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Welcome to the PrepFace show, our weekly show, where it feels like we get to do whatever
the hell we want to do here with our minigames.
My name is Anne, I'll be your host for just this show.
From Milosh, we are joined by two guys who apparently will already start back if you even say hi to them.
We get to do what we want, that's what I like.
Why did you say we get to do everything we want?
Just not be in the face, as you're doing it.
You're going to find out a few things later that might hurt you, but that's fine.
We have Fresh, Brave, Alphama, Lexing.
Guys, you've been through a few things these last few weeks with the minigames that we prepared to get through, even worse today.
I don't think worse, honestly, you're here.
I think you might have some more creative ideas that Milosh just couldn't seem to muster up.
Wow, okay, so I thought we're gonna roast me. That's when you
Tune in
Sentences came out of your mouth. It's just straight up a roast. No, I can do whatever
It is. I mean we're playing mini games, but you've been through a little bit
Do you really think that you're gonna you're gonna come on skater today? I don't know
I feel like this one feels special. I thought you know, that's did you see his EMP that he drew?
Yeah, I saw that. Unfortunately, I had to read this.
He talked to me a couple of times while I spent drawing.
Did I draw an EMP?
No, I drew the EMP.
You tried to draw the button to bar off.
Yeah, of course it was a button to bar off.
Of course it was.
Clearly.
It would be a really unwise idea if we let you draw today,
but we'll see what happens later.
We have three mini-games in total today for our last show
of the prep phase because we won't be here next week,
so we'll make the most out of it with our three mini-games,
starting off with higher and lower.
That's the reason why you're sitting next to me,
because we are working this in two duos.
We have Lex and I, and we have Fresh and Alphala
in a duo as well.
We're gonna ask each other questions.
Map related, seats related, eSports related, anything.
We're gonna give them a number,
and then the question for the other duo
is to find out is that supposed to be higher,
or is that supposed to be lower?
Sounds difficult, but we'll dive right into it.
I believe you two are starting.
All right.
We're asking a question or a lie?
Go ahead.
Okay, I'll ask the first question to you two.
you ready how many unique number of maps have ever been played inside of
pro league and the higher or lower number is 18 18 is it higher than 18 or
lower than we've had a lot there's nine right now there's a few that are played
in pro league yes but you had like house and yacht and yeah and you get like five
seconds I think this is close to but I feel like it's I think it's lower it
It was not lower.
Correct.
No way.
Yeah, you made it close.
Okay.
20 different maps.
Yeah.
Remember House, Canal, Favela.
Favela, yeah.
It's been played up a lot of these maps.
Well, you even forgot Plane.
Of course, Plane.
I mean, I mean, I guess you can't get there.
Yeah.
There's one in there, but yeah.
I feel a little bit less about making it like really close to one.
Let's go.
First map, we'll give you guys a point.
We won't give ourselves a point.
So, of course, I thought I was going to buy one down.
First question for you guys, how many windows are there on the top floor of Consulate?
Your answer is 12.
It's a grapple heavy man.
Is that your guy's answer?
Did you go through this?
It's lower than 12.
I think we should take how of a question now.
Should we?
Yeah, it's lower than 12.
The answer is 10.
Yeah, so it's then so our question for you, which was our third question, but it's not our second question is how many windows are there?
I can't believe we have the opportunity to pick like
No way there is no way this is the
All right, break it down, Leo.
All right, let's count it together, all right?
So we've got the yellow one, that's one, okay?
We've got CEO, that's two.
We've got the former connector one, that's three.
The bathroom one, four.
Vending one here, five.
You add the coffin one, six.
The three in admin, that is nine.
And then the last one in paper, 10.
So it was less than 12.
We were right, but we also both thought
of the same exact question on the same exact floor,
on the same exact map without coordinating, which is insane.
That's the EML synergy.
Yeah.
I feel like Neo just wants to show off
like a telestrator as well.
We just want to take care of it.
Any reasons for me to find out which
to show to the editor?
That's crazy.
Touch the screen a little bit.
All right.
Well, I guess that's how the question is done.
And that's what's up to the viewers.
We have not meddled in each of us questions.
No.
We even would go out of production room
when they were discussing others like the kitchen
from anybody else.
We chose teams last second, too.
Let me do the negotiation.
You're going to negotiate.
That's a draw, right?
One point for you, one point for us.
Fair.
That gives us a free point, I will take it.
You're helping us.
I take it.
I'll take them on the rest.
Okay.
Alright, next question.
How much damage does a camp cap trap deal?
And the number is 61?
Is it higher or lower than 61 damage?
It's lower, right?
Lower.
Yeah.
Lower.
Wait, you need two to kill on like a three speed, so it does...
Yeah, I agree with you.
It's lower.
Yeah, but you would need three to kill...
uh one speed and it's like 130 feet. Yeah you need two to down and three to kill so
so it can't be higher than that because it would be 65 then it's lower it's lower
it is lower okay how much was it it was six i'm about to say i was like i'm pretty sure it has to
be just a flat number because like when i get hit by those it's yeah 100 hp down to 40 hp as you
would in boom 60 great low play you picked like an off number so nobody's gonna be like oh let's do
61 damage. Well actually when I read it I saw it was 62 HP and then when we did the trial in the game it was 60
So maybe I'm the one that was wrong. Okay. All right. Well, then I guess it's my turn
How many hatches does club have?
There's is there nine is it lower or is it higher? Okay?
We need to take the think of the roof mate think of the roof you have one
Then the top of your skin Jim construction. That's three
We're all good. Oh move on to bar one stock five
That's it, 5.
Wait, you got free for the basement?
Okay, you need an answer in 5 seconds.
I would say lower than 9.
Lower.
We did forget about the strip hatch though.
That's alright.
You're right.
It is lower.
There's 7.
Yeah.
Is that one that people forget right there?
Yeah.
That's on the very roof over there.
We forgot about the strip hatch.
Yeah.
Then how did you come up with 5 only?
Yeah, I was about to.
I didn't go into strip and I was just thinking, I just, I think I counted the gym construction
I can't get a single one on the roof, but there is the straight one that I forgot and then there is the blue kitchen and
Star catch, which was six and then we're just missing one
Little times for the Berlin major and the echo drones going up there. It's a little bit of a throwback
But um short time your question. Yeah, your turn our question. Yeah
All right
So then obviously we've already done the console. We have to move on to the next one
Yeah, how long does the go your fire last
I was locked in.
The question was 23, higher or lower?
Lower.
Let's verify if it's 20 seconds.
Let's actually check it first.
Look at the timer, it was started at 2-0-0.
And it didn't let you finish your sentence.
Go to the time code.
Sorry.
Is it 20 seconds?
Ready?
Pay attention.
It is, yeah.
It is on the dot, 20.
It can go to 22.
We didn't know how ready to count it.
So between 20 and 22, she's a tryouter.
She got the right answer.
Did you just hear at SI when they were doing, what was that game called?
Yeah, that's why I'm trying to get it.
Did you just hear at SI, the game that they just don't play?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You guys didn't lose anything.
Were you with Xenox on that?
No, who were you with?
No, with Mennik.
Yeah, you carried, you carried Rob.
Hard.
I hope you're just watching that, Rob, because you weren't getting past that.
It's fine.
I love how we came up with the game mode and I just decided to like, find my way around
this and come up with it on this.
Any time, any game, I'm just curious who I do.
Absolutely.
I'm competitive, sorry.
I'm okay with it.
Yeah, I'm totally fine. Alright, two two three. I have a funny one for this one. How many drinks are there on the bar of
Coastlines blue bar?
What? No, no. Your answer is 12. I think it's higher. I would go higher
Instantly. There's some other things on there which we should know. And you include in the wall or just the bar? Just the bar. Just the surface of the bar.
Stop 12 and I don't know man because they can be like you can have a range of bottles and then you can blow those behind it
You've been there before.
Lower.
You think of experience.
Yeah, I'm gonna say lower.
Alright, I'll trust lower.
Lower.
Yeah.
Higher.
I should have trusted the instinct.
17.
So there's two sides of the bar, you see?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I was already, I was only thinking about the office side.
Yeah.
How many is that?
17.
A lot.
Yeah, because if they are steps, like you say, they are steps.
It's alright.
That's no point for you guys.
We are still leading.
Yeah, we're leading 3-2.
We're leading 3-2.
Well, you gave us the point.
So you might have just given yourself the lost there. Yeah, you only have two points. We have three
No, you have to we have three. I mean we make no sense
We won the concert one we won the first like playing Monopoly and being the bank and taking some extra money
Yeah, yeah, so you gave us a point for that. Yeah, but also won the first question that you asked
So that's two one and then we also won the one with the hatches. Yeah, that's three. Yeah, we've got forest
Yeah, I'm thinking we're three two stuff. Yeah, and you're you've got to yeah
You only get one right and then we gave you one with the drill your question. Okay our question
Laksig fast down
How many ST events have you attended combined including when Laksig was a player? Oh, yeah, and the higher all over it's 30
Just quite a lot
Be good for our ego to say higher wouldn't it?
What was that skin line?
I don't know like I count that I think
So we're counting in that game as a EWC probably final
So I think I counted it at last and it was like over 10 already for myself. So that's yeah higher
Yeah, but obviously I've never played but yeah, I'm confident with higher. So you think you have more than you think you have like
You've been around for a while
I've been with the player and yeah, all right, okay, you're right higher look at that
Wait, wasn't that what you gave us again?
30
Oh, we look cool there
No, we look cool
I was a little happy to find that one
That's the duo right there
That's clean. That's the synergy that we get from playing like the same
Voluntary, but yeah. That's the fork on mind events.
Insane. There you go. Wow. If you didn't say a player then I would have a really
like question being being an analyst. No, but I don't have the top of my head.
But alright, that was a good one. Okay, next one. How many doors on the top floor
of labs? The answer is 12. Lower or higher? Alright, thank you to it. Okay, you're going
from from Gash side. You see a first doorway. There is one into IT. There is
There's a one between 18 and Gash, then you go into Fish.
You have a first one to go between Commander and...
I can't understand.
Then you go into Fish.
There's two into Fish, by the way.
That's seven.
There's one more in Connector.
There's one more, two more in Connector.
That's three. That's ten. That's more than 12.
Give us an answer. Three, two, one...
How many? What was the number?
Ten.
Ten? I think there's more.
I would go higher.
It's kind of...
No, it is 12.
I said the answer.
He said the answer.
No!
It is 12, so I'm just gonna say it by the way, what are you doing?
It was 12, I said the answer.
So we just fully pull off there, right?
Yeah, you got it, right?
I don't know, I was just counting straight into it.
I think we counted up to two.
That was you guys' last question as well, by the way.
You have to, okay, we have one more for you guys.
We messed it over a little bit.
Yeah, we also kind of trolled them.
But it's all right.
No, it's all right.
The final question we have is, how many reinforceable walls
do you have on the top floor of Shelly?
On Shelly, okay.
You're all 25.
Oh, we can count.
I can count in 10 seconds.
So solo across.
So solo, two solo, two bathroom, four closet, so that's however many, two master.
Five.
Four office.
Four library.
Four library, five library with the inside bar.
I need that answer now.
Oh, I don't know.
I've won a few control numbers.
Six library.
25.
I would say lower.
Lower.
Just take it lower.
Yeah, you got it right.
It's 20 in total.
Yeah.
Here are the highlighted walls, of course.
Wow, we're pretty good at this game.
Yeah.
Which I don't think you should trust me for them because it's one of my least favorite subjects in high school
We are drawn we were even on this one
You have death
It's like playing Monopoly where you like take how many because we got Vegas
We got this out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know what? We'll start this out later. We have a few more games
It's where my hour winner for today
Moving into our second minigame, there are no more duos.
It's you guys all against each other.
Has anybody ever won a very, like, is anybody of you leading currently in regards to the
minigames you've played so far?
Yeah, probably.
Little try-out.
So we're going to your favorite minigame now where we get to draw again!
Oh my god, not again!
What are you drawing, Jack? What is that?
I'm drawing a car.
Oh, a car.
A smiley face.
Right. I've drawn a little car.
I mean, I could ask you, Cap, what do you think?
You might need to zoom in to see it, because you realize you have the entire thing drawn.
Yeah, I know.
I would also advise you to not draw too big, because the wipers are...
They'll erase it, but it's not going to be too great.
So, what we're going to be doing for our second minigame is we did the ZSI as well,
as well, it went kind of wrong, you know, the players drew something completely different.
We're all over social media. I'm letting you guys draw operator icons to see if you have
more knowledge of it than our professional players have.
You play this game every single day, you look at the operator icons every single day, and
somehow you forget them as soon as I'm at it.
I look at the colors, that's all I do.
Yeah, that's fine. You call it your school, you only have a black pen there.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to name an operator, you're going to draw the operator icon,
you have 30 seconds to draw, everybody at the same time.
When I say show, you all show your drawing, and then we have the operator icon underneath it to verify as well.
Who drew it best? I'll be scoring points.
So first operator icon will start with an easier one.
Sledge.
They are so locked in.
There is a hammer on it, which is a very, very easy, but what is the direction of the hammer?
Okay, I think I have it. Oh, you're done. Okay. Yeah, I'm no I mean
Oh
I got great minus one points and I can't give you point for that either that is completely wrong orientation
Breaking the wall right here that I was okay, but I didn't have time. I was breaking the wall
But I'm breaking the wall in the wrong corner. Yeah, I don't I don't know if we could give any of you guys points for this
Come on. At least we got ours at an angle. Yeah
They did actually. We've got half of them. Look at that breach. Pretty cool breach
It was getting close to your breach right now
It just looks like it's on fire. We're just only give Leo a point because of like the destruction around it as well
Why? Like that's a potion to the logo. That's what I was trying to draw! Bro, you look like you've electrified your hammer. Wipe it away. Wipe it away
And if not, you use the other side but just be careful with your clothing
50% okay 75. Yeah, I'm calling you calm. I'm calling like I'm planting. Okay, 100%
Next one, yeah.
He just likes it on Snake.
Oh Rooney!
What? What is it?
You guys play this game every single day.
You have to know something about the operator icon.
So DMR meta?
Anything
Oh, you're showing everybody okay. Oh, is that a jail or is that a rooty? Oh, what of course?
Yeah, I cannot give any of you guys a point for this
I started doing the how do you call that like the the cuts, but it looks like a hand
Can we bring me
You know what I do with this game, it'll get more fun you're gonna get
At least we kind of have the same idea. I was just thinking of the gate
This one will really require your artistic skills as army
Wait, okay. I'll try harding, that's why I don't speak.
Okay. So locked in.
Oh no, hang on, I gotta be careful.
Okay.
Stop looking at me.
Yeah. Oh, oh.
Jack, you want another minus point?
Yeah.
Okay, cool, gotcha.
So, so far, we have Jack on minus two points.
We have Leo on one point, and Lexi on the other.
Yes, there's four of them.
Seven seconds.
Okay, three, two, one, and show.
I just completely out of my mind.
What?
Oh, you guys draw through the kunai, that's not...
We all drew the kunai.
Well, we all drew the kunai.
I didn't even draw the kunai.
What is that?
That's what I'm talking about.
No, no, no, no, let's focus on the drawing.
He just, he just drew one triangle.
I was gonna do a kunai, I was like, I'm almost positive it's not a kunai.
30 seconds to draw a triangle.
Just as slow as you were in game.
Beautiful.
This one should be easier, okay?
I feel like I've done it, you guys are doing it with a teacher.
hard I don't think this one's gonna be easier for sure buck I have no idea oh my god think of his gadget
you know you're supposed to draw right he's striking I'm just enjoying watching these guys draw
in in life check you're on minus two points yeah I know but I he's giving up he's giving up I'm out
I'm out I'm the random on you team you know when you fall stuck to the random on you team just not
Oh, that's me right now.
Oh.
This is AFA in the truck please.
What is that?
It's a double barrel.
It's like one big barrel and a small one.
It's two big bullets from the skeleton key.
It's not closer at all.
It's literally the slug.
Big bullet?
I play this game every day and you say I can't think of it.
Think of it.
Okay. This one will be a fun one.
So I feel like you'll hopefully like, uh, Daemus.
He's your next operator, right?
Oh my god, aren't we too late?
Think of how Daemus looks like in game.
Yeah, yeah.
I know that one. It's like...
You gotta give us something.
This'll be something, an easier one.
Like, I don't know, maybe something to do with it.
Oh, that's good! That's good!
Okay, he's got this one.
Okay, five seconds.
Okay, yep.
Show it, cause yeah, you actually cook with this one.
Yeah, that's really, really nice.
Okay, we're talking about me here.
Yeah, you cook.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What? Yeah.
What do you mean?
What?
What do you mean?
What?
What do you mean?
You just have a mouth.
Mine is much better.
Yeah, what do you mean?
No, Leo, that's definitely a mouth.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Like, on your right, you're right.
That's your first point.
in the middle of appropriate so frustrated about
look we've seen is not a little bit of a nerf
don't give me
i'll you get a lot of you there you go
always
i had to
away i'm going to attempt this
i don't know that so soon as you give him something that he'd be like you can do
then yeah i don't know that don't look at me it's like
the
halo
it has not it has nothing to do with the
all right well i might try
Well, I'm out, in that case, I'm not even going to embarrass myself.
It's a fat one for me.
A what?
It's kind of fat.
I just watch.
I do it.
What?
Watch.
It's like when, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, but that comes up on the payload.
That's exactly that.
It comes up on the payload.
Yeah.
You can recognize it with the ears.
Okay, but I will.
See, I will.
Okay, we need to zoom in on the ears.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look at his ears.
Well, yeah, okay, so hear me out.
I think since you missed on the eyebrows,
Which is good and you got the glasses bigger. I think yours is better than Leo's check it. You had a drug anything that's actually insane
I'm honestly proud of the demos one that's all I'm proud of okay
Given the time I'm gonna pick another operator not the one from the direct or even one further down the line
I want you guys to draw Ella. Oh
Oh
Why do I just blind? I
Played so much of this game. I just blank it out
You're doing pumpkin oh
Actually, no. Yeah, you're doing all right. So this is all that went really wrong when we did it with the pro players at SI
I think I think that one okay I have no idea what I'm just...
oh okay okay two very different yeah yeah yeah
what did you draw on the background of the floor I did my thing in the wrong way
he still is so much better than I what did you draw on the background
oh yeah what is what is this is this like the grish what minor is it the kind of
like explosion that she comes through you've got the right thing I mean
Honestly, I thought it was the Grishmat, but it was close enough.
I think this is an incredible reverse sweep from you, Lexi, because you get three points.
So you were speeding on three points.
Jack, minus two, anything you want to say?
No.
I don't know how to describe this, but I've looked at the whole face screen.
Millions of times.
And it comes to me, and I'm just like, oh.
I think there's a big difference between analyst and artist.
You know what? Even if you show me the icons, I wouldn't have been able to get there anyway.
Maybe, maybe next ranking session and have a little bit of a better look in cases that ever happens again.
Can I just draw something else? Can I be like the kid in the corner that you just...
I'll give you 10 seconds to draw whatever you want to draw.
10?
10 seconds? Just let him do his thing during the game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool. In that case, I'll have us move on to the third game, and if our lovely assistant would please come in with our wheel, we're going to be spinning a wheel.
So we can give up on the drawing?
you don't need to your boards anymore.
I wish you all make it more difficult for yourself
and write the things down instead of saying it,
but we're not gonna do that
because you're putting yourself on a desert bonus there.
We have a wheel next to us.
Spend the wheel with my name added into it.
Thank you very much.
And what the purpose of this mini game is,
there's a bunch of letters on there.
Beautiful drawing.
Yeah, I feel like I'm back in my teaching days now
where I'm trying to explain something
and get in class or just drawing something.
At least in a clue.
There's a wheel, there's a wheel and we turn the wheel.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna spin the wheel
and it's gonna end on a random letter.
I don't know.
I just said that.
That's a wheel.
And it'll take you like 10 seconds later, but okay.
I was joining.
And I'm gonna spin it.
It's gonna end up on a random letter
and I need you to name something siege related.
Okay.
With that random letter,
starting with that random letter,
in three seconds,
otherwise I'm shooting you with a gun.
Wait, wait, wait,
I've got one more time,
like my brain is like blank.
Who says it?
Are you spinning like from the other side?
The wheel, and I'm spinning it for Leo.
It comes out on a random letter, sorry.
You then have three seconds to say something
It's easy to lay the stars with that letter.
And if not, I shoot you with a gun.
Oh my gosh.
And we test this one, it hurts.
Okay.
Let me load up the MN.
The creativity is...
Yeah.
Okay, cool.
There we go.
I'm putting on my plate.
Beautiful.
This is exactly what I would do in game as well, like a skin like this.
Okay.
Leo, you ready?
Yes.
Okay.
Your letter is...
R.
Riora.
You are ready to shoot.
What the...
Yeah, I got a game position.
You didn't even make me lose a second.
I got a game position.
Okay, very good, very good.
point as well. I kind of want to just continue the losing. Your letter is a D. Okay, very
good. Aim straight and because you just shoot it, you look like you're going to shoot it.
Anyway, my aim is not that great. My KD is negative, but we'll get there. V.
Okay. Oh, the sound is insane as well. V. V, I have no idea what's out here.
Oh yeah!
Ok, it would have been good.
Alright.
Jack, you're not doing too well!
Really?
You need your laden?
Anything to do with the Brazilian ground?
Oh no, come on, come on, something.
That's why I took the S.I. I don't want you to say this to each other.
Ok Leo, this is yours!
Yes!
D.
Ok, yeah.
And we can't repeat what someone else has said.
No, he said demos.
Well that's what I'm saying.
Ok, sure.
What on the shield meta am I washing?
By the way, what's going on here?
Well, we're kind of scared of you.
You go like this so you see we're gonna put it down
Don't stop bullets
Very good. Okay, Jack yours
This is worse than my point of view, it's like a scene from a movie.
I will flicker before you say something to me.
And you say they get shot in the neck.
No!
I've never tried it before.
Oh no, no, we're not even real yet.
The video yours is a...
E.
Electricity.
Nah, shoot it.
No, shoot it.
Come on dudes, come on.
Okay.
Well, I...
You guys are electrified.
Do I just get the...
your shield well hold it lower because I'm not gonna shoot at your face no hold
the shield to protect yourself oh okay well I just say I'm not gonna shoot at
your face this is gonna go very wrong
Oh! Why did you put it down?
Just put it down! I almost got hitched up there
The letter is A
G
Very nice
He was quick
You're like with an incense
My life is out of line
At least I've no gun to head, I'm good.
H.
Nah.
Oh, shoot me.
Shoot me.
Oh, I don't know.
It sounds like you cannot like it, but...
Okay, okay, okay, cool.
We'll move on.
What, what, H?
Leo.
Oh, wait, I'll split it again.
I would have had it, but I won't say it's because I'm saving it.
Leo.
Yeah.
B.
Pulse.
Very nice.
Do it without operators.
Lexing?
Okay, without operators.
Okay.
Without operators.
Okay, Lexing yours.
You might get a difficult 47, you haven't got a lot of it.
I'm not sure if you're trying to make me angry anymore.
No, anything's to do with it.
Oh, OK.
OK.
Lexie, yours.
Oh, I have H now.
Ah.
Thomas.
Oh!
OK.
I'll let you do me a joke, be able to say it.
No, no, no, no, no.
He's on time.
Oh, my goodness.
He's on time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm trying.
OK.
I promise I'm trying my best.
Here we go.
You know what it is.
D.
D, Deimos.
No.
Don't give me.
We said no to brothers.
I was told to shoot, I'm sorry.
What else could I do?
What else could you see?
Okay, let me just go.
I was actually sweating.
Well do one more round.
D.
Dropper.
It took a lot on dropper.
Don't give him a lot.
Dropper.
They smell.
I'm having too much fun with this
all right
it's easy when you're not under the
time
be okay there's a bathroom work the
bathroom work
what do you know I like to call you
settle a very nice okay guys I let
you call I don't actually put the
nose I have too many bulls still will
Can I do it with you?
No, no, you do it.
Oh, yeah, I did my...
Yeah, that's legit.
I will spin the wheel for you.
Don't aim for my head, please.
Are you ready?
B.
Blueprints.
I was still sending the eagle one.
Anyways, that calls in for our prep phase.
So, they hear a lot of fun with our three different minigames.
We'll move on to EML, and next, as we actually get to qualify,
teams going into EWC. Thank you very much for watching and we hope to see you again with
prep face in stage 2.
I
2 is upon us. Playoffs Day 2 is the final chance for our teams to also get a spot for
EWC. My name is Anne, I'll be your host in today's EML show and we also have Alphama
and fresh with us. No more minigames, it's down to the serious work, it's bittersweet because
we get to send two teams, but these are also our final two teams. I was kind of a little bit
worried about being shot again and then you were fervently enjoying shooting, especially me,
but also Leo as well. I've not seen where she hit the gun, but I can tell you it's somewhere here.
No idea. And if for any reason we go overtime, I think she's going to leave out. Yeah. Okay, well,
we'll see if that's gonna happen. If we get it overtime or not, first we take a look at our
bracket to see how things are shaping up in our playoffs. As yesterday finished, we qualified two
teams to the EWC, those teams being Falcons and Virtus.Pro, and we saw G2 and GK drop down to the
lower bracket in their matches for today. And that means that obviously we have some, I guess,
some surprises coming in today, because one team will make it to EWC between Rebels and GK.
On the set of G2 Fanatic, obviously we have one big favorite that's going to be G2. If Natic were
to make the upset that would be crazy. I'm focusing on match 4 here because I think it means a lot for
two of these organizations, one of them making it. Rebels especially was one of the last team,
the last team to find an organization coming up from Challenger Series all the way up into
kickoff. I think to see them in this position right now, top six secured, one B03 away from EWC,
it must mean a lot for these guys. And I think putting it simply and putting it fairly is whoever
wins out of that game in terms of match 4 will have overachieved on the expectations of the stage
because they will have displaced one of the four teams that went solid today, you know, in terms of the major and did well.
Europe didn't, of course, didn't win it, but didn't have a bad showing relatively.
It was a lot of main stage from our teams and then VP as well.
So, you know, displacing out, twisting minds and actually getting their head off one of G2 or Fnatic,
or even shifters who were probably the other teams that would have been the ones to do the step up,
which other team makes out of Rebels and GK really will have had a great stage.
Yeah, we'll have a look at these games later.
I just had so much fun with these mini games that we just did during the prep phase
that we started to put yet another one on here, Guns and Volves, but no shooting, don't worry,
we will have a look at the newly released eSports skins that came out last week on Thursday.
We're going to have a very close look as well.
I'm going to show a very zoomed in photo to our endless and see if they can guess by that
very zoomed in photo which skin and which organization this is.
So difficult quest because some of these are really, well some of these are a little similar,
But we'll start with the very first one showing the zoomed in photo of the very first skin
Okay, I know I know which one it is. Oh, okay. Try hard. Okay. I know which one is I think it's Goyo from Wildcard. Yes
I think it is because the design is really really cool. It's like some kind of well
Yeah
Yeah, that's why I'm not involved but no shit on the back and we can see Wildcard. Yeah, it's the logo as well
Color scheme is really nice. I think it's very well done with the monsters and everything on it, which is really cool.
Very cool.
Insane design.
Really cool.
Is this Meshmaras or what?
Yeah, I just love the quality of the drawing when you go from what we were drawing ourselves, when you can be drawing the Paranagos, to going to what we see here in the actual quality.
That's why you pay a notice, guys. It's sexual talent.
Don't mind if there was anyone there.
No, I don't think that would be a smart idea what we said earlier today, but we have three more skins.
Let's have a look at skin number two and I'll see you guys in the next episode.
This one is so good. It is in my opinion the best skin I've seen so far.
Yeah, it's really good. It is actually really really nice.
And of course we don't see the head here but it really reminds me of that option that was available
for the Siege X bundles with like the high ponytail. That one is one of my favorite parts of it.
What's the name? There's a steam with like the beasts on each gun by the way.
Yeah but what I like about it from Fnatic's point of view is they said very true to that color scheme
of an organization inside of the skin in terms of the branding as well. Really really like that.
Yeah, always the team of the black and orange obviously I participated to doing the Ibana skin
The year I was with Nalik they always take a good care of interrogating their players their team
They really want to know like how the community will feel about their skin
So I can see that they've you know, live through to that name because if you look at the design
It's really cool
And I yeah, just of the fact that they stay true to the back and origin at the same time
It's it's still I guess a ballsy design
Yeah, fairly out of interest
What do you have like influence on is it like the colors the behind the operator or every step through the
We knew which operator we're gonna get when you were gonna head get Hibana and the idea was back then
We didn't have as many limited as many options. So we're limited to epic and rare skins
And you could use the same shape
But then you could change the textures and so we had this idea with Tyron who was the French designer who came up with it
So like can I use the mask of Hibana and like show all the tooth?
And that's where it came from and then from that spend the idea of some kind of ninja shinobi style cool
I like that you guys were involved in that was so cool as well. Yeah, very very unique
But we'll have a look at the third skin of the match that came out very very soon then on weather charts
You think it's fear. Yeah, I think it's fear. Yeah, purely. It's very blocky bold colors on that skin
If I remember right also, it looks like a PL. Yeah, you know
That looks like yeah, that kind of looks like anime and I was thinking it has to be like
Imagine you take your in ranks and you just take a random wallbang some some guys come on a wall
Killed you and then he's rocking that skin. Yeah, it feels like straight up straight out of Rembo's magic
Yep, it's a it's the same style very cool. It's wonderful. I love it
It looks great and definitely my type of skins as bright and colorful and especially as pink as
As they can get as well looking at the final skin then that we have from these four that came out last Thursday
What makes you think that's just the color?
Not the fact that it's a horse on there?
Is it a horse?
It doesn't look like a horse.
That's liquid whole thing.
Like a little animated horse.
I'm sorry, but it doesn't look like a horse.
No, it is a horse. Trust me.
Yeah, I know.
Because there's the hair that goes like this.
Can we get the zoom in one again, please?
Because I want to point out, you see, it's like a little, like it's me.
What do you mean that's a horse?
horse. I can see the ears and then the hair behind it.
Yeah. And it's like the whole thing. It's obviously not like a one on one horse. It's
like a... Sorry, I spent too much time on Wikipedia, so I'm used to like full horse.
Okay. Great excuse there. Yeah, great excuse, right?
Yeah. Whatever helps you sleep at night. But these were our four skins that came out.
It's now time for us to dive into these games because one of the skins that came out, they
actually have a team playing in our matchup as the very first one of the day. Phenetic
versus G2, as these two organizations in the team will go up against each other,
and when we saw these two play against each other in group stage,
it was actually a surprising over time for the player that came out.
They nearly took down G2, as that would be the first loss that G2 would have faced.
Super close games. That's why we can't astool the potential from that team.
I was one of the doubters, and we had a chat with Deepak in interview,
where he was kind of blaming me for it. I was probably left out.
I'm happy to be wrong about them. You were trusting them already back then,
and I think it's the moment where I realized that I was wrong.
I was like, okay, this team is
really special. I'm that game
where they went seven eight as
well. It was Catholic. Yes, G
two didn't have a lot on the
line. Fantastic did actually
need to win it to get
themselves higher up. They
maybe would have finished
inside of the top four if it
was a different result, but it
was a very, very close game is
what I will say. So if that's
a blueprint for today, seven
eight in one best of one, we've
got three maps today, 45
rounds, maybe. Blueburn is
teacher later. I knew it. I knew
it all along. I'm really
the end of the video. Back to
business here because as you
say, like G2 have a lot more on
the line today, because it would
be so weird to see this team
miss out on EWC after they played
the final of it last year. I
feel like they have some kind of
revenge to get as well. Yeah,
that's the big thing about it.
You know, G2 they invented a new
super team. I suppose you could
argue this time last year and
they brought something in. They
went to EWC maybe without
actually the expectations of
being the top dog that event
and they got all the way to the
final. They did of course lose
that finals team secret and what
secret and what was an epic showdown, but it would then be almost unfathomable to get 12 months
nearly down the line. And due to a game where they might possibly lose this, they're out. They're
not going to qualify for a Dmc. And that just wouldn't be right in my opinion, because of the
expectations of this team and organization. It's the first consequence from the stomping effect.
The guy on the screen, when he joins you to, I think changed everything for that roster. From
2024, a team that struggled to make it to every stair event, missed some of them. Eventually they
They pick up this guy and they look amazing.
They dominated the ML stage one and they made it to the Grand Finals of the WCF.
One year down the line, like you said, that investment, it needs to pay off and the maturity
needs to be there.
They've also important to Benja.
They've had further investment in Benja and in Shaiqo as well, so in theory, leveled
up that team that got to the Grand Final of the WC last year and are now in a position
where they might not make it.
After a game yesterday, realistically, that they could have, and you could argue, maybe
should have won from the positions that they were in.
Yeah, Moonsum's team were like, it was in their way a lot during that game.
But we'll talk about their opponents as well because for phonetic honestly, whatever happens today
They should already be really proud of themselves because what they showed us in group stage was so much better than what we got used to
Seeing from phonetic over the course of the last few years now
We've been here years of this point Leo and we've seen fanatic and we've maybe banged our heads against the wall watching fanatic
I've probably to the last four stages in a row
Where fanatic really struggles for cumulative points their very first stage in 2024
They found themselves inside of playoffs in a 19 league 11 points fair enough
that was a decent upstage from there. It didn't go well. And then 2025, even last, in fact, they didn't actually get to a single playoff game last year in 2025. And we know that they finished in the relegation position in the overall standings. That means that that sets us up to this year. What have they done in 2026? Stage one? Well, they accumulated 15 points, arguably could have been more with some of the games that they played. They put themselves into playoffs, and they've looked a lot better. In fact, this is the first time this organization, since moving back into Europe will play in a match to qualify to an SPR event.
There is a massive upgrade for Nadek and the main thing is how did they do it?
What's the reason why we see this team perform to the level they're performing?
And to me, it's about the roster changes.
I know we've blamed Nadek for making way too many roster changes, but eventually one was
going to be right.
And I think that the one day he made three different players added to the roster, but
in a really good way.
Deepak retained as one of the oldest experienced players, the backbone of the team playing
a support role.
And most of the time playing the suicide position as well, really well.
On top of that, they get Smith, a young rookie that has great game vision, but most importantly,
someone who can play shields in a GSMETA.
And boom, there you go, he can have shot calls, he can play shields.
Wizard, young rookie, last stage, played super well for Fnatic, great flex player, retain
him on the roster, and then add a spearhead, a spearhead that is experienced, and that
can provide fragging power consistently, that is citizen led shot.
And on top of that, finally add an additional staff behind Titan, an assistant coach that
can help the team.
A lot of investment has been made, and so far it's paid off.
Yeah, and as we of course expect the next two have been watching that game yesterday,
where G2 played and we start on drop down to the lower brackets.
Watching that game, is there anything you think that that it could take away on how to beat G2?
I think so, yeah. So G2 are well known to play in a split fashion.
They will put individuals in all areas of the map and look to find a gap.
So if we look at how Falcons dealt with it really well yesterday, they played Night Heaven Lamps.
They banned the ace and they banned for thermite. So they play the cave and the denarii with this set up in connect
That goes all the way through to electric
They put the is army in catwalk which is fairly standard as well when it's available
But what does that mean to G2? Well, they've got to play the maverick. That means they're gonna be slow first performance
They can't just lurk
They can't just find a gap from every side at once
Benja did manage to find it early
They've only found a gap and then he got shut back down
But then you get into a two versus three scenario and you've got a smoke
So what can you do with the smoke?
You can smoke off the catwalk and then you can peek it with the smoke, get it back to 2 vs 2.
And now this is where the utility element of playing against split comes into play.
The denarii, the twitch manages to get through the denarii trap,
but keep your eye on the one that reactivates.
And then the other player comes in the electric window and has to tank the denarii trap.
Of course the slowing effect, the damage, twitch actually drops itself back into it.
And ultimately because both of the G2 attackers are now slowed,
they're known where they're coming from.
There isn't necessarily a gap, even though it's 1 vs 2, Falcons managed to find a way to win it.
Now, that is a blueprint in my mind for how Fnatic should try and play their defenses.
They want to shut down any opportunity, particularly for Benja, to be finding a luck into the side.
We've seen two ingredients there. We've seen the 1v1 taken by the Smoke.
Why is he given a 1v1? Because of the playstyle of T2.
If they play split, they will be spread around the map.
And so these 1v1s, you can take them.
The second ingredient you just mentioned, the utility, as many layers as you can have
will help you isolate the players and force you to try to problem solve things.
because when you're alone facing a denarii, you have to call someone to come help you,
and that's a big problem for G2 when everyone is spread out.
Yes, we just need to know one more thing though.
What three maps are selected for our best three between these two teams?
Would you go back to Cafe?
As of the start-up potentially, Lair is going to be our first one in the series.
Yeah, I'm not surprised with Synthetic Picket.
They're on a four-win streak on the map, but the main thing here, Jack, obviously G2 are the favorites.
You're going to tell me something about it later on now.
Well, Synthetic, yes, it's a four-win streak,
but it's a four-win streak against teams like Team Secret,
In heretics, G2 are also on a four-win streak.
You know what, do you want to know the names?
Oh, tell me.
Faith Clan.
Oh.
M80.
Oh.
Tarkens.
Oh.
Yeah.
Some of the biggest teams in the world.
They beat the biggest teams in the world in that map, so obviously, picking into that,
giving G2 the same choice as well, that's going to be rough.
What I'll all say is I can't see the favorite because I can't see the defensive layer and
I can't see that it's been a map that Fnatic have been successful on.
So I know why they would want to go there and just back in the hubs, but it just so happens
that the map pull event probably sits with G2. As we get to Shaleh, that is a map that
maybe suits G2 style a lot more in terms of playing split, in terms of finding gaps in
times of playing with the pace. That map really suits them well.
And history has proved that Static are struggling hard on that map and this is why it's super
important for them to win Lair. Because if they go and lose Lair, they go to Shaleh, one
of their worst maps, at this point it can be a 2-0.
Yeah, something we've seen a lot as well where we talk about teams winning their own
map pick. You kind of expect
that to be happening inside
of the series as well with so
much on the line. But with our
castors, though, as we are
joined by fluke and demo for
our first game of the day.
Best of three is always exciting
when we get these in email
because it shows which of the
two teams is the better team.
Yeah, I think it's fair. I you
know, you look obviously towards
the map selection here and.
Good luck fanatic. I think it's
the easiest sort of way until
I would agree. I think you look
at layer. I have to hark on the
jacks point. I think he's hit
it right. Nail ahead, but I don't
have to believe themselves.
Yes, it may be a good map for
G2, but in this league, you're
always going to back yourself
and say that we can win this.
We can beat G2, and you're going
to want to do that on your most
preferred map. And obviously for
layer, they're going to have that
confidence. They're going to have
that morale. They know they want
it before. Yes, it may be against
lesser opponents, but they're
still winning the map. And I think
that's what it's all about. It's
All right, and then you maybe have to fake it till you make it forthletic in this case
Believe is so important for them in this oh so important matchup. And it's all yours
Thank you very much and the wonderful team in there
and I
Would like the well, okay? I'll talk about this first down to do my joke search prediction 76% of people back G2
That doesn't surprise me. However, I'm around. What do you get?
What?
What's the seven six run? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not falling for that this early
It has to come up naturally because I
Nibbius in the world. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go the
That's a lot of you the back to do I mean the fact that obviously financing almost pushed you to the brink
Seven days ago. That is the third map in the series. Maybe if we get to that map that will be a little bit more balanced, but
That's a tough first route on the road.
Anyway, I think a lot of problems that that studio would ever face, the problems that
they do have or don't have, would be solved if Anne always had a gun.
I think Anne should always be armed.
And the other two, the boys can just make do with it.
Ungrub your gun.
Anne, get a gun, girl.
Anyway, here we are trying to find out which of these two teams is going to progress, get
themselves an international spot, and which one unfortunately will have things full short.
G2 unbeaten until they were as weird as the statement is to make.
That was one that just got me, dang it.
And that was a bit to the other day, yesterday, and now there's a chance to see if they can
try and bounce back, prove a point, or unfortunately go unbeaten and then have it all slip away
I think a bit of a shocker, which I know may sound strange considering it was Team Balkans
at G2, I forget, but I think everyone mostly were back in G2 and you've seen the social
projection come up before the game started, everyone was going in for G2.
Just because they were on a form that G2 have had at the stage, if you look at Falcons,
they looked weak at some point during the stage, but Falcons come in and they do the
business over G2, a little bit of a wobble, I think from G2 especially whenever they won
the first map so convincingly you kind of thought oh this shall be you know
quick for g2 to oh job done but here they are they're down now against fanatics
not what they were probably expecting but they have to go again they have to
try and bounce back yesterday quick drive here towards the top not wasting
any time putting pressure on the side of ops yeah and then she's hitting the side hitting the pressure and sort of keeping them
Oh wow, there's the double X-hooks standing, so it's gonna be sort of painless to get through these walls, it's well predicted in practice,
and obviously it's kind of expected. That's why you've got the smoke, the tachanka, the range that we talk about for a long, long time here.
Pressure on the shield, they're aware of these Army and the Keepers, but it's Stompin's position.
Might need to be forced out first. Here comes the breach, the split on the other side, has the impact checker.
Oh, it's not gonna work.
Deadshot predicted practice.
Citizen finds Doki.
There's a pair of names we've said many, many times over the years.
This is the one where they're against each other now.
Five versus three.
They're trying to re-fight here over the top,
but there's one more for Withered.
Alamau's gone. They've lost the smoke.
Both the remaining G2 players on the slivers of hell.
Fnatic.
They might be able to open up with a flawless here.
They are!
What a dream start. Fantastic from Fnatic G2. Oh dear, what has happened? Now look, we obviously talk
about that top floor. We know that it's always going to be a bit of a struggle for the attackers.
You have to go through the smoke and the Chanka combination. It's just going to slow you down.
It means that time becomes very valuable. Now, in that circumstance for Fnatic, they've realized
what their ring con is. It's move quickly, try and open up things fast, get the walls opened up,
move in, go for that plant, leave yourselves as much time as possible. Now for G2, they played
that great default. Yeah, you've got the smoke, you've got the chanke, you've got a player in
towards mezz, you've got the the isami, this position that Shai goes in, in behind that table.
All tricky positions that you have to try and work around with the attackers. They move fast,
and yes they maybe got a little fortunate with the fact that Shai goes out of his position,
was out of the safety of the Kibber Barriers, exposed himself to the breach.
But for Fnatic, it was all about the time management. They knew they needed to hit it fast
and hit it hard, and maybe that's what surprised G2, was the actual pace that Fnatic were moving
there. And then they lose that opening pick, and G2, we've seen it before, they do get in the habit
where they feel as though they need to go and pull kills back in their favor. Just can't step back,
they will try and go aggro. They will try and get their feet on the ground. It's very common
of gt to do that and sometimes it works sometimes that happens so 24% or whatever it was looking
slightly better 23% I remember the other side of the joke was it 20 how does maths work
Oh, right. I had to flip the numbers. I'm sorry, I almost said it again. I did almost
get it. Maybe I am an idiot. Still in a robot. So the robot smashes and now Benja has no way
of getting home. Oh no. You're gonna have to sort of play this to stick around and you
You can see the sort of worry popped in and yeah, there it goes.
Oh, that's a waste of a robot.
Imagine if the Bravo could actually just become the roof while that would have been...
Oh, that would make things very interesting.
Oh, but...
I can see why they haven't done it.
I can see why, because it would be problematic this is the best way.
But yeah, not a great start for G2, Benjit, losing his only way back to site and he is
all the way in towards that top floor. So I mean, I guess for that, what we fastly was
right hit site immediately.
And Benji could be well caught out. That's why he's on that scope, which give himself
that easy TV support team.
It could be rushed.
Wow, there's the player, the smoke is trying to pull themselves back. And as you said,
the rush is sort of coming and you can see how it is trying to rebuild pressure. It's
just unending. Obviously, two shields banned. They're still going to make use of the third
here he's trying to fade out the fire and the blind he somehow wins it he's out of the room he's
got to fight his way back in but that's what's there for the cover smith's caught out still
getting one but his d-pack closes down onto a stomping and for a second those romas where are
you too late they know you're coming as well absolutely brilliant start the doki might be
that terrifying end gets to now the pins are still coming out the track they have this dp
that was obviously doing a lot of work there. We're leading in, Doki on the swing, Deku's going
for the plant on the cover, there's only a single player sort of watching on towards it now and he's
hoping to try and get the catch, it's traded back and forth, he's just dead shot to Doki.
One versus one, pulls off the plant, 30 seconds.
Dead shot hasn't had the cleanest of seasons so far, Doki, he's always capable, he's always
able to knock his way in but it's the sort of play into the form when the Fanatic team is informed,
dead shot has been that MVP and he might be able to keep the sort of run going here. Doki
slips over to another side. It's a baiting game, but he's only got one more of those left and he's
used it at that point. He's keeping himself just out of touch, out of range. And out of the nightmares,
G2, level things up. Oh, Doki holds his ground, that 1v1 means that new world record for them
They might have attempted plants in the one round, I don't know.
Just deadshot just kept coming off it,
and there was certainly a moment where he couldn't have stuck it.
No, didn't have the confidence to make it stick.
What can he say about Doki?
Saved his team here.
You know, for G2, wasn't great.
I mean, this is a 2v4.
That's the kill right there on the cities,
and that's what made it for Doki.
Twins, so many individual engagements.
Oh, two very different...
I was killed there.
Hey, slightly different vibes across the back.
That's like the boss,
London's looking out the happy window,
while the other one's towards the sad.
We're just driving.
Yeah, I mean that was...
It was an attempt to end, but I love the pace of the figure applying in this game.
That's so so good.
I mean, that's a very fanatic-esque round.
How many times do we see them getting into situations and they just can't get over the line?
That's always been a kind of sticker that has just been slapped on the fanatic.
It's, you know, closing out rounds that they should be closing out, struggle with it,
and it's happened to them again.
I don't think their kind of first half of the round has went their way both times certainly fanatic has dominated in the early game
I'll see what G2 can do as they head back upstairs. This is the bombsite where
Natick made it look pretty easy to fear from below to remove strong position in towards tables
See that?
Kind of preparing to go for this quick break.
There's a fear.
Just once the sort of clarity that Smith's probably is going to drive on.
You can see that.
The blitz getting themselves ready on the swing on the door.
They have guns over the shoulder.
They want to try and shocken all of them and just force the player to maybe overextend
as the floor opens up.
Nobody directly competing for their ground here as well. There's the break. There's the pop and there's the player
Gone and removed. Okay, show them the meantime stuff. There's a bit of damage
Really worried that
The approach maybe that's trying to stop the shield. Maybe that's trying to stop
Going off on the wall
Make that two for two, they're just about to go!
He has sacrificed himself once again on this top floor.
Oh, fanatic.
He's turning on the burners once more on this bomb site.
In goes the Blitz.
He's misleading the charge, let's trap so he has to be careful of that Razerblum.
Will slow down Apple this smoke, but doesn't matter, his teammates clean up house.
Two players remaining, Alamo and Benja.
It's just gonna be the one player remaining Alomar from the 1v5, not another fall.
Surely not here for Fnatic, they're electric on this top floor.
Alomar's gonna try and just wait and hope that he goes unknown, but even if he gets one kill,
surely they're gonna know it.
Here's one, and they should come off the platform there.
Yeah, here comes the Blitz and no chance.
Rall him out!
Too easy for Fnatic again.
I mean, just brilliant from Fnatic here, right?
How much of it is preparedness?
How much of it is a sort of G2?
Not expecting this much fight.
It's so worth talking about the fact that obviously a week ago went to MaxOT, went as
far as a game could go, really put the pressure in, Fnatic couldn't quite close it out then.
Now here, where it matters the most, Fnatic have looked sharper and sharper, Fnatic obviously
were able to sort of sit back and watch yesterday, pick up, learn lessons, and then here, on
the other side of it, G2, all that energy from the season, that pressure that they thought
they'd alleviated by playing permanently.
I mean, yeah, it's a yeshiko.
Needs to know better.
It's been quite a twice-tack right now, mm-hmm.
Especially in a position that he flies.
I mean, that's a tricky one, you need nades.
Yes, I think if they, let's see what they bounce.
What do you want to bounce?
He's just having a good time.
He's just here, I'm gonna,
what I really like about Fanatic
and the style of the stage that they're flying here in Lyon
is I'm seeing multiple three-two-one moments.
Yeah, we're at different parts of the round.
You know, you look at that top floor, the tables,
they waited, they waited, they waited,
they had Sophia below, they had the blitz on the door.
Three, two, one, go.
You've taken that, Frank.
They wait, they wait, they wait.
Next one is gonna be taking them towards mezz.
Three, two, one, go.
And finally, setting up gear for the plaque.
Three, two, one, go.
It's, they're working together as a unit.
There's no individuals that are being caught out.
There's nobody straying behind.
Everyone is moving with a purpose from Fnatic.
G2?
We're only going back there, sort of.
It begins to creep into your mind now, obviously.
It's been well there.
They now have three shield bands, so the change of the blitz might be something, obviously.
Another smoke ban.
Which is probably the forward Kemetatary, you know?
It's kind of the balance, because the smoke wasn't really popping in massively, but
The Blitz seemed to just be running the front line, right?
It...
I have to use the words scared of these players, but the way they would quickly peel back light from the Blitz,
the way they sort of expected to jump over the shoulder.
I kind of want to make sure that Fnatic keeps that energy. Obviously, they've got Smith now on the fuse.
So they've sort of kept the mentality running. I'm not going to say it's the most sort of structured and playable.
There, the C4 is trying to hit somebody who is trying to get near the side of the keyboard.
It can work out, but...
Winston's found his way towards the side of the site.
He's just going to get that opened up, and...
Well, you can see that obviously Benjo will be feeding all of this back.
Now, now, why?
The citizen gets the opener, gets green stares, and...
Fanatic.
If I was worried about caution and pace, they just found opportunity and looked the outline,
looked at control.
stop it's gonna try and contest and it's a big moment he's
through for one he can't quite connect on to the shield but Doki gets the other and now that shield is very isolated
Can't quite hop their way out covering with a smoke canister instead going up to the repellent kill but he can't connect it
And in the meantime Doki goes down they're worried about slipping their way back in they know the press is gonna come around the other side
They're buying time so the player above can get back up. It's a good bit of attention drive and he drives his way out of there
he's still thirsting for more stopping. With that, that he's drawn all this attention aggro
like a tank. He's put all of the focus on him. And he's slipped away, leaving just
Smith's last fine one. There's three more to get, dammit. There were a low HP, and that pistol
has packed quite a punch, but as long as you two can just play the trade game or maybe
I could just catches them running upstairs and that'll be the round, but all of that back of stomping and I
Think that that work kind of shows the place to legit to remember I mentioned before they're a team where if they lose the opening
Pick they will try and get that kill back in some way shape or form
They lose Alamo in the 4v5 and what did they do? They say, okay, let's target these players in towards green
and Benjy was obviously in the most kind of dangerous position because he's in the middle
of the bomb site, walls are being opened up around him, if he dies you lose the site
player and we all know what happens then.
teammates start getting a little bit panicky because nobody's in the site they could just
kind of rush in and can't really do much to stop that so they have to go aggressive
and that's what stopping those, catches them, just as fanatic or getting kind of set up
for the mix 3 2 1, he's in creating issues, backshot on the deadshot is disgusting by the
way probably should have killed the guy in the refell as well don't forget but he made up for that
but it was huge as as coral said it's huge from zack
there was the element as i said you know you could obviously you had to play it down above
you had to keep us down they were trying to get the recover against the man
him staying outside just licking up and then losing that moment to rotate back in
I, you know, I love the Divergent Tactics. I love the look at me. I love that sort of
Hero moment you could say of and then getting a kill of getting out of there. It was
You know everything you could need back down towards the basement this one started obviously with a
Lot of fanatic control. They sort of go into I think it was a four versus two situation
And Doki picks up a double, and then obviously wins the 1v1 eventually as well.
It's that sort of tread that you two need to be aware of that Fnatic have still kept
a very pacing game.
They've really been cut out to the metal in here, eyes on towards Warehouse, and maybe
a little bit direct.
First time we haven't really got a shield, and we'll see if this is something that works
towards their favor or not, but the LAS instead of a big sort of change you could say in the
role that Smith is playing this round. I think the important thing as well to remember for Fnatic,
they still have got the defense to come, you know, that's their preferred side, that's where they've had
a better time in their Lair games, but it's not to say that their attacks aren't great either,
I think they're putting on a really good display here at the moment. This could be a very important
around a fanatic and I just keep that lead that of course establish. And I can do this
direct take coming in for the horizontal side and I will see if fanatic can make things
move. Smith doesn't have the shield but he still has a very strong operator in the form
of a glass. Try to back go Benji, able to take down Citizen. I got a fight here, Doki,
up against Wizards. Benji Benji never mind, Benji! He's up against Wizards, Nate goes
in? Did he pull out the shotgun? Oh, what a scrappy engagement that trade! Or two! That's
a cheaper wizard! Maybe! Wow, now the D-Pax is going to get a kill onto the site and they
know that Doki's above it, so three versus one down there. No, make that a three versus
nobody. Now they can just get this plant secure to solace doing their best. Obviously that
big engagement above us a drive. So is that Fanatic. They've been able to take one of
the sites they lost. They've got three rounds now demo. Yeah, he's looking good for Fanatic.
Again very straight to the point here for Fanatic. I don't think they're pulling any
punches in terms of the takes that they're going for, it's all direct. That time, I think
they just add it in, having a soul stick up there to deal with the roamers by himself.
And I suppose that is a difficult job, I think, for Wizard, knowing that it's you and you
only. Nobody's going to be with you for trades, a lot of pressure. You have to win your individual
gauge, sometimes you have to win 1v2s. But he done enough for you, he was able to find
one of the roamers that then dragged Doki out of position and the rest of his team just
kept playing direct and he spent less of a charge initially with the glass and yeah there's
very very solid you know you kind of look at the lineup as well that g2 are bringing
and I kind of look at it and think you know a goya wouldn't go miss here of how direct
as well, like being playing on the basement.
Yeah.
No, I think it's a great shout, I think.
Obviously, we always get the benefit of being like,
we can see how they're approaching, we can see that it's very direct,
we can see that it's sort of also kind of singularly direct, right?
They're not doing a lot of, you know, split theory,
obviously there's somebody on the road,
there's somebody going and plugging attempts at fights elsewhere, as we just saw,
but otherwise it is at least four of the players
the site in a direction within the opening minute and a half. And as you said, Goyo in
that sort of situation, just things that can slow it down better than what the Izami is
really managing right now, because most of the time the thing in Izami is sort of turning
tail and holding through the backs, then just something else to assist in that sort of stem
of the tide. Otherwise, this is probably the biggest change up again that we've had in
line up you've got the Deimos, the Snake, they're trying to very directly their intel
grabs, play the bees around the corner they know this is a shotgun they're
gonna have to try and hit on the corner.
Big game of attrition, so how much focus are they gonna pay towards it?
Navanauts also here for support as well, doubling up on the boiler stairs.
Doki in the meantime, he's the long track, he's all the way on the other side of
green and they're trying to prepare, they're getting a welcome out, but how much
Is he gonna peel away from them?
This is where the smoke man also helps you with the the basement attack as we know a smoke on the point where stairs
This position it's got ends in can be very problematic and slow down a lot of the time now. They don't have that
They have to then stick a warden who as we know doesn't have the same deniability as what the smoke has for fanatic
It's very straight to the point going for vertical gonna be planted towards boiler
I have a question here though from G2 Alamow
People the surprise miss but I hope just watch down the stairs and DPEC is waiting for him
And the question is do they know about Stomp and do they know that there's two of them?
Well how they do? Oh citizen!
Just about the natives killed them before Stomp could have finished them off
Could have been a 3v4 now that G2 have to deal with
Make that 4v2, make that 4v1, Shaco all by himself
obviously almost had an insane as close to the day
get that little split on it he's
one but the second pops up dead shot I mean just
repeatedly brilliant he has been
in this opening half an opening half there's left fanatic
four to two and us heading over towards
desk
Thank you. Yeah, even beyond these four rounds that are on the board for Fnatic
We can also say clearly they are winning on a strategic level on these attacks
I think this strategically won all six every single one of them. It could be six zero
It could be six zero quite comfortably for Fnatic on another day. It would be six zero
They basically just messed up two X-Files. That's all different but in terms of control in terms of pacing
It has been so good from Fnatic. Their theory has been go direct
Yes, they use the shields and even when all three shields got banned out
they played the few shield as well. They wanted to go direct, aggress G2, double up, triple
upon positions and get the crossfire, get those refracts and the only time that it didn't
happen in this round here was when Doki managed to pop off and get two, when he played through
the crossfire on an individual basis. That's the only output G2 have had so far.
It's an old vision of siege that you see on your screen. It's four players working the
site. Four players working the site and one lurk. You see here on the main stairs you
will see it on the other bomb site when he's lurking and basically controlling the rumors.
You have the shields working, the hot breaches, two other players with them with utility.
That gets them the initial control on the site.
And then the fifth player is just there to control the flanks because they know that
G2's only win condition at this point is to try and have someone retake.
And the thing is, it works so well against G2 right now, and I'm worried on their side
because I was trying to see the reaction.
Because what do we see?
Like the last round, for example, they call for a basement defense.
You have barely any extension.
You have one extension into filtration.
They give way too much control to Fnatic, so Fnatic, you have their core four players advancing
and nothing really happens on their side, they're just getting picked off the vert and
off the utility on the back of Fnatic, I think the pressure is on the shoulders of G2 right
now.
When Fnatic have struggled with their attacks, think about the maps that really they've struggled
on, think about a clubhouse where we saw on very first playday where they had to play
through layers, they had to breach walls where they had to play through as armies and utility
and power positions, they've not had to do any of that today.
I think G2 got their defensive game pump all wrong and Fnatic have capitalized on that perfectly.
However, I think it's a strong side towards G2, so I believe there's one side where they can bounce back, it's definitely that one.
Is this better than what we expected to see from Fnatic, or is this about what we wanted to see?
No, I think it's better because I think Fnatic lost their game up against G2 in regulation, in the regular stage, in overtime.
But actually, when you control every attack, yes, the scoreline's 4-2, that might come back to bite them, but they control every round strategically.
So I think it's better than maybe what we expected, because, coming into this, we said G2 are formidable on this map, you know, they've taken FaZe there, they've taken M8 to there, beaten both of those teams there, they're clearly good at this map, and they've been absolutely outclassed so far, but like Leo's just said, the flip has completely happened now, it will be G2 on the attack that will be forcing their style of playing to this game.
We spoke of one condition for Fnatic in defense. Before this game started, it was utility. Look at the side of your screen.
All of it is made for the light round. You see Goyo, you see Tachanka, you see Smoke, Enazami, and you have to make the half-surprise the side-strong.
It's basically the strategy of players against you.
And then, as we say, a good start is the first half done, but this is only the first half, so the second half starts now. Walk in for the next two.
Well, thank you very much, and wow, a 6-0, they think it could have been, do you agree?
Uh, I mean, probably bar, I think, the mid-floor site, because I think the mid-floor, like,
you lose the first pick, and then I think G2 play very well, obviously retake the position.
I wouldn't say that Fanatic were necessarily in a position to win that round, still think
there was a lot of that round to play, it just so happens that Stumpin' made a really
good play, but definitely that doki round, yes, so I would maybe argue a 5-1 against
I always like arguing against them. Listen, it's very fast than you, you know. We are professional point makers.
It doesn't mean that they have to be the correct point. Sometimes you just gotta
throw something in the mix just to irritate your friends.
Right.
G2.
A lot of work to be done.
Yeah, right. As you've said, uphill. Hope the bit of hiking puts on because they're gonna need it.
I look at the fanatic line up
Again, it plays more into that mini game theory the way that the desk we're talking
Maybe this is the approach that G2 should have taken up where you're adding in things like the mirror on top of a breach
You have to play around that boy, oh, which was just not in the arsenal for G2 at all
Which was very surprising
We know the damage this operator can do in the light game and also fairly game for stemming the kind of first three T1
In towards mezz so you will get a lot of benefit from it
So for G2, how do they want to go about things?
They've got a lot of Util, you've got the Capitao there, you've also got Alamo with
the Nades and the Blackbeard.
Okay, Will Draw first blood, takes down Wizard, he is Ami.
Gone, double smokes, cross back side back for him, and the smoke also goes to Afflimacy.
It's picked off by Benja, and Fanatic have gave way to very early kills.
Both teams are mirroring one another here in the defense.
Well, maybe this will just turn into the nice attack as I had mapped with Adam Wilde.
That, obviously, they've got two bodies, but they still have to sort of do that final drive
through once they get the goya, the operator that we call for, being good potential.
The blackbeards fall slightly further and further away.
But it's actually Benja that gets caught out by Smith, the Dechanquer.
Tears her head off, and this is the sort of difference, right?
Before, Fnatic would hit the door, they'd get a couple of kills,
and they just kind of kept driving until they'd found their way through to the site.
They've been given an opportunity to have a breath here as G2 reruns the numbers.
They've still got plenty of time and they're a team that does love to do this.
Recalculate, reevaluate.
You can see the ping's coming out on the player on the back end.
It's a C4 pre-lined up and ready to go out on towards the walkway.
But nobody's currently home.
The question is, here, down the way, where is the thermite going to get free?
There's a bit of destruction, but it doesn't quite stop it by the sounds of it,
assuming they were attempting it for the correct play.
Yeah, I like this from Shako, using extra man.
It means that somebody has to watch him.
Somebody has to get dragged out of position here from Fanatic.
And this is where the rest of G2 can then just start driving
into the site now.
And the S-MIS goes down beautifully played from G2.
As you mentioned, two different fundamentals
of once they're able to get the opening picks.
As you said, Fanatic kept it going.
He didn't want to let G2 recalibrate.
For G2, yes, you've allowed Fnatic to recalibrate, but G2 themselves have also did that.
G2 themselves knew they have a lot of time, they can use that extra man that they've gained in the opening half,
and they use it beautifully. You play Shiko, buy himself, dragon players out,
rest of the team moves forward, you have Alomar with that, Shield still alive,
he can charge in, he can call out for his positions, get the information.
Yeah, there are no problems there for G2. So, attacker alert, baby, it happened.
four three four three and fanatic there Lee has gotten slightly thinner as you
said maybe we'll just never see that top floor again here instead we'll get
ourselves rotating around on towards the basement it could just be one of those
sort of splits of sort of you know days where things go away from them I think
obviously deadshot being the drive that he was in that opening half it says
sort of a lot of if he starts to slow down what happens to the rest of the team they did great
team dynamics but when you have your sort of top frag a top frag into that degree or it can change
things in the meantime he's starting to get some activation on the side of it and it's always sort
of the waiting game for the G2 both for the players and the fans themselves I think of well
when are we going to get activation Alomars had one of the best seasons he's ever had
It would be a shame if now, today and yesterday, the days when it sort of stops hitting as
hard as it has, his attention on them obviously got the man previously mentioned on them on
DC if they can try and lead their way in.
Once towards the warehouse and pretty quick work here, there's not been a lot of contest
for any of this ground really.
This is what sort of handed it over to G2 and put our eyes in towards Locust but it's
Benja that actually gets citizen in the meantime and I don't know are these alarm sounds can
you finatic to rotate back a bit quicker here don't we? Benja's just been able to I assume
walk in through supply and now he's causing a whole lot of issues for finatic. Benja with two
we will get finished off by deadshot but I think the damage has been done the site has been severely
weakened look how early that the goyos have had to be popped he's tossing out smoke canisters and
there's still two minutes to play this is not a great start here from finatic and once again
G2 they have an extra man that they can utilize and it looks to be stomping upstairs by himself
He's got the fine dead shot. Yeah, GT are using the numbers game really well it so far in their attacks. I
Mean that's sort of it, right a minute 30 Dpex gonna go above to see if he can try and potentially trade out this man
He's got one smoke canister left and stead. No, he's changed his mind
You've got wizards this under pressure above because he was able to pull off
You know a couple of big moments in this exact position when he was on attack
we have to get a double kill and sort of drive the faded around and here they sort of trusted him
to stay there instead G2 floods the back of the site they know roughly where Wizards they don't
need to contest with them and can try and get this plant secured you've got them on T he'll
have the shield on his back it'll be tough to pull apart and now there's also loads of people
looking towards the exact hatch you wanted to hit on the drop this should confidently be a G2 round
It's just down to seeing if Wizards can get anyone for the trouble.
And for the statistics going to hop the way around to the back, he's being actively called
as well.
But he won't even be able to get to answer it.
Simple stuff for G2, again, they're hitting that opening hard.
They're able to, again, walk away with two kills.
Yes, they may lose one in the process.
It is just somehow found a cat nothing on supply. They've been fed or been destroyed. Maybe the federal was even on and
Once you let banja kind of be a fox in in the chicken house, that's what happens
and
Then for G2, they just look down, you know, you have the shield got out of mouth just can feed all information
he can tell them up to no
very easy for them and
G2 look to be on it in their attacks so me for that it weren't
So, there has been a bit of a running theme, I think is a comment throughout this game
of the energy levels of the two teams.
Every single round for the side of G2, from the clutches, from earlier, it's big energy,
big showering, it's you're the best player I've ever seen, Zack.
And then, otherwise from Fnatic, it's been a bit more understated, right?
been a bit more sort of casual and when they were in control it still smiles it
was still upbeat but it was a different kind of upbeat I think here those sort
of quiet moments get even quieter as your lead of two built from hard-working
attacks is unfortunately filtered away from well tested the defenses still
There's always chance, chance to grow, chance to watch for clash, seems to be a bit of the
MO maybe, you know, be a bit more of a front-facing problem that isn't immediately shot in the
head.
I mean, I think for a fanatic, this is the moment where they need to win this round, especially
the back of the time out you're not going to get another opportunity in this map to use that uh so
it is a lot of pressure you need to win this if not GT are gonna just have the kind of run in the
middle knowing that they've broke you on once again that same top floor site it's going to be a
kind of danger zone again same where it was for GT just don't go to the site not great for you
Yeah, a lot of pressure now for Fnatic.
I think for G2 though, I don't think a clash would be that much of an issue whenever you
have been running Nomad at every single round in your attack, so Shaq is just going to get
more benefit out of this pick, get more value.
I mean, as long as he can rotate safely, oh dear.
That's the exact same engagement Ben's you're opening pick on the citizen.
Well, with that, the first body with that, maybe the thread of problems starts to unravel.
You can see just caught peering out the bathroom window.
This is under a bit of pressure from Turkey, but it's enough to move away, though.
Or it might be that sort of easy removal of Gadgetree, right?
seen a lot of, you know, Goya canisters being used, you've got the keybers, you've got the
driver of the clash. Flores is always going to be useful in forcing some of those as well
as quietly and distantly removing things like barbed wire. G2, as I've said it before, they've
been excellent at sort of calculating the man advantage and then working with it. Get in,
use the opportunity, get rid of the barbed wire, go back out, redroining it. There's
Obviously got two players watching towards this window and fanatic need to sort of do this game right close down on the man advantage
See if you can try and hit them get one slightly further ahead
And oh, it's a delicate fight here. You can see bangers coming in to offer some support
But at this point they'll feel their way away and it's a bit of utility and removal. There's also now
Consistence sort of a bottle from positions here
He smashes the door, trying to get Benjane.
Again, plant.
Something that GTNES start thinking about is that timer.
It's just down to 30 seconds.
Look at this position it smashes in, and there's no nades.
So this is going to be quite a power position,
how that smish can just sit behind and hope he can find a lot of kills.
There's one, but very quickly traded by Shaiiko.
DPEC is going to use another smoke, still has one remaining.
Wizards, going to try and double it with him.
And when they engage with him, no Shaiiko is just better
and Al Amal with the finishing blow. G2 with another attack under their belt. That top
floor today for both sides, do not defend it. Four times we've seen that top floor be
played, and four times it's been won by the attack.
That is now G2 in the lead, with three attacks in a row, demo, and they're worrying statistic
on the side of that, only three players lost across those rounds, they have really just
rested control of the back half of this game and barely any of them have felt that sort
of siren song of mortality.
I'm not going to say the wheels have sort of come off of fanatic, they still got a decent
drive on them, it's just apparently the wheels got put back on G2.
It's just G2 playing their game, isn't it?
You know, they were consistently fine in that opening pick, which I think helps out massively.
Because they use that extra man so well.
You can see the way that G2 wanted to play, they're always looking for that backstab,
They're always looking to overwhelm in the part of the map which Fanatic are going to
be weakened because they don't have that extra man themselves.
You know, it was exactly the same for this bombsite.
You lose that opening pick, it's a 5v4, and what does Alomar do?
Start putting pressure towards green.
Drag somebody out of position.
The main force coming in, infromes, trying to flood in through the bombsite, and he's
there creating issues, picks up that final kill.
We've seen G2 are using that extra mass so well, whereas really for Fanatic, like we make
the comparisons, they're just very direct, straight to the point.
Yes, they maybe have Wizard just off playing by himself, but he's there to hunt roamers.
He's not really there attacking and then goes to the big rotate.
G2 are always looking for that rotate, always looking for that other opportunity once they've
been able to get that first pick.
They've shot.
Just going to sort of keep himself going a bit here, but otherwise the rest of the team
has unfortunately fallen shy of grazes in the meantime.
G2, they've sort of, if one, if all, I mean, the only person who came into this half
which was positive was Doki. Now, obviously, Shiko and Stompin have caught their way back
there, Benjy and Alamau, and they're moving the mums away.
away that sort of tip, that balance, that scale shifting.
You can see the Demos threading and treading their way underneath.
We're obviously back towards the top and finally they find an opening kill.
The first one, about five rounds as well.
And we've complimented obviously both Doki and the sort of man advantage game that we've had G2 put forward.
So it'll be that idea now of how can the change come together, the preemptive smoke, maybe a bit of fear, maybe just herd Alamow on the split, they need to make sure that whatever next engagement comes isn't one that gives G2 a pick, they've sent somebody underneath.
All the compliments paid about how G2 has played the man advantage game, but now we get to see the adaptations of Fnatic's defense with the man advantage.
Yeah, for G2, still looking to try and gain way in towards that, from which they have as
that wall's being reinforced towards Mez.
But that Mez player in combination with the person in towards Art is a bit of a nasty
crossfire for Alamad to deal with, but has been able just to almost show himself and
it's made them run away.
Still, it's this player in towards Mez, that is what's going to really hinder G2 here.
So Deadshot, he can stay alive and just keep being that menace.
I think on that it would just stop G2 on their tracks.
That shell gets Shaco.
They've almost been able to level the total amount of kills they've got over the previous three rounds.
Now they have, as they put themselves to the five versus two.
There's another.
It's not really quite a flawless round, but a shield surrounded with 30 seconds and they're setting it on fire.
Still 19 of those launches, we've covered both doors for the rest of the round,
to the round but instead he's been able to slip his way out and he's going to try and find a close
fight but wizard has the distance not done yet. Fnatic they're able to find their first defense
after four on a site that they've lost twice but now do they go back to the other one that they've
lost? Lab or should they try and cycle somewhere new? Well I will say finally the top source being
defendants that took us time to get us there. And G2, lose opening pick. I think that is
a big difference. I think whenever they kind of lost Doki, who obviously is the Deimos,
bear important operator, or that mezzanine clear, you track the player on the stairs,
you need him out, easy pickings typically for the Deimos. You lose him, how do you get
through mezz? Really the only thing that they had was one, try and get the shield pushed
in, but it's difficult against the smoke. Or two, you're trying to use the Capacile,
but then you're dumping that utility you'd love to have, maybe for the site execute.
So I think it was tricky for G2 to kind of think about what they wanted to go for. Obviously
a lot of attention in towards bathroom. I just think they were hoping that Fnatic weren't
going to give them a pick as they went into bathroom hoping for the challenge, but I think
Fnatic realized in the wincon, they've got the man advantage, they've still got a lot
of plant denial, they've got the Dechanca, they've still got the smoke, you've got the
the guy who scared around. So Fanatic didn't really have to move, they didn't have to do
anything. I mean, we seen Deadshot just as happy to sit and mezzanine. No, he can control
the round and he did that. So overall for Fanatic, they're not biting into the trap
that G2 lied for them.
Curious now which one gets that final pull obviously for all the stories that we've had
Throughout this split of teams almost making it towards the points and not quite falling short and a best of three
It doesn't matter, but when we look towards that second map, maybe it does
Obviously shall I is a bit of a g2 powerhouse map fanatic
I'm gonna say they're gonna have the toughest time in the world on it
But tougher than the other three in the pool
So they kind of want to do this if they're gonna do it on the first and the third she too
If they can get this first one, if they can get these last two rounds to push them over
towards the edge and the third on the second map, it should be pretty confident.
I know Doki has almost removed his first egg, they're still going to try and drive forward
for this garnet's trick on the front.
In fact, no, it's not even Doki.
Doki is taking damage whilst we're just in the same second.
I know it is Doki, I'm not going fully crazy yet.
The Echo Drive was leading in a classic DPEC special.
That's really...
Sorry, did he hear me?
Unmuch.
Maybe.
They haven't really done much, have they?
G2.
Other than just taking towards that mid-floor, didn't get the opening pick that was maybe
in front of Dopey with that challenge that Deadshot had,
but suppose then for Fnatic, they're having up just a certain site.
They've got the Echo.
Got the Goyo.
Obviously set up inforced boiler stairs. I assume that's the kind of combination that you like to have as the echo
I'll top the stairs somebody combo that usually with shotgun
Right now for G2 a lot of utile and you've got the ing you've got the Grim. We've got your burtholes being made
It could be I mean maybe a 20 second exit here from G2 that could be what we're after
Well the execute might be stemmed and slowed slightly by some of the gadget tree still popping around put bees in the fire
Let's see if you can try and drive yourself in, it's obviously all players still standing
this late.
The longest that we have had at Doki, trying to catch them, you can see the circle that
Fnatic playing in is getting tighter and tighter and smaller and smaller, but show us that
timer in the top middle, right in as long as they've got the pressure event on their
side.
It doesn't really matter how many chairs have been removed from the circle.
Citizen finds the first, it's Doki, drops, then Citizen gets the second before Stompin
to trace them out, once further, back and forth.
They have this man advantage, so even though the kills are coming back and forth because
they have that first step, they're still leading the dance, but 10 seconds, I don't know,
Benjio still trying to get past Echo drones in towards the site itself and not enough
time.
Fanatic, they sit on that point.
Oh, Fanatic have turned it around.
Two back in their favor means that they have the advantage, six-five, so Jisoo have to
I feel as though trying to
try and take it into OT. Yeah,
I think for G two. Using the
vertical operators taken hatch
that's all standard stuff. I
feel as a G two have maybe went
wrong with that execute with the
operators that they had. I feel
as though trying to force your
way in for a boiler take
connector would be the more
logical route. You've got full
the game. They were more
focused on trying to hit every
door at the same time, like we
see them move in. Towards
toxin in through lockers. The
issue with that is if those
individual players lose their
engagements, then that take
doesn't work. You rely very
heavily on individuals winning
engagements. And also it looked
as though that a lot of G2 just
kind of left the verts that they
made. Everyone started moving
towards that bottom floor. They
all chose the door to push in
from. And he didn't have that
because well imagine imagine being a G2 fan and then I'm beating run and then
having it's the boy over the course of two days how would that feel demo
how would you feel I'm gonna put it back on you not great not great G2 that's
still only one round away puts back in towards the best of three a very
interesting statistic might just be who is going to be leading on their attack of
defense on the side of overtime because well it's been a very attack-excited map
both teams have seemed excellent on their drive-thru obviously Fanatic could
lock it up here and then well they were better on the map they're able to get an
even half but that here is a bit of a surprise
G2 they've pushed them on towards their tertiary site they've pushed them into
this position I've just got to see if they can get some netted rewards for
pushing the opponents around a bit. The shield's driving its way down the back line of the second
story. They've obviously already got the Bunk's breach open, so hasn't lost the sight itself, but
won't spend here actually doing a bit of a bit of a clear sprint. I'm sure they aren't watched as
they're going for that vertical control here. Slown steady at the moment here for G2.
try and get the wall opened in towards sight and they will do so, call the firmite over.
You can see that everyone from Fnatic is upstairs, typically you would find one player in the
bomb site. Just to stop any immediate rush and again it's the position that then the
attackers have to go for in clear. But to have a full 5 man upstairs, somebody from
G2 can find their way in, it could cause issues but then again, whenever they have opened
every possible bit of the floor. You don't have to worry about it, in goes the sense,
but headshot, look at the operator, he's on the solace. I mean, you should be able to
see that that's a blitz. I mean, it could be a nook as well, but I don't figure you're
inspecting the nook.
It's sort of the play around the game, right? You know that they're sort of rolling the
gadgets out, they're trying to get this formation of a plan. They go to the smokes to cover the
verticalities they're still just setting fire and smokes and everything it's a dump of utility
versus a dump of utility but ultimately that is going to work in the defenders favor because
well all the land that they have right now is one that needs you to just dump in if you're not
going to take the fight to them and above them there's the slip through they have the blind of
the cover there's the chance of the plant the fire is too late because it's being watched from the
verticality beautiful stomping gets a couple now they do stop the plant though there was a
I mean, what was that?
Stompin' is killed three people through the verts.
What GT were doing was obviously prepped against.
that stumping is killed free people through the verts. What GT were doing was obviously
prepped against, was one, a Goyo canister in the bunk bed, you never see that. So perfectly
prepped for the side of fanatic to play against the plant position GT want to go for which
which did work. The Goyo Caster went off because an impact was tossed out.
Toki died, but Stompens just killed three people through the verts.
That's right here, you can see the impact goes in, Toki cooked alive.
But it just comes to the one guy, I wish we would see the POV as well as Stompens.
The kills that he was able to get. He's busy.
And he's killing people. And maybe this is what has been maybe the
difference make to keep G2 in this game. It's a game which you play, mate. It's a game
which you've been playing for quite a while. I've never been set before. I would say, obviously
for G2, I don't think they've been fantastic this map. I've seen better players, but it
has been down to individuals who've kind of dragged them across. Should we get the doki
rounds. You think about that round of just being stomping, pulling off a 4k. Whereas on the side of
fanatic, you didn't really see those big curing moments that necessarily saved fanatic, the rounds
that they won were very clear cut and dry. There is obvious sort of drives around the biggest
towel in a team success, which is clutches. Clutches on either side, whether it is a player
that is clutching in the mix of everything which comes out as a three carrier 4k or whether it is
play that is clutching against all odds and in that sort of situation. Oh good bye Deadshot.
The fact that two of the rounds jumping with the 4k and Doki with the 4k have been where they're
on the back foot whereas if you look towards fanatics Wizard had a 3k and Deadshot had a 3k.
Those rounds happened where pretty much the entirety of fanatic was still alive they were
driving momentum and there's that sort of difference between when popping off is
occurring and the first person to be popped off is unfortunately one of
those players deadshot great day at the office but it comes down to how it's
measured in the final sort of innings here they lose their man you can sort of
see through the mystery and clear the air
And this is not great for fanatic, like we mentioned, if you give G2 that extra man you
could give them the opening pick.
They can do a lot of damage.
And right now for G2, they are in the perfect position.
They cut themselves in towards tables with no real issues.
They've been able to take bathroom in towards mezz as nobody's playing in that position
since they lost headshot.
And for G2, I suppose you can just play default.
like there's not much really you have to worry about outside of course the bird operators
that Smiths and D-Pect can have but knowing g2 they'll put pressure on them they'll start using
the extra man they'll kind of almost go for the kill on these defenders who can stop this plant
so i do expect you two to still try and drive in and find these picks
exactly where you said that they've been at their best before and as he goes hunting and reverse
fishing he's going to do some damage towards this chanker and most importantly it's this chanker right
It's this big crotch player in the final throws not towards the board looking for the follow-through fight
But nothing can be done as Doki prepares for a fight elsewhere
But in the meantime stomping is clearing his way across the top there goes the smoke in a foul second
Both of those storied heroes and champions delaying a plant are gone
But it means in the meantime was it a fanatic citizen
They're going to be the ones that have to try and be fanatic saving grace as they get themselves to it
Two versus one, Doki!
Leveled it up, these two.
If we're talking stories and picture books,
we're looking at one of the longest serving pairs of all time.
And they have a keen awareness,
obviously aware of each other is,
because the Daymos track, they're doing the drive,
the drive all the way across.
Doki's gonna hold the plant, which way?
Western man is the swing round,
he's gonna see if he can try and pop onto us.
The fight, but it's Doki that wins it out!
Oh, Doki!
massive one V2 was wizard. I thought Lizard had them. He is Sammy. That man right there played
a massive to give his team a chance. And it was a one V1 against two players who will see each other
for their own national team in November. And it's don't give you gets the upper hand.
A stress will run for for us and the viewers. I can imagine the stress of that round for the
players I mean all the way round right every single bit was fought for there as
I said before these two players Doki and citizen how long have they been in the
same teams against each other either side of the split and here
come on if an addict made it such a good job at trying to build themselves back
in Wizard with a bit of magic of his own. But Doki was that screaming end of it all.
I think Shaco did more of the screaming there. Oh, what a game. What a game. G2. They've
now got to the road there on match point. And, oh no. Don't know about this. We're
For now on the G2 defensive half, it's been a while since we were here, and look at the
bombsite which they've chosen.
The one bombsite which they did not defend in their first half, they've chosen it as
their overtime defensive site.
I mean, hey, sometimes you have to reset the scales, right?
Sometimes you have to sort of see where everything can come from.
At this, everything fanatic has sort of built towards everything that fanatic has tried to make come true.
The tips on towards the scales.
We have now the chance at a bit of a slip.
Waiting patiently to strike
Otherwise a bit of a quiet here. Yeah
Not really had a contest remember that was the thing about this site was
T2 would often fall back quite quickly, but an early smoke coverage and a smith's drive with the glass
It just feels like the deep breath before the plunge
opening pick could well and truly decide this round and neither side want to give
it away for that again direct that has been the name of the game on their
stretch sheet but for G2 a different approach more reserved not looking to
fight finally we see a Goya was screaming for the Goya when they're
opening half they brought it in now the Doki still with the chank of the ways
to stop this pump from happening, but does the plant happen? That's it for Fanatic.
Do they feel safe enough that they can start moving for a minute remaining?
They may very well look to the front eye of the plant. Goyo cancer will be popped though and
oh dead shot! He's tried that trick before but this time Shaiiko didn't fall for it.
Pressure on towards the breach itself there. They can try and clear their way across the top
here but otherwise it's a sort of battle for attrition. 30 seconds though and
everything that fanaticus tries to build up towards this point might filter and
fall away. There's patience and awareness and a keen sort of clear eye. The C4 over
the top there's a lot of damage towards citizen but it's actually wizard that
falls fast and stomping gets the early take. Citizen's gonna see if he's been
secure the plant he's found a little oasis amongst the fire and it's not
quite secured there of it is but not him the five versus two post plant D peck
and dead shot there the eyes and eye are of destruction and death the first is
picked they have the cross towards the second hour where are they they're
keeping themselves out of arm reach for now but the sharks are circling and
there's the first to bite that shot has to get this perfectly oh but there's so
many bodies, so many options, they peel off, they spray back, and G2! They confirm themselves
the first map in this best of three series. Oh, G2! Feels so they've aged a few hundred
years after that game, look at them, they're just relieved! That was a tough game, go out
and put up one hell of a fight. But they know they have that, they have the 5v2, just had
the flight safe. Now let's take a quick break against the mare and get back with our desk.
If that's how it's gonna be, it's gonna be done!
You're out of your hands, you're out of your hands!
Take it to action!
You're out of your hands, you're out of your hands!
Do what the heck shit!
Face!
Limit!
Camera!
Do what the heck shit!
G2 turned map 1 around and they now find themselves on map points to qualify to EWC.
They're supposed to let them map as well and they're going to be mad at themselves for the way they lost it in overtime.
Yeah, they're going to be putting their heads against the wall I think and it was all in their hands and ultimately it was all in their hands.
But I think the two things they didn't do well, they didn't manage the big moments.
We did wonder, we said strategically they won their attacks 6-0, but could they manage out the big moments?
And the answer to that was no, Doki gets a big 4k, Stomp in here, manages to run outside, run back in the building, gets a big 2k, and that wins the 2g2, uh, defense rounds.
And then, what happens is, we say, well, those fanatics play behind the utility. What will happen? Well, the first 2 kills of the building on the 7th round, the first 2 kills happen from an attacker outside of the building, and that continues into the 8th round as well, where Ben just just managed to find a lurking, doesn't have to play for any utility, and then suddenly he gets 2 kills as well.
So I think the magical bring is a concomitance of 2 points for you.
They should have been 6-0 up, and then the second point of view is they should have
start back, chilled behind their utility, forced G2 to play into them, and then if they did that
they ultimately would have become an out victor, but because of that they didn't clear up.
And this game is going to be hard to forget going into the second map because
they had it all in their hands, I felt like they had a good game plan, I felt like most of this
round they were the better teamjack, I felt like they really controlled the pace, they had the
the better strategy. Ever this again, once again, like the one you want from Doki, right?
It's the strength of coming alive with incredible players in the most critical moments and winning
that one gunfight. That they need to win absolutely to make it. And let's be honest,
like, the reality is Fnatic needed to win that game. They absolutely needed to win there
because the shali coming up is not the same. And also, just want to phrase Deadshot and
I think they made it close
But overall I think that G2 they get away with the win here
It's a deal they did get away with it and they took on a long time to wake up
I I still sound like this
I think they got their defenses all wrong every single one of them wrong until they hit round 14 when they hit round 14
What did they do instead of giving fanatic the fight instead of getting isolated they start back
They let for that second round they played the time played the time played the time hit a retake and won it more or less
flawlessly, and that's the round that got them over the line. And I think G2, as much as, yes,
Laird was concave, they'll learn a lot of lessons about how to play against Fnatic inside of those
14 rounds that they can then take into the next map. And it's fair to say that Fnatic,
ideally, would have won Shelly because it was their map pick. We'll now be moving into Shelly,
that is G2's map pick, and it's not without a reason that G2 picked this map as well.
No, absolutely not. Obviously G2 are on a three-win streak on the map, having beaten Team Secret,
Twisted mines as well, VP as well during the Sublake's major, it's a great map for them.
On the other end, Fnatic, it's looking pretty dire out there because they played it twice
and they lost it to Team Secret and even worse, lost it 7-2-2 Rebels.
So just looking at the track record here, they're going into enemy territory quite clearly,
due to dominating here.
It's always been a bogie map for them in terms of a map that feels like fundamentally,
I know you don't know at that time, like Fnatic's here in a second Leo, a bogie map.
Yeah, like a map that they kind of could be good or not should be good on but they can just never find a win from fanatic
And that's a map that they end up on with shall I is like yes, but now got shield player. Yes, they're going a little bit more direct
I'm not fundamentally thinking they should be terrible at this one
But I am thinking that actually G2 will be better than them on shall I well it seems to be the ideal situation for G2
To grab their ticket and qualify to EWC. So this is your last chance. What can you show us?
I think even the first map hadn't gone their way. It's probably still be how the prediction
would be, would you agree, Danoo? That extra 6% sellouts. What are you backing them from
the start, eh? What's that all about? Only support them when they're won, Nella. Oh,
As if N.A. is.
Yeah, I think the Jor- I think it's August this year.
Hey, crazy.
Time flies when you're doing certain things.
Enjoying yourself.
Plus when you're having fun.
Being pursued by bears.
That is really quick.
Um, some space into you.
Uh, all of these things are pretty good, but never bears from outer space.
Uh, no one's interested in those stories.
Instead we're here for Rainbow Six Beach.
Um, and we're here with GCN Fanatic.
Fanatic, here we go.
One map.
One map is there, hope, to get back onto the map and play out that's our best of three's
work. Um, got everything to play for now. The last map was very exciting. They were
going to sort of make things seem easy to turn into more of a question of momentum.
Right. So what's the point of that was, uh, but it looked fun. Uh, I think my mental
obviously plays a big part in it. Uh, obviously G2 got it just over the board. I mean, it
It was a stretch to look for G2 as well. Also, if we're G2, the town won't forget about it.
Because it wasn't their greatest, Earth Sage, it wasn't their finest moment.
We look at Shalai, we had a little discussion. It's not been great for Fnatic, you know, this map.
And now the desk has talked about it, you kind of look at the last time they played it.
A loss to Rebels, you know, and you think Rebels, not a top-top side that we obviously have in the league.
And Fnatic struggled against them, a 7-2 loss.
So, for Fnatic, they need to go pretty big here against the G2 side, which would be pretty comfortable in this map, last time they played it, they won it.
So, G2, start on the defense, Fnatic, have to try and get the grips of their attack, which should be their favourite side on Shelly.
I'm curious how this first engagement is going to go.
Filtering itself, obviously, across the possibilities, well, there's a quick answer.
Alamow finds Wizard, the better performing player from Fnatic caught by the worst.
player in the entire lobby last time Alamow could not get his sort of ducks in a row
and there at this point being able to remember who he was from the season could be something that
really changes the MO
there we go fanatic after trying to force that shield in towards that top floor but
G2 are standing strong, getting way in here that it's as of yet that teach citizen he just opened it somebody sticks his hand out but all timing.
It's a nightmare for D-Pack, Alamo, beats at the perfect time, Shaco finds the shield and this looks to be a false start here from Fnatic.
well as best as you say a false start but you know what what else can you
really sort of put it together they do find one and they find themselves
back out the door almost the second but the citizens out from the end of that
and now look at the gun and there's the trade out a false start is as best to
put it you worry is this just g2 sort of three a third in the pace I said before
halfway through they realized they could put wheels on the car maybe now they've
the engine. Looking good. G two
already. Opening rounds, not
much to really worry about from
G two's perspective. Everyone
holding their ground. I think
maybe for that bomb site. Uh
you're probably lacking more
utility. I think from fanatic
wherever we see that bar and
games be played out. Especially
the operators like your yings up there, your capitals. Operators who could make defenders move.
And outside of Alamo and his gates, there was no other denial that you really had for the
Util on the side of G2. So they certainly could have went with the heavy Util up upstairs.
You look at the lineup, you've got a twitch, you've got a solid snake, you even got a Deimos.
You know, operators which are better at hunting roamers, better at killing. You think about
I think the two F2s fantastic in those engagements, but whenever G2's just sat holding crossfires using utility that have around them
It don't really have to move
G2
Off to a strong start and some manners
Didn't really have to move
Got themselves locked in and help things at bay and that's the worry when you're approaching your attack on towards shally
is if you're not moving with the pace, if you're not moving with the energy that it demands of you, well, then
it demands, and they can be
quick, spiteful, and aggressive, watching towards windows and doors.
Yeah, there's a lot of pressure. The compliments we paid towards Fnatic on their start last time round was the pace applied.
They're sort of wrecked and dedicated focus on tearing apart the enemy's defense.
Seems to be something that is otherwise flipping its way back and forth.
There's drones on an alloy that can't be forced out with grenades.
How far will you go? All the way, but that's again just utility to buy a temporary reprieve.
Look at bomb.
The coverage shiker gets one, and you get one right back.
Stomp in.
Gets dropped, and really...
Oh, there is actually somebody not too far away.
Maybe it isn't entirely lost here as Benjamaster comes in to save the day and they try and
finish him off with a Twitch drone.
It's actually going to leave a round up now.
Hit it underneath for the grenade.
It's more than enough and that still leaves a four versus two.
Well that night came in pretty clutched there for, for stoppings that could have been a
simulation ritual I get killed by the first round but there we are still down man
smoke as well doesn't help drops down I mean diffuser is in a nasty spot too
we'll be given fanatic a way back into this round that should be locked up
here from G2 three versus two both players having a fan double up the box
He's just there at the perfect time.
And D-Pack, exactly where he is, all by himself now with that DMR in hand, while he can do
a certain outfit.
Some people give him some pics as long as G2 can sit in their hands and don't move.
It'd be an easy round for him.
It's the sort of similar things that you said towards the end of the last round, right?
As you find yourself in this position on this map and at what point do you lose in attacking
around on a chalet. You're often still outside the map quite late on. It's not a long map
to get from outside to inside the site. You can do the transition quite quickly in a lot
of places. Here having to rebuild from the back half of the map in its entirety and clear
your way across. Yeah. It's going to sort of be the way it goes. It's in a row here
for G2, but what is expected loss? What is that fallible loss?
I think for Raphomatic, you've lost your wing comb right from the get-go.
You lost missing the shield.
Now Blackbeard is crucial for that top floor attack, because he's the only operator who's
going to be able to get themselves in towards Piano safely and take that part of the map.
Piano as we know can be a nightmare to push because there's about three different crossfires
that you can set up from a defensive perspective, which makes it really difficult for attackers
to get into that room.
But if you have the shield, you can do that very easily.
If you lose that shield, I would say in quite a cheap way as well.
Like, stomping just that on blue stairs kills them.
I think there's maybe a little bit of chasing the game almost different from Fnatic, knowing
that they're one lap down.
And maybe Smith's thinking, oh, I'm going to move in here, get the opening pick.
You know, I hear there's an L in the stairs.
I'll challenge that L.
Fnatic needed to cool things down.
And I think that Fnatic have clocked that, the coaching staff has clocked it, 2-0 down
and they've used the timeout immediately, they know things aren't right, and things
aren't right.
It just, it's been very seldom for Fnatic, and G2 haven't had to do much, which I think
is a scary thing.
If you're not even pushing G2 to the limits of what you're doing on Lyre, this can go
downhill very quickly.
You two haven't really gotten out of second gear yet, have you?
At this, an early time-out could herald the start of a collapse.
It becomes that conversation. Now, last time they had their time-out on the previous map, it didn't really do any success.
They're gonna need to build themselves towards the end of the game, at least got to a T, so maybe they have a bit more time to cook this time round, but otherwise it's just sort of steady on.
And the fact that you obviously got, well across what, two rounds, three kills?
It's the worry of just a year of the sort of concern of the four barrows and the foundations that were constructive.
it before. On the first map, fine, we have a couple of players going big, Doki's getting
some clotches, you're missing out on Alamow and a good of Shoko, and here they are. And
well, there is still him, Doki, outside the window. Sort of sets the table. Yeah, same
old issues for Fnatic. Here's the opening pick. There's not been a great start for
G2, again, haven't really had to do much to get it as well, Wizards going free. Not a good start for him at all.
Yeah, for Fnatic, just who's gonna step up now? There's another one gone.
Hedgehog led the charge, he led the line and the game in gets there.
He's not really having the same vibes here from Fnatic and Shallow, who's stepping up to the mark?
unfortunately demo nobody an early sort of exit on towards that round as well
whether the team took was to pay a bit more caution whether it was to sort of
slow the pace down we'll see if the progression is something that is
alleviated by the split of either these bands or maybe even the split of the
itself from a very attack-asided opening map to three defences in a row G2 more
worrying than anything it's a cruise control G2 I think it's fair to say
their pace is very chill
that time I did really at the time it makes things worse it looked like it
did because I was from the easiest one that they've had yeah oh dear could be a
A very quick second map here, the way that G2 are just flowing.
Fanatic. Pressures on you, you need to make the move. You are on the attacks here.
And you look at the line up. Again, what has really changed for me? It just seems like the same approach.
You have a shield, you have some information operators and that's it. I mean, you don't even have the solid snake now, it's been banned off you.
to look like there's any immediate change in the line-up what what is the game plan here for fanatic
I mean it has to be something radically different I did almost has to be the revival of the band
from the first map and remember how well they sort of approached it yeah it's a different sort of
approach the worry is on shall I you might get you can't go right this map really it's you have to
do a lot of different things for it if it plays a massive part in this map.
Yeah, it's just, they're caution on their approach and the fact that they have to go
for these wits and they can't just drive themselves direct to sight and then in the
safety is something that I think is keeping them outside the building even more.
There's a fear that gets put under you and we always knew it was going to be ice skating uphill
on this map for them but you just don't really want them to forget what they're capable of,
What got them to this point because it was pointed out before the series even began the growth that this team and roster and all has had
so massive
from
bottom of the board to
Contesting to almost taking a map off of the unbeaten G2 during the league itself
Do they go out here or not? You just wanted to go out on their own terms in a manner
First time in the mid playoffs, that has not happened before, headshot. Finally, bit of
success here for Fanatic. They got the opening pick in this round. Now can they capitalise
on that and they keep it moving? I mean look at the side here from G2, only one player remains
upstairs and that's going to be stomping. You get Shifle played on the stairs and that's
really excellent pressure from the player into a slot fireplace to make this happen
and I do fear as though the shield is gonna visit him momentarily.
Smith is gonna get himself set up in a position.
Just have to be careful of course the blue stairs that is the danger spot right now.
Good of course, native off and then maybe try and make the push but
still for Stomp and he's by himself and now he feels as though the jaws are
grasping around a water runner there from Doki and Benjy replies with a C4
onto dead shot. You blink and you miss it. G2 in the lead.
Oh dear, now what are you trying to do together, they're able to find the head of Sheik over
there.
It's not like G2's started just fucking things at the approaching attackers.
Things have leveled off just a bit and with that there's no C4's left in pocket as well,
they probably wished they'd held onto at least one of those, but there's also two day more
strikes to play on the verticality, a single grenade to force out anyone on the supply
line back.
You stay attentive, catching the heads. What were you doing there stomping up through the
verticality trying to find a kill on the hatch itself?
D-Pek gets doki. This round!
Flipped one way, blown the other.
Now, Benja in a 1 vs 3 whilst being tracked.
God, I mean, the Dover played their hand a bit here.
D-Pek locks it in. Fanatic! Have a lifeline.
that. Yeah, it seemed a bit
G through the want the just to
fall back into the bomb site,
but then they kind of realized
there's maybe too many of us in
this bomb site and there's not
enough safe positions to sit in
and then they start getting
picked off from the open hatches.
And yes, it was, I think fanatic
in that free V three make it the
free V two because I think that's
stop and I think he died to the
hatch that Smith was on. Once
that happens, then fanatic and
out because there ain't too many strong positions you can really set. In that sight, if you see two players die from Fnatic in very quick back to back fashion, Fnatic, well, something to blow at, got one round back, G2 would still say they'll be feeling confident as you can just do the same rotation again, bar didn't work, but look where they go, straight in towards that top floor.
the game. Exactly. They have
the sort of stretch, right?
They have the ability to keep
themselves moving, keep themselves
going. Now, it's not that
they're incapable of
responding. To be fair, when you
hit towards the previous map and
the time out for an addict took,
it actually only really started
to cook when they went back to
sites, when they went back to
the top floor and then they're
able to get themselves in
towards OT with the defences.
So maybe maybe they're sort of
Well, we'll go back here and when we do, let's do this. We'll go back here. I mean, it's just so obviously to break down the answer, but they do have a good active response for things that have otherwise already gone away from them.
Let's see. Direct click communication, but...
What's kind of missing here from the guns of fanatic is...
Well, the guns of fanatic.
Deepak and Citizen looking at themselves as a few bodies of peace and...
Missing...
I was gonna say, Missing Wesson, but...
Unfortunately, that is holstered and put to bed as he is. No blackbeard, no dokebeat, no wizards, no magic.
Is there anybody in the building? I don't think so.
He hops. All mine goes off. Take me where he is, but he too.
You know they have the numbers game, they can just heal back.
These traps are some nightmare.
The fanatic trying to find these kills back and ditch.
I just don't see him know where he is.
And we've been here before
Fanatic in the 2v4
It wasn't the same two players as well last time we were on this top floor, and I don't know it could have been
They just have to hope that they can
Find some kills back Shaco
He's right besides citizen. He's holding on to that a little bit gap in towards the top fireplace there
Stammer track goes off so isn't he's gonna get strong it was off again still check
This was a challenge.
Holy get-tunny-way.
He wanted a fair fight.
It's like he wants to be an equal machinery.
He doesn't want to...
He doesn't need the gadgetry.
There's a gun game.
4-1.
The fanatic resurgence has quickly been...
sort of patted on the head and put back down.
One more round in the half, one more chance for them to get themselves just a little bit
extra hope because the worry is obviously on the split side of it, you suddenly find
yourself having to defend against a G2 approach on Chalet.
You know, you're looking towards the grand scheme of how teams have played and where
they've sort of been stronger. G2 is the second best attacking team in the league.
And you look towards maps and how they're sort of playing things, shall we?
Actually, one of the lowest attacking success rates for the league itself. It's had a bit of a
defensive upswing, but they only have to potentially make it land once. That's the problem, right? They
just need across all of the half a singular sort of chance to guarantee themselves 18, and then
And then they can double it down on that map, on that site.
And I don't need this round to really keep them in this fixture.
The 5-1 effort went back from against G2 on the attacks.
That is not favourable.
Really important that they can walk away.
At least a 4-2, then maybe it's doable, but...
So I think G2 got all the cards in their hands that they can put up by.
Uh, Benjo just... okay.
You okay?
They get tossed to a window and each stands there.
It happens. It happens to the best of us.
Sometimes you keyboard disconnects.
Stomper gets miss, levels things back up, there's no more sledge.
And there's limitation and that's off the structure of clearance.
Across the top on what can be, pretty vertical attack and in some ways a vertical hold.
stomping in the meantime. Something to explore underneath.
He'll be trying to move his way up, but as long as he's there, he can apply pressure
from somewhere upstairs. He can sort of swing on towards the fireplace. It's actually hoping
somebody maybe dabbles down, goes for a rotate, but well, nobody is.
Instead, they're just drifting their way across. There's somebody bottom blue as well. They've
got themselves ready for a bit of a pinch here. How aware are they? Seemingly quite,
citizen getting a great take on towards Shaco. Do they expect seconds? There's the... well,
it doesn't matter if they expect it. It's jumping. Gonna get their way out. You can see citizens
obviously reading all of this towards the team and now they know that they could potentially
just drive themselves on. But a minute 20, we're gonna try and formulate next.
He's in a very bad position right beside the windows citizen.
Does he know?
That's enough is all he does and maybe you can find a pick in the deep pack.
There's a nowhere in this DMR.
Table to take him down
Doki is on
Lever of HP
It's a 2v3 and really you look forward stomp in the trying salvage this round for G2
Well, they say it would make magic happen before but fortunately that's not the correct spell
Doki
One HP three players 30 seconds
There's a great gun to do it on, but you think about the fact that there's still obviously two grenades, two smokes, and oh they've got TMRs there, right?
Yeah, and all this one pieced together. He's making sure he can keep an eye on any of the potential drops and half his back towards something.
I mean he had to hit everything perfectly there he couldn't and that does give them at least a little bit of ground, a bit of land to stand on and float, but you and I were floating over to the studio.
It is at least something for Fnatic here on that first half, but for G2 so far they took a page out of what happened to them yesterday and learned from their losses and used it against Fnatic this time around.
It's a mix of utility usage to try and lay their defense and a mix of their aggression going unpunished in general. I feel like it's a mix of on the one side we have Fnatic being used to, I guess, clearing them, going direct on there, being able to go through and spearhead their way into the bomb site.
Here's the problem, Jack. Today, they cannot get themselves in the building.
They cannot problem solve the most basic strong position on Shelly.
And that's exactly what was happening on that, right?
Like, G2 were extending all over the place.
They weren't really playing around G utility.
And that's when they were going down, right?
Tripling up, quadrupling up, were finding success.
You get over to G2 on Shelly, and suddenly it's a compact G2.
Suddenly it's a G2 that doesn't really want to be roaming too much,
but playing very, very close together.
Other than the final round where they were out on a bit of a risky roam.
I'm going to quiz you, Lia.
How many rounds of Fenrir was played by G2?
I would say six.
Six.
How many rounds of Aruni was played by G2?
Six, DMR.
Five.
How many rounds of Ella was played?
Five.
Four.
Close.
But those types of operators are basically what G2 would bring in and then just sit in
behind, allowing fanatics to just waste their time and just wiggle, wobble, dilly-dabble,
like just try and clear all that utility and then hit this.
Gobi doobie bee dee baba, I can do it too.
Just come up with random words.
Gobi Google dabble.
That's exactly what Plessy were doing when they were trying to clear the utility,
and then they were running out of time in G2 with Caps Lazen and just shutting them down
when they had to walk hallways and dollways.
And you know what's scary, Anne, here it's in this position.
G2, they go back to their strong side, the attacks once again.
What makes them so strong is their ability to go and problem-solve things in front of them.
I think on a map where Shelly is much smaller, it will be a problem for them,
actually will serve their speed takes much better.
It's so easy. It's a map where you need to play in multiple positions.
Just think of the library takes, for example.
If someone can't hide, you need someone on Snow balcony,
you need two players on library side, and maybe someone going to the games.
You need to play split on that map.
It feels naturally the playstyle of YouTube.
That's the thing. There's always...
The whole idea of playing split is what you want to do is you want to surround.
When you're on the attack, you want to surround the defenders,
and you force a five versus four or less,
because eventually when you trade each other out, you'll take the ground,
you'll do it a fast pace of time,
And if you look, you'll have a big amount of damage at the same.
Shelly fits itself so well to that, because you can just cut off the map entirely from one direction.
And look at those bands on the side of G2. They banned the Azami, so no strong positions,
and they banned the Aruni. They're best DMR in the game right now, especially important for all
of these long line of sights when you're trying to hold the top floor.
And Aruni can of course close off free entryways in society. You know, think about, for example,
the top floor, you've got the solar windows, you've got the bathroom window, you've got the
double window, you've got the office balcony, you've got the piano door, you've got the piano
window. Aruni can close three of those off, so that's a great one from G2.
So it seems they don't want to fall for the same mistakes as what happened yesterday.
G2 are potentially three rounds away from qualification to EWC Panet.
This really is your last chance.
And what are they serving in last chance Saloon Double?
No, tough round with defense here on the chalet.
What we need to get from dead shots missing the wizard, I think, is a bit of those sort of bodies put down
and they can carry in the meantime.
G2, that first map was teething issues. The second map seems to be they remember they
have a bark and a bite.
Fnatic, this is it. This is going to have to be a lot of heck of a half. Same way that
we kind of said that G2, they have an uphill struggle on layer. I think Fnatic are very
much in a similar boat. They have to try and battle back. I mean I think the G2 and their
attacks, they look really good on that. You know that kind of split theory comes into play,
where they're always looking for gaps, banjafan a few of them. They use that extra man so well,
so he's gonna try and stop that opening pick from happening, don't give away. I think I killed
so early on in the round. I think if you lose, you can kill. If you're outside,
The next few are fine, or maybe win the first minute, but losing it straight away within the first three seconds is not great.
They're in, they've funded.
Yeah, I want to interrupt you, they wanted to interrupt you instead.
Detrubbers find the first body, but it's the first of five.
It's the sort of gap through here, the fact that it was a all ten players standing, G2 saw an opportunity and went for it.
there's two but there's 22 seconds left on the block they still need to try and
drive towards the site and stomping as the coverage because that's the problem
on this retake you have to get outside the building citizen get your kill on
the other side deadshot gets the most important one and that leaves John
Alamow oh can he get this shot can he get the angle he's trying to clear his way
through and pre-firing he can't quite find it and they find the diffuse well
Well that's the way to start.
Wow. The Denari trap.
There's a maybe, there's a possibility that Alamo could have won that if he wasn't slowed.
Cause he had the raid, they had no idea he was there.
But he just took so long to get set up to go for the wall bang.
Fnatic just about get there. G2 have attempted the first round rush which...
It was successful in terms of getting the flat down, but I'll lose the round.
Fanatic, I've reacted well to that.
So that's the bar, picked off, and I'll move in towards that top floor.
It's a way for things to begin.
Now, I'm not gonna say it's a good way for things to begin,
but hey, some stories start with a little bit of a sordid tale
and find themselves to a nice bit of success towards the end that a plant going down and
everybody's still playing there is sort of a real me-day-day closure that comes across the airwaves.
They land it, that's the important part of it. They were able to win their ones with their
engagement to fight out. Obviously the fact that G2 weren't quite able to get those comparisons,
one of those engagements goes away, maybe we're looking at a fight. But it didn't, and that's
the fact is the story can start in the manner that it means to continue here
fanatic they could try in level things up very quickly indeed that first round
almost a blip and a sort of energy find it limits the size that you can pick but
suddenly you've gone from half time to a three versus four within about 40 seconds
okay we'll take that
control the role in a ventell you can see duty love to play their sort of
probing probing game
How aware are they of these engagements? There was often quite a lot of external that happened in GT's fights
Phenatic there, maybe wanting to do the same thing. He sort of said look I know you know that I'm here
This they get themselves a stretch pressure until a fanatic starts full-bodied back demo
I like this G2, hard aim, one of the big wing coms of a player inside a closet, dpegs and
nasty shot in the gokey but the wall's still opened up, he's still gonna just remain where
he is.
Now for G2 it's getting somebody who's rotating and trying to play with those openings.
But for Fnatic once again, he's gonna sit in their hands, I mean a few of them are pinching
very difficult positions but for G2 they're really struggling and he's trying his best
about but not moving at all. Deadshot just
remains where he is. Look at his HP as well.
Single one of those bullets landed and he beats
and Stomp and finds them. Minute or so remaining.
There's a messy round here from G2. The D-Pect goes down.
That's the player that they needed to find. Citizen, a great shot.
Takes down the big window player and look at that.
Rotates. Citizen realizes that nobody can stop me now
from rotating around the bomb site and he does just that
into closet the danger position. They're gonna try and root him out from underneath and rip stem.
Instead the player they've got is on the other side of the map right now. 40 seconds and they
still try and just punch upwards, build themselves back and towards the site itself, another track,
another bit of motion, but as you said they're not really scared about moving in the site right now
because they know with another game, the players that they've cleared there's nobody to immediately
brush them off. The closet's the power position and they're knocking on the door a bit.
Ooh, but this slipped by, it's gonna be a narrow engagement, it's gonna be a game of
inches and all the one who could just find the difference is actually fanatic!
They've tied things up!
Oh, Smith's needed to make that short happen and he did so.
A citizen was hold on the closet was not aware that Dokeby was right beside him that close.
and just miss. Almost saved by the bookshelf wasn't it as well, couldn't get shot in the back.
But fanatic. I think they've adapted really well with what was happening in that round.
They've seen what G2 were attempting. G2 looking to play into it back from window,
shot from deep end, fantastic. And it's the shot this citizen hits. There was a way that he was
then able to retake. It was another problem that G2 had to solve. They had to use the
They have to solve that
But they still help help their brand they were winning their engagements and we're all square
We got a game on demo we got a game on obviously this is in some ways across the best of three series the biggest
The third one is this map, this chalet.
We sort of called it as soon as we got to the fan phase,
that this is a place that they've been so solid in.
G2, they know how to play chalet,
they love sort of getting themselves set up on it.
They've got the recent four in a record.
Oh no, sorry, three in a record,
including secret VP, Trist of Mines.
In the meantime, Fanatec struggles, lost to Rebels.
only going two rounds four weeks ago here obviously already doubles that
performance against a GT that's fired up then we have a lift towards cafe there's
our potential decider a map that both have these big troubles on so maybe at the
intensity of that first map the dream of fanatic going into national and doing it
but the cost of G2 is too far away, but that's not how you reach the stars.
Yep, Doki gets his own back against D-Pack, exact same engagement as it was last time, but Doki wins it out.
He does still go down, Benj is able to keep that advantage in G2's hands.
G2 has still got a lot of information they can apply, but Doki and you've got that demo super star.
fire out these pings, I'm going to switch straight in through the try and get the upper hand against
that shot and he does so. G2, they have slight control. Smith and Citizen going to be stopped
by the player in big window. Yeah, Smith, as I see your flames right in front of you,
that's the try and contend. Gets that rappel. At least we G2 finally broke that deadlock
and they got their first attack on the board. G2 back in the lead.
And no time like the present right obviously if that had slipped away and they'd suffered three in a row especially in the manner
that they weren't
You would probably have you know called the timeout called the worry called the conversation there and to set before
Before we once show when you they only had to make it land at one side
Technically they would prefer to sort of drive this one all the way to bed and they're very capable of doing it
Now, no Deimos, no Ella, that's the other removal.
attack. Yeah, I think it's for G2, it's again, whenever they can see that gap, and Alamo
is fantastic at it, yeah. As soon as they know that somebody's out of position, or if
they see that nobody's in a position, they will take that, and they will all break their
backs to play around that call Alamo has. You know, and I'm sure, well, one thing that
Leo and Jack get, they can hear the team comes, you know, we only hear the little
end bits. I'm sure if I ask them, you know, is everyone listening to Alamow and calling off that,
and it's all working well for them.
This with the eleban. There's the chance that those drives are a little bit slowed down.
It's pretty clean route in towards the heart of the site itself.
probably not going to get away with the safe plant fraught they did before but
ooh do they know that's wizard it is just hiding towards red this could be a
very very surprise opening here for Q2 it is good by Benja and a bit of a
it. I'll be around for a while right now.
Avenger, off the board. Madic.
Start for them. Very early on.
P2, between the library is on the menu for them.
Got Shaco outside the library.
Get the drones working done.
Of course having the airjobs can stop the retake.
that does occur from time to time whenever you go for the library started take
All players from the defense will try and wrote up the staircase to challenge you in the air jam
Just gonna give them that extra bit of support
Again in as we know can be pretty difficult as
Made issue again into libraries both the windows can be held very easily from below one from the hands and the other
Convertals that can be made inside of connector
I think it comes down to see how much grand they can take and again it comes down to the
calling I'm sure for Maladon.
He's currently downstairs in the basement.
I believe he opened up the connector wall just to put a little bit of pressure on to
players in the site and removes the one safe room that you can sit in.
Still for G2, I think that they need to find the picks here to try and open up the bombsite
little bit more. Just struggled with the rope there. They're going to put the pressure
here across the top and start on the bottom as well. Instead, they can get one more body.
They can try and balance things up. The binari is not quite falling for that. Just yet, instead,
actually, Shiko is going to go for the core. Now, it's the same thing that we talked about
for the man advantage and how it sort of plays into you with this.
As soon as you're trying to then get in the building, they can just double up on these
dangerous door and window angles so cleanly.
Halimao is hoping he can catch us all this, but again, there's always the threat of the
multiple avenues that you can get caught on and they don't need to swing.
Twenty seconds, they still have the foundations of the site itself, just gets one.
I'm just trying to find one, but he won't!
Instead, we find the word flawless showing up on our screen.
Probably a time out.
Hmm...
See if they want to go for it for G2, because this half hasn't been great, and I suppose that...
It did win that round before the round that we just seem to be played out, so...
I'm curious if they go for it in the R.
So I think for Amalio, he doesn't want to let it be, again, an infanatic favour where they go 6-5 up.
He wants to try and stop it at the 5-5.
Um...
I think for G2, it kind of comes down to fanatic playing very passive. Fanatic not wanting to
get into the early gunfights with G2, they're happy enough to sit behind their U-Till. And
sometimes I think that for G2, they love playing for those early engagements because they can
find those early picks and then that creates the gaps and the opportunity spliting that
G2 like to play around. So for Fnatic, I think they're adapting very well. They're not allowing
G2 to have kind of run of the fields, let them pick up kills here, there and everywhere.
Maybe sure you'll get some trades, it'll go into the 3v3s, but that's where G2 want you
to be. G2 don't want to play the siege where it's a 5v5. They find that very difficult.
I think it's, is it something that they thought of entirely
in the game because we complimented their play in terms of when they have the man advantage?
Yeah, but do you think that sort of style of play, would you describe that as a style
of play in terms of when they don't have a man advantage, everything falls apart?
No, because I think they've shown that they've got players who can clutch, which I think
is the measure of a great team, which they two are.
But I think a lot of sides will obviously struggle if you don't get the open engagement.
But I feel for GT, I think they're a side which just thrives in chaos.
I think they're a team which lacks it with some early engagement.
Sure, they might lose some, but I think they're always hunting for those picks.
They always want to play from that man advantage.
Even 2v3s, I think they can work with it.
I think it's more if it's a full 5v5 and there's so much util that they have to go through.
I think they can sometimes find it difficult.
Mostly because I think, naturally, if you look at their team, all of their players from kind of whenever they joined professional play or they first started off, all of them are kill-minded players.
Well, there's two kills that immediately come to mind. Doki for Smith.
The point of the IQ is obviously pulled apart, but at the cost of a warm-up, you're only
really going to get stronger as the round continues, you're looking at a decent selection
of pressure on it.
Obviously, the Grimby's, the chance of flashes, the drive round, but otherwise, this point's
going to turn into something where there's really any chance of mobility towards those
citizens down, how aware they'll be, and whether the play will get back up, I guess, as a
for tell obviously it's around the side of ivy they're going to use in this bait
they've gone fishing for the bodies that might try and cross the windows and well
there's the call actually finishing with that why not
great demonstration of the new ability there's definitely no chance
to stop that being stopped yep dead shot takes a lot of damage though
a few shots will finish them off slowly trying to worm their way into these
tricky positions, you look at where Wizard is, and we're towards Solar Stairs, and deep
back in the closet once more is a big nightmare for them and Ted shot for the C4. Stomping
all by himself with time out is not going to work. It looks like for G2 unless Stomping
can pull up a bit of magic, which you always can. We know the talent this guy has since
joined this side, moves into piano.
Replayers to find, novel swing, no chance for that, fanatic.
Given Stompin' no outs whatsoever.
Fanatic, once more, just like Laird, they have matchpoint.
That's kind of a main worry, though, isn't it, right?
You look towards the history of the day,
and you're like, oh, just like Laird, they had the matchpoint.
Obviously, when these two went against each other before,
fanatically cut themselves close,
but they weren't the ones that held match point.
It got into our teams, actually, them who clawed it back.
No!
Come on, boys!
Come on!
Neither of these teams are unfamiliar.
With the elongation of a game,
they're happy to sort of tread the boards all the way.
And you and I actually, we sort of commented on the time.
We had one of the longest play days the other day.
We got pretty much every single possible round in total.
I think we got every regulation round
possible across all of the games that we covered.
It seems like that sort of cursed.
Whatever monkeys for wish that you and I have
to watch more seed, it's still going.
So it's got really good effects on Monkey Paw.
What was the benefit for life?
Oh, my gosh.
Are we gonna be the new team as well they had six months yesterday, so you do have to cut down a bit of slump
They did have six minutes yesterday. That's true
Well, they maybe have three and we'll maybe have three it really depends on G2. Yeah, this round G2
The map that we all thought they should win G2 the map that you all thought they should win a present of you
lead so and G2
The team that went unbeaten until potential playoffs
There's a chance of wrapping this up in two, and that would have been a minus way to start this DPEC.
Batters bruised, bullied backwards, but most importantly, it's a fill in the round.
Oh, and also not caught if they slipped away on past, even with the E1D.
You realise, well, the walls are getting smaller, so we might as well try and escape.
The floor is in everything, the flatch just rounds on towards the close corners position,
position and trying to cover the Wamai. It's nice it's not quite able to stop any of this breaching
happen they cut the way across now this was the site where they made it happen and land quite
cleanly before it seems like fanatic. I've changed some of their defensive tactics here.
It's working as the blind comes out. Smith gets the kill and I'm upstairs it definitely is working.
Benchie does trade one on towards back now it's Deepak. Still alive, still trying to find a
position as the fire doesn't quite get the full catch and you see what he what
do you do slight issue I think for DPEC always has to pick up a phone now
based on his HP so if he lets it go he'll die to the flames so that is a
big advantage over the G2 it just depends if they get the call on him or not
Boss G will slug Benjo with one round into his chest.
He's still alive, they now know the position at the vigils in.
So for G2, they want to go about things.
They would just drag from the site,
maybe looking the job in towards Westy,
Peck goes down to Shai, could just swings and wins it.
And it remaining G2 in the lead.
But we've seen this turn on a dime many times.
we've seen this struggle to get themselves pushed over the line and with 40 seconds
still on the attack they're having to go recollect the kit.
Oh, that's not how they want to do that.
They could protect it but it's well watched and well sort of sought out.
Beautiful removal of one. Shaco finishes the other.
The three versus two versus two
He rocks the crash release of their way on through now though 17 seconds and I'm gonna say they're scrambling
They've gone to get the kit but remember where the site is they've got to watch this over two stories
There's two one versus one step start in the west main position gets to down to the man with the kit in here
We have fanatic
bouncing clawing and biting back not done yet demo
This series is going to be hard linked to all three maps
Yeah, half way, up next for that, it's just about holding on G2 faltering on Chalet.
Where do we go from here?
To a break.
I
and now it comes down to eventually a best of one to qualify a team to esports world cup.
Both these teams winning out their opponents map pick I mean I'm impressed by Federer that
was great stuff.
Once again, Fnatic is proving me wrong, and I think that's becoming a pattern, and I will
recognize it. I think I didn't believe in them when they switched to defense. The reason for this,
they looked so frozen when they were back. G2 were dominating, they were getting aggressive,
they were getting the picks. The basic things that, the fundamentals that Fnatic was doing right
on there did not appear on the attack, and I was wondering, when they're going to switch to defense
on a map that were you boxed in, where you're framed, where it's easy for you to get swung
by many different angles, but that panic mode would be triggered instead of Fnatic, instead
they were invigorated, Jack. I expected craziness going out of G2, and we saw it actually. We saw it
in the very first round of the second half when they went for fun, and it was 5 vs 5,
and it was supposed to be fun, and Fnatic regrouped, and then they managed to find a way to win.
And I think from there it was a very, very spirited performance, it was defiant, they were
resilient, they were just fine in a way to claw the rounds back. There was a couple of
individual moments where you see an individual just pop up with a big kill and that shot ended up
seeing out around with a big double kill as well and they just found a way to get it done and get
it done they did. The most important thing you're noticing on this is a pattern how many 2v3 is
about 3v3 yeah and 2v2 have Natic won in that game yeah how many so many rounds they win are very
very close one or two gunfights one go one way and it's the complete opposite and G2 would be
already qualified to EWC there is a thing that Natic has right now that he didn't have before
you know, it's a really good
project. Yeah, but you think
to close the most critical
rounds and that comes with
experience. It comes with
having guys on the roster that
have been there and done it.
Look at the top three on the
side of fanatic back. Deep
back. Who's one of major
that is in his play that I
mean, the gazillion events
that's you know, being across
the world played in North
America. A dead shot who was
part of that wolves roster that
went to a lot of events in from
me and now as well. Those guys
when they're in the big
moments, that's what you need.
You need cool calm voices and
collected heads to make those
now that best of one that we essentially go to is not just any map it is cafe it is a map that these two played on against each
Other during group stage and because both these teams having the same round differential
It had to come down to a coin toss of who starts what side and G2. Yeah
So we've got a nice new rule basically in play this year
Which is that previously it would have been just a coin toss for who chooses the start side in the best of free in the
Decider now it's based on round difference. We're where the teams are tied as is you two and finacic
They both won their opponent's map picked by a round differential of two.
It goes to a coin flip.
And as a result of that coin flip, G2 will be starting on the attack.
Now, if you're at home and you've been playing ranked,
even thinking, oh, cafe is so defender-sided, it's absolutely crazy.
G2 have got a disadvantage? No, they don't.
Because when these two teams played inside of the regular stage,
they played at the cafe and they went to overtime.
They went all 15 rounds.
And actually, it was reasonably attack-favorite.
Both teams got a free-free attack half in regulation.
And then every round in overtime was won by the attacking team.
Well, all the G2 fans are so happy to hear that, but let's also make it a realistic pulling ride
with the event qualification on the line. There is so much pressure on G2.
I mean, just picture this world with me. This world where G2, who have Roku to Benja, Roku to Chayko,
they've had a great full-leg city major, they've dominated the entire stage,
and then they've pulled to Falcons, pulled to Fnatic and missed CWC. Fnatic goes to EWC instead
Just think of that story.
Shaiko misses the WC.
The one guy that won that event,
even though it was Gamerz8,
three times in a row,
they've got two LVPs there.
Imagine Alimao, Doki, Benja, Stompen,
such a strong lineup,
the lineup that went to the Grand Final of the WC
after missing it.
If you'd have said that to me 30 hours ago,
I would have come out with one word, impossible.
And right now it's very possible.
If you look at the performance from Natic,
If you look at the momentum they have, they are the ones that win the most critical rounds.
These 2v2s, these 3v3s, it goes their way right now.
And there is one very big difference maker between the two of them.
Fnatic, no one expected them not only to make a WC, but not only to make playoffs.
Everything here is bonus.
And on the other side of G2, everything here is pressure.
And that would be the exact team talk that I would guess Tristan's going to go with.
Boys, there's pressure on them.
They're going to make mistakes when you sense what, when you feel that,
that when they make a mistake, you push down on them and you press on it. There's no pressure
on fanatic and that's exactly what I'd be saying to my players if I was coaching them.
And then looking into this, I mean, we see that reflecting as well. Pressure on the faces
of these players. Rustamka was smiling like crazy. The happiest I've ever seen in a matchup
earlier today. It just seems like straight faces for them for now.
And it's exactly the same as yesterday. It's exactly the same as yesterday. Up against
Falcons, they were laughing, they were joking, they wouldn't have won. The weight of the
Wilders on leaky-fucked shoulders. As soon as map 2 ended, it completely fit and it fell to G2.
G2, you were here yesterday as well, so close to qualification, but you failed to do so. Fnatic
have no pressure on server, they made it further than they expected to do, so just the best map
that determines who makes it to EWC. Is it Fnatic or is it G2 Esports?
Well, well, well. Once upon a time, 8% of you changed your tune. Fear, they called it. They
Smelled it on the air and you smelled it and something needn't think that it could do it now
Look at where you have fallen. Look at where you have gone
Look at where we are G2
60% still the preference still the lion share but fanatic proven
their dog has bite
Here we go
This is it for all the marbles
I think it's a good map for both
sides, which I think is the more
interesting thing. Typically.
Whenever you kind of have a side
which like G2 good on a lot of
different maps for his fanatic,
you kind of have a side which like G2 good on a lot of different maps whereas fanatic
maybe not as strong as a map pull compared to G2 and whenever we kind of have these
matchups in the best of three, sometimes the final map could also lean in favour of the
bigger side, the side with more experience in the different maps, but I think in this
circumstance for fanatic they've always had a good history in this map, not just recent
time, but I think historically it's been a map which suited them. I think it's, in terms
of how this map suits people, I think the sort of drive of an IGL is the main thing.
I think it's such an important IGL for Cafe and I think that's something where it's sort
of like, if an IGL enjoys cafe, if an IGL enjoys controlling cafe, the team tends to have a
good time in cafe, right? Do you think that's fair?
Um, yeah, I think that's a good, I mean, it's obviously very different compared to like
Claire, and even, I think it does have similarities to Shall I, but it is a map where you have
to try and go through a lot of stuff in terms of window gameplay, which I think can be...
I think sometimes you get sad, I think it's windows, I think there's not a lot of gameplay
you can really do against it, and especially if you're never like...
Nomads can be brought and it's just not that much you can really play around.
Stumping is almost immediately removed, and a C4 of Wizard is eyeing up by their option.
In fact, it's two C4s gone, says Citizen, but he has to pocket his and
slips slightly further away. The flash has come out, the C4 rips over and nothing is quite caught
instead. They've sort of baited evenly. Of course, Shaco gets one, Deepak gets Shaco,
and Halimau gets Deepak. Things level up, things are balanced in some ways. If you're a G2 fan,
then they keep that finger on the scales and the favor in towards their hand itself.
And they've got themselves those two opening picks in this manner. They've lost the flores
in that exchange. Where can they start to build from? If you sort of look towards the
history of this map, it was obviously fanatic opening on their defense last time as well,
but even halves across the entire game. So it's not really a preference that's pointed
out on the dust itself. Instead, you're just kind of looking towards the players that are
a bit quieter and seeing if they can get a bit noisy.
Don't give it a good go. G2 might have control with that extra man advantage and maybe look
at that little retake in through red stairs. The wizard's high enough right now and if
you just get really good timing, good catch a G2 player. I'm suspecting but oh never mind
doki, it's just about me that almost loses life but set those scaring wards off and even
Then finds that his wizard was thinking the same thing, that Doki was holding the angle
sooner.
Now that leaves an attic in a sticky situation.
The 2v4, 40 seconds remaining, G2.
All the time in the world to make this happen, positions will be spotted out exactly through
the rafter and what they're trying to find, and that's a dead valkyrie, a citizen, the
same position as his teammate, inside pillar.
That's a try and hold out as we're firing the pillar door and just swings seamlessly into it.
I mean, information should have been there for the side enough to just drop on them.
They're falling from the skies.
That's a strong start for GT.
It's not the first time that we've sort of had that mentality though.
Obviously, we think about the previous map and they absolutely run the gauntlet and the boards on Chalet
on towards their attack and then things fell across in the second half but there
strong start strong opener strong I think clarity right it's the weird thing
about fanatic across the three maps first map obviously they started on their
attack it's a different style of pace but it was so driven so intense second map
they started a bit slower they sort of remembered who they were and then obviously
drove it all the way to the end they've built up in momentum it feels like they
the way to first pass and maybe it's just not their defender day right maybe it's
just the MO is what they've built that's their preparation for dealing with this
G2 is on their attack on their sort of pressure that they can apply against them
and this is obviously gonna be that good sort of threat as I said before it was an
even game last time between the two teams but there was quite a lot of
multi-k clutches that came out in it you know you had two rounds that were
clutched by fanatic players across the series itself in regulation alone and
that would have been enough if those had gone away from them to get G2 into
regulation but DPEC, Doki, Benja, Deadshot, Citizen Wizard all of them have not
killed in the previous showdown you kind of want that energy here right?
Deadshot, hang up the C4, trying to find a fillback as Vincent's gone
instantly and once again we talked about G2 and I'll play him with that extra
man they got it I think whenever you kind of look at the kitchen bomb site as
well this is where you can really put the work on it look at that from Ben
Jeff headshot point you had a death to rights the hard force the Ritz's head off
and things go from bad to worse mention that deadshot was hoping to get a kill
back and now his team need to find two kills back see they're just trying to
capitalize upon the space G2 as soon as they get an opening as soon as they get
an ammo they sort of just tense a little bit that they bring things a bit
closer they don't go all the way in they don't entirely throw themselves out
they still work to do they always in a weird way play it as if it's still a
five versus five. They make sure that every step is still measured. They don't get a bit too
blind with it and oh no! Smith is ready for that, shield on the back, swings on and takes care of
Ben because he was sort of hunting for the one versus one but fortunately he went out of the
engagement now with the three remaining fanatic players all driven in towards the site but with
no pressure otherwise coming from the bakery and the wedding site. It's gonna have to be
a bit of a sort of drift down and I'm gonna say it's a little bit one-sided towards the push but
for now it can have their backs to a side and that makes life a lot easier.
Is that remaining? E2. Set up all these crossfires, great position, it's Shai Kuzen,
can cut the cross and towards the kitchen bomb site really for a cheat too start
trying to work that plant rock-free smokes and Doki gives himself away
challenges onto the shield for whatever reason I don't know
bumping ready to go
what has happened G2 have just capitulated it's so weird right they're in the
five-dice history and I was saying that well they play this spot they play this
and then just one at a time what lost people somehow
Shields are the sort of go-to right now
Flip their way away they're preparing for the two versus two, but
Let's they go for the coverage of the smoke they're gonna see if they can try and plant on it
It's a cross that they have to make and there's the cross and deep egg
predicted the position they're looking for where the player is inside the plant
He's got a shield and he's got out of there. They're just gonna charge in something gets one
It's the shotgun versus the shield and the blitzkull quick at his feet out from under him
Talks about the MVPs of the team the people that have won and held trophies and
There's a man taking a deep breath who's held one before
Stompin was in the radius of a mute jammer so he could not flash his shield
That is how deep X1 mapped because he can't use the gadget
He can't flash him. In the 1v1 you're always going to fancy the Blitz, but not whenever
he can't use his gadget. Oh that is a heartbreaker for Stumpin. I mean for G2. And the free versus
five. How'd they lose that? I mean I think this was the silly peek from Doki, wasn't it?
No need for that at all. Stumpin had a right to go, but you'll see that's the mutual right
They're in the corner!
Nice!
A bit too close
I think it's uh
A one versus one against a blitz with a shotgun and the blitz is trying to escape. I mean
It had to sort of win that engagement right when they did.
Yeah, if they go out of the range of the new channel then the blitz game will power.
Take the shield brook as well, it's a bit of a nightmare.
Especially get shotguns, because that shield break happens instantly.
You know, it's different if you're getting shot at, makes a few bullets before you can no longer run with the shield.
But a shotgun, a one-pump, all those pellets hit you instantly, can't move.
I was going to make a joke though, but then I remembered you were like Shields number one
defender.
Why was the...
What's the joke called?
I'm still not thinking of it to be honest.
Glad you're a stud.
Everything that you were saying there, talking about how, you know, Shields have a bit hard.
I'm picturing you still holding onto a blitz shield and...
Crutching.
Uh...
They all have it hard.
I'm not gonna entertain that at all.
Like, with Ella and Florin being as rampant as what they are,
you don't have how horrendous it is to do anything.
Oh, like really? A castle?
A little pocket place at the window.
Uh, yeah. Just missing it to sh-shank, but look how close that was.
I mean, we've all been there.
I think everyone's experienced with an A-dozen,
blow up the castle bar, kid, when you think that should've.
And the issue for Alamow, that's always needs to go on
So he maybe needs to try and ask for someone else to rotate over
Maybe just try and play around it use it for the bandage when it's closed off nobody can really stop and swing it in I guess
He's just gonna go around it. Yeah
Yeah, I'm gonna go around it for a second
charged up by
Big mad doesn't get caught up by Smith again
He's doing a bit of work on the clash but not really with the shield. I'm wondering if this is gonna be the fan at the half time
There's a good shield player for the team on attack and defence.
Now leaves the 3 vs 2.
They're holding on towards the verticality.
Are they going to see if they want to stick double team up?
You can see that they're sort of trying to make the transition past the stairs.
It's dangerous to sort of clear up.
The air gap will force the player out and there's the wrap up.
I wasn't quite sure where they were coming from and we just desperately tried to offer
some support but unfortunately, well, that's fine the trade but at that point.
get myself in and then he does that nice little trick where you can sprint from the
heaven of a balcony in towards a bar and then straight in through the route and you know
a beautiful double kill and from there the rest of G2 were able to win out their engagements.
you that we're looking for in G2? Do one up.
I think from this point onwards obviously we're kind of getting the game that we want.
We're getting those traded rounds, we're getting those sort of close scenarios.
There's still that balance. I guess it's just like the unfortunate balance of Fnatic
on defense, they can't quite find a way for all five of them to get their teeth in.
They'll have a couple of players pop off and unfortunately the others are sort of either push the side in their engagements
or they are not needed to.
And you much prefer the last one in your team, you much prefer sort of being able to sit and watch players pop off.
But otherwise...
That's where they'll start to go here. You want to see...
Obviously Citizen who is the tour de force for the team last time around.
Get built on, you too.
to when they're on to the sort of success level of the previous map when they've seen the
attacks of the defense, how things have threaded out, when they've found so many successes
and still the map fell apart from them, there's kind of not really a point when you say they've
done enough because until the map is done they've secured themselves, that journey, that
international tournament performance, well then they haven't done enough.
to protect the door itself, keep the castle, keep the stretch, obviously they remove the
grim in the mirror, it's been limited some of the hold that Spence is free-running rain to go
underneath with the pulse and g2, they're just never in need of running up to calculate
range, maybe get caught from underneath, was that somebody who was toying with the idea of a fight?
I didn't quite take it.
Oh, quiet at the moment. Nobody put for those open engagements. I mean, this is a classic position.
One thing you'll see about Fnatic in their path is they love a balsam.
Well, that's why. Really good information.
Smith can see that Doki's attempt in the rappel and put some down.
Benjy, though. In able to find Wizard.
This whole square, 4v4, and white stairs control is firmly.
Now with G2's grasp, but it's the top floor that they're after, in Dwarf Plikes, it isn't.
It's a freebie, Crossfire with Deadshot, who actually loses that one out against Benji, we're not expecting the double-up.
Flashbang to try and get Benji a bit of a breathing room, and maybe they're gonna ignore the players upstairs,
they're gonna try and go for the horizontal take that's working for the 2v2 now.
Alabao and Benji have it all to do.
So he's been able to find his first, he's fishing for the second, it's these sort of
private engagements, but DPEC you can see is trying to offer some support, they've almost
got themselves the, you're watching him, I'm watching him and both teams are trying to
just formulate a two versus one engagement in the mix of it, but the problem is G2 is
sort of in looking out, right, the balance of things is flipped and it allows DPEC the
width to go for players like that, how aware is the rotate, oh not enough, Benjo picks
up his third and you can see now he's made to move to the back home, but he's aware of
citizens repositioning but he can't quite get the kill itself so instead he's gonna
pre-fire he knows there's a short journey that they have to travel but Benji!
Wow well trod
I can't wait to hear the end game comes with that one.
My words.
G2.
Being able to make it work, that man there, it's the reason why they brought him in.
After such a long time away from the side.
And that has really got the blood pumping, maybe, I mean, if it didn't already, hopefully
out as for for banjo
another heatwave opponents that's actually inbound this week but I'm
I'm dreading it.
It is.
There is another...
Are we casting?
Through it?
Uh...
Monday.
Damn it.
I mean, yeah, I'm really happy for work.
Damn it.
We're killing this!
Hey, you never know.
But seriously, is this bangable?
Maybe they'll keep on going at this point.
I mean, almost 2 vs 2, but say that last skill goes into the favour.
You've got Citizen that's got herself on a 2-3 from the split of it, but you're still...
sort of pining for the team.
Shaco's confused.
Must have been the winner.
A lot of intel.
Echo, Valkyrie, getting themselves a lot of the cast and the enemies coming towards them.
Well, remember last time we were here, I said that as soon as they lost Bangor and that five versus three,
they had nobody on this side that was applying pressure.
It seems like they want to not have that happen again.
A big bit of pressure is being applied here.
They want to go for the break on sorts of positions.
The smoke coverage on the single wall
doesn't get followed up with an immediate hard breach show, actually.
Yes, it probably did, because Stockin really has nothing left in his pocket.
And Smith hasn't been forced out of this position.
And he's going to fall back. That wall is going to fall.
It's a minute and a lot of utility death cases were getting that open.
Now he's done this. Where's the next approach?
They'll lose this bit of utility, but then all the sustain's gathering.
Oh, the impact's not quite sharp enough.
Unlucky, misses the impact trick.
G2, playing this by the book in terms of the bakery directs.
Got the Capitao, the two flame bolts.
G2, it's the droning phase.
Those sort of benches are upstairs on his own.
We can see if he can be find a gap, find that opportunity.
Two players upstairs, three players upstairs actually.
That's what Benji has to try and deal with and put pressure on Fananak or
happy to give up sight if they know they have the vertical holes.
This is what G2 have to play around. How do they deal with these players upstairs?
Ready to push them out.
Got their eyes in towards the site itself and the eyes are rolling out towards Ben.
because Echo's on the back being king on Cam,
and oh, he knew he was coming in,
but Citizen was there for support.
Alomar sort of got baited in towards the engagement there.
Maybe hoped they weren't as aware as they were.
Avenger, in the meantime,
is falling down a set of red stairs.
They're gonna try and capture the van in the middle,
but, well, no.
Oh, he was!
For a second, I thought he was looking the other way,
but he gets one and two deep back!
Oh, they get three, buddy.
Maybe make it around as well.
What a time for the IDL to show up.
I said it's a good map for them.
And the sort of point proven here, there's the cross,
there's the flawless.
Wow.
Did not expect that to be a flawless way
that G2 were setting up.
Obviously for G2,
they knew what Matic were going for.
Heavy in towards that mid-floor.
You play Benja by himself.
He can make something happen, he can surprise them, and everyone else just slowly start making their way in towards that bomb site.
So whenever Benjy goes, whenever he starts picking up those kills in the mid-floor, nobody's going to be in those verts, and they have full Psychodrault in a matter of seconds.
Now, is there an argument that Alamov should have killed the Echo? Probably.
But, he was not expecting somebody to be in Freezer, he was not expecting the double up.
And that was kind of a kicker there for Alamo, he got baited in as you mentioned.
Really for Benji, should have had Deepak dead for rights, but I mean,
Dead should have just had a life shot on him. Deepak had a life shot on, should I say, sorry.
Deepak had a life shot to make him dead.
and multiple others and multiple others I mean the fact that he then got that kill
they expect him to go down the stairs right in the armpits then he picked up
the second as well it's just and then push down the stairs to get to reach the shot
beautiful beautiful pause
at this point it's an attic not quite done yet remember last time we were here
it was even half since well it's always the possibility we end up in the same way
obviously that is the site that has been
super key
now we get that change on the fly
deep and he lost an nominal map
he is having so far
wasn't the sort of biggest song singer
for the roster in fact he was
of all ten players in this lobby
the second lowest rate he's coming into
is the playday today from the league itself
obviously he plays a lot of the sort of support roles
You know, he's not exactly on the Benja role, or the sort of drive that, with Hal Alamow's
fate of a season has changed.
There's always the possibility that one of those older voices, the IGL voices, can be
someone of acclaim here, instead of the big-eyed citizen that was always eyes-on.
There's quite the big estate today, yeah.
There's always possible, there's always the
interpretation, he can come to life.
When these two teams did meet, the other day he was the top
raced for the team as well.
In fact, the only player I'll visit as well, the pair of them
is both positive.
It goes out.
Longer watching away, and a slip on by by Shiger.
He's got the things on one of the players behind
a surprisingly sturdy...
Oh, but it doesn't even matter. I knew the fight was coming, but Wizard, well prepared.
Oh, Fnatic.
Doin' front.
Wizard.
Just for the side-to-side.
Just moves from one spot to another, drifts by, finds the kill.
It's a mess on this pulse again. Great information.
Spot's not stomping on the window.
And...
Very much like Shallie.
Fanatic don't need to move.
The wizards, giving G2 away back in.
All Fanatic need to do is sit in their hands, play around the information that the pulse can supply and they'll win the round.
Alamo, gonna take lead.
Let's see if he can just bully his way in towards the site. He will be called out now.
Smith on the pulse.
What's Alamo gonna do?
Player and Scythe was exactly where he is. He's gonna go for the pick.
And Smith now has to get off and well, this is a tricky one that should have pinched him and your support and Smith has no idea
But the player behind him. Oh
He seemed to get a little bit of a whiff towards the end, but he didn't quite win it out in that engagement and now
It leaves us in a tied bodies, but look at the time down my 10 seconds
I'm now gonna see if you can try and bait the plant. He's worried about being swung
Immediately stopping him. It's actually deep egg that wins the first fight still isn't is gonna follow through
We have here on our third map on our first half of it an even hand
We still have a direct shootout towards
Who is going to make it internationally? So let's have a direct shot towards our wonderful desk
Thank you very much
I think I'm gonna file a request to turn this into a best of five because I am not done watching this game yet
And I think on this final map, it has turned into an absolutely frag movie.
It's been crazy. In the first half of the live, we said that nothing should have won, should have dominated it.
Shal'e, we said it with G2.
Uncappably, honestly, it should have been anybody.
I feel like they both reached flow state.
That's what it is. Look at this 1v1s, look at these kills, look at this moon where he sees the legs,
and boom, perfectly right time, the right kill.
And it's deep back on one side. Okay, cool.
But G2 on the other. It seems that both of these thieves, they're reaching another level.
Look at this, LML with the bar core here, shooting the ratings so he can go through the rotate, first kill here,
he worried in second kill here Jack, it's just beautiful on both sides, look at here Jack here, boom, perfect as well.
That whole strategy was completely, completely on the fly from G2 for Doki and Alumow to double peek the player in cocktail and find all those kills as well.
And it just kept continuing, big one vs one from Benjitha, got one in his team around and then it carries on into the 4 family.
Yeah, now it's Deepak on his side, after winning a very important clutch,
he's back, he gets a triple kill on those red stairs.
Bad tension to the comps, bad tension to the reactions from his players.
They're all hyped, on both sides they're going hard.
And it's the reality of it, right?
It's the reality of two teams that have reached close-state, like I said.
I used to play for them like this.
I used to play for them like this because I would get super passionate about it.
It's the moment where only the most genuine native adaptations come to life.
It's the moment where Instinct takes over, where the fundamentals and the defaults don't matter anymore.
And on both of these teams, I expected G2 to be able to show me that flow state.
I did not expect SniTik to be able to contend with that level, and I'm so happy that we see it right now.
That's the thing, regardless of what happens, and it's going to be a crazy next half of Siege,
and maybe an overtime, but regardless of what happens tonight, I can be seriously,
seriously proud that they got to this position at this point.
We did say Cafe was maybe a little bit more 50-50 than we anticipated.
We did see a free-free split, Fnatic will now go into their attack half, so that's where they can really show their flow state,
really show some of their attacks that they've got going.
And then looking at the bends, of course, as well, we'll see a Monty Ben and a Zombie Ben, nothing out of the ordinary so far.
No, especially because Smith has been abusing the shields as much as possible.
It was already the strategy on the side of D2Train, removing from the most important shields,
and the Grimm, who will be abused for cocktail especially, who will be abused for bakery embasement.
Two stronger paraders remove on their side.
really thinking the blockbid necessarily has been seriously strong in the cafe, maybe the same with the blitz over then a bakery fast push, so you can see why they would get rid of the Monty, the Monty can just cross angles, can move people opposition, can play it slow and more methodical to try and move people for window cut offs, the other two shields not so much, so that's why they've chosen to get rid of the Grimm instead.
Well with EWC qualification on the line, this game will have you on the edge of your seeds. The absolute fragfest continues here.
For one final time, Demo, you and I will be into the breach and I'm to Dostoevsky and as they sort of said, can we get Fanatic's flow state?
They opened brilliantly at the start of this series, a series where pretty much everybody had written off their chances and said, good job Fanatic, you've got this far.
Well, you can still be proud of that, but this is where it ends. In fact, it was either a couple of quotes that might have been said by the desk and us throughout this game so far, but here, leveled up a final sprint.
They weren't happy with what was said. They weren't happy with the possibility of not going international and they weren't happy.
We've just another loss to G2. Org versus Org. G2 have won the previous seven engagements against Fnatic.
Apparently, it's not lucky number eight.
and make history here for G2 and not qualifying for an event feels good kind of
freaks me out I'm saying that but that could be the possibility of what we're
witnessing this is really giving us one heck of a showing here now they move
over into their attacks I mean Smithy gets the shields only one of them can be
fanned away from G2 side, the Monty, is it going to be available, but he still has the
blitz and I'm sure a Blackbeard will probably follow if anyone gets fanned.
An attic, looking at the line up, looks as though they're going to try and go for the
freezer execute where you bring in the sense to cover off the lines of sight over towards
VIP and restaurant and drop in and get the plant down. Players have to be on their toes
I mean Benj is always gonna be the problem in that position inside of VIP. You can stop that hatch drop
So that's why you need to bring those sense walls
I mean for G2 I should know what's going on here, but
It's gonna be a shit if I approach here from fanatic. It's not moved
Move towards bakery. They're droning out the other side of the map
So they're gonna change things up. They're not gonna go to the VIP and restaurant take
Almost gets the end of Smith there and is the perfect man to watch for the job.
The shield has made its way on past those season with split second to late.
Wizard finds something in the meantime, they have the coverage and he's not quite able
to get himself locked in.
They're just keeping him at bay.
Pepper shots, psycho.
Does get the end of Smith, Alamow gets Wizard and that is those two players on that initial
push caught out.
Citizens gonna still try to make the most of the end of it, but it's dead shot.
The ball for the drop shot, gets Benja shot and killed and taken out of the round itself.
Two versus three here and the gadget tree is live and active.
A single impact and Shoko might try and make the impact verticality so worried about being
caught out on a drone and any music plays inside of every circle.
They're fully seconds and though it's felt like it's been very quick and very direct,
it's just sort of the change of pace and here look, D-Pack, he's on one, they've doubled
up to try and root the player itself. They've opted instead to leave a citizen in a 1 vs 1
in the coverage and there's the isolation, a great cross, and that leaves just Alamout
left. DMR at dawn does some of the damage to Org melee himself, he can't quite get the
end of the effect, they're putting the pressure in and Fnatic! Strike first, strike hard! Strike
one. Fantastic. Fantastic. Love it. In the free V2, what do they do? They assess the way
G2 play. What do you think G2 love? They love a flank. They love a retake. They love whenever
they're a man down. They try and make a play. They stop that play from happening. They take
their time. Everyone freezes. They wait until they can come with their flanks. They get that
room position. There's a little bit of a shoulder jiggle by the player on red stairs. Didn't know
he was caught out on a drone but fanatic now and what did they do? They weighed it until they could
get everyone in position and then it's a three two one. Then the guy in the window stopped them walking
up. Deadshot has the burps and all important they have the glass who has a line of sight that he can
make with his sniper rifle to finish off that player on red stairs. The way that they've went
about dealing with that breath that g2 have tried to force with that retake has been dealt with there
and then leaves alam out in the 1v3 not going to do much for the operator that he's on he only has
a dmr doesn't have any form of denial fanatic yeah fantastic love it absolutely love it
four three divide gets a little bit further a little bit wider and
and reminded a little bit more about what that early game, Fnatic, was like, the very
start of this series, as he said, great perfection, great sort of knowledge of the game being
put, and I quote, in that first part, their attack on-layer against G2, while Dax was
pretty concise on the idea that Fnatic on their attacks, they were tactically brilliant,
could have gotten all six should have probably got at least five of those if not for a big
clutch against them. I guess we're getting just that swim. In the second hand are a team
that has built their sort of bread on their attack gt being put to the paces by somebody who's
learned those lessons, studied them at school and said I think I can now graduate and do better.
engagement isn't the MO right now you can see there
sort of assessing feeling themselves up towards the top here across and don't get
caught by C4's it doesn't touch the boards the IQ getting the work done as
well removing the Valkyrie cams again you look towards what is five C4's demo
you get an idea of the games they want to play with the Valkyrie and the Pulse
deadshot is the most flightful person right now yeah floor is lava
They get him now that we're going into.
Canonic has to be very, very careful.
As G2 are primed and ready with his C4s.
You can get Alan out in a position to feed that information over, but.
We're just got there is some in pre place, but you don't really want pre play C4s
whenever you're dealing with the IQ.
That shot can call them out immediately.
So nobody from for that will be a danger.
This area is kind of in a really good position to him towards Pillar as the Soul of Snake
can scan it out.
The Avenger swings him from the double door and fanatic to get a move on in towards the
bomb site.
Well as they go down and sort of drop each other back and forth over the bar with the
train itself, they're sort of left bender in the middle, they're probably not getting
him back up before things turn into a shove, but they don't want to hand themselves in
towards the engagement.
They saw how close it was there, they know the bait was laid, and Shiko does find Smith.
But then, they're still kills coming out from inside the site, dead shot.
Doing a hero's job inside, leaving Doki alone, and I said at the start of this round, Doki's clutch was one of the reasons
that Fnatic weren't able to get as many rounds as they did before, but it won't be the case here!
Fnatic!
Two in a row, two ahead.
Strike two.
They're doing it. They're doing it. By the way, I do feel as though your strike thing isn't going to work because even if it gets strike free, G2's still in it.
So they're not, is it strike four or is that stuff you're going to play here?
Yeah, we play a different game of baseball here. Listen, I didn't expect it to hold up for two rounds, but I can't stop the pattern.
Well, I was going to do strike two, leave it at that.
I had a plan, if you hadn't mentioned it,
but now you have, I can say during the tech time now,
if they lost the third round,
I was gonna say the ball is heartling
to wall to strike three.
Oh, you would've delayed it, I see.
I would've delayed it.
I would've kept the audience on the edge of that scene.
I saw that there was.
Ian Chambers style.
I mean, G2, I think this is where the,
I don't wanna say panic,
but it's that kind of feeling
getting your gut where it's like oh dear we have to pull these rounds back because I mean now they
need they need four rounds and fanatic only need two it's it's a lot it is a lot that g2 have to
try and go for you but just take it one round at a time but fanatic I love the call of just hitting
the site direct you know whenever they get wizard and I think it's from the fact that wizard was
able to gather a lot of information, and then they played off that, and as soon as you lose the
sight player, it is a bit pandemonium for G2, they were really struggling to figure out what they
wanted to do, and there's some backstabs that work really well for G2 also, or for Fnatic, sorry,
And... Yeah!
Where's Rolf? G2!
Try and step up here.
Engines got seven kills and that's it.
Look at Fnatic, DPEC and 12, citizens and eight.
More players coming into the fold for Fnatic than there is for G2.
I think that was always the thing I said, right, on the split of it.
It was on their defense, only a couple of them operate, but then they get towards this side and...
You know, that's like a deep-ackage, playing an absolute blinder.
The whole team is just sort of getting up there.
When they come together on these approaches and...
You have the comparison.
Of the last time, obviously, that these two teams sort of met on this map.
As I said before, only two of them were positive.
Smith was far and away.
Unfortunately, the lowest rated player in the sub was 4 and 12, and it was a max OT game.
So it's just one of them, it's just Smith.
Fly is a bit better as he's doing
Well, then maybe it's a different fate as I said two of the rounds were clutch rounds from the side of fanatic
But at this point
Because the team has uplifted itself on a target a project that has lasted a very long time
and had many different iterations
Many different faces maybe finally
They found one
Get their way
They're looking for that first body, that first picker, surrounding them towards the lock below.
They're obviously getting themselves a bit driven here on the previous kitchen approach.
They sort of sent themselves in and it was back and forth and then they piece it together.
It's a different MO here, they're above, they're being a bit slower and steadier.
G2 gonna try and interact with them.
Good information. Once more from Wizards. Three of them being pinged at.
If Fnatic can try and pull the way up the back of that two and bait three one inside of Prep.
So I know we'll be forced to try and get Doki a bit of safety.
Just worrying that something could jump in through the window, but maybe it's a bait and switches.
Fnatic is from the retention towards VIP and Restra, and Alamile though strikes first.
And here comes the shield, but Benjou wins that one out of Alamile, the DMRs!
They are singing right now, but Wizards with two response needs more than that though.
They can keep this team in it, but not going to be the case.
Shaiiko puts it into that and dead shot as it all to do, and it's going to be a trade,
but Shaiiko, he doesn't care as long as he gets the kill.
Well, that's four rounds in a row ended for Fnatic.
They got the last two defenses, first two attacks, but G2 have finally found a way to
stop the seemingly runaway train.
they keep themselves within touching distance, 5 to 4, but at this point, they still have
to go back potentially towards the site that they've lost, obviously reading room and fireplace
was, when things got a bit heated, it's not that it's sort of runaway rounds, obviously
there was the one flawless previously, and then at the very start of the game G2, had
pretty solid round otherwise it's just this thread back and forth the whole season sort
of comes down to just this map and outside of saying the results are what part of here
the results don't really matter so much you just have to play the game in front of you
If you don't find yourself earning spots on the plane, then it's an actual plane.
Alright, G2, you've got one.
A few more than that.
About it.
How will you deal on your next attack?
We're heading towards the top floor now.
Off-Floor was not seen at all during Fanatic's defensive half. They stayed away from this bomb site because of the other runs, but didn't dare go upstairs.
Now, I know basic fire, right? He attests this top floor. This is his most hated site in the game, I believe, joined with Shally Basement.
He thinks they are undefendable in many circumstances.
I think the reason why they would feel that this top floor is kind of like that is window gameplay.
I think window gameplay really hinders this bomb site for defenders.
You don't have a lot of safe positions you can sit.
If you've got maybe two players and we'll tell one player towards piano, other player on the cocktail propels.
Very, very difficult and you can get pinched very easily, combo it up a bit in utility.
Yeah, that would act there. That's why you see operators from G2.
Excellent. Great at denying that utility. Blocks those line of sights on the windows.
Sadly, very easily counterable, sledge, light work of that, no problems at all.
But also for G2, they've got the mirrors.
Mirrors upstairs do make this top floor defendable, because you can hold piano.
The most important bombsite on this top floor, you're not going to be able to get into it now,
unless you can pop those mirror windows.
So, for Fnatic, that's the struggle. How do you get through those mirror windows?
Looking at the lineup, they don't have much.
They're going to go for a bit of a hot and heavy drop on towards the hatches, and I'm
going to pull back.
It's a nice shotgun, but it's not quite the one that you want to be hitting on towards
multiple targets.
You can see that.
Their shot could try and ruin the loop of Grenade up, but that's the Avenger that gets
the C4 first.
What's that up through a hatch?
Was that a bit of potential pressure?
But you can see Fnatic, they're having to sort of scarper and change plans intact.
Moving back and, oh, Deepak almost suffers next, just on the transition away from Repel.
You see that? They're putting the pressure external, leaning out of the skylight, of the
windows, of the doors. Who knows? They'll try and bite from next. Instead, they're not
going to take the drop on the hatches and that sort of strange pressure. They'll pull
themselves back. It makes life a little bit easier here for Elamow. He can direct his
fight singularly, put some stuff up, erase the bloom, and means we'll even if we take
But I still have a bit of a slow and you later and instead actually is worried about pressure
It can come up from behind him gets the flashing
He's not quite sure which way to go down right?
I think as he castled off behind him, so I think he's pretty safe
And this is where the castle is very important for this top floor and how it works
For dead shot as he hits the nastiest one-shot headshot of his life
This shot gonna put him down a coach range bend your fine citizen and yet just
It feels as though it's going to be a lockout here for G2, the U-Till.
It's been set up correctly.
But Adamc just don't have it off to try and get through it.
Alaba just still extends himself, but still it's going to be up against it and will be
slaughtered.
That Castle Barricade was fully prepped or was impacted.
They don't know what shrinks up after they've impacted it now.
And D-Pack now in the 1v3 has it all to do, but Stomp and puts them out of his misery.
a big top floor hold there from G2 showing the power of a castle in a mirror.
Okay, okay, okay, still going. They've been able to get themselves clawed back in demo and a few and I thought we were done.
Far be us, for be too correct. Now, the timeout.
Both used in short succession.
Problem is, Fnatic. However, the two timeouts they've had throughout this series,
neither of them were immediately successful. They had success the round after they were successful,
but that means that, well, they would just be fighting in towards overtime. They wouldn't be fighting
ahead, front foot forward.
Things have fallen slightly by the way.
way. The way could be made a bit clearer here. They just have to sort of bring things together
on towards a tertiary hold. Technically a tertiary site. One two, lost two. You know you'll be
attacking that mid floor what do you bring out for it? G2, that momentum back on their
side fanatic and have a block here need to try and shake themselves out of it.
You know for all of the kills, Avenger has some double digits to have a first player
for G2 to be on that.
Still, Orphanatic, E-Pack leading the way.
A little bit closer now in terms of kills, but the kill of this game is up the air,
so she's going to grab it.
Fireplaces where we head to.
Last time we were here, it was a very quick, direct take.
I'll just base the opportunity spotting.
So for G2, they need to be aware of that.
Even with G2, I mean, they've kind of stacked off the C4 game that they have.
More trap operators come in, which I think is a bit of a necessity.
Whenever you're against them, I can repeat,
no, you're up against Smith who's always going to be playing those shields.
There is, obviously, the balance at this point,
but both teams have been able to have a team talk and G2's has not had them
them success so I could have just sort of given the continuation
you see the slightly less dedication towards the C4 to the previous hole
it didn't work, that shot was the most important man and now he's only really got a singular problem
but the hole itself whether it's a play towards the open spaces the limitation
the castle alongside the fun rear mines not doing the we're going to try and watch from far
bar and get you sneakily, they're saying, bring it on, find us in the firefight, find
us in the mix of things, force fanatic inside, you can see they're already changing the tact
by the contest of the top floor.
Maybe a top floor clear, see that the Candelas are flying them ready from DPEC, which depends
of someone's ready to jump off the back of it.
Quiet, at the moment that's the memo.
I'm doing as they can tell us, but not much is happening, even though the black grid is
always keeping in mind who has the diffuser.
It's just out on the south propel, seeing if you can find anything, but G2, I'm only
having an extension in towards reading and Bill, you've got Claire, inside cigar shop,
Alomar's there with that shot on close, so difficult for somebody who wants to try and challenge into him.
From red stairs.
Oh dear, G2's gonna be the one to go first and ho ho, fanatic!
I've tried it again, they've tried to walk into sight, but this time it's been stopped.
Four to three, a single body slips on that distance and as he said,
stopped as they tried to route themselves in and
it takes the wind out of the sails and seems to sort of slow down.
Look at Kev.
Yeah.
What it is?
Uh, you have...
Oh, it's just that it's not ideal as a...
He came in through the window, didn't he?
He did.
Uh, okay.
Uh...
That's not ideal either, I think.
Doki doesn't get a deep egg in revenge, but...
Oh, he just missed the road there.
He's losing.
Missed the road there.
They could have leveled things up instead.
Further down citizen does find Benja couldn't quite connect to two buses to 20 seconds
position that doki's holding
In the offside he's gonna get tracked so he can just sort of slip his way over
You know the gadget there and instead they focus on towards citizen wizard
Can't quite get doki g2
They sit on map series and
Major point
This is the first time in this series that G2 has that match point in regular time.
It's been fanatic who have went 6'5' up the other times, so G2, they can close it up here
and now.
Same thing for fanatic, to try to just force that shield into the site and if it doesn't
work you're always playing catch up and that was the case here for fanatic.
I would like to hear them whenever they win, if they win.
Imagine if they were just like, that was good.
They all let out a round of applaud, which is when you do one single clap.
Nice job guys, see if it screams tomorrow.
See if it screams tomorrow, a single round of applaud, done.
to work. Oh dear. I love it. I think any sport you need to have passion. Any sport you celebrate,
you keep the energy. They have passion from the first round today. Sure, we heard about it all the
way back at Lair. They're up for this today and equally, I think for a fanatic, they applied
great today. And I think that is maybe the sad thing, you know, for a fanatic. This is the
the closest that they've ever been to making it to an event.
I think it's the element of the passion and intensity of G2, the team that we know and
expect as sub-guests within the international stages. We know what these world-class players
have to love. We know how well they did slightly earlier on the year.
Then showing how intense they are about the showdown is, in a way, the biggest compliment
to Fnatic is they're forcing this level of energy.
They're forcing every round for G2's sake
to feel like the World Cup win.
Because G2 knows how tough this game is.
And it's not done yet, right?
It's not done yet.
That was just them getting to this stage, as you said.
Imagine if they took the whole thing.
That's because Fnatic have made them have to work for it.
here from an unbeaten run, in groups towards the fall yesterday, towards this, one round
away, and getting themselves to one round to tie things back up.
There we go.
Fanatic.
That's what they wanted, that mid-floor control.
Dead shot.
Start using that buck, making that vertical.
That just depends on where Fanatic want to pivot to.
What's gonna be their put side up on that
where they want to attack.
It looks to be bakery, is on the menu.
Got the cap tout lined up and ready with that util dump
along with that glass once again
and smiths on that shield.
So similar lineup to how they played it last time.
Oh no. Oh no! Tobago no! Shite go!
He put his hat on his head! Does he know he might have fluffed it?
Well they have that body advantage. He set up a pool of G2. They sort of operate when they have that.
And now and they don't.
Well how can they try and put this off together? This is desperately trying to make a way in.
But being robust by the side, but Citizen gets the free target and there goes Stumpin', there goes Foki!
There goes that sheer turning into a little bit of a screeching stop here, Alamo.
A massive flank finds one, retakes the verticality, but with Benja getting two, suddenly it's
the three versus two.
Now what do they do if they try and cut their way across for the fight against Benja?
Do they try and plant the shield in the back?
Hope the verticality doesn't quite make it.
You can see they've crossed the divide.
Do they know about the position of Benja, the C4?
Well, let's quite get the down on them, but Deepak does find Benja and now the plant.
Coming together, can he get to the angle in time? I don't think he can, he's got a drop down.
We have ourselves a post plant, they rotate on the verticality, the shield is just that.
On top of the kit, they've gone right on towards Bakery with the assumed glass.
Yeah, you heard the bullet start to pop its way across and you expected that right,
the shield is just going to hold sort of caught close by and say,
and say, like, you've got to turn your back to me.
Oh, OK.
Get out of there easy.
The 20 seconds, the glass, the experience of these players.
And they pull themselves back and further and further away
at this point.
He's just going to be picked up.
We are in OT.
Here we go.
OT once more, just like map number one.
What a series we are being treated to.
And I know well
We have to talk about the the first engagement
Shaco
That was the moment
And he just total freebie and he let it slip
I also have to highlight I think smith's the plant position he chose was perfect
Realizing that deadshot died above he knows where benja is if he can just jump in through that window
Get himself in towards the rice corner and he can just plant
No problems at all, nobody can stop him, there's no vert angles on him.
That is that's it right there, that's the moment.
And he knew he messed up.
Yeah, whenever that kill comes in, Smith then knows exactly where he needs to plan.
Oh, Jessica, call that because he's prone.
It's a big, big difference in terms of the screen factor, is that the way it's going to...
It's kind of what I said earlier, right?
It's nice and chill, isn't it?
It's so chill.
Now there's that weird worry.
They are on defense.
Statistically, it's not the third sort of angle of the game, the angle of the map.
They've just looked more kinetic on attack. They've looked more confident.
But this is that other statement that I sort of made. They heated up into the previous game. They heated up.
These things sort of continue to go, so now we get that taste of the overtime game with them.
They've had that chance to heat up. They've had that chance to come in fresh on towards the side of their attack.
a split here. They fall away from G2, they're on towards the shield and try and drive the blitz in.
In terms of how these sort of sights have hit heads before.
Long time since we had G2 on the attack.
Thanks, I have a sort of quick scan through. Okay, they ran one blitz and around it they won.
There's no immediate contest, it does feel like Lair and the OT were both sides, just
don't want to get the first pick up.
He goes the ramp, sideway of course to remove the vertical flooring.
He backed out to hangling for the C4 but I realised that, right, I C4 that, that's
all real person.
So, G2. Got the Verts. Where do you want to go? Gonna be a VIP restaurant tank. Look at where Stumpin' is. He's on the shield.
He can run straight at Wizard. He's gonna be in the hot seat.
Is top, so he can slow the Blitz.
There is a counter play to it, of course, and has a C4.
It's a citizen. Yeah, he's in this position, right?
As soon as they try and drive themselves in, as you say, on towards that position, on towards the tub,
they'll sort of, it's almost this conversation, it's mutually assured, fighting as Alamow is the one that steps round.
They're going to force the player out from behind the bar, and then they're about as soon as they're being closed.
That shot takes damage, drips further and further away.
They're going with a thinker, Bruce. They're going to see if they can maybe try and move in.
We can hit some smokes popping elsewhere, and that's the slowest.
Tuber out and it's dokiing.
With a pitch perfect, pinch up towards the player.
And now, that leaves Tuber out a little bit alone.
Around the Christmas presents, he voids the first.
Quite skillfully, puts the pressure on with the stack.
He wears the support, wears the fight, he doesn't need it.
Doubles down the drive now onto the stash.
He slurs back into the sniper.
Shaco gets one and gets traded back.
There's one more, but look at the time, 20 seconds.
And it just leaves it's dead shot, the shield over the top.
He's going for the knife. He's able to get the cover.
Man, he's not able to get the other one blind.
Key two.
Once again, map series point.
Oh, they forced it.
They have forced Fanatic to fight.
They've went for the traditional execute of VIP restaurants,
stomping with that blitz.
One, that engagement against Wizards.
Just about, didn't they?
It was a little bit of a will-day moment
Where maybe Wizard could have got a headshot onto, but that DMR is difficult.
I want to say, don't give that shot on the Citizen.
Cracker of a shot.
And then for G2, they just overwhelm, they have the two-man lead,
and they just keep it moving.
And again, for Fnatic, tried their best.
It could have been to 2v3, this was the shot there, look at that, bang.
At this moment as well, I thought maybe that shot could have done something.
Just think of Ashniphy.
Maybe have the lineup as well even if he was flashed if he was able to get the headshot
Maybe grab that long to one, but the shield is the shield where we can use the flash
That's what I can do G2 back on top one round again is all they need
Look where they go
into their fire place
defense
Ah fanatic first time they were here worked out for them your attack
Strong, they went direct, they got bomb side control very early on.
Then they tried it again, they doubled down.
G2, they reacted well.
At least stop that initial take.
So, how do we go about round number 14?
Who knows? Seems to be the general feel, but...
Again, you can't help but think that attackers have that benefit, right?
You can't help but sort of look towards how these rounds have shaken out.
Activating trunks.
And then participate, attack success.
Honestly, see how things have gone.
I'm not going to be fooled before we've had G2 on their defenses.
They lost out of fireplace once.
In the kitchen, it's a new bar.
It's not found success all over the shop, but it's more than a mention that they take away instead here
As it is
I'll go back towards the mining room holes where things were
Let's be honest the point is a bit flippy a bit strange the mid-round reinforcement almost brought out the position
It came down to what was the two glasses to the dope getting 3k
They're just sort of covering the drop, making sure that they can drop without being caught
out.
Swung on to immediately, the catch is not caught.
C4 attempted up through the break, isn't quite able to drive on.
The other player's slow roll, there's a way of handling three, removing it, they're just
trying to keep themselves used to it out of danger and not be that first body.
I really like the change up from Fnatic. It was one thing that G2 did really well.
They were able to hold on in towards the Garshop and that's because they had a lot of traps up there.
But the Smaxers were really well against the traps.
Seeing Deepak was just able to clear away all of those gadgets and it was very easy for Fnatic.
Now Gathered up top floor control to do like that.
However, if we have any kills, and with only one minute remaining, this can get very, very messy.
As long as Fnatic try to get himself into the bomb site and get that plant down, then well, this is risky.
It's worked out for them, though!
Right in towards the bomb site, the walls on the back end are both reinforced, so I don't know, I can't stop or assist anything at this point.
You can see Ben just gone underneath, trying to cause some problems, but he doesn't have a C4 anymore instead.
Instead, it's just part damage done all over the shop.
Smith gets caught, they can't get the plant,
but Shiko, can he even get away?
He's being shot from all over.
Ha ha, gets one, drifts round.
Leaves just Benja, and I mean, they know he's there,
so they're planting elsewhere.
One versus three, post-plant situation here.
Benja, trying to get his way back up,
but well watched, well fought, well found,
Well, well, well, here we are, our best of three, a whole season of play.
And there is but one round to determine which of these two teams gets plain tickets,
and which of them sits at home.
This is it. We talked about marbles before.
I think the marble bag is much bigger now.
Been some donations.
Never seen a bigger bag.
Where are we going to go? I think that's the question. What site is Fanatic going to make their final stand on?
Don't forget as well, whoever loses this round, their season's done.
Also, so don't get to go on and try and challenge to be the number one team off their stage.
We go to the kitchen, we double down Fanatic.
They've played already here in the overtime. They're gonna go back to it
My word, this is a big risk
John John what's crazier?
When these two teams were in overtime last time both teams played kitchen at least once
Both of them lost them on their defense as well
G2 when they won against fanatic about a week ago
It was on this site when they're on the attack they flip to the balance and won the game.
And here they have doubled down.
Here they think they can find sanctuary, here they think they can find success, and here
they may be in silence.
Fanatic.
It's an Intel drive.
There's all of that game, what can change the fate of a hold on the kitchen.
I ask you the sight that obviously, as I said, has had both of them with no success.
The Echo, the Valkyrie, the lead outside, the push and the pressure and the way to stop
the quick rush with the laser gates and the fire canisters.
In the meantime, the lineup from G2, one that sort of screams vertical control and to be
fair, you look towards previous success.
as I said when they made this happen. G2's attacked last time in the same round.
Oh, they had a very, very similar line up.
The only change was to swap the Blitz for a Florez.
Well, Fanatic, big change is no clash. That's missed on the Echo.
And what was the issue? That for Anacabh the last time they were here, stomped on that
withs, able to isolate those 1v1s in towards VIP and restaurant. With that effort they
can stun him, they can counter him, so Smith's a lot of pressure on making that echo drone
happen to give Wizard a more favourable engagement. Still no picks yet. All the vertical work
has been done, this is where G2 will transition into their clear of VIP and restaurant. Exact
Same scenario, you have Stumpen ready to walk down in towards the MP restaurant.
It's all coming down to the Yokai. It has to be on the back of Smiths.
Citizen is the first to take a shaker damage.
As we enter the final minute of this game, he's able to find the first head. Shaker goes down.
And they go for the drop, the pressure on the side, the desktop doubles down.
There's one for Stomp it in the meantime of four versus two, but he's isolated inside the site.
Doki gets one and two. The two versus two with no kit.
In 40 seconds, the Tipper hour is trying to get out of there. They need some support.
They need to find each other and Wisset finds the head of one. Doki, the man who has done so much,
is stuck between two different angles and they are stuck at home.
because Badanik against the odds, against the gambles on the outside chance have
become that inside team of the how many games, series, days, months, years of
wanting to get on towards the international stage. They find themselves
confirmed and G2 unbeaten until it mattered the most. G2 fail to qualify that
does not happen to this side. Fnatic have already praised them this stage it's the
best that they've ever played and they've only qualified. My words, Fnatic
All credit to the water series.
We'll have to commend both teams.
Yes, all the OG2s, the loser.
But still, what a game that both of these two teams have put on for us.
But dramatic.
And just at the last, they entered.
I mean, it's been such a series.
It's just so continually competitive between these two teams.
Really, there was no... nothing else they could give, and I am for you and I, if you throw it to our wonderful studio.
Massive congratulations for Fnatic! They get a done!
You see it on the player's emotions, how much it means to them.
Valiant effort! For G2, they brought it really close, but Fnatic, they surprised everybody!
They're going to EWC!
What the hell was that game? What the hell was that game?
Even the very final round, you're thinking Fernandez got it on loss.
And Doki believes it's a two versus two.
Oh, and that really just is playing on in status.
What Leo said about it in the halftime, it's just flow state.
G2 did really well, I thought to bring that game back.
They started causing Fnatic a load of problems on their defense
because Fnatic were running riot with it.
Fnatic found a way to get it to overtime
and then once you're in overtime, it literally comes down to who holds the nerf.
I think it was a huge call. It
was a monumentally huge call to
go to bakery in round 15 after
having lost it in round 13 to
make the adaptation to play on
the echo to play the different
positions and then to get
aggressive when they did.
Citizen comes out in that round
15 gets the opening kill.
Deadshot doubles down and it
gets them to either to see.
I'm lost. I'm honestly lost the
words because we've moved on
from that a lot. Really, we
have, um, especially across the
They finished in the relegation places, despite being a partner role, because the only reason they're still here,
and then they get it done, come back, revise Slice in 2026, stage one, and they find a way to get over the line.
They win it in a best of three against the undefeated team in stage one.
Well, just, just, wow, I'm still recovering from what I've just seen. It was, it was...
Honestly, I haven't felt that way watching a Siege game in a long time.
That was the best series I've watched in ages.
Honestly, it's just it was an incredible game from both teams. I am baffled and I feel very sad for G2 because I feel like
I feel like they make the right moves. I feel like they have the potential to be that winning team
I think that the team that we saw today lose against Natty can be the same exact team that's going to win the major by the way
I still they have that they have that quality
I think that today we just saw two teams go to
Exactly what I meant before when I said the flow state is when you reach a point where both teams play just that good that it's up to the
the instinct, the intuition, the craziness of the adaptation, the call to go to Bakery
on the last round, the crazy comeback, the opening kill on Shai Kou, and then even in
that 2v2 to be able to 1v1 from Wizard by the way.
The nerves on that player, I mean he was a rookie at that stage.
The fact that it's the three most experienced player on the side of Nadek that carries
them to the EWC.
I mean there are so many things, so many ingredients in this matchup, so many storylines.
What a way to go, what a way to go for Nadek.
I want to skip back in. I want to skip back in. I'm going to go for a best of five. I want to see this again and again.
The format, they've played against each other. Three of them have gone to overtime. New form went to 12 rounds.
These two teams have been so close together this stage.
It is incredible. I mean, what a series. It had everything, an absolute breakfast.
Strategic, everything. All I can mention, guys, for having words to even describe it and talk about it.
My heart is in my throat. What an incredibly close series.
But it does see if that I move on they are still in that lower bracket as we said, but they won't even care about that
EWC qualification is the most important thing for them
And they managed to get that done from now on it is only about SI points
Which you can then double up from 200 going to 420 that would be an extra given what they've already done
I mean that's a huge point from both of these teams to be honest and because
Fnatic are gonna want to do as best as they can in terms of getting that S-like qualification
We've not seen Fnatic get a 6-in-1 session in a very, very long time as an organization,
nor the core of this team.
And then for G2, on the other side of it, yes, they did go to Salt Lake, but realistically,
they're going to hinder themselves with SI points.
They could have done better at Salt Lake in terms of those SI points,
because a lot of pressure going into Stage 2 on that stage and the Major.
They didn't have a deep run at Salt Lake City.
This is going to put a lot of pressure on the back of G2.
I wonder if the question we asked in the free game, which was Fnatic, feel no pressure,
everything is bonus.
No one expected them to make playoffs. No one expected them to take down G2.
They didn't have the pressure on themselves. All they needed to do is have fun, play the game like they did in the stage.
And this is why it's so important for them. I think the pressure really was on the side of G2.
As many players as can say that I don't feel the pressure, I don't feel the nerves.
I can tell you the nerves were there. I can tell you everyone was shaking in this game.
I can tell you the name of G2 Esports. Not making it WC, the thought that was in their head during the game.
I can already tell you this and that made a difference.
And you can you could hear it in the team comes we're fortunate enough, you know
Obviously that we can't put the public show in the game or anything like that
We're fortunate enough to listen to the team comes and every lost round you could hear like quivers
You could hear that here the voices shaking just a little bit more the kind of when they were trying to pump each other up
It wasn't because they were doing it because they felt that they needed it because people want to enter the level one moment one moment
That I heard ducky at when they're done that says guys at some point
We need to fight guys and he starts yelling
We're not gonna lose to these guys and I think Doki really was that voice comes
He was that voice that they pushed them all the way back to the overtime. He's the voice that pushed them on match point
I just feel so bad for him right now. He gave it all I think everyone on the side of G2
It feels like and I want to ask the question, you know
Have Sniatic been on the other side of the bracket? Maybe maybe G2 and Sniatic both would have made it to WC
It would be deserving I guess with how close and exciting this matchup was
the next round. We're gonna
be able to get to the last
possible spin it back to the
positives because we have a big
positive here and that is an
interview with a citizen.
Congratulations on making it to
E W C. That was your last event
last year and now you're going
back. Tell us how you're feeling.
Fínio electric. I think my
voice is going to get up my
tubular Harry Kane from last
massive. Okay. I'm just so happy.
I'm proud of everyone that
will be putting new G to shaking
their little boots. They were
I mean, I'm not sure if I'm
going to be able to do that.
I mean, I've got to ask you a
question. Who's call was it to
go bakery again in round 15
because the entire like EWC
goes on on around that you've
just just lost on the bakery.
Who made that decision? What
was the adaptations? How are
the guys feeling in that round?
I mean, the. Might the guys
have 100% trust like I'm kind
of calling along now, so
Even when I was hearing you say about like don't keep screaming like come on
We're not losing to these guys like you could tell they're just shit in their pants
I we're just chilling having a good time winning rounds and they're just shaking you know
How do you tell that that the enemy team is in this case like shaking and and shivering in their timbers like how do you notice that?
They're doing 15 second excuse. I think that's a zero. What happened to G2 go kill like they just they're just scared
I don't know just giving us three rounds
I guess then first thing first thank you because I think you you revive my passion for the game a bit here
I already had it, but I think this game was probably the best one I've seen in a really long time.
I want to ask you the question, do you think that the chances that were made by Aethnatic,
the fact that they brought you, they brought experienced players,
and the fact that they finally added someone on your staff,
made a difference today for you guys to finally have incredible results as a roster,
despite two years and a half of missing big events for this organization?
Yeah, I think like I think the biggest thing is really just like the mentality shift like I brought up last time when I was in the interviews
Just like I think that game against Swiss is mine
They'll say again really like helps us out to be honest like rockmen or was you could tell I think those like obviously with Smiths being in like a newbie
There's a bit of like that you could tell we might be scared like even like wizard can be a bit nervous as well
Begans, but then like I think after that game like something just snapped and then even against the G2 game
We lost A7 on the last playday, we even had that mindset of just like whatever happens happens
if we're not losing and then have the same mindset today and get building on it, building on it and yeah here we are
And obviously I made a joke about rejuvenating my passion
But I actually believe that that you guys are basically rejuvenating also a little bit of your careers for the older ones on this roster
You know, I think you I think Deepak
I think did shot all players that had a lot of success in service rosters and we're trying to find that new home
or you would experience that success again?
Do you feel like there is something that basically
lined up with this roster that basically rejuvenated
the passion from all of you guys?
Yeah, I think what I've really said on the entire podcast
distinct with Secret was just...
I think the biggest Secret I took from my teams
is just the environment and trying to keep it like the same.
You know, just...
There's no like trying to keep the doubts out, the fear out
and just keep positive, lose around next round, positive, positive.
And yeah, like, just because the environment was just terrible,
to be honest. You're just playing with someone breathing down your neck all the time, wasn't
good and I think me being in a team that I can finally let my voice out and speak and
coordinate stuff for the team and it's helped us out a lot, I'd say. We've seen where that
led you to as well with this new roster and you being able to use your voice to this one
to get a massive congratulations. I'm making it to EWC and thank you so much for your time.
Yeah, thank you guys.
great speaking to him and we'll talk about the interview and all the things from this game as well in just a little bit.
I think we need a bit of a breather, so we actually have something very exciting.
We have, of course, the player reactions and sit back and listen because also the player comes.
you've got players that I think have experienced multiple majors and have waited years to go back on stage.
And then on one other hand, you've got a young player that just got his first year-one experience
and for Wizard it was not long ago either. Two young players that will get to go on the first international stage.
I think it's two different reactions and he speaks so much and by the way, don't care too much about the words.
When you're within that team, when you're fighting so hard during one of these games, you will say this kind of stuff.
It's just an output of all of your emotions. You don't really think it. I've been there before,
but the most important thing is what a reaction from all these guys, how much it meant emotionally,
I think is also what was the main driver for them to win in the most critical moments.
I think so many of these guys have had a point to prove, maybe not the younger players, but like you
say, from Dpex, point of view, the last major he played was probably the one he won. In all honestly,
four years ago, you know, Deadshot's been fined in his way ever since the Wolves roster, and I
think citizens at the Chiponi shoulder, he's had a point to prove for a long time. So like you said,
you know, they they want to be back at the top table. This is the first step on the way of doing that. And you know, fair play to them because they went through. They got battered through a best of three. That was not an easy best of three. But either of those teams and whoever came out on top gets everything right and whoever ends up losing it was unfortunate because it all comes down to one round.
I mean, it was a crazy series and that's the thing that we are, you know, three and a half hours in and we have yet another
Best of three to go because we still have one more ticket for an email team to go to EWC before we do get to that final series, though
We've already sat down earlier the stage with Jack and Leo and talk to him about seats and if you ask these guys anything seats related to the EWC
to EWC. Before we do get to that final series, though, we've already sat down earlier at the
stage with Jack and Leo and talked to him about seats. But if you ask these guys anything
seat related, they will talk for hours and hours and hours and hours. And somehow,
we condensed that down to just a few minutes so we could sit and listen to what they had to say.
It's a big crepe cake. Crepes cake.
I thought you said a crab cake.
No, a crepes cake.
Like a cake with a crab and a crab.
And a crab and a crab and a crab and a crab.
Patch, buff, patch, buff, patch.
Nerf, nerf.
I think the meta is clear, right?
Attacks have never been as strong as today.
We used to have a defender-sided game for a very long time.
That's it.
Attack has taken over it.
The first group is shields.
They're played almost all the time.
We've just made a segment about their presence in the game.
the game. The second one is the crowd control operators. The KAB has received a crazy buff.
The last operator that was released was Solid Snake, incredible at crowd control.
And just before that, a few seasons before, there was DMOS, who's also really good at
roam clears. Now, if you take all of this into account, and you have two super strong operator
pools that are pulling attacks in a way that they are now not overpowered, but the balance
has completely shifted from difference to attack. Long gone are the days that you would put an entry
fragger on Ash and then put him in front of a drone because it just wouldn't work in today's meta.
So I think we're probably in the most flexible meta probably ever for the attackers.
When we started this game in 2015, there was only you and NA and you quickly became the
dominant region. Thanks to the G2 and Tentai here, it was amazing.
We'll cover the doorway as it starts to fuse.
Peggy goes for one on the young.
Can he go the second?
They're off and down.
That's the best team in the world.
Then there was the Brazil era, where they dominated everything.
In between, there was a little bit of NA success.
And then we're arriving to normal day siege, where I think the hierarchy has not been clearly defined.
I think that Brazil has lost a little bit of its glory.
NA has taken over, and EML in all of that hasn't won a title in so many years.
So we're looking at three, three and a half years since we've won an S-eximitation or a major.
I think one of the reasons for that is actually that our best talent and our best players have
been exported. If you look on the playing side, we've currently got Savage, who was probably the
best European ideal that's been created in the last two or three years. He's now playing in North
America. One of the best and our hottest fraggers that we had, Spoy, gone. He went over to North
America in early 2023 and never really looked back. And I think we will start seeing improvement on
that because of the pipeline that we're now generating. We've got a strong tier 2 ecosystem,
we've got Combine, we've got Southbridge, we've got Rumble, and a whole load of tournaments
that support those tournaments instead of the full tier 2 circuit. Also that we had for the longest
of times, having one team that dominated everyone, VDS, now Falcons, and that eliminated a lot of EU
teams at the majors and LSIs. How many times have Falcons eliminated Secret for example in 2024?
And yet despite all of this, they always reached their grand finals but never won a title.
And so in my opinion, EU has been way more consistent in the last three years than NA.
But NA, they know how to come alive and have the momentum to win an event.
We were good.
We were absolutely good when Secret lost that game.
Because ultimately, yes, we are objective and ultimately we want the best team to win and we want the best team to win.
But at the same time, when you're in the context of being in the country,
You've got a countryman there in Mowgli, up in front of the fans home crowd,
and they're in the sixth international Grand Final.
For a team that just a year ago wouldn't really have expected that,
this story was absolutely incredible.
So when Secret didn't look losing, I passed it, it was absolutely good.
I think the main thing for you to seem to lift the hammer at SI
is overcome the mental block that comes with winning a Grand Final.
I think it's a question of mental fortitude to be able to live up to the expectation
on game day for the Grand Finals day.
And if you look at Brazil, you look at the guys from Faze,
they are cool, they're calm, they're collected.
They didn't even register, it was infinite over time.
Because they didn't register, it was a Grand Final.
Because in the head, getting the Grand Final is day business,
like day-to-day business.
4&A, it's not that it's any game day,
it's that it's the game where we're gonna let everything,
all energy, we're gonna fight,
they have the tooth and nail, they're gonna trash full queue,
they're gonna have this stuff.
4EU, we're still a little bit quiet there.
Either we need to not care too much about the fact that he's a Grand Final,
or just play like we play all the time,
either we need to be matching the level of energy that NA has.
I think in general we are lacking the longevity in the roster
that helps you overcome that burden of,
oh my god, it's Grand Finals.
And I think also on top of that,
the last four chances with you has had a Grand Final in a major on the side
was on the back of a team that was feeling that mental pressure
of not another Grand Finals that we're going to lose.
What keeps me in this game is the strategic of that.
I think of the game. There is not a game like it.
We say it very often, but it's the first-person shooter,
but with so much depth, decision-making, utility,
the maps, the environment, how you can disrupt it,
free-shape it even.
Do you remember what I told you in the couch yesterday
when we were watching EML?
This game is so good.
It's so good.
You remember?
I actually told you that yesterday.
I'm like 10 years online,
and it looks very different from what it did 10 years ago.
Even two years ago, the game is constantly evolving
and constantly changing,
and what that means is it's constantly challenging you
to think about it new ways, how can we win around?
How can we view around?
How can we explain around?
It's constantly changing and challenging you.
And I think that's what sets it apart in terms of the game.
And that's ultimately what keeps us all coming back to it.
Great joy for Jack and Leo that they get to sit here
and yet talk again about more suits
with our second Vesta 3 of the day.
We have GK and Rebels going up against each other
for the final swaps at EWC for the EML teams.
Now, talk about these two, especially GK, they find themselves in this matchup having lost that game yesterday,
but they did come back from many, many met points against them.
And that shows great resilience, it shows how much experience there is on this one.
Yeah, I don't know if I'm ready for another game, but I almost stand up, to be honest.
My heart rate's not recovered.
But yeah, GK, we've seen them attend a lot of international events,
and I think the one benefit that they'll have from this is that a lot of these guys have been here,
done it before, they've run low bracket, they've been in the matches to qualify for them.
Yes, yesterday didn't go too well.
I think they got found a little bit lacking on a strategic side in map 3.
But they've got guys, as the guys on your screen that you can see,
they've got DOKA that have been to a lot of events.
Even Robbie at this point has been to a lot of events.
So they've got the experience heading into this bracket,
and that's going to be huge fun.
Yeah, despite, I would say, maybe the shallow depth of our strategy capabilities,
I think a little bit crushing, a little bit on the lurking aspect.
I think that the talent on the roster and the experience on the roster
has proved all of the grits that this team has,
and we've seen it yesterday in that match,
they never gave up.
Even when they were done multiple match points,
they saved multiple match points.
I think that Roster basically carries
a similar momentum than Sniatic,
in that sense that no one expects them to make EWC,
and they want to prove everyone wrong.
That's the contrary in regards to experience
for their opponents today, a lot less S tier offense.
In fact, Astna has only two events,
more back-to-back EWCs.
Yeah, and if you look at the 27 S tier events
on the set of Rumble,
It's not really 27 by the way, if you just look at it, it's mostly LMs on this side, 16, and then three players that are entire rookies, 0 as tier titles, for 3 out of 5.
And obviously it's a very different roster, we have three rookies starting in tier 1 with Rebels, they are not expecting to make WC, but what's Nadik expected to make WC? No.
And so that hunger that's fire will definitely be in their hands, I think very different expectations for the roster, but both of them were kind of unexpected.
And then when we look at the step four for this team here as well, you know, maybe that kind of an experience shows as well in the biggest delta in regards to the attack and defense.
Exactly, yeah. Rebels are the biggest defense crutches inside of the league. Now, what you're going to see on the left-hand side of your screen is basically, you don't need to worry about the numbers too much, but the bigger the bar hat to the left side is the more defense crutch a team is, and the bigger the bar to the right side is the more attack crutch a team is.
So Falcons bottom of your screen, attack a favour by nearly 10% in terms of their Delta.
Rebels is nearly a 30% Delta.
Between their attack win rate of 35% and their defense win rate of 64%.
Now, those stats and those underlying numbers signify that you can get away with that in the best of one.
You can find a way in the best of one to get to over time to get a victory.
Across the best of three, that could come back to her.
Yes, that's where I'm looking for improvements to be made today.
And another improvement we're looking at is a kickoff.
Kickoff, they made it to the playoff and then it's rich PO3, completely disappeared.
Was it because they're so weak in attack compared to the defense?
Was it because of nerves? Was it because of a lack of a map pool?
Many different reasons. They've had months to work on it.
We need to see the results today in the VO3.
Guys, since it worked so well for Fnatic,
how about we kindly explain to Rebels as well
how to take a team down that drop to the lower bracket?
Yeah, and the main thing to me is if you look at the playstyle on the side of Gike,
it's a lot of lurking around. It's a lot of street takes.
What's the main way to take them down?
It's basically trying to force them to problems of poor positions.
Because look at this, this was obviously Wall and Main stairs, we're looking now at them trying to clear out this player running inside a fireplace.
We're looking at them trying to clear out the player playing in suicide here on Library.
How many times have we seen Geekay fail to problem solve some basic setups, some complex setups with the denarii ones,
but basically utility is the main key for victory against Geekay.
Yeah, absolutely. What did Nekor say in the interview yesterday?
They are all luck, luck, luck.
And actually, Rebels play in stat, they can really, really put his PK.
Because GK didn't seem to have a strategy to get sort of maybe unified behind a shield,
playing utility, maybe fast pans.
It was all just about initiating lags across the map everywhere.
If Rebels don't give them that, that could be their key to victory.
There is a consistent issue with GK where they're going to spread around the map,
and when they're going to face a problem, they're going to be like,
oh, I need you to clear this.
Oh, I need you to basically burn this.
And then you can get this shield.
But the time for people to rotate and actually do this together takes ages.
And most of the time, in these rounds,
they've lost half of their own train to do something so basic.
So if you layer it and you fall in back, you'll eventually just win on time, basically.
Speaking as well of, you know, the importance for these players,
you know, we talked about GK having that kind of, you know,
the head of these sports behind him, like, oh, hey, you know,
we expect you to be making it.
We've already countered you into our wussles and teams making it.
But also for the other side, Rebels, a lot of French players,
you know, the potential of playing in the country, in front of a crowd,
maybe even as well as for Dave Procrest in the tournament.
That's two big things that are back in the Easter teams right now.
LMS has not seen a French crowd since leaving BDS, so it's a massive one for them, you know.
It's going back to an Aster event in front of a home crowd where he missed a side in Paris.
And for all these young guys, it's a dream come true. They've watched players like Lee Kefak,
first like Brite, attend huge events in front of huge French crowds. They've dreamt of this moment
and in their first season they could maybe do it emotionally. That's got to feel important.
And of course we did just have the Sixth and Seventh Session in Paris as well, you know.
They will have sat there, they will have watched it, we had Neco on the interview yesterday,
in the game. So I think
it's a good thing that we
have this team and the
team. They say that he was
there, and he really wanted to
be at an event in Paris in
France, and so for a lot of
the guys that you see on the
screen, it really is a dream
come true because you don't
know when the next one was
event is going to be there on
such a big scale, so I think
there's a lot that goes into
this game. There's
organizational size. There's
team size. There's
experiences led there so
much that goes into it, and
as we've just seen in the
very final game that was just
seen beforehand, it's about
who handles the nerves and
the pressure on the day. I
just wanted to speak about
the key little bit and two
And now on the other side, it is Yoga.
It's two players that have sacrificed everything.
They have crossed an ocean, they've went through visas, they've went through relocation, they
have abandoned their family, their friends, their close ones, to go live from their passion.
I've been there before.
I've done it twice, two years.
I can tell you these sacrifices, they can lead you to retirement if you don't take the
results that you want.
I retired because of this, because I sacrificed too much and I didn't get from the game what
I wanted.
Ask Yoga what they expect from an adventure in Europe is to make those cistern events.
I want to be free away from it.
For their close ones, for the parents that didn't see them,
it must feel truly special to see their kid actually leave
their dream and go back on stage.
Prove to everyone your close ones.
Prove to everyone in your family that you made the right move,
that you made the move to go to Europe to leave your passion,
and to actually leave up to the expectation
that you put on yourself.
And then it's just that best of three
that separates them from making it a two in international events.
I don't know what maps we're going to.
Four said that best of three.
And as it turns out, we'll be starting on Shelly as we start our little eclipse.
Yeah, exactly. So we're going to be starting on Shelly and Wada.
These are the two maps quickly that I'm going to focus on,
because actually it's all about Rebels and their defense, win rate,
and the fact that attacks, struggles.
Both of those maps are pretty easy to attack.
So I think for them, the fact they've got two out of three maps
that are good attacking maps is pretty good.
Yeah, and then there is Kaffee.
But Kaffee is a question mark in the map pool of Rebels,
because Kaffee is the first time that we saw Rebels
capable of attacking, and it was against Falcons.
The bit Falcons on the map, incredible.
Oh, the Scopos clutch.
The Scopos clutch, the famous one from Mato, was on that game.
It feels like ages ago.
It was maybe a couple of days ago,
but then when you watch Magic G2, you age a little bit.
And I just want to show a little bit of thing.
If you look into this matchup on Kafe,
you might think that Geekin have never showed it.
And indeed, at the Tiarone level, they've never showed it.
But if you look and crunch the numbers, Jack,
Geekin have actually showed Kafe recently at Belgium Masters.
They took down VP on it, and they took down the team that
just bid G2 to make it WC.
They took down Fnatic on Kaffee as well during VGM Masters.
In this event, most of the time, you don't show too many strategies.
However, you show your core fundamentals, and if Geeky, based on their defaults,
on a ranked playstyle, can take down both VP and Fnatic on that map,
I can tell you that it might be a trap on the side of Rebels to go on Kaffee.
And there's matchday reps in the bank as well.
You know, it's a little bit of confidence, it's a little bit of feeling.
You beat two good Kaffee teams, and VP are a good Kaffee team,
and Fnatic have been a good Kaffee team for the last couple of years.
You will feel a good confidence,
so your reference will play anybody on that map.
And eventually you land on border, border a map that is all about firepower,
all about lurking, all about momentum.
And if you look at the two teams and their wing conditions throughout the stage,
Rebels, it's on the back of incredible momentum, huge multiples,
on the back of Marto clutching, on the back of Lingo and Feno going crazy with multiples.
If you look on the other side, Gike, it's on the back of their main players going for multiples as well.
Chaos, lurking, fry power, all of these.
The two playstyles, if they clash on one map and it's border, the decider would go crazy.
So what I'm surmising from this ultimately is we've got both of these teams on three maps
where they really, really feel comfortable, all three of them, in theory.
If the GK theory holds true that actually they play the Belgium Masters and they're very comfortable
in cafes, because we know they're comfortable in Shelly, I think we'll be called their best map
at one point. We saw them go crazy with the castle and all those little strats and setups going on
yesterday as well. And then the final map of border where it probably just played to both of the
the team's strengths. And I think sometimes you'll see this in the best of three where
teams target their opponent's weak maps. And sometimes she ain't the best of three
where teams target their own strong maps. And I think we've been kind of fortunate here
that all three maps are going on, both of these teams are relatively strong on all three
of them.
I'm glad we had this, like, in-depth discussion on the maps and these two teams. We're still
waiting on the final players to join the lobby and get the match going. But we can already
talk to our castles because we're so appreciative. We're joined by Ace and Des for today's game.
I know guys, we always like to
joke that you always get the 45
round us, but we just had a
serious like that. Do you think
there is yet another one in the
bank for us? I feel like I've
cast 45 rounds. You know, I see
you and I sat there watching
just like screaming in room. I
couldn't believe it came down to
that. We've already had what we
had Argentina, Egypt's earlier.
We have fanatic in G2. The best
thing is coming threes. So
surely this has got to be a
banger as well, Tim. Right? Do
think is how do you follow that?
How do you follow that G2
you know, it's not like you
have to go back to the game
and then rebels will as well,
but, um, you know, yeah, I hope
we get three maps out of it. I
hope we get another cracker, but
it's going to be tough. Yeah,
it is. It is. I hope we get a
good serious as well, but we
also have good news because the
map is ready, and it's all
yours. Thank you very much. And
those are like words to my ears.
I like music knowing it's all
asked him a big best of three
the next round. I think that
the next round is going to be
a very, very exciting. I think
that the rebels can respond to
that and how many S tier events
sit under a lens in particular.
I feel this one's really hard
to pull yesterday. I would have
said, you can't but the more
thought about it. The more I
honestly can't. But this is I
don't know who's going to win
this one. For me. For me at
me that we did this walk on the
desk about the experience
within rebels and obviously
a lens has got this wealth of
experience after a little bit
I think there's maybe a little bit, you know, a few question marks there.
They've not been through that process before some of them and are they going to step up?
I'm hoping they do. I'm hoping that they're the other best for us and that they don't get kind of
overwhelmed by the occasion. Let's be honest, we've just seen G2, I think, in some forms there,
be overwhelmed a little bit by what was in front of them and, you know, the thoughts of failure
you're going through their minds
to have an impact. And so, yeah,
keep an eye on how rebels do with
that. It's very much possible for
GK as well. You know, there's
going to be a lot of pressure on
both of these two teams in many
ways because they know how big
an opportunity is. You look at
the ML and you think you've got
first pro Falcons G2, so you've
already got and I know this isn't
the case now, but you've got
when you look at it from outside
looking at it and start a stage
one, you think that's three
spots there for EWC that are
So you feel like if you're one of the other teams, it must feel like everybody's fighting over one spot and now you're in a position where G2 have actually just lost their spot and you're thinking, you know, these are actually grabs a little bit and there's an opportunity to be that team that gets in there and starts to make a difference starts to be the one that is is at the events that we haven't seen before.
And so, yeah, I think there's, you know, there's a bit of pressure there when you look at it, I think there's not really any specialization.
I think they could be.
We're going to miss the game.
Let's talk about these bands real quick because I was going to say, interestingly, this is the exact map that these two teams played in the middle of the stage.
It was on Jaleh, it was a 7-4 win to GK.
They were on 5-1 in the first half.
They had the entry in seven of the eight first rounds they played.
They dominated the early round with the early game.
Sorry, I really want to see Rebels come out swinging here and show some strength in the early game.
in the early game granted they do start on the defence where they were on the attack last time
that's what my eyes fall to. So it's all going to be raining through trying to find some utility what
we certainly want to find in any Denari trick connectors Denari with a little bit of an unusual
band there but we do see a lot of Denari used on top floor of Charlotte particularly to lock off
all of solar bathroom, piano and everywhere around it deal with all those windows so I think that's why
We have seen the denari by the way.
I saw it everybody else on there and it makes a lot of sense.
No major surprises.
Ooh, just get picked up.
I think the thorn down FNL was just sort of waiting to see
if that drone turned around or not.
It did in the end, so he's going to have to tip away.
I mean, bands just kind of just merge really quickly,
by the way, are nearly identical to last time.
The only difference is they haven't banned away.
The Monty here is the early band instead.
It's the Deimos, which was a band that came out later
in the game from GK.
So a small couple of changes around.
and I'm kind of surprised not to see the Montebeer man, but that's how things stand.
The lens, he kidnaps off with the entry, Yupa falling down, who had a couple of tough maps
to go to say yesterday, Tim.
I think he'd be looking for a bit of a stronger showing today, but on the capitol to pull down
so early, that is not so good.
A lens into water second, getting one over on Yogg and securing the trade.
All versus Fika Rebels, good first round so far.
He gives them very little to deal with a lens in this corner.
We saw his first kill go down, which was Yupuru, just kind of jumped in through window
the top of the first half of
the game. He's got a lot of
trouble and ran towards
mezzanine without a
backwards glance towards a
lens, so it's almost like he
didn't know that he was there
and then he's got himself a
second as well. Martin
just hook up. Groovy. That's
going to be the grim gone. You
haven't got your man yet need
to keep fighting here, so
it's which he will. And it's
a third for a lens. They've
done very little about him.
There's been no disruption onto
see celebrating the round there because he's just run all over them here.
Dare I say the big mistake from GK in that round was just giving him constant 1v1 after
1v1 after 1v1. And you heard the dev speaking about this a little bit during the interview
yesterday we heard the reference to GKR this lurk theme. They don't really play this hyper
structured style of teams that a number of other teams might employ and overwhelm you
with. It is somewhat relying on individual brilliance at moments. And I think in that
first round you've seen them try to make that happen and just realised they're very much
and a lens has punished them for it.
Far too easy.
The fact that they weren't even aware that he was there in the corner
is, I didn't even notice that at the time,
but that is practically ridiculous.
Yeah, that first kill went down.
The thing is, it's just, on that side as well,
it's just the position that you expect to be held.
You know, and I said coming in here,
maybe Rebels would be overwhelmed by the occasion
and the opportunity in front of them,
and you know, a little bit of an expectation of an opportunity,
but GK showing that it is more than possible
that. It's going to be a
round two. Master and office
will be our second site, which
side will GK shape up for the
attack at the minute, looking
like they could be going
straight towards a little bit
of solar. The fact that you
parties on it would suggest
that's going to be the case
with group ahead in towards
That's going to be the case with Groobie heading towards Trophy on the Monty as well, we'd expect to see this.
Get on solo windows like he's doing. Now you need to be careful, because there's somebody from Rebels that's just inside of those windows.
But he's going to be looking to get one of those Selma chargers onto the wall and open up the long angle into sight.
But they have to make sure that all the storm is clear before they do that, otherwise it will just be shot off the wall.
Yeah, I do like here our GK of Red Inspeak. They had the Monty banned away against them last night, so it was enough to be a Monty ban.
Would this be, I mean, okay, fair enough, that happens sometimes.
It was better to be there so quick and the pay-the-price claw rate.
But I was gonna say, now that the Monty's not banned away as it was last time they played in this map,
I did want to see them using it back in round one,
that sort of caused corrective and realizing round two, wait, the Monty is available here.
Maybe we should be playing him behind it and are doing so.
So it's gonna force him to play more as a unit, more as a team.
You can't force him to Monty and by himself, not with the offices on the other side,
two disrupt him, a lot of utility being dumped in, a plant already going on down.
He's going to see Bourne, no, he'll try and spray away at the feet and Groovy scared off for a second.
Sark's based at a second and we've got the Yokos up above at the same time.
They can hold on here to him with their numbers adrift really quickly.
Yeah, I don't think that GK need to force the plant here to be honest.
I think they're going and they just used them on T now.
They've got the extra man, even with Fennel finding Yogurt, they've got the extra player.
You've got to win your gunfight, so that's the problem.
Sark's loses a big one there to Asta on that office door.
They are going to go for the plant again,
It is getting shaky here as rebels continue to fight back as gets one too little too late with the York I though
Plank goes down and the momentum that was looking like it favored rebels swings back in the direction of G2
Sorry, okay, but no ideal groupie starts fighting back with that pistol gets these man
Closes out the round and that was chaos in the last 30 seconds
I did think to myself at the start of the round
I can't imagine Groovy's too like chuffed about being put on the shield like he wants to play with a gun
He wants to be problematic
He don't care what you took him on
He's got two kills on the Monty at the end in that one versus two really well played by him between alums and Groovy
Dare I say was one of the other man that was left alive probably a little bit panicked there
I think but they had to make something happen and Groovy capitalized it brilliantly on the situation
Overall, but I was a little bit nervous just for GK
They were in a five-person street, but the fact is it came down to a 1v2 for your Monty
you're not going to be able to
get a lot of the. You're not
going to be. Kind of shows you
need to get a little better
holding onto these rounds when
you find the advantage, but it's
around on the board. Both teams
have got to win. Both are fired
up. That's what you want to see.
I don't feel like GK combined
well enough with the Monty, so
groupie goes in, tries to throw a
plant down comes back out after
being disrupted by a player in
bathroom. Fair enough, but they've
got a big man advantage at that
you can push yourself forward
and try to take some of those
fights, you know, commit. It
felt like GK just didn't really
commit to one or the other. They
tried to put the plant down. It
didn't quite work. So right, get
back off. We'll have a look. We'll
get some intel with the mountain,
but. It never really committed to
it. Never like right. Let's
actually go with him. Get some
kills, play some space. And
we'll get some intel with the
the game. It's like, you know,
you know, you're going to get
some kills, clear some space,
and then it was back to the
plant, and then it was off the
and it was just, yeah, I think
they were sort of, you know,
between one idea and the other
at times and not really knowing
which to commit to. What kind of
come back to the map veto for
this series, by the way, is the
first time that I can think of
him. So for those that don't
know behind the scenes, we have
the top five. Both teams are
very happy to go to all three
maps who got coming up today,
and I'm really hoping it means
we have a proper high quality
series as we go through. Like
I said, the best thing is
coming three. So why not make
it the earlier series? How
good they are and how much they
like a given map overall? This
might be the first time that I
have seen the best of three
where both teams all three
maps sit inside of their top
five. Both teams very happy to
go to all three maps who got
coming up today, and I'm really
the game. We're going to make
it the earlier series. Why not
make it Argentina versus Egypt
and want to make it this game as
well. Both both of our games
yesterday as well went to three
maps as well. We have six
yesterday. We could. Is and that
is a long time since I've seen
four games all best of threes
all go to the full three maps.
So let's see if it happens here
today. Just got a slight
technical pause. I think we're
going to be heading back in now.
on both sides. I expect GK and Rebels both to settle into this, but we saw those early
mistakes from GK in round one, you know, just completely feeding the limbs in the corner
of library like it was, you know, some brand new position to hold on bar and gaming when,
you know, it's just number one, you expect somebody to be there. So a bit of a strange
situation there, but also then just that second round, I think it's a little bit of lack of
old teams to kind of either
the plan Rebels reacting but
not dealing with the York high
quick enough to disrupt the
plant for example and yeah so
for me a little bit of
showing I think they're
teams they settle into it well
one seems pretty fair after
the first two rounds and
hopefully we continue with that
back and forth. Absolutely while
we started out with him. Let's
see if he carries on through
that round free course. Someone
has to win it so someone's
going to start pulling back
into the lead but if we stay
neck in neck throughout then
I'll be a happy man given
And again, how the last series went when these two played on this map, as a reminder it was
5-1 to GK after the first half, very dominant from them, Rebels showing round 1, they can
play this game as well, they can learn from the last time they played each other and corrects
the mistakes, right the wrongs of the last time they faced off against each other.
The IQ on sides have been an interesting pick here, normally being into things like the
raised blues that might come out of course and towards the left-hand calls as well, but
probably wouldn't be surprising if it was also leaning towards the solace of the Lens here
So of course, help hunt it on down at the both ways.
You've got a slight range increase as well.
So the spot where she can see even more through the map now.
One minute in then, just having a look at GK.
Not really too established,
although Ask and Groobit are now making some progress
through mezzanine, and we've got the stature
just waiting strategically underneath there
to be able to clear out those electroclaws.
That was a really good draw on the nitro.
My heart was in my mouth for a second there for Groobit.
I didn't know if it was just going to kind of click past the edge of his shield. It does a lot of damage to him.
The Monty needs to be careful. Yuto does manage to pick up Venor.
Given that he's on the Nomad, I would expect him, I was going to say, to be outside of a window.
It is on the bathroom side. We saw the Denarii bang coming, so that's DK leaning into that ban.
And I like that. I'd never like to see teams take an operator away and then not use the avenues that they've opened up for themselves.
but DK are doing so by pressuring that bathroom's died.
He'll absolutely lose his life as well.
I'm changing that!
I'm just stepping across from massive risk, but...
...gives himself a live unwell, though.
They store again the arm to step out for a second,
and Nuffer rips the head off her ass,
who is stepping out of belief in a C4 in hand.
Certainly a little bit of a yeet to get that one all the way to the window
and pays the price for it.
So two kills starting things out for DK.
They were here last time, though, Tim.
We found them at a 5v3.
the game. They took it all the
way down to a one V two. Yogdo
is sure they maintain that
advantage for now, and the
walls are starting to close in
here on towards Lincoln gets
away with one, but there's a
shield in front of his face and
no doubt player on solar. He
knows that swing is coming.
Didn't quite know when, but as
gets the kill. Marks are left
all alone. You put with the
close. GK with a really good
third round. Yeah, just I think
as I said, those nerves there
are going to start settling
over these first few rounds. I
think we're starting to see
that particularly for GK and
the last two rounds. They've
had a very solid attack there
to take around three. They've
also had the entry kill in
round two and three. It was
something you mentioned at the
beginning of this one. Des we
starting to see GK get
themselves, you know, a little
bit of advantage their socks
and you poor picking those two
up. Heading then towards
round four. We will get our
last bands coming Rebels
decide that they've had enough
So they're going to take that away.
And it's going to be a Rooney on the other side.
It lends, of course, playing a Rooney in that library corner.
Seems like a little bit of a reactive band as that one.
This is what's about last time round two.
Band is half one or two in the round as well.
So I'm not too surprised to see it going away.
But it's not a lie.
He's the entry.
I'm thinking it lends back in round one.
But if they get that through the free,
I think it's better to take it away.
The DMR just so deadly in so many power positions on this map.
And interestingly, again, looking back at the last time
they played this map and the bands that came away,
at least on the side of Rebels, the bands
We've got here were exactly the same. It's now to change in order on the other side. So what was the same?
They were to go solo this last time around they're rather leaning in towards the Aruni
Clearly identified we feel there's a bigger problem right now coming in from that DMR and that is from solo
Let's walk him out with a piece user
Aruni is great for burning utility if nothing else, you know, you think about it goes three layers of gates can then be
Three flash has gone couple of nades, you know, whatever it might be three pieces of utility or maybe even drones
the game. So if you look at
those, you can see the
difference. If we look at those
as a separate thing to clear
out those laser gates, but then
it can be re energised after
appear as well. So you know, three
is not really the limit with
those laser gates. So if you're
looking towards playing an
Intel game and sorry, a
util game and being able to go
in there and disrupt those
back around. We go for Rebels to
bar and gaming. This is the
start that they will in the
first round. I will give GK a
pass for that first round, but
if they do not feel with the
lens in the corner of library
this time, then they deserve
everything they get. It's a
nurse little bit. It's not
it wasn't on the was he was
sat in the very, very corner
I hope it's signed soon. So, a bit of a misstep argue there coming in for a lens and pays the price.
Thankfully, not too much to worry about on the other side in terms of utility to punish him.
I mean, there are smokes in the back pocket of Twitch and of course, the Cafetower's got to have his own.
But it's not like you're having to deal with any Candela's here without the Warden on side.
So it's not the end of the world more than but still paying to lose the entry.
Problem with this start and losing the entry, Ruby does actually get taken down as I'm speaking.
to pick him up. Linkering you
three versus three now, but
losing that entry here on this
site particularly means you
start to lose one of your
corners of that triangle
upstairs. Usually so your
library stairs, your corner of
library, your library box or
mezzanine wherever that person
is playing. You start to lose
one of those and when you lose
one, the other two become
considerably weaker like this
position now for Fennelly is
just trying to move around and
over come into anything because he loses life if he does. So nicely paid from GK, get that entry,
break that area down and start to use that vertical superiority which they're now doing.
The time wise as well, it's the last for a return, they've got to roll out,
it's a lot of loads more to worry about tearing away.
Time a little bit of softening up inside the sides itself, but without loads of vertical here,
it does mean you might just find Red Bull players able to sit in little
They're called on rat corners and are sometimes quite ready to go for the punish before it.
They've got this hat and that could be absolutely hell for them, Sarks.
Well, he's heading to the bait there and triggered the race blue and Feno steps out for his second in the round.
Asked with it all to do.
Now, it's going to sit and wait for him to step his way down and show him exactly what he does.
They know that he's now pushing his way in through lobby to challenge him towards Feno,
who comes away on top of this one.
Feno's giving it the good old one two though.
Asked can't win it out.
Feno with the 3k in the round.
That's three in a row for GK, Tim.
I said, good things coming three, he's in for GK.
that's a good thing. That's
really smart from Feno there.
He was just waiting as long as
he could to take that challenge
because he knew that there'd be
a reward at some point. So he
just kind of I'm not saying he's
counting individual bullets, but
he's probably just getting a
little bit of an idea himself.
You know, that's three. That's
another four. Another four. So
he's just getting that rough idea
of right. There's going to be a
reward coming here. There has to
be some steps out and wins that
they were able to get top
floor control, but didn't ever
really use it. Rebels dropped
away nicely. We knew that it
was getting a little bit too
hot in the kitchen. Not quite
literally that's going to be
this right, but they knew it
was getting too hot for them,
so they dropped away, fought
their fight elsewhere. Really
nice stuff from them on the
defense. All right. Well, I
Alright, well I think it's better to say you've got to see a little bit of a turn around, a turn up here then for both sides.
Stayed neck and neck as he's gone through so far.
Rebel is obviously managing plenty of fire and without the DMR on side, they've managed to find their way through and backflip back in, so can't defend that much.
Dining as well, we'll set down to round five.
And look, it's towards that line up there. Still, there's going to be a few headaches and GK to have to work their way through.
Mainly looking towards the new jammers and towards the Kaid here as well.
Melusi was talking about a number of times and
it's a thing I heard a few like Koshima speaking about as well is
when would you want to bring along a braver, if you see a maestro on site it's always an obvious go-to
but also when there's a Melusi because she does get four of those down and because it is
lots of stuff that's going down attack is about the fact that it gives information away in the same way that Bracer Blooms do
if they get shot out or triggered or whatever you just notice someone's pushing in from that side
and they're committing effort and resources trying to clarify that part of the map
so here of course Linky doesn't have that challenge
that. It's not a good idea to
play it. Maybe they'll be
Yorgon, the desire with the
factory MPs to help towards
that end.
Drums will match to.
Dodge the new Jammer there.
Get on inside, have a little
look. They know that there's a
player up on mezzanine. It's
going to be Feno on the phone.
Has played his race. Plumes
particularly well. We saw a
great example of it last time.
How about that from Groovy though?
Marta is going to be kicking
looking for it. There's not a
whole lot they can do with it
once they've got it, mind you.
And then you've got two breach
and charges in the back pocket
of Groobie here as Pirol
start getting exchanged.
He's asked on towards the
New Yorkie, he wants to find
Belinku. And then again
appearing in the kill feed as
he finds one, went to a three
versus three at least
temporarily while Yogg
is down on the deck.
Yeah, not ideal here for GK.
You're going to have Yogg
come back up onto 20,
which means that most guns
are going to manage to find
the kill onto him.
Four versus three.
They're away.
Yogg manages to shut him down
and that's why you always
That's why you always pick your players up.
You never know what they're going to do later in the round.
You poor managers have found Linku 4 versus 1.
And it is now just a case of find a bit of space
and put the diffuser down, which act begins to do.
Fighting from the hatched door,
after managers to get through.
That's going to be the plant stopped as well, there's.
4v1 becomes 2v1, GK.
They could have a problem here.
Is it a B?
It is, but he knows.
it might be. They can keep playing this game all day. Does he know? Yes he does. And he
gets the down as well. Oh no. Pushing up solar stairs could have been the player I would
have thought. Will he be able to get his man up though? Looks like he will. Hasn't got
the angle on towards him. One of them has to hold these verticals. One has to go for
the plan as they come in towards his last five seconds. They're going to try again.
That's looking towards the wrong spot though. No, they're back in the same place they were
earlier. But he doesn't have any idea till he was so close. A second or so away. And
maybe we're celebrating an amazing clutch, but instead, it's now just like an impossible
comeback for us. Yeah, that was really rough for us. He was so in control of that situation.
I thought he was just going to keep picking the right plant spot every single time gets
his man though, 1v2 becomes 1v1. We've got a flip reversal. Sox has gone upstairs. Is
he going to be able to find the angle? He's going to get away with it. A 1v4 clutch from
One stays around downstairs, one works his way upstairs.
You either go together and play as a unit and look for a trade upstairs,
or you stay on the downstairs and you hold for a crossfire.
GK probably gonna kick him himself there because again,
they found themselves with the entry,
but not being able to convert the round cannot be given a 1v4 way like that.
So, Rebels currently sitting on top of things and getting themselves a slim advantage, but
in the overall picture of Shallie, this could be particularly big because the attackers
generally have a good time of
things on. Shall if rebels are
able to come away with a photo
defensive half or even having
secured the three is pretty good.
But if they could take the four
to half on defense, GK could be
in some serious trouble before
they know what's going on,
depending, of course, you know,
we always see that side switch.
We don't ever know what we're
going to get on the other side
of it, but rebels if they come
through on the attack and start
could be uh panic stations just a little just a little again if you look back at the last time
the two teams played against each other and it's always worth jumping back into what the stats
look like what they banned away i was speaking about earlier on but also what the results were
it was that five one first half as ek that was just so ridiculously dominant we're touching on they
are three zero on the track they beat versus pro here just yesterday on this map like they should
The rebels have challenged them every single step of the way and when it was rebels on the defence they managed to win three defences.
It did only take two attacks and GK to see things over the line, but as it stands, rebels are matching the performance they had last time around.
When things switch sides, that's who might start to see them coming a little bit undone.
Two halves to a game of siege, I always say it, and it might be the rebels really struggling with the attacking side, but we'll see when we get there.
the
the entry again goes to yoga.
That's five in a row, by the way,
but rebels just don't seem to
be too affected by it.
They are happy at least whilst on the
defence to I'm sure they would choose otherwise,
but they seem pretty happy to get
these rounds one even when they start off
with the man disadvantage. The pattern turns
to follow that they lose an early
entry. This one wasn't too early,
but in the first half of the round
There's not much to follow from there. Opportunity for Feno to level it up, which he does.
And all of a sudden, that big entry that GK got is a little bit neutralised.
Three versus three.
Yeah, the battling back and forth is the key one there, Ryze.
Much of this war team of the entries, two kills coming back from GK to equalise things.
However, it's not late in the round, but it's a point where it's still the mid-round, right?
Where you're still able to disrupt and take things away from the attackers.
The Grim Bs, usually the buck downstairs, for example, they've lost those two key capabilities.
and the softer capabilities they've got in the A to the IQ.
God, the Swings of Lincoln is surely a freebie, no!
Should have had his name every single day of the week, but ask.
His second in the round being collected, it's a three versus two,
makes it a third for himself.
Not at all a bad showing.
Assa's already pulled off a 1B14, what's a 1B3 in the next?
Quite, it should be easy straight now, shouldn't it?
The only thing is he doesn't have that verticality to play with
that he sure does saw well last time.
It feels like GK know exactly where he is as well, which they do.
Wow.
As fans his man as he comes around the corner and that is going to level things out three, sorry not four, two on the half?
Three three, three three on the half.
Three three on the half.
Well we're confused from the heat, but let's go back to the desk and see what they think.
This is really post back and forth between these two teams.
We want to take it back to round two, where we saw something from GK that led to the Monty Bend,
then led to Rebels winning more rounds on defense.
Yeah it feels like I can you know forgive Ace because so many of these rounds you feel like
should go the other way. Look at this one from Grubby, by the way, a 1v2 clutch. Really beautiful
one from him with the mounties. The main wind condition on the side of Geek and you're gonna
see it in this round round 3. Look at the pressure that Mounties apply in creative movement, right?
In solo stairs, he's all the way upstairs and one player has to swim from back from get to kill.
Same thing happens downstairs here in trophy. How many players are coached? Moving too much.
By ask, on the nomad or by that sure on the trophy window, the game plan for Geek was simple.
We're going to push people away with a shield, we're going to have people lined up on windows,
and we're going to punish the fact that Rebels move too much. But the thing is, how many times have
we seen Geeky basically get them an advantage and somehow throw it away because they lose these gunfights?
Yeah, it's five entries in a row and ultimately they've ended at what, 3-3 in terms of the score line?
I think, yeah, the Monty Ban was pretty significant. I think Rebels got themselves back into it,
but they also got themselves back into it on the back of a huge clutch, by the way, coming out from
I think, you know, what was it? One versus four. He came down the hatch. Now, the GK comes during this round was that he had input, because he just seemed to be absolutely everywhere, knowing exactly when they were going to plant everywhere at once.
It was just pure gain sense on his front. Gets it down to one versus one, and then gets the fuse off from inside of West Main without being, you know, exposed to any of the vertical. Absolutely huge clutch from him.
He keeps his team in it.
Such a good player as a reminder.
It's a player that made his debut not that far ago.
It was only a couple years ago that he arrived in the ML.
He was already so strong on their side.
And it goes to show if you're here to come to momentum
on their side whenever he did that.
I will say this though, this was the best side for Rebels.
When they switched to attack, it's not the same story at all.
They've always struggled with it.
There is one common factor between the two of them.
It's hesitation.
Hesitation for GK means that in so many of these rounds,
they get the opening engagement.
And in these later on situations,
they take the wrong decision.
Arguably the clutch from Gruby should have not have been on their way
They should have lost that one because they hesitated in the execute same thing happened in that clutch ago from ASAP because they hesitated
And that's a problem that rebels find themselves as well when they're in attack
Hesitation is killing their victory basically and so there's one thing that we need to see from them is decision decision making this to happen
I wonder if it would come out
I wondered if the band would come out because we're not in DK play this map at least twice maybe even three times
How many times have we seen Gruby on Castle?
just most of it to be honest all the time most of it and it is so effective and the reason it's so
effective is because it just cuts some of those key lines aside and it forces people to play close
to it or bring a hard breacher which you don't necessarily need on Shelly so if you're playing
close to it and you're soft breaching it then you've got to physically put something there you
can have a playmate on you or you've got to bring a banner on A which aren't always available or you
don't always want to play on the top so I've been waiting for a team to ban it away from go bait
rebels have finally done it yeah which could maybe be the key for them to win attack and rounds we
we talked about that Delta being so big and really favoring the defense. So for Rebels,
the hardest side on Shelly is up next.
Thank you very much guys, indeed it is going to be that hard a side to play their way through
but Rebels have much of it his last time Tim that got to show real power on the attacking
side and as the guys alluded to, we saw a lot of group playing against him yesterday, he
loves playing the operationist Matt when things like Mira and his army are banned away so then
here we'll force a little bit of difference out of the other side.
You know, we'll keep an eye on
Group B and see exactly what
he's got with Denari this time,
but we'll see.
It's more where he's playing,
particularly that interests me,
as well.
You know, we saw yesterday those
great escapes from him just in
that spot between Bathroom and
Solar on that, that, you know,
he was just unmovable.
I think he soaked up three nades
at one point, was on his belly
to stop somebody shooting him.
Five?
Yeah, there was just no
getting to him.
So we'll keep an eye on Group B
and see exactly where he's
I'm just looking at the holders for rebels as well on the attack of shally
I have 47% win rate they do tend to turn better on the defense than they do on the attack
So there is still an opportunity for GK here early challenge comes in
Asked man just to get what he is surrounded was always going to be taken down
But look who he took out with him. It's Linko gone and he's got the grin. Great start for GK
Yeah, definitely good for when the later on comes in they're trying to push into certain parts of the map or into walled site
the Grim being offline would be massive for them. One of the stat we didn't really get a chance to
speak about before we jump back into this was this actually mirrors very closely to the last
game as well and in those first six rounds we have multi kills in five of the six rounds. So if
you've noticed what that means a 3k or better, a lens in round one, a u-frame round three,
Fedo and Astro in four and five, Astro at 4k in round six. We even have one clutch last time,
we've got one clutch here granted it was the most better clutch this time in a one before,
but the parallels to the last time they played, it's quite scary how well it's tracking so far.
utility to clear. They're not in a position to even, you know, consider putting the diffuser down and we're down to 50 seconds.
Two of them, at least one of them needs to get inside of the map to help us are out.
It's going to be a very nervy finish for them, I think.
I'm just going to say, I love this for the thought and say, control of Groovy's favourite spot.
Inside of Solar, Tux in behind the pillar.
And if he had, he would have been dead to the right since that floor, as you've seen, they're already been blown out.
Not for a point of the trigger there, so I was feeling about a freebie on towards Mato.
As for the elsewhere to find one for himself and start his march on forward.
Does he know about Groovy? He does, but does not manage to hit the shot.
3-0-2.
Looking a little bit ropey here for Rebels, Simmers.
Now we're in a 1-b-3, all to do for Mato.
GK starting the half off strong.
Yeah, it just felt a little bit separate.
It's not to say that Mato isn't able to win this day.
You know, we've seen him win the biggest culture stage 1 without question.
I think it's fairly unlikely now three seconds. I don't think that he's not gonna get anything and I think GK have played that round as a team much more than Rebels did. So Rebels had Mato out on bathroom window. They've got a lens on the ink on double window. He's sending Candela's in. That creates a little bit of space for
of space for us to move up the
stairs. But as a even though he
gets a kill, he's always kind
of isolated in that position
because nobody's inside of the
map to help him. You know, as
soon as he moves past the bathroom,
if effectively, he loses that
support from his teammates on
those windows because they don't
really have angles any deeper
into sites. Or you play maybe
the user down instead inside of
there. But because they haven't
that. So GK, I just think had those angles, had those positions locked down a little better.
I saw the vision from Rebels. I just don't think that they were really, you know, in the positions
or kind of playing strongly and if they needed another body inside of the map to help pass her
out there, or a way to deal with Ruby and clearing, but it just wasn't to be. GK, get their first
defense. And Tim, if we find ourselves seeing the entry go the way GK missed around the parallels
the last time continued because once again we've seen a perfect snap match the last time.
Seven of the eight entry kills would have gone to GK as they did the last time these
two teams played on this map. It's been six in a row now for GK. The early round has been all
them rebels who struggled to fight back in a lot of them. They did at least a nice throw at the
schools too and get it onto their side as well as scores because they're relatively tight.
But I do worry that if they're carrying it the case they are. GK will start to run away with this
the same way they did last time around, it was a 5-1 defensive half to GK and dare I say it feels
like we're going down that same road again. You can only play 4B drive for so long you're
absolutely right before it starts to take its toll you know before you feel like you're always on
that back foot and especially on the attack when you're losing the last time it was grim you know
let's see if it happens again and they lose out on the entry which operator do they lose is it
you know is it the cup of tea this time with all that utility that comes along is it going to be
you know, you're losing so much
in terms of your attack at the
beginning. If that entry doesn't
go your way. So a minute in
rebels are applying some caution
here, certainly not throwing
themselves into the map. Menos
the only one inside at the
minute. Not really. He's on the
balcony. Manages to find his
killed towards the inside,
though, and that's people rebels.
They get the entry. They don't
lose that early body. It's
I think that's a good start for them.
Group 8 does find an answer.
Nitro on to Kapitow.
I said what utility are they going to lose in those early kills
and it is some big utility with the Kapitow.
Very consistently it's been that as well, right?
Like we've seen Grim going down,
which is the Kapitow going down.
It's been key operators.
Not like you pick up a lock and IQ or something.
It's not too bothered about losing overall.
Yeah, a bit of a nuisance,
but losing these bigger operators that are focused on your execute,
I think is real stinger.
Now for now, as you've just seen,
there's still a little bit of control going on upstairs.
on upstairs. I'm not in an awful spot so let's get the teaser from top main.
This spot where they're softening things up, he saw this back in the first half where GK
didn't have enough vertical destruction to stifle out everyone on the side of the level
to lead, so you're asked to be in level 1 vs 3. Sword needed a killer since I never asked
to speak at the level. Light is straight down, somebody needs to find everything right now.
Throw it at him at once, he's coming way on top.
this round. I'm not sure. I
can ask yoga manages to find
Fenor takes and get 3B to the
world and he's on his belly.
L. A's is going to find
Groobie takes him down to be
to this round like a rubber
band back and forward. You
poor finds the trade to versus
one yoga full health on the
warden, so he's not going to
to get the kill. It's going to
be GK taking another. That's
53 now, and they're starting to
find that little bit of space. On
one of their favorite maps,
shall we? It's where I was a bit
worried again. The parallels the
last time are a bit too obvious
and not all that much can change.
I don't think we saw GK have that
51 defensive half last time the
building towards it now, and I
said it when we were at the three
to school and for rebels. They
don't have brilliant clutch off
the back of us. Sure, but I was
nervous about what happened to
So sure, but I was nervous about what happened when we got into the second half and we saw them on the attack
And we're seeing exactly what I was worried about here
A little bit of coherence as they're coming out as a team and it's weird because on the desk before the game
We were speaking about the very very fair point. It's all a horizontal interview for example
GK likes to play that more like lurky style game like admittedly on the defensive side as far as the play lurk
It's more of an attacking term when you say someone's lurking
But you just expect Rebels to be able to tie things up here in the same way they've tried to the first half
To try and play more as a unit and be able to contest in groups
I say here in the second half, it couldn't look anymore, just great if they tried, you have one player trying to go on to repel, while we had a lens pushing his way down main stairs and looking for kills, I was a little bit like, can we bunch up a little bit, boys are not going too crazy here, they just really got a tight bit to put things on the attacking side, this is where it's falling apart, it's not playing as a scene and it's only going to keep on costing them rounds.
the game. The one that's
I'm not sure if you can find
the one that's been in the
game for a while, but it's
going to be a tough one to
work with in touch in distance.
So if they get this one, there
will only be one round between
them. So. Although despite
GK's best efforts, it is still
five versus five of them. So
there's a lot of damage on him,
and if we have a quick look
across from nobody in the
building yet for rebels 45
seconds into the round until
Martau takes himself into
basement. Very common CS
I'm afraid he's giving himself
away and now Martin close range.
We can't even find it. Ask
up one of his own turns out his
shot covers a little bit better.
It'll be a flawless round for
GK and once again, Tim, it feels
like rebels are just starting to crumble.
That's four in a row. They've lost now.
Yeah, I love that aggression from
ask there. Of course he was heard,
but he's got sledge coming
towards you. He's not the quietest
of operators. I don't ask just
the team. I'm going to be
going to be the first to get
this fight on my own terms.
Steps out gets the kill with
the shotgun. Beautiful stuff
and his team just accelerate
towards the line from their
63 then three map points
coming up for GK to get
themselves off to a strong
start to remind everybody of
what's at stake here. The
winner goes through to the
Esports World Cup. That will
round out our fourth team.
They will join Falcons,
winner, the loser will not be able to make it to the east. What's welcome there will be no second chances. They will just go on to
being as a fifth place playoff at that point.
Absolutely. You only heard the der speaking about it a little bit, but
Of course, got the worry about the S.I. Point. It's the D.P. from running towards us. It's wise and ported yes to win here and now make it into
EWC, but also to make a good run here through the overall bracket. Not forgetting, of course,
other teams to play against, should roll on through the win with this one against the
Nathik, then you've got your course, Alcans waiting, you've got Verdes, Pryo waiting.
So Vicky is waiting there and the points to the winner I think is 420, finished in fourth
place, you get 200, so it can be quite different and you and I remember all too well Tim, BDS
back in the day, missing out on an SI by five points, DRX, just going to show that as the
position you can get, every point that you can scrap over the line, it can count.
It really, really does.
When it comes down to you being
amazed at how close these things
end up year after year.
It's like relegated on gold
difference in the Prem.
Yeah, it really is.
He's feeling himself
9 and 5. He's having a great game
so far, by the way. Today's
really solid.
You were not happy. You were not
happy yesterday with that.
You ask for better and ask
Well, can't be complaining, certainly given the good power you parry all the time, I had
him on the fight to play it yesterday. They're doing good and Nade in the corner, can he
tuck in? He can indeed, for now he's still here. He had to try and find a kill, but
Linku knows it's all too well, so back away, get behind the shield and let the Nade do
the job.
Asked actually got really unlucky there, he springs into action on that window and he
He shoots right in the correct place.
If it's anybody other than Blitz, he gets killed.
He gets a kill and he escapes, but it just wasn't to be.
He knew that he was in trouble.
And as soon as he pops out, it's one of those moments
that he knew he'd made a mistake.
And the shield was right there in his face,
and it was a big problem.
So a good start for Rebels.
They get themselves at least that early pick.
Five versus four, a minute 30 left on the clock.
They can start chasing down socks
inside of big garage now as well.
noise position but he does have an
nitro so the blitz needs to be a little
bit careful. We've also seen the shotguns
doing really well against blitz over
the last couple of days. We saw it in
that fanatic game if you remember stomping
it was when he was pushing onto freezer
Deepak managed to hit him with the shotgun
and we've seen that a few times. Very
effective at picking up the damage on
these operators.
I was facing the front doors a couple of
times now it's the reverse four when it
was groovy pushing into here but a
to be on to Marso this time round.
Of course, it's rebels looking to get control of that upstairs.
So I do hear he starts to go towards the side.
This year was waiting for ready patients of the state there from Marso.
Who be also does get fellow, though.
So they could have been a five person street in that gap still stays at one.
And just like that, it gets turned on its head once again.
What is it?
The attack is not being able to hold on to a lead on this map, Tim.
Yes, I've been tough for them.
And it's a tough for us as well.
So I'm just gonna say, GK can just kind of drop back and take the fights as they come.
They don't need to, they just get them as they are.
Pick up the final one inside the fireplace, that's gonna be 7-3.
It quick, smart win for GK on Shallie.
Everything very optimistic about this one,
Tina, 7-3 performers like that going into a mountain valley.
Anyone who's seen you play, Cafe is gonna have fireworks.
We'll see you in just a few.
Give me the ashes!
You're mine!
Give me the ashes!
Lights! Lights!
Camera! Kill!
Give me the ashes!
GK go flawless on their defenses and then I find them
themselves on map points to make it to EWC. What a great half we just saw from Geeky.
In particular, there was nothing that Rebels could do about it.
No, and it's exactly what we feared, Jack. We feared that all the five Rebels could
put. The only moment they could really contend with Geeky was when they were in defense.
Because in defense, their game plan is pretty sound. In defense, they all get aggressive
and they will feel that confidence. In defense, they can trade each other. They can have those
big clutches. But on attack, they need to coordinate stuff. They need to have a deeper
you can feel it. And that's something that they clearly don't have being against Geeky.
And even then, the defenders didn't look that great. Relied on one clutch, also relied on
the fact that they had to ban away the Monty. Whenever Geeky will play the Monty and unify
behind the shield, it really, really struggled for Rebels. So I'm very, very fearful. I think
for Geeky, the one thing that I was actually impressed by was yesterday, and I forgot a
lot of the stage all we've seen is lurk, lurk, lurk. And yes, we did see lots of that today
when they were on their attacks, but they did have those rounds with it. They were playing
behind them onto playing more for a cross player, more playing for a plant, which is another
layer that we haven't necessarily seen from them yet. And then as soon as they got onto
their defenders, they were just capitalizing it, identifying the 1v1s. Look at all these
engagements, the lack of refrags, the lack of team players coming out from Rebels. When
that happens, you give the advantage to the defenders. You just give them easy 1v1s because
they've got the powerful positions, they've got the utility to play behind, and they will
punish you forward. And GK is exactly good at that, at just that punishing them, right?
How many of these rounds? Just pay attention to Gruby, meaning these two gamefights on
Denary by the way. It seemed basically picking these guys, but on top of that you always
see another defender ready to double up on him. And what a great game from Gruby once
again. I know we've talked about Gruby's resurgence throughout the stage, but it's actually incredible
to see the consistency of it. There is one thing to do during a B01 in the stage, but
the fact that he's done it across the six win streak they've had, and then continues
to do it yesterday, bring the playoff, and again today when EWC is on the line, you have
to play this player, right? He formed his way through tier 2, he grinded his way and
then had to go back to tier 1. What a great pick up here. Great to see him and U4 as well,
the two from Team Retic, the two tier 2 players carrying their team into this one.
Yeah, looking at that player in particular as well, you know, a big, big step up for
him there from yesterday, going into today really.
Yeah, I mean, we said it, right, against VP.
U4 was basically the only weak link, really, from that lineup.
I love his craft, Fritz.
Yeah.
He was struggling a little bit.
He felt like he was pressured.
He played a lot of these positions that were where he was getting tripled utility by VP.
And I think that right now, today, we're starting to see him show up.
We're starting to see the potential in this player.
And just at the right time, he comes alive.
One EWC is on the line.
There's always been a play of that as well.
I think we've seen you put now on multiple tier one rosters, not for long stints in any of them really.
I think Habi probably gives a little bit too much to the team in terms of personal strength.
He will often play in the trickier positions or the trickier operators, but when push comes to shove, he does have raw talent with him as well.
And with him stepping up, if we add in the another ingredient, looking at the map Vito, with the map that we have next for us in this Vesta 3,
that means we have a GK, not big, right? Yeah. That means that then rebels get to pick their
stuff. Rebels. Yeah, Rebels, my big story. Yeah. So that means that GK, then gets to pick their
sorting site. And of course, they will pick defense. Um, and we did just see quite a
tacky sided cafe between fantastic and G two, but we're not going to see necessarily that
between GK and rebels. Let me remind you of the graphic that we showed all the way back
at the start of this game. Rebels are the biggest defense crutch team in all of the ML. They have
almost a 20, almost a 30% percentage differential between their attack and defence win rate.
That will have only gone further by the way because when they played on cellay they won
three defences, they got 50% defence win rate but they didn't win a single attack.
Now they're going on to cafe, there is a map that you need to be confident on the attacks
on for a team that isn't confident attacking, I worry Leo.
Yeah, 0% attack win rate, attacking on cellay, one of the easiest map to attack in the meta,
one of the easiest map where you can problem solve strongholds easily, you have to do it
on cafe.
much much stronger map for defense with a lot of crossfairs and a lot of utility
laid in front of you. It's gonna be a rough one especially mentally to come
back from it. It sounds like a dangerous recipe honestly individual players
stepping up plus GK starting on their better side on cafe but can they cook?
Cafe will tell us. Can they cook Tim? When it blend we're gonna find out all these
cooking related culinary questions will be answered in the next half an hour or
So and of course the one answer that you care looking for is the one that sees them walking away with the map win and making it to
EWC
Rebels have got to fight their way back in but better say to them the audience is still as split as we are
Tim
It's a really tough one to call. There's I think GK carries
You won't be worthy yeah, brilliant
I'm not sure if you can see it,
but it's just giving me buttons.
It's going to be tough to call.
You know that old man to come out
as soon as I like putting that
tape over your keyboard.
You can only press like one key on it at a time.
It's going to have to be put over
every button on the remote control.
Apart from on off and volume up a day.
For your birthday, that is exactly
what I'm getting you, a keyboard
and a mouse.
Well, only like the left mouse button
is left available.
And all the keys, except for like
your name, are blocked out as well.
It'd be brilliant.
It's a difficult one to call.
really good momentum in here
from shall we? It was a good
performance. Just typically in
that second half really, really
nice from them. They were on the,
you know, defense there. They're
coming on the defense again, so
maybe that gets them rolling. We
know that cafes pretty good for
attacking as well. But just
having what the other interesting
point for is that we haven't
seen and I'm sure this has been
meant. We haven't seen DK
three times in the last half.
You know, April onwards, they've
played here three times. So,
this footage available from, you
know, for not a huge amount, but
enough. Whereas, GK, you've got
to go in in mind here. You don't
necessarily see rebels. Not
exactly what they're going to be
bringing to the table. So, you
don't have to be very reactive
siege. And I really do see a
world where GK take this into
despite this being rebels map
pick another basically, and I
like it. I like when teams pick
Yeah, we're just gonna go there and we back ourselves on it, but honestly, I don't know that it's a bad map for GC5.
It's not, they never play it, but their buying tendency again points towards them being willing to play it.
Just notes that you never really take it down. You heard Leo say it ahead of the show as well, they played it at the Bell's and Master's recently.
So the show that they can play this map, they beat Virtus Pro there as well, stressing 8-6, but winning 4 attacks.
That tells you, they can play this map.
So, let's see how they shape up. First performance on the defensive side, we can worry about how they'll do on the attacks a little bit later.
As we saw back on Shelly, for Rebels, the challenge was on the attacking side. With it being their map pick, I am hopeful.
I won't say optimistic, I'm hopeful we see a good first half out of them.
The shield is in above. Ooh, that was a little bit of a late flash there. Not going to get the job done, though.
spot where you look at it there and say, right, you're in a 5 versus 3, this is the kind of moments that you shouldn't be losing.
Like, you've got all the evansions in the world that toss people off to C4 at you,
and not managed to find a single kill with any of them.
Like, this is, this is your round to lose.
Like, if you lose this round, tapping on the back of DK, it's on the back of you losing the round.
Just watching the verticals, nozles, the beast, and pressure, he is the near ghost, and the spray doesn't find any damage.
game of captain mouse continues, however, it's Lincoln LMS who managed to pick up the next two on the five plant going down. You
probably got his work cut out. Just by trying to kill and drop the diffuser, but you still feel like it is unlikely to be enough.
We have seen a one before successfully pulled off by after tonight though. You poor could go one better here just got just out of the way that
the first round. They're not
going to be on the map. Not
there, but as he gets up on top
of the utilities in the corner,
the lens is watching, waiting
and anticipating managers to
get that kill takes him down.
It's going to be rebels taking
the first round, just like
they did on shally. Like I said,
hopeful, not necessarily
optimistic when they played
against Falcons, which is the
last time rebels played on this
map. The only managed to win a
win the one that mattered and then of course we all remember that round 14
Marto 1v3. Do you see his Scott Boss getting picked up? Well, it starts to feel very very
nervous but of course that will come around when we see Rebels on the defensive side.
A change here for GK going into Wolff's Mute and a mozzie lineup as a pair and
that's looking to lie away a lot of the Intel game coming out from Rebels. Maybe
you've read from them in the last round, but yes, things like Lips for a little bit of a nuisance.
Yes, they played it well but a lot of that was informed by utility. How do we change that?
We deny that utility away from them and make sure there are black spots across
them out where they have no idea what's going on.
If the game blank out here after four of them this time, the problem is if you're going to play, and you're not going to this time, but if you're going to play against a sheet, you know, they brought the Mosul and the Reconbow last night.
Not the reason it's not going to work is because we've got a shield. So they go in there and it doesn't matter when they've really got the drums on, because they're quite happy to just face check anyway if they're just walking.
walking behind the shield, the shield feeds the intel, and it's basically like having a
really big walking drone that has a gun. So it kind of solves that, because if you kill
them, you'll slow you down a little bit, but you can walk through and you can feed that
information back into teams. You don't have that this time, so it could be more effective
if you watch how quickly they manage to take that top floor control. We'll get a good idea
as to whether it has been more effective or not. The castle's going to slow them down
the game. He's going to be
in the lead. There's a lot of
good job of cleaning as well.
We spoke about his consistent
use of Castle previous. I don't
think is going to be me. Jammer's
in place this thought goes to
Barnum pellets taking the castle
barricade out and 50 seconds
in. I think pretty even at the
minute rebels are doing some good
job of clearing utility, but
GK doing a good job of playing
behind it as well.
Ever see a castle barricade on
this double door? I always
really wanted to have the years
I'm about to the days of having
Yeah, exactly like impacting out those two ways. You have like a really good sheet first came up
It's being used to double-stack them to the castle fire. Okay with the laser getting front troops is even hard as to get through
You have to bring even more utility the good old days man. Good old days. That must have been a good one four five years ago now
It feels like sweeping si which was 2022
Somewhere right now, but how about that as a well in position as no chance book to try and dash to safety
will be taken down. Rebels continue to look good. A minute 30 left on the clock.
We've seen Sark's waiting around with his Nitro in hand for the longest time,
but Rebels just not giving him the opportunity to put it to use. This is
great play from them. Very aware of the dangers that are around them and where
the threats are coming from.
Sure, even playing this level of structure, Rebels with his keep on picking up wins.
Again, it's looking very similar to last round, but they're not. They're not making any mistakes with
the
it's not really on the same
pace. They look very aligned
on what it is they're trying to
accomplish. And in both rounds
they've really pushed the GK
using the verticals. Once again
it's building out that way.
Once again, they're in a 5 vs 3
and could be yet again headed
towards the near-floor round.
You post just holding that long
angle through onto my window
gets the opportunity and it is
as easy as that to pick up
Marto. At least get his GK back
into things. But as I said that's
but as I said that Fennell manages to find the trade for versus two Groovey trying to make his way back towards that ear
But he knows that he's held from white stairs or takes instead through pillars
But he's held from new hatch. It is tough to move anywhere whilst the plant is going down as well
The kills coming that's gonna be that rebels 2-0 and looking very strong on the attack. I must say
Absolutely again, it's that coordination where last time around they were a little bit desperate and what they were trying to do
you are going to be trying to do too much. But in these first two rounds, you send them
slow things down, focus on doing things as a team. They still got four players, for example,
sat upstairs opening up the floor, peeking into these verticals, trying to move players
around the drones and identify where they're at. Yeah, the new monthly gameplay that was
coming out from GK that we've now seen across both of those rounds really has improved into
the all that effectual, to be honest. It's just always been an answer on the other side.
Really well played by so far. You can see why they like the map. They're playing it brilliantly
so far.
They've played both of the mid-floor sides and now they are going back to beating.
I don't really know what they're looking at here and thinking, you know, yeah, we were close.
Yeah, we could get top floor this time.
They've had two rounds in a row of trying to hold on to that top floor.
Both times, they've only picked up one kill.
Yupo has two kills, otherwise nobody else has got involved so far for GK.
So I think it's a little bit of a mistake here going to that side.
I think you may be being a little bit overconfident in your ability to turn that around.
But I'd have been thinking, let's mix it up, let's get down to kitchen, let's do something different.
As I say that, if it does come out and gets the first entry kill that GK have had yet,
maybe that will be the difference made before.
There's a thing on the roof.
I'll just blow up. I've brought some smokes on the downstairs.
Again, this is where the concern comes in for Rebels.
They start trying to do different things.
People are not playing with the team and things start to sting them.
There's a lot of mass clothing that people are thinking about the site here
Well, that's not for control. It's gonna be part of their wheelhouse once again
It's an excellent job of going for a 5v5 to a 5v3 a couple of times
Here they've got to try and do the same thing and they get themselves down to a 4v3
Which means giving it a man down and of course you've lost the no match
You still got the gridlock on the side
You still got the ability to lock those flanks down so we don't think they'll be super bothered by losing feather
But the gun was nice to have
I don't know if it was there,
but nothing doing at the minute.
How about that though?
Straight in, Asset manages to get a double.
That's going to be Asset and Ruby taking down
Upour as well.
Two versus two, those jogger fights back on the belly.
Does the job.
The mozzie picks up the kills, Sark spines them now.
In a two versus one,
Lincoln's going to drive down to that mid-floor.
Exactly that.
He's got seconds on the clock.
80 of them left to work with.
in pocket he's got a need he's got plenty to work with here also there's no idea
exactly where they are it's being very mindful of the case they have worked their
way up white and they're just waiting in an off angle but so far so good we have
to at least hold a bit but my curious question now is where the hell does he do
with it you can try and plant in the default spot on the slow fire place on
the slow side door but there's gonna know you're there they'll be ready to be a
peek on you together we play in one side of utility for example could he play
inside a fireplace maybe no one has made that cross yet
that. They're not going to be
able to move on from there. They
will probably expect to do
better on the attack than the
defensive cafe. So not that we
don't need to go to panic
stations for GK just yet. Let's
take a look at what operate
bands come through here for
that second quarter. Mute.
Moti's been a big steak. Love
it. I wouldn't be horribly
shocked to see a band come out
against the mute, but he said,
no, the bow crew being taken
that we saw from Ruby in that
I think. Yeah, had a said so.
Played it every single round.
Yeah, alongside a nuisance.
Yeah, and this played well so far.
He, you know, he lost himself as the entry guy in round three,
but otherwise he's got himself a couple of kills and he's been
recently influential.
So yeah, definitely heading into round four, then it's going to
be down to kitchen.
As I suggested, they know better than me.
They've managed to get that mid-floor start.
to get that top floor hold done that time. And a lot of the hoonjuffing came around that entry kill,
getting fennel taken down, giving themselves the 5v4 advantage through the round. It was a little
bit closer than they might have liked at the end of things, but still it gave them that impetus.
It gave them something to move forward with. I'm just looking at who's likely to be playing
inside of VIP and we've, I've looked and I thought, oh yeah, Groupie on the smoke,
he's over there, he'll probably play in VIP, but then I once I thought, oh well no,
Oh, they've got a warden. You put my player there. Another common spot for a warden.
Oh, they've got a Tuberow. A Tuberow is very common to player.
So, let's see who winds up inside the VIP.
It's going to be an important position.
At the minute, it looks like it's going to be Yoga committed to it,
so you'll be able to freeze out the hatch.
He needs a little bit of support,
and it looks like that's going to be through this job inside of the sort of long bar area.
Alright, well with the ramp saving up how things will play out, at least a little bit differently.
There's a full step away here from the line up we saw from Rebels.
They play three rounds, we're in the Nomad, we're in the gridlock, we're in the sledge.
You will see none of those present.
Of course the ramp makes a lot of sense when trying to attack onto a downstairs site anyway,
but it's a departure from the Nomad and away from the gridlock.
And I'll give you also an open mistake, I think which is the big switch up.
Bird's Call has seen different ways.
No sledge, but you've got a daymaster, of course, who got the ramp.
Otherwise it lets them bring along different operators.
that we saw in the first. So
alike. I was seeing that
adaptation was the way from
rebels here and saying, no,
we've got plenty more strats
lined up for you. Don't you
worry sunshine. It can be
relying on those shields
again, and it's going to be
up to asset this time. It was
previously Marta who brought
along the blitz to start
clearing out this midfloor and
then they can start with
this mid-floor and then they can start with the escalator. Another 10 or 15 seconds before
me to start worrying about the clock. Get the ram inside, it's going to be Martyrs
jump close to start doing that work. How about that, though? Groovy second round in a row
where he's managed to pick up the opener, and it's been fennel both times, becoming
a little bit of a tether-tether, a little bit of a head-to-head between those two at
the beginning of these rounds. Toxic dead canister is going to back up faster as well.
getting themselves well back into this one, high versus three, looking like a good defensive kitchen so far.
There's still verticality can be done, there's still another boogie drone, a minute left on the clock,
but they've got a number of very, very difficult problems to solve, there's still a warden on the board,
which means it's difficult for the Blitz to have too much impact in the right to have some,
but maybe not complete, and then they've still got VIP to deal with.
Reloading.
Hmm.
It's like a little bit too much to worry about, right?
You can put all this time into what's getting vertical control if you really want,
but the problem here then, guys, everyone just spreads out last week,
and you still got an entire ground floor to clear out.
Marta left it in one versus five. It feels like it's going to be
a flawless round coming out for GK as he rounds on towards white.
What eight feet is his name?
It's about to say I almost lost his head up first to Yoga, but
letting that away gives me 25 seconds, Tim.
They aren't going to find the round going their way.
Adaptation, unsuccessful.
I think it's time for a bit of an unofficial time. I have a chat within the team. See if there's anything they can do because they can't let this one slip too far away from them. That is the problem.
they're on the attack in half.
They'll feel like they can do
some work here on cafe on the
attack. If we have a look at
their previous numbers. Not
amazing for them 30% usually on
the attack. They are much better
actually on the defensive cafe,
so you know again no need for
rebels to be worrying, but
given that they've lost that
first map, given that they lost
shallow, they need to be
cautious here because if GK can
get on top of them, if they can
get too far out in front, then
It's going to give that added pressure. So I can totally understand why they've taken the option there to just have 10 seconds in the chat
Have a little breather because it is a lot on the line like I know Ross
You're not to me could yet be going to three rebels fight their way back in but that reminder again
It's either you see this on the line
It's the potential to get an instant qualification to SI 27 like it's a big deal and like you know
We're supposed to be through a G2 guy earlier fanatic which no doubt will be the upset of the year
What a fantastic series it was. If you're looking for someone to watch back throughout the week,
I can wholeheartedly recommend going back and watching it.
But you can only imagine how the players of G2 feel at this time as well,
and it'll still feel just as much of a sting for these boys here who look at this and say,
hey, where CQ is relatively evenly matched, like both of us stands to the chance of doing it.
It's going to sting if they can't get themselves back on the wagon, so it's now or never.
Do you hear that? Can they build on the momentum that they've had over the last couple of rounds?
I'm sure there's certainly nothing that rebels need to be worrying about just yet.
They are pretty much on course with their usual sort of numbers here on Caffe.
Gonna be that mid-floor once again. We just have a player drop out there.
We'll see what happens as we progress. It looks like everybody's kind of stopping, assuming.
But we will wait for that call, and the request comes in.
you. We'll continue for the
time being. But we will have a
call on that. No doubt very,
very soon. So she came like I
said, just building that little
bit of momentum. There we go.
We've got the confirmation that
we needed. So we'll just get
that reboot done and we'll get
them back into the server as
soon as we can do. Yeah, GK
carrying that momentum. I think
GK realistically looking at
those attacking numbers, the
defensive rounds. So I think
they're really, really good
pedigree for them on defense
cheeky. Need a four to here
realistically if they want a
chance going into that second
half to wrap it up and to get
it done here in two maps. I
think that they really want
that four to they can't be
losing any more of these
defences. Otherwise rebels are
going to be smiling to
themselves going into that
second half. Did we speak
about the fact that it was
I don't know. I don't recall. I don't think so.
I don't. We've got the podcast. I think I'm... I'll say it now. Happy birthday, Tim Tam.
Oh, thank you.
I know it's two days, a little bit late, and I'm sure you had a wonderful day. What did
you get up to?
Well, to get a little bit less exciting, the older that you get, because there's a big
bit of it that you think...
You get pants and socks, and that's it.
Well, no, it's more that you just think, oh, that's another year older.
That's the problem. Like, your back hurts a little bit more each year, and you know...
I'm not sure if you're going to
be able to see it. You know,
it's it's a tough one to take
the years, but I had a great
day. I went to the driving
range from my daughter. She is
progressing wonderfully with a
golf game, and she's going to be
beating. You know, you're very
very soon. You're talking about
taking your daughter to go from
the compliments are on a swing.
She's doing very well. She's
very, very, very, very, very
impressive. She's going to be
to be able to play for the
while. But I want to buy a
barbecue and I really want to
start smoking me and I spoke
to one of my guys at work. You
know Alex at work. Who does
it? And he was saying to the
day he got up 14 hours before
it was required. He was about
3 a.m. To start smoking me
get it going. I was like, I was
like, I was like, brother.
That's commitment. I have been
to one of his barbecues before
and just maybe it was great.
But I'm not a stage where I'm
just like, do I want to buy a
smoker? I might. Yeah, I don't
I don't feel like you've got the commitment level. Um, you know for a 14 hour slow cook of some meat. That would be that would you're very much a stick this on five minutes before you know you're very much a I need to be there at two before as well.
I need to be there at two before as well. It's three hours away. I'm gonna set off at ten to two
You know, that's very much you so I don't commit to that
I haven't got to think about once it's in there could just be like right so I'm 14 hours time and don't even think about it again
It's so easy. I don't mind that see my God on wall for cooking for everyone listening is if it takes longer to cook it than it
Does to eat it. I'm not interested. That is generally my rule
Not you're gonna take 14 hours to eat the meat. There's you know, you're gonna be going against your own rules
Well, the thing is I can make meals that take like an hour.
I do not someday roast some ties,
but they're quick and dirty someday roasts the other.
If I have to spend as much time chopping up vegetables
and steaming them and all the rest of it,
I'm not interested at that point.
If it's nice, quick and easy,
bunge it all in the oven or in the slow cooker
or in the air fryer, you name it.
Yeah, I'm good with that.
So I actually think smoking meat might be my thing.
I'm very aware how that sounds.
I said it three times.
It sounds very weird.
I'm gonna stop saying that phrase now.
Ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
I'm violent to smoking meat.
Hell yeah!
Yeah, it's a whole to perfect temperature. Wow. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's a bit ridiculous. I don't think I want to go that deep on a big business
It's big business. It's no messing about
Somebody you smoke a barbecue grill 80 quid that'll do me fine. No, that's not my order right now
That's not gonna cut the mustard for you. It looks good. It looks good. No
I don't you know achieve what you are. I know somebody who's got some like
but I also understand it because
when I did go over to Austin a
few times, there's a place there
called Terry Black's Barbecue.
And nothing in Europe comes close.
Like part of the best, the second
best I've had was in Copenhagen,
nowhere near Texas Barbecue.
Oh my god, I'm thinking about it
now in a mouth watering.
I need to go back.
I went to a place in when we were
in Atlanta, when we're in Georgia.
I went to a place there.
I was on my own.
I just needed some food.
I was like, oh, that's why I did a quick like Google,
where's the best barbecue places?
Because of course, Georgia is the gateway to the safe.
So I thought I've got to get some barbecue food
whilst I'm here.
So I went to a place there and it was absolutely dead.
But it was excellent food.
It was dead because it was like two in the afternoon.
And it was like, so I got really good service.
I got really looked after because I was like the only person
in there.
Everything was cooked, it was fresh.
It was really, really good.
Yeah, that food was phenomenal.
I think I've told the story about how I walked out with barbecue sauce on my face, but that's probably a story for another day that one does.
So, let's get into round five, and it is exactly as stupid as it sounds.
Let's get into round five.
It's going to be another mid-floor sight coming in from GK.
They were able to win reading room back in round three.
We're seeing them go back to fireplace for round five.
tried it in round two rebels were able to get the win last time around it felt
like the entry really made a big difference groovy was able to pick it up
for them get them the advantage you can see and just waiting with that nitro on
the windows ripped and ready to go and GK funnily enough I've got the last two
entries and have won the last two rounds so keep an eye for which way that
first go goes nitro goes out not gonna find it's mark groovy does manage to
escape from Piano, just the fight, I tell you what, that smoke, just detonating there,
Matt, well I saved his life, just pick up the opener. Is that now going to be converted
by GK Linko? Going in looking to see if he can get himself into a tricky spot.
He isn't quite a good spot actually, but Barley's, every second he wastes his team and it's
gone a full length of bar, acid dazed there, but not yet taken out, here he is, springs
him inside the bar, looks to the second, but Asp is there for the trade, 3v2.
GK looking pretty good in the round overall let's not forget as well that we saw Shelly end at a 3-3 split
Gun rebels are coming out the first half it looks like we're heading towards a similar thing yet again
I'm sure that you didn't cut you off for me halfway through your sentence and so they
have to work slowly to get the
electric war taken out and.
It will get that done and get
the hatch open three versus two
still though for GK one minute
left before time is going to
become a factor for rebels.
Mato just seeing an opportunity
there, but not able to find a
kill and socks. You poor ask
doing a good job of just keeping
themselves off the radar 45
to get a plant down. It's
almost like in a sense, Link
you're at the same problem
upstairs where he was being
planted very, very cautious and
very careful and quiet about
things. But argue left it a
little bit too long and now
they may well pay the price of
those where the kind is and
now you just going to find the
kill as GK looking pretty good
up to three and two. As I said,
yes, it is good for them, but I
feel like a four to two
you know, I'm not going to be
going to be going to be. As I
said, yes, it is good for them,
but I feel like a four to is I
don't know if I is a minimum. I
think it is when rebels have
historically got a 70% plus
win rates on the defense. I
think you need that four to if
you GK so that you can then, um,
you know, look at getting
yourself at least into overtime
or better. So yeah, next round
they're not using top floor.
Hallelujah. Thank you, GK.
They're looking at the line up
compared to last time they were
in reading room and they want it.
It is a little bit different
because the Valkyrie has been
banned out, so they're going to
have a little bit less intel than
they had last time around. They've
got no Goyo either, so a little
got the Arunis. So given that the Umai is there, that would suggest to me a stronger hold over
Piano. Sometimes if you're going for a top four hold for reading, you don't really worry about Piano
too much. You give a cursory fight over it and then you drop back and move on and the fight
more takes place over Cocktail and Lombar, for example, but this time I think they are really
committing to that entire top four hold. And a bit of a change over on the other side,
two Rebels leaning back into wars a little bit of a flank. I say flank watch, more the
lockdown of the flank I think on the ground, crowd control which you might call the gridlock
onside, but it's the double lean towards the inside of the district. They played the
Deimos earlier on, didn't play the stake in the same round, but now that that's onside,
I suggest there are at least lean towards thinking, that's probably because they're
just a little bit sick and tired of finding out players are hiding in little odd corners
that they can't deal with, a little bit of the GK Classic. However, they've got that
Mutant Moshi back onside on the other side and we've seen a couple of times in events
On this very map, how a mute can help you against a snake you do not show up on is a little made out.
You don't get any kind of warning, so you can surprise him.
Working on the repellent, just looking for opportunity inside.
I've commented already how the entry has been decisive in every single round.
So keep an eye on which way that one goes.
It's been GK for the last three rounds, two for review one for asking,
but the shield is going to start its slow march forward.
The last time that we saw Marta on a shield was round one, and it was a convincing win for Rebels.
Are they able to replicate on the back of this?
Sees his opportunity, takes a pot shot at cocktail.
Doesn't manage to connect any damage.
I think it's a bit mental trying to take a fight and to ruin it with a pistol.
I won't lie either way.
They've managed to find one, they've found two.
Ashton is capitalising on the back of the damage being caused by the shield.
In he comes for a third, not even looking at him.
His teammates doing all the work, constricting their attention.
He's watching him go to three and now in a 3v2 and a half around to play,
surely they can't see themselves losing this round.
You wouldn't have thought so, but 2v3, I was going to say 2v3 is not necessarily the end of the world for GK,
but the shield makes it particularly difficult.
Now that it's a 1v3, it makes it practically impossible.
We can see Starks just rotating around, goes for the shotgun,
gets taken down on the course angle 3-3,
and I think Rebels will definitely be the happier with that out of the two teams.
Ultimate beginner's guide how to smoke me at home. I have time to sit and read that while we go over to our desk
Thank you very much, and how we set this first have up to be I think we have to be really happy for rebels
Right we talked about their struggles on attack. They've got to prove it as wrong here
There is something truly special about rebels attacking on cafe something where they come come alive
They can show how they attack probably you can see that from there
the regular steps of getting the initial control, of setting up the flanks with the
breedlock, of getting the initial control that they need later on in the round to set up the
executes. All of these fundamentals, even like their aggression, right, the pacing,
it's a little bit more there. The first two rounds were really good, GK somehow find that way back
in the round three and I think that really ships the momentum. Arguably could have been a 3-0 for
Rebels already there, could have been a 4-2 space for Rebels on the attack and you can see it,
right, it's a little bit of lurking, it's the abuse of Solisnake, it's the abuse of the shield
sometimes to get the initial control. Anyhow, it's basically rebels going through their steps
and GTA fighting really hard to get them to stop them from getting the entry. They're trying to
play the disruption game, but it's double-edged sword, right? Every time they lose those gunfights,
rebels can just like go full-on. There's two operators to me really that were influential
in that half. The first one was Solid Snake, it was particularly asset playing out there on the
Solid Snake. He was very, very good using the F2, a bit of a crotch weapon, but he was very,
very good with it. And I think he was a big reason why rebels played so well because he was the one
the one that was getting the frags. And then the second operator was the gridlock. Why was
the gridlock even in play? Because the no-man got banned. That's how much the GK wanted
to get outside the building, wanted to get out, wanted to get on the flank. And as soon
as Rebels started shutting that down, that's when they re-found the success in that very
final round, because they were shutting down the movement from GK. So I think the fact
to the matter is, yeah, Rebels are really struggling on the tackle basically every map,
but Kafe seems to be their home, and a free-free attack split certainly stands them in good
stead, heading into their defenses.
sense as to why they would have picked this map as well right getting that early few rounds
in on the attack here for rebels now going on to their more favorable side right we talked
about this wind delta so much anything that they can do and maybe even bend away from
gk to get this map and deal with the way well i mean actually lurking on this map isn't
amazing like being honest think about if you defend in the top floor even at the two middle
floor sides like working somebody like probably like there's white stairs up there's no door
maybe red stuff like once you start shooting those areas down and they're
very small compact areas I think that's just the big thing that rebels need to
be aware of focus on I can already tell you what he will do it's the classic
they're gonna split around the top floor they're gonna open all the windows and
they're gonna wait for a gap I think that's the important bit if don't get
moved don't get don't get moved by any like made play a lot yeah give one line
maybe just stick to positions allow them to execute test their execute and I
think I think rebels will find success force geeky in the funnel of going
through the layers the natural layers of the map that's the biggest thing on
I'll give you a 3 out of 10 for that one, Anne.
I've got to buy a bookshelf now as well.
Right, it can keep all your meat smoking books there.
It can keep all your meat smoking books.
I have managed to go and order a 500 pound meat smoker during that break.
Of course you did.
No, I'm joking, I'm joking.
I'm joking!
No, no, I'm not having it.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, the smokemaster 3000 is looking pretty good.
that I am going to see.
At the beginning, you remember me saying
that Rebels have played this map three times, GK zero,
so there's at least a tier one,
so there's less footage available for GK
than there is for Rebels.
Rebels on defense, that's where GK
going to have been able to really put their hearts,
every single one of their defences.
They should be very well prepared here,
so do not be surprised if GK come out
and start winning some attacks here,
because I think that the second half
is where that extra bit of information
is really what I could to start paying off for them.
Sure, so again, we can use the Nomads, the gridlocks,
you already heard the death speaking about this a little bit
as well, I'm more of the same as that.
We'll come out on this half
because they know that the birth clouds
are not gonna be a nuisance if you start letting players
up behind you.
Really, you know, a massive switch is, I guess,
in terms of actual operators both teams are bringing along.
So don't imagine that we have a massive drastic change
in how things are being played.
You know, I start out with the vertical control,
with the round on side, for example,
still gonna make sure you're fairing away those.
Electro Claws easily dealt with, hatch being opened up.
Now the real question is,
the rebels avoid exposing themselves to early kills
in the same way that GK did.
In the majority of those rounds,
the answer starts out with a resounding no.
A moving no, back to him.
One getting a kill, the second one, he'll make it.
RUN!
Just getting that movie drawn down,
they're taking a little bit of damage themselves there,
but it's not really going to matter too much.
Doing the work of ripping up those swobbles,
Also, this just creates so much noise. Does that really drawn?
It's not something that we can ignore in terms of what it brings to the table as well,
because the movement, the shifting, everything that can happen around it at the same time.
GK do manage to find a kill in response. Link will take it down.
Goyo off the floor. Four versus four.
Put 40 seconds left to go. They need to think about how they're going to get into position
to put this diffuser down on the ground. They are currently being held at bay.
by toxic turbs from Asta. He has two remaining, so can smoke out the majority if not the rest of this round if he plays this well.
Oh, we'll go now about Fenno. No, they don't. Did you see my bet?
Oh, we know! Groovy!
Is Lane slip the net?
It should have been an easy trade to pick up, but I have no idea where he was and pays the price.
And like that, Fenno is on an absolute tear.
You may have an ace coming out of this line. If you get this final kill, a couple of bullets land you first.
Well, might as hide away here and let the crowd do the work for him, but this one looks done.
Feno, surely fancier the step out, and he gets the ace in to kick off the half.
Yeah, really big message sent from Feno. They're Rebels. They are here to play.
They are on the defense of their map, and they are not going to give an inch for three now.
On the scoreboarding, you just feel like there is more, plenty more where that came from,
from Rebels. Like I said, are we going to see GK be prepared, be ready with this footage
that they've had available? I don't think we did, to be honest with you. I think there
was quite a few things there that Rebels did, but they just didn't really expect. So I now
am fully on the side of Rebels. Being in the driving seat and GK being in trouble.
Well, well, well. It's certainly a way to start off with a bang. I really thought for the start
I think GK were looking good. They got themselves to a birdie. They were doing all that into to open up the floor.
They were looking perhaps being opened up. Okay, they're starting out good here. Maybe they'll do okay, but frankly
It's unforgivable to let Dennis let the net like that. I know that we have to say in the view all the models have now
I wear a bit of information, but at the same time
You can't be letting us stay in that position in fact when someone on their side was doing that back in the first half
I want to say it was then who was playing on the snow repel that managed to punish the player sat in that exact position
position, but it's made where now you're going to see this map pic really starting to come
into its own when Rebels know these little comfortable spots to play inside of and GK
maybe aren't quite aware of them.
Looking at that attacking line up, stagger eyes are immediately drawn towards Sark's
on the stand, he's going to be looking to play from bottom right, his job will be to
make it difficult to play from VIP, he wants to get a light screen in between Freezer wall
to be able to have an impact
from that position. If we have
a look, nobody's actually playing
in the IP at the minute. Lems is
kind of nearby. He's in bar, but
the one that should really
catching my eye at the boys going
to be fennel that probably moves
to be IP is on whites. There's a
minute one really catching my
eye, though, is Marto on this
score post where have we seen
this before? Well, we saw it in a
I hope they are, they better
be, because otherwise might
will punish them.
I don't think it will quite be the same play
given the moment this time around, compared to
before, but it's certainly not in a bad spot.
It's a lot of information over, and he can of course
keep on dancing around upstairs, along with
the players that are up there looking in towards
Feno, forcing a bit of poverty.
He has that ability to move up and down, and once
he has actually teleported down, it's with him, and that
feels like a massive risk.
I think that he might be, as I've now tried to get
I'll make this a bit of a headache for you, and he even gets away with it.
Nicely done, but it's still GK with the advanced livermine.
I've never got the advanced livermine. How the hell is this happening, Tim?
But answer me versus one. Link, it's a clutch of pick.
How's GK bringing things all even?
Does he know that the manager's just inside a wedding?
I think he does here with the approach, but surely he's been heard.
Yes, ask is there waiting for four?
the back end of things. We're
going to get into this. Oh four
as GK managed to get themselves
a successful attack. And that
might just put the cat amongst
the pigeons a little bit there
does because rebels looked so
comfortable in round seven. But
GK have just shown that they
two are here to play. Yeah, this
will get interesting. Now if we
keep on getting into this
exchange, you could find ourselves
pushing even towards OT. Towards
games went to OT, one was a 7-5, we've of course had a 7-3 back in Mat 1, you could still
see it going down to the wire again, we haven't seen GK playing this map all that much, only
in the Belgian Masters. So Rebels, there's more tape on them, there's more that GK can
learn to respond to, good response from them in the second round there at this half, lets
see who gets into the lead in round 9.
Attackers have located a bomb.
Still avoiding the top floor, which is what I love to see.
Thank you, GK. Thank you, Rebels.
I think somebody's starting to listen to me finally, does that?
I don't know.
Maybe if you're just looking at the numbers and seeing that it doesn't add up for the top floor,
it's never got a good defensive win rate.
So, here we go into round nine,
not necessarily as impactful as I often talk about.
If we're at a 5-3 here, then this could be absolutely a game defining when we're at a 4-4, a little bit less sore, because the only thing you're going to get out of this one really is a small marginal advantage.
Drank ten, that becomes more important now. It has that extra weight in a 4-4, because that's going to be the one that decides who gets those match points attempts, and many of the get, being the point of particular importance.
Absolutely, again, more of the same with the Nomad, and the gridlock being rolled out.
We've seen one of these banned away, the Nomad being taken away back in the first half.
Very curious to see if that is the case from the end of round nine,
but Reville certainly though it striped me as a team to maybe play as aggressively as what GK may want to.
They have that moment, it's in Lincourid's some real cool spots, it's in Federer's spots,
it's in Martyn playing on the squat box as well.
They can do it.
I'm just don't quite want to invest the baton in to be able to play or enable that play style off the back of this.
We'll see what happens when we get there.
still financially taking it slowly and carefully on their focus and getting top-floor control
then cute dancing around inside a bar just underneath a skylight here not under immediate
threat and can drop away just be careful of course they don't lose no door otherwise that drop
starts to look a little bit precarious yeah there is an angle that can challenge on to this position
from pillars window but linkort is well aware there's a play there nitro goes out as well
unsuccessfully but a bit of damage has crept on to starts from that explosive and inside you
You know what? They know I'm here. It's time to get out of this fight.
One minute 30, GK. Not really, or not at all, inside of the building at the minute.
Not getting themselves established.
That is like just stalling out a little bit.
So, it's the worry.
Just being mindful that it might as well start to raise a signal.
In this case, it's just a raise.
It's just Groovy eats yet another.
They are torturous.
When the stats have been closed,
proximity to each other is vile.
You feel that you can't move without setting off a landmine somewhere nearby.
I'm with you too, I'm looking a little bit stuck, they've got the verticals they need, they're probably thinking about an execute here, but Feno once again,
has got himself in underneath on that mossy.
Do they know that he's there? I don't think they do, you know.
They know that he's seen four game on towards this window, but that is all they know.
Work now needs to be done, gonna clear off the electroclaw, so that is gonna be the hatch opening up, 45 seconds left to go, still lots of work to be done if you have a look at the side of Rebels as well, no chip damage whatsoever.
They cannot decide a GK, so they really need to find them.
So they've just put really clean kills here.
They need to just get some where they don't take any damage,
where they don't get seen.
And it just gives them that little advantage.
25 seconds left to go.
They're not going to check this.
It's absolutely no chance.
This is going to be, I think, a round-running position.
Oh, no, and they know that he's dropped as well.
And then we have for a plant in the back corner.
Oh, you couldn't make it more perfect for him.
A golden chance to spring up, and there we go.
on to the man getting the diffuser down. Panic stations down for the side of TK at
Miss Droning. They're going to hold on rebels. They're going to find the round win off the
back of Feno. Being a nice little wrath. Yeah, what a play that was. Like you say, sometimes
you've just got to roll the dice. Take that gamble that you don't get picked up and TK,
they cannot let them get away with that. I said coming in here maybe they'd have that
bit of extra intel. They'd have that bit of extra information be well prepared, but they
you're not going to be able to
get into the game. They just
really haven't shown it is so
far on the attack and missing
crucial areas. It's an easy area
to this because it's not often
that you get players playing
inside of there, but. It is
still just shows how
essential it is when you're
doing that drawing work that
you are checking every single
corner every single pixel to
see exactly what is going on
ahead of you before you end up
in that late round situation.
it's not a good idea. We've
got to go to the right. We've
got to draw on anymore. We've
got to drop. We've got to go
for this, and it crumbles. It
falls apart, so they take a
tactical time. Yeah,
understandably. Otherwise
again, border is waiting around
the corner, and we often say
this about the map. I normally
hate given very generic like
descriptions of maps, but it is
one of those maps where it
becomes very importantly
based around the gunplay
because it is such an
aggressive map and defenders
are somewhat of a disadvantage.
Lots of external facing soft
walls, doorways accessing
towards site. You have to go
the next two rounds and just get this caused out. I don't know, I've just got a feeling
like I said, GK missing that drawing. There's just those little mistakes creeping in and
if Rebels can continue to punish them, it's going to be a tough finish for them. But I
say looking towards border as well with the way that Rebels are playing those little pocket
plays, you know, are going to really come to the floor on a map like border. So that's
that's going to be a
big difference between 55 and
64. That is. The change that
we're going to see is one of
those swing grounds where we
see either a team take a
commanding lead, which would
be rebels or the slugfest that
this one has been continues.
All right, let's see if that
timeout has a big impact across
the next quarter if you don't
drop on the free, there's
fans coming out, interestingly
they're leaning towards that
coming out, interestingly they're leaning towards that mozzie probably realizing that hey,
they're punishing us hard on the intel denial, we've got to find something to do about that,
fenn has had a bit too much fun with the operator, he's going to get taken away from him,
mistake on the other side, pairing up with the duckabee also makes a hell of a lot of sense,
really only leaving them with a day must play behind if they want to lean towards it.
So far, not blowing with it on the gk side, they're sticking to what they've used in all of
that so far and making sure they've still got that double flat flank watch on the go.
Though a thing as we've seen, and maybe it's more of a symptom of seeing these top rotors on
side, we haven't seen plans to be a part of the game for the rebels. They've been very, very happy
just noticing GK late into the rounds. GK certainly learning their lesson that we spoke about with
the droning, then picking up on Marto who was trying to hide away behind that small bar inside a
piano, doesn't get away with it and has to dip out, but we do still have Yo-Kai drones active on
the highlight now, and it is always something to remember, especially as the round goes on in those
final 20 30 seconds those two drones could be decisive and looking at the side of GK they have
nothing on side to deal with them other than spotting them and shooting them no IQ no Thatcher
no pocket EMPs nothing to be able to disrupt them so that is yet another problem stacked up against GK
it's literally good again they'll just sit back here they'll just stay behind yeah you guys get
your verticals you get your hatches open this is no bother by all she keep doing your thing
It's taken them over half the round to get to this position, while there are still a
few nays, the rain downstairs and verticals working up and so on and so forth.
I don't remember if they'll be all that too bothered, but it's nice to play behind.
They've still got the outliers, they've still got glale canisters around the map too.
You know, you've got to be really careful here, the time running away from them.
Just trying to see if they can get anything going from a buff here, but like you say,
time is the factor, it was the factor in the last round, and they're having that kind
You're not going to get that opportunity to you have to start moving elsewhere, you know, maybe bring your shield along to disrupt them, get them moving. That's what you need. They're not going to stand still under the verticals. You've got to force them under there. You've got to get in there and get them moving, but for the time being, they think they'd find a little bit of space to put that diffuser down.
the verticals. You've got to force them under there. You've got to get in there and get them moving.
But for the time being, they think they've found a little bit of space to put that diffuser down.
I did speak about the Yo-Kai drones. They haven't dealt with them. 15 seconds left to go. One plant
attempt has been denied. Yoga, holding onto it is just continuing to wait for his opportunity.
A little bit of aggression from the Yo-Kai. Maybe it gives an opportunity for GK though.
Four versus two as the kills come in with the back stab. But here we go. The Yo-Kai does the job.
They have to make it stick. They can't find it, Dez!
How do they let the Yo-Kai get away with that?
There was two of them looking for it.
A bit of heartbreak, I think it's fair to say, Tim.
But we've been calling it with about 60 seconds left.
There were still a few things to do,
and they had to deal with smokes.
They had to deal with glow canisters.
They had to deal with Yo-Kai's,
and they have paid the price for it there.
A very critical round, though,
as, again, it moves Rebels one step closer
the way that they're trying to
do. It's just that level of
preparation. I know that they've
brought a lineup that they think
has everything they need. You
know, everybody has been brought
along for a specific purpose.
But if they've seen the echo in
the setup, why is there not an
IQ? Why is they not a thatcher?
Why are they no pocket EMPs? Why
is there nothing to deal with
that utility? Both of those
simple as that we often say it about getting kills by winning gunfights in
that case you got to hit the York eyes
all right well Marta is back up to his usual madness his usual tricks Tim
running around on the Scott Boss and again we've now got alternative stall
coming out in the sides itself a clash on size it's an Akai in awful lock
throughout this half and maybe you're understanding now why so many teams
choose to ban away both of the electro bros Akai especially often is a target
off to the right, the nerd is going to take that out, so Marto's now going to be locked
into top floor, which is where he has just gone to. He's actually moving his way back
down, why it's there's again here looking to get aggressive. I think they are going
to know he's positioned up as we see these, the first three, they're coming in and detonate.
One minute 30 and again GK struggling to get themselves into this one beyond that entry
They've got a lot of time to work with this main gun, right?
My main worry now really is the limbs.
You could have already worked through all those impacts, for example.
They've got another nade, they can still roll in.
And then I'll just ignore the limbs and show them through here.
They've come up with their choice, and that's their last frag.
They now have no way to make him move, and that could be a problem.
Confident there's no need to let so he's just waiting for those easy facts that he can take on but as they move around to bakery
It becomes more difficult for him sarks picks up the kill four versus two
Again, I was really nervous then that we would see GK struggle to remove that
Nice shot in the back from you prevent three versus one Marta got it all to do
Casting get away with me knows the plants going down. He's heard it
We're going to find his man
He's going to relocate it over into the right side, maybe into the right side as well here.
This is getting a little bit precarious now, it's been found the right spot on the vertical,
it could have been all over but no realises he won't be able to get away with it.
If the user will go down, which means it's a bit of a fight back here for Marto to try
and keep his team going and get this into a 7-4.
Sarcisk gets the shot, GK takes us to round 12 but needs to win it to send this into overtime.
Yeah, it's a big ask here for them to get it done, they sort of keep grabbing, they grabbed round 8,
they've grabbed round 11, they're just managing to get sort of one attack, but that 3-3 half might just come back to back them when they struggled to get any more defences done.
I said at the time that 4-2 felt kind of essential for them, but we will just have to wait and see how it works out.
We're just getting replayed out of the beautiful Intel. What a really nice kill from Sarcester. Sometimes the stars just align for you and you just get those
to be able to do it. It's a
big opportunity. It's easy
opportunities, but. Right now.
It is on the line for rebels.
He sports World Cup. They want
to be there. I mean, you know,
we haven't even really mentioned
for these two all works. Obviously
it's a big opportunity for
everybody. There's a lot of
money on the line. You know,
it's the prestige of it. There's
the chance of the six
imitational direct qualification
for the winners. Yep. You know,
You know for all type gk all type rebels that are here in eml getting themselves established
You know building the teams getting that level of experience and that level of exposure within the tournament as well within stage
It's absolutely brilliant for
All right, well now on ever boys
Well not quite never
But how I never to send this one into O.T. or see a clutch spectacularly and see rebels
forces us into a border to determine who our fourth team from EWOL.
Fifth team, I guess to me, you could see that I've already qualified by being the winners of it last year.
So if you're any of you fans rejoiced, we have five EU teams that are going to be there,
and one of these two will be one of the final two joining us in that spot.
Now, line-up-wise, again, GK really haven't changed much away,
and while I've always liked to lean too heavily into this play in the top left corner,
it looks like they've already tuned their way to the vast majority of drones available to them,
which means their information in this round is going to be limited.
But how about that one for Linda Seberg is trying through the window?
That's, having a good day so far, Tim.
We've got Linda from map one, here's the six and four.
Much better than the performance that we saw yesterday.
It's been comprehensively better, I would say,
across the first two maps.
And, I'd say, a really well-timed entry.
There's only two rounds so far out of the 11 that we've seen,
where the entry kill has been overturned.
because we've seen it happen a couple of times and they're just struggling to get this hatch open
and I just think though we're going to be in that position again where time keeps ticking away.
Do you get it this time? Yeah, they're finally going to be here. Okay, that's concerning.
It basically has to destroy the entirety of Pounder's team to finally get rid of it and realize
oh we can just get up to hatch this time. A bit longer than they'd like as we come down to the
last 50 here. As we said it's sort of a now or never if you want to keep yourself going on cafe
or it's over and done with. Just checking that spot in case we need to find someone right in there.
I know he's dead so it won't be him. They've got the man advantage to him, but certainly do not have the clock advantage.
No, no, it's all and I think that's what rebels are relying on at the minute.
Just waiting for that sand to pass on through for that time to flip away.
Nitro goes out, quick kills come in, the plant is successful though.
It looks like they might have this one done. They've got a player down start.
He will hit the deck for versus one the big question that will follow
There's his who is on which side for all the time. It's gonna be exciting to see
We have a lens just dancing around trying to get anything going the know exactly where he is
They cut him down to the wall and we are going to overtime does
It's been a bit of a battle, but they have got there
They've got a golden opportunity here to sew this one up
And I imagine that we're gonna see rebels being on the defense to kick things off
It was their map pick which means GK got to pick the side in the first half
They chose defense and means the rebels get the pick at OT
It would only make sense for them to go on the defense. However, it has been three three halves
Both teams showing they can get attacks done
It just took a little bit of time I feel for GK to really warm into those last two rounds have been brilliant from them
Rebels would be kicking themselves here to if they can't get it done in OT
And what could have been they were up six and four a golden chance to see it done
they've been. They've been
able to win, but couldn't win
either of those finals. Three
rounds. I think if we have would
vary, you know, obviously, you
know, very much expect rebels
to be on the defense. As you
say they will go to reading
room, which is exactly what
they've done. That's going to
be because they've won it twice.
So the attacks that have been
won by GK have been kitchen
ball times and then one fire
place. So rebels are going to
They really need to try if they come in here and take reading room
Yes, they just need the just they just need to get one of those other sites done
You know GK are in a position where they've won the other two sites that are likely to be chosen
Both rebels could choose to go top floor. I know that I criticize it a lot. I'm not a big fan of top floor
It's a very 50 50 site for defenders
But having not played it so far in the map
It could be a little bit of a curve ball for rebels to use in that final round to just kind of chuck it in there and see
You know how GK get on attacking it that is great from the twitch drone taking out those walking canisters
So early in the round to free up the plant spot
I guess the nice thing is because they're on that roll of having one to two like you probably getting a little bit of a mountain
They which can be all the difference they could have it still in two here GK
Just do me that they get this one doing that properly
They are bringing themselves down to the top.
They aren't being stung out by things like Yo-Kai's granted.
Deon available in the round starts going down early,
so they're not going to help too much, but it's recoverable.
He's on his backside up on the roof,
so he's in a pretty safe spot to be able to get himself back up a fenno.
Chocorin's going to find herself a new home,
a new hole to crawl into to cool his little rat hole.
You just hear that GK really could do with the entry kill here
as they wanted to pick up another attack,
especially given reading room is one that they struggled with, missing the shot.
So that's going to leave the FNAT active on the wall, still a lot of top floor presence,
but there it is, Yupo manages to take down Feno. That leaves Rebels on the back foot again,
they can't keep fighting these 4v5 battles. GK, time continues to be their battle though,
halfway through the round, not yet established inside of the map. Not one player for GK is
inside the map they've got the opening kill yet they haven't really made any progress towards a plant
or towards site itself
oh that's all they need there Tim is that second kill to roll on through back on
shiny they lost a couple of rounds from this position nine to five plus three
he hears that shot it could have been generational but doesn't quite get away with it linky no
watch out guys no he's dropped himself onto the tracks and gone down from it that is unfortunate
But entirely predictable, we saw it coming!
It's the 3 vs 2, actually even got himself outside surely at this point.
You'd say hit the site guys, smoke isn't around.
50 seconds to play with, Alem still dancing around downstairs,
it could have been a bit of a collapse onto the last man left alive, but no.
They've still got to try and recover the defuser from top red,
and then focus on getting themselves down towards these sites.
There is still every chance that Rebels hold on here,
given we have three spoke, can the subjective back pocket?
Yeah, GK just weren't in a position to get aggressive as they might have liked their starting to work the book now
Yoga does have diffuser in hand, but that's a really important kill here after managing to pick up past
Starks law health after law health. This is gonna be a nail batter right down to the wire 15 seconds left to go
A little bit of reaching going on socks. I don't think they're aware of his position here
He might be able to hold on as yoga gets the lens and starts putting the diffuser down
and he's got the cross, surely he gets the kill.
Yes, he does.
GK take the lead and move on to the defense.
They've got two chances now to lock this out
and secure their place at the eSports World Cup.
Another fantastic attack.
They've got a little bit ropey in the middle team,
but they managed to pull out a brilliant play towards the end.
Yes, there was three versus two.
Yes, they let it go to a 2v2,
but Yogg opens things up with that kill,
forcing it into a two versus one,
and the team play was excellent there towards the end.
Now the question is, can Rebels fight their way back in?
They started this match so strong,
again they were up six and four,
it looks all but destined to be going to border.
But they've let it come down to this,
where GK are now in the lead.
For the second time in this game,
and it feels good that without momentum,
they might be able to just get it done.
I don't think anyone, I feel privileged,
I don't feel like he had any idea
that one of the tracks that obviously had gone off the edge.
It's one of those where it's just, you know,
a terrible look that just happens to be one
that's spawned over, well, there's a couple
that's spawned over the edge, but one of them is right there
where you're gonna drop down onto,
and you've got just not enough health to survive it.
And I think he goes over, and he makes the choice, obviously,
that I just need to get through these
because I'm being challenged, I'm being pushed,
I don't wanna die.
So he makes the choice, I've just gotta get through these
and go over the edge.
I think it's one of those where you probably take that first step over the edgingy thing.
Heh. I don't get it.
Yeah, you just, there's nothing. You can't change it on the lay down.
You know, there's absolutely nothing you can do. You know what's going on.
I mean, you could shoot it.
It'd have to be, you know, a hell of a quick thought, wouldn't it?
And there was somebody waiting on pillow windows.
Just, I'd just feel for it. It was just such a tough situation.
But look, we've got Linko.
Linko, that's the important part.
That's certainly not going to help in this situation.
Taking some damage early in the round.
The big question for me is how do they deal with Mato on the shield?
It is something that Rebels used well previously.
If we have a look at GK's history, we're looking at Kichun.
They were only able to play this once and they got one win there.
So it is 100% for them, but only out of one attempt.
This is going to be a hair as a hold on to your hat because who knows which way this is going.
There's no change in terms of approach to, again, looking in towards the lineup.
So, what's the result this fall last time they were playing on this side?
It didn't manage to win it, bearing in mind this was way back when in round four then this fall,
she could have come out on top of this one.
It was a flawless round of that in this work, Justin.
There is work for Rebels to do, and I say work.
They've lost the lens and of course got the half HP Lincoln should actually not looking pretty
No, it's gonna really slow them down losing the sledge. They've got the
Shorty the super shorty of gridlock, but you know those really not really recent changes
But the changes that the super so you look how limited the destruction is on it like it's it just takes an absolute age
To get through there and you don't have any more boogie drones
So you kind of locked into what you've got GK. They're gonna give you absolutely nothing here
They're gonna try and keep themselves away from sight as much as possible and force you to play on in five versus four
And GK you've got a like them for it at the minute
But the cover is in me with a management show the top half the site is clear
But of course practice the main worry you just being asked you standing in there ready with that PCSG at range
So they're trying to force their way to the water not towards the side. They haven't even checked all faked in
That's the bit of a car crash disaster. They've dumped everything. Every smoke has been deployed. The glass has been in position. They've tried to make a plan happen, but they get nothing.
A 4 vs 2 breaks out. Fenner and Lincoln to keep the dream alive. Otherwise, GK goes to EWC.
Certainly looking that way. Linkor takes a lot of damage as well. Fenner manages to find Asp but they know where he's coming from.
starts picks him up from court check and that leaves it all up to lingo not just one HP and a dream for him
There's one HP and the dream of his entire team. He tries to move down to the bottom of red stairs
He knows this one lap
Starks finds his man and GK qualifies to the Esports World Cup
And they all join our other 4 EU teams at the Esports World Cup 4.
A chance of winning a significant prize pool and of course the most critical prize of all,
a spot in the 6th imitational, 2027.
The scene was brilliant performance there as GK closed it out and we can send it over to our desk
to see what they think of the qualification.
Thank you very much guys, once again the GK ate incredible resilience coming back from map points
and maps points to qualify to EWC.
So very well deserved.
They turned a series around, but 2-0 was a statement.
Yeah, I think so.
I think especially having a bit of heart,
you know, they were down after their first half
when they were on the defense.
They maybe felt that they could have done better,
I think, 3-3 split.
Maybe they could have done better in all honesty.
And then actually, they were getting styled on just a little bit.
You saw Big Ace coming out, was it Feno?
Yeah, that's the realm.
As you can see here, Big Ace coming out,
they were getting styled on a little bit.
They were actually really struggling,
and they needed to find a way to win, and they've done it.
And I think that's one of the things that I do really like,
is that they've got a lot of heart and resilience.
They find a way when they face off against a little bit of a fast.
Yeah, look at how many of these rounds came down to the last,
against the other way.
That's due to the way that Rebels was playing.
They were trying to play it to the later on,
trying to force DK into the utility, as we requested.
I think they saw that it was the right game plan against DK.
Oh, the crit loud himself.
The track, yes.
Big time for tracks to go there.
In ranks, it was me.
Yes, I know.
But this day, it was Rebels.
And I think overall the plan was good, right?
Tried to plan into the late round, ready to force them.
Let's listen to the comes here.
I just, I just love it.
I just love it because of so many reasons.
I think it means a lot for many players
that are on the Redemption arc.
How many times have we seen us play for Black Dragons?
Go to Liquid, get dropped by Liquid, go back to Liquid,
get dropped again.
The materials in his players' career.
The number of times he thought he was gonna stay
on an active roster and ended up getting kicked off.
For players like this, it's hard breaks.
And yet he travels all the way to Europe and rebuilds everything with his roster.
He has a terrible kickoff and finally leaves up to expectation.
Yoga, same thing. So many different rosters.
And yet, never really achieved what he wanted.
Grubby, how many times did he get benched as well?
He had to go back to tier two.
It's basically a redemption story for Sony of these players.
And it's not, it wasn't just a terrible kickoff as well for this roster.
Let's not forget, the first three games of this stage, they lost every single one of them.
They scraped over the landing as heretics and then something changed.
Then they found a whole load of form and I think that's testament to them because they had to dig deep.
They had to blend in an American into the roster, a Brazilian into the roster, prominent voices everywhere.
How does this roster actually function?
They blended it all in and they've done it well enough that they now qualify to the spot.
Yeah, we've spoken a lot at length about the quality of this roster, right?
The experience on it and the playstyle.
Let's go to abuse where they like to lurk a little bit, where they have the scunter plays or it's really rat plays.
where they find a gap. But I think the biggest strength from this roster comes exactly from
the roller coaster carriers of these players. I think that you would not find that grid that
resilience in players that wouldn't have gone through so many different iterations of so many
different rosters and had been let down before. These guys, they were not given this opportunity,
they earned it. And I think especially with this stage, they've proven that it was worth it.
and I think that mentally being struck down and climbing back up to tier one so many times,
it builds character and that character shows up in the game.
It absolutely does. It's just incredible and you've got to be super happy for a team like GK
and in general, you know, reflecting on our nights in general as we saw the two best of threes,
you know, the best of prizes, I guess, I'd say to say here, there are, of course, you know,
with the way that the brackets are now as well, but it's exciting to see our league get closer and
closer. Yeah I think so of course we've whirled down now we we took 10 teams down to six to go to play
off such that we're here today. Twisted mines not here and we now take six teams down to four
and those top four includes two teams that are not in the top four that went to Salt Lake City as
well so they established I would say top four this region two of them didn't even make it. Yeah it's
mad. It's mad to think that G2 after a flawless stage I'm still recovering from the fact that they're
not going to play at TWC. It's mad to think that Twisted mines who have played so well at Salt Lake
when not even in playoffs, just a small point on Rebels but props to them as well, you know,
they came into kickoff, managed to make it into playoffs, they came into the stage, managed in a
much longer sequence to be consistent enough to make it into the playoffs as well when longer,
more established roster like shifters for example missed it. So to me it's again a great success
for Rebels overall throughout the last six months. They will have time to learn, they will have time
to up that ceiling a little bit, work on their attacks and maybe eventually reach their estear event.
I think for Geeky though, the prize was in the eyes and they got it exactly as they wanted and I have good news as well
Because we get to speak to them
We do have Ruby on the line to ask him a few questions Ruby
Congratulations on making it to EWC talk to us about how much it means to you. Yeah first thing hello
Well, I don't know how to say it to you
I mean, I think it's a relief from yesterday, you know, like we are all happy like we knew that we have to win this game
but it's not like we
We didn't think the game would be easy, because we know that the other side is also fighting for the same stuff as we do, so we knew the game would be hard.
But yeah, I mean the cast and the comeback, the way we managed to bring the two rounds back to make it over time, it was kind of relief from ourselves.
We were like, oh, not again, not again, then we made the comeback and maybe we're all happy.
I'm happy from the team and overall I'm just happy from the mindset, like, way, and from the mental part that we showed that we don't really give up, we just play our game.
And after we lost yesterday, for example, today, we were looking at a new team, for example, you know?
Yeah, I think the mental aspect of your team was probably the biggest takeaway that we got from you guys,
especially sending to the Cubs and seeing your reactions.
And speaking of mental, did you feel any pressure for qualifying to EWC from your organization?
From the organization, no, but the players, we knew that we wanted to go there, you know?
So the players had the pressure on themselves.
I mean I cannot speak for everyone you know, but for example for me it's not like I put pressure on my side
But I wanted to be there you know, so there was always a bit of pressure in my head
Not from the organization side. There was like no pressure
You know just you guys are playing great. Just go fight for it and let's make it happen
You know and focusing on your rugby
I mean we talked about your resurgence already in one of these many interviews that now you've given us because that's many victories in
I don't know, I'm kind of sad you didn't say to you tomorrow, maybe that's why you lost yesterday, that was the lucky charm man, every single interview.
Yesterday was a bad day from us, we went to the game over confident and with low energy, I guess team like DP it's always going to punish you, when you feel over confident you just don't really change and you don't spot the things that you always spot and it happened, we'll play to them but we are there together in WC, so that's where it matters.
And reflecting a little bit on your career, if I told you 12 months ago, the roller coaster you'd go through
from basically being dropped from Fnatic, losing them to the GTI one spot,
the whole journey through EML finals, we saw you in Malta, then we saw you at S5, that was crazy,
then you joined GTI one again, and then you made it to WC. I mean man, what kind of a career is that?
Well, I think the first thing, like I didn't really get dropped from Fnatic, like I wanted to leave,
we had to make a roster changes because we knew that the roster is not playing well,
So I decided that there's no point for me to be in there if the roster won't perform, but overall about the career.
I know it's a rollercoaster, but everything happens for a reason, you know.
I think I gained a lot of experience in tier 2, like how to team the game, how blessed I am by playing in tier 1 and everything.
And it just made me more hungrier to actually win the stuff and be there at the top again, you know.
And it paid off, you know, like screaming six maps a day with tier 2 teams against everybody.
Like it pays off, you know.
You learn a lot of new things and you develop as a player, you know.
the game and you give me no. If
we fast forward a few weeks to
Paris Group. I know we've got
the rest of playoffs to play
through and we'll do that next
week. If we fast forward a few
weeks, you'll be going up
potentially against you add in
a phase, Clan, furious, liquid
stock zeros of the world. Um
another team you might also join
or you will also join it. We
see his VP. I don't know if you
saw the interview with Neko
yesterday. One of the things
that you said about your team
was that it's all just luck,
luck, luck. And I wanted to just
Is there any more to your team's game than just that?
Well, to be fair, the guy who only plays shields and like plays of that cannot say something more black
because I want to see him next stage and there won't be no shields because the, you know,
but yeah, I mean, I don't think there's so many luck, you know, I think every team has a different place
and for everyone, like the staff works differently, you know, and that's pretty much all, you know,
like people can say whatever they want that we are lucky or, I mean,
but if I'm going to make it WC every year like this, but people can tell me lucky, you know, like I don't really care, you know.
I can't just do my job by playing the game, you know, so...
It is deserved. I'm glad you're already putting out targets for the next stage, setting up storylines here as we speak.
One more thing I'd like to ask you, just to get your opinion, Groobie. You already mentioned, you know, your former organization.
The game before you guys, they got a pretty big upset against G2. How do you feel about that? Did you expect them to take down G2?
Well, I did not expect that, but I'm really, really happy for the DPEC to be fair. I love that guy, and I'm really, really proud of that guy.
that finally after so many years after people like you know going crazy on him on reddit and every
time like he finally showed that he's capable of playing the game and going to the events again
you know and I'm just happy for them you know and same for we said to be fair like I'm happy
for all of them you know like he was a good game they played better and that's why they are there
right that's awesome thank you so much for your kind words groovy ones get a big congratulations
I'll make it to EWC and I guess we might see you next week.
Yeah, see you next week, Klaus.
Alright, we have to get the promise out there, right?
Just to kind of like not manifest it in a bad way for him there.
But so much to talk about with an interview.
You know, talk about what is there for the play style,
also about the other teams in the EML.
But for him, the resurgence as a player,
as well as so good to see him making it back to international ends.
Yeah, it goes to show that if you never give up,
if you always believe in yourself,
There is a world for you if you work hard once again, we look at the statistics and and they're crazy right become back story
Obviously, I used the wrong word. He was not dropped. He chose to to leave a static that speaks of maturity
Overall the question was the same. He left tier one. He had to grind his way through tier two
He did it with friends and those friends qualified to
Sixth Intentional with Team Eritix and then the way that he went back into tier one rebuilt this roster a roster that was struggling
that did not make playoffs in kickoff and eventually that investment paid off to make EWC, it's a beautiful gamble.
And I think realistically all of the players on this roster have a similar kind of story, you know.
We can talk quite, and we can brush it off as Imports, but you know, like you say, ask In-N-Out of Black Dragons coming over to Europe first time.
Even if you take away the Imports, think of U-Pore. He was given X-R1 and he didn't work out.
the game. It's been a long
time. It's been a long time.
It's been a long time. It's
been a long time. Honestly, even
for talks. It could have been
quite easy to stay at fanatics
Dana roster that had the
guaranteed spot in the partner
organization, all that stuff
and kind of be the star man
there. Chose to make the move
to GK and you know, obviously,
fanatic also made it as well. So
you know, it's not at their
detriment, but it was a bold
decision for him to make that
move when he did as well. So I
think for all of the players
they've made decisions to come
as this collective to create a
brand new team. And the fact
they found success, you know, so
quickly really in the team's
right huh on the second day of playoffs in EML. So have a look at our updated
bracket then to see how things are currently standing and exactly what
happened tonight because if you're just joining us shock and horror G2 will not
be making it to EWC Fnatic with a big upset over them very much deserved by
the way as groovy little two as well you know they they played like the better
team you know the players on that team really deserve it too and then
afterwards GK2O against Rebels these are our last two teams are making it to
EML don't play against each other next week.
So Jack, Snedik or VK are going to beat up 3 FEML, how do you feel?
Correct. I'm thrilled. I'm buzzing. Absolutely buzzing for both of them and I think for completely different reasons.
I think, yes, Fnatic did upset G2, but I don't think that was a horrible G2 today.
I think it was a G2 that did make some mistakes maybe strategically in the macro level.
That's Snedik's just like ex-loaded.
Yeah, played so, so, so, so well.
I think that was a really, really high quality game of the season across both of them
and had either of them progress, obviously, came down to one round, we'd have been saying the same thing.
And then for GKF, and the better team won, and the team probably on paper that's got the better, more realistic chance at an international event at EWC,
they managed to win it out. Of course, they will go up and they will play against Fnatic for the privilege next week,
and then play in the fourth third place with the loser of Finns and BP.
Yeah, that's the question, right? How far can they really progress in the lower bracket? But also for all these teams in here, right?
I think their big objective is ticked off. Of course, it's always about qualifying to that international event
What are we playing now from here on? It is SI points. Yes, that's the most important thing, right?
By making it to top four, you have 200 points, but you can double that or even get it better to
420 SI points in total. The reason is why is it so important for two of these teams? Because two of these teams did not make the
Major Jack. Yes, and that's the big thing. You didn't make the major.
You put in a little bit of stress and pressure on yourself because you're already behind. So those teams, yes
they have made it to see, but it's a little bit more to play for especially that game for who finishes in fourth place
I think because that's going to be a direct rival come stage to come
You know potentially the major over in Japan as well. I think that's the thing for so for that thing in DK
Yes, they can kind of shelf the fact that they've made even you see full focus has to focus on SI now
Because if I'm being realistic in my heart of hearts neither of those teams probably will challenge for the win at EWC
I don't think so it makes it important that they rack up enough SI points to put themselves in a good place ahead of stage two
That's ultimately the goal for next week. We still have one more whole week to go with playoffs in EML as we
show the continuation of the lower bracket and of course the upper bracket and our grand final will
be played out on the Tuesday. That is it from us here for this week of EML. There's still so much
more seats to watch if you're getting your drops if you just want to see the stage action from all
these other regions. We want to thank you for watching for now. We'll hope to see you again next
Next week, you'll have a great festival night!
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