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This is why I need 24 today. Here in Berlin, the fans are ready.
Gibi, Jatt, are you ready?
Yes! I'm completely ready for this.
Was there a slight hesitation there?
Yeah!
We are ready!
It's Elimination Day, 100 Thieves is playing on Elimination Day,
which was not in the plan, but it will be part of the history.
For any Heisman movie, there's always one thing that goes wrong.
One guy's an imposter, you gotta have the ability to know how to entertain the audience.
It's the second movie before they come back in the end, that's the hope, of course, here.
As I said, two teams advanced to three stages today, MDK, make its in-play in despite general expectations when it comes to Mad Lions.
Yeah, eventually.
Yeah, I mean, we've gotten a very new meaning to MDK at World's Aware all of a sudden.
We like it this time.
We do, we've certainly given it a positive spin.
And I mean, the man in your screen just earlier, Alvaro, he's had a fantastic play-in.
Like, we thought that his highlight reel was only ever going to be for the first game series they had against Vikings, and then he, I mean, blew everyone away once again with his performance against PSG.
Every time they needed to play, Alvaro was there, especially the Alistar Flash Q on LeBlanc W was just Chef's kiss into Maple.
W indeed.
But interestingly enough, GAM was the most dominant team so far in play-ins. They didn't drop a single game.
They also subverted the expectations that we all had with how measured and controlled they were in that game.
They were less than half a combined kill per minute in their final game, which is really, really slow for them.
Yeah, that's what K.I. was saying yesterday in the interview.
Still the fire, the craziness about Gambler, more polished Gambier.
We'll see their advances to the sweet stage later on, but just take a look at the brackets.
So, you see what we have on our hands today because, as I said, no more mistakes allowed.
If you lose today, you go home.
So, what do you want to focus on?
What is your approach here?
So you can see the top of that bracket.
They call that the upper bracket.
Some people call that the winners bracket.
Some people call this lower thing a bracket for losers,
the losers bracket.
But let me tell you, two winners will get out of here
and people will forget that they were losers
previous days.
So literally win two series, go to Swiss.
That's all any of these teams need to think about.
The past doesn't matter.
The only thing that matters is gonna be what's before them.
Yeah, and I also think it's really interesting
because normally we still have these high names
that you expect to go through.
But even on one side of the bracket,
There's still PSG, there's still 100 thieves, and the other one with R7, PNG and Vikings like it's really up in the air for which of these minor regions gonna make it.
Yeah, it's gonna depend on how they readjust the homework and basically coming up with the clean slate today.
The past doesn't matter, you just have to show up and show big today.
And I think it's time for us to check how our pick-ins are doing because...
One of us is doing a lot better than the other.
I've been a big advocate for the Rel Death Fund and look at that!
Most deaths!
31. This one, yeah.
This one, yeah.
7 leads, stop the count.
We knew it was going to be a support, but I don't think we had Rell here.
Ascarna, most bands, I had this one as well. I think that most of people did as well.
Most picked Rell, though. Yeah.
Yeah, this one I did not anticipate.
I definitely all in Rell and I'm feeling pretty good about it right now
unless it starts getting banned because it is winning a lot, too.
I mean, I think you can be sad about some of these champions.
If you don't have them, don't worry.
You can be happy as long as you know an Ocean Drake enjoyer.
If you're one of them's then you are truly screwed because I mean
Ocean Drake so far
I have this one. I feel so bad. It's such a flip. It's such a flip
I was like, you know, I like it because I like the ocean map. I'm gonna be
It starts raining much like the tears of people who pick that but yeah
We got like what 15 games so far. It's another five weeks
Consideration that soon Atlas is gonna arrive and they're all we will see is Caldrax again
And you guys at home, you can reset European games and adapt them for the three stages, of course.
Let us know in chat what you guys have picked. I like this post.
Gabi Nene can see the graphics.
Oh my god, I don't care what I'm sorry.
Before we jump on to the next series, we have a lot of new players here at Worlds this year.
So let's hear from Karioka about what playing at Worlds means to him for the first time.
The feeling of playing my first game is amazing, it's an opportunity that I think every player has to have.
To be able to face the best teams in the world, of course we haven't played yet, but it's still the challenge for me.
It would also mean my career if the first team to make a longer walk in the world.
I'm sure it would motivate me to keep trying and inspire others to know that it's possible.
So I know that it means a lot to us to be able to win the championship.
I would like to thank all the fans who are cheering for us, supporting us.
You know that we are going to give our all. We want to be able to pass the fall.
We want to be able to show a good campaign.
We're going to play now, so I hope you like the game and we're going to do our best, so don't stop believing. Thank you.
What do you want to focus on?
What do you want to show the world?
And also how are you going to end all this new pressure, new stage, new audience?
And basically the biggest event of the year and for some players, you've been dreaming
about this your whole life.
Exactly.
I think that's one of the hardest things about analyzing players and teams at the
World Championship is because the number of external factors that can change the
way you look in game are bigger at Worlds than they are at any other point in your
career.
So sometimes you'll have these players that are super hyped, they come into worlds
fall flat on the face and some people say oh yeah that player is just bad but
actually it was all that external new things that they were not good at
adapting to in the first place so it's just a I mean that's why it's so
entertaining to watch right and in that joy it's been amazing watching pain
gaming because we're gonna talk about this of course for the next minutes that
we have but they're showing against PSG in the first series they had was
amazing I'm really interested in seeing what they're gonna be able to do
today so let's focus on the other side of the map this time showgun versus
is our Mercedes future matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz.
In today's featured matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz,
CB Law's pain gaming are up against the VCS's Viking eSports.
Cheetah proved in his last series that he is a force to be reckoned with,
and although pain felt the sting of loss,
they looked to regain the momentum towards the Swiss stage.
Brazil, there's more of you guys not coming at your tender, got it?
Good is looking to harness his hard-carrying talent,
and with the rest of the Viking squad behind him,
He is hoping to make a stand against Brazil's storied powerhouse.
Shogun clean flash out to safety.
Will he survive for now?
Miro will immediately cancel the all out to get those resistances back.
Yo, you're clocked.
Good up front damage.
Miro gonna try to body block and he bombed the shockwave.
There, yo, you're taking down VKE.
Good heads up play the rocket.
Not gonna hit either.
Miro not gonna be in trouble as well.
One last shot for Shogun, but he reloads.
Now gonna find the counter audience as well.
Good punish!
Coming through from VKE on the bottom side.
Which team will be able to secure their first win on the world stage?
Make the first step towards Swiss.
A lot of interesting profile stories here at Worlds, but I feel like when you look at
Titan, especially, who's been, he's familiar with the international stage, a lot to prove
here today because playing is all he knows. Never made it to the main stage, so it's going
to be interesting seeing what approach it's going to have and how much pressure he's
going to have on his shoulder.
No, absolutely. He's been here at an international so many times, it's his fifth international
and despite all of that, he's never actually managed to make it to the main stage.
They've come close before, they've won games, it's not like it's a region that just come around and don't win,
but with a performance like you've had this time around, the Lucian Naminé lane is usually not something we see go too well,
and they managed to just completely shine on it. I think Kure's looked amazing down as well in that bot lane as well,
and I'm really looking at these two people to bring pain gaming, to finally elevate that performance we see from CBLOL to the main stage.
on the side of Shogun, we're no strangers to this player.
He left a mark every time he was on the international stage
and he knows how it feels to be on the other side.
Yeah, I mean he absolutely does.
I think we can expect him to put up a good showing
and hopefully not be too affected by the nerves today.
And I just feel like it's so interesting the way
that we end up remembering play-ins
in any MSI or Worlds tournament
because it's so binary in did you advance,
Did you not advance? And you'll often forget what happens in the individual moment.
So, like, as you were mentioning, the CB Law taking a game off of PSG, that's impressive.
That's actually some level of success, but ultimately lost the series, so it doesn't matter.
And we were talking, actually, before the show, is it actually a little bit lucky
that both of these teams lost in the first round? We need to pull up the bracket to explain this.
Yeah, let's take a look at the brackets because I want to look at the scenarios that they would have been facing.
They need more stage time, I feel like when it comes to these teams, the more stage time they have, the better, but I feel like it's also a matter of opponents here.
Okay, so basically, right? So we're on the PNG side right now in the beginning. So basically, JAP had the argument to me. JAP, you can go ahead.
I mean, the only thing that matters is that you get here, right? So if Pain beats PSG, they would then have to beat Mad to advance, or they'd lose, which actually throws them over here and then having to play PSG.
PSG but like the quality of opponent that they have to ultimately beat to advance is now lower
Because they lost this first round that's got to be a pretty that's like a gold lining instead of a silver lining
No to self lose my placement match
So they would have been pain gaming inside a hundred thieves or soft bank banks, right?
So it's like it's it's still easier potentially over the other guys. I mean, yeah, that's true
But the way that it ended up happening these guys got to be thrilled this whole group even R7 and they earned it because they beat 100 themes to get here
But I love the theory, but all of this is gonna come in factor with pressure today knowing that if they lose they're gonna go home
So yeah again, I don't know what to expect actually from these teams because when you look at pain
We said it they were so close from defeating PSG the first game
They wanted but even from the last game could have been a flip
Yeah, well, honestly, I just want to see more out of Shogun as well because we've seen it in the past where he was able to be a
Hyper carry, but I think he's been put too much in a facilitating role as well
I want to see them actually go down here and give him the carry potential
He's on an hour be the strong side with his Camille in the first series
But I don't want to see all this gin and you know just stay in the back line
I want to see a guy that they can play through on the other side with Gam being so dominant for the from the VCS
Yes, do you think something else can be expected from biking today?
Is that a region trend or it's just a game trend?
Well, one interesting thing about that is that Viking played some Shyvana in their regional finals as well.
It was a contested pick.
Yeah, those won't take away for Levi.
I love that pick from Levi.
And it's something that no other region has any reps on.
I'd love to see that being pulled out today.
All right, Jatt, I think you prepped something for us.
I think you did some homework, some research about the forces in balance here.
Oh my God.
I was reading the thread yesterday, even though 100 Thieves didn't play
and people just what is that hold on people kept bringing up cloud nine yesterday
But the origin of this is I'm trying to see what we've learned to see who can win between Vikings and
Pain gaming because they're the ones who play today. So we need to learn from what's happened
So Vikings got two owed by the Mad Lions. Yeah, meanwhile pain lost one two to PSG
Got it and then because mad to one PSG
I feel like it kind of canceled out like the sweep into the 2-1 they could still be pretty close
So to figure out who's actually further ahead. We need to go to the VCS
So Vikings is the two-seat in the VCS
That's not the same, but it's kind of similar to gam being the number one seed and we know what gam did
They actually two old rainbow seven yesterday and we know what they did
They two 100 thieves to be in that spot got it. Everyone wants to keep reminding you that cloud nine lost to this
Cloud9 lost to this. And by that they also lost to R7 and then VCS. However, Cloud9 in
Worlds last year beat Mad, who's at the top of the pyramid right now. So what does this really say?
You tell me. It says it's gonna be really close to it. If we look at all the available data,
it doesn't point us in a direction. If I can tell you anything, CP Lord, they got one game
of PSG, right? And PSG got one game of Matt Lyons, but that means that they kind of got
one game of a team that has same strength as Steve. That's what I'm saying, it cancels out.
Yeah, but Vikings didn't get a single game. Yeah, but that was because Matt was better at the time.
I think we didn't have the right understanding of them facing off against Matt, and they're actually
stronger than they seem, because that's an amazing resist shot. Thank you for this.
I found them in the back.
They look great on me.
Either way, as meme-y as this is, a lot of times
we know how much importance this is on us.
Now I can't see anything.
This is serious with the glasses.
Together a little more serious.
It actually is an elimination game.
And as we saw the bracket earlier,
the opportunity that is before these teams, Vikings
in pain, is so enormous.
So being able to win today and then face off
against Rainbow 7 tomorrow is one of the best opportunities
any of these three teams will ever have of moving
I want to have a quick photo section here.
Well, I'm actually going with pain.
And I think it's because I just want to...
I just feel like their bot lane got more aggression through it.
I think they're more proactive with their plays.
Where Vikings, they kind of start a bit stale back.
And if they don't approve that, I think they're going to fall behind.
I'm thinking Vikings 2-1.
But I don't know.
Either way, hopefully teams can prepare today in this elimination match.
So let's get straight into it.
into it.
Normally, after a loss, I beat myself down.
I need to make sure that I'm focusing on the things I need to get better on.
That's exactly what I'm going to do.
I want to make the people around me proud, and I will do that against SHG.
I want to make the people around me proud, and I will do that against SHG.
I want to make the people around me proud and I will do that against SHG.
It's always worth it.
So I always think I can learn something from the defeats.
And that helps me win the next game, the next championship.
So that's my mentality.
This is my dream.
My dream is to win the World Cup.
My team can do it.
But maybe we can keep this face and move on.
I'm sure we went through a lot of things, so we created a very strong bond.
I think it's beyond being just a team, I think we're going to take this friendship for the rest of our lives.
And I'm sure it was one of the others who kept us on foot.
I don't know, it's over, it's over.
For our fans in Brazil, we know that we're not only carrying our dreams, but the dreams of you too.
and we will give our blood and do our best to achieve that.
against PSG, they were talking about it on the desk.
That game one was electric.
There was a lot of blood,
there was a lot of speed into the play
of the CD-Lol team, which I don't know from,
it starts a lot of people to be expecting them to be
running out the gate in some of those games,
but they did and they caught PSG by surprise.
And a lot of people are saying,
hey, they PSG are a lot better
than what we get them credit for.
But in the same vein,
Vikings kind of got caught off guard by FDK
and those lane swaps, right?
So it felt like we didn't really get to see
the full wrath of the Vikings here.
Especially when this was the squad that was favored coming into their finals.
The people said they were better than Gav.
They kept coming into the world even after the final.
I want to see them now play their game.
I want to see them like screw lane swap, screw all the malarkey.
Let's just get into some classic League of Legends.
You can see SFN there standing behind his team.
He would love for this squad to be able to make him the host.
We have League of Legends.
Exactly.
We have the king of dynamic jungling.
And hopefully he can impact that and send that over to again Gory who we want to say a lot more from as you said.
I've got a lot of that coming into this day three with us so much on the line
We have to see how they break for PNG as we go on to game one pick ban PNG on the blue VK on red
Ash syndrome both respect taken away
Yeah, I think by another pick to be often times he banned away in that red side
But it will be curious to see how the adaptations have come through for both these squads as we start to continue forward
Right this male Kai banned every game against paying game. You see the Jacks
It's been consistently away from nanoway as well one of his big picks will that be respected as you come into game number one
I just love that the second ban is towards Kati as well.
You know, coming into the tournament, I thought Kati has a really good meta.
Syndra, Ori, Ryze, those are his historic most played.
And two have already been taken off, opening up this draft as the first two bats.
Yes, Syndra, Ori, I mean, strong, stable, easy mid laners.
Also, one of the protective sets of Pritikano to go back towards something like the One that we saw him play previously.
But in my eyes are fully on Cheetan at the bottom side.
He looked insane over the course of several of his games.
I agree is a force we recommend even when it came into the roster.
This was the guy adding with Curry that they expected to push this team forward
as the MSI representative for the CBLOL were quite up to make it happen at that
stage, but now represent the CBLOL on this world stage.
He would look to step up for his region once more.
There's so many fun stories.
We're going to get your ears off at home and let you know.
I mean, again, the history is ending up.
Jax, your name, both again, strong soul in band.
and scuttle at the open for once.
And straight away, Slam by PMJ.
Yeah, scuttle is incredibly strong at the moment.
He's very good as a front line.
He's able to set up a lot of plays.
Great if you try and have these dive compositions as well,
because you can find so much space for your back line.
I think he's just by far and away at the strongest jungler.
At least, I've seen him play in.
Perhaps, if I continue towards the main stage.
This is interesting, though, because we did see
Orr7 kind of falling back towards this with Audi,
going towards the brand.
Did not work out for them game number one.
So I'm kind of surprised that we're getting both these picks
this early because this is not the priority that I would have put into this.
Remember, Odie picked us up, well Odie, excuse me, Odie picked us up before and we were like,
well, Brand doesn't feel as quick as clear, you know, it's something you raised after
on broadcast, but with the misfortune as well, two champions that have been gutted a little
bit but still see that passage of play. Now, to the other side, PNG, a strong 2v2 lane
when you brought in Chetan and Curry for this year. Maybe they look to dominate bot
here and put their styles back up.
Do you end up just immediately taking the role now for Curry to say, hey, we
on this incredibly strong bot lane that we can look to play around set up or and then try and push
something like an Alistair pick on the other side or something that at least try and play into that
rail or what is going to be to pick up here for Curry I think if you're going to pick Kalista you
need to have a strong engage support beside her of course yeah let's see like there are actual
options available you just be worried about you know twice the band's going in on the opposite
side and then they're taking one but Nico for Dinkado now from not mistaken first time we've
We've seen this in the tournament. I'm just glancing my eyes. Yeah, first time and this is still technically
Triple flex because it can go top into things like renekton. It's been seeing me
It can also go support and sync up with the Calista while the owner comes on the other side
We've got a big question right there P&G can play around with this third pick on blue side and keep VK a VK
Excuse me guessing a little bit
Yeah
I know but the reason we saw Niko kind of drift away from that mid lane champion pool was just because she wasn't the strongest
when it came to getting push and then being able to set up in that regard.
Maybe with the changes we see coming in, she started to come back in a little bit
stronger, but this to me could also be the triple flex, but into the owner.
I also don't think it's amazing.
Good point.
Let's carry his cooking something.
Well, I like the word cooking, Dr.
And again, if you take the eye away from pain, you get pan and pans are good
for cooking with now.
I've taken away.
No, I'm not letting you respond to that.
We're neck and the pan and the side.
So maybe it's not going to be in the top after all, so I just have a quick look at Dinkado's match history
He is not the plane the Niko so I'd be very surprised if it's going towards him
Could end up being in that support role as we're saying but let's figure out as a renekton
Aurora gonna be taken off the board as well. Um, I'm this is basically saying to me that that Niko is going bot side because
Because actually pretty good matchup into the renekton. Oh, yeah
So I think what we're looking at is a potential casante going through for one of these spots
especially with the Naira under an acting coming through could be gone towards Nanoe in that top side if they really want to
But I think basically that's what we're trying to set up here is some sort of line in that part
I mean why is it so far? It's been the Jax to rumble the Nasa far in this tournament
But you just can't go past the Cassante another nice holiday. Bad it instead
So variables thrown up into the top lane as Nanoe doesn't have that soft top lane to wrestle on here
We have seen this from the PCS region
But Udyr getting locked in here again.
Yeah, it looks like the preference is on getting Cassie a guaranteed good matchup in the mid lane.
They're unsure exactly where that Niko is in the same vein we are.
So you're saying look we don't want to full commit to a Niko counter until we figure out exactly where this pick is going.
Udyr, you're strong blind, you're not really going to have too many issues with it.
So regardless of what ends up happening, you should be okay.
And even the fact that you have the reduction on the E, actually the reduction on the CC from the E could work out.
We're careful rumble gonna be the case. So it looks like it may be just an all-out party on the wombo combo here for pink gaming
Nice pun Cassata something a mother-wise day for that would have been a 10 out of 10 for me at the very least you're right
It's the all-in committal. We see the Tristana locked in again the Nico as you confirmed earlier on
Dax is gonna be down on the bottom side in the 2v2
Again since your son on the tournament little bit surprising no way after everything are we just gonna get Tristana Corky?
We've done a full circle and you'd hope
That Karthi has a little bit more. Now, the Smotr hasn't been seen as much in this tournament so far, but it is sort of something people say is strong.
Yeah, I think it's something because it didn't really get hit by a lot of the system changes that we saw for other champions, right?
So it will be the Smotr. And I do like this. Tristana got hit by the feet footwork, so she's in this controlling in that mid lane.
Whereas for Smotr, he's kind of just fine to farm it on out. He's going to end up going for Triforce.
A lot of his, like, Blade of the Rune King didn't get hit, which did for Tristana.
like these items that the Tristana build aren't the same for Smotre.
So in this position, I think you're in a relatively good spot.
The only thing that does concern me is, you know, lack of control with the MF.
Brand not looking as strong as he is.
And the pure wombo that is on paying game inside, if I can eSports mess up even a little bit,
it's lights out for them.
It's the thing that Rumble's always good at punishing isn't it?
He can still snowball.
He can still scourge so early on with that equalizer.
Get inside of that, because we have a change about the bot side as well.
Remembering how Chetan and Curry, you were mentioning the story coming in, this was not, I would say, a risk when he has so much tenure behind him,
but again, a change of style here for Payne to try and make this moment and made it they have now, they have to put up or shut up, this is their last chance.
Yeah, Chetan and Curry were the people of the best bot lane in the CBLOL, and two guys that could pop the hell off, so hiding them to this line-up kind of felt like the last missing piece,
but didn't come together for MSI, but now in the world stage,
with a ball in that is very volatile.
I'm expecting a huge amount of pressure
from that from Karioka just to try and get this Kalista ahead
and let Karioka then help out in this game.
Even when you look at the combo between like Niko
getting tossed in with a Kalista
or even a pop blossom into getting hold to safety,
this is where a lot of this pain gaming game plan
is coming from.
Well, we're here in the elimination day.
One best of three left in one of these teams for VKE.
Remember, a lot of people said, this
got three of the best players in the VCS right now.
Hati, Shogun, Bia.
They've been plays you've seen on the stage before,
but the fact they're on a new roster,
people thought, OK, the dynamic is
going to be enough to get them as first seed.
But GAM held Merritt.
They smashed them in finals.
They beat them only just 3-2 in the upper brackets
as well.
VKE had to claw tooth and nail to get here.
As you can see, Global Power Rank is powered by ADO.
He has some short VKE, would have been much higher on the scale,
but they're close to PNG, Pain Gaming,
who haven't been to an international in so long,
since 2021 MSI Dagger.
They haven't been at Worlds for nine years.
2015 Worlds was the last time we saw a pain on a big stage.
Yeah, and I think a huge amount of that was
the toss and interving, as we talked about with the roster,
the fact that you had like even Dinkado swapping out
for 10-ons, and then trying to find his success
on this roster, his 10-ohms left him.
They basically swapped between loud and pain gaming as well.
So getting Tinketo in here, beating 10-ohms finally
to get his first one, but Shogun and BA
trying to get onto Wiser here.
You can't beat him, join him, Tector.
Okay, let's go for a lane swap
and see how we can run it here with Shogun and BA
is this star AD carry on the top side of the map,
which supports out, get a bit of information on Blu-Vuff.
On response, using Curry just runs into Blu,
but Curry has himself a smite, gets it,
and Nanoway is just gonna try and help him
push through this, as again our star 80 carries in our Mercedes-Benz Featured Matchup, running
into this game one.
It feels a little bit sad that our Mercedes-Benz Featured Matchup are now on opposite sides
of the region, but this is definitely the two to watch.
I think when we looked towards Sheetan, he was fantastic on things like delusion in
his series.
It was just unfortunate that they weren't quite able to get themselves up and running
into some of these early skirmishes, but he was a force to be reckoned with
with Curry, and an upside show going to be, had a phenomenal time, even getting
some 2v2 kills in that bottom lane.
So I was hoping we'd get these two teeth too much against each other, but not going to be the case thus far.
And I know a lot of lane swaps these days are about more than just avoiding the 2v2 right,
about influencing mid, impacting what happens in top lane in the 1v1.
This one feels like a bit more old-school, where for paingaming, they're not only having to get plates here,
but VK, like, we don't want to touch this Callista, um, Callista Niko,
considering how potent this 2v2 is in its inherent form.
I think the only sad part is that for Gurri, because you end up clearing from your bot up to top to then meet with the split map,
you don't actually get your gromp on the bottom side, whereas when you look at Karioka now, he gets the clear list on the entire bot side,
can even move in onto the opposite, steal away that gromp as well, and just end up with a camp advantage if he's able to spot it out.
At the moment, several members going up towards this top side just try to see if they can get a plate,
but that was kind of the nerf they came through, you will just continuously take very quick plates on this bottom side.
And now we're starting to see PA moving down here trying to defend a potential jungle invade bus
I think it just got spotted by what are the Callista ghosts there as well
And Curry's gonna get spotted again as Wiza moves up. Remember he got level two off the mid wave
So even though the combo comes through you can see that Wiza
Doesn't really care too much. Curry moves back here with double buffs and gets forced away
While the support run from B. Air might find Curry
But he doesn't carry the tangle barbs max range and Kira will just continue farming away
Yeah, he's got to be careful where he is. You can see he's about to finish up here
So he ain't gonna try and wrap through onto this mid lane, catch people out
But I think the respect is coming through from paying gaming on the mid wave
Well as Weizel moves up CS can start brewing for top laners
You look at bot and you see that only one plate for all that trading as well
I'm just trying to look towards top. Still five there is Shogun versus Jitann. Pops off a little bit
Jitann has a level lead thanks to the fact he has now been soloed farming for a little bit
I'm also chasing down, look at where he's hanging there.
The boys, there's the flashes right back here.
It's a match by Shogun, but in for a penny, in for a pound.
Shogun close to dropping to the ground.
A rock out of range.
Zenith played as good as well as Curry.
Looks to the passive.
Set a blaze, it's the jungler of PNG.
But in pain, no, running away.
Yes, Curry.
Tangle, but Curry almost in.
Close, a blossom down as well as he escapes.
That was so close, but no one dies.
I don't think he was gonna go in and just get a triple kill.
Everyone is so low on pain gaming, but my word that was close.
The barrier clicks from Shogun.
Even a potential double up here could take someone here on this health, even Curry,
but not going to be able to connect pain gaming.
Want to try and clear it this way.
You could even look up at Dinketa was he was considering a run down to this bottom side.
And what I find is Curry versus Curry is going to be a lot harder than I initially thought.
but the second part is that all the flashes were burnt in that trade too.
The only one left up is Guri on that brand jungle, so
small advantage here if you want to call it that is
PNG still having backed away in this bottom side, all things considered while
Shogun has done exactly that.
I think that makes things significantly more interesting now for a potential group fight.
Not having those summoner spells available, Guri at least of us is, but
if you're looking at karaoke potential coming in from the flank,
why is there hitting that level 6? If you're Shogun,
You are now the targets and there's a lot that can become in your direction as well.
So I think in this case, the Vikings maybe want to take the foot off the gas pedal a little bit
and try and play for a driving trade on those grubs instead.
Well, the slower the game goes, the more the small will be happy, I guess, as well.
As you said, grubs a priority, 15 seconds until they spawn.
Why is this got teleported?
So he might be teleporting up here to react to this bounce wave.
Remember that Anuay has his available while Guru, he starts roaming top himself.
Curry's a minion though. Isn't Anway spotting this?
Curry's not tangled barb than Kario K is here.
What do you say in response? Anway's running for his light ghost is there and the power of Uri is here.
The spear is not mortal enough on the damage.
Still though, you've got Curry and, yeah, start trying to get one of these grubs just as a sneak away,
but then gaming's starting to come across now.
This has got to be careful. Dengue is about to clear it to Maven with it.
Alright, the wave in mid and he's level 6, but you got one, Curry.
Just be happy that you got that
He's gonna run out of rage rage anyway rather from the minions to temper down and there's a reset to PNG standing their ground
We're looking for those rotations now show guns moving on up and that means fortune
He's going to bring a small drag with him as well. So Guru's like I can start this again
Oh, and brand is just so good at clearing this quick smart
Yeah, the TP from nanoway back up into that top lane and then the run from shogun made that a little bit dicey
But you can still see the damage is done right when you look at the CS.
Blizzard is 34 when you look across the Vikings, not looking so hard for Nannaway.
So that's kind of the trade-off that you get in this situation where you're trying to move him around as much as possible to keep the Void groups there.
It's only a 2 for 1 at the end of the day, so both squads can still get that buff.
Dragon's still sitting there and waiting up on our ocean fans that are watching our analyst death segment.
Probably upset it's not going to be a solve, but at least they get one for the board.
But for now, a ward is dropped by Dory.
They know what's going on here, so Dragon sits there and wipes.
And that's where I think the focus is.
Because you only have the MF down here,
Wiser gets to create this slow push in the bottom side.
He's going to be fine. He resets. He moves back up top.
You've got Cheetan and Curry who are now able to move it to that bot side
and should be able to get push as well.
And you've still got that teleport available for Wiser push.
They look like they want to try and cheat this
just trying to look for the play out of the back of it.
But yeah, I think Wiser just going to use that teleport advantage now
to help pain gaming set up this dragon, then reset himself and catch that wave at the top.
So the fact that Dinkietta goes back and gets retrics, maybe a bit more damage as well than
they bargain for, so PNG, start, take successfully and all that's going to cost is a place on the
top side where Guri is on a ward. Yeah, I think Visor on a ward as well as the issue because
it means that you're able to keep pushing at the top. Oh, he tried to predict that he's
walking down. Guri, yeah, a moan on him. Fair call. It's crazy, I didn't know Visor was
was the CS Lewis font. I laughed at the but I'm not sure I get it. I know the line
the witch of the water. What else? You just laugh and you smile and wave. Okay. Well yeah,
I think the big one here is the the fact that you know best of that's TP. Lace to
get to the play and you lost the place on top. Actually kind of like half favor Vikings
in the trade and one ocean dragon not going to be end of the day but some extra gold
on to the Udyr, the quicker setup for things like this Nagatron cloak now, make this lane
matchup incredibly easy for Nannaway where he gets to keep pushing the wave. This is
why we originally saw this Udyr come out as a big man.
To the side, yep, Magician's nephew. This question mark I have for you there. No, not
hitting it, I'll try again a little bit later.
It was just the irony of it.
The basic one.
I tried to read it too much.
So Rumble always struggled into the Udear matchup, that's why we saw him come out.
The Nectron Cloak was kind of the key breakpoint for a lot of that matchup.
That's why we'd even look at like a Nerdy No Magic where you try and push and crash third wave into
Sheep 4th and then get your No Magic on the reset.
But that only sets up fine now.
So why is there not going to push in top side?
Team Kato struggling a little bit against the smaller in the mid now.
And we've seen the bot side is very vulnerable.
So I think now Vikings should be able to play off these top wave scenarios
and make the game a little bit easier for themselves.
Especially since, as you mentioned, Dinkjado,
I mean, a minute to those grubs actually spawn,
and with that reset cancel, he's got to sit here for the wave.
We'll have to back away.
We look at Top, they can't onto the UD.
Will he be able to run for his life?
No ghost available, but he did pale.
And Spine says she's going nowhere.
First splat over the pain is great for Wiser.
Nice, good job.
As he just said, the struggle in this matchup
was real for Rumble.
Getting something back from him is going to be great.
He might even be going to play it for himself,
because look where Chauvin is.
They're recent, you know, I'm moving him up towards this top half of the map as well, but I think
he's at his plate, oh, nothing above, he's out, buff it.
But I think at this position, Vikings are actually in a better spot now to look for potentials, 5th group take.
Is he gory, even stealing the way he can. Shogun now going to push out this wave.
Doesn't have the ult available, looks like he used that on the bot wave.
So maybe Vikings are a little nervous, just with the lack of ultimates.
It's good war they're spotting that everyone from pain are moving into position now
So like the pain fans around force hits that are here as well support could not be louder as
They move into position now rumble moving up that already mentioned to you all at home
Then that away is bought committing for the plate here while VKE are getting threatened off a bit
What do we have down?
Vikings are just trying to buy time here
We're not only are you getting that plate on the bottom side, but you're buying time for showguns
Ultimates come back up, level six just hit for BA off the back of that mid wave as well
So if they can take this slow they are winning out on the map state right now
Jin Kyoho
Has the TP available so not quite available in any way so taking this low for Vikings works out in their favor
I want to raise yeah, again not only just the TP but waiting for the mummoth that has now come up as well
And the small things up for VKE
Dagdy get the nail when slow paces there it works out
Well now karaoke's gonna start this and he's got good AOE
But you can see movement is coming in from VK. I don't think it's gonna be as easy as we think
No, all Twitter's now open available for a show good no TP for now
I know so he's gonna be at least a four before potential fridging Kato to come through as well
But I think they're gone a little bit slow
Maybe Trinkat wiser as they move across the series has bought it
We just highlighted the pace being good, but too slow is definitely real as
Three grubs matched out excuse me for for pain in the end because remember they got one before so
That's a big take right under the nose of VK who we thought yeah playing this so well
I think it was just trying to buy time for a lot of these summoner spells and ults to come back off go down
But unfortunately, they were just a little bit too late and getting ranked in a position to ready contest
So I think there was a world where we could have saw Giri trying potentially move down to make a play on for his
Ding Keita who's left on the bot side, but they end up trying to match and it just doesn't work out in their favor
When you CS lead for top you take stock for pain getting that
Relatively moderate sized win. They're also on the verge of getting their first items
maybe for the dragon spawns, that also keeping those TPs for people like Dinkierdo who just picked up himself, a Kraken Slayer.
It's very good news if this fight takes hold.
Well that's what I was going to say, Chita talked to Shibi Esports and he was saying, look, one of the big things the pain gaming one focused on was the subjective control.
And you can see him now, right? The early void grub takes, the dragon takes, and now the Knights reset into the potential dragon.
Pain gaming definitely learning from what happened against PSG Talon and trying to now play back against Vikings.
Even the small trades, brew attention.
I love it.
It's great to see people from all cultures coming
to the Berlin studio.
And it's been exciting, especially when
you hear the might of the Brazil fans, especially
watching back finals as well.
Now, into the moment itself, Chitan
is going to get this way pushed.
You look towards dragon.
Second dragon, it would be for Payne as well.
And Zvinkiae have moved into position.
And now these supports have their ultimates,
where in previous fights, they were so far behind
an experience, they couldn't contribute theirs.
Bang Gaming don't really have control of them up right now.
The push-up boss coming through for Vikings,
which is why they're operating in the river with such confidence.
Chitan forced it back away.
Keep your eyes on Karioka.
What can they do here if Kari steps forward?
Well, it takes his pop blossom to disguise yourself
as a minion of ward, even.
And Kari has many different angles of attack.
The pings are going down.
Bod is just being matched for now.
And mid continuously is Chitan just pulling it up.
As top laners fight it out, or rather,
sole laners do for the time being.
Jinkierdo has that TP to move down.
but Nannaway does now too.
A lot of still control here for Vikings though.
Why is it not ready to push in to get Shogun, Nannaway?
Good damage.
Taking a lot of damage.
And now you're in a difficult spot here
because what do you do with Nannaway?
Do you TP back top to try and protect your top lane turret
against the Shristana?
Or do you have to try and TP into the fight?
So I think this is why again,
Penn Gaming taking a second to get waves in order.
And Nannaway, you can't stick around it.
This tower is going to fall.
He needs some sort of help.
You look at where he is.
He's late on the map.
So Vikings are going to get dragon
And potentially, I try to damage on this top tower.
I'm going to look at this, Jinkiro gets two on the turret,
then he cracks and slayers the Udyr as well, getting extra damage.
And anyway, as you said, has to be so damn careful next wave coming through.
And it might spawns, of course, because they've got four.
And this is one of the big struggles we saw from Vikings, both against MDK,
and also the reason that they end up falling down two GAM esports.
Just the missed macro, the opportunities to contested objectives,
and playing game, and they're doing a great job of pulling them around the map,
stretching them 10 and just finding the little bits of armor that they can poke
themselves through. I love the mention again yeah you kind of spread thin you
like what do we do do we answer this do we you come into the play that kind of
decision-making is what makes the next level team I think am a very good at
that actually as well where they'll just sometimes over commit but you're like
hey at least they're picking one side but for now as you see the master card
lane economy snapshot I mean top lane is a big issue here why is the level
11 with an equalizer and karaoke is nearby.
Hannaway, how you gonna get out of this one?
Karaoke, Codeslam, that's the TP.
They're all 4-committing on play, but the wall slam ain't there.
They're in play over there.
Karae is gonna have to make it a little bit better
as the 4-commit at least cleans up the play.
There's faith in Vincchieto at least to make that try.
Look, Hannaway may have died,
but he made pain gaming look like 4-committing.
That was a very fancy footwork,
but a nice call here from pain gaming.
Look, Rift Herald's up, but we can get Bot Terror here.
Let's just try and get as fed as all held in Kato,
and then try and play through him on side lanes,
because it's working out so well at the moment.
But, I mean, look again, we're not even getting
any sort of pressure on the cross map from Vikings.
Yes, they got Top Terror, but no fallback to Rift Herald.
Instead, they're so worried about a potential tier two
take on the bottom half of the map
with all those pain gaming members
that they're now left and pain had a ward in the pit,
so they know Rift Herald isn't taken,
and they're just steamlining towards it.
So now my wonder is to VK go reset we get the way push out and then head towards it themselves have got all
Altis available
Back to says no, it's no push in me to look at where Gary is as well like they can try and contest this
But they're gonna be very laced and
Even with the push on top like that could even just be another terror take yet
They said I'm thinking up there the map play is far superior from paying gaming right now
No, no, it's not gonna get the push in but instead after the way
He's looking for a TP angle that seems as he backs off and Dagger mentioned it perfectly top car. It's gonna be taken down
Again the map playing for pain gaming works out
Well as forcing VKE away from this Herald ever so slowly gives them time to bring in this Tristana into the fray
And curry has that flash made of us who could always look for some sort of player
It'd be sent in here with cheats on so he's now playing pretending to be the rumble
See if you can move pressure onto folks and Dagger
It's also given time for Karioka to get his ult back up and available too.
If Pale is there, Herald's gonna drop one down.
Nanue is gonna trade this for the bottom side turret,
but when mid feels so important in opening up this game,
Herald in the back pocket seems like a good task.
Plus they've just traded top turret as well,
so it's a turret for turret in the extended play.
Boy, you get that rip, Terralan.
The opportunity to maybe pick Kati as well.
Not seen yet, not seen.
Here comes Ascana, but flush away, okay.
Din Kieto just jumps on in and he's playing on the response!
He wasn't expecting that one as the dragon calls in Muff.
There's minor healing, but is it enough?
Din Kieto's damage, huge!
Karaoke sacrifices online, but it's a shut down onto Kati,
which I didn't even know existed at those numbers.
Big for the mid laner at play.
Yeah, the fact that Din Kieto is as large as he is right now
is gonna be a bit of an issue,
but I mean, you look at the farming numbers there
for Kati as well.
He's no shrug, so you can see the turnaround play.
Like he has a 300 Gold lead over Dinkieto just the fact that he's been able to pick up a ton of these waves and this motor
Send on 160 stacks starting to get places
Isn't they will look at the replay here after the train because this took a lot of commitment here from pancanny
Yeah, I mean good flash from Kathy and then carry open just able to turn around with the flash and pale
I thought Dinkieto might jump forward into the buster shot to try to get Kathy even further away from the tower
But didn't want to end up under the tower range especially as you see they don't know where BA is or where
The Uter is either so they're just going to waste
Cassie
He gets that turn around kill. Yeah, absolutely again Trinity force picked up before but now with the full sacks here
I think from recent plays and also heading towards that second item himself
This moment as you said it's gonna be an issue. I will say think yeter
He is now just picked up the Navori quick blade. So two item on Tristana a lot of attack speed and a
lot of good trading in this build despite
In fact, he was 700 gold behind after the early Lightning Fights.
I think though this is where we need to see something get unleashed for VKE,
because when you're looking at the map state, you've actually already got Wiser,
who's pushing into the bottom side of the map.
Dinkieto has a ton of control here, and you're looking at the dragon
that's about to come up in just a minute's time as well.
So when you've already got mid-pushed too, it becomes an easy manner for you to just take over.
You just use the Rift Herald as you get Nanoway and Kathy trying to catch these side waves.
Crack up mid turrets, put more pressure on towards Vikings,
And he can always fall back to dragon as an afterthought.
Again, as wise as I already looked at that angle nice and early.
Left for Harpoon, just let's VK know he's there.
Chetan is going to look for this mid push once again.
And as they look for the push as said in the putting,
as PNG for the third dragon will be huge for the game.
Three seconds spawns, and here we go.
As PNG, hold controller for it again.
Yeah, think you're going to come to the reset.
Just be able to pick up his boots, and maybe
be able to sort off the backup players we're playing.
So I know just a long story. So he's gonna be trying to TP back out onto my but believe me for this, but
You've got numbers advantage here. No, no way. He's still pushing in the top side. He left the TP into this
Cut he has picked up the Muramana from the last back VK he start this dragon off
And Gurri is gonna burn this down quite literally as that away is making the TP play
He comes from mid to look to run down as a hero is
Blossom from curry lay us and down it's a bullet time to end world
So it's the enemy catch on the backside, cleans up one, now another!
The damage was done by the VK backflip, but the duty's ready to spike it down.
Dinkietta gets spaced out, but four kills, and Woglock, beautiful from Curry,
was set on a 10th thanks to Shogun.
Yesterday was gametime, today is bullet time for Viking time.
An incredible turnaround from Shogun, sets up beautifully for the Dragon take,
and so much more for Vikings.
Even after getting that even after beating or nothing people like this watch is out
It amazes me some of the place we've seen so far this being the biggest one as we watch this set up again
But it's paying gaming have given so much space over to Vikings, right?
They're the ones that are actually able to control where they go curry gets great open watch show guns flash
Into their positioning for a perfect bullet time the lock down onto wiser handles of curry and not only just runs past
in Kieros to set up one as Cheetah is caught in the pit with nowhere to go.
In Kieros, the only one to survive after that dragon stacking has been denied.
There was no steel even to speak of. A 3k gold lead all of a sudden blooms out of thin air
and that is almost 4.5k damage worth of full time.
Yeah, that explains the fight.
And this is why you can never count Vikings out. Just one team fight can always bring them back in.
And it says the second pain game you slip up just a little bit on the macro
Vikings just come so quickly back in but we'll have to wait and see how they want to try and play this one out
Push at the moment still for Katty just desperately trying to get this motor up onto that two two five stacks
Yep, but now the way it's kind of for gone the pot lane trying to see if you can sneak in
Forever's gonna catch that midway at the show guns pushing in for a big solar flare stops it though curry was slowed down
There's Blaze again, Alight as Impale doesn't connect.
The second time we've seen this game, yeah.
In the backline, set up for the board.
Done, Kharis Korb!
He has to flash away, that's Karioka, who's now between a rocker wall
and some kind of scorpion tail.
Where can he go?
Nowhere against the wall, apparently.
It's enough, but Katti flies over, takes a free stack.
And VKE finds it again.
It's a disaster for Pan Gaming.
They get caught in their own jungle.
Wiser tried to reset in time to pick up his Riftmaker
before TPing in, but he TPed so far away that it's still just a 4 vs 5 into a 3 vs 5
and now potential Baron for Vikings.
Vikings eSports now set up in front of the Baron to equalize or a good turn about,
maybe stops it, Wiser's looking to keep it going as GK gets one, okay, that's enough.
PNG can't take this for themselves though, no jungler, no smite.
There's a wave in mid lane for pen and gaming as well, so that force off of a Baron might turn into a pretty nice takeaway from them as well.
Vikings just didn't want to commit to the turnaround and pain gaining punish
It feels like it's Jim Kierdo versus VK right now. This Callista from Chetan. We've seen some moments, but like
That goes be real doesn't mean it's pop-off performance that we're hoping we watch this again
This was pop off from VK to punish hard
But again like look there's the TP on the top side of the map here just like to backlight
Oh, yeah, try and spot out so this is not an even fight at all
immediately that Niko gets picked off, Karaoke is in complete, like, no-man's land,
and then the Rumble isn't involved in the fight either, so you burn to a loss to try and get that play,
but at least you still guess, you know, it was a two kills in the end of the day.
Yep.
You get one kill back, you deny Baron, and you get mid-terror, so it's not the worst for pain gaming,
it's just the fact that that went so awry from the get-go.
And again, I still feel like there's a big fight coming too, because two items are listed there,
I talked about it before the replay Chichan has it really popped up in this game much, right?
It's been Jin Kierdo who has been the 4-0 Tristana the almost three-item Tristana
That has been cleaning up the back of these fights trying to get some of these trades
Yeah, I mean this game is always difficult for a to list against the bullet time the ultimate for all time as well
I know we're in there are more difficulty
Good timing doctor very good timing clen's gonna be burned from Chichan and VK a positioning the threat is bound again
But remember dragon is up in 50 seconds
That would be the third for pain gaming. So when we started this game
We're talking about the stacking how they're playing the map if they can move themselves close to the sore point
Then there is also playing on that terms of the game that you have to consider
Yeah, but the momentum shift in hysterics. This is Viking starting to take control of this game
Yeah, right
Yes, they are trying to get to a side lane to answer for a put
He's still behind the goal to catch you like cats
He's been doing a great job of catching waves getting the farm when he needs to and then
transition that into kills in these fights and when you've already just hit the 225
immediately after Katty and you're about to finish off the rapid fire cannon
he's gonna be firing on all cylinders I imagine well I thought they were trying
to give this way to Katty may still do so he can pick up rapid fire on the way
back but he has to be so close to that item then. I hate this champion.
That clear. Yeah it's showing you I mean with the rapid fire cannon and TP you're
right he can just pop on him whenever he wants as Katty for now sits on the
Edge, cause you can see Payne game inside this off first.
Natoe is walking in, but it's already gone.
Nice movement from Payne, they find it as BF flushes in though.
There's the full time, but it's not as good as the last ones.
Karaoke against Natoe as the pop awesome finds the other two.
VKE is separated.
It doesn't matter if the smolder hasn't execute.
He's dead.
On the back end, Guri set away.
Wiser flushes into play, and now Shogun can't stay.
VKE were torn apart, limb from limb from limb, and Pain Gaming just said, yep, we'll take that.
The Vikings went in on two different ships, one blue west, one blue east, and one blue completely out of this world.
It was just not the way it was supposed to go. Pain Gaming immediately catch Katty, turned that around, they got the dragon to boot,
and now Guri, hoping he can get to the piss, but it's going to be gone before he gets there.
to be a miracle you're right put some faster boots on there's no way power over the pain gaming
doesn't that just sell you dug the vke they had tempo they had everything going for them
all the sudden it flips the game and over till it's over they had too much confidence
kati going in with the flap flap hoping that he'd be able to turn this fight around but instead
look how quickly they get caught like ba immediately goes on to cheat time but the
flash away the last second means that you don't get the lockdown kati's now in a horrible
position and the Curry with a great flash onto him. Everyone in pain game he turned
onto him. Watched Weiser on the top of your screen. He's buying so much space from Shogun
and Gurri. He doesn't have to get the damage down. Just needs to keep them out of the
fight and eventually they're able to flash forward as reinforcements come through and
they're getting out of the way off the back of this.
Because Weiser was the person earlier on is, yeah, the audience back home. Absolutely
loving it.
PNG, let's come back to it. Mid lane was already ahead, 3-0 Tristana, but they've got Baron now as well, their on-solve point.
The game swings a second time, and what a story for the CBLOL.
That's VK, you know, trying to defend their Inatar as Carioca looks for an angle to see if he captures anyone off guard.
Tinkier is pushing in at mid lane, trying to set up a 1-4 here, but Vikings, they've got a lot of wave clear on this bottom side.
So, Chogun now gonna get the reinforcements from BA, but
instead of being careful as Dinkier, they don't want to take a step too far forward.
I think it's just trying to see if they can buy a window of opportunity to collapse onto the hotspot.
All members congrats, and the next wave, Kuri's trying to fake it out. Do they know it's him?
No, Pop Blossom in, it's good enough, and he gets drawn back. Beautiful engage, and then
it's pale to follow through. We'll stop them off the inner, but when that dies there's no defense.
VK pulled back they've gotten some kind of a trade here
But PNG still open up the turret and give their Baron their red bull baron in fact new meaning
And that's what I was gonna say like it's two for two
But the size that rebel baron power play is growing and growing every step of the way and pain
But only 55 seconds left
I'm really gonna be able to set up on the map to get more
But this early worked out fantastically for them Vikings very lucky that this didn't go a different direction
See Curry again using that eco the Hextech Protobake to buy space on two Vikings.
Karioka coming over the wall but a great mom coming through as well.
She raised her Sun well alright Smolder did a great job there.
And he's not a pain gaming and trading even when it goes to top.
Much like your mother absolute legend.
Is she watching this?
Probably is yeah.
I'm sorry I called you Diane.
I was watching a TV show and Denise, I'm sorry, but to the to the game you talked about it like we're
we're matching mums because for Carti he had such a good game set up in front of him but it's drawn
back. Dinkierdo has been putting in a performance of a lifetime and now Gitanus come to show up as
well. Curry on this on this Nico has had some great engages it's been nice to watch. I mean
look I could go on forever here about the return of this game. It is only a 2k Goldie. I have
the temp of my expectations because dragon's up in 50 and if we've seen around this objective
anything can happen as equalizer slows down shogun but he's out of range. Yeah a bit of a
wish and pray there as they sent that one out but it doesn't quite work out. I think the big one
that they're really hoping for is for Gary to complete this on his hourglass before they have
to try and fight this but I think he's just going to be a little bit off and would be nice
to have some sort of invulnerability especially if you end up like karaoke trying to come
true but with no flash on this garner it becomes way less threatened so I think
it's uncurry with this last to get it but they're pricking him.
Explaite and he's in! Again the burst!
Cutty gets a kill, Curry caught out and his flash was available but now it's the
fence come through because Dikia is trying to pop down the bottom in here
but a turret, he finds his mark, he gets it down and Cutty's now out,
Cutty's out, PNG want to take the rest of the fight, B.S. slows down, we
He's gonna get a picture of his company and he can't fight it out.
He goes in instead into the smaller.
He wants to take the fight.
Can't he come get it out of range?
He gets destroyed.
He hooks over again.
He can't!
No!
Hands of steel as he kills up.
Shogun's here as well.
Looks for more, but will be shut down.
The fact he took that one be one was psychotic.
Why don't they all try to get up to Guri?
Got to equalizer?
Impale starts us off on the left.
You see the equalizer.
I see an attempted steal,
but it's gone, eternal soul in that way, locked up against the wall,
and Pain Gaming are fighting fire with their own flame.
Vikings didn't know whether to look left or right.
They were trying to decide how many members needed to deal with Zinkeato,
and they got the match wrong.
Pain Gaming, they get the win in the fight,
and Dragon Soul are now the base for Vikings as well.
When death is knocking, I mean, Pain weren't just going to say hello.
They told it to get lasted as they open up, get another inhibitor turret this time.
An inhibitor will follow. VKA respawning, it ain't game one yet.
But in Fernal Sol, that sits with you for a lifetime.
And Baron in 40 seconds as well. They just reset, come back out of the map.
They're going to be in such a dominant position. I mean,
the Mall of Mormorty is just finished for Dinkieto off the back.
Thanks to that, Gody just picked up.
You're going to pick up a fourth item here for Chitan off the back of this as well.
Cripploom finished for a wiser here in such a good spot.
So I'm just still remarking at that play bot.
Like everyone else who tried to run, he's like,
nah, I went full in, got the kill, almost got out.
But you know, VK, he's committing so much to him, Dagger.
Hurt the rest of the play, hurt their positioning,
as you were saying, VK, like, what do we do?
Where do we go?
Running them through a mark here
as Baron is spawning in five seconds.
Now this is the next play.
And a lot of the tools that were missing
for paying gaming are now just up.
Flash for karaoke. Curry didn't have to burn his Flash in that last engagement, whereas we look at Katty now, very vulnerable, so you have to make sure you are coming in very carefully to the Spaces Vikings.
This choke point puts Felder to death, or it could be great for them with pain gaming over extent.
Tia has been the one engaging, he's looking for an angle,
none of the way the same as well, but he paled him.
Why is it gonna crisp him down?
Engage is always going left, but a pop was up!
Send them down!
VK!
Don't know what just hit them
as Puck of Despair upside down.
It was a strong early game from pain gaming,
but Vikings bid their time
waiting for items, but it does not matter.
The team fighting for a pain
is bringing the pain to the VCS.
Big step ups, wiser. You'll get a mention in the half of the game anyway, but at 33 minutes in an 11-ation best of three is...
There's no minions here to debuff for the time being, but there soon will be.
Paying decked up, inflicting the sword on VK. The next nexus is hard to follow.
And Brazil is not out of this world yet.
They've been showing up for a cheer.
They look good against PSG Talon, but just couldn't quite get the win.
But now, a domination in the teamfights is massive success for the CBLO.
That man right there, right there. A huge performance on the Tristana.
We had so many highlight points with VKE, but then it was just one moment, one snap.
And the CBLO struck game one over to pain gaming.
We have to see if VK can stay alive because we're getting smashed point. They're on elimination point here at Worlds 2024.
If you win...
So we have been on standby with me for an interview. Thank you so much for joining us.
Interesting picks right now in the series from both teams, so I want to ask you what was the
most important factor for preparing for this match, have to focus on what happened in the
last Mdk series or just your strength in general?
Before this match we did a bit of research for our opponents and we actually looked into
their pocket picks, their favorable champs and we also came up with our picks, our pocket
picks and the champions that our players are comfortable with.
And adding on to that, one of the most noticeable kind of part of the opponent's roster is obviously
Ketan on the bottom lane, and we're having a clash of star ADC players on the bottom lane as well.
So what was the kind of main focus heading on to the series with the clash of the star ADC,
especially considering that their opponent ADC can pop up and carry the late game so hard?
So Titan is a very leader-ish kind of AD Carry and we actually looked into him a little bit
and we're trying our best to like negate that.
Amazing, thank you so much SOF and I wish you the best of luck in the rest of the series
and back to you guys.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And thank you Jisun for an amazing interview here.
Here, I'm giving you a bit more on the side of Viking
because the prep has rights.
It's not a matter of prep,
it's a matter of what happens
when the players are into the game actually.
Absolutely, and this was an interesting game
because I'd say right at about the 20 minute mark,
we were thinking that it was actually going to be
a Viking win until Payne pulled it back.
Yeah, I got to say that,
but even despite small early game leads
going over to Vikings as well as you see it,
they really weren't active enough
on the early objectives.
There was too many times where Payne
as you only see in this post game breakdown,
They've got a lot of objectives, right?
But the problem was Vikings wasn't contesting the objective.
And normally when you don't do that,
you're then looking to trade on the other side of the map.
They weren't doing that either.
They're just looking to maybe get some 10-bond-the-camp resets
where a girl was clearing his own jungle.
But they weren't stopping anyone
from having sideline pressure.
They weren't trying to make sure
that you got a third first down on the bot side
when second cross was there.
They were just late on resets.
And that was kind of the story for,
I would say, the failings of Vikings in this game.
But one might think that you have a special dragon
on your side and you're expecting this dragon to pop off and thanks to the reliable sis connector
Viki E actually was able to secure the infernal dragon and pulled the game back in their favor
and we know that's Mulder is skating and this was the first dragon fight where Viking was actually
in a decent position because they have a line in the river where when curry tries to bypass it
they're able to fight and turn back right away get a huge bullet time they basically one shot
the rumble you can see with Miliona and the misfortune before finishing off the fight and this was
actually before Smulder got the 225 stack upgrade so it's absolutely where it looked like the game
was going to turn until it did. And at this point this is where I started asking the question
can Smulder fix that macro? That was really the question for me because it is possible in
play-ins with how messy some of the games get but if you just have the better team fighting
factor, smaller in this case scenario, you can win these games, you can give up
objectives, you can maybe not cross map but just find a favorite all fight. As soon
as I saw this fight I thought to myself okay yeah it probably can but the
problem was their failings once again came back to bite them because they're
late on a drake again and they're not set up for success. Miss Fortune
Ultimate has already been wasted and there's so much space for pain gaming
especially with Curry on Disney Ultimate. Look at that level 50 smaller that
just died. I think that was the thing that has actually been an issue for Vikings this
entire play-in stage. If we even think back a couple days to their series against Mad
Lions, it was Alvaro consistently catching Kati when he had a lead in a game. So that's
been a few crucial moments in both of their series where they're not executing the teamfights
and to me, Pain was just a lot more decisive in those teamfight moments and I think
playing a lot more free.
And moving into the next game, Vee is going to play Blue Side, but I'm wondering, do you
want to change the approach you have in draft or rather having a better and refined gameplay
afterwards?
I'm not sure what Vikings is going to do because Gam played yesterday saying that they were
focusing more on macro and I feel like that's what Vikings was trying to do here.
So if I was them, I wouldn't take as much scaling and I'd take more things to contest
earlier.
Yeah, you need more things where you can hand stiffen.
Even when Vikings was successful, it wasn't because of brains, it was because of hands.
So we need more of that.
We need more of that.
Let's see if they bring it to the table.
Back to Kaster, she'll give it to you.
Well, an emotional game, number one, pain bringing it back from that team fight that
they were looking at around the dragon that felt really good for VK.
This is Dagda, I'm hysterics.
We are matching today because today is a very serious day.
We match on serious days.
We match on serious days.
Only on serious days.
But of course, it's elimination.
Now VK have to find themselves a reverse sweep and it's best to three.
Otherwise, their year is done.
A year that was built up from really these high expectations,
getting people like Kati, Shogun, Bia, you know,
players that in the past have been on top teams,
you know, being on-game, of course.
And now we're at this point where it's like VKE,
can they find a win even at Worlds?
Is the next big expectation for this game too?
Yeah, and it's gonna be very disappointing for Viking, right?
They came into their domestic finals
and was like, this is the team.
This is finally the team that's gonna take down Gam.
And a huge, huge, huge throat there, King on the Throne.
They end up losing to Gam.
And not only that, now Gam advanced.
So they're going to also then lose to Gam
in second time here if they can't pick up
this win against Pan King.
As you said, Pan versus Rambo, seven on the line, right?
VKE, if they can do the reverse sweep
in this champs like powered by Omen, HyperX, okay.
Now we've got Rumble, that's the first takeaway.
Why has it had a really good game one on it?
Syndra, again, these response bans against Kati
have been on point two.
In fact, I'm kind of expecting this Orianna
come next like we saw last game work to wonders.
Cutty was okay on the smolder,
but getting him off those serious comfort meta picks right now
seem to be what paint homework leads us to.
Yeah, I'm curious if we just get the Orianna on here again
from paint gaming.
We're basically gonna just kick back
and have a very similar story, but I think the Skarner,
we saw moments where I look good,
but I don't think your eyes were
he's paint gaming a bit giving that over.
So it wouldn't be spricy.
Gary tried to take that into his own wheelhouse
And then just fall back into what's a bit more of the meta style rather than going for like the mf and the brand of the last game
Okay, well Aurora taking away at the very least as you said the brand last game
Wasn't able to do too much outside of some of those flights as well
Silsated by the misfortune by some of the setup from VKE
Now we just have to round out Zeke's taking away. Okay ashes available dagged up
You mentioned the skydon didn't do much, you know or at least for PNG it wasn't the defining factor
but that's also up as a first pick option here.
I'm trying to think what else, you know,
well, if it's advanced that far,
but of course you can't go past the Ash.
So much setup, so much playmaking here
for Shogun in game two.
Yeah, and it just works out very well.
It kind of slots into a lot of different styles
and can be a damage dealer,
but mostly looking for those picks.
So I think trying to log in towards things
that can play towards that style,
even like a potential Auri in the mid lane,
a Lee Sin for Guri,
these kind of more pick oriented champions
where you can very quickly finish someone off,
It's going to work out well for you, but I wonder if Payne Gaming got a response by.
I think it could also be a good option for Gary, so maybe Cardioca must take that away,
but how's he going to go for the Sedge Wani in response instead?
No, you don't need to pair up with it, but do we get an early thing like the Renekton?
Again, also Grom available.
There's a lot of options for partnership deals here with the Sedge.
Jack, something that was taken away last game, and we know that Wyze has already pulled it out of the World Championship.
And it's a big pick for Nannaway as well.
This was kind of his comfort pick, so trying to take that away from him.
It's going to work out really well, plus...
They're going to lock it in blind.
There's definitely answers you can go towards.
Like, Nannaway's already brought out the Kneel,
bit of a skill matchup there that you can try and play around,
but they've just been...
Oh, that hurts.
So, it's a counter pick.
So, sorry, Nannaway counter picking himself.
The Jax does end up at scaling in this matchup,
but I have a great time eventually
where you can just ignore the Cassanti
and rip through turrets.
So, I think this is where you're going to be looking
for paying gaming to find that success.
But G-Tan also talked about this in his interview
with sheet esports stars.
They didn't really want to play Sightlands.
They are not a team that plays 1-3-1
or they want to play for teamfights.
So it's curious to see them trying to opt into this style.
Again, after they kind of looked at that against PSG
and said this isn't our thing.
Yeah, it's maybe an adaptation.
I mean, the colleague says, adaptation, right?
Jin Kiyota pulling this out in match point already, Dagger.
I'm seeing some dive build up here for playing games.
Yeah, and again, a lot of 1-3-1 as well.
a lot of early skirmish power as well.
Like if you can get an early kill for Jax or Akali,
that is massive.
And you've also got to do a melee now
to support that Sagewani.
So this is definitely a composition
that can do very well towards those topside boy groups,
3v3s, that's to say that is gonna be the game plan here.
But it is something that is definitely
going to lose out for Genkiato against the Tristana.
So push more than likely on bot with the Ash,
push more than likely for the Tristana in mid.
Does Guri wanna go for something
that's a bit more counter jungle heavy?
I just really put the pressure on Takarioka.
Again, with Lily already taken out of the way,
maybe some of those AP threats that are definitely needed
in this comp, start getting thinner and thinner.
The brand as well follows suit.
And Dagger, I'm thinking if they need AP damage,
the direction starts getting more and more questionable.
Again, where can we go?
We know things like the Jarvan have been good,
but there's no AP in there.
Yeah, the Zyra could also be an option
if you're still looking at those AP options.
But I do think, again, it's kind of falling away,
But when you're looking at Sej, Jax, Kali, probably something like a Leona, Arell or something like that.
If you just kind of have that big ultimate from the Zyra, you can get a lot of value out of it and buy a lot of space for your backline.
So in this specific instance, may not be the worst case, but we'll have to see what the answer is.
I wouldn't fully, this pricey bike can even go towards something like a Brom, and maybe Gery just goes towards Maokai.
If you do want some of that AP damage, but still have that tank gear countering gauge, which could also work.
You've raised very good options here.
Let's see that to show all their cards.
The Gin on the other side with the setup.
Shyvana would be filling that Spirash Ojin into AP build.
And Guru's going to try with the Poppy as well,
stopping a lot of that engage against this cop.
Not a bad option.
It does leave only Hasharo as their engage tool, though,
which is also a little bit ropey.
Great point, guys.
They didn't have a great game in the Poppy in the last one.
Like, he kind of didn't know where he's supposed to be positioned.
Spent a lot of time running arounds.
It does do very well with how much jumping there is on pain gaming, but it does leave you a little bit vulnerable.
So if you end up in a 1-3-1 scenario, how easy is it for you to find picks?
Whereas Curry now going to bring out the bar.
Now he's under a very little threat in the laning phase.
They can play for push, actually have a winning lane save for themselves and then open up for the bar to roam.
Try to alleviate some of that pressure that Caddy's going to be putting down in the middle.
And good for dive comps, Dagger as well. Good for setup too.
Payne Gaming have changed around their comp and this draft adaptation is really exciting.
I mean this draft for game number two fills me with a lot of joy because seeing another player on the
Shyvana, you know, after Levi absolutely clawed his hands through it. We have to see what Guru can do,
what damage he can do. I know you're concerned about some of the engage tools. I know we can
talk about that going into game number two. What else fills you with joy in this game?
So I think my main concern for Vaiky, not so much joy for the ASF.
They were so consistently laced to objectives and this is a composition that requires you to be in an objective, and very quick and very decisively find a pick without actual play.
Start things off on your own terms, otherwise you just don't get the value anymore.
I'm a little nervous about the chances that you show up late to an objective.
You have a jacks flank, you have a cali flank, you have great setup coming through from paying gaming, and you just never really get to find the fight that you're looking for.
looking for. If you end up in a position where maybe you can't even just scale to all hell
and you're in a spot where you can try and play through that, sure. But this is a little
bit dicey for me as a final game for my team, he's for potential.
Well, your concerns are granted, that they make sense to me. But I'm hoping that VK
has something in the tank. I'm hoping here with their own draft adaptation, Bia has
a much better performance than we saw on day one on this poppy. Paint getting a
How much point VK need to create that reverse sweep?
Two games in a row now is the demand.
Otherwise, the VCS second seed is out.
And people like Kati Shogun be, I mentioned
in the style of the broadcast, he'll
be an upset for the region, seeing such historic players,
such high level players of the region,
out before even winning a game or even before winning
a series, depending on how we go here.
Yeah, and especially for Kati, who
has been considered for the longest time the best
mid laner in the VCS.
It was a bit heartbreaking to see him not really have that big performance in the last game.
He got the gold.
We were talking about how well he was able to collect those side lanes, but you can see
the damage per minute was just not reflected there.
Yes, he had a higher kill participation, but the whole point was getting this smotter
into a good spot and then being able to carry, but Dinkieto kind of put in his own spin
on the game.
Kati, careful.
Doesn't get the cosmic binding against his face.
Kati gets out and a nice timed rocket jump, the PNG on the defense here and standard
lanes of what we're getting here, Dagda.
PNG knew that first, but there is a ward to spot the jungle path here to see where karaoke ends up
Yeah, I am fully surprised because I think the
You're gonna only struggle more if you end up with your jacks here a colleague further behind here
They don't do as well as a lot of the set the jacks doesn't do as well as the Cassanti in those
Swap lanes, so I think you're fine
You just let this one go through and just accept that mid is going to lose out on push
Same when you look at top at least in the early levels
I say actually the level 4 and 5 was for pain gaming. I think it's about trying to disrupt us
And it wouldn't be surprised to see a lot more pressure in towards the mid lane
That's why I think we had that opening on mid hoping you could burn a summoner as far as we can
To just alleviate some of that pressure for Dinkierdo
Again, it was a rocket jump start as you all saw must cause McBinding as we pan the camera down
Curry on this bar also feels me with a lot of excitement. I mean
Jin, Bard is a lane, a lot of range, Dagnar, level 6 can be said for that for sure.
As we already talked about the setup and how Pain can use that composition.
They hit level 2 first, they push Shogun and Pierre off the way for a little bit and play this slow push.
Yeah, that's kind of the value that you get from this ranked support.
Always been able to get fast push against those melee supports, making it easy for yourself.
And that's kind of where a lot of the value you're getting from this Bard is, again, trying to 1, get push on Bard.
Give yourself one winning lane, but also alleviating that pressure on mid.
So I don't think we'll see this just yet, but certainly as we start to level 4, level 5,
8, when Jin Kiedo has level 6, that's where I think we're going to get that pressure coming from both Kari and Karioka.
You know, there's another thing we saw last game that I want to bring to our attention as well.
We've kind of gone through the lanes, the World Tour.
And obviously with our World Tour on the left-hand side,
Wiza had not only a good lane set up, thankfully, by Karioka with the dive attempt early,
but the fact that Wiza as well in a winning matchup,
You talked about it again and when NANOA has been talked about as this weak topside laner who often Guri doesn't give attention to, often can be exposed as well.
It looks like a good setup is we just get a cleanse out from the bottom side for the meantime.
I'm sure I've gone with a good side step from the deadly flourish.
So nothing else goes on, but for top laner to be set up again here for wiser, maybe a wise choice takedown.
Yeah, so to be fair, it was what Gam did to Vikings.
They hired focused NANOA in the early stages, got that early lead for Kiaia and then just said,
All right, let's just run the mill through topside and now karaoke take it a page out of that book and doing it again
No, I just lost his flip so he might have to burn a flash away permafrost easy with the Jackson to buffer this one
Patience is the key and karaoke just gets him down. It's yelling
Well, the boss I curry flashes away ignite on his head as double summoners for both these bot lane has taken away
VK with a bit comeback. So nice job from the rookie on like your knees for I still avoid that gank in the topside
Yeah, Lane is in a bit of a wolfless spot though as he would have to tip you back in would have liked to crash that so
It's still a bit of an advantage for Weiser in that positioning, but again, Shogun and BA.
We criticised BA for his positioning in teamfights later on this poppy,
but this was also the pick that they got a ton of that early aggression in the early
laning phase where they have to pick up kills for themselves as well.
So we're starting to see that Viking pressure with this poppy come through once more.
It's a great point. I mean, the lane shows and the putting is
already with that push up. Titana is able to hold on and get some of the CS, but
It gives a nice reset timing here for Shogun to pick up a recurve bow in this lane.
I think this would be such an unbelievable story for pain gaining and also the CBLOL if they're able to take down Vikings though because for so often in international events, the CBLOL has struggled specifically against God and Esports.
They've been the ones to knock out loud when you look at worlds past, a ton of these international events so...
Hang on.
Why is he trying to put the hurt now?
He has a strike, he's got a flash available, he doesn't burn it.
Matt, if I was in that way, I would have popped that a while ago, so well done to hold on,
but he's got no teleport, Dagger, so he has to wait to heal up here thanks to his cookies
and stay in the slime.
Yeah, but it might be, why is there taking the biscuit as he starts to come through
here?
Because the look of our karaoke is, could immediately move up towards this top side
and look for a dive, be a, try to cover for that potential, at least it looks like
as he hovers mid, we'll now move in with Curry, but I think there's just too
many members potentially here, well, 35 seconds until those groves, there's a lot
up movement and I think Manila wants to be no part of any of this. Not at all as I said before
without the teleport with a low health bar maybe the level ups or all he can rely on for now. Chitana
is going to get this wave pushed in firmly so they can't be some kind of response of a freeze but
you already mentioned time it down to 20 seconds till the grubs. Curry's up here as well
and you can see why is this just saying I'm going to go bot I'm going to match this wave
himself and knock myself out on too much. Yeah trying to come through though and you had
Alright, Tristana leaving in mid as well for Katty, so making it a little bit dicey for the gop for the dive, still a lot of damage in that way, you went forward!
He did, he tried to find the flip back, would be hit by, he caught me off guard a bit too, but Karyoky also getting some damage down, so the next way pushed in, Grubb started as Guri gets a smite down, he is the CBLO to get the first Grubb.
Karyoky, he smited him, so it's smite for smite, and it's Karyoky who just barely gets it, that Grubb gonna reset, deny Guri that opportunity, Shogun trying to move up, has that Ashult.
If that hits someone, that could be it.
It's because we're binding a deadly flyer.
He's stopped by the set fast presence,
but a flash away from Guri is Jin Kiyoto now with level six,
but doesn't pull the trigger.
And you're right, thank you for correcting me, Dagger.
I thought I'm like, oh, the smite came down from Guri.
He got the grub, right?
But you're right, it was a steal.
It was a good one, two grubs.
Make it three.
Jin Kiyoto with no full advancement from BKE's side.
Three grubs for that movement here,
and the price pays off.
But you even move Shogun up.
They were considering a fight,
but Shogun doesn't fire off at that ultimate.
And again, main engage tool is this Ash Arrow.
If Shogun's not there, trying to find these fights for Vikings is so much more difficult.
And that's where the main crux the problem was.
Vikings don't get the steal on a grub, they don't get the fight, but they pulled everyone topside.
And now they're losing Dragon as well.
Early map plays in favour of pain gaming once more.
It feels like we're repeating the same record, right?
Again, we talked about this in the last game.
It was a big fight that put BKE in contention, but the map player,
we were definitely really happy with what we're seeing from PNG.
However, as we come back, VK have reset, they've got a full Shyvana Rage Bar,
and Dragon is just going to have to be held for now.
Karaoka just want to commit to this, he's going to level disadvantage as well.
Genkiro is just trying to see if he can fish for us.
Sure can flip, and maybe put some hurt onto Kasi, but not going to be the case.
If you are the ones that's playing gaming, getting both topside objectives,
I thought this is massive though, because again,
these are not going to be supposed to be matchups that you're hard winning,
Smart early play from Karioka to get wiser the frozen wave
to set up for that nice play on to Kassate even the
Smart movements from Jin Kieda as well towards early boy groups are helping out so
You have to find some way to break this is Vikings is with the way pushing out Karioka
He's gonna sit on both side to ensure they get this wave push and will push in mid as well
I think it's dragon time for pain game. You get a false away ulti used by Kati
Now, he still has the perfect execution available.
Kati's paying him a lot of respect here since he has that Hextech alteration.
I mean, there's a lot of burst damage in this Akali right now, and Kati knows that he's
just waiting for Guri to give him safe haven.
Yeah, you can see Vikings trying very hard to force, paying gaming at a river.
Guri now just showing up to get the push.
There's not very much they can do.
Kati kind of needs to look for a reset, I think, before he takes his flight.
But Vikings, we're going to start it up.
I mean, so important for the Shyvana here.
Don't forget the Fury, the Dragonborn.
Five armor and MR, every dragon slain.
So, Guri definitely needs this, and VK,
they've committed to this slow movement here from PNG.
Means that as the smite gets a little bit mismatched,
at least it goes down.
Guri's going to be slowed down though, but remember here's,
the dragon's just sent to use, and now to escape.
There it is.
There's a flame breath holding on as he gets frozen in place,
And fire is beaten by eyes who would do that for the spot over to Chetan and PNG commit down to get a try
That deadly flourish not hidden on to be a minute. Just saved his life as well
Nice pick off the back of her for pain gaming that's what I was talking about was the fact that the lack of ultimate for catty
Means you don't have that disengage tool because PA hasn't hit level six
So a lot of that reliance is there the old from Shogun even used here to stop the slows
So pain gaming kind of gauge, but karaoke still is the ultimate end of clippiness on towards curry
And that's just enough for them gets to kill at least Vikings get the dragon
I'm kind of surprised they didn't get that kill over towards the Akali in the mid lane
But still it's something for pain gaming. It really is. I mean, it's gold over to a core member as well in Chetan
In the last game we said start of ramping up on his Calista the dragon over starts to stacking
I'm now more curious factor about 30 seconds of the grubs as you can see guru
It's up in the top side getting ready, but it's significantly longer until those ultimate to back up for pain gaming
They just use them boss whereas you look at our shadows back up available catty now has that poster shot
So this could be a better situation for the Vikings long as not a way to get to reset
He's very low a mana and you just have the TP box side from wiser
So I don't know how much pain gaming want to put pressure into this until not a way to peace boss
But you're a fine time for wiser on the bot lane with each stop and that's twice now. Yeah
That's been interrupted at least here's a teleport
But you're right is still slows things moving into this pit as she can versus Karthi once again sure it can flip
No perfect execution. He won't take it and good because a VK as jungle was nearby once again with dragons sent up and available
Wiser on the bottom side is pushing in while that teleport is committed Bob Dagger
That's a big TP to use riders grab spawners flash away as well
Well, I think Payne just got themselves six grubs.
That was the thing Payne really wanted to get that pressure from Nanoway down to the bottom side.
And as soon as he does, they go aggressive.
Okay, Wiser, getting generally close to Catty, but still, he just moves up to concern himself
with having numbers advantage on topside.
They get the six void grubs and now think about Wiser on the sideline.
Think about Jinkero when he gets his opportunity in the towers.
You raise it and draft, right?
Yeah, this is massive for Payne gaming.
You know, Wiser, he's getting close towards his Trinity Force and once that color's fully stacked up as well,
he should have the gold to go back and pick it up. He's top leading in gold with Chitam.
Once again, Wiser having another really stable game, really successful game,
and this time you've got to argue he didn't have as much jungle attention as he did.
He had one gank, of course, but he's really good at running away with it and advancing that lead,
and you will say, yeah, the match up too, so that also comes into account.
And I think this is the hard part for Nanaway.
Like he's a rookie for Viking eSports,
only coming in this year.
And he's trying his best here
and for the first time in the international stage.
Unfortunately, the champ pool just isn't there.
It's something that we kinda saw,
exploited a little bit in the VCS as well.
And now coming in, the Jax, that's his Jax,
gets taken away.
He thinks he can manage it as the Cassante,
but Wiser has been running this matchup
thanks to the early gank and karaoke.
Now, this is disaster.
Like nerdy, or just over 700 gold lead for the Jax,
the opportunity may have started ripping through these turrets.
This is terrifying position.
And remember, you guys might look at the overall gold,
and be like, why is Dagger calling it a disaster?
But he told you in draft, and you obviously weren't listening
on the speakers that's like to you, Dagger.
Because of how these side lanes play out,
of how snowball he can be once they get their first
items as well, storm surge picked up by the way,
by Jin Kierdo, as a route down is good,
and a magical journey out says no.
Paingaming gearing up because Dragon's up in a minute ten. Harold spawns in conjunction with it as well
With those first items coming across the board here. We'll see who's stronger
So I do like the adaptation from an anaway basically Vikings have identified we cannot put wiser versus an away
Yeah, so instead he's actually going to be setting up against Jin Kiyoto even look at the items that he's building
He's going in towards that magic resist does have that a little bit against Jax
But this is definitely to say hey, I need to go against the Kali
We're going to just put Cassie into these sidelines
It looks like to try and deal with wiser and just use that range advantage in the first shot on the leap away to stop wiser
From really being able to use this lead. He's effectively gained
I mean for wiser for the time being he's just waiting up against shogun
You can see that the as moving in just in case but I'm looking at summons for this next potential fight
Shogun has no flash but a barrier in tow
So while the arrow is up and it's really good go button for BK as we also talked about in draft
If Shogun gets launched on by any of these backline members or backline easy members
I should say like the Jax like the Akali. There's gonna be trouble here for the 80 carry of Viking e-sports
So let's just see the setup. They got the first one five seconds of dragon spawns remember again
Herald spawns in conjunction with it
So we have to see if it is just a hand for a handshake trade
This is a decent spot for Vikings now Katya mid getting mid push the opportunity to take over river position
even Shogun having full push, and you're only getting these TPs now into the bottom side.
They could actually look for a pick here.
It's Karaoke, it might be the one.
Yeah, Karaoke are instead of the Jax here, but Guri's not going to find him again.
Dragon's just then available, and all we're taking is a flamethrower, ulti, burn on the
Kathy early, no magical journey, but it's buffed it away, it's stunned in play, the
tempered faked!
VKE has stopped, halted, but Jin Kieta, now that he's here, there's not much
other follow-up.
Jitan's going to use his ulti as well.
They just want the health bars, they just want the dragon, but a lot has
been burned.
Cut that Engage out from Shogun though, that ult is gone and now they just get to poke.
The only one who can respond is Guri, but that's Dragon Form gone.
It is.
The pain gaming, they can look for a Q flash, and carry it to set this up.
But see me flank, how's it going to be followed?
They find Jinkieto in the middle of the fight, there's Akali, but why is it jumps in and holds him in play?
Guri's up next, but Jinkieto flashes, and once again performs.
Pain gaming, inflicting it on them, has done away, has found something in the backline.
That's great, but it's only the bar, as Gitanz owns him away, this squishy, squishy gassante, who can't change back.
He's gonna be chased on down, PNG got another one in their sights.
Natoe take a picture in a lot of slunger, at least that's what PNG say, as Wiser picks up his third kill on the Jax.
Two on Jinkieto, a turret, a dragon, and CBLO must be ecstatic with how good this game looks now.
It's a solo lane buffet for pain gaming.
As you can see here, Gingiero goes in,
good reaction from the air,
but he's already in his shroud,
and Vizor getting that stone before the Buster Shot
comes in from Catty, is the Gingiero.
He has to finish them off with that storm surge
and Karaoke being able to continuously
keep that CC train going.
And then Chitan, they just chase down the Cassante.
You can see there, SOFM and the Viking staff.
Not happy.
Not happy in the slightest.
I mean, again, when you have such an expert
behind you as well. You have these high expectations and we came into this world and we talked to
some regional experts as the MasterCard Lane economy's snapshot doesn't look good either.
1500 for Wiser. Who once again is popping off. Daggero's going to say like the expectations
are so high and we have these low expectations of pain gaming. It's completely opposite
in this series. Massively so. But it's I think for when you look historically and
You've seen so regularly that it's gam who kind of denied CBLO moving on have knocked them out of international composition
It's kind of hard to look at this and go oh well the VCS seed that was in theory the stronger of the two in
Domestic competition should be able to compete with pain gaming right foot pain look like a different beast
They've been so good and now how the hell do you try and respond to this pain?
They're just not letting up they really not jinkieta moved out of the sideline when he comes back yet again here
is going to be charged on, but PNG making a sideline play,
Gingkira in the 1v2 under the turret,
doesn't fly the trade, Pierre helps with the dive,
and turret goes down as well, but PNG has six grubs,
and as under turret, Nannaway gets the stun down,
the arrow is cleansed, Chitane just walks it out
while Shogun helps defend this tier two.
He's just going to end up backing away.
Katya might be able to put some pressure on to the bottom side though.
Not quite a six grubb, but it's in the Tristana.
It's going to do some damage there,
so answering for a lot of the play and getting a kill,
at least gets something back for Vikings,
But you can look at the gold at the top of your screen 3,000 there for paying
Starter actually okay, so she might just be able to get this at the he's hard committing
Oh, he went for the million on those instead. Okay. Oh
The fall but actually I wouldn't let that's tier 2 tariff all be reckoning to wreck to get rid of the low
Also, there is a barrier available, but you time it's caught up by BN moving towards me
Buries there as well dragons descent up
So charm good move to stop right there before he has to burn a summoner
Sorry, as I said that I realized he'd ordered it recently
would have got the local goal, so it makes sense but still I think Katty could have just had a big
influx from himself. Even that extra goal you can look at his items would have finished off
that Flickerblade for him as well so he would have been in a really nice position for an upcoming
fight but ends up going for a couple of those creeps and a cost. Katty last game set up for
success as well remember on the smolder. Caught out last game in a big team fight.
This game obviously is very different but I just want to highlight the fact that Katty
under our mint pressure again as the veteran as the person we said coming in was
A huge step up here for VKE, we've talked so much about it, but again, I just think when you have players like this from the VCS, historically a lot of people look at it internationally, he's got so much extra pressure to carry in this game to keep them alive.
But where are the tools to set him up? Again, you're looking at an arrow, that's kind of this. When he wants to go in, he has to contend with the Kali, we saw what the Jax would do to set him up.
then you have not only that, you've got a potential Baradolte, there's such one, there's so many tools available to catch him out
and you just don't have that same level of protection, so I think that's where really Vikings are going to struggle
and that's only when we get to teamfights, let alone the pressure on the map right now.
But even when we get to teamfights, your point goes further because there's a Mikael's Bell available for the Curry,
so if you find Chetana or if you find any of those carries, you've got to get through so many layers of cooldowns extra
to just find that limited engage options.
Temp and fate, the ulti misses
and Shogun with some nice fancy footwork.
He gets out alive while the steadfast presence
rather keep his verdict knocks away.
But they didn't use Rift Harrow's.
They just got mid lane turret.
You still have that on karaoke as well now.
So paying gaming, yes, the ulti go wide.
Most of them should be back up before an X dragon,
but I don't even think they care about dragons right now.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a put pressure
on towards a tier two,
try and get that little bit of extra gold,
trying to keep Vikings back on their own side of the map.
2.8k gold lead now by the way between top laners.
I'm just slowly tracking and watching this game play out
through their eyes, almost 20 minutes into the game.
Baron's up soon, but more importantly that dragon.
Unfortunately, it's not really the best solo.
However, solo nonetheless as PNG with all their control
and their vision that looks like a lit up Christmas tree
around bot.
Dagda, I'm going to put a circle, boom.
Look at that, there's about 10 wards
down and bottom alone what have you got there you go got some of you got some
over here it's gone pretty great for pain gaming but here's the thing now we
are in a position where oh my god actually going flies just away just one
quick pic karaoke doesn't have to commit the ulti but that's the thing the
Vikings needed to get on towards the objective first they're going to
completely bind pain gaming have already recessed and there's just so much
pressure from Jin Kato on the top side of the map they don't feel proper
going for it the arrow misses and now he's bought time into the shroud he
He goes BS, stops him, he's grounded for the time being, the damage is good for him,
Kati goes for another lead, the pass blast goes there, ulti follows him though, Kati
gets a pick, it's big but how big here depending on how the push goes with bot lane Herald.
Yeah you don't really have people in position here though so why is there just going to
try and force Nanna way back, Nanna way grabbing the Rift Herald as well, but yeah
this is actually big for Vikings because no push came in mid, Kati no counter, points
on the bottom side and Kati's going to get top tower so nice pick and nice play
for Vikings.
The play is slowed down, there's a couple of mistakes, or rather a couple of picks here.
As we said, limited engage, things like the poppy have to be utilized well, and at least
BA in this game is trying to be more proactive than what we saw on day one.
And Dagger, Tarak goes down, as you said, 2k gold lead now from what was 4k or 5k
only moments ago.
Yes, the dragon follows suit, the Viking now have a lot longer side lanes than there
initially was.
Yeah, and a huge amount of that is again the CS values coming through for them.
especially when you look at the mid lane.
Dieng Ghetto has not been able to pick up an awful lot of the CS,
so he's fallen fairly far behind and plus the extra gold from all these turrets,
because Katzi has been the one that's free farming.
Has put him into a very good spot,
but you can see the win probability per by AWS.
It's been a very back and forth game,
Payne's still in the lead, but a significant closer position.
So now we just have to find out how the mid game plays out,
because PNG still have control of the map
and they're clearing out some of this baron vision,
Nothing left on the bottom side of the map, so transferring some to the river and you can see again the river is still littered with red wards
And Dagger, we have two item Jax to play through sides, two item Akali as well
There's still a lot of positive C to speak of
But here's the thing, so Nannaway is now in a position where he can just try and keep these waves off of terrors
Right
And it should be relatively okay
You don't really have enough push in the mid lane because Shitan can't contest wave because of Shogun's ultimus
So you don't get push mid
Don't get pushed mid.
Chin- Chin- Chin- Kierl doesn't beat Katty.
Katty is so far ahead at this stage that as long as he's able to keep up there with the
Buster Shot, he's fine.
So they're trying to make the play on mid, but-
And the tempered plate is there.
Now the keeper's verdict is rolling out.
He just crosses us.
Not throw yet.
Yeah.
Tempered plate from nothing.
And I think that's where a pain gaming are feeding a little bit of the pressure.
They don't really have control of the map state, because they're just not quite
in a position to be that far ahead, because Katty's so big, and they need to find
some sort of play, some sort of pick, and that was their attempt, but it doesn't
quite work out.
I like that he can just run and force Baron right. I mean look at this team
with a chin as well. How slow is it? They're running into enemy jungle thinking they're okay.
Well, Karaoke says I'm okay as Ginkira as the Dragon, so Sendjitang gets out of there because the TP on top is dangerous.
They flush away from Kuri as well and VK, he can play this back. They've got a wall. They smack him in and
Karaoke is not okay as Ginkira runs on him with a perfect execution, but no damage done.
He wants out, but he will not be left to live.
Shogun in the back getting hit by Chiton
who flashes to manage a survivaliser
once the clean is up put them back in a position of pressure
but PNG are running for their lives
Overlord may not play
now he gets stunned on up curtain call down
VK hee you are winning the fight
but you are over chest
you are a commiter
and now you are over
but Vikings the slow, steady fight
finding these angles where B.A. can be useful
but they're blinking health bars
and the over chase
a pain gaming take it away from them being resilient is what we can say about
that fight as Chetan played with fire but I don't see no Scorch marks Baron might
be sloven no one's up and available and they look good versus PSG in game one they
show resilience there but here against Vikings they're taking it to a whole
new level the only thing that's burning out is the kind of that's
Vikings time left the world so it feels like pain gaming have been so strong when it comes
to these turnaround plays and now a Baron in their back pocket, the setup for these outer
turrets is next to come and it's going to be such a big golden flux as well.
Like the Rebel Baron Powerplay is 1400 at the moment, this could easily hit 2K as they
start to put more and more pressure on plus item completions for wiser.
Three items now off the back of that, you're looking at the IE, very quickly picked
up for Cheetan.
it into that away from the rapid-fire condon so you're in such a great spot.
Fight of inches, one out the now 4k gold lead again the Red Bull Baron power play
it begins and in a turret at the bot side to focus and a slow mid-bush to follow
through as well. Kati's receiving that for now but you can see Tom Wise is
going to be on another lane moving to get another in a turret that
Natoe has to cover. Thank you the frozen hide as well means that there's
just less of that damage that can come through from Shogun from Kati
he's more versatile when it comes to these fights if you never get on to these carries.
At the end of the day, Nanue isn't really going to deal much damage to him right now,
especially with the Sunded Sky, he's just going to hit it all back up, so pressure again
on the map. And that gold is still on Kati. He needs to be the one that steps up for Viking
for the VCS region bus. That's Steve, he's going to be able to do that against pain gaming here.
Kari's got the dragons descent, I'm noting it because now with the Leandris,
He's got a lot more damage available, but Carioca has just been running into his face consistently taking next to no damage
Tempered fate now use shogun kites away Targo's in vulnerable
But another temperate that shogun has to dealie around for the time being without using his summoners is a big plus
But again, look at this topside here waves a bench crash wiser has already put some good chunk onto that tower as well
So I think that's where the focus is going to be here for big game
But 10 seconds until dragon as well. I'm surprised to see wiser backing
I thought he would just continue that pressure on towards the tier 2 bus. Looks like they want all hands on deck for this third dragon
It's not a game ending Baron. It's not even close. It's 50 seconds left of the boss. They'll get push in as you said
They'll move the dragon, but I thought it would go to like a 2k gold lead, but it's only gone down
Like Vikings have been able to collect these waves. They're totally fine. So
At the end of the day not the end of the world for Vikings you kind of in an okay spot
We went something on depth of fight miss as well. He's saging power daggers a very real thing to look at
especially when the cops try to play out a 1-3-1.
Doesn't work out they get the dragon.
Okay, sole point at the very least.
Hit the nine stats from the Shyvana.
But Barat's got 15 seconds,
and Pan Gaming haven't been able to take out
any of these inner turrets.
But again, Pan Gaming set it themselves.
Only Chiton set it on their behalf.
1-3-1 is not really their strength, and we're seen this.
They just don't really look comfortable
in trying to find these plays.
And like even just pushing off of bot side
Yeah.
Flash, start, charge, arrow, into the car as he runs away.
The temperate gives him space, he's ulti too, but he's just trying to survive at this point.
He knows he can't, though.
He's caught out.
The Shavada blows down.
Kuri's also dead.
There's nothing on the map for them to take apart from Tarot's, but two picks show
that VK and Antenya.
And Jin Kierou just reset from topside as well, so there's no pressure on towards
that low tier 2 we're talking about.
Mid lane turret, for me the next focus.
a little bit of damage on Chin Keto, but not a huge amount coming through from Gurri right now.
Chetan is three-items strong and he knows that even on the defense here as well,
the AD carry they brought in for more experience, for a more form factor as well,
is still very, very strong. So, what do we know about this game, Dagda?
There's been some two-and-fro, but for pain gaming, I think the best part has been the fact that
I use the word resilience. I don't know if you've got a better word for me,
but there's been a lot of these fights where they've shown their resilience here.
They still have the tools here, especially as we approach ban in two minutes.
I do think it is misplaying the tools that pain gaming have though.
The Ultimates from Curry have not been this.
Shuri's hit a couple, but there's been no real follow-up.
When he's thrown them out, there's been no pressure to foreshow gone into the Ultimate either,
or even real follow-up when he goes for it.
So pain gaming haven't been setting up their tools correctly.
Haven't really been utilizing this 1-3-1 very well either.
And when you have a bard, you should be trying to run around using the fact that you can have tunnel to quickly move between mid to top to boss, trying to find picks, trying to find these terrors to outmaneuver your opponents.
But it's pain gaming that are leased to a lot of these plays that are getting caught out by Vikings. And it's where this golden is now starting to drip away for pain gaming.
It's interesting right mobility pick is the best way I think also to describe it
Kuri can utilize he's thinking up with karaoke quite a lot, but
I don't want to find too much as guri just tries to get scraps from his jungle in the meantime
Mid turret chitans is going to walk up take it so inner finally blows down and a minute left until this next baron
P&G now have an inhibitor turret inside. They've got another inner and top
They're finally making their moves and they see that bke backed away
Just when we're criticizing their baron tempo. They just find it themselves as the small window
Yeah, and this is what they should have been doing all along
This is what I expected them to try and play for was playoff of mid-push in two sides
But Katty trying to see if you can at least punish wiser a little bit because so many members of ping in around that top side
We will just back away respecting this baron now in 35 seconds
Again wiser has pressure on this bottom side. You could even sync up
Genkiato you just put full pressure on towards that tier two on the bottom lane double TP over towards a potential baron if you need to
There's a lot of plays the pain can make, there's also a lot of ways they can mess up.
Like the pick from Shogun, Witt Gury, that damage is going to start to ramp up.
If Cassie's in position, nerdy level 18 on towards this Tristana as well, like you're
in a great spot for Cassie if you can find that damage.
And some of those advantages that we can find, you know, it's interesting me saying
this after watching day one somewhere deadly is that BS Poppy on a lot of this engage
coming in, a lot of these go buttons as well has been such a pain with that step
fast presence as I'm looking what do you want to see? Tunneler, pickaxe, did you think about it?
I've been able to pick up Sterak's at the back of the bus, but the guys are just a little short there so
that would be very nice to have a forward item right before you're about to fight up against this
impending bar and bus. Still 131 setup, pain gaming should be trying to play for a midway
right now and after they get this vision but a lot of members are biking here and waves
aren't in order. Chitan, he walks in into the poppy, into the arrow, he cleanses the
the way, but maybe it's a bait to get PA to stay as wise to jump.
He gets a two man, the teleport's coming a little bit late, but PNG aren't dying.
They bring open the curtains, and it could be the curtains for the BCS second seed.
An explosive electric bolt from Jim Kierle as into the backline he stays.
He goes golden, he buys time, and Natoe walked up thinking he could survive,
but Chetan with the change they needed, smacks him down, takes another,
and PNG have got another Baron to look at.
CBLO wants to make sure VCS no longer stand in their way at international competition.
They will move over towards the Baron, the TP from Wiser, to get the mid push and keep
the pressure there.
A soul in 25 seconds and maybe CBLO have just found the soul that they need to push
them forward into that impending matchup against Orr 7.
The LLA vs CBLO beckons a step closer it becomes.
Baron for pain gaming is sealed and this time we have to see how many more
turrets they can break down how much they can push his advantage after this
flight. And the A goes for the engage but look at where Curry is, he's not ready at
all so this is just a 3v3 and everything used on force cheat time in the
backline is a great ultimate there finally coming through from Curry as
well to lock down Shogun, buys time for Weiser to come in, the TP from
Genkiato onto the backline as well and there's just nowhere really that
the carries from Vikings can move to. They thought they had that moment but there was
just little follow-up for Pierre. And Sol as well, as we come back to life if you
didn't think it was it was concrete if you didn't think it was looking good. Now
with the Sol, another 2 minutes 20 the Red Bull Baron power play.
Chitan's gonna walk up, Minions be damned as well. He'll use the lights and get
more gold over the pain gaming a 7k gold lead at 32 minutes in. Now it's
in the base in their way. The potential of the siege is very very high. Curry could even ult
defending members so that they can just focus down this turret. You still have the six void
grub buff, the baron buff to boot. These terrors don't thine very long against paingaming.
That's exactly what wiser wants to do as he starts to escort this minion line in the mid lane as well.
Three members sit down. Baron doesn't work and even against this
Cassante, Chiton's damage is unbearable, he shreds through, he hit the ball shot and look at this Dagger, spread thin.
But that's what I was saying, like the, once you get an auto attack, that Void group both does so much work, alongside obviously the amount of damage that Chiton has in that final shot as well.
So it's been working out well for Pain Gaming thus far, Wiser now waiting for that minion line in mid as well, the way he's a little bit teasing for Pain.
gets one they look for the peek onto karaoke under turret but is it enough
damage it says you want it just won't die five members running into this pig and
it takes that long into the temperate keep some stun shock and in awe as a
curtain call again into nano a we'll do a little bit but not enough they've
taken down the jungler this slow down baron but wiser was pushing it all
the time and the inhibitor is just going like that yeah laser oh doesn't
get the hobo he's denied but is he going to die that's the next question he flushes in
and takes matters into his own hand.
VK and even no strike, he'll take another bop
and Bear will take another as the Nexus turrets
and now in their side, VK will be knocked out of Worlds 24
without a single game win, but Pain, Gaming
are going to right the wrongs of their predecessors.
It ain't loud, Doctor.
It's Pain.
They inflicted the Mv7.
They'll try and harness it to make it into the Swiss stage.
It's for pain, it's for loud, it's for INTZ, it's for the CBLOL.
Pushing out the VCS second seed and moving on,
guaranteed that one team from South America will be moving on to the main event at Worlds 2024.
I said it during the 100th seed series, I'll say it again.
This world is delivering, the underdogs are rising.
Once upon a time we think, no, there's no way minor regions are better than the VCS, right?
They can take games off the VCS of PSG Talon. Paying have come up and they've impressed the hell out of me in this world so far.
It's been a lot of work, a lot of growth and a lot of effort from everyone in the CBLO.
You're starting to see it on the main stage, looking so good against PSG Talon.
and they're fighting convincing wins,
a 2-0 over Vikings, incredible stuff.
It really is hard to go out to VKF calls to the VCS fans.
We had a lot of hype about this roster
and for good reason, when you watch their regular season,
when you see some of their highs,
you see these players performing out of their mind.
I don't know that they're very general statement,
but VKF really did have three of the best players
of the VCS on their roster,
speaking historically,
speaking from some of their high highs this year.
But of course it's always game time, it's never VKE time.
And I'm fortunate to say, our first team eliminated from Worlds
is Vikings Esports.
S.O.F.M's team is out.
We'll have to see how they bring it back next year
as they round out into the APEC League.
And it is a little bit heartbreaking.
There was so much adoration for this team domestically,
expecting them to really rise up and be the team that
confronted Gam, put a new person on that throne.
But unfortunately, they were not able to do so in the VCS and now dropping to pain gaming as well
But it does mean for pain gaming
They will move on to face or a seven tomorrow
The potential look at a main stage event for this region as well. I mean again, it's huge
You know, we talked about it a lot. We talked about, you know, the VCS record talking about gamma loud and you know
Most of that as well
But again looks so clean for the stage
CBLO I think pain have looked relatively clean outside of the other games we saw against PSG
It's interesting, I don't know about Rainbow 7 and pain gaming. I honestly don't know who wins that matchup
Yeah, I mean we've seen incredible stuff from R7 as well like the Nocturne the Orianna still have to make huge amount
So you know that our seven are going to try and take this fight to pain gaming
But what we've seen today is that pain gaming are more than welcome they can adapt those fights
Yeah, they can adapt drafts as well
And this is a team that has stepped up right we talked about how they've added in cheat time like Jin Kieto
finally managed to overcome 10 owns and kind of that legacy that was still there
for this roster but it looks absolutely incredible and I'm excited now to see
can pain get through to the main stage event or will it be R7 that have this
massive upset for LLA where no one raises them coming in and suddenly they
could be moving on to that main event. Again we don't know either R7 or Pena
going to main stage. It's crazy. I think we're making history here and
Again, that's why this world is the same the other day.
It feels like it's only been three days of Worlds,
but it has been that good.
As ladies and gentlemen,
we're gonna hand things over to Jin,
to Jin Sun and Jin Kierou for the Verizon post-game interview
after that absolute banger.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
Jin Kierou one more time.
Congratulations on the 2-0
and also on your explosive performance.
But a bench in this part of the exclusive
that you've seen here in the other part.
Thank you, thank you very much.
It was an elimination day for you guys.
It was literally a win-or-go home situation.
What was on your mind, on your way to the venue today?
To be honest, we were very focused and we know if we play our game we will win today
and we know we can do that tomorrow also.
So we were really confident.
We were just trying to get some, like, relaxed moment.
And that's it.
Amazing.
Now, you guys are just one win away from making history
for CBLOL.
Just one win away from making it out of the plane
and punching your ticket to the Swiss state.
So what more can we expect from pain in the upcoming match?
Brazilian fans out here, so many CBLOB believers out here
believing that you guys can make it out, so anything you want to say to all the crowds
and all the fans out there watching it live, supporting you, their hearts out.
And now, to finish, a message for the fans who are giving all their support to you here.
So, since most of our fans is Brazilian, I'm gonna say in Portuguese, sorry to everyone here.
Family, we're here, we're very confident, let's go up.
We're learning a good game, we're very confident, let's win this race.
So, family, here we are, we are confident, we are showing the most we can like game-wise,
so let's go forward.
Amazing.
Thank you so much, Tinkwado.
Thank you.
We wish you the best of luck and also thank you, Arthur, for the translation.
One more time.
Go, Paine, everyone.
It was Tinkwado!
Go, Paine.
I'm Super, I'm Alvaro, and we qualify for the three-stage, so I'm so happy we
will play into the best team in the world, and we're going to represent Europe
and Spain at this bet, so I just hope that you keep watching us.
It means a lot and yeah, thanks for everything. We will keep training and trying to do our best. Thank you.
Thank you.
See the goodbye. It continues for Bane Gaming, who we will see tomorrow fighting for the last one.
VCS is going to be fine. They already got their teams through yesterday, set up an amazing story tomorrow.
I feel bad for those five players, but for the rest of the tournament I feel good.
Yeah, I mean it's great to see pain gaming as well being able to get into a spot where you know
They haven't been at an international for so long and the fact that it's already going so well for them even in the first loss
It makes you have high spirits for them and hopes they're going forward in the tournament
And hope is what we want especially for the remainder of the day here if you're a Western fan and an LCS fan
Of course, so let's hear from sniper about his world debut. Hi, my name is sniper
I'm the top laner for 100 views and this is my first time playing worlds
I'm just super grateful to be here, everyone around me has been amazing and streaming against
the best players in the world has also been a privilege.
I definitely feel like I'm improving and there's only going to be ups from here.
My favorite worlds moment definitely has to be when T1 won the worlds in 2023.
I feel like I was just in my room just watching their games.
I was manifesting going to worlds and now that I'm here it's just been absolutely
amazing.
What do I want to say to the fans?
Hey, what's up guys? It's Sniper. It's unfortunate we lost our first match against R7, but hopefully you guys can keep supporting us.
We made it to Worlds for a reason. We're a good team, so yeah, keep supporting us.
Lovely hearing more from Sniper, of course, who was putting a lot of pressure on himself.
We read an interview this morning from Chief Esport with Armand. He was explaining how bad he felt actually.
a lot of strong words to this performance and yeah what is coming next a lot of
pressure on their side it feels he always lives in the moment that's one thing
that I love about sniper yeah but sometimes that can come back to buy them
bit if he says a little bit too much let's see what the the funds thing actually
here you know master catchman prediction are they are they scared do they have
pressure actually thinking about 100 years here 51.4% of the fans think
that 100 thieves can take it that's that's okay that's a lot closer than I thought only
50% okay I need to be careful with my words knowing that it's not even 7 a.m. in the US
yet so I know most of your is our European but okay what do we think about today Jeff
I have an analogy have you heard of Daniel Connelly absolutely not was me that Nobel
prize-winning psychologist, Janet?
Yes.
Thank you.
God, we're so smart.
God, yes.
He absolutely does.
Absolutely.
He talks about Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, talks about the experienced
self and the remembering self.
So the experiencing self lives in the moment and behaviorally responds to life as it comes.
The remembering self, it's the part of us that looks back and reflects on what we've
experienced.
So, years NA has lost the game or more to minor regions.
It actually happens every year, so experientially it has happened every single year but it feels
really scary right now.
But I will say, the years that NA's play-in team has failed to advance to the next stage
has actually been zero.
So everyone's making a big deal of this thing that happens literally every year.
Well, now it will be a big deal if they lose again.
I'm not saying it can't happen, but I am saying that 100 Thieves need to have that confidence
that every team before them has made it through, not the fear that they'd be the first to lose.
I like it. I'm just gonna leave it here. Thank you so much, Jot. Over to your guesters.
So, it's time for everything.
Right? No!
They did want to make it out of MSI this year for playing.
Oh, yeah!
You know, it is a world. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, you know, but I do...
I do hope 100 Thieves have a good dance back because I think there was a lot of
The haste on justly prone towards a lot of the members, like I think Sniper had a fantastic
game on the Cassante, River was a beast.
I think there is still a lot of solid takeaways from that series and coming up against Hawks
Gaming as well, like this is a team that didn't have the best performances either, so if there
is any game for 100 teams to bounce back, this is it, but I do on the opposite side
think the Hawks need to find their footing.
This was a team that played well around teamfights, had great flanks, played well
around macro.
We got to see zero of that in their last series.
It didn't look like they showed up at all.
So I want to get what made this team,
such as Paraheus and the LGL,
and the second seed for the PCS.
Like, see what that brought to the table.
I definitely don't want, you know,
what we kind of considered of VKE before, right?
VKE having, I guess, a poor showing.
And it was sad because we saw the high highs of this team.
We can say the same about FHG.
For 100 days, a lot of bouncing back required
in that last series that was Rainbow Seven.
That was an adventure, that series.
It was crazy and I'm wondering how this will go as we're going to pick a man as they she are on the blue side here and
The Zeke's band of Cassante band. I respect the Cassante band consider
We're just talking about sniper and how how much they prioritize this pick in early rotations to 400 thieves
Yeah, I'm wondering if it just means we're necked and potentially first pick here coming through for sniper
And I think those open up the net me to go towards something like the narcos the end of going back towards the rumble
Pretty consistently, which I really haven't been convinced by rumblin planes
as far doesn't feel like the same kind of powerhouse that you would have seen in the past so I think a potential even for the
Counter for Eddie could work pretty well and Ash could also be the first answer here from our but if that's the direction
You want to go?
We'll see what's the first pick before and makes perfect sense right?
Syndra open as well. The syndra is also open really good point actually Ori's also open from last game Aurora
We got a lot because it's been target bands here like snipers jacks that have filled the space instead Aurora is a first pick
I feel like it's more of a mid champion though, like, yes I know, Ebi has some crazy picks
in his back pocket like the trend of mirror and stuff, but I don't feel like it's a Ebi
champion.
I feel like it's more probably going towards Dasher, but, Sniper, he hoppers in every game.
I don't know how serious this is about him.
What he does play is, I'm also a shadow to his brother, he was a big written player
as well.
but gonna go towards the ONA, get quick decent matchup in the mid lane.
But how do you try and round this out? There was some sort of AP.
Yeah. AP.
And also maybe jungle support here.
Sedjuani, something we've seen paired with this quite a lot.
Sets up nicely.
Rift has been great on the Jarvan 2.
You mentioned the Renekton before.
Yeah, I really do hope we get to see Riven as in tournaments.
That's something I've been looking forward to.
I know he hovers it every time. I'm like, I know you play this.
This is what makes it worse.
forward to the day, or maybe the game that we get to see it out, let's find out.
I mean, instead of some Riven players coming from the LPL as well.
True.
It's funny because, you know, Frank Esports, who almost made it to Worlds,
he had it set at SHG, you know, they've written the top laner,
it was also a Riven, mate.
Ejung was a Riven OTP, so the shame, but regardless,
at least we get to see some fun drafts from SHG.
Now in the meantime, we get the Poppy locked in, most likely support.
We have, I'm pretty sure, only seen in support so far,
at Worlds, haven't seen it towards top, towards jungle.
It's always a possibility to keep in the back of your mind.
Yeah, I think it does work because Aurora essentially has this engage tool operating for you.
So it does help things out quite substantially.
When it's just going to be Poppy and Ezreal, just try and play for those sides and make it...
Oh, sorry. Try and play for a bit of more passive bot lane and just take it easy in yourself.
Going all the way towards the Kaiser, which is kind of in the old school counter that we...
So creep open Ezreal came in, just the ability to chase him down with...
You have that level 6 and finish him off and Assassin End was great.
But I haven't seen a huge amount of that because so often we see these AD carries rotating into the mid lane, that shorter lane just makes it so much more difficult to try and chase down the Ezreal to finish off that kill.
I just love the amount of dive comps we're getting today, like again full on from 100 feeds, you know where they're going to commit.
Seeing Marble after he got 2v2 solo kills in the last series in lane also exciting seeing it on something like Ezreal with the playmaking available.
So 100 thieves not convinced that this Aurora is going into mid lane with the LeBlanc band and try to set up at least an
easier time for Quint in that mid lane. I am curious to be ended with something like a Lillia ban here coming through for
100, I say Bi-Hawks 400 thieves because it's still something that can do well in the jungle
But also you kind of need a little bit more of that AP damage
Yes, Tomo can go towards it like you get the crackings the Quint sues and then you can go in towards your AP build
But it's so late down the line. I don't think it's able to facilitate a huge amount of what you need
So you need something and especially Jack's plan a lot of these hybrids got in the top side
I think you're less likely to have that I say in the renec to pick up as well
You're just not really having the option to facilitate that elsewhere. It's like questions like brand questions like this are we talked about before if they see it
It's relevant
Those AP junglers the said Ronnie already go on in case there is a pairing through mid junglers mentioned before
Or, especially, I mean, we've reneced in Yone.
Sejuani felt like a must-go, as there are still AP jungle options available,
Dagger has put your point, but Engage Tool's taken off the board,
with the Nautilus also away from Eila.
Actually, Maokai could work out really well.
And gives you the option to try and play for that Engage Tool,
but also just the, the ability to lock down a lot of these carries
without needing to rely on a dash.
So, because if you're going Leona, well, actually,
Leona would be a great pick, honestly, for all of these,
You know just something that can lock down without commissal dashing is gonna be perfect. So I know it's gonna be the owner
Let me just look
Well, yeah, I think you you've got options here's all under thieves for Hawks
You need to try and take away the mouth guy for emptying this and for us playing mouth guy
We'll just be very busy from a namesake. Of course
What I've seen
You know hiding a script. Oh, yeah, okay. Just check. I just have a check. Just a bit worried
We'll see again. You raise that knock. I it's very fitting but again
I'm going to say it just yet. At the very least, a Kali locked in for Dasher.
Right? Heavy. In the passes played a Kali top right.
So I'm just throwing that out there. I'm just throwing it out there as a question.
As far as I know, doesn't do great into Renekton now. I'm not going to pretend I
have a Savaun to leave a Kali Renekton match up. But I imagine that it's just going mid.
But my thought would be, you can still hit with Q3, which are
You're a general Q's from your own hand, the ultimate as well, so maybe it's not the best matchup, but some of the dasher feels very comfortable into.
Now the question is what's the river want to take on the opposite side?
Set up. Jarvan's available.
I know you would say like Malkai's there, right?
Yeah, it's not massively necessary now that you don't have a mega tank on the opposite, but I think it would be nice to have something like the Malkai, but yeah, okay, they're just going to go for the damage.
I do it. I mean AP jungler there you go you called it a couple of picks ago
So I mean we do get the feeling right with the kaiser as well
So there is sufficient damage they set up this go buttons for a hundred thieves
There's a lot of priority on these planes. I think you'll agree doctor
Where we kind of want to see them get off to a bit of a flying start not let this a car lead
It's Aurora take over the face. It does feel like
the
People are counting their bases to turn around in the duel
Yeah, whoever pulls the trigger first is probably gonna win out on these because if you're Cali your root cong and your roar
I'll go in at the same time. They will blow up a brand to kaiser
They don't really have an opportunity to try and escape because of that short range
Where the opposite side of the hundred teams who get off to these early leads and third the one engaging again
It's just like pure shotgun. It's spray hit everyone and just decimate them
So I think this is very much gonna come down to who can control the early game who can control those early lanes
I think that's why for a lot of this is the fact that you see you know push coming through
on the topside. I imagine Yone will be able to get control of this mid lane against the
Kali at least post level three. That's where I think you'll be able to find some successes
for 100 thieves.
You'd have to hope that a hundred thieves can pull it together for the NA fans out there
who are obviously upset at the Rainbow 7 loss. It's crazy to think that one Besser
3 determines history here. North America's third seed has never ever been knocked out
in the playing stage and remember they always had a third seed that actually ended up doing
quite well. Cloud9 historically was a favourite third seed. People were like man this team
is so good at breaking expectations. A hundred thieves took out Cloud9, ran in their place
and now they've got a show that they are much better than the Softbank Hawks. Otherwise
this would be another major upset. I feel like we've already had minor upsets right.
last series CBLO beating the second VCS seed is big rainbow seven of course beating a hundred thieves
massive but can the soft bank walks do something for the pcs region here when they too beat frank
esports another favorite another firm favorite here a lot of people thought they were going to be
the representatives but for the ljl this is also big for the individual region as dasher
electrician laying dagged up we've got grasp here for the yone considering that we are kind
of medium range. But it is funny how history kind of tends to repeat itself in League of Legends.
Right, you have River who started off painting challengers in Korea against Dasher. Like they
were on 1-1-T, 1-1-1 and Gen.G and now you start to see River then move on to the PCS and now
going up against the PCS second seed with the opportunity to potentially knock them out.
So often we see multiple of these players go up against each other but now it's a case of
How well can you feel them out in these early stages?
Because again, the press in these fights cannot be overstated.
If you get an early lead, it just feels so easy to run that through.
As you said, whoever pulls the trigger first, I love the little history again.
T1, Gen.G challenges, like, you know, very, very big organizations now,
but also even in their challenger teams.
Go on to do great things.
What a Popey fans I know out there that will agree and say the same thing.
But, you know, for Dasha as well, a lot to be done now.
FHG, we look at that bot side as Vista forces out Toma, but as Zenith played connects and second skin works
So Toma just gets a nice little trade in the end
But it is the Hawks in this bot side in this 2v2 that will have level 2 first
Yeah, just the push still as marble was more focused on the lane
But still a nice trade onto Vista forced to burn an early pass does give you an opportunity to try and play a little bit
More aggressive, especially if it kind of comes to bush control in this matchup
If you are able to play for the Q-Hiss as a la it makes things a little bit easier if this is low health
but Bob Burnt means that it's just gonna be a bit of a wait until they can really
sacrifice head-to-head again. Now quit again just gonna get some trade ladies and
gentlemen don't forget by the way you can log into your Riot Games account on
lollysports.com and watch Worlds Live to earn exclusive Worlds emotes, icons and
capsules just a quick tidbit before we go into this next series and full pace
as we're expecting a lot of action especially at the level 6 point so
go get your free business before we reach five six minutes in again. I did
you just get a ping and say that I actually messed up the history. It's Quidd at Forest
to play the Challenger.
That's okay. Dacked it. Look, I remember you telling me before and I was like, you know,
I have the memory of a goldfish, so I could never help you anyway. That's okay. So,
Quidd, Forest, previously, LCK Challenges. And yeah, the matchup, it's great to
see it again on much bigger stakes, much bigger stakes as well. As the push is
in here for Marvel, this is all a scrying orb. Marvel's gonna get away, second skin
about the proc here, thanks to Tomo getting that killer instinct, or rather excuse me,
Boi Seeker landing. So SSG just back away, knowing Jungle is bot.
Yeah, I don't think there's gonna be too much of the pressure coming through from
Hawks gaming in these early stages. Like Daphne sure just kinda wants time to hit
that level six before he really becomes a major threat, same as you look at Forest.
So I think it would be more the second rotation of White Grobes where we'd really see Hawks
trying to contest for things, but the criticism I've had of Hawks is that lack of decisiveness,
where they kind of second-guess themselves before they really want to go for engage, unless
they are ahead and they have like a good TP ward. So I think when you're coming into
this, that could be the struggle for Hawks, because again I think the fights are really
going to be where this is decided, the team fights are really going to be where this
is decided.
Because again, we know a lot of the engage, a lot of the go button tools, whether
they're flanks or whether they're set up, a lot of it is a snap engage or reliable
engage right and you know Poppy is not what you call reliable engage you need a wall that's always annoying
You need something in the way so that Poppy can or flash available is where you got to commit a lot
But I think that's why Aurora has started to creep open the meta so heavily right the that ult is such a strong engage tool
Even though you think it's like oh, but it doesn't really lock you down
But holding you to an area especially when you're a short range ad carries
Yeah, I said it's terrifying and that's why River may be putting some pressure on towards stopping toward a baby
But I think with the couple of head snipers taken there we're looking just for the reset for the croc in the top
Because only blinks can get out of it things like as early could get out of it
That's on your team or a flash and that's not something you want to burn right? It's commitment. It's why the aurora ulti
I mean we've said zone control we've talked about a lot here at world so far also does good damage
It also creates mobility and escape tool as well for the aurora outside of it. W
That's out of the bunny hop
So we're getting close to that level six now doctor
we already talked about it.
Level six, a lot of go buttons, skirmishers,
what we're looking at, who goes first,
Vist is now moving towards mid,
and Grubb's also spawning in 35 seconds.
Just feel like, for the Hawks,
they're thinking about an angle,
about how they can start,
and approach this one nice and early.
Yeah, I don't think we're actually gonna get much
in the way of rotations for things here.
And yes, Alie is covering mid with clear foot.
Look at him, the map,
Sniper has already gone back towards topside,
you're also looking at us,
Tomo, moving back down to the bottom side.
So, Hunter thieves the moment,
wanna try and keep things nice and simple.
potential for Hawks to try and move around, but I don't think the AD carries will be getting involved in this one too early
Now they're sticking they're committing they're going to what's bought side a list again
So hovering over mid dashes just hit level six then like can actually flip us there quit does want to knock up
But not full commitment yet now for us. He's walked up. He's gonna stop the grubs own spawn here
Well, that's takes a half HP trade and you know, there's nothing to be he's got lettuce in the river
He'll pick that up and be completely fine
It's a miscommunication look like they're Hela investing the nice, great not willing to follow up with the ultimate, giant kill, dasher, but still, just gonna be dragon for Voidbrook trade.
I think this is fine as 100 thieves, like you can also just play for big fights later on here when you have control, but the dragons again kinda help you in solidifying those team fights later.
Sniper, gonna spot a dead people.
Yeah, just taking this nice and simple, not trying to run away with the game earlier causing the issues.
Because we know, again, a little ramp up.
That's the thing about these comps, you're looking at him,
you're like, this game will ramp up at some point.
So we chill now while it's available.
We watch the trade, we wait for the next one.
So again, we bring up the global power rankings
powered by AWS, 100 things, another 35 now.
I'm sure after the Rainbow 7 series,
that definitely changed a bit.
I don't know where it was before,
but I know it definitely changed quite a bit.
And it's cool, these objective power rankings.
Quite interesting to me,
because you know, it just takes all the stats in.
like a massive stats leaderboard that just goes objectively here's where they sit with all their
qualifications throughout the year. Still a lot of context needs to be given to them, but I still
think it is very cool to just try and match these up in an MMR system. I don't think the thing is
like it's so dependent on how the different regions it's racked there's so much data that has to go
into it it's kind of tough but I think it is still very nice to have. It's the little things
life isn't it? You know, they just had a little fit.
There's this early game slow, and after coming for the last game as well,
there's just been so much energy from not only Sibylol fans, but
you know, from pain-gaming through the games that they were playing, and how
well they were playing the early games. It's a very different pace, and that's
the other thing about play-ins as well. With that very different dynamics
in our play-ins this year, I think more so than normal, very different style of
teams where people are still trying to work out the matter. You and I were
talking about this, the meta's still being defined, and play-ins is always
very different to the main stage at Worlds, where other teams will come in and be like,
oh my god, why is Renekton perma-van now?
Yeah, well I think it's also a case of how much you can operate on these small differences, right?
Like you started to see Brian come back in and teams are like, no, Brian is fine, but
when you are facing against a lot of the teams at the main event, it's how
they can find that window that is three seconds to punish you on a top way, right?
And it's those little things start to mean more and more. Whereas for these teams,
it's much better, I think trying to find his comfort for yourself as well.
And I'm making sure you're okay. And I think for Sniper as well
He's kind of talked about how he wanted to go back towards his reaction in the interview the law reference earlier on
Yeah, he's sports that he wanted something that was just his style
So he could feel more comfortable quit had a fantastic performance on the only quick denial soul flat flat your way
Sorry, it's rocked out. Can we get a stun down and Vista knows he just has to go in but at first blood over the time
Oh, it's a good punish and good self in the end from a lot nicely done having River coming down to set that one up
River has to be careful though
there is a wukong and river should be able to spot a mouse in river okay for him okay well he's
gonna be caught out no forest actually takes it get cycling from that as well he's a level up now
as well on the damage i'm drew is gonna follow through as soon as the cyclone just ticks away
a solar kill between junglers forest is better than river no old four river means that you just
have no follow-up there and it's a complete decimation from a forest nicely done and traditionally
you'd be like oh well wukong gets the armor from the passive so river should win yeah we
We just didn't have the cool ones, you need it.
Now, Dagger, as we go through this series,
we have a rare opportunity with River versus Forest.
We have never had landscapes battle each other
on a world stage before, as far as I'm concerned.
Or a TikTok quiz to tell you what your favorite corner is
or something that I'm as useful as you are, yeah.
So I'll be keeping track for now.
Forest is better than River,
but as soon as River gets a kill back,
then River will be better than Forest.
Yeah, they just need the moon to be in the right position
to get a tide that comes in their favor.
And then, yeah, yeah.
So it's about that, yeah.
Because River's based on the moon tide,
But what about the forest?
Does it grow with moon?
It's done.
It's okay, it's a sun.
We obviously need more powers
in play between the junglers,
but you know, a kill per kill
in the end of Wukong gets some blood.
He also gets to get sunbathed sky.
That's one of the first items in the game.
But likewise, Tomo gets the Mosquito start here
with the static ship, excuse me.
As they move on up here,
Grubbs is spawning it again.
The Hawks got the first three,
but with Brand,
it feels like this might just be a handshake deal.
Yeah, and this is kind of where the saying that I think the trade for 100 Thieves is actually worthwhile.
There's no need to try and hard contest for the first ones, just go for the second.
They have good control, they've moved around the map well already using that push from the static shave on bot
and making things just a little bit simpler for themselves and, yeah, should have tumble.
They've been moving to this topside, pick up the wave and continue to put that pressure down.
The Hawks have opened up with Ezreal in the mid lane, which I think is okay for the moment.
Yeah, but the reset on Vista has me a little bit concerned
Because until Vista gets to that top side, he can't really contest the wave.
This might give another place over to the Kaisa.
Whereas I don't really see Dasher being able to threaten the place take on the bottom side.
You just saw that before. Highlights coming through a river.
Because naturally, it does feel like river again is the way this team works.
I mean, it's just a fact really at this point.
Even in the series we talked about a little bit earlier,
where we had some downtime decked up.
That series of Rainbow 7, it felt like river was trying to do everything
just set up 100 things for success alongside Sniper.
But unfortunately couldn't do too much a sniper looks for the all-in forest is coming down
But the renecdence dominance and flash available. It feels pretty impossible right now
Without a Kali having a first item to take this one be one or one big to
Dragon spawned forest Ewing sir and River just walks away for the time being now shg
They've got their middle the 80 carry mitt. Excuse me. He's a quit is top here with TP
Aurora starting to move down the land the TP coming through from Dasher storm surge just completed for him such a big
Pickle before this fight so Hawks definitely want to try and contest this and winter teams aren't in position
Yeah, I like the pings you can see a major equities like I want nothing to do with this lads
I just want this terror like wait for gold. That's all we want
You have three grubs of the only take this tariff down and your name second attack
It's magic damage in it as well
So that's really good work on turrets with a bit of buff on the three grubs two plates in the end
I believe taken away
They get dragon and a hundred things got the first one here
So it only delays the soul a little bit while more gold goes into quitting the sideline
Yeah, but the gold was certain as we started off the game in favor of Hawks at a CS lead mid to CS lead top
But now you've got Tom who was able to pick up the kill and some nice map movement has given him the CS lead
And now quit also starting to guess that control thanks to plates as well
So 100 teams again just kind of playing at the map better
I think that's where we saw Hawks really starting to struggle in their game as well
It just felt like they weren't really able to keep pace in their last series and it cost them when it came to getting towards those fights
Finding the the opportunities to play through in game one. Yeah, one ball combo
But also again, we're kind of coming back to these these moments where Hawks are trying to operate in a different style to what we saw
domestically like this is sure you've got some I say
Combos for your team fight, but it's not like hit the orb button altogether. We've been type of style. Yeah, it's different isn't it?
We knew that coming into this tournament
We knew that Worlds was going to be about them, these magic teamfights, these great moments where Evie can step up and whether it seems like a cannon, even the Aurora here, right?
We see moments of brilliance from him in the past. It can be up or down, but Evie's about to show us what it looks like as three members of a hundred thieves stop here to fight seal the solar flare.
He can't move! Stuck in place, River takes the killers. Dash is trying to move up and help him out, but now he's TP'd on two.
He has to shirk and flip out of there, and yes, he buys space, but a hundred thieves are looking for more.
That's the end of the plate on the forest. He walked into trouble.
He gets blazed up with a pyroclasm that burns him down for days as he flashes away.
Forest now can't re-engage a hundred thieves.
They're taking everything in this topside while Harold is looking at them in the eye.
Yes, still, you've got nothing to try and contest this Hawks.
Dasher tried to go underneath the tower with that ultimate, but just couldn't quite find the kill.
You've got River and Queen who are able to flash on out of there, but huge amount of bests.
I think we're just gonna wait for the TP from quick to come back in here before 100 thieves trying to test
They need to get on towards mid wave as well
So Hawks trying to just gate them off while venturing into mid lane
They're not gonna start at the very least now forest still has his ulti available, but no flash
That's a used is in the previous fight
And we've still got the steadfast presence rather keep this verdict as a mass card landing in cat economy snapshot
Shows us the strength of quit and Tomo here in this early game as they clear it out
Harold still just standing there while Forrest, he's not a ward in the back, but they know he started the objective off.
Yeah, again though you're, look at the map, Sniper on towards the objective, alright the top lane first, so yes
you will get this, Rift Harold, but a tower for Sniper, you can also cross mop here
which I'd love to see Ayla moving down towards that top, our bottom side, looks like he's just kind of competing on his own here.
One of these maybe with the lane contest, knowing that Forrest can't really take this quickly.
Hela's soul flipping back up gives him a bit of confidence.
Sniper dominance almost there as well, and he held on to his flash, so teleports in, and 100 Thieves go for round number two.
Teleports giving it on the other side as well, Stasher runs on in.
Hela has to flash away, but Sniper still without his ulti.
He has to run on out as heavy zone controls into Defton, with Boris taking the kill with Stasher running in as well.
It's not looking good!
In the end, Quint can't clean that up, and River got caught against the wall.
100th didn't have the cooldown, but they still tried to force it.
100th didn't have the Summoner's Spells they needed to play that aggressively into the position of
Rift-Helen, now Tomo on his own, four members.
Don't think they have the CC to try and lock him up at the moment, just gonna try and poke him down.
The result he runs in almost tight for his troubles, just happy to absorb without the shock available.
But the Hawks just picked up, or at least picked up a few kills.
Added some gold back in their pockets, and now Forrest in a very good position.
Also with Marvel 2, Dagger.
Show me this replay and tell me what I should absorb.
But they could have gone for a play on both sides, but instead they tried a hard force into a position where
Sniper isn't really contesting onto big threats, Vista able to keep them grounded as well thanks to the steadfast presence.
And they're already on the run, like, it's too late for the time quick comes in here.
The Pyroclasm isn't there, the damage isn't there, and it's just so messy on how they try and enter into this.
I honestly thought they'd just shove mid, rotate bot and look for a dive onto Aurora again.
We just saw how vulnerable Ebby is in a side lane, but they don't go for the play and it cost them now to correct myself a little bit
I did say it was two for nothing
But of course I'm really stick pick up a kill on the side thanks to quid set up and
Tomo was the one to get it so you can see the team fight damage in that last play
In team fight damage overall Tomo is doing a lot here with almost two items up
Yeah, the riff shot never got taken though
So it could be down for another tussle as a la tries to move in I took he was not spotted
So actually nice little bit of movement here by Aela if you can get in behind trying to avoid being spotted by Vista here
Hex flash almost available to the great thing about Leona with hex flashes
Getting over some of those walls and the gap close you have doctor. I think it was you who's telling me in
LEC splits this year like the great thing about Leona is the long-ranging gauge that she offers to comps as well
That's the one thing that is ease of execution. You know it can be anywhere
And she hurt gap closes nuts her solar flare range is nuts. Yeah, it's a non-committal factor
It's the fact that Poppy can't really stop it. If you ult with Leona and it hits, do you still get that CC and everyone else can just move on in, just walk on in to follow up on it.
So it makes it very difficult for Hogs to try and play around it. Now, I still think with the amount of CC you have from Forest and also then from Vista on the follow up, it can be a little tough, but it's still just nice to be able to fish for some of these picks, but I have no over commit into the play.
Tomo as he pushes out this wave get ready for the next dragon it's just spawned
and you can see that a hundred thieves are looking for a pick that leads him into
either side of the objective. We talk about non-committal engage, HecFush also
helps out. Vista try to get a wall shot but he finds nothing. Ailer now in the
middle he solo plays, he's in his place. Tomo realises his angle but heavy controls the zone.
Ailer went in a bit too early but he doesn't cost him because Sniper came to party.
In the middle goes Quiff. He doesn't lock down anyone with that ulti and Sniper takes some tags on the way out.
But now, jungler's down, forest is dead, and 100 thieves can go around to that dragon and take it.
The real winner of all these fights is Rift-Hell getting to keep his life.
Great start of this, doesn't get to finish it.
Dragon might not be so lucky though, because you've got nothing left for 100 thieves.
No mana on Tomo as well.
Tomo on the wrong side of the fight, this is a 3v4.
Are they going to do this again, Dac?
We saw it mid when they don't have the cooldowns, 100 thieves still willing to fight,
but SHG was only the Aurora, only the Cyclone in the end.
Poppy also down the perfect execution.
Thank you very much, Dagda.
You've shown me that Dacia still has the all-in.
The Hawks don't want to commit.
They leave Dragon, goes over 100-thieves.
There again, like not really wanting to take the fight.
Can't work out for Hawks here.
Don't have to get me a tower now.
Oh, he dropped on the back, Rivers alone,
but he's got Quid now joining him in.
But Dacia is here pretty much every big force in the flag.
I feel Quid's there to save the day,
and he jumps on him.
River gets out with his flash. It was a ruse in the end.
And thank god for Queen otherwise that brand was in trouble.
Still flash gone. And the fact that you don't end up getting that quick reset to try and move back into the map is going to hurt them.
Maybe though it's not about Aela, but I don't think he's going to go down on anything but...
This is the point. The little mistakes with 100 teams getting punished here.
You know Aela's here. Aela has to be careful as Queen just backs away a full minion wave to go.
Wave clear as part of Aurora's kit as Aela steps up to this, Forrest is in here, Cyclone is back up and available in 5 seconds, Sniper comes out of the bush and Evie just bites him space when he gets stung up, Renekton's power shone in proof as Cyclone now back up, Aela about to burn down!
Cyclone's enough to get the kill, Dasher teleports in and the action's only just started!
a sure conflict connecting and a steadfast presence shown
that Vista can hold them up, TP in the back as well and we fight again.
It's getting messier and messier and I love it as Vista finds one on Sniper and Tomo and Quidd
have to run. SHG has the numbers, they've got the true shopperage,
Quidd wants to go in but yes, quickly back on out.
That's a pick, that's a win and Dagger, we're starting to scrap a bit more.
Your teams are trying to force way too heavily on this bottom side.
Well, he'll be able to get out the quids, right Goss?
We're being cheeky with it yet again, but Forrest doesn't have that cyclone, we just saw it used.
So, he looks to defend bot instead, but with three grubs they also have enough power to open up this sideway.
So, Quid just tried to clear out whatever camps are on this bottom side because we looked top river is clearing out the other side.
But when you look at straight goals, this is a massive win for Hawks, the over push on bottom side.
When River had moved to the top side of the map, Ezreal, Marble had push in mid lane, they were able to collapse so easily.
100 Thieves, they keep trying to hard force plays, but they just don't need to.
You see the win probability.
It's up and down a little bit again. And the early game, it's natural.
But we're 21 minutes in and while Quinn's gonna get this turret here, Gold is fluctuating a little bit.
The only thing 100 Thieves right now have firmly in their control is the dragon stacking, which in 2 minutes 30,
we get a great answer as to if that continues.
I think the saving grace for 100 Thieves is that their side lanes aren't winning.
Yeah, it's time for having this theorists. I'm sorry not the third straight striker makes a little bit easier for him to try to chase down some of these members and
Quit also buried far ahead 1.2k gold lead over dasher
But when you add in a wukong makes a little bit more difficult to try and control these so for 100 teams
They need to try and win out of the macro game
But that was kind of the big weakness in the LCS was that they just wouldn't be as clean
Say as cloud 9 the team that they beat to get here
So for Hawks if they can try and play into that weakness
They can certainly try to bring this game back from the brink. I mean Dasha again
Not in the worst position you talk about sidelines winning and yes
He's 800 gold down, but there's a Kali heading towards two items and we know there's a good scaling element there
We know a college damage becomes unbearable and you haven't said it in the draw. I
Know there's not super tanky elements on the side of SHG. I know for a hundred seats. They got the Leona, but
The Leone, the Kaisa even the brand jungle the ability to be popped in this game is something
I'm excited to watch to see if Dasher can pull off considering that he's the highlight here of this roster
Despite the name value of ebi. We look at dasher mid and we're like bro
He took him seven years to get to the spot, but he is a carry that can control the game and absolutely pop off of this thing
You can see though ebi trying to support the play on the mid lane good wards from 100 teeth to spot out
Essentially what is the overload on mids coming through from hogs, but there's time now for 100 teeth to try and fight back
Everyone apart from Dasher has moved up towards the top half of the map, but he's he's aware
He's not giving enough space for a hundred thieves to try and find the pick plus that control there as well
He doesn't push out if I'm just they've stopped moving in
He's gonna get information real real quick quit moves away after pushing the wave and maybe looks for an angle on mid
But they're being mega patient here while waves are just being handled and forest is just clearing the top side dragon in 50 seconds
So, Pet Hawk's kind of aware that they don't need to approach into this.
They can just play off of wave states instead.
So, they start to group up on mid, give them up with the pressure of the notes.
They spot out hundreds of thieves now, but Rora's starting to move down.
And Epi wants to become a part of this.
Boris will have another smite shortly, so he had two charges in his back pocket,
which enables him for either the potential Baron Sneak or the Dragon that we're alluding to before.
Hundred thieves in the river first, and Quid is just moving through enemy jungle.
He's still MIA.
Still, look at the items across the border as we get here. Two items pretty much everywhere apart from on Ebi.
You just have that Seeker's Armguard, but that could be clutch for him to get into position to set up with the Ultimus,
but he's going to be lacking quite a bit of damage just because he doesn't have the need to see large dodge components.
So it looks like he's going to try and sneak into position and see him just the top of your screen trying to get onto this Kaiser.
Forrest got damaged a little bit there as well. I think it was brand damage from River that Corden and catches him again.
Forrest's health bar.
Why, that's very impactful for the dragon. I think 100 Thieves managed to slowly just secure this.
And those are the push on bot side for Quaid. He's actually teetering towards this jungle area as well.
So, 100 Thieves, slow and steady, they bring it back nicely done by the NA representative.
They're on sole point. Mountain sole just like that, which, when you're running a Kali,
it's going to give you so much more leeway as well, Dagger.
Yeah, as you said, slow and steady. It's a nice touch because for 100 Thieves,
They're not over-forcing, they're not over-committing.
They're slowly playing this out with the side lanes that you said are still running the rip.
And I think it's a big step back from what we saw earlier, just in this game where they were trying to hard-force, hard-commit.
It's the last, we can play this, we can win this, just take it at our own pace and they're doing exactly that.
And Hawks kind of need to now be that bit more decisive to try and take down a hundred thieves here.
I want to see Forrest linking up with Dasher to see if he can get a play on towards the side lane, because otherwise Quid just gets to do that.
Yeah, Quid's at two items strong as you mentioned before, and Stridebreaker at two on top of the Stakali, hard to get out without committing something like the Shuriken Flip.
But again, this Yone, I mean, Quid is having a great performance so far, four out of five kill participation, and well on his way to his third item as he makes his next back as well.
And he keeps stealing bottom side jungle.
He's just taking the red buff by himself, willy-nilly.
And people are scared to walk in. I mean, how do you deal with him?
a lot of people I guess so his answers for people more people said more down
100 things just having on the wall that they probably know is their control
wards are zoning off and I say she cleared that away while they try and cheek
around baron but again 100 things are falling to the bait they're just gonna
take it easy I think it is the right call the level 16 that we have for
quid that's their level advanced these pretty consistently kept over Dasher
for the main port part of this mid game and Sniper is doing fine as well.
I think you just try and play out for a push on mid into...
I mean, sorry, even for like the guy said, if you get a potential to run down marble,
you can do so with the items that you have right now.
And marble may learn all about it in a second.
It's critical. It's waiting over the wall.
Aila doesn't go for the solar flare just yet though.
Trying to get something else out on a ward.
Of course, it's going to be too premeditated as this is a season rotate to left side jungle.
Underneath Tarak, we get some damage down.
Forrest gets chunked and that's a three out on Kaisa too and now that the W's connect
Three second reset three second reset Tomo gets to start poking out and maybe it's enough to start powering
Yeah, because look at Dasha on the bottom side. He'll have to commit his TP
So I think 100 thieves once they see that committed should back away from this
This is still a fairly risky one. I mean for us back for us back again
The jungler getting poked out by hundred thieves is rough for them as I'm looking for the pick on
They've already gotten the Baron to the Favio after the thought they just need to get out now as
Trisha Braj is there, but Evie's ulti locks them in play, running in Sniper, re-engages and takes Evie out.
The top laner dead from the Hawks as the Cyclone re-engages, but Forrest is getting chunked down.
Pokes to hell. The Japanese representatives have been clawed in. Dacia tries to get a pick.
Aila still stands with the time being. Tomo finds another one and even though Dacia tries to outplay
River flashes again and looks indebted in the eye.
Hawks thought they might have been able to buy the time that they needed.
I was watching Ebi for that big Aurora ult that would hold everyone in place
by time for force to get there, especially with the poke that can come through from Marble
and also then from Ebi Puss. The way Hundred Tees played that fight was excellent.
Sniper entering into the pit, buying space for people.
Then Resets coming through from Quinn with the TP back in.
The ebb been flowing that fight was great from 100T and you get to see it like Ebby could have thrown down this old committed to Quid and Aila
But he doesn't end up going for it. They're going golden here
And this is where I thought we'd get the re-engage but watch how much space sniper bites
This is disaster for 100T's but sniper going in putting his butt in the line draws all that attention mohawks
He barely escapes in the backline and then Quid gone for the reset into a TP onto the topside
means that he gets the return into the fight.
Alan doesn't even fall off the back of this,
and then Dasher tries desperately to get him river,
but the flash away keeps him alive.
And somehow, 100 thieves all staying standing.
Man, the punishment of this Hawks jungler
has been real this game, Dagger.
Like, health bars matter so much,
and you can see 100 thieves really good at punishing it.
They start with Dragon, they do it over Baron,
they even turn the fight.
As you said, Sniper buying space once again,
having a very decent performance as I see it flank.
And I see the Hawks wanting to get something back.
It's on the quick, but he fades sealed out of there.
Instead, he walks back into Heavy, and Quint's now locked in play, but he's got the damage!
Heavy almost dies, but he has to run out as far as cyclones in in a choke.
It's a shutdown, but Dash is burning himself, and Dash doesn't want to go back in.
He needs to run too. Toma almost snipes him down, as far as it's on the wrong space.
And I think Sniper's just like, alright, I'll run for our down man.
Sniper is happy out. He's like, I'll continue with this push.
They get the one for one trade on the play.
Thanks to that Seeker's Armguard for Tomo.
I don't think they spotted this on Halux
before they came out of the base
and now Sniper run up for the hills
because he's buying time for the soul.
It's just been a hundred days slow
and steady winning the race.
Like the Red Bull Baron palplight,
it's 7,000 gold.
What?
That's a game ending number
that they have just picked up off of that buff.
Like that is insane.
I only just noticed it because honestly the Hawks, like we've seen some attempt to try and punish 100 days at least has been proactivity in this game, but it's been real rough to watch in the past 10 minutes as we look again at the replay, then trying to get the miracle flank.
Yeah, I mean good call from Quinn to get over the wall here, then turns immediately on towards Ebi, hoping they can kill him to unlock themselves from this hellscape.
Hellscape bubble so Tomo goes Golden he gets away
You don't really have to follow up that's your can't threaten on towards the back line
Tomo playing very safe until he sees that gun tries for the Skype
But I think that minion actually got away the void missile
but nicely done by a hundred thieves on the chase then after and
Sniper on that midway at the whole time
So just opens up pressure again on the map and this time around you're starting to get those TPs
coming in for a hundred thieves. Not a bit far away, but once that's available, Sniper
becomes way more of a threat to join the team at any point in time.
I mean against Rainbow 7 there were certain leads from a hundred thieves, but they weren't
as egregious as this one. This is almost a 9k gold lead at 30 minutes.
The thing is as well, when you have this push on top, there's always the opportunity
for the One to seek in behind here. Right now the dive as well, so Hawks both ways.
He's out with the between worlds again, but he's destroyed.
Tomo just stands and delivers.
Dasa tries to get back life, but Tomo does it again.
A good performance on this.
Keistor is understated as quick runs in.
He just needed to hit all the oldies.
Still diving.
He's taken tarot shots now.
Transition to Sniper.
But a hundred thieves.
This game to them looked patient, calm,
and well orchestrated.
This is the game we expected from a hundred thieves
coming into worlds.
Slow, steady, confident,
and you can see the smiles on their faces.
faces the wind they needed to get this ball rolling at World of 2024.
One more to try and lock in a date with destiny.
Now on match point, in this best of three, I mean, 100 thieves.
I was even questioning, well, what are they going to look like on the day?
But that is a much better result than what we saw against R7.
Significantly better result and well earned.
Because this is not an easy side of the bracket anymore.
Hawks into PSG talent, this is going to be a rough one.
But we'll have to see if they can bring it back for game
Number two has been tossing over to a quick break.
Who gives you wings?
Unsingular posture for 12 hours a day.
It's time your chair evolved.
This is Secret Lab, tight.
Steve, is somebody give me a...
Raj, just take care.
Let's see.
Hey, I'm here with Golden Glue Head Coach, 100 Thieves.
Good to see you.
Good to see you as well.
It's a stressful situation.
It's during game one that we're doing this,
so I'm going to let you get back to the game quickly,
but a lot of people were surprised
about the day one performance from 100 Thieves.
What were your takeaways from that?
I was also surprised.
I think game one, we showed up and we played how we thought
I thought we would play.
And in game two and game three, we
were making a lot of unforced errors and a lot of mistakes.
And I'm really hoping everything happens for a reason.
And we were going to learn from those mistakes
and show off in this SAG game.
Yeah, I did mention to the cast before this game
that actually since 2018, every NA team in play
has actually lost at least one game to minor regions.
What's the confidence level like now going in knowing
you need four wins to make it all the way to Swiss age?
Yeah, actually, I think last night when you messaged me,
I told the whole team about that.
And also, I've been reminiscing because I was part of that Cloud
9 run, where we barely made it out of plants,
and we made semi-finals of worlds.
So just kind of letting them know
that it's par for the course, apparently,
for any teams to lose to other minor regions.
And now we get more matches on stage
and kind of get over those world nerves.
Is there one thing that you want
or need to be better to make it to Swiss stage?
Yeah, I think the one thing that has been really consistent
is like after we get Barrens, a lot of times we're just getting like destroyed.
So I think just being consistent with our Barrens, not letting them TP flank behind us
and like just close out cleanly if we get a Baron.
Thanks so much. I'll let you get back to the game. Good luck and the rest of the play is now.
And welcome back here to the couch.
There we are. A lot of cool flushes. A reassuring face here on the side of Hundred Thieves.
I do want to know what happened in those DMs though.
Good start. I got a little carried away. I got a little carried away and all I did and just
just tripped down memory lane, especially for sniper who probably didn't even watch a lot of these games because he was like 13.
When Golden Globes was a sub in that 2018 Cloud 19, they actually lost two games in the qualification best of five against Gambit,
and that team went all the way to the semifinals, even though they had this elimination game five.
Next year Clutch lost to UOL from Russia, and Mammoth from Ose, but then they three owed their way to group stage.
2020 Team Liquid lost to INTZ, big draft difference, big mistake,
But then took games off G2 and Suning, who both ended up making semis that year.
2021, C9 lost to DFM twice and made quarter-finals, not just groups.
And then in 2022, ED lost a game to DFM before they three-odd.
This is what people do remember, Mad Lions, to make it to the group stage.
So that was just the overall point of, in the last five play-ins,
NA has had an embarrassing, lost-to-a-minor region moment, literally every time,
and the majority of people completely forgot.
for God. So I was hoping that that can just move the team into more of a freeing attitude
in playing the next games knowing that it wasn't a disaster that they lost to Rainbow
7 and they can make it up.
I think that's such a nice reminder because I mean it's not only just for players but
so often it's so easy to get in your own head over all the small issues, right? So
I think the fact that you have that reminder and knowing that it's okay stumbling on
the road at least on your path to success I think that's really beautiful.
Another thing I really liked in Golden Glooze interview here was actually more gameplay
related. The fact that he was talking about those Barons because I actually
genuinely thought we saw that immediately in game one. That Baron power play
was 7k gold. Like he wanted to have more clean Barons to move on to Swiss
Mainstage. That's what he got right here. They completely took over the map. Not
so much fighting around it. Just pure pressure. Great macro game play from
100 thieves that we didn't see too much in the end of series with our 7. They
looked more calm and collected and you know how some players thrive more
under pressure I feel. I'm just wondering who reacted like this today, but I'm happy for
Quidd mostly and the way he bounced back because not a lot of people know him, not a lot of
viewers know him, but after the first series he played that was kind of shaky. He looked
so much more confident today.
Absolutely, and this guy won MVP in LCS Spring of this year, so he is capable of some
very high highs. To me, his day one performance looked like he had been playing almost
too much solo queue. He'd been used to being 2000 gold ahead and kept flying in regardless.
This game, he was much more measured in how he got his advantage so that once he had it
he could turn it off. Yeah, honestly I agree and I think it's not just the fact that he
had hands. It was the fact that his pressure in mid lane was so good at just making sure
the Akali never had pressure. We saw what Mabel could do with the Akali in the Yone
matchup. That's not what we saw here at all. And I also think his utilization
of the side lane pressure was so good because he was so good at fainting into
fog. They had to respect that he might be in mid lane. He was taking away jungle
So he made a mid lane difference, a jungle difference, and they just gave so much pressure, but honestly, everyone really set up here in 100 teaps, Tomos well on the Kaiser, fantastic work.
Micro aspect, macro aspect, team play as well. Everything was super clean. I mean, the 100 teaps really showed us the split second decision making, especially in one specific moment that we're going to review here in our HyperX Reflex replay.
But overall, everything was super clean from them.
from them. I mean GBU pointed out that they saw the Wukong recall and immediately started the Baron.
That was the reflex replay that we are really highlighting here and then they finish it and
are still willing to turn the fight. So you heard the comms when we came into the segment as well.
They're saying it's a good fight, it's a good fight. They let the Yone teleport back to base,
they let him return to the fight and they were just calm, collected. It is going to be close.
These are world-class teams they're playing against but they need to execute in these
moments. Oh yeah and you even heard their comms in our intro rollout just now. They were
They're just saying, all right, I'm looking at Aurora.
I'm flashing on Aurora.
It's a good fight, but Wukong, Wukong Nald.
And you know, they're just kind of so calm with it
in a fight that can look so chaotic.
So it's great decision making.
It kind of shows that the nerfs have washed a bit away.
And this is exactly what you want a major region
versus minor region to look like,
depending on a gold graph.
Now, based on the stats,
70% of their games against minor regions, North America.
So they're right on track-ish if they win a few more.
Before it's us, are you confident
for game two, though?
Because we saw what happened, game one for them last time they played and we saw what happened.
Ah, I mean I'm as confident as I'm gonna be.
Like I think part of this point of they've never made it out of play-in is also to show that it's been close a lot of times.
So it absolutely, they absolutely could make history if they lose too many games, but I am actually confident they win this game.
Yeah, but if we're gonna bring in another Jad's stat, it's the fact that right now they have 50% win rate, so make sure you miss just the coin flip.
I like these odds. Can go either way.
Kester, tell us what you think about what's coming in game two. Over to you guys.
Yeah, it's a coinflip.
No, okay.
Right.
That's a coin.
Okay.
I love that we're like, oh yeah, no, actual stats, and then GB stats are 50-50.
Perfect.
Yeah, I think it also, it doesn't do justice to how clean of a game that was from a hundred
things.
Like if you just play at the exact same thing, you'd get to take this one home.
But you're not going to get to play at the exact same thing because as we get
into our champ select, you can immediately see Yone off the board, Aurora taking
this way as well.
Yeah.
Not going to have any of that same opportunity.
Yeah, that Aurora ban about as good as a slice of pizza right now, I think,
because we get that taken away with the Yo-Nate 2, also quid performed on the Skana gone.
Sejuani B1 is a new direction.
Yeah, I thought we'd just go back towards the Renekton to kind of guess,
or like a takeaway from Sniper, because I feel like you just got Renekton now.
Yeah.
And then does River want to go back towards something like Jarvan or something along
these lines but you can even get AD carry priority with the Ash still open as well so you've got a ton of options here.
Let's just wait and see okay he's going through his champ pool I'm waiting you're not going to blind
anything but the Renekton let's be completely real. Renekton Ash is not a terrible idea.
You know what I've noticed I mean we've had Syndra open for a few games as well sometimes
a bypassing and things like the Orianna things are being bypassed as well. I wonder with these comp
setups if we start getting more of those mid lane mages here it just depends how confident they are
picking it up blind. Yeah I feel like when you have this H1 a lot of teams will opt in back
to the Akali and these kind of things where you want to get the double melee to be able to proc her
stuff but and also just because I think Ash is so incredibly strong we're going to see that taken but
Renekton doesn't really like Syndra because she ends up being such a pain in the ass for him so
I'm wondering if you actually get the the shift over into take the Syndra and then go for like
Ignar or something on top lane for Evie but it does also still mean you're not getting that
melee anywhere then in the first because I'm taking alpha yeah I know what you mean
Nah, for Evie. By the way, side note, this pick ban music slaps.
This is like the best pick ban music I've ever seen as we get the Jin Syndra.
So we do get range.
Glad I asked the question at the very least.
I didn't expect the direction to come through, but they're going to try and put Dacia on
something that maybe sinks up with Jungle a little bit, or maybe add a little bit of range
and pick potential here to the Hawks draft.
Yeah, so I'm assuming you're going to run this out then with mid lane.
Is this so... I don't really know what you want to try and go for,
because the Blanc doesn't do too well into the Syndra either.
So it is just going to be the Orianna so nothing too crazy
So now I feel like when you're Hawks you have to try and ban away the Nocturne
Because you don't want to do the the Nocturne Orianna combo. Very very potent. And we still have many options as a
setup tool here for
For rivers like even with the Jarvan as well
A-lin can still go to so I think it's a Nocturne Jarvan ban coming through on towards the Hawks game inside
And then you can try and render this composition with the Diego for River if you really want to try and just play for that protection
with the Viego and then get your rail or the owner then pray along the opposite side.
Snowball skirmish doesn't really take over.
I like the idea of the Viego as an afterthought here.
If a river, as you said, Jarvan's going to go first.
Great on that at least in some of the Highlight moments, 100 Thieves, Rainbow 7.
Now, you already came through and mentioned some of the other setup junglers here as well
as we start that anyway. Top lane is including the Jax against Sniper.
Yeah, so like if we want to go full, you know, well it's a cold strip,
go like it should be the Nocturne here, you get the Meal Band coming through on here, you
then end up taking the, you can go for like the VA go into this position, actually the
Hergoth, I'm kind of surprised that, and then you can round out with whatever support counter
matchup you want on the bottom side, but then the curiosity is what do you want to try
and go for, because I think Nair could be really good in the top lane if that G wants
to try and work out for Heavy, but I don't think you want to go for that because
you don't have the Meal I think, right?
So I think you have to go towards something like a Cassante, and then you end up
bit of fine spots anyway as um heavy but yeah they don't they don't actually band
enough so there's an option so yeah I'm surprised they didn't end up out of the
nocturne I really thought that would be the play but uh you just great target
selection there like Syndra very vulnerable to this gin vulnerable to
this and at least Syndra can build a stopwatch well not stopwatch anymore
but Tika's armguards. The rest of your come kind of struggles with this.
You just slap and engage support which there are plenty available and you
at the roundabout. Now, Decker, I love your drawing. I don't think we saw it on broadcast,
but no, I don't really like the business. Yo, if this is the last game, PSHG, they're
going out with a bang. Wrexside locked in. Sejuani's already there. Now, this could be
like the broken blade angle where Evie takes a top, or we get a Sejuani top. Both have
happened in recent history of this year. I think it'll be the Wrexside top, because
I'm pretty sure even when I look back at it, I'm going to double check here. But
Evie did play us in that top lane, even though it was quote-unquote like nerfed.
I think he still ended up playing us. Yeah, he had like six games of us in the PCS and LJL respective rebows
I think that's where it is. Yeah, gonna move into the top side
You get the Alistar so you still got that engage the follow-up coming through from the Rek'Sai
It's not as strong as it used to be because that nerf was to the healing so you don't get as much control
So it's still I think Rek are renekt and somewhat favored, but um
Yeah, I really like what a hundred teams brought to the table here
You've got ease of engage with the shockwave and the nocturne combo
You got great follow-up and with the pick potential from an ash and easy set up then for the renekton to get in and the Braum
Even to try and stop a lot of that follow-up back from them through on the initial engage coming through from this star forest on the
Opposite again, so for me this seems like an easy game for 100 thieves
I think it's more on Hawks trying to disrupt things and you do a push you do have opportunities to find that
But we haven't really seen Hawks, you know throw a wrench into the work
Or try and do something extreme which I feel like they need to do with a composition like this
Well, I think if you've got a comp like this, that's the start of the wrench, but at least we want to see that, you know, if 100 Thieves get it thrown out of them, can they dodge it?
Yeah.
Okay?
And now I'm just going in dodgeball references.
Yeah, you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think right now they're in dire straits and I like to drive that attention, I like the fact that they're throwing something in there.
But is it going to be enough here?
100 Thieves came to play today, they fixed a lot of their issues we saw against Rainbow 7.
One game away from 100 Thieves.
Meeting with PSG.
Nice grasp. PSG waiting and thinking well. We beat PNG. We almost beat MDK.
Hundred Thieves, if they can win this, they've got a hard match up ahead of them
but at least we know a hundred Thieves have used some of the feedback, used some
of the development over the past couple days, the time of development I should
say, and worked out their game. But I want to see Hawks bring this into
I want to see Hawks give us something as well lost to zero to the game. Will this be their final ride?
Oh River already gonna find forest. It's a damage down. It won't really matter in the grand scheme of things
But I forgot last game River was better than forest true. I forgot you know and
She's as Pokemon expects us to be yes exactly right. No, it's not. No, it's not
Why did I agree with that?
It is the first debut of SHG at an international, on the other side, 100 Thieves remember being here before.
The 100 Thieves roster, you know, back in 2018, bro, that was some time ago, that was like six years ago.
But for Hawks, it's, you know, the LGL was dominated by Detonation Focus Me for innumerable times throughout the years in the split spots.
They kind of got their opportunity to beat them out, then move into the PCS and come in as the second seed.
So definitely their opportunity to shine, rise for 100 Thieves, never expected to be here.
A lot of people were like, oh, well, this is a team that has a terrible win-race.
They really stepped up on Tomo, came in, giving up control on both sides,
but even going up against Cloud9, a lot of people were like, no, this just isn't their time.
99% like analysts pick right.
I remember, you know, watching LCS, looking at fan picks as well.
No one really predicted and for 100 thieves they went against the doubters
they won you know big risk to bring in a new 80 carry as well that laid into the
year but again it worked out well as I thought we're gonna see a bit of an
invade but it's normal standard lands and Tomo and Aila just gonna get the
push here as you'd expect and Jin versus Alasar Alasar level one does
absolutely nothing so he just stands back and Vista takes off his HP yeah he
He looks really cool.
He looks cool.
That is true.
He does look very cool.
This top lane matchup is interesting.
Renekton, as you expect, is going to do fine at the level one.
But I think level three is going to be...
I'm going to see what the Rek'Sai can get us all in.
And Rek'Sai has a lot of sustain as well.
So both top laners are probably just going to heal up a lot.
Yeah, I mean that's kind of it.
It is a little bit of an explosive matchup with who can get control early.
He tends to take over, but I'm pretty sure the reason he saw Rek'Sai fall out of favor
was because he couldn't match up to a lot of these matchups anymore.
Yeah.
of how much her sustain got his in that top lane. So that's where we're seeing
Sniper at least having a good time at the moment. River, also using this as a
potential chance to invade. They'll be on a ward though, so they see that River's here
and Forrest calling for a bit of assistance, but you can see Dacia won't be able to do
anything. You're right from who indeed. Quinn's so close to solo killing. Dacia
flashes away because Quinn was about to kick his butt. Snipe goes down.
Dacia, I'm not sure about River. He gets the play at the very least, but
Boris is tanky enough Sniper moves down as well and a hundred thieves big big win through mid and jungle
Yeah, nice start for them the fact you get that steal they did back off because they weren't certain on where dasher was going to try and TP
To try and make some sort of play but we'll end up just back in house and nice early lead for them at the LCS boys
It's good trade from here and every in the top side especially with the early game
You want to see that every actually get something back here
but with the steal of the blue buff moving to his own jungle here look at how much River has left to clear as well and
Dash it now no summoners. I'm wondering how they expose this line
But I think like every coming back onto this roster was such a big talking point because it's him leaving
Dedimation focus me leaving hurry and trying to take over for this one the LJL and coming for PCS
But unfortunately when it gets to the world stage
He hasn't had that same impact that I would say we've come to expect from him because look we had a bit of a rough time in
the LEC, but he was always someone that you had to keep your eyes on when it came to international
competition, but just hasn't been able to get as much control over Sniper. And guess he's
got a small CS lead at the moment, but that's because the wave is meant to crash. The river
is behind Dasher.
Yeah, and again, with no summon as I mentioned before, River flashes in, looks to the
fear and he'll find it. Good scatter of the week. It actually saved from the fear,
so Dasher gets out of harm's way.
But look at where the wave is. Quinn just gets to hold on to this now and Dasher
doesn't unlock Flash. I mean another Flash from Tomo as well. And set packing
is ailer right the jungle hands he flashes out but he won't be getting out
permafrost first blood to marble great timing from forest nicely done and
this does well very happy to take a land that one the flash away kind of a bit I
think over extension because you don't want to burn the heal either which at
least ailer held on to something back for Hawks on the bottom side I mean
double summoners that's a lot here flash from ash flash from braum it's a
big win especially with how mid and jungle was going after we just
experienced that invade. So a nice little start here for Marvel on this
chin and as the same before that you know in that last series it really felt
like against GAM even though things were going wrong elsewhere the 2v2 was
getting solo kills they're getting kills in lane they were impactful yeah you
just see more explosive trading like this but healing up at the same time. So
at least getting something for Marvel here feels like a reliable meme that I
look forward to if SHG can do this into a lead. Yeah and we have
Hawks trying to use the fact that they just got the kills on bot side to rotate
Marba now up to the top end. They should get us, like you can already
again this was kind of what we saw up in 100 teams in the last one, give first
rotation, take second rotation of Grubbs and you're still in a perfectly fine spot.
The only thing I think you'll need to do is where we're already watching A-Lin mid,
is rotate A-Li up here just to make sure there's no funny business going on
we'd like a potential dive on to Sniper, or at least be in a position to cover
because River just wants to farm out his camps quickly,
he's possibly hit six.
So, Forest, are they in position?
So, May have just got an opportunity
to keep a hundred teams out of here.
But yeah, once they know that Alistair's in the mid lane,
I don't think they can really over force this play.
Yeah. The one thing I'll say, Dactor,
is I've just seen Sniper hit level six.
I've also seen mid hit level six.
Ash is moving up.
Tomo, not with his arrow,
but a hundred peeps will feel confident here
because they've got the levels first,
and they're in position first as well.
Marble and Vist to get the push up top side,
but Tomo as he moves into position, 100thies will take two of the grubs here away from
SHG.
Yeah and it will just be the push on bottom side so Tomo and Ela are going to move to
match the top lane push of the dual lane from Hawks and you'll have the TP from Sniper
that bot lane and imagine trying to keep turret plates but quicker reset now coming in from
Marble and Vista they immediately want to move down onto this bottom lane so I don't
think it will be a turret place take for Evie just more of a opening of the map
to make sure that Marble can get down there.
Quit movement is really clean this game on Orianna. So I think she can dodge away from Orbs and scatter the week
It's small movement. I remember rookie talking about it many many years ago
Dagdur and ain't talks about like those mouse clicks have to be on point
That's to be really close to each other. So you can just a lot of words that just say dodge the balls
I mean it wasn't translated into view so
Yeah, I guess he could have saved it by saying just dog, you know just for her just dog true
to help the LNLs again, should just be better.
I mean, Quinn is having a good time at lane,
and it can be quite annoying.
Bursting up as Evie goes a little bit too early.
Yes, three turret shots, okay.
He will be able to jump up and heal that,
but look at the very least,
as he runs out and he picks up the turret,
like, that gold does go over to this top,
like, right side now, 300 in the lead.
Still, Dragon open available,
if he seems to want to try and put focus in that.
You can kind of look at where Hawks
are positioned on the map.
they'd like to make that opportunity happen,
but Six just took over for River Quid,
has to opt in towards the early Merc Threads,
which makes him a little bit less of a threat.
And this is kind of something we talked about
on the desk yesterday, is that Orianna,
while very strong in the option to take over lane,
she does need time to scale,
and especially with the Merc Threads stops off,
which is necessary in this matchup.
And it means that you're delaying a lot
of those damage items,
or even like lost chapters and stuff like this.
So I think Hunter Thieves kind of aware of that,
avoiding these moments to fight,
They're just not quite strong enough and we look to play them up instead and if you look at where
Noxurn is the moment
I think you just play for this in babes trying to keep pressure on towards the topside and also maybe even look for a dive against rexite
Well dragon also pops up so they know evy also the good thing is tremor sense sees
Everyone here. He's gonna have to get out over the wall. He's saving that tunnel system
Just for another day for the music is great
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun num num num
Rivers going to turn around though
Wait the out row might be in detriment
Evie jumped into this in the Paranoid
and he's having no clue
He runs out but flashed on again
Evie went in to die
Rough the seas
SHC now committing into this jungle
But one by one they go marching in to death
That rex I was way less frightened than joss
Ha ha, yeah
That was not his
Tries to go in, Hunter Thieves happily catch and make sure that they're in a fine spot now
There's no one to defend this top lane turret either, so it would be Turr plates on top of this for Tomo
Nice job by Hunter Thieves cross-mopping well playing on the macro game
It's how they beat Hawks in game number one and it looks like they want to try and play for that again in game number two here
I mean again, it's
It's just all these plays that keep throwing they keep throwing things of the wall to see if it sticks tagged up
And like game one so far for a hundred thieves they stand sturdy
They hold strong and they go, no, that's not going to work.
And so now you see that we've got to kill on River.
His first paranoia was at melee range,
but we call that a success considering how a cut-off essay sheet from knowing what's coming next.
Yeah, the resets are now coming through for the second Void Grubbs.
Already, Tomo and Aila are moving up towards the topside.
We want to try and contest in the wave stage.
River moving to this bottomside so then he can clear up into this top half.
I think I'd like to see 100 teams try and hard commit off of mid-push,
mid-push, which I think is why we're seeing a little move over here so they can have shoved,
get vision control in river, and look for a pick before the fight starts because again,
Quinn not very strong when it comes to damage, but river is.
Okay, might get ganked here though, flashes away, heavy with a good unborrow in the making.
However, doesn't pull the trigger. Dash up. He now has a flashless Orianna in his face,
while Sniper just hits side lane. The Molash plus Grubbs is an easy two-blade take.
That's an easy nerdy 30 CS lead as well, and this is absolutely insane coming through.
The fact that like you just haven't been, they keep trying to cheat Ebi into positions where maybe
they can throw this early game a bit of a ride, but they're just not finding that success and
now that Ebi has moved his way back to bot side and has no TP, Sniper finished BlackTaver,
he can maybe move up towards this mid lane, but 100 Thieves again, just taking a slow,
not wanting to over-commit. Haktik is always used on River, that'll have a short cooldown,
but Marble now defending topside as Grubbs are back up and available, but a hundred things are starting this off and
Five seconds to River has that ulti. And that's what they're playing for here
The vision is there to try and make a pick up and a la playing for this choke point where you can get a good ultimate off
Marble setting up in the back line with his ultimate available as well
And there's some poke coming through with some pre seekers here in there
But Sniper has now shown up paranoia in the submarine again works to success
Unleashed Power did nothing by the way from Dacia and even though he gets a good
scout of the week, Forest is left alone. Sniper Flesh is feeling it, but now he's under turret.
Is it too far from man? Has he gone beyond his limit? Sniper, yes, is the answer.
There he gets a knock up, round about a hundred thieves, maybe a bit too deep as a double kill,
goes over to Dacia. But a hundred thieves in the end will still find themselves five grubs.
despite Sniper wanting more blood.
Definitely didn't need to give over the last few kills, but still, they're happy out.
They got what they came for those groves and I was a little nervous when I saw them
100 thieves giving that much space to Hawks because realistically I thought that they
would have tried to take the fight in this sort of area, but they ended up pushing backwards.
But then the follow-up is just so nice with the Oriinals.
As Hawks fall back into the choke once more, that's then where they take the fight.
Aayla ends up getting the knock-up to create that slowing zone as well,
Which means that you're not really able to escape but sniper this was risky the angle of attack that he tries to come in with here
Cuz every zone of my one way he dashes trying to get up to that sure
But I think at this stage you're happy kind of quits
But it does mean that then a little he comes ready to try and protect them as well ends up just falling with him
Too couldn't get that shield up
There's still a small for Gordon you can tell it's a
But it could have gone a little bit even spooks on the side is like
That one cheap
But I'll tell you what the senior faces is gold it wasn't the R7 series it is once again
But still overall a 2k gold lead five grubs in their back pocket the 2k gold lead that again is mainly on the jungle by the way
River is got strike break up and and versus first item from foresty the gold difference. Obviously, it's a much cheaper item
So I mean I'm saying this is a win so far for the for the nocturne who once again almost has ulti back up in 10 seconds time
Black Flavor now completed for Sniper, means he can actually get through it fairly quickly as well.
Like Conqueror, Black Flavor's procs.
And the Slim level advantage as well, working in the favor.
100 Thieves now going on towards Botside.
River who can always join into this.
And this is what makes this Nocturne so frustrating to play against.
Because Forest has to be in the lane to actually deal with any sort of play.
Whereas River can farm his blue buff and still always be threatening both mid and bot at any period in time.
A bunch of thieves just playing after our fact, making it very easy to go aggressive on towards any sort of lane.
It's Death's Thor for SHG.
Game's not over, but against match point here, as Quinn doesn't cancel the backing game close.
But second dragon's going to go over 100 thieves in the end anyway.
So, a lot of pressure coming through from that mid lane again.
Quinn has improved a lot. I think we need to quickly just take some highlights and talk about Quinn's last end of series.
The 0-8 Vex that didn't work out, that got bullied, that got caught out.
Quid received a lot of backlash online, and I think from community as a whole, NA fans especially.
But this series has been his road to redemption. First to Yone, a clean game.
This Orianna has been really clean with individual movement and how he's played these set up for fights.
And it is nice to see how he's kind of come back and really bounce back on his feet for such an impactful series.
I 100% agree. I think the opportunity for 100 teams as a whole to show what they're capable of
could actually work out very well here. Just rewriting some of the narratives that have been
spun around them could work out. But you still have to try and finish this one through.
And at the moment, 100 teams not overextending, not giving that moment.
But this could be it for us. We'll try to start it.
It's all right. Heila's gonna get locked down. There's a deadly flash.
Bumped down on the way of the curtain called over.
Halos absorbing the pressure, Zin again, River goes over the wall, in fact he's found a little pick on the back end, quick contributes, finds a kill as Evie has to get out of there.
They're trying to reposition but Forrest again in the frontline, he can't run!
A hundred thieves are picking them apart, and as they say, she's calm, just ain't working together.
Now they needed something that could just rub this in me.
Maybe a tunnel?
Is he torn out?
He's got no flash of LV, Paris, he needs his team, but he's just gonna die in the end.
At least he re-engages there, just disengages himself, but heavy through the tunnels as them buy some more time.
Quid brings in the ball, no shield, flash auto, gets a kill, and redemption indeed he finds.
Quid taking a couple of pounds off of this Raxi as he walks away, but still, honestly,
worse for 100 thieves, they don't get Rift Herald, which they really would have liked to try and
crack up in these turrets, so even though Hawks lose a couple of members, Tomo's
mispositioning there actually really coming out on the deficit like the
engage of the ALA is never gonna work out this guy he's got the shield he's
incredibly tanky and it just buys time then for a hundred thieves to engage the
arrow zoning the gin away the follow-up from Sniper is incredibly strong
we just been explained this joke once more this has been such a downpour onto
Hawks every time they try and step into this position but Tomo not
respecting the engagement maybe no flash available doesn't retreat towards
a tower and it's just the fountains house but lack of heralds pretty important
now I imagine you can just go back to it as a hundred thieves plus still would
have liked to pick that one up immediately just to keep this game
rolling in the favor it's not looking good the LGL first seed for the PCS
second seed and their last hurrah as a region their last stand again they're
getting jumped on left right and center this nocturne just cleaning apart
but Forrest is always here to try and help us.
As he flashes away, he's matched by Sniper.
Forrest better than Riva, I said game one
and I take that back in centerfold.
Riva clears.
Let's time our points on another one
and let me just tell you,
there's puddles everywhere for the Forrest
to get him cut down.
Oh, Shockwave has to be flashed away from Marbles
before he just lost.
His river has been the standout player
for 100 teams all of world so far.
The Viego was sick. He tried to hold on in their first series, but now as the team rallies into this second series at the play-in stage,
100 thieves are looking absolutely fantastic.
How much better they look when Quidd's also functioning with the roster as well? I know I've already talked about him, but when the solo laners are able to step up for 100 thieves,
it looks like a completely different ball game. Having that reliability there, River can play his game and 2-0 and ain't almost 100% Gilbert's dissipation.
The Thieves are getting away with it, but they didn't have to steal anything from this game.
They just took it nice and slowly. They bought the products.
They walked in, Dagger, and now you can see that their shopping basket's got about a 5-6k gold lead at 17-18 minutes of the game.
And with Dragon in 50 seconds, the Revtile in tow, like, they're bringing personal assistance.
They can start to put pressure on towards Tier 2s, which is not great yet.
They need everything. They need just an SUV. They need a big old car to take everything home.
And who's going to carry out the grocery bags in the end?
That is true.
We've got so many questions we need to ask. Where they got too much money?
Oh, I'm hungry.
What's with that?
I think you have supermarkets. I get hungry. Bro, watching 100 things like this,
you do get hungry. So, I might be caught out. So, it's not all good and bad here,
but blocked. Aila blocks it. Doreen and Shokwai maybe a little bit early,
but the damage is still done because River flies.
Vista now left the loan again and this is just the story of this game.
The utter domination of 100 thieves here in this series.
They pick apart the pieces, they catch SHC off guard and
Sniper brings up the emote and it is well worth it here in this game.
That feels completely unloosable for 100 thieves at this point.
The river might be turning off the lights and hawks
at Worlds 2024, but he is certainly guiding 100 thieves into the light. His performance with the
nocturne has been absolutely great. The pick on Marble, he's going to fall, cannot get away from the
slows. Hela tanking the turrets, everything is going the way of 100 thieves. Every single thing,
a 10k gold lead now before Baron even spawns. This is the 100 thieves we came to see.
There is a teleport trying to catch them out of the quick, has no matter available.
This is going to Bob River back on in, but there's a lot of damage to be done.
Hela's helping out, and no help as well.
Evie gets a good knockup, there is a shutdown.
Hela blocks the rest of the damage, jumps in to try and recuperate,
but Evie comes out with a void rush in the end, flashes over the wall.
As far as Sangler is going, he can win play.
And Sniper, he doesn't have his ulti up yet.
Two picks so far, at the trade of two.
Marble's already dead as he turned around, a paranoia inside.
And just when you think, S8G has some breathing room,
It's taken away again. Sniper chasing down at 100 bbs.
It doesn't matter what SHC find at this point.
There's just a wallet there.
Yeah, but Sniper still needs to be careful.
Once we look for the slice and dice over the wall,
we'll be able to do so.
Slow is coming through river.
The shield spotters. He'll be picked.
Okay.
We pause. We wait.
We don't pause. No pause.
Come on, go.
Quick.
Dragon's up and even though a jungler's dead, I mean,
Envy's not alive for five seconds that game,
and they're still so strong to take it by themselves
or just get pushed and wait to jungle themselves.
Yeah, I think you just look for the bush.
Don't give the opportunity for a steal,
but is a steal even a real difference maker in this game?
I don't really think so.
Mid-Tarra gonna fall as quick.
We'll have the health part to do so.
And now it's the case of starting to walk it on through.
I just don't know how Hawks are supposed to come back into me.
You can see they're throwing everything in the kitchen sink,
sink but look at the items. Nice flash burn there but look at the items. You have no IE
inside for Marble. Eddie is picking whatever the hell he can to try and survive in these
fights and the only one is even a Threadest Asher but he can maybe shut down someone if
he can get past Eila. But getting past Eila is so difficult when he's on the brunt.
They're trying so hard to bring it back and Dagda's trying to draw a little bit
I mean, if you're up, isn't it?
In our first ever Wrexite Top at Worlds,
it looks like it's going to end in a loss.
Yes, the game's not over, but watch this in play!
I'm about to go underwater 50 feet deep,
and in that submarine, there is Havoc.
River helps the Vista find the Nexus,
or at least the fountain, two kills,
and Baron is an easy take.
The Hawks are having their wings clipped,
100 thieves moving over towards the Baron.
There is little that they can do,
Ebi trying desperately here.
But as he walks in, a Brom shield in the way,
Ebi crawls out.
A sniper threatens on the edge as well.
Baron's still being done, a curtain call as well.
There's no damage, but Sniper runs into the whole team,
but he ain't dead, and he's a renekton.
The 17-year-old prodigy is feeling it,
and he deserves it.
After the way he's played this series,
Dasher TP's in just to watch the world burn.
Sniper gets stunned,
but I think he's just locked up,
Hawks in place, Baron taken, Nocturne recess.
You just move back into the map.
Sure you can take Dragon, but I think 100 teams
know the right things on the wall.
Dragon's up for them.
It's the base in sights.
Another Red Bull Baron power player
I think is gonna fly off the charts.
Dagda, what do you say about this series?
What do you say about this game?
100 teams are back.
100 teams are back.
Like, no doubt, and when it was chaotic
between them and Rainbow seven,
this feels like a completely different team.
It's incredible.
This is the performance they needed to put up if they want to try and take that PSG talent.
The coordination on these engages has been perfect, one went a bit astray,
but apart from that they've consistently found the key targets that they need to.
We literally said Zinders the only one of the two items is going to be a threat.
They take her down immediately, and then even here, Sniper known that it's got Aela in his back pocket,
you can get these stuns off so quickly in these fights, the second Aela lands anything.
And here even the Blastcon clutch over a CC trade setting up that for quid he gets the
the move speed thanks to the command dissonance and they just have chased him down so easily.
Sniper just playing with his food right now for one and eight so you can you can say
anything about anyone on this team in this series someone stepped up for one point
or another even Aloos had a bit of criticism the guy used to cast in the Oceanic
Challenger series, Bro is popping off too.
But Evie, you're watching in mid against Sniper.
Dominus, you're Evie running for the hills.
And with Baron, mid is also going to crush.
Bot is not inside.
Excuse me, top lane is coming into.
Yes, Rek'Sai, now he's coming in.
Sorry, that was just reaction live on Cam.
I mean, it's hard break, isn't it?
The Japanese representatives, it felt like they could find something in this world.
But with a double down, with Evie soon to follow,
With 100 Ds walking into the base freely, it is a last offense after last offense after last offense.
A curtain call that does no damage, a TP to end it all.
Hawks need something, they go in, they want it, but is it enough?
And there's a knockup, there's many of knockups, but Vistek gets soon taken care of.
100 Ds are back, and our second eliminated team at Worlds is the LGL first seed, the PCS second seed.
Expectations beat down, you had questions about 100 days coming into this one.
They returned to form as they walk away from the time being.
At least SHG might be able to defend a little bit more under river heavy jumps,
but river's now out of sight.
Coltie burns, river hitting the back.
It's a slow burn down there and I think they're just grasping at straws again.
Stay overcreek coming in, this should be it.
The shock wave should help out.
That's a storm surge, but they're starting to slowly get picked up.
Maple, I'm sorry Maple, Marble should be the next to fall.
And there's Vista who's only left.
It's a scruff in the end, isn't it?
But Quitty with the full amount of other minions are going to do the work.
That's an LCS throwback about scene one.
And 100 thieves, 2-0.
SHG will leave their mark on Worlds finally.
And move to a date with PSG for the last spot at Swiss.
These are the most loose-lived thieves that I've ever seen.
An incredible statement coming through from the sand.
They are not pushed out.
They are here to play still at the world stage and they are looking at PSG talent as the next step in the mark to get to the main stage.
It was well deserved. Everyone pulling their way, it feels like a completely different series.
Yeah, I'm not sure FHG he realized what just happened, now clasping in every role and you
know they put on a valiant effort I think there were times in the game series where we
saw the highlights, the star power but not enough but a hundred teams have switched
on on a day.
It kind of shows you why they are on the third team, why they can be clubbed on, why they
are here.
Games like that represent the region well.
And you can see from the smiles on their faces how much that one meant to them.
That was a performance and a half.
And now they have a chance tomorrow to go up against PSG Tallinn and right some wrongs
I'm rickin' about them at this world stage, but I'm scared now, if I am PSG Tallinn.
This was slow, this was steady, but it's the Hawks, unfortunately, have to deal with
the wrath of a hundred teams as they take their last battle here.
It was an honorable performance, but unfortunately just couldn't quite find what they needed
against the LCS.
The Hawks will join VKE.
two eliminated teams for today.
And as I said, last spot at Swiss,
or rather one of the two last spots at Swiss
to correct myself.
Will these be able to get a line?
I think that's a new question.
Will they be able to replicate this performance
to tomorrow day after?
No, tomorrow, excuse me.
Yeah, sorry.
My internal clock is completely off.
A jet lag from 30 minutes away.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, I think that's the big question, right?
I think 100 teams, this was for me,
what I needed to see from them.
Like everyone stepped up,
everyone had a fantastic performance.
And I think the fact that you're able to play around River
so consistently is gonna be a major factor
because I think that shift is gonna come through
to the VA goes, the Nocturne's,
this Orianna pick working well with us.
That's where you start to see the success.
And then Cypher, another great performance.
This Renekton worked out beautifully for us.
That was a great sniper moment.
I think even the other day against R7,
we saw some great sniper performances.
The biggest thing I'll touch on
is that River as well, as you said,
the lanes are performing with a confunction outside the realms of supportive or facilitator.
You know, the Nocturne today was great, but like, what else would we have pulled up when
he's performing like that, when his team is performing like that? And he's got more of a foundation.
Yeah, 100%. And I think that's where we're only going to see 100 thieves grow from. And I think
that is the beauty of worlds, right? You get to see these teams who can come through with
playthrough of different styles and make a work. But we're going to toss it over to Jason,
who's standing by with them on himself, Sniper, in a Verizon Post Game interview.
I have cyber on standby. Congratulations on 2-0.
Thank you so much. Appreciate that.
I think it was a perfect bounce back on such an important day.
First off, how is that match? What's going through your mind right now?
To be honest, I would say it was going to be another match,
but we did lose yesterday or two days ago, so this is a good comeback match for sure.
Congratulations on that one more time.
And you are the youngest player here at Worlds.
And being the major region team on an elimination match
in the play is, could have had a little more pressure
to your shoulders.
So how was it?
I didn't really feel too much pressure.
I feel like us as a team, like 100 Thieves,
we just play like very loose.
And we either end like we did two days ago,
or we either like pop off like we did today.
So this is, yeah, we're just a loose team, you know?
No pressure.
Glad to hear that you are feeling no pressure at all.
But in general, how are you
enjoying world so far it's been amazing to be honest like everyone around me has
just been like super grateful like all the fans watching right now too you guys
have been amazing as well and yeah just like playing against the best players as
well is a very good opportunity it's been amazing indeed I mean tomorrow it's
another big day for you it's gonna be you versus PSG talent so tell me are
Are you confident and ready for the next one?
Hey, I mean, Ozzy, bro, I'm coming for you, all right?
You're going to be on my watch, okay?
Yeah, yeah.
It's going to be a good match.
Watch out, Ozzy.
Okay.
Then before we go, so, MDK are ready, made it out of plans, and there is no way you
guys are failing to make it out of plans as well.
So, anything you want to say to all the NA believers out there?
I mean, just keep the NA Hopium in us.
I think we'll make it far for sure if we want tomorrow.
once we went tomorrow I mean and yeah it keeps avoiding us you know yeah thank
you so much sniper and I wish you the best of luck tomorrow as well thank you
it was sniper one more time everyone
thank you so much Jusson honestly in infectious in energy coming from
sniper here I love it Jibi what did you think of the series Jad what did you
think of the series we have any guess that we're gonna introduce yeah we got
He'll be there soon. Yeah out of the backs of players and then you ran over here. Yeah, you have to wait for all the good things
I appreciate him being here. I thought this was
Really one-sided series
Grayson I want to know
It got a little loose at the end, but just like compare
Not even just in game. Was there a mental difference between day one against our seven and today? Oh, totally
I feel like we we've got a couple guys like feeling a little bit under the weather
I think from all the traveling and I think everyone's energy was really high and you could kind of tell snipers like infectious
Like happiness energy, so we definitely we're back. We're back
Essentially and today was a fun game and I think in regarding to that right when when you had to
Kind of get all the boys together again, and you had to start doing prep again
What was most important for you getting the in-game aspect back on your team or actually just making sure you're comfortable and could
Get rid of the nerves that might have been on day one. That's a solid question
Honestly, it's like a bit of both because our gameplay was pretty atrocious
I mean, that's bad, yeah, but also it's connected to our energy levels and how we're feeling and it's kind of funny the interview that you're telling me
I was like I really don't want us to get TP behind when we too late with Baron and instantly we get TP behind
Baron, but I still think they played a lot more confident today
And it was good to see anything else that you felt through comms
Maybe watching them from backstage hearing them about the fact that they were more calm than this time
They were definitely having more fun. Okay, one of the times when sniper like flash on Jen. He's like, I'm a gigachat
and like killed the enemy back line.
So I think one of the big things about our team is we always,
it's kind of basic, but we always play better when we're having fun
and they definitely were enjoying it a lot more today.
Yeah, I think it's one of the things that a lot of people will forget
because all of this is so glorified as well.
But at the end of the game, at the end of the day, it's a video game
and your guys are probably not the only one who's feeling this.
Coming from EU as well, we got Caps.
Caps plays the best when he's having fun.
Get him to take it.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, and I think we see it like good vibes of win games.
Like it comes there like you can have on paper
some of the best super teams but at the end of the day if you have the good vibes
everyone knows how to work together in a system as a player and respect each
other I think that can really take you fine I think lovely to see that hundred
thieves as well.
Or you think they're having fun.
Yeah.
When it is fun.
When it is fun.
You know what's fun?
Also coming back after not having the greatest performance on your first world
showing and our local player of the series today is Quid.
In that sense what do you think about his performance overall this series
his level of comfort and how he managed to bounce back after a difficult first
series.
Bollinger what do you think?
Yeah okay well so I saw online I didn't look too much after we lost but I saw a
lot of people.
Sounds healthy.
Yeah I saw a lot of people you know flaming like the Vex pick I think
I think Quid just had like an off game that game and I think you know we were
we really wanted him to hover Vex today.
Quid was definitely locked in and I think we you know we picked Orianna
today I think it was just a lot more easy of a team comp to operate and
and you obviously saw the knockdown Orianna was like pretty deadly. I was also really surprised they gave us the
own usually teams just put it on your own versus us so like thanks for that. I was surprised they even gave you
knockdown on that second rotation like Wukong came in. I get Jarvan against River but you already have the
edge you already get there Orianna coming through with this one more come on like it's impossible to play
again so yeah really like what you guys did there just seems so easy to play and I can
understand why your players would have fun because at some point in that game it just turns
into who we hitting who we hitting who we going on right and then you just send it
I thought I thought quid played really well today obviously better than the
series before but like especially the yone game he was measured in the way he
got advantages whereas in the first day and I kind of want to run this by you
it felt to me like he was just in a solo queue game 3,000 gold ahead like in
his brain with the place he was making teamfights but he was actually on five
and just like he was just like skipping so many steps I it almost
felt to me because there was this there's been these reddits reds about how good he's been in solo queue like he's just spamming
The low-wheel-o solo queue to climb up to challenger
But you think that had anything to do with like the adjustment from winning so much so easily in solo queue and maybe some of the
Scrim opponents versus like the high pressure stage games
Yeah, it's funny they mentioned that because we definitely talked about like the solo queue impact on how we play as a team
Funnily enough, I actually think quid in scrims is one of the best at like switching mindsets from solo queue to competitive
So I can see why people would think that but I think what is usually pretty good
I think it was just like an off game or two and even like the game one on way
I think he played like pretty phenomenal. Yeah, um, I feel a lot of people forget about that game in the series
It was just a you know happens
Yeah, people will forget about the loss to r7 exactly PSG tomorrow loss
That's the spirit that's what you want to see but also you don't you're not gonna have a lot of time to prep
I guess against PSG anything you guys want to be careful about when it comes to this team
What is the understanding of PSG right now? I mean, I think their mid jungle is pretty good
I mean
I already was like kind of thinking about how we were draft against PSG
Considering if we went today because we didn't have much time obviously to prep
I'm gonna have to do more research when we get back
To the hotel after but you know, I think they're a pretty strong team. I kind of wanted to play against that Lions
I wanted to be in a
Yeah, we kind of wanted to maybe drop for content and then have that going there, but I mean, maybe we can get it later if you guys continue to win.
Yeah, we also want to have both of you in Swayze, so yeah, let's postpone this one for later and take a look at the brackets that we have here.
As you said, GoldenGlue, not a lot of time to prep. You were mentioning PSG's mid-jungle.
We were saying that we thought PSG has been disappointing so far compared to the expectations we had with this team. Would you agree?
I actually would kind of agree. I thought they looked a little bit weaker than I thought they would be I was expecting them to be like
maybe top top two top three teams in all plans and I feel like
You know like them versus Mad Lions like I'm pretty glad we're playing against them after seeing just the game purely based off gameplay
I think PSU seems a bit more beatable. And what about you guys focusing on your game yourself anything?
You come choose your players after this segment. What is gonna be the feedback about today and improvements guys?
Let's just pick Nocturne Orianna.
Take notes.
I think the main feedback is to be, let's just carry the momentum from today.
What's that fun like we did today?
And we'll obviously figure out what we think the best draft is going to be going forward,
but just have fun.
Just relax.
Just relax.
Yeah.
I thought we were about to have another topic.
You said you're raising bad blood.
We're good.
No need.
He's not telling us what he's got.
Who has the edge in River vs. Maple Mental Warfare as former teammates?
Oh man.
I don't know Maple that well, but I feel like River is pretty hard.
to get to. I don't know if you guys have seen any of the CQ games but I think River is going around
like terrorizing people with Shaco and stuff like he's good at getting inside other people's heads.
It's kind of when you guys locked that in with the hover earlier today. I was like they have a
puppy, Shaco-ku, I mean it won't affect them like it's fine surely. It's good in spring.
Shaco Orianna. You don't even see her. Oh my god.
She'd beware.
Shaco fans coming out tomorrow.
Well, god damn good luck for tomorrow. Best of luck. Hopefully we see you guys in
And hopefully you guys bring the same energy we had from you at the studio. Thank you. Thanks for having me
Congrats again on winning today chat. GV. It's been a pleasure
Always and yeah
Pleasure for you guys at home as well same time at some place tomorrow for the last day of playing
You don't want to miss it two teams are going home to our advancing in Swiss. See you then. Bye guys
No problem for me, it's good enough that he gets strong back
But now fully, just he needs to get me 3k
I'm flying time and full time, we'll stop the boss being up
He's gonna slow it down, we're gonna piss her off with his cunt
He's gonna take care of her, but now she goes in and stares
She's gonna let us fall on him, he wants to say goodbye
So he gotta get out of her eyes, he's gonna get us destroyed
And he'll start running again