you
Yeah, hello, hello, how are we doing?
Big game today.
I know you guys woke up especially for this one.
Uh, Flip, feel up, thanks so much for the prime man, appreciate that, thank you, thank you.
Look at Zeta's map, and they're pretty consistent with their vads or maps that they definitely do not want to play, but I think this is actually, I guess, okay, all right, they're bringing out the bind finally, and we see that Team Secret wants to go into splits.
Yeah, I mean, so Team Secret played split twice now, lost it twice.
Please don't end up with a third map.
And you're both these teams yet to win a map.
Surely we get a two nowhere.
There's kind of something on paper that stands out as the obvious choice.
Yeah, Zeta picked Bind. We saw them 31 fanatic in the off-season on that map, so...
Am I Zeta-paired for this game? I went for Zeta this game on the platform chat, yeah?
Don't feel crazy confident. Oh my god, I've told you, a lot of people...
It's not this one-sided, guys, though. I will say.
Like, this should be, like, Kian.
Yeah, we have two eyes on the board there.
Yeah, we're trying to make a...
Is the appropriate number of eyes?
Yeah, it is. It is something that some would say it's not too little and not too much, so yeah.
Team Secret of Chance, we're in just like a 64, you know.
60, 60, 40, maybe 55, 45.
Maybe 50-50 is the best thing.
I don't know how anyone can be confident either way here.
I won't possess it purely because they played better.
I think they could completely L end for sure.
I need to hydrate sorry bro, I didn't see that. Honestly I need some water today so...
Chopra is making a meat shake.
We don't even want to know what that is.
of
Oh, what is this bro?
What's my guy doing?
Oh no bro, I can't watch that.
of
I'm going to be playing this game for a while.
I've got to be playing this game for a while.
And then there's the Chapsaur and Scrandaway to the other side.
And he's trying it out.
My goodness.
Oh, they changed the jersey.
Did they change the jersey?
I feel like that's not a good sign of this jersey.
They don't know. They picked his wither.
It's the same, they just had that much of an impact that I think of what Josie there had all of them.
Thanks so much for the table, I appreciate the 37 months.
Has Mini given you any insight and info on who's consigned with Zeta? I mean yes, I'm not going to repeat it.
I'm sorry.
Oh, I knew that.
Is...is...fin?
Well, I know is that...
Every loss is 100% his fault, that's what I was saying.
And every win is nothing to do with him.
that they probably would have wanted on their roster and has better results overall than
they're having in Pacific. You want to see Zedah actually show their full potential today because
if you lose at the end of the day, you're undoubtedly the weakest team in Pacific.
Yeah, I mean that's a...
Yeah, Echo, look at his third fight there, he's ready to go out!
That is true, man.
He was, he was all fired up. That is actually something that I want to talk about too. You
have Echo on one side and you have Tencent on the other. Now Tencent, his performance hasn't
exactly been what we've expected out of him of course he's going up against
the news about demon one and then be true me I got no idea what's going on
yeah I'm really hoping that fires him up today he'll know some of the guys on
the other side of the loud clips yeah I spoke about it a little bit I mean I
agree they need to make a change the clips not great first of all they should
be talking like that in between matches like during a match it's kind of what
you do at the end? Yeah it's just one of those where everyone has an issue and they're trying
to point fingers. It's like a collective, everyone's messed up. They definitely need
a change man. The dance stand had to play, especially single initiator with the initiate
changes. They're the worst team I've seen out of every region for like how to use the
solo initiator. But they got a... something has to change there. It's just whether they're
changing the right pieces, who knows.
With a room of the...
...NVD-M1.
But who look?
get the stop today but I think it all depends on how this group goes in the
server I think it's really can go either way if they throw a little bit cleaner
we would inspire the team secret
he's playing good though right here we go you get the cops now it's an upgrade but
no chance presented division they 13-1 fanatic here in the off-season with this
exact calm eco went crazy on the way live over on the side of secret it might not
be fake swap that I wanted to see and take off your way like it's up great if
teams want to do that. It turns out a little weird.
Might just be another sub moment. That would make sense.
I had the epic goal of the day when I appreciated the 20 months.
The room is just subbing for personal reasons. Oh, okay, that makes way more sense.
mention that I mean that probably is true as a brought this up against rock
above it oh okay last there we'll find out
sounds like it would make sense to our first map of the day over to our casters
paper thin and that kill us
we're at that stage once again time to send some teams home closing time you
Kaleos is not excited for this game.
It's been a while since I've loosened the semi-sonic as it hurts out there.
I mean me too, but I used to hear it a lot more when I was younger and I stayed out later.
There's a lot more going on about it.
Well, there's no time dude, that's a good summary.
Is there? Are you sure?
Are you ready to go into this series?
Yes, yes, there absolutely is.
Team Secret vs. State of Division, winner moves on, loser, that's it.
But until stage one begins.
I think we'll win. I'm not confident either way. I think Zeta will win, but I'm not confident.
I really think Team Secret might just out aim them. And then if that happens, then what you're doing.
the next round keeping their lives here in kickoff a quote
you will be drowning it's got team secret versus zeta um okay okay you're watching
another 10 split and i it's not really my thing man his former team was a bit of a stand there
presented a vision last year i did have some strong performances with that squad but as
you the valerant need to don't give a valerant shouldn't do one and then tens is like the official
or vice versa. It's weird to have two awards for the same thing. Okay, is that from Defense
Team Secret or on Tank?
Recency Bice Award? Wait, did NRG just win everything? Even though they had their worst
first year apart from, oh I say the worst year, they had a bad year apart from chums
everything except jewelers, wait who won jewels
Nobody's there because they've already wrapped all the way around him. It's kind of a little dosy
They were really curious about berserks from short like they were watching that position for quite a while
Even after the toxins were about them thoughts. Yeah, it might get like a showed up and sugar zero
Just must have assumed though. He must have gone with all of it. That does not
And didn't check that corner
They might lose a player here. Yeah, yeah, it's trying to soften more farming
way
Spam coming through we will find the elimination in code. It's gonna go walking out of showers and takes a shot to the chest
Kind of interesting as well
Did anyone from outside of America's window? No, no one's not after looking hot on it in the off-season, but
You know so far. They've actually been avoiding it. It's best controller, right?
I actually... Kiko won Best Controller for...
Best Rookie would have gone to Kayak.
What else is there?
Best Controller, might have gone to Ruxik, but it should be Kiko.
Someone.
Sub over Kiko's here?
way from this.
I was just not looking at stats though.
Your methodology is, you know, try to see if there's any more contact at B, just wait
this out, and if they rotate great, if not, well, they're probably just hidden around
behind the box or in the elbow, you can just slowly inch your way forward, try to get the
plant.
Verted by the players?
And the players that have no time to watch other games, so they definitely know what's
going on in all the regions?
That's a small move.
Position here for this person on me
Market but already preserves
Ford strong enough position to likely be able to take out both of these opponents
Jesus Christ, bro. Have I seen this twice already?
This guy's putting out you till this guy's put that you tell wrapped up looks like sugar zero
So I'm just going for the save here
Well, we'll join in go for the push upwards hookup
Maybe see if they can get some further damage, DELTH.
And now it is...
It's that one weapon lost.
Jumping through the way to stop him from being able to...
I don't want to pour it, so...
This is the final shot, they're from 10-10 and he'll be able to get himself on the board
to kill onto EECO.
The others will go down to the spike, so 2-0, start here for Team Secret, but carrying Port
of Phantom, Guardian, and a Marshall.
Yeah, see it dropping one of the Guardians essentially.
Sounds like it just wouldn't made me angry watching so it's a good thing I didn't want
Oh
Okay, just so much control you can plant me
is very late rotation from xdl very much concerned about a potential long flank
oh right i'm just not going to be fast enough all the trigger jessie back to the
part of the one let's try to pressure this marshal out but there's a shorty behind it
berserkz finds eco and suddenly team secret of fighting themselves a bonus round win
two v four to try to turn the tide for this one but jessie fash holds his own and it's all down
down to xdl try to make it happen it just seems so very unlikely one more
this is bashing is down to five time however starting to get a legitimate
has to just try to pull stick this one but the snake bite is there and that
very very nice dude this is a fast shot of it towards lamps though yeah wow and
he can't even get away I need to see the safe the gun holy it's brutal for
Oh boy, is it happening?
I see an early pump of the brakes
I was like, it might be happening
Trying to get this situation righted
Just, you know, kind of tentent there
Just diving in with the shotgun
Sota, he was gonna challenge that
Maybe a little late expecting tentent to go that direction
Maybe expecting him to go on top of truck
Or just towards U-Haul, something like that
Cool, nice one, nice one, nice one, nice one
I know XDL gets a couple kills there at the end
It's a very nice round for Team Secret.
You're seeing three players in spawn here.
Shukri Zero all on his own.
The sheriff in showers.
They're just looking for that contact.
One player on the site and just let the other three flood in.
Yep.
Wait, who won Rookie of the Year?
What am I gonna get more in it?
Kayak?
Okay, we got a bit of justice in there.
depending on how secret likes
try to pivot around this one
Mercedes going for a hard read here that
the early util being sent out would be
I was just going in my head thinking how is this so possible
the mortality
the swing in, yep
it'll just go ahead and quickly overwhelm
I'm not even going to be damaged taken
so weapon comes through
but with that many numbers spotted obviously
gonna be a quick attack onto the A site
the rest of secret
hahahaha
just
it's because Aspas isn't a rookie
or the teleporter
so still gonna take
who's the best America's rookie
Yeah, it didn't feel comfortable, it didn't feel safe.
The group and go, still have a little bit of sky utility, still have Absol's blast pack, so they have some time to get this retake to go.
Or if Top Flash not seeing anything, 10-10.
Spray out from lamps, looking to try to find the kill, looking to find a witch out on our XEL,
peeps in for a little bit more, but can't quite steady it, some short tough.
Simple to trade one back, but Absol gets caught up at the same time.
3v3 in the middle of the line, that's a Kelly-ass, quick steal to find himself at third elimination.
But they look kinda on though.
We'll just be about damaged, but nothing more can be found.
I'm secretly kinda on.
Um, okay, to keep the snowball going, they got the, they got the Yor-O.
I can see some of the ideas from Xen-O.
I mean, the results, like you're saying, they go against the Yor-O.
Signal the Yor, discover the guys behind.
I'm losing an early gun.
I'm passing that over to Absoul.
Wait, 10-10's playing that angle. Very, very nice. Doesn't really give his opponents easy opportunities to trade initially.
Did you get it through, Kelly?
Hopefully, mine.
Okay, it's already weakened.
Still feeling good. Still looking good.
Cortezia one most improved.
Wait, that's a thing? Is that even a thing?
Are you guys just trying to tell me as well?
I know that they have this relatively for free, the only question mark is going to be around that heaven position, which is why they sent the C's up there.
Nice and improved, I mean most improved Kiko again.
That isn't a war.
One pray and pray so it's still gonna be good for one for getting taken out
But I'm so being able to find that trade up that second elimination. Let's say it back into the driver seat
This is a nice run from that to the proactive against the euro
Definitely trading well quick trade back Xdl flushing them out the 1010s position known
Stop the containment here within lamps if possible
Very very nice. Okay
I'm out not needed not quite yet themselves online in round five. Let's keep it up
Definitely, they're gonna have the also the potential or two in turn or zero in terms of his
They don't want a default for the last couple of rounds. It's been these
You know stack pushes. Yeah, one of them was on an eco
But this is full rifles this win right there very very huge that eco is able to outdo his opponent and open up that
They're back, maybe.
Is that a team secret timeout?
Oh, is that a timeout? After winning the round?
I mean, it's not the worst ever.
It is not the worst ever.
They gotta win this, otherwise they go down to an eco.
This is getting to at least six, if that happens.
be in a spot where he's in the landing zone of the rays where 1010 is going to be going like those
and kind of giving them a little bit of grief. Things like that. I'm going to be considering a
little bit more here as Zeta. You know, you might want to consider making a your strong side
temporarily be it's been widely avoided by Team Secret. Imagine that Team Secret only attacking
I never would have thought
This isn't haven't
There isn't holy moly they will all be all the time on bond
That was great. We do have one of the holy moly players in the league now though
That is true
Okay, do they?
Somebody was going to be a bunch of pretty sure team secret on top of the fact that they might try to get this over on the brim
Surely Sugar Zero and your big buy arounds where you have to not die doesn't go for it.
Oh god.
That is scary though.
I mean I will say Team Seeker on top of it, maybe the Flash on them a little bit.
Maybe I would have if you had this combo.
Oh they did invest this.
Did they just invest the Stimpak and then no one actually spawned properly?
Maybe they've got the money for it.
secret to not be the real landing zone ends up being incredible fizz at the
behind the box but yeah that's team secret now I've got the brim on the
rotate they were trying to stack inside of the octagon
combo as well with the saturate kind of not think where you'd want it to land but
oh it might actually see the combo here walking up shot
double face and le ass is fast enough to get the readjustment xcl collects
They buy round, they should still use the combo if they can.
Yeah, it wasn't that bad though, like you can see what he's trying to do.
They're trying to primary focus on making sure the brim can actually get the combo with him.
I did dash to see if anyone was in the saturated.
Oh, possible for him, but he won't be able to slip the map just a little bit there.
Taps it, tries to take it early.
Fight!
Yeah, just drag it across.
Oh, a little scary though, how he peaked it.
Yeah, with 3 we'll get Zayna there.
Anyway, pretty good plan.
Yeah, you can see the...
If the FLX team secret should have done better, seems they're...
...fell like the coach's kind of cobalt is going to be happening.
...where he's going to want to show some presence on one side of the map early with the Util.
Go to the other angle.
Fantastic work here by Zeta Division to cut the attack in half to get 10-10 isolated on his own
Get that kill and then they're able to set up those cross. Jesse. It's like a charm. Pretty heavily committed to that angle
I felt like they had to go for it. Scary 1v1. Okay, like you saw a good pause
Eko has a big back
Oh my god
We've lined it up. Ah, it's a shame the idea is pretty good. I wouldn't do it against an eco
but like this against the next byron would make a lot of sense this against an eco
it's a little weird but at least they do not remember this
and market. Nobody's looking. Berserk's timing here. They got it now. They're going to show
the dial on the angle. It's a shutdown under the enemy fight burton. They knew widely where
Jesse Bash was and he does want to die. He doesn't want to carry Ford a sheriff into the next one
here so we'll see how he decides to play this out. If he goes so close enough, spot!
That's awesome. That's a really clean round. Maybe an armory buy should be. 3k for everyone.
One gun rebuy. 3 in a row, yeah. And they're getting the money good.
It's kind of interesting. 3 person push.
control and it's really giving team secret some fits and it kind of looks like a
four-pass and push but obviously the way lays going back so if they do fast
react then the way lays over towards them they could still have two on B.
Frankly simplify the game here a little bit maybe commit to one of those early
pushes go for a fast hit up long B or something like that to keep Zeta a
little bit more off balance right now they're starting to get the pulse what
team secret has in store for them I think they translate pretty interesting
between these two teams when you look at the compositions are actually fairly
different obviously both have brim and viper which is kind of borderline
necessary on the stock standard borderline necessary on this map but
otherwise you know yeah you both have raised all the reason the game is
starting around 4-0 team beginning better it's no-balling it's a bit of the
Outlaws, outlaws like part of the issue. Outlaws part of the issue, teams are getting better
at not getting eco'd and making sure they have the best buy for this round, for like
the third round. Teams are getting better at making sure they have an ult for that round
also. It's kind of just the game state at the moment really. The outlaw is part of it.
damn, this was nice though, do they pop the flash in between?
that's cool
that was really nice man, I mean both of their aggro struts have been cool on this
using the, Jesus he's giving it, using the sky in the way they want
previous round they're just going for it and this works a treat and it costs
like it's through it so this is phenomenal
it went through it and it killed the and it hit the guys close
more secret as well
a lost bonus but still a chest point
yeah this is nice though you kind of isolate these jewels as well to smoke a little
call it like a militia by damn and then they'd go for a one free one
Yeah, I like that. That's good. I can get behind that.
Get four-pass in here, Riley. With the waylay. Oh, ah, we've got some nice theory going on there.
It's a good run with the waylay.
Oh, they targeted the back and hit two of them.
I don't think Sugar Zero ever got spotted in the back, but just another pause here from Team Secret.
Make the data overthink this potentially.
I'm not sure if he should have been hit by that.
He did pretty good.
Very, very winnable.
He's going to be hit pretty fast, especially as they got to collect this.
Smoke, kind of makes it look like he's trying to get out through spawn.
from hookah.
Very quickly we'll find out though, kill ES behind the box, gun barrel not quite spotted.
Oh, not too bad at all.
Dude, this Tev is saved.
The Tev and the Cole, the Tev hit, saved them for sure.
Still like the idea.
Little one free one and then you fast flood with the way they open no matter where they
go.
Oh, the CS is so good, bro.
just enough he got a crazy kill before he um nice nice very went down jesse and
silvin
get the locker in place the secret will maintain the round lead
well the economy is the spoiled up a bit here presented yeah he comes from a little
longer the ground for secret i mean obviously big round for both teams
the other side of the map so a lot to contend with here or team secret until it's gonna have to be
on point start clearing off some of these angles to the stack a high low getting a follow-up here
for secret to lock up six for the half monumental after even just worth though the ultimates into
the previous round they can re-clear this if they want fast especially they're holding the angle
challenge could get one hell they can get into that post plan if they can maybe
get 10 10 showstopper to connect here on a showtop open up space for
themselves get the plant get the pit you get the round
right now showstopper get the spot
Those are my sort from him.
Ten-ten is still all the way through in that also.
Too good round, really, from him.
That's a little crazy if you're walking around.
We've seen the problems for these teams.
I mean, firepower, team play.
funny because like that's always the team that lack the most firepower that's like
there's aiming be strats but I also think she's doing pretty good stuff
I don't know
Yeah
Of trying to go higher against the Razor
But they chose one of the boxes with a
of the back behind them.
I think they missed the mark a little bit.
You meant to go on top of boxes against Raze, right?
That's anti-Razor.
Because then it's hard for them to maybe end up in a fucking ballad spot.
Yeah, they must have full faith in their own.
Nice.
But what's meant to happen?
When you're going up against a Razor, you're meant to prioritize these two positions.
Maybe they got the memo that they're meant to prioritize, you know, like higher positions.
We are not meant to go on this and this, just purely because it has a wall behind it, so
it's easier for the Razor.
These ones, they kind of got to hit the lip of this, and it's a little bit harder.
And also at the same time you just see it and you fall off and you don't take the fall
damage.
He went for this, but there's a wall behind it, so it takes fall damage.
I think they kind of got, it looks like they got the nods, so they're meant to do that,
but they picked the wrong spot.
of the
instead of going for a crunch out towards you know mountain
there's a bit of a botch on the flash there i think so not much
yeah because they're full group top they decide to
walk down so this is still gonna be good info
react differently i mean it's very nice it's just is the time in the corner
knowing how much space they've given up
swing zin zin will find one before getting taken down
on this great shots bro
oh that's what he's good for too
this team's secret clear out elbow
2v3 now he can go up and over top spotting 1 for all the shorty jessie bash
gonna be taken down at the double approach through lab now
go trying to hold that line ends up getting caught now
All down to show time.
He doesn't even know if they're in the site.
This might be the round that demonstrates what we're speaking about with firepower.
I'm trying to turn the flash, the jump peek out.
Yeah, I think this is probably a good round to go back to what we were talking about.
Firepower is their main issue to get our aimed a lot.
This guy should be winning that second draw.
This guy at spawn should be getting at least the fastest.
The owl aura as well.
Looking really sharp today. They're expecting to come back and pass with the previous round
Is it okay? They're gonna try to up the aggression who goes out. He goes down
Little showstopper to work with
potential to make this a 7 and 5 but
Of the round
Now you're leaving that showstopper all on its own
Are they able to improve their aim?
I mean, that's the one that takes the longest, mate.
It might not ever get there.
Strat stuff? You can have fast fixes.
Aim. Get down for it.
So you tell now starts to fly
But the boombox spam they just take him down an explosion of death is a that suffers casualties across the board
leaving now just absolute
The last one alive the plant will be passed over so they say you know what we got a show stopper of our own
Yeah, I mean that playing good
Sent an immediately barreling board finds it kills it
Yeah, this is worrying one.
I'm ascending, I'm always top frag.
Should I submit or resume to Zessia?
You will get annihilated.
I'm sure you would uh, achieve get the death.
This elimination?
yes
I get rank 1, can I directly apply for a day 1 team?
I mean, that's how it happened, you'd have to have crazy stunts, like you'd have to
be wrecking everyone.
Like rank 1's good, but it doesn't massively correlate into a team, it kinda just proves
you have a grinder mechanically you might be good enough to hang with the
best. There's a lot to learn in a team though. It's still the best way to get noticed.
The best way to get noticed is just grind rank. The problem is I would join a
team as fast as possible to get some bad habits from rank. The team play is pretty
different it feels like a different game honestly
this might be a pretty good call and they might get here early because they got the
the early info towards here only c1, should be weak site
ok, the info but they kind of knew about this guy wholly
well, that's a double dive right there
Some okay ideas here from Zeta working on the weaker side, able to get this opening
kill really nicely using the lele for the info, send in your rays to finish the job,
but losing that battle in the smoke, it seems a couple times where the secret players have
challenged those smokes and they've won the fight and that's cost data dearly.
I'm starting to exist. Yeah, exist.
Look good.
I'm going to go for it.
I'm going to go flash dog self.
You got flashed.
I'm going to go fly on time, a little bit of damage there.
Kalius does get overwhelmed.
The weapon going to be on the floor.
I'm going to casualty, but I'm going to push forward.
Get into the smoke, reserve.
See if I'm going to draw the missile fast enough.
Take that one XTL.
Try to go.
Try to see if they can be the difference makers here.
now just a ladder and it seems we'll put him down to zero and then just get a plant and see what they've got for the big guy
so this time the majority of the weapons are looking like we've been picked up and scooped and carried over by TX3
it's looking scary man
so not as much harm to the economy this time around
and hit double digits
I like the idea there from Zeta in terms of throwing the flash and trying to try and decode the dash and the timing just a little bit off
able to a little bit of damage but you know if that judge was that a shorty
yeah you're right so I don't know about the judge but should be suspicious of it
at the very least see really good with the Utah the Zeta fans yeah it's been a
couple of rough years the good news for I mean you'd use for Japanese fans and
that does include set of fans obviously is their tier 2 is really good and the
game is very popular just from like a lot of viewer aspect as well. It means
that a lot of people and the tier 2 is like thriving in terms of the money
getting put in so it does kind of mean that the younger community will look
at it and go hold up this might be a viable thing I can do so they might get
into games a lot are you which means that the whole region then gets better and
better over time you have a lot of talent that's coming up but the problem
with that is it might just be like four or five years down the line might even
be for a different FPS game really do they do need to challenge the
I do need shoes and then you got the one yeah it comes with its own issues I
agree people want to play in their own country so it's who becomes a lot more
appealing if the money's the same
Hinder gave to the corner for the man still has a shotgun and he's still absolutely tearing down the pieces with it
Oh god that play's gonna get another one
That shook the dead as well and now I need to commit in for the plant but the push from Berserks is coming in
Faster, maybe he could draw but what then?
She'll die here, we'll have them lying down, but just get over the wall
Another push there into a bonus man
Two remaining players
And maybe once again going to be a bonus conversion as team secret
Two rounds away from taking down Zed on Zed's map pick.
Yeah, I mean, you're just not getting any info here as Zed up
before you commit to the hit.
You're just getting wrecked by shotguns.
I mean, sure you get a couple from E.C.O.
But Jesse, able to navigate beautifully with U2.
Enemy remains.
What did you do?
Really plays that corner so nicely.
And just Zed is not really able to figure out what the heck's
going on until it's all too late.
Yeah, and they don't stick around as well.
God, it's kind of running it up, man.
I saved Team Secret, it's hard to gauge a little bit because there's a lot of times
where they have to start aiming them, they're doing so much together.
I mean even with the loss bonus cash Zeta invested into this round. They paid the price
Get anything done like here's the coordination there with 1010 and Jesse
That was something I wanted to see in the very beginning of the map. We get to see
Good example of it there with that fade and raise combo having those two in sync
Really really critical map like bind
To hear them covering each other's angles make sure that they're
in the right place watching the right things judge or absolute one hero
full rifle for sugar zero for the guardians
short is connect which is for judge absolutely to find the first shots forward into the smoke
it's a weapon next to you guys you have to win one of those at least
Oh man, he's going to be such a rough year dude, I can't.
No, bro, look at this whole round.
Well, another good example of the...
The aim death.
Yeah, just absolutely rolling Zeta on their map pick-a-bind.
That's starting to be very encouraging.
I mean, I can, I've always thought that for Team Secret there's some good pieces on this team.
There's some strong players, if they can get it in sync, get it together,
find some good game plans, find some coordination.
It could be scary, and this is by far the best week, in a lot of different ways.
You can tell the coordination is much better. You can tell that the...
How sad would he be if you're mini?
There's nothing you can do. That's the issue.
Yeah, you had some great individual moments, some individual heroics that also carried you through on some of these rounds, which is what I would expect with some of the players.
I think you have to just go for ultimate gimmick stuff.
I win try win maps from good theory stuff that you've never seen
Like you know that that long B round that you saw you gotta just be doing stuff like that every run
Do one and done comps yeah
Yeah, I would like to see Zeta be able to default a little bit more, not have to rely on some of these kind of tricky, convoluted setups that they're going for, especially on their defender side that just don't seem to find value.
Well, we will see what happens when we come back for a split, but for now, pass it over to the AeroSess to break down the brief action for Biden.
Alright, 30-4 in favor of Team Secret. This keeps happening.
Guys, this keeps happening.
Confidence that we sorely missed here in kick-off. I think Team Secret, they might not have found the perfect chemistry just yet, but it's getting there.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
I'm okay, I'll be back in a bit.
I'm very very happy to see this from Team Secret. But like they were waking up, feels like we're seeing different individuals start to pop off, feels like we're seeing good synergy now.
Yeah, I know they would together on this. I agree with them.
Agent swap of the duelist waylay onto raise worked out quite well for ten ten
And it just felt like this was a team that that had it together
Of course it helps when you win your pistol and bonus of both halves to win any game of valorant
But still I think they definitely did earn that one and I think Zed are made a little overconfident from their game against fanatic in the
Off-season perhaps they run the same cock in fact in that game
They went crazy on their attack
But unfortunately when you have a bit more of a lackluster first half
Yeah, you only get yourself four rounds given that you know those were come rounds at the end of the day
But then you lose five in a row and you can't even get yourself more than one come round on your own attack
That's where you can't really necessarily play to your strengths. Unfortunately for sure the early momentum was also so important
Especially when you're led by Jesse Vash, we criticize him quite a lot
Discourage every game
He has to get warmed up!
To be honest, I think it was just giving up, so the false sense of security.
Yeah, maybe.
He lured him in with that skirmish result, then activated it in the server, that's my guy.
It's all about the long game here for Jesse Vash, right?
But of course, this wasn't totally a miss for Zayna Division.
We did see that there were some rounds where they actually looked as confident as Team Secretly.
Well, defense, it was interesting. They had some kind of crazy setups.
He saw a lot of aggression through barteries with some crunches.
saw some, uh, you know, complete retake setups on A right from the get-go with four players
running all the way down long.
You saw a lot of these aggressive kind of plays from, from Zed a time to time to get
on their defense.
Sometimes it worked really well and it allowed them to, to fast flank.
Sometimes secret was able to kind of adapt to it a little bit better.
Yeah.
I mean, I, I feel like I liked a lot of these kind of sort of little cheesiest setups you
might say, you know, there's that long push that doesn't have working well for them later
on in the hall.
of showers, aggressions, and we see them continually trying to flank behind. Now I like it as a
game plan, the problem is when it becomes a little bit predictable. You see how Secret
are able to just sort of read the aggression, start reacting to the side a little bit after
they could burn by this one. Well this time, you know, this play definitely worked out that
the time they ran it previously, Secret wasn't even on this side of the map, and so they
just kind of went for the fast flank. They did a lot of 1-3-1 with three players sitting
in spawn waiting for the fast rotate as well. Look, I think that this is the kind of style
that it can work for you but at the same time it is a little bit gimmicky and I
think once another team is able to actually bot review and see that you
play like that they're gonna adapt to it a lot faster it caught secret I've got
a little bit but to their credit they did take a timeout and I felt like after
that timeout they adjusted to the style a lot better and had some better answers
and you could see after that four streak in a row from Zedah on their
defensive side and some success playing that style secret actually able to close
out the half pretty cleanly. Yeah once they started really getting what Zeta was doing,
once they started greeting them you know and getting that early momentum also that we were
talking about earlier it just lent them so much more confidence going into this match. We saw it
so many times we saw all of the secret players really fired up and it was just different energy
coming into this one especially with those pistol rounds. Yeah sure I mean you know they've won
every pistol on blind thus far even in the game against DfM they've won three out of four bonuses
So no doubt look, they've got some decent looks on by but I really wonder to myself
Are secret gonna be able to be this competitive on by or even with this particular math
They just want to get zed on if you push them into more counter. Yeah, I mean, there's no two ways about it
If you win double pistol, it's a massive boost
And if you win double pistol double bonus, there is no world where you could ever lose this map to be honest
They kind of had it looked up just from the start of those hearts
This is all they needed they got that map on the board and you know you still have to get you stop to get it done
In those rounds, you know, it's not it's never just handed to you
So respect for them for making that work
But if this is a kind of trend you can continue especially is removed towards the rest of this series now if you're able to
Consistently win pistols. That's how you win those series. It really does make a world of difference
And there's the big question that we have going into the next map right the consistency of it all you had great energy
energy going into this. Can you keep it going? We mentioned Tenton quite a lot in our pre-show
and the attention was on him because of course this is him going up against his former team
and this is also him really being tested because he hasn't been putting up the numbers but
they massive improvement. Yeah, I mean, so take a look at this graphic, this map, what
is the map he just played so he was on the raised knocked away like and that's the thing
we really want to talk about is the fact that they swapped away from this way like to a much
more comfortable agent and you can see how much he's improved. I felt like he was able to be
real a little bit looser. They were sending him in a little bit more and he's able to get those
frags so very very impressive for him and that's what we want to see. Glad that he's stabilizing.
Now will he be able to do it on split? Yeah I think on Zedah he even had some big games on the
razors. Clearly a confident agent for him and I think it's important to prioritize for player
comfort especially in a team like Secret where there's just so many other variables you know
you know, you've got the communication barriers already.
It's a newly gelled team of a lot of players
who haven't even really played together very much before
or might not be familiar with one another.
So I think prioritizing player comfort
and having a little bit of give
rather than just forcing as many
as much kind of abrasiveness and friction as possible
can make a big difference sometimes.
Just like putting texture on Sentinel.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that was great.
Check your stats.
Go back and check your stats.
You were comfortable there.
We're gonna let bygones be bygones.
Oh my gosh, this guy, he just can't get over it.
But going back to Tenten, I remember
Berserk's talking about how he felt that Tenten
was still a little bit afraid, little bit scared,
because he was still mixing with Team Secret
and switching over to the rays, as he mentioned,
Pilski, that comfort pick really gave him
just a lot more confidence, and it feels like
he did take that too far, and he's going in
with a lot less fear into this.
Now, of course, Split might be a different story.
I hope not, run it back, it's the same thing last night like he's playing, they're playing
way like you're, get that out of here, suck him on the raise again.
I'd be so down with that, it seemed to fit so well, but like, our cast has mentioned
this and Split is a map that both of these teams have not had success on, it's not look
good for either of them so far, kind of interesting to see Team Secret come in and pick this because
they're 0-1-2 on it so far and on their defensive side they've only managed 1 round in 2 games,
the half way there really has to be some improvement because that's where
they're starting out at yeah and they will play the race so they're gonna back
themselves the race instead of the way I think this is good adjustments I think
it's an agent that can work very well on the defense their attack was pizza
versus long shim but I felt like a lot of it was down to fortunate contact play
so we'll see if that continues on the race yeah yeah I mean I'd like this
for Zeta we need to see eco heat up on that neon I think that would be a
a really big win condition but like we say I think the defensive side has been a real struggle
for Team Secret so I think if they don't want to really make a mark on this map I need a big big
first half from them get that score so high that Secret have no chance. Oh yeah can Zeta manage to
run it back or are we getting some unfinished in this map finish? It's just a stump man. Let's find
out as we take it. Double pistol into double bonus and then just on the big rounds essentially
It just looks like that, I end up...
And then...
Set a 1 sum match because of orcs and cool rounds, but...
Other than that...
Oh, they're for sure going to...
Dig deep.
The big switch has bent 10 times over and raised.
Team Secret on the fence after on the tank.
We saw it on Bindware. There were some good combos there with Jesse Bash.
Another map here in Splitware.
It should potentially lend itself to that a little bit.
It's just a big dash out from Eco.
Taking a lot of space. This is all a ruse. This is all a ruse.
I'd sell it, but it's still going to be this three player push out of garage.
Exhaust ring in the corner. It's able to find the first there as Eco rides the rope up the top through Vector.
that's a cool pistol round
yeah
didn't need to go for the risky play off to get in the picks
Just push forward, screen, prowler to scout, noise made, but only smoke and a boom bot really
to speak of here for team secret.
No use to either Frisade or Division, but they do have the numbers advantage at least
for the moment.
Yeah, and they know there should be a shorty somewhere.
Yeah, and they will honk back online from XPL, but they will then shot Absault in the
flying silvers, push the corner, eco, take down XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL,
and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL, and XTL,
So let's see if they can smuggle back.
Well, they crum-ed each other in the Vita.
Shoot.
Nah, they saved their, I mean, really sorry, Taka.
They said they're intercepted the whole time, working really hard to do anything.
They stole some of the good, um, big gen mages that used it on the track while.
Like some of the TPs are nice for afterpons as well.
It was like normal stuff that you see on a best-doer.
Solid shots, picking up two charges towards that dimensional drift.
There's a shelter on the late lurk hearing these footsteps. See if he really is able to get involved, but he's still getting an immense amount of information for his team.
Probably let the fades run. Put on the stand, just letting the yoru go for it then.
in the back there's cut through cross-boards fences looking secret sussing this out and
being wary about the potential approach on the viper
it's good awareness seen that today from team secret most of the rounds they've at least been aware
yes they're upstairs swing in shots flying and show up the one eating the damage here
as the reloads come through jessie will just be able to run him down absolutely now on the approach
from behind you can try to get something done here with the mars she'll find some some third kill
So, two more charges towards getting that ult online. Zeta, otherwise, carrying forward all the weapons that matter.
Yeah, pretty much exactly what you want to do there at Zeta, other than some of those missed shots from SILTA, other than that, everything was called according to plan.
The destination was reached.
Yes.
There's a couple layovers that were unanticipated.
Yeah
See exactly what team secrets gonna be up to they're gonna have four rifles, but should be a pretty healthy
Follow-up a bonus for Zeta. Okay, big buyer on their grass. Oh, but four rifles. Otherwise
I've seen 10 10 now last one standing is there's the gun for a spot
Damage you call
Hey, it's doing some bonus though lower finding the headshot. Whoa the second suddenly
Has a chance to make notice one the bike could be layered in however, and can now low he is
Can't afford to try to hold that up to half
Actually, it's more damage
26 health
Showed up
The 1v1 the swing at the corner
Holy brother to a lot of us. He's doing to a bonus though. Very nice
No bull and back
Yeah, I think just in general the firepower is swung towards Zeta's direction
That's part of the reason they're having this success right now is they're starting to get these frags going in
Decent reactions from team secret, you know, they have the or to be in place to get Kelly S over early
You gotta be kidding. He wins that fight
broken to it man, seen it all
yeah, I mean, they got the eco hunter as well
beautiful relay bolt from
from eco
The worst thing you could do at the moment would be dimensional drifting to the site
You had a reaction to the ace I mean I react to stuff that I
It is impressive
It's a the stuff that is an impressive. I'm not gonna fake
from this is not in me
If I don't react it's probably pretty average I'll be honest
Long eco not sure if he caught a glimpse of berserks, but looks like berserks is almost absolutely see each other now
But gonna be thrown down trying to put him into the open see what damage he can get. There's the one
It's for a second, all fans to find it. Three players surviving, Zedah Division.
I'm supposed to be 4-0 start.
I feel like I have to ask for production for a favor because surely there is a Zedah watch party.
Surely there's a watch party. Yeah, show them. Actually get in some success.
Something to be high for on this map.
and much much better able to quickly there it is
say to die right now
perfect thank you beautiful everything is right in the universe now
yeah big buy runs cats and dogs living together of course correcting
because we have been in the darkest timeline i mean you you being at the
top of the predictions leader board is and i'm on top of build diff
Yeah, it's... I don't like this world, but...
Is this the muddiest game this year?
I haven't even been that muddy, to be honest.
Like, the only muddy stuff is people just missing shots to accept.
You actually look at what's going on in the EMEA at the moment.
That's not true.
That's not true at all.
Like, the tactical levels are actually not too bad.
The spacing and stuff is actually pretty good.
Me, patronizing now.
No, definitely not.
But now, time out, expired.
see
just uh...
the same sometimes
the breaking point was also used to get themselves on board to get their own
for our way to get that person to say that
the people say that
that's like the most common that's like the most common thing in the world
to be honest
previous type
you know there's two here you heard the op shot
the cover fire to clear the utile
a big buy run team secret pull the time up for this one
one into the aggrope, got him for a boom but got shot
mate he didn't really fake too much but they at least faked the pressure over towards
B to keep 3 there
3 player approach around for them, they don't hit nothing, they're gonna think this is clear
and fade all the sight, ah dude, come on mate, you gotta get moving Viper.
off this contact then you got the right one.
Haha.
Dude, okay there's a snowball and bro, is this all this game is now?
To ever get to the pistol
Uh, Molo one faster than the tier one, pretty sure the 38 months, I think, thank you for that
Why'd they take that? Yeah, they took a long time
You're not wrong
It was like fatal
Then we'll start pushing seven seconds later. They were stopped a little bit by the um by the Vipalwarp, not much.
How do you fix snowballing? Diffuses and plants don't give you options.
I'm not sure they want to fix snowballing to be honest, because it's kinda nice to see
upsets, means that people watch more.
you see teams dominate a bit it's good to know if they'd enjoy it as much
there's so much damage on site now
That's a 2v3 still with XTL down to 9hp. KellyS, sliding forward and around elbow.
Being watched for at the moment, XTL dialed in on this, but no. Shifts it up,
turns away, but Shaxx here turns back. It's timing on that.
Great awareness from the new IGL of Zeta. Shuts down the real hopes of pulling off this
thrifty silver maybe to find a little bit more damage, but never mind. Won't even be able to get
I'm not gonna take sure, but the neon, oh the neon's so fine, it's a good map for neon.
I mean neon's like the best self-sufficient duelist at the moment, at least for most mumps
to jet to an extent, but neon's a little better event.
So it kinda gives your euros and freedom, the wall's really good for re-hitting at the
moment if you're getting stored out.
Player advantage going to be established, hit now bloom on his side.
for this one
what the what? okay yeah nice
there's uh, I mean Jesse's gonna suck on him back here one point
this was nice from them
I like when... I like this time to see a lot of teams use their Viper well as well.
More 4-1ing, taking the space with the 1. Especially when you have a...
Again, they have to do a lot of good stuff, man.
And they're starting to win some main jobs.
Off out going to be dodged
Zeta will just rotate out with time isn't there
So I mean a ninja abuse is amusing as it would be not to be possible
Nor is escape a money stone the bin
Gotta have an eco on this. I
Don't know what's going on
This is a weird one
How things went on I guess you kind of walked the whole map and didn't see anyone
and
This indicates that he's using his ult.
Okay, we've seen this B main punish all the time.
One more flash, TP, raise nade close.
sure they get a one for one but they had to use razor for it they're kind of all
landing on the eco
that's pretty rough on that that's pretty rough it's all right big mess of a
bucky
and in behind them, building this space at the B site with their own forces and
Shota holds the zone for a second kill.
Plant now, heard, but with this Viper in the midst or in around the back you want
to be able to deal with it. The judge there from Berserkz will be able to do
so. Gives them an opportunity now, 2v3, but 10-10 needs to get to himself alive.
Last fight is about to be offset and to be fast enough there for sugar zero.
I mean, they're just snowballing in the same way while Team Secret are making a lot of
couple of bad decisions for sure. But they also understand how to snuggle.
I'm going for full ones a lot, and now they group up.
That is Team Secret.
Go try and punish the one.
What the?
Yeah, this should be that fast round.
Oh, they actually know he's down.
Oh, they shot those fast.
It's just gonna be a really bolt into the rundown for Miko, but Gims tend to have the opportunity when she does Z's.
Player in advantage now established four team secret.
Best chance they've had closing out one of these rounds.
Giving up a lot of map control though.
Players on each site essentially.
Cover going out.
Some forward spray with the rally check close.
Jesse Bash, position going to be known.
So he's connecting, trying to catch him here with the spray shots, but...
Oh, I'm going to take him down.
Sugar zero here around the back, though.
Let's jump on to Sylvins.
However, eliminated the paranoia.
Now going to be sent 27 seconds remaining on the clock.
They're trying to pressure them out of this elbow position.
Nowhere else to go.
No where else to go, have to fight their way forward from here in a 2v3 and both players
tagged it down, just 109 HP between them.
They're back up and she was 0.
Can you find a kill, yes?
Seems like Secret's still reading that there's going to be one up in the heaven.
Still favored to try to take this however.
Sugar's 0, looking forward but cannot get it.
Alright, they're on the board.
Okay, we'll get Secret on the board at long last.
It's three gunnery buys one armory by those the money's gonna be in the bin especially loses next one
Not over committing to that stacked push. They wanted to set up, you know, probably
You're thinking it might be a you know, just a trap set up to kill
Sjota who's often gonna be left on his own over at Long A, but they get absolute
Let's let's backpedal a little bit it gets a little scrappy in the mid around here
Sugar zero able to slip the net
negative space that team secret gave up something that was concerning me looking
at the map the entire middle of the map is probably needs to make sense to play
around with almost cost them Jesse the stabilizing the big 3k to get over the
round trying to punish that position that 1010 had been pressuring a lot at
the early part of the only be pressure but he home this time around the same
then one three-man split and I gets dodged towards a you can see what
team secret been doing. They want to just try and be more aggro towards A. Once they
hear a sound.
Cautious now. Both sides taking their time. Maybe a little bit of mid pressure. I haven't
seen a ton of that from Zeta. Could be something they think about going for here.
Rush forward just shrugging off that nightfall. Eco able to find one. Guess he's going to
down with the trade is there. Yeah I don't need one ready for that reaction. Good luck
back of sight. You got to kill two mate. Oh yeah, I actually had a really good chance
at getting two.
One, I lost one.
I'm not looking to give up much more than that.
Not in this half.
Yeah, I like the way that Zeta's starting to take advantage.
This is a nice shot, man.
It goes all the way back to the pistol though.
A very similar idea.
Yeah, it's a nice shot.
They're coming at you at another part of the map where you least expect it right through the poison cloud in mid.
Where they spring into action.
And just barrel their way in towards B.
So it's really good big picture stuff from Zeta compared to what we saw on Vine.
Clearly a much better understanding here on Split of...
Okay, Tentan hasn't bought the armor, so...
Why not she save the razor for the buy-round?
Is now being abandoned.
No, with the eco-hunter gun as well, making sure they're on top of that.
I just want to cluster up three players forward, hasten towards garage.
Try to maybe just flush on Absol as the pop flash gets sent.
This exit strategy well established
Number one swing forward three swing back in from Sylvan. He'll be the first to fall
Damage dealt as well to the vibrant now taking down his next. Yeah, I'm nice on this second
And then just a bad Sheriff abandoned technically a showstopper try to see if they can stop this from being a flawless
Look from Schulte as well something in very good position
Potentially to intercept if he gets this read and it looks like he has
So in the corner
Besides the tuck back
He's gonna try to funnel this kill
Should I get that fade off the last round
This is one of those rounds where you can leave the Oro on his own with a sniper rifle
He has the TP to get out you get the info you can turn it up cut off
Team secret riders are trying to get back on the site to get their defenses in place
That is a huge favorable angle and timing for Zeta to take there
Last kill they get the all and these two will come over so well
You see her kind of keeping up with that same plan and I grow over towards it try to do the
Do the your or enter
Flash
10-1, we've got two players here, Julin and Spore.
It was like two doors for himself, but he go how I didn't get brings it back to a 3d3 that being said
With the showstopper in hand still feel all right about secrets prospects in this round
They look for that two to ten scoreline, but if you before sugar zero
So settled now here on a so double smokes
That's what they block off
Plants come through that showstopper so far away
He might get wrapped in here, oh that's incredible timing, they need to fix that.
Didn't look like it, yeah he did really good, was worried he was going to be watching that
the whole time.
10-10. Basically has the bravest stack together. He's gonna try to go for the
X-Botted 1, lobs it up behind himself, kill not the Connect, on to Eco, but
those manage to find one. Apps now, go side-forward and Eco delivers the final
shot. I mean it's a good reply back. 11 to 1. Looking alive and well on this
attack on Split. Well that's around the half so yeah of course you can roll
showstopper there. You have no choice at that point but it just took so long to
Yeah they snowballed so well here man. One of the best examples. That's kind of what the fast map was with Lord of the Swallon.
Those two kills. That secures the round essentially.
Like seems kind of less than their map picks. I mean they're just losing pistol and getting wrecked.
Quite a series. In terms of just...
Unexpected results in a way.
It's like whoever wins this pistol is just running down like that.
Whoever wins the third map, whoever wins the pistol is looking like...
If someone wins double pistol then it's done.
the stage. I think that's probably has to be what's going on and even I'm
certain with the raise change as well they felt like you know they're getting
more value out of that in terms of where 10-10 is maybe a little more
comfortable on how you're able to get things to go we saw to find but yeah
this is this has been XDL's world it's been unbelievable today in
Or is it a division definitely on his way to an MVP?
I mean obviously must win pistol, but yeah, I don't know that it matters too much well
11-1 down. I think we've seen it. What once hit the teams come back from that. It's I'm listening for the pistol
They picked a weak site
I have a 5 retake, that's pretty hard on that, and buy Fimoli 1 flash.
Why am I kind of believing for them because they won the pistol?
Yeah, I mean the other two are waiting for reaction.
in terms of its look because you're able to clear out that player that's underneath Rafters
a little bit sooner.
Give yourself a little bit more hope there that the player above Rafters...
The good news for Zeta is they lost Double Pist on the fast map and they at least had
good enough ideas with the Orcs that they won rounds.
They should have good enough rounds with the Orcs to win two rounds here.
It's back behind the flowers so a little bit further back than what we expect here is Team
Secret.
I mean, you sent out the paint shells to me, now I have to try to clear out other area
titles, but I get thrower, the spot, and he can only almost make it across.
Quite across the street, though, in secret traffic, flash is out, you can see one of
the final ones, Jesse Bash, taking down is, yeah, just bear all the stuff from the Marshal,
10-10 will be able to get it done, so three players survived.
This is the big one
I think he got to buy some guns and stuff
relatively clean though for team C right now.
Ten has got a judge.
Let's see if he just gets it the old bunny.
Or they send him out.
They're all not much damage taken there.
They've taken a lot more than that.
Okay, they have the option to send if there's no resistance.
You were ready for it though.
The road goes around the judge thing.
If that blast pack jumped into mail it happened.
The relay bolt would have caught Ten as he was coming through.
So some awareness of that being a possibility,
but secret never committed.
Instead a lot of space being given up in there by Zeta.
This is...
Yeah, but they pretty much had this one, right?
They made sound retaking over towards B, so...
And I realised that everyone from mid went to go take over towards B, man.
They found the gap.
Oh.
Dude, they're in spawn so early.
Ooh, on top of it, but it's the absolute.
Slotting forward. Okay. Yes, I'm a panic. It's just a gosh
Oh Jesse
Barrel spotted nearly lines them up absolute find Sylvan preserves fights back
There was one no more aim, Joe, in this round.
Yeah, how's this guy called more of God than the...
I get like trying to do something a little bit unorthodox jump like the little devastation
I could forgive the jump more than I can forgive the swing here, which is kind of insane, isn't it? Yeah, it's a little ambitious from Jesse
Let me interrupt my trash talk while I just say
nice nice I have to compliment my team maybe yes well he's nine in a row spam looking for some
damage there she'll tell you to fall back away but I see over fade I'm gonna shoot that fade on
has to be a force five for team secret they're gonna get some value out of it for sure um
that's what you just say if instant they shouldn't even consider this pretty well done and dusted
It is going to be an attempt to come from
offense
You know
Up and down below, but you're just looking for exit frags
They actually get a commit to this. There's mouse bug when you got your mouse world is jump
Sometimes you get jump-schedule movie mouse fast and the mouse will accidentally like clicks down
We end up jumping
Insanely common
some damage and jesse bash very quickly will be able to find the punish on the eco
alive and fighting and once they try to stop being a flawless but cannot damage dealt but no
kills found team secret not allowing for this map to come through i don't really know what they
got before that to be honest because now they got an eco they really think they could 3v5 this
also see if they can get some alts going get some rounds get some confidence going nice piece
work there from Jesse to set up Kelly it's a spot under both with the haunt a
little bit awkward for Zeta protocols at clearing some of the new till quite
there like Zeta times reacts to team secret yeah because of that they have to
eco they saved the guns so it would have been a couple of them well they would
have been full bang I mean it might actually just work better for them
the judge here is
Yeah, we're all work hour is
13-4 is the first in four applying.
We're going to go to the best map in Valorant.
A bit.
in the way that I thought no that is very true but what does this look like because I believe
you can feel mine yeah i'm seeing from the best game ending on the best map
zeta division and it looked all right it went 13 9 versus football he sports 9 13
who's a good a big team a really good a big team so yeah they were able to put up a solid
white that was he go playing wait let me say it was meant to get ahead of it as a competition
I don't suspect that they're going to change anything so this is an opportunity where Secret
have had tape on this they've been able to come up with something that themselves I just
don't know what it's going to look like.
Yeah I'm not too sure what to expect are we going to see go back to the waylays for 10.10
I think that's kind of been the big sort of idea the big picture idea for Secret is changing
So I'm doing my full for pro play, maybe steal a copy of CS maps maybe, maybe let AI do it's thing, create some new maps.
We've got a haven in there, we've got a split in there.
A.I. Slop? Yeah. A.I. Slop map. Here we are watching the bits. And then put the I.S.S.
box in a couple of moments.
They had a map in chess? Probably a catch in terms of map design.
in this series and they got one more double the rounds so improve that's a team secret but
ultimately it's too far gone you can't have halves like that they have just ran away with this
second map of team secrets map picks now it's all got to get settled on the other side of this
yeah I mean they ran over them on the attacking side it was a beautiful attacking side to watch
from Zedah they were so dynamic they were all over the map they were popping in here and everywhere
with the neon yoru the amount of mobility that you saw from them was something that team secret
could never catch up to uh you kind of touched on the fact that you're worried about their defense
going into this map again it really looked like they were behind the eight ball um i'm hoping that
we get to cover a round or two to kind of um you know showcase what zeta did so well but um
xtl's on her heater today that's for sure yeah absolutely i mean who had him on their bill dip
i don't think anybody i picked him before because the thing is he was kind of one of their decent
like better players in the off-season like yeah pretty good games in the off-season even last year
on Zedda he had a couple of decent games as well so I was kind of thinking like he might be a pit
for Enid I picked him he had a terrible series I was burnt once I said I'm never picking him again
now he's destroyed today and he goes back he comes back he's like okay that that Aussie guy on the
doubts isn't picking me it's time to show him what he's missing out on but it was a fantastic
performance from XDL. I could feel Calias was really trying here on the side of Team Secret.
Unfortunately, it just wasn't enough. And that's the big question I have for Team Secret because
there is, you know, we saw Team Secret earlier wherein everything was going good and they're
fine. But when you need to problem solve, how do they do that as the map is going on? Because
communication is such a big problem, which we keep pointing out here. I mean, I think for me,
the problem with Team Secret is their macro on this defender side is just simply not good.
They're never able to get their economy into a place where they can get an operator
They're never able to kind of lock down these lines to have informed rotates
They just get it pushed and pulled all across the map and then never able to stabilize
And it's becoming a real problem now like even if they do win this series and they progress down this bracket
I think every team is gonna pick split into them. Yeah, I don't think this split looks great
I think silver had a really really rough day at the office as well
I kind of highlighted the fact that he was one of actually going into secrets first game
I was thinking there's two people I can rely on in this roster. It's probably Sylvan and Kelly yes throughout so fine Pacific
Those Sylvan is kind of gone missing has been one of their weaker frangers in fact Jesse Vash
I think was the only player statistically behind him. That's definitely not the case now
I think just because that a pretty good series so far
So I think Sylvan
Surprisingly has not really been performing and I think given the fact that he's playing his comfort agent in Omen
He's played Pacific before he's got a lot of experience playing on some high tier rosters and coming off the bucket
a team on, you'd be expecting him to be the best bloody player on this team.
No, absolutely. We are wondering where is that Sylvan, that one Masters Bangkok from
yesteryear, right? But where is he? But of course that's not to discredit Zeta at all.
You had amazing performances. We keep on talking about XDL here, who stepped up majorly in
this match. Yeah, I mean, even in map one, where they
didn't ultimately get that win and they lost quite handedly, XDL was the guy who was stepping
up the most. He's making these big multi-kills happen. In the first map especially, you're
Doing it all from Sky Duty, which sucks, I'll bind by the way, if you've ever had to play that, and then moving into map 2, he's much, much better, incredibly sharp, and in this first half, you thought he really gets that ball going with, he's having impact drags in his crucial rounds, trading out his jeweless, and making big things happen.
Where he is though like he's second in I'm still sitting in the smoke, you know, this guy is literally
Getting in there. This is what I want from my unit player. He was a great round from Zed up early on
You can see them conditioning this be main pressure a lot of teams on the attacking side will go into be main
Anti-eco or they'll go into a certain part of the map to make the other team worried
They're potentially gonna hit there later and you see them actually play off the back of this
You see, he's very successfully able to just creep through B main, you see that initial prowler.
But then on this particular round, you had Absol throw a gatecrash towards the A side of the map early on.
You get this big group up towards this B side of the map, and you're going to be able to see Zeta early on here for a pretty massive fake.
So you're going to get that same kind of prowler through B main and all of the pressure.
You see all of this big rotation over towards that A side of the map.
See who's up, hides from that fade-eye, and you see them creep up together.
TP comes in from Absol, he's got this dimensional drift out, and then you're gonna have Sugar
Zero throw a massive paranoia all the way through Spawnside, and the rest of the boys
are just gonna dive out on Spawnside here.
And then you see how they work B main again.
Team Secret are never able to find that stability all the way across the map because Zeta are
just running the show, they're creating these question marks, they've created this conditioning
and Team Secret just don't have an answer.
forced back on the map so continually. Yeah so you see you know Afsox running all the way through A,
the TP actually back from Kelly S and Team Secret you could see earlier they were leaning
3 towards B after that initial B pressure. You had B get pressured on the anti-eco and they're
a little bit over rotated now they're gonna work that ramp control and Zed has just flipped them up.
Yeah I mean I think the big thing was statistically we saw Zed the Division plant every single round
of that first half, which means Team Secret are never fighting ahead. They're giving up the site
so much for retake, and I just think, I think they need to go back to the drawing board with this
map, not to take anything away from Zeta Division though, because I think that they understood
the gaps perfectly and abused them very, very well. No, and it's Team Secret also trying to work
through this. You mentioned the conditioning that Zeta Division has, leading them from B over to A
and vice versa, but when you need to actually pivot and adapt and make those mid-round calls,
T-Secret are still figuring out how to work that synergy through because this is such a new roster
and they have so many levels to get through. They have just so many more obstacles within this
triple elimination format to kind of break through. And now it all comes through this
on of this map number three for our first elimination match. We find out who continues
in the lower bracket here and who is our first team out of kickoff. Yeah, big questions sending
into this map 3, Zeta Division, they look like they have potential on this map against
Global eSports, strong arguments that they should have even won that map.
On the side of Team Secret, we've not seen them play this yet.
Will it be that Double 2 list?
Is it the way like, is it the Raze?
I need to see them come alive again, because now it's best if one who'll kick off life
is on the line here.
No more mistakes from both of these teams.
Yeah, I think the, actually the casters asked a pretty important question, which is what
Agent is 10-10 gonna play because he's been better on the raise, but this is not a raise map. You can't play raise
Maybe you could play something like a neon there's potential for that
I think maybe even Zedah might be running that potentially or maybe it's eco actually on the the way late
But they play a very similar style to what they were just doing on that previous map
So on the attacking side here, you're gonna be seeing aggression from Zedah division. You saw it against GE
They definitely could have picked up that map and they're gonna be feeling very confident
They can close this series out here on a fist. So there you go.
Wayla, Yoru for Zed and Division. They're not changing up too much.
They should be feeling pretty good on the stacking side.
OK, different lock from Team Secret.
Kelly, I stayed on that Yoru, but Tenten,
choosing to go to the Jetson in the paper, then highlighted before.
This is an agent he's been good on in the past.
Now, Sylvan on that after he's had a slow series for starting in his first half.
I have to see him go big.
I need to see that Beastite on lock if Team Secret want to progress.
I'm one of the only teams I've seen in quite a while not play double controller.
They're playing the vice. Haven't seen in a little while.
100th map for Jesse Vash. Absolutely.
I mean, as one of the OGs that we have here in the VCT scene,
I'm not surprised at all that he's hit this milestone.
But of course, is this 100th map a victory for Team Secret?
Or is it going to be the one where they unfortunately have to say goodbye
and bow out of VCT Pacific kickoff?
We're going to find out exactly what that outcome will be.
will this be Zedah Division doing that comeback that they're well known for that is so iconic to this team's
Entire identity or will it be team secret with one of those amazing amazing upsets?
We'll find out map number three here over to Payton Thin and Akilius
Down to the wire both teams fighting to the nail to try to give themselves a lie
Oh, we'll have a very important DRX on the horizon, but for now they have to worry about
squaring up against one another.
Our first look at Team Secret on a BIS.
I'm sure the last year at kickoff, if they can get the win.
Zed up, fucking strong in that last outing versus Global Esports.
Wait, what?
Just in time.
Prove upon it is my question.
Yeah, I mean, I think the vice choice here, something I'm really going to be keying in
on on this defender side for team secret all right last map team secret on the
fence goes that are on attack to double sheriff's meaning into it
could be very very important you can already see there's a flash way in the
back of Saturday I like that you know it's set up to be anti way like I mean
ego is maybe just left XTL do his own device he done that
box into the moment they'll ride in the road and then it's gonna be struck down
sugar syrup with that sheriff in hand able to find a second kills Jesse
It's a nice reaction from everyone over towards middle.
What's the reaction to get the crossfire?
A lot of utility if they don't push, but...
There's a bait. I mean, the server used utility, right?
Or am I just filling it on?
that spot I've been doing another player is wary about the plank around the back.
He's reading the situation well, but it's just completely overwhelmed.
The eco from something here in the pistol to go ahead and jump start this abyss for Zeta.
It's three to one of the pistols that everyone that wins the first
pistol kind of dominates the map.
We see a secret into a trap here.
They made it look like they were full retreating.
You know, when you're way, they use the dash to get back.
You're thinking oh, okay, we've got him on the ropes. They're not they're not in a good position
Let's press the advantage
Exactly what they don't want it
That is great stuff for Miko
Re-kills to start getting really close to that convergent pass might have it ready for the bonus even
Yeah, he's one of the ones that I'm gonna have my eyes on coming into this because I had one of the weaker performances
in that outing versus global eSports wasn't really following up along that way to see if
there were ways to see if there's any other available watch bodies so I could switch to
a different one.
I mean mate, just go on Twitch.
Because it was some airlines of Zeta that were getting the work done in their rounds.
Yeah, exactly, so I mean, you want to see those WDWs get involved here, you know, make
this vice pic look a little silly on this attacker side you know be able to
bypass that utility problems on site keep silvin and berserks uncomfortable
you could be in for a very strong attacker side
of course you're gonna be I swole over towards the passive
surely we don't see another snowball going on
waylaya up and over not quite onto the top of site 1010
we'll find the shutdown looks for a little bit more sugar zero it will hold his own
kill found jessie bash that tower sending out the drone trying to spot gets it wants to play off
of that with the reveal and we'll be able to do so as kelly has spiked the kill
it's lovely spam's on that
i also sprayed a fine xdl as well
a 4v2 spike now stranded on the site absault watching around the back
You know, only suffer one loss, so very clean anti-bonus for Team Secret.
Yeah, and as Zeta, you're never really able to establish control of the whole pool.
And Team Secret should be pretty happy, though.
Full gun.
Just allows Keliesa to kind of end the round single-handedly from above.
He's spraying through the smoke.
Nice play from 10-10 to at least get one.
Zero continues in his very way.
Good spot there for Keliesa as well by Jesse.
Just ready for the plant position on the follow-up.
Don't get baited by the fake teleport from Absol and all's well that ends well for Team Secret.
Nice to see a bonus not converted. I know we didn't have one under, you know, second half a split, but three bonuses converted in a row is a lot.
Yeah, it is.
Now we're gonna stop mid.
find the first kill you go get a second as Kelly s and so people can take it down
absolute one casualty per se to thus far but you know does get tagged 13 didn't he
was so he got so on by the almond flash they didn't hear it you can't even comment
backstab they're on the Jesse bash now oh nice dude three-person hold and they
they got this wreck that's a worrying sign comes through sugar zero does well
to find the head shot. I'm just 10-10 to try to hold onto the phantom.
Looking like Mako up there, yeah, this is a nice plan.
Masterful stuff from Sugar Zero. It's the paranoia that Deathens beserks so he can make
the TP up. They have no idea because of that. He executes that so well, and I feel a little
bit bad for Team Secret because it's just, you got outplayed.
Yeah, yeah, it feels a little weird to have this whole setup where you want to play.
punish like the one that goes over towards the site with the wall
and you have no one watching this area
who most likes your spot that they're going to double dash to
you prefer double smokes here? yeah, prefer double smokes
Very under noting that our gross position, so might have just blind clear that out
See they got the spot on the drone there on the berserks to at the beginning of the rounds
That's so well thought out for Zeta
And using the double duelist to get past all the ground till this would be a drop of 30
I thought it was a main for team secret
Healy at home to receive us though
He's normally don't ever take mid unless they got all this
It's gonna be nice from Zeta though if they actually do create pressure over towards middle and no one shot the recon
Hold down an angle by themselves. I'm not sure how much they know a bit, but
They have created pressure over middle. It's a sight so weak
Is it your Sentinel or your Yoru?
Be able to hold an angle because that really makes it hard to read.
Good thing through the box, 10-10
23 health
I mean, they still got a backup Jouldus though, they're kind of okay.
One away from a Wale, no the device is over towards here, so left one's getting punished
as well.
Pretty obvious once they see the jet, they know that the Wale is going to be in the other
Zedah, even though you're going into the vise util, it doesn't seem like it's going to be super easy for them to make plans off of the enemy.
Astro Grim.
...the one side eco will land in the other pile, but shrugs off the damage. Meanwhile, Sugar Zero scaling.
Maybe they didn't want to give it away?
...the team secret seemingly aware of this position.
I get in the hole.
...he would have been dead without Sugar Zero!
Very nice.
...he holds down and launches pre-firing the angle.
I'm in the shop though, it was weird to not give the whaley the plant as well. I really feel like they should have a whaley over here at one point.
Oh they got it.
Oh, it's a bad run for that to lose. It was all looking all pretty good. They had two
opportunities to get this way later. To not do the plan feels mad to me.
Such an important round, forcing down to an eco. Had the most chances to do it.
Nice from Kalias, they're good in the 1v2, but...
Yeah, and that's a 2v4 at its peak, bigger 0 over heath through it all.
More understandable than what happened over towards Sainte.
Now we get a really important round though.
Four people from each team come by next.
It's a switchup from Team Seeker, but the same thing, right?
As soon as you see the jet, you know the device, yes.
Yep, it is a meat grinder.
A hundred times gone.
There's a bearer that's about to blow up the enemy.
Because she pushed shots.
That's all eventually found.
XDL now, pinned in by the Vice Wallies to fight his way out.
He's only going to be good for the one who ends up halfway surviving.
And a little mess-up has just gone into a nightmare.
Right? Because there should have been two rounds in theory.
the old
and the rounds
for some down to Nico
you have two instead of them out here
give it damn
shoot whatever coming around that corner
it's a clone and he hits it so what
just keep firing
contact
contact play
against the worst weapon they possibly could have found
yeah
It's good to read there.
I'm the old man.
Pulls him down to Niko.
Oh, he's trying to push for him.
There he is.
Looked out, out, avoiding the saturate.
Niko doesn't want to overstay.
See that second layer of the crunch.
Attempt is coming in.
It's well so bad that they do it again.
They're actually kind of unlucky to not get any kill, huh?
Towards backside.
Just a bash as well.
Gonna be tagged down.
Health-wise.
Data.
Better in that department, but Jesse bash
I'm the kill on the apps all the drop down shut up
Long the attention long enough for a field swing the corner find the elimination there
Prefire setting up on the angle Kelly s
No, she'll tell him secrets continue to get their forces in position the spike not yet
He's looking for a board won't be able to make it happen
But you go up and over the top of the covered Vandal finds a kill, but he's not gonna be ready for berserk
It's just out in the open.
It's a good low by though.
Anyone on it?
really is but needs to be sharing some of that with the players down at the bottom of the
standings at the moment you got Absol's will show to kill this it's a lot of old smite
the impact of these guys has hopped a spear he opened up hell he has to be back spotted
making down an Absol well there you go get some self online the peek in jessie
bash making down through that mid connector suddenly eyes from team secret
start drifting over towards mid and A. Well Zeta get ready to do exact onto the B site once again.
You might already be considering save here.
You're having to think of a save.
Have the operators that does become a corn price.
Didn't really.
Like do they think?
Do they think because it rips around spots it.
I mean I kind of get the theory but it's just the
it has like 10% chance of working.
Why would you ever do it?
No way here.
You guys got this.
So we'll just be 10-10
have to combo off, yeah. But they also look like geniuses if there's 5 here, then again
that's like such a gamble. Yeah local, yeah, maybe more of your own.
to sit up for a pic if you want to try to find a way to remove the operator from 10
hands something else that could be considered is it looking as bad as
expected it's not looking as bad as expected to be on the same area as well
combo have seen that there's a lot of ults here as well 14 secret to play
retake so you think they should be trying to play relatively safe
they're trying to find out the war is the first time a team secret happens at
Chad, where the dice is, is going to be good to mess it up, uh, what's been going on, if they feel like they have a read.
Haha, there's four guys. Does he get out? I hate it, really good to get out. No damage, that's impressive.
Oh, then he messed up.
He did so good, and then he didn't...
Well, then he didn't...
Yeah, last time they did just add the lark over towards middle kill, too, so they're kind of on top of it.
I mean, he was low HP, that's fine.
That was awesome!
right
the dust settles
player advantage now sugars here on that flank
bottom of the first spot in the second
jessie bash
pinned in the time it's just not gonna be there
oh what a rough round to lose man
nothing more to be done no survivors here
she's that big ult into this as well
three ults
vice, ult, astra, ult, you're ult
still got wrecked
what is going on
I like the initial idea here from Zeta to try to hunt down that operator
It works out the end because
1010 gets a little trigger happy there and yeah, no 10 times and 10 did incredible like straight up
10 out of 10 like his name suggests and then it was just a one out of ten. Wasn't it Jesus 110
An interesting one.
But!
Still got the round one!
Ah, but uh, yeah, certainly.
Look, it wasn't the pearl we saw in the Indiana game the other day. It's all I'm gonna say.
That is true.
Using Charm.
Well, open over, Eco. Just gonna be sniped out of the sky.
Still been able to find that. Crossed by a set up at Kelly S as well.
Sticking around in main.
Funns the shot on the sugar zero.
Team Secret, just like that, are very well slated.
Tie it up once again.
Yeah, this time
both teams
bringing their weight to bear at that main position, but
It's gonna be team secret with a massive advantage
so
There's enough money for another buy here for Zed into the next round
Why do we still win a bull around like on the outlaw?
The outlaw this round did I mean the outlaws could save me
I saw them over towards me though so these two have to stop this as you saw one over
towards me do we have to okay we'll rotate back around
spot if it shows up collect them both and he's just absolutely broken open this
out of the map still a 3v3 but they're causing a divide available in a
post plan and I'm still holding close with that outlaw
cool mate but Jesse Bash will sit him down
spot out shows us scaling forward he's up a third but 1010
and they do some wit positions finding the final players the two survivors
the fuse ties it up at 5 to 5
yeah this is exactly what you want a really even battle
between these two teams a few little mistakes here and there
I think team secret probably would
they're fine I think
I think
it's frozen and something had occurred
Yeah, I mean, they kill the two of them towards me if they come to get off towards the site.
And then they just don't play together as well.
Make sure it's a lower by for well force by obviously for last round, but won't be a good one
This is a leak out one way that has a little angle is pretty cool. What the hell happened there?
Well, I like the idea of the leak out one way the closer to you and you have a little
Good idea
the other two players are like we we go
look at the medium we've got one in spawn we've got one in spawn we get small
finds the one tries to get the smoke set up and preserks swings the corner
so you go back you kind of know the B players
where is 1010 seems like they've got a decent idea
I'm getting ready to try to go for the play up and preserks
he's moving forward and dies right before the wall
would have saved him 30 seconds left labor attempt at taking down xdl early the
astro plays off his side now
swig out fantastic timing found by 1010
big right click show me
steel here's off of the side
holy big miss mom it's a big miss right there
a quick swing in 1010 my second shot to put team secret back into the lead
Very well looking at a six and six half with Zeta's money. It's not a great spot
Yeah, they're gonna have to buy down a little bit. I get a couple rifles into this
Madness here. I still play with the saturate on the Jesse. This look great for Zeta to start
We're able to deal with that cheeky position that Kelly S tries to take Silvan wins a big battle there in mid
Of course, you have the blades here for 1010 talked about it's pretty comfortable on jet
Shows you why right there
That was a good one
It's Jesse bash with another hunter's fury Sylvan has another cosmic divide
Yeah
Popping the smoke there on top site
Settled here still on the scouting the bound for it and I was gonna say
down to Helios now on high there at heaven. Peaks out back to it.
This guy hasn't played on site yet. They have no idea.
Around the back with Sylvan. Situated on top site. Eventually he's going to get flushed
out of Shota. Plans two very necessary kills. However, the Hunter's Fury still is available.
Did the jet again? Oh my god.
Same thing. Colander the dart onto the clone.
Ooh, they're considering it.
I'm just hearing. Starting off. I'm even waiting for the tap here.
closer to ten ten spotting it calling it
I have to play, his ITL in and he will. Absolute tension trained over towards man.
Very, very nice and strategic.
The signal time ten ten is doing pretty good on the uh, three rounds consecutively.
He's pushing behind.
Yeah, just some really scrappy rounds.
Wait, he's got it.
I don't know why they switched to the cross, but...
But it was closer than it needed to be, that was the last round of the half boys!
Yes, they were taking their time getting there and I was talking over it for a second.
Pause, heard how fast it was ticking and I was like, hmm, this would be one of the ways to end the half.
It would be. Of all times. It would be.
Absolute there. Pop that flash a little early. I was trying to take advantage of the smoke.
I imagine there would have been horrendous.
Yeah, I mean, such a warm-up back at this and be like,
man, we should have had like A to these rounds.
Should have been like an 8-4.
Just the 2v2s or, well, pretty much it became done to like,
teams out there today. A couple of afterglots over towards B that could have been way better.
nightmare I'm that omen
take some great plays has some great reads great timings he's the one that
has the IGL as well as trying to find some open space find some good ideas
when I come back to the mentalistic thing I mean sometimes sometimes it can just
be a comp is like designed for one half not so just be momentum
pause I did too yeah we don't have a we don't have a candy bar sponsor for tech
pauses so we just choose out the hamplum that's that's that's like five head of
us yeah imagine having a candy bar sponsor for your tech pause
Haha. Flavor with the Prime, pre-shad the two mobs.
Ooh, nice second shot on this. Whoa, overheat.
Ooh, he got out of there.
Like it.
Best of his team still going.
I mean, at least they're all doing it together.
Very nice. Double pistol right at the end.
3-3, double pistol, and then they're gonna 2-0. Oh boy.
Yeah, the 5-5 toss the middle.
5-5 toss the middle, and then the reactive 2 pushing behind to a 3.
Throwing the other way, I think.
They're able to just keep the swarm going.
He's boxing him in.
Yeah.
Marshall now at hand, the underside,
Absol still been a pretty quiet game from him.
Let's see if he's going to be able to find his footing
in the second half, Sylvan now.
There they go.
Tagged down, and yep, okay.
Last player standing.
Spike carry you.
Did we say anything?
I mean, he did the damage, so yeah.
Yeah, he got one.
So, flawless fashion presented, tie it up 7-7.
It's so unprofessional.
I'm not even supposed to be playing here.
I don't care.
It was for real.
I was just talking.
Well, going into the bonus now.
Realistically, aside from the one weapon ringing out,
you don't necessarily know what Zeta has in your hands.
Looks like we're going to have another battle up for a main here.
So it probably can't do anything else. He hits a bang a shot and they decide to go aggro with the last gun
In the same time force them into middle
This is kind of nice. I like the extra layer of having someone in middle to watch them up. They get pushed back
Let's go. That was all part of a crunch again
Little bit of a different look to it and won't the pistol was but this time
secret
Come out of it with just losing one and trading
So, now Zeta and the Gamble are going to roll the dice and shift to A.
Yeah, I mean it's good calling from secret here, they go aggro, the most likely to stack the other side.
They're hoping that Team Secret buys that A is the strong side.
They can even throw a smoke over there from Sugar Zero to try to really sell this, set up that one way, but Team Secret has seen a little bit too much of this today, I think.
I mean they can't even really be fast on the flanker because they still have the vise wall set up.
I mean they can't stop running as well.
I need that early alert to just go ahead and turn around.
This might force them to run around.
It can be much further away.
The good news here is Zeta is that the vise you till otherwise have set up for backside.
Yeah, I mean at this situation there. I think you just do damage you kills here
I'd be pretty doable
Just taking so long though
The time is not really my side. They're calling for the evacuation here
Seems like a set up from behind the two players with the bulldogs. Just try to maybe find some exits, but
Just being another two charges. So I've been over to Cali s towards his dimensional drift
I think with their money here, we would just try and lock them in more than that.
We would spawn for like a two and then two here or something.
If you get closer.
Tempo that Zed is trying to create on this defender side keeps up going into this next round
But I think you're gonna have to
If you're gonna keep going for those things set up a different timing for it instead of just right when the barriers drop
Because the team secret is gonna be I would assume a little too ready for it
Now you do get a little bit of info on what's going on on the back side like where that wall is likely to be placed
for the post plant how you can try to maneuver around that potentially and
try to work with that a little bit as far as Zeta's side of the coin goes
for secret yeah you have to be overly cautious in the beginning of these
rounds. I'm gonna get the orb though. I'll get Kaleas closer to the drift. Okay, pressure created.
Obviously if I vac your mind hey hey hey Zeta's looking for aggression let's make sure we
don't give them anything for free. Now I'm curious what the responses for the thing are.
If Sets had normal firepower, no priming, but good, where do you think there'd be an
A-pack? Like a little higher than where they are now, middle of the pack? They do good
stuff. I'm not saying it's perfect man, you saw a lot of what they had on their B. There'd
be, um, afterplans, and even just the idea of like not getting orbs, like they're still
still not there, slowly, until...
there may be like a couple above, like a 7th thing.
like we definitely lose a lot of rounds because of the aim diff, but...
got his attention going the other way holy bra we'll talk about it sugar
zero and we'll find a kill on a 10-10 diving forward kelly s the exit back over
towards me oh what a shot that is 11 HP with a shot oh boy it's good
blast for one XL now arriving is desert still lingering here within the smoke
need to do so very much you found the mouth so they could spam him back apart
Get your guns out please.
Offsets the aim.
Okay.
Not bad man, not bad.
Seems like a pretty decent retake.
It helped a low in Sugar Zero hit that shot.
And he's the one who gets out of there quick waits to see that drone then he's like okay. This is probably an a hip
True zeros like going over there
But the timing the pause from secret is getting big rounds and it buys them that space to get the plant just a better retake
Well, able to avoid the operator there, just getting the recon pink on to the clone, trying
to intercept and cut off the approach here, Shota dancing up around the top, he's able
to find one, off and down trying to play a loser 10-10 frantically on the hunt.
Oh my god, you're unbelievable.
Oh my god.
Shota's solo on site is actually done incredible.
So all the one site is actually done incredible
And he gets the imp from the last
Oh boys not like this
Oh that's boss man, picks up the ops, that's the big round
Team Secret down to Nico. Dude, imagine they lost that with the hero play, huh?
Oh, the take away, the smoke was so good, bro.
The take smoke was so good.
Oh
No, that was really nice man much more than that Zeta because I was still a hell of a lot
They're gonna test them again
They're gonna be sent down to the tip to snipe out of the sky as he go. Well, just quick little dash get himself out of the safety
Don't to reveal the back sight so my secret. I love the player presence and shock those land that shook his feet
Did the damage found there
So they put the order in just to make sure that it's a little easier, more convincing.
Keep 3 alive is wrong or bad.
I mean Team Secret should get some rounds there, they got so many horns.
My big good rounds there is that to just do something crazy.
Just send it somewhere.
Nobody's trying to go for the big hero play unless they absolutely have to.
You know like Sota did in the previous round, or he's just screwed in that smoke, he has to make something happen.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, just the perfect angle there for Ego.
But I like that eco just immediately falls back.
He's like, whoa, whoa, let's wait for the rest of the reinforcements.
I could just, that saturate probably hit somebody.
I could double down, but then they're probably going to trade me.
Maybe it's better if I just wait.
I think that's probably true.
Well, somehow, this is the first time out call of this map.
You saw pretty early ones coming through, especially on the open line.
We have not seen that investment come through until this moment.
Well, it's wanting to try to prevent Zeta from just running away with the rest of this.
And I mean, it's a good time to call it.
You've got another buy coming back in, but you also have four ultimates behind for Team Secret.
Nearly all five is 10-10 is just one charge away from having the knives.
Yeah, this is one of those moments where you go into the playbook and say,
here's a set play we have with these ultimates available.
Let's let it rip.
We need FNS to go live ASAP, so you guys can spam your stupid numbers.
Oh, he went 3.146 like Jesus Christ, boys, grow up.
It's crazy, man.
the wrong side of the map but info is gonna be games that eventually Rift goes
through Kelly as quick on that exit for the shorty pops quite connecting an
absolute just shares in that space inches in the smoke from behind gets the
catch something as well down low on HP but Jesse fast trying to hold the door
here at main finds one so it's presence now jump
it's not much I swing for the fight to take him down 4v2 now research will be
Investing the ultimate try to gain garner every event we possibly can't shoot them whipping that shot
He's a critical misstep and one that could cause a to this round
Turn the bleed away 10 10 out at tower fighting the one you go one enemy remaining
Yeah, makes it close. I'm gonna be close enough the drop. They're super slow on this
They took so long to handle this though the spike to erupt and teams into this jump sender
Who's it out off the back of the time out call?
All right.
I don't think that's how it was drawn up, but you got there.
That's well that matters in the end.
This is a nice piece on the backside.
First of all, again, the scramble back for Zeta and this bait and switch here.
XDL doesn't over commit to that first angle.
They're able to get that kill and he throws the drone and he goes immediately
peeking off the back of it, knowing that Sylvan's going to have to swing.
10-10 goes huge. Keeps secret. Very much in this. Very close.
Uh, brim at the gym with the prime think of the two mumps man. Appreciate it.
10-10, just gonna be popping one of his own.
Theo, yeah, he'd go just double dashing all the way through the baby door trying to
self out in safety while Sugar Zero trying to scale around the back.
Oh boy. They get a spike. Dude, one of the weirdest round ever.
and
this is kind of what I thought they were going to do on the other end but
yeah this didn't work out great
I thought they were going to do something like this without the ult but then they tried to do an ult strat
with the bush
the big believers of, they really like the
aggro here and to
being open in the middle
2-4 loss bonus
they can buy
one's gonna take your head, it's about it
to punish. Again, they're starting to get that idea of how to handle that early aggression
that Zayna wants to throw on this defender side. I would have liked to have seen a time
out there from Zayna.
Alright.
Yeah, I thought that maybe someone's going to be coming through here.
Really important round, man.
If you lose this, as well as lose the lead, it's time to jump.
We nice from Team Secret. Smoke, smoke, create pressure, bottom and middle.
might just keep it simple head over towards the side
oh this might work out okay if there's that to the clear over towards middle
realize there's no pressure can keep strong over towards the sides
maybe they didn't clear some of this
maybe he joined too far back
yeah he did
Nice shot. Dude, my guy's looking so good.
You go wracked by the fake smoke, bro.
Is it fake smoke or is it actual smoke? It looks like fake smoke.
Yeah, they get full info on this.
Look at this guy man. This guy's been so well. He is locking down B
The fake smokes are just next level from him. He keeps owning them with that
This is the show that we've been looking for coming alive here
Just some big kills this decision smoke
Just
That's so sick
What a bait and switch.
And the sugar zero is so aggressive on the back side of this,
he throws his own smoke so that if they're going to go by,
I mean, they're going to have to be slow and thoughtful about it,
no matter what.
And that means he has that info.
If they do go, if they don't, then they can just go back to be.
It's so smart.
So go get info, though.
Oh, he's.
The saturates.
Little exit cause the vibe is in play with XTL.
Hunter's fury able to find one Jesse bashing to be taken down
No further damage found from the ultimate, but
His absolute gets into position you do have a dimensional trip. I mean they gotta just keep them on sight here. Oh
Big play man. It's a really big play. Oh my god. Have they not?
That's crazy. Oh boy
Self and now gone
Another two before the team secret will now a one before they would have to pull off
not make it happen Zayn and Ishein
get it up to the best point
he had it he made the play that wins in the game
just some mad timings
I mean 10-10 there just doesn't check the box
quick enough and then
ah man
I mean it's absolute cinema
but spelled S-I-N
that's good
Adam with the prime preset the full month
over steps here it's great play by xdl finding that soba means this attack is
so much more difficult to suss out what's going on I was gonna say you
have the drift here I was thinking okay well if secret just waits behind their
divide then Zeta can just take their time get absol there get the info go for
the retake
two goes to the
one in the mid-plays, see no one over towards middle
they don't have the best use of the retake here
and the vices saved everything
that is an incredibly hard retake
there is this wall though
is fury must have missed a wall I can do here spike down 5v5 unless they got some
plans
alright maybe
this is a shaft art still running in Jesse still in a fairly committed position now starting
to retreat as the steel body is going to be coming in buying some critical time data
just on the outskirts of this trying to rotate forward but the stand 10 tip is going to be
taken out
He missed the first one of the sova all hour, super worried that he's just gonna stick for it.
pushing this into an overtime.
Oh, the replay guy did him, he did him nice though.
The replay guy didn't show the fastness.
No, it is team secrets timeout call.
Okay.
Not that it matters too too much,
given one more round and then we'll go another one anyway
and overtime, but wanting to get this across the line.
Money wise for Zeta division.
Not the greatest.
No.
No, that last buy was already pretty scrappy.
So this is now a little concerning
that we're gonna get the OT here, Zeta's gonna need...
Just turn on my backfire.
Everything in the kitchen sink.
I wonder if we're gonna have backfired.
He has a good idea, maybe, in theory.
Like, as in both teams have called one.
Like, we get an extra minute of time out.
Ah, we did.
You'd imagine it's because of this.
Fine, but...
I'm not even holding on to it.
If it was ever gonna happen.
Sure.
Take the OOP, easiest OOP to get.
And then as a judge.
I mean surely they could have come up with it on their own, but let's see.
you
We're on the Pacific stage and this time it's good data division and first win for data division when you needed it the most
How do you feel about today's win? And what does it mean to you and to the team as well?
Congratulations on your victory!
I don't really care about it.
I think I know the pros and cons of our team.
Because I practice, I think our team is really good.
But I don't think it comes out when it comes to the tournament.
But if we gain some experience and win at least once,
I think we can go up to the highest point if the pros and cons of our team are getting bigger.
Today, I was a little bit upset, but I think I won the match.
How high do you think the score is?
Did you want to make it harder? He asks an extra question.
Honestly, I think we can go to Masters.
If the score is always up, of course, some players will do that, but our team's score is...
First of all, we think that we can use the visualist better than we thought.
But I didn't see that much during the competition, so I ate again.
and high potential.
It's just we didn't really have the chance
to translate that onto the stage.
And now that we picked up this win,
I think with time and more wins,
getting more momentum and also more experience as a team,
I think we can definitely reach that peak
and the potential that we have.
So it doesn't mean a lot.
And I asked ECO, how high is the ceiling?
How far do you think you can go?
What can you tell us about the potential
that you feel about Zedu division?
And he said, yeah, I think we can definitely
make it to master San Diego if we reach our peak form
that we've been seeing in scrims and practice as well.
And also, but we would need to kind of perform our best
for the rest of the kickoff in order to get there.
But yeah, I do believe in my team.
And we indeed, with the AppSoul on the team
running the double duelist,
I think we're doing a really good job
with reading the current meta
and kind of utilizing this double duelist.
So I think we can definitely make it if we perform our best.
Well, I just wanted to ask you
because you made it double duelist.
You used to play a lot of initiator
and now you're playing the duelist.
How is that transition for you,
especially with Weylae,
because we've been seeing a lot of eco-highlights
on that agent.
And normally, in the first challenger,
you used to play the first base,
and then you came to the second base and used to play the third base.
Like I said in the vision,
I mean, you gotta believe in your team. You gotta believe in your team for sure.
I'm impressed with the 1 minute 30 translate, isn't it?
That's a good thing.
Before I came to Zeta, I was a challenger.
You don't know that you can't name 100 people? That's what I mean, man.
You can name 100 people, and then she can probably translate.
You can probably remember 100 people that she met today.
I think he's doing a good job today, but I'm confident about it.
the duelist role. He practiced a lot and also grinded a lot because he actually thought
he needed to crunch in the times to catch up with the rest of the duelist players.
And it's been going really well and in terms of he's really confident with this duelist
performance and I asked him, you know, like, are you comfortable on every agent that's
a duelist? And he said, well, except for the rays, I mean, my euro is pretty good, but
but I can show it but when it comes to Neon and Wei Lei, Jett, I'm really confident with other agents in that duelist pool too.
So that's good to hear, Eko now. You talked about going to the main one, you guys literally need to win every single match left in the lower group.
So who's arm is this man?
So what are your expectations? Is there anything you're looking forward to?
And now you have to beat all the games.
You have to do one step at a time.
Do you have any expectations or expectations?
Well, first of all, I'm happy.
I started my career as a player.
We didn't know how to win in the tournament.
I think we can get to know more and more about that.
We are practicing to win against DRX and against DRX,
and we are practicing to get to the Masters.
So if we prepare well for DRX,
we will be able to win easily if we show our potential.
Well, yeah, it's going to be tough, but honestly,
having this one win in the bag really helps out a lot
lot because we didn't really know how to win but this win actually kind of helps us figure out
what we need to do our win conditions and what allows us to win. So I think if we prep really
well against DRX and other matches I mean we already came in with a mindset in the lower group
bracket thinking that we are going to beat Team Secret and we're going to beat DRX and make it
to Santiago so with that mindset and also us working hard prepping hard against DRX I think
we might have a really good chance to show our true potential as I said now thank you very much
a lot of belief how you gotta believe in your team man wow I didn't know eco was that much of a
yeah for you it's so easy to share no it's such a breath of fresh air because usually our first
players are very okay jack we have varro against gen g coming up a lot more and I can tell why
Same thing, whoever loses is done for like the next month and a half.
But we have to say,
Commiserations to Team Secret,
they will not be moving forward.
It's the end of the road here for them in kickoff,
but Zeta, well deserved.
I think, you know, this map three,
Galactic went the distance.
They really got tested a little bit here.
You felt like it could have gone either way,
but big respect.
Yeah, unfortunately, Team Secret won't be making it
to Master Santiago, so.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Team Secret is going to Santiago, okay?
Team Secret is going to Santiago.
As you can see,
Santiago is in the Philippines. Shout out to those who are from Isabella Province.
Santiago is very very possible for a team secret okay. Don't take that away from us okay.
It's right there. It's a seven hour bus ride from Cubao. So yeah it's very accessible.
accessible. I won't see why we can't go. I can't go. I'll take you there, Marcus.
You know, that's where they should run their bootcamp from, in my mind. Really inspiring.
Coming back strong, ready for stage one. We do have our match MVP. It will be XDL. Big credit to him.
I feel like especially those first two maps, he played unbelievable in getting this team across
the line there. And very, very solid utility. Great supporting player consistently across the
board a wonderful match MVP in my mind. Oh absolutely yeah you like this picture? We have with us on
the desk we have XQQ joining us and sorry to help with some translation and XQQ just pointed out
that XDL looking very good in that photo he looked very good in that series too. Now I want to ask
you a few questions I wonder what the what has the main struggle been for the team so far here
and kick off because as we could see of course this is the first major win for Zeta so what has the team really been struggling with and working on?
I was wondering how to deal with that, but today, it's not a perfect day, but I wanted to be able to do what I wanted to do as a trainee.
I think also this match it was kind of so-so, but I think we tried our best.
Yeah, for sure, for sure. I'm wondering what do you think made the team perform better today?
Was it because they were able to get rid of the anxiety or the stage fright, or was there something else?
At first, I was very conscious of the way I was going to train, and I didn't have to train, but if I didn't train, I would have won if I had a good chance with half of my strength.
Also, the quality of the Shorinju line and the post plant.
I think that we were able to fix it and it continued to win.
DRX, next game, in a very short space of time, we know how good they've been third of champs last year.
How do you go about preparing for such an established team like DRX?
Well, DRX is a team that has a lot of experience.
How do you go about it?
The only thing we needed was victory.
I think that the game we're playing from now on is going to be released soon.
DX is also very excited this season, and we are very excited.
We might not be able to win, but we will do our best to make sure we win the next game.
I think, yeah, we're kinda in the same mood.
Confidence building, uh, finally, just one more question for you guys.
For you, ex-Q and Toyo, we see the Zeta Watch Parties.
They are amazing. Do you have a message that you want to say to all of the fans watching and keeping that Watch Party alive?
We have fans who support us, people who watch us at the viewing party, people who carry us on their feet, and people who support us at the view party.
I think that's the reason why we have this kind of perspective.
I think it's good to end here and buy 5 times more.
I hope we can enjoy 5 times more.
Yeah, thanks for always supporting us. We've tried our best to win our first matches and we're gonna show
Maybe we're gonna demolish all the teams and winning all the games
Fighting words fighting words ex QQ Toya. Thank you so much for your time and thank you for answering questions here on the desk
Congratulations as well to say enough on that win versus team secret now straight into our second
elimination match of the day and it's going to be between Farrell and Gen. G and I cannot
believe that we are right into this. Gen. G in elimination match we cannot forget how
the highs of this team of course not too long ago.
Yeah we will be having a Korean team go home in last place. Something not many people expected.
Coming into the league this year, Farrell, the best team in Ascension, they had so much
weight on their shoulders so much pressure but they've not found some
live up to that expectation, Pelski.
Your birthday buff for class, is that real?
Sengil, congratulations!
I forgot what comes next!
You're studying this!
I was studying this!
It might be birthday buff time.
I mean, it's gonna be needed. Genji's definitely gonna be a difficult team for them to be taking on in the
a low bracket match here. To be honest, like, Barrel has had kind of a rough draw of it.
I mean, Global was kind of on fire in that first game. Barrel didn't turn up to it.
Then they had to play DRX in the middle bracket. Now they have to play against GMG.
They're playing against all these Korean powerhouses, which, you know, as a young Korean team,
going into a Korean derby has got to be very intimidating.
Yeah, for sure. Especially when you're up against GMG. DS is the team that was the first team to bring
home trophy, a global trophy to Pacific. They still have that and they still have that core
in this team that's able to win a global event like that. So having Varel, the newbies, the rookies
suddenly face up against Texture, against Lafayette even, against Karin, the rookie of the year way
back in 2024. So how is that going to pan out? Yeah, I mean, Genji been struggling this year,
but there's no doubt they still have that championship aura. This is an international
winning core everybody knows just how great that they can be it's just when
will they hit their stride this is their very last chance now I mean it would be
crazy to see Genji be eliminated so early but it's very firmly possible yeah
they look a little bit different in that graphic but that's no it's a master's
winning team that's the bottom line to master's winning team and that's
exactly what Genji is they're a master's winning team but they're not looking
like that right now obviously based on that graphic they're absolutely not
looking like themselves the core those still holds weight as we were saying
they did manage to take one map off of 2-1 but we haven't really seen I think
convincing yet yeah it's a bit of a masterful fall off unfortunately they
could be out in last place here if they go down against VARL which I think is
definitely a winnable game for VARL you know one such a story Korean team that
has dominated not only Pacific but as we mentioned being able to pick up
international titles has now started to you know fall out into a little bit more
obscurity. They kind of went through a hell Mary go for an old kind of rescue
success. A lot of Korean teams picking up some of these Academy players and
really backing them. The thing that really hasn't clicked for me yet though
is just luck here. I think individual performance and some of the calling
in combination with the roles being a little bit funky. I mean I gotta say I
was confused by this team a little bit in the offseason. I wasn't sure if we're
lucky but was the right move. We're yet to see him really have those pop-off
games like we knew from him back in 2024 but now it truly is all to play pool
because you need six games in a row in this little bracket to make Master
Santiago both of these teams have showed us that they can string these wins
together. Yes they have I mean Gen G and Tier 1 though is looking a little bit
different to what Varril's been able to accomplish down there in both
Challengers career and VCT Pacific Ascension. Very impressive runs both of
them but you know you're gonna have to see something arguably more impressive
from Varel and maybe you know about equally as impressive from Gen.G if they're gonna make it to
Master Santiago. Yeah unfortunately there is that tier two to tier one gap that is rearing its ugly
head here for the side of Varel and for Gen.G you're absolutely right the IGL the structure of
the team that is going through a bit of reorganization we're still going through those kind of growing
pains at the moment but I still have a lot of faith in Gen.G. I mean Gen.G and lower brackets
name a better time come on. That's true like they love this lower bracket I think and sometimes
teams need this kind of pressure they kind of need to know hey I have to step up
now there's no more room for excuses there's no more room for missteps and
we know that Genji have had this before the thing about Genji is they still have
that insane firepower they still have texture they still have Karon these are
people who have internationally put on clinics so it's all about when are we
really gonna see them fire to the way that we know that they can yeah I think
Ash is still very sharp and he's good for some of these big impactful rounds
You see it particularly when he's like holding sight on an astra and he end up in some of these really messy situations
Especially against double dive cons where you just need to hit every quick every shot in quick succession much like you need to do in
The skirmish, I wonder who they're gonna put forward for this one. Yeah, absolutely
I mean it needs to happen at some time right? It needs to happen to solo
We don't get solo we don't get solo this time around but you're absolutely right
Genji still has a lot of great gamers here, but so does Varo, but we haven't exactly seen Varo looking like the Ascension team, they're Ascension yourselves rather, in the tournaments.
Like they are, Avis, even LP, you know, I do think, even as the IGF has some insane potential, bringing out the operator here in the skirmish by the way, Barnable, if you ask me, but he doesn't seem to care, he's rocking the Phenobas.
Yeah, for sure. I mean LP, a very heavy firepower player can see him on the fight, but you can see him on the Goro, but the boys over there on Varel have standardised a lot more of their colts.
You don't often see him on those kind of agents as much, where in seats, you'll definitely see him on a Yori this series.
Oh, for sure. I mean, that seems to be the consistent thing about that game, but I'm curious that they sent zinx to do this, Gormash.
You asked me, yeah, I was very curious who they were going to put both of them.
They must feel like one on one.
This guy has some great aim.
LPs looking like R.P. out there right now.
To find an op that's running up with a stinger.
Deserve for Wrecked.
Do not find a stinger, you dirty little man.
Well, I think I actually wonder what the meta is for each of these teams
sending in certain players.
Like, they send in zinks.
But do you think it's because maybe, you know, zinks is preparing for something
as we head into this match?
or you know what is the meta as you send in different players?
I do think Skullwish is a double-edged sword right?
You obviously want to win it for that advantage in the Vita
but it also the player you send it might disrupt their warm-up time
it might disrupt their matchday routines
so there might be certain players that are kind of automatically ruled out
when doing this skullwish because their routines are so rigid
but I think it's all about in my mind it would be who is our number one guy
who is our best aimer, who's the guy who can make this magic happen
get us any advantage that you can't
But in the city you haven't even seen that
almost at all there's only been like one or two teams that I feel like I'm even taking the skirmish
that seriously to be honest like I haven't seen teams putting forward their best aimer
I feel like you know now that it's on stage and everything it's time to get a little bit more
serious but of course it does have an effect on the map Abido here so we are not seeing Corral
we are not seeing this we are seeing Breeze from Genji and I'm a little surprised that Barrel lets
us through well yeah Breeze is an interesting one I haven't seen Barrel play it just yet in
Pacific at least in the offseason. I don't think it was in the map for yet
because these two teams did get a chance to play in the offseason and we are
seeing some repeat maps actually Varl in that series did also pick Pearl which
they ended up losing to Gen.G last time around but they're gonna back themselves
and Haven as a third map decider is an interesting one because Varl actually
13-3 Gen.G on this map with their old comp and I think Gen.G might have picked it
into them or it was either the third map decider so I think for Varl they
I haven't played some of these maps in kickoff yet and some of the comps have started to change since like Gen.G is not playing that Viper comp anymore
So that map is gonna look a little bit different
But look we'll see if Barrel is gonna be a little bit cold coming into these maps
That's the question for me
Like you say these two teams have history in that offseason and Barrel clearly trying to target the elements that they thought were weak
From that previous match, but as you say a lot of things are different Gen.G changing comps
I'm curious if Barrel are gonna come in with the same compositions that we've seen from them in the offseason
Are we gonna be trying something new because I still think they have to find pudding here
We've already seen them change like actually they lost the best Gen.G in the off-season in the off-season tournament
And then immediately into their first game a kickoff for a harbour comp on a base which was pretty woeful
If I'm honest, so I think you know we have seen both of these teams change
Especially Gen.G changing is very surprising
Yeah, it's crazy
But the same comp for like 30 maps in a row of the same map, you know
They never change, but this current iteration of Gen.G, not only are they changing roles, but they're also changing their comps up a lot.
Yeah, for sure. Lots of changes, but it looks as though here on the desk and on the talent pool and the viewers, not much changing up, because everybody's on the side of Gen.G.
It's easy to see why. We do have some outliers though, like Pomoto, who again is like, I'm not like the other girls.
Today, that seems to be his theme, going for Varel, but joining him is Paper Thin and Morgan.
Yeah. Yeah. So the reason I learned for Barrel is I've seen these guys play to their ceiling.
Right. I know how great they really can be. And it's just a matter of time before we see it in
my mind. For me, that game against G was bad. There's no two ways around it. And then against
DRX, we saw flashes of life. We saw grimace, like tiny, tiny glimpses of them being able to do
something that they used to do of having that aggression, of having that style that was so there.
So I'm really hoping that now they can go back to that they can really lean into that because if they play it their best
I think they have it today, but don't just think it's a little too late for a glimmer
I mean it's it is an elimination match and your glimmer is up against Genji
All the teams today. Yes today has to be a full
Reverb back to what they've been able to show back into it, too
I think it has to be a hundred percent of it if you're gonna overcome Genji
But I'm just banking on them being able to unlock that form that we have seen from them in the past
Yeah, for Barrel, I think like Breeze will be an interesting one. I think they got to set the tone nice and early on
We already just saw Gengi kind of dismantling T1 on Breeze. They also had a woeful first game
I think against DfM it was which is a matchup they had never lost previously at least with that organization
Some of those players have never lost to DfM before so Gengies had some bitter pills to swallow as well
Fortunately their Breeze looked great against T1. Their attack in particular. I was liking what they were showing over there
For me, I want to see Varrel go back to their roots on Breeze. I want to see like a chamber jet comp like
It's actually OP chamber better or something like that. You know just something hyper aggressive. They've been mixing premium on maps
That it's not popular. We've already seen in other region some brim be mixed in on Breeze
I think that could be something that fits Varrel quite well here. Yeah, I mean absolutely
That's that's what I really want to see from them use the individuals on that team because they can be so sharp
I don't want to see too much standard comms. I don't want to see them trying to copy other teams play the meta
Leading to what you have they have an amazing chamber player breezes a very suitable chamber map if you ask me
So I want to see them go to it. It's that off map. I want to see so much aggression. Give me the brimstone
Why not you have nothing to lose at this point? It's class's birthday. Like are we not gonna give this guy his signature?
Yes, we haven't even seen Pete Klaus yet. So he class is running around on chamber owning everyone
That's that's my question. Do you feel like stepping onto the Pacific stage barrel have sort of lost themselves the
Essence that made them win ascension. They're trying to fit into the oh, I'm a Pacific team
I play proper
That's not how you win valorant
You feel like they just need to go back to ascension barrel
Yeah, like we've seen lots of different styles can work anything can work if it suits your guys
Well, you don't have to be other teams
you don't have to copy them if you have a style that works for you if you have
players that can make you put a lot of things work up, I want to see you run with
a few points in your time, please Barrel, please show up to them, so desperate
yeah they could have beaten DRX honestly, they could still be in the middle bracket here
so I give them a shot, get to DRX, DRX is slightly higher than Gen.G at the moment
I think the series could really go either way but I'm back in the experience boys
no that's that's fair I do want to see Ascension Barrel I want to see you know
a sexy with those amazing plays. I want to see Suna with those amazing shockdarts. So let's see
if we're gonna bring that out or if the Tiger Nation are gonna rear their fearsome heads.
We're gonna send it to the stage for our second match of the day.
Now with this, yeah.
Prediction here. I think Gen.G should be fine. The only reason Varo will win is if they just
go back to what was working in tier 2. And just absolutely send it. Just go double draw
all this every map send it maybe lean into the jet is the map all gonna change
before Santiago no not before it might change after though
The Karin and Ash switch, I don't really know mate, to be honest with you.
I think Riot made enough waylay before Santiago, nah I don't think so either.
She looks like they're focused more on trying to make sure that some of the other agents are in line.
The heavy, heavy, heavy folks sitting down chilling.
They're more focused on trying to get the controllers in line at the moment.
So I guess there's a controller that's coming out as well.
That's normally how it works.
when right like hyper focus on one role it normally means there's an agent that's coming in
well something similar right when boom rock got enough to head way
that you had wingman coming in
i think there's probably a controller coming in soon
just add one more harbour
yeah
a trophy to Pacific. Times have changed drastically as Gen.G faces the possibility of being the first Korean team out of kickoff.
But Gen.G, they have made some incredible lower bracket runs before. I'm sure we all remember that.
Will they bring that fighting spirit out to survive?
Yeah, I mean, you can look back on all of those accomplishments with Rose-colored glasses if you like, but the facts are still the same.
If they lose today, this could be one of the worst results for Gen.G as an organization in Valorant inside a big city to Thiving
And maybe one of the worst for any Korean team participating in the Pacific
Usually they are dominating the competition or if they win this game
Especially in convincing fashion we could potentially be asking ourselves if we're gonna see another sick lower bracket run from Gen.G
Gen.G lower bracket run and not with how they're playing me
They really do have that ability deep inside them, but they have to unlock it here and now, it has to begin here, and really, if we're gonna get behind this Gen G team to go all the way, they need a dominant win today.
Oh, but that's the whole piece.
Man, that happens to me all the time. I felt that in myself.
I think we've seen much more awkward hatches on that stage, but of course...
That was like the baristas, I enjoy your coffee I said, thanks you too.
Yeah, you go!
Oh no, as coaches planted out guys talk before you're on the stage.
Ah gamers, I swear, gamers.
But we are in for an exciting match for sure, much more exciting than the possibility of those handshakes happening on that stage.
But for Varyl, we need to see them unlock that stage.
We've seen from all the regions it's most likely to make a lower bracket run at the moment.
Aleph
players play it ever. It's not been in the pool, but now they come out with a composition.
That is Gen.G's composition. This is a mirror match across the board, so I think it's going
to be hard to support the Gen.G guys here. I think you've got some comfort roles though
here for Valor. You've got Zexi on the jet. He's going to have to go head to head with
Texture who just went nuclear and Diffed Buzz really hard in the server in that previous
game of Breeze. So you're going to have to not see him slowed down by any stretch of
the imagination comfort age of fuzuna same for lp's played a lot of vipers and birthday
boy class will be on the door or the day after you can have the same orders of hangers and
then cut it down genji before they can get on the door and I'm excited for this a lot
of comfort agents all around so that means you're gonna see the very best amount of
our players we're gonna be stepping in to the easy with paper thin and Akilius.
I mean, I guess so.
Is there a little bracket run?
One, two, three, four?
Full games?
Yeah, I would say it counts.
Yeah, honestly, maybe 100 pages is the one.
Not DRX?
Yeah, I don't really have that comfy.
advances into the next round square off against global I
Expect this though to be
kind of similar
To our first match where I think both these teams are pretty evenly
Okay, at an even power level I'm gonna say
Convaron the first Genji on a time the crazy blowouts like we had on the first two maps
I mean, I don't care. It's whatever, but I don't think that's what's gonna happen now
this map though Gen G has proven to be one of the best in in the world on
breeze time and time again yeah I mean they used to be a map here you know
barrel hasn't showed this barrel hasn't showed any of the maps we're gonna see
today so very curious Zinx taking that first contact wrapping around towards
back sight you'll be able to find the first and cinder seemingly getting caught
off guard also gets taken down to six fines to count gets a piece of the pie
Zinxie will fall well that's convincing pistol purchase from barrel so far
hasn't really gotten the opportunity to bring out any shots. One will go ahead and go across as LP arrives from mid.
Downcaron, protection now striking, finds Zuna.
Ash perfectly poised in position to go ahead and dispatch the final player. It will do so
cleanly. First pistol goes away of Gen.G.
Yeah, I mean this is all killed on this map.
First round in, I mean it was a convincing pistol, I get it.
Just to make sure before he goes in has the dart there to set him up from Locky as he's swinging the corner
Well drawn up texture on the wall watching the arches
Yeah, I mean we watch for a fair amount. They just they just don't play like how they used to play though
They used to fearlessly send it
Really see that anymore they're trying to play like my phone a call
Let's see if they can do any damage with those pretty heavy stack over on the B site, but
actually a 3-2, not something you see every day when it comes to eco rounds, especially
against the fearsome weaponry that you're gonna have on the anti.
Oh, staring down the line, Ash.
But the damage dealt there to Cinder, but only the one kill found.
Yeah, I gotta go more from that.
There's like a slow instant reaction, I'm just seeing so many.
No, Scythe's gonna be turned back in, but Zink's now on the floor.
Bit of damage up by Karat, just a sheriff in hand.
Not gonna be recovered, but send her to fall.
Both players now stuck back Scythe to fight coming in though, and Klaus!
To the LeBandal!
And destroys Genshin with it!
They 4k'd the first day, boy!
So he's gonna go in this POV because he melted them.
Oh, please, from his angle.
I must see.
Yeah dude, we gotta see that from his POV.
must see
They're getting loud down there, too. I can hear them. They should and that's what the death talk about one
You see them get low reaction over there. I've been caught for this day one
This is a
Absolutely. Oh
Oh
Instance
Instant that shots scoop up the vandal in a way you go
So, don't mind Ash sticking around to try to get extra kills with that Guardian, it's
in an unrecoverable position, flash, right in their face, there it is, the Dash popped.
Looking to put that outlaw up to somebody's chest, can't quite get it.
There are more and more players leaning into that forward position today, at the same time
we'll find Texture, then at the bend of elbow.
I can imagine they can keep this one clean as well.
forces from Gen.G.
I want to recover that weapon. We'll be able to do so.
I don't know. They're all keeping things fairly fanned out as the drone comes in.
Maybe some rotations to begin.
Just one way set up at the corner for Cinder.
Me, you're so committed to getting it off to the run you just had though.
Oh boy. Here we go back.
Swings back. Cinder tries and set up where they can cost.
and just like that Gen G, they're looking to do what Gen G often does, which is just
straight back at the Rifty.
Yeah, it's a weirdly played anti-cold, to be honest with you, it's all played so far
back, let him have the space, let him get through the choke.
taking a risk back the sides try to go one kill
well that's a low he goes back
actually works out better for gen g the money's incredible
once again in the lead once again
we'll remind people that we don't have a sponsor for a virtue so if you want to get in there
there's a lot of them in pacific you can get your money's worth that's for damn sure
Just uncomfortable with the protocols here on the timing
You know from Klaus
In particular just kind of going in there and then they're giving the hero gun in the saving off saving for
Kind of I didn't mind some of the ideas from Pharrell there use the longer-range weaponry set up by arches, but
I kind of picked funny moments to go for it when it was already kind of too late
Mean as we can see picking the right side on this number
Nothing else it was damn entertaining so I'd be all that I put you down for that. So yeah, let's see LP
On the flank scaling has to make it past the opponents Michael wall though
Now we'll be locked in places the site gets taken by Gen.G
They really wanted to they could drop a pit into this one, but that's watching the flanks come down
Can't line up the shots close to the vandal once again
It will apply to me. Do they want to throw the gun over and you're all probably not the non-groke positions
Okay, we'll just go ahead and still send this one out
I'm sure if Locky found a time to actually pass the yoru there either way he's just
going to be dancing around the back pillar.
Kara, I'm still here within that smoke, it's going to be overwhelmed, it's close to the
classic, you'll find it, Locky fights too, and that's what I'm expecting.
That's it, really?
And they should just not have it in hand.
Oh man, it's one of these games, bro.
Close, but over the line it's going to be another thrifty.
Yes!
It's happening!
I was a record to beat!
Oh my god, so they do rip the drift here as soon as the snake bite dissipates.
They didn't really get anything full of the spawn but the flash was good.
Go for the flash into the smoke.
That is juicy, Zexi.
That's very nice.
The problem with this is I mean this is a full buy.
Or said player a couple walls though for Gen. G to consider
You have a trip to their own and the pit of us full by versus full by to get to the site get set up
Exactly does that strap lay you'll come the lands back the site
As it's landing they're getting through the trucks they're gonna deal with
Yeah, they're gonna deal with your oh Anna recon delay lands while they're getting rushed at some nice that's right
at least continue this back and forth pendulum swing around wins his texture will be able to find one
good for it now the smoke will be it's the readjust
makes him down with the off at hand they're gonna have to try to go for a save so yep we'll just
be this back and forth continuing but loose the gun yeah you do now now this operator is really in danger
the world we go this is a lovely round
those a lovely up with the util to
lovely sets of it trying to hide in the
smokes or players of barrel to avoid
that recon dart I think it just got a
tick on the cinder hunting the whole
way all the way through defender spawn
to get that that's great work from Gen. G
I mean, they probably have too many ults.
The silver ults are going to get them all over towards the side.
though available to barrel.
Yeah, Guardian, take frenzy, a couple of sheriffs, the Bucky.
You never know.
Seeing that Bucky around that corner
would be if Gen. G gets funneled in that direction
caused plenty of teams grief.
Just trying to use these pillars to hide, set up a TP,
make for that quick rotate.
Gen G is just trying to use a little bit of their bodies to get whatever information they can.
Locky is out of info gathering you two.
Got double lucks.
He's gonna want to commit it here.
It's a shock dart.
Okay, now they're grouping up.
Another one, nobody in that corner, so...
This has been a big run down of the clock though.
Yeah.
So 34 seconds, Gen G is getting ready to begin.
Texture...
Oh, there's two of them there and neither of them shot the recon
Bro these two hit some shots
Who who can be where we on here was this texture
Oh, it's so fast.
Yeah, it's exactly what I wanted on the game.
The ton of vision was crazy, and they got 180 done.
But this is kind of odd from Gen G.
They're just...
Oh, it really is, man.
Just sort of waiting this out, and then Textures just running forward with the outlaw.
Like, Textures is the first contact, even though they do the deeper wall,
and you can just hold it the whole time.
Clouds just standing in the back of the pyramid.
But he wants to go for... I think he's looking for two.
Yeah, he's like, well, I got two bullets in there.
I had two shells on it up, so...
What could go wrong?
should go for. We're going for the 50 record. I don't know what it is, but it's for sure
on. Oh god, they instantly work up and it's a fake.
Oh, but yeah, for now, if he's taking the time, which is going to allow for Barrel to get close enough to start getting ready for a flood retake here.
They can't divide on their own.
When does Karan go?
Oh, so they're going to kind of realize that he's lacking once they don't hear a Viper.
If you utilize the Octus Fury, even Karan's position around mid, the pit not going to be in play here.
That's a fight called in as you mentioned
Setting up the wall still two players
Forward on this one to try to show us
He take it down text you're finding one
The push out you will find another
Just hearing out gone at least half they need to try to clear this one out sooner rather than later the shock dark
Finding the kill the push in
to collect it
Yeah, I think Harren got too much for this. They didn't really put it together that he was working.
Oh, God!
all right i see you they're never able to really identify carat's lurk
Gordon thanks much for the tier one man appreciate that thank you thank you
it isn't for lockia just taking care of bizzarok
when does the madness stop?
something that we can certainly buy
yep here we go again
carat finding one shuffling house for the two
I still do good though.
Uh oh.
I mean, he can smoke that and get a gun.
Smokes it as a distraction and pushes forward and you've got a good timing.
He doesn't have to come for it. He's got a good timing.
I like the idea.
Okay, finally.
They're a guardian. I don't know. Don't ever give them anything else. It's all he needs.
Just take it to the economy.
Good combo if they want to retake over towards the site. So yeah.
Weak over towards A, heaviest stack over towards B.
Not exactly how I thought it would go down because they kind of
insta-popped this all unless they've lost the sound key that I missed.
They're set, let's go ahead and break this close, because now it's only Ashen to 1v5.
What do you really try to do from here, push the spot out, go swing, help me find the
damage, and you find the kill.
Incredible, man.
I only took one bullet.
We'll keep it neck and neck.
Split over towards B as you insta-sover.
Feels like it's coming down to who's going to out-guess who and do where they put their
defense.
is because a dimensional drift off the rip to set up the Hunter's Fury, you can see there that
you have to go into your own dimensional drift that's seven HP a zig, that's a wasted
ult, that's painful for Gen.G. Now that being said, the way this match is going, I don't know that
it'll matter, but it should. I'm just, I think that the coaches at this point are having a standoff
trying to see which one is willing to pull the trigger on a timeout, because there's so
So much that could be cleaned up on both sides.
Q the good, bad, and the ugly music.
Yeah.
The patients start to the round again.
This time, he's still Karan, who's
been sitting on the pit for a while,
but just frankly hasn't had a chance to use it.
Because the round's either been over by the time he gets
to a spot to use it, or he's dead before he gets a chance
to get on a site, TP check, oh LP tried to punish, gets decent damage here, just fight
to buy a little bit of time.
A little bit of pressure over towards A pulls the rotate away.
He's got the damage through, favorite of the fight, but is it worry about a potential counter
swaying trade?
Okay, 40 seconds call gets made, split over towards A. They cut sound here after doing
the damage and now they rotate back towards B. Touching just the solo Viper. He gets
a kill, he gets his AWP. He's probably not going to have time to do it.
I don't have enough air out there.
Custom at the back.
Working forward into the Poison Orb riding along the wall.
The station is now starting to come through.
Gen.G are taking their time.
LP dead. Do you know how over-arriving?
See if we'll find texture, but Lockheed and Sixth get one apiece
to trade it back up into their favor.
Let Canal safely go through.
Yeah, they got racked a little bit with the Rotains.
Cinder alone here for the moment.
Fight planted.
I do like that we're seeing this smoke again.
I guess smoke's very strong, but they had wall and smoke up at the same time, so...
Genji did good to just wait it out.
He didn't lost up for long.
I really improved Breeze? No, it's actually a good map now.
It's so much better.
Just go ahead and dash out
I get aggressive
Pushing forward, but I'm just gonna run into anybody
Yeah, he's actually didn't go all the way across into the B site. So it does manage to survive operator
And over the texture once again, there's a timer will continue to tick down
I'm not gonna be seeing any time I'll call
There you go LP, uses the pit to take over in front of A.
Tabity orb no tank, jiggle peeking.
Ooh, lucky to be alive.
Yeah, I was gonna say it looked like that shouldn't spin a kill.
Idiot drone out to clear this space.
Make sure that no one's scaled on that off shot.
Let's get a little vision on the Karan.
Really need that extra layer with the toxic screen here on B.
If Gen G goes that way, but the spike in Lockia's hands,
He's at least considering mid at least considering the bypass around the pit
Gotta make a cool again
the circuit navigate his texture
He's trying to leave tries to go for a timing shot cool this split a
Roan goes in and actually go heavy over towards door. It's a classic
about a potential run down here checks around it I'll be back so a fish is a
mountain to everyone else going through door
I got a lot of delay though
trying to scale up LP gone the pit now fall McLeod still alive and well here
put texture even lower tries to finish the job it goes to the reload
to help remain wanted enough for a shucked out as well right
3v4 Ash with the operator brings it back to parody the conflict of
Oh, this is a sick combo though.
Yeah, that's outrageous.
If what he's going to be behind after all.
Yeah, that's nice though, that's really, really strong.
Yeah, they're stabilizing on the good.
destabilizing on the good
I mean just the one yeah, the whole the whole one for against the viper
It's well done just next to him as well. I mean, this is how people used to handle this fight row. Anyway, it's kind of
Do the same thing
Hey, better luck in the good
The fake teleport back side A
Things are there. Yeah, rotation's hard to come over here, but after a run
They're gonna be able to hear these footsteps of your class. He's lurching forward
So now they can start to shift their way over and yeah, this is very much Gen G kind of giving up the information
I mean texture may be gonna be I was gonna say the texture might get to call them back to pencil accurate gets over towards a
Five-person stack on B in a biro
He's spotting nothing over towards A, and Tamskeng and Leatherlore still got time to get out of there.
Really good read on this.
Oh, this guy could absolutely own this round.
That's nice though. Super on top of it. It's a great molly as well from Karen.
Running low care on the one the fall the spikes still in transit working its way into a planable position
Center will get picked apart dark reveals three, but LP now gone
Well, let's just start getting money. It looks pretty decent
Also the cooling look at here though as well they gave themselves a lot of options even though time got low
They were pretty chill. I think if you're a 10g fan, you should be really encouraged
Yeah, I like who's crawling, that's nice.
Enders, how am I meant to know that?
Probably not.
for the B site you know they hear the drone they're you know they're sensing the pressure
at the front of the site and then they're like okay we have just enough time texture hasn't
seen a damn thing it's better to go the other side he's got that on the wall
the pistol is going to get close i mean barrel let's use that as our last resort
i mean with the playstyle in general should be a little bit more suited to attack
to qualify for Masters. Yeah, I mean, there's a good chance of it, I guess, but
Pacific Fives are a different beast. I don't know, man, the playing's so good, so...
The playing's so good and they understand their wing conditions.
They've got so much time to come up with good stuff. They should be okay, like, really, but...
Some of the teams in America look scary. MIBI and RG for sure.
Honestly, the best of five might suit Fury. I'm not entirely sure.
They know which ones can
They're mapoids kinda decent
Oh, that was smart though, I like that
It's just the traded back but it's still going to be over all the player advantage.
Do the side of Genji is constantly cornering.
How does he get away with this?
Still wins it out.
Now it's just down to Zuna. I've seen this man clutch one of these weeks before.
Can he do it here? Now, within VCT.
Makes the first step.
Swing out.
Lock you up.
Oh, he had a pistol.
Oh, that's unlike he has a nice try on this.
Super first.
Yeah, Ash did really good.
running at him, he even had to read on where Cinder was going to reposition to off the back of that smoke, but Cinder just barely able to out do it, had to back up and place it anyway, texture, steady, he is always...
We keep seeing Ascension teams lose pretty much every match, apart from BBL as VCT that different from Tier 2. I mean you can't just take up the team that proves that it's not that different.
It's just so you have an argument, surely.
Nongshim, yeah. Nongshim also.
Gonna take them out of the equation as well.
Eli? Eli also?
DRG?
If you remove half of the teams, maybe the majority of the teams, I think you're right.
The problem is those teams exist.
The most satisfying thing in this game is Guardians. Guardians are so satisfying. Look how nice this aim looks.
Nah, not for that.
we get the 5k oh yeah that's nice I can show us a nice this
oh yeah man time out oh you can ace yeah but when I do it everybody loses their
They're always running away from me.
Yeah, no, it's the satisfying gunman.
They're stealing it from me.
He just walked into you.
One by one.
There was smoke.
This is unfair.
But in Zeke's defense,
Texter missed some martial shots.
Yes.
It's on him this time.
Texter could have denied the ace.
Patty not whipped in the AMA.
Oh, look at that.
Signed picture of the man himself.
So I was trying to come up with lyrics you know that I don't mean to think of an ink on that swing
Yeah, you said goes for the ping and then the swing
I see
Oh, maybe I could work it out
And then I couldn't really make it make sense
And then I couldn't
It's like
You hear that ping? Take that swing?
I don't know
See it doesn't really
You can stop at any moment
No, I'm not going to
You're free
No, you can't make me
You can stop at any moment
Not quite fast enough
All right, see they can change their destiny here a bit three Guardians that is so scary
A Gen G team no matter who it is
Like they're just always good with them even without munchkin was the god of the Guardian
the
Alpes in trouble, maybe
Different gun with the advantage on the B site like there with a phantom
Swings around the pillars
Lingering that we didn't that comic form solid read from sexy
That flank potential turns back kills him in here on now just try to exit practically but spam fire will find him barrel
Finding back a bit. Let's close the gap
You like texture had to have made noise I couldn't tell oh yeah, yeah, yeah
When he's wrapping that he's trying to wrap and not get hit by the recon with the ping from the recon dart
Nice entry though.
Stock standard stuff.
Get up on the pillar, get that first kill, clear out the player trying to hide in smokes.
Cross in your eyes, dot your T's.
Just lose one player. That's pretty nice.
So your barrel can streak up.
Let's try with the silver ult.
He's having a great nap.
Oh, not well.
Oh, this is nice though.
I changed that. I changed up on the dart.
smoke or did they hit the smoke?
maybe they've already blocked the smoke on this one
they did not expect someone to path like that
Hunter's fury there to follow up while your jet dash is in chat. Just send it. I mean, this is what they used to do
man
Home run looking for the grand slam. It's buffing low. I mean got everyone caught him off
Quite far away
They just be able to find lock you
him though. Did he get the first three kills all of them off guard from miss
Parthing? I'll tell you what. Just the... I mean, yeah.
He is.
good in this round. The re-adjust from the aim punch. Yep, got a head shot.
The re-con let him down as well. Fairly non-plussed by it. Obviously an ace on the stage. Something
that would feel pretty damn good, but forcing a timeout. Now Gen G, it's gonna feel pretty good as well.
on pillar maybe move players a little bit further forward on the site on the
back side of the wall that's on the far west side of the site looking at it one
rifle from Karan of course it's heavy armor as well I can't thank the one bullet
doesn't have a bladestorm just gonna hang on to the classic wants to try to fast
Tracking off here
See an outlaw for Zexi
It's all if he needs to bail himself out
looking for the yoru, but
Nothing gonna be given over of course. Thanks. Just gonna
Chill
We'll be towards the stack
This could be tough. It crashed getting ready to expire as well
very weak by so trying to work another trip the out of this one still gonna prove
to be damn difficult for Gen.G.
Get out of my way!
Leading the way, it crashed, spotted.
30 seconds left.
Drop it down, right next to him!
Self-adjust to get the turn!
Himmits to take out Zanks!
One more so far, 20 seconds from now!
I was gonna say, I need to say a classic jump to enable this gun.
They gave them a lot of guns and now the money's really good.
Yeah, the little sloth.
They got the right reeds and then they were just a little bit slow so the road took on here.
And then honestly, we don't see this too often as well.
We kind of spoke about this the other day where we have like a hero gun and no one's enabling the hero gun.
the others are taking too much too many chores on theirself this was like the
best setup I've seen for a hero rifle for a while everyone's just distracting with Karan
I mean he wanted to try make a big play
I'm just trying to create it from Vero in that regard.
I just want to point out right now as well that Karan has got that triple double going.
Was the first match as bad as expected?
Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I expected, but I think moving my expectations were like, quite low.
I think both teams are better than I thought, to be honest with you.
truck down but Zuna does find the trade up might send out the try to the lay
zexy gonna go push it and smoke and wins it let's go
hell of a shot from him
you think DRX that's a good having DRX or two no to the honest
that's who be for maybe just a bit of a bridge too far oh no trade I was gonna
say man.
Two people in a position to trade that, there's no trade.
Now one's across, meanwhile the flank coming through but still has to try to clear out back
site in the time, it's just getting away from him now.
The approach getting closer, the grab well is there, the round in hand, the barrel, fighting
back, making it a four round gap once more.
Yeah, again, the executes looking pretty solid for them, and again, that early first kill
that they're able to find so valuable in these rounds to shut that yore out, open up a lot
of space in mid, swing it back, Lockia almost cracked in for that second, but just a little
it off. How'd he gotten that? Who knows. It comes down to some of those individual gunfights sometimes.
Good combo for a retake if they want to leave the site. No retake. Kind of.
So there's the load a minute.
Big byrun before they have to eco.
A but
G mostly
Keeping it close to the vest are finally gonna get poor zinks out of mid-jail
It's gonna be textures job now this operator
Clear a little bit of space get a little bit of info and they can keep leaving a anything over by him
But they're just
That direction is certainly go deeper now through elbow
There's a born more and the rest of tailwind is gone
on
two there around the corner
he's fast dude
gave him a little heads up
extra dead
f**king out
trying to step on the tide so you're on the approach but kept on
they might not expect to here though they don't seem to
I don't think they're going for the Urus here
not this close on site
oh
did he did W till? I don't know man
I don't think they would consider him there
Yeah, I think he has to play differently there, but it's like one of those rare situations where you should probably just be baiting.
Cross him down to an eco, and after they got the money on the attack, it's been looking good.
and cloud in a snake bite like that little extra angle that they're able to get out of that forces gen G to take some bad swings
Now they're on an eco again, but that might as well be a buy
With what we've seen so far in this map very true this time though. No hero rifle behind this true. So for sheriff's in a bandit
Lucky and ash less cannon in that regard no armor
They are getting ready to actually square off because I was going to say Gen G kind of
stacking the deck when it comes to all the people.
Oh that was nice extra jump pick on that, see if you can see any more, you only spotted
one jump pick on at least the next one.
Swing in, Karan not able to find the little flick.
It's taken down as the approach.
It's going to use onward here.
Swing in, dammit but no elimination found.
with the plant, gets his ult for next round as well, whoop, timing a middle.
They don't live this one, surely.
Okay.
Rocking it, needing to find that. Will not be able to do so. So cleanup is there. Two rounds now separating.
GEMG maybe considering another timeout call. Yeah, I might have to tell him.
I was thinking, might be time for a timeout, but because I mean, Barrel's gonna have every ult.
Basically, except he's a jet ult, but Cinder dying there. Cinder doesn't really care if he dies. Plenty of cash.
this is gonna be an intriguing round to say the least there's 45 in all here we go again
hey how many times I'm gonna watch Gen G just save five volts into a round
why is it always Gen G? oh they're so bad at volts
but do we want to see sliggy malls? you know what yes yes we do sure
could save them. Ash could definitely save them. Okay. I mean Ash did really good though.
actually good Karen's reaction was always good
yeah I mean the reactions were good though
the other um
I mean they had to go so much faster on the sign
yeah
and he's able to find that precious time for the rest of Gen.G to get there and back him up
and yeah like you said literally everything used timeout except for one old i think by barrel
the two inside erect i gave myself a way out though they're gonna call it timeout
because if ashkins that kill then i wrecked three more rounds to tie it up and send it to overtime
You could really want for those retakes
Or they could just get aggressive you never know that's the scary part you're very old
I was gonna say I'll learn a round where you know they've all got heavy armor. I don't think it's like a bad thing at all
It's a sick gun
Just would have been pretty out there
the
He's so much for me there
Recon flash then drone
Okay, I just didn't see they go far I mean this is similar to the vitality fair of the war yeah, great pick
In textures on an island
It's weird to put the software into this
Mine it might have been just been better to accept that you can't win the round really
is round over
yeah and they got one of the orcs out of them
one opportunity for Veryl in this round and that's that kill on the ash
I mean they played so slow that they got rid of
um, both the urtp so there's nothing to back up the as well
you're leading towards the a side
you know again you think you have all these tools for retake
but you just can't get to it it just all ends too quickly
barrel so quick to capitalize on that advantage they create
Lock it wouldn't be ready for this one
or would Karen who is dancing around but
not here
down the hall, peeks out of the site and we'll be able to find it
two rounds separating
barrel, a very real chance!
Oh, it's a sick shot.
Yeah, that's a nuts shot.
I thought he was just holding it.
Bake smoke.
Texture
It's unlocked man. I was about to say texture played it so well, but the need goes to a wider angle
Three thousand staka, that's what I would say
Might be the end, big draw at all.
I mean, the problem is for Gen G is...
They had one, maybe two over towards A main and no ones here.
They could have easily been a luck. They've taken all of this space.
All of this is a question mark so they kind of just got away and then clear it together
Good news is they got the euro or still gonna be the best one
Should be doable for Gen G
to try to lock them into those positions. Oh, he's a little cubby. Oh, that's nice.
Beautifully done. Yeah, that's really nice.
Ah, it's a lucky win for a fast reposition on this one. It was a lovely little old combo.
Struggling for sure, but eventually it'll defy the victory here.
He gave himself enough time to get into that corner as well, so it was really nice from them.
Still, you ought to be feeling really good as they're all with some of the game plans.
Yeah, I mean this was double pistol and it still got pretty close, but I mean, plus this would just have so many frefties behind it.
Finally a no combo, yeah, it's crazy what you can do with them.
They're great mid-rounding we saw that time and time again. I mean, they were just some crazy good plays from barrel from time
But it makes a good place, you know some good maneuvers of their own some good rotates of their own, but
We're all it's still just a
Seeing a lot of action here a couple of I mean, yeah, it's just a common common combo and afters that anything says them
after the
Smokes enough on German
and if Zexi is going to keep performing like that as we get ready to go over to Perl and yeah, we might just be in for a 6th map day
which, don't give us how this map played out, I'm absolutely down to sea
E2
I think we're going 3 maps here, it feels it
Like, how good Barrel looked even on this map.
It was like they should be pretty well situated to at least take us to a third.
But again, I don't know what the pearl, you know, we haven't seen it this season, so...
Yeah, I've seen it. You know, what do they have prepared and ready to go for that one, but...
Uh, big performances from Zinc, Sexy, Khan, as well up there, 21 at 12.
Put on a rush performance there.
Okay, Jack, I'll be back in a little bit.
They are going to continue to have their work cut out for them, so they look very much...
But frankly, they're going to make some profit, but they never float, pass it back over again.
No, I am in full agreement, I think we are in front of a long night, just that one.
I think the series is going to disappear.
Look at how well these two teams played on this map.
We were talking about the tier two to tier one gap.
The Haven, yeah, the generational Haven game.
Gap was actually, you know, not in my pocket watching this barrel.
I think we're seeing shades of that potential barrel that made that run.
Yeah, I mean better, better for sure from barrel.
I mean, this is a lot more than what I've always seen.
Was it not four of these at the beginning, or at least three of these at the beginning?
I mean, the moments and I think individuals really started to step up.
But I also think that sort of the other side of it,
it's in the LP, pretty poor map from them,
and it was still very, very close.
So I think if they're able to activate a little bit more in this map too,
it should be a different story.
They have everything they need to flip this series on its head,
but really now, you're one map away from elimination.
The pressure is at all time high.
Yeah, I mean, there's no way you can win a map with two players, some 100 ACS.
Yeah, don't know.
Unless you're T1.
Um, but I think Valor, you saw the star power for them for sure.
I classed in XZ, even XZ had his moments, it was excellent from them.
Gen.G, a very quality breeze team, even with a slow start from Texture,
which you kind of expect, I think, starting out on the attack side.
Most Jets actually are having some pretty poor games
because it's hard to kind of work your way into things.
So, I think, look, the good thing is that Gen.G,
especially when Ziggs is having an on-game,
has the depth to be able to actually, you know,
make their way through the series regardless.
And I feel like the more game Ziggs is playing on the Pacific stage,
he's getting more and more comfortable.
Oh, for sure.
We saw that insane ace that Zynx had.
I think Gen.G can be very, very happy with his performance.
I love that he's stepping up,
especially as the new guy coming into Gen.G.
But of course, Gen.G, what is with these thirkeys?
They're throwing off, there's been so many of them.
How could we not talk about the start of this game?
It was equally as insane as what we saw last week.
Realistically, both teams fighting,
struggling to really break that lead
out of the start of this game.
Round two, especially big momentum shift.
Genki answer right back. I mean these low weapons are just so scary here
Yeah, and then the very next round you see a big trippy win from now
I love this one in particular because he had a hero rifle on Klaus, which he got the opener with
He is able to get himself the drift and then he throws it to Zexy and goes into the trip with only a passing
Zexy follows him into the site and gets a 2k and but unfortunately that wasn't the end to the thrifties in fact honestly that
that anti-eco ace from Zeke's was probably necessary given how many pistol rounds got through.
Yeah, and I think this last one that you just watched really was the game for me.
Genji being able to get everyone across to that B site in time gets a really crucial thrifty towards the end of the game
and I think that was probably, if that goes the other way, vowel really within a fighting shout of stealing Genji's map.
Yeah, there are so many moments like that and you weren't really sure, you know, how well these teams actually friend each other at certain points
but of course Gen.G is still Gen.G at the end of the day.
We saw just how deep their strategy and their playbook really goes,
because even with all of this adjustment, with this new roster,
Zinx coming in and LuffyAiGLing, there is that adjustment.
There is still Gen.G and their insane strategies.
Yeah, so we saw them have a really good attack side,
actually both on this map and against T1,
and he's just one of the kind of strats that they were using.
This was exactly quintessential kind of 2024 GNG with LuckyR IGL and you see it's a quick A-split
with the dimensional drift based off of a timing that is all off the back of the
Sova dart that you'll see earlier. So you actually have the Viper smoke in mid nice and early on
here. They put the Viper wall towards B to make sure that you know Varl is not overly conditioned
not to respect the B here and then you get a quick A-split with the dimensional drip going
through middle and then you have the drone going through A main. So everything is really covered
You get the quick Dimensional Drift all the way through here, over on the other side,
you know, similar to what you used to see with like Spy Dogs Over or Double Initiator,
you get the double drones clearing out absolutely everything, and you're able to actually pinch
Varel inside of the site.
They have an Astro that's trying to play inside of their Astros smoke here that gets pushed
out by an Astro stun, and then you get these two smokes to kind of clean up the rest of
the execute, and as mentioned right from the start of the round, this is all timed out
Perfectly with the dimensional drift coming up through middle and the drone play coming through. It's really long dark all the way from the spawn side
That ends up landing on high on the wall up here and
Scanning the entire site and it all times itself out perfectly with what Genji's trying to go for in that execute
So if we play the actual round that you'll see you'll see all the timings
Finally tuned exactly how they would have dry run it. Yeah, I mean it's just this is the textbook coaching stuff of Genji
They've you know, we reveal them so much here because they're able to cook up such brilliant strats
This is exactly what you want to see when you've got these big ultimates online
If you're just wasting the aura, you're really leaving rounds on the table
And Genji know that they're able to be disciplined in those moments and really bring what they've used in practice to execute on the server
And on the side of Varel, I think what really caught Genji off guard was just Varel showing those individual plays
when we saw that click from Sexy, which Akilius is going to be dreaming about for many, many days, maybe weeks to come.
It's those kind of moments that really show you why this team is on that stage.
Yeah, in a way, I think they're very different to Genji, where they don't want these kind of fancy intricate strategies.
It's much more about excelling the individuals.
And when those individuals do step up, you really see how electrically convenient Sexy and Klaus really put on big performances in that map.
that map. Gen.G are not a team that roll over easily. They are also a team of heavy hitters
that will shoot you back, but I do feel like that's the kind of map Barrel needed to warm
up into this series. Even if they didn't win it, I'm still feeling good about my prediction
here. I still feel like they have a chance to turn this around, flip this on a 10 and
get through one thing.
Yeah, we'll see how it goes on Pearl. I don't think they're able to get the best of Gen.G
on Pearl in the off-season, but they're going to try to run it back regardless. Maybe feeling
like that game was winnable for them. They also saw Genji on Pearl earlier against DFM.
I felt like it was mostly the Kauron show. It didn't really look like they had the rest
of everything else drilled as well. Although Zekez did have a better game on the Yoru against
DFM than he had in the first map and now he's starting to get warmed up on the Yoru. Maybe
Genji is going to look scarier on Pearl this time around.
The big thing for me is what composition do we see from Barrel on Pearl? So when we saw
the play in the offseason Klaus went onto that chamber and it was the double
jeweless that's what I would love to see them play I think chamber is in a
great spot in the meta if you have a chamber guy Pearl has been a chamber
map for some time I think if they swapped away from that comp I'm gonna be a
little bit less confident but I think that's the kind of thing that will use
the individuals the best. And LP just had a shocker on the Viper honestly I
want to see him get on the yoru. Yeah pretty good on the yoru. Let's get
You can actually chuck him on the Yoru, class on the chamber, Zexi on the jet or whatever secondary duelists they want to play, and let's just get all the boys involved.
Yeah, I feel like the Chamber meta, like if you're a team that can jump on it right now, you're in a pretty good spot for stage one and everything else, because it seems as though teams that jump on the Chamber right now, they're experiencing a lot of success.
It's going to be so different to that RRQ Chamber though.
You know what, he was just crawling around the back.
That's not what you're going to see this time.
That's Jemken.
It's especially strong in this new patch.
We're not seeing a lot of double initiators,
so you can really see them hold these angles for a long time,
take deep control.
We have the compositions coming in now.
Varel, they've betrayed me.
They're not running it.
Klaus is on the cipher of all things,
and Zexy across onto that whaling.
At least it's something different and unique.
I want to see how they catch Genji here.
LP on the Yoru.
Genji not changing.
Anything up too much main player to keep your eye on is Karen. He is relentless on the defensive side and on the attacking side
A lot of dry pushes on the kill zone. He plays with a lot of
I don't know about a taeha much though
I don't think texture after a quiet backline
Definitely get on a bit of a heater now that he's on his neon
No, that does happen, you know quiet map might mean an even better map
The taeha is fine on this map
It's good for finding over towards aim, it's good at re-curing
More than it's mauling already so we have to toss it over to the stage
Good for taking over towards B at the beginning B-Full.
Is the solo tier good? Oh, the solo tier is not good though.
The tier one is on its own, it's good.
How would it play, uh, so for, uh, Bade on this map?
joining his first official with the squad and it was a 10-13 loss for them so now
feeling like they've made some improvements we're looking to see if they can take this to a third
final map yeah i'm kind of curious um okay we've got genji on defense varra on attack
yeah this comes a little weird man this has to do so much and it just can't
The very simple comp, they can't do that much.
Like maybe you can just spam sight hits, I guess it's the 4 on the tank.
Oh he's forgot about this angle.
I'm trying to leave the charge here. Oh, the quarterback takes his head clean off with that sheriff's shot texture
It's a piece of the action as well
Finds a second once the third
Jumping on the corner will help the play in six
Sheriff can be collected use will be there Gen G
Yeah, this is just around where Varro full commits to this be his kind of from the get-go and
Gen G's totally fine with that. That's where the heavy stack of their defenders are
And they're tucked into corners where they're able to avoid utility you just go walking right into a pistol
Yeah, there's three and oh car on there. Just holding the angle little devising textures like oh, there's a couple players there
I've got a relay bolt still
Good luck
It's gonna be a little selfless do a little jump peek in there
Set up that final one
Very enough
Hero's Sheriff, everyone buys on defense to make sure they don't get you caught.
Oh, for God's sake this gun.
He's already annoyed.
Oh, he's mad at me! He had like 23 health!
I calmed down with my guy!
Oh, it's so funny.
Look at that!
Those first two were so damn nice.
I had the second one.
He's like, oh, look at this.
I was turning my flash that way anyway.
Done list-ist.
Oh, I want to...
Please show us your act.
I want to see the replay.
Oh, my God! You got to keep on this thing!
Oh, my God!
Oh, God.
You arrived late, I think you said.
He was just about on the line ready to find that shot, too.
Now we'll have a phantom to wreak havoc.
It's just a clean orb take here from Karen outside of Amane.
It's literally like the best part of my day
when I see that I'm casting Gen G.
Oh, good.
It just never fails to make me so happy.
Ah, look at the defensive spread here.
Go for Gen.G. Stars all over the place.
D-Turn is playoff for Karan.
Looks like maybe that's where LP is thinking about going.
They cast both matches?
Yeah, Pacific just do one day on, they do two,
and then they get the next day off.
Honestly, probably the better way to do it
if the cast is a fine event.
but they're gonna pit it. 40 seconds remaining. They are now going to just go ahead and cut across the entire opposite side of the map, obviously texture the fastest one to be able to arrive but otherwise it is just Ash there for the moment with a spectre.
They got so much util out of Gen G there.
Why A-Pack teams not KO believers? Because they realize that Yoru is the best agent in the game right now.
to ash now calling it's trying to get the jump somebody down on that rotation but
the car on putting him low on HP has a regen armor 10 seconds of spare but
lock you arriving right as that smoke is ready to bloom finds a person
Oh boys. Okay. Still has to do more.
God, he has to do everything.
Okay.
Hahaha, he has to do the top of his head.
Ah, it's unlucky man. It was a nice try on this.
Please do enter a bonus.
What are you planning to send right now?
Probably just normal comms, switch KO out for Yoru to bonus. People doing that at the end, look right.
Do you think a Senk can be open though?
The comms! Where are my comms at?
I've cleared the TP.
be playing fade over server fade over server yeah honestly fade over server
probably is the truth then you'd have a veto veto might be veto might be really
good on that map rotate from short over towards logs maybe you can reinforce
made pretty fast well next year in the meantime quickly pivoted you need the one
true. Yeah, it would be a cool time for Ascend to come back, just because it should be a
different method. People would play the same comp as well, but I don't think it would be
the best one.
be stopping from being a flawless so what does LP and Zuma do to make it go
this plant as well would be very nice to do wonders for their money but the spike
at the moment still lingering around mid
no peek I'm just trying your face get rotates and then get the plant down on
a still have all this KJ util around the corner though
well the sage comp yes it should be good
well you know take that especially money-wise
the new hobba might be good on the scent unless that the new hobba is made up on every map
They actually made it pretty strong
Even worse China? Nah, not China
And so that's where Gen. G is kind of hit another level here today. They look a lot cleaner
You see new how about you get impeccant comes for sure
That was my boss did so much
He's the only one who really fits the profile. Yeah, I was trying to think I'm like does anybody on Gen. G have a beard
Like solo and HSK don't
No, it would be wrong what if you had a goatee what if we had like an evil texture
So bad. That would be far worse.
I'll see if I can convince him to grow it.
Well, back into the buy, Hunter's Fury, they got the combo here.
Okay.
How is the new Harbour Good?
20 seconds smoke that can have a shield.
And I get it every 30 seconds.
My ult's now legit.
I get info, and info's very hard to find at the moment.
Trust me dudes, the harbor is legit right now, well I say right now whenever the update
comes into play.
Like next week right?
In ranked?
Oh it's all flim ranked, pro player should be really good.
I'm just hearing out that it wasn't some conjunction with that dimensional drift to stand out blind
And ultimately comes up short three in the corner huge iron hill to find the punish
Locked down to 51 still very much. Well, is this a pretty nice unit on this?
It's a lock. Yeah, so 3d3 back. I don't know what else can get worse players trying to get themselves out
Towards safety while the defuse gets started the smoke falling away. No one's facing
No, they'll face it and still go off.
It's that big round though where they could get reset.
up this retake how'd you get harbour if the um you talk about the harbour how is
he getting info it makes a sound no you know before we saw them trying to fight
it makes a sound whatever the little whatever the little aoe stun thing is
it's basically the same it's basically the same as a saturate I guess apart from
it's doesn't slow for as long but it makes a sound but it's so big that
actually clears like a fair amount of positions one round see if they can string
a few more together and then you man people play harbor storm surge mate I
could never call it that the puddle let's call it that puddle puddle sounds good
so I could push it double doors
like the way Gen G's playing this they know they've got them trapped in mid
Don't want to overcommit.
And wow! What a distraction.
If it was intended, it was absolutely brilliant.
A tripwire setup.
He's dead as he tries to go to clear it. What a shot from Cinder as well.
Backing on the right side, Bill of Bars.
They've got their backup option, if you call them back you should at least hear this rotate
is that enough info to call them back, yes it is, and he takes the timings he had him
running very very nice, free sight, he rounds in a row, that's uh, oh.
Nah, it should be fine.
I think they want to try to get a kill and if they got a kill earlier, it's kill trial.
way bro imagine
Very very nice
Actually like to see a time out here
From from solo to talk about yeah, okay, you need to talk about what happened in this last round and what you're doing wrong
so first of all I
Think you're being a little too aggressive there you break or you give up contain there
You've got the entirety of mid surrounded in every position on the map. You've got long be you've got mid be you've got art
You've got long a everybody's got their position held
Some center another because the KJ util has some of that covered for you as well and lock is in the back
He's the one watching waterfall
Um, Ash, thank you so much for the gift. I appreciate that. I think start getting all chaotic. He's so much
It's probably just a little bit of talk about a, hey, you know, make sure you guys are even
when something minor goes down.
Like you went too far here?
Yeah, this is one of those where if he just holds the aggro angle towards A, they probably
win the round.
Your positions.
It's always the overstep.
He's given up little positions like that.
Like he did a lot of here.
We've spoken about that a fair amount before.
We lost a lot.
Some of the ducys they do now he's got a lot better at it.
See how they sure think stuff.
Just winning the rounds by just holding some map control, that's it.
Earlier timeouts compared to what we were seeing on the first map
GEMG not wanting to let this
Really lead
establish themselves slip away
Like legit if he just holds this scrappy last couple miles with that
Try to force record push him off of here. It's versus the way back to you. They saw this
They're good the same once again. They're good the same info ever know
Oh, a whole bunch of alts for it.
It's a little overdrive of texture.
For this moment, it's there behind the screen as LP.
It's boring, all around the world.
He could be on a coach of many in the same team.
Yeah.
We like doing different things, man.
He likes all the boring stuff, which is good,
because I don't like the boring stuff.
He needs to set up another one.
I just got the KJU till for that early warning system as Gen G.
I'll keep this behind the screens. I mean, LP is now, he's calling the team over.
He says, yeah, I've scaled forward the screens. I haven't seen a damn thing.
Yeah.
They're about to go rotating in towards a four-player stack.
Gen G, Wiley just said, well, let's just not make any noise, not show anything.
Did they cancel?
Cops coming through, but ultimately...
Did they cut sound for 20 seconds and re-hit?
One word. In towards this site.
site just the or who doesn't mean much
okay they cut some for 20 seconds and
reheat the problem is once this smoke
goes one of these is going to try and get
info all that drone goes in spots to at
least
we're tall push forward long yet galing up
into the smoke in the final one
up to the brakes mate get out of there you
got your own little bit more as XC does
arrive in around the back
virtual pass going to be sent texture
dead as XC swings out the late by the
relay swinging around the corner and
No, he's going to double that.
He really rushed that.
Oh man, no, it's not a good.
I'm on this.
Dude, I gotta see how he gets a double.
He really just he really just is just like yeah looks good.
Yeah, I gotta see this.
He did great though, as much as I'm giving it about his all, like he wins the round.
Oh, that's nice.
I mean, it's just an agent comfort man, he got a relatively decent aura considering
time we have like a bit more practice would it be way better at it just like this one
yeah they can take a lot of this free space
Xe's just going for it. They got him full. Very nice shots on this. Wow, they get a
lot of gun upgrades. Falling back down to Enika. Yeah, we're in that moment. If one wins the
load by me in from Veral that constantly keeps car on off guard it's
shock darts it's the stun and rate stuff right there that Nova pulse is
beautiful they're dealing with Locky on the back line the gravity well can't
get there in time
Ooh, slick.
Nice, and now look at this.
Gen G's turn.
Try another eco.
Is that meant to do this? Because honestly, it's not too bad.
It's actually not that bad.
You would look here and then it goes back here and if they're actually trying to
get over to water if they're trying to fight it would scan them if they're
close it would scan them I don't know anymore man I don't know what's meant to
be and what's not meant to be actually isn't the worst thing
I don't think we're going to be safe for this time.
It doesn't look like it now.
Ash, does the classic, I believe, kill us for the moment?
How on earth are they shorting?
Would need to be scientifically studied if they could get a third people's position.
Yeah, I don't think it's happening now.
How does the attack side a map?
Yeah, it depends on the comps these days.
I'm not sure these comps are that good at the time.
our barrel
their economy is in a damn helpful spot
yeah kinda curious about the rest of this
kinda curious here
uh... as gen g if you're gonna challenge the long a orb here like heavily again
uh... to try to deny that drift
if you're comfortable just kind of
doing something a little more standard
makia and texra are there
Zinx is angling them. Okay, he's doing art.
Both teams being rather cautious about it and...
I mean, Biorp, I'm all in pretty much just open for the taking.
That's exactly it, yeah.
Just grab that, maybe even find a kill with that operator.
Okay, I like this though. They're keeping one here to shoot the drone,
but they're dodging the drone, so they want to end a...
He's not going to be seeing much of anything.
You played it on the angle it does so.
Zexi now on the floor, LP.
Once again, gonna try to scale...
Get out of this room.
...to this side of the map and see if they can go for the pivot, but no, I mean, actually already has made the call.
Nice anticipation there by Texture, that they try to...
...reclear right off the back of that drone.
TP's out, puts him a world away.
I'll stick in contact against Lockia over at Art.
I'm gonna try to maybe sell this as some A pressure coming through, but for Gen.G at the moment,
There's no real reason the cent players rotating
Yeah, you have to respect it a little bit of texture, but that's it
You're a lot of delay here double star nobody there
Molly
Oh, is the opera coverable?
It is.
It is now, okay.
Yeah, so basically what should be happening is that if they do this and they dodge this,
you should know that they're setting up the op, and then they should call multiple people
back and they push this off and go fast.
He's just like, wait, I need to really see this clearly.
And then suddenly they just give him a kill and that's over.
Oh my god.
So yeah, and then cause this counter-switch and kills him.
Oh, I knew it. I knew it.
He's the greatest.
He is. He really is.
Now he's so entertaining when he's said one.
Let's start the salvos.
Oh, oh my god. Oh, that got scary.
Okay, well, great cover from the Zanks.
Shots down the entirety of this exact...
Both duelists dead, the way in the corner it stares, Cinder, we're cut out for him, can not make it happen, Zinx!
Another three kanks.
He's been pretty good today.
He's going to find another ace.
Yeah, give it to him.
Texture's like, you guys never give me aces, I'm pushing.
It's just a little positioning thing there from zinc. He doesn't get hit by any utilic and just
I couldn't hear what he just said, but he just he just yelled something at him. Texture did. Yeah
I think he's arguing about it feels they're gonna give him the ace. Yeah, I think you say like no, no, no, no, no, he's fine
I couldn't hear through the headphones
He's had a warning shot 30 seconds left
Yeah, it might just be left saving.
way so weapons to be retained going into the final round of a half for Gen.G gonna be locking up
guaranteed lead still have three ultimates to work with here
hand texture the orb which is what we'll do so now we're gonna wait for the overdrive as well
zinc's going on the hunt looking to see if he can in fact earn that ace in the last few seconds
of the round but Kaus says no and texture now needs to save that operator yeah they gotta keep
their own money good.
Oh! Ho ho!
Okay.
Oh god.
Turn it off.
Finish your mouth.
Cut away.
We're, cut the feed.
Honestly, I looked up there, I wasn't expecting to see Karen's name.
I was well at it, well I swear.
He's normally good for this.
One of the things I've really started to notice is, so important who gets the first kill in this match.
Like, I don't know that's kind of basic to say, like, a lot of the rounds swing off of that.
Like when Tex shred and Oppen, he was pushing out and they did the little tripwire thing,
not caught by Cinder, that swung around and then you know what after when texture is able
to get that first stop shot, then it leaves barrel reeling and they go right into the
strengths of Gen G where their strong side is here. You know, nobody's able to kind of
work past that, which is to be expected. That's the way this game goes.
Here's the ultimate question though, granted, Gen G opening kill. I'm sure you will find
that there on the XC, but funneling the kills in the clouds as they did is one way from
the
doing well finding lp walk about some towards the wind just play in isolation
here as as they're all you're all over the map
trying to make individual plays
instead just wanted to
i mean they got the two
because the killer combo of the towards b
He's had this lockdown.
You can't just chill though.
Yet you can't die.
Ooh, he's got some points hanging up far enough.
Better just hold this.
They put the TK, need to check around halls.
But it's a fake now, noise is being made.
Karran is really worried about a forward approach.
We got a server ult for the killjoy.
Our implanted lockdown now can come to an end.
And then Astral, are they just going to send it once he's
server ult's?
They're going to send it to their fate.
I tried to get a little, here it goes, okay.
There's the hunter's fury.
Zinks.
The dimensional trims causing divide now, locking off all but Klaus.
Hasn't been spotted.
The potential position, but Simner just goes straight to four past screens.
Finding one, Klaus now striking.
Just get stunned up.
Find the headshot, lock you up!
Shut down!
Oh, damn, bro, how'd they win the match?
I like this smoked boss flag back into the site, that's just cool.
What a shot from Claude!
No, it was a shot when he was stunned up with.
Yeah, yeah, nothing you can do about that one stun still wins it
gotten to see Veril's Haven so that would be nice because they didn't get to it in their first match
it would have been uh the decider against global e-sports but fortunately for them they go on this
i mean they got a comp to just send it
it said something about a texture doesn't ease i didn't get to read it because they're moving
I'm not even around too much.
Something about a uniform.
Ah, maybe they'll wear a school uniform, even though they're too old for it.
Cipher, usable in ranked, yeah.
It's usable in ranked, it's fun.
Depending on what rank you are.
Like if you're a high rank I wouldn't use any kill trips.
But if you're like diamonds or ascendant below,
Well, I think you won't get away with killtrips, so just use info-trips on me, that's how I would look at it.
If they could get an ace, they would buy a jersey for the people next week.
Oh, I see, I see.
Get the man an ace.
Get some jerseys sold.
What do you want more? A GimG jersey or a GimG victory? I guess it's kind of the question you have to ask yourself if you're those folks down there in the audience.
Yeah, what was the record when he aces like 3 and 19 or something like that?
But pretty abyssal 3 and 9 or something
Don't have that one off the top of my head, but they had it the other day and I don't remember but
This is kind of interesting actually Gen G is like
All over the map trying to figure out what's going on. They should be able to kind of
by process of elimination
Figure out this is
Probably a they'll literally nothing seen or heard by zinks. So
That's so good to go. So we're to stack
Stack over towards
Be with the trip as well
Double cage there as well. I can't imagine the a retake is like that good
Let's see what they got
What's the first pretty weird to play retake against this complex obviously you don't know what the buyers on pistol but
it could be double salvo double mollies and the astrosaft
ok, tap early, salvo goes up fast
how does that struck dart go?
keeping an eye on the texture around the world
Zexi able to find two kills. Astrosack for the second time.
Yeah, it's not a comp. It's not a comp, so you want to play retake against.
Genji perfect in the pistols.
And that wasn't even before Yuto.
The Genji fans here know how important that was. That pistol round, very crucial in this match.
4-0 in the pistols? I mean this one was baffled though for sure.
Oh, I mean that's nice shots, Carl.
The Harrobaki.
Kinda like the Harrobaki by...
utilize it
Normally when you well normally
When you do this I feel like
Pushing somewhere to try force them into the buck is the one
Yep happy to throw that Marshall in there
Karen dies too. That's a okay
the bucky didn't see the light of day
maybe you gotta, instead of just doing what they're doing here, chanceing it
it would be so much better to put the buck in a position where the bucky is like
first of all really good
and then you fake a pressure, you take a pressure with that
and then you force them into the bucky, actually that's the play
instead of gambling and then your buckys may be the worst on the return
well, you've got one
Just screamed in terror.
It was either that or his texture laughing at him.
One of the two.
Hard to tell.
But, 9-5, Gen G.
Looking to just run this one home.
Did the Bucky, did he now just buy like a Jodjin or...
Collagen?
Collagen, my helmet?
He's been able to...
Do what you ask of him, typically.
Get him a sniper.
I'm not sure about the influence he's having on our young players.
I pull in support.
Oh, okay.
That's a...
interesting salvo, just in case there's somebody behind the pillar.
Spot out.
Yeah.
Swing out. Ooh, texture dead.
One slide, and...
that's not too much of a problem.
LP, pull to the close.
Ships back into...
Yeah, he sends out the TP on the other side of it.
Picking out, looking for a little bit more, finds the tag on the lock here, but not the kill.
One for one, still two players nearby and up for Veryl, and then there's Karan.
He's throwing close. Ooh, you did good, man.
Pretty sure he can't see that, but...
What's the timing like for Karan here?
Oh, raw. I mean, the timing looks...
It looks rough, but he's absolutely on them.
If it calls still coming through, Ziggs trying to keep them interested on that beast out of the map, waits until the dart expires.
If they can't get the plant, it might be a similar situation.
Double molly to AstraZak.
Kildraa committed over towards side at the moment though.
The replay holding at Cubby, he put on himself a second
He did incredible though, really
Jump spot, he just packed around the corner
Ah, boys, that's rough though
His Ash is still holding
Not around main
Start setup
And we'll hold it to half here
Because connecting
They need to start getting this held up to half here
They're just trying to half them out
Made them into the open to find the one, Klaus, now
Holding for it the rush coming through
Oh nice shot!
I mean they really messed up to be honest Gen.G there
It's another 3k for the birthday boy
Stops a bonus conversion
He's like nice to you to play properly towards shot
He's so fast! He's so ready for the timing there!
Klaus, no he's looking good man, aim wise!
Tracks it down, oh lock ya!
I see done, oh a dink there through the wall too!
Oh god what is that dude it's a nice shot man, pretty fine.
Yeah I mean the first original bait is fine but then Lakia needs to then tuck in and then
he needs to re-swing off Lakia's contact.
and I do what he's just in a better pause.
They win the rounds.
They win the round but they didn't do it in numbers.
They eco on this one.
but the plant to come through with Gen G, 4v1, very well set to go ahead and hit up the double digits
but it's a good kill from Zexi
So this score, yeah with this score it's a little scary but
The problem with um, I mean the problem is just gonna be the amount of ult so they're gonna be up
Coming in from Locky up
Four-round deficit once again established by Gen G as they hit double digits
Barrel you dislike this one. Yeah, I think with the score and where the oats were I don't know
Sure, this is a good decision
Gen G they weren't using I mean that might be true as well
execute where there's literally no one or nowhere anyone could be it's a good
time up because it's a must win round now after doing this stuff like that
little things that Gen G is doing today that problem is it also gives the coaches
just some direction to help a relatively new IGL and what to do on a big
realm of a lot of odds so they might be right here definitely think Viper
Harbor comes whatever return I think if there's any time it's now man I mean I
i think he would play the harbor with uh...
or smoke past me but
is a solo smoke wall smoke
in control jenji i mean if it isn't for a kid i could see a viper harbour
massive plays from claus here on pearl this would be
pretty handily i'm pretty sure harbors in a really good spot with this uh... update
like a much work i'm more worried that he's too strong now than i am
in terms of on the power
we need you to get another kill blood
you don't want to see the pie
no one gets a birthday pie
except boaster maybe
he gets a lot of pie
you know
it just doesn't ring out well
I, I get what you're going for.
Okay.
Yeah, like we said, so he gave, uh, gave them a timeout and they got a lot of ults on this one.
You're so efficient with the way, I mean, obviously this time it helps you have the, the yoru on.
Oh, and this guy's making sounds, so.
And look at, look at Ash this time.
He's in the window.
Oh, the cutters sound actually completely wrecked him.
Double salvo.
Molly's on the spike, but he takes down Lackie with double salvo and all
Oh god, he had to do it. He had to do it. Oh man, everyone in his team died
This 1v1 really would have changed the rounds
just needed a little bit more patience there as gen g
yeah and lucky is like the vip here man should he be the first one clearing this
i don't think so
lp was kinda looking that way anyway
just get that plank and then i just
great execute all the
yeah i mean the
he wrecked him
honestly it's a very nice round from the yoru
this tp disowned everyone
It's going to be the outlaw this time.
We've won that whole round, like twice really.
Two most important draws.
A little bit of buying here and there, but...
Overdrives at the ready.
Yeah, that's the only player with the full armor too.
So, certainly the charge shall pay for something able for now.
So, that second shot takes his exit.
Like I said, the Gen.G comp is pretty much just a send-it comp.
Not that good at re-clearing stuff.
They've only got the drone for Info, that's it.
As they start rotating back across the TP are the TP for sure caught him off. Yeah, they haven't done too much exploration in towards art
might be the
Opportunity for Gen. G to give that part of the map a little bit of respect
Lot less rotators that Gen. G might be expecting
Yeah
He crashed a set up
4-person hold
Mission for damage relay boat gonna be sent up to the corner of the sideboard
Stunned!
I'm not able to find a kill, but that's about it so far!
Very well squashed here. Is the attack?
There's a barrel maintaining a chokehold on this A site.
30 seconds left.
Barrel may be as well starting to get an idea of how to play against this.
Getting good info at the moment on the sides, because the camera will go your way up early.
They can just stack four towards the other side.
i think uh... jen jen need to force force and show that they can take middle
like
like the aura
it was probably
just done from not getting
barrel baited
and uh... okay lockia's got it all caron's got it all
oh boy
they want to fight this one out
so far it's going well for them
Oh, really? We're popping the oil into this?
Well, they've got an oil out of them.
I think, uh...
I think this is looking insanely rough for Gen.G this half.
We did say both of these pumps can't really attack well.
They're starting to see it.
Yeah, if Texture chills out a little bit there, they've got a crossfire going.
I mean, I don't know, this one is just, you're just not ready for it.
Veryl is just a step ahead, and then you go swing it into an angle, his texture with...
There's too many players there.
And all of a sudden, you know, Gen.G is getting just able to be pieced, picked apart one by
one, versus superior numbers from Veryl in terms of who's got guns in place to do damage.
so you got maybe a little bit of tweaking here what looked like maybe it was gonna be
gen g kind of cruising through all of a sudden herald string and rounds together might be
seeing why they were like yeah yeah he looks a little uncomfortable in there too
leaned into it all this year yet if you look at their history on this map when they were
so t it wasn't great either
but the minor changes seem to be working
I'm getting crazy now
I'm pretty hard to change this
full sheriffs
oh really Mark that's kind of cool
one on the side of Meryl
nearly five and Zexy's one away
what does the game plan look like
to be fast-pushed towards B, perhaps, gambling into the weaker side, but there is still outlaw.
Here comes this geek, and towards the shot, Russian is there as well.
Wrap around into halls.
Well, just gonna be planting zinks behind the pillar.
You gotta try to create some attention here at zinks.
Keep some of those players pulled in that direction.
And it's everybody kind of in spawn, just trading places.
Okay, well then you have to sneak the Outlaw over to A, then we have 4 stack B.
It's completely swapping things around.
Look, wherever the stack ends up, that's where we want this Outlaw.
Okay, just a couple of sheriffs, man.
Should be 10-10, unless something crazy happens.
I will say a big stack though, and they're going to clear all of this,
and they're going to feel strong with their stack,
but they could just walk over towards A.
most team good in the
Absolutely routed Gen.G forward into the stack
Looking to be catastrophic for them
That's right sent in, gets the connection, has them contained now
And as Fastlane goes out and over the top sexy to the final one to turn back with texture
It's only to kill, but just like that, it's gonna pass us through
Here comes the big round though, this one really is the big round
All it takes is a pop of the old
Thoughts on someone in control of the year?
I mean, we spoke about it a bit earlier and it's just whatever these awards.
I can't imagine, didn't he average like a one rating in the year?
But the problem is, if all of the players and all the coaches are voting,
like they don't the only tournament they get to watch is champs so it's like
everyone else has focused so much on their own team that especially just a
one tournament award ceremony
yeah I'll be honest I'm not even sure he was a top five it may be like fourth
It's surely Valin should have been more in America for the whole year.
I don't know, it's all just...it is what it is.
It wasn't bad, I reckon it was like fourth maybe.
No Kiko, I mean Kiko must have come second or something, I think I'd take it.
He played decent the whole year? Yeah, I mean he was around, I don't know the rating for sure, but he was around a 1.5 maybe for the whole year.
But, I mean Kiko, Roxxic Valon, I only put all three of those above.
Who won IGL of the year?
Genji, they're gonna have to fight their way through this one.
Otherwise, Veryl will be gaining the lead.
He'll go out, flash up over the top, texture.
Okay, let's stop talking, man.
Open something.
Right as he dies, Klaus gets the approach from behind, turns back, LP takes him down.
Veryl, up to 11, 5 rounds in a row.
I mean, most improved IGL at the end show.
absolutely insane no more timeouts nope no money you're in a world of hurt
because every time you try to do something barrels got the right read and
like you mentioned they've got options in this round because of the all-stay I'm
available okay here we go these boys on their feet I want to see them pointing
One, two, three, four, five can all be shot by this.
Gen G struggling on attack who would have fought with no scan this year.
I'm just setting up for the flash, and on the corner, next year is still
spreading forward, the weapon's drawn out, Klaus has it out, got down the pink reveal,
getting ready to come through as it is just another beam grinder approach here for Gen G.
He just bats one after the other, feral! Looking kinda easy, looking kinda easy.
Gen G! E-Film was not IGL for the whole year, I mean that's part of my argument mate, I'm not
going to go into it but if i i gl for one game but i'm the best i gl for one
game do you then just win it they're doing is working everybody said that he
was ideal for one game which isn't as an extreme example they need to be in the
reader just i don't know from what i'm hearing i just wouldn't care about the
awards to be honest let's just change it to just america's only awards
catastrophic for genji what are we doing here
It's the champs awards.
It's a cool idea though, but they need to not do it with Valorant.
Because Valorant already does these awards for Americas anyway.
I know the other regions.
Merchant path sent, I'll get Karin, but it could be caught by that one, but Karin lines the headshot, as Xexy gets taken down.
Just don't use Astral. Okay, they don't use Astral, but they're all good.
And now suddenly they have to back away and clear this out. Congratulations! On 2001 kills!
2001!
No, not in this round, but Karin has done wonders as Gen-G threatened and teased us with a potential overtime.
Oh my god, I got to see that from Karin's perspective that first kill
Even the votes of player base and coaches. Yeah, that's why it's so dumb
Trust me. I've been a coach the amount of stuff that you get to watch as a luxury from other regions is not that much at all
You are so focused on your own team
You have nothing to watch the only time you can watch is when your team is out
Which is champs. That's where they're all voting for stuff. It jumps the only form that they watched
I
2000 just so full team doesn't make any sense that now, but I
Mean he's so quickly obtained 1000 kills. It's rookie year. Yeah
the best and brightest
Thrown here to check week
Their sighted board on Maven cinder shot on the text sir
There's hardly any punish to sexy
Good trades man, dude, sexy is
Yeah, and he might be able to hear them
Well
They second-guess themselves for the first time
And it may be the wrong one
Right they've been so good about reading these rotations about reading the tendencies, but finally, maybe
I mean they heard that wire
Yeah
Space has been given over cosmic divide available
the barrel on the retake. L Pete still with the op-and-hand.
We saw all the astros, they're curious about the potential backstab at least for the moment.
Flash to work with, the Cosme divide, it locks off Locky and for now.
I should be setting up to the Nebula, the Pop Flash gonna be sent through, check over towards the
wall. Cool. Yeah, very nice, Ash. Surely good reposition. Incredible reposition.
Oh, he's here so early. Oh, that was some nice play from Matthew. I felt sorry for Ash there
because he did so good that he was like, dude, please, please swing, man. I've done incredible.
Okay, two chances. Both gone.
Senti of the year?
Eve?
Right?
I mean, that would make no sense to me, like this.
Scuba? I mean, Scuba had a good champs though.
That gets from champs, I get it.
Scuba had a crazy good champs.
That makes more sense than control, honestly.
on the side
of the year we know it's not the year now
on the gap
shock heart for this feed zinx just holding weight
if something comes to me out of this one it's locked ya
nice to get some spam damage through
I'm gonna bait it through it's an advantage for zinx in that angle
it's about to go on
Okay, two bang with sinks, profiting and killing, minor damage suffered, finds the opener now, texture with the AWP, a little bit late on the trigger pull, and it's up and over the set, trying to be set!
He just cannot get it on and lock you however he's there!
He's doing pretty good though, he's very calm in it. Nice shot.
Does that Nebula blooms?
3v3 now, sexy.
Dude, how long are they gonna cut sound for?
Oh, did he dodge the recon with his recon gun?
It's the other two, Chichi!
Firmly in the driver's seat.
To have match point in their hands for the first time.
Yeah, really good patience from the Gen.G players.
Waiting this out.
Making sure that that box is clear, because they were going to
re-clear that space and scale forward.
Modern chatter of the year?
I mean, modern of the year.
I was about to get to smoother again.
He's done so much good work.
Chatter of the year?
Who's annoyed me the least?
You stand in that angle.
You don't mind if they walk into the zinkster?
Oh
It's hard one
Yeah, a lot of good candidates for the Sun pretty much nothing until the very end
Exactly
Me I've never typed in chat. I have to do you bro
Jameloids?
Jameloids.
Jameloids wins it.
You know Chalice didn't type anything.
In 2025.
That's my go right there.
Shout out to you.
Can they end it?
Probably not his attack.
should be, all about who wins a tachan.
They cleared it fast, do they think they took so much... kind of come down to how much risk
does Cinder want to take?
Because they could be anywhere here.
his own there right? Oh Cinder they're really good. Took a little bit of a risk taking some
space but not too much then waited for his team.
Oooh!
Oh!
Oooh!
He got one stunned!
That was sick round!
Oooh!
Very, very nice.
Very, very nice. Dude, what a quiet game to do this in overtime. That's an impact right there.
That angle is so favorable for Cinder, it's crazy!
Anyway, when he does get hit by me, you tell skill, but you should at least try that for us!
I'll be at the middle, I'll be at the middle!
Time out.
Okay.
And now, Veryl, very much wanting to do the same, but better!
I mean, it's gonna help them out, time out for the attack.
Time out!
And try to regain control of the map.
Put your mic close, I can't hear you.
He's got a feeling pretty damn good.
I think it is GIT, the round win from this attacker side, should be well poised to close
at 1513.
Yeah.
Uh, Jordan, thank you for sending me.
I mean, so much of this now just feels like it's going to come down to the little things.
It's who's going to make less mistakes.
I've been crediting the way that Barrel's been able to read the map at times, and Gen.G
has had their moments too, but a lot of Gen.G comes down to solid executes and post-plant
protocols and stuff like that
but these last couple of rounds are starting to get a little bit better
I mean, give them some time, they definitely need time
so you need to make sure that you tight the screws
the coach is a proven decent man
that's probably something I'm screaming about if I'm solo there
K-Kom, wait, ages
there's Yampi winning the non-gifter of the year
I mean, we'll never know for sure I take it, right?
coming through, texture this time is on
the right side for the early pressure, but can he hit the shots?
You could also be getting framed.
That's devastating man.
For the time out, it's probably Idle's start.
They lost their main sender in the fast strat that they wanted to do.
situated on the A side of the map.
Oh, off the drone.
Going to the right side.
They're trying to dodge it.
They're going for the swing after.
I don't know if they're going to be able to stay alive for a little bit longer.
Finds a kill.
Locked you.
Thousand kills.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Relax now, boys.
There's a close will fall.
Looks like Jen cheat.
Gonna get the ball back in their court.
Should be over
Position and he does he closes it
One of 14 now to 13 plus one for Gen G
This is again. It's so important for Gen G to get textures operator in places where it can do damage
And he does a time
trying to dodge the drone but he does look a little clony there
to be fair
it's like the ultimate install man
actual decoy
okay get him foe
Switch
Didn't see your for a while so kind of knows
But again, there's no follow-through here. There's not an extra
piece of utility or player from Gen G so
Vero can immediately start putting pressure right behind and the trips is gonna make just confirm what they already kind of know
Yeah, there's the turret there to watch your back, but they're playing to let him plant though
I don't think this is a play. They kind of need to get something before they plant here.
We go for the plant. Salvo. Oh, they used their molly. It's not that much.
Show me Astrosa really.
That was lucky our life.
otherwise this one keeps on going and it just does not have a way to interrupt
this defuse 14 and 14. I mean they definitely had a good chance of winning this one I felt like Genji.
4v5 just about to get the spike down. Then they went to like a weird little salvo push
play with no one spraying off the back of them.
So there's no kills found in the exchange over at Long B, they know that it's completely
abandoned because Ziggs has to be out.
And then they can go right towards the other side of the map, they can go right towards
A. Once you have that secret flowers controlled, it's so hard as the attackers to get a comfortable
plant in.
So the big picture strategy is at least on defense, really good for both teams.
They're starting to get riled up
Cheering on for both sides of the stage as they go back in round after round
Operators situated in mid still from yeah, we're still looking out. We can win the attack side
coming through texture
That's nicer than that. It is sense kind of high, right?
13
finding Zexi to back in with a player damage dropped on it the flank
Pop flash up over the top zinx able to find the two remainders
Yeah, it's a nice shot from a
Actually, I'm just going back and forth get themselves up to match point
Honestly a fast hit here from Genji just made all they've been doing is fast hits
Because trying to be creative in the mid-round has not worked at all
his TP right over to it and texture is like oh you're trying this again this didn't work
on the eco it's not gonna work here either great awareness
no serious mode locked in here for the gmg player
his pull defense side is it comes it's mostly the comps him on he's like please end this
you got no scan initiator here makes it super hard to default or do anything around the map
and then you got a comp that kinda can't really send it
you can take map control but you can't really send it
you got two agents that essentially just take a little bit of a risk
tend to set them up too much in the side itself
like if this was a neon
it would have won for sure
like the self-sufficient entry ideal
ah sorry, a dual list
They're kind of stuck here until someone messes up.
The Joginoti.
They keep getting away with the afterplans stuff though I feel like.
Like again, it should be a harder retake. We've got mollies in the chokes instead of after them.
Ooh, my imagine that would have been two.
Oh yeah, when I'm a bit aggro, I've got Astra Suck.
plan to what their comps meant to do. Using their mollies and chokes, they're using their
Star Wars for X-X because they think they're playing heavy over towards site.
Oh boy, is that a little more fun than it did.
Surely.
That feels like a bad map.
Genji now a 4v5 if they do not want to give up the round that lead ahead of their attacker
side.
The timing on that stealth drone is just going to miss.
Oh, that's not.
Yeah, it's a fine one.
And he's cleared it all as well.
Okay, he's a good call though.
You should probably have one person selling the fake over towards a to really sell it though
Yeah, cuz he's just gonna go back and jump he can call them over
Oh boy
Jumping timing spots one round should have spotted me. Yeah, he has yeah rotates really late store because they're scared of this
stuff's finds the kill
on the lurk working his way through waterfall
yeah the luck should own this
class is backstabbed
absolutely bgng's undoing if they never
know this but for now the fully
focus board here on the site is swinging out lock
you can peek it down after they will find one sexy
they're on the opposite side
class getting closer and closer
the job's theme music playing
as he's striking
okay there it is there's the attack round
Just don't mess up on the fence.
Yeah, Gen.G commits a lot of their forces to the other side of the map, they've already
lost the op.
Well, Karin got a kill, he doesn't see anything else for quite a while, just a little bit
of a mid-round pause and do a shift back in the other direction, so mid-space, take
it by Klaus and that's huge feel like that should be it that should be the
moment here if you're Barrel
keep going ask control over a main but look at the stack as well as the push
coming out from LP he stormed his way up towards club clone there pretty damn
I'm confident that there's no one on that side of the map, so now he's gonna be making his way back over towards there and he's setting up for the gate crash.
There he's the lord of Utah for this.
Not necessarily pulling you to the trap quite just yet, but back away.
I don't know, gotta keep some attention over here as Gen G.
I want to see Dinks make some noise, but he's just not.
Okay, if he's hiding from the drone, he should be calling his team back.
It feels like that's one of the moments you need to step out, clear the drone, make your presence shown.
Exactly.
Yeah, he's played it completely wrong unless they're going back.
over towards B and all of them have been deadly on the map thus far this is cooked unless okay
okay yeah i was just about to say you better pull back when do they take uh do they try and take
any space and when do they reclure this wait where's spike going oh no no no oh wait what is this
no no no they didn't make any sound over towards A why do they not think there's gonna be like three
here. Where's my spike going along? 20 seconds? Now where are you going mate? You don't have
time to plon.
They're giving right back. There's 15 seconds! What are you doing this all the time?!
Oh god, we're running to the neon!
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
They pass it over to...
Texture doing his damn this!
No!
Host and Pat trying to break the damn issue! Barely got a second!
Oh my god!
I cannot believe!
They got this bike in play!
But can they win the round?
Sink says yes!
Finds another!
Sexy!
Now dead!
The actual relay race.
I mean, now they're playing the comp normally, and we have the plan.
The time on this bike plant started to get away from them coming through ash finds the
publisher grab well immediately invested in Zuna a 1v2 with time not on his side Genji
I don't know
I can't believe they got away with this actually did incredible though
No right whatsoever
Actually really really smart, handed across the baton
the map continues I mean they just knew they had an extra second or two if they
passed the spike over the texture right in the middle of the map as it worked
I for a second I was like oh no you can't you can't get there that fast and
I'm like oh wait neon yes you can get there that fast just barely well they
took as it is why does this keep happening on Paul they're gonna have to
do it again yes and you know again yeah so back on to the defense back with an
operator the new race now the new race is funny man
oh boy look at all this mid presence texture I kind of lost the round out of
it by picking this so he's not picking deep that's for sure that contact from
full pass and retake a middle
instant reaction
oh that stun saved him
he's done really good to hold the line the whole time though
map LP at the same time though zone operator in hand forward with the turret
Giving it away
Karan hasn't tucked in behind this box like this
This is kind of one of the first time we're seeing that over the general risky jiggle peak
Heard the reposition from Karan and the fishing shots towards haul
Three-person hold is pretty strong man
They're going to palm a smoke up it feels like.
They gone made this out surely.
Oh wait.
Oh my god bro.
Look at the rounds, the attacks are winning.
Oh, 2 HP.
2 HP, 16 HP, not one of them. Yeah, he knows it, he has to move forwards.
Oh my god, he's round.
The players, essentially one bullet wins it, whoever hits first.
This is just madness, but it's a really good hold from Gen.G for the most part, even though
Ferald is a nice job of breaking through on the back of Xexi, making some great plays,
great individual effort.
The texture arrives on the scene.
He gave him the fight.
This Cypher gave him the five and they could have played the crossfire. It's pretty rough, man.
Oh, it's a good sun.
Oh, look at my shooter range first.
Good news is, they can reclear over towards B, though.
At least for now.
Now they're in a silent shift.
They're in the same thing when they had the convincing round.
There hasn't been any reaction out of arrow.
They were a little bit more quiet about it as they were leaving this time though.
Do you get more from Zinx to try to sell this out of the map?
I need not need it.
How long did it take for Zuna to re-clear over towards A?
That's the real question.
Did he wait for the pressure fast?
Yeah, he does.
He waits for some kind of pressure then he re-clear.
I don't think this time is playing out into the open.
Tron's getting shot this time, so it should keep people interested.
And then you know there's only two here, Yorufas rotate, we'll get there eventually.
Oh nice shot bro.
Oh mate, look at the shots they're hitting!
Oh, what a round.
Sinder with a 4k, Blalist from Barrel, 17-17!
I just saw a couple fans just absolutely lose their marbles.
I mean, yeah, look at the rounds, though.
I don't know, when standing up, slamming the guardrail in front of him, screaming.
In support of Barrel.
I think I might know who that fan is.
I think it might be that manager.
Yeah, it might be.
Fish down his collar, you take it down!
I'm scaling forward, able to find the one-but-ash now.
Finding attack as well, 6.
You can drop down.
All the barbed-the-attack rounds, and this should be one.
TP exit from Ziggs.
Got out, and now a 3v3.
You can be actually quite late until they plant.
My shielding brought forward.
The texture now.
Dialed in on the angle to try to put a spike on the ground.
Oh no.
Take smoke.
Why is the nebula-
Oh, great shot, bro.
So fast on the shot!
Peaks in for a little bit more, but still not able to find the other kill, taking his head off.
I missed the jump. They missed the jump so you can catch him.
Very, very nice. Another attack round.
again back into the lead as it is just absolute insanity they just some really
nice things do barrel they've got a good read on tetris offing tendencies but
this right here yeah doubling up absolutely right so the dart huge but
watch this they just immediately crouch and hold the angle because they expect
to repeat it he's not great at dealing with that a lot of players would be but
really got a good idea of his tendencies they've shut him down a couple times that
way here we go again
Genji need to pull out another rare attack side win
yeah they have nothing convincing
Usually it's gonna be the cyber that is all pass and stack once again
It's been LP got to use that drone so early
Still have salvos to try to clear some of these angles fuck yeah silently walking across over towards default
We thought about it. We'll hop it over the top and sexy nearly death. He plans his feet, but soon
I'm pushing forward gonna find one sexy firing back finds lock you up the spike now in play
3v3 texture rewrapping around over towards main
Wow, dude, no, no, no, okay walking in towards him tucks back around as the nebula falls Klaus
Pop center an unexpected angle now noted the ground will goes out to delay
You go peek the sign across texture detection needs some help surely someone could be close to
Oh
They winning it around the world from Karen secures it we keep on going
What's the record again, I forget the records up there we're getting close. I know maybe in Pacific. I'm not sure. Oh
my goodness
The saturate there. They're just not a lot. They can do initially this time Jen
I think if I, um, if the whole, I guess they don't want the jewels to have it.
This feels so weird every single time I'm watching, I'm watching Laki have double salvo
or like one salvo and have to plant the whole thing.
But it's like who else is meant to have it I guess.
Because these two are fearlessly sending it.
It could be six! Yeah, we only need a couple more rounds.
What could happen the way this is going?
It's utterly ridiculous.
Salvo sent.
Stops the drone there from Zuna.
Again, this art...
space is going to be so important that Lakiya plays his life.
Okay, one for one.
Spike recovered.
But they don't clear the turret.
So you can still kind of put some pressure at other parts of the map
Take a little bit extra space here as GenG. They've done just that
Dude not doing anything to the turret really makes it look like a bee with fake pressure. Okay
Dude this turret might win them the rounds
One as I come back this is gonna end up towards art maybe I was kind of hoping barrel might show some presence at the turret and then
for a quick hit somewhere else that's huge just gonna keep they're just gonna
problem is at 40 seconds when you jump peak over towards B and see nothing you
know it's gonna be a right now middle has been open for a while so and they've
been liking a lot they're a little scared of behind as well
Zynx is on her island.
Oh, he just caught him.
Oh my god.
No.
There's no way! He has the amounts of plant here!
Oh Texture! He did so good on end!
And then what happened here?
He picked up the gun and then still went for the classic.
Oh I missed his shot at the end.
that might be the one texture at a moment I think that feels like the one
surely he's feeling it now it's a 1v2 and gets the Odin out right as he was
planting now Zuna with the Odin LP with a just a judge back here on his own on B
he was doing this judge Odin really went in towards that B side they went into the
gamble stack that barrel are doing once again did they keep doing four ones I
can't believe that we've never seen it like a proper afterplow with this
comp though maybe one round you saw it
okay it's gonna find the trip they've seen the setup earlier
they saw the exact setup earlier
where those coaches are given another opportunity to call timeout
these players these ijls
these rookies
they are all very much on their own
clear the camera
once again
doesn't break the triple
and zodan
what a hero man look at him go
It's a part to close the swing around the other side of the side, but suddenly he starts falling to the way side of the ash.
It'll be taken down in cinder, far to the one.
Charge however, out, that's right down there, 2018!
Haha, they fought that hard, they're still gonna play on another map.
And it is not done yet, we kill, to return his final map!
Well that was unbelievable.
It was.
He had 1 minute 25 on that.
It's only for both sides.
But Barrel just a little bit extra in the tank.
the young guns the ascension winners challenging taking us well men sorry one
hour and Gen G less scratching their heads a lot of opportunities to close out
this series to close out that map yeah so life alive but instead it's barrel
does that themselves and after running a bunch a bunch on their defender side in
role what looked like this was surely gen g's win
i attend to sick to get g's favor into an 1820 loss at gen g's expense haven now
all right we get haven next and gen g looked pretty rough at haven and we
haven't seen barrel and maybe i have no idea what to expect on haven
hell if i know wait who's good for them low in um along for the ride now
Just some absolutely bonkers moments, Karan's doing some stuff, has a bunch of stuff, LP had some rounds, Lousen Zunar, get Yoru I think.
Exactly what you need them to be, exactly who you expect them to be for Verrill.
There's two superstars who are able to win you rounds that you shouldn't. Zinx had a great nap.
A lot of back and forth.
Oh boy. Oh boy indeed. Well, nothing else it is damn entertaining. But we need a breather. We're going to take a rest. We'll go ahead and pass things back over to the analyst desk.
Oh my god. Oh my god.
It barely fits on the bottom board.
What is that? We can't see anything anymore. What is that? What just happened?
My goodness. That is one of the best maps of Valorant I have seen. I was losing my mind up here.
I'm actually dizzy right now. I'm actually dizzy with how many rounds we went back and forth. This was
insane from barrel
Zuna clutch where they can't stop them from planting in time
They're gonna the Gen G team have to find a way to mentally reset. This is one of the biggest mental booms
I've probably ever seen of all time ever moving forward into the next map. It's absolutely cataclysmic
I mean, 22 first blitz, can't wait.
Yeah, it's rough.
A lot of them come at the hands of Ziggs.
He's having a phenomenal series for himself,
but look, Genji just couldn't get it done.
That doesn't come down to strats or composure or this
or that, that really just comes down to who's making big plays
in those overtime rounds.
Yeah, throw everything else about Pearl out the window.
That was just one of those all-time great maps
where it was just playmakers.
It just came down to people making plays.
Big shout out to Cinder, who really stepped it up
towards the end of that map, he had a rough start,
but he actually started to have some much better impact.
Oh my God, that was like just individual moment,
highlight after highlight.
I feel like I'm looking for like a,
do we have water here?
I feel like I need to breathe.
Well, that's like, this is the entertainment factor
that Farrell brings to Pacific that we've been waiting for.
Like this is the kind of crazy stuff
that they were doing down there in Tier 2 and in Ascension.
So it's great to see them actually
showcase a little bit of that.
Oh yes, and the crowd is so high.
You actually see the six man on both sides
really, really come alive here.
The crowd is insane.
You can probably hear them, you know,
screaming over the mics of the players and everything,
but oh my God, we have a map three.
That didn't feel like, I almost forgot we have a map,
we have a map three.
I was gonna say like, oh, okay,
congratulations, Barrel, I guess, but no,
we have a map three, so we're gonna take a short break
because we all need this little bit of a breather.
And when we come back, we're gonna see which team
is actually eliminated from this series.
Is it going to be Varyl or Gem G?
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We had to take a little bit of a breather there because if you saw what happened in
the previous map, that felt like an entire series.
We just saw Varel make an incredible comeback, multiple overtimes, multiple clutches all
around, and of course amazing plays from our players.
The crowd is hyped, we are hyped, and we are going into a math 3, can you believe it?
Let's go, I mean everyone else wanted me taking a break.
I was doing cartwheels around our area, I am buzzing!
That was actually true, you nearly knocked over all of our monitors!
Almost got fired, but it's all good.
Barrel, that's the kind of form we want to see, that's the individuals we want to see.
Everybody coming alive, they get their math bigger pearl in our amazing fashion, but they're still on left.
We have to figure out Haven, Jepilski.
Yeah, I guess they just had to be pushed to the brink to finally show up here in Pacific, a little bit stronger.
Haven's an interesting one. In the off-season, they did play Gen.G, played their own comp, and they smashed them.
They 13-3'd them in the Super League on this match, so they are going to be feeling very confident.
And after they smashed Gen.G that hard, Gen.G said,
I think that comp looks pretty good. We might play that comp, actually.
And then they lost to T1 with it, so that was rough.
But that was a winnable game.
I mean, I don't know if you guys remember that T1 game, it was 9-9,
and then they ran into the brick wall that was Meteor and Munchkin right at the end of the game,
but they showed some good stuff.
Ziggs was pretty good on that map.
Karol was great on the Cypher on that map.
They just got a couple little things they got to tweak up a little bit more,
and I'm sure it'll be good to map.
If we get a hero comp at the end of the day, there'll be changes.
Maybe. I think both things pushed each other to their limits here,
And we know that Gen G when their backs are against the wall, that's when the Tiger Nation comes crawling out, but I'm wondering for Varel, they've been pushed, I think this is the hardest match that they've ever had to fight.
Yeah, and again, they don't have to try very hard in this situation, they just rocked up and rolled everyone.
No, they were that star student in ascension, right? But I'm wondering, did they run out of steam, did that push them too hard? Can they make this comeback? Are they, you know, running on fumes right now or will they fizzle out?
I think it's the other way. I think those Vowel kids are gonna be hyped up. They were standing up giving it
I bet they've all just had like three red balls
And they're gonna have the best map of their life
I worry more for Gen G you have to go backstage and then you have to explain to solo why you lost like 15 over time
Oh my gosh, I think it's their mental that might be a problem here coming back after those close over time is
So so hard because you can't stop thinking about what if I would have done this one thing
We'd be on the bus back home right now, but they're not they're here
They're having to find it out and right now they're one buck away from elimination in last place of kickoff
Let's see what kind of comps we're gonna get from these two teams here. Genji versus Varel should be a mirror
Unless we're gonna get some changes and indeed it will be a mirror Varel P. Genji playing the old Viper comp
13-3 on this in the offseason. They'll start off on the attacking side
But Genji, I mean Ziggs was really on one against T1 on this map last time.
Yeah, he's definitely one to watch out for.
From Barrel, I kind of love that they're sticking with this.
Everybody's warmed up on these asians.
This is pretty much what they were playing on Pearl, apart from Oma for Astra.
I mean, okay, he didn't look as exactly like Oma, I mean, I just said he had many red balls.
You know, maybe he's waiting for it all to sink in, right?
He's visualizing the W.
He's visualizing Rock Texture in tears.
That is absolutely right and that is a big possibility because there's this map number three who takes it
This is gonna be barrel is it gonna be a gen g one last time back here castors papers in an Achille us
Map three to settle it all barrel the rookie ascended squad
fighting tooth and nail through overtime after overtime
Have taken the day even to finish us off dude
Gen G coming 11th to 12th is not a great sign.
What do we have?
Go back to the chat and they just play him solo or they go and double?
Or they both go double?
Sure.
I mean, that's true, Saint. I'll give you that.
Wait. Guys? Guys?
He tries this with an Odin all the time, and I'm not even joking.
He gives about 15 damage off every time he tries this with an Odin.
He's just bought a sheriff? Has he double-dinked him?
He legit uses Odin and gets max 30, 15 to 30 damage. He buys a sheriff and a pistol and he double-dink someone.
We always talk about more sheriff's more wins on the pistol, but that is...
Oh, they got loose?
Nah, surely they don't lose this.
They still don't want a pistol, right?
Yeah, dude, I gotta see this.
Double-dink.
or five and zero. Yep. Oh my God. Yeah.
He just had me set up through sewers.
So I'm made. That's nuts.
And what are you going to do?
That's crazy.
Again, he tries this with the Odin all the time.
He never gets anything, but he's just double popped him.
Just great patience.
Imagine starting the round like this.
Really waiting.
He'd be so pissed.
Fully committed.
Oh, dude, he's bored.
That's the window position that he had taken.
It's a hero bucky with heavy armor on the attack.
Push out a little bit. Oh my God.
Oh my god, nice shot.
Well done, a shot with the Sheriff.
Long done.
That's going to be recoverable here now.
Let's not be unable to find two.
I'll ping a little bit over Zalas,
bounding forward like that.
Guardian does get scooped up by Suna.
They can recover that.
Casualty is still affordable for Gen G.
They pinged it.
OK.
Texture, finding Klaus.
Well, drops down out of heaven,
changing up the angle waiting for the peak.
Xe only approached from Sewers and no nearly late timing there, but
Xe's a little bit faster on the draw.
To Gordon after they buy Nexron with this.
He's up to kill, Xe.
Slowly creeping back over towards Lobby.
Pitch is still up.
Just opting to keep the Marshall.
I was using a one-tap body shot, Lockia slings on the back of his ass.
Come on though, how is this possible?
Done dirty, Lockia will find it.
Ok, big baron. I will just add this in, it's 5 and 0 on the pistols man.
Like the fact that baron actually got this to overtime by winning the pistol is pretty impressive.
Nice shot.
I mean, Lockia really having a great start to this map.
Oh, no, absolutely.
He's trying right now.
That's exactly what the doctor ordered for Genji, and they want to come out here and
take care of business on map three after he's crushing overtime loss on Pearl.
Hey, isn't there a guy down there?
Just a hair off from spotting him.
Oh, Armor Baki.
Oh, he did great to get one, and he saw two extra.
They can speed up a few if they want.
The problem is the person that needs to speed up is the guy with the bucky.
Okay, a bucky, man.
Age pop, pushes up.
Stuck away into the cubby, far too much damage.
Thinks not too much on the trade back suffered.
Is it Cinder now?
Is it Ford here to be?
It'd be a very bad time for things to take a break.
No one's close enough to hear that.
Oh wait, I'm seeing pink. Well, yeah, I guess he saw it on short or someone else had it
I thought they were too far away
Everyone else needs to chill that the I'm in play
Oh my
Back into the shot
chaos
here on the scenes is
might just be a hp death and
said no clowns has been a monster so far here today
watch out for that curl, the swoop in, looking for the reset, caron able to find him with the spectre
yeah, i'm situated, just sweating it out
yeah hp death
They got it, I mean they got a couple of shots in there.
We'll send back down to Anika.
You know, Gen.G...
Valkyrie? Yeah, probably.
When was the last time you played Val?
Probably coming up to a year now.
through the door gap
You go farmer. Yeah
Why five stack takes about 30 minutes to find the game rather just go close here
Shook off and ranked is just essentially gambling with
If my teammates are mentally stable or not
Sometimes out they're normally not
Just not fun here
shots
Down towards 6 HP push out do his demise
Ziggs with the covering crossfire.
Genji looking like this should be a flawless 4-0 start for them.
As Lockia out in the mid, able to intercept one.
Shot from Zuna.
Fun Lockia, but he's got his work cut out for him now.
Weapon unable to be obtained, just that Sheriff in hand.
Shorty around the corner for Ziggs, gets himself a 3k.
Just really solid sturdy stuff.
getting the extra player where they need to to make sure that textures covered
over on C everybody just doing their job where they need to do it you watch the
vault of the palm up it's pretty fun
tons of timing on this so crucial that just gives tons of time here for lock
yet it is slowly but surely work his way up through and toward the packers spot
Timeout on this.
Should peek.
We hit rage in ages ago.
I'm probably only a more 3 max now I would say these days.
Take my pride.
We don't play.
Only? Yeah, I don't think I could get rage in anymore.
I
Yeah
At times seems like they're away. I'd be a mortal
If I was a mortal like two years ago a year ago, and I only plays like they're like 30 hours in a year
I'd be fine man. I might be that veteran. It would maybe take me
Two seasons to this day. How long a season arena new to all this and in two months, maybe three months
Turn with the prime issue the seven months. Thank you
and even though it might have pissed him off to be frank that the monsters season yeah
might take me two seasons and I would imagine I just wouldn't do it though it's not fun
here again I just rather play see us
off the rip lock yeah he is gonna find Klaus
I don't pump to get some damage in no this is that the texture intercepting LP on the
approach through garage back away from sexy having to abandon his attack into the B site
got no more smokes to help right now fight your way out it's gonna noted there
garage you set up texture finding a jumping across the gap
send it now gone thrown out needing to try to run down this silver but quick
cancel yeah it's looking kind of convincing right now and sexy save
money on this one. We can at least op next round but he doesn't have the backup of his
teammates having guns this round. Yes, I mean in CS you just get faster queues man. In CS
it's just two minutes to get a five stack. It's literally a temp for the time.
They can throw at it to stop it all the smokes already used to try to scale their way forward towards B
I do think um, I do think Valorant could benefit from like a 5v5 face it kind of I
Maybe not for like solo queue, but I think
Another 5v5 stuff it doesn't seem very
Maybe lower rank I don't know
Did he kind of overheat the lower
Pray and pray here but plows flushes him out a f***ing shot
Just a bit of shoulder showing
It sure brings it back into a 2v2
That's unlucky man, it's a nice tag of the drone
However, the feet split, the knives out
Do the take it down, spot up, dashes forward through the smoke
Big right click, there we go, all that. Very, very nice.
Oh, Baroneed did this win.
What 5 stacks Q are you talking about? I mean, we were...
We were like a multiple of 2, and it would take like 20 to 25 minutes.
Dude, one time we had like 42 minutes.
I think you should just take pauses Gen G, but I could have played a whole CS game in that time.
They're going to be on a weaker buy and I think that's giving opportunities over to Veral where you don't need to give them.
But the good news is this guy's in the server.
He's Mr. Reliable on top of being Mr. 4K sometimes.
Get Lockia though, top of the charts right now.
I mean those first two haven't set him up really nicely.
Yeah.
Oh, but it's just still loosable still loosable
Oh
Why do they keep playing these rounds I guess
Keeps getting to like a 1v2 and I just see the saw guard in the open
a bunch of bodies in an all-time yeah Gen.G win this one they shut all this down
Gen.G win this they'll have no money at all
man Klausen is doing a hard job, so clean man
people don't start five second violent yeah yeah I mean that's just an issue
though surely be thrown a little shade everyone again everyone else's mentor is
just in the bin bro. Why would I not want to fight stack?
Dude, Lachis. Lachis is farming right now.
more
Whoa, man, he's in the bin, man.
One, two, three, four, can't buy in this.
Yeah, they're in so much trouble.
Problem with fire stacking is you always get boosters.
I mean, that's what I mean, man.
Like, surely just to face it stops all of this.
A little bit of a freebie in an OOPS even if he's in there.
Yeah.
Oh, the Registrar not reading how deep Locky had been able to pursue forward into the site there.
Yeah, you might have thought he took a step back, waited for the jet maybe.
I was kind of hoping for the Locky ace. Not gonna lie.
I would have to do one hell of a flick for him, but one hell of a shot for Zexi.
Up down, he's going to be able to scale on the sewers to try to recover this.
Ash, watching.
Now, hop in hand.
Ash has to give him a big hand.
Actually, cycles forward a second slow, locking off that POV.
But now, in car, I'm just getting a little bit with it.
He's really feeling it bro. He's doing some mad plays.
Every time I watch him he's going for some mad plays and he's doing so much.
It's the money a little better to
To survive with guns there's a lot of chatter
I mean a great shot to start this one off
you know every moment that
Barrel is getting their charge now. They got some deadly sheriff. They're really doing trash talking. They're doing whatever they can
They're hitting some damn good sheriff shots to boot
Awesome down to an Epo, so how close on these rounds you got?
I guess this is why they didn't want the op, how long's we about to gun on this?
What in the movement was that? That was sick.
CS is easier than Valorant. CS is harder to aim in. Valorant's like steeper learning curve.
So far
He's paying for texture however finding one the yard just go for it
Yeah, I didn't love it man even his movement like didn't feel good getting out of that. He's just so easy to shoot
Now you just spent so much time all of Genji is here
Is there looking to maybe lock up a 9 3 half?
I mean it's one of those rounds where it's so important to have it long a control.
Gen.G commits a little bit extra.
They're able to profit off the back of it.
Find that big first kill.
You know one of the responses can be to just like we've seen already from Barrow is to
just start going C a bunch to try to work the map that way and that's what that's what
Gen.G thinks.
They think okay long a didn't work sometimes you can just rush C puts a pressure onto that
cipher that sent no player
spot oh yeah here we go
oh he's so unlucky to not get dosed
he had to live a bit of a freebie
oh that's 1-0 out of them
spot
1-1
blown out zinx
scaling forward taking this base here in garage
close what a shot!
what a shot bro
He's just in and out, a thief in the night.
And he hit the cage, a little slick at the info.
Zinx, however, held the paint, and he'll find Zidaz X now going to be taken down to the dimensional drift,
gets called in, player advantage here for Gen.G.
The spot on the cinder, but Klaus breaks things open after Raj sends out the dear old theft.
All info gained, swinging, challenging the angle.
Zinx has to back away, as the paranoia flies, but that's all the crossfire, finding one, and Klaus is even more damaged.
position from center wise
to kill and bring into that 2v2 but now
the 1v2 needing to clutch it out
I had the option to play with me
I was just not going to think Ash is here
not a chance
ooh
did her again
is waiting three two one swings kills round gone nine to three so much hardly
and Barrel need to win their fast pistol and it hasn't been going great for them this was
really really clean stuff from Gen G the best we've seen from him today
just winning a lot opening battles had some great ideas on how to put pressure at the map
Especially on long a to make it really nice. I
Come into the yori pushing door after getting hit by the cage gets a kill though
I mean you can see both teams are really dialed in now
It seemed to have drained any of the energy
level of
Mechanics at the very least are still quite strong
But a genji just had a much better read on that map how to control it a few rounds here and there that barrel is able to get
to go over on the seaside to put the pressure on the Sentinel but at the end of the day
I was even anticipated in the last round by Gen G. So a lot of Ziggs fans out there. Quite
a few signs. Great to see. Yeah. He's played pretty darn well today. But so is Lockia. Wow!
Lockia? No yeah, Lockia's going insane. Lockia Valorant is having none. Like a map.
Yes, that is tremendous stuff.
Here's my question, do you have,
do you do a reverse wall bang from a lobby
through to connector?
You're gonna kill like that at the start of the round.
Okay, Mike.
Do you have that set up with a sheriff?
Why not?
I say go for it, but it doesn't look like it,
maybe on the map, we'll see.
I would love to see it, it looks like a pretty easy G just won without any of their players
going positive.
What the?
They won a map without any of the players going positive?
Or do they win the best of three and just got stomped on one map?
the best of three? Oh they must have got so stomped among them. Fast pistol man! They've
worked it out by the sheriffs. Four sheriffs. Dude we should do a counter at the moment
man. This year is for sure the year of the smet go sheriffs. We said in 2025 more sheriffs,
more wins. Then everyone forgot about it. Now everyone's buying sheriffs again. They're
a win.
Con's like, uh, guys?
What happened?
I must wait a moment.
Could someone explain that to me, please?
Would that be...
Thanks, probably best to just, uh, move on if you're changing?
Yeah.
So...
Con's waiting to see if they go on a...
kind of a deep explore, but...
they're more than happy to play back.
I think they're more than happy to let him live.
It was wrong info, map 3 wasn't even counted.
Ah, come on, Saint.
You don't care.
You're better than that.
It's a boba with a tier 1, free tier 19 months.
They're not going to get plant money.
And if you want to get any money at all, you're going to have to die.
So...
30 seconds left.
We'll start more counting.
It's a boba with people just having their own read on the meta.
Some are better than others.
It always happens at the beginning of the year, and then people copy everyone else.
swing angle open as a matter LP has the shot flawless pistol a solid one to pick up here for
veril as they look to start their run back right here right now just everybody falls
got like melted them gorgeous absolutely gorgeous stop it's like that 100 thieves like
My player pyramid attempt I remember that yeah, I'm high low and it actually worked. Yeah, that's the pistol on the board
Yeah, the pyramid of thieves didn't go well the tower of thieves is what this is an insanely low by a long time ago
Marshall judge double sheriff bulldog is the older than that 2002 2001. I know worried for them
Do you hear the words that you're saying you think 2000?
2020
I remember casting that I was 11. Yeah
I mean I was in high school. You were 27. I was in high school.
You were 27. Is that what you're guessing?
Alright, it has been a day.
It has been a day. Just Genji
scrooping up towards B. A lone sniper. See what he can do.
He can and slides right over the shoulder of Zinx.
Genji doesn't like that.
Actually doesn't like that especially
Not to be denied is bound to flesh. We'll go ahead
If you can kill Klaus here
There's a chance we'll have spotted him there. We're gonna set up the cage to try to get into the end
He took it?
Thanks
In and around the back go ahead with the max tab through
And now just TP's right back over into the site
smooth criminal
They've got an Omen flash. Still got a drone.
Sharp. Got quite a lot.
There's the drone.
What the hell's going on with that sight?
I mean they keep all the guns. Keep their main guns.
Encouraging signs if you're a Gen G Fando in that round in terms of the way they work to the map.
the way they're able to at least put some pressure on to
their opponents
nice TP set up there
sleeps
Klaus none the wider
They are still in it their their vibes are still there. Yeah, and they fall into this give up just yet
Big round, big investment.
It does the AWP get over towards Short, and then bait. Oh, this might work insanely well.
Weird little...
Okay, now it makes a lot more sense.
I only saw Ash, I don't think they saw Ziggs.
D on the jiggle.
As you don't see anyone, it's nuts timing.
Slink right through on a timing.
Lucky, lucky.
He gets taken down, that's spiked down.
The operator has been repositioned around towards B, so they get the exact going.
They're gonna kick themselves here.
Eventually.
Ken?
once again it feels like i'll be shitting all over the place
on this approach
we can't now coming through
now what?
being brought around to bear by zexie
thirty seconds left
sends out the shot
just gonna be the clone
can he get into the smoke because gun shots he doesn't know
the back, current has the flank
huge
yeah he might wanna be saving this up mate
the judge could have absolutely done a immense amount of damage
start out operator, spotted in heaven
claus now trying to charge forward
get this is a total cybercage but
how do you get a save?
the counter spamming across towards that connector is able to find Zexi's head
and that is looking like the call to save Cinder still quite close and
all along the punishment
need to keep that up
he will fall
I mean they're still okay if they can both save but
the money for Gen G is not super great but
you can guarantee that they don't pick up the operator it's like they're gonna be worth it
that you're finding one
spotting out Klaus goes for the fight
will fall to the wayside so
that at least keeps the opposite it's still
not allowed for a bonus conversion to come through
oh my goodness it is a little bit closer than you'd like at the end
in terms of a few extra guns over for Gen G I feel like maybe
maybe over commit to this a little but man you want to keep that up out of their hands so bad
Nice. Pretty weak.
You know, while they recover the Operator, it's the only thing they can carry forward.
Pretty much a full buy aside from the two Regen armors here for Gen G.
I don't know who's out on this one, so they'll be in good spots.
Clip through the corner.
A HP.
He's gonna take it down, Tuna.
See what happened there as well.
Picks apart the Yordle there in Manus.
Jesus, they got wrecked there.
It is catastrophic start to this round for Gen G.
He's on the Warbanks right now.
behind them lock him none the wiser spiked down taken down and a barrel we're gonna see a minute
wall is around minute 10 save maybe try to run this back but yeah gap once more it's their turn
to get some long a control i mean you're just kind of looking for some miracle out of ash but
so weak
surely there's not
still doable off the show this round
smoke there just to let him know
you're probably in the vicinity
still a lot of time but
has to be a waiting game
and Gen G to start sea spamming
nice sea spam comp
Well, it'll be a little bit nicer about the bifurm.
One for one, right now.
Oh, now it's not well.
Realistically, Meryl can't really afford this either.
Yeah, they really can't afford to do that.
So, yeah, they just have to pack away. Hold on to the two remaining weapons.
Gen. G, we should be all the scraped together.
I buy for the most part, lucky that the one is hurting the most.
We're back to 10-6, Gen. G. in the lead.
Last time we saw that, we went for a ride.
Yeah, and it absolutely can happen once again.
Well, this is the big round.
Let's do a money count.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three.
Honestly, even this one we have to buy properly.
I mean, if anyone loses this...
Haha, recon on to the clones and the cloning.
You can find anything there with a random spray, but
Spike gets planted all the same
Lock you don't look over here and see that the main better you tell
The winds you are retake over towards B is not here and I already used double smokes
Oh, I think it was just a late nevermind now has it online
So invested it
You know the wrong way for my mystery
I smoked window brah
Lock off lock you in window needs a drop down for the final time
Good deal.
Yeah, imagine this. Imagine the smoke was on the spike itself and this guy couldn't just instantly kill the person defusing.
Ooh. Yeah, no time and just another retake where people don't know what they're doing with smokes.
Smoke on the spike there probably wins the round.
11 to 6. Yeah, just take a great adjustment here from Gen G round to round. Couldn't win the long
A fight. Praise our commoners. You know that probably he was gonna be a little bit of extra
still from Barrel. It wasn't as many players being thrown into it as the round before, but
you might have some space open somewhere else. So try something a little bit faster than normal.
This was a pretty quick hit. It wasn't a rush, but definitely kind of we're thinking B the whole
way and we're W King in that direction.
Petra reassuring him.
There's no time.
Yeah, but when they're spamming, you just shoot them.
Back onto thrifty attempt here.
There's texture considering that peak of the outlaw,
but sexy has the off.
Cover going out.
There's full armor behind us.
There's a cinder tucked into the cubby, which is a bandit in hand.
Get up and lock him.
God, they're lucky to not lose to you there.
Down for it house LP both here. The bucky hauled back at B. Ready to deal some damage
Jump forward onto the corner zinks getting cull out the pod will end up falling push forward handing a vandal straight over to Klaus
Well, soon he's gonna thank his teammates there, that was a bit of a shocker of a servo.
Yeah lord, they're gun upgrades.
All they can't buy, 1-9 loss bonus.
Oh, to be honest, all of them.
Yeah, he awkwarded it.
Yeah, that's true. I mean, this guy is just such a big Bucky believer. Big Bucky believer
only has two chances of being on the right side, it's a little scary.
so much especially the omen dropping down from heaven they just didn't think it'd be over
toward short.
Yeah, the third kill. Honestly the fourth kill in 10 months. This was fast. This one.
She's instantaneous and it feels like that should absolutely be the round, but Zuna is way too lurk.
The textures going for the gun, I mean the timing couldn't have been worse for Gen G.
It's been samely well done though from Zuna.
The TASIC patients on display.
They shrug off the thrifty attempt and they continue to deny Gen G getting up to this map point.
LP.
They have to be suspicious.
He's been loving it, yeah.
Yeah, well too greedy on that.
Exactly what you were in for.
I just walked into that trap.
Clear the wire, Con.
Slow, methodical work down in the sewer.
Done a lot of the right things here as Gen G. Created so much attention on the other
side of the map.
Again, it's taking a little while, so therefore, Barrel...
He's got a little run for his shot!
He finds it, goes for the peek down to the sewer, however, but the paranoide goes across and he gets taken down.
Plaus is still here on the site, finding ash, finding tanks.
The sewer pipe continues to hold down sewers and lock ya!
Pick the part, wheel the way, add down a 5 HP and kill off!
Is he gonna drop him off and then rebuy a judge?
Two rounds separating there with a touching distance and yeah, that timer has to come to a stop here
it's
There's one clear conclusion, which is
No doubt
Gotta talk about yeah, and they need to create more pressure on the map for sure. They did a good job of clearing garage
I like what they're doing in this round in terms of
of hitting the pressure on one side of the map, but again, it's,
barrel is so confident and so quick to react to pressure.
If you don't commit to it quickly, they are happy to immediately
go to the other side.
So another thing you can do in response to that is
bring a little attention somewhere and then pull back, take
the pause and then re-hit.
Things like that.
Whereas with Genji with Lockie on control, he really likes to
Hit move to the other side and then move to the other side. He's not really often
Taking pauses does sometimes we saw it a little bit. I'm probably what's that by like bad, right?
Veral is just so confident. LP's doing a great job and throughout this entire series
Despite everything that's happened. I mean they're
still very much in this
The euro in this
Bucky for Zinx, dimensional drift from the shadows, can have nails, and wise clothes.
Did this drop his teammate at the up and then by the judge?
Damn sure that he will invest that night's worth.
The guys are kinda shook on.
Stop, it's drifty.
He's actually going to walk about down to the sewer.
Did the camera see him?
Are the players have the time of sight?
I have no idea, he's cubby.
He's gonna get to this surely.
And he got his teammate from sea to shoot the camera.
Oh, he's lucky to be alive, it's nice movement still though.
Free over towards A again.
Get down, Mr. President kind of style, jumps down from heaven, tank the bucky shot.
It's a hard retake.
it's a really hard retake. At least my buck is on the thing. He's jumped the trip. He's
jumped the trip but dude he's got a bucky for the long range duel. Sorry Ed, a judge.
Breaking that one, like you said, LP now running from behind.
But the headshot locked ya, take it down!
Oh no! Surely not!
It's absolutely crazy!
Whoa!
The ult to escape!
Jesus, what was this round?
As sprinting away with just a single hit and a half.
But Barrel cannot deny this thrifty, absolute carnage on this A site!
Oh my god, this is a great setup for it.
This is a fun round man.
There was so much going on.
This was insane.
So this one, I can get on board with this one.
Oh.
I don't think ETP, but maybe it was just a quick one that I didn't catch on the map.
I just jumped it.
Doesn't matter.
Absolute insanity.
I
They went a little too early, man. They didn't let the uh, didn't let the Frank play too much
We've been through the ringer, let's not do that again
Let's close this out here now and start getting prepared because reminder
He only got that day off. Yep, and then the winner of this is playing against global eSports
He would have had to have defused probably. He's the closest guy.
He didn't trust a judge in the flank. Yeah, I mean I wasn't trusting it. It's fair.
have been relatively weak over there I think that's gonna be your good chance
here to get into a good post plant okay three goes it if the Gen.G.
Dude close game considering five one of pistols really. Varrals got a lot of
positives they can take from this. There's a Fandy playing like their own
weird playstyle
it works for them
hold down one over towards A
then he just spots the TP, tells his teammate to go get it
no wait what happened there, he told his teammate to go get it
I've got to see his POV
He was looking at it.
Did he wait and just hold it and then got hit by the flash?
Truly the shooter.
He got flashed.
Oh, he for sure got flashed, but he was staring at the TP before all of that happened.
He should have just shot it.
Oh, that's how they lose, it's devastating.
Yeah, it's nice to have from Tec to just insulate that space back.
Endure being close, man.
Genji being close take down and eliminate barrel from Pacific kickoff. Yeah, this is an incredible series by both teams
Really giving it their all today
And though we have to say goodbye to barrel early here in kickoff our ascension winners
They didn't go down
Quietly they went down
Yeah, yeah, it starts in our fight handle man on Tiba gave Genji everything they could handle
A strength game to watch, honestly mate if you've seen the other like lower round ones
from the other region this is not bad.
Every match took it a little bit better, but we always knew that the skill was there. The aim was there for these players
They're absolutely cracked in that regard. It was gonna come down to the refinement the restraint the strategy
And we've seen that on display. Yes
Unfortunate through the elimination here for this ascended squad not going to be going on a run
Not gonna be seeing their first global stage at least not yet
But now plenty of time to continue to iterate develop and grow
Oh yeah, they learned a lot from this kickoff.
They played so different in the beginning of this to how they just did now.
The good son.
Chat, we'll stick around for the interview and
And then we'll raid someone, and then we'll be back in time for Yumiya.
Yumiya against today?
Erotic against K-Corp, Liquid against Oath.
The toughest way to win. How stressful was it for you today?
Great matchup, sure. Sounds good.
I really really wanted to win, but I think I was too stressed out. How was the game today?
I really really wanted to win, but I think I did well today.
I really really wanted to win today, so I'm really happy about this win
And I wanted to perform really well and I think he did
Best game so far
Now let's talk about that 38 rounds on Pearl seven over times
We were all losing our minds some people here, especially some bald guy over there losing extra hair as well
Insanely unnecessary
I played the game 7 times. I played the game for the first time in 38 rounds.
It wasn't the 5th round.
It was really hard for the viewers.
Especially in the first game of PUSHTIK, I thought it would have been even harder for the team to play against Jinx.
What did you think about the game and what did you think after the game?
I was winning easily, but it was a shame that I lost the game in the first half.
We kept playing in the first half, but we lost again.
I was mentally upset, but the hyungs kept saying good things, so I won.
Unfortunately, I lost three times.
And what did you say after that?
We just lost and we are good at making cupboards.
So we should wear cupboards as well as a cupboards.
We had a huge lead but it's a bummer that we let them crawl back into the game.
Even during OTE's most of the times, we were the ones that reached match point first
but it just kept slipping away and when we lost it really sucked.
But during Halftime, we were kind of talking about how,
you know what, let's forget about what happened on Pearl
and perform our best on Haven.
So yeah, we kind of deleted that from our memory
and put all of our concentration moving on to the next map.
Now, when it comes to you, you really stepped up huge today.
And I think we really noticed how you're getting
more comfortable on stage
and your confidence has been growing too.
So, the past couple of weeks, how has it been for you?
First of all, we've been seeing a lot of things in the game,
and I think we're getting better at adapting to the game,
and we've been saying that we've gained a lot of confidence.
And today's game was very good.
I'd like to ask you what you've been doing at Percival.
First of all, Percival is a very good player.
He's good at the EMEA games.
Heretic's liquid, I guess.
Anything anything anything other than that is an upset calm pretty cake up with what I've seen
Off liquid might actually be pretty close offer offer off kind of like nice the other two days ago
Well, yeah, I have my
No pressure. Yeah, I mean last week. I don't think I was all that confidence but prepping for today's match
I have this mentality of well, this might be the last time it performed in kickoff
So we got nothing to lose and I think that really gave me the confidence to shine today on stage now lastly
You have to play five more of these games potentially to make it to master San Diego
How are you feeling about that?
You don't give it a go. Yes, I am super
for confidence and that was Jinx from Gen.G with today's win. Congratulations, Jinx, and
best of luck!
Okay, so we've met Jinx, and you should go in and take a rest.
Thank you for the interview. We'll be back tomorrow.
Thank you.
Super confident. Okay, chat, we are done for a little bit. If you want to watch some more games,
hour and a half, we've got EMEA. If that's not your time, then you're going to bed.
have Pacific tomorrow, America's also tomorrow and EMEA so we've got everything
tomorrow. Chat what is Petra's Twitch? Does she have anything wild in her name?
It's Petra, that's nice and easy. Alright thank you for watching everyone thank you
thank you I'll be back in an hour and a little bit. Enjoy the rest of your day
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