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It's a beautiful pain in the city of Boston.
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Hey, Boston, it's time!
You came here to see the best and that's what you're gonna get.
NRG decided to finally show up, K-Corp still blue and Redacted finally got signed.
But before the games begin, follow me for some scenic views of the Boston Major.
Up first, for Fiddin' Temple, take a meditation break to de-stress after your favorite team
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she ran that's why you found so many people who make your feeling damaged
run over to Neo Tokyo for some Bob's or I'll make careful though the CD side
outings and if you're lucky neither team will be able to close out a
series and a bunch if he is field but with our tour over it's time to start
lock it in 16 teams have shown up this weekend to put their blood sweat
Here's on the line for your entertainment.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Playoffs.
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Rocket League fans around the world, get up and get loud.
It's game day for Playoffs Saturday, the Boston Major,
the first major of the 2026 Rocket League Championship Series.
We've had two days of group stage action.
We started off with 16 teams.
We've only got eight left, one trophy left to hoist at the end of it.
The excitement is building our eye and punk for playoff Saturday.
It has been three years since we've been in this arena.
So much went down the first time around and it seems like even more is going to be happening now.
Yeah we're in North America but it's Europe's hometown. It feels like five teams into the top eight.
The last time that happened three years ago right here. So Europe controlling Boston but
They're still time for North America.
They still got two teams left base.
Listen, he's got all the bait out here.
He's already messing with every single person.
And again, it's Arena talking about gear patrols in A North.
Now last time I checked, the rain in all CS world champions
are all American.
They're all right here, baby.
They're in the building.
They're going to play today.
And here's the thing.
Last time we were in Boston, all North American teams
got eliminated before championship Sunday.
That cannot happen today.
NRG will play on championship Sunday.
It just depends on what side of the bracket they're on,
folks.
Northoff with 16 teams from all over the world.
If the logo is grayed out, they have made their exit from Boston.
We have eight teams left, one from the Middle East,
one, two from North America, and five from Europe.
I mean, Gibbs isn't playing, though.
Europe is definitely showing up right now.
I mean, it's not showing up.
KC, we had to kick off playing for a reason.
They ended up getting a positive give.
You already talked about it.
They earned off on the spot in the inning.
Yeah, lots of RLCS points on the line.
Only two teams eliminated today, though.
So we'll see who comes into that 6 points, $15,000 on the line,
but then everyone playing for that $102,000 tomorrow.
For those teams in the lower bracket,
those matches are a $7,500 show match effectively there.
They'll also urge you four more season points,
and an opportunity to get even more the following day.
So lots on the line, but most importantly, the trophy.
The hardware, folks.
The bragging right to meet up.
We'll call yourself a major champion.
Thomas Leicaud is another great trophy
here for the Boston Major.
This one is so beautiful and clean.
I feel like we've elevated every single time,
but honestly, the Boston Major detail on it.
I know you want it.
You want it in your thoughts.
Yeah, no, for sure.
The money is great.
The points is great, but the title.
Oh, yeah, the pride.
Saying you won a major, so few people
have been in that club right now.
Oh, absolutely.
And then, of course, the 30 RLCS points is so, so big,
because that's very likely going to the World Champion.
You've got to play your best rockin' league
to call yourself Boston Major Champion.
And many players have been doing it so far.
Let's take a look at the best plays from the group stage.
These are your top plays, presented by Progressive.
You know, just taking it away.
All right, we're going to start out right away
with some Curia action.
Game five, James Fielder, we'll see a lot of plays on this one.
See Yan coming out the perfect drop down pass
to his teammate, Lawson.
This is what we love to see out of Curia.
They make waves in the group, but unfortunately,
they came in last, but they did have
the biggest upset on the day.
But because of plays like this,
Yan could drop down the loss.
Now, of course, at number seven, you've got to make a note of Vatira.
Casey has leveled up the fakes just for Boston.
Look at this, Vatira, you thought, oh, a toe's coming in.
Absolutely not.
Taking it for himself.
Like I said, they're up in the mind games against every single team that they've
brought up against in Boston.
Listen, that's exactly the effect of the farming for boys.
I mean, that's just what they do.
But at number six, you got NIP.
This is actually the win game number three.
Holy, all the port sidewall into the net right here, and actually power was up 2-0 in the series right here, and this just completely changed the momentum,
gave it up to what they needed, and then powered the boys down under, they ultimately ended up backing up the bags,
and they might not be able to slide back always to the east side of the board, because my goodness, what a great job.
And at the age of 10, it's not over. He's back, the birthday buff is real, the redirect top left corner.
He's up the field.
You just throw him the ball and let him do whatever he wants.
All right, there, what a shot out of Zen.
And this was against a very talented team
and twisted minds that didn't work.
Absolutely disgusting.
But just as disgusting, Archie was the double tap of Doom.
Look at this, how clean, how delayed.
And it's all open.
It felt like nobody was in his way
to be able to challenge him.
But that all comes due in fact
how incredible he is with the time and space he gets.
Nice soft drop down in front right there from big arts, but then you got young man, Gilears, the rain in Riley Bates,
champion last week, champion against the Falcons, since the last time he played in.
And let me tell you, Gilears brings him off on the right side of the field, all the way to the left.
That's what the great players do, and he scoops and crawls forward down to the right side.
CRO, we talked about him a lot this weekend. He's been in both top plays as well.
Look at this. He uses his jump to get to the ceiling and just how fast he gets up there into the quick double tap.
You can't defend this. You just can't do a little bit.
He used his jump to accelerate to the ceiling so he could do this on him.
What a shot by him.
And at number one, Old Toe Rock League fell in love with Zen in Boston the first time.
He's shooting them again. Why here?
He'll free flip catch into their net.
Zen is showing everybody why he is here to make history once again.
Shots like that is why nobody be Zins one time in a row.
They're trying to get the job done.
Zen free flip into the bottom right corner. Exactly what they need.
And that's also why you never rank him 25th in the top 25.
Hey, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Stop.
Hold on.
I don't know, though.
There's part of me that feels like his buddy, Vatira, was like, look, on his birthday,
I'm not going to beat him for the 12th time in a row on his birthday.
I'm still going to be in the tournament.
You know, I'm going to play who I'm going to play.
Oh, GK.
Yeah, you can have never brag.
Wouldn't that be a funny story if that was the truth here, folks.
The group stage was insane, though, an incredible group down there.
See vitality with that win and that goal that you just saw against Carmen core did take that number one feet
So they're in the upper bracket there
Let's talk through the craziness of these matches and some of the people didn't get any watching to be here give us
Oh, let's talk with group B here. Oh, he was a weird one
So I see a two two and one teams two one and two teams that that means there had to be some monumental
Upsets so more along the way and happens right here. Curia
Versus Falcons Falcons players were 14 and oh versus Sam
until this match. No one beats them 15 times in a row every day here.
And this came down to Curia, really doing a great job on the defensive side of the ball.
Alphonse were the best offensive in the world, if not the best, scored 6 goals in 5 games.
Yeah, if you bring that up against the best total throughout the whole entire event so far,
Alphonse were about the full best offense.
That was about 2.5 goals per game in this series. They only have 1.2.
various defense came out to play.
And obviously, you expect the barrier team, they'd be expecting to be playing today,
playing today, but they couldn't get the job done in a group
field. It was a tough one, but they'll be taking this momentum,
bringing us into the next split, and then hopefully,
making it back to Paris.
Yeah, big a big win there.
But then, I mean, we're furious.
They beat Falcons, and yet they're not here hurt
because of the performance we saw from GK.
The group was nuts.
Oh, my gosh.
That GK group was disgusting all the way around.
And this bird is pro squad was the one
that was supposed to come in.
The new hope of North America,
but Seiko was the one that said, no, no, no.
I'm the OG.
Let me show you how it's done.
Absolutely piqued yesterday.
He had, I believe it was like three or four goals
all scored within the first 35 seconds to a minute.
He looked like a monster.
So this person, GK, is the one to beat today.
Yeah, GK, like I always said,
you're three phases of the rock, the offense, defense,
kickoff, they're one of the best kickoff teams in the game.
But you did see a big push mark for GK, though,
was when they went against Falcons.
Falcons hit them with the kickoffs right back,
and the GK had to adjust, and they couldn't get the job done.
So for them going in today, clean up,
They are going to be done, but they have to be even better on offense than the little
better on defense.
Yes, but Verna's throw, you have to give them the fair flowers, a brand new team, a lot
of inexperience.
They go to game five over time against an Iraqi and powerhouse.
They play so well.
But if they win this, then they're through the group.
So they are so close.
This is a great experience for them.
I bet they'll be back.
Now let's talk about group A really quickly.
Those are the groups that the reigning world champs NRG are in and everyone expected
NRG to make it to the group.
So the real question was who gets that second seed in the two big eyes?
on ninjas and pajamas and power and it came down to a match between the two of
them and it went to a reverse.
Wait for the game to end.
OC you lost a major spot to Europe and you're right here's our revenge story.
Right here, power is the only representative you go up to OC saying yes, we deserve two spots.
But then the wheels fell off Bates and power just couldn't get anything going after Genshin.
It seems like they always fall off man. OC is just all mental block.
They just have to believe in themselves as they come into the first two games
is their carefree, they're playing rock league,
and they can play great rock,
but when it gets to these games, the closeout games,
these are the hardest in the series to finish,
you gotta find a way to get it done,
because you give Europeans more like NIP,
there's a little bit of hope,
and they end up converting chances like that.
Yeah, all of it genuinely came down to the fact
that after that first win that NIP had gotten power,
just could not hold their own defensively,
CRR made them look silly,
and unfortunately, power lost everything.
But credit to Ninja's offense,
and how creative it was.
Obviously, two of the top players were probably
serious to get the reverse sweep.
And that's what we expected of the news.
It's going to be inconsistent at times,
but at any moment, they can clip on you.
And they do it at the perfect time
when they're down two games, and they return back
to winning games by.
What's crazy is, that's not even
the most impressive reverse sweep of the day.
Yesterday was an incredible day at Rockland.
We had multiple reverse sweeps.
In groups that we were just talking about,
we showed you that goal from Zen.
They got the win over Carmencourt.
I don't know if we mentioned earlier, it was a reverse sweep that Vitality had to pull off
to take out the blue wall.
We had group B and C, the two hardest groups, and group C, the hardest group in RLCS history
happened, and everyone's saying, well, K-Corp, they're still going to win.
It's not going to be big deal about who can come in and finish number two.
And Vitality's like, hold the phone.
At first it didn't look pretty, and we expected another loss for Vitality.
It was a 11 in a row versus K-Corp, but then it flipped.
Does Zen switch hit?
The birthday buff happened.
They clawed all the way back.
He remembered where he was.
He was in Boston.
He was his birthday.
He turned 19.
He turned into a man.
And he's like trying to be like, yeah, this is me.
Of course, he has that initial miss on the other end.
But after that, he got straight back into it.
Vitality hit that one first sweep.
And they said, two is all you get.
Yeah, Zen was doing his thing.
But he also got to get big brought big ups and stizzy and exotic
I feel like this team goes as exotic. He can make plays really poor some challenges
Make it easier for Zen to score tapping like that that gives you a chance and then you bounce them for moments like this
He is one of few players in the game who can creep look at this stage. It's called minus spot that is
That's what you see from games three four five every single highlight single
Zen just took over that series and wonderful. I mean we said the beginning of the group stage
really talk it through the stories of each team. We said the story of vitality is then you lived up to that story in its entirety there and
They're now in the upper bracket
They are gonna face off against Falcons first thing in our broadcast here in about 15 minutes gonna be an incredible time now the
Interesting story good they take out karmic or there in game 5 karmic or went to game 5 every single
Series of the group they had to win it on champions field against every single team which includes
space station gaming back on the first moment of the first day there James is
standing by the break down the moment James what you got thank you way punk
let's talk about this game winning and series winning moment there was so much
pressure on in this moment but Vittira a lot of people think he's the
greatest player of all time and for a good reason all-time land goal leader
but let's see how this play starts you can see Ato actually a brilliant first
touch takes this forward the flip reset forces Diaz to hit this ball corner
And this is where the magic starts to happen.
Vittira doing the things that Space Station just doesn't expect to be able to dodge
two buffs and hit the ball by two players.
And then isolating that shooting opportunity is something just miraculous.
But let's watch how Atto influences this play as well.
His first touch, he takes it forward, gets a perfect flip reset here.
It's gonna force Diaz to hit this ball in only one spot and that is towards the corner.
Vittira has a spot where he can hit this middle, try to go for a pass but no, he fakes the hit.
Gets the boost which is going to be necessary, gets to pop over Diaz, even gets bumped a bit within the past reveal.
Dodges reveal as well. Chronic is frozen on the goal line. Thank you to that at-so-fake.
And then Vitira, in that one-on-one moment, will not let his team down.
And you can see how this looks from Chronic's point of view.
This is going to be a no win situation. Vitira gets it by him, wins the series.
Kate Corp and Vitira, they just see unstuck.
Thanks so much, James.
That's your Michelin deep dive there.
Rockling, it was such a good game.
The more you slow it down, the more I could appreciate it.
Yeah, it's about every decision to chronic.
The only reason why he doesn't attack that first ball
is because he demoed someone and he can't
see what's about to happen.
So he has to turn back towards the goal line
and then play defense.
When if he doesn't demo anyone,
he can see Vitira going for the fake in the corner
and then can just pass that ball out.
So it's a game of small moments like that.
It's one of those pictures that, like, the longer you look at it,
the crazier it gets, you know, every single time,
every single story from each player's perspective,
more unique.
That's every single game of broccoli.
It makes it the greatest e-sport in the world here.
Let's talk about the groups a little more
and from a player's perspective.
We've been talking about teams.
I want to get from each of you kind of an MVP
from the group, as we're going into the playoff
right here.
We'll start with group A. I'm
going to give you one from group A, I think.
We highlighted him at the beginning of the week,
and I think he's still living up to the hype we gave him.
He was the player to watch CRR, not a player from NRG.
Every player in NRG looks great, but CRR,
on Nijimajama's in particular, they needed somebody
to step up, to get over that final power hump.
It was the CRR.
And we talked about speed on the field.
It's not necessarily about how fast you're moving.
It's about your positional play,
so you're involved so quickly.
CRR does such a good job on the offensive side
to follow up these teammates and be in the right place
at the right time.
It looks like he's so incredibly fast in the field.
He knows where to position.
We've seen two top lads out through the first two days
as well, and obviously with the reverse sweep
that game four goal was huge.
Exactly, that's it.
Where most parts are on the whole entire tournament so far,
for them, he seems to be the one always making
the big time of play when it matters most.
And that goes well.
The oldest at this moment, Dorian,
you know what he can do.
He made all the way to the Rylee
major grand finals on CRO's balling.
This team, they look great.
And they just keep on this a little bit.
Keep CRR playing like that.
They got a good change.
They got a match against Ninjas and Pajamas
in the lower bracket.
That's for their tournament life later on today.
We're going to need to see more out of that,
more of CRR in that matchup there.
Let's talk about group beef here, Hark.
Who do you like from group beef?
Oh, man.
There was two players I really wanted to go through,
and one was Ruas.
So honorable mention to him.
But Seiko had one of the best individual performances
I have seen in such a long time.
And it started out with every kickoff,
going to him into everybody's net.
And unfortunately, they did fall short to the Falcons.
But I think all it did was kind of set them up
for their 1v1 Cinderella story.
Yeah, he's talking about the most improved
from the online split to LAN Seiko.
And we always talk about him.
When he gets the LAN, he's cold.
He knows exactly what to do.
And online, maybe he didn't look at his best.
That's why maybe they're the EU5C button.
When it lands on Nido, he's a world champion.
He knows how to perform.
He showed it.
I mean he's he's he's a cold player on land and Boston's a nice he plays right now
He's in his element and we're gonna see more of him a little bit later on today, too
They have a match against Carmen Cork in the lower bracket. Let's talk about group C. Okay, I feel like this
You could talk about every player here Gibbs. This is very very easy. It's the hardest group in our OCS history
So what other than the age of Zen is back. Yes here the birthday buff happens and Zen shows why he should never be outside
outside the top five of any ranking ever.
Look at that ever-amerrant single touch he makes
is just magical on Vitality.
Again, Vitality comes into this group in third best team.
Some people have them even as the fourth best team.
But when Zen is playing like this,
he can carry into a 3-0 group
where they only lost two games the entire time.
He scored 10 goals.
Vitality, they only gave up 10 goals.
He's the third best offensive player
throughout the tournament so far.
The only trail Samuel and B smoke, but they had a much easier
for them.
Look at that.
He's doing what he does.
He's doing fantastic.
We've talked so much about groups B and C
and a little bit about group A. We barely touched on group D
action.
Shopify rebellion, gentlemates coming out of that group.
Who was the MVP in group D?
Well, listen, it's got to be somebody from gentlemates.
And I think most people, they probably
expect to ask, they saw him balling out by something.
Let me tell you something.
Sometimes you've got to find a guy who just knows
how to get the job done.
And that's Archie, man.
I mean, this guy, he's just the captain.
He sits in the middle.
He cleans up, he makes all the right reads, all the right plays happen, and also he's
just a consistent winner.
After the past two world championships, he would finish 5th, 6th, and 24th, and he'd
finish 3rd, 4th, and 25th.
He's consistently getting better.
That's why he's playing for Nassauvsky, and that's why he's playing this team to the
success that they have.
And most of us actually play Rockley, but more like Archie than me, like Ernest anyway.
They don't study his game, because that's just simple rock right there.
It's beautiful, it's clean, it's excellent, and it's pristine.
I was gonna say a lot of these shots are just very classic and clean that is the perfect way to describe him
Look at this. Oh my goodness
And he's just really truly been set up in the best light with Oskie and Nass on his side
I haven't seen him play this company
And I hate to say it Europe is five teams here
They just got four MVP's as well for all the groups every single European plan
Well, maybe we're trying to you know cursing here. It's because we didn't want to talk about energy again
Like they secured it on day one and we could have talked about them for and but yeah
There's a lot of fantastic players here from Europe and the North Americans got their hands full today
But over the course of the whole season
Progressive is helping us track some accolades
We're gonna give out an award at the end of the season for the best performances on
Land for the striker best playmaker and best saver Daniel smart. You have an easy group
You feast you get as many goals as you possibly can one point five five goals for game is insane
That is an insane number. No matter who you are playing.
So Daniel looks great. Beast mode is teammate obviously.
That dynamic duo is helping out there.
Then Savior is then, by Tali's defense,
one of the best in the tournament.
Number two, I believe, so.
Look at that showing up there.
Two things here, hey, Daniel's on top of Striker,
but Beast mode and Atomic both helping them get there,
right, on the Flamemaker.
And then Gentlemates just locking up best defense,
two, three, and four.
Well, you can't claim NRG's best on defense, statistically.
There's been too much time the other teams have to say we're going to prove why you guys can't like that quote anymore
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Here's the bracket, folks.
We're going to be playing through the four matches that
are decided over on the left-hand side of the screen
today, sending ourselves up for championship Sunday.
Upper bracket matches have two lines.
Lower bracket matches are for your tournament life.
It's brutal, because groups FNC,
I think everyone said those are too hardest.
They also meet here in the first round
of the playoffs on both sides.
I think those matches like Falcons by Tauhti.
Vitality take take congrats 3-0 through your group and now you have to come against Falcon
That's rough between these these four matches here
Well, we're gonna say like what who do you feel like is the luckiest which team got the best situation
Who's got the best look in the non-oflomatic like no one he came into the storm and saying like these are your top four teams
And they all won their groups face it well it lands on by town
But the way by tell is playing I'm not saying falcons are pretty lucky about that draw
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, not lucky as in like who's who's ended up there all good
But like as far I think I think it's energy actually
Because they're they're they're making the play against gentlemates and then also like you pointed out yesterday at the end of the show
If they win that the only way they meet Carmen core is in the finals
No, well, I was just saying that because that's everybody always cold. You got the job boy
You got the Gibbs everybody says the energy never plays anybody and you end up winning lands
They just they always have a weak weak up bracket. Yeah, they got it. Yeah, excuse excuse excuse. Hey, I'm not saying that right now
So I think mates might be the best team in Europe right now. I'm here. So I don't know because they took down KC
Like in that you open three and it was convincing it was four to one
And now KC has lost two matches against Europe back to back with vitality as well
But obviously KC like in that little bracket. No one wants to play them. That's the hardest draw
Oh, part of me almost feels like Carmencourt wants that lower bracket scene obviously you never choose to go there
I'm not I've alluded to this a few times on the pre show that I think that they may be chose to go down there
But I don't think they actually did but they don't mind the situation they find themselves in bring that up though
And I believe the last time Carmencourt played in that lower bracket. They got to reverse whip. Thank you
Yeah, yeah, that was in Rodley. I was in Rodley to get reverse whip by twist of mind
That's the last time they're there in that fifth through eighth game
And it wasn't actually the most comfortable spot for them to be I think they much prefer to be up top
comfortable with the extra life I mean it's all teams but all teams are
advantage those two is like your first game like with the crowd is always a
little bit weird so here in the upper bracket having two lives you would much
prefer that just these things go a little bit weird you go into tomorrow and
learn from it but if you're in that lower bracket things you know the game
you wanted to go your way that it might be over it's crazy the way that
there's the parallels to the last time we were in Boston when we were
meeting Zen for the first time we were wondering how he's incredible on land
We all expect him to be the best player in the world, but will he be good here on land for the first time?
And he nearly lost it early on before the crowd days against a complexity roster
Where the AJG just didn't quite hit the goal in at the last moment
Which would have put them into a lower bracket in his first match in front of the crowd
What have been in that lower bracket he has on his last life, but instead he's in that upper bracket again here after
Crazy drama and the day before crowd.
Obviously, I think that the crowd is going to back in, too.
They're playing foul.
I think so.
It's a favorite.
My talent is underdogs, so it's like fun to root for Zen.
He's, I mean, hey, he's an honorary American,
and they earned those stripes in this building, in this arena.
Let's see how it goes.
Folks, these are the four matches we're going to play today.
We'll have Ninjas and Majamas versus Shopify
at the end.
Carmencoren, GK, right before that.
NRG is sitting on deck, waiting for the results
of our first match, which is ready to go, folks.
Boston get up and get loud it's game day
Yeah!
The world champion grand finalists have added the best European player over the past years.
Probably the best player in Rockley over the past two years.
This guy is one at all.
He's won a world championship.
Jib Drolley, he chose to leave Europe.
He chose to leave Cape Grubb to join the twins because he thinks it's his best chance
to get a win again.
They're looking good.
It's been a slow start at times, but they're
picking it up at the perfect moment.
Yeah, I mean, they still do exactly what you expect
that a team under the brand of Falcons does.
Play offense, they fly high, they pressure you,
they demo, and they convert.
And when they get up, they do not
that they're put off the gas.
Exactly what it has done.
And then it clears.
He stepped up big time last.
My favorite thing to note on the mental side of all of this
is the twins are no longer sitting
on either ends of each other.
They put Ruas into the middle.
This is the best he's played.
So insignificant, right?
This means he is now stepped up as the leader for the Falcons.
What a story.
What a story for this team.
Getting the furthest.
Setting history the way the Falcons did last season.
And the Raleigh Major becoming the first team ever
from not from Europe or North America
to win an RLCS Major.
And then becoming the first team in history
to make it to the World Championship Grand Finals,
not from Europe or North America.
And yet they come out of that.
With the strong of a team as they do, they say,
we want to make it better.
If they hadn't tough group, they hadn't, like,
in early loss, but when the pressure was on,
they took it to GK and thought it was probably fantastic.
And their opponents on the orange side, group presenting Europe.
They not only survived, they conquered group C.
Please welcome Team Flying Elevators!
I
Mean you hear the crowds in they still love they still love them there a member
He came out and
over the crowd and wanted all these back.
He's playing at a fast when he has three years.
The gameplay has been a little questionable,
but right now there's no question.
This is still the eighth of that.
There's absolutely no questioning him.
Zen is back and alongside exotic, alongside dizzy.
The thumbs up are there.
The smile is big.
This team could be the people's champions.
Yeah, we got it.
How does World Champ MVP win?
The lights are the brightest.
He shows up with his shooting ability.
And of course, the most approved player of last year,
Stizzy showing up, joining Vitality.
The elevation in this game over these past two years
has been phenomenal.
And Stizzy has experience going up against Falkens
in a tough environment.
And Grand Final, I mean, they didn't go out in his favor,
but that's what it takes.
Sometimes you've got to learn.
Sometimes you've got to take a little bit of a loss
in order to get on to reach that next stage.
We were talking about this yesterday.
You just saw them a little stat sheet next to him.
His best lane result is a second.
When he was in Raleigh in the Grand Final
against this team.
He was the team that lost when Falcons made that history,
made that historic run, and became the first team
from another region to win.
So he's got an extra reason to pop off right here, right now.
Exactly.
I mean, he's not in necessarily a unique position.
He's really only saying who comes up to the stage
and automatically wins.
Everybody else who's losing at least once
has to learn what it takes to win and come back.
And now, he's joined, and he's joined.
exotic and it's gonna be great look at the head-to-head I mean it truly is that dramatic it is that
My oh exactly that is the best way to describe it right now
What I'm excited most for though and as I want to look at that demo stat then out doing him almost by juggle just over
Double on it is showing a new level of aggression that we have not gotten from him and fight some time
Yeah, by tallies been physical this entire tournament number two and team demos
That's a little bit unusual, but Falcons are also doing it maybe not killers
But the rest of his team is their number five demos both these teams leading in a bunch of categories top five and offense
We have number three by Tauhti number four Falcons in defense by Tauhti is number two in the tournament Falcons are number three
So even though Falcons had a loss in their group. They still dominate
Pretty much outside of that so Falcons
Yes, they haven't lost honestly that probably favors them a bit so they can learn from that
They still won their group and they'll take it here and true and by Tauley
I mean their early tournament merchants at this point ever since they really had that run back in 2023
It seems that they usually do actually pretty well early on a tournament where the Swiss now improves and then when they get to this point
And determine the end of kind of collapse and it's not necessarily the same level
We talked about this then birthday buff yesterday. It took incredible plays to be carming for they're gonna have to do it again
And they want to be successful.
Notably, it is no longer his birthday.
And birthday month, birthday week, whatever you want.
OK, OK, OK.
We'll find a way to rationalize it and make it work here.
The cope.
Chad, let us know who you think is going to win.
And the progressive fan vote, hashtag
FLCN for Falcons, hashtag BIT, team vitality here.
Vitality of looking to continue the story they built
last time they were in this building.
What a way to start it would be
if they were able to take down Falcons.
Yeah, so both these teams as well, in the upper bracket,
They do have two lives, so even if you lose,
you're still playing tomorrow.
But this is such a great matchup.
Vitality, again, they were considered third,
maybe fourth best in Europe, but they come out of that group.
The hardest group in RLCS history, 3-0, is huge.
We're talking so much about how good this Falcon's roster is,
but surprisingly coming into today,
Vitality is the team with the better win-loss record here.
Did that loss to Furia make you question
how you evaluate this Falcons roster at all gives.
So my one concern is probably the offense
was very quiet throughout that match.
Obviously we talked about it five games,
this was six goals, and that's unexpected.
Even with Trolley early on, they weren't figuring things out.
They would lose the first open, and then it was a difficult road.
But if I was a team, and if you were to say,
I could win a group 3-0 or 2-1, I'm taking the 2-1.
Because the quality loss, when you get to learn from it,
You figure out a lot more, but it's a little harder to learn from and then get back.
Okay, well, Chad, let us know who you think is going to win.
We're hearing the thoughts from the analysts up here.
We'll make our picks as well.
Kirk, head heart, how's it going?
Who you going with?
Three years ago, Boston was claimed by one person on that stage and it still belongs
to him.
I've got vitality vitality running it back.
I know.
I'm looking at the colors of this arena.
I don't see the yellow.
I see some green.
I see a lot of green.
It's purple.
So, you know, I have feltings winning the entire tournament.
I'm maybe not as confident, but I'm still going to find this.
The colors look like a shark truce, which is like yellow green.
It's more green than yellow.
Definitely on camera.
Listen, I love both of your squads.
I think they are great representatives of the game.
They all have great players.
At the end of the day, only one team
can come out successful in this particular matchup.
And usually, I would go Falcons, but I
just likewise saw out of 10 in a Vitality point yesterday.
So I'm going to keep on rolling with them.
Give me Vitality.
They're going to end up being the Falcons right here.
And they're going to keep on chopping it alone.
They look so good.
And you don't even know what I'm talking about.
Vitality has been fantastic.
It's been fantastic.
It is right down the middle on this one, though.
But I do think I'm going to give the slight edge
to this one on the Falcons.
They're going to split on the desk.
How does the coin feel about it, though?
You guys don't care what I think.
We care what random chance and faith feels like into the air.
And it's going to come down for Falcons on this one.
So a narrow favorite on the desk.
How's it going to go?
How's it going to be?
Who's going to be the defining factor in this matchup?
It's Zen, for sure.
It has to be Zen on the mentality side, obviously.
On the other side, I'm going to say Drowley.
Yeah.
OK, quiet this whole split.
I feel like if they're going to really elevate
to be best in the world, it has to be Drowley.
I kind of also, I want to quickly highlight,
if you're talking about Stizzy a lot,
I want to talk about Exotic.
I feel like there's an obvious spotlight on Stizzy.
There's an obvious success right now for Zen.
We're expecting Zen to continue on.
Can exotic not rise up to the quality of his teammates here?
I hope he does.
I mean, he just saw smiles on the stage.
He looks great, but there's only one way
to find out how it is.
Let's get into it, folks.
It's time to kick off Playoff Saturday.
The road to worlds starts here.
Only 18s remain from a cruel and unforgiving
And now, surrounded by e-sports greatest fans,
they begin their march towards glory.
But the road ahead is loaded with champions.
The tenders who have all reached the top of the mountain,
and those who are most so close,
owe me to come play with the bitter taste of defeat.
Former world champion team is alive,
with top forward on the line.
This is what champions this morning is, this is the playoff.
And this is Rockets League!
Yeah!
The score approaches the Falcon chair.
The first game of Playoff Saturday of the Offservation Tournament.
And for this to be the first game, what a way to start the Playoff bracket.
Team Falcon's up against Vitality, and it's going to deliver on all fronts, Dormin.
Talk about Vitality, but Desk set it up.
They're in the hardest groupings.
A quick pause real quick.
A little bit, a little bit.
It's okay, crowd, don't worry.
Just give it a little bit of time.
It's too good of a matchup.
We got to dangle the carrot bit.
You know, dangling that carrot terminal.
We talk about Vitality, Desk set it up.
That they weren't even the third favorite out of Europe.
They try to win this tournament. A lot of people feeling there's a lot more of that and they were the best in there crazy
Crazy performance and I mean just specifically if you look at the stats
I mean they had a top offense
Efficient defense number three and goals number two and goals against and like you said
This is out of a group that everybody said would be the hardest out of a whole tournament
And they still showed up even in shooting accuracy 30% as a team vitality
are locked and loaded, but you cannot forget about Falcons and their history
and also what they proved even after the loss against Furia.
Even with Drolli coming to the team, you know, replacing TRK is the feeling around the community,
around the esport, is Falcons without TRK, that's just going to feel weird.
Even yesterday, having to have to fight adversity with Furia,
went five games, you didn't win and you still end up at the top of your group,
Drolley is looking excellent on this team. Maybe it took a little time for things to meld for them
But they're in a great position. Yeah to get themselves back into the into a grand final here at an RLCS major, and I do really like that
Call out from Gibbs that maybe even the loss could benefit them in the groups
It's very important to get humbled here early and not have to deal with the consequences
Later on in the playoffs you can recover in that group stage deal with the loss get over that initial hurdle
Then it feels like all opportunities then open up for you into this dire situation where it feels like you can't lose
But speaking of can't lose this is the upper bracket of the playoffs
All teams you have an extra life here if they lose they will go down to the lower and then they win
Of course moving into the semi-finals and set themselves up for just one more series for that grand story
How do you how do you feel about this one?
Well, I mean we talk about Zen and Boston and really going hand in hand
What's crazy is during this event is that he is top ten in every single statistical category, which does not happen
He's used to Boston
It's very rare like usually you'll see a player who is playing very well
There'll be top ten in a couple of statistics like three or four
But he is in all eight major statistical categories in the top ten
He has been performing at Zen like levels right and if you're a vitality fan
You got to be feeling really great about that and we send he's always performed whether whether or not his
team results have it do it you just watch him play and his movement the way he
moves around the ball the way he plays off ball Zen is still and just one of the
best players in the world. Take a look at the stats right now for him
individually and you know if you watch that previous series against KC a lot of
people were discussing Zen and his impact on the pitch I remember listening
to James he was talking about it was captain Zen you know kind of fixing up
and planking the holes at the bottom of the ship that were getting flooded
with water. He was the one taking charge. And that's it's almost poetic because you
start out his entire journey on land. He's back in Boston. Of course, he won that
major a couple of years ago, but maybe a little bit nervous. It was very new to him.
He comes out here and immediately we can see him taking control of the crowd,
cheering everybody on. He has that presence of a veteran. What, what an
addition Stizzy has been. Oh, yeah, as well.
I mean, Rick Chilling leaning back and crowd getting the lights up as well, but Stizzy,
you know, Turtle, when he was back over in North America on Dignitas, he had made some
waves, always, almost quick farming.
For him, it was a matter of controlling the level of aggression that he was bringing.
Stizzy was always offensively minded.
He just fits so well in this roster.
Yeah, it's about bringing that level of competition here against team Falcons who you can never
underestimate Falcons again.
Life after TRK you go and you pick up a world champion to try to be a world champion.
That's Falcons goal.
It's a long journey there.
It starts here at the Boston Major, but they wanted a way to try to get over that
hump.
They weren't able to do it in Leon.
So they bring Trolli in.
You wonder how well they're going to be able to flow.
And again, we talked about it some trepidation early on.
They seem to start figuring it out.
That high flying Falcons offense with the twins
at the center of it seems to be back in full force.
And the most important thing is how they ended that group
stage against GK.
I cast that series.
And if you were watching any bit of it,
I honestly didn't think there was even a chance for GK
to take the win.
I saw barely any areas they could exploit
the defense of team Falcons so tightly made a row off of course popping off
himself and I just didn't see any area where GK could slip through if you're
vitality you saw that series a little nervous well totally you know you were
you were casting in Boston when the twins right again right then back when
they were on rule one and had an absolutely crazy 12 minute overtime it
was just good we should not take your eyes off of it here you are casting
The Twins versus Zen, I'm glad.
I mean, when they're up against the Twins,
you never know if we're going to get another 12-minute world record OT against this squad.
I think it does come down to those defenses that they're up against.
It's just so hard to get something through to generate opportunities.
Because right now, we're improving a lot in the group stages that you can get creative,
you can throw yourself forward and have the mix of how good the defense is.
It's going to be hard.
Zen right now still amping up the crowd as we do have a little bit of a pause. We apologize everybody
But we're getting back into this game as soon as possible
We appreciate everybody's patience if you're at home and in Twitch chat
No doubt telling us all of your excellent genius takes all the takes in there. They're excellent
Give me what your what your favorite topper is. We don't see many toppers definitely all CS
Usually only for me. So five years like a little decal action and some toppers
You know even in the opens we saw a couple of players start to get a little more creative. Yeah, you know decals are usually like a stock team
Stock Fennec. You can't really put stock in got alpha boosting here
I mean we get kind of kind of traditional when it gets to the higher level of play
We're seeing some decals are some more decals and stuff come out from players
We're showing a little more personality on the field. She's always nice to be honest
If I'm a player right now and I'm getting this pause extra time to get comfortable on the stage normally
game one and this is a long series of best of seven. Game one can be a bit passive with
how much time now these players about settling, get comfortable, fingers on the sticks, moving
around. I can see them coming out the gates, lying. Shout out for the crowd. Showing up
here at Boston, it's a snowy weekend. It was heavily snowing last night and it was
going into this morning. Little more flurries this morning but probably more snow in
the forecast we appreciate everyone still making it out here make sure you stay safe as always but
you know throwing a little snow down it's nice to get some of that inclement weather outside even
though we're in here safe and warm playing video games inside. It's nice and cozy in here
they had a trek through the snow I'm sure it might be different for these players too depending
on where their base and home is located but they've made the voyage all the way out here a
a lot of them even boot camps preparing for this major.
You can see Stizzy on the screen.
This is this is what it's all about, Jorby.
In this moment, you work hard in the split.
You're trying to be dominant at the major proof
you can accomplish anything on the international stage.
Both these teams have such rich history
that I don't think it's a question
whether or not they can take the championship,
but we're going to have to see more.
And both buying themselves an extra life as well.
This is in the upper bracket,
in this hybrid style bracket so you do by yourself
in extra life even if it doesn't work out today.
So both of these teams will have a second chance
if they can't get it done today.
I know that there's been a very big debate on this format.
We have a lot of people have been talking about group stage
and how the pressure is on every series matters that much more.
But to me, I think that just sets up a better playoff
performance from these teams.
If you've got something else like Swiss,
there's a little bit of leeway to lose here and there.
But without tight knit and very small margins
for error there was the group stage expecting just nothing but ice in the
nerves these players as they're used to it coming out of the fire of the group
stage. Well we were about to get the game started but for those of you just
joining us we are on a little bit of a technical pause we appreciate your
patience as we make sure everybody is ready we don't want any sort of issues
when we get the games going. Oh it's only skill that the style. Look people
understand it gets so particular any slight like a monitors angle a little bit
weird there's a screw loose that is how particular you have to be as a player
because you want to make it as comfortable as possible. Absolutely want to
make it comfortable but see Falcons vitality will be a tough test for them
but this is also yet another tough test for Vitality they have gone through
quite the quite the gauntlet so far in their group no one 3.0 is certainly an
accomplishment. I got to play against Falcons and really no question if
Vitality somehow find a way to eke out this victory, get one step closer to a
grand final. It's one of the hardest like paths to a grand final that we've had
at a major. And what a story too, to make it through the group of death, then
you carry it forward into the grand finals. Of course, we're getting a
little bit ahead of ourselves, but team Vitality have shown, especially along
with what Zen has done on the stage, that they will go potentially the
If you give them the chance team Falcons looking to deny that quickly and it's upper bracket quarters
There was a little bit of interaction between the players and the crowd during the pause and
Get up take a break get back into your seats
But I think we're getting a little closer. I could feel that I could smell the game in the air smell it
What's the smell like smells like
Laundry detergent. I don't know why I just kind of get that vibe
That's I don't know if you you like the smell of logic. Don't answer that
I shouldn't have asked that question.
This is how you know it's been a long pause.
This is what we're talking about.
You know, it's 12 minute overtime.
12 minute pause.
There you go.
Oh, man.
You're going to get 12 minutes one way.
I get flashbacks right out, dude.
That's 12 minutes overtime.
There's a lot of history, dude.
Especially in Boston, what are the odds that we come back
here and it's vitality up against the twins?
Obviously the OCs.
And now we're going into best of seven.
So we might be waiting a little bit here on the pause,
But the game is going to, of course, provide all the entertainment
and it will be worth the wait.
I can guarantee that.
I'm seeing some fish bumps.
That might be a sign.
And everything is OK on the stage.
As soon as we get the goal, we will go.
Hop out at Boston.
I like hearing that.
Hop out, kick it again.
Get a little out of Boston, let's hit it.
Good way to kick off play off Saturday here at the Boston
Major. So, thank you. Get loud one more time, because just look guys, we're ready to get back into the game.
We're ready to start this thing. So let's get in. Let's play some games. And let's play some rockin' league.
Team Vitality taking on Team Falcons.
First series of the playoffs. Let's drop in.
Game 1 brought to you by Progressives.
We have begun.
Sand with a little bit of space to start.
Falcon's up right on top of it. Almost had an opening there.
Almost an awkward opportunity for Falcon's.
Push right back into it.
He floated right next to him there.
This is exactly what I was talking about, Dory.
You give them a little bit of time. There was a pause.
They're eager to go. The engines are warm, they'll be ready.
You already can see the Mexs coming out,
row off looking for a demo on the air.
Drawley, nice shot on target.
Off the backboard, here comes the fancy dribbling from 10.
He went caught nicely by Drawley.
He's about to get a little bit of presence.
This opening minute, mostly Falcon 3 direct,
jumped out of the way.
No safe credited, but made no mistake.
Likely a goal there for Falcons, and my Talon, he'll get a piece of it there.
Killers on the 50 out.
Trolley, seeing Exotic in the area, gonna pull back.
Not seeing so much kinetic out of my Talon, he's keeping it close.
All the dribbles, Trolley, he's dribbles here, he's beneath the ball.
And that's gonna be a wide open end.
He's taking it by himself, Trolley.
And Trolley gets a beat here, outside of his own corner.
Skizzy gets beat, you see, he's got, he was creeping up.
Then he can take that challenge.
Maybe he was looking at lost the girl lost was going to take it either way
He creeps up. He was clean beat for the ball and third man need to talk to get back
You're not sure what that was going for potentially a fake challenge
Maybe try to get probably off the ball, but he didn't bite. That's gonna be the first goal two Falcons
one-to-nothing
Over a minute in game number one
He said it's gonna be a best of seven a long series
Killers
Scooped up here good challenge
He's just turning it into a shot and picking up a demo
Just a little too much time
For a while, Susan, that neutral hop
Get behind the ball killers
One thing is brother out of the way to try to get control
Vitality
Kind of gets square back up when
You can find that first touch in the midfield
Two darts down the field
Knows to the side wall immediately challenged by Zen
1v1
Under the arm of the action
Great reaction there for Charlie. Oh, and he had to catch that first lead. Still got to click in.
He's got it all the way to the right.
Don't fold the deep on Salty.
Had to get you the first time, but he nailed you the second time.
He's on his phone off of it. Great pass from Stizzy.
61 miles per hour there from Stizzy. The tie's fixed up.
Immediately jumping in the air as soon as that ball crosses the pitch.
It's sent, ready, receiving it well.
He's been on fire, winning 50-50s.
He's dizzy, so they'll play off the backboard.
They'll be the double set, one of the follow-up.
They'll be on target, good 50-50s.
Another 1% bottom left corner.
Lightly wide, and they're hunting for demos.
12 killers.
Let's get himself out of this one.
Sends a Batman out there right now.
He is flying towards that ball.
Had a couple of saves early on as well.
Bad for it.
Kitter's got top 10 in every statistical category so far.
I lost it.
Skips can't get caught.
It wasn't a little wide, and Stizzy got a perfect touch out.
Vitality's still looking for control here on defense.
Stizzy had no rush to get a tower.
I think that was on target.
I'm not sure if he would have got a piece of it.
Definitely getting a bit lucky, but,
regardless, he talked in a couple of opportunities.
Years then, nice catch in the air,
50s forcing it down.
Stizzy back up in the air.
High flying aerials who has the boost, who has the speed to take advantage.
Falcons get posted up again here to midfield.
Giving clean touches off these challenges as well, but play chief's dying.
Right turner on the back wall.
Falcons still throwing a lot of threatening opportunities at the net.
Quality saves for Vitality. Excellent block there from Stizzy.
Good to turn back on the challenge.
I think it's going to be great ground here for counter-attacks, so much boost available out of vitality, I think that's going to send it to go.
If you get a 50 win, you'll press forward, exotic. It's like the out of position if you're comfortable with the 1v3 situation.
Oh, awesome. It doesn't actually contain the ball too well, it's dizzy. And it's just that 1v2.
You haven't talked too much about him, but exotic.
The floor raiser of this team, he's having an excellent plan so far.
Has to continue.
But San has been struck and center.
He's reset, drops it.
And saved.
Good read from a loss hopping in front of the pass.
Vitality.
Jump and chase into the corner.
Can he get the boost?
Sissi didn't get the boost.
Steel, Falcons.
He able to push back towards the midfield line and get back to the orange.
That didn't get in touch when he got the demo.
Space will be opened up as a result, fizzy, quickly in the air, winning another challenge.
We haven't seen a couple of shots out of vitality. Several minutes.
They're even the task held on strong though, potentially baiting in, throwing out.
A little bit of desperation from Team Falcon. Will they overextend?
That's the question. Ten, good follow-up to back to the corner of Falcon's.
And really solid pushes from both teams.
Exotic, good challenge as well.
Nobody around for my Tally to really push it though.
Exotic, nothing in the boost of my Tally.
Trying to push again.
Is that for the first challenge?
Does he sit close to Exotic?
Roost gets it down and we got O.T.
We got O.T. we're very good at doing this one.
Vitality of the twins.
Certainly, remembering what happened previously in Boston, will the story be the same?
Dizzy, hoping to get something in the new field.
Back to Killers.
Killers in the recent, couldn't get their time.
Another demo, Stizzy taking Traviel.
And Stizzy going the whole way downfield.
Exotic, not gonna fight anymore.
Said, which we have bought, and that's almost no bargain.
And everybody coming in for Falken's is not over.
Johnny's bounce around, Sting steals the boost, hits across it.
That's going to be behind.
Popped up real high, another demo by Talon here.
Trying to feed Winged Armors to put the Falken's here.
What the hell?
Rebound to Sting!
Slam!
Killer in and out of the myth.
But hold on a second here from Drowas.
50-50 back to Drowas, and we just had a huge burst of energy from Vitality now to keep Falken's turn.
Falcons have them in field. Off the ceiling, Roas walking another look at it.
No club virus. Dizzy gets an incredible pinch off the side wall there.
Lines vitality. All the space they need to get reset.
They're taking out that challenge. No one able to follow it up.
Killers with a 50 out. Quick follow from Trolley.
And Roas gets deleted, giving set away out.
Got to get it.
One more one opportunity. Had a shot on target. Killers.
Follow up, there's maybe some space brawling. Up the air, it kind of worked as an illusion.
Nothing in the double, no dead.
Just in time, finding a clear, but it's not over yet.
Killers is starting to heat up his first man here on all sides.
He's had a couple of nice fifties, and you see Falcons.
It's like a man's starting to believe in that 50 a little bit more, creeping up on it.
Okay, my talent is clears.
They just carry the ball the whole way out.
Put it back in the space and buy it so much time.
Hold on a second, Roos.
Goal leading out.
No!
Shot out.
There's shot.
Nothing's going through.
Well, it's not the easiest angle.
But one thing, you think, how can it
shoot me if I collect on it?
That's the kind of opening you're going to get.
However, since you've recovered on the sidewall,
I can show you a little free jump.
It's getting more and more dangerous.
Both teams with the defense slightly losing that grid.
See an opportunity step to be a fake hydraulic.
Oh!
There's a guy flying.
Sonic on the corner.
Immediately challenged.
No hit from Vitality.
Maybe some nerves trying to move fast.
He's not missing a ball.
Whoa, it's dangerous, Gormy.
You can feel it.
The tension in the air.
Ross.
Calvin.
He's not on target,
but applying pressure killers up in the air.
He said he has to get a good
50-50 into the corner.
And that's the defense that's kept them in this OT.
Great 50-50.
All the fear right into Roas.
He was sneaking around that area.
Stockins have held the ball in the midfield for so long,
but Exotic is on it.
And Roas is on it.
And Roas is on the way.
Launching it into fifth field, chipping it over to Roly.
Roas not in position.
And after several minutes of extra rocket league,
we've got team fights out of the taken game one.
Wow.
I mean, game one you had both teams able to hold on to the midfield for extended pressure.
A lot of physicality for vitality.
So many devils that broke them out.
Devils that helped keep their pushes alive.
Zed getting MVP honors in that fucking sonnet.
With so many time-bind touches and then gets that beautiful captain shot from the midfield.
We can't count out Falcons and what they're able to do not only get the first goal,
but that's not so many moments.
Especially from trolley in my opinion while he wasn't there for a challenge the miss field could be a mistake on his end
But I still felt like he was doing numbers doing work to at least open up a couple of things some fakes even from that from Falcons
It was not just a one-sided game. Why did we had OT for so long?
I mean, you know we were you were talking about then you're like he needs to get a good 50 here
And he just a little 50 back into the corner into safety and so many times then was just off ball roaming around
He was picking up a lot of demos for vitality. So it was just insane work from Zen in game one and that's 19 shots
Routine vitality Wow
They definitely felt like that
Stizzy we've been talking a lot about Zen but Stizzy he was a huge component for the demos as well whenever he was running back on
Off it's getting somebody deleted from the midfield
Valghins
What's the recovery look like moving into game two? I don't think there's much of a game
playing games, nothing to shift.
We got one shot in the mist.
It was a tight angle, it was a tighter window
but it's one we've seen Falcons hit before.
Killers was really good on point
when they got on offense, they had a really great rhythm.
Were able to get to the corners, they were able to pressure vitality,
vitality, trying to slow the play down.
Falcons didn't want to let them have it.
Anytime they could close space,
they tried to and did so successfully.
It was just actually getting the quality opportunities,
all of the opportunities which they did,
they were either saved or just too tight
for it to actually hit.
And it's so hard to even find that rhythm
that you're mentioning, Jorbey, whenever you've got
somebody like Zendt who's winning every 50-50
and pushing it into the corner.
Oftentimes whenever you build momentum,
it's like all the 50-50s and challenges
just keep getting worse and worse over time,
but that was not the case for Vitality.
Every 50 to the corner,
maybe they'd even get a demo, relieve some pressure.
They didn't let Halkins find any grooves,
couple of first shots and then boom we're immediately back on the counter attack.
The game too. I mean, I think you're right. I don't think either team is
thinking we need to adjust much here.
This is going to be a long, you're going to keep getting those OT. Yeah.
But it was, I think it's really good to see if you wanted the competitive
game of rocket league. It isn't okay now. Vitality had all the pressure
out the case at all. Falcons had tons of it as well.
It's about actually collecting those shots right now for Falcons. Vitality
Sam keeps playing the way he is
Maybe too difficult to beat but exotic obviously collecting that last goal catching
Yeah, Falcons moving up
He just got such a beautiful touch to move it downfield and what a way to start play off Saturday
I'm not too surprised to be honest
This is both teams who had to fight tooth and nail in their group stage
Just to get here and oftentimes traveling in that tunnel. It's like they couldn't even see the light at the end of it
They were comfortable working under that pressure and of course they're gonna be
comfortable on this stage heading into the next game.
Falcons trying to punch back.
By challenging with the toughest world of Boston so far.
Troll first blood exotic.
Plucks this up for cent.
Falcons will have to retreat here quickly.
Malaskis is corner boosts.
Killers on those small pats, he has to come in to make the stop, no touch there for Exotic.
He doesn't have to take that midfield boost, we're all the way back.
Wasting time, here comes Vistik crashing in, intercepting the ball and stealing possession.
If Saltalk gets pulled off that ball, maybe thinking Second Man was going to come.
He gave up an opportunity there.
He doesn't even need the support of his teammates, all alone in the air, past Vistik.
Bumpin' exotic!
The booted by himself.
Shit, get that final touch on the hood of his car.
He's on the right side of the ball that just hits you a little forward,
but mostly to put himself between Stizzy and the ball.
And it works out. Great final touch there from the loss.
And a great opener here for Falcons.
He even saw several highlight moments from him in the group stage,
where he would just take over the game.
He has that kind of mechanical ability.
One's experienced. That's half of the twins now doing the work.
If the other twin will start to step up here on the field,
he's gonna get through Stizzy.
Game has only just begun.
Hard rip. Stizzy went the whole way back to his corner.
First to challenge, he missed it.
Exotic is there to protect the baseline.
Wants to go quick, that's a heavy touch.
Lies up to 50, well, except for Stizzy's catch.
The release is just right back into Falcon's defenders.
It's busy trying to bomb killers, unsuccessful.
But still the 50s are at such a tough spot.
You see where Trolley is.
Has to re-plan a fling.
He's got a great job to re-correct.
Got people trying to get them to go.
Although this was a dead play,
but Trolley just makes a beautiful recovery.
What's the number one in this?
I go ahead.
Tell them to make sure you get the goal
and the 50 from my top.
You look like they were just going to steal the ball.
And they just found that goal in the mud, Trolley.
And the build that Shelby found,
They were just grinding it out there, Crawley.
It's something unenough that's fact flipping.
Not even sure how they converted, but Xhadec got it.
They put Xhadec back in.
And Xhadec is doing it.
Right, touch here from Stizzy.
Going up against Crawley.
Breeze, Crawley's touch going down.
And gets the extra touch out to give Xhadec a free touch.
I found that.
They're from Stizzy.
Now we see both sides are capable of doing Xhadec.
They're not gonna take that one lying down
Not even two minutes in we've seen so many different avenues
All the weapons that both arsenals have
Raleigh could land on top of that one excited up early for this nobody else for the challenge a little bit late
Killers, but still gonna win it out. It's dizzy
something off the backboard
My towel to get more creative
both those cross passes
My talent is timings are just so clean right now
Quick pass to Sizi.
Slips it underneath one.
Roll off.
Looking for a way out.
It's underneath the ball.
Zen touches it right back to the blue half.
Trolley, excellent.
Returned back at the wall there.
Didn't have any moves used.
Always a momentum to get that touch.
That's one of those small moments where you're not really looking at it,
but a very important one and a dangerous one for Trolley.
There's just so many moments like that where it's individual touches.
Don't get them properly.
It will lead to your defense.
Any extra space they're giving up is going to be painless.
Dizzy can't get that corner to do something raw.
Stola and is going to get Demo, which makes the set up for Trolley.
It's that much better.
You got space.
Oh, you're going to do it.
It's off the back.
Oh, it's out of the game.
Oh!
What a thing.
Give him a team alive.
Vitality.
Stoke and C.
Sad, getting it back.
I've been getting all three players on Vitality contributing to saving this ball.
My side challenge from Stizzy.
There's an easy ball for exotic, but a little hot G is forced to give it up.
Always gonna go for the bump, he's gonna go for it.
Droll, he has to catch on the flip.
What? What?
Get off the bump!
The sound of what is going on.
Watch out, he's a bump, he's on the ball.
There was a lot that happened.
Somebody held my talib. He aren't down 3-1 right now.
It was like every individual player had some part of that
And we're still getting shot to the other side, it's Vitality's turn.
Oh no, is this even box head? It's gonna be awkward.
Got it anyway.
Vitality! They're trying to move fast!
The Falcons are forcing to play at an up tempo.
See, Vitality, they're trying to slow it down, I think they're done with that.
Move it through, got the tempo! All four side!
And you know, I just killed her, missed one, so Vitality missed one!
No, it's no counter!
Exotic, heavy caps, nothing he can do to one with only 17 moves.
As that's just forced to kick it away, he'll trap that midfield moves to killers, looks for a way out.
There is so much chaos on the field.
How much mechanical ability each individual player has.
You never know which option they're gonna go for, is it a solo play, it's a fake.
A flip reset off the ceiling.
The multitude, here for every individual.
He's out and has to win this one, they from Brawley, and it's sent once more.
How many times have we said that, winning 50-50, setting his teammates up?
Just look like Sissy can do much with it.
I'm gonna go out and split back there.
Nice play to Chilling.
That's there.
He's always back.
But unfortunately, Vitality are still trailing.
This is Falcons, exchanging blow for blow potentially.
They've held the ball for so long.
Vitality have not been able to get this ball as we've had for a minute.
This is the last try.
Are you up for this?
We're all tied up.
There was a striker in position ready to punish
and capitalize off the good works from Stizzy.
Oh, man.
Before that ball hits the ground, you never know what's going to happen,
but this one, I guess a bit predictable.
We do team Falcons work going to go down that easily.
They choked him out that time.
They got that second goal and then
really never relinquished possession for
too long. They had the midfield.
Oh, everyone on. He was never talking about my talent.
He's like, challenges going into safety.
I can't believe that Messi played them.
I don't know if we're going to see it again.
Oh, it was just flying left and right.
It was strappy. It was like four or five
cars getting bumped. Beautiful stuff.
And here it is, exotic in that top left
shot. Oh my goodness.
This is it. Off the crossbar, Zen saved it.
that it was just continuing to stay in front of the goal for what felt like any eternity, I'm sure for Vitality.
And they were unable to get that offense going again. 19 shots in game one, and only 11 in game two.
Falcons, despite having all that possession in the midfield, also didn't have much more in the shot category.
Only 10 shots, and they actually got out shot by one, but on those counters, Vitality had, again,
We're not able to extend pressure against Valkyrie.
They were so much better at keeping vitality on the back foot
and making sure that they were dictating pace of play.
You can see vitality.
They stopped trying to slow it down.
They were like, we just got to throw ourselves the ball.
Yeah, we got to go for that 50-50.
Valken's so good at game two and hiding their hand,
not revealing what they're going to move forward with,
how they want to set up the play.
Killers over one, over two, maybe over three, Raleigh.
the 50. Oh, Alkins starting out game three. Ross using his hood to keep control of it.
Try for a low clap. Double is insane stuff. Oh my goodness.
It was high. Regardless, you want to make sure it's the safety. Alkins do that. Vitality.
Half of the midfield for now. Skips right through to Vitality midline.
And then, also feeling pressure behind Rwass, shoveling players out of the way, Trolli couldn't get a good touch.
Awkward, indeed. He's unable to waste more times, is he?
Oh, he's gonna get destroyed on that 50. He'll almost bled out in front of the net.
We've seen the crossbar of the post working overtime in this series so far, so the shot's barely missing the barred Rwass.
able to capitalize their killer's back to the corner.
This is Falcons basically picking up right
before they left off that previous one.
Send touch from Roas with him in the lobby no less.
Pierce Disney will catch this one.
Even Sonic right back saw freeze.
Killer's double now.
Defendants put the rebound in front of the box.
They saw Killers.
Didn't want to go immediately.
Stizzy still beat by Roas.
Drawly, catch.
If you cross, Vitality are ready for it.
He's busy having the space.
Trying to keep control of it, just too wide.
Literally, it's just mattering in this matchup.
That Valkyrie's even a little away from you,
it's a 10-1.
I think that was Zen getting demo two.
Valkyrie's must know how impactual Zen
has been more in squad.
There's another demo, a physical blade,
just to move Valkyrie to Twitter,
and to make sure nothing can come.
many of these opportunities, Rawley looking awkward,
but as I say that he's just going to the side
while carefully pitching it out,
now he can survive.
Stizzy makes the touch, gives it back to Zen.
Zen at 50 up high, it's still not that awkward.
Killers is able to handle it,
but it allows Vitality to get some poops.
Trying to build more pressure.
Role loss.
Get him in, feel poops for his effort.
Zen gets pumped off the play.
He's getting opera. See, it's dizzying.
What position? I'm not sure how to read the field.
I'm not sure what he needs to go for this challenge.
Maybe he's getting uncomfortable because he's getting pumped out of the way.
Like that. Killers look past one, but Vitality have set up camp here in the half of Team Falcons.
Looking comfortable, stealing boots, getting bumps.
You gotta think something is gonna come of this little skirt of offense.
Exciting, the fourth of them to the right side, and there it is.
Vitality strike first here in game number three.
As it drops straight down to exotic,
a great touch out from Xen to make it happen.
We're talking about being able to control it, get those buffs.
It's a good pass right there.
He caught Falcon in the middle of the rotation.
Beautiful work by Vitality. Very patient in the corner.
Xenie double missed.
Pushing two players to an awkward spot.
spot making sure they hold on to,
prioritize keeping that ball on half of Falcons.
That's the best thing you can do is all you can really do is hope for an opportunity to present itself.
It is, in spite of the one and nothing 102 minutes to go,
being a slugger, a lot slower, more methodical for both teams.
Coming back to trawling.
50 out.
Falcons, keep possession.
Killers makes it look like he's going to go.
The Falcons are just looking for a way in right now.
Pempting right back into exotic.
A lot of cover allows Stizzy to come in.
A lot of space, that's getting the rest of the back line.
We'll scoop up. Killers has a full tank of boots.
exotic there early, pass underneath it.
Oh, Stizzy diving in to get that touch.
And save a shot on that.
Looks like he hasn't reached the ball. I don't see any more Falcons.
Want to go with those passes.
A little bit telegraphed, but it was like mountains.
Now, a couple of chances to stand.
He's got an opportunity here.
He wasn't above that kill, but he's done it.
Roars!
He roars out the goal line.
Roars had the full picture there, and even the smoke.
He knew exactly where he needed to be.
Now, keep them within one.
Not thin enough.
I totally talked about it, the pace switch.
It's my ability dictating that pace.
It's not able to just slam their bodies.
That's a goal!
They're going to come on!
They're going to kill each other!
Oh
Sand is always in the backfield the third man that cannot be stopped
Finding a safe gives a 50-50
Showing that vitality will remain at least leading this game so far 21 to go. What else is there from Falcons?
My time is screwed killers up
Drawley! Scooch it down!
Great one!
Goal!
He might be a defensive piece, but if you punch him out the way, you're going to create an opportunity.
Drawley says CLA is dead.
Give us back our goal.
It's like a game of burnout. We're just smashing cars into the guardrail.
Both teams doing everything they can to get the puck players off the board, off the way.
This looks pretty good.
One more! Double kill!
Dolphins, they keep it going.
Fakes that touch.
My time to clear it out.
Second overtime of the match.
Here we go. Another OT.
A longer battle than clock, but instead...
I need to create opportunities and force a game.
Here we'll have to shut our target.
Roll off two players, diving down.
The top of the net.
It's dizzy. Back to the corner.
Take that flick.
It's like caucus are gonna hold on and other 5050 exotic shot on target to continue to hammer against the net about get stands tall
The town he tried to keep the base up there, but they missed the challenge then
Let's that go. It's dizzy
Recovers off the ball gives it back to exotic try to soft touch little too heavy, but it got back to his 50
It's all about the timing, I mean demos are great, but if you're constantly throwing them
forward it might not matter if you're out of position sent, you're getting so much more
Nidalee in the air, big demos, and still hunting for killers, but Cizzy has space because of it.
Not sure that's the approach he wanted there, still 50. Back to Zend!
He's exotic! What do you think?
He's going all day!
Can't do it that time. Roll-offs have him stopped.
Zend, moving out of the play.
Cizzie, pop to set up.
Killers and roll-offs both on the backboard.
They'll get that clear, but not far enough.
Zend, another quality touch.
It's a number one track for the book. It works out for the lost six women.
Exotic keeps the pressure up here for Vitality.
It's a very familiar from the floor, but it hold on a second draw.
They managed to get themselves out of that.
A lot of times, Vitality will get into a choke hold on offense,
but got them their first goal stuck in the corner.
How do Falcons find these clears?
It's going to be for the demos. They're leading the third man.
Maybe not to be exotic at the end of the game. Thanks for sticking.
to the backboard and here comes thousands on the dribble.
Stizzy actually bumping off out of the way here.
This goes straight back up to exotic.
Solving that.
The two touches in a row for exotic.
Doesn't quite get what he wants there.
Now Falcons have them all.
Two on one.
And stand.
Stop them.
Scissi in the corner.
Shaw or Goldberg from Falcons.
Now exotic.
Mario on the count.
Tonight my killer, she's got the boot.
And the shot.
Two players committed.
And of course the same is there.
Vitality, Falcons on the goal line, unstoppable.
The OT continues.
Killers roll back around, high in the air, with control on the clock.
Zen got another save.
Has no boosts, can't get the touch, Falcons.
Decent structure right now, but they get pumped again.
How's the right idea?
They can't afford every bump in there to get out again.
Oh, I am so impressed with Snizzy right now.
He's been in that solo situation on defense.
Just like Zed, he's coming up huge.
All these 1-2-1 plays, hold on a second.
Quite scary, Killers.
Oh.
Or if they get a touch, is he not
going to pass over to center after he does?
He's stuck!
Don't get off the phone line.
Killers are stuck!
On the block, all he couldn't do anymore
No boost, a great touch from Stizzy.
Leaving Falcons grounding.
And Zen puts in the game winner.
What?
Both overtime games going to Vitality.
There was so much time for that touch out of Stizzy.
I thought there's no way Zen would even have a shot.
Surely somebody out of Falcons would
have a challenge, anything, to put a hand up.
And just nothing.
That ball floated.
Zen soared through.
Vitality, strike, back, what a game, what a series.
And it's in another overtime nonetheless.
Man, I think that game could have ended several times
if Exotic gets the touch that he wants.
There was a couple of openings there in Vitality.
Just, they started kicking up a pace in that overtime.
Nothing, they didn't want to get involved
in any space at all.
And then right there, great touch, I'm schnitzel.
I mean, I had to use, it was like,
yeah, well, the killer's had no boost.
What was he gonna do?
He couldn't go anywhere.
The rest of Falcons are rotating back.
Nothing we can do about it.
Falcons call a timeout.
That one hurts Falcons on the timeout.
Deeding Spectra at space here.
As they only had nine shots in that game compared to the 17 from Team Vitality.
And you'll notice how things quickly shift back.
Those Falcons seem to find some type of groove, a little bit of a rhythm.
Then Vitality just cut the music.
And ran through.
Well, we've got quite the match on our hands.
Two overtime's and a lot of close ones.
Something that both teams have really been trying to do,
Turtle.
They don't want to give first man on the other team
multiple beats.
If you're going to beat me, I'm going to bump you.
That way my team has a clean touch on the ball.
And it's getting so intricate.
It's like the timing of each individual bump
is so important, too.
Because it's one thing just to go,
and I'm going to believe this player, it's what happens.
Often times you'll see a bump actually benefit the defense because they can spawn back and be in a better position
They have to rotate so we're getting into the real muddy territory. When do you go for the bumps?
How do you go for the physical play? Do you put yourself out of that rotation and on top of that?
I really want to highlight Stizzy. I think he's had incredible performance so far in that game alone
I saw him alone with the 1v2 you remember that play. Yeah
He had to dodge the bump, step out of the safe, bounce off the sidebar
We've been saying that all about Zen, but it's Stizia stepping up.
Stizia had a great game.
The timeout is over for Falcons.
We weren't able to get the same amount of pressure that we saw them have.
It was more counter opportunities. Kind of a reverse of what we saw in the last game.
Heading into game four, Falcons got to try to find a way to tie the series up again.
Vitality could put him on match point right here.
Got a feeling it was going to be a long series
What kind of feels like that?
game number four
team Falcons
Want to avoid match point at all costs
I'm sure he is eager to get back into it. That makes going up the wall
back over to exotic
So I'm scrups it up negative space now. I'm really gonna stretch you go get this ball, but stretch they do
Killers gets the touch, Xanair rolls back to recover, it moves the ball right back into Blue's Arizona.
Lovely clear, better follow up. The Xotic is demoed, that's the timing we were talking about.
Actually doesn't come out. That addition, more effective, more falcons.
All still hovering in the midfield, touch over the side wall.
We're all in quick follow up. Xotic on the slow approach. 50-50, popped up high, scissi.
It wasn't 50-50 and sense alone on defense, but casually clearing it back to Rawley.
Vitality. Now pick up where they left off here.
Dominating the midfield in the opening minute.
A loss.
They tried to feather that boost enough.
Doesn't matter. Second map for Vitality. Just gets it.
And...
I mean, it's a absolute cannon from the corner.
He didn't get the first touch on the clear, but that just set him up for the best position possible on the map
It's fires it 78 miles per hour
Falcons might start getting a little nervous here after the time out
On the start of the right foot
My John he finding ways to trip him up here
Johnny will move across
couple standout moments for him in the series but Falcons as a whole unable to get this ball out of the looper.
It doesn't feel like my towel here keeping the leaders as close as they could either on the off the time
so just move it down the other side even then Falcons won't have too much possession.
Here's that, it's a big hit and we'll see what Falcons can do with it off the crossbar.
Down or down?
Whoa!
See? Mother to follow it up.
It's not going to work out for Ali. Back to the other side.
That's just a, you know, just plays a little better.
What have you been a goal here comes in.
Couldn't get enough on his reset.
Draw, they will bring it down.
Move across, quick hit.
That's immediately defended Stizzy.
You were calling it to our last game.
Lot of standout moments, there's another great defensive stop for him.
I'm telling you, Stizzy has stepped up huge in this series.
The defense, of course.
You know he's capable of defensively.
Crazy yard going to bring him back on.
I think that's awesome.
We'd often say that he just was too aggressive.
Hold things down.
He was alone.
That's not the case.
Trying to make a point in Boston.
Then, takes that 50.
Your Falcons can't get out right now.
I know, they're just stuck in it.
But when the clear comes through...
Right in the vitality hands.
Let's see what happens.
Sonic will go right away from him here.
Got to be careful in this area.
Oh.
That devil smokes everybody, everyone's a little slower than back out.
Now, Doc has finally taken some control, but Xotic protects his own quarter, right back
out through a wall, because he's at high, coming down, he has to read, but it's just
too late, Xotic gets in the way, Kibble strikes for a team possession, and Vitality another
defensive stop.
This is why they were number two in gold against you, Vitality.
You've got to...
Oh no!
Did they own this one?
Or did they give it it?
What is why would I give it it?
Well, Stizzy absolutely beat this into his own net, Stizzy.
No, but it kind of bumps with Exotic as well.
He's coming across that once we've all been there
and we've all done that.
And it happens at the highest level.
It happens to Stizzy here.
Definitely a mental hurdle that you're
going to have to overcome at this point.
Goal right there would have put yourself back into it.
But credit.
All that effect of credit.
The Falcon's there.
They also fucked Exotic.
It looked like a chip ball a little bit.
But a nice, dizzy approach up.
So Falcons do collect that and create that chaos.
Give them a chance here.
In a minute, 30 left.
Game number four.
And now Vitality have to work a little bit harder.
Push that foot harder on the gas.
See what happens.
They can generate exotic thinking.
Over-present it's going to be a long shot.
They're going to wait to lose losses.
They're going to leave for a shot out of dizzy.
It was a beam, what do they feel, they'll say.
It's not like a dump and chase the ball mentality for Vitality,
it's dump and chase the cars.
It's that rip-back that just immediately tries for the puck.
How thousands are getting a couple of nice deep clears,
gives them some time, gives them some loose,
but that pass was right into Vitality's hands.
As the exotic comes straight back down, Falcons.
On the way to rip their trouble for Trolley,
he has to play ball and he gets his boost stolen for it.
Can't play the ball, he's dizzy in the corner.
Sets it back for Zen. Zen underneath one.
Killa pops it up high and will keep Vitality out.
As they're getting bumped on the back line,
Stizzy buys a try.
As long as they keep this ball in the corner,
you never know what opportunity will be resulted from a Zen.
Good touch. Defense gives over one trawling.
Shot on target. Could have been off.
This bar actually, it's dizzy on the counter attack.
Vitality are under pressure.
They were coasting for the majority of this game,
but now they've got to deal with it.
Good patience from Roas to trail through that 50.
The Troutkins have to wait for Stizzy to push out.
Roas.
10 seconds.
He's got Roly on the far side.
Got killers underneath.
And he almost got killers who gets back in a nick of time.
Zed is a slight shit-bun killer.
Spitality and a regulation won't get the touch they were looking for.
Oh, killers.
It's Zed.
Troutkins, speed by Zed.
Thrown down.
Third overtime of the match.
Another OT, Jor-B.
We're getting familiar here.
familiar here I'm sure the players are as well no more mistakes here otherwise
you're just gonna see a vitality on match point
I don't want to give it to him early scissi back to the corner he's a very
tonic got vitality starting to see a bit of aggression
Zen, holding a split.
Stills, he steals the corner boost.
Killers down. Getting harassed.
Roll off. Get the ball. Won't be able to follow it.
Killers actually steals that corner.
It'd be enough, Bill. Charlie has to spend a lot of time
getting himself behind the ball.
Falcon's taking a lot of time to set up this play.
Too much time. This is my talent to get another clear.
I like this approach from Zen.
I feel like Flipre said,
it's not going to get past the twins, but they're both flying high.
And Ohono, exotic saloon. He's got to get the 50.
And he didn't expect the ball to kick back out to the middle of the field.
And what should have been in the strong side of my counter rotation turned into a two on
one and did something with no room.
And you don't blame exotic for seeing that
On the defense from about this I think you don't got to push forward and all of a sudden you're looking at a one-to-one scenario
In fact, it's really one as he had to dodge the pump
Jump over the car and try and find a touch to take a look at the replays
Okay, I mean it was crazy. It was like vitality. We're gonna completely cost the match point that this mistake comes out
I didn't even call it that I think yeah one more truck mistake
Oh, excuse me, P.O.G. there that, when you look at it again, you see how exotic got kind of bumped back into it a little bit.
And he's a sceptic, just trying to get eights, but...
And we didn't actually get to look at what caused that goal there at the end.
We only saw a draw and stuck, but the actual important part of that goal was...
The whole reason exotic was up to begin with was because by talent, he had possession, then the ball kicks out in the middle of the field as Roulos gets bumped out,
and the ball skips out where he's not expecting. He had already turned off the play, and because of that, it generated that opportunity.
So the little things coming home to roost here in this game and that mistake
trolley was able to capitalize put it in the net
we're at least going to be at the Tokyo by the end of this term.
I feel bad for anybody just trying to predict how this series is going to go
down because one game we get 19 shots out of vitality 11 Falcons in the
next they're both barely getting to six a piece.
We Falcons actually only had five in that game back and forth.
Everybody taking a punch to the gut and they're fighting to earn their spot in the semifinals.
Killers with a shot, set up by Trolley, denied Zen credited with a save.
Sonic getting back downfield.
A couple of boosts.
He just can't get past Zen. If he's put in any situation, he is going to create something
that first touch to keep it close and keep it forced to 50-50 afterwards, squeezing it
out to Exotic. That's Zen back on top.
Vitality get the early score and going exotic misses his core boost
That actually
Could have been a little deadlier, but they make up for this as he gets in there helps us team out with a slight touch
No, boy
Sonic tracking closely here. I don't think cockings are going to be too lost or was that first goal?
Very similar than the previous game slower start
As long as they keep their heads in the game
We'll get out of this probably
Now we can get a better balance of scent.
They ate it off the backboard.
A lot of pressure applied on the vitality.
Good shot from exotic, but a better save there for killers.
You almost saw a moment there with a smoke screen.
All those caused Falcons to stay out of the net
and get scored on, but the move here is alone.
Falcons hit right back, 50 back out.
As Falcons, just off the post,
dizzy with a hard player back down the pitch.
Let's see how Falcons actually collect this one.
You see that several times a huge boomer out of vitality gets just kicked, a whole bunch of it.
The new guy on the offensive side, but it's not for too long.
He's got it. Very smoothly carrying it back out from killers on the side wall.
Looking for maybe Drolly in the midfield instead.
Close for the 50-50, it passes back.
Drolly will have some space here.
Bit difficult.
Has the boost as well.
Vitality, that third man here in the midfield sent, just drives into the ball.
A rare quiet moment, I could get a lot real fast.
There's a wide angle shot denied by Sizzley.
He's gonna kill him again, and over to a walk wide.
He takes it, but not on target.
That looked so good.
You can see the striking lane set up for Austin.
Decided to turn, maybe it was a fake.
If this loop recessive fake himself, he has to get a follow, he touches it.
It's how it is, it looks like they're under a lot of pressure, but no sun to panic.
They're all in small pups right now though.
Every deep clear gives them a chance to boost up and they have, as that number slowly flies,
far back to 100.
Falcons keep getting pushed back.
Back to Stizzy.
Chillers got the 50, but Sets there.
And just nothing really developing right now for Vitality.
They get one or two good touches about to find a way to get the safety.
Oh, that's great work from SZA, excuse me.
Taking that first touch, getting the boost, and also hovering behind it.
More and more and more it's on these touches out of the defensive side as the time is used to unwind.
Vitality have been in this all before but they weren't able to hold onto the lead and they do up.
He got up there. That would have been a shot on target.
It's barely any breathing room for vitality.
Looking for a little bit of oxygen that won't find the killers back on the striking stance.
Roll off, good touch.
Gribbles a pass into the corner, just what a lot of things down.
That's a huge demo.
Exotic, no blows.
He's coming back, trying to make a stand, but he ends up all rolling.
He just spawned, he's rushing back to get there.
Oh, what if he's disorientated?
Oh, raw loss, it hurts.
Exotic, happier for it.
But that's a good punch in your falcons.
Again, the Vitality trying to put this one away and put Falcon through an ice.
Roas, some revenge.
Trying to talk up, not gonna happen.
Such an important spot to deny Roas.
Off the mistake, certainly feeling the pressure now.
Two goals, you're able to get back into it previously off that one goal game,
but now the balance a little bit smaller.
Still we've seen Falcon sort of even greater heights.
All my talent have to do is just keep wasted time get the touch
Finish the blue
Chouter them on the far side Falcons not gonna get the ball set these first two is
They just get the challenge but also getting demoed Stizzy diving in as well and my talent have wasted tons of time on this
Look at the agent he just pushes himself back two players come in you can see the
desperation. Counting Falcons. They've got a set of full house. They know
vitality are cruising into match point. 14 to go. If we don't see something here
immediately from Falcons, surely a vitality game win.
Temple again
That's roll on
Strike it out of the air. Oh
My goodness
That might be a little confidence booster with two seconds though is it enough I'm gonna get the ball in the kickoff
Vitalik puts Falcons on match point lightning to send him to the lower bracket.
And that one stings for Team Falcons.
He can't help but look back and think, is that the snake?
I know he was just spawning off the Demo Dorby, but it's moments like that that truly determined the fate of this series and how close it has been.
He's going so far in view between each other, you need to be at your peak game in every moment.
And in that situation too, your pockets don't know Exotic has the rules.
They don't know he actually has no chance to hit that double.
Right.
They're all on spawns and, you know, I was like, what's the comp on that moment?
But they're like, look at that one.
Like, if Exotic hits that, then Rolaz probably pops that up and says, it's close.
He still might ongoing but he might actually send it upwards and send it straight into his own game.
Straight into his own back.
You've got to think about the comms for Ross.
He's demoed.
His teammates certainly are telling him, OK, you need to immediately go for the take.
You have no choice.
You have to turn completely out of that spot
and rush to get a touch on the ball.
And if you're Ross, you're thinking, I just need to hit it once.
That's all it takes.
But unfortunately, it's not the proper touch.
And we'll see if he can put that behind him as now they've been put on match point.
It has been one heck of an entertaining series to start the playoffs here in Boston and now Vitality
have a chance to knock some Falcons down a peg here on Neo Tokyo.
Vitality looking to build a cage around this roster, prevent us from flying on Neo Tokyo.
Two players slip in an awkward spot and start out the gates.
They've been taking midfield boots.
We'll see if Vitality can get back into a comfortable position.
This is maybe even the third game in a row
if they can start out strong, where they started with a lead for me.
Just feels like how they've been trailing for so long in this series.
I'll head out for the side, mountains.
I've been unable to dictate the pace of this game.
This pass really comes down, and they all hard-fake.
No one's got boost.
Everyone flying down.
Might have been able to go somewhere in there,
but my Talon didn't find it.
Just an indicator that Coulton is oozing from the fades of the sand.
And he starts peeking.
You're going to get a Talon here, shape, stand below,
and then touch it.
Come on.
Gets the touch.
Here he is again.
Get the backfield over to the sand.
to set up a give-and-go vitality not looking to have any signs of weakness on
the defense which means Falcons got to generate their own chances
on the push steal the boost out and take the ball away then was playing behind
them don't let that one fly back for it's time and then make sure no one can
take is all of the space for us good touch just keeps the pressure but even
Better control on a Stizzy. Look at what team Vitality can do. All three members, they're alone.
That first touch will be kept within them. Wasting more time. I think everybody rotates back.
And they're still stealing midfield boosts like that. Stizzy, hold on a second. 1v2, you're gonna go for the bucket.
Stead, cleared out. It's Falcons under indeed heavy pressure.
I see like a better option there with a defender ready to defend your shot.
I'm able to put more momentum on it.
10 down his own moves.
Then I'll take the ball.
Only 16 though.
15, or sorry, 50 straight down.
As Xotic will get demoed, Stizzy turns back.
Falcons get the group steal.
Looking for a bump.
Xen won't even get touched.
And now they move right back down the field here for vitality.
Off the ceiling, they rip it away from him.
Reven to Xotic.
Double tap.
Missed it.
Stizzy will keep the ball in play.
It looked like a juicy one there for Xotic, but he couldn't connect.
You just said it, Jorby. That's the key. Keeping the ball in play.
You might not get the follow-up off the backboard, but if you can hold on to pressure,
it's just going to wiggle away at the resources of Team Falcon.
It's out of from the ceiling.
Every single chance is looking more and more threatening.
Run up this Orr squad. That's swarming.
Talbot couldn't win any boost there. They got it stolen by Roas.
The only one flip boost finds a little bit of time for Trolley
and Gillars to get some small pads.
And finally a canister sparks for Trolley.
Xen tries to chase him out of the play.
Xenonix sits underneath them.
It's out one.
It rips out hard and left side, Xenonix chase.
Xen actually he passes back and look at the touch for Trolley.
It's like huge clear the other side.
Get away possession.
I think Falcons are under a lot of pressure panicking on defense.
They just want to relieve this onslaught that Vitality has set up.
Xen needs a buy time.
Does do exactly that, but since he's in a tough spot he turned up to a 37 boost there
Now my valve doesn't allow me to go but my tally protected for the boost
trolley
with a lot of boost himself
Trying to get something going killers
Trolley will demo and take my tally's boosts. I call these in here for palkins
But a little pitch from Zayn
Doesn't matter trolley gets the ball, forces it right back to the corner
I'm just thinking what more do these Falcons have to do to take and boost their getting Temo's?
It's still not enough.
But maybe this is enough.
Tonic has two players drawing up.
It's Izzy.
One to Thuncelor through.
It's full panning for Gretel and Ruffin.
Another shot denied.
The scoreboard lighting up.
Temo's shot saves.
All in a second.
As Izzy takes them all the way on the 50.
Who's the Spare?
No!
The way for Stizzy.
Exotic just doing all that work
and Stizzy can let it roll in gracefully.
Vitality, match point, 47 seconds, and they're in the lead.
Fitting for Exotic to be the one to get the demo.
He had set up so many plays, he had helped so much pressure.
For Vitality in 30 seconds!
Separate them from a victory here!
Rally's off!
Off the bar and the defender was there anyway!
Killers with a little bit of speed!
All in a boost!
Open the shot!
Duh!
One of the trills!
There's the homies up later on the goal line by Vitality!
It doesn't matter if you have a one!
Take their boost!
They're gonna find a way!
And with 6 seconds left, they might just take away!
Killers lay off!
Killers drops it down!
Well, my top of the earth doesn't produce time is not here.
Is that it, Gordy?
What?
Shots come on!
Get out of here!
It's Zen!
He gets it all!
It's on!
Put it up!
Hold still in the air!
We're going to pop it.
No loss.
Get high by the end.
Get me fucking down!
Pull it!
Get out of here!
Put it down!
He's sitting down to sit here!
This is Zen's home turf, Austin.
He's been here before, he's conquered it, and he's here to do it again by Salty, your
first team making it to the semifinals.
What a series to start it out.
Man, tight run goal games, three over times.
A six game series, Falcons almost making a zero second try of it to stay alive there.
But they get knocked down in this game.
And Vitality again, we talked about it at the start.
The hardest schedule in the group stage.
You're in the toughest group, you come out, you have to play Falcons who came out and
recovered really well after trying to play Furia, losing to Furia, beating GK in four.
And really had some great games in this match by Talon.
still come out of it. This was not a flat Team Falcons by any means. It was not
extremely one-sided. Vitality had to work on the defense, but this is what the
stats, what the casters, what the analysts, I'm sure everybody watching at home has
witnessed throughout all of the Boston Major Vitality. It seems like they can do
no wrong on the defense that got it locked and loaded. Then you push to the
offense, and you're given sent any space. They'll make use of it, but see,
My goodness, that would have been my MVP.
But exotic in those last few games too on the goal line.
This is truly a pretty headed piece.
It's on there, you can take them down.
It's on an excellent new Tokyo,
Stizzy, an excellent couple of games in the Zen.
All over the place in this one.
Vitality start the playoff with a bang against Falcons.
Let's go down the leaf and talk to Vitality.
That's right, Boston.
The hometown hero, Vitality!
Zen, I just gotta ask, there were some miracles that happened last time you were on Boston.
How does it feel to be back?
So Zen, we can already say, the last time you came here,
already some miracles have happened,
the great victory.
What's going on? Why Boston?
First of all, Boston has won you.
And I'm there for winning, bro!
No, but I think that Andre, I don't know, I really think that he pays for the work.
I don't know how to say it, all the efforts we put in, it's just his pay.
It's really just the work, and I'm really happy and I hope to win that for Radoa, Alpha and that's it.
Yeah, to be fair, it's just, you know, work is finally paying off, you know, it's finally
just, you know, grinding, grinding as much as possible.
And yeah, I would like to, you know, make it to Grand Final win it, and even, you know,
for Alpha and Rados in, of course.
Absolutely.
Zen, at the beginning of the series, when there was a timeout right away, you guys
looked like you were having fun.
Did that maintain throughout the series, or was there a moment where you said we
We need to lock in because the Falcons were keeping you guys on the edge.
It's true that if we look at the time of the series, especially at the time when there was the first time-out,
you seemed to be very very very relaxed and relaxed between you.
Is it really very chill, very calm and the duration throughout the series?
It's just that I'm with the team, it's funny.
I think we're trying to be in the atmosphere, not too much thinking about the match
and to be especially confident and not to have anything to do with the fear.
So yeah, it's just, you know, my teammates are really great lads, really funny lads, and
I think it really helped us also to not have the pressure, you know, rising up, just keeping
the things down, just staying chill.
And basically that's what happened, we still have fun having fun through the whole series
and it failed off.
And I wanted to ask about that pressure too, because first off the pressure of trying
to win in Boston again, but also knowing that you have that second life, does
Does that help you guys when it comes to a series like this, to chill out or do you forget about that?
It's true that if you look at the final boss fight, you know very well, it's very well done the last time.
Is it also the fact of playing, knowing that you had a second life in the port of Braquette,
is it also related to the series in a more decontracted way, a little more relaxed?
I think that yes, it is. You know that if you do a little glissade, you're always there behind.
It's a very good game for us and I'm very happy, but we also have to say that the crowd here at Aghanis Arena is incredible.
Thank you guys.
Vitality.
This series was even as it could possibly be until we got to game five and then Vitality
took control.
Advances in the upper bracket.
They have a top four finish guaranteed.
We'll see them play on Championship Sunday.
What a performance.
Incredible teams too on defense.
Both teams were insane.
No team scored three goals in any of those games and we saw the physical play by both
teams when they had to score was they had to take someone off that line both teams
an exceptional defense both teams being so aggressive on the offensive side but
at the end of the day vitality kept Falcons in their half and no one does
that falcons play so much offense we talk about the offensive pressure that
they normally build vitality did the complete opposite held the ball in the
offensive side way more than falcons huge win for them it was a massive
win and of course like we had talked about before the all eyes for most we're
on exotic to see if he could step up and then gave us the same performance we
expected. Stizzy all the way around incredible the fact that this team is
coming together in the way we were hoping for is such a great time for
the top four run. Listen I mean Boston if you're not entertained I mean you
better get entertained now because that series wasn't nothing short of crap. We had a look at the second boss, but it took a little while to get into it.
who once did it, I mean, both teams came to play.
We talked about defense, it was even on that end,
but offensively by Tauti, outshot Falcon by 20 shots.
No one has any shots in this area.
It was 69 to 49, that is an incredible difference.
And I have started to believe that.
I think Monkey Moon really loves Dickies Arena,
and I'm starting to believe Zen really loves the game.
Yes, he does, and honestly, fun little tidbit,
but like Zen tears a little curly right now.
It's reminiscing the perm,
The play style is reminiscing the old 2023 Boston.
I mean, look at this one right here.
He is the pass from Exotic to Zen.
It's old school by town.
And we saw like long over times as well.
A lot of over time going pretty long.
Like the defense of all sides was just so good.
I loved to see the physical play.
And it was just vitality finally took over.
Just a bit exotic.
The last two games was fantastic.
He was the hero in game six.
He was the hero in game five as well.
And again, this is a vitality where we always
talk about Zen misers and that exotic really showed up
in both those late games.
It could not have been a more even first four games.
It was six goals to set the goals with seven minutes
of overtime.
But notably, those two over times that went over three minutes,
Vitality won both of them, finding a way
to clutch up when the games are going along like that.
And they take you far here in the tournament.
I felt like I was incredible to see
Vitality step up and play all three phases well all three players well
It felt like to me this was a Falcons letting off the gas a little bit not quite being that I felt like I saw yeah mistakes from
From both the twins as well. They led just bad rotations or going going up for aerials. Just try to miss scene
There was a few defensive mistakes that cost a game. There was a little bit of nerves
I think but at the same time there's a vitality playing great defense
So I tell you just control the pace of play and Falcons are just not used to that as well
So maybe it was kind of through for a little I mean the stats you look at is very reminiscent when falcons play fury
And it didn't score that much. They still had a lot of demos though
I think falcon staffers about 5.6 demos per game in this series, which is incredible
That means you're usually playing offense or you're creating these enough chaos to give yourself offensive chances
But it simply isn't coming in fruition for the falcon and that's quite
Make me scratch my head a little bit. I mean not for my metaphorically
I'm talking about physically because that's a little bit worse than falcons
and you expect them to constantly have the offensive fire power going and that should be fair though
That was a great match by both of those teams like Falcons. They're not out of this morning and yet
They're going to the lower bracket, but based on that matchup
I would say they're still a top four team and if they played again, it's gonna be incredibly close
So Falcons are not out of it. We'll see tomorrow lower side of the bracket there
They'll face off against the winner of shopfire billion versus the ninjas and pajamas, which is great
We've now set a green side of the brackets. So whoever wins the bottom of the bracket is the best green team here
We've got three more matches to go and you hear some fans in the building getting excited because the ring
Defending rocket league champions of the world and RG
Taking the stage to get set up for their match. It's upcoming your herc works out. Oh my gosh
I was so stoked about this one mainly just because the gentlemights have had such a fun performance so far, right?
We've got we want to see a new level of Archie like we talked about earlier that we haven't seen in a minute
but also NRG is on that come up.
They were kind of shaky for some time there,
and then they won Worlds,
and everybody was still questioning
because somehow they didn't win
or participate really in the first open,
and then came back and were like,
oh, sorry, we were just a little off for a bit.
What, we're back on them.
They're back.
They are inevitable.
They're in the building and they're ready
to continue to defend that title.
Those one match down, three left to go.
Folks, this is gonna be a good one.
Don't, you won't wanna miss it.
NRG, let's come up after this.
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Hey, good day.
Lads,
Crike, Reynolds looks a little bit
different.
Crike.
Anyway, I think the fellas look
good in Boston.
We had to dress for the part.
not always a good what do you think about the last series
what's up for me yeah right well so we like that I love how well
what are we doing here
fellas oh no no no no no we can't do that we can't do that I think we're getting
good they're getting good for six seven you know what I can't get it you're
getting good oh maybe you're getting good because you're not six seven all
All right, well, we can turn around here.
NRG for the gentlemates is up next.
Got it.
Sure.
Who are we rooting for?
Boston!
They can't answer the question there.
All right, all right, Boston.
If we're rooting for NRG, let me hear you!
There we go.
Come on.
All right, so who wants to do that for gentlemates?
All right, if you are rooting for the gentlemates,
Go ahead and give us a.
That's a no.
You know why they know that you're up some minor region.
I think we need to continue that discussion.
I believe those were the people who have five out of five teams
making it to the top.
And is that true?
It's a shame that they're going to have zero out of five
make it to the grand final.
And we're not grand final.
We need a chance that's guaranteed.
They might have no way to win the grand.
Who's the reigning champions of the world? Can you remind me?
Yeah, I think he knows. Yeah, that look means energy.
Yeah, it's energy. It's energy. I think they're going to do it again.
Honestly, I've been very impressed by them. I've been very impressed by Dan. Dan was looking big.
He's been hitting the gym. Yeah, I think you know a lot about that.
I gotta give him some tips. Yeah, give him some tips.
Be more than happy to. All right, boys.
Maybe some predictions on this next one.
What do you think it's going to look like? Where are we going to?
I think it's going to be an NRG game 7 classic.
We got game 6 on the last one.
We were rooting for game 7 last time though.
I know how to look good here.
I'm thinking, I want to see a game 7.
I would love that, but I think our NRG boys are going to come out strong.
Jensen makes her a good team, but I'm falling in.
Game 5, NRG and game 5.
They're going to come out looking good today, man.
There's an NRG.
All right, here we go, here we go, here we go.
NRG, Gentlemace.
Left hand NRG, right hand Gentlemace.
How we feeling?
Oh.
NRG?
You heard it here first.
Is that what you said?
I thought this one was NRG.
I'm confused.
Honestly.
We can have a trailer up here.
Michelin, man.
What do I mean?
I'm thinking NRG, obviously.
Is it crazy to say 4-0?
That's a little bit crazy.
That might be absurd.
I don't want a 4-0, of course, I want a little entertaining matchup, but Howard Whig is getting you a little bit
Yeah, I'm getting really patriotic right now. I can't lie. We're just missing some tea, man
I couldn't find any good tea today, but the harbor's closed. So tonight is young
We'll see where you're gonna go diving in the harbor try to find some as long as I got a year old tea
As long as we got some good tea, man, I think we'll be totally fine
And then so what happens after that we got GK?
The lowers.
GK vs. Karmin.
Is that what it is? GK, Karmin, Kourt?
Double check it.
Then we got Shopify as well.
Check.
Well, Michelin man, you have fun today.
I'll tell you what, you look fantastic.
You look absolutely fantastic.
They're looking good today.
Oh, he likes the hair.
Thank you Michelin.
K-K and I.
Yeah, it's crazy because two of those teams are gonna be eliminated by the end of today
Somebody's got to go. You know, of course, not everybody can make it. There's a lot of great teams here
Somebody's got to go. Who do you guys think is gonna go?
I honestly I think I predicted Karmicorp to win the whole thing in my prediction for you
That's not crazy to say things. That's lucky because vitality is back
I think vitality is back and they beat Karmicorp for what the first time in years
11-10.
That's insane.
Yeah.
But maybe that gives a Karmicorp a little bit of a chip on their shoulder.
That could be.
Maybe they want to get there.
Thing is, so much of it just depends on how you play tomorrow.
Like, if you make it to tomorrow, if you are on your game tomorrow, you have a chance
of winning the whole thing.
Mm-hmm.
Karmicorp is a Sunday team.
Mm-hmm.
They are a Sunday team.
How about NIP and Shopify?
The new Shopify.
I think that's a pretty even match.
Mm-hmm.
I agree.
If that's the final match of the day, I think that variable could be a game-7.
Thank you.
Are we getting mugged right now by the Michelin man?
Is that frame mugged?
Is that what it's called?
Getting frame mugged by the Michelin man.
Jinx, you know something about frame mugging out here.
You made a comment about that.
I don't think we need to bring that up on any broadcast.
No?
Sure.
No.
I don't care.
I need to relive that.
All right.
Well, we've got a good one coming up.
Our home favorites NRG versus the Gentlemates.
I'm really excited for it.
Do we think we're going to have any standout players?
I feel like any one of the NRG players on any given day can just be the best player in the world.
I think that's what makes them so strong.
You see the trust, especially after playing with each other for two years,
where they'll let each other take the ball, they'll fake for each other,
they know exactly what they're capable of, so they'll pre-jump each other, stuff like that.
And I back my boy Daniel.
That's my fair back, Daniel.
Michelin, man, your thoughts?
He said he really has been looking at Nas recently.
He says that Nas has been having a good tournament.
He knows fault.
This guy gets it.
He's been having fun.
He's been utilizing the have fun meta.
Every time I see Nas in tournaments he's just a bundle of joy.
He has not stopped smiling.
Yeah.
Kind of makes me sad for my boy Wavy because he's kind of just a bundle of joy, you know.
Shout out to Vertus.
We rooting on those guys but Wavy and a few other guys in the Rocket League community
that are just so happy.
They just have to be here.
You know.
He was spamming his emote really well after that series.
Only imagine if they won, we'll have a tough match.
I know, I know.
That one may last.
Yeah, we lost out on some really quality dancing moves from Wavey, unfortunately.
But hey, maybe we'll see him from a different guy.
Maybe Nosh. Maybe Nosh, it's a little too...
Nosh, it's the...
Nosh had.
Nosh would hit a 6 out.
Oh, yeah.
I'm not feeling this way.
Well, Tila too, first party.
Yes.
Oh, several times.
He was doing that at the kickoff man, actually.
He loves it.
He lives for that, honestly.
in this year, so we can hit a 6,000 points.
Well, really quick, I think all the people back home
want to hear what this crowd have to say about this event.
Are you guys excited to be here?
That's not loud enough.
Guys, we've got to do better than that.
Are you excited to be here?
Hey, let's show all those lovely viewers from the EU
that the North American crowds come to play to one more time.
Are you excited to be here?
There we go.
I like that.
It's a little bit better.
It's a yes.
All of their hair just turned a little bit more
towards powder grating.
Yeah.
I could tell.
They're feeling very American today.
Yeah.
I think after this, as a post-RLCS show,
we just go dump some tea in the harbor.
We could.
That's what I've been waiting for.
We just got to find some of the tea, man.
We love tea.
Well, fellas, I hope if you are in the building,
you've been enjoying Boston. If you're at home, I hope you've been enjoying the event
so far. We have three more best of sevens coming up. They are going to be good.
This is Ida, baby. You got three more. Thank you all for tuning in. See you soon. Peace out.
The action continues here in Boston as the best eight Rockin League teams in the world
He competes the title of major champion, the Falcons.
He's about to look to the lower bracket
quarter-finals tomorrow to continue their story.
Vitality's already into the top four.
Then continuing his story, where it all began.
Welcome back to Boston.
We've got some great wrangling coming up for you guys here.
One more match in the upper quarter-finals
where everything to gain, nothing to lose.
You drop to the lowers if you lose that one,
and you get to the top four if you win.
But then we move on to the lower brackets,
and it's everything on the line you lose to go home.
Exactly you don't want to be in that position. That's why you work so hard in the groups to get to the upper bracket
So you can have the extra light but mainly also so then if you win you can then just get brought over to the top four be comfortable
And that's what energy or gentlemates want to pull off
Yeah, and I mean this is where they get that true test because you could probably argue their group stage compared to other groups
It wasn't a challenge
NRG
Maybe potentially
Groups in group D. I believe I mean
And definitely is going to be a test for both of them to really see how they look
Whoever's gonna make it to those top four spots is gonna earn it. Listen. I'll tell you this though, man
You're gonna play who's in front of you. I want to hear this nonsense. No narratives about which group sees here is about
I'm just saying. Listen, I understand. I understand what you're saying. Okay. Okay. Listen
I noticed a lot of you haven't probably somewhere around the world to play so they know it's too easy
No, you only can play who's in front of you and that's why both these teams are right here
upper bracket round number one and listen if they can follow up that Falcons by Tauti game right there
Hey, I'm just saying we already have one European team in the top four here to get all four
It could be it could be we're about to find out folks. It's time for the next match of the day
It's time to put one more team into the top four
and the world, give a warm welcome to Gentleman.
So, Snacks asked Boston to give the Gentlemates a warm welcome.
That welcome was pretty posty here, but I don't think it's really as much about who the Gentlemates
are as much as who they're playing.
I could definitely see that, but for the Gentlemates, of course they know they're
not in familiar territory, but that is not going to stop that man right there.
to Oscar for being said he's been in enemy territory plenty of times he's been
having a great land so far here in Boston now he just needs to keep it up
this guy right here if he gets activated big game changer. Oh absolutely and if
you want to learn rock only just watch his replays from his point of view he's
not too flashy he does what he needs to do but on the complete opposite side it's
Nass who has all flesh if he's in the air all three members of energy are
gonna have to play defense. Yeah now it's just part of 1v1 pipeline he
is really building the mechanics really becoming sensational with the ball and now he's becoming
a better threes player. Basically an album record about the second third season of RCS.
Let it be some RCS World Championship last year with Oskie they had R2 finished third
fourth over Leon and now they're looking really good. Are they in car me? And are
they with 3-0? They even won an offseason win as well. They sure did. I think they
be car me now as well. They are the reigning European regional champs on the other
side of bigger title weights and introducing their opponents on the orange side representing
the USA!
They are unbreakably,
relatively champions of the world!
And...
R.G.!
Here's the warm welcome, here's the reception when the Kings of the North arrive!
Again, as already gets loud, that man right there, Lanyo, ready to go!
And NRG are here!
And they have a new title, it's Kings of the Worlds.
These guys are your world champions, it's their first time to represent that in front of a crowd,
crowd and it's a home crowd as well. And honestly, yeah, their
group might have been easy, but Daniel Apice both formed that
group and that's exactly what you would expect out of them.
They look so good. Listen, man, it's the first time since the
long time since 2022 where we actually had a reigning world
champion representing from North America walk out in front of
North American crowd. True to the 2019 one. G has a kid
over the Kobe after that when they walked out the crowd.
But yeah, when that happened and it feels like they're
and world champions can they just want it back in September they're looking great
in perfect form right now and they want to be able to force another one. They're
looking strong so far they've only dropped two games in this event well and
we were saying like oh yeah maybe they got an easier group of still you've got to
play cleanly in that group and they did so. And I was so happy to see these we
talked about it a lot last year they were the number 15th offense of a
couple majors and their offense wasn't clicking at times it's always
about their defense well in their group they're the number one team on offense
right now. Yeah and you know you always talk about NRG coming into these events
starting slow but that has not been the case this time around you can also argue
kind of the similar for gentle mates not really the slow start but just then
kind of getting things going out of the gate take a look at the head to head
between NASA and here is the game plan for both these teams is get NASA
Daniel into space and let them work we've seen Daniel 1.55 goals is
on bird up and Nass looking pretty good is so far with 1.25
pulls for the game.
Absolutely simple.
Look at the global participation, both over 70%.
I know everyone in this stadium wants energy
to win this match, but you can't not enjoy watching Nass play
Ross.
You can't watch it.
And I enjoy just watching him being a human being.
His energy is infectious, and his gameplay is so creative.
I mean, he's just happy to be out here as a young guy.
He puts in all the work.
He has a great background.
I mean he just wants to be successful and that's what happens after every single interview saying listen
I'm here. I have a great time. I'm here to compete. I want to be one of the best
And that's what they do
This is what the general mate squad has done and I'm just playing me an RG if you want to say their favorite sure
But general mates their resume and speaks for themselves so far
They consistently got it better throughout this season and I'm going up against the most American thing
Yeah with room to grow as well because we see NASA participation. We see an Oscar happens moments
We haven't seen really Archie kind of stand up and really be that killer of the team so far
He has a chance to do that and that could be serious game-changer.
And again, we've seen him do that in front of crowds before he is that rock.
He will be consistent. He's got to elevate his teammates when it matters most.
NASA times, he gets to a crowd level, maybe falls apart a bit.
So, you see, like, if they can reclaim what they showed in EU Open 3
where they beat KC 4-1 to win that, so they're going like a Europe champion
versus NA champion at this point. So this is a brutal matchup.
It's a brutal matchup and it's very important as well.
Once again, if they lose, whoever loses this match,
they play the winner of the KC versus DK series, actually.
And then, I mean, I wouldn't want to see it out of those teams
because GK looks like they're getting on the groove
and then obviously, Carmine Corp.
They end up winning that matchup because GK,
that's a tough match in the five-six placement,
especially with so many points on the line.
I got to think basically whoever wins this major,
I mean, they're pretty comfortable.
Oh, yeah, yeah, but WL is pretty much
because it counts basically has two regional wings as well on top of that so
but NA not a good tournament so far outside of course energy and we've always said that right
it's like they have to hold that mantle for the entire region on the flip side though mates the best team
in Europe through EU Open 3 and all five teams are here we could potentially see all four teams
make top four but the only way that happens is if mates wins here they get the job done
You got to take your captain, I don't mind.
And the Mates are even seeing along with the NRG chance.
They know their villains, that's okay.
They're out here with the Judo, looking around, taking the energy of their opponent and using them against them.
They're going to find a way to use that energy and get them across the finish line.
Let us know who you think is going to win in the fan vote in chat.
This is a formality at this point, but put it on the board, who's got it?
Last year, they didn't do good at first major.
Talk to Saddu, they were looking for the World Championship.
Talk to him last night.
I said, is that the same case this time around?
He said, no, they want to win everything.
I'm going with NRG on this matchup.
They're going to make it a short one.
Man, energy proved me wrong so much last season.
I did not expect them to be World Champions.
I didn't think they could even win that tournament.
But they somehow found a way.
But I'm the only representative here on this list.
I work the EU shows and the gentlemen's and the five European teams here are so incredibly good
And yet the mates
After energy got the world champion shape I'll record myself. I'm Mr. Worldwide
Represent everybody but I mean it's saying that though. You think I'm actually going against them listen. Give me an
Listen listen Gibbs did us all a favor if he picked an RG we'd be sweeping them on the desk instead. We're not we're not giving them the curse give me
RG they will take it down here
They will advance to the top four and the coin keep it clean as the coin split us up here
NRG on one side
Gentlemates on the other side into the air and it comes up and RG for the coin as well
Even chance and fate is on their side here, but the gentle mates
They heard this story before in European regional number three about carpe core and they said
that's nice. That's pretty important when the whole thing don't count them out. I think
this is going to be a great matchup game seven. I'm hoping it's going to be a fun one. Both
these teams are exceptional 74% 74% for energy in the chat folks. They are the favorites
on the desk favorites in the field. Can they prove that their favorites in the history
books as well. The spot in the top four waits for the winner. Let's play the game. We started
off with a bang and it's only going to get louder from here. The first team to breach
the blue wall now faces the frigid ramparts of the kings of the north. Strong and soft
The reigning Rocket League champion of the world,
challenged by the reigning regional champions of Europe,
Mark Nassarovsky,
who's the top Daniel and Peacebook.
MUSIC
You've been looking pretty good,
but you cannot forget that most of your time
are the reigning world champions in RG.
Back on the international land,
trying to take down his chessmates,
Left and looking fierce.
But there was one team to rest the U.S. and Canada and all of N.A. better than anyone else.
It's down to NRG trying to take down one of five Perkins best.
Daniel already trying to start off with a bang. Flip reset back off the backboard.
Handled nicely by Oskie.
You heard the desk.
The Desk.
They bring in RG.
Give's not happening.
Oh, no, that might be an open.
Gentleman's the fuck to strike.
Maybe the crowd wanted the screen to stay up at that point.
RG down fast.
Open off.
He is.
It's going to be the Gentleman to take the lead here in this game one.
It's a long road.
In RG, the top offense.
But their group perhaps allowing for that.
They have had their stock increase as we've gotten closer to this Boston Major taking
down Cape Cork.
The final open up EU.
And now every...
Daniel will tie things up.
It's exactly how it is.
The fashion at which is a real questionable for the gentleman.
Nobody back on the defensive end.
It's a little questionable for the gentleman.
Nobody back on the defensive end, Nass.
Tried to roll in late, he had nothing in the tank.
The tight came over on.
Punch and counter punch early on, Oskie on the dribble.
Quick, will be denied, Nass.
He's been making highlight plays all weekend.
However, Daniel gets a nose-face.
None at all, he's gonna keep continuing this pressure, aren't he?
Both of them out, but it's Beast Mode up next.
They're taking these 50s one at a time, just going for the death ball
before somebody has the resource to spawn Tommy, steal the gentleman's boots.
Hopefully, this will help for him.
He's got it! He's got it!
Oh, my God!
Gee, the great start for Daniel and Tommy, that little pop!
Daniel gets the touch, but then goes out ahead of the ball.
Nobody there can test him.
Now it's up to NRG to really just continue to build on this one.
They've been bomb and collected all throughout the Boston Major.
The grip stage has been great. Advertisement channelnates.
Most guys fell to Archie, but Oskie really played a big part as being that strong third man for the squad.
Oskie has looked great.
Versus none of the seed that young team liquid team you expected greatness from him.
Steve, if we pass out we can see Nash was bumped off the ball atomic.
Trying to clear this out.
Fyne beat mode will hurl that towards that.
It's collected nicely by Oscar, but it gets demoed off the ball atomic.
It's hit back, but Horge intercepts.
I expect NRG to start demoing the mates out of their plays over here.
This is an extremely offensive heavy team.
The Mates got to go to overkill with them.
It's last no touch on the ball here.
Archie wants to continue the play, though.
Overall, you see Archie almost takes the shot on the bar.
Archie almost picked in.
Archie's pocket there, dealing that ball.
Still, it makes him have time on attack.
The time he's trying to break it up.
The shot doesn't come.
Archie again making it.
Now following the quarter, you can see the help coming from NRG, but haven't they committed too many resources?
Now he's already up for it, it's a great challenge. He's just beat these guys out, but unfortunately for him,
if he's gonna take these touches, he's gotta make sure they land to your teammates.
NRG doesn't take the tunnel, he's gone, he's taking them back, but so does the base.
To the back, let's go for the flag.
But now NRG, they try to slow him down as the base wants to build a pressure.
Here it's clear downfield, and atomic hit both. The sides within the corner move fastly.
Right quick, he's all forward.
He's missing.
Manual.
Hand up.
Second effort.
Sealing it back down.
At time.
Oh boons.
Ball bouncing out through the danger zone.
There!
The shot is safe!
And it's in off the line as well!
It looks like it was hit a part for NRG.
Gentleman's starting to pick up the pressure.
You never shot a test as well.
He's supposed to send out to the corner.
It's not just on that.
Bits, Gentleman's flying.
As far as shooting,
It's always you being competitive against an orgy.
This is some of the most defense you had to see from them.
It ain't any atomic damage.
No!
It ain't!
It's falling!
It's flying out here, but this ball, look,
it hits off the defense.
The trail is blue.
These are called the habit of that attack.
Oh, that is devastating for gentlemates.
Gentlemates, they have one player on their team
that really has the pop-up potential to go head-to-head with these boats, with Daniel and then his gas.
And he's been a little absent from it. We're waiting to see if we get him into these next 90 seconds
and trail by two off-seat to Archie's town.
Daniel, be clear!
Up in the middle!
No, no, no, no!
Get in, Archie!
Archie!
Unfortunately for gas, he lost out on that game of monkey in the middle.
He got thought jumping but couldn't get a hand on it.
And that one sails right in.
He dominated start for NRG.
It's the same classic NRG we've gotten time and time again now.
Try to stop and get out of this space.
No follow, no fake instead.
They leave it to Oskie.
Off it goes this car.
True Oskie wants it.
Push it through but he can't.
Damn it, go around the heads of Oskie's saying.
I mean it looks good, Austin was going to that redirect if you think that's normally enough to defeat a Jesus, but NRG, they're locked in, they're playing well, it's going to take more than a redirection towards that right now, to get through that.
Just one minute to go, it's up to the gentlemen to really start getting the ball rolling, and I have a couple flippers of hope, but it seems to be shut down.
Uh-oh.
Finally, a hand of his own.
He's gonna be free!
He's gonna be a Tommy!
And also the clear!
He's got the breakaway!
But Daniel back in time!
Daniel didn't have a lot of moves, but did cut off the angle!
Still, his axe is oncoming.
Moski!
Stealing pass!
Went for the fake!
Does rebound out the nascent!
That saved his world by a Tommy!
Even though NRG are running out near empty,
you're still managing to get these stars!
All three members of the team is networking together to keep the mates down to one.
Demo on the back line, but with four seconds to go, it's too little, too late.
NRG take game number one.
A nice start for NRG.
NRG, they let that first one in, but then immediately responding,
responding, and then running up the score as well.
You know, some people questioning their group stats.
Yes, they're looking good in both for game,
but we'll say, oh, they had a weaker group.
Well, look at what they just did to the gentlemen.
At the end of the day, right,
NRG are one of those teams that just thrive
in front of a crowd on the land.
I mean, Daniel is going to the name,
Landryl, it's him, he's the one that started it.
This is his home.
So for energy to have this kind of a start against a team
like the Johnathan, who have had to cover this,
and had to out the group stage, it falls on Saskia
to kind of break the thing that's going down.
He's trying to talk his team through it.
You know, you wonder if there's another game like that.
It's already going to result in that timeout having
to be called.
But Daniel, everyone on energy had the moment.
So the beast mode leaf blocking plays up there running that interference role effectively giving atomic a chance to choose
What he wants to do had so much space up in the air got a little bit of help from that nas touch
Daniel on that trick on game one on land in front of a crowd
You couldn't ask for anything more if you're an RG. No, you definitely couldn't he looks great
He's very very active on the play and that's what we need from him
If you are an energy fan, you want to see a very, very awesome Daniel.
But for the gentlemen, you're just waiting and hoping that Nass starts to get involved.
Beast mode from the ceiling.
Once scary, he uses the foot tone down and arching immediately to set back.
You can see NRG has had so many moments where they've been following through.
He's the only one.
If anything in the tank gets shut down, it's a deal.
But Daniel's hoping forward Nass trying to control this.
Second effort 50 is heading towards that.
He actually bounces past B coding in.
They saved the guys who were waiting to see from one end to the other.
Look at this.
He doesn't even have that much moves, but he knows he can go for the 50 to get himself more power.
Into the net, the gentleman's lead has been played.
He's a little surprised by that.
Played very far up.
He ended up getting urged on that play.
Trying to make up for it again.
It's intercepted by Nass.
He's passing to the middle and up big.
And I don't know how she missed that hook.
She's going for a block of the touch.
But it doesn't make it through the long, risky play.
Almost another goal for gentlemates.
And our team are feeling that pressure.
Pressure, a slowly dissipating, though.
His hocky notice is the break.
He tried to go out and it's him and that's together.
A flat moment for the NRG defense,
but they recognize it.
This is just opportunity time.
It's a symptom of no moves.
You saw it, Tommy jumped up for it,
but had no moves in the take to actually get there.
Kater's on the ball.
That is an easy goal for gentlemates.
Right now NRG, this is the most they've trailed.
They almost said we're back, it's a wide shot.
See what B-Squad is working here.
Atomic tried to get this ball in the catchment,
but now the Mates are doing a great job
and the intercepting moment of shot is finished now.
From the off-speed, but no loose-speed,
the Mates got a place, and we'll solo him.
B-Squad will leave that play after he gets back on the move.
Atomic, for Daniel.
I go for a bomb, allows Atomic to do this upfield.
It's a 50.
Now Beast starts moving in.
The cross-up to the other side of the tunnel is closed again.
Daniel will try to houch it.
He's waiting for it.
He hits it forward. Daniel around one.
That's floating it in the air. There's a bump. It's at the shot.
Then by Archie.
And Beast doesn't hit the rebound shot.
But a quality opportunity for Archie.
So with a really good attempt, it also showcases how it would.
The Bates are going to be on defense now.
One of the notes back down instead is atomic over one.
An NRG.
I've worked their way into the gentleman's half.
Their base code looked like that one back.
Looks like it was going to be the first scope for NRG.
However, they still have possession on the door.
Daniel over a hard path off the side walls.
But it's boomed down a field by Archie.
His code, trying to collect, brings it back down to the ground.
We'll pop it up and leave it.
I'm gonna see again there.
Gentlemates keep jumping these lanes.
Sonic's already up early.
That's up for Daniel. She'll impact the day.
We'll make sure to check with it again.
But Nass was patiently waiting on the backboard.
And now, moving it up, he'll go for goal!
And he is!
He's nasty!
Two for two!
The gentleman's three and oh!
The fucking play comes through.
I think this kid has been what everybody has been waiting for.
This is the player, by the way, that goes to suck in from Beast Mode.
All people, all people sitting across from him.
They're no strangers to Nass.
They're no more than anyone.
What he is capable of.
And that is why they tapped him.
Nass.
Having a patch of a game so far.
Gentlemen.
We see an urgent shutout to this one so far.
This shot heading towards Nass and Nass.
The beginning of a response at least.
At least, Eastwood all the way down.
So Daniel already has been up for this one.
That's the best way you got to play it right.
Gentlemen, it's a huge move to play further into their own side.
Finally, in our cheer on the board hearing day two.
Kickoff could be a good chance at Tommy.
They were led by Nasta, who wins that forward archie.
Plenty of boost, trying to keep it close,
but Eastwood helps out from behind.
Now we'll stand the ball.
Nice shot from Oskie.
He'll follow up with a Nass on their board.
Looking for Oskie.
Oskie frapped the midfields to the set.
It's not much.
It still gets it open over that first layer.
Just one minute to go, NRG.
Got to work together to find something.
They're demoing the gentlemates in their back end,
trying to make this a little bit easier open up half,
but unfortunately for them,
blown throughs to keep the mates in charge.
They offer the pass back.
You're coming to Tommy's ball shot, Daniel committed it instead.
It's a race back in the orange.
Part time being wasted away.
Somehow people got that corner.
However, you can see him get tangled up with this teammate.
Rotation's thrown off.
This game is falling apart for NRG gentlemates.
They've been answered back in game two.
It's a rare thing to see NRG's almost blustered in a way.
But going up against a team especially of E-Style, they have competed almost the best against the European players.
At this time, they get a little bit more to be able to learn against this version of the Gentlemates.
Daniel, right next to the base here. This game, ain't down.
Perfect response from Gentlemates after the hermit NRG laid on that in the first game.
already feels like this one is a series that could go to distance, both teams playing well in their game wins but on the other side it feels kind of makes it not look good game 1, game 2 NRG was battered and bruised and Nass, he was the player of that game for sure.
for sure. Oh yeah, he's shooting 50%, 3% for 6%.
And what he brought to us in this game here,
almost 700 points to his name, just an absolute beast.
Archie and Archie working together to allow him to provide
that is what is doing well for them.
Unfortunately, the crowd is still on NRG side.
I think the gentlemates knew what they were walking into.
The defending world champs on home turf.
That didn't seem to phase, gentlemates this game.
A few head-stractors as well from the energy
you saw being close to you up a little bit far on that.
Not seeing that shot coming or not expecting it.
This is full field take.
It is so hard to do a full field take into a goal
in 3-3 this level, especially you added to the mix
the fact that it's on land against the NA champs.
It doesn't seem like Nas is afraid of anyone.
No, not at all.
He's one of those special breeds that is able to just thrive in environments like this despite
being so new to the pro level competitive scene.
And one of the few other players we've seen have that kind of career start was Daniel.
So we're going to see what he can bring to this next one.
We've had a great showing from NRG so far, but for the time being, it's a tie in a series.
Daniel, steal that corner quickly. Good kickoff for NRG. NRG going for the 50.
It's about to towards that. Oskie hits it nicely to the corner.
We'll boom that ball down field.
Grab something out of my NRG. I don't know how nasty to steal that.
I don't know either. At some point you just got to accept what is in front of you, Daniel.
Don't think you buy Archie but Facebook to follow and right now the Mates are playing this almost in a shadow effect, but they win the challenge.
For now, unfortunately the possession game is what is the difference. The Mates not holding on to this ball as much as they have been in the past.
Still early in the game, General Mates is dominating the last game. It's two back and forth.
N-R-G, game one, gentlemates, and counterpunch game two.
I've got a couple of footings to see who's gonna stop this game.
All right, here's the N-R-G who's had a majority of the possession.
Hard hit off the back, for Nass, a little slow to the ball.
50 down to the side, Daniel takes the hit, lets Perchie take it, and then goes in for the 50.
Now into the middle of the field, weak shot!
Moski hits it out to the corner below Moose for Moski, and Archie, after putting on the Moose, he manages to make the play to slow it down for now.
Look at these smokes, 50's a topic, looking for another one.
These both try to make the follow-up, he has to carry it now.
No to him, he does the delay, Moski down, and still the pressure is on.
I need a little bit more pace. There was a smokescreen.
Archie able to get that save.
Big time save from Hamlet.
The big channelmate pushed to the break.
The scoreless game just proved the intensity of this match.
Daniel trying to carry it down the top,
he has the space to the backboard.
Archie, his read keeps him out,
and the maids continue to try and make their breakaway,
but they haven't found one point yet.
They send his piece phone to the backboard.
Oh, it was on target, but again it's on you who treats the line!
He smoked, moving in once more, bounced up the ceiling and built a dig!
No, no, no! A dead-end! A dead-end!
What are these?!
The big holes for battle! They're here, time to make!
Archie down!
And on the C-Vex and the Mates, they start to build their pressure plate!
Energy is starting to get way too close to each other.
More than comfort, and it's Daniel to get them some breathing space.
He's good, brilliant, defensively. He gets an outlet pass to Nass.
Trying to do more solo work.
Daniel has to outfield Nass.
Get shot!
And the flag and your team are allowed to be robbed!
But they say, no, no, we've got this cover!
There is no stopping them.
Land y'all is inevitable.
Beast mode is inevitable.
Atomic and Herald G are unstoppable.
Mr. Big Kickoff, though, has tried to take that.
The airport was shut down by atomic beast
A little bit upward on that collection.
It's back to the 50-part pitch out. That's shot!
Deflected by Nass.
And Archie tries to keep this on a corner-corner path.
Daniel beats the ball by Oskie.
Right now,
NRG just need to hold onto this ball
and play the same game that they have before.
A very connected one.
Been able to hold the gentleman back.
Oskie, don't move.
Yes, Nass said Nass has to go back to the inside, 90 seconds left to the top, and RG holds on to what he'll need, however, if you are a fan of NRG, you love that one bolt, it feels a little bit more like fire.
Oskie, stick around one, let's rub off on another. A table does so well to get pie.
And now the shot! Oskie is drinking back!
They find themselves and they make the spine.
A great 50 from Daniel and a huge clear of no speed.
Stab you, Aussie.
You can see how much work energy they're putting in.
Nothing that moves out of gentle males.
Gentle males, when they were getting out of their zone,
He's standing too far out of the little booth, and RG catching sleep with some quality fifties
and being prepared to take that shot right after the 50th.
Now, back game for NRG.
But there's a bomb, there's the shot, and the lead trip to just one gentleman down the board.
This is him getting back into routine.
He's been trying to carry it down, but it's a really good challenge from Oskie
to slow this ball a number of times to take his shot.
Now, plenty of time left on the clock, 48 seconds.
Gentlemates, looking to equalize.
Nass, big beat.
Another touch, but the time plays it patiently,
but it'll mix up with his teammates.
We'll see if that affects the energy defense here.
Nice, 15th Daniel, send this downfield.
That's the reset.
Husky passed up.
Husky, one more corner double,
but it's cleared out now to the middle.
Daniel wants to take his turn.
Flip reset from Daniel.
Zaynel to the side.
It almost was a battle of style for a moment there,
but these next 12 seconds are between
Cush and Cossick from the gentlemen's atomic.
Trying to just keep this one at bay,
but Daphne's going right for his comfortable.
Keep the sky in depth, go on the street.
Oh, yeah!
Here are the teams!
Walk away!
But they walk away and they're still checking over their shoulder
because Gettlemage was breathing down their neck
in that final moment.
Had that ball had it, you know, a split second to bounce.
If that ball bounces, that rebound is likely going to be scored as well
even that shot barely saved off the bar.
So after two games, the first two games,
Mary won side at first in favor of NRG.
Game two heavily in favor of Gentlemates.
Game three, NRG won a close one,
but Gentlemates, they almost run it back.
The funny thing too is that the script has been completely
flipped, right?
Six shots from that from the previous, now Beast Mode on his
And yet, these photos Daniel managed to tie up in points of the double MVP awarded to NRG if that is not a clear sign of what they are capable of. I don't know what else it is.
Well, I mean, it was a win for NRG, but it was a close one. In that final moment, it could have gone a lot differently, but let's take a break and listen to what Leafx has to say.
It doesn't matter what I have to say, I'm LVP here from Ninjas and Pajamas, we're going to talk real quick on the match, but what we saw so far, get your insights. Game number one, Gentlemates scored that first goal, but then it quickly turned around for energy. What do you think went wrong for Gentlemates in that game number one?
Yeah, potentially Gentlemates got a little bit overconfident in game one, like we saw them double cleaning a few times, trying to push up, take those corners, get a few extra bombs, but now really see the NRG are really good at coming back from one goal down. Vice-versa in game two, you know, Gentlemates just put the foot on and yeah, that's how they run around with game two.
Okay, so now during the timeout that's going on right now
What do you think gentlemen?
It's a going over because it wasn't a blowout to one. Yeah, wasn't like this boy
But you want to stop a momentum. What are they talking about do you think or what would you be talking about?
I think just keep the confidence hot like general makes good boards
Just being able to put that foot down and capitalize on the earth again pressure. That's how you're gonna be there. I take
Okay quick prediction who's taking those years and I take energy. Okay. Yeah, that'll be feel it
Get up back to the casters.
Thank you, Leaf X.
Some insight in LVB.
General Mates.
Got their coach, Snasky, trying to help right the ship here.
Time running out on this timeout.
NRG.
They are the clear favorites of the crowd in this matchup.
You can feel the energy supporting the team.
It is going to take more than crowd support to take down gentlemates it will it definitely
will although it does seem to help a big energy off the kick off already getting demoed.
The Mates are going to come in with a new drop of energy.
No one intended.
Yes, driving the center you see Daniel passes over to V-Sport.
It's that pink fear that is going to continuously keep Enterachee away from getting lost on the other side.
Also, Enterachee's doing a good job of spotting out that past the tent.
Very vulnerable, that is still past the tent.
They're grasping the second hand.
Coming.
Slow down this crank out.
Still going, round one.
He's getting out the tent.
Daniel, he's got the beast boat who's already in the air.
Beast boat looking for another touch.
Gets it.
Now the pass is filled.
Archie trying to clear this out until it gets the help.
Daniel heard the tank trying to get support here.
I've run the station for Kossy as well.
We had the full tank working, unfortunately, for him.
And Archie is pretty darn good at predicting what
they're going to try and take these up to the air.
There's another big third here from Daniel.
It might have been almost stalemated for a moment.
One challenge after the other.
The gentleman.
Finally, if they're happy, I think they'll see pretty shortly.
There's nothing really falling into their lap.
They are working for it.
It's not the beginning of the game.
Very clear.
Gentleman's deep kickoff strategy.
Look, they can rely on to try to make something happen.
And NRG on their toes after that very first kick off of the game, but NRG just kept the events able to stabilize.
But it thinks that some more games like the Daniels are another problem.
NRG is trying to keep it close. It doesn't commit from NRG, but it's cleared so far downfield, it doesn't matter.
That's the NRG way, right? It is going to work in their favor in some way.
NRG is trying to follow him. It does get the demo off one AND manages to steal the NRG boost, but there hasn't been a connect again.
It was up to the second man to keep the sleigh going, but even at that rate, it's a little slow from the gentleman's side,
which is keeping them from really having any sort of a shot opportunity at the moment.
Cawdian, the fact that energy's being such a good job of challenging over the shoulder of the attackers for the gentleman's
comparison, because they can't give you the allowing Daniel to move up the field,
present more of a threat on the counter-attack, try the land above.
The first goal of the game, gentlemen, breakthrough in our game.
This is such a clean play to look at it, the reset, and he knows as soon as the time
is choked up, you just know you signed into it, to get that shun on in.
And we've been here before, the one lead to the gentleman usually means a quick
response from NRG to follow.
Another good kickoff for gentlemates, Archie Abel to get that NRG corner boost.
C-Po, jumping into action.
Atomic, the team challenge picks up mid-boots, holding back for Daniel. Daniel interrupted by Austin.
Now, give it away, that's dangerous ball for Nass to hit. Giving it away to NRG for a quick counter-attack.
Daniel's going for the fifth, Oscar up and over one.
You're fast.
You're just taking a shot at yourself.
Almost hits.
Oh, and Archie is there!
How did you, how did Archie see that?
Hey, the one Archie was ready for it.
There's gonna be some of the most
he's ever come through to get at the level of the Rockin League,
or just less, but Archie to be able to go
and just go back and then save the channel
lead of Austin and Archie finally starting to get
into that duo that we're seeing
That took down Shot Barbell earlier in the group stage.
It's crazy to see NRG giving Johnny so much space.
They let Pausky cook. He can't do that himself.
What happened when they gave Maas to make the cook?
NRG.
Trying to get one back.
Maas.
Passed his off.
He heads off to the side.
Atomic ops were used instead.
Allow that shot to come on target, but Daniel was there waiting.
Pass it to B-Sport, what'll B-Sport do?
Notice where he shot!
Couldn't hit the mark.
Oh, not to fight the other agent.
He passed out to Daniel today.
Take it off the play.
Some to B-Sport.
He has space to work with.
Down, over to Daniel.
They're gonna have to go up from the ceiling.
Energy.
He's getting stuck.
Over and over.
The bait's figuring out.
How to slow down the opponent's defense.
Okay, what are we doing?
You didn't see the defender masked behind the ball.
Waitings to make the save.
Now another shot, save.
Beep, Bop, Bop, Bop, Bop, Bop, Bop!
NRG trying their hand on the lead game comeback.
It's done all of the pressure in the wall.
Let the three boosts in the game
of the gentleman's on that final play there.
They knew the right moment to make their commits.
Good kickoff for NRG, his top of RG.
Stretching, gets a hand up.
Now rebound, it's gonna be saved, don't commit by NRG.
But still, Daniel there to boom it up to atomic atomic.
He'll hit the arc to go down.
The ball's gonna spin!
Oh, he's gonna win!
He's gonna win!
One, two, three!
Into the finals, putting the ball into the play.
Oh, he's gonna win!
RG was trying to get to that ball.
Oh, he didn't have much boost.
Now into the kickoff, we see where does this bow.
In our team, they're trying to put it back past his dead.
It's a full set from the base.
Next, up into the sky, trying to get it down to Archie.
I like the middle of atomic and keep him out.
It allows these bows to space to bow.
Half the foot, half the shot.
Archie trying to be creative in the final moments,
but it's giving Jena make one last look.
Daniel will save it.
He smoked half possession, he half smoked as well.
They're going to talk way in the middle.
The shot from the back!
Yeah!
What is going on?
Yeah!
He went all the way!
He hit!
Here on second!
Here on G!
Jack, you're a match!
Come on!
How about a shot of adrenaline for you?
An incredible performance all the way around from NRG.
It looked like the gentlemen had really started to get into it.
They seem to have finally found a way to slow down and truly defend that NRG offense.
offense but at the end of it all when they need it the most, Daniel up here.
I can't believe NRG won this game.
How have they done it?
They're down late.
This was the one moment that Gabriel Hall 42 seconds left and then B's most
about shot where she's messing up this landing and then Daniel just for
at zero seconds, sliding in a moment of benders.
She the pop-up from Saffy behind him.
Everyone in the arena, up and out of their seats
in that moment.
This is the version of NRG that was completely
unstoppable, open after open, final after final.
They're clicking again to be able to hold your composure
and find that zero second ball, it's going to do blind games to the
gentlemen. That's something they don't have a lot of time to sort out.
And mind games indeed. How do you recover from that? A game that it
looked like you were surely going to win if your
gentlemen's to lose it in that fashion.
And to lose in regulation as well, 42 seconds.
They're up by two. They end up losing 42 seconds. That was the answer for NRG. That's all they needed.
All they need is one more. They can see top four right back where they've always tried to play in this hall.
But the gentlemates, they've got other plans.
Naps, taking them on the field, and the Tom is going to cut that one quite short.
Nice box.
And the feet go to look.
That low boots will make the save, but on low boots it's going to be tough for him.
Does get help from Oskie.
Oskie was brilliant defensively, even saving the way for gentlemates last game.
Feet go to big feet.
Going to push this forward.
Oskie trying to keep this in the corner, low down by Atomic.
Not too bad right now, NRG's pressure does seem to be dwindling up good.
Aharji, they've got all the way, thought it would have been a good sign,
but for now they've off to try and be falling around NRG, unfortunately.
NRG's got to get low. Atomic wanted them up on that.
No connection needs to be shut.
Very important clear as well.
I still got it out of Oscar, though, trying to cook on the floor with recent...
MESCAGE!
Oskie willing to make forward!
NRG, a little too concerned with the wrong thing.
A double demo on the backhand.
And instead you needed to double up on the defense of Oskie.
Just full dunk on Daniel.
They take that one lead again.
The fated one goal lead on NRG.
One goal lead is not safe, neither is the two goal lead, even if there's only 42 seconds left.
I'm sure of that.
I can definitely make mine. They know they need more.
Let's get another good challenge.
Jamie picks up the corner.
Atomic.
Floating off the ceiling.
All he's up to.
Archie, Archie.
Get that forward nest. Now moving in.
Pass.
First touch control by one.
We're gonna move a game into the cockpit switch, clear it out.
Archie gets lighted towards the net and posks you.
Fifty-facts and that's always awkward. The net's wide open.
It's gonna be a fallback!
Achoo!
You're gonna come back and you're gonna find that ball back in your net, but gentlemen,
a little bit too far forward on this one, and you saw these very quick cuts from all three members of NRG.
And they take their turn, tied game, off the kickoff.
He's in the nose of Beast Mode, but Archie's got his other plan.
Old big touch from Archie as well. Still trying to keep it going, but atomic.
Here's the safety for now.
Nass, the pass.
Archie trying to pre-flip to it.
Beast Mode staying behind the ball and keeps attacking.
The energy, still there trying to get out.
Now, Nass, but reset.
Hit the wave by Beast mode.
A good challenge for Daniel.
It's so high on the ball, and it's another touch.
Still 50 into the energy half.
Energy locked down right now.
I see if the Mates enforce any sort of a shot,
fortunately for them, it is the same story over and over.
Nass has a breakaway.
The gentleman said, this isn't quite done yet.
And Oskie continues his scoring streak.
Reads that clear set perfectly.
The gentleman's back in the lead.
At this point, NRG are really just allowing the Mates to play their game.
Not much of a chance for them at the beginning of the series.
So it's best to become a little predictable.
Because in our team, their corner cannot have on no boost.
They want this connected shot. They can't watch by the end.
Atomic.
And the defense on is for RG.
Move it out, Hosskees.
Red point towards dead.
15 to pass.
More pressure on NRG who have been locked in their own half.
The majority of this game.
Atomic.
He goes straight back.
And these foes will pass that back quarter boots, getting confused.
He used it all just to get past that first one-coming attacker.
General Mane's on the energy down over and over again.
Daniel finally is able to get over Archane.
Atomic 1%er, this is going to take him a little bit later.
He's the one in cut.
Drop atomic.
Dead and transition out for the base. They want the shot to keep them out.
The gentleman's got a little shaky.
Daniel did a good job of leaving that boost for a ton of allowing all of the energy to go on the attack save from Oskie.
Daniel trying to control it.
Oskie, she can downfield you again, but he's gonna have to retreat on zero boost.
Daniel, open the kickstart counter. Nice big ball, both to Archie.
Archie going for the 50.
Pass, the dribble, another 50 kill, more time.
Oski got popped off of the attempt.
Instead, NRG forces racing back to their side,
doing all of the backboard tasks just in time
to help make that half clear.
But here's a peaceful end, Atomic.
All three members of NRG want to make a race.
They're down by one. It's a shot.
Atomic!
Atomic with the power punch!
Instead, Daniel scored a 0-70 goal last game.
Will it be someone else this time?
Occhi keeps the ball in play.
Finally, it hits the ground.
And we have overtime.
A chance for NRG to secure a spot in the 7th finals with one goal.
Gentlemen, still got their story to stop here, though.
They want to continue on.
That's down over Archie. He's gonna come into the sky.
Beast mode has to breathe when he's forcing it.
Or is that the bed?
You can feel the stress. You can feel the pressure.
And here come the mates.
That's a heavy touch.
Buff off to Daniel. Archie did get a hand up.
You can see a brief moment of panic for gentle mates.
Archie's been solid on game.
Archie with a 50 forward.
Beast Mode trying to get that out of the gun corner.
Daniel upfield, the Tomic had the blue snatched away from him.
Still, it's off the backcourt.
Beast Mode, he's back in boom ball right now, in overtime.
Thanks, here.
Reward it down, and off you go!
The Germans will give us one more!
A hat-trick from Oskie and a beautiful pass off the ceiling!
It wasn't an easy shot either, it had to be perfectly timed.
It's very easy to send those shots by Butoski.
He's clutched.
He was amazing for gentlemates that game.
He looked so good.
Another version of what we saw from that six shot
Grigolz was making a hot trick to keep them in the series.
The scary thing was Archie being a little bit more aggressive
The very thing with Orchie being a little silent,
when Orchie is stepped up, it doesn't feel like you have
to depend on somebody quite as much,
but the fact that they were simply
going to get away with it does mean some hope
to the Gentlemates.
And it certainly does.
Some hope.
After losing the last game the way they did,
you wondered if it was just going to be lights out,
curtain's closed, Gentlemates going down into that lower
bracket quarterfinal.
But no, they survived thanks to that epic effort from Oskar.
Also such a good pass.
And Oskar had no boost in that situation,
no room for error on that big game from Oskar.
This was a player at some point in time
we were going to get to see him absolutely shine again.
But you got to do it not once, but twice more.
NRG, they've learned what they've got to do.
It's a matter of executing it here in the next round.
The Tokyo will be settled on the streets,
but will he be going to Champions Field?
Kickoff track.
Pretty regularly for gentlemen.
Four counts though.
This might be working in favor of NRG,
and these boats will be back to the wall,
but it's hit down the field,
dang which all the way back to his corner,
in our key possession these people turn on it for a ceiling bounce is interrupted
with defense for gentlemen
right now in our G
basically the pressure of the gentleman's arching wanted to center over us
we played this one further which is a great sign unfortunately for him those Daniel Phillpies are coming through
so is the pressure so are the demos
in our G they wanted a footnick and they might have a hole in the heart
And they catch the breakaway!
A long-range jumper for Lonsky!
Energy! They went up heavily on that attack!
And a quick one-two takes advantage of it.
Gentlemates back in the lead.
A great way to show what the major capable of.
But the scary story is all of these wonderful leads get responded so fast.
East mode once it started here almost centered it but Ozzy is showing why he's the shining
star right now. Next open one. Archie shot outside. Good gentleman. Securing further lead.
Another misdirection play here. You can see Ozzy playing off the ball. Let Archie tap it to him
Instead, Oskie and Archie on the same page, good communication, good composure.
Channelmate's not giving up.
Looks like they're bringing this back.
Another attempt here in college, Archie down, Oskie will sense on it, but I like this from that.
Being confident in a play that further broke my energy, haven't scared anything.
The first one to point sometime.
From the ceiling down to the center, he's both going to catch it in the air.
He has to point down to the backboard. It's due to cover.
Hi ball. Tomic, trying to be nice to the ball.
And it's handled there as well.
Oskie, ready for the block. It seems like Oskie's been standing in the way
of majority of these actors from NRG, and he keeps coming out on top.
And he also just sent the frustration for NRG.
They keep going bumps at the back line, and nothing is coming of it.
Instead, the maids run away with the ball attack.
And the shot comes up!
He!
Gentlemates! They're looking clean!
RG, waiting, waiting, waiting.
He uses his flip to go for the wave dash shot.
Doesn't score, but that rebound.
They put that in the hands of Oskie, there's no way it's not going to be a goal.
The 3-0 lead feels pretty good right now.
NRG stretching their heads on how to get past the defense.
Their level of aggression is having quite a bit enough to move them out of the way.
Atomic just put Daniel, Daniel almost in their net.
And it's full flush after from NRG to try to go in.
I'm trying to utilize the ceiling all year, so effectively.
Deo, sorry, giving some space to gentlemates.
That has to be a little bit of a quick shot, but that would not be being that situation.
I can forward between the two NRGs. We see Boston on their side, another shot on dead.
easy here from this mode atomic three jumps can catch on this one gets the on one
can he follow the attempt. Archie drags and circles around atomic there. The confidence
is equal. Archie and all the gentlemates really starting to look comfortable.
Another weak shot, easily saved, rebound opportunity. Hit for its back,
but Oskie will bring it back downfield.
Big upside here right now, but unfortunately, and Archie,
they're still trailing by three.
It's for the same story over and over again,
and right now, the one person that they need out of their way
is still on the field.
Oskie and Nass, now Archie starting to get into this momentum of lead
for the big demo, the 2v1.
He's still managing to find the clear and the spot.
Yeah, you could see the plan there.
They were, and RG was hoping to land and maybe get a quick call by Hoski,
but Hoski snipped that plan out so quickly.
He was already upfield in an unbuckleable position.
And RG had fallen fast.
It had been a dominating game for gentlemates on the Otoquio.
One of their most comfortable performances by far in this particular series.
And it's a great showing if they want to truly make this a challenge on champions field.
They're 35 seconds away from seeing it.
We'll tap down, get the final 30 second mark.
One more goal here, that surely would seal it in.
We almost did!
How that was saved!
I do not know.
It's honestly so incredible to see how much pressure has been able to be built on these
teams in the long-term R&G.
I do not see the taster shots like we're used to, but if you're a gentleman's man, you
are excited.
This is the U.S. that you wanted.
You've got to take the rest of North America.
And almost it went for the rose, but we are going to champions field.
This series going the distance, it looked like NRG in a pace that
Gentleman couldn't debunk with, but these last few games cool.
Malm collected it, Oskie has really stepped up to be the leader for
Gentleman when they needed it.
Yeah, he was all the way around just this perfect player that he needed.
Honestly, probably my favorite performance he got from him is the most impressive for Tav.
A performance like that for him is one thing, and that is to pay the energy time out.
I'm just happy to help bring NRG back from the brink.
NRG forced to call a timeout. Maybe even a bit surprising the timeout didn't even come last game.
The gentlemates have been on a roll.
Seems like Oskie has been the big barrier on defense and offensively he's the one
landing those strikes against NRG.
Shout out last game.
But if there's one thing that NRG has, it is that clutch factor.
And they also have their names hanging from grapples.
There it is up in the sky, completely burned.
and your current world champions have been taken to their field to try and defend themselves
headed in to the rest of the plans.
on. NRG and Gentlemates. They'll 3-0 their groups. NRG defending their World Championship title.
Trying to make it a fact that they are the greatest team that Rocket League has ever seen.
the next generation here to try and take that down they've watched NRG when they've watched NRG to guard and they are here to try and take them down in the upper round one.
Big to be able to split sail right into the semifinals top four.
Also, nice side of the bracket.
Have that dream finals run.
But the first step will be this one.
Dave 7, right away, gentlemen.
Kickoff!
Goal!
They're going right back into it!
They never would have been safe!
And finally, their kickoff shenanigans have paid off big time!
You see the fake!
The turn!
Perfect execution on that fake kickoff!
The new element added against Henry Chee, a quick lead.
Thomas is going to try and break his kickoff in.
Reset down.
These guys are done!
Out of that corner, Henry Chee goes!
Already, General Nate's land a huge blow.
But for energy fans, we've seen them bounce back from these steps before.
Atomic, backboard pass.
These both retreats press the passive atomic again.
It's all the way back.
Now, neighbor's stall writes Nats.
Atomic will save it but you saw the demo on that third player.
Once those demos start to come out, it's going to be a little harder for NRG to play that
very, very clean and quick follow-up style, passed down to RG.
Oh, come on, tell him, no!
Uh-oh!
NRG kept your break!
Still, gentlemates having all the work.
Oskie, right around his corner in this demo.
GFU smoke passes up to Oskie Oskie, off the ceiling.
Double!
And Daniel will hit it over the corner.
Time absolutely leading away from NRG
as they continue to get tennis ball to the backboard.
Nass double down, almost out of center.
And the men's continue to hold onto the one-hole lead.
But B-Sport has the left knee, has the pressure.
But Daniel and the rest of the B-Sport team
continue to trust.
I'm going to be a dream!
RG trying to get this out from a pitch fault gets a tip on it, makes it awkward, and that
one launched into Gentlemates!
Hold net!
Another kickoff, all in favor of Gentlemates.
They have possession with Booth, but NRG closed the gap quickly.
One to one, back to back.
The Mage is fighting a dense energy that is turning up the heat.
You set his best energy thrive.
In these high pressure, last minute situations,
Ozzie trying to make cash on it.
He's running the party up.
You know the low-loose energy you're conserving.
In a way that is still working out defensive style.
One closer for Archie as well, defensively.
Take this time.
We must build up the atomic atomic, lightly bounce it off the ceiling.
Demo from behind, Daniel's going to retreat back.
Now moves in, now tip down field.
It's up against Nass, atomic.
On the corner, I'm going to land a bump.
Our V smoke, pop it up, trying to keep it high.
We need to make things tough for Jailmates.
NRG really want to find each other here, they try to get it over to Daniel,
and he says, all areas of the base, that's where it has been covered.
It feels like there is no space.
NRG trying to force it here, but that's already up on Beast Mode.
Daniel just tries to spend it and keep NRG in their side.
Big boom for Nass, goes for a big boom.
Daniel sets it for Beast Mode, Beast Mode, off the ceiling,
Flip, reset, back!
A bomb is shot!
Get out of my car!
Get down!
There's no time again in the big, clear, downed field!
The blind shot scares NRG into their half,
but none for long.
Here comes Daniel.
Tries to load it down on one.
You see Beast Mode lurking on the ground,
so they're gonna take it to high pay.
RG, he's gonna slow things down again.
That time almost right again.
Still might.
Oskie with a miss.
Beast Mode, up, up the ceiling.
trying to reach some habit.
A shot will go wide.
The Tomek is the mid boost.
It's pitched hard out beast mode.
We'll E2 at first, and we'll hit it off to the side.
Danny also snacking that quarter boost,
but Nass is still deadly.
However, the play is broken up by a Tomek.
I don't care playing a full wall defense right now
because these big players from the mid,
we're starting to get really deadly.
Nass on his own, he's got to try and get that boost,
and he gets to the time to see something.
This Tomek, that full committed on the play,
dangerously in front of the dead. Daniel played to one, but with one minute left to go,
fear comes from the final attempt in regulation.
Tommy, money is loose, up around one. Going for the double, but Oskie again there to deny the backcourt bounce.
He's going already up, possibly Daniel could please the intercepted by Nass.
He's going to go for 1v1. He got the sticky house over the side, Oskie's waiting.
He's getting the ball underneath, and by Daniel Oskie didn't have much boost, but what he had was positioning.
And Oskie steps up again for Gentlemates.
In MVP performance, and one that is needed out of Daniel from the corner down the top.
Highlight player rebound out to Nassau.
What a blast!
Damn it, back on top!
All three of NRG was there, but it was all
due at the set up.
The laser shot between all of NRG
could do the one to have it in here 12 seconds on the clock.
To get kickoff for NRG, to do as well.
RG already airport!
Me too!
That's for last attempt!
Let's get it by one!
Don't look for an RG anywhere close to the ball!
And Jett Dolmets
finish the comeback and take down NRG!
A true performance from the Jett Dolmets!
The best they've looked so far to take down NRG!
Oh my, what a series.
That was crazy stuff.
And it broke the house.
I mean that's, he looks like a veteran out there.
He looks so cool, complex.
But the young veteran, Oskie, to me was the one that helped put them over.
That helped them reach the finish line.
He has been in this scene for quite some time.
It's a theme.
I absolutely thrive like that.
You see the smile.
You see the vibes.
Everybody is so proud of what they put out on that field
because a win against NRG means something a little bit
more than lost sometimes.
And it also, you know, it really does set up a great
grand finals run.
We take a look at the replays here.
But gentlemates, down on a favorable side,
You look at the G-Corp, NRG, Vitality, GK, all on the same side of the bracket, this was a huge gain for gentlemates to be able to pull off.
Such a great performance all the way around from Nass to Oskie, but now we set this way over to Archie and we...
Again, it's arena, I know we're heartbroken from that, but I would feel that gentlemates are winners here.
So, so nice to have you.
Nice, it's nice.
Archie, at the end there, I got a little wild.
If you can talk, you got a little scrappy maybe.
Can you talk to me what was going on between maybe
both teams that caused that back and forth?
I mean, I think it was every game we had to leave.
We bowled it every time.
I think we were able to control the series,
because I think we had a lot of pressure.
But they kind of pushed in the last minute every time.
Except game seven.
Now, looking back to game number one,
You guys got the first goal, very quickly turn around.
You said you guys are controlled,
but it looked like you lost it a bit there.
Can you tell me maybe what slipped up at the beginning?
I mean, I think we had the pressure in game one.
I think we were in the hall pretty much all games.
They just kind of made some good counter-attacks.
And I feel like that was a game plan,
way into counter-attacks.
All right.
Now, you just mentioned before here,
if they didn't cheer, you guys are okay being the villains.
Yeah.
What do you prefer, I guess?
because obviously it's nice having the audience behind you
or you think you thrive a little bit more if they are blue?
I don't mind.
We'll wait for Farris to be the heroes, so I'm just fine.
You guys have free reign to do whatever you want that it sounds like.
Now looking to the next match, I believe Vitality
because we were facing up against here, I make a mistake.
Now that he's Vitality.
No, they won't.
Yeah.
So we're in the same, we have to wait.
Oh, okay, my bad.
Either way, looking at the competition,
five European teams,
How do you feel about having the whole region represented in North America?
I mean, I think he used the best region by far, so it makes sense.
You were looking for them.
Yeah, I know it's terrible. I know it's terrible, man.
Honestly, let's just leave it at that.
I know it's terrible, guys. He says it.
Jettolmates.
Europe sent five teams to Boston.
They're guaranteed two in the top four.
None of them are eliminated yet.
It's starting to look a lot like the last time we were in Boston here, Gibbs.
And gentlemen, it's hatch off to an energy with a lot of armor game for.
They take that out of nowhere, but it's because energy is so hard to beat.
Even when energy is not playing at their best, they bring that to Champions field.
I felt like the entire time Mates was the better team on the field.
But energy, this is why they are champions.
They fight the entire time.
But Oskie, I loved everything I saw out of him.
games that he was five and six there's multiple plays where he just took the ball
by himself was like there's two defenders on energy I do not care and we
score anyway 1.43 goals for game shooting 47 percent against energy defense
it's phenomenal. It is and they kind of kept that up for the reports of the season.
It was a constant threat when they were up for it in offense it always looked
like what they were behind the ball it was just energy with the little
Shaking the back end a little I was wondering what makes me gonna do their office was so creative
I mean, I mean they got a job on man, I mean they're a great team we talked about it
They've been on they've been ascending they've been calming for me be calming for me to be anybody and then they got the
Energy kind of though that game number four
I put them in a good position and just looking at the numbers here
And it's probably the most boost on the field and you'll see it in the game number seven
He also had the most amount of time without
boosts and in that on that believe that game is third goal of game seven
I'm not not getting low boosts. He could have stopped playing that was the end of the game
So this is game four right here where they were down to nothing with less than a minute to go
But they find away energy and again, that's why they are a world champion
They find a way to win games when they're not supposed to but look at the solo plays
coming out by us is not fair how many people were online the energy defense was
not exceptional they gave up a lot of white open next but even when they were
playing defense it was because of the maze and their mechanical play was just
surpassing them. Yeah I mean they had to struggle and fight all the way through and
once the maze kind of got on the wall it really felt kind of hard for NRG to get in their pace that pressure was just so tight and in this game it just came down to really just like these tough moments where NRG had to work so hard.
That's a tough spot to be in and also the kickoff way was talking about I wish we'd show it because
open it up and man I have to assume that's happening for saying let's not give him a kickoff.
Because the general mates have a great kickoff I would say down to Falcons, Garmin, GK those are probably the best kickoff teams in the game.
You don't want to give them that in game number seven but ultimately it happens.
The general mates go in favor and then that's the difference in the end of the game.
It was. I did that that game set with that kickoff.
We were watching, I was watching Sathy on the stage talking to his players like this is where he makes his money
This is his big moment he saved the time out for this moment usually you'll take it after two losses
You waited till after three losses to use that time out and then that kickoff goal
You know that that had to have done something to their confidence
And I was here bait saying don't wait to game seven to call an overtime and it kind of backfires there for NRG
But gentle mates, but the time out call the time I'll eat. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like Tom. I'll step away
I like Thomas or like he's world champion coach exactly
You can do whatever you want.
That's just my personal-
Like the time I was born again.
Bates, I gotta say, I know you had a loss.
I don't have a loss on this one.
What do you bring?
Why don't you bring me this after-
Okay.
We got a birthday in the building.
It's Bates' birthday.
If we could sing Happy Birthday for him, that'd be wonderful.
You don't have to do that.
Happy birthday to you.
An exceptional product.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday dear Bay.
Happy birthday to you.
Thank you.
Sorry we couldn't get you an NRG win for the whole day.
It's okay. It's perfectly fine.
Gentleman's got the WS like my second pair of jeans,
so I'm Mr. Worldwide now, like I say.
It's a great win.
It's fine as a way to win, no matter what.
You really guys, I've dealt with this for years, man.
You just gotta get used to it.
Okay, okay.
We kind of threw production for a loop on that one.
You can show the bracket now production and see how things are evolving here on playoff Saturday.
Two matches down, two to go and while energy, yes, they did lose on Champions Field there.
Now in the quarter-finals they will play tomorrow but importantly, importantly Gips,
unless GK clutch up against the blue wall, NRG will not get away with winning a championship
without facing Carmencourt.
That's going to be fun.
If it happens, GK's playing rather well either way, playing another European team down there.
And honestly, production, you should start working on those graphics.
Because if it's all four, top four is Europe, we need to not call us Boston major.
This is Europe being open number four.
Oh my goodness.
Something about this building, man. I don't know what it does out here.
Carmen Corr versus GK coming up here in just a moment.
The ninjas of pajamas versus Shopify rebellion down there.
Shopify a lot of weight on their shoulders here at Dazz.
There's only two teams from North America.
And if they were to lose that one, they'd only be one.
They're the only one.
Yeah.
I mean, you talk about that.
You talk about the pressure here.
First killer with his new team.
Like, Jormy, again, he calls it their best team that first killer's ever had.
Now they're in this position.
They haven't had the best mission yet.
They're going to have to clean things up before they dispatch.
Well, folks, we got two more matches on the day.
We got some cookies to eat and some birthdays to celebrate.
So we're going to take a quick break.
When we come back, the blue wall on the stage, taking on GK.
You're first zero.
You won't want to miss it.
Stick around.
Hey, the polymer's fixed on that burst pipe. It should be all set.
Good thing you protected 24-7 with your home and auto bundle from Progressive.
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something like I have for Texan just need a lifeguard what about that emoji with
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Alright welcome back everybody.
We are joined with the beautiful GK.
What's going on guys?
Welcome to Boston.
How are you guys feeling right now?
I'm good.
How about you?
I'm feeling great.
and guys are gonna see your guys' faces once more.
And you guys have had a crazy, crazy introduction
just to get here to Boston.
Before we get into that game,
so I think you've got something to ask.
Yeah, I want to know about the hectic off season,
because how do these rosters get built?
Obviously three different teams
and you guys all form in about, what, a one month span?
Yeah.
How does that even happen?
Who introduces whom to whom and then who do you try out?
How does that all work and how did you form?
Yeah, I don't know.
He needed to start messaging me as soon as the offseason started.
He was like, please, team him me.
I need to meet teaming really bad.
And I was like, fine.
So you just go into each other's team once, and you're just like, what's up?
It's not very professional, really.
It's organic.
Yeah.
It is the only chance.
Yeah, sometimes a seed is planted.
Sometimes, you know.
Yeah, you can plant a seed early.
You can plant a seed early.
Yeah, like four worlds, because you know that's all.
Oh, yeah.
Like, well, me and him, WD, our teams are like Bible.
Yeah, we did not like each other, so we didn't do that in-game.
So I thought I liked it, yeah, I still liked it.
So it wasn't like last minute or anything.
Were you guys planning here for at least a little bit,
or is this literally just organing the anime?
It was, yeah, this is actually one of the teams
where we spoke to each other after the fight.
We spoke after, and he wasn't out world,
so he waited till the world ended to message me,
and then we thought that might be available
so we were like, yeah.
Let's go ahead and just start off the scene, right?
Cause you guys had, I wouldn't call it like
a rocky start, but you didn't make it
kickoff weekend and so what was that like sitting at home having a watch that
go down? It's obviously like watching everyone you know get to play kind of a
tournament that you wanted to be at. Obviously it was just the regional right
so like if you get to a tournament that's not a good kind of start to the
season and it was like yeah at some point like we could have done better
but there are also a couple things that are out of our control right so yeah
Yeah, you can always spin it whichever way you want to and we just kept our heads high.
We focused quite really hard, side playing with each other more than having a base to
play in ranked and we focused more on scrims and obviously we were pretty good at it.
When you were watching at home obviously with K-Korp being one of the last team left
out of the top four was all North America, were you cheering very hard for them or were
you like?
Absolutely.
Because you were hoping for that spot.
Justin Hayes was needed.
We wanted that spot because we knew that we were in a great position.
Every team in Europe would be cheering for K-Corp in that position just because it gives you an extra chance to qualify for all the lands.
Especially once they got kind of rolling.
Once they made it around finals, I knew there was going to be that.
And then it was obviously incredibly important because it went to the tiebreaker.
Yeah.
You're playing Man City, it's a bunch of kids basically.
So you guys going into this?
It's a tournament.
Rather confident, I was seeing that last game was hectic.
You should have felt like a way, it was like there was no way we'd lose this.
There was a time, like actually no way we'd lose this.
Like we were just the entire day, because it was a long day.
Because of any like rituals, it was kind of like corny to ask,
but like any weird like habits to like, I don't know,
like some people wear the same socks, you know what I'm saying?
Like if you have any weird...
Or if you look at me, it's like, well, I feel like you're like the type of guy that's the latter.
Yeah, I mean, I...
Oh, what were you doing, sir?
Yeah, I like wearing specific things to play in.
know that like, I love to keep up with my beef broccoli.
Every single game or just like the day or like,
I mean, I hope it's like a big series.
Yeah, in the morning, yeah.
But right now.
Yeah, yeah, I got my, it was a big series.
Like sometimes my reel or try and like,
the buffers were there.
Dude, everybody's got to know what I'm telling you.
And it plays into like the mental
and how we can say what it's to talk about
just experience.
When you guys are so experienced on this roster,
like where does this experience now?
You've been here for so long.
How has that affected you on this team?
I mean, anything's possible in it.
Like, that's the thing with this team.
We can do anything.
Free LAN and VP's on the same team, you know?
Oh, you've got it all?
You've got it all, but how do you guys get to now connect
the dots at the same time?
Is that like the big question moving here into Boston?
It's because our brains are all so big and like genius,
you know, so like sometimes our genius,
like, combats each other and we don't get on the same page,
like, the ideals, like, they contradict a bit
every now and then, but we just got to sit,
like, men, and just talk about it.
So how important then was maybe the boot camp before this going into this event?
Because you guys are still not in your P form yet, but you want to be for Boston.
Yeah, it was important.
I mean, like the start of the week could have gone better.
Like, we weren't playing incredibly well at the start of the week.
And then every day genuinely just got better.
So yeah, I think it's a wonders for our kind of level and our understanding of
how we should go into this tournament.
I mean, you were talking about how you guys are rostered with like three MVPs.
You guys are stacked, obviously, of the experience.
Do you feel the same way about the rest of the EU right now?
Does it feel equally stacked?
Like, what's your perspective now on the whole region as an entire EU here?
Yeah, I mean, every font nowadays is stacked.
I mean, roughly, it's gotten to a point where everyone is extremely good at it.
That wasn't the case, like, three years ago.
You can just flip it, because like, yeah, where the EU5 seed play doesn't feel like that to me.
Like, I feel like we can take down anyone.
You have any, uh, any way you're scared of them, Joyo?
I mean, anything you could take at all,
you just come in here, big guns?
I don't know. Maybe when I, like, started my career,
I used to be scared of playing people a bit, but...
I respect some of the other teams, even the players,
but, I don't know, I just think everyone's bad
when I'm playing them. That's all right.
That's all the mentality I always have,
is everyone's bad when my team's bad.
Yeah.
So I got one final question then for you.
With the camera, Antex, obviously, Joyo,
You come up with something new I feel like every year.
Oh, you have anything ready yet?
Oh, yeah.
I'm ready.
You want something ready?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Something ready?
Okay.
Let's pull the older pulls.
Here's Damon.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, thank you guys so much for joining us in this conversation and we'll see how
you guys do in Boston to look at.
Thank you.
That makes them. That makes them.
The 58! Oh my god!
Oh my goodness!
They want four straight throws.
Wait, are we at that? Are there any other cars?
Are we at that? Are there any other cars?
That flame is still on the roof.
I
Halfway through the playoffs Saturday all eight teams still with us that changes now down to the lower bracket we go every match is an elimination match from this point on three European teams one North American team with their lives on the line here for the final end matches of the day.
Yeah, it's our first regional battle.
That's going to be one as well, the outside of group stage
with two Europeans.
But this KC, again, they've now lost twice to Europeans
back-to-back matches.
So we'll see what happens.
They are obviously huge favorites, lower bracket, but GK.
You poke the beast and you find out what happens.
And to be fair, really quick, like KC,
they made this tougher on themselves.
They won kickoff land together in the EU5 year.
And now they have to play the EU5 to stay in the tournament.
Oh my god, it would kind of be kind of big brain though. They've been like wait
We need to lose it because European teams are good. We don't want to have better competition
American teams we can fire that's what I'm saying actually be pretty comical if they earn the spot for GK
The GK is like thank you very much
But how like me really is that?
There's a chance. I mean KC they've already they've lost to straight match. Yeah, you can't you know
Gentlemates and fights out. He's something could be a third. It could be I mean hey
I wouldn't have thought NRG could have scored two game-winning buzzer beaters and still lost that series anything can happen here
This is why you play the games. We are getting ready for it folks two matches left on the day
Ninjas of the Jams shop fire a billion will close things out for now. It's time for coming courses GKE sports
And now it's time to start knocking teams out of the Boston Major
Teacher, introducing first on the blue side,
the kickoff land champion,
let's do wall,
Tommy Thorne!
The final boss of rock league and they point themselves to the villains as well.
They lose the best player in the world, Joralee, and what do they do?
It doesn't matter.
They're still the EU1C here.
Ato and the Tyra have been together for so long.
Ato is looking like one of the best players in the world now and that was all through
the online split.
He's got a show in front of this crowd, but the Tira, he's literally won everything except for the world champion.
If he always begins so well, they won the kickoff land, and they win the Boston Mace.
I like what I'm seeing here too. You have the Tira walking out, hands in the pockets, looking comfortable, looking confident, regardless of how the group of death went for them.
You know they're going to provide as much as they can on the offensive side of the blue wall. You just can never count them.
I mean, listen, they were up 2-0 against my tower,
and he didn't, they first his then birthday ball from,
maybe it was the material, letting his home play,
get the dump, he did never help.
But regardless, they're still determined.
And they were just one game from being in the upper bracket,
so they're feeling pretty comfortable,
I would believe at the moment.
And it'll be the testimony of GK, how well they can play.
Let's see who they're playing.
And introducing their opponents on the orange side.
They're Europe's number 5C.
Survivors of Group B, the Ultimate Opportunity.
Team Canada is born!
They made their presence felt immediately and group B their win against Furia really solidified fans confidence what they could bring to provide it
Honestly, I think they're going to give a really great staff at this blue wall.
You've got Seiko, former world champion, loaded with just experience on this roster.
Nice call on his team, and he got an abstract fan favorite in of himself.
Oh, you hear the crowd.
You hear the crowd last time, and he was here in Boston.
He actually went in North America.
He was playing for J&J, and he was North America's last hope.
There's Joyo.
It was part of me that was looking at them walking out was like is this just is it just that they're excited to root against
Carmen Corbin now not at all every one of these players has earned the respect and love and affection of these North American fans in some way shape or form over the history
Yeah, especially when you got something like joy who's just looking at the camera. We got the coming home. I just
They're having fun with it. They're loose and that's what we would at least want out of this roster
But man, oh man, is it enough Gibbs to take down this blue wall or even base?
What are you going here?
I mean, listen, it's gonna be a tough matchup from over the squad.
Honestly, I think GK they have a great counterattack approach.
Yeah.
I think any team with Seiko on land is always deadly.
They always sit back.
He makes it difficult for you to score.
That's just my problem though with GK.
I'm looking at this experience.
I see the foundation there, but oftentimes I wonder is there enough fire power at the end of the day?
Is the youth still there?
Okay, but I would have been right there with you,
except that we've watched Karmicorps go to Game 5
every single match so far.
I would have thought that Twisted Minds would have been...
Twisted Minds go to Game 5, that makes a lot of sense.
Space Station plus Space Station, but against Karmicorps?
But this is a long series, though.
That's the seven. You have more time
to give up those mistakes and fight your way through,
even if you've been struggling to close out games like KC.
Look at this, brother. Have a big head to head.
Vitero versus big Seiko.
Seiko came in. Great rookie season.
Hopefully end up winning the world championship.
Vati's still trying to get their base at three time major.
Champion, PV, champion, EWC champion.
You know what he brings, a table one the best in the game.
And they both kind of usually play identically on a wave.
Like I said, Seiko sits more third man.
Vati sits more third man, but it's a different approach.
Seiko sits way deeper, kind of lets you come at him.
But Sierra really likes to hold the door at the midline.
41% shooting accuracy from Seiko.
I don't normally like to be a bit more passive,
I guess, on this field.
But that's surgical if he's getting opportunities.
I mean, that's what that just means when he's coming up.
So he's just coming in to the ball.
And over.
He's coming to put the ball in the back.
And that's what you expect from a man like him.
But, Toto, you were talking about earlier with GK,
he just got the, it brings you questions because they play so much defense.
And even against Fury, they got, Fury had 200 more seconds in the offense
a third than GK, but they still came out on top.
And they play focus, GK did.
And it just didn't have enough firepower.
So that's the big question.
When they play KC, it might get scared.
And they have such a low shooting average.
with 6.92 shots per game as a team on average.
And that is just, in my opinion, not enough to cut it.
And against Casey, I know they struggled a bit,
but man, this is playoffs.
This is on the stage in front of the crowd.
It's a whole different ball game.
Fates, I mean, you said you feel
like they've got the same style and the same role
here between Fittira and Seiko.
Is that because of the team they've
surrounded themselves with or did they shape
the teams around that playstyle?
I think they kind of shaped the teams around that playstudy.
Both came up around the same time.
Both generally played the same way.
his materials a more aggressive approach to it.
It's going to be fun.
I just can't wait to see this matchup because I feel like GK is like they own Casey a dinner.
I'm pretty sure they still haven't paid for that dinner yet.
But GK is now like we're going to take that dinner and we're just going to continue along
in this bracket.
But Casey, it's so hard when they have one life left.
It does not matter.
Casey, no one wants to play them that.
The ultimate pressure here in the lower bracket.
You cannot lose.
You lose your run is over folks. So who is going to have it here?
Let us know who you think is going to win in the fan vote and we will make our picks up here on the best turtle
Oh, you got to start with me. Yes, you start with me.
Oh man, I love TK. Obviously they have so much fans behind them, a lot of history and I just don't think it's enough though.
They might have the personalities. I think the blue wall, Casey, they've got the mix. They've got everything else. I'm going Casey.
It just feels like when they have one life left you always have to pick Casey
They're never out of it, so I'm gonna pick a corporate's what fates listen. I'll tell you
They became a really good squad. I really didn't think they have a chance, but I think the blue wash to stand too tall right here
And then our G NRG's gonna get a date with carving tomorrow and the crowd
I like it or I'm gonna love it if I'm not going to win.
This is a problem though, because I've picked Karmicorp to win this whole thing,
so they literally have to win this match if I'm gonna be right about it.
So I have to pick Karmicorp on this one, but now we're first the point,
and the coin get our back here, Karmicorp on one side.
GK on the other, into the air, and it comes up.
Karmicorp for a complete sweep off the left.
The blue wall.
We've made a blue wall in front of us.
It's Chat doing the same.
How have they created it?
Certainly, certainly.
You'd like to think so.
Azureian Artifice here not quite not quite the fans in chat believe there's some heart here
You know the anime fans they go hard they go deep there, so they're really they're really excited about it
I'm excited for it as well. It does feel like
With the way coming close to the plane this feels like maybe a more accurate representation of how close this matchup is in our predictions
But it does feel that five percent is swinging all of us because of how consistent karmic horseman absolutely
It's gonna be very exciting though
It's gonna be awesome with GK. If the EU5 takes out one, we'll see if they can do it, folks.
There are five European squadrons in the building, but here, in this contest, one will fall.
The MVPs of GK have their hands full, and yet the blue monster has been pressed to the brink.
That chapter match will this time be different. Will Joyle find the ancient ice once again?
Only one blue can defeat you. It's GK!
The game that can neatly say we brought you into this event, we can take you out of it.
Game 1, brought to you by progressive, is about to get underway.
Time to lock in. Blue wall ready to make the run, but GK has forced himself to be an issue.
Now the question stands, who wants them over here at the Boston Beach?
Game on.
Between two European squads, finally, EU will have a team kill.
Doesn't happen very often.
Hattivats, Joyo's shot on target.
Follow-up from Chattacuse will be deflected out to the corner.
And it is GK getting the first salvo, but now you got to watch the counter,
and K-Cork does not enter back, after just barely off the mark.
the mark. That's such a dangerous man. I mean, you see what he does when he's so low on the ball,
he's getting good problems. Here he is again, with what he said towards net. Jack, great stop there.
On the form scale, he's working just the left. So, he just went around,
especially for them, GK as both moves as they do, but that'll be a selling good stop there.
But GK for now, they gotta bring out of this. Love the patience early from Juicy there.
Realize he can take full control, created a great opportunity. Now it's GK on the other side,
Cut out my jersey.
God redirects my joy on it.
That's not right in the whole way.
It's going top of all.
It's such a good job here.
Julia.
When you head off the back wall,
look for the follow-up.
That one hit the corner.
I'm going to talk about how most of those
Julia Jacks and I can beat.
We can beat.
What the difference here?
They're not at one side.
They're at the middle of the station.
I'm coming up here.
opportunity for GK. If they could get a bump, this is still the endersway on time!
Get a bump man!
Come on, make it out!
Beautiful person's ankle to start it off.
But here, try to play it four, but it's just such a great hit.
Nice.
Bump the ceiling and in.
And GK set the tone.
Look at that pressure!
Caught me for a throw.
What?
Not enough.
It's not GK.
The 50 game regarding in particular,
But Jira, throughout the group stage, led to a lot of goals.
K-Corp getting a dose of their own medicine now from apparently Jack.
Ato just dropping this one down and this will be the fourth joyo who's got all the boosts of the world.
But he gets bumped by his former teammate, but Jira in the air.
Jack waiting, guys diving in and but Jira just there from the back.
But now he's going to go up, he's going to end up giving the give up, creating a way, and he's going to pass the signal now, looking for the double, at home.
Watching the back wall, playing it close.
Just look at him, break down, coming.
GK's done a great job, looking down physically, looking for signals that he's all along in the back.
There's a way to danger, a punch towards a cage.
He's really set up on offense.
Nothing to threaten him from jumping in.
After all, tracking, you'll be able to steal some boost out of the GK half.
Jack, unbothered by it, he's still downfield.
A signal track to help back to him, and Jack's on the ball, but so too is Juicy.
Possession will not last for very long for any one player on the field here.
Everybody's so wise to everybody else's play, and the low rollers can be passed out.
Like the idea of creativity, you can come from the critical passes, and you've got to give it vote.
GK, Dario has to just close, but Vajira will go up the ladder.
Blaze outwards, get the low punch on the slope,
he'll be sad but it is straight to Seiko.
Back where he could spin south, both teams and he is going in.
GK is up 5-1 here, he's just a part of the force here.
You're going to have to take a risk if he's staying here at the scale,
they have a demo to set it up.
Seiko gets 5-2-3 for 14 equalizer.
Vajira, the playmaker.
hasn't necessarily been the case in this tournament, he's their leading scorer by a large margin.
But Juicy the benefactor as Batira sets it up, take one.
Come level here inside two minutes of game one.
The bench, all of this into Juicy, plays it's a must-see.
Boy, that looked doomed from the start for the GK defense right after that pitch was taken away.
This goes all the way across for Jira.
Ato is too slow to that particular rotating out, and he will take over at the back line trying to give his team a shot.
Juicy's all set.
He took a wide turn on it, lost possession, but Jira can turn on this, and let loose with a laser that, apparently, Jack will reject.
See, another one, but Ato doesn't bite this time. Ato gets them going back.
All right, we're trying to get a possession here
on that one tap.
But here has Juicy Juicy on shot, just walked by Jack.
Final minute, GK stuck in their own zone.
Wonderful break for the finishing punch,
but they just can't get it over the line.
Final minute of regulation and could be many more minutes
to go.
We don't get one in this last minute here.
Juicy, out of the corner.
Right of center, trying to take it himself, man.
Jeff's not able to beat the bar.
What a touch.
So look at this, though.
Trio, look at the move.
Come on, Trio, but he can't back, he can't move.
Now they're going to stay on top of this ball.
Critical time here to score.
Game one.
Feel passing.
Going straight to Trio, but the game on.
Going to slow things down.
Here, good heat going from Jack.
You get GK at least a little bit of space here to work.
After all, has that taken away by Seiko
and that forces Pajira into action
here in the final 20 seconds.
as well as a way to try to be this old teammate has happened often on that only one time since they split at the end of the 21-22 season.
To the ceiling, but Jira away from him and it could be for me for the last opportunity before we go to overtime.
That's all around one trying to keep this in the air.
Last chance opportunity.
Georgia will set it out where Juicy gets passed over to Afton.
Look at this!
Yeah!
Oh man!
And the family just denies him.
They're just giving it up.
Oh, Juicy missed that in.
They hit the ground.
Ulti and game one.
No one letting up.
I know how these two teams finished in the European regionals, but I thought this
game would be closer.
Out to the corner now.
Afton.
I need some out here.
Lost the ball.
the European regionals, but I thought the scan would be closer.
Out to the corner now, I felt.
I need some out here, lost the ball to apparently Jack,
but Juicy was all the way back.
Everybody was back in front of me,
and it was not gonna die in early and okay.
Now they will, but Tierra,
doesn't have anybody to center to,
as Joyo takes that away.
The club's trying to throw us a wall.
Joyo gonna turn, placing to Jack.
Jack is looking for the shot,
the tier, great cut out.
Back to the corner, stays alive in the play.
I actually threw up the tier here,
but I had some self play to make the adjustment
in the midfield.
That level of speed to be able to pick up the ball
as quickly knowing that your teammate doesn't have it,
why Carmencorp's so efficient.
Jack has a joyous way downfield,
but he didn't have any boost.
They're now juicy, looking for a winner.
Little fan for now, Gio got captain time.
No reprieve at all. That's a great way to buy cash.
He can stay with them for taking the dump on that show.
She stays on top of this parking lot.
We're going to find that data and bring it blank blank.
There it is.
To get aggressive, that's what they put the bad but to.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
He's just the way he is!
A stark difference from the last time he was here.
Oh, what a move!
to beat the entire defense and Carmen wins an O.J.
He called it that, you can see it as soon as it was on the hood.
He knew Juicy was going to create.
He has been doing that so much for Carmen for me offensively,
just not scared to put the ball towards the net.
It chops that game.
And of course the only two goals scored on the side of Carmen for it.
Juicy, an offensive menace, especially on a land setting like this one.
15 shots.
Is that accurate?
My gosh.
But they get the overtime winner.
That's the number that matters.
Right now they're 1-0 to the good.
R-Farming working through the look back.
At the 1-GK highlight.
And that's a lot of defense.
They needed it.
To keep Farming in bay,
but Jira had four of those.
That puts him over 1100 shots.
For his career.
Another place where he's trying to surpass Rod
to get absent here very noticeably at the Boston Major.
Last time I was in this building, I believe he made it to the finals.
Now, not here, and now lost to the very American team vitality in the end, if I remember correctly.
Who are still making their run too as well.
So we'll see how Common Corp can do with this roster.
Defense hasn't looked necessarily solid over the course of the tournament, but in this game, maybe even in this series it feels like, hey, good defense is a better offense, just constantly keeping them in their own hat.
They don't even have a way to defend the offense.
Not particularly statistically impressive in many areas, or either of these two teams, teams that are kind of just kind of showing up, punch in, punch out.
You need somebody to make an extraordinary play.
Juicy has made his bet with the overtime winner.
He's gonna need a lot more to set these two teams apart.
That's all.
More himself?
No.
It's a big man.
Juicy shot them in the eye.
We've seen these bakes coming out more and more time and time again.
Makes you really second-guess yourself.
When you're given a shot lock on defense,
the way they're able to work with your neck
makes their offense so difficult to guard.
Two in the corner there for Farming, and then Jirik Jusey, same place, same time, doesn't matter how though, still got a shot on.
Now Jusey's got plenty to work with, have a catch, but that's set up in the corner, and will K4 be able to keep possession, they will, how much longer.
Boyle actually keeps a chair to this corner a while ago, so
Tigger can turn his tail in the play. Now he's trying to force an error out of Sinko, but look at the composure.
Sinko able to grab that back, trying to force it into the midfield.
Boyle lands on this one. Sinko is looking for some bugs.
Boyle does get a crawl of Juicy, used to the last of his boost to be able to make the save.
Was it expecting to have to go up?
Great improv. Now Butcherin trying to go low. He has.
Brace for the corner boost, he will steal it if Seiko can seize it.
And Seiko met my juicy in the air, war possession, war kickboard.
GK gonna have their hands full, Jack's gonna run out of gas.
Troya's gonna take over.
There's a land to get around that ball, but it goes out to apparently Jack.
Now he can create, go in that Kachira!
Now an auto, and that's set out to the corner again.
If Seiko couldn't control that, he's gonna be demoed.
They're afraid of a lot of room here for Army Corps to move downfield.
And it follows that second man is always so quick.
And it's a big difference, Nick, than getting them field positioning upfield,
allowing them to create all sorts of chances.
Tuesday will park, and I'm going to cost them here.
Here goes Seiko.
Left it for Joyo.
One more for Joyo!
Oh, Joyo now dies!
Look at that!
I don't know what that was.
That is unbelievable!
To do that on the land stage!
Oh, look out. This is our target. It's Seiko.
Has to jump up for it.
By the way, for the stats there,
there. Kindred spirits. I'm all saved away. 199 full on land for
Troyo. The only shame is that wasn't as 200. What does he
have to run on for right now? He's watching teammate Seiko go
to work defensively. Got around one. Not the intuition.
Don't have a lot of boost. That kicks out Central and
material to the rescue.
There we go.
We get a ball off that from Jack.
The trail continued to create.
Trying to go off the ceiling on that one,
but unfortunately for him,
Ato, on top of the ball, looking for the double flip.
What's that? Maybe no. What's that for?
Seiko will be able to send it to the side.
Great clearances, though.
She can't even pass each other to try to get it out.
But still, pressure.
Ato with a quick turn after grabs the midfield.
Suissek still able to get to the backboard
And we leave that for Juicy. He's around one, but apparently Jack is right there on the spot.
This is still going forward, and that's a real tough spot now with nothing at all in the tank.
Apparently Jack stole it away. Now, shake those.
How much of an obstacle there is it's all the way back down to the GKN, and a huge bump opens it out,
but he could not reach the bump.
That one's sick away.
That's a bridge up.
Oh, what the?
Connect.
To find a lot of pressure there.
Final minute.
Probably would want to keep this one in the orange half.
GK trying to break out.
They don't want to give up this one.
So much momentum from that joy of goal,
but can it turn into a game wing?
There's Seagal running,
walking out of the lock.
They do it!
No!
That must save my Seagal.
No, and that's just dangerous.
Even Jim Curry from that ball in the first place,
so close to your box, could have been disastrous for GK
when they hold on.
It's gonna take it this time.
That's it with Batira in support,
and that gets by everybody.
Only to Juicy in midfield, 30 seconds now.
GK, flinging to a one goal lead,
that's been about time, and no follow up.
But she can't send out to this point.
You've got the lead.
All hands on deck on the other end of the field.
15 seconds for K1 to find an answer.
Do that brilliant bit of push-and-reel.
Oh, it's a pair of the Jacksons to the door.
Seven seconds.
And the first lead in, Juicy, two points.
Oh!
slanted through, foxy, this equalizer, and we play on.
Overtime in game one, and our Los Atos got something to say about it.
They go through again, and it's apparently Jax rejects the toes effort.
And now we'll have a look.
Jax forward, and now he boosts the jump.
Well, it's just ball to the ground, and it does.
Look, I fucked up this last second cover.
Maybe pop that one up to say go.
Either way, we go to overtime, big beat there for Matto.
Adreo has enough moves to pop it up for Seiko.
DK looking to break out, like, party for him.
So Cass gets to that, Adreo low, moves, knocks it away,
but not able to hold on to possession here.
DK's starting to go tee-up in their back in deeper position.
Four of the players on the pitch right now in the top 10
in all-time land overtime winners.
The one could be somebody like Seiko, who scores here.
Hachio, just boom it down field.
There is Seiko, but Retear has got him in his sight.
Hachio, turn on this.
Now, Juicy tried to take over.
Joyo, he's got a lion's share of him, but Hachio will have it away.
Back a little awkward.
He jumped for that early.
Now, he's both moves.
Oh, that's a good one!
That's a good one!
And Retear is going to score!
K-Port steal the game away from K-Ked and 4-0-T and then they take it.
K-Potty does it to tie Jack and Beast Mode at 19 overtime winners on land.
Ice in his veins for his entire career and K-Port takes the 2-0 series lead.
I don't have 11 shots by himself.
My goodness.
Look at all kinds of pressure.
DK's most of the game on the back corner.
Zyko has eight saves.
That had five.
But, I mean, yes, you have great defense.
But this is, you can't do this against Karmic Park.
You can't just play from no back in.
It's not a good back counter.
It's not going to work.
And they know it.
Time out, it's been called by GK.
That brilliant goal by Giorgio,
held up for the better part of, what, three minutes.
And then in the final seconds, K-Corp gets this to overtime,
and you really feel like similar to how NRG did to Channel Maids earlier in their series,
at least in one of those games, really stole that game away,
did Karni from GK Esports.
a little bit, but I think this one for me, GK,
it feels like it just slipped out of their hands, right?
Juaio was amazing on his first goal,
but that offense is not consistent.
And Karmicorp, that pressure that they're giving you
is consistent.
I mean, we saw the shot and saved numbers.
We know that they're doing that the entire game.
It's not a sustainable game plan,
and GK know that.
Also, at the same time, their offense
is not operating the way it has been
this entire tournament.
We saw those heads heads, and that's it was averaging a bullet game.
I don't think I've seen him on the board.
Now, he does not have a goal.
The two goals for GK belong to Jack and Joyo,
which has not been the trend at all.
Right.
In this tournament so far,
Seiko comes in with 13 on the week,
10 away from 200 in his own right.
But a far, far cry from that,
The way that Hermingport has shut him down.
Now for GK, I mean, you definitely need to see a different team coming out of this timeout.
They can't afford to stay back in their own half. They're getting bullied by a Hermingport.
And at this point KC is so comfortable. How can you make the blue wall uncomfortable?
Where are the holes? That's where they need to find things.
And they need to be able to transition, clear the ball out towards each other, create, get aggressive, get some demos, something to create some space because nothing is working right now.
A pair of two-one results in overtime.
But here is ended one, two-see end of the other, and here we go.
And it's Atos time to break GK's heart.
and they unlock his potential.
Juicy, right at Jack, not going to happen now, but tear up, this is dangerous, and Seiko
guides that up to the side, but Juicy was over there.
It just feels like, for me, this point, getting a little comfy on the other side, they're
sensing weakness.
Hey, R, you talked about Juicy positioning, he was making Seiko awkward with the thread
of the buff.
You're right.
taking Saple awkward with the threat of the buff.
You're right, they know that they can push this
so they want to.
Any way they can to get that defense awkward,
Juicy's up, can he get this one?
Rip, reset, Detroit goes straight down.
Juicy's confidence has been a g-point
for Carmen here, but Jibra's high,
and Juicy's gonna let the handfuls
and fucking let the hell out of Saple.
On the board again.
The average is a ball again,
seen him in series before he had first striker for GK, finally getting on the
board here. But again that was more toward the core out of position. Let's see if GK could build it.
So GK once again have a lead. Relatively early in game three.
Well there'd be a quick answer. Otto to the crossbar. And off by Seiko.
They'll send that one net worth that, but Jero's gonna have to at least have a look at it.
Said that goes for Atom.
What's that demo?
Not as aggressive as we saw in the first minute coming from half slowdown, but Jero is taking boost and she's got a demo in sync though.
Now, another demo I think is useful.
Still, this climbing course, folding onto the ball.
This one almost sent to Atoe, worked up five,
just a more pressure behind that ball,
but because he came this on the fight for the big key.
Link Droyo had about 100 boosts, less than he thought he had.
Going up to that ball, now Jack.
As I go by him, Seiko will run out of gas,
going up to the back court.
Bradley Jack is going on across,
and Vegeta must have been in his comps
because he was ready for it,
and sends one right in Droyo.
GK kind of taking their time while they're not moving the ball away.
These are such very close, and again, they can start getting some of these beats.
This is the difference from the earlier parts of the series where they were just snacking and straight to party cornering.
Alright, two Juicy who's used a lot of the biz-moons.
Got a full lock on either side of the field.
GK is better with the two in that department.
Oh, but it's Gordian running forward as the team of the demo there should hinder their counterattack even more.
Oh, come on, shoot to the left, try to go too high and no follow-up as it's snuffed out.
Oh my god!
Two bombs, one more down.
Oh, that was an open one too.
That's so missing there.
You know, a lot of speed, but you got to put that one on down by one here.
I'm not doing a shooting percentage, any favors.
I'm just letting you drop.
In game two.
That's shooting percentage is in the drain.
At this point, at least in this series.
No point in that time though.
For Karmicook to get one equalized, but he can't.
Like I said, when planting is close,
it's been harder for Karmicook to move on field
without being challenged.
But here, since it's juicy,
he tried to get a buckle on Jack,
but Jack got early to deny getting up again.
As though he was in the right,
it's not just a little too fast to get there,
he's just gonna get the touch on Karmicook.
I helped him for the boost there,
lost possession of the ball,
then it turns into a shot from Batira,
And the forward from after all is dished up to the side.
Well, thank you.
I'm not going to let you down.
I'm going to get the ball right by Jack.
Beautiful fake again from Barney Ford.
They had so much pressure, but Tassie and Juicy
leave it for Barney right over Jack.
It was a tough save.
Nobody's done it more on land than Kajira.
And he continues to be a menace to GJ.
Now let's go.
To the corner.
The Jira trying to not destroy you on the way.
He's done enough, but you see,
you get a touch on that wall.
Missed opportunity for the blue wall.
Get another flipper here.
Plays a high over Jira.
Well, struggling to get through.
Some of these midfield cuts.
This is the first time we've seen a missed one.
Into the final minute.
They have to move up to let me have to force the issue.
We're doing good, but now it's going to slow down a bit.
Let's see what happens here.
Mario, nothing in the tank.
That's been a common theme for GK.
Once they get into the offensive end,
that goes clean off the backboard
and Seiko throws one.
Well, why are they able to continue the play?
Mario's never stayed with us though.
Seiko!
Oh, with a great pass,
if Jack was way further forward.
Jack not there.
Pressure gone.
Well, wanted to cut in.
All left over Seiko, pushed it forward.
Jack was looking for both on that,
so made him uncomfortable.
Not too much was going where he couldn't get a touch.
Final 15.
Here's Matira.
He has to pop it over one.
Juicy's up now.
He's gonna beat Seiko.
They're challenged from Seiko.
You, Jack, get this from center.
Juicy looks for the touch, but again,
he's got to fall out.
And this one looks like if he had it to OT,
Unless Jack gets that cast here, no!
It's the ground.
We'll have another 2-1 result in this elimination matchup.
Will it come up the kickoff?
No, just wide.
And Apto will frequently claim that.
Going right at Jack's second.
Oh, the shot coming in from off the instead.
Now Juicy trying to delay.
Let his teammates get in position.
Apto is there.
Is it his?
No!
And Teera wants to keep it in while he gets this one up.
Has Ato waiting in midfield.
Ato turns off.
He's wants to get the cards to slow down GK.
Jack's a joyo, no loose.
And Teera, tough read, still makes it.
He gets it right back to single.
Can GK hold on to this ball for what's on offense?
GK, a couple times, these last couple games
are struck first.
They've generated some hope.
It's been extinguished by Karmine, juicy.
Pick the spot, let's take over there
to make sure there's no rebound.
Batsy, long pass across.
What is there for it, that's out.
Gonna let this one go away and the big demo downfield
and some slow down Karmine for just enough.
Good grief for Jack, Jack creating.
So now it's up in those upfields.
This could be dangerous.
Good grief for Joy of a cutout, about the danger.
Now the one backing forward. Attack after counter attack until someone breaks.
Vatira again.
Another loose ball at midfield. This time, one by TK.
Everybody's got a scramble back for Gormy's course, as Vatira does inoff on the near post.
Surprise, I think I'll say no matter what to look mid there, put the shot on, maybe try to throw the defense off.
Here he is again.
And being close to this, what we said here is it's a jack.
Jack playing his waltz.
Get away from him!
Jack, get away from him!
Get away from Jack!
Jack, get away from him!
Get away from him!
Wow!
only three shots for Jack in that game but the third was the sharn as GK
get one back from the blue wall start to get concerned as you can see the project
starting to build and you're thinking okay we played this game before
like the PK break around break out play they saw the counter they made it hit hard
social media manager is going to be a little busy during this series they
just read it out that cat on that but you're on the record for most overtime
goals in the RLCS on land apparently Jack down after record with his 20th
overtime winner in his career trading off the record like a hot potato
that we love here proud of the canvas arena but we need back and more they want
to take control of this series finally start to see more from safe all
offensively and that's exactly what the team needed. And with Jack stepping up, this is a good sign here for GK.
Still those more work to do, they're still down.
A game or so in the series.
This is a big one though. They can shift the tide here. You have a guaranteed game six. Let's see what they can bring out.
Renewed hope.
For the EU number five seed.
GK trying to paddle back against the blue wall, utopia of the site.
I'm trying to do Sifo and Sifo just a great read.
Always been so solid to fix it.
We need a little bit more here.
I'm going to pressure that Atoe and a shot from Jack and Atoe right on top of it to knock it away.
All low scoring games so far in this series.
All three, two, one, all three and overtime.
You belong to the Blue Wall.
Now I have to try to create it.
Seiko gave him Joe Porter.
But Tira, what the hell is going on?
Back again and a good stop from him.
Awareness starting to really show.
Oh, they get laying here.
But Tira, oh, not enough boots.
How do you have to beat?
Your communication though from GK
drill could have had a piece of that ball effective.
Seiko had allowed them to get a little bit more
field position because of it.
But now, Seiko in trouble has to stop this shot!
He's a hit!
But Tira strikes again!
But Tira takes advantage of...
Oh, after it's kind of gross Seiko enough.
Made him respected, made him delay just enough.
And now it's Farmey who strikes first.
You have to be careful, especially if your GK
can't send too much forward.
It has to be effective whenever you do.
If not, that last hit in the finger back is such a decent damage because Kondraper was so creative offensively.
Three goals for Vonte after that strike in this series. There's a demo.
Juicy, can I get by Choyote?
That's a good prop back though, for Rato.
Choyote putting in a lot of work defensively early in game four.
It's Juicy Shot, but here as Folo is stoned, and yet again, GK enters the call set forth by Hermit Ford.
I mean, look how awkward it is, though, for him to get out, so he can hit the pipe to get this ball out if he's on half, and keep it in.
But here, though, one's right through him, there is no midfield challenge.
He's a bully.
It's just so tough for them to play against this team that way.
They go, he's in first touch but it's the second defender.
The first fatal to so many of their attacks.
Ato, clean shot, easily dismissed by Jack.
Tear let that one get too far away.
And Juicy's got a ramble back and it will fall off the crop bar.
So up into game, you see Tear at any time with some space
and you just wonder what he's going to pull out of the bag atrix max.
Tricks back.
Gangers fall there again.
Any 50 could be lethal.
More so on the horizontal field, because you know,
Carmine, you just switch faster, it seems.
Vitira.
Playing that one indirect after the opposite corner,
but it jacked with their first.
Vitira's going to go this way to a streaking juicy,
but that's going to be deflected and go well high.
and MC Jackie won only but Jerry DeVito and Joyo
did not on this occasion.
He's been having a boost,
leads them with Karmicorp's corner,
but the lack of a midfield challenge again
has GK bringing it from their own path
just to get mech Karmicorp in the midfield.
Seiko, chance here to go up the ladder,
place it off the ceiling, but Jerry,
the right side, Jackie's at the dock, juicy.
Joyo on top of this one now wants a play pass.
I told him who has just such a great lead on that.
I feel forced in GK to feel the pressure.
Back looking for Joyo, he goes low,
realizing that there was a high caliber coming.
The price of Joyo never ceases to amaze,
but so too is Ato, credit the back wall,
and he'll slow everything down
and propel yet another GK attack.
Apparently Jack will let that one go down to Joyo again.
Now Seiko, beaten up by Ato.
This could be trouble now for GK
and Joyo to the rescue yet again.
GK, they still look in trouble, Sacks.
It's been really tough for them to have consistent offense
and pressure in this game.
Just tough for them to even get out of their own half.
Five minutes remaining here.
Clombercourt to play the clock if they want to.
Up to GK to make a play.
Gotta be careful too, not to extend too much,
not to completely sell out
And leave the back open.
He's not yet.
Go to the side.
And Atoll's got around two.
Only safe, but a bit.
Oh, he's on the ball.
And he's in the follow-up.
And Atoll, again, so effective, able to get it past Jack,
beat the pass.
He'll go right in front of the goal line.
He says, but he'll finish the job,
of course, he's going to nail it.
The systematic partial karmic work
The third one team does nothing short of fantastic.
Niko running interference, Jack shot too high, too wide.
And the ball on over near the mark, either.
Seiko was a deep boy and Mojira read that play as well.
He's the machine.
Jack, taking a shot again.
It was well high, no rebound.
Thanks to Ato, skimmed it over to Mojira.
And now he's just going to bring it to the wall,
not even in a hurry to shoot.
Played the possession game.
It was apparently Jack strike it over time
that gave GK a new hold.
But the blue Empire has stripped back
and K-Corp gets triple that point.
Thank you.
Packs against the wall.
I wonder if the punch in your ass
can GK's are they finished?
They can't get anything going here.
Every time they try to break out, they push right back in.
They're spinning.
I mean, I gotta see the numbers of how much time has
been spent on their own app.
This is too much, too impressive what
Karmic Club are doing.
Impressive stuff out of Karmine.
Finally, we break the string of two-one games,
Daz.
Miley would break the streak of over times.
The timeout for GK after game two.
It netted them a win.
Unfortunately for them, you only get one.
And now, they only have the usual minute
to figure out how they're going to stave off
triple match point and keep their Boston major hopes alive.
They're gonna have to dig deep here.
Really, you find a way to get around.
Again, I feel like the midfield
has been such a big proponent of this series.
Controlling that, getting Carmencorp
in a tough spot to where, you know,
their low on blues have to make some desperate styles.
That's what you want to see.
We haven't seen anything like it yet.
Backs against the wall, no timeouts, no room for error.
What do GK have in this moment?
They have five minutes to figure it out.
Here's the easy answer.
Ato, do the hap-
Back in early save, lots of second and third chance opportunities.
Playing indirect off the wall in the ceilings as well.
It's really been beneficial for Cartier.
The physical play, that's always there for the blue wall.
Not so much for D.K.
They've had to kind of match that aggression as Juicy does well to recover.
This is close enough to the target that Joyo has extended off the crossbar.
And it is almost the entire first 30 seconds in the GK half, but Tiro then I find Seiko.
They ran from Seiko, but again, it's the department for being physical.
That first man wants to jump off, looking for the bumps.
They can get upward here for GK and allow the department for being three shots.
Shooting not there, but that will not continue for the rest of this game.
They want to end the year.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't come in.
I think he got it.
You know, Joyo, more like it.
Joyo kept some mapping after after when
Juicy run into each other.
And GK strikes first at the tail end of the first minute.
200 land goals for Joyo, and this one.
Hold up for as long as the last one did.
See what they have here to build on.
Armored fork, looking to strike back soon.
to the corner. As you see in the wing, the Atoe will come up. It's a demo of the play.
It's harassing Jack and Ned. He wants you to try to get extended, but we don't say,
but that eliminates so much pressure from what we're trying to build.
Great play by Seiko to get there and slow down, but could have been affirming counterattacks.
I think it belongs to GK. We'll get this corner that's underneath Atoe. It goes all the way across again.
Here's where they tried to pull his way through the joy out.
GK have done a much better job of managing the midfield boost,
not getting starved out.
Even though they were under the rest for much of that first minute,
they got the one that counts.
So far, currently they have to expand on that, so that.
Army Corp. so far has expanded this series.
Over half, they have a number of 56% of the time,
They've been playing on offense.
That feels low watching these games.
Especially when you look at the shooting too, as well.
Here's a Terry going up.
He's going straight back down.
The way of getting a touch wanted
to get the pump on that, so we couldn't speed them
from Jack to keep this in.
Well, you see a challenger here.
Yeah, Jack does.
He's trying to cut out the play.
Again, just get past that midfield line.
That's how this pushes right past everyone.
I can't get a sound shot from Jack, but from knocking,
still looking for a way back in this game.
Juicy great stop, now I'm saved.
He waited so long, I wasn't afraid of anybody
who was going to jump.
Here's he did, just at the last moment.
Now, Acho, good challenge, one by Joio.
Jack down, looking to connect with Joio.
Or is that Jack and Joio's name a lot?
Looking around the field, this Hatchdown will score here.
Just a low roller off the feed from Matira.
The one that we haven't seen a lot last is Seiko,
and he's not even on the field for this one.
It's demoed again, but that's Matira though.
First man, okay, I'm out of the play.
Who could I bump?
Who could I make uncomfortable?
We're gonna do that, send the ball down,
bail, back and forth, back between Matira and Hatchdown.
I mean, it's a tail that we heard
time and time again, and at least a success.
With that goal from Hatchdown,
All three members affirming for now in double-digit scoring for the weekend.
Joyo needs some more heroics.
Needs a teammate!
The ball is down, he puked up the ball.
Joyo, great lead there for Seiko, gets there as quickly as possible.
The angle of a shot.
And now GK, a little bit of life here.
A minute 36 to go.
Here they keep it up.
Remember that that man has a world championship to his credit.
It always felt like when things were kind of stagnating for Team BDS at the time,
he said to go, hey, stick up. Go do something.
And he would.
Tira dancing through.
Now that's no jumping, but apparently Jack,
better of the two.
Juicy now.
Brings us down to ground and apparently Jack's having none of it.
Here's the day on top, this is for a good 50.
He's Seiko, no, not a lot of booths.
She will collide.
Final minute.
From the court, trying to get this back in her own aim.
Joy will look to intercept.
Can't get a stop.
Seiko, those great challenge, was forcing her to see back.
Now, GK, who starts the turn of the tempo?
I don't like the fountain, where
not very dangerous, can't actually
get some other touch on this.
But Seiko is all the way back.
And here comes Karmic Corp again, another demo underneath, there's another at the back.
Juicy, Ferato, squinting the path away, and a missed opportunity for Karmic again.
But Vatira's not gonna let a risk for long.
That studio backup around the corner shot on Eastley's team, and no follow up from Ato.
No pressure though, Juicy wants to get that mid.
Karmic Korn's not holding up, they're gonna stay on top of this one.
Vatira though playing it high, now he's gonna be able to follow it.
And now Juicy wants to keep the pressure.
He's got actual mid for Joao looking for the cut.
And they keep this one alive.
And GK finished this game.
Final few seconds.
Salgueo field.
But he'll already up.
It's come along.
Azo with the goal.
By the goal.
15, trying to get them to stay.
But the goal's not my single.
Azo keeping it up.
And by T-in-a-muff.
T-in-a-muff's right down to the middle of the goal.
And Joao has this track.
And has to stay on top of T-in-a-muff.
And still has it.
No way.
12, and so, he gets up and kills him!
He kills himself!
But then, that's what's in his eyes!
Ball thinks all around!
The zero's right there, trying to put that with Akko!
Juicy, last hook for Kateboard!
It's just in the air, they go all the way back!
Apparently Jack tried to kill it!
Nope, gotta be better!
Juicy, gotta get underneath!
He does not!
Zico will bring it down!
No!
Goodness, somebody lets us stay up!
Shut me down!
Oh, fuck!
It's the final one!
No!
GK!
Hang on!
And they almost scored once for the round.
But they get what they needed.
Kami-Pook did not make it easy.
My goodness, what a tense sequence there.
And we play on.
But this is a good sign, though, for GK.
If you're getting more like a sequence,
you have to stay down.
Any strike can wait.
and they're able to just continue to keep up with the tempo.
They were hitting him just as aggressive
as we've seen on the court before,
getting on them earlier in the series, fighting back.
Maybe not have the demo numbers,
but again, getting no puffs
and also just out of passing and transition.
They had the first goal
and they didn't let the lead go since then.
One key number as we look back at a wild game five,
but Jira just one shot on goal.
18 goals to lead all scorers in this match on the week for to lead all scorers in this match alone
He had the overtime winner. He's the catalyst offensively for car mean
Only held to just that one shot and GK does again
Just enough to give you an impression of play where that offensives I think before that last game
25% of offense in the offensive third was Courtney Corpin.
That's 25% of the game in the offensive third.
GK 16%.
That will show you the difference.
Things are starting to change though.
As we load in the knee of Tokyo, GK could send us the game 70.
All about efficiency.
GK have taken the most down of enough opportunities.
They refuse to die here in Boston.
Kira trying to catch around one, and Seiko's gonna shut that down.
Will there be a second or third chance opportunity for the Blue Wall?
Razi's lurking again off the top part from the deflection.
Grey half-foot from Joy, we get back in time, this is a great recovery. Saw the danger.
We're gonna get right here.
Ajo was looking at five pressure, but no moves. The same thing for Juicy, no moves to here.
So then Jack, this is one on top.
Plains that are all the way down to the midfield.
It's a great carry, and Joy will break to make sure Karmy comes control.
Get the ball in that midfield line.
GK now doing a great job.
They can farm that core port as they try to move up the field.
My name is crazy.
He did that for you in just a moment
to show you just how much more offense.
Farming that trick with, it's apparently Jack
will swipe that ball away.
You should try to tuck one in
and Seiko's going to deal with that.
Of course, any time you throw the ball near the net,
reliable to register as a shot. Shots in this series, Daz, are getting up to almost 70 for
Garmin, or of only 28 for GK. That does count as one. What a very few that they've had in the series.
Nice testing ball. Joyo, lays it across. Jack can he hit there? Good double from Juicy to send it back.
Now he's starting to see a real fight here for control. Good touch from Ado.
And now Batirac can stay on top of this one, put something in it to the corner.
Now if you get the demo, you need to get the boost there.
But they go to the tutorial, and now Flash of the Parmig, a dance of watches, add three single players.
Or GK, GK now, just in that tough spot we're seeing some familiar faces here, familiar places.
So far in spoilers.
I'll be here for GK or it will be destined for champions field, Joyo all along there in the corner, beaten out by Ato, but that registers as another shot, off another 50, coming off another wall, does not threaten GK too much.
Halfway through, game six, still scoreless, still move wall here on the orange half.
Here look at that, look at how he takes this time, sets it up, he wants to get the bump,
points a couple commitment there, and that'll save him.
One is up on pressure, Jagd playing it long, the second one is a follow-in, but Juicy was perfect to it.
Great stop defensively.
That ends up on target and Juicy has to address that wall he does.
Now it's out to them taking over with joy of being chased back.
Usually waiting at midfield, they'll be called into action here, having to scramble back.
That's an off-all, and they're going to the blue zone.
Now it's sicko.
Looking to create a gap, and just as it has not been there, it's been sporadic at best.
Been there what it needs to be.
That's not enough. They're going to need more out of sicko if they're going to force this to game 7.
They have something brewing sky so it's about to change the mold here very quickly
You see all the way down feel great collection though for say go
That's minute 30 left
Which is hard to repeat their time when they get in the air
Wonder what they have
Waiting for somebody to punch out this back to forth damn it did fail
and really been simplified by GK.
Armin have not been threatening nearly as much as they have in previous games.
That's all.
Lord Juicy and Vegeta are nowhere to be found all the way back.
There were coverage though for Joio after the bump.
That's all.
Follow up touch and take a great read again to knock it away.
Now Juicy would reset.
Joio denies.
Coming forward and knocking at the door.
45 left, infield pass, no one in Jagged, great touch to eliminate the pressure.
Positioning for Carmine, lately, seeing multiple cars in the corner, multiple in the same place at the same time.
If it's by design, that's one thing. As no one's been the case, that's no shot.
Yet I'd find joyo. Now, but Jim is going to take his turn.
Put 25 on the clock, infield pass for Juicy, and that's going to go high and wide.
try to draw the defense up.
And after all, guys, let's just a little bit
puttin' gone cleanly.
Real nice, Jack.
Bald gets sent away from him.
Wanted to put it toward the Navi-kun.
I don't take seconds.
I'm supposed to fulfill the possible
trial of the latter.
He needs to be able to gain 50 damage.
Oh, no, no, no.
Send you off!
Back to Jack, you guys.
To the right of the vehicle.
To the left of the vehicle.
To the right of the vehicle.
They're trying to be happy!
The target's almost done!
And we have overtime!
GK absolutely robbed up the depth of regulation.
And they make good on it now.
That gets around to Jira.
Shingo going up there and...
But Jira got enough of a piece to disrupt the entire play.
Gory, I had teammates that dodged around.
It'll be a quick strike.
It'll be the end of the series.
The blue wall can put him away here.
Ato!
With only five to work with.
A mostly empty tank and K-Corps
are gonna play very conservatively
as they have much of this game.
Yeah, you saw the cherry kid up at Alayna,
going there, decided to take his time.
He'll be a little bit more patient.
That was straight out, Ato!
Almost out of through the smoke screen,
Joyo nothing to work with QC taking his opportunity just lost that up the ceiling and a big win by
ZAKO again it's a war of attrition you've earned a lot of resource trying to get this ball away
from the opposite side can anybody create can everybody win a challenge with anything in the
the chance to work with. I mean, it's Carmen Forks Pudge and GK's counter punch. Joyo.
GK! Right on B-9!
Wow, the form is back against the wall!
Down in the series, they fold that game by game by game!
And here we are!
By default, four teams from NA and EU qualify for these things.
Carmine, Ghost, Europe, an extra spot.
GK finishes fifth in a tiebreaker.
They get into the top eight on tiebreakers. They needed to win a game against Falcons yesterday and did exactly that and not an Iota more.
And now they've brought it all the way from a 3-1 deficit to Champions field on the back of two overtime winners from a Farronley jab.
You can see the crowd up in behind GK here as well.
Carving court could feel the mood change in the room and they had to ice it.
Time out, Carving Court.
Not something that Extra likes to utilize.
It took them all the way until their final match in the group stage.
Yesterday against Vitality before they finally used a timeout.
And then Extra kept that in his back pocket all the way through.
All but one of these games, Daz, decided by just one goal, the outlier, a 2-0 win, that
put Carming Cork on the hill, and he thought, okay, now they've sorted it.
But again, a Serena is about to come alive.
Gains second down, 30 seconds left in that timeout.
Carmen Cortes wants this crowd quiet,
but they might start getting rowdy once we load in.
There is a clear home team.
It usually wears red in this building,
but it's GK by a large margin.
Final 10 seconds of the timeout,
we go to Champions Field.
GK, the number five team from Europe, number two from their group, tiebreakers
abound to get them to this very point. Game seven.
Hostage! Are you ready?
No more timeouts.
Let's follow up and let's roll.
Game seven is on!
Well, that timeout have done anything.
This set of the nerds that you would think wouldn't possibly exist for carving for him after all this time.
Our first strike would be so meaningful here.
The weight of the clock you will start to feel it.
But here, gets it high, drops it down.
Oh! But you did it! Come in!
Joyo will collect.
And GK still keep this one 0-0.
Oh, that's a good one.
It happened early in the series, and it happens again.
Oh, they're both jacking single, but when at white wall,
no one's center toward the net, and it slips through the flag.
Now GK down by one.
Lots of time left in game, but it's an uphill battle.
So that's the challenge now for GKE Sports.
They find themselves once again with one foot out the door.
Have they used the last of their lives?
Apparently Jack helpless to once this one go by.
That just kept away though.
That's the wrong person to give that much time it's too red though.
and that's how Crackles back.
Okay, he's starting to build offensively.
Armored puts no control in that session.
But here, trying to stay straight down.
Ato is looking pretty fierce.
But here, it's a knock and throw,
but Jack was there for the start.
Kick, kick, goes to Claw.
Joyo over at Chewsey.
Needs some help.
It's apparently Jack.
Easy stuff by Ato.
Where's the follow-up for GK?
You know that?
And we are back on an even slot here at game 7.
One time it can be luck, two times a coincidence.
Now it's destiny.
Oh, and still comes luck.
Now it's destiny.
Well, it's Destiny.
Oh!
And still a countdown by GK.
That's the save from Jack here.
He's having a game.
He's having a theory.
He needs to continue to.
And GK want to come away with this one.
Maybe Joy will have to take something out of the way.
Oh, man!
Come on, there to stop.
They go all the way to the back again.
There's not been much of a factor in the offensive end.
That's the role he's fit into in this series.
gonna be called on defensively there no and apparently Jack has to come all the way back
as up so that's a little read but not good enough for a final now to be sitting down field
arming court tournament favorites but now pressure has been flipped on the blue wall
will they break here's juicy looking for net and saco denies
one more strike from dk and harming court could be the architects of their own demise
They put them in this tournament.
Another shot.
Otto was there, too.
He was trying to stuff it home.
The defensive GK holding strong again.
Here goes Seiko.
Won the 50 through.
And Otto's in a real tough spot.
Joy over towards Seiko and he peeled off.
Yeah, Seiko recognized what was going to get there first.
Ox played his self.
Mine's stuck.
Your shashtow on the solo.
But Juicy and Patriots even jumped in the back end.
That's close to show you lots of respect for Jack on that plate.
Inside two minutes now.
Engine's rising, but you've got it with a tough angle.
And it was shut down by the most entirety of GK's defense.
Joyo now has Jack record, he got the quarter boost steal.
Got to pump it upward.
And Sango again turns off the midfield,
turning for a boost that wasn't there.
But also, he should put himself in a better position to get to 50 on the ball.
Now Jack, puts it in the car.
Has no big player, but here's a Burnley.
Does he have the ring? Can he follow this one?
Seiko won't even let him get the chance.
Oh, back to the Seiko. He's got no moves.
Better play it low 20, but gets him on.
GK can keep the field positioning,
but they'll have to wait for Seiko on the next one.
Jack has been phenomenal. He's been pouring a lot in this game 7.
He's been the up-lifters.
That's a sit-em!
But if you look a little more, that's dangerous and...
...gitched out by Seiko!
Final minute down regulation, overtime looming...
...in game 7!
Somehow, stop way!
GK trying to find a way to do it one more time!
Hello, who's here?
Juicy is gonna get this for free, no, deny by Joao.
But here, with some time, Seiko!
Even though some room plays at a cost...
All the property court is starting to spawn.
But you're looking for more funs.
You said go buy time.
GK needs to get boosted up, and he needs to get a step up here.
I'm going to kill him.
Look at how that's done for.
I can't follow him.
Juicy, follow him.
Fuck that.
He said no.
Follow him.
He's not going to make the last shift.
It's okay.
So we'll get in the last lap here on Champions Field.
Juicy, one, two, three, set, go!
Go!
Oh, 3-1, 4 seconds to go.
Push to the break.
The wall does that break.
You can see it all in apparently Jack's face.
A heroic effort, but not enough
as the blue wall survives and advances in buster.
Right, really pushed to the break.
GK, what a performance in the later half of that series.
So slow to get things going.
But when they did, you couldn't really tell
where it was going to go when we loaded up
in the Champions field.
And all it took was Patera getting aggressive,
getting that crucial bump play.
Blue wall, where in control, they came down
to the final moment, Stats.
A lot of mutual respect on that stage.
Carming, Cork, no.
They got all they could ask for.
And then some, more than they wanted for sure.
Out of the number five team out of Europe,
the team that won a Tidebreaker to qualify,
the team that got into the playoffs on breakers,
and it looked like for just a fleeting moment.
And even at times during game seven, it really was fate.
It really was destiny.
This was going to continue.
It was inevitable.
And then, juicy happen.
Karmic, of course, and the rest of this tournament,
this one was a wake-up call.
The competition will only continue.
And now they have a date with NRG in the next round.
Ain't got time for that.
They take the win here in 7.
But Jira had one of the overtime winners
for Karmic for.
He got them going in game seven.
The man who has scored more goals on land now
also has four shots than anybody on land.
And is standing by now, the Vatika, with lead.
Vatika, please make the much-rooted winner, the Blue Wall,
Batira, KC.
I don't know, you won.
Yes, I will win. I'm happy. Game 7, but...
I want to bring that up, because it feels like you're exhausted.
Game 5, Game 7, you guys tend to go that distance all the time.
What's going on there?
I think we just have no ice yet, but we find it's going to come
and I think we're going to clutch easier for games, so it's fine.
Okay, good. Looking forward to that.
There's some work that has to go in to be able to do that.
looking at your opponents though, GK on the other side, the audience was behind them.
Do you feel that when the opponents are being cheered for? Does that get to the back of your head at all?
Seems like not.
I don't think so. We were really focused on the team so we didn't pay attention to it.
We just tried to play our game as best as we can and we made it.
You absolutely did. Now I'm looking at the bracket as NRG comes up next and you know they're going to be against you on that one as well.
And then after that vitality we talked about how you had Zen's number for so long
He finally beat you the other day. Are you looking forward to redemption against them?
Yeah, I think we we want to win just leave to start a new trick
But it's a long road ahead and you don't have the blue wall here with you guys
Do you feel that missing piece when when they're not here cheering you on?
Yeah, of course when they are here, we just we just hear them
The board is crazy. So yeah, we miss them a lot
Paris is gonna be a different story though. That's for sure. It's gonna be crazy. Hey Boston. If you can they won
Let's give it up for Carmen Cork
They've played four series here in Boston and every time
Carmen Cork goes to champions field this time though
They come out on top their tournament run continues and they've got a date with energy
Yeah, but Sierra the most goals in land history just wants to keep that number going up like playing as many games as possible
But I can't another low score and match it felt like every goal had to be earned k-corp shot like
12% in this series. Oh, yeah, still one and we even saw the stats
You're talking about most goals on land now, but they're looking at Jack most over time goals
The spot you said they didn't have the eyes but abject certainly did but not enough to win that game
That's it.
Incredible.
Let's go back to game one.
It feels like forever ago at this point, they had four overtime in this series.
Back and forth.
Carbacore started off spot with a 2-1 there.
Two games in a row.
But they maybe had it locked up.
But no serve.
I mean, this is how the European teams approach the game.
They want to play low scoring physical.
This plays a rock.
They enjoy it honestly.
It was very flash.
It looked like it was a little moment right there.
That's the big moment.
Game two.
GK has a chance to tie this series.
KC steals it late.
And again, it goes to game 7.
Small ones like that. You got to close out those last 9 seconds.
Right. And as we're watching these replays,
you can tell so many goals for GK
were on the transition.
They're getting out of their own half.
You know, that's not bad.
But when every clear starts to feel more like a relief
rather than your gaining possession,
that's where you get worried for GK.
And I'm not sure how we approach this with KC
if they didn't have the ice now,
but they start to show up later with the ice.
Do we favor them more?
I mean, yeah, for GK, I mean, it's a tough loss.
But there's a lot to learn from that.
So you hit around the money.
I mean, just a lot of defense from them.
And at this stage, I mean, Casey, they haven't figured out
the off-pens yet.
Now, they have possession.
Basically, they all gave six against seven.
Hey, good job, school.
I'm just going to say, like, energy has the pogeyman of me
in Tokyo.
Casey has a losing record on that new map of France.
So watch out for that.
But apparently, Jack, big goal right there again.
The most overtime goals in our off-pens land history.
And finally, the final game is the random 50-goal.
I know, see that's all you can allow.
You played such a good defense, you let that go,
and you end up scoring again.
But then there's the big play by Bozzi,
but that was a different honestly.
Between Carmine, winning against Ember,
and losing against, I mean, you see the kickoff right here.
But Juicy slowed the play down, got the ball tight,
gave Bozzi time to wrap back around for the bump,
and then he went for Seiko,
and then he got both of them.
And goals, just one kickoff goal.
Obviously that last goal, but that mattered the most.
Oh my gosh.
But the demo game, offensive demos,
KC has been so demo hungry this entire set.
I think they had like almost triple the demos
throughout the entire field as GK.
So KC, they're getting very physical,
but still they shot only like 12%.
So they need to figure out how they can score more effectively,
maybe even more demos.
They're gonna get even more physical.
I mean, this is the end of the road for GK here,
a top eight finish in Boston.
Is this better or worse than what you expected from GK?
What did we learn about GK?
I mean, they came in at the fifth seed,
They were up against the number one in EU.
They brought them to game seven.
It's a heartbreaking loss, and I absolutely feel for them.
But from what we saw out of them dominating their group,
I thought maybe they didn't put up
the best performance against Falcons.
They could hold their heads so high with what
they were able to deliver.
And this is the start of the season.
This is the first major.
I think you take this.
A lot of criticism, a lot of replays to go over.
You come back swinging stronger.
And then it's like Casey's like an angry mom.
It's like when you upset them like,
oh, so I brought you into this world.
I can take it. Well, that's exactly what happened here. Casey brought GK here and is like, well, now you're going home because of us as well.
Absolutely.
This is the truth though here. I mean, honestly, Carmencourt advancing forward. They get to play NRG tomorrow.
I haven't played NRG since Birmingham, which they did win NRG on home turf here.
That's going to be one of the first two matches too, so this crowd better get here early. It's going to be very loud for that one.
That's going to be a big one.
The bracket continues to evolve here.
NRG, Carmencourt, Vitality all on the same side of the bracket,
meeting all the other side of things.
Falcons, gentlemates, and then the winner
of our final match of the day,
Pujibuzan was the top five rebellion.
It's shaping up, shaping up very nicely right now.
I mean, you just have so much talent in RLCS these days.
Every single one of these teams that have left
could win the bracket entirely.
I mean, Carmencourt, NRG, they go right into Vitality.
Vitality looks like honestly the best team at the moment
at the tournament.
you that going. You never know. And in it, they've had great moments as well. That's the
big question mark. I think I agree of all the teams that we've come into today. They were
the team I had the most question marks about as well. So we'll see if they give us any
answers. Do we get some exclamation points, some periods out of them there? GK Esports
or where we where we power rink in GK right now? Like it's tough. I feel like their
online split was not exceptional at all. And I think a lot of people thought they
They would make a roster move after this event,
but now that they just finished top eight,
they look pretty good.
Maybe they give it another go, a first split, too.
They could definitely be a top 18 in the world.
I think they're probably sitting
right on that border right now,
but for them, they have to hold their heads high.
Again, game set versus K-Corp is huge.
That was a bad draw.
It's just unfortunate, so it's combat strong.
Yeah, it feels like if we'd gone to game eight,
it would have gone to the win.
We'd have to go to game nine here in general.
It's just going back and so close.
Yeah, and weirdly enough now, though,
we've got Casey up against NRG,
NRG they went up 3-1. They also struggled to close it out and get a gentlemate. So that matchup of KC NRG
It's who truly can get to match point
Yeah, fully close the game out because neither of them have decided to show up in this tournament
So on the payoff they need to get to the energy to get to game 3 or either win game 3 and then call time out
And set the knees to run off and get a bucket of ice because apparently everyone's missing the ice
There's tons of it outside
Bring it on in we'll see if they can move on in the braggie here
but Carmen Corp versus NRG and there's been so much talk about oh energy
Mrs. Carmen Corp in the bracket we finally get to stop having those
conversations here and see if the world championships can take the world
champions can take on the blue wall. That's right you sure can I mean the last
time the world champs played Carmen Corp in America they did beat him 4-3 and
think he's arena but Carmen Corp did almost a verge sweep them so that
was a little tight and then Carmen Corp went in that drawly and then energy
lost to him and we haven't seen it since. Like you said it's been a long
time coming from both these two great organizations to go up against each
There's gonna be a do's you have a match up that's tomorrow. We have one more coming. We do got one more coming up here
I'm very excited about it and the winner of this will determine who gets to face off against falcons in the morning there
It's gonna be a close one. We're gonna take a quick break when we come back the final match of the day
There's a pajamas taken on the rebellion. We'll see you there
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Congratulations guys, you're on your new contract,
you're a Virtus Pro.
Thank you, thank you.
It's exciting.
I can tell, you're like totally jumping up on tables
and going crazy about this.
What was the news like?
I mean, how long ago did this really happen?
We actually only got signed like pretty recently.
We like just got signed maybe like 10 minutes ago.
Oh, yeah.
15 minutes ago.
Literally, before we entered this room.
How daunting is that knowing that you come
into every event, kind of at a disadvantage,
and you're still kind of punching up
against some of these, you know,
kind of the big boy orgs and teams.
I'd say with being an unsigned team,
a lot of people would give us their support
because they want to see an unsigned team
like an underdog story.
Like, they want to even do well.
So because of that, I feel like we've got more
like fan support, and that alone,
like motivates us to like try out or do more,
put more effort into our games.
We were always forcing ourselves to like,
have good results, improve your skill at every tournament,
And then you can just keep increasing your worth and value as players, basically.
How did you guys come together and joke instant?
These guys were, I mean, they were duoed and they were scribbling with a whole bunch of people and seeing it was the best fit.
And I mean, you know, assuming their decision, you know, they picked me, I think, I think it was the right fit for the first time.
I was like, I guess it was the right fit.
You know, but, you see, I'm very happy they picked me up.
but truly the idea of getting to a crowd
and waving, playing, archon, wood, and all that,
what does that moment feel like and look like for you,
like emotionally?
I don't know, I haven't been waiting for a long time
because I've been playing since I was like 16.
I was at the time to shop on my 16,
been playing for three years, barely missed every lane,
and then the one lane that I made with the crowd
would win out like almost last.
So it's like I haven't been waiting for a very long time.
actually being up there and playing is definitely gonna feel like pricey real for like a little bit
at the start and then I'll just be like not to be happy of course. So I'm like I'm very connected
with like a lot of the community like a lot of the fans in the scene and my eyes at least I want
to focus on making crowds first because I'd say out world it's not like we got to ahead of
ourselves or anything but obviously we plan to make crowds and we didn't but so at this land
like obviously we have great opponents ahead of us and we're gonna do our best to like
you know win do what we can but we're definitely focused on making crowd first and
and I don't want to get like two or four hundred yourselves before like we end up losing or something happens.
Going back to, you know, your past lives as redacted, which now just seems so far in the review mirror,
what advice would you give to teams that are looking to follow in your footsteps?
Because you are now the example for everybody to follow.
I think if you're really confident with your team and you think you can go far, honestly,
If you're not able to get the orb you want, and you want to take one more reason or so
to really try to push and get to that next level, which I get to that top of the world,
I think it's worth taking the risk of you really leading yourself.
I do think that's what we did.
If you're a player trying to get to the next level, if you're already a little
tier pro trying to become a land contending pro, I'd always recommend that we're
preach this.
It's like QA, bajillion, two games.
I think that's like the current meta into like how to just improve at the game.
How do you dethrone the likes of NRG and Shopify rebellion?
And then of course, the rest of the world.
Well, I think in the last two reasons, we already have dethroned Shopify just
because we beat them twice, but NRG, I don't know, something about them in the
finals is like loads of just different.
They just get better every time they, every time, the further they go, the
better they get.
So they're playing as NRG, but you have to, I love that energy guys,
but you honestly just pray they get knocked out
before you have to play.
No, I mean, like,
we're gonna be.
But you get to them in the finals
and we definitely think they'd be at all then.
We just, we have a game plan and we know what to do.
I'd say NRG and like,
you have the top teams in the world.
It's like, you just have to be on-point.
Like you cannot have any sort of off-day.
Like you need to be feeling great,
like communications wise, touches wise,
like rotations, like everything needs to be on point
if you want to win against those teams,
but they are beautiful.
Well, you guys, you've got the rest of the day to enjoy.
Have fun and make some memories together
to your shoot to see the players.
Any final thoughts you wanna say to your fans
before we all see you out on the field?
I appreciate all your support.
I say we probably read like every tweet about us.
So just keep spreading your love.
We really appreciate what you guys have done for us
when we're on the side.
And so we'd really appreciate it if you kept up,
if you keep up with the support with us.
And thank you all.
We'll do our best.
Yeah, thank you.
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7 teams remain in the hunt for the title of Boston Major Champion.
We have one more match on the day and one more team to send home.
Shopify Rebellion taking on the ninjas and pajamas in just a few moments time.
Welcome back folks to Gannis Arena.
It's been a fantastic day so far.
We've gone to at least game six every match.
We're on pace to have one of the most densely played
tournaments in the history of the game.
Like a few of the sweeps ever packed.
And this is after day two where we have the most times
on champions field as well.
Making history across the board is because everyone here
is so incredibly close.
Every match is going to come down to those game
defining moments and see what we get here.
I kind of feel for the players.
These are long days.
And now with this upcoming matchup, you've got to sit here.
You've got to watch all your other teams perform
compete and then make it through or get dropped out knocked down like we just saw
it with GK and what's coming up I mean I'm sure they've been anxious all day
that's true I was like that's only four matches like it's actually kind of a
shorter day than usual but they've all been such long matches that it might as
well have been five or six matches exactly put some sweeps on there exactly
I mean all these teams are just so close I mean it's really because
defense is easier in offense and so all the skill level is getting closer the
ceiling's getting reached and all these great teams that matter how
How many times, how much you play off is it still takes quite a lot in the tank in order
to finally score a goal against these great defenses.
Yeah, now we're left with ninjas and machamas.
The only way we get all top four here is if they win here, they gotta go top by rallying
and foul, get to see if they can do it, but man, this is gonna be good one.
There's part of me that's like, man, come on, no, give us a little drama in there.
But at the same time, part of me likes the symmetry of the last time we were
in Boston where the top four was all European as well.
Let's see if we get there. Does NA have yet another hope on Championship Sunday?
Boston, this is the last match of the day!
Introducing first on the blue side, representing Europe!
One of the most exciting of the 16th, Aaron Foster!
The drop of Group A, Ninja Zinshan Jamons!
the
game.
They played big on the field.
Last night yesterday and they
ended up a verse sweeping power
and they had to dig deep and
get that job done.
It started with only 16 seconds
left in the game.
in the game number three came up the ceiling,
thunder boated it down right at the crossbar
and they gave him that count over them
to victory all the way in game five.
And he's leading goal scorer in the entire tournament
right now at 1.33 goals per game,
shooting 35%.
CRR was our MVP from that group way,
Fonkin, because of the speed on the field
and impact across both sides.
We called him out of the beginning of the tournament
as one of the players to watch
and he has done nothing but shine in the spotlight.
The rest of his team has been supporting him
Such strong ways here, Turtle.
Yorius making a big difference as well.
Yorius, I mean, that's the player
that you never know what he's capable of.
He goes up to the ball.
He's got space.
He's been around for long enough at this point
where you just can never count him out.
On the other side, North America's remaining home.
And introducing their opponents.
On the left side, Bill Grissening, North America.
led by two-time World Champion by Nintendo!
One of the rebels, Shopify Repair!
Here we go. North America. You got two teams here. You want two teams on the final day
as well. A first killer lead team has always been that NHCC. He's always been in the conversation,
has never lifted that trophy yet. And honestly, group stage wasn't the best of them. The
eighth best offense in this tournament. Kofir, he's made one other top 84. He's
a little bit on the younger side. Less experience. First killer is going to have
to lead these boys through a victory here.
And that's exactly where I'm focusing with this roster.
Excuse me, as first killer, how could he take charge,
not only on the field, but in the comps?
He's got the experience at this point,
and he's got to be the man that they can rely on,
the rock not only on offense,
but truly with the communication.
And then LJ, we haven't seen that offensive spark,
and it feels like a couple of years at this point, Bates.
He plays so well against international competition,
but not so far in this event.
Exactly, and that's really what their mission
Rebellion squad because you know what they can bring especially defensively, but I've been talking about all tournament you and me gifts
Offensively you have FK you have LJ you have Kofa and there's just a lot of moments that run the game throughout a match where it is
Where's the office? It's a lie. It's like they're not being creative and not being asked
That's as they can be and that's when you really take that break
That's where you really really rely on a two-time world champion VP to make the necessary adjustments
And I wonder for them to be successful in the tournament
Fates, we said earlier that this is the team with the most question marks around.
What would it take for them to answer that question for you?
Is it just winning it up here?
Do they got sweeps?
They got to be convincing?
What do they got to do?
It's not necessarily about sweeping somebody.
It's just about looking like you have a cohesive game plan on offense.
What's the threat?
You have LJ.
You know he can shoot from opposite sides of the post easily.
He's great with the octane off the corners.
Get FK involved.
Where's Coppers' identity on this team?
because you've got to demo chase or is he gonna come in on the back and play third man figure that out
Well, we're only talking about chopper right now
But you can definitely say the same question mark lies for NIP as we look to the head-to-head here between the first killer and Oli
And I think that on the other side with NIP the same thing you you have all three of these players
Who we know what they're capable of I'm expecting to see some type of performance where it's kind of be a
foundational game way to convince us that they have the legs to go the distance
Really quick, I just want to point out like in those game stats you see first-killer 50% goal participation
That's incredibly low for him. He is normally up in the 75% range normally one of the best in the tournament
We always see like top 10 players at the group stage first killer like is by default always in that list
He wasn't this time around he hasn't awoken yet, but they're still here
They're still a top-8 team so if first color gets going watch out
Oh, so you think it's gonna win in the progressive fan vote hashtag NIP burn ninjas in pajamas
Hashtag SR for Shopify rebellion in a tournament where apparently having the ice is a hot commodity people are struggling to find
This team's coming up for a first sweep. That's nothing but ice three games straight here turtle who you got
It's hard as it could have been seen enough, even with the reverse sweep.
Dude, I got to go Shopify.
Okay.
I got to go the rebellion.
These guys, NA's second last hope.
I think they stay alive.
This truly was the hardest match to pick.
I feel like both teams have so many question marks around them.
But the answer is, this is my favorite player in the world.
First killer, baby.
Let's go.
Top five rebellion.
They're going to win.
Thanks.
No, I'm not going to lie to you CJ.
CJ CJ then snuck this onto the desk.
to the desk. I definitely did not come to the desk with this. I promise you I popped up
on my seat and I didn't know who I was going to pick. But it's saying that I do think that
is got rely with the home crowd favors. Give me rebellion. This I do believe they're
going to find an essay adjustment shop. I'm going to be right here, but not going to
have a huge top four. Wait for, please help us. We were right. Lifestyle. We all went
with the wall. Part of you were kind of odd to some part of me would love part
of me would love to like see and I continue on here. But I'm you know, I love
of my color, right. I really I'm about aesthetic. Have you looked at the ninjas and pajamas decal?
It's literally the colors of this event. It's the purple in the green and my boy CRR has
yet to give me a reason to doubt him. I gotta go with the ninjas and pajamas here folks.
It's respected. How does the point feel about it? Shopify on one side, ninjas, pajamas
on the other. And it's going to come up with Shopify here folks. I'm going to be
the lone supporter of the ninjas and pajamas. But boy, how do you have they built
a resume to make me believe in him so far.
It's going to be tough.
It's really coming down to first killer
when he's playing that first man.
If you can close it off, KS for his teammates to be involved.
We need to see that follow-up, though.
We haven't seen that all event from Rebellion.
So the offense is lacking.
On the same time, CRR has been looking great.
They got to have it, folks.
This is it.
This is the final one of the day.
And we've got a big one tomorrow.
Which team will get to play on that fateful day there?
The last match of the day.
and the end of the road for a team in green.
Both each squad with a ringer,
a specialist capable of controlling the contest.
CRR will have to bring in sharpest swords to survive.
The first killer leading a new revolution.
Only one can continue.
It's Ninja, the rebellion for championship second.
Here's only one more event, one more series, for this to all go down, it's gonna be here
in front of us. The craziest head to head of two teams that have honestly been doing
one for the story books here in Boston.
Now, Shopify Rebellion, the first killer let's team up. A lot of expectations when this
team formed when they picked up Pover, Ninjas and Pajamas.
Team also picking about as one of the top European contenders yet here.
With Jorjez was not so far removed from making it to a major grand final.
Nidgid's a pajama trying to get things going here.
He got only leading the charge.
He's the number one right now in goals per game at 1.33.
A lot of the offense has been running through him.
And Nidgid's had the early offense here.
One shot the nine, went off the ramp.
But shot the left side and then a hand goalie strikes first.
Only living up to his name.
Quick pass from Sierra on from the corner, we use it out, but I do want it up, I love it up, I'm curious to call himself off to give only the space because they know he isn't super striker motor right now.
Ninja start out, right foot here, LJ will avoid a bump off the kickoff.
C.R.R. trying to hop behind it. Not going to happen for him, go first.
Won't get a touch. First kill against all of that ball.
Look downfield, there's only got the redirects. They were ready for it.
Tori is up in front forcing rebellion to get back quickly to the ball,
but Nitches won't relinquish possession.
So far it's been a free intensive game for NIP.
Finally a break out for shot by Ra'Heli and first killer once the moment he takes the shot.
It's on the back of the gun and you're not for just a second there, baby.
Just maybe it wasn't by his way, but it is first killer at the end of the day, only.
Excellent move there to take the shot.
Nipz was saying first killer having to come alive and usually near the top and that goals per game begins at this game.
It's 11th in goals per game.
Bunch of first killers credit is number two in the score per game only behind Zed
the first killer
Always find himself up there always producing and he takes another shot
Ninjas get there saved by holding
I love the level of aggression we're getting from shock by working on the end
Heat version of the missiles here in their first match up from the ground they clear up lj
Just from the shilling down themselves here on us. Nice clue though
I'm going to try and keep things even and call them for NIC.
Hard to get down the field with Toria's.
No stranger to land.
This is his 200th game, this game number one.
On land all time.
Been around the box of RLCS lands.
Trying to get a little bit more than that through this series.
LJ and first killer.
Working together here.
Working together here at LJ Counts Field.
Injas on the first kill, try away and a nice move.
It's LJ has to get back.
Make the touch and rebellion.
It's really a slow retreat to come back.
Blindside challenger to defend one shot.
Hit there right before getting deleted.
These touch, you see, I already got so much space today.
Who's prepped?
Drop it.
Good defense for rebellion.
Under some pressure right now.
You can't find a choice.
We'll fight the game we need to go!
Oh, you can see the frustration as well on the end of shot by Rebellion.
And the base ends along.
It started out with Oli going.
Double-devil eyes for defense.
And just completely frustrated and dismantled the back line.
To lead now to NIP.
entering that second half there in a very confident manner.
And your first killer, he ended up putting the ball on his own net.
Trying to put that ball up above the crossbar.
I'm so unable.
Now Rebellion, Colfer, backflips off, and first killer will help them out.
Rebellion had some struggles on offense, really, that the offense of production has been
the main criticism of Rebellion here at the Boston Major.
Even remember right back in the group stage when they were playing Maitre Zill,
who were playing defects on lower, zero-loose, and Rebellion still weren't able to score.
Those struggles continued in other matches for them as well.
Right now, it's just doing well to hold this one goalie
and stopping the push there for Fevelli
and getting back in the orange hack.
Right now, Fevelli got him with that defensive side.
More often than they would like to,
this is a very attack-heavy team
and they're trying to go for it again.
First goal is a 9-50 bake follow from LJ though.
And Ole is going to recognize LJ's special teams
do lie in the sky, Ole to the backboard here.
And his NIP continued to track the pressure on Chopper 5 Rebellion, going 1 to 1 with each member of the opposition.
All we throw on it right back, Jorias has the Reeds, he's all right underneath.
But it's only him who decides to go and ends up giving up possession.
That's why LJ's there with thai in there.
Looking for a way to connect through the midfield.
LJ gets that midfield boost.
Hopper actually wins the touch there.
LJ takes out Jorias.
The ball was headed back to the orange half.
C.R. Orange up to get the 50.
And so Ninjas again.
Mourning, rebellious attack, really at the third.
Even there.
Jorias feathering the boost to get the touch up.
Perfect clear out here for home.
I like this and that follow with C.R.R. right behind.
They're trying to produce attacks very, very quick.
Jorias a little bit slow on it.
So LJ does have the time and space to work with.
We set up a-
WOOOOOO!
It's starting to make it jam!
LJ!
Why can't we wait to get the game time gold gear up to the sky?
We set-
We fired it quickly to get by that first defender,
which set him perfectly up!
To get on the left side of that ball for the dunk!
Fist bump's all around here for rebellion, still a hard to get one.
Not too bad, a quick comeback!
And another tight game we go!
LJ out to one, it's Cobra to follow!
Young God goes all for one and it's a big clear here for NIP.
I hope I let it go. First killer was underneath.
He decided not to take the aggressive challenge there near the end of regulation.
There was no loose for CRR and Jory has walled in.
With the catch, wrap around.
One beat, can't beat the last man.
LJ's up, he might be able to do something, but no.
CRR gets under quickly and Ninjas will send it after him.
We got 0 team here at Game 1.
Nice little kill there from First Killer.
And here we go, off-kick on the same strat all the way around as LJ follows CRO.
Nose gets attacked in challenge perfectly.
Kopa almost had that in.
Pre-vision from CRR.
First killer, couldn't get much on his reset.
No boost as he grabbed it.
He's got the midfield boost.
LJ got the 50.
First killer's floated this one, that's Jory. This gets the win.
see our targets around another buff.
He's got no boost, he can't chase this down,
he needs to go for a chance.
Reset near the ceiling.
Arcade on the board with a perfect catch there by some holding.
And right now Shopify's trying to play
almost this little lurk fan, first killer,
stayed in that hamper quite some time now,
finally had opportunity, but it was a low boost,
slow challenge that keeps NIP in charge,
although gopher almost was able to find LJ,
but it's the boost differential
that is setting NIP up towards this net.
First Killer got chipped out with that much boost.
LJ keeps in tight.
Had a little bit of space, but that was just ripped out of his hands.
CRR.
I think we're gonna get it done. Rebellion playing well enough here on defense.
As LJ rips it across. First Killer just...
RIP!
Okay
What you are expected first still in LJ first team done
I can't wait to get up and again on the replay because it ripped right off a first killer
Effectively like a pitch. Just want to get another look at it for sure. What a way
Endgame one here after it started so well
Four inches of pajamas only scoring that first goal
Oh, the offense, wow, they didn't take the shot.
Even six piece, Artemis, after all these four there
with Elliott job, ladies to get it done.
Oh, yeah, definitely, rebellions, shot opportunities,
felt just a handful more quality,
although I won't commend Jorias and Ole on there too.
They looked great, but in the last few moments,
and you can see it here,
that's when LJ started to wake up,
that's when first kill, and it's the other,
and they showed everybody why they have been
that top two conversation for North America.
The rebellion get things started in the interest of pajamas.
We always talk about, you know,
EU historically dominant over North America,
but interest of pajamas actually one of the few European teams,
only two European teams were losing record against North America,
14 and 18 against NA on land.
So they got some work to do here against first killer and company
who had their own struggles in the group stage with LJ.
Looking quite good here early on.
Someone we haven't really talked about a lot though
is Kofir, wasn't much that was asked of him in that game.
No, not quite, but he is the one
that came in to really round out this rebellion team.
And he's had so many moments of brilliant so far.
It's just been a little quiet as far as the first go.
Kofir, Kofir, Kofir, Kofir.
This is a bad time to shine.
You can sit a little further back on kickoff.
There you go.
And look at this.
Got ruptured in the net and first killer all the time in the world.
When he was on Space Station, he was leading North America in demos.
He was almost leading the world in demos averaging almost five demos a game.
But ever since he joined Rebellion, that has dropped by more than half.
And he had to give it a nearly as many demos as he had before.
You see him getting more and really more.
He isn't that foot man like he was on Space Station.
Listen, every time I see them there's points that I hear from Rebellion.
Closet chaos in front that seems to be where Rebellion finds success.
They don't work every time.
But when Coford is online and on the point,
Rebellion's also has five ways to get gold.
For NIP though, they have to start back for quite some time
as we get to y'all know it is from Rebellion still does not play out in their favor.
And they continue to hold on to the one gold lead
It feels almost impossible for N.I.E. to even contend with right now.
They have yet to see the rebellion net in their field of vision for quite some time.
This is the closest Tori isn't only trying to cut in quick to give themselves a chance,
but Kofa completely cuts them off.
Has to reset as well, gets in front of the ball.
First killer was MAP on MAP1.
LJ was the one trying to follow it up.
First killer just jumps in the way.
What's your follow-up touch here, CRR?
Slight back pass, I'll say we'll have to take the boost, and, well, luckily for him, first killer is back.
First killer, but that one really really bothered me.
A few moments where rebellion does send you off a little bit.
Two goes for comfort in-house, and these try to play the same game towards them.
Rebellion, they go for the ground, they go forward, nothing, they come a bit, they go straight to the side, and Jorias takes it away.
I mentioned that I don't have too many issues getting up over the need one.
They're going to tie it up quickly here, go for it, no one's going to drop it.
First killer clock behind, LJ was in the air, something got disjointed there for rebellion.
Maybe not pushing as they expect too hard, babe.
LJ had to turn onto it, he was right next to the ball.
Not too threatening that one.
Also not, but LJ tripping back towards their net.
Here's Jordy, he's trying to crawl off,
but LJ's going to be tough for all of you to get through with no boost.
We'll do far ahead and face the right direction meeting.
Everybody's gonna race on back now.
Kofur, one touch back out, but only facing the right way
to keep this possession with NIP.
We're hit.
Now, the jury is a denied first killer.
Is able to avoid a bump, get the save.
Now, Kofur, it's over one.
Hardest dribble, tough to get over the first defender,
but everyone else has to play catch up here
for rebellion on offense.
Ninjas they can't get a touch this might give the chance and it's a high jury is
typing back over trying to get the deadly good connect okay
don't follow up there first killer trying to shake him out go for it has the
touch on the size of this up lj getting harassed as well he had to avoid a
buff being no challenge there no never clear for ninjas right now shot
fireball and are kind of waiting you decide what is the right moment to
Grand Buffy of direction and NIP is waiting for it.
Playing patiently, following each other on this,
first to the side to hunt out Torias,
and stay strong enough to regain possession of this ball,
pass off over to CRR,
and it's the focus of communication
that is keeping NIP pushing forward.
I don't know if here Torias has only downfield,
got a decent tuck up.
And Lee Shaw should be saved and a double commit.
No immediate pressure there from NIP.
They get into the past.
Shocked and I, Koper gets there first.
CRR's got no boost.
Oh, I've got the first killer in the corner spot for him.
Get around one.
LJ's down the field.
First killer has to get out there.
Get ready to support Koper.
A lot of broken opportunities.
Koper's like, piece it back together here.
First killer lurking, and Shelf can't get their role.
Oh, then is it also a commit on it too, so that LJ is forced to kind of call himself off, lay a little further back than he might have liked.
And it's not going to stop Chotha, but we're taking another shot!
Cofra! Getting involved on this one, but so is Olie!
Ceiling tries to make it on edge, and right now, NIE has all the momentum!
Oh, that's kind of right to CRR, and that was not the touch he was open for. Put it right into the first kill.
Such a beautiful back pass, can I be?
Get put back on the blue hat.
LJ has a little bit of space.
Double hop, little bump, little jump.
He's stuck!
He's cool, and soon it's two and one.
All of the rebellion decided to pull a set, but I'm recognized.
The challenge that had happened on LJ, you see the shot I loaded too.
They knew they had them completely red.
Yeah, Holey committing with Jory is pretty much assures that he can't follow up that one point Jory is.
And now rebellion threatening to go up to nothing here in the series.
As Ninjas gotta go the whole way back to their corner.
Jory is building momentum pretty fast.
Holey to the scot.
Reshett dropped again a five ounce for Jory is to handle.
C.R.O. to support him.
He gets there late.
But better than never, still cleared out.
Rebellion gets to the end.
A clean cut game to take another win here in the series.
NIP, they put up a pretty decent fight.
But first killer, looking absolutely
unscapable on all ends of the field.
One goal to his name, but those three saves really
were what set the tone for pushing NIP back.
I don't think it's the prettiest game
behind or from rebellion there.
All sorts of pushes.
These are just straight-up offensive domination.
They're able to keep back to some challenges,
but we saw some disjoint in its acts as well.
So they're able to figure it out at the very start of this game.
All that kickoff, Doryas gets his dose to the corners,
and then this double commit really kills NIV.
CRO almost getting there.
2-1 forces a timeout here as first killer takes a little nap.
I think that's the first killer reset.
Like, every time we've seen him do the lean back.
The 62nd power nap?
Yeah, the six second power nap is really what brings them back.
The crazy thing is first killer was playing great.
It's not even him who needs to nap.
If anything, I'd be like Kofa, I want you to like lay back a little bit.
Close your eyes.
We need it.
We got the demo gig.
We got the.
All right.
I love that the mid game time out.
That's your thing.
Rough guys.
Do we get the violent panda massage buff for first killer?
I thought he needs much more.
NIP figure out.
I get things going. I don't think they have to do much to talk about defensively.
Really, I've mostly been able to handle what rebellion had thrown them.
It's just one mistake that really separated it and getting scored there on the kickoff.
Right now, first killer. A force to be reckoned with, number four in all-time land leading score.
A lot of goals. The players are all out of bounds.
And you can hear the crowd you know they want them they want the game back and it's almost time
You know you know first killer he's gotten second twice
Before he was only known before he was known as fourth killer. He upgraded to second killer
You know he wants
Nothing more than to win that trophy right there here at the Boston Major
LJ. He's having a solid series so far
the wanes a little bit in the group stage at times, but
Now they're taking the opportunities and I fear giving them
Getting to the touches in time. It's so close. All I have to do is just make sure the comms
Are on lock one defense. Don't double commit there. We might have another overtime again, too. Absolutely
The only one way to get to the fee you got to play through regulation first and I fee versus shot by rebellion
shot by
The war is a game away from a match point and one step closer to a game with the Falcons.
It's been really tight games all around today.
Rebellion's getting a early two-game lead.
See if they can keep building here.
LJ, rip that one out.
One thing about Rebellion's all-facts I'm still a little worried about is
even those disjointed attacks where Coppers on point on the reset.
You see LJ kind of jump expecting one thing and either go for Miss Handles the ball or he was just picking something else
That's my one area worry here for a million and IP
Playing a little more defense here hard to get downfield
First killer buys a little time for everyone to retreat
Here we are.
So we're only holding the front shot on deck.
A little slow, but here's the choreo.
He's trying to give them another fighting chance here in the first minute of play.
Although possession down over a two-shot fight.
Got squeezed on the play.
Choreo's rips it down field.
NIP got most of the possession in that opening minute.
Confirm.
Gonna get much more after.
Just ripping the ball where the defender is.
Gonna be hard to really get anything set up on offense.
Now I can push back to get one move stolen.
An IP still pushing here, but...
Don't play in the corner right now.
You gotta catch the midfield, CRR.
Just get away from him.
That's quality.
That initial touch is good,
but what's the idea on the follow-ups for NIP?
You get all of this time in the ORC cap,
But you're not getting anything done.
Yeah, there hasn't really been a plan, although they're trying to hear what ends up happening as one person wants to follow behind instead.
Long gets taken away by Shotgun powder, telling them they're leaving that third man in a 1v2 situation.
Demo turned into a 1v1 at this point.
Cobra's gonna try and do it on his own, so he's going over to OJ to deny.
One of the few times Cobra and LJ actually connect on one of those, now bounces off, this is what they do.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
That's a disgusting angle, CRR!
CRR, I actually had such an incredible day the other...
The other night here in Boston,
Seattle is finally showing up!
You got the tight angle on the sidewall!
And a lead into NIP, finally!
Welcome to the series!
They were able to score first in game number one.
Eventually rebellion found a way to win in OT.
How can they build on that?
Just dropped down, maybe a ditch!
Look on that one. Clear it out here by rebellion for now.
It feels still an IPV.
Jory is not going to get there in time.
We're coming off that backboard.
Sneaks out.
Oli sees the backboard.
She's the ball.
But can't quite see the net.
They come here as well.
They try to continue.
Oli's a shot over.
Just over the net.
LJ's going to keep the pressure on them.
As Oli flushes this line in his head,
he flicks it, tries to get past one.
The first killer.
Let's go!
A large, clear for rebellion.
Alcha was right on top of Jory's there.
First killer.
Not exactly how you wanted to line that up.
Here come an IP again holding right into the bumper, but...
Well, now first killer avoids that bump.
That takes it away, Alcha.
Not that's what she's looking for.
Luckily out here.
There's a lot of snow outside, but...
We're inside here, they're gonna get some touches here, NIV might want a second one, called off a second man, but CRR couldn't put the ball on target.
You lost, man, you're so important, and I can be able to hold on too.
You see these shots, but they're getting less and less quality in a turn.
Shot fired, but later eventually is going to be able to break out, unless CRR can stop them.
CRR stops and stops, no team shots for sure.
He's trying to rotate back.
First killer. High here.
He's backflips off this one.
Kofir first to the ball.
Valiant starting to get stacked up.
Post timeout.
NIP doesn't matter, ugly as you like.
If you're winning, you're winning.
That shot right into the defender.
Jory is credited with the save.
Right on the goal line, but LJ's wanting to keep going too.
And you see Oli prepping into the background.
ground, but the fear of our almost managed to get him out.
So we're going to go for trying to sneak around Toreus.
And we're still up up sky and down.
The key following in the pressure is still on.
Four rebellion in the 30 seconds left off the backboard.
LJ down is very, very slow, but the pressure
continues to build on the NIP defense.
Stover, I don't know the touch there.
It didn't matter.
You are two more pushes here, four rebellion.
Then they got to keep the ball in the air.
First killer.
50 down, he saw LJ getting bumped.
Not available for the 50 to 4 on the wall challenge.
LJ actually helps.
But there's a lot of time wasted after a double commit.
Now they do got to go the distance in the air.
But NIP closing the gaps.
Hard clear out to the side.
Ball shortly took to the ground.
NIP.
Take their first game.
Wasn't entirely pretty, but they still walk away with the win.
It's fun because it feels almost slow motion.
I feel like the last few series we've seen these teams play,
it is so much faster than what it is.
But I do feel like that is boiling down the back
that you've got a so methodical against each other,
especially in a high pressure situation like this,
because it is one and done here in the lower back.
I mean, the counterteam are really getting
the consistent touches that they want.
You got Eric touches, or you got a rotation.
got a double commit where you have a break out and whether it's communication or
just your fundamental mechanics are lacking at the moment.
You're not getting those touches when you get a goal like that from CRR which was excellent.
And first killer, had that chance right there in the shot, just right into Jorias with the whole top of the net.
If you actually hit that with power, with pace up high, there's no way Jorias gets there.
So rebellion had a chance, but you know, NIP also had a lot like that.
Whoever figures out how to get consistent quality touches here and get things back get their fundamental square
It's gonna have the advantage in the rest of the series a hundred percent. You can look at it
You know just from a statistic standpoint
NIP was not falling short on shots on net. It just was like you said it was quality over quantity and
Unfortunately for them it was the latter
But they still
Managed to walk away with the win with one can they turn it into two or does rebellion by your footing again here?
It doesn't matter how you get it as long as you get to W at the end of the day
NIP they started the journey with their first
He's rainbow first kill
Get the 50th and start
Get anything else out of it only will put the break back
to the orange out
demo from first killer trying to get
NIP out of their half, CRR obliges, but wants to get a majority.
They feel that CRR is as well, trying to fuck Popher, and will not be successful.
Another attack being sent out by Rebellion is slowed down. CRR is going there for NIP to get out, and LJ immediately returns it.
Right now, and I see the biggest difference maker is going to be keeping control of the
police.
You cannot allow Shoverbot to have the space in the air that they've had, although, to a
big extent only taking all of their loads in from one end to the other.
Well, Kofor, he takes this ball up, and I think he loves the club choreo's there,
but he couldn't really see him on his way up.
You see him just get off the ball there, and then he ends up just conceding possession
that puts LJ in a really tough spot to have to move on.
Make a heroic save.
The Cofork just gets a little of the ball there.
You can't get an IP of repossession like that.
Here comes all the kickoff, first killer.
Trying to get something done,
Kofu, way underneath the ball.
And LJ has to try back.
And trying to keep this play alive,
you won't get a bump on CRR either.
But the 50 for Kofu will help get LJ
right back into position, still an IP.
He's just in the head right now, rebellion.
Oh, yes, stay.
I've definitely caught the Mofu
quite a bit there.
What am I doing to get here?
And Jury has enough to take the ticket.
Article shot, just the ball fully tried to make the ball.
And LJ has him right on the play.
Here comes his follow-up.
NIG retaining possession.
CRR.
He just didn't get the touch he wanted.
He didn't get the ball to play.
Also didn't get the touch.
Holy, just straight up wins the ball late to the 50-50.
First killer, rapid quick.
Full one.
Here we go!
Attack and reduction!
He's absolutely back here!
Oh man, a foul ball!
Maybe Juri has been down the pool!
Shoot!
Sending in the wrong direction!
Both his axles on that play.
One way or another, first killer,
finds a way to get it done.
They get the kick off here.
Go for it.
She wraps around instead of trying to
challenge at the point.
Just try to give this team a free angle out
instead of having to fight 50 after 50.
Quick speed, first killer.
And you saw Kofu get monkey whipped around real quick.
But he came up over time.
Kofu got buffed.
And the spin around and Chory is
will put it right in front.
It's a rebellion special.
You see somebody on the back, and then you just
completely force them to get a little bit awkward
more than they would like.
And then it becomes pretty much free at that point.
bleed to NIP and auto the kickoff, first killer to follow.
Here he goes, oh, every pass.
She seems like a million,
so many times I was in a manned position.
I was happening in the group stage two
where they just won't go.
Even if it looks like you could challenge it,
I understand you want the clean touch,
but I think some of those,
you try to force it to be really one.
The highest percentage opportunity.
I haven't found it yet.
Mark it down field and CRR against their time.
Honestly, what would have saved on that one from CRR?
It still manages to turn up, make a quick cut,
trying to help out for this one.
All their joy has to be able to be the one to make the same.
Loose all the way around, no for NID.
That's not going to stop first till it's over.
Trying to make a pass over LJ.
You see the pressure melting.
Shocked by Rebellion, they need this.
I'll take out no power on that you would have been a little closer
but rebellion on done CRR on the back wall all three players of NIK contributed to the
defense right now only next up and get some massive clear CRR wants to make it
awkward for Cobra to help them get the clear here sizing up the space and really get the
50 you want first killer no boost play the ball Jordy is kicks it up
off the hand quick just high but don't go out
just enough time we don't want to get there
don't go for the squishy save in style to keep them out
not gonna stop zero or androids from lurking
nobody will set on this instead of a big player from LJ
to help them break in on boost high
one down it's potential if anybody wants it first killer is gonna try them
Not the darkest, but the rest of us seeing how to recover.
LJ won't get a boost till it's blocked after he leaves.
I'll get midfield instead, but only roll him in the ball.
Here comes Zunas!
GOOOOO!
The main white shark has made his way here in a bosses.
Look at this power!
Just give a drop for the LJ.
LJ did everything he could with the boost and the flick.
They're trying to get him busted, but it just dropped it so low.
Excellent placement from Chorion to make that what happened.
And while the Waze rebellion had struggled to get some consistent score in 45 seconds,
two goals to go, they needed fear.
But Xehanort's getting in the way, and I, please, defense, have stuck.
New elements continue to be added to frustrate rebellion.
And Chorion is the newest one out on the pitch.
Fully involved on the front and the back.
First going to kill, Cobra trying to follow it instead.
It was full commitment, it could have been so dangerous.
But unfortunately for them,
ball goes wide, shot by, get to breathe.
First killer, at the end of this game,
can't get the opportunity, CRR.
Leaving all the rebellion into a quilt
and helps get this ball back to Holy.
Holy, won't get another goal.
But NIP, most time out, two straight-gaining wins here.
This is how it is here!
Not a bad showing, whatsoever!
You got to hand it to Jorias.
If waking up and getting more involved,
if you are a fan of this NIP roster,
you know that the one thing everybody is in
change towards close dates.
Everyone on defense as well.
Talk about those first two games,
that Rebellion 1, that game 2,
double commits by NIP on defense,
It didn't have the touch wall.
Now, NIP, the fundamentals are a little better.
These last two games, they were able to be
solid on defense, communications a lot better.
You don't see the same mistakes.
And Rebellion's offense is almost non-existent here.
Jory is getting top honors, two goals off of six shots,
and also a double savior from Jory.
The force is a timeout here for Rebellion.
I mean, it's a very warranted timeout
because you're not playing terrible by any means.
You're not even, you're not playing badly, you're not playing great.
It's just NIP, their playstyle against Shopify
has dismantled everything that we know about the rebellion squad.
And it, of course, adding joy to the mix.
That's the fun of it, because he's usually a little bit
quieter, you don't get to say his name too often.
And now that he's out there on the offensive front,
leading the charge, going for the strikes.
Shopify rebellion are left scratching their heads.
Kofur on the ball, kind of looking back, Kofur.
So there was a couple of times he had some of those missed touches
and just weren't able to actually force
NIP to get back and have to play some consistent defense.
It would be a save and immediate clear down the field.
weak shot. Well the weak shot I believe was from LJ but there were so many times where they could have
kept building pressure which is my point and they just weren't able to do it because the
touches weren't there. Rebellion had to find a way to raise the floor here. Take this extra 60 seconds to
figure it out. Oh Boston, it's more than ready to get back into this and find out
But were they able to fix what's been going wrong so far?
Cup of the trophy for here at the Boston Major, looking beautiful as ever.
And everybody wondering one thing is first to where it gets a raise
from all of us alongside two of the best in the world
where does DU dismantle NA again?
Got a long journey before.
They can get there.
NIP trying to stay alive right now.
Trying to take the lead in the series
after going down 0-2.
Rebellion, get the kick off, LJ.
I'll knock away, Jordy is getting locked out of the way.
First killer, gonna be able to wrap around it here,
always gets back downfield.
Drop just can't keep it going there.
They get forced back to blue hat.
We're going to see it then. I'd be able to start out with some pressure, but right now it's like it all walks to Rebellion.
CRR would use what was left in the changing timing. Clear, short, limp, one-up, double, all the return back from Jorrius.
A loud, small rep to Mair. Well, those shots are coming in quick from Rebellion. It's another one.
Look at this one! Oh, so fast! That's Jason!
We're really a big fan of hitting the ball along the back wall into our own net.
And CRR goes off the bar as he tries to get that touch and it rolls off the inside of the back out, but still a little too hard to handle for his teammate.
CRR just couldn't quite get there in rebellion. Find a way to get on the board, get a lead, and then keep stacking.
They pop up in the air here, how still are those already there ready to read?
The waiting can't stop Fireball in five space to fight each other against their skill to try to curve half-out over some times.
The past one.
So far, all girls have led to Tori as he stuffed that time and time again on his own.
It's a matter of waiting for C.R.R. to do his big one, and it might be only K.R. to send in.
Time to avoid the buff as well, but still they wrap around.
around and ID pressure started to weigh in here couple nice 50s but everyone
from rebellion having to be back lj nothing to attack good catch here from
first killer also don't go to CRR he won't win the midfield boost so fast and I
keep momentum dropper good point connect right there CRR a lot of
Loose here, harshly put him away.
Then I'd be retained in field possession.
Bowling and supersonic here on offense.
Gopher slows it down just a little bit.
Loose forward on the reset.
So good at avoiding that bump.
You can see Gopher coming for a mile away.
LG, a little more shaded as he comes across
first killer, sits underneath,
and he sort of moving forward first killer.
Kind of fast, let me sort of drive forward.
All that ball is gonna drop down differently.
And again, the offense is disjointed here
They've tried so many times to get out, but these don't feel so quality. Everything is disconnected.
This is one of the better ones, go first to the backboard, but he'll shot to anyone other than himself.
LJ, taking his turn around. What can he do with us?
I'm ready!
Rebellion! It's so ready to figure it out!
That was a beautiful first touch from LJ. ZLR didn't have any boost to chase him down.
down, creates a little bit of negative space.
Elger had all the moves to work with,
could easily push that by CRR.
Now he's got the momentum, making it really hard
to make that save.
Excellent job from Elger on the solo left.
Now it's NIP's turn to try and play catch up here,
and they just might.
It's a shot.
Sit out.
Why none of them are first tiller.
They play the back half, but Gopa says no.
That's almost straight to me.
They have the backward attempt,
and they're trying to play off of it.
This could be dangerous if anybody committed, sent chopper, rebellion, it could be a shadow.
Over beats that first man, but that might have been part of the plan for an IP to get the demo.
George! The Milan and LJ meets him on the ground.
Holy's got a full tank of boosts.
Rips him across, gets bumped out of the way.
Still an IP lurking at the top of the box.
We're even!
Holy was the one to really kick things off of this series and he doesn't get here.
A great catch and great shot.
Put them into the game.
Our Valiant, hold onto this one goalie here,
less than two minutes to go.
Trying to get some match point on Neo Tokyo,
if you release.
They slow down here for a second.
Only got two fifties.
First kill at the Laze one, LJ.
Demo is holding, but still a story is on the ball.
I can't straight down and first kill is right in the lane to kick it away.
Not too bad. It's almost a return here.
LK down on the first kill. He tries to go for the style.
Almost hit it on the head.
There's a Fender there for Shoryus and taking up.
Shoryus, the ceiling.
Coming across.
NIP, steal the ball.
CRO are having chunks, he still makes it work on the 50.
No chance for a pass or a dish.
Really anything as Rebellion get another clear.
6B plus with this lead.
Shove Fire fully in half the resources, they got the power.
Fortunately for them, NIP they've got the defense to keep them out.
They need one more though, they hold on to one goal each for now.
On the side wall, Torius has to make a quick cut, he goes to the stop.
He has the hang of it, he's got the time, but LJ,
he just has the better defense of the situation.
40 seconds on the clock,
Cobra just gonna try to pull him down and knock him.
How about idea, first killer in the area.
But LJ misses the fifth, he'll lose.
He totally gets it.
30 seconds, Jorias hands only.
Little handoff off their own wall.
The buff means no 50, heavy check from LJ.
He can't follow it up, Jorias.
The last try here for Ninjas and Pajamas.
CRR made feel fine, cats.
Couldn't even get a flick out.
First killer was on top.
Jory is again.
Got the boost.
And the first killer's got to lead.
Holy crap.
Nice catch from Jory is no time left.
Now this was a second.
LJ gets there in time.
This should be the final.
Rebellion.
Put it in.
Just hit it.
Pajama on mass pull.
I mean, they can say a big thank you to LJ in that one, and he, oh, for great, when he
He is brought to this particular game, was the first event that we've all been waiting for quite some time.
They had a great solo effort on that play after Rebellion was able to start the map with a little bit of boost.
And then, end of that game, NIP, weren't able to mount that consistent pressure we saw them earlier on their two-game winning streak.
Every time they wanted to push, you saw C.R.R. didn't have a ton of boost, had to try to force the 50 back into space.
When you don't have the boost numbers advantage it's really hard to keep that
consistent pressure up when you need to score a goal. NIP couldn't get it done
theirs. Rebellion, thanks to that CRR own goal off the bar and thanks to LJ's
efforts puts them one game ahead here on Neo Tokyo which I will say has not
been kind to first-killer but it won't be eliminated if he loses this
one that will go to champions field shout out Bob from Bob's ramen
It's one of my favorite maps the scrap yard. I like to call it lots of teams get eliminated right here
Ninjas at pajamas the next in the heat
Or we go to champions field only one way to find out to race reset board
If you down into the corner here, Sierra, try to speed this up for NIE wants to go down. It's a great career
From LJ, the NIP is going to play the sacred game, fast follow-up,
story is down, no boost means no power on play.
It's right back over to CRR, and the shot first killer's right there,
rebound, oh, denied, LJ having to contend with CRR in front of him.
And Kofa will get it back downfield, and Hellya get the breeze.
So much power, shot fighter Belen on there, he's had so far first killer with speed,
up into the sky, he wants to double it down.
No space given to do so.
Play this from the corner,
Kofur's getting a little bit quicker with ease,
but holy, plays the patient game.
It almost gave off that first minute,
though stays scoreless.
The story is, Zero is trying to work together.
He wants the center, but nobody's here.
My pop here for Kofur.
C-L-R, able to get to that fifthly again.
Demo downfield, up into space.
First killer just pumps it.
Had to send that one on target, LJ.
Catch up the CLA, a little heavy.
And IP get the 50.
Had to break back out over.
Had another try here.
LJ getting harassed again.
Hopper just over.
Nobody back into the pen, LJ.
Was on the other side with an NIP defender.
Looks like he got where he was.
Jory is maybe getting up there.
No, he just got flung out to the side.
RQ's one up.
It's a full set solo play for Kofa, we haven't got to see that yet.
I'm pretty much at all throughout the series so far, so it's exciting to see her try to get balled finally.
Now first killer, gonna take one for his own.
This one potentially can center only.
Look at the back, all the way to the back port.
But NIP, no consistent pressure coming of this.
C.R.R. trying to find Holy Bear, LJ.
Cut him off. Everyone from Rebellion getting reset.
Another big clear down to the blue half.
First killer winning this battle.
Another free ball for Jorias.
Buying some time for N.I.P. to get back.
They actually challenged the ball there.
So now Jorias, I believe the boost is trying to challenge with nothing.
first killer wins that and take it away.
And he handling it, hits the ball to safety for now.
Being something a little bit more.
He's still available there on the back side as well, Helljay.
Got the demo on only first killer, pops it across.
Everyone back here from rebellion,
both of them in field line.
The Torias get the clean touch out.
And the demo.
Torias!
That's amazing.
Pull the load back on this one.
It's a team effort.
Jorias was already up ready to go to patch the shot.
And you see the demo there from CRR, full open net for this squad.
It's a tight game.
That level of creativity is what is going
to be able to take rebellion down.
Now you get the kickoff.
LJ works his way around one.
First killer up, quick lead.
Good put it on target.
The nice clear here, the header of 50.
Jory is
Gonna get a chance at a reset. Aljay was already there. Oh, Jory in POV, you can see Aljay
Jory is well demoed, comes around to the play, put him into space
The CRO are trying to figure out where exactly the first killer was
He's able to steal it away. Aljay comes in to the middle, first killer out
Off the ceiling, get harassed from behind
A slip underneath, no one's around here, no one expected that one to slip through
No, nobody was there to spin instead, and I peed at their turn on out.
A little bit of power towards that side wall up there, but over, getting involved,
he's getting more confident, he has the top of the wall.
Damn!
Come at on key again.
Holy, sizing up the hood.
The first killer cheats, one of those fifties,
that's a hard-kid, Elgin missed the ball!
Free bump, and a C-N-R kept it close.
Maybe not expecting a bump there, but that could have been a shock.
You didn't have a second man there for rebellion and cover.
Now they're getting a left-hand call for though.
And even if they're looking up on us, they're coming around.
Zorias can't keep them going.
C.L.A.L. has got nothing in the midfield.
First killer, High!
Get one more touch!
High!
Get up!
He saw a bugger try and just stored this for them,
but they needed LG to commit with them.
Instead, it's being sent on back.
That final hitty is going to go back and forth fairly quickly,
reset her power, and set all he puts it off to make.
Challenging front for Toreas, he's gonna have a little time, got the boost, everyone on the opposite side for Rebellion, Toreas gets 5-1.
The first killer gets all of that ball, and only will puk it to the corner. Toreas is there, couldn't make contact, taken away by Rebellion.
And I feed all the pressure right now with 30 to go in regulation. Holy f***ing applause, no dunk!
And no dice here for NIP!
This is the final moments where things start to ramp up.
Cocoa down, nobody there.
Trees also knows it's covered just as out,
but it is low loses.
They enter the rebellion site.
One shot with 15 to go.
And you can feel the pressure melting.
Here comes the rebellion slow down over one.
Can they set it back?
Here are.
Try to play this still.
With NIP in the air, he goes through the shot.
And it's comfort to keep the play alive.
Capture Zoriaz with the reset, out of a one to put the seal on the hard one.
We have overtime our second of the series.
A vertical scenario for rebellion.
They connected right here and I've been fighting for champions,
been fighting for their tournament life.
I'm thinking, lost in the back.
Here comes all of rebellion working together to get over one.
Now two is a big barrier to their side.
LJ Timo could get the second.
No, Tupac!
You're not to scare him!
Oh, it's Tupac just throwing his body at the ball, LJ on small cat duty.
All he'll get in the midfield boost, happy touch from LJ.
CRR avoids the buff, first killer with momentum.
Going across, Cokher reads early on that CRR touch.
Then it's back to first, back to LJ, back towards cover for now.
A rebellion are lurking off the corner.
Next up is Cokher, he's got no boost.
Deleted!
He'll spawn with some of the first killer walk challenge, CRR.
Does the job, but NIP are there to get back to the orange.
OJ's gonna have that game clear.
First killers already in the house.
Steals their booze, but it doesn't matter.
What was the one to take the shot and propeliate?
Try to start the ramp up here.
It's low booze for the defense of NIP.
This could be any cover.
Drive to make the shot.
He's the first.
Oh!
Take a hit.
It was not pretty but at the end it comes together beautifully a little bit of impromptu
at LJ with the best impromptu of the day, maybe on that last play Kofa really heated
up in that game six where he wasn't able to get those goals but he had some attempts
on redirects he was getting close for Millions pressure was immense in that game number
They felt like it was only a matter of time they were going to find a way to hammer it home and it comes off it with one of the most unique passes that I've seen.
From LJ, KofiLJ and First Killer all linking up there, they survive in this tournament, they move on to Championship something.
There's something about that series ending with a green man
and half-plant text on a game that is just really telling
of what the rest of this weekend could look like for Rebellion.
Want to try here from Rebellion, GGs to NIB in the tournament.
There Boston hopes are over.
And now, Rebellion, move on in the tournament.
Let's go down to Leaf X to talk to Rebellion.
Hey, Boston, Shopify Rebellion!
Feels good, eh, LJ?
It does. It does. I mean, we played great, man.
I gotta ask, you walked up here for the interview?
Big sigh of relief came out.
Are you living in that relief now,
or are you already starting to think about Championship Sunday?
I mean, we're relief, but we're looking for tomorrow, man.
We're playing good. We want to win it all.
Of course.
Now, I gotta ask about this because in North America, there's only two North American representatives.
How does it feel being one of those few representatives with an audience backing it?
I mean, it feels good.
This crowd is the same, man.
We're doing it for y'all.
Like, we want to win in front of you guys.
Now the question that always comes with that is any extra pressure starting to build
up in the back of the head?
And if so, how does the team operate to make sure that just stays out of the head?
I feel less pressure.
I mean, it's good to be on the other side of having home field advantage.
Like, I'm glad we have it.
That's great.
And even with his audience, you guys are still making a good amount of noise here.
I love it.
Keep the energy up going into championships.
And they say good voices.
But for you now, what's the goal?
I mean, not just only get harder and harder.
How do you personally stay locked in without getting too nervous?
because I know you have to wait till the end of the day
and now you're going to think about tomorrow.
How are you going to avoid those nerves and stay locked?
I mean, we're just going to focus on ourselves, like lock in,
just see what we did wrong, go back and replay with you,
and just look what we did wrong.
But stay focused on ourselves and just lock in.
Hey, hopefully you can do that for tomorrow.
I want you to keep that noise going.
One more time.
Choppa 5, Rob Delia.
16, Romain in Boston.
Four from Europe, two from North America, two from North America, made it through to the bracket and they have survived here.
And slowly, slowly, trying to balance it out here. Who knows, it might be 50-50 by the time we get to the top four.
It's actually three Europeans, because Falcons are here too, so Mina's still alive.
True, thank you so much.
Man, that was a good show for Rebellion. I think we're kind of joking about First Caribbean, a weekday warrior on Thursday night.
He shows up big here and all the boys doing it again. It was another defensive battle.
The battle, which we've seen all day today.
Goals are at a premium, and then we see goals by LJ.
We haven't seen that offensive spark in a while,
and we saw it here in the series.
That's exactly what I wanted to talk about was LJ.
I mean, the way we started out in game one,
he took charge of this series, and it was him alone
on the offensive side where he was able to every the ball
to the net right here.
This play, I think, sent him off
and released the chains for the rest of the series.
He started us and also ended us in these games.
Listen, Chaharaphoi, and then when it needs to do with the O.J.,
in particular, he also has 10 demos in this series.
Really big for him. A lot of pressure, 10 kids, like you saw.
Malkozo is really at a premium. Stuff like that going in.
It's really tough to win the game, but Chaharaphoi, I mean,
you get credit to him when the first two, and they're like,
hold on now, maybe we have a swing, but of course,
I'm not in here 20-20, say, no way.
That's a Boston major. We're going to at least this thing.
We're going to see Neal, so, you know, in a second half.
Yeah, we started to see some hiccups there and Ninjas were controlling the next two games pretty well
And I think everyone was very concerned like oh look is that they gonna pull apart again
But rebellion found a way to battle back. Yeah, and I mean timeouts were so crucial as well
Both teams utilizing dares and as soon as the timeout would come in
We'd see the momentum shift back towards the other side and it was a well-thought matchup
You could count and I'd be out for any moment of it. Yeah, big game five right here for a going
So this would be in the tape, he'll be put the pressure on NIP, make them have to make a couple of plays.
And ultimately, again, number six, once we get there, you'll see, and Rebellion also actually wins off the hiccup.
They actually went off the hiccup of, I believe, FK goes for the ball.
Yeah, it was a double commit.
Yeah, I mean, he wasn't supposed to.
And then after that, and then back, but LJ was still recovered.
For Garland, he made a great play right in the middle.
Well, that's a beautiful thing about it.
LJ, they both went for the same shot.
for almost got a couple of cheeky ones.
I saw a lot of free jumps from him, but here it is.
LJ both committed with Kofur, and he recovered on the back wall
to dish it back over to first killer.
There you go.
First killer ends it off for them.
Rebellion moves on to Championship Sunday.
And they now have a date with Falcons.
First thing tomorrow.
Congratulations.
You beat the Ninjas of the Jammas.
You get to play the Falcons now.
Hey, they have momentum at the very least.
And we can see here, like, I've seen Ninjas had
lead more of a time but the offensive demos been coming out a lot for a lot of these teams
there's very tight race but rebellion to get a few more. Exactly and also rebellion if you're a
rebellion fan you're happy about them winning the kickoff battle against nip. They scored the
one lone kickoff at the whole entire series against Falcons come up tomorrow they're gonna have
to stay with that type of level because Falcons they really do dominate on the kickoff take
away a couple of them goals make them have to earn it. And now we look at the bracket and
the most important things we can still have it all and a final bates all right we can see rebelling
and energy run the gauntlet here and meeting the finals the elusive unicorn of rlcs it's never
happened in 10 years of us playing this why not boston why not what you're doing why not why is that
also american so i mean we'll see if nlg ends up beating carmen korb how much how american he
really is i think it's fascinating you look at that you look at our top six right now and
And if you were to ask someone preseason to seed the top six of the first major,
this is pretty close. I think to what they would have drawn up.
Maybe not with who's in the semifinals, new in the quarterfinals,
but carming core vitality, energy, Falcons, gentlemen, Shopify. Yeah.
Like that was, it's a pride.
We had a lot of interesting mixed ups with around the kickoff lane that first open.
We were still like, oh, we're gonna have some crazy different teams.
But when it finally came down for the rubber to hit the road at the most
important event of the season so far, it has been the teams we thought
were going to be on top. They're on top and more like level playing field.
You know, the teams like KC or NRG, where we're like,
oh, they're going to come in and dominate.
No, they're the ones struggling a bit, tripping in the beginning.
And the ceiling has lowered a bit, where all teams
are scrapping in the middle.
Yeah, it's been interesting because we saw in Europe
like a few people leave to go to the MENA region.
We're like, oh, maybe it'll be two MENA big dogs.
And that didn't happen, obviously.
So now, Europe's come down a bit.
And NA, obviously, has always had NRG.
But at first, it's popping off like this.
Who knows?
Maybe he can elevate back up.
We'll see.
He's still in the top six, as of right now.
The top four is usually where the difficulties show up
for the first-killer team.
So we'll see if they're able to make it through Falcons
tomorrow and get an opportunity to change that story.
But that top bracket, man.
And RG versus Carmine, the winner of that place, Vitality,
the winner of that goes on to the grand finals.
You come out of that bracket, especially
if you win it on that side of the bracket,
and there's no questions about whether you had a Mickey
run or not.
Like, that is a daunting side of the bracket,
but that's all three of those games.
Oh, it's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun tomorrow, though.
Every single match we saw today.
Every single match so close.
almost every single match was close there as well.
So tomorrow I'm hoping that game seven overtime final,
so long, so long.
Last time we've had that.
It's been a while.
Game seven overtime, but they might have been choosing it.
The finals are like four one, like almost always.
So hopefully we finally get one.
It's been, it has been a very long time.
It'd be fantastic to get there.
I mean, unfortunately, I feel like the way the trend goes
is if the quarter finals and semi-finals
and everything leading up to the grand finals,
or eight or close finals is great.
Blow out in the finals, so we'll see.
Yeah, it's it's a trend. It's not a rule of law. I mean maybe we get a day where it's just all
The seventh and it goes to distance all game seven sets
You got property, I'm really thinking about I think the last time we saw a game seven in the grand final
Was back when you have a double elimination back in the 21-22 season. I don't know if we've seen it since I'm really thinking about this art
We're bracket resets. I mean last time we were Boston. Yeah, we went to game seven
for sure in one of the bribery sets.
Did we go to game six?
I don't know.
That was a long time ago.
Here's the progress of that guy.
That doesn't help how things have evolved so far.
We'll stop quizzing ourselves.
Daniel's still sitting up on top of that striker run,
but Monkey Moon has now hanging up as a beast mode
has kind of fallen down a little bit in that playmaker.
And that's going to happen when the competition levels up,
then defense becomes a priority.
And we've seen it all today.
A lot of low scoring games, so a lot of people crept down.
Daniel was at 1.55, now down to 1.28,
and Monkey Moon didn't play, so he moves up
moves up to that number one spot.
For me, I'm looking at the savior spot.
For Zen, sitting at number one, but also Stizzy.
I cast that matchup.
And Stizzy has been like, I don't know what he's been doing
in the gym, putting work in on the defense,
because normally we're all thinking he's so aggressive,
but man, that guy can show up on the goal line.
Yeah, you bring up a big, big point about Stizzy.
Another one is clear as in the savior spot.
You never see him anywhere near that spot.
He's usually always in the striker position.
And usually it's this twin brother in the savior spot
that shows Falcons.
A lot of defense has been played for them.
That's Saviorless.
They're changed a lot.
We have all three GK, or all three general mates players
were in the middle of that.
And they're no longer there.
But you see that the two Vitality players.
And you should know, like the Falcons,
we were talking about it yesterday, when they got held
to six goals in five games by Feria,
they got held to seven goals in six games by Vitality.
Similar levels of domination of stopping
this incredible offense.
And you can see it's not them lacking on offense.
It's the defenses of other teams stepping up.
Yeah, exactly.
And team defense is a big factor on that list.
So mates gave up a little bit more goals today.
So they kind of dropped off the list for now.
But obviously we're doing this all year round.
So we'll see how it pans out after the World Championship.
Yeah, those awards are going to be given out a long time from now.
Here is the schedule for Championship Sunday, the Boston
Major.
We'll kick things off with the Falcons versus Shopify
Rebellion.
CarmenCore will take on energy immediately following that.
Then the gentlemates will play against Shopify Rebellion,
or the winner of Shopify Rebellion versus Falcons.
And Vitality will take on the winner of CarmenCore NRG.
When are those two go on to play for the title of Boston Major champion?
And how good is this?
Like if you were saying, oh, it's gonna be K-Corp versus energy on the final day, everyone's like, oh, it's the grand final.
Yeah. Right?
This is for top six.
Top, top six.
To make top four.
Yeah.
That's how good everyone is playing right now.
So tomorrow's gonna be great.
It's gonna be a fantastic day of broccoli.
I'm excited about it.
I hope you guys are excited about it as well, folks.
The door is open at 10 a.m.
Our pre-show will kick off at 10.30 with the kickoff at 11 a.m.
Falcon's gonna be on the pitch.
You're not gonna want to miss it, folks.
Thank you so much for watching.
We'll see you tomorrow for Championship Sunday.
Okay, the plumbers fixing that burst pipe should be all set.
Good thing you protected 24-7 with your home and auto bundle from Progressive.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to figure out the right caption to post about this.
Maybe something like a half-protection just need a lifeguard.
What about that emoji with a shocked face?
Or maybe flooded with emotion.
That's too much. Try, uh, Tuesdays are cray.
You know, technically, you don't have to post everything that happens online.
Technically, you don't have to post everything that happens online.
I totally believe you!
You like these meaningless little affirmation, am I right?
I
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I don't know about you
I
I can feel this time, choke my looking, I just wonder why
I'm buried in this suit I'd never buy, this suit I'd never buy
Cufflings on my wrist, I can't act surprised
When the shuttle's hit, turn to the left
You're best off to stop
Since I started acting, I've been looking for a case
For a test and let me be incomplete
I've been looking all around
There for everything you need
Just make me feel you
Bring it down
Cuffing some iris
I get a surprise
When the shovels hit dirt and earth
You can start to fight
I've been looking forward to make me be completely I've been looking all alone I've done for everything
To make me feel like I'm bringing back love