I
I can't think of myself
I want an absolute happy heart
To feel it touch so hard at first
Isn't something you can't understand true
I'm a half of everything
It's something off the summer road
I say to you in the crowd
I'm a sensation, darling
Every time I dream that you are silly
It's a kind of thing that you can't understand, I'm sorry
Every time I dream that you are silly
It's a kind of thing that you can't understand, I'm sorry
I want to go overthinking when I'm all alone
out of focus from all the unknown
I'm a pain check for my vitals
I need revival
Broken down and fading, my heart keeps breaking
I
Yeah, let's beat it up
Because we are the fighters
Fighters
In the middle of a game of die
There's a slow to drop
We're playing like we're down
The game is getting real
It gives me a
Fighters fighters
Y'all believe the stars are broken
I'm looking up and low,
In the middle of the night,
As I slowly jump up,
When we finally come,
And I'm giving it up,
To speed up the fighters.
I can feel this tight,
I choke my neck and I just wonder why
I'm belly in a suit I've never bought
A suit I've never bought
Cuffing from my race,
I can't ask surprise
And when the shot was hit, tear in the earth, you'd dance off the ground
I've been looking for a place to make me be complete.
I've been looking all around, I've got the courage and the faith
To make me feel
Bring me back to life
I've been looking for a case to make me eat, to complain, I've been looking all better than I thought I'd be,
You see, to make me feel
Bring me back to life
I hope I won't end up in your fight, but if I do, you're probably right.
I see when you're away, you don't remember me
You're cold as December, and I suppose you find me all alone
I'm sick with this rain, you kiss me so tight
And it's fire when you're late
I feel like you ain't breaking, nothing that you like
I'm sick with the sight, you can see so fight, I'm fire in your eyes,
I feel like you're right here, nothing that you like here
I know you're okay, but the place is fire when you're up
Rockin' League fans around the world, welcome to North America for Playoff Saturday of the
2026 RLCS 1v1 North American regional championship. It's a mouthful. It's gonna be a handful for all of our players folks
eight of the best 1v1ers in the region on your screen today will be narrowing it down to top six and on the road to
crowning a North American regional champion tomorrow and championship Sunday. It's gonna be an exciting one. I'm white punk. I got
Johnny. I got fear. I got T Bates, and this is a good show. Bates, did you watch, did you watch the drama yesterday?
What did you think of the 1v1 scene so far?
I mean, I watched a little bit of it, I mean, I was kind of at work wave, so I caught him
when I could.
I saw some highlights, but I can't say I watched it as thoroughly as I usually watch it.
Like I said, I was a little busy, isn't it?
I appreciate the honesty.
And hey, you know what?
There's definitely some viewers.
There's some viewers tuning in right now.
We're in that same boat.
They were also at work yesterday, and they didn't know it was going to launch.
So, hey, you're tuned into the free show.
You're right where you need to be, where to tell you everything that happened yesterday.
If you're picking right now to become a Rocket League fan, this is the first time you're
watching and hearing our voices, you picked a great time to become a family greatest eSport
in the world. Bottom left corner, we're in that red box right now, the world championship,
the next huge thing on the horizon. We've played through the 2v2 opens. We know who's
going to be playing for the title of 2v2 world champion. We're finding out who's going to
be playing for the title of 1v1 world championship right here, right now, this weekend. And then
there's also the last chance qualifiers, because who could be the world champion for 3v3s?
It could be you and your friends. All you got to do is scan the QR code on your screen,
follow the link, sign up, and then just don't lose. Don't lose against the rest of the
But there's still a possibility and some teams will do that.
They will make it to the World Championship through those last chance qualifiers.
It could be you sign up if you want to have a fun time with your friends and hey,
maybe make it to the championship in that way.
We've got a crazy event in store for all of you here this weekend.
We have our North American 1v1 tournament.
We also have the Middle East North African tournament happening today.
It'll be concluding today.
We will be covering the grand finals of the MENA broadcast on this stream here
as the final thing we do today.
So don't make do not click away after the final matchday after Zach and Diaz take on each other
Let's talk about what is on the line today or this weekend rather
We have a nice juicy prize pool for our players here everyone in the tournament this again
This is money going to a single individual player that already secured
$1,200 some of the players have secured $1,600 with every win today
They're moving themselves up in the prize pool, but really the money not the thing that's the most valuable in our prize pool
It's that qualification to the World Championship, which only goes to the top spot this weekend here for North America and for the Middle East.
They will fill in this bracket that we played in Dickie's Arena that final weekend in September there.
If you win today, or if you win this weekend here for North America, you get to take on NAS for the Middle Eastern champion.
We'll take on KV one. And in addition to the $7,000 you're securing here today, you'll get an extra 5k just for showing up and losing to the World Championship.
Obviously, they're not going to be trying to lose here, Bates.
Wait a second. What was that? Is that accurate this first place you really get 50 grand? 50 grand
to a single player
It's kind of me it's kind of it's a good price. It's a good price put. Wait how much is two we two good?
Double 25 each or is that 50 grand each?
Yeah, the same same player. Yes double double overall
Okay, so
We've been talking a lot this weekend, Fear, about the Triple Crown, which fans, if you
want to watch this crown, three different world champions, one-to-one, two-to-two, three-to-three,
make sure you scan the QR code on your screen, be in the building, get your tickets there.
Fear, we've been talking about the fact that, like, oh, wouldn't it be crazy if someone were to,
like, get the accolade of winning multiple championships in one weekend. We haven't talked
about how lucrative it is for them here, you know, you could make some crazy money, you win one of
one of your ones and two of you, two and three of you. Oh my God. Yeah.
I'd hopefully give him like a special title to or something, not just, you know,
all the prize, everything, but if you win a triple crown,
surely you got to get something in game.
We technically still have a couple of players who could do that.
Zack can't get eliminated today.
Even if he loses, he'll still potentially be able to do it.
But over on the Mina, we're going to have Mina end today.
So you're going to need to see Kaliers win.
If you want to keep that dream alive of somebody winning the triple crown.
We'll see if they can do it, folks. What a road it will be.
We'll talk about that more when we get into their matchups,
just because it's a fun thing to talk about.
Now, for those of you that missed yesterday,
basically got it, we're gonna catch you right up here.
There was some crazy Rocket League.
There was some fun action.
There was that group A was pretty competitive,
but the results went about as we expected.
The biggest story for me,
the one I'm probably the most excited about here today,
Zapato's fear, making it out with those lower semi-finals.
He's back for a second year in a row.
Yeah, you know, in the hype chamber, they have a Fennec.
What is that Fennec doing in there?
This guy does not rock the Fennec.
He is one of the holy players you will see rocking some of that is an octane or fake and it's not even Dominus
It's this nice playing sentio, and I also love his style not just one color
He's always out there trying to make something look nice, but it's not just his style on his car
It's his style in his gameplay as well as you got quickly through night. Yeah when we were watching him on stream
He looked insane, but apparently it went to game five
So now you must have been playing pretty well
but Zapatos vs. Evo is a matchup that we've seen many times.
Coming into this one, Johnny and I had Evo at 5 and Zapatos at 6.
So Zapatos could have maybe had a slight upset here
if he was able to take down Evo,
but ultimately it was Evo sending Zapatos down to the lower bracket
where he ran into 5-up and Zapatos is just too good
to be getting eliminated before the top 8.
He had a great series here against 5-up.
I believe we were tabbing away
And then he was playing better when he wasn't on mainstream.
He's going to have to play on mainstream for entire series
today because he's got first killer in this little bracket.
It'll have to be an upset if he wants to get top six
and stick with that ranking that we had him at at the start
of the day.
Now he's such a strong player.
I mean, I love getting to highlight anybody that is not
playing Fennec Octane or Dominus here.
And I mean, the fact that he is playing something
that everyone else is not familiar with,
he's more familiar with.
He's playing a million Fennec Octane and Dominus.
is how many top level sentios of these guys played.
It's really just Zapatos.
He's kind of got the whole scene there
and we're glad to see him here still in the top eight
from North America.
We'll get to see his story continue on.
Group B though, Johnny, was a bit of an upset city.
Some wild stories coming out of this one.
Diaz did take on first killer there up in the top
of the El Prasemio files.
That was a rematch of our grand finals last year.
Definitely not an upset for Diaz to win there,
but the way in which he won was very spectacular.
Yeah, so it could be a little bit of a preview of a potential grand final.
Obviously, it was a rematch of last year's grand final for North America.
But before Diaz could get to Farskiller, he had to take on Canada's Loxy.
So this is a new player for a lot of the U.S.C.'s.
I think going to be a player you'll see more of, because even though he's lost out to Diaz,
I don't think he did it well.
Diaz is to clip it on him a little bit, but I don't think it was a bad showing
overall for Loxy this weekend.
And then we got to the real match of the day for me.
Just look at that. Dias versus
first skill Dias starting off
exactly as he wanted to in this
match up. It looked like it
might He might run away with it.
But first killer fighting back
from behind in game three
multiple times. He has several
comebacks and then look at the
line through this overtime. Nine
nine is over a minute and 26.
That's a huge overtime for one
b-one. First killer wins that
wins the next game and the
asset to do it in five, which
he was able to do, but first
But I think this could be a little preview of the Grand Final.
We might see these players rematching their kit.
They can make their way through the bracket.
First killer hit to make his way through the lower bracket in 2025.
We'll have to do it again here in 2026.
But we all know he's up to the task,
getting to get there to the Grand Finals again.
Now, the story I think everyone's talking about the most,
the most interesting story here, Bates.
We got a guy named AJ who just will not go away.
His first tournaments were back in 2018.
That's eight years ago.
And he's still here in the top six, in fact.
I mean, listen, eight years ago,
he had some of the best mechanics in North America.
Everybody was heralded for that.
And I still do believe that he still has some
of the best mechanics in North America.
3-3 seeded hasn't been banned on form as a late but 1-1
is about the mix, it's about just the ability
to perform when you have to fall, get it by the opponent.
And even in a matchup where I don't know where Johnny
and Fear had chronic rank bar,
my assumption is that chronic was ranked reasonably high
on the rankings.
AJ went and handled the distance.
And going up against Bor, Bor is a newcomer.
I love what he's been doing for Diggatoss,
but I think this experience proves out
in these type of matches.
He haven't seen AJ on Saturdays,
he's been in a very long time.
So I am excited to see what exactly he can bring
to the table.
It's not gonna be an easy match up though.
He's going up against Evo.
He goes very aggressive.
He's very mechanical.
He's a confident player,
but if AJ keeps playing like he does, man,
he always has a chance.
We'll see if he can get it done here, fuck.
I mean, I love, like, we keep talking about him,
like he's this he's this old man were amazed that he's still here it like is there actually like a
notable difference between the way that AJ is playing the way he's approaching the ball the speed
at which he's approaching the ball or is if you took the name plates off would you be able to tell
that it's AJ you know that's a tough question whether or not taking the name plates off I don't
think he's necessarily playing any slower he's playing this top ones game that he always has
he's just maybe got disillusioned with the three scenes it's tough to get the right team to get
get the right situation, and he maybe didn't want to put in as much effort, but once, I mean, he clearly still enjoys the game.
He clearly still plays ranked. He was a high ranked seed coming into this.
So he's kept his leaderboard position up.
He gets to kind of focus on that however much he wants to without having to worry about everything that comes with being on a team.
So clearly he's still got it.
I don't know, I don't think we're going to see him resurging back into threes or anything like that because of all the work that comes with that.
But clearly still a top player in ones and someone's going to have to try and you serve him.
It's really on the other guys. You need to go and take AJ off the ground.
he's been able to stay up there and you let him stay up there.
There's a whole like social dynamic to being good at threes, right?
Like it's not just being good at the game.
It's also figuring out how to get a team around your recruitment, you know, like a thing.
Like you get to avoid all of that in one.
So he's like, no, it's just me out there.
And now you know, keep up with the tiktok memes.
You know, like, well, some of the new players doing these days,
all these young mechanical players, like it's really difficult to keep up with
what they're doing.
So he doesn't need to worry about that.
It's nice to him, the ball, the boost, nothing else.
You know, he's trying to make a name for himself in the space.
And I will say, we were talking about first killer had to make the lower bracket run last
year.
He's back in the lower bracket trying to make it through.
Last year, AJ was in the lower bracket.
This time, he's earned himself a second life with that upper bracket.
So an improvement here from 2025 to 2026 for AJ.
Will it make a difference?
We'll find out as the tournament progresses here yesterday.
We saw some pretty spectacular results and there was some pretty spectacular plays that
got us there.
These are your top plays presented by progressive number six.
Listen, if you give me a chance to put a sentio on the top plays list, I'm going to put a
sentio on the top plays list.
Look at the dribble.
Look at the plate car here.
The reason he drives it for flicks like this, so much power, you ain't getting that out
of any other car.
And then finishing it off, laying it directly on his bumper.
To close this one out, this one goes up against five up, trying his best.
Five up, a little low on boost here, but you know what, I don't know, from any difference
of you had a hundred, that's it.
And then that good stuff from Zupato.
We already got a glimpse of this play before of it. Look at the reset by a
dodging into the flip reset on the back for a touch here. That was after a very
closely fought win in the race to the boost, but to center the ball to himself
that quickly get the extra touch and then secure the tie angle. Well played.
On number four we got Diaz on champions field. Catch us this and cuts it away.
You thought that was gonna be the highlight? No. Diaz back up in the year again.
He's first because they're challenging and gets the reset to pop it away. This is
such a tough thing to do. It really shows just how good Diaz is at not only holding possession
and going for the right shot, but being able to read when a challenge is coming early at just such
a big pop, Diaz gets back down and forces it in. Listen, we're seeing a lot of offense. Sometimes
you got to start seeing some defenses. Well, Wavy absolutely reads Zach like a Harry Potter book,
but Zach comes all the way back. Backwards aerial to get the touch. It should have been a guarantee
going for Wavy, but Zach says no. It's the creativity and ingenuity to get back in this position.
There's only one other player in the world that I know
can make that play in this, Johnny.
I'll tell you why.
We'll tell him later, folks.
This is 0 seconds game two.
First killer versus Wiz.
Wiz has all the control.
Try to find the buzzer beater to win the game.
First killer finds it.
Instead, the other way, finding the way
to get this off of Wiz's hood and then onto his own
without having to touch the ground, spectacular stuff.
Winning game two on the way to a sweep.
But for our number one play, I said
I was looking at Zack at the start of the day.
He is a very mechanical player, but has he done it in ones?
It turns out double resets they work anywhere you want them as Zach gets up
This falls headed away to the other side of the field before he gets one reset and then another
And you like the double reset how about a double double reset? This is ten seconds later
This is not the same play you just saw this is a completely different moment
He does it twice in a row to five up
This is why he is one of the strongest seeds coming out of group A and also one of the most improved players from
2025 to 2026 didn't make top eight last year. He's now the one of the top dogs out of his group,
Kanzak make the run here. He's going to have to go through Diaz reigning, defending North American
champion and teammate. So it'd be some good vibes between those guys in that matchup. We'll see
how it goes. That will be our final matchup of North American action of the day. We'll be playing
through our upper bracket, run one and lower bracket, run one matches and then playing the
the Mina grand finals of five matches.
Don't get to watch on our broadcast before we shut things down here on
towards that TV slash broccoli.
Speaking of Mina, people struggled to watch the North American action yesterday.
They probably also struggled to watch the Mina action.
It was a little bit harder to find the broadcasts over there.
And so we're going to, they are going to have more full coverage here today.
We'll also be giving you again, that grand final at the end of the broadcast.
We'll be covering on this channel.
You won't have to go anywhere else.
Let's talk about it though, guys.
Some, some crazy drama here.
No, I think we got to start with Novo up at the top, raining Rocket League 1v1 world
champion on the run to get back and defend that title, taking on his teammate TRK here,
Johnny.
This one was probably the least close of the day, and you can see why.
Novo is so good.
Yeah, when he shows up, he's a favorite, and especially now that Ruas has been eliminated,
the one guy who was able to provide resistance in his run to the World Championship last
year.
TRK in the past, he has had some wins against his teammate, but not recently.
And I think recently TRK has been sort of stagnant in 1v1 in Mina, whereas some of the
other players are improving and yeah, this could be, I think, the two-time, this kid.
He's looking great in the run to defend his title.
Yeah, I mean, we're talking like, look at the whole field here, right?
He looks he looks kind of like if this is a runaway win, but I mean of all the 1v1 brackets
We've seen is Mina the most fact fear
Yeah, I mean it's it's tough. You can't compete with EU. EU is really really tough to compete with that
I think EU's on the main screen more often and it's important to make that comparison for maybe fans who don't see
The Mina 1v1 players as much you'll get to see their grand final and you'll get a taste of it
But even all the way through the bracket all the top six that are gonna be playing today
They're a high level that they could compete across the board with all these other regions and maybe even you know beat out the top and a six
We have left. We don't know who there's gonna be just yet, but it is very strong when we went over there
You got you've got the reigning defending champion in your bracket. We'll see him play a little keep you up to down the result
And maybe we'll see people play there at the end of the day that matchup was a bit
One more one-sided TRK didn't quite find a way to match what Nova was throwing out.
That was a 4-1. Let's talk about one that went all the way to game 7 to a buzzer beater at the end as well.
Nush versus Killiers here. Killiers on that road that triple crown we were talking about. Can he get the title in 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3?
Only two players that could still potentially do it. He's one of them.
But Nush has other ideas. It went one-sided for Nush in game 1.
It went the other side for Killiers in game two.
And then back and forth, the rest of the series here,
fear, it went down to the wire in game seven.
Yeah, these guys have been closely matched
when they've played in the past.
Killiers, you know, a lot more three's success than Nush.
But Nush, a bit more of a one specialist.
And now the twin brother, that was a little bit more
of a one specialist, is gone.
So Killiers is going to have to hold it up for the family,
I guess, in this one.
But he did not take down Nush.
Nush is just a highlight reel.
I don't know if you ever go and check out Highlight Reels on YouTube to watch, but NUSH is going to give you some of the best ones you could possibly watch, whether it's 1's 2's, any game mode.
He is putting on a really exciting, exciting type of 1v1, and he's also able to back it up with wins without Rwanda surrounding NUSH.
Might be that guy who has the next best chance at taking down Nupo. It could be Kilears, but really, the reality is there could be a lot of playing for a second.
I know we're talking right now about nursing careers, but these guys are are gonna need to be absolutely on their form
You know, they're clearly both playing well against each other
They're gonna have to try and recreate that not just in this but you see clears
He was up to just like rewass the twin brother was also up to games
No, she would have been two in a row and that is exactly what he did here in game seven to advance to the semi-finals
Yeah, yeah, I see so
but yeah I mean he's been overshadowed but yeah these guys are they are
insanely good at once like me being a region I've got so many ridiculously
good ones players Kalyers has beaten you know if you go back years he's
taking down players like the first killer before he's in competitive with
multiple European players he's great it just we don't get to see it too much
because he usually just hands the control over the last it says yeah you play
this one in the crew battle once.
I mean, in theory, he could do that at the World Championship,
right?
Wow, like, who would be able to tell?
Look at that.
Zero seconds.
I don't know.
Like, that was, I was popping out of my chair
watching that final go down or watching that matchup go down.
It felt like a final, even though that was just,
that was just an upper bracket round one matchup there,
went all the way to game seven.
Ops versus Willie also, the match that happened right
before, a fantastic matchup there.
Unfortunately for Willie, that one wasn't elimination match.
gets TRK today. They'll be taken on killers will be taken on FBI as well. Winners get
to take on Nobo and Nush. And then the winners of those advanced to the grand finals will
keep you updated on how the brackets going. And then we will show you that broadcast of
the grand finals there at the end of the day. So a little bit longer than we usually are
going to be live on playoff Saturday, but exciting stuff. Glad to have it here. Now
let's let's let's let's kind of lock back in a little bit. We got 10 minutes here before
kickoff. Let's talk about the North American action here. Johnny fear. We had you guys
you know, you know, every day
is different and the week I've
got chronic at three. I think
if he got to try again today,
he would perform to a higher
level. He's eliminated already,
but that was obviously the guy
that we ranked way too high. If
we look at this, you know, it's
perfect. Twenty two vision at
twenty twenty hindsight vision,
but, uh, I think we're going to
get a little bit of a little bit
of a little bit of a little bit
20 hindsight vision, but yeah, Bora snuck in Zach snuck in all these guys made playoffs. It's just chronic. I did not but
Yeah, the hands off one of fear's honorable mentions who over performed I'd say true true
I won't ask about you Bora and Zach down there with Bora over Zach
Would you flip that from what you saw yesterday? Or you still think Bora has a slight edge on Zach's performance?
Yeah, I'd still flip I would flip that I do want to give Zach credit for taking down wavy
a little bit on the wall for
that match, though. Wavy look
nervous in his first round and
Zach reverse swept his first
round. So the momentum was
definitely on Zach's side going
into that. And you know, Wavy's
playstyle sort of reminded me of
Razir's in EU. He just looked
nervous in the pitch. New day
for him, though. I think he can
regain much like Razir's did.
Okay, okay, and we could blow up
a little pull up fears list as
well. But I remember fear you
guys had the same top six here
like wavy didn't make it through the upper bracket of his group. Would you drop wavy or was it sort of similar to chronic here a
If we were to play it again today, we'd see that we'd see a different way
Yeah, I know I think wavy can afford to drop down a little bit
I mean chronic is the big storyline not a lot of new things to say necessarily about my list versus Johnny
I think he covered most because we had a pretty similar list
But it's actually you know interesting that he had born and I had AJ and we were both right in some way because both of them
And I got top 8 so ultimately
the only thing to look at is
chronic. I mean, chronic, we
had him at three for a reason.
Falling through is the big
surprise here. Whether or not
you order some of these players
different, I think at the end
of the day, Zach maybe could go
higher. He could really prove it
with his match against Diaz.
But there's a good chance that
he's in a decent spot as it is
right now. It's just unfortunate
that the one thing to highlight
about this list is not something
fun, it's something unfortunate
with that.
May I ask?
Talking out.
Hypothetical.
Sure.
I don't know if you got talked
Is there anybody on the list that you would have in a top eight that didn't play and there's more than one
Now you let me know I'm just curious. Well, I who didn't play like isn't Daniel basically
That's it. That's the only person I'd be on the top eight
Didn't play whose name starts with a D that you would put on the list
I mean, it was pretty good at once. I think he could maybe sneak into a top eight
But Daniel's really the only one I would expect to that would be the minimum expectation
But it wouldn't be automatic, you know if Daniel's not practicing a lot of ones
He's not gonna win this like the level is crazy high in this tournament with Diaz in particular
Just being so consistent over the years if you're not really prepared for this
You're not gonna take down Diaz on a good day on a good Diaz day
So Daniel definitely, you know could have been a tough fight and and someone who is you know very eager to hype up
Daniel as much as possible. I just want to let everyone know I agree
I agree with Johnny as well
You know he would not come into your as a favorite of the tournament
He'd have to put in a little bit more practice.
The Bunt has developed too much.
I want to end the play, but he'd be like skirting in top eight
and maybe going out in like the top six,
unless he gave it a little bit more focus
and refined his one skills.
Listen, when you are the reigning defending 3v3 world
champion, I don't mind you focusing on that game.
Like, there's a good time to focus on three things.
Is he focusing on the book?
Oh, I knew it was coming.
You said it was coming.
I knew it was coming.
You said it was the wrong dude on the wrong.
He's got to be.
You listen, I listen.
I saw him ready.
I'm assuming we clearly see that Johnny's two different people and you know, that was evil Johnny
We got six minutes to kick off
Let's start locking in to our first matchup of the day folks if you've got family and friends that you want to get to watch
Rock Lee but maybe they don't play the game and watch it from the players perspective
It's a little confusing check out the Carl's in his crowd camp which are TV such are least sports
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on your own. Pulled up on the second monitor you can get a second look at the plays like what
happened there. I don't quite see what happened. Great way to enjoy the greatest e-sport in the
world. Push that TV slash RLE sports. We have five matches today. I want to start off with
Boren Wavy at the top. We're saving Zach and Diaz for the end and then again we have the
Mina Grand Finals afterwards. We don't know who's going to be playing in that yet but it's going
going to be spectacular in the winter. We'll play at the world champion for the title of
1v1 world champion. We got AJ vs. Evo. We got Zapatoz vs. First Killer. Let's lock
in with our first match of the day. Wavy trying to get some credit on Virtus Pro's name after
the start of the season has not quite panned out. Meanwhile, on the other side, I want
to talk about this man Bora. When we talk about AJ here, Bates, and how he's this long
veteran story coming from 2018 still here.
Bora came onto the scene here this year.
Was a player that we have surprised all of us
and has risen in popularity, has risen in pedigree.
And as you're trying to continue that story in 2026
in the 1v1 space.
Yeah, I really have like Bora's performance in three.
I think him and Evo, I know Evo supposedly
has left the left left the squad.
And now Bora, I don't know who didn't cause it picked up,
but Bora, in the way that he was possessing the ball
ability to do like his mechanics in a creative fashion in terms of the assist
he wasn't necessarily cornered threes but he was getting by people and I think
that is effective even in the 1v1 scene. Wavy obviously left left so now we got
Wavy and Boar. He's on the broadcast screen but I do am interested in Boar's
story just because like you said Wavy, he's hit the steam, honestly running, there was
a rookie of the year in RCS he would be in that kind of conversation for sure
and I do want to see what he can do against a player like Wavy, who's been around for a little bit,
has obviously his world experience, and has also been a really great 1v1 player in North America for a little while now.
Yeah, at the end of the match up here, Fear, between the play styles you've seen from Bora and Wavy,
we've been talking about, we've had a lot about Wavy's play style yesterday,
is there any exciting details about the way that these two line up against each other?
Yeah, I think if both of them play the games that they played yesterday,
We are going to see Bora just flying around the map going for clips going for tough angles
I don't know if he just felt comfortable in that last round that we watched him in yesterday against lozie
Because it was all close games, but he was you know dominating and doing it in style
Wavy has played not his his best ones game
He's played a little bit scared now
He's in the lower bracket oftentimes that leads to players playing even more scared than they did before so
You know wavy is trying to slow the game down
He's trying to roll it.
He's trying to just get low fifties right now.
Bora is going to try and attack through the air.
If Bora is on form and he hits a few clips to start early,
he can really snowball that and potentially run away with it,
with the series that is favored for wavy.
OK, OK, well, folks, let us know who you think
is going to win in the chat.
We'll make our picks on the desk as well.
Bates, you get to start things off here.
I know.
I like it.
It's been a while since I've been on wind.
And this is back at home.
It's all since Ricky Bates.
And all since Ricky Bates, look, he
I'm just talking about.
Somebody else is a rookie who's
interested in running.
Give me more.
I like what fear is talking
about.
Confidence.
Execution.
Just throw it out.
Put it all on the field and let
the bygones be bygones.
Let's see what happens.
I got more right here.
All righty.
Fear.
You know, I did just do a
decent amount of piping up of
Bora, but I've watched so many
different ones matches over the
course of the years.
And and baby has really moved
his way up into the top ranks.
So I think he's going to clutch
up today.
I think that he'll he'll play
the next game.
I think he's going to play
the next game.
I think he's going to play
I think that he'll play a little bit better than he did yesterday.
He should be able to force a one-style, maybe a little bit against Bora.
There's that chance that Bora could come away with this.
This is closer than it probably should be based on what we saw between them,
but I still gotta go with Wavy.
Okay, okay, Johnny.
You know, I had Bora make it to all-fate, but that's all for Bora, unfortunately.
I think it's a new day for Wavy.
I think that he's gonna be more confident today and show us what he's really about,
because he should be a contender.
He didn't look like one yesterday.
I think today, though, he's gonna remind us how good he is.
So yeah, I'm going for Wavy.
We talked already about first killer
being a player that had to make it to the lower bracket in 2025.
We talked about AJ starting that was in the lower bracket
last year, and he's in the upper bracket this year.
But my memory serves me correctly.
Wavy was upper bracket last year in his lower bracket
this year.
We were talking about him not having the best performance
yesterday because he was playing conservative.
You said it yourself, your fear.
You feel like now he's in the lower bracket.
You might double down on that conservation.
Bora, who's maybe not supposed to be here making it through
with the clips, I feel like he's got some momentum behind him
And this might be a trap game for Wavey.
Give me four on this one, folks.
It is close.
We're split on the desk.
How do you feel about it in chat?
We've got the Virtus.Pro versus Dignitas also.
Some popular fan bases here.
Wavey and the Virtus.Pro boys have been very, very popular
in the season.
It's going to be split right down the middle.
Dignitas, though, has built a legacy here in Rockley,
one of the most storied organizations we've got.
And they have a great new champion here in Bora.
Can he make it through to Championship Sunday?
This is an elimination matchup.
One player moves forward.
One player moves home.
Organizations represented looking for future glory here folks. What a way to kick off playoff Saturday
It's dignitas and Bora versus Virtus Pro and waiting
There we go, wavy is a name you are
familiar with if you follow the North American 1v1 scene wavy a contender always just missing out on being the best buddy
fight to get there. It's this newcomer Bora who made a big splash in the scene coming out of nowhere
in the RLCS 3v3 scene. Apparently discovered in the 2v2 scene and I guess he's also pretty good
at ones as well as we have a role one right off kickoff. Whoa, that was good stuff there.
James, how you doing? Good. I thought I was alone for a second. I'm glad you made it.
I'm glad I made it, listen, I'm glad I made it too.
The blame is right there about telling you who's not
in this really thing.
Wavey and Bora.
I'm very excited to have this matchup in particular with that.
Let me tell you.
Here's also something that's talking about Wavey and Bora.
Bora's just been so much more aggressive than Wavey has.
And I do think that in one, this pure aggression that's
like, boy, this show right here really pays the deputy.
Good start here from Bora.
It's a good dribble.
Waiting, waiting, waiting.
You can see Wavey never committed.
But you're right, I was watching a little bit yesterday.
T-Bates, obviously, I wasn't on the show,
but I was still watching.
And it did seem like Wiggy was playing extremely
conservatively.
See if he can have a bit more confidence today.
Also, being able to execute the plays,
he is very capable of executing.
We'll have space here.
Thank you for the air.
This is that prime opportunity.
Very good challenge from Warren.
It might be a good amount of bounce to keep him in the play as well.
Yeah, it's so far. I mean, Jamie, as a high-level player yourself, you know, you're an SSL type player.
I don't know if you've ever been SSL in one. But wait, not in one.
What are you looking for in one's players? It's born once again. This is another beautiful reset top-look shot.
What are you looking for in one's players? I'm just curious.
You know, I feel like there's such a wonderful variety of one's players.
me, I really do enjoy players that have that killer instinct like a DS. You can just keep
inching closer and closer and closer to net. And they just, they're so perfect, so perfect on
executing on those windows. They don't panic whatsoever. It's incredibly low, but the consistency
is always there. I think that consistency was a little bit tougher way yesterday.
Okay.
They need to mark out right now.
But then the other part to beat, T-Ven Tide will be honest, loved watching players like
Fortunes.
We just go for the crazy.
Not a 40 shot all on Saturday, it's when he goes right by a boy right here, shot all
the 40 fans in check.
Jaysbot is gonna rescue.
I'm sure at some point, that's nice, that's not your own sense of vehicle cards.
Jaysbot will mention NRG at some point on this call today.
In this match.
They're pretty far from this.
from this. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. There's one
has had a pretty good. It's a pretty good result against it.
He's going to need it. There it is. I know I'm far enough so
maybe I'm going to count. I'm going to say wait. I'm going to
say he made a very close here. Maybe he's had a few chances
where he is on ball opportunities to be created simple up and
over here from Bora.
This is not the way to go.
Goes away.
Now he's coming for his hand in the cookie jar.
It's being all right there.
He didn't really fully commit to that challenge.
So you see Bora, kind of halfway turn
after you got the boost towards wavy.
And it ultimately decided I should go for it.
But that's the moment of hesitation.
Made all the difference.
We just have to move right here.
There's no room for that from Bora.
If no Bora is in the court, wavy makes all the mistakes.
Wow!
Flips!
And gets a touch in!
Yeah, this is crazy for Bora.
Look at him.
He has one small pat, picks up another small pat, cuts the dribble quickly.
Wavy was thinking that he had done enough there denying the boost for Bora to get that corner boost to be able to retain his action.
But Bora catching Wavy out right there.
And I've been really enjoying the fuller instinct for Bora.
Nicely done.
Seems to be nice
More space for wavy so TV to a suit he does with this time
Oh, it's a demo
was so slow. 30 seconds really is a long time. I was thinking even with the update,
he would be able to get back at this, but no center. Even with the update, he's still
just, obviously about a second too late of the respawn. And maybe kind of gets a wave
one right there. And even about 20 seconds ago, Gore had some frustration on his camera.
And he missed the empty neck. And he really should have put a way to make it 4-2 at that
point instead. Now we're tied up 3-3 and Gore just gives away another one. Easy, go over
I'll poke him from Wavy.
Wavy just wondering what Orro does.
Orro is trying to go for a pinch.
He didn't get much distance.
And did that be an opportunity there for Wavy to make the shot?
Orro, you know he was trying to pinch that all the way across.
Even though Wavy hasn't looked incredibly polished,
he hasn't been able to do enough to get back in the loop here.
I
Say yeah, I mean
your point James
What do you want to feel like it's game over?
You don't necessarily need to be the most polished every single match
You just need to do enough take advantage of the other players mistakes there
They're a little error, but even an error like that maybe has no boost or feels threatened
It's the ball right back into him. Maybe really didn't have much right here
You brought the ball back down or really to the right. I like that that brought into his own corner instead
He can't.
Those are right at Wavy.
This gives up another 3B.
Yeah, you're right.
Bates, you don't always have to be so perfect on your flick.
Sometimes, if you're reading the opponent's background,
you can't pick up a hole.
Not in.
It's off the bar for Bora.
And now Wavy, she ports that.
Good small pad pick up for Bora, but he's still not out of it
yet.
Blade challenge.
There's the bump from Wavy, and that shot was too high.
And now could be a goal on the other end,
Fora flipping to it does get it on target.
Fora turning that rock situation on its head.
All thanks to Wavy, he's setting that shot high.
Yeah, fora from Wavy right there.
Instead of just not enough confidence in his ability,
he played it initially great.
Into shot and they kick off, make more,
I'm not gonna kick off on their counter attack.
Made Fora half the use of his boost to get the save.
Put him in an awkward spot.
Ozzy was proud to see another pop shot playing,
slow play way too concerned right there came back to bite him once again I
find that to be a two-goal swing a player a wavy's caliber should be able
to put that home at least get another at least one more threatening
opportunity I'm a five four board us for the side wall right here time makes
something happen gets it right by wavy and I were five five is the little
homestayings the little moments in one yeah it's a beautiful reason wavy coming
off the ceiling and immediate push forward from Bora or doing well
Maintaining vision, and a lot of it is just playing off the opponent's team.
When they commit, when they dive in, they've got some little touch-around.
Well done by Marguerite still.
Continues to take these to the air. Wimper a little touch above, and Wavy reads that.
Now should have an open net goal.
The quick challenge from Wavy shuts down Borers' aerial play.
And at first, if you don't succeed, try, try again.
Well, Wavy went for that same challenge.
It's literally five second run of that and it didn't work out for him. He said don't worry. He's not confident my ability
I'll do it again. He ends up winning that challenge as it seemed.
Bora go for that early reset every single time so
If Bora keeps doing that and Wavy can get those fast challenges shut down that ball right after this first set
but for the crew
Before Bora has a chance to play around and there's a demo Wavy has landed a lot of key demos here
Now, the landing on the ceiling has his flip.
Wait, wait, wait, shoots it!
Top corner!
Great execution here from Winston.
Great execution.
This off the top right corner, Bora.
He's all in the top left side of the net.
He's got a tower early.
In any end of land, the challenge
just gives way more time to pick his five.
Now, this isn't a way to be able to finish in that position,
but of course he can finish that position.
He's top learning the game in the year 2026.
He's going to contact, it's not going to happen.
Wait, we'll take game number one.
And I said there's a couple of moments,
couple of small moments in this game made all the difference.
And even looking at the demos too,
Wavy actually got the key demo just like you said.
Yeah, I don't remember more than that many demos.
I think it was the demos that really made a difference.
Wavy, you saw one particular play that sticks out
in my mind, which was a big turning point in that game,
was when Wavy poached his flick, if you remember that.
He completely blocked his flick.
And you're thinking that this is a counterattack opportunity
from Ora, but somehow, Wavy was able to land a demo on Bora.
And then Wavy was able to score that,
turn it into a goal himself.
So Wavy, you know, in the foot department,
has it been as on point as we've seen him in the past?
Ora looking like he's got teeth offensively,
but defensively, he's been letting Wavy connect
on a few too many demos.
You know, a couple mishaps from Borah, like some of the counterattacks on some of just
the, I believe it's about to do it, especially when Wavy has the ball, I don't need to panic,
just got to play our game.
If you're Borah, ours and Borah, he has to play his game, man.
It might be a little more successful.
I'm about to have to praise our kickoff either in that game, either though.
Yeah, we saw, we saw a few play it.
The first kickoff was probably the most entertaining kickoff of the game where they sat there locked up for a second.
But you're right, we didn't see a ton of crazy kickoffs.
Wavy able to pull ahead in that game.
I think though for, oh, looks like the get a new server up here in just a moment.
But Wavy doing just enough.
I think Wavy successfully reading Bora and multiple of those exchanges.
And that little bit of extra ability being able to read the opponent, read the play because of how the opponent is playing,
allowed Wavy, I think, to steal that victory.
He was able to get out of few sticky situations.
But, Aura, I think, has shown us in that game alone that you cannot be sleeping on him.
No, you can't be sleeping on him. He's not to be played around with.
Yeah, you had a big somebody James. I was I know you're casting this match, but I'm gonna get you. I'm actually you're on the desk
If you had to pay you had to fix about a one-term who you be so I I ran a little bit myself just
within the last year or so
And
Wavy was pretty dominant. Wavy was a very difficult player to beat really the only player
That was able to take it to wavy was Diaz Diaz was wavy's kryptonite
Obviously, Wavy did fall to Zach earlier in this tournament, but aside from those two,
I would have to back Wavy as being a very strong contender.
Obviously, first killer up there as well.
But in this matchup, I would have to go with Wavy's experience, his composure, his results.
Everything points to him being the favorite in this match.
It makes sense to me.
It's a way for this lobby to load on up here, baby back in ready to go for game number two
Borah though if Bora can can make some adjustments
Successfully dodged these demo attempts. I think continue take it to the air
We'll see he had a good amount of success in the air as well. Also his flicks were looking pretty good
But we'll see if he can maintain possession. Wavey's been doing a great job of zoning bor out most part
But Bora, I think the best part of his game is definitely that offensive prowess.
We'll see how he can keep getting those aerial opportunities.
Pretty much every single time, though, was going for an early reset.
You see Wavey, one of his big plays, instead of going for that reset,
instead landed on the ceiling, was able to snipe that top right corner.
So although Bora has that very good aerial play,
you will need to mix it up just a little bit because Wavey,
not afraid to just drive up off the ceiling and challenge quickly like you saw.
He's not, maybe.
It's a little dangerous play from Wavy though, because I mean, it can work sometimes, but if Boris starts to see that,
he can adjust, he can start playing a little bit slower, bring the ball further out,
get in a 50-50 there, and might bring Wavy way out the plate.
Boris is gonna have to walk in the air.
I can't remember who's starting off there, they're all competitive.
There's two of them, Wavy is up.
One in the series on the first game, seven to five.
Four weeks to the players still trying to bring themselves out in the series, but so far they've been going off to the fierce great analysis on the pre-show.
Maybe has been a little more passive and more aggressive.
Maybe they've got the experience.
Another landing on the ceiling, man.
Oh! But it's around the ball. Also the corner doesn't spawn, so I'm going to have to go all the way back.
He was all back cornered, and he could see the panic on Wavy's face.
It wasn't quite true where Moro was.
You could think, or you could tell that Wavy was thinking he'd have to dodge the demo,
which led to that less than ideal touch from Wavy.
Moro knew that he had Wavy in the hot seat.
Exactly.
Actually, Wavy looked back behind him, just a little flick.
It's a right stick to see where he was, so all that form was coming, and you're riding
on the money today.
He was worried about the demo, that led to the panic.
That's a little, I'm saying a little swap don't,
it holds me in the costume.
The ones with the long game,
Wavy should be composed right here.
Might be able to get a go out of it.
If he gets shot up, doesn't take it.
War goes up high, Wavy's on the post.
Opportunity goes awry.
For the dribble, now this book's gonna be deadly.
There's the flick, saved off the post.
Before I can have another go,
Ground to air. Reset is there.
Weight dash dribble, shut down.
Bursal is denied.
He's waiting for a zero boost for a stable fighter in space.
What are we deciding to do?
Decide to take it up the side wall now.
First touch, and you'll reset.
Weight off the ceiling again. There's the 50.
He's going to be facing the left side.
Trying to stay alive.
This is Mora out.
That weight has lost.
Maybe it's kind of taking advantage of the ball of this.
In the sizing is on defense in moments.
But Boer doesn't make a quick jump right here.
If I get to go out of it, maybe flips, and that was all Boer on the process.
Maybe put the great pass in check.
Boer's in it, no problem.
Nice shot.
Whoever, there's a little team playing 1v1.
You don't usually see that that often in one game.
Yeah, but you know, you'll love seeing it when you do see it.
That makes sense to me.
As I'm talking about though, I do think that Wavy, I don't know if he's noticed it yet, but there are moments, especially when Wavy has to ball before.
He's definitely worried about what Wavy's capable of, but Wavy's just not bringing it.
And...
A little bit more confidence when Wavy especially when he's on the attack, when he's propped
it up high like here, he's aggressive, trying to make a play happen.
Boom!
It does pay its dividends, because automatically he immediately scores, and a great job boost
started.
Yeah.
We're having no answer.
The boost start was there.
Look at this.
Goes for a reset.
Didn't get it.
Actually gets a slight pogo.
You can see that extra little power all the more of one pretty booseless.
pretty useless then wait until he's able to air dribble that to the corner
where are you gonna get that reset?
how are you gonna get your health?
four on four on our go-to
to the side
boards are going for the middle way before it's time to go reset
don't blow!
and you saw borr was scrambling back
knew he had to get to the immediate get back in position
Never got comfortable.
That's not a way to do something. I don't know what to do.
Yeah, he is so important.
He was trying to cover both options. He was trying to be ready in case Wavy would flip.
He's at top corner.
Wasn't expecting Wavy to go low.
That's going to be looking back.
I should be able to stop that every single time.
Especially when Wavy makes a mistake and even right here.
Bora, once again, panic on defense.
He's in an awkward position a little bit, but you don't need to just pop it back down to Wavy.
He gave him back to assist, he gave you.
And that's where Wavy has excelled in this matchup, is he's been letting Korra make those mistakes.
Blaze can serve it in, Blaze off of his opponents.
He's been trying to be too fancy.
Got to reset.
He used it before he was back down to the ground.
Oh, what a flick.
What a flick from Gorge.
Ain't even talking about it.
The poor flick's happening good.
I'd say Gorge's all-for-off, but the Arsenal has been good.
It's a defense that's been giving me a lot of questions.
That's a nice flick.
Takes advantage of waiting to go on for the mid-left boost.
And listen, you want to be greedy. You don't want to take the pass.
I got a free net every single time.
Maybe again.
We'll poke that. Go ahead, goal in.
Wavy, free flip touch, sets up the rebound.
That was a very small margin of error on that.
Leave a free flip touch, be able to stay on top of the ball.
Now you can see the delayed kickoff here from Wavy
gets bumped off the ball.
Mora has to give it away, Wavy.
Muscles to the possession back.
That's the ball off the hook, tries to dribble around.
There's the pinch goal, comes your pinch right in your neck.
You thought you were safe, Wavy, but you weren't.
He went for it again, little one, and didn't pay dividends.
He said, why not go for it again?
Wavy throws out a nice one in the shed,
and that's well deserved.
Beautiful play from Goren right there, Wavy once again.
Got greedy for the foosie.
He might not go make that same mistake three times in a row.
He's on thinking, and then Goren gets his first kickoff
goal of the series in a big way.
Huge one.
Side flip kickoff.
Push that through.
And that's off the back of the Cooksor pitch goal.
And like you said, T-Bates, we saw Bora attempt a Cooksor pitch earlier.
And it ended up giving a goal to Wavy, but he didn't care.
He goes for it again.
Saw that small window that Wavy gave him.
He crushed it.
Wavy's got a wavy one right there.
Wavy landed.
It's a tiny bit awkward, we didn't land it on fours.
Borah has given him another assist.
Borah, slow down on defense, please.
But that's what we were saying before he vades.
Borah's offense has been looking good.
Defensively though, it's where you tell that his game is not as strong.
Taking to the air, will it be another reset?
Takes a first touch, now on to the set later.
Back down to the ground, wave dash control.
Oh, picking Wavy apart.
And the nice move, looking like Nass, an EU.
Nass does get a little more speed on his,
but still a wave dash.
Right to left, cut it back to the right.
Left Wavy, a no-man's land, and it's just
such a threatening position off the kickoff.
No matter what region you're in.
Three KG before right here, no way to get back.
Quick, maybe other meters are ready.
Maybe he's got the boost, but at the right timing,
It does bounces just far enough off the back wall.
The hustle rewarded from Wavy.
Moore went all in on that shot,
tried to score the kickoff goal,
but Wavy had it covered.
Should have had it covered.
I thought it was a four goal conclusion.
And Wavy, they have more of what we scored right there,
but we ultimately did it.
Moore does play well off that,
Wavy that kickoff of both players.
He went to the mid-boost in that moment.
Wavy once said, don't mind if I do,
easy goal, more time, get a 50-50 right here.
That's for Wavy and August from Bore, collects the corner boob, stuff within the sky, you go.
Wavy's there to meet him, takes a shot.
Very challenge from Wavy, shuts it all down.
He's still slow to get back.
There's the demo.
Bore cut it back quickly enough.
Yes he can. Bore will take advantage of that demo.
And has this one goal lead with 21 seconds left on the clock.
Sure does, and it is.
I think it's first big demo of the series.
I got his first big kickoff goal.
And his first big demo of the set too.
Making the adjustments from game number one.
We didn't see either of those two moments in the game
going in his way.
And game two is making a change.
For another demo, G-Gagging the bump attacks.
Getting bumped there.
More of Pixu's pocket.
Trying to take this airborne, waste even more time.
I'm gonna go for a 50 here, that's the reset.
Push it forward, Wavy does keep the ball up,
but it's just out of reach.
And it'll be enough for Bore to lock in his first game win.
Sure it'll be enough, and he earned that first game too,
because, like I say, wasn't winning on kickoff.
Can't really say Wavy was necessarily winning
on kickoff, I wasn't getting on one,
but it was more neutral.
Bore wanted to kickoff battle in this game, number two.
And Wavy definitely wanted to demo battle in game number one.
Bore kind of evened that out in game number two.
even more making his mistakes on demons as well, if it was, if it was enough.
Maybe not making any demos this game,
Ora in two.
And they were a big part of that game when it was for Ora.
Ora showing you, I think, offensively that he is a huge threat.
You see that he takes a little, a few more risks, he likes to take it,
Airport likes to go through those three sets.
Defensively, a few mistakes here and there,
here and there, but overall, Borah able to break down Wavy
and get this first game win,
I think a big confidence booster here for Borah.
And now Wavy will have to go back to the drawing board.
We'll see how he adjusts going into game three.
I don't think Wavy's made that many adjustments
from game one, game number two.
I'm hoping to see some adjustment in game number three.
That thing I can count.
If anything, we've seen him not be able to land his demos.
We've seen less aspects of his game.
The first game, you know, I agree with you, T-Bates.
Playstyle-wise, he seems very similar to Wavy,
but he was not able to continue executing his demo.
Sure was, it is.
The ball gets the ball by Wavy. Wavy does just enough.
Even I'm talking about even.
Not just talking about the demo, just low jams.
I'm also just talking about the office of...
All the demo is a double reset.
He's a calm, casual one. It's a slow one.
But it doesn't matter, because I think...
Started that play with 46 boost off the wall a bit surprising as well because it wasn't
Most powerful double reset wavy was full-feet in position
Rising that that beats him and now borrow we'll get another one. This is a disaster start for wavy
What is the tilting game over all night on the field man? I'm upset for wavy
What do you mean? You want to kick off and you just let me all the way to the side?
I can't get back to the ball, man.
My best canopy is so frustrating.
He's going to lose this pickle too.
All right, no, wait, wait.
Should be going to collect.
Oh, I got too greedy.
He got too greedy for the boost.
I thought the ball was going to go back.
You're 100% right, T-Babe.
You see that?
100 boost.
Especially you win a kickoff right there.
You see a kickoff bouncing off the ball.
You're in position to get the boost.
Sometimes it's just too hard.
It's too hard to say no to a boost.
Ha ha ha!
It's too hard to say no to the booth James by 2026
Who says enticing?
Maybe goes a little wide
No James, but what way to do it? It's
I'm still waiting to see more from all this play. I do like what I've seen the last 10 seconds
Now I go for a reset place because even in game number two
I think I'm counting my three goals and that's a good play from a way
but a good 20 seconds from him.
Hello, Zunzi.
Zunzi off the side.
I count about three goals from Wavy
that he just came off of Boar's errors.
Wavy wasn't doing much.
I don't think that's,
Wavy's a way better player
than he can force the issue just like he just did.
And it will pay, it will work out for him anyway.
It doesn't seem like he's wanting to take many risks.
He wants to see if his opponent can make some mistakes,
see what his opponent gives him
the post to taking that initiative itself.
Maybe we'll have an opportunity here for pass.
The 50 has to reset more of the spots.
The small gap.
Wavy was a little awkward on the recovery.
He lands cleanly.
Is he right there?
I'm just enough time for more to slot that through.
Yeah, the 50-50 wasn't what he wanted.
Kind of belly-dropped off there.
Put him upside down.
Wayne Dash, when he landed he had to turn back right, and brought him away from the ball.
He gave Borah just enough space, only for the reset, doesn't want to kind of get away
from him right there.
Wavy, running the shot at the moment, but Borah still on the ball, Wavy has to get possession
of the right here.
And how does Borah still have it?
Wavy goes for the bootie, hits the shell, but it's too late!
Perfect!
Borah is flicking the cameras too far down the games!
Perfect reset, Borah has been heading shoulders above Wavy when it comes to flip reset execution.
You see the timing on that, the power on that.
And Bora hasn't been afraid to attack awkward balls either.
You see him getting that touch, going off the ceiling,
even before that going for a double flip where he said,
he is not afraid to take those risks
and try to be aggressive with how he's
attacking the ball meanwhile.
Wave, wave, wave.
And he's trying to play off his opponent,
and he's getting punished.
That shot though is high, Bore didn't have enough boost to get up and over it.
Will he be back in time potentially?
This one's gonna roll up, he's gonna respawn back in time.
And Wavy doesn't connect the first time or the second.
Wavy giving up a good chance.
Left position though, James. He's not out of the loop where he's just yet Bore.
And Wavy does end up scoring. I'll give Wavy the benefit out of here too.
I will say that I don't know if people have talked about it enough.
There is a psychological...
Difference with the moves update or to put the demo update, you know
They're gonna spawn right in front of you every single time I take control of it
So you didn't you feel you feel a little more rush than usually would but there's a there was always a chance that
Yeah, you're always thinking maybe I'll get lucky you'll play the
Opportunity right you'll just be like I'm gonna play as if they're spotting our boat
So I'm gonna go right there. Exactly. Now, you know, it's a hundred percent east corner every time
So, Wavy kind of rushed it, he didn't upscore it.
So I'm giving some grace in that moment.
Great save right there from Wavy off a little flick.
Off the back of the finish from Gore.
Wavy stills the boost, Gore of none.
How much does he throw here?
Wavy should challenge, and he does.
Gore's kind of in trouble right here, James.
And speaking of updates, that boost indicator
allowing Wavy to perfectly time that boost steal.
Wavy's still trailing by one, trying to hit this possession.
It's Demo though, so Bora has space to take it up to side ball.
Lovely control from Bora, there's the early reset, makes the musty, goes for Bump instead.
Bump's Wavy right out of the way.
I mean it's a lovely play.
The son of its pristine.
You can see the musty coming the whole way. Wavy sees it as well.
He's like, I gotta get ready for that top right.
Bora says, I don't need it this time around.
I'll bring it right back down, just a bump too.
Perfect execution from the youngster.
Gotta be careful if you go up right here, it does possess you.
You're in such a good job mixing it up.
You see, you know Borah is so mechanical.
He's been on point with his flipper, he sets.
Check the wave, he throws it in net.
This is an awkward challenge.
It does get the first stop.
The wave will steal the corner boost,
but Borah does get the mid-boost.
Oh, see Borah trying to land the demo,
couldn't land it, and now Wavy will have the ball.
the way we do.
Re-set goes low, and we've seen that a lot from Wavy so far.
Today, T-Bates, where he'll get the reset
and continue to go up.
I think he's gone low almost every single time.
It makes sense.
I think it's one of the most, if not the most,
threatening moves in.
Oh, he has one more at the moment.
He's nice going it all the time.
He's able to do that a lot.
He's bringing back a little bit.
These players are so capable with the ball up in the sky.
If you never know what's going to be on a bust out,
Now, Bora does offer the musty right there.
Wavy is equal to it.
Mark is all the way back.
Yeah, just bringing it back low, taking advantage
of the perfect setups.
Which is another impossible spot for him
to be in.
It's hard to stop it.
Mark, get away cleanly.
Looks like he did with the mid boost.
Reset.
Goes high!
Saw Wavy on the ground.
Bora, gonna get right over him.
Exactly, there's a great shot from Bora too.
You see, Wavy drives.
Whoa, we're expecting Bore to go low.
Can Bore kind of flick that a little late?
He used the reset later to his setup.
Bolster to the ground.
Wavy's expecting the 50-50.
He's expecting the low play.
The Bore still bust off the shot right at the end.
Right over his head.
Takes advantage of Wavy making a decision.
Bore's gonna finally take the win, a decision from Wavy.
He doesn't get a counter-step for his upper two.
Nope, the ball is gonna be off.
Wavy down by two.
Got a scramble.
Wavy, little touch over Bora, 12 boost.
Wavy will turn, takes the hit out.
Other small pad picked up.
See Bora trying, go for a bump.
Playing keep away.
And it looks like Bora has done enough.
Oh, now, man, there will be a goal with a single second
on the clock, maybe even less than a second.
We'll see what kind of kickoff Wavy has to score.
it is possible. Maybe a slow kick off trying to let him pop it off the front
of your car to keep it airborne. See what way we can do.
Oh, fast kick off. Keep it up. Keeps it up, but no boost. Couldn't get around the
ball. Get to the light for a moment, but just couldn't pull it off. And Bora will
pick up his second game. Or we'll pick up the second game win two games in a row.
14 shots. See, I shot Wadey in this game by five, and the last game, I shot about six.
Seven saves from Wadey. That's a lot of defense being played.
It's a perfect encapsulation of how the series is going so far.
It was honestly the last 25 seconds.
Wadey down by two, he didn't have possession until four seconds.
18 seconds off the clock.
Wadey needed to make something happen, and he could not get the ball,
and he had opportunities to have the ball.
Boyle was doing that.
Let me try and say, back corner barrier,
he wasn't doing that in half the ball.
And so, Wiggie's got to find a way
to have the possession in moments
where he can create chances.
Take away Boyle's opportunities.
Boyle's just getting a lot of them right now.
Yeah, see if you can muscle that ball off,
Boyle, because Boyle's just been attacking,
attacking, attacking, not afraid to take risks,
playing fearless.
And it's been paying off so far for Boyle,
Wavy on the other hand.
Very defensively, very conservatively.
It's keeping it close to very close games.
Wavy trying to turn a corner here.
It seems like Wavy's go-to move this year has been put reset, go low.
Already Wavy's giving out one-off kickoff for out to an early lead.
It's a lovely shot from Borough. I know it's a kickoff goal.
But you got to look back again, number two. Wavy got back to the same plate.
The one that said with the full golf inclusion, Wavy got back to that.
He's coming to near post.
So, Borage is skins it off the card.
Almost around Wavy.
Get saved right there.
Pick off those.
And now no one boy, there's one more to piece.
The game never started.
More of that great shot.
It doesn't matter anymore.
Wavy out.
Feature on this.
Pick off.
Yeah, that six boost.
Wavy had enough.
Let's get his arc in flat position to get height on that.
That's what you want to do with your post.
If that high key off me now, you're pretty much going to guarantee a rebound goal.
And now we'll see another kickoff goal for Wavy.
It's with all of kickoff goals to start this game.
I'm sure that delay kicked off on Wavy.
He just parks on that pad.
It's a little ways away from the goal.
Let's go ahead and hit it right into him.
That's one of the...
Who are you going to be talking about?
I'm worried about that.
That's not the first time that Wavy's gone for that delay kickoff, actually.
It's gone for a couple of times.
Hasn't been nowhere near as successful.
Over near success with lots of little panic on the back end yet again
Kind of flipping and flopping off the back wall for no reason. Wavy takes advantage
Yeah, we've seen that
He wants just for those hundred moves
It was well done from board even had a chance at safety
See a watched flip from Wavy before it turned around quickly enough
What a slide. No, he can't
That's where I'll have to keep this play going
Look at this double reset. It's the first one. Somehow those fourth post you can see
Wavy was stunned. That's a highlight. Goal for every single one James Scott. I think
he was looking for the third reset. Didn't get it for the ball. It's like he just wrapped
It's possible, but it also looks like he was trying to get that flick with his flick.
By the way, he does douse Forra quickly. You can see Forra. He has to have his wave dash there.
You've seen that before. I think some people, perhaps call it a two-ball flick where you get underneath the ball.
you have the place you said you use that to put it up like that that's a good
play right there maybe has that moment like board there with all kinds of the
lack not correct and kind of gives the ball away Boris has no mind about you
but back to you know you said you go have a flip yeah if I remember it
correctly oh no you don't have a board I'm not getting there you gotta play
I don't know. We'll put a put park in that
He's gonna get punished born by the creativity you gotta tip your cap to him
Apparently goes off the car crossbar
Hey boy got a little too greedy on the follow the middle plane ideas there and it's something. Yeah, I want to see later on
on the dribble.
That's a fake, and it's a half nap blow up in his face.
This is a runaway moment here for Wavy.
Finally, we see some distance between the competitors.
This has been a neck and neck series the whole way, T-Bates,
but this three goal lead seems like Wavy's starting to pull ahead.
Yes, he does.
Gaurd's kinda getting caught on Gaurd.
Lick's not actually going away once, so he does be out waiving right here.
Gaurd's not gonna announce it. Wavy's gonna be out collected.
Wavy now would come to the comfortable leave of 5-3.
See how he wants to play this? He's still gonna be the passive style.
Oh, he's still gonna somehow mess up his back clip.
Is Gaurd gonna mess up his wave, dad?
There's a lot of...
Fending me mistakes for both these quads. Is Gaurd gonna end up scoring right here?
Oh my goodness, this is unbelievable.
It's a great play from Gaurd, but it cannot believe that Wavy's conceding in this moment.
These little tops have been automatic for Bora.
You can see that perfectly time flip reset.
Keeps the ball high.
Exactly what he wants to do.
Physicians behind the ball.
Mechanical excellence there for Bora on the offensive end.
Speed things up.
Makes the shot.
Wouldn't let the ball go a little too far.
It's just a dribble and has the near post shut down
It's a great idea
Is you know you have a great whip for the ear you went for the early shot. He opted for the bait
It's not gonna go as way and I said demoed and I've got Reese Palm ladies don't huntin
Wait, it is not like by doing a pop shop. No, it's not from a way
Don't pop shop away. Not like it wait for a bumper here. It's back around to it
It's demo to open players really start to speed it up
2-13 left, Boro!
What a team shot at that!
Still with Boro right here, James.
He's not done yet. Back to his culture.
In the shot, Wavy's equal.
But Wavy's low boost still.
He's back in time. No, he can't.
Boro breaks Wavy down.
Hard fought. Gold there.
Valiant effort from Wavy getting that first save.
But he couldn't get back in that
in time. No boost anywhere to be found.
No boost indeed.
He wore that whole entire 15 second sequence.
Seems like a little fly that's buzzing around your ear.
You know, I'm talking like you're trying to swat me.
He's just not going away.
That's what the ball was.
He didn't hit him either.
Yeah, he did it.
That doesn't matter.
Come on, let's again, play me with another kickoff.
And the goal difference is back up to two.
Boy, it's so hard to bring it back down to play.
These guys still do more than two minutes left, though.
So plenty of time to make it happen.
He's had the edge on kickoffs.
Tora though will have some space here.
Down to air drill, an option.
Maybe face the jump challenge.
Tora, the reset.
Trying to go off to the side.
Look at there in time. Looks like he's trying to position behind Wavy
to maybe get full shot back on defense.
Tora, ruthless.
I'm just gonna get out of this situation.
I'm trying to dig out of a hole and there's the challenger to get back to the ground.
Is that open?
Wavy saved it off his own post to his quarter.
He ain't got hit by Borough right there as well.
Had to take the contact, still get to the ball.
Great save from Wavy Borough.
The great shot for him to get him, you know the close that towards the net from the angle and that speed.
Go down by 2-0 Bo, maybe seconds left.
Going right back up the ceiling with speed.
Wavy shuts it down, I think Bo, I wasn't on this camera, I know what happened.
Maybe he wanted to bring it back down.
He was trying to get under it to take the shot here.
And I think he was going for a fake perhaps.
Thinking that Wavy might turn, respect the shot, maybe play to defend the shot.
And maybe he's called his block.
Woooah, great play right there from Gora.
Fakes the early flick, aren't wavy.
He's gonna be going fast the whole entire game.
Says no worries, I'm gonna slow it down.
Even in this moment, down by three, every second matters.
He has to...
It's a composure to know I can still take my time.
I gotta convert all three chances.
So again, nothing right here, James.
Set up here, Wavy, not much boost.
Lift shut down, Wavy picks up the corner,
Bora picks up the mid, Wavy trying to land a demo.
Looks like Wavy is done enough here in this box.
I think back towards Bora's net.
Maybe we will see one last goal here for Bora,
goes for the double.
And even that, it's shut down by Wavy
because the quarterfuse is stolen as well.
And Wavy could dribble one last in, we'll see if he does it.
And, sure does, close for that goal.
That's zero seconds, blocking in three goals
when you're for Wavy as the series is tied up at two games apiece.
The shirt is tied up.
You never talked about whether somebody scored in zero seconds for no reason,
but that's a long respect.
I'm still annoying.
Can we put the ball down and move on to Nickney?
That's right, that's right.
You know, it depends because if I'm losing, that's how I feel.
But if I'm winning, I want to tilt my opponent,
especially if it's a series.
You know, it makes sense.
That is a tilt.
I mean, after you scored that, like, two,
you couldn't even build it.
Sorry.
Oh, man, you could do a lot of things.
Yeah, my bad.
I need to put that on the back.
I just want to increase my score a little bit.
Maybe that's dropped over 2,000 in this game, though,
because of that goal.
And what do you think it was that really put Wavy so far ahead in this game?
I know I got high in this game.
In this game?
Yeah.
I still think Bora was making defensive mistakes, me personally.
And I also think on offense, I mean, you had the two goals back to back where Bora
kind of went for a 45 degree flick, saw and hit the crossbar and went down counter-attack.
And then Bora went for his dribble, got dispossessed again.
And that made all the difference to me.
Well, what do you think?
I think kickoffs wavy really pulled ahead in this one. I think especially early on you saw wavy
dominating the kickoff game
But I'm right there with you. I feel like the theme of the series has been
for a defensively
Not able to reach the same price as he has offensively
But even in this game you saw him take a couple risks that didn't pan out the way we punished right away
was able to get close. You could see even here could be another example of that two-bates.
Yeah, another one. Moore just confident himself and I mean that's the give-and-take
you're gonna get from Moore. He knows that too. But you're the one playing majority of the offense,
you're the one trying to make things happen. Push the envelope. There won't be moments where
I mean Waden will have to walk the ball in and that's okay. If you're bored, you can't get
crushed like that. You can't get tilted. You have to believe in your game because the moment you
and continue to happen.
It is little things like this though,
where you know that wave doesn't have moves.
They should have an inkling that wave doesn't have moves.
I would like to see Bora kinda just take a shot.
Not that these players are really taking pop shots,
power shots at the net.
Bora's got a lot of flicks,
a lot of ceiling play that's working out for him too.
There's a little bit of a mix up.
It's gonna go a long way for him.
That plays so fast, you can see him
even flipping towards the wall,
trying to preserve every ounce of boost for that play.
It's a quick reset, pulls the trigger early.
He knows that Wavy has been liking to do those fast challenges.
Now he might see a pick up goal as well for Bora.
We do.
So Bora out in the lead.
Well, like we were saying, T-Bates, that's what you get.
If they give it take for Bora sometimes,
he'll go for a shot, give up the counterattack goal.
Then other times, he will execute perfectly,
just like we saw on that quick trigger on the flip reset.
now dead forcing wavy back and that boost one by Bora is one. Wavy needs to play close right here given
too much space to Bora. But once he can't Bora, I'll split a flink I think. All Bora needs right
here is just a power shot just to make Wavy use his moves. I know he's about to execute potentially
off the ceiling again. They kind of left Wavy out the doghouse. You can't really generate too much
He ate off the flicks, but he can't generate off the ceiling though, James!
Yeah, Bora missed that second reset, but this time gets the reset early.
Gets the small setup touch, and then gets it up and over Wavy.
There's an A-Camp for Bora.
Wavy came up right there for Wavy, didn't pay out. Remember last game, Wavy won it.
This time, Bora might be able to score if he doesn't.
Wavy somehow gets the boost.
Right there, might even block off, he has a bump too, wow!
How did Wavy get this boost?
That was a pretty bold error in the corner. Wavy bumps Bora
and you can see Bora getting bumped, touches the ball out, lets Wavy quickly get that goal.
It's counted as Wavy. Now we see another kickoff opportunity, that's going to be a tie ball game.
Wavy, using kickoff to his advantage.
See him slowing down again.
Takes a little bit of contact, but recovers easily enough.
Two straight direct kickoffs outside of this one where Wavy delayed it.
Morris gotta be talking about that. Wavy's liking that matchup at the moment.
Kickoff 4 has not started to rein it.
This is actually the first time a Wavy truly was aggressive on the offensive attack.
And he gets punished for it.
Those are recent go off crossbar more immediately counterattacks.
Can you give Wavey a taste of his own medicine?
Smart for Bore there to stay grounded.
Just let's Wavey get the touch on the ball drive straight through to get the demo.
He's got a touch.
He got Bore right away.
Pat Trent's taking all the way back down to the ground.
Here's kind of this little chaos in the corner a couple of bumps or says he doesn't need to boost even with the update
Right back this drip
Back to another flake off the call for a wavy is out of play for Andrew board should be able to put it away
Oh god, he goes to the big you might be doing too much. He is doing too much. Oh shoot the ball
You can see me had wavy
The low boost for board was, I think, a little bit too free to commit right away, didn't want to give up a goal on the other end, just in case Wanky was going to get back in time.
And there's the attempt from Wanky, but Bora flicked it perfectly. Wanky couldn't keep this one out.
It's a great flick.
And once again you saw that he did that same flick last game.
If the crossbar went down he could try to follow up at the post and Wavy scored on it.
He knows that sometimes that'll happen.
But he's consistent, he's confident, he keeps on coming right back into it.
Wavy, it can't cause her to keep an eye on it though, does get the possession, goes on
the sidewall.
And once again she's so threatening, Bore have to challenge early because if he doesn't
the way we have the option and then bring it low, which maybe has to succeed in it.
Or does it want to jump off right here?
But you see how well Wade, you're ready to play, solve the fast challenge,
and use the reset quickly, but Bora gets it right back.
Bora taking it up high, gets the reset, waits, waits, waits, waits,
and then shoots at the perfect time getting behind the ball
the ball where he had that shooting window option the whole way through.
We talked about how crazy it is that he's players who get a reset and turn it into an
air dribble that they still have to flip available to you.
It makes them so dangerous and I mean the flip reset is probably the biggest single
mechanic that has changed this game more than any other.
Oh he's going for a ball right here.
He's waving out the plane.
He scores.
It's basically the same play.
He didn't have as much boost this time around.
So the ball got a little lower, but reset into the air dribble.
And you saw he was going for the air dribble bump.
I mean, I think you wanted the demo, but a bump just as good.
He might kick up right here from more pop shots.
The loader might be in Wavy's net.
It will be biggest lead for poor in the series.
Up by four goals.
And you saw the no flip.
50 as well goes for no flip, kickoff, pops up high, just what Oral wanted.
Orminder as well, that player is can go next. That's something unique to 1v1s in RLCS teammates.
Being able to throw in the towel, we've seen games get out of hand.
Maybe still in this one, but Bora having a healthy lead as we approach this final
into the gameplay. Bora's on this game though.
Maybe it's not done enough to get the ball off of Bora. Bora's got to throw it away, honestly.
I don't even know why he's going for resets. It's on Wavy and I with a many left to really
be the aggressors. Right now Bora's got 18 shots, Wavy has 7.
Making 18 shots to 8, that will count as a shot. But it's simply not enough and there
He's done to play the back corner very special
Get the ball in the corner. You have to come to me. I'm up. Maybe actually does well though
War kind of gives way to position
This way his aggression is right here James that makes all the difference
Can't be caught sleeping you saw Bora thought he did enough to go up and over the way he had it read
Shuts that down closes the door
And gets that pinch off the ceiling right into the neck
Oh, it's a bump from Borah.
He reversed into the bump.
Just to mess up Wavy's touch, and then he shuts that Wavy off
the top right there.
Wavy's not done yet, though.
Every seven seconds.
Borah makes another mistake, and all of a sudden,
Wavy is right back in it.
Borah was trying to waste as much time as possible,
but he saw no clues whatsoever.
Couldn't get the buff, couldn't get to the touch
to the corner, and now only two goals
separated 35 seconds left on the clock maybe trying to slow down off the
kickoff there's the ball more I couldn't get settled we'll get that corner
boost though and more precious time in ways to the way the big shot
what is
there's nothing there for you there's no benefit there's no game it looks like
More keep trying to tip the ball up and over wavy, but wavy's there every single time
Or up
Again wavy
8 to 8! It's over collapsed! 7 seconds left!
Wavy's gonna want you to kick him! Oh no!
Wavy might be able to win this in regulation.
Will be able to pop this up. He's got the boost!
Wavy, denied by Bora! Bora can't get back to that ball, so we will have overtime.
Bora lets Wavy get back into this one. Wavy fights back into this game.
A chance to take it.
He will have possession.
He's going to try to cut it quickly, trying to keep Bora away from those 100 boosts.
Quick challenge from Bora.
Bora again though, because he's got no boost.
Couldn't get back to that ball, and maybe it will retain possession.
Maybe takes his time.
He's closing immediately, and then Bora's got to get back to it.
Maybe he's going to have boost possession.
He's got boost control right here.
We all know maybe he wasn't going to shoot the ball.
He's not shooting a pop shot right there.
there as unfortunate because I think the opportunity was there for him now he's
his board is more important to reset the net wavy is going to be equal to it this time
around maybe that ball right here James
he gave wavy too much space for him
rip for that mid boost allowed wavy to set up was thinking about closing the gap
but immediately wavy takes the flood catches for out of position and a
a comeback victory for Wavy as he wins it over time and is now on match point.
I just feel like I watch the same thing as first for the New York New York
New York game four over again.
If you know you know.
If you know you know, I just feel like I don't know.
Kind of traumatized from that game in a way.
And I just feel like I just watched it again.
Boars up by four.
Maybe I'll blame myself.
I did catch the score.
Let's say as far as I'm sure this game is over.
barely clearly wasn't play wasn't over and I will say I will say I will say
this these players don't practice how to play relieved probably as much they
should but you're playing right you're not really trying to practice here here's
trying to keep going trying to keep scoring but you don't need a hit right
here the player here came for a zero point each on the score well it seemed
like there were a few times where more of wasn't really playing for possession
He was just going to try to play keep away like the one that you saw where he tries to go up and over high on on wavy
wavy had that red the whole way
Ends up sealing pinching that goal
What was it? I think it was within the final minute for goal lead around the final minute
No, it's for goal lead going into the final minute
It was for goal lead and then all bore has to do is just waste time
I could throw the ball at the net with power shots. I can still boost I can make it uncomfortable
I can take off 30 seconds on the clock just off of doing that.
Instead, he kept trying to play it slow and keep the ball tight.
And trying to go for his flicks.
But like that didn't play in the way he's had,
because you've done the work already.
And Bore does open up scoring on game number six.
But the kickoff goal.
And you've done the work already.
You're up 5-4.
Your flicks are working out.
Now it's time for you to just wait for the clock.
And then do that.
But the way he's credit coming, composure for him.
Just keep going back to what's been working,
which is go for those quick resets.
You can see him hit the double resets as well.
Let's see if he's trying to play keep away
and then we look at him, letting maybe back in.
You see the equalizer from maybe
who's got to be feeling confident after that comeback.
He's got to be great booster right here
and it's the turn, perfect turn to get back underneath the ball.
I know it seems simple, he's about to make it off,
but it is a tough turn and he has to be able
to put your finnig in a position
that shoot with the top left of the finnig
into the bottom right bottom left corner as a hard move to execute especially at
this level with this type of speed maybe does do all right there a little fancy
little save hit it off his own post or it's a demo though he's got spawning
quick Kenny Willie oh he does missed a shot
Trying to put the work here.
Bora has to be careful.
Trying to take this over to the other side.
Nicely played by Bora.
Well, does kick off the wall a little bit,
which makes things a little more difficult for Bora,
but there's a double reset just off target,
but continues to go for him.
Wavy will go for goal and will score it.
So Wavy again taking advantage of the risky shots by Bora,
and now he'll get the go ahead goal.
You're sure it will be great counter-attack from Wavy.
He just shoots it one time off the bounce.
Top left corner.
Boar scrambling to get back.
Anything less than a shot from Wavy.
Anything low and accurate, Boar is going to get back to that.
So it still takes composure to Wavy.
Great shot in him. Wavy plays it.
Top left corner right here is on the left-hand side.
And he throwing the low play right here.
James is the move you've been talking about.
You could have brought it low, but it's so close to the ground.
It said I don't need it this time around.
That great job going far post got power with that as well
So that was still near post
far post. She was open
for an execution there from wavy
That's got some style wavy trying to play those high percentages every single time
Bora have to go out on a limb
The ball there, Wavy with a fake, goes around, tries to go high, Bora landing on the seal
with a goal.
Send that back, nicely played by Bora, but does get the demo somehow.
Wow.
You see Wavy spawning.
Oh, Wavy almost gets back in time, but Bora, who had zero boost, got that demo.
Don't know how he managed to get that done.
Maybe he's falling into with his left stick already pointed back towards the goal.
He already knew exactly where he was going to be.
I'm turning quickly.
He basically almost got back today.
It's actually incredible too that Moore somehow maintained Super Sonic.
Yeah, I'm zero.
He's going to be able to nail that down.
It hits the 50 in as well.
Knew that maybe he was going to be on zero.
Had to go for that save.
Great challenge there for Bora.
Got a bunch of people right here.
Wait, you might do a delay.
It's not for this time.
Bora does get possession.
Wave is down to the pin.
Bora has been super successful in these moments so far in the set.
He gets a reset.
Wave is equal to it.
Bora doesn't offer a corner boost deal.
Wave kind of pops the ball up and he's going to be able to hit the boost.
If he so chooses, then he does.
Bora with no boost.
Wavy's up in the sky, Wavy's digging his little floors there to meet him.
Wavy's not done just yet, Borg feels like he has time to get the boost.
Wavy goes to the ball right off the top of the score.
Here goes Borg on the count of his head, James.
Pop it up high.
Wavy's got a spectacular reset saved off the post.
And now it's going to be a race to the ball.
But a very good job earlier by Bora as well to get that arc of small pads out in front of that.
front of net a lot of them to get that defensive stop reset easily defended by
wavy and wavy doesn't get the shot on target looked like that wasn't open that
opportunity
surprising that way to let that one go back and forth neck and neck where it
goes back to a family of more 45 soft top link is the crossbar he had a couple
times for his across bar doesn't go in a couple times hits the crossbar that
He's not going to shy away from his move. Still has possession though.
132 left in this game. Wendy's playing a lot of defense.
Mora is down in the series. He's trying to force a game setting.
Wavy, all he needs is one potentially to put Mora in a bad spot.
It's a bounce. Mora can he reset. Reset gets the demo, but Wavy's still got a hand on it.
He'll spawn ball side. Mora will play keep away.
Bora fully boosted, takes it to the skies once more.
Wavy's there again!
He's a defensive clay for Wavy, and he's gonna get the counter attack!
Bora's getting the resets every single time!
But Wavy's got eight saves to his name, and he's armed every single one of them!
He's taking the leads!
You see that risky attack?
Bora seems to do almost every single time.
Off to take it airborne instead of keeping it on the ground going for a dribble allowing himself perhaps a shot that lets him recover better
But off kickoff for a we'll get the equalizer
This game has been neck and neck the whole time
And wow what a play from war getting to the ball waiting thought that he had time to get the beast but no he did not
Maybe lose the ball mention me. There's a guy up that one low lead
Oh boy, look for the ball, and Wavy dodged them.
Beautiful dodge here from Wavy.
You can see Wavy went for the Wave Dash kickoff.
Hits the brakes right before the bump comes through.
There's a late kickoff, you have to wave the Wave Dash kickoff.
The ball does get the ball and the boost.
Oh, and Wavy plays his bluff right there.
The bluff right there, he didn't think.
The ball was shoot, boy, that shoot right here.
right here goes crossbar off.
Tries to get the boost grab.
He doesn't get it.
Doesn't get the mid boost either.
And now he's going to scramble to the corner.
Maybe try to get around it.
Goes up, hits the corner boost back on target four
and catches it in the dribble.
But Borough has the corner boost
respawn on him.
Chance to equalize.
Pinch it.
The ground pitch.
Where was Wavy going?
Wavy thought he was going off the ceiling, James.
Watch what Wavy does.
with any thought that board was bringing high.
Yeah, if the board didn't even get that high,
it didn't.
The elevation wasn't there.
Board brought it back down so quickly.
Little wavy off.
Five, five tied up.
11 seconds left.
What is Wavy having his back and tricks on the kickoff?
Wave that kickoff board against possession.
And here we go.
Neil Tokyo.
Last chance potentially in right of the time.
Warrantry trying to force the game.
Seven Wavy's there to stop it immediately.
If it looks like we might get two over the times
of the row, no.
Warrantry said, let's play ball.
Pops it back to his favorite side of the field
of the fields, and the wall.
Fora up high, gets one reset.
Oh, he's back low.
K-dash!
Oh, maybe it might be a McConnor tagging!
It was a miss!
Fora, one's not afraid to go all in.
But now we've got overtime.
This is tournament life for Fora,
and that is going to be it.
Wavy will secure the victory and moves on to the lower bracket
quarterfinals.
He showed us move on.
You see the celebration from him.
He's extremely excited.
He's done a lot of emoting.
He's got the World Cup, Sully.
Is that what that is?
Who's doing it?
He's doing some raspberries.
Sliding around on carpet like that.
GG's, GG's.
It's a good series from both players.
I mean, maybe just have to dig deep, though.
I mean, game number five, that was the turning point to say.
Or up by four, less than a minute left in the game.
You feel like it's done and dusted.
He's got all the momentum and he kind of just gave the game away.
Wavy had to make some place happen, but you didn't have to do too much.
Cabour kept trying to push the envelope.
He kept trying to score and then again, number six, or he kept trying to make a
couple of plays happen away James, but Wavy just had all the moments, all the
key moments he needed.
He certainly did.
I think maybe just showing you that slow and steady wins the race.
Slow and steady wins the race.
That is what it's been.
This series for Wavy, slowly wearing down board,
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match comes out of the gates with style all the way to game six two over times and Bora made
wavy work for it but he comes out on top advances to top six and he'll be playing on championship
sunday tomorrow the means round four sir wavy always good to talk to you how you feeling after
that match uh i'm a little conflicted obviously i'm happy i won but i didn't feel like the better
Rock I've ever played to be to be honest. I mean, hey, but you're you're smiling you're you're
main man throughout the match. You always look like you're having fun out there and like I got
asked like I've talked to so many pros that feel like they like they lose the love of the game as
they play like it becomes a job like it's still rewarding to do well, but they're not like the
fun part gets lost in like the thousands and thousands of hours of practice. Do you struggle
with that at all? Because it looks like you're having a great time. I think everyone struggles
with that for a degree, myself included. I think I always I try to put an effort to have fun,
especially because yesterday with my lost, I'm always going to call the scribbles,
like guys name is not Zach, but I would actually just like not having fun at all in that series.
And after that, I realized, realistically, with how I'm playing, I'm not going to win. I'm playing,
I'm not playing good enough rock to win. Hopefully, I can like get more confident
challenges and maybe panic a bit less tomorrow because those are like the big things. Um,
but I made an effort to have more fun going into today. So even when I was like getting
scored on, I don't think I scored first in a game this entire series. But, um, even,
even when I was like losing, I was right up front with it. Um, after the whatever happened
in that game, five, I pulled the absolute similar cinema. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna, I
was, I was, we literally saw you hit it. You lean back and I wanted to, I was my next
I'm not sure what that was.
That's about game five like, dude, you're trailing by four going into the final minute.
Like what changed on that end of that game?
How did you pull that one back?
I realized the game is like basically in a way like out of my hands.
So I basically just started like, all right, let me just send it and like, let's see what
happens.
And I just made it more literally just like, tweaked out is the best I can explain it.
You just like messed up being open at like four times in a row.
I don't think I worked for a single one of those goals like actually well, but I applied pressure and I made him panic
And that's what gave me the goals and maybe honestly I took a little bit of that in the game six
Which had led me to I feel like I had all the momentum in game six
I kind of threw my way into overtime for them. Thankfully I wanted to get out of that kickoff
You did you did it they kickoff coming out through and hey the experience clearly paying off
I mean, I think it takes it it takes a veteran mentality to realize like hey, let's just send it
Let's just have a good time and I just a follow-up on the previous question like to make sure I really understand you
Are you when you say like you're trying to have more fun in the game?
Is it that you're like look if I'm gonna lose I might as well not be depressed afterwards
I might as well have fun or is it like if I have fun?
I will actually play better like
It's mostly the latter like I normally I normally play better when I'm having fun because like when I'm having fun
I'm like, alright, let me just get in there like I'll do a constant challenge
We go for like a nice flipper stat and like I did a like trial
I want to say I did the most practice out of every one's player going into this event like with the rank and tournaments and other things and
In those practices I was getting nice in the air
Like I was actually going like I was doing some really nice like flipy set really good ball control
And I really haven't done and even in the Swiss state like if we look my replay from the Swiss stage
I did that like a very well and that's what I haven't been doing today and yesterday
So I'm probably gonna try to force that into my gameplay tomorrow because I know if I can
Start in the momentum in the air. I can really
It's really the only part of my game that I need to show
It would actually start winning
Gotcha. Well, I'll be watching for you in the air on Championship Sunday. Congratulations. I'll make it to that point
They should interview man. Good luck tomorrow
Anytime appreciate it
All right. Wavy is through the championship Sunday. We'll wait to find out who he's going to play a little bit later on after those
Upper quarter finals go through but the veteran experience here gentlemen what it takes to win when you're not the better player on the pitch
He puts it together wins two over times and want to performance
He was very aware that he wasn't playing the best game that we've ever seen him play.
And it was interesting to hear him even just say that, where he just was completely missing
that aerial dynamic of his game.
But where he excelled was reading his opponent.
his opponent staying composed. That's where Bora really started to fall off a little bit.
You saw him make those mistakes and we even heard from the interview where Wavy just said
I'm going to send it. Well, one perfect example of that was the first goal in that first goal
or in that four goal comeback where Wavy's just going to challenge like he's going to
just guess that Bora was going to play keep away trying to hit it to the ceiling. Wavy
was there pinched the ball off the ceiling, got the goal and that was the beginning of
the forward will come back.
It was a full send from Wavy in that game five.
Ended up getting the win as well.
And that's when I felt like Wavy really had it.
I mean, it was just good for Wavy right there.
I knew it was great, Wavy.
Really good for you, Wavy.
And great, this is from Wavy because he is right.
Or did this start, we can hit game number five.
And Wavy didn't have to do much,
but it's all that it takes.
Me and James, you and me talk about the cast.
Wins is that type of game where you don't necessarily have to be at the top of your game to win.
You can take advantage of the other person's mistakes and come out on top.
And that's the second way we did.
And that comes in with experience, the composer, he earned the win.
He will have to be better come tomorrow.
And he wants me to end a rep and one be one.
But he'll take the W today.
It's one of those things where we'll say, like, oh, like the you don't have to be
the best player in the lobby to like win the game.
And like, what is that?
How does that possibly be true?
And it's like, well, the game is more than just the buttons
you press on the controller.
It's the mentality.
It's the, you know, the strategical matchup.
It's your physical fitness and conditioning coming into it,
right?
And I think that the whole picture there,
from beginning to end of those six games,
Wavy did have the better game, you know, in terms of that,
even if Bora was being more mechanical on the pitch
more often there.
What a performance from Wavy.
We'll see him play tomorrow.
Let's find out who he's going to be playing against as we
continue on with our bracket.
It will be the loser between AJ and Evo.
What a matchup.
That'll be no matter what happens there.
We have another elimination match down here in the bottom.
And I'm pained to see where we're going to be going.
Some quick updates quickly before we continue
our with our North American broadcast.
Killers does fall to FBI here.
It'll be FBI versus Novo in the semifinals.
Ops versus TRK.
It looks like it's a 4-0.
Ops had technical difficulties and could not
connect to the lobby consistently enough.
That was a forfeit tragic result for ops there.
TRK gets to advance for free against Nush.
So it'll be TRK and Nush on one side at FBI
and Nobu on the other side for the Mena Grand Finals.
Here's some of the highlights from the FBI Killers match
that did go down FBI doing his best job
and ending the triple crown potential here for Falcons.
There's only one player left in the world
that has the possibility of winning all three and Dickies.
And then Zach, Zach from SSG, spilling it, still has a chance.
And you know, I think Zach, taking that wavy as well,
makes him a real contender.
Obviously Diaz is the player that represented North America,
Alaska around.
But I think first killer might be the new favorite,
potentially, if he can start playing his game.
Well, he's going to have to get through some pretty tough
competition here as we continue on with our North American
bracket.
We completed one of our elimination matches.
We got the two upper bracket matches that are not elimination matches coming up here
in just a little bit.
And then we have that Grand Finals, so they will hold those Grand Finals of Mina for the
end of our broadcast.
So nothing's changed about that schedule despite the forfeit.
Let's talk about the next elimination match and man, we're going to lose a favorite here,
a fan favorite, no matter what.
First killer taken on Zapatos, the sentio on one side, probably a fennec on the other.
They'll at least change it to an octane there for Zapatos on this one.
If somebody needs it. Oh, wow.
I'm actually a production hit up James. He's he's competing.
He's a computer to a couple of my events. You know, so I've actually got a big I'm a big fan as a pot dose.
I think, you know, he is such an interesting player and he honestly like hit.
If you watch how he plays, like how good of a freestyle or he is, how good his mechs are, it truly is stunning.
like how how much controls Aotos has over his cars.
The type of shots that he can hit are out of this world.
Like I think mechanically, I would even say that, you know,
he can do more impressive things than first killer,
but I think it's the strategy where first killer has him be.
It's a strategy and just experience
and his ability to be effective and all fast as of the game.
First killer can hit you in all points and hit you with flakes.
He gets your power shots, hook shots off the ceiling.
He's aggressive on defense, aggressive on offense.
That's just how FK approaches the game.
And I'm on with you, I'm on that game.
Zabatoz, he might have, he might have the ability
to be a little more mechanical and clinical.
Honestly, in the split game and in the air,
but when it comes down to it, I mean,
he's gonna have to be able to deal with the first one.
It's about being well rounded.
It's about being well, as we saw in that Wavey Bora matchup,
I think that's a great example how, you know,
a lot of ones is strategy.
So much of it is strategy.
You can lose on the mechanical side of things
if you have the better strategy,
if you can predict your opponent.
So, this is gonna be a really tough match
for think the first killer, a heavy favorite.
All right, well, you heard you for the analysis on the desk.
Chad, let us know what you think is gonna be the winner,
or just who your favorite is,
who you want to have win here.
Bates, who you got?
Man, just marking me and James down the first kill you heard us already.
No!
James, I'm taking your prediction.
No!
Well, you say no.
I am going to pick Zapatos here.
I have seen him take games off of the best 1v1 players in the world.
And Zapatos also, he is, he is for a long time been my favorite ones player ever.
And I actually have a training program where I'm grinding the Mugsard air dribble gauntlet
because of what I've seen Zapatos do and how good he is.
So I know it's an underdog pick, but I'm picking Zapatos.
Look, I want Zapatos to win this.
Any time you give me somebody that's not driving an Octane
or a Fedecai or a Dominus, I'm already rooting for them.
But it's also a Centiel.
One of my favorite, favorite vehicles here.
He makes it look stylish.
He's invented new playstyles.
He's got a mechanic named after him because of what
he does on this car.
I want to see him win, but he's going
to have to be a little bit less of a shoe
and a little bit more of the legendary Lightning Bird.
He's going to have to live in the Thunder Clouds.
If he wants to take this one down,
I need to see Zapdos not Zapatos if you want to take down first killer because this is not it's not even championship Sunday
First killer is untouchable in the system circumstance like this
I do think first killer will win despite the fact that I want Zapatos to win
I will pick first killer of this one folks. It's so close. It's close in my heart, but on paper
Man, he's it's just logically like it's his first killer. He's always does it here, but he's the favorites in chat as well
Man, what an accomplishment it would be if Zapatos continues the championship Sunday over
the first one. He's got to get
through the Mexican here. Let's
play some rock. The once
undisputed king of North
American one be one has fallen
to the lower bracket and on the
other side of the field is a
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winning his one to one career
on his way out. We have game
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game one brought to you by progressive Johnny. Yeah you know I like that the
desk are giving us the hope for Zepatos but you know his name might be Zepatos
but I think it's gonna be first killer who's running away with this one like
you mentioned he's in the lower bracket but this is only the only right where
he's gonna be in the lower bracket. After this there is no upper bracket lower
bracket and it's gonna be first killer in my opinion advancing. Let's see
because Pazos can't nearly upset.
Pazos is going to be diving all over the ball every moment.
He can and he's got to be fairly mechanical as well
and opening goal that can give hope to the Pazos fans
who had him winning the Fando at the start of this,
despite first killer being who he is.
Pazos gets the first flip of the game.
That's a great touch by Pazos.
Just gently caress him all into the ceiling.
We often see those ceiling double tops hit a lot faster
that one that was a very controlled touch first killer couldn't get up to that
he wasn't gonna hit that air roll shot if I'm not mistaken Spatos going the other
way he's got you know good speed this guy he's very flashy really free both
players he's gonna need to play a lot of pace today if he's gonna keep up with
first killer so it's great movement first killer with it wall bash closes the
distance 50-50 wins the mcgull Spatos is still tentative
He needs to trust that first two is going to be there and try and jump and stop some of them in the corner.
He's got a tiny aim and first killer is going to make a miss in the midfield, Svatoz.
He had a little bit of a switch up as he tried to get this ball on top of his car
and maybe first killer getting baked out and I've only tried to turn in shadow and it's not going to cut it.
Svatoz will look around him.
Yeah, well the best challenge by first killer is losing all his momentum.
Very strange to see the low flick like that one going in.
That's fresh killer who's usually so good defensively
Don't maybe about playing for a pump there. I see Zepato challenge in my all the way
So Zepato sending it absolute whole rough challenge for me
Fresh killer could see it. I mean the most big points dribbles. It's very easy to see the defender coming
Yes, about those is I've seen it play well when he tries to chase down the ball
But the key is to never let the separation be there in the first place
Sibantos just left way too far away to then just turn around and challenge all the way back in very telegraph and first killer
Can't see that right now Sibantos has always advantage is waiting for first killer to leave which first killer finally will
Sibantos can't get you whatever you want in the air actually first killer knows that too try to challenge on the top
This is gonna bounce. No, it's gonna bounce in I thought maybe too high. But anyway Sibantos would win the Eurofinishing
Yeah, first killer clearly worried about getting flipped on as he tries to the ceiling challenge
You thought Zepatzos was going to pull the trigger, go for the backboard, and we know that he's capable of that.
Zepatzos just lets the ball fall down and snore by itself.
Another aerial play coming in for Zepatzos. Reset. Here's Ceiling height.
Another rush challenge from Farskiller. You just don't want to play going defense against Zepatzos in aerial game.
Zepatzos did a good job of keeping that away in Farskiller though after diving in.
Zepatzos is thinking just about no forward progress on his air dribble, which also sometimes can throw off a person who's stealing a challenge game
challenging because they're expecting the ball to move a little bit closer to them.
So, first of all, we're still being able to duck that.
And then, first of all, they're going to love to play, you know, this speedy, outplayed type game
where you can reach into midfield, knows that these quick spots are like pretty quick.
First of all, they're on the quicker, so he's going to win this kickoff, but I think best.
Oh, and a demo means tons of space.
Now, what is first going to go to when you can do whatever he wants?
It looks like it's going to be an air drum with spotless autogun.
Oh, my God.
Extended straight down, it's actually going to bounce high enough
That's the Batos might be on his back
He didn't get the 100, but he will get the clear
Yeah, he kind of fell over and his recovery there is Batos
But he did get back, thanks to that skim that he got in defense
Pressurizing with the backwards, Batos with a huge save
How's he managed that? That's great touch
Had to be so careful not to own goal
Now he's really up against it here
Pressurizing, piling the pressure off, and he might be about to score
Maybe he can find a way through
Batos doesn't fault for the mind game, that's massive for it
And the full shot cleared away, but it's still first killer in control.
Wall dashing from Zvon to close the distance.
The aerial play from first killer Zvon does his done well to stop these enforces this one high.
And we'll have time to get back to Zvon. Let's go for the 100 boost.
That was the right decision as you cannot recover in time.
Yeah, he was going to be in an off spot either way, but like I mentioned,
goes to the 100 boost that gives first killer space at the near post.
I think I'm going to like to see him close the gap on the small pines.
There were a lot of small fights available.
Just put the pressure on Farskiller before you can control it.
It's been a good game though.
Parley for Zapatos.
He's got an advantageous position for himself here.
Up Parley, controlling touch.
And get the reset, or the site against it.
Now it's too easy.
Farskiller always going to save that.
And walks in for 5-3.
As Zapatos needs to recognize that this doesn't need to be a shot.
down the ground you know it's it's clear that no longer it was the animal
real chance of scoring so you almost switch to playing defense in the air
plus how you score and more about how you maintain possession how you stop a
counter attack side-lipping there is trying to keep the offense going when
you really shouldn't then it just gives a free one to first killer who has got
another possession on a big air dribble. Oh, line over the top. A huge fight game by
first killers, that's us. Pre-jumping extremely high if you thought first
first killer is going to get a heavy touch to the backboard there. He was covered in the double tap, first killer, merely looking like he's going for the backboard instead, plays for the mindgate down low.
You know, first killer's paying attention to that. Oh, what a touch, by the way, just in passing. First killer's going to be up 7-3 with another huge fake.
If first killer is noticing that Svatoz is challenging Kyle like this, and he's always
lunging forward, you know, he can anticipate the identification that Svatoz is going to
make.
Svatoz is going to start making challenges, realizing that his lunges aren't working.
That's when first killer will actually start to make those plays like the double taps in
the backport.
He's got a sentio and so he's always at risk to watch a flick no matter what position he's in.
12 moves to work with as well.
Way more than a 107 kilometer per hour.
I think he's going to get sped up by first kill.
But still, a very, very strong flick.
I think I wanted to bring up to your notice with Sabatos.
We've talked about all of your kickoffs in one.
If there's any player who I think is the most once you're phony,
Phony sticks to his one punch, he's practiced millions of times.
It is Zapato's off the way of his kickoff.
We'll see if he ever moves away from that.
First Killer's been mirroring in the past few times,
actually been able to beat him at it,
which Zapato's been known for having a tough kickoff to deal with.
Right now, First Killer has dealt with it,
and he's got a backflip shot to extend the lead even more.
Yeah, I've seen that a lot in the past.
Players trained to lay kickoffs against Zapato.
Some people have called this kickoff unplayable.
when they try to play standard kickoffs
or wait dash recoveries against it.
Matzos does, oh, not quite chemical, as first killer.
We take crazy save up the inside post.
In fact, let's take another look at it, can we?
Replay off the rail, let's see if we can get,
there it is, first killers, post pitch save.
Thank you to Matzos for scoring the next shot
so that we did get to another look at that.
Yeah, great play by Matzos first killer.
She's creeping out after making a save.
He has no boost, so you see players on 0, try and pat over a couple pads while still playing defense.
That's because if they try and sit in that on 0, they're almost certainly going to get scored on, eventually the Acular creeping out.
Took a risk, Zapatos gets it all the time, but every time we try and talk about something else,
First Killer just gets a quick kick up goal, and that right now is to cushion here in this game, number one.
Yeah, it's a tough one for Zapatos. He's not been able to turn enough of his possessions
into goals to stay with 1st skillar in a high scoring game like this one. Zapatos only has
one save to his name against nine goals for 1st skillar. So he's been going forward a
deep end so he's not doing a lot of shadowing. You know, 1st skillar likewise, they're both
going for challenges. They don't want to, like we saw earlier, they don't want to be on the
go line, depending against the offense that they are each capable of. That's a choice
by Perkzkiller and it's more of a necessity by Zapatoz, he has to go forward against Perkzkiller,
he's not going to win a chess match where they're taking turns, taking potions at each other.
Even if you are going to go the other way, turn it into a mechanics battle against FK,
that's not easy either. Yeah, definitely not. Zapatoz, he might be, you know, I think that's
James is looking to more mechanical in terms of the question of who can get the most resets in a row almost
We got less but first killer has always been the pioneer of the hidden mechanics
Secret mechanics just blooming the ball and you're getting all the perfect little first soft touches all these things are mechanics too
People don't think of it that way but first killer is you know one of the best at doing it
Yeah, he's faster. He's more efficient and you just get an average higher average level of
of. Touch quality like every
single touch that you'll make.
Just going to be slightly better
on average than the touches
battles, making whether it's
controlled touches or moving
touches or something in between.
He's not too shabby in the in the
what you might get either first
color. He's kind of what he's
put in the work earlier in his
career. You know with the one we
won reps, I think that we've seen
that with players like AJ coming
back is still be so effective.
the mental pressure of 1v1 way back in the day,
and now it's just a matter of keeping up with the modern day mechanics,
keeping up with the young mechanical players.
Something at First Killer's never had an issue with.
Yeah, Zapatoz is a mechanical player,
and he was once a young mechanical player,
but I don't know if he's a young mechanical player anymore.
As he's saying this is his last go in the tournament,
I'm not sure we brought that up before, it's pretty much.
He says his last competitive tournament is going to run the RLCS,
so he's always been that one's player who shine most in once.
He's trying to dabble here and there and the other game modes, but you know top six not easy to do
That's the kind of results that sponsors got in the past is the one he's trying to go for right now
But he has maybe one of the toughest people to do it against in front of him
He wasn't able to do it in game number one
We're right to a kickoff and we'll surely see some process going we've got a kickoff again
The question is whether or not they'll start getting his way
He's not in a pair go event in the first year the kickoffs are overall quite even now
Here comes the ceiling double attempt by Freshkiller.
Got a bit of a heavy touch on the second contact though.
That gives away to Zepatos, who of course
is going to point some heavy touch like that.
That's how he has shown us he wants to play defense
in this matchup.
He wants to challenge as early as possible.
Freshkiller gives him a heavy touch to play with
in the grind or in the air.
Zepatos is going to point.
Yes, Zepatos.
With a save over the early edge,
he talks about you didn't miss the pick up though.
I mean, this low car didn't have to do with the sentio,
He's trying to catch it, and the hitbox is so low it just tries right around it.
And unfortunately, his first kill with a freebie just can't afford to be giving up.
These kind of freebies against the guy like first killer, it's going to be such a tough game either way.
If you're letting them have one or two or three free ones, that's a deficit that you will not be able to make back.
And that's another possession that Spontos has given away again.
I think he might be seeking perfection here with his
dribbling off these kickoffs
In these low boost situations, but he's got to just get something going
It doesn't need to be perfect. It's a flip reset, defense by some pastel stats created
But as you've already said it for the most, no first killer launches it into the backfork
That was open for him and he's missed it
That was the other way
A chance to show some of those flicks
The first killer respected it. He sees that sent your point its nose down and he knows an absolute rocket might be headed to his net
So he has to jump off the tracks up and put some on us brings it to the ground for a second goal
The very creative as we've said he's he's still correct in the air
That right there is why personally doesn't want to play goalie defense against the bad thoughts you're gonna need to read the impossible
plays if you do
much easier instead to just
beat the man to the ball
in the midfield, perfectly placed
can't be helped to go there by
Parshkiller to type things out
Parshkiller trying to
force a standard kick-off through
a consistent wave dash kick-off
from Sabato's, it's not going quite as well from
he's actually had the better of him when they've been
matching the wave dash so it's
interesting to see Parshkiller mix it up, you'd expect
Sabato's to be the one who needs to
I don't think he will, because he loves his wave dash so much
much, but when it's not going that well, it should be a nice flick.
Good ball.
First kill, 3-2.
That's a great play, first killer.
Keeping them all in the perfect position in the front of his car, so that you get immediately
flicked.
I mean, I know it's like wasted there.
Usually when you're learning to flick the ball, you leave a small delay between your
first jump and your dodge, but that was instantaneous.
He just matched it.
Jumped by it twice as quickly as he could.
And it didn't matter.
No nice flick there.
Oh, good plays with Paisos!
I'll tell you what, we're getting some quick equalizers here, so Paisos's the latest to make what happen.
As Paisos wanted to kick off into that orange half, and oftentimes players will just try and pitch the ball away as a way to buy themselves time to actually reset and get boosted, that's of course what they're going for.
So Paisos have a really tough 50 to get right in the right spot to stop the pitch and force it towards an end.
It's not easy to do, and then using that lift that he had available to catch back up to it.
I'm trying to get Zavatos to panic, which right now, Zavatos has been doing that, and he's gonna get back, but he hits the inside of his net, which means he's gonna be first killer possession.
First killer known as the Pazos has got boost here, so he has to respect the approach.
This is a crossbar, he wanted the ball to go a bit further away than that though.
Can he stay with it? Yes, he can go over the boost, he's back for him, first killer.
Going to go for the awkward takeoff, perfect read, and again, Spazos is sticking to the game plan.
He's going forward in defense, but unfortunately for him, first killer is seeing it a mile away
and he's managed to get both the ball and his car past the challenge.
Yeah, I feel for that balance, he's maybe slightly backward between his Pato's stuff.
His skillet was more awkward than he was.
Diving and challenging, doesn't work in.
So Pato's just somewhere on the wall, he must have gotten caught up or wasn't looking at his QB.
First killer with the double jump over the wall.
He's in style a little bit.
Obviously he's in the back of the wall, what happened there?
Yeah, he's just falling over and he can't get up.
A bit of a bunch of there for his Pato's.
But you know, he's pushing himself to the limit here.
He's trying to go as fast as he can to give himself a chance against the FK.
Unfortunately, FK is just never going to have an issue with that.
There are very few players who can make the first skill feel uncomfortable by up in the base.
So Pat's also learning that lesson the hard way.
I've played through this one.
We go deficit with Sabatoz to bring back.
He's had great plays here and there.
But, you know, the kickoff is a bit of a racist step, of course, because there has to be an engine that results in a game that seems fairly comfortable for him, and it's air dribble, and the first killer is not as well, so it's great.
At some point here, Spatsowska asked, when is the moment in this game where I just call it to announce it off?
Because, yes, he's still more than capable of coming back from the core dive.
And we've seen it all ready today.
Time out in a 1v1.
And he does have an explosive enough kickoff that he's got the offense to enable comebacks.
But it seems like you do not want to let 1st Killer completely destroy you in one of these games.
Not to lock it down in defense here. Something he's not done at all this series so far.
1st Killer is not going to let him.
Too much on that reset.
Yeah, we saw Sabantos pass a couple of aerials, try and jump early, try and meet him in the air,
so Sabantos reaches up to the right, all willing to go line. I'll see if I can make a save against
the first killer dribble, and he was close, but he doesn't find that either, so Sabantos
doesn't know what to do now, first killer beating him every which way, and he's a sub-Sabant
to play from. Another kickoff. Ooh, first killer actually switched it up, just gonna play all this
time. What a mistake I would say, since it should be a Sabantos profession, Sabantos left first
I can see what he's trying to do there. I don't mind it because even if he does give the ball away, he's got his five goal cushion already.
And that's just going to keep the Phantas back. It's going to stop Phantas from free jumping the next time for a skill use in that kind of position.
So I think I can see what he was going for there. You've got the best possible result obviously getting gold off of it.
But, if something's the outcome, going right or wrong doesn't mean that the play was good
or bad in accordance. It could be a good play with a bad outcome, and vice versa, this time
I mean personally. All good plays, 10-3, not looking from back to ball of course, bad
I think that's totally right about First Killer moving the ball away and usually in a close series you have to accept the fact that you're kind of playing for something else other than the goal in that moment.
But even all of those moments, all the times that First Killer switched it up, Zapato still hasn't been able to take advantage and stop.
So now everything that First Killer is doing is just working and that's why you see seven goals that are different to the two First Killers.
first killer of trying to see if he can get the most resets in an aerial play as well,
which is something we thought Sabatos would be able to maybe have the edge in.
He's still attacking today.
Try.
Yeah, he's gonna try and go for that reset record.
Sabatos can easily get forward.
That's something we're thinking about.
He tried and he gave one.
I mean, everybody gets it.
When he starts off an aerial group with a very self-taught,
I think that's his plan.
It's just as many resets as possible.
Man, it doesn't, you know, it's not purely for style.
I think this guy can really do some special things in the air.
Has he really gone over to come back here? Let's see.
How serious does this give off with problems in finals?
This would be the biggest comeback in what you want history.
If he can win on people's wants, he actually can get one more.
He's going for it. He's trying to make this look as great as possible as we're like...
First killer should see it.
Give us some resets in finals. Why not?
18 seconds, build some confidence.
Confidence, well first killer doesn't want to see any resets. He was immediately jumping to try and take it away
Spotsman has to back off so he's running by
Will, can you go for something one more? Okay, here we go. Reset test. What do we got? There's one. Oh
Didn't even get the seconds
Not on this game
Yeah, it's no good
Yeah, you can see that even though the game is well and truly over press killer it does not want to give to Fatos
and he goes. He knows his pathos is a very mechanical player and when he starts to feel
it in the air, when he starts to get into his flow state, nobody can stop him. So first
of all, he's not letting that happen. He's not giving him the consolation goal. He's
just dominated the game so far. More shots, more saves. Like I said, the pathos kickoff
very well. When you're able to isolate, you can even beat the stronger parts of the underdogs
game. He puts a lot of pressure on us. Not just not
right, even in any of the aspects he needs to. And this is how for a very long time, everybody
in North America looked playing against the first kill was one step above. Zapatos was playing,
you know, in that era as well. So he might have a little bit of memory of the dark days,
when nobody could take him down. Unfortunately, we have a Colby who can. But Zapatos, he's stepped
He's taking his time out here, but you do have in these best of sevens and he's using it to its full extent
He has left the desk. I like that. I like that from Zepatsos. This is a smart time out
maybe
You know, hopefully for him you can just pour Farskiller with this one
Farskiller having to sit through an extra minute
But truth be told Farskiller after his performance yesterday
against Diaz in the Swiss stage. He looked in great form for this tournament and you know that was closer than I thought that the Diaz series was going to be when the first player played him.
So I think he's just looking imperious and I would be surprised if he doesn't make a run through the bracket here.
here's a patios just the first victim really. Next in line would be Zac if I'm not mistaken that
is of course if Diaz can beat Zac and send him to Lord Bracket. What do you think? Do you think
it's inevitable that we have first killer go run this Bracket into the final? I'm not sure. We have
a couple people who have been able to take him down. I have to take a quick look at his whole way
You're saying he plays the loser of Zach Diaz and then he'll play the winner of AJ Evo
If you were to yeah all the way through and then presumably he'll have Diaz and the grand final
I mean it's tough
We had first killer second for a reason against everybody but Diaz
We do expect him to be able to get the job done
But you know when you have to play through the bottom bracket
There's so many different chances for some magic to happen for an O soft to happen
You know and a great day for one player that surprises you, but the crown has been passed so many times
in 1v1 first killer held it for so long. Passed over to Daniel. It's interesting how
he's a very consistent one's leader in North America over the ages. Diaz holds it now. So Diaz is that guy.
His first killer. You serve him. He's got a few people in his back, but he's clearly feeling good as we get started
in his game. Number three against Sablatoz.
Oh, that's a bit of a wayward jump off the wall though by
He's right back into control, though, and opening the scoring.
It's fantastic, but I've seen the parskillers breathe awkwardness, look to capitalize,
and sometimes it's just an accidental trap.
I mean, you see that a lot, especially at once, a player will miss their touch,
or they'll accidentally make a wrong move, and then it'll bait the opponent in.
That mistake can... Oh, he saved there by the spines, I was like, yeah, that's a nice mistake to turn it to, and I played First Killer, he's missing the open net, he's got all the time in the world, so he's out by two, his spines are helplessly floating, I'll wait for that.
Yeah, he made a good read to back the buff here, notice First Killer might be missing high, just a whole little panic right there, and that jump, it's just assuming that First Killer's gonna take a quick shot, so much more calm on the other side of the field from First Killer,
They'll take advantage in those nervy situations by just keeping wits of attitude.
And Spatos didn't have any goosy that doesn't help.
Nice flick.
Okay.
Great flick.
He pops the ball up and just gets like a catch right in the moment as he starts to send it with a sentio.
Yeah, I was surprised.
I thought you were going to try to shoot that, but the flick completely takes first killer out of the game.
You know, shots from that range can be risky against first killer.
If he does get saved, the counter attacks a lot more likely compared to that flick which took Zupatos away from the goal.
He's trying to fake some challenges here. He actually does dispossess Froskiller with a big challenge.
Now he's got chance to flick again. Very straight dribble though.
Not that Zupatos can't generate the angle off these straight line dribbles, but you wonder would it be easier to get himself more than angles to work with.
No Froskiller's been a fast in here.
Sabato's fake challenge of nobun's land and it's 3-1 to the favorite.
Yeah, and the reason why he does this is because he wants to close the distance on something to demo that I think he was going for.
I think Sabato's had turned in and wanted to try and get First Killer.
I thought at least he'd get a double demo, but I guess Sabato's not really fast enough, gets forced back, he gets to pick.
He chooses to spawn on that side that First Killer's on and then try and dive in, but, you know, we've seen this in beautiful times.
Very telegraphed challenges from Sabato's. He's just hoping they're going to work out.
they're gonna work out. I don't know if you get away with faking in here and there.
He's doing it from so far away. Those are always tough to make work.
Now, Priskyler is trying to make this 16 boost work by staying on top of the ball.
He didn't think of 100, but it's about those in control.
Priskyler has always made sure to be right there. Every time some
pathos looks like he might get the ball on top of his car, Priskyler stops him
here at some moment with Priskyler. That's finally allowed him to, but still makes a save.
Yeah, a bit of a hit station there from Zapatos, could've gone for the top corner but he was afraid to do that.
With no boost available. Straighten him away for a more quicker chance so he's missed the ball.
Huge miss by Zapatos, he's panicked and completely whiffed.
Looking to get a maximum power after grabbing the boost.
But he has totally misread that bounce and he's conceded.
It's time now for Zabatos to shrug this off, I mean he took his time out, well this is
totally a big part of his game, you know Zabatos is used to getting a few of these, let's see
what the first killer did try and match him on the way back, which is not interesting
because you'd expect that to favor Zabatos with somebody who has practiced it more often
but actually like it has been first killers Zabatos, if you get a few of those going maybe
you can stay in this game otherwise you need him to relax the shoulders and
start just going for you know the extent of what he can do maybe you could put
that here in the air to get something going but first killer gets him to go
to the ground and then the box does not connect so he escapes again. It's going to be as a
fast as ball though not the first touch he was looking for but the second touch
is perfect he's adapted really well the early added opening but first killer's
back now and he's gonna have enough space to save that shot like to the
the fire from Spatos POV, the reset is stealing out the first killer on the counter,
fix out the flick high, Spatos got a piece of it and actually gets the boost as well,
this is excellent on the defensive end from Spatos.
Oh, providing more resilience to that end but still having some problems with the serial
box of wheels.
You think he's been playing his entire career on this car, you should know how tall it is.
But he gets scammed to buy that plant kit box now
He's just feeling
First killers, you know defensive presence at all times every time he's trying to get something going first killer is making sure
There is no comfort. We'll see
Spontos, you know, this is the whole my goodness the power out of that flick is not so good expecting
We had spontos on the field
How can he capitalize off the CS first killer backed off for one of the rare times they've been able to do that
He's got first-killer dancing in the air late with me trying to go
Worked out. I got him a goal
Zepatoz putting the pressure on
Starting to rack up shots as well
Look at the delayed dodge here. He actually did get a piece of first killer there and even a first killer
Went more for the ball that would just increase the likelihood of him getting buffed so
Creativity on the show for Zepatoz. Oh, he's buffed first killer
That's white open. He's tied it!
First Killer is slipping here a little bit after dominating for multiple games.
Sabato has found signs of life, and right now I would say to be in fact of them two kickoff goals
that have allowed him to equalize First Killer.
He needs this to go at least, you know, partially his way in order to try and take down a game.
down a game, maybe get some momentum in the series.
We're just going to make it 100 boosts at Demo Purskiller.
So space with the final minute getting close to ticking down.
Tepatos gets a carry that he loves so much.
Purskiller's playing in.
Can't Tepatos even put the ball on, but Purskiller demos him.
Well, I think Tepatos could have been the one
threatened in the demo there.
He's made a bit of a mistake.
Now Purskiller coming in, perfectly outblazing with the backflip
and puts it in on the rebound automatically.
Really, I think that could have been Tepatos's
He was first in the area, he could have boxed out first killer got a little bit
I think greedy got a bit rushed to go for the boost
It's a perfect example of how this game is going to focus with space gets first killer backed off
This is a tough time keeping the possession going but every time it's happened the opposite way
First killer is making some boxes look silly by flicking it past them and having them go
Storing past the place about those interesting
It's a midfield to try and take away and yet first killer is still there to intercept it and get a double
Yeah, it's too easy to pathos taking his time
He wanted that box to stay closer to him, but he's popped it miles too high first killer with a ceiling interception
And the rebound now is the pathos needs kickoff possession 37 seconds left trails by two and he is not gonna get this
Not for free at least
And it's just too awkward a position.
Try it from the back wall.
Demo nearly landed it.
But first skill you should watch in and waits in the hallway here.
Think you set good control of the position.
It's so easy to think that Sabato's going to be one that kickoff right.
He pushed it into the orange half.
So certainly he's got it closer to net.
But when it's awkward in that corner, so hard to find a way to shoot on an angle.
It's going to take a ton of boost from you first.
first go is to just kind of just sit and watch and wait to see if Sepatos could even get hitting on target.
So really it is kind of advantage him from the very beginning and Sepatos just pan this one away.
It seems like this Maldova first go is not even going to take it.
So first killer, comfortable, giving him as many chances as possible to finish off this series.
Sepatos was able to equalize but a three goal in a row finish for first killer,
showing who's the better player here in this one.
Yeah, a better game for his pathos, but it's just too little too late. It feels first killer winning two games by punishing the pathos
for being over aggressive in defense. Now, his pathos raised the title back, the aggression on the touchstone for more fake challenges,
which gave him more control of the series and gave him more possession.
But now that it's mistakes, Wiley's in possession of the ball that across in the game. He's had some mis touches, some heavy first touches in the air.
Um, even though he fought bravely here, he was, he was clinical once he got into the mid game, but later on for our scholars, too good, he's too consistent as a pathos has made some mistakes.
The pathos doesn't look too terribly happy about his position.
Unfortunately, tons to be happy about, although he did look best in that last game.
If he was to get something going, he's got the matching water bottle, the linens, the everything he has got.
It's funny because he's so colorful in game and yet he's got absolutely no color at all in his room even the AC as well
He's got a lot of synergy there
So that's that's good stuff. I mean particular is very very white room at some time
So back in the day, I did think he was playing our LCS from a hospital lobby, but it's not as impact his bedroom
It's just a very bright bedroom
light on gaming
It's something a lot of pros do.
We do get some dark dungeon gamers as well though,
so it seems to be a preference thing.
First skill here at this, Katsos, what's the lights on?
Well, the lights are shining brightest here in 1v1.
In RLCS, on the mainstream,
this is when all the 1v1ers wait for,
to see if Zapatoz can get anything going,
but he gets first possession,
and it just doesn't matter.
First kill the Rastaball, Zapatoz has the ball,
doesn't matter who,
I feel like it's going to be a first kill goal.
It is not enough to threaten there's Fatos floating behind him all, but he didn't have a dodge.
He's dodged a tight note, he didn't have a reset, or even the ability to get one.
So first kill, he knew that there was nothing really to worry about.
He just had to protect his near post.
He's got to keep an eye on these kickoffs though. This is happening.
Maybe with a slight increase in regularity.
So Fatos just getting back to the ground faster after the wave dash recovery.
just slightly quicker landed and this time he's out of position by FK but that really shows you how
strong his great dash recovery kickoff is. He's able to push the bar skillar back for this.
Bar skillar. So on the side of the weakness here as he tries to catch the ball and lose his
rhythm immediately, lets the opponent challenge him, even then, of course to the right back where
he wants to be with the ball on top of his car. Noble jump, bomb, big green when you try to open
that far out. Usually you want to wait until you're closer and you're the defender since the last
less time for the ball to separate from you in the car, but in a way, first killer maintains
control, trying to do it through the air this time, big red by Savantos, and he may be able
to drew this out.
First killer's got so much momentum here to side, so just self-shop with the shadowed
defense, and very aggressive isn't going to be able to escape, not Mary, but into the
ceiling.
Savantos unable to grab boost while all that was happening, so it is going to be first
killer's ball again, low first touch, he's going to need to do a lot of work to get this
He's up and over to Patos, can't do so.
Patos running away from the follow through bump as well.
It looks like it's more of the same for game two
for Patos, he's gonna play a more reactive defense,
but first killer's still able to get fast in.
Even when it's a Patos, he's being careful.
First killer is simply too effective with the timing.
Look at that, he's as soon as Patos picks up there.
Patos has played many opponents in once
course of his career and he is currently in a lobby against maybe the one who beats him
this consistently. So if Zapatos looks silly right now, why are you diving for all these
balls Zapatos will? In all of his practice, I bet he's beating players to the ball. I bet
he's actually doing at least getting fifties there. Right now he's been getting clean beat
by First Killer in all of these races. First Killer is showing another level here on the biggest
stage and actually, Zapatos will likely miss and he wants to be around for the finish.
Yeah, it's an awkward position for Zepatos.
You had time to think about this one.
He's worried that Pruskyler is up for a reband,
but Pruskyler did jump just to make out Zepatos with the sound cue there.
Most of these players do play with team sound on,
just quiet amount of game sound so they can listen to the noise cues of their opponent's jumping.
So that can just cause Zepatos to panic Pruskyler.
And FI2 huge flick by Zepatos with Pruskyler,
The partiality is respecting it staying deep in the shadow position
And it's not only getting anything else out of it. He's immediately pushed back and he's getting buffed by first killer
He's not lost and originally it started with spazos, but the spazos were
improvising there to even get back on the ball, but the killer pretty much getting control forced back to the corner
I expect a little bit of a fumble there, but he's gonna be just fine
We'll knock off the ceiling. You see spazos in the air, spazos chain-dashing his way back to try and mix it up
but first gonna read that as well.
Yeah, Spatos is just trying to sneak in at times,
but even there, Farskiller sees it coming.
Spatos, I think maybe part of the artist
of his own demise there.
I hit in the ball and he gave it more pace in the counter
from Farskiller to work with.
Oh, that was a chance.
Spatos, he's gonna turn on it, but...
Yeah, he's hit the bar with his flip cancel shot.
Doesn't add any power, just makes the recovery look cool.
I'm sure the freestyle committee would disagree.
Our skiller gonna dunk this right off.
Seems like Tepatos, you know, has been conditioned.
Oh my goodness!
First killer! This was not a free goal.
Tepatos was on his way back.
First killer on the wrong side of the ball.
Flips out underneath and gets the perfect touch to drop it in.
Gosh, he scored this in a close touch by first killer.
5-1. We're talking about a guy who can hit the ball as hard as he wants whenever he wants.
He's got the finesse as well.
He's just got full control.
And Zapatos is going to get a move onto your first goalie spot in your post.
Another buff lands.
Zapatos wanted to run the lobos on the wind there,
slow rolling him by about half a second,
even though he needs every second he can get.
And it's a signature move to catch back up.
It's the wave dash on the landing from Zapatos.
In order to get back to all,
at least he has the showdown.
Now, he's just going to smash it so much
it's way more than ever the Wave Dash kickoff.
Oh, killer here with some speed.
Can he get back to it?
Follow-up, he's just fairly out.
And that is the story right now for Spazza,
even when he seems to get something going his way.
He's never quite done it,
but he does get this cool great power shot top right.
Yeah, just kind of surprising.
First killer of this one.
First killer was looking to move forward
and contest the next touch.
Patos, she shoots again and eventually points it back in the neck. He's stuck into,
floats away back into this one and that's slowly on target. First killer might begin
to end here. Patos instead playing for the boost after faking the demo, make the trip up
first killer not once but twice. That was him. Oh he has Devoldo Zapatos! He is absolutely beaten!
He's laughing about it on the camera but this is a tough play from him. He did all the hard work
getting first killer off the map and he clips so far away too not only did he miss it I thought he
could get back around but not when he flips himself that far away from the ball.
Cool of this. More sublantos. These are the kind of bounces and things that absolutely have to go
away. In fact a decent shot attempt but it's not going to go in. It's going to be the first killer
who's going to try and clip back the other way past himself off the ceiling sublantos around to
save it. And got a great shot early close so he should have a counter. Yeah first killer all in
there. Something we've not seen a lot today. And Zapatos this time does not mistake the
open net. He's been winning a lot of the kickoff recently here. He's actually chaining
together quite a few kickoff possessions. And he's going to get another one here. He's
going to get right on Berskiller. Demo's him. Berskiller is going to spawn near post
and try to cover it by chance. Zapatos really put in some momentum on the board with kickoff
He went at strong possession.
Yeah, Zapatos.
He probably needed this a little bit earlier, as opposed to 50 seconds before his tournament run would be over.
But, it's better late than never. He is still alive in this game and in this series.
He just had to do one of the toughest things he could ever do.
First sweep, first killer.
First killer.
Getting the best shots ever here. Zapatos is going to back it up and get to one of his bigger positions.
ability to use a sensual flick and he launches ass first killer tries to move
in first killer hits a couple touches in a row but normally this is one of the
favour of the other person but first killer manages to stay in control every
time. Oh no way, well I got Spantos. Oh, he's got Spantos. Oh, he's got Spantos!
Spantos wins with the first gold move I've ever seen. He just stops him all the
goal and it's Pantos. He can't be bothered. He says, all right, Mike, you win.
You're going to come in an open line, but that actually reduced the volatility of the match.
You know, put back to the center circle against Pantos, 20 seconds left.
Two goals up, you can lose from there.
But stop with the ball, the goal line removes all night.
The GG is first skill air into the top six.
But for first killer, one that game or one that series was every other moment.
If there was a different context to how we got to this game for,
Zapatoz doesn't just let first killer have it,
but he has just stopped from beginning to end of the entire series.
So he stops it on the goal line and Zapatoz says,
you know what, considering how the rest of this game has gone,
his last 15 seconds probably not going to go much different either,
just let them have it.
But that's something you're only ever going to see in one.
I don't think you're going to see any stopping on the goal line
and basically really giving up in any other mode.
Yeah.
It's, it's sort of, I don't know, it's just a refusal to participate.
Battle's saying, you know, I will not come back.
I know you're telling me to, I'm going to refuse.
It's a little mental, but he's saying no.
I will not do what I'm told, but in exchange he does lose the match.
But I think first killer, like you said, it seemed like he was going to win at some point.
Yeah, there's no question.
First killer is, he used to be the one to beat Diaz is now,
but first killer is showing that maybe he can be the one to take the title back.
We've got more.
Oh, see us when we do one.
Coming up next.
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Man, Zapatos gave it the best effort, the chat wanted it, and yet we're still sitting
here wondering what could have been, because first killer happened again, folks.
Four up, four down, didn't have a problem on the road.
Back to the grand finals, can't even make it there, I'm going by first killer now, congratulations
sir on the win.
make it look easy. Is it? Is that easy? Like how much? How much effort did it take to get that four up?
Um, not that not that much. I feel like I have as a person like I've really struggled with never.
So it was just kind of free for me. Is it like a is it a matchup thing? You feel like it's a
scale. I don't want to sit here and like dog on Zapatos. Obviously he's a very, very skilled
competitor. But like what is it about this matchup that you feel like is so easy for you?
I think he like he thrives when you give him space and I'm like a player that doesn't really like to give space like I
try to just like be in your face all the time and just like you know like just pressure you like so much
so I think he struggles with that a lot so I think it's really just a match-up thing because I think he is a good player
like if you watch him playing it's on any other player like he like has a crazy shots and like controls the game and like he does well
so yeah I think it's just a match-up thing
I feel like that's a statement that's true about Yuga's a lot of competitors, they're
really good against anyone above me, like you're so good out here sir, and like how
do you, you've been around, we've been talking a lot about AJ, like how big of a story is
that AJ's here, cause like he's been competing for so long, but like I was just looking at
your liquopedia to refresh my memory, make sure that I was right, like you've been competing
in Rockwell since 2017, you've been here about as long as he has, like you've seen
RLCS evolve from a scene that was just league play and 3v3s to now having 3v3s, 2v2s and
1v1s, you're competitive in all three of them.
How do you balance preparing for three different game modes like this?
Um, I don't do anything special to me.
And I said, I just play like rank twos and free play and then like just scrims.
And that's it.
I don't really, I didn't really touch ones before this, but just probably not
the greatest, but I think, I think I'll be okay.
Oh, it's incredible that you're still this dominant with that level of preparation.
I was curious as I was watching the games and like, uh, obviously at high level
one's you guys do if you're playing in ranked you skip replays right like no one sits there and watches any replays is it
Adjustment when you come into the games that are on broadcast and they're like a tilting goal happens
But the broadcast forces you to watch the replay is that a thing you have to like deal with like why are we watching this one again?
Honestly, I thought it would maybe be like that for me
It's like if I if I like mess up and I give like a terrible goal and like I watch it back
I can like think about what I need to do if that happens again like I can just fix my mistake
So I honestly think it like helps me and it helps me like get rid of my like till
That's that's incredible. You're like watching your own tape live during the match during the adjustment
It's pretty cool. Well, sir. I don't want to take any more your time
I know you got other stuff to get to and you're through to championship Sunday last question
Hey, Davey and Evo coming up next who you think's got it. I
Like even was gonna for a
Evo the floor. Oh, no, don't do it to him. Hey, sir. Congratulations on the victory. See you tomorrow for championship Sunday. Thank you
Alrighty, he says Evo's got a 4-0, AJ might have other things to say about it, but I don't know!
FK knows a thing or two about 4-0 in here, fear. That was a pretty dominant win.
Yeah, that's true. If anybody knows how to make light work of an opponent, first killer did that.
And we noticed, you know, I saw exactly what he was talking about in terms of never giving Sopontos space.
He likes to chase down and just make sure the opponent never gets comfortable.
You can see Sopontos didn't. He was able to go for a couple of his flicks maybe throughout the series,
but first killer he can sure everything went his way and it did from beginning to end timeout did nothing to stop it
Got into game three more the same and then into game four. It was all stroke
Yeah, I think at the same time though, I think even though the plot those tournaments over no shame in the losing the first killer first killer
I think has a great chance at even representing North America. We'll see if he can take down Diaz
That is what I fully expect to be
the first killer is going to be
the representative for North
America. Diaz has been the top
dog, but first killer, he looks
like he's in for me. He said
he's not really preparing much
or practicing much for this,
but I guess it doesn't matter
when you're first killer. I
mean, he has. He has prepared
his entire career here fear. This
is a game. Oh, he has taken very,
very seriously. There is a
certain degree of writing a
writing a bike, you know, with
this sort of stuff. But I mean,
also, like I said, he's a
player. He's a player. He's a
I mean, also, like, the scene changes, right?
Like, the way the meta at the top level changes,
it sounds like it seems like maybe playing ranked
in one's is enough preparation.
I don't know, what do you think about that?
Yeah, I think that First Killer has stayed in it.
For a while, he took a long time off.
This is before all CS became 1v1,
or having any 1v1 portion.
Since it's been back, First Killer, you know,
he says he doesn't play a ton, but he is keeping it fresh.
He is playing a tournament here or there,
maybe a community tournament, something.
He will compete in that, and that's it.
That's all you really need is a little bit of a reminder how the meta is moving.
And then when you're first killer, he doesn't need much else.
So if you stay completely out of the scene, you know, totally for a long time,
it can be a problem.
First killer dabbles frequently enough to make sure he's up to date.
Well, we'll keep an eye on first killer tomorrow as he will.
It could be one of our first matches there in that lower bracket.
We are not the only bracket playing out at the moment, though.
The Middle East, North Africa has their bracket playing out.
It is TRK versus NUS.
We were showing during the break plate right now, TRK did take game number one,
Game number two right now, 50 seconds left.
They are tied up seven to seven.
That bracket is staying spicy.
We're gonna take a look at it here.
It's live across a number of channels
in the Rocket League directory.
And I'll look at that, and I was taking one.
This is live, live gameplay.
Yeah, this is just gonna be, you know,
it's gonna be cinema no matter what.
All these grand finals just are amazing.
We saw NA's grand final maybe, you know,
being a little bit one-sided for Diaz.
And Nupo is trying to pretend like that's
happen again but both these guys could give him a good fight no matter which one is the one that
ends up playing him. TRK didn't give him the best you know ever go for it in the upper bracket but
it's all different when it's a grand final. That is the meanest greatest of all time right there in
TRK and you do not want to see him in a grand final no matter what mode it is. And Nobu has been
making easy work of the competition so far today as he walked through I think he's lost maybe like
one game so far in the tournament or he lost one to Nush in swiss I remember you telling me during
in the break there, but he's there through the grand finals.
Will it be a TRK mobile rematch in the grand finals?
We're about to find out as TRK did score with five seconds
left, by the way, definitely go pull that one up.
I got twitch.tv slash willy v w one LL Y V a great channel
to go pull up if you want to watch the coverage
and we'll be covering the grand finals there.
After the conclusion of our next two matches,
let's get into it folks back over here to North America.
Wavy and first killer have made it out of those lower quarter
finals. It is now elimination matches for them
Moving forward there for the top teams. They do have two lives two players about to lose that second life
Zach and Diaz gonna be our last match of the day
We'll save that SSG the SSG matchup for them
But let's get into our next matchup Genji mobile one racing and if you have an Evo here taking on AJ
We were talking I was just talking to first killer about AJ and he really does feel like AJ
He's probably gonna hit the wall with Evo
But I don't know man. There's just something about this gamer James bot just will not go away
I don't know if you're asking the right guy
I got a lot confident to evo here as well. I think you know evo
Especially when there's a little bit less pressure on the line
I think that's gonna also play in the favor of evo here the fact that this is not an elimination tournament
You'll see him freed up to take a few more risks
But evo he is he's just a force man. You just look at his max you look at what he's able to do
But on the other side, you know, AJ, he's been around for a while.
He continues to show that he is a top level 1v1 player, and it's, you know, he's got
all the tools in his toolkit to take down Ebo, but he is, he is the peer underdog.
I mean, this is the match that's been played so many different times.
We're about to see it played maybe for the first time in RLCS.
I'm not sure if they matched up against each other last time in the bracket, but
But these guys have been at the top of North America.
There has got to be a mental battle in terms of how the thousands of 1v1s they've played
before, whether they're in ranked or in show matches or tournaments, you know, these guys
have held it down at the top.
This is going to be the 102nd iteration of AJ versus Evo, I imagine.
The reason why, and every time they've played in the past, it's been very close, and you
wouldn't really know who would win this.
The reason why first killer favors Evo though is because AJ has retired.
He's retired, you know, a long time ago, and Deerey shouldn't be still competing at the highest level,
but has proven that he still has those moves in once.
The question is, is he back to the form that he was at when he was competing with Evo over the course of many years
and still locked into the game, or has Evo's, you know, more frequent, recent experience, you know, going to take the advantage?
Well, I know you think it's going to win. I'm curious to see how many fans show up for AJ here,
Because, well, he has been around the Parle CS for a long time.
Evo's been pretty popular as well.
Gen. G's gotten a lot of fans over the last few years.
So we'll make our picks as well.
I will say TRK did that.
The game two went to overtime.
TRK managed to find the wins.
Now he's up 2-0 over Nush.
So we'll get into it.
We'll show again that grand final coming up a little bit
later on.
I already know what James Fawcett is going to pick your fear.
Are you going with Evo as well?
I said historically, back and forth,
You can go either way, A.J. might even,
you can convince me that A.J. has a career-long edge over Evo.
But right now, Evo's still on his game.
He's still competing with the best of the best.
You gotta expect Evo to be able to take down
the retired old man in A.J.
So yeah, I think I'm also going with Evo.
Alrighty, James.
I don't know if I'd go as far as to call A.J. a retired old man,
but he's a retired gamer.
So, you know, I'm gonna have to go with here on this one.
Give me Evo.
Okay, okay.
I want I want to believe so much. This is the match
I'm most excited to watch today just because of the stories and I mean if we get through this one
I think it's evo
Versus wavy. I think is is the matchup tomorrow, which should be an exciting one too, but I or if
If no, it'd be AJ versus it'll be evo versus if AJ wins. That's how that works
It'll be a because I did this is enough a break a match up
So there's their stay in a life here, but I do think I do think people will take this one
This is what I'm going to stumble my way to say here at the end.
It does have the strong edge at the moment.
History is fun.
Long win streaks are fun.
Game play in the moment is what matters here.
Evo is the clear favorite.
And is there a stylistic matchup?
We were talking with FK about stylistic matchups
between him and Zap there.
Peter, do you feel like Evo has a style matchup here?
Or is it just a general kind of all stats
are just a level higher for Asia?
I think that they have a pretty similar matchup
because Evo felt like he was starting up and getting good
the game. You know, the
game. I think that's the
game. The game is going to
be good in the ones game around
the time that AJ was one of
the kings, you know, maybe
even like one of the best
players in any. So a lot of
people will model after the,
you know, the players are
playing against and ranked
and I want to play like them.
I should win like they're
winning. Ajay and chronic
were kind of bringing up this
wall to air trouble type
game. You saw a lot of any
doing that. You've picked
that up as well. So I think
you follow the mold of some
of the pioneers and in front
in tune to the ones game right now.
I'm just looking back.
Well, we're waiting on the players to get in the lobby
and James about, I think a lot of,
we have been sitting here being talking about like,
oh yeah, AJ, the old man.
And there's definitely, there's definitely new fans in chat
who aren't aware of AJ's story.
Aren't they, this is a name that is maybe new to them.
They're like, who is this guy?
I've not seen this guy before.
They don't know that like he's been competing in RLCS
since season six, back when the same ship was in Vegas.
Those one cloud nine, when they're with James.
And when squishy was the top of his game,
He made it. Yeah, I don't think he made it to the world's finals there,
but he was then in top four in season seven. That was the season.
Was it? Was it that was it? No, that was row. That was on the road.
When they made it to the top four,
that was the season we thought we were going to have the first NA versus NA
grand finals because three North American teams made it to the top four.
You still won. It almost happens. If I make it through, I think it was,
I think it was rogue that they had to go up a compare.
Was it rogue that took on vitality in the top four? I'm pulling up the
For top four, I can't quite remember who Rogue had to play to go through.
I think it might have been G2, but...
I'm not sure why I pulled up the wrong thing there for me.
No, it was G2, it was G2, and it was Cloud9 up against Vitality on their side.
Both of those went 4-0.
We had two 4-0s in the 4-1.
The final three matches of that tournament were fascinating, but it was ultimately...
Rogue did not...
That was probably his best tournament result in threes, if I remember correctly.
Yeah, I mean, he definitely won.
plays to his way onto the scene.
And I think a lot of people, when they thought of AJ,
they thought of a mechanical player like that.
When you thought of what AJ could do,
you're thinking flash and flair, similar to what, you know,
Justin was able to do when he was coming onto the scene.
It felt like in North America, if you were going to break through,
it had to be because you were mechanically insane.
And AJ fit that mold, and then there
was a time in his career where he just kept going up and up
and up, but just could not find that extra little bit of success.
And I think really what did it for him is, you know, he had that crazy roster on M80
where he's teaming with Nass and Jory as two other insane 1v1 players.
And theoretically on paper, this team would be, you know, a contender for majors
and they dominated in Swiss Stages, but they weren't able to edge out those
important victories.
And I think when, when AJ didn't have success on that roster, kind of figured,
all right, if I can't win with those guys and, you know, there's not a lot of
opportunities out there, I'm just going to keep doing my own thing and focus on
my own game.
I think what we've seen though in North America, especially in this one be one event is that AJ still has it
He still has the max. He still has the decision-making ability. He still got the chops as a player
He can hang with the best, but he's gonna have a really tough corner with AJ
He gets to win here
Maybe he'll even consider coming out of retirement way punk if you give you guys that winter event interview you should ask him
I won't I thought oh my god
I would love to get to interview AJ in a winning interview here.
What a story that would be.
And the fans want to see it too.
83% in favor of AJ out here.
Evo could earn some fans here if he
was able to get a stylish win over the fan favorite.
But AJ does have an uphill battle
against an upcoming new star in the RLCS space.
Can he get back to those ways?
The guy has been around for so long.
We were talking with First Killer about him.
First of all, he used to team with them back on phase.
He knows this guy's play style.
He's confident this is a 4-0 for Evo.
Can Evo prove all of the experts right?
Or does AJ create the upside here?
What a moment it would be.
What a way to kind of continue on here on Playoff Saturday.
Let's get into it.
AJ continuing on what has been a long legendary career,
Evo, just getting started.
Who gets to write the next positive chapter?
Let's find out.
It's time to find out who's going to make it
into the semifinals.
There's a partial player to make it into the semifinals of the NA1v1 open.
D-Base, we've got AJ, we've got Evo, Evo, one of the prodigies, most recent prodigies
come through NA.
He's been looking to make that final breakthrough, though, against the King of the Uggs, AJ.
This is game one, brought to you by Progressive.
The King of the Uggs, huh, Johnny?
Is that how you describe it, AJ?
He's been like, listen, you start on your stream a long time ago, way back in the day.
Back when you were just a young buck yourself.
Now he's still playing.
Back in 2026, it's kind of crazy.
I was like, what are you talking about?
I mean, the first kill was playing your stream way back when too.
Because Evo just opened up a nice little pop shot from distance.
So I don't know, maybe the first kill might be King on,
because then AJ might pass.
You know, AJ goes,
he's more onto the first kill, though.
He came right in front.
He also did retire.
So there is that aspect to it.
way back to the league play era but one of the biggest issues for me I think in
this matchup the agent is going to face is that EVO is pretty similar to him in
the style of the play once like you mentioned they kind of like to do the
same things but EVO is I just I think a little bit better at it you're just
gonna be more mechanically clean on all of the all the air dribbles just gonna
be a little bit faster by the pitch.
Also you just gotta keep shooting that thing until he is not worried. That's one thing
I was watching earlier. Wave even talking about he wasn't having more
Couple opportunities where he could have shot the ball work or shot it to it weren't taking any pop shots
We those already showing that he can really
Touch up the field make AJ have the word and of course he has this in his bag as well
It's a cross map. He has kind of popularized this
Oh, even if we get the reset doesn't matter because you know, which is always a threat and for AJ for the newcomers Johnny
For the people who want a round back in league play what does AJ brings to the table? Oh
I mean, you can't say experience.
He's got plenty of that.
But so does Evo.
I don't think it is a massive experience advantage for AJ here.
He's definitely got the experience edge of players
like Flora in the group.
Zatu's able to take him down.
He's able to be chronic and other very experienced ones
player.
But Evo is all of those things and just a little bit,
you know, almost a lot more active in RLCS.
And he is such a good ones player in his own right.
It's going to be a free one for AJ though.
Evo, couple of times now he's running out of boosts
of these long range air dribbles.
He did mention that Diaz is the guy who popularized
this play style, the real long range air dribbles,
but he always seems to have a little bit of boost left over,
something that Evo did not have at the end of his life.
Yeah, he didn't have that.
Yeah, I can't say, and the great Evo is,
I can't say he's as talented or as skilled
in terms of the cross map,
he has a little reset scoop,
wherever you want to call it.
And Diaz is a violent, you know,
may find a world in this town itself.
I could even go so pretty.
Oh!
With a quick cut inside, time right corner flick.
That's gorgeous from AJ.
I thought you might have taken a bit too long
to get the attack going, but look at that in-field.
And perfect placement with the little pop to the top corner.
AJ did struggle a little bit with kickoffs yesterday.
He's got to try to find a way into the match in that regard.
And even though he does have the ball here,
He's got to be very careful in securing it, he was.
He might have the box, he might have any danger of demos.
Obviously, Evo knows how to get his feet back up, even without drinks.
Also, he starts the counterattack, but I don't know.
It started off the game kind of well for Evo.
Two quick goals within the first, I'll say about 30 seconds.
I kind of feel like it's been AJ's game.
Evo's out of respect.
Evo still is holding up on the Evo, but AJ is trying to get it, Evo is away with it.
This Bob's no demo though, AJ no boost, he's not going to be a threat.
Oh, there's another Pop Shot over AJ's A, can he get back? He will.
Still no right now, AJ's kind of work, he's got to worry about the Evo shot.
You're like up on backwards, I'm a little bit here with how these guys are playing.
It's like an AJ, Evo gave a bold work.
It's time to end stuff, it's, you know, full pace.
And they're both just taking turns shadow-defending
against each other, AJ here, getting caught out.
That's a good hit to the backboard by Evo.
AJ didn't expect that one.
Evo is going to slow this down.
But what this will do is it's going to, most likely,
reduce the overall swirling of the game
if we get lots of fast-paced gameplay where
four players are zooming about the pitch.
A minute can go by and nobody's storing.
Now, this time we do get a goal off the kickoff, but will we enter another lap of the pitch,
or, you know, sequence of laps of the pitch, or both players are just both sending it?
I mean, that's my phone level one. That's way back in the day.
I mean, I know not either. Everybody likes to see it at recess. They like to see the scoops.
I mean, there was something special about how players, you kind of zip around.
You got some of the genius talk about the scrubs.
We just used to run around the field and AJ...
Oh, my apologies. That's a lot of throwback too, Johnny.
Yeah, great move. As soon as AJ backs down the line,
evil switches sides. This is obviously something you guys could try at home.
If your opponent runs away, gives you space,
switch to the other side of the pitch on your dribble.
It really puts a lot of pressure on the defender.
Evil, of course, has got so many options he can go to there.
That's where it becomes a bit more difficult for us normal players to emulate what's happening.
but strategically sides Evo, countering AJ positionally.
He won't blow so far into the game from Evo.
He's got five turns in the game, but four have been from shots, from distance.
Evo really showing his plants in the world that he can shoot.
He's balling, of course, he also has this as well,
but this hasn't necessarily been a success performance aerial game.
This isn't the reason he's up right now.
AJ missed a boost, don't know the threat from him.
Yeah, Evo also missed it. He tried to grab mid, but he ended up 0, so he's had to give away the possession here, chance for AJ in the final minute.
Get back in this, pop-up, by AJ, and it works! That's such a good move to go to in a game with as much shadow defense as we've seen.
And there's no way that Evo saw this coming.
Nah, not a chance. First time AJ busted it out too.
Right at the mid, Mark. Right where you need to go, Evo.
I'm trying to have a quick shadow just like you said
Give us up that straight line. He ain't got a straight line. He's putting position
Here for AJ
Gonna have some space to work with here
Evil again backing out AJ trying to ceiling pinch it. It's a soft ceiling pinch
To get some territory seal the boost away and then set up shot for the evil staff
Not the most threatening shots of target and unfortunately for AJ
There's no boost over here to be stolen.
Not entirely, he's the responsible.
Yeah, he's still lost the attack there a little bit.
Wait, does Evo mess this?
He has Evo's face!
No, they have a way out there.
AJ's still in this.
And AJ was looking at his camera back and forth
between the front and the back of his camera.
After he gave that possession away,
he figured there was going to be an Evo goal.
Evo did miss this little shot, though.
No good as AJ a chance.
AJ gets to reset up Evo's car for Evo.
He's not going for a board.
He's bringing it back into the corner.
He's back cornering there early.
11 seconds left, 8 days to have to make a play!
It's what Eva wants, he wants AJ to have to come to him and he's just wasting all the time in the world.
Really good job executing the possession play from that far out.
I mean he had some time that he needed to waste there, but he managed to do it safely.
And yeah, really do think that that endgame sequence, just like I said earlier,
it's like we've gone back in time and we're just watching the AJ, both of them,
It's most stupid about the bitch neither one of them want to challenge in low boosts. They don't want to put pressure on the opponent in low boosts
What do you think of this AJ look by the way for the match?
I don't mind it. I don't mind it. Listen. He's trying to get locked in. He's locked in but that's just gonna take
BEEBO. It's not gonna be easy
Hell yeah, I think you're getting the nose rocked in my eye. Of course you are. You know, you know the game will like the back of your poem
So I'll give you that. I'll give you that but it really is fast paced
Action back and forth. I think these two players like playing like that. I think it's very exciting to watch, too
He's got been a J though. He's got a he's got take away the evil
I'm gonna call it jump calm jumpers
But for everybody else they can just be called shots where even score four of them and now it's four of his five goals
JB take those away. I mean AJ might be in a better position
That's why I think you evo's just a favorite stylistically is because they both like to do this
They like to just let their opponent attack
We could not see that from particular against the past us earlier. He was challenging everything early did not want to let
Spatos get into the air. These guys are they're actually okay with letting each other get up into the air
They want to try and shadow in defense. AJ is the one who's got to mix things up like the last game
He's got to get Evo with more irritable bumps
He's got to hit Evo more early out plays if he's gonna stop Evo from defaulting to that moment
I also got worried about these Evo bombs, he does.
Evo.
He's the best.
Then he says the boost grab too.
Right over AJ.
AJ's got the backup.
Give Evo space.
Evo flips onto the side.
They set up a shot.
It's a great attempt right there.
Good save from AJ.
AJ does secure.
Top left boot.
Oh, they make challenges.
Give Evo space, Evo.
That's a basic front flip.
Front flip flick.
Nothing much to be asked of.
He gets the boost in the corner as well.
They have a lot of possession right here from Evo.
I want to see AJ as well, and the only thing I want to see him do is just go for the ball.
Before it's a free ball at some point.
Just challenge when he will high school control just to try to throw
Ebo off of his timing. Right now Ebo knows.
He's closer to the ball than AJ. AJ is not going to challenge him.
That's why he's still comfortable on the pitch right now.
Where did the race of the low boost takeoff break speed by Evo 1-0 just past one minute into the game?
Yeah, for me, right? Just like you gave one, the onus is on EJ to be playing for the trick.
The surprise is Evo is the player who's in his comfort zone.
Oh, Evo, great defense right there with low boost.
New EJ won the shoot. Even does it again right here.
EJ plays it well, though. Great 50-50.
He's losing the walls, his friend. He dies with the game.
That's really well done by Evo. Evo was up early with that one. He telegraphed the challenge.
He manipulated it to his favour.
We're going to see any more of the late kick-offs from Evo as well.
We saw one of the tail end elasticate that worked out.
He's defaulting for the most part to more standard strategies.
There's that early flick. Oh my goodness, what a save by Evo.
He's caught that on the downward bounce.
And that's why Evo is coming in for the rebound as well.
necessary stop by evo
Now when was AJ coming for the rebound Johnny?
I mean he was expecting evo to get the I'll say
The stand would save right there. They just playing the dunk
I mean he didn't expect evo to have the ability to just kiss that thing right off the bottom
This is right in front of the goal kind of right by AJ. That's an opportunity that goes a ride great play from evo
Evo just keeps taking more and more shots he knows AJ's long boost and AJ's in
trouble right here. He's gonna be a one-three up potentially. He hasn't used it.
I thought he was gonna try it. Damn it. He went in there. Look at you setting up a run up for something but yeah he's really got your jade in tough position here.
So much boost for Evo. None for AJ. Evo's taking his tight move. Not rushing the attack again.
Looking to get that angle going and there's the threat. It's been so many
great shots from Evo. He's invested in those all series long and this is the payment they
return the investment. The might give marks to one. Oh, that was class. Yes, they're showing
you that investment work. The best thing is up, look what happens. Evo is setting up that
HB set the book shots up to 1,000 dribble. You're on the money, Johnny, can't be. It's
and then AJ back to the shops, that's when you bridge between them.
Here's the key, do I give you some boost by half while I score a goal please? Thank you.
Yeah lots of shadowy bits again, and it is as a result a pretty low scoring game, as you can expect when both players are giving each other space and prioritising boosts over pressure.
I feel like I'm back in 2017, watching AJ vs Lionblazer or something, I mean it's just
like my turn, your turn, blink, 100 boost, dig the ball back, get the dribble down the
line, blink again, save, like this, this is a classic 1v1 matchup here for AJ in North
America.
I'm looking at bad though. I mean this match is going by pretty quickly too.
Evo just keeps popping in. Evo's really trying to keep the bar that close. Great demo right
here. Should be a goal for Evo coming soon. Anyway, he takes his time with it too.
Yeah, he looks like he's jumped over the potential respawn location. He wanted to make sure that
AJ wasn't spawning under him. This is a piece of the look today for this one. 3-1, 91 seconds
He's left, still up first.
Four is not enough time for AJ, but he has really struggled to get meaningful shots on target in this match.
He's only had four shots.
He's forced to play a lot of defense.
He's forced to make a lot of saves just like this one, Evo.
Pepper didn't have to distance.
Oh, he's already brain and back. AJ takes the move.
Loose Evo says no worries. I'm gonna keep on trolling all possession.
Oh, he tries to get a sneaky demo. Barely misses AJ. Might come back to buy them though.
Evo immediately shuts the door. Can he follow it too?
I only missed that but it doesn't matter. He's going to get the boost again.
Evo is not backing off of AJ.
He's just not letting it play. He's controlling the possession.
Even if it's in Evo's half, he's still firmly in control.
He can take this back, he can play it forward.
He's really got all the options in the world. He does decide to play this one forward.
So that you can steal the boost again. Jokes on you, AJ. I'm not shooting.
I'm going to steal your boost so that he's going to do it again.
Again, is he going to demo agent?
Take a little bite.
It's a full minute or more of EVO ball control.
AJ needs to take a risk, and he's picked the wrong moment
to do it.
For once, EVO's just probably in control.
Yeah, barely over a minute, actually, because right when
you said 91 seconds left, now we've got 28 seconds.
Now we've got 28 seconds, which is a great play from EVO.
Every single time he knows, he doesn't need to score.
Oh.
Wow, you've got the drive kickoff as well, Evo flexing his kickoff right before here.
That's a strategy we've seen since then.
He used an EU last weekend to try to close out games.
It's a good way to just get the ball moving quickly.
Right back into 4 of the scheme of what we've seen before.
But yeah, this has been a pretty good run for AJ.
He has not had a lot of the ball.
He has been watching Evo and 3 play for the most part of this game.
I hope he felt one goal to show for his effort.
Yeah, and listen, I appreciate the online free play,
but I'm not trying to see online free play
coming to Master's magnitude.
At least I'm not injured.
That one tilt me out of the Wazoo.
Why would anybody, why would I want to do that?
He just got to have to make that adjustment.
He's got to get on the ball.
I don't know how he does it though, okay?
I mean, Evo is, he seems like he's just moving
a little bit faster than them in every aspect,
whether it's on the wall, chain dashes,
whether it's on the ground with just pure speed.
Even Evo's first goal, I believe.
AJ had full booze about 90.
Evo only had about 12, but he caught up so quickly.
He just beat him out in the midfield race.
The honest, like I said at the start of this game, it is on AJ
to do something that Evo doesn't expect.
But unfortunately, he waited until that fourth goal there.
The only time he postured up to actually challenge Evo
was after a full minute of Evo possession.
Before that, AJ didn't really have an opportunity
because he will just outpacing him. But early in this game, AJ has to challenge, he just
early, just go, don't fake challenge, just full send the challenge, and don't get fake.
Just hit the ball, play, just play the ball. It sounds simple, but with ego behind the
ball, it's difficult to do that, because you're so scared of the flick, you're so scared of
the shots, but AJ has just got to put all that fear aside and just go straight for the
ball in this third game, and do it early.
I don't know which one is your favorite reason for you to be here.
I guess it's you, but it means a second for you.
I don't know.
But for you, I'm looking at it right now.
I don't know if the score line has changed.
It was 2-2.
It was, yeah.
It's here.
Okay, no.
I don't know whether it's changed since then.
If I'll tell you that, so you got that message.
Yeah, that was the most question I could say.
That's a nice one.
Getting an update on that one for you guys.
When we have it, we're going to have the grand final
We've got the conclusion of EVO AJ, but the other uppers that we final and then we've got
Vena once.
Let's see, first of all, can AJ make this into a series?
Already though, I didn't see him play the ball in the back corner there.
Fully dead again.
Fully dead shadowing.
It's okay once he's had a couple of full sense challenges.
At that point he can go back to shadowing.
He's just living right here.
No problem.
Oh, what a pushback that is.
He's going to be just playing.
Yeah, he's going to ball.
Oh, no.
Evo just read him, too.
Faked like he's going to go left and some tights.
AJ to take out that bottom left corner from AJ's perspective.
He's going to have to cover the whole way through.
AJ does get the boost, though.
In the social time.
But now he's in an awkward spot.
Got him in control of what he does.
They were for AJ.
Flickin' coming.
It's 2-10.
2-10.
He's not going to be fighting.
No way.
Evo is going to score.
AJ scores.
They're going, Angel just goes for it and he profits!
By going, you know, I feel like an earlier game, Angel would have made this, but
this time he does just starting to go, thrust himself to half the pace,
and he's got one goal lead.
He can't control off the ball again, maybe here, Evo with a taste of his own benefit,
but he's the Evo's type of guy, he means.
You see that little wave dash, but Angel's looking like, pass out there,
He's still behind us.
That's very... he can do all you break that.
Yes! He's serving the ball!
Oh! Johnny's so happy!
He's gonna get possession off of the 2 Johnny.
1v1 ego!
Plus.
1v1 ego.
Plus he's a 1v1.
He's got the solo play!
Great stop Tyler! Good shot AJ!
Good shot!
Well done!
Solo play against EVO.
RLCS 1v1.
I don't think you're the only one who said that.
I heard that.
Oh, Lordy.
AJ, he's doing what he needs to do.
He's just had enough of getting me.
He's had enough of a tank challenge.
I'm just going to go for the ball.
You've got to actually play.
If I do that, oh!
The mind game comes through.
It's 3-0.
It's all in AJ's favor now.
I was going to say, I think this is the first time
A.J. scored first in the series.
So, I mean, when you're talking about it,
now Evo has to respond.
He can't just play keep away.
He can't just play boom, ball, take his top shot.
He's going to have to play off this.
And he hasn't necessarily done anything too risky
in this series so far.
He's been real timid with his attacks,
a real disconservative.
But he does end up kind of burning off this kickoff.
That's a confident flick from Evo.
A.J. is trying to get rid of the danger there,
but it's gone straight to Evo.
slams it. That was a falling fucking I've ever seen before, but when you can hit it, that's fast and accurately at that.
I do have problems with it.
Still going to be Hugo's
fall in here to that corner if he wants it.
He's going to try to bump it.
He'll be cornered with an evo-free play. Any demo's going to hit as well.
Yeah, I think he did bit of the bit more than he could chew there.
He felt like he might be able to do something with this, but it's really a
position to make for
You know, control is by Carter.
Yeah, he tried to get away with get away with the ball
and the way with his life.
He said you can't have both.
Now, I think I didn't want to boost in the back corners.
Well, that's why he didn't have the reaction,
but it cost him home going now that the real lead
that AJ worked really hard to build.
Not only when I'm in AJ this possessive,
a little cyclist shot to the left.
If I shoot in that far-fowl site, he does present the counter-attack to Keevo.
Both these guys... Oh, AJ!
Sikes inside, he was so close.
That's turned around in his wave dash.
Now he'll give Keevo a free protection.
Is it gonna be a physical play?
No, it's gonna be a duck for Keevo, but not an attack to one at all.
AJ crushes it.
Like they're gonna reset, look for a musty click, and he gets it, and he scores it too!
AJ!
Shondan the old man the honky
the prison the honks the king of the honks
every time he likes to gargle him
he's no guy
the unkicked
4-2
we're gonna go top 6
sorry this is already top 6
we're gonna go top 4 in our LCS ones
something about his money no elimination today
and AJ got to get this in there
what a save by EVO he's actually got down the outside of AJ as well
AJ's got the boost though
it's still gonna be a goal for him
No, three goals to the good again. Second tight in this game.
AJ, WaveGash kickoff, just put so much pressure on Evo right there.
We had the scrimp, we had to work just to get back to it in the save.
I mean, it was glass, it was grief.
AJ couldn't immediately follow, but then the boost, the chase for the boost after that.
AJ was better.
Now it's on Evo. I can't say the error game has been excellent for him.
Usually he's excellent all CS and these moments reset.
He was but a double time and he gets it.
Well, that is quite extraordinary. I think he's frequently lost control of that. He's
gone behind him. He regains it. And then it's the reset double tap with Bilboos left
of the tank. That shows extreme confidence because he lost control of it all there. Had
to use all his burst to get it back in front of him. But he still hits the shot.
Oh, he barely pops it on AJ, and will he score? He will.
Great play from Evo right here. There's a subtle pop on the turn.
It's about AJ. He was trying to slam the door close to distance.
Doesn't matter though, AJ. No one but one.
He's wanting to kick up right here. Let's see if he can do another wave dash kick up.
Evo gets possession, Johnny. Here he goes, off the side wall.
The shot is way too weak. It should be a goal for AJ.
I'm very surprised, I can't believe Ivo's gone for the direct shot here, I mean, maybe!
Maybe with absolutely perfect placement of power you can get a goal there, maybe, but
even then, it looked like AJ was going to be in the area, and I didn't have a chance to
say just about anything.
Ivo with that much type last, but wish that you'd been more careful with the possessions.
Oh wow, that's obvious.
So, AJ's close, don't be careful there, Evo there.
Get it done, dive in early, try to surprise AJ, but the ball's probably too high, it's going to be AJ's call.
I think he's going to play white to the midfield.
The whole way back to the start of those, still, to get the attack.
I was expecting a back corner bearer.
Evo's been doing the first two games, I'm going to mind it from AJ right there.
Kind of giving Evo a chance.
I don't know how they play it.
Need to be a little smarter with that build.
It's not going to go on, but bring it back into the corner.
He's trying to surprise even with the challenge there, AJ knows.
If you just get one more successful challenge, you win the game.
But in that moment, you forget what the alternative is, what the challenge doesn't work.
That's evil scoring, and now you've got one full lead.
The only thing to play with, your car's out of the game.
What can evil do in the final play of the game?
Oh, he scores it!
Again, with the end-kill dribble.
Six seconds to go, we're tight at six apiece.
Evo even lost possession early.
Kind of a tough ball after he got the demo.
He couldn't get it on top of his car.
He drops it. I think Ajay probably should have
this full sense in that moment.
Yeah.
Gave himself a chance.
That's what he did before.
He caught my play.
He did his own head-byte.
I said, Evo, the huge early challenge is
going to bite before the line.
So no danger there great defense for a ego forcing over time
Go ahead by three here rolls through a day's delay kickoff AJ trying to trick evil
He didn't know felt for it boosted back to Jesus rewards. Oh
Bring it back AJ no boost copy all evil right here. Evo is moving fast as never
AJ just back right corner, but here we go. Evo send us a bookshot danger. Thanks. I don't give up
50-50, AJ should sell this backline.
This is in 2017.
He's got to close it this and then some point, Johnny.
Yeah, he's a bit scared to do that against Devo.
From that angle, Devo threw an ended shot to both top corners
of the net.
Low 50, obviously a threat as well.
You know, so many options in that position for Evo,
but I think you're right, AJ.
Either up 6-5 or in overtime, just
has to go for the ball.
You just thought it was a send-get at some point because on your goalie they're sitting ducky in a way, it's not like you're holding onto a good position.
Sometimes you get in the full position if you've got players in the other players, not really threatening much.
But I do like that Evo's had the angles and dribbles, that's something we talked about earlier.
You guys can try that in your own games.
Game for yourself on angles you work with.
Right in shots, right in clicks, cuts in field, bakes.
Evo's really flexing all the options here.
really is he had to have a dig deep too because he just thought up the game hot
scores first scored second score third three goals the better for AJ and
then later on the game I believe was five two in this game as well so two
times in this game AJ had a three goal lead he's he's a leg what kind of waste
away any moments I mean I know it's a proper situation evils of highly talented
individual which so is AJ I think he think he just needs to have a little
more confidence in his challenges, a little more confidence in his ability to stop whatever
evos about to present to him because oh, Tom should sat back and kind of letting the
evo dictate what happens.
I think at this stage in Rockley's history allowing players of evos caliber, of evos talent
to shoot the ball.
There's going to be more and more of a life of success.
It's why a lot of the players will skew toward aggression more often than not.
Alright, he was trying to try to kick off here, for instance, open the game forward,
I was right pulled into the backboard.
Yeah, he did, but he caught a little bit too much off it.
It's really surprising, actually, how side-on you need to be with the right kickoff before it bites into me.
You feel like you're too side-on when you get to right now, obviously.
But it's enough of an angle for people.
It wasn't, it wasn't, let me know when you're opening up the kickoff ahead of me.
You know, I did not know, I did not know that the kickoff was nowhere near the same.
Evo doesn't point to AJ.
Well, if AJ actually almost came from inside the goal and barely kissed it back in, that would have been a top play if I've ever seen one.
Evo shot incoming, power and accuracy, not exactly what he wanted.
AJ no bruise, Evo secures the mid, AJ's got the backup, and here we go, same situation.
What is AJ gonna do? He has no moves, but he does save the ball.
I was gonna say that if he doesn't get that, he's gonna just make his own chances happen.
I do like that out of AJ right here, just pushing Evo back into the corner.
I think Evo have to work for him.
I do something like AJ's missed an opportunity there to drive Challenger.
Maybe demo Evo on the previous play at midfield.
That started off the sequence of Evo's possession.
So it's now 8 o'clock and we get something happening.
Recovery by Ego on the inside of his own post.
He's prioritizing the boost skill instead of following up pressure.
That's been the story of the series for me.
Both players, why after this let call both the opponent inside?
There's a low nasty opponent that's called Noma Bandit,
and you're able to secure 100%.
This is the least amount of reset gold.
I've seen the one series in a very long time and it's about the most amount of
shots I've seen in one series in a long time too. Once again no Evo, Bubs out AJ,
Turn, David, it just snipes it right into the crossbar.
Thumb range, one and one apiece, 3-30, 3-30 left.
Again, it's over by it again.
Your right spin, focusing mostly on the right game. Here's another look at it.
Evo taking edge on the stick.
He's done it up there to cut away the shooting angle, but of course AJ will get around the ball with a wave dash and the side flip shot.
Still quite getting this one. He wants to make it into a closer match than it's for a line we currently suggest.
Really it has gone very much toward the plan for EVO. It's very much as fresh skill and cold as it would be.
It's drunk in favor of the active RLCS player in all of AJ's.
Hope is with the link here in this series.
Hope, that's a big pop.
It'll leave a lot of that with Dresden Drill.
Yeah, I don't think you did either.
He thought you got an ego right there.
I can imagine now he's upset.
Does get another demo on AJ.
AJ hits him on the top.
Evo says, my fault.
AJ's tired of being taken out of the game, Johnny.
Oh, he says he didn't mean to. So AJ is written on it. Is that a quick chat?
Yeah, that's a quick chat.
But he was trying to choose where to respawn.
And that's pretty good excuse, but I don't know if I can even...
I mean, that's too suspicious as soon as you get them up there.
Nah, he did with Nevers.
Never would he be tilted up that much, really.
Ah, nah.
Nah, no classy North American players. They never got to the North American most.
Yeah, they did my in here, Daniels.
Scrimm was back in the 80s generation, he was part of that era.
Playing against all the dogs, all the greats of MA.
Now he's got to play up against the greats of the modern one team.
Evo, Squillin, AJ in this one.
He's just been better in the physical game.
I think he's picked his box to challenge a little bit better as well.
Overall, just being slightly more efficient.
There's a better example to drive from Evo.
Evo got more of an angle at his approach now,
with more of an angle at his bumpside point,
so it does just go back harder, heartlessly.
We had to turn a little quicker as well.
Even when we were talking about the Litzes,
they did end up conceding a kick-off roll as a big kick-off roll, too.
Evo and Lades kick-off, I think, were some of the first times in the series.
They really took AJ by surprise.
Now check it out, man, that was a quick two-go swing.
AJ was up one to two and then came three to two.
AJ right here, gives a reset, takes the ball, game!
Raise the goal, free the game, back with him, one.
Well, you get the pre-plus as well to get the shots off.
There's a big gap between AJ and the ball.
Evil thought that that's going to slow down the shot.
AJ proving otherwise.
Perfect contact.
Oh, the best transfer now.
AJ's the one playing the kickoff.
They're really accelerating through it though, so it's going backwards.
He's going south is backwards so it's good to take control of the situation.
36-minute and I think for AJB's success we've got to stay on the ball.
Like what he's doing right here.
Got to have a feeling, have an inkling there.
And he's going to start getting this ball.
He's going to start bringing it back into the corner.
There it is.
Here we go.
That was all fake.
He's not actually trying to score this either.
He's going to bring it back below.
Oh, or is he?
Never mind.
He's trying to score it.
Eventually all leads back to the corner. Here we go, you see.
Taking a good shot at Target.
Forced it up to the lead.
Oh, he didn't get along that well here.
You're actually able to stay with it as a result.
But Willie, Willie do just that.
Lay her on the game.
Now that we're in the final minute, I would not be surprised.
Like, you would have made the Evo dribbling of all five
on Pre-Shop.
Pre-Shop major right there on the chain dash.
He didn't, he just let's Evo get the ball again.
He's got to be able to capitalise he put Evo in a bad position.
Damn, kind of flopping off his own hold.
Hold on, bad touch from Evo.
Can he get back to it?
I don't think he can.
AJ ties it up.
He shoals the wall by AJ.
Great first touch as well.
Didn't have a lot of boost to play with.
Had to make those touches perfectly.
He quick succession.
Right back to the center circle we go.
He was tricky in this game.
Red kick off to the lead.
Well, and he's been spun out, AJ.
He just fucked himself up. Everybody fall it over as we get to the final seconds.
Oh, we gotta track that. Track the utopia grass. It might be a little slick out there right now.
AJ with possession.
Ah, but the air dribble is just not what he wanted. Now he's out of boost. He's gonna pop that to the wall.
He's gonna give away the possession of Evo. Here goes Evo. I immediately insta-shot.
Oh, he's gonna be able to Evo that every single time.
Time for...
He's gonna share again.
Send me your Gribbles.
Mix it up.
Throw me Evo.
Ceiling double.
It's in the bar.
Oh, no offense.
Overtight.
I'm in life on the line right here.
It's 4x4 of Evo Wednesdays,
but a series has been close.
It's been little things from AJ
that have made all the difference.
Things as they need to be able to challenge me.
positions he's not giving, oh no he's not joining, he will, he will!
Ah, yeah, Evo's just too, too quick, he caught AJ by surprise here, AJ backwards at the near post,
could not accurately defend his neck, and he drops to the quarterfinals, Evo advances to the semis
to the confident win over the legend that is AJ, that you know I think it was better
at the end of the series from AJ, he started to do more in the way of challenging by going
forwards.
But it just took too long.
I think he needed to start the series doing that.
That's even the best price.
Exactly.
And then in the big moments too, we've been in game number three, have AJ is up by three,
kind of he's already, he resorted back to just not going for the call.
Yeah.
And then that happened for the sixth goal for Evo, Evo tied up, but in the seventh
to win over time. It was just a big moment. You've got to be able to be active in those
situations in order to get yourself a chance. That's fair of credit to Evo, he gets to win.
And he moves on, I'm sure he's quite happy.
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Ooh, is it a puzzle like my crossword?
No, picture soccer.
Okay.
With a car.
What do I hang my feet outside the window?
No, not your car, but you said think it's a video game. Oh, okay. I get it. Where's the cartridge?
No, it's an online thing. Is there a joystick? Not like the ones you're thinking of, but I need to get some quarters, right?
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That just started to build up.
Oh, it cleared the bump, but saved it.
And a middle.
Just reminds me of what did it finish.
Oh, what a devil.
Oh, Stizzy.
Downfield down to Jack.
Open net.
He didn't have a lead.
Big shot.
Pass.
Oh, a body.
Not over.
Zero seconds.
It's too late.
On the ground.
On the fourth.
That is how you take an opportunity, real ass.
Punch them so they can get out of the way to open the door!
I don't even know what I'm doing.
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You're all gold, a little too hard to take
There's records broken while I'm falling to the ground again
Can't keep reliving my mistakes
Cause I'm not a good man
I know that I've made a mistake
But I ain't felt what I feel
When I'm shakin' all your skin
I'm not worth it
Nobody needs to see you
But you're just my girl
I just wanna get out
I
Saw you in the mattress
I can't seem to understand
How you got all that funness
Still be running in circles
Inside my head
Was it looking for love, baby?
I felt you stay
They've played hundreds of times, it feels like at this point, but Evo has AJ's number
on speed dial, they're four up, four down, made him work for it.
Then at the end, Evo is third at top four.
He's one match away from the grand finals.
I'm joined by Evo here, sir.
Dude, FK called it.
He said it was going to be a 4-0.
You lived up to it.
AJ made you work for it, though.
What was the hardest part of that match for you?
Honestly, kickoff. I kind of want to kickoff. So I just started playing it, popping it up.
And yeah, I think that's why I wouldn't.
How much time do you spend thinking about like premeditating a kickoff versus like just kind of
vibe coding the kickoff when it comes to once? Because it feels like it's like so much of the game
when you're the only player on the pitch.
Honestly, I don't really think too much about it, to be honest.
Okay, well, you may have worked here with all this kickoff there.
I got to ask about tomorrow real fast here.
Yeah, first killer is in the match behind you and then depending on who loses between Zach and Diaz, they'll be back there.
So you're either playing Zach, Diaz or FK.
Who do you feel is your best matchup?
Um, I think probably FK.
I want to get my rematch because last year I lost to him and kind of want to be in the shoe.
So yeah, I think, I think first player.
Hey, you're already a step ahead. I hope you get that rematch there.
We got Zach and Diaz coming up here in a second.
You think Diaz has got this or Zach going to cut the, create the upset?
I think Diaz will open that 4-1, 4-0.
All right, sir. Well, hey, congratulations on the win.
Good luck on Championship Sunday. Thank you. Thank you.
As Eva locking it down here, he wants the rematch against First Killer.
Wouldn't that be a stylish way to have Championship Sunday evolve here?
Back and forth match, especially there towards the end here, Johnny.
AJ put it to overtime multiple games.
I think he did just take a bit too long to try the aggressive style of defense. He waited until it was evil favorite at the end of the series and then he started to switch up physically. I think maybe if you can start off the match with early challenges and get evil worrying about that early on in the series, that's when you can have more success later on.
I think maybe if you can start off the match with early challenges and get people
partying about that early on in the series, that's when you can have more
success later on with his standard defensive style.
It wasn't enough.
Evo was just a little faster, a little quicker, just better.
Everybody came down to it and he was comfortable.
Even in that moment, AJ did somehow put us on such an awkward position right there.
He knows it too. I mean, it's just tough to be in that spot after grabbing
Boots and evo just coming around the barrel full speed full full speed around the corner. So
evo clinical series and I mean all these top ones players and then they to keep predicting all these
four O's in the next matches. So now now I'm a little hesitant man on the next game too. I was
expecting to be really good. I wonder I wonder I will say like when it comes to like most improved
in the tournament, Zach formerly scribbles did not make it to play off Saturday in 2025. Here he is
in the upper bracket with a chance of pushing himself straight to top four if you're gonna take
out his teammate Diaz. This is one of the biggest like improvements we've seen from year to year
in this tournament. But still, Johnny Diaz has just looked untouchable. I mean, with how good
first killer looked earlier and the way Diaz took him out yesterday, you got to think this is Diaz's
tournament still. Absolutely. You know, I'm looking at Zach here in one by one terms,
as kind of like an Osaft. He's trying to come in here. Both the Diaz is underestimating him,
like babies ended to OSAF, definitely like we did to OSAF to the EU. And then, you know,
just obviously be mechanical, be fast like we know Zach is. But he'll need to be an all-rounded
ones player as well. You can't just rely on speed and mechanics against Diaz. He's got to have the
kickoff strats. He's got to have the aggression and defense. He's got to also find ways to get the
ball off of Diaz, who's very good at controlling possession forever in match-ups against these
players. Well, we'll get to see that in a moment. We are kind of getting almost a little ahead of
ourselves and break down the details of the upcoming match because this is not the only tournament
happening right now. Middle East, North African bracket has concluded up until the grand finals.
It will be TRK versus Nobu. A rematch of upper bracket round one. TRK was able to get it done
against Mish in six games there. That man TRK man. Oh, I don't want to see TRK lose two grand
Grand finals in a row, man. If y'all are watching the two the twos grand final two weeks ago
511 went up against
Falcons name seven guys. He had the most insane reset go to tie it up about 27 seconds left
And then ah, it's just Falcons found a way
They found a way to beat him in regular time, too. I'm not I was kind of crushing TRK. I talked to him at the Lens
And he wants to win, man, he's always in grand finals and he has won grand finals, but he
wants to win even more.
It's another big moment here.
If he gives beat, the reign in RCS won the world champion, I'll be great momentum for
him going into the, I mean, world championship.
It'd be an incredible title to take off of Nobu's shoulders there.
Will he get the opportunity, will he be able to do it, will he live up to the moment?
He's earned the opportunity here.
Two team kills here to close out the day.
Twisted Mines versus Twisted Mines will be our Mina grand final before that SSG versus
SSG Zach and Diaz taking each other on. You're going to start to talk about the match again.
We were saying we were like that's going to add to the two different decals. I'll set
them there to two excellent decals here in the season. You were saying you were making
comparisons Johnny of Zach Osoft over in the European 1v1s and how a lot of people slept
on him. But he was clearly a lot better than people expected. I'm having trouble believing
his teammate Diaz is going to be sleeping on sack. If there's anyone that's going to know what
Zach's bringing, you'd assume it'd be Diaz. Yeah, you would think so. You know, I do want to
clarify again, when I'm making comparisons between Zach and Osaf, that is exclusively for 1v1 and the
expectations in this upper semi-final matchup. When you're talking threes, Osaf is trying to use
that one through his ult as a way to break through into the 3C. Scribbles has already done that.
He's going the other direction, where he's already been successful in threes, especially in
North America and now he's trying to add 1v1 just as an extra feather in his cap and an extra
thing to practice competitiveness in and I think that's a valuable thing for all these guys who
are trying to win multiple game loads. Gribbles obviously, Zach and Two's, these guys together
in threes. This is just more repetitions, the feeling of pressure and you know keeping the
mechanics sharp. Oh that's a great point right there real quick Wade because Zach is the one
person still remain who can try them. Yes, due to trouble. Yes, very true. But this is
an it's so interesting to think that Diaz could be a big part of the story of him not
being able to complete that here. But also a fun tip that if you think about just a few
weekends ago in the North American two v twos, Zach and reveal on SSG had in the semi finals
a match against Diaz and they knocked Diaz out of the tournament there. So a little bit
of maybe Diaz getting the payback here on Zach going back and forth, a bit of healthy
rivalry in and amongst the teammates to keep themselves sharp. And it is Diaz here that
we've been talking about Nobu in the Mena region, how he's the reigning, defending,
Rocket League 1v1 champion of the world. His name hangs in Champions field. Diaz doesn't have a
banner yet, but he is the reigning defending North American 1v1 champion. And he's trying to get
back to that point. Zack stands in his way right now. A fantastic match up here. And could Zack
Create the spectacle we're about to find out folks. Let us know you things gonna win hashtag Zach hashtag Diaz hashtags couldn't be more simple in this case
Bates things X got it. Was that was that Argentina Jersey?
He's Brazilian right? Yeah, that'd be like that'd be like you repping like
I don't know what the I don't know what the allegiances are like. They're off between Argentina and Brazil or like
I don't know, it feels like it. Maybe you say it feels to me like a good idea.
Are they friends? I don't know.
Do you see any Scottish people in England dressing up?
I know, I have a saying.
Do they wear each other's jerseys?
Yeah, exactly.
Are you going to see the two plates today? Maybe he's going to have Brazil on tomorrow?
I don't know, you're still never wearing English jersey.
So I don't know, it's that. This place is not the jersey alone. Give me Zach.
I'll wear the jersey of every Englander playing though, if anyone's got one.
Oh, you will?
Absolutely.
Alright, I'll take your back. Give me DS.
Yes, let's go with DS. What are we doing here?
DS is favorite. He's favorite of the whole tournament.
Zach has to prove that he's got this extra level in him.
I think that he's already surprised us by taking down Wavy yesterday,
but Wavy looks a little bit nervous.
So I'm waiting to see if it gets to DS or a farce killer
before I believe he's on that level.
I do think that, I do think that Zach is the most improved player
in the tournament compared to the 20-25 season.
But Diaz is looking as good as he was then and it was enough to win the whole thing here in North America getting Diaz on this one
It will be Diaz moving forward. Zack will have to drop the play first killer tomorrow
What'll happen here? All right, Bates since you're so you're so hot on Zach
What's up with you guys?
Oh, I'm not I'm not I'm not hot on Zach as you can clearly see I was just basing my pick off with allegiances
And it also production on the ground. Yeah, but production is playing around with me
I clearly said Diaz is a clean sweep on the desk. Don't worry about it. Sometimes your eyes can literally deceive you and they're deceiving you right now
I'm seeing a lot. I'm picking screen. Yes, and it's okay
Hey, listen, I'll tell you this maybe I got the best of both worlds here
I can have Zach and I can have Diaz because I know what I picked by no production pick for me
Let's get to the matter. We got the best of both worlds here, too
Because SSG's one in either way folks a bit of a team kill inter rivalry here Zach versus Diaz to close out play outside of it
I think Diaz has a great chance at getting some revenge from those 2B2's fear.
What do you think?
Definitely.
If 2B2 was favoring Zac, then this is Diaz's home field.
This is Diaz's turf in this 1v1 matchup.
It looked like Diaz is on pretty good team as well.
playing 2v2's from Brazil and looks like now back in NA Diaz able to get the first
goal of this series and gonna be the favorite in here but Zac has been has
had some good results. Zac I think a true contender here. Well how much of a
chance do you really give him against the Titan of Diaz dominating NA once for a while?
Yeah, it really comes down to as Diaz gets scored yet another Diaz loves to put
players on the ropes he loves to dance in the air and watch them squirm and Zack
squirming right now the wave dash being convinces Zack as he flies out and Diaz
is able to score but it's gonna come down to that matchup between Zack and Wavy
you know going into that that's a matchup that Wavy should win somebody who
maybe can actually give a fight to Diaz but maybe does not look like himself so
So Zac gets to beat him in advance, can he show it again against another top contender?
That's what he gets to prove right now against Diaz so far.
40 seconds in, it seems like everything's going according to plan though for the 1v1
greats.
That's going to be an open net spotted out Diaz says oh well he's going to leave it open.
I'll shoot it there, Zac has actually been had time on the mid-boost and he wondered
what he was doing there, just boosting straight up the wall.
Yeah, you even boost, you know
Towards the play if we're gonna be an irritable which sometimes players do from that position
He was kind of just boosting all the way up into the deep back corner
Which is not even a place to challenge much of any take. I almost wondered if his controller disconnected first
Who's left the wall, but finally Zach will get his first goal of the game
Now we had a friends with a reset
But that little touch there, you can see how much power he got on it almost scored off the touch.
We have seen a ton of Zach Clips. I think Zach got the number one play.
One of the top players of yesterday, he is more than capable of continuing to add that
and getting his name in that top plays again if he gets open opportunities.
He's almost about as close as he gets, but he is going to have the follow-up.
We have ideas to make sure that Zach doesn't get to his aerial game as often as he'll need to to win this series.
Yeah, and you can see Diaz a little bit panicked on that touch.
Normally he's the one making other people squirm.
Zac getting in there, that patient.
That means right time.
Diaz though, fighting through.
That should be an open net goal here for Diaz.
He's gonna walk that one right in.
Diaz just taking advantage of a Zac who was looking for a 50 on low boost,
but ultimately was not able to check the ball well enough to get him in from the side.
He's to wave dash, mirror, kick off.
You know, with teammates playing each other, it makes me wonder if these guys ever do any
one-by-one against each other.
Zack and I's really taking advantage of Diaz who slipped up on the boost, had to reverse
back to get it.
So arriving to this defense just a bit late, Zack takes advantage.
I know I've seen this over at Mina.
A lot of the top Mina guys will scream each other a bunch in one-by-one.
Maybe that's where Zack is getting his bread.
I don't know if we have an interview.
We're going to have to do with one of them afterwards.
We actually know if they ever play and, you know,
shark action their skill against each other.
They're trying to scrims or something, you know?
And you've got maybe other teams that they're yet to say,
hey, you want to do some 1v1 while we wait.
I would think they should do that.
I've seen other teams do it.
But I also wouldn't be surprised if they said,
no, you know, we stick away from the mode.
But no better guy to practice against than Diaz.
And Diaz, obviously, you could probably learn something new
playing against a pair as skilled as Zac as Diaz.
Open the pin, Zach back, oh my god, didn't have a ton of boost, Zach pops it around him and he's got an equal game.
You see that raw talent that Zach has as well.
Zach's such a fast player, so speedy.
Red Diaz like a book there, he's had him a couple times now.
Despite Diaz having a strong start in the game, you see Zach now.
Game confidence.
That's possession again.
On the dribble, Diaz.
It's beat again, Zach!
Following his own flick, and a nice flick it was.
Diaz shadowing from distance and just waiting for Zach to bring the plate to him.
Zach punishing, capitalizing, got a kick-off win, never giving that possession back.
Diaz has again pushed this ball into blue half. Previously Zach was able to handle it. Diaz just misses.
Barely Zach is aiming out of the net to make the save.
likely just clear this one out, throw it on that, force Diaz to slow down, Zack's gonna
have an opportunity to pick up boost, but now Diaz gets to get to his favorite position.
He sees Zack coming to challenge, he pitches it on the ceiling, but a little bit of a bump
might have helped slow down his recovery and Diaz can't get there to convert.
That did look like Zack made some contact with Diaz on that play, such a fast challenge,
bold challenge for Zack, but it worked out, however Diaz in the air again will have to
out of the flight, no boost.
Zach, touch to the corner and gets the 100.
A little bit of space here is actually going to take it up the wall.
Didn't go up cleanly, now back down to the ground. Diaz.
Defend that.
That less than I'd be able to touch up the wall.
Yeah, both of the defenses are looking solid right now.
Normally you see in ones that Diaz is going to get a nice bump,
should have an available angle.
But you normally see in ones, extended attacks,
you know, a shot that gets followed up a few different times
where a defender is actually able to escape,
but right now, both Zac and Diaz have done a good job
of shutting down their very first attack,
getting quality saves, prioritizing their recoveries
on top of guiding the ball to the corner,
not allowing either one of them to get anything going,
which is, Diaz, I know can do that.
It's Zac who potentially was not gonna be able
to handle Diaz's offense in that way,
so far it has, nice little free flip
to kind of scoop the boost out of Diaz's control,
and he's gonna try and force Diaz to here.
And he scored this, Diaz gets the pickboard to respawn, and Zach shoots it away.
And this is all because of a watch with Waldasher from Diaz.
Made it an easy target, a sitting duck there for Zach.
Had Diaz been able to get that Waldasher.
I mean, he was playing so smart before that.
He wasn't getting made in by the boost.
He was quite close to the ball for that, you know, that's a risk to play.
A lot of people don't realize how difficult Waldasher really is to execute perfectly every single time.
I'm gonna give up another one Diaz down by two.
Zack is looking like a real contender out here.
Yeah, Zack is not making a mistake of overly, you know, respecting Diaz, backing off behind him.
And he wants, he is ready to pounce on any poor touch.
Diaz is giving him opportunities.
Zack may be immune to, you know, the fear that everyone else has when they're going up against Diaz in North America.
Says this is my teammate. I know I can beat him. What do you mean?
He is certainly playing confident.
Wave that shot.
Diaz cuts it off.
We'll see if Zack can get an extended possession now.
Diaz managed to save that with a ton of boost left over.
He used that boost.
The bomb stack away.
Diaz not going to pick up 100.
Going to cut straight down the field.
Both of them still have to use the work win.
Can Zack get around it easily?
He just waits on the ground and has a save.
It didn't look like Diaz got enough height on the air from the bomb.
And he's going to pay the price.
Gives up the ball.
Looks like a premium opportunity there for Diaz.
Didn't execute.
and out of the other end, Zach punches him.
It seems like he's reading Diaz like a book.
Diaz multiple times over now,
getting caught just out of position
where Zach can sail it up and over him.
I think you're right.
I think you're onto something here,
that intimidation factor that Diaz probably has
against so many other players.
Not gonna be there for Zach.
Wow, nice recovery on this one.
actually faded Diaz in.
Sometimes how it works, you make a bit of a mis-touch,
and your opponent thinks that they can capitalize.
Diaz not able to capitalize.
Zack, look at strong for those of us out there
who want to entertain the idea of a triple crown winner.
You need Zack to be playing well in ones.
You need him to look good against Diaz in ones.
And he's done just that.
He's got Diaz to give up.
A four goal lead with 21 seconds.
Diaz wants to go next.
Zack will confirm game number one.
Great performance from Zack.
It was off to a bit of a shaky start.
You were talking about how Diaz can make his opponent squirm.
We saw that very early on.
Got the reset, brought back down to the ground.
It looked like this might be a routine game here for Diaz.
But then Zack kicked it to a different gear, came back,
and then started not missing a beat.
You saw that one play there.
Such a compact side flip as well.
Diaz thought that he had the angle covered for Zack.
so mechanical, so fast that Diaz is having trouble keeping it up.
Yeah, this is everything we could hope for from Zach
coming into this tournament.
John and I had him on our list, but a little bit lower.
And it's kind of like if you could put a question mark next
to his name instead of a number, I think both of us
might have done it because he has played that well
in every other game mode.
We haven't seen him as much.
He doesn't really deserve a spot
above the people who have proven results, who have actually
gotten the wins that put them at the top of the ranks.
But so far, Zack is not everything you could be asked of to move higher and higher and higher.
And it starts here in this game one against Diaz, you know, if you can keep this game play,
just like there were gardening comparisons to Osoft in EU, the way Osoft played in ones,
he just had such a complete game.
And we were a bit more surprised with that because we hadn't seen that success yet in twos or threes necessarily.
We have seen that with Zack.
So we should be less surprised, but he is playing a really well rounded game and has Diaz
on the back foot, something that he is probably almost never in, in one way or another.
Yeah, it's got to be a little bit jarring here for DS, normally. Is that heavy, okay, Rick?
The other thing is welfare, I don't know about you, but I want to talk about the Triple Crown.
One, I wonder if we could come up with a better name.
But two, I feel like if you are even in the running for the Triple Crown,
you should get some kind of special titles like a final sport.
Yeah, I'm down more titles, more fun, more things to show off.
I mean, it's it's interesting because I could believe a world not only
where I don't think we're gonna see a triple crown.
I think we might not even go into a world championship with a chance for a
triple crown.
That's not saying if somebody makes it to the world championship and they're
competing in all three, that warrants a special title, does it not?
You have my vote.
If you're trying to gain votes, you've got mine.
Because he, and Zac has a real chance of it here, he's the last one to do it, but Diaz is that final hurdle, in my opinion, obviously a lot of people think First Killer also has what it takes, but Diaz isn't a favorite.
If Zac can take Diaz down here, he's got a legit shot at taking that a reality, something I didn't think we'd see, and already we see Zac get the equalizer.
What is he doing?
Attack.
He's able to stop the full-field dribble that Basal Diaz is going for.
That's what he's known for.
We don't know what he's known for yet.
We're finding out what he's known for right now.
We know at least he can do double-foot presets,
because that was in everyone's play.
We'll see what else he could do.
He could definitely kick off, because he's had no trouble being Diaz on.
He's going to get this one to roll perfectly down in front of him and take the lead.
That's got to be annoying for Diaz.
Diaz, I think that that one maybe would bounce up.
bounce up or something, it's caught out. Didn't get the boost either. That has to be a tilter.
You have seen for Diaz too, he's missed boost pickups. It didn't really matter on that last
goal because he was going to get score on whether to pick up the boost or not. He's been
driving right past the couple, which is not the best side ever. You know what that being said,
last person I remember doing that was Sam. So that's the decid company to keep on, Zach!
Another great aerial play as he takes this from behind the midfield line. It's a fairly low dribble can't challenge from the ceiling
But that's not where Tia's challenges from it's on the ground and Zack still hasn't beats insane power
Zack goes for it
Didn't have a clue if he loses that 50 there as well. Yes off the races and scoring
Back again another flipper. He said this one bounces off the elbow and goes perfectly back to him
Everything is going Zach's way right now. Diaz trying to switch it up, bring the defensive
pressure to him, chasing him down out in the air, but Zach is too comfortable there. Both
these guys are very talented in the air, and they're going to try and stop each other's
real game so far. It has been Zach who has yet to be stopped, Diaz who is looking for
answers as he's into the air right now. As an early reset, Zach is just shadowing, shadowing,
And Diaz both doesn't use the arrow to shoot it because he feels like he's gonna miss if he does and also doesn't bump Zac
He just let Zac have it and Zac will counter attack. He committed so heavily to that fate
He was just waiting for Zac to commit and Zac never did
And he talked to Diaz liking it when players squirre
Well, he attempted to get Zac to squirm on that one but Zac never bought, he never bit
So confidence in
in the biggest, you know, highest pressure game modes you're just by yourself.
There's every opportunity to panic and worry about something.
Zack is not doing that.
He needs to be careful here.
He fakes maybe a clear and it's going to drop down.
Maybe he's trying to take a nice high shot.
I think he's trying to get a skim.
He is forcing it high.
Diaz actually doesn't have a big decision.
Diaz has low boost, Zack.
I don't know if he knows how to ton.
We know he has a ton because we can see on his name tag that he has a ton.
But the last thing you want is the ball to go up high when you have a big boost disadvantage and Zach takes advantage of that.
To get a 6 goal at 6-1 and it's Zach who's in the lead!
Yeah, this is crazy. You tell me the scoreline. You're expecting it to be Diaz out in the lead.
Diaz getting swaddled in this game.
The nice bump from Zach. Diaz will secure one. He's not out of it just yet.
He needed one though and found it.
Yeah, the good news is we haven't even crossed half way.
So he went down 6-1 without even a half time being reached
for three seconds out.
Diaz can absolutely bring it back,
can bring in a flurry of goals.
He's actually one of the slower 1v1 players,
especially the candidates who made, you know,
the lands last year.
You see players like Nupo who are just moving around the field
absolutely going as fast as possible.
Yeah, despite being an aerial focused player,
he's gonna try and turn and dive.
He actually does it quite slowly, normally breaks you down in the air, but as slow as he can get away with it, well, not using any boost at all, it's going to not survive.
Zach, Jason, and this shot on target is probably unsavable. Zach, you make it 7-2.
And I think a lot of that is due to players getting uncomfortable when Diaz tries to put him in that pressure cooker, giving those resets, going low, going for the fakes.
It seems like he has Diaz red.
He is predicting the place that Diaz is going for
and has been looking very comfortable.
Also, he's been executing his play for his Hazel ball.
Diaz though not giving up just yet,
has enough use to go for an air dribble bump,
but it's saved again over two on these air dribble buff plays by Diaz.
Diaz trying to make it across the goal line two, low to the ground.
Zack! Oh my goodness! What a shot!
Diaz prepping in defense, he knows that there's a possibility of taking a shot, but he's expecting to be able to get back out there.
Even with him on the side wall, great punish from Zack, with the way Diaz was positioning.
And Diaz has had enough! He's decided to go next, a minute forty-two, down six. He wants to see game three.
Back to back go next for Zach against Diaz.
Did not see this one coming here.
Diaz, a lot of people hyping him up
as the best in the region for good reason.
We saw him compete against Dubo.
He was a rally, a rally last year,
but couldn't get the job done there on land.
But in North America, Diaz was the titan.
But so far in this series, Zach has not
only one of these first two games, but he has forced Diaz to go next.
Yeah, this is this is domination.
I mean Diaz truly needs to think about, you know, what does he need to change?
How does he get to his normal game?
Zach is not letting him play the kind of possession control,
total aerial domination game we're used to him seeing Zach has ever on the field.
And maybe there's a chance that Diaz was underestimating him.
Hasn't gotten a chance to practice against him as much as others.
I don't know. It depends on whether or not they've actually played each other, but Zach is not going to hold an underdog status for very long.
He might have come in here not getting picked. You know, T-Bates tried to go back on his Zach pick.
Now he might look like a genius if Zach keeps it going.
But after this win, it's official. Zach is going to be a contender.
Everyone is going to be looking at him ahead on the schedule.
You're not going to be able to surprise anybody anymore, but the series isn't over.
You have maybe surprised Diaz in game one and two.
He knows that you can compete.
We'll see if Diaz can make any adjustments as we head to DFH stadium.
I think one thing that Diaz is really going to have to do is start trying to overpower that.
It looks like the fakes are not working. The plays where he's slowing it down are not working.
We'll see if he can just maybe do some of those trademark full field flip reset plays that we're so used to him executing.
And here's a chance for it. Also in the octane now.
Goes low, brings it back down to the ground, so he doesn't pull the trigger right away.
But recently, he does get a bind.
Yeah, this was what we were expecting to see. We thought we'd be seeing 10 straight minutes so far of Diaz hitting into an air dribble, being just way too tough to read defensively.
defensively and then them just taking over or him just taking over today. It's not
done. There's only one on the field as Diaz now up to the air getting bumped off.
If you get a reset at ceiling height, I'm not sure it's gonna matter. Zach trying to
change up probably the way that Diaz was able to score should be in now.
You can see Diaz quitting the boost battle there. Zach dives in Diaz not afraid to go
Go for it as well, it's bumped, and even in the play before that got bumped as well, but
he just made it into the play.
Kind of window skippies, take one step forward, and that is a nice little slide here from
Zach.
Off kickoff, we'll stop the bleeding a bit.
Zach's kickoffs are well rounded.
It is clear that you won't be getting the edge on him purely off the kickoff, you're
to have to beat him in all the different facets of one-to-one and right now he's got himself
in just a little bit closer.
Diaz is able to pick up the boost.
I expect Zac to have to leave.
He's actually hanging out for as long as he thinks he can get away with Diaz lobbing
a long shot and starting the boost steal.
These are positions that Diaz normally keeps players backed in forever.
We'll see if he can do this to Zac.
Another great boost steal.
Zac very little to work with.
Maybe thought about going out to challenge there on the first bounce but now Diaz in
his sweet spot needs to be converting on these and he does exactly that the
wave dash sends the bottom left this is so difficult to defend because Diaz gets
the reset in a perfect spot to where he could literally shoot anywhere on that
net and you can and you could see that in the positioning from Zach position
right in the middle because he's trying to be able to cover every angle but in
the middle like that Diaz just waits until the right time to pull the trigger
and it's a perfect slot.
Zack, getting a low air roll to try to speed maybe
the aerial game of his own going in this game.
Features to reset out the back wall.
Diaz able to steal it away.
And now these guys are gonna fight for boost.
Zack was hoping to maybe throw Diaz off this line.
Diaz gets to his spot.
He's not really trying to score on this attempt.
He was hoping not to get undercut.
He's thinking he's trying another, you know,
back and forth attacking corner boost steals.
Not able to steal Zack this time.
So we'll be forced to back off.
But the way Zach has been looking in the air,
I don't think Diaz should be letting him get to too much,
as he's got tons of space off the ceiling double,
and it's denied by Diaz.
Zach did wait for him to race to the corner,
and though Diaz on the dribble,
those lawn just powers to the roof!
That scorched this ball to safety.
Yeah, Diaz has to be willing to get dirty here.
He normally prefers playing in the air,
but especially if Zach is jumping high, you see Zach
Jumping up in the air, doing his best to try and turn and boost back to get a good 50,
but you're just never going to be able to get a strong enough 50 to be someone who's still glued to the ground,
walking the ball in.
So Diaz...
Rubing here in this game.
And now waiting for Zack to leave. He's expecting, after grabbing all the boosts on the map that Zack was,
eventually going to give him the ball, but Zack refuses to leave and gets his goal!
Zack...
getting his hands dirty as well here, battling the trenches for that one.
Yeah, it's bumps too and just plumps right into position to keep the play going.
I was back looking for some more kickoffs, but Diaz just wins a straight-to-back
wall-faring weak kickoff there from Zack as Diaz gets a three-goal lead once again.
Right back off the kickoff and I think this game is this more along the lines of what you're expecting
from Diaz in this matchup here?
Yeah, I think, you know, this game by itself is something
that would likely represent the series who seems to act
through, you know, a couple of nice plays,
but it should be dominating.
But mind you, look at the scoreboard.
It's Zach, who is actually the one who has been dictating this series.
Not just sneaking away wins to his
from playing a really strong, well-rounded one's game.
Diaz into the air, switching up for a 50 this time.
And he likes extra coverings, you know, more often than not.
he is escaping after one attack on Diaz allowing him to get extended ones and that's a big deal
the reason why he's been able to beat Diaz. Not only getting those first two wins but
fortunately go next to that of Diaz as well. If he didn't have that it might be go hard. Diaz
play out his own back where he looks powerful on that flick.
Yeah, Sack looks like, I thought Sack was going to be going to challenge as Diaz came to the ground, but he knows Diaz is more than capable of popping it over the top of him.
Ultimately, he's accessed Sack's side of the shadow as Diaz lands. It's such a great flick from Diaz, starting that dribble all the way from his own back wall.
He did stop well shorter than that, but managed to convert all the same. Now he's forcing the issue, which I think is a good mix-up.
He's been playing into his aerial game exclusively.
The more we see him, you keep Zach guessing by just taking it straight towards the net.
The better. Great save from Zach.
He actually landed on the inside of his net.
But it's still going to be D.S. with control.
Another chance in the air. Zach will have 100 boost.
D.S. pretty heavy first touch. Zach might be able to take advantage of that.
He's forced this down and might be able to pop it out.
Since you guys fight back and forth, Zach should be able to get back this one.
Zach won't get the 100 boost though as D.S. takes that away from him.
Zach, trying to pick up some small pats.
Trying to keep it close with the reset, but it ended up not working out.
Yeah, it's not the worst idea ever. He's in such a tough spot.
He's hoping that he gets a wave dash or something that he can stick with the ball
instead of just handing it over to Diaz and continuing to possession.
Something that you'll just see a ton in ones are with how high scoring it is.
You know, ball going in your net. It's sometimes not the worst thing ever.
You collectively make the right decisions
Wait a second, Zach going for a double reset.
Diaz this time has it completely red.
So he will counter it, press it mechanically.
But it's about, you know,
raking somebody down or making the right choice
that one out of five times goes your way
when there seems like there otherwise would be a good
actual left to get a raise.
There's pretty much no way to get out of it.
You might as well go for the one in a million
that lets you make it out alive.
Diaz, gonna get a forfeit at Zach.
Yeah, so Diaz though will bounce right back.
And that was a big, big game there for your Zach,
looked to be on a roll.
He saw Diaz back to back go next,
dropped out of the lobby,
switches to Octane and apparently that's the answer.
Yeah, well I've seen Diaz play a good amount of both.
He's definitely a player that is willing to bounce back
and forth. Historically, the Octane had done so well
over in North American ones.
The Fennec is the car of ones for the most part
And it's played heavily in MENA and EU,
but we've seen the first killers, the Daniels, now the DSs
do it in the octane.
And I think for America, they prefer their octane a little more
than everybody else.
Maybe I assume DS will be sticking with it
as he continues to get wins in the series.
I was just looking to switch something up who didn't look
like he was on his game.
Also out shooting Zach, 15 to 6 in this game.
Interestingly, no demos on either side.
And normally, especially in the 2v2s,
we saw tons of demos from both of their teams.
Zac and Reveal, then Diaz was actually teaming with Evo.
And probably had the most entertaining 2v2
matchup that we'd seen in that whole tournament.
But here, Diaz and Zac lining up were expecting Diaz
to get that revenge.
So far, it hasn't been the case.
Zach out to early two game lead before Diaz finally answers back.
Now the question on everyone's fine as well.
Diaz, you play him like that this game so far.
Zach, opening it up for the kickoff goal.
Yeah, Zach just gets the better standard kickoff.
He would push it off to this right side, right?
It's the red basket for the power shots.
It's interesting that you pointed out no demos.
Those are something that do happen a lot in ones.
And it's actually kind of rare to see neither one of these players going for it.
We knew it would be an aerial focused battle, but at some point you have to be willing to get dirty, to go for a demo here and there.
It's great to actually follow up with after failed or somewhat failed aerial attacks where you force out a save and then take advantage of their poor positioning.
And Diaz maybe slightly went for a bump there, but definitely players preferring boosts over all else.
as Diaz tried to keep Zac pinned back.
He was hoping Zac would over rotate,
and he could chip it around him.
Zac has no moves to work with,
but Diaz could put it in a spot where Zac could save it.
There was a sweet spot where Diaz
probably could have prevented the save,
but Zac stays alive.
Remarkable that Zac is still in this play.
You talk about working your way out of a difficult situation,
but Zac jumped off the wall,
and you could, I don't know if the viewers could see it,
but the oof quick chat back to back.
I don't know if he was trying to dash or something to start but he just jumped off the wall floating away, double-jumped himself.
Maybe he jumped a little bit too early and his momentum carried him up. Like he definitely was still on the...uh, going up the curve.
because it didn't look like he even tried to jump again the second time.
So, not quite sure now, we'll give up another one.
A rough little go there for Zac after that missed input.
That is back to making Zac look like he's lost, trying to defend him.
Only it's tough to score from that close of an angle when you're dribbling like that.
like that. When someone can challenge off the back wall and get to the ball, you know,
in a half second, it can be tough to keep them away from him. If he has to find a way
to do so, and now at air dribble bump, he is finding his offense here in the last two games.
Finally connects. This is at least his third time going for the play. This time gets extra height.
That's the one thing is you need to get height on those air dribble bump plays. Otherwise,
let's see what happens before. Is that going to stay grounded? Go underneath the bump, catch it,
dribble it out. That one was a perfect execution there by Diaz. Diaz is looking to be informed
and Zack step up. He's competing against Diaz when he's playing at this level. Diaz got a reset.
He jumped with the back wall but that was a mix up that Diaz is more likely to do than anybody
else. You saw him with a possession as he makes a great save in Zack's half. First thought in his
his mind was I'm taking this to my own back wall. Usually players you know don't
want to do that and they don't want to give up that kind of space. Diaz likes it.
Put this right where Zac can save it and now save. Very impressive. Diaz can try and
drop it left or right in order to take advantage of the fact that it's so hard
to move laterally after you've committed in and out but Diaz is expecting Zac to
still not be able to handle the shot on target. Now both of them have boost Diaz.
Finally has Zac on the ropes and what a great catch. So many different fakes in
to get this to the bottom right. And this is exactly what you were alluding to before.
He gets those resets in those awkward positions and just waits for his opponent to commit.
It's almost like when you see players taking penalty shots trying to get the goalie to die
so they can just knock it in. He has so good at doing that. And it's in big contrast as he
chases down here and just steals this ball from Zach. It's in contrast to earlier when we saw him
Go for that aerial shot fake that did not work at all.
You know, Zack stayed completely moved to the ground and was not afraid of it.
It's all about how you get the setups and how you can threaten everything.
So even though, you know, Diaz was air rolling, he could also just let the ball roll in safely.
So maybe not the case last time around. He was trying that.
So that's what makes Zack have such a tough time deciding what to do.
Right now he has only a kickoff goal here in this game.
He got one kickoff goal. I think maybe to start it.
So it might have been five straight, but it's going to get a little bit more offence this time through the air.
And this is a bit interesting because Zach, when he gets the reset, actually flips away from the ball.
Get some discons in that, a lot of them to get a challenge on it and push it forward.
A little bit unorthodox there, don't know if that was the plan, but it worked out well.
Diaz's been a great kick up and not quite good enough that he can follow it up,
but he's gotten four boosts, so Zach's gonna have to defend on pads, double reset for Diaz.
This time he does shoot and his crossbar down and in Zach was in the right spot, but the placement was just too good
Dumbel into a dinger right off the bar
So smooth with it. Oh
That's got to be a tough play
He is only doing his double resets while traveling the length of the entire field
He can also do it when he starts it in the corner
He missed this one though and again, you guys can't see the quickchats
He drops himself an OMG immediately after he misses it so clearly he thinks he should have had it now
can be forced back on defense. Zach will flick it over the top of them and will keep this one
within arms reach. And based on the quick chat it seems like the vibes are pretty good between
both of these two. It seems like they're having fun out there here. Maybe it gets a little bit
different when you're playing your teammate. Yeah for sure. Diaz is the one that I think
could potentially suffer from that because you know if these guys, two caters will be having too
too much fun, you know, the favorites, maybe Diaz gets too relaxed.
So we might see a crazy lock in and no more quick jets towards the end of the
series if Diaz starts to struggle, but for now, I'm sure he feels like he's
good in his position.
This is great.
50 from Zach, who saw Diaz diving out.
I mean, the lead's starting to shrink.
I think we might see that lock in this game if Zach can manage to get another one here.
This is a good view denial from Diaz to make this difficult and the demo dodged, Zach will
have to run on his fall pads here.
Diaz, I feel like there's been moments when he could play the physical game, especially
with Zach low on boost.
He could maybe have tried to go in and throw him off on a recovery or catch a demo, but
it's clear what Diaz wants to do.
He wants to play the boost starvation game.
He's be lining to each boost as soon as he feels that Diaz in advantage.
to make sure Zach is starved out and in this case it works out really well and
beats him up to the field with nothing and then Diaz can play it over the top
of him and huge kickoff win for Diaz this time he will be able to finish it
and he gets two in a row.
Really clean here from Diaz. Diaz making this style work as well. You wonder if he
just pick it up trying to overpower Zach but no he's just sticking to his game plan.
Seems like the Octane really wants a solution for him, at least mentally.
So he had just one demo, as DS gets to recovery demo here.
Or Sackback. Now DS faking, and this is what DS does. He builds up a resume of attacks in the air.
You don't know what he's going to go for then. You can just do nothing and let it bounce in.
And you can see Zack even jumping in anticipation for the shot that never came.
This one slipped away from Zack.
It feels like the control of the series has swapped back over to Zack.
The first couple of games wasn't just winning.
It was clearly dictating everything that we saw on the field.
We started to worry if Diaz were a fit,
but in the last two games Diaz back in control in the mid.
We just have a history of watching an in-form, in-control Diaz secure win.
So when I see Diaz playing as well as Diaz right now,
You know, I'm ready to swap back to be as paper, preflip flicked from Diaz, he's going to put a top left.
Ah, this is gorgeous.
Look at the height of it.
You need, this is multiple flips here from Diaz.
It's the double reset, preflip flicked there.
Make a beauty.
You know, we've had four fits in every game so far, and yet, we don't have one yet.
11-4.
I think this might be a stubborn player from Zach.
Well, you might.
score this, it's a tough angle, no Diaz will cover us, so there's gonna be 36 seconds of
just, you know, this possession guaranteed now. It's gonna take a bit before
anybody's able to score it, or maybe Diaz will go a little too high, so not quite a full 30 seconds.
Diaz drops himself a great pass!
Into thanks, and then Zach responds with, oof, be careful!
He carried me down, I think.
a little smile on the scribble space or a deck face and it's as he drops that.
I don't know if Diaz has to be careful.
I think he's going to be OK, at least in this game.
Zack has shown that he is a threat in the series for sure.
But I would expect him to be able to finish this one out as Diaz just kind of
freestyle drifting on his other side of the field.
It is all Diaz is right now.
Now these guys have timeouts. We saw some boxes earlier. It didn't really help them out
It's two straight losses for Zach
Not sure if you want a bigger break or not or just the time in between the lobbies is gonna be good enough
But Diaz on a roll
It does look like Zach will be calling a timeout
after this one other
Very impressive game here from Diaz
Zach was doing so well in the first games shutting down Diaz who was trying to make him swarm trying to
He's been able to make them out, Zack.
It wasn't working against them then, but now Diaz,
I think, has just slowly built up that mix of attack.
He's been able to everpower Zack.
He's been able to successfully fake him out.
It feels like Diaz is really in his element right now here,
and this is pretty toughness to stop.
Yeah, and I think the way that he clawed his way back into this,
you know, he's always good.
He has a chance to get to his full field air jubbles
or any sort of air jubble in general.
But a lot of the midfield play was actually favoring Zack.
he was speeding to balls.
He was surprising Diaz with the challenges.
And Diaz was getting maybe not the best first touches
that were allowing Zach to take advantage of that.
In this game, by now in game four,
we've seen the opposite be true.
Diaz has realized that Zach is going to be rushing plays.
He's going to be on ball.
And Diaz has gotten up to that challenge
and been ready for it, doing a little bit of that on his own.
And he's starting to win midfield battles on top
of his aerial game, which is so solid and always will be.
Now you wonder if Zack's going to be able to have an adjustment
to maybe tip things back in his favor
or if Diaz will run away with this one.
Diaz, like you were mentioning, fear, just dominating
in that midfield presence, dominating the boost game,
getting those gaps, getting that space between him and Zack.
And he's been putting, going to work with that space.
Very impressive performances back to back now from Diaz.
I think that game was another go next game that Zach maybe didn't call
because he was perhaps thinking about next game.
Also calling a timeout after this one, just trying to regroup
get some type of momentum going into this next one.
I like to imagine that Zach and Diaz are both in the SSG group chat right now.
Yeah.
Clearly, they're looking for some help, for some answer, but they're out here all by themselves
on the field.
Nobody can clutch it up for them except for themselves.
Diaz on a run.
Can he continue that run?
Two straight game wins.
Have we forgotten how Zach has been able to go up against this North American 1v1 Titan
from Brazil?
We'll have a chance to show it and part the free.
Back here off the side, it's the reset, back down to the ground, look at the way that floats, and you can do that before.
Almost toward off the way, that shot, but now Diaz will take a turn off the sidebar.
It's the reset, pushing forward quickly, but Zach with a well-timed challenge.
And now a misflip from Diaz does get the touch up to the corner to battle for the corner boost, but look at how much they're working out of there.
He was intentionally using a flip to kind of shoot almost away from the net to get Zach to miss.
He saw Zach's challenge and trying to play around it.
Zach still made contact with huge friends of Zach.
Defensively as he makes a defensive mistake, talked about it too much.
Dia's going to get one of the easier ones he'll have in this game.
He has stays in play picking up small pads, picking up small pads,
and then you can see the miss flip from Zach.
We see a few mechanical mis-inputs from Zach.
You remember that one challenge last game where he went sailing by,
and now we can see a kickoff goal here for Diaz.
So the punishment keeps on coming.
Yeah, we have seen decent kickoff points from Zach to start,
but now Diaz has forced a few different to this right side wall
in order to just get ball straight.
And then normally, we've seen a lot less of anything we did once upon a time.
And you know, they, we see tons of those direct goals headed straight to Nett.
Players for the most part have found ways to counter or mitigate.
That just means delay and not the play of the standard kickoff.
But we've seen a few now for Diaz. He's going to go back to what we've seen him do a ton of times.
It's a full field air dribble.
He doesn't make it to the Nett without hitting the ground,
but it doesn't matter because he gets past that.
That gets the reset.
Scary position here. Could shoot that right on Nett.
Forces that, stay grounded, brings it down to the ground.
I think that's one thing that I'm seeing for Diaz is he loves to take every inch that people give him.
He's great at reading and he will not get stuck in a predetermined aerial setup.
You know, he will play based on what the defender is doing.
He wants to demo now on the space, really touch high, trying to face Zac up in the air.
Zac trying to fall back down. We saw him crazy highlight.
Play from him yesterday, but he made a save like that.
that this time the ball's off target so he's not going to need to get a touch.
Diaz has a recent attack and now he loves these but Diaz moves this ball to the right.
You need to get as much lateral movement and cross that angle of
Zack who is already committed going into the net.
And up front here's Zack going for a squishy save.
And a lot of times when you see someone going for a squishy save the play is to go low.
Hardest type of corner, go low.
You get on the ground if possible.
Perfect execution here from Diaz, he's trying to take the ground to air right into the air dribble.
Zack will pitch out forward, he's gonna do two towards net and it looks like he could be enough.
Oh Diaz saves it off his own post.
Pressure saved on the recovery Diaz, he quickly picked a pad to try and stop.
Zack in the air, but Zack with a hundred, attacking a low piece of fender.
Honestly either way in this series, you swap this Diaz, you can do this as well.
too good at reading what the defense is throwing at them. Zack gets the double and is on the
board. It took him almost two minutes, but it does get one.
We'll be able to get another.
De-Ans, he let it bounce. Besides, we're trying to get this unit loose. Doesn't get it.
Back to us all the way to the corner and now we'll jump to the ceiling.
And the ground pitch from De-Ans takes that down.
This is such a great 50 in the air here, Zack decides to challenge up high DSCs where he's coming from and just muscles the ball through.
He also didn't take it as high as possible once upon a time.
We saw everybody taking the turtle as high as they could go because that was the best way to avoid any defender.
Now the ceiling challenge is so frequent that you actually need to keep it a little bit underneath the ceiling.
ceiling. Make sure the challenge is tough. Over the top, Diaz, 50s hits it down, fix the demo here in the midfield.
That respawns perfectly! What a goal!
Wow! And it's the demo. That is crazy. Literally got the touch on the fall off respawn.
Beautiful. He turned it into a goal. Making a highlight play. If this pedestrian gets him one, he's not going to be able to score here. Diaz backflips and counters.
So not only is it not a goal, it's going to be a use, it's not going to fight to that aerial at 6-1.
I think it's starting to look a bit grim here for Zac to not opt to such a good start here against Diaz, but Diaz has made the adjustments.
He's been able to maintain control successfully, boost star.
He's been able to overpower Zac, make himself unreadable.
Get back into that power position that he's so used to.
You can see Zach here, battling up low boost.
This is a very one-sided game, turning into a one-sided series despite the strong start from Zach.
Yeah, Zach, gonna take a kickoff, see if he can get something going with a possession in his corner.
He is challenging off the ceiling, taking it away. Everything is going his way.
He's just turned it up and he's brought the heat, he's brought the speed.
the speed. Zach maybe surprised them a little bit early. You know, what he was going to be doing,
what he was going to be going for. Diaz recognizing the challenge and has come to meet it and has
just completely stuffed out Zach. I mean, we saw four of us in the previous games and the last game
was maybe the most one-sided affair. Zach decided to stick it out. He's going to see that again.
Again, it's Diaz's nomination.
He's gonna have to get some sort of momentum going to tournament point after Diaz gets this game.
It is certainly possible, but it's just not very likely.
Two different mentalities.
It is a good point.
The DS has already got the edge big time.
So if you try to avoid DS getting a mental boost from a book with nice recovery chance,
it seems to be really strong yet for covering back for saves.
But the DS already has all the mental advantage and forfeit.
I don't know if it will change that much, so maybe it is on fact to just see if we can ship away at that advantage.
Is there any weakness? Is there a type of approach that I can take that will be enough to eat the sky?
Basically, I was just going to lose the fight, the boss battle, but still wants to get some practice in it.
You guys could have gone faster in the corners if you almost just let them pick it up.
You know, I'm wondering, I see this a little bit on the kickoffs, but when you do have a secure game, you know,
should you, oh, oh, oh, I was gonna say, should you be pulling punches and maybe, you know, not showing them more of what you have?
And D is actually going for that flick. It might even be a slight example of that.
I don't know if we're gonna see him go for that in close games, but he knows he has to lead, and believe it or not, this falls not in.
And Jack has already decided he has seen enough.
So we've got the next game coming up.
Could be the final game in the match.
Diaz will force a go next out of Zach one more time.
And Diaz is on a hot streak right now.
It was a little bit alarming.
I think, I don't know about you here,
but I was a little bit taken aback
seeing how well Zach did in those first two games.
And was wondering, OK, maybe we're
going to see something new here.
Maybe we're going to see something unexpected.
Diaz on the ropes, but Diaz has really kicked it to a different level.
Yeah, no question. I mean, one game, it could potentially be a fluke,
but if you play it strongly, you play it through straight,
he definitely started to convince me that this was a series
that Diaz needs to be worried about, that maybe, you know, I mentioned it before.
I said, if Zack beats Diaz, he's a contender now.
No longer is he hiding. He's one of the top dogs.
And that's what he had me potentially believing.
He was early in the series, but he had played a really strong two games.
He was right in the right spot to prove just what his limit is in ones, but now we've watched three straight Diaz dominations.
And so if Diaz continues what we've seen over the past few games, does it again in game four, then I don't think I'm going to learn much more about where Zach is at.
I kind of would have assumed that Diaz be the favorite in this.
And if he does get this game, then it's still a bit of a question mark.
You know, does Zach do well against the likes of a wavy on a rematch or a first killer or some of these other guys can get back to the grand final to play Diaz again?
Not really sure.
If he gets even one more and pushes this to seven, you know, that's a different story,
but Diaz right now in his own honor roll, bringing it to Neo Tokyo and trying to finish out his teammate.
And we've seen Zach have some interesting presets before.
Brings another one here in Neo Tokyo.
And he said, car change.
I was thinking maybe we'd see him go to the octane, but no, it was just a different panic preset that he had in mind.
Yeah, it's different indeed, you know, when we saw one antenna earlier with Zafato on the field, I did not expect to see a second antenna, but we've got some antennas and toppers, and you know what?
I think that's a great way to shrug it off. Sometimes we see these bars where clearly people are messing around, but I can't even imagine an edge.
We're seeing a game that's tough mentally as one's.
Diaz clearly, you know, had basically completely shut him out, dominated him.
Zach was not showing any signs of like, he'd be throwing on this preset,
helps him shake it off and say, oh, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna crazy preset.
So it's whatever, I'll do whatever I can, maybe I can actually bring it back now.
So far he's up 1-0.
That's right, he's gonna get a piece of ball, but Diaz got the moves,
he's not having some space to reset.
This is pretty deadly.
Pulls the trigger, catches Zach out, Diaz will tie it up.
The only important thing to look at is still a fennec.
That gives you the real idea.
If he came in here with a non-fennec, non-octane,
you know he's committed to the Gracie 3 set.
But as a fennec he stays fennec.
He's just searching for some way.
Some way to relax and try to get back into this
without really moving off of the fennec
and actually having to change how his gameplay actually works at all.
He's got himself a wall to air dribble
An opportunity to get going here over the top of Diaz cannot quite get back. We've seen Zach hit that so many times where he has to boost back to get the double, but this time not enough.
It's a battle for that corner boost. Zach walks away with it. Diaz not too happy about it on the quick chat either.
It's actually OMG as soon as he gets stolen.
And that's finally enough for Zach to get that little response with an unlucky quick chat.
I love the banter between the players, I think we see a lot of quick chat in RLCS very often.
Not a lot, you get two teammates though, you get to play against each other like they are right now.
I mean, Zach, he's now losing some of these to the opposite wall.
We saw Diaz win, and I think pick-offs are just getting full side and forcing it.
Has it seemed like Diaz has had the huge edge on pick-offs so far in the series?
I would say, in the last few games, I would say at the beginning,
it was very well rounded, it was maybe even, but no question.
Not only there's two different types of kickoffs that you can lose.
There's one like this, where you lose the ball poorly enough
that within two seconds you've been scored on.
That's the kickoff rules that a lot of people think of.
But you can also get scored on kickoff rules,
especially against an idea who wins possession, goes to the side wall,
maybe it takes him 15 seconds, maybe it takes him 20,
but he still ends up scoring.
Those are, in a sense, kick-off goals as well.
I would say Zac would do a pretty good job at preventing both of them.
The big problem now is he gets a great read of where Zeus is in the back wall just to move the ball down.
And she's allowing, you know, the first type that he talks about.
Literally goals just straight to the net right away, no question about it.
And those are the ones you really can't afford to have, never.
Yeah.
Now, one thing, don't choose as well.
You can see Zac all together, he has.
I'm thinking of the clutch, he's there to boost somehow.
He manages to steal that corner before trying to cut it, but Zach gets to touch Zach,
smithing it down field.
Is this it?
It stings off the post, but it allows Zach to get down field and get boosted up.
Zach, oh my, oh my goodness, what a save.
Zach had it landing on the wall, three-foot to get a shot on target did not seem easy.
I figured if Zach got it anywhere towards the end, it was going to be in, but Diaz reminding us that he's still on the field.
the turnery save so impressive as well as he pops his ball up racing to beat back to it
and it's somewhat of a tie he is going to get to land and tap it towards net and one more follow-up
should be able to take the edge. You want to scrap that one spear I mean you saw the exact zero
boot putting it towards net he has barely uh saving it he has just doing enough to keep his head
above water and ends up hurting on the other end approach the halfway point of this game.
He is not giving up just yet.
And Tiaz is so focused on getting all the boost seed, grabs the midfield,
grabs the back corner as well and then goes to the ball and he really wants to starve Zach out
before he actually makes a play and Zach taking advantage of that by just chasing the ball down
and it's been even all in play on zero boost. We just had all of it taken from you.
If you don't get that ball in, you're probably in big trouble, but it's a risk that Zac is willing to take, pays off, sweet spot in that touch.
Now Diaz, more than willing to fully reset opposition, he says this is urgent, wasn't good enough, I'll go all the way to my back line, but Zac gave it a deadline.
Not the cleanest carry from Diaz.
And now Zac is going, he saw Diaz trying to cut him off, great wall pinch. Diaz has recovered to stop the goal.
Diaz so speedy enough to get back.
Zack, he's over the field, reset early and on the ground. Now, ground air, first touch control, reset, DS.
I put this towards net, and Zack gets back in time. Backflip hit, saves it. DS in no boost either, but does land a bit of a pump on Zack.
Should allow DS to get this boost and the ball.
He's trying to bridge up. He thought Diaz is going to go air dribble on the very first touch. Diaz does love his air dribbles, but as soon as he sees Zach jump, he knows just one more touch will be enough to get it out around him and then wide open nets.
He's trying to stay one step ahead of him. In terms of challenging Diaz, we saw work earlier on low boost this time getting ahead of the Uriel.
does not pay off cannot free flip through to pick up 100 boost here so it
might be stuck in one-to-one jail as I sometimes call it unless he pushes us out
Diaz comes in right back in he wants Zach to be forcing him to make saves and every last second Zach just
swung out to the boost and could not stop this top-leveling surgical flick here from Diaz
how do you stop that top corner or just play here from Diaz starting
to pull ahead as we approach the final minute of the game.
He's chasing down.
Sack.
100m squirt, but oh yes, he never even worried.
But whether or not he connected down,
we knew he could go collect the ball.
He came back to his favorite spot.
That was trying to stop him.
Sack loves the challenge of the year.
Actually, he intercepted the full field dribble early.
Yes, chips this one around.
And now, well, narrow roll a shot on target.
Regal lead, this is a moment in which
he can start to play this lead.
41 seconds left to go you can start to slow the game down force bad challenges out of Zach
If the opportunity arises, but it starts with a good kickoff is has to win this one and
Zach calls it there calls GGs and Diaz will take the win
an incredible performance here from Diaz who bounces back
and wins four straight after the first two games wins from Zach.
Yeah, it's just an impressive run from Diaz.
It's the kind of thing that if we hadn't seen the first two games,
if we hadn't seen, you know, Zach actually give up a good fight,
we would just thought, oh, this is just the Diaz domination.
We all came for it.
Four straight games of just control,
of the reason why he was the North American 1v1 champion
last time around, and the reason why he's still the favorite
in this tournament was proven in those four games.
Without a doubt.
I mean, you saw what Zach is capable of.
But overall, it was Diaz who comes out victorious,
incredible stuff.
But we've got one more match on the day, and we'll be coming up
after the break.
I
Was just
On me on that one
I'd be at this court before the second I did you're being a discord. I was like yeah, I'm on it
I'm on it. I'll get the thanks for letting me know
It's all right
Big else here. We thought Zach had it in the first two get we're in the discord like oh my goodness
to see him. Is this going to
win all the way game six, but
he did only get those first
years. Yeah, no, Karen. It's
a Zach. He really made Diaz
lock in. You can see Diaz is
trying to get comfortable in
his chair. He's thinking what's
wrong here. You know, I should
be beating this guy. I should
be winning. He's trying to get
cut. He's trying to get locked
in, but he did lock in. I still
think that's moved Zach off of
my estimation. The fact that he
can make Diaz uncomfortable
and forced him to reach his
for me. What performance? Bates. There he is. He's looking like the best. He is looking
like the best in the tournament. Let's go take a first killer, maybe Nevo. And I could
go in as a paper stone because I mean when Diaz has the ball or possession, he's just
controlling the game and at a highly elite level. Like, Nevo controlled the possession
in his matchup against AJ, but it wasn't like that. He wasn't just running up to score on
AJ, he was just keeping the ball away from AJ.
He has controlled the possession and kept running up to school.
Again, Zack.
And Zack's a world-class defender.
I mean, we know it in three.
I know three's defense is different than one's defense,
but there is a base level.
And Zack is a truly great defender.
I mean, think of the level of dominance
you have to have in a match for the competitor
to voluntarily lose the match, like Zack just did.
There was time left on the clock.
Yeah, he's very unlikely to win that last match,
but he didn't even want to try.
He said, you know what?
Nope, that's out.
I'm gonna give up before the end of this game like that is how dominant Diaz was in that matchup
Got a forfeit out of him on the match point here
And he's third of the top four will wait and see who his opponent is tomorrow to be a dear age AJ or wavy
Zach's gonna have to go through first killer and then it's got evil which I was saying Bates
You mentioned that there's there's evil and first kill maybe the two people who could take it there to Diaz
There's it there all those are the three players the other side of the bracket the match
We just saw first killer and we evil well listen Diaz
is earned that because I mean he is the I guess the reigning North American
representative for RCS 1v1 he's just brought this in his first iteration last
year he has played against what he has played against in that matchup oh yeah he
played against the world champion no I'm talking about the world champion in
Rallo where he was representing he played against Noppo and won the first game
after that he didn't go his way but the whole point is he's trying to get back
to that he's trying to get that rematch him but that's a big point I'm talking
about because I would have very soon.
I see a new book even qualify to make it to that match.
But right here, look at the highlights of me.
That came out hot.
It was actually funny.
I walked away.
I don't know what you're all talking about.
I was like, I knew production had a good thing
thinking making sure I had Zach as my prediction.
But then, of course, it all went downhill very fast.
Yeah, I mean, the first game, three goals early for Diaz.
We thought, yeah, as we expected, then Zach just
to play turns around that like shuffling in the chair
from Diaz, it's not the only time you did that.
He was doing that in both of the games that he's trailing,
trying to get comfortable.
He didn't look comfortable on the pitch,
Zach had his second guess in himself.
But what a level up from Diaz,
this is why he's the sort of favorite
he's been dominating,
NA1s for a couple of years now.
And yeah, he wants another go
at the one-terral championship.
There's been upsets in both of the regions
already have a qualifier in the S and KB1.
still all is well for North Carolina's favorite.
All is well.
It's in the 5-2.
Man, the guys just kept running the score.
He actually Braziled.
Brazilian got the Brazil.
It was actually funny because in game number two,
it was looking like the Brazilian was going to get Brazil,
but then he scored and made it 6-2, I think.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
He scored before he could have 7-1.
And Am, he's just so comfortable.
He's so quick and that he played his heart out,
but he's just not as good in 1s as this guy is.
He didn't have it there.
Diaz did, he's through to the top four again, one match away from the grand finals and defending his title work joined by Diaz on the call.
Sir, congratulations on the win. What a back and forth series. Well, back and forth is actually the wrong way to describe it.
It was kind of the first two games for Zax. You had everything else there.
What was Zax doing in those first two games that you were able to adjust around in the back for?
I was just trying to play my game in the first two games and then I couldn't and then I needed to lock in and I changed to Octane
and then that's changed everything.
So what does that change in your gameplay
if you want to give us any of your secrets?
So you play both cards very well,
but what are the main differences for you?
I was just trying to have possession in the game, you know?
And with Octane, I was winning every kickoff
and then that's a point that I need
to improve my game plan.
And then that changed everything, you know?
My question it is all right. What's going on? What? What?
What kind of forfeit is that who did that anyways?
Anyways, anyways
I got a question. I have absolutely nothing with your your gameplay. I think it's sensational
So congratulations on your win. Why the Argentina Jersey?
Because mess is the coach
So he's just the best.
OK, there we go.
I just had to understand.
OK, OK, OK.
Wait, wait, another question.
You're still you're still reppin'
Brazil in the World Cup, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am.
OK, OK, OK, just had to make sure.
OK, yeah, I'm good.
I got my questions out.
Yeah, they're all certain.
You've earned it at the top four here.
You're either playing AJ or Wavy tomorrow.
You got Evo, first killer.
And then obviously, Zach is still alive.
He'll play first kill tomorrow.
In your mind, is there anyone that you have your eye on?
You're like, this is a person I'm concerned about?
Or from our perspective, it sort of
feels like you're literally a step ahead of everyone else.
Do you feel that way?
Or does the competition feel tougher this year
than it did last year?
Like, how do you feel about your standing in North America?
I feel it's the same thing.
I'm not training once as it was.
So it's going to be a tough tournament, for sure.
But if I play my game, I think I can beat any one of them.
Well, you played it well today, found a way to adjust around, Zach.
And you got the win.
Congratulations, sir.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Thank you.
Yep.
The Azzel.
Keith, I want to try and experiment.
All right.
To help you unbecome your parents, I want you to try a game called Rocket League.
Ooh, is it a puzzle like my crossword?
No, picture soccer.
Okay.
With a car.
What do I hang my feet outside the window?
No, not your car.
But you said think of it.
It's a video game.
Oh, okay, I get it.
Where's the cartridge?
No, it's an online thing.
Is there a joystick?
Not like the ones you're thinking of.
But I need to get some corridors, right?
I know.
I gotta blow in the cartridge.
Again, like no cartridge, but you'll need a username.
Username, huh?
How about Keith underscore 9-9-1-4?
The bathroom coat?
That's the only number I can kind of remember easily, so.
The magic of Rocket League is the stories you can tell about it, the zero-second buzzer
beers that fix saves, the underdog victories, it's all there.
As we return to this legendary arena, we'll witness Rocket League's story unfold together.
Who will hang their team's banners in the rafters of champions field start to find out
I
We could find
We'll conclude ourselves to the waves of time
We'll try to repent before you sin
It's like getting up before you begin
Smiled with a sin in that line
I'm stuck in never mind
I hope you can see
Where I lie
Stars
We can see
Another light
Future will never lie
Good or not
It was bone dry
I was done with stars, we could see it in that light
I was done with you never mind, oh, we could see it where I find
Stars, we could see it in that light
The future we'll never mind, we'll do it on our feet
It was bone dry, it was bone dry
I can feel his smile, he took my neck and I just wonder why.
North America was exciting today, but there is a grand final yet to occur.
He has is trying to get a match against this player again.
Can he get all the way back to those grand finals?
We're gonna find out, folks.
It's time for the Middle East North African 1v1 grand finals.
Regional champ to be crowned here.
Defending champ Nobu will be taken on his teammate, TRK.
This is gonna be an exciting one, folks.
And we had to put it on the mainstream
because it is that important,
especially when you have a player,
the quality of the world champ here back in the matchup.
You know that the winner of this matchup, Bates,
is genuinely a favorite to win the title of 1v1 World Champion.
Yeah, I do believe it.
I understand agree with you right there, Wayne,
because I mean, you could take down Nubov,
I mean, you could take down anybody in the game,
and the TRK can get that thing done.
Man, that will be special,
because you have some momentum going into the RCS,
1v1 World Championship,
over in Dickies in a couple of months.
And I mean, it wouldn't be the easy bracket,
but all it takes is two great matches
from a player of all of these players calibrating.
They can get the job done.
I'm super excited to see the grand final.
You can see up there in the top corner, James Bott.
This match happened yesterday.
And if the way Nobler has been playing the entire day
is any indication, this is not going
to be a problem for him to just take this out again.
And yet, the weight of Championship Sunday
seems to change results time and time again in Rockaway.
It's true.
But as the defending world champion,
I think you have to acknowledge the fact that he is going
to be the heavy favorite.
the fact that we've seen this matchup before and the game that TRK won because he did get a game.
It was a one goal game.
Meanwhile, you know, the games that Nubos winning, he won by six one game.
He won by five for their last game of the series.
So I think it just goes to show you how good this guy is.
I think as a whole, just looking at how much Mina has improved as a region, obviously,
TRK responsible for making history and Mina being a part of that team falcon team that actually won
an RLCS major. I think you're starting to see how good this region can be and they're slowly
slowly starting to really cement themselves as an elite region and the player that could represent
Mina and get another world championship I think is going to be Nubo. He has been so good.
Man's prediction on the playoff stage.
Playoff stage ProcureWave, he free-jumped the predictions.
He's already there, but I mean, hey,
let's get into talking about these players.
Unlikely, allies after a topsy-turvy recruitment scenario
here, both now on Twisted Minds.
And we've talked a lot about Rocket League,
even you mentioned that Middle East
becoming one of the strongest regions in the game slowly here.
The thing that is cementing on there is the consistency.
We've seen pop-offs from players across the world,
From every region, there have been moments of pop-off.
It's the consistency that cements you as favorites in the RLCS.
And no players in the region have been more consistent
than these two right here, TRK, taking on his teammate.
It's interesting you bring consistency, too,
because I don't know whether we've passed the year mark,
if not we're very close to almost a year on the day
where TRK actually became major champion.
First to mean a land, RLCS land victory, ever.
Did that with the Falcons last year?
Then of course you already alluded to a wave.
They had a little roster mania, some turmoil in the hell.
He seems to have a new ball, but TRK, man.
He's been doing this for a long time.
I'm at Kallit, really started that and ignited this mean
a wave of rockin' players.
TRK was the third person up.
I guess fourth after Senzo.
And then, I mean, listen, he's still here.
So, new ball's got his work to do.
That's crazy you call the day when they got crowned
and Raleigh is major champions.
That's in two days now.
That was on the 29th.
It's two days now.
So close.
Yeah, it's tomorrow, I mean on the calendar day,
you know, like this weekend in June.
Here they are, folks.
Who you got?
Twisted Minds or Twisted Minds?
Let us know in the chat.
Team mates going up against each other.
Only one continues to the Rock League World Champion
as the Middle East North African 1v1 regional champion.
Bates, there you go.
Think Novo does again.
No.
Give me the upset.
give me the upset because I just like TRK so much as that's an individual and a person. I
just always want to see him succeed. There's a couple of players in Rocket League that I always
want to see succeed because they have the talent, they have the character, and they have just the
charisma that you want you to rep the game. TRK is one of them. He's gonna have to dig deep. He's
gotta be a special series. It ain't gonna be easy. He's gotta need a couple more of those one-go game
victories, but he can get the job done. I believe in him. Give me TRK. Give me a M6. I don't want
I want to see a chance to put it away in the Tokyo TRK, get the job done.
James, who you got?
I'm going to have to go with Nubo here.
I think that he is the heavy favor for a reason you saw this matchup already.
Wouldn't be surprised if he even sweeps the grand final with how good he is.
I do agree with you.
I think it would be so much fun to see TRK get the win here.
But with how he has looked, he even had to deal with
Nobo had to deal with a scheduled change today, that forfeit that happened with
Ops, unfortunate as it was meant that Noble had to be ready like an entire hour earlier
and he still comes out with the 4-0 sweep.
He took out TRK Escher in a 4-1.
This feels like this is his match to lose and he will return to Vicky Zarina as a defending
champion here.
Folks, it's time for the finals of Middle East, North Africa.
What a region in the game and two of the greatest to ever do with folks.
It's the reigning champ versus the greatest of all time.
the title of Mena 1v1 champion.
I can't say a better way to bunk that,
but about as good as the summary is,
you can get from what this match is.
It's the go to Mena against Mena's 1v1
defending world champ.
Game 1 brought to you by progressive kick-off now.
Fier, who do you got in this one?
You have to go with Nupo, I think,
coming into this one.
You know, even T-Bates seemed like
he was limping in just here.
Okay, Bate, do you want an upset?
Secretly in that, he's admitting
admitting that Nupo is favorite.
I'm assuming you're with me, Johnny.
Oh yeah, I mean, you have to be,
not just because he's about to score the opening goal,
but because he is the true 1v1 player.
He does absolutely everything you need to 1v1.
His kickoff is brutal to go up against.
He is S tier, S plus tier in the air.
He's so fast, so dominant with the physical game
and on the ball with his challenges.
TRK might have the mind games, I'll give him that,
But is that going to be enough for the goalie to once save early as it rattles off just
on every upright you can think of?
We can't expect to see a healthy amount of resets that go to the ground from TRK.
That one was a bit of a shorter one and it felt like it was going to break through with
a move that he loves to go to.
But early, we knew what would stop him.
TRK doesn't manage to get through the air despite the posturing pernupolite challenge.
And there it is!
I said it was coming and here's a nice reset, wavedash to the ground.
That is 106 kilometers an hour, absolutely flying into the Defending World Champions
point corner. TRK loves his aerial mind games. He loves to shoot low after flip resetting.
Now he's got drive kickoff to the back corner. That's going to be huge actually. Look at
what that can do. He put the momentum up, get in the demo. He's got surprise. Now he
puts many times he can and he does again. This time shooting. No mind game on this one.
Maybe a little bit on the approach, but great start for the challenger.
At CRK, he's being brought up as the underdog here, but there was a time where he also
reigned supreme in Mina as the top Wombi winner, so he definitely knows what he's doing in Wombi
one. He's not just jumping into this with no experience, just the new bow comes in
and a little bit better as of late. He's got CRK going off his dealing,
He's not adjustable at all, he'll let it drop down for a second.
And the slow approach in the air there, not something you're going to see a lot today,
it's usually going to be flying as fast as possible, but that really looked like a surprise
TRK who's posturing for a high challenge.
And instead the trajectory of the air dribble came in a bit lower.
TRK going for the fast p-stop.
Half a chance of target here, goes for it.
He likes this traditional blinks of TRK.
One of this nonsense, this modern reverse 45 degree, just a,
it's self-shelf flicks with the standard approach.
Really putting the dependent jump
under a lot of pressure early.
Hey, what I'd like to call a testing shot
at the top shelf of Nubbo, to see if he can't get
a whole offense to continue there.
He actually will sneak over the top of Nubbo
to get this steal.
Now this can be a much better position
to try and play an extended attack
because Nubbo's actually low on boost,
DRK reset, are we gonna see down to a wave dash?
No, this time he jumps into the air and air rolls to the top left.
It really is quite amazing that he can still do this to this day.
And he's so convincing with it. You might be thinking,
but why is there no challenge?
What are you letting TRK get out closer to personal par for?
He really can't pull the trigger at any moment.
He can shoot that high off the reset.
He can, you know, go for the wave dash shot, or like pinch style shot.
Or he can just take his like bounce back up again.
That constant threat is something TRK has always been so good at.
There's no question he's in his comfort zone though, the later he gets challenged, Lupo is going to have to throw a couple in early to make sure TRK at least thinks about it as he puts on not nearly a good enough shot, not with Lupo in next.
Yeah, it looks like he didn't really give that full power. He was maybe trying to hit the ball top shelf and recover at the same time, but he leaped forward and it's just gone most straight into the defending brooch champ's lap.
bit of an easy one there. He's got six saves in this first game. Oh my goodness, is that
on? It's a good read by TRK. It's pretty close on those. It takes its time. It's about once
more. Sealing reset for both. And now the race to the back corner boost has been won
by the, well, the start point to TRK's throne back in the day, but now it's persisting the
It seems like we've had a change of momentum in this first game.
Are we watching North America? It's a full field dribble!
It's a great save by TRK. He's trying to get a counter out of it as well.
Wow, it's for coverers in the game. He's still going to make it there before he gets back.
What a save that is. TRK is the fastest route possible to the net.
Destroying directly off the side wall there.
points to the ball towards that near post, no time wasted but he needs to try
get control of all again. He started off this game with a lot of possession
going his favor, this one is not and he has conceded on straight spawn kickoff
a rarity in high level ones but he's actually run flip to the approach is
maybe even more rare. Yeah it's not something you see very often it helps you
maybe score up dead center but what it also does is it just ever so slightly
Delays your approach because yeah, I'm gonna get there as fast as someone speed-flipping
Sometimes that can be helpful as TRK
Washer it up on the side wall like you did a challenge headed back now
Landing sailing out of this one who actually you're trying to flip TRK off the top of him
Wasn't able to get the turnaround shot. I was gonna be forced into that on very low boosts
TRK into the air this time. He does go pretty fast. Hi, you can force him up there
where Tier K still in possession.
Oh, Vic is going to take it in the field.
Instead, he will take a side wall.
He's trying to play keep away from a ceiling challenge.
And he managed to do some great boost steal.
And that's unbelievable defense.
You know, deflecting the ball to that back corner
right as the boost responds.
And great defense to the other end.
DRK dodging it, bumping the air.
But he can't do the same once it all reaches the ground again.
He has spawned Reapost as you would expect
after the recent update.
But he is in a terrible spot here.
It could be the first lead, not yet, but with just a minute to go, I think the momentum
of the match has definitely swung away from TRK.
He needs control of the ball again.
If we're backing off as TRK is faking and feeling interesting, it's like he's defending
the side wall.
He doesn't want to go over there and you think you need to prioritise your net, TRK backing
off. Space is dangerous for this player. Low 50, great challenge. Good enough challenge
that it's going to be out in time to recover, but still boost advantage to the world champ.
50, this one's going to stick around and it'll be a tap in for a bit.
Like I said, these aren't fat challenges, but unfortunately, the offense is always going
to be able to control the 50s, both on the ground and in the air. And now we have 20
left to your gay trails first time in the game that he has got an opportunity here to get the ball back though.
Demo should be good. It is nice. Got to get us up target quickly. First type shot is in.
Tie game, 5-5.
Hi, Stambo to open the field.
It is a fairly free fall through for TRK.
He knows how to hit those nets when they're open.
No way.
They put a spot to spawn that will save him here.
It's a diagonal kickoff and a crucial moment.
TRK are trying to finish off what has been a great game one.
It's not easy to get these close games against the World Champ.
He's got a wave dash.
He's going to be able to get a lead.
There's only six goals to play.
No way.
Where's Newport?
I don't blame you for the good in the back. He's usually so quick back in a position, but he lost all his momentum on the landing.
And it's TRK with a zero second goal. Take it game one. We have got grand finals.
It's amazing what these grand finals do in 1v1. It doesn't matter who seems favorite going into this.
it is always going to be a great match up in TRK.
I mean, he was just playing solid from the very beginning,
went straight to his game,
and Nupral I think maybe led for a second
or at least was able to tie it,
but TRK, he led the majority of the time on the clock,
so he's going to feel really good
that he was able to secure this one
and actually take game number one.
It was mostly counter attacking
and lots of low 50s were saying to the game,
for the defending world champion,
he's just trusting the fact that TRK likes
to challenge the ball,
He does dive a lot when he challenges in general, roughly.
But the fact that he's, you know,
seized the lead late and then lost the game is a big surprise.
I very much thought, seeing the way the kickoffs are going,
seeing the way that the goals were trending,
that TRK had just lost that one.
But wow, clutch at the end as well.
Hitting him with a bit of his own medicine as well.
0-50 to bounce the ball high in the closing stages
is exactly what TRK needed.
Yeah, you know, we saw Rwass, you know, take Nupo to the very edge last time around.
This time Rwass drops out of the tournament early.
If there was someone else to pick up to try and give a fight to the current best Wombi1er in the world,
why not the greatest ever to do it in this region if there's anyone who's not going to be afraid of the moment.
It's going to be TRK.
He's been there not just in Mita, but on lands and every part of Rocket League.
Why not also Wombi1 as he has to lead as we start getting him too?
That's a good shot, it's top corner, straight up the kickoff.
And yeah, a couple of kickoff goals directly going in now.
This took too strong, he just wins the kickoff.
The whole group at TRK said, TRK's going,
go back to those tricks he tried to get one of them.
They can like the drive kickoff from him.
I think the lead could be good.
He is still front flipping on this straight spot,
which is interesting.
And then they want to lead that ball
for fear of a direct shot.
Now we can take the back corner boost instead.
Big challenges from TRK.
He is adapting.
Doesn't want to discharge it.
Headlong, it's every challenge.
He's going to be knocked off now.
He will have to bring his ball all the way down the ground
and then flick top left.
This is not an easy thing to do.
He waits it out to see if TRK is going to throw
any sort of big challenge towards him,
but just only a very slight hesitation.
He will be able to collect the ball on top of his car
and that is not an easy flick.
Perfect placement for the new boat.
And TRK even faking a challenge in reverse there.
just doing anything to try to trick his teammate but if somebody is going to know TRK and his
tricks it would be this guy. Oh that's not the outcome that TRK was hoping for. The defense
looked stronger than a minute but okay he's managed to see that whole 50 coming but he's been
bumped mildly. Oh my goodness he's totally tripped up with his back partner it's the rain out.
And Dupoe trying to give revenge, we just saw a battle of teammates in North America with a champion of the region playing his teammate who was coming in as the underdog, we've got more of the same here and actually we saw a game 1 win for Zach there and a game 1 win for TRK but the problem is he's not going to match Zach's start if he's not able to get this going here.
It's Axle 2 away, Nupo on run in his first minute.
Up 3-0 as TRK, already at the ground, Nupo has had enough of him getting any sort of space.
TRK is a little bit too long to get situated there, that's a great 50-50 using the reset on the ball to set himself up for a wave dash.
TRK is really trying to maximize the speed that he's got, being able to self-hear this good evasion in the midfield just to keep in control of this one.
So I could really use a goal to stay in touch.
He's not many chances.
And again, he's been denied in the near post.
You know, maybe the true winner we haven't spoken about yet,
Munkimmin, just watched his teammates in the grand final.
He's got to be pretty happy about being
in the team of these two.
No question.
Terukai mixing up for his normal wave dash,
trying to shoot in the air.
He's going that red.
This reset shot, trying to play keeper with Terukai.
Good dive across the net to make the play.
Has a good advantage.
Rush this quickly, Nipple should be arriving to net late TRK to punish him, and Nipple climbs in, TRK's on the board.
I just can't believe that he's still doing it, like every single time it works.
You'd think that everybody would know that TRK is faking, but thinking back to his previous shot, he did actually play the reset.
So I think that's probably what's going on in Nipple's mind, he's thinking, he went for the reset last night, maybe he's going to do that again.
No, it's just the classic. TRK reset my game.
He will do that so many times in this match.
Really trying to take this dribble to the left of the field.
Really bringing down the ground.
You see that challenge turn in and TRK trying to take advantage of that,
but great recovery back from Nupo to not let it go to the top of him.
Great read from both players.
Looks like it's getting a favor.
The player in orange as he's now got control.
And TRK in a really tough spot here.
What a holy tough left.
TRK was getting ready to defend and getting still pushed to pass them.
I was wondering if TRK was expecting a pop-up of sorts
because he jumped onto the back wall here.
Trying to give himself a launch back to throw himself into the ball from.
Still has time here, but the kickoffs are really going the way of the defending world champion.
It's up to TRK to change things in that regard.
We saw his head struggling in a similar way in Europe against NAS.
Once NAS found a weakness, he just kept poking him broad in it.
And that's what's happening here.
Your case got lots of things you can do differently,
whether it's time and the approach, angle of approach,
or just go for a different strategy entirely,
but no, you're just gonna stick to that front flip
on the straight spot.
Now you see both players go for it now,
this front flip, that's quite a clean,
good recovery in net.
So you'll be able to pick up the hundred boost,
maybe work something out as a good reset wave dash,
what do you think?
I'm not that close to it, buddy.
Maybe a recent mind game.
You know, although that's hard to do,
and that's the part of the TRK's game,
I'm like, yo, whoa, careful.
That's another great level save.
I put up any type of top,
because TRK is just producing
absolute cinema in the goal line.
But yeah, I am fear.
I am very happy to see the...
another great save, by the way.
And one strategy that TRK's doing
that we can both incorporate,
definitely pull out an off if I get it.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, I can't do his survival as long as he just did.
I'll get this attack.
This is not easy to do.
He didn't even have booster at the end,
but a couple of different pumps will push him away.
And this has just been full control from Nublau.
A good bounce back as we started to believe
in a potential knock on.
He's going to make it 7-1, and we still got a minute 40.
Yeah, TRK might stick around to this
this who tried to figure out something that works here he's trying to push them
off to the right but yeah that side on approach in the kickoff gets completely
countered by a kill side as you see from that close so what the TRK drew here
he did the exact same thing so he didn't really change anything there maybe he's
going to just keep spamming the same losing kickoff for a couple more minutes
and then switch up the next game and see the other option that he's got
He's trying to use something spectacular in the air as he looks to see if he can find a miracle,
maybe coming off the back of some crazy, recent play where he passes to himself up the ceiling,
but he's going to take it away and deny the miracle.
That's another insane play from the Defending World Champ.
Lighting it up the ceiling. It's a standard for him, of course.
He's running the belt, and you know, and other things here, if you can try two gears, get the last goal.
And then, for Faker, he comes to the ceiling reset, doesn't play for the rebound, knows that the touch is going to connect.
For his teammate, almost days, opponent today, the players try to steal the ball from each other, on opposite sides of their goal.
Pretty much a chess match that's here, Faker is used to playing historically, but I think the annoying thing from now is he's just met his match mechanically.
I'm by a fair margin. This has been a personal game. Oh, I love what's it past to the post
Pogo shot and the rebounds
91
You love to see it
info showing off right now great job at keeping it away
I mean there's nothing Sierra K can do when he's setting up on that left side of that the back wall
Just told way, you know, I'm actually surprised. I even saw him go for that
Maybe he's not willing to kind of troll his about teammate, but normally look what's going on one in
I've seen him go back and forth where he sets up the air dribble on the left
You know the back left corner boost and if it doesn't get challenged
He just cuts the ball back goes to the right side and looks to send it over and over when he has a lead
It says you have to come challenge me. I'm not gonna go until you force me to
But maybe he's like, you know what I have more respect for TRK. I'm not gonna force you
I'm just gonna go instead. I'm gonna pogo on him, which I don't know if that's better or worse
But you did at least bring the game to him
I mean he is just trying to rush the Benzel
10-2 devastating defeat for TRK after a close game one.
It's like James said on the desk.
TRK's winning the previous match of these two of the play was a close game
and he did take a lot of beatings in the losses.
So more of the same in the grand final.
Decided to play it out anyway though.
Maybe trying to tire out and let the apple punch himself out perhaps.
Just exhaust his thumbs or something.
I don't know what the reason is, but hopefully, for his sake, he'll be able to tell us like,
you're on the winner's end.
Yeah, I don't know if you want to let people play any more than he already does, because
I watched him play against Moxie to win that grand championship we were talking about,
and he just got better and better.
As he got into the zone, as he was able to, you know, he seemed like he was bopping to
of music taking a sip of his water after every goal.
I mean, you let 11 goals in.
You let 11 sips in.
You know, he's been able to rehydrate a ton of different
times, and you don't want to let that happen.
You've got to forfeit in order to keep that hydration down.
Maybe it is midnight if I'm not mistaken inside of Arabia.
These guys do stay up very late in the summer.
It's so hot here today.
The night is a lot more livable.
But who knows?
Maybe they've been saying in voice chat,
waiting for the for the NA match to finish that they get to their
vinaigrette final. And if that's the case, who knows, maybe
TRK knows something we don't, maybe he's too busy, a little bit
sleepy, maybe he's too young under the mic. And that's what he's
trying to capitalize on here.
Yeah, it's a fortunate it just speaks to how good Nupo is that
we're like, maybe we can make him tired.
Certainly can't stop him on the field. So you got to try and get
I mean, 11-2 is the biggest example in that it feels like we're just gonna expect this the rest of the series. I would be not surprised at all to see more the same for three more games before it ends.
So, you know, the TRK has something special. Is he keeping something in his back pocket? Maybe he didn't change his kickoff intentionally so that he could actually use it when it's going to matter more here in game number three.
that is the hope of them if
you're a T. R. K. fan. Otherwise
you're just watching, you know,
new for roll through. Yeah,
this is a must win game. He's
got to stay close here. It all
starts with kickoff wins and he
has won this one. So I'm
thinking maybe he did just found
the same losing kickoff in the
last game. Great fake as well
from T. R. K. trickiest player
in the one scene. But this is
Okay, attention here. I want to see TRK go left if I'm seeing a change.
Okay, well, he's kind of covered middle there, so he's definitely blocking that hit golf goal that occurred.
Instead, it's a kickoff possession, which is not a lot easier when you're up against that goal.
Yeah, definitely not. Most of the time, those get converted anyways.
Longer TRK gets a boost, respawn.
Oh, horseback puts, you know, I was going to say still in control, even with TRK getting the ball there, that immediate challenge keeps possession.
He was favored, now he's in a bit more trouble.
It's going to get back up for a real chance here for TRK, just going to force to net.
And now, was that good enough to get possession?
Oh, it was. Easy save, counter one.
Oh, wow, Lick, he's completely missed the ball, and he did not fake out TRK.
I wonder if that's going to be the weaker side. We've seen a lot of flicks go in the other way like this one. They've all been good.
I think it was going right, was a bit more doggy there.
But that, I mean, that's perfect. Towards the left, it's going to pay attention to this.
Foxy as well as Europe is similar. If you look at the cars blinking to the left, even in the highest level of pro play,
You will see preferences with air roll, which wall to fly off, which flick to go for.
This one is left as well, and it's really good, yeah, he's trying to parry me like...
Yeah, I wonder if you did the same, or at least I was on Noopo, can you get the same frontflip kickoff?
I don't know if this is like a twisted mind strategy, if the coach, you know, told him before the tournament,
you know, you got to be focusing on your just straight frontflip kickoffs.
Apparently they both agree that they're very useful, it's not something you see very often.
This time, it's gonna favor Noopo.
Now they're working to go over to more standing kick-ups as they try and force the ball through each other.
People are going to be the big winner here as he lets his ball go to the wall. Interesting.
He could have taken a dribble earlier and almost allowed the ball to become more awkward before starting it.
This isn't something you want to do very often.
Okay, and new ball just fooming the ball back and forth now though.
Something that you'll see from them in any game, well, they really do move the ball.
We spoke with that earlier with the first skiller on the pitch.
Oh, DRK didn't mean that my game.
You might get a goal off it, not quite as the boost is there in defense.
The immediate shot is not quite good enough.
The ball is absolutely rapidly moving around the pitch here.
DRK is trying to get it moving the other direction.
A lot of boost speakers here, though, has to be careful.
He is the advantage for now.
Oh, not to the side.
Was going to cut it right in.
Trying to get advantage.
Oh, Nupo just challenged me.
Wow.
You see him prepping for defense along the goal line.
The goal line notices TRK has slowed down, just keeps that momentum, and dives in in challenges.
Info is the fastest player in the game, and he's showing why he's so good at that in ones.
And now, he's got control around Scylla and Hank, and he's got a reset here, so he's going to be forced down the ground,
whether he wanted to or not.
Zeshin will switch into the backflip challenge, could wave dash recovery from TRK,
a flick could be dangerous instead of he fakes it.
Info makes it safe.
Yeah, he didn't like the lane on that one, he decided not to pull the trigger.
I'm thinking it's going to get saved, or maybe just go straight into the post.
Why do I instead just go for the light there again?
How does he keep getting away with this?
Noob on the back wall did not want to try and challenge
the rest of your team went to the ground.
Yet another fake auto-wave dash shots.
It's so tough to stop.
I mean, you're going to see lots of different players do it.
It's not like it's only TRK's move,
but clearly he is very good at executing it at the highest level.
And it is such an effective play.
Oh, I love that for TRK.
He made it look like a big challenge
it to the last second here. If he had just thrown himself at this, I think it would have
been too predictable. But by driving up slowly, almost like a predator stalking his prey in
the long grass, it's like maybe if I move slowly, he's not going to see me coming.
Good surprise. Good lead for TRK. Big bounce back. He's already beat his scoring from the
last game. Yeah, 2-2-Nuples-11. He's got 3 now and he has a lead, which is even more
important. He's going to back off when he sees TRK being aggressive, pinching it on the wall
away from him now staring down to see what he's up to see if he's going to turn back on the ball
will say the ton of boost left over wow I'm surprised he didn't go for it I thought him
would take advantage of that and rush towards the ball but he just waits wow TRK takes it away
that is amazing small pad pathing by TRK he had his EF ball come on the whole time and he hit
every single small pad in an arc to keep this boost up high enough and you can see that he needed
every single ice at the end.
Well, no, I thought he was first star because he would have been
had he not path perfectly over those pads in a circle.
Now the Fendi champ down to have to play from behind.
The Tier-K, he's fine with winning close games.
I don't think he minds if he gets four of those close game wins.
That's fine with him. Oh, my goodness, what a flick.
It's slightly off target.
People trying to take advantage of it.
Tierkei was off the ceiling.
Good cut here.
As both these players give you a long boost,
they're going to swing away from each other
to grab 100 try and return back to the ball.
Tierkei got a sidewall set up,
and he lost it away.
It should be an easy enough save for Nupo,
who needs two goals and needs good possession.
But again, just kind of a flub touch into a completely
misplaced Tierkei though, maybe not
able to take advantage as much as I was expecting.
You mentioned earlier on last year,
in the Quest for World Championship in 1v1.
It was in Mina that now will face the biggest challenge
for Wastukima game seven.
He only went game five with Diaz and Moxie on land.
And once again, it's in Mina, in the grand final,
that he's facing a big test.
This time at the hands of his 3v3 teammates,
the RK, the greatest Middle East player to ever play the game.
He has still done it to this day, years on,
brought me his own debut.
TRK will already have done something
no one has done in a long time.
So he stays cool for that backflip save.
Even getting a second win is something
that no one's done against Nupo so far in this event.
Not even TRK himself when he played earlier.
And he never bracket, he's so calm right now in defense.
Despite having such little boost,
Nupo finally can break him down.
He's got 25 seconds to get two more.
Yeah, I was loving the composure and defense.
There's so many big challenges from TRK.
This time he tries for a reverse challenge, hoping that it's not going to be predictable.
About 25 seconds to go, it's game on.
T-R-K has got to be careful here.
He's lost a lot of kickoff goals in these games already.
Needs to get solidly behind this ball.
And he does.
He might get one of his own.
He does, and it's 6-3.
That's about as good as it could possibly go on the kickoff.
T-R-K forcing that to the right, hoping to push it out there.
But T-R-K just quicker and better on the ball.
It gets the advantage.
Now you're going to get out of the kickoffs, you know?
It's important.
This is meant for play.
If you're not just going to keep scoring goals,
if people can't get three straight back to one power shot,
yeah, we'll get one of them.
And that took not nearly enough time
to actually waste all the time off the clock.
So now TRK needs to escape the kickoff to Spirit G.
I would like to drive kickoff to TRK.
I think he's got to do something different here.
Just for one more go.
Really stick to standard.
He will.
He's trusting his mechanics here.
which is so difficult to do in a matchup that's this mechanically intense, but he's done it.
TRK, after an 11-2 defeat, wins game three.
He's got the dependent world champ on the ropes.
It's crazy to think about because we've seen so many different goals.
Shirley Noob was winning in the series, right?
Having that 11-2 game, you just spread those out over the rest of this time that we've
watched them.
had a big advantage, but it's TRK in the driver's seat, 2-1 up over Miprol. I know no one else has
been 2-1 up because no one has gotten two games off of him yet. It was probably lost last time,
you know, at least in the RLCS that someone was able to get more games. TRK proven to be just
as big of a problem here in this great finals.
And there were some jinks in the arbor there from my bow. But first of all, I mean, it might get
I think it's a tier care working. His plays are actually working, which is huge because he can get goals just from his own people plays. That's obviously an important aspect of winning.
But the fact that we're seeing some mis touches and some misplicks, we're just not used to seeing that from the defender world champ is usually so brutally efficient and consistent.
I think TRK Maya got understood a little bit, and it might be a comeback, well it will be a comeback as needed, but
What an important game we've got coming up after the timeout?
Yeah, timeout by NuPo. We've seen timeouts very seldom used. Tons of players are down to just go next very quickly
You know, sometimes they're doing almost the opposite of a timeout
They're they're forfeiting getting right back into the next game right away with nothing at all in terms of taking a break
But we didn't even see two game wins in a row, which a lot of, you know,
coaches and teams, when we see three people on the field, they reserved that
timeout. No, we haven't seen is we saw tons of timeouts in the lead.
Last time around this time, more conventional use, but people clearly
does not like how his game losses have been going.
He hasn't been able to win the close ones, which there's something to be said about
that, you know, he has to blow it out of the water right away.
Otherwise, he hasn't been able to clutch up TRK, maybe the king of clutch over in
that. It's very interesting to
note that. T. R. K. Lost almost
every kickoff game to he didn't
switch up a lot. We're wondering
is that going to is that trying
going to continue, but straight
away in Game three, he gets much
more goal side on every single
contact. So when we're talking
about goal side, he's getting as
between the ball and his goal as
possible when the kickoff impact
the game itself. So, yeah,
we're going to get this one
started momentarily. TRK two
one up, but yeah, those are
the second two games is the
next two. No doubt will be
even harder to get. Yeah, and
the next two will be even
harder to get. Yeah, and the
next two will be even harder
even harder to get. Yeah, this makes me think back to the Falcons domination. It's maybe fallen off
here a little bit in Mina and 3v3, but TRK was part of those teams that did so well, and you could
beat them in, you know, some other part of the bracket, you know, before the grand final. Sometimes
occasionally Falcons will lose. Falcons in that grand final are different. Now we have no Falcons,
to be fair, I'm talking about TRK's old teams. TRK now, you know, a twisted mind player with
But TRK is that player who's just impossible to meet so many different people, you know, they celebrate because I got second
I got second to TRK. I was able to get to the grand final. You know, I almost beat him
Maybe there's that level of clutch that even in ones TRK has he didn't make it to the grand final last time this time
He's here. He's a force to be reckoned with
And here we go again for this
midfield play from the get go
open play to find in ones if both players can get boost after a kickoff and
posture up to contest the possession so that was a pretty even one oh here goes
got under with the mind game I don't think you bet this one if he did this
on purpose that is extraordinary because he's got a head of the ball
how does he come up with these ideas it's beautifully wave dashes out back
towards the patch and cuts it in. Everything is going TRK's way. He is trusted himself with those resets down to the ground.
I saved Nupo, forced back, but TRK not gonna be able to pick up much boost in this extended attack.
Nupo face goes below and gets the first.
Yeah, it's scary.
Yeah, TRK had to cover something here.
He decided to cover the flick.
And, yeah, Yard is going to concede the low 50 in that position.
He's got to keep that in mind, though.
These are the mind games that are constantly going on in 1v1.
It's not just about the play that's happening right now.
It's about remembering what did the opponent do the last time they were in this spot.
And do you think they're going to go for the same thing again?
Well, almost got a good bounce. Still gonna be in great position though.
We'll lose the ball to the ground.
That's TRK though on Boost. We're gonna switch sides again.
And Nupo, who starts with Boost, is gonna be the first one to the opposite corner,
as he keeps TRK on pads. This is the one we won jail.
I was mentioning earlier in the broadcast that you can get put in,
and it was put TRK in this jail.
It's continued to reflix over and over again.
TRK still hasn't been able to pick up more than a pad.
Here or there, this is a big moment.
Wow!
Everything that gets it out in front, it just landed!
in it. What's saved by TRK? In and out of his own net, in the blink of an eye. And he's
dunked it so hard, it's almost got in without a bounce. I mean, you're not going to see
a better save than that. And it was off the back of consistent pressure as well.
What a jailbreak! I said TRK was in jail. And what I did not realize is he was moments
away from scoring. So, maybe, I mean, people have to keep going. I mean, you have to feel
good about having somebody completely backed in on zero boost and even when
they're going in and out of the net that's actually usually a good sign to it
they're panicking to try to get high. Finally, this time he's gonna get his goal.
Yeah, great call on the block here. TRK trying to back down and out but he's just
lost control now he got a bit too far away from it so it's a bit obvious that
he wasn't gonna flip into the ball. Notice that a lot of the time the TRK's
who's starved. He's got to look out for low 50s. Nice bump there after the kickoff.
When tier-k is starved, that is when he is most susceptible to the low 50 and I think
he's got to be able to notice that. He's going to be staying lower in a lot of his challenges.
We're trying to play keep away. It's tier-k 1 to be a pass. He's got control now and that is
showing as open, but tier-k shuts it as soon as he's open to the window and now he's right back
on the ball. Nupro did not, you know, pull the trigger immediately when he saw some open space.
And TRK gets this one! Oh my goodness! Nupro missed it, made it possible!
He can't get this. It's going to be TRK's ball. This is unbelievable.
We're seeing some inaccuracies from the World Champ, but TRK is defending. Like,
right from last, and there's strikes to the bottom left. Wow, wave that shot.
You don't want to let TRK get to this spot, but sometimes you have no other choice as you're
rotating back no angle to dive in it beat even worse so you let TRK bring that ball
down to the ground and he is never gonna lack power when he wants it he finds it
and he's got a lead and it feels like even with TRK in the lead earlier you're
up to one in the series oh we're just waiting for people to get going yeah
approach half-time in this game and TRK is still leading. Oh! TRK believers are
definitely gonna be feeling they're in a good spot. Oh this is a ridiculous play
Both players trying to stay with us here again. He's got the right side of it. The burst is spawning
Oh, it's not spot yet though. He stopped moving on it and he's considered as a result
I feel like the updates kind of made him here because you can see that it was lit up
But it wasn't quite there for TRK
Okay, he's got time to play on the new updates just as much as new for at least
too made
Looking to get that one back. It's gonna have a great kickoff. Possession on top of his car, fake challenge. Doesn't make him phased at all.
But he is bringing the ball to the back wall, so no need for a big contact.
Not a lot to be done there. A hundred for a long boost.
Flip, TRK wants to try and end possession here. This time he does get away with not using the flip.
He's able to pull it down to the ground. Great challenge as TRK far out going for his reset landings.
And all the boost is in favor of Nubos, but TRK, even though he's on the ball,
was expecting to be able to get possession here quickly. That flick, maybe not quite good enough,
and of course straight down the field. A strong flick might have scored, but he popped it too far up.
Not enough lateral power in order to score. He's just trying to make the most of a boost advantage
earlier there. TRK, defending so bravely, he is keeping up the pace. So he'll keep up those back
the game. It's a lot of 50 50s.
He's absolutely with that. Can
you believe it? Tier
gate leads off a wall Miss on
the turn up. He almost never
see that. That is not a
mistake that he makes.
a little bit. That seems to not seem to be maintaining his fundamentals in this crucial
grand final. Not for maybe for a second if I'm going for a demo, but he pulled away from it.
Got TRK on pads. TRK escaped for a easy counter attack last time this time. It is going to be
due, but we get to go all soft touch and we're equal. Yeah, and again, it's that low 50. As soon
as he gets to RK Booster, he's going for the low 50s. He knows that he's going to recover faster
with the boost advantage.
And he has had so many shots this game, 13 to 8.
TRK's got eight saves.
Really did such a good job in defense,
but can he get his lead back again here?
Fighting for the back corner boost,
goes the way of that point.
It's going to be TRK retreating.
Chance for a late lead.
But TRK launches it.
How are you trying to find the ball in his approach?
Delays it for a bit.
And you even saw a ball came down from Newport.
See if you could see around it.
See the challenge, but it was too late.
He stopped left side of the net. It's interesting.
TRK is showing that and Nupo has not been able to punish.
Maybe I've just watched too much Moxie film,
but I know Moxie, given that opportunity,
would absolutely rip one top left.
Licks maybe not the best game for Nupo.
He prefers being in the air.
That's where he's going to go now,
trying to get an air jump on top of this one.
Connected the demo to get the lead.
Great switch up.
Had TRK shadowing and he just pops the ball up,
slams TRK out of the way.
He's going to have one chance of this, though, has to be so efficient with this feel for
chair dribble in. That's not the start that you needed. Keeps it up. Still a chance. Still
going to have one more opportunity to get back to this. And he does. He's going to
He's going to get back to this and he does. Well, this is something special from TRK recycling the bill put chair dribble. The Hobartian challenge is so annoying to look at and that's going to be enough.
Yeah, not the best challenge for Mupo if he's trying to not get scored on at some other point of the game because that
Yeah, he was gonna get one out and then CRK is gonna collect it and bring it to goal
But he just needs any big brass any bit of grass at all
So he just dive bombs it from above and forces it back down pretty impressive in CRK to even stand a chance there
But no, I worry for TRK in this series only because
It felt like he needed that one which is crazy to say
He's equally clearly been showing that he can play with Nupo back and forth
I shouldn't be worried about him and yet I feel like any time he has a game close
He needs to close it out this time he didn't
Yeah, he misses an opportunity there
There's no doubt about that he had late chances in the game to take a lead couldn't take him
So it's not gonna get easier from here, but there are a couple silver linings for TRK
He's definitely got an apple nervous. That's for sure
We've seen some mistakes that are extremely uncharacteristic from the defending world champ in these games and
DRK is still getting goals with his style of play. He's not having to play
Unrealistically for him. He's sticking to his game plan. I want to see more ball chasing when he's low boosted defense
So he's got to just accept that hey, this is a bad situation if I try to go for a crazy read
I'm conceding off for too many low 50s
I think he's just got to read the low 50 and you know if you get outplayed you get outplayed
You have to take your risks. You have to push the edges of what's possible
I guess this has both looked like I wasn't on the POE but
Dear K to the front flip where you've really quite chance on you. Yeah, he was yeah
They both love the front flip of it. I can't wait to try this myself as a front flip main and those people have been required
So yeah, these guys are doing it some of those mechanical players world. I don't want to see anybody calling me a balker
for the first time in his life, and now I'm accused, that's okay. It's going to be, again,
great team flicking from that side of the field, TRK up high, is he going to pull the
trigger? Yes he is! And there's the return of the investment for all of the fakes that
he's been going for before. Yeah, if you wondered how come they're not challenging him, just
challenge him, don't let him get to the ground. TRK is no slouch if he has to play the Vier
as well. He's gotten the full repertoire, every aerial attack needs to have threats
All the way from beginning to end, you need to be on that ball
without leaving a moment's notice for anyone to challenge.
CRK does just that. Now he can fall off the ceiling.
Actually, it's easier for Noopa to bring it up.
Usually, you try and counter someone from the ceiling by going down,
but the extra pop gets over the top.
He's a huge scoop of this one.
So, CRK was trying to get right in line with the ball there,
and he does get outplayed by the reset.
Don't really mind that play from CRK.
I think that's going to probably result in a goal for his opponent, regardless of what he does there.
Interesting to note, on the diagonal kickoffs...
Oh, TRK returns the favour for beautiful control.
I'm really paying close attention to the diagonal kickoffs.
If TRK just goes for the old, blasted, goal side, inside wall, I think he's scoring a kickoff goal.
I don't know if he knows this, but right here, if he just goes goal side to the left,
It's been wide open a few times and it's actually this time that he changes it so well fair plates and outputs
Couple times he's got really side onto the ball this time he does it
Control because of its still playing from behind
Trying to peel this ball off the back wall and we're actually getting angle instead
Which brings it right into TRK who has Tony who used to work with who's flip game is you know
Who knows if it's gonna be good or not. We're not gonna have to find out
out, he will challenge long before he gets an opportunity to go.
The wall dashes and then keep away with TRK.
Is this a safe, this is such a great save from TRK rejoining the play.
Has he escaped though? He's just pushed his ball back out to Nupo who now has
boost advantage and another chance to flip. The flicks have left the fifth of
the inside but this one directly at the back of TRK will go in.
It's TRK wanted to leave this on his goal line. He's tried to hit the cross far
Precisely that's why he's waiting so long to save that if that does hit the bar
Then CRK is recovered and really quickly you might just have an open net. That's what he's thinking at least
But yeah, you've got to make the save first this time. He couldn't do that
Ball goes right to the post back wall full pitch area triple commences
He's used a lot of boost on this one but he's got great lineup and perfect slot to the bottom right
Yeah, watching from TRK's view being jumped there for a second to try and maybe you know make people think
But he did not and you see that wave dash switch up
It's all about setting up on one side of the ball
So that your error will shot if you do decide to use it will send them all one way
You wait that sends it back the other just leaves the defend this watch
It's at the midfield here. Okay. I love the perfectly mirrored from the kickoffs
Let's control air dribble bump yet to slow it down
You should keep doing this. You're a look software. He doesn't have the immediate reflex knowing what he wants to do
here he just kind of froze underneath the ball and gets completely taken out of the game.
I think TRK's got to swarm off to the side there give himself a bit more of an angle he's got to have
that instantaneously as his reaction though all right one more.
He has to be ahead of the game. Holy prepping expecting that.
So been from TRK. Oh not quite but he's missed here.
We'll be getting another backup. TRK already pre-jumping already prepping for a potential
Lerio that does not end up arriving, but maybe convinced by the free jump not to go for it,
goes to the ground instead, will play out of the air, and he's trying to put TRK in jail,
but TRK a little bump, he's going to get out, he's going to position himself. Oh what moves,
TRK, vacant in field, plays it over the challenge, and he's back within one, and there's just
These mind games are the mind games here from these guys.
CRK, completely the one his team made.
Half time in game five.
Game that will send someone to double tournament point,
double qualification point to this year's World Championship.
We're still trying to defend his title.
CRK would love to be the representative for this year.
Twisted Minds win either way.
Only this can be a good sign from Nupo who has not found the power at all today.
He's able to go top right to absolute screen one in TRK.
I might have accelerated it, could maybe slow it down, but 100 kilometers per hour plus.
This definitely can be good enough to get past TRK.
He's got the 2-goal lead.
He's okay with that opportunity though.
Wall to air dribble.
He's going for a ceiling reset this time around.
And he's actually not playing his normal reset penalty ground.
He actually rushes back to the ball, takes his shot.
Now looking to go again.
He's got a little bit of a piggie around this.
He will just merely wall it in bottom right.
Well, his precision has been on point for these players.
Because once again, he just pulls out a unexpected angle.
And he just gets a right bit for the finish as well.
Staying in touch as he needs to do these spin close games.
The last one and this one.
Still, I think the majority of the kickoffs are going the way.
You're 1v1 World Champion.
CRK big ceiling challenge.
Over in the back wall.
It was low at the last minute.
This time, it's work time.
Yeah, everything that TRK is doing, it is not, no, for fun.
I think he's showing on the back wall,
so trying to adjust Nufo, make him go to his second option
that he was going for.
I thought we clicked that TRK is going to take advantage of.
But in some hole, moving in defense,
Superb lost that to also dodge.
The Erklum's moves grab is going to go through,
half a flip from TRK, isn't as clean as I would like to see from him, and Newport will score.
It's just so powerful in defense, every single time he's able to get such a good touch there, directly over TRK's head.
TRK did not make the right move, he was worried about conceiving even earlier, that's why he flipped the win at the time that he did,
but obviously needed to get closer to the ball if he was going to save the fall off touch.
Again, we're getting Barry Merritt kickoff in TRK's 1-1.
He's getting stronger and stronger in this.
The series goes on.
I feel like earlier on, it was 9 points winning them.
And now TRK just muscles him.
Yeah, Nikola, we're getting a bit too high.
It's single jump.
Maybe over the top of the mast of the wall.
So sometimes that 50 that happens there
can push you up into the air, which prevents you from dashing
quickly.
TRK before out.
Through TRK, a flick to kickoffs back to back.
And we got ourselves a tie game.
So many of these early challenges are getting spotted by TRK.
The vision needs to be perfect there.
I'm thinking he's lighting up for a late-mighting game though in the next one.
So all these outplays, I've got to be making him think that
FAKE is going to work later on.
Oh, nice! That's going to make it as well!
TRK by one! He pulls a shot out of nowhere!
Yeah, he gets bumped off of this! He gets pushed away!
And he says, you know what? I think I could find an angle.
I didn't mean to be here. I was forced to be here. I think it was an aerial shot of Ilville
I wonder if TRK was even wondering if that would go in. I think he wanted to force Nupo back
Yeah, and he got everything all at once got the goal immediately now he's up. Rista over the top. It's 8-6
I just can't believe how well he has timed the switch from full aerial mind games to full aerial outplay
It is unreal that he has pulled this off so many mind games worked earlier and now
He's out playing every challenge. TRK by two and he could be a double match point in 45 seconds, but
Let's take his time towards his back corner. He goes as far as this from the net possible
Here he gets started TRK stealing shadowing and matches it perfectly completely blocking him at every point of the play
forcing him back
100 is gonna be awkward here. TRK is a bit of a sideways thing. He's trying to flip back, but it's just getting in for a good position
What is this? What is that?
Nupo got lost. I think he meant to keep them all closer.
Oh!
He fell away from it and went for a bump instead.
T-R-K able to reverse out of the demo.
Now, he has to carry this one out of the top.
Nupo feels like he has to challenge.
He slows it down, but T-R-K scores again.
T-R-K threw it in.
It's a dribble the ball back.
Fakes into the challenge.
It scores at night.
Anything but an immediate kickoff goal.
And this is game over.
So T-R-K should just be trying to stay with this.
You know what that means.
Runflip! Runflip!
That's the view meta!
Can't wait to try this with my snout.
I'm sure all of you guys are the same.
But will he get a 10?
To add insult to entry, you bet he will.
TRK
is on double tournament point.
TRK
You know he's proven me wrong.
I was saying he needed to win that previous game.
He let me put my kids to this one.
And yet this is a solid win for TRK.
Really good job
of confirming his win late. It's not an easy thing to do against Mupo. He played all the
right ways. Clean that last little big hymn. You have somebody on the ropes. They have no
choice but to try and dive and challenge. He was used his time out, so he can't even use that now.
It is TRK, who is controlling the series. TRK outplayed so many challenges in this game. There
were, you know, plays where he's coming off the ball to get under the ball and outplay.
There's a reset in the back corner. These are all very technical resets
And even though he lost his his lead and had to earn it back again
He did just that man. Absolutely fine. You go. What is that now six straight goals at the end of the game?
This is this is unreal from TRK
Yeah, I'm on a crazy run that they can hope to continue
He's gonna be a little bit of break here between games
But he's hoping that's gonna roll right into the next one. It all comes down to that expert aerial game
We didn't realize we're gonna be talking about TRK necessarily coming into this one
But he stays on ball at every moment. He's getting resets early
Which means if Newport tries to challenge early that flip is available. He's not sticking to just one game plan
We've seen him wave dash go low. We've seen who's the reset go high
He's been able to get in control. It's not getting dominated in the kickoff
Noobo maybe should stop doing the front flip kickoff. Maybe he needs to do something different.
Because it's been good enough for TRK to be able to at least go 50 and he's played well in the open field.
In the places that we thought he was going to be the big underdog.
He has come to play and he's got two chances now to try and become a champion.
This would be the third region out of three with a different representative.
In only the second year of 1v1's inclusion in RLCS, we are seeing new
representatives in every single region, KV1 for South America. You have NAS for EU, Canopy TRK,
Corbina, he's got the rope chap with the ropes, but this one I think, out with a lot of them, is the one that I was most surprised by.
It's not up but yet.
That is a monster flick from distance.
Yes, it's a great sign. We talked about earlier the flicks were getting better. Even in the last game, we saw a couple of nice flicks.
TRK diving in, quickly passed him, and we get an early lead as he will try to continue that.
Backed off here on the kickoff, TRK.
Now bringing his ball to net, he's going nice and slow down the field, waiting, just watching when Nupro's up too.
But while there's too much lateral movement, he let it move almost all the way outside of net, and that's when Nupro challenged.
Yeah, he got tripped as well, and the follow through TRK did not get anything like where he wanted there.
there wasn't really threatening much from that angle. So early 2-0 lead and this is not a lead that CRK's
failed to overcome. There's that drive kickoff again. This one will work extremely well for CRK but
his first touch is wayward. He's used a lot of those second touch much better as he
right pulls it all back on target. Now resetting the back wall.
to make sure he actually starts his dribble, wants to force him all the way across the
field and the air, he's done that, put the shot a little bit weak at the end, you're
able to save it and recover quickly because TRK shooting it down is going to enable the
counter attack.
Yes, you're a bit too slow there by TRK, he used all of his boost on that one, so he
had to score or he's getting scored on and yeah, ultimately he didn't really get too
close to scoring.
It's a good try. We're working many cases but not at this level of competition.
You might have seen it again here. He's just left the ball, or boost, and means to look a bit silly in doing so.
It's 4-0, DRK. It's a black days ago first minute here.
We saw an 11-2 for a new ball. He might walk out of this series even if he loses here.
Well, I guess maybe not if you lose this year, but with many more goals scored because of that early game
We crushed his on track for another
You know run up here the scoreline only minute 30 in he's got four
TRK
And he make this game close, you know
There's been only two types of games you see close down to the wire and then
You go in the favor. He's gonna try and pinch this away
It's okay. I should stop it at the midfield never really let that even stand a chance
to a ceiling reset try to switch it up early and shoot because he saw a new
book coming with people still makes contact and gets it all what's a
challenge five nil this is a statement game by the defending world champion he
is not done that defended his title yet I mean he's already in the gold
conversation for one be one you can go back to back there would be absolutely
no question that he is the greatest in the game books history he's off to a
fantastic start in game six to play from behind when he did last time against
for Was so he's not familiar with getting down in series
so in the zone to not only what's this seven is both these guys gonna flip past
the ball and Tierca is expecting you to make contact and he didn't not Tierca has
That's a great spot.
Game dunks.
You know, you're trying to get some momentum as well into the next game.
I said this game was over by 80 means, but you've got TRK completely scoreless.
He's going to have this one read.
Should be able to get 100, and he's going to try and add even more to the tally.
Yeah, we're into the second half of the game now.
TRK knows from this point onwards, he can't just be playing a loose game.
He has to defend his net.
You know, you can see it anymore.
It becomes almost unwinnable.
He might be proceeding more.
He's under a ton of pressure.
Hot Reid for 6-0.
This is unbelievable.
This is the pass off the corner.
How does he have that bounce perfectly red?
Wow.
That is such a tough Reid to make.
And he was instantly headed out to where he knew the ball was going to go.
And save Reid from the beautiful who's up 6-0.
Hasn't allowed even a single goal.
His back is officially against the wall.
and he seems to recognize that as he has now turned it up to 11.
The shot gets saved easily.
TRK would need a goal here and then we need some kickoffs to go his way,
but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen.
In fact, he tries to cut this off early, doesn't make context.
It's going to be another one for Nufo.
Oh, you know, looking back at Game 2s, we had a similar situation.
Very often you'll see a forfeit here, but TRK played on right down to the end of Game 2,
despite trailing by, I think it was 19 goals at the end.
So I expect to see him do the same thing here.
And it did too when he started losing badly.
He didn't reveal any of his changeups.
He's just using this time to try to maybe drill
bad habits into his opponent and, you know,
play more and more losing strategies.
But, you know, in Rockville, especially in one,
if you call it conditioning your opponent
to expect a certain thing, then later on,
he's gonna make the changes to try to surprise that point the last game but
yeah he's not playing this one I'll take it he can win it but this is just for
now at least learning as much as you can that you can use in game number seven
yeah that's an impressive mental to take but it's okay
this is kind of an interesting counter to what you were just saying and I was
talking about this with James bot slightly you know is there incentive now
now for Nupo to not reveal anything, to start going for pickups that he'll never go for
in the future, which that one we will not see that in game 7 if it's ever close.
But he might as well go for a clip here there, take some bigger risks that he never would
otherwise take.
So the tier K doesn't get a read back the other way.
Even if tier K scores here, which is going to fail out of it, really still not a chance.
So we're int'ed midfield play, Aragible Bump, maybe Nupo should Aragible Bump the rest of
the way out to try and get tier K as much as possible.
Now, it would be a smart move actually, just try to be as annoying as possible.
It only go for air dribble bumps, demos, low 50s, just the most frustrating things to
concede against.
But, last time this happened, it was TRK who came in just fine in the very nice game,
so I think mentally he's going to be okay here.
Will he go for more mindgames?
He went for a mindgave in a cereal before this.
Is it going to be another one?
Yeah, it is.
Okay, TRK, maybe I'm just overthinking this.
But he's playing for two reset fakes in this rubbish tank as the game's already over.
If he goes for another run, it's going to be too obvious.
He's like, well, look at me on that reset faking again.
You better back off, but now you can see how I play.
So maybe there's less to this than we think, and he just is playing it out because why not?
Take a virtual time out per se.
Yeah, I mean, 1v1, unlike a native mode, it's the closest to just getting a little
replay break as well.
Maybe you just want to shake it off, drive around, not to worry about where the ball
goes in your net anymore.
Just kind of get some more touches on the ball.
You'll have what your plan is for game 7.
Maybe see if you're full field.
AirDrum will reset.
Musty Duns are there.
It looks like they are.
Looks like that is a tool you can potentially use in game 7.
Well, after seeing the early attempts for the full play share double front CRK, I like
I like these getting a couple more reps and see where the hands are at.
But, most curious right now for me is, will the aerial game really be present in Game 7?
I expect it to be, but I also thought it would be a part of the Game 7 and EU between Zen and Masters.
And it wasn't really a part of the game. They were both so nervous that they defaulted, mostly at least, to the ground game.
And we might see something similar here with both players,
like, very, very safe.
And you know what's interesting is I would have argued that TRK
just took an in-game timeout by waiting around for, you know,
two or five minutes after losing.
He's also going to take an out-of-game timeout.
So TRK wants another break.
He's getting trying to get at big of a possible break here
before the game seven.
We saw, you know, if it weren't for the fact
that we'd already seen it before,
I would be going heavily in the first favor,
coming off an 11-2 win.
he was already able to completely erase that.
So there's some magic in just seeing 0-0 in five minutes
back on the clock, just changes things for these players.
It's definitely a needed change for TRK
if he wants there to be a new MENA 1v1 champion.
Well, you know something that keeps on delivering
is the 1v1 script.
So we've got another game seven, everybody.
That's the second year in a row.
We've got a game seven in the MENA final last season.
It was relaxing as now, but in EU, same thing.
We had Moxie against Raleigh,
And you had Zen against NAS, both going to Game 7.
This is what 1v1 is all about.
You've got so many things you can change
that you are just more likely to get comebacks
in the individual games and in the series as a whole.
Compared to 3v3, which often delivers 4-1s
and 4-0s in Grand Finals, sometimes we get a 4-2,
and we're thinking, wow, what a final.
4-2?
I mean, we're getting spoiled today.
But in 1s, the Game 7, it really does happen a lot.
Yeah, and now is time to cash in on everything you've been working on.
We're talking about conditioning opponents over the course of a long series.
The most obvious case of that is probably the kickoffs and what you go for.
You could throw in brand new kickoffs if you're feeling confident,
or if you need a last second resurgence, throw something you haven't thrown
all series long, maybe that ends up being the reason why you bring it back.
But also the aerial game, a seven game series, we've kind of seen a little bit
of everything, but it all comes down to this one moment.
Are you going to clutch up?
are your mechanics going to transfer?
We saw maybe not the best games from people on LAN
when they were a little bit more nervous.
Game 7s are a similar situation.
The player who did not fade though and was not too worried
was Nupo.
He played flying both on LAN and in these grand finals.
He's shown that he still has mechanics, even
in the biggest moments.
TRK, tons of success on LAN as well.
We expect him to be ice-cooled.
It should be cinematic.
You see the banner there.
It's Nupo's got a banner here on this Champions field.
TRK wants to add his, let's get started with Gamer7.
The game will decide who represents Middle East, North Africa
and the World Championship for 1v1.
Both these guys are already going over there for 3v3.
They'll be playing together.
And it's gonna be the defending World Championship.
It opens this, scored in in game seven.
He had enough boost here to set himself up for a shot.
And he saw the early challenge coming a mile away.
Really good catch too. He has to swing almost from behind the play to get a good first touch.
He gets a sweet spot to pop it out to himself in the midfield to even enable that power shot in the first place.
So you're taking it forced back on this kickoff, unable to grab his own back corner boost.
29 boost to work with allowed to get a dribble.
He tries to flick it out into the corner of pinch that is really just buying time.
He's not hoping to score that from that position.
Just allowing us to get a hundred jumps early.
He forced the people back down to the ground.
A little bit of a background game.
His clicks early were bad, but this one was strong.
TRK still gets the same.
This great defense from TRK, but he is still on the ropes here
for now.
His boost management has been excellent.
And that might be enough to equalize the position,
but no, the shot quality is too good.
And now, he's coming in high with a mind game.
TRK did not reach that one.
TRK has been doing the same thing the other way.
Saw the reset.
The Honda Goiby went high, tried to jump forward early.
Players are, for the most part, trying to position their cars
where they can still make that low save if need be.
But this time, the goal is goodbye.
A really nice little kick up here.
He's going to carry.
No way.
Bro, this is like a target.
It'll be a goal.
Oh, what a play by TRK.
The spot that this is available.
He wave dashes away, gets wider than his opponent,
and then gets under it.
A lot of players are just taking the boost there.
TRK had bigger ideas and he's on the board again, seven.
Rumble kickoff.
These guys continue to mirror each other.
TRK back into the corner.
Clear, yes, he is going to be given a free possession here,
so it will be a win for him.
Coach challenging up the stage.
These guys convince each other to go back to the ground.
They'll be allowing to take their first year of dribble.
Because the defense is just far too proactive.
You go tap that way, you know, we get back to it.
But the boost he had.
So he leaves.
T-R-K reads the early challenge, but Nupo actually got home-packed down and is able to recover to try and control the ball.
That faker in the air post by T-R-K, huge flink to the top shelf, ties the game.
That is confidence from close range.
He was pretty all in here via Zipar. No doubt though, sloths it.
Backed away, Nupo with that little fake towards the ball.
Make sure he stayed going across the net to enable that flink.
Now it's going to be Session 30, but it's got TRK backing off.
It's going to be Kerry.
He sees TRK coming in.
Low 50.
TRK's gotten good in the 50s, though.
Depriet and media shots.
He's able to recover.
He is stuck in jail like I talked about before, and he's not going to be there very long because
of this one quickly.
Just so controlled.
Keaton and I on TRK, the whole time, if TRK dives in, he is, you know, really risking
getting outplayed.
So he has to back off.
more. It's the low 50 against TRK. When the boost rolls low, it's like it's going to be a kickoff
possession. And that goes well. What's he going to do with this one? He can really decide his
play here. Ops for the ground game. Is it going to be the pop-up? He's had success with it earlier.
Instead this time, he's just going to air dribble the ball into a 50. Oh, look at the timing on the
boost seal. TRK is gone. And he gets back in time, but not enough. On the finish. 4-2, but that was
A whisker away from being saved.
Yeah, CRK.
It felt like he was going all in in a whole little corner.
I think he was going maybe for a plump.
Or just trying to steal the ball as we didn't get it.
I was breathing.
He found his way back to make it as close as he did.
This game is close as well, but it's another kickoff.
Maybe everybody's feeling like it's high state by CRK,
trying to let him clean in out of the net first to the ball.
But unable to force it out.
Oh, got to respawn right in time and then read challenges.
Get a decent position, use all of that now though.
Swing one, hoping to get an undercut or a demo on Nupo.
Didn't get it, cannot get back.
And the slow roll is going to be back.
Wow, 3-2.
That placement is disgusting.
TRK was covering so much of the goal,
but he's just not quite going to touch on this.
The post only comes into play slightly.
The regal deficit.
TRK struggling into the final game.
He's already lost the first match point.
Take this one or is it going to be another heartbreaking grand final loss?
TRK has boosted. He's picking up pads in front of that right now while Nufl is controlling the ball.
He is expecting to be able to turn this in.
Nufl goes to the side wall hundred instead of going to the back corner.
After the game arriving late, TRK tries to hit that top corner, but Nufl covers that the whole time.
Now both players very low, but Nufl with ball of control.
Opportunity to flick TRK, save up high. Neither one of them has anything to work with, but TRK
to get up earlier. He's going to clear this alley. Might be able to chase it down some
wall dashes to get out ahead. He got some boosts in the middle, and he gets his third.
And TRK flipped it onto the wall here, and then getting back down with the wall dashes.
Great use of the walls to accelerate, win the race to the ball. Before that we could
get a save onto TRK's aerial mind game. So I think he's got to go for the play next time.
He's got to try and hit a flip reset and an outplay or he is not going to take this grand final
Talk about the game seven adjustments just a full delay from new bow that we've seen a ton of all series
We're gonna bring it out now
It's got him up position with TRK going back off the wall down to ground 50
Is it quite in with the fall?
No, but playing for recovery it gets his goal
And you know, he's gone through the low 50s in this game
TRK clearly not able to predict it. That's multiple times now. He's been outplayed by a 50-50 either on the ground or from the aerial game.
Going the other way, TRK's aerial game looking like it's getting red. If we look at game 6 as well, it was more of the same.
Cannae outplay this time around. Low reset. Catch and a pop. But once again, the save is too good. TRK is trying to stay with this one.
This one he does with a demo he's working so hard for his every single play
Oh, he got free me
He was able to fake people out on the respawn
Got the demo who put choosing the perfect spot to respawn and try to dive on the wall
And he just matrixed around it. Wow. We should have gotten a touch there, but made no contact in TRK
It's just been able to keep this within two within striking distance
More than enough time to make that up. He's not letting people run away with it
He's got the back up now
Possession and a ball carry for new
Power on his flicks like total club
I would have still the corner moves either it's your case. I want to pick that up
And it's still possession for info who has enough
Well, it's just too clutch even after
Getting a misplay on the previous plate. He fakes them all touch cuts in field again
And then makes the flick work
3-0 advantage for the Defending Brochampion.
TRK needs to get control of the ball.
He's not had much alpha in Game 7.
He's been able to move and he's just right here.
Save. This possession has to go in.
TRK has to save some time for the rest of the goals he needs.
He gets a reset without even moving towards net.
Now he will carry it in and catch and a flick.
TRK needed this and he clutched it.
He had a serious burst of speed tier
to wave dash under the ball with the flippery set that he hides
and then launches to flick on target, 40 seconds left, this game on.
It's a huge kickoff right now on the back, not very volatile.
Nupo delays it, and it straightens it.
Massive moment in the game, and it goes Nupo's way.
And like I said, it's been that adaptation in Game 7.
He's completely caught to the arcade by surprise with that one.
That is just one more big possession away from back to back growth championships.
He's going to waste a little bit of time.
TRK can't afford to have too much possession for Nupro.
He knows he has to dive, and Nupro does too, so he gets it over the top of him.
Even a slow touch. Waste a couple more seconds as he frontflips it in.
Yeah, probably enough there. I think that the turn of it's over.
He doesn't score this.
He has set the TRK's back corner, steals the boost.
It's probably getting over, but it's as good as game.
The turn of it's over, he doesn't score,
this being said, the TRK's back corner seals the boost,
it's probably game over, but it is as good as game over here.
He is just undeniable.
He seems unbeatable at times in ones.
When everybody else is forgetting how to play their game
in the highest pressure moments,
he just keeps jogging on forward, can TRK get one?
Not even, as the internet said, denies it.
GG, no pull for the second year in a row.
It's gonna wrap yourself in it.
Alright, one for one more else.
Not an easy thing to do, to go back to back.
We've seen that every region that's finished so far
before this one, not able to do it,
but Nupo holding it down.
We thought maybe his biggest opponent in Rwass
was out of the way, and it was gonna be easy,
but it was far from easy.
TRK led in this series just like Rwass did last time.
Nina just has so much talent in 1v1.
Hopefully one day we get all of these guys
to get out on land and get to see everything they have against other regions because man,
can they blow up?
They really can.
He's got a good practice partner for the 1v1 worlds now in TRK.
His teammate Twisted Minds are going for multiple world championships in TRK.
So close.
And so far, let's head back to the desks and break the back.
Back to back years.
And 1v1s for Middle East.
has only been Nobu so far.
He is reigning world champion.
He will defend that title at the world championship.
James Bott, it went back and forth,
literally trading games until those final two games.
Finally, game seven, Nobu breaks the trend.
TRK loses twice in a row and he comes out as champion.
Yeah, I think I'm walking away from that
just impressed with how good TRK performed in that series.
He was lights out for a moment.
I thought that my prediction was horribly wrong.
But TRK, you know, he wasn't able to get the job done
in game seven.
Ultimately, Nuko watches up and gets the job done.
Oh man, he dies, man.
TRK was so close though, too.
Even a clutch game in game, oh, we didn't show it.
Let's go zero seconds game in one place.
I mean, we just need one more close game, I call it.
We just need one more close game, Victor.
Got in game one, got in game three, got in game five.
And honestly, the series got to turn in game four.
TRK had the opportunity to go up three, one in the set
and kind of let that game get away from him late.
They had no more chance to get right back into the series.
And then that's all it takes for the Randall.
It's just one more champion.
Give him an answer, takes the mile.
And like I said, he didn't want to see him on Champions field.
I believe last year, no but one in Champions field.
And in this year, he won a championship again again.
Last year, he dropped.
He got down to match point on game four.
Had to win three straight against RoLoss.
This time, trading games back and forth,
and the only broke the trend by winning game six and seven
back-to-back.
And it just goes to show you how good people can play
when that pressure is on.
That's why he's the defending 1-1 world champion.
A really impressive stuff from him.
When the going got tough, he got going.
Now there was a blowout game in there, but didn't credit the TRK for bouncing right back and making this a fight to the very end.
I couldn't believe the saves here in Game 7.
The amount of times TRK is down on the other end, fires a shot,
and any other game we've watched this entire weekend is an easy goal.
And the one who saves it off the crossbar to keep this one distance,
he wins by four every one of those saves, a huge instrumental part of that victory.
And he is the 1v1 champion for Middle East North Africa.
This time for Twisted Minds.
Actually, it was Twisted Minds last time as well.
He's been with the work for both times here
and he will continue to carry their name into Dickey's arena.
Mm-hmm.
Beesman seven.
I mean, looking at a good bracket right here somehow.
You know, TRK two times, actually.
And then TRK had to beat Nush who would be clear and lost.
So, I mean, you can't say that TRK got there
without being anybody.
He had to beat some great players.
He got the world's bracket here right through.
Novo is not going to be playing Yan.
It's KV one for Sam.
Okay, anyone will have his hands full, but what an opportunity he has earned.
Getting a chance to knock out the reigning world champ in the semifinals.
We'll have to do it if you want to play for the title of 1v1 champion,
but we still got to find out who's going to be playing against Nass.
That's going to be happening on our broadcast tomorrow.
Championship Sunday for the North American 1v1 regional title.
Diaz and Evo sit in the semifinals waiting for the results of AJ versus Wavy.
First killer versus Zack.
We're pretty stacked here, mate.
I think I think where we've got down pretty come pretty confidently to the best six players North America
Yeah, best six players and ones North America
And I do think that in my estimation
I bet I put Zach here for four of them are a little bit better than the rest DSEvo first killers act
AJ and wavy they got show me something wavy had a nice best date, but he still got the job done. He got outspent
earlier against evil
So we have to have some adjusting as well, but Diaz can try to make it back to back
Being an NA representative, that'd be really cool.
Evo could make a run, first killer.
I thought he was the best player in Twos.
He ain't not winning it, but I thought he was the best.
He could make a run in the 1v1.
Got a lot of great players happening tomorrow.
I mean, James Wavy said he's going
to be bringing the air game tomorrow.
So one thing he's been missing so far,
and he gets Diaz if he makes it through AJ.
I don't know, maybe we see a different Wavy tomorrow.
Yeah, if there's anyone that can take down Diaz,
I think that's really going to be the favorite
to represent North America.
Diaz, he's a tough one to crack.
I've seen Wavy try to beat him before,
hasn't been able to get that job done.
He'll have to get through AJ first,
but it is going to be a tough road.
We could keep talking about it, folks,
but I think it's time to let the day move on,
let the clocks move on, and we'll
get the championship Sunday just that little bit quicker.
And we'll find out for sure.
If you want to be in the building when we crown the 1v1
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Scan the QR code as well.
Get your tickets.
It's going to be a world's first.
The first time we're crowning three world championships
in the RLCS be there what in history is made.
I'm excited for it.
I hope to see you there.
So we've got one more day of one view on action folks.
Championship Sunday starts bright and early tomorrow.
9.30 AM Pacific will have the first,
will have the pre-show kickoff at 10 AM.
Thanks so much for watching today.
We'll see you tomorrow for Championship Sunday.
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