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Oh

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to first touch. It's

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Dazarin and Rollediz. No bass today, but listen, we got a party that's going to happen today

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for sure. But to start us off, we got NRG in the building, Beast Mode and Satu with

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us, gentlemen. Welcome to the show. Thank you for being on.

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Of course. Thank you for having me.

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It is. Listen, how are we feeling today, man? How are you doing?

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Doing good man. We got we got the Kings of North America

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They back on top and now they over here our first touch to give us a inside scoop on

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Hopefully it's not another one of these can't really tell you what what what what we have going on behind the scenes

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You know Matthew you better tell us something man. I didn't hear something

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It's on us it's on us

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Listen start by running us through this

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Paris open the split, so to speak, right? Of course, it's been, it hasn't been the

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cleanest year for you guys, but I mean, that's because you guys have made it so hard to have

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it be a clean year because you guys keep winning. That being said, you know, you, you miss

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out on a couple of finals, couple of regionals. What, what are the conversations like for

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you to kind of get ready for this event?

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Yeah, so, I mean, honestly, like you said, we saw her off pretty slow. I think definitely some motivational issues. Definitely some.

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Actual like strategic issues, just execution and practice issues, but.

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Realistically, too, the region did get better. I think the region consolidated. Well, I think we got some good players playing with each other that we didn't necessarily have in the 1st split. We didn't have the absolute best consolidation that we needed.

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So, you know, the level raised a bit. So, yeah, we kind of had to have a little bit of a lock in. We had to talk about kind of what we're doing quite a bit.

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We had some very key strategic changes, even on that, that like Thursday night before going into Friday.

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And yeah, we, I don't know, we just kind of, we put it together and kind of remembered a bit who we are and kind of brought back some.

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some things that made NRG NRG. So yeah.

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Okay. Okay. Uh, I mean, when you guys obviously go through, uh,

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you're preparing for, you know, the Paris major and the world championships.

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I mean, B-Smo for you, like, what is it like being in, you know,

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you're in a position where you're normally having these things kind of

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qualified very early,

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but having to go out and kind of like work for it again. I mean,

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what's your mindset when you get into that situation?

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Um, yeah, I mean, definitely, like, yeah, we're definitely used to obviously quantify

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for early after the, you know, second reason for sure, you know, going to third reason obviously

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adds a lot of pressure, but it also like, you know, keeps us motivated for sure.

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Um, definitely, you know, keeps that, um, yeah, just keeps that motivation and just,

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you know, it's obviously it's another challenge to go through with a team and,

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you know, obviously to prove everyone wrong and, um, them and that's, that's, uh,

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it's about it for that.

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That is about it for now.

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OK, so in terms of competition in the region right now,

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what do you think your toughest competition is coming from?

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Obviously, you know, Space Station gaming's been on the rise.

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Rebellion's changed up their style a bit.

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They look pretty good.

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Who's who's the toughest challenge for you?

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Yeah. Oh, sorry.

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You want to go?

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Yeah, sure. I mean, yeah, I'll go then you go.

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But no, I mean, I think shop, like you said,

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does has really stepped it up since first split.

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like they stylistically look completely different, which I'm like happy to see.

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I think internationally that'll work a lot better.

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But SSG kind of looked like they're old sales from last year, which is like a good thing for them,

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I think. I think they look comfortable with Scribbles. Foot obviously gave us some trouble

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throughout the split. I think we kind of have come around in knowing how to approach them,

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but we had a lot of respect for them coming into the split. So that's what I'm saying,

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they're all good. I think shop is still who I'm looking at as like the clear,

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I guess I'll say two, even though SSG had points on them, but that's kind of where I'm at.

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Yeah, I mean, I completely agree. I think, yeah, shop is definitely the clear second, but I mean,

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I think foot is definitely, I'm interested to see how they do on land, but I think they're a

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team that has their number definitely with their play style. I wouldn't say like,

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we're afraid or anything like that. I just think the way they play with,

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You know, I think they're very like defensive encounter attack heavy team.

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So like, um, they're really, they're, they're the team that, you know,

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the force, the most mistakes out of us, just the way they play and they're probably

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the most annoying to play out of everybody.

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But yeah, it's just, I'm excited to see this major with, with, especially

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with all the regionals, the regionals, the regions, uh, with how everybody

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look, it's just all over the place.

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And like, you know, and he's going to do, uh, I don't know, it's

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going to be, it's going to be interesting to see how I do it.

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The, the land for sure.

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You guys, we're sending our best for.

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Yeah, I think so.

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I think you can kind of make an argument for bird as I think we're sending the best for.

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Yeah, good.

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No, I was gonna say, I feel like that's like a lot of question because it's like, you, I feel like the answer is yes, role, but I feel like, but like, but people be lying that we, we

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And then our fourth place team goes out like.

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But that's what I'm saying.

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You can sit in the best four, but that's

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going to be the best four are going to do the, you know what

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I mean?

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No, but sometimes people would be like, yeah,

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we're sitting in our best four.

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They're just trying to be nice.

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And then the fourth place team just gets washed at the land

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and we're like, oh, was it really our best fourth?

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Or our fourth best?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like that one season, that first Boston,

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like did we truly send our best five then?

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No, that was definitely a case where we didn't.

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So it happens.

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But I think this time we did.

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I do think we did.

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I do respect Veritas,

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but I think Floyd showed really good things this split.

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Yeah, I agree.

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What's been the, I'll start with Matt,

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but I want both of your takes on this.

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What's been the hardest challenge

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for you guys this season?

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I think just keeping that drive up, honestly.

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I think it takes a lot.

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I mean, most teams, you know,

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blow it up after a year, honestly.

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Two years, it's guaranteed.

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three years that's like uncharted waters at this point.

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So it's kind of navigating kind of the issues

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that come along with the third year team.

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So motivations of thing, obviously,

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just the more you're with each other,

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like players and coach, it's like the more little things

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will pop up and just navigating all those,

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like those tiny, tiny little things,

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whether it's like, I don't like how you made this player.

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I don't like how you said that,

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like that stuff that doesn't necessarily exist,

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You know, when you're kind of in that honeymoon phase and early within a team, but so just kind of establishing, like, honestly, just very healthy culture and stuff has been the biggest thing.

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So, yeah, yeah, I mean, I can, I completely agree with that. I mean, uh, yeah, like, especially as all teams are getting better, uh, or that honeymoon phase, I would say it's much harder to have.

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You know, that drive and all these teams are, you know, are, you know, different. Like I said, have that honeymoon. So it's going to be harder for us. But.

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I think, yeah, just having that drive and just willing to work with each other and just

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realizing that we are still, I mean, I believe that we're still all three of the best in

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A, so we've got to prove it and just keep working together.

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And I think that's something that we obviously, especially after one of the worlds I've struggled

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with a bit, but just keep working on it and keep pushing with each other is what

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I would say.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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I'll go ahead.

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Yeah.

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And just like keeping that like humble like mentality as well, it's hard to, especially,

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you know, any teams don't win too much in like just historically, so to like come back

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to the region and keep our heads and be like, look, these guys are all still worth our respect.

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And we got to, you know, if we don't keep that mentality up, we're going to be in a

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lot of trouble.

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And you saw sports of that throughout the split.

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So yeah.

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That's fair.

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That's fair.

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That's fair. That's fair. I wanted to kind of go back to international here for a second. So

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like we said, we answered the question if you're sitting the best for, but

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where how do you feel about the strength of them in the international stage? It's going to be,

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you know, some new faces, R8 is going to be there. I want to get your thoughts on them a

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little later. And then, you know, you're still getting like, well, we'll see how the rest of

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Europe kind of qualifies throughout the weekend, but you're expecting, you know, hopefully the

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five best coming out of Europe. Uh, how do you feel like I like, I like that. You mentioned RA. I

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like that. I like that. I'm sure you do. I'm sure you do. But like, how do you feel about like, uh,

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the region stance in any international competition? There's so much to play for

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for every region. So I feel like it is going to be kind of a battle there in Paris.

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Yeah, I mean falcons not being there though is like kind of that that's a big

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Like almost nastric on the on the major because despite obviously r8 deserve their their place over them

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It's still falcons. It's still the twins. It's still drawly like it's gonna be weird to be at a major without them and like the modern like

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Rock of the Gara so

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I'm expecting

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Still like a very very high-level major, but it is gonna be weird without Falcons there honestly. Yeah

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So you think it's gonna be a little a little dip?

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I think

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He's he's he's disgusting that that whole roster guys. He's great. You know

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Yeah, they're they're a great roster

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It's just weird to not have Falcons on land like they show up at land consistently

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So that that's that's what I'm really trying to say. It's not that they deserve to be

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But yeah, I got you. I got you. Yeah

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I don't know. I don't know where we're gonna say like and he's gonna stand on a sleeve there

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I don't know. Is there a specific like team or a

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a matchup that you guys are like anticipating going into that major that you're like heavily set on

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preparing for it. I'd like you to guess which one would be for us. What matchup that would be?

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Vitality. Yeah. It's always got to be. Yeah. You guys always play that.

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And we don't have the greatest record against that core. So yeah, that's always going to be the

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the one for us, I think.

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OK, that's fair.

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You guys keep eyes on things around the world outside of like

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well, I guess it's like outside of North America.

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I know we talk about Mina, but, you know, you're a

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you have like a idea of what's going on over there.

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Yeah, we watch European replays together like as a team

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from time to time.

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We'll go over and see what kind of they're doing.

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Oh, see, after that, I feel like the rest of the team.

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I don't know, Mo, do you, do you really watch Sam or OCE or APEC at all?

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Not really.

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I mean, we watched a little bit of oceanic or ocean together.

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What does it look with the, with their matches, but yeah,

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we really don't keep up with anybody outside of like EU personally.

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So I'm a hunter fan at OCE.

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That's, that's, that's what I was a Bulldogs fan.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I was sad.

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They were close.

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They were close.

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I was rooting for them.

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Yeah.

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Okay, any

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Any early obviously we have a you open six happening this weekend any early predictions or who you think's gonna win?

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Think it's mates down top. Yeah. Yeah, I think may say I'm taught to use like I

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Don't know. They're all over the place as well. So like I don't I don't I don't see like the same what when I'm watching

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I don't see like the same

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Like instincts instincts that they're playing with I think they're all like they'd like like especially like karma

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I think they're playing a little different right now than what they're used to.

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Yeah, I agree.

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I mean, I don't even think general mates are playing that crazy.

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I just think they're the best team in the year right now.

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But I just think all reasons they're all over the place.

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So but yeah, I think general mates are probably just going to stay on top.

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OK, mates on top.

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I mean, did you get any more questions for him?

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I mean, just lastly, like where if you could rank the regions top to bottom,

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how would you rank them?

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like all. So just like their average strength or like peak strength or what do we think?

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Yeah, like like this average overall. So probably probably you won. Yeah.

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You think so? What? What do you think? I'm not thinking it and they want to right now. Yeah,

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I'm not going to lie to you. I just I every time we say that we're

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every time after placement is going to be like last year. We're body that lead so but

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I don't I don't hate that show. It's just I I mean, maybe I see it. Yeah, I kind of want to say we're actually the worst region

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So maybe that'll you know, gas it

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We need to get something going but I would play you one I understand that

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Yeah, I don't like it and then what I guess so after because then I'd be like Mina

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After like you and I and then Sam maybe

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Yeah, probably Sam although they look all right too. How does it? Yeah, you guys know I am my BR looks having

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I haven't watched my Sam. I don't know. I mean they won one of the regionals. Yeah, they did

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Yeah, they're pretty close to like struffle furia. Yeah, it's pretty even over there. So yeah, I'd probably say Sam

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Yeah, and then

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Oce because I think wild card definitely are a good representative to send. I think it's a better representative than power to send and then

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Probably a pack and then SSA. I think I agree. Yeah

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Yeah, that's not bad. Yes. Um, that's how you, uh, I'll just scrolling through my IG

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and I saw you commenting on one of Ray's bulls a little more time.

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It's the algorithms weird. Sometimes I just find they get a race bull like real for

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like, listen, he's looking clean. He's looking clean. It might be hard to look clean.

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So yeah, we respect them. We respect them. Yeah. Yeah. They have their final open

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same as their final in season open this weekend. And, um, that, well, we'll see how they do.

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Maybe in my BR, take the win, take the onesie for Sam going into it, shake up things, but

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right now fears looked really solid as well. So it'll definitely be very interesting to see

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how things go. But, um, before I let you go, what I do something that we don't normally do,

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beast mode, I've got a play from the last open in the grand finals where you guys play

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Letting a space station gaming. It was game five SSG had a good lead on you guys.

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But you guys had a great playoff.

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The kickoff on it went up. I think four three to tie it back up.

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Do you mind walking us through that play with a little tell us for your segment?

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No, no, let's get into it. All right, let's go whenever you're ready.

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All right. So yeah, I think to start off this, this, you know,

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this game, it wasn't obviously going well.

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We were down three one and then they, we scored one and then they scored another.

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So yeah, down 4-2 basically, but a nice little comeback.

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But I will say, I don't think people

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realize how important the kickoff is.

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I was saying this play.

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I think Sathie's the one who used to cover kickoff.

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So we actually went for basically lose the ball

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onto our side, and the cheater kind of cheats

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and gambles where the ball is.

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So I'll play it for just a second.

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So ball is it right there?

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Oh, let me restart that.

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Sorry.

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How you going?

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So like right there, you see that Tomo's car is point like that way

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so I can lose it and then I'm treated hard.

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So just be ready for the play in general.

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Just be ready for what's to come.

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And so basically, I just go for the ball.

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I get a nice little demo, which clears up the space.

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Dan gets a nice little hit to the wall, which obviously,

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since that kickoff happened, we have a lot of pressure

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and a lot of, you know, a lot of momentum.

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Nice little pass here from Dan on the wall.

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Actually, I will pause that right there.

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Actually, can I go back at all?

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Do I have to restart it to go back?

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There we go, there we go, right there, perfect.

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Thank you, thank you.

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So yeah, Tom did pre-jump it,

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but he obviously did go a little bit too forward.

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So he kind of improvised here.

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He like, he turned his car back.

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And honestly, like it was,

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I'll play it for just a second and pause it.

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Like he, like he honestly passed it, not right, right in the middle.

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Like I think it's always like his passes and his playmaking is insane.

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Like if not the best in the world.

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So like this was a crazy pass because he did like, if he hits it right here to

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the middle, you'll see that reveal is going here into them, like into the,

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uh, into the ball, but he can't reach it.

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So because of the way the timeline passes and then, um, like that reveal

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went through the, went for the ball, but he can't reach it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, and so since obviously atomic passes this way

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I had to like shoot it weird and then I should I like I'd you know hit with my the back of my card and it's perfect

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Speed for

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Diaz not to get it. So yeah, it was a very unique and obviously orthodox like play is it's not like I

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Would definitely say like the way the play went is not like the normal play were used to so it was definitely weird and

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Yeah, really really good play overall to kind of you know, keep the momentum pushing and and yeah tie the game up

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the adjustment. Atomic Maid was insane, but like how quick was the calm for him to go from

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like maybe you anticipating him taking a shot to him saying I'm passing? Like how quick

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was it communicated? It was like it was super quick to be honest. Like, I mean, basically

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as soon as Dan hit the ball, like right there, like soon as Dan hit the ball, like

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he was ready for it. And Tom is like so good about that too. Like at Worlds, I

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remember like, like he called like he called passing players like I literally like

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five to like seven seconds really happened like he's just very good at

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seeing the play so yeah yeah but he called it as soon as like a day hit the

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ball which is honestly pretty that's insane pretty insane yeah so yeah very

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smart man and then you're like listening to the comms as obviously

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things go on you call the play are you kind of like expecting what you end up

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like seeing on the screen as you're like listening through like is that you

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know that I'm not gonna say that how you draw it up but it's like when

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these plays happen like how like what is it like just like watching it in real

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time? I mean majority of the game yes it's like that's how like our general

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play looks is like what I'm expecting now sometimes you know when when things get

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desperate and we kind of need some magic like no I'm never gonna say I drew

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up what just what we just like that's crazy that's that's individual

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brilliance and that's just something that is a result I think of us you

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you know, playing the way we are through a majority of the game and maybe the confidence

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we build through playing that way, but no, specifically with that, I mean, that's just

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that's that's the flair that, you know, the players are allowed in our system from time

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to time. So, um, yeah, they showed up and did their thing and then for me, uh, you

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guys pull off plays like this time and time again. It's not the first time you've

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done it. And then there's been more times where it's been in the clutch moments

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where you need to score, you know, like zero seconds or final few seconds.

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When you when you guys get a goal like that,

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is the energy like a big, huge momentum boost?

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Or do you try to like keep everybody like locked in in the moment?

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Now, like the emotions get too high.

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Like what's the vibe here?

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I'm definitely screaming with them when it goes in.

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But then after that, you know, it's it's it's very much calm down.

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Let's think about this kickoff.

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Let's if there's anything we need to say real quick, let's say it.

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But we try to keep our heads, yeah, it's like, um, is that the message between both?

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Like, you're like, if you watch our concert, is that all you can hear?

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Scream is like, like, yeah, let's go.

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And then like, like, we make this joke.

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Sometimes it's happy where he's like, where he's like, lock in, lock in.

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That's what he does.

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Yeah.

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He says lock in and keeps like, yeah, he keeps us in check.

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But it's a message both for sure.

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Okay.

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I like it.

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I like it.

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Listen, guys, thank you so much for taking the time to, you know,

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come on first touch, give us a little insight into what you guys are doing.

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And then, of course, if we don't talk to you before Paris, you know,

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we want to wish you the best of luck. So thank you guys. Good luck.

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Of course. Thank you.

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Appreciate it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, that was NRG

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Beastmelt and Sathu coming on the show to again, give us a little bit

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of insight, what is I mean?

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Things are going to be hard, man.

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Great guys.

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They look well prepared.

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And I mean, even looking at that last play,

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just to hear a little bit of the insight of what goes behind,

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like how quick these pro players just react to the moment.

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Because anybody else in that moment,

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you expect them to take a shot.

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Just to know that Atomic was three steps ahead

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and telling his teammates that I'm passing this ball

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so Beastmo could be ready for the shot, that's insane,

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man.

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Not a lot of people are doing that.

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That's what makes NRG the best.

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That's what makes NRNG the best, so again, we thank them and wish them good luck, but it's time

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to bring in the rest of the panel. Listen, we've got some quality guests with us here today. We've

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got Achieves, Shogun, and Wavy here to join us. Gentlemen, this is quite the cast. Welcome on the

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show. Bro, say five to seven seconds ahead. What? Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. I can't lie.

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I wish. Oh my gosh. It was crazy. It was crazy. Let's get it. Let's talk about it. NRG back

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on top. They take open six as we go through and look at the NRG versus SSG highlights.

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Shogan, listen, you do watch parties and you watch everything. I've been, I've been

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in them. I've seen them. What, what, what is it like?

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Which we are working off the time, which is very way to see.

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Yeah. That is, that is true. I'll definitely be in your chat watching, but I'm not on

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Well, yeah, all the time. But like, when you, when you see like, uh, you cover, of course

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Europe mostly, but when you take the time to watch like North America, Rockley, what

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comes to mind is we take a look at these highlights.

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Long OTs, a lot of long OTs. One team. Yeah. It's just always, how long of OTs did these

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guys play throughout the weekend? It was like, we're going to hit them with a nine

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minute and then all know we're going to hit them. The Razzle Dazzle, a 12 minute

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OT, but energy. I mean, they are so good at maintaining momentum. They don't let it sort

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of rattle them. You get so many teams as well. Achieves that they play those games and then

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they just look so flat the next series up and I just, yep, fine. Yeah, we did that.

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And then we're going to go again and grind you down, man. It's a brutal thing. And

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that's exactly what happened in space station. You know, they came in with all that momentum

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after beating foot into the dirt. And then they just ran straight into the brick

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wall of energy. They just didn't let them get anything done. And it was gotta had

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to have been a really demoralizing series for SSG to feel like, ah, we found the answer.

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We'll go into Paris looking great. And then you just can't absolutely stomped out stuff.

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I mean, go back to the grand finals, wavy. Of course, you on Virtus pro got a chance to

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play both of these teams. Virtus, you played SSG on Saturday, you play NRG on Sunday.

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What are these teams kind of bringing to the table that makes it kind of difficult

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for the play against?

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I'd say SSG, the way their playstyle works is like if you're not feeling it individually,

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they will just dominate you so incredibly bad. That's probably because of how like aggressive

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they play. They always have like one guy chasing a demo. So if you're not, if the guy on the

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ball, your first man isn't getting good challenges and like beating their player on the ball,

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it becomes immediately impossible for like the rest of your team to play the game

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because the people behind that challenge are kind of getting chased around. So even

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even if you dodge the demo, you're out of position,

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can't make a good play on the ball.

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So ultimately, they're just a super mechanical

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individual like powerhouse team.

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And I think that's also why NRG can match them well

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because it like realistically just three of the,

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probably three of the four,

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maybe three of the three best players

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in the region individually.

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So they can actually match the pace

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that SG try to play at.

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And with their like chem, their abilities,

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I think that's ultimately why they can end up

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winning the regionals,

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even when SG is playing good ball.

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I like that.

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Do you think it comes from them just being together so long?

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Yeah, part of it definitely is like,

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you're kind of on another level with like,

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figuring out what each other does.

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Like, realistically, that team has too much experience

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together, they probably don't need to come

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to like, know what's gonna happen.

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But I also think it's up to how good they are

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individually.

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Like I said about how SG plays,

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you really need to be playing well individually

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or at least have a base skill level

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if you want to have a chance at beating them.

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And that is fair.

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That is fair.

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It is.

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I mean, what are you thinking, man?

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I'm not going to let you be silent over here.

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Well, what is there to say that these men haven't said

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already, like the energy did look like they.

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It doesn't even, it looks like an outclass,

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but not like to a supreme level.

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Like it looks like SSG can still compete at the top.

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These other teams are still competing against NRG,

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And it's hard for NRG to stomp them out.

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The OTs say it themselves.

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It's hard for NRG to just stomp these teams out,

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which is something that I'm kind of getting annoyed by.

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I'm like, well, when are you going to win by like five?

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When are you going to just start dominating North America?

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Because you are the best, like Wally said, three of the four

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or three of the three best players in the region.

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And you've been playing together for so long.

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But I mean, it's a testament to these other teams

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that are practicing just as hard as NRG

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and are improving at a fantastic rate.

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So.

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Yeah, I think NRG statistically,

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fourth in goals to with two goals per game, 2.9 or 2.09.

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One is shots with 11.51.

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What's their goals against?

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Their second end goals against were 1.57 and then one in shots against with 7.57 and then

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number four in demos with 5.51.

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So I'm getting these from Direc by the way.

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Direc said something that's interesting to him is despite NRG's massive amount of

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OTs, they were somehow seventh in score per game as a team.

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Also despite the 44 minutes of OTs, they led the event in shots against.

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They had really strong offensive in midfield.

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If just about every other team had spent that much time in OT,

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they would have had far more shots against as well as a much higher

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score per game. And that was because they played for years.

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Oh, boy, here in play, but the foot just sits in the net, bro.

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Kumbaya, that's what happened.

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There it is. There it is.

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I mean, OK, well, let's kind of talk about the rest of the teams.

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Jesse, can you give me the open six bracket?

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And then we can talk about the pairs points right after just kind of diving in.

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This was the open six bracket.

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If you ended up missing it, of course, you there was that big race between foot

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inverters, wavy.

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I apologize.

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This is my first segment is going to be a little painful, but of course,

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you had to race there foot ended up making it to the top four.

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They lost out to SSG, wavy.

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I mean, can you give me a little bit of insight on your mindset going

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into this weekend?

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I mean, realistically, for us to make Paris,

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we needed to win the regional.

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And then after that, probably a tiebreaker.

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So we're kind of just going, there's

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ground to gameplay the best we can individually.

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Our mindset was more on worlds going into this last regional.

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I guess my point is we can make it as hard as possible

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for Futter to reach us.

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And then if we end up going all the way

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winning the regional or getting into the Grands,

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that's when we can start thinking about Paris.

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If you start thinking about having to win the regional that would put a lot of pressure on the team and I think not having that pressure would allow the team to perform play better and especially when it's like.

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You can't always you can't just say like, yo, it's where is it like it's not easy.

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Every region expecting.

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like, expecting, we always have the confidence that we can do it.

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But if you really like, if you set that as an expectation, you're going to

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struggle a lot more than you think you would.

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Because realistically, all of at age, I'd say like top six to like top eight

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teams are all like insane and probably capable of beating almost anybody else

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in the region.

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That's fair.

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That is fair.

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Okay.

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Now, now that we have our top four, I want us to rank our top four.

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We have rebellion seed as third in a for Paris major, but of course, uh, SSG is second seed.

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So, do you feel that way? Or do you think that that order should be kind of changed a little bit?

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Um, I would put Shopify, uh, second at the moment. It's, they're just looking too good

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when they're actually on. I think they're only getting losses to the teams, uh, at the moment.

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So, yeah, yeah, energy, first, Shopify, second, SG, third, and then foot, fourth. I think

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that's a pretty easy look in.

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This is reasonable.

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What? Any objections?

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It's unreasonable.

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Yeah. Go on. Reject the chiefs and tell you there's nothing unreasonable.

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It's it's a yes.

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That's pretty much exactly how I thought about it, too.

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It's like Shopify's challenged the best team in our G most consistently.

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So they get two, I think by default.

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And you know, SSG get three by nature of beating foot.

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It's like, I mean, SSG got bounced out in the last major in the group stage when they

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had chronic.

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So, you know, you make a big swap, you have a pretty good split.

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But right before the major, you run into the major team in North America and you can't make

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anything happen.

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So how much can you really expect out of SSG of this major?

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Not too sure.

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I guess they have some time.

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Foot I think feels far more ready because there's, you know, veteran presence, you

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know, cheese has yet to make a top eight in a live event, but at the same time, I mean,

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he has a world champion and a major champion on his team now. So what's the, the, I think

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the major team, but since they lost the SSG, you can't put them above them. So I guess they

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get the number one team in the region. Yeah. Fourth. I, it's, this is, uh, wait, I don't

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know how you feel about it. This just been the most difficult season we've ever

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had to rate these teams.

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I go, you mean, I think this is probably the first season when North America seen more depth than like a couple of good teams

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I do agree with your ranking. I think energy is I think energy one shop to sg3 and foot four

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I think I think probably everybody has it that way, but like I said like a little bit ago

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I think

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Realistically so many tears North American can beat each other that we'll see matches where like foot sweeps energy

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But then we still have them at fourth because more consistently that won't happen

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But it can happen because I think every team has gone through at least like a very high base skill level to where they can beat anybody else on really any given day.

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Interesting. Interesting. I want to I want to go more in depth with rebellion and then we'll talk about foot.

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You how do we feel obviously rebellions big kind of surging.

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They've been playing a lot closer to energy. But I do think rebellion never beat energy this season. Right.

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Let's let's check. Yeah, I think I'm really wrong with that.

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First of all, he check fires, right?

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First of all, normally can get away on an RG in a season,

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but I don't think he was able to do so this time around.

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Can we load up the energy rebellion highlights

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while we get this one going?

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The last time Shopify rebellion beat any in our G

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twenty twenty four RLCS major two in a qualifier.

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That's how it occurs.

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Yeah, so I've been a very different shop by rebellion.

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It's very different.

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I was on that.

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Can you see it?

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Oh, is that is that hidden from my is that is that part?

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Is that the first one?

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That's the part two piece Justin.

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Yeah. Oh, so Justin's the guy that beats energy.

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That's what we know.

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There was ever a guy to do it.

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True. Yeah.

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That being said, though, rebellion, I mean, they've looked pretty informed.

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They didn't lead in any categories as a team, but they were solid overall. They were two in goals per game

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With 2.5 3 they were 15 shots with

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9.75

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Two in assists with two per game three and shooting with 25 26 percent shooting

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Or in goals against with 1.6 and in five and demos with five a game

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So I mean pretty solid overall stats

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But I mean, I think it's the change in play achieves that I really I think a lot of people are really seeing in rebellion

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How again their their approach looks more team-oriented and I feel like a lot of people think that that makes them ready for international

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Competition do you agree it has to I mean you got to find a way to win because if what you're doing isn't working

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What's what's in our G's thing all the team work stuff?

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So Shopify says fine. We got to take a page out of the book Kofa continues to develop nicely at the top level

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I mean, he's got two of the best teammates that you're going to find in North America at this point.

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And that's big for a younger guy like Kofur.

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So I mean, first killer and LJ still continuing to find their stride, you know, when they have initially made the roster,

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it's like, Hey, if there's a team to contend with NRG, it's probably going to be those two low and bold.

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Here they are. And the young kids only getting better.

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So it'll be a process, but they're in good shape.

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I think you feel the same way.

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going to repeat the question or was actually dumped out by that 11 minute OT rebellion

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already for international competencies. Are they ready for parents? Yeah. Yeah. I think

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I also I can see them making a big run. They've looked kind of insane. Sometimes in scrims

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like teams have been talking about it. They look you just like run around other teams

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like they can look you to do whatever and they're just feeling it mechanically and

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individually so they can just like perform insanely well. And I think the style they've

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like implemented the split allowed for like their individual abilities to like actually

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matter more in terms of making goals happen. So I think because of that, they'll be able

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to perform better internationally. I can even see them like winning a lucky hole. I was going

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to ask you, what do you think their peak is for Paris? So you think that is that peak

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to win? I think if everything is going to happen, I could actually see them winning

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at all. I think they I do think they have that ceiling. Oh, shit, there is. I got

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to get your thoughts on it. I mean they might have the ceiling but they'd have to duck some

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some teams for sure. Like they definitely have to duck NRG. I think I prefer to play NRG versus a

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few years but either way you would rather than play NRG to like familiarity. I think it's pretty

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good. They know they can play a good series versus NRG. I'm not as confident in Shopify

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against you but what can I say. I can see them getting like aura blasted by major KC.

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I can say that.

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Terrible.

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Name tag difference is real, dude.

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I mean, yeah, Vati has had a strong history against FK, so.

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Yeah, you haven't even talked about Twisted Minds being that one as well.

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And like the best player in the world.

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You're a better runner than Twisted Minds?

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Yeah, I don't know.

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It's kind of tough right now.

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There's a lot of strong teams in the world.

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There are a lot of strong teams in the world, definitely for sure.

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Okay. So.

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Pete, did you think in what it has to be depends on the bracket?

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I for sure it depends on the brand.

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I got I think after at their peak, I got a top four peak.

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I just think there's a lot of strong teams heading into the major.

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I rate twisted minds.

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Highly I rate and of course, energy is highly gentleman's highly like that.

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That's three teams already like that's three strong teams.

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if Topify has to play against them, they're going to have some like heavy trouble. Yeah,

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it's going to be heavy trouble against them. So I think top four peak.

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No, I mean,

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two, I'll give them top two. I'll give them top two. But I can't win it.

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That'd be the most Mickey bracket for that to happen. I'm sorry.

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I need my European voice. No, they're not. They're playing good at the moment. There's

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too much that they're going to be taking on, you know, Titan team after Titan team. I can't

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see this team going on a run. Well, let's say, for example, they've got to play twisted

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minds on it for the first round for the round of six. Then you run into KC. They

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might run as an energy at some point and then into German. They're not winning those

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matches back to back. I'm sorry. They might get one. They might get two. They're

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not getting the whole way. So time, don't say bounce. If you get ninjas and pyjamas,

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maybe. Oh my god, brutal, brutal. We'll have to see those groups. Yeah, that's the

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I think that's the worst thing that I actually got down that makes me so sad.

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We've got our way. I need to see the analysis for it because that's really hard. It's like,

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okay, just read the rules. I have no idea what this means when I'm reading it. I don't

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know who's where and for what group.

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Okay, so what should the expectations be? I think they should just go and have some

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fun.

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No, expectation expectation is top eight. That's the

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Sunday they need to be high eight. I feel like that's too low for them. No, that's

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I think Sunday is the better for them. I think better better be there and stop it.

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But I think I think their goal is definitely like at least top six or top four.

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I mean, this is first killer we're talking about, right?

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Yeah. If we know there's any place that the French struggle to perform it is in France.

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So maybe they sneak what through the crowd. A lot of people are banking on right now. Yeah.

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Except for wavy wavy is not banking on foot using that to their advantage. And we got

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to talk about it right now. Okay. Let's dive into it. How far do you think foot goes

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But it currently 14 points.

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We made the conversation about rebellion.

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OK, maybe they win.

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Maybe top two men topic.

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Can we get the world's points so we can see the situation here?

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Virtus are at forty six foot is at thirty two.

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Like I said, 14 point gap.

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I think for them to pass, they would have to make what finals or top?

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You know, you talk, they need top two.

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We've done the math.

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The OK, they need to go.

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No, they just need to be

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The reason why they're 32 is it's including the four guarantee

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They're 28 going into the major we have got to stop doing this

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Rage me I've been I've been staring at that for a little bit

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They need top two. He said they need top two. Yeah, they need top two. What part of the

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tournament would you have to get to before you start going, Oh, you start leaning for

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going, wait a minute. All right. Could somebody actually eliminate these guys already? If

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they go to top six, I'll start sweating. But before they are not worried, I'm not worried.

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Like I really simply think that team is definitely going to get top eight. I would not be

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shocked if they pull that if they start getting further than I will start getting nervous.

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I don't know what to say.

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Oh man, this is all you need to know the groups because if they're in a group and they win

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like if they're in a group they can win, then Wavy's nervous.

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Yeah, if you've not already put some talk tops in a good draw, yeah, all right.

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But at the same time, I don't know, like, who are they realistically beating in a group

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stage?

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Yeah, I know what I need for the show. So they're gonna hit like an EU number water

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a twisted mind. Yeah, I guess I'm tough calm. Yeah, chances are they're gonna have to like

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peak or play really well in order to be one heck of a group stage. That's actually the

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biggest difference I thought for between SSG and foot is like SSG gets the benefit

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of seed and foot is definitely not benefiting from that. I don't feel like.

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Oh man expert expert is never mind actually I'm not I'm not gonna say he's he I thought

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he he's he's he might have low key almost leaps up to tell me but I'm not gonna go on

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the stage. Okay. Let's do a proposal here. Let's say they're in a group with OCE and

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an EU one and EU four. I think that's horrible. No, I don't like it. No, I think I get

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out. I think you won Andy for both wins. Well, the thing is, you only need top three

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in the group to make it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Top three. Yeah. But I mean, it's possible

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at some point, but in the group. Yeah. I'm kind of good at the moment. I that's not

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a free reaction. I think they make it out of here. Five conference in this four. I

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think they're good. That's the last time. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. I'm just saying

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Last time wild card was out of land and may top six.

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He's got to make it easy.

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And if you're a if what is in a group with any OCE,

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cheese is going to be hungry.

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He wants top eight one time.

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You got to make something that you got to make.

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You got you got you got a world champ and a major champ on your team.

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You got to make something you got.

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You got to be OCE.

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You cannot.

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If they lose the OCE, that stock is tanked.

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It's shocked.

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I mean, we'll see. I mean, surely we'll know by the end of the weekend for sure. It'll be

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interesting to see once we kind of get that through. Let's talk about OC for a little bit.

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Wildcard, when OC open six, they're going to Paris. They're out of a Frenchman. Is

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this a good thing? This is the best. OC is by far the most entertaining region in

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all of rocket league right now. This has been so much front fund rather split one spot,

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three teams. This is the first time we've ever had winning in for a major spot. And

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we got bulldogs gives power going all the way to seven, then power gets wild card going

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to six. It has been a ridiculous and is absurd that the time that we have taken away the

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second spot mostly is the time that they've got the most depth that they've ever had.

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actually traded back and forth on the victories. But wildcards, they deserved that spot. They

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were unbelievable throughout the entire weekend. It really did not look like it was going to

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be anyone else's spot. Torsos might be one of the fastest players in the entire region

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right now. He is just operation full send.

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I was looking good. Wildcard looking good. The back achieves. I mean, it could,

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could be something dangerous. Can we take a look at the world's points? Oh, this. Yeah.

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This is an interesting. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So is there, is there one fully aware of what's

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going on with this? Because right now OCE does have an LCQ spot. If now was what way

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we pointed out to us earlier. Now we are fully aware of that is the points updated.

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So power and wildcard are completely, if wildcard are eliminated last place from groups,

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We have a tie break between power and wild cards that we need to sort out. If wild card

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can win a single match or get their way through, I should say, then they will take the spot.

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And then power go from the biggest wild card haters to the biggest wild card lovers because

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they need that LCQ spot and very likely they need wild card to get at least 12 maybe

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top eight. You've got to outperform South America.

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That's the benefit that for wildcard is that it's based on averages and they are one team

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versus South America having two teams. So there's a bit of a problem with it though.

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Okay. Is if South America, because South America are down by I think one round if I was to

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break it down to to full bar stacks. If South America could catch them. So let's

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say South America out, uh, 15, 16, that sort of range. Then second round OCR out and then

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beyond that, uh, and then never answer top six of speak for, uh, South America. If they

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are tied South American OC, it goes down to who, which region had the biggest peak? You've

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got two teams placement. Yeah. The highest placement. And that would very likely go South

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America. If they were to catch up. So they need it. They do not need a tie. They

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They need to outright win that spot.

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Oh, that changes things.

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It's horrible.

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That changes things a lot.

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That makes it really interesting for for OC and for Sam

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at the same time, Sam's going to want that extra spot.

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Because we can reasonably assume that fury would make, you know.

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We did.

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in Boston, I don't know.

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I might have.

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I might have considered 13 through 16.

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Pat, I'm lost.

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They're good.

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I don't know.

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I'm sad in Boston.

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I could see them losing 13 through 16, but I can also see them making around.

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I think they are really like a I think they're a good team,

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but I also think they can still lose realistically like any team.

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I don't know what the group should look like.

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I think if they, I don't see them losing to a packer, I should say,

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but I think it was legally to lose a ball against any other region.

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No hate to a packer, I should say.

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I hate one of these Sam teams out last place, at least one of them.

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If that doesn't happen, then they're in big, big trouble.

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Fair, fair.

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Another another team that's also having their own similar kind of race is Mina.

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Who's the best team in Meena right now?

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We had that one.

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We had one there.

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It's it.

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It's Twisted Mines the best team in Meena.

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Let's take a look here because Twisted Mines had taken open six and I want to bring up

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a particular matchup, not their finals matchup, but their matchup versus Falcons.

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It was a must win series for Falcons because Falcons needed to beat them and I think

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go on and win the regional event if they wanted to retain it, like get their spot to Paris.

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I want that for a tiebreaker. They needed to win over a tiebreaker.

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Yeah, that's when it all them on the rematch and yeah, no, they didn't do that.

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Let's let's look at the highlights.

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There is thought to be about twisting my ways.

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The this team you can't sleep.

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But I hope every top EU, NA, the major contending teams

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are watching this region, bro,

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because this region is, they need business,

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but these, but they got like five, maybe even six teams

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that are actually like battling each other

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and is no slouch, even like Twisted Minds

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going up against like, Astalians or Daws.

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It might seem like it's a sweep or a stomp,

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but the games are close.

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and I mean, when they go up against each other,

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it's even closer, like it's just so back and forth

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in this region.

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I am so worried if I'm a top team about this boy and Wipo,

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he is disgusting, especially when you got monkey,

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bro, the monkey moon midfield allows this kid

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to do whatever he wants.

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It's actually insane.

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And like if that kid just comes in performing

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at 90% capacity with this roster,

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like TRK looks like the guy who's like lacking a little bit

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and he's just not lacking at all.

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But like he looks like the guy who's,

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who doesn't show up.

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Who's kind of invisible.

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When TRK is the one not showing up, you're in good shape.

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That's what I'm saying.

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Like this region is disgusting, bro.

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If you're not watching me now,

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I don't know what you're doing to be honest, man.

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Like you got to watch this region.

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It's not fair.

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Yeah, I was going to say,

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I feel like you got something to say here.

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It's just not fair, dude.

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I mean, it's so annoying as a long time North American car soccer

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enjoyer to watch Mina over the course of two seasons.

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Basically just say, yeah, we're probably the second best region.

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And it's just a matter of time until we take all of North America spots.

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Oh, they're good, dude.

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Well, I can't they've built a system over there for how to pump out good talent.

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And I think it speaks to the fact of that because

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They're only accepting the best of, you know, EU players to come and play out in their region, right?

01:00:30.580 --> 01:00:33.740
It's like initially they're like, Rize, you can try it out and Rize didn't work out.

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They axed immediately.

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Then they say, let's bring in world champions, Monkey Moon and Jiralee.

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And the only one not fighting for it is Jiralee.

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It's like, they don't want good people coming into their region and playing with

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them.

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Hey, if you Bungs, get out.

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Like they're good.

01:00:50.020 --> 01:00:56.780
good. But then also keeping it like endemic as well. You talk about the R A team, you

01:00:56.780 --> 01:01:04.540
know, no, no, no imports in that aspect. And then again, with this Falcons team, a lot of

01:01:04.540 --> 01:01:10.980
questions because sure, you're right, achieves. They do say that they want the best, but

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sometimes money can't buy you a championship. I'll see you that that Falcons spent all

01:01:17.620 --> 01:01:21.580
the money in the world on everybody for EWC. They want to and around.

01:01:22.580 --> 01:01:25.620
I mean, listen, they do get the WCs.

01:01:25.620 --> 01:01:28.120
I'll give them that rock league.

01:01:28.120 --> 01:01:29.380
I feel like it's a different game.

01:01:29.380 --> 01:01:32.120
I don't know what you attributed to wavy for Falcons.

01:01:32.720 --> 01:01:35.080
The lack of success.

01:01:35.080 --> 01:01:39.120
Um, I would most likely bet that it's more chemistry thing

01:01:39.120 --> 01:01:41.520
and like a playstyle thing that they can't work out.

01:01:41.820 --> 01:01:44.780
But individually, I mean, look at the players, they're probably

01:01:44.780 --> 01:01:49.420
even without like a mechanical and said mean is in Mina they probably are like

01:01:49.420 --> 01:01:53.300
three of the five best players individually I think realistically outside of

01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:57.620
Nuba like they're probably the three best players even including him they might be

01:01:57.620 --> 01:02:02.000
so I think with that information I kind of pass them something stylistically

01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:06.140
placed on wise maybe their chem doesn't link up as well maybe Jolly

01:02:06.140 --> 01:02:09.820
doesn't fit in as well as they hoped it's really hard to say if you're not

01:02:09.820 --> 01:02:14.540
on the team itself but I think it really it can't be an individual thing

01:02:14.540 --> 01:02:16.860
with how good the players are. It just can't be. It has to be something

01:02:16.860 --> 01:02:21.420
stylistically has to do with the team. Can the players have something on that end?

01:02:24.140 --> 01:02:31.340
I feel like a lot of people could agree with that. Now Falcons not in Paris and now

01:02:32.460 --> 01:02:35.820
it's R8. It's our question. I mean, we're asking this question for a lot of people. We asked

01:02:35.820 --> 01:02:46.540
for her for we're very restful for our eight their peak how far DCM days realistic and I'm being

01:02:46.540 --> 01:02:51.900
realistic I rate this team so highly I genuinely think that they're a dark horse going into the

01:02:51.900 --> 01:02:59.340
major and if you're not paying attention to the I'm so serious I'm so serious when I talk about

01:02:59.340 --> 01:03:06.060
R8 man. You got, you got Ghazi to grade. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. We can't always

01:03:06.060 --> 01:03:12.780
nickname for these boys. We got the great Ghazi. We got Muhammad the Truth and Abdullah the Rula.

01:03:13.340 --> 01:03:19.180
I'm telling you bro, they love it. R8 team is different man. I got the peak, peak.

01:03:20.940 --> 01:03:24.460
I'm gonna have to go top four, man. I'm gonna have to go top four, peak.

01:03:24.460 --> 01:03:31.460
I thought you're going to say when I thought you were going to be delusional. I think they

01:03:31.460 --> 01:03:39.460
need a tournament just to get you to it. And then they're a threat to all of this because

01:03:39.460 --> 01:03:42.960
they've taken a little bit of time to get used to online play. They are now dominating online

01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:46.160
play outside of twisted minds, giving them a little bit of time on land. They're going

01:03:46.160 --> 01:03:50.680
to be doing the exact same thing. This is not, this is not just a all Falcons aren't

01:03:50.680 --> 01:03:57.440
playing very well, sort of inclusion. This is an incredible squad of new talent that people

01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:00.680
need to be afraid of. If they just look at this and go, oh, not Falcons. All good. We're

01:04:00.680 --> 01:04:07.640
going to be fine. You're in big trouble. Hmm. Okay. I like it. And then of course, if they

01:04:07.640 --> 01:04:11.920
do peak top four Falcons still retain their world spot and fat, we'll see Falcons at

01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:20.040
the world championship. And then all right would most likely get the L CQ spot. And

01:04:20.040 --> 01:04:22.800
then we would see them still at the world, excuse me, at the world championship.

01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:26.040
Wait, so if they're top four, then what's twisted minds peak?

01:04:26.720 --> 01:04:30.320
When the wind, yes, very much when.

01:04:30.680 --> 01:04:34.920
OK. OK, they got bounced out in Boston.

01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.600
See, I had them as my dark horse for Boston.

01:04:37.600 --> 01:04:38.760
They just got bounced out in groups.

01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:41.200
And I was like, no, I was crushed.

01:04:41.200 --> 01:04:43.720
So I'm glad to see them rally here and take number one.

01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:46.880
Yeah. And with an easier chance to come out of groups as well,

01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:56.800
It feels like this could be definitely a bigger run for Mina this time around in Paris.

01:04:56.800 --> 01:05:01.280
Okay, so that's Mina, but let's move on to Europe.

01:05:01.280 --> 01:05:05.360
EU Open 6 is this weekend.

01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:08.280
Who do you guys have making Paris?

01:05:08.280 --> 01:05:10.160
So we can get to the rundown.

01:05:10.160 --> 01:05:11.160
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:11.160 --> 01:05:12.680
What's the likely five?

01:05:12.680 --> 01:05:13.680
I mean, again.

01:05:13.680 --> 01:05:16.920
My pretty much got it locked at this point for Europe.

01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:18.680
Yeah, I think we're lucky that Loki over.

01:05:18.680 --> 01:05:25.440
It's mostly a seeding tournament, if we're being honest regarding, there's a big, big

01:05:25.440 --> 01:05:29.880
point difference between Man City and whoever's next.

01:05:29.880 --> 01:05:31.040
I don't even remember who's next.

01:05:31.040 --> 01:05:32.040
Hit up, Coro.

01:05:32.040 --> 01:05:33.040
Hit up, Coro.

01:05:33.040 --> 01:05:34.040
Hit up, Coro.

01:05:34.040 --> 01:05:35.040
Of course, get up, Coro.

01:05:35.040 --> 01:05:36.040
The goats.

01:05:36.040 --> 01:05:37.040
I mean, go for it.

01:05:37.040 --> 01:05:40.040
I don't feel like it's really that hard, damn it.

01:05:40.040 --> 01:05:43.200
You're making it seem like it is showing up.

01:05:43.200 --> 01:05:46.680
What do they need for this? I'm going to see if I can bring this up real quick.

01:05:46.680 --> 01:05:48.680
They need six points on City.

01:05:48.680 --> 01:05:57.120
They need six points on City. That means if City make top eight, you're in trouble at that

01:05:57.120 --> 01:06:03.000
point because top eight is, I believe, six points locked, so they can call for a tiebreaker.

01:06:03.000 --> 01:06:04.000
Yeah.

01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:07.080
What's their groups look like?

01:06:07.080 --> 01:06:12.200
I mean, a bracket changes everything, but I do see what you guys are saying, right?

01:06:12.200 --> 01:06:23.200
city looks really solid. They look like the calm five. Then you have NIP vitality KK up

01:06:23.200 --> 01:06:27.800
Carmen court. Yeah, I'm actually casting a match of those two Dazzar and that was great

01:06:27.800 --> 01:06:38.400
fun two weeks ago at every moment. Which court help? They play on first round. Yeah, KDOP

01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:39.840
course, car meeting first round.

01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:41.640
There's a lot of cool sweet.

01:06:41.640 --> 01:06:45.640
Quarks to do GK could GK could play spoiler for Manchester,

01:06:45.640 --> 01:06:48.100
though. Yeah, it was your top six.

01:06:48.100 --> 01:06:50.400
The uppers. Yeah.

01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:52.040
Yeah, let's talk about GK for a bit.

01:06:52.040 --> 01:06:58.140
I mean, this Paris open has not been good for them at all.

01:06:58.140 --> 01:07:00.000
They're currently at 24 season points.

01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:03.240
Can we take a look at the world point standings here?

01:07:03.240 --> 01:07:07.000
They're sitting at six, which means that unless, you know,

01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:11.560
They have a good performance this event and outplaced man city.

01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:16.680
They would most likely be looking towards L C Q. Wavy.

01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:18.520
How are you feeling about him?

01:07:18.520 --> 01:07:22.720
Um, well, I mean, considering they eliminated me at Boston, I've been after.

01:07:25.200 --> 01:07:26.520
It's all smoke.

01:07:26.520 --> 01:07:28.160
He's like, I like this.

01:07:28.160 --> 01:07:30.520
My props to them and look, you go into Seiko.

01:07:30.520 --> 01:07:32.400
Seiko is moving that tournament.

01:07:33.240 --> 01:07:36.120
Honestly, though, I know a lot of people like didn't know,

01:07:36.120 --> 01:07:38.240
I didn't think the Ross move was the right decision.

01:07:38.240 --> 01:07:41.280
I at the time, I thought like I thought it made sense.

01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:43.580
Like I thought they were going to be nice with tempo.

01:07:43.580 --> 01:07:45.520
Unfortunately, they didn't see the success

01:07:45.520 --> 01:07:47.580
that I think like most people envisioned.

01:07:47.580 --> 01:07:49.980
But I do think the team still has a lot of potential.

01:07:49.980 --> 01:07:53.720
I don't think realistically they can make Paris anymore.

01:07:53.720 --> 01:07:56.240
I don't think they can make war of two points.

01:07:56.240 --> 01:07:58.160
Although I do see them winning LCKQ.

01:07:58.160 --> 01:08:00.160
I don't think there's another team

01:08:00.160 --> 01:08:01.820
in Europe outside of the top five

01:08:01.820 --> 01:08:04.080
that can realistically beat them.

01:08:04.080 --> 01:08:06.520
Maybe can't up court, I guess, but I still don't see it.

01:08:06.520 --> 01:08:08.320
I still don't see it.

01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:11.280
No, to the whole believers, none, none.

01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:13.320
Well, no, I'm the kid.

01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:15.920
I thought the team was pretty strong. Am I wrong?

01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:18.760
Yeah, because you know, out of all of this, what's going to happen is

01:08:18.760 --> 01:08:20.720
we're going to be talking or GK definitely to make it.

01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:23.280
And then Europe's going to send gritty goose.

01:08:23.280 --> 01:08:26.960
OK, every time.

01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:29.200
So it always goes.

01:08:29.200 --> 01:08:30.680
That is how it always goes.

01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:32.560
You know, I'm not.

01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:38.860
Yeah. I do feel like GK just been in a position where for them to climb out, they would need

01:08:38.860 --> 01:08:42.920
to show something that they haven't shown before, which is totally possible. And I think

01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:47.800
that the way Europe goes, it can happen. And no one would really be too surprised.

01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:52.040
They'd be like, Oh, they finally did it. But then if the opposite happened, nobody would

01:08:52.040 --> 01:08:53.040
really be too surprised.

01:08:53.040 --> 01:08:58.940
Like, Oh, yeah, people expect just to get rid of sin. Okay. Honestly, he's the guy

01:08:58.940 --> 01:09:03.100
I for that thought about that he keeps making it teams better. Just go for dosing. We need

01:09:03.100 --> 01:09:08.860
you over. Just do the exact same for us as you did for NIP last year.

01:09:08.860 --> 01:09:14.060
I could agree with it. I could agree with it. Um, let's, let's kind of talk about, I

01:09:14.060 --> 01:09:18.060
mean, we'll see what GK can do. Maybe they surprise us. Maybe gritty goose wins the

01:09:18.060 --> 01:09:23.380
regional. Who do you guys think is going to win open six? It's going to be the

01:09:23.380 --> 01:09:26.660
last one I want. I want to go down the line from achieves all the way back to

01:09:26.660 --> 01:09:30.460
me. Who do you guys have one? I think I think a win.

01:09:34.660 --> 01:09:37.160
Well, I'm going to go out on the same man city. Take it.

01:09:37.760 --> 01:09:38.260
I think they

01:09:39.260 --> 01:09:39.760
want to

01:09:40.660 --> 01:09:41.360
that's a Paul

01:09:42.260 --> 01:09:44.660
and the second act. Do the thing, bro.

01:09:47.160 --> 01:09:47.860
No, it's

01:09:48.660 --> 01:09:51.960
next to it. So I'm sorry to live for support here in the

01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:52.960
man city is going to win.

01:09:56.660 --> 01:10:02.880
You know what? We've had vitality. We've had gentlemen eight. Let's give one to Casey as

01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:08.840
well. We, it's been too long, you know, that it depends. I don't even know if they're going

01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:13.400
to be back in the facility because they were at home for the first time in forever last

01:10:13.400 --> 01:10:17.240
time. So maybe they're back in the facility and then we can have the very typical, oh,

01:10:17.240 --> 01:10:22.880
well Europe's not got a definite number one team in the region, which again, most

01:10:22.880 --> 01:10:26.460
Europe thing ever. So Casey, I think he provides Tennessee case

01:10:26.460 --> 01:10:28.560
generates, but I'll go Casey for my pick.

01:10:29.680 --> 01:10:34.000
Okay, maybe I was going to say how long has it been since we've

01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:36.520
gone to European split without Casey winning a regional?

01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:38.600
Oh, I can take a look.

01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:40.560
I can get on that.

01:10:43.440 --> 01:10:44.240
A while.

01:10:44.280 --> 01:10:46.960
I don't know if it's truly it's like, right?

01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:47.960
Or at Copenhagen.

01:10:49.160 --> 01:10:49.960
Yeah, they won that.

01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:52.000
Yeah. Yeah.

01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:53.500
They also have a regional after.

01:10:53.500 --> 01:10:56.300
Yeah. So yeah, oh,

01:10:57.800 --> 01:10:58.900
this is like the energy conversation.

01:10:58.900 --> 01:11:00.800
Yeah, basically, like energy.

01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:03.200
Like it's not truly a European split.

01:11:03.200 --> 01:11:05.540
If Casey 2024 London split.

01:11:06.300 --> 01:11:08.380
Split. Casey doesn't take one.

01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:11.680
Is it a real split if they don't win one?

01:11:11.680 --> 01:11:12.940
I know exactly what you mean.

01:11:12.940 --> 01:11:13.980
I get that.

01:11:13.980 --> 01:11:16.380
Yeah. Because I honestly, like because of that,

01:11:16.380 --> 01:11:17.820
I think I'll give it a KC.

01:11:17.820 --> 01:11:22.220
I can see, I can see major vitality winning, but I think I have to give it a case.

01:11:22.220 --> 01:11:25.020
I'm here to gamble. What do I get if man city actually wins?

01:11:26.380 --> 01:11:29.180
Oh, oh, you know, you name it achieves. I'll be there.

01:11:30.460 --> 01:11:34.140
All right. I'll put that in my back pocket. All right. You're getting favor.

01:11:34.700 --> 01:11:36.940
All right. I appreciate that. This is what you got.

01:11:37.980 --> 01:11:41.740
I've been chairing for this car. My corp team, the entire split

01:11:42.380 --> 01:11:46.620
and they've let me down. Therefore I'm abandoning. I'm going. Gentlemen.

01:11:46.620 --> 01:11:48.620
It's jump ship. Okay.

01:11:49.220 --> 01:11:54.700
It's a Caleb Culp. Listen, no one said vitality. So I like that. I'm happy.

01:11:56.620 --> 01:12:05.860
Because it was just it didn't make sense. I'm still on my train. I still see people powering vitality. How I don't believe it.

01:12:05.860 --> 01:12:11.020
I don't believe it. Zinnus top five in his region for score goals, assist shots and goals per game.

01:12:11.020 --> 01:12:16.980
I think what was his goals per 70% with exotic and 52 it's dizzy of 54

01:12:17.580 --> 01:12:20.080
It just runs through one guy. So I

01:12:20.660 --> 01:12:26.420
Tell I'll see something different. I can't can't rock with me. Who do you want zin to team up with dance to start winning again?

01:12:27.140 --> 01:12:30.020
It's like I want LeBron James to have Kyrie Irving

01:12:31.120 --> 01:12:34.000
You know, I want like for me then

01:12:34.860 --> 01:12:36.140
honestly

01:12:36.140 --> 01:12:40.260
No, I can't say I always think about a first killer should a team was in

01:12:41.020 --> 01:12:48.700
I think I think I think that should have happened and then you should still have exotic on the team. I think that would have worked

01:12:48.980 --> 01:12:50.340
but

01:12:50.340 --> 01:12:55.980
Yeah, that's just what I need. I want man. Not enough. I don't I don't think it's your own through

01:12:55.980 --> 01:12:59.460
That's just that's just my take but that being said I have karmic court winning

01:13:00.420 --> 01:13:03.900
But what you don't know is how I got there you we can find out right now

01:13:03.900 --> 01:13:09.340
Let's take a look at my bracket here because I made a bracket and let's start with the group stage

01:13:09.340 --> 01:13:14.340
So as you can see pretty normal groups you need a little bit of an upset in there

01:13:14.340 --> 01:13:16.340
Yeah, that's a problem already.

01:13:16.340 --> 01:13:17.340
K smashed.

01:13:17.340 --> 01:13:18.340
Yeah, yeah.

01:13:18.340 --> 01:13:20.340
This guy went normal groups.

01:13:20.340 --> 01:13:22.340
It's like this is never going to happen.

01:13:22.340 --> 01:13:23.340
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

01:13:23.340 --> 01:13:24.340
K is pretty normal.

01:13:24.340 --> 01:13:25.340
Look at that group beat.

01:13:25.340 --> 01:13:29.340
Listen, I got the KDF corp upset Karmie corp there in the group B.

01:13:29.340 --> 01:13:30.340
Okay.

01:13:30.340 --> 01:13:31.340
I like it, you know.

01:13:31.340 --> 01:13:32.340
This is awesome.

01:13:32.340 --> 01:13:33.340
Of course you like it.

01:13:33.340 --> 01:13:34.340
It was yours.

01:13:34.340 --> 01:13:35.340
Of course I do.

01:13:35.340 --> 01:13:37.340
You know, I think it's doable.

01:13:37.340 --> 01:13:38.340
I think it's definitely possible.

01:13:38.340 --> 01:13:44.020
We'll get a carbon Corbello slot to start. K op corp could take that win. I think it's pretty good

01:13:44.980 --> 01:13:50.020
Uh, the gritty goose novo laws. I mean, I'm kind of being a bit of a novo fan in there

01:13:50.500 --> 01:13:53.060
Gritty goose could definitely uh turn that one around but

01:13:53.940 --> 01:13:58.180
I think it's pretty solid now. Let's take a look at the way for the the lcq. That's when they'll take it

01:14:00.420 --> 01:14:02.420
Playoffs I really like

01:14:08.340 --> 01:14:18.260
Look at the bracket, right? GK in the lower round. They win that. They've won that before.

01:14:18.260 --> 01:14:23.260
That's not, not crazy. Vitality versus K-Dop Corp. They've won that before. Zen can't

01:14:23.260 --> 01:14:25.020
be redosed. It's just a fact.

01:14:25.020 --> 01:14:31.660
They've won that before. Not that crazy. NIP. I mean, listen, K-Dop Corp. You can't

01:14:31.660 --> 01:14:37.820
to be vitality is no way of being KDOP Corp. Not that crazy. Not that, not that crazy.

01:14:37.820 --> 01:14:42.980
I like this. There you go. And we can't outcorp Karmie Corp. And of course, you know, Karmie

01:14:42.980 --> 01:14:47.500
Corp, like I said, I have the money. So what, what I like the most about this though is

01:14:47.500 --> 01:14:53.500
if this bracket actually happens, we got a tiebreaker between KDOP Corp and man city.

01:14:53.500 --> 01:14:58.300
So you want the miracle upper, oh, I guess not upper bracket run from KDOP Corp because

01:14:58.300 --> 01:15:03.740
lost. But wow, he's been really smart with this, though, cheese, because Redosin only

01:15:03.740 --> 01:15:10.040
beats teams that he used to play for. So he's got vitality and NIP. That's where he's

01:15:10.040 --> 01:15:14.260
like, Redosin's going to keep swapping teams every single split until he can't be beat

01:15:14.260 --> 01:15:21.740
by anybody. And he'll be untouchable. You know what, man? I think my biggest gripe

01:15:21.740 --> 01:15:25.300
with this whole bracket, you got Ked up court making it to the grand finals is

01:15:25.300 --> 01:15:28.040
is that they're going to game seven with GK?

01:15:28.040 --> 01:15:28.880
Come on, bro.

01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:30.640
It should be like a sweep or something, bro.

01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:32.180
Like, GK is gonna play, bro.

01:15:32.180 --> 01:15:35.840
Honestly, you know, but this is like GK, you know,

01:15:35.840 --> 01:15:37.640
they fire again, things click in, you know,

01:15:37.640 --> 01:15:39.200
trying to go around and then, you know,

01:15:39.200 --> 01:15:41.840
KDOPCorp come in and just boom, just, just,

01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:43.720
you know, close series, okay.

01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:45.560
Right, that Saturday, then you go on to Sunday,

01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:47.520
boom, seven, boom, six, boom.

01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:49.920
And then, you know, they run out of steam at the final.

01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.160
I feel like, you know, it's not,

01:15:52.160 --> 01:15:53.520
it's not ridiculous to say it.

01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:55.240
I don't think it's ridiculous to say that.

01:15:57.040 --> 01:15:58.920
I thought I enjoy watching it.

01:15:59.960 --> 01:16:01.880
I think this bracket is ridiculous though.

01:16:04.440 --> 01:16:10.240
I want to give him some credit though of Europe does tend to have very strange

01:16:10.240 --> 01:16:13.080
final opens a lot of the seasons.

01:16:13.080 --> 01:16:15.840
We've already had, you know, guilty sports a couple of years back.

01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:18.960
I don't know where come ahead and win the entire thing.

01:16:19.160 --> 01:16:22.480
Two years ago, I think it was Magnifico maker run.

01:16:22.480 --> 01:16:26.920
Uh, no, it was it was Luna galaxy made her run all the way to her grand finals.

01:16:27.220 --> 01:16:28.520
If that can happen.

01:16:28.980 --> 01:16:29.780
Yeah, sure.

01:16:29.780 --> 01:16:31.220
K-Dop corpus can as well.

01:16:32.380 --> 01:16:32.880
Thank you.

01:16:33.420 --> 01:16:33.920
Thank you.

01:16:34.120 --> 01:16:34.580
Thank you.

01:16:34.620 --> 01:16:39.080
Is the K-Dop corp run more outrageous than the man city win though?

01:16:40.420 --> 01:16:41.780
No, no, I've just realized that.

01:16:46.180 --> 01:16:47.420
That's a little, I don't understand.

01:16:47.580 --> 01:16:47.980
Okay.

01:16:48.120 --> 01:16:51.920
Wait, give me, give me your, uh, your final, your expected final.

01:16:52.480 --> 01:16:58.240
And this in the original. Yeah. KC mates or Casey vitality. I think

01:16:59.400 --> 01:17:03.080
Casey mates, Casey vitality. That's not a bad shot. It's not a bad shot

01:17:03.080 --> 01:17:07.480
We'll see the bracket bracket works that way, but I just feel like it's not gonna work that way

01:17:07.480 --> 01:17:14.200
That's just that's just where I am with that being said gentlemen. Listen, this has been a great first touch episode very insightful

01:17:14.200 --> 01:17:18.440
I appreciate all you guys coming in giving you takes on the topics has been a smooth show

01:17:18.440 --> 01:17:22.160
So can we we go down the line with the final thoughts achieves?

01:17:25.320 --> 01:17:29.360
Please finish so I can see the groups for Paris, because I've got to know, man.

01:17:29.400 --> 01:17:31.480
I got to know.

01:17:31.480 --> 01:17:33.320
Everyone's went on these groups to be released.

01:17:33.320 --> 01:17:35.880
It's going to be the biggest topic until the weekend is over.

01:17:36.400 --> 01:17:38.720
Shulgan, you'll be working this weekend, correct?

01:17:38.840 --> 01:17:40.280
Nope. Oh.

01:17:42.160 --> 01:17:45.360
I got a deal of K-Dub court versus coming court grand finals.

01:17:45.400 --> 01:17:46.600
I'll be watching it.

01:17:46.600 --> 01:17:49.520
So no, I don't worry about that one too much.

01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:50.360
That's good.

01:17:50.360 --> 01:17:53.080
Be sure to tune into the show and watch party, maybe.

01:17:53.200 --> 01:17:56.280
I mean, what are you going to be up to in the meantime here?

01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:01.560
I mean, I'll be I'll be hoping chronicles is internet or something of the sort.

01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:02.600
Over the.

01:18:04.400 --> 01:18:06.160
It'll be at the land.

01:18:06.160 --> 01:18:07.840
I'll be as much as I love the team.

01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:10.280
I'll be preparing on the rainfall.

01:18:10.280 --> 01:18:10.640
All right.

01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:11.360
So we can expect.

01:18:11.360 --> 01:18:14.040
Are you going to do a watch party major?

01:18:14.240 --> 01:18:15.800
I might wouldn't be surprised if I do.

01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:17.920
I mean, I don't know what else I'd do, so.

01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:21.640
I'll turn it to the way you hate watch.

01:18:21.640 --> 01:18:23.160
That'll be a good watch.

01:18:23.160 --> 01:18:25.400
I mean, of course, there's no about to close it out, man.

01:18:25.400 --> 01:18:27.520
It's always great to have you here.

01:18:27.520 --> 01:18:28.640
Great to be here, man.

01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:30.400
Great to talk to some rock league

01:18:30.400 --> 01:18:33.720
and our expectations of K-DOP Quirk

01:18:33.720 --> 01:18:35.840
delusionally making the grand finals.

01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:39.480
But yeah, hopefully your bracket comes up to fruition

01:18:39.480 --> 01:18:41.400
because I need to be watching that.

01:18:41.400 --> 01:18:42.280
That would be fun.

01:18:42.280 --> 01:18:44.120
It'd be a lot of fun.

01:18:44.120 --> 01:18:45.760
I think it'd be a great time.

01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:46.720
I'm thinking of a great time.

01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:51.820
Either way, these next few opens as the, you know, the season,

01:18:51.820 --> 01:18:54.120
the online season is starting to come to a close,

01:18:54.120 --> 01:18:57.320
not counting LCQ, the ones and the twos

01:18:57.320 --> 01:18:59.320
that'll happen in the upcoming months,

01:18:59.320 --> 01:19:03.620
but in terms of the regular split in being here,

01:19:03.620 --> 01:19:04.960
of course, you want to be able to tune into

01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:07.080
all the Rocket League action to, you know,

01:19:07.080 --> 01:19:09.520
see who's going to start booking their trips.

01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:10.760
We're missing South America.

01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:12.560
We're missing APEC and we're missing Europe

01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:14.440
and we'll find those out all this weekend.

01:19:14.440 --> 01:19:18.280
So keep it locked in all things that are eSports on Twitter or even here,

01:19:18.440 --> 01:19:21.880
twitch.tv slash rocket league because the matches will start tomorrow.

01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:24.880
So of course, thank you to all the guests on the show today.

01:19:24.880 --> 01:19:29.000
Thank you to our producer Jesse, who's been fantastic and thank you to everybody

01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:33.120
behind the scenes making a possible Chris, Keir, or Sky, even Bates.

01:19:33.200 --> 01:19:35.000
I don't know if he did anything, but thank you.

01:19:36.040 --> 01:19:38.520
Of course, we'll see you guys.

01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:43.640
And we'll see Bates next week without further ado, one, two, two to Lou.

01:19:43.640 --> 01:19:45.640
We'll see ya.