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You must suck a major, tuckly eye crunch. Taste the excitement.
I'll see you later.
I'll see you when I win.
I'll see you in Osaka.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let you down.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to let you down.
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That mountain that was about to climb...
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Our path continues here.
Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to APL Asia.
We're heading into play days four and five,
the middle portion of the group stage
with top four on the line
as we've been seeing across the entire landscape in Siege.
Things really start to heat up around this point.
Guzz, welcome on in.
It's our first time.
Well, it's my first time doing Asia,
not your first time.
No, no, I had the pleasure of covering it
with Nick earlier on.
So yeah, it's nice to be back.
I think the standards have shaped up to be pretty interesting already at this point and of course we'll get confirmation in terms of some more of those
Physicians going forward today. So yeah, it should be another good day of fixtures and excited to jump back in
And we got a highlight from yesterday in the oceanic region. We call it the C4
Sception yeah, that's right. So this was a funny little moment
I've never seen this before you've never seen this before as well
But Guppy's throws a nitrocell here and it denies the nitrocell thrown from Goof which would have stopped the plant
Yeah, I didn't quite, obviously, see this in the moment, you showed it to me before we
went live, and I didn't really know what to expect.
I have never seen that.
The limp arm from the initial night trade then being enough to take out the follow-up,
which actually would have denied the play and probably changed the outcome of the round.
Highlight, lowlight, make of it what you will.
These are, of course, both the group standings as we pivot back to Asia for this evening.
They're surprised as he's out on top at the moment.
Way boat, flawless start, sharper as well,
strong start for them.
I think it's probably also though important to highlight F5.
They've done a phenomenal job to see themselves
in the top four hitting into this evening.
And with that, Yuri and Deystar both outside the top four.
Yeah, it's a big game to get through.
Certainly if you're Deystar,
I need a big bounce back this week.
Let's go to the schedule
and see how things will shake up for play day four today.
will take on a triple nine to start things off.
Dolphin versus Sharpa, eSports.
Sharpa are looking like at least the second team to beat,
maybe in this region and of course the region that will have
two slots for the Osaka major.
So it doesn't really need to be get through Wayboat.
It kind of needs to be can we be that second best team
and right now Sharpa are in the lead early days for that.
Wayboat then versus F5, eSports which used to be LFT
and of course picked up and for the last game.
game. They start versus Fury.
What game that promises to be once maybe a couple of years ago used to be maybe the battle for second. Now it's just a battle to try and get into the top four. Neither of those two inside the top four coming into today. The loser of that game is going to have a real difficulty in getting in there by group stage.
And let's go to our first game of the day. Then we'll look at 999.
Yeah, unfortunately 999, 999 however you wish to pronounce their name
They have been off to a very tricky debut here at a tier one level not something we
That is unexpected I suppose that right typically when teams come first into the fray with little to no tier one experience
They really struggle to get out of the gates and that's kind of struggle that we've seen from them
That's a bit of all gloom and doom. I mean across the 28 rounds they've played so far
They've been able to get 7, so they haven't been absolutely completely stomped.
They've had a couple of decent opportunities to have impact in some of these matches,
and some of their fixturing as well has been a little bit difficult.
So, I mean, Sharpa are a good example in the last playday, right?
They still got 3 rounds against them.
I think it's pretty respectable given how good Sharpa have looked over the course of this stage so far.
So, they're doing okay.
I don't think they're probably performing below expectation, or certainly not by much.
And it's just for them about continued improvement and trying to get the most out of these best of ones
Well, I guess I they've the kind of case of a team where have they been able to play teams around their level?
So the schedule that you're kind of talking about you played way below already
F5 you played back on play day two there in the top four and then you played sharper as you kind of just touched on so
Elevate doesn't make it any easier
But we haven't seen them actually get to play the likes of Deyster who are struggling fury in the bottom four and their dolphin
So maybe we'll learn more about these guys and where they're really at in the long run
Towards the back end of the group stage might not start tonight, but we'll see they'll give themselves a chance their opponent in
Elevate so far two wins one loss on the stage the one loss
Being back on the opening play date to sharper e-sports
Which of course at the moment proving out to be a very very good team
So seven four lost there on clubhouse probably not the end of the world
They've since bounced back dominated against fury and dominated against a star 72 and 71 wins respectively
They go into this game as the favorites as they should and provided they then win this game
They've got nine points three play days to go
It's looking likely we will see elevate in the top four
But they do still have to then play wave on play day six outside of that
I'll be heavy favorites against Dolphin and maybe even a fly shaping up for a really good stage and to be a
Chance to go to Osaka considering the two slots for this region
Yeah, so I think in terms of the individual that I want to focus in on as we prepare for this match,
it's probably Scatman. I'm looking across at his numbers now. He's currently 4th rated
across the region, so he's been really, really good this stage. And that's in stark contrast
actually to last stage. So he was rated 20 second overall, so very much middle of the road.
And his operator pull, especially in attack, was actually a lot more like work heavy, playing
a lot of dock would be the kind of role where you would be expecting him to post numbers.
He looked across at what he's been playing so far here in the second stage,
It's actually pretty shield heavy, hard breach.
Defense remains a constant, being pretty supportive.
So I'm just surprising to see him posting such strong numbers.
And I think, yeah, just another good opportunity
for him to find a little bit more comfortability
and in some of those tougher matches,
I'll be looking at him to continue
to be a different level.
Let's head to the Vitos for our opening match of the day.
Still best of ones.
So you're going to probably keep it pretty simple.
As we go through the Royal Airtider Clubhouse
All labs as simple as the probably can get and it's clubhouse
The decision to triple nine and they ought to go to club that does me for elevate
They will begin on the defense was elevated opened up their campaign on clubhouse
And then played it as well against a star and labs as well as the other map they played in playday 2
So we're talking about keeping a pretty shallow map pull for elevate up to this point between really those two maps
The triple nine of course across their stage if you play fortress against waybo gaming
They played laps against F5 and in their most recent loss, they did actually play clubhouse
So both teams with shallow map pools and both then go to club
It's a map though that you have to be really really good on the micro details
If they get missed you will get punished and elevate the way that they're playing this stage some older heads
They'll be very familiar with this map and look probably should win this game if they don't it will
Put a little dampener on the stage for elevate because they've looked good up to this point for triple nine
It's kind of must win if they want to stay in the race finals
I did include the shock to fellow they were to go on and lose this game
I think it's fair to set the expectation
There should be nothing short of a dominant performance for them and an opportunity to bolster that
Grand differential to maintain touching distance with sharper and weibo who have both respectively been
Incredibly dominant up until this particular point of the group stage
As we go through the band phase probably the only thing really to note is actually looking back at that triple-dive sharper match
999 did take the gnaw off the board during rather the second ban phase. That was accompanied
with the ban at Kaid initially. So that's something that maybe we could see here if
the shield player from Elevate is good. In terms of that shield player as I highlighted
earlier, we're probably looking across to Scatman who's clearly been influential.
So I would get the impression that if 999 find it difficult to counter that, then yeah, that could be quite interesting.
So yeah, we'll see how this does develop, and whether or not, again, when we head into that, yeah, into this half-hour influential WB,
I've kind of talked around in circles a little bit. I'm also trying to focus it on 999 if they play shields,
and then they try and ban that nor out.
But even in the second half, it'd be interesting to see if that tool was available for them and the whole influence that pool had on the match.
In terms of this opening round and high-celt on the scopos, he dashes straight over to Shripside.
And so, even with reinforcements, it's going to be obviously a tricky part of the map to hold, not impossible, but can be difficult.
I think equally though, a good test of the bottom here.
This is the kind of hold where in a one-sided match of paper like this elevate will be feeling very very confident that it should work
Or at least take a lot of time
And it's up to 999 to try and subvert that expectation
Some forward aggressiveness from up here early and all that in the open kill on the J-Dog.
It's as free as it's really going to get.
A bottle of the Barricade opened up.
So it's a bit of a one-way.
What's up? J-Dog not prepared and they lose the Capitao to begin.
So what? And the Blackbeard over the Ward's Dirt, but probably lives up to his name.
So what? I don't think Alivator going to care about his positioning here.
By himself, it sucks to come for the Opier.
So you can see they kind of wanted to get this dirt oil pit pinch
You lose the cap of town no way to kind of really flush out these defenders towards Arsenal and blue
It's just gonna be a send in hope the bass man up has got good cover from kitchen
This is as easy of an opening round as you're gonna get for elevate and triple nine stopped basically at the front door
Yeah, not really allowed much in the way of map control that round so positive from elevate early. I mean
they kind of match up where they'll likely be afforded the opportunity to be pretty aggressive
around the map and they can back themselves in with just their natural mechanics and skill to
be able to outgun and outmaneuver their opponents. I think on the flip side, no, no, no, we'll be
trying probably their best I think as the map develops to try and set up plays and try to
to really lean into utility and try and focus on their teamwork, because at least longer term
ultimately that's the kind of seed that you're going to have to play to try and outmatch these
guys. You can't possibly rely on solo picks. Of course, the first two in that particular round
I don't think were grudges mistakes by any means, they were just elevating clean shots and then
obviously attacking at the base when two players down, not going to happen. Elevate
pretty pleased with that opening round as they look to again try and extend that
round differential advantage that they have at the moment it's plus 8 and as I
said earlier sharper and weibo actually had like my significant margin at the
moment so plus 14 sharper plus 17 for weibo probably not gonna have much
influence in terms of all three of those teams are very very likely to
make it but you never know what influence I could have later on maybe for the top four but
certainly for the seating as well so a second go for triple nine first round and just throw that
one away forget about a gym bedroom I like the lineup try and get some balcony pressure here
from the sand to the glass as you push back these cash and top red defenders.
Just got to make sure they don't go for shortcuts when you bring this kind of lineup.
You've got to take the time at the moment a lot of roof standing.
Okay so maybe not looking for the cut across that's jacuzzi it's roof.
Again that's indicative of just trying to take a bit of a shortcut here not wanting to play
into that extension from elevate. Maybe it's just the case of wanting to put a little bit of pressure
over to watch jacuzzi deal with this mirror window first, but the way that jub is just getting ready
for a potential logi drop with the canvallis, you have to follow off these and the clash is in
there from scatman. Mr punch ready, over to war veteran, got the opening kill, dropped down from jub
and scatman has done enough to at least just elation time, had some cover from stash from
missed the punch and it's only J-Dog left. They go basically for the direct hit into the
site. At least it's a 2v2 courtesy of J-Dog almost had the chance to make it a 1v1. They
also go for the revive. This is rather defended because of the mirror setup and a double-slack
in construction. They got a 2v2. Always winnable and a game like Siege is gonna hit the headshot,
didn't even need to. It's Enhyke Caldor that pushes behind with the super shorty
double kill, 2-0 goes the way of Alivate, but it did get a little scary.
Yeah, it did. In some ways I respect the persistence from 999 to make that play work directly into the clash.
Ultimately it was actually the only piece of the push that really actually did somewhat work.
The split over towards Drakiz, he was unsuccessful and so then reliant on the two stack Lodgy.
With both players isolated con and then one forced to play bedroom in to the mirror window
was actually decently favorable there for ship 9, but mp3culted, a nice work made the rotation
late through con, courtesy of his secondary shotgun, then went on to net double with said
shotgun.
I elevate largely in control for most of that round, I don't think it was too crazy.
around though that two versus two I think maybe if uh no no I had a you know a little bit more
experience a little bit of a better read knew that both the con side they would have moved
a lot quicker towards the objective and then you never know wait's plant there or something could
have made things interesting in the retake for elevate so in some ways elevate afforded a
little bit of grace there courtesy of their oppositions of experience but round win is around
win and it's over to catch CC from full rotation.
Ashing CCTV to the third round.
So far, job done for elevating the game where 999 are going to continue to kind of play like this.
Can sometimes throw the balance off
But the way that elevator set up in the opening three rounds, they're not looking to
Super heavy room game or really play with that sort of cocky attitude
Normal defenders normal kind of default set up your own clubhouse
And that's typically the best way to play against teams that are you know coming in from tier two or lack a lot of experience
You play that default club at super high level and you don't make a lot of mistakes
It's very difficult for these teams to break it down
I think the triple nine this will just be best to go for the clear across you've got the solid snake to find out any first floor
Romes, so that's gonna put staxter in the highlight position in this round
It's on the balcony at the moment
Look it's early days, but three rounds in the one thing about triple nine
Those it feels like five players all trying to do the same thing
Which is actually a good sign rather than five players split not if you've got one guy lurking basement
you know, one guy's on the balcony, the other guy's on jacuzzi. They seem pretty much all understanding
of the game plan that they want to bring into the round. Yeah, pretty good. And good work there
from the bike carrier to leverage a logistic side push, but then they leave that hole
and RPA is able to exploit that on the flank. Re-positioned up towards bathroom. That
should be pretty easy for the bike carrier to follow up and clear. They've got 15 play
gear up towards cash. So it's even for now. So we're taking that fight and wins it out.
So Kippunite with a bandage, it's been a solid round for them so far and really should now be around win.
Say that but I'm looking at the health margins of Miku and Sawat and if N.I. Cowell
was this one off it would be a real death at the triple nine.
Surely they just don't give him a chance. Oh no, Sawat and at the window Miku because
he's health is downed. Does he know that J-Dogg's this close? The keeper barrier blocks
Now he knows he turns back around pretty quickly and he's got the clue on
J-Dog and N-I-Kal both full health goes for the bolt clear
35 seconds, but a lovely play from J-Dog the fact he still had incendiaries available and
To have the heads up mine to go for that play to clear out the other side of the rack force N-I-Kal on the move
Triple nine get their first round and well deserved. I
Don't think I have seen a bolt clear
That close to an enemy maybe ever and I think event high Cal had his time again
He quite literally would have just rushed straight at him and either show him or knife him because he got bolted hand
I think he just
Understandably what is kind of like completely then boozled and may not have known where he repositioned and thought he had distance and then
kind of panicked and ran away ultimately in the end there, so
look good work
They'll clear this end of the round, but in terms of the build up and the kind of teamwork that they are looking to try and
Again though, this is the system of everyone pushing together. So you've got that ability to play the trade game.
If you've got a couple of people in the wrong spots, maybe wrong timings, then it just all falls apart.
I know it comes down to a 1v1, but it's a deserved result for triple nine.
It was a 3v1, two players low, so N.I.C.U.L. always had a chance.
It's not your traditional 3v1 where the three are full health and they're planting a cause of the situation.
That was at hand in that round.
I think it was still very winnable for N.I.C.U.L. and he showed that it was pretty winnable.
Credit to J.Dog.
6 and 2 starters, W.A.J.Dog, and he was the opening death in the opening round.
So it's really 6 kills in two rounds.
Looks like Michael Ghazgari has left the building, he's whole PC crashed.
I was wondering why he came to a dropped finish with the statement earlier.
Well maybe his brain just cried, sometimes it happens.
We get the brain.exe crash moment, but we go solo here in the fourth round.
So the bands, Clash, Grim, all the Clash back in the second round, Grim has only
been played the one time but as we know the Grim very good for getting that
information certainly in the basement site so I understand the band from
Elevate's perspective. We go double shield set up multi blitz for this fourth
round along with the glass and straight back over to dirt as well and so what
immediately Staxer as well already down blue
pressure on the totality good pop of the ball can canister so what you're
gonna move can't stand there there's flames but they've already got
themselves through into blue plant now into arsenal elevate not quick it off on
the road take back and we now enter a post plant the sheer pace from triple nine
catching out elevate and they get the first two kills within the round and
Hickel again finds himself up against it and now J-dog on the glass getting
rid of Tolji but here comes and Hickel to keep the round alive for elevate so
What low on the Monty? Scatman put that Horus launcher player factor but time is
starting to run low they need to push and clear out these positions double stack
towards blue so what down courtesy of Scatman he's only got a couple of
seconds he won't be afforded the time to clutch this round up it's back to
backgrounds from triple nine a dirt push that this time is successful
2-2 game, Alivate, getting tested is triple nine, and suddenly now putting together one
of the better halves that we've seen from them here in Asia this stage, and they got
one round against Waybo. They only got three rounds against their five, and only three
rounds against Sharpa, and that was on Clubhouse. Admittedly, two of those rounds were
attacking rounds so if I elevate two rounds to go in this half probably might
now need to get to four or it's starting to look likely that triple nine
could potentially find not only their first win this stage but maybe their
first points the only team in the Asia sub region that has yet to get a single
point here through to play day four and it's their pacing it's their team
coordination, lacking the ops that they're bringing, and Elevate must now know
two rounds to go in this half they've got a real challenge on their hands. Now
this is not gonna be an easy team to beat. After winning the opening two rounds
maybe we're starting to follow that script that we thought coming into this
game was going to play out for an Elevate team that up to today has
looked really solid here at Asia. Well and truly tested by triple nine.
Hello, testing, 1, 2, 3, I believe I'm back.
If I show what happened then my monodon completely died.
All good now?
It seems as if I have missed another key round for triple nine, so that's exciting.
And maybe this elect should be quite a competitive matchup because of the start.
Certainly wasn't. I was getting pretty concerned that this was going to develop into a blowout,
They're clearly they've shown some good fight and I love that being kept honest and well
That's a big open kill for triple nine and it's the smoke on the board
I feel like I've cursed scat man a little bit highlighting how he was one of the top five players in the stage up to this point after
The middle of the road earlier stage this year. Unfortunately though tonight. He hasn't shown up
No in the round that you missed as well guys was perfect for me because it was one of those slow drawn out rounds
It was going to be an absolute nightmare to solo cast but it was just a double shield rush into basement that worked out through dirt and blue and
Yeah, again, they're just not stopping
In fact, they're continuing to pick up this pace the quick to enter the building quick to find these opening fights
Elevate need to adjust and adjust quickly. Oh my god
up a
What a headshot on the balcony player window in Miku from bathroom just goes to the pre-fire swing and connects
And it feels like now Alivate are starting to clue on that when triple nine push in they're not just poking and prodding
They're trying to send it in for the full site here
They're starting to adapt a little bit now J-Dogg still up eight and three start for him
At least with Saksa to wars top main stairs and not going to relieve the pressure here on to Alivate
Yeah, I'll try now unlock this TV three edge. I could be good here for a logic flush
up a nitro, big damage.
50 seconds.
Oh my God, I think it's happening again.
J-Dog up to double dead shirts and now using the mirror window against Tolji.
Triple nine find their third attacking round on Clubhouse.
They take the lead in this game.
This is the most rounds that they have acquired in the first half all stage long.
In fact, they have now tied the most rounds that they've been able to get in their
two losses versus F5 and Sharpa. They're on tonight.
Yeah, wow. They've quickly turned around this matchup. Again, it doesn't feel like it was too long ago
where we saw that opening round in particular, you know, they're getting spawned,
peaked and isolated around the map and it was looking concerning, but they have been able to
build up into this match quite nicely. They're coming in with, you know, some good ideas.
They're playing well as a team. We saw a great triple impact there. And I will say they got
a little bit lucky right here. Mr. Puncher presented an opportunity and R-Pay then got
forced into the swing, he too got timed. That was good work and problem solving there and
using the mirror window as well and towards the bedroom again was a good exploitation.
So cut it to triple nine. Okay, now I'm ready to activate. Met the benchmark I suppose
for club. That's three on the attacking side. They fell onto get a fourth. I think
That's where the pressure will really start to ramp up on the side of elevator.
Final round of this half. Look, I'm not going to discount elevator's ability to also attack in the second half.
And sometimes you get kind of punched in the face like this from a team that's struggle all stage long and it can take a little while to adapt.
But if you triple 9, you're just full of confidence now that you can pick up your first points
this stage and what an upset it would be as well for an elevator team that's probably
thinking their finals was going to be looking very likely.
If you lose this, you're kind of back in the pack and Asia's very competitive.
And they're just not going to slow down.
J-Dog again on the solid snake, able to then push forward behind the black bit so
when you combine the snake and the black bit, it's just quick, clear.
This basement site will play out a little differently.
They're not going to go over that dirt blue push the way that they tried in the first two attempts.
First time fail, second time success.
Now they're going to have to play this a little bit more conventional.
I think that should elevate overall.
They will see if they disappear the case.
So Blackbeard, Daymoss for map clear, plus Snape should be pretty snappy.
Also starting to get close to the midpoint of the round and they're still going through this initial map clearance,
Which I will say is a little bit concerning, just a little bit of pressure first, or from the side of Alivate, so...
I know it still feels pretty early in the round, but Triple 9 with this kind of lineup really do need to make sure that they're not wasting any time.
Up next will be the challenge with Mr Punch.
Shot and drop.
And so hit that, all five members back on site, Alivate will be playing heavily into his army, some of those power positions.
And I felt like they were decaying like Mr. Punch. You can watch him through blue or triple presumably.
And then of course you've got to go into the lake around faster nitrosols. None of which have been used yet.
This does feel like a good opportunity for elevate as it stands right now. 50 seconds will remain and hard breach in response.
This attack has to hinge on the Capitale landing that U2, which is being deployed now.
Oh, and high cal. He's been the best, the most influential player I'd say in this half.
Obviously has a similar KD ratio to Arpe, but I think these kills have just been more impactful.
So what though gets the response and Scatman's struggles will continue. 1 and 5 down.
Moto control, 20 seconds left. Here comes that rush. There's going to have to be
so what to push out. Nitrosol from Tolji gets rid of Miku, but he did also get
There it is, a free shot in the back! Oh my goodness!
And high-coward makes no impact in that moment. He whiffs, should have got that kill on to so what?
And now gives them a chance to go 4-2-R,
because the punch can't get the angle, the plant will go down.
It is still a low BB, but Staxter, full health, should just go deathmarked.
Lovely Nitro though to connect onto the Blackbeard.
Here is that deathmark, to get themselves the 1v1, breaks the mirror window,
the Vendetta versus the shotgun,
and the both just playing ring around the rosy now in tomorrow from mr punch closing the gap
staxter though he just looks so defensive he looks a little scared until he makes the time to go
for the swing he was not scared at all despite it his time it's a four to lead for triple nine
So we return and what a start to the night we're having here for Asia guys. It's a upset
potential on the cards. Not guaranteed yet. See, it is a game of two halves.
Elevator got the quality to do the job on the attack half of Clubhouse, but
you've got to give credit to Tripple 9. What a wonderful half. Love the freedom
and expression of what they tried to do in that half. They didn't just play
default. They tried different things. And in the end, ultimately, it's worked
out for them. Four straight rounds as well, might I add. So we're not just
talking about back and forth. They just won four straight to close out the
first half largely in part for multiple reasons getting the opening kills you're
bringing good pace and pressure early multi-kill rounds from Jay Tog especially
he was absolutely insane and 11-4 half from Jay Dog got a bit of help as well
from Miku I mean you couldn't ask for much more the question is now can they
close it down on defense yeah I mean it's I'm trying to territory for them
really it's one thing to have a decent half of siege and to get yourself
in the lead and I don't think you know we can discount that by any stretch but
if they are you know seriously here to play and want to get all three points we
now need to see them close out a match and that's a whole different kettle of
fish. Elevator going to really you know set themselves up to make a comeback in
this matchup. They'll probably sit a little straighter and lock in maybe a
little bit more after getting caught out there in the first half and so
this match is only going to get more difficult for triple nine as it
develops it would be highly unusual and highly unexpected for them to go on and
you know dominate the second half and win comfortably. I'd be pretty shocked if
that happened but to be fair I also didn't expect this to be the half-time
school line and it's the kind of situation that we find ourselves in so
there's a little unusual in that regard. Certainly not complaining though I thought
that this was going to be a one-sided affair but not to be. Tech pause at
moment in the meantime here's the replay of the final round of the half-game
down to 1 versus 1. Stax start able to go in good space and store courtesy of that
death mark and then was able to pound to the right moment to find the kill and
with that give his team the lead. Tech pause has concluded so we are straight
back into the server basement up first on the side of triple 9 and there's
gonna be an emphasis on shields in this half the Monty and the room taken
off the board I will let go pretty traditional in terms of the couple
heart breach denial. Scatman in response will jump immediately here on to the
black bit. I was just looking ahead for triple nine so I said in the pre-show
I've had a rough schedule up to this point so maybe we haven't really fully
been able to see the most of them so they do play then daystar a struggling
day start tomorrow. I love that. Five seconds into the round and Staxa just goes from spawnpeek,
gets rid of Mr. Punch, and that's critical because that's the buck. So if you want, you
can go five below. But clearly the lineup that they've brought here, they want to fight
around the map. So they've got the option now, the flexibility provided by that open
kill on to the buck is not much that Elevate can really do once they get that first
wall control to gain that sort of vertical advantage. But they finish the stage
off with a struggling day start, a struggling fury, and then they get to play Dolphin.
So if you can win this game here, you could honestly see them go for a 4 game win streak
and maybe get themselves into finals.
Starts here and now, and on the verge of now a 5-2 lead.
Hmm, hahaha.
Are we inching closer to potentially one of, if not the biggest upset of the stage?
What a storyline it would be for triple nine to seemingly get this result out of nowhere,
but it's again, it's not going to be free.
It's not going to be easy, especially with Enhypal still alive inside of the servers.
serve as he is able to pluck one back. Still though a tall mountain to climb for
elevate in this round. Again though at least I've had an high gullop and the
demos and the deathmines that can provide and then Scatman's gonna be so
eager to get himself in this match it's been slow going for him up until this
point but on the black pit he could certainly have influence.
left with the round and now they'll go back and play basement not really a lot
that elevate can do outside of Stope and Hatches
probably Scatman who struggled to this point one and five that on the black
beard just has to be the one to push in first
And relying on NiKal to probably hit some really good shots all the little push-up from Jai-U.
But Jude pushes up, makes contact, gets NiKal very low. He looks stuck inside a Modo and yeah, he was never gonna get out of there alive.
Scatman, again needed to be the first one to make that point of contact. He does eventually go onto J-Dog and then clears Miku, so he's come to save the day.
told you down bot main that's where the kit is located to 15 seconds could grab
kit go for the revive and then make their way back in together against the
solo stack star but no goes for the turn around shots gap man comes up clutch on
the blackbeard late in that round to get elevate back in this game because it
really should have been 5-2
yeah well there's been some big moments in this match up to this point
that's I think what is leading it to be a little unpredictable a little bit
difficult to read and I think for the most part triple nine have kind of
benefited from that they've proven that they've been able to thrive in the chaos
up until that half-time break and as we look right down this seventh round it
was dangerous and unfortunately I think Miki they're probably the one that
caught out the most if it was that triple wall position and then it was Scatman to fire up.
He's been very quiet this evening. One and five before that round. He finds a big
multi that's three kills Kim in a critical round.
I'm not looking convincing on that first attack, but kind of in the position where
he will take anything and I think I'd be decently happy that they've got a platform
to now play off into two bedroom. Just what Elevate needed after losing four
straight rounds to be honest not just the round win but just stabilise a
little bit keep this game close I think Elevate will know deep down they've
got the quality they've got the experience but triple down to playing a
really good brand of seeds tonight and they're gonna have to step up their
own game and treat this as if they're playing way bow like that like that
has to be their mentality. They can't lull themselves to sleep and just think it's gonna
happen. Look at the patience here from N.I.K.K.L playing off the pings and it gets the win
against Miku. You did find the early kill on to Scatman's off of the heroics from the
previous round. He does fall very early. N.I.K.L caught on the hot red angle from
StaxDot because he finds that kill a little late with the Zodacanister and denying
breach but it doesn't matter because Juve, the ward's rafters, has found another kill.
Two kills from the smoke playing rafters when you're bringing a clear out utility line-up.
And Mr. Pines just, yeah, I mean at this point he just sends it up hoping that maybe
he gets a free push off than Pines the kill.
Probably the unlikely wincon that could have got them back into this round.
And it's five to three.
And it should have been five on the ball for triple nine in the last round this
time.
They're not going to throw this one away.
I'd be shocked if they did. It's probably harder to throw this round than it is to win it.
One does get fed to Toji though. He needs to execute essentially a full solo map clear.
Triple 9 rotate back. Use downstairs over to Potapah. He can go up main. Once my one
nitro in terms of the util belts to remaining here for the defense told you
can look for a bit of counter info himself through con but it's going to be
largely heads up from here and as you can kind of see on that drone there's a
massive set of utility already pre-placed to impede his progress so it
should be an unloosable round for defense and if that is to be the
case that it would be back to a two-round margin in favour of the underdogs and see
what told you can do. Very surprised. Solo health and all it takes is really just
one double swing to play a setup, play the cross. 5-3. One round away now from
Getting to six which would be their first point this stage that in itself is already an accomplishment
But adding the fact that they're winning this game and have the chance
Get the three points
And going into their game tomorrow against the lowly day start
And chance of finals could still be on the cards for this roster if they close this out and go on a run
And the way that they played today, I mean, this is my first part of Asia
So this is the first nine or eight rounds that I've seen of these two teams and triple mine look good
Although I did get to see them I think it was back in the
The qualification process that the bootcamp community series for they yeah, they they were in that so I did actually get to see them back then
We almost didn't actually really impress me all that much because they got smashed in the grand final but
Looking much better now and sometimes that's also a symptom of getting the opportunity to play some of these games
You might not you know
You might be that sort of tier 2 team scrapes in you get kind of beaten up in the first couple of games to get a rude wake-up call
When you have to play waybo on the opening day
But you learn and you learn and you grow and now as we're heading into what's been a couple of weeks of them screaming
Getting more game time to one games
Sometimes it just clicks for you on a certain night. I think that might be the case with triple-dive
Yeah, for sure.
Again, though, we can see them close out this match.
In terms of this particular site set up for CSC Cash, it's the old school they'll play,
the rafters hold, Stax Bok garage for the coverage.
They make him in the mix as well here to offer coverage through secret
But evidently elevate not playing really directly into that at least for now
Hardware coming channels inside
You can both follow here from the capital. I didn't quite see that those planes land. Oh, they missed well at least one
There's I don't know where the second ended up. That's a huge error
in this punch, or maybe they got caught by the magnets as well I suppose, it could have
actually been good for you to use it from Staxarodding quite here, maybe I think here
they got caught in the end, I mean either way most people in Utah have not been laid
in the correct position, see if these grenades though can climb their mark, no, the track
thing is not going to do much, Staxarodding also misses, this has been a great work
from Jude.
Oh this is so frustrating though if you elevate until that moment, I don't know
White jub is trying to take the battle against the Blackbeard. I know he wants to try and get the top head
But all you're doing at that point is giving them a way back in now
They've got the rafters clear even though if the utile game wasn't working for elevate you then just gave them
The free look in now they get the opening kill now they've got rafters and there's a minute left in the round
It's such a good job up until that point
Slight overstepping you half a meter too far to the right
I mean, Alive at the very least lacking some new tools for the final XC, so we'll see if
it does have any influence on the round.
And again, triple Nitro is still up, and two gas faves, so the denial of the default
is very strong for the defense.
It's probably not the best option for Alive.
In five seconds.
Nitro cells are readily available.
That one connects with Miku, but a lot to push up from R-Pyte.
And then Scatman to get the final kill, as Alivate keep this game going.
It's high of relief for Cooley.
5 to 4.
Now the part of this as well is not just the story for Triple 9, but for Alivate, you want all three points.
And the way to get that now is to just win out from here.
Yeah, unfortunate. Again, I don't know it necessarily if there's too much blame to be attributed there to
Juba over towards Rafters in that position. Sure, he did die and having one more gun out late would have
helped but they were nowhere near competitive in trading out the round anyway. Elevate Rebuta
will identify that going for the kills in the end was going to be their best bet. Of course,
the smokes were still up in play triple nitro also available one did hit the mark
the other two were taking out play right decision from elevate you can see the
push up there if it was read in the background in the meantime arpe also
pushing deep alongside scatman some good experience and levelheadedness of that
attack ended up being the win condition for elevate not panicking and just
backing themselves in especially with the player advantage to go for any
eventual trade game and then being skillful enough to get the round one without requiring
said trades.
So into round 10 Snake and his army out of play, so we return to basement site, successful
last time out for Alive, but I did largely hinge on Scatman 553k Lake.
I think the zombie is going to be a big loss if you close this out as well.
and played in all three rounds. Solid Snake on the other hand was only played once.
I elevate haven't really lent on that, so I don't think they're going to be too disappointed with Quant having access to the Snake,
but it's extra carbon for triple minor play this room extension and they get the open kill on up, eh?
Look at this lineup, I love that you bring the doc to be in the lion, clearly that's
in their mind enough to help deal with this room, but no one's pushing together, it's
a lot of this kind of solo play, the fact that Ape just dies by himself.
Well not in a good spot this round.
Just gotta be careful they don't go over the mark here in terms of their aggression.
If they can find a way to peel towards objective that's ultimately gonna be the best calling.
sensing that I'm gonna go for the hunt hold you to watch the flank move it
towards main stairs it does still leave the drop gym side open here for the
attack or for the defense rather. Alivate, life now successful on the clear and
J-Dog able to get in the face of Scatman the support network from Alivate
has gone completely missing he was all alone in con and they haven't found much
to compensate that outside of Juby. So full of Versus 3 though, but I'm still in an
advantageous position and J-Dog has resumed his roam. And how come they still go big
and try and unlock this site? I was just sprinting down the hallway. How is this
work though? Oh, I was gonna get a second. Desperate play from Enhycal. Will not
out for Alivators. Triple nine will get their first point this stage. They're on the board. They're off
the donor and they have the chance to get all three. Two opportunities now to really shake
up the overall standings here in the Asia region from zero points to potentially three.
For Alivate, what was looking like getting to nine points tonight, they'll be stranded on six
with three play days to go.
No!
And Elevate still have to play Weibo as well, so there's a fair chance they might only be
able to get another six points.
Yeah, that was another pretty wild round.
Credit to Triple9.
Elevate was scattered around the map, they were isolated.
And look, Triple9 are up and about, they're not looking afraid at the moment, they're
looking to walk away here with all three points what a way it could be for them
to rejuvenate their stage to potentially make a pretty remarkable
comeback if this ends up being their road back to the top four with it being
very competitive in that mid-pack at the moment it's not possible it's gonna
be very very difficult but it's not completely impossible so I could say
certainly though is that all three points will be incredibly important for them so they have to get
this done in regulation they've got a few more chances well they deserve to win this game right at
this point right now six four up they've been the better team that doesn't mean though that you win
the game because if I elevate play better in this next two rounds then you suddenly obviously
don't deserve to win the game anymore but up until this point they've been the better team
get two chances to close this out and get the three points that you've earned up to this
point. I just don't want them to now suddenly change course because the chance to win is
finally there. The match point status is acquired. I think we'll keep playing with that same
velocity, that same desire and hunger to find those early kills to play around the map.
But this round in particular, you look at the lineup that they brought for Jim Bedrin,
very different to the lineup they bought last night.
Triple impact from N.I.K.K.L. Look a bit of damage under the clash, but you should be getting more from that setup.
And certainly, when you bring the Zophia into the clash, a chance to maybe get that kill early goes astray for elevate,
a minute down into the round.
Triple 9 are actually playing far more conservative in this round than what we've seen from them so far up until this point.
We'll see if it works.
And if it does work, then maybe it's an extra string they can add to their bow later in the rest of the stage.
Can they isolate, splash, okay, they do just...
They're inviting the past.
Yeah.
I love that we'll still be looking to be a ruthless squad to close out this game.
I'm not going to go against without swinging.
We're drawing deep into the objective that was played out, the global shield that we're
going to try and deal with here.
in the meantime in how Carl is drawing the uterus and blood you could cushion close
on one trade it's a net win though for the attack with the border now out of play 60 seconds
for elevate passive air jam and flash oh lovely swing from me can i mean but it's just trade
game so that probably is when you lose that opening kill you can't really play that way
Triple lines perspective. I doubt Stax is going to be able to win this unless they just straight up don't know where he is
And now they do they got the clue so elevate win the round
But that is around right there do a case example inviting the pressure for the first time in this game
So why are we changing up our play style?
It's not even based on the site because they've already won gym bedroom back in the eighth round did so again with that sort of
Extension and looking for aggression early. They got the opening kill at the 224 minute mark
So they were able to then play the trade game late. They won that a pretty comfortable round three alive
And for the first time they jump on the clash they jump on the tachanka
They invite the pressure they try to play a little bit more default
But by doing that as we head into the tank time out what that does is for elevate
Finally they get three entries into the building
They actually get to play their setup based system and they execute because they're a team full of experience
And they know how to play that what and how you've already gotten to this point
game is by beating them in a different way. I don't know if it's a case of the status
of the game changed at that point. 6-4 you think okay well chance to win let's just try
and play it a little bit more safe. Well you haven't got to this point by playing safe
so why are we changing it now?
Well, we'll see what the game plan is to be for this next round and how aggressive Tripp and I
wish to be. I don't know if they may be trying to invite that pressure in and maybe have a better
way in dealing with it. Here's the final round of regulation and they're bringing out VAR.
Okay, this is crazy
Hey, I mean it could work
It's not a site that elevate would have scrimmed as a team into as this squad
I would imagine very much
So if they've got a real well thought out strategy and they're comfortable playing it and elevate didn't have the intel on this then
All power to them
I mean this is equivalent to going kitchen on labs at 6.5 and then losing it and wondering
how you've got time to time.
I mean, look, as I said, fair play if you've got something in the strapped book.
As much as teams don't defend this site often, teams also then don't get the opportunity
to attack it that often.
So maybe you're also testing Elevate's ability to really unlock this site.
To be honest, I think the playstyle of what's worked for Triple 9 up to this point actually kind of suits our stage a little bit.
You know, play that top floor, play that first floor, and play a lot of those kind of contact fights.
If it doesn't work though, the site's just so vulnerable so quickly.
And for a elevate on the attack the best course of option here is just to five stack up above and deal with the
Solace and the Valor and then it's a 5v3 into the site where they're pretty split around the site isolated positions
And I cal lurks lounge to begin
And the site has been played 15 times globally this year and it is 60% in favor of defense
So it does reward defending teams that have a well thought out strategy and maybe catching out the tax
Let's see if this one is a success. Staxa in his position above known. J-Dog presumably
here may also be known. I don't think they haven't really done much to pressure them
out of those positions up above. They still have this horizontal lurk though. It's
an isolated stalk. This is on camera on the Yokai. I wasn't mad at though. Miku
got caught out but yeah and this is the problem though is because you're playing
these isolated positions the only two that were kind of together was staxer and
j-dog on the second floor staxer now finds himself basement I mean
elevator smart and just taking their time find out where these isolated
defenders are and then go stax is probably dead here unless he's gonna
go for a pre-fire also barricaded off anyway
has had the impact to if you get to this kill open it up and rush through if he wants if he needs
this is interesting right onto the IQ so n high cal hasn't found that utility now he's
looking spotted three players easy kill for j-dog from con scatman ended up beating stax for that
that for me is the defining kill if stax i had to won that battle i think this would have
been far more doable with the echo play but now it's not and elevate we'll get this
to overtime much to the disappointment of triple nine tried past age gotta be honest didn't work at all
no i mean the idea is clearly the solace and the echo are a big reason uh as to a success of that
round the downside is though is everyone is in isolated positions elevate identify they take
their time they're drone they're getting the information and then they just throw bodies
These are the single defenders, rounds of them off.
I had to do a better job valuing life, especially over the stock.
That was clearly the biggest weakness of the defense and elevate and experience for us to
in general in terms of the game irrespective of that objective are going to be good enough
to be able to join that out identified and shot called a way to deal with it.
to follow here so some sort of technical issue but unfortunately for triple nine
it's probably gonna be a little bit of a deflating feeling for them as I said
before if they are to somehow magically have a run off the back of this result
be a chance for the top four they really needed all three points so it's
gonna be a difficult pill for them to swallow still they too want offer for
them so there's no point dropping your heads and giving up now I've played
pretty well overall but yeah but they've changed everything in the last two
rounds like this is the problem yeah this is a really good lesson for them for
what will be in hindsight you get to six four playing a brand a siege that's got
year six four and then all of a sudden you get to six four and you think no
let's change why how you were playing was working perfectly up until that
point. They were dominating, so the 10th round they win, they go 6-4 up, and they were dominating
the opening kills. It was a 7-6-4 split. With two of those four for Alivay being in the opening
two rounds that they won, obviously very comfortably. So if you kind of ignore the first two rounds,
it was a 6-2 split across the next eight. They were getting multi-kills, they were getting
the entry kills, and they were converting. They were aggressive, they were off-site,
They were roaming, they were doing all these things that were clearly disrupting Aller Bay.
And once you do that enough times, Earth on Attack and Defense, and it's still working,
you go past that threshold of, well, the other teams eventually going to adapt to, well, clearly they're not adapting.
Clearly it's just working.
And then you get to 6-4 and you just change it all.
You go Ultra Defensive, Gym Bedroom with the Clash and the Tank, the Chancer.
You invite the pressure, you give the space, you lose the round.
Then on the twelfth round, you decide to go bar stage and play this solace and echo play and clearly just doesn't work.
And I know you did bring up the 60% defensive win rate statistic.
I don't really care about that.
I care about the fact that it's only been played 15 times, now 16 globally across all regions, across all tournaments, across all events.
And we are in September.
The reason it doesn't get played often.
So I if I'm calling and if I'm the team,
I'm thinking this is how we've now not been able to get the three points from this game and because of that
They probably can't then now make finals you go from a potential dream run home and having the chance
to even if you get the two points I
Just don't think you can now going to be able to actually get enough even if you win your last three
That's a really disappointing and minutes there for triple nine because the hype now has completely been deflated
We're into a rehearse. We're going OT and elevate look very likely to get the two points
Yeah, for sure. Difficult to disagree again for those maybe just tuning in and point it
to remember that Triple 9 got off to a really strong start. Not in terms of I guess the
round count at the very beginning, I actually won the first two opening rounds, but Triple
9 responded with four straight attacks and looked highly competitive and basically all
of them is really only the last that was a little bit sketchy with a big one versus
one with a stackstripe that will clutch up on the on that particular
Asian but outside of that it was pretty good and then the second half it did just
start to unfortunately unravel a little bit they got themselves a match point
had two chances and unable to convert as he mentioned as well bar stage
appearing for one very few rare occasions globally for the stage
Seems as if the tech pause has come to an end.
Not sure if you disconnected, but they're back in and the server will be ready to go in a
moment's time.
I believe it's gym bedroom up next, pending any changes with triple nine continuing on defense.
And honestly, if I'm triple nine, that's probably not the site I would actually want
here for overtime given how things started to unravel a little bit for them in regulation,
but they need to try their hardest to mentally reset before we jump back in though. Here is the
replay package of that final round of regulation. Yes, again, Morse bar stage.
We saw the defense try to play a solo psycho-vulc, heavy info-heavy strike didn't quite work out.
It's not Jim Bedro up next, it is in fact a basement.
Triple N suddenly confirmed to be on defense.
Let's see how they try and play this one out.
Yeah, he's just going to go back to what works, right?
I think I misspoke before and said Caulie, but, um, Caulie, of course, is the coach of the game.
At the time, I thought you said I was like, hang on.
Yeah, I think it was because he was on the screen, but Oki, the coach for triple night, he's actually been around a long time.
Yeah, since 2018.
I think, you know, as the coach of this team now in that moment, had gone into OT.
You've got to be a little bit disappointed, but here get the chance to reflect with the team as well and some of the change ups.
As we head to Basement in terms of their lineup that they're bringing at this time around again pretty different
So they've shown three very different lineup variations on Basement
But they are playing this similar and again back to what works these aggressive positions
Contact at the windows the doorways the entries extend the map
Make it difficult for Alibaba to enter the only thing they could maybe get would be a dirt push
You're set up with that with probably Vulcan canisters. You've still got so what in sight
So if elevate try to go for a pivot into dirt this should be something that their mind full of
Okay does get the kill on to so what that was the solo defender in the site
But a quickly look at that all fall straight back to site told you don't into arsenal
There shouldn't be afforded the chance to go for the plant triple nine and played this perfectly
The roam game get the opening kill realize quickly that elevate went for the pivot direct hit and all straight back to site
Now Kit's in a bad spot. Mr. Punch is stranded towards dirt. They know that he's pushing from this position
And it's a 4v3 with a minute 40 left with elevate Kit is stuck towards Arsenal
So triple nine again, they just go back to what works and long behold
Oh
Okay, a little unlucky
To catch that
Defenders, Mr. Punch will try and look for a window opportunity to push forward but gets denied
Triple nine will surely find themselves back on match point.
Scatman the last one left is to set triple nine will get themselves to the match point again to try and now get two points rather than the three.
They're back to what works.
Room game on the basement site.
But also understanding and this goes back to round seven.
When that fast hit from elevate caught them off guard that there's one weakness to that room game
But the quick dirt here so they lay it with Vulcan canisters that keep one site
Once they get that opening kill and they realize quickly
That it's going to be a direct hit bang for just dropped straight back down to site
No hesitation no umming and ironing everyone's on the same page and they're quick to stop any potential plant
They go seven six up
Served I imagine we'll go back basement for the next round with elevate
Well, of course church Arsenal was locked away for rounds 11 and 12 they changed their whole play style
Would it just like them to keep that same place down they would have walked away probably with the three points
I did win this site though twice back in the first half.
One of those you missed which was the Blitz and Monty double push through dirt along
with the glass and the blue dirt pinch.
The Vlenton shields especially for this basement site, they don't go double shields
just the black bid.
But a very, very, very similar lineup to what they bought in the 6th round.
The only difference is that they drop the Deimos and they bring the striker.
Alright, let's see if they can get the job done here then.
Here is that round history.
Not the first time, Chippanine, I found themselves in a match-winning position.
And it's top-floor.
All map clear for them.
We've seen this from Mr Punch on several occasions.
shot and drop this time that we throw is at a pre-placed nitro that will potentially find any
lurkers inside of cash. Probably blow that in response to any vertical pressure. I wasn't
droned though, so I would assume it was seen or maybe heard by the attack. Triple jim on the attack.
It's the same way to clear out this first floor though. I don't mind this.
rather than just kind of solo players you know kind of pushing down main or
pushing down red or whatever it may be it's just like we've got the solid
snake the triple stack it drop him get the information and then we can start
to spread out around that first floor so really clean really safe minute 40 on
the clock and you've got this full site can go full map control now it's a
five stack down from elevate it's just the only downside that we don't bring
something like the ram or the bark or even the sledge just to make the
most of the time that you can gain the dirt pressure that allows elevate the
fallback to sight probably a little earlier in the round double nitro play
the mirror setup watching what main
the utile belt set here over the wall to sort of that push like be a position
bar maybe for a motor drop so they'll look to try and pinch these positions out
Here is the job, YouTube, to follow synchronization, looking good here from the attack.
Apology boys, ships low and Hakao falls first.
Yeah, good play from Miku.
Hold some follow up here, they've got a second.
It's a 1 vs 2 now though, after the exchange, you pull it on the site.
1v2 for Jude to try and clutch this.
And now, otherwise it looks like every single round is going to be required in this match.
Didn't think that was going to be the case coming into this game.
into this game. Now that mirror is still up so he knows he can't push blue. And should
now know they're both in here. He's got 20 seconds. Laugh the repositioning from Juby's
playing this as honestly as well as he can. Someone expected maybe dirt though and Mr
Punch pushes out for the swing. So 7, 7, triple 9 will go defense to try and close
this out. I imagine it'll be Jim Bedroom. And I imagine though it won't be the
clash to chenka set up surely
yeah we could be going back to bar wouldn't i wouldn't rule it out
if we go back to bar you may as well just end the round now
there's no way you go back to bar like i don't feel like they might go there
i don't know no you're trolling you're rage baiting me i'm not taking this
i'm not i'm not just in bedroom and and play it the way you did back in
the 8th ground although you don't have access to the Dazami I still think you can play that sort of
smoke to Broward Denari. Yeah there you go I was right. They bring the north though which is
interesting. Yeah again I was expecting it to maybe get banned out from Alive but they kind of
found themselves in a situation where that wasn't viable in front of mine. Stax though remains
hidden here which is an infusing position in the lodge here. I haven't seen a drone enter there.
That should be the case. That's going to mean that Scatman will remain on the Blackbeard.
That's going to be a really interesting duel between those two. When the nor eventually does
get identified and spotted out. I'm going to be interested to elevate
back in themselves in to take that head on or is it going to force Scatman into repositioning
and trying to reroute the attack. This could be massive in terms of how this clear develops
from Elevate. They may be forced to pivot over to board something more directs if this map
clear becomes an issue. So I'll mod this pick on triple nine and we'll see if it's effective.
But of course this can its ability to deny hard breach. That will of course
announce itself to the server and Elevate will now confirm that there's a normal board.
I mean, not even just that, it brings the playable shield, got bay left as well, open up rotates
and footholds, commando grinds, pretty decent gun.
Clearly, we've been seeing some teams with the adaptation of mining and scuba route,
just for that extra denial.
Yesterday we got to actually see it used on a shield, that was the first time I actually
saw it used on a shield, don't forget this is gym bedroom, so the fact that
Elevate still want to maybe play into this rafters clear but they haven't really
brought the lineup to do so, all timey. I think they've over-invested in this
position many other ways on a jubic from site you can almost even ignore it when
I've had the main breach open dart. I told you it will shut jubed down and it has
come at a cost. The NiKal equals up to over the Wars Top Reds. A push back through
the lounge gave up on the garage direct hit. With that now it's a three versus
three in the 15th round with a minute remaining as to who gets the two
points. The grand scheme of things though it means probably more for
to elevate to get the two points is triple nine now very much unlikely to be able to make that run for finals
Needed all three
The more to gain for elevate means more to lose for elevate in this last minute
You too late of course to choose in the nor and able to keep that at bay
The elevator will look to formulate this push as Enhycal lurks below for a triple impact has a red ping on that deployable shield
Going to clear mattress but nobody
Posted in that position or maybe a little closer to the rotate and now that means the defense will be
Clued in and ready to watch this main stairs
reposition 20 seconds
I just all shot out from nikell he will be allowed up main stairs. That's a bit of a blunder from triple nine
Cuz now he's in the action the thick of it stacks
They got one but nikell does the damage knows that j-dog is in large he missed the punch doesn't have the kit now
He does we'll go for the plant, but now the ranch will be done j-dog will win triple nine their first game
All look the board here for stage two and APL Asia
to get the finals in any. Of
the regions. So I imagine
finals is still very much
unlikely, but more importantly,
routine that was on zero points
coming into play day four. They
finally get their first points
and they get their first win.
Yeah, they clearly don't seem
too worried in terms of the
finals. That's for real.
Yeah I mean they clearly don't seem too worried in terms of the finals aspirations
as the stands are at now they're thrilled with the win and look given that in the
lead up to this match in the first few play days they were basically beaten to a
pulp they got the rude introduction that many tier 2 teams do get at this
level where they get beaten up by the big boys but they've been able to fight
back here in this particular play day and honestly I think when you you
can look at it either way you could frame it as a negative that maybe
they weren't able to close it down in regulation and I think in some respects that's probably
valid. But to eventually then go on walk away play confidently and over time and get the
result that's you know still really really impressive. So credit to triple nine they
had to really grind out this game it was a challenging match for them but they had a
lot go their way and I think you know highlighting that hopefully over time they'll get even
better and I think eventually if they're able to you know chip away and into the
top four get more finals experience this team does potentially have a bright future ahead so
a great result for them and for elevate it does mar their record a little bit a little bit I mean
look they walk away with the point but more importantly they walk away with a loss to a
tier two team right so does that not dampen expectations on them now and their overall
journey to Osaka they'll look at this is now a chance to bounce back tomorrow if you elevate
That's the only way to really do it. They play Dolphin tomorrow, so I think I'll go in with a little bit more hunger and vigour and
Trying to respond get the three points
They're still in a good spot to get into the final four
But this does put a damper on things and it does mean for elevate considering they still play
Wayboat they certainly can't afford to lose to Dolphin the road
That's it goes without saying and then they probably can't even afford to then lose to F5 on the final play day
So they're now in this weird position where it was looking really smooth and now there's a few bumps along the road
I think they'll bounce back. These things can happen clubhouse sometimes allows
teams that get on a bit of a roll again that momentum and
An elevate clearly got some work to do
But for triple nine it's really all about celebrating their first win this day for a team that was previously the elevated academy
To then beat the elevate main roster must also be a pretty good feeling
Absolutely again, they came into this particular played a 7 at 21 in terms of round count
So they've got beaten up on several occasions and it's kind of getting to the point in the stage where you can either
You know double down and really fight hard and try and get some results on the board
You can give up and clearly they've gone with the
Almost opposed to the ladder and so it's just about trying to gain as much experience as possible
Give them all for the remaining matches it again
How likely they make it but it's not impossible
It is still mathematically sound if epic goes their way and they're really really good from here
So you never know how things could develop
And I mean, it also means that fixtures going forward, their opposition are going to be on their toes a little bit more after this result.
I don't know, it will be. Let's go to our interview for Triple 9's winner.
It's Stax that coming in for a chat.
Firstly, Stax, congratulations to you and the team for picking up your first here one win.
How do you feel?
I feel so amazing, bro.
First game, we win and we beat.
We are so happy right now.
Yeah, congratulations. You guys played really good, but it was difficult at the end. You had the opportunity in regulation. Then you had to win the game in the final round of overtime. How did you guys deal with the pressure of trying to win this game?
Um, we, we are no pressure. We just play our game. Yeah. We just play our game and go back what we want to do this while. That's it.
Well, you say you play your game, Stax. So you guys went 6-4 up the chance to get the three points. And then I felt like you kind of changed the way that you were playing.
On that gym bedroom round in the 11th round you brought the clash you brought the tachanka
You played far more defensive whereas every round before that it was you know window fights entry fights looking to get that first kill
Rome around the map was that a clear directive that you wanted to maybe change it and then clearly it didn't work
So then did you identify that going into overtime to go back to what was working?
Yes, sir at first when we were
I saw that they play really really slow and taking a control area really slow so I decided
to be in class and I should die.
It's not worth it so I just come back and I guess it will meet with them.
Last one.
Fast stage.
We don't see it often.
Obviously you guys didn't win it.
the lowest played site on clubhouse. What was the reason how much work have you put into
the fast stage and will we see you guys play it again?
Barcaid is our pocket. And it's 50-50. It's hard to say but it's 50-50. If we win, can
play, we win the round. That's it.
I think most rounds are 50-50 staxter, but I understand what you're saying.
I understand what you're saying.
Anything you'd like to say before we let you go? Any shout outs?
Thank you to everyone. Thank you to my team, my friend, everyone who support us.
I don't know what to say, but I'm so happy right now.
We just elevate academy team and today we repeat main team.
I cannot believe it. It's hard to say what you think, but I'm so happy, bro.
Yes.
You deserve to be happy. Congratulations to you and the rest of the team on the win.
Best of luck tomorrow. Hopefully you can keep the winning times going.
Thank you. Thank you.
Well, a very happy Staxter and a very happy triple nine. That's right.
The old Elevate Academy roster has beaten the main team.
seven. Arguably they should have won this probably seven four seven five guys. I think that's the take away for me
They had the chance to get all three points and have a very small chance of finals but a chance now
statistically, it's very unlikely although mathematically it may still be possible
It's very very unlikely for elevate. Look, it's a small bump in the road
They get a single point in the long run that actually might help them
You think about that might get them to say 13 points by the end of the stage
If they get two more wins and that will typically always get you top four. So I think they're still in a good spot
I'll learn from this one today, and I'll bounce back
But they'll be sorely disappointed to lose to the old Academy team for sure as we had to the break though
We're not done here for Asia. Apparently. We're just heating up an eight seven to kickstart three more games to go today
Here for play day four. Don't go too far
Okay, it's out. I played for Webo Gaming in the APL. My earliest gaming memories was on
the PlayStation 3 with my dad. I used to play Call of Duty the first modern warfare I think,
like Cod 4. I used to play a lot with my dad on the PS3, like sitting his lap, hold
the controller, like learn how to play. After that, I was 3 years old at the time.
I'm not sure when, maybe a few years later, I'd play a lot of like GTA 4, so yeah, very
child friendly games.
Yeah, off of that I would just play like all of the new Call of Duty's that would come
out every year.
Play a few racing games I need for speed and stuff, but yeah, mostly just like the Call
of Duty's every year.
When I was 15, I kind of saw like a lot of my friends around me would kind of start
to get PCs, like they'd get part time jobs, save up and buy a PC.
All of the YouTubers I was watching as well, streamers were getting PCs, ended
up working with my dad for like a summer or something.
My parents helped me buy a PC for my 15th birthday.
My little sister is 7 years younger than me, so we never really had hung out and especially
never really played games together.
Like by the time she was able to function as a human being, like I was already playing
a lot of like single-player games, not really playing like kid-friendly games.
And my older sister just never had interest in it to be honest.
I first played Siege when I was 11 years old, I want to say, in the first beta
in 2015.
I played, I thought the main game mode of the game was Terror Sun.
I very rarely remember like, play on canal.
I would sit on my drone, go red ping all of the terrorists, and then go kill them.
And I would do that like, on repeat, I thought it was so fun.
I literally didn't know that it wasn't the main game mode.
I ended up going through all the situations and stuff and it was fun.
And yeah, I just never, never even thought to like, press the multiplayer button.
Not until the full game released, and probably not until like a month after the full game released.
I was just so excited.
I would even replay the situations over and over and like thinking back to that, I haven't
touched the situations in maybe seven years.
If the situations were revamped then yeah I would definitely go on a once through but
not more than once.
Yeah so when I first got my PC the main game I was playing was like Siege like in the
you know the competitive mode like the ranked mode I was playing a lot of Siege but I
also tried out like Valorant kind of when the covid era hit it was around the same
time like I got my PC and I was 2019 in COVID 2020 so I played a lot of Battlefield as well.
I'd mix in like you know Minecraft like 2k racing games stuff like that but my heart's always been
in shooter games. I actually quit Siege for like six months when it came out but ended up coming
back as most people that quit Siege do. I played a little bit of like cold rank play just with
my mates and stuff from the IRLs but nothing really as seriously as Siege. For me single player
games I think they're more enjoyable than multiplayer games especially as I've
gotten older when I was growing up like around my teenage years I enjoyed
multiplayer games more especially when you're still progressing and like
finding the ranks in multiplayer games I feel like that's more enjoyable than
being the top rank and smashing everyone then it goes to like single
player games are more enjoyable I haven't always been a quiet natured
person though especially in the ranked lobbies I like talking my shit but
It's usually just all in the cello, like, especially when I meet people that I've talked shit to, like, it's all...
I can always, like, put it behind me and just keep it in the cello.
I think that my mum was a bit confused at first when she saw me, like, typing in chat a lot and talking trash to the other team,
but I think, like, over time she's understand that it's just a part of, like, who I am, my online persona, so...
I can't baby, you ain't right
You wanna stay here the night
You're starting to see me like
You see me like
You see me like
You see me like
You see me like
and we're going to have to
play day four has gotten off to
a bang it here for APL Asia
triple nine the old Elevate
Academy roster taking down the
forward for the rest of the night as we've got up next Dolphin versus Sharpa, which are probably
almost a little similar to our first game going into tonight, Guards, in terms of probably
the expectation for this game. And we can throw all those expectations out the window now,
because who knows, it could be that sort of night. Let's go to our first roster,
which is Dolphin Esports. Yeah, look, I don't know how much the last game is going to feed
into this one. They should be isolated events, but yeah, sometimes they pay,
APL can be weird like that. Looking across at this goal from roster they head into tonight
with just one point for show for their efforts and that point came of course in the final play day
of the second week so the last play day to take place and was an 8-7 loss over on the
latency you can see some of their highlights in terms of how they've gotten to this particular
point but yeah they'll be a little bit disappointed they weren't able to flip that into two and by
only walking wave one they have a similar fate now to triple nine where being able to accumulate
enough points to finish inside the top four is very difficult to envision not impossible but very
very challenging so we're gonna have to see the best from them this evening if they are to look
competitive against Sharpa they'll have to step up massively they have to do a triple nine
esk effort tonight it has a playing confidently no second guessing playing well as a team etc etc
they need to tick all of those boxes if they are the standard chance.
So let's go to Sharpa Esports, which is not going to be an easy challenge for Dolphin to do as you
were saying. Probably need all three points. Sharpa have been really, really solid up until
today. They beat Elevate 7-4 in the European player base, 7-0 over Daystar, and then 7-3 over
Triple 9, which as we just saw, not exactly an awful team. Stacked with talent. I9 back to
I said actually coming into tonight of his buddy say I nine was I think on the verge of retirement
I guess I died I did retire napies coming out of retirement and for sharpie sports with the two slots in the region
They don't have to worry about that boogeyman in wabo gaming
They've just got to hold their own fit minimum the second best team and while naturally in a competition environment
You always want to be the very best they and then eventually will get that chance tomorrow
against Wavo. Played 05, that matchup will occur. Tonight's just all back in the job done, gets
a 12 points, locking essentially a top 4 position and I think for all intents and purposes they
should be able to do that. We've got a custom graphic as well for Shapa Esports to have a look
at so Shapa Ain no Lapa, the Thai Titans will reunite undefeated so far though this
score has never started the APL era 3-0 up and so they look now to go one better and go
4-0 up. Yeah we'll see if they could do it. Prime opportunity tonight this should be the
kind of game they can roll through and get the job done but they can't really necessarily
be in that mind frame and just expect it to land on their lap right but again these
guys have so much experience it's ridiculous at this point they have been in these situations
before where they are A or B dominant team against the underdog and they know what it
takes to get the job done.
Let's go to the map Vito's for this game. It's going to be an expectation that Sharpa
should be able to get the result over Dolphin. Anything can happen. Fortress Shalay. Shalay
it is. With Sharpa getting ultimately the decision between the two maps Dolphin therefore
will get to start on defense Shalay to begin. I don't really think for a team
like sharper would probably matter too much where they actually go and so far based on what we've
seen from them double clubhouse with bank now over to charlay playing some of the more conventional
maths. Yeah, shall a staple. If your teams love it, it really facilitates that word play on attack
and we're going to say that's right off the rip I expect here from shopper. Well, my wonderful
producers just told me the game is ready. So let's get underway. It's the snowy dunes of
of Chalet. It's going to be Sharpa's opportunity to go four straight up, get to 12 points, virtually
lock in top four and finals at that. For Dolphin, the task is not so simple, but it really
is. Win, get the three points, and top four remains a possibility. Lose, and you put
a line through them for this stage, but two teams on very different wavelengths of
their careers in terms of their aspirations. Sharpa, the goal really should be now get
to Osaka. Anything other than that will be a disappointment on the stage. The Dolphin,
well, they would have, I'm sure, liked to have come into this stage maybe trying to scrape
into finals. It's really all just about continuing to improve. And my wonderful producers just
told me it was a false alarm and we will just wait a little longer before we get
into this game.
A bit of a jump start. I assume someone saw a PC or something's all wrong somewhere.
There should be a case of giving a playback in whatever the case may be remaking the lobby and we should be
Good to go. I mean following up from that sharper discussion in terms of I guess aspirations to go
To a soccer. I think the easiest comparison probably then to make is actually gonna be against
Weibo, I mean the limited data set so far here for the second stage that's all we've kind of got to go off
Waybo lead all-comers on attacking win rate, 86%. So they've only lost two of the 14 attacks that they've played so far this stage, and 82% defense, they've lost three.
Sharper's in a somewhat similar position, but trailing on attacks is 64%. It's pretty good in most cases, but when you're up against whatever you need to be, there's no way to pick that up, and then defensively they're actually on par.
So to see how proficient those attacks are going to be tonight because against quality opposition attacks are going to basically make or break
I think he's gonna go on the qualifier for the major and naturally a team that is looking to
Rebuild that synergy if attacking is going to be more difficult. So
Hopefully tonight that's a clean factor for them and on a map like Chalet
I'm expecting it to play right into their hands in terms of the playstyle that I want to employ with works and what have you
So I think that looked pretty good.
In early days you've seen probably more of sharper than I have considering you've done a few days of Asia
But how far off of the base do you think they are to Weber?
Are they going to be a legitimate chance of maybe being that I'm wanting from this region?
Or are they more looking to solidify by being the second best team in the region?
Ah, I mean I want to say that's a tough question, but honestly, it's not really that difficult
I have a question, the wave mode is so crazily good and so far ahead of everyone that I don't think we've seen enough to show any signs whatsoever of that slowing down and then obviously when you focus the 3s into the mix as well they're going to naturally have the strongest map pool, longest standing synergy from that perspective as well I assume so look I don't know if these guys will have what it takes to take on wave mode
to just answer the question in four words. I could have. Yeah. Well, if I had to, I don't
think it, I don't think it matters. Well, I mean, it's interesting. So up until this
point, it's 21, four round differential waivers, like you're saying, I mean, they're just
absolutely running through everyone 21, seven for sharp box. So the main contest for them
was back on the opening playday against elevate was the seven four game. Otherwise
7-0 and 7-3 is still pretty one-sided matches and obviously weibo 7-1, 7-1, 7-2
And yeah, we will find out I guess a little bit more tomorrow
Maybe not the full picture like even if sharper would have win tomorrow against weibo and you know like a classical 7-5
Or even an OT game how much you take away from a best of one on playday 5 really is up to you
I wouldn't take that and run with it even if say weibo would win 7-1 7-0
I wouldn't then fully discount sharper come finals in a S3 although naturally that's going to be where webo should be at the strongest
As we head back in or our second game of the evening reminder
We are on a chalet dolphin starting on the defense as we head into the bands
Yeah, let's get this one underway
So the bands that ends up being probably gonna be followed up by a zami and then I wouldn't be shocked if we see a
Snake or Deimos at least if I'm dolphin. I want to try and take away some of that looks right
They go more execute heavy though with Grim and actually we will see his army up with Thorn
out of play instead and I suppose that probably actually does make sense from the perspective
of Sharper.
It is one of the tools that can be used against some of their lurk play and again I'm really
expecting that to be at the forefront.
I'm not going to be struck if we see heavy stacks of Bokkobi, Snake, Deimos.
I think that'll be best position to get in the map early.
Force a couple of players in some of the power positions and then really try to
exploit elsewhere. Look early science here in terms of the initial selection here for this
opening round. You see the snake, lion, Bokobisa, Info. They're also going to open up the Triple
Impact Threat that preserved for you and you know what, I don't mind the inclusion of the
Blitz there as well. That could be a good way to help facilitate some of the high pressure
play that I think is the best win condition for them in this matchup.
We've got to just kind of, as much as possible, look to what we saw in the last game from
Triple Mind in terms of play style.
Not the same ops, clearly different map, but that sort of, don't be scared to take fights.
Don't be scared to go for peeks at the windows and, certainly on a map like Chalet, you
think across like Piano and Bathroom, and a hybrid hallway, that whole balcony on
the outside, you've got to kind of take some of those fights and see if you can
find a few pits, move around the map, be active, don't just sit back, give space, Sharpa will
just thrive on that.
Reminds me of Chateau, oh I love it, yeah and look at that, you get the snake as well, so
you take your chance and it pays off perfectly.
Now the more you do this the quicker that Sharpa will clue onto it and I'll hold these
kind of angles but you've got to be in it to win it and they get the opening
kill from that play from Chateau.
Yeah, that was nice.
And so that means a good tester here, early for Sharpa and their resilience and their ability
to pivot to plan B. They drop the Blitz into the Monty instead.
That will help them get a footboard over what's currently, but now pinched to develop.
Peeps default elsewhere in the mean time and Sharpa not being given much room to
breathe.
Crypt J Lurk West Main.
He's caught on Thursday, so they'll have that covered.
A bit of an overpeak from Ziz, but ultimately nets the kill.
And Sharpa have completely capitulated here in the opening round.
They're credit to Dolphin.
They're the ones that are initiating these fights.
They're the ones that I've slated them on to.
They're the ones that kept Crypt J at bay.
Maybe it is a full moon tonight, and the underdogs are on for something special
once more.
I mean it comes down now to Sharpa how they want to kind of clue into Dolphin's aggression,
these kind of jump-outs.
So I said Dolphin need to play that way and they do and look what happens.
But then it's up to Sharpa to be ready for it and be the more experienced and deader
team.
Well they did bring the Monty initially but Monty can only do so much.
Monty's more about inside of the building, not for these jump-outs and certainly
window plays. If anything maybe you then leave more on Black Teard.
The BG man obviously doesn't have the kit so I just don't see how he's gonna have any
chance of winning this round. It's down below, Elf and Smart are playing off that full first
force stack. There's just nothing on this top floor for BG man to find. Time expires
and we're probably just gonna waste the next 30 seconds as BG men.
There's loiters on the top floor.
It's that preservation mode.
In the first round, I don't know.
It's one less death later. Way down these stairs.
I'm an easy decision, he's not going to walk through a double gas pipe, so I'll just keep
the 1-0 and start the game.
Okay, in that situation 1v4, Kits at a bad spot, Sight's top floor, he's never winning
that in a million years, I don't really care with how he played it.
I'm glad I got your tick of approval, Jake, I'm sure he'll watch back the Vaude
be feeling good. No, so sometimes in seed, especially when it's like a 1v2 or 1v3,
probably more than 1v3, sometimes players, they've got like 40 seconds, 1v3, and they
just don't really give it 110%. BG man in that position could have given it 200%. He's
still not winning the round. But now for Sharper in the second round, it's a quick
chance down to respond
and that's
i did and it's uh... jump back
and see what don't have to show you and whether or not they can sort of build
this uh...
up to be interesting that chopper
chopper quickly snapped back into
shape
let them bring the blitz this round he's the dillias
give it to the monty maybe looking for something that could be a little bit
stronger they are to
shape up to go directly
site this round but
uh... into the comp here from dolphin it's not gonna be super easy they've got the
goya stall
uh... echo denial they've got smoke for spacing so
pretty shocked a sharper comment
unless they really
you know truthfully see that we don't have opportunity to hit the site earlier
i imagine they'll try and again try and lurk
they puke into position hopefully he doesn't get spawn killed this time out
and then they can worry about
a point of weakness to exploit, of course we'll scout out the side and identify that
jump indirect here at least at this stage is not going to be the play.
And this will just be sharper taking a little bit more time as they enter the building,
drone, probably spend a bit more time droning. APM the solid snake needs to actually stay alive
longer than he did in the previous round due to the opening death of two and a half minutes
I typically looking like a conventional hold this round from Dolphin so maybe not expecting
them to play with the same tempo as the first round.
I should give Sharpa some opportunities.
Now these little minigames are clearing out mezz.
Oh, that was a very risky dash across from Sunstrike.
Sharper looked at moving to action, but like all of this goes slowly big window.
But it was that to be fair the same time as Pete so soon as peeps faulted inserted like Hollis, but they were ready for it
PG man now down
Unstrike doing a decent job staying alive can't now die there for free peeps
As this finishes off the downed PG man 3v3 and it left
He does have some help now coming through
The Sun strike went for the peak zests needed to then get the trade they both fall to peeps
Heno is here, there's the last one here.
I was at least getting killed under Grinchay, and they had the chance against Napeyu.
Napeyu though, able to just be a little bit better in the gunfight,
and Sharpa responded the second round.
Yeah, that was better.
Couple of dice moments there at the start, but I think the
largest reason why they were successful in that round was just the ability to synchronize.
They were all formulating on one plan, they were able to pressure
A couple of the key points of the map simultaneously, and they went out just enough of those jewels in the end that it was successful, so solid work.
Maybe a return to normality, that's what the back of the replay package.
I mean, yeah, like all of us did get caught out, but in the meantime, Peeps was taking that space up above, lost a couple of fights, over towards Library.
That's one of the more difficult things about this site for the defense is you really don't want to lose that Library control,
but trying to fight for it, trying to maintain it, trying to take it back,
is very difficult once you lose it typically you're not getting a hold of a back and a good example there where Pete's
was able to do his job while positioned and
was already unable to cut down on the defense trying to retake his
particular position
No very attempt immediately. It's over to dining here. So a all unique rotation across the first three rounds
And it's happens the ones who here for sharper they're also going
That chip into play
And I wonder if that's in response to the kaii
Would also be to facilitate quick play against Fenrir too. Sometimes we see teams trying to formulate a push for a trophy vault with this kind of line up
So I'll be intrigued to see how could Jay try and get some value from his launcher
Oh, that's nice from Nathan, you're off the radar, I pre-fire into the barricade off the
intel and get some nice open kill, might then go for a second.
better off it for now it's just really taking their time now after that opening
round giving Dolphin a little bit more respect slower and on some of these
entries but when they get afforded the chance this is what we saw from Napier
they will take it.
If you play advantage in the third round, Dolphin needs to try and fight back.
Really giving up this top floor as well.
A channel on the pushback from Library.
Would he potentially catch BG men off guard?
He just steps through barbed wire.
That gets the freebie.
Higiment too far away to hear that.
I should know, there's more pressure around him.
Otai just looked away for a split second
and the timing was apparent.
If we kill him for Gretj,
can I spot it inside a dining?
Sunstrike towards West Main needs to get helping
and cannot and neither of them able to land a blow.
Sharper take the lead.
Yeah, we're seeing Sharper switch on here immediately
after that opening round, doing a better job
in terms of overall team play, looking comfortable inside of the server,
leveraging the kind of tools and operas that they're bringing to execute the
game plan that they sort of want, and being able to dictate a lot of map
control in a way in the dolphin. Look a little bit uncomfortable, a little
bit uneasy, a couple of moments of hesitation in that round, a couple of
holes left in the defense, and Sharpa exercising their ability to
identify that quickly with their experience into effects.
There's a toss-up for Dolphin in terms of whether or not to ban the Monty or the Blitz. They
opt for the Monty.
The second-rate package of that last round here just got a couple of moments there where
some holes were left on both sides arguably a bit sharper because they had to avoid themselves
such an advantage that they had to save the net of the Monty as well to play into.
being a solid job there in being able to win out the round they give themselves the lead
meeting as well that their ban in response to the Monty will be the a la and that will
bolster the Blitz a little more for the remainder of this match and there's good about mines
also effective against the lurk which I must say hasn't quite been as prevalent
or as impactful as I expected I really thought this could be the solid game where they're
is lurking into the map 30 seconds in and just getting wrecking havoc across the map.
It hasn't been quite that extreme but there are plenty of attacks to follow here and Shepard
might be able to ramp up that element of their game.
We take that if you like all of us, that's their first opening kill, it was the opening
death in the in the second round as well. I think it's might be the second, sorry I forgot about the
Napier one. Heaps died downed. With no follow-up should be revived. I know my back in the lab is
like I was just waiting to see if anyone wanted to make the move into mud. Heaps back up by
the advantage retained for Sharpa back-to-back opening kills with the
Azami nice and early APU just gets another free one he's up to five and
one. After being the opening depth in the first round he's just gone on a rampage
ever since he's been allowed off the leash and it's a five versus three
starting to feel like the formalities at least until that point were maybe on
the cards, killers getting the kill on to like colas. I was keeping this round still interesting
now for dolphin. Needed that.
Oh that one would have helped as well. Not so quite landing through the beams and show
chopper retained advantage, good youtube bell for the dump late, more damage. He's low
now.
Yeah, you have to.
Oh, BG Man's posture here for the triple or double impact now.
Which will be enough to kill him at half fall.
And bang! That's really clean.
Zist towards Piano did at least finish off the low health peeps.
Zist also now has to enter the Jugger payload core.
But I think he might have enough health to go down at one HP, but...
You'll be too close for comfort.
Final gas bay from Tenno.
Clearly a big advantage now opening up for Sharpa.
Tenno then tries to get on the move to defend the kit.
Just behind default half wall.
Sharpa just starts to get going.
Like an old car, you just gotta give it a little jump start to begin.
I slow opening round but since then three in a row
Yeah, they've been able to snap into action they're not
Looking slow inside of the server at the moment the cogs are turning
They're really quickly gaining info them and then playing off of which is a sign of a team that's in good form
Nothing that they might so you agree that the seat they're playing right now has been pretty strong
There was some of that lotion path that I
expected maybe a little bit more of it was Napier successfully down below, great util usage with
the impact below there on the killers who was low courtesy of the joker payload and then just
simple crossfires there established at the end leaving no room for the dolphin defense who had
a look early in this matchup but it seems as if their chances are very quickly diminishing
But I see it is a pretty brutal display from Sharpa.
We haven't been ones to shy away from dominant results so far at this stage, 7-4 elevate.
Not quite dominant territory, but strong 7-0 over day style was massively surprising and
that was, of course, goes without saying, a massive domination and then in the most
recent player day another strong performance of 73 over 999 so they've
been making sure they're getting these wins in regulation walking away with
maximum points and as it stands this one shaping up to be a similar story
It's like all us fall back into trophy
All for just showing a little bit more presence over towards solar
So they thrown it out now you can kind of push up
It's far more methodical now from Joppa really ever since that opening round that's not trying to make any mistakes not trying to give Dolphin any early kills
This is where Dolphin themselves have to start adapting a little bit better too.
Too much sitting back, giving up the last couple of opening picks and then just getting
overwhelmed inside.
When the slow pace from Sharper is evident but working, I've got to try and find that
sort of timing maybe around now halfway through this round can they get a little
bit more on the move take the next fight really on their terms rather than
sharper being allowed to continue to push up get into the spots they want to be at
this is at least good denial with the layering of the Vulcan canister being
popped off gaspade trying to just stall out sharper for as long as
possible
You never win in that low on health
On a job here for peeps for the men's clue this could be critical
Who do you men like to go for the gun up fight flush dumb
Order though doesn't matter
Just so much pressure being laid here should be falls
I don't know, might get one, although just walked past like Carlos and well, well, I should
have got that kill.
Well, not flawless indeed, a Sharper go four straight, putting to bed any kind of upset potential
after dropping the opening round.
They now lead quite heavily, they look very confident, they look very comfortable, they're
in control of this game.
Look, it's not the most flashy game.
Sharpa just kind of feel as if they've just got this triangle hold on this matchdown.
They're controlling the pace.
They want to go slow, they'll go slow.
They want to go fast, they'll go fast.
It doesn't really matter because Dolphin aren't really doing anything to disrupt the
plan of attack from Sharpa.
They've just gone very stagnant.
They need to try and breathe some light back into this game.
It's on them.
Sharpa's just playing this really well.
them to try and bring a bit more chaos into the server. Final opportunity on defense in
this round. So I would just go for break, try and do something a little different.
Yeah, you need to try and test Sharper here and their ability to pivot plan B or plant C.
Unfortunately, it's been a lot of plant A from Sharper, but it has been yielding success.
I haven't been forced to pivot larger than all of these rounds. I'm getting a bit of
value early from the lurk and they're forced into utility clearance, they'll play utility
clearance when utility is maybe lacking, they'll go crossfires instead, typically with advantage.
It's been a pretty straightforward game of siege for them at the moment.
Don't mind this from Dolphin, they'll go down to basement. Not the most popular site.
It can be pretty easy to be overrun by the attack, pending how you play it and
pending lives of how sharp a player. Based on the lineup here from the attack, this is
Potentially indicative that they do go direct
And if that's the plan Dolphin should be ready for it
They've got the kind of lineup the mirror and the quad nitro the warden. They've got the pieces
To be prepared all that push
Repix from sharp related piece
Double primary hard breach they drop the sense so I think they've maybe identified that
Direct isn't great, and I think that's actually a great call
if my assumption is correct because into that lineup it's something to be fun
instead they'll probably go map clicky with that
oh no
oh no
Will he get the hatch open? Yes or no? No.
You can see Critch Hage is laughing at the camera there as well. 0-6 with Sunstrike and
have that moment happen. He'd be looking forward to the halftime break maybe so will Dolphin.
Unfortunately for there, but I think it's gonna get any easier in that second half
Look, I don't mind the fact that they tried to play
Basement and do something a little different. That's kind of what I was asking from them
And there's still a good chance with the way that basement plays out
This could still be a close round that they could even still win at three versus four not impossible
The three plays alive all still have nitrocells as well. So I mean there's still a chance to get back into this round
might need a slip up from Sharpa and Zist's on the move on that first
wall ends up finding Napier and Killers has found one and so and Zist has
gotten another one so there you go looks like they will get that second
round after all and take the risk get the reward
Yeah, peeps will be forced to send a through main breach.
There should be a trade option here all on the site.
Well, that's a bad spot.
Maybe not.
I know.
That's a really bad spot.
Is this just no trade potential?
It's still 50 seconds.
So this is the worst case scenario.
I know they're both on kit, but killers is now low.
This is winnable for peeps.
I know his in there.
Are they in the best position?
They're just shot out.
He's got no idea. I mean that's the problem.
Existing killers are at least going to play nice killers above.
Because they're supposed to close Dolphin and get their second round.
They're much better.
In the end, basement works out for them.
Maybe it wasn't looking like that way to start the round,
but they closed it out.
24 let's see what the second half has in store for us
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Well, not exactly a heart-stopping half, because it was in the end a start and a finish for
Dolphin with Sharpa completely dominating in between leading four to two. They're going
defense now for Chalet. I've got to call this one over yet. Need to see what Dolphin are going to
bring on the attack and their play style and whether they can actually give themselves a
good opportunity to make this a close game. Sharpa though, the expectation really should be
to close this out and do so comfortably, certainly based off the opening three playdays
in this region to really kind of stamp their credentials very much as at least a part of
top two with Weibo. Yeah looking at the shallow numbers for last stage in Asia
was exactly 50-50 split between attack defense and actually sharper find
themselves in a really good position. I think the kind of siege they like to play
and you know how they've looked a large part very strong in the first half
I think that's gonna suit them here. They should be able to play off each
other pretty reactively and have the synergy required to put in a pretty
a good effort here. Dolphin have done just enough to maintain some semblance of competitiveness
being able to scrap out a couple of rounds so that's not to be discounted.
I had a good job to achieve that but I don't think it really has altered the narrative
all too much but with the strong possibility that Chapa go on to find another dominant
result tonight
as they go totoko
with weibo and heating fort
pop spot here in asia
all stage 2
may be able to end the night
in front of weibo but
i think for that to happen they have to
7-2 this game and hope that weibo have a
couple of slip ups continuing where we do currently have a 3 round differently
the
to see our bedroom office but we've got peeps over the wall it's bastard now this is where
the shadow of the soul of the state can
help highlight his location he's actually now getting payload called as well by Sunstrike
with mine seemed often kind of put a few eggs in that basket and got her deal with
team get that opening kill remove that potential room from the game be sure
they joined us this just turned it over the world's bar at least just don't solo
push him there's no need to solo push him here I like that as well from this
heads up all in fact we'll go to the bush on to BG man I don't think he was
expecting that these guys actually pushed it out of bar stocking into bar
That court zits off. Yeah, he wasn't ready. So I mean, look, he gets that kill. He's then comes back around which opened up my killers
This is that's a good clear from Dolphin
All versus three you get the advantage to deal with each PG man
No longer able to lock down that library stairs position and this now stretches that defense on the top floor
The office and bedroom in sight for Napier and like Hollis crochet the only one that's kind of off-site
It's all open up a lot of space now for Dolphin to push forward
I almost actually had an opportunity to find that trade over towards the staircase position.
A tough angle just missed out.
A decently long range shot.
So now Sharper confirmed to be playing the final minute out of this round with the player down.
Not yourself and Nape you.
On the opposing side for Dolphin they've got a lot of smoke you tool that can be used to cut off crosses.
The Lilzka flash jump.
Chatter with a nade.
Don't discount the impact of the raid art.
And of course, Harbridge should be an issue, but Dolsalma is still up.
So this is a strong position for Dolphin.
Let's see if they've got the game plan to make the use of this advantage.
I'm leaving themselves a lot of time, though, with this advantage.
You know, if you walk in and someone dies, it's gonna have that blow-on effect.
Fortunately, they get the first pick onto Crit-8.
I'll have to blow on effect now in the other direction.
No, it's a team kill from Chateau with the Frag grenade on to Tano.
And Killers then goes down.
Sunstrike who's yet to find a kill needs two.
Quickly. Only got damage on to Napier.
Five seconds left with no kit.
My call is to Napier.
Well, Napier goes down.
My call is inside a piano behind the deployable shield.
Ops for the peek and gets the kill.
A chance goes begging for Dolphin.
That was a bit of excitement to inject into this matchup.
The kind of round where Dolphin they had it all, they had the advantage, they had pretty
good U2, they had the Summers to go for a half-fall plant, but in that transition, that's why
we typically see better teams kind of dominate their opposition and find disruptive opportunities.
They got caught out, they lost to Picks, they were forced to pivot into a low percentage
play late down to one versus one but the colis was too good opted for the pop-up
didn't want to gamble the clock and he had been the right decision to stay behind
the shield it's hard to say I think it was pretty 50-50 but in the moment he was
able to convert that's what's most important play DC immediately after
that round however so tech pause to follow
It takes the sting out of it as well for Dolphin, they look pretty solid in that round, could have been a 3-4 game and kept pace with the sharp part.
You're not going to be afforded too many chances to get that 4v3 start deal with Ibs.
Look, they did a decent job in that clear. They were pretty on high alert.
Like sometimes you can get baited in, so he's in bar stock and everyone just kind of rushes towards it.
then you don't think about something like a library stairs hold and someone dies
then trying to run over but they were heads up about it print well it just came
down to the fact that with 30 seconds to go in the round they hadn't done
anything else after that and then they left themselves little time pushing
towards the side and even though they then got that first pick and it was
that 4v2 just becomes that mad dash that mad scramble they didn't play the
time well I think they got pressured by the clock a little mistake with the
frag grenade and then it all just starts to unravel and you just don't want to be in
a position where it's you 1v1 against like holis for five seconds left he's got a deployable
shit at the play behind because he's just going to be imposed in that position whereas
you're not going to be composed you're scrambling and fight you up down for sharper esports
they've been tested in this game though well and truly like this is not a waybo beat
down kind of match that you would typically see say from a way but if they were 5-2 up like the
rounds have been relatively close to having got all of the it was 4-3 split on the opening kills
a 2-1 in multi kills no plants at all in that first half of the sharp part so i mean
look they've been good often but is this going to be a 7-2
when they looked okay or can they get a couple more rounds
and say, yeah, we were really competitive.
Well, it seems as if this tech pause is going to extend for a little while longer,
so we'll leave you with the DJ, and we'll be back when the game is ready.
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a little dj break to break things up as we were in the technical time out but now heading
back into the game here of Chalet. Quick recap as we look at the replays of that seventh round.
Sharper going 5-2 up. It was a decent start for Dolphin. They dealt well with that sort of bar hold
from Sharper but Calamity really then into the side execute and we got one-on-one opportunity
for Sunstrike in the end after he got that down on today Pew, but my goal was too good
behind the deployable shield. So 5-2 heading into the eighth round.
Dolphin, clearly up against it in this kind of match considering the pedigree of Sharper
Esports, but again I think you can find the positives and the takeaways.
Let's jump back in.
The true new lineup here from Dolphin, I think our Monty, Thatcher, see if that's to try and go for something direct.
BGMando is in the library tuck, but quite spotted if he's got a patch util on his position.
I don't know if that's over the board, mays and supported that extension.
If he is playing the patch, it's going to make it very difficult for Dolphin to clear it,
and if they want to go direct to her to see the rest of the lineup,
they need to clear that library position otherwise the hatch coverage down to the
vault is going to make that basically an impossible play
I get a bit of pressure here on both sides BGMM will be eager to try and absorb this
utility needs to be careful that his movement is precise here's the
Capitao for follow-up will let you caught.
Not quite, but it's also not deep enough.
Second hit landed, BGMA was able to escape.
Like Hollis now left up above library.
Or hits the elbow of Zists.
And a good job at keeping this attack at bay.
Dolphin have critically cleared that position. They can start posturing
Well a half-full plant, but Cretce does drill first blood
Collar standing to double down over the war's library now you caught by Sunstrike he gets his first kill
That's gonna be enough space for killers to make his way in through the big window
Yes, it is good pistol shot onto like all us go for the plant inside of games Cretce
Quick information the spray coming from bees good enough to get the kill. That's worth his life in that position
Does it now mean to Tenno and Sunstrike?
Yeah, kid is in default, but you don't have the shield as the cover
So you're gonna have to think of this with a minute left as a 2v2 rather than can we still get the plant down?
45 seconds, hopefully it's going to be difficult to problem solve this situation with Blast
out clear imminent and no utility to flush this position.
So you can go about trying to achieve that goal, the best bet is trying to put BG man
on an island and then you can go for the two versus one.
That's about the dull seconds that have already started this fight, like it's 20 seconds.
You don't leave this to the last moment, possible moment where things can go wrong.
12 seconds.
Why are you still flying in there at the hatch, BG?
There's 12 seconds.
Forced to drop and take the fight.
Chris J is here.
Now he's going to play two different fights.
Gets the kill.
4 seconds.
And also the key is over in default.
I mean like, Chris J does get this kill.
But with 4 seconds left, you're giving him the chance to actually win the round.
Like at that point, as soon as you get that first kill of the two,
I mean technically, you didn't have to kill anyone, I reckon, at the end.
He could have actually just held Barstok and they wouldn't have even been able to then get to the kit and plant.
Yeah, it is what it is.
Ultimately, we all played that by Crit J.
Nice work in being able to not panic their late round.
Definitely the kind of environment that we use.
Is that a disrespect thing?
Using that end of round scenario, right here, 13 seconds left, 2v2, with the kit over at the half wall,
and knowing where their positions roughly are, one above and one pushing into bar,
like if that's Reeps and Turd, there's a very high chance you lose that round.
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I would agree.
I mean, that's kind of the problem, right?
It gives us components like this where you can get away with it so frequently, even when
it comes to big games, you get caught out because it isn't as reliable.
Either way though, one round away from getting all three points.
Honestly, that round is probably essentially the most of the others where you're winning
buggy, pretty dominant, pretty personal, so it would just be a case of, as you get to
board to the end, you just get over the looser. Again, probably the kind of situation where
you do need to remain locked in. You don't get a lot of time to prepare when it comes
to the best of the three, it's only a seven-play day deal one season, so you're gonna be
ironing out those kinks and not, although there's opportunities up if you explode
by better teams till the rise too often.
I'm into this round, Sharpa looking at the plate,
scope post, like that addition from Cryptjave,
we'll give him a little bit more freedom
to start his room up above on the second floor.
Swapping makes.
Sharpa play way more tomorrow,
so I guess we'll figure out a little bit more
in terms of how they wanna play against the big guns.
Well, I've looked at the standings,
one point guaranteed now for sharpers often would need four straight to change up the point structure
it's looking likely sharper we'll get all three which will put them on 12 points and essentially
then one foot into finals with replay days to go so no i'll be making it oh no oh my goodness
Crit J on the Scopus just walked in everyone walks past him
You said before based on the opposition you can get away with some of these more loose plays and that's a perfect example
That's an extreme example. Oh boy
Now with that sharper should be
And the moments away from locking in three points today
another good solid overall game from them which it finally does fall with
Chateau in the grave it's up to 10 over the 1 versus 3 he's dead as well
job book get the job done yeah I mean this is the kind of game that could have
been an email let's be honest 7-2 but it wasn't really a lot of pizzazz and
fight fire the rounds for the most part like some of them were close but
there were that kind of close where it was close on paper but you always felt
sharper we're gonna win the round and they did and that was essentially how
this game kind of went so if you kind of look at the survival from rounds six
seven and eight two two and one it was a two alive in the second round and every
single one of those was won by sharper except for a single round which was a
zist 4k so they won the opening round to open and they did so and really
Comfortably or alive like it was a very good start to the round
Then it's just all sharper until a bit of a highlight play down in baseman in round six
And that was it that was all they got but even in the rounds that sharper were winning too
Like it wasn't like they were playing with that sort of way bow aggression that way bow pace
But you know what ever works for them works for them and so far you can't fault chopper
Flawless start to the stage through four play days their ultimate test
course it's going to be tomorrow against Weibo, but such is the nature of Asia for this stage.
Two slots to the Osaka Major. If you're sharper, you're very content with how things are progressing.
Yeah, for sure. I think the best thing they've done is putting their foot forward around differential,
could have some kind of influence going forward. And they've done a good job in dominating
oppositions that are lesser than them. So yeah, solid so far. And tomorrow is going to be very
exciting. Let's go chat with an old friend of ours. It's like Hollis from a sharper esports.
Congratulations on the victory, Mike Hollis, in the end 7-2, pretty dominant, the kind of game where
you guys didn't really have to do too much, did you kind of feel that in the server a little bit
relaxed and just not really feeling that sort of high pressure? Yeah, it's like what you said,
I think it's kind of feel like a warm-up match for tomorrow, I think? Yeah, I mean I want to ask
directly into tomorrow. How are you guys feeling for that game? Is it excitement? Is it nerves?
You're not care too much because it's the best of one. How do you guys prepare for that match
from a mentality perspective? For me we want to be hope to bring an exciting match tomorrow.
We have to win of course but if not it probably doesn't affect us much because I will say we
really pretty much like 20 to pay off because we don't throw on anything yeah
so in the end it's just gonna be matter in free off more than just yeah so like
Hollis the benefit of Weibo doing what they did over the Esports World Cup
means the region has the two slots when we were in stage one I recall asking I
think Nate at the time when he was on chiefs about their thoughts on them
having the two slots and what that meant. In a region which has been dominated by
Waybo, you guys have clearly shown right now that you're at a very good level. With
the two slots do you still want to be the best team in the region or are you just
kind of focusing on filling out one of those slots? Like what's the team's sort
of mental mindset this stage? Because you do have the two slots it's easy to
fall into the trap of oh we just got to be the second team we don't have
to worry about Waybo but do you guys want to go one step further and
and still be the best team and take down Weber?
Of course we want to be the best team and take down Weber,
but we have to look at the real future.
I'm not going to say we're just going to beat them out of nowhere.
Like you can see from Weber's late-court show during this year,
and like before, it's going to be hard.
It's going to take much more than, I would say like,
like um it's gonna be a hard match against weibo like uh we we could be them but um it is what like
could be like impossible at this point i would say you know we're gonna we're gonna try our best
to beat them to be the number one squad sometime but um um it's it's hard right now i'm gonna be
honest yeah i guess it's a case for the stars and worst case you finish second right is that
the mindset at least you've got that safety blanket yeah yeah for now yeah
because like I would say they are more ready than us like in like a lot of way
so if we lose then it just like we are not you know that good yet as one I want
to mean yeah all right like oh thank you so much for coming and chatting with us
of course best of luck tomorrow big game hopefully you guys can do a do a
solo job get the win and maybe we can speak to you tomorrow okay
well it is a big game tomorrow and I think you said it best this one felt
like a warm-up yeah I mean my take mate main takeaway from that interview is that
they're not looking at tomorrow's being a huge game given the context around it
both should be pretty safe for top four but even longer term you know
identifying that it's gonna be very difficult to take them away but maybe
even impossible right now. But he seems, you know, future focused and maybe I'm reading into it too
much, but it feels like maybe he believes that this team in the future, in the distant future,
they get good enough, if they get more exposure, if they qualify for a soccer, get that international
experience. Maybe in 2027, they'll be closer to Wabo.
We'll see.
It's only three months before that, so I take it.
I don't know, I'm getting old.
Webo F5 Esports up next, so sharp ahead of their warm up.
It's time for Webo to have their warm up after the break.
It's gonna be, I would imagine Webo doing Webo things.
That's been their whole stage so far up until today.
They've dominated everyone, 717172.
F5 have actually not been too bad up to this point,
so they kinda get a good test to see
where they're really at, where they stack up.
So as we go into the break on the other side,
Wave-O versus F5.
Like in the first season I was literally copper like copper 4 or something so it was a lot
of fun even being copper so I would say it was a lot more fun I wanted to get gold like
gold was my goal at the time and I literally couldn't get enough copper but I was so
login every day and have fun I had like 300 games in the first season so it was definitely
still fun for me even though I sucked. The very first time that I kind of like
clicked in my head that something that I could be good at or something I could do
you know as a job maybe it's like you're playing champion ranked and you
verse like a full five-cycle pros and you beat them and especially if you play
good then you know you kind of get a bit cocky you know you're like 15 16
years old you're like well like these guys suck like I just smashed them. The
second part to that is like when I was playing a lot of ranked when I was
16 17 and I'd get like number one in the world for me. That's like an indicator of you know
I can I can do something in this game for me
The biggest barrier to taking an exhibit and competing is obviously age
Like you can't play in the official tier one circuit until you're 18
So that was a big barrier
But another barrier that I faced was I was very good at burning bridges with other pros because that I said like we
were kind of smashing other pros and then I talked shit to him in the chat a lot of them wouldn't like me and
And that's why I never played Pro League in OCE when I turned 18 straight away when I went to Asia
because I don't think many people in OCE like me.
Someone that I can say like the relationship has evolved
and like kind of one of the last people that I talked shit to a lot when I was underage was like ODA.
He's probably one of the older guys that I vividly remember talking shit to and he did not like me for a long time.
But it's in 2018 and I joined like an actual pro team, the mutual respect between us grew and
Yeah obviously I met them in person at events and stuff and it's just a lot easier to see who a person really is and connect with them on a human level when you see them in real life.
See I would say that's definitely a person that I would remember talking shit to.
Basically I was smashing everyone on ranked and a lot of people noticed it and liked me as I said.
I would smash them while I was solo queue so obviously they invited me to play.
Our core trio of us three, we would just never lose a game on Southeast Asia.
It would be like top 1, 2, 3 in every single season.
And yeah, after that we just got lucky with last coming in, revamping the league,
and all coming in, which is bleed.
I wanted an English speaking roster and they wanted to, you know,
they wanted to compete at international events.
So we just got super lucky, to be honest.
What made us so good in terms of our core 3 was that I feel like we were putting more time into the game
than anyone else, even than most of the pros.
I was probably putting more time into the game than school and I was in high school at the time.
And just like the chemistry as well because even though it's ranked like we were playing together every day for two years
So we know how each other plays. We know what we want to do how we want to play
So that kind of chemistry from playing together so much help us a lot in the early days of our team
My parents didn't really ask questions about like what I was doing when I was playing
They knew obviously I spent a lot of hours playing the game
They didn't really understand like the scale of what I was doing I guess and they didn't know they didn't like
ask questions about who I was playing with, because if I said I was playing with a grown
man from China then there might be some questions raised. Obviously I had to explain to them
when I wanted to go to Singapore at 18 years old to play a video game full time. But yeah,
before that, they didn't really ask. So that first conversation, it was a very
long one because I had to explain everything. I had to explain like how Pro League works,
you make money because making money to play a video game is a foreign concept to
like a lot of older people so you have to explain in detail all of that you have
to like show proof as well because obviously moving to a different country
at 18 you have to show proof you have a house to live in you have to show proof
like there's safe people there you're not getting like human traffic a lot of
that and just like explaining to them and showing them that I had a plan yeah
that I wasn't just going on a whim there were definitely doubts like I
I did okay in school. Like I could have gone to any uni I wanted in my city and I could have
studied whatever I wanted. I had opportunities as well to come to Japan and teach English
in Fukuoka. Teach English to like little kids and stuff. They were good opportunities for me
to do other stuff that could have led on to good career paths but my heart was super invested
in gaming. There was no other choice for me to be honest.
I
So from one warm-up maybe into another, Waybo versus F5 up next for a third game this evening
after Sharpa were way too good for Dolphin, 7-2 on Chalet, we move ahead of course, Sharpa and
Weibo will play tomorrow and as we heard from Mike Hollis in the interview guys, essentially felt
like a warm-up game, it looked like a warm-up game, we'll see for Weibo if it will be the same for
them, it looked like a warm-up group stage. I mean the question for me heading into this
matchup is, did we see Weibo lose the first round? Because as we've come to learn, if they
If they lose the first round, it's a 7-1, and if they win the first round, we could be in for a treat.
Yeah, I mean look, anything can happen, but Wave are on their best, they're going to be hard to beat.
Let's go to the rosters for this particular game, which I think, unfortunately, when you're F5,
you come into this and you know you're the underdog. You're not just the underdog, you are the heavy underdog.
But what they've been able to do so far this stage, look, two wins and only a loss,
It's been pretty decent. The one loss was against Daystar on playday one, they then beat triple nine and then they beat Dolphins.
So my takeaway from it is in terms of the other teams towards probably what will be the bottom of the standings come the end of group stage, they've been a little bit better.
But now the tests arrive, starting with Quavo. Then tomorrow you play Fury and Sharpa and Alamo.
But maybe the good times might be coming to an end for this team that came out of tier two.
I think they've put in a pretty respectable performance up until this point, but I think
to kind of illustrate just how big the gap still remains between these two teams and
the individuals that make them up, Kale's Lee has had a really good stage so far.
He actually finds himself ninth in Asia, so within the top 10, he's the only player
for this team in the top 10.
On the opposing side for Weibo, they have all players, four players inside of the
top 10.
just trailing 13th, they're just outside the top 10.
So, they've been good up until this point,
but Waybo just a whole different beast.
So I'm interested to see if they could string
a few rounds together,
but anything beyond that would be a surprise.
Yeah, look, I think it's gonna be
about round differential in this kind of game.
It's not about win, loss, it's not about looking good.
It's just, can you scrape a couple of rounds
against Waybo and have a really big test?
I don't even know if there would have been
maybe a board of the chance to scrim Waybo, right?
Like, Waybo would be having a higher priority
of teams to scrim.
There's no disrespect,
It's just the difference between the two teams because they come into this game.
This is now all about learning opportunities.
How does the best team in this region and the wider APL region
perform and operate like that's going to be the key takeaway.
So I think it's a learning opportunity.
Can they get a round or two?
Anything above two is a win for them.
You may as well give them a point as a solid area.
You know, they could get three rounds off way, but I think they walk way
pretty happy. Let's go to the way vote roster,
which don't really need a whole lot of introduction or reintroduction
in this region. The best team that APAC has to offer and typically is the best
team that APAC has hoped for when we do get to the international events and they
will get to Osaka. There's the two slots in Asia. This team is just far too good
to somehow fumble a two-slot region, let alone even a one-slot region. So look
for them, it's just all about being in the best shape and best form
possible when they do get to Osaka for the major. And for them, this group
stage is a warm-up. Finals is when they'll probably then go up another
level somehow, and then it's all about what can they do at the major.
Yeah, as I said before, four players inside the top 10, that's just insane.
The only one that they're actually beat out by at this point is still MIPel.
I don't know how much of that's going to change of the result of today, though, is
every world in which third or hoven to potentially jump up to that top spot, but yeah, they've
been so clinical.
They've long gone in the days of Waybo trolling in group stages and doing any
funny business they really locked in. I think the addition of Gohan in particular is probably
what's I think kind of facilitated that. They look really well-dueled, well-focused and
a team that does the default right and that's why they are so dominant and teams
find it difficult to scrape rounds against them because they make so few errors and even in the
rounds where they trail late they're so good with problem solving they know exactly what to
do and how to find win conditions and it's a skill that not many teams have.
I don't think it's going to matter which map we go to in this game.
Waybo will feel confident, comfortable.
So let's go to the map videos though and see where we will play.
If I'm coming into this as F5, it's just all about taking away the maps that we absolutely
feel like we don't like or feel like we perform on.
In the end, we will head to Lair for this game.
It was between Lair and Labs, Waybo off to go Lair.
F5 will start on the defense, look the defense layer not a bad spot to start against Weibo,
maybe F5 could get themselves a couple of rounds in this first half, I think the second half
will prove to be very very challenging for them, they did play labs back on playday 3,
this being F5 along with playday 2 and then on playday 1 they played cafe, so new look
map for F5 Esports, Weibo so far have played fortress along with lair which they
They beat Dolphin 7-1-6 of those rounds on the attack in the first half and then Lair as well in playday 3.
So it's a Lair bonanza for Waybo.
So 7-1 on Lair against Dolphin 7-2 on Lair against Fury and we'll see what they can do as well against F5 Esports.
It was 4 attacking rounds against Fury and then a clean sweep 3 straight on the defense.
So that's going to be the metric really dispersed half for F5.
How many rounds defensively can they get?
Because they're probably not going to get any attacking rounds.
Yeah for sure.
I think the thing that stands out to me is also the fact that
it was at five that banned Outlay across all three bidders
at the stage so far.
So they've either workshopped it
or weren't comfortable against other opposition
but maybe they've seen some kind of weakness
with Weber that they can try and exploit.
Which I don't know.
Maybe there is.
Remains to be seen.
have allowed it through in this video, we're going to see it played out.
Velo was one of the last three maps, but unfortunately, if I did take that off the board, very difficult
to foresee them taking Waybe to Velo, I think Waybe would be of all the teams in the league,
probably best prepared for that map being a new addition, given their support staff,
given their experience, etc. on that particular map in years gone by us.
So yeah, also too shocked to see how the video played out, except for maybe Laird
being the decider. As we get into the lobby pretty soon, let's take a couple final checks
and then we should be good to go.
Yeah, look, I think it's just good. I mean, I don't know how it always to say, but it's
going to be a tough ask for F5 Esports. So if you're a team, I'd love to kind of
get almost a pre-interview or a pre-match score in terms of how they kind of look
coming into this game do they just treat I mean look at Janice is probably
just excited to go play against the best team in the region I think that's the
mentality you've got to have like they're all laughing you're all having a
great time but now the last will be there they probably won't be there in
20 minutes time when you're five nil down against Wayvo but I think you've
got to have a positive mindset coming into this game if you immediately
come into this game and you're fearful you're worried about what's gonna
happen you're worried about the end result you're worried about the
scoreboard it's gonna eventually it's going to be manifested but if you
you can come in good mindset,
good vibes, maybe when the
first round keeps that going.
Outside chance to cause the
biggest upset of all time.
I don't know. I don't know how
else to say it. This would be
probably the biggest upset I've
ever seen if they were to win
this game, even eight seven.
I'd still pretty cool of the
biggest upset that I've seen
or at least six years.
So good luck. Have fun. See
what you can gain from the
game. And then it's all
about the blood review and
it's all about learning from
the experience. They'll play
against more against fury.
So there's a lot of fun
tomorrow against fury so this is a good warm-up but in the other direction of it warm-up in the sense of
Getting a good beat down from the best team take the learnings then into tomorrow against fury which fury have not looked
Particularly amazing this stage two losses only the one win
That's a chance then or at five going into tomorrow for fighting a top four position if they win that they'll go to eight
points, but they're not winning this one
And this last one is I might make 100% lock it in it 100% you can post it anywhere you
would like in any social forum if look honestly if F5 win this game I'll shave my head whatever
you want me to do I'll do it they don't win in this game I will go and get like genuinely
the shaver and I'll do it live on broadcast if I get the a okay from my
producer okay I'll stay tuned if you want to see Jake potentially shave his head
I don't think it's a 100% chance that wave it with this patch but it's
probably if you rounded it up it probably is 100% it would be crazy if
we were to lose this but you never know you never know that's why I'm gonna show
You're gonna be into it all I want to see out of this game though is
Competitiveness from F5 try and take the game on don't be afraid and they get at least maybe two to three rounds
I think that would be a successful result for them and
For Waybo, it's also what's their mentality going to be like do they just want to come in put the foot down?
Be the big dogs or are they gonna have some fun as well because sometimes with these sort of matchups
It's very easy if you waybo, which what are we now played a for already clean straight through three games nine points
They know they're gonna play finals two slots in the region
They can be afforded a day where they just say you know what guys halfway through the stage
Let's have a full fun kind of night. You want to go play this off go play
You won't go do this go do it and they can sometimes treat their opponents with a little bit of disrespect
Which is a hallmark of way more of all even back to the old Lee days
Sometimes it and fights him in the buff
But they're also the kind of team where if f5 go 2-0 or up and weibo has been having
been a fun dull walking pretty quickly.
But also in the Gohan era, I don't see them do it as much.
Like they're far more structured, they're way more well drilled.
And immediately also with their opening lineup there's no shenanigans.
I don't look across to the twitch poll as well for this match up 96%
4% of people think I'm going to shave my head
I think 4% of people just wanted really good odds on their channel points
I don't know what the payout would have been but
I'll be crazy.
So Wayboat upside here initially, ranged hard breach with the factured help weapon up main
breach.
And that's a pretty simple start to the round for Wayboat.
Speakies will come alongside with the Blackbeard as well so they can apply shield into this
lineup.
It's not going to be particularly strong, but the other one will fall and up real
first.
Problems will speak easy.
If I'd elected not to play smoke for Denar, but they do have the Tachanka, way by posturing
early hit default side, suggesting that will be their game plan.
Z-Dex with a Nitro rip.
Can you catch speak easy?
No, your gears, Reeps will shoot it out.
Not close, and luckily Reeps was prepared.
Almost a pivot though from Speakeasy, maybe they try and hit mezz?
Unless they go all the way around.
Perth's been collecting pretty good info on U2 on this side of the map.
Pauline gets the first kill Speakeasy, ends up dying to Edward.
ZDoggz will get rid of Gordy, Reeve's gotta be careful here.
We're here to fight him back.
Remember it's first round Wager, they have to lose, it's part of the game plan.
There goes the chanker.
Still got a minute.
3v3.
Out of bit of damage on the Reeps and Turd.
Still got full health, Holvin.
Having a very good stage.
Reeps makes the slip in the hand and caught in the back.
Where's the trait though?
The solo push in from Reeps thought Holvin was going to push with him.
Oh, Hovind's just dead and it looks like it will be first round Wayboat unless Turb pulls off the 1v3
Let's get the hash on the Yannis prone though from Edward at five lead against Wayboat
I mean there's three guarantees in life death taxes and Wayboat lose the first round and then go on to dominate so
7-1 probably now looks more likely than before
Someone's probably tuned in right now. I feel like these guys must be on something but
Like literally that is the game plan for Wayboat.
It's actually genuinely happened enough times that it's a trend.
I remember we had a graphic for it.
Was it in stage one?
I want to, I want to believe it.
I believe it was when we were in finals.
We go back at their history.
Like it literally is an established trend
that they continuously in dominant games lose the first round.
F5 will hear none of that and be not thinking about that.
It was a solid run from them.
cut to them did a good job in Iceland the black bit early speed he's a problem of a
pile there before to deny trades late was strong yeah big 4k for Edward so he's
clearly locked in
start but then they roll about into something wrong yeah I mean it's also the
one site really on this map you always should be winning regardless of your
opponent if you play top floor well as lead defense it's very very difficult
for the attack unless you give them ways into the round way bro we're
Kind of going through the checklist nicely, but f5 just didn't really give anything didn't overpeak when an opportunity presented
They took it
And the late pivot from Waybo ends up not working I was a little surprised that in just go for a bit of a standard ops mess here
Trying to do a little bit too much outside on the balcony and then go for that server hallway
Especially the way at that point 4v3 didn't have the numbers solo push from Reeves get to punish them to 4v2
sort of yeah the round kind of got away from them look event flies gonna have
any chance at pulling off an old timer here it's gonna be about just playing
these sort of rap positions hope that way boo try and take a few shortcuts
doesn't happen here Janice is on drone still finds the kill anyway on to
and oh my goodness yeah this is put reeds in the pin
I'm saying is I hope your clip is all on charge Jake they better be ready to go
just in case I'll be the first one to run upstairs and go grab them no worries
I'm doing heavy a generational sorry for you I think we've got a month in
It's a tough round now to win as well for Waibert.
Look, still 90 seconds left and you've still got the Blackbeard alive.
Util on the Capitao and Turd.
He's Turd, but as long as F5 don't throw this 5 inside, I mean, how do you clear all
these angles?
It's flawless.
2-0 off. Well forget about just the first round. It's a 2-0 start.
I wonder if Gohan calls an early tack, not for the sake of strategic-ness and thinking about trying to change things strategically, but just as a wake-up, what is going on?
I think the only counterpoint to that would be though that I think in both rounds you could argue a little unlucky there from Wayabare, like the wallbang there in that round.
Speakeasy dying repelled. He was on drone. Yes was on drone if he wasn't on drone
They didn't know about him and he gets a kill through that hole. That's a little different
So you can play that whole situation differently because he's on drone. You know where he is
Obviously the shot is nice and you can yeah
I agree in part about the luckiness of the spray
But also you shouldn't be then getting that first kill in the first place. Yeah
It would be pending comms if the comms are terrible, but I think they're humbling for the attack
And and also they're like he's getting shot at so he's only got one direction to flick back and shoot
Where the trailer bullets are kind of coming from right so like it's not completely like the world's biggest
flick shot ever
That's also just a case of Reeps just not connecting his shots like he usually would so it's a fundamental break down there from
Waybo to start that round just as much as it is a great play from Yannis both can be true
I'm gonna do a bit of digging to see the last time Waybo lost around flawlessly I feel like I'm
gonna be digging around for quite some time to find that but I'm gonna make it my mission
to find it before this game ends I'm sure that would have happened internationally but
I'm gonna find an example of it happening domestically well. I'm just trying to think do I
I think I just have to get a towel and put it down move the chair out and then do the shape
That's probably the best way for me to do it. I'm already getting the action plan in play
You're getting nervous already. I'm not nervous. I'm not nervous. I just want to make sure I don't make a mess
When I do it because apparently I'm gonna be doing it. I mean why don't I just look at lost at sea at the moment?
Like this is my first day of Asia and I'd be sitting here thinking if I if I didn't know
The results from the opening three play days. I'd be thinking webo is not a shoe in for the major
On midpoint here all the third round. Yes big easy chip flow
You so that they can go for the vert clear from a ball
They'll need to fight for that control
I'll see my position able to swing out first two picks to a five make it three
this is great now they're playing with confidence so the first round great
second round follow-up okay bit of fortune but now you're getting the
reinforcement of okay we're actually feeding these guys and it might even go
from laughs and and fun to hey we just lock in even 5% more we could
genuinely win this game and this would be huge as well the finals
Vaspirations 3-0 start against Weibo, Rohan getting the server
Enough said enough done enough playing around 3-0 to F5 is already
In most rounds that Weibo have lost this stage
F5 are the real deal
I think they look a bit shocked
Okay
Maybe we actually do have a proper game on our hands here and I did have a look at Weibo's history this year in APL
They haven't lost a round walllessly until today. I'm pretty sure. I didn't go and dig an international results, but
an interesting little tidbit and
That one too was almost another force around
Wayboat tactical time out
And it is times like this where I wish I could just shut up her during the team speak and listen into what is being said right now
I would love to understand and maybe we'll be able to interview
third later provided we both win and just understand what's the temperament of
this discussion is going on fire it up is he yelling and screaming for them to
wake up is it more so just trying to refine things we can't pick it down like
what is the discussion point for we both right here how do you turn around is
zero three deficit against an opposition that you should be stomping I've
just um I actually don't even know what leashes roll sorry I'm just
message down on discord saying look I'll give you an option here I can do it the shave tonight or
day one in the studio when we begin finals for Asia would also do it now otherwise it's well
the thing is it's technically worse off for me to do it in the studio because then I've got to go
shaved head to packs whereas at least by packs if I do it tonight I'm already back to kind of
scrappy hair I'm assuming you haven't had a chance to take this off with the
misses I thought she's probably not gonna be too happy to wake up to you sorry
let's just just wanted to know by a suit she is the senior product senior
project manager less APL program manager to roll I hope she's getting to
pay to pay the two salvage 3-0 out of the time out ace thorn bands the way to
actually start playing some sage or to f5 keep maybe the potential upset of the
year alive well I don't believe yet but if they win this round after the
tactical time out I'm gonna genuinely start to get scared for later there's
also four percent of people right now they're about to get a huge payday on
the channel points if this goes through I tell you what love to see what the pay
was that guess what the guess what the return ratio is for the four percent of
people in chat what is it it's one to 23 you get 23 years
That's not a rush.
Well,
and F5 keep this going.
Great start so far.
They've done everything right.
Back-to-back opening kills.
In the last two rounds, they've gone through the rotation against Weibo.
And now back to top floor.
Now they bring the glass this round, didn't for the first along with the famous.
And the cap of town. So I like this lineup a little bit more for Weibo.
just a bit more firepower added into the mix and they'll probably go more
ops men side approach and kind of go back to basics because their basics are
the best in the region
five targets up here for reaps I could be looking to leverage info in this
round
we kept it bay immediately F5 continued to contest these positions well
and it was forcing hesitation out from Waybo. They have no option but to be a little slower,
a little more reserved in their approach, so nothing afforded map control that these guys
are kind of used to having in these style of matchups.
Oven going to bay elsewhere, F5 continue to deliver really good pressure here defensively
and they're also not taking massive risk.
Big fight here and Reap's caught out.
Yeah, another open and kill, make it through straight, but Plant is going down inside
of mask holding on one HP as KLC dominating towards the meds. Turd has to now be the one to stand up
and Scotty is sat down by Yannis looking for four straight rounds against Weibo. Turd and holding
in the post plant. Turd's in a good position but what a swing from Yannis. I've just got the
numbers, they've got the disrespect and they've got four straight against Weibo even after the
tactical time out they're locked in smell that salt holy wow I mean I'm loving this for a couple
of reasons number one for F5 eSports this is a tier two team where a lot of those players you think
about ZDARX and jittery and the journey through the old Asia region and what it means for them to
get another opportunity in tier one siege here in Asia.
Now there's two slots in this region.
You go and beat Waybo, you go to eight points,
you're looking pretty good for finals.
You could make one of the old-time magic runs to Osaka.
This might just be step one along that journey.
Is everything up until now?
I said it in the free show.
The teams that kind of beaten in triple nine
and Dolphina, the teams that we thought
would maybe be around them better than the rest.
Well maybe now you're better than you thought.
4-0 against Weibo is no easy feat. Doesn't matter the map, doesn't matter the side, doesn't matter the sights, doesn't matter if it's raining outside or what.
They're doing it.
And Weibo didn't have a response in that round after the timeout. That's now where it's more...
challenging for Weibo to think, well, how do we get into this game? What do we need to do?
They're doing to ask what we do to everyone else.
They haven't been tested like this in this region all year long.
The rounds haven't even been close, which is the craziest thing. I mean...
4-0 is one thing, but to be so dominant is just wild and the lack of conversion from the tactical.
Wavework is still stable, I see it for a 2-4 half, but there is absolutely nothing right now
to suggest that it really has been a great performance from F5.
I know you'd be the first to jump into the gun a little bit there from the major aspirations,
but yeah, I agree in terms of that would be a crazy storyline.
Don't you and they probably wanted them all time?
storyline for APL and it's now 10-year history
Way more stabilized here when the going gets tough the other team we look to
Know how to fight back and know how to get themselves out of a hole
So this is going to be you know the perfect situation and test for them in this match
They're not gonna be the ones to you know flick this result aside and give up and say oh it's the best of one
Whatever they're gonna try and walk back in here and get this across the line
2 rounds to go in this half. The other element to all of this is F5 could go 6-0 up and there's
only one team in this region that you could think would have the chance to win 6 straight
on their own defense and it happens to be Weibo. But there's just something magic
in the air tonight. Reaps will get the opening kill onto KLZ, their first one since
the opening round, not that that was converted anyway. Look, a pretty big kill onto the Solus
and Speakeasy then gets rid of Jittery, Xedux then falls, and while this fifth round is playing
out more like we probably imagined that the match in in Totality would play out,
the Yannis and Edward have one last surprise for us. If they win this round, genuinely,
I may as well go against the Clippers for the halftime break, because like
Like, Waybo need to be winning this one from a 5 vs 2.
It's one thing to, okay, the underdog's strong if you punch it at it, it's another thing to throw a 5v2.
I mean, they've isolated Edward pretty well, Janus.
Has it been kept on the leash though as he goes over towards this exit position?
40 seconds, Waybo wait out for this remaining utility, a 1v5.
Yeah, not happening.
Look, Janus is having a lot of fun tonight and he's had a very good performance up to this point.
Deathmark on his position. I don't know exactly where he is.
Reep's going to easily get this point down.
That's insane. The way he's playing right now, that he hits that headshot through the floorboard against Holfrind.
No. Reep says no.
Webo get one.
One to go in this half.
A little fist bump from Turd.
And this is also, I guess, for the perspective of Webo.
What's the mental like because it's easy when you're winning and winning while and comfortably and
everything's all
Sunshine and rosvers, but when you finally get tested and not just getting tested by like say a sharper esport tomorrow
They if this were versus sharper would be sitting in
Phrasing sharper and way bow this and that but it's an underdog team in F5 Esports out of tier 2
So for way bow, I think they can mentally switch off a lot easier in this kind of result
Then if it were against the team that they would have themselves does not me speaking but then thinking is a team closer to their level like a
Sharper Esport tomorrow
But that little fist bump from turd the man that shows no emotion
I'm making that as a big deal ever see because I've seen that guy on stage land drop ten plus kills
Internationally and just chew the gum like it's nothing. He had more emotion in that round
Down for one versus F5 than I've ever seen from him
That's a good sign!
Yeah, it would be very easy even after that kind of round to just still be upset and just go through the motions a little bit, but...
Maybe on the path towards being able to stabilize this match, 2-4-1, more than playable into the second way defensively.
F5's ability to coordinate is going to be tested far greater than defense where, look, they have had good moving parts, but a large part of their success has been individual brilliance and, you know, heads-up plays and
I think I would find moments of weakness from Weibo. I think it will be naturally more difficult than the second half.
They're posturing around the sense here so we're probably most likely going to see green
side control.
F5 to play this pretty default though with the solos and warden positionally though, they're
pretty advanced in green, if you can see teams can test this too aggressively.
Really?
They're trying to disrupt Waibo, I don't mind it.
Oh, Edward.
I guess that's a nasty cross back through Skybridge.
It gets alive and Xdox with the open kill on to Turd has looked the most lively for Waibo.
It looks downed, but might have a chance to revive a later in this round.
Yannis is a big threat on this first floor, though.
This could be make or break is how Yannis performs it.
If they deal with Yannis, the site opens up for that sense of length.
Yannis has been really, really sharp so far in this half.
Halfway through this sixth and final round of the half, Edward 1 HP, Yannis defending
first floor briefing so that leaves KLZ and Jirri on a bit of an island on the top floor but no
presence from Weiboad in heading towards that direction they look pretty committed on this direct
hit. 60 seconds remaining in the round, body trying to draw a pick but nothing presenting
moment. Definitely aware of Edward's position. One bullet enough to find this
kill and that's why Edward can't really peek into this. A couple shoulder checks
but he knows he can't commit. 40 seconds, Ken Weibo convert the round. I don't know.
I don't have a shield to plant. I haven't got any control of the top floor.
You've still got KLZ to contend with
And Janus has been really really hot. So as this plan attempt does go down
It works. It's entirely dependent on if Gotti can get this successfully that kill on the speakeasy doesn't matter
Gotti's dead rounds done five one-half for F5 unless Rips and Hovind just go bang bang bang very quickly
Hovind just tries to rush in grab the kit Rips will do the same go for the revive
That's very ballsy does get the kill not the bar, but it's f5 with a five at the half. What a defensive
Defensive effort five one against Waybo two rounds away from the biggest upset of the year
I
Well, it's looking very good for F5, 5-1 lead heading into this second half.
And watching some of the cans here, Zdox just kind of looked as if he was trying to take
bit of control and keep everyone locked in. They look now less happy than when we started this game,
yet they're 5-1 up because I think they're sensing the opportunity to get a huge result. And not just
in terms of the landscape of tonight, Guzz, but really finals. Like, that's for me, I think, where
I'm taking this potential result. Now, if they get the three points, they go to eight points,
round differential apparently too, would also be amazing against Weibo. It becomes a lot harder
for the teams in the bottom four to leapfrog at five. If I play Fury tomorrow, then they play
Sharper, then they play Alivay. But if they can do what they're doing tonight against Webo,
against any of those teams, they become a real threat this stage.
Yeah, absolutely. I think as weird as it is to say, Webo's storyline and path from here
probably shifts the least in the entire league. If they lose this result, it really is more
also the emphasis on F5 and their ability to qualify top 4 and if they play incredibly
well who knows if they can go all the way to the major and then also yeah the gap that
would be extended to those in the bottom 4 making it more challenging and sort of
neck-keeping those teams from making the playoffs entirely so we've obviously still
though it's whether they don't get a pass mark best of ones or not this result tonight
hasn't been good enough from them up until this point. Again the Khyper team in this
environment with the mental they now have kind of matched and that situation I don't
expect them to give up I still think they're going to believe they can get the job done
here defense may be more comfortable for them as it stands but yeah they haven't given
themselves much of a cushion as you were kind of saying they're off cam during the
break like oh it does take is a couple of heads up players over the course of
there's half of them like the Janus or Edward etc who've looked really good even KLZ
and that could be enough to you know stag the round or two required to get
this done regulation so it's not gonna be easy for Waybo but I don't expect them
to drop their heads no but it's dependent on I think the first two or three
rounds like if this gets to five three five four even and I think Waybo go on
and win the game but if F5 get this to six one or six two and it's
something like that, as you said, and as I was talking to you during the break, it doesn't
take much.
The way that F5 are playing, at this point, especially with the 5-1 lead, you can kind
of play this now, where you just throw all chips on the table, trying to do some very
strange things.
If they go for default, I think that will play into Waipo's hands.
So I don't think they're going to win this if they go that direct route of just
trying to play this normally.
Be it annoying, go for these kind of rat plays, play the vert, look for opportunities to catch
Waybo by surprise.
Might not work every round, but playing them more stalled out, looking to play the check
lists and minigames, that's Waybo's bread and butter on defense.
And if you give them two or three rounds that feel more comfortable inside the server,
it's going to come back to bite you.
So already you can see in this opening round, Master R6 is tough.
we're attacking too. You lose the solid snake. You're trying to get this mez control. Yanis is
desperate to find something on the triple impact below. And if he doesn't find anything, well what's
that next threat going to be? Is it just to send in to site? Which is a very tough site to
accomplish that. And we took a huge chunk of damage elsewhere. Going towards that mez position.
His duty works some hard breach. Maybe try to bait attention elsewhere. You could see the
the ultimate pivot back over towards Ops here it seems like that's what he's
initially pushing for man just waiting for the next play waiting for the next
pick might be contingent on this triple impact as well this lands it a damage
on to Gotti but certainly not enough to do him 20 seconds and maybe prime to win
the round
take an all-time throw from here if I'm not really firing a shot into the
side literally outside of the site just trying to get a little lucky that maybe
Waybo would sort of run into them. Time will expire so a second round on the
wall for Waybo. In theory pretty much flawless as well never really again even
tested the site but that's the one site that Waybo would I imagine have come
into the second half feeling very confident on that F5 won't have the
capability to cheese us to do anything that's gonna really catch us by
surprise but as we go to basement likely up next and then certainly Bunk's
briefing this is where the opportunities will arise for F5 and that's why I said
before the first two three rounds are going to be quite telling because if we
go through the rotation and then end up back over to master in R6 this game
gets to 5-5 very likely. Yeah no I agree top floor is going to be the most
predictable. The only real asterisk to that is the threat of the triple
impact and looks at just a bit of luck whether or not you die to that. Clearly they didn't
on that round and so the rest of the push was super predictable. They knew exactly what
was taking place. They could take account for where the attackers were. They could respond
accordingly actively with the utile that they had in pocket and the wayboat looking
very comfortable. I'm excited though for these sites when you introduce the lurk factor
a little bit more and how KLZ on the snake will be able to gain space and how he
wants to try and exploit that. Had a bit more vert in play as well, go to see the
ram. Retreat to see what Weibo do, do we see them play contact, try and peel the
defense back? Do we see an anchor heavy? I think that would have
leave them pretty susceptible to this lineup. They do turtle early, so Weibo
probably need to try and take risk, but I mean a good tester for the likes of
Turret, he starts second four. If F5 keeps him in play this unpredictable
ground of siege. It's time to take it hard for us to know what's coming next with outlines
and positions. Put yourself in third position with none of that additional information. So
here they go. Hoping on radar.
Oh, that's afraid of me on the snake.
I think Kelsey was on drone.
He's cut off now though.
Yeah, but you've gotten rid of the solid snake. So on this site, when you want
to play that first floor, second floor, the way they're defending it, that's
a big loss for f5 and then he gets away as well back down to basement so really
strong start to the round from waybo certainly for often rough game for him
up until that point was one six in the opening seven rounds and all it takes
now is that confidence boost of the top players or five on the side of waybo they
start to get a couple of kills they start to feel like that form will
slowly return to them if I've got to offer a little bit more rather than
this just kind of sit outside of the building. I want to see quicker entries. I want to see
them just take the fights. If it doesn't work, doesn't work. That's why you had a 5-1 lead.
You could throw a couple of rounds away to just see if something magically works.
But if they're hesitant and they're slow, the pacing isn't there,
you're just allowing Weibo to start to heat up.
Consider the impact here to find Yanis in this courtyard position.
Well that wasn't a success Grimnaut's employ utility, Jiggery does have the
abuser in hand. He's locked as in the rest of the attack is not particularly
well connected to this. He needs to be really careful he doesn't die and drop
that kit on the opposing side of the rest of the push. It's a split push and
it's just not in sync and Waybo will punish that every day of the week even
even if they're having one of these off days.
They're all over the place.
Jittery does get at least one in basement, but 40 seconds left in the round, we've still
got a lot of this first floor presence from Weibo.
So even if they kind of go into the site at some point, Edward probably dies, Weibo
take over the vert control, and as Jittery dies, that's kicked down.
So the round's over, there's three on the board for Weibo, and now for F5, I'd
be thinking about a time out heading into the tertiary site.
I think this is really the best time to talk things over,
going into Bunk's briefing,
knowing that if you lose this next round,
this one's done, so 5-3, then it's 5-4,
then you go back to hot floor and that's 5-5.
So as I said, coming into this half,
that first two, three rounds is gonna be telling.
So far, haven't seen enough on the attack.
So Bunk's briefing up next, I'd call a timeout
and I'd really start to think,
how do we wanna hit this site?
Do we wanna go for the sends rush through green?
Do we wanna play a top floor clear and take the fight,
or do we want to do something different?
Yeah, I agree. I think putting all your chips in for this round is a good idea.
You don't want to go 5-1 up and half and walk away today with 0 points.
That's minimum. You want to be pushing overtime and getting something to show for your efforts.
So if you could snag that round on the tertiary and at least give a bit of breathing room, Ben,
and de-stress the rest of the rounds, don't mean you've got no T locked up.
That could be the play, but while they look not to take the tough time out,
we'll see whether or not that is the right call in the end.
First you sight, it's going to be key, very interested to see how F5 try and play it if
they go for the sense rat, if they try and clear, Valve.
Considering they go the capital route, you would imagine they go for the green side
here and use the capital to space above and have a little bit of coverage there so they
the range hard breach bring the sense so yeah this is going to be correct
green I mean the only caveat to that is if it's the YouTube belt to go for a
quick us excite hit on that and it's gonna work like this this track can
work against teams like Wayboat because if you position well in the
monty with the shield at the back even with the solace information
getting those nitrosols next sometimes don't always work plus you
You've got the batches, so good, you've doubled down.
It's like you've essentially put all your chips in one basket, as is usually the case
on Bunk's briefing.
When that plant goes down, very rarely do you see...
I've seen like maybe one 5v5 post plant retake, one by the defense.
Very, very rare.
Even as good as Wayvo are, it will take their absolute best of all time.
So it's all about denying the plant, if you're Wayvo, and for F5 it's all about
making sure that you're doing the work that you've got to do before.
You can't just walk up to the door and throw out some RU's and go for the plant.
It doesn't work like that.
Toad's hidden on this Mute Jammer, by the way.
He wasn't spotted out by the Solid Snake if he was in range, either way, he has been...
over to escape.
No harm.
Just slowing down this clear form.
The attack, and you can see them being a little precarious with the Mute in play.
due to with control green side he has a peeking towards the objective just
hovered side of Bunkz the rest of the fence is on the second floor with tools
to counter the sense namely reaps on the solace that's where the Thatcher can
come in for fight. I like this pressure actually F5 are not going fully
conventional throughout the ROU they actually saw the Monty above while they
were working on clearing out that first floor defender like you said they
have lost the Monty, but I don't think the Monty's fully part of their overall plan.
I genuinely think they're going to try and flood into Hoven and look for maybe a back
hit, but they do actually make their way up the green stairs to try and get the Monty
back to life.
Speakeasy will convert the kill onto Edward, so they completely pivot.
They were putting pressure on Hoven and then because of the Monty down, they actually
did pivot away from the main strategy.
They killed the Warden though.
Surely you go back to Thatcher's Souls count.
A or Z, doesn't win the battle against Turd and then Yates will fall on the Thatcher.
Jittery 2 as well inside of Bunkz took the 1v1 against Holvun, Zdox wasn't ready, still in the hallway.
And it's not going to work for F5 here on Bunkz briefing as Wapo will get to 4.
When do they call this time out? Because now Top Floor becomes a very difficult site.
Yeah, unless I'm not taking something into account when you've got the Thatcher still up to counter the solos
and you know the warden's in the grave.
Capitalsil has utility, you go for the sense smoke layer,
and you plan an off-meta position in the middle of the site in a smoke.
I think committing top four, they ended up in the wrong place.
F5, maybe they were overcommitted at that point, didn't have the opportunity to reroute.
Maybe.
But if I say speakeas in the grave, they're immediately going back to green
where you had that control.
Again, they may be sensing that they fall for it and they didn't want to retake, but...
Yeah, tough.
Good work though overall for Waybo a clean first rotation. They've locked back in here
Yeah, and throughout that entire rotation, what did we see we saw F5 e-sports try and play
Inventional where and look that's fine
You need to have that in your in your back pocket tactical timeout finally taken
So slim will get to kind of just talk to the troops here look
What I would be reiterating here of his up if I was slim is
Is you've still got a decent lead you just need one don't worry about winning just need one round here, but also
Let's try and play with a little bit more aggression
Let's try and see can we get these first picks because so far it's three straight opening kills for way, but when they're on defense and
It's already tough as it is to try and attack into way, but you're doing it as 4v5 essentially
So you've got to try and find a way can we get the early advantage then if it's a 5-4 in our favor
We can then play our time clock a little differently solid snake is now gone as well
You don't you don't have access to that anymore and was played three rounds in a row from KLZ
Little to no effect as he was the opening death in two of those three rounds and look that well
My band is nice, but I don't think it's gonna be a big loss for Wayboe didn't even play it in basement. So and
On the top floor way. Well, my is not make or break if anything
It's it's overall value is probably on Bunk's briefing, but you might not even get to there until it's already five six
so I've got to try and find a way here on this top floor and I think if they're
gonna do it maybe sort of display and serve a side rather than oxen as
package of the previous round if I've dominated their late
so I also want to say by the way this has already been a big win for F5 I said
coming into this game two or three rounds would be a win the problem when
you go five one up is it goes from a great job in your performance against
Waybo to oh shit you've got the chance to win the game and I wonder if that's
maybe gotten to them just a little bit right you go from happy and smiling and
got all the momentum in your winning rounds and then Waybo are now striking
back and you're stuck it and stranded at five and on land attacking is not
easy especially into this type floor very easy you can go from thinking we
didn't really expect much from this game to oh we had a chance to win it and it's
starting to fall out of our grasp I really hope that they can find a way to get
KLZ involved in this round on the day moss can he just push him with the
vendetta find that opening kill they've got to deal with the clash in
this round they can't spend too long stalled out themselves and when you
bring the floorers in the twitch you naturally will be quite stalled out
because of the drone plate.
Turned the pre-place down below that could be pretty deadly the clash feeding
information to that so that when speaking as he gives the call turtle blow
patient for now if I've with no clue on his position
even way by playing some tricks in this one.
Not the most typical setup to have that pre-placed nitro down below
and turd situating himself to monitor it.
Well, shotgun blasts for the warning shot,
but then we draw his first blood.
And overall docks too, interestingly,
and Hoven dying on the Azami shouldn't be happening
at this point in the round,
so that's a big result for F5.
Now they can take a little bit more time.
So you're not trying to push by instead,
where's the help?
You don't push that until you've got mess control.
Reaps putting on a shove at the C-75.
Wanna shut him down eventually, but turned from reception and off met up position down to just Yanis outside of the building
Walks straight into the grismog mine a little bit disorientated at the moment
and not win of all as way boat defend top floor as expected we get to 5-5
The opening kill didn't help and look they did make it a little bit more scrappy
And I think at times in the ramp, maybe way bogey them some opportunities in that round, but
We're starting to see, though, that Wayboat defensively are a very, very good team.
I mean, naturally, a very, very good team.
In the first half, now starting to look like a bit of an outlier.
But 5-5's not job done for yet.
Any of these two teams.
This round is still very, very important as we will go basement.
It's a site that's going to open up the map and still provide opportunities for
F5.
Now this has to be the time in this next round.
You don't have solid stake anymore, but play your Deimos, your Docker B, be aggressive,
roam the map, be confident and look to take some fights, because they will be there.
I'd say then, Weber have done a good job to bring this back to an even score line.
F5 seemingly lacking the same confidence and I'm supposed to start when we saw in the
the first half with is how free they look defensively attacking a whole different
Kettle of Fish especially on a map so large and structured like where
Waybo have locked back in not afraid to place some unusual positions like we saw
turd below with the pre-placed nitro trusting the rest of the pieces elsewhere
to do their job and here into round of 11 I mean I love the lineup of so trap
heavy re-enternary thorn as well as the astronaut lines of the fenderape.
So weibo have red?
Yeah, they're expecting that.
Planned, and they're respecting the lab.
I mean, even just the trip is stacked down below, so worst case, maybe Turd gets cleared
and will then just probably play Blue Stairs or something along those lines, and then
it'll be a full stack that F5 will have to contend with, but you have to bring
this lineup.
deserve the day most the doc would be I'm happy that they brought it I hope it
works out for them but there's also now because as he said the respect from
Waybo there's not actually as many opportunities as I maybe thought there
would be. Waybo have kind of read into what F5 are gonna want to do in this
round and with that sort of lineup I don't know if they can go as direct
certainly into the trap heavy util from Waybo around the site they don't
really have the chance maybe to flood. Zianis caught from the roaming
turd turd did get taken low 12 and 5 he has stepped up massively tonight for
wave vote but job's not done they are going direct good news with this direct
place they're gonna have a lot of time to keep the pressure on wave vote hope
that you know someone peeks crosses made though there is a Vulcan canister at
the doorway which will come out a little bit
I mean, Turd is still in server. He's still top floor, but F5 have no one around the map.
Reaps double tap, double kill, and Waybo on the verge of six.
This is a Waybo round more than an F5. Waybo ran into what F5 wanted to do in this round.
They had Turd as the off man off site, the others played trap on site, knowing F5
they're going to play this in or play a lineup into the Rome game.
And if they don't do that, they're just not going to win the round.
And this is exactly how it's played out.
Jittery will take in impromptu 40 second tack tight now this way, but we'll get
much point.
That's my decision.
Go sit outside 30 seconds to have a chat.
They really good from way, but they've, you know, locked in and stepped it up.
And then 5 will have a chat for the game plan then for the next round.
There's still an opportunity, there's still a chance for them to be able to push OT in
this matchup.
It's not impossible, but clearly they just haven't had the same confidence and ability
to play make here on the attack.
And we'll see if that can change in the next round.
And look, Bunk's briefing is still possible. This is where the Woomai Ben is going to be.
I actually think more impactful than any of the other two sides. So you don't have to catch.
You usually play the Woomai on that first floor because he's got Nitro Sallie. He's got catch.
It really disrupts that, you know, sort of sends rush in play, go for the plant.
The really, really good operator have on that first floor. So look, job not done for F5.
I'm going to be honest, I'm starting to feel for them a little bit because
they came into this game, great energy. I think they brought a really good mindset,
went 5-1 up in a position where going into the second half they just needed a lucky break
and they haven't been afforded it because Waybo clearly just switched on
and I mean credit to Waybo and credit to f5 from this game that's my key takeaway regardless of
what happens from here because 5-1 down would have been very easy for Waybo to just think you
know what wasn't our night tonight credit to these guys but yeah that's not us and we'll
respond tomorrow and probably beat sharper 7-0. But they didn't toss the towel in, kept trying new
things and probably thought their defense would get the job done as it kind of has. But for F5
it's been a tremendous effort, certainly in that first half. You might say Defender side of Blair,
but there's a golf between these two teams. To get five is already, I think, better than any
other team has done in Asia this entire year. So regardless of what happens in this round,
regardless of what happens if we maybe get to OT. It's already been a really good effort from F5.
And I hope for them that they can take a lot of this then into tomorrow and the following playdays.
Yeah, one more round is all that's needed to push OT, but that's been the case for a while.
Judo DC. That should be Rehost. Yeah, that should be Rehost. 30 seconds. There was 231 on the clock.
So yeah, we will get the Rehost and that would have been a really, really
crappy way to close this game out. Wouldn't have been fair to F5 and fortunately there were,
it wasn't say the two minute mark or the one 30 mark or three seconds later,
they'd be in trouble. Yeah, exactly. So peace. Saved by the bell. So into the Rehost,
which is going to honestly give f5 actually a slight advantage even if they were the ones
that had the disconnect just going into that round i think with the momentum that weibo had
even on bunk's briefing it was going to be tough now they can kind of sit back internally they're
they're not allowed to obviously talk and communicate but it's doing a lot of
typing so I don't know. Either way it gives them a tiny few more minutes to
just get ready for a big round because even a point against Waybo is
massive.
Yeah with this. Seems as if of course this rehearsal is gonna take a little
longer so we'll leave you guys with the tunes and the match will resume as soon as that
players back in the lobby.
So we return for the final round of regulation between F5 and
Weibo heading to Bunk's briefing after the rehost has now concluded. We get back into the server
Fresh slate on the KD department for the reminder. It's 12-6 for both
Reeps they have dominated this game after the slow start
Which is usually the case for Weibo when they have these kind of games and so to always kind of bail them out
F5 have been great. They haven't found a single attacking ground, but maybe this will be their opportunity on Bunk's briefing.
They have 10 seconds to make any attack a repix. I don't see the sends and I don't see a Monty.
Leads me to believe they're gonna go for something a little bit different.
This is a little strange.
Pretty intrigued to see how they're gonna try and make these pieces move about the map.
My first reaction would be that it's gonna be like an ops clear across
They control that way work the map a little bit more
When it's see because yeah, you don't bring the sense
Everything the capital
Yeah, there's nothing a thatcher though, it's just interesting because again
You're typically bringing that against the board and or solace, but you don't have the supporting utility for the rest of that
Instruction of the yin is interesting though. See if that's the tool to help create a little bit of space though a little bit of chaos up above here
That's what I'm thinking
Yeah, I get at the moment. It's well. It was a three-two split now. It's actually a four one split. So they've brought one back up webo
Maybe an anticipation of a top floor here
Which is usually the kind of second go-to on this site
Like if you're not really gonna go for the direct box briefing you're gonna then test the the top floor defense
The problem with that is that it plays out pretty similar to Master and R6, which is, as we know, very difficult.
But it looks a little bit split pressure. Can they maybe find the pick onto the first floor defender?
This is Holvin in that case. Otherwise, maybe the rest will try and get a little lucky on the top floor.
Reeps first to fall from Jittery. He just goes for a swing. Reeps is going to fall.
As Jittery held the angle, the patience will pay off, and now they've got that opening kill.
This could be overtime until Edward just sits still and allows Gotti to hit the headshot.
Headshot, ZDUX falls to Hobbit in the 1 vs 1 on that first floor, double stack above the F5.
Bathroom and server hallway from Yannis as he calls out towards Hobbit,
turned to fall from KLZ.
This is incredibly winnable with the top two players of Waybo in the grave, F5,
have got their best chance in this half to find an attacking round.
And Jittery is in the objective, but he can't stay alive long enough.
60 seconds and the rest of the F5 attack is on this top four.
At least what's left of it.
He's so unlucky for KLZ but so well played from Hoven.
It's only Yanis but he does get the kill on to Gotti.
Spekezi and Hoven have retreated to the first floor.
40 seconds for Yanis to send this to overtime.
Give F5 a point against Weibo.
All on his shoulders.
30 seconds is trying his best to get a bit of information, DMR for the Hat Troop and that's
useful but get shot back and Waybo able to win the map. It will definitely be their most
uncomfortable win this group stage you would have to imagine but they were able to grind
out a result and I think that counts for something.
Now disappointing end of the game clearly for F5 but in the grand scheme of things
guys we had a said coming into this game regardless of the how it played out it
was a 7-5 win for Wayvo. Both of us would have said, you are on something that we can't
say on-screen. You're pulling our finger. Magic is in the air. So regardless of how things
ended, commendable, respectable effort from F5 has to go their way in this match. I
didn't give him a chance. And while you didn't put a shaved head on the line, guys,
you didn't give him a chance either. So for them to get fired against Wayvo,
Which I believe again, I think is the most rounds Weibo have dropped in Asia this year
in a map.
Well done.
Yeah.
But Weibo, what happened in that first half and we'll find out in the interview?
I mean, that's the thing that most sucks, right, is, yes, it's great, sets them up
recently while in terms of top four aspirations and beyond that.
It's just such a shame that they don't have any points to show for this result.
Not pushing OT.
I mean, they weren't even able to scrape anything towards the standings.
So from that perspective, of course, I think they'll walk away ultimately a little disappointed,
but hopefully they took key learnings that their attack, especially against the top team,
it needs a lot of work.
Defensively, they can kind of get away with some of their starfire power and their ability
to play make and you know, be heads up and catch opposition off guard.
That's what we saw in the first half.
Second half, a little more frozen, a little more static, and obviously, we were able
to dominate.
All right, let's go to our interview with an all time favorite of ours.
Mr. Taylor Ching. It's Turd. How are you buddy? Congratulations on the win. Firstly, I just want to
say to you because you wouldn't have been aware of this, as we went into the game tonight. I
said that if F5 win, I was going to shave my head, and when they went 5-1 up, I was half-way upstairs
to grab the Clippers. What happened tonight in the first half? Uh, based on 6-rate each
troll ad. So he said at the start of the game that he wanted to get all the kills and to
live drone him so we were trying to live drone him but he just full washed so it was
rage trolling and he couldn't win any gunfights against the Stirling so that's
what we lost and after the 5-1 I said oh well you know game sleep me and then as
usual I carried my team over the line so you can thank Hoven for the 5-1 scoreline
sorry toad you're just lagging all over the place one thing we were
We're trying to work out is during that TAC timeout. What was the approach from Gohan?
Is it the kind of person to kind of go in and blast the chat? Was it, you know, pretty chill?
What was the discussion point there during the TAC timeout?
I don't remember. I wasn't listening because Falk raging at us. So I don't really remember
what he said.
Obviously, it's been a faultless stage, I guess, now through the first four play
You haven't dropped a map, but this was maybe a little bit of a wake-up call
Or do you just put it down to the the Hoven shenanigans in the first half?
I mean maybe wake-up call is not the right way to let me rephrase it in a sense you take some learnings from this game
Yeah, I think
learning for ourselves and how we
She-hoven but like
Um, I think we just weren't too serious today, like we didn't have a new warm-up today, uh,
really do anything for the game, kind of just showed up to work and that, like, and it wasn't a very
good idea, so tomorrow I think we'll probably sort of real warm-up tomorrow, so we're going to start
the game and not rage-trolling. I'd love to have a longer conversation to it, but we've got
I've got some internet issues with you on someone's side, but anything you'd like to say before we let you go?
Thanks to the fans, my mum, my dad, my girlfriend, my cat,
Sinan, Choo, Webo Gaming, Gohan, Gohan's girlfriend, Hoven.
Hoven doesn't have a girlfriend.
What about me and you guys of course
if even thank you mate all right take
care enjoy the night off I hope Reeves
has fun playing arena breakout. I hope that's it. Alright, 7-5-0-4, Waybo in the end goes.
A funny old match. It was a defender-sided lair as the best way to put it. 5-1-1 for F5 Esports,
had an opportunity, needed a single round to get a point against Waybo. And in the end,
had they won this game, as I was alluding to really throughout that match, it would have
really put them in a commanding spot for top four. Now they've got themselves still a lot
of work to do in the final three play days as we go and have a look at the schedule. One
game to go tonight. I don't know if Webo and F5 will be topped, but Daystar Fury might just
do it.
Yeah, look, in terms of raw competitiveness, when we looked at the schedule at the start
of the day, I think we probably assumed that would be the closest, the most competitive
both teams essentially fighting for their life and their potential run towards the
top four. So look, given our truck record, they'll probably end up being a crappy seven
over something, but I'm hoping it will be good. Hopefully it'll be good. It needs to be good
for really at least one of the two teams. It needs to be good because it's been a rough
stage for both fury days. They're currently fighting themselves outside of the top four.
Who's this? You'll stay in that bottom four with only three play days to go and
losing another opportunity. So we go to the break when we come back. They start
very fighting for funs.
That's just a siege, and it's kind of what made me hook to Terra something to start,
Being able to drone, see the enemy's locations and plan out your own is what hooked me and
then obviously the more I played, the better I got which made me want to play more and
raised my confidence in the game as well.
The early days of Bleed were insane to be honest.
Everything that they would show us while we were at home before we went over, it looked
too good to be true.
But when we went over, everything was perfect.
We had the best gaming year, we were staying in houses that none of us could even fathom
staying in.
I was staying in a house on a private island in Tintosa Island, I was staying in a house
near Orchard Road, a $22 million house, being a fresh 18 year old, traveling to a different
country to play games.
I felt like I was a little celebrity, to be honest.
Yeah, everything was perfect in the early days.
There was no pressure on us because we were a brand new team, all the cast and stuff,
they didn't know who I was, they didn't know who Asti was.
All they knew was we had Reeps and Hoven.
I think it was kind of after we started smashing everyone and getting 7-0-0 for all the stages
every stage.
Again, the pressure kind of built up a little bit, but in the first season we were still
like just four friends having fun just playing the game on a larger scale.
Yeah, four friends.
So the first event we qualified to was Atlanta in 2023.
We actually missed the first major which kind of devastated us because we weren't
fall of stage 7-0 and then we got into the playoffs and there was no lower bracket.
We had a bad day against Fury I think.
Yeah we were out of the major and the off-season back then was like three months.
There was three months of us just like sitting doing nothing to us just trying to improve.
When stage 2 came around we didn't want to have the same thing happen.
Stage 2 came around we went for us again and we ended up losing to Fury again in playoffs
but we had a lower bracket this time.
In the low bracket we ran through that and we ended up playing Elevate in a barn burner
game at like 3am in the morning or something.
Reap struck like a 25 bomb in one map.
By the end of that series I couldn't even be excited, I was so exhausted.
My teammate now on Speak Easy, he was on Elevate at the time bursting us.
He said he finished that series, took a shower and went to work.
So that's just one of the most memorable moments of my time playing.
I think going into Atlanta, we were still kind of in the mindset, just for friends
having fun.
We saw as well like the previous major Scars made like a top 8 run.
In scrims we would literally smash Scars, we would 11-0 them like multiple times, 10-2,
9-3, 11-1, always, we'd always smash Scars.
So we kinda went into it with that perspective, like, oh, these guys just got top 8 and we're
literally smashing them.
Like, we can seriously play, and we ended up scrimming as well, like when we got
to the player hotel for Atlanta, we scrim phase and we smashed phase, we scrim Fury
and got smashed, which is not fun.
I don't think Scam-Mong would say that, I can't remember who.
We had kind of an easy group, like we had Kagonal group, who, you know, at the time, they literally got grouped at every event, so...
We had that like mental bonus going into it as well.
We made out of groups, and then it was Swiss Stage, and that was our first like real international matchups.
We ended up versus...
M80, and...
Sonics, and we beat both of them.
So we went 2-0 on Swiss.
I don't remember what happened after that, actually.
I think we won the major, actually.
After Atlanta, we like barely scraped into SI,
like based on points.
Even though we won the major,
we needed something or someone
that could help us kind of go to the next level.
We were looking around the ecosystem for like coaches
and just so happened that Julia from Eminem at the time,
they're all collapsed.
So we ended up being able to snag Julia.
Going into SI 24, it's kind of our first like true test
to see how good we are.
And if we kind of needed to make changes to our roster or our system,
PSI has always started with BO3s, started with the group stage,
so the best teams are going to come out of the group stage.
There's no funny business, just cheese BO1s.
Bring it in with the flow, it's better tell me you can't be done
You want that shit?
You're not even here
You want that shit?
You're not even here
You're not even here
You want that shit?
You're not even here
You want that shit?
Asia Play Day 4 about to conclude, but Daystar Fury. Well, what a game this promises to be.
Two teams in the bottom four. Daystar typically, the second team in this region, goes typically,
not the case this stage. And if they do want to find themselves with a chance to go to a
Syker, they need to probably start here right now against Fury, pick up the three points.
Otherwise, they lose this game. They'll be stranded on only three points with
three Play Days to go, finding themselves in a tricky position. So a big game coming up
up for both teams. We'll go to the Daystar graphic first up and sort of highlight a little
bit with maybe what's been going wrong with them.
Unfortunately for Daystar they enter the day with a negative 9 round differential and this
kind of encapsulates some of the troubles that they've had over the course of this stage
and in fact it's their worst start since stage 1 of 2025. A team that I think for
a little while has been trying to undergo a bit of a rebirth and re-enter the discussion
for making the major and especially with now two slots for Asia, I think immediately many
eyes turn to them to be one of the teams and be one of the front runners to maybe make that
comeback but unfortunately their start here has been pretty poor. A win in playday one
led by an 0-7 loss to Sharpa into a 1-7 loss against Elevate so they are desperate
for a rebound and this match is absolutely set up to be a perfect rebound opportunity.
If they don't win here, it's difficult to see Daystar make the top four.
Yeah, I agree. I mean, look, not impossible. Like, so looking ahead to the schedule for
Daystar, they play triple nine tomorrow after that Dolphin and then Waybo. So you can
probably save two wins on the horizon. That only would get them to nine points, Gus.
So they kind of need to add in this winner, Fury, because quite frankly,
I don't know if they're going to be able to beat Waybo on the final playday.
If they don't win this game, I'm gonna go with the consensus that they don't make finals.
Because, statistically, I just am unlikely to do it.
They would take a monster upset against Webber on the final day.
That's even if they do go and beat Triple 9 and Dolphin as well.
That's no guarantee with the way that they're playing this stage.
Lost 1-7 to Elevate, 0-7 to Sharpa, only win being against their 5 back on the first playday 7-3.
Which back then they probably didn't know that they were in a little bit of trouble and and since then they've got to find a rebound as for fury
27 lost to weibo 27 lost to elevate but also a win on playday one against
Dolphin 7 3s we look at their roster, which when you look at their roster guys, it's except for kineki
Players that have got experience that have been around before previously at one point in their careers were either
the you know 11 like a top two top three team and yet similar they start now
just finding themselves on the outside looking in in terms of bottom four also
on just three points also you lose this you play at five tomorrow looks really
good against way but then play triple nine you then play sharper where you're
very much going to be the underdogs the story is the same for either of these
two teams lose this and I just don't think finals is like yeah totally great
I think it's up very much the storyline but both roster and that's what
makes this hopefully a pretty tantalizing prospect.
Fury's key numbers up until today,
the biggest red flag is their attacking win rate.
It is the worst in the league,
but probably also fair to contextualize that
with Daystar being about just as bad.
So 27% for Fury, 28% for Daystar.
To be fair though, to Fury,
they've been pretty decent on defense.
54% Daystar struggling less of a sample size,
some of the matches but only 43% for them. The map veto though ready for this best of one so let's see
where these two go. I would love Villa. I would pay a good dollar for some Villa. Just one dollar,
we're not going to get it. It's Chalet. That's where we're going to be heading for this match.
Fury's record so far, Lair, Labs and Villa. Actually back on the first day so you already
got to see it. So I don't know why you're wanting to see Villa but Fury will start
defense. As for day start, they played cafe on the opening playday, then bank, then club, now
charlay, maybe a new map for them will find success as they'll start on the attack. Let's get
into this game though with so much on the line. While it's only played a four, this has all of
the hallmarks of an elimination game, essentially four finals to get into the top four. Certainly
without competitive, the Asia sub region has been to this point. Who is this? Your chances
the finals would come down to needing to win all three of your final games and hoping other
results go your way. And with both teams having to play one of Weibo or Sharpa it remains to be said
this is a must win game. The loser is in a world of trouble.
Ain't gonna jump in for a big match here in the group stage and I'm sure one that both of
of these two teams in the lead-up gave a lot of attention to. Should be pretty even on
paper and I think it's going to come down to the big moments in this style of match-up.
It would be, yeah, bewildering to me if we see this be a blowout in either direction.
It should be very much a back-and-forth style of match. So the bands play through, should
be a Umi into Azami and then the Grim into Shield probably. And I'm wrong on
both accounts they should go to Nari's a bit of a trap and then Capitale for Yutul which is unusual
I mean it's normally a pretty safe bet to expect the Azami to get banned here on this map I feel
like teams maybe are starting to trend a little bit away from that maybe that's to try and facilitate
a bit more work play. Yeah look if there's one guy that needs to shave his head at Suzuki because
because I don't know what that is. He's gone to pineapple.
What is that?
I don't know but I can't do it.
I don't know. Genuinely as I'm looking more at it. He's got some aura about him with that.
He's going super sane.
Oh yeah.
We'll see if it helps him and Daystar tonight.
It's been a strange turn of events to see day start in this predicament after pretty
much all of this year, so pick off stage one, end of last year and certainly seeing the
signs of their rise at the beginning of last year.
This has kind of just come out of nowhere in terms of that descent.
But look, if you win this game and if they can win it relatively comfortable, I mean,
then you play triple nine tomorrow, you win that.
6 points to go with your three run nine points last week to go play dolphin probably that's 12 points
and that might be enough to get you into finals most likely should get you into finals and especially
if you can make up round differential I think it's like it's like you said this should be close
if it's not close whoever is on the wrong side of it it's done I'd happily put a line through
him but if it's at seven five maybe there's still a world in which the loser could still
still a halter on a run but it's unlikely. Opening round, fled brunt with the nitro cell
that's gonna be on target. Yeah well, went off my screen there I thought he kept going
all the way down but no, it stayed at the window sill and that nitro cell will get
rid of the glass. Good start. Fury on the defensive chalet. Bad start for day start
to lose the glass. It's early on. See how it's birthday today as well so I hope
for a bit of birthday luck doesn't have that delivered to him though in the first round he got
something delivered easy cake and it blows up in his face
yeah so they start to play from the disadvantage so if they can maybe unlock a
I pick here isolated defender courtesy of the death mark labyrinth is stuck
Over towards trophy hub off in play on the upside down with flash
Bosses in response still live on this death mark
The grenade for flash labyrinth doing a great job in
withstanding this utility all and
Still gets caught off guard as Zuki was not in position to cover that
That was a misplay from Daystar, but credit to Levent, he played that basically as well as he could.
Yeah, but if you're Seal, you're screaming at Azuki saying, how am I dead?
Because you're in trophy, and he's pushing down trophy spares.
And look, they got the trade, but when you're a player down, you can't play trade there.
You need to find a kill clean.
Exactly. And you lose the Deimos as well.
So the Death Marks and the Vendetta from, you know, Kitchen Dining.
Marks, I'll just go down low inside a bedroom.
Sufley just snipes out Konecki. That pick up traded though by Darken. Effectively it's
two versus two. Sufley will now make his way up by Bristaz. Needs to keep the pace going.
35 seconds on the clock and they don't have to care. All was afforded a chance on the
crouching swing roll Dini but he hits a clean headshot with the TC SG and it's
only Azuki left. Yuri will take the opening round.
Yes, all the work there from Fury looking pretty well settled in the opening round.
They'll be looking to find success here in terms of being able to build a bit of momentum,
a bit of confidence early.
Don't discount the mental factor of this matchup for both teams, really.
They're both going into this matchup, a little beat and down, both performing below the
expectations that they would have set.
I know it's somewhat early days in the stage, but they're performing below expectation and as we've said on several occasions
This is a massive match if they want to be in contention still for top four
If you're doing some good work around the map there
I think why brent in particular MVP of that round of being able to withstand that utility not give a free pick
I've been with soul. Yes, he was traded but
The advantage afforded earlier
by attackers. Good to see off him. I don't know what to go on and compound that round,
so. You get good work for your peer into round two, looking to play solace, pulse, duo of
info, and that could be a right hook here against Daystar, and then you should be
less likely to get caught off guard on the line.
Yeah, look at least A-Star made it a little competitive to close that opening round.
It would have been awful to get off to a really bad start.
Made a couple of fundamental mistakes that are easily solvable and fixable, so I don't think there'll be two disappointed with that first attempt.
Had to bar games for the second round as Konek is going to hide on the thorn with Dark showing presence two over towards Solot.
Yeah, we'll get off the glass and onto the line to help the others out.
And that is as easy a chance as you're going to get.
Azuki, I don't think was expecting it.
I certainly wasn't expecting it, because 30 seconds into a bar game site and you go
for a random walk across big window, that can spell.
is very lucky.
Nitro creeps.
I'm well shut out there by y'all.
Birthday play.
Did he get Nitro Sniper back to back?
That though, from a Zookie.
What's the reason for that?
He must have thought there was an opening that wasn't there.
I could understand if there was going to be an entry made top library, but you have soufflé
on the A's that can open up faster and Azuki's just gone too early in the steps of the process
and you haven't even got library control.
Early days here, two rounds in for that, so two rounds that Azuki's made some fundamental
mistakes.
We'll see if those mistakes can pound or whether or not they can rain it in here as you can
specifically will be looking to maximize his impact in this match.
We know that it can be a star in the right circumstances.
He's numbers at the moment, not too bad in the stage, he's 16th overall, he played
the number five in Asia.
Great clear from Seal, Falk falls Roldini as well.
Oh look at this, you've got four players all doing something together in the same position
and it works out.
Staggering, isn't it?
Now you can play that trade game into sight even with Mark pushing up over towards the
mezz and gets one and you're not taking much back to sight other than it's a 3v2 rather
than a 4v2.
Got a couple of Vulcan canisters still up, 40 seconds is plenty of time for Daystart.
Konecky finds one he actually pushed back up library stairs from basement
Oh, man, certainly a good spot now for fury off that and mark catches soup play going a little early
And they start a bit of bad and then a lot of good and then a bit of bad
And fury at just punishing that's really what the start of this game is fury at punishing a lot of mistakes
A lot of the breakdowns that we're seeing from the attack and that's a good sign for fury. That's switched on
Yeah, not the most confident sparking start for Daystar.
They're making too many glaring issues, too many glaring mistakes.
If they want to win this game, they need to tighten up their gameplay around the map.
And they've heard some decent signs with their attempt at a kind of snowball top, but then
they do quite have the final pieces to put it together.
Azuki with the vault early.
I don't know if he's taken that upon himself.
Maybe he got a bad call.
I mean you always have to kind of take those moments with a grain of salt
Maybe someone has called for him to make that play and then he's the one that looks silly, but
Either way it was a mistake and it goes down as a mistake for the team so you just a team game everyone needs to be playing their role
Into the third this is for me gonna be a telling
Round it if they start flounder again here
It starts to look grim pretty quickly
depends on how they flounder, but I agree in
I mean, totality, but it's mistakes that have risen in the first two rounds that's costing them.
And Fury are punishing. So you look back at that first opportunity for Azuki, big window into games,
and Labyrinth makes the cross. He should probably die there.
So he gets away with it, but then when Daystar make a mistake or two, Fury are punishing it.
So that's kind of been a little bit of the difference.
I'm not too surprised that two teams that have struggled up to this point in the stage
are maybe showing a little bit of stackiness.
but it's going to be about who can punish mistakes,
and who can just be a little bit cleaner
when it matters most.
So far, in the two rounds, it's been fury.
And now that might change, that might flip,
they still got a lot of quality.
And all it takes is one round
where it all just kind of works.
That clear top library,
when they went four versus two up, was great.
The more of that,
and they will find a couple of attacking rounds
in this house.
I am deploying a troll.
We'll have my artist who kid this round as well on the right here, so he's playing critical
utility for the late round, and so he can't be risk taking here through the early to mid
round as we have seen now on a couple of occasions, he'll be a key part to the push
later on, maybe a tool to lock off the flank of the roam above, but also can provide
good tool on site there's a couple of doorways that minimize the long range
angles that are available through the defense lever and as well
solid hold at the moment up above here from Yuri actually utilizing the OBS
blockers might be the first time I've seen an OBS blocker in about three
years in a comp game so that's cool but three years pretty easy bits which to do
with it at least once within the last three years I can guarantee it I don't
ever start to say if you're right or wrong so I'm gonna three years ago we
hadn't even done an SI except for the one at home so I mean it's been a long
time three years is a long time Michael bring it in a bit
chat's gonna agree with me you know that right with me with me I'm telling
you I've seen an arms block in the last three years right now it's whether
it's working or not it doesn't really matter it's three straight opening
kills for fury another pain today start there's only 50 seconds left in this
round we spent 30 40 seconds talking about an arms blocker because nothing's
really happening. Daystar are just kind of stuck over towards mezz. This is kitchen
dining site but you want to clear this top floor and again Fury happy to play a
little bit further back and give them nothing.
Well Rodini does get chipped down courtesy of the glass. 30 seconds now for
Daystar leaving this push very late. They do have a smoke to layer if you can
cover seal to collect that defuser and here's that util set from azuki
when going down inside a dining while they also keep uh pick it up on that second floor seal
forced off it will go for a bit of a reposition azuki this time has got some semblance of cover
but it's not going to be enough three straight for fury they start leaving themselves no time
I'm remanding on the clock and in the end it just had to be a sort of rush plant attempt
with really one real cover in a Zookie.
If you're here it would be very happy with this defensive half, three straight, three different
bomb sites, three straight opening kills, they haven't allowed plant and the only team
with a multi-kill, every statistic is in their favor.
A star needed switch on very quickly.
I don't even think that glass band is a factor
because we haven't really seen Yau put that to full effect.
He was the opening death in the first round,
didn't get value just then and there in the third round.
I don't know if banning that glass is the right play
like it's not really having an impact.
Uh, tech paw is called, I have no clue why I didn't see it, but yeah hopefully it won't
be too lengthy.
Great start though for Fury, I mean there's not really too much to critique them on, they've
been great from start to finish, it's uh three entries, Lebanon and Roldini, Aiding
in that regard, Mark chipped in with a multi in that second round when they recovered that
poor mid round with a mescler, that was actually pretty good from Daystar and then
quite dominant there in round number three, so three players at the conclusion of that round.
Very late hit there from Daystar, left little room for Ero and the denial utility
lay there from Fury was, uh, too much spot on. I don't think that too much to be stressed
about right now, Fury looking good. It could be the kind of matchup though, if it ends
up being a bit of a scrap, uh, maybe attacking rounds will come at a premium, so. In some
respects it's kind of similar to the last game, right, where Fury, uh, they need
a big lead, uh, because I'm a little bit scared that their attacks might not be good
enough to close this one out in a super competent fashion provided the defense
streak continues so I'm still very much taking this is two games of siege or two
halves of siege rather because I can't play over it if I wouldn't disagree with
you the the only thing would be there's a difference between Wayvok coming
back and they start coming back and also live really I guess as a map in
Paris and to Chalet. I think there's typically far more defender-sided than
what you're gonna get on Chalet. Typically, all matchup dependent, etc.
If you were to go and look at the the last statistics in Asia, it looks
at Aka side. It's simply because of Wave-O.
But it's small sample sizes. That's why you don't really look at the
the numbers after four play days in one region.
In fact, there hasn't even been a shot they played in Asia, this whole stage, this is the
first one.
But I agree, I think that there's a chance for two teams that have clearly not had the
greatest of stages up to this point, are probably going to struggle on the attack and look
a lot better on the defense, but if you're fury, you bank the wins when you can.
And to go three straight, maybe you can go up to six nil, I don't think attack
defense is going to matter at that point. You just got to get one round as
Chalet will offer many opportunities. I change up the day style out of the half
time braid. They bring the Blitz for the first time after the glass fan gets the
hour off of that and onto the shield. I think that should help them just a
little bit. Better entries into the building. Then looking to execute
towards the site having that Blitz try and open up opportunities for the
the attack and gives the others to play off of that shield.
The range-hard breach to expose men, we have to follow up on the Blitz shield, I like this
theory-crafting from day starts, pretty spot-on.
Now hesitates for a little bit.
General D does fall, first entry is he saying?
and the second
it was taken to put himself to make a solo play and it's worked out
sometimes that's all it takes
and that's what I'm talking about when it comes to chalet you've got afforded
more opportunities for
you know solo entry or
pushback defenders get a lot of space
and bring shield in towards sight
you've got vert opportunities as well
this would be the test now for fury
Are they the real deal in this game? Three versus five. You've had all the momentum up to this point.
Finally Daystar gets something to work for them.
You find the next two kills and disrupt this attack, you're right back into this round.
Still got piano control and Lepreth has this nitrosol ready to go, rips and gets very much still to deal with this blitz.
I like to ask when he's battled towards piano. Lepreth will now maybe opt to pull this nitrosol away.
It brings it back down goes for a long throw
Doesn't get anything from it, but it does get information
that Sufley is outside towards the ego belt and with the pressure he should know that he's up close does have the F not mine but
Active and so allow Sufley in and that's getting the double kill
And it's Daystar that finally will get an attacking ground in this first half
Yeah, that was nice. I mean the early theory crafting on the mescler was was good. That's the basics
It was seal that was the
Ultimate difference maker in that round took it upon himself to make a solo play down below had the presence of mine to find a second
So denied any trade attempt
And then they did a better job in refining the late the part of the push where on a couple of occasions this
Match I mean second round pretty good example even the third they left it late a little bit sloppy
that time they're much more concise not afraid to play makings to some of those
key positions and around the board as we play on the third round prior here's the
fourth yes they're still just snuck in towards mud and then had a really good
read there and finding the backstool a trade so that was good for him and there
was that that heads up play from Suflate. Harambe's looking a bit stressed
out I don't like seeing Harambe shaking his head that makes me feel bad that
makes me feel sad. He's not only so happy. Usually when he shakes his head it's
because he's doing the Harambe dance.
A lot of dancing going on this stage. Better from day stuff. Off the back of
that entry from seal. Many more off that.
I was not done after a single round.
Fury will go bar games where, last time out, it probably, through that first rotation,
maybe was the closest day-star game to pulling something off.
They had the four versus two advantage and ultimately lost the round.
And that's how quick things can turn in terms of momentum.
They win this, suddenly it's 2-3, it looked good in that second round.
So each is a funny old game, but it can change quickly.
We saw that even in the last match, F5 or 5-1 up against Waveboat.
It can change quickly.
Game of two halves, but even in this first half, Troubles not done for Fury.
Mark will make contact on the out, and they should know that they're going to
look to open up Fastock.
So Rodini will not get to play this position.
them out of Barstock. The Fury will go hunting. And this I like.
Now, I don't know if they start going to commit to this particular entry.
Fury have also forfeited directly pressuring that, trying to get the souls in a better position
to read some info towards the library.
Still works trophy at the main time and
So if I actually pause the like to enter
Just now three and he can now open in towards bar stock courtesy of range heart breach
All Dini forced out and caught off. I mean, that's absolutely perfect from so if I that is textbook
but it's taking more opportunities and
They're setting up a lot better
So this has been a good response from Daystar after the half-time break as Kinecky gets one from Mutt
Now I'm still low on health
So it's four versus two on Bargames again
Kinecky and Dark
this time
And Blackbeard spotted over towards big window can't really fall back into Barstock
You can see that Fury are just feeling the pressure a little bit on what they want to do next
Yeah that's basically saying I'm gonna plant if you don't contest me but then
You also want to try and catch these other attackers that are you know pushing around building
Caught in two mines and right now that they're kind of saying make your way in
Dark is very much trying to catch the timing
It's not gonna work out
None of these shots connecting really from dark
So two three they start two in a row
Yeah, that's better they've shown a bit of fight now
I think their coordination in their teamwork has stepped up to another level in the last couple of rounds and they've
rightly been rewarded for that looking way less stagnant on
the attack if
Making plays their pressuring theory out of positions
So some pretty traumatic improvement and
While Shallie can sometimes be attack-asided, I mean, I still hold the belief that on really any map
it depends on the matchup and if you can at least find two
In this style of game, defense probably gonna be a little more comfortable pending
How the band's checked off and how the team's kind of face off, so
Look, good for day start
A third here would be great
We'll see how they go here on kitchen dining. They left the push very late last time
they had the pieces in position for it to be pretty well structured. They had the pressure
up 12 to counter-pervert. They had the crosses on the side. They had the Rayora to cut off
a little bit along the lines of sight. Unfortunately, the clock was severely against them, and so
that really brought Plantano into play. And so we'll see how they start trying to speed things
up this time around. They're bringing the Rayora, so I'm expecting a similar point.
Oh, nope, there's her track off. Maybe they'll go for something a little different. Maybe
trying to get more vertical control instead of just opening the wall and watching it from range.
A sledge in play that's, you know, plus 20-12.
Tempo as well for this first half has been the determining factor. You look at the first three
rounds from Fury, they get the opening kills, two and a half minutes and two minutes, the other
one being then one minute, but that was also because of the slow pacing from Daystar.
Then you flip it and Daystar, minute 51 minutes and a half.
So 5 straight opening kills that have been converted to 100% conversion rate, it's literally
coming down to who just wants to take the onus in the round and take the initiative.
And you've seen now in the body of work 5 rounds played and it's then that team that
goes on to win the round.
One fury here, kitchen dining site, which is the last site that has not been won
by Daystar. What worked for us last time may not work for us this time because clearly the
tempo is swinging in the other way. Can you find a way to get this first pick and be a
little bit more on that front foot look to make sure that Daystar don't get set up
around this sort of meds position freely. Take a looking to chip away utility here
and we can position half the later on. Half will claw and run off to electrify the wall
I'll double low.
That's a good pick there onto Kineki.
Good info, Grapp.
And there's the pick.
Kineki was very bold thinking you could just stand there.
It forces the jump out there from Roldini.
Also forced the hold there from Labyrinth.
He though finds success.
It's like...
But it's the initiative again.
Give us four.
Yeah.
Like, they start a droning playing off it.
They get the spotted player in Kineki
But they do something about it. I don't just go oh, there's a player there. Let's you know
Play around him. No they immediately go and kill him. They play off that Intel straight away. I
Didn't give him a chance to move him a chance to react
In much much better today started closed out so three straight from fury to now
What's looking like three straight today star and when done the wiser as to who's gonna get the points until the end of the second half
Lebron's in mark
to try and hold on with 30 seconds left on the clock.
Lebron did a good position to deny that pushdown from Solar
as Mark does get at least a down on to Souffle.
And this is where for Daystar, they're going to make sure they don't fumble this bag.
At least got the kill on to Mark to get the revive on to Souffle.
14 seconds. The wincon now for Lebron is very much to deny this drop down from the hatch.
One, but not the second.
Daystar, three straight, all tied at the half here on Chalet.
In a must-win game for both teams, they cannot be split going into the second half.
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Well, we like to say, because the siege is a game of two halves, well that first half
was a first half of two halves, because it was three straight fury, three straight opening
kills then three straight day star three straight opening kills and all three
bomb sites were one one a piece you couldn't have a more equal half like the
only other thing out of that first half was there was only one multi-kill round
which was marking the second round that was it otherwise that is the most equal
half you'll see for a long while as we head into the second half day start gone
defense fury go on attack no idea who's gonna walk away with the three
three points if we will even walk away with someone getting three points.
Yeah, I mean that's unfortunately the take away and it then brings into discussion really
the mutual destruction factor but at every point it's critical for both teams and so
if they get split courtesy of an overtime it would be a little sad you know if say
one of them or both I guess both of them would then go on to miss out by a handful
one or two points that would be crazy to backtrack it to this result maybe uh
wreak havoc um you can see that the graphic they're
pending some of the permutations and outcomes for
match but it is a little dependent also on f5 isn't it yeah
i mean f5 play fury tomorrow so we might like we might be having the same
conversation of this game but then apply that to tomorrow's game
f5 and fury f5 then still also play sharp for an alivator they're not
guaranteed to run away and pick up a lot of points. I think for Asia at this stage there's a good chance that maybe 11
does get you into that fourth spot.
Hey what these two teams are very very lucky that
Waybo switched on in the second half earlier. If I went on and got points then this game would be even more impactful.
From Snake, will my Aliband for this second half, does Fury go on to the attack?
And we'll bring the Blackbeard and the Sens for this opening round which is on
bedroom and office. The Dastar not fully playing around bedroom and office with
Pika and Seal on that first floor over towards games and bar. And that's what
Fury's first contest will be against.
Pika, Seal, they seem pretty determined to try and hold this cross.
Roldini though elsewhere finds entry.
Mizuki did find improvement at the back end of the first half,
but unfortunately the first die here in the second.
Eneki also will hit the grave, so a four versus four death mark
on to seal hunted by the Blackbeard.
Mark just falls back for a moment's time,
but that opens the opportunity for Seal to get a kill.
Traded out and Mark finds the coverage, so it's a net win for Fury.
Now where are these EDDs placed though from Seal?
I wonder if that might have a literal impact later in this round.
And it's something that Fury need to be mindful of if they haven't really turned them out.
Now they've still got Labyrinth with the Shocktrain, he's actually just placed it.
I pretty sure missed that first shot on the T-Volt.
But they've got a minute, I mean that's the benefit of Fury not taking their time
on that room clear.
And you've still got two impacts on Dark.
So, you saw that little scout over towards the first floor, Dark will most likely make
his way over towards kitchen dining, look to them, do something on the vert, cause they
do have the time.
Mark's just trying to get some visual information from the mess and he in towards the office,
open up the wall.
If you're in a good position but job's not done, when you're asked to light a gas
wave then you go towards the plant zone, Mark, and they're playing a double stack
together inside a piano as Dark will now make his way up Library Hallway.
Yeah, I'm immediately dead from dark and then the second I see done from dark Yuri take the lead
It's over the march forward find that
double in towards piano
So some solid work
The round largely though was one over towards the bar stock slash bar clear
They were able to dress me now in the trade game credit to mark he was disciplined there on the black beer didn't forfeit
his life and
And then he provided coverage after they picked seal to get any follow-up on that
in towards that hallway position
That particular kill was on two
Hika, so yeah, there was a string of four kills from minute 51 to a minute 36 a lot of action on this side of the map
Just a little bit better discipline there from fury in the end
Ultimately a good catch there from dark as well
Well, Fury have done a really good job to start off the second half cleanly.
Daystar had their Numbot towards the back end of that first half as they started to unlock
their attacking potential, but Fury immediately out of the gates here showing no signs of
sluginess on their attacks, which is always a really positive sign.
Yeah it is.
That's what we saw in the first half.
You know, it's going to be that sort of round by round, isn't it, unless Fury
kind of pull away.
I mean this would be the benefit. So you can allow in that first half
Your day start for fury to go three and a lot. You can't allow them to go from three three to three six
So you can't have the first half play out in the same vein
Because otherwise then you don't have the ability to get all three points and your season then looks far worse
this has to be
Played out far differently to what we saw in that first half
It's to be a bit more back and forth at minimum of your day start for losing that round
It also keeps the opening kill conversion at 100%. I know there was a quick trade, but it still remains the same.
I also didn't mind the way Daystar tried to play that round with the extension and not just playing all the way back to site.
I think they're going to keep that same energy, keep that same strategy, and they're doubling down really, I guess when you're bringing the Scopus here on a bar game site.
Yeah, I'll be intrigued to see where Seal looks to position himself in this round, and that
kind of manages that.
And this is on the moment in terms of the YouTube clearance game from Fury here up above,
the BEDA could test mezz, and of course don't discount the impact that the Tuck position
in corner of library itself
could potentially have although it's not currently
could be exploited here by the defense so that's one less thing to concern
themselves with on the side of the attack
that means that Fiora can be a little more
honed in and focused on the
mescler, they've got a range hard breach for that, they've got edge edge as well, and a good set
of utility that can
dump this position and it puts a responsibility on a Zuki who has been a little unhinged.
I don't know if I can use this map, but you can lock in here and have influence.
So, honey, I'm in a laxiness round, though, and again, this is why I think the opening
kill is going to be so important.
It's inside a 100% conversion, Kineki, split through the fire and a double kill,
not just one.
a third apparently also a fourth man it's just on fire the fourth is a team kill
though that's the only downside I'm not just going to play the rampage I think
you just overheated that point get out of his way it's scary though it's one
HP this is loseable for fury but maybe not nice is dark yeah and the scope was
never played a factor in this round this is gonna be five three to fury and
I'm almost expecting a timeout for Daystar.
Last seal on 1 HP against Kineke on 1 HP.
Lebron, the full health of the three left up in the server.
He's going to be the one to cover and cover.
He will.
Fury, go 5-3 up.
Yeah, nice play.
Kineke took it upon himself on the glas to March 4th
through the smoke.
Great way to break that mezz hold.
Broke the structure there from the Daystar defense.
Back-to-back attacking round wins from Fury.
Again, they don't have that sluggish factor about them.
Daystar start off this map, slow to get going.
And they may pay the price for that if Fury can quickly find themselves hurling towards a win.
Looking great across the board and...
Yeah, good emotions as a whole after the back of that round win.
No time out from day start, they're gonna play out this full rotation.
Yeah, I mean that's a brazen non-call considering what's on the line here.
If you lose this round, it's not as if it's game over, but you also can't get three points.
That's completely taken away from you.
And that might be the difference between finals and not finals.
And then if that does eventually also then needing to win three straight to get anything from this game I
Think they missed a bit of an opportunity
Especially considering in back-to-back grounds of fury on their attacks
They've got multiple from dark in or multiple from to necky back-to-back opening kills as well
The defensive structure is just being broken down a little too easy
It is also the downside when you're bringing things like Scopos and you're trying to play a little bit more off-site and try and take some of these fights
You've got to then be more willing to actually go for it
I don't know if they still have really played the lineup but they've fought well enough
And if that's the case then you should probably look to then bunk down
Kitchen dining pot floor bunker a little bit of a split between second first floor
Might be their best chance to actually get a defensive round in this half and get things going
otherwise it's probably going to be too little too late.
You'll see how it develops. The one who's going to be critical in this round for Fury
is looking to situate Mark the way that he can have influence.
You've seen it from the back bid from him so far up to this point
and he's been pretty good in some of the back clears just his ability to balance pressure
pressure but also not being overly zealous for a silent rotation at the moment so the
game plan ends up being here could be a heavy horizontal hit here you might not
be eager at all to concern themselves with any kind of pressure trying to
keep it towards the objective force the defense back into play I mean is it
just a very slow late safe entry as well I mean I think at some point you're
gonna need to do a little bit of work on that second floor
Rodini probably should be dead I mean to be honest with you there wasn't
exactly a whole lot of time that Rodini was fully out of mud but he just
needed to fully connect on that first opportunity
Well the thing is, Seal wants to be alive, he needs to be top 4 for the denial here.
If you don't contest above it's perfect, prime time opportunity for him.
How's Pika losing that fight?
Wow, he looked as if he was in the better position.
Darf was just straight ready.
And that's the Azali on the rune dead and Seal stuck inside a basement.
Seal's in no-man's lane, he's not gonna have any influence and his utility is meaningless
if he doesn't get above to deny the plant.
catches out of Zuki. It's two kills for Fury until Yao able to get one on that top floor.
Seal Claw on the rotate back as Kineki was ready. Now going for the plane inside of
dining. Still got Yao on the second floor as he gets another kill. Sufley got one.
They are split. That will be successful though. barely and Kineki barely gets away
but not for too much longer because of Sufley. It's dark now in the 1v2 post-plane.
gets the first and the second they go for a double swing but dark is having one
of those kind of nights he got the opening kill and the final kill as fury
goes six three up and I've got three match points but most importantly they
deny Daystar the chance to get all three points yeah although it was so
Now I'm not being too late for the time out.
Yeah, that was so close to denying that plant.
I think if they were a bit more switched on tonight, they probably would have clued in pretty quickly.
Still, especially that it was full horizontal, there was no pressure top floor, the rest of the team needs to be coming.
That he needed to better be in a position to deny that plant.
You could see the vertical pressure was immense.
It was almost enough to deny the plant attempt in the end, if it wasn't for a little bit of poor luck on the side of Konecki.
Oh, pardon me. Who was above? I think I had to go for the shotgun lane on the Denari.
But yeah, it wasn't to be.
We're now able to speak to the team. We saw his body language earlier as well.
It's a little bit disappointed, a shake of the head. A handful of rounds ago,
and I think that was even after a round win, so getting the sense that he's
probably not overly pleased with how the team has performed tonight and unfortunately that kind of
encapsulates a stage four day star that seems to be one to forget which is really unfortunate probably
the most lovable team in the league but their performance inside of the server hasn't quite
been up to the standard that we know they're you know capable of.
Once the Cinderella story and their climb and their rise in this APAC region and making
international events to a descent as we put it bluntly.
And then they don't win the double spray like in every world you would expect that
second trade to hit. It's just not clicking for their stuff.
Well it is clicking for Fury though and I've got three opportunities to kind of put themselves back into the top four.
That's what would be the case tonight. They win this game.
They'd go to six points. They would leapfrog F5 Esports, but then we run it back tomorrow guys with F5 versus Fury
It'll actually be back-to-back games for fury 2 because they start tomorrow in the first game for play day five and
then that's the game again where it's similar to this one where
Win and you're looking far more comfortable for finals and lose and it's still looking rough
So Fury might escape this game with a win, but then the next one tomorrow is just as important just as being
Is they're gonna go for a quick take in towards trophy?
bedroom office the site
There's some good control down below
Nice and early for dark on the bark to open up the floorboards
has been the kind of game though where fury went three straight day star went
three straight fury three straight can day star now go three straight yeah we'll
see let's take a big effort slow good catch yeah well that's one and the
rounds over now because we're sitting at 100% conversion so I think we can just
get forward. Not if Dark has anything to say about it. That's a big pick. Yeah, it drops,
they lose the smoke for the late round denial. I was joking about the rain, just for those
watching, I was a joke. Let's see if they can formulate a solar side hit. If that ends
up being the play, or fury. That's certainly possible. I don't think they can play the
front line they got range hard breach as well if they need to deploy that for a
route for the plant and they've got information as well so it's gonna be
good yellow ping as well through the bathroom maybe an opportunity here for
dark little high risk they just want to expose himself to any workers down by
Spain or it's fireplace
on that as they go to the cameo oh does it get second on to labyrinth
It might have been better off actually just taking the one and pulling it a day, take the
4v3 in the last minute, but he wanted more.
That's the solos now, not available either to certainly help out here late, but I think
on the top floor it's going to be as much of an impact unless you're essentially solo
on the first floor, which considering period positioning wasn't going to be available
Two daystar anyway. 45 seconds, yellow ping, but that doesn't play off it initially.
He's gonna expend all of the charges in his skeleton key.
And then make his way back up trophy stairs to help out Mark and Labyrinth.
Very wary of the time though. They start technically in the better position right now.
Right now he's coming gone.
The Souffle can't win the initial battle against Stark.
It opens up the chance to push into the site and Daystar are crumbling.
Hicca's too preoccupied by Lepreth towards the eco.
He tries to run and draw him out but Marcus moves all the way over and it's Stark that
gets the final kill as time we're starting to expire.
Yuri are into the top four with another big game tomorrow but a chance of redemption
And in this stage, as Daystar are confined to the bottom four with three playdays to
go, hopes to see them in finals, a dwindling day by day.
Yeah, wow.
Big performance from Fury.
Just when it felt like Daystar were rebounding and getting themselves back into the match,
they looked phenomenal.
Their attacks tonight especially standing out as being an impressive part of their game.
So, yeah, they're firing on all cylinders at the moment.
It would seem Furia, you know, not going to go down
without trying in terms of finishing in the top floor
this stage.
And whilst there's been a couple of blemishes
in a high pressure match like tonight,
they really stood tall.
And I think that's an impressive feat.
Absolutely.
I mean, you've got to give all of the plotters to Furia
in a big game.
Daystar, I'm sure they were expecting them to fire up
and come into tonight knowing that a win was absolutely
required.
and Fury just got out to that fast start.
Daystar, of course, were able to respond.
It was equal as all you could be at the end of the first half,
but then Fury dominant on their attack and closed it out.
If we had rounds four all the way to round 10
and attacking round wins.
So that answered the question
of a potential defense on Chalet.
Fury squashed that and a massive performance
from dark 15 and six.
Likely, I would imagine going early here myself
as the MVP for the night.
probably should be considering the stakes on offer in this match for fury into the top four big game tomorrow against f5, which
Again will follow. I think the path of what this game sort of laid out being these games down the back end of this day is so important
For fury though a control their own fate now
You win tomorrow against f5 you'll end up on nine points to play days to go leaving daystar and f5 in your wake
They've set themselves up for a good chance to make finals
Yeah, absolutely. And look on the other side of the coin from a day-star perspective, I think it's gonna really hurt this loss.
Unfortunately, they got off to a really slow start today that proved to be...
Honestly, a little costly, but ultimately not the fact that that led to the loss.
The second half, they just never were able to convert the opportunities that they had afforded themselves.
And they still play Wave-O.
And they've got a rough schedule ahead.
head so I hate ruling our teams at this kind of portion of the stage but there's a soft line through
them being generous. The line is this I have to beat Waybo now so you said they got a rough schedule
there the schedule for days that's actually not too bad they play triple nine and then they go and
play Dolphin so they win those two games you're on nine points I've played a Waybo last game
the stage win that 12 points you're probably in with the way that everything's kind of shaping
You know, so that's the line.
That's the soft line through them.
When you're next to and you've got a chance maybe to make finals and beat waiver.
And if you can beat waiver to make finals, then maybe you're a threat again.
Maybe you can make a bit of a run.
That's not over for day star.
If we're being completely honest, it just simply is going to come down to get the job done in the next two games.
And then you've got to somehow go and beat waiver as for fury.
Well, it changes dramatically.
They go to six points.
As I said, they're in the top four F5 tomorrow is the next challenge up.
up so they're on five points could have been way it could have been more if they actually got the job
done against Wayboat then they play triple nine so if they win the next two games now they'll be on
12 points and then the last game is again sharper so we all lose 12 points might be enough for them
depending ground differential other results etc so they're in a much better position now but they
do still need to get the win tomorrow because if they don't beat at five then there's without
they won't be able to get to 12 points and F5 then look more likely to maybe occupy that spot.
So another huge game for them tomorrow, job's not done. We'll go to our interview though.
It is with LeBron from Fury, fresh off the win against Daystar. Congratulations, LeBron.
We saw your excitement in the cameras earlier and how much it meant to you guys.
A fantastic effort. Obviously it's not been a great stage up to this point,
but do you feel like this could be the turning point? Big Daystar today, big game tomorrow against F5
that five and you guys can make a good run towards finals.
Yeah, we have like to do the game today win again.
This is kind of like, you know, now this I have like kind of bad
from right in this step this season.
So we talk about that and we might get a lot of chance to win again.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Talking about form, I was actually looking across at Dark's numbers today.
So he was 24th rated in the stage, which is below what we would expect because he's a really good player
But tonight he was insane. He had some really big clutch moments for you guys. What's it like having dark on your team?
He's like a you know
Like a big buddy, you know, and we have like
the people who can be like insane some day like
Like, if you give me all team momentum, you know?
Any insane like 14 kills?
Oh, shit, that's crazy.
I say in the message, I love you, bro.
I love you so much today.
Obviously, Leverenthal smiles,
but I'm sure you saw the result earlier today,
F5, Waybo and how well F5 played.
You played them tomorrow now
and clearly that's going to be an important game.
You guys are now on six points there on five points.
So it's similar, I guess, coming into today against Daystar.
What do you think of F5 and that match ahead tomorrow?
About F5, like we saw in today, right?
They have like a good gunfire, you know, against Wable.
And they've been five rounds in a long time.
I was like, oh, shit.
It's so good.
Look at like five rounds in Wable.
It's crazy, you know?
Does that change things going into your match against them
tomorrow or do you maybe give them more respect now maybe okay you don't you
don't give anything away I like that leveraged anything you'd like to say
before we let you go so I got message from you mean to say you give me like
message to us to give GG bro I took it all right GG Azuki congratulations
and hopefully we can see you tomorrow.
Best of luck.
So I went for fury against they start.
It's happy days for them because it's sad days for day
start, but that was always going to be the storyline
from this matchup.
There was only going to be one happy team,
one sad team.
Worst case was maybe too sad team to be too sad team.
So it means for fury though, another big game
tomorrow, like it's literally just going to be
run it back, go to sleep tonight and then
run it back tomorrow against F5 for another
huge matchup for finals go to our MVP for the night which up until the last game was looking a little shaky as to who
We were going to get but dark put in a solid performance to nail it home as the MVP for today's play
He was a big difference maker got a good couple of opening kills
He was also able to have a couple of multi-kill rounds and certainly in that second half
I think just what he was able to do for them on the attack
He just gave them something extra that they start didn't have to match
Yeah, as I said, he had a little bit of a slow start to the stage and even back in stage one
He was 17th overall. I mean respectable, but he's the kind of kid and we saw that talent really shine in the second half
Where he I think it is best is probably top five in the region
So impressive for him to step it up up until that point. It had been very even across the ball
Did you just call him a kid?
Yeah!
That's probably the same age as you!
I was using it in like a positive way.
You don't have to be like this.
What do you mean bro?
I'll call him the kid. He's your age, alright?
I can't remember.
You can call him kid. You're the young.
Yeah, I mean the results across all three matches,
when you looked at individual stats,
honestly no one really stood up,
but yeah, when you factor his performance,
especially in the second half,
when you give the circumstances of the match,
it was great from him
from him. And I hope you see
more of that same dark tomo
think they'll be fine. But
gap in that match up could
changed up a little bit fr
position with fury now lea
for f5, but not for f5 fe
right. So that's going to
the last three play days to
follow. Elevates also not in a
super locked in position, but I
think it's fair to say. Sharp
Wayboat one and two both on 28
and nine can't be split. Uh
that's it. An intriguing
aspect is that they also will
play tomorrow. Yeah, I feel
like the fixturing is done a
really good job here because
it's uh, yeah, played out in
a way that's not perfectly
keen for tomorrow there's some big games just like they were today and maybe we'll
get a clear picture in terms of the top four are pending those results it could
even be a little muddy on the snow yeah I'm excited to run it back tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will run it back us and I look forward to it we got some big games
one to start then one to close and a couple of important ones in the middle
thanks everyone for tuning in for play day four again shout out to everyone
behind the scenes that's putting in a lot of work across the APL region in
the right studio. Certainly
our wonderful producer. Alex
Sky McCullum as per usual. He
is an absolute stand up guy.
He can observe he can produce.
Just don't put him on the
replays. We're going to throw
it to the end of the stream,
but make sure tomorrow, same
place, same time. See you
there.
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