WEBVTT 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 I 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 I 16:00.000 --> 16:05.000 music 18:00.000 --> 18:05.000 I'm breaking next and I'm partyin' out 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 Throwin' elbow stuff and I'm running out 18:07.000 --> 18:10.000 Cause I can't make it down so let's run it up 18:10.000 --> 18:13.000 I'ma keep it goin' so I won't laugh left 18:18.000 --> 18:20.000 I'ma keep it goin' I'ma keep it goin' 18:20.000 --> 18:23.000 I'ma keep it goin' so I won't laugh left 18:30.000 --> 18:34.600 Well, the NAL kickoff playoffs are here. 18:34.600 --> 18:36.840 We've got to send someone to the Salt Lake City Major. 18:36.840 --> 18:38.760 We are here in person. 18:38.760 --> 18:40.520 And boy, does it feel so good. 18:40.520 --> 18:42.360 No internet troubles this time. 18:42.360 --> 18:44.040 We can't disconnect anymore. 18:44.040 --> 18:48.080 And there is no possible way that anything could go. 18:48.080 --> 18:50.800 Well, I guess he disconnected in person. 18:50.800 --> 18:53.240 I didn't even know it was possible. 18:53.240 --> 19:19.800 The 19:19.800 --> 19:23.560 Salt Lake City Major is just a couple weeks away, 19:23.560 --> 19:26.180 and we still have a very important job to do. 19:26.180 --> 19:29.480 Figuring out which four North American League teams 19:29.480 --> 19:31.840 will be competing on the international stage. 19:31.840 --> 19:35.800 We're here in person for the NAL kickoff playoffs. 19:35.800 --> 19:36.920 You guys are right here. 19:36.920 --> 19:38.320 It feels so good. 19:38.320 --> 19:39.880 No disconnecting issues. 19:39.880 --> 19:42.200 I'm not gonna have that problem as last time. 19:42.200 --> 19:44.680 Should I freeze and run off stage right now for the bit? 19:44.680 --> 19:47.040 But really, it's good to have you guys here. 19:47.040 --> 19:49.680 I mean, really, we've come such a long way 19:49.680 --> 19:52.960 from where this began, from knowing nothing about any of these teams. 19:52.960 --> 19:55.360 So now having a pretty good idea about where things stack up, 19:55.360 --> 19:58.240 we head into best of threes where anything can happen. 19:58.240 --> 20:00.520 Anything can happen. You disconnected in person. 20:00.520 --> 20:01.760 I just think that was possible. 20:01.760 --> 20:02.960 I'm glad we got it sorted. 20:02.960 --> 20:05.960 But as for the teams, I mean, this stage so far has been so competitive, 20:05.960 --> 20:09.800 all the new faces and a lot of them have really come to impress us 20:09.800 --> 20:12.760 and it's only going to get that much better once it gets to the best of threes. 20:12.760 --> 20:17.400 You know, it's a really good litmus test to see how can these new teams compete. 20:17.400 --> 20:19.080 Yeah, I mean, not even just for the teams, even for us. 20:19.080 --> 20:21.240 I mean, being here in this studio, 20:21.240 --> 20:22.960 I mean, we aren't used to this here in the NAL. 20:22.960 --> 20:24.640 I mean, it's definitely a different tax bracket 20:24.640 --> 20:25.480 once you come into here. 20:25.480 --> 20:28.480 So I can kind of feel what the EML guys feel on this stage. 20:28.480 --> 20:29.320 You know what's crazy though? 20:29.320 --> 20:30.680 We've been here for like five seconds 20:30.680 --> 20:33.960 and I feel like we already do this play so much better 20:33.960 --> 20:34.920 than the U.S. 20:34.920 --> 20:36.920 We're just so much better than the U.S. 20:36.920 --> 20:38.880 You guys got the drip, you got the colors matching. 20:38.880 --> 20:39.920 Matching a little bit to some. 20:39.920 --> 20:41.240 Yeah, the red on that. 20:41.240 --> 20:44.960 It looks good, but this all kicked off a few weeks ago 20:44.960 --> 20:47.680 where we started the group stage with 10 teams. 20:47.680 --> 20:55.100 We now have just eight, where now we have to figure out how these teams are going to work their way through the bracket. 20:55.100 --> 21:02.840 SSG 1 of 30, M80 and Wildcard, that's where things start in the upper bracket with five fears and dark zero waiting for them. 21:02.840 --> 21:08.780 But now, as we said, in best of three territory, Fox, so many more questions than answers. 21:08.780 --> 21:14.340 I mean, of course, when you look at the bottom of the bracket with Cloud9 and Shop of Irbellion playing for their lives, essentially, 21:14.340 --> 21:16.620 because when you start out on the bottom of the bracket, 21:16.620 --> 21:17.620 you lose one, you're out. 21:17.620 --> 21:20.260 You don't have that safety net like the top teams do. 21:20.260 --> 21:22.300 So when you're one of these teams at the bottom, 21:22.300 --> 21:24.620 you are in a way more stressful position. 21:24.620 --> 21:25.940 There's so much pressure on you 21:25.940 --> 21:28.540 because you don't have that extra lifeline 21:28.540 --> 21:29.900 that some of the teams at the top do. 21:29.900 --> 21:32.620 You don't have time to get into the bracket. 21:32.620 --> 21:35.020 One game goes wrong and it's gone. 21:35.020 --> 21:36.940 I mean, that can be a little bit of a double-edged sword though. 21:36.940 --> 21:39.500 The nice thing is, sure, you are at the bottom of the bracket, 21:39.500 --> 21:40.620 but you have no lifelines. 21:40.620 --> 21:42.940 You have nothing to rely on outside of your own confidence, 21:42.940 --> 21:44.540 your own skill, your own team work, 21:44.540 --> 21:46.180 and that honestly can ramp up some teams 21:46.180 --> 21:47.420 to have tremendous performance. 21:47.420 --> 21:49.580 We've seen that at multitudes of SIs 21:49.580 --> 21:51.120 where teams come from the losers bracket 21:51.120 --> 21:52.420 and win the entire thing. 21:52.420 --> 21:54.220 It's not to say that that's going to be the case, 21:54.220 --> 21:56.020 but it does put that little added pressure 21:56.020 --> 21:58.100 that you do need where some teams sitting at the top 21:58.100 --> 22:00.260 where you only need that one when we've seen them falter 22:00.260 --> 22:02.360 because they don't have those game reps 22:02.360 --> 22:03.740 in comparison to some of these teams 22:03.740 --> 22:05.460 that will lead all the way up until that point. 22:05.460 --> 22:07.500 And that could happen to a team like Five Fierce 22:07.500 --> 22:10.640 who's come into this now with some pretty significant 22:10.640 --> 22:13.200 expectations because of where they started. 22:13.200 --> 22:17.720 We did not think this team was going to be able to get to this point a by round 22:17.720 --> 22:22.160 to start a single best of three stands between them and the major. 22:22.160 --> 22:24.120 Yeah, we were looking at the big shakeup in the roster, 22:24.120 --> 22:27.280 many of that was happened in the NAL by no means that I think this was going to 22:27.280 --> 22:30.600 be the roster that was going to be carrying the torch, carrying the way, 22:30.600 --> 22:33.160 especially going flawless throughout their group stage. 22:33.160 --> 22:35.040 I would have never seen that from any of these players, 22:35.040 --> 22:37.640 but we heard it from time and time again with each interview, 22:37.640 --> 22:39.560 one to the other that during their off season, 22:39.560 --> 22:42.680 they all took responsibility and showing up 22:42.680 --> 22:44.680 as an individual, putting in work, 22:44.680 --> 22:46.960 not just only in the games, but outside the game, 22:46.960 --> 22:47.920 outside the server. 22:47.920 --> 22:49.120 And with each and every single game 22:49.120 --> 22:50.440 that we were seeing from these guys, 22:50.440 --> 22:52.280 there was always something that you could take from me, 22:52.280 --> 22:54.300 like, wow, this is a really different look 22:54.300 --> 22:56.480 than what we were seeing from one season to the next, 22:56.480 --> 22:57.440 one stage to the next. 22:57.440 --> 23:00.120 I mean, every player really has been doing their due diligence 23:00.120 --> 23:01.880 and making sure that they are all coming into it 23:01.880 --> 23:04.840 with the same goal in mind and same success rate. 23:04.840 --> 23:06.160 Well, another young team, 23:06.160 --> 23:12.120 team that made it from the challenger series very earlier this year. One of 30 also came 23:12.120 --> 23:18.080 in with not so high expectations, but they started things off and shocked us coming out 23:18.080 --> 23:21.760 of the gate day one and they're here with a chance to make the major as well. 23:21.760 --> 23:26.080 I mean the thing that shocked us was how well the individual rookies were playing. I mean 23:26.080 --> 23:31.360 Volspern might W had big clutch plays and they didn't really have the best start of 23:31.360 --> 23:35.080 the stage. I mean they only won one game against 100 thieves and it was a nail biter, but the 23:35.080 --> 23:38.480 The main point to take away is all of their other matches against SR, and maybe whatever 23:38.480 --> 23:40.740 the case may be, it was very close. 23:40.740 --> 23:44.620 They were keeping it in contention, and I think that gives us a little bit more hope. 23:44.620 --> 23:48.060 There's a lot of potential in this roster for them to be able to find success. 23:48.060 --> 23:51.780 Now they have the opportunity to continue to show it, because again, they're in the top 23:51.780 --> 23:55.020 side of the bracket against SSG against Five Fears. 23:55.020 --> 23:59.340 They're playing against teams that haven't also had that much time in T1, so it's a great 23:59.340 --> 24:01.740 position to find themselves in for one of 30. 24:01.740 --> 24:06.380 Both of these two teams, examples of teams that have surpassed our expectations coming in. 24:06.380 --> 24:12.140 We have slacks. We have to talk about a team, though, that has come and, well, not met those expectations. 24:12.140 --> 24:17.140 Shopify Rebellion, they're the talk of the town right now, not for necessarily the best of reasons. 24:17.140 --> 24:22.840 No, and I said it during the last play stage, during the playday, that, you know, we should cut them a little bit of slack. 24:22.840 --> 24:25.340 They did what they needed to, to get out of groups to make it into playoffs. 24:25.340 --> 24:29.440 And as every single pro player knows, getting out of group stage is the most important thing. 24:29.440 --> 24:30.960 It doesn't matter how you got there. 24:30.960 --> 24:33.640 It matters how you get there and how you finish. 24:33.640 --> 24:35.320 Now they aren't a best of three territory. 24:35.320 --> 24:38.200 This is in any scenario for any single player out there. 24:38.200 --> 24:40.120 Being in a best of three is always going to make you 24:40.120 --> 24:42.760 more comfortable because when you do find those losses 24:42.760 --> 24:44.280 early on in that first map, 24:44.280 --> 24:46.320 you have that time to be able to reconcile 24:46.320 --> 24:47.840 and understand where things are wrong, 24:47.840 --> 24:49.600 how you can fix it going into the future. 24:49.600 --> 24:51.880 So I would definitely hold back a little bit on SR 24:51.880 --> 24:53.480 until we kind of see this get underway 24:53.480 --> 24:55.480 and see what their performance actually looks like 24:55.480 --> 24:56.600 at a best of three level, 24:56.600 --> 24:58.440 then just looking at what happened in the best of three. 24:58.440 --> 25:01.400 I mean, yeah, when you look at SR, the individual players, 25:01.400 --> 25:02.740 they're not the issue at all. 25:02.740 --> 25:03.760 Everyone's getting good kills. 25:03.760 --> 25:06.100 I think the biggest thing is not having enough time 25:06.100 --> 25:07.600 and the best of one to be able to adapt, 25:07.600 --> 25:09.680 to use Canadian, has that IGL. 25:09.680 --> 25:11.520 Bessa 3 completely shakes that up, 25:11.520 --> 25:13.880 and the players themselves have took to social media 25:13.880 --> 25:15.640 to be able to talk about it and say, 25:15.640 --> 25:16.840 we're not really worried about it. 25:16.840 --> 25:18.880 It's not about how you start, it's about how you finish, 25:18.880 --> 25:21.120 and I think that's SR's end goal, 25:21.120 --> 25:23.040 especially being in the lower bracket. 25:23.040 --> 25:25.800 They know it's their time to put up or shut up. 25:25.800 --> 25:29.240 Well, here in North America, as we sort through this chaos 25:29.240 --> 25:32.560 and see which of these teams can at least get back on track, 25:32.560 --> 25:34.600 we have to remember what they're playing for. 25:34.600 --> 25:39.600 All of these teams vying to play in a major on home soil. 25:39.740 --> 25:42.200 In Salt Lake City in just a few weeks, 25:42.200 --> 25:43.920 the tickets are available now. 25:43.920 --> 25:46.840 If you wanna join us, the weekend of May 15th 25:46.840 --> 25:49.400 at the Salt Palace Convention Center, 25:49.400 --> 25:53.000 lacks, I mean, we know how much an opportunity like this 25:53.000 --> 25:53.840 means to these players. 25:53.840 --> 25:55.800 you guys know this particularly well, 25:55.800 --> 25:58.780 having been there, competed at international events, 25:58.780 --> 26:00.520 regional play is one thing, 26:00.520 --> 26:02.160 but getting to the main stage, 26:02.160 --> 26:04.520 getting in front of that crowd, that's everything. 26:04.520 --> 26:06.680 Yeah, I mean, it definitely speaks it into existence 26:06.680 --> 26:09.160 once you're in front of that crowd, 26:09.160 --> 26:10.880 they're cheering for you on that stage. 26:10.880 --> 26:13.600 I mean, even for myself, the last time that I was in an NA stage 26:13.600 --> 26:15.480 when I was playing was back when we were in Charlotte, 26:15.480 --> 26:17.400 and just being able to be in your own home, 26:17.400 --> 26:19.240 your own environment, your own crowd, 26:19.240 --> 26:21.280 cheering you on every step of the way, 26:21.280 --> 26:23.440 that definitely makes it far more better 26:23.440 --> 26:25.240 of an experience as a player. 26:25.240 --> 26:27.400 So a lot of these NAL teams, if they can make it here 26:27.400 --> 26:29.360 during SLC, they're gonna set themselves up 26:29.360 --> 26:31.880 in a prime position to be in front of their home ground, 26:31.880 --> 26:33.400 in front of their families and friends, 26:33.400 --> 26:34.960 to try to make something out of it. 26:34.960 --> 26:37.480 Yeah, the community always shows up with an NAL event. 26:37.480 --> 26:39.560 It's heartwarming, it's a great experience, 26:39.560 --> 26:41.440 and hopefully one of these teams can bring 26:41.440 --> 26:43.480 some pepper to the salt palace. 26:44.360 --> 26:46.000 You don't get like this late at night. 26:46.000 --> 26:47.800 You go to the like 11 p.m. here in Copenhagen. 26:47.800 --> 26:48.640 Yeah, it is. 26:48.640 --> 26:49.480 We got a little late. 26:49.480 --> 26:50.960 You gotta put a handle on them early on 26:50.960 --> 26:52.160 before this gets out of control. 26:52.160 --> 26:58.920 But we've got a great day ahead coming your way to start off the playoffs here in the NAL kickoff. 26:58.920 --> 27:02.800 One of 30 and SSG, that'll be the pallet cleanser to kick off the night. 27:02.800 --> 27:08.160 Two young teams trying to prove themselves before we move on to M80 and Wildcard, 27:08.160 --> 27:11.520 our second game of this two best of three slate. 27:11.520 --> 27:15.480 I mean, like, this is exactly the kind of day we want to start things off. 27:15.480 --> 27:19.600 We could see two blowouts potentially the way these teams are on paper. 27:19.600 --> 27:21.440 But if I've got a guest here, we're 27:21.440 --> 27:23.240 going to see some barren burns of matches. 27:23.240 --> 27:24.480 I mean, for the first one, I'm hoping 27:24.480 --> 27:26.960 we're going to see a lot coming out of the side of 1 of 30, 27:26.960 --> 27:28.720 given what we've seen so far of them. 27:28.720 --> 27:30.040 And then going into that second game, 27:30.040 --> 27:32.080 I think that's going to be the bigger game for me. 27:32.080 --> 27:33.600 Because what we've seen from Wildcard 27:33.600 --> 27:35.280 hasn't been the typical Wildcard that we 27:35.280 --> 27:37.440 hype up when they get to the main event. 27:37.440 --> 27:39.560 So hopefully, we're going to see a lot more out of them. 27:39.560 --> 27:41.720 And then from Mayday, I think it's just more about consistency 27:41.720 --> 27:43.440 and getting Ashen into the sweet things. 27:43.440 --> 27:44.400 Yeah, agree. 27:44.400 --> 27:45.800 Well, let's dive in a little bit more. 27:45.800 --> 27:47.800 SSG, to start things off, are a team 27:47.800 --> 27:50.320 that we've talked a lot about these young teams that 27:50.320 --> 27:53.680 have surprised us with Dream at the helm assembling 27:53.680 --> 27:55.480 this core of young talent. 27:55.480 --> 27:57.400 We look at these players and we go, 27:57.400 --> 28:00.360 should they be here competing three and one 28:00.360 --> 28:02.280 through the group stage getting to this point? 28:02.280 --> 28:04.720 The answer is clearly yes at this point. 28:04.720 --> 28:06.440 I mean, we were very skeptical. 28:06.440 --> 28:08.240 Ooh, we were very skeptical coming into it 28:08.240 --> 28:10.720 because of how Dream's success on Cloud9 28:10.720 --> 28:12.240 was very underwhelming. 28:12.240 --> 28:13.840 But we know that Dream has the potential 28:13.840 --> 28:15.200 to be on a winning team. 28:15.200 --> 28:16.400 I mean, we look at Boston. 28:16.400 --> 28:19.920 we look at unwanted that team with no roster or no work, 28:19.920 --> 28:21.520 being able to make it as far as they did. 28:21.520 --> 28:24.120 Then the stint on Cloud9, now to SSG. 28:24.120 --> 28:26.180 It's not about dreams specifically, 28:26.180 --> 28:27.760 but it's about the players around them. 28:27.760 --> 28:29.880 When dream is surrounded by lovable players 28:29.880 --> 28:32.520 that he can work with, he can make better. 28:32.520 --> 28:33.880 Everything, sky's the limit. 28:33.880 --> 28:35.200 And that's what we're seeing on SSG. 28:35.200 --> 28:36.520 Not only has he brought on Giddy 28:36.520 --> 28:37.960 for a little bit of veteran experience, 28:37.960 --> 28:41.440 but picking up three newer players has been 28:41.440 --> 28:43.920 just the energy that dream has needed 28:43.920 --> 28:45.560 because they all believe in his system. 28:45.560 --> 28:47.880 and I can speak from an IGL perspective 28:47.880 --> 28:50.480 when you have players that believe in what you are trying 28:50.480 --> 28:52.520 to show them, everything is better. 28:52.520 --> 28:54.440 Your team instantly goes from zero to hero 28:54.440 --> 28:56.080 and I think that's what we're seeing with SSG. 28:56.080 --> 28:58.360 And one of those young players, not necessarily a rookie 28:58.360 --> 29:00.800 because he made his NAL debut late last year, 29:00.800 --> 29:03.520 Aiden has been playing lights out. 29:03.520 --> 29:05.640 I mean, this is someone who we know what he's capable of 29:05.640 --> 29:07.760 but we've seen it through and through this year. 29:07.760 --> 29:08.840 Oh, it's a night and day difference. 29:08.840 --> 29:12.080 He's only played one stage last stage with NB 29:12.080 --> 29:14.360 and you know, we thought that NB could have gone 29:14.360 --> 29:18.120 distance obviously they didn't make it into the bracket play to be able to make it to the major 29:18.120 --> 29:23.000 but that being said his performance was still something that shook us all when we saw him 29:23.000 --> 29:27.240 enter the league he was great individually but the consistency of it was not something that was 29:27.240 --> 29:32.600 there but now that he's been able to join SSG he's found his own he's found his position he's 29:32.600 --> 29:37.080 not this primary entry because they have great who is able to be able to be that spearhead 29:37.080 --> 29:43.480 you have now Aiden that can just play any utility operator play his position be very comfortable 29:43.480 --> 29:47.060 and he could just find openings wherever needs be. 29:47.060 --> 29:49.620 And right now, he's the second highest rate of player 29:49.620 --> 29:50.620 when it comes to the NAL. 29:50.620 --> 29:53.060 And that's a huge jump because on Envy, 29:53.060 --> 29:57.020 he was within the top 40, top 50, nothing too exceptional. 29:57.020 --> 29:58.660 Now, he's hit the ground running. 29:58.660 --> 30:00.960 And I think that's because this team has allowed him so much 30:00.960 --> 30:04.220 freedom in being able to pick his role, find comfortability. 30:04.220 --> 30:05.820 And because he has other players that 30:05.820 --> 30:08.260 can do the hard parts, like entering and getting 30:08.260 --> 30:09.500 into those positions. 30:09.500 --> 30:11.700 I mean, something for me not just to talk about his own play 30:11.700 --> 30:13.060 in his consistency. 30:13.060 --> 30:14.900 It's also just his attitude. 30:14.900 --> 30:15.980 He's very charismatic. 30:15.980 --> 30:17.540 We've talked to him on interviews, 30:17.540 --> 30:19.300 just being able to be a younger player, 30:19.300 --> 30:22.180 being able to lead that charge in terms of how animated 30:22.180 --> 30:23.620 you can get, how you can hype players up. 30:23.620 --> 30:25.300 You need that in a team dynamic. 30:25.300 --> 30:27.060 Someone has to be able to take the reign. 30:27.060 --> 30:29.300 And I think Aiden certainly does that for this team. 30:29.300 --> 30:32.220 But it also allows him to just develop as a player even better. 30:32.220 --> 30:34.500 When you have all of these different aspects about you 30:34.500 --> 30:36.740 as a player outside of just your sheer skill 30:36.740 --> 30:38.900 that all come together, that is what's truly 30:38.900 --> 30:41.220 going to allow him to grow as a player as a whole 30:41.220 --> 30:45.660 to be able to indoctrinate new styles of play, develop as a player, and continue his 30:45.660 --> 30:46.980 growth that we've been seeing. 30:46.980 --> 30:51.260 And honestly, it's been very fun to watch him in particular grow and develop as this 30:51.260 --> 30:52.260 has gone on. 30:52.260 --> 30:53.260 Right. 30:53.260 --> 30:56.580 He's not only as a player, but as a person, seeing these interviews, the maturity is really 30:56.580 --> 30:57.580 coming out. 30:57.580 --> 30:58.580 I mean, look at this guy. 30:58.580 --> 30:59.580 Mogg in the camera, as he should. 30:59.580 --> 31:02.580 You gotta get a hair line too. 31:02.580 --> 31:04.060 One of 30 on the other hand, right? 31:04.060 --> 31:08.180 We talk a lot about this team and the youth they bring coming from the Challenger series. 31:08.180 --> 31:10.020 We knew this would be a tough road. 31:10.020 --> 31:14.660 But it was week one, it was day one, where this team put us all on notice and said, 31:15.380 --> 31:17.060 we should be paying attention to them. 31:17.060 --> 31:21.300 Eight seven, close game against Shopify Rebellion and all of a sudden we're like, 31:21.300 --> 31:23.940 all right, we got to watch this team closely. 31:23.940 --> 31:26.900 Yeah, you know, they've certainly gone through their trial by fire for sure, 31:26.900 --> 31:30.820 but they have done enough to scrape by to make it now into this playoffs. 31:30.820 --> 31:33.940 Now, when you look at the, obviously that first match, you could have argued, 31:33.940 --> 31:35.620 they should have won that versus SR. 31:35.620 --> 31:39.460 That was a big 1v3 clutch that they did blunder, unfortunately, due to a team kill. 31:39.460 --> 31:40.980 and then ambi just clutching it up. 31:40.980 --> 31:42.100 But that's neither here or there. 31:42.100 --> 31:43.940 Facts of the matter is they got the most important win 31:43.940 --> 31:46.500 out of the 100 of these games, securing those three points, 31:46.500 --> 31:49.540 giving them a total of four to find themselves in this position. 31:49.540 --> 31:51.540 Now, I'm going to be far more critical at this point 31:51.540 --> 31:53.060 because this is where everything matters. 31:53.060 --> 31:55.220 This is everything that you've worked for in that group stage 31:55.220 --> 31:58.180 to really show and develop your skills as individuals 31:58.180 --> 31:58.820 and as a team. 31:58.820 --> 32:01.220 And that's where they have lacked is in those skills. 32:01.220 --> 32:04.020 Now, I do have something that does show kind of a timeline 32:04.020 --> 32:05.940 of how well their attacks and defenses 32:05.940 --> 32:08.020 or maybe how bad that they've been in comparison 32:08.020 --> 32:09.380 to the rest of the teams here. 32:09.380 --> 32:10.980 You can clearly see them on the end. 32:10.980 --> 32:12.740 They're still punching at a good range. 32:12.740 --> 32:15.700 They aren't at that 50% mark for either attack or defense. 32:15.700 --> 32:19.060 So for me, I want to see them at least develop on one of these sides 32:19.060 --> 32:22.180 at a better pacing to have more success on. 32:22.180 --> 32:23.940 But it's not just a highlight that, you know, 32:23.940 --> 32:26.100 they aren't in the best spot because there are positives 32:26.100 --> 32:28.900 that you can take away that they do have to show for that. 32:28.900 --> 32:30.580 They have the potential now. 32:30.580 --> 32:32.420 Now, sure, their attack wins and KDs. 32:32.420 --> 32:35.460 It's not that great, but the opening kills, the multi-kills, 32:35.460 --> 32:39.060 the clutches, if we can somehow turn all of those positives 32:39.060 --> 32:41.220 into rounds one, into matches one. 32:41.220 --> 32:44.580 This can be a very, very strong and competitive team, 32:44.580 --> 32:46.980 but that all comes down to now being in the best of three, 32:46.980 --> 32:49.700 where again, you can lose that first map. 32:49.700 --> 32:50.700 You can take things from it, 32:50.700 --> 32:52.140 you can extrapolate from it, 32:52.140 --> 32:54.980 implement it into map two, fix it going into map three, 32:54.980 --> 32:56.980 and just overall have far more success. 32:56.980 --> 32:59.220 But again, that comes off the strategic aspect 32:59.220 --> 33:01.620 of being able to adapt, being able to problem solve, 33:01.620 --> 33:03.300 and that's where they've lacked in the best of one. 33:03.300 --> 33:04.420 So now in the best of three, 33:04.420 --> 33:07.660 we should be seeing this at a far faster pace 33:07.660 --> 33:08.820 than where we've seen it before. 33:08.820 --> 33:17.320 I mean, I hope what we're going to see in the best of three series is them be able to find their identity because I think from the statistics, we can all agree there's nothing that sets them aside from any other team. 33:17.320 --> 33:19.520 There's nothing that has that spark outside of experience. 33:19.520 --> 33:26.020 Yeah, the side of experience. There's nothing that really gives us some type of a niche to believe in this roster. 33:26.020 --> 33:36.320 And I think in a best of three series, it gives them more experience to be able to develop these newer players to potentially find that what's going to be their crutch, what's going to be their angle to be able to set them aside from other teams. 33:36.320 --> 33:39.640 And right now it's just Packer trying to leave this roster. 33:39.640 --> 33:43.200 And I think we've seen huge strides from Packer as an individual. 33:43.200 --> 33:45.880 Now we just want to see the rest of the team be able to get there. 33:45.880 --> 33:50.880 And I think there's no better situation than them going up against SSG now. 33:50.880 --> 33:52.840 And then five beers with no pressure. 33:52.840 --> 33:54.960 They can lose the first match and go to lower bracket. 33:54.960 --> 33:58.520 It's a perfect situation to ease into this bracket play for one of them. 33:58.520 --> 34:03.800 And we heard from Packer speaking with Parker and Mint on the BBNO podcast. 34:03.800 --> 34:06.860 He said they feel pretty good about their chances, right? 34:06.860 --> 34:08.920 And it's going to come down to the maps here. 34:08.920 --> 34:11.400 We know how just how important this can be from best of one 34:11.400 --> 34:14.640 to best of threes, from a team who has not flexed 34:14.640 --> 34:16.920 the most beautiful of map pools lacks. 34:16.920 --> 34:19.440 You're looking at a team who needs to do this well 34:19.440 --> 34:21.200 and perform well from the jump. 34:21.200 --> 34:21.840 Yeah, absolutely. 34:21.840 --> 34:24.640 I mean, first map coming out is going to be Night Haven Lab. 34:24.640 --> 34:26.840 We haven't seen either of these teams play it just yet, 34:26.840 --> 34:28.680 but pivoting over into clubhouse. 34:28.680 --> 34:31.760 I mean, we already saw how strong SSG was on that clubhouse map. 34:31.760 --> 34:33.640 I mean, they made wildcard look like they 34:33.640 --> 34:39.060 We're the brand new teams on the block in terms of how they play that and then even going into shall a another map for SSG 34:39.060 --> 34:42.100 But we watched them dominate outlasts now night in Haven labs 34:42.100 --> 34:45.300 They don't have balls in terms of what they can do to prep for this match 34:45.300 --> 34:50.200 But again, it's gonna be more important for the side of one of 30 of being able to adapt and problem self 34:50.200 --> 34:53.940 And sometimes you have to go off the script. You can't just keep sticking to your blueprint 34:53.940 --> 34:55.980 You can't keep sticking to what you've been dry running 34:55.980 --> 35:01.700 Sometimes you have to bring a different operator. Sometimes you even have to pivot bands in order to set up for that attacking side 35:01.700 --> 35:07.380 I mean, it's really gonna that's what I'm gonna be focusing more on one of 30 SSG has already shown me more than enough to really get behind them 35:07.380 --> 35:11.460 Especially looking at those last two maps of clubhouse and shall I go into their favor? 35:11.460 --> 35:13.940 Yeah, I couldn't agree more. I think when it comes to a map like labs 35:13.940 --> 35:17.580 We know that dream has been comfortable on a map like that with cloud nine 35:17.580 --> 35:22.460 They like to play it wasn't necessarily a great map but cloud nine had their struggles SSG is going to find 35:22.580 --> 35:27.180 Comfortability on it one of 30 big question is all gonna come down to packer when it comes to the adaptation 35:27.180 --> 35:30.500 He's one of the few IGLs that loves being able to adapt on the fly 35:30.500 --> 35:34.720 I'm imagining that's something that we're going to see lapses a very punishing map 35:34.720 --> 35:36.520 Especially if you're not time-oriented 35:36.520 --> 35:40.040 You're not keeping track of all the little angles little areas 35:40.040 --> 35:43.080 And that's something where we could see the newer players like bolsper and Mike W 35:43.080 --> 35:47.520 Get caught off guard and that could potentially lead to the loss on a map like clubhouse again 35:47.520 --> 35:51.460 It's gonna come down to Packer. Can he counter track what we've seen from SSG? 35:51.960 --> 35:54.640 Don't necessarily know if that's gonna happen because we know how 35:54.640 --> 35:57.440 how step by step SSG was on that map. 35:57.440 --> 35:59.280 Get the first pick, lock everything down 35:59.280 --> 36:01.200 for the over-aggressive swings. 36:01.200 --> 36:03.960 It's hard not to bet on SSG in this situation. 36:03.960 --> 36:06.280 Well, Lex, I know you had something you wanted to dive 36:06.280 --> 36:08.600 into a little bit more in regards to the map pool 36:08.600 --> 36:12.280 of one of 30, and maybe the lack of breadth 36:12.280 --> 36:13.960 that they've been able to display. 36:13.960 --> 36:15.720 I mean, they have not had the results, 36:15.720 --> 36:16.680 and here you can see that. 36:16.680 --> 36:19.080 Again, and the best of one, you're gonna try to limit 36:19.080 --> 36:20.720 as many maps that you're weak at, 36:20.720 --> 36:22.800 and you're also gonna get limited maps that you're good at, 36:22.800 --> 36:25.520 that's based off scrims, where that's based off bots, Grevath's going to be, 36:25.520 --> 36:28.960 Shirley, they've played four maps, they've only found success on one of those maps, 36:28.960 --> 36:32.960 the others are not so great. Now you have a plethora of maps that you possibly can pull out here 36:32.960 --> 36:35.920 in a best of three, and this would be a time to do it. As you can see, they have a lot of 36:35.920 --> 36:39.760 fans going out there, but that also goes to say that you can't pivot back to maps they recently 36:39.760 --> 36:43.360 played. Now, granted, you aren't going to see some of those maps here today, but the fact of the 36:43.360 --> 36:47.120 matter is they are showing something different just in Nighthaven Labs, which I think is going to be a 36:47.120 --> 36:51.840 great perspective for us to really see is, you know, with the time off that they've had, with 36:51.840 --> 36:55.520 everything that they've gone through in the group stage. Are they going to be problem solving is 36:55.520 --> 36:58.880 going to be the bigger question here? And like I said, you know, whether that's bringing different 36:58.880 --> 37:02.960 operators, whether that's quickly adjusting and pivoting when it's need be. But as Fock was saying, 37:02.960 --> 37:07.200 it's easier for new players when things aren't going the way to be instantly caught off guard or 37:07.200 --> 37:11.200 lose focus. Well, our players are just about ready to go. So we're going to welcome in our 37:11.200 --> 37:16.320 casters. We're going to talk with Intero and Jesse before we dive into this one. Guys, Parker, 37:16.320 --> 37:20.800 I mean, I mentioned the conversation that you guys had with some of these new players with Packer 37:20.800 --> 37:26.560 specifically. It's exciting to hear that they feel pretty confident about their chances going into 37:26.560 --> 37:31.360 this bracket. Yeah, I mean, if you're just solely going off of that podcast appearance, I honestly 37:31.360 --> 37:34.720 think they're telling the truth, you know, and we say this when we're on the show, and I'm sure you 37:34.720 --> 37:38.160 say this when you interview the guests as well. Sometimes we puff up our chest an awful lot, 37:38.160 --> 37:41.360 right? And we say like, yeah, we're the best team. We're going to make it. But I think when you have 37:41.360 --> 37:47.600 an opportunity to really talk about what you think, especially on the podcast format, 37:47.600 --> 37:49.320 Players are going to be a little bit more honest. 37:49.320 --> 37:53.760 I genuinely think 1 of 30 feels that they are the better team going into this match. 37:55.360 --> 37:59.440 Yeah, it's pretty incredible to see how far they've already come as a team, right? 37:59.440 --> 38:02.160 And I mean, sure, maybe they were looked at as the underdogs. 38:02.160 --> 38:03.920 I think you guys broke it down nicely on the desk. 38:03.920 --> 38:06.280 There's definitely things that 1 of 30 still have to work on. 38:06.280 --> 38:09.000 But we've seen this team play in a couple of weeks. 38:09.000 --> 38:12.280 There's been quite a bit of an off time between the group stage and the playoffs. 38:12.280 --> 38:14.960 So who knows how much they've improved in that time. 38:14.960 --> 38:20.440 This will be a really great showcase of exactly how much they've been able to work on this stuff after going to the group stage 38:20.440 --> 38:25.120 Well a good question Jesse and good thing we can dive into this best of three to find those answers 38:25.120 --> 38:27.920 It's over to you guys as we get labs underway 38:30.120 --> 38:32.120 Well greatly appreciated 38:33.040 --> 38:39.120 Jesse what are your expectations here because I mean all of our matches today are going to be interesting for different reasons this one to 38:39.120 --> 38:43.360 Me is the biggest wild card part in the pun of the two 38:43.360 --> 38:48.720 SSG, to me, have been a team on the rise, and they've got a couple pieces that I'm really 38:48.720 --> 38:49.720 excited for. 38:49.720 --> 38:50.720 They are very aggressive. 38:50.720 --> 38:54.740 They've got entry fraggers that seem to be fearless, and I think that can obviously work 38:54.740 --> 38:55.740 wonders here. 38:55.740 --> 38:58.080 And of course, they've got the help of an organization. 38:58.080 --> 38:59.080 Let's not kid ourselves. 38:59.080 --> 39:04.480 Jesse 1-30 is playing with no work whatsoever, so they've got no institutional support. 39:04.480 --> 39:07.880 They're not even getting paid to play for crying out loud. 39:07.880 --> 39:12.960 But is their raw talent enough to overcome all of the things that Space Station has 39:12.960 --> 39:16.880 working for them right now. I think so, Parker, and I'm glad you brought that up, 39:16.880 --> 39:21.680 because Orgless teams in the North America League have never really found much success. 39:21.680 --> 39:25.520 One of 30 have done something that has almost never been done in North America before, 39:25.520 --> 39:31.360 and that is qualifying to the playoffs without an organization. The last time this happened was 39:31.360 --> 39:39.440 April 24th, 2017, when Almanus qualified to the Pro League. Year two, season one playoffs, 39:39.440 --> 39:45.240 And in those playoffs, they lost every game, so if 1-30 can go out and beat the face-tation games today, 39:45.240 --> 39:50.440 they will break history in the first team ever to win a playoff game in North America without a board. 39:51.440 --> 40:01.040 Now, for those of you that are following along, the teams that win today are neither confirmed for Salt Lake, nor are they eliminated. 40:01.440 --> 40:04.940 So what we are looking at is we are looking at the upper bracket quarterfinals. 40:04.940 --> 40:14.200 For those that don't have any kind of visual component, it means that the winner of this matchup will play 5 fears for a spot at the major. 40:14.200 --> 40:19.160 The loser will go down into the lower bracket and I believe they play Shopify Rebellion. 40:19.160 --> 40:24.440 If my numbers are correct, you're happy to chime in. Feel free to chime in here. Should I be right or wrong? 40:24.440 --> 40:28.700 Yeah, the loser of this game will end up playing Cloud9, first round of the playoffs. 40:28.700 --> 40:32.440 That's it. So there you go. Okay, so it doesn't flip for the lower bracket just yet. 40:32.440 --> 40:39.440 Our matchup, ladies and gentlemen, which is the M80 wild card matchup, then that one will be, again, the winner will go off against Dark Zero, the loser will play Shadow of the Fire Rebellion. 40:39.440 --> 40:49.440 But either way, the loser of this match still gets to stick around. So you are not seeing the last of either of these teams, and the winner, they don't qualify for the major yet. 40:49.440 --> 40:57.440 So today is a very important day, but not as critical as what we will see tomorrow, and onwards as those matches get more important the later we go into the week. 40:57.440 --> 41:01.440 But of course, we will see our last set of matches on Thursday. 41:01.440 --> 41:04.440 Jesse, you and I will be taking part in some of the commentary there. 41:04.440 --> 41:08.440 Yeah, should be exciting week here for the North American Siege fans. 41:08.440 --> 41:12.440 Get them to decide which of our four representatives will be headed to Salt Lake City. 41:12.440 --> 41:15.440 And of course, it means a little bit more coming from North America, 41:15.440 --> 41:17.440 because you will be that home team. 41:17.440 --> 41:19.440 You'll have the crowd behind you no matter who you are. 41:19.440 --> 41:21.440 You qualify in through this week. 41:21.440 --> 41:25.440 So every team is fighting to make it to that spot over the next couple of days. 41:25.440 --> 41:29.780 We started here at Nighthaven Labs as the desk broke down, Parker, and this was thought 41:29.780 --> 41:33.660 amount that either one of 30 or Space Station have played before this season. 41:33.660 --> 41:37.460 You obviously can go back to last season for Space Station, but it's a completely different 41:37.460 --> 41:39.820 team, so it's not exactly relevant. 41:39.820 --> 41:43.460 I'm sure both teams have been practicing it in the off season, it is one of 30s, a 41:43.460 --> 41:46.900 mass kick, so they expect to be a little bit stronger on it. 41:46.900 --> 41:51.300 The breaching has not been so strong, this is a little ugly. 41:51.300 --> 41:58.700 Mike W, he wanted to be able to make a crouch walk through with the Hibana pellets, but he's based on just a little bit too far apart. 41:59.100 --> 42:05.700 And now is struggling to get that open, so we'll see how this goes for him as the match continues on. 42:08.100 --> 42:10.300 It's tough getting open that IT wall. 42:10.300 --> 42:18.300 There's lots of teams struggle with it to not to obviously not to excuse some sloppiness here, but to kind of explain it for people. 42:18.300 --> 42:27.300 We literally casted two teams that have made it to Salt Lake City yesterday in Brazil and they had problems opening the wall. 42:27.300 --> 42:35.300 So for crying out loud, most competitive region and two major bound teams, they struggled open up IT. 42:35.300 --> 42:41.300 Don't play these players inside of 1 of 30 just yet. 42:41.300 --> 42:45.300 I don't know if they've droned out electrical or not. 42:45.300 --> 42:47.300 Maybe it was some poor coordination here. 42:47.300 --> 42:48.300 Silo dies because of it. 42:48.300 --> 42:50.300 Volsper and Mike on the board, Bino too. 42:50.300 --> 42:53.300 Oh my goodness, Jesse, one minute left in the round. 42:53.300 --> 42:57.300 And this 1 of 30 team is just about as fearless as we said 42:57.300 --> 42:59.300 from the entry players on the side of space station. 42:59.300 --> 43:00.300 The round is over. 43:00.300 --> 43:03.300 1 of 30 failed to open up that IT wall right off the rip, 43:03.300 --> 43:07.300 and then immediately decided to collaborate on an execute. 43:07.300 --> 43:09.300 And it works out they're all smiles. 43:09.300 --> 43:10.300 They're all laughing. 43:10.300 --> 43:11.300 Round number one goes to 1 of 30. 43:11.300 --> 43:13.300 Yeah, perfectly played by Bino. 43:13.300 --> 43:15.440 Bino saw an opportunity and took it. 43:15.440 --> 43:17.780 Little unfortunate, they let his teammate die there 43:17.780 --> 43:18.660 inside the connector. 43:18.660 --> 43:20.440 He's outside on that electrical window, 43:20.440 --> 43:22.620 but Bino perfectly plays that, 43:22.620 --> 43:24.780 takes advantage of the space that's given to him 43:24.780 --> 43:26.260 and then rushes through the bomb site 43:26.260 --> 43:29.220 to get a massive multi-kill to start things off 43:29.220 --> 43:33.060 right for one of 30, attacking on NightAven Labs. 43:33.060 --> 43:35.580 Bino, playing in his 36th map 43:35.580 --> 43:37.240 as a professional Rainbow Six player, 43:37.240 --> 43:39.500 he has never actually played a match 43:39.500 --> 43:41.340 under an organization, 43:41.340 --> 43:46.640 playing the Montreal Major under Steele for life with some of his opponents on the other side, most notably Giddy. 43:46.640 --> 43:52.540 And then also playing Understand by last season, he has been, I think, really a shining star throughout this team. 43:52.540 --> 43:55.240 He's had some ups and downs in his career, no doubt. 43:55.240 --> 43:59.640 But you can see that game sense. When he sees an opportunity, he's going to step up and take it. 43:59.640 --> 44:03.040 He's going to be able to work through the map and find those frags. 44:03.040 --> 44:06.640 So really nice to see that coming out of Bino starting us off with a beautiful 2K. 44:07.640 --> 44:11.040 Bino's not the guy that they usually rely on before entry. 44:11.040 --> 44:13.160 No, far and away, I mean, it's Mike W. 44:13.160 --> 44:17.720 Mike W has 17 entries compared to the next highest, 44:17.720 --> 44:21.240 which is Packer at 13, Bino as five. 44:21.240 --> 44:23.680 So, I mean, Bino's the guy that's cracking this round open. 44:23.680 --> 44:26.120 Goodness gracious, what is happening here? 44:26.120 --> 44:28.640 In fact, the three players that were first involved 44:28.640 --> 44:30.320 in the action were one of 30. 44:30.320 --> 44:32.920 We're the three more support-oriented players, 44:32.920 --> 44:36.440 so I don't know if it was just by design or what. 44:36.440 --> 44:39.520 Mike W obviously providing some auxiliary kills. 44:39.520 --> 44:43.980 Mike W will be the stand-up performer on 1 of 30 if all goes according to their plan. 44:43.980 --> 44:44.480 Yeah. 44:44.480 --> 44:47.920 But keep an eye on him, but if you've got the rest of the team joining in, 44:47.920 --> 44:49.920 things are looking pretty good for 1 of 30 though. 44:49.920 --> 44:51.720 Yeah, no, you're not wrong at all, Parker. 44:51.720 --> 44:54.320 Bino takes that IGL role on this 1 of 30 team. 44:54.320 --> 44:55.360 Some people think it's Packer. 44:55.360 --> 44:58.000 Packer certainly has a leadership role on this team, 44:58.000 --> 45:00.000 but Bino just doesn't have the official IGL, 45:00.000 --> 45:04.640 but still able to frag out all those supporting roles when he gets the opportunity. 45:04.640 --> 45:07.480 SSG probably not expecting to lose that first round. 45:07.480 --> 45:12.980 They'll go down to the basement for their second opportunity to try to get a defense round win, and there are quite a lot of roamers. 45:12.980 --> 45:16.180 You can see these orange bodies scattered around the map. 45:16.180 --> 45:18.780 Some of the top floor, some here on the mid floor as well. 45:19.380 --> 45:25.380 Raid and Aiden on that top floor trying to lock things down up above, and it will be Aiden, the first one to fall. 45:25.380 --> 45:28.780 Bino is not done after his multi-killing round number one. 45:28.780 --> 45:34.380 You will find yet another early frag taking down the youngster on space station, gaining 19 years old. 45:34.880 --> 45:37.180 Aiden ends up falling early in this round. 45:37.480 --> 45:45.280 Paid in their highest rated player, best entry stats and best KD on the side of SSG, so if 45:45.280 --> 45:49.400 he's not doing well, the rest of the team is going to find some problems here. 45:49.400 --> 45:51.840 Raid obviously is on the board as well, if need be. 45:51.840 --> 45:54.520 He's been very quiet so far, Giddy in the ground. 45:54.520 --> 45:57.200 This entry from 1 of 30 has been terrific so far. 45:57.200 --> 46:02.600 Jesse finding two kills with really no contest at this present point in time. 46:02.600 --> 46:07.800 might find another yes he will but Silo credited with the kill but Mike W was 46:07.800 --> 46:13.200 definitely in on that one Mike W credited with the kill in the bottom left 46:13.200 --> 46:18.560 rival hadn't gotten that kill Jesse I'm not saying I would eat a hat but I'm 46:18.560 --> 46:23.080 already in one might as well keep adding to it oh boy rival gets away with it it's 46:23.080 --> 46:26.520 not a problem but he kind of needs more of your partner top of cargo stairs all 46:26.520 --> 46:29.880 alone goes for the swing and hits the head on the wall spread out nice brings 46:29.880 --> 46:33.220 the man count disadvantage down to just one and gives a little bit of 46:33.220 --> 46:37.260 opportunity for him and dream to lock things down now on the bomb site we see 46:37.260 --> 46:40.740 this kind of two-pronged push coming out from one of 30 you got Packer down here 46:40.740 --> 46:44.520 in XO and then Mike and Beano pushing together on the cargo side they got to 46:44.520 --> 46:46.980 deal with these mirror windows and they only got 30 seconds to pull off this 46:46.980 --> 46:51.100 execute. Packer was playing on that lurk later rolled a lot of the times they'll 46:51.100 --> 46:54.460 call it mailbox where he just sits and holds an angle it's dreamin rival now 46:54.460 --> 46:58.620 attempting to keep this one together rival sensational good for two kills not 46:58.620 --> 47:05.340 good enough past that. Mike W with three frags on the round. These first two that we've seen from 47:05.340 --> 47:11.820 1 of 30 have looked very well practiced. This team has certainly made improvements. Now obviously 47:11.820 --> 47:15.900 the wheels could fall off, but we are seeing a much better 1 of 30 here today than we saw 47:15.900 --> 47:20.540 were much of the groups. Yeah, I have to agree, Parker. It's been kind of surprising to see 1 of 47:20.540 --> 47:25.180 30 dominate the early game. That was one aspect of this match where I thought SSG were going to 47:25.180 --> 47:29.740 have the edge. Unfortunately, the entry fraggers of Raiden and Aiden have yet to really get 47:29.740 --> 47:33.900 active in this matchup. It was technically an opening pick for space station in round 47:33.900 --> 47:39.100 1. Round 2, not so lucky. Aiden actually turned 20 a couple weeks ago, ends up being the first 47:39.100 --> 47:42.700 one to go down in this one, so that nice angle that we saw coming out from Bino, and then 47:42.700 --> 47:47.380 from there the roamers, just very isolated, very solo. Look at all the information that's 47:47.380 --> 47:50.940 being brought on the side of 1 of 30. Packers on the doke, the falsepers on the snake. They've 47:50.940 --> 47:56.740 They've got a lot of tools to find these individual roamers that are scattered around the map on the side of SSG. 47:56.740 --> 48:03.540 They're working together, they're using the information, and they're clearing these players without any potential trades coming through on the side of SSG. 48:03.540 --> 48:06.040 So really clean start coming up from 1-30. 48:06.040 --> 48:13.740 I want to mention Mike W as well because he is now 5-0 and he's been so good as you mentioned in the early rounds for 1-30. 48:13.740 --> 48:17.840 He's not actually an entry fragger, he's listed as a support player on this team. 48:17.840 --> 48:21.840 He's playing a lot of ace, a lot of bachelors, but you're absolutely right. 48:21.840 --> 48:25.840 He's been getting involved a lot with the opening duals throughout the group stage of 130, 48:25.840 --> 48:28.840 and seems like that is looking to continue here in the playoffs. 48:28.840 --> 48:33.840 I mean, Mike W plays a much more, I would say, sheltered style of defender, 48:33.840 --> 48:36.840 and he plays a lot of that smoke. He plays that mute. 48:36.840 --> 48:39.840 Sometimes he'll play warden. He plays hard breach a lot on attack, 48:39.840 --> 48:42.840 or that support that enables the hard breaches. 48:42.840 --> 48:46.840 So, Volsper will be running the ace, but it's not uncommon to see Mike playing on that. 48:46.840 --> 48:53.440 Hibana if need be so yeah, I mean the fact that he's able to get these I don't want to say like garbage kills or like garbage time 48:53.440 --> 48:58.060 If people know what that means or the cleanup kills, but Mike W. Can definitely be there who's the port 48:58.440 --> 49:04.720 But again, he's got the best entry stats on the team Packer has 11 entries himself 49:04.840 --> 49:09.540 Yeah, but he's lost eight of those so Packer is getting into the action early 49:09.540 --> 49:13.680 But isn't usually the guy getting the kills his most played operators or day must and snake 49:13.680 --> 49:19.520 He's on a shield this time around and we'll go off to the races all on his own some missing a golden opportunity 49:19.760 --> 49:27.160 Caught in a crossfire and there's an entry from Packer and H becomes nine rival finds two kills down goes be no traded out 49:27.400 --> 49:33.060 Perfectly though. There's been a lot of trades across SAO and no inhale and it puts SSG in a better position 49:33.640 --> 49:39.120 Silo looking for something unable to do it raid his first kill of this round first kill of the series for raid 49:39.120 --> 49:43.160 Swapping backs and with half the round to go one of 30 finds themselves in a spot 49:43.160 --> 49:47.360 They haven't really been in and that's a deficit. Yeah, really good start to this round SSG 49:47.360 --> 49:52.800 We started with Aiden having an excellent impact trick on the IT wall as Balsper just drones right past it cleared up 49:52.800 --> 49:56.160 All of Balsper's Selma charges at least two of them on that initial wall 49:56.160 --> 50:03.240 So that keeps IT closed not let's the anchors play a little bit more aggressively down towards the sites dream and rival finding 50:03.240 --> 50:08.940 Three of the fourth rags already through this round rival huge to stop that initial push now dream gets one leaving 50:08.940 --> 50:11.820 and Volsper all alone in the 1v4. 50:11.820 --> 50:13.000 He's got good map control. 50:13.000 --> 50:14.700 All of top floor has his to play with. 50:14.700 --> 50:17.180 But Parker, in this 1v4, this advantage, 50:17.180 --> 50:18.780 I'm just not sure what Volsper's gonna be able 50:18.780 --> 50:19.620 to get out of this. 50:19.620 --> 50:21.380 This is a really tough spot to be in. 50:24.500 --> 50:26.300 I can't tell if his player cam is frozen 50:26.300 --> 50:28.500 or if he's just making a stink face this whole time, 50:28.500 --> 50:30.940 but I have to imagine it's frozen. 50:30.940 --> 50:33.780 The face though, definitely applying for the situation. 50:33.780 --> 50:35.340 He finds himself in, 50:35.340 --> 50:37.740 one tucked really close into the corner, 50:37.740 --> 50:38.780 and we'll get the final kill. 50:38.780 --> 50:40.420 Yeah, that one was not really going anywhere. 50:40.420 --> 50:42.020 You were spot on with that. 50:42.020 --> 50:44.580 So SSG reads it correctly. 50:44.580 --> 50:46.220 The two entries of both Bino and Packer 50:46.220 --> 50:50.300 fall flat on their face, taken down by one player 50:50.300 --> 50:53.540 on Space Station before being swiftly traded out himself. 50:53.540 --> 50:54.900 The damage was already done. 50:54.900 --> 50:57.380 SSG does get on the board, denying 1 of 30, 50:57.380 --> 50:59.620 a perfect 3-0 start here. 50:59.620 --> 51:02.140 As defenders on this map, SSG should be a little bit better 51:02.140 --> 51:02.820 on these numbers. 51:02.820 --> 51:04.180 We'll see if that changes course now 51:04.180 --> 51:05.860 that the last band is coming in. 51:05.860 --> 51:07.060 Yeah, I think for Space Station, 51:07.060 --> 51:10.940 you uh, you desperately needed that rounds. This is your opponent's map picks. 51:10.940 --> 51:13.420 That's maybe the one silver lining where as if they do lose this map, 51:13.460 --> 51:17.660 they're still in a good spot for the series, but obviously they're coming into 51:17.660 --> 51:18.900 this game as the favorites. 51:18.900 --> 51:21.580 They had a much better group stage than one of 30 did. 51:21.780 --> 51:24.300 They're also playing with a much more prestigious organization. 51:24.300 --> 51:27.980 And despite a lot of people doubting this team, uh, 51:27.980 --> 51:29.180 when they came into the season, 51:29.180 --> 51:32.460 I think they really proved themselves through the group stage. They showed up. 51:32.460 --> 51:35.220 They won a lot of games that people were not expecting them to. 51:35.220 --> 51:41.220 And I think they kind of showed a very fun style of siege, but they were getting aggressive, they were getting active in those early games. 51:41.220 --> 51:48.220 And frankly, the Roller Converts, Raiden Aiden, were really leading the way in that charge for space station gaming. 51:48.220 --> 51:55.220 So good to see both of them getting active there in round number three. They get SSG on the board and set themselves up hopefully for a better second quarter. 51:55.220 --> 52:02.220 I do really like that band coming up in them on the ace. It's been played every single round by 1 of 30, usually by Valsper. 52:02.220 --> 52:05.220 I'll hop over to the Hubble on it to try to change things up. 52:07.220 --> 52:11.220 Mike W on a familiar roll now, playing on this grim operator, 52:11.220 --> 52:13.220 and we'll be there to support once again the execute. 52:13.220 --> 52:16.220 I mean, you look at the lineup and a lot of people would be stuck in their raises saying, 52:16.220 --> 52:19.220 oh, well, it's got to be the ash of Silo who'll be in the building first. 52:19.220 --> 52:23.220 Silo has struggled from an offensive perspective. 52:23.220 --> 52:25.220 Not in this game, but just in general. 52:25.220 --> 52:28.220 Third highest amount of frags on the team, 52:28.220 --> 52:34.340 but I mean he's he's very close to passing that baton to go down lower to both Volsperr and Bino and again Bino's the guy who 52:34.820 --> 52:39.820 I mean he's playing shields for the most part. Yeah, obviously not doing so here 52:39.820 --> 52:45.580 You've got a shield band too hard breach your band. So there is some flexibility on what one of 30 can play it will push them out of their comfort zone 52:45.580 --> 52:47.580 but we're not really seeing a 52:48.380 --> 52:52.860 Ton of changes all of these players now playing operators that are very much in the wheelhouse of one of 30 52:52.860 --> 52:55.900 And you do need to remember that when you put a newer team together like this 52:55.900 --> 53:03.900 They're going to probably stick to the same couple maps and the same couple operators unless absolutely necessary because it's what they've practiced and it's what they know. 53:03.900 --> 53:09.900 While the breaching is slow but steady, the mute jammers have been dealt with so the wall should be able to get opened up. 53:09.900 --> 53:13.900 They've got an angle into the IT breach now and they opened the connector a little bit earlier too. 53:13.900 --> 53:16.900 So obviously the push is coming along for one of 30. 53:16.900 --> 53:19.900 Ash charges by Silo being used to destroy some of those mirror windows. 53:19.900 --> 53:26.460 So you've got a little bit more utile now that you've dealt with you can see giddy his windows been cracked there looking into connector 53:26.460 --> 53:30.960 So it gives a bit more of an advantage over towards one of three to try to make their way into that room 53:31.420 --> 53:36.940 Very clearly posting up for one of this kind of two-pronged push through both I3 and then through connector 53:36.940 --> 53:41.640 Usually you need two or three angles I T connector and then kind of awkward aqua garage 53:42.440 --> 53:48.760 Very obvious which way they're going with this one that the class you'd assume that they can maybe get a little bit more space than what they got previously 53:48.760 --> 53:51.480 But they didn't have any problems with it back in around one. I'll tell you that 53:56.040 --> 53:59.640 Silo might have a good read here onto this pinch in electrical 53:59.640 --> 54:04.160 You know has been allowed to jump on in and I think this defender of Ray playing the corner 54:04.160 --> 54:09.840 Yes, it is Ray comes out with the first dual packer trades out dreams or neither team gaining any advantage for Justin this round 54:09.920 --> 54:11.920 There's only a minute left 54:11.960 --> 54:13.960 Down goes Ray into Volsper 54:13.960 --> 54:22.960 He's got another now and thought was tucked into the corner packer and Mike on the kill feed as giddy as last one standing, but Volsper strikes him. 54:22.960 --> 54:28.960 Volsper thought he was playing by that bomb chassis, by the way, but then second guessed himself or maybe got bad comms, peeled off of that spot. 54:28.960 --> 54:37.960 That could have been a devastating position for 1-30, but they find their man at the last minute and get the final kill, but they were doing a good job of sweeping through IT, sweeping through electrical. 54:37.960 --> 54:40.960 Maybe a bit too passive a defense from Space Station. 54:40.960 --> 54:49.960 Yeah, I was exactly thinking the same thing Parker. SSG and the group stage were known for their fast plays, their aggression, their ability to jump in and take some of these fights. 54:49.960 --> 54:56.960 But now, for the first four rounds, it really feels like it's been a lot of sitting in a room and waiting for the attackers to do something. 54:56.960 --> 55:05.960 That's just not the style of game you can play against one of 30, not when they're bringing operators like Capitao, like Grimm, when they're exploding into the site after they're having a lot of success on these wall breaches. 55:05.960 --> 55:09.560 I think that's going to be part of what gets talked about here in the attack timeout. 55:09.560 --> 55:14.760 It's just how they can make these early games go more in their favor and how they can take a bit more control. 55:15.160 --> 55:22.440 Often it is 1 of 30 initiating these fights. It's taking these space. It's forcing space station into gun fights sometimes in uncomfortable situations and 55:22.600 --> 55:27.720 sure, like they're the attacking team. They're the ones who are supposed to be doing that, but I don't know. 55:27.720 --> 55:31.840 I feel like SSG could be getting a little bit more loose with it. They could be getting a little bit more aggressive. 55:31.840 --> 55:34.640 They could try to take some more fights, they catch one of 30 off guard. 55:34.880 --> 55:37.280 Right now it's been a lot of sitting around, playing your spots, 55:37.520 --> 55:38.880 waiting for the push to come into you. 55:38.880 --> 55:42.160 And at that point, one of 30 are able to just set up exactly what they want. 55:42.520 --> 55:45.520 It took so long for the opening gunfight to come through in round number four. 55:45.520 --> 55:48.320 And that 5v5 execute looked really, really clean. 55:48.360 --> 55:49.560 You got to just help them somehow. 55:51.920 --> 55:55.120 I mean, if this is one of 30's most comfortable map, 55:55.120 --> 55:58.200 and you have to imagine it's definitely up there, given that they chose this map. 55:58.480 --> 55:58.800 Yeah. 55:58.800 --> 56:01.720 SSG opts to start defending on Nighthaven Labs. 56:01.720 --> 56:10.220 Again, I don't really want to go into the numbers too too much because they bore a lot of people and frankly most maps at this present point in time are very favorable for the defenders. 56:10.220 --> 56:15.220 Even if they're not, there's usually one or two bomb sites that you can flip a coin and the defenders can have a good job of. 56:15.220 --> 56:18.220 You have to factor in obviously operator bans and stuff like that. 56:18.220 --> 56:24.520 The point is that space station should be good enough on this map, on this side, to pick up three rounds. 56:24.520 --> 56:29.020 That means that the win condition for SSG through this first half is to win the next two rounds. 56:29.020 --> 56:32.060 There's very little that I've seen through this bombsite rotation. 56:32.060 --> 56:36.460 That gives me confidence that this SSG team is going to be able to win the next two rounds. 56:36.460 --> 56:38.940 It's siege, anything can happen, there's no momentum. 56:38.940 --> 56:43.820 One bad entry, one bad mistrone, one bad call, and suddenly the round is way more winnable than it looks. 56:43.820 --> 56:46.780 And as if she finds themselves in a position where it's a 3-3 tie. 56:46.780 --> 56:50.380 But this is a worrying spot for space station to be in so early in this map. 56:50.380 --> 56:52.220 They should have more than one round at this point. 56:52.780 --> 56:54.780 Rival's being hunted at the moment, Parker. 56:54.780 --> 56:57.500 There's a lot of pressure here towards top cargo, and Rival, 56:57.500 --> 57:03.340 He would have heard that banshee, so he knows they're already in the building, but might not know exactly how deep Packard has gotten. 57:03.340 --> 57:09.740 No, he doesn't. Packard, great little entry, finds Rival, he's not watching the right angle. That's a really nice opening pick. 57:09.740 --> 57:15.500 And again, it's SSG on this Rome game, kind of sitting in their spots, not able to take the gunfight, and it's 1 of 30. 57:15.500 --> 57:17.500 They take the initiative and take the opening pick. 57:19.740 --> 57:23.580 It's just, I mean, when you got guys like Rival or you got guys like Raid dying early, 57:23.580 --> 57:27.380 I don't have a ton of hope for this SSG team the supporting 57:27.660 --> 57:31.640 Passage hasn't been there in fact right and Aiden are combining for three kills at the moment 57:31.640 --> 57:33.700 This is well below their usual numbers though 57:33.700 --> 57:38.580 Yeah, we have a little worrying sign right now for them down goes Aiden at the hands of Beano 57:38.580 --> 57:45.620 So things do not improve for this team whatsoever. Giddy will join one of 30 terrific on these entries so far 57:45.620 --> 57:51.000 But I will say the defenses from space station are making one of 30s entries look better 57:51.000 --> 57:55.080 Yeah, I mean the biggest thing is like one of thirty are winning these fights 57:55.080 --> 57:58.520 They've got better information and that's you're also not close enough to trade 57:58.520 --> 58:00.680 It's like you lose the opening duel, right? 58:00.680 --> 58:06.080 Maybe it great rivals looking the other way he can get Packer on that opening pick right go one way or the other 58:06.080 --> 58:09.600 But because rival is all alone down at the top of cargo stairs 58:09.760 --> 58:12.040 There's no way for a trade if that does go poorly 58:12.040 --> 58:17.200 Whereas Packer did have other players kind of around the building lurking help another a little bit more you also 58:17.200 --> 58:22.040 Attackers just have a lot more information available to you as we see with ops like dog and snake 58:22.040 --> 58:24.840 But also some of the drones so we're in that advantage 58:28.480 --> 58:34.080 Raiden dream now left alone on site. They've been here a couple times before they're gonna have to really pull something out of the 58:34.080 --> 58:36.760 Hat because this 2v5 looks really good for 130 58:39.240 --> 58:43.240 Dream looking to put up more of a single kill he's got to chunk in his hands 58:43.240 --> 58:48.040 He's got Raid as backup and he's pushed himself now over to this exo set of stairs 58:48.760 --> 58:50.040 Might have a good read here 58:50.040 --> 58:56.040 There are five players still upright on one of 30 and with 30 seconds to go a 4-1 score line looks the most likely dream will shut down 58:56.040 --> 58:57.800 Packer immediately pivoting 58:57.800 --> 59:03.760 Bullets go out but no targets to be found if user plans it Raid is gone dream will need to clutch the round as all hell is broken 59:03.760 --> 59:08.680 Loose inside the bomb site and SSG looks like they have no clue where to go 59:08.680 --> 59:13.880 So, Reed's got a pretty decent idea, but there are so many bullets whizzing past his head 59:13.880 --> 59:16.080 that there's nothing he can do. 59:16.080 --> 59:21.360 For one so far with one more round to go in the first half, a 5-1 start would be incredible 59:21.360 --> 59:25.480 and almost unthinkable for one of 30, but it's within reach, Jesse. 59:25.480 --> 59:29.080 It absolutely is Parker, and it seems to be the same story every round. 59:29.080 --> 59:32.360 One player I really want to focus on at this point is got to be Volsper. 59:32.360 --> 59:36.320 He's been playing really, really well so far today, not even necessarily in that last round. 59:36.320 --> 59:38.680 It's not that he was bad, but throughout the game, 59:38.680 --> 59:41.000 round after round, he's been finding really big picks, 59:41.000 --> 59:42.880 and that makes me really happy to see 59:42.880 --> 59:44.560 because Valsper is a young guy. 59:44.560 --> 59:47.240 He's a rookie, of course, playing his very first stage. 59:47.240 --> 59:49.000 He has yet to go positive in a match 59:49.000 --> 59:49.960 in the North America League. 59:49.960 --> 59:52.440 He's been negative or even in all of this contest so far, 59:52.440 --> 59:54.840 since joining 1 of 30 and playing here 59:54.840 --> 59:58.080 as a professional, but now by far on pace 59:58.080 --> 01:00:00.000 to go positive for the first time ever, 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.080 and it's been amazing to see that improvement 01:00:02.080 --> 01:00:02.920 coming out from Valsper. 01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:04.600 Yeah, fighting two now. 01:00:04.600 --> 01:00:06.680 He tweeted after his first couple of games 01:00:06.680 --> 01:00:08.440 that he didn't feel like he was playing well enough 01:00:08.440 --> 01:00:11.280 that he was going to work harder to be better 01:00:11.280 --> 01:00:13.400 here at the highest level of Rainbow Six Siege. 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:16.120 And I think you're seeing that in the server today, 01:00:16.120 --> 01:00:18.640 on track to have his best game of his career here, 01:00:18.640 --> 01:00:20.720 first match of the playoffs against SSG, 01:00:20.720 --> 01:00:22.600 and it looks really nice on him. 01:00:22.600 --> 01:00:23.440 Five seconds left. 01:00:23.440 --> 01:00:25.160 Absolutely, everybody really pulling their weight 01:00:25.160 --> 01:00:26.360 on this one, a 30 roster. 01:00:26.360 --> 01:00:28.240 Space Station entered today's match 01:00:28.240 --> 01:00:31.200 with only a single player having a negative KD, 01:00:31.200 --> 01:00:32.400 and that is dream. 01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:33.880 Well, if you look in the bottom right-hand corner 01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:39.680 screen. Every single member of SSG has a negative KD to start this game. That is 01:00:39.680 --> 01:00:42.560 devastating especially when these numbers are not just green, they're bright 01:00:42.560 --> 01:00:49.440 green. Aden a plus 17, Raid a plus 12. Very close to breaking 50 kills for both 01:00:49.440 --> 01:00:52.960 of these players. Aden within striking distance and depending on how late this 01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:58.200 matchup goes, he could have hit it. I mean he's only one kill closer because Aden's 01:00:58.200 --> 01:01:01.160 been having a pretty rough day but so is all of Space Station. They just simply 01:01:01.160 --> 01:01:05.800 look out class at the moment by 1 of 30. And I mean it just lends him credibility to what 01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:11.000 Packer said on the podcast. He said we feel really good. We think we match up well against them. 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:16.760 And so far he's looking like he's spot on. Listen if anybody's gonna take an Orgose team 01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:22.520 for a major, Packer certainly would be one to do it. He's done it before, of course, on that old 01:01:22.520 --> 01:01:28.440 CL for life roster. Right alongside Bino, right alongside Giddy as well, who now sits up cross 01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:33.480 from him in the server. Could be a big moment for Packer. They'll have to win one more best of 01:01:33.480 --> 01:01:37.480 three after this one. We're only at the beginning of this, so we won't get too far ahead of ourselves, 01:01:37.480 --> 01:01:42.600 but definitely is a great start coming out now for one of 30. The information continues to be good. 01:01:42.600 --> 01:01:47.160 Valsper on this snake, spotting out the one player that's off-floor. It's going to be Aiden 01:01:47.160 --> 01:01:51.240 and Raid that are roaming up there, just as they have on most rounds when they're going for this 01:01:51.240 --> 01:01:55.480 roam strategy. But look at this, Parker. The information remains very good, and they could 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:57.820 They catch off guard SSG one more time. 01:01:58.820 --> 01:01:59.660 I'm reloading. 01:01:59.660 --> 01:02:01.240 It's really been the story of this first half. 01:02:01.240 --> 01:02:03.440 Space station playing a bit too restrained 01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:04.720 and not able to fight back. 01:02:04.720 --> 01:02:06.600 They're not wasting enough of 1 of 30s time 01:02:06.600 --> 01:02:08.200 and it's allowed 1 of 30 to get set up 01:02:08.200 --> 01:02:10.920 on most of these executes really effectively. 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:13.920 Score lines shows perfectly just how dominant 01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:16.320 this has been for 1 of 30 up to this point. 01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:17.680 Of course there are two sides of siege 01:02:17.680 --> 01:02:19.720 so there is a possibility that space station 01:02:19.720 --> 01:02:21.360 might just be more comfortable attacking 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.400 and frankly, Evan just passing the eye chest, 01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:26.840 They haven't been a bad team whatsoever on attack. 01:02:26.840 --> 01:02:28.720 They get caught in an uncomfortable position now 01:02:28.720 --> 01:02:30.240 on that rafters' staircase. 01:02:30.240 --> 01:02:32.960 Mike W, the highest rated player on this team 01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:35.440 heading into the match, will continue his reign of terror. 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:38.520 He's got seven kills at this point in time. 01:02:38.520 --> 01:02:39.840 And the sixth round's still not finished, 01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:42.000 so there's more damage that this sludge can do. 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:43.560 And again, Parker, I feel like a broken record. 01:02:43.560 --> 01:02:44.760 Raid all by himself. 01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:46.720 He's gotta watch like nine different angles. 01:02:46.720 --> 01:02:48.640 He's surrounded by players on one of 30. 01:02:48.640 --> 01:02:51.360 He just doesn't have a chance at escaping that positive. 01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:53.560 He ends up dying as the first player that he spots. 01:02:53.560 --> 01:02:58.600 Now Rival's got a lot of work to do, he's got the sharks circling around him, and Packer 01:02:58.600 --> 01:03:02.240 will bring this mancamp lead up to do hoping for a fight right now. 01:03:06.080 --> 01:03:09.160 Raiden Rival dead doesn't give me a ton of confidence, Defuser getting planted right 01:03:09.160 --> 01:03:14.720 now by Bino, Dream will lose Giddy, it's him and Aiden, Dream shooting at Packer, a flawless 01:03:14.720 --> 01:03:18.720 end to this first half now with in reach of 1 of 30, somebody just needs to find Aiden, 01:03:18.720 --> 01:03:22.000 It'll be Volsper, finding both the final kills 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:26.280 and one of 30, a five one first half. 01:03:26.280 --> 01:03:29.920 Right now, just wasting no time whatsoever. 01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:33.240 The side swap comes in and it should benefit one of 30 01:03:33.240 --> 01:03:35.160 based on the numbers. 01:03:35.160 --> 01:03:36.760 Oh boy, I don't know. 01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:39.160 I don't know how we're feeling about this first half, 01:03:39.160 --> 01:03:40.000 but you know what? 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:41.440 Maybe the desk can help us out. 01:03:42.360 --> 01:03:44.240 How are we feeling about this one? 01:03:44.240 --> 01:03:46.840 Because one of 30, Parker said it right off the bat, 01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:48.740 that they thought they are hands down, 01:03:48.740 --> 01:03:50.880 the better team in this equation, 01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:53.600 did not feel like, or it was early enough 01:03:53.600 --> 01:03:54.860 to make that statement. 01:03:54.860 --> 01:03:56.320 But look at what they have done here. 01:03:56.320 --> 01:03:58.800 Five-one on labs attack. 01:03:58.800 --> 01:03:59.960 Yeah, I mean, it clearly goes to show 01:03:59.960 --> 01:04:01.600 they know exactly what they want to do 01:04:01.600 --> 01:04:03.200 on this map on their attacking side 01:04:03.200 --> 01:04:05.640 and why they've kept this map maybe outside of groups 01:04:05.640 --> 01:04:06.760 and showing a display in here. 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:08.880 I mean, one thing I will say, this is the most fluid. 01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:11.800 I think we've seen this team look within a single half. 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:13.040 Granted, they are five-and-one, 01:04:13.040 --> 01:04:14.760 so obviously something's working out. 01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:16.760 But even just in terms of their operator lineups, 01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:18.340 They always have something for the walls. 01:04:18.340 --> 01:04:20.640 They always have something for the Rome clear. 01:04:20.640 --> 01:04:21.720 They got that information. 01:04:21.720 --> 01:04:25.400 They also have the disruption from a lion, from a capitol. 01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:27.600 They have a twitch to be able to get any little bit of Utah 01:04:27.600 --> 01:04:28.880 to help towards that execute. 01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:30.920 Clear any of the information from the camp. 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:32.600 I mean, you've seen them time and time again, 01:04:32.600 --> 01:04:33.800 getting those opening picks. 01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:35.880 I mean, they understand exactly how they're 01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:37.880 want to approach these SSG roams. 01:04:37.880 --> 01:04:40.520 And then on the side of SSG, they look a little disoriented. 01:04:40.520 --> 01:04:42.400 I think Jesse also hit the nail on the head. 01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:43.800 They aren't in position to go for trade. 01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:46.720 So it clearly shows a lack of comfortability on their side. 01:04:46.720 --> 01:04:50.400 But so far, I mean, 1-30, looking very convincing. 01:04:50.400 --> 01:04:51.280 Yeah, I agree. 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:53.160 1-30 has been looking strong. 01:04:53.160 --> 01:04:55.320 I don't want to take anything away from them, 01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:57.560 because I do feel like they're assessing the situation. 01:04:57.560 --> 01:04:59.880 They're getting that first pick more often than not, 01:04:59.880 --> 01:05:00.920 and just executing. 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:02.360 They're keeping that man advantage. 01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:02.880 But I agree. 01:05:02.880 --> 01:05:05.680 I feel like a lot of the issue is on SSG shoulders. 01:05:05.680 --> 01:05:08.720 They're going for these over-extra-neuous roams. 01:05:08.720 --> 01:05:10.040 Everyone's very split up. 01:05:10.040 --> 01:05:12.080 It's too stall time to fall back to site. 01:05:12.080 --> 01:05:13.440 If you're going to go for a fight, 01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:14.360 you should be teaming up. 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:15.840 But that's not coming from SSG. 01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:22.100 They're continuously spread out trying to stall time, but they lose pick after pick consistently and there's no adaptation 01:05:22.100 --> 01:05:26.660 I think that's the biggest thing for me watching SSG, especially with an IGL like dream 01:05:27.060 --> 01:05:32.940 There's no communication of let's just maybe give up a little bit of map pressure so we can just have a trade potential 01:05:32.940 --> 01:05:36.100 So we can just have players holding on positions in areas 01:05:36.140 --> 01:05:42.020 We're not seeing the adaptation for SSG at all and I think this map 5-1 losing your defenses like that 01:05:42.020 --> 01:05:48.760 I think it's already wraps that being said if you're SSG you want to just be able to feel as comfortable as you can going into clubhouse 01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:52.640 Right see if you can build a little bit of momentum at the very least even if this one 01:05:52.680 --> 01:05:58.120 Maybe just add a hand. We'll see if they can bounce back 5-1 at the swap Parker Jesse back to you. Oh 01:05:59.600 --> 01:06:03.500 Thank you very very much. Jesse. Do I say couldn't have said it better myself? 01:06:04.320 --> 01:06:06.320 Couldn't have said it better myself 01:06:07.840 --> 01:06:11.800 I'm glad we got the I'm glad we got the desk to break things down and kind of 01:06:12.020 --> 01:06:17.020 exposed a little bit of what's been going on in this game because it has been really rough for SSG. 01:06:17.020 --> 01:06:22.020 I mean, they can now move to the attack and we can hope that their attacks will be looking a little bit better. 01:06:22.020 --> 01:06:27.020 I will say, space station gaming's attacking win rate was a lot better than their defending win rate through the groups. 01:06:27.020 --> 01:06:32.020 74% attack win rate from SSG through the group stage, so they are a good attacking team, 01:06:32.020 --> 01:06:38.020 but I do fear that a lack of familiarity with this map has really hurt them in this first map. 01:06:38.020 --> 01:06:46.020 Oh, absolutely. And hanging on for map number two, their choice to Clubhouse might just be the only thing at this point in time that they can really do. 01:06:46.020 --> 01:06:54.020 Again, the numbers for SSG really do tell the whole story. A lot of these defensive rounds are them sitting there, getting droned out, not being able to fight back. 01:06:54.020 --> 01:07:00.020 They're not being able to waste time. A lot of people think that roaming or lurking is often designed to get kills. 01:07:00.020 --> 01:07:27.020 Yeah, I mean, that's a part of it, but a lot of these teams have set up their roams designed to waste utility and time and then try to trap the attackers in the unfavorable positions where they can replay upon them and get those kills, whether as the anchor and support players that are situated quite well because the attackers don't have enough time or information to execute on later in the round, or because they think they have intel that might be outdated and they try to go for swings and get picked off by roamers that might be supported or unsupported. 01:07:27.020 --> 01:07:29.220 But one of 30 seems to understand the assignment 01:07:29.220 --> 01:07:30.420 and how to go about this map. 01:07:30.420 --> 01:07:32.780 SSG are mostly just playing to die, 01:07:32.780 --> 01:07:35.940 and I know that that sounds a little bit simplistic, 01:07:35.940 --> 01:07:38.900 but really, the desk backed it up, we've talked about it, 01:07:38.900 --> 01:07:41.580 and your eyes are also telling you the same thing. 01:07:41.580 --> 01:07:43.500 It just looks like a lack of comfort for space station, 01:07:43.500 --> 01:07:45.140 and you know, on attack, 01:07:45.140 --> 01:07:47.260 things don't usually get much more comfortable. 01:07:47.260 --> 01:07:48.100 Yeah. 01:07:48.100 --> 01:07:50.540 In a moment like this, Barbara, I look for a hero, right? 01:07:50.540 --> 01:07:52.780 Who's gonna step up and start taking some initiative? 01:07:52.780 --> 01:07:54.260 You're on the attack. 01:07:54.260 --> 01:07:57.000 You can see so far, the Yutso game has gone pretty well, 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:01.820 I like the IT breach, they banned it in Kaid, so they shouldn't have had any problems with that. 01:08:01.820 --> 01:08:06.060 The mirror not being run by one of 30 either, so the wall gets open to fit any real problems. 01:08:06.060 --> 01:08:10.880 They've got good meeting control now, so they've got good space, but once these kills start to come in, 01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:16.000 who is going to be the guy to step up and say, alright, I'm going to find a gap, I'm going to get this multi-kill, 01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:18.000 I'm going to open the door for my team. 01:08:18.500 --> 01:08:25.000 Traditionally, I'd say it'd be somebody like Aiden or Raid on the SSG side, but really, I would take anybody at this point. 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:31.220 You have to hold out for a hero and I mean there are heroes in the sound of space station 01:08:31.220 --> 01:08:34.500 There are players that are very very good at most of the marookies 01:08:34.500 --> 01:08:37.640 I mean they're being guided by guys like gimme who'd been gimme's been around a while 01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:42.560 But not in a cure one love it dream obviously been around for a very very long time the other three are as green as they come 01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:48.060 So if you're eight and if you're ready to your rival you look to that leadership that you have on this ssg team 01:08:48.940 --> 01:08:51.740 Unfortunately sometimes you can't fix that in the midst of a map 01:08:51.740 --> 01:08:56.740 But hey, Space Station, not too bad on their entries throughout much of the kickoff. 01:08:56.740 --> 01:08:58.940 How are they doing here? They've used utility well. 01:08:58.940 --> 01:09:03.140 They've actually been able to push one of thirty a little bit back and take map control quite fast. 01:09:03.140 --> 01:09:07.040 To the point where we could see action breaking out at any second with still a minute left in the round. 01:09:07.040 --> 01:09:08.640 That's pretty good for Space Station. 01:09:09.140 --> 01:09:10.340 Great does open things up. 01:09:10.340 --> 01:09:14.240 Finds Packer now, swings through IT, will let Silo get his fourth kill of the game. 01:09:14.740 --> 01:09:18.840 CapTowbell can come through to kick down Mike Belfi and give SSG the man advantage. 01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:22.360 They continue with this push, but the Toxic Bades equalize three to three. 01:09:23.880 --> 01:09:30.120 Vulsper and Silo now tucked in with the corner will allow them to get back up into a 3v3 full fighting position. 01:09:30.120 --> 01:09:37.640 But as they keep tearing through them, Dream and Gideon are gone, and now it's rival against a very hurt Vulsper and an almost dead Beano. 01:09:37.640 --> 01:09:40.120 Very winnable, but not if you don't hit your shots. 01:09:40.120 --> 01:09:47.240 Vulsper seals the deal, and just like that, map point for 1-30 on their own map. 01:09:47.240 --> 01:09:50.840 I mean there were good bones to that push Parker. I loved the capital play 01:09:50.840 --> 01:09:55.640 I love some of the utile they were using in this positions they were taking but in the end when the rubber hit the road 01:09:55.640 --> 01:10:00.680 It was one of 30 who were popping off getting those kills of all spur in particular 01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:07.740 My god double digits after that rounds 10 and 2 for Nathan Myers and his rookie playoff game 01:10:07.740 --> 01:10:10.360 The very first time he's playing a best of three at a professional level 01:10:11.020 --> 01:10:14.240 Beautiful to see that coming out from him very close again 01:10:14.240 --> 01:10:17.920 I thought that one could have gone in either direction and it is caught for defense or night havens 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:21.320 So you kind of look at that attack you say well, that's pretty good in a bubble 01:10:21.320 --> 01:10:26.200 The attacking teams don't often win that top floor site the positions they were taking were great 01:10:26.200 --> 01:10:32.720 But in the end did it matter not really this is still a nice six one game for one of 30 01:10:32.720 --> 01:10:39.160 They had to pull off some miracles on the attacking side and close isn't good enough when you're in the position that space station are 01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:42.480 Yeah 01:10:42.480 --> 01:10:47.840 Close but no cigar still means no cigar close than no major still means no major 01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:53.960 So, I mean you can be as close as you want and we even talked about this a little bit yesterday in the team liquid alien 01:10:53.960 --> 01:11:00.720 We're a phase matchup where you can be the better team for 90% of the series 01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:02.720 But if you lose 01:11:03.320 --> 01:11:07.440 Cool, glad you were the better team. What do you have to show for it? Nothing 01:11:07.440 --> 01:11:13.360 You can dominate on your own map, win 7-0, go into a 15-rounder on your 01:11:13.360 --> 01:11:17.280 opponent's map and then lose a 15-rounder on the tiebreaker. You can turn around and 01:11:17.280 --> 01:11:20.280 say, well we won more rounds. Congratulations, are you at the major? No 01:11:20.280 --> 01:11:23.520 you're not. So who cares how many rounds you won? At the end of the day you just 01:11:23.520 --> 01:11:26.360 got to be the better team objectively and right now that's one of 30 here on 01:11:26.360 --> 01:11:30.840 this map. Pulverizing space station right now is 6-1 and yeah you're right that 01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:34.000 round could have gone either way. There was hope for space station there, something 01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:37.080 that hasn't really been present through much of that first half, but how much 01:11:37.080 --> 01:11:40.760 much hope can you hold out on this map. Look at how daunting this is for Space Station. 01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:45.200 They now need to win five rounds in a row just to go to OT. Then they have to think about 01:11:45.200 --> 01:11:47.800 winning. Right now victory not on the table for the astronauts. 01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:51.640 Yeah, we'll see if they can isolate some fights. That's what one of 30 are doing such a good 01:11:51.640 --> 01:11:55.640 job of on their attacking side. And frankly, one of 30 are spread out quite a bit on this 01:11:55.640 --> 01:12:01.000 Rome game, much like SSGWorse. That maybe opens the door to be able to find some of these 01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:05.560 players and get an isolated gunfight. They've also brought a lot of information, but it 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:07.480 is one of 30 that strike first. 01:12:07.480 --> 01:12:09.880 Mike Papu inside storage takes giddy. 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:11.760 Playing on the stakes, the info is there, 01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:12.640 but it's all alone. 01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:14.320 Despite the vert pressure up above, 01:12:14.320 --> 01:12:16.360 despite other players knowing that position, 01:12:16.360 --> 01:12:18.680 they're not able to play together to work that pick 01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:19.920 to try to get a trade. 01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:22.520 Now, BlitzDream is trying to push up here to wrap theirs. 01:12:22.520 --> 01:12:25.440 But again, relatively solo here in the man count, 01:12:25.440 --> 01:12:27.360 favors one of 30. 01:12:27.360 --> 01:12:29.040 Things are not improving for Space Station. 01:12:29.040 --> 01:12:29.880 What's to have arrival? 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:31.600 We'll give them a single kill onto silo. 01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:33.400 Trade out for those four, but... 01:12:33.400 --> 01:12:37.320 Dream's been trying to terrorize them with the shield and he's letting most of these players escape. 01:12:37.320 --> 01:12:39.560 Volsper with a dozen kills now. 01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:41.160 An absolute hero. 01:12:41.160 --> 01:12:43.560 We were talking about heroes on the side of the space station. 01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:44.960 How about Volsper? 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:49.800 Volsper with a dozen kills so far, an incredible performance for him. 01:12:49.800 --> 01:12:52.280 One of his best so far through the NAL. 01:12:52.280 --> 01:12:55.400 He's still got, well, I mean, presumably he stays on the team, which we imagined. 01:12:55.400 --> 01:12:57.640 So he's still got at least one more stage to go. 01:12:57.640 --> 01:13:02.120 Who knows what happens with rosters here, but I mean, he's going to continue to grow as a player. 01:13:02.120 --> 01:13:03.520 What a statement it has been for him. 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:04.960 Aiden will pick off Mike W. 01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:06.320 That's a bit of an ego challenge. 01:13:06.320 --> 01:13:09.760 And Jesse, an experience can cause you to toss rounds 01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:11.560 that seem quite easily won. 01:13:11.560 --> 01:13:13.400 With Aiden in Dream's position right now, 01:13:13.400 --> 01:13:14.760 you've got to imagine 1 of 30 01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:17.080 are the favorites to hang on for this round. 01:13:17.080 --> 01:13:18.880 Yeah, smokes for Dream to get a plant under, 01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:20.560 but two toss baves and two impacts 01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:21.560 in the pockets of 1 of 30. 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:23.120 They've got plenty of plant denial. 01:13:23.120 --> 01:13:26.920 If they go for a plant here, it's not going to be easy. 01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:28.280 Down goes Bean out to Dream. 01:13:28.280 --> 01:13:30.640 It'll be all up to Packer to clutch out. 01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:33.520 If you're getting planted, Aiden with the good coverage, 01:13:33.520 --> 01:13:36.960 some life on the side of Space Station as they hang on 01:13:36.960 --> 01:13:40.280 and Giddy looks like he might be doing a bit of praying. 01:13:40.280 --> 01:13:45.280 I mean, hey, anything to win your engagements 01:13:45.360 --> 01:13:48.080 and Space Station stays alive, still a daunting task. 01:13:48.080 --> 01:13:50.440 Map Point remains for 1 of 30. 01:13:50.440 --> 01:13:52.480 Pray to Dream and he will deliver for you. 01:13:52.480 --> 01:13:54.480 I said that they couldn't go for a plant strategy. 01:13:54.480 --> 01:13:55.560 They didn't, Parker. 01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:57.880 Dream steps up and gets that kill, 01:13:57.880 --> 01:13:59.960 puts them into a 2 of E1 before they even think 01:13:59.960 --> 01:14:01.880 about putting the Fuser on the ground. 01:14:01.880 --> 01:14:03.800 Really important that Dream makes that call. 01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:06.080 He takes down Bino because I think if he had decided 01:14:06.080 --> 01:14:07.480 just to play for the objective, 01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:09.480 that probably wouldn't have gone their way. 01:14:09.480 --> 01:14:12.680 Again, I was a little surprised at how poor 01:14:12.680 --> 01:14:13.720 the roam clear went. 01:14:13.720 --> 01:14:14.680 They worked together there. 01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:17.480 You saw the dopey following up Dream on the replay, 01:14:17.480 --> 01:14:19.320 arrival able to get a couple of more kills there 01:14:19.320 --> 01:14:22.320 and continue to hold on to the number one spot on team. 01:14:22.320 --> 01:14:24.440 But it really comes down to this late round 01:14:24.440 --> 01:14:26.480 where there's just a little bit, 01:14:26.480 --> 01:14:29.000 a little bit over swinging happening outside of 1.30. 01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:32.160 You saw that an ego swing from Mike W and I would absolutely agree. 01:14:32.160 --> 01:14:35.000 8-3 when he goes for that play, doesn't exactly pay off. 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:36.320 They cost the man advantage. 01:14:36.320 --> 01:14:37.520 It happens. 01:14:37.520 --> 01:14:40.080 Those are the type of mistakes you can make when you're 6-1 up, though. 01:14:40.080 --> 01:14:42.760 I mean, one of 30 are not going to be kicking themselves that bad 01:14:42.760 --> 01:14:45.520 if they lose for losing that round. 01:14:45.520 --> 01:14:46.400 They lose the next four. 01:14:46.400 --> 01:14:48.320 OK, maybe we're starting to panic a little bit, 01:14:48.320 --> 01:14:52.200 but a little bit of over-aggression against Punnett from one of 30. 01:14:52.200 --> 01:14:54.120 I think they can rein that into closeout this game 01:14:54.120 --> 01:14:57.000 before we get too deep into the match. 01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:05.640 I agree with that point about how this is the position where you can kind of make those moves, but I would argue you probably shouldn't be. 01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:08.640 Play safe, play smart, keep your ego in check. 01:15:08.640 --> 01:15:15.440 I mean, it's not a full ego challenge. Mike presumably thought that he had the right read on it, so I mean, it's whatever, but yeah. 01:15:15.440 --> 01:15:18.560 You're gonna play up against better teams. Let's say you win Space Station here, right? 01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:26.240 You're gonna be playing up against better teams moving forward. You have five fears on the docket right away, and if you beat them, then you actually make the major, 01:15:26.240 --> 01:15:28.880 and you're going to be playing up against even better teams. 01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:30.840 That kind of thing that Mike just did? 01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:32.920 That's not going to fly against most of the teams in the NAL. 01:15:32.920 --> 01:15:35.440 It's certainly not going to fly against a lot of this international competition. 01:15:35.440 --> 01:15:37.720 So this is not so much an ego challenge. 01:15:37.720 --> 01:15:38.800 This is a very common spot. 01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:41.960 Volsper swinging over on rafters, takes down Raid. 01:15:41.960 --> 01:15:43.560 Good bye to the Ram. 01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:46.560 And maybe a style relief for space station rival dies as well. 01:15:46.560 --> 01:15:48.960 And now dream is shot from multiple angles. 01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:53.320 Another one for Volsper continuing to add to the tally, Jesse. 01:15:53.320 --> 01:15:58.880 He just looks like a completely different player from the group stage, Valsper, we saw, and he looks so good, Parker. 01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:01.900 Mike, I'll be top of the stairs, gets one, let's finish it off. 01:16:01.900 --> 01:16:05.080 Another kill for Valsper, why not? 01:16:05.080 --> 01:16:10.080 A massive round coming out from him, and a massive game popped to bottom. 01:16:10.080 --> 01:16:14.880 Valsper leaves 1 of 30 in this game in a crushing victory over SFD. 01:16:15.440 --> 01:16:18.880 Valsper entered this match with 23 kills through all of kickoff. 01:16:18.880 --> 01:16:22.400 I think he just finished that map with 14. 01:16:22.400 --> 01:16:25.800 Oh my goodness, talk about an incredible run. 01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:27.320 Anyway, we got the break ready for you. 01:16:27.320 --> 01:16:29.400 There's still so much more siege to go. 01:16:29.400 --> 01:16:31.400 Let's see what happens after the break. 01:17:22.400 --> 01:17:26.400 ... 01:17:26.400 --> 01:17:30.400 ... 01:17:30.400 --> 01:17:34.400 ... 01:17:34.400 --> 01:17:38.400 ... 01:17:38.400 --> 01:17:42.400 ... 01:17:42.400 --> 01:17:46.400 ... 01:17:46.400 --> 01:17:50.400 ... 01:21:20.400 --> 01:21:30.400 7-2. It was a dominant start for 1 of 30. They come out of the gates swinging and take down the team. 01:21:30.400 --> 01:21:36.400 There was 3-1 coming in, maybe the favorites coming into this matchup. Lose the first match, 1 of 30. 01:21:36.400 --> 01:21:45.400 A very, very strong start. We saw 15 kills from Volsper after, I think Parker said this, 23 kills, all-stage before this. 01:21:45.400 --> 01:21:51.400 now 15 in this game. A wild difference in this team overall. Yeah absolutely and I 01:21:51.400 --> 01:21:55.560 think the bigger picture to paint in this matchup in particular was just 01:21:55.560 --> 01:21:59.440 being in the ability to trade the uncomfortableness on the side of the 01:21:59.440 --> 01:22:02.500 map. Clearly 1 of 30 was very comfortable. We saw how fluid they were 01:22:02.500 --> 01:22:05.400 moving to the map but then even on that last little stint on the defensive path 01:22:05.400 --> 01:22:09.000 I mean they were playing very well on those trades. Round 8 in particular was a 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:12.040 map that I wanted to highlight. Sure they did lose this round but 01:22:12.040 --> 01:22:15.400 Volsper just immediately recognizing, okay, he's going to be pinched, he needs to 01:22:15.400 --> 01:22:18.720 class, he needs to fall back, he moves to that server column and is able to pull 01:22:18.720 --> 01:22:22.040 off a double kill that just off the transition of being able to play in that 01:22:22.040 --> 01:22:25.000 position. But then the round falls apart, which is still, you know, rookie 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:27.640 mistakes here, it's going to come with a learning lesson. But through and through 01:22:27.640 --> 01:22:31.360 the map, I mean, they were playing pretty pristine. I mean, I think that round shows 01:22:31.360 --> 01:22:35.680 the limitations of how successful I said she was. I mean, we highlighted that they 01:22:35.680 --> 01:22:39.840 are stronger when it comes to their attacks and that round painted it 01:22:39.840 --> 01:22:41.840 Perfectly the trades dream on the shield 01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:43.160 then being able to follow them up 01:22:43.160 --> 01:22:45.320 and constantly getting 1v1 picks. 01:22:45.320 --> 01:22:46.840 That's all we saw on defense at all. 01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:49.540 That was the biggest plot hole for SSG. 01:22:49.540 --> 01:22:50.440 There was no adaptation. 01:22:50.440 --> 01:22:52.280 We talked about in the mid round 01:22:52.280 --> 01:22:53.880 that they were all very spread out. 01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:56.040 The whole game plan was to stall time, 01:22:56.040 --> 01:22:57.680 maybe get a pick here and there. 01:22:57.680 --> 01:22:59.960 But after you lose one or two of those rounds 01:22:59.960 --> 01:23:04.080 due to being so spread out, adapt, change something up. 01:23:04.080 --> 01:23:07.200 There was no adaptation and one of 30 recognized that 01:23:07.200 --> 01:23:09.400 and that's where they just stacked bodies on each other. 01:23:09.400 --> 01:23:11.400 they knew that if we just push, we find this gap, 01:23:11.400 --> 01:23:13.120 we find this first player. 01:23:13.120 --> 01:23:15.800 We'll be able to get that kill, traded no matter what. 01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:18.000 Nobody from SESG is going to be there to trade. 01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:19.360 And I think you said it beforehand, 01:23:19.360 --> 01:23:22.360 it really seemed like a fundamental lack of understanding 01:23:22.360 --> 01:23:24.960 Night Haven Labs from the side of SSG. 01:23:24.960 --> 01:23:26.920 I mean, round nine in particular, if you can even recall, 01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:28.520 we don't have it, but you can even go look back. 01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:31.560 I mean, Volsper swings onto the guy outside of balcony, 01:23:31.560 --> 01:23:33.440 gets that kill, they had a cam on it. 01:23:33.440 --> 01:23:36.200 Dream is over pushing towards Aqua's stairs 01:23:36.200 --> 01:23:38.560 from the outside, which already you should be able 01:23:38.560 --> 01:23:41.560 you don't have a player covering that someone needs to cover for dream dreams 01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.560 entering into aqua now is fighting at the window funny I knock was there loses 01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:48.560 that fight it clearly shows a lack of understanding clearly on the side of SSG 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:51.560 that that just isn't their favorite map but that's the beauty of the best three 01:23:51.560 --> 01:23:55.560 they have two very good maps going forward in kind of the game within the 01:23:55.560 --> 01:23:58.560 game that's been playing out here we talk a lot about the battle of the rookies 01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:02.560 the battle of these young teams we kind of have a literal battle of the top 01:24:02.560 --> 01:24:07.560 rookies here coming into this game Aiden number not a raid raid number 01:24:07.560 --> 01:24:12.560 the lead. Mike W a close 01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:14.560 second and here they are going 01:24:14.560 --> 01:24:15.560 toe to toe again and things 01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:16.560 look a little bit different 01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:18.560 this time. Yeah, I mean, I 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:20.560 think night Haven Labs is one 01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:21.560 of those situations where we 01:24:21.560 --> 01:24:23.560 have to take a map by map. I 01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:24.560 mean, Mike W himself, I mean, 01:24:24.560 --> 01:24:25.560 they had a really good game 01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:27.560 plan going in. He's a who's 01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:28.560 playing on that ace, you know 01:24:28.560 --> 01:24:29.560 that secondary support of 01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:30.560 role, but the beauty of that 01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:32.560 is once you use the utility, 01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:34.560 you can go ahead. Yeah, you 01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:35.560 can go refragging and beat the 01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:37.600 refragging and beat the trade player. 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:40.160 And that's exactly what Mike W is finding success on. 01:24:40.160 --> 01:24:41.520 Same thing with Volsberg. 01:24:41.520 --> 01:24:44.480 As for Raid, there's not really too many opportunities 01:24:44.480 --> 01:24:46.880 because the strength from SSG is their attacks. 01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:51.040 And when you go 5-1 down on your defenses, at that point, 01:24:51.040 --> 01:24:53.960 it's just let's just keep the momentum up, the mental up, 01:24:53.960 --> 01:24:55.640 going into a map like Clubhouse, which 01:24:55.640 --> 01:24:58.480 is a lot more elementary, a lot more basic. 01:24:58.480 --> 01:25:01.080 And I think SSG would have a lot better of an opportunity 01:25:01.080 --> 01:25:03.880 to showcase their talents on the next two maps, 01:25:03.880 --> 01:25:04.880 not just Clubhouse. 01:25:04.880 --> 01:25:13.800 What clubhouse is next and a big one that is needed for SSG if they want to get back into this one five fears awaits the winner 01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:19.520 So a very big map to to see if we can get this one all the way to the distance to start off the playoffs 01:25:19.520 --> 01:25:21.520 We'll be right back 01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:36.880 I'm breaking next and I'm out and out. 01:25:36.880 --> 01:25:38.880 I'm reckless and I'm trying to be signing out. 01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:41.880 I'ma keep it going till there ain't no night. 01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:43.880 I'm breaking next and I'm out and out. 01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:45.880 For real, for the stuff that I'm running out. 01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:48.880 If I can't get down, I'm just running out. 01:25:48.880 --> 01:25:51.880 I'ma keep it going till there ain't no night. 01:25:54.880 --> 01:25:56.880 I'm going till there ain't no night. 01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:12.960 We'll be getting into Clubhouse in just a few moments here. 01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:17.360 Our final few players joining the lobby now, but we talked a lot about 1 of 30 and what 01:30:17.360 --> 01:30:20.040 they've been doing well before the break lacks. 01:30:20.040 --> 01:30:24.720 Let's shift gears a little bit and talk about SSG because they clearly need to work on some 01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:29.640 stuff going into Clubhouse a long way from a 7-2 to hopefully a math win for them. 01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:34.600 What stands out to you as one thing they can concretely improve if they want to send us 01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:37.600 Just being able to play their cuts, being able to play for the trades. 01:30:37.600 --> 01:30:40.600 I mean, when we last saw them play, it was versus Wildcard, it was a 7-4. 01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:42.600 We believed that Wildcard was going to win that. 01:30:42.600 --> 01:30:45.600 Just sheerly off of how well Wildcard plays on a math like clubhouse. 01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:48.600 But immediately, that defensive half that they had, it went to 4. 01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:50.600 We weren't sure what it was going to look like. 01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:53.600 But once they got to that attacking half, they were doing such a good job, 01:30:53.600 --> 01:30:56.600 which is why we were highlighting 8, which is why we were highlighting Rave, 01:30:56.600 --> 01:30:59.600 is because they were doing such a good job at managing the players 01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:03.600 and moving them around, coursing them into gunfights, coursing them into crossfights. 01:31:03.600 --> 01:31:09.200 crossfires, not allowing them to get much leadway in any of these rooms. And if they continue to do that, 01:31:09.200 --> 01:31:13.600 and actually have that team play, have that dynamic there, it's going to be a struggle for 1-30, 01:31:13.600 --> 01:31:16.800 because now they're going to be playing a lot more loose on the side of defense. 01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:21.520 I mean SSG started off very aggressive. They find their first opening kill, 01:31:21.520 --> 01:31:25.600 Raiden and Aiden go get that kill, then they set up the lockdown cuts, 01:31:25.600 --> 01:31:28.960 and that's what we want to see from them. Starting out on attack would be great for SSG, 01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:32.220 But that being said as long as we can see that same style of attack 01:31:32.220 --> 01:31:39.180 But then transition it to defense of understanding as long as we're playing together and focusing on the trades will be better suited on a matlin clubhouse 01:31:39.660 --> 01:31:44.960 SSG will be a little bit more comfortable. Well, let's see if we can get this first best of three the player 01:31:44.960 --> 01:31:50.800 Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see it. So you disconnect. See ya. Okay. Parker and Jesse 01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:53.040 It is all you guys. Let's get clubhouse underway 01:31:53.040 --> 01:32:01.800 Thank you so very much greatly appreciated gentlemen and I'm just happy for us to see map number two now 01:32:02.120 --> 01:32:05.120 Jesse typically with this much downtime between maps 01:32:05.120 --> 01:32:12.600 Do you think that benefits the team that just got smoked or you think that benefits the team that is gonna be riding pretty high because one of 30 01:32:13.200 --> 01:32:20.440 Maybe some of their momentum is chilled a little bit here in the community both seems to suggest so because I says G has gone from in the 01:32:20.440 --> 01:32:27.640 70% out down to 59% despite this being their map. Do you agree? Do you think it's troubling for space station? 01:32:28.160 --> 01:32:32.840 Yeah, I think maybe it's troubling for one of 30 losing the momentum from from map one 01:32:32.840 --> 01:32:36.440 They were so dominant on night Haven labs now coming into clubhouse 01:32:36.440 --> 01:32:39.520 They're gonna have to keep that energy up keep those vibes up 01:32:39.520 --> 01:32:43.360 But the same time look at those player cams and let's start the screen. They are all smiles 01:32:43.360 --> 01:32:48.360 Valspers got a smirk, Packers got a smile when he licks his head up large enough for a high enough that you can see it. 01:32:48.360 --> 01:32:52.360 Beside of SSG, they're smiling too. Looks like Giddy's singing a song or something, okay? 01:32:52.360 --> 01:32:56.360 There's definitely some positive vibes over in the SSG camp. They know they're not out of this series. 01:32:56.360 --> 01:32:59.360 They know the game plan is a win club host, win chalet. 01:32:59.360 --> 01:33:03.360 Was the first map brutal? Yeah, kinda. But it was also your opponent's pick. 01:33:03.360 --> 01:33:07.360 You don't expect it to win it. You're not thinking you'll win it. You hope you'll win it, sure. 01:33:07.360 --> 01:33:10.360 But in the day, the series is still anybody's game. 01:33:10.360 --> 01:33:13.600 Yeah, I mean, you just got to mentally reset. 01:33:13.600 --> 01:33:15.200 Take it one map at a time. 01:33:15.200 --> 01:33:18.360 Chalet awaits us as a time breaker, should she be needed? 01:33:18.360 --> 01:33:20.880 But I don't know if that's gonna happen. 01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:24.200 I, when you get to a Vesta 3 and you've got inexperienced teams, 01:33:24.200 --> 01:33:25.080 and let's not kid ourselves, 01:33:25.080 --> 01:33:28.320 both of these squads are inexperienced teams. 01:33:28.320 --> 01:33:30.200 Typically, you're gonna have a couple maps 01:33:30.200 --> 01:33:31.440 that you know really, really well, 01:33:31.440 --> 01:33:33.440 and you hope that your opponent that you're matching up against 01:33:33.440 --> 01:33:35.280 doesn't share those same maps. 01:33:35.280 --> 01:33:38.840 For NightAven Labs, it looked like they didn't share it at all, 01:33:38.840 --> 01:33:42.420 because it was a confidence-inspiring map for 1 of 30, 01:33:42.420 --> 01:33:44.780 and it was frankly a map that SSG looked like 01:33:44.780 --> 01:33:47.580 they didn't really have a good idea of. 01:33:47.580 --> 01:33:48.940 So when you come into this situation, you think, 01:33:48.940 --> 01:33:51.260 all right, we're gonna lose our opponent's map. 01:33:51.260 --> 01:33:52.700 We just gotta win our own. 01:33:52.700 --> 01:33:53.660 When you go to Clubhouse now, 01:33:53.660 --> 01:33:56.260 we know Space Station's players might be familiar with this, 01:33:56.260 --> 01:33:57.500 but how do they do it as a team? 01:33:57.500 --> 01:33:59.260 And 1 of 30, despite the fact 01:33:59.260 --> 01:34:01.660 that these are all relatively new players themselves, 01:34:01.660 --> 01:34:03.780 likely got some idea of how to tackle this map 01:34:03.780 --> 01:34:06.060 at a T2 level, but how does that work 01:34:06.060 --> 01:34:07.580 from a T1 perspective? 01:34:07.580 --> 01:34:13.020 for me, space station gaming should have the upper hand here, but I suspect this won't 01:34:13.020 --> 01:34:14.520 be a blot for either team. 01:34:14.520 --> 01:34:18.960 I mean just ask Shopify Rebellion how 1 of 30 look on Clubhouse at a tier one environment 01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:22.000 and I think they would tell you that they look pretty good. 01:34:22.000 --> 01:34:26.800 Opening game of the season that wasn't 8-7 lost for 1 of 30, but I don't like to use 01:34:26.800 --> 01:34:31.440 the S word often Parker, but I'm gonna say it, they probably should have won that game. 01:34:31.440 --> 01:34:36.640 They came very close, max over time, couple of classes that they make, maybe just because 01:34:36.640 --> 01:34:41.680 it was their first ever match as a team, so 1 of 30 have a lot of experience here on Clubhouse. 01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:45.760 They've played this map in the past. Space Station is a wild course, beating Wildcard earlier in 01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:50.640 the Group 7-4. That was a much more confident victory, a confident game for SSG, so it makes sense 01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:55.360 why they pick it, but 1 of 30 no strangers to Siege's oldest map. Now we've got a bit of a 01:34:55.360 --> 01:34:59.840 dirt punch coming in here, it will get spotted by Meenow, he pops the Vulcan, but the bot is already 01:34:59.840 --> 01:35:04.880 past then, he's taking a lot of damage. Ooh, I don't think he expected such a quick follow-up from 01:35:04.880 --> 01:35:09.760 raid if he did he was ill prepared for it and it's allowed ssg to get some good 01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:14.480 ground in this dirt tunnel escape tunnel as it's called you know was trying to 01:35:14.480 --> 01:35:19.160 escape did not succeed raid still holds a diffuse case in that position so the 01:35:19.160 --> 01:35:22.960 diffuser is but feet away from getting into the bomb site that's a very 01:35:22.960 --> 01:35:26.960 advantageous spot for us this sheet but Packer is being called in on the flank 01:35:26.960 --> 01:35:32.360 he gets one not before Wolfsburg can die that was giddy credited with that kill 01:35:32.360 --> 01:35:38.680 He's posting up on blue stairs. Packer in a tough fight here. I favor Giddy's weapon in just a straight 1v1, but 01:35:39.680 --> 01:35:41.680 Packer's not a bad shot 01:35:42.680 --> 01:35:45.800 Giddy looks primed and ready to drop a candela in this position 01:35:46.440 --> 01:35:50.400 He'll work effectively and pushes him out, but Giddy cannot hit his target. Packer does get away 01:35:50.400 --> 01:35:53.160 Not too bad to recover on the side of 1 of 30 01:35:53.160 --> 01:35:56.840 Yeah, Packer shot that candela so that he could then cross the angle doesn't get blind 01:35:56.840 --> 01:36:01.760 That could have been a free kill for a Giddy, but a really nice reaction to come down from Packer. In this 3v3 01:36:01.760 --> 01:36:05.440 they know all the positions from SSG. They're just pushing oil pit, they're just pushing third 01:36:05.440 --> 01:36:11.200 tunnel. Everybody is kind of on this one side of the map, and it allows SSG, or one of 30 I should 01:36:11.200 --> 01:36:15.120 say, to kind of focus their attention this way. They can hold the angle in the dirt tunnel as long 01:36:15.120 --> 01:36:19.840 as they don't let these blue players get too deep or cause any panic. They should be totally fine. 01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:24.720 Mike W and the kitchen hatch will make this very difficult to plant. Yeah, this is a really 01:36:24.720 --> 01:36:30.480 good cover by Mike here, and he's kind of given his position away by firing a little bit early. 01:36:30.480 --> 01:36:34.720 Raid's been entrenched in this spot for so long, Giddy's moving up now to get some coverage, 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:39.760 and that might be a bit of a problem for Mike W. But right now, over by Dummies, 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:46.320 laying just behind the boxes, Giddy can flash away and now reposition, but Mike is very wisely gone 01:36:46.320 --> 01:36:52.560 prone, completely blind inside a church. Down goes Mike Giddy quarterbacking this entire thing, 01:36:52.560 --> 01:36:58.480 almost single-handedly winning the round for Space Station. Giddy, the hero that you were 01:36:58.480 --> 01:37:00.040 We're hoping for on map one. 01:37:00.040 --> 01:37:01.200 Well, he was a little bit late here, 01:37:01.200 --> 01:37:04.680 but what a confidence inspiring execute for SSG. 01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:07.760 Yeah, that was not an easy 3v3 Parker. 01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:10.880 One of 30 really had the heavy advantage in that round. 01:37:10.880 --> 01:37:12.360 They couldn't get in from dirt tunnel thing 01:37:12.360 --> 01:37:15.200 to Mike W's position, but Giddy recognized that. 01:37:15.200 --> 01:37:17.600 It was very much a smart push in 01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:19.040 from the guys on space station. 01:37:19.040 --> 01:37:22.400 Giddy uses those candelas to get space in the mid round, 01:37:22.400 --> 01:37:23.880 pushes up inside of Armory, 01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:25.920 gets caught towards that dummy's position, 01:37:25.920 --> 01:37:27.920 and then fights Mike W on the hatch. 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:31.700 He knows that this kill right here is the most important kill of the game. 01:37:31.700 --> 01:37:35.640 As long as you can kill that hatch player, you can get in, force the plant, get one more 01:37:35.640 --> 01:37:36.640 just to show off. 01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:40.520 Giddy, a really impressive first round here on Clubhouse, and it's good to see because 01:37:40.520 --> 01:37:45.120 despite going 2 and 11 in the season opener, Giddy has been fantastic. 01:37:45.120 --> 01:37:51.240 First base station towards the latter half of that group stage, pushed over a 130 EPS 01:37:51.240 --> 01:37:52.720 in his last three games before today. 01:37:52.720 --> 01:37:56.760 If he didn't have that real stinker of an opening match, he'd be a top three player 01:37:56.760 --> 01:37:57.760 in the league right now. 01:37:57.760 --> 01:38:02.240 watch out for Gideon, he's playing very very well despite what the staff might suggest about him. 01:38:04.240 --> 01:38:07.760 Yeah, he was one of the four players on the team that entered with positive KDs, 01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:12.000 we highlighted it back in map number one but just in case you didn't tune in for that first map, 01:38:12.000 --> 01:38:20.400 it does bear repeating, Aiden top on the team with a plus 17 KD, plus 10 on entry and plus 01:38:20.400 --> 01:38:25.400 Plus, uh, well, 43 kills, plus 7, he hits 50 kills. 01:38:25.400 --> 01:38:26.840 I don't know, players at this point in time, 01:38:26.840 --> 01:38:29.320 and if it's 50 in the lead, so it's definitely something 01:38:29.320 --> 01:38:31.920 to keep your eyes out for you, it was just gonna save. 01:38:31.920 --> 01:38:38.680 I didn't wanna say it just yet, but he's awfully close to it. 01:38:38.680 --> 01:38:41.280 And Aiden, of course, the second highest-rated player, 01:38:41.280 --> 01:38:43.320 raid the seventh highest-rated player, 01:38:43.320 --> 01:38:45.320 so the numbers for us this year have been really good. 01:38:45.320 --> 01:38:47.960 They were terrible on that first map, 01:38:47.960 --> 01:38:49.480 so everybody on the space station. 01:38:49.480 --> 01:38:52.700 I need a water at the moment, but a good clubhouse will change that very quickly. 01:38:53.820 --> 01:39:00.960 While we will rotate bombsites, of course, we'll go back, or we'll go up to top floor now to try to defend Jim and Bedroom for one of 30. 01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:08.420 I liked their early game last time, with fast reactions from Bino on the anchor position, so slow down that rush and get them into a good position. 01:39:08.860 --> 01:39:14.700 No roll rush this time around, okay, they've got the Choozie wall open very quickly, they've got the CC wall very open very quickly, 01:39:14.700 --> 01:39:21.700 They've got all their hard breaching done here today, early into this push, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be sprinting right into the bomb site. 01:39:21.700 --> 01:39:27.700 Still have a lot of map that they want to clear out, other than right on the bottom floor, and nobody's really entering into the building just yet. 01:39:28.700 --> 01:39:33.700 With this con wall open, they could decide just to kind of drop in through Lodgey, push the decreasing breach and hit site. 01:39:33.700 --> 01:39:36.700 It doesn't, to me, look like they're going to go for a cash clear, Parker. 01:39:37.700 --> 01:39:39.700 No, this is fair, fair in. 01:39:39.700 --> 01:39:42.700 Dream is found as opening, shield goes down, gun comes out. 01:39:42.700 --> 01:39:48.440 out Giddy, eliminating Packard continuing his really hot play. Now his rival's swinging 01:39:48.440 --> 01:39:53.000 for one, he finds Mike Silo and Bino are on the board and this is a brawl. Half of the 01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:58.600 round still to go, Bino taking no prisoners. Giddy and Bino, players that we've seen in 01:39:58.600 --> 01:40:03.920 T1 before, they're making their voices heard. Volsper eliminating Aiden and leaving Raid 01:40:03.920 --> 01:40:12.200 in a 1v3. Volsper finished that first map with 15 kills, he's up to 17 total now and 01:40:12.200 --> 01:40:20.240 an impressive tally, he himself screaming towards that 50 kill mark, Eden I think is 01:40:20.240 --> 01:40:24.360 only 2 away, Mike W a single kill away from being the first player to hit 50 here in the 01:40:24.360 --> 01:40:28.120 NAL kickoff, not going to be able to have much impact as he's dead, Syle will close 01:40:28.120 --> 01:40:35.440 things out, standing pat over by Jim, 1 of 30, take it, tie things up. 01:40:35.440 --> 01:40:39.520 Raiden that round hunting for his first career clutch doesn't come in that round though, 01:40:39.520 --> 01:40:44.000 have to wait a little bit longer and it really is some solid play from one of 30 there on the defense. 01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:49.040 I want to highlight the hard support and the primary entry. Bino, in back-to-back rounds now, 01:40:49.040 --> 01:40:53.840 I think really locking the site down, recognizing when the push is going to be coming in quickly, 01:40:53.840 --> 01:40:57.600 holding things down, getting one kill on the first round to slow down the rush through third 01:40:57.600 --> 01:41:02.560 tunnel and then this round as well, just inside of Logi. Packer dies, he's in an unfortunate position 01:41:02.560 --> 01:41:07.360 with those Vs, but then able to step up and trade at a couple of kills. Bino is so important to 01:41:07.360 --> 01:41:11.840 to retake this base in Lodgy and then kind of isolate the rest of this push over towards 01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:15.000 the east side of the map over towards the Cache. 01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.760 And then Volsper, a primary roamer, primary entry player, he's over towards Cache. 01:41:18.760 --> 01:41:21.600 I mentioned how that wasn't something that SDG decided to clear. 01:41:21.600 --> 01:41:23.080 It kind of comes back to bite them. 01:41:23.080 --> 01:41:26.680 He's able to play around the window, pressure those highway players, and just kind of provide 01:41:26.680 --> 01:41:30.960 that back pressure in towards Khan that makes that push a little bit dangerous for PlayStation 01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:31.960 Gaming. 01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:35.960 Nice team working me off from 1-30 and inside the scheme of playing the game. 01:41:35.960 --> 01:41:41.600 1 of 30 saw how much they can flex that defender muscle back on the very first map, but defending 01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:44.920 on a map you know, defending on a map you're comfortable on, completely different than 01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:48.760 trying to do so against your opponents, and I mean, you picked the defender side for 1 01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:51.880 of 30, so the presumption is that they're more comfortable on this side. 01:41:51.880 --> 01:41:53.560 I mean, you gotta run up the score. 01:41:53.560 --> 01:41:58.960 If 1 of 30 cannot muster 4 rounds on this first half, it will by many be considered a bit 01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:03.920 of a failure here, but again, it's SSG's map, with inexperienced teams the gap between 01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:08.560 map pools and their abilities tends to be quite high. So if you suggest that, well, 01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:12.800 that number one is a blowout for one of 30, SSG now blows them out here on Clubhouse, 01:42:12.800 --> 01:42:18.960 then you reset for Chalet, maybe four rounds is a bit too much for one of 30 to be able to do. 01:42:18.960 --> 01:42:22.640 I think the win here is once they hit three rounds in this first half, 01:42:22.640 --> 01:42:27.120 one of 30 are in great shape. The question is, do they get there? A quick pace now to open up the 01:42:27.120 --> 01:42:31.520 main wall for Space Station, once again showing far more comfort here on Clubhouse than we saw 01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:36.900 I mean when they defend CCTV cash gives shopfire a billion one of thirty went two for two 01:42:36.900 --> 01:42:43.300 This was their best bomb site the last time they played clubhouse and especially with the operator bands Parker both capitals and glass 01:42:43.300 --> 01:42:46.380 To the best of the game for cleaning out that rafters position 01:42:46.380 --> 01:42:51.880 It is going to make killing balls were very very difficult without those tools look at the SSG lineup 01:42:51.880 --> 01:42:54.260 I was wondering if we might see a bit of a rush coming out 01:42:54.660 --> 01:42:58.660 Just because they've got right on that finger, but doesn't look like you're gonna go for that play 01:42:58.660 --> 01:43:05.100 We do see the front of dreams shield Mike W holding an extremely long angle from the gym window 01:43:05.100 --> 01:43:09.680 But of course at the Monty playing that position can't find a kill saw the head briefly 01:43:10.380 --> 01:43:15.300 One of those players, but he doesn't find the frag and said silo is the one to strike first bottom garage on the kitty 01:43:17.180 --> 01:43:21.980 Exactly what you want here. Get he's been the top performer for space station so far 01:43:21.980 --> 01:43:46.300 I think you take that trade if you're Mike. You've already set up his utility over towards 01:43:46.300 --> 01:43:49.620 the bomb site. You can see it there on the CC wall. Going to make it very awkward to 01:43:49.620 --> 01:43:53.940 jump in the main breach. Dream on this Monty, he has to get Vulsper out of this position. 01:43:53.940 --> 01:43:57.700 They want to do it mainly, the flash has come through, but Vulsper falls back. He's playing 01:43:57.700 --> 01:44:02.340 behind me, Thieb is very smartly wasting time and making Dream's life kind of miserable. 01:44:03.620 --> 01:44:09.380 Nades will go off knocking the shield around, look at that wall here, and here comes the pain! 01:44:09.380 --> 01:44:14.820 Dream slaughtering Vulsper, now taking control of Raptors, he can go to work opening up. 01:44:14.820 --> 01:44:17.060 This will make me a little bit easier to get in. 01:44:17.060 --> 01:44:19.920 Now it's up to Bino and Silo to save the round. 01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:24.180 Bino with two nitro or two of those gas casters in pocket. 01:44:24.180 --> 01:44:26.260 First one will go out. 01:44:26.260 --> 01:44:28.260 Second one could be tossed at any point in time. 01:44:28.260 --> 01:44:29.700 Aiden now watching the coverage dream 01:44:29.700 --> 01:44:32.100 breeding too much of that miracle gas. 01:44:32.100 --> 01:44:34.020 And out will come the adrenal surge dream 01:44:34.020 --> 01:44:35.300 marching his way into cash. 01:44:35.300 --> 01:44:36.900 They've shoved him out of the position. 01:44:36.900 --> 01:44:38.660 Great read by Aiden. 01:44:38.660 --> 01:44:42.900 It's all up to who can find Silo hoping for something. 01:44:42.900 --> 01:44:44.100 Does he have the read on it? 01:44:44.100 --> 01:44:46.660 No, he'll go fishing down below. 01:44:46.660 --> 01:44:48.660 Lots of anglers know you can spend all day fishing 01:44:48.660 --> 01:44:49.660 and come home empty-handed. 01:44:49.660 --> 01:44:51.460 That's exactly what will happen with Tyler 01:44:51.460 --> 01:44:53.580 with a double stack at the top of the stairs. 01:44:53.580 --> 01:44:55.020 Raid will get the final kill. 01:44:55.020 --> 01:44:57.540 Space station regains the lead. 01:44:57.540 --> 01:45:00.700 It was a bit messy, but they got the job done at the end. 01:45:00.700 --> 01:45:04.180 Great calls and a great idea or dream 01:45:04.180 --> 01:45:08.460 to pressure that rafters to get rid of the defenders playing 01:45:08.460 --> 01:45:10.740 up top before moving towards the bomb site. 01:45:10.740 --> 01:45:12.620 You know, if there was one pause that you could take away 01:45:12.620 --> 01:45:17.260 from Night Haven Labs as a space station fan. It was probably Dream's play on the shield. 01:45:17.260 --> 01:45:22.080 Back on map one, his Blitz play was absolutely fantastic Parker. He was able to smartly know 01:45:22.080 --> 01:45:25.780 when to go for the plant, when to go for a kill. He was often with his teammates. He was 01:45:25.780 --> 01:45:29.980 doing a really good job of kind of directing the attacks from that shield position. And 01:45:29.980 --> 01:45:35.180 you're seeing that again now on Clubhouse. With that Monty, he's so intelligent on how 01:45:35.180 --> 01:45:39.780 he takes that Raptors control. He never offers a free gunfight or a free pick up to Volsper 01:45:39.780 --> 01:45:43.220 playing in that rafter's position. He does a really good job taking that space. 01:45:43.220 --> 01:45:47.380 And even though it's really scary because he takes it with 30 seconds left, 01:45:47.380 --> 01:45:52.020 takes him two and a half minutes to clear that rafter's position. Dream knows. He can start a 01:45:52.020 --> 01:45:56.340 plant, he can fake it. The second that smoke comes out, he can push deeper, he can get that space for 01:45:56.340 --> 01:46:01.540 his team. He can continue to be a menace on the shield. I expect to see Dream playing a ton more 01:46:01.540 --> 01:46:05.780 of these shield operators through this next three rounds. I expect that to go up and up and up. 01:46:05.780 --> 01:46:10.420 a little surprised they didn't ban it on the side of 1 of 30 but just given how good he was on the blitz 01:46:10.420 --> 01:46:14.980 on night haven you kind of figure your band one is going to play another anyways so maybe that's 01:46:14.980 --> 01:46:18.900 part of the thinking dream one and two at the moment but in my mind the MVP for space station 01:46:19.700 --> 01:46:24.820 oh absolutely i mean giddy had that very first round where he was integral dream winning the 01:46:24.820 --> 01:46:28.740 round for that third and it goes back to what you said about needing a hero on map number one space 01:46:28.740 --> 01:46:33.940 station never saw that hero materialize nobody emerged from a telephone booth with a capon it 01:46:33.940 --> 01:46:38.900 it just didn't happen. But here it was Gideon round number one. Again, quarterbacking that 01:46:38.900 --> 01:46:43.540 push, controlling blue after he'd lost his teammate, taking care of Packer, pushing in 01:46:43.540 --> 01:46:48.020 over towards Dummies, and very correctly reading Mike on that hatch and getting rid of him, 01:46:48.020 --> 01:46:53.060 which allowed the plant to go down. Then it was Dream very wisely rushing through the fray 01:46:53.060 --> 01:46:59.060 on that rafters to save the round in number three. So ultimately, great individual hero 01:46:59.060 --> 01:47:03.300 performances, but those were also enabled by the other guys that were playing in the background 01:47:03.300 --> 01:47:05.940 that aren't going to see as bright of a spotlight. 01:47:05.940 --> 01:47:08.540 SSG has retaken the lead, a good spot for them to be in, 01:47:08.540 --> 01:47:10.860 but again, it's been a pretty tough match 01:47:10.860 --> 01:47:12.300 for both of these teams, and I don't expect 01:47:12.300 --> 01:47:13.620 that to change any time soon. 01:47:16.900 --> 01:47:18.420 Not roaming very much at all. 01:47:18.420 --> 01:47:20.340 Both teams have adjusted their strategy 01:47:20.340 --> 01:47:21.580 for this bottom floor parter, 01:47:21.580 --> 01:47:24.100 one of 30 deciding they don't want to go for a roam game. 01:47:24.100 --> 01:47:25.980 SSG deciding they don't want to go for a rush. 01:47:25.980 --> 01:47:27.660 That is not a coincidence. 01:47:27.660 --> 01:47:29.860 Of course, the rush really prompted by how heavy 01:47:29.860 --> 01:47:32.020 the roam was for one of 30 last time. 01:47:32.020 --> 01:47:35.220 So it's gonna be a bit of a slower round. I think that's safe to say. 01:47:35.220 --> 01:47:37.620 SSG taking their time to open these hatches, 01:47:37.620 --> 01:47:39.520 fear of some utile inside the bombsite, 01:47:39.520 --> 01:47:43.320 and set themselves up to exactly the type of push they want to go for. 01:47:43.320 --> 01:47:45.320 Struggling a little bit with these hatches, 01:47:45.320 --> 01:47:47.320 they even still lots of pellets to play with, 01:47:47.320 --> 01:47:49.620 but it's certainly slowing down the clear 01:47:49.620 --> 01:47:52.020 as they are getting tricked off the hatch, 01:47:52.020 --> 01:47:53.320 rotates and stuff around, 01:47:53.320 --> 01:47:56.520 and those two should pop without any problems, so... 01:47:56.520 --> 01:47:58.520 A little bit scary, a little bit slow, 01:47:58.520 --> 01:48:01.020 but ultimately this is fine for SSG. 01:48:01.020 --> 01:48:03.020 You start to look at the tools they'll have for this execute. 01:48:03.020 --> 01:48:05.380 They're gonna have all those bees coming out from Giddy. 01:48:05.380 --> 01:48:08.940 They're gonna have a couple of flashes from Aiden and Rival, 01:48:08.940 --> 01:48:11.380 and then some smokes from Raid as well. 01:48:11.380 --> 01:48:12.700 Is that going to be enough 01:48:12.700 --> 01:48:13.980 when you're going up against a Warden, 01:48:13.980 --> 01:48:16.740 a Dario that smugs some C4s on the bottom floor? 01:48:17.780 --> 01:48:19.740 It'll be tricky, it'll be tricky, Parker. 01:48:19.740 --> 01:48:23.060 I'm very interested to see what this push looks like for SSG. 01:48:23.060 --> 01:48:26.020 Yeah, interesting is the word that I would use as well. 01:48:26.020 --> 01:48:28.260 It was a very linear take through DirtTotal. 01:48:28.260 --> 01:48:30.260 I think they were hoping to topple their forces 01:48:30.260 --> 01:48:33.700 and then just push in and get a quick plant off back in round number one. 01:48:33.700 --> 01:48:35.000 At least that's what it was shaping up for. 01:48:35.000 --> 01:48:37.520 Obviously, when Dream died and you lost your shield, you had to pivot. 01:48:37.520 --> 01:48:40.240 And it was a successful pivot from Space Station. 01:48:40.240 --> 01:48:42.640 Now, though, this is more standard stuff, right? 01:48:42.640 --> 01:48:43.600 They're going to open up kitchen. 01:48:43.600 --> 01:48:44.800 They're going to pressure the hatches. 01:48:44.800 --> 01:48:46.680 They're going to put somebody over towards blue. 01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:49.280 You're going to isolate those blue defenders with the Grim Bees. 01:48:49.280 --> 01:48:51.200 They'll likely keep somebody positioned over kitchen 01:48:51.200 --> 01:48:53.480 to watch all of that soft destruction he did. 01:48:53.480 --> 01:48:55.200 And the answer now for this one, a 30 team, 01:48:55.200 --> 01:48:58.040 is going to be, how do you use your secondary explosives? 01:48:58.040 --> 01:48:59.540 Volsper's bound dreams are down. 01:48:59.540 --> 01:49:01.340 He goes, Raid will start off the killing though 01:49:01.340 --> 01:49:04.460 with his first frag here in this round. 01:49:04.460 --> 01:49:07.580 He's tied Giddy now for four kills in total. 01:49:07.580 --> 01:49:10.020 SSG not with a lot of time, now 20 seconds to go. 01:49:10.020 --> 01:49:11.580 The buck working his way over 01:49:11.580 --> 01:49:13.660 and now it's trying to sweep through towards Church. 01:49:13.660 --> 01:49:15.580 Volsper continuing his winning ways. 01:49:15.580 --> 01:49:18.100 Another from Mike W. Bino now on the board. 01:49:18.100 --> 01:49:20.900 Aiden will break 50 kills, but it's all for naught. 01:49:20.900 --> 01:49:23.540 As one of 30 trades that round right back 01:49:23.540 --> 01:49:25.500 and we are tied again. 01:49:25.500 --> 01:49:27.620 Knights hold coming out from one of 30. 01:49:27.620 --> 01:49:33.800 They adjust really nicely. That blue play, it gets kind of scrappy with Dream being the first attacker to go down in the midst of that. 01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:40.420 It comes off the back of Silo's desk, so it ends up being a one for one trade, but Valsper is so critical that he's there with the Nitro Cell Parker. 01:49:40.420 --> 01:49:47.700 The trade game was what separated 1 of 30 from Space Station back on map 1, and I think it's what separated them in that round as well. 01:49:47.700 --> 01:49:52.900 Even though the opening pick went the way of SSG, there was immediate response coming out from 1 of 30. 01:49:52.900 --> 01:49:54.860 They now know exactly where the push is coming from. 01:49:54.860 --> 01:49:56.140 It's coming from blue. 01:49:56.140 --> 01:49:58.500 It's coming from church wall, coming down the main stairs. 01:49:58.500 --> 01:50:00.260 There was a little bit of pressure in Armory as well 01:50:00.260 --> 01:50:03.340 when Driver made that rotate in through the soft wall. 01:50:03.340 --> 01:50:06.060 But ultimately, the information was flowing from one of 30. 01:50:06.060 --> 01:50:08.660 They didn't win every gunfight, but they won enough of them. 01:50:08.660 --> 01:50:11.740 And when they lost, they traded things out perfectly. 01:50:11.740 --> 01:50:13.260 Volsper probably MVP that round, 01:50:13.260 --> 01:50:14.940 but they're just playing back of Armory, 01:50:14.940 --> 01:50:17.340 trades his teammates, gets a second kill on the giddy, 01:50:17.340 --> 01:50:18.940 really put the beautifully done. 01:50:18.940 --> 01:50:26.420 of these teams showing off that they are more prepared for this clubhouse map and what we 01:50:26.420 --> 01:50:32.500 saw back on Night Haven Labs. Much more familiarity with the pretty default map, dare I say. Night 01:50:32.500 --> 01:50:38.140 Haven Labs is certainly not a new map, but it is one of the newer maps to the map pool. 01:50:38.140 --> 01:50:45.140 So I do have to wonder if some of these younger teams tend to favor your default maps. Go after 01:50:45.140 --> 01:50:48.620 your cap bays, potentially your borders, your clubhouses, your chalets, the maps that 01:50:48.620 --> 01:50:53.180 been in forever. Obviously, the pick rate of maps like Cafe and Border do kind of answer 01:50:53.180 --> 01:50:57.100 my question. We don't see them as frequently as we see like Nighthaven Labs or Lair, even 01:50:57.100 --> 01:51:01.820 Fortress has a higher pick rate at this current point in time. But a map like Clubhouse is, 01:51:01.820 --> 01:51:05.980 well, she's a little reliable, right? When you get rid of Border or when you get rid of Oregon, 01:51:05.980 --> 01:51:09.340 when Border disappeared for a period of time, you look at Clubhouse and this is the map that 01:51:09.340 --> 01:51:13.580 pretty much every team should know. And there's comfort here for both these squads. And the 01:51:13.580 --> 01:51:17.900 caveat to that point, Jesse, is that once again, one of 30 got to choose this side so they should 01:51:17.900 --> 01:51:23.180 show that they know it decently well. The question becomes what happens when they swap sides. There's 01:51:23.180 --> 01:51:28.620 one of 30 still have that same level of comfort attacking. If not, they need to run up the score here. 01:51:30.140 --> 01:51:34.220 Good pressure on the main stairs. Clearing that barb will let rival walk up the steps, try to get 01:51:34.220 --> 01:51:38.620 towards the bomb site. There's nobody looking to flank him. All five anchors sitting on the top 01:51:38.620 --> 01:51:42.780 floor for one of 30, so they don't have to worry too much about that. Again, they haven't cleared 01:51:42.780 --> 01:51:46.220 cash out of the map. They're going direct to site for the second time on the seat on the gym 01:51:46.220 --> 01:51:47.380 gym, bedroom, bomb sites. 01:51:47.380 --> 01:51:49.820 And this is not how most teams push this map. 01:51:49.820 --> 01:51:52.060 Usually, you will see a pretty heavy commitment 01:51:52.060 --> 01:51:55.540 over towards that other side of CC and Cache 01:51:55.540 --> 01:51:56.860 to try to get that map control. 01:51:56.860 --> 01:51:58.820 But space station gaming, deciding 01:51:58.820 --> 01:52:00.220 they're confident with the limited take, 01:52:00.220 --> 01:52:01.980 they're confident going direct to site, 01:52:01.980 --> 01:52:04.780 and this executes, but it comes straight into the logic. 01:52:04.780 --> 01:52:07.980 Mike Reed's giddy like a book now turns towards the opening 01:52:07.980 --> 01:52:08.780 in construction. 01:52:08.780 --> 01:52:11.340 Packer takes care of dream the F2 in the hands 01:52:11.340 --> 01:52:12.340 of rival on the stairs. 01:52:12.340 --> 01:52:14.140 You're seeing great recon work. 01:52:14.140 --> 01:52:16.940 He and Aiden now picking up a pair of kills, 01:52:16.940 --> 01:52:18.980 want a peace rival still in this position 01:52:18.980 --> 01:52:22.020 and numbers will go back to even that opening bout 01:52:22.020 --> 01:52:24.660 definitely helping one of 30, 01:52:24.660 --> 01:52:28.780 the space station turns the ship around very quickly. 01:52:28.780 --> 01:52:30.900 Aiden now and rival working together, 01:52:30.900 --> 01:52:33.020 rival position to where Mike W had a, 01:52:33.020 --> 01:52:34.660 maybe even an opportunity to kill 01:52:34.660 --> 01:52:38.100 against Shopify rebellion just a couple weeks ago, 01:52:38.100 --> 01:52:42.580 if you recall, it was just some beginner shakes, 01:52:42.580 --> 01:52:43.580 I'm sure. 01:52:43.580 --> 01:52:47.100 I don't really love this position right now for one of thirty guests and they're boxed 01:52:47.100 --> 01:52:48.100 out of the bomb site. 01:52:48.100 --> 01:52:49.100 They've lost control. 01:52:49.100 --> 01:52:52.380 Silo firing through the smoke. 01:52:52.380 --> 01:52:56.060 If you skin in the hands of Aiden, rival looking for the cross now, he's allowed one to slip 01:52:56.060 --> 01:52:57.060 on by. 01:52:57.060 --> 01:52:58.060 Oh my goodness. 01:52:58.060 --> 01:53:02.100 Aiden has to get off of his position as it's bulls-burnt him in a 1v1 and Aiden wins the 01:53:02.100 --> 01:53:03.100 duel. 01:53:03.100 --> 01:53:04.100 My goodness. 01:53:04.100 --> 01:53:10.060 Iced in his veins and around in the win column for SSG as they regain the lead. 01:53:10.060 --> 01:53:12.260 And finally, we're seeing some life out of Aiden. 01:53:12.260 --> 01:53:14.780 It took a bit for him to get active in this series, Parker, 01:53:14.780 --> 01:53:17.420 but that's exactly the round he needed to step up 01:53:17.420 --> 01:53:20.380 and play alongside rival in that 2v2. 01:53:20.380 --> 01:53:21.980 He loses his cover in the midst of it. 01:53:21.980 --> 01:53:23.620 They see the player pushing on in, 01:53:23.620 --> 01:53:25.140 but what does Aiden do? 01:53:25.140 --> 01:53:27.060 Jumps off the diffuse kit in order 01:53:27.060 --> 01:53:30.460 to make that play happen, beautifully done by Aiden, 01:53:30.460 --> 01:53:33.980 continuing to up the clutch stack for space station gaming. 01:53:33.980 --> 01:53:36.260 SSG entered this match with the most clutch team 01:53:36.260 --> 01:53:39.100 in North America with 26% success rate 01:53:39.100 --> 01:53:45.600 in their clutch situations, and they will add on to that total with another successful 1v2 from Aiden in that round. 01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:52.000 Again, they don't have a lot of map control in that push. That's the reason why there's still defenders inside of Khan when they end up in that position. 01:53:52.000 --> 01:53:57.200 But because that a fuse gets over inside of Chikuzi, because it's just inside of Jim, where they're trying to get that plant down, 01:53:57.200 --> 01:54:00.800 it's okay if they don't have Khan control. They can plant behind the reinforcement. 01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:04.200 They've got the cover from Ryder. They're on the snake in the previous round. 01:54:04.200 --> 01:54:09.440 He does dive, he lets one player slip and right pass them and you get a little bit nervous in that situation. 01:54:09.440 --> 01:54:15.440 But Aiden can always be counted on to clutch up in those big moments, sticks in tune out from the young player on SSG. 01:54:17.440 --> 01:54:20.700 There's a reason why Aiden was such a highly touted prospect. 01:54:20.700 --> 01:54:25.280 Aiden taxes most of the people who knew of him before his debut had heard of him. 01:54:25.280 --> 01:54:30.380 He did have some tier one reps on that old Envy squad if people will recall. 01:54:30.380 --> 01:54:36.960 I mean the spiritual successor to that team is five years Aiden sought greener pastures here on space station 01:54:36.960 --> 01:54:42.880 But if he'd stayed on that five years teams might be a little bit closer to making it to Salt Lake City 01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:47.600 Still the whole business that you win this best of three and you get to take on if you're 01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:52.160 Team obviously space station has their hands full 01:54:52.160 --> 01:54:55.440 They will need a full reverse sweep here as it's one of 30 who took map number one 01:54:55.440 --> 01:54:58.880 I know there's nothing Aiden would like more than to take down JJ 01:55:00.380 --> 01:55:02.740 But gotta get there first, of course, 01:55:02.740 --> 01:55:05.940 left that team to come and play alongside Raid, 01:55:05.940 --> 01:55:08.140 his fellow Jinxie-versed main character. 01:55:08.140 --> 01:55:11.060 He had the North America League at a pro level, 01:55:11.060 --> 01:55:12.660 and I think they've really been showing 01:55:12.660 --> 01:55:13.820 exactly what they can do. 01:55:13.820 --> 01:55:15.900 I think, obviously, Raid is a rookie, 01:55:15.900 --> 01:55:17.700 but Aiden has hit brand new heights 01:55:17.700 --> 01:55:19.820 that he never was able to really hit on Envy. 01:55:19.820 --> 01:55:21.500 Did S. touched on that a little bit 01:55:21.500 --> 01:55:24.420 before our game began? 01:55:24.420 --> 01:55:25.940 Final defense for 1 of 30. 01:55:25.940 --> 01:55:27.580 You touched on this multiple times, Parker. 01:55:27.580 --> 01:55:29.580 It is so critical, starting on the defense, 01:55:29.580 --> 01:55:32.100 that you can at minimum get a 3-3 split. 01:55:32.100 --> 01:55:34.100 If this goes 4-2 for space station, 01:55:34.100 --> 01:55:36.300 then I think Chalet will be waiting for us, 01:55:36.300 --> 01:55:39.220 but still the second half to play with it. 01:55:39.220 --> 01:55:40.480 Unlike on their gym attacks, 01:55:40.480 --> 01:55:42.740 they do want to take map control for space station gaming. 01:55:42.740 --> 01:55:44.500 They're hoping to zero this other side of the map, 01:55:44.500 --> 01:55:46.620 but it's starting with a nice little peek. 01:55:46.620 --> 01:55:49.900 Mike W gets aggressive with it and pays for it with his life. 01:55:51.180 --> 01:55:54.020 Feaster Fam and style of play of Mike W so far today 01:55:54.020 --> 01:55:55.780 is admittling results. 01:55:55.780 --> 01:55:57.140 He brought 50 kills, which is great, 01:55:57.140 --> 01:55:58.540 and he had a pretty good first map, 01:55:58.540 --> 01:56:01.140 but is now unfortunately in the negatives for his team. 01:56:01.140 --> 01:56:02.620 Packer not having a much better day, 01:56:02.620 --> 01:56:04.420 and Packer's the kind of guy where you're expecting him 01:56:04.420 --> 01:56:05.620 to pick up kills. 01:56:05.620 --> 01:56:07.500 Good news though, Volker's been the man 01:56:07.500 --> 01:56:09.660 just taking out the trash time and time again, 01:56:09.660 --> 01:56:12.380 and he's easily handling some of that weight. 01:56:12.380 --> 01:56:13.860 There he is on your screen. 01:56:13.860 --> 01:56:15.620 He's got a target-rich environment 01:56:15.620 --> 01:56:17.700 in front of him out on highway. 01:56:17.700 --> 01:56:19.500 He's being watched from above, 01:56:19.500 --> 01:56:22.740 but he's got two players that he might've been able to find. 01:56:22.740 --> 01:56:23.860 They've now made their way into the building, 01:56:23.860 --> 01:56:26.260 so I think the opportunity is completely gone here. 01:56:26.260 --> 01:56:32.260 You can't sit and be static. SSG did that far too much on map number one. It bit them. 01:56:32.260 --> 01:56:36.260 One of 30 of three players left and the walls were closing on them. 01:56:36.260 --> 01:56:41.260 SSG have 40 seconds with everybody still offering the plop. A successful top floor. 01:56:41.260 --> 01:56:45.260 Now we're going to drink it over to Bino. The action might have been a little bit earlier on. 01:56:45.260 --> 01:56:47.260 And now Space Station is being watched by a bulletproof camera as well. 01:56:47.260 --> 01:56:53.260 So there's layers to this defense. One of 30 will have Volsper swing, Rival guns him down. 01:56:53.260 --> 01:56:55.260 the first half of the season. 01:56:55.260 --> 01:56:56.260 The first half of the season. 01:56:56.260 --> 01:56:58.260 The first half of the season. 01:56:58.260 --> 01:56:59.260 Silo and Bino now stacked up a 01:56:59.260 --> 01:57:02.260 top red and rivals looking for 01:57:02.260 --> 01:57:05.260 a quadra kill can find Silo in 01:57:05.260 --> 01:57:07.260 this spot. Daring through all 01:57:07.260 --> 01:57:08.260 of these defenders, multiple 01:57:08.260 --> 01:57:09.260 players from Space Station 01:57:09.260 --> 01:57:10.260 searching for the spinal kill, 01:57:10.260 --> 01:57:13.260 and it'll be rival to get the 01:57:13.260 --> 01:57:15.260 job done. Space Station will 01:57:15.260 --> 01:57:18.260 take the first half attacking on 01:57:18.260 --> 01:57:19.260 Clubhouse four to two. Space 01:57:19.260 --> 01:57:20.260 Station looking wonderful 01:57:20.260 --> 01:57:21.260 through that first half, 01:57:21.260 --> 01:57:22.260 Parker. They really did manage 01:57:22.260 --> 01:57:29.260 Listen, we got laxing on deck, ready to break down one of those critical rounds back to round number two in this game earlier on. 01:57:29.260 --> 01:57:34.260 Yeah, gentlemen, I want to take a look at round two, because this was a really good round from SSG. 01:57:34.260 --> 01:57:41.260 They could have ended it at a 5-1-1-1, and they did end it in a 4-2, but I really want to showcase that they had a great understanding of how they wanted to pick apart this site, 01:57:41.260 --> 01:57:42.260 and ultimately get control of it. 01:57:42.260 --> 01:57:47.260 Step one, Dream is going to be pushing through hot tub to be able to get all the control of main, to be able to get control of bathroom, 01:57:47.260 --> 01:57:51.260 to be able to get control of gym, and feed that information for rival below. 01:57:51.260 --> 01:58:04.460 Step two is they're going to eliminate Packer from Lodgy Hatch to be able to remove any bit of pressure with Aiden then dropping onto the outside rafters to be able to get all of control of Khan to be able to essentially cut the map in half. 01:58:04.460 --> 01:58:13.260 Now, where this is going to fall apart is the key position isn't being held here outside Master Window and because of this, it makes the whole round really fall apart. 01:58:13.260 --> 01:58:20.100 And what you're going to see is Dream now pushes through. He gets all this information. He relays the rival. He can now come up from main. Aiden drops. 01:58:20.100 --> 01:58:22.960 They put the pressure onto Packer, they get the pick onto Packer. 01:58:22.960 --> 01:58:26.700 Now again, this is where everything starts to fall apart because as you can see here, 01:58:26.900 --> 01:58:29.600 Raid is now just holding onto CC window. 01:58:29.600 --> 01:58:36.000 He is not applying any pressure anywhere where Silo now is able to then rotate through Jim into Jim 01:58:36.000 --> 01:58:41.000 and then take this pick onto Dream because there is no pressure being applied on that master window. 01:58:41.000 --> 01:58:45.600 And as we will continue to see and how this unfolds, Silo pushes through into Jim, 01:58:45.600 --> 01:58:48.700 takes this pick onto Dream, Bino gets this pick onto Rival. 01:58:48.700 --> 01:58:54.620 And if anyone had been there, you've got to understand, if he's in this position, if Ray's holding this, he gets this pick on the silo. 01:58:54.620 --> 01:58:59.380 He has this information of rival trying to be able to rotate and get that pick onto Giddy. 01:58:59.380 --> 01:59:07.560 And again, this entire round falls apart due to this minute detail and this small mistake that has made an understanding of how this strat was going to play out. 01:59:07.560 --> 01:59:15.640 And again, it's little details like this that as perfect as this round played out, I mean, it was flawless up until that point, and they could have ended at a 5-1-1-2. 01:59:15.640 --> 01:59:18.920 Overall, it was a really good attack. But again, it's just these small details 01:59:18.920 --> 01:59:21.160 if they look back at these rounds and understand where things went wrong 01:59:21.200 --> 01:59:25.680 They are only going to look even stronger than what we're seeing so far. But that's here for round two 01:59:25.680 --> 01:59:31.200 I mean, it was a wonderful display from SSG, but you don't want to give hope in these rounds where you're dominating back to the desk 01:59:33.480 --> 01:59:36.760 Thanks, Lex, we're gonna throw it quickly back over to the casters here Fox 01:59:36.760 --> 01:59:42.840 I'm not gonna let you speak because we're diving right back in to the second half four to two one of 30 01:59:42.840 --> 01:59:44.840 Have some ground to make up guys 01:59:45.640 --> 01:59:54.400 I mean, it's really easy when you've got two younger teams to be a bit more critical of the mistakes that they're making because there are a lot of things that will happen just because they're not as 01:59:54.400 --> 02:00:03.640 practiced, but it's very important as Abe showed off on the desk there and I think he did a very great job of it, is that you need to be able to highlight the good. 02:00:03.640 --> 02:00:14.640 There is gonna be a lot of bad that happens when two teams are inexperienced. It's gonna happen everywhere. It happens in every field, happens in every industry, happens in every sport, every e-sport. 02:00:14.640 --> 02:00:18.880 But you have to highlight what they do right, because both of these teams are still figuring it out, 02:00:18.880 --> 02:00:25.280 and it seems like they're getting a better handle on this matchup and how they handle each other the deeper we go in. 02:00:25.920 --> 02:00:28.640 Does that mean that 1 of 30 is done on this map? 02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:30.320 No, far from it. 02:00:30.520 --> 02:00:35.560 But I do think, with the scoreline through this first half, Jesse, and you feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, 02:00:35.560 --> 02:00:38.480 Chalet seems more and more likely by the minute. 02:00:38.800 --> 02:00:41.360 I would say there's a good chance you make it to Chalet. 02:00:41.360 --> 02:00:43.520 If I can play Devil's Advocate, though. 02:00:43.520 --> 02:00:49.020 Both of these teams have a better attacking win way through the group stage than they do on the defense. 02:00:49.020 --> 02:00:53.520 They both seem to prefer that offensive side versus playing on the defense. 02:00:53.520 --> 02:00:57.520 So there is the poke for 1 of 30. Now that gap is a lot bigger on space stations. 02:00:57.520 --> 02:01:01.020 74 to 55% on their attack versus defense. 02:01:01.020 --> 02:01:08.520 It's about a 3% increase on the attack for 1 of 30 and as laxing showed on the desk before this game began, it is still under 50%. 02:01:08.520 --> 02:01:12.520 But we hope to see 1 of 30 putting together some strong attacks here on clubhouse. 02:01:12.520 --> 02:01:15.180 they would have expected this map to come through into the pool. 02:01:16.280 --> 02:01:17.980 Starting on the base, it looks like in like, you know, 02:01:17.980 --> 02:01:20.360 the kind of low maps here, push parkers, 02:01:20.360 --> 02:01:22.820 they kind of want to just take control of their funnel, 02:01:22.820 --> 02:01:24.360 take control of kitchen hatch, 02:01:24.360 --> 02:01:26.760 and see what they can get fishing towards the bombs. 02:01:29.460 --> 02:01:31.020 So they're made in voyage here now, 02:01:31.020 --> 02:01:33.860 attacking against this SSG defense, 02:01:33.860 --> 02:01:35.760 and again, good defender teams. 02:01:35.760 --> 02:01:37.620 I have done a fair bit of time 02:01:37.620 --> 02:01:39.160 highlighting the space station attack, 02:01:39.160 --> 02:01:42.060 but look at how quickly one of 30 is in the building, packer. 02:01:42.060 --> 02:01:46.660 The only one with a kill so far, Wolfsburg and Beano easily swatted away by Space Station 02:01:47.260 --> 02:01:52.460 to go up a broke strategy and it certainly appears that broke is the ultimate conclusion. 02:01:52.760 --> 02:01:59.960 Silo with a desperation kill before or just after Packer had died, it's Mike W and Silo now with two minutes still left. 02:02:00.460 --> 02:02:04.160 Yeah, very obvious push coming through from 1 of 30, SSG read them like a book. 02:02:04.160 --> 02:02:05.960 They knew there was no pressure around the map. 02:02:05.960 --> 02:02:11.660 There was no pressure around the Moto Hatch, no pressure around Garage, no pressure around Blue here. 02:02:11.660 --> 02:02:17.720 They kind of see that push coming down through the main hatch inside of kitchen. It was a really nice swing out from 02:02:18.180 --> 02:02:22.080 We do is dream just shut down, you know there in the midst of that push 02:02:22.340 --> 02:02:26.580 Spike in the opening pick the numbers now favoring space station gaming. How do we react? 02:02:26.740 --> 02:02:31.580 Mike W and silo two rookies here for one of 30 in the 2v3 situation 02:02:31.580 --> 02:02:35.340 They've got a lot of time to play with but the diffuse kids in a very awkward spot 02:02:35.340 --> 02:02:37.980 They don't have a ton of actual utility 02:02:37.980 --> 02:02:44.100 not a lot of resources including a hard breach to start breaching some of these hashes and getting down towards the building in other angles 02:02:44.260 --> 02:02:50.060 So what does it look like? Well, it's gonna look like dirt tunnel and it's gonna look like maybe some pressure inside a kitchen as well 02:02:50.580 --> 02:02:54.940 Lots of time to fish for crabs here park for best station. They're caught our care cautious 02:02:54.940 --> 02:02:59.500 They're careful. They shouldn't be giving up their bodies and they should be able to walk down this 3v2 advantage 02:03:00.900 --> 02:03:03.740 Yeah, I mean you try to go through dirt tunnel 02:03:03.740 --> 02:03:07.740 Your tunnel is one of the most infamous places that you can set up a crossfire. 02:03:07.740 --> 02:03:11.740 There's no way you can kill the guy that's going to be playing AK on the left 02:03:11.740 --> 02:03:14.740 and there's somebody who's going to be playing by bomb chassis on the right. 02:03:14.740 --> 02:03:17.740 There's just no way unless you're able to, you know, maybe you're a high sense player 02:03:17.740 --> 02:03:19.740 and you can do a perfect 180 flick. 02:03:19.740 --> 02:03:22.740 This should be an unwinnable position for Mike W. 02:03:22.740 --> 02:03:28.740 Best case scenario, he kills one, Silo gets the other, and you're in the 1v1 at that point. 02:03:28.740 --> 02:03:32.180 Oh, hold on a second here, what was Dream looking at? 02:03:32.180 --> 02:03:34.940 Mike W. Waxing gets the kill and immediately backs out. 02:03:34.940 --> 02:03:38.500 All of the theory crafting, tales and practical application. 02:03:38.500 --> 02:03:40.540 Rival hits the drive-by and gets another, 02:03:40.540 --> 02:03:43.340 so he saves the round, but that one could have been bad 02:03:43.340 --> 02:03:44.700 for Space Station. 02:03:44.700 --> 02:03:48.220 They go in it and they stretch their lead because of it. 02:03:48.220 --> 02:03:50.100 Yeah, the crossfire from Aiden and Dream, 02:03:50.100 --> 02:03:52.900 not quite what it needed to be to stop that dirt tunnel push, 02:03:52.900 --> 02:03:56.580 but thankfully Rival is there to shut down any shenanigans, 02:03:56.580 --> 02:04:02.940 Any hope of a 2v3 clutch coming out from one of three really saw a defense to start that second half coming out from SSG 02:04:03.100 --> 02:04:07.540 Again, it was very reminiscent of our first round Parker where we start baseman 02:04:07.540 --> 02:04:12.860 We start with a decent roam up under the top floor so the attackers say okay. It's our first attack. Let's go for a rush 02:04:12.860 --> 02:04:16.180 Let's try to just hit the bomb site, but much like earlier in this round 02:04:16.180 --> 02:04:19.800 I thought it was read quite nicely by the defenders able to stall things out 02:04:19.800 --> 02:04:23.360 They were able to get themselves into an advantage position, but this time 02:04:23.360 --> 02:04:30.240 There's no giddy on the attack with Candela's to take that space to take the gunfights that they need to work that plant into a viable position 02:04:30.480 --> 02:04:34.400 The 2v3 just didn't have the right resources that they needed to make that happen 02:04:34.400 --> 02:04:38.800 So tough round for one of 30. I don't imagine they'll be trying that rush strategy again 02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:43.800 But they're running out of lives here on the second map park. There's only two rounds separate SSG from Shao-Lan 02:04:44.680 --> 02:04:46.760 I understand attacking the bottom floor is tough 02:04:46.760 --> 02:04:52.760 I totally get it and sometimes need to get a little bit creative but both of those teams trying rush strats and both of them ultimately 02:04:52.760 --> 02:04:56.520 Well, I mean, technically, I was gonna say fall short because technically SSG's Rush 02:04:56.520 --> 02:05:00.680 Track did fall short, but they still won the round because of the pivot. 02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:05.080 But that time around, there was no way for 1 and 30 to gracefully get out of that spot. 02:05:05.080 --> 02:05:09.000 They lost three players in the blink of an eye, and they didn't have a ying holding one 02:05:09.000 --> 02:05:13.520 of the most pivotal spots on that bottom floor on Blue Stairs, so. 02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:18.000 When you're looking at a team like 1 and 30, one of the biggest knocks against them is 02:05:18.000 --> 02:05:19.800 going to be their experience. 02:05:19.800 --> 02:05:21.560 whether it be from a leadership perspective 02:05:21.560 --> 02:05:23.080 or a strategic perspective, 02:05:23.080 --> 02:05:26.760 they're gonna trail the fact that there are veterans on SSG 02:05:26.760 --> 02:05:28.520 who are gonna be able to read things and call things 02:05:28.520 --> 02:05:29.840 maybe a little bit faster. 02:05:29.840 --> 02:05:30.800 And I think that's something they need 02:05:30.800 --> 02:05:32.920 to credit players like Dream4. 02:05:32.920 --> 02:05:36.120 Dream is being just about everything at this level. 02:05:36.120 --> 02:05:37.800 He's going to understand what's coming 02:05:37.800 --> 02:05:39.780 and while he might not be able to marshal his troops 02:05:39.780 --> 02:05:41.880 across the field with perfection, 02:05:41.880 --> 02:05:43.720 at least he's going to have a good read on it 02:05:43.720 --> 02:05:45.400 and a good idea on how to handle it. 02:05:45.400 --> 02:05:51.120 We'll go to gym bedroom for our next bomb site. Parker, this is going to be once again 02:05:51.120 --> 02:05:55.760 an expansion towards the cache side of the map. One of 30 did open some walls and they've 02:05:55.760 --> 02:05:59.080 got Packer down below so it seems like they do want to clear this and they've still got 02:05:59.080 --> 02:06:03.520 Silo over here as well so it definitely feels like this is going to be the read. 60 seconds 02:06:03.520 --> 02:06:07.640 off the clock so far though and not a whole lot of control being taken. A big pick for 02:06:07.640 --> 02:06:11.640 Ray. He finds the Black Rude of Vino in the Raptors position. They know exactly where 02:06:11.640 --> 02:06:15.880 he's at but he still holds his force down. He would have a great job of just keeping up, 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:19.640 being annoying but not giving up his life. This has been excellent from the rookie. 02:06:20.520 --> 02:06:24.120 And he takes down Packer as well. Finally felled by Silo. There was a 02:06:24.120 --> 02:06:29.560 nade on his lap too so something was likely going to kill him. It was just a matter of who it was. 02:06:31.720 --> 02:06:36.520 Take control of the exterior. Now they've also got Raptor's control. They can start to clamp down 02:06:36.520 --> 02:06:41.480 on construction but all this focus might distract you from the fact that the bomb site is over 02:06:41.480 --> 02:06:46.680 on the gym and bedroom side of things, so this full extension over the cache, very typical, 02:06:46.680 --> 02:06:52.200 handled fairly fast by 1 of 30, even if they do trail in numbers. 02:06:53.080 --> 02:06:57.080 Yeah, this is awkward. They still don't have control of this east side of the map. Aiden here 02:06:57.080 --> 02:07:02.040 on the red stairs, he can take the fight, yes he can. Silo will fall and hope for even more. 02:07:02.040 --> 02:07:05.240 Throws out the Gersbond, knows to default for just on the other side of that doorway. 02:07:05.240 --> 02:07:09.880 He's got pings on it from his teammates as well, so loads of information for SSG. 02:07:09.880 --> 02:07:14.560 They could fall back and play the bombs that had this marker, but they're still just happy to hold on to this control. 02:07:14.560 --> 02:07:20.260 Still fighting for catch because the fuse gets down here. They have to walk in. They have to fight this Ella. 02:07:20.260 --> 02:07:23.380 And 1 of 30. They don't have any good way to play the U-Tilt. 02:07:24.880 --> 02:07:30.960 That bulletproof camera was a huge story on the side. It enabled players like Aiden and enabled everybody else on the team to give pings to. 02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:35.340 And there's Aiden and Giddy getting really active. The last two players on 1 of 30 trickle into their death. 02:07:35.340 --> 02:07:42.780 They held that position inside for so long, but information is the name of the game, and it was used to great effect by space station. 02:07:42.780 --> 02:07:49.100 Even if the tempo from 1 to 30 to open up that wall and get in was pretty decent, everything else ultimately fell apart. 02:07:49.100 --> 02:07:58.100 And now it's map point for space station now demolishing this 1 to 30 team the same way that we saw it back in map number one. 02:07:58.100 --> 02:08:04.820 Both of these teams winning their maps dominantly, I gotta say, it's not a habit. I'll leave my words on this one. 02:08:05.340 --> 02:08:09.340 Yeah, Parker. I mean, I was really impressed with the attacks from 02:08:09.340 --> 02:08:13.340 space station gaming in the four to and despite the copium I was thrown out with both these teams 02:08:13.340 --> 02:08:17.340 being better on the offense than the defense. The defense is looking even better for space station 02:08:17.340 --> 02:08:21.340 here in the second half. They're just so consistent. They know exactly the positions they want to play 02:08:21.340 --> 02:08:26.340 forces attack timeout to come through from one of 30 desperate to try to figure out what they can do. 02:08:26.340 --> 02:08:31.340 Now having to be perfect through the next four rounds, they have not given themselves much time with this 02:08:31.340 --> 02:08:34.300 with this lifeline, Royz, the coach of 1 of 30, 02:08:34.300 --> 02:08:35.700 will be talking as much as he can 02:08:35.700 --> 02:08:36.980 over these next couple of seconds, 02:08:36.980 --> 02:08:38.380 just to get that information out, 02:08:38.380 --> 02:08:39.740 try to fix some of the problems, 02:08:39.740 --> 02:08:41.540 but it's tough to diagnose. 02:08:41.540 --> 02:08:43.980 I mean, you only see in two attacks now from your boys, 02:08:43.980 --> 02:08:46.260 and first one was a rush, 02:08:46.260 --> 02:08:47.900 you're probably not gonna replicate that anyways, 02:08:47.900 --> 02:08:49.500 and then it's like, well, 02:08:49.500 --> 02:08:51.780 what do you tell them to help clear Rado better? 02:08:51.780 --> 02:08:52.820 They did all that they could, 02:08:52.820 --> 02:08:54.580 they tossed the Uto, they had the shield, 02:08:54.580 --> 02:08:56.660 but Rade just played that phenomenally, 02:08:56.660 --> 02:08:58.980 and then once they get into the low man count situation, 02:08:58.980 --> 02:09:01.780 Maybe that's the one constant across two rounds. 02:09:01.780 --> 02:09:03.500 How do they recover these moments? 02:09:03.500 --> 02:09:05.940 Because SSG are consistently winning the early game. 02:09:05.940 --> 02:09:07.540 They're consistently having big plays 02:09:07.540 --> 02:09:10.100 that set themselves up into a winning position. 02:09:10.100 --> 02:09:13.300 And one of 30, I think both rounds that we've seen from them 02:09:13.300 --> 02:09:15.140 haven't given us the best attempt 02:09:15.140 --> 02:09:16.380 to try to recover that round. 02:09:16.380 --> 02:09:18.180 They've kind of continued to push the same angles 02:09:18.180 --> 02:09:19.620 they were pushing on plan A. 02:09:19.620 --> 02:09:21.300 They've continued to try to take that space. 02:09:21.300 --> 02:09:23.260 And sometimes they're forced into that 02:09:23.260 --> 02:09:25.220 either because the Qs get a drop top right 02:09:25.220 --> 02:09:26.780 because they just don't have U-Tilt 02:09:26.780 --> 02:09:28.620 and open some of the hatches on a baseman attack. 02:09:28.620 --> 02:09:31.580 but they gotta find some way to get back into these rounds. 02:09:31.580 --> 02:09:34.540 The players from SSG are not gonna stop giving them that advantage. 02:09:35.620 --> 02:09:37.420 7-2 was the scoreline on map number one. 02:09:37.420 --> 02:09:39.260 You can see it on the top part of your screen. 02:09:39.260 --> 02:09:42.340 It's looking like a 7-2 is gonna happen here on Clubhouse. 02:09:42.340 --> 02:09:44.660 So pretty quick games, all things considered. 02:09:44.660 --> 02:09:49.060 We've only been live for about an hour and a half at this point 02:09:49.060 --> 02:09:52.620 to be able to knock out two maps in an hour and a half. 02:09:52.620 --> 02:09:54.980 I mean, if you're watching this after it's live, 02:09:54.980 --> 02:09:56.500 you've probably got a good idea. 02:09:56.500 --> 02:09:58.500 If you look down at the bottom and see how long 02:09:58.500 --> 02:10:00.640 the actual matchup was for, well, that was a really quick one. 02:10:00.640 --> 02:10:02.340 And you find out that it was potentially three maps 02:10:02.340 --> 02:10:04.420 and go, what happened here? 02:10:04.420 --> 02:10:06.900 These teams just getting to Chalet very quickly. 02:10:06.900 --> 02:10:10.180 And for a map like Chalet, it's not really 02:10:10.180 --> 02:10:12.820 going to play that similar to either of these two maps. 02:10:12.820 --> 02:10:14.860 I will say, I do think there's a lot more similarities 02:10:14.860 --> 02:10:17.660 than that even labs in Clubhouse than most two maps 02:10:17.660 --> 02:10:19.020 when you put them together. 02:10:19.020 --> 02:10:24.580 130 does not have any history as a roster playing Chalet. 02:10:24.580 --> 02:10:26.620 Space Station blew out Outlast. 02:10:26.620 --> 02:10:33.580 Seven two just a little bit over a week ago when they went to it and the organization has a five and one record on it 02:10:33.740 --> 02:10:36.460 Over the last six months, but again, that's the org 02:10:36.820 --> 02:10:43.820 The org used to have a completely different lineup playing it up to up until what a month ago give or take so 02:10:44.300 --> 02:10:46.060 Hard to just go off of those numbers 02:10:46.060 --> 02:10:48.740 But of course beating out last time to his confidence inspiring 02:10:49.020 --> 02:10:55.700 But outlast has looked like easily one of the worst teams in tier one so far and the numbers do tend to back that up 02:10:55.700 --> 02:10:59.700 So I don't know how much is going to be learned from Space Station in that one official map. 02:10:59.700 --> 02:11:04.700 So they're just so important for 1 of 30 to activate themselves off in the right foot. 02:11:04.700 --> 02:11:06.700 They've got good information thanks to this snake. 02:11:06.700 --> 02:11:09.700 They win the fight after so much damage in towards him. 02:11:09.700 --> 02:11:11.700 Silos flings instead, but loses the fight. 02:11:11.700 --> 02:11:13.700 There's a trade from Paco with the pistol. 02:11:13.700 --> 02:11:15.700 These kills have still been falling all around them. 02:11:15.700 --> 02:11:17.700 It's a one man lead for 1 of 30. 02:11:17.700 --> 02:11:20.700 They're clear on the master side, it's gone quite well. 02:11:20.700 --> 02:11:24.700 Minute and 15 seconds or so to try to convert the rest of this. 02:11:24.700 --> 02:11:28.600 I think that's exactly what they wanted to come through of their top floor clear 02:11:28.600 --> 02:11:32.320 They lose their grim which will be painful when they go to attack this bomb site 02:11:32.320 --> 02:11:37.340 But ultimately they got the job done that they were looking for man advantage now the lead is in their hands 02:11:37.340 --> 02:11:40.960 They're dealing with a lot of site utility right on rafters fine 02:11:40.960 --> 02:11:45.300 But then Aiden and dream both with ability to deny that plant with their primary gadgets 02:11:45.300 --> 02:11:48.900 That's gonna be what I'm worried about Parker 50 seconds left on this clock 02:11:48.900 --> 02:11:51.660 They need to make sure they're planting before they get to those final 20 02:11:51.660 --> 02:11:58.180 I've been watching the the two dead players on space station shuffle through the yokais that were manning sure 02:11:58.180 --> 02:12:02.460 It feels like the only way to celebrate is in construction. It's going to play such a huge part here 02:12:02.460 --> 02:12:06.380 It's got a good read on two separate players in the side of one of 30 and because of that 02:12:06.380 --> 02:12:09.940 They've managed to take down packer be no now also almost dead 02:12:10.420 --> 02:12:14.860 Volsper and Mike W will need to help out be no as that case is escorted on in 02:12:15.420 --> 02:12:20.700 Volsper in this top position on red with be no not far removed, but they are very worried about nitro cells 02:12:20.700 --> 02:12:24.420 They're worried about plays from below. They're worried about the yokai's really for no reason 02:12:24.420 --> 02:12:28.460 You've got to deal with the one yokai, but there's very little else that can be used your way 02:12:28.780 --> 02:12:32.580 Impact will go on dream he spotted one of 30 in great position 02:12:32.580 --> 02:12:38.820 They get the diffuser down and off to the races they go leaving raid and aid in as the last few 02:12:39.340 --> 02:12:41.700 Read let all this happen from last year's 02:12:41.900 --> 02:12:48.420 He'll have to clutch out as aiden dies the hands of Mike W like W on a single point of HP raid takes him down 02:12:48.420 --> 02:12:50.420 It's him versus Volsper 02:12:50.820 --> 02:12:56.840 Diffuse kids still running away at the halfway point right now Volsper on the glass a great operator to deal with this 02:12:56.980 --> 02:13:03.320 Will he be able to long arm him? It doesn't matter Volsper takes the fight and he wins it one of 30 stays alive 02:13:04.200 --> 02:13:08.280 Yeah, Mike. We're all thinking the same thing SSG still sitting on that point though 02:13:08.280 --> 02:13:12.920 Oh, it doesn't get closer than that Parker just by having a slight advantage 02:13:12.920 --> 02:13:19.080 You were right to call out that information advantage for SSG that yokai inside of con started things off so well for them 02:13:19.080 --> 02:13:25.120 But then they made such an interesting call on the side of space station all three players in the 3v3 said we don't want to hold 02:13:25.120 --> 02:13:26.680 On to the site. We're gonna go down below 02:13:26.680 --> 02:13:32.240 We're gonna play the vert from bought from bottom floor now that makes sense a lot of the players are being pushed out by the yin the 02:13:32.240 --> 02:13:37.640 Candelas were so impactful to try to take that space and give that advantage over towards one of 30 02:13:38.240 --> 02:13:40.080 They had information the site as well 02:13:40.080 --> 02:13:44.220 I mean there was that there was that yokai of course inside the site that helped things out 02:13:44.220 --> 02:13:48.600 But ultimately they just weren't able to deny that plant and as soon as that happens man 02:13:48.600 --> 02:13:54.800 It becomes really difficult to retake great attempts coming through but without the man advantage into the 1v1 02:13:54.800 --> 02:14:00.240 The post plan will always favor the attackers. So nicely done by one of 30 raids sure 02:14:00.240 --> 02:14:03.240 Yes, that a good old college try he nearly clutches it up 02:14:03.240 --> 02:14:06.120 But unfortunately for him Balsper is better today 02:14:06.120 --> 02:14:12.600 They continue to creep closer to double digits, get it on map 1 and could do it again on map 2 if they continue to extend this map. 02:14:13.480 --> 02:14:17.760 Is that 24 kills for Volsper at this point across both of these matches? 02:14:17.760 --> 02:14:18.960 Yeah, 24 now. 02:14:18.960 --> 02:14:22.120 It is 24 and 11. 02:14:23.120 --> 02:14:28.200 Unbelievable stuff. Again, he came into this match with 1 t3 kills. 02:14:28.200 --> 02:14:30.400 He has 24 kills. 02:14:30.400 --> 02:14:35.880 He has eclipsed the four matches that he played in groups in two maps. 02:14:35.880 --> 02:14:37.760 He's done it in half the time. 02:14:38.600 --> 02:14:42.100 And I mean, it's not even like he's changed up his style that much. 02:14:42.100 --> 02:14:44.880 He was playing no mad doker, he was playing snake, he was playing 02:14:44.880 --> 02:14:46.680 fragging operators on defense too. 02:14:47.080 --> 02:14:48.840 He was just not doing so well. 02:14:48.840 --> 02:14:52.960 I mean, he had 11 entry stats, seven of them were deaths. 02:14:53.160 --> 02:14:55.320 So he was involved in this early action. 02:14:55.720 --> 02:14:56.840 It's just taken him some time. 02:14:56.840 --> 02:15:01.680 And again, I mentioned outlast earlier, they didn't look like the best team in 02:15:01.680 --> 02:15:03.120 the NAL, that's undeniable. 02:15:03.120 --> 02:15:03.920 Oh, what? 02:15:05.120 --> 02:15:05.620 What? 02:15:07.220 --> 02:15:11.420 What do you kill yourself with your opponent's Goyo canister? 02:15:12.420 --> 02:15:14.520 I'm fat-folded, I'll be going back at it. 02:15:14.520 --> 02:15:16.520 Yeah, I'm gonna need to know what happened there. 02:15:16.520 --> 02:15:18.620 That is actually, I know that we might joke about it, 02:15:18.620 --> 02:15:20.520 but that is genuinely a devastating loss. 02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:22.420 You've asked for the black beer and you've lost the case. 02:15:22.420 --> 02:15:24.420 Like that big dude around right there. 02:15:24.420 --> 02:15:28.720 Yeah, I'm pretty sure he breached into the soft wall inside a dirt tunnel 02:15:28.720 --> 02:15:30.720 and he breached into a Goyo canister. 02:15:30.720 --> 02:15:32.220 This is exactly what happened. 02:15:32.220 --> 02:15:39.320 So as soon as he breaches the wall with that Blackbeard shield, the Goyo explodes and it does all that damage and he ends up killing himself like that. 02:15:39.320 --> 02:15:44.220 That is kind of crazy. Only they droned it. That's so unfortunate. 02:15:44.820 --> 02:15:48.020 Yeah, I mean, that's probably Curtains here on this map if we're being completely honest. 02:15:48.020 --> 02:15:48.820 Yeah. 02:15:48.820 --> 02:15:53.420 If you- Silo had to pin it off of his position, he had to go retrieve the Diffuse Kit from Dirt Dumbled. 02:15:53.420 --> 02:15:56.220 The jig is up. They noted that was Dirt that was breached as well. 02:15:56.420 --> 02:16:01.720 So that's information as to where the initial execute was going from so they can potentially turn things around. 02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:06.360 Silo got second Guinea so there is maybe some saving grace here Silo's just taken up beano's spot 02:16:06.360 --> 02:16:11.740 But I mean having a recruit in dirt tunnel instead of a blackbeard is a completely different game Jesse 02:16:11.740 --> 02:16:16.360 It's much weaker. It looked like Silo was gonna be joined by Mike W as well 02:16:16.360 --> 02:16:21.880 So this might be a double play loading you back. What you knew he was there. Okay? 02:16:22.320 --> 02:16:26.680 We're trolling a little bit on both sides today Parker. We're doing a little bit of a throw Jesse 02:16:26.680 --> 02:16:33.340 Just like that, 1 of 30 are back in this round, despite all the shenanigans. 02:16:33.340 --> 02:16:36.820 These roamers have returned back towards the site, there's over 60 seconds, so 1 of 30 02:16:36.820 --> 02:16:38.740 can start to pick apart this defense. 02:16:38.740 --> 02:16:41.980 They do actually have a hard breacher this time, so Mike W can start to work on some 02:16:41.980 --> 02:16:42.980 of these hatches. 02:16:42.980 --> 02:16:45.860 If they get the Moto hatch open, then Rage should be dead to rights. 02:16:45.860 --> 02:16:49.420 They seem to know he's here, with Packer holding the angle from the hallway. 02:16:49.420 --> 02:16:53.700 One kill would be all it takes to track this wide open for 1 of 30. 02:16:53.700 --> 02:16:56.780 New Mike W was in that position long ago when he was defending. 02:16:56.780 --> 02:16:58.300 He's going to favor it again on attack. 02:16:58.300 --> 02:17:00.580 Silo making up for lost time here. 02:17:00.580 --> 02:17:03.700 Oh, he could have won the round right there. 02:17:03.700 --> 02:17:05.940 He missed his out on dream. 02:17:05.940 --> 02:17:07.420 It was a fight he should have won. 02:17:07.420 --> 02:17:10.380 Silo would have picked up his poor kill, but it's all for naught. 02:17:10.380 --> 02:17:12.260 Now it's Packer trying to survive. 02:17:12.260 --> 02:17:14.500 He trains. 02:17:14.500 --> 02:17:16.060 What a dagger. 02:17:16.060 --> 02:17:20.460 I in all of my life have not quite seen a round like that, Jesse. 02:17:20.460 --> 02:17:22.740 That is one for the books. 02:17:22.740 --> 02:17:27.340 And what an anti-climactic moment for Space Station to win their own map. 02:17:27.340 --> 02:17:30.260 Listen, one way or another, Parker, they get the job done. 02:17:30.260 --> 02:17:31.820 One of 30 on Clubhouse. 02:17:31.820 --> 02:17:34.700 It just seems to be a little bit cursed, doesn't it? 02:17:34.700 --> 02:17:36.780 And in a dead, they still got Chalet on back, 02:17:36.780 --> 02:17:38.900 so we'll try to do a quick break and come right back. 02:17:38.900 --> 02:17:40.340 So now we slow to the front. 02:22:22.740 --> 02:22:52.700 7, 2, and now 7, 3 were flying through this series of games. 02:22:52.700 --> 02:22:57.420 So far, but a map three is in our future SSG 02:22:57.420 --> 02:23:03.500 They looked a huge step up better than they did on that first map Fox. It was almost everything 02:23:03.500 --> 02:23:07.780 We talked about coming into this one. They improved the energy was up. It was very clear 02:23:07.780 --> 02:23:14.160 They were on the ball from the jump. I mean, we know SSG understands clubhouse same SSG that we saw dominate wildcard 02:23:14.160 --> 02:23:16.160 I mean, they were getting the first picks on their attacks 02:23:16.660 --> 02:23:22.220 Locking down the angles one of 30 couldn't really respond and I think that was just the structure 02:23:22.220 --> 02:23:27.700 the fundamentals of them understanding the map that much better and they felt a lot more comfortable everybody on the team 02:23:27.860 --> 02:23:32.300 Was rising up to the occasion just because of the maps simplicity once the sides swap 02:23:32.300 --> 02:23:35.500 I think SSG did a great job of being able to add their own layers 02:23:35.500 --> 02:23:38.660 But I think that's where we see the fault fall onto one of 30 shoulders 02:23:38.660 --> 02:23:40.420 They couldn't really find their own openings 02:23:40.420 --> 02:23:43.500 They couldn't find a way to get comfortably into the map 02:23:43.500 --> 02:23:47.540 They tried to bring those shields some of the times the blackbeard be there was one of those players 02:23:47.540 --> 02:23:51.900 But unfortunately the shield was the first player getting picked apart 02:23:51.900 --> 02:23:54.580 and that has no success for 1 of 30. 02:23:54.580 --> 02:23:57.540 If their main entry into the bomb set into the map 02:23:57.540 --> 02:23:59.940 is your shield and it's the first one dying 02:23:59.940 --> 02:24:02.180 and it just looked like 1 of 30 tried their best. 02:24:02.180 --> 02:24:05.940 What didn't seem like it was really that big of glaring issues 02:24:05.940 --> 02:24:07.820 besides the fact that they just couldn't get 02:24:07.820 --> 02:24:10.140 the same level of entry into the map 02:24:10.140 --> 02:24:13.380 for the risk or reward factor that SSU was doing. 02:24:13.380 --> 02:24:15.580 And the storyline that we talked about coming into 02:24:15.580 --> 02:24:17.020 is that kind of rookie battle. 02:24:17.020 --> 02:24:19.380 Well, we said it was Mike W coming out on top, 02:24:19.380 --> 02:24:20.820 beating Raid through and through. 02:24:20.820 --> 02:24:24.820 Things have dramatically changed here coming off of map 2 raid. 02:24:24.820 --> 02:24:30.620 I mean was all over it. We saw him playing rafters in the trenches round after round on defense. 02:24:30.620 --> 02:24:34.420 We saw some almost insane clutch power as well from him. 02:24:34.420 --> 02:24:37.820 I mean we've seen a little bit of everything from this kid and it's looking better week to week. 02:24:37.820 --> 02:24:42.820 I mean this is where we highlighted raid in the first place in his debut versus wild card where he popped off as well. 02:24:42.820 --> 02:24:44.820 And Fox I think you also touched up on it as well. 02:24:44.820 --> 02:24:48.820 If there's gonna be any game for any of these teams to be comfortable and it would be against one another in themselves. 02:24:48.820 --> 02:24:53.900 They know these players they know their idiosyncrasies and you can just see and raid and his confidence and the rest of the team as well 02:24:53.900 --> 02:24:55.120 They're all playing well 02:24:55.120 --> 02:25:00.980 They're all very well synchronized in terms of how they're doing even the round that I broke down around to that entire strat was clean 02:25:00.980 --> 02:25:04.780 Through and through it was just a small mistake that yes silo instantly opened up 02:25:04.780 --> 02:25:07.980 But I mean again it for me even we were listening to the comms in the back 02:25:07.980 --> 02:25:13.360 It was a night and day difference in terms of what we were getting out of SSG versus what we were hearing on a 1 of 30 02:25:13.360 --> 02:25:17.540 And something that me and you know, I mean once you get into these best of threes. It's not a sprint 02:25:17.540 --> 02:25:19.220 It's a marathon. It's about endurance. 02:25:19.220 --> 02:25:21.780 And I think some of that is slowly starting to tapering. 02:25:21.780 --> 02:25:24.420 And that's where we really start to see these inexperienced teams, 02:25:24.420 --> 02:25:28.420 how they handle that, how they handle going from a tremendous win 02:25:28.420 --> 02:25:31.460 to then the inevitable loss where they just get pounded. 02:25:31.460 --> 02:25:33.620 And now you have to go to a map three and it's a matter of, 02:25:33.620 --> 02:25:35.620 okay, how do you bounce back from this now? 02:25:35.620 --> 02:25:38.180 That's what I really want to see once we go into this third map is 02:25:38.180 --> 02:25:39.700 what is the mental state going into this? 02:25:39.700 --> 02:25:40.980 Because from when we heard from Combs, 02:25:40.980 --> 02:25:42.900 it did not sound great from 1 to 30. 02:25:42.900 --> 02:25:44.500 I mean, just from the level of comfortability, 02:25:44.500 --> 02:25:47.140 I mean, you go to a map like Clubhouse, SSG looks a lot. 02:25:47.140 --> 02:25:51.540 Now we're going to a map like shall lay that's a situation where it's very similar to clubhouse. Very 02:25:52.340 --> 02:25:53.700 Cut and dry, you know 02:25:53.700 --> 02:25:58.100 You get the first pick on library side or master side and then you lock down both avenues of that 02:25:58.100 --> 02:26:00.100 The other team can't find a way back in it 02:26:00.100 --> 02:26:06.660 I want to see one of 30 be able to respond if they lose that opening pick or at least be a lot more impactful in the 02:26:06.660 --> 02:26:08.420 Roam because you can't really do it on clubhouse 02:26:08.420 --> 02:26:10.420 you can do it a little bit on shall lay and 02:26:10.780 --> 02:26:17.020 Again players like Packer are people that you're going to be looking towards to carry this team out of the funk 02:26:17.020 --> 02:26:19.020 of losing that map too. 02:26:19.020 --> 02:26:24.320 You mentioned the comms and I think it maybe wasn't the defining moment of the map but 02:26:24.320 --> 02:26:30.440 it certainly was a funny one at the last moment the last round pure chaos ensued. 02:26:30.440 --> 02:26:37.280 Take a listen at the comms to these Goyo canister death from Vino on the final round. 02:26:37.280 --> 02:26:43.480 Yeah, I'm gonna climb wall before I rotate to the meter. 02:26:43.480 --> 02:26:45.840 Yeah, I'm not gonna work that's a... 02:26:45.840 --> 02:26:46.840 Okay. 02:26:46.840 --> 02:26:49.040 Okay, you put a Goyle on... 02:26:49.040 --> 02:26:52.280 I mean they were just stunned. 02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:54.480 Stunned in the Goyle placement. 02:26:54.480 --> 02:26:57.400 It's kind of just one of those things where you just gotta accept what just happened. 02:26:57.400 --> 02:26:58.900 It's just to be out of this situation. 02:26:58.900 --> 02:27:00.880 Unfortunately, it wasn't the last round. 02:27:00.880 --> 02:27:04.060 But if you can make light out of the situation, it kind of shows a little bit of maturity 02:27:04.060 --> 02:27:05.060 from the team. 02:27:05.060 --> 02:27:06.060 Maturity? 02:27:06.060 --> 02:27:09.720 say so a lot of people who get super upset and then you know yeah I read that 02:27:09.720 --> 02:27:14.520 off if that was my team and we're not droning the drywall for sure I agree with 02:27:14.520 --> 02:27:17.520 that that's the second round that my shield is dying first if I was in a 02:27:17.520 --> 02:27:20.680 team house at Bino I'd smack him on the back of the neck that would upset me 02:27:20.680 --> 02:27:23.920 that's not what we want to see when you're playing to make it to a major 02:27:23.920 --> 02:27:28.720 yes we're expecting our expectations are minimized for teams like one of 30 going 02:27:28.720 --> 02:27:31.800 to Salt Lake City because they're a new team blah blah blah they got the first 02:27:31.800 --> 02:27:35.320 map it's in their hands your shield player should not be dying that's sloppy 02:27:35.320 --> 02:27:40.600 I don't care how much fun you're having you need to make sure that that shit is completely cut out going into map 30 02:27:40.600 --> 02:27:43.360 All right, they got it. They got it. They got to be mature. They got a lock in in our desk 02:27:43.840 --> 02:27:46.840 Okay, well we clearly get that get the dynamic here 02:27:46.840 --> 02:27:53.140 Hopefully this dynamic between one of 30 and SSG we can continue to see it ebb and flow going into this third map 02:27:53.140 --> 02:27:56.680 We'll find out exactly how shall a plays out after this 02:31:35.320 --> 02:31:45.660 All right, well, map number three has arrived, and one of these two teams will move forward 02:31:45.660 --> 02:31:48.840 in a date against five fears. 02:31:48.840 --> 02:31:52.720 In the next round of the NAF kickoff finals, neither of these teams are qualifying for 02:31:52.720 --> 02:31:56.280 the Major just yet, and neither of them will be eliminated, so we will see both of them 02:31:56.280 --> 02:31:58.520 in action moving forward. 02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:02.840 The question is, which one goes on and gets one step closer to the Major, and which one 02:32:02.840 --> 02:32:06.440 has to run through hell, a.k.a. lower bracket. 02:32:06.440 --> 02:32:08.960 1 of 30 started off with a very strong performance 02:32:08.960 --> 02:32:10.080 on their own map. 02:32:10.080 --> 02:32:13.320 They gave the gears to SSG a little bit on map number two, 02:32:13.320 --> 02:32:15.280 but SSG still won their own map tech. 02:32:15.280 --> 02:32:20.120 Now we go to Chalet as the ultimate decider, Jesse, 02:32:20.120 --> 02:32:21.080 on paper. 02:32:21.080 --> 02:32:22.880 1 of 30 has one more rounds. 02:32:22.880 --> 02:32:24.320 Do you think they've been the better team? 02:32:24.320 --> 02:32:26.680 And do you think they have what it takes to win Chalet 02:32:26.680 --> 02:32:29.480 or is Space Station going to pull off the reverse sweep? 02:32:29.480 --> 02:32:30.880 I mean, Parker, there's no argument 02:32:30.880 --> 02:32:32.280 who was the better team on map. 02:32:32.280 --> 02:32:35.400 one of 30 crushed space station there. 02:32:35.400 --> 02:32:36.920 Our analysts just broke it down. 02:32:36.920 --> 02:32:39.080 They clearly just are not experienced enough 02:32:39.080 --> 02:32:40.640 on that map as the G-Arts, 02:32:40.640 --> 02:32:43.200 but I think Clubhouse told the whole story. 02:32:43.200 --> 02:32:45.160 That was a map that both teams had played before. 02:32:45.160 --> 02:32:46.480 Both teams were familiar with. 02:32:46.480 --> 02:32:47.680 We now come to Chalet, 02:32:47.680 --> 02:32:51.000 where again, the familiarity should be relatively equal 02:32:51.000 --> 02:32:52.280 across both sides. 02:32:52.280 --> 02:32:53.320 My favorite as an SG, 02:32:53.320 --> 02:32:56.520 they showed they were better when the playing field was equal. 02:32:56.520 --> 02:32:58.520 And I think we're in a similar spot now. 02:32:59.640 --> 02:33:00.480 Yeah, I agree with you. 02:33:00.480 --> 02:33:01.840 I think the one thing that we should take away from this 02:33:01.840 --> 02:33:06.880 irrespective of who wins this third map these teams are pretty evenly matched. If you are a 02:33:06.880 --> 02:33:12.240 team like Five Fears you are watching this with glee because you are seeing all of the mistakes 02:33:12.240 --> 02:33:19.280 and all of the strategy unfold in real time and now you've got maybe more recent data on three 02:33:19.280 --> 02:33:25.120 maps that are typically in the arsenal and most of these NAL teams a lot of this region plays 02:33:25.120 --> 02:33:31.200 clubhouse they play chalet most of them play nine even labs as well so you can see what goes right 02:33:31.200 --> 02:33:36.480 You can see what goes wrong because of course both of these rosters got a lot of fresh faces on them 02:33:36.480 --> 02:33:40.920 Not a lot of game day reps if you are a rookie you have played 02:33:41.960 --> 02:33:44.280 Or not to get to this point 02:33:44.920 --> 02:33:51.240 That's all there was for the first stage of kickoff. So I think you said the term earlier when the rubber meets the road 02:33:51.920 --> 02:33:55.640 This is now number three. This is when all the rubber meets all the road Jesse 02:33:55.640 --> 02:34:02.920 And we'll start with SSG on attack 1 of 30 defending here on shall a first bomb site will be kitchen on the main floor 02:34:03.160 --> 02:34:06.860 Yeah, and when space station places map earlier in the season versus outlasts 02:34:06.860 --> 02:34:11.360 They only had to attack three times and they attacked every bomb site except for kitchen 02:34:11.360 --> 02:34:15.920 So this is the one look that maybe at 1 of 30 will not have any VODs on whatsoever 02:34:15.920 --> 02:34:21.320 I will also mentioned that SSG were successful in all three of those attacks on the other bomb site 02:34:21.320 --> 02:34:26.920 So it's not like you can spot out any weaknesses from those previous mods and it was against Outlast as we've mentioned 02:34:27.240 --> 02:34:31.000 Probably the weakest team here in the North American League through the kickoffs so far 02:34:32.200 --> 02:34:37.720 Not a whole lot that you can necessarily learn from but you don't need to learn much when you get tossed next to us like that 02:34:37.960 --> 02:34:44.600 Mike W straight on to Ray through the solar window to kick us off. That's gonna be the only hard breach I have to take it off the board 02:34:46.280 --> 02:34:48.280 That's a really rough loss there 02:34:48.280 --> 02:34:51.080 I mean I guess the beautiful thing about a map like chalet is that 02:34:51.320 --> 02:34:55.220 So many of these walls and floors are going to be shot out by soft destruction that 02:34:55.580 --> 02:35:01.700 Hard destruction is I think it's fair to say not as important on this particular bomb site than the rest of the map 02:35:01.700 --> 02:35:04.860 And frankly not as important on this map as it is on others 02:35:04.860 --> 02:35:08.620 You look at a map like clubhouse try pulling off and execute without any hard bridge on clubhouse 02:35:08.620 --> 02:35:13.120 It's much more difficult especially if you have to deal with hatches here though 02:35:13.520 --> 02:35:16.900 Pugelson can easily get the job done smokes flashes 02:35:16.900 --> 02:35:20.980 They can get the job done as well, and Space Station happens to house them back up. 02:35:20.980 --> 02:35:22.020 Well, they did. 02:35:22.020 --> 02:35:25.300 Rival gets dropped after the ROU projectors had gone out. 02:35:25.300 --> 02:35:27.140 Bino dies at the hands of Aiden. 02:35:27.140 --> 02:35:31.060 So the fragging will continue until morale improves. 02:35:31.060 --> 02:35:35.860 Into A4V4 now that Rival's been picked back up, and we reach the halfway point of the round. 02:35:35.860 --> 02:35:37.860 Yeah, you're happy about this if you're SSG. 02:35:37.860 --> 02:35:41.460 You still got more of these trends, Wallace, to play around, even though the first two did get down. 02:35:41.460 --> 02:35:45.140 You're all site control now as well, so as long as you can avoid the vert, 02:35:45.140 --> 02:35:48.140 This plant should be able to go down relatively early around. 02:35:50.140 --> 02:35:55.140 Volsper has had a terrific day so far. Far and away the best player on the team. 02:35:56.140 --> 02:36:01.140 Numbers are quite crazy. Doubling up on kills and deaths. 24 kills, 12 deaths. 02:36:01.140 --> 02:36:06.140 A reminder for those that didn't want to watch the second map and might have forgotten those of you that haven't. 02:36:06.140 --> 02:36:14.140 Volsper had 23 kills during four maps in the groups. He has 24 kills. One more in just two. 02:36:15.140 --> 02:36:20.420 maps rival guns down packer diffuser gets planted successfully all under the eager eyes of one of 30 02:36:20.980 --> 02:36:26.020 and now the retakes full spring music is not mine to scout for information a nice flank from silo 02:36:26.020 --> 02:36:31.140 does he know that somebody else is over by far place no gaden picks up a two-piece 02:36:31.140 --> 02:36:37.940 mic w over on the trophy stairs gun down and space station starts shall a strong pretty shocked at 02:36:37.940 --> 02:36:44.740 how they get that plant down parker rival is on 20 hp not even planting instead of dining 02:36:44.740 --> 02:36:49.460 on a ping, on a soft wall, and still, nobody is able to deny that plant. 02:36:49.460 --> 02:36:53.300 Packer misses all of his shots from inside a bar with the Aruni DMR. 02:36:53.300 --> 02:36:56.660 The players up above aren't able to deny that plant, so that's going down. 02:36:56.660 --> 02:37:01.460 Rival somehow gets away with that. There was definitely pressure elsewhere around the map. 02:37:01.460 --> 02:37:06.740 We saw Gideon Aiden inside the building having some pressure, kind of inside the site, inside a fireplace, 02:37:06.740 --> 02:37:11.700 but really surprised Rival got away with that plant and was able to put him in a strong position. 02:37:11.700 --> 02:37:15.700 the post plant was excellent from Space Station as well. I love their positioning in the midst of that. 02:37:15.700 --> 02:37:20.980 This spot from Giddy just not expected at all. Allows him to get a big important kill in the midst of that. 02:37:20.980 --> 02:37:25.300 Helps Aiden get a nice little two-piece in the midst of that too. So really nice post plant from Space Station. 02:37:25.300 --> 02:37:32.100 They execute on their game plan of wanting to take that site very quickly and frankly it looks really well executed from the astronauts. 02:37:34.580 --> 02:37:40.500 Now all told really, really well done. I'm not really certain what these tech issues have been that we've encountered so far today, 02:37:40.500 --> 02:37:46.260 but we have another. They seem to occur in between maps, which is the ideal time for them. 02:37:47.140 --> 02:37:52.260 We don't want it interrupting the actual gameplay itself. Teams are not supposed to be talking 02:37:52.260 --> 02:37:57.140 while they are sitting here in a tech pause. I don't know if the culprit is one of the players 02:37:57.140 --> 02:38:01.060 or maybe a peripheral or something along those lines, but they do happen. Sometimes there are 02:38:01.060 --> 02:38:04.580 ghosts in the machines and small hiccups that are just outside of our control. 02:38:04.580 --> 02:38:15.040 It's one of 30 teams that I am a little bit worried for is that their momentum came in 02:38:15.040 --> 02:38:16.960 map number one. 02:38:16.960 --> 02:38:19.240 They started off looking really, really good. 02:38:19.240 --> 02:38:21.120 Five-one was the scoreline through that first half. 02:38:21.120 --> 02:38:22.880 They carried that momentum. 02:38:22.880 --> 02:38:25.040 Wolfsburg was killing everything that moved. 02:38:25.040 --> 02:38:27.640 Map number two, well, the familiarity wasn't quite there. 02:38:27.640 --> 02:38:32.560 They did muster up more of a challenge than we saw from Space Station when the roles were 02:38:32.560 --> 02:38:33.560 back in that number one. 02:38:33.560 --> 02:38:35.560 But it's been a long time since you've been winning, 02:38:35.560 --> 02:38:37.560 and there were some pretty big mistakes 02:38:37.560 --> 02:38:40.560 committed by this 1 of 30 team that might get under your skin. 02:38:40.560 --> 02:38:42.560 They might live in your head, 02:38:42.560 --> 02:38:45.560 but you've got to just kind of push to the back 02:38:45.560 --> 02:38:47.560 and get through here. 02:38:47.560 --> 02:38:49.560 Space Station has that leadership. 02:38:49.560 --> 02:38:52.560 We've touched on it so far in every single map that's been played. 02:38:52.560 --> 02:38:54.560 And it is honestly a major difference maker. 02:38:54.560 --> 02:38:57.560 Yes, Packer and Beano have both played in T1 before 02:38:57.560 --> 02:38:58.560 on the side of 1 of 30, 02:38:58.560 --> 02:39:01.560 but nowhere near the experience that that man on your screen 02:39:01.560 --> 02:39:03.560 right there. Dream has. And 02:39:03.560 --> 02:39:04.560 he's got some experience too. 02:39:04.560 --> 02:39:06.560 So I mean, if you're not 02:39:06.560 --> 02:39:07.560 talking, you've got to think 02:39:07.560 --> 02:39:09.560 that the brains, they're 02:39:09.560 --> 02:39:10.560 working, they're thinking, 02:39:10.560 --> 02:39:11.560 they're coming up with, 02:39:11.560 --> 02:39:12.560 they're coming up with next 02:39:12.560 --> 02:39:14.560 steps. Maybe dreams do 02:39:14.560 --> 02:39:16.560 preoccupy singing, but I 02:39:16.560 --> 02:39:18.560 honestly think the longer the 02:39:18.560 --> 02:39:19.560 series goes, the more it does 02:39:19.560 --> 02:39:20.560 favor space station. 02:39:20.560 --> 02:39:21.560 Yeah, I mean, dreams got 02:39:21.560 --> 02:39:22.560 playing this thing about. 02:39:22.560 --> 02:39:24.560 He's back in the NL playoffs 02:39:24.560 --> 02:39:25.560 for the first time in two 02:39:25.560 --> 02:39:26.560 years. The last time that he 02:39:26.560 --> 02:39:27.560 made it to the playoffs here in 02:39:27.560 --> 02:39:29.560 the North American League was 02:39:29.560 --> 02:39:33.560 that he's going to be in the 02:39:33.560 --> 02:39:35.560 next season. He's going to be 02:39:35.560 --> 02:39:37.560 stage one of 2024 back with 02:39:37.560 --> 02:39:39.560 oxygen before he got let go 02:39:39.560 --> 02:39:41.560 from that team. And of course 02:39:41.560 --> 02:39:43.560 that's going to really empower 02:39:43.560 --> 02:39:45.560 him and I think feed that 02:39:45.560 --> 02:39:46.560 hunger that he and the rest of 02:39:46.560 --> 02:39:47.560 his players going to have. 02:39:47.560 --> 02:39:48.560 You're absolutely right that 02:39:48.560 --> 02:39:49.560 there's more experience than 02:39:49.560 --> 02:39:50.560 that of space station gaming 02:39:50.560 --> 02:39:52.560 with particular dream, but 02:39:52.560 --> 02:39:53.560 also guys like Gideon to an 02:39:53.560 --> 02:39:54.560 extent, Aiden, but I also think 02:39:54.560 --> 02:39:56.560 they're extremely hungry to be 02:39:56.560 --> 02:39:57.560 able to prove themselves 02:39:57.560 --> 02:39:58.560 given the fact that they're 02:39:58.560 --> 02:40:02.560 when the season began. I mean, you should see the reddit comments when this roster was announced. 02:40:02.560 --> 02:40:09.560 There was not a single positive word said, frankly, about this announcement, but they came out and they proved everybody wrong. 02:40:09.560 --> 02:40:14.560 They crushed the group stage. They looked absolutely dominant in games where nobody thought they would. 02:40:14.560 --> 02:40:17.560 Now they've shown up in playoffs as well, and they're not a perfect team, right? 02:40:17.560 --> 02:40:23.560 They're not necessarily at that same level that Old Space Station was, but you're seeing the growth with these young players. 02:40:23.560 --> 02:40:28.360 seeing the new generation of Rainbow Six players be developed here on Space Station Gaming and it's 02:40:28.360 --> 02:40:35.560 been a really entertaining process to watch from an Outsiders POV and I think they got every chance 02:40:35.560 --> 02:40:40.360 in the world to win this series and make it to the Major. Five years will be a difficult opponent 02:40:40.360 --> 02:40:43.960 in the upper bracket, there's no doubt about that, but even if they lose they'll have another 02:40:43.960 --> 02:40:48.360 opportunity in the lower bracket to qualify in towards the Salt Lakes City majors so it's a lot 02:40:48.360 --> 02:40:53.240 on the line for these SSG guys, certainly for 1 of 30 as well, but you can tell that there's a lot 02:40:54.120 --> 02:40:57.320 maybe on the mental that people don't often think about when you talk about this team. 02:40:58.760 --> 02:41:03.800 No, absolutely. And Vibes, I imagine, will be high on both of these squads. They made the playoffs, 02:41:03.800 --> 02:41:08.200 only two teams did not ultimately make the playoffs. That was outlasted 100 thieves. That 02:41:08.200 --> 02:41:12.360 100 thieves roster in particular is something that we could talk about during a tech pause for 02:41:12.360 --> 02:41:17.240 quite some time here, but focusing on the two combatants that we currently have in the server. 02:41:17.240 --> 02:41:23.000 I think that if there were fewer spots, these two teams are two of the squads that people would be 02:41:23.000 --> 02:41:27.720 saying, I don't know if one of 30 makes it into playoffs. I don't know if Space Station makes it 02:41:27.720 --> 02:41:33.640 into playoffs. I think a lot of that is just simply a lack of knowledge when it comes to these teams, 02:41:33.640 --> 02:41:37.640 and the lack of experience these teams have doesn't exactly shoot them up the depth chart. When you 02:41:37.640 --> 02:41:42.600 look at NA, you've got the lay of the land, right? You've got your M80s, you've got your wild cards, 02:41:42.600 --> 02:41:47.320 You got your Shopify rebellions who've been on a bit of a downward turn as of late. 02:41:47.320 --> 02:41:51.160 You've got DZ. You've got all these organizations that have been around for so long 02:41:52.040 --> 02:41:57.960 that you can expect them to do well. DZ basically took the core of Space Station and have looked like 02:41:57.960 --> 02:42:07.240 a significantly improved team by adding Kino and NJR to that roster. They've looked really, 02:42:07.240 --> 02:42:12.440 really good. NJR is actually having one of the worst seasons in his career and yet DZ is still 02:42:12.440 --> 02:42:17.160 so dominant, Jesse. So it's good that these two squads were able to make the playoffs, 02:42:17.160 --> 02:42:21.960 and it's great experience for them. The fans of these teams are probably looking at the bracket 02:42:21.960 --> 02:42:26.440 and going, okay, okay, we've got at least two games minimum. Let's see what noise we can make. 02:42:27.000 --> 02:42:30.760 The winner goes up against Five Fears, a reminder the loser goes down to the lower bracket where 02:42:30.760 --> 02:42:35.640 they play Cloud9, as you corrected me on earlier. And then of course the former organization for 02:42:35.640 --> 02:42:39.960 Dreams, so there will be potentially some a bit of a grudge match there if he ends up in that 02:42:39.960 --> 02:42:44.760 position but right now space station up one nothing in this map and looking like they are getting 02:42:44.760 --> 02:42:49.400 more comfortable the longer we go into this series. Yeah giddy as well was on that old 02:42:49.400 --> 02:42:55.720 C9 roster SSG kind of bought out that team and built around them adding some of these younger guys 02:42:55.720 --> 02:43:01.160 like like raid Aiden and rival really to just try to reassemble a squad here after their primary 02:43:01.160 --> 02:43:05.240 roster got taken over to DZ so you're right I mean there is going to be a lot of crudges no 02:43:05.240 --> 02:43:09.240 matter where we end up certainly in this game there's certain there's a lot of grudges between 02:43:09.240 --> 02:43:14.920 these players. I'll mention once again, Packer, Bino, and Giddy all used to play together on that 02:43:14.920 --> 02:43:21.240 CL4Life roster that qualified to the Montreal Major a few years back. And I know that was a big 02:43:21.240 --> 02:43:25.480 point of experience for these three players and has helped them grow into the position they're at 02:43:25.480 --> 02:43:30.440 now inside the NAO playoffs. The other couple of players on that team, maybe not fighting as much 02:43:30.440 --> 02:43:34.680 success these days. Of course, Adam, the dover to that 100th Thieves roster where they failed to 02:43:34.680 --> 02:43:38.680 make the playoffs. Uzi is putting questionable things about Robots on my Twitter timeline, 02:43:38.680 --> 02:43:44.400 So everybody's kind of moved on to their own adventures, but I think at this point now for for one of the SSG 02:43:44.560 --> 02:43:50.320 It's time to showcase exactly what you've been building towards since that Montreal major since the stage started since kickoff 02:43:50.320 --> 02:43:54.200 And the break that you had in the groups in the playoffs now it's time to show us everything you've got 02:43:55.880 --> 02:43:59.760 And a really good point is these teams will continue to improve and 02:44:00.160 --> 02:44:04.200 You know we do go up against that next match whether it be down in the lower bracket or the upper bracket 02:44:04.200 --> 02:44:06.440 I imagine that we will continue to see those improvements 02:44:06.440 --> 02:44:10.120 I don't think people realize those that haven't played at this level and I'm gonna play at this level 02:44:10.120 --> 02:44:11.320 But it's something that I only realize 02:44:11.320 --> 02:44:16.700 For my vantage point as a commentator and as somebody who's talked to these players is how little 02:44:17.000 --> 02:44:23.640 For best of ones actually is from an experience perspective you barely blink and your groups are oh 02:44:24.080 --> 02:44:27.400 You know you again. This is the third map of this series 02:44:27.400 --> 02:44:31.900 There are four maps in kickoff so you're gonna go through this almost 02:44:32.300 --> 02:44:35.500 Doubling your amount of experience that is crazy to think about 02:44:36.440 --> 02:44:43.000 That's a good point. I've never thought of it that way, but you really are doubling nearly your real world experience just by head of the chalet, so 02:44:43.280 --> 02:44:46.040 It's a very fast format that we have here in kickoff 02:44:46.040 --> 02:44:50.880 It's got to be quick so that we can get teams invited and you sent over to Salt Lake fast enough, but 02:44:51.640 --> 02:44:57.480 It's all gonna be worth it if you can make it in the end all the long nights and all the multiple games a week that you have to play 02:44:57.840 --> 02:45:03.960 Even these playoffs will be a bit of a blur as you've got game after game day after day lots of matches to play 02:45:03.960 --> 02:45:09.560 Onchalade back into the game for round number two. We have made it, thankfully, 02:45:09.560 --> 02:45:13.720 so we appreciate you guys sticking with us while we got one of the player's PCs reset 02:45:13.720 --> 02:45:18.600 after a quick crash. Now we can start to clear on towards this top floor, and despite the defense 02:45:18.600 --> 02:45:22.760 not working as well for 1-30, they can definitely hold on a little bit tighter to the wall inside 02:45:22.760 --> 02:45:26.600 this time around. And again, I was surprised they weren't able to deny the plant after they lost 02:45:26.600 --> 02:45:30.520 control of it back in round one. I don't expect them to lose control because I ask quickly to 02:45:30.520 --> 02:45:37.880 the summer. It's an odd spot for Mike to be in. You might be getting run over by Dream 02:45:37.880 --> 02:45:43.080 on this Blackbeard, because you can hear that shield coming from a mile away. Hino, the 02:45:43.080 --> 02:45:48.240 very first kill, Volsper gets rival Dream, he's been down two, a minute and forty off 02:45:48.240 --> 02:45:51.640 of the clock. I thought Mike would be the one who would die, but no, he's the one who's 02:45:51.640 --> 02:45:56.400 best standing. Not a single point of damage has been done to one of thirty. Hino, removed 02:45:56.400 --> 02:46:00.680 by eight and is all they can show for it because Silo shuts the door on a comeback and we are 02:46:00.680 --> 02:46:01.680 tied. 02:46:01.680 --> 02:46:05.880 Well, Parker, I said I didn't think they'd get in the bomb site as quickly, but they 02:46:05.880 --> 02:46:06.880 clearly had other plans. 02:46:06.880 --> 02:46:10.480 I said, she decided it doesn't matter what the site is, we're going to get in. 02:46:10.480 --> 02:46:11.480 We got our Blackbeard. 02:46:11.480 --> 02:46:12.560 We're going to take that space. 02:46:12.560 --> 02:46:14.300 It was really unfortunate for Dream. 02:46:14.300 --> 02:46:18.840 He just didn't clear the corner tight enough and he missed Mike W sitting in the very corner 02:46:18.840 --> 02:46:23.040 of bathroom, which is how we ended up going down as he rotated him through the site. 02:46:23.040 --> 02:46:28.640 At the same time, they had early deaths from both Raid and Rival that were trying to play kind of on different sides of the map. 02:46:28.640 --> 02:46:33.840 One over towards Solar, one over towards Library, and as all those fights just ended up going the way of 1 of 30, 02:46:33.840 --> 02:46:36.540 the chaos did not favor the attackers in the midst of it. 02:46:36.540 --> 02:46:42.740 So, nice to get their head on straights, but a very fast-paced game from SSG, and 1 of 30 have done a great job responding to it. 02:46:44.040 --> 02:46:51.340 Yeah, absolutely, and I'm hopeful a computer didn't blow up yet again. 02:46:53.040 --> 02:46:56.480 Wait some information here 02:46:58.320 --> 02:47:00.640 Ever noticed how much beano looks like Jarvis 02:47:02.400 --> 02:47:08.780 You know what I have I have noticed that it's not they I don't know of any but I don't know of you 02:47:08.880 --> 02:47:11.720 Hey you in chat. I don't know if you've ever noticed 02:47:12.440 --> 02:47:14.440 How much they look like 02:47:14.640 --> 02:47:19.280 It appears that we have a rehost now for bands. We're seeing a bunch of people get up and go to the bathroom 02:47:19.280 --> 02:47:23.800 So I'm a little concerned this might be a bit of a longer break a 02:47:25.440 --> 02:47:30.940 Great time for those of you watching to also go up get up stretch your legs go grab some water 02:47:33.200 --> 02:47:38.200 We'll say hi to friends family you've a dog will play with your dog do you have a cat? 02:47:38.200 --> 02:47:42.200 I don't play with your cat your cat doesn't want you to do that cats don't like that. Oh 02:47:44.160 --> 02:47:48.420 Look at your cat from afar and not approvingly that's the type of behavior cats like 02:47:49.280 --> 02:47:54.120 I don't know partner. I feel like both you and I have cats that are very obsessed with cuddles and 02:47:55.160 --> 02:47:56.680 attention 02:47:56.680 --> 02:48:01.680 In my partner, and I have a Bengal cat that we inherited from her grandmother who is 02:48:02.360 --> 02:48:04.660 15 pounds and is a 02:48:05.440 --> 02:48:08.900 Velcro cat, but only on his terms. Yes 02:48:08.900 --> 02:48:14.360 He will not lie in your lap. You cannot hold him for longer than he wants. He will not lie on your chest 02:48:14.360 --> 02:48:19.480 But he will lie next to you as long as you don't touch him too much, and they'll get up and be angry 02:48:21.260 --> 02:48:23.260 Difficult pre-Madonna behavior from cats 02:48:24.920 --> 02:48:29.360 Yeah, Indy's much the same she didn't want anything to do with me earlier today and in between maps 02:48:29.360 --> 02:48:33.040 She was meowing and scratching in my door just to try to come in and join the cast 02:48:33.440 --> 02:48:37.120 So, you know always on their own terms, but lovable 02:48:38.080 --> 02:48:40.080 lovable creatures one way or the other 02:48:40.080 --> 02:48:48.840 There was somebody in APAC like a couple days ago who was dancing with their cat live on 02:48:48.840 --> 02:48:52.200 stream and I am scrolling through Twitter to try to find out who it was. 02:48:52.200 --> 02:48:54.520 I forget the name of the player. 02:48:54.520 --> 02:48:56.880 Someone in chat will know what I'm sure. 02:48:56.880 --> 02:49:03.200 Am I supposed to know that? 02:49:03.200 --> 02:49:07.680 I feel like if you pay attention you'll at least know the clip I'm talking about. 02:49:07.680 --> 02:49:08.680 Say it again. 02:49:08.680 --> 02:49:11.080 There was an A-Pac player dancing with their cat. 02:49:11.800 --> 02:49:13.800 That's really the next place. 02:49:13.800 --> 02:49:15.800 I've seen the clip. 02:49:15.800 --> 02:49:17.800 I have no idea who it was because I didn't... 02:49:17.800 --> 02:49:19.800 I just... 02:49:21.080 --> 02:49:23.080 What is that? 02:49:23.880 --> 02:49:25.880 Some kind of keychain or something? 02:49:25.880 --> 02:49:27.720 It's gonna say it looks like a type of keychain. 02:49:27.720 --> 02:49:29.720 Looks like like a little fuzzy like... 02:49:31.400 --> 02:49:33.240 A ball? 02:49:33.240 --> 02:49:34.520 It was feel. 02:49:34.520 --> 02:49:36.520 I found that it was feel. 02:49:37.320 --> 02:49:41.580 But kiss from a rose seal. Wow, I didn't know he played no say star seal. Oh 02:49:45.400 --> 02:49:47.400 Terrific song though 02:49:49.960 --> 02:49:56.080 After those that are wondering what happens next m80 wild card still has to take place 02:49:56.800 --> 02:50:00.280 Again, the winner of that matchup does not qualify for the major 02:50:00.280 --> 02:50:04.920 They move on to play up against dark zero the loser goes down to the lower bracket where I'm 02:50:04.920 --> 02:50:09.220 I'm reasonably certain they play Shop of Fire Rebellion, because that's the only team that would make sense. 02:50:11.220 --> 02:50:13.720 The loser of the next match plays Shop of Fire Rebellion, yes. 02:50:14.420 --> 02:50:16.220 Yes, Jeff, that was talking about the upcoming match. 02:50:16.520 --> 02:50:19.220 Yes, sorry, I don't listen much to you speak yet. Sorry. 02:50:19.520 --> 02:50:20.020 Yeah. 02:50:20.620 --> 02:50:27.320 Now, while we're here, and while you're here, hopefully we have your ears at full capacity, because realistically, there's not much else to listen to. 02:50:27.320 --> 02:50:33.800 later today and every day this week for the NAL kickoff because we are in North America 02:50:33.800 --> 02:50:40.560 we will be giving away tickets to the Salt Lake City Major you will have an opportunity 02:50:40.560 --> 02:50:46.240 to enter I'm assuming it's a giveaway I don't really have a lot of information but there 02:50:46.240 --> 02:50:51.920 will be two winners each day and they get two tickets a piece so if my math is correct 02:50:51.920 --> 02:50:56.660 2 plus 2 equals 4. 02:50:56.660 --> 02:51:00.900 Hold on, yep, 4, that's correct, okay, good. 02:51:00.900 --> 02:51:02.360 Really worried about that one. 02:51:02.360 --> 02:51:05.000 It'll be a giveaway, so stay tuned. 02:51:05.000 --> 02:51:06.440 We haven't done it yet. 02:51:06.440 --> 02:51:09.140 But if you'd like to attend the Salt Lake City Major 02:51:09.140 --> 02:51:13.880 and go to beautiful Utah in just a couple weeks time, 02:51:13.880 --> 02:51:18.440 stick around and we'll see about maybe getting you some tickets. 02:51:18.440 --> 02:51:18.780 Parker. 02:51:18.780 --> 02:51:20.120 It'll be a good event. 02:51:20.120 --> 02:51:23.200 If you win the tickets, will you bring me as your plus one? 02:51:25.840 --> 02:51:27.280 Can I come? 02:51:27.280 --> 02:51:28.200 We got a break ready. 02:51:28.200 --> 02:51:29.800 We'll be back in a couple of minutes. 02:51:29.800 --> 02:51:30.880 You didn't answer. 02:51:30.880 --> 02:51:31.720 Perfect. 02:54:31.720 --> 02:54:36.400 Well, it's time for us to get Chalet back under way. 02:54:36.400 --> 02:54:38.980 Thank you as always for your patience. 02:54:38.980 --> 02:54:44.000 We should have all ten players ready and set to do battle on, Jesse, would you call it 02:54:44.000 --> 02:54:47.400 the snowy slopes of France? 02:54:47.400 --> 02:54:51.520 That is what I said, Parker, and I stole it from you, so you knew that. 02:54:51.520 --> 02:54:56.040 I say the sunny beaches of France as a joke, because it is obviously sunny, but there are 02:54:56.040 --> 02:55:00.120 no beaches there, and there are mountains, and it is snowy. 02:55:00.120 --> 02:55:02.120 It is quite funny. 02:55:08.120 --> 02:55:11.120 Maybe we zoom out enough and they'll be able to see a beach. 02:55:12.120 --> 02:55:14.120 I think we probably will. 02:55:14.120 --> 02:55:15.120 Just now. 02:55:15.120 --> 02:55:17.120 We're trying. Thank you to the observers for trying. 02:55:17.120 --> 02:55:19.120 Oh, look at that. Look at those textures. 02:55:19.120 --> 02:55:21.120 They probably have the ultra HD graphics on. 02:55:21.120 --> 02:55:23.120 Oh, it's an alley. 02:55:23.120 --> 02:55:24.120 Wow. 02:55:24.120 --> 02:55:27.120 Wow, it really, oh, it drops off. Really, that's cool. 02:55:27.120 --> 02:55:29.120 Jesus, I had no clue that was there. 02:55:29.120 --> 02:55:31.400 That is, look at the topography, huh? 02:55:31.400 --> 02:55:33.960 I do apologize to the analysts watching this game, 02:55:33.960 --> 02:55:36.200 trying to see the setup. 02:55:36.200 --> 02:55:38.200 That's why you get replay files though. 02:55:43.320 --> 02:55:46.800 I was trying to think of something way I couldn't do it. 02:55:46.800 --> 02:55:48.800 The replay files have always been very nice. 02:55:48.800 --> 02:55:49.960 A lot of people don't know this. 02:55:49.960 --> 02:55:52.240 I have to remind people of this like every two weeks, 02:55:52.240 --> 02:55:54.480 but the replay files these matches are public. 02:55:54.480 --> 02:55:56.480 You just have to navigate to the match page 02:55:56.480 --> 02:55:58.320 on the RCC course website, 02:55:58.320 --> 02:56:02.160 you can download the replay files for any of the pro games, assuming they've been uploaded. 02:56:04.480 --> 02:56:08.080 I've been really enjoying going through the match replay files and making TikTok content out of 02:56:08.080 --> 02:56:14.800 it, Parker. I was gonna ask if you if you peruse them, I'm very glad that you're finding time to 02:56:14.800 --> 02:56:22.320 have hobbies. Yeah, absolutely. Very important, I go and I watch more of each. There you go, 02:56:22.320 --> 02:56:28.240 that's quite the life that you lead. Because we had the rehosts, all of the scores have been 02:56:28.240 --> 02:56:32.560 wiped we can we can reference them and where the players are at once we get 02:56:32.560 --> 02:56:36.360 through this matchup or at least a couple rounds we can talk about it until 02:56:36.360 --> 02:56:40.920 then up for Chalet defending over on the other side of the building from where we 02:56:40.920 --> 02:56:47.600 just saw the entry upstairs that will not be had. Rurora has seen an uptick in 02:56:47.600 --> 02:56:51.760 play over the last couple days. Just see why could that be? Because they increased 02:56:51.760 --> 02:56:55.480 the range on the gadget marker so now you can close doors and when doorways off 02:56:55.480 --> 02:56:57.480 from much farther than you previously could. 02:56:57.480 --> 02:56:58.480 Loading full max. 02:56:58.480 --> 02:57:00.480 Additionally, 02:57:00.480 --> 02:57:03.480 clothes faster take longer to open. 02:57:03.480 --> 02:57:05.480 Yes, many buffs. 02:57:05.480 --> 02:57:07.480 Many, many buffs. 02:57:07.480 --> 02:57:10.480 Just as they buffed Thorn, and we saw her pick rate shoot up Ruroras too. 02:57:10.480 --> 02:57:13.480 Will increase. Echo is seeing a steady increase as well, 02:57:13.480 --> 02:57:16.480 as Ubisoft tries to buff these underperforming operators. 02:57:16.480 --> 02:57:20.480 How will that impact the overall environment? 02:57:20.480 --> 02:57:22.480 How will that impact this round? 02:57:22.480 --> 02:57:28.120 This round so far we've seen only one of those doors go out now to aid in suffering through an awful lot of damage 02:57:28.120 --> 02:57:30.120 I have to imagine that's the nitro cell of Mike 02:57:30.280 --> 02:57:35.600 Packer as good as gone rival traded out immediately dream on the board to down goes Mike W 02:57:36.360 --> 02:57:43.000 It's still a minute to go space station holds a lead of one. That's now completely gone. Hulspur is having a terrific day 02:57:43.400 --> 02:57:48.360 He's been good on all three maps. It was a bit of a saving grace for this one of 30 team 02:57:48.360 --> 02:57:53.160 Yeah, now down to the 3v3, 45 seconds, they all rotate back towards the bomb site. 02:57:53.160 --> 02:57:55.200 Parker, they're happy to play behind their utility. 02:57:55.200 --> 02:57:59.080 The mirror window remains strong inside a back bar, so they're going to have good information 02:57:59.080 --> 02:58:01.120 of where this push is coming from. 02:58:01.120 --> 02:58:04.400 Giddy, Ray, and Aiden will have to find some other way to work an advantage before they 02:58:04.400 --> 02:58:05.400 can get this plant down. 02:58:05.400 --> 02:58:07.600 It's a great cross by Giddy. 02:58:07.600 --> 02:58:11.080 If he can win this engagement, it'll blow the whole round wide open. 02:58:11.080 --> 02:58:14.560 SSG's still in a good spot, but they need to now get into the bomb site, and they are 02:58:14.560 --> 02:58:17.480 losing control of the clock. 02:58:17.480 --> 02:58:19.800 One of 30 using as much data tree as they can. 02:58:19.800 --> 02:58:23.280 Nades go in, the Jaeger of Wolfsburg dances around both of them, 02:58:23.280 --> 02:58:25.240 and gets the swing on the hatch. 02:58:25.240 --> 02:58:28.320 Wolfsburg drop by Giddy, and Giddy will have to get the job done all alone, 02:58:28.320 --> 02:58:31.400 less than 10 seconds, no diffuser control whatsoever. 02:58:31.400 --> 02:58:33.840 Two players remain from one of 30. 02:58:33.840 --> 02:58:37.680 Giddy can't get to them in time, and the clock will run out. 02:58:37.680 --> 02:58:42.280 A spirited effort, but one of 30 will win the round and take the lead. 02:58:42.280 --> 02:58:45.000 Very competitive game here as we go back and forth. 02:58:45.000 --> 02:58:47.080 Nice little defense coming out from one of 30, 02:58:47.080 --> 02:58:49.080 and I'm really glad you highlighted 02:58:49.080 --> 02:58:51.080 Volsberg Parker. He has been 02:58:51.080 --> 02:58:53.080 popping off all day long. Maps 02:58:53.080 --> 02:58:55.080 one, two and three. Maybe his 02:58:55.080 --> 02:58:57.080 three highest performing maps of 02:58:57.080 --> 02:58:59.080 his career, at least so far. 02:58:59.080 --> 02:59:01.080 We'll see how Chalet develops, 02:59:01.080 --> 02:59:03.080 but you said it dancing around 02:59:03.080 --> 02:59:05.080 those nades, being able to dodge 02:59:05.080 --> 02:59:07.080 out raid who is up above trying to 02:59:07.080 --> 02:59:09.080 toss them from that vert position. 02:59:09.080 --> 02:59:11.080 You've got two players inside a 02:59:11.080 --> 02:59:13.080 back bar playing it for the Verts 02:59:13.080 --> 02:59:15.080 forced them out with the Nades. 02:59:15.080 --> 02:59:19.640 so aggressive there. It's a punishable move. If he gets caught off guard, if they're washing the 02:59:19.640 --> 02:59:23.480 hatch when he swings out the door, he could get hard killed and it could have been very bad, 02:59:23.480 --> 02:59:27.480 but he had to take that risk with the Nates coming out. That move right there from Malzpur puts 02:59:27.480 --> 02:59:31.880 him in a great position to win that fight on to Rage. Overheats a little bit, goes for a second swing, 02:59:31.880 --> 02:59:37.000 but at that point the man advantage is too high. The time is still very favorable for 1 of 30, 02:59:37.000 --> 02:59:43.560 and they will close that one out now to 1. Unsurprising that it's another gutsy round, 02:59:43.560 --> 02:59:48.900 one that ends up being almost tooth and nail to the very end and I mean I don't 02:59:48.900 --> 02:59:53.220 think even if that banshee wasn't there that giddy would have made it in time but 02:59:53.220 --> 02:59:59.400 we talk about how evenly matched these teams should be and so far it's paying 02:59:59.400 --> 03:00:04.860 off you can see the score line from game 1 7 2 game for game number 2 7 3 what 03:00:04.860 --> 03:00:09.220 happens here do not be surprised if we end up going to overtime and then again 03:00:09.220 --> 03:00:11.220 We do have one more matchup today. 03:00:11.220 --> 03:00:14.220 There'll be M80 versus Wildcard. 03:00:14.220 --> 03:00:16.220 That one will be fascinating to watch. 03:00:16.220 --> 03:00:20.220 Wildcard has had some domestic struggles after Dash left the team. 03:00:20.220 --> 03:00:22.220 Homesick, he's gone back to Brazil. 03:00:22.220 --> 03:00:24.220 He's now qualified for the Salt Lake City Major, 03:00:24.220 --> 03:00:27.220 so he'll be there just on the loose roster. 03:00:27.220 --> 03:00:29.220 Adrian from Team Secret, 03:00:29.220 --> 03:00:32.220 a team that won't be at the Salt Lake City Major. 03:00:32.220 --> 03:00:34.220 Well, Adrian came on over 03:00:34.220 --> 03:00:36.220 and it's required Wildcard to make some changes. 03:00:36.220 --> 03:00:40.560 They have looked like they've taken maybe a bit of a step back in comparison to the rest of the region 03:00:40.560 --> 03:00:44.100 So the question would be how did they take the net the last week off? 03:00:44.100 --> 03:00:50.960 Are they able to match up to an M80 team that looks like they are steadily improving after losing Kino and picking up passion? 03:00:50.960 --> 03:00:54.520 So a lot of questions that will hopefully be answered in our next best of three 03:00:54.520 --> 03:01:02.360 But before we get there which of these two teams moves on face off against five years in the next matchup 03:01:02.360 --> 03:01:04.360 with no determined who goes to Salt Lake City. 03:01:04.360 --> 03:01:06.360 One minute into the action, 03:01:06.360 --> 03:01:09.360 the advance from SSG coming to the library side. 03:01:10.360 --> 03:01:13.360 Aiden's question's gotten banned out, so he's moved over to Snake's Truck. 03:01:13.360 --> 03:01:16.360 Here, there's his top floor apart, where they want to be able to get this space 03:01:16.360 --> 03:01:18.360 to be like, you know, get him to work with the plant inside of office. 03:01:18.360 --> 03:01:20.360 False for the first line of defense. 03:01:20.360 --> 03:01:22.360 That's Thilo not too far off, but he's full blind, 03:01:22.360 --> 03:01:24.360 which is going to make this defense very difficult, 03:01:24.360 --> 03:01:26.360 as he's trying to take this space, 03:01:26.360 --> 03:01:29.360 and they can. There's a spot, but no packer on the stairs! 03:01:29.360 --> 03:01:33.900 It's his first kill of the map taking down dream and punishing the shield player of FSG 03:01:35.780 --> 03:01:39.980 A good crossfire here and I mean both of these teams have a lot of tools at their disposal 03:01:39.980 --> 03:01:40.840 It's about putting it all together 03:01:40.840 --> 03:01:47.440 We've seen moments of brilliance from both of them through these two almost three maps and again the fact they're pulling this off with 03:01:47.640 --> 03:01:51.840 Limited experiences is very very strong and again improvement would be the name of the game 03:01:52.040 --> 03:01:55.180 I suspect there will be some decent careers for a lot of these players 03:01:55.180 --> 03:02:02.060 moving forward. This way in particular, Volsper has to dance around the naiden, gets away, almost gets 03:02:02.060 --> 03:02:08.100 away. He manages to take Giddy down in the process and Volsper is bleeding out, might be retrievable. 03:02:08.100 --> 03:02:13.260 Aiden looking for the follow-up, does he have the all clear to go in? Is anybody watching in 03:02:13.260 --> 03:02:17.300 his direction? Volsper not really retrievable at this point in time, finished off by Rival, 03:02:17.300 --> 03:02:23.460 and that's channel control. Packer will get Rival though, long range through the wall and one of 03:02:23.460 --> 03:02:26.580 30 finds themselves doubled up on SSG and man counter. 03:02:26.580 --> 03:02:28.820 Yeah, this feels really rough now for SSG. 03:02:28.820 --> 03:02:30.620 They're definitely trying to hunt down Packer. 03:02:30.620 --> 03:02:32.940 The pistol comes out, but we're missing every shot. 03:02:32.940 --> 03:02:34.420 Aiden, that's not what he needed. 03:02:34.420 --> 03:02:36.660 Packer's still on over half HP. 03:02:36.660 --> 03:02:38.140 This point, they have to cut their losses. 03:02:38.140 --> 03:02:40.220 Packer has gone back towards the bottom floor. 03:02:40.220 --> 03:02:41.980 They can't really worry about that now. 03:02:41.980 --> 03:02:42.900 Head to the bottom site. 03:02:42.900 --> 03:02:45.700 30 seconds to try to get this plant. 03:02:45.700 --> 03:02:47.380 Oh my goodness, down goes the now. 03:02:47.380 --> 03:02:49.980 Aiden warming up at this point in time, 03:02:49.980 --> 03:02:52.820 still being able to use that gadget to get a good idea, 03:02:52.820 --> 03:02:55.460 and knows that somebody's playing the A bomb chassis. 03:02:55.460 --> 03:02:58.500 Doesn't know, though, that Packer is looking for the flank. 03:02:58.500 --> 03:02:59.860 He takes down one. 03:02:59.860 --> 03:03:02.100 Aiden slips through his fingers. 03:03:02.100 --> 03:03:03.300 Silo will pay for that. 03:03:03.300 --> 03:03:04.260 10 seconds left. 03:03:04.260 --> 03:03:05.220 Aiden tucked in. 03:03:05.220 --> 03:03:07.220 Now hoping he get the defuse kick down, 03:03:07.220 --> 03:03:10.260 but it's watched from above by good old Mike W. 03:03:10.260 --> 03:03:12.820 And Mike Wazowski will get the job done. 03:03:12.820 --> 03:03:16.860 1-30 takes another round, and their lead grows yet again. 03:03:16.860 --> 03:03:18.780 Brilliant round coming through there from the Romers, 03:03:18.780 --> 03:03:21.540 most notably, of course, Packer, who got that big 3K. 03:03:21.540 --> 03:03:26.660 it's good because it's been a rough couple of hours for Packer. You go back to map two, he was 03:03:26.660 --> 03:03:31.380 four and nine lowest rated player on the second map of Clubhouse and then had a struggling start 03:03:31.380 --> 03:03:36.740 through the first quarter of Chalet, ended up going 0-2 through the first three rounds, but a big 03:03:36.740 --> 03:03:41.380 triple will get him back into the positives. Nice to see that from Packer and a lot of it came from 03:03:41.380 --> 03:03:46.820 him playing around his teammates, Parker. We saw Volsper posted up on side of Mezzanine, making sure 03:03:46.820 --> 03:03:51.060 that he was taking a lot of the attention from his teammates and even after he goes down, 03:03:51.060 --> 03:03:54.660 Packers able to reposition down towards the game side of the map. 03:03:54.660 --> 03:03:56.860 He's able to really run circles around those players. 03:03:56.860 --> 03:03:59.620 They think he rotates back to site through West Main, but no. 03:03:59.860 --> 03:04:03.020 Rotates back up the blue stairs for his third kill in that round. 03:04:03.020 --> 03:04:08.060 It was just such a menace, so annoying to deal with for for space station gaming. 03:04:08.060 --> 03:04:11.700 And he really just is a thorn in their side, forces the tack time 03:04:11.700 --> 03:04:12.900 which come through from DMC. 03:04:12.900 --> 03:04:16.860 He'll have a opportunity now to talk to his players and hopefully get them back on track. 03:04:16.860 --> 03:04:20.820 It's been a long three rounds, long four rounds just due to these tech pauses. 03:04:20.820 --> 03:04:27.060 though I'm sure lots of talk about I mean I don't know what's going on with 03:04:27.060 --> 03:04:30.420 Space Station the problems that we see are a little bit different than we go 03:04:30.420 --> 03:04:33.220 back all the way back to map number one because there weren't a lot of problems 03:04:33.220 --> 03:04:37.180 from Space Station on their choice of clubhouse right it was it was more that 03:04:37.180 --> 03:04:41.340 night even labs now where we saw especially on defense they were just a 03:04:41.340 --> 03:04:45.540 little bit too static this time around it's the drone work that seems to be the 03:04:45.540 --> 03:04:50.540 They keep you caught by the late lurks and the opening crossfires. 03:04:50.540 --> 03:04:53.540 So you either get in the building and you manage to survive, 03:04:53.540 --> 03:04:55.540 but then you get caught by a late flank. 03:04:55.540 --> 03:04:58.540 And I think there's, of all the three rounds that have been won by one of 30 at this point, 03:04:58.540 --> 03:05:02.540 there has been a late flank, at least for what I can recall. 03:05:02.540 --> 03:05:08.540 But on the side of those early rounds, you jump in, you think you've got one player down, 03:05:08.540 --> 03:05:10.540 but these setups for one of 30 have been great. 03:05:10.540 --> 03:05:15.280 been great. Lots of long-range engagements using those DMRs with P.A. Cogs, using the 03:05:15.280 --> 03:05:21.020 power of that caliber destruction to shoot through the soft walls and use those as sight lines. 03:05:21.020 --> 03:05:26.820 It has been strategically really good on the side of 1 of 30 and SSG does not, or at least 03:05:26.820 --> 03:05:29.540 not yet, show that they have an answer for it. 03:05:29.540 --> 03:05:33.460 Space Station really likes the fast takes. We saw them in the first two rounds. They 03:05:33.460 --> 03:05:38.060 go back to the top floor of Almsley where they found some success. It was mostly limited. 03:05:38.060 --> 03:05:42.100 They got the space but didn't get the kills last time they tried the strategy on master 03:05:42.100 --> 03:05:46.980 So they're gonna try a bit of a different approach once again. They're like to change their attacks up here on shallay 03:05:46.980 --> 03:05:48.980 They're going for more of a map here this time around 03:05:49.420 --> 03:05:55.160 Raid entering in through the bottom floor packer does exist down here in the basement. He's just actually inside a blue hall 03:05:55.160 --> 03:05:58.420 So merely to a gunfight there, but back up to the stairs 03:05:59.180 --> 03:06:04.000 So annoying in round four just previously we saw him be that thorn in their side 03:06:04.000 --> 03:06:08.260 They're kind of dedicating Raid's entire kit just to hunting him down and forcing him out 03:06:08.380 --> 03:06:10.700 But Packer's playing really passive with this 03:06:10.700 --> 03:06:16.360 He's not giving the gunfight over towards the demos and he's wasting a lot of the time and a lot of the attention from this SSG attack 03:06:18.820 --> 03:06:20.820 Finally you find Bino 03:06:21.660 --> 03:06:23.660 He shoots that drone away 03:06:24.740 --> 03:06:26.740 Oh my 03:06:28.100 --> 03:06:32.300 Yeah, I'm not a shocker here the amount of utility they're gonna use to try and trap you know in this position 03:06:32.300 --> 03:06:36.460 What did I say about not having tons of intel nice line up from Bino? 03:06:36.460 --> 03:06:38.920 It does not help aid and they know that he's looking in that direction 03:06:38.920 --> 03:06:42.240 Packer is there for some coverage to a perfect flash a 03:06:42.640 --> 03:06:46.860 Volcan might be able to take you know down it will accomplish his goal. That's giddy now 03:06:46.860 --> 03:06:48.700 It's rival looking for a duel with Packer 03:06:48.700 --> 03:06:55.020 He greets with open arms shuts him down and it's control of trophy on the side of space station 03:06:55.020 --> 03:06:59.460 They have watched as some of their soldiers had been felled, but one of their he's lost to 03:06:59.460 --> 03:07:03.460 2, 2, 3v3, which is a little bit over a minute to go, Jesse. 03:07:03.460 --> 03:07:07.460 Yeah, not as clean as they were hoping, but they do eventually kill Packer and Beano. 03:07:07.460 --> 03:07:12.460 That was the roamers that they were dealing with. They didn't know Packer's position was the biggest problem in that roam clear. 03:07:12.460 --> 03:07:17.460 It could have been a little bit cleaner if they had him on lock. 3v3 defense, lots of utils still for the defenders. 03:07:17.460 --> 03:07:21.460 They've got both Willi and Yeager to stop some of these throwables from clearing them out, 03:07:21.460 --> 03:07:27.460 and the mirror windows from Mike W will provide a lot of assistance to the truck to slow down this defense. 03:07:27.460 --> 03:07:29.620 Really important to force these players back, but 03:07:29.620 --> 03:07:34.060 Capitile Fireball's hoping to accomplish it, but might just not have to move off this window. 03:07:34.060 --> 03:07:34.740 Magnet Ripping. 03:07:34.740 --> 03:07:37.700 Not a very strong spot to be in for a mirror, and you can 03:07:37.700 --> 03:07:41.260 look long range, you'll get smoked out, though, that allow them to take more control of 03:07:41.260 --> 03:07:44.260 Stellarium in the Sinus Base Station. Two players now in that position. 03:07:44.260 --> 03:07:49.540 Silo will be the first line of defense, tucked in really tight to the corner. 03:07:49.540 --> 03:07:54.100 If Rival only knew that he could inch up and shoot a little bit to the right, he could capitalize. 03:07:54.100 --> 03:07:58.100 Oh, my stylo and my WNL doubling up, diffuser surrendered. 03:07:58.100 --> 03:08:03.100 Giddy got a kill earlier, he'll find a second on the way out. 03:08:03.100 --> 03:08:07.100 I might be looking to correct myself yet again, Jesse. 03:08:07.100 --> 03:08:12.100 One of thirty is dummying Space Station on this first half of Chalet. 03:08:12.100 --> 03:08:17.100 And I hate to say it, Parker, but I'm getting some flashbacks all the way back to Night Haven Labs. 03:08:17.100 --> 03:08:21.100 Not that the rounds are playing out necessarily similarly, but just like before, 03:08:21.100 --> 03:08:25.340 All the tack timeout, part way through the first half, and there's no real adjustment. 03:08:25.340 --> 03:08:29.660 Yes, you've got information on one roam, but that's great that they had no idea of Packer's 03:08:29.660 --> 03:08:30.660 position. 03:08:30.660 --> 03:08:34.220 Maybe they had a clue about it, they did eventually trade him out, but the fact that 03:08:34.220 --> 03:08:38.740 Packer's able to get one and Bino's able to get one on that roam, when there is so much 03:08:38.740 --> 03:08:42.980 of an advantage over towards SSG thanks to that Util, it just sets up that late round 03:08:42.980 --> 03:08:47.980 so nicely, and yeah, it was a 3v3 push, but I really thought 1 of 30 were the advantage, 03:08:47.980 --> 03:08:52.620 consistently thanks to the hard work of Packer and Vino playing down below the bomb site. 03:08:52.620 --> 03:08:56.020 They didn't mind if they got drones, they didn't mind if there was a damless track because 03:08:56.020 --> 03:09:00.940 they knew they could still hold their angles, protect each other, win those fights and keep 03:09:00.940 --> 03:09:04.460 the man count exactly where it needed to be. 03:09:04.460 --> 03:09:10.060 One of 30 very dangerous that they could be going up 5-1 on the defense side of Chalet. 03:09:10.060 --> 03:09:14.980 I'll remind you again, Space Station Gaming, a far better attacking team than on the defense. 03:09:14.980 --> 03:09:17.960 19 percentage points to separate those two staffs from the group stage 03:09:19.720 --> 03:09:24.520 Yeah, I mean you don't you don't have to know ball at this level to seek to know that well 03:09:25.280 --> 03:09:29.380 This is the better side for space station and they are struggling on it 03:09:30.520 --> 03:09:33.840 They won't be able to diagnose this because there's only one more round left 03:09:33.840 --> 03:09:37.400 Then we get to defend and hope that maybe the math works in that favor 03:09:37.880 --> 03:09:41.080 I mean, I understand what Packer was trying to do here. It's not a terrible idea 03:09:41.080 --> 03:09:46.780 That is that is a catch you off-guard completely unprepared for it surprise you and maybe win the round 03:09:46.780 --> 03:09:49.180 They've also got a mic W now for insurance. This is 03:09:50.220 --> 03:09:51.580 All right 03:09:51.580 --> 03:09:58.340 Very all in on stopping space station. I'm getting into the building. I don't hate it. Obviously. It's it's it didn't work 03:09:58.500 --> 03:10:01.100 Yeah, now you've lost the soulless, but I 03:10:02.700 --> 03:10:08.120 Agree and he's kind of the right response Packard dies, but he's had an incredible last couple of rounds was feeling himself 03:10:08.120 --> 03:10:10.620 you're not that upset about losing this game. 03:10:10.620 --> 03:10:13.620 They can be nice to try to deny the plant if they're playing above, 03:10:13.620 --> 03:10:17.120 but usually you kind of expect this to take that top 4 control anyways, 03:10:17.120 --> 03:10:19.620 so end of the day, you're not too upset about that. 03:10:20.620 --> 03:10:23.120 Second goal here is going to be clearing out Library. 03:10:23.120 --> 03:10:24.620 That's exactly what they're worried about. 03:10:24.620 --> 03:10:28.120 Sylo is kind of playing just in the entrance and Volsper is here as well. 03:10:28.120 --> 03:10:31.620 No one's in the corner, which is often what you see from these defense teams. 03:10:31.620 --> 03:10:33.620 They've got the capits out if there was a player there, 03:10:33.620 --> 03:10:38.380 But still the U2O is going to be very awkward to force out, right? 03:10:38.380 --> 03:10:43.480 They've got the Yager, they've got the Wami, they've got so many of these resources to stop us from clearing up above. 03:10:43.480 --> 03:10:45.480 They might just have to send you to site. 03:10:46.260 --> 03:10:47.460 He knows there. 03:10:47.460 --> 03:10:50.260 He gets flashed, he's a little bit too close to that one. 03:10:50.260 --> 03:10:53.980 Volsper guns down range. Does Aiden think he's got the clear to hop on in? 03:10:53.980 --> 03:10:55.980 Does he think nobody's watching in his direction? 03:10:56.620 --> 03:10:58.920 He'd be wrong if he thought that was the case. 03:10:58.920 --> 03:11:01.660 Nice play by rival to get Sylo on the hatch. 03:11:01.660 --> 03:11:03.160 That's when Sylo's going to walk back. 03:11:03.620 --> 03:11:10.940 All this ground being taken, but then immediately falling away, they don't expect Aiden still in this position as Mike W and Beano get two. 03:11:10.940 --> 03:11:15.020 Aiden and Dream standing the test and Mike W will need to clutch out. 03:11:15.020 --> 03:11:19.780 And 1-30 wants to stretch their lead even more, he will have to be the savior. 03:11:19.780 --> 03:11:26.460 If yous get getting planted, Dream repositioning Mike W going for a much later flank than you expected, 03:11:26.460 --> 03:11:28.860 he'll now head up over towards Lobby. 03:11:28.860 --> 03:11:33.060 He doesn't have a lot of intel to play off of, I don't know if he's doing fed comms from 03:11:33.060 --> 03:11:37.560 his teammates, but this is going to be a really daunting task. 03:11:37.560 --> 03:11:41.660 Diffuse kit, close enough to the hatch and the window where some serious damage can be 03:11:41.660 --> 03:11:43.860 done by either of the remaining attackers. 03:11:43.860 --> 03:11:46.300 They really just need to wait him out at this point, Jesse. 03:11:46.300 --> 03:11:47.700 He doesn't need to give too much. 03:11:47.700 --> 03:11:53.540 The moment they hear him get on that diffuse kit, one of them can easily find him. 03:11:53.540 --> 03:11:54.540 Giving him some patience. 03:11:54.540 --> 03:11:56.700 He's sticking it, count to three and there you go. 03:11:56.700 --> 03:12:01.740 They swing at the same time, and SSG picks up their second round in the first half. 03:12:01.740 --> 03:12:07.860 It's in the books though, four to the scoreline, one of 30, just eking them out. 03:12:07.860 --> 03:12:10.460 Nice to be able to get a little bit of a lifeline back, Parker. 03:12:10.460 --> 03:12:15.660 Space station gaming still very much in this matchup, but the second half does remain on 03:12:15.660 --> 03:12:16.660 Chalet. 03:12:16.660 --> 03:12:19.540 We've got our studio to break it down. 03:12:19.540 --> 03:12:20.540 Thanks guys. 03:12:20.540 --> 03:12:25.740 This one has been maybe not exactly what we expected coming out of that second map, SSG, 03:12:25.740 --> 03:12:31.220 the momentum. Maybe it was there early in this map, but hasn't quite translated to these 03:12:31.220 --> 03:12:36.420 later few rounds. Let's take a look back at how this all began. A big moment for Aiden 03:12:36.420 --> 03:12:40.620 in the very first round of this game and how SSG got off to a good start. 03:13:10.620 --> 03:13:15.940 They're shaking keep applied pressure every round. They could they're just gonna lose more and more 03:13:15.940 --> 03:13:17.940 I mean they can't recover. I 03:13:18.720 --> 03:13:23.080 Mean that's the kind of energy that we've seen from this team. It's so infectious 03:13:23.080 --> 03:13:29.220 It just makes you smile, but that's what they can do now, of course things shifted a bit four to two now 03:13:29.220 --> 03:13:34.060 They're down. They need to find that again. Yeah, they almost lost five rounds in a row immediately after that 03:13:34.060 --> 03:13:36.660 I mean it's good to showcase on they are getting hyped after one round 03:13:36.660 --> 03:13:39.660 But it's it's quick to show how fast things can easily fire out of control 03:13:39.660 --> 03:13:43.880 But at least for the side of 1 of 30, I mean one thing I've really liked and Parker even said himself 03:13:43.880 --> 03:13:46.300 They've been very strategically sound on this map 03:13:46.300 --> 03:13:50.720 They have a great counter play of how they want to burst SSG when you think of how SSG plays 03:13:50.720 --> 03:13:55.940 They do a very good job at playing those cutoffs using those shields for power position gang control and their team 03:13:55.940 --> 03:14:00.700 You don't want to let them set up getting into that mid to late round and the second they do they get picked apart 03:14:00.700 --> 03:14:04.620 But what they're doing really well is stalling out that time bringing on castles bringing out mirrors 03:14:04.620 --> 03:14:10.740 using shotguns to make long rotates that is constantly being a thorn in the side of ssg just to get into the building 03:14:10.740 --> 03:14:14.300 Let alone getting into the fight. Yeah, and one of 30 is adding that extra layer 03:14:14.300 --> 03:14:19.260 They get that first pick they slow it down and make it that much harder for ssg to find opening 03:14:19.260 --> 03:14:23.820 So that first round of Aiden getting hyped saying there's no traps everything it woke 1 of 30 up 03:14:23.820 --> 03:14:28.940 They started running way more traps fighting on the entry early on and making sure that they could stall out 03:14:28.940 --> 03:14:33.020 So she's long as possible and even if that first round didn't feel like it for one of 30 03:14:33.020 --> 03:14:36.420 It's been very clear. They have come prepared for this game 03:14:36.420 --> 03:14:41.060 I believe right like they don't strike us always as the team that's gonna have all the coaching staff and all the 03:14:41.540 --> 03:14:49.620 Institutional knowledge, but they've prepped and they look ready to go right now up two rounds over SSG 03:14:49.820 --> 03:14:53.420 Now it's SSG who have to make a comeback happen. Back to you guys 03:14:53.420 --> 03:15:02.420 Thank you very much and very well put and always nice from the desk says nice things about my analysis too. 03:15:02.420 --> 03:15:05.420 I think the most troubling aspect was something we actually talked about Jesse. 03:15:05.420 --> 03:15:08.420 This space station team is significantly better on attack than defense. 03:15:08.420 --> 03:15:10.420 Now that doesn't mean they're bad at defense. 03:15:10.420 --> 03:15:16.420 It just means that in theory and in isolation they should be running up the score on attack on most of these maps. 03:15:16.420 --> 03:15:20.420 But then once again, you have to take the other things into account. 03:15:20.420 --> 03:15:21.900 Is it a defender sided map? 03:15:21.900 --> 03:15:24.560 How favorable is the sight rotation for the attackers? 03:15:24.560 --> 03:15:26.560 How are the operator bands doing? 03:15:26.560 --> 03:15:29.640 Stylistically, how do they match against their opponents? 03:15:29.640 --> 03:15:32.180 Again, these teams are very evenly balanced. 03:15:32.180 --> 03:15:34.600 And I think when you look at this map score, 03:15:34.600 --> 03:15:37.160 going up 4-2 defending on Shelly is not abnormal 03:15:37.160 --> 03:15:39.200 if you ignore which teams they're playing 03:15:39.200 --> 03:15:41.480 and what their overall stat line is. 03:15:41.480 --> 03:15:44.280 So for space station, I don't think the end 03:15:44.280 --> 03:15:47.400 is as near as it might suggest. 03:15:47.400 --> 03:15:49.040 I like what I've seen from 1 of 30. 03:15:49.040 --> 03:15:50.160 I think they've got confidence 03:15:50.160 --> 03:15:56.000 I think they have the overall strategic element, but do not count on SSG yet because I think they're good for at least a couple more rounds 03:15:56.160 --> 03:16:01.180 And that can ultimately determine whether they walk out of here facing five years tomorrow or down in the lower bracket 03:16:01.400 --> 03:16:06.440 Where their next run begins. I mean, I'll tell you this Parker if SSG are gonna come back and win this chalet 03:16:06.440 --> 03:16:11.940 They need to be getting more out of raid when they beat Wildcard in the first stage raid was their highest rated player 03:16:11.940 --> 03:16:16.640 Maybe outlasts in the group raid was their highest rated player when they won back two of this series 03:16:16.640 --> 03:16:21.120 Raid was the highest rated player six rounds on Chalet. He's yet to find a kill 03:16:21.120 --> 03:16:24.380 We know how good this guy is youngest player in the league 03:16:24.380 --> 03:16:30.800 He's been really impressive so far on space station gaming hasn't been able to show up on this side air map now on Chalet 03:16:30.800 --> 03:16:35.420 This is the most important game that he has played in his very brief professional career. We need more 03:16:37.440 --> 03:16:44.280 Absolutely down goes rival be no taking note prisoners. They don't have to take control, but they do talk for right now under their thumb 03:16:44.280 --> 03:16:49.800 Aiden tucked in the bathroom will gun down Packer and immediately head for the hills closer to the bomb site 03:16:49.800 --> 03:16:55.040 That's the right read because it's just him and Giddy left in the span of a minute and 15 seconds 03:16:55.040 --> 03:16:59.720 One of 30 has snapped their fingers and over half of this SSG team has disappeared 03:17:00.360 --> 03:17:05.360 Not an ideal spot to be in they will now recoup and hope that one of 30 does not 03:17:05.760 --> 03:17:08.000 Continue on their reign of terror a nice shot from Aiden 03:17:08.000 --> 03:17:18.000 One thing I will say, Win or Lose, Aiden has shown up enormously for this SSG team and deserves all the accolades that he can get, but it's far more than just a one-man show. 03:17:18.000 --> 03:17:28.000 The good news for 1-30, Jesse, because this happens so fast, even if you did lose a couple pieces, you have plenty of time to settle in and think about your next steps over the next minute and 15 seconds. 03:17:28.000 --> 03:17:36.000 Not a bad spot for Aiden and Giddy, though. Giddy's gonna reposition through the basin to get up towards West Main. That'll kind of be an unexpected position if they're not watching it through the verts. 03:17:36.000 --> 03:17:40.120 Aiden uses his last talks with Babe now to stall things out over towards Trophy Stairs 03:17:40.120 --> 03:17:44.200 and it's a free beyond to Balford, gets the down and surely finished off. 03:17:44.200 --> 03:17:49.200 Aiden has got three big picks Parker and is dragging SSG back into this round. 03:17:49.200 --> 03:17:51.000 He's the blitz over towards Solar Stairs. 03:17:51.000 --> 03:17:54.200 They're going to have full information where this push is coming from. 03:17:54.200 --> 03:18:00.600 You were calling for a hero and Aiden heeded that call, now getting Scott to cross onto the shield of Bino. 03:18:00.600 --> 03:18:04.400 Mike W will be the lone member to support him. 03:18:04.400 --> 03:18:11.400 Aiden still watching those stairs from long enough away. This is a very good spot for Giddy. Giddy just unfortunately lets him go past. 03:18:11.400 --> 03:18:16.400 Now it's my W with some freedom, but Giddy guns him down and Aiden goes huge! 03:18:16.400 --> 03:18:28.400 A round that seemed all but certain for one of 30 falls apart and if that man on your screen is the reason for it, huge moves by Aiden and SSG now, trail by just one round. 03:18:28.400 --> 03:18:33.820 You heard the communication at the halftime how important Aiden's voice is to this team 03:18:33.820 --> 03:18:38.700 And I think you saw it just there in the player reaction cam too. What a round from Aiden 03:18:38.700 --> 03:18:45.580 It starts beautifully from one of 30 discretion to office works exactly as they intended to the ramp plus the ying plus the blitz 03:18:45.580 --> 03:18:48.040 It's such a good combo to take that top floor control 03:18:48.040 --> 03:18:52.180 But then little mistakes continue to cost them that pick on the loss 03:18:52.180 --> 03:18:58.080 There's a tragic one that they're gonna look back on let's Aiden get them back into a man count even situation 03:18:58.080 --> 03:19:06.080 then clutches up with the SMG-11, his positioning on that site was so critical, used those toxic babes well, found those frags. 03:19:06.080 --> 03:19:12.080 Just an incredible performance coming out from Aiden as he continues to be one of the best players in North America League. 03:19:12.080 --> 03:19:19.080 Second highest rated report today began with a 1.1 KPR. He has been so incredible since joining this SMG-4. 03:19:19.080 --> 03:19:32.080 Broke 50 kills earlier, not the first one in the NAL to do that, that was actually Mike W, you thought of I think a round or two before and that was because of Mike W's very impressive first map. 03:19:32.080 --> 03:19:38.400 Volsper has been the story for this one of 30 team though, an absolutely, you should say, 03:19:38.400 --> 03:19:45.440 curculean effort when it comes to this team. And of course right now, so we have 30 kills 03:19:45.440 --> 03:19:51.200 for this best of three. That means he's averaging 10 kills a map. That is an eye-watering number. 03:19:51.200 --> 03:19:56.960 You don't usually see that from a lot of players. Nobody is remotely close. Aiden is next in line 03:19:56.960 --> 03:20:02.400 with one T5, which is still like a full round behind if we were to ace. So, 03:20:03.120 --> 03:20:05.840 Volsper showing off, the rest of the team has been doing okay. 03:20:06.720 --> 03:20:10.480 You got the usual suspects towards the bottom. Packers having a bit of a bad day, but again, 03:20:10.480 --> 03:20:15.280 maybe one of 30 decided that Packer would be on a different role. Then Volsper and allow him to 03:20:15.280 --> 03:20:20.080 play a little bit more aggressively. If that was the goal of one of 30, it has certainly worked. 03:20:20.720 --> 03:20:24.880 Granted, SSG stands one round behind now, so it's anybody's game. 03:20:26.960 --> 03:20:32.960 Finch and Genoke going back to that last round part where Aiden historically has played the Denari on that bomb site inside of KitchenAid. 03:20:32.960 --> 03:20:36.720 It's not usually thought of as a site player, so maybe switching roles a little bit. 03:20:36.720 --> 03:20:39.120 The operator bans may be influencing that a bit as well. 03:20:39.120 --> 03:20:41.920 Finds so much success on the first defense for SSG. 03:20:42.560 --> 03:20:44.840 Now they get to defend up on the top floor as well. 03:20:44.840 --> 03:20:50.480 They can try to lock things down with a little bit of a roam game, both Giddy and Aiden playing down below the site. 03:20:50.480 --> 03:20:53.240 It's gonna be something that one of 30 should have to address. 03:20:53.240 --> 03:20:55.640 There's not that much pressure over towards the library side, 03:20:55.640 --> 03:21:00.180 but these players down below could be a big problem if they're not cleared out properly by 1 of 30. 03:21:00.180 --> 03:21:01.780 Reloading, cover me. 03:21:03.780 --> 03:21:07.700 They're pretty good on their drone work on both taps, to be completely honest. 03:21:07.700 --> 03:21:10.740 So 1 of 30 should be able to locate these players. 03:21:10.740 --> 03:21:13.380 It really just depends on clock management at this point in time. 03:21:15.220 --> 03:21:18.340 The jig might be up for Giddy here, Jesse, as the logic bomb goes off. 03:21:19.420 --> 03:21:21.740 He's one of those players that you mentioned that was playing down below, 03:21:21.740 --> 03:21:25.900 he could have easily cut Bino off of that position on Repel, but it will slip through his fingers. 03:21:27.900 --> 03:21:30.700 He could be a little bit of a slow execute so far for 1-30. 03:21:30.700 --> 03:21:34.140 I don't think they knew he was there. I mean, they had the logic bomb, maybe that ticked him off, 03:21:34.140 --> 03:21:39.100 but it's a little bit cold B. There was a player out on the solar Repel, so maybe an opportunity. 03:21:39.980 --> 03:21:44.300 50 seconds left in the round. They've got to be careful with this clock. 1-30 do not have a single 03:21:44.300 --> 03:21:46.140 tick, and they're still going to be the solos below the site. 03:21:46.140 --> 03:21:50.740 Raid takes down Packer, 1 of 30 looking for some blood. They'll get it. 03:21:50.740 --> 03:21:55.340 Vulsper, spilling raids. That was Raid's very first kill, and it comes in round number 8. 03:21:55.340 --> 03:21:59.140 They take charge right now through office rivals, the next one to fall. 03:21:59.140 --> 03:22:05.340 SSTC reduced to just 30, 1 of 30, hoping that their lead continues to grow. 03:22:05.340 --> 03:22:08.740 They watch their momentum get blunt a little bit in the previous round. 03:22:08.740 --> 03:22:12.340 Dream will need to save it alongside Aiden. Aiden maybe just warming up. 03:22:12.340 --> 03:22:18.900 He's taken Mike down read dream and Aiden side by side. You do not want a collateral to happen if you're getting planted 03:22:19.580 --> 03:22:22.860 He gets it. Oh my god. Aiden might have just done it again 03:22:23.500 --> 03:22:25.860 Silo the last one standing of one of 30 03:22:25.860 --> 03:22:31.420 It's these final moments of the round that have been the undoing of the team on the left side of your screen 03:22:31.940 --> 03:22:35.500 Silo will come up empty-handed and space station is tied the game 03:22:35.500 --> 03:22:44.500 The nightmare from New Orleans will do it again. Aided in the late round just seems like an unstoppable force. 03:22:44.500 --> 03:22:53.500 That nitro cells go through the wall was so brilliant Parker. The fact that he didn't have an exact line of sight, didn't know exactly what the plant was going down but could hear it. 03:22:53.500 --> 03:23:01.500 That's exactly what he needed. He used that information to toss out the nitro, win a round that absolutely should have been in the possession of 1 of 30. 03:23:01.500 --> 03:23:04.500 They didn't have any of that utility coming back in from the bottom floor. 03:23:04.500 --> 03:23:05.500 So what do they do? 03:23:05.500 --> 03:23:07.500 Well, they just stand tall inside the site. 03:23:07.500 --> 03:23:12.500 They deny that plant and they get themselves a tie game up against one of 30. 03:23:12.500 --> 03:23:15.500 What a ridiculous round to come through from space station gaming. 03:23:17.500 --> 03:23:20.500 Yeah, I think this is the time you call your tactical timeout. 03:23:20.500 --> 03:23:22.500 That's two backbreakers in a row. 03:23:22.500 --> 03:23:24.500 You need to at least do that for posterity's sake. 03:23:24.500 --> 03:23:26.500 To be honest with you, I think it's a good idea. 03:23:26.500 --> 03:23:30.300 time out. That's two backbreakers in a row. You need to at least do that for 03:23:30.300 --> 03:23:35.020 posterity's sake to try and get people's heads back in the game. Even if they say 03:23:35.020 --> 03:23:40.100 they are, this team is not playing the way that it needs to. I credited through 03:23:40.100 --> 03:23:45.620 that first half how good this team was in the beginning of the rounds. We didn't 03:23:45.620 --> 03:23:50.500 really see that much room at the tail end and now that we're starting to get an 03:23:50.500 --> 03:23:55.860 idea of how they attack in the final 30 seconds of a round, it's not been that 03:23:55.860 --> 03:23:59.620 good they lack a lot of information whether it be because the drones are 03:23:59.620 --> 03:24:02.760 getting shot out or they're just simply rushing things and not expecting 03:24:02.760 --> 03:24:07.520 space station to move I'm not entirely certain what the culprit is but the end 03:24:07.520 --> 03:24:11.280 result is all that matters and the end result is that there were two rounds in 03:24:11.280 --> 03:24:14.340 a row that probably should have gone in the wind call but one of 30 and yet 03:24:14.340 --> 03:24:20.480 neither of them did both of the times Aiden was just simply unable to give up 03:24:20.480 --> 03:24:27.480 hope and he willed his team to the finish line. The man's been incredible so far. The 03:24:27.480 --> 03:24:31.480 whole rest of the team's been doing okay and Aiden obviously benefits for the intel and 03:24:31.480 --> 03:24:35.720 the rest of the squad and again that leadership to help him. But there was a reason why he 03:24:35.720 --> 03:24:41.120 was not on the MV squad Jesse. And we're seeing it here on full display. He is an error to 03:24:41.120 --> 03:24:42.120 deal with. 03:24:42.120 --> 03:24:46.600 Well I was in a conversation with Aiden a couple days ago Parker and he talks to me 03:24:46.600 --> 03:24:50.160 a lot about his career and the journey that he's taken and he wasn't even 03:24:50.160 --> 03:24:54.880 initially supposed to get a tryout for that MV squad. It was a cancelled tryout 03:24:54.880 --> 03:24:58.600 that ended up allowing him to play in his first scrim and eventually get picked 03:24:58.600 --> 03:25:02.680 up to tier one. Now signed with Space Station playing alongside Raid and some 03:25:02.680 --> 03:25:06.480 legends of the game like Dream. I mean it has truly been incredible the journey 03:25:06.480 --> 03:25:10.920 he has gone from just being a console kid who played in those Jinxie 03:25:10.920 --> 03:25:15.480 tournaments to now here on the biggest stage in North America. Only a couple 03:25:15.480 --> 03:25:20.440 days away from qualifying to a major if they can take down 1 of 30 and then 5 03:25:20.440 --> 03:25:25.320 beers in the upper bracket but not get ahead of ourselves. 1 of 30 I think it's still played a 03:25:25.320 --> 03:25:29.440 really good game here on Xiaowei. I've overall liked their attacks, it's just been 03:25:29.440 --> 03:25:33.560 falling apart at the end. They can use that timeout to settle their nerves a 03:25:33.560 --> 03:25:38.560 little bit, calm down, slow down some of these late rounds and not get so caught up 03:25:38.560 --> 03:25:41.680 in forcing a plant. There is still some hope for this team. 03:25:41.680 --> 03:25:46.520 Oh, absolutely, and I did say right at the onset, and I feel a little vindicated here, 03:25:46.520 --> 03:25:49.440 that this was likely to go deep. 03:25:49.440 --> 03:25:53.040 With the scoreline being what it is, the likelihood of overtime has skyrocketed. 03:25:53.040 --> 03:25:56.600 It would be the first OT that we see. 03:25:56.600 --> 03:26:00.080 Both of these teams won their maps in pretty decisive fashion. 03:26:00.080 --> 03:26:03.040 But Chalet has been a completely other beast. 03:26:03.040 --> 03:26:08.880 We've made lots of small mistakes that are committed that have unfortunately snowballed 03:26:08.880 --> 03:26:12.920 into something much larger on both sides of this map. 03:26:12.920 --> 03:26:14.480 Attack and defense. 03:26:14.480 --> 03:26:16.180 One of 30 though, I hope that timeout 03:26:16.180 --> 03:26:18.220 has been used effectively for them 03:26:18.220 --> 03:26:21.080 to figure out the final 30 seconds of the round 03:26:21.080 --> 03:26:23.920 because a lot of the time, Jesse, two more points. 03:26:23.920 --> 03:26:26.720 Strategically wise, the first two minutes have been great. 03:26:26.720 --> 03:26:29.040 It's the last moments. 03:26:29.040 --> 03:26:32.680 Arguably, the most important, that need to be fixed. 03:26:32.680 --> 03:26:34.080 That's a small error though, 03:26:34.080 --> 03:26:36.740 as Eno misses that flashbang. 03:26:36.740 --> 03:26:37.880 Small stuff like that could add up. 03:26:37.880 --> 03:26:39.760 It also shows the mirrors, Jesse. 03:26:39.760 --> 03:26:41.920 Yeah, maybe a little bit of pressure getting to 1 of 30. 03:26:41.920 --> 03:26:43.520 They know how critical this game is. 03:26:43.520 --> 03:26:45.080 Chonoklear ends with a case as Hall. 03:26:45.080 --> 03:26:47.080 Mike W, first one to strike. 03:26:47.080 --> 03:26:48.800 He's able to find Dream who's playing close 03:26:48.800 --> 03:26:49.800 towards the bomb site. 03:26:49.800 --> 03:26:52.160 Still three roamers up above the site now. 03:26:52.160 --> 03:26:55.200 Rival just in the library entrance as Miro window 03:26:55.200 --> 03:26:56.080 remains intact. 03:26:56.080 --> 03:26:58.440 All those asterisks got used and stayed with the Selmas, 03:26:58.440 --> 03:27:00.280 but none of them were able to crack this mirror. 03:27:00.280 --> 03:27:01.400 That could be problematic. 03:27:01.400 --> 03:27:03.880 But Balls for Watson for two, never mind. 03:27:03.880 --> 03:27:07.160 Get to a third, and it's Gideon the 1v5. 03:27:07.160 --> 03:27:11.320 This is an unreal performance from Volsper up to this point. 03:27:11.320 --> 03:27:14.880 We'll do some stat checking on him when all is said and done. 03:27:14.880 --> 03:27:21.440 Get him, just victim of siege timing and a 4k from Volsper. 03:27:21.440 --> 03:27:24.040 He kills just about everybody. 03:27:24.040 --> 03:27:28.080 One of 30 will regain the lead. 03:27:28.080 --> 03:27:30.000 Cannot kick themselves over the previous rounds. 03:27:30.000 --> 03:27:32.280 They are still in fine form. 03:27:32.280 --> 03:27:35.920 Two away from a date with five fears later in the upper bracket. 03:27:35.920 --> 03:27:43.080 I mean, it is just perfect entry play and he has been doing this consistently throughout the map Parker the the ability of 03:27:43.220 --> 03:27:45.220 Valsper to just take space 03:27:45.380 --> 03:27:51.000 Finds the right moments to spot a gap run in and take it has been really impressive to watch 03:27:51.240 --> 03:27:55.040 Even though there have been some mistakes obviously that kitchen attack where he dies up above 03:27:55.040 --> 03:27:56.320 That's an unfortunate one 03:27:56.320 --> 03:28:02.620 But his ability to be that entry player that primary entry for one of 30 grab that space for his team 03:28:02.620 --> 03:28:06.520 Get that multi-kill and then hype up the team a little bit too. Why not? 03:28:06.520 --> 03:28:10.600 You just got a 4k give us a little screen get everybody a little bit hyped up 03:28:10.600 --> 03:28:14.180 That's exactly what you want to see from a guy like Balsper who again 03:28:14.860 --> 03:28:19.720 Struggles in the regular season struggled in the group stage wasn't really able to find any positive games 03:28:19.720 --> 03:28:26.660 But it's looked like a completely different player here in the playoffs by far has been the best guy on one of 30 for my money 03:28:26.660 --> 03:28:28.660 You're all three minutes 03:28:29.660 --> 03:28:32.140 Yeah, I know that some people might give you a little bit of 03:28:32.620 --> 03:28:35.140 A little bit of flak for that one saying, 03:28:35.140 --> 03:28:36.240 yeah, of course the guy with, you know, 03:28:36.240 --> 03:28:38.100 30 some kills is the best player on the team. 03:28:38.100 --> 03:28:40.580 Yeah, sure, but it's so much the kills. 03:28:40.580 --> 03:28:42.780 It's how those kills are happening. 03:28:42.780 --> 03:28:45.540 And Volspar's doing a lot of this on his own. 03:28:45.540 --> 03:28:47.820 He's miles ahead of Mike W. 03:28:47.820 --> 03:28:51.860 And the rest is sitting at 36 kills now 03:28:51.860 --> 03:28:54.060 through this best of three. 03:28:54.060 --> 03:28:57.460 Offer 13 kills more than he did 03:28:57.460 --> 03:28:59.340 through the entire group stage. 03:28:59.340 --> 03:29:04.380 and there's still at minimum two more rounds left here on Shalloway to be played. 03:29:05.100 --> 03:29:06.220 Who knows, there could be more. 03:29:06.220 --> 03:29:11.140 He's not, as far as I'm aware, he's not within striking distance of any of the best of three records. 03:29:11.140 --> 03:29:14.980 I need to dust off the record books there, but I mean, this is still an incredible performance. 03:29:15.380 --> 03:29:22.460 After he with 36 kills, it's Aiden with 27, Mike W with 23, and then Rival at 21 and Silo at 20. 03:29:22.460 --> 03:29:25.100 Silo's been very quiet, racking up 20 kills in his role. 03:29:25.100 --> 03:29:28.140 He's just been doing his job and he's a name that we haven't really settled off, 03:29:28.140 --> 03:29:31.740 but that's because so much that spotlight has been on Volsper. 03:29:32.300 --> 03:29:36.380 Aside from that though, the team is doing really well and they've managed to start out their mistakes. 03:29:36.380 --> 03:29:41.180 Crazy to think that this one could be over if some small mid-steps have not been committed 03:29:41.180 --> 03:29:44.940 just a couple of moments ago in the previous two rounds, but so it goes, 03:29:44.940 --> 03:29:48.380 and 1 of 30 will now need to mentally move on as we have. 03:29:48.380 --> 03:29:51.340 And look to close this one out. Space Station will hope to tie it back up. 03:29:51.340 --> 03:29:58.340 Best of three kill record is 55. We've just not had a long enough series. Frankly, the first two maps, two decisive. They're not really in the combo. 03:29:58.340 --> 03:30:09.340 Runout, certainly in the combo for Giddy. It does get caught, unfortunately. Picks a lot of damage outside of Big Garage, and now is starting to get pinned down as the rest of one of 30 collapsing on this position. 03:30:09.340 --> 03:30:16.340 He was going for that runout a few rounds ago, decided he was better off not making the play. Probably should have made that same decision this time, Parker. 03:30:16.340 --> 03:30:22.260 time Parker he remains in big garage and has many different angles to fight well he just gets 03:30:22.260 --> 03:30:27.620 fed into bino he had to dodge whether or he had to make a decision do i try to dodge that candela 03:30:27.620 --> 03:30:33.860 or do i take the man directly and maybe get blinded by the candela it was a a decent decision by 03:30:33.860 --> 03:30:39.380 giddy and not a spot that many people want to be in bino punishes him for that and now you see the 03:30:39.380 --> 03:30:44.260 drum work going off we talk about information how integral it is there's not a lot of intel operators 03:30:44.260 --> 03:30:49.940 that have been used by 1 of 30 on this side of Chalet, but Brava might not seem like an intel 03:30:49.940 --> 03:30:55.620 op, but she absolutely uses it, actually if those clutch drones are used to hack other cameras. 03:30:56.500 --> 03:31:01.460 Keep that in mind, because Packer might be using it to full effect. Oh, Dream gets run over by Mike 03:31:01.460 --> 03:31:08.020 W. Volsper dies to Aiden. That's two Titans colliding. Raid gunned down by Mike W. So Volsper's 03:31:08.020 --> 03:31:13.700 God that's the one too much of this one of 30 teams so far. But leaves Aiden and Rival as the 03:31:13.700 --> 03:31:18.900 last two standing. But Aiden's been here before. He's clutched out against worse numbers. If you 03:31:18.900 --> 03:31:24.580 get going down by Bino, Aiden and Rival cannot stop it. It will go down successfully, both controlling 03:31:24.580 --> 03:31:30.580 the hatch from above in very similar positions. This is a bit worrisome. One might want to go down 03:31:30.580 --> 03:31:34.580 through Solarium into Trophy. The other might still want to watch the hatch. Aiden in this position 03:31:34.580 --> 03:31:40.580 gets backer amidst that gas. They are double stacked. Silo gets one, Bino gets the other, 03:31:40.580 --> 03:31:47.940 and what a 30 moves to theory's point. Aiden is but a man, and even for him, that 03:31:47.940 --> 03:31:52.340 cluster's just a little bit too difficult. Parker, if they were able to find that plant before it 03:31:52.340 --> 03:31:57.540 goes down, they got a real chance, but unfortunately they find it just a second too late. Rival through 03:31:57.540 --> 03:32:02.260 the hatch eventually spots it out, but at that point, barreling down the solar stairs is too 03:32:02.260 --> 03:32:06.140 difficult of an entry point. You mentioned it, Mike, having a really big 03:32:06.140 --> 03:32:10.180 rounds there, being that spearhead after Valsper is the first one to die, makes a 03:32:10.180 --> 03:32:14.740 really big difference and it shows the depth on one of 30 as well. Even if one 03:32:14.740 --> 03:32:18.420 of your primer entries goes down, you've got a guy like Mike W, Mr. President 03:32:18.420 --> 03:32:23.180 himself, able to step up and take those fights, take that space. It comes as a 03:32:23.180 --> 03:32:27.220 side of those makes some space with the team as well, so everybody is really 03:32:27.220 --> 03:32:31.220 together on these pushes and that's the story of the map. Has it not for one of 03:32:31.220 --> 03:32:36.820 How together they are, how coordinated they are as a group, their ability to push in, take space, 03:32:36.820 --> 03:32:43.620 or not like Chalet, has just been, I think, the difference maker, putting them ahead of SSG so far through these first 10 rounds. 03:32:43.620 --> 03:32:50.420 Very impressive stuff's crossed the bottom, and now they've earned themselves, as you said, two opportunities to close this one out before OT. 03:32:50.420 --> 03:32:58.420 It's not that I really wanted to try and get talking points here, but one of the things that Reddit picked up on very, very quickly with the Space Station team 03:32:58.420 --> 03:33:04.420 was how good the entry players were and how much confidence their roamers were playing with. 03:33:04.420 --> 03:33:07.920 You know, we would often hear in North America, oh, there's a new fragger on the scene, 03:33:07.920 --> 03:33:10.420 but a lot of times there would be a pretty passive entry. 03:33:10.420 --> 03:33:16.420 Give credits to SSG here. Aiden, Raid, Rival, these guys play with a level of fearlessness, 03:33:16.420 --> 03:33:18.420 even if they're not all on entry rolls. 03:33:18.420 --> 03:33:23.420 That was really nice to see now. It could be them as a player, it could also be the way that the team is built around them. 03:33:23.420 --> 03:33:28.820 But it's 1 of 30 who's stolen that spotlight today, and it lines up with the point you just made. 03:33:28.820 --> 03:33:37.520 The entry from 1 of 30 has had so much teeth behind it, and they've just been biting chunks out of this SSG defense round after round. 03:33:37.520 --> 03:33:44.120 Yeah, it's not just that the entry was so good for Space Station, the group stage, but it was frankly quite bad for 1 of 30 in their group stage. 03:33:44.120 --> 03:33:51.620 I mean, I said it a million times, but like, Volsper is just looking so much better here in the playoffs, it's been excellent to see his growth. 03:33:51.620 --> 03:33:56.980 Now they'll have an opportunity to again close things out in regulation. They're attacking up towards the top floor 03:33:56.980 --> 03:34:01.360 This was a bombsite that SSG were able to win last time around. It did come off of some 03:34:01.660 --> 03:34:05.620 Heroics from Aiden on the balcony, but in the end this was a successful play from them 03:34:05.620 --> 03:34:10.540 So hopefully SSG can try to replicate that, force us into a 12th round of regulation 03:34:10.660 --> 03:34:15.060 Giddy has moved over to the clash, which has really caught my eye. He was on the soulless last time around 03:34:15.060 --> 03:34:17.740 It was not finding a lot of success for him down inside the basement 03:34:17.740 --> 03:34:23.620 So completely changes the type of operator he's playing on and hopefully can slow down this push from 1 of 30 03:34:23.700 --> 03:34:26.740 Make it more difficult for those entries to take space and take kills 03:34:31.340 --> 03:34:38.100 First logic bomb goes you hear the howl of the King Delas is now silo will follow up his made arm to library stairs 03:34:38.300 --> 03:34:39.780 Everybody is blinded 03:34:39.780 --> 03:34:46.300 Great having a really poor performance will go one and nine and that might be it if one of 30 is able to overpower 03:34:46.300 --> 03:34:49.660 What remains of space station dream dies as well? 03:34:50.900 --> 03:34:53.420 Rough go of it for the astronauts one of 30 now 03:34:54.260 --> 03:34:56.140 charting their course 03:34:56.140 --> 03:35:03.580 Looking for an opportunity to take down five fears in the upper bracket semi finals the winner of that series will move to the Salt Lake City 03:35:03.580 --> 03:35:05.020 Major 03:35:05.020 --> 03:35:10.420 SSG's left with rival and Aiden Aiden will need to clutch again. He's been in so many clutch positions 03:35:10.740 --> 03:35:13.040 He's got packer. That's a start now 03:35:13.040 --> 03:35:16.320 Now he's got Silo as well, but the clock will run out, 03:35:16.320 --> 03:35:21.040 Bino shuts him down, and one of 30 takes the series. 03:35:21.040 --> 03:35:23.920 Massive round from Silo, he steps up big time. 03:35:23.920 --> 03:35:27.000 Parker goes positive for the first time in his professional career 03:35:27.000 --> 03:35:29.560 and gets one of 30 over the line. 03:35:29.560 --> 03:35:32.440 Such an impressive match, such an impressive team. 03:35:32.440 --> 03:35:36.920 Going from group stage to this, they look night and day so much better. 03:35:36.920 --> 03:35:39.280 You heard of what the conference before this series began, 03:35:39.280 --> 03:35:42.320 you saw it in the server and you'll get to see it again in a couple of days. 03:35:42.320 --> 03:35:45.240 When they move on, it's like five fears. 03:35:45.240 --> 03:35:46.520 Absolutely incredible stuff. 03:35:46.520 --> 03:35:48.960 How do you wild card and M80 follow that one up? 03:35:48.960 --> 03:35:49.960 We'll find out. 03:35:49.960 --> 03:35:51.320 This is our next match. 03:35:51.320 --> 03:35:52.800 It's just moments away. 03:35:52.800 --> 03:35:53.640 Sit tight. 03:35:53.640 --> 03:35:54.640 We'll be right back. 03:40:54.640 --> 03:41:03.880 One of 30 have a date with five fears for a spot at the Salt Lake City Major. 03:41:03.880 --> 03:41:06.280 What a start to the playoffs. 03:41:06.280 --> 03:41:12.680 One of 30 come out defying expectations, take down SSG and we have not seen the end of their 03:41:12.680 --> 03:41:13.680 run yet. 03:41:13.680 --> 03:41:17.880 We have got Bolsper standing by so we're going to welcome him in now. 03:41:17.880 --> 03:41:21.840 My God, Bolsper, tell me right now how this is feeling. 03:41:21.840 --> 03:41:26.580 We were talking about this all map Parker was talking about this all series. 03:41:26.580 --> 03:41:34.260 You go from dropping what 23 kills over four maps to absolutely going nuclear 37 kills 03:41:34.260 --> 03:41:35.760 over three maps. 03:41:35.760 --> 03:41:39.860 What's it like in your shoes right now? 03:41:39.860 --> 03:41:40.860 It feels great. 03:41:40.860 --> 03:41:43.300 It's definitely like a weight off my shoulders. 03:41:43.300 --> 03:41:45.780 You know, I definitely put a little bit too much pressure on myself. 03:41:45.780 --> 03:41:52.660 I think week one, um, and you know, just to come in and buy, put in, you know, the hard 03:41:52.660 --> 03:41:55.700 work shows, you know, it's, it feels great. 03:41:55.700 --> 03:41:56.700 Yeah. 03:41:56.700 --> 03:41:59.820 I mean, I can imagine big game from you, big win. 03:41:59.820 --> 03:42:04.740 My question is more around, we got a chance to, to see the communication between you guys 03:42:04.740 --> 03:42:09.500 after map two on clubhouse that last round of be no dying to the Vulcan canister. 03:42:09.500 --> 03:42:13.740 And my question to you is obviously you want to be able to have some fun, right? 03:42:13.740 --> 03:42:15.500 You lose your black beard opening round. 03:42:15.500 --> 03:42:18.700 you lose the map, you just want to be able to shake it off. 03:42:18.700 --> 03:42:22.340 But in my opinion, it felt like you guys were a little too 03:42:22.340 --> 03:42:23.300 shaking it off. 03:42:23.300 --> 03:42:24.540 Like no one was upset. 03:42:24.540 --> 03:42:26.220 Are you asking a question or are you standing on a plane? 03:42:26.220 --> 03:42:27.180 No, I'm asking a question. 03:42:27.180 --> 03:42:28.500 I'm saying, like, is there a level, 03:42:28.500 --> 03:42:30.140 we can't hear all of the communication. 03:42:30.140 --> 03:42:32.060 My question is just, is there a level 03:42:32.060 --> 03:42:33.940 of which the fun and games has cut out? 03:42:33.940 --> 03:42:36.380 Did you guys mention that after the map itself 03:42:36.380 --> 03:42:38.700 or something to be a little bit more tighter on the droning 03:42:38.700 --> 03:42:40.020 or going slower? 03:42:40.020 --> 03:42:41.020 Is there a level? 03:42:41.020 --> 03:42:42.140 Yeah, that's my question. 03:42:42.140 --> 03:42:44.220 That's a question. 03:42:44.220 --> 03:42:47.260 I would say that last round, we had a plan. 03:42:47.260 --> 03:42:50.060 It was kind of a preset thing and Bino died. 03:42:50.060 --> 03:42:53.460 And we didn't have like the right U-Tiller hop. 03:42:53.460 --> 03:42:55.940 So Packer called it for it to be a broken round. 03:42:55.940 --> 03:42:58.860 And let's just try to find in, get gaps, find kills. 03:42:58.860 --> 03:43:01.100 Obviously I failed at doing that. 03:43:01.100 --> 03:43:06.100 But I don't know, I think our, we take it serious. 03:43:06.140 --> 03:43:11.140 You know, we work hard, but I think our silliness 03:43:11.140 --> 03:43:16.020 silliness and our our our friendship, you know really keeps us above teams because um 03:43:16.580 --> 03:43:20.660 You know what I mean? We just laughed at that. I mean like what what what we're gonna do that? 03:43:20.660 --> 03:43:26.580 That's that's being of the carrot. That's what we call him the carrot. Um, I mean, he's uh, he's a little he's a little guy 03:43:26.740 --> 03:43:28.740 What why you call him the carrot? 03:43:28.980 --> 03:43:30.980 um 03:43:31.940 --> 03:43:37.140 There's some lore by those who know those who know yeah, I would say those who know um 03:43:37.140 --> 03:43:39.980 Um, maybe he'll, uh, he'll expose it one day. 03:43:40.480 --> 03:43:41.240 All right, for sure. 03:43:41.240 --> 03:43:43.780 Well, those first one, I want to congratulate you guys on the win. 03:43:43.780 --> 03:43:46.920 That was a very much needed win, especially after the regular group stage. 03:43:46.920 --> 03:43:50.640 But going back to the group stage, you guys got that one win over a hundred 03:43:50.640 --> 03:43:52.340 thieves that was desperate need of a win. 03:43:52.340 --> 03:43:54.980 Obviously gave you those four points, even sit to where you guys are now. 03:43:55.200 --> 03:43:58.820 What's kind of been the process for you guys kind of taking everything and what 03:43:58.820 --> 03:44:02.800 happened in the group stage, having that week break, then coming into today's match 03:44:02.960 --> 03:44:06.600 and just being able to look like a night and day difference of a team than what 03:44:06.600 --> 03:44:08.860 we were seeing throughout that group stage? 03:44:11.360 --> 03:44:17.100 I think the week before the stage and the week after our first three games, 03:44:17.100 --> 03:44:19.300 we didn't have the best scrims. 03:44:19.300 --> 03:44:21.360 We didn't really stick to our goals too well. 03:44:21.360 --> 03:44:25.700 And, you know, I think we caused more problems than fixed. 03:44:26.300 --> 03:44:30.840 So this last week, we just, you know, you got to humble yourself. 03:44:30.840 --> 03:44:31.740 You know, we wanted more. 03:44:31.740 --> 03:44:36.100 We expected to maybe get two or three wins group stages. 03:44:36.600 --> 03:44:39.400 You know, we have a lot of confidence in ourselves, so... 03:44:39.400 --> 03:44:42.400 Well, clearly you do, isn't your status part in itself? 03:44:42.400 --> 03:44:46.900 Yeah, yeah, so just kind of humble ourselves, you know, and actually work through our problems, 03:44:46.900 --> 03:44:48.400 you know, every day is a struggle. 03:44:48.400 --> 03:44:52.900 We don't have, like, a clean day of scrims because we work through our issues. 03:44:52.900 --> 03:44:55.900 So just really focusing on our problems, you know, as individuals. 03:44:55.900 --> 03:44:58.800 I think that's a big thing, it's improving as individuals. 03:44:58.800 --> 03:45:01.100 That just makes you a better team, so I think that's... 03:45:01.100 --> 03:45:06.300 I think just better scrims have been just, that's helped an insane amount. 03:45:06.300 --> 03:45:09.060 Absolutely. And just one last thing, and this isn't a question for you to answer. 03:45:09.060 --> 03:45:11.700 Just whenever we wrap this up, if you just want to send me a picture of those 03:45:11.700 --> 03:45:15.360 Katanas in the back, I'd love that. I have a couple Katanas back at home myself. 03:45:16.020 --> 03:45:18.420 Yeah. Yeah. No, I'll, uh, I'll let you know about that. 03:45:18.460 --> 03:45:19.220 All right. Sounds good. 03:45:19.260 --> 03:45:20.580 All right, both. But thank you so much. 03:45:20.580 --> 03:45:24.260 We will see you in that match against five fears in just two days time. 03:45:24.260 --> 03:45:26.140 So get prepared, get ready for that. 03:45:26.140 --> 03:45:27.180 We look forward to seeing you out there. 03:45:27.860 --> 03:45:28.780 Sweet. Thank you guys. 03:45:28.860 --> 03:45:32.380 Thank you. What a win and what a performance from this guy. 03:45:32.380 --> 03:45:34.920 I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. 03:45:34.920 --> 03:45:38.380 The difference that this team showcased from the group stage 03:45:38.380 --> 03:45:41.160 to now lacks, I mean, it really was wild. 03:45:41.160 --> 03:45:42.160 Yeah, it definitely was. 03:45:42.160 --> 03:45:43.460 And it's not what I was expecting, 03:45:43.460 --> 03:45:45.960 because what we saw from game after game in group stages 03:45:45.960 --> 03:45:48.340 was the lack of identity, the lack of being 03:45:48.340 --> 03:45:51.500 able to adapt and understand where things are going wrong, 03:45:51.500 --> 03:45:54.140 where things are going right, how they can fix these issues. 03:45:54.140 --> 03:45:55.780 And throughout the first map, I mean, 03:45:55.780 --> 03:45:58.280 it was a beautiful display of how well they understood 03:45:58.280 --> 03:45:58.980 Night Haven Labs. 03:45:58.980 --> 03:46:01.020 I talked about their map being not being that strong. 03:46:01.020 --> 03:46:02.500 They pull out Night Haven Labs. 03:46:02.500 --> 03:46:03.540 Wonderful map from them. 03:46:03.540 --> 03:46:04.380 Great place. 03:46:04.380 --> 03:46:05.380 We hop into Clubhouse. 03:46:05.380 --> 03:46:07.140 It was a little bit of not understanding 03:46:07.140 --> 03:46:08.180 how to play that map. 03:46:08.180 --> 03:46:09.860 The trades weren't necessarily there. 03:46:09.860 --> 03:46:11.300 Now was a bigger question of, OK, 03:46:11.300 --> 03:46:12.740 you go from a high to a low. 03:46:12.740 --> 03:46:13.660 How do you bounce back? 03:46:13.660 --> 03:46:15.260 Where is the resilience from these guys? 03:46:15.260 --> 03:46:16.700 An immediate adaptation. 03:46:16.700 --> 03:46:19.500 Straight out the gates of understanding the counter play, 03:46:19.500 --> 03:46:21.060 how they can get this map going in the favor. 03:46:21.060 --> 03:46:23.180 How they can get these gunfights going in the favor. 03:46:23.180 --> 03:46:25.420 And it was just, again, a night and day difference 03:46:25.420 --> 03:46:27.460 in terms of what we've seen out of all five players. 03:46:27.460 --> 03:46:29.860 Yeah, in map three, that's when we saw the adaptations. 03:46:29.860 --> 03:46:35.460 I yelling from Packer be able to come in full force because they really understood what SSU was doing 03:46:35.460 --> 03:46:39.120 It wasn't a moment of oh our preparation was good. We know how it's that she's gonna play 03:46:39.180 --> 03:46:43.260 They just adapted very well. They understood the win condition for SSG 03:46:43.260 --> 03:46:46.460 They were packing head-on to be able to slow them down on their 03:46:46.820 --> 03:46:52.620 Defenses and be able to make SSG be very uncomfortable because that was a SSG strength is getting the first pick 03:46:52.620 --> 03:46:56.260 Yeah, locking down the site and getting picks that way and what do we see? 03:46:56.260 --> 03:47:02.260 We saw 1 of 30 fight early on, win or lose the pick, they fall back down the site, they were not moving. 03:47:02.260 --> 03:47:08.260 They were not giving SSG a leg back in the game, forcing SSG to execute and vice versa on their attacks. 03:47:08.260 --> 03:47:11.760 There was a lot of times where they'd get the first pick and explode on the site altogether. 03:47:11.760 --> 03:47:19.260 Never giving SSG a moment to get those suffocating kills out, waiting for it to get into the last couple of seconds. 03:47:19.260 --> 03:47:23.760 They were very, very smart on their time management. They understood in that final map exactly how to beat SSG. 03:47:23.760 --> 03:47:24.760 Absolutely. 03:47:24.760 --> 03:47:27.000 The run for SSG is not over yet. 03:47:27.000 --> 03:47:30.120 They still have a chance here as they are sent down to the lower bracket, 03:47:30.320 --> 03:47:32.280 but a big deal for one of 30. 03:47:32.480 --> 03:47:37.640 They now play five fears for a spot at the Salt Lake City Major. 03:47:37.840 --> 03:47:42.600 Speaking of, we hinted at a giveaway earlier and it's going to happen right now. 03:47:42.600 --> 03:47:44.560 You got to be very careful in the Twitch chat. 03:47:44.760 --> 03:47:47.360 An exclamation point will immediately get you timed out. 03:47:47.560 --> 03:47:52.480 All you have to do to enter is type Major and you will be automatically entered 03:47:52.480 --> 03:47:57.920 to win two tickets to the Salt Lake City Major in just a few weeks over the next few minutes. 03:47:57.920 --> 03:47:59.320 We'll be collecting entries. 03:47:59.320 --> 03:48:03.600 If you win, you'll get a DM from one of our wonderful Twitch mods and some details on 03:48:03.600 --> 03:48:04.600 how to collect. 03:48:04.600 --> 03:48:08.160 There'll be two winners today, two winners tomorrow, all the way through the rest of 03:48:08.160 --> 03:48:09.160 the playoffs. 03:48:09.160 --> 03:48:15.400 So again, to win tickets to the Salt Lake City Major, you can type major in Twitch Chat 03:48:15.400 --> 03:48:16.920 to make that happen. 03:48:16.920 --> 03:48:19.440 As we collect those responses, we're going to step aside. 03:48:19.440 --> 03:48:22.480 got MAD and wild card coming up your way next. 03:48:22.480 --> 03:48:23.640 So don't go anywhere. 03:48:23.640 --> 03:48:24.800 We'll be right back. 03:51:54.800 --> 03:52:13.800 One best of three down, one of 30 move on, but our next match is sure to be a good one 03:52:13.800 --> 03:52:14.800 as well. 03:52:14.800 --> 03:52:17.360 M80 and Wildcard go toted. 03:52:17.360 --> 03:52:21.640 So we'll bring you an updated bracket picture as to how things stand right now after that 03:52:21.640 --> 03:52:22.640 victory. 03:52:22.640 --> 03:52:23.720 We said five fears. 03:52:23.720 --> 03:52:25.840 They will now be playing 1 of 30. 03:52:25.840 --> 03:52:28.480 That will happen in just two days time. 03:52:28.480 --> 03:52:33.400 Meanwhile, DarkZero await the winner of that M80 wild card 03:52:33.400 --> 03:52:36.920 game with SSG moving down to the lower bracket. 03:52:36.920 --> 03:52:40.040 I mean, maybe it wasn't the way that SSG wanted to start, 03:52:40.040 --> 03:52:42.600 but with two chances here, it's not over yet. 03:52:42.600 --> 03:52:45.960 I mean, if you're SSG and you've got Cloud9 as opposed to SR, 03:52:45.960 --> 03:52:47.680 you're still going to be very comfortable. 03:52:47.680 --> 03:52:49.920 It's an opportunity for you to make your way all the way 03:52:49.920 --> 03:52:50.840 through the lower bracket. 03:52:50.840 --> 03:52:52.720 We've seen it happen every single time. 03:52:52.720 --> 03:52:54.240 team falls to the lower bracket. 03:52:54.240 --> 03:52:56.320 They go undefeated, so at the end of the day, 03:52:56.320 --> 03:52:58.680 I think there was a lot of good to take away from SSG. 03:52:58.680 --> 03:52:59.800 Can't be upset about their place. 03:52:59.800 --> 03:53:02.800 And SSG, as an organization, obviously not this roster. 03:53:02.800 --> 03:53:03.640 That's true. 03:53:03.640 --> 03:53:05.200 They have a pension for lower bracket runs 03:53:05.200 --> 03:53:06.160 and finding a lot of success. 03:53:06.160 --> 03:53:07.800 They did this a lot last year. 03:53:07.800 --> 03:53:10.000 But we'll dive into the action for this series here. 03:53:10.000 --> 03:53:13.400 SSG aside, it is M80 and Wildcard. 03:53:13.400 --> 03:53:14.880 Two of the more legacy teams. 03:53:14.880 --> 03:53:17.560 Not a lot of youth, not a lot of rookies here, Lax. 03:53:17.560 --> 03:53:19.040 We look at Wildcard. 03:53:19.040 --> 03:53:22.040 We look at a team that has consistently struggled 03:53:22.040 --> 03:53:26.440 well domestically. We brought up this talking point coming into day one of kickoff. They 03:53:26.440 --> 03:53:31.600 do not perform well domestically. They have to find a way to beat that pattern now. Yeah, 03:53:31.600 --> 03:53:35.520 the big question for me is will history repeat itself? As we've seen time and time again 03:53:35.520 --> 03:53:39.240 with this wild card roster is they always had punch at the middle of the pack whenever 03:53:39.240 --> 03:53:42.280 it comes to group stage. It's certainly not the songs and prayers that we give these 03:53:42.280 --> 03:53:48.200 guys whenever it comes to a land event. Regionally, they just underperform, but the second they 03:53:48.200 --> 03:53:53.080 They get into playoffs and most recently in the playoffs to make Munich, they would end 03:53:53.080 --> 03:53:56.560 up making Munich and they would end up being one of the best teams outside of M80 going 03:53:56.560 --> 03:53:57.960 on to win the entire thing. 03:53:57.960 --> 03:54:00.640 But then again, once they get to land, they always perform. 03:54:00.640 --> 03:54:04.920 So I'm expecting a lot better showing coming into playoffs, just similar above even what 03:54:04.920 --> 03:54:06.120 we saw at 1 of 30. 03:54:06.120 --> 03:54:09.200 They were able to bounce back from one game to the next into the next map and then they 03:54:09.200 --> 03:54:13.440 ultimately close out the entire series, now putting them one step away from SLC. 03:54:13.440 --> 03:54:17.800 I think something that happened when it came to interregional play is a lot of it was big 03:54:17.800 --> 03:54:22.520 individual plays that would scrape them by because they were better than the average team in that ale 03:54:22.520 --> 03:54:26.520 then they go to the event and they power up but since picking up adrian it seems like there's a 03:54:26.520 --> 03:54:30.200 little bit of a difference in the way that they've been underperforming because adrian's been doing 03:54:30.200 --> 03:54:36.200 amazing he's way better in position as opposed to dash but the rest of the roster rolls wise feels 03:54:36.200 --> 03:54:40.040 like they're just missing the mark well i'm glad that you're talking about roles and something 03:54:40.040 --> 03:54:43.720 that we're talking about specific individuals because there's two players that if you want to 03:54:43.720 --> 03:54:46.940 talk about this roster they have to be mentioned and it has to be Bay and 03:54:46.940 --> 03:54:50.380 baby shark particularly I want to focus on baby shark here because for me when 03:54:50.380 --> 03:54:53.620 we're looking at how he's playing now he plays a standard entry but not the 03:54:53.620 --> 03:54:57.220 standard entry in terms of how it's actually played he plays a far more 03:54:57.220 --> 03:55:01.340 passive sort of entry which typically that's not what you want from an entry 03:55:01.340 --> 03:55:03.980 player you want them to be able to get into the nitty gritty of things you want 03:55:03.980 --> 03:55:06.860 them to be able to take that map you want them to be able to get that opening 03:55:06.860 --> 03:55:10.540 pick similar to players like new words like Andy so for me I want baby shark to 03:55:10.540 --> 03:55:13.900 kind of play a little more aggressive here so the rest of the team can kind of 03:55:13.900 --> 03:55:16.300 shape out the rest of the round especially when we've talked about 03:55:16.300 --> 03:55:20.180 Spiker's struggling. Now pivoting onto a player like Bay. A lot of Bay's success 03:55:20.180 --> 03:55:24.340 really comes on his defensive path because he's so good at being that 03:55:24.340 --> 03:55:28.420 defensive player. He understands the structure, he understands the personal 03:55:28.420 --> 03:55:32.820 awareness of positions and that for me is where Bay really shines is because he 03:55:32.820 --> 03:55:36.380 always knows where to put himself strategically being able to take one 03:55:36.380 --> 03:55:39.740 gunfight or two gunfights and then being able to fall off of that. So far I 03:55:39.740 --> 03:55:41.740 I believe he's played 17 rounds on defense, 03:55:41.740 --> 03:55:44.820 only getting 13 kills, I believe, in some of those rounds. 03:55:44.820 --> 03:55:47.340 So for me, if he can kind of find either of these players, 03:55:47.340 --> 03:55:50.220 find comfort in where we've seen them time and time again, 03:55:50.220 --> 03:55:51.620 that's when I think everyone else 03:55:51.620 --> 03:55:52.820 will start to piggyback off of that. 03:55:52.820 --> 03:55:54.500 And especially on a player like Spiker, 03:55:54.500 --> 03:55:56.460 where he is taking on those roles of Dash, 03:55:56.460 --> 03:55:57.860 being able to play those shields, 03:55:57.860 --> 03:56:00.700 being able to pivot, maybe onto a more supportive Havana 03:56:00.700 --> 03:56:02.340 or Thermite, whatever it's needed, 03:56:02.340 --> 03:56:03.700 if that's only gonna make it easier 03:56:03.700 --> 03:56:05.900 if those players are finding far more comfort 03:56:05.900 --> 03:56:07.140 within their own realm. 03:56:07.140 --> 03:56:11.580 It's a team that's been curious as to why they're struggling, right? 03:56:11.580 --> 03:56:15.260 Like they've addressed that on social media, like the scrims are going fine. 03:56:15.260 --> 03:56:17.700 Why can't we translate that to game day, right? 03:56:17.700 --> 03:56:20.180 Now, that hasn't been a problem for MAD. 03:56:20.180 --> 03:56:21.860 They made a change. 03:56:21.860 --> 03:56:22.980 They bring in action. 03:56:22.980 --> 03:56:27.700 And so far, Fox, it's clearly been a productive change. 03:56:27.700 --> 03:56:29.100 They're moving in the right direction. 03:56:29.100 --> 03:56:31.100 But we know how these things take time. 03:56:31.100 --> 03:56:32.020 They do take time. 03:56:32.020 --> 03:56:34.100 Have they looked as dominant as MAD in the past? 03:56:34.100 --> 03:56:34.500 No. 03:56:34.500 --> 03:56:37.700 I think it's fair to say they aren't the same M80. 03:56:37.700 --> 03:56:39.980 That being said, every player on the team in their interview 03:56:39.980 --> 03:56:42.540 say that transitions like this, going from Ashen, 03:56:42.540 --> 03:56:44.140 losing a support player like Kino, 03:56:44.140 --> 03:56:45.740 it takes an immense amount of time 03:56:45.740 --> 03:56:47.900 to get everybody comfortable on their new roles. 03:56:47.900 --> 03:56:50.900 And before we got to this week, we actually highlighted, 03:56:50.900 --> 03:56:54.140 was Ashen better in his position than Kino was? 03:56:54.140 --> 03:56:57.220 Is the team doing better with Ashen as opposed to Kino? 03:56:57.220 --> 03:56:58.780 And the answer is yes, he was. 03:56:58.780 --> 03:57:00.260 They were doing slightly better 03:57:00.260 --> 03:57:02.540 and they haven't had as much time as they had with Kino. 03:57:02.540 --> 03:57:03.980 So hopefully with more time, it'll be better. 03:57:03.980 --> 03:57:09.140 But my question was more who is the player that was going to be impacted the most with losing keynote? 03:57:09.140 --> 03:57:16.120 It's Han cold and is he feeling a lot more comfortable in this role since losing keynote because not only is he having to play 03:57:16.120 --> 03:57:23.780 Shields play support, but he now needs to make sure that somebody else is taking that secondary supportive role playing those difficult positions 03:57:23.780 --> 03:57:25.900 Where he gets to be able to be on that flex 03:57:25.900 --> 03:57:27.900 So it's very difficult to manage 03:57:27.900 --> 03:57:32.240 four different players on who's going to be playing what flexible operator and 03:57:32.240 --> 03:57:35.640 it's a lot for him to task and I wouldn't say he's doing better or worse 03:57:35.640 --> 03:57:40.040 he's at the exact same area as he was rating was in the last year so it's not 03:57:40.040 --> 03:57:43.760 a win it's not a loss and hopefully we can believe in the M80 where with more 03:57:43.760 --> 03:57:47.840 time it will become successful and believe in Fabian's infrastructure I 03:57:47.840 --> 03:57:51.960 mean it's proven us wrong time to time again they've won majors with it so you 03:57:51.960 --> 03:57:54.800 know hopefully this will be another situation where they can prove us wrong 03:57:54.800 --> 03:58:14.800 over the history of these two organizations have clashed quite a few times. I went back in the numbers. I think it was nine exactly with M80 holding an edge seven to two. But when this comes to the maps, especially recently with the addition of Fortress into the pool, we see some things shake up. Is that where Wildcard might be wanting to lean something new? 03:58:14.800 --> 03:58:18.160 I mean, that's the beauty of the best of three, though, is you're most likely to get one of your 03:58:18.160 --> 03:58:21.040 comfortable maps. The other opposing team is going to get one of their comfortable maps. And 03:58:21.040 --> 03:58:24.960 the decider typically is a toss up between both teams and haven't, you know, maybe a little bit 03:58:24.960 --> 03:58:28.960 of comfort there, maybe not so much. But end of the day, looking at this right out the gate, 03:58:28.960 --> 03:58:32.240 already Wildcard is going to play one of their most comfortable maps. I mean, you saw this 03:58:32.240 --> 03:58:37.600 displayed at SI. They were one of the only reasons why NA was on top of the charts in terms of 03:58:37.600 --> 03:58:42.480 Fortress because they went flawless 4-0. So we're talking about comfortability on a map. 03:58:42.480 --> 03:58:47.680 by all means wildcard has fortress in their back pocket and ready to showcase it where we've even 03:58:47.680 --> 03:58:52.800 just recently seen m80 they didn't find success first g2 at si and they also didn't most recently 03:58:52.800 --> 03:58:57.840 find success over five fears on this map as well so we're looking at this first map i think this 03:58:57.840 --> 03:59:02.800 is going to heavily lead in the favor of wildcard if those changes are made when you play against a 03:59:02.800 --> 03:59:06.960 team like wildcard with their map pool you're going to have to take out you're going to have to play 03:59:06.960 --> 03:59:12.400 one of the lesser evils m80 banning clubhouse banning labs getting map like fortress they can play it 03:59:12.400 --> 03:59:27.400 It's a good testing ground. We know it's going to be an uphill battle for Mady transitioning to cafe. It's one of that made his favorite maps that I believe they played in the regular stage in with that thrilling on it. But that being said, it's Mady. We believe that it's their game to win at the end of the day. 03:59:27.400 --> 03:59:41.400 Wildcard hasn't really impressed us when it's come to the regular stage so far. So at the end of the day, I don't think it matters too much on the maps as opposed to will we see the wildcard that can perform at events show up today when it matters most? That's the question I agree with that, sir. 03:59:41.400 --> 03:59:49.860 Well, this is a tricky situation and we'll welcome in intero and Jesse for this next part because we're looking at a situation now where M80 play 03:59:50.940 --> 03:59:57.860 Wildcard the loser plays Shopify rebellion one of these three big organizations with a lot of international 03:59:58.320 --> 04:00:04.040 Presence a lot of results will not be able to make the major that is not a situation. We thought we'd be it 04:00:05.080 --> 04:00:10.080 No, certainly not and this is something that every every region to their credit is grappling with though, right? 04:00:10.080 --> 04:00:14.360 This is not like a uniquely North American thing. There's only four spots for these regions and right now frankly 04:00:14.360 --> 04:00:20.420 There's more than four good teams. So who goes that's the question add the five years through a spanner in the works here 04:00:20.420 --> 04:00:21.920 And it's anybody's game 04:00:21.920 --> 04:00:26.480 Yeah, I mean that's the thing right there were so many upsets throughout the group stage that now teams have been 04:00:26.480 --> 04:00:32.280 Seasons of the racket and they might not like to the growing up against but you only have yourself to blame if you find yourself in that situation 04:00:32.480 --> 04:00:37.000 The good news for these two teams, of course, they can just avoid that lower bracket by winning today 04:00:37.000 --> 04:00:41.480 Yeah, that would that would be the easy way out fortress is up first guys. Have a good time 04:00:42.840 --> 04:00:45.340 Thank you very much. It's just that simple right just win 04:00:46.560 --> 04:00:51.920 Why doesn't every team in the region just win more? It's really quite that simple Jesse 04:00:51.920 --> 04:00:57.160 But no, it won't be very simple today. These are two incredible teams. These are by almost every metric 04:00:57.160 --> 04:00:59.160 These are the two most successful 04:00:59.480 --> 04:01:04.060 Organizations coming from North America in international play over the last calendar year 04:01:04.060 --> 04:01:07.500 And there is a high likelihood that one of them does not ultimately make this major 04:01:07.500 --> 04:01:12.060 So who ends up coming out ahead if both of them had some pretty big roster moves 04:01:12.380 --> 04:01:20.460 Losing a core component losing some of their identity in the process M80 lost keynote picked up ash and wildcard lost ash picked up 04:01:20.460 --> 04:01:25.900 Adrian just see if I have to ask which team do you think emerged better off of the two? 04:01:27.100 --> 04:01:29.580 Oh, that's a tough call Parker. I think I 04:01:30.020 --> 04:01:32.900 Mean M80 have definitely been off to the races a lot stronger 04:01:32.900 --> 04:01:35.740 I feel like their switch was less natural. 04:01:35.740 --> 04:01:37.640 They had to change roles around a little bit more. 04:01:37.640 --> 04:01:39.340 Gunners taking a bit more of a backseat. 04:01:39.340 --> 04:01:40.700 He's playing a little bit more support, 04:01:40.700 --> 04:01:42.580 a little bit more passive with Kino's departure. 04:01:42.580 --> 04:01:45.080 So that's obviously been a bigger change for them. 04:01:45.080 --> 04:01:47.280 But I also think that they've found better success. 04:01:47.280 --> 04:01:48.180 I think time will tell. 04:01:48.180 --> 04:01:50.080 I think both roster moves have the potential 04:01:50.080 --> 04:01:52.460 to be quite successful for these two teams. 04:01:52.460 --> 04:01:54.120 I know it's kind of a nothing but a grand turn. 04:01:54.120 --> 04:01:54.920 I'm so sorry. 04:01:54.920 --> 04:01:57.300 But I truly do feel that both of these teams 04:01:57.300 --> 04:01:59.700 can find success with their new rosters. 04:01:59.700 --> 04:02:01.940 I don't know as much if both of these teams 04:02:01.940 --> 04:02:08.420 can find success on Fortress. I was pretty shocked to see M80 let this one through. Wildcard when 04:02:08.420 --> 04:02:14.180 we saw this map debut as Eximitational were undoubtedly the best team not just in North America 04:02:14.180 --> 04:02:21.540 but in the world. At this map feeding giants like Fyria, like Falcons, like SSG, they were so dominant 04:02:21.540 --> 04:02:27.540 on this map and M80, they never won it ever. So I'm very surprised to see this map coming through. 04:02:27.540 --> 04:02:32.900 If Wildcard can show up, and even the 80% of the team they weren't the Six Invitational, 04:02:32.900 --> 04:02:36.500 I think it's going to be really difficult for them to hit in this first map of the series. 04:02:37.620 --> 04:02:42.340 I mean, I agree with what you're saying here, but Wildcard looks like they've taken a much 04:02:42.340 --> 04:02:47.220 farther step back for a lot of the other mainstays. I think of all of the regions, 04:02:47.220 --> 04:02:51.060 out of all the teams in this region, Shopify Rebellion has taken by far and away the largest 04:02:51.060 --> 04:02:56.280 step back but they didn't make a roster move so we often don't include them in 04:02:56.280 --> 04:03:02.040 this like the angle of teams right it's it's usually wild card when we say well 04:03:02.040 --> 04:03:05.800 they made a roster move and well they weren't as good as they were before 04:03:05.800 --> 04:03:10.680 wild cards had to adjust spikers playing on shields that was dashes roll and 04:03:10.680 --> 04:03:14.720 dash whether or not his individual stats were poor they were poor more often 04:03:14.720 --> 04:03:18.780 than not it looks like he might have fit the team a little bit better now 04:03:18.780 --> 04:03:24.620 Now, admittedly, this was a move that Dash seemingly pushed for because he was homesick, 04:03:24.620 --> 04:03:29.380 so it's not really like Wildcard made this move themselves, and now they're dealing 04:03:29.380 --> 04:03:34.180 with, you know, the self-inflicted knife wound to the heart of them and their fans. 04:03:34.180 --> 04:03:40.020 But they made the best of it, picking up Adrian, who just finished second place at SI. 04:03:40.020 --> 04:03:44.220 So he's obviously a talented player, Spike are adjusting to this position, still calling 04:03:44.220 --> 04:03:48.260 from this role, and very quickly they are in the building, Jesse, less than a minute 04:03:48.260 --> 04:03:55.300 into live action and they are already tantalizingly close to this bomb site as ROU projectors go. 04:03:55.300 --> 04:04:00.100 Ashen drops baby shark is the first one dead. Wildcard cleaning up but then immediately 04:04:00.100 --> 04:04:05.300 M80 answers back. You know me! Do a 2v2 they go. Hot and cold flushed out of his position by bay. 04:04:06.340 --> 04:04:10.980 A stalemate now? A 2v2 with over a minute and a half to go? This is good stuff. 04:04:12.020 --> 04:04:16.180 Yeah this is exciting. I mean now we're in this 2v2 spot. How do we adapt for Wildcard? 04:04:16.180 --> 04:04:22.640 The rush didn't get what you were hoping for, it's a nice swing from Gunner, gives him the man advantage, puts the IGL into a 1v2. 04:04:22.640 --> 04:04:31.220 This is very difficult to win on the Blitz, Spike will have to go big now, and knows seemingly the last few positions, knows their players around Horst, but can't win the fight. 04:04:31.220 --> 04:04:37.380 Gunner, just too good into 2v2, steps up big time to lock it down and give the early lead to M80. 04:04:37.380 --> 04:04:43.700 I like that entry. I like that they understood the assignment, right? You cut off a potential 04:04:43.700 --> 04:04:47.860 flank that could deal with that cannon hallway that leads into the bomb site. So what do 04:04:47.860 --> 04:04:52.220 you do? You throw the ROU projector down and you use a second set of smokes to block off 04:04:52.220 --> 04:04:57.500 top white. There was a rotate in the soft wall there at the bottom of those tower stairs 04:04:57.500 --> 04:05:02.060 that lead into the bomb site. That was a very critical spot that Hot and Cold was playing 04:05:02.060 --> 04:05:05.940 because of the commotion in the site. He had to stay anchored in his position. He could 04:05:05.940 --> 04:05:10.180 not go for a flank, and even if he wanted to, the smoke would have stopped him in his tracks. 04:05:10.180 --> 04:05:15.620 It set up a lot of really isolated engagements that at the beginning favored this wildcard team, 04:05:15.620 --> 04:05:23.780 but half of the server got cleared out in the span of 10 seconds or so. So kudos to M84 responding 04:05:23.780 --> 04:05:28.900 to this great job by wildcard on their initial assault, especially with the crossfires they 04:05:28.900 --> 04:05:33.860 established, but M80 was just a little too slippery, and I mean, hey, although these teams are very 04:05:33.860 --> 04:05:39.860 They make deep runs at LAN events, but only one of these organizations are major champions. 04:05:39.860 --> 04:05:45.860 So, if you want a major, and you got your major winning coach, and you got 4-5th that major winning roster, 04:05:45.860 --> 04:05:49.860 they've seen some stuff, and they're probably prepared for it. 04:05:49.860 --> 04:05:54.860 No, you're absolutely right, and it's true too that domestically, M80 have been far better than Wildcard. 04:05:54.860 --> 04:05:59.860 Throughout the last couple of years, Wildcard have played, I believe, six stages of the North America League 04:05:59.860 --> 04:06:07.260 and have never finished in the top three, which is ridiculous because they've finished top three internationally just never domestically, 04:06:07.260 --> 04:06:14.020 which is a pretty rare stat to see, but something about these online games always seem to cost some primes for Wild Card. 04:06:14.020 --> 04:06:16.340 We've seen it fit it after the kickoffs so far. 04:06:16.340 --> 04:06:21.100 Again, good kind of tool play for Gunner and Gavin to lock things down in that first round. 04:06:21.100 --> 04:06:23.980 We'll go to the other top floor site to keep things rolling, Parker. 04:06:23.980 --> 04:06:27.300 It's going to be dorms for our second site here on Fortress, 04:06:27.300 --> 04:06:30.300 and Wildcard will kind of take a different approach. 04:06:30.300 --> 04:06:32.340 Knowing that they have to go for a full map clear, 04:06:32.340 --> 04:06:33.660 they're not gonna start it with a rush 04:06:33.660 --> 04:06:35.940 just like we've seen from them in round one. 04:06:35.940 --> 04:06:38.100 So they start to clear up these roamers to Fuser, 04:06:38.100 --> 04:06:39.460 maybe the most aggressive player here, 04:06:39.460 --> 04:06:41.540 just inside of Museum, 04:06:41.540 --> 04:06:43.660 hoping to play with Gavin not too far back. 04:06:45.420 --> 04:06:46.660 They see Spiker. 04:06:46.660 --> 04:06:47.860 He's able to do some damage. 04:06:47.860 --> 04:06:50.100 Spiker also taking damage from the Razorbloom debuff. 04:06:50.100 --> 04:06:52.980 Now his gunner dies, Wildcard striking first. 04:06:52.980 --> 04:06:55.540 Very early actions so far through these two rounds. 04:06:55.540 --> 04:06:58.380 Wildcard wanting to push the tempo up a little bit more. 04:06:58.380 --> 04:06:59.220 It's their map. 04:06:59.220 --> 04:07:01.300 They are presumably playing on the weaker side 04:07:01.300 --> 04:07:04.180 since M80 got to choose that starting half. 04:07:04.180 --> 04:07:07.420 So why not Wildcard set the tempo, set the pace. 04:07:07.420 --> 04:07:09.540 Try to knock M80 off, because if you 04:07:09.540 --> 04:07:12.140 can get away with two really quick rush strats 04:07:12.140 --> 04:07:14.900 and find yourself a nice 2-0 lead, 04:07:14.900 --> 04:07:17.060 hey, that's a third of the way through. 04:07:17.060 --> 04:07:18.420 You've done an excellent job. 04:07:18.420 --> 04:07:20.660 And then you can play maybe a bit more conventionally, 04:07:20.660 --> 04:07:22.900 of course, assuming that rush strats are not 04:07:22.900 --> 04:07:25.420 the conventional way that Wildcard plays. 04:07:25.420 --> 04:07:39.420 And like they checked the tub, by the way, I think after the Holy Pox game, you gotta check that tub all the time because they didn't drone that and Team Liquid Alienware literally won a round because Holy Pox just popped up from that position and demolished the attackers. 04:07:39.420 --> 04:07:49.420 Yeah, absolutely. They're daunting their eyes, they're crossing their T's and now as the road clear goes through, they can start looking towards the site, understanding that rush round one didn't go their way. 04:07:49.420 --> 04:07:53.380 So they change tactics pretty dramatically apart clearing through the full map 04:07:53.820 --> 04:07:57.020 Spikers got a way to try to get himself into the bombsite historically 04:07:57.020 --> 04:08:01.060 Spikers love playing the maverick here to try to open things up stop any kind of bandit tricking 04:08:01.060 --> 04:08:06.460 But starting they don't need it getting more value out of this blackbeard through the clear through that north side of the map 04:08:06.980 --> 04:08:10.980 Except himself is up pretty nicely to go through this clutch if he can get himself to a plant spot 04:08:10.980 --> 04:08:13.780 That could have been big but the fuser just crawls through to take him down 04:08:13.780 --> 04:08:16.900 What is happening in this match? 04:08:16.900 --> 04:08:19.900 I mean, theatrics obviously, but we expected that. 04:08:19.900 --> 04:08:23.860 Kansan's got a couple of silhouettes that are just out of reach. 04:08:23.860 --> 04:08:25.540 Almost dies in that position. 04:08:25.540 --> 04:08:28.020 Han cold down on the board, shredding through age at 94. 04:08:28.020 --> 04:08:29.500 Baby Shark will die shortly thereafter. 04:08:29.500 --> 04:08:30.500 M80 through these mid rounds. 04:08:30.500 --> 04:08:32.500 They see it thrive in the chaos. 04:08:32.500 --> 04:08:37.340 They get all the right reads, they win all the gun duels, and Han cold screams so loud 04:08:37.340 --> 04:08:39.340 he's scared his poor cat. 04:08:39.340 --> 04:08:40.340 2-0. 04:08:40.340 --> 04:08:41.840 Start for M80. 04:08:41.840 --> 04:08:50.840 Yeah, you can see the emotion on the side of M80 and I really like what they're doing on these defenses Parker when things get slow and wildcard are just getting ready to set up. 04:08:50.840 --> 04:08:56.840 M80 are swinging out, they're taking the initiative, they're making things happen even though they are the defenders. 04:08:56.840 --> 04:09:02.840 It takes us all the way back to the very first series, the very first map when we had space station gaming versus one of 30. 04:09:02.840 --> 04:09:08.840 One of the biggest criticisms we had was on their defense, SSG weren't really making those swings, they weren't making a lot of moves, 04:09:08.840 --> 04:09:14.840 They were really just sitting in their spots and hoping to win the duels, and they were very active on these defenses. 04:09:14.840 --> 04:09:19.840 Whether it's the fact that they're engaging so quickly on the roam, like we saw on this round earlier on on the north side of the map, 04:09:19.840 --> 04:09:25.840 or whether it's just the late round movements, whether it's the user crawling out on his belly to be able to get a kill in the midst of that, 04:09:25.840 --> 04:09:32.840 whether it's Gavin who now consistently has dropped 2k after 2k in the late round chaos, holding back through his team. 04:09:32.840 --> 04:09:34.840 It's been really impressive to watch. 04:09:34.840 --> 04:09:43.640 Lots of weapons on both teams, so far the offense though sputtering for wild card. 04:09:43.640 --> 04:09:48.880 I like the idea again behind these these rush strats but if things fall apart early and 04:09:48.880 --> 04:09:50.880 you can't recover it's quite tough. 04:09:50.880 --> 04:09:54.280 I mean you saw it in the matchup that preceded this. 04:09:54.280 --> 04:10:04.400 I know I'm just I'm look I'm not a man of short words. 04:10:04.400 --> 04:10:23.400 But I see stuff like this and I just think I'm just not creative enough I've been playing a particular Pokemon inspired game on the Switch that also kind of plays like Minecraft and Stardew Valley and I see all these but I just went on YouTube once looked up a bunch of videos and this was my 04:10:23.400 --> 04:10:26.680 This is my Pocopia home and I looked at it and I was like, yeah, I'm just too stupid for this. 04:10:26.680 --> 04:10:30.280 There's no universe in which I can even come close to me and look that nice. 04:10:30.280 --> 04:10:34.400 And then I see even some of the intricate setups that teams play and I'm just like, man, I'm so out of my depth here. 04:10:35.400 --> 04:10:39.600 I do appreciate the creativity of the Denarii tripwires, especially the one that was found a long time ago, 04:10:39.600 --> 04:10:42.800 where they just coiled it on the bottom and the moment you walked through the window, you just insta-died. 04:10:43.400 --> 04:10:45.400 I'd be punching my monitor if that happened to me, so. 04:10:46.400 --> 04:10:47.400 Good to see Gunner use it, though. 04:10:48.400 --> 04:10:51.400 It's long been loving this Denarii and we're seeing it once again now. 04:10:51.400 --> 04:10:59.720 being played on this bottom floor site, that hatch dropping into, uh, into sitting is such an important hatch to try to control whether it be the attack or the defense. 04:11:00.320 --> 04:11:10.000 Curious if Wildcard will have much pressure up above, they think we're gonna ram, but this is going very horrid also, and it's a beauty shot from Adrien, which rips the head off of Gavin, 04:11:10.000 --> 04:11:16.280 starting us off strong with a one-man lead. Now we start to see that burnt pressure from up above. It's pretty solo from Davey Shark, 04:11:16.280 --> 04:11:18.920 trying to cause some distractions and seeing him hit towards the site. 04:11:18.920 --> 04:11:29.920 I'm cold levels things out yet again and there's m80 once more it's Gavin using the razor bloom very rare to actually see a razor bloom kill usually just use to slow people down and do some damage maybe some displacement. 04:11:29.920 --> 04:11:47.920 So kudos to them for that two rounds in a row now where Adrian has started off the bloodshed and while he doesn't really have a ton to show for it he gets an opening pick and then is very quickly traded back and the intel ops outside of the doke of your the ones that died at the hands of Wildcard big difference here round number one shield focus with a big deal. 04:11:48.920 --> 04:11:54.360 Intel second round mostly shield focus to this one all Intel all the way 04:11:56.360 --> 04:12:03.220 The holy triumvirate of the doka be the lion and the demos add fake to the mix if you really want but he's obviously banned 04:12:03.560 --> 04:12:09.640 Still a lot of Intel there for wild card three very irritating operators deal with all this information wild card trail by one 04:12:10.160 --> 04:12:16.260 Yeah, it's so awkward though. You don't have control of that. They gonna just sitting inside of there being able to hold things down 04:12:16.260 --> 04:12:22.040 Spiker equalizes taking down hot and cold so that things maybe bodes well for the attackers the positioning 04:12:22.040 --> 04:12:27.320 I still like from M80, but with 30 seconds left wild card could have an explosive execute to finish us off 04:12:28.480 --> 04:12:30.380 Maybe sharks been having a bit of a rough stage 04:12:30.380 --> 04:12:34.040 This is the time where he needs to come alive along with the rest of the team who was 04:12:34.500 --> 04:12:38.720 Instrumental in their land runs down goes cans and at the head of Ashen at the hands of Ashen 04:12:38.720 --> 04:12:40.080 So baby shark will need to do even more 04:12:40.080 --> 04:12:45.020 He won't get it done ashen with two diffuser the final kill and that's all she wrote 04:12:45.020 --> 04:12:50.020 and they are really not breaking much of a sweat so far. 04:12:50.020 --> 04:12:53.020 Yeah, and one thing you can notice between all three rounds, Parker, 04:12:53.020 --> 04:12:56.020 is Wildcard will take some moves to get close to the bomb site. 04:12:56.020 --> 04:12:59.020 First round it was a rush, second round it was the roam clear, 04:12:59.020 --> 04:13:02.020 third round it's kind of interesting, they're taking space towards the south side, 04:13:02.020 --> 04:13:05.020 they get around to the site, but then there's always a pause 04:13:05.020 --> 04:13:07.020 right before they go for the execute. 04:13:07.020 --> 04:13:11.020 And whether it's them trying to bait out movements from SSG or from M80, 04:13:11.020 --> 04:13:14.020 or whether it's them just trying to set up their utility, 04:13:14.020 --> 04:13:19.500 Utility that pause always seems to screw them because if they go slow then sometimes that made he's not doing anything 04:13:19.500 --> 04:13:23.620 And they're just wasting their own time if they try to go fast then they may be often are making swings 04:13:23.620 --> 04:13:26.080 They're making those moves and it's catching wild card off guard 04:13:26.080 --> 04:13:31.860 It's making it really difficult for them to try to make these aggressive plays and have success when they actually go for the 04:13:31.860 --> 04:13:34.920 Executes because I think the early game has been relatively successful 04:13:34.920 --> 04:13:40.680 But just converting those final pushes those final 30 seconds where wild card have really been struggling 04:13:40.680 --> 04:13:44.800 big moment from Ashen of course the one to kind of close things down in that 04:13:44.800 --> 04:13:48.720 third round he's playing against Wildcard for the 12th time in his career 04:13:48.720 --> 04:13:54.080 but has just a 27% win rate versus his org because historically Wildcard had 04:13:54.080 --> 04:13:58.880 ownership over SSG. It seems like and it's a low sample size so far but it 04:13:58.880 --> 04:14:04.680 seems like Ashen's fortunes are changing as he's now moved over to M80. 04:14:04.680 --> 04:14:13.200 Time out now finishes, great points across the board. 04:14:13.200 --> 04:14:16.320 Opening kills for Wildcard, tell a bit of a story again. 04:14:16.320 --> 04:14:18.360 The opening rounds, so good. 04:14:18.360 --> 04:14:21.040 Go back to round number one, they almost got the opening duel. 04:14:21.040 --> 04:14:25.600 Ooh, it was a trade, so even though technically Hot and Cold got kill number one, there was 04:14:25.600 --> 04:14:29.360 a blink and you missed it back and forth between these teams. 04:14:29.360 --> 04:14:35.860 So, in theory, all three rounds, Wildcard has been getting kills immediately the moment 04:14:35.860 --> 04:14:36.860 the action begins. 04:14:36.860 --> 04:14:41.900 Sometimes it's ahead of M80, one time it's literally a second afterwards, so the start 04:14:41.900 --> 04:14:42.900 of the round are okay for Wildcard. 04:14:42.900 --> 04:14:46.940 And I do wonder now, with this new look and this new identity, and Spike are changing things 04:14:46.940 --> 04:14:50.820 up because the roles on the team have now forced them to do so. 04:14:50.820 --> 04:14:56.100 If they think maybe on this map if M80 doesn't have the familiarity that we do, then we can 04:14:56.100 --> 04:15:00.900 get away with playing cute and cheeky and ninth. 04:15:00.900 --> 04:15:04.900 I think we are going to get a rehost here. 04:15:04.900 --> 04:15:06.100 Sure, we'll get it sorted out. 04:15:06.100 --> 04:15:07.220 Quick little tech pause. 04:15:07.220 --> 04:15:08.820 Hopefully nothing too dramatic. 04:15:08.820 --> 04:15:11.740 But in any case, this wildcard team 04:15:11.740 --> 04:15:14.380 might benefit from slowing things down a little bit. 04:15:14.380 --> 04:15:16.140 They just used their tactical time out. 04:15:16.140 --> 04:15:17.820 And it seemed like we were getting in nicely 04:15:17.820 --> 04:15:19.340 before the tech pause came through. 04:15:19.340 --> 04:15:22.900 So a bit more time to dwell on the words of Ligonus. 04:15:22.900 --> 04:15:25.780 He will not be able to talk with his team anymore, of course, 04:15:25.780 --> 04:15:29.240 through the tech pause, but I can think about those words a little bit more. 04:15:29.240 --> 04:15:32.780 Hopefully try to get themselves back into this game mentally. 04:15:34.880 --> 04:15:37.380 I wonder if there's maybe some pressure to it as well, Parker. 04:15:37.380 --> 04:15:42.080 Obviously, Wildcard have not had the best stage, but you come into what is 04:15:42.080 --> 04:15:44.480 undoubtedly home turf in terms of fortress. 04:15:44.680 --> 04:15:48.180 You were, in my opinion, and what most people would agree, the best 04:15:48.180 --> 04:15:52.880 fortress team in the world, the first time this map was shown in competition. 04:15:52.880 --> 04:15:59.440 4 and 0 at SI over some very, very good teams to go down 3-0 has got to be quite shocking, 04:15:59.440 --> 04:16:03.760 especially because they've changed some strats up and certainly they've changed a player on the 04:16:03.760 --> 04:16:07.760 roster. That'll make a big difference, but it's still the same map that they know and love. A 04:16:07.760 --> 04:16:12.160 lot of the same styles of push are going to be the same that top floor clear over after clearing 04:16:12.160 --> 04:16:16.880 the North Rome game was very similar to what we saw from them at SI. So I wonder if that's maybe 04:16:16.880 --> 04:16:21.040 getting in their head a little bit and making them worry a bit about, okay, well, have we been 04:16:21.040 --> 04:16:23.280 and found out how our straps been read too much. 04:16:23.280 --> 04:16:24.880 Are we still that same fortress team 04:16:24.880 --> 04:16:28.080 that we were back in Paris? 04:16:28.080 --> 04:16:30.240 So apparently, there was an issue with the timeout 04:16:30.240 --> 04:16:31.920 where the coaches were unable to speak. 04:16:31.920 --> 04:16:34.400 So there has been a re-host due to that. 04:16:34.400 --> 04:16:36.000 So we'll get that all sorted for you, 04:16:36.000 --> 04:16:38.920 just trying to be as accountable and forthcoming 04:16:38.920 --> 04:16:41.600 with you, the viewers, as possible. 04:16:41.600 --> 04:16:43.520 Obviously, if you're calling the timeout, 04:16:43.520 --> 04:16:45.160 probably want the coaches to talk to the players. 04:16:45.160 --> 04:16:50.080 I think that's a pretty good thing. 04:16:50.080 --> 04:16:56.360 To your point though, this is the type of thing where when I reference numbers and data 04:16:56.360 --> 04:17:00.320 and we talk about things like, oh, they're the best fortress team, it's a completely different 04:17:00.320 --> 04:17:01.320 team. 04:17:01.320 --> 04:17:04.760 They didn't just swap a player, they swapped their roles up, right? 04:17:04.760 --> 04:17:08.960 Spiker went on to dashes, for the most part he went on to dashes old role, it's a role 04:17:08.960 --> 04:17:13.720 that he's not familiar with, it's a role he does not have experience playing. 04:17:13.720 --> 04:17:16.480 Yes, these are tier one players. 04:17:16.480 --> 04:17:24.520 They can adjust to just about anything, but again, you have four maps in kickoff. 04:17:24.520 --> 04:17:29.840 Sure, they've probably been screaming it, but you've got to adjust to Adrian. 04:17:29.840 --> 04:17:31.340 Adrian's got to adjust to you. 04:17:31.340 --> 04:17:35.640 The rest of the team needs to adjust to the changes in style because the calling is obviously 04:17:35.640 --> 04:17:36.640 going to be different. 04:17:36.640 --> 04:17:41.000 Spike can't call from his role the exact same way he did previously. 04:17:41.000 --> 04:17:42.320 He's going to be seeing different things. 04:17:42.320 --> 04:17:43.880 His focus will be elsewhere. 04:17:43.880 --> 04:17:49.480 Who knows if Adrien is helping with the team on the day to day when it comes to calling? 04:17:49.480 --> 04:17:50.880 And the meta's changed. 04:17:50.880 --> 04:17:52.880 Aurora is different. 04:17:52.880 --> 04:17:53.880 Right? 04:17:53.880 --> 04:17:56.280 She got some serious buffs. 04:17:56.280 --> 04:17:57.800 Solid Snake is in the game. 04:17:57.800 --> 04:18:03.880 Shields are still very viable, but we have now shifted quite quickly towards DokuB, Gamos, 04:18:03.880 --> 04:18:07.800 Snake defining a lot of these rounds, and it's also changed operator bans. 04:18:07.800 --> 04:18:11.920 So very quickly you go from being what could be the best fortress team in the world on 04:18:11.920 --> 04:18:16.020 wildcard side of things, which I have no issues with whatsoever, do suddenly it's a whole 04:18:16.020 --> 04:18:18.940 different landscape, a whole different meta, and you've now got kind of a different team 04:18:18.940 --> 04:18:24.380 as well. It's very easy for all of those changes to add up enough to make it where you don't 04:18:24.380 --> 04:18:29.420 have that edge on this map. Additionally, Fortress was a lot newer back then. Now teams have 04:18:29.420 --> 04:18:33.140 been screaming it more, they've been playing it more. Maybe other teams have changed up 04:18:33.140 --> 04:18:39.260 their map pools, and suddenly we're seeing squads play Fortress more. And to that point, 04:18:39.260 --> 04:18:46.100 This has actually seen quite a lot of play across all regions, surprisingly so. 04:18:46.100 --> 04:18:47.100 Other teams could just catch up. 04:18:47.100 --> 04:18:53.220 So, I mean, if Wildcard was resting on their laurels here, it's not going well. 04:18:53.220 --> 04:18:58.260 And overall, as you pointed out very well too, this team is like perennially fifth 04:18:58.260 --> 04:19:00.540 place in the region. 04:19:00.540 --> 04:19:05.040 They do well internationally, but this is a team that always seems to be on the outside 04:19:05.040 --> 04:19:09.280 of the top four when they play domestically, it's internationally where they flourish. 04:19:09.280 --> 04:19:12.880 So a lot of things working against this wildcard team right now. 04:19:12.880 --> 04:19:17.640 I think what confuses me most with this wildcard team is you talk about the roster change, 04:19:17.640 --> 04:19:21.280 the role changes, you talk about Adrian and Spiker having to change roles and that's all 04:19:21.280 --> 04:19:22.280 true. 04:19:22.280 --> 04:19:24.960 But Spiker is by far playing the best on this team. 04:19:24.960 --> 04:19:28.680 You look at their stats and even how they were playing throughout group stage and it's 04:19:28.680 --> 04:19:32.240 not the supports where the role changes were where they're having problems. 04:19:32.240 --> 04:19:40.000 It's guys like baby shark going minus 11 through group stage being the lowest rated player that's still qualified to the upper bracket 04:19:40.000 --> 04:19:43.120 I mean he is role has a really changed from the old team to the new team 04:19:43.320 --> 04:19:48.680 Obviously there are things changing around him and that can affect a player, but it's some of these other guys that I think have been 04:19:49.940 --> 04:19:52.420 Extremely successful for wild card in the past 04:19:52.420 --> 04:19:59.560 He was the best player on wild card in stage two of last season who have now come into the new season and just haven't been able to 04:19:59.560 --> 04:20:00.920 find their stride 04:20:00.920 --> 04:20:04.760 For baby shark in particular, I know it's something he's talked about. I know it's something he's working on 04:20:04.760 --> 04:20:06.680 I know it's something he's desperately trying to solve 04:20:06.680 --> 04:20:12.640 But it's not necessarily the roles and the players that you would expect after a big change like this 04:20:12.680 --> 04:20:16.280 That have been the problem points for wildcard throughout this stage so far 04:20:17.720 --> 04:20:24.160 It's very difficult to diagnose from a fans perspective certainly from a caster for a desk POV without knowing the internals of the team 04:20:24.720 --> 04:20:28.880 We're never gonna really have the right answer as to what's been going on with this roster 04:20:28.880 --> 04:20:33.920 But it's definitely something to keep an eye on going forward because I do feel like as this team has 04:20:34.360 --> 04:20:41.120 Has changed with their roster move. Maybe their stealing is even higher. Adrian's a great player. Dash had some problems last season 04:20:41.360 --> 04:20:46.040 For some reason putting things together have not gotten the results wild card are looking for and 04:20:46.520 --> 04:20:51.640 Well, I hoped that the time between playoffs and group stage had maybe been able to smooth over some of those issues 04:20:51.760 --> 04:20:54.800 So far through at least three rounds of playoffs. We haven't seen that 04:20:54.800 --> 04:21:03.300 Yeah, and again, just to go to show you, this is four best of ones for you to find your footing in a game environment. 04:21:03.300 --> 04:21:08.500 And I say game environment and I stress this point because you're going to be screaming, you're going to be practicing. 04:21:08.500 --> 04:21:13.800 You know, you got your game day reps with your team at SI and then SI was two months ago. 04:21:13.800 --> 04:21:16.800 Like time has flown by here. 04:21:16.800 --> 04:21:22.800 The game changes, players change, attitudes change, meta changes, map pools change, rosters change. 04:21:22.800 --> 04:21:26.140 and you have to be on top of all of that. 04:21:26.140 --> 04:21:29.140 I mean, I hate to use them as kind of a focal point here, 04:21:29.140 --> 04:21:30.820 but look at a team like Shopify Rebellion. 04:21:30.820 --> 04:21:31.740 They made no changes. 04:21:31.740 --> 04:21:33.900 They brought in an assistant coach to help them. 04:21:33.900 --> 04:21:35.260 The roster remained the same. 04:21:35.260 --> 04:21:37.380 This is a team that consistently finishes 04:21:37.380 --> 04:21:39.260 top three in their region, 04:21:39.260 --> 04:21:43.420 usually in the conversation for top 10 to top eight 04:21:43.420 --> 04:21:47.820 internationally, and they're in the lower bracket 04:21:47.820 --> 04:21:49.420 and are one best of three away 04:21:49.420 --> 04:21:51.580 from failing to make the major. 04:21:51.580 --> 04:21:52.660 Did they make any changes? 04:21:52.660 --> 04:21:53.820 not really. 04:21:53.820 --> 04:21:55.660 Ambie started helping to call on defense, 04:21:55.660 --> 04:21:57.660 but surely that's not the only reason 04:21:57.660 --> 04:21:59.340 why they're having issues. 04:21:59.340 --> 04:22:00.340 Obviously, there were other things 04:22:00.340 --> 04:22:02.260 that must have changed about their strategies 04:22:02.260 --> 04:22:04.500 behind the scenes, but effectively, 04:22:04.500 --> 04:22:06.340 for the average viewer, this is the same team. 04:22:06.340 --> 04:22:08.540 And yet, there seems to be quite a drop-off 04:22:08.540 --> 04:22:10.100 in their ability. 04:22:10.100 --> 04:22:12.020 Wildcard made a move. 04:22:12.020 --> 04:22:15.740 They picked up a player who I think is objectively better 04:22:15.740 --> 04:22:16.940 in Adrian. 04:22:16.940 --> 04:22:19.620 But sometimes, bringing on the better player 04:22:19.620 --> 04:22:22.500 does not necessarily make you an overall better team. 04:22:22.500 --> 04:22:27.020 So I agree with you. I think that the skill ceiling might be higher for this wildcard team. 04:22:27.020 --> 04:22:30.780 And maybe they do get better, but maybe it just takes after Salt Lake. Who knows? 04:22:30.780 --> 04:22:35.700 Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think, and again, we're maybe reading too much into three rounds, 04:22:35.700 --> 04:22:38.820 but it's all we really have to go off of, so I'm so good at doing this all over time. 04:22:38.820 --> 04:22:42.860 Ha ha ha. Um, I think this is a very difficult matchup for wildcard. 04:22:42.860 --> 04:22:45.340 You go to the group stage. What were some of their strongest statistics? 04:22:45.340 --> 04:22:47.340 Well, they were very good at the entry conversion. 04:22:47.340 --> 04:22:50.660 They had an 80% win rate when they got that opening pick, 04:22:50.660 --> 04:22:55.420 But they're going up against M80, the best recovery team in the North America League. 04:22:55.420 --> 04:22:59.620 They have a 47% win rate when they lose that opening pick, and I think we've seen that. 04:22:59.620 --> 04:23:04.240 Multiple opening picks now have gone the way of Wildcard, even around one where they didn't get the entry, as you said. 04:23:04.240 --> 04:23:11.240 They have the early advantages, and M80 are the best team in North America at reclaiming the advantage and winning the round anyways. 04:23:11.240 --> 04:23:13.880 What if it was another one of Wildcard's strengths for the regular season? 04:23:13.880 --> 04:23:19.340 Well, they were the most objective focused team. They had the highest plant percentage of any team in the North America League. 04:23:19.340 --> 04:23:32.140 But you look at this first three rounds, they haven't gotten a plant off once, and M80 are the best team at denying plants also in the North America League, allowing plants in just 5% of defense rounds that they played throughout the group stage. 04:23:32.140 --> 04:23:45.140 So I do think there's a factor where a lot of wildcard strengths that they were able to show through the regular season kind of get nullified by M80's own strengths, and that might be part of the reason why we now have a 3-0 lead for M80. 04:23:45.140 --> 04:23:51.860 Yeah, of course. And Ashen is, and nobody's ever doubted Ashen's ability as a player either. 04:23:51.860 --> 04:23:59.460 I do know that when the SSG team would struggle, Ashen was a lightning rod for criticism. Not, 04:23:59.460 --> 04:24:03.940 I don't think because of his abilities, but because of him as a person, right? Ashen is 04:24:03.940 --> 04:24:08.180 loud. He's brash. He is in so many ways. He is the American stereotype that people all 04:24:08.180 --> 04:24:15.060 over the world see and will often skewer. I think Ashen is a great presence for an Esport. 04:24:15.060 --> 04:24:20.640 I think he's a character. I think he makes people care about his matches. I think he's the type of person that 04:24:21.000 --> 04:24:25.280 Makes people talk. I don't know how he is as a teammate. I've never teamed with him 04:24:25.600 --> 04:24:32.920 but I don't think you could argue that he made SSG worse and I mean M80 took a player like Kino 04:24:34.360 --> 04:24:35.860 Had some struggles 04:24:35.860 --> 04:24:40.920 Comes out of the team and he looked really good. He was playing the unsexy roles, but he looked really good 04:24:40.920 --> 04:24:44.440 Now Kino's over on DZ being one of the best players in North America 04:24:45.060 --> 04:24:52.020 So, Ashen has big shoes to fill, and he doesn't fit very perfectly into Kino's roles either, 04:24:52.020 --> 04:24:55.700 but there's familiarity there, and there's comfort there, and Ashen is finding the system 04:24:55.700 --> 04:25:00.780 all of it under Fobbyn as a coach who's very different from Call Out, I think that's fair 04:25:00.780 --> 04:25:01.780 to say. 04:25:01.780 --> 04:25:08.740 So, Ashen is now dealing with, you know, different coaching, different vibe, it's not that SSG 04:25:08.740 --> 04:25:12.220 friendship team, I think he's flourishing in this role, and just as we said that about 04:25:12.220 --> 04:25:15.100 wild card I honestly think that with Ashley on the team the same AD skill 04:25:15.100 --> 04:25:18.220 ceiling could be a little higher than it was with Kino as well. You know what 04:25:18.220 --> 04:25:21.220 that's on a knock against Kino because he's playing on DZ right now and DZ 04:25:21.220 --> 04:25:27.140 looks like an absolute juggernaut. I think the potential is very high in North 04:25:27.140 --> 04:25:32.020 America all teams have made moves that could end up resulting in some some big 04:25:32.020 --> 04:25:36.620 performances in the future but thankfully we have to speculate no longer 04:25:36.620 --> 04:25:41.140 because we are back in the game we too appreciate your patience waiting for this 04:25:41.140 --> 04:25:45.820 match to resume and maybe a perfect set of sight rotations through the first quarter 04:25:45.820 --> 04:25:50.320 wing all three of the primary sites here on fortress. We go to the top floor once again 04:25:50.320 --> 04:25:54.700 though this office site last time wildcard tried to rush they're not going to be trying 04:25:54.700 --> 04:25:59.540 that again multiple drone operators being premed brought by bayon baby shark you've got spiker 04:25:59.540 --> 04:26:04.100 here on the Monty as well so it speaks to me Parker they're going to take this push slow 04:26:04.100 --> 04:26:08.540 and steady clear the south side of the map go for a full top floor clear and try to get 04:26:08.540 --> 04:26:13.400 space before the gold threats. Well, Spikers being harassed, left right and 04:26:13.400 --> 04:26:17.760 center, flames in front of him, meets an impact nade as well. The guy who was 04:26:17.760 --> 04:26:22.160 responsible for the opening picks in the last two rounds, Adrian, he's gone, he's 04:26:22.160 --> 04:26:25.100 bleeding out, he'll need to be secured at some point, the job will get done, 04:26:25.100 --> 04:26:32.480 Ashen catches him. Can I say, Ash, catch him? 04:26:32.600 --> 04:26:36.600 No, you don't get the ref. Okay, that's great. Okay, whatever. This is very funny. 04:26:36.600 --> 04:26:37.920 Everybody's a very funny play. 04:26:37.920 --> 04:26:39.720 I like the next one up. 04:26:39.720 --> 04:26:42.360 Leaning in real life while trying to deal with the pillar 04:26:42.360 --> 04:26:44.920 in front of a pot and cold gunning down baby shark wild card. 04:26:44.920 --> 04:26:47.480 Once again, very quick 90 seconds off the clock 04:26:47.480 --> 04:26:50.360 and they are just knocking on the door of this bomb site 04:26:50.360 --> 04:26:52.360 and yet they come up empty handed 04:26:52.360 --> 04:26:55.160 as we've seen through the last two rounds. 04:26:55.160 --> 04:26:56.000 It's a Rome presence, 04:26:56.000 --> 04:26:58.360 it's been so annoying to clear out for wild card. 04:26:58.360 --> 04:27:00.720 I mean, every time they try to take space, there's a go-yo, 04:27:00.720 --> 04:27:03.280 there's an impact, there's a torn, you set up Parker. 04:27:03.280 --> 04:27:05.200 It's just been so difficult to take space, 04:27:05.200 --> 04:27:11.560 They spent almost two full minutes and they have gotten control of briefing, but man, it has cost them a lot of bodies 04:27:11.560 --> 04:27:15.680 Now trying to do what they can to continue to get space. This breach should be fine 04:27:16.080 --> 04:27:19.600 There's new jammers, but it shouldn't stop these cans from getting the wall open 04:27:19.640 --> 04:27:25.080 They'll have an angle in towards the bomb site, but I'm worried about just how many different angles and maybe we'll have 04:27:25.080 --> 04:27:26.840 They can flank out through master 04:27:26.840 --> 04:27:31.640 They can push up around force if one of these players loses their gunfight on the side of wild card 04:27:31.640 --> 04:27:33.720 It could all come tumbling down for the plant 04:27:33.720 --> 04:27:39.160 Absolutely, Spiker will already be in a position where he's relying on two players to contend 04:27:39.160 --> 04:27:42.600 with five, so it'll be a really tough spot for them. 04:27:42.600 --> 04:27:44.960 They make the little bit more winnable. 04:27:44.960 --> 04:27:48.920 Down goes Dunner and 30 seconds off, 30 seconds remain on the clock. 04:27:48.920 --> 04:27:50.320 They have to jet off. 04:27:50.320 --> 04:27:55.960 Negrosel will go out to finish off what remains of they, Kansan dies, and Spiker is shortly 04:27:55.960 --> 04:27:57.720 there after. 04:27:57.720 --> 04:27:59.720 and he's got a lot of 04:27:59.720 --> 04:28:01.720 players. He's got a lot of 04:28:01.720 --> 04:28:03.720 players. He's got a lot of 04:28:03.720 --> 04:28:05.720 players on the side of M 80 04:28:05.720 --> 04:28:07.720 involved in that final 04:28:07.720 --> 04:28:09.720 altercation. Long delay 04:28:09.720 --> 04:28:11.720 between rounds. It does not 04:28:11.720 --> 04:28:12.720 matter. M 80 back to their 04:28:12.720 --> 04:28:13.720 winning ways. They are 04:28:13.720 --> 04:28:15.720 undefeated so far here on 04:28:15.720 --> 04:28:16.720 Fortress. It's good to see 04:28:16.720 --> 04:28:17.720 Ashing continue to find 04:28:17.720 --> 04:28:18.720 success on this M 80 squad. 04:28:18.720 --> 04:28:20.720 We talked about him a lot in 04:28:20.720 --> 04:28:21.720 that tech pause, but really 04:28:21.720 --> 04:28:22.720 just having a big impact on 04:28:22.720 --> 04:28:23.720 the Rome. He found that 04:28:23.720 --> 04:28:24.720 opening pick onto Adrian. He 04:28:24.720 --> 04:28:26.720 found I believe just on the 04:28:26.720 --> 04:28:36.720 It has been excellent on the opening pick department for Wildcard today, and at the same time Baby Shark kind of hitting the back lines over towards mezz ends up falling to make that a 5v3 Parker. 04:28:36.720 --> 04:28:44.720 And it's again kind of some of the similar stories we've been talking about with Wildcard where they're not able to get some of those early rounds converted. 04:28:44.720 --> 04:28:52.720 It's especially tough if you don't find that opening couple of kills, if you're not able to win the early game and M80 looking so confident. 04:28:52.720 --> 04:28:56.960 said that this was going to be nearly an impossible map where I made it to try to take up against 04:28:56.960 --> 04:29:01.920 wildcard, but despite the successes they've had in the past, it is looking like this will 04:29:01.920 --> 04:29:03.880 be their first time falling on fortress. 04:29:03.880 --> 04:29:07.600 5 seconds to insertion. 04:29:07.600 --> 04:29:10.800 Grim stuff and not the stage and the start that they wanted. 04:29:10.800 --> 04:29:17.280 We did talk to Spiker on the podcast a couple times about this issue a few times and what 04:29:17.280 --> 04:29:21.160 it means for the team and he was pretty confident that they'd be able to work it out. 04:29:21.160 --> 04:29:27.000 Spiker undoubtedly has a great mind for this game, but there is a long trail of players 04:29:27.000 --> 04:29:31.800 with a great mind for this game that ultimately never won a championship. 04:29:31.800 --> 04:29:37.000 Spiker and fans of Wildcard really hoping that they don't add his name to that list, 04:29:37.000 --> 04:29:40.600 but there's obviously a big hurdle here that this Wildcard squad need to get over. 04:29:40.600 --> 04:29:44.040 And I don't think you can simply say a lot because Dash is off of the team. 04:29:44.040 --> 04:29:45.400 There's obviously a lot more going on. 04:29:45.400 --> 04:29:47.400 Baby Shark is not looking like his himself. 04:29:47.400 --> 04:29:53.400 He got a lot of trains and accolades at SI for how dominant he was in games against tough competition 04:29:53.400 --> 04:29:57.400 and yet he enters the day towards the very bottom of the North American charts. 04:29:57.400 --> 04:30:04.400 78 EPS is bottom of the barrel. He's in micellar right now with a negative 11 as well. 04:30:04.400 --> 04:30:10.400 And despite that, he's the second most entry stats of anybody on the team. 04:30:10.400 --> 04:30:14.400 He's just dying a lot and that's a problem for them. 04:30:14.400 --> 04:30:24.400 Yeah, absolutely, he's, again, he knows this problem, he's been talking about it a lot on socials, he's trying to get back into things, but it's been a tough start to the season for him. 04:30:24.400 --> 04:30:32.400 Now, just approaching that minute-and-a-half mark here on the round, Parker, they are desperate for one of these opening gunfights, hot calls, repositioning on this throne. 04:30:32.400 --> 04:30:38.640 He is very aggro. Scythe's to fall on back. Scythe doesn't need to risk his life as Mr. Tronka. 04:30:38.640 --> 04:30:43.200 They'll fall back, reinforce these Scytes, and I don't know if this is better or worse for Wildcard. 04:30:43.200 --> 04:30:47.600 They take a long time, but they don't end up getting any picks. I guess it's better than 04:30:47.600 --> 04:30:52.000 round four where they lost two bodies in the opening gunfight, but I do feel like they're 04:30:52.000 --> 04:30:56.320 kind of playing into M80's hand once again. They're going to be stalling out quite heavily 04:30:56.320 --> 04:31:01.440 here on this bombsite attack, and if the time gets away from them, it could end up being really 04:31:01.440 --> 04:31:06.440 devastating. 04:31:06.440 --> 04:31:08.440 These are now taking some damage. 04:31:08.440 --> 04:31:10.440 Wild Cartel will strike first. 04:31:10.440 --> 04:31:12.440 They've done that a couple times so far. 04:31:12.440 --> 04:31:14.440 It's never netted in a round win, 04:31:14.440 --> 04:31:16.440 so they're hoping that their fortunes 04:31:16.440 --> 04:31:17.440 change this time. 04:31:17.440 --> 04:31:18.440 Ash and gone. 04:31:18.440 --> 04:31:20.440 Now they will follow some Niner team with a 04:31:20.440 --> 04:31:21.440 big advantage. 04:31:21.440 --> 04:31:22.440 Credit to M.A.B. 04:31:22.440 --> 04:31:23.440 for being able to trade this one right back. 04:31:23.440 --> 04:31:24.440 Gavin swings. 04:31:24.440 --> 04:31:26.440 Oh, he almost had one on the Kansan. 04:31:26.440 --> 04:31:29.440 McKansan can now level up in this position. 04:31:29.440 --> 04:31:32.560 Very quickly finding himself in a 1v2. 04:31:32.560 --> 04:31:36.160 These teams come to blows and then everybody dies, Jesse. 04:31:36.160 --> 04:31:40.320 All at the same moment. Impossible for us to talk about it. 04:31:40.320 --> 04:31:47.280 With the final kill, M80 secures another round and they are staring down a perfect first half. 04:31:47.280 --> 04:31:51.440 Right now, sitting at 5-0, one more round before the sideswap. 04:31:52.320 --> 04:31:57.200 The last time Kansin faced up against M80 in his career was at the Munich Major, 04:31:57.200 --> 04:32:05.040 where he posted the best game he has ever played, 15 and 2 on map 1 of that Vesha 3 series. 04:32:05.680 --> 04:32:10.960 Goes for a good try here, nice little triple kill on the round, sets himself up nicely to trade his 04:32:10.960 --> 04:32:16.400 teammates, but it's not quite enough to even straight-five 1 up against the M80 team that 04:32:16.400 --> 04:32:21.040 they're facing today. Struggling once again to get themselves in with those entries. Yes, 04:32:21.040 --> 04:32:25.280 it's a technical opening pick, but then the advantage is immediately traded back out. You 04:32:25.280 --> 04:32:30.280 We talked about it, Diffuser steps up for a big pick in the middle of that round to try to equalize that and man counts. 04:32:30.280 --> 04:32:33.280 And again, I don't think the time was a huge problem for them. 04:32:33.280 --> 04:32:35.280 I do like that Maverick coming out from Spiker. 04:32:35.280 --> 04:32:42.280 They started to have ways around that wall dial and it helped force them into some awful spots on the side of M80 that got them that opening frag. 04:32:42.280 --> 04:32:48.280 But at the end of it, here Barrow and I bolted tower and the shots are frankly just better on M80. 04:32:48.280 --> 04:32:54.280 They look more confident, they look more composed, and they're winning so many of these goals that Karrick can't seem to compete on. 04:32:55.280 --> 04:33:00.280 What does this mean for map number two, Jesse? 04:33:00.280 --> 04:33:06.280 Like, you get, frankly, you get humiliated on your own map choice. 04:33:06.280 --> 04:33:10.280 You know, I heard that the Edmonton Oilers are playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, 04:33:10.280 --> 04:33:15.280 and I hear that you as an Edmonton native, a day away from your birthday, 04:33:15.280 --> 04:33:19.280 which happy-bladed birthday to Jesse J. Chick, for those of you that are following along. 04:33:19.280 --> 04:33:24.280 Tomorrow is technically Laxing's birthday, but since they are in the Copenhagen studio, 04:33:24.280 --> 04:33:29.280 So it is technically Laxxing's birthday, where he is, so happy birthday, Laxxing. 04:33:29.280 --> 04:33:33.280 But my point is, is that if Puckdrop is in about an hour or so, 04:33:33.280 --> 04:33:36.280 maybe MAD got the memo and they're like, let's get this one done for JC 04:33:36.280 --> 04:33:39.280 and we don't need the good Lord up top. 04:33:39.280 --> 04:33:43.280 I mean, I know Ashen's a big hockey fan, not necessarily of the Oilers, 04:33:43.280 --> 04:33:48.280 but listen, maybe try to catch that game as well if your team is already out of the playoffs. 04:33:48.280 --> 04:33:52.280 In any case, I'm sure MAD are not going to complain about an early finish. 04:33:52.280 --> 04:33:57.640 They are really storming over Wildcard in this series and have been so dominant on this 04:33:57.640 --> 04:34:00.440 defensive side here for Fortress. 04:34:00.440 --> 04:34:05.180 Down to the bottom floor for their last attempt, they could close out a flawless half-parker 04:34:05.180 --> 04:34:10.120 which would almost certainly shut the door on Wildcard's chances at least for this first 04:34:10.120 --> 04:34:11.120 map. 04:34:11.120 --> 04:34:13.840 You're looking to that entry as you always are, aren't you? 04:34:13.840 --> 04:34:17.440 I mean, it's a very similar push to what we saw last time from Wildcard. 04:34:17.440 --> 04:34:20.600 They've taken the ram up top, they've gotten a little bit of space with that. 04:34:20.600 --> 04:34:23.960 are mostly playing around these old tower stairs. 04:34:23.960 --> 04:34:26.600 I like the fact that they're both kaid blocks 04:34:26.600 --> 04:34:27.880 which is the place on this hatch, 04:34:27.880 --> 04:34:30.760 but when you come down to the exit, 04:34:30.760 --> 04:34:33.840 it's 5v5 where Wildcurt has struggled all day. 04:34:33.840 --> 04:34:35.960 Is this utile burn going to be enough 04:34:35.960 --> 04:34:38.400 to finally let you get that kit on the ground? 04:34:39.560 --> 04:34:40.560 That's a great question. 04:34:41.520 --> 04:34:42.720 You got this top floor control, 04:34:42.720 --> 04:34:44.480 and they're now looking down endearingly 04:34:44.480 --> 04:34:46.520 into the bonus site, but... 04:34:46.520 --> 04:34:53.960 M80 so far just evades them away in corners of the rooms not visible from the destruction 04:34:53.960 --> 04:34:56.120 that's been done from the attackers up top. 04:34:56.120 --> 04:34:59.320 Now logic bombs will go off to enable and help them here. 04:34:59.320 --> 04:35:00.840 Hanson suffering some serious damage. 04:35:00.840 --> 04:35:03.560 Bay dies and Spiker seemed to hesitate to us. 04:35:03.560 --> 04:35:07.200 He wants him dropped to his death right in front. 04:35:07.200 --> 04:35:08.840 Baydy Shark will get his first kill. 04:35:08.840 --> 04:35:13.600 He and Adrian moments ago without a single frag since coming back from the rehost. 04:35:13.600 --> 04:35:16.900 What are they able to do here now? 04:35:16.900 --> 04:35:22.700 Number two to one, yet again, and Baby Shark being watched on that default cam. 04:35:22.700 --> 04:35:24.220 He's got a couple targets to try and find. 04:35:24.220 --> 04:35:26.420 Now on over to Adrian as he gets ever closer. 04:35:26.420 --> 04:35:29.500 Ashen, sitting like a target dummy inside the oven. 04:35:29.500 --> 04:35:34.900 Let me kept him in there for a little too long. 04:35:34.900 --> 04:35:36.660 Adrian ties the hands of Hoth and Hole. 04:35:36.660 --> 04:35:37.660 So does Baby Shark. 04:35:37.660 --> 04:35:38.660 Okay. 04:35:38.660 --> 04:35:39.660 Okay. 04:35:39.660 --> 04:35:47.660 Not today, he says, a perfect first half for M80 on Wildcard's map. 04:35:47.660 --> 04:35:52.660 Parker, if I was Wildcard after experiencing all of that, I would be completely floored. 04:35:52.660 --> 04:35:57.660 I would be speechless, and thankfully I don't have to come up with anything to talk about, 04:35:57.660 --> 04:36:00.660 because we've got our desk to break down those first six rounds. 04:36:00.660 --> 04:36:03.660 What have we got our hands on here, guys? 04:36:03.660 --> 04:36:06.660 At the mid-match point here where we're coming in to break this down, 04:36:06.660 --> 04:36:10.100 and it really feels like we're doing a post map analysis. 04:36:10.100 --> 04:36:14.020 6-0, this feels like it's just about over Fox. 04:36:14.020 --> 04:36:16.380 Maybe we thought this team was gonna come out swinging, 04:36:16.380 --> 04:36:19.620 but 6-0, map number one, what is happening right now? 04:36:19.620 --> 04:36:21.060 These guys suck. 04:36:21.060 --> 04:36:21.980 These guys. 04:36:21.980 --> 04:36:23.140 It's a close game. 04:36:25.020 --> 04:36:26.260 For Wildcard, I mean, like we said, 04:36:26.260 --> 04:36:28.020 it didn't matter what maps it comes down to, 04:36:28.020 --> 04:36:30.860 are we going to see the tournament Wildcard 04:36:30.860 --> 04:36:31.700 that we're used to winning? 04:36:31.700 --> 04:36:33.900 I mean, no, we're not seeing them right now. 04:36:33.900 --> 04:36:35.420 Of course, it's defense fortress, 04:36:35.420 --> 04:36:39.980 But the way that M80 is playing, I mean, this style of play of bringing so much utility 04:36:39.980 --> 04:36:45.780 that wildcard has to go through step after step, wall after wall, and at any point, M80 04:36:45.780 --> 04:36:50.740 can turn the Jets on and fight them exactly in the place that they want to fight wildcard. 04:36:50.740 --> 04:36:53.500 And it just looks like wildcard just doesn't have a way around it. 04:36:53.500 --> 04:36:57.340 If they're trying to get through Bandit Tuber Al, even if they bring a map, whatever the 04:36:57.340 --> 04:37:02.060 case may be, it just doesn't look like they know what to do. 04:37:02.060 --> 04:37:05.380 And frankly, I mean, M80 is just playing very smart. 04:37:05.380 --> 04:37:07.460 And when they choose to go for those gunfights, 04:37:07.460 --> 04:37:08.020 they're winning. 04:37:08.020 --> 04:37:09.980 Even in the last round, it looked like Wildcard just 04:37:09.980 --> 04:37:10.540 kind of gave up. 04:37:10.540 --> 04:37:12.940 They opened up the hatch and said, all right, let's drop. 04:37:12.940 --> 04:37:15.140 And two people drop into a crossfire. 04:37:15.140 --> 04:37:17.620 It just seems like Wildcard has already 04:37:17.620 --> 04:37:19.780 counted their loss out in this map. 04:37:19.780 --> 04:37:22.220 And I don't want to say Wildcard isn't trying here, 04:37:22.220 --> 04:37:24.260 because they are clearly still bringing operators 04:37:24.260 --> 04:37:25.500 to help with an attack. 04:37:25.500 --> 04:37:29.340 It's just every time they get to that late round point, 04:37:29.340 --> 04:37:31.820 I think Jesse or Parker said it, they just stopped. 04:37:31.820 --> 04:37:36.940 There's immediate pause that you can clearly see that they lose all sense of what this next step is 04:37:37.140 --> 04:37:41.740 Players are dying then players are going off in the room. I already talked about they and baby shark 04:37:41.740 --> 04:37:45.020 They're supposed to be the entries, but I see them droning for themselves 04:37:45.020 --> 04:37:46.740 I see them doing their own 04:37:46.740 --> 04:37:49.900 Obstacles and you know things that they're trying to do on their own 04:37:49.900 --> 04:37:54.580 They need someone droning for them and even for the side of spiker. I mean yes, you are taking on dashes 04:37:54.580 --> 04:37:56.340 Well, yes, you can use those shields a little better 04:37:56.340 --> 04:38:01.340 But if it's clearly not working pivot off of it at that point do something else try to get yourself in them 04:38:01.340 --> 04:38:05.680 And I think that's really what's hindering Spiker in particular, is that he is taking 04:38:05.680 --> 04:38:06.680 on these roles. 04:38:06.680 --> 04:38:10.780 Whereas you look at him back when he was up with Dash, he was off on his own doing something 04:38:10.780 --> 04:38:13.360 with someone else and getting information relayed. 04:38:13.360 --> 04:38:17.080 Now he's taking in information, which on one side, that should be easier for you to make 04:38:17.080 --> 04:38:18.520 a round going to your favor. 04:38:18.520 --> 04:38:22.040 But then on the other, you're also changing your style of play, which maybe systematically 04:38:22.040 --> 04:38:25.440 just isn't working out regardless of picking up a player like Adrian. 04:38:25.440 --> 04:38:28.080 And also maybe Adrian might have to shift onto a different role. 04:38:28.080 --> 04:38:33.480 But whatever we're seeing right now clearly is not working anywhere into their favor. 04:38:33.480 --> 04:38:37.360 It feels like we're going to be having a similar conversation in maybe just a few seconds. 04:38:37.360 --> 04:38:42.080 But for now, Jesse and Parker, back to you. 04:38:42.080 --> 04:38:43.080 Half time. 04:38:43.080 --> 04:38:44.080 Oh, by the way, there might be one more round. 04:38:44.080 --> 04:38:45.080 Not quite half time. 04:38:45.080 --> 04:38:46.080 Hooray! 04:38:46.080 --> 04:38:52.720 I mean, what would be for MAD to take this 7-0? 04:38:52.720 --> 04:38:56.680 We talk about statement matches and we talk about players having statement games. 04:38:56.680 --> 04:39:10.680 Aiden just had a statement game on Chalet in the series that preceded this, I'm not going to spoil what the end result was, but sometimes you can have a statement match and it really doesn't mean much beyond, you know, making a statement for yourself or for your team. 04:39:10.680 --> 04:39:25.680 Yeah. Here on M80, everybody looks good. They're jostling kills, they're all prepared for it. Wildcard doesn't have a single answer. Wildcard gets first kill? Doesn't matter. Wildcard gets dominated, finds some footing in the mid-round? Doesn't matter. 04:39:25.680 --> 04:39:35.680 While Wildcard gets to defend on Fortress, the name is quite apropos, because this does tend to be a bit of a fortress for the defenders at times, so Wildcard by nature of this map will likely do better here. 04:39:35.680 --> 04:39:41.680 And again, they chose this map, M80 chooses the side, Wildcard will likely see much greater success. 04:39:41.680 --> 04:39:47.680 But you got one round, that's it. You bottled this first attempt, that's it, the game is over. 04:39:47.680 --> 04:39:53.440 Well, M80, they've certainly got their opportunities, they can go for something crazy, they could 04:39:53.440 --> 04:39:58.120 go for a bit of a rush if they wanted to, choosing not to do so in this first attacking 04:39:58.120 --> 04:40:02.120 rounds, they're not following Wildcard's footsteps, and I have to say that's probably 04:40:02.120 --> 04:40:05.160 a good idea given how those footsteps went. 04:40:05.160 --> 04:40:08.760 Also not going for a super heavy roam clear from what we're seeing so far, Parker, instead 04:40:08.760 --> 04:40:12.240 they've got these players down below, and this should get spotted by Adrien, he's about 04:40:12.240 --> 04:40:17.280 to see one, there it is, fine solid snake down below that's Gunner and can track his movements 04:40:17.280 --> 04:40:19.840 as he's likely going over towards the main stairs. 04:40:19.840 --> 04:40:22.560 If he makes it there and on to the quest pin, 04:40:22.560 --> 04:40:25.280 the shotgun doesn't quite find its mark though, Parker, 04:40:25.280 --> 04:40:27.480 and gonna really escape the fall of his P. 04:40:28.480 --> 04:40:30.640 Oh, Ashen gunning down Spiker, 04:40:30.640 --> 04:40:33.760 Han cold needs to be retrieved, there goes Bae. 04:40:33.760 --> 04:40:36.160 In a hurry, things falling apart for wild cards, 04:40:36.160 --> 04:40:37.400 so maybe showing their team. 04:40:37.400 --> 04:40:39.880 Han cold does get finished off by Adrian, 04:40:39.880 --> 04:40:41.400 that nitro cell would have claimed Ashen 04:40:41.400 --> 04:40:43.120 if he'd gotten too close. 04:40:43.120 --> 04:40:44.920 Credit to the youngster for not bothering 04:40:44.920 --> 04:40:46.520 with that engagement. 04:40:46.520 --> 04:40:51.280 and allows Ashen to show what power a Deimos has. 04:40:51.280 --> 04:40:54.160 I'm down the pole, so Intel vs. Intel Wildcard, 04:40:54.160 --> 04:40:55.360 also bringing the Valkyrie, 04:40:55.360 --> 04:40:57.240 this is a lot of information for the defenders, 04:40:57.240 --> 04:40:59.840 and they'll use it, hopefully, to their success 04:40:59.840 --> 04:41:01.560 in the next 90 seconds. 04:41:01.560 --> 04:41:03.160 Great information coming out from Gunnar, 04:41:03.160 --> 04:41:05.040 he knows the exact position of this player 04:41:05.040 --> 04:41:06.840 inside a bedroom, it's Adrian on the pole, 04:41:06.840 --> 04:41:08.760 so the information goes both ways, 04:41:08.760 --> 04:41:10.040 but it's gonna be easier for the attacks 04:41:10.040 --> 04:41:11.160 from our capitalized on this. 04:41:11.160 --> 04:41:13.120 These that won crosses, pulls up the secondary 04:41:13.120 --> 04:41:14.680 and Gavin eats about half HP, 04:41:14.680 --> 04:41:20.640 But he is still existing just fine outside that main breach got players down below. They've got players in new tower 04:41:20.640 --> 04:41:25.600 There's information strong on the side of wild card, but they have to take a fight to get this man count back to even 04:41:26.240 --> 04:41:31.120 Gavin is a really good read on this baby shark exposes a bit too much of himself 04:41:31.120 --> 04:41:37.480 This might be the ball game as Adrian gets active over towards those tower stairs now running for the bed 04:41:37.840 --> 04:41:39.640 Not quite tucked in just yet 04:41:39.640 --> 04:41:42.260 with bedtime fast approaching for them. 04:41:42.260 --> 04:41:44.220 Hanson on the board now, defuser goes down. 04:41:44.220 --> 04:41:46.680 M80's lead still holding strong. 04:41:46.680 --> 04:41:48.620 We've got one more player. 04:41:48.620 --> 04:41:50.680 If Ashton attempts to get the defuse, get down. 04:41:50.680 --> 04:41:52.960 As he is, they just need to cover. 04:41:52.960 --> 04:41:54.240 He gets picked off by Adrian though, 04:41:54.240 --> 04:41:57.280 so poor coverage on the side of M80. 04:41:57.280 --> 04:41:58.920 Well either of these two remaining players 04:41:58.920 --> 04:42:00.000 attempt the defuse? 04:42:00.000 --> 04:42:02.960 No, Hanson shredding Gavin. 04:42:02.960 --> 04:42:04.680 Gunner almost punished him for that. 04:42:04.680 --> 04:42:07.120 Gunner flicking over, caught in a crossfire. 04:42:07.120 --> 04:42:15.280 wild card will not go without around. They win their first defense. It's tight, but a win is a win, 04:42:15.280 --> 04:42:20.480 and they prolong their stay here on Fortress. Welcome to the game, wild card. You're a little 04:42:20.480 --> 04:42:25.040 late, but at the end you've shown up, and that's what matters. Nice little defense coming out from 04:42:25.040 --> 04:42:30.240 there. The information, I think, was so critical in that, Parker. The pulse was feeding from start 04:42:30.240 --> 04:42:34.640 to finish. All of the moves that were being made on the side of wild card, because they had all 04:42:34.640 --> 04:42:38.320 that Intel because they knew where these players were at. They could go for kind of aggressive swings 04:42:38.320 --> 04:42:43.280 and yes it didn't always work out their way. Adrian and Kanzi got left into a 2v4 but they 04:42:43.280 --> 04:42:47.440 had the information to play with in that 2v4. They knew where those players in M80 were likely to 04:42:47.440 --> 04:42:51.680 push from. That allowed them to hold the crossfires. That allowed them to take good fights. That allowed 04:42:51.680 --> 04:42:56.080 them to hit the shots that they were hitting and it's a big pullback from Adrian and Kanzin. 04:42:56.720 --> 04:43:02.080 The oldest and the youngest player on this wildcard team to try to get their roster back on 04:43:02.080 --> 04:43:07.480 track and survive in this game against M80. 04:43:07.480 --> 04:43:12.320 It's a long series, so when we go on over to Cafe, it'll be our first, it'll be our 04:43:12.320 --> 04:43:14.640 fifth unique map of the day. 04:43:14.640 --> 04:43:18.600 The only overlap between this series and the series that came before it was the Chalet, 04:43:18.600 --> 04:43:20.680 and that's if we need a third map. 04:43:20.680 --> 04:43:25.200 Right now, the likelihood of us seeing map number three given the score line and given 04:43:25.200 --> 04:43:30.320 that the next map is M80s, and M80 is just a single round away from winning map one. 04:43:30.320 --> 04:43:35.620 Yeah, I wouldn't bet too much on seeing that chalet, so either way, unique maps, but yeah, 04:43:35.620 --> 04:43:40.200 a cafe, that is going to be an exciting one, and if you think this wildcard team loves 04:43:40.200 --> 04:43:45.160 their unpredictability on a map like Fortress, well boy oh boy, there is so much rush potential 04:43:45.160 --> 04:43:50.960 and quick plant potential on a map like cafe, the only thing is, it's going to be more comfortable 04:43:50.960 --> 04:43:51.960 for a mage. 04:43:51.960 --> 04:43:58.320 So, will wildcard still decide to go for broke knowing that they are behind on that map just 04:43:58.320 --> 04:44:02.520 in terms of knowledge, it might be a viable strategy to try and even the playing field. 04:44:02.520 --> 04:44:04.600 It has not worked on Fortress. 04:44:04.600 --> 04:44:08.600 This time around, now we turn our sights towards Run and Braid. 04:44:08.600 --> 04:44:13.640 It's going to be a dorm's defensive course, very standard segregation from both teams 04:44:13.640 --> 04:44:15.080 to the first eight. 04:44:15.080 --> 04:44:19.240 Gunner loving this solid snake, he's been using it really nicely. 04:44:19.240 --> 04:44:23.400 Not historically been his operator, I mean he played a ton of different ops on attack 04:44:23.400 --> 04:44:24.400 throughout the group stage. 04:44:24.400 --> 04:44:29.840 He's played some of the most attackers of any player, but it's not surprising to see him necessarily on this snake. 04:44:29.840 --> 04:44:34.240 He starts to get information down below as there are no roamers down there. 04:44:34.240 --> 04:44:39.200 The Fuser gets the main breach opened up and, wow, here's that information coming into practice. 04:44:39.200 --> 04:44:42.720 The Echo just playing on the site and able to get cleaned up from below. 04:44:42.720 --> 04:44:46.880 Perfect coordination. The drone plus the player beneath him. 04:44:46.880 --> 04:44:51.200 Gavin, nice little work with the pistol to be able to get that opening pick on the Adrian. 04:44:51.200 --> 04:44:58.480 Opening duels have not been as important in this series as you think, but when you give 04:44:58.480 --> 04:45:02.200 MAD an inch so far on Fortress, they've taken a mile. 04:45:02.200 --> 04:45:06.920 It did not work out on the previous rounds, so they're expressed in gear for MAD to ultimately 04:45:06.920 --> 04:45:09.200 bottle it, despite having a numbers advantage. 04:45:09.200 --> 04:45:12.360 They find themselves in familiar territory and with over a minute to go, Hot and Cole 04:45:12.360 --> 04:45:13.920 is getting the diffuser down. 04:45:13.920 --> 04:45:15.320 Wildcard reduces three players. 04:45:15.320 --> 04:45:17.200 Nitrocell goes out to no avail. 04:45:17.200 --> 04:45:21.160 Baby Shark dies as well and in the post-plant, MAD just needs to find time. 04:45:21.160 --> 04:45:22.720 two souls. 04:45:22.720 --> 04:45:24.560 They and Spiker now working together, 04:45:24.560 --> 04:45:27.720 Bayes taking down one, still four more to find, 04:45:27.720 --> 04:45:30.160 but the timer will be a bigger impediment. 04:45:30.160 --> 04:45:31.880 They need to be quick here. 04:45:31.880 --> 04:45:33.320 A good swing from Spiker, 04:45:33.320 --> 04:45:37.440 but a cleanup from M80 sends Fortress away. 04:45:37.440 --> 04:45:42.440 M80 stealing Wildcard's map in dominant fashion. 04:45:42.440 --> 04:45:44.280 Huge round coming out from Gavin. 04:45:44.280 --> 04:45:46.520 Absolutely perfect game coming out from M80. 04:45:46.520 --> 04:45:47.560 Start to finish. 04:45:47.560 --> 04:45:49.640 Those defenses were impeccable 04:45:49.640 --> 04:45:52.840 And the attack with the information just as good as well, Parker. 04:45:52.840 --> 04:45:54.740 It doesn't get better than that for M80. 04:45:55.640 --> 04:45:57.740 No, it doesn't. At least one more map. 04:45:57.740 --> 04:46:00.440 Will we see a map three? Let's get Burn Cafe first. 04:46:00.440 --> 04:46:01.740 It's up after this. 04:50:49.640 --> 04:50:59.640 the game is a bit more accurate. 04:50:59.640 --> 04:51:01.640 Seven one M 80. Absolutely 04:51:01.640 --> 04:51:03.640 dismantling wildcard on the 04:51:03.640 --> 04:51:05.640 opening map Fox. This was 04:51:05.640 --> 04:51:07.640 exactly the game plan for M 80 04:51:07.640 --> 04:51:08.640 going in. I mean, this is 04:51:08.640 --> 04:51:10.640 exactly the kind of thing they 04:51:10.640 --> 04:51:11.640 want to do. Build that 04:51:11.640 --> 04:51:13.640 momentum going to map to an 04:51:13.640 --> 04:51:15.640 end this right now. They know 04:51:15.640 --> 04:51:17.640 what's going on. They know 04:51:17.640 --> 04:51:19.240 and end this right now. 04:51:19.240 --> 04:51:23.200 They know a spot in the major is just too best of threes away. 04:51:23.200 --> 04:51:25.720 And it feels like that time is getting ever closer. 04:51:25.720 --> 04:51:27.960 Yeah, it really looks like this is the we were talking about. 04:51:27.960 --> 04:51:29.720 Is M80 as strong as they once were? 04:51:29.720 --> 04:51:32.920 I mean, map 1, it was definitely a good showing. 04:51:32.920 --> 04:51:36.200 I mean, fundamentally, the way that their strategy works 04:51:36.200 --> 04:51:37.840 is they're bringing so much utility 04:51:37.840 --> 04:51:41.440 that sometimes weaker players might be able to, 04:51:41.440 --> 04:51:43.920 might struggle when they have to use that much utility 04:51:43.920 --> 04:51:45.920 and constantly be putting up wall after wall. 04:51:45.920 --> 04:51:47.360 But that's M80's game plan. 04:51:47.360 --> 04:51:50.520 Since Fabian has joined, it's always been that style of play. 04:51:50.520 --> 04:51:52.880 Utility on attack, utility on defense. 04:51:52.880 --> 04:51:55.320 I feel like I'm a broken record by saying that their defenses 04:51:55.320 --> 04:51:57.880 were just so strong because they were just 04:51:57.880 --> 04:51:59.400 adding so much utility. 04:51:59.400 --> 04:52:02.120 And right when Wildcard would get maybe past one wall 04:52:02.120 --> 04:52:05.040 or two walls, that's when M80 would go for those gunfights. 04:52:05.040 --> 04:52:05.720 They'd explode. 04:52:05.720 --> 04:52:06.800 They'd get picks all around. 04:52:06.800 --> 04:52:09.520 And it didn't seem like Wildcard could ever really 04:52:09.520 --> 04:52:10.680 get a leg in the match. 04:52:10.680 --> 04:52:11.360 It is what it is. 04:52:11.360 --> 04:52:15.080 I mean, I don't really know what else we could say about that. 04:52:15.080 --> 04:52:16.760 Because did Wildcard play that? 04:52:16.760 --> 04:52:22.760 Yeah, maybe a little bit, but I really do think M80 just played so well that Wildcard looked as bad as they did. 04:52:22.760 --> 04:52:27.760 And that's just the reality of this, is sometimes the team is just naturally going to play better than you on any given map at any given day. 04:52:27.760 --> 04:52:34.760 It's the beauty of the best of three. We just saw most recently in the most recent match of one bounce back to the next and then it went to a full game of three. 04:52:34.760 --> 04:52:38.760 But now it's going to be a situation for Wildcard, you know, where are they going to fix on their mistakes? 04:52:38.760 --> 04:52:44.760 As we talked about, they were very timid on their attacks. They looked like once they got to their end goal of how they were going to approach the site, they would just stop. 04:52:44.760 --> 04:52:47.200 stop and then that's immediately what you're talking about and maybe we just 04:52:47.200 --> 04:52:51.000 spring into action get one kill here force another play here and then wild 04:52:51.000 --> 04:52:54.280 card is out of options at that point then it's basically chicken with a 04:52:54.280 --> 04:52:57.080 tent cut off trying to run to a site trying to make it work so for me for 04:52:57.080 --> 04:53:00.040 wild card again it's really gonna be on bay and baby shark it doesn't matter 04:53:00.040 --> 04:53:03.280 what map we're going to if their entries can't get into the building and 04:53:03.280 --> 04:53:07.920 create space get get even opening picks going into their favor I can't imagine on 04:53:07.920 --> 04:53:11.920 a map like cafe you're gonna get any sort of leeway once you're on that 04:53:11.920 --> 04:53:15.760 attacking half. If they keep up that performance I mean there's no reason to 04:53:15.760 --> 04:53:18.240 think why it's not going to be the same thing. I mean you talked about hot and 04:53:18.240 --> 04:53:22.480 cold coming into this game how his role has shifted how things have changed. We 04:53:22.480 --> 04:53:26.560 look at how he performed in that first game. It feels like everything's going 04:53:26.560 --> 04:53:29.880 right for this team from what he was looking like before he came into this 04:53:29.880 --> 04:53:34.400 match to what he just did now. It's another night and day difference. I mean 04:53:34.400 --> 04:53:37.880 he really looked to be coming alive. I mean you can just see already 04:53:37.880 --> 04:53:42.280 throughout the regular stage, you know, 28 kills, 29 deaths, not too bad, but he 04:53:42.280 --> 04:53:47.080 already has a third of that in one map. So that being said, well, a lot of 04:53:47.080 --> 04:53:50.920 pressure is on Han Fogel when everything is going well for Amade, when the 04:53:50.920 --> 04:53:54.520 strategy is working and you don't have to do much micromanaging, you don't have 04:53:54.520 --> 04:53:58.480 to worry about these small things. That's when you can see the IGL brain come 04:53:58.480 --> 04:54:01.680 through and he just knows where to position himself, what angles he needs 04:54:01.680 --> 04:54:05.320 to hold, and the rest is history. The rest is Wildcard just walking into his 04:54:05.320 --> 04:54:11.760 Crosshair and match to clean it up and that's what I imagine we'll see on that too. I don't know if wild card will be able to 04:54:13.200 --> 04:54:18.640 Research themselves going into this series. Well, we're all thinking it so I'll just I'll just straight up asking 04:54:18.640 --> 04:54:21.200 Do you think wild card can? 04:54:21.920 --> 04:54:27.320 Take that performance on map one and somehow turn it around solve it for map to send us to that third 04:54:30.760 --> 04:54:33.560 I mean give me what we saw I don't think so 04:54:33.560 --> 04:54:37.840 I think they're obviously having a lot of team issues. It's not to say that they can't do it. They're a strong team 04:54:37.840 --> 04:54:42.240 They'd be strong opponents and that's no exception. I made even when you look at the last time these guys played 04:54:42.240 --> 04:54:47.660 It was back during the NAL regional finals and they got dismantled on cafe. I believe was a 7-2 04:54:47.660 --> 04:54:52.040 I'm sure Jesse's gonna correct me if I'm wrong on that and just again based off their performance on fortress 04:54:52.040 --> 04:54:53.600 They were super confident going into it 04:54:53.600 --> 04:54:58.720 They had a clean record on it and then just what we saw completely dismantled. Yeah, I agree 04:54:58.720 --> 04:55:01.960 I mean, I think the first step is wildcard getting drones in front of their entries 04:55:01.960 --> 04:55:07.540 They're gonna hand a strategy get Bay and baby shark to walk in with a donor from sharkman one and eight 04:55:07.640 --> 04:55:11.880 You can't go one and eight on entry like you you just you can't do that 04:55:11.880 --> 04:55:15.800 You're not gonna find any bit of success for your team let alone yourself. It's like Jonah and ranked 04:55:16.120 --> 04:55:18.080 Okay, I mean you're giving him a little bit of credit 04:55:18.080 --> 04:55:20.560 I don't even think he gets a kill let alone gets the building alright 04:55:20.560 --> 04:55:25.020 It just looks like he'd stand there like a deer in a headlight waiting for a spawn kill to happen 04:55:26.520 --> 04:55:30.280 One clip of me playing ranked with with some other casters and it was a 04:55:30.280 --> 04:55:36.600 a disaster, well, making it sound like that's a light-hearted way to put it. Disasters like 04:55:36.600 --> 04:55:45.680 nice. I threw a C4 missing, like, missing the target by about 10 feet, then I moaned 04:55:45.680 --> 04:55:48.640 and I ran out of window. I mean, it was really bad. 04:55:48.640 --> 04:55:52.040 We could throw you into anybody on Wildcard right now and they'd probably get more room. 04:55:52.040 --> 04:55:55.920 I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. But I'll take it and Wildcard hopefully 04:55:55.920 --> 04:55:57.560 disconnect during the server. 04:55:57.560 --> 04:56:00.680 I'm good at the disconnecting thing. At least I have that down. At least I have that down. 04:56:00.680 --> 04:56:05.000 But speaking of, one of our players has disconnected, so we have to get them back into this lobby. 04:56:05.000 --> 04:56:09.480 When we do, we will get this second map underway. Don't go anywhere. 04:56:09.480 --> 04:56:13.480 Map to Cafe M80 Wild Guard coming up. 04:56:27.560 --> 04:56:29.560 I'm breaking next to the body now 04:56:29.560 --> 04:56:32.560 Breakfast at a gala, signing out 04:56:32.560 --> 04:56:35.560 I'ma keep it going til I ain't no nut 04:56:35.560 --> 04:56:37.560 I'm breaking next to the body now 04:56:37.560 --> 04:56:39.560 Go my elbow, suckin' my money out 04:56:39.560 --> 04:56:42.560 Cause I can't make it down from the front end 04:56:42.560 --> 04:56:45.560 I'ma keep it going til I ain't no nut 04:56:48.560 --> 04:56:50.560 Going til I ain't no nut 04:59:57.560 --> 05:00:08.440 Well, this could be the end of the road here for Wild Card in the upper bracket. 05:00:08.440 --> 05:00:14.200 The loser of this series has a date with Shopify Rebellion and the loser of that series goes 05:00:14.200 --> 05:00:15.200 home. 05:00:15.200 --> 05:00:20.200 So good news, Wild Card fans, this isn't the end of the road for your journey to maybe 05:00:20.200 --> 05:00:23.080 make the Salt Lake City Major. 05:00:23.080 --> 05:00:24.080 Double for M80. 05:00:24.080 --> 05:00:26.440 This isn't the end or the beginning of your journey. 05:00:26.440 --> 05:00:28.800 you don't qualify based off of these results. 05:00:28.800 --> 05:00:32.280 MAD would then move up the bracket to go up against DZ 05:00:32.280 --> 05:00:35.080 in what would be an incredible matchup. 05:00:35.080 --> 05:00:36.680 Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Jesse. 05:00:36.680 --> 05:00:41.000 While Wildcard got absolutely demolished on their own map, 05:00:41.000 --> 05:00:43.640 there is always still hope for the comeback. 05:00:43.640 --> 05:00:45.280 And Wildcard have proven time and time again 05:00:45.280 --> 05:00:47.560 that they are a team that can hang with the best of them. 05:00:47.560 --> 05:00:50.600 Will that materialize here on MAD's map pick? 05:00:50.600 --> 05:00:51.880 It's going to be a tough battle, Parker. 05:00:51.880 --> 05:00:53.000 There's no doubt about that. 05:00:53.000 --> 05:00:55.520 MAD love to play here on cafe. 05:00:55.520 --> 05:01:01.640 They are 2-0 since the season began and Ash enjoys the roster beating both 1 of 30 and Shopify Rebellion 05:01:01.720 --> 05:01:05.620 So we've got a lot of experience with this team playing on this map 05:01:05.620 --> 05:01:08.560 That means Vods will be available for wild card no doubt about that 05:01:08.560 --> 05:01:12.880 But you still have to be feeling confident if you're in the line green today 05:01:12.880 --> 05:01:20.600 They played expertly on their opponents map. They now get to come to home turf where they will go up against wild card playing for their upper bracket lives 05:01:20.600 --> 05:01:25.560 starting on the attack might be the only disadvantage they have in this map. 05:01:25.560 --> 05:01:27.820 But I still have to imagine they'll be feeling confident. 05:01:27.820 --> 05:01:30.960 56% attacking on the cafe since the season began. 05:01:30.960 --> 05:01:34.440 That's a nine around sample size as well. 05:01:34.440 --> 05:01:38.240 So quite a lot of that is suggesting that M80 should be off to a strong start this game. 05:01:41.240 --> 05:01:44.080 I mean, we didn't expect them to be off to such a strong start on fortress. 05:01:44.080 --> 05:01:45.480 And then they go 6-0, Jesse. 05:01:47.560 --> 05:01:48.080 They won. 05:01:48.080 --> 05:01:54.640 But sometimes that allies as it did in that previous map, so maybe now it'll lie the other way 05:01:56.800 --> 05:02:03.120 You are a numbers guy anybody's good way done when numbers are wrong have to imagine it's you 05:02:05.160 --> 05:02:07.160 Thanks, so I trust you on the numbers 05:02:10.640 --> 05:02:12.640 No, okay great 05:02:13.640 --> 05:02:15.880 My life if I lie, I don't think the line 05:02:18.080 --> 05:02:22.200 I didn't forget what you not taking in a song sitting in those tickets 05:02:27.240 --> 05:02:34.900 First round here on cafe we are live in action wildcard choosing to defend first a familiar spot where people on 05:02:35.640 --> 05:02:37.400 on this map 05:02:37.400 --> 05:02:42.480 cafe not really so much pec rate in an ASM of its contemporaries, but a 05:02:42.480 --> 05:02:44.400 a stable and reliable map. 05:02:44.400 --> 05:02:47.200 I do worry for Wildcard's chances here. 05:02:47.200 --> 05:02:48.480 We always want all three maps, 05:02:48.480 --> 05:02:50.400 and we always want a competitive series. 05:02:50.400 --> 05:02:52.680 That Wildcard might have some early struggles. 05:02:52.680 --> 05:02:54.160 I think for me, it's going to see 05:02:54.160 --> 05:02:55.520 not what the results are, 05:02:55.520 --> 05:02:57.440 but how they go about it, right? 05:02:57.440 --> 05:03:00.040 Because there's a 4-2 where teams are competitive 05:03:00.040 --> 05:03:01.680 and just there needs to be a winner in the rounds, 05:03:01.680 --> 05:03:04.480 and then there's a 4-2 where you get demolished. 05:03:04.480 --> 05:03:06.760 As I said in the same word I used earlier, 05:03:06.760 --> 05:03:10.600 on your losses and then you demolish on your wins. 05:03:10.600 --> 05:03:12.240 What is the confidence gonna be for Wildcard? 05:03:12.240 --> 05:03:15.240 because I think there's good reason for their confidence to be shaken. 05:03:15.240 --> 05:03:18.240 M80 didn't have a real weakness on Fortress that could be exploited. 05:03:18.240 --> 05:03:21.240 They were good on the entry, they were good on trades, they were good on the mid-round. 05:03:21.240 --> 05:03:26.240 They were excellent in the final moments of a round. Where does Wildcard start to turn that ship? 05:03:26.240 --> 05:03:31.240 Gotta be in the early game, Parker. This is maybe the one thing that they had some success on 05:03:31.240 --> 05:03:35.240 with the opening picks on map number one. They've got another opportunity now here on map two 05:03:35.240 --> 05:03:40.240 to find that first frag, get things open up in the round, start yourself off on the right foot. 05:03:40.240 --> 05:03:44.520 It's always where it has to start. This top floor clear, of course, will come under way from M80. 05:03:44.520 --> 05:03:47.920 I like the tools they brought for this, but it's the peak through the window. 05:03:47.920 --> 05:03:53.420 Adrian, yet another opening frag in this series. He's been very sharp with that today, Parker. 05:03:53.420 --> 05:03:54.920 Now they just have to convert it. 05:03:56.040 --> 05:04:00.840 Yeah, I feel a little bad for Adrian because he got the opening duel twice before. 05:04:00.840 --> 05:04:05.160 This is lucky number three. It's only with him and Kansan striking first on this team. 05:04:05.160 --> 05:04:09.040 And guess what? None of those times resulted in a round victory. 05:04:09.040 --> 05:04:12.560 They lost every single time they got first blood. 05:04:12.560 --> 05:04:16.280 So not really an indication as to where this round is going to go, 05:04:16.280 --> 05:04:17.560 but ultimately a great start. 05:04:17.560 --> 05:04:20.360 And more importantly, you take out the Capitao. 05:04:20.360 --> 05:04:23.640 This is a critical operator for making space. 05:04:23.640 --> 05:04:26.480 Adrian will take down Gavin now, his second kill as a nitro cell 05:04:26.480 --> 05:04:30.040 goes out, Gunner on the board, defuser two, Kanzin in on the fun. 05:04:30.040 --> 05:04:36.040 Ava the server gone, 50 seconds, still remaining it's M80, down by one player. 05:04:36.040 --> 05:04:38.720 It's a classic nitro cell up to the laundry hatch. 05:04:38.720 --> 05:04:43.680 an oldie and a goodie, so give us the advantage over towards Wildcard even more, still that 05:04:43.680 --> 05:04:48.640 one man lead, lots of time to work with if you're M80 and they've got a bit of map control here up 05:04:48.640 --> 05:04:52.480 above, make sure to see where they want to take this, they could go dropping through the pillar 05:04:52.480 --> 05:04:56.080 into the reading door, that will be the play for Gunner, he's in a plant spot if he wants it. 05:04:57.520 --> 05:04:59.760 He's got defuse kid, he just needs the correct read. 05:05:00.880 --> 05:05:04.560 Light finds him salvation here, defuser good enough to trade off one, that means that Gunner 05:05:04.560 --> 05:05:10.180 We'll have absolutely no coverage and sound the alarm that was wild card getting in mighty mighty close 05:05:10.180 --> 05:05:11.680 Kansan hitting her 05:05:11.680 --> 05:05:13.600 Donor man just to get away 05:05:13.600 --> 05:05:18.680 But he doesn't see spiker over on the reading door good coordination by wild card very um 05:05:19.320 --> 05:05:25.120 M80 like on fortress and wild card get a much needed round to start off this map 05:05:25.240 --> 05:05:29.600 Yeah, again despite the information advantage that M80 had there are just some tricks 05:05:29.600 --> 05:05:33.040 They didn't expect Adrian peaks out the window for the first pick on a hot and cold 05:05:33.040 --> 05:05:38.300 the Nitro for the first for the second pick there over towards Gavin and once you've got kind of that two-man lead 05:05:38.300 --> 05:05:40.300 They're able to run away with it with the man advantage 05:05:40.700 --> 05:05:44.680 Happy to concede that top floor because they know M80 or the team who have the plants 05:05:44.680 --> 05:05:49.840 They try to get a little pinch going down those white stairs to fuser good for one not good for more than that 05:05:50.280 --> 05:05:55.000 Tough push there in the 2v3 for M80. They did it their best, but not quite enough 05:05:55.120 --> 05:05:58.640 kind of surprise gunner committed to the plant and got it down in the end there and 05:05:58.640 --> 05:06:01.300 and made the order objective focus team 05:06:01.300 --> 05:06:02.700 and you can see that they're willing to die 05:06:02.700 --> 05:06:03.740 for that plant to go down, 05:06:03.740 --> 05:06:07.700 but even still not quite enough for Gunner in round one. 05:06:07.700 --> 05:06:10.100 Competitive, but Wildcard often early starting round 05:06:10.100 --> 05:06:10.940 in map two. 05:06:13.020 --> 05:06:14.220 It's a small snapshot, 05:06:14.220 --> 05:06:16.300 but there was a lot more confidence there from Wildcard 05:06:16.300 --> 05:06:17.740 and I liked what they had with Adrian. 05:06:17.740 --> 05:06:18.940 His position in particular, 05:06:18.940 --> 05:06:20.820 he read into where the attackers were coming from 05:06:20.820 --> 05:06:23.100 and he was fully prepared for this. 05:06:23.100 --> 05:06:25.140 Whether it was because they were actually able 05:06:25.140 --> 05:06:26.740 to figure this out ahead of time, 05:06:26.740 --> 05:06:28.340 given that this is a made his map, 05:06:28.340 --> 05:06:30.680 You're probably going to be aware of how they're going to play it. 05:06:30.680 --> 05:06:35.780 That is one of the small downsides of your map pool is that your opponents will likely know how you're going to tackle certain things. 05:06:37.520 --> 05:06:39.780 Again, maybe M80 is bringing new strats. 05:06:39.820 --> 05:06:40.820 Who's to say it would be you? 05:06:43.420 --> 05:06:44.160 It would be a question. 05:06:44.160 --> 05:06:46.100 I think it got something stuck in my throat. 05:06:46.100 --> 05:06:46.600 I'm dying. 05:06:47.660 --> 05:06:48.500 Parker, don't worry. 05:06:48.500 --> 05:06:51.300 I could tell you that I don't just not itself was fun. 05:06:51.300 --> 05:06:52.600 All the difference is clear. 05:06:53.400 --> 05:06:55.040 But they did have very different operators. 05:06:55.040 --> 05:06:57.640 So this is definitely a new look from M80. 05:06:57.640 --> 05:07:03.800 Once again trying to change things up a little bit. There are consistencies diffuser loves the gridlock here on cafe 05:07:03.800 --> 05:07:09.060 The buck a very common choice here from Gavin, but hot and cold on the sense again, something they played 05:07:09.060 --> 05:07:12.200 This is actually very similar to strapped. Well, they played earlier in the stage 05:07:12.200 --> 05:07:16.140 So this bottom of their attack might be a little bit easier to read from wild card 05:07:16.140 --> 05:07:16.680 But you're right 05:07:16.680 --> 05:07:21.460 They didn't have any struggles with that when they were defending down onto reading now one floor below 05:07:22.240 --> 05:07:23.500 Should be much the same 05:07:23.500 --> 05:07:29.160 I expect this to be a slow push Parker because we've got a full anchor set up being played by a wild card and M80 05:07:29.160 --> 05:07:32.760 You brought double soft breach operators. They're gonna want to take this top floor control 05:07:32.760 --> 05:07:36.780 It's like we won't see the first kill until the last like 45 seconds though in the round 05:07:37.900 --> 05:07:43.800 Yeah, I was like Marco Rubio grabbing for the glass of water there if you know that reference just trying to not 05:07:44.080 --> 05:07:47.280 choke on whatever air I breathed in but 05:07:47.680 --> 05:07:52.400 Either way back from the dead and now able to cast it again. I think your points are spot on 05:07:52.400 --> 05:07:59.400 I think this will be a very practiced execute from m80. They are still droning things out. They are still taking map control 05:07:59.400 --> 05:08:02.720 We are leaving the discovery phase and now we are in the mid-round 05:08:04.280 --> 05:08:11.600 Typically break things down with the discovery phase being the first minute or so then in the mid-round then the play round and execute as the final moments here 05:08:12.240 --> 05:08:16.920 Teens in North America. We don't always make it to the late round especially these two teams 05:08:16.920 --> 05:08:21.260 We saw a lot of very quick executes not gonna be very quick at all. You are spot on 05:08:21.260 --> 05:08:25.260 We're about to hit the minute mark, and they are still totting their eyes and crossing their teams inside of M80. 05:08:25.260 --> 05:08:32.260 That's also important, it'll be really interesting to see kind of where those go down, what the goal will be to try to make this execute happen. 05:08:32.260 --> 05:08:40.260 Huntington Zotto canister right now on White Stairs is what we see from Defuser, hoping to clear that out so that they can get the hatch open sooner rather than later. 05:08:40.260 --> 05:08:45.260 Ager's position in VIP will be well known. Every team really does put a tube route in here. 05:08:45.260 --> 05:08:48.540 It's a very strong position to try to hold inside a VIP. 05:08:48.540 --> 05:08:51.300 It might not be as familiar with hand position, 05:08:51.300 --> 05:08:52.900 also locking down VIP, 05:08:52.900 --> 05:08:55.500 but that two player position inside of that room, 05:08:55.500 --> 05:08:57.100 it could be a bit devastating, 05:08:57.100 --> 05:08:58.980 but then maybe you don't clear it. 05:08:58.980 --> 05:09:01.340 Now get the lead off pick now, baby shark gone. 05:09:01.340 --> 05:09:04.060 Baby shark had a really tough first map. 05:09:04.060 --> 05:09:05.180 He won't have much of an opportunity 05:09:05.180 --> 05:09:06.060 to change things around. 05:09:06.060 --> 05:09:08.540 Adrian, sensational, spiker as well. 05:09:08.540 --> 05:09:11.100 Grave in the clutch in the previous round. 05:09:11.100 --> 05:09:13.940 Then he's doing some mighty big work here. 05:09:13.940 --> 05:09:16.000 20 seconds to go, Ashen in the bomb site. 05:09:16.000 --> 05:09:17.720 Nobody on M80 has that diffuse kit. 05:09:17.720 --> 05:09:18.920 It will need to be retrieved, 05:09:18.920 --> 05:09:21.680 and it is being camped by Wildcard. 05:09:21.680 --> 05:09:24.240 Great structure from this Wildcard defense. 05:09:24.240 --> 05:09:26.120 Sputtering on the side of M80, 05:09:26.120 --> 05:09:27.960 but Gunner's now made it winnable. 05:09:27.960 --> 05:09:30.720 10 seconds for him to find Spiker. 05:09:30.720 --> 05:09:33.400 I like the odds of the shotgun in the hands of the smoke. 05:09:33.400 --> 05:09:36.280 Gunner needs to pick this one, so right. 05:09:36.280 --> 05:09:40.560 And he runs at a time, right as Spiker seals the deal. 05:09:40.560 --> 05:09:45.660 wild card off to a great start up 2-0 on M80's map. 05:09:45.660 --> 05:09:48.260 Yeah, beautifully played by Spiker in the midst of that, Parker. 05:09:48.260 --> 05:09:50.860 He really does everything he needs to in that round 05:09:50.860 --> 05:09:52.100 to lock things down. 05:09:52.100 --> 05:09:53.820 Starts off playing Whiskey Bar, right? 05:09:53.820 --> 05:09:55.220 And just trying to stop that pressure 05:09:55.220 --> 05:09:57.740 as the sense wall comes in through the restaurant window, 05:09:57.740 --> 05:10:02.140 slow down that push from M80 as they try to get VIP control. 05:10:02.140 --> 05:10:04.260 Adrian was good enough to get one early pick, 05:10:04.260 --> 05:10:05.820 but it was that pick onto Hot and Cold, 05:10:05.820 --> 05:10:08.340 which dropped the diffuser, which was so critical 05:10:08.340 --> 05:10:10.700 in shaping the rest of that attack, 05:10:10.700 --> 05:10:13.100 kind of allowed some rotations come through from wild car. 05:10:13.100 --> 05:10:15.020 You saw Spiker move in into coachech, 05:10:15.020 --> 05:10:17.100 into the front door reception area 05:10:17.100 --> 05:10:19.180 and just have so much success 05:10:19.180 --> 05:10:21.620 as they're locking down that bottom floor bomb site. 05:10:21.620 --> 05:10:24.380 So, M80, despite taking their time with it, 05:10:24.380 --> 05:10:26.500 not able to handle that early play coming out 05:10:26.500 --> 05:10:28.780 from the tube route inside the VIP, 05:10:28.780 --> 05:10:30.260 and then not able to clean things up 05:10:30.260 --> 05:10:31.780 despite Gunner's best attempt. 05:10:34.620 --> 05:10:36.460 I mean, it's been a rough recovery 05:10:36.460 --> 05:10:42.220 from this M80 team, but it's hard to judge how many drones are actively being used because 05:10:42.220 --> 05:10:47.660 I'm still of the suspicion that that drone town is not always accurate look at that 05:10:47.660 --> 05:10:54.380 lineup from Gunner. But yeah, I mean, a very close round, but one again, where Wildcard 05:10:54.380 --> 05:10:59.900 Adrian in particular has done an exceptional job of flying under the radar. He's just not 05:10:59.900 --> 05:11:04.980 being spotted by these M80 aggressors. And at some point, you're going to need to pin 05:11:04.980 --> 05:11:10.740 down this player. Spiker, though, to his credit, has been so clean in the final moments, and 05:11:10.740 --> 05:11:17.460 Adrien is getting a ton of information scouting with that Yo-Kai drone, just as out in Bakery Door. 05:11:17.460 --> 05:11:23.220 They've got the pulse there for backup as well. Cafe has a jump out and spawn peek potential. 05:11:23.220 --> 05:11:29.620 Ashen was on a roster that loved spawn peeking, if you recall. But to see if he tries it when 05:11:29.620 --> 05:11:30.740 when they move to defense. 05:11:30.740 --> 05:11:35.420 As for now though, the main job for our mate, Jesse, 05:11:35.420 --> 05:11:36.660 just make it in the building 05:11:36.660 --> 05:11:38.700 and maybe not give up a player early. 05:11:39.820 --> 05:11:41.500 Yeah, they want to be able to take that space 05:11:41.500 --> 05:11:43.300 to be able to convert in towards execute 05:11:43.300 --> 05:11:46.140 because mighty and dining up on the docket 05:11:46.140 --> 05:11:47.340 for our third round here 05:11:47.340 --> 05:11:49.700 and our third bomb site selected in by wild card 05:11:49.700 --> 05:11:52.540 and they brought Ashen on the blitz truck, 05:11:52.540 --> 05:11:54.420 help maybe with this top floor clear 05:11:54.420 --> 05:11:56.900 and then also a sports execute as well. 05:11:56.900 --> 05:11:58.700 Not an operator we've seen him play 05:11:58.700 --> 05:12:00.540 on this map, because he's in the game, 05:12:00.540 --> 05:12:03.580 so it could be something that isn't expected by a wild card, 05:12:03.580 --> 05:12:05.220 but the Rammann already caught four. 05:12:05.220 --> 05:12:07.460 They're going fast with it, Parker. 05:12:07.460 --> 05:12:10.380 Yeah, they've decided to go a breakneck pace. 05:12:10.380 --> 05:12:11.420 I like this. 05:12:11.420 --> 05:12:14.540 Off to the races, they go great read by Gavin through the wall. 05:12:14.540 --> 05:12:16.940 It allows Ashton to move up in impunity. 05:12:16.940 --> 05:12:19.900 He just needs to be wary of what happens over towards white stairs. 05:12:19.900 --> 05:12:22.300 Adrien was integral in the first moments 05:12:22.300 --> 05:12:24.260 of this round gaining so much intel, 05:12:24.260 --> 05:12:26.660 and there's still potential for him here. 05:12:26.660 --> 05:12:30.660 As he shreds Gunner and will now try to buy time against the Blitz! 05:12:30.660 --> 05:12:39.660 There were two others in tow though, M80 was getting their kill, come hell or high water, and they, well, it ends up working out, M80 on the board. 05:12:39.660 --> 05:12:48.660 Bit of a chaotic round, Parker. I'm not sure if you caught it, but hot and cold jumps in the skylight, finds the opening tick, uses the ram to cause some chaos. 05:12:48.660 --> 05:12:54.660 That's all well and good, but then he dies to the vert and drops the diffuse kit upstairs in bar. 05:12:54.660 --> 05:12:59.480 It kind of puts the pressure on the guys of N80. They no longer really had planting as an option. 05:12:59.480 --> 05:13:04.220 So even in kind of the 2v4, the 1v4, there was some hope to play around. 05:13:04.220 --> 05:13:08.080 At the time was pretty crazy. They had over half the round to go still. 05:13:08.080 --> 05:13:11.440 But even with that, they couldn't exactly force that plant. 05:13:11.440 --> 05:13:17.540 There was maybe an angle to get back in for Kansan and Adrien, the best two players so far today, here on Wildcard. 05:13:17.540 --> 05:13:21.860 But not to be in that third round. They strike back with a nice little rush. 05:13:21.860 --> 05:13:25.700 You know, this is after hot and die soft floor with a fuse kid. 05:13:25.700 --> 05:13:29.700 It really is just good pressure being taken by Ashen and Gavin. 05:13:29.700 --> 05:13:32.700 Making that space inside of reading, there's some good answers back, but the blitzers. 05:13:32.700 --> 05:13:37.780 So what I highlighted before that round, he just makes it oh so easy for the rest of these 05:13:37.780 --> 05:13:43.940 players to jump in, take that space and get those three kills. 05:13:43.940 --> 05:13:46.980 All this one's been a little bit more like what I was hoping for between these teams. 05:13:46.980 --> 05:13:51.100 Why don't we just make this map number one and just keep going and then make you unable 05:13:51.100 --> 05:13:55.900 watch your little hockey game that you want to watch. So let's park around that way anyway. 05:13:55.900 --> 05:14:00.300 His lock card, take an early lead on map number two. And I'll be honest, I kind of rather 05:14:00.300 --> 05:14:04.940 a happy sticker around to watch these two great teams if the gameplay is better than what we saw 05:14:04.940 --> 05:14:10.780 in map one. Yeah, map number one was really not one for the books. So I mean, if you're a fan of 05:14:10.780 --> 05:14:16.940 M80, you love map number one. If you were a fan of Good Siege, I mean M80 was doing Good Siege, 05:14:16.940 --> 05:14:21.580 There's no denying that but it wasn't a particularly tight contest and of course for those listening 05:14:21.580 --> 05:14:29.620 It's just banter no there is no universe in which Jesse is eager for a match to finish early so that he can go watch a hockey game 05:14:30.140 --> 05:14:35.600 If you're taking the things we're saying seriously. Well, I got some beachfront property in 05:14:36.420 --> 05:14:38.420 Saskatoon for all of you to buy 05:14:39.700 --> 05:14:45.700 I just want a good contest between these teams and more over for the story. I want wildcard to bounce back to where they were 05:14:45.700 --> 05:14:48.500 I don't have any vested interest in any of these squads. 05:14:48.500 --> 05:14:52.000 Fabian is my mortal enemy, more than you, actually. 05:14:52.000 --> 05:14:56.200 But I still want M80 to succeed, just as I want to see Wildcard return to form, 05:14:56.200 --> 05:14:58.900 because I think it's fair to say the Wildcard that played at SI, 05:14:58.900 --> 05:15:03.000 the Wildcard that played at Munich, the Wildcard that played at Reload, 05:15:03.000 --> 05:15:06.100 that's not the Wildcard that we've been seeing here so far in kickoff. 05:15:06.100 --> 05:15:06.900 Yeah. 05:15:06.900 --> 05:15:09.300 It's been good to see a bit of battle back here on map 2. 05:15:09.300 --> 05:15:11.100 A lot of that's been driven by the captain, Spike, 05:15:11.100 --> 05:15:14.100 who now sticks in one below the roam or below the long site. 05:15:14.100 --> 05:15:18.840 Not being addressed much by M80 as they just focus on this top floor, but it's a long shot from day 05:15:19.060 --> 05:15:22.980 Another early death from hot and cold will do them well and Bay's good enough for two 05:15:23.300 --> 05:15:25.780 Finding Ashen to put them in a 4v3 advantage 05:15:28.340 --> 05:15:32.340 The fire does good work. Ashen is having a bit of a poor game 05:15:34.020 --> 05:15:37.340 The day where he and baby shark both without kills so far, so 05:15:38.700 --> 05:15:40.860 Canceling each other out. I think is the way it goes 05:15:40.860 --> 05:15:46.900 Hit the halfway point now here of round number four. The defenders still locked in on this top floor bomb site. 05:15:46.900 --> 05:15:51.560 It is a mid clear upward push for the attackers. 05:15:51.560 --> 05:15:54.620 Spiker wanders down. Gunner catches him on white stairs. 05:15:54.620 --> 05:15:59.940 More information now will be at the disposal of the attackers. As those cams are cracked, 05:16:00.420 --> 05:16:03.140 you can see the bulletproof cameras being brought by Wildcard. 05:16:03.140 --> 05:16:08.060 If Intel is the name of the game, Doka'd be obviously a strong operator for many reasons, but this one in particular, 05:16:08.060 --> 05:16:13.540 really good patience here from Gunner. He spotted two targets. It's a Gumi, manages 05:16:13.540 --> 05:16:18.860 to get one. He knows that the jig is up. Still taking damage from that mine. Sees 05:16:18.860 --> 05:16:22.100 another inside a back bar. He's got information. He'll have to stop at some 05:16:22.100 --> 05:16:26.180 point to pull this out. All the while relying on an 80 to cover him. Diffuser 05:16:26.180 --> 05:16:30.260 bottles that one and allows Baby Shark into the series. Diffuser going down, 05:16:30.260 --> 05:16:34.660 Kansan hoping to stop it. He will not succeed. Gunner and Gavin now as the last 05:16:34.660 --> 05:16:38.900 two baby sharks been dropped so Kansan will have to do it all himself. I don't think he 05:16:38.900 --> 05:16:43.220 can retrieve his teammates so Kansan will need to swing. He's hoping for somebody on the side of 05:16:43.220 --> 05:16:49.620 M80 to move. He's gotta read on one over towards cocktail. This is a rough spot for him to pin. 05:16:49.620 --> 05:16:55.060 He outtools the Tokami. Time running out. If you're Gavin, all you have to do is survive. 05:16:55.060 --> 05:16:59.300 Play the long game but Gavin gives him the gears and M80 takes the round. 05:16:59.300 --> 05:17:03.660 the way he's going to be 05:17:04.360 --> 05:17:05.000 going down. Gavin's not want 05:17:05.000 --> 05:17:07.000 to step back and win on the 05:17:07.000 --> 05:17:08.840 time. Parker. He wants that 05:17:08.840 --> 05:17:10.600 frag. He's been so good for M 05:17:10.600 --> 05:17:12.300 80 all season long. Really 05:17:12.300 --> 05:17:13.940 since he joins this roster. I 05:17:13.940 --> 05:17:15.900 mean, he's just been fantastic. 05:17:15.900 --> 05:17:17.000 Clutching things up here in the 05:17:17.000 --> 05:17:17.820 late round. It's gunner who I 05:17:17.820 --> 05:17:19.500 think has the biggest impact in 05:17:19.500 --> 05:17:20.340 that one you mentioned him 05:17:20.340 --> 05:17:23.540 walking up those white stairs, 05:17:23.540 --> 05:17:24.220 on the doka be. There was the 05:17:24.220 --> 05:17:25.580 echo on the board, too. Don't 05:17:25.580 --> 05:17:27.320 forget. And there was still a 05:17:27.320 --> 05:17:29.020 yokai camera live. I believe in 05:17:29.020 --> 05:17:34.300 by the attackers, so definitely some really good information being gathered by M80 in the midst of that. 05:17:35.180 --> 05:17:39.740 And then just putting together those final couple of moments there in the plants, getting it down cocktail. 05:17:39.740 --> 05:17:43.820 If Kansan just knew where the plant was going down, he absolutely could have denied it. 05:17:43.820 --> 05:17:48.780 If he's brazen up through the bar, maybe he's able to get that player down, but I don't think he had perfect information 05:17:48.780 --> 05:17:51.180 and certainly didn't know where the last guy was as well. 05:17:51.180 --> 05:17:57.740 So, tough 1v2 to come out from Kansan, despite all the successes that he has had historically in that clutch position. 05:17:57.740 --> 05:17:59.820 and is not able to get it done today. 05:18:00.780 --> 05:18:04.100 Prompts that tack timeout again, early to come out from Wildcar, 05:18:04.100 --> 05:18:07.940 but unlike on Fortress, the scoreline is relatively fine here. 05:18:07.940 --> 05:18:11.140 It's only two to two, but I guess just feeling like 05:18:11.140 --> 05:18:12.900 they could have won those last couple of rounds, 05:18:12.900 --> 05:18:15.140 like maybe there's some big issues that need to get fixed, 05:18:15.140 --> 05:18:18.500 but Jonas decided to call it early to walk our tack timeout. 05:18:19.500 --> 05:18:22.540 Yeah, again, this goes back to why you call timeouts 05:18:22.540 --> 05:18:23.380 in the first place. 05:18:23.380 --> 05:18:25.180 Maybe there's something he's hearing in their comms, 05:18:25.180 --> 05:18:26.980 or maybe an understanding of this map 05:18:26.980 --> 05:18:33.060 he feels is improper and you can nip that in the bud before it becomes a much bigger issue. 05:18:33.860 --> 05:18:39.540 Coaches hear the players. We don't. Coaches can sense the mood and the vibes of a team. If a 05:18:39.540 --> 05:18:44.740 particularly talkative player is not talking like normal and your strats revolve around that, 05:18:45.300 --> 05:18:49.540 maybe the timeout is being done to try and say, hey, what's going on here? We need your voice 05:18:49.540 --> 05:18:54.980 in the team. Maybe it's not even a strategic thing. You can't know. The only real way to know 05:18:54.980 --> 05:19:01.780 I always ask them directly afterwards and if they feel like being candid and honest they might tell you but a lot of times they just give you the 05:19:03.420 --> 05:19:06.660 This is the boilerplate like I you know the team wasn't performing well 05:19:07.540 --> 05:19:11.340 Terrific, I don't think you called the timeout because the team was performing well. I don't think that's why they do it 05:19:11.340 --> 05:19:15.740 So I get it entirely but yeah, sometimes you win a couple rounds in the coach 05:19:15.980 --> 05:19:19.180 Still doesn't like what they're seeing and think that there's potential to do better 05:19:19.180 --> 05:19:22.580 So call a timeout early maybe sell your players down and success will follow 05:19:22.580 --> 05:19:27.540 We'll go back to reading for round 5, this is the bombsite where Adrien really started 05:19:27.540 --> 05:19:31.300 things off with an explosive nitro cell up through the laundry hatch as well as a swing 05:19:31.300 --> 05:19:32.820 out on the white window. 05:19:32.820 --> 05:19:37.380 He's brought a sentry and actually has not brought a nitro this time around, Barb and 05:19:37.380 --> 05:19:42.060 Impax to play with, his teammates ripped the nitros instead, Spike are just playing down 05:19:42.060 --> 05:19:46.580 below the new hatch with potential to toss that up for an early pick if they get balls 05:19:46.580 --> 05:19:50.740 he's dropping that hatch, it's a run out instead and it's the air jab! 05:19:50.740 --> 05:19:54.180 Adrian goes flying into Ashen to plunge for his first frag. 05:19:55.680 --> 05:19:57.280 Well, Ashen is on the board. 05:19:57.280 --> 05:20:00.520 Maybe Shark found his first kill in the previous round, 05:20:00.520 --> 05:20:03.080 and that settles all the goose eggs that we saw now. 05:20:03.080 --> 05:20:05.000 Just a couple of breadsticks for some of these players, 05:20:05.000 --> 05:20:08.600 so gotta get them out of the bakery at some point. 05:20:08.600 --> 05:20:10.400 Getting rid of a utility-based operator 05:20:10.400 --> 05:20:13.880 like the recruits is a good first grab, 05:20:13.880 --> 05:20:16.800 but I do think there are other players on Wildcard, 05:20:16.800 --> 05:20:19.960 operators in particular, that would have been a better target. 05:20:19.960 --> 05:20:27.040 I'm just I see a player like Adrian who's been one of the most alive and active from a kill department across Fortress and now here on 05:20:27.040 --> 05:20:30.020 Cafe and I think that's a big loss irrespective of who he's playing on 05:20:31.600 --> 05:20:35.780 Give a maybe a little bit more breathing room down goes diffuser at the hands of spikers 05:20:35.780 --> 05:20:41.220 I guess also been pretty good seven kills two deaths. He'll have to do even more as Kansan bleeds out on the ground 05:20:41.720 --> 05:20:43.720 They circling around 05:20:43.720 --> 05:20:47.040 I don't know if Keyneson is retrievable. 05:20:47.040 --> 05:20:49.040 Diffuse kit being planted by Hot and Cold. 05:20:49.040 --> 05:20:50.760 Ashen is here to protect. 05:20:50.760 --> 05:20:52.360 Looking over towards Fireplace. 05:20:52.360 --> 05:20:54.880 A beautiful shot by Baby Shark. 05:20:54.880 --> 05:20:56.160 My God! 05:20:56.160 --> 05:21:00.240 Gavin gets sent to the afterlife on that one. 05:21:00.240 --> 05:21:03.200 Sitting on that skylight is such a strong position 05:21:03.200 --> 05:21:04.840 and he just could not contend. 05:21:04.840 --> 05:21:06.520 Hot and Cold eliminating Spiker. 05:21:06.520 --> 05:21:09.000 That's probably target number one. 05:21:09.000 --> 05:21:11.360 And they're looking for the win on this round. 05:21:11.360 --> 05:21:12.960 Diffuser at the halfway point. 05:21:12.960 --> 05:21:18.200 3v3 has now finally reached the M80, head back to the bomb site. 05:21:18.200 --> 05:21:24.400 Baby Stark almost takes him down, Kansan gets one, Ashen a double for his third on the round, 05:21:24.400 --> 05:21:26.400 making a fourth! 05:21:26.400 --> 05:21:28.400 M80 take the lead! 05:21:28.400 --> 05:21:33.760 Oh Liam Paz, welcome to cafe, you were maybe a bit quiet playing on those shield rolls 05:21:33.760 --> 05:21:39.000 earlier in the map, but a huge multi-kill to be able to get M80 into the lead for the 05:21:39.000 --> 05:21:43.840 first time on the second map this series and Parker what around it was to come 05:21:43.840 --> 05:21:49.080 through from M80 I mean it was a nice retake of top red coming up from Wild 05:21:49.080 --> 05:21:52.440 Card in the midst of that you saw Spiker rotating up those red stairs 05:21:52.440 --> 05:21:56.240 Kansas trying to push up through bar a couple different players collapsing on 05:21:56.240 --> 05:22:00.680 that top red position but as everybody on Wild Card was taking the top floor 05:22:00.680 --> 05:22:05.520 regaining it back under their control and maybe we're planting in the site 05:22:05.520 --> 05:22:13.320 Sure you're getting nasty stuff in the skylight, that's great, but you're on the top floor with your entire team, and Haughton's planting the diffuser. 05:22:13.320 --> 05:22:21.240 Stats them up so perfectly for that post-plant, the objective focus game, but MAD loved to play, continued to shine now on cafe, 05:22:21.240 --> 05:22:26.320 actually will pop-off dance after he gets his 4k, and it is finally a lead for MAD. 05:22:27.760 --> 05:22:31.200 It took quite some time, but we finally arrived here, so... 05:22:31.200 --> 05:22:40.200 Kudos to them, and 3 in a row for Emadion is certainly quite the feat, and they've done it without changing up much of this operator lineup. 05:22:40.200 --> 05:22:45.200 They're trotting out very similar ops, obviously the big exception was the previous round. 05:22:45.200 --> 05:22:55.200 If user has played the gridlock, every single round so far on attack, he will change it up now and will go with the twitch, as this lineup has been completely blown up. 05:22:55.200 --> 05:23:00.760 up. Ace now being brought for the second time in a row, just the second time in this first 05:23:00.760 --> 05:23:07.160 half. Flexibility on the side of M80. Wildcard still using Intel but nowhere near as much. 05:23:07.160 --> 05:23:11.280 No bulletproof cameras, just the Yo-Kai drones to deal with. I think this might be in response 05:23:11.280 --> 05:23:16.040 to the constant Doka B usage on the side of M80. If that is the call made by Wildcard, 05:23:16.040 --> 05:23:18.440 Kudos to them. I think it is a smart one. 05:23:18.440 --> 05:23:22.560 Well they are still going to be bringing that echo that Kansan was playing last time that 05:23:22.560 --> 05:23:28.340 They defended on the bottom floor. He ended up posting up just inside of VIP protected by Adrian not in that same position 05:23:28.560 --> 05:23:31.640 instead gonna be similarly close inside of whiskey, but 05:23:32.280 --> 05:23:36.860 I'm curious what I made you really want to do on this push Parker. They dipped out from the buck 05:23:36.860 --> 05:23:41.320 They haven't brought as much soft destruction and so it speaks to me like they're probably gonna go a bit more 05:23:41.480 --> 05:23:45.120 Horizontal with this push doesn't mean it's a rush doesn't mean it's gonna be chaotic 05:23:45.120 --> 05:23:48.820 But they kind of have a different set of tools and they could take this a slightly different way 05:23:48.820 --> 05:23:55.820 See? Even still, recognizing there are no roamers on these top two floors, Gunner will take the space as it's given to him for free. 05:23:55.820 --> 05:24:01.820 A lot of pressure is still happening over towards base right now. You see Hawke and Colt tossing in some of these helmets, even challenging the big player. 05:24:01.820 --> 05:24:05.820 His teammates are trading out towards the garage side of the map, but that's going to be okay. 05:24:05.820 --> 05:24:08.820 The brunt of this push is still being put together nicely. 05:24:08.820 --> 05:24:17.400 to recruit the guys early again utility ops being played and just pure utility 05:24:17.400 --> 05:24:21.680 secondary utility mind you if user will find baby shark if you're taking some 05:24:21.680 --> 05:24:26.640 damage in the process early set of gas canisters deployed by spiker now 05:24:26.640 --> 05:24:31.120 yokai is still up on the side of kanzan too it looks like he's got two hard to 05:24:31.120 --> 05:24:36.040 tell if his third is there but he is piling around just trying to get 05:24:36.040 --> 05:24:39.800 information as to where this advance is coming from now situated over by whiskey and now you've 05:24:39.800 --> 05:24:44.200 there you go you got a good read of where they are all positions spread out so he will have a read 05:24:44.200 --> 05:24:49.880 as to where these attackers are coming from line up those good cans and dies you will have to 05:24:49.880 --> 05:24:53.960 govern those yokai's from the afterlife spiker finds his second kill bay on the board now to 05:24:54.600 --> 05:25:00.520 bay inside of bakery he's last man standing he's taken down gunner in the gunfight so gavin could 05:25:00.520 --> 05:25:05.800 try to get his teammate up or he might just go for kills they surely have a read on bay's position 05:25:05.800 --> 05:25:08.720 but that read gone after five seconds. 05:25:08.720 --> 05:25:12.000 Faze lined up, playing this pixel angle on the B bomb site. 05:25:12.000 --> 05:25:14.680 He's giving himself away, re-engaging. 05:25:14.680 --> 05:25:16.640 Gavin won the engagement earlier. 05:25:16.640 --> 05:25:18.640 He's trying to get up the doke-a-bee, 05:25:18.640 --> 05:25:20.240 almost playing for the Fuse Kid, 05:25:20.240 --> 05:25:22.320 out goes the pocket impact, 05:25:22.320 --> 05:25:24.600 but Gavin still wins it! 05:25:26.000 --> 05:25:29.160 What on earth just happened? 05:25:29.160 --> 05:25:31.480 M.A.D. takes their fourth in a row. 05:25:31.480 --> 05:25:33.840 The first half is in the books. 05:25:33.840 --> 05:25:38.000 Absolutely baffled by that play from Gavin. 05:25:38.000 --> 05:25:41.600 I have no words, so let's let the desk break things down after the first half. 05:25:41.600 --> 05:25:42.600 Good Lord. 05:25:42.600 --> 05:25:44.300 Jesse, you're baffled. 05:25:44.300 --> 05:25:45.300 I'm befuddled. 05:25:45.300 --> 05:25:49.920 I mean, this is a wild turn of events from the first two rounds that Wildcard were able 05:25:49.920 --> 05:25:50.920 to take. 05:25:50.920 --> 05:25:57.440 Lacks, we saw four in a row from M80, almost every single one, defined by a clutch, defined 05:25:57.440 --> 05:25:59.240 by some hero plays. 05:25:59.240 --> 05:26:02.160 Maybe it's not the way they want to do it, but they are happy that they're doing it 05:26:02.160 --> 05:26:03.160 this way. 05:26:03.160 --> 05:26:17.160 I want to have to rely on a single player to be able to pull out big moments, but at the end of the day when you're looking at a team like M80 that has won two majors, I mean you're going to have big plays, you're going to have big players and Gavini is no exception to that. Gunners no exception to that, but specifically I mean Gavini here. 05:26:17.160 --> 05:26:27.160 I mean this was a tremendous clutch coming out of him, just good display of skill in these positions that he finds himself in. And this is where we've highlighted, wait are we doing Gavini or Gunner? 05:26:27.160 --> 05:26:28.160 A little bit of that. 05:26:28.160 --> 05:26:30.160 Well, okay, it is a little bit more... 05:26:30.160 --> 05:26:32.160 I was confused a little bit for a second. 05:26:32.160 --> 05:26:36.160 But, I mean, again, all of these players at any given moment can be able to pop off time and time again. 05:26:36.160 --> 05:26:40.160 Even in the second round prior, I mean, that was a huge 4K coming out of Ash, 05:26:40.160 --> 05:26:42.160 and then even in that last round, the 1v2 would give in. 05:26:42.160 --> 05:26:44.160 He once again being able to pull it off. 05:26:44.160 --> 05:26:47.160 And both these two players have always performed exceptionally well. 05:26:47.160 --> 05:26:50.160 It's good to still see Ash in his performance. 05:26:50.160 --> 05:26:51.160 I did like what Jesse was talking about. 05:26:51.160 --> 05:26:54.160 He wasn't finding a lot of success in the early rounds on those shields. 05:26:54.160 --> 05:26:55.160 He immediately pipped its off of it. 05:26:55.160 --> 05:26:57.280 it's off of it, boom, now he's on the leaderboard, 05:26:57.280 --> 05:26:58.920 now he's getting impactful kills, 05:26:58.920 --> 05:27:00.240 and but it's good to be able to transition, 05:27:00.240 --> 05:27:01.920 test the waters, if shields aren't working, 05:27:01.920 --> 05:27:03.200 sometimes you need to swap off them, 05:27:03.200 --> 05:27:05.280 sometimes need play something that allows you to frag, 05:27:05.280 --> 05:27:06.760 get into the building a little quicker, 05:27:06.760 --> 05:27:08.120 move around the map quieter 05:27:08.120 --> 05:27:09.400 that a shield just doesn't allow you, 05:27:09.400 --> 05:27:11.320 and again, I mean, this is the same thing 05:27:11.320 --> 05:27:12.640 that we've been seeing time and time again 05:27:12.640 --> 05:27:14.480 out of them, maybe, and on their attacks, 05:27:14.480 --> 05:27:16.400 they can pivot any single role, 05:27:16.400 --> 05:27:17.960 given their flexibility, versatility 05:27:17.960 --> 05:27:18.800 that they have on the team. 05:27:18.800 --> 05:27:20.000 Yeah, that's the game plan, 05:27:20.000 --> 05:27:21.720 and it's nice to see Ash playing shields 05:27:21.720 --> 05:27:23.320 at Olivier Todd, cold happening to do it, 05:27:23.320 --> 05:27:31.780 He can play flexible operators himself and Ashton being able to have the heads of knowledge and his teammates to adjust when things don't work specifically for him. 05:27:31.780 --> 05:27:35.900 But that being said, from the side of Wildcard, you can almost see the frustration. 05:27:35.900 --> 05:27:41.320 It felt like when they looked at their cameras, you could see the frustration on Spiker's face, everything that's going on. 05:27:41.320 --> 05:27:48.820 They're very frustrated with how M80 are clutching some of these rounds because it's small positions where you're like, yeah, gunner walking up the white stairs. 05:27:48.820 --> 05:27:50.560 Yeah, Gavin's in a 1v1. 05:27:50.560 --> 05:27:52.400 Yes, anything can go any way. 05:27:52.400 --> 05:27:54.440 But at the end of the day, those are small little areas 05:27:54.440 --> 05:27:56.760 that if Wildcard's paying attention to it, 05:27:56.760 --> 05:27:59.280 Gunner doesn't get a 3k and help clutch the round out. 05:27:59.280 --> 05:28:02.000 You know, it doesn't put them in losing situations. 05:28:02.000 --> 05:28:04.340 And I think that's what Wildcard is trying to focus on 05:28:04.340 --> 05:28:07.440 going into this next half is eliminating those gaps 05:28:07.440 --> 05:28:10.880 because that's what M80 is attacking on, essentially. 05:28:10.880 --> 05:28:12.320 Right, and this is siege, right? 05:28:12.320 --> 05:28:14.240 Those little things, they add up 05:28:14.240 --> 05:28:16.720 and you keep losing those rounds on your defense path. 05:28:16.720 --> 05:28:17.560 In challenge. 05:28:17.560 --> 05:28:19.880 Right, you're setting yourself up for failure. 05:28:19.880 --> 05:28:22.120 See if Wildcard here can make this act 05:28:22.120 --> 05:28:27.740 Comeback happen can get these two rounds back. They have a lot of work to do though on the attacking side guys 05:28:30.040 --> 05:28:38.040 Yeah, great points all around an m80 just seemed like a very well oiled machine at this point in time the score line across both maps 05:28:38.360 --> 05:28:41.200 11 for m83 for wild card 05:28:41.200 --> 05:28:46.680 And while I don't think there's been as much of a yawning chasm between their abilities like that 05:28:46.680 --> 05:28:53.860 I do think that M80 has looked like they've been in full control of this series with the exception of those first two rounds 05:28:54.240 --> 05:28:56.240 In the first half, so I 05:28:56.680 --> 05:28:58.560 I don't know 05:28:58.560 --> 05:29:03.760 I just think this M80 team continues to make improvements at a very quick rate 05:29:03.760 --> 05:29:06.480 And they didn't really need to do that much to improve 05:29:06.480 --> 05:29:09.920 I mean obviously losing Kino Hertz and we didn't talk about this quite extensively 05:29:10.720 --> 05:29:11.800 but 05:29:11.800 --> 05:29:14.420 This is a team that is just they're firing on all cylinders 05:29:14.420 --> 05:29:19.420 Gunners, Gunner said, Erm, I think he took some damage during the prep phase, do you see what happens? 05:29:19.420 --> 05:29:22.420 He impacted himself, trying to find the road of fate. 05:29:23.420 --> 05:29:25.420 So, it happens. 05:29:25.420 --> 05:29:26.420 Okay. 05:29:27.420 --> 05:29:29.420 It happens from time to time. 05:29:29.420 --> 05:29:30.420 It's a small loopsy. 05:29:30.420 --> 05:29:32.420 It's a small loopsy, it'll be okay. 05:29:32.420 --> 05:29:38.420 Always plays here, very often we'll play the Skull List here on this site, as he does on a lot of different sites. 05:29:38.420 --> 05:29:41.420 Gunners, again, played quite a range of offers on the attack, 05:29:41.420 --> 05:29:46.420 attack, but has played almost about 50% of all defense rounds here on Solus. 05:29:46.420 --> 05:29:48.020 Just enough to lead you in. 05:29:48.020 --> 05:29:52.340 Choosing the Malusi this time around impacts one way or another though in struggling with 05:29:52.340 --> 05:29:54.340 it regardless. 05:29:54.340 --> 05:29:57.900 Smiting, dining, defense looking very similar from M80, what would seem for them earlier 05:29:57.900 --> 05:29:58.900 in the stage. 05:29:58.900 --> 05:30:03.180 You've got a lot of long angle guns with the user from Gavin holding those egg oxes trying 05:30:03.180 --> 05:30:06.020 to take those fights across the top floor. 05:30:06.020 --> 05:30:10.700 Wildcard, so far don't seem incredibly eager to challenge those top floor fights. 05:30:10.700 --> 05:30:13.380 They've got a lot of players just kind of outside the mining window. 05:30:13.380 --> 05:30:17.060 They could go for a fast play in towards the bombsite if they want to, 05:30:17.060 --> 05:30:20.340 but there's also plenty of pressure up above that they would like to alleviate. 05:30:20.340 --> 05:30:23.420 So different goals from these players, they start to pressure the top floor. 05:30:24.180 --> 05:30:26.580 It's an awful lot of damage done to Kansan, by the way, 05:30:26.580 --> 05:30:28.740 and now Bay will fall by the wayside. 05:30:28.740 --> 05:30:30.820 A run out through the door, Adrian gets it. 05:30:30.820 --> 05:30:33.940 He was expecting a jump out on top of White as well. 05:30:33.940 --> 05:30:36.500 Really well positioned for the European player on this squad. 05:30:36.500 --> 05:30:38.780 One of two, mind you, baby shark. 05:30:38.780 --> 05:30:41.320 Also, European, last I checked, France is still in Europe. 05:30:41.320 --> 05:30:48.160 M80 with that early aggression, and now they find themselves back in the same place they were in when this round of dance tied up. 05:30:48.160 --> 05:30:52.120 One minute and 30 seconds just eclipsed, they were starting to get into the execute. 05:30:52.120 --> 05:30:58.720 Refuse, get in the hands of Spiker, he's been gunning a lot. He tends to be one of the more active, fragging IGLs. 05:30:58.720 --> 05:31:03.520 Well, this time around, he's going to rely an awful lot on the two Europeans to watch him. 05:31:03.520 --> 05:31:11.520 And Gunner did die to a body shot, so I'm not saying the impact self-damage was the only thing that got him killed, but it didn't help. 05:31:11.520 --> 05:31:22.520 2v2 still down on each side, leads to a 3v3, man counts still up, Gavin got two massive kills on the top floor, now it's up to Wildcard to put this together without all of the players available for the executes. 05:31:22.520 --> 05:31:29.520 Spike with the fuse kit is over by White Stairs, so he's likely going to try to get down those stairs and try to make his way into dining for the plant. 05:31:29.520 --> 05:31:33.060 There's a lot of threats they got to worry about action at the bottom of red 05:31:33.060 --> 05:31:35.920 You've got the fuser in a lot and cold lurking around the site as well. Oh 05:31:39.760 --> 05:31:41.760 Ashing a missed opportunity 05:31:42.960 --> 05:31:48.320 You thought he had one on the run finished off by baby shark. He's getting better the more he settles into this match 05:31:48.320 --> 05:31:49.600 It is hard to attack 05:31:49.600 --> 05:31:51.880 So the fact that he's able to thrive in this position 05:31:52.280 --> 05:31:56.520 Who goes to him on into future the last two four and maybe now ten seconds to go 05:31:56.520 --> 05:32:02.520 So, down goes Adrian, the drop from Spiker, he's all by himself, 6 seconds, 5 seconds, 05:32:02.520 --> 05:32:08.320 you just gotta hide if you're M80, excellent final round for M80, I'm cold, decides to 05:32:08.320 --> 05:32:13.440 go over the ego peak yet again, Gavin did that too man, M80 are certainly feeling themselves, 05:32:13.440 --> 05:32:18.000 what a demoralizing position I'm sure Wildcard feel like they are in, and they've already 05:32:18.000 --> 05:32:23.720 called their time out too, so there's really no way to fix this in the moment. 05:32:23.720 --> 05:32:28.080 the round for M80. They continue on their streak. They are two rounds away from 05:32:28.080 --> 05:32:32.920 facing off against DZ for a spot at the major. Glad you brought up attack time 05:32:32.920 --> 05:32:37.800 up. Our since Lagoan is called his back. It has been non-stop round wins three 05:32:37.800 --> 05:32:42.040 straight now from M80. Just been dominating running away with this game. 05:32:42.040 --> 05:32:46.840 It's five straight since Wogcarve put their team with a lead here on cafe. 05:32:46.840 --> 05:32:49.640 And you come back to this round number seven. It really does come down. 05:32:49.640 --> 05:32:53.160 So just those long angle guns that M80 were bringing just hit some brilliant 05:32:53.160 --> 05:32:56.880 shots they started of course top floor with Gavin hitting two nice kills and 05:32:56.880 --> 05:33:01.620 then the fuser hitting two nice during the low 2v3 push as well coming through 05:33:01.620 --> 05:33:05.080 from wild card just really sharp shots coming out from there made their 05:33:05.080 --> 05:33:10.280 positions very nice as well. So I think those individuals really shining Gavin in 05:33:10.280 --> 05:33:14.520 particular I think has to be highlighted not currently top dragging but have the 05:33:14.520 --> 05:33:20.640 massive 1v1s end out round six and also in a gas where we talked a lot about 05:33:20.640 --> 05:33:26.040 birthdays myself and games turn 24 back on Saturday so plenty to celebrate if you 05:33:26.040 --> 05:33:29.640 can win this game as well he'll be feeling very good one step close to 05:33:29.640 --> 05:33:36.760 Salt Lake City I I always appreciate the legwork that you do to find where 05:33:36.760 --> 05:33:41.400 people live what they do and then I don't know what else you do with that 05:33:41.400 --> 05:33:44.280 information Jesse but you have a lot of power 05:33:44.280 --> 05:33:53.520 these people and they're whereabouts in their locations my database don't worry 05:33:53.520 --> 05:33:58.620 about it you get blood spots in the broadcast that's what you need there is 05:33:58.620 --> 05:34:03.360 no way for you to just freely input data you are the loudest type of keys like 05:34:03.360 --> 05:34:08.520 they owe you money wildcard you just started hitting their keys particularly 05:34:08.520 --> 05:34:12.520 with a huge key, if you like that transition, as they start to try to pull their zone. 05:34:12.520 --> 05:34:14.520 Game and back! 05:34:14.520 --> 05:34:17.520 Oh, round 8, it's not going to get easier, Parker. 05:34:17.520 --> 05:34:20.520 They have to attack once you're reading now. Very similar to the bomb site, they just attack, 05:34:20.520 --> 05:34:24.520 where the top floor remains an important part of the defense. 05:34:24.520 --> 05:34:27.520 The user, once again, bringing that ACOG on the two properties. 05:34:27.520 --> 05:34:31.520 The first to fall to Adria and trade it out nicely as these players swarm through the top floor, 05:34:31.520 --> 05:34:34.520 and it's a big man advantage to walk right through by two. 05:34:34.520 --> 05:34:36.840 Oh, it continues to grow. 05:34:36.840 --> 05:34:38.480 M80 left with just hot and cold. 05:34:38.480 --> 05:34:39.800 What a sweep that was. 05:34:39.800 --> 05:34:42.960 And rocking the old wildcard skin on the FAMAS too. 05:34:42.960 --> 05:34:44.840 A good shout there. 05:34:44.840 --> 05:34:46.840 Spiker leading by example, his team 05:34:46.840 --> 05:34:48.080 hoping to turn this corner. 05:34:48.080 --> 05:34:53.200 It will end the streak that M80 was riding on at five rounds, 05:34:53.200 --> 05:34:54.800 closing the gap to just two. 05:34:54.800 --> 05:34:56.680 But yeah, I mean, a lot of players 05:34:56.680 --> 05:34:58.760 chewing on their lips, chewing on their fingers, 05:34:58.760 --> 05:35:04.360 fidgeting because they know how much pressure there is on them. 05:35:04.360 --> 05:35:14.760 But every comeback starts in one round, you have to close that gap, you have to do it in a hurry, because M80 is on the presumed favorable side here, and this again, is their map. 05:35:15.360 --> 05:35:33.360 Yeah, it's important to see confidence coming out from Wildcard, and we did see it in that round there, Adrian's so important in that round, being able to just get in through cocktail, right swing in one of those windows, get the massive two-piece, and the mix of that top floor chaos is able to find both the bodies of Ashen and Gunner pushing in through that top floor. 05:35:33.360 --> 05:35:39.640 So they get a lot of early value comes off the back of a logic bomb comes off the back of some of that Intel from spiker as well 05:35:39.840 --> 05:35:43.080 Playing the snake in the IGL role can be really impactful, too 05:35:43.080 --> 05:35:46.440 I know we typically talk about snake as an entry fragger 05:35:46.440 --> 05:35:52.200 That's usually how the proteins use snake, but I remember talking with some Ubisoft developers 05:35:52.720 --> 05:35:58.760 Back before snake was announced or released and they said yeah this this new operator that we're working on for year 11 05:35:58.760 --> 05:36:04.840 It's gonna be really big for IGLs that have a lot of information that kind of drip fed me some of that some of that intel 05:36:04.840 --> 05:36:06.280 And I was like, okay, okay 05:36:06.280 --> 05:36:12.200 It's good to see any of the IGLs kind of using that info and feeding for us their team and powering guys like Adrian's to get these 05:36:12.200 --> 05:36:14.280 Kills that really start to pop off on these pushes 05:36:15.400 --> 05:36:17.400 Yeah, I mean obviously we're gonna talk a lot about 05:36:17.520 --> 05:36:21.080 Spikers own frag abilities because he has nine kills on his own 05:36:21.080 --> 05:36:23.840 But how many more of those kills on the same as he was responsible for right? 05:36:23.840 --> 05:36:30.820 So the fact that he's able to do this from that leadership aspect and do it on his own as well with a gun in hand 05:36:31.220 --> 05:36:35.140 Again, the fragging IGL doesn't really exist these days 05:36:35.140 --> 05:36:41.320 And when you think of the fragging IGL a lot of people will go back to K-drew with the way that that old UK squad 05:36:41.320 --> 05:36:43.420 That he used to be on for so long played it now 05:36:43.420 --> 05:36:50.160 It's biker to take up that mantle though the rest of the IGLs are towards the bottom of the North American lead standings 05:36:50.160 --> 05:36:51.800 is Spiker sitting near the top. 05:36:51.800 --> 05:36:54.520 So while Wildcard has had some struggles, 05:36:54.520 --> 05:36:56.200 Spiker has remained consistent, 05:36:56.200 --> 05:36:59.160 and it's nice to see him settling into this role. 05:36:59.160 --> 05:37:00.400 Yeah, a lot of the fragging ideas 05:37:00.400 --> 05:37:01.640 just are in other regions. 05:37:01.640 --> 05:37:02.880 When you got Looking Back in Europe, 05:37:02.880 --> 05:37:04.800 you got Vulps inside of South America. 05:37:04.800 --> 05:37:06.680 Spiker certainly embodying that title 05:37:06.680 --> 05:37:08.880 more than most here in NA. 05:37:08.880 --> 05:37:10.880 Actually, Andrew of the series is the only player 05:37:10.880 --> 05:37:13.520 on Wildcard above a 1.0 KD ratio. 05:37:13.520 --> 05:37:16.080 So he really has been fragging since this kickoff began 05:37:16.080 --> 05:37:20.080 and is continuing that in this playoff series versus M80. 05:37:20.080 --> 05:37:22.880 rambling a bit once again because this is going to be a kitchen defense for 05:37:22.880 --> 05:37:27.760 men without a Rome presence, which means it's going to be a slow one, but that's to 05:37:27.760 --> 05:37:29.640 be expected here on cafe. 05:37:30.640 --> 05:37:32.800 Hoping to see what this push ends up looking like. 05:37:32.800 --> 05:37:35.760 The Stens is also being brought out by this wildcard team. 05:37:35.760 --> 05:37:39.760 And you can see Spikers starting to draw lines throughout the bomb site, hoping 05:37:39.760 --> 05:37:41.640 to confline the site and they go for the plant. 05:37:43.480 --> 05:37:44.920 Kansan will start things off. 05:37:44.920 --> 05:37:46.080 Gunner goes down. 05:37:46.080 --> 05:37:50.080 This might be the comeback materializing for yet another round as 05:37:50.080 --> 05:37:53.280 they've lost Gunner, you've lost those gas canisters. 05:37:53.280 --> 05:37:54.480 ROU projector goes out. 05:37:54.480 --> 05:37:56.780 I don't think it bounced the way that Specter wanted, 05:37:56.780 --> 05:37:59.480 at least from the reaction on his face. 05:37:59.480 --> 05:38:01.480 But it might be just enough to conceal their draw. 05:38:01.480 --> 05:38:04.980 Knock off of the archives as the echo gets knocked off 05:38:04.980 --> 05:38:06.780 because of that logic bomb. 05:38:06.780 --> 05:38:08.480 And now Baby Shark will contest with Gavin. 05:38:08.480 --> 05:38:09.480 It's an ugly fight. 05:38:09.480 --> 05:38:11.180 He loses a lot of HP in the process, 05:38:11.180 --> 05:38:13.080 but he walks away with the victory. 05:38:13.080 --> 05:38:15.480 He and Adrian punished both down, 05:38:15.480 --> 05:38:20.160 but not out, as Diffuser has a great lead and incredible cross, 05:38:20.160 --> 05:38:23.220 doing so much damage in the process. 05:38:23.220 --> 05:38:25.400 Ganzin on a shred of HP. 05:38:25.400 --> 05:38:27.360 Spiker will need to retrieve his teammates 05:38:27.360 --> 05:38:29.160 unless Ganzin can do it, but Spiker 05:38:29.160 --> 05:38:30.720 is in the middle of the bomb site. 05:38:30.720 --> 05:38:33.080 He's completely alone. 05:38:33.080 --> 05:38:35.000 Yokai drone skirting in front of him, 05:38:35.000 --> 05:38:37.080 sets up eyes now trained in his direction 05:38:37.080 --> 05:38:39.920 from the remaining M80 players, still upright. 05:38:39.920 --> 05:38:44.400 Ganzin trying to sneak his way in under the cover of darkness. 05:38:44.400 --> 05:38:46.600 he'll be able to get these players back. 05:38:46.600 --> 05:38:48.840 Both Adrian and Baby Shark are in the cover of their positions, 05:38:48.840 --> 05:38:52.880 but Kansan knows that Defuser is lurking somewhere nearby. 05:38:52.880 --> 05:38:55.040 He finds Ashen, time running out. 05:38:55.040 --> 05:38:57.960 He has no choice but to watch as the Yo-Kai drone is shot. 05:38:57.960 --> 05:39:00.680 Defuse kick going down to Spike or pull it off. 05:39:00.680 --> 05:39:03.400 Defuser walking in, Kansan blocking them out. 05:39:03.400 --> 05:39:05.640 Han cold will lead to clutch. 05:39:05.640 --> 05:39:07.880 This is completely turned on its head, 05:39:07.880 --> 05:39:10.800 and Han will get finished off by Kansan. 05:39:10.800 --> 05:39:18.460 An unbelievable final moment of the round as Kansan saves it and Spiker trusts him completely. 05:39:18.460 --> 05:39:26.160 That was absurd, Parker. He shot the Yokai Cam with, I think, genuinely on triple zero, 05:39:26.160 --> 05:39:32.000 less than a tenth of a second when Kansan kills that Yokai, stops the plant from being denied. 05:39:32.000 --> 05:39:38.300 That could have been an entirely different round if he just doesn't click his button a little bit faster. 05:39:38.300 --> 05:39:47.300 Kansan saving things on a sliver of HP, maybe literally one HP, playing in that clutch position alongside Spiker. 05:39:47.300 --> 05:39:56.300 That should have absolutely been it for M80. The Yokai from Cotton Cold was perfect, but he's just not able to deny it in time. 05:39:56.300 --> 05:40:03.300 He waited until the last second to try to deny it, and I pray we get it on a replay, Parker, because it was just a ridiculous shot. 05:40:03.300 --> 05:40:09.780 Right after that clip, we just missed it, but Kansan shooting the Okai Cam was ridiculous 05:40:09.780 --> 05:40:14.380 in that moment, and then the fact that he wins the 1v1 too, I mean, again, just won 0HP 05:40:14.380 --> 05:40:20.740 when he makes that play happen, an unbelievable clutch from Kansan. 05:40:20.740 --> 05:40:23.740 I would be hated if I was hot and cold. 05:40:23.740 --> 05:40:26.380 That was crazy. 05:40:26.380 --> 05:40:27.380 Just crazy. 05:40:27.380 --> 05:40:29.380 Attackers have discovered the location of Obama. 05:40:29.380 --> 05:40:31.380 And that would have been, for the record, that would have been 05:40:31.380 --> 05:40:34.380 series point formating if they pulled it off. 05:40:34.380 --> 05:40:39.380 Wildcard, what unbelievable fortunes in Kansan is just, 05:40:39.380 --> 05:40:41.380 he's a terrific player. 05:40:41.380 --> 05:40:44.380 He hasn't really been talked about this much so far, 05:40:44.380 --> 05:40:47.380 boot kickoff, despite how good he has been. 05:40:47.380 --> 05:40:48.380 Yup. 05:40:49.380 --> 05:40:51.380 He's not been the top rated player on his team. 05:40:51.380 --> 05:40:52.380 He's down in the middle of the pack. 05:40:52.380 --> 05:40:54.380 He's actually 26th of all the 50 players. 05:40:54.380 --> 05:40:57.580 50 players, but it we're not that long removed from where 05:40:57.580 --> 05:40:59.980 canzen was statistically one of the best players in North 05:40:59.980 --> 05:41:04.180 America all of last year and easily outduel the best of the 05:41:04.180 --> 05:41:06.580 best. He does it domestically. He does it internationally, 05:41:06.880 --> 05:41:09.280 not really known for his game sense, no more for his 05:41:09.280 --> 05:41:11.980 mechanical ability, but his game sense on that particular 05:41:11.980 --> 05:41:15.880 round was unimpeachable and he and spiker work together to 05:41:15.880 --> 05:41:17.780 deliver an incredible final moment. 05:41:18.380 --> 05:41:20.980 I'll say it again progress earlier in the cast, but 05:41:20.980 --> 05:41:24.980 Canjens number one game, the best performance of his career came to the 05:41:24.980 --> 05:41:30.260 Munich Major last season. It was a 15-2 map that he played up against none 05:41:30.260 --> 05:41:34.620 other than M80 themselves, so we know how good he can be when he plays up 05:41:34.620 --> 05:41:39.860 against his four here of M80. He really does all the work necessary in that last 05:41:39.860 --> 05:41:44.340 round to keep them competitive on this second map. Gunner goes for a bit of a 05:41:44.340 --> 05:41:48.580 plenote outside of Bakery, had a target outside on the window, but unfortunately 05:41:48.580 --> 05:41:51.300 he wasn't able to hit his shot, so back on the Solus, 05:41:51.300 --> 05:41:53.700 as we so commonly come to expect from him, 05:41:53.700 --> 05:41:55.140 gets read a little bit by a wild card 05:41:55.140 --> 05:41:57.140 and they don't get hard punished by that. 05:41:58.340 --> 05:41:59.700 Bombsite top floor here as they work 05:41:59.700 --> 05:42:01.940 to try to clear this top couple of rumors. 05:42:05.700 --> 05:42:09.780 A very patient play from Kansan now on this window. 05:42:09.780 --> 05:42:12.460 He almost died in the very first round 05:42:12.460 --> 05:42:13.780 of the second half, if you recall, 05:42:13.780 --> 05:42:16.260 when he was on repellent in a very similar position. 05:42:16.260 --> 05:42:17.780 He put himself in harm's way only 05:42:17.780 --> 05:42:19.880 so that he could pull off his hard breach. 05:42:21.280 --> 05:42:25.760 X-Kyros is far and away the best hard breaching tool 05:42:25.760 --> 05:42:26.600 for long range. 05:42:26.600 --> 05:42:28.720 You are easily the safest that you can be, 05:42:28.720 --> 05:42:31.600 but you still have to expose yourself for just a period of time. 05:42:31.600 --> 05:42:33.960 Adrian dies, Ashen colors shortly thereafter. 05:42:33.960 --> 05:42:35.760 I feel like we've said this about four times 05:42:35.760 --> 05:42:37.480 in this particular series. 05:42:37.480 --> 05:42:39.440 Kansan will die shortly thereafter. 05:42:39.440 --> 05:42:42.440 So all the hard breach now gone from wild card 05:42:42.440 --> 05:42:43.520 and I didn't get to see it, 05:42:43.520 --> 05:42:47.060 but Kansan still had 16 individual X-Kyros blasts 05:42:47.060 --> 05:42:48.160 in his pocket? 05:42:48.160 --> 05:42:48.500 Yes. 05:42:48.500 --> 05:42:50.460 You spawn in with 18. 05:42:50.460 --> 05:42:51.940 So he was only able to use two. 05:42:51.940 --> 05:42:54.940 If that's correct, that is quite devastating for Wildcard. 05:42:54.940 --> 05:42:55.940 Gunner takes down one. 05:42:55.940 --> 05:42:58.540 Hunt cold gets beaten by Bay. 05:42:58.540 --> 05:42:59.820 He was looking for another. 05:42:59.820 --> 05:43:01.260 But there is a fade away from MAD. 05:43:01.260 --> 05:43:02.780 As now, Spiker swings into the building. 05:43:02.780 --> 05:43:04.460 Spiker holding that diffuse kit, looking 05:43:04.460 --> 05:43:07.540 to break double digits as he hunts down along with his teammate, 05:43:07.540 --> 05:43:09.460 the three remaining players of MAD. 05:43:09.460 --> 05:43:11.540 Not a lot of time to work with Jesse. 05:43:11.540 --> 05:43:13.260 Only 40 seconds here. 05:43:13.260 --> 05:43:14.060 They might get another. 05:43:14.060 --> 05:43:14.560 Oh! 05:43:14.560 --> 05:43:15.060 Oh! 05:43:15.060 --> 05:43:16.540 Oh! 05:43:16.540 --> 05:43:22.780 Bay almost losing that engagement to diffuser one HP for Bay, Gavin goes for Broke, wins 05:43:22.780 --> 05:43:26.720 the engagement, Spiker in a hot pursuit now swinging towards the A bomb site but he's 05:43:26.720 --> 05:43:30.740 running out of time, 20 seconds on the clock, defuse kid at the halfway point, falls off 05:43:30.740 --> 05:43:37.460 expecting M80 to be aggressive, Gunner wins the duel, and to series point M80 go. 05:43:37.460 --> 05:43:42.660 No doubt in my mind Parker, Gunner is the best solos player in North America, such a 05:43:42.660 --> 05:43:45.780 a high impact in that round, playing down to the bottom floor. 05:43:45.780 --> 05:43:48.580 They knew he was down there. They knew he was existing in Bakery, 05:43:48.580 --> 05:43:51.060 because he went for the earlier runout, which missed. 05:43:51.060 --> 05:43:54.300 But eventually, he buys his time, he doesn't get cleared out, he says, 05:43:54.300 --> 05:43:58.380 wow, I'll do it again. Runs out Bakery for a second time. 05:43:58.380 --> 05:44:00.340 The second time he does it, he kills Kanzin. 05:44:00.340 --> 05:44:03.780 That's how he goes down with 16 pellets still in his back pocket. 05:44:03.780 --> 05:44:05.940 It was a massive runout to come through from Gunner. 05:44:05.940 --> 05:44:08.060 And then eventually, when they go to hunt him down, 05:44:08.060 --> 05:44:11.540 eventually, when they go to try to refrag that kill, he is ready for it. 05:44:11.540 --> 05:44:15.600 He's watching he gets his tenth kill of the game managed to get a really massive pick 05:44:15.600 --> 05:44:20.360 I believe on the baby shark he tried to push him down right there. Yes on the bottom floor 05:44:20.720 --> 05:44:26.940 So well done coming out from Sean get one last one here taking down spiker in the 1v2 post plant too 05:44:26.940 --> 05:44:30.020 So they're not quite post plan, but plant denial here from gunner 05:44:30.380 --> 05:44:35.260 Beautifully played pushes that mating onto series point will it get two opportunities to close it out 05:44:35.260 --> 05:44:41.940 At the end of the road, here in the upper bracket for Wildcard, might be soon approaching. 05:44:41.940 --> 05:44:47.300 It has been a significantly improved cafe over what we saw on Fortress, and I do have 05:44:47.300 --> 05:44:52.980 to wonder if part of it was just them taking some time to settle in, because they are playing 05:44:52.980 --> 05:44:55.140 much more constantly in their engagements. 05:44:55.140 --> 05:44:58.860 One thing that I didn't really want to mention in map number one, just because we had so 05:44:58.860 --> 05:45:04.740 much to talk about, but also because it seems maybe a little bit simple, is that Wildcard 05:45:04.740 --> 05:45:09.300 we're losing an uncharacteristically high number of gunfights and again we've 05:45:09.300 --> 05:45:14.100 said this every single cast you can have all the strategy in the world you can 05:45:14.100 --> 05:45:17.340 have the best ideas in the world the perfect operator lineup and if you just 05:45:17.340 --> 05:45:22.740 with your shots in 350-50 gunfights next thing you know it's a 5v2 for your 05:45:22.740 --> 05:45:26.700 opponents and all the strategy in the world they can help you. Wildcard is hitting 05:45:26.700 --> 05:45:30.380 their shots a lot better here on cafe. Now it hasn't been perfect there have 05:45:30.380 --> 05:45:34.580 still been some serious issues and maybe some shakes but they are playing with 05:45:34.580 --> 05:45:39.180 your confidence. Could that have changed the fortunes on Fortress? Possibly. It's just 05:45:39.180 --> 05:45:42.900 one thing for Wildcard to keep in mind and if they do go into that lower bracket up against 05:45:42.900 --> 05:45:46.900 Shopify Rebellion, they cannot get caught flat-faded so early. 05:45:46.900 --> 05:45:51.180 Nice hack thrown from Hot and Cold. It does get shot out there, but the information remains. 05:45:51.180 --> 05:45:55.900 The C4 tossed off of it. The Viper is able to survive. They shoot the Viper A2 and start 05:45:55.900 --> 05:45:56.900 this plant. 05:45:56.900 --> 05:46:01.860 Oh, he's getting it down, and nobody's really watching. 05:46:01.860 --> 05:46:04.660 Babe, from afar, he's good enough. 05:46:04.660 --> 05:46:07.060 They've lost it, though. 05:46:07.060 --> 05:46:08.060 Spiker died. 05:46:08.060 --> 05:46:11.220 A devastating kill, not enough coverage from Babe. 05:46:11.220 --> 05:46:14.420 They've still been able to find their licks here, Jesse. 05:46:14.420 --> 05:46:17.580 As they work through these M80 players, objective be damned. 05:46:17.580 --> 05:46:20.740 The guns are doing what they need to do. 05:46:20.740 --> 05:46:26.420 This reinforces the point I was just making about how you just need to win your engagements. 05:46:26.420 --> 05:46:31.940 Worried about the doka-bee hack? Gunner will take out some intel, then take out Adrian 05:46:31.940 --> 05:46:36.580 shortly thereafter. He's just playing these pixel angles. He doesn't have a lot of information. 05:46:36.580 --> 05:46:40.620 Needs to be worried about that upstairs control. He hears somebody crawling around on the red 05:46:40.620 --> 05:46:46.740 stairs, two of them in fact. The logic bomb will give his position away. An ankle-biter, 05:46:46.740 --> 05:46:52.660 Gunner is shooting at the shins of multiple wildcard players, but that MPX might as well 05:46:52.660 --> 05:46:54.060 will be doing negative damage. 05:46:54.060 --> 05:46:57.180 One more round in regulation is wild card. 05:46:57.180 --> 05:46:59.100 Bring us to the brink. 05:46:59.100 --> 05:47:00.700 Gunner had the aura on the one before. 05:47:00.700 --> 05:47:03.100 That would have been so scary if he pulled it off. 05:47:03.100 --> 05:47:05.300 I thought maybe he could do it with his positioning, 05:47:05.300 --> 05:47:08.060 but Baby Shark is good enough to be able to hit that head. 05:47:08.060 --> 05:47:09.580 That's a really important kill, I think, 05:47:09.580 --> 05:47:12.380 both to keep Wildcard alive in this series, 05:47:12.380 --> 05:47:15.420 but also build a bit of that confidence back, Parker. 05:47:15.420 --> 05:47:16.140 I mean, you said it. 05:47:16.140 --> 05:47:18.180 There have been some missed shots on the side of Wildcard, 05:47:18.180 --> 05:47:20.380 but they were very good in that round 05:47:20.380 --> 05:47:25.180 the force of 12th here inside a regulation. I really liked Bay's play in that early round too. 05:47:25.180 --> 05:47:29.420 I mean we saw him on red stairs. He shoots the nitro cell, he shoots the hacked bossy cam, 05:47:29.420 --> 05:47:33.980 he shoots the player inside a train who's trying to stop that plant. The only player he's not able 05:47:33.980 --> 05:47:39.100 to shoot of course is the guy behind denying that plant. I believe it was Ashen who eventually got 05:47:39.100 --> 05:47:45.340 that down onto on to Spiker but just wasn't really an angle that he was able to catch inside of 05:47:45.340 --> 05:47:50.380 mining so really good play from Bay early on in that push the rush doesn't go 05:47:50.380 --> 05:47:54.460 exactly to plan for wildcard the most objective focus team actually that we 05:47:54.460 --> 05:47:57.400 have here in the North America League but the kills are very good to follow it 05:47:57.400 --> 05:48:01.060 up and it forces attack time out out from Fabian hoping to end this one before we 05:48:01.060 --> 05:48:05.200 see extra innings yeah I mean this is the time that you call it at no point did I 05:48:05.200 --> 05:48:08.100 feel like and I'm sure Fabian felt like this because he's significantly 05:48:08.100 --> 05:48:11.940 smarter than me and more experienced and more handsome but at no point do I 05:48:11.940 --> 05:48:14.420 I think that he thought M80 was in trouble. 05:48:14.420 --> 05:48:17.020 This is the point where M80's still not in trouble, 05:48:17.020 --> 05:48:20.420 but why save it for overtime when you might be? 05:48:20.420 --> 05:48:22.420 If there's one more round to go, 05:48:22.420 --> 05:48:24.700 or if there's something that he's assessing as the problem, 05:48:24.700 --> 05:48:28.060 or even if he's expecting overtime, 05:48:28.060 --> 05:48:30.620 this time out can check all of those boxes. 05:48:30.620 --> 05:48:33.300 So he's a brilliant player. 05:48:33.300 --> 05:48:35.820 He's been a great coach so far. 05:48:35.820 --> 05:48:38.740 Lagonas, same thing on the side of Wildcard. 05:48:38.740 --> 05:48:42.180 And I mean, hey, Legones called his time out. 05:48:42.180 --> 05:48:45.420 And this wildcard team has looked a lot better 05:48:45.420 --> 05:48:48.580 since then, even in the rounds they haven't won. 05:48:48.580 --> 05:48:51.340 This is a good coaching matchup so far. 05:48:51.340 --> 05:48:53.220 It's obviously very challenging as an observer 05:48:54.220 --> 05:48:55.820 to see what the coaches do 05:48:55.820 --> 05:48:57.700 and to hear what the coaches do. 05:48:57.700 --> 05:49:00.340 But you've got two really strong IGLs, 05:49:00.340 --> 05:49:02.520 you've got two really strong coaches, 05:49:02.520 --> 05:49:03.940 and so far strategically, 05:49:03.940 --> 05:49:05.580 I'm liking what I'm seeing on Cafe. 05:49:05.580 --> 05:49:07.380 I liked a lot of the strategy on Fortress 2, 05:49:07.380 --> 05:49:11.220 It was just a bit one-sided, but here on cafe, far more even about. 05:49:11.220 --> 05:49:14.420 And you can tell the coaches have a hand in that success for both of these teams. 05:49:14.420 --> 05:49:17.220 Yeah, and even in this round part, you see the impact of the coaches. 05:49:17.220 --> 05:49:19.220 Albion calls for them to repeat the site. 05:49:19.220 --> 05:49:22.740 They go right back to Mining and Dining, playing the same site they just lost. 05:49:22.740 --> 05:49:25.540 What have they done differently? Well, they brought the pulse, they brought the solace. 05:49:25.540 --> 05:49:29.140 They brought good tools to deny the plant that they didn't have last time. 05:49:29.140 --> 05:49:31.380 But Wildcard, reading that that might be the case, 05:49:31.380 --> 05:49:34.420 have gone for a completely different operator lineup. 05:49:34.420 --> 05:49:36.260 Instead of rushing in for the B bomb site again, 05:49:36.260 --> 05:49:41.260 They're going to be playing to try to clear out some of these top floor players before they go for that plant. 05:49:41.260 --> 05:49:44.260 So it's going to be very interesting to see how I may try to react to this. 05:49:44.260 --> 05:49:46.260 You can see the gutter was hoping for a runout. 05:49:46.260 --> 05:49:48.260 That air jab he spelled at least momentarily. 05:49:48.260 --> 05:49:52.260 The large bomb comes out, so does the snake, and the top floor will begin to get cleared. 05:49:53.260 --> 05:49:56.260 Down goes to Fuser Bay, playing with all the confidence in the world and allies. 05:49:56.260 --> 05:49:59.260 He's got that ROU projector just concealing the top of red stairs, 05:49:59.260 --> 05:50:01.260 should somebody want to go for a quick follow-up. 05:50:01.260 --> 05:50:04.980 follow-up. If user got caught in a compromising position on that top floor, 05:50:04.980 --> 05:50:09.580 I don't think he was expecting that drop with a minute off of the clock. I mean, 05:50:09.580 --> 05:50:11.620 hey, if you ever play on the top floor of cafe, 05:50:11.620 --> 05:50:18.940 oooh, a nice read. You know that people can easily hot drop there, and you always 05:50:18.940 --> 05:50:22.180 have to be a little concerned. Gunner dies at the hands of Spiker. This is 05:50:22.180 --> 05:50:27.060 really just a fascinating one to be at the follow-up on Ash, and Gavin now dies 05:50:27.060 --> 05:50:33.380 here and wildcard in excellent position. We are looking at overtime, not three becoming far more 05:50:33.380 --> 05:50:40.340 likely as every second ticks by. I don't know how I feel about an m80 clutch here. I don't even know 05:50:40.340 --> 05:50:46.420 if I could feel a single kill because it's flawlessly done by wildcard to send us into extra innings. 05:50:46.420 --> 05:50:51.380 And that's perfectly done Parker. This is exactly what we've been waiting for from wildcard for them 05:50:51.380 --> 05:50:55.780 to be able to put their strats together for their fraggers to start fragging. Baby shark had some 05:50:55.780 --> 05:50:57.880 some brilliant shots at the end of that round. 05:50:57.880 --> 05:51:01.180 The information is flowing from the IGL of Spiker 05:51:01.180 --> 05:51:02.260 and from the rest of the team. 05:51:02.260 --> 05:51:03.940 They've got really good information 05:51:03.940 --> 05:51:05.300 as they go for that clear. 05:51:05.300 --> 05:51:07.680 And honestly, Parker, they just read that strategy 05:51:07.680 --> 05:51:09.020 so beautifully. 05:51:09.020 --> 05:51:11.180 You try to run things back and Gunnar 05:51:11.180 --> 05:51:12.940 goes for another run-out with the Solis 05:51:12.940 --> 05:51:14.460 over towards Garage. 05:51:14.460 --> 05:51:17.460 He's been persistent on this operator, I gotta say. 05:51:17.460 --> 05:51:20.100 All throughout this cafe map, he's been going for run-outs 05:51:20.100 --> 05:51:22.260 and if they fail, just going for them again. 05:51:22.260 --> 05:51:25.060 It was kind of readable on the side of Wildcard. 05:51:25.060 --> 05:51:26.700 They were predicting it, they were ready for it. 05:51:26.700 --> 05:51:27.940 They're not gonna get caught off guard 05:51:27.940 --> 05:51:30.340 like they did on previous attacks. 05:51:30.340 --> 05:51:31.980 Really clean stuff coming out from them. 05:51:31.980 --> 05:51:33.940 They're expecting every little move from M80 05:51:33.940 --> 05:51:36.300 and they're hitting the shots when they matter. 05:51:36.300 --> 05:51:37.340 My attackers. 05:51:37.340 --> 05:51:39.580 M80, floundering a bit now 05:51:39.580 --> 05:51:40.980 as they've given up this big lead 05:51:40.980 --> 05:51:43.580 and Wildcard look more than ready to force a third. 05:51:44.660 --> 05:51:46.340 Yeah, this is a totally different team 05:51:46.340 --> 05:51:47.860 that played those eight rounds 05:51:47.860 --> 05:51:49.660 all the way back on Fortress. 05:51:49.660 --> 05:51:51.220 And I mean, I don't think it's really much 05:51:51.220 --> 05:51:53.540 of a consideration for this team at the time, 05:51:53.540 --> 05:51:58.180 But maybe what separates me from being a player is I'd be thinking, I'd be sitting there thinking, 05:51:58.180 --> 05:52:02.580 Man, if we played like this on Fortress, we might be in a position to 2-0 them. 05:52:03.060 --> 05:52:07.940 It is nice to see though that Wildcard has that dog in them, has some fight left in them, 05:52:07.940 --> 05:52:13.300 because people were really quick to write their obituary after those first four days of kickoff. 05:52:13.780 --> 05:52:18.740 I think for a good reason, because the team did not look all that strong and more importantly, 05:52:19.140 --> 05:52:22.500 they have never been dominant within North America. 05:52:23.540 --> 05:52:30.980 But now we're starting to see the international wild card the flourishes of aggression the good coordination the depth baby shark and zero kills 05:52:31.020 --> 05:52:34.160 What seven rounds ago now? He's at 10. Yeah 05:52:34.780 --> 05:52:39.300 It's been a complete turnaround for this squad while we were talking asherman first spawn peak 05:52:39.300 --> 05:52:42.940 It's been a while since we saw a team do that in this matchup. He doesn't get anything 05:52:42.940 --> 05:52:46.060 They saw him. He saw them. He gets away. No damage is done 05:52:46.540 --> 05:52:50.740 But I will I like that style of play for me to get under the skin of wild card 05:52:50.740 --> 05:52:52.740 Do what you can to try to win. 05:52:52.740 --> 05:52:56.740 Well, I think it's a sign that we're getting quite deep in the strap up here on Camp A Parker. 05:52:56.740 --> 05:52:59.740 It's been such a fascinating map to watch between these two teams. 05:52:59.740 --> 05:53:04.740 Dueling with different setups and different attacking strategies in round 13 is no different. 05:53:04.740 --> 05:53:12.740 It's the only time we saw a midi defend this, because we saw the miraculous hands in clutch shooting out the yokai cannon, winning the final 1v1. 05:53:12.740 --> 05:53:18.700 Robino Yo guys to shoot out this time is one called moves to the clash and in response wildcard bring help 05:53:18.700 --> 05:53:20.860 You use heal from spikers 05:53:20.860 --> 05:53:25.460 So once they get this top floor control and they mostly have it under wraps at this point 05:53:25.460 --> 05:53:30.900 They get started serious work using these cluster charges to deal with some of the util inside the site 05:53:30.900 --> 05:53:33.460 whether that's barbed wire or whether it's gonna be maybe some of the 05:53:34.380 --> 05:53:36.180 Wow frankly might just be the barbed wire 05:53:36.180 --> 05:53:39.040 They don't really probably tell you can't say stuff like that 05:53:39.040 --> 05:53:41.680 but the utopia will be there nonetheless. 05:53:41.680 --> 05:53:43.880 Wildcard will try to work with this clock 05:53:43.880 --> 05:53:45.880 and they go for a vertical pushbox more. 05:53:48.880 --> 05:53:51.360 Use can be such a menace on this map. 05:53:51.360 --> 05:53:54.560 Shield or no shield, a.k.a. or a... 05:53:54.560 --> 05:53:55.800 or no a.k.a. 05:53:55.800 --> 05:53:58.200 So, Spiker is trying to flush these defenders out 05:53:58.200 --> 05:54:00.160 and take down utility in the process. 05:54:00.160 --> 05:54:02.160 It didn't push on cold back into the spot 05:54:02.160 --> 05:54:04.000 where a lot of teams like to plant. 05:54:04.000 --> 05:54:06.360 That's by the espresso machines in the back of Kitchen, 05:54:06.360 --> 05:54:07.600 not by the bomb chassis, 05:54:07.600 --> 05:54:10.600 which is the usual plant spot, even though I'm by freezer door. 05:54:10.600 --> 05:54:13.600 Default, as it is often referred to as. 05:54:14.600 --> 05:54:17.600 After those cluster charges have gone off, not a lot much has happened. 05:54:17.600 --> 05:54:20.600 This is a very slow paced round. Finally we see logic bombs. 05:54:20.600 --> 05:54:24.600 Scott, this M80 defense, on the move and Gunner hits Bay in a beautiful shot. 05:54:24.600 --> 05:54:28.600 He thinks otherwise though, he should have not doubted himself. 05:54:28.600 --> 05:54:31.600 Three kills for M80, answered back immediately by two from Wildcard. 05:54:31.600 --> 05:54:34.600 Buck, within range, they double up on him. 05:54:34.600 --> 05:54:38.720 Excellent coordination from Wildcard. Red so well. 05:54:38.720 --> 05:54:41.200 Kansan loses a lot of HP in the process. 05:54:41.200 --> 05:54:43.960 Oh, and you rest your hopes on Kansan and Adrien. 05:54:43.960 --> 05:54:45.960 Good things tend to happen. 05:54:45.960 --> 05:54:49.160 Three kills for Adrien now, and Defuser playing the long game. 05:54:49.160 --> 05:54:50.660 Quite literally, far back. 05:54:50.660 --> 05:54:52.660 With the GMR in hand, we'll have to clutch. 05:54:52.660 --> 05:54:55.660 They've given his position away. 05:54:55.660 --> 05:55:00.660 If Adrien is on the ground, is Defuser expecting this? 05:55:00.660 --> 05:55:07.620 Yes, he is. Can he do anything about Kansan in his position? No! Oh my word! 05:55:08.660 --> 05:55:11.860 Wildcard move to map point! 05:55:12.900 --> 05:55:22.340 He is inevitable on that site Parker. Kansan does it again. Another 1v1 clutch attacking 05:55:22.340 --> 05:55:28.900 onto the bottom floor of cafe. That's just his site. That's just his domain. That's his property. 05:55:28.900 --> 05:55:33.380 They're on the bottom floor of the map. Another push that seems like it's a disaster. 05:55:33.380 --> 05:55:38.740 M80 start with a massive man count lead, and then the best player from Florida steps up 05:55:38.740 --> 05:55:44.740 after the plant goes down, takes out the user in the 1v1. This was really a disaster push, 05:55:44.740 --> 05:55:51.780 a 5v2 for a split second, with then the coordination between Adrian and Hanson to isolate those picks, 05:55:51.780 --> 05:55:57.300 go one for one for one, and then the fact that he hits that one bullet sent out is all he needs 05:55:57.300 --> 05:55:59.980 It's head in hands for Gunner. 05:55:59.980 --> 05:56:02.060 You've got 13 frags this game, Parker, 05:56:02.060 --> 05:56:04.820 but it might not matter if they can't win the next two. 05:56:04.820 --> 05:56:06.700 Tony, wall, there he is! 05:56:06.700 --> 05:56:09.820 Just an unbelievable map so far. 05:56:09.820 --> 05:56:11.220 Our best map of the day, 05:56:11.220 --> 05:56:13.700 one of the best maps that we've seen here in Kickoff. 05:56:13.700 --> 05:56:15.740 And frankly, this is probably the best map 05:56:15.740 --> 05:56:19.540 that you and I have casted since the kickoff began. 05:56:19.540 --> 05:56:21.860 There's still plenty of time for that to change. 05:56:21.860 --> 05:56:26.540 We have three more days of North American siege 05:56:26.540 --> 05:56:28.020 in front of our very eyes. 05:56:28.020 --> 05:56:30.960 Tomorrow we will have more playoff matches. 05:56:30.960 --> 05:56:33.020 Teams will start to get qualified 05:56:33.020 --> 05:56:34.300 for the Salt Lake City Major. 05:56:34.300 --> 05:56:36.420 North America's a little bit behind all the other regions 05:56:36.420 --> 05:56:37.620 in terms of their schedule. 05:56:37.620 --> 05:56:39.660 I don't think all the APAC teams 05:56:39.660 --> 05:56:41.580 or the Chinese teams are fully locked. 05:56:41.580 --> 05:56:42.580 You can correct me on that. 05:56:42.580 --> 05:56:44.780 The time zone makes it a bit of a challenge. 05:56:44.780 --> 05:56:48.380 All of the EML and South American teams, 05:56:48.380 --> 05:56:51.020 AKA the four teams from Brazil, they've all qualified. 05:56:51.020 --> 05:56:52.140 So they know they're waiting. 05:56:52.140 --> 05:56:53.260 They can start their group camps. 05:56:53.260 --> 05:56:55.140 They can start their scrims and prepare. 05:56:55.140 --> 05:57:00.400 But as for this region in particular, North America taking their sweet time as we always 05:57:00.400 --> 05:57:01.560 like to. 05:57:01.560 --> 05:57:05.660 And I look at the teams that are still in this bracket and I think there's a lot of 05:57:05.660 --> 05:57:07.160 good teams ahead of us. 05:57:07.160 --> 05:57:09.300 And there might still be great teams here too. 05:57:09.300 --> 05:57:14.960 We might actually need Chalet between these two teams, which seemed unthinkable even thirty 05:57:14.960 --> 05:57:21.240 minutes ago, a little over an hour ago, when M.A.D. destroyed this wildcard team. 05:57:21.240 --> 05:57:24.580 One round now for Wildcard to send us over to Chalet. 05:57:26.340 --> 05:57:30.780 Well, the major champions will know how to keep themselves composed, 05:57:30.780 --> 05:57:33.820 ups against the miraculous rounds from Wildcard. 05:57:33.820 --> 05:57:37.660 They'll have to dig deep to be able to pull these next two rounds out 05:57:37.660 --> 05:57:40.300 and close out the series without needing that third. 05:57:40.300 --> 05:57:42.900 Wildcard in a great position here on the defense. 05:57:42.900 --> 05:57:45.940 They've got their top floor set up, still mostly intact. 05:57:45.940 --> 05:57:48.380 Kansen on these mirror windows to set things up nicely 05:57:48.380 --> 05:57:53.340 baby shark in bay playing around them from the top floor. M80's got good utility to try to clear 05:57:53.340 --> 05:57:58.220 out some of this utility. The Stelma charge will likely grab that first Stelma although it might 05:57:58.220 --> 05:58:03.580 have actually been shot off so never mind the mirror window remains here looking into piano 05:58:03.580 --> 05:58:08.380 and it just becomes even more awkward as the seconds tick by. How will M80 take this space 05:58:08.380 --> 05:58:13.100 from the top floor? How will they manage to clear through this road game and take them out of control 05:58:13.100 --> 05:58:22.700 what they're looking for I fall off now a very tense moment for these teams and 05:58:22.700 --> 05:58:28.900 there still might be more to go between them playing as if a spot is directly on 05:58:28.900 --> 05:58:33.940 the line both of these teams will still be in action no matter what happens here 05:58:33.940 --> 05:58:38.740 I'm cold suffering through it he's had a bit of a rough game but if anybody on the 05:58:38.740 --> 05:58:41.620 side of M80 is gonna have a rough game you probably want it to be him his 05:58:41.620 --> 05:58:47.140 His fortunes don't get any better as he walks into a razor blue record and he is down for 05:58:47.140 --> 05:58:48.140 the count. 05:58:48.140 --> 05:58:50.140 Gavin will grab the diffuser. 05:58:50.140 --> 05:58:52.060 Air apparent I suppose on that roll. 05:58:52.060 --> 05:58:54.940 Final 40 seconds to a wildcard with a one player advantage. 05:58:54.940 --> 05:58:58.180 Yeah, Impox, Nitro, there's a lot to deny this plant, Parker. 05:58:58.180 --> 05:58:59.900 They will need to go in and push for kills. 05:58:59.900 --> 05:59:04.540 If they can't get this long angle plant going down inside of reading, it could be very devastating 05:59:04.540 --> 05:59:06.740 for M80's chances. 05:59:06.740 --> 05:59:10.260 Yeah I think M80's playing a little bit scared, almost like the pressure is getting to them, 05:59:10.260 --> 05:59:13.760 for a team that is one of nature's insane thing to say. 05:59:13.760 --> 05:59:15.500 This is even do or die. 05:59:15.500 --> 05:59:17.860 A bit of an issue for Ashen is he gets the read down 05:59:17.860 --> 05:59:19.540 and reading room, Baby Shark on the board. 05:59:19.540 --> 05:59:21.540 Gunner trades one out, there's Ashen, 05:59:21.540 --> 05:59:23.640 but he's traded out by Baby Shark again. 05:59:23.640 --> 05:59:27.440 Wild card, get it done and send us to map three. 05:59:28.940 --> 05:59:30.580 They said it couldn't be done. 05:59:30.580 --> 05:59:33.620 They said map one, they lost it on Fortress. 05:59:33.620 --> 05:59:35.820 Wrap up the series, but no. 05:59:35.820 --> 05:59:38.280 Cafe goes the way of Wild Card. 05:59:38.280 --> 05:59:42.960 They power up halfway through and they managed to send us to this third map marker. 05:59:43.840 --> 05:59:51.480 A whole new team showed up for cafe and now we've got a best of one showdown on Chalet. 05:59:51.880 --> 05:59:54.080 Oh my word. We'll be back after this. 06:00:08.280 --> 06:00:15.280 I 06:00:15.280 --> 06:00:18.280 I 06:00:18.280 --> 06:00:21.280 I 06:00:21.280 --> 06:00:24.280 I 06:00:24.280 --> 06:00:30.280 I 06:00:30.280 --> 06:00:34.280 I 06:01:04.280 --> 06:01:09.280 Music 06:01:09.280 --> 06:01:14.280 Music 06:01:14.280 --> 06:01:19.280 Music 06:01:19.280 --> 06:01:24.280 Music 06:01:24.280 --> 06:01:29.280 Music 06:01:29.280 --> 06:01:33.280 Music 06:04:33.280 --> 06:04:49.280 to go from a 7-1 loss to an over time win on map 2 the resurgence of this team 06:04:49.280 --> 06:04:53.840 laxing wild card came out of nowhere down two rounds in the first half and 06:04:53.840 --> 06:04:58.640 they reversed we've come all the way back to take it unreal what we're seeing 06:04:58.640 --> 06:05:01.760 yeah it's completely unreal and I can't even believe you said that these guys 06:05:01.760 --> 06:05:03.760 I mean, I would never say something like that. 06:05:03.760 --> 06:05:06.360 I mean, the complete resurgence from this team, 06:05:06.360 --> 06:05:07.840 I mean, it was one from that time out 06:05:07.840 --> 06:05:08.920 that we saw being called in, 06:05:08.920 --> 06:05:10.400 and it was a complete transition 06:05:10.400 --> 06:05:12.040 in how they were approaching the game, 06:05:12.040 --> 06:05:12.960 and just the mindset. 06:05:12.960 --> 06:05:14.720 You could completely see the ship, 06:05:14.720 --> 06:05:17.600 and there were obviously huge heroics out of some players, 06:05:17.600 --> 06:05:20.280 particularly Kanzin in that basement site. 06:05:20.280 --> 06:05:22.400 I mean, that one round where he was able to pull off 06:05:22.400 --> 06:05:26.360 that 4K, hitting that Yokai drone with 0.03 seconds 06:05:26.360 --> 06:05:27.720 left on the clock. 06:05:27.720 --> 06:05:28.960 I mean, it's rounds like these, 06:05:28.960 --> 06:05:31.720 as much as we talk about how strong and resilient 06:05:31.720 --> 06:05:36.320 team like a medias those rounds in particular will chip away at your mental 06:05:36.320 --> 06:05:40.960 back to back and we'll put even more stress on you going to the next round 06:05:40.960 --> 06:05:45.760 and then even into that last round I mean again hot and cold dies to a gets 06:05:45.760 --> 06:05:49.720 down to a razor bloom gets back up dies to a razor bloom before getting even 06:05:49.720 --> 06:05:53.400 into a gunfight if that's not a tilter on side of everything else that's been 06:05:53.400 --> 06:05:57.560 going on I mean wild card wow what is showing yeah I mean this round we're 06:05:57.560 --> 06:06:02.840 Kansan doing magic, shooting the yokai right as there was one second on the clock. 06:06:02.840 --> 06:06:07.840 I think it's rounds like these, specifically the basement attacks from Wildcard that the clutches were amazing. 06:06:07.840 --> 06:06:15.000 Thankfully that Kansan was there, he was able to clutch up, but the fact that they were able to consistently clutch those basement rounds 06:06:15.000 --> 06:06:21.400 not only was a guaranteed round win for Wildcard, but it also, like you said, was kicking away from M80's mental. 06:06:21.400 --> 06:06:26.320 And that was the biggest factor. Winning those rounds was showing the weakness from M80. 06:06:26.320 --> 06:06:28.480 It was flustering them, frustrating them, 06:06:28.480 --> 06:06:30.400 putting them in a position where Wildcard 06:06:30.400 --> 06:06:32.240 stole the momentum from Map 2. 06:06:32.240 --> 06:06:34.920 Going into Map 3, it's something that Wildcard, again, 06:06:34.920 --> 06:06:38.360 can still just dig into the wound 06:06:38.360 --> 06:06:40.040 and just make things worse for MAD, 06:06:40.040 --> 06:06:42.440 because MAD now is playing with that mental aspect 06:06:42.440 --> 06:06:43.720 that we could have closed it out. 06:06:43.720 --> 06:06:44.800 We're going into a Map 3. 06:06:44.800 --> 06:06:46.440 We can't make any more mistakes. 06:06:46.440 --> 06:06:49.920 And that pressure is something that will eat at great teams, 06:06:49.920 --> 06:06:51.040 even teams like MAD. 06:06:51.040 --> 06:06:53.240 And so, thankfully, I mean, for Wildcard, 06:06:53.240 --> 06:06:54.520 we say it all the time for a team 06:06:54.520 --> 06:06:56.200 to be able to come back into a series. 06:06:56.200 --> 06:07:04.700 You need either everybody to be on the same page or one player to have big rounds and that was Kansan being the saving grace for Wildcard and they desperately needed it. 06:07:04.700 --> 06:07:11.900 I mean, I do love the mention that you talk about, you know, yes, we can praise Kansan, even in the other clutch where he did get that 1v1, you've got to give credit to Adrian in that round as well. 06:07:11.900 --> 06:07:15.300 I hit a big 3k that put him into position to even go for that 1v1. 06:07:15.300 --> 06:07:24.300 But again, the entire team across the board stepped up tremendously and that's really where they've been fighting against themselves is not everyone has been on the same page. 06:07:24.300 --> 06:07:26.540 Not everyone has been able to find success. 06:07:26.540 --> 06:07:28.260 I mean, we heard and saw Baby Shark. 06:07:28.260 --> 06:07:30.260 He wasn't finding any success in the early beginning 06:07:30.260 --> 06:07:32.100 of that game, and then towards the middle, 06:07:32.100 --> 06:07:33.900 towards the end of it, he was at 10 kills. 06:07:33.900 --> 06:07:35.780 Everyone now looks like the wild card 06:07:35.780 --> 06:07:38.500 that we're used to seeing at an international level, 06:07:38.500 --> 06:07:40.100 where they're taking their time. 06:07:40.100 --> 06:07:42.580 They're understanding where they can pick apart 06:07:42.580 --> 06:07:45.700 the defense and slowly and slowly start constricting 06:07:45.700 --> 06:07:47.780 that site until they can go for those executes. 06:07:47.780 --> 06:07:49.700 Yes, some of those rounds, they get a little dicey, 06:07:49.700 --> 06:07:51.180 but they have the players to clutch 06:07:51.180 --> 06:07:53.340 and bring it into the next round, into the next. 06:07:53.340 --> 06:07:55.540 And as Parker said, as cliche as it is, 06:07:55.540 --> 06:07:57.660 every round can contribute to a comeback, 06:07:57.660 --> 06:07:59.740 and they absolutely made that happen. 06:07:59.740 --> 06:08:00.860 We're really seeing it. 06:08:00.860 --> 06:08:04.020 You said resurgence a few times could not be more accurate. 06:08:04.020 --> 06:08:07.060 The question is, can they hang onto that, right? 06:08:07.060 --> 06:08:10.300 Can they keep up that momentum and still play like the team 06:08:10.300 --> 06:08:12.100 that maybe has some glimmers 06:08:12.100 --> 06:08:15.340 of that wild card international success? 06:08:15.340 --> 06:08:18.060 Our third map will decide all of that. 06:08:18.060 --> 06:08:21.060 The sixth map of the night to send one of these teams 06:08:21.060 --> 06:08:25.960 On a date with Dark Zero in two days, it is M80 and Wildcard. 06:08:25.960 --> 06:08:28.460 They're going toe-to-toe on map three when we come back. 06:10:58.460 --> 06:11:16.640 If you just tuned in to map number one and didn't see any of map number two, you'd be 06:11:16.640 --> 06:11:22.600 shocked that we find ourselves here on Chalet as the decider between these two teams because 06:11:22.600 --> 06:11:27.940 everything was pointing towards this being a very quick 2-0 for M80. 06:11:27.940 --> 06:11:34.060 The wildcard had other ideas and in map number two they found a higher gear and 06:11:34.060 --> 06:11:39.700 have now pushed us over to the sunny beaches of France. Here in Chalet M80 06:11:39.700 --> 06:11:43.820 still the people's favorite and honestly might have looked like the better team 06:11:43.820 --> 06:11:47.860 through this entire series but it's a best of one now to determine which team 06:11:47.860 --> 06:11:52.460 moves forward in the brackets and which team goes down to start their lower 06:11:52.460 --> 06:11:56.500 the world's most important 06:11:56.500 --> 06:11:58.500 champion. We're bracket run. 06:11:58.500 --> 06:12:00.500 Will it be a baby major 06:12:00.500 --> 06:12:02.500 champions that are technically 06:12:02.500 --> 06:12:04.500 still defending major champions 06:12:04.500 --> 06:12:06.500 because I saw he's not a major 06:12:06.500 --> 06:12:08.500 or is it wild card a team that 06:12:08.500 --> 06:12:10.500 is a bit of a new look like 06:12:10.500 --> 06:12:12.500 maybe. But it's never done as 06:12:12.500 --> 06:12:14.500 well domestically as they've 06:12:14.500 --> 06:12:16.500 done international. This one's 06:12:16.500 --> 06:12:18.500 going to be a dog fight. Jesse 06:12:18.500 --> 06:12:20.500 That's incredible that we even 06:12:20.500 --> 06:12:23.900 as you said for a spot deeper in the brackets. 06:12:23.900 --> 06:12:26.500 If you win this game, you have two opportunities, 06:12:26.500 --> 06:12:28.900 two best of threes where you only need to win one 06:12:28.900 --> 06:12:30.740 in order to make it to Salt Lake City. 06:12:30.740 --> 06:12:34.420 So this is a critical game in order to put yourself up 06:12:34.420 --> 06:12:36.660 in a good spot to make it to the major chalet, 06:12:36.660 --> 06:12:38.540 not an app that either of these teams have played 06:12:38.540 --> 06:12:40.580 since their respective roster moves. 06:12:40.580 --> 06:12:43.980 Historically, it has favored an 80 though, 06:12:43.980 --> 06:12:46.100 winning it a couple of times back during SI 06:12:46.100 --> 06:12:47.700 and of course through stage two as well. 06:12:47.700 --> 06:12:54.180 Wildcard haven't won this map in over six months losing in that time to both M80 and FaZe Clan 06:12:54.180 --> 06:13:01.960 So hopefully the practice they've been putting into this map will pay off and they can show us exactly why they force this third map at the first place 06:13:04.740 --> 06:13:10.100 Well, I mean don't tell Wildcard that the odds are stacked against them because they 06:13:10.940 --> 06:13:16.340 Completely bottled their own map and have made this the most difficult best of three humanly possible 06:13:16.340 --> 06:13:21.340 The only way this could have gone worse is if they'd lost the only round they won back on map number one. 06:13:21.340 --> 06:13:25.340 So, this wildcard team has taken some time to settle in. 06:13:25.340 --> 06:13:32.340 And again, this is a very good reminder for people that the kickoff was only four best of ones through the groups. 06:13:32.340 --> 06:13:35.340 That is not a lot of time for a new roster to gel. 06:13:35.340 --> 06:13:40.340 Certainly not a lot of time to get used to a new meta, a meta that is still steadily evolving. 06:13:40.340 --> 06:13:43.340 So wildcard just needed, I guess, to settle in. 06:13:43.340 --> 06:13:49.940 Or maybe they will completely implode here and there'll be another 7-1 for M80 and that cafe will look like an aberration more than anything else. 06:13:49.940 --> 06:13:57.540 Who knows? Let's get into the match because theory-crafting won't get us so far. Let's see the actual practical application for these teams. 06:13:57.540 --> 06:14:01.140 My eyes are really going to be on Baby Shark for this map, Parker. 06:14:01.140 --> 06:14:08.940 I mean, he really did struggle. He was the lowest rated player in the upper bracket before today began, but finally was able to come alive inside a cafe. 06:14:08.940 --> 06:14:14.840 It was a huge reason why they were able to win that map and now has an opportunity to do so once again here on 06:14:14.940 --> 06:14:17.240 Shelly action is the first one to go down 06:14:17.240 --> 06:14:21.620 It's Adrian who continues this streak of early opening picks on all three maps 06:14:22.140 --> 06:14:28.940 Finds the two brow early from the outside position and will start to pressure M80 as they now go into a one-man disadvantage 06:14:29.700 --> 06:14:32.840 Top floor under their control, but they go down towards the basement 06:14:33.620 --> 06:14:36.160 Potentially brewing if baby shark could find a player down there 06:14:36.160 --> 06:14:42.320 Adrian, Mr. Start of the Round, he's been involved in so many of these opening duels, 06:14:42.320 --> 06:14:45.880 obviously that's his role, he's going to be the first point of contact for this wild card 06:14:45.880 --> 06:14:51.280 team, but he's been very, very good so far today. On entries, he's been able to find 06:14:51.280 --> 06:14:55.340 an entry kill on all three maps now. That's something that not a lot of players frankly 06:14:55.340 --> 06:15:01.160 can say, so shout out to Adrian for that. He said to adjust to this wild card team and 06:15:01.160 --> 06:15:06.520 Well, the man that I've seen having the hardest time adjusting has been Baby Shark, and he 06:15:06.520 --> 06:15:08.040 really picked it up on map number two. 06:15:08.040 --> 06:15:12.160 If he can carry that strong play over here on map three, we'll absolutely give Wildcard 06:15:12.160 --> 06:15:13.640 a fighting chance round after round. 06:15:13.640 --> 06:15:17.440 Like the map control so far from Wildcard, they've taken over towards Piano, they've 06:15:17.440 --> 06:15:20.880 taken a lot of his top floor, it's really just library-ed, they don't have control 06:15:20.880 --> 06:15:26.440 of, but Gavin persists here inside of Library Entrance, defuser on the stairs trying to support. 06:15:26.440 --> 06:15:30.640 A lot of his dreadmines will keep him safe, they try to push down through Cases Hallways, 06:15:30.640 --> 06:15:36.640 He's got some good fights, but his teammate dies, and he's left all alone, forced to fall back to the bomb site as the final 40 fight. 06:15:36.640 --> 06:15:43.640 Gunner, the only player of M80 so far, to strike on the board, and he's been finished off as his hot, now it's diffuser to get nothing done. 06:15:43.640 --> 06:15:48.640 Baby Shark, with those final two kills, he set his name and it immediately pays off. 06:15:48.640 --> 06:15:51.640 Making me look a little bit smarter than usual. 06:15:51.640 --> 06:15:59.600 You drowned from wild card and they just got into the building with no fear M80 have completely fallen apart 06:15:59.600 --> 06:16:05.180 You have to somehow fix this momentum that is purely in your head, but is letting you down 06:16:08.360 --> 06:16:11.360 Baffled that you just blatantly stole my baby shark point 06:16:12.000 --> 06:16:15.560 Seconds after I say it and now you're the one looking smart for it. I don't know about that one 06:16:15.640 --> 06:16:20.080 But I'll let it slide as long as you know maybe we were talking about baby shark 06:16:21.640 --> 06:16:29.640 Okay, you know, it's battling me, you know, it's battling me, you know, get to watch the Edmunds and Oilers play. 06:16:29.640 --> 06:16:33.640 I get to watch Wildcard and Aden, partner, that's far better because the level play... 06:16:33.640 --> 06:16:36.640 Neither of these teams, like you're a fan of the Edmunds and Oilers? 06:16:36.640 --> 06:16:39.640 I'm a fan of Babyshark, no. 06:16:39.640 --> 06:16:44.640 I'm a fan of Babyshark and the performance that he's been putting up, as I've been talking about throughout this series. 06:16:44.640 --> 06:16:50.640 Didn't have the strongest of starts, but really came alive, again, 12 kills on that too. 06:16:50.640 --> 06:16:55.920 Now starts off 2-0 here on map 3 for wildcard, and I think it really just does come down to 06:16:56.320 --> 06:16:58.320 how the rest of team is able to 06:16:58.520 --> 06:17:02.360 Pressure the players into him and assist him as they go for some of these pushes 06:17:02.400 --> 06:17:08.800 He's always been that lurk player for wildcard not necessarily with the rest of the team not necessarily getting into those gunfights 06:17:08.800 --> 06:17:13.080 Directly where we expect from him, but lurking him through the basement finding his way up 06:17:13.320 --> 06:17:17.480 Catching these roamers off guard and pressuring them as they get pushed back from the site pushers 06:17:17.480 --> 06:17:20.480 It's been really impressive to see him in Wildcard. 06:17:21.480 --> 06:17:23.480 He's been clean on that first shallay attack. 06:17:26.480 --> 06:17:30.480 You know, I often call Baby Shark the Conor McDavid of Rainbow Six Siege. 06:17:30.480 --> 06:17:31.480 Cast the game. 06:17:31.480 --> 06:17:36.480 So maybe it is like you're watching the Edmonton Oilers. 06:17:37.480 --> 06:17:40.480 Hey, you wanna know something funny about Wildcard and the Edmonton Oilers? 06:17:40.480 --> 06:17:43.480 They both won the same amount of Stanley Cups in the last ten years. 06:17:45.480 --> 06:17:46.480 It's interesting cut off. 06:17:47.480 --> 06:17:52.480 Okay, 20 years. Sorry, 30 years. 06:17:52.480 --> 06:17:59.480 This is how it- this is actually gonna make him mad outside of the broadcast, and I am all here for it. 06:17:59.480 --> 06:18:05.480 Anyway, one minute off of this second round, a terrific start from Wildcard. Everybody doing their part. 06:18:05.480 --> 06:18:11.480 They really need much objective play because they just demolished these M80 players as they walked into the building. 06:18:11.480 --> 06:18:15.880 spikers in the bomb site with over half of the round still to go. He gets gunned down, 06:18:15.880 --> 06:18:21.720 my oh my, how long has it been since they won this map, Jesse? That was, that was a bad one. 06:18:21.720 --> 06:18:26.920 That was, and that is almost entirely on Bay, not being able to deal with Gavin, who still is half 06:18:26.920 --> 06:18:33.240 of his HP. Bay's gotta be hitting shots better than that, because you've now completely blown 06:18:33.240 --> 06:18:37.240 the round open. That's really quite unfortunate. Everything looked like it was working. For wild 06:18:37.240 --> 06:18:40.600 No card, Adrian 9. He handed. The diffuser dropped in the bomb site. 06:18:40.600 --> 06:18:44.560 Unless M80 completely bottled this, it should be over. 06:18:44.560 --> 06:18:46.960 The defenders can just close in on the diffuse kit. 06:18:46.960 --> 06:18:50.880 Sorry, I threw out the cans and it just kills everybody in puzzling ways. 06:18:50.880 --> 06:18:52.080 My apologies, chat. 06:18:52.080 --> 06:18:57.160 Open to be able to collect this one back. Never count out, Kanzan. 06:18:57.160 --> 06:19:01.040 Especially with how Baby Shark's been playing this team still in it 2v2. 06:19:01.040 --> 06:19:03.600 Baby Shark facing off against Ash on the thought floor. 06:19:03.600 --> 06:19:06.120 He's got good information thanks to some of these drones. 06:19:06.120 --> 06:19:09.760 We'll try to use the ram to clear a little bit more of this utility. 06:19:09.760 --> 06:19:14.700 Find out some of this burp pressure. They do spot out Baby Shark now, so this can force the 1v1. 06:19:14.700 --> 06:19:17.820 Spot out Ash, and I should say Baby Shark with that information. 06:19:17.820 --> 06:19:22.140 Canson down to the bottom floor. He's gonna have to be the one to retrieve the diffuser 06:19:22.140 --> 06:19:26.420 and start on with this plant if they can get it and start that thing inside of B. 06:19:26.420 --> 06:19:27.920 That'd be big for them. 06:19:27.920 --> 06:19:36.520 I don't know, it's complete swap now as M80 was holding this E chassis part of the map 06:19:36.520 --> 06:19:39.320 and now it's falling a little bit farther back. 06:19:39.320 --> 06:19:42.280 Acogs are plenty for these wildcard players, they can lock this one down. 06:19:42.280 --> 06:19:45.440 An astonishing result if they end up winning. 06:19:45.440 --> 06:19:48.240 It all comes down to Kansan yet again, 10 seconds. 06:19:48.240 --> 06:19:52.680 Ashen is from above, you're going to have to plant this one and see what he chooses to 06:19:52.680 --> 06:19:53.680 do. 06:19:53.680 --> 06:19:56.520 Kansan's getting through it, shot it through the wall, they know Ashen's positioned now 06:19:56.520 --> 06:19:58.920 but Kansan doesn't have a choice. 06:19:58.920 --> 06:20:00.720 No way, he'll be able to get this kill. 06:20:00.720 --> 06:20:02.680 He's just got to stick the landing, 06:20:02.680 --> 06:20:05.460 ashing, dropping with the shotgun through the wall. 06:20:05.460 --> 06:20:07.620 Yeah, Kansan, you tried really hard, 06:20:07.620 --> 06:20:11.920 but a lot of that really falls on that gunfight at the door. 06:20:11.920 --> 06:20:14.520 Spiker had full trust that the Ella would die 06:20:14.520 --> 06:20:16.760 when he did not die, when Gavin was allowed 06:20:16.760 --> 06:20:17.920 to stay in that position. 06:20:17.920 --> 06:20:21.120 It completely knocked the round on its head. 06:20:21.120 --> 06:20:23.200 A frustrating spot for Wildcard to be in, 06:20:23.200 --> 06:20:25.280 but you literally saw how one small misread 06:20:25.280 --> 06:20:29.040 in one small mistake, snowballs into something much larger. 06:20:29.040 --> 06:20:30.400 It was still a very scary round for him, 06:20:30.400 --> 06:20:33.320 maybe let's not kid ourselves here, Jesse. 06:20:33.320 --> 06:20:35.480 Yeah, unfortunately, just couldn't quite get the job done. 06:20:35.480 --> 06:20:37.600 They find the opening pick on the hot and cold, 06:20:37.600 --> 06:20:39.320 but then he's reloading with his pistol, 06:20:39.320 --> 06:20:40.440 and he doesn't have nades. 06:20:40.440 --> 06:20:41.960 That's kind of the biggest thing, Parker. 06:20:41.960 --> 06:20:44.240 Usually with demo players, you'll see those nades trying 06:20:44.240 --> 06:20:45.680 to force the player out of position, 06:20:45.680 --> 06:20:47.200 but he brought the can openers instead. 06:20:47.200 --> 06:20:49.920 Didn't get any value out of that secondary gadget. 06:20:49.920 --> 06:20:51.880 Unfortunately, just kind of lowers the man count 06:20:51.880 --> 06:20:53.080 then on the side of M80. 06:20:53.080 --> 06:20:55.480 They're able to play the time really nicely. 06:20:55.480 --> 06:20:57.980 Ashen never overextends inside of Solar. 06:20:57.980 --> 06:20:59.980 Never extending on the side of Gavin either, 06:20:59.980 --> 06:21:03.080 just inside the bomb site, letting the time tick down. 06:21:03.080 --> 06:21:07.080 We enter that 2v2 with over a minute still on the clock. 06:21:07.080 --> 06:21:10.080 But despite that, the time was the biggest problem. 06:21:10.080 --> 06:21:13.980 Couldn't work with it, couldn't try to find picks into that 2v2 situation. 06:21:13.980 --> 06:21:17.480 And unfortunately, just let the rounds slip away for them a little bit there. 06:21:19.880 --> 06:21:21.980 Really quite devastating stuff, but... 06:21:21.980 --> 06:21:23.980 The attackers are moving out to locate a bomb. 06:21:23.980 --> 06:21:27.980 Again, this map has had just a, this match in fact, it's just, just about everything. 06:21:27.980 --> 06:21:33.980 Jesse, and, and I mean, it's late for us, it's late for the studio in Copenhagen. 06:21:33.980 --> 06:21:37.980 Big respect to our production team currently working at 5? 06:21:37.980 --> 06:21:39.980 Nearly. 06:21:39.980 --> 06:21:41.980 47, 4, 447, something like that. 06:21:41.980 --> 06:21:47.980 It's, it's quite late for our production team working out of Copenhagen and of course to the... 06:21:47.980 --> 06:21:49.980 Also to our desk. 06:21:49.980 --> 06:21:52.380 We're also situated over there. It's a beautiful studio. 06:21:52.380 --> 06:21:55.180 We, of course, are working remote, so we're a bit privileged here in that regard. 06:21:55.180 --> 06:21:59.180 But, and of course, thanks to you, we're still tuning in. 06:21:59.180 --> 06:22:02.380 We're hoping to send you away with a very intriguing match. 06:22:02.380 --> 06:22:05.180 And so far, this best of three has given us just about everything. 06:22:05.180 --> 06:22:07.980 We haven't had an ace yet. I suppose that's one thing that's missing. 06:22:07.980 --> 06:22:09.980 And there has been a team kill. 06:22:09.980 --> 06:22:15.980 We're gonna start checking those off the boxes, but gameplay has continued to steadily improve. 06:22:15.980 --> 06:22:19.980 We're only two rounds into Shelly and it already been quite an unpredictable affair. 06:22:19.980 --> 06:22:25.980 Spiker attempting to spring shot as an Amaru in towards B-bomb gets gunned down immediately by M-80. 06:22:26.980 --> 06:22:29.980 That's the defuse kit drop as well yet again. 06:22:29.980 --> 06:22:31.980 Wildcard, come on. 06:22:31.980 --> 06:22:36.980 You see the power of the thorn there, Parker. The barb-barb plus gadget makes it impossible to try to make that space. 06:22:36.980 --> 06:22:40.980 The gun fights so free for Gunner, he's going to explain how to make that pick. 06:22:40.980 --> 06:22:43.060 Another one from the Fuser now is getting into building 06:22:43.060 --> 06:22:46.140 has proven to be such a difficult concept for Wildcard. 06:22:46.140 --> 06:22:48.180 It's Adrien smoked off the big window 06:22:48.180 --> 06:22:49.820 and he had some interesting sense walls 06:22:49.820 --> 06:22:50.860 that are being set up. 06:22:50.860 --> 06:22:52.200 But unfortunately, I just don't think 06:22:52.200 --> 06:22:53.860 we're going to get to see the result of it. 06:22:53.860 --> 06:22:54.700 He's dead now. 06:22:54.700 --> 06:22:57.180 He can't bring those walls to put us up to come up. 06:22:57.180 --> 06:22:58.980 And they're just battling out for these fights. 06:22:58.980 --> 06:23:00.060 Not enough information. 06:23:00.060 --> 06:23:02.940 Gavin finds Baby Shark and with over a minute 20 still 06:23:02.940 --> 06:23:05.140 on the clock, he's got five kills to find. 06:23:05.140 --> 06:23:07.220 There's two bodies to use it. 06:23:07.220 --> 06:23:09.140 Tanks on the vault in, caught by the cross. 06:23:09.140 --> 06:23:15.140 M80 looking far more poised on this round than what we saw previously. No real mistakes being committed here. 06:23:15.780 --> 06:23:22.420 Wildcard left to just bay and I mean, what are you gonna do, right? One minute to go. They hear that diffuse kick going down. 06:23:23.060 --> 06:23:27.140 The four remaining players on the side of M80 just need to sit and wait. 06:23:28.340 --> 06:23:31.860 Excellent patience. A pop up from diffuser. Maybe sitting waits not the ultimate goal. 06:23:31.860 --> 06:23:34.660 They got some smiles on their faces so the mental's not chalked just yet. 06:23:34.980 --> 06:23:36.820 M80 regains the lead. 06:23:36.820 --> 06:23:40.420 And so we didn't get to see more of that push coming through Parker from wild card 06:23:40.420 --> 06:23:43.340 It felt like it was it had some really interesting bones to it 06:23:43.340 --> 06:23:48.020 But I think spiker maybe just a little ahead of his teammates. He goes for that rappel into solar 06:23:48.020 --> 06:23:52.900 I guess thinking it was clear or think he had more coverage than he did under the cover of the lion scan 06:23:52.900 --> 06:23:56.260 He does his best to just jump in through the solar window, but it does get read 06:23:56.260 --> 06:23:59.020 There's too much util and he's not really got anybody with him 06:23:59.140 --> 06:24:05.180 So bit of an awkward death to come up from spiker that really just started that round off on the wrong foot for wild card 06:24:05.180 --> 06:24:09.940 something to think about something that they can reset and they actually do call attack timeout here 06:24:09.940 --> 06:24:16.660 I was a little curious if they would just because these last couple rounds have gone so poorly for them, especially that last one 06:24:17.300 --> 06:24:21.700 clearly Lugonis is wanting to use these tax timeouts early hoping that he can 06:24:22.340 --> 06:24:25.780 Fix these problems before they start to spiral into even bigger ones 06:24:26.220 --> 06:24:30.820 Deciding that now is the proper time to have just two one to m80 to use this tactical timeout 06:24:30.820 --> 06:24:38.980 Early timeouts again could be called for a variety of reasons and we can speculate in fact 06:24:40.900 --> 06:24:44.500 while we're paid to speculate actually it's a really great thing. We can talk about what we 06:24:44.500 --> 06:24:49.620 think is going on with these teams and these players. Wildcart have had a really rough best of 06:24:49.620 --> 06:24:54.500 three obviously it's been papered over a little bit by the results of map number two but this is 06:24:54.500 --> 06:25:00.740 still a team that is having issues you saw it in round number two they probably should be upright 06:25:00.820 --> 06:25:08.460 now in this round count, but small mistakes can lead to such larger consequences and damning 06:25:08.460 --> 06:25:13.940 results. That's what happened. That particular round went bad for Wildcard as well in a hurry. 06:25:13.940 --> 06:25:19.540 So if you're seeing these small little missteps, say you call them a thousand cuts. Death by 06:25:19.540 --> 06:25:24.260 a thousand cuts is still death. It doesn't matter how many cuts you get or how inconsequential 06:25:24.260 --> 06:25:29.460 they seem. So trust in Ligonus to be able to settle this team down, talk them through 06:25:29.460 --> 06:25:35.500 the strategy. This is not a very familiar map for Wildcard. You said it yourself before 06:25:35.500 --> 06:25:41.620 we even played a single round. So there is going to be some... I don't know, some onboarding 06:25:41.620 --> 06:25:45.580 that needs to be done, some learning on the go. Wildcard showed up better on Shelly than 06:25:45.580 --> 06:25:49.940 I expected, Jesse. They call the timeout. Your hope is that when you call that timeout, 06:25:49.940 --> 06:25:52.260 they play even better than they already are so far. 06:25:52.260 --> 06:25:57.620 We'll go back to bar and games, Parfor, as we go through the second quarter. They banned 06:25:57.620 --> 06:26:01.760 out both the Demos and the Ella. The Demos have been such a consistent staple for a wild 06:26:01.760 --> 06:26:06.080 card. It was actually Baby Shark who played it back in round number one, so he moves over 06:26:06.080 --> 06:26:11.520 to the Snake to do much of the same job as that Demos. Gathering information, giving 06:26:11.520 --> 06:26:15.920 yourself advantageous flights as you start to work with that intel to get yourself in 06:26:15.920 --> 06:26:19.320 the crags. The drones are good too. We're seeing a little bit of information being 06:26:19.320 --> 06:26:23.720 fed by that. Gunner's spot inside of Nining being given away as the drones were able 06:26:23.720 --> 06:26:26.440 to spot him out. There is a site you tell me they thought 06:26:26.440 --> 06:26:30.360 worry about of course that mirror window that we saw being set up by hot and cold is going to mean 06:26:30.360 --> 06:26:34.760 they can't just fly into the bomb site fly in as they try to back around number three 06:26:34.760 --> 06:26:39.800 with all this information the drone's coming through and of course the snake scans soon to follow 06:26:39.800 --> 06:26:41.960 i like wildcarts chances of getting this opening pick 06:26:45.560 --> 06:26:51.160 glad baby shark has woken up on this team now playing a very important operator from an 06:26:51.160 --> 06:26:55.880 information perspective usually you will see defenders playing very close to windows and doors 06:26:55.880 --> 06:26:57.920 Snake counters them so well, but guess what he doesn't do? 06:26:57.920 --> 06:27:01.480 He doesn't counter Gavin when he pulls his brain out of his head 06:27:01.480 --> 06:27:03.640 and jumps out of a window. 06:27:03.640 --> 06:27:04.760 Down goes Baby Shark. 06:27:04.760 --> 06:27:05.760 The snake is no more. 06:27:05.760 --> 06:27:09.480 He's been what, 20 seconds hyping up Baby Shark on Snake, 06:27:09.480 --> 06:27:10.920 all for none. 06:27:10.920 --> 06:27:11.760 It's a bummer. 06:27:14.680 --> 06:27:17.040 Gavin's just a smart player who will have taken down there, 06:27:17.040 --> 06:27:19.480 just catching him off guard as he's busy fighting the guy 06:27:19.480 --> 06:27:20.320 inside of office. 06:27:20.320 --> 06:27:22.840 That's that team play that we expect from M80. 06:27:22.840 --> 06:27:24.480 Now with five players still alive, 06:27:24.480 --> 06:27:31.880 They will toss the Nitro straight up the window and hit Spiker in the shield and well he's fine, still half HP, but now a little bit more vulnerable. 06:27:31.880 --> 06:27:39.280 There's a second Nitro being held by Defuser and if they try to toss these Nades in, it's actually a Rebusis from Hot and Cold to get punished, and they're in the building. 06:27:39.880 --> 06:27:48.080 Oh, Spiker was so close to finding safe pasture to get that Defuser down and now it's a Lydnia targets, but only one can be found. 06:27:48.080 --> 06:27:57.080 M80 still with the advantage, diffuser maybe a bit out of reach, that's the case, not the player as diffuser guns down Adrian, try not to be too confused. 06:27:57.080 --> 06:28:09.080 Cans it all alone, yet again, watching as his team gets felled player by player, his job was to sit and wait, but what are you waiting for when everybody is dead? 06:28:09.080 --> 06:28:13.760 Who give it the old college try? 06:28:13.760 --> 06:28:14.760 Maybe? 06:28:14.760 --> 06:28:17.080 They're just wasting time. 06:28:17.080 --> 06:28:20.640 They just called their time out, so there is potential here for them to still talk through 06:28:20.640 --> 06:28:25.080 some of this, albeit not with their coach of Luganas, but maybe workshop it as some players. 06:28:25.080 --> 06:28:29.080 It doesn't seem like Kanzan is going to give this a serious attempt. 06:28:29.080 --> 06:28:34.720 He trades, so it'll be good for the stats, but M80 in control of these last couple rounds, 06:28:34.720 --> 06:28:38.720 Errors being committed by Wildcard pounced upon by the defending major champs. 06:28:38.720 --> 06:28:42.720 Yeah, errors being committed. Another way to say that would be UR Copper. 06:28:42.720 --> 06:28:46.720 Those are the words that were chosen by the Fuser in the midst of that round, Parker. 06:28:46.720 --> 06:28:49.720 And I think part of it just comes down to these Thorn Traps. 06:28:49.720 --> 06:28:55.720 Consistently now, back to back rounds, we saw Spiker just jump right into a window that does have a Thorn Trap on it. 06:28:55.720 --> 06:28:58.720 That time when the Blackbeard, it ended up being his demise. 06:28:58.720 --> 06:29:02.720 It plus the barbed wire probably would have been his demise last round too in round number three. 06:29:02.720 --> 06:29:07.220 3 if he wasn't killed by Gunner so quickly, but it's kind of this lack of view so clear 06:29:07.220 --> 06:29:10.520 that even when you have the nades, even when you're on the Blackbeard, you have the tools 06:29:10.520 --> 06:29:14.120 to clear out some of this that is kind of stripping up from Wildcard. 06:29:14.120 --> 06:29:17.560 These mistakes that you don't really expect to see coming through, and then of course 06:29:17.560 --> 06:29:20.200 that kill over towards Blue Stairs as well. 06:29:20.200 --> 06:29:23.760 One word diffusers feeling pretty confident in himself, we've seen some really nice play 06:29:23.760 --> 06:29:28.520 coming out from M80, but it also just feels like Wildcard has a slight step back from 06:29:28.520 --> 06:29:31.960 what we were witnessing towards the end of Caffe, they need to get themselves back in 06:29:31.960 --> 06:29:38.120 this game because we're used to seeing a lot better from them. 06:29:38.120 --> 06:29:41.940 Used to being map 2 or used to being farther out? 06:29:41.940 --> 06:29:42.940 Map 2 in last season. 06:29:42.940 --> 06:29:46.600 Bit of a cold day, bit of a cold beat. 06:29:46.600 --> 06:29:50.440 It was always going to be an uphill battle for this wildcard team just based on the history 06:29:50.440 --> 06:29:52.560 that they have in their region, right? 06:29:52.560 --> 06:29:55.520 We highlighted it in map 1, we talked about it in map 2, we might as well bring it up 06:29:55.520 --> 06:29:59.880 here in map 3 just for the people who haven't been listening since the start. 06:29:59.880 --> 06:30:05.880 card has always domestically and this is the point I want to put emphasis on. Domestically 06:30:05.880 --> 06:30:12.280 they have struggled. Struggle usually means they're somewhere between 4th, 5th and 6th. 06:30:12.280 --> 06:30:18.160 When they get to an event internationally, they do really, really well. Getting there 06:30:18.160 --> 06:30:22.920 is the bigger struggle than succeeding at the event. Now, usually that's a very good 06:30:22.920 --> 06:30:27.720 problem to have, but for kickoff, it's a terrible problem to have because the runway 06:30:27.720 --> 06:30:34.440 to land this thing is so short. And for a team that usually need that long runway to prove they're 06:30:34.440 --> 06:30:39.640 one of the best, they're gonna have to be better immediately. Now Wildcard obviously didn't get 06:30:39.640 --> 06:30:44.920 that memo back in map number one, but they made the upper bracket. So they are doing something right 06:30:44.920 --> 06:30:49.720 and they're still adjusting to this player of Adrian who for the record has looked mighty good. 06:30:49.720 --> 06:30:53.720 They're gonna get a leg up now as Gavin gets a little bit irritable, jumps out, dies to a Claymore. 06:30:53.720 --> 06:30:58.600 the first kill for Wildcart, thumbs in maybe unexpected fashion here, they've taken the 06:30:58.600 --> 06:31:03.080 thorn down. Now it's a run out from hot and cold, you won't find anything, a lot of gumption on the 06:31:03.080 --> 06:31:06.040 side of this M80T, but they're not finding any success. 06:31:06.760 --> 06:31:10.760 They're struggling with it there, Gavin ended up jumping out of games with that opening death, 06:31:10.760 --> 06:31:15.160 but Baby Shark with a technical second, the claymore for the first, and now the gun 06:31:15.160 --> 06:31:19.560 rings out to find Gunner. The user's position was given away long ago and finally will be 06:31:19.560 --> 06:31:25.480 capitalize on baby shark thriving in this high info environment that it is a clean sweep a full 06:31:25.480 --> 06:31:31.000 all this round for wildcars they get themselves back in this game the information so much better 06:31:31.000 --> 06:31:35.480 that time parker they had all the drones they had the claim or as they had the utile and they will 06:31:35.480 --> 06:31:44.680 walk away with a round win because of it this seesaw match is going to continue and i mean hey kudos 06:31:44.680 --> 06:31:50.920 to the kudos to all the teams that are competing so far. Our first series of the day very evenly 06:31:50.920 --> 06:31:56.200 matched and here we are seeing the same thing again. I do kind of wish we could have seen a 06:31:56.200 --> 06:32:02.920 more competitive first map but I think it just adds to the overall story and do keep in mind that 06:32:02.920 --> 06:32:07.800 second round that wild card did ultimately end up losing when if you remember Bay and Spiker both 06:32:07.800 --> 06:32:15.400 died to Gavin on that drill. This could easily be a wild card lead here on this map, so still a lot 06:32:15.400 --> 06:32:20.600 more to go. We're about a solid, we might even be halfway towards the end of this map, but 06:32:20.600 --> 06:32:26.440 Side 12 is about to come in and I'm fascinated to see if we end up with a 3-3 and end up 06:32:26.440 --> 06:32:31.960 with 9-13 any closer to a conclusion. It really isn't coming in my mind upon wild card not making 06:32:31.960 --> 06:32:36.360 one mistake because of these two teams so far they have committed far more mistakes than I made 06:32:36.360 --> 06:32:40.880 through these five now six active rounds. Yeah make sure to see what lessons 06:32:40.880 --> 06:32:43.640 I made earlier from that previous round too you know they were playing quite 06:32:43.640 --> 06:32:47.680 aggro over towards solar they're burning burned out by capital bolts they were 06:32:47.680 --> 06:32:51.400 running out into claymores I would expect after that result to see them rain 06:32:51.400 --> 06:32:54.900 things in a little bit to see them play things a little bit more passive they 06:32:54.900 --> 06:32:57.520 are holding with four and five players up towards that block. 06:32:57.520 --> 06:33:01.280 Lord Gavin probably the hardest from site just on the other side of this window from 06:33:01.280 --> 06:33:05.760 baby shark he is inside a back bar in a position where maybe he could try to go 06:33:05.760 --> 06:33:09.920 for an early gunfight, try to get aggressive, but the most, most of the players pushing 06:33:09.920 --> 06:33:14.000 actually focus their attention over towards Solar, wanting to go more direct to site, 06:33:14.000 --> 06:33:18.080 not thinking of the engaging back with these roamers, you've got to play into their hand. 06:33:18.640 --> 06:33:22.960 The cans being on that gridlock down below, it's going to make flanking from Gavin or anyone else 06:33:22.960 --> 06:33:27.280 very, very difficult. The cans can kind of just sit down here for free, play with the shock, 06:33:27.280 --> 06:33:31.440 and start working the verse. It'll counter this bandit that's being played by Gunnar, 06:33:31.440 --> 06:33:35.040 just on side of the master wall over towards Solar, and it'll also start to counter some 06:33:35.040 --> 06:33:37.920 some of these other positions of the players inside a bathroom or inside a 06:33:37.920 --> 06:33:38.420 bathroom. 06:33:38.420 --> 06:33:43.120 You really don't see a lot of Bandit on this bomb site, Jesse. 06:33:43.120 --> 06:33:48.080 It's a bit odd. You see Bandit across a couple maps, but usually Kaid is the 06:33:48.080 --> 06:33:52.320 go-to electrification. We don't even see a lot of Kaid these days for crying out loud. 06:33:52.320 --> 06:33:59.360 It's just, breaching is not the be-all end-all like it used to be, so breached denial is not the be-all end-all. 06:33:59.360 --> 06:34:03.720 Fascinating, still see how Gunner pilots this operator. 06:34:03.720 --> 06:34:06.720 Hotten called the only player in the lobby yet to get a kill. 06:34:06.720 --> 06:34:09.720 He had a really weak second map from a bragging perspective. 06:34:09.720 --> 06:34:15.720 Hotten, highly touted for his IGL skills, not only known for tons of kills in that role, 06:34:15.720 --> 06:34:17.720 though he can go back and forth. 06:34:17.720 --> 06:34:18.720 Metrosoul gets shot. 06:34:18.720 --> 06:34:19.720 First kill is onto Gavin. 06:34:19.720 --> 06:34:20.720 Now Gunner taking some damage. 06:34:20.720 --> 06:34:21.720 He's finished off. 06:34:21.720 --> 06:34:25.720 Wildcard looking so formidable outside of the building. 06:34:27.720 --> 06:34:29.720 Another nade. 06:34:29.720 --> 06:34:31.720 It gets better. 06:34:31.720 --> 06:34:38.720 Oh boy. Two players left alive now inside of M8 to try to clutch this back over 60 seconds to work with two. 06:34:38.720 --> 06:34:44.720 The bullets are flying, your teammates are dead, hot and cold. Good luck, a nice swing at a big window. 06:34:44.720 --> 06:34:47.720 That's the start to a 1v5. 06:34:47.720 --> 06:34:49.720 Oh. 06:34:49.720 --> 06:34:57.720 The start. The finish is the OV-4 wildcard. In control of these last two rounds, 06:34:57.720 --> 06:35:03.180 Halfway point three three for both of these teams now again 06:35:03.180 --> 06:35:06.540 You can dive into whether the attackers or defenders have a leg up here on Chalet 06:35:06.540 --> 06:35:12.220 But these have been very evenly matched rounds back and forth nobody the clear victor through six 06:35:12.560 --> 06:35:17.060 Well Parker we've got our desk to break down those first six and tell us who they think is clearly in the lead 06:35:18.600 --> 06:35:22.220 Clearly in the lead. I don't know if we have that in us right now Jesse 06:35:22.220 --> 06:35:26.860 I mean thinking about where we started our first half-time break on map one 06:35:26.860 --> 06:35:28.700 We said, why are we even here? 06:35:28.700 --> 06:35:29.740 This isn't a halftime break. 06:35:29.740 --> 06:35:30.940 The game might as well be over. 06:35:30.940 --> 06:35:32.620 It was 6-0 at that point. 06:35:32.620 --> 06:35:35.580 Here we are, lacks a map and a half later. 06:35:35.580 --> 06:35:38.540 And it is, I mean, 3-3, a complete coin flip. 06:35:38.540 --> 06:35:40.540 I mean, for a viewer, this is what you'd love to see, 06:35:40.540 --> 06:35:42.300 especially if you're excited for both these teams, 06:35:42.300 --> 06:35:43.580 to get to the very last map. 06:35:43.580 --> 06:35:45.340 And it is a battle of attrition. 06:35:45.340 --> 06:35:46.860 Who is controlling that tempo? 06:35:46.860 --> 06:35:48.060 Who has that momentum? 06:35:48.060 --> 06:35:49.980 Who's able to shift and adapt better? 06:35:49.980 --> 06:35:52.140 And so far, what we've seen in the latter half, 06:35:52.140 --> 06:35:55.020 we are seeing Wildcard adapt a lot better. 06:35:55.020 --> 06:35:56.060 And I'd agree with Jesse. 06:35:56.060 --> 06:36:00.380 you know what we saw in that round five was M80 getting too aggressive, 06:36:00.380 --> 06:36:03.980 which was allowing Wildcard to get these free picks where they would ultimately close around 06:36:03.980 --> 06:36:07.820 on a flawless half, and I completely agree with Jesse that maybe we dial it back a little bit, 06:36:07.820 --> 06:36:12.460 we play a little more passive, let's play our crossfires, play our layers, and sure enough, 06:36:12.460 --> 06:36:18.300 Wildcard takes their time, uses the time against M80 and understands, okay, if they don't want to 06:36:18.300 --> 06:36:22.380 play aggressive, they don't want to peek into us, let's force them into our gunfire, let's force 06:36:22.380 --> 06:36:27.420 force them into crossfires, using that capital, just oppressing them left and right. 06:36:27.420 --> 06:36:31.660 So if I had to say at the end of this half, and how those last two rounds played out, 06:36:31.660 --> 06:36:35.660 I would be on the edge that Wildcard has the favor going into this next half. 06:36:35.660 --> 06:36:41.100 I do agree. I think the map itself is a lot different, a lot more difficult to be able 06:36:41.100 --> 06:36:45.100 to defend uncomfortably as opposed to the map like Fortress. You can't really add layers, 06:36:45.100 --> 06:36:49.420 but still even then, it looks like M80 is still very flustered from that map to loss. 06:36:49.420 --> 06:36:51.820 It seems like they're going for a lot of aggressive fights. 06:36:51.820 --> 06:36:56.120 The fights that they are losing, and sometimes when Wildcard are winning these rounds, 06:36:56.120 --> 06:37:01.220 dominantly those last two rounds, it just looks like M80's losing one kill to just, 06:37:01.220 --> 06:37:03.120 and bleeding and hemorrhaging kills. 06:37:03.120 --> 06:37:05.520 And I think that's the biggest issue for M80 going forward. 06:37:05.520 --> 06:37:08.320 Sides swapping, Wildcard is on the defense. 06:37:08.320 --> 06:37:10.120 It seems like they have a really good understanding. 06:37:10.120 --> 06:37:10.720 They're calm. 06:37:10.720 --> 06:37:12.720 They have the momentum in their favor. 06:37:12.720 --> 06:37:16.720 M80's only hope, in my opinion, is if they can really shake off the fact that they lost 06:37:16.720 --> 06:37:18.220 and really tried to out-counter. 06:37:18.220 --> 06:37:21.500 I mean, it goes without saying Han cold being the IGL, 06:37:21.500 --> 06:37:23.340 he only got his first kill in that last round. 06:37:23.340 --> 06:37:26.500 So that being said, you can tell from their gameplay 06:37:26.500 --> 06:37:29.380 and from the way that they are performing, 06:37:29.380 --> 06:37:30.940 it looks like they're still shaking up. 06:37:30.940 --> 06:37:33.420 So it sounds like Lacks, at least you gave a definitive. 06:37:33.420 --> 06:37:34.980 Do you think Wildcard have this, Fox? 06:37:34.980 --> 06:37:36.060 Where do you fall? 06:37:36.060 --> 06:37:36.980 Well, I don't wanna say they have it, 06:37:36.980 --> 06:37:38.580 but I think just going into the second half, 06:37:38.580 --> 06:37:40.180 they're gonna be a lot more comfortable. 06:37:40.180 --> 06:37:42.820 I think if there's a team to get overconfident 06:37:42.820 --> 06:37:46.460 and start losing and hemorrhaging rounds after mistakes, 06:37:46.460 --> 06:37:47.620 I feel like it would be M80. 06:37:47.620 --> 06:37:51.960 So I think it's safe to say that I believe Wildcard could run away with it in this half. 06:37:51.960 --> 06:37:54.420 Alright, well, I think we have our answer, Jesse. 06:37:54.420 --> 06:37:58.820 The momentum seems like it's on the side of Wildcard 3-3, though, as we said, 06:37:58.820 --> 06:38:02.420 basically a coin flip going into these final few rounds, 06:38:02.420 --> 06:38:05.720 but exactly what you want to see in a playoff match like this. 06:38:08.820 --> 06:38:11.420 Very well put, a battle of the Titans, 06:38:11.420 --> 06:38:16.720 and I mean, you're at the very final halftime of tonight's broadcast. 06:38:16.720 --> 06:38:19.120 And of course, neither team is closer to victory. 06:38:19.620 --> 06:38:23.320 If you are here, neither a fan, or a fan of neither team, 06:38:23.320 --> 06:38:25.420 you are treated to some really great speech. 06:38:25.420 --> 06:38:27.020 Cafe, excellent, shall I? 06:38:27.020 --> 06:38:28.220 Definitely shaping up. 06:38:28.220 --> 06:38:29.920 Can we cut from that same cloth? 06:38:29.920 --> 06:38:32.720 Just don't bother to go back and watch Fortress again unless... 06:38:33.720 --> 06:38:35.920 Well, unless you happen to love M.A.D. in awful odds, 06:38:35.920 --> 06:38:37.020 then watch it as much as you want. 06:38:37.020 --> 06:38:38.020 Heck, you didn't do it... 06:38:39.420 --> 06:38:40.020 Yeah. 06:38:40.020 --> 06:38:40.720 Yeah, I did. 06:38:40.720 --> 06:38:41.320 Ow! 06:38:42.020 --> 06:38:42.920 Okay. 06:38:44.120 --> 06:38:46.520 The textures in this game are kinda funny, 06:38:46.520 --> 06:38:51.520 So some of them you can throw Valkhams on, some of them you can shoot those drones at. 06:38:51.520 --> 06:38:57.520 I think he's worried that somebody is hidden a drone in there, and I think that's the right call. 06:38:57.520 --> 06:38:58.520 He didn't actually catch a drone. 06:38:58.520 --> 06:38:59.520 Yes. 06:39:01.520 --> 06:39:05.520 Yeah, he caught a drone in those plants. He caught it when he uprooted the second time. 06:39:05.520 --> 06:39:07.520 So he will have that information to play with. 06:39:07.520 --> 06:39:10.520 Little bit of offer that bounced off the first time around, but he's fine. 06:39:10.520 --> 06:39:14.520 He's got the info he wants, and now Baby Shark can position that drone wherever he wants. 06:39:14.520 --> 06:39:19.220 It looks like he's driving it up towards Mez at the moment, so he can really use this to try to 06:39:19.620 --> 06:39:24.100 catch the attackers off guard, maybe enable some aggressive moves from these other Lockard drummers. 06:39:27.100 --> 06:39:29.100 Oh, boy, it'll just immediately get shot. Never mind. 06:39:33.660 --> 06:39:37.640 So much of this series has been us calling what happens 06:39:38.140 --> 06:39:43.700 95% of the times and then watching as the 5% of the time unfolds in front of our eyes. 06:39:44.520 --> 06:39:54.520 Yeah, unfortunately I don't think he caught that brava drone. It's not showing up on the hood, so there was maybe some opportunity for another hack to come through, but not to be for Baby Shark. 06:39:54.520 --> 06:40:03.520 Bitted a long series, bit of a goofy one, but it has been entertaining from start to finish. Now they've got to find some way to break through onto these defenders. 06:40:03.520 --> 06:40:10.520 You see the setup over towards Piano. Bay here positioned himself behind the shield, not far away from his teammate over on the tuber out. 06:40:10.520 --> 06:40:12.640 Adrian also in an aggressive spot, 06:40:12.640 --> 06:40:14.480 and around those top floor roamers, 06:40:14.480 --> 06:40:16.820 you see so much aggression from top to bottom. 06:40:17.880 --> 06:40:19.080 Ashen will find Bay. 06:40:19.080 --> 06:40:20.720 I'm not really sure where that denial was. 06:40:20.720 --> 06:40:22.000 Oh, Ashen's found his way in. 06:40:22.000 --> 06:40:22.840 Okay, perfect. 06:40:22.840 --> 06:40:24.120 He's up top by piano, 06:40:24.120 --> 06:40:25.360 might have another over by bathroom, 06:40:25.360 --> 06:40:27.040 but he doesn't get there fast enough. 06:40:27.040 --> 06:40:29.400 What are these comms from Wildcard? 06:40:29.400 --> 06:40:33.400 Ashen was allowed to exist there for 10 plus seconds, 06:40:33.400 --> 06:40:35.560 and nobody called that one out. 06:40:36.440 --> 06:40:38.280 Adrian looking in the complete wrong direction. 06:40:38.280 --> 06:40:40.160 Spiker will get one kill with the Nitro cell, 06:40:40.160 --> 06:40:41.960 Now he has to hang on for dear hope. 06:40:41.960 --> 06:40:44.400 Gavit is also downed, retrieved now 06:40:44.400 --> 06:40:46.560 by one of the two remaining M80 players. 06:40:48.800 --> 06:40:50.200 Look at this denari set up. 06:40:50.200 --> 06:40:52.720 Yeah, that's so cool. 06:40:52.720 --> 06:40:54.120 Walks off that office doorway, 06:40:54.120 --> 06:40:56.760 there's no shot that you're destroying that trip wire 06:40:56.760 --> 06:40:57.880 from down below at least, 06:40:57.880 --> 06:41:00.480 so it makes it very tough to walk in through office. 06:41:01.880 --> 06:41:02.840 You stop for a second here 06:41:02.840 --> 06:41:04.520 and think about this particular part of the map. 06:41:04.520 --> 06:41:06.400 This is also where the electric laws will go 06:41:06.400 --> 06:41:09.240 to electrify the garage door underneath 06:41:09.240 --> 06:41:12.840 people don't think about, or rather sorry the wall underneath that people don't think about. 06:41:13.480 --> 06:41:17.640 And now you've got the Denarii trips as well. This is a really precarious spot for Spiker. I 06:41:18.280 --> 06:41:21.560 don't know if he's able to make it out of here alive. No, not at all. He was getting pinched from 06:41:21.560 --> 06:41:26.840 the kitchen door and then down solarium stairs. He was finished off either way. M80 do not look 06:41:26.840 --> 06:41:32.920 particularly happy. Certainly not the level of vibes that they had even 10 minutes ago, 06:41:32.920 --> 06:41:36.520 let alone on the previous map here. And I think for good reason, they could have closed this one 06:41:36.520 --> 06:41:39.720 out in two, they watched it slip through their fingers and now they're fighting for their lives on 06:41:39.720 --> 06:41:43.880 map number three. They've got the lead though as they take the first round of the second half. 06:41:43.880 --> 06:41:47.640 Yeah, I think that's key. Despite the vibes, they did look quite well in that push and it 06:41:47.640 --> 06:41:52.280 all falls back to Ashen. Got just three kills in the first half and will double his total in just 06:41:52.280 --> 06:41:56.600 the first round of the second half. Be able to get another triple kill. He knew that there was 06:41:56.600 --> 06:42:01.480 the denari set up inside a piano. We saw it with that ployable shield. Walks in, gets that kill, 06:42:01.480 --> 06:42:06.300 immediately flicks behind because he knows baby shark is roaming down over 06:42:06.300 --> 06:42:10.360 towards the bottom of blue stairs get the second kill and then the final player 06:42:10.360 --> 06:42:13.800 just Adrian inside of office he's got a million different angles to look at I 06:42:13.800 --> 06:42:17.320 believe you distracted by hot and cold just inside the master bedroom so when 06:42:17.320 --> 06:42:21.160 Ashton walks in the office door ends up being a freebie for him to cap off that 06:42:21.160 --> 06:42:25.480 nice little 3k when you've got a snake player like Ashton who is so good at 06:42:25.480 --> 06:42:29.440 gathering information and then using it to get a multitude of kills it really 06:42:29.440 --> 06:42:31.640 can crack the defense wide open. 06:42:31.640 --> 06:42:33.520 Wildcard spent a lot of that early round 06:42:33.520 --> 06:42:34.760 hunting for an early pick, 06:42:34.760 --> 06:42:36.360 hunting for that aggressive play 06:42:36.360 --> 06:42:37.840 that will give them the edge, 06:42:37.840 --> 06:42:40.000 but it was Ashen who ended up finding it 06:42:40.000 --> 06:42:42.000 and gives us an early pick of it. 06:42:45.360 --> 06:42:47.520 The series so far that's been defined by a lot of things. 06:42:47.520 --> 06:42:50.120 Some sloppy play, teams figuring each other out 06:42:50.120 --> 06:42:52.320 as it goes on a little bit longer. 06:42:52.320 --> 06:42:54.280 Great individual performances, 06:42:54.280 --> 06:42:56.600 the yo-yo effect of some of these players. 06:42:56.600 --> 06:42:58.360 Baby Shark having a terrible game, 06:42:58.360 --> 06:43:01.240 bouncing back to almost top-fragging on his team, 06:43:01.240 --> 06:43:05.080 Spiker carrying the wave and now taking more of a back seat. 06:43:05.080 --> 06:43:06.240 We've been all over the place. 06:43:06.240 --> 06:43:08.400 Quite the journey here through these three maps, 06:43:08.400 --> 06:43:10.640 and it has been a really special series, 06:43:10.640 --> 06:43:13.240 and it's not for a direct playoff spot. 06:43:13.240 --> 06:43:15.560 So you have to imagine that when the stakes get higher, 06:43:15.560 --> 06:43:18.240 the games will only improve. 06:43:18.240 --> 06:43:21.480 DarkZero awaits the winner of this series, 06:43:21.480 --> 06:43:23.920 and then the winner of that series 06:43:23.920 --> 06:43:26.320 gets a spot at the Salt Lake City Major. 06:43:26.320 --> 06:43:29.580 The loser here does not go home. 06:43:29.580 --> 06:43:32.260 The loser here goes down into the lower bracket 06:43:32.260 --> 06:43:36.420 to start their lower bracket run for one of those four spots 06:43:36.420 --> 06:43:39.820 and will have their hands full against Shopify Rebellion 06:43:39.820 --> 06:43:44.260 in a matchup that I imagine has to be very, very interesting 06:43:44.260 --> 06:43:47.060 to watch, irrespective of which of these teams win. 06:43:47.060 --> 06:43:48.220 This is a quick one by M80. 06:43:48.220 --> 06:43:49.500 They've made their way into back bar. 06:43:49.500 --> 06:43:51.220 Ashen and Gunner taking no prisoners. 06:43:51.220 --> 06:43:55.300 Defuser goes down wild card and will now trail by two players 06:43:55.300 --> 06:43:57.880 can find themselves in the worst spot possible. 06:43:57.880 --> 06:44:01.740 Down in numbers, while you've lost control of the bomb site, 06:44:01.740 --> 06:44:03.500 round is on the line. 06:44:03.500 --> 06:44:04.860 Ash and Shagin' off of this spot, 06:44:04.860 --> 06:44:08.060 they do manage to get one kill on Wildcard's side. 06:44:08.060 --> 06:44:10.220 But one kill over the span of 20 seconds 06:44:10.220 --> 06:44:11.660 ain't gonna get the job done, Jesse, 06:44:11.660 --> 06:44:14.660 when there's four other players to go. 06:44:14.660 --> 06:44:16.420 And that big window will be the greater issue. 06:44:16.420 --> 06:44:19.380 No opportunity to long arm, they all trickle in, 06:44:19.380 --> 06:44:22.140 and M80 will greet them one by one by one. 06:44:22.140 --> 06:44:24.620 They go up by two, five, three. 06:44:24.620 --> 06:44:28.780 score line so far, M80 perfect on the second half. 06:44:28.780 --> 06:44:32.820 It's been Akshine's initiative that has really changed the pace of this game for me Parker. 06:44:32.820 --> 06:44:36.960 He has once again been able to jump in the building, cause a distraction, be the focal 06:44:36.960 --> 06:44:41.440 point of all of those defenders, and enable this team to be able to get in and get that 06:44:41.440 --> 06:44:42.440 plant. 06:44:42.440 --> 06:44:46.380 First time he did it on the stake, little 3k gets the frags, this time he only gets one 06:44:46.380 --> 06:44:50.740 kill for his trouble, but he's that guy on the blitz jumping in through the window, distracting 06:44:50.740 --> 06:44:55.100 the smoke of Adrian, who is the one player that was still on the bomb site, which allows 06:44:55.100 --> 06:44:59.140 Hot and Cold to jump in and get that plant then on to Capitao, everybody else in that 06:44:59.140 --> 06:45:03.740 rush holding after out through the game's window or up above the library windows. 06:45:03.740 --> 06:45:07.960 You saw Gunner get that opening pick, unfortunately, the spiker who was roaming all the way over 06:45:07.960 --> 06:45:13.060 towards Office felt like the information was so clean there from M80, and despite the fact 06:45:13.060 --> 06:45:16.260 that Adrian was sitting in the site, they said, we don't really care, we're going to 06:45:16.260 --> 06:45:19.780 send it in, we're going to force you out of this position, Asher was able to gun him 06:45:19.780 --> 06:45:24.260 down with the pistol on that blitz, and it just made all the difference in the world. 06:45:24.260 --> 06:45:29.140 These pushes have been so decisive from MAD, Wildcard need to find some way to shut them 06:45:29.140 --> 06:45:31.380 down and they're running out of time to find that solution. 06:45:31.380 --> 06:45:33.860 And they already used their timeout yet again. 06:45:33.860 --> 06:45:38.940 Both of these times that the Wildcard timeouts have come have been so early in the game that 06:45:38.940 --> 06:45:44.580 you can't diagnose these issues with your coach in the midst of it. 06:45:44.580 --> 06:45:45.580 Right? 06:45:45.580 --> 06:45:46.580 This is quite devastating for them. 06:45:46.580 --> 06:45:56.580 They do get the time out now in the middle of the game at halftime, so they are at least able to do that, but it's a rough spot to be in if you're wildcard. 06:45:56.580 --> 06:45:59.580 You've just got to go with the flow and hope that you can figure it out. 06:45:59.580 --> 06:46:06.580 Good drone work now from M80 as we turn our sights towards round number nine and M80 succeed here. 06:46:06.580 --> 06:46:09.580 Well, that might be the end of it for wildcard. 06:46:09.580 --> 06:46:12.420 The ball didn't, Spikers unable to stop it, 06:46:12.420 --> 06:46:14.140 Neistar still goes down, doesn't connect, 06:46:14.140 --> 06:46:15.460 he does some serious damage, 06:46:15.460 --> 06:46:17.580 doesn't find any casual teams. 06:46:17.580 --> 06:46:19.340 The fuser, the first one on an enemy in the ground, 06:46:19.340 --> 06:46:21.220 but Spiker died shortly before that, 06:46:21.220 --> 06:46:24.200 hot and cold on the board now gunning down Kansan. 06:46:24.200 --> 06:46:26.740 This attack towards the kitchen side 06:46:26.740 --> 06:46:29.600 was down on that main floor through trophy window. 06:46:29.600 --> 06:46:31.540 Once they clear that, then they can think about 06:46:31.540 --> 06:46:33.700 next steps up Solarium stairs. 06:46:34.620 --> 06:46:36.740 Got really messy, Kansan dropped the hatch 06:46:36.740 --> 06:46:38.500 through master to kitchen to try to help out 06:46:38.500 --> 06:46:42.180 his roamers spikered down below the site but unfortunately all it resulted in was 06:46:42.180 --> 06:46:46.300 his own demise. A little bit of a scary roam early game coming out from 06:46:46.300 --> 06:46:51.300 wildcarders. They lose that man advantage. They've got major on the clash but as a 06:46:51.300 --> 06:46:53.780 clash you kind of have to bring the gun up now that you're in a man count 06:46:53.780 --> 06:46:56.940 disadvantage because if you just play that shield well now it's a 2v4 on the 06:46:56.940 --> 06:47:01.340 gun. 2v3 I suppose with hot and cold also bringing out that shield but it's 06:47:01.340 --> 06:47:04.380 gonna be in an awkward situation regardless. These last few players on a 06:47:04.380 --> 06:47:07.820 a long guard or guess where to continue to waste down this time. 06:47:07.820 --> 06:47:10.660 They very aggressive still playing on these solar stairs. 06:47:10.660 --> 06:47:12.660 Someone isolated from his two teammates. 06:47:12.660 --> 06:47:15.220 But he gets one regardless on a gavet and the C4 06:47:15.220 --> 06:47:16.460 will give the man advantage. 06:47:16.460 --> 06:47:18.780 OK, we're back in it. 06:47:18.780 --> 06:47:20.140 What happened here? 06:47:20.140 --> 06:47:22.500 Well, we talk about these rounds having just about everything. 06:47:22.500 --> 06:47:24.660 My goodness, Jesse. 06:47:24.660 --> 06:47:26.940 Wildcard went from an incredibly weak position 06:47:26.940 --> 06:47:29.860 to now being the favorites to win this one out. 06:47:29.860 --> 06:47:34.100 Han Cold will need Gunnar as his lone escort. 06:47:34.100 --> 06:47:37.540 Gunner's been having a good day. Gunner's also got the F2. 06:47:37.540 --> 06:47:41.620 Gunner can also kill Adrian here, but he needs more information. 06:47:42.980 --> 06:47:45.780 He's let him slip on by. Great read. Good patience by Gunner. 06:47:45.780 --> 06:47:50.260 Could find two! He'll do just that! But he's watched Hot and Cold die. 06:47:50.260 --> 06:47:53.620 Out will come the scanner and he's got a read. He knows that he's being watched 06:47:53.620 --> 06:47:56.580 and will just be a straight up 50-50. Are you feeling lucky? 06:47:56.580 --> 06:48:01.540 Bay is! Bay wins breaking the run that we saw from M80. 06:48:01.540 --> 06:48:06.500 The gap is now just one round, M80 still in control, but Wildcard coming for that lead. 06:48:07.300 --> 06:48:13.780 Jacob Dowling from Quincy, Illinois does it in the 1v1, big round from Bay coming out to 06:48:13.780 --> 06:48:20.500 shut down Gunner. It looked like it was going to all fall into place. The piece is lining up for 06:48:20.500 --> 06:48:25.540 M80, but unfortunately it's just that 1v1 from the clash that comes out big time. I'm shocked 06:48:25.540 --> 06:48:30.180 that they were even in that position once again Parker. It felt like M80 had the clash dead to 06:48:30.180 --> 06:48:35.460 right, pins down there on the solar stairs, but Bay somehow fights his way out of it, found the head 06:48:35.460 --> 06:48:39.540 of Gavin down there on the bottom floor, at the same time the Nitro alleviates the pressure from 06:48:39.540 --> 06:48:45.620 up above, clears the player off the solar window, sets him up to be able to be in that clutch position. 06:48:45.620 --> 06:48:49.620 You'll see it now. Here's the Nitro from Adrian. There's that kill from Bay on the left side of your 06:48:49.620 --> 06:48:54.100 screen too, as you'll be able to get that kill. It is beautiful from Gunnar making his entry in 06:48:54.100 --> 06:48:59.220 through the office door, but at the end of the day, the trade is better from Bay. It is a perfect 06:48:59.220 --> 06:49:04.220 It's a perfect shot with the SMG. Wildcard is still in this game. 06:49:06.220 --> 06:49:14.220 Running out of things to talk about in this matchup and ways to address these two teams and these individual performances. 06:49:15.220 --> 06:49:21.220 It's just been an incredible run. Wildcard are improving in front of our very eyes. 06:49:22.220 --> 06:49:25.220 And again, I go back to that one round. It could be a wildcard leap. 06:49:25.220 --> 06:49:32.980 So the scoreline really does reflect how close this has been. It feels like a completely different day 06:49:33.340 --> 06:49:38.620 than when we started this series and M80 Dog Walk Wildcard 7-1. 06:49:38.880 --> 06:49:40.380 So... 06:49:40.380 --> 06:49:47.300 Two-dose to them for sticking through it. Keep in mind about an hour and a half ago, or about an hour ago give or take, 06:49:47.300 --> 06:49:51.220 depending on your timeline here. It was 5-2 M80 on map 2. 06:49:51.220 --> 06:49:57.320 We were six minutes away from this being done, and M80 taking a triumphant 2A victory. 06:49:57.320 --> 06:50:04.620 And it could very easily be Wildcard who ends up winning this best of three, which is an insane thing to say. 06:50:04.620 --> 06:50:09.020 But it really does go to show you why we play matches in the server and not on paper. 06:50:09.020 --> 06:50:13.520 And you get Gunner, who decides to walk in, drop in, but they haven't blown the whole way. 06:50:13.520 --> 06:50:17.520 Baby Shark hits them and then goes for the home run run. 06:50:17.520 --> 06:50:21.520 away he goes and then he suffers the first loss of the round. 06:50:21.520 --> 06:50:25.520 Well he might have had the same gun but unfortunately the twitch is not the snake 06:50:25.520 --> 06:50:29.520 and without that extra information gunners just not in an advantageous spot 06:50:29.520 --> 06:50:33.520 doesn't know if babyster expedition over towards the stairs it's crazy how much of an impact 06:50:33.520 --> 06:50:38.520 one band will make but removing that off the board is just giving wildcard that extra edge 06:50:38.520 --> 06:50:41.520 that extra bit of intel gone out if they need it. 06:50:41.520 --> 06:50:44.520 So to get that opening pick work themselves into an advantage 06:50:44.520 --> 06:50:48.260 It's the first opening pick that they've gotten through this second half. It's been very 06:50:48.560 --> 06:50:54.380 Consisting for an 80 getting these early-round victories, but this time around baby shark strikes back 06:50:54.720 --> 06:51:01.000 His third opening pick of the map by the way, he's been very good with it, even though the most came boomer staff 06:51:02.120 --> 06:51:07.640 They don't expect that peak from spiker on the stairs. He goes for the swing blanketing it with the gas 06:51:08.620 --> 06:51:10.040 He had that other 06:51:10.040 --> 06:51:12.760 Proxic babe in hand. It doesn't look like he's gonna use it. 06:51:12.760 --> 06:51:15.560 It might have been just a reflex expecting a follow-up from Manny. 06:51:15.560 --> 06:51:17.720 I mean, usually as players in lockstep. 06:51:17.720 --> 06:51:19.240 But as we've seen, as this has gone on, 06:51:19.240 --> 06:51:21.000 and been playing more like a team of individuals, 06:51:21.000 --> 06:51:23.160 that might be a concerning sign for them. 06:51:24.200 --> 06:51:26.600 Henry serves. M80 still has their time out. 06:51:26.600 --> 06:51:29.480 I wonder if they call it should they lose this round. 06:51:29.480 --> 06:51:32.040 Nitrocell goes up. There's the team kill we talked about. 06:51:32.040 --> 06:51:33.480 At least the Nitrocell doesn't go off. 06:51:33.480 --> 06:51:34.840 You got that, I suppose. 06:51:35.800 --> 06:51:37.880 Still affecting the corner is Adrian. 06:51:37.880 --> 06:51:43.920 He's got coverage now from the clash as Kansan will keep him safe for the time being hot and cold all the while standing outside doing guys 06:51:43.920 --> 06:51:50.400 I just gotta wait. I just gotta wait guys. He walks right in off goes the head of Adrian subtracting him from the equation 06:51:51.080 --> 06:51:54.320 Kansan's fallen all the way back to blue still 45 seconds left 06:51:54.320 --> 06:51:57.000 This will feel like an eternity for M80 and their fans 06:51:57.680 --> 06:52:03.640 That breach opened up Kansan off of the shield trying to take the engagement directly to hot and cold Gavin fell 06:52:03.640 --> 06:52:09.400 He was the target they so desired and now it'll just be a reflex test that Kansan wins. 06:52:09.400 --> 06:52:17.920 Tie game! We will need all 12 rounds of regulation for this. Wildcard draws even. 06:52:17.920 --> 06:52:26.200 Oh my, oh my. Fabian, is this the moment for the tack timeout? Probably the messiest round we've seen from M80. 06:52:26.200 --> 06:52:30.480 There it is. Not a hard thing to predict Parker. They're gonna call it after that. 06:52:30.480 --> 06:52:36.480 Just a really sloppy opening death to come through from Gunner as he enters the building with no information. 06:52:36.480 --> 06:52:42.480 Then you've got a bit of a swing from Spiker that doesn't get caught. It's a little bit slower action time from M80. 06:52:42.480 --> 06:52:48.480 And then the team kill is just so unfortunate. Obviously trying to shoot that. Nice yourself, unsuccessful in it. 06:52:48.480 --> 06:52:55.480 But when you're grouping up like that, looking towards the weakest bombsite on Chalet, may I add, you can't be having simple mistakes like that. 06:52:55.480 --> 06:52:59.280 can't be giving yourself such a poor start to the round. 06:52:59.280 --> 06:53:01.760 Seven, eight, and nine, we saw the early round 06:53:01.760 --> 06:53:02.960 go the way of N80. 06:53:02.960 --> 06:53:04.520 Even though round nine stepped away from them, 06:53:04.520 --> 06:53:06.420 it felt like the early game was going for them, 06:53:06.420 --> 06:53:10.180 but it just feels like similar to the last couple 06:53:10.180 --> 06:53:11.780 of rounds on the first half, 06:53:11.780 --> 06:53:13.560 maybe we're getting a little overconfident, 06:53:13.560 --> 06:53:15.280 maybe we're getting a little over excited, 06:53:15.280 --> 06:53:18.040 maybe we're moving a little bit too much too quickly, 06:53:18.040 --> 06:53:20.320 because mistakes are being made from N80 06:53:20.320 --> 06:53:23.780 and Wildcarts are walking away with rounds because of it. 06:53:23.780 --> 06:53:26.980 They have clawed back this period after the disaster on map 1. 06:53:26.980 --> 06:53:32.780 They clawed back to score on map 2, just before the third, and now on map 3, they play from 06:53:32.780 --> 06:53:37.460 a disadvantage once again and are finding success once again. 06:53:37.460 --> 06:53:43.820 You think we're going to go on overtime, Jesse? 06:53:43.820 --> 06:53:47.580 I think it will either be an overtime or it will be a 7-5 win for Wildcard. 06:53:47.580 --> 06:53:50.340 I cannot imagine they're slowing down at this point. 06:53:50.340 --> 06:53:57.340 The only questions do M80 respond to the attack time though. 06:53:57.340 --> 06:53:59.340 They not just call their time out of my brain? 06:53:59.340 --> 06:54:00.340 No, no, that's what I'm saying. 06:54:00.340 --> 06:54:03.340 Like, can they react to that attack time? 06:54:03.340 --> 06:54:10.340 Or can they bounce back because of the time what they just took in order to save this game and force that overtime? 06:54:10.340 --> 06:54:12.340 I don't think Wildcard will be losing these next two rounds. 06:54:12.340 --> 06:54:15.340 They're just playing too well at the moment. 06:54:15.340 --> 06:54:17.340 I misunderstood. 06:54:17.340 --> 06:54:18.340 I'll pull up it. 06:54:20.340 --> 06:54:24.340 Either way, we have been treated to two incredible series so far today. 06:54:24.340 --> 06:54:29.340 We started the broadcast about six and a half, almost seven hours ago. 06:54:29.340 --> 06:54:33.340 You and I have been casting since 5 p.m. Eastern is now 1120. 06:54:33.340 --> 06:54:35.340 So this has been a tremendously long day. 06:54:35.340 --> 06:54:41.340 I thought as long as it really could, barring the catastrophic implosion of somebody's computer 06:54:41.340 --> 06:54:43.340 that would have delayed us even longer. 06:54:43.340 --> 06:54:48.900 With a 7-1, by the way, crazy to think, these teams will come to blows very quickly, 06:54:48.900 --> 06:54:53.740 Defuser finds his way in, Spiker dies because of it, Baby Shark throws Defuser out of the building. 06:54:55.420 --> 06:54:59.020 Grats that, he might not have actually moved into the building, he might have just been killed through the window. 06:54:59.740 --> 06:55:02.780 I mean, technically, I'm correct, his body's not in the building, so at least I'm half right there. 06:55:03.340 --> 06:55:04.860 I'll give it to you, I'll give you points. 06:55:05.100 --> 06:55:07.900 Thank you, that's really nice of you. 06:55:08.460 --> 06:55:12.140 Gunner was surveying the landscape, seeing if somebody else would peek their head through that hole, 06:55:12.140 --> 06:55:16.060 but nobody will. It'll block off some line of sight with that ROU projector. 06:55:18.500 --> 06:55:20.960 They have intel. What are the drones doing on the side of M80? 06:55:20.980 --> 06:55:25.220 I have not seen a lot of droning from this M80 team lately. 06:55:27.740 --> 06:55:29.860 Parker, the information might have been there, 06:55:29.880 --> 06:55:33.060 but the shots are better for Kansan. They trade it out. 06:55:33.140 --> 06:55:35.220 I mean, they keep things equal three to three, 06:55:35.220 --> 06:55:38.740 but it does feel like the guns have just been a little bit better on this wild 06:55:38.740 --> 06:55:43.420 card side as of the last 45 minutes or so here comes a flank up from baby shark 06:55:43.420 --> 06:55:47.140 on the solar stairs big kill in the hot and cold now everything goes his 06:55:47.140 --> 06:55:52.180 direction Adrienne another one and Gavin left in the 1v3 it's crumbling 06:55:52.180 --> 06:55:58.580 again it certainly looks like three in a row for wild card in these rounds and 06:55:58.580 --> 06:56:04.700 it'll push them to series point an incredible turnaround for this team 06:56:04.700 --> 06:56:09.700 They just need to find Gavin and then the lead is theirs. 06:56:09.700 --> 06:56:12.700 They led back in round number one, but that has been it. 06:56:12.700 --> 06:56:17.700 They have been trailing or now tied with this M80 team no longer. 06:56:17.700 --> 06:56:21.700 Wildcard moved to Ceres Point. 06:56:21.700 --> 06:56:27.700 And it just feels like it's every individual Parker that we have been waiting to see pop off from Wildcard. 06:56:27.700 --> 06:56:33.700 It's Kansan going for these tiny peaks where he hits the head every single time with perfect reaction speed. 06:56:33.700 --> 06:56:41.700 It's Adrian on these long angles, playing the Acogs, playing the DMRs, punishing players that try to get into the building and trading out his teammates. 06:56:41.700 --> 06:56:50.700 And most impressively of all, it's Baby Shark. It is the kid who has struggled on Wildcard since this stage began, all throughout the group stage. 06:56:50.700 --> 06:56:59.700 Frankly, through the first half of this series, where he could not seem to win a fight, could not seem to find his bearings, could not seem to have an impact on the round for Wildcard, 06:56:59.700 --> 06:57:03.980 Now we're seeing the old baby shark now. We're seeing that French 06:57:05.120 --> 06:57:12.080 Menace that was so good for this team factoring last season that was the highest rated player on wild card through stage 2 of the 06:57:12.080 --> 06:57:15.640 NL last year. He has come alive in this series 06:57:15.640 --> 06:57:20.640 He has broken the curse that has been falling him since this season began and Parker 06:57:20.640 --> 06:57:23.460 It might be the end of M80 if you can do it in one more round 06:57:23.460 --> 06:57:31.920 It absolutely absurd ending 08sus and it could be with Wildcard putting an impressive punctuation 06:57:31.920 --> 06:57:36.640 mark on the end of this best of three or we go to overtime which is equally exciting and 06:57:36.640 --> 06:57:42.480 gives us at minimum two more rounds after this eight full round twelve. 06:57:42.480 --> 06:57:47.200 It has been a series of streaks on this map round one went to Wildcard and three in a 06:57:47.200 --> 06:57:54.320 a row for M80, two in a row for Wildcard, two in a row for M80, three in a row for Wildcard. 06:57:54.320 --> 06:58:01.320 It would be a perfect mirror if M80 wins this round in rounds one. 06:58:01.320 --> 06:58:03.000 It'd be fascinating to watch. 06:58:03.000 --> 06:58:06.140 It's just something fun to pick up on. 06:58:06.140 --> 06:58:09.620 But M80 have really looked like a team that has lost a lot of their confidence and their 06:58:09.620 --> 06:58:10.980 guns are not working. 06:58:10.980 --> 06:58:12.820 Their strategy is not particularly good again. 06:58:12.820 --> 06:58:13.820 We go back to drones. 06:58:13.820 --> 06:58:17.320 I have not seen a lot of time spent on drones for the 780 team. 06:58:17.320 --> 06:58:21.320 Yes, they just, we just saw Gunner doing it with the Trich Trony drones himself in, 06:58:21.320 --> 06:58:26.320 but the rest of this team is largely just playing off of their gadgetry and intel. 06:58:26.320 --> 06:58:30.320 But the intel's coming through operators, again, not through drones. 06:58:30.320 --> 06:58:31.820 This is a tough spot to be in. 06:58:31.820 --> 06:58:34.820 A tough spot to be in, speaking of, this Chimney player. 06:58:34.820 --> 06:58:37.820 On cold, aggressing in this position, he's got Spike around the run. 06:58:37.820 --> 06:58:40.820 Maze will go out to dislodge him, it's a hail of bullets. 06:58:40.820 --> 06:58:43.820 How does Wildcard come out ahead of this gunfight? 06:58:43.820 --> 06:58:46.860 Adrian there for backup of the Nitro-Selcaven gets one, 06:58:46.860 --> 06:58:48.580 but it's Wildcard to come out ahead. 06:58:48.580 --> 06:58:50.820 They pushed Spiker out of the position, 06:58:50.820 --> 06:58:54.100 but M80 lost both of their shields in the process. 06:58:55.340 --> 06:58:57.460 Big fight from Gunner equalizes the numbers. 06:58:57.460 --> 06:58:58.540 They're still in this fight. 06:58:58.540 --> 06:59:00.060 They just need to pull out their guns 06:59:00.060 --> 06:59:01.260 and take this map control. 06:59:01.260 --> 06:59:02.620 Top floor is now under theirs. 06:59:02.620 --> 06:59:04.980 Parker, they've got control above the bomb site. 06:59:04.980 --> 06:59:07.140 Diffuser was dropped by Haughton-Colez. 06:59:07.140 --> 06:59:08.500 He was trying to make that space 06:59:08.500 --> 06:59:09.940 that will have to be recovered, 06:59:09.940 --> 06:59:11.820 But they're playing with the vert so perfectly. 06:59:11.820 --> 06:59:14.380 The fuser gets the angle on to Adrian. 06:59:14.380 --> 06:59:16.780 It leaves just the two best players on wildcard. 06:59:16.780 --> 06:59:19.340 Baby shark and Kansan, they're trying to clutch this up 06:59:19.340 --> 06:59:20.460 into 2v3. 06:59:20.460 --> 06:59:22.340 So much time on the clock, though, Parker. 06:59:22.340 --> 06:59:23.780 So much map control. 06:59:23.780 --> 06:59:26.820 So such good guns as well on the side of M80. 06:59:26.820 --> 06:59:29.060 Somebody on wildcard has to make a move in order 06:59:29.060 --> 06:59:29.980 to get an advantage. 06:59:29.980 --> 06:59:32.740 If they just sit in sight, I can't see them winning this. 06:59:32.740 --> 06:59:34.820 I mean, you've got Kansan needing time to be bodiced. 06:59:34.820 --> 06:59:35.940 He's now going for a flank. 06:59:35.940 --> 06:59:38.340 They've got two sets of eyes on the side of M80 watching this. 06:59:38.340 --> 06:59:40.940 The two best players on Wildcard are the last two remaining. 06:59:40.940 --> 06:59:43.180 That's a good thing to hang your hopes on. 06:59:43.180 --> 06:59:44.940 The Chansons is good as dead here, right? 06:59:44.940 --> 06:59:46.820 Yep, they sweep through the last two. 06:59:46.820 --> 06:59:51.820 We go all the way over time, Jesse, on the board. 06:59:53.420 --> 06:59:56.660 How else could a series like this end, 06:59:56.660 --> 06:59:59.940 these two have been neck and neck ever since 06:59:59.940 --> 07:00:02.020 about the halfway point in Cafe 07:00:02.020 --> 07:00:04.140 and it has not gotten any easier 07:00:04.140 --> 07:00:07.060 to determine who will be the victor. 07:00:07.060 --> 07:00:08.980 We saw the lineup coming into it, right? 07:00:08.980 --> 07:00:11.540 It was Finca, Blitz, Monty. 07:00:11.540 --> 07:00:13.700 You had everything, the lion as well, 07:00:13.700 --> 07:00:15.780 to try to surprise those top floor players, 07:00:15.780 --> 07:00:17.700 to explode into the top floor, 07:00:17.700 --> 07:00:19.460 and whilst it got messy, 07:00:19.460 --> 07:00:20.900 while the strat that they were cooking up 07:00:20.900 --> 07:00:22.900 made a disaster of the kitchen, 07:00:22.900 --> 07:00:24.660 it ends up being a delicious dish 07:00:24.660 --> 07:00:28.380 that serves them overtime here on Chalet. 07:00:28.380 --> 07:00:30.620 Two rounds separate both teams now 07:00:30.620 --> 07:00:32.300 from a spot against Dark Zero, 07:00:32.300 --> 07:00:33.900 deeper into the upper bracket, 07:00:33.900 --> 07:00:35.700 but Parker, I could not tell you 07:00:35.700 --> 07:00:37.700 Who's likely to come up on top here? 07:00:37.700 --> 07:00:39.700 I have no idea what the hell's going on at this point in time. 07:00:39.700 --> 07:00:42.980 Just, yeah, I'm just, I have stopped trying to make predictions. 07:00:42.980 --> 07:00:44.580 I do not, I'm not a prognosticator. 07:00:44.580 --> 07:00:45.700 I'm not guessing here. 07:00:45.700 --> 07:00:48.580 I'm just along for the ride at this point, and I think for good reason. 07:00:48.580 --> 07:00:53.380 These two teams have shown that they both deserve to win, 07:00:53.380 --> 07:00:56.180 and yet only one will ultimately succeed. 07:00:56.900 --> 07:01:00.260 This is where we said the better team ultimately might not win. 07:01:00.260 --> 07:01:01.940 Take a look at the score line right now, right? 07:01:01.940 --> 07:01:06.280 M80 blows out wildcard on wildcards map wildcard 07:01:07.140 --> 07:01:10.560 Weasels out of victory on M80's map and now 07:01:11.100 --> 07:01:16.060 This could end up going all 15 rounds with one of these teams ultimately winning 07:01:16.780 --> 07:01:21.900 By one if it's wildcard that ultimately wins this you look at the score sheet and say well M80 07:01:21.900 --> 07:01:25.020 One seven one wildcard one eight six and say eight seven 07:01:25.460 --> 07:01:30.220 How can you say wildcards a better team on paper? Maybe you'd argue that M80 was the better team 07:01:30.220 --> 07:01:33.060 just based on those rounds alone. 07:01:33.060 --> 07:01:35.460 And people would be salty and the M80 fans would be upset 07:01:35.460 --> 07:01:38.420 and I don't think that would be unjustified. 07:01:38.420 --> 07:01:40.860 But you gotta win your maps. 07:01:40.860 --> 07:01:43.020 Congratulations, you won your rounds, that's great. 07:01:43.020 --> 07:01:46.900 Wildcard are proving that when the competition is the toughest 07:01:46.900 --> 07:01:48.300 and the stakes are the highest, 07:01:48.300 --> 07:01:49.980 they can elevate themselves to that. 07:01:49.980 --> 07:01:52.060 They did it on cafe, it seemed unlikely 07:01:52.060 --> 07:01:55.220 that they'd be able to do it on chalet and yet, here we are. 07:01:55.220 --> 07:01:57.220 Great that it's M80 now, we were on the comeback, 07:01:57.220 --> 07:01:59.740 so can they pull it off? 07:01:59.740 --> 07:02:02.860 Wildcard defending first, still discovery phase for M80. 07:02:02.860 --> 07:02:04.380 Doing some more drone work than we've seen 07:02:04.380 --> 07:02:05.380 until a lot of the other rounds. 07:02:05.380 --> 07:02:06.860 This is something that's very good. 07:02:06.860 --> 07:02:10.340 It obviously aided them in the previous round, one by M80. 07:02:11.740 --> 07:02:14.700 Big game moments, call for big game players 07:02:14.700 --> 07:02:16.580 and the parts argue anywhere in the server 07:02:16.580 --> 07:02:18.500 doesn't fit that description Parker. 07:02:18.500 --> 07:02:21.260 They have so much experience in international events, 07:02:21.260 --> 07:02:23.100 whether it's Adrian winning EWC 07:02:23.100 --> 07:02:24.980 and making it to the grand finals of SI 07:02:24.980 --> 07:02:28.020 or whether it's most of M80 lifting a major trophy 07:02:28.020 --> 07:02:29.260 not once, but twice. 07:02:29.260 --> 07:02:31.560 These players know what it takes to battle through 07:02:31.560 --> 07:02:35.140 these very long nights and these difficult matches. 07:02:35.140 --> 07:02:38.060 On the top floor, they're gonna have to hold things down 07:02:38.060 --> 07:02:39.140 on the side of Wildcard. 07:02:39.140 --> 07:02:40.500 Action's starting to close in, 07:02:40.500 --> 07:02:41.940 hot and cold with the Cat's Outdoors, 07:02:41.940 --> 07:02:44.540 but it's Gavin who strikes first on the Adrian. 07:02:44.540 --> 07:02:47.900 Wildcard answers back with a brisk two-piece. 07:02:47.900 --> 07:02:49.380 That's gonna be a tough spot for Baby Shark. 07:02:49.380 --> 07:02:50.580 He's fighting his own demons. 07:02:50.580 --> 07:02:53.060 M-80 now have reduced Wildcard to just Spiker. 07:02:53.060 --> 07:02:54.420 Kansan might be retrievable, 07:02:54.420 --> 07:02:56.020 but I don't think that'll be the focus 07:02:56.020 --> 07:02:58.740 for the captain of Wildcard. 07:02:58.740 --> 07:03:00.900 They're posted up watching his position. 07:03:00.900 --> 07:03:03.180 Three players from M80. 07:03:03.180 --> 07:03:04.620 Will they be able to get to him? 07:03:04.620 --> 07:03:07.180 Yes, they read him so perfectly. 07:03:07.180 --> 07:03:09.060 The rotate from Spiker was smart, 07:03:09.060 --> 07:03:11.220 but M80 were ready for it. 07:03:11.220 --> 07:03:13.060 They move to series point now. 07:03:13.060 --> 07:03:16.940 They've just been passing this baton around. 07:03:16.940 --> 07:03:19.460 We are reaching the end of this race, 07:03:19.460 --> 07:03:23.620 and it is currently M80 by a hair, but a photo finish 07:03:23.620 --> 07:03:24.980 still awaits us. 07:03:24.980 --> 07:03:28.060 at least one more round here in OT. 07:03:28.060 --> 07:03:29.700 It's a gut punch of a round, Parker. 07:03:29.700 --> 07:03:32.900 They were up in a 4B3 advantage at one point during that push, 07:03:32.900 --> 07:03:35.660 but M80's trade game is so fantastic. 07:03:35.660 --> 07:03:37.420 Players all around the top floor, 07:03:37.420 --> 07:03:39.500 whether it was the push-in through piano from Defuser 07:03:39.500 --> 07:03:41.700 and Ashen, whether it was players over on the solar 07:03:41.700 --> 07:03:43.220 and bathroom window like Defuser, 07:03:43.220 --> 07:03:45.340 whether it was hot and cold in the big window, 07:03:45.340 --> 07:03:47.860 every angle that you can think of surrounding 07:03:47.860 --> 07:03:50.860 that top floor room clear was being held by M80. 07:03:50.860 --> 07:03:53.060 So wherever Wildcard tried to walk, 07:03:53.060 --> 07:04:02.060 They were walking into a crosshair and they played so perfectly so together in that round to force those skills and work themselves into an advantage. 07:04:02.060 --> 07:04:12.060 They beautifully get that done and now have earned two opportunities to move on in this bracket to avoid the lower bracket for a few more days. 07:04:12.060 --> 07:04:18.060 Wildcard, how do you recover from a moment like that? How do you get back in this game mentally? 07:04:18.060 --> 07:04:35.060 gotta find some way. The attack on Chalet historically has been the better side. I think these teams obviously there have been moments back and forth, but the both shown very strong pushes, very strong attacks. Wildcard will have to remember how good their attacks can be going into their final one here on Chalet. 07:04:35.060 --> 07:04:39.660 An unbelievable series that is now starting to find its conclusion. 07:04:39.660 --> 07:04:46.560 I almost want it to keep going to a pure entertainment standpoint, but alas, there has to be an end. 07:04:46.560 --> 07:04:51.160 All good things come to an end and this has been good and potentially a great matchup. 07:04:52.960 --> 07:04:58.260 Wildcard have to win this to stay in the fight or else everything would be for naught. 07:04:58.260 --> 07:05:04.060 The heroics in map 2, the dominance here on their run halfway through this chalet 07:05:04.060 --> 07:05:10.060 would be up in smoke and M80 would basically be like why did you make us work this hard for it 07:05:10.060 --> 07:05:15.660 when the end result looked like it was gonna happen midway through cafe a spirit of effort from 07:05:15.660 --> 07:05:22.060 wildcard even if they do lose this team watch your face off against chop if i rebellion let me 07:05:22.060 --> 07:05:27.580 tell you watching this series i don't think sr is really eager to play either of these teams jesse 07:05:27.580 --> 07:05:33.020 and yet they will need to the winner goes up against dark zero in a matchup where the victor of that 07:05:33.020 --> 07:05:38.860 goes to Salt Lake City, so a major spot will be on the line. Just not today. 07:05:38.860 --> 07:05:44.140 One minute off the clock, Wildcard hanging on for dear hope. They almost missed all those shots, 07:05:44.140 --> 07:05:48.780 but it still gets the opening pick, and it is a sigh of relief across the bench. A Wildcard, 07:05:48.780 --> 07:05:53.660 they lose diffuser, so hold on a second. Action happening very quickly here. 07:05:54.860 --> 07:05:58.940 Information advantage for the attackers. Once again, Parker, that's able to work them into this 07:05:58.940 --> 07:06:03.340 two-man lead. It puts all the weight onto the shoulders of these last three players. 07:06:03.340 --> 07:06:08.460 Gavin up inside of library is kind of a key focal point too. Can he even move? As long as these 07:06:08.460 --> 07:06:13.020 players are watching his windows, they're holding him dead to rights. There is a player just outside 07:06:13.020 --> 07:06:18.140 on his balcony. He's got Ashen not too far away over towards the blue stairs. Adrien hold of this 07:06:18.140 --> 07:06:22.700 though where they start to toss in some flashbangs, hoping to force movements, hoping to get some space 07:06:22.700 --> 07:06:27.980 and bait capitalized. It's killing the anchor. This is going so well for Wildcard. These attackers 07:06:27.980 --> 07:06:37.260 are just dominating in a flawless round sending us all the way in all the way the 15th and final 07:06:37.260 --> 07:06:46.140 round of a best of three a single round shootout three minutes to determine which team moves on 07:06:47.820 --> 07:06:53.500 and you know what Jesse this is the best birthday gift I ever could have gotten you and in 28 minutes 07:06:53.500 --> 07:06:54.940 it's here on the east coast. 07:06:54.940 --> 07:06:58.340 It's laxings birthday to so. 07:06:58.340 --> 07:07:01.860 Celebrate hard one of these teams will be heartbroken. 07:07:01.860 --> 07:07:05.500 We'll find out which one in three minutes. 07:07:05.500 --> 07:07:07.620 It's going to be a brutal turnaround to parker. 07:07:07.620 --> 07:07:08.740 You lose this series. 07:07:08.740 --> 07:07:10.900 You've got to play lower bracket tomorrow 07:07:10.900 --> 07:07:12.700 if I'm not mistaken on the schedule. 07:07:12.700 --> 07:07:15.620 So you've got a lot to think about if you lose this game 07:07:15.620 --> 07:07:17.740 and have to put your head on the pillow tonight. 07:07:17.740 --> 07:07:19.860 It's getting late even here in North America, 07:07:19.860 --> 07:07:22.140 but they can't focus on that now. 07:07:22.140 --> 07:07:29.580 Wildcard will choose to go to the basement. Most teams don't touch the site with a 3-foot pole, Parker. 07:07:29.580 --> 07:07:33.980 This is the one bomb site where it is always avoided on Chalet. 07:07:33.980 --> 07:07:37.900 Despite how it gets played and ranked, pro teams don't like this bomb site. 07:07:37.900 --> 07:07:41.260 It's just too easy for the attackers to try to breach in, work a pick. 07:07:41.260 --> 07:07:44.460 If they get top floor control, it can be absolutely devastating. 07:07:44.460 --> 07:07:48.460 But frankly, the last time they went here, it was a master class. 07:07:48.460 --> 07:07:51.340 I mean, M80, a calamity of errors as well. 07:07:51.340 --> 07:07:53.020 It was an opening death from Gunner. 07:07:53.020 --> 07:07:55.180 It was a team kill over towards the snow stairs. 07:07:55.180 --> 07:07:57.300 It was disasters all around. 07:07:57.300 --> 07:07:59.900 And Wildcard hoping to force more of that magic. 07:07:59.900 --> 07:08:01.740 It's a failed spawn peek from Baby Shark 07:08:01.740 --> 07:08:04.220 that kind of sets the pace for this final round. 07:08:04.220 --> 07:08:06.460 Who will be the one to strike first? 07:08:09.220 --> 07:08:12.660 Could you imagine if he'd gotten that spawn peek 07:08:12.660 --> 07:08:14.900 and completely deflated M80? 07:08:14.900 --> 07:08:21.900 I mean, we've seen pretty much everything in this match so far, and it is about to come 07:08:21.900 --> 07:08:25.420 to a screaming halt. 07:08:25.420 --> 07:08:27.420 Wildcard now defending in overtime so far. 07:08:27.420 --> 07:08:33.380 The attackers are 2-0, so M80 in much better shape because of that riding out the better 07:08:33.380 --> 07:08:39.660 side here in OT, but again in overtime the script tends to get flipped. 07:08:39.660 --> 07:08:42.540 You flip the script again in OT when the script is already in overtime and you flip 07:08:42.540 --> 07:08:43.540 that script. 07:08:43.540 --> 07:08:44.940 I don't think it goes that deep. 07:08:46.340 --> 07:08:47.340 By the way... 07:08:48.140 --> 07:08:50.740 This is a fast bonky, Parker. They're really worried about the top floor. 07:08:50.740 --> 07:08:54.740 You want us in the moon drone, and we're gonna be trying to do it now, but there's nobody to find. 07:08:54.740 --> 07:08:59.540 Despite that early aggression, Wildcard have now all fallen back down to the basement, and... 07:08:59.540 --> 07:09:04.140 ...M80, the longer it takes them to figure this out, the tougher their final push is gonna be. 07:09:08.140 --> 07:09:09.740 This is really something else. 07:09:09.740 --> 07:09:17.220 MAD, being as patient as ever, both of these teams have been very, very quick so far through 07:09:17.220 --> 07:09:18.820 this series. 07:09:18.820 --> 07:09:21.540 The tempo breakneck at times. 07:09:21.540 --> 07:09:27.140 But as we see with so many teams, when it gets this deep into the ball game, they slow 07:09:27.140 --> 07:09:28.140 down. 07:09:28.140 --> 07:09:29.140 They pay a lot of respect to their opponents. 07:09:29.140 --> 07:09:32.940 They make sure that every move they make is as important as it can be. 07:09:32.940 --> 07:09:38.420 One small misstep and you might have just cost yourself the round. 07:09:38.420 --> 07:09:43.660 This is a similar spot for Adrien now, surviving half of his HP after damning Gavin to the 07:09:43.660 --> 07:09:47.340 next minute and a half of watching his team's fate from the sidelines. 07:09:47.340 --> 07:09:51.020 Gavin, the highest flying performer, and he has no more. 07:09:51.020 --> 07:09:52.620 His gadgets at least done some work here. 07:09:52.620 --> 07:09:54.620 One minute to go in the final round of this matchup. 07:09:54.620 --> 07:09:58.140 Yeah, before he died, he shot off the bandit battery, and that could be good enough, but 07:09:58.140 --> 07:09:59.580 not if Adrien keeps this up. 07:09:59.580 --> 07:10:01.220 A nitro cell tossed out as well. 07:10:01.220 --> 07:10:02.220 It doesn't get a kill. 07:10:02.220 --> 07:10:03.740 The guns are alive. 07:10:03.740 --> 07:10:04.740 Three kills for Adrien. 07:10:04.740 --> 07:10:07.780 He has completely deterred this game on his head. 07:10:07.780 --> 07:10:11.700 He gets outdulled by Ashen, still watching amidst the smoke as Han-Kol pulls off the 07:10:11.700 --> 07:10:13.900 diffuse kit and dies in the process. 07:10:13.900 --> 07:10:18.560 The newest member of N80 will have to contend against the four original members of Wild 07:10:18.560 --> 07:10:19.560 Card. 07:10:19.560 --> 07:10:20.900 You'll have to watch the library window. 07:10:20.900 --> 07:10:22.860 You'll have to watch over top of Garage. 07:10:22.860 --> 07:10:24.500 You'll have to watch the opening. 07:10:24.500 --> 07:10:25.500 Flash gets on the diffuse kit. 07:10:25.500 --> 07:10:27.500 There's no way for Ashen to respond. 07:10:27.500 --> 07:10:28.500 This! 07:10:28.500 --> 07:10:37.740 He gets dropped, resigned as he loses it and Wild Card win a Wild Best 3! 07:10:37.740 --> 07:10:40.140 They move forward in the brackets. 07:10:40.140 --> 07:10:45.620 One more step close to Assault Lake City major spot. 07:10:45.620 --> 07:10:48.620 Crazy as faster three that we have seen so far this season, 07:10:48.620 --> 07:10:49.020 Parker. 07:10:49.020 --> 07:10:52.260 I think across all regions, M80 Wildcard just put on 07:10:52.260 --> 07:10:53.740 an absolute show. 07:10:53.740 --> 07:10:55.420 But I'm out of breath. 07:10:55.420 --> 07:10:56.500 I'm exhausted. 07:10:56.500 --> 07:10:59.180 Let's throw it down to the studio to break down this game 07:10:59.180 --> 07:11:02.020 and have an interview with our winners. 07:11:02.020 --> 07:11:02.980 Thanks, guys. 07:11:02.980 --> 07:11:04.860 A heck of a night. 07:11:04.860 --> 07:11:06.540 Oh, my word. 07:11:06.540 --> 07:11:07.580 What a way to finish. 07:11:07.580 --> 07:11:09.180 What do we have to set the tone for this week? 07:11:09.180 --> 07:11:10.260 Jesse said it. 07:11:10.260 --> 07:11:12.020 One of the best series we have seen 07:11:12.020 --> 07:11:14.140 in quite some time here in NA. 07:11:14.140 --> 07:11:17.300 First taste of best of threes yet this year 07:11:17.300 --> 07:11:18.980 and in the very first day. 07:11:18.980 --> 07:11:21.180 The first two best of threes we saw, 07:11:21.180 --> 07:11:22.740 we go three maps both times 07:11:22.740 --> 07:11:25.980 and a barn burner here, wild card. 07:11:25.980 --> 07:11:26.940 They move on. 07:11:26.940 --> 07:11:29.300 No, it certainly didn't disappoint by any means now. 07:11:29.300 --> 07:11:31.620 You gotta wipe off the first map, I will say. 07:11:31.620 --> 07:11:33.460 Well, first map was straight dominance. 07:11:33.460 --> 07:11:34.980 Second map was straight resilience. 07:11:34.980 --> 07:11:36.740 Third map was just straight to Nasty 07:11:36.740 --> 07:11:38.860 I can't believe you said Wildcard sucks. 07:11:38.860 --> 07:11:40.340 I mean, I can't believe you said that. 07:11:40.340 --> 07:11:41.180 I didn't say that. 07:11:41.180 --> 07:11:43.860 Wow, there isn't enough words on here and enough time 07:11:43.860 --> 07:11:46.460 to really break down everything that went through that game. 07:11:46.460 --> 07:11:48.020 I mean, just from being a former player, 07:11:48.020 --> 07:11:50.540 and being in moments like that, being in situations 07:11:50.540 --> 07:11:53.660 that they found themselves in, I mean, it just weighs. 07:11:53.660 --> 07:11:54.900 It digs on you. 07:11:54.900 --> 07:11:57.900 It just destroys the mental round after round, 07:11:57.900 --> 07:11:59.620 when it's right at the very cusp. 07:11:59.620 --> 07:12:00.700 You can get it done. 07:12:00.700 --> 07:12:01.660 You don't get it done. 07:12:01.660 --> 07:12:02.540 Falls to the next. 07:12:02.540 --> 07:12:03.780 Now you find yourself an OT. 07:12:03.780 --> 07:12:06.100 I mean, both of these teams really fought hard, 07:12:06.100 --> 07:12:09.140 And there's a lot to take from this, especially with now them 07:12:09.140 --> 07:12:11.740 going to upper bracket and maybe going to lower. 07:12:11.740 --> 07:12:13.860 I mean, both these teams are looking in the position 07:12:13.860 --> 07:12:14.980 that they want to find themselves. 07:12:14.980 --> 07:12:15.860 I couldn't agree more. 07:12:15.860 --> 07:12:18.540 Both teams have positives take away and things to work on. 07:12:18.540 --> 07:12:20.300 That being said, wildcard came out on top. 07:12:20.300 --> 07:12:23.500 I think the deciding factor was just their mentality, 07:12:23.500 --> 07:12:26.380 the way that they stayed in, especially after how map 1 went, 07:12:26.380 --> 07:12:29.180 and everybody on the team slowly getting more comfortable 07:12:29.180 --> 07:12:31.900 showing us that wildcard that we'd love to see at events. 07:12:31.900 --> 07:12:33.340 And that being said, too, then you 07:12:33.340 --> 07:12:36.780 pick up Adrian that last round from that one from the main stairs. 07:12:36.780 --> 07:12:41.020 Well, had a way to come around for them to wait to shut down M80. 07:12:41.020 --> 07:12:43.260 I mean, it was just so well played from a lot of card. 07:12:43.260 --> 07:12:47.100 But the way this match up when I would not be surprised if we see both of these 07:12:47.100 --> 07:12:49.340 teams at the Salt Lake City Major. 07:12:49.340 --> 07:12:52.220 Again, it's not a situation that M80 wants to find themselves in. 07:12:52.220 --> 07:12:55.180 They don't want to be in a lower bracket, but to be able to go through all the 07:12:55.180 --> 07:12:58.220 trial and error throughout this match, that is really going to set you up for 07:12:58.220 --> 07:13:00.860 long term success as you continue into this bracket. 07:13:00.860 --> 07:13:04.220 And that is the beauty thing of being the upper bracket is you do have that little bit of extra life 07:13:04.220 --> 07:13:09.900 And now you're going against a team like I saw that hasn't had any game day reps hasn't had this intense of matches 07:13:09.900 --> 07:13:12.380 And that's gonna be your opponent. That is a very 07:13:12.900 --> 07:13:18.140 Pantalizing thing to have to go against a wildcard take the win spiker is standing by to join us now spiker 07:13:18.300 --> 07:13:21.260 What a match dude. I mean over here 07:13:21.260 --> 07:13:27.860 We let out a huge sigh of relief that this thing finally had a conclusion. I can't imagine what this felt like for you guys 07:13:27.860 --> 07:13:32.520 I'm so tired. I'm so tired before the game 07:13:32.520 --> 07:13:37.900 I took four pages of notes from prep with the guys because that's what we did for BF3's because we have to play so many maps 07:13:37.900 --> 07:13:39.900 We can't go through everything. So at least I know 07:13:40.420 --> 07:13:43.820 But literally I was doing stuff for eight hours straight 07:13:43.820 --> 07:13:47.320 I was doing stuff from 1 p.m. My time until right now. So I'm exhausted 07:13:47.580 --> 07:13:52.960 That was a burner for sure. We sucked caffeine child and we didn't suck as much but that was a burner 07:13:52.960 --> 07:13:57.100 Yeah, I mean Fox said you guys sucked. I couldn't believe that he said that I didn't play that 07:13:57.860 --> 07:14:04.980 I'm just kidding. I mean, I was the one that said it originally. Obviously, it's very light hearted all jokes aside 07:14:04.980 --> 07:14:10.660 I mean again, you guys bounce back from the first map that obviously wasn't the showcasing that you guys know you're capable of 07:14:10.660 --> 07:14:15.580 Second map you guys had a great understanding. It was great through and through then this third map 07:14:15.580 --> 07:14:18.780 I mean even for yourself being the ideal in a lot of these moments 07:14:18.780 --> 07:14:23.780 I mean what is going through your head and how are you able to just take each and every single one of these rounds? 07:14:23.780 --> 07:14:29.620 Punch after punch hit after hit round after round and then ultimately getting to that end goal of Adrian having that tremendous 07:14:29.660 --> 07:14:32.460 3k to set you guys up for success in that last round 07:14:33.500 --> 07:14:39.680 Yeah, I mean our attacks honestly our game plan didn't work the way we thought it was so we kind of had to adapt mid 07:14:40.380 --> 07:14:42.700 Mid attack half and that's kind of what we're gonna system out with us 07:14:42.700 --> 07:14:43.620 We had to kind of figure it out 07:14:43.620 --> 07:14:49.620 But he just kind of like solidified it for us that we needed to change what we were doing and then I mean the defense is 07:14:50.180 --> 07:14:52.180 Every round is felt like a burner. I don't know 07:14:52.180 --> 07:14:53.620 Everyone started like a burnout. 07:14:53.620 --> 07:14:55.300 We were just running bunkers, trying to make them execute. 07:14:55.300 --> 07:14:58.220 They started adapting well and started doing more split stuffs on Kitchen, 07:14:58.220 --> 07:15:00.260 especially they were splitting top and it was difficult for us. 07:15:01.740 --> 07:15:03.420 But you know, it was mostly just keeping everybody calm. 07:15:03.420 --> 07:15:06.820 Like I think through every round, I was saying like everybody reset, 07:15:06.820 --> 07:15:09.260 like trying to keep the tones calm, right? 07:15:09.260 --> 07:15:12.140 And in a high intensity game like that, it's a very good team where every map 07:15:12.140 --> 07:15:12.820 is very close. 07:15:12.820 --> 07:15:15.220 It's easy for people to start screaming and yelling and talking too much. 07:15:15.220 --> 07:15:18.940 So, especially mid round, I was just trying to keep people calm and compose. 07:15:18.940 --> 07:15:20.980 And, you know, that was the main thing I was doing. 07:15:20.980 --> 07:15:26.160 And I have another question before we move on to Fox with his question in this moment as an idea 07:15:26.160 --> 07:15:30.480 How do you control that tempo of understanding? Okay one round you played aggressive it worked out 07:15:30.480 --> 07:15:35.880 Then you maybe try it again the next it doesn't you try to slow down and you keep fighting that battle of it working not working 07:15:35.880 --> 07:15:36.080 I mean 07:15:36.080 --> 07:15:42.360 What is going through your mind in those moments to make sure that you're on top of it for the very next round the very next obstacle to get to 07:15:42.360 --> 07:15:43.520 the end goal 07:15:43.520 --> 07:15:48.900 Yeah, I think it's just about like realizing what they're playing well against will away their playing stuff like that like 07:15:48.900 --> 07:15:53.740 Like, our first Master Attack, like you saw us trying to pull them game side, a gunner 07:15:53.740 --> 07:15:54.740 state closet. 07:15:54.740 --> 07:15:57.660 So we were kind of, like off of that, we were kind of able to tell that they weren't really 07:15:57.660 --> 07:15:58.660 going to be rotating too much. 07:15:58.660 --> 07:16:03.620 We started kind of doing more like ISO attacks and trying to ISO certain people, and also 07:16:03.620 --> 07:16:06.380 kind of do the adjustment we made. 07:16:06.380 --> 07:16:09.940 So that was the main thing, just trying to ISO picks because they weren't rotating to 07:16:09.940 --> 07:16:12.100 help each other like they normally do. 07:16:12.100 --> 07:16:13.580 So yeah, that was the main thing. 07:16:13.580 --> 07:16:14.580 Yeah, amazing. 07:16:14.580 --> 07:16:18.740 I want to know a little bit about the mind of an IGL, the mind that you have. 07:16:18.740 --> 07:16:22.880 And it comes to adapting mid-round if we just use that map like Shall I, when you guys were 07:16:22.880 --> 07:16:26.920 defending bar and games, right, there was one round where M80 just bum-rushed site. 07:16:26.920 --> 07:16:30.920 Clearly, you guys are trying to adapt to what M80's doing the rounds previously. 07:16:30.920 --> 07:16:32.520 They bum-rushed site. 07:16:32.520 --> 07:16:36.880 What do you think of going forward, especially if you have to go back to one or two, a site 07:16:36.880 --> 07:16:39.520 like that, how are you trying to counteract that? 07:16:39.520 --> 07:16:43.680 Because if you are also adapting to what M80 just did, you know there's a possibility 07:16:43.680 --> 07:16:47.480 that they just might change it completely the next time they have to approach it. 07:16:47.480 --> 07:16:51.100 I mean, I think the main thing is obviously you have to adjust what they did before. 07:16:51.100 --> 07:16:53.940 That's why they ran the Galeo, that last bar defense when they ran out the first round. 07:16:53.940 --> 07:16:55.880 So that way we kind of took away that game's window plant. 07:16:55.880 --> 07:16:58.720 We knew they were going to do something top fire or have to clear. 07:16:58.720 --> 07:17:03.280 So it's just kind of about taking away the options that they were doing early in the game 07:17:03.280 --> 07:17:04.940 to force them to do something else. 07:17:04.940 --> 07:17:08.760 And so we knew once we once were in the Galeo and we had the ward in sight, 07:17:08.760 --> 07:17:10.120 they probably weren't going to go for sight. 07:17:10.120 --> 07:17:12.560 So we were able to kind of move more and fight more. 07:17:12.560 --> 07:17:13.660 Obviously we lost the round anyway. 07:17:13.660 --> 07:17:14.920 But like, you know what I mean? 07:17:14.920 --> 07:17:16.560 Like we were able to kind of... 07:17:16.560 --> 07:17:20.120 for sure. Like it's like a puzzle that we were able to solve based off like what they 07:17:20.120 --> 07:17:22.640 are going to do based off the pieces we were giving them, I guess. 07:17:22.680 --> 07:17:26.760 Can I, I'll just say something real quick that right after that round where they 07:17:26.760 --> 07:17:31.200 rushed, Han Kold said something along the lines of, oh, if we go back there, we'll 07:17:31.200 --> 07:17:34.840 just bait it again. So does that make you feel better or worse knowing that they 07:17:34.840 --> 07:17:36.640 weren't going to go for a rush anyway that round? 07:17:38.080 --> 07:17:42.000 I mean, whatever. I mean, the price, I don't expect teams to do the same thing 07:17:42.000 --> 07:17:45.600 again anyway. Right. But it's about just taking the opportunity away from them if 07:17:45.600 --> 07:17:50.640 they want to do it again. Well, a big, a big win for you guys here tonight, 07:17:50.640 --> 07:17:53.480 Spiker. We will, I guess, I know you said you're very tired. 07:17:53.480 --> 07:17:56.280 You'll burn yourself a day off tomorrow. So we'll see you on. 07:17:56.280 --> 07:17:58.400 No, we got scrims. We got scrims. 07:17:58.400 --> 07:18:00.400 You've got scrims, but at least that is the game. 07:18:00.400 --> 07:18:02.440 Scrim fortress a little bit. 07:18:03.280 --> 07:18:03.840 Oh, man. 07:18:03.840 --> 07:18:04.920 Don't even get me started. 07:18:04.920 --> 07:18:05.880 Maybe ban fortress. 07:18:05.880 --> 07:18:08.880 Throw it away. 07:18:09.960 --> 07:18:11.480 Thank you so much for your time, my friend. 07:18:11.480 --> 07:18:12.960 We will, we will see you down the road. 07:18:12.960 --> 07:18:14.480 Good luck in these coming matches. 07:18:14.480 --> 07:18:16.360 Good luck with your scrims tomorrow. 07:18:16.360 --> 07:18:17.480 All right, thank you. 07:18:17.480 --> 07:18:19.200 What a way to finish. 07:18:19.200 --> 07:18:20.680 I mean, it's always good to hear from Spiker, 07:18:20.680 --> 07:18:22.640 because, I mean, the mind of an IGL, 07:18:22.640 --> 07:18:24.360 as you pointed out, Fox, I mean, 07:18:24.360 --> 07:18:28.360 it was crazy to see how things ended for them. 07:18:28.360 --> 07:18:31.600 A two to one, a barn burner of all barn burners 07:18:31.600 --> 07:18:32.920 against M80. 07:18:32.920 --> 07:18:35.080 And I can't believe this happened in the same day. 07:18:35.080 --> 07:18:39.400 A few hours ago, one of 30, an SSG went toe to toe. 07:18:39.400 --> 07:18:42.720 We obviously now send both SSG and M80 07:18:42.720 --> 07:18:44.960 to the lower bracket. 07:18:44.960 --> 07:18:48.760 They will play Cloud9 and Shopify Rebellion, respectively, 07:18:48.760 --> 07:18:51.680 two big matchups who could be potentially close. 07:18:51.680 --> 07:18:54.640 SSG, of course, maybe got the easier draw 07:18:54.640 --> 07:18:56.720 because naturally, Blacks think we're just waiting 07:18:56.720 --> 07:18:58.920 for Shopify Rebellion to come alive. 07:18:58.920 --> 07:19:02.280 Yeah, but I mean, even though you can say Cloud9 and SSG, 07:19:02.280 --> 07:19:03.520 it's a little easier game for them, 07:19:03.520 --> 07:19:04.680 you can't take anyone seriously. 07:19:04.680 --> 07:19:06.080 You don't have that extra lifeline. 07:19:06.080 --> 07:19:07.240 You have to come prepared. 07:19:07.240 --> 07:19:10.280 And where we saw SSG falter today was being counter-shotted. 07:19:10.280 --> 07:19:12.680 They didn't have a response into that chalet. 07:19:12.680 --> 07:19:15.120 They were met with a force, met with props fires, 07:19:15.120 --> 07:19:16.900 not being able to be taken advantage of. 07:19:16.900 --> 07:19:19.120 So if Cloud9 can watch what happened today 07:19:19.120 --> 07:19:21.640 and try to display that into their match against SSG, 07:19:21.640 --> 07:19:23.200 it will be a hard game for SSG, 07:19:23.200 --> 07:19:25.440 but it's gonna be even more impactful for SSG 07:19:25.440 --> 07:19:27.920 to understand, okay, where do we go wrong? 07:19:27.920 --> 07:19:29.160 How do we get exploited? 07:19:29.160 --> 07:19:30.800 How do we fix that if a team starts 07:19:30.800 --> 07:19:32.500 to identify our weaknesses? 07:19:32.500 --> 07:19:34.640 That's what's gonna be big going into that matchup, 07:19:34.640 --> 07:19:36.240 regardless of a team Cloud9. 07:19:36.240 --> 07:19:37.560 Every team is a threat. 07:19:37.560 --> 07:19:39.280 And when I'm looking at this bracket, 07:19:39.280 --> 07:19:41.440 there's no more of a threat in the shop of Iron Ballion. 07:19:41.440 --> 07:19:43.900 It's like, uh, you know, they're waiting to wake up. 07:19:43.900 --> 07:19:45.340 You don't know if it's going to happen. 07:19:45.340 --> 07:19:48.880 But if anything and maybe look great today, but that being said, if we see a 07:19:48.880 --> 07:19:52.820 P shop of our belly and show up, it's another situation where it's 07:19:52.820 --> 07:19:54.540 so anybody's game, right? 07:19:54.540 --> 07:19:55.740 I mean, it could be just like tonight. 07:19:55.780 --> 07:19:56.340 Exactly. 07:19:56.340 --> 07:19:57.980 It's a scary situation to find yourself. 07:19:58.420 --> 07:19:58.700 Yeah. 07:19:58.700 --> 07:20:03.500 Especially when you look at what's ahead, things are only going to keep up from 07:20:03.500 --> 07:20:03.780 here. 07:20:03.780 --> 07:20:07.700 As you said, SR and maybe that will be our second game tomorrow. 07:20:07.700 --> 07:20:15.560 We want things up with cloud nine and SSG to see if that cloud 19 can continue to try to build on that one win 07:20:15.560 --> 07:20:21.640 They were able to find from the group stage and as we said earlier the upper bracket action will continue on 07:20:22.600 --> 07:20:26.520 Wednesday, but we know that the rest of this week is going to be ridiculous 07:20:26.520 --> 07:20:32.860 I mean just based on the pace of this game tonight. How crazy it ended up being laxing. I mean we know we're infantry 07:20:33.120 --> 07:20:34.640 Yeah, I mean absolutely 07:20:34.640 --> 07:20:39.140 I wasn't expecting that we were going to have all games go the distance again even for one of 30 07:20:39.140 --> 07:20:42.520 I wasn't sure what we're going to see from the group stage and comparison to what we saw today 07:20:42.520 --> 07:20:44.060 But we saw a lot of resurgence 07:20:44.060 --> 07:20:45.560 We saw a lot of 07:20:45.560 --> 07:20:50.140 Rejuvenation for some of these teams and that's this thing same thing that I'm expecting out of a couple teams tomorrow 07:20:50.760 --> 07:20:55.320 Comparison to lead to what we saw in the stage. Well, I'll leave the day on a hot take 07:20:55.320 --> 07:20:59.920 I think whoever wins between shop fine. I made it just wins out through the bracket 07:20:59.920 --> 07:21:03.760 I think that's pretty fair. You got two heavy-hitting teams right there very much 07:21:03.760 --> 07:21:07.160 I think that's the six a.m. Talking right now. I mean 07:21:09.440 --> 07:21:14.540 That's the six a.m. Not talking about what we still don't know exactly who is gonna end up at the major 07:21:14.560 --> 07:21:20.060 We do know two people who are gonna be there because we have our first round of giveaway winners 07:21:20.200 --> 07:21:24.920 The tickets go to dark rows for and fray underscore 07:21:25.280 --> 07:21:29.560 TTV so if you're still hanging around be sure to check your twitch DMs a mock 07:21:29.560 --> 07:21:35.560 to reach out and we will see you in Salt Lake City. Tickets are still available for anyone else 07:21:35.560 --> 07:21:40.840 who wants to join us in Salt Lake City in just a couple of weeks and of course, we're still 07:21:40.840 --> 07:21:45.800 doing the pepper. Well, of course, as Foxy said earlier, we're also giving away more tickets 07:21:45.800 --> 07:21:50.440 over the next three days. We're going to keep you on your toes exactly when that happens during the 07:21:50.440 --> 07:21:55.640 broadcast. So, you know, you have to stick around, but we will be doing that no matter what happens. 07:21:55.640 --> 07:22:00.120 But for all of you who stuck with us late night over there on the East Coast, we know it's late. 07:22:00.120 --> 07:22:04.440 It's late here as well. Thank you so much for watching. We really appreciate you and we will 07:22:04.440 --> 07:22:10.920 see you as action continues at 5 p.m. tomorrow for Parker and Jesse for our entire studio crew 07:22:10.920 --> 07:22:25.480 and Fox and Laxing. I'm Jonas Willinger saying thanks for watching and we'll see you tomorrow.