they need to save it for that defensive side. 05:10:50.800 --> 05:10:56.520 No, I don't think they certainly don't and I think when this is your pick when 05:10:56.520 --> 05:10:59.800 Fury have clearly shown they're starting to gain momentum in the series and you 05:10:59.800 --> 05:11:02.800 came out the gates swinging with that creep in a bakery but now since then 05:11:02.800 --> 05:11:08.400 it's been not one side I mean Brown two is a 1v1 but it's like Fury have had 05:11:08.400 --> 05:11:11.840 the upper hands their rat plays are working the flank watch is not having 05:11:11.840 --> 05:11:15.840 success that we thought it would though really was only somewhat noticeably 05:11:15.840 --> 05:11:19.360 present in round two it's not been a factor I mean there's no mad in that 05:11:19.360 --> 05:11:24.480 round but when when you're controlling the flanks but the defenders are ratting 05:11:24.480 --> 05:11:28.000 in positions you haven't cleared especially in positions you don't really 05:11:28.000 --> 05:11:33.120 air jab there's clearly got to be some other thought put into this strategy 05:11:33.120 --> 05:11:40.560 now what it might be so it looks at W7M decide to rotate towards 05:11:41.840 --> 05:11:47.600 of course, the rest of this round, the rest of this half. 05:11:47.600 --> 05:11:51.400 Here we'll start repeating their sight, start learning on these improvements and for what 05:11:51.400 --> 05:11:56.400 there at least pre-adjustment has been, seen a lot of mazzi being brought in, not banned 05:11:56.400 --> 05:12:00.760 out by Flux of W7M, but drops away and quite a heavy utility setup. 05:12:00.760 --> 05:12:05.040 Of course you have some traps in some intel, but this screams to me like nobody wants 05:12:05.040 --> 05:12:07.880 to move an inch out of the first floor. 05:12:07.880 --> 05:12:14.160 I mean that was well which first floor we're talking American first floor or 05:12:14.160 --> 05:12:17.120 European first that's a that's a good point that's actually a very good point 05:12:17.120 --> 05:12:22.280 sorry first floor I think American first floor yeah so we would we would call 05:12:22.280 --> 05:12:27.120 ground floor okay okay because I was saying the fact that they didn't move 05:12:27.120 --> 05:12:30.720 out of the first floor which you would call the second floor is that it was 05:12:30.720 --> 05:12:33.600 the problem inside around number one right because they just let everyone 05:12:33.600 --> 05:12:38.880 walk in and take the site. I agree I think they need to well I mean they're 05:12:38.880 --> 05:12:43.220 still gonna try and play the C4s out of the windows. It's sad maybe successful as 05:12:43.220 --> 05:12:48.000 well. I don't know if Boxerra lets it go or not but on the outlines it at least 05:12:48.000 --> 05:12:52.260 looked like it was possible. At the time in the moment has passed now though. 05:12:52.260 --> 05:12:56.100 The lineup it's much more typical isn't it from Fluxo W7M. They know, 05:12:56.100 --> 05:12:58.920 it's like you said in round two, they know that they're not gonna get away 05:12:58.920 --> 05:13:02.120 with just walking into site again. Instead they're gonna go for their 05:13:02.120 --> 05:13:05.960 alternate approach and it's an approach that Furia haven't seen yet. It's a full map clear, 05:13:05.960 --> 05:13:10.680 it's drone the top floor, it's get in, work the skeleton key on the book, utilise those 05:13:10.680 --> 05:13:15.160 track stingers on the stairways and really just take full control of the map from that 05:13:15.160 --> 05:13:19.680 point. There's only two spots, I say only. There are two C4s to contend with, that can 05:13:19.680 --> 05:13:23.760 be devastating but it all depends on the information that they've got to go off, 05:13:23.760 --> 05:13:25.720 depends on the box, black eye cameras I guess. 05:13:25.720 --> 05:13:55.240 I don't know if you can get to a worst start to flux a W7M, some intended flank watch and 05:13:55.240 --> 05:13:59.160 mean Dots couldn't spot him that was the Deimos's job but I mean nobody with the 05:13:59.160 --> 05:14:05.080 follow-up that is just continued to decline for Flux Rw7m. 05:14:05.080 --> 05:14:09.040 Con's gonna at least move in and start getting the vert going now but what she 05:14:09.040 --> 05:14:12.760 says that's a big portion of your pushing power and brilliant swing time 05:14:12.760 --> 05:14:17.520 there just as the f***ing name it was the Freezer War thought this end of the 05:14:17.520 --> 05:14:21.280 world trying to shoot through that we got to deal with the player inside of 05:14:21.280 --> 05:14:29.600 the IP. That's true, but we find one on to hurt and get himself up alive. I think of 05:14:29.600 --> 05:14:35.120 as well, not a bad trade by any stretch, though there's still this player inside of 05:14:35.120 --> 05:14:40.800 Christmas at the minute, so nobody at the bottom of the Branstad's, nobody on Branstad's 05:14:40.800 --> 05:14:41.800 Search. 05:14:41.800 --> 05:14:42.800 Go look. 05:14:42.800 --> 05:14:44.800 He's pretty much free. 05:14:48.800 --> 05:14:51.800 I don't know, HP, there might be a cost to this at some point. 05:14:52.800 --> 05:14:54.800 There's always a risk you have to keep in mind. 05:14:54.800 --> 05:14:57.800 A Vulcan Pax detonated, some important utility destroyed. 05:14:59.800 --> 05:15:01.800 There's lawyer rates. 05:15:01.800 --> 05:15:02.800 There's weights. 05:15:02.800 --> 05:15:04.800 There's an oncoming push. 05:15:04.800 --> 05:15:06.800 A lot of damage being shot. 05:15:06.800 --> 05:15:08.800 The hole's outside of code check. 05:15:08.800 --> 05:15:12.580 that's still no progress by 05:15:12.580 --> 05:15:13.800 Fluxer W7M. Halted at the 05:15:13.800 --> 05:15:14.800 immediate entrance to the site 05:15:14.800 --> 05:15:15.800 facing quite a lot of 05:15:15.800 --> 05:15:16.800 difficulties as they 05:15:16.800 --> 05:15:18.800 progress downward. Shots fired 05:15:18.800 --> 05:15:20.800 in turn. Finally, Laura might 05:15:20.800 --> 05:15:21.800 find one. It's a huge amount of 05:15:21.800 --> 05:15:23.800 kills flying curious way around. 05:15:23.800 --> 05:15:24.800 Pretty much goes. Let's be 05:15:24.800 --> 05:15:27.800 honest how it we all expected 05:15:27.800 --> 05:15:29.800 when Fluxer W7M couldn't even 05:15:29.800 --> 05:15:35.800 make it down a staircase. 05:15:35.800 --> 05:15:37.800 I think that the insinuation 05:15:37.800 --> 05:15:44.280 was that they have them in their pocket and I would agree. I would wholeheartedly agree. 05:15:44.280 --> 05:15:51.240 At the moment, Flux OW7M are falling flat and it's such a shame because that first attacking 05:15:51.240 --> 05:15:55.280 round you look at it on the balance of things, it was everything that you could hope for in 05:15:55.280 --> 05:16:00.440 attacking round. It was opportunity spotting, it was a clear call obviously inside of the prep 05:16:00.440 --> 05:16:05.240 phase which resulted in a six pick and then everybody just did their job and the round 05:16:05.240 --> 05:16:10.000 was one everyone knew exactly where they needed to be and since then we've just 05:16:10.000 --> 05:16:16.160 seen a level of disjointedness that I've not really been familiar with with this 05:16:16.160 --> 05:16:20.600 flux of W7 and roster so far don't forget this is the team that we casted 05:16:20.600 --> 05:16:27.640 last week that did fantastically well against phase and not phase into the 05:16:27.640 --> 05:16:34.780 bracket well and like and look very good doing it like you know obviously it 05:16:34.780 --> 05:16:39.980 wasn't perfect but you have to be get the on the ball that day to not phase 05:16:39.980 --> 05:16:46.780 games are always gonna go to overtime that is just a rule that God made it's 05:16:46.780 --> 05:16:51.020 the seven days in a week phases games go to overtime it's not news you know 05:16:51.020 --> 05:16:56.940 to me seven that we're able to dig that deep that often and yet we see them 05:16:56.940 --> 05:17:03.020 day against his furious side? It kind of looks like a shell. 05:17:03.660 --> 05:17:07.220 Well certainly, certainly on cafe they have which given that this is their map 05:17:07.220 --> 05:17:11.140 pick it is the last place I mean Ollie kind of, or not Ollie, why don't you call 05:17:11.140 --> 05:17:15.540 him Leo Ollie for some reason. Leo alluded to it on the desk you know there's 05:17:15.540 --> 05:17:21.860 a bit of a defender sided map in in Brazil in the SAO so if Fluxo W7M 05:17:21.860 --> 05:17:28.060 picket odds are that they'll end up playing the attack. This is not some crazy possibility 05:17:28.060 --> 05:17:33.260 that they're encountering. The fact that they are struggling this hard is worrying to say 05:17:33.260 --> 05:17:37.140 the least. But still could win two rounds in a row and tie the hat. So it is not doom 05:17:37.140 --> 05:17:43.740 and gloom yet. They lose this one. Free one is recoverable, but five one starts looming 05:17:43.740 --> 05:17:49.900 in the mind and for everybody involved, that is a much too scary thought to contemplate. 05:17:49.900 --> 05:17:52.860 waiting on the repel, seeing if anybody might run out of the white position. 05:17:53.500 --> 05:17:54.860 Not finding anybody just yet. 05:17:54.860 --> 05:18:00.300 Spherian, the first minute 15, have not looked to test Flux or W7M all that drastically. 05:18:00.300 --> 05:18:03.980 Said holding these power positions on the top floor, contesting around bathroom and so on. 05:18:05.020 --> 05:18:06.460 No presence of a mirror as she's banned. 05:18:07.340 --> 05:18:10.700 You can't really peek out as aggressively as zombie can push forth. 05:18:10.700 --> 05:18:14.220 Ooh, folks will be able to find one of those Selma charts before he makes his way back. 05:18:14.220 --> 05:18:19.340 folks just hanging around inside a pixel there 05:18:19.340 --> 05:18:23.900 lobin lets try and move through can just destroy the deployable 05:18:23.900 --> 05:18:27.140 camera and get himself a line 05:18:27.140 --> 05:18:31.300 in onto freezer there's the potential for a run out there we've got a great pit 05:18:31.300 --> 05:18:36.260 players on repel need to be careful this is cafe 05:18:36.260 --> 05:18:39.260 that sort of thing is very common 05:18:39.260 --> 05:18:42.460 we've already seen players throwing themselves out of the window 05:18:42.460 --> 05:18:44.460 Boxer we're looking at you 05:18:45.100 --> 05:18:49.180 That time it was lawyer just dressed in at the bottom of white stairs instead. It's Diaz to find 05:18:51.020 --> 05:18:53.400 Response here notice going down 05:18:54.660 --> 05:18:57.300 Mobile is flying as low bins put super low 05:18:58.900 --> 05:19:04.440 For so maintain a brief advantage again not a HP one. We're still in advance nonetheless 05:19:08.260 --> 05:19:10.260 Something they can push forward and build off of 05:19:12.460 --> 05:19:15.820 with a DMR still in play, nevermind, by DMR. 05:19:15.820 --> 05:19:17.660 Dot's able to move in, put this defuser down. 05:19:17.660 --> 05:19:20.460 All the angles should be covered, not quite sure 05:19:20.460 --> 05:19:21.600 how the defense might fight back. 05:19:21.600 --> 05:19:22.960 C4 goes around the corner, 05:19:22.960 --> 05:19:25.180 but Diaz has a tap, he's hot on his heels. 05:19:25.180 --> 05:19:27.540 What a flick onto the bathroom rotate. 05:19:27.540 --> 05:19:28.940 But, I mean, Dot's arning it, 05:19:28.940 --> 05:19:30.020 Polly on the corner, 05:19:30.020 --> 05:19:33.500 blocks a W7M, only need two rounds to tie things up. 05:19:33.500 --> 05:19:35.220 Must improve in the first. 05:19:36.900 --> 05:19:38.700 This is more what we were expecting out of Flux 05:19:38.700 --> 05:19:39.740 on W7M. 05:19:39.740 --> 05:19:42.140 This team has a six map win streak, 05:19:42.140 --> 05:19:45.940 or a six game win streak, should I say, on this map. 05:19:45.940 --> 05:19:49.540 That's not over a crazy long time period either. 05:19:49.540 --> 05:19:51.700 That's over the last four months. 05:19:51.700 --> 05:19:54.980 So that's been played at, well, majority SI, 05:19:54.980 --> 05:19:59.540 and then, I guess, in SAO finals, 05:19:59.540 --> 05:20:01.340 the 4th of December, result against phase, 05:20:01.340 --> 05:20:04.540 it's a 7-2 lead phase on this map, way back when. 05:20:04.540 --> 05:20:07.220 So four months ago, it's relevant data. 05:20:07.220 --> 05:20:09.140 It's recent. 05:20:09.140 --> 05:20:11.260 67% win on the attack. 05:20:11.260 --> 05:20:16.460 69% defence win. That's the sort of standard that's the quality that we're 05:20:16.460 --> 05:20:20.820 holding Fluxo W7M2 on cafe they've picked this map they need to be coming out with 05:20:20.820 --> 05:20:24.140 at least a favourable split I mean that's all that they can hope for at this 05:20:24.140 --> 05:20:28.980 point you can hope for that equal 3-3. Would that be classed as favourable? 05:20:28.980 --> 05:20:34.540 I mean it's 50-50 it's not as good as their 76% win rate that you know the 05:20:34.540 --> 05:20:37.940 data would suggest but as we know we can't always trust the data we can 05:20:37.940 --> 05:20:42.820 Just use it as a guide to lead us to where we end up. 05:20:42.820 --> 05:20:46.020 Sometimes it leads us a little bit astray. 05:20:46.020 --> 05:20:46.820 Period. 05:20:46.820 --> 05:20:48.860 Clearly want to try and lock this last round down 05:20:48.860 --> 05:20:51.860 as Vultz is going to pull out a bit of an old favorite. 05:20:51.860 --> 05:20:53.780 We're looking to try and play the clash. 05:20:53.780 --> 05:20:56.580 I imagine he's going to try and play that inside the cigar 05:20:56.580 --> 05:20:57.900 here. 05:20:57.900 --> 05:21:00.060 I don't think he'll play too aggressive on the piano. 05:21:00.060 --> 05:21:03.340 Maybe for the opening portion, see if he can get a little 05:21:03.340 --> 05:21:05.820 bit of aggression or just make players think twice before 05:21:05.820 --> 05:21:07.460 a quote in the building. 05:21:07.460 --> 05:21:10.980 If you can back himself up and play White Corridor a little bit in pixel, 05:21:10.980 --> 05:21:13.980 I'm always the one to watch right now, though, primed and ready. 05:21:13.980 --> 05:21:20.980 Tempted for a jump out, he's got, yes, in tow as well, just on the other side of the soft wall. 05:21:20.980 --> 05:21:25.480 I feel like Furia, they're sort of tempted by it, aren't they? 05:21:25.480 --> 05:21:28.480 But they're holding their nerve, they're not jumping the gun too early. 05:21:28.480 --> 05:21:36.520 The thing for Fury, exercising by that discipline, is always good just because they can be so 05:21:36.520 --> 05:21:41.000 quick with it and so ready to take that course of action, that I think just tempering it ever 05:21:41.000 --> 05:21:47.280 so slightly makes them probably the more lethal team than just letting it run wild. 05:21:47.280 --> 05:21:50.280 So hiding behind these reinforcements, playing these power positions on the defense, but 05:21:50.280 --> 05:21:54.080 most importantly, biasing it towards the cocktail side, sure, it's going to allow 05:21:54.080 --> 05:21:57.000 dots in the first minute ten to put down some of those boogie drums, gets some 05:21:57.000 --> 05:22:01.480 important vertical control. But now that he has to push up, not only can you hold down to the 05:22:01.480 --> 05:22:06.440 comps outside, birds can jump out, oh, but, well, he spots low, but he's clearly on the ADS the whole 05:22:06.440 --> 05:22:12.440 time, and I suppose inadvertently facilitates some of these retreat down white stairs, but as 05:22:12.440 --> 05:22:18.600 here you decide to activate, it just does not work. We saw the same on Banker earlier, 05:22:18.600 --> 05:22:23.720 obviously the new changes jumping out and thrown out of that ADS animation, 05:22:23.720 --> 05:22:26.440 you're relying so much more on hip-fire to get the job done. 05:22:27.080 --> 05:22:32.120 And it's much more seldom now that we actually see those kills or those attempts to be worthwhile. 05:22:32.120 --> 05:22:34.360 Got to get a little bit lucky as a defender to make it work. 05:22:35.800 --> 05:22:40.600 Maybe a little bit of a throwaway there from her gives an advantage over to Fluxo, 05:22:40.600 --> 05:22:42.040 and they desperately need it. 05:22:43.000 --> 05:22:46.600 Palu, just hanging outside of red window. 05:22:46.600 --> 05:22:51.000 It's a lawyer, quite literally a meter and a half away on the other side of the wall. 05:22:51.000 --> 05:23:02.000 And I just feel like Palu knows, we're not in the best position right now, especially if someone starts to walk down those red stairs, but I don't know, he might find a kill there onto Conn's sake. 05:23:02.000 --> 05:23:11.000 And Palu takes him out as the kill starts to flood in here for Fluxo, and the Gears left to try and hold the line as he's been so many times. 05:23:11.000 --> 05:23:19.640 Fluxo W7M, a flawless round. It was a slow burn, but they finally got up to speed on the attacks here for cafe 05:23:20.840 --> 05:23:24.320 I want to know what Leo and Milosh have to say about the first six rounds 05:23:26.640 --> 05:23:31.940 Question here my friends because before we got into map number two in the series 05:23:31.960 --> 05:23:33.600 we were talking about 05:23:33.600 --> 05:23:39.080 what does Fluxo W7M need to bring this game back on their attacking start here and 05:23:39.080 --> 05:23:50.080 And Leo said very carefully and very promptly there was about playing together as a cohesive unit and with discipline Leo has that been the case so far? 05:23:50.080 --> 05:24:08.080 Yeah, I think that if you really focus on a few rounds where they do a direct take, 05:24:08.080 --> 05:24:09.520 I think it works really well. 05:24:09.520 --> 05:24:13.640 If you take an example of round one, for example, they hit bakery instead of going for 05:24:13.640 --> 05:24:17.200 a full clear all the way up top and getting all of the things, giving a lot of space 05:24:17.200 --> 05:24:18.200 for the rumors. 05:24:18.200 --> 05:24:19.200 What do they do? 05:24:19.200 --> 05:24:22.560 take onto the bomb site, sneak dots in with a black bird, 05:24:22.560 --> 05:24:24.000 rear-eye execute here. 05:24:24.000 --> 05:24:27.320 With the new rear-eye above, it takes ages for the rear door 05:24:27.320 --> 05:24:28.280 to open up. 05:24:28.280 --> 05:24:29.880 And then as soon as they have control, 05:24:29.880 --> 05:24:31.280 there's nothing for you I can do. 05:24:31.280 --> 05:24:33.480 That was just one example of those direct takes. 05:24:33.480 --> 05:24:36.680 The last two rounds in attack are examples of direct takes. 05:24:36.680 --> 05:24:38.080 They take limited control. 05:24:38.080 --> 05:24:39.920 On the top floor, they just take cigar and piano, 05:24:39.920 --> 05:24:41.960 go straight for the freezer execute at the door 05:24:41.960 --> 05:24:43.240 and go for the bent. 05:24:43.240 --> 05:24:46.000 The less control you take, the more you can maneuver 05:24:46.000 --> 05:24:47.920 exactly where the aggression is coming for. 05:24:47.920 --> 05:24:49.920 And I think that's exactly the right plan. 05:24:49.920 --> 05:24:52.920 Take limited control, make sure you have what you need. 05:24:52.920 --> 05:24:55.240 Because if we look at another round where they don't do that, 05:24:55.240 --> 05:24:57.920 if we look at the same exact same onsite, right, 05:24:57.920 --> 05:25:00.800 of the ground floor, we go and look at round four. 05:25:00.800 --> 05:25:03.440 This time, they decide to go for a full round clear. 05:25:03.440 --> 05:25:04.600 What do we see here? 05:25:04.600 --> 05:25:06.920 An opportunity, four buck to get aggressive, 05:25:06.920 --> 05:25:08.840 jump out, get a kill on two dots, 05:25:08.840 --> 05:25:11.160 and then even later, what do we see here? 05:25:11.160 --> 05:25:12.800 They have information on these restrooms players 05:25:12.800 --> 05:25:14.480 and they just let him go away. 05:25:14.480 --> 05:25:15.920 They have 20 seconds left, 05:25:15.920 --> 05:25:17.400 four players are still alive, 05:25:17.400 --> 05:25:19.540 And in this situation, honestly, there's nothing 05:25:19.540 --> 05:25:21.320 Futsu can do to win this convincingly. 05:25:21.320 --> 05:25:23.280 Yes, you're good, you take control, 05:25:23.280 --> 05:25:26.120 but in the end, Furia is still in a winning position. 05:25:26.120 --> 05:25:27.680 And so they take you apart. 05:25:27.680 --> 05:25:29.920 And so I thought that, in general, 05:25:29.920 --> 05:25:33.080 their idea of hitting side directly, 05:25:33.080 --> 05:25:36.400 as directly as possible, was such a good comeback 05:25:36.400 --> 05:25:38.040 to the way that Furia has been playing. 05:25:38.040 --> 05:25:39.600 And now it's still free. 05:25:39.600 --> 05:25:41.640 They will three attacks on the hardest side. 05:25:41.640 --> 05:25:43.280 They can go and get the defense 05:25:43.280 --> 05:25:46.680 and make sure they get the remaining rounds. 05:25:46.680 --> 05:25:50.020 I would say great results for the attacking side of Fluxer W7M. 05:25:50.020 --> 05:25:53.400 Last round being incredibly important to turn it into a 3-3. 05:25:53.400 --> 05:25:56.640 Now on the defense, can they play in the same way? 05:25:56.640 --> 05:26:01.240 Can they use these shields and defense positions to their advantage? 05:26:01.240 --> 05:26:04.040 We'll see how they fare against Furia who's already bringing out the Montes. 05:26:04.040 --> 05:26:07.200 I'm very excited to hand this back to Lynx and Xeratroica. Enjoy. 05:26:09.400 --> 05:26:10.720 Thank you very much, Milosh. 05:26:10.720 --> 05:26:13.680 And I think as Leo mentioned with the direct takes and 05:26:13.680 --> 05:26:17.980 enabling a tie game between Fluxer W7M and Furia. 05:26:17.980 --> 05:26:19.860 Now we will of course look to the opposite sides, 05:26:19.860 --> 05:26:22.260 but I also think of just some important, 05:26:22.260 --> 05:26:24.700 I think slight differences in the band base 05:26:24.700 --> 05:26:28.380 to start snake band out of the gate of course. 05:26:28.380 --> 05:26:30.380 But then of course the mirror also getting taken out 05:26:30.380 --> 05:26:32.580 early by Furia. 05:26:32.580 --> 05:26:34.100 Some important tools, not only in general, 05:26:34.100 --> 05:26:36.300 but especially on cafe. 05:26:36.300 --> 05:26:38.060 Make things a bit harder 05:26:38.060 --> 05:26:39.960 for both these respective sides going forward. 05:26:39.960 --> 05:26:40.800 And then of course, 05:26:40.800 --> 05:26:42.300 Kahn's bringing out the clash and operator 05:26:42.300 --> 05:26:48.120 that I believe we only saw once at the very tail end of a half from Furious Defenses we 05:26:48.120 --> 05:26:50.680 brought up immediately with Luxo W7M. 05:26:50.680 --> 05:26:56.080 Yeah, some slight differences there. I think that the Snakeman is just going to attract 05:26:56.080 --> 05:27:02.700 so much attention, isn't it? Especially for Cafe because attacks pressed anyway at the 05:27:02.700 --> 05:27:08.360 best of times. Anything that's going to keep you out of your drone or enable you 05:27:08.360 --> 05:27:12.480 to be a little bit more self-sufficient or feed information over to your team, it is going 05:27:12.480 --> 05:27:20.200 to be targeted. We know that Fury are a team to, you know, crush on to that a little bit. 05:27:20.200 --> 05:27:24.600 So a couple of players really like the F2 as well, there was a couple of rounds over 05:27:24.600 --> 05:27:31.400 on Fortress where both F2s would be in one, both the Snake and the Twitch really lens 05:27:31.400 --> 05:27:36.840 into their playstyle. As it stands, they have to do without it as they have gone 05:27:36.840 --> 05:27:44.000 for so long, Loire. Really punishing dots. Sentry. Maybe going for something at the bottom 05:27:44.000 --> 05:27:50.280 of those white stairs, I think. Loire's just got some really nice timing on him. He's taking 05:27:50.280 --> 05:27:55.880 him out as he was attempting to challenge onto the windows. Again, it's part and parcel 05:27:55.880 --> 05:27:59.320 of playing on cafe, isn't it? You know there's an attack of it. You are never safe out 05:27:59.320 --> 05:28:03.440 there on the Repel. There's always an angle that can be challenged. You can have 05:28:03.440 --> 05:28:10.440 I love this from Volbs at DMR is going to be super effective through that sort of a pixel. 05:28:10.440 --> 05:28:11.440 And he's not too worried about the clash. 05:28:11.440 --> 05:28:15.440 I mean, Collins is literally just operating inside of cigar right now, but there's not really 05:28:15.440 --> 05:28:21.440 much that any of the defenders can do anything about the players on the windows. 05:28:21.440 --> 05:28:22.440 No one is it? That's always the case on tap. 05:28:22.440 --> 05:28:24.440 There's something you kind of have to deal with. 05:28:24.440 --> 05:28:27.440 I mean, you know, Mira can be brought to deal with it. 05:28:27.440 --> 05:28:31.440 Of course, she's banned alternatively in a zombie, but not an option that Furia or Fluxor W7M, 05:28:31.440 --> 05:28:33.240 excuse me when I go for in this round. 05:28:33.240 --> 05:28:35.120 So it's more passive defensive style. 05:28:35.120 --> 05:28:37.760 Don't need to take these early gunfights. 05:28:37.760 --> 05:28:39.920 Just hope that the clash and maybe just the general vibe 05:28:39.920 --> 05:28:41.920 of cafe is enough to keep them at bay 05:28:41.920 --> 05:28:43.920 and stall any kind of entrance. 05:28:43.920 --> 05:28:44.920 It's only a minute 10 seconds 05:28:44.920 --> 05:28:48.600 before DS actually steps foot into Christmas 05:28:48.600 --> 05:28:50.320 in behind the brown bar. 05:28:51.320 --> 05:28:52.360 It's only a minute remaining 05:28:52.360 --> 05:28:54.720 and they have not made much progress beyond that. 05:28:54.720 --> 05:28:56.320 That being said, one kill earlier, 05:28:56.320 --> 05:28:57.880 lawyer with a quick swing in, 05:28:57.880 --> 05:29:01.040 catches Loeb and ratting outside of snow door. 05:29:01.040 --> 05:29:06.680 So even though you are low on time with these couple frags you've gathered just over the course of the preceding round 05:29:06.920 --> 05:29:08.920 It's gonna make this a lot more workable 05:29:08.920 --> 05:29:14.260 Especially if it ends up being low time a two-body lead will making so much better lawyer a spotted on the cam 05:29:14.480 --> 05:29:20.520 One defender around the corner behind the cocktail bar need to be ready for this engagement because 3-3 might just come 05:29:20.520 --> 05:29:25.200 If he ends up losing this fight Dota has focused on the long angle not looking to his right 05:29:25.200 --> 05:29:29.240 the ball. He's not going to 05:29:29.340 --> 05:29:30.980 win. It's Paul, who instead the 05:29:31.080 --> 05:29:32.680 one to even things out. Finally 05:29:32.780 --> 05:29:34.480 the player falls and instead 05:29:34.580 --> 05:29:35.380 it's all left up to the 05:29:35.480 --> 05:29:38.880 thorn. Quick swing as he cuts 05:29:38.980 --> 05:29:41.480 down all of them. Paul who's 05:29:41.580 --> 05:29:43.380 second ace of the series. My 05:29:43.480 --> 05:29:47.500 goodness. Not even we expected 05:29:47.600 --> 05:29:48.300 him to win that. There's 05:29:48.400 --> 05:29:49.400 nothing more iconic than a 05:29:49.500 --> 05:29:51.400 parlor ace and then seeing the 05:29:51.500 --> 05:29:52.400 player comes and that laugh 05:29:52.500 --> 05:29:53.400 that he does after it because 05:29:53.400 --> 05:30:03.900 He'll laugh his face off for like 10 seconds as the rest of the team are just like, oh my goodness, thank god we've got Barlow in our team again to pull us out of the shit when it all goes south. 05:30:04.900 --> 05:30:18.400 Another ace, two rounds entirely off Barlow's back in this series. Now this time it's a little bit different. He got the ace over on Fortress and then with the first five kills he got on the map and I think it happened in like round three, round four. 05:30:18.400 --> 05:30:24.320 This time he's at least 11 and 3 so he's firing. He's having a great game so far. Barely dying. 05:30:24.960 --> 05:30:29.440 He's only died in the three rounds that Furia have won or at least that's the story line that 05:30:29.440 --> 05:30:36.720 sounds good. He might have died in a few of them but who knows. The big performance from him on an 05:30:36.720 --> 05:30:41.360 attack that it was hanging in the balance wasn't it Lynx? I think it was a time where you thought 05:30:41.360 --> 05:30:46.480 okay two kills for Loira. Still not looking terrible. But sort of you said I'm still 05:30:46.480 --> 05:30:49.920 still have the clash, they still can work around that in some way. And then all of a sudden 05:30:49.920 --> 05:30:55.160 Lover jumps in towards New balcony and you think, hang on a minute, you can now challenge 05:30:55.160 --> 05:30:58.920 him to cocktail, we've got the cocktail player super distracted, posh posh a couple of kills 05:30:58.920 --> 05:31:03.920 go elsewhere, and then a tail is all the time, where's the last defender? Well, they're 05:31:03.920 --> 05:31:07.120 usually in the freeze, they're tucked in, and in this instance it just happened 05:31:07.120 --> 05:31:10.280 to be Pahlo, and he had the bullets for business. 05:31:10.280 --> 05:31:19.160 Second ace in two maps is quite impressive, but at the same time, Flux 7 down, 1-0 in the 05:31:19.160 --> 05:31:24.680 series, but up 4-3 on their pick. Starting to chain together rounds. That was their third 05:31:24.680 --> 05:31:31.240 in a row, now they look to acquire their fourth. So, as Polly moves to the clash, 05:31:31.240 --> 05:31:36.040 a really action-packed operator when it comes to the gunplay might be a bit more 05:31:36.040 --> 05:31:38.920 passive for the majority of the round, but I think that's a good role for him 05:31:38.920 --> 05:31:41.780 to be on in a place that you will feel very, very comfortable. 05:31:41.780 --> 05:31:45.900 A lot of utility, station around this bakery side, some Rooney Gates of course, and the 05:31:45.900 --> 05:31:48.340 clash can rotate to any of these outward positions. 05:31:48.340 --> 05:31:52.140 There's two different players, or three different players I guess in total. 05:31:52.140 --> 05:31:54.620 Station around bakery and small bake, utility goes in. 05:31:54.620 --> 05:31:57.980 We're going to get an angle through this smoke as the glass pushes through. 05:31:57.980 --> 05:32:03.460 Some shots will land inside of the small bake but not hit any of the actual attackers. 05:32:03.460 --> 05:32:07.100 Birds pushing deeper will cut down Dode as the clash must fall back. 05:32:07.100 --> 05:32:10.520 with supportive dots from behind will not fall today. 05:32:10.520 --> 05:32:12.960 There's one player pushing into the VIP side as well. 05:32:12.960 --> 05:32:15.680 Furia looking to surround this defense. 05:32:15.680 --> 05:32:17.880 The Flux of W7M have warded off the pressure 05:32:17.880 --> 05:32:19.960 for the moment and aided by this information. 05:32:19.960 --> 05:32:22.320 The glass is prone behind Small Vic. 05:32:22.320 --> 05:32:24.480 There was nobody covering that window. 05:32:24.480 --> 05:32:27.560 Perhaps Furia getting a little too comfortable in this round 05:32:27.560 --> 05:32:31.280 as Loven walks up against the freest kill of his career. 05:32:31.280 --> 05:32:32.680 Speaking of free kills, 05:32:34.160 --> 05:32:36.200 seems like Fluxo could just shoot at a wall 05:32:36.200 --> 05:32:42.820 pick one up at the minute. Valken herds last two remaining attackers. I mean that's, it's 05:32:42.820 --> 05:32:46.240 a choice way to try and deal with the Glaz, isn't it? Just smoke them off and hop in. 05:32:46.240 --> 05:32:50.380 Where was the cut off from Brownstairs? Where was the cut off from Coachek? Where was the 05:32:50.380 --> 05:32:56.140 cut off coming in from the bottom of red? That killer go down as a trade, leaves 05:32:56.140 --> 05:33:02.500 a chance for Valk. We all know what that DMR can do. When one of them's a clash, 05:33:02.500 --> 05:33:07.900 always going to be up against it isn't going to find the first not time to worry 05:33:07.900 --> 05:33:11.020 about the class she's going to get through cons first and isn't going to do 05:33:11.020 --> 05:33:16.060 so it looks like the B7M breathe a sigh of relief they've chained two rounds 05:33:16.060 --> 05:33:21.020 together here they've now got a two-round buffer 05:33:21.020 --> 05:33:24.780 furia just as good a time as any they're going to take that tactical time 05:33:24.780 --> 05:33:28.980 out and two rounds by the way in which fury I have started with the 05:33:28.980 --> 05:33:33.740 opening pick. We've kind of had the the shoe swap between maps one and two. Map one, it 05:33:33.740 --> 05:33:38.540 was a lot of Lobin early round impact and Fluxor W7 and failing to convert. Now it's 05:33:38.540 --> 05:33:43.820 Furia who she would be struggling to implement any kind of like consistent plan on their 05:33:43.820 --> 05:33:49.580 attacking side. I mean, you go back to round seven. We had a 3v5, right? Lawyer 05:33:49.580 --> 05:33:53.860 was able to get two kills, but they were within the first two minutes and all seemed 05:33:53.860 --> 05:33:58.660 a little bit haphazard, particularly that kill over on Lobin outside of snow or 05:33:58.660 --> 05:34:01.380 inside a snow door. Obviously it was quite nice, 05:34:01.380 --> 05:34:03.940 but it didn't really necessarily seem part of some like, 05:34:03.940 --> 05:34:05.780 coherent overall strategy, right? 05:34:05.780 --> 05:34:08.860 Found a good opportunity, but it was an isolated one at that. 05:34:08.860 --> 05:34:11.300 Then you have that round and like you pointed out, Oli, 05:34:11.300 --> 05:34:13.980 I mean, on the small big position, we have an entry, 05:34:13.980 --> 05:34:15.820 we have a plan to acquire control, 05:34:15.820 --> 05:34:17.860 but to keep it, to hold the crosses 05:34:17.860 --> 05:34:19.500 and to make sure your players are covered, 05:34:19.500 --> 05:34:22.500 that's where Fury elected it just gave Fluxer W7M 05:34:22.500 --> 05:34:25.100 an immediate and easy avenue back into the round 05:34:25.100 --> 05:34:28.020 and just continue stacking on top of their victory 05:34:28.020 --> 05:34:31.540 so far, four in a row, two on the attacking side and two on the defense. 05:34:31.540 --> 05:34:35.860 And if they win their third choice site on, well, on the defense, 05:34:35.860 --> 05:34:39.580 it'll be five in a row, and they'll be one round away from sending us tonight, Haven. 05:34:42.580 --> 05:34:45.500 I said at the start of the series, you look at the balance of the maps, 05:34:45.500 --> 05:34:48.140 you look at the way that the veto played out, 05:34:48.140 --> 05:34:52.820 you look at the evidence, both of these teams, past performances, 05:34:52.820 --> 05:34:55.940 things that we've seen recently only last week, 05:34:55.940 --> 05:34:58.780 but like a free map from the start 05:34:58.780 --> 05:35:02.460 is that timeout gonna be enough from Furious point of view 05:35:02.460 --> 05:35:04.260 to get it done in two 05:35:04.260 --> 05:35:06.420 still a chance for a 7-5 05:35:06.420 --> 05:35:10.580 I was the scoreline on Fortress 05:35:10.580 --> 05:35:13.060 equally, there's a chance for a 7-3 05:35:13.060 --> 05:35:19.780 but so haven't shown any signs of letting up on the defense 05:35:19.780 --> 05:35:21.220 nice thorn 05:35:21.220 --> 05:35:23.380 that's just never gonna get found 05:35:23.380 --> 05:35:24.900 ooh, the one as well 05:35:24.900 --> 05:35:31.900 I like changing them to that because you kind of run from one point before you know it, you've had to push it all the way up to what awesome thing you can do. 05:35:31.900 --> 05:35:35.900 Well, then we're hoping to like play on the piano for a second or two. 05:35:35.900 --> 05:35:41.900 Well, also just kind of human nature generally indicates, you know, that you're going to cover a lot of areas horizontally. 05:35:41.900 --> 05:35:46.900 So if you hit one in that area, your first instinct is going to be there's probably not another one over here. 05:35:46.900 --> 05:35:47.900 Yeah, exactly. 05:35:47.900 --> 05:35:48.900 Surely there's not another. 05:35:48.900 --> 05:35:51.900 Yeah, sure, no, exactly. You think surely there's not another. 05:35:51.900 --> 05:35:54.300 the same logic of when you see somebody spawn peek and they evade, you're like 05:35:54.300 --> 05:35:57.940 surely they're not gonna do it again. And most of the time it's correct but when 05:35:57.940 --> 05:36:00.620 you see kind of these little those little bits like that take advantage of 05:36:00.620 --> 05:36:02.900 that human reasoning it can be quite difficult. Not saying those razor 05:36:02.900 --> 05:36:05.780 blooms will like literally define the round but is an interesting little thing 05:36:05.780 --> 05:36:09.980 to note. Hertz by the way is on very low HP already to start. He's got some 05:36:09.980 --> 05:36:12.540 important utility he'll bank off the corner but I was about to say if 05:36:12.540 --> 05:36:15.940 somebody gets a nice vertical angle, Hollywood or even Dodes might have a 05:36:15.940 --> 05:36:19.580 shot at taking him down early. He'll force the acre out of position but 05:36:19.580 --> 05:36:21.740 Just rotate over to pallets as next to Goyo 05:36:23.300 --> 05:36:27.560 Tracked by the death mark and her it's needing to perform double duty not only apply pressure 05:36:27.560 --> 05:36:29.860 But also worry about the player on his white window 05:36:30.540 --> 05:36:37.580 As flexor W7m are facing a lot of heat but not really taking any damage dots hops out of the window gets herds in the process 05:36:37.580 --> 05:36:40.960 A nice clean one-for-one on a player who already seemed marked for death 05:36:41.700 --> 05:36:46.200 It really felt like that's what fury we're trying to pay out that it would try to help over reaction 05:36:46.200 --> 05:36:49.340 and they are getting a serious reaction right now. 05:36:49.340 --> 05:36:53.020 Loebing gonna drop down right into Lawyer's lap. 05:36:53.020 --> 05:36:55.520 Beside Dan Repel at the moment for Bock. 05:36:55.520 --> 05:36:57.520 Gonna be on that reading door. 05:36:57.520 --> 05:37:00.220 Big advantage right now for Furia. 05:37:00.220 --> 05:37:02.500 Not only in the time, but also in the man count. 05:37:02.500 --> 05:37:06.520 Collins, just no business being in that position 05:37:06.520 --> 05:37:09.000 with that gun looking in that direction. 05:37:10.100 --> 05:37:12.520 Punishment is severe right now. 05:37:12.520 --> 05:37:19.320 period just kind of let them undo themselves in a lot of ways the plant 05:37:19.320 --> 05:37:23.640 now starting to go down parley we've seen him perform miracles already 05:37:23.640 --> 05:37:29.520 tonight there's no room for another notice last remaining player the diffuser 05:37:29.520 --> 05:37:32.720 did get stopped from going down but there's nothing likely that's gonna stop 05:37:32.720 --> 05:37:37.320 it this time say again box there is gonna come off just for a brief time 05:37:37.320 --> 05:37:40.960 why is this diffuser not been put down I mean there's still 30 seconds there's 05:37:40.960 --> 05:37:46.560 still plenty of time, but every second it takes by, it's a little bit of opportunity the stun is going to miss. 05:37:47.560 --> 05:37:49.760 Surely it doesn't pick up all three right now. 05:37:51.260 --> 05:37:59.760 Now, just the one for the moment. Just the one and impactless frag as Fiora win an important round and break Fluxo W7M's streak. 05:37:59.760 --> 05:38:05.760 As you pointed out, just looking to bait out some reactions from the defense and they are more than willing to oblige. 05:38:05.760 --> 05:38:09.960 Very understandable jump out on the white window side. See people do that all the time. 05:38:09.960 --> 05:38:13.960 No worries, even though you die to a claymore, that's just kind of the risk you take in that position. 05:38:13.960 --> 05:38:17.960 You take out the sledge in the process, he was applying some pressure on the cocktail window. 05:38:17.960 --> 05:38:19.960 So it's all a normal beginning of the round. 05:38:19.960 --> 05:38:25.960 But then you see Lora creep into pillar with that doka b call and you're thinking, well surely he's not going to run into the site. 05:38:25.960 --> 05:38:27.960 It's much too early for that. And no, he's not. 05:38:27.960 --> 05:38:33.960 He's able to throw that doka b call and that is what kind of signals to the defense, oh, we need to fall back. 05:38:33.960 --> 05:38:36.960 It's about half the round, they're applying more and more pressure to cocktail. 05:38:36.960 --> 05:38:40.200 I need to drop them in the pillar to make sure that I can get back to the site safely 05:38:40.200 --> 05:38:42.600 It's a very logical human reaction 05:38:42.960 --> 05:38:47.080 But by working himself into that position while clearly lobin was expecting it in some way 05:38:47.080 --> 05:38:49.080 I think spotted him as he was falling 05:38:49.800 --> 05:38:55.440 Lobin's able to get that care or lawyer excuse me. He's able to get that kill and just a mid-round call by fury 05:38:55.440 --> 05:39:02.560 It works out perfectly again taking an advantage of kind of what Flux of W7m are used to with the rhythm of these rounds 05:39:02.560 --> 05:39:07.360 early pressure, mid-round retreat, hold out in the late round. By realizing that 05:39:07.360 --> 05:39:11.280 pattern and kind of taking advantage and breaking it, Furia get a very important 05:39:11.280 --> 05:39:15.200 round to at least narrow Fluxor W7M's lead. 05:39:15.200 --> 05:39:21.800 Well the only trail by one now, that's to feel very doable. Fluxor W7M don't watch it, 05:39:21.800 --> 05:39:26.600 they continue to overreact and continue to overagress. Furia are a team that 05:39:26.600 --> 05:39:32.360 don't need a lot of the clock to be able to operate in. They're not going to be too worried about spending a little bit of the 05:39:32.360 --> 05:39:40.240 round just trying to bait out something from the defense. Pay that time for the 05:39:40.240 --> 05:39:45.200 possibility of reward. The reward definitely paid off in round nine. Time will tell 05:39:45.200 --> 05:39:49.360 if it pays off here in round number ten cons. You can be downstairs just playing 05:39:49.360 --> 05:39:56.080 on red. Cautious of somebody maybe trying a bit of a walk up. What gonna be 05:39:56.080 --> 05:40:03.040 happening on this cocktail side once again lobin taking down volts DMR's they 05:40:03.040 --> 05:40:09.840 pack a serious punch with lobin down I should be piano fairly easy to take but 05:40:09.840 --> 05:40:13.680 you look into all that as army to really hold that ground play inside a pixel 05:40:13.680 --> 05:40:17.360 seeing a lot of utility burn as well this could be quite a quick move right 05:40:17.360 --> 05:40:23.400 now from fury after they've got that opening before stota is to move a 05:40:23.400 --> 05:40:28.920 little bit but is able to withstand the explosiveness of that frag grenade loses a lot of health but 05:40:29.480 --> 05:40:33.880 that dmr packs enough of a punch that might be able to make up for the lost hp the pulse down 05:40:33.880 --> 05:40:38.040 below relaying this information to him but the courterist has a bit more active intel or at least 05:40:38.040 --> 05:40:43.400 a better ability to capitalize off of it so what thoughts can relay the cons it's still a 5v3 for 05:40:43.400 --> 05:40:48.360 fury off spotting another cons letting his shin show for just a second punishing so much of 05:40:48.360 --> 05:40:51.400 to the attack at the moment, taking another fight at it. 05:40:51.400 --> 05:40:52.840 Cons looking to get aggressive. 05:40:52.840 --> 05:40:55.320 One more, going for the prone as well. 05:40:55.320 --> 05:40:57.800 Fluxer W7M know they need to bring this main count back, 05:40:57.800 --> 05:40:59.000 but with Foxxerra going down, 05:40:59.000 --> 05:41:01.240 I think the pressure's off them a little bit. 05:41:01.240 --> 05:41:03.640 You know the two players are offside at the moment, 05:41:03.640 --> 05:41:05.640 and you know that two players are downstairs. 05:41:05.640 --> 05:41:10.040 Cons, Dots, trying to play in and around this white window. 05:41:10.040 --> 05:41:12.960 Flux is just there to capitalize on this. 05:41:12.960 --> 05:41:14.240 Herds has dropped off the window, 05:41:14.240 --> 05:41:17.120 but the pressure is equally being applied from above 05:41:17.120 --> 05:41:22.000 made that's surely going to send at least one of them down there but Herds has moved elsewhere. 05:41:22.000 --> 05:41:28.800 Prowling finds a kill on Topalu and comes and dots now. We've given up that white stairs position 05:41:28.800 --> 05:41:35.120 playing on 90. Is he able to find sufficient frags? He's able to find the one and the next two 05:41:35.920 --> 05:41:42.400 lasers on to Herds. Doesn't exactly have two 1v1s isolated but until the diffuser goes down 05:41:42.400 --> 05:41:48.120 He's only DS on the cover will send an eight round the corner impact goes out, but oh he walks into it. Oh 05:41:49.000 --> 05:41:53.120 I got a feel bad for cons there of the indicator was barely even on his screen 05:41:53.800 --> 05:41:59.560 Possibly the worst timing you could possibly have as a result. It completely ties the game 05:42:00.480 --> 05:42:06.640 It just goes to show how important that secondary utility can be throwing the nade just to zone off the area 05:42:06.640 --> 05:42:10.720 Just so that if somebody pushes through they're either going to take damage or die 05:42:10.720 --> 05:42:16.500 It just it's just another thing like it's not that you don't count or back yourself in the gunfight 05:42:16.720 --> 05:42:21.760 It's just double security. So I'm just gonna make this even easier for myself. I've got a nade left over 05:42:21.760 --> 05:42:27.660 I know I'm gonna throw it toward the direction that they're coming from because they've got one job and that is to swing me 05:42:27.660 --> 05:42:32.440 If you kill the guy planting and I miss him then I'm the one that's left with egg on my chin 05:42:33.280 --> 05:42:36.120 I think it was bugzera that was playing on the line 05:42:36.120 --> 05:42:42.560 I think that was playing online so Vulps is made quite possibly to close that last one 05:42:42.560 --> 05:42:51.400 but we got a brilliant round from Furia 2 in a row and they now let the carries. 05:42:51.400 --> 05:42:58.920 Two maps starts to become quite a real pod head and stairs to the basement and of course 05:42:58.920 --> 05:43:05.080 been here before. Last round, looks like some of you said they're on there. 05:43:06.120 --> 05:43:11.720 I don't know where Hertz got an open pick again, but always those open picks converted on. 05:43:13.160 --> 05:43:17.720 I think there's a big dot 3k to really seal the deal and pull it out of the bag, but this 05:43:17.720 --> 05:43:24.040 time it looks a lot more certain, doesn't it? We've got a very solid lineup, soft breach, 05:43:24.040 --> 05:43:32.360 times two. Ridlock always a good pick in the Monty to really pivot it all around. 05:43:33.860 --> 05:43:37.160 It can be quite good to march through that first floor. I mean we often see it 05:43:37.160 --> 05:43:41.880 moving up that white hallway. I imagine you can see folks contemplating that 05:43:41.880 --> 05:43:45.580 position later on in the round as they will weigh their options over the 05:43:45.580 --> 05:43:49.400 course of the first minute and a half. Stunned a little bit at the beginning 05:43:49.400 --> 05:43:53.200 on a whole lot to worry about just yet as Fury opening up the castle 05:43:53.200 --> 05:43:57.560 barricades ascertaining the nature of flux of W7M's defense and it's pretty 05:43:57.560 --> 05:44:01.320 standard so far as we can tell from the operator lineup. There will be a full hold 05:44:01.320 --> 05:44:04.800 of the bottom floor spread out to white stairs in the code check position. 05:44:04.800 --> 05:44:10.240 Castle barricades will deny some visibility, will deny some angles, but the nature of the site will allow 05:44:10.240 --> 05:44:14.840 everybody to hop in through that top floor. No ram will mean that the 05:44:14.840 --> 05:44:18.040 vertical destruction will be a bit more tedious as you mentioned. Two options, 05:44:18.040 --> 05:44:21.520 but no boogie drones. Requires it to be a little more manual, thankfully for them. 05:44:21.520 --> 05:44:26.580 Only one C4 in the process, but still something to consider you can't just throw the boogie drones and walk away 05:44:26.580 --> 05:44:28.580 It'll be we have to be a bit more work 05:44:28.660 --> 05:44:31.540 There's required attention active attention from fury up 05:44:32.900 --> 05:44:37.260 And while I agree I think you can be a little bit more pinpoint with the skeleton key and the sledge 05:44:37.260 --> 05:44:41.020 So if you know that you've got key angles to get rather than just a long strip 05:44:41.420 --> 05:44:48.060 Maybe can be a good position to be in currently fury or try dial in on this player down inside of VIP 05:44:48.060 --> 05:44:53.020 instead it's going to be Godas first in that firing line. Mission successful then in getting 05:44:53.020 --> 05:44:58.140 that opening pick and now just wait for the Monty to push down and really open this up a little bit 05:44:58.140 --> 05:45:03.020 and shoot out a lot of that soft wall. Do you still have a player inside of Christmas 05:45:03.020 --> 05:45:08.220 and a couple of players at the bottom of Red or maybe even Longbar, Zotto Canister? 05:45:08.220 --> 05:45:13.260 Gonna slow things down a bit but you can't help but feel that Dox's moments are numbered 05:45:13.260 --> 05:45:17.660 in his current position. Time is going to be a factor though and it's going to be the hand 05:45:17.660 --> 05:45:21.580 pressing on the backs of Furia forcing them to push down these white stairs. 05:45:24.620 --> 05:45:29.660 They have to move at some point. They feel their impetus, feel the wind at their backs. They'll 05:45:29.660 --> 05:45:34.060 have to start making progress, especially only 30 seconds to go. A lot of secondary utility to 05:45:34.060 --> 05:45:38.380 rely on. Pholps has made his way into the site. Never dealt with dots though, but most 05:45:38.380 --> 05:45:42.940 importantly dots still has that C4. If he can rotate around and find the right position, 05:45:43.260 --> 05:45:44.980 could have massive impact. 05:45:44.980 --> 05:45:46.700 Volts shielding the defuse plant 05:45:46.700 --> 05:45:48.460 as the guns behind them go alive. 05:45:48.460 --> 05:45:49.660 Boxer are good for one. 05:45:49.660 --> 05:45:51.740 Volts somehow making it through. 05:45:51.740 --> 05:45:54.020 Flawless for Furia. 05:45:54.020 --> 05:45:56.780 Completely lethal on the execute. 05:45:56.780 --> 05:45:58.660 Just march their way in 05:45:58.660 --> 05:46:00.820 and the defuse plant is merely a bait 05:46:00.820 --> 05:46:03.020 for an inevitable outcome. 05:46:03.020 --> 05:46:05.940 They have no business being that well coordinated 05:46:05.940 --> 05:46:08.180 when they've been together for as long as they have. 05:46:08.180 --> 05:46:09.860 They look like a team that has been together 05:46:09.860 --> 05:46:12.500 for years at this stage. 05:46:12.500 --> 05:46:19.420 Well, everything seems to be clicking beautifully to get the open and pick they're able to push themselves into side 05:46:19.420 --> 05:46:24.460 There's a bit of a diffuser juggle and there's a plan to get a plant down behind the Monty as soon as that plan 05:46:25.000 --> 05:46:28.820 Changes it's not that it fails. The objectives just changes a little bit 05:46:28.820 --> 05:46:32.900 It's like oh, we now know where two people are Monty can call out all of that information 05:46:33.060 --> 05:46:36.700 And the rest of the team is in such a brilliant position to collapse 05:46:36.700 --> 05:46:42.220 You can go through the match replay and watch the POV for every one of these 05:46:42.220 --> 05:46:47.380 Furia players for that last round and it just like a synchronized dance with how 05:46:47.380 --> 05:46:53.140 in touch and how linked up they were with one another. A real fine display of 05:46:53.140 --> 05:46:57.060 attacking onto Bakery and a fine display of attacking overall on 05:46:57.060 --> 05:47:00.140 Catherine with the way that some of these rounds have transpired. Matching 05:47:00.140 --> 05:47:05.340 series point now for Furia. The guaranteed overtime here if they aren't 05:47:05.340 --> 05:47:10.340 able to convert it in this round. Got chances, Lynx. 05:47:10.340 --> 05:47:17.700 They've got chances, specifically one right now. There's one round of Plexo W7M need to 05:47:17.700 --> 05:47:22.060 win to bring us to OT to get another shot at this. It's the same Razor Blooms we observed 05:47:22.060 --> 05:47:27.820 before from Loven. These dual layers that the attack might have to walk through should 05:47:27.820 --> 05:47:30.580 they choose to repel in through the Christmas window. 05:47:30.580 --> 05:47:41.580 Cousin Barricades also present the Vulcan Packs placed on the door, who, but an early kill by Loira, no active utility loss but is an important presence. 05:47:41.580 --> 05:47:51.580 It's the Loira to go down next as already almost to the Red Hallway, getting very quick with things, either out of step the rest of the attacker, maybe just trying to latch onto a gap. 05:47:51.580 --> 05:47:59.580 Make things and even trade early on in, any bit of momentum Fury could have acquired from that will likely be halted a little bit by the loss of the Ash. 05:47:59.580 --> 05:48:05.500 They continue looking forward as they know that the thorn is below new hatch. No nades for 05:48:05.500 --> 05:48:10.380 vulps to deal with her. It does our deathmark tracker to fill a similar purpose. Crossfire 05:48:10.380 --> 05:48:15.100 on the skylight as well as the thorn goes down immediately the moment that deathmark begins 05:48:15.100 --> 05:48:21.340 buzzing around her head. Oh, bug's error there. Explaining a little bit of trigger discipline, 05:48:21.340 --> 05:48:25.660 but also jumping the gun at the same time, herds. It's trademark angle. We've seen 05:48:25.660 --> 05:48:30.720 him upside down repellent why it's so many times so far cons now the next 05:48:30.720 --> 05:48:37.700 target for that deathmark players on the side of fluxo left with not really too 05:48:37.700 --> 05:48:41.140 much to hold on to on this top floor we do have a player tucked into cocktail 05:48:41.140 --> 05:48:46.300 still birds really best attempt to bait in things out there is now gonna get 05:48:46.300 --> 05:48:50.820 himself upside down on that reading door they're a dangerous position for 05:48:50.820 --> 05:48:52.580 bolts to find himself in. 05:48:52.580 --> 05:48:54.860 He'll have Vendetta in the middle of a brilliant pre-fire 05:48:54.860 --> 05:48:55.980 through the wall. 05:48:55.980 --> 05:48:58.420 Thodes will fall in the process, but it leaves the advantage 05:48:58.420 --> 05:49:00.340 firmly with Furia. 05:49:00.340 --> 05:49:03.620 Only for the moment, though, is Fluxor W7M 05:49:03.620 --> 05:49:04.900 able to cut him down for a moment, 05:49:04.900 --> 05:49:07.500 but now it all lands on cons. 05:49:07.500 --> 05:49:09.380 They qualify in a few more rounds 05:49:09.380 --> 05:49:11.740 over where they fall to the lower bracket right here. 05:49:11.740 --> 05:49:13.060 Spotted around the corner, trying 05:49:13.060 --> 05:49:16.740 to land the pre-fire of the pistol, only has so much ammo. 05:49:16.740 --> 05:49:20.260 12 rounds apiece, but only two maps necessary. 05:49:20.260 --> 05:49:27.260 team to qualify to Salt Lake 05:49:27.260 --> 05:49:29.260 City. You can see just exactly 05:49:29.260 --> 05:49:32.260 what that means to this team. 05:49:32.260 --> 05:49:34.260 Team built with the sole purpose 05:49:34.260 --> 05:49:36.260 of achieving majors at their 05:49:36.260 --> 05:49:38.260 first opportunity. They will be 05:49:38.260 --> 05:49:41.260 headed to Salt Lake City. 05:49:41.260 --> 05:49:43.260 Guaranteeing themselves some SI 05:49:43.260 --> 05:49:46.260 points as well. And if that 05:49:46.260 --> 05:49:48.260 wasn't a surprise, they have 05:50:18.260 --> 05:50:23.220 we do have it. Fioria are locked and loaded. They're going to Salt Lake City as the second 05:50:23.220 --> 05:50:30.580 representative from the SAL region. The way it all came down to though Leo was beautiful to witness 05:50:30.580 --> 05:50:36.900 because at some point it looked like it would slip away from them. Yeah, I think we all had doubts 05:50:36.900 --> 05:50:40.740 at the moment where they switched to attack. I think it's really the moment where we were all 05:50:40.740 --> 05:50:45.940 wondering is there really a chance for these guys to go into attack on different sided map 05:50:45.940 --> 05:50:48.900 and show us something else than just the Relentless Aggression. 05:50:48.900 --> 05:50:51.940 Is there something else in that team? And I think we saw it today because 05:50:53.620 --> 05:50:58.820 they showed that, no, it's not just purely skill. There is cohesion, there is team play. 05:50:59.860 --> 05:51:06.100 That last round, you know, the demo striker on Lobin who's playing Shaiiko that creates movement. 05:51:06.100 --> 05:51:10.020 At the same time, we have a rappel heaven to punish him. At the same time, 05:51:10.020 --> 05:51:14.260 then the most used is that pressure to go in. You know, those are preset plays. 05:51:14.260 --> 05:51:21.160 Yes from outside the map but like step-by-step takes you know that that's like full on coordinated full room clear 05:51:21.500 --> 05:51:26.380 Attacks that are fundamentally at the highest level of what you can get 05:51:26.780 --> 05:51:30.000 On on on products on on on cafe, you know 05:51:30.260 --> 05:51:34.300 So I'm looking at a team that does not solely rely rely on the visual play 05:51:34.380 --> 05:51:38.360 It's very easy to dismiss fury as it has this big TDM team 05:51:38.500 --> 05:51:41.280 Well, I think they just showed us today that they had more in them 05:51:41.280 --> 05:51:47.680 They absolutely did, they absolutely didn't. We saw, like even from Fluxo, the attempts that 05:51:47.680 --> 05:51:53.000 Aura that was brought in, walking down certain locations that they might want to play with, 05:51:53.000 --> 05:51:57.680 the Silent Snake or Silent Snake, sorry, that was brought in multiple rounds from both teams, 05:51:57.680 --> 05:52:03.680 abusing the FAMAS all the way to the edge. Falu who played a game out of his mind also, 05:52:03.680 --> 05:52:08.120 but all of that is still not enough. And I want to bring everybody back to the start of 05:52:08.120 --> 05:52:11.720 kickoff where the conversation around free area was how the hell do you make a 05:52:11.720 --> 05:52:15.760 team like this work you're bringing players from all of the world and yes 05:52:15.760 --> 05:52:19.360 you have herds there in the center but you're bringing back the Brazilians that 05:52:19.360 --> 05:52:23.760 went abroad had experienced in other teams and other regions you put them 05:52:23.760 --> 05:52:29.440 together and you're always asking can this actually function or not and it 05:52:29.440 --> 05:52:34.760 does it does it just takes a bit of time but beating fluxo and the way 05:52:34.760 --> 05:52:39.400 that they have in this game. After Fluxo played an excellent game against FaZe earlier in the 05:52:39.400 --> 05:52:45.800 bracket, I think that if anything solidifies Furia as despite the fact that they are not the same 05:52:45.800 --> 05:52:51.880 Furia that we knew a couple months ago, they are still a team to be reckoned with and the legacy 05:52:51.880 --> 05:52:59.880 of the organization that is Furia continues on even though there is a brand new roster, 05:52:59.880 --> 05:53:03.040 a brand-new set of cavalry that are representing it. 05:53:03.040 --> 05:53:05.240 Yeah, I just saw the round 11 again. 05:53:05.240 --> 05:53:07.400 That was just one more example that Basement take, 05:53:07.400 --> 05:53:11.520 that was a flawless round with Volbs leading the charge with the Monsi, 05:53:11.520 --> 05:53:13.320 and all of his teammates playing the right way, 05:53:13.320 --> 05:53:16.600 having the right vertical play and the angles to punish anyone moving. 05:53:16.600 --> 05:53:19.480 Thanks to Volbs getting into the bomb site. 05:53:19.480 --> 05:53:23.400 Those are the layers of strategy depth that I was, I guess, 05:53:23.400 --> 05:53:25.880 I don't think many people were expecting from a team like this. 05:53:25.880 --> 05:53:28.720 It goes to show that in a very similar to G2, 05:53:28.720 --> 05:53:33.840 It's not because you have big gunners on a team that necessarily you can't have strategic depth. 05:53:33.840 --> 05:53:37.040 You can see that these guys also know how to play fundamentally well. 05:53:37.040 --> 05:53:40.640 It's just that sometimes they're just ready to take more risk than others. 05:53:40.640 --> 05:53:45.440 And that makes them a very, very scary team because Fiora is one of the only teams that 05:53:45.440 --> 05:53:49.600 can change that pace pretty quickly. From a heavy rush with full on fire power, 05:53:49.600 --> 05:53:53.200 getting super aggressive with herds, for example, who jumps out or a buck 05:53:53.200 --> 05:53:58.080 who jumped out in the last game, to a full on direct take that is step by step and 05:53:58.080 --> 05:54:02.800 way closer to a default tech, but really well executed as well, it is very surprising I think 05:54:02.800 --> 05:54:07.840 for many teams to see a liner that was composed of five different players, come in and in a span 05:54:07.840 --> 05:54:14.240 of a few weeks already reach a level of cohesion that defeats a team that has just beaten FaZe for 05:54:14.240 --> 05:54:22.240 example. Keep in mind neither FaZe nor Team Liquid and Alienware are yet to be confirmed for 05:54:22.240 --> 05:54:25.960 No, no, literally the top three. 05:54:25.960 --> 05:54:28.020 Oh my god. 05:54:28.020 --> 05:54:33.760 This just shows you that the up and comers in this region can on good days, definitely 05:54:33.760 --> 05:54:34.960 hang with the best. 05:54:34.960 --> 05:54:36.200 This is not cut and dry. 05:54:36.200 --> 05:54:41.200 This is not, I guess, your Spanish football league, where you know where the top two are 05:54:41.200 --> 05:54:43.840 going to be pretty much all the time, or your top three. 05:54:43.840 --> 05:54:45.240 It's not the case. 05:54:45.240 --> 05:54:50.400 This is the Premier League of Siege, where you have no idea of the equivalent of a 05:54:50.400 --> 05:54:55.360 crystal palace is going to make it into a final someday somehow. That's the beauty of 05:54:55.360 --> 05:55:02.960 SAEL is it's always in constant movement and in constant manner of reinventing itself 05:55:02.960 --> 05:55:09.840 with fresh blood with different rosters that in theory shouldn't work and yet they do. 05:55:09.840 --> 05:55:15.120 That's what I love about watching this region and being a fan of Brazilian teams for all those 05:55:15.120 --> 05:55:21.080 year 10 years plus now going on it every time they never cease to blow my mind 05:55:21.080 --> 05:55:25.560 with what they do however one that has done quite a bit is the man of the hour 05:55:25.560 --> 05:55:29.720 Diaz Lucas joining us on the call all the way from Brazil representing 05:55:29.720 --> 05:55:35.840 FURIA Diaz congratulations you've made it to Salt Lake City how you feel it 05:55:35.840 --> 05:55:40.720 I'm feeling great feeling great it's been a while I see a smile I see a smile 05:55:40.720 --> 05:55:46.720 Finally, I've been seeing focused up Diaz for all of these weeks and now he's happy, he's proud. 05:55:48.720 --> 05:55:49.720 Yep, yeah, I'm happy. 05:55:50.720 --> 05:55:53.720 Last time I qualified for a major was Atlanta. 05:55:54.720 --> 05:56:03.720 Last LAN I played was reload, before that was Boston Invite, so it's been away from international events for quite some time and I'm happy to be back. 05:56:03.720 --> 05:56:05.420 Happy to be back. 05:56:05.420 --> 05:56:10.840 Speaking about this for you, I was just looking at your stats from kickoff and I was thinking 05:56:10.840 --> 05:56:15.440 it feels like when you're on liquid you're already one of the standout players alongside 05:56:15.440 --> 05:56:18.400 my eye statistically, you know, despite being on the back line. 05:56:18.400 --> 05:56:23.800 I feel like with this new roster though, you reach a whole new level where one that 05:56:23.800 --> 05:56:27.480 I did not see on the OXG, I just feel like you keep on progressing, do you feel 05:56:27.480 --> 05:56:33.480 I feel like you're in this roster specifically, you get really strong in the role you're in 05:56:33.480 --> 05:56:37.480 because I feel like I've never seen you that consistent with an roster. 05:56:39.480 --> 05:56:41.480 Yeah, the roster plays a big part in it. 05:56:41.480 --> 05:56:45.480 I feel like every roster I played for I improved a little bit 05:56:45.480 --> 05:56:48.480 and this one by far is the one I've improved the most. 05:56:48.480 --> 05:56:52.480 But mainly, I feel like the main thing was coming to Brazil. 05:56:52.480 --> 05:56:55.480 The level here is just on another level. 05:56:55.480 --> 05:57:01.480 Every team here is good, the scrims are very good, and it just forces you to improve, you know. 05:57:01.480 --> 05:57:10.480 And when you have nasty teammates surrounding you, a crazy staff, it's a perfect environment, it's almost impossible to not improve in 60. 05:57:10.480 --> 05:57:17.480 Speaking of that competition in Brazil, I was feeling the same thing and I was like, you guys just got like five different roles. 05:57:17.480 --> 05:57:23.480 a few weeks ago to build this project, you had to wait till after I say basically to rebuild everything. 05:57:23.480 --> 05:57:31.480 And in the most competitive region in the world, you get at least guaranteed top two of SAL when teams like FaZe, 05:57:31.480 --> 05:57:37.480 like the former Fiori, Iros, Turing, now Team Liquid, you know, like Fluxor W7M now that you've sent to the low bracket. 05:57:37.480 --> 05:57:44.480 All three of these teams who have been together for much longer than you guys are sent to the lower bracket and will be lower seed than you guys. 05:57:44.480 --> 05:57:51.120 Did you expect that? How do you explain that that you managed to get there in just a couple of weeks compared to these teams? 05:57:53.440 --> 05:57:57.640 Yeah, I definitely did expect that before even before our first 05:57:58.560 --> 05:58:06.280 Practice I knew that we're gonna do good, you know, it's impossible to not too good with with the lineup with all these names and 05:58:07.600 --> 05:58:10.720 Our practice is perfect. Everyone is good in their roles 05:58:10.720 --> 05:58:14.940 Like it's I don't know it's almost impossible to not succeed in this in this roster 05:58:15.640 --> 05:58:21.940 Well, yes, you're talking about the kind of the success of the roster, but there's I feel like with every team 05:58:21.940 --> 05:58:24.180 There's always the one person on it 05:58:24.180 --> 05:58:30.700 That is the glue that keeps everybody together and keeps them motivated and set and focused on their goal 05:58:30.700 --> 05:58:32.700 Who is that for you on furia? 05:58:34.780 --> 05:58:35.420 Oh 05:58:35.420 --> 05:58:38.740 It definitely has to be our coach reduct. He uh 05:58:38.740 --> 05:58:46.700 Yeah, he's very good at being a leader inside and outside of the cyber and all the personalities 05:58:46.700 --> 05:58:55.860 and game styles all mesh very well so then everyone plays their part in their own kind 05:58:55.860 --> 05:58:56.860 of way. 05:58:56.860 --> 05:58:58.540 Makes a lot of sense, Redacted. 05:58:58.540 --> 05:59:04.700 Of course, a person that has been in and around the scene in Brazil for what, eight 05:59:04.700 --> 05:59:09.500 years at this point since the very beginning of the Brazilian siege that 05:59:09.500 --> 05:59:12.420 push internationally so good to hear here but 05:59:12.420 --> 05:59:16.460 Diaz with your victory like I said you solidified Salt Lake City you're going 05:59:16.460 --> 05:59:17.100 there 05:59:17.100 --> 05:59:20.380 anything like to say to the furia fans and the Diaz fans out there 05:59:20.380 --> 05:59:22.020 rooting for you 05:59:22.020 --> 05:59:24.300 the MVP of this matchup 05:59:24.300 --> 05:59:25.580 as well 05:59:25.580 --> 05:59:26.380 and 05:59:26.380 --> 05:59:31.860 what do you'd like to say to NIP before your match up against them 05:59:31.860 --> 05:59:34.460 I honestly didn't understand anything, you said everything's freezing. 05:59:35.660 --> 05:59:36.660 I think he's out. 05:59:36.660 --> 05:59:38.460 Well, I'm gonna repeat it for you. 05:59:38.460 --> 05:59:39.460 Can you hear us now? 05:59:39.460 --> 05:59:40.460 We can now. 05:59:42.060 --> 05:59:43.060 No. 05:59:43.060 --> 05:59:44.060 You're gone, you're all robotic. 05:59:47.260 --> 05:59:48.260 I would say just congratulate you. 05:59:48.260 --> 05:59:49.860 They called me a bot, but yeah. 05:59:51.660 --> 05:59:52.860 Yeah, we'll leave it at that. 05:59:52.860 --> 05:59:54.260 You have another match to play. 05:59:54.860 --> 05:59:56.060 You have another match to play. 05:59:56.060 --> 05:59:58.060 Go rest up, DS, go rest up. 05:59:58.060 --> 05:59:59.660 These are MVP in the matchup. 05:59:59.660 --> 06:00:10.000 Corez now my friend, 114 APS, 19-3 MVP of the matchup, great to see from DS who's obviously 06:00:10.000 --> 06:00:14.560 told us a bit about his story and how he got to this point and the experiences he's had 06:00:14.560 --> 06:00:19.340 all over the different rosters in the past, the events he's been to and now Leo is adding 06:00:19.340 --> 06:00:20.340 yet another one. 06:00:20.340 --> 06:00:23.300 He's gone to more international events than you have. 06:00:23.300 --> 06:00:25.300 Yeah, yeah, probably. 06:00:25.300 --> 06:00:30.740 probably. I would be surprised to be honest. I mean, he competed for longer than I did. 06:00:30.740 --> 06:00:36.860 And honestly, has been on better teams than I've ever been to, I think. I mean, he's a 06:00:36.860 --> 06:00:40.900 better player overall, but I have to compare myself to him. I think, really, I think the 06:00:40.900 --> 06:00:45.860 growth from the player that we saw start in NA to where he's been here in Brazil 06:00:45.860 --> 06:00:50.340 is actually impressive. Because I thought that was he was a stand up player in NA, 06:00:50.340 --> 06:00:54.260 but he was amongst the top few teams. And it's not really like, what's not like, 06:00:54.260 --> 06:00:59.620 that superstar player in NA, right? I think when you reached Liquid, you started really being seen 06:00:59.620 --> 06:01:04.900 as like that layer of backline that is always so consistent alongside Maya, even in a roster that 06:01:04.900 --> 06:01:10.340 did not work well. And I think that now with Furia, around all of kickoff, he's been the most 06:01:10.340 --> 06:01:15.460 consistent player alongside Ropes, but on very different roles. Like, you know, he plays most 06:01:15.460 --> 06:01:23.380 of the flex support one. So if you need a balance between a team that is overly aggressive 06:01:23.380 --> 06:01:30.500 and inconsistent results, then you need a back line that can pull rounds off when they've lost 06:01:30.500 --> 06:01:34.820 a bad advantage. Because the entry line is going to take risk. You need the back line to be good 06:01:34.820 --> 06:01:39.380 enough to be able to save rounds. And I think that's why I think he really shines in his roster. 06:01:39.380 --> 06:01:44.020 I think overall, like, he's also in a position where he knows he needs to frag at some point, 06:01:44.020 --> 06:01:48.020 because they will be at a managed advantage, and he does it consistently. 06:01:48.020 --> 06:01:53.220 Leo, you broke her stats. The scoreboard is dead just because of how exciting 06:01:53.220 --> 06:02:00.220 Well, Mega Mind, thank you very much for our first two matchups and our night is not done 06:02:00.220 --> 06:02:01.220 yet. 06:02:01.220 --> 06:02:06.220 I'd like to take a look at our bracket, I guess the second to last time, of today because 06:02:06.220 --> 06:02:08.220 unlike the usual that we have here. 06:02:08.220 --> 06:02:09.220 What? 06:02:09.220 --> 06:02:10.220 You're not going to break it? 06:02:10.220 --> 06:02:11.220 No, no, no. 06:02:11.220 --> 06:02:12.220 No, you're not. 06:02:12.220 --> 06:02:13.220 No, you're not. 06:02:13.220 --> 06:02:14.220 You know who already broke the bracket? 06:02:14.220 --> 06:02:19.860 It's our two finalists, NIP and Furia because look at what's happening in the semis. 06:02:19.860 --> 06:02:25.780 So W7M, Team Liquid Alienware, Faceplan, and Lost. All four of the teams, but really the first three. 06:02:26.420 --> 06:02:33.100 Only two of them are gonna make it to Salt Lake City, and only one of them is gonna play in Phase 2. 06:02:33.100 --> 06:02:39.160 The other one is gonna have to trudge through the swamp of Phase 1 before qualifying to the actual, 06:02:39.160 --> 06:02:45.500 I guess, group stage that leads you into the main event. That is Insane Leo. 06:02:45.500 --> 06:02:49.500 SAL always finding ways to top itself from stage to stage. 06:02:49.500 --> 06:03:05.500 Yeah, and that I think is another statement of just how good this region is, you know, they have so much talent that if you put them all together in five different roasters like the roster mania created, then you get an opportunity where I stated at the beginning. 06:03:05.500 --> 06:03:11.340 there's only four spots for the major for SAO. Yet you have NIP, Team Liquid, FURIA, 06:03:11.340 --> 06:03:17.340 Fluxor WCNM, and FaZe. One of them will have to miss it. And the problem is, with the fact that 06:03:17.340 --> 06:03:23.180 Fluxor WCNM defeated FaZe, we're now in a scenario where either Team Liquid, either FaZe is 06:03:23.180 --> 06:03:28.380 going to miss it. And these two were not, well, they were amongst probably the first and second 06:03:28.380 --> 06:03:34.700 seed of SAO in everyone's mind. And that will be a huge, huge disappointment to whoever 06:03:34.700 --> 06:03:41.420 doesn't make it on the one side. Two-time SI hammers, SI champions, another one, 06:03:41.420 --> 06:03:47.740 Furia, the one team that had the biggest after-phase. One of these two, the streak stops here. 06:03:49.580 --> 06:03:55.820 Well, well, if anything, do you mind thinking because FANDA doesn't really get to watch 06:03:55.820 --> 06:04:02.700 CL that often, it may be the best opportunity for NAL and EML to really telling you it is not 06:04:02.700 --> 06:04:07.900 not getting easier with MLP and fear to qualify, not with the quality of games that we've seen 06:04:07.900 --> 06:04:14.860 out of anything that just promises that Salt Lake City a super fun major to win. We're not 06:04:14.860 --> 06:04:22.620 even done with teams from SAL or from NAL from CNL and APL. So cannot wait to see the final results 06:04:22.620 --> 06:04:26.380 will be make sure you're grabbing your tickets if especially you're in North America who like to 06:04:26.380 --> 06:04:28.720 to be part of Siege history. 06:04:28.720 --> 06:04:32.660 But, Leo, we just have two teams that just played their game. 06:04:32.660 --> 06:04:34.460 So we're gonna give them a little break. 06:04:34.460 --> 06:04:36.340 Now when we get back, so we're gonna be like 06:04:36.340 --> 06:04:38.300 around 40 or so minutes when we get back, 06:04:38.300 --> 06:04:40.820 we'll prepare you for the pre-match, 06:04:40.820 --> 06:04:45.340 the grand final of SAL's upper bracket story. 06:04:45.340 --> 06:04:48.860 Fiora versus Ninjas and Pajamas after the break. 06:04:48.860 --> 06:04:50.860 I 06:05:18.860 --> 06:05:25.860 I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, so I won't let you go. 06:07:18.860 --> 06:07:20.860 I 06:09:18.860 --> 06:09:20.860 I 06:11:18.860 --> 06:11:20.860 I 06:12:48.860 --> 06:12:50.860 I 06:17:48.860 --> 06:17:50.860 I 06:21:48.860 --> 06:21:50.860 I 06:22:18.860 --> 06:22:20.860 I 06:25:18.860 --> 06:25:20.860 Oh 06:29:18.860 --> 06:29:20.860 I 06:31:18.860 --> 06:31:20.860 I 06:34:18.860 --> 06:34:20.860 I 06:36:18.860 --> 06:36:20.860 I 06:37:18.860 --> 06:37:20.860 I 06:41:18.860 --> 06:41:45.820 Hello, everybody, and welcome back to, you know, a quick break, we're needed to reset 06:41:45.820 --> 06:41:51.240 before we go into our final match for Grand Final that is here in the upper bracket. 06:41:51.240 --> 06:41:53.740 This is NIP vs. Syria. 06:41:53.740 --> 06:41:58.780 If you all have at the beginning of the three minutes during the page, this would be our 06:41:58.780 --> 06:41:59.780 final win. 06:41:59.780 --> 06:42:02.300 I don't think there are many people that will be able to do this. 06:42:02.300 --> 06:42:03.300 At least the NIP part. 06:42:03.300 --> 06:42:06.300 Syria was a very different beat back then. 06:42:06.300 --> 06:42:09.940 Now with a completely different period, they're doing great. 06:42:09.940 --> 06:42:12.020 NIP, they're doing great. 06:42:12.020 --> 06:42:20.020 It's a hell of a situation for these fighters. 06:42:20.020 --> 06:42:24.500 That's what happened when you put the most competitive region in the world into a massive 06:42:24.500 --> 06:42:31.900 vs Romania and somehow 5 super teams come out of it and you only have 4 spots for a major. 06:42:31.900 --> 06:42:37.500 You arrive in a situation where, you know what, both 2DG and FACEC are in the lower 06:42:37.500 --> 06:42:41.620 bracket and we're in the gap with this upper final that was closer to the degree 06:42:41.620 --> 06:42:46.820 unexpected. A team that was made of five players that went from five different 06:42:46.820 --> 06:42:52.140 rosters has managed to do a better job as some of the most consistent teams in 06:42:52.140 --> 06:42:58.380 the world. Welcome to SAEL. This is Siege Esports. 06:42:58.780 --> 06:43:09.500 Are you alright? I'm alright. I feel great. I feel amazing right now. I'm happy to hear, you know. 06:43:09.500 --> 06:43:15.500 We should always be wanting things for our friends and this makes me really happy Leo 06:43:15.500 --> 06:43:20.580 There I be for dear yet is a big big matchup. I'm gonna have to talk about it here 06:43:20.580 --> 06:43:23.180 Yeah, we'll bite to all the new coming gear 06:43:23.740 --> 06:43:29.180 Context of what happened in the matchup prior to this one here. I play fuck so Debbie's have an M 06:43:29.660 --> 06:43:31.100 They looked 06:43:31.100 --> 06:43:33.100 Very good despite how tough the game was 06:43:33.100 --> 06:43:39.360 1. Aferia on the individual level, on the teamwork, on the strategy, knowing from the 06:43:39.360 --> 06:43:44.260 ice story, individual players on drone, and they're on the attack, knowing what operators 06:43:44.260 --> 06:43:50.740 to bring to really intense all that resistance and to spot that completely at the moment. 06:43:50.740 --> 06:43:57.500 It was a beautiful win. W7M certainly gets the best Kudos to Paolo on that, but it 06:43:57.500 --> 06:43:59.460 was not enough. 06:43:59.460 --> 06:44:05.340 Yeah, and honestly if you look at Furia, I think you have a core that basically creates 06:44:05.340 --> 06:44:11.140 the core playstyle and that is Hertz and alongside him you put Loira and you put Volps and in 06:44:11.140 --> 06:44:16.860 that scenario you have three of the most aggressive players in the world creating the most relentless 06:44:16.860 --> 06:44:19.140 chaotic playstyle you could think of. 06:44:19.140 --> 06:44:22.940 Now many things we think that or many people would have thought that that would be the 06:44:22.940 --> 06:44:26.580 only label to that team, the only playstyle they would be able to play and I think 06:44:26.580 --> 06:44:31.580 proved everyone wrong. Like we said, just a few rounds before Serena 06:44:31.580 --> 06:44:35.300 match before they just played, there's more to that team. There's more to that 06:44:35.300 --> 06:44:40.300 team with the back line supported by Dias, by Buxia playing the shields, by a 06:44:40.300 --> 06:44:44.940 team that is able to play fundamentals really well. It's a team that is 06:44:44.940 --> 06:44:49.140 somewhat complete and like I said, as soon as I saw the team on paper, I knew 06:44:49.140 --> 06:44:53.020 we were going to perform even before starting the scrims and I think so far 06:44:53.020 --> 06:44:59.740 they threw it on the other side while looking at NIP. NIP was being consistent throughout the whole year 06:44:59.740 --> 06:45:04.220 who've, you know, they had waited one year and a half to go back to the international tournament. 06:45:04.220 --> 06:45:10.140 They had it really back deep after winning C-Tational. They were struggling to really make it back to 06:45:10.140 --> 06:45:15.100 the top international level and it found their solution last year. However, they did not 06:45:15.100 --> 06:45:21.100 perform like they wanted to. No semi-final, no grand final for these guys and it was just not 06:45:21.100 --> 06:45:26.100 And like Pino said in his interview, he feels that with that team, with Bassetto as the lead now, 06:45:26.100 --> 06:45:32.100 after Constip, the barter, they feel like they're ready for another year of not only making every international event, 06:45:32.100 --> 06:45:38.100 but this time actually going further and for all the fans maybe attending a new Grand Final. 06:45:38.100 --> 06:45:42.100 And I think they would start today by storing things and winning SAL. 06:45:42.100 --> 06:45:50.100 That is such a strong statement to going to the Major and doing so by being the best team out of the best region. 06:45:50.100 --> 06:46:06.100 Fancy putting up numbers alongside Wizard, Hades has been kind of this underground pick that we're seeing really rise in the right moments and actually snatch MVP positions quite often, more often than one would even think. 06:46:06.100 --> 06:46:19.100 And one person that Pino specifically talked about in multiple interviews, but especially our last one that we had, Bassetto is really playing it up here on the team and providing a lot of backline support to give this team some support. 06:46:19.100 --> 06:46:24.140 this team successful rounds and really help them achieve those spots. 06:46:25.820 --> 06:46:32.300 Yeah, he's the one that plays games and I think he proved today especially that he could only play 06:46:32.300 --> 06:46:36.860 the shields and lead this team in a different way than Bones did, but also took the shots because 06:46:36.860 --> 06:46:41.500 he was for the first time ever the best really player on one of the maps in that tier three. 06:46:41.500 --> 06:46:47.580 And I think one of those staple players that made them win their game against a very tough 06:46:47.580 --> 06:46:52.740 opponent I mean it's no no huge no small feature to literally send some 06:46:52.740 --> 06:46:57.780 liquid and you count on top of it that Bessetto entering in this position 06:46:57.780 --> 06:47:03.980 and IP being I guess having this breath of fresh air put back into them getting 06:47:03.980 --> 06:47:07.300 to the grand final position that they're already qualified to Salt Lake 06:47:07.300 --> 06:47:13.060 City right that applies in the same way to their opponents in fury but winning 06:47:13.060 --> 06:47:16.540 here puts you as number one the top dog that everybody's gonna look at in 06:47:16.540 --> 06:47:24.020 SAO as high points of plenty cash money at the end of it and a higher seed going into Salt Lake City 06:47:24.340 --> 06:47:30.700 That is really big and I would say the most important part would be the morale the momentum of the bragging rights 06:47:30.700 --> 06:47:35.160 And you say hey you underestimated us for so long and look at us now 06:47:36.120 --> 06:47:37.900 The main thing has to be the SA points though 06:47:37.900 --> 06:47:42.620 Like it has to be that like I mean if you're top two right now if you lose this you you've got a hundred seventy five 06:47:42.620 --> 06:47:49.620 If you win 240, that is massive, that is way too much math for me, 25 plus 40, 65 SAI points. 06:47:49.620 --> 06:47:57.620 I'm able to do that math, 65 SAI points that you win more than the 7th one, so very important one. 06:47:57.620 --> 06:48:01.620 And then also 4,000 USD more than the top two. 06:48:01.620 --> 06:48:06.620 Looking at this, I'm very interested to look at the maps. 06:48:06.620 --> 06:48:09.620 I think that both of these teams have invaded a lot of things. 06:48:09.620 --> 06:48:14.620 I think for Furia especially, they were going through SAO with such a massive advantage 06:48:14.620 --> 06:48:18.120 because they were a brand new team, no one really knew what their map pool was. 06:48:18.120 --> 06:48:20.620 They've been able to abuse it as much as possible. 06:48:20.620 --> 06:48:22.620 We saw it today on Fortress for example. 06:48:22.620 --> 06:48:26.620 So, can I get interested to see Milo's where we're headed at right now? 06:48:26.620 --> 06:48:29.620 Yeah, let's bring on the map, Vito. Why not? 06:48:29.620 --> 06:48:32.620 We'll see what we get out of this one here. 06:48:32.620 --> 06:48:33.620 What do we have for this BO3? 06:48:33.620 --> 06:48:37.940 three chalet consulate night haven and club removed bank is gonna be the first 06:48:37.940 --> 06:48:41.720 and for dirt way way way way way way way we're getting some repeats here and we 06:48:41.720 --> 06:48:46.540 go to border I okay I know it's past midnight for myself and my wife is 06:48:46.540 --> 06:48:59.820 probably gonna hate me for saying my life but I hope to God 06:48:59.820 --> 06:49:07.100 How do we see a border in this series? 06:49:07.100 --> 06:49:08.860 And we see it, Minash, we see it. 06:49:08.860 --> 06:49:09.860 And that will be honesty. 06:49:09.860 --> 06:49:13.000 Honesty, if we go all the way through, it will be a banger of a map. 06:49:13.000 --> 06:49:14.380 But before that, we have to go through bank. 06:49:14.380 --> 06:49:15.380 We have to go through Fortress. 06:49:15.380 --> 06:49:20.540 Two maps that we saw today, bank, we've not seen it played by Furia yet. 06:49:20.540 --> 06:49:24.180 A brand new team, like I said, they will be able to surprise, however it was a map 06:49:24.180 --> 06:49:28.500 that I heard Sloth to play, but yeah, like we said, it is a map that has banned 06:49:28.500 --> 06:49:33.660 a lot so far so pretty low priority however we did see an IP a bit lost on it 06:49:33.660 --> 06:49:37.280 during the playoffs they were really confident on it not a big surprise to see 06:49:37.280 --> 06:49:43.500 them pick it fortress we've just seen it play today by an IP as well I found 06:49:43.500 --> 06:49:50.280 a mistake and load a lot also won it 7-5 during the playoffs oh period lost 06:49:50.280 --> 06:49:57.300 one in the game yeah close matchup yeah 7-5 between them and then if we go to 06:49:57.300 --> 06:50:00.380 border honestly will be about burner because you have such big fighters on 06:50:00.380 --> 06:50:03.800 both sides I just want to see fantasy play concerns I think in terms of 06:50:03.800 --> 06:50:07.060 explosiveness and like an aggression think we'll reach something that is 06:50:07.060 --> 06:50:11.820 really cool this is a proper test for both of these lineups we already said 06:50:11.820 --> 06:50:16.980 it ahead of the semi-finals of the upper bracket this final here is gonna be 06:50:16.980 --> 06:50:21.860 studied very very closely by every team that's going into Salt Lake City 06:50:21.860 --> 06:50:28.980 preparing for these two monsters once they get to the major. But we're here, we're chatting about 06:50:28.980 --> 06:50:35.700 what maps we can get. I want to say hi and chat to our casters for today. Please, on our grand final, 06:50:35.700 --> 06:50:43.540 it's Lynx and Interil. Lynx, welcome back, Interil. Hey, welcome to SAL, my friend. How you doing? 06:50:44.980 --> 06:50:50.740 Thanks. I picked a great day for Leo to be high energy. It would seem. I enjoyed the 06:50:50.740 --> 06:50:56.580 the Borat reference. I was supposed to work SAL weeks ago, but Emmy had like a, I don't 06:50:56.580 --> 06:51:01.100 know, something. So now here I am. And I get to work with Lynx again, which is always delightful. 06:51:01.100 --> 06:51:05.100 So it should be a good day and we got, we got a grand final. Well, upper bracket final 06:51:05.100 --> 06:51:06.100 to go through, I suppose. 06:51:06.100 --> 06:51:07.100 That is the grand final. 06:51:07.100 --> 06:51:10.620 Why did we speak in the constant of grand final? I mean, like, it's, you know, it's 06:51:10.620 --> 06:51:15.780 the two, like based on the leaderboards, like the best teams, they're not going 06:51:15.780 --> 06:51:19.020 to the lower bracket after this. Like, it doesn't really matter. It's like, it's, 06:51:19.020 --> 06:51:22.080 grand final we can ignore the labels I mean I'm sorry it says upper bracket finals 06:51:22.080 --> 06:51:33.620 not grand finals I think we have the lawyer and the pedant how do you say 06:51:33.620 --> 06:51:39.300 that's called the lawyers that's the same thing you said the links is not a 06:51:39.300 --> 06:51:46.340 lawyer yet that is true I am at some point the whole two years well look 06:51:46.340 --> 06:51:51.060 great look both of you have guitars only one of you has a cat so I'm giving this 06:51:51.060 --> 06:51:56.180 over to a part did you just change classes 06:51:57.620 --> 06:52:04.620 gaslighting me anyways it's magic man and well magic man what do you think of 06:52:04.620 --> 06:52:08.340 this here going into it were you expecting nip fury with the all the 06:52:08.340 --> 06:52:12.780 roster changes and all to be the grand final the region if you were just 06:52:12.780 --> 06:52:16.140 looking at kickoff without any context of matches? 06:52:16.140 --> 06:52:19.060 I mean, in all seriousness, Nip, no, Furia, sure. 06:52:19.060 --> 06:52:21.620 I think that the Furia team on paper is quite scary, 06:52:21.620 --> 06:52:23.620 and I think that their potential is very, very high. 06:52:23.620 --> 06:52:25.260 I mean, the one thing you'll see from the Flux 06:52:25.260 --> 06:52:28.140 at W7M game, particularly the Fortress game, 06:52:28.140 --> 06:52:29.620 is that there's ample mistakes 06:52:29.620 --> 06:52:31.620 that both of these teams are going to commit, right? 06:52:31.620 --> 06:52:33.340 And it's all about punishing that. 06:52:33.340 --> 06:52:36.300 I think Nip maintained and kept their core identity. 06:52:36.300 --> 06:52:37.420 They look like they're a little bit better. 06:52:37.420 --> 06:52:39.300 They had a great run through stage two last year, 06:52:39.300 --> 06:52:40.500 if you recall. 06:52:40.500 --> 06:52:41.780 But I think for Furia, 06:52:41.780 --> 06:52:44.900 I think the potential is still even higher than what we've seen them achieve so far. 06:52:44.900 --> 06:52:46.500 I could have seen them making the grand final. 06:52:46.500 --> 06:52:48.260 I'm a little surprised that FaZe isn't there. 06:52:48.260 --> 06:52:51.380 I'm a little surprised that Team Liquid Alienware isn't there, but I mean, we'll see them 06:52:51.380 --> 06:52:52.380 in action tomorrow. 06:52:52.380 --> 06:52:54.500 Those two teams in particular, so. 06:52:54.500 --> 06:52:58.660 That's going to be a sick game, and, well, that might be a grand final quality on its 06:52:58.660 --> 06:52:59.660 own. 06:52:59.660 --> 06:53:01.900 However, we have our grand final right here. 06:53:01.900 --> 06:53:03.780 Two have earned their positions. 06:53:03.780 --> 06:53:07.300 We start off with our first map on Bank, Fira, NIP. 06:53:07.300 --> 06:53:08.300 Time to catch it in. 06:53:08.300 --> 06:53:09.300 Interl, inlinks. 06:53:09.300 --> 06:53:10.300 Have fun. 06:53:10.300 --> 06:53:13.260 I'll thank you so so very much. 06:53:13.260 --> 06:53:15.940 Lynx will be joining me to do some color commentary. 06:53:15.940 --> 06:53:18.660 It's been quite a while since we last worked together. 06:53:18.660 --> 06:53:23.060 I think we worked Brazil together last time. 06:53:23.060 --> 06:53:25.260 I can't remember the last time we actually did cast together, 06:53:25.260 --> 06:53:26.340 but this will be good. 06:53:26.340 --> 06:53:27.780 Bank is a great map for Brazil. 06:53:27.780 --> 06:53:29.580 These are some strong teams, 06:53:29.580 --> 06:53:32.260 and I expect to see some fireworks here. 06:53:32.260 --> 06:53:33.740 And not only is it a great map for Brazil, 06:53:33.740 --> 06:53:35.100 I think it's just a great map in general. 06:53:35.100 --> 06:53:37.780 One of my personal favorite maps in the whole pool. 06:53:37.780 --> 06:53:39.140 I don't know if it's like number one. 06:53:39.140 --> 06:53:40.100 I think that might go to Shele. 06:53:40.100 --> 06:53:43.840 But I love bank in general, but I agree that I think for Brazil in particular 06:53:43.840 --> 06:53:50.260 This is a really really really strong map of course we saw and I P play earlier and it was exceptionally good quality 06:53:50.260 --> 06:53:56.820 It was an 8-6 victory for NIP against team liquid Alienware in the map that I'm still think is probably the most impactful of the day 06:53:57.780 --> 06:54:01.660 Necessitating a team liquid Alienware and phase match in the lower bracket 06:54:01.740 --> 06:54:04.940 At least for now with our two qualified teams to the Salt Lake City Major 06:54:04.940 --> 06:54:09.460 We'll have a read you a bank for one of them starting off on the first site 06:54:09.460 --> 06:54:15.860 We will have a defense of basement as a typically the case and a bit of an extension into the open area position 06:54:15.860 --> 06:54:17.780 As you can see a bit of a looser set up 06:54:17.780 --> 06:54:20.580 This will not surprise anybody's paying attention to my pee today 06:54:20.900 --> 06:54:25.820 See on that visual is going to be the player who usually will go for any kind of solo roam 06:54:25.860 --> 06:54:29.860 He's got a bit of a fortress he can fall back to maybe not necessarily in terms of you know 06:54:29.860 --> 06:54:35.020 Strong utility like Castle Barricades, but a bit of a looser setup and he's dead because he hopped out of the map at the start 06:54:35.140 --> 06:54:37.420 So I'm just to hand it over to you 06:54:38.220 --> 06:54:44.020 I mean everybody knows that the best way to use a vigil ability is to hop off the top rope and engage it outside the building 06:54:44.020 --> 06:54:46.740 I've always said that I've always said that you said that so many times 06:54:46.740 --> 06:54:52.660 I want to say that you are a trendsetter. You are always ahead of the curve. I really am quite something. What can I say? 06:54:53.300 --> 06:54:56.540 Well, you really are quite something but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a compliment 06:54:56.540 --> 06:55:01.820 Um, well, I like to think so. I mean, you know, if Josh Lyman says something, it's got to be positive 06:55:05.180 --> 06:55:10.940 To go to any start for fantasy nips identity adding to set out of this roster has changed things around quite a bit 06:55:10.940 --> 06:55:13.740 And it's also made them a little bit less reliant on fantasy 06:55:13.740 --> 06:55:19.580 I recall the staff that we brought up frequently from SI and and the competing matches before that was that so goes fantasy 06:55:19.580 --> 06:55:21.900 So goes this nip team if fantasy dies early 06:55:21.900 --> 06:55:26.680 Usually this team's chances are in the mud. This nip is a bit more well-rounded this time 06:55:26.680 --> 06:55:28.660 You see guys like hates putting in better performances 06:55:28.660 --> 06:55:33.200 Pino's even had some better numbers than we're used to so they will have their hands full against a feria team that is 06:55:33.540 --> 06:55:38.260 Bangin' on all cylinders they'll trade things back with Pino getting down Loira with half the round to go 06:55:38.260 --> 06:55:40.260 We're at a 4v4 06:55:40.380 --> 06:55:43.860 Matt was trying to probe for some more more control around the garage position 06:55:43.860 --> 06:55:45.980 But given that Diaz Lucas is on such low HP 06:55:45.980 --> 06:55:52.620 It's got to be careful how hard he presses that advantage. It'll be volks with an X kill, 4v3 acquired for Phyria. 06:55:53.260 --> 06:55:57.500 Especially good timing to use that soliton scanner. You've got pretty much most of the defenders 06:55:57.820 --> 06:55:59.420 forced back towards the site. 06:55:59.420 --> 06:56:04.620 So if you're on the same level as if you're gonna be able to figure out a lot of these late-round positions that odds are, 06:56:04.620 --> 06:56:09.100 NIP simply do not have the like the bandwidth or the time to move outside of. 06:56:09.500 --> 06:56:11.820 Even then you still have a minute to reset, find these drones. 06:56:11.820 --> 06:56:17.980 We've got three nades and two flashbangs for Fyria as well only issue. I could see is with the lack of smokes 06:56:18.500 --> 06:56:20.820 There's gonna be a lot of difficulty getting that glass 06:56:21.140 --> 06:56:25.160 Properly activated to like look through an angle and well with wizard getting aggressive like that 06:56:25.160 --> 06:56:29.280 It's like NAP stole some fight left in them. I mean you're right looking through an angle 06:56:29.340 --> 06:56:36.580 That's a hell of a shot from wizard Fyria will regain the lead they gunned down fantasy much earlier on and then these teams drawing blows 06:56:36.580 --> 06:56:43.260 I believe Furia in a 3v2 and there was good patience from Hates that we saw as he was watching the cross into the bomb site 06:56:43.940 --> 06:56:48.740 He had to reposition as his besetto to smoke canisters in pocket for besetto as well 06:56:48.740 --> 06:56:54.860 So we can blanket whatever entry point Hates actually hasn't moved links still holding in the same position watching 06:56:55.180 --> 06:56:57.360 Over towards stairs and watching over towards garage 06:56:57.860 --> 06:57:00.820 Furia all the while go for a plant in the back of the site 06:57:00.820 --> 06:57:05.740 Nehates gets down so besetto left to do it all himself. They managed to pull off the plant 06:57:06.580 --> 06:57:11.900 Right in front of Bissetto's very eyes, and he will have no choice but to get hates up. All right 06:57:11.900 --> 06:57:17.300 I like what they're cooking here 30 seconds left on that diffuse kit. Volts and herds are both hurt 06:57:17.740 --> 06:57:19.740 They'll allow Bissetto to take from upstairs 06:57:21.620 --> 06:57:24.460 Just got to make sure they play this clock so effectively 06:57:25.460 --> 06:57:27.540 Can't cook the nades you just keep it in hand 06:57:28.380 --> 06:57:33.540 Yep, struggling on this clock there goes Bissetto watch from Volts could coverage from Furia hates back from the dead 06:57:33.540 --> 06:57:37.120 He's still got time against the soft wall. He'll attempt it. Oh 06:57:39.540 --> 06:57:41.860 Hurry to get the final kill inferior takes the round I 06:57:43.540 --> 06:57:45.420 Think we got a credit to deus Lucas there 06:57:45.420 --> 06:57:50.740 And I mean talk about a I said that you ought to be careful not to press that advantage too far because of the low HP 06:57:50.740 --> 06:57:53.540 And if there's a player you want to make the cautious decision 06:57:53.540 --> 06:57:58.340 It's got to be deus Lucas out of everybody in this lobby probably one of the most patient players 06:57:58.340 --> 06:58:01.980 I think we generally see in the SAO and when he was in North America 06:58:01.980 --> 06:58:10.060 He had a similar reputation the downside of that you can you can often find yourselves in unwinnable 1v3 and 1v4 positions 06:58:10.300 --> 06:58:16.780 But in cases like that when you want somebody just to passively hold an angle and more so focus on the 06:58:17.060 --> 06:58:20.300 Passive pressure applied rather than actively taking any fights 06:58:20.420 --> 06:58:24.980 that's the exact kind of position that Diaz Lucas thrives in and that he's really good at calculating in and 06:58:25.220 --> 06:58:27.880 Obviously in that round as you saw not only does he get the first pick 06:58:27.880 --> 06:58:34.600 But once the smokes fall back he understands that the best position is to kind of hold passive and firm and while he ended up losing that fight to 06:58:34.600 --> 06:58:40.960 Hates, I think you have to understand that even though he might have not gotten a lot of kills, the fact that that garage angle was such a 06:58:41.160 --> 06:58:47.320 constant threat makes the defense a lot more hesitant to move and forces them to take a fight in the process and as you can see 06:58:47.720 --> 06:58:52.160 Hates got softened up enough that the setter had to take time to go revive him 06:58:52.160 --> 06:58:57.040 It affected the retake in the late round and there's a lot of work done just by DS Lucas holding one position 06:58:57.880 --> 06:59:03.440 There was some finger pointing at Diaz Lucas when he was picked up by this Furious Squad 06:59:03.440 --> 06:59:09.000 because, well, he was a good player in North America and he was fine on Team Liquid before 06:59:09.000 --> 06:59:11.560 they were on a Steam Liquid Alienware, of course. 06:59:11.560 --> 06:59:15.920 But I do think there was some commentary about what he could provide for this roster 06:59:15.920 --> 06:59:17.320 given some of the heavy hitters. 06:59:17.320 --> 06:59:21.400 Everybody knows Volps, everybody knows Herds, you know, you see a guy like Loira and 06:59:21.400 --> 06:59:25.960 what he was able to accomplish on that G2 roster even before he went across to 06:59:25.960 --> 06:59:26.960 Europe. 06:59:26.960 --> 06:59:30.960 Lucas might be the odd man out here, so it's good to see him being able to compete with some real heavyweights. 06:59:31.460 --> 06:59:33.460 Fantasy now finding himself in familiar territory. 06:59:33.460 --> 06:59:35.460 There were 30 seconds into this second round. 06:59:35.460 --> 06:59:40.460 This was the window that if you recall, he jumped out of in the previous round and died almost immediately. 06:59:40.460 --> 06:59:43.960 He watched as some of those barricades went in front of him and was prepped in nitro cell. 06:59:43.960 --> 06:59:48.460 Just in case this Furia team decided to get a bit aggressive, but they will hold right now. 06:59:48.460 --> 06:59:51.960 A little bit patient on that window repel looking into this top floor bomb site. 06:59:52.960 --> 06:59:55.960 Oh, I mean, doesn't get more standard of prefire than that. 06:59:55.960 --> 07:00:00.960 It'll be a one-for-one trade though, and all things considered probably one that actually favors NIP 07:00:00.960 --> 07:00:04.640 The setter's already placed a lot of his HP and you're not really relying on him to be a heavy hitter 07:00:04.720 --> 07:00:08.300 Not only is Heard's one of the main players you want to open up, you know 07:00:08.520 --> 07:00:15.440 Lurks or gaps and exploit them. He also is bringing those five grimby's very active utility kind of an odd position to see Heard's in 07:00:15.640 --> 07:00:19.200 Normally we see him on operators like IQ where the utility is a bit more passive 07:00:19.400 --> 07:00:24.240 Not necessarily as like super impactful execute utility. So that one-for-one trade 07:00:24.240 --> 07:00:29.600 It's a nice prefire from Furia, but it probably ends up cutting against them because the player and utility lost 07:00:29.760 --> 07:00:33.160 They still have the ying and the glass can see through those smokes 07:00:33.160 --> 07:00:38.160 But not having that trifecta, especially the intel gathering capabilities of herds will be a bit of a problem 07:00:38.160 --> 07:00:43.700 And as they look to gear up for their push in through square a lot will need to come down to these smokes and these 07:00:43.760 --> 07:00:46.520 Candelas, but specifically these smokes to get DS activated 07:00:46.520 --> 07:00:50.920 Oh, there was another one from Furia. 07:00:50.920 --> 07:00:56.240 Nip, full-core press now towards that skylight, well, part of this map. 07:00:56.240 --> 07:00:58.240 Gates is looking for some more. 07:00:58.240 --> 07:01:01.240 Now Diaz taking some damage and he's been dropped in the midst of his own smoke. 07:01:01.240 --> 07:01:02.760 Furia coming up almost empty-handed. 07:01:02.760 --> 07:01:07.480 If it wasn't for that Becedo kill earlier, this would be a devastating round for Furia. 07:01:07.480 --> 07:01:10.560 Still salvageable, though not a ton of time for them to work with. 07:01:10.560 --> 07:01:14.520 The perks of having Becedo dead is that he gets to watch all of the cameras that 07:01:14.520 --> 07:01:17.240 Nip has strewn about this map in particular. 07:01:17.240 --> 07:01:18.320 Osyokai drones. 07:01:18.320 --> 07:01:19.320 Good patience by Louris. 07:01:19.320 --> 07:01:20.520 Fantasy gets a bit too aggressive. 07:01:20.520 --> 07:01:21.920 He's gunned down. 07:01:21.920 --> 07:01:23.480 There's very limited time with now 07:01:23.480 --> 07:01:25.880 for this Furia squad to work with. 07:01:25.880 --> 07:01:27.320 They don't have any hard destruction, 07:01:27.320 --> 07:01:28.400 so they're just going to have to go through 07:01:28.400 --> 07:01:29.920 what soft destruction has been done 07:01:29.920 --> 07:01:32.240 using what limited gadgetry they have 07:01:32.240 --> 07:01:33.840 at their disposal candle is to go out 07:01:33.840 --> 07:01:36.000 and now Loura will follow in a death mark. 07:01:36.000 --> 07:01:38.800 Furia sweeping through this site. 07:01:38.800 --> 07:01:41.200 It's all up to Pino in a 1v3. 07:01:41.200 --> 07:01:43.600 Things were looking mighty good for Nip. 07:01:43.600 --> 07:01:52.600 You know, finds one turns towards the other, but Diaz, who was involved earlier downed, but still not dead, picked up to be the saviour for Feria. 07:01:54.280 --> 07:01:56.560 That's the name of your podcast, right? Down but still not dead? 07:01:58.000 --> 07:02:00.840 That is spot on. You are so good. How do you do this? 07:02:01.460 --> 07:02:12.520 So the really, the really, the thing that I really loved in that round that Feria did, obviously you have the initial loss and a bit of a mist round down in archives, you know, those things happen, but it's definitely something that Feria will want to keep an eye on. 07:02:12.520 --> 07:02:18.660 Making sure that, ironic considering I'm talking about that, the T-Fence doesn't end up finding a gap and hitting a flank. 07:02:18.660 --> 07:02:21.860 Something Furia are quite well known for on their defensive side. 07:02:21.860 --> 07:02:27.960 But as they get that 3v3 with Fancy potentially getting a little too aggressive as, I mean, he would have known the attack was in square, 07:02:27.960 --> 07:02:32.960 maybe just betting that they were already committing to the janitor push and fortunately the timing doesn't go his way. 07:02:32.960 --> 07:02:37.560 You still see Furia take that time to reset and fully use all of their utility. 07:02:37.560 --> 07:02:39.760 You can see him works in experienced team, 07:02:39.760 --> 07:02:41.320 they'd be getting a bit disconnected, 07:02:41.320 --> 07:02:43.880 not making full use of the candles or the glass, 07:02:43.880 --> 07:02:46.960 but no, Fury, pause in the 3D3, use all of that, 07:02:46.960 --> 07:02:49.680 and also activate the Daemons by pushing him up, 07:02:49.680 --> 07:02:51.720 vending machine to get a completely different angle 07:02:51.720 --> 07:02:52.560 of the situation. 07:02:52.560 --> 07:02:53.960 So just a really well thought out late round 07:02:53.960 --> 07:02:55.960 that came together really fast. 07:02:58.040 --> 07:03:00.080 There is a reason why Fury made it to the finals, 07:03:00.080 --> 07:03:01.360 same with Nipple, it's not. 07:03:01.360 --> 07:03:03.520 Count them out by any stretch of the imagination, 07:03:03.520 --> 07:03:04.880 but I mean, both of these teams are here 07:03:04.880 --> 07:03:06.680 for good reason and we expect them 07:03:06.680 --> 07:03:10.700 show off their dominance. Fury has ability to pivot and for what looked like a devastating 07:03:10.700 --> 07:03:16.620 round so you so succinctly just put into words there is exactly why this team could very easily 07:03:16.620 --> 07:03:20.840 top SA-L and let's not kid ourselves. I know that we trip over ourselves all the time to 07:03:20.840 --> 07:03:25.640 say oh you know SA-L is the most competitive region, it's the most, oh it's the strongest 07:03:25.640 --> 07:03:28.520 region if we want to be completely honest. Sorry. 07:03:28.520 --> 07:03:33.520 I said you're tripping right now. 07:03:33.520 --> 07:03:39.520 You disagree? You think that there's a better region than SAO? 07:03:39.520 --> 07:03:44.520 No, I was just trying to make a joke. 07:03:44.520 --> 07:03:46.520 Trying to make a joke for you? 07:03:46.520 --> 07:03:47.520 Oh my god! 07:03:47.520 --> 07:03:52.520 Yeah well, Boxer's going to lava that nitro cell. I'll give him a little bit of tickle. 07:03:52.520 --> 07:03:55.520 That was funny, see? Because he didn't die. He only got tickled with it. 07:03:55.520 --> 07:04:00.940 I just offened out the window just a little bit of damage, not too much too much not not a whole lot to write home about 07:04:01.940 --> 07:04:03.240 But to your point 07:04:03.240 --> 07:04:06.580 There was a lot of talk that people talk about s.d. All being the best team in the region 07:04:06.580 --> 07:04:08.600 But I think even what we've seen in the finals so far 07:04:08.600 --> 07:04:11.320 I mean might at least based off these first three rounds here 07:04:11.320 --> 07:04:17.520 I certainly making a good run at the best in the league title to an arel and Laura might just have a good angle on 07:04:17.520 --> 07:04:22.160 The site itself. Oh cuts wizards head clean off inside of the small office. And what do you know? That's the site 07:04:22.160 --> 07:04:28.520 The set-o surviving by a hair finished off by herds from above, and now Lara has control. 07:04:28.520 --> 07:04:32.440 Pino finds himself on an island. Half of the round is still to go. 07:04:32.440 --> 07:04:36.520 Nip don't want to be too static inside of this map. That's why you see them being really 07:04:36.520 --> 07:04:39.700 aggressive on the windows. Two rounds for fantasy. Hates upstairs was quite aggressive 07:04:39.700 --> 07:04:43.880 as well, and now it really falls on these anchor players. Because if you don't succeed 07:04:43.880 --> 07:04:47.640 from those first few outbursts and you trade off, then your anchor players, your support 07:04:47.640 --> 07:04:50.040 players, on-site players, they're going to be feeling it. 07:04:50.040 --> 07:04:56.040 You know, felt it in the previous round, infamiliar territory, same result, dies at the hands of Furia yet again. 07:04:56.040 --> 07:05:00.040 And the Panthers, man, they look indomitable so far here on Bank. 07:05:01.040 --> 07:05:10.040 And again, when you have these late-round moments when Furia have a very clear advantage in terms of man count, utility, map control, everything, 07:05:10.040 --> 07:05:18.040 they're not throwing them away. It's a small detail to praise, just like converting a 2v1 when you've got like four candelas in your pocket. 07:05:18.040 --> 07:05:21.980 But it's a moment in which they're not letting the small things go unnoticed again 07:05:21.980 --> 07:05:27.720 You could easily see the player in cafeteria moving too quickly because for a brief moment there as 07:05:28.320 --> 07:05:30.280 Pino was rotating behind the cubicle 07:05:30.280 --> 07:05:35.920 You saw that player face check and that for the briefest moment was a 1v1 that likely could not have been traded 07:05:35.920 --> 07:05:40.680 But Firae instead of reset pause and make use of all of their remaining utility 07:05:41.140 --> 07:05:45.100 To win a round that was basically already gonna probably gonna go their way anyway 07:05:45.100 --> 07:05:49.180 And that's just really good to see for three rounds in a row there are attacks and they're calling have looked really clean 07:05:49.180 --> 07:05:52.060 They've been very well coordinated and not leaving anything unnoticed 07:05:52.060 --> 07:05:57.460 And thank you have no choice at that point to take a tactical timeout for your NIP and also your down three to zero 07:05:58.940 --> 07:06:00.940 Obviously not an not an ideal 07:06:01.340 --> 07:06:06.060 Place for you to be on your own map starting of course on defense of bank 07:06:06.060 --> 07:06:13.220 It bank is a bit of a weird one right long long considered a relatively friendly territory for the attackers because of how open it is 07:06:13.220 --> 07:06:22.740 And if you can pull off a successful entry in your drone work and communication or our top tier, then you can easily isolate any loan roamers playing on this map. 07:06:22.740 --> 07:06:30.980 And as you've seen from Nip, they've deployed fantasy and a few times hates depending on the site, largely by themselves with limited support. 07:06:30.980 --> 07:06:36.020 If you're playing up against a well coordinated team with tons of Intel, you might not be long for this earth. 07:06:36.020 --> 07:06:42.500 We seem to oscillate links between whether you go real shield heavy and you bring a lot of that cheese or whether you go real Intel heavy, right? 07:06:42.500 --> 07:06:45.940 You get your Deimos, you get your solid snake, you get your Dokubis, you get your lions on the board. 07:06:46.660 --> 07:06:52.180 Well, so far it's been intel for Furio. We've seen an awful lot of solid snake. We've seen 07:06:52.180 --> 07:06:57.780 Deimos be played, and information is incredibly important. When you back it up with a ying or 07:06:57.780 --> 07:07:03.460 a glass, that information almost always leads to somebody's untimely death. Whether it be 07:07:03.460 --> 07:07:08.420 Baxera on that ying, whether it was Diaz on the glass for two rounds, you can use those very 07:07:08.420 --> 07:07:11.860 effectively. And Nip, I don't know if they have an answer, right? Whether they're expecting 07:07:11.860 --> 07:07:15.360 shields where they're expecting intel, they are playing too solo, they're getting picked 07:07:15.360 --> 07:07:18.860 off and dead now they're in a hole and had to burn a timeout very early. 07:07:18.860 --> 07:07:25.500 I think you could see the adjustment, the adjustment by NIP here, I mean I don't know what he just 07:07:25.500 --> 07:07:30.340 got hit by, I think it was a DMR shot from Fancy, that is unfortunate to start. 07:07:30.340 --> 07:07:34.260 But I think the pivot you see NIP making is they won't necessarily be all starting 07:07:34.260 --> 07:07:36.860 on the site because you generally want to have a little bit of presence in open 07:07:36.860 --> 07:07:40.380 area within the first minute, as you can see that right now is there I believe 07:07:40.380 --> 07:07:43.940 One player tucked already close to the hatch and I think two others closer to elevator 07:07:44.100 --> 07:07:50.000 If you're not trying to let this even slight bit of aggression go unpunished will force them back immediately 07:07:50.320 --> 07:07:53.760 You've still got this double stack inside of elevator at the moment 07:07:54.260 --> 07:07:59.600 Even somebody else on marble stairs as well. It'll spot two of them, but the third will go unnoticed 07:08:00.240 --> 07:08:04.500 Obviously the defense will make note of that fact that maybe one of them has slipped beyond the radar 07:08:04.500 --> 07:08:15.040 When I say about bringing cheese, how long do you think Fantasy Lab lives for here? 07:08:15.040 --> 07:08:16.440 That long. 07:08:16.440 --> 07:08:17.760 You are so good at your job. 07:08:17.760 --> 07:08:21.200 I really am, you know, speaking of good at your job. 07:08:21.200 --> 07:08:23.440 What did I say, right, about these solo robes? 07:08:23.440 --> 07:08:26.880 These, they're playing without much help, and I have to imagine that Fantasy was 07:08:26.880 --> 07:08:29.760 hoping to get his way out of that position and drop down the hatch into the waiting 07:08:29.760 --> 07:08:30.760 arms of Hades. 07:08:30.760 --> 07:08:38.560 What you've now found is two of your best fraggers are now gone. You have gained nothing. You didn't even really waste that much time all told 07:08:38.840 --> 07:08:40.840 Really effective entry for Furia 07:08:41.760 --> 07:08:47.240 It is a very effective Furia entry, but I also think I think it's important to note 07:08:47.240 --> 07:08:50.280 It wasn't necessarily a solo roam as much as it was 07:08:50.280 --> 07:08:53.360 I think just a little bit of an over commitment to the roam generally 07:08:53.360 --> 07:08:59.280 I think they expected Furia to maybe not catch the player prone and that way you'd have somebody baiting in the fight 07:08:59.280 --> 07:09:01.280 and that way the shotgun could get the kill. 07:09:01.280 --> 07:09:03.280 But Fury are clearly playing very patiently. 07:09:03.280 --> 07:09:05.280 We've seen that with the way they're converting these late rounds. 07:09:05.280 --> 07:09:08.280 We've seen the fact that they're still running the solid snake. 07:09:08.280 --> 07:09:11.280 I think that IP just thought maybe they could cheese a team that so far through three rounds 07:09:11.280 --> 07:09:14.280 has proven that they are being exceptionally thorough. 07:09:14.280 --> 07:09:16.280 And for a player on Blue Stairs in the 3D5, 07:09:16.280 --> 07:09:18.280 I think they're going to treat him the same way. 07:09:19.280 --> 07:09:20.280 Any spot on here? 07:09:23.280 --> 07:09:25.280 By Bezado, lots of ones on the board. 07:09:25.280 --> 07:09:27.280 Four kills from this nip team. 07:09:27.280 --> 07:09:33.760 Sputtering and strategy to sputtering on offense. They'll try to waste some time now popping those goya canisters and honestly 50 seconds left 07:09:33.760 --> 07:09:37.380 You'll be able to slow down this the juggernaut that is this furia offense 07:09:37.380 --> 07:09:42.840 But I mean the only real damage that was done was to the blackbeard much earlier in the round 07:09:42.840 --> 07:09:48.360 You'll have to wait through the flames and the gas as you still got those two anchor operators buying you more time 07:09:50.320 --> 07:09:56.080 This is a full-in execute though onto that server so if you're Pino you have to rotate there 07:09:56.080 --> 07:10:00.100 he goes he heard that somebody dropped an easy pick but he's all by himself yet 07:10:00.100 --> 07:10:04.040 again Pino last alive three rounds in a row all three with the exact same 07:10:04.040 --> 07:10:11.980 conclusion Furia keeping his body warm 4-0 at time out not paying off and dare I 07:10:11.980 --> 07:10:14.880 say it that was one of the more dominant rounds we've seen so far from 07:10:14.880 --> 07:10:18.720 Furia absolutely and arguably one of the more impressive ones in my opinion 07:10:18.720 --> 07:10:22.400 because as we were looking with 30 seconds left it was a 2v5 but based 07:10:22.400 --> 07:10:26.040 Just on the utility we had, it was actually very close. 07:10:26.040 --> 07:10:29.880 You had three toxic canisters going in with about 35 seconds remaining. 07:10:29.880 --> 07:10:32.300 You still had Vulcan Packs on the server doors. 07:10:32.300 --> 07:10:36.320 Those are normally cleared way before then, but there was no Twitch. 07:10:36.320 --> 07:10:39.520 There were not a whole lot of nades either left for this side or not a whole leads 07:10:39.520 --> 07:10:42.440 brought, period, so that Fury could actually clear them. 07:10:42.440 --> 07:10:45.760 So even though it was a 2v5, you had some of those powerful utility to burn out 07:10:45.760 --> 07:10:50.000 with very little time remaining, but Fury just looks so sharp right now in the 07:10:50.000 --> 07:10:51.200 way that they're calculating. 07:10:51.200 --> 07:10:56.000 what do they do? They see all the smoke, they see the Vulcan packs, and immediately they pivot to 07:10:56.000 --> 07:11:00.400 with somebody dropping down gold, people flooding down the main stairs, going down elevator, 07:11:00.400 --> 07:11:05.120 and hitting the remaining two NIP players from all sides. They immediately realize the situation 07:11:05.120 --> 07:11:11.440 and reacted and pivoted within about 10 seconds. That is clear enough evidence that Furia are 07:11:11.440 --> 07:11:15.920 really critically and actively engaging with the situations in front of them and are just 07:11:15.920 --> 07:11:20.620 not letting up off the gas 07:11:20.620 --> 07:11:24.660 the teams that especially teams that feel a little bit cocky and 07:11:24.660 --> 07:11:28.580 confident let's not get ourselves any team that volks and herds is on will 07:11:28.580 --> 07:11:30.520 have a level of swagger that 07:11:30.520 --> 07:11:32.620 and maybe sometime betrays them 07:11:32.620 --> 07:11:33.840 sought on 07:11:33.840 --> 07:11:37.220 those older teams whether it be the the old team liquid roster whether be the 07:11:37.220 --> 07:11:40.940 old w seven m roster that volks was on sought with herds whether he was on 07:11:40.940 --> 07:11:42.700 w seven m or fury up 07:11:42.700 --> 07:11:44.640 Sometimes these guys get a little too cocky, right? 07:11:44.640 --> 07:11:46.600 They get a little too ahead of themselves. 07:11:46.600 --> 07:11:48.800 What we've seen from this FURIA team, 07:11:48.800 --> 07:11:50.240 even with the mistakes that they did commit 07:11:50.240 --> 07:11:52.200 in their previous matchup against Flux or W7M, 07:11:52.200 --> 07:11:54.080 this FURIA team seems a little bit more composed 07:11:54.080 --> 07:11:56.280 and really more business-like 07:11:56.280 --> 07:11:59.240 and not so much as vibes-based. 07:11:59.240 --> 07:12:00.880 And I mean, it's working out very effectively. 07:12:00.880 --> 07:12:02.200 Good patience from them. 07:12:02.200 --> 07:12:03.520 They're finding their frags. 07:12:03.520 --> 07:12:05.280 They realize, what's at stake? 07:12:05.280 --> 07:12:07.200 You know, they've qualified for the Salt Lake City Major. 07:12:07.200 --> 07:12:09.200 You wanna be the best in Brazil? 07:12:09.200 --> 07:12:10.200 All right, and here's your chance. 07:12:10.200 --> 07:12:11.560 You gotta knock out Nip. 07:12:11.560 --> 07:12:16.060 And so far, on Nip's map, a 4-0 start is pretty damn good. 07:12:16.060 --> 07:12:20.180 All things so far for Fyria, going according to plan. 07:12:20.180 --> 07:12:20.900 I agree with that. 07:12:20.900 --> 07:12:23.100 I also like this roll spot we see on the attacking side. 07:12:23.100 --> 07:12:24.820 You don't have herds bringing the Grim anymore. 07:12:24.820 --> 07:12:26.060 Instead, he's going to the snake. 07:12:26.060 --> 07:12:27.820 I think that lends a lot more to his play style, 07:12:27.820 --> 07:12:31.220 a lot more of what he likes to do on the attacking side, 07:12:31.220 --> 07:12:32.860 especially if this gets to the late round 07:12:32.860 --> 07:12:35.340 and the defense is focused on fending off a square push, 07:12:35.340 --> 07:12:39.100 sending him off something like marble could be really good. 07:12:39.100 --> 07:12:40.580 Ironic, coincidentally, I guess. 07:12:40.580 --> 07:12:43.360 The Grim will still be the first to go down despite him changing positions. 07:12:43.360 --> 07:12:46.400 Though this time, BugZera used all that utility though, 07:12:46.400 --> 07:12:49.180 unfortunately not acquiring a whole lot with it. 07:12:49.180 --> 07:12:51.620 There are some new angles opened by the Fiora attack, 07:12:51.620 --> 07:12:54.620 getting direct lines of sight onto both the CEO positions 07:12:54.620 --> 07:12:57.120 and the broader two sites as a whole. 07:12:57.120 --> 07:12:59.520 But they still are lacking that immediate way in. 07:12:59.520 --> 07:13:02.120 NIP can play a bit aggressive in this position. 07:13:02.120 --> 07:13:03.760 They've got the Castle Barricade for support. 07:13:03.760 --> 07:13:05.020 They've got these long angles. 07:13:05.020 --> 07:13:06.640 Hurts ready for the cutoff. 07:13:06.640 --> 07:13:07.860 That's all well and good. 07:13:07.860 --> 07:13:10.120 But the broader side structure is still not disrupted. 07:13:10.120 --> 07:13:12.000 That kill, though. 07:13:12.000 --> 07:13:16.120 That changes things with checkers now completely gone. 07:13:16.120 --> 07:13:18.400 Gies can contemplate, maybe even realize, 07:13:18.400 --> 07:13:19.660 a flank up spiral. 07:13:21.800 --> 07:13:25.720 Grim position to be in now for this nip squad. 07:13:25.720 --> 07:13:27.520 Still have some ability to buy time 07:13:27.520 --> 07:13:28.840 with those castle barricades up 07:13:28.840 --> 07:13:31.080 and all the gas canisters in pocket for a besetter. 07:13:31.080 --> 07:13:33.040 That'll certainly help as well. 07:13:33.040 --> 07:13:35.480 45 seconds left, three gas canisters. 07:13:35.480 --> 07:13:38.640 Say 15-ish seconds on each canister. 07:13:38.640 --> 07:13:43.360 That's not bad though, I suppose Becedo won't be using them all in the same direction. 07:13:43.360 --> 07:13:44.640 Nice read from Diaz. 07:13:44.640 --> 07:13:49.000 He's been getting these readies, links, and almost has another now looking over towards 07:13:49.000 --> 07:13:50.840 conference, smoke getting targeted. 07:13:50.840 --> 07:13:55.160 Diaz has a blind spot to his right here at the last second. 07:13:55.160 --> 07:13:59.080 Not a lot of ammo in that Type 89, but you only need a few bullets to kill somebody 07:13:59.080 --> 07:14:00.080 in this game. 07:14:00.080 --> 07:14:02.160 Becedo dies at the hands of Herds. 07:14:02.160 --> 07:14:05.120 Hey, at least it wasn't Pino the last to die. 07:14:05.120 --> 07:14:07.040 Still same result, Pyrrhea. 07:14:07.040 --> 07:14:12.980 rolling and they are speed-running nips map I have nothing not not to state the 07:14:12.980 --> 07:14:17.300 obvious but this isn't even close right now this is not even a competition 07:14:17.300 --> 07:14:23.320 obviously 5 and 0 that's very obvious for me I know right it's who could 07:14:23.320 --> 07:14:27.820 believe it but with what Diaz was capable of on that lurk is frankly 07:14:27.820 --> 07:14:32.300 ridiculous sure sometimes you're in the checkers position you're taking a long 07:14:32.300 --> 07:14:35.420 angle you're gonna forget that somebody might be on the main lobby 07:14:35.420 --> 07:14:39.420 Sure, okay, that happens. It was a particularly nice kill from DS. 07:14:39.420 --> 07:14:44.420 But really, when you see somebody walking up the spiral side like that, I mean, doesn't even see the drone, 07:14:44.420 --> 07:14:47.420 DS barely even had to try on that lurk. 07:14:47.420 --> 07:14:52.420 He got all the information he wanted for free, and IP were giving opening after opening, 07:14:52.420 --> 07:14:58.420 and a lot of it unintentional, just unaware of either the player's position or, in the second case, the intel. 07:14:58.420 --> 07:15:02.420 The fact that DS was able to get away with so much is frankly incredible, 07:15:02.420 --> 07:15:07.620 and very real possibility of a 6-0 start to, and I just want to make sure we're all clear on this, 07:15:07.620 --> 07:15:13.860 NIP's pick, that they won earlier against Team Liquid Alienware and sent them to the Larbracket 07:15:13.860 --> 07:15:16.340 could be a flawless half to start for the opposing team. 07:15:21.940 --> 07:15:25.700 I know that it's the upper bracket finals, but for people watching this obviously the grand finals. 07:15:25.700 --> 07:15:31.980 So you don't want to blow down the grand finals. 07:15:31.980 --> 07:15:35.420 Nip has had some problems in these tougher matches, though, over the last year. 07:15:35.420 --> 07:15:37.780 This is something that has plagued this organization. 07:15:37.780 --> 07:15:43.660 I mean, Team Liquid Alienware has the same problems, and I actually can't believe they 07:15:43.660 --> 07:15:45.260 ended up losing their best of three earlier. 07:15:45.260 --> 07:15:48.140 I was like, man, is this organization cursed? 07:15:48.140 --> 07:15:54.420 It's all like, say, though, if you're in this match, so congratulations to Nip. 07:15:54.420 --> 07:15:58.060 Leo really did outline the stakes in the analyst desk about the money and the SI points 07:15:58.060 --> 07:16:03.220 and all that jazz and how much they matter to a team like Nip, but you're not going 07:16:03.220 --> 07:16:05.720 to make it into this match and just give up. 07:16:05.720 --> 07:16:07.700 So you can't really say, oh, they don't really care. 07:16:07.700 --> 07:16:09.540 It's just the, you know, the upper bracket finals. 07:16:09.540 --> 07:16:13.140 No, this is just very a taking full advantage of Nip's weaknesses. 07:16:13.140 --> 07:16:14.900 Nip does get the leadoff picked us. 07:16:14.900 --> 07:16:15.900 That's excellent. 07:16:15.900 --> 07:16:18.320 One minute off of the board and Volps is gone. 07:16:18.320 --> 07:16:20.020 Very different from on Volps was on that Blackbeard. 07:16:20.020 --> 07:16:23.940 You saw the damage that he did getting two kills and cracking the round wide open. 07:16:23.940 --> 07:16:27.940 You got no blitz to contend with. Fury is actually much weaker now because of this. 07:16:29.940 --> 07:16:35.940 Not having the main force of the attacking side, no opportunities for a trade either because of how conservative NIP are playing. 07:16:35.940 --> 07:16:40.940 And I mean, if you want to track the trajectory of their defenses or their basement defenses over the course of this half, 07:16:40.940 --> 07:16:45.940 it's been a story of defending less in less space as these rounds have gone on. 07:16:45.940 --> 07:16:47.940 The first one, we got people hopping out of CEO. 07:16:47.940 --> 07:16:51.940 The second one, we got one guy on the open area hatch, but two in the elevator. 07:16:51.940 --> 07:16:58.340 This time, not we're cating everything. We're sitting on the bottom floor. We're playing T'Chonka, Vulcan Paks, Smoke Canisters. 07:16:58.340 --> 07:17:03.240 They are leaning fully into one style of play, and it's working out so far. Obviously, 07:17:03.420 --> 07:17:06.360 Vulp's died. That's not necessarily part of that strategy. 07:17:06.620 --> 07:17:13.900 The actual part we're seeing is the fact that Fury are just now getting these hatches open and destroying some of these Vulcan Paks with a minute remaining. 07:17:13.900 --> 07:17:16.660 They have a Twitch this time, so they can do it a lot earlier, and well, 07:17:16.660 --> 07:17:19.300 I think just do it a lot more than they even were able to before. 07:17:19.300 --> 07:17:24.660 But they might need to start adding another dimension and that's why you start seeing this focus on the garage side 07:17:24.660 --> 07:17:27.800 Wizard needs to go big here if he's gonna hold this push 07:17:28.500 --> 07:17:30.500 Oh, he's got his hands full now was 07:17:30.820 --> 07:17:34.780 There's some smoke to obscure him, but guess what there's no glass on the board instead 07:17:34.780 --> 07:17:39.620 He'll just play instinctively to the information. He had no real follow-up no help whatsoever tries to do it all himself 07:17:39.620 --> 07:17:41.460 It's punished for it inferior 07:17:41.460 --> 07:17:44.380 Levels the man count with 35 seconds left 07:17:44.380 --> 07:17:50.380 Good time for the fire to go out. Bissetto refusing to allow herds in right into the waning arms of hate. 07:17:50.380 --> 07:17:55.380 He will go nip with an advantage and it will continue to grow. The best look we've seen from nip. 07:17:55.380 --> 07:18:00.380 This entire first half and it comes in round six. Yee-haw. 07:18:00.380 --> 07:18:04.380 It's all up to Diaz down to clutch out a 1v3. It won't happen. 07:18:04.380 --> 07:18:10.380 Nip gets on the board. A 5-1-1-1-1 for Furia is about as good as you could hope for. 07:18:10.380 --> 07:18:14.380 Really, really damning position for Nip for the remainder of this map. 07:18:14.380 --> 07:18:18.380 Yeah, really, really rough position for NIP at the moment. 07:18:18.380 --> 07:18:22.380 I mean, obviously going on 5-1 isn't great, but I'm sure the desk has a lot to say, 07:18:22.380 --> 07:18:25.380 but I feel like Furiel laughing after losing a round, says it all. 07:18:27.380 --> 07:18:33.380 Yeah, exactly. We got smiles, Lora is all over the place, he's happy with this. 07:18:33.380 --> 07:18:41.140 Leo, running away with this half 5-1 on the attack is a great result for Furia. 07:18:41.140 --> 07:18:45.500 It seems like they're just keeping up that energy from having just played a game and 07:18:45.500 --> 07:18:48.180 isolating picking off everybody from NIP. 07:18:48.180 --> 07:18:49.180 What's happening? 07:18:49.180 --> 07:18:53.500 Yeah, it's one of the teams with the most momentum driven plays that I feel like. 07:18:53.500 --> 07:18:58.100 I just feel like watching Twisted Minds beating Falcons all over again yesterday in 07:18:58.100 --> 07:19:03.140 the EML after just having played W3, just continuing keeping the same momentum. 07:19:03.140 --> 07:19:08.140 These guys are hyped, they're warmed up, they're ready to take on another team, and you can 07:19:08.140 --> 07:19:09.980 see it in the way they play. 07:19:09.980 --> 07:19:14.180 It's the same things over and over again, the same place to hide the abuse of the Solis 07:19:14.180 --> 07:19:17.300 State to try and find some opportunities. 07:19:17.300 --> 07:19:19.700 They're splitter on the map, most of the time completely split. 07:19:19.700 --> 07:19:22.420 If one finds a gap, then everyone collapses. 07:19:22.420 --> 07:19:24.780 If we take an example to round three, it's exactly this. 07:19:24.780 --> 07:19:29.700 You've got these first exchanges of firepower here at the top floor, and then Loira 07:19:29.700 --> 07:19:31.380 uses that as a bait. 07:19:31.380 --> 07:19:36.100 He scans with his solo snake, finds an opportunity on one of the anchor, slams these guys down 07:19:36.100 --> 07:19:39.740 all the way as he's dropping, and then the guys up top, they use this, they know that 07:19:39.740 --> 07:19:43.500 one is down, one just drop on open space, everyone can get aggressive onto the bomb 07:19:43.500 --> 07:19:44.500 side. 07:19:44.500 --> 07:19:46.000 And at this point, it's a 3v1. 07:19:46.000 --> 07:19:50.580 Eventually they lose one of the players to Pinot, the first that got in, which 07:19:50.580 --> 07:19:52.180 was Loyalite, that's fine. 07:19:52.180 --> 07:19:56.220 And then, that's when you see the experience on these players, the discipline here, to 07:19:56.220 --> 07:20:00.860 just wait, regroup, Boxer has utility, he can abuse the ying so that the gaze 07:20:00.860 --> 07:20:04.780 flashed, the Ascensis flashes as well. Let's make sure this guy is blind and 07:20:04.780 --> 07:20:09.580 let's play 2v1. Now that is what makes Furia so good right now. They're playing 07:20:09.580 --> 07:20:13.660 the same way as G2 is playing for example. Very split, find the right 07:20:13.660 --> 07:20:17.940 opportunity as soon as the gap is there you seize it. And now switching to the 07:20:17.940 --> 07:20:21.180 defense it's a bit more of a playstyle they can play to be honest 07:20:21.180 --> 07:20:24.380 because it's the one where they can just peel off have one or two guys 07:20:24.380 --> 07:20:27.380 play aggressive as soon as the man advantage is there they will use the 07:20:27.380 --> 07:20:31.840 the same discipline they showed here in attack in this 2v1, to just keep them at advantage 07:20:31.840 --> 07:20:34.860 and secure the rounds. 07:20:34.860 --> 07:20:40.820 Really reminds me of that old school phase with that, I guess, start-stop-start kind of 07:20:40.820 --> 07:20:42.260 gameplay that they used to have. 07:20:42.260 --> 07:20:45.820 We'll see if NIPVIL can bring it back on the second half of the attacking side, a 07:20:45.820 --> 07:20:53.660 more favored on bank, we'll leave it back to Lynx and Intero, enjoy. 07:20:53.660 --> 07:20:58.340 the ability for analysts to weigh in during these these half times that we 07:20:58.340 --> 07:21:03.660 have and allows teams to also talk. I mean for Furia what more is there to say 07:21:03.660 --> 07:21:07.220 they likely knew exactly how they would approach just offending half whether 07:21:07.220 --> 07:21:11.780 they were in a hole or not they find themselves in a great place. Five rounds 07:21:11.780 --> 07:21:16.060 through that first attacking half if you consider that usually the scoreline 07:21:16.060 --> 07:21:20.260 for both halves on bank is 4-2, Furia just needs to basically wait it out and 07:21:20.260 --> 07:21:22.780 if they can take this first round right here they'll be in an excellent 07:21:22.780 --> 07:21:26.420 spot to real momentum mechanics in Rainbow Six Siege. 07:21:26.420 --> 07:21:28.020 It's pretty much all just in your head. 07:21:28.020 --> 07:21:29.700 And I think you pointed out perfectly, 07:21:29.700 --> 07:21:31.580 Lynx, the fact that Feria, we're all smiles 07:21:31.580 --> 07:21:32.940 and we're giggling after the fact. 07:21:32.940 --> 07:21:34.660 I think that really tells you the whole story here. 07:21:34.660 --> 07:21:38.500 So this team in great spirits looking to snipe Nip's map 07:21:38.500 --> 07:21:40.940 away from them in only two rounds. 07:21:40.940 --> 07:21:44.020 And this could be a very quick 2-0 shaping up 07:21:44.020 --> 07:21:46.700 if Feria keeps things up. 07:21:46.700 --> 07:21:48.180 That's true, but I do think, you know, 07:21:48.180 --> 07:21:50.540 is it important to apply some good context 07:21:50.540 --> 07:21:55.300 If you or the Royal Youth review, which 07:21:55.300 --> 07:21:58.780 that's a specific amount of care, so earlier in the game 07:21:58.780 --> 07:22:00.900 against NIP and Team Liquid Alienware, 07:22:00.900 --> 07:22:02.860 NIP went down 2-4 on their defenses, 07:22:02.860 --> 07:22:04.940 but they were able to win 4-2 on their attacking side 07:22:04.940 --> 07:22:06.620 and then of course close out the game in OT. 07:22:06.620 --> 07:22:10.020 So NIP are no stranger today of all days 07:22:10.020 --> 07:22:12.800 to attackers cited banks and being 07:22:12.800 --> 07:22:15.700 on the advantageous position in that situation. 07:22:15.700 --> 07:22:17.380 Now, of course, we'll have to see 07:22:17.380 --> 07:22:18.620 how that actually pans out. 07:22:18.620 --> 07:22:22.620 as you see the bands that Furia have opted to put forth. 07:22:22.620 --> 07:22:25.120 The shield is immediately gone, and it's something that 07:22:25.120 --> 07:22:28.620 NIP used quite a lot of on their attacks on the bank. 07:22:28.620 --> 07:22:31.620 A lot more of the blitzes and the blackbeards. 07:22:31.620 --> 07:22:36.120 And this moment, actually zero shields whatsoever in NIP's lineup. 07:22:36.120 --> 07:22:38.620 So we'll see if they're planning on changing things a little bit, 07:22:38.620 --> 07:22:42.620 as Ying was not a factor whatsoever in the earlier game against Team Liquid Alienware, 07:22:42.620 --> 07:22:45.620 and someone who was certainly a factor was fancy. 07:22:45.620 --> 07:22:49.460 20 kills on that bank game against Team Liquid Alienware. 07:22:49.460 --> 07:22:52.120 Basically, one of the reasons they even won 8-6 07:22:52.120 --> 07:22:53.520 in that nail-biter of a game. 07:22:54.880 --> 07:22:57.680 And amazingly, I started off this matchup 07:22:57.680 --> 07:23:00.080 by talking about how for a long time 07:23:00.080 --> 07:23:02.120 it was a fantasy show and Hades as well. 07:23:02.120 --> 07:23:04.520 These are two of the lowest rated players 07:23:04.520 --> 07:23:06.360 on this NIP team coming into this matchup. 07:23:06.360 --> 07:23:09.740 So far more kills being spread around, 07:23:09.740 --> 07:23:11.320 Pino and Wizard in particular, 07:23:11.320 --> 07:23:13.760 Pino topping the charts from an EPS perspective, 07:23:13.760 --> 07:23:15.440 which is something you haven't seen from him. 07:23:15.440 --> 07:23:16.440 And actually quite some time. 07:23:16.440 --> 07:23:17.760 Good to see him returning to form 07:23:17.760 --> 07:23:19.280 and good to see Nip making these changes 07:23:19.280 --> 07:23:20.320 after picking up Beceto. 07:23:20.320 --> 07:23:22.960 I know that losing cons was a devastating position 07:23:22.960 --> 07:23:24.600 for them to be in. 07:23:24.600 --> 07:23:26.080 And at the offset, people were wondering 07:23:26.080 --> 07:23:27.680 if Beceto was the answer. 07:23:27.680 --> 07:23:29.200 So far, look at Mighty Good. 07:23:29.200 --> 07:23:31.960 I mean, you don't make it to a grand finals in your region 07:23:31.960 --> 07:23:34.280 if you made a big mistake. 07:23:34.280 --> 07:23:35.920 So great changes for Nip here. 07:23:35.920 --> 07:23:37.320 And now Furia finds themselves in a hole 07:23:37.320 --> 07:23:38.720 with half the round to go. 07:23:38.720 --> 07:23:43.720 Still quite heavily committing to a roam on the middle floor. 07:23:43.720 --> 07:23:46.720 We've got people roaming around archives and tellers very late into the game. 07:23:46.720 --> 07:23:53.720 One of them spotted and into that NIP are prepared to pull the pieces away on this specific kind of defense. 07:23:53.720 --> 07:23:56.720 You've got Pino looking in later in the round. Hates also providing him support. 07:23:56.720 --> 07:23:59.720 Fancy is the initial gun in the face of it. 07:23:59.720 --> 07:24:05.720 You got to admire the confidence from Furia, but if they were hoping to catch NIP off guard or thought 07:24:05.720 --> 07:24:12.720 Well, the defenses were evidence of lethargic attacks, well, they made a very sorry mistake. 07:24:12.720 --> 07:24:17.720 Herds in a 1v4 down below on the site, actively trapped by the Deimos. 07:24:17.720 --> 07:24:18.720 Should be it. 07:24:18.720 --> 07:24:21.720 With a super shorty around the corner, maybe finds one? 07:24:21.720 --> 07:24:22.720 Okay. 07:24:22.720 --> 07:24:24.720 We'll get fancy, that's all well and good. 07:24:24.720 --> 07:24:25.720 At least to the... 07:24:25.720 --> 07:24:28.720 Well, in Parker, there are two of them on low HP. 07:24:28.720 --> 07:24:31.720 I was gonna say, Bissetto just got brought back from the dead. 07:24:31.720 --> 07:24:33.720 Pino and Bissetto are single the little way, 07:24:33.720 --> 07:24:40.440 but they see him before birds can do any more damage far more winnable than a 1v3 would suggest. 07:24:40.440 --> 07:24:44.200 So kudos to herds for playing that one so cool, especially with a super shorty in hand, 07:24:44.200 --> 07:24:48.200 you know how unreliable that gun can be. The walls are closing in on him and no lethargy 07:24:48.200 --> 07:24:53.960 there whatsoever from Nip as you pointed out. A very poignant entry for them, very strong 07:24:55.320 --> 07:25:01.880 spot map control quickly. Bravo, Peria still hanging on for the time being, no real concerns 07:25:01.880 --> 07:25:06.220 just yet that bottom floor bomb set has been a fruitful position for the 07:25:06.220 --> 07:25:11.380 attackers on this bank map so now you go somewhere else somewhere you go middle 07:25:11.380 --> 07:25:15.500 floor if nip can keep up that pace it does kind of concern me for feria this 07:25:15.500 --> 07:25:20.180 is a map that can go quite quick and this bomb set in particular is prone 07:25:20.180 --> 07:25:23.140 to rushes whether you go through that electrical wall whether you hop in 07:25:23.140 --> 07:25:25.980 through the printer window whether you immediately take control from above 07:25:25.980 --> 07:25:29.820 and have somebody drop hatch amidst candelas and smoke there's a lot of 07:25:29.820 --> 07:25:36.340 tools here that the attackers can use. Right now though, most of those tools are absent from 07:25:36.340 --> 07:25:42.900 Nip. This operator lineup very intel heavy and nope. I fear I spoke too soon because here 07:25:42.900 --> 07:25:48.820 comes the Blitz and here comes the Ying. Oh no. I don't like this is going. I'm very 07:25:48.820 --> 07:25:54.300 nervous. Blitz, Ying and then Intel Ops? I mean not only could this be like really 07:25:54.300 --> 07:25:57.660 good for a rush, but that being got the information, I mean you're not going to 07:25:57.660 --> 07:26:01.620 feel bad whatsoever about aborting a rush like if you throw all those 07:26:01.620 --> 07:26:06.500 candelas and you don't get anything for them you've still got quite a lethal 07:26:06.500 --> 07:26:10.940 lineup to just do a normal full clear of the map and also just hunt for any gaps 07:26:10.940 --> 07:26:14.740 in the defensive setup with that stolaton scanner so I don't think we'll 07:26:14.740 --> 07:26:17.860 see a rush based on the positions at the moment you see a lot of energy 07:26:17.860 --> 07:26:21.340 gearing up for a full clear that still makes this lineup really dangerous I 07:26:21.340 --> 07:26:24.780 mean the thought of candelas flying in there is a warden 07:26:24.780 --> 07:26:29.780 Yes, Lucas could really stun to a lot of that momentum depending on what position he's playing. 07:26:29.780 --> 07:26:32.780 This is a really scary line of men up here right now. 07:26:32.780 --> 07:26:35.780 I think indicative of just the state that the attack is in at the moment. 07:26:35.780 --> 07:26:38.780 They have so many tools of so many different categories, 07:26:38.780 --> 07:26:42.780 and they want to try to replicate some of the successes they had previously 07:26:42.780 --> 07:26:47.780 using the Deimos and the Snake to isolate both Volts and Loyra on these positions. 07:26:47.780 --> 07:26:50.780 Well, it's actually neither of them fancy and then beset out. 07:26:50.780 --> 07:26:51.780 I don't even know how Volts got. 07:26:51.780 --> 07:26:53.780 Did he just swing the window? 07:26:53.780 --> 07:26:59.140 I mean, Vulps was in this position, and Wizard knew that, right? 07:26:59.140 --> 07:27:03.900 He was prepped and ready for it, but Vulps did not present himself through that rotate 07:27:03.900 --> 07:27:04.900 in the wall. 07:27:04.900 --> 07:27:09.660 Nip have completely tripped up, and Vulps now with three kills through this round. 07:27:09.660 --> 07:27:10.660 What is going on? 07:27:10.660 --> 07:27:12.700 Still in a very favorable position. 07:27:12.700 --> 07:27:14.700 Wizard is on a sliver of HP. 07:27:14.700 --> 07:27:18.260 Vulps with a quadra kill at his fingertips. 07:27:18.260 --> 07:27:21.380 He won't get the ace though as Lawyer is on the board, and Lawyer will actually 07:27:21.380 --> 07:27:27.460 get boats or fall us round, we'll give Theria map point on Nip's map. 07:27:27.460 --> 07:27:33.580 I don't even know that hap- I mean like I have an idea of that happen but like I don't 07:27:33.580 --> 07:27:40.860 know how this- how that happens. So what I believe occurred is that the Blitz with 07:27:40.860 --> 07:27:45.780 a gun behind him did something very normal just to be clear. Runs in I think through 07:27:45.780 --> 07:27:49.380 the square double door and tries to put pressure on the player and janitors which 07:27:49.380 --> 07:27:53.400 again is is like a very normal thing to do 07:27:53.400 --> 07:27:57.840 don't know how they get so wrapped around 07:27:57.840 --> 07:28:01.960 not only can both get an angle on the bullets 07:28:01.960 --> 07:28:06.600 but also the gun behind him and get the killed to the point is no trade what so 07:28:06.600 --> 07:28:08.040 ever 07:28:08.040 --> 07:28:11.120 if you want to get like there's a trade and then like 07:28:11.120 --> 07:28:13.920 lawyer swings out from stock it's a uh... 07:28:13.920 --> 07:28:15.840 forty three favoring feria 07:28:15.840 --> 07:28:18.200 you know that would be unfortunate that at least be like 07:28:18.200 --> 07:28:23.020 I would say a logical consequence of those positions and where the defenders and the attackers are respectively. 07:28:23.020 --> 07:28:31.640 I don't even know how that went so well for Vols, but given the fact that he gets a double kill on the immediate square push and everyone else is stuck outside the building, 07:28:31.640 --> 07:28:37.040 I don't really know what you do at that point. You just, you really just are not losing these rounds. 07:28:37.040 --> 07:28:41.320 Uh, when you're, when you're getting modded like that, I think you just die and I think that's what happened, isn't it? 07:28:41.320 --> 07:28:45.760 Yeah, I think I, yeah. I think I, yeah. 07:28:45.760 --> 07:28:47.760 I don't even know what I just thought. 07:28:49.440 --> 07:28:51.440 I mean, this has been a real drumming, Lynx. 07:28:51.440 --> 07:28:56.760 Just a fantastic map from Furia so far. 07:28:56.760 --> 07:28:59.360 Nip, not able to win their ones. 07:28:59.360 --> 07:29:01.560 Furia picking them apart, doubling up on the entry, 07:29:01.560 --> 07:29:03.640 using great tools when they were on attack, 07:29:03.640 --> 07:29:06.360 yet the shields or the intel or both in conjunction with him. 07:29:06.360 --> 07:29:08.480 Oh my goodness, fantasy! 07:29:08.480 --> 07:29:11.120 Why do you win that engagement? 07:29:11.120 --> 07:29:14.120 Kurt should have walked away with a clean kill. 07:29:14.120 --> 07:29:18.280 He loses his head, fantasy cracks this open. Alright, Nip, I see you, I see you. 07:29:19.400 --> 07:29:24.960 I mean, you know, you know, and I've just taken it seriously, because that was absolutely all chat worthy right there. 07:29:25.400 --> 07:29:28.680 I mean, the fact that Fancy gets away with that is insane. 07:29:29.440 --> 07:29:30.040 Good kill, though. 07:29:30.520 --> 07:29:33.800 And now they have an advantage to target the rest of these looser defenders. 07:29:34.040 --> 07:29:38.520 Volt was spotted by the Deathmark tracker, playing around the marble stairs though, so he can pretty easily fall back. 07:29:39.000 --> 07:29:43.280 The person that's extended out the farthest, I believe, is the lawyer on the Goyo at the moment. 07:29:43.280 --> 07:29:47.840 You can see moving around. Oh, I think it's just trapped himself inside of electrical 07:29:48.000 --> 07:29:53.800 And I think we wear this can Bella will go out instead of finds the next kill as lawyers got a fall 07:29:53.800 --> 07:29:58.940 But no actually escapes into open area. So if you are losing bodies progressively, I 07:29:59.520 --> 07:30:03.760 I was gonna say ironic that the main target of the realm has fallen or has not fallen yet 07:30:03.760 --> 07:30:08.120 But he does soon after and well Volts and Dia somehow have to figure a way out of this one 07:30:08.120 --> 07:30:13.100 Both of these round wins for Nip on attack and I'm gonna put this one on the win 07:30:13.100 --> 07:30:17.200 column because I just do not see a way in which Fury is able to prevail. I mean 07:30:17.200 --> 07:30:19.760 maybe they're gonna make me look foolish here but both of them have just been 07:30:19.760 --> 07:30:25.480 fearless entries by Nip and then a swiftness that here I was caught out 07:30:25.480 --> 07:30:29.800 for hold on. Volts making this one winnable he just needs to survive the 07:30:29.800 --> 07:30:35.440 blast. He'll do just that. Ten kills for Volts as he's hit the drop. He's been 07:30:35.440 --> 07:30:36.440 spotted by the death mark. 07:30:36.440 --> 07:30:38.760 He was hoping to catch them off guard. 07:30:38.760 --> 07:30:39.680 If they thought he dropped, 07:30:39.680 --> 07:30:41.040 they might push to that elevator 07:30:41.040 --> 07:30:43.020 and end up dying his hands. 07:30:45.160 --> 07:30:46.760 God didn't tell with a minute to go. 07:30:48.760 --> 07:30:50.060 Looks like it'll be an A take. 07:30:50.060 --> 07:30:51.520 So both of these members from curious, 07:30:51.520 --> 07:30:53.240 sitting farther back now over by the elevator, 07:30:53.240 --> 07:30:54.520 over by the B bomb site. 07:30:55.760 --> 07:30:56.960 A default plant from Nip. 07:30:56.960 --> 07:31:00.120 Most likely I would say 45 seconds in the round. 07:31:00.120 --> 07:31:00.960 I mean, I would say so, 07:31:00.960 --> 07:31:02.480 but while Nip has some good utility, 07:31:02.480 --> 07:31:03.320 we got those yanks. 07:31:03.320 --> 07:31:07.960 The fact that Volpz gets back alive, he can directly counter one of Wizard's main strategies 07:31:07.960 --> 07:31:12.500 and Diaz still has so many Schumikas, instead Volpz is going for the flank, gets spotted 07:31:12.500 --> 07:31:16.160 on a drone, he's got to make the decision playside to look through the candelars or 07:31:16.160 --> 07:31:18.880 go for a lurk and it looks like he might choose the latter. 07:31:18.880 --> 07:31:23.040 He's got one body upstairs, I'll go to Schumikas, you've got to use them if you're Diaz 07:31:23.040 --> 07:31:26.400 at this point, you are running out of time, 15 seconds left on the clock, Nip might 07:31:26.400 --> 07:31:30.200 wander into their doom, it really does hinge on this Volpz flank. 07:31:30.200 --> 07:31:35.800 Spots at the most, down he goes, this is winnable for Fury of Volps, keeping this round intact 07:31:35.800 --> 07:31:40.000 and he'll now head for the blue flank, all the while Diaz closing and trying to give 07:31:40.000 --> 07:31:44.400 intel, shut off from the Rororidor, so both of them will now pivot over towards Volps. 07:31:44.400 --> 07:31:48.840 This is bad, Diaz will have to give him an opening, Spots a sliver of a player on ninjas 07:31:48.840 --> 07:31:53.560 and pajamas and now Diaz will have to get active. 07:31:53.560 --> 07:31:58.920 Volps in this position, got one in server, almost jiggle peeps him, Diaz takes one 07:31:58.920 --> 07:32:04.520 down he just needs to be wizard in a 1v1 he might be able to long this one a long arm this one 07:32:04.520 --> 07:32:09.400 wizard attempting to shake him off Diaz now finally frees himself into the fuse kit wizard in a position 07:32:09.400 --> 07:32:18.360 where he comes into jump and Diaz gets the job done oh my god making me look foolish nip should 07:32:18.360 --> 07:32:28.760 have won that round but furious snag it away and win map one with ease how do you make a 2v5 07:32:28.920 --> 07:32:32.000 Look, that uncomplicated. 07:32:32.000 --> 07:32:35.200 I mean, it looked about the simplest protocol on the planet. 07:32:35.200 --> 07:32:40.280 Volpz just isolates a 1v1 with a crazy flick on the player peeking through beepers. 07:32:40.280 --> 07:32:41.920 Somehow, it makes his way back. 07:32:41.920 --> 07:32:44.760 When you see him put the nitro cell in front of him on the hatch, you're like, oh, he's 07:32:44.760 --> 07:32:45.760 going to blow himself up. 07:32:45.760 --> 07:32:47.800 And this is like, this is going to be very funny. 07:32:47.800 --> 07:32:51.360 But no, and even down to firing the guy behind the roar door, I mean Parker, 07:32:51.360 --> 07:32:52.920 that was beyond impressive. 07:32:52.920 --> 07:32:53.920 Incredible. 07:32:53.920 --> 07:32:55.560 Incredible retake from Fyria. 07:32:55.560 --> 07:32:58.680 Just, there's not enough glaze we have for this Fyria team, frankly. 07:32:58.680 --> 07:33:02.800 I ran out. I'm depleted of the glaze. 07:33:02.800 --> 07:33:08.660 Nip showed up to their own map, but absolutely beaten on both sides. 07:33:08.660 --> 07:33:14.240 That looked like such a good attack. They did everything right at the beginning and then they bottled the final 25, 30 seconds. 07:33:14.240 --> 07:33:19.960 A great read by Fury of Volps showing why he might be one of the smartest players in this region, 07:33:19.960 --> 07:33:22.020 which then makes him one of the smartest players in the world. 07:33:22.020 --> 07:33:24.120 Just unthinkable that Fury was able to do this. 07:33:24.120 --> 07:33:29.680 I'm not sure really what else you can say for being honest. 07:33:29.680 --> 07:33:32.800 I do believe we have a break coming up though, and I definitely need a break after that one 07:33:32.800 --> 07:33:42.800 because the fact that if you're able to clutch a 2v5, I mean, I just need to go take a nap. 07:33:42.800 --> 07:33:45.200 Everyone's talking about it. 07:33:45.200 --> 07:33:48.440 What's up with the R6 competitive calendar? 07:33:48.440 --> 07:33:52.800 The structure of our competitive calendar has changed a bit. 07:33:52.800 --> 07:34:00.240 That means more tournaments, and a slightly different path to the Six Invitation. 07:34:00.240 --> 07:34:02.400 But let's break it down. 07:34:02.400 --> 07:34:10.300 First of all, we now have a brand new addition to Siege, the CN League, the Chinese League. 07:34:10.300 --> 07:34:17.600 That brings us to five regions total, all following pretty much the same structure. 07:34:17.600 --> 07:34:21.120 Now let's focus on what matters most to us. 07:34:21.120 --> 07:34:27.740 things will work in the South America League. Before anything else, it's important to 07:34:27.740 --> 07:34:34.740 remember that the 2026 season actually started way back with the Challenger series, where 07:34:34.740 --> 07:34:40.300 Rising Teens fought for a shot at the top tier and secured the final two spots in the 07:34:40.300 --> 07:34:47.260 SA-L. Then, and that's where we are right now, we have the kickoff. Think of it 07:34:47.260 --> 07:34:55.900 It has a Stage 0 for the SA-L, shorter, faster, but still super important. 07:34:55.900 --> 07:35:03.060 It awards 4 major spots and distributes 970 SI points. 07:35:03.060 --> 07:35:11.100 Next up, in May, we've got the first major of the year, 20 teams, over 30,000 SI points 07:35:11.100 --> 07:35:16.060 on the line, live from Salt Lake City, USA. 07:35:16.060 --> 07:35:22.440 After that, between June and July, we officially kick-off Stage 1 of the SAL. 07:35:22.440 --> 07:35:25.420 Same classic format you already know. 07:35:25.420 --> 07:35:32.420 One group of 10 teams, round robin matches, and the top 6 advanced to the double elimination 07:35:32.420 --> 07:35:34.180 playoffs. 07:35:34.180 --> 07:35:40.480 This time, though, the 4 available spots are for the Esports World Cup, taking place 07:35:40.480 --> 07:35:41.980 in Saudi Arabia. 07:35:41.980 --> 07:35:49.100 Plus, we've got another 1,695 aside points of programs. 07:35:49.100 --> 07:35:57.540 Speaking of that, the eSports World Cup kicks off in August, with 22 teams competing for 07:35:57.540 --> 07:36:01.300 a $2 million prize pool. 07:36:01.300 --> 07:36:07.580 No aside points here, but the winner gets a straight ticket to SI 2027. 07:36:07.580 --> 07:36:15.460 Then, between September and October, we move on to Stage 2 of the SAL. 07:36:15.460 --> 07:36:25.100 Same format again, 10 teams, round robbing, playoffs, 4 major spots, and another 1695 S-Site 07:36:25.100 --> 07:36:26.900 points in play. 07:36:26.900 --> 07:36:33.860 In November, we'll see the debut of the final International Event of the Year, and the 07:36:33.860 --> 07:36:43.860 First major ever hosted in Japan, 20 teams and 13,650 SI points on the line. 07:36:43.860 --> 07:36:52.860 Finally, closing out the calendar between December and January, we've got the last chance qualifiers in each region. 07:36:52.860 --> 07:36:58.860 This is the final shot at making it to the biggest tournament in Siege. 07:36:58.860 --> 07:37:08.540 And those 5 teams will join the top 14 teams from the SI Points ranking, plus the EWC champion, 07:37:08.540 --> 07:37:15.580 making a total of 20 teams qualified for the 6th Invitational in February, the tournament 07:37:15.580 --> 07:37:18.740 that always wraps up the season. 07:37:18.740 --> 07:37:25.420 And by the way, it's happening right here in Brazil again, simple enough, right? 07:37:25.420 --> 07:37:27.340 So let's get into it. 07:37:27.340 --> 07:37:33.900 The kickoff is ready, everything set, and now it's time to sit back and enjoy the games. 07:37:33.900 --> 07:37:45.100 Thanks for watching everyone, see you next time! 07:37:57.340 --> 07:38:03.460 up in their own sense, because Furia, and especially that last round, my goodness, Gracious Leo, 07:38:03.460 --> 07:38:05.940 that is a way to get your blood pumping in the middle of the night. 07:38:05.940 --> 07:38:12.560 For us, it's 1 AM, and I can tell you that End of Round really fired it up for us here. 07:38:12.560 --> 07:38:13.800 Beautiful performance from Furio. 07:38:13.800 --> 07:38:19.380 We talked about it where, you know, just because they had played their best of three 07:38:19.380 --> 07:38:23.780 right before this game, they're able to continue that momentum and that energy 07:38:23.780 --> 07:38:28.780 straight into NIP's game, and they're starting off on bank. 07:38:28.780 --> 07:38:31.140 That's what they're going to be comfortable in anyways. 07:38:31.140 --> 07:38:33.500 Yeah, it was a question that we had about this team. 07:38:33.500 --> 07:38:36.580 Obviously, they had not shown bank before with this new roster. 07:38:36.580 --> 07:38:39.860 We all knew that the former Fury roster loved that map, 07:38:39.860 --> 07:38:43.220 but it was going to be a question about the rest of the team. 07:38:43.220 --> 07:38:46.260 And I think they've answered that question quite convincingly. 07:38:46.260 --> 07:38:48.020 Obviously, I think they were in a floating state, 07:38:48.020 --> 07:38:52.260 which stated before, when you reached 5-1 in your attacking side. 07:38:52.260 --> 07:38:55.860 Honestly, even the last round couldn't have went their way. 07:38:55.860 --> 07:38:57.020 It is a statement. 07:38:57.020 --> 07:39:00.020 I think to me it's also the pacing on some of these rounds. 07:39:00.020 --> 07:39:01.460 You know, they are always in control. 07:39:01.460 --> 07:39:02.820 They're always proactive. 07:39:02.820 --> 07:39:05.220 They are the one that are creating movement on a set of NIP 07:39:05.220 --> 07:39:06.620 and punishing them. 07:39:06.620 --> 07:39:08.900 The abuse of Vemos and Solid Snake, I don't know. 07:39:08.900 --> 07:39:12.940 It just feels illegal to have like herds, lawyer, 07:39:12.940 --> 07:39:15.660 all of these guys with these operators. 07:39:15.660 --> 07:39:18.340 I'm like, surely this has to be a target ban 07:39:18.340 --> 07:39:20.420 at some point on these guys. 07:39:20.420 --> 07:39:21.580 And that's the problem, right? 07:39:21.580 --> 07:39:26.380 At this moment you have a very clear meta between the Shields meta and the Anti-Rome meta. 07:39:26.380 --> 07:39:32.880 And either get rid of all three Shields, either you're gonna be getting rid of the Soul Snake, Dukai, the Lion, Teemo's thing. 07:39:32.880 --> 07:39:37.180 But whatever is gonna happen, you're gonna struggle to roam, especially against such a strong team. 07:39:37.180 --> 07:39:39.180 And that's what's made this room strong. 07:39:39.180 --> 07:39:45.380 When you start 5-1 at some point, you can only throw away so many rounds, you will close the game eventually. 07:39:45.380 --> 07:40:09.380 Yeah, there's only so many operators, also you can ban, that Fury able to not abuse them, but play them properly, and not just as an individual operator and individual player, but all together in a cohesive team where things are making sense of why XY action are happening, blocking off isolating players on their own from NIP and then completely collapsing on them. 07:40:09.380 --> 07:40:13.700 on them. You see multiple rounds from Furia on their attacking side where they end up with 07:40:14.500 --> 07:40:18.660 having dismantled the rest of the team with only one player completely cornered and they're all 07:40:18.660 --> 07:40:25.780 collapsing at the same time. This was so beautiful. It's saved that at the top. You lose this one 07:40:25.780 --> 07:40:31.700 fight here. Wizard does a good job of it but then too late on the retreat back into server 07:40:31.700 --> 07:40:35.940 and unfortunately the Junk is able to do it. Unfortunately for NIP that is because Furia 07:40:35.940 --> 07:40:42.100 we're incredibly happy with that result. That is VULPS. You're saying it feels illegal. 07:40:42.100 --> 07:40:47.140 I don't want to quote Pig Panthers in the middle of the night, but I will say it does indeed 07:40:47.140 --> 07:40:51.140 feel illegal the way that things went down for Furia. 07:40:52.900 --> 07:40:58.420 To me, what's even more beautiful is that the 2v5 is DS and VULPS. And I feel like a lot of 07:40:58.420 --> 07:41:02.020 people were looking at this team and were looking at the the frag line, right? Lavera, 07:41:02.020 --> 07:41:05.220 I heard the big names, PogZera is the rookie that came in. 07:41:05.220 --> 07:41:07.900 But I do think that what makes this teamwork 07:41:07.900 --> 07:41:10.740 is the back line there, it's Diaz and Volpz. 07:41:10.740 --> 07:41:13.780 Volpz that has always had a very aggressive style 07:41:13.780 --> 07:41:18.260 of idealing and then Diaz who's always been so successful 07:41:18.260 --> 07:41:20.580 at playing for himself in these situations 07:41:20.580 --> 07:41:23.260 and at, you know, in the very last one with Tachenka, 07:41:23.260 --> 07:41:26.500 for example, once again, he just isolated the players 07:41:26.500 --> 07:41:29.020 using the Riora at his advantage. 07:41:29.020 --> 07:41:34.620 such a smart player. I just feel like everything clicks within the lineup and it's always gonna 07:41:34.620 --> 07:41:38.780 be a question is it because of momentum and is it because they're rich flow state or can they 07:41:38.780 --> 07:41:45.020 actually do that consistently? And my eyes turn toward fortress here and I do think that 07:41:45.020 --> 07:41:49.100 it is a very good sign for them that they beat their opponent on their map pick. 07:41:50.220 --> 07:41:56.620 What is that a good sign? Yeah, what is it tell me. Well, we've just seen Firiya win against 07:41:56.620 --> 07:42:07.480 It's the last time we've seen an AP play that map that was all the way at SI against 07:42:07.480 --> 07:42:13.020 Fyrex, mind you, and they lost that map to Fyrex. 07:42:13.020 --> 07:42:14.020 So you're telling me? 07:42:14.020 --> 07:42:18.880 Yeah, well, yeah, they had time to rework it and they have a new IGL. 07:42:18.880 --> 07:42:22.540 But I will say this, it still favors Fyrex, I believe, especially if they can kill this 07:42:22.540 --> 07:42:24.620 momentum. 07:42:24.620 --> 07:42:30.260 And if we pull up the map ends here just to show them one more time you'll see map one 07:42:30.260 --> 07:42:36.020 bank just finished that was a starting side of defense for an IP did not work out well 07:42:36.020 --> 07:42:42.500 Fortress furious map pick they're the ones to start off on defense so wait furious map 07:42:42.500 --> 07:42:53.660 and an IP picked attack on fortress and IP is attack yeah yeah it is I'm just checking 07:42:53.660 --> 07:43:04.300 like the eternal sheet and yeah okay that's yeah what could be the reason 07:43:04.300 --> 07:43:08.980 behind picking attack on Fortress let's try to analyze this between us I think 07:43:08.980 --> 07:43:11.900 in general hold on to that question in your head in the meantime go ahead I 07:43:11.900 --> 07:43:15.140 think in general playing against Furia in the way they're playing they're the 07:43:15.140 --> 07:43:18.660 kings of the split theory right they love to have players in different 07:43:18.660 --> 07:43:23.180 spots poking around there's very annoying to play against and honestly if 07:43:23.180 --> 07:43:28.340 If you're getting bullied on that side, it might seem an impossible task to come up with 07:43:28.340 --> 07:43:30.460 a way to problem solve this. 07:43:30.460 --> 07:43:34.580 So what better way than to switch and go to attack yourself so that you can choose how 07:43:34.580 --> 07:43:36.180 to best attack the map. 07:43:36.180 --> 07:43:37.380 You can be the one proactive. 07:43:37.380 --> 07:43:39.140 You choose on which side you attack. 07:43:39.140 --> 07:43:44.140 Maybe you can regroup and force them into a utility-based game. 07:43:44.140 --> 07:43:48.060 That would be the only thing, I think, because I do think that Fortress is still 07:43:48.060 --> 07:43:50.060 the funnest side right now, overall. 07:43:50.060 --> 07:43:51.060 Statistically, there's... 07:43:51.060 --> 07:43:52.060 Don't quote me on this. 07:43:52.060 --> 07:43:57.580 this I know you're gonna fact check this I'm pretty sure that is true and and that 07:43:57.580 --> 07:44:00.980 would be my only guess it's like when you're an attack you're proactive you 07:44:00.980 --> 07:44:04.900 choose the way the that that you're reacting to the defense and I believe 07:44:04.900 --> 07:44:09.660 that that may be the main reason why they chose this but it is still gamble it 07:44:09.660 --> 07:44:13.180 is it is I'd like to bring in our casters here links and entero and 07:44:13.180 --> 07:44:18.300 chat about that has some fact-checking been done in the meantime links to 07:44:18.300 --> 07:44:25.820 check if Leo is indeed correct? Yeah, in the STL, Fortress is Defender-Sided right now, it's about 55-56%, 07:44:26.540 --> 07:44:30.140 which I also, you know, I think newer maps typically start Defender-Sided earlier on, 07:44:30.700 --> 07:44:36.540 but I think to Leo's point as well, well, I do like your argument and I am kind of persuaded 07:44:36.540 --> 07:44:40.940 by it. I think maybe just like trying to maybe set the pace and like create actively and create 07:44:40.940 --> 07:44:45.980 the game rather than like reacting to it. I also just think that like taking chances against a team 07:44:45.980 --> 07:44:50.220 like Furia right now is an unfortunate thing where it's at the same time kind of necessary 07:44:50.220 --> 07:44:55.420 and also just makes me really nervous and I don't think that's MIP's fault. I think it's just Furia 07:44:55.420 --> 07:45:01.580 making it difficult for them. Parker, your thoughts as their game is almost set. It's not 07:45:01.580 --> 07:45:08.300 under control when we're launching it. I think just the phrase that was said very objectively 07:45:08.300 --> 07:45:13.100 by Alfamo, which is like the last time they played this, they lost to BNX and BNK Furia X 07:45:13.100 --> 07:45:17.340 is frankly one of the most devastating insults you could say about any team at any point. 07:45:17.340 --> 07:45:18.660 Oh wow. 07:45:18.660 --> 07:45:20.980 And I really think that's all that needs to be said here. 07:45:20.980 --> 07:45:22.540 I don't even think we need to cast the game. 07:45:22.540 --> 07:45:25.180 I think we can just stay silent for about 60 minutes. 07:45:25.180 --> 07:45:26.660 I've closed up a lot of them. 07:45:26.660 --> 07:45:30.460 I don't think it's going to last 60 minutes, but sure, go ahead, buddy. 07:45:30.460 --> 07:45:31.460 Of course, I'm just kidding. 07:45:31.460 --> 07:45:34.100 Let's kick off this second map. 07:45:34.100 --> 07:45:38.740 What might be the penultimate map in this series, or might actually just be the ultimate 07:45:38.740 --> 07:45:39.740 map? 07:45:39.740 --> 07:45:45.080 one that we see get played dyspheria wrap it up in a nice bow a 2-0 victory to 07:45:45.080 --> 07:45:50.360 claim first overall in SAO heading to Salt Lake City major for those that are 07:45:50.360 --> 07:45:53.720 unaware of the stakes both of these teams have already qualified for the 07:45:53.720 --> 07:45:57.840 Salt Lake City major they are the only two teams from Brazil to have done 07:45:57.840 --> 07:46:02.480 that so far there are still four teams that are in the hunt those 07:46:02.480 --> 07:46:08.440 matches will be tomorrow you've got fluxo w7m up against Loos and then by 07:46:08.440 --> 07:46:13.440 my god team liquid alienware versus phase clan. 07:46:13.880 --> 07:46:16.800 Only one of those squads makes it to the major. 07:46:16.800 --> 07:46:21.520 It's been four years since phase failed to qualify 07:46:21.520 --> 07:46:25.560 for a major, something crazy like that does their run. 07:46:25.560 --> 07:46:28.560 And at the hands of the new look of team liquid alienware, 07:46:28.560 --> 07:46:30.000 those matches will be tomorrow. 07:46:30.000 --> 07:46:33.560 For here, SI points on the line, prize pool money 07:46:33.560 --> 07:46:36.320 on the line, both these teams have made it to the major. 07:46:36.320 --> 07:46:40.320 So job done, we will see them in Salt Lake next month, a dyspheria. 07:46:40.320 --> 07:46:45.320 Win 2-0, or does Nip steal their opponent's map as Phyria just did Nip? 07:46:45.320 --> 07:46:51.320 Let's answer that question. Well, over the course of this map, I don't have a definitive answer right now, but I do have some questions. 07:46:51.320 --> 07:46:56.320 I refuse, actually. I like to think I set my own destiny. Oh, hello, Boxera. 07:46:56.320 --> 07:47:00.320 He's starting to get a little bit aggressive on the initial play. 07:47:00.320 --> 07:47:03.320 But I do have some comments to start things out. 07:47:03.320 --> 07:47:06.980 uh... earlier when we saw if you're a play fortress uh... it's kind of interesting 07:47:06.980 --> 07:47:10.200 that on their defenses uh... no hard breach for 07:47:10.200 --> 07:47:12.500 uh... deniers band what's a lever against them 07:47:12.500 --> 07:47:14.960 and they really only brought out in the latter half of the game in an 07:47:14.960 --> 07:47:18.500 adaptation against a flexor w seven 07:47:18.500 --> 07:47:22.040 it's been out the gate by nip so definitely i think that i think 07:47:22.040 --> 07:47:23.180 really don't wanna 07:47:23.180 --> 07:47:26.820 don't want to play against because it was not a core element of your strike 07:47:26.820 --> 07:47:28.280 furious strategy 07:47:28.280 --> 07:47:29.320 on fortress 07:47:29.320 --> 07:47:30.180 earlier 07:47:30.180 --> 07:47:34.140 In fact, it was kind of a lot of the stuff you would normally expect from Fury, you know. 07:47:34.140 --> 07:47:38.140 Birds playing the Mazi, playing it a bit more loose, obviously right now, he's on the Tuber out, 07:47:38.140 --> 07:47:41.460 but also an operator he was playing earlier on this site. 07:47:41.460 --> 07:47:46.780 So, some NIP trying to set the kind of field they want to play against, 07:47:46.780 --> 07:47:49.740 and Fury are playing, I think, remarkably conservative at the moment. 07:47:49.740 --> 07:47:52.580 I mean, they are already falling back towards the site. 07:47:52.580 --> 07:47:55.580 And if you look at the line that they have, you understand why. 07:47:55.580 --> 07:47:59.020 You've got the Keybus to play around, but more importantly, you've got the Vulcan Packs, 07:47:59.020 --> 07:48:06.500 Zodokanisters and Gershmoth's all to either stun, burn, or just slow down the attack through and through. 07:48:06.500 --> 07:48:08.920 You do not need to play aggressive with this kind of lineup. 07:48:11.600 --> 07:48:13.100 Low and steady wins the race. 07:48:14.260 --> 07:48:14.760 Or... 07:48:15.360 --> 07:48:15.860 ...the round. 07:48:16.460 --> 07:48:17.360 I suppose. 07:48:18.100 --> 07:48:19.740 First kill, still something we're searching for. 07:48:19.740 --> 07:48:23.780 Halfway through round number one on a nitrous cell, expended by Herds will not find his target. 07:48:23.780 --> 07:48:29.260 Volps is does though, Becedo down for the count to his credit herds had done some damage beforehand 07:48:29.260 --> 07:48:31.640 So it was a joint effort and now a swing by Volps 07:48:33.140 --> 07:48:36.900 Sensational in the previous map. He still started things off well here 07:48:36.900 --> 07:48:39.700 But not enough as now it's a 4v4 with a minute to go 07:48:40.060 --> 07:48:45.220 Well, we'll trade that one right back advantage slings in favor of here. Yeah, and it will continue to grow links 07:48:46.700 --> 07:48:50.420 They've got such a good I just matrix and trading set up right here 07:48:50.420 --> 07:48:56.140 You'd be hard-pressed to find an NIP advantage, that is like, realistically achievable. 07:48:56.140 --> 07:48:58.880 And I think they're doing a good job fighting back, don't get me wrong. 07:48:58.880 --> 07:49:03.060 But because Furia fell back so quickly, the moment that players like Hades started walking in, 07:49:03.060 --> 07:49:06.340 they were always going to have to deal with players just around the corner who could refrag, 07:49:06.340 --> 07:49:09.220 or walking or hopping straight into a crossfire. 07:49:09.220 --> 07:49:10.540 It's not unwinnable, though. 07:49:10.540 --> 07:49:15.400 Was it still us two sets of Bs to find any information on these players tucked on the inside of doorways? 07:49:15.400 --> 07:49:19.900 DS is playing a bit with his life right now, and he's got to be careful he doesn't step too far because Pino's ready for it. 07:49:19.900 --> 07:49:21.720 Ooh! That's a big moment. 07:49:21.720 --> 07:49:23.720 Lawyer trying to catch him on the off angle. 07:49:23.720 --> 07:49:25.920 Pino doesn't commit, ends up getting the information, 07:49:25.920 --> 07:49:26.880 and now it's a 2v2. 07:49:26.880 --> 07:49:30.280 It's only 15 seconds, but maybe they can find something. 07:49:30.280 --> 07:49:32.960 I mean, hey, we've seen crazier things already. 07:49:32.960 --> 07:49:35.600 A 1v1 diffuser needs to get planted. 07:49:35.600 --> 07:49:36.880 Wizard finally grabs it. 07:49:36.880 --> 07:49:38.640 Diaz now in the homerun position. 07:49:38.640 --> 07:49:40.240 You just need to wait that timer out. 07:49:40.240 --> 07:49:42.320 Go, go, go, go, go! 07:49:42.320 --> 07:49:43.600 Pass the point of no return. 07:49:43.600 --> 07:49:44.960 Clock will give it to Furia. 07:49:44.960 --> 07:49:47.560 Excellently played by the defenders. 07:49:47.560 --> 07:49:52.320 Inferior keeping up just as they did on map one off to a hard start here on map two 07:49:52.680 --> 07:49:59.800 Just not making incorrect moves on a macro level and even if you look at moments like loyera prone around the corner 07:49:59.800 --> 07:50:01.080 Those are always gambles 07:50:01.080 --> 07:50:06.560 You're acknowledging the possibility that it won't work out when you're literally prone in the middle of a doorway because it's an off 07:50:06.560 --> 07:50:08.280 Angle and you think you might catch them off guard 07:50:08.280 --> 07:50:11.280 There's the possibility that they might quick peek and check it and then you get killed 07:50:11.520 --> 07:50:16.160 It's not necessarily a wrong thing to do made a gamble. You didn't pay off in the broader level 07:50:16.160 --> 07:50:23.160 Fury didn't do a wrong thing whatsoever. All of it looked really, really good, and especially their strategy of falling back very quickly. 07:50:23.160 --> 07:50:28.160 They had perfect utility to back that up and to keep MIP out and stall out time. 07:50:29.160 --> 07:50:37.160 And every single time one of those attackers, whether it was a shield, somebody hopping in a window, whatever it was, there was an immediate answer. 07:50:37.160 --> 07:50:42.160 C4s for the Blitz. Crossfires and trading potential galore for Fury. 07:50:42.160 --> 07:50:47.460 Everyone was on the same page. It was a very clear intention behind their strategy in that round and it worked out really well 07:50:47.460 --> 07:50:50.580 Because his MIP played slow and tried to push into them directly 07:50:50.580 --> 07:50:56.640 There were no alternative angles to break that and so period just kept basically trading and swinging from every position 07:50:56.640 --> 07:50:58.640 They had already thought of at the beginning of the round 07:51:03.000 --> 07:51:08.160 So impressed with this furious squad as we see them improving time and time again just 07:51:09.320 --> 07:51:11.320 Here are the weaknesses here 07:51:11.320 --> 07:51:16.840 where are the weaknesses I already saw the box era play was clipped on the 07:51:16.840 --> 07:51:21.400 subreddit I understand there was a bit of a head scratcher and Paul who picked up 07:51:21.400 --> 07:51:26.640 a second ace of the day off of that play it's out please that was the first ace 07:51:26.640 --> 07:51:36.680 today sorry my apologies I'm incapable of keeping track of when his aces were 07:51:36.680 --> 07:51:40.520 I'd watch the game. Frankly, we've had a terrific day of matches. 07:51:42.000 --> 07:51:45.640 This one, though, is not lived up to the billing. 07:51:45.680 --> 07:51:49.080 You know, I was I was hopeful that our first time back in the saddle 07:51:49.080 --> 07:51:53.280 and so long would be a competitive endeavor. 07:51:53.280 --> 07:51:55.720 It has not been that so far. Still time. 07:51:55.720 --> 07:51:57.880 You're on fortress. 07:51:57.880 --> 07:52:00.400 I feel badly if we don't get a border as our third map as the analysts 07:52:00.400 --> 07:52:01.680 talked about how much they wanted to see that. 07:52:01.680 --> 07:52:03.560 But sometimes it's just out of our control. 07:52:03.560 --> 07:52:05.320 One minute off the board, Furia! 07:52:05.320 --> 07:52:11.560 Standing pat, first line of contact now will likely be Beceto on this Blackbeard, and Box Zera is in the line of fire. 07:52:13.320 --> 07:52:18.360 Ooh, unfortunate. Smoke gets caught on the ledge there. Now it'll force out the Blackbeard. 07:52:18.360 --> 07:52:22.040 All of Box Zera's utility used within the first minute, 20 seconds of the round. 07:52:22.040 --> 07:52:25.640 That could be big for the attack later. 07:52:25.640 --> 07:52:27.720 Dan's able to get the initial pick, though. 07:52:27.720 --> 07:52:29.720 So neither clear advantage, oh! 07:52:29.720 --> 07:52:34.720 Foxyra missing two opportunities right now, and it's traded soon after! 07:52:34.720 --> 07:52:40.720 Alright, well my fortress certainly is not over because that was a bit of a painful start for Fioria. 07:52:40.720 --> 07:52:45.720 Foxyra not only using all this utility, has an opportunity on the Blackbeard, misses it, 07:52:45.720 --> 07:52:49.720 and now NIP have a full minute and 15 seconds to reset. 07:52:49.720 --> 07:52:53.720 There's one player tucked around the corner on the second floor, you can see this right here. 07:52:53.720 --> 07:52:58.020 Doesn't get missed drone. They're ready for it. I mean, they're doing everything right, Parker. 07:52:58.020 --> 07:53:02.720 That nip's not making any mistakes here whatsoever. Nothing for anybody on Furia to exploit. 07:53:02.720 --> 07:53:08.720 Diaz now, as the last man standing, does have a shot with how low on HP both Wizard and Bissetto are, 07:53:08.720 --> 07:53:13.720 but drone work has been so good for Nip through the closing moments of this round, 07:53:13.720 --> 07:53:17.720 they will use it effectively punishing the last two players on Furia and drawing evens 07:53:17.720 --> 07:53:25.480 so already a significantly better start for Nip than we saw on Bank. Granted, Bank was a 5-0 start 07:53:25.480 --> 07:53:30.520 for Furia, so literally any round in the first five rounds for Nip is a better start. But honestly, 07:53:30.520 --> 07:53:35.000 I think it's more about confidence too. This Nip team is playing very, very well. Even in the 07:53:35.000 --> 07:53:39.160 previous round, they're poised on their entry, they were droning effectively, they were walking 07:53:39.160 --> 07:53:42.920 in well together. They weren't expecting the double night, double night for SL, which ultimately 07:53:42.920 --> 07:53:46.840 blew with their chances sky high at the very beginning of round number one but 07:53:47.560 --> 07:53:51.640 not much you can do to plan that I suppose especially if you think you have the confidence 07:53:51.640 --> 07:53:57.720 of two separate shields running in this time around though Nip made almost no mistakes on 07:53:57.720 --> 07:54:03.720 that round and Furia felt it so now Furia will hold out hope that this round goes a little bit 07:54:03.720 --> 07:54:07.400 better but Nip already showing more promise and maybe just took them a map to settle down. 07:54:07.400 --> 07:54:15.200 It's possible. It is entirely possible. I also just think that I think that particular position 07:54:15.200 --> 07:54:18.480 I don't think was quite the winner that fury I thought it was you know it might delay time 07:54:18.480 --> 07:54:21.560 early but especially was you know the ability to hop out the window right behind 07:54:21.560 --> 07:54:26.800 I don't think it just had the impact that fury we're hoping for. As we go into the next round 07:54:26.800 --> 07:54:32.840 the first four defense or a first four defense from fury up to some big adjustments by an AP and 07:54:32.840 --> 07:54:35.920 the attacking lineup dropped the shield that they've had in the first two rounds the blitz 07:54:35.920 --> 07:54:40.960 than the Blackbeard. Now not present whatsoever. Instead, going for probably the most standard 07:54:40.960 --> 07:54:45.040 line you can think of. I mean we got two sources of hard breach, some vertical destruction, 07:54:45.040 --> 07:54:50.720 some anti-Rome with the Doka V, and of course the Twitch to get some of these traps. I mean, 07:54:50.720 --> 07:54:55.120 I don't know, really if you could get anything more basic than that. I say that in a complimentary 07:54:55.120 --> 07:54:57.840 way. I mean, you've got all your bases covered, you should be able to do a lot. 07:54:57.840 --> 07:55:00.360 Of course you don't have a lot of the cheese that's available. You don't have 07:55:00.360 --> 07:55:04.440 the ying, grim, nothing like that. And as you see, there we go. More good 07:55:04.440 --> 07:55:11.280 Johnny from NIP not letting any gaps form in their attacking strategy and now fancy who might have otherwise lurked through that position 07:55:11.400 --> 07:55:14.680 We'll just calm that maybe we can see NIP set up for a pinch 07:55:16.840 --> 07:55:22.880 They're swinging for the fences here fury a feeling very confident lawyer and wizard dueling against one another logic 07:55:22.880 --> 07:55:28.280 Bond's now being used to try to pin these players down. It's used successfully unbox era down. He goes with the hands of eights 07:55:28.280 --> 07:55:29.280 HATES! 07:55:29.280 --> 07:55:32.680 The player manages to survive, which is really quite astounding. 07:55:32.680 --> 07:55:37.240 Link, what do you think about how aggressive this nip push was onto him? 07:55:37.240 --> 07:55:39.400 The player now has backup with herds not far removed. 07:55:39.400 --> 07:55:42.680 The herds yet to get on the board through these two rounds. 07:55:42.680 --> 07:55:46.280 He's a sleeping giant, waiting to be woken up. 07:55:46.280 --> 07:55:49.440 Almost halfway point of this round and advantage for nip. 07:55:49.440 --> 07:55:52.360 Looking more like round two than round number one, but right as I say that Diaz gets 07:55:52.360 --> 07:55:55.960 active, down goes HATES, down goes the twitch, and the previous round those drones 07:55:55.960 --> 07:55:56.960 were so integral. 07:55:56.960 --> 07:55:59.080 Is nip going to function without that Intel? 07:56:01.040 --> 07:56:04.680 You have to require more the network either grows or it dies with that dopedy call 07:56:05.000 --> 07:56:09.320 Yes, he almost loses life in the process, but we'll finally hunt down loyra 07:56:09.600 --> 07:56:14.000 Another one could go their way of alps around the corner tangling with I believe it's the ace of the setto 07:56:14.840 --> 07:56:18.800 I'm saying needs to get aggressive in the 3d4 you can't get passive in a position like this 07:56:18.800 --> 07:56:21.040 Especially with two attackers as we know on low HP 07:56:21.040 --> 07:56:27.120 It could easily be a 2v2 if NIP are not careful and a triple crossfire bolt's gotta find his 07:56:27.120 --> 07:56:30.040 way out with the flashbangs going in, and he's not long for this world. 07:56:30.040 --> 07:56:33.040 Oh my goodness. 07:56:33.040 --> 07:56:37.040 S-Furia team just has no answer for NIP. 07:56:37.040 --> 07:56:41.040 This is the team that we saw here that's bonded on bank. 07:56:41.040 --> 07:56:44.040 I don't know if we're already in fortress at this point in time. 07:56:44.040 --> 07:56:50.040 Pino swings onto herds down, he goes, and it's a trade, but it favors NIP because they've still got bodies upright. 07:56:50.040 --> 07:56:53.160 to lead in this series till this exact moment. 07:56:53.160 --> 07:56:56.600 Ninjas grab a one-round lead on Furia's map. 07:56:59.160 --> 07:57:03.480 And whereas in the first round you had a, you know, basically just everybody playing right next 07:57:03.480 --> 07:57:08.360 to each other on or around the site with NIP not able to break it whatsoever, 07:57:08.360 --> 07:57:13.960 since then you've seen a much stronger tendency for Furia, especially in round three, 07:57:13.960 --> 07:57:19.880 to play a bit more spread out and I think NIP have read very well into it. 07:57:19.880 --> 07:57:24.360 For the first, I was going to say the first rabble, I was going to say the first one on the NIP-1, so round two. 07:57:24.360 --> 07:57:31.160 You have Box 0 playing, not super far away from the cycle, playing outside in a bit of an isolated position that 07:57:31.160 --> 07:57:35.880 the attacker reads pretty quickly, sees he's not having a whole lot of impact, and they just decide to go elsewhere. 07:57:35.880 --> 07:57:41.640 So this smoke we've put so much focus on, used all that utility early, doesn't end up mattering. 07:57:41.640 --> 07:57:47.720 In round three, similar position you have with Loira on the opposite side. Does he have a defender he can join? 07:57:47.720 --> 07:57:55.720 Yes, absolutely. But NIP are still able to get a foothold in the map and because of these constant crossfires that we're holding via the exterior angles 07:57:55.720 --> 07:58:00.720 combined with some in the building pressure, they're not actually able to get complete. 07:58:00.720 --> 07:58:07.720 I guess get a complete read on what NIP are doing, but more importantly, really get in a strong enough position to counter anything that's actually going on. 07:58:07.720 --> 07:58:11.720 NIP are constantly able to communicate, constantly able to rework their setup around the defense. 07:58:11.720 --> 07:58:16.520 And once they have an actual gaps or a bit more length and breadth in furious play, 07:58:16.520 --> 07:58:17.820 MIP have filled it quite nicely. 07:58:17.820 --> 07:58:20.820 So, timeout now taken. 07:58:20.820 --> 07:58:23.820 So, Perius hoping to settle themselves down a little bit. 07:58:23.820 --> 07:58:27.120 I don't know if they'll be able to find the answers for Nip. 07:58:27.120 --> 07:58:33.920 And just a short period of time reminder that there will be another timeout taken in three rounds. 07:58:33.920 --> 07:58:37.220 Once we get to the halfway point, we'll likely bring in our analysts to talk about that 07:58:37.220 --> 07:58:43.540 show some of the more pivotal moments through those first six rounds. Nip really have been able to 07:58:43.540 --> 07:58:48.740 move their pieces around this map and succeed, whether it be intel from the drones, whether it 07:58:48.740 --> 07:58:52.500 be intel from the operators themselves. The shields that we saw back in round number one, 07:58:52.500 --> 07:58:57.700 not really quite as successful as maybe Nip had hoped, but it does really follow a trend 07:58:57.700 --> 07:59:02.100 line in links that we've seen across all regions that shields are nowhere near as oppressive 07:59:02.100 --> 07:59:09.060 as they used to be. And if you watch the SI reveal just a couple months ago, a rumored shield 07:59:09.060 --> 07:59:13.940 buster was confirmed. I think they're called Operation Firecracker or something like that. 07:59:13.940 --> 07:59:18.580 It was unveiled in the video. Don't know when they'll arrive sometime later this year, but 07:59:18.580 --> 07:59:21.460 you don't even need an operator necessarily to counter them. Outside of Blackbeard, 07:59:21.460 --> 07:59:25.700 shields have not had the same impact that we've seen. And look at Furious Bands. 07:59:25.700 --> 07:59:28.740 They took care of the Monty. Alright, fine. That's why we saw the operators we did 07:59:28.740 --> 07:59:32.900 back in round number one, doubling up. With that Blitz in round one, the Blackbeard in 07:59:32.900 --> 07:59:39.620 round number two, since then no shields present for this Nip team. Take up Intel next, and 07:59:39.620 --> 07:59:43.300 I'll be interested to see how Nip does without Snake and Doku. He's still Damos on the board, 07:59:43.300 --> 07:59:47.460 he's still lying on the board, so while shields are not in play here, you've still got Intel 07:59:47.460 --> 07:59:50.500 ops and still those drone ops that Nip has been using so well. 07:59:53.220 --> 07:59:56.660 It is going to alter probably how you end up using the Damos. You could obviously 07:59:56.660 --> 08:00:01.140 use them to gain intel on some of those roamers and hunt them down but you also 08:00:01.140 --> 08:00:04.500 want to consider whether or not maybe saving them to put pressure to players 08:00:04.500 --> 08:00:08.780 in power positions directly on the site like must win fights or must win bits 08:00:08.780 --> 08:00:11.420 the map you have to control you don't have the flexibility you do when you have 08:00:11.420 --> 08:00:15.060 the soliton scanner or the doka be called balls to hunt down some of those 08:00:15.060 --> 08:00:17.740 other players and you can maybe use the death marks whatever you want now 08:00:17.740 --> 08:00:21.060 you've got to be very particular with it. Zami also still on the board as 08:00:21.060 --> 08:00:24.940 NIP trip down the Goyo so focusing really on those site ops. 08:00:24.940 --> 08:00:28.860 The strategy theory I seem to be going for is still spreading out, but for some, this 08:00:28.860 --> 08:00:31.460 council barricades hopefully with a bit more protection. 08:00:31.460 --> 08:00:35.980 And with the traps to bolster that, also maybe just catching anybody on an AP who might go 08:00:35.980 --> 08:00:36.980 for that lurk. 08:00:36.980 --> 08:00:40.780 In the first deathmark track of Go Out, Gains a brief fit of information, Razor Blum triggered, 08:00:40.780 --> 08:00:44.380 but I don't think anybody really on this side of the map to hear it all that well. 08:00:44.380 --> 08:00:46.580 So I don't know how much impact it'll have. 08:00:46.580 --> 08:00:49.780 Beasts flooding in the museum, but finally with one player creeping up, the Grimlock 08:00:49.780 --> 08:00:53.940 is triggered and they're aware of Fancy's behind them. 08:00:53.940 --> 08:00:59.940 And he outlines in front of Diaz. Does he tempt fates? 08:00:59.940 --> 08:01:02.940 Now he backs away. Allows Volps to get active. 08:01:02.940 --> 08:01:04.940 Gallagher goes wizard. Lawyer traded right out. 08:01:04.940 --> 08:01:07.940 One minute left. The first two minutes of this round 08:01:07.940 --> 08:01:09.940 just blew by at this point in time. 08:01:09.940 --> 08:01:12.940 In terms of HP, Furia with the advantage. 08:01:12.940 --> 08:01:16.940 Bissetto debuffed by that razor bloom as he found himself 08:01:16.940 --> 08:01:18.940 triggering the trap of the Irish operator. 08:01:18.940 --> 08:01:20.940 No more available as Lawyer died. 08:01:20.940 --> 08:01:26.420 Late reinforcement. I like this keep one in pocket for fury and make the job a little bit harder for nip 08:01:26.420 --> 08:01:33.420 You see they've got no more hard breach utility available. So anything that's been used by the ace at this point finally going off 08:01:35.540 --> 08:01:39.660 That box era line throne oh my you gotta go 08:01:40.460 --> 08:01:43.660 How on earth is box era walk away alive? 08:01:43.660 --> 08:01:49.100 Volts on the board as well and nip out number two to one furious need to write 08:01:49.100 --> 08:01:53.900 out these final 15 seconds or pick up hates and beseto the last two standing 08:01:53.900 --> 08:01:59.820 from nip that's hates jumped out on and hers and Diaz will clean up a tie game 08:01:59.820 --> 08:02:04.500 now's the time out working effectively fury of finding their footing and no 08:02:04.500 --> 08:02:10.980 team now with the lead no team with a lead and I think we kind of we have a 08:02:10.980 --> 08:02:15.980 a little bit of a trend developing that is indicative of when Furia have been successful 08:02:15.980 --> 08:02:20.780 and it's been when they've been able to, of course, like deny a lot of time for NIP, 08:02:20.780 --> 08:02:26.420 you know, keep things really slow, don't let the attack any control, but also I think 08:02:26.420 --> 08:02:31.420 just play more together and not actively get in their face. The opening picks when NIP 08:02:31.420 --> 08:02:36.700 have won the round were at two minutes and a minute forty seconds respectively for Furia. 08:02:36.700 --> 08:02:39.580 They were both below the halfway point in the round and that one, that was the 08:02:39.580 --> 08:02:43.420 slowest one we saw, not happening until almost the minute mark. Furia were not 08:02:43.420 --> 08:02:47.060 giving any openings whatsoever. They were playing very close to each other, 08:02:47.060 --> 08:02:52.100 but more importantly, with a lot of utility to facilitate rotations, even if 08:02:52.100 --> 08:02:55.820 they were playing spread out. That castle barricades to dodge behind, keep 08:02:55.820 --> 08:03:00.020 the barriers to block off windows or doors, as opposed to playing that same 08:03:00.020 --> 08:03:04.140 loose style without the kind of reinforcements or vision blocking utility. 08:03:04.140 --> 08:03:07.260 This time they had it, so if they wanted to play loose, they could rotate 08:03:07.260 --> 08:03:12.460 back effectively and still play their trades. If Furia can keep the time low when that opening 08:03:12.460 --> 08:03:18.060 pick happens and keep that IP at bay for long enough, they are, well, so far in the two rounds, 08:03:18.060 --> 08:03:20.060 they've won, succeeding quite well. 08:03:20.060 --> 08:03:26.900 Pull up some of these map stats here. And I mean, they are skewed a little bit. Again, 08:03:26.900 --> 08:03:32.540 NIP should not necessarily be the strongest team on this map. Numbers are significantly 08:03:32.540 --> 08:03:38.780 better for Furia. What concerns me is that Furia's defender win rate on this map is very, 08:03:38.780 --> 08:03:44.180 very high, nearing 60%. Granted they've only played 12 rounds, so it's not a huge sample 08:03:44.180 --> 08:03:48.700 size here, but if you think that the conventional wisdom on fortress is that for the time being 08:03:48.700 --> 08:03:52.540 it's a defender sided map as it starts to get more favorable to the attackers, then 08:03:52.540 --> 08:03:58.260 Furia should be doing okay. But keep in mind, Furia picked this map, Nip opted to 08:03:58.260 --> 08:03:59.780 to start on attack. 08:03:59.780 --> 08:04:01.020 There's some theory that goes on here. 08:04:01.020 --> 08:04:02.620 Do you start on the harder side 08:04:02.620 --> 08:04:04.220 or do you give yourself a leg up? 08:04:05.260 --> 08:04:07.380 I mean, I don't speak for these teams. 08:04:07.380 --> 08:04:08.220 I wouldn't want to. 08:04:08.220 --> 08:04:09.980 You're more the expert currently than I am, 08:04:09.980 --> 08:04:14.980 but just based on the numbers, the underlying numbers here, 08:04:15.260 --> 08:04:17.260 theory of, should in theory be walking away 08:04:17.260 --> 08:04:18.780 with a minimum of three rounds? 08:04:18.780 --> 08:04:21.180 That's within reach, but it has been a slog 08:04:21.180 --> 08:04:22.620 for them to get these two rounds 08:04:22.620 --> 08:04:23.940 with the exception of round number one. 08:04:23.940 --> 08:04:25.180 So up the last two rounds, 08:04:25.180 --> 08:04:27.140 Nip has looked mighty, mighty good. 08:04:27.140 --> 08:04:33.060 Now just biting time plugging holes and keep a barriers waiting for the advance of nip as we get very close to the halfway point of the round 08:04:36.020 --> 08:04:39.920 This is a good win condition for fury there was to try and delay time as much as possible 08:04:39.920 --> 08:04:46.100 I mean we've even tacked on to the strengths we had the previous round bringing in a mirror alongside the castle and the 08:04:46.100 --> 08:04:46.820 Azami 08:04:46.820 --> 08:04:52.420 Oh, okay. Wow. That's his brutal for Laura the moment he tried the moment he tries to take some kind of 08:04:52.420 --> 08:04:57.980 initiative, slapped down by Pino in brutal fashion. The broader structure is still solid, 08:04:57.980 --> 08:05:01.340 not having the key buzz will suck, but you still have mirror windows and castle barricades, 08:05:01.340 --> 08:05:04.860 but down a body, that's what you have to worry about. Volts with some effective fight 08:05:04.860 --> 08:05:08.340 back, though fancy spots won very quickly around the corner, but as they win that trade, 08:05:08.340 --> 08:05:11.780 Fiora are back in the exact position that they've won, the two rounds they've won 08:05:11.780 --> 08:05:16.460 so far. All in arms length of each other, all in strong positions, all can play 08:05:16.460 --> 08:05:21.020 for these trades, and NIP, and look at their lineup. Floor is twitching, ace 08:05:21.020 --> 08:05:28.020 are not breaking through with any of that. 08:05:51.020 --> 08:05:52.720 time of the Munich Major. 08:05:52.720 --> 08:05:54.980 Pino will reduce this to a 3v3. 08:05:54.980 --> 08:05:57.660 So more winnable than Nip just mere seconds ago, 08:05:57.660 --> 08:05:59.360 but there goes Becetto. 08:05:59.360 --> 08:06:01.220 Wizard and Pino need to get through the doors to the bomb 08:06:01.220 --> 08:06:01.720 site. 08:06:01.720 --> 08:06:04.900 That seems quite easy, but just like running a football, 100 08:06:04.900 --> 08:06:05.700 yards. 08:06:05.700 --> 08:06:07.420 It's not necessarily as easy as it looks. 08:06:07.420 --> 08:06:08.360 It's about the defenders. 08:06:08.360 --> 08:06:10.700 And period, their defense might be good on that round. 08:06:10.700 --> 08:06:12.580 They regain the lead. 08:06:12.580 --> 08:06:14.580 Not really an exciting round. 08:06:14.580 --> 08:06:17.260 Lynx, they just were steady as she goes. 08:06:17.260 --> 08:06:18.740 Beat them every step of the way. 08:06:18.740 --> 08:06:19.580 Beat them to the punch. 08:06:19.580 --> 08:06:24.340 You know, you find Fury in a position where they could presumably end this first half or two. 08:06:24.900 --> 08:06:29.940 The issue we have is that the way Fury needs to win is by playing just stone cold boring, 08:06:29.940 --> 08:06:32.180 just literally not doing anything in these rounds. 08:06:32.180 --> 08:06:37.700 And I say that kind of as a bit, but actually as a very serious statement on like how they are winning these rounds. 08:06:38.140 --> 08:06:46.220 The most action we had initiated by Fury, like initiated as in they were the ones trying to push things, 08:06:46.220 --> 08:06:51.220 Trying to get in the face of the attack, actually trying to like create some kind of energy in the round, 08:06:51.220 --> 08:06:54.220 was when Lawyer peeked the window and immediately died. 08:06:54.220 --> 08:06:58.220 The moment Lawyer tried to deviate even slightly from the plan, fate was like, 08:06:58.220 --> 08:07:00.220 no, that's not how you're gonna win this game. 08:07:00.220 --> 08:07:03.220 And so Furio were like, okay, and they fell back on their strategy. 08:07:03.220 --> 08:07:09.220 That mirror window separating the two sites, that had feed holes on it for half the round. 08:07:09.220 --> 08:07:15.340 That guy was still playing the mirror window the entire time even as he was 08:07:15.340 --> 08:07:21.100 that exposed. That is how dedicated Furia are to holding these positions and not 08:07:21.100 --> 08:07:25.660 getting an NIP space. They are just trying to play trades, just trying to 08:07:25.660 --> 08:07:30.940 waste time, and it's worked in all three rounds they've won so far. 08:07:30.940 --> 08:07:34.380 this is that something else 08:07:34.380 --> 08:07:37.780 run out from lawyer with the 08:07:37.780 --> 08:07:40.660 the DMR ACOG 08:07:40.660 --> 08:07:44.860 maybe soft made an announcement this week there'd be a host of mid-season changes 08:07:44.860 --> 08:07:48.340 one of the operas we actually did see in the previous map that was Aurora but 08:07:48.340 --> 08:07:52.900 there was some teasing about whether or not ACOGs on defense would be 08:07:52.900 --> 08:07:53.700 revisited 08:07:53.700 --> 08:07:56.820 or not I don't know how you feel about it but 08:07:56.820 --> 08:08:00.300 I mean I'm of the opinion there shouldn't be any ACOGs on defense 08:08:00.300 --> 08:08:07.260 At all I know that will anger some people and I say this is somebody used to play a cog on dock and Rook all the time 08:08:07.820 --> 08:08:11.220 I uh, I don't know. I'm a few minds about it 08:08:11.220 --> 08:08:16.460 I get part of the point, but also I kind of like the long-angle play you get with some a cogs on the defense 08:08:16.460 --> 08:08:20.780 I think the bigger issues just like DMR is plus a cognitive defense can give it problematic, but 08:08:24.860 --> 08:08:28.740 Yes, of course, so I always you know my favorite position defense love the fence 08:08:30.300 --> 08:08:31.100 uh... 08:08:31.100 --> 08:08:34.540 he's being offenses after you're not going out of the park in round six me 08:08:34.540 --> 08:08:37.460 flawless round it seems like we'll have to end this half as well there's 08:08:37.460 --> 08:08:41.540 literally zero fight from n i p at the end of that game 08:08:41.540 --> 08:08:46.780 ironic to every single point i made up until round six 08:08:46.780 --> 08:08:50.300 uh... you have to reacon testing basically every point of entry in around 08:08:50.300 --> 08:08:53.020 that i think is more field like you go to anything printed out in the 08:08:53.020 --> 08:08:57.780 strap book 08:08:57.780 --> 08:08:59.180 pretty fair 08:08:59.180 --> 08:09:02.460 scheduled and made it point in time out and that means 08:09:02.460 --> 08:09:08.060 we're bringing in our beautiful analysts to talk about what they saw 08:09:08.060 --> 08:09:12.180 well and there were so beautiful we're gonna be uh... not show 08:09:12.180 --> 08:09:15.500 on the halfway point here at least face-wise because we've got a lot to 08:09:15.500 --> 08:09:16.620 talk about here 08:09:16.620 --> 08:09:20.680 fury a all looking incredibly focused up here 08:09:20.680 --> 08:09:21.800 carrying over 08:09:21.800 --> 08:09:25.100 the same things that we were talking about a map one bank which is playing 08:09:25.100 --> 08:09:26.780 as a team as one 08:09:26.780 --> 08:09:27.500 focused 08:09:27.500 --> 08:09:33.340 unit. Yeah, I think it goes because without saying it's also because NIP are playing much better. 08:09:33.340 --> 08:09:38.300 I think NIP are putting much more of a fight. I think the hit the reset button. As a reminder to 08:09:38.300 --> 08:09:42.620 everyone that didn't check their semifinal earlier today, they had lost the first map 08:09:42.620 --> 08:09:48.220 quite convincingly and went on to win the two next ones. They are a team that thrives on 08:09:48.220 --> 08:09:53.260 momentum and they're completely able to hit that reset button when it comes to mental. They 08:09:53.260 --> 08:09:58.780 They showed it because I do think that to a certain degree, they would have deserved to 08:09:58.780 --> 08:10:01.100 make this a bit closer, even 33. 08:10:01.100 --> 08:10:04.180 I do, however, believe that Furia found the right solution. 08:10:04.180 --> 08:10:06.460 You guys highlighted it multiple times. 08:10:06.460 --> 08:10:11.140 They figured that if they stopped losing bodies early on, they would finally just 08:10:11.140 --> 08:10:13.460 be able to be behind the utility. 08:10:13.460 --> 08:10:16.820 And then if you look at round five, it's basically what happens, right? 08:10:16.820 --> 08:10:22.860 You see the utility on the lineup, 20 seconds left, Smoke, Mira, Ella, still all alive, 08:10:22.860 --> 08:10:25.620 and play close to the bomb site and try each other. 08:10:25.620 --> 08:10:28.260 Now why are they able to play these operators? 08:10:28.260 --> 08:10:31.500 Because NIP for some reason that I still don't quite understand 08:10:31.500 --> 08:10:34.180 decided to remove all world in a operators. 08:10:34.180 --> 08:10:35.140 Kaid and Bandit. 08:10:35.140 --> 08:10:36.740 Oh that's all good, great for you. 08:10:36.740 --> 08:10:38.260 The reality is if you do that, 08:10:38.260 --> 08:10:41.100 Mira, Azami, Castle, Ella, Thorn, 08:10:41.100 --> 08:10:42.900 all will be available against you. 08:10:42.900 --> 08:10:44.820 And so finally, Furia understood. 08:10:44.820 --> 08:10:47.100 Let's just not try to play too aggressively. 08:10:47.100 --> 08:10:50.600 Let's just play, set up with loads of utility, 08:10:50.600 --> 08:10:52.820 play behind it, close to each other, 08:10:52.820 --> 08:10:58.240 Yes, we can get aggressive, but in a position where our utility will make our gunfights more at our advantage. 08:10:58.240 --> 08:11:01.360 And if someone loses his gunfight, the trading will happen. 08:11:01.360 --> 08:11:08.660 Very last round, what do we see? An extension upstairs with all the traps in the castle, where a vault gets aggressive, but it has great potential behind them. 08:11:08.660 --> 08:11:10.100 And that's how they win it. 08:11:10.100 --> 08:11:14.900 Really good adaptation from Fiora. It's not just blanded aggression, it's also a good game plan. 08:11:14.900 --> 08:11:22.900 Hmm? Very much so. Now we'll see the game plan of Furia on the attack where we just talked about it 08:11:22.900 --> 08:11:29.460 percentage-wise. The defense is winning more often here in SAO during kickoff on this map. 08:11:29.460 --> 08:11:35.940 Send it back to our casters and see how things develop from this back to our people on the ground. 08:11:37.300 --> 08:11:40.580 For the record you have no idea if I'm levitating or not so you can't say I'm on the 08:11:40.580 --> 08:11:42.340 ground. That's just not how it works. 08:11:42.340 --> 08:11:48.300 Actually, in all seriousness, I was completely reclined in my chair. Nothing, nothing, no 08:11:48.300 --> 08:11:53.660 part of my person was touching the ground, like actually. So that was, for me, literally 08:11:53.660 --> 08:11:58.260 true. I was not on the ground. So I just want the record straight on that one. 08:11:58.260 --> 08:11:59.420 Doted. 08:11:59.420 --> 08:12:04.020 And for those that are keeping score, please put that in the official registry here. 08:12:04.020 --> 08:12:08.540 Please don't put in the paper that I was on the ground. 08:12:08.540 --> 08:12:10.440 I'm not on the ground. 08:12:10.440 --> 08:12:14.940 Do not print in the paper that I was on the crack. 08:12:14.940 --> 08:12:16.700 By the way, HATES hiding the clash, 08:12:16.700 --> 08:12:17.820 as you can see out the gate. 08:12:17.820 --> 08:12:20.580 This is a common hiding spot for people just 08:12:20.580 --> 08:12:24.020 wanting to generally hide operators, not get them spotted. 08:12:24.020 --> 08:12:25.820 Furia also, Leo probably, I actually 08:12:25.820 --> 08:12:28.340 can hear them all the way from France freaking out 08:12:28.340 --> 08:12:28.840 right now. 08:12:28.840 --> 08:12:31.980 Furia decided to ban all the wall denial as well. 08:12:31.980 --> 08:12:36.700 Though I will say it's more objectionable than, 08:12:36.700 --> 08:12:38.380 or it's less objectionable than when NIP did it 08:12:38.380 --> 08:12:39.940 Because I'm of a similar mind. 08:12:39.940 --> 08:12:41.860 It was not a facet of Fioria strategy earlier. 08:12:41.860 --> 08:12:45.420 And I am all for generally like, you try to make yourself 08:12:45.420 --> 08:12:47.580 comfortable, but it was kind of strange, given the fortress 08:12:47.580 --> 08:12:48.500 we saw earlier. 08:12:48.500 --> 08:12:51.580 Here, though, Fioria banned both wall banile operators 08:12:51.580 --> 08:12:52.740 earlier on fortress. 08:12:52.740 --> 08:12:54.260 It worked out reasonably well. 08:12:54.260 --> 08:12:55.540 Who knows if MIP played them or not. 08:12:55.540 --> 08:12:58.460 But Fioria just recreating the bands they had earlier. 08:13:02.860 --> 08:13:05.140 Great to have the analysis of the desk join us. 08:13:05.140 --> 08:13:06.460 I've been enjoying it in all of the regions 08:13:06.460 --> 08:13:07.340 that we've heard so far. 08:13:07.340 --> 08:13:13.060 I mean, you don't get to work with Leo as often as I'd like, and with Milosh, frankly, 08:13:13.060 --> 08:13:16.060 but I mean, I've worked with Milosh for almost a decade at this point. 08:13:16.060 --> 08:13:17.060 Kind of locked. 08:13:17.060 --> 08:13:18.060 Always get back. 08:13:18.060 --> 08:13:19.060 I mean, close proximity. 08:13:19.060 --> 08:13:20.060 Very close. 08:13:20.060 --> 08:13:24.620 Actually, just, we used to live just across the street from each other when we were, when 08:13:24.620 --> 08:13:25.620 you're up together. 08:13:25.620 --> 08:13:32.620 Now, speaking of close, not just me and Milosh, Furia, to this particular bombsite, 08:13:32.620 --> 08:13:37.980 Using in with two shields now the clash of hates as you mentioned hidden will now find 08:13:37.980 --> 08:13:44.820 some extreme value here players looking for the jump in he sees a couple pairs of eyes 08:13:44.820 --> 08:13:49.700 staring in his direction so fury very wisely chasing away from the position that they were 08:13:49.700 --> 08:13:54.740 on and will now swing over towards that used to be known as the cannon side herds 08:13:54.740 --> 08:13:59.340 getting deep by wizard you best know herds is going to be mad about that one. 08:13:59.340 --> 08:14:02.280 i have to imagine he would be especially as i think he retained their 08:14:02.280 --> 08:14:03.520 advantage 08:14:03.520 --> 08:14:07.380 were also quite furious as he wants to get that barbed wire to run up the stairs 08:14:07.380 --> 08:14:08.280 and we hit set 08:14:08.280 --> 08:14:11.260 shotgun comes hunting down from behind 08:14:11.260 --> 08:14:13.900 so i get to wait the s has three kills 08:14:13.900 --> 08:14:16.960 i have no idea how this is a card the center gets the next one 08:14:16.960 --> 08:14:20.180 i was a lawyer and bulbs entirely separate 08:14:20.180 --> 08:14:23.460 spicy lawyer rotating around to join the monty who has been basically 08:14:23.460 --> 08:14:27.180 locked in a dual with this class for the entire round up until this point 08:14:27.180 --> 08:14:29.380 Oh, and it's about to get pinched from behind, I think. 08:14:29.380 --> 08:14:32.060 That is... well, that's just unfortunate to say it'll be a bit 08:14:32.060 --> 08:14:34.900 trade by Loire though, because we're now in the weird 1v1. 08:14:35.400 --> 08:14:36.600 Very, very bizarre. 08:14:36.600 --> 08:14:42.060 And I mean, Furia has gone back and forth, if I'm sure, through this round. 08:14:43.660 --> 08:14:45.160 It's a nice spot for them to plant on. 08:14:45.160 --> 08:14:49.500 The clash will have no choice but to get really present here. 08:14:49.500 --> 08:14:51.980 And you gotta go quickly! 08:14:51.980 --> 08:14:52.780 Oh my goodness! 08:14:52.780 --> 08:14:55.300 Could you imagine Loire had bottled that one? 08:14:55.780 --> 08:14:56.980 My God! 08:14:57.180 --> 08:15:02.220 That's a position that everybody kind of know they clench I'm not gonna say why you clench 08:15:02.220 --> 08:15:07.780 But you definitely clench period take the round and extend their lead off of a nail biter 08:15:09.900 --> 08:15:10.420 Oh 08:15:10.420 --> 08:15:13.140 When I saw how far away the clash was I was like, oh no 08:15:13.140 --> 08:15:16.060 He's definitely gonna get this plant down great by great by Laura 08:15:16.060 --> 08:15:20.900 Honestly all things considered just running in hot immediately hopping up on the table knows what kind of plan to make and 08:15:21.140 --> 08:15:26.540 I don't know exactly what the right call is there because it's not like Monty where you know 08:15:26.540 --> 08:15:36.540 The recoil is a bit lower than it is with the Clash, because if that was the Monty, you just keep backing up, you get hit, they've got to do this weird jiggle peek to get you in the shoulder. 08:15:36.540 --> 08:15:38.540 A bit different when you're in Clash, it's not nearly as strong. 08:15:38.540 --> 08:15:45.540 So I don't know exactly what the greatest call by the center there was, so I'm not going to claim to any kind of objective analysis in that situation. 08:15:45.540 --> 08:15:49.540 Either way, it was awkward. It was very awkward for the back half of that round. 08:15:49.540 --> 08:15:51.540 And Fury just continued to widen their lead off the back of it. 08:15:51.540 --> 08:15:58.820 at NIP. Sure, did they lose? Yeah, but one of us at 1v1 and two, the clash hiding was very effective. 08:15:58.820 --> 08:16:03.060 It was very clear that Furia were not ready for and Beceda will try to do it again. 08:16:03.060 --> 08:16:07.940 It might very well work. Volb is bringing the Monty a second time. That stalled the push on 08:16:07.940 --> 08:16:12.260 that side of the map for quite a long period. Furia will double down with a different kind 08:16:12.260 --> 08:16:16.580 of shield though. And so while the Monty might face trouble, Furia won't be pigeonholed 08:16:16.580 --> 08:16:19.860 quite like they were before. They have some flexibility with this additional shield. 08:16:21.540 --> 08:16:30.140 Plenty of time for them to do some setup now as we're into live action here. 08:16:30.140 --> 08:16:33.340 If the shields are working for you continue to bring them, right? 08:16:33.340 --> 08:16:37.860 And I mean, both of these shields function differently. 08:16:37.860 --> 08:16:41.260 Blackbeard is going to be likely more involved in the frame. 08:16:41.260 --> 08:16:44.660 Volts is going to be more passive by giving information and with Volts being able to 08:16:44.660 --> 08:16:49.900 give calls and the strength that he has in those calls, very advantageous spot 08:16:49.900 --> 08:16:51.520 for him to be in. 08:16:51.520 --> 08:16:53.860 Oxera's already got a read on Beceto. 08:16:53.860 --> 08:16:56.560 He's hoping that somebody on the side of Nip 08:16:56.560 --> 08:16:57.640 will reveal themselves, 08:16:57.640 --> 08:17:00.100 but for the time being nothing yet, 08:17:00.100 --> 08:17:02.320 Lawyer, I'm able to do what Herds could not, 08:17:02.320 --> 08:17:03.920 and I will go with an aid to move the clash 08:17:03.920 --> 08:17:05.320 from this position. 08:17:05.320 --> 08:17:07.200 Lawyer finds one, out comes the sidearm, 08:17:07.200 --> 08:17:08.440 turns around expecting a flank, 08:17:08.440 --> 08:17:09.280 but there's nobody there. 08:17:09.280 --> 08:17:12.040 A great opening gambit for Fury in the first minute. 08:17:14.840 --> 08:17:16.480 I just really love Lawyer's read there. 08:17:16.480 --> 08:17:17.840 The barbed bar is way too far away 08:17:17.840 --> 08:17:18.680 to give any effectives. 08:17:18.680 --> 08:17:23.680 Sound cue and the L is so focused on protecting the clash and just contesting the players in museum 08:17:23.680 --> 08:17:25.820 That it goes very differently than it was with her 08:17:25.820 --> 08:17:30.900 It's because there was nothing distracting that clash and what a shot by Bob. What the hell 08:17:43.840 --> 08:17:48.000 There are no words that could do justice for that particular moment 08:17:48.680 --> 08:17:53.500 If Diaz clutches the round and that was all for naught, then my goodness, what do you do 08:17:53.500 --> 08:17:54.500 here? 08:17:54.500 --> 08:17:56.240 The clash off of the shield so Becetta will get active. 08:17:56.240 --> 08:18:00.640 I don't know if the Summel will get taken care of. 08:18:00.640 --> 08:18:03.640 I am dumbfounded. 08:18:03.640 --> 08:18:06.240 How did he, like, how did he even hit that? 08:18:06.240 --> 08:18:10.600 They weren't even all lined up. 08:18:10.600 --> 08:18:13.040 Like I literally don't care what's happening right now. 08:18:13.040 --> 08:18:17.000 Like if Diaz clutches this 1v2, I will start caring. 08:18:17.000 --> 08:18:19.800 I am literally stunned by how that even happened. 08:18:19.800 --> 08:18:21.800 This should end, by the way, for NIP. 08:18:21.800 --> 08:18:23.600 I mean, you've got the shotgun around the corner. 08:18:23.600 --> 08:18:25.000 You have the class chasing DS. 08:18:25.000 --> 08:18:27.300 I mean, no plan is this work, and there we go. 08:18:27.300 --> 08:18:29.600 So how the hell did that happen? 08:18:29.600 --> 08:18:31.800 You had a guy in front of him, a guy to his right, 08:18:31.800 --> 08:18:33.400 and a guy all the way to the left. 08:18:33.400 --> 08:18:37.300 Now, they weren't like completely split up, 90, 90, 90, 08:18:37.300 --> 08:18:40.400 but like they were not on top of each other. 08:18:40.400 --> 08:18:42.500 And he did that with one magazine. 08:18:43.500 --> 08:18:45.700 How has he killed all of those guys? 08:18:47.000 --> 08:18:50.440 Do we have an instant replay of it? 08:18:50.440 --> 08:18:51.800 I don't know. 08:18:51.800 --> 08:18:53.240 I desperately need one. 08:18:53.240 --> 08:18:55.240 I don't even know how that's possible. 08:18:56.740 --> 08:18:57.740 Yeah, I mean. 08:18:57.740 --> 08:19:00.640 Attackers need to locate and diffuse as many bombs as they can. 08:19:00.640 --> 08:19:03.640 They are the experts. 08:19:03.640 --> 08:19:06.280 You're supposed to be the experts. 08:19:06.280 --> 08:19:08.080 And we can't describe what happened. 08:19:09.380 --> 08:19:10.840 Sometimes you must see plays. 08:19:10.840 --> 08:19:12.140 Sometimes you must see plays like that 08:19:12.140 --> 08:19:13.440 and you just kind of shake your head and you go, 08:19:13.440 --> 08:19:14.840 okay, the stars align. 08:19:14.840 --> 08:19:22.840 You know, seeing a miracle 3K from fantasy to completely save the round and obliterate any hopes of Fyuria going to match point 08:19:22.840 --> 08:19:29.840 is about as unlikely as, I don't know, Fyuria clutching the final round of bank to go up 1-0 in the round or 1-0 in the series. 08:19:29.840 --> 08:19:31.840 But I mean, we've seen the unthinkable happen. 08:19:31.840 --> 08:19:33.840 Paul, you've got two aces today. 08:19:33.840 --> 08:19:34.840 Two words. 08:19:34.840 --> 08:19:35.840 We're playing out loud. 08:19:35.840 --> 08:19:36.840 Two words. 08:19:36.840 --> 08:19:38.840 It has been a wild day of siege. 08:19:38.840 --> 08:19:40.840 And again, the matches that preceded this were excellent. 08:19:40.840 --> 08:19:42.840 This one has been a bit more one-sided. 08:19:42.840 --> 08:19:45.680 But it's still a good showing of the potential that these teams have. 08:19:45.680 --> 08:19:54.200 Furia in particular continuing to improve their gameplay and doing it while Herds is really not having the best series so far. 08:19:54.200 --> 08:20:00.440 So again, for these teams, depth has been terrific, Nip no longer relying on just fantasy and hates. 08:20:00.440 --> 08:20:09.340 Whereas Furia, they're not just relying on a player like Herds, Diaz right now, leading the way it was, I believe, Volpz top-fragged back in map number one, so... 08:20:09.340 --> 08:20:14.340 That one's not that abnormal, Volpe's is a terrific player, but me oh my. 08:20:14.340 --> 08:20:18.340 It's been a great match. I do want all three maps at this current point in time. 08:20:18.340 --> 08:20:23.340 It seems unlikely that we will go to border, but crazier things have happened. 08:20:24.340 --> 08:20:27.340 Crazier things have occurred. We've seen them in the series. 08:20:27.340 --> 08:20:32.340 And today, overall. So, it would honestly be a bit more normal, all things considered. 08:20:32.340 --> 08:20:37.340 We're already trying to use the South Dawn scanner that is used quite effectively so far throughout this series. 08:20:37.340 --> 08:20:39.340 Got this map as well 08:20:39.740 --> 08:20:43.060 I don't really find any initiative from leasing that moment, but as 08:20:44.060 --> 08:20:50.540 Volts moves over towards the central staircase trying to actually recreate some of that play from lawyer who ran through this barbed wire earlier 08:20:50.660 --> 08:20:54.100 The big question is how focused is nip on other positions? 08:20:54.100 --> 08:20:59.060 And are they far enough away for the for the sound cue not really to matter right here? 08:20:59.060 --> 08:21:04.220 They're a lot closer to central stairs than lawyer was but we'll make his way up as sound goes out 08:21:04.220 --> 08:21:09.540 I'm not quite sure that anybody knows what will put the first though as the next kill who creeps up from behind 08:21:10.140 --> 08:21:17.540 Bulbs wants that one back Diaz has his hand and there's ten kills for Diaz on that support roll 08:21:17.900 --> 08:21:23.900 Not too bad. They got eleven as he removes hates from the equation following up on his Selmas 08:21:24.340 --> 08:21:27.660 They're gonna continue to tear through them wizard in a winnable position 08:21:27.660 --> 08:21:30.180 But we'll need to overcome the two remaining players from Furia 08:21:30.180 --> 08:21:36.220 What can Wizard do? Will he find a blind spot here sweeping through? If he's getting the 08:21:36.220 --> 08:21:41.480 hands of Herds, Wizard making an awful lot of noise, getting ever closer. Does he have 08:21:41.480 --> 08:21:46.580 a read on this? Does he know which door it is? Here's the F2 going through. Still got 08:21:46.580 --> 08:21:51.820 the QB for protection. Wizard can easily win this. He just needs to pick his fights. 08:21:51.820 --> 08:21:58.300 carefully doesn't, earns with the kill at its series point, championship point, Fyria. 08:22:01.420 --> 08:22:07.020 And I mean, Diaz Lucas just performing extremely well in this series so far. Obviously up to 11 kills 08:22:07.020 --> 08:22:11.740 there, but extremely lethal as a backline player. And just highlighting what Leo was talking about 08:22:11.740 --> 08:22:18.540 earlier, Volts and Diaz on this roster have been so, so impressive. Even despite a lot of the, 08:22:18.540 --> 08:22:23.340 I would say their name players that are there, they are still the two highest rate of players 08:22:23.340 --> 08:22:25.420 on this map and throughout this series so far. 08:22:25.420 --> 08:22:30.620 Lawyer is not that far behind in this map, don't get me wrong, but these a bit slower players have 08:22:30.620 --> 08:22:35.580 been the stars of the show for Fyria in the final series of the night and Diaz in particular 08:22:35.580 --> 08:22:39.020 really really solid performance. That round honestly is not super complicated. 08:22:39.820 --> 08:22:45.660 It's a kind of a lot of what Fyria have been doing so far and I believe, yes, that 08:22:45.660 --> 08:22:56.340 I know how that happened, I was hoping we could see the three kills, but we weren't able to. 08:22:56.340 --> 08:22:58.540 We just got teased, that was so mean. 08:22:58.540 --> 08:22:59.540 That was so mean. 08:22:59.540 --> 08:23:00.540 That was so mean. 08:23:00.540 --> 08:23:01.540 That was so mean. 08:23:01.540 --> 08:23:02.540 Hey! 08:23:02.540 --> 08:23:06.020 Everybody likes a good tease, maybe not like that. 08:23:06.020 --> 08:23:08.460 Hey, but you know what I will say? 08:23:08.460 --> 08:23:15.460 Honestly, I think it's arguably more poignant because, you know, faith is believing 08:23:15.460 --> 08:23:20.740 in what's not readily observable, right? And for something as magical as divine as that 08:23:20.740 --> 08:23:25.900 3k, I think you just have to like accept the fact that it happened and accept the fact 08:23:25.900 --> 08:23:29.940 that you can't always see it. They're not always easy answers to life. So then you just 08:23:29.940 --> 08:23:37.340 have to put, you know, faith in the grander plan. That'll all be okay. 08:23:37.340 --> 08:23:43.140 One one said that faith is something that common sense tells you not to believe in. 08:23:43.140 --> 08:23:44.140 Well, 08:23:44.140 --> 08:23:47.140 Awesome. There's something different than that. I don't have to ask my mother. 08:23:49.140 --> 08:23:54.140 I wonder what you would think about that Bessetta spawnpeek. I'm sure Interim Mom would have an abundance of thoughts. 08:23:55.140 --> 08:23:59.140 Oh, so they have a lot of thoughts that you would immediately hop in after that point is hot. 08:23:59.140 --> 08:24:05.140 Oh, and he does. Thankfully it has the barrier to protect him, so not completely punished for that. 08:24:05.140 --> 08:24:10.140 We'll just trigger it and immediately back off, but it seems like they might- Oh, Bessetto! 08:24:10.140 --> 08:24:13.140 I'm not letting Furia take anything for granted. 08:24:13.140 --> 08:24:19.140 Arguably stays much longer than he probably should have, but continues to just play in that position fancy, surely not. 08:24:19.140 --> 08:24:21.140 I mean, what is happening right now? 08:24:21.140 --> 08:24:26.140 Bog's there is not having a great run of playing shields on this map today. Let's put it that way. 08:24:26.140 --> 08:24:30.140 Sad that their follow-up Volts will die in a very similar fashion. 08:24:30.140 --> 08:24:34.140 Excellent crossfire by Nip, and I really do like how active this defense is from them. 08:24:34.140 --> 08:24:39.140 It's knocked Furia off of their stride, and Nip really hasn't given up all that much in the process. 08:24:39.140 --> 08:24:44.140 8th is having a terrible day, by the way, 2 and 10 so far here on Fortress. 08:24:44.140 --> 08:24:47.140 Fantasy gunning down her is immediately traded out. 08:24:47.140 --> 08:24:54.140 Furia is such a sticky team and it will leave their two best players in this map as the final two to stand against Nip. 08:24:54.140 --> 08:24:57.140 With the matchup on the line for the championship, 08:24:57.140 --> 08:25:01.140 Loira and Diaz looking to be the best team in Brazil with the rest of Furia. 08:25:01.140 --> 08:25:05.140 All they got to do is put away Wizard and Beceto in the next 90 seconds. 08:25:05.140 --> 08:25:09.340 I think I was going to say with these two, these Razor Blooms remaining, there is a bit 08:25:09.340 --> 08:25:10.940 of later on information you could gather. 08:25:10.940 --> 08:25:13.300 Oh, the Z ping around the corner too. 08:25:13.300 --> 08:25:15.300 It's got to be all on DS. 08:25:15.300 --> 08:25:20.740 He's been here before and he can't pull it off, but Nip has looked like a very different 08:25:20.740 --> 08:25:22.020 team on this map. 08:25:22.020 --> 08:25:27.820 Their defense is much stronger than anything that they really mustered on Bank. 08:25:27.820 --> 08:25:30.900 They're very patient, very, very patient. 08:25:30.900 --> 08:25:33.300 Wizard's got the angle now directly to the right of Diaz and it looks like 08:25:33.300 --> 08:25:36.820 like he might walk in that direction with his back turned, 08:25:36.820 --> 08:25:38.260 knows now where the thorn is. 08:25:38.260 --> 08:25:39.900 Bissetto can reposition. 08:25:40.940 --> 08:25:43.140 He's got that C-75 in hand. 08:25:46.420 --> 08:25:48.300 Son of a bulletproof camera that whole time, Lynx. 08:25:48.300 --> 08:25:49.140 Yeah. 08:25:51.140 --> 08:25:52.300 Got a read on Ella. 08:25:52.300 --> 08:25:55.420 So for Bissetto almost gets his head. 08:25:55.420 --> 08:25:57.260 Just needs to shoot out the camera. 08:25:57.260 --> 08:25:59.740 Can't really do too much until he handles that. 08:25:59.740 --> 08:26:01.380 set a repositioning. 08:26:01.380 --> 08:26:05.020 Diaz could do it again. 08:26:05.020 --> 08:26:08.420 A very similar position for Furia. 08:26:08.420 --> 08:26:09.780 Diaz has been a miracle worker. 08:26:09.780 --> 08:26:11.580 Miracles don't even always happen once. 08:26:11.580 --> 08:26:13.260 Could it happen twice? 08:26:13.260 --> 08:26:15.620 He's walked his way close to the bomb site, 08:26:15.620 --> 08:26:17.740 angle being held still by this thorn. 08:26:17.740 --> 08:26:20.220 A reposition from Wizard 15 seconds left. 08:26:20.220 --> 08:26:21.340 Diaz going for the kill. 08:26:21.340 --> 08:26:22.780 He fails. 08:26:22.780 --> 08:26:28.180 Wizard coming out ahead almost two for two for Furia. 08:26:28.180 --> 08:26:33.320 A heart-stopping round for Ninjas and Pajamas, and there stands Furia, still with the lead, 08:26:33.320 --> 08:26:36.880 but one more round needed to see if Furia can put it away. 08:26:38.160 --> 08:26:42.680 Uh, the fact that things still come so close there is profoundly impressive for Furia, and 08:26:42.680 --> 08:26:46.560 not even necessarily indicative of anything wrong with NIP, it's just a show of 08:26:46.560 --> 08:26:49.600 how strong Furia are and have felt in this matchup. 08:26:50.160 --> 08:26:51.640 Throughout that round, I mean... 08:26:52.460 --> 08:26:53.200 Listen. 08:26:54.040 --> 08:26:57.460 It was not a great start for Furia, obviously. 08:26:57.460 --> 08:27:00.420 There were quite a lot of gaps in their information. 08:27:00.420 --> 08:27:03.940 I think the confidence and the ego starting to get to them a little bit and to be fair 08:27:03.940 --> 08:27:08.020 when you always, when you speed things up you are always going to trade information for 08:27:08.020 --> 08:27:12.340 time so they're inherently going to be a lot more gaps when you go for a rush like that 08:27:12.340 --> 08:27:16.300 but it definitely happened in this case in which every place they were going to go there 08:27:16.300 --> 08:27:21.020 was somebody from NIP routing obviously a Beceto still contesting that window you have fancy 08:27:21.020 --> 08:27:24.820 sitting up on the opposite side of not the door I guess but the entrance where 08:27:24.820 --> 08:27:28.980 the Monty walked through, and that was both shields taken down by rat plays right there. 08:27:28.980 --> 08:27:33.740 So literally two cornerstones of that attacking strategy were taken down in places where just 08:27:33.740 --> 08:27:37.820 even a little bit of information, especially on the latter kill on the Monty, would have 08:27:37.820 --> 08:27:38.820 gone a long way. 08:27:38.820 --> 08:27:43.940 So working out great for MIP, still two more rounds to go, and even with that rough start 08:27:43.940 --> 08:27:49.620 for Furia, it still came down to a 1v1 that it really felt like Diaz could win. 08:27:49.620 --> 08:27:56.620 But ultimately, these rounds that we've seen through both of these maps have been way too close for Nip. 08:27:56.620 --> 08:28:00.620 They do look like a better team on Fortress. I mean, obviously the scoreline will tell you that right away, 08:28:00.620 --> 08:28:05.620 but sometimes the scorelines don't tell the full story. We've seen maps that will go like 7-2 or 7-3 08:28:05.620 --> 08:28:12.620 and still be exceptionally close where a more accurate scoreline could have been, say, 7-5 or something along those lines. 08:28:12.620 --> 08:28:16.980 How really the case so far with this bout, the scoreline has been pretty much bang-on 08:28:16.980 --> 08:28:20.140 and Nip will continue this full-court press as defenders. 08:28:20.140 --> 08:28:21.940 They gun down Herds. 08:28:21.940 --> 08:28:25.180 Herds is having a rough game, just matching HATES' contributions. 08:28:25.180 --> 08:28:29.060 Herds is maybe a tiny bit better, but Nip hitting you with the drive-by question marks 08:28:29.060 --> 08:28:31.140 in the chat. 08:28:31.140 --> 08:28:32.140 Devastating stuff. 08:28:32.140 --> 08:28:35.820 Drive-by question marks and the bot speaker. 08:28:35.820 --> 08:28:39.820 It sounds like fancy smoked Herds, so I'm going to have a go at it. 08:28:39.820 --> 08:28:42.940 Herds was standing there alive and then Herds was on the ground dead 08:28:44.780 --> 08:28:46.780 Alive and then dead 08:28:47.620 --> 08:28:52.380 One shot headshot. Oh, well, you don't need you don't need to be you don't need to be a bodyologist to know that 08:28:52.380 --> 08:28:54.380 That's not how you want to end up 08:28:59.140 --> 08:29:01.380 Intel ops three Intel ops for fury by the way 08:29:01.380 --> 08:29:06.280 Yeah, they've lost the lion but there's still a demo since still a joke of the first logic bomb has gone off 08:29:06.280 --> 08:29:11.400 still waiting for the other one to finish generating and it'll be a jiggle peak here from the mirror of 08:29:11.400 --> 08:29:17.240 fantasy and he wins it volts missed his mark that is a tough one box error we'll trade that one right 08:29:17.240 --> 08:29:21.560 back hates has been a bit of a target time so far in this matchup he will have very limited impact 08:29:21.560 --> 08:29:27.160 here in this 11th round here hoping that this lead doesn't end up with them going to overtime 08:29:27.160 --> 08:29:32.360 but it is getting increasingly likely with how strong this defense has been from ninjas of 08:29:32.360 --> 08:29:35.800 of the jammers and nips still holding on to a number's advantage in the final minute. 08:29:36.920 --> 08:29:40.680 Well, especially because NIP having so confident against Pyrrha, you feel the momentum slightly 08:29:40.680 --> 08:29:43.960 starting to change, but Pyrrha keeping it competitive. They've lost the doke, 08:29:43.960 --> 08:29:48.280 being the process, but now as they've taken the advantage, Oxera's got three deathmark 08:29:48.280 --> 08:29:52.520 trackers and Pyrrha have a whole 50 seconds to reset. There are not enough smoke canisters in 08:29:52.520 --> 08:29:58.360 the world to stall out the rest of this round. Utility's great, but Beceto will need to 08:29:58.360 --> 08:30:03.080 hold these close angles with a shotgun and Pino's gotta hold the long. Something has to give for 08:30:03.080 --> 08:30:09.960 Furia, but with these trackers in the time, surely they can divert this one. So we'll go out, 08:30:09.960 --> 08:30:14.440 Pino, on the run, downstairs. You know that Beceto is the only one that you have to deal with, 08:30:14.440 --> 08:30:22.120 or rather there's Boxera downstairs. On the run, now closing in. Excuse me? Can Diaz clutch out? 08:30:22.120 --> 08:30:25.960 His vision on the final player of Beceto, obscured by the gas, thrown out just moments 08:30:25.960 --> 08:30:32.840 before, so Diaz will wrap around 15 kills for Diaz. He came up empty-handed in his clutch just a couple 08:30:32.840 --> 08:30:39.400 rounds ago. How does he do this time? He has to wait out the shotgun. He sees him, but Seto doesn't, 08:30:39.400 --> 08:30:45.960 Nick doesn't again. Oh, for two for Diaz here on this map, and Nick stays alive. 08:30:49.080 --> 08:30:54.040 And it's easy to see why, even though in the 1v1 with Bob Zara and a shotgun in such a 08:30:54.040 --> 08:30:59.880 close quarters position, there's no bad gunfight for him to take. The only reason he couldn't 08:30:59.880 --> 08:31:02.980 take the gunfight on the rotate was because of the track stingers, but no matter where 08:31:02.980 --> 08:31:07.680 D.S. Lucas could peek, there was no way or with that low time remaining for him to get 08:31:07.680 --> 08:31:12.520 in a position that would have been advantageous. Additionally, because of that low time and 08:31:12.520 --> 08:31:16.880 how close the smoke was, there was no good option to even attempt a plant whatsoever. 08:31:16.880 --> 08:31:22.000 I believe there was still some smoke utility as well. So Wizard, excuse me, could 08:31:22.000 --> 08:31:27.920 even still just evade the gunfight entirely and burn 10 seconds off the utility alone. 08:31:27.920 --> 08:31:33.040 It's not all ideas for losing these two 1DXs, and Furia might have been an advantage for 08:31:33.040 --> 08:31:37.080 a moment, but I gotta give a lot of credit to Fancy in particular, and obviously like 08:31:37.080 --> 08:31:40.880 Bissetto and Wizard are doing great, but Fancy has really been setting the pace 08:31:40.880 --> 08:31:42.640 these past few rounds. 08:31:42.640 --> 08:31:46.960 Of course getting that big double, of course getting the big triple earlier, but just 08:31:46.960 --> 08:31:51.200 has really been the one that seemed to have dashed Furia's confidence the hardest, 08:31:51.200 --> 08:31:56.560 has made them put in a position where they are constantly fighting from behind, even if he doesn't get the opening kick. 08:31:59.640 --> 08:32:08.300 When alive at the right time for his team, and now Nip are either three minutes away from a longer series, or yet again, 08:32:08.300 --> 08:32:16.100 three minutes away from being done, Furia has watched this lead that they built up over Ninjas and Pajamas evaporate. 08:32:16.100 --> 08:32:20.800 It started with that cheese play, the rat play, to knock the shields off their stride. 08:32:21.200 --> 08:32:24.460 And then, an incredible play in the previous round. 08:32:24.460 --> 08:32:28.180 Diaz, the star for so much of this series 08:32:28.180 --> 08:32:30.620 will now need to be picked up as he's bleeding out. 08:32:30.620 --> 08:32:33.180 Yet again, Nip taking to these windows, 08:32:33.180 --> 08:32:36.960 taking to these doors, forcing Fury to fight from behind. 08:32:38.500 --> 08:32:40.020 I don't even know how that happened. 08:32:40.020 --> 08:32:41.700 I mean, I can reasonably intuit, 08:32:41.700 --> 08:32:43.260 like you said, somebody peed to the door, 08:32:43.260 --> 08:32:45.540 but you beg to show that angle, 08:32:45.540 --> 08:32:48.180 that seems like a kind of a weird fight to take. 08:32:48.180 --> 08:32:51.180 MIP just not letting Fury get comfortable whatsoever. 08:32:52.180 --> 08:32:57.180 I don't think I really expected the full-court press to work against Fury of all teams, but it really is. 08:32:57.180 --> 08:32:59.180 The Monty of it separated from Resta's team right now. 08:32:59.180 --> 08:33:03.180 Ooh, walking to a Gershmott as well. Hates with one. 08:33:03.180 --> 08:33:08.180 It was that pocket. It will land in front of the Monty, so it wards him off more than actually traps him. 08:33:08.180 --> 08:33:11.180 The rest of Fury had joined this push. 08:33:11.180 --> 08:33:15.180 It was likely calming the presence of not only the Ella, but the Gershmott mine as well. 08:33:15.180 --> 08:33:19.100 But again, really nothing you can do. He can trigger it then back up and now he'll push forward 08:33:19.100 --> 08:33:23.980 But again, there's no gun behind this Monty. He's quite separate from the rest of his team 08:33:23.980 --> 08:33:27.600 He's got to be careful in this position. But as he ADS's he domes them 08:33:28.940 --> 08:33:34.660 Rough go of it for hates and it will continue besetto trades out lawyer of fantasy again leveling up 08:33:34.660 --> 08:33:37.600 But he gets paid for by that besetto down now to 08:33:38.100 --> 08:33:42.620 Furia with the numbers advantage. They've been here three times and failed to convert 08:33:42.620 --> 08:33:44.620 How will this round go? 08:33:44.620 --> 08:33:46.620 Wizard and Pino to clutch out. 08:33:46.620 --> 08:33:48.620 Last round, you thought it might be over. 08:33:48.620 --> 08:33:50.620 Their fans might have thought it was over, 08:33:50.620 --> 08:33:52.620 but their players said completely otherwise. 08:33:52.620 --> 08:33:54.620 Difference is though, 08:33:54.620 --> 08:33:56.620 Lynx, there's a shield still on the board. 08:33:56.620 --> 08:33:58.620 Box there, if he plays this one right, 08:33:58.620 --> 08:34:00.620 you will watch all those bullets just bounce off of him. 08:34:00.620 --> 08:34:02.620 There's not much that an Aruni and a Smoke can do, 08:34:02.620 --> 08:34:04.620 especially a Smoke with just a single gas canister 08:34:04.620 --> 08:34:06.620 and a minute to go. 08:34:06.620 --> 08:34:08.620 You are hoping that those remaining Boyle canisters 08:34:08.620 --> 08:34:10.620 are enough to slow down the advance 08:34:10.620 --> 08:34:15.340 down the advance of this period team or else that's it for this series but 08:34:15.340 --> 08:34:18.460 conversely on the side of the attack you've still got a smoke grenade you've 08:34:18.460 --> 08:34:22.220 got the two flashbangs it also 39 seconds which in this position is not a 08:34:22.220 --> 08:34:25.660 lot of time but still enough to get some good information but the Blackbeard 08:34:25.660 --> 08:34:29.300 to speed things up I mean it's possible again this you have some good 08:34:29.300 --> 08:34:33.460 long-range and close-quarters weapons here you have the utility that got the 08:34:33.460 --> 08:34:39.620 manpower he doesn't take a lot to knock this house of cars over and 08:34:39.620 --> 08:34:44.980 And there's the first domino, only one remains, wizard to clutch up. 08:34:44.980 --> 08:34:45.980 Can he work? 08:34:45.980 --> 08:34:49.060 Some kind of secret magic to keep his team in this? 08:34:49.060 --> 08:34:52.780 Or will Fury of the Organization known being towards the top? 08:34:52.780 --> 08:34:56.660 Pull this off, they manage to stop the plant, can anybody recover in time? 08:34:56.660 --> 08:35:01.540 Heards goes for the kill, quiet most of this match, but loud when it matters. 08:35:01.540 --> 08:35:09.020 Furyah, dominate ninjas and pajamas 2-0 and they are the best in Brazil. 08:35:09.020 --> 08:35:12.980 I just want to say that end there was way too close for comfort. 08:35:12.980 --> 08:35:16.920 I mean, a shotgun around the corner right as two of them walking up, 08:35:16.920 --> 08:35:21.080 I almost fell out of my chair and got really scared for a second. 08:35:21.080 --> 08:35:23.080 But Furia just have enough. 08:35:23.080 --> 08:35:27.160 With Diaz getting that kill especially in a 3v1, even with the Blackout going down, 08:35:27.160 --> 08:35:29.320 they've got the players who can move in for the trade. 08:35:29.320 --> 08:35:34.040 It's a much closer game on Fortress, but I mean, when you have the momentum created earlier 08:35:34.040 --> 08:35:38.700 from that dominant bank victory ending with a 2v5, it felt inevitable for Furia. 08:35:38.700 --> 08:35:42.700 I gotta give more props to NIP, though, for really bleeding them quite heavily on Fortress. 08:35:43.200 --> 08:35:47.000 I mean, Bank obviously was them sleepwalking through most of that matchup. 08:35:47.000 --> 08:35:49.700 Fortress, they woke up, and they were far better. 08:35:49.700 --> 08:35:51.700 They were better on attack, they were better on defense. 08:35:51.700 --> 08:35:55.200 In fact, most of their defenses, especially the early rounds, were terrific. 08:35:55.200 --> 08:35:58.200 They were able to knock Fury off-stride so many times. 08:35:58.200 --> 08:36:00.200 But Fury are just a well-oiled machine. 08:36:00.700 --> 08:36:03.700 And again, Lens' credibility, this matchup in particular, 08:36:03.700 --> 08:36:07.200 to how much better Fury is getting very quickly over time. 08:36:07.200 --> 08:36:09.600 I think the sky is the limit for this team. 08:36:09.600 --> 08:36:13.200 And if you're going to Salt Lake City and you're looking at whether Nip or this 08:36:13.200 --> 08:36:17.120 Furia team, you're scared to face both of them, but you're probably most scared to 08:36:17.120 --> 08:36:19.760 face Furia. They're the best team in the region. 08:36:19.760 --> 08:36:23.200 They win the upper bracket finals, which is the grand finals, and they will be 08:36:23.200 --> 08:36:26.800 very happy turning their eyes now towards Utah in just a couple weeks. 08:36:27.440 --> 08:36:29.680 Yeah, and I mean, we don't have to say much more than that. 08:36:29.680 --> 08:36:32.960 We've got Leo and Agasson on the other side to talk about Furia now 08:36:32.960 --> 08:36:34.480 fishly being the best in Brazil. 08:36:34.480 --> 08:36:43.840 much entero links yes it is done and dusted furio the hell of a furious little 08:36:43.840 --> 08:36:47.360 shot that they've done here they will to close it out against an ip despite nip's 08:36:47.360 --> 08:36:53.480 best efforts to bring this one back here leo we almost saw an overtime but 08:36:53.480 --> 08:36:59.360 there's this guy deus lupus who just was so activated today we heard of him 08:36:59.360 --> 08:37:05.680 and from him in the first interview and when he smiles when he's pumped up and active 08:37:06.360 --> 08:37:08.360 It's gonna happen and it did 08:37:08.720 --> 08:37:14.840 Yeah, I mean 16 kills to close out the day the guest the guys are celebrating you could see it all the way 08:37:14.840 --> 08:37:16.880 You know in there in their camps 08:37:16.880 --> 08:37:19.520 I think it must feel really special for a team that was put together 08:37:19.840 --> 08:37:24.760 You know only after a sign goes to show that when you put the right people together at the right rules 08:37:24.760 --> 08:37:34.760 it sticks and it works. Very interesting to see them play at Tuta in a city against the best teams in the world. 08:37:34.760 --> 08:37:40.760 I'll have to say this, I think in IP they had it in them. I think that if they had warmed up the same way, 08:37:40.760 --> 08:37:45.760 if they were the ones that played the semi-final, the last ones to play the semi-final, 08:37:45.760 --> 08:37:48.760 maybe the matchup would have been entirely different. 08:37:48.760 --> 08:37:51.760 Despite that though, every single round was half for Peria. 08:37:51.760 --> 08:37:57.260 Even when NID was in a heavy man advantage, Feria was almost able to bring it back every single time. 08:37:57.260 --> 08:37:59.760 That just speaks to the sheer talent on that roster. 08:37:59.760 --> 08:38:05.760 And as we see some of these rounds here, I think we also saw improvements from AP. 08:38:05.760 --> 08:38:13.260 I felt like I felt a consistency from that roster that I did not see in a few stages of SCL last year. 08:38:13.260 --> 08:38:16.760 I'm hoping that they finally get to breach that top 8, make it to main stage, 08:38:16.760 --> 08:38:19.760 because that's something that they've been missing for a while. 08:38:19.760 --> 08:38:24.760 Yes, they've made events consistently, but I think they've been missing this part. 08:38:24.760 --> 08:38:27.880 And on the side of Furia, honestly, they can be really happy with themselves because they 08:38:27.880 --> 08:38:32.960 walk away not only with the bragging rights of being the best SEL teams out of two months 08:38:32.960 --> 08:38:38.920 of practice, but actually 240 SA points during the lead right now, and they can 08:38:38.920 --> 08:38:42.040 even make more at the major having secured phase two of the major. 08:38:42.040 --> 08:38:48.360 So from their standpoint right now, it only looks at the next few weeks to prepare. 08:38:48.360 --> 08:38:54.760 even a bootcamp who knows if they will go to the USC for that but what a gamble for the 08:38:54.760 --> 08:38:59.160 organization as a whole to come up with this roster and a gamble that so far seems to pay off. 08:39:00.200 --> 08:39:05.720 It's not an easy set of shoes to fill that's for sure right. Aside from 08:39:07.960 --> 08:39:17.320 for sure it is not an easy thing it reminds me if you help me make the analogy here Leo 08:39:17.320 --> 08:39:26.120 of when Falcons picked up the old BDS roster, right, this is a big shift, of course now after 08:39:26.120 --> 08:39:33.320 that change you had BDS now shifters that came in, big shoes to fill a big gamble to get through. 08:39:33.320 --> 08:39:39.080 However, this is a similar one, Fiora bringing in big players that have been all over the 08:39:39.080 --> 08:39:45.400 world at this point from Brazil, brought them all together and put in a lot of work in 08:39:45.400 --> 08:39:49.880 the support staff and the players all between them to get to this point and have indeed been 08:39:49.880 --> 08:39:55.160 successful. They celebrate at the end of this hard fought victory especially on map 2 against 08:39:55.160 --> 08:40:00.840 NIP but they celebrate because they proved a point not just to themselves and to one 08:40:00.840 --> 08:40:07.000 another as a team but to their organization as well to say hey we are a worthwhile pick 08:40:07.000 --> 08:40:12.360 up we'll only get better from here so all the way up from this point as entero mentioned 08:40:12.360 --> 08:40:18.520 Of course, the bragging rights to say, in our first time together, not only did we break these expectations, 08:40:18.520 --> 08:40:25.680 but we became the number one team in SAO and what a run they had, Fiora, to get to this point. 08:40:25.680 --> 08:40:36.400 Tough opponents that they faced. I would very much say that there have been upsets in the matches for them to get to this here point, 08:40:36.400 --> 08:40:42.720 either in the groups where they top the group, or being able to beat Fluxed W7M and continue on 08:40:42.720 --> 08:40:48.320 in the upper bracket tier that they had. Our match summary you'll see. DS Lucas, again MVP of the 08:40:48.320 --> 08:40:54.800 matchup, no two ways around it here put up all the numbers. This is someone that has been very 08:40:54.800 --> 08:41:01.360 much hyped no matter what part of the world he's been in really, but here he's really 08:41:01.360 --> 08:41:08.280 finding his footing, he's putting it all also not just on the team all matching together but also on the support staff of 08:41:08.920 --> 08:41:15.760 Furia for helping them get to this point and we talked to him probably won't unfortunately get to talk to him again 08:41:15.760 --> 08:41:18.080 But he was focused on Reduct 08:41:18.680 --> 08:41:21.900 Who is someone with a lot of experience as a player in his coach? 08:41:22.520 --> 08:41:29.440 To pull the entire team together and get them to focus up and learn from their mistakes and you're seeing the results of that right here 08:41:29.440 --> 08:41:36.880 Yeah, definitely an incredible match for him. I was also going to sell it by SETO because you know support player IGL 08:41:36.960 --> 08:41:42.680 Best really won on the side of NIP and and now we have of two first teams from a sale making it 08:41:42.680 --> 08:41:46.760 So we have six teams may making it to the major and looking forward to tomorrow 08:41:46.760 --> 08:41:50.480 I want to see you know the schedule. I want to see what's gonna happen here 08:41:50.480 --> 08:41:55.640 We have fluxo w7m versus loss loss being obviously right now probably the biggest 08:41:55.640 --> 08:42:01.040 small challenger right the one that has the least expectation on himself another 08:42:01.040 --> 08:42:04.360 team that was built entirely from scratch from players that didn't know 08:42:04.360 --> 08:42:08.600 each other or we're coming from five different roster at the time and then 08:42:08.600 --> 08:42:12.600 the big one that that one will be massive team liquid Alienware versus 08:42:12.600 --> 08:42:18.400 face clan one of this team from El Clasico is gonna miss the major this 08:42:18.400 --> 08:42:22.280 is gonna be epic I just wonder what is it gonna be the first time it's a 08:42:22.280 --> 08:42:27.640 game. I want to know tomorrow. Look and look at the schedule, but just to confirm it for you. 08:42:27.640 --> 08:42:32.920 But Team Liquid Alienware phase is the second matchup. So I'm telling you, Sunday night, 08:42:32.920 --> 08:42:38.440 you do not want to miss this game. Only one of them. It's already been touted as a phase liquid 08:42:38.440 --> 08:42:41.800 from both phase and liquid in our interviews. They're saying this is we're back to El 08:42:41.800 --> 08:42:46.600 Classico between these two huge organizations in the sense that they're actually on equal 08:42:46.600 --> 08:42:52.360 footing, but only one of them can make it to Subluxity, and both of them are hungry. 08:42:52.360 --> 08:42:58.440 FaZe hate the fact that they got dropped into the lower bracket by Flux with W7M, 08:42:58.440 --> 08:43:02.600 and they are not leaving any survivors left. We've seen in the last game they absolutely 08:43:02.600 --> 08:43:07.960 demolished by Dragon 7171. Now against Team Liquid Alienware, that they themselves would be very 08:43:07.960 --> 08:43:12.600 disappointed. If Team Liquid Alienware lose this match, and it's not going to be an easy 08:43:12.600 --> 08:43:17.960 one to win regardless. I'm just gonna put it up here and say maybe the curse is 08:43:17.960 --> 08:43:22.480 somewhere in the name or something because it just could not believe it 08:43:22.480 --> 08:43:26.120 at that point. But if you move with Elinor or make it to the major then 08:43:26.120 --> 08:43:29.520 face clan the world champions the back-to-back league are not there and I 08:43:29.520 --> 08:43:33.400 know the analyst conversation is gonna be well you see whenever you win an 08:43:33.400 --> 08:43:37.400 invitational you're gonna not qualify to the next major or if you do 08:43:37.400 --> 08:43:41.480 you're gonna play like ass and not make it deep enough into it right 08:43:41.480 --> 08:43:43.480 That's how it usually goes. 08:43:43.480 --> 08:43:49.480 Well, the reality is that, you know, they would get hard punished by the format itself. 08:43:49.480 --> 08:43:55.480 It is a three weeks long, really short, very impactful, really intense stage. 08:43:55.480 --> 08:43:57.480 So like, you know, I wouldn't play them too hard. 08:43:57.480 --> 08:44:00.480 They had lost one B03 against Flux of W7M. 08:44:00.480 --> 08:44:03.480 The bracket makes it that they would have to play against Team Liquid Alienware afterwards. 08:44:03.480 --> 08:44:05.480 Two very strong opponents. 08:44:05.480 --> 08:44:10.480 One might say that if they had been on the other side of the bracket, they would have made it easily. 08:44:10.480 --> 08:44:14.700 So I wouldn't blame them too much. It would be a huge, huge blow because they've been 08:44:14.700 --> 08:44:20.080 at S tier events consistently for so many years, but at the same time, if it's a lesson 08:44:20.080 --> 08:44:25.120 they need to learn to go and grind their way to win a third SI Hammer in a row, no one 08:44:25.120 --> 08:44:27.120 will care at this point. 08:44:27.120 --> 08:44:35.840 Simple as that. Then that's our day. I mean, what a day it was. I know it's late 08:44:35.840 --> 08:44:41.600 for you and me right now and still in the morning and you have been working for like 08:44:41.600 --> 08:44:47.320 what the past six days or so back to back to back to back to back to back so you had to 08:44:47.320 --> 08:44:51.160 stay off but it's an off to prepare for the other day so we're gonna call it an off to 08:44:51.160 --> 08:44:56.680 anaheutist you're in a in a in a garden reading a book but actually you were thinking about 08:44:56.680 --> 08:44:59.800 how do you prepare something new for the show I know you will 08:44:59.800 --> 08:45:05.360 It was pretty weird. It was pretty much it because every day we need to prep for the next day anyway 08:45:05.360 --> 08:45:11.720 And I was doing a cell as we come Saturday and then travel to Copenhagen and then email and then back here 08:45:11.720 --> 08:45:13.600 And then I see oh and they say oh tomorrow and 08:45:14.320 --> 08:45:19.640 SAL tomorrow exactly you and I are back here tomorrow. We've already prepped our stuff for tomorrow 08:45:19.640 --> 08:45:24.880 We have some fresh graphics that are being cooked up by our team just to make a few hard-hitting points 08:45:24.880 --> 08:45:26.520 I make them really clear for everybody out there 08:45:26.520 --> 08:45:31.160 So I want to thank you Leo for an incredible day that we've had together. I know you are completely fried 08:45:31.560 --> 08:45:34.760 It's late. It's stuffy, but we've done an excellent 08:45:35.480 --> 08:45:42.680 Show today. We've had an excellent day to get through these three wonderful matches which guarantees us nip and their 08:45:43.480 --> 08:45:47.720 opponents here furia both qualified salt lake city and the top seed is 08:45:48.360 --> 08:45:53.160 Furia they are the number one team in s.a.l. In brazil and tomorrow two games will decide 08:45:53.160 --> 08:45:58.560 the last two teams to qualify to Salt Lake City. And then in the grand final of 08:45:58.560 --> 08:46:03.960 the lower bracket, we'll see who actually makes it into phase one. That's a tough 08:46:03.960 --> 08:46:10.440 sell. And then into phase two of the major. Anyways, Leo, thank you again. Thank 08:46:10.440 --> 08:46:12.840 you to your production team and for those watching at home. I wish you a 08:46:12.840 --> 08:46:16.440 wonderful night. We love you. Bye. 08:46:23.160 --> 08:46:41.160 Thanks for watching guys!