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It's in my nature. I'll roll alone. I like to
Can't see a transform and try to hit me with that Louis Steve is I'm about to get
This is a myth, I can't let this empty sink
The momentum's a stop, I swear my plans don't repeat
All I need is one, it's the sun, I don't know my knees
As I plead, scream in my speech and promise one more chance
Like, who's gonna really take it from me, I get my hands up
Too many challenges stand up in front of convincing myself
But before I sit on the shelf, it's in my destiny
The best of me to reach one's dream left
I guess we bottom in the years
And stage brought to you live from the Riot Games
Today, final four teams will battle in the hope of advancing to Swiss
and making the region proud.
Whether you're watching from home or here at the Ryan Gets Arena,
I hope you're ready for an epic day of league.
The fans are ready, taking pictures with the trophy.
We have the trophy here.
Where is it?
It's Raz, Gibi, and Dagda, full house here.
Yeah, it's nice.
Raz is a pretty chill there.
I suppose you've got like easy breezy today.
Is that the plan?
Yeah!
After yesterday, like no teeth chattering.
I wasn't pressured at all.
Definitely a loss.
I'm actually speaking of yesterday.
Sorry, I have to shout out a guy.
I got back home yesterday, went into a league game.
Ashley, when you get back home from a League of Legends broadcast...
Wait, you do?
Yeah, I mean, that's what I do at least.
I went into the lobby, first thing he said...
He's the real one.
I went, yeah, man.
He went, no, you're not.
Were you on show today?
Yeah, and I'm on show today as well,
so if you're that guy out there playing with it,
watch me, GG, thanks for playing.
And I'm sorry you had to play with him anyway.
Let's focus on the process.
No, it seems we have here as well,
because guys, this is the final days of playing an epic play in stage.
If I may say, this has been so much fun.
Of course, yesterday we have to wave goodbye to two more teams
and we have four left crows, four left chisps.
Yeah, just being able to come through the play-in stage,
first, like, honestly, when I was doing some research,
I was pretty pessimistic.
I didn't think it was gonna be action-packed.
I thought there were clear divisions.
I was wrong.
The exciting game still happened.
I wasn't happy with some of the results.
Yeah, your voice stepped up to make it interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah, but I think for me specifically,
it's just the fact that our expectations
were so subverted on day one,
and I love that it was already that first day,
because it meant you have to pay attention,
not just to the major regions
that you think is gonna come in here
and just smash play in Steam.
No, to Pain Gaming, to R7,
these teams that already let you know
that they have put their name on the map
and their story's not even done,
it's still been written.
Yeah, and we also just got to see
the quintessential CBLal moment for Pain Gaming
that make the games interesting
and the reactions, as you can see for me
right behind me.
Keaton popped off just like he did
and the CBLal finals
and any other regular season game to be honest.
So it's nice being able to see that translate on stage here.
Coming in with a bang, honestly, on day one,
especially against PSG like that.
Yeah, and I think that's the big thing for me,
is seeing all that hard work pay off
for so many of these different teams,
like they've continuously made it to international events,
but you're starting to see these regions,
they rise up and be able to take on the major regions
that we see in the world.
And you see players who've been playing for a decade now,
still playing on the top level.
I have my eyes on Maple here
because he has been the man of the hour for PSG here.
Old man still has hands.
Look at this Akali, and what he made happen
for his team on Day 1.
Yeah, he gives me hope.
It's that play, wow, at some point.
But no, throughout his entire career,
at some point you'd expect a fall-off.
But no, he's still incredibly dedicated to the game,
dedicated to his craft.
Even if the team, at some point in their games,
throughout this tournament, are slumping,
or for instance, John Gia not having his best
performances, Maple steps up, they rally around him,
having performances like this, as you can see on his Akali,
it's just crazy to see at this day and age for him.
And that's exactly what I want from a veteran.
The fact that when players around him are stumbling
and aren't really able to live up to that expectation,
it's maple is going, no, I can bring out the Akali,
you can look towards me,
I can be the one to bring us across the finish line.
As you said, like this is a guy that's complained
since 2013, like he started the same year as Faker
hitting those international events
and he's still here showing up for the PCS.
And fighting for his team and for his life
the hope in making it to the sweet stage here as well alongside the first two teams we're going to
have here and in that sense Raz close your ears close your eyes, R7 on day one against 100 thieves
oh god i got in here actually oh my god that was an insane surprise to me honestly that was okay
that generally was a banger i mean it was complimented by stage nerfs for sure by 100
thieves showing up but also R7 who has the region is probably one of the least hopeful ones
most internationals that they come into people often discredit the LLA, but they also haven't had the results.
But you can see what it means to them on your screen already, not just the players, the coaching staff and all the reactions that came about that.
100 thieves getting mean, but also I love the fact that as much as people like to clown on NA when they do poorly,
I love when they rather celebrate when LLA do well and specifically R7.
Hell yes. And even just going online and seeing the reactions from the community members, from the analysts like Lord Dural and everybody,
like just seeing how they they're like wow not only are they like playing well on game one but
they're adapting and that's the thing that's the biggest surprise is that I think that uh just from
seeing them domestically and then coming onto the stage like this they have been a team that
is continuously adapted and is playing to what I kind of been the nomenclature of this tournament
which is like making their fans believe that they can do it. I love this slogan every time
we use it this makes me happy but honestly I mean I agree with everything you're saying because
because we're familiar with these orgs.
Most of these players are no strangers to the world's page
and we know how much it means for them to be here,
how much it means for them to make their fans believe,
but also make themselves believe that actually they can keep on pushing themselves
after playing for such a long time.
And when I think about the matchup we have today,
Pain Gaming, R7, there is so much underlying for these teams
and these regions individually.
Yeah.
You open your mouth and I was like, I don't want to step on you.
But yes, I mean the passion that the community has, that the team has, you see it consistently,
and it's there, and I really want to see what the fans believe, where the predictions are
coming in from.
Let's check it out here.
MasterCard fan predictions coming in right away, 44.8% of the fans think that pain
gaming is going to win today.
So the advantage is for R7, but it's quite close, but I do feel like it makes sense
given what we saw from both these teams.
No, absolutely.
I think there was such a difference in stylistic as well
I think pain gaming has definitely over the course of the tournament become a bit more objective and control focus in that early game
Where are seven what they really brought was chaos and they thrive in that they love the late games
So I think that's one of the things I'll keep my eye on today in terms of how control can pain actually keep the game and
Will our seven continue to adapt or will they thrive in the team fight setting later on?
Yeah, and that's the big one for me
It felt like to me pain gaming really stepped up in the team fights way more than I expected them to even against PSG Talon
I kind of half expected oh future Talon a better objective set up
They will look better in the team fights, but pain gaming were to hit them there and then coming into the next series as well
They looked absolutely fantastic
So if I'm more said and I think that's for my big question mark is how do I try and
Contest them on that and I look towards things like the Nocturne Orianna and these kind of things
and I love the fact that at least the votes are pretty close because it does feel like this one can just be the
toss up because both of these teams at least have shown to me moments in team
fights that they can just up like usurp your expectations. I mean pain gaming did
it in their finals and they're doing it where they're like okay the early game
is not that great sometimes but my god do they just steamroll youths through in
team fights. I wanted to talk about LLA just a little bit because the whole
kind of story for LLA as a region and for Rainbow 7 as a team is can they
go get farther than they've ever been before and get past the play-ins
the main stage. And as you
can see the LLA history, I've
picked out just a few of
those for me, the historic
points for them where Lyon
gaming in the past, of course,
then name changed to Rainbow 7.
They've been there. They've
gotten close in I WCT and
in play ins for me, the one
that I wanted to zero in on was
2016 where they had the
super team. They had seah.
They had Odie. They had like
Jeral. They had a white
Lotus. People will remember
really challenging.
Oh my God, so young.
Exactly.
Such an old lineup, you can remember.
And these are the guys that, when they went to IWCI,
they were first in groups.
And then, unfortunately, had that loss in the best of five.
Guess who they lost the two?
Elvis Knox Luna, the team that made it to top eight
at that World's Event.
So as you can see, the real emotions,
they're crying at this stage because they really felt
like they could do it with the super team that they had.
They were just that close and the emotion I feel like is a really good thing to focus in on, because you can see it from the community and you can see it from the players.
Odie, a player that has been there since the very beginning, who wants to be able to get it done, and this is like his chance to be able to make it happen.
But it's not like that emotional rollercoaster continued after that, right?
Because we look at, this was a dominant team, they have 16 championships, but losing last year to Estral, having to kind of revamp the roster.
like you're Bon, Miru who both came in, they end up stepping aside, they bring in so much,
they test out lava, doesn't quite work out, then they bring in Kani, there's been so many adaptations from this roster throughout that time
and it's great to see them now, finding that success both domestically where they win both splits and now coming into the international stage,
it looks just fantastic for the squad.
And it is the final form of this team, as you said, like the years in the making on this team, facing off against a CBLO,
which against LLA is usually performing quite well, GB9 and 1 favoring CBLO here, a historical record.
Yeah, absolutely, CBLO has always had their number pretty much and as you can see you were talking about it,
it's only that Lyon Super Ross Arras that's really been able to take that game off them with the CBLO,
and I think that just comes down to, they just have had maybe some importance in the beginning as well,
they've had some really solid play, BVB Brazil for such a long time as well, has been able to play spoiler,
I think that's really what today comes down to, because no matter what, there will probably be some history in the making and history still being written.
As you already said with LLA, they could make it to the main stage for the first time, but for CB Loll, to be that team again, to be that region again rather,
that can continue to move on to the main stage, be a spoiler, not just towards minor regions, but towards major region teams as well, and have their history.
But that's the thing, I think these stats do the LLA dirty.
The CBLAL has been here, they've been performing, they've been doing well, but it doesn't show the growth that the LLA has had.
Like when you look back, they picked up their first ever international series, went against Gammon 2023 MSI.
Now they're coming in, they're taking on the LCS, they're taking on some of these bigger targets,
and I think it just shows how once they got to this stage consistently, what they were capable of doing,
and I think that's where you cannot come into this and look at those and say,
hey, I'm going to underestimate R7, because that's exactly where your problems are going to start if you do.
Yeah, it really does for a lot of these teams, especially when it comes to play-ins,
matter how they perform in the bootcamp.
Because it's basically you're cramming it in during the final exam to see if you can kind of learn and be your best self.
And I think Rainbow 7 has been a lot more clutch these days, of course, at the...
sacrifice the 100th ease and sending them down to the morning bracket.
It's over today.
He's still lucky.
We got out of a couple of weeks back, the goal was to be as good as we speak.
But the main point that I want to show,
we showed a little bit of the kind of the shots
of both Jinkierdo and Chitan.
Those players have been together when they were on that Kaboom
roster that made it international in 2018,
and they were the star players back then,
and they're doing it again.
So if there's going to be a challenge to Rainbow 7,
it's those two guys that have been putting in beastly numbers.
Yeah, especially Chitan is really impressed me.
Like, this was the guy that they brought in alongside Curry
to step up for this roster.
When he came in in spring, they were like,
this is the change that's going
to push them to the international stage.
Now, they missed out at MSI, but here at Worlds,
they've been popping off.
And it's so sick to see how cool they've been together,
because it feels like this bot lane,
alongside Chinkeito stepping up,
has really just been a powerhouse in their teamfights
that you have to try and contend with.
I know, like, Ryze, you've been yelling from the hilltops
about that Tristani, so it's been really good it was, yeah.
So it's just been sick to see.
Yeah, but absolutely.
And while CPLol has been to Main Stage before,
it's one of those things where Chitana's never
been to Main Stage himself, right?
That is one of those big things that can finally come true.
So many players for so many years have made it to these international
their veterans and their own right, their guards of their own region.
They always managed to make it to the international stage.
And for the first time in a long time for both these teams, it's so close.
It's so doable.
It you even, I mean, we take it back to the prediction.
It's almost 50 50.
It can go either way.
One team is going to be the happiest they've ever been in a long time.
And one team is going to go back with the emotions running through.
It's going to be painful.
And the great pun.
I'm going to give it some respect.
On the point about pain, like even though you've been pushing about how LLA has never
been able to do it, for pain it's like, 15.
Last time, I was able to make it.
And that was, people will remember the whole BRTT greater than double with me, and that
was like that.
That's almost a decade ago.
It's insane.
And so for that organization, the oldest organization for CB Law, to be able to
be on this stage again and have that chance to make it to the main stage, again
is big for them. So a lot on the line, the community is out there kind of like buzzing
for it. I would love to see this series go.
I gotta ask, what is it gonna come down to? Because we have existing synergy on both sides
of the rift. Both teams showed a lot, they improved also a lot within the playing stage.
And you know that the turnaround is really short. Payne was playing yesterday, R7 were
playing two days ago. And I'm like, you can't implement new things in your gameplay.
So what are you gonna have to rely on?
Yeah, well, I think the things they've been doing well in terms of the adaptation that Dagda has been talking about as well is that they've been realizing that reset timers need to be better for some of the objectives.
It was very sloppy in the beginning, but it's the fact that you're not late on an objective. You're there when it starts. You know if you want to fight or if you want to cross map.
Now, there's still cracks, but I think for pain gaming, it's keeping that up. And maybe for R7 a bit, it's catching a little bit up or just having our team fighting composition.
And Dagda, I'm going to ask you this.
Because for me, for one to Rainbow 7, I look top lane.
And what made it difficult for Rainbow 7 yesterday, or at least the last time they played, was
that he wasn't able to get that same advantage versus Kiyah.
If Summit can get his pick, can...
Ah!
Ten points!
Ten points!
That's going to be wiser.
That's going to be the wiser.
I think that's going to be the difference maker for me, because Summit's going to
get you.
That's where I think the difference can be made.
I think just kill the other one.
It's easy.
Simple.
Simple.
It all comes down to this in this finals series, in this final chance for both teams to prove their worth and how hard they've been working in the entire season.
Past results today, they do not matter.
All that matters is that you come ready to make them believe to write your name in history.
It's time for Pain Gaming vs R7.
I want to do different things and play among the best, that's why I'm here.
I really want to face PEN, that's what I wanted to do for a long time.
I feel that the rivalry between Latin America and Brazil has existed for a long time,
and to have the last chance to play for the Main Event is a very special thing.
It was a match that I really wanted to play before the World Show.
Since I started playing in the second edition, I've been able to have a scrim against Titan.
I feel like he's a player I've been playing against for a long time.
He's a player I consider to be quite good and I really want to face him.
I'd say get ready because you'll see what he's done.
I don't know, I don't think he'll have to have a religion to believe he's going to win.
I think some miracle will have to happen.
He will have to have much more will, much more dream, much higher than us, than the Brazilian people to win us.
The hope of the Pyramid is only in the shadows. We can't lose the time.
This is our chance. It will be the story for Brazil.
I want you to believe that it gives strength to us.
I know that when we are united, when we have this union, Brazil grows a lot, our strength is incomprehensible.
We have to look forward and make history for Brazil.
We have to make the people believe in us again.
After the R7 match, the coach and the coach came to us and told us not to be scared and fight if you want to fight.
They told us to fight, so we were confident and we were able to play.
I think I'm doing my best to learn from the players.
I think compared to last year, I'm not that nervous.
I think I'm more excited about the game.
I'm not that nervous. I just want to perform better.
I don't think I can prove that I'm not that weak in PSG, so I really want to get to know them.
I think that the game against PSG is very strong in the mid-jungle. I think we need to be prepared for that.
The most advanced player is Maple. Maple has a lot of experience and he's a long-time player, so we need to be careful about that.
I hope I can win 100T with Maple.
I think if we win 100T, we have to do our best.
I know that Maple is a very good player and experienced player,
but I want to go to the 3rd stage this time, so I will try my best.
I am very confident with Maple.
If we win 100T, we will give him the trophy.
out world and Payne are looking to make their way there once again.
Passion and a spot in the Swiss stage are all on the line in this best of three today.
Couldn't be happier to be joined with you here, Mettit. We're in for a bang-up.
I'm excited to see what these teams have prepared. We saw in the teaser how special
this was for so many of the players to have the opportunity to qualify by going up
against a long-time rival.
I mean, look at the numbers, I mean, look at the history medic, he's quite favoured for Brazil.
Incredibly favoured for Brazil. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 2014 for the last time.
Latam took a game off of the CBLOL. It is a long time ago, 9-1 is the all-time record.
These teams don't often meet as international, mostly because often they're in the lower bracket to kick things off here.
Both of them, or both of the regions being able to pick up one series win that means that we will have someone from South America,
team from South America making it in to our Swiss stage and what a delight in
honor it is to be here to cast this momentous moment and we'll get into
draft 4 game 1. Pain gaming on the blue R7 on the red already Leblanc
taken away from Cane and Ione removed from Jinkidam.
We've already targeted towards those
midlaners we've seen them both have impactful performances here at the
playing stage so far. Let's see what they've got else cooking for us. The
will come to be taken away from body makes a lot of sense.
We see the stage one move from the side of Karioka.
It's going to be this kind of does make a lot of sense.
Of course, given how strong it is in the current meta,
we look at pain gaming, a lot of the strong
Eddie carries, Jin up and available.
But she turned five different Eddie carries across five games.
It's going to be a hard player to ban out.
So Renekta is instead going to be the removal.
But we kind of look at what plans has shown us so far.
The priority is just with taking away some of the comfort
picks that we've been seeing R7 leverage for how well R7 respond.
I think Aurora would be a good ban here and set the Orianna taken away.
So a couple of mid lane bans, a couple of jungle bans and that
renexing as well, such an easy, a blind pick top.
Aurora first pick is a possibility here for pain gaming.
Could also look towards the Ash, which has been banned against R7
all the time.
So what direction they head in?
So many potentials, so many strong first picks as a possibility.
can be the Jax blind or out for wiser, up towards the top side of the map. Summit, you have to imagine he has an answer to this.
So far, all of the champions that he's showcased at the playing stage, with things like the Narp, the Cassante, with both Renekton and Jax being taken away from him.
I don't think it would be the best possible matchup, but we'll have to wait and see. Instead, you could just look to lock in your jungle here.
Maybe instead prioritise something like the Jarvan, we've seen cut through. Cassante actually going to be the direction.
I typically like the jacks into this matchup. There's always the possibility of it being flexed, but I do think that's unlikely
With the Cassante now locked in they want to try and grab jungle
Do they want to grab something like the ash for themselves? Do you already mentioned that it?
We haven't seen it so far from say it so far
It has been banned against paying gaming in 80% of their map
No, that's right against I've got this the wrong amount
Maybe a 7 haven't had banned against them at all
So I was looking at what members they were banning they banned away the ash in 40% of the games instead the poppy locked in
Because I did likely go into water can of course to be flexed in it although we don't really see that much anymore
Hoppy jungle or support Lucian looks like where Cheetah wants to go. We have seen some power from
Lucian's so far here at worlds
That's all they pair it up alongside them. I mean if they do log that in
I think the flexibility that you have already getting a lot of value, playing into both Aleutian and the Jax, you have to imagine the map is going to come alongside it and there it is.
We can see this a little bit so far at Worlds, and I said I'm looking around things out with what I believe to be the strongest mid laner on the current patch.
Syndra going to be the lock-in and now they can remove some of the potential answers at Harley and take that open to the grade up.
Well, like, some of them I haven't seen things like the Echo or the Fizz come through.
We did see it many years ago. I believe it was World's 2080 when we saw it.
Yep, a long time ago. We saw a lot in planes a couple of worlds ago as well, in Jungle,
but then it kind of fell out as soon as we got into the main stage.
Well, I'm not going to list this at the main stage, because, you know, night used to be an Echo one-trick.
Uh, so I'm hoping, but we'll have to wait and see. Is the Sejani now banned away from Kyoga?
The normal is going to be taken away as well makes a lot of sense.
Pain Gaming can limit a lot of those engaged support.
Rell may very well be on the docket next alongside the Leona, both viable options.
But when you look at what lines is prioritized, I imagine the rail is what we're going to see come through.
Yeah, Rell makes a lot of sense as bad here from playing gaming alongside the novelists, of course.
I wonder where Rainbow Seven will go with their bot lane.
You can look for something aggressive.
We've always already seen so play the Lucian, play the Draven at Worlds so far.
Do you really want to be trying to match head-to-head against Lucian Nami?
There's the option as well to go scaling and just get out of that lane.
Lane swap early, get level 3 on your support and your AD carry.
Callista the second ban, remove some of that engaged potential.
The range with the fates call at level 6 for the Callista very powerful.
It looks like that Xeo doesn't play.
Shean, who I was expecting to come through here.
I think it was very safe blind.
Remember that this popping is a flex.
We don't know just yet whether it's going into the jungle or into the support position.
Xayah Poppy is an interesting bot lane for sure.
It's a way to get pooped up, man.
So, Lucian Nami, you are not going to have a fun time at all.
No ging games at all for this year.
So obviously, something here hasn't been too comfortable on at least in 2014.
Pain Gaming, they're looking towards their mid and their jungle.
Ari picked, and as an Ari aficionado, I'm sure you can break down this matchup for us.
It's going to be getting to the game.
No.
I mean I'm honestly surprised that so many R's are kind of getting away with the matchup.
I feel like it can be so oppressive from a good center player, but once you get level six you have a lot of potential ganks at them.
So you can see a strong jungler to par alongside it. When you look at paying game, this composition, they don't really have a lot of engaged tools.
So they've decided we want to round things out with the Maokai.
We want to have that large AOE, go to jetkiff control, good setup.
And as we turn our attention back to R7, it looks like that Poppy is going into the support position.
I really think they should consider keeping it in jungle and picking something like the
rail.
I would prefer the rail.
I think it would give them a lot more team fighting.
There's the Rakan.
Now, Lyons, this man, is very familiar with Rakan.
When you kind of look at his all time, he has a lot of experience in the champion.
Yes, it's the third most played.
Yeah.
And it's something that I think gives him a lot of comfort.
Now, it's ideally what you need coming into this first game, and especially through
figuring out the playstyle of your opponent.
In terms of early game options, I love the potential set up, the R7 have through their mids.
I think it's going to be, especially when level 6 comes down, look at all the dashes that they have,
Ari, Lucian, Jax, Poppy, you're going to be getting a lot of value as we get into the mid game once those
ultimates start to come through. I think with pot lane, it's very easy lane to play through for R7.
When you have the Rakan Zayac set up, a lot of skirmish power that you're like,
they're going to struggle with the very early levels, thanks to the added damage that that
Lucian is going to get from the Nami.
With the scaling side lane threats and potential side lane options, pain gaming,
perhaps they don't look to try and 5v5 the late game, perhaps they instead try to leverage those side lanes.
But knowing how these teams play, it's going to be fighting.
It's going to be fighting.
It's going to be fighting.
I was actually looking at it more at level lane swap coming out from R7.
I think the ability to put the Lucian Nami in a position where they can't, 2v2 in the bot lane early game.
The ability to put the Jax behind early game as well underneath that tower, because Saitai survives so much better.
better when he is forced behind and the Jax does later on. For now though, with these teams having
a moment before they are in front of the world's eyes. For the other leg, as a region, they have
never made it to Worlds with stage or to the main stage of Worlds. They've been close a few times in
the past for the CBLOL. It has been a long, long wait. Eight years since INTZ made to the
stage and as a region they were explosive when they first joined. Kaboom became a moniker
for destroying an upper level team for destroying a major region and now we see both these teams
face up on the Rift. Looks like it's going to be normal lanes from both the teams. The
Azirakan from Seo and Leon's down towards that bottom side just covering the blue.
being invested from both sides.
In terms of the runes, nothing too crazy.
And, uh...
It looks like that there's just a bit of a battle for that early ward onto the Raptor Cam.
Drop that one down.
Now, so in terms of the standard line of scrimmage, nothing too chaotic.
I really feel like that's the only moment of, uh, silence we're gonna get throughout this entire game, Betty.
I was surprised...
yesterday, with how patient Pain Game were playing.
playing. The other games were just kind of steady, slow. Like they didn't actually get
drawn into the bloodshed. And I don't want to set expectations that it's going to be
chaotic right from the start. I feel like when we enter the mid game, and when these
teams need to start competing a lot more around, leveraging their sideline push, and they're
moving in the jungle, setting up their vision, that's where the teams of attendancy
to just, why don't we just go in and fight? And their love fighting over their objectives,
their love kind of getting to the thick of things, and trying to brawl, speaking
off already you're seeing the strength of this Lucian Nami having additional
sustain thanks to the Nami on top of the fact you just have so much extra
trading power. Rakan really just not providing much level one. Yeah the Gleamin
Quill is nice when your opponents don't have sustain because you can Gleamin
Quill you can use that to you can heal up you can take those traits with the
Guardian as well but Kuri on the Nami is like cool anything you can do I can
do better I'm just gonna use that Ebon Flow heal us both up get the
extra damage by using that as well. We see Kani winning that mid lane matchup, as you kind of predicted him to,
but not the easiest to play into the Cinder. But we have been seeing it go okay on occasion.
So, yeah, this is the thing that surprised me because I feel like really good Cinder players make it very difficult to
R.A. to play the lane. And for context, the main reason is R.A.'s Q range is 900 units, right, where Cinder's Q is 800.
The problem is that when Ari uses her Q, it kind of very briefly makes her stationary, right?
Yeah, and it's very easy for Syndra to punish that, whether her Q or with her stun, or with her W, right?
But also-
All good routes, Ignite going down as well onto Cheetah, had to pop the barrier and the heal.
Two sums for one, the Blade Caller from Seo just catching Cheetah's heals.
But he stands his ground, he doesn't burn the flash, of course he does have to use the barrier,
But overall still a good trade and now Audi fishing started with a clear up towards the top side moving towards bot now in a good position to cover
But the mouth how you imagine going to be doing the same thing karaoke have ring off in the distance TP
Can be invested mid from Jin Kreda already
But everyone's out of pots everyone's up except for query who's full health happy as can be
But the wave is now pushing into pain gaming
Which is a really nice position for them to be in if I seven choose to back now
Now, it's going to be very awkward. A freeze could be set up. You could also have pangings, bot lane, go back to base, and catch the wave.
So they kind of need a bit of assistance to help get this lane through, and look at the problem that they now find themselves in that way.
He was pushing against them. They don't have the HP.
Korea has enough mana to continue providing sustain.
And now the involvement of the jungle is to help fix the wave state.
And although Audi is even in terms of CS, he has a camp down from his own jungle.
He took a scuttle crab, but hasn't taken his blue yet.
So that time on the blue being extended by the fact that odd he has to stay around here and make sure this wave shoves out
She's on and curry shouldn't be able to hold this if our seven for the tiny bit of pressure on
Should be okay, actually with the wave coming in our seven decided against any pressure
So she's on and curry can just back around this corner and the wave will be in a very good spot for that
That's the done
So it's not the end of the world though for our seven. They're not gonna lose too much off the back of this
It's just that the wave is not going to be the best day for that.
And the problem for Sao and Leon's is you only have a cleanse, right?
So the cleanse is all. That was nice from Curie.
He was trying to get the final stack from the World Atlas as the back came out.
So he got a stack up and was like, oh, I ought to attack this,
but it looks like Cheetah was just out of range, which I actually had that stack go across to him.
But the problem for Sao is even though you've burnt the barrier and the heal from Curie,
you don't actually have a summoner that's going to do too much and lets you get CC'd, right?
So your anticipation is, I'm going to dodge the bubble anyway.
Anyway, I don't have a barrier against Cheetah and Curie.
The clans will be good later on when they're twisted,
advance when there's the Jackson, when there's the charm.
But in the lane, really, all it's gonna do
is get you out of the Aquapism, or maybe a slow,
which can sometimes change a fight, but rarely.
I will say, though, that it's gonna make
Azir, who's already pretty difficult to lock down
even harder.
Oh yeah, later on, it's gonna be so difficult.
Thanks to the ultimate as well.
And as a champion, you love it when people are trying
to dive on top of you, Jax, Ari, Lucian.
All these champions that want to try and close that gap, create the space to dive on top.
I will say Ari is one of the better champions if she can leverage Fog of War because of how quickly she can catch her off guard.
But in any case, overall, kind of steady, slow laning phase. Kind of what we talked about.
Things don't get chaotic for these teams in the laning phase.
In fact, this is where I think we see some of the talent shine through from the regions,
where they get to demonstrate some of their individual prowess.
Speaking of nice trading once again in the pain gaming bot lane that really nice
there from cheese I'm forcing sale and Leon's away with karaoke just around the
corner as well they have to back all the way away didn't quite see where the
wave was but looks like our seven investing in the top side for now will
give up this Drake if karaoke decides to get in there will go towards the
grubs and we've mentioned it a couple of times ready for the history
between this region these regions although fierce isn't
They've only played 10 games against each other on the international stage, CBLOL 9-1 up, the last time LLA1 was all the way back in 2019 and that was only a single series.
They didn't actually, a single game, that wasn't even a series that PECS managed to pick up back then.
CBLOL have been to the world's main stage three times, but not since Plains were introduced.
They qualified through the international wildcard qualifier or the international wildcard tournament, but they've never actually been able to make it to the main stage since 2016.
That was Kaboom, Payne and INTZ, right?
Yep.
Yeah.
Because then we had the infamous INTZ getting upset against EEG back in 2016, then of course
I think we had Kaboom upsetting EU as well.
Alliance, yeah.
Alliance, yeah.
10-0's is Ari, still I have nightmares.
As Karaoke is looking for a gank here, Betty, in the bot lane.
Chetan level 6 as well.
Has that culling the cleanse away from the acrobism?
He's not back with a grabble smash!
And there's first blood to PNG!
looking to make it to the flash away by Leon's into a sapling that won't take
for enough to do the gleaming quill. Kaney on his way across they can look to
collapse but Chitan has both sums. Karioka still only level five. Kuri has the
flash, Karioka has his as well. Kaney can you find him? Chitan dashing forward!
The only power's not enough but Ori comes in for the kill. The knock-up on Karioka
now no flash for him and that tree might be going timber. Ori puts down
the steadfast presence and Karioka even with the framble smash will not
Survive, Kani binds two.
A double kill for Kani in a nice roam from the Syndra.
Something you don't often see in the early game,
will result in this pot lane wave though still being awkward.
The timing from PNG was flawless.
With a nice stacked wave, they set up for the dive,
and before the level six can come through,
they're able to execute and find themselves first blood.
But they back in the brush in the lane,
allowing for Kani's roam to find value.
If we look back at this dive, only level four,
Fuseo and with Chitan being level 6, the Culling doing so much work, so much fun lost there, Fuseo, underneath the tower.
But then they go back in this brush, they don't respect the fact that Cane is on the road, even though the Aria's gotten the push in mids,
they think that they can actually out-damage Cane, but I don't know if you know this, Cinder level 6 really hurts!
GG, okay GG gave him a...
So he knew that he couldn't really impact the bot side and then Cane stays bot, pushes out an extra wave,
Seol can back or at least move across through the jungle here to get back to his normal lane.
Got that solo XP as well, so he's back up to level 6 which gives him the feather storm,
obviously adds that extra defensive tool for the Zyre.
But when we were talking about all those freezes coming out from Cheetan and Kuri,
that's what comes out of it. That's what grows from those early freezes.
Lack of experience for the enemy AD carrier, two level advantage early on,
and the dive coming off, but not actually paying dividends in the end for R7.
Only 100 gold between the two teams, first drake secured by PNG.
Next set of grubs though, with Rainbow 7 already having three of them,
and he's up in one minute's time, Vettie.
The question is, we've seen a swap come through from either side to control them.
Oh, star. Nice bit of damage.
The Loon's gonna hand him, gonna make this match up so much harder.
For Canyon, he doesn't have flash, and we can see why is he was already moving
From the topside Junkedo going in with their charm. Leon's here to try and block and they will survive TP as well by Summit to join the party.
They're going for karaoke first, force of will with the stun pulled back with the all-out.
Wiser there trying to get a stun up, he can't quite land it.
Oddie caught in the bubble with a really one kill over two. R7 Wiser locked up again and R7 will pounce once again. They're punishing Pain Gaming.
R7 responding to the plays from Pain Gaming incredibly well. Nice bubble there.
Curry flashes over the quickness, the charm!
Kane on a rampage now, 4 and 0 on this Syndra.
Just a nice bait and switch, Seo.
That's the fed the storm has to use it to get away in the end,
exchange of ultimates between the 80 carries.
Yeah, so Cheetan is now going to be up again,
he's got a big hill to climb.
Because while he's fighting his own, oh, he's overstayed!
He has to flash and barrier flashes away,
but still gets knocked up, keepers verdict!
Cheetan's guilty of overstaying!
Leon's gets his first of the game.
Wow.
So R7, they shut down the strong point for pain gaming.
A single overstep from Cheetah and costs him a lot.
The kill does go over to Leon's, but you know what?
That's still damage done.
A 1.2K lead overall for R7 now.
As we turn our attention to mid lane, they're trying to punish the Flash to the Syndra.
This makes sense.
But look at the return damage coming out from Kayne.
Even though the root comes down, the ultimate immediately forces Junkedo out of the fight.
And then the follow-up, some from Kayne, onto the Malka, who doesn't have Flash as well.
The fact that Kayne was able to pick up kill after kill is going to do wonders for this R7 squad.
PNG, thinking that they can still go for something, the bubble will connect here as everyone starts to disengage.
I don't think Curry really wants it much off the bank of this, but you can get her looking for a bit of a trade.
Get stunned up.
Leons then gets to level 6, has the ultimate available.
And then the follow-up through means that another kill goes over to the Syndra.
4-0-0 now, Merc trend secured. I like the choice of boots when you're going up against the
Malkai, the Nami, and the Ari as well.
Also, you're so excited, do you really need to go Sword Boots, right? Do you need that
little bit of extra greed when you already have a Luden's companion complete and only
a lost chapter and a little book for Junkero?
Handgaming were able to pick up three grubs as R7 were resetting after those mid-lane
plays. We can see them starting up the drake again. Junkedo is pushing out bot. It looks
like Sayo is going to be the one to answer that. Can R7 get control over the river?
At the moment it's karaoke with the first move in here. Can he clear out the mid lane
and now he's coming across to secure this blue?
Summit continues to find advantages in the top lane 1v1. Leveraging his experience
to just become a powerhouse front line. It's going to be difficult to deal with
as the game continues.
Now if you're paying gaming, you need to be thinking,
okay, right, obviously the cinder's very strong.
But, trying to force her onto a side lane
would be your best case scenario,
because she doesn't have the mobility and the safety
that a side laneer does,
as Karioca sets his sights on top lane.
Counter-Strike comes out, Summit does have the all-amp,
has the flash as well.
Karaoke goes in with a twisted advance,
and Summit's now trying to fight a 1v3 all-outs,
but even through the nature's guards,
the charm connects.
Junkedo on the board for paying gaming,
You give up the drake for this, but pain gaming decided it was worth.
I mean, we just talked about the sidelines.
And this is where I think pain gaming needs to try and play through.
Because the beauty of Ari is that she has great setup.
She can shadow laner, she can potentially shadow the Jax to look for picks on the summit,
or maybe she could work with Maokai to attack the Syndra in a sideline,
like they have sideline options if they can gain that control.
Fullying these plates is going to give them a nice advantage.
Wait, Kayn is coming in here, all those lonesome, the charm of Egypt.
It connects the counter strike, Twisted Varsal forward, good scat of the week, carry, okay tanking the tower, Unleashed Power will not be enough to bring it down to the tree.
Summit TP'ed in as well to bolster the defences of this tier one.
The best thing about this whole sequence for R7 is that Seo was basically left untouched in the bot lane, able to secure as many plates as he could,
able to get a lot of solo experience, while Cheetah was pushing in the mid lane and all this action was happening on the top side.
Of course, the downside is you committed now both of your TP's as Wiser was able to go back to base,
secure the training force and now he's TP'd towards the bot side of the map.
We find ourselves one-to-one in Drake's, the crux that have even,
the neutral objectives that pretty much spread evenly across the board,
and even though pain gaming have kind of been falling short in the mid and the top side of the map,
the gold's still not something so significant that they can't turn this game around.
Yeah, 1000 gold, the majority of it sitting on Kani in the mid lane.
He's going to try and answer Wiser down towards this bottom side.
I never have to do an oddie coming across as well just to make sure that Kenny was at no risk of being dived
We'll clear out some of this vision as well. The Rifthold is available for either team
But really you're looking at a pick before it a carry. Ok is looking at that pick in the top lane
Remember something does still have the flash will dash away from Jin Kato
And safety of the path to make her there shown by summit
I think it's wide oh he's going back in
Gengado's going in as well with the spear rush, Karioka coming across this, the Twisted
Advance into the charm into the knockback with the Ramble Smasher, meanwhile on the
bot lane, R7 should be taking this tower, Nature's Grasp coming out, Pathmaker still
rooted, the Kaling not enough quite yet, Chetan gets a lock in and he gets the kill to
boot. A tower for tower exchange but a kill alongside it for Pain.
A nice punish and you called it Medics. Submit just over steps, he walks up
for a trade that he shouldn't have tried to go for. Again though, you see these
Cross maps coming to you from R7 because pain is kind of over stacking on one side of the map
Allowing for R7 to at least exchange turrets elsewhere, but I like the fact that they're giving a committing to this tier 2 in the top lane
They'll spread the gold evenly, but now R7 is looking for a collapse
And they're also gonna get slowed by the sampling and by that bramble smash
So I see your opposition taken off him and because of that karaoke guarding well
his mid and his bot lane. In the end it was two towers for two, a kill as well to
pain, the gold still about a thousand between the two teams but because pain
gaming were delayed on their reset, R7 get the time to set up around the
Rift held. Karaoke could look for this, I'm not sure you really want to play
into this though, you don't have your ultimates and you don't really have a
way in... oh, oh, okay, I thought it was gonna blast Cone over, something coming
down karaoke maybe just looking at the smite fight here and he gets it the
keepers verdict too late on he found one thing and now they just give them the
heavals I as well couldn't defend of course because like Leon said just back
to wait she's I'm dashing across the wall to put more pain into the back
of Odie Odie didn't have smite so karaoke can just walk up steal that
one away and says thanks for the leash buddy I appreciate your time
That nice Roof comes out from Sao.
It's the Culling response to force him back.
No objective available on the map right now,
but this Harold is going to be crucial
to helping Payne unlock that mid-tier one.
Summit's got a flank position here.
Curry, you've got Flash, you've got Heal.
Summit can try and lock you up with the All-Out.
There's the Flash, quickness coming out from Leon.
It's a great bramble smash!
Alongside the tidal wave will stop Leon's in his tracks.
A little bit of an overstep by Curry
Curry has to burn both his summoners and two ultimates to escape, but it was well played to navigate his way out of that situation.
Keep your eyes on the mini-math medic.
Oh!
That's a flash!
Shikedo, a spear rushed away as well.
Flash for an ultimate exchange, the charm onto Odi now.
Sayo looking for a reset.
Curry taking a chunk, Nature's Grass coming out, but that's just gonna be dodged away by everyone.
Odi, able to escape with the root being eaten earlier on.
And importantly, Pain Gaming secures the Razor Beaks, but that's what the fight was for, obviously.
I mean gaming game. I mean, this was the chaos we were expecting.
Yes it was. I mean, it started because Summit had been able to find a flank onto Curry,
which I think in and of itself is a good opportunity to go for a play.
But then it ends up resulting in pain saying, you know, we can convert this into a player role.
In fact, the observers are saying, no, it starts even earlier than that.
Because remember, the Herald gets going to a no-smite available for Audi.
Means that the ultimate from Audi wasn't used fast enough.
And then what's crazy is no one ends up actually dying in that exchange the raptors do end up going down
But ultimately a lot of summoners use dragon now in 10 seconds time
I thought that bot tower is gonna fall in the exchange because why is it was just left completely uncontested
But some it was able to make it there in time
And now the storm search completed for Kani and the lightning jewel Kani is so damn strong right now
basically an item ahead of Jin Kero, the second Drake of the game on the menu for R7.
You ever gone up against a baseball machine?
No.
Well, imagine one, just ramped up to 100s.
Okay.
That's going to be Kaney when she ults.
I can see that.
Like the Zendra is going to do mega damage as the Herald gets dropped in mid.
They're looking for the fight.
Going in for the engage here, goes in with a twisted advance, but the Unleashed
power into his back.
We'll allow him... Oh, he's now gonna step away. The Ritalad going to take this tower in mid lane as well.
Kamioka able to escape, scout of the week, finds him.
And in the end he falls. Summit trying to dash in here, dodges the bubble, dodges the charm.
But can't dodge close enough. It's a pain gaming to find that all out.
I mean, the objectives are still being traded.
Pain gaming, they were able to secure mid. Summit over steps.
The charm! Summit falling low, Parkmaker quickness doesn't land the knock-up of the Sunsilk going on to Cheetan.
He tries to escape, he slammed into the wall and Treaten pays for dashing forward looking for the fight.
Well, it definitely was an overstep from Summit but the rest of R7 were ready to capitalise and support their top laner.
A really nice engage from Leons. Results in Cheetan for losing his life, 1-3-1 now on the Lucian.
A great start, still very strong with the second item being completed.
But he's the player that they can't afford to have caught and with no summoners that's only going to get easier for R7.
The risk for pain gaming now is like how do you get on to Kani how do you get past the scatter the week?
How'd you get past the force of will he's five and oh really?
It's Junkado finding a good spear a charm or karaoke going in or why is that flashing with a good counter strike because you don't really have
Superb long-ranging gauge tools that can't be mitigated by someone like summit just standing in front of the nature's grasp
Well, I think the biggest thing is the puppy
right? Like, how do you get through the poppy? The ultimates, the steadfast presence, there's so much utility provided by the champion to just offer peel for Kaini, so I think it's going to be difficult.
Pain gaming top position is very much about dive. We've talked about this on the LEC before, but Maokai is a pseudo engage, right? You provide a lot of zone control and the Maokai ultimate can be an engage, but it's not a reliable way to start a fight
Just because it's kind of just stand behind one person, there are things you could do,
summit himself, could tank it, like there are options to mitigate it.
So, Pain Gaming have to have good vision control.
This is what we talked about them needing to play through these side lanes,
gain control over a space, create these pockets of darkness where they can look for picks,
create numbers advantage, and then give the space for Cheetah to really unleash your pollution.
See how well Pain Gaming can navigate the next few moments.
Two and a half minutes on the next drake.
You can see Karaoke once again, he's done this bank like three times this game.
Keepers verdict comes up, knocks him away, and even though the nature's got hits, Audi should be fine.
I like the fact that Audi is just covering for Kaini. It just makes a lot of sense, you know.
Make sure that your strong side is safe, secure, protected. The void staff is going to be very, very, very...
Very, very, very... It's going to be completed soon. That's what I wanted to say.
And for the moment, it's R7 on the front foot, taking control of this jungle.
jungle obviously not much left here because it's already been taken out by
pain gaming we're still been securing their blue a couple of moments ago two
minutes on the next rake looks like a baron set up currently some it doesn't
have TP though so you can see he's starting to wander his way up from the
bot lane after shoving that in so make sure that our seven do have a
possibility to reactive pain gaming look for an engage time being pain
gaming is just doing their best to get what gold they can knowing that
There are no objectives on the map to play for right now.
Farming is your best bet.
Kani needs to be very careful up on the top side of the map,
knowing that without the support of Oddie, who is now there, recalling within,
there should be the Void staff secured, 600 gold bounty,
sitting on Kani as well with Oddie now completing the Abyssal Mask too.
Yeah, they are so strong right now.
Two items on Seyo, Kani now with three.
two items on Audi with that Bessel Mask as you say.
Pain gaming, playing catch up with Junkedo
only just getting over to two items himself.
But it seems like we've fallen
into a little bit of a lull in this game, Betty.
Is this okay for R7?
Are they fine saying, okay, we can wait for the next drake,
which is what they're now starting to play around.
We can slowly push our advantage
without being too explosive,
or should they be looking for something
a little bit more explosive at the moment?
I mean, I think because R7 is a stronger team fight
on that. Yeah, they're fine. You could argue that paying him just have more damage threats
given that they do have the jack for the top lane. He's probably the champion you're most
concerned about. Sure. If you're R7, just because his ability to find flanks, his access
to the bank line isn't, um, that's limited, I would say. But again, like it's all, it
really all comes down to how odd he plays the fights. If odd he wants to, he can
swap anyone getting onto Kani. So, uh, as the next objective spawns, the thing
I'm concerned about for pain is the fact that they're gonna want to fight and the set up is crucial and you can see
Cany is it's scary to face check man. Cinder is strong
Especially around towers because if you overstep she can stun you kill you walking into fog of war stun you kill you and
How you overstep on a mid lane she'll stun you and kill you. She's she's really good at doing that
And they see chief. I'm just trying to put some damage back
Leon's looking for that plank position. Junkero might go for the charm
Grand entrance. It's a grand exit for Leons, but again, it's just the poke right from Kani.
He's already at 100 splinters, stacking up on that Syndra. Has all of that increased damage in his kit,
and the Drake has been begun by R7. Leons and Summit holding alongside this control ward.
Nature's grass coming out. Odi tanks it. Kani gets rooted as well, and the flank position is on here for Vyza.
The charm onto Odi as well. He flashes away and brings Kamioka into the middle of his team.
Vyza finds one. They're going to engage. Kani flashing forward. The only power's enough,
The charm eaten by Leon's is beautiful. He saves his men like his life and now some it has time in the midst of four members of pain gaming
Sayon begins to open up carry off to go and fly back one again. Kayne falling low, but the scout of the week is sublime
R7 that was on a knife edge
That was a game of inches and credit to Leon's and credit to R7 for winning out the fight
A chaotic start to the fight as Audi dropped so quickly. R7, it felt like they didn't know how they wanted to play it.
Kani was so far forward that Pain Gaming saw a great opportunity to start a fight, but now with the Baron on the cards,
no smite available, but with so many members of Pain out of commission, there should be an easy secure for R7.
I know I'm a support main and I talk about support all the time, but
If you V-Watch Leons in that fight, he literally saves the entire fight for them, keeps Kani alive, doesn't give over the bounty, he's yet to die in this game as well.
Firstly, Ginkero missed the charm, not to a rooted Syndra, that could have made the difference at the very end of the fight.
When we get the replay, keep your eyes out how this fight started.
So look at the position of Kani here, like, they're doing their best to protect him, but Leons is very far on the bank,
Then the ultimate misses from Audi. He then gives access for Kara into the fight
And then Kani makes a smart choice flashing over the wall committing onto executing
And then the nice dash there to tank the charm from the arms as the second half of the fight is happening on the other side
Summit dives into four members. But look at this play from Kara. Flash in gets to knock back and this charm misses
It doesn't connect which means that the stun is able to come through connects onto two members
And even if they do get that kill onto Kani doesn't suddenly turn the fight
I'm not that optimistic, but a huge shutdown could have made a massive difference.
It definitely would have. We see Pierre Nipain getting able to pick up the drake off the back of this,
but it's only because they've let their base lie in tatters.
The tier 2 falling in the top lane, R7 now with a 5,000 gold lead off this Rethyl Varen power play.
They've already picked up 2.6k and that's only going to extend further above 3k now.
The inhibitor falling and R7 still have two minutes. They're going to take the mid tier 2 as well.
They can move over there's a cannon minion here visor trying to get whatever gold he can back get back on the rest of
The map the pathmaker there to dodge the quickness coming in and she done overstepping just a little bit
He flashes away the color goes the wrong way, but he's able to survive for a second before ardy and co dive in for another
Rainbow 7 5 alive pushing in visor has to base
He's gonna finish it before they get to his nexus towers
But will he be able to defend them a TP coming in and you can't go down
The storm a surge rips through him rainbow seven double cannons and an exit towel already fallen
R7 looking for more they need to get the waves in
Campaign gaming defend the League of Latin America have woken up today, and they've come to party
They've come to play the pullback with the all-out visor trying to dodge away
But he's dodging away from his nexus, which is open for R7 who are one game away from Swiss
Yes, they will change the narrative, they will change the story of history, their second
ever win against the CBLOL today, and in convincing fashion, 28 minute win, 14-4, Kayn and Lyons,
the powerhouse playmakers of this game one.
That they were, we'll be back with what is likely to be an explosive game too, in just a minute.
In those seven against Spain, they are one game away from making history and reaching this stage.
That was a darling in game from them.
I mean it was absolutely was at least once we got past the first ten minutes.
I think there are definitely reasons to be a bit worried.
You even heard Zatan say it.
Oh, lane over and it kind of was.
Yeah.
But then the rest of the game happened.
And that's for them.
Yeah, Kani won the performance on that Syndra.
Yeah.
I was worried a little bit about the Lucian piling in on the Zayapik.
I didn't like the Zayapik in particular.
And then it was like, okay, the dive's happening and then, wait a minute.
The Syndra's coming.
Yeah.
Ends up getting the picks.
I mean there's a lot that happened that I feel like Kani was really pushing the game state. Yeah
But that was the thing right it felt like every time you had a punch coming through from pain gaming
There was just the counter punch coming back from R7 playing towards his bottom side turn around that dive that it just happened on the
Bot lane then they try and make some magic happen in the mid lane that gets turned around it felt like or seven
We're just reading really effectively what pain gaming wanted to do
And I was a bit skeptical as you were saying razz looking at this draft because it felt like you didn't have a lot of
tools to really set your fights up. But R7, we're just really going to counter a lot of the
engages that pain gaming we're going for. Yeah, and I think in general that main problem is also
just how pain gaming champions interacted with that one Syndra because you're right. I mean,
the Sire bot lane, they fell behind very early. I mean, Sire was even forced to go for that cleanse
or not having that barrier is really easy to get tunneled into thinking you can win,
but you can't because that illusion will out damage you and will have that extra barrier.
But as soon as that Syndra played against all these low-range champions where just multiple scatters were gonna come through,
this lintel stacking was going through three items of like 20 minutes into the game,
that's just a crazy amount of damage you have to deal with.
Yeah, it's so much. And I feel like pain, the difference could have just been in how pain sets up the fights.
Even when Drake was coming up, Jax TP's bot, instead of going through mid, they could have actually had Herald push out through mid.
Then they can contest. But TP for Jax went bot lane, then they decided to Herald mid.
Then they pushed a fight where Jax couldn't actually be involved in it.
So they're making plays happen without actually having everyone involved,
or at least the play on the outset.
It felt like they didn't have a clear mind of how they wanted to play the game stayed out.
And that's the thing, they're just leaving open doors to R7 actually to maneuver however they want
and set up the fights the way they want.
And Kani actually showed us insane reactions that we can see here in the HyperX Reflex replay
because Sinzra works when it's piloted by the best players here, Taksa.
And I feel like he did a great job.
I was just sharing Kenny's name not once with twice in this because this flash here was sick to follow up on lines
immediately gets the kill on the cheat time and the fact that Kenny escapes tanks too, the charm being tanked there by lines is incredibly important
because Kenny then goes back into this fight, someone goes for the engage, I was a little bit kind of, hang on a second what's happening here
because you get this flash, Kenny though gets the double stun and the knockback on the interrupt for Wiser
so we can't follow up with the leaf strike and can't finish him off
And that play there was just the solidifying of the victory for Orc 7.
No, I completely agree. And looking at the PGP, you see where the damage is coming from.
It's not like you didn't have it on pain gaming at all.
I think going into next game, you need to stabilize this mid lane by getting rid of the Cintra.
Because you had the Auri counter pick available, it did not work.
I actually think that pain gaming has to be better for lane.
They should be able to play it, put more resources down towards T-Tan,
and they should be able to carry through him.
You can't do that though if Kayne is able to take over the game on a pick like Cintra which 80 carries just get blown up by
So I think from a drafting perspective and a game-state perspective
Payne needs to slow down if they don't want to get knocked out of worlds in GB
Dagda you take a step back and it just feels really interesting
It's because like
First of all someone had a good laning phase and what felt like should have been a bad matchup
And then also they're playing teamfights better
better. They're looking like the better team. And we are now one game away from an LLA team
making it into main stage for the first time in history. And that's the part that's reasoned
out to me is that they're looking like the better team. The macro is significantly cleaner
for more seven. That's not something I was expecting to say coming into today. So it
really does feel like the LLA is stepping up as a massive unit. And now, as you say,
a single game away from just upsetting the entire Apple Card and Plains, this would be
such a monumental victory for that region.
They can make it happen, Lore.
They just one step away from it making it happen.
And yeah, one game left.
One game separates them from actually making it to the 3 stage.
For the first time ever, campaign gaming come up with a new approach and save this
road for them or will it actually be a Rainbow 7 flying into 3 stage?
Castor's over to you.
Thank you very much, Law. The question that is on everyone's lips right now, will the LLA win this game and be, well, will Rainbow 7 win this game?
It would be the first LLA team to ever qualify for an international main stage.
On the Mentus occasion for R7.
I'm excited. They came out swinging and ultimately the game for them was not complicated.
They just punished consistently. Summit was winning the I-State a match.
But bear in mind, pain gaming first picked the Jax, they had damage confidence on it, partly as a denial away from something
but also it's just something that we want to invest around, we want to play around that strong topside
and then we didn't really see the Jax have any impact in the game.
So I feel like that their draft priorities need to shift clearly.
You can't afford to give Kani the Syndra.
Now of course, the reason why it got so fed was just a lot of over-aggression coming out from the side of pain gaming
from the bot lane, they could have just gotten the kill and then bixed, you know, instead of
just sitting in the brush allowing for the Cain, for the Syndra, sorry, to come bot and
find those opportunities. And you're going to see the Syndra added to the band more.
So clearly the focus has shifted towards denying Cainy those options, the block, the Syndra.
Will we see a third mid lane ban? No, the Renekton still going to be taken away.
They do not want to allow for that blind pick.
Skano and Yone, the same for R7 here alongside that they banned Arianna and there we go, three mid laners removed from the pool.
Wukong has been let through, we'll see if Audie decides that's his cup of tea today or whether something else comes out of the jungle.
Obviously Audie, very experienced on the Wukong, very confident on that champion he is.
Looking like, I mean it's already locked, Jax first pick once again.
So why not just run back a similar draft, you could just go for the Cassante and the Poppy.
It worked for you in game one. I want to see a shift in the AD carry priority though. I didn't like desire
I think that it didn't give you that much control in the mid lane. Oh, they're gonna shift over to the play
They want to guarantee a control mage in the mid lane. This will give I
Guess they were worried about it being taken away from them because I like what they did before where they locked it on
Three, you know, because then if paying gaming wants to lock in their mids at the very least
they're going to be doing it blind. But I guess that under the assumption that the priority bot lane
for paying in is what's going to come through. And now with the Lucian here, you can still ban
out these mits because you know that Nami's going to follow up. Yeah, Kwee, for third most
picked for Jinkero this year. So not too surprising that R7 like, okay, you want to control
mate, you're probably going to go towards that Kwee. Kalki and Azir, the top two.
And then Ari sitting in number four. Lucian Nami already locked in, Poppy in the Kwee for R7.
It's a glasante and there we go as a surprise very similar first set of picks for both teams exactly the same for pain gaming now
Reminder that the poppy is of course a flex pick, but I'm expecting this to go into the jungle once more
our seven
We imagine that they're gonna look to continue banning away mid lane as you can take away things like the Tristana
You can take away the Akali
There's a lot of options for you to limit that pool even more
They're taking their time with this one.
They really want to think about what they want to remove.
Do you ever get rid of the R here?
Just because it's comfort for Junkero,
but there's the Akali that we've already seen here at Worlds.
I don't think R we really can win the push matchup into the way.
I feel like way more interesting as far as you say.
Maybe Atrasana, a possibility.
Nautilus once again taken away by 10 Gaming.
They went for this last time as well.
Well, so if you wanted to target
Can Kato specifically to layer or something you could consider getting rid of something that he is very comfortable on one of his all-time better champions
Instead they're gonna take away the vibe
They don't want to allow that dive threat access onto the backlander decision. Why he is open though. I
Think the Callista makes sense
Say I was already shown that he's not willing to play the gym and said he's gonna go for the Zyre again
I don't love this
Yeah, the thing about it was they got put behind early and it should have been more punishing than it was.
Oh yes.
Hany coming across and getting a double kill is the only thing that saved that bot lane.
And on the way you can still move, you get early-ish push if you can get that lost chapter, but not at level, you know, at level 6.
I think it was that you moved across earlier on.
There's the Sejuani non-committal engage again from the jungle for karaoke.
Not quite locked in yet, but expectations are Sejuani with a jacks with an army.
It's a very powerful combination and there's the Taliyah that you were talking about, Betty.
I wonder if they'll decide to lock it in, they're hovering over the RE right now.
The only reason why I like the Taliyah more is because I think it actually has better
setup with the Sejuani because both I think combo into each other nicely, whereas the
RE is very reliant on that charm.
So I think you just have a little bit more non-committal options with the Taliyah.
Sure.
But they're going to stick with the RE.
They want that side lane option and it's awesome.
they're just going to run it back a shift in the midlaner.
I mean, it's basically the salty run back,
but there's a shift in the jungle for Karaoke
as he moves away from the mouthgown into the Sejuani.
Sejuani, Ari, is a slightly better matchup.
I prefer Sejuani, Jax on the top side of the map,
giving you a much stronger two versus two
to really play through this Jax.
However, I think R7 started the same strengths
that they had before.
Good, long range damage.
I think obviously the burst is very different.
And I think now the contact center
had a lot of damage and got very fed and was able to really burst through any of the
front line that came their way. I don't think Kway has that same type of threat. He has a
lot of versatility. In his kit obviously he's got great poke. He does have good damage
especially when you combine his passive with his ultimate with the Thunderbolt that
he could summon. Mm-hmm. Severing Bolt. Severing Bolt, thank you Medic. But I
do think that the dynamic has shifted slightly, replacing my Syndra for the way. We'll
see how things pan out, this bot lane really needs to have a better laning phase for R7
because I think the pain gaming, the reason why they're running it back is because they're saying
we overstepped, we overcommitted, we made mistakes, but we compete this bot lane 2 vs 2,
we feel like we're better, so give us this matchup once again and we'll get those advantages once again.
They did manage to get advances in the early game. The pain gaming gets do or die.
a matchup. Seen as an easier matchup to qualify for Swiss, no PSG, no 100 thies, of course Rainbow
R7 were the team to put 100 thies on the other side of the bracket and here R7 are one game
away from the main stage at Worlds. For the first time in the history of the LL, they
That can be the history makers near an evolutionary stage for the league as well, of course America
is coming in next year with LLA being combined with other leagues in that region.
For R7 it would be a wonderful topper to 10 years of this rivalry.
For pain gaming, I look to return to the world stage for the first time since 2015
for them and for the first time since 2016 for the CBLON.
I also just think that confidence is crucial, right?
We look at that previous R7 game and that's like a big game for them.
Especially for either of these teams qualifying for the main stage.
It's only getting harder from here.
And truthfully, the reason why these regions and these teams
have struggled to qualify for the main stage for so long
is because the competition has only been made harder.
The format shifts the introduction of 4th Seeds and 3rd Seeds into the playing stage from all the major regions has increased the calibre of competition.
And so for R7 and Paying Gaming to have this opportunity to play against each other to qualify is reminiscent of the old international Wildquark qualification tournaments that we used to have.
And how these teams and regions often found their way into the main stage in the past.
Once again we see T-Town and Kuri gaining control of this bot lane bush. The oracles on Leons not able to clear out that ward as well.
The ward is staying alive.
It's such a difficult lane matchup to play, right? We've talked about the sustaining game, one from that gleaming squibble.
Especially if you miss it.
Yeah, I mean, sort of Kuri. Kuri healed himself and didn't quite connect with the Heaven Floor as well. So, 0-0 for both of us earlier on here.
There we go, and that's the pressure that you can put on summon area as well just ticking over that little bit of extra damage
She's unencouraged we'll get that level two off this minion and Leon's and sale just respecting that back in all the way away
Now
If they match up this time rounds
Ari just doesn't have push early. It's alright. She doesn't
It would be nice if she did but she doesn't and in terms of early trading
Wait actually has a lot of tools in his kit to be able to trade effectively one of the new
I say new but one of the commos I recently learned about on Hway is you actually do a
WE where you get the empowered autos, you combine it with the more, the class, I think it's EE
And it's a really effective way to snap apply the passive which is a quick trade without expending the Q
Which means that then as they're running away you can then hit them with the Q on top of that
You also get the mana back from serving lights, right, the empowered autos
So on top of that, you can also just do like a Q E combo to push the wave and if it landline then you hit them with something else
Right and you apply the passive and it's just is obnoxious for Arius
It was off the back of Kani really in game one that R7 were able to take that victory here pain gaming have the early leaders expected
She's done and curry getting the push down here bubble just wide as karaoke here to defend
He's gonna be able to pick up this first scuttle crab no dive in the office
A lot of farm loss underneath the tower there though, but the knockup also causing a small
cast of minions to be dropped to the tower. Quick base is going to come through, but it's
going to be interrupted. Payne now looking for a quick push. They can even threaten the dive,
but that's why R7 just feels so concerned. And this is the concern that we talked about
coming into this matchup again. We already saw what happened in the first game.
Immediately, Payne getting able to replicate the exact same circumstance.
They're going to track to see whether or not the bot lane has gone back to base.
The early base is going to come in from Kuri and you imagine that Cheetan is going to stick
around as double scuttle on the horizon for Karioka.
Really nice for Karioka here, Vizor is getting pushed in the top lane, meaning that he can
come down and defend this.
Odi with the looking TP, invested by Jinkero in the mid lane.
Karioka is going to come across here.
Jinkero doesn't have the charm, hits that onto Hui.
Jinkero will take about half his health bomb, maybe a little bit more.
80% of it falls, he's gonna have to back away, pops the potion but can't really stay in this lane anymore.
Obviously done. Just a bit of pressure down. Now with the TP already used, it means that
G-Head is just very sad given the circumstances. Level 3 still though for the bot lane of R7.
It's a big wave as well. G-Tan and Kuri have the opportunity to outplay this heal early on.
Audi with a knockback on Takuri, they're waiting for his flash here, the bubble comes out.
Leons goes in for the engage, takes the tower shot by the blind crawler.
Seyo gets on the board, R7 with burst blood in this fight.
Chitan still trying to trade back in, but as soon as Odi turns his head back around, Chitan has to respect her.
But so much farm is still lost. You'll see if the gold, basically all the stun is equalised it because of how much experience and gold has just been lost to the tower.
Now this will increase a little bit as the wave is now being caught by Seyo.
But a nice play from Audi. A play that was very much needed given the amount of pressure that paying gaming's bot lane was putting down onto R7s.
The very least the gold will now be equalized in the bot lane 2 vs 2.
It's just the neutralizer right? You know you're losing this matchup if you can get it even-ish.
That's the win for you. If you get out of the lane with only a couple of hundred gold between the two AD carries you are very happy.
Why is it getting the push here in the top lane?
by those and so first jumps back in with the leap strike but some are just really trying to clear out the wave more than anything
It looks like visor actually having a much better time in this lane than he did in game one
Kani here
Should be aware you can see karaoke waiting in the wings oddies on his way across though
And should be able to cover this as karaoke backs away
Audi was looking for those grubs but doesn't have the push in top
So immediately begins to step away goes across tries to steal away some of these honey food now
He doesn't need them but why why's our all karaoke could have done with those so odd he takes them
Leons comes across to help out looking for these grubs
It looks like visor is going to back away does have the TV
But I think the first three grubs will be going over to our seven karaoke
Just keeps walking forward. It's a magical ability the collapse beginning to come in is curry
It's pinging that he has joined the battle some half HP
Why is the teepees back in with that sheen complete?
Ody looks for another carry, okay, but to get there in time Ody has to flash away, Summon.
Could do the same, but doesn't need to. Two grubs over to PNG.
It was a bit of a misplay there for Ody, he wanted to smite the grub, get the level up, level five,
gives him a bit of extra HP, he can walk out to safety. Unfortunately, one HP!
So he didn't quite have the damage to secure the grub, which means that
Carioca can then walk in, secure the objective, and convert it into
small experience for Carioca, gonna be able to get that level six early.
I wonder if he's looking for the red buff, Top lane has push.
Feels a little greedy, but Ori doesn't have the flash, karaoke.
Stepping his way in, you can see the immediate move from Kayn in the mid lane. Summit here.
That's the counter strike used by Wiser, which gives some of the moments of freedom.
I say is he just dies!
That's the grandmasters' might from Wiser! Just gets the kill!
Cheetah diving in and the bot lane as well has that level 6. Leon's gonna try and block it.
almost falls to the ebb and flow all across the board is coming up pain so
these are the individual towns we were talking about in game one the laning
phases where we can see these pain gaming pain gaming members really shine
why is that was struggling in this matchup in game one he was falling
behind I think he got frozen on by summit which resulted in this huge
experience deficit early on in the lane but this time already finds a solo
kill on to summit a much needed confidence boost and also a big
statement. They ran back four out of the five champions that they lost in in the
previous game and said you know what we misplayed we know we can get the better
of you we just need to take the Syndra away they've done it and now they've
already found themselves nice leads both in top and 80. Trust in your plays
trust in your players right Junketo has had a great year on this army I
think about a 78% win rate on it after losing game one shouldn't remove
your trust from him. Summit here after the counter strike is used and he's
able to escape it I think he's fine but wiser is all the wiser for this play. I mean QW in
and then Flash ulti into the the passive third hit. I think he also got the W as well.
Summer was not expecting that. Had his own flash as well. Only had the opportunity to get away
from it. Audie hex flashing with G-time dashing back won't be able to find and engage. The
first straight is still on the cards for either of these teams. Last time we saw a Grubbs
for Drake exchange. Here we saw eight grubs for grubs exchange between the two.
We're interested to see how these fights play out. So early dragons in the year of the game
so far in this series has been very timid. Now the team really has gotten too chaotic or,
and honestly I was kind of impressed from game one with the amount of cross mapping that was
going on. Pain gaming had a tendency to over stack in terms of members to be able to
secure picks or objectives and R7 was constantly actually training on the map whether it
for plot down mid tower various neutrals. See if something similar happens in this game with
paingaming having the lead that they do not having to be scared of a four zero syndrome after 10 minutes.
Yeah, it makes it slightly easier for you when you know that unleash power isn't an option.
And like a cheat time. I mean, perfect CS right now has been completely dominating in the two
versus two has pretty much a full level of experience advantage over his lane and
in counterpart. Root comes through. Dash is away. The title wave used. Just in case
R7 wanted to go any further. I think if Lyons has been 6, would have made a little bit more
sense because obviously he would have had the quickness but actually having level 5,
they can dive with Eddie, whether it will go well or not. It's a sight we have yet
to behold. Here we go. Why is there no flash? Used it before. Summit has the
all out. She's done there with the culling. Lyons is just going to tank up as much
of it as he can. Audi going in, there's the not-best-severs presence coming in as well and there's the all-out and they can definitely tap dive this very severing bolt from long range for a little bit of an assist from Kani, but that was all summoned in Audi.
I mean, I'm surprised they made that work, really, because Wiser, he knew that I was coming, he was doing his best to keep the minions who are going in with the tower, but Audi made the smart call of knowing we can't wait here any longer, we've got to execute upon this and we've got to make it work.
So the beautiful part of what Audi did was that he flashes over the wall and actually gets why is it out of tower range?
Meaning that now Summit and Audi have a lot less to be afraid of when it keeps committing to that dive.
With the extra damage that they got from Kani, they're able to secure that kill.
Important thing for Payne though is that they are going to get at least four grubs, likely five in
totality. They may stop at four or five, does give you a little bit of extra true damage,
but you're not getting more might spawning from it.
Karioka will go back and look at towards that fifth one with the push that he already have from Chita and Kuri
It makes sense. They're actually even moving them up towards the top side with that
Bolstering of the defensive of the tower falling off for 10 minutes
They can get more plates in top lane if they're up here
Resetting defending Karioka in case anyone decided to fight him around the grubs and now can try and push them back
Yeah, I mean you make a great point by having all these extra grubs
It's just so much easier decision to these objectives and it's just like a small advantage to gain because especially you look at the
bot wave. Weiser is able to push this one through but he may have overstepped.
He does have Flash who kept one plate. He is level 9 as you say. Knock back, not
tanking the tower. Counter strike comes out. Rooted up with the blade. Caller,
Weiser does still have the Flash. Will he use it or will he save it? I think the
answer is save. They'll pop the Grand Master's Knight. That's a much shorter
cooldown in the end. He pulls. A good gank there for Molly.
Yeah, I mean, just a misstep from Weiser. He really can't afford to be
pushing out alone, especially with the jungle on the top side of the map.
Summit respecting the threat of a dive, of course, ultimately the advantage that
paingaming wanted was access to this top lane tower. By pushing in that bot wave
yes they do lose their top laner, but they're already gonna start chipping away
this tower and they can funnel Morgul into Cheetah's pockets. So gonna be doing
something similar but not at the same rate and you're seeing the value of
those grog's life.
The only reason why he's overextended is because he's got a lot of the damage he's got.
He's got a lot of the damage he's got.
He's got a lot of the damage he's got.
He's got a lot of the damage he's got.
respecting the numbers advantage that R7 have.
Like, yes, on paper, you're sending a saying,
Kane is overextended in mid.
But the only reason why he's overextended
is because he knows that his team is right behind him.
He's playing with the knowledge that he has,
Audi and Lyons to support him.
And Lyons on this recarne once again,
demonstrating his expertise on the champion.
Great pure provided.
TP available for Kane, but instead,
he's going to go catch foot wave with the cannon there.
This should comfortably go over to Seo as well.
So even though,
paying and finding advantages in the bot lane,
The rest of the map is very quickly falling apart.
And it is still a slight gold lead, four paint overall.
About 500 ahead. You can see the lead for Chitanda.
600 gold in advantage.
Alongside that, Kuri has an equal lead.
Has now finished that Imperial mandate on the Nami,
which just gives the Lucian even more damage.
You can see the culling threats onto Seiya.
We've already seen an AD carry die to a culling.
We're not expecting the damage.
Neon's coming in from the side.
We'll be able to dash back and join up with his teammate, but might stay around to defend, and of course use that duo recall, the lovers recall, right at the last moment, if he so desires.
But Phil H. Peetian with still two wards in his pocket, he'll stay out on the map for the moment.
Kaynni needs to be a little cautious here, because Kuroi and Karioka are making a beeline for this blue side jungle, just to defend Wiser on the push.
more gold in the pockets of Payne's summit won't be able to take tower in the top lane as a Reckon
Pence, he will get a bit of chip damage onto it. I mean, a lot of the gold that Payne gaming have is
thanks to these two out of towers they've been able to secure as R7 leads in terms of the kills.
Audis by himself. Yeah, he started the hell, I did notice this happening but once again he's
completely isolated. Placial prison not quite connecting onto Audis summit there to jump in
as well, Karin, Chitan have to push their force, Leon's away, the Rift held resets,
Karioka still looking for more.
Lands the poem of Frost. Summit's now gonna be flanked as Cheetan's on his way across.
Hank splashed from Audi straight, face-blinding into the wall, but gets over afterwards.
There's the quickness as well, but this is only a poppy.
The keeper's verdict stuck with the tide away.
Kaney came in from the topside. Summit looking for a little bit more.
Cheetan flashes the wall, spiraling.
The spare is on him, but the spare only felt by R7.
Wiser here to join the party. A1, B2, 4.
The moment's sale trying to escape has that better storm.
But the empowered Lampos when Vyza slaps him into the dirt!
Skirmish after Skirmish, Pain Gaming get exactly what they wanted.
Not a full on 5v5, not a front to back brawl, but Audi being isolated around the Herald.
Summit using his skills to provide peel.
The bot lane of Pain Gaming catching Kani isolated in the top lane.
There's not a Syndra burst that they have to be worried about.
He's fully confident that he can commit to that play and find that kill.
The kill score was 4-1 moments ago, now they find themselves 4-4 with a 2.5k gold lead.
Huge lead now for Payne Gaming.
Next Drake on the cards for them as well, they can continue stacking those up.
It is a Cam Drake, so not the biggest priority, but we'll see what the soul is.
The Cloud and Cam already off of the cards.
The aggression from Cheetan as well, flashing the wall straight into the face of that spiraling despair.
Kayn he really couldn't react in time, couldn't get that fear down.
here, no feather storm for him. Leon's realized this he needs to help out his teammate. This
tower almost down, those mites helping out of course. The wave cleared just in time,
Gita stepping forward, we'll get the auto down. Already has a BF sword alongside that essence
reverb. It's three tasks to zero, Medic. Yep. PNG have just been leveraging the strength of this
bot lane all around the map. Wiser while he did get caught out a few times, he's still a very
powerful Jackson. Now they've set the sights on Summit who's still trying to chip away at
this tower. There he is, Summit in a side lane. It's kind of what he does. Gets caught
out a little bit overextended, doesn't know where anyone else is on the map right now
and Junkedo Kuri and Chitan are looking to show him what's up. And Tofus come out.
Junkedo uses the Spirit Rush Summit to dash away. Flash is the charm as well, but Karioka
invites a lot of having none of this. Karioka dashes in with the Arctic Assault Summit.
Doesn't really have many tools left at his disposal and they're standing on the
right side of the wall to avoid the wall out. It bought some time, which I think was Kani
some time on the bot lane tower, and a little bit for Sayo in mid.
I will say, they sent five people top, mate. Gotta kill him, buddy, but I...
Gotta kill him. I don't think it was worth it.
It's Cassante, mate. Four and a half thousand HP, fifteen second CD's.
I mean, yes.
Can they get the Ritone?
I mean, they do, and that's valuable. I will acknowledge, but they gave up mid tier one
and bot tier one.
No, mid tier one still stands. They gave us some damage on the mid tier one.
Oh no, top tier one. Top tier one they did.
Yeah, so two towers ended up falling, and the only good news is that the top tower, I mean, didn't give local gold over, I guess.
Yeah, that's true.
But, sure, you kill Summit, your gold difference has decreased a little bit.
But we saw in the Master God lane economy, Snapshot for a second there, just how far Cheetan is ahead.
A thousand gold, his lead in the bot lane.
He also, like Lucian Narm here, is just such a deadly combination.
Infinity Edge and Essence Reaver for him.
Alongside that Imperial mandate, he is absolutely blasting now.
thing now. This is a very strong lotion indeed. Chitan, a player that had... I mean he's not
a rookie. No, he's been around a while. I remember when we cast him for his first time on the
international stage. I remember forgetting his name in an interview. In the middle there
was one of my first ever international cast I just entirely forgot his name. Yeah, it's
crazy to think that he's been competing now for seven years and the man is an experienced
veteran and it's great to see that especially in situations like this on the world stage
she's able to play with this level of confidence because what you need the pain with the backs against the wall
Down a game in this best of three
It's that confidence that they're gonna need. Let's drag it about three minutes away a minute and a half till baron
It's at this stage where we sometimes see playing seems crumble fall apart
leveraging your strength in the sidelines
setting a proper vision control around the the jungle
leveraging that pro into moving into sides, controlling objectives, getting lost
in the fights, getting caught out is often what we'll see where these mid
games can devolve into chaos and skirmishing. Now the good news is that
Lucian is a champion that thrives in a sort of chaotic skirmish environment, so
they definitely set up the successes and other culling comes down and so is
immediately forced off the mid wave, but pain gaming they don't really have
much to play for right now so it's just a matter of catching waves,
controlling vision and working towards those next core items. I like the the
argument behind dash forward use the culling then forth say it's a back and
then rift held off the back of that right you denying the enemy one man so you
can try and get a charge on a tier two probably not going to take the full tier
two until you manage to win a fight but I do like the idea of that little bit
of chip damage especially with the rift held still being available for carry
okay but at the moment as you say just waves shoved out waves caught it's
Nice game of a back and forth between these two teams kind of has to be of course R7 would love to be able to secure that mid tier one
But it's extremely difficult when she's done has so much control over it
Ari's wave there at this point is also pretty comfortable
Which means that they should be able to hold on to this wave. Sorry this tower for a good while
Giving them a lot more control when it comes to access to the river
Can he once again being shadowed by his support?
This means that Junkedo gonna have to showcase that respect.
It's PNG, setting up nicely around the dragon. They have the push in mid, they've got the push in bot.
They haven't really invested much vision just yet, but here it starts to come through.
Just trying to get that superficial vision moved into L, a little bit of a deeper spot.
Drake up in a minute's time would be the third of the game, four pain gaming.
There's the coming once again into the back of Ori.
Sayo taking a chunk as well. You can see Ori half HP.
Place your prism coming out as well, Leons gets the charm onto the backline, and the Spivelling to spare his career as well.
Storm surge procs, and Leons goes down, but the support's traded by the midlaners.
Keeping track of what was used in that exchange as well.
A lot of summon has gone from the bot side of the map of R7.
Ari still has the ultimate too in exchange for Canes.
Looks like he's going to go back to base, which means that this dragon is going to be a difficult one to contest.
There's the ult!
Crossping, more just clipping Junkedo as he tried to jump in.
The ult goes out as you say that Spirit Rush charm.
Just why didn't connect onto Sao or Cane.
Sao does still have that cleanse.
Pain Gaming just trying to deny as much away from r7 as possible.
Take the camps, take their vision, and hopefully take their lives and take us to a game 3.
Support to return to the map.
Beyond's close to level 9.
Couple extra stats on the horizon.
There they are secured.
And here we go once again set up around the dragon wise of a nice push on the bot wave
So she's just gonna be started. Yeah, it's just a growing the dragon slows you as well this ocean Drake
Why is it? Looks like he's gonna back does have the TP all seven should know
He was there because he was clearing out a ward
Drake down to three thousand seven on that front line. We're tell charging through that mid lane now
Good keepers verdict will not come back and all he secures the Drake Leon stashing forward dashes back with the ground entrance
Ryza is still looking for that blank position but he is feared away by the wait.
Can they get out of here? Is the big question.
T-Tan dashing forward, Pathmaker out, Wiser trying to get them to the back line by Junkado.
Has been caught up with a spiraling despair, Bull's low.
Keenie falling lower though, Ryza takes the kill.
Another counter strike lands to Starnizoni who has to flash away.
Meanwhile down towards the bottom side, T-Tan is fighting with Seyo and he takes him out.
Even through the feathers still on T-Tan finds the kill.
In the skirmishes and in the chase, Pain Gaming are able to find more kills.
They do concede the dragon denying them sole point, but potentially they open up a baron opportunity.
They're able to push in mid, they make their way towards the objective.
All five members are alive, and we're the only Audi there to potentially steal pain gaming a setup to bring us one to one.
You can see the things from pain gaming, like we need vision behind this bit, because that Poppy has a hex flash,
and damned if we get out of worlds on a hex flash, it's like,
Audi currently working on those razor beats. Tinkero here dodges away from the knock-up.
Audi just needs to be stopped. All the deception coming out means that Hex Flush can't quite be
online yet. Glacial Prison used as well. This is good so far from pain gaming to keep the enemy
jungler out of the pink. Pain gaming will take the Baron and now the next three minutes well
in their control. A worthwhile trade for pain gaming as they're able to just run down
their opposition. Nice knockback from the ultimate of Audi. Good damage initially
onto Leons but notice at the start of the fight R7 is just straight onto the
retreat. You're seeing the difference between the way in Syndra where you're
so much more scared to face check and then Kana takes a very dangerous path
through the jungle allowing for the Jax easy access onto that mid laner.
Flash is in knowing that there's little that they can do to stop him.
Meanwhile the AD carries that completely isolated Cheetah working with his
jungler to secure that kill, results in a baron.
Together has a flash here, Odi looking for something, Leon's going in with the quickness as well.
The charm lands onto Leon, so he tries to dash back forward, knocked out.
The charm expired by that point, she's done. Now pushing in the bottom lane as R7
need to retreat. They need to get back, but they don't have those empowered recalls.
And now with the baron buff, Hane gaming pushing in, looking for those inhibitor towers.
They have two waves synced up right now. The mid wave almost taken out by Kani,
but the bot lane inhibitor already down to a third HP the wave only a
cannon minion there now bolstered. PNG continue to push forward.
Chetan knows there's no quickness, there's no threat from Leon's diving in.
He still has that cleanse as well. The mid inhibitor tower stands with a sliver of HP.
For the moment R7 are able to hold on to their inhibitors.
Chetan and Kuri waiting around the corner. Holy hell!
Seyo almost gets atomized by the damage there from Cheetan, the rapid fire cannon doing absolute work for him right now.
Will take him a while to get through Summit, but still devastation so far from PNG from Cheetan.
A 3000 gold lead for him, wiser as well, two and a half K ahead.
I just have to say how much I admire the fact that pain gaming decided to run back such a similar draft and say,
A ball and one before they can do it again.
On Kana, he's just able to survive the tidal wave coming out.
Kana will be able to get back to base the flash ball with Summit looking for something here as well.
As Pain Gaming were able to disengage, Curry gets out of Summit's embrace.
The mid lane and Hibata Tower still somehow standing.
Pain Gaming were looking for it, but couldn't quite find that tiny little bit more damage to take out Kana.
Wow.
Such a shift. And I think what's super impressive to me is how, for the most part, when R7 got the lead, they largely cleaned out the game very smoothly.
And then, pain gaming in a very similar fashion, they've been able to open up the inhibitor on the bot side of the map.
The mid lane towers take significant damage. And as long as pain gaming continue to take this patient approach, they know that they have the item advantage.
They know they're so much stronger. And when the Baron wearing off, they can just set it for the next dragon.
continue to play out this game
methodically a 7k gold lead
and look at the bring us the game 3
convincing fashion
they should be able to do it from this sort of position
Kani is at 2.5 items
you can see how that gold difference
has just exploded
for pain gaming
not willing to bow out of worlds
just yet a swiss spot
on the line
the CBLOL 8 years since the region last made it
pain nine obviously r7 fighting for the right to be the first ever lla
representatives in that world swiss stage but right now they are fighting
against a brick wall pain of a women just to fight it methodically play it
slow your soul is delayed obviously you won the fight around the last straight
but I don't think r7 are gonna give you a fight around this one they just
wanted to fend want to clear out these minions try and get Kani two three
items. I genuinely think this time round R7 just don't actually have the damage. Like I think in
game one the fact that Syndra got fed was obviously helpful but Syndra just changed the dynamic of the
comp so much compared to what is a very traditional control mage in wave who like I guess has a good
amount of burst which is the damage isn't comparable. Summits.
Yes, Tiantofo's Glacial Prison going wide. Summit goes in with the all-out, but that's Harpist.
Halpist has just gone immediately, and alongside it, the rest of it.
She turned on a killing spree on this Lucian.
Summit maybe could have got out when that Glacial Prison missed, but Karioka was looking for the flash predict,
and now Sayo down to Harp HP as well. The mid-lane in-hit will be bought for pretty sharp this year,
as Pain Gaming begin to raise the base of R7 to the ground.
a nine day performance between game one and game two for Summit getting caught up multiple times.
His death may lead to game two falling to the end of their gaming.
In with the charm, only onto Audi, that's the title waivers.
Well, Karioka caught up with the bladecaller.
Wiser just looking for the towers. Leon tries to get in, but an Arctic assault stops him in his track.
Another charm cleansed him easily.
Biser has to use the feather storm defensively.
Wiser there, grasping more on him.
It's still not enough damage to get through the stairaxe, the sundered sky, the Trinity Force.
The wiser has collected across this game.
A flawless game from Cheetah. His spacing, his aggression in the fights.
Able to do so much damage as well with the Choms. Finally starting to connect from Jinkedo.
They secure two inhibitors. They're on to a point.
Ooh, base is going to come through.
And now the Baron becomes the next big objective for paying gaming to play for.
No reason not to take your time. They could if they want to just commit to the top tower.
They know with Super Minions seeding and the bottom mids.
They can even send Ari off onto one of the lanes with the threat of the TP.
The bases are a little disconnected on the side of pain gaming just because Jin Kato's
recall got interrupted.
But they're in a great spot. Look at this wave on the bot side of the map.
What was the threat of a TP with the potential end on the line? Only a single Nexus tower stands.
And Kani is going to be the one sent across to deal with that summit.
It's a bit of a culling, but with the TP coming in, Jin Kato just wants to join up with his team.
Sharpish.
Cainy should be able to get the push down towards that bottom side
but us seven really don't have an avenue to approach this and no way into their own jungle no vision around the baron
May have one ward in the pit looking at the mini map right now
They have one just up towards the top side yet
They do so pain gaming haven't truly denied that vision
But if you just play in the enemy base for three minutes, you know those words are going to expire anyway
Don't have to rush it. You are well in control of this game 8,000 gold ahead
Looks like karaoke now gonna jump into the pit
and they still haven't used an oracles so this is fully known by R7, Ginkero there
looking for the charm, Oddy poking his head around the corner, Seyo doing the
same currently they only see Chitano and karaoke there, Weiser looking for that
flank position, Summit on the front line TP coming in by Kana, Glacier Pism across
the wall, Seyo low with that feather storm, Weiser jumps in immediately onto Kana
he's knocked into the wall, Summit trying to survive the frontline, Weiser
Wiser gets one already and Ginkado is dashing across that wall.
Spiral and Despair is the name of the game for R7.
The way Ultimate does nothing, Ginkado has to flash away from the molten fissure.
Oddie gets the slam into the wall, but he's slammed into a coffin by PNG.
Wiser just gets so much access onto the backline.
A great flank from him from the crugs allows him to just decimate the R7,
carries and clean up the fight for PNG.
With the Nexus in their eyes, PNG are going to bring us to one-on-one.
One more for the road, CBLO, one more for the road.
Liga, Latin America, Cana and Leon, can't even survive on their fountain.
They are aced, their Nexus spools, and we're going all the way to game three.
A commanding response with an extremely similar draft to game one.
Paying gaming's bot lane did so much work in this game.
Cheats out with a 507 scoreline wiser with a solo kill.
They've done an incredible job of bouncing back, which means that there's only one game left to determine who will qualify for the main stage.
Don't go anywhere. As we go, talk a quick break.
I think it's a good move, even if you just flash on cooldown, even if you just save it for the next fight, it's a starting for the game.
from both these teams and I want them to fight until the very end but what was this game about guys?
Yeah I mean for me you know how in game one we're talking about how they needed to stabilize the
Syndra get that out of there they did a great job of doing that but one problem has now remained
on the side of paying gaming. What's the problem? And I think that problem is very much allusion
down in that bot side they cannot have that PSYCHO in solution again they need to stabilize it
game one about mid lane game two about bot lane now they need to find a way to go and even
even footing here. Like I just hate the Zaya. I know it is a comfort pick. He's picked it
quite a few times, but on the Excitement on game one, huge lead. Game two, I know we'll
go into it, but as you can see from the gold graph in front of you, they were able to actually
maintain the lead that Chiton was able to have and just run that game over. Back in
game one, myself and Raz were chatting and we were saying, at least I was like, look
at the Jinx. Jinx here with so little backline threat would work out perfectly. And
I think GB also highlighted the lack of Syndra. It was so important.
This pick gave them a lot of engage.
It gave them the opportunity to try and play around a bunch of this.
The picks that they found in those fights and turn around a lot of the engages.
But without that, it just wasn't the same.
And it meant that Cheetah had this complete free will to do what he wants
and then control bot plus the control on top for Wiser.
Yeah, just forget about the class.
And as you can see right in front of you, like that's the average
Game 2, Ziya was down 40. Game 1, down 30 CS.
And in game 1, like, if the dive went off and they had completely backed away, how bad is that game state for Rainbow 7?
So I just don't think, if we are willing to play against Lucian Nami, let's go towards another bot lane pick entirely.
Regardless of specific champions here, I would like you guys to tell me what did we understand about both teams and their strengths coming here today.
today because leading into this game three I feel like what happened before doesn't really matter
similar approach in both games when it comes to draft and they have they have their league of
legends right they have the right approach and I doubt that they're gonna bring something spicy to
the table so what is it gonna come down to yeah I mean we we already know that both these regions
are very passionate but I would wish that R7 got a bit more passionate about their early
objective as well because I genuinely think they didn't hit the mark yet they lost out on
five drops they lost the first streaks as well right but you can see it as well just
just pain gaming coming back here.
The fan support was there already.
You can hear it in my ears already.
There's this region right now.
They want to make it happen.
I think that's what it's so important now.
Pain gaming needs to be able to stabilize,
to make it to main stage.
And for LLA, you've got a big issue you need to fix here.
And that's the thing.
I think for R7, it's trying to have a more
temperate early game, because I think
they are punishing pain gaming well
when they get to the mid game.
Like over five man top to try and pick off someone.
Over, we're getting in the mid tower,
we're getting in the top tower,
actually trading open a lot of these objectives.
but with how much control pain gaining have one on the objectives in the
arena stage and two on that bottom lane,
you need to find some way to try and fix this because otherwise you're just running
away with it in the team fights for pain gaining.
Taking a step back here and specifically focusing on LLA,
we know, we know how important it is for them.
We know how every plane of here and says important for them and how close
this is the closest they've been to making history here guys.
And I'm just wondering in cases like this,
it matters whoever wants it more.
Yeah, I feel and in that sense you have veterans on the LLA side you have you have show who've been here for ages and who
Who've been praying who've been hoping for a moment like this and this is their chance to see this
Yeah, and even zero in a zeroing in on on the team leader in OD because on some of those moments like on that graph that you
Saw a little earlier on he was a part of two of those when he was on issa risk gaming
He was a part of that team when it was online game
He was a part of that team this is like and he's been a part of many team including MSI
a lot of opportunities to make it.
He's one game away to being able to, like,
kind of stock that ticket into main stage.
So incredibly important to be calm
because I felt like they have made
gradual improvements over the time.
A, in the boot camp when they're in Europe
and then over the time of this tournament,
I felt like that improvement has been there.
Playing through their solo lanes has to be
the priority. Getting a playmaker for Kani
and just trying to play around what Summit wants to do,
wants to do, I think is the best objective and stabilizing bot lane is a need.
And those scenes you see in front of you right now, those are some of the most
important five, ten, whatever minutes they have right here in the break to really make
sure that all this connects. Because none of them are going to be perfect. We've
already seen that. But these moments they have in the back now, this is where
the composure needs to come through. This is where you show how well you
actually deal with the pressure. We've seen multiple times teams getting
knocked down and not be able to come back. Now for our seven, they need to
prove that they're able to bounce back with a game plan that works for them.
I like you call with the stylistics here. I think as soon as they stabilize those bot side play for those solo lanes
They clearly a huge strength of them and that's the thing where's the momentum now because after dominant game from r7
After the best 10 minutes short, but in game one the way pain gaming bounced back here
What is the expectation here leading in game 3?
I think the fact you get champ select is gonna help champ
Champ select side selection coming into this is gonna make things a little bit easier for a 7
Maybe they can try and take away the Lucian and maybe they can try and look for something that makes things a little bit easier
But I think it's just going to be a case of trying to find comfort when you're in a situation like this
It's going back to what works for you show what you can you're capable of it's how worse ever
We're able to beat a hundred thieves bringing out something like that Orianna nocturne
Try and find something that can come through because this is not only a battle for your main event
Opportunity but a battle to take over South America to show that you are the better region to show that you can stand up
And be accounted for when it matters when it is only your one
One moment you need to make account and this is it.
It has been a battle for pain gaming all year long,
for titan overcoming their demons,
defeating their ultimate, defeating Laos,
getting in the situation they're in today.
And on the side of R7, 10 years in the making
on the side of OD Show and all these players
who've been playing for a decade
to get into the situation they're in today.
It's game three right now.
Last chance for either of these teams
to make it to the three stage.
Casters, over to you.
You said a best law, the last chance for either of these teams to make it into Swiss.
The final hurdle overcoming someone from South America, a team basically your neighbors between
pain gaming here and R7.
It's bittersweet in a sense, right?
Because someone's, in a sense, dreams is going to be made to have that chance to compete
against the best teams, but someone's will be denied.
Yeah, I'm sure for the team that wins, it's pretty sweet, sweet, pretty sweet.
The team that loses is pretty fit a bit of it, right?
Yeah.
But we even heard in the teaser where
pain players were talking about how they need to see them
as rivals coming into this, right?
And obviously there's the friendly, combative rivalry
in the sense of like wanting to compete against each other
to make each other better as well.
But today they will have to deny each other a spot
at the main stage.
But one of them will qualify.
One of them will have that opportunity to go up
against the best teams that the world has to offer.
And this draft is what will determine.
Yonek gonna remain on the band pool.
Syndra Leblanc likely to follow alongside from Pain Gaming,
given Kaini's recent support.
Kaini's recent performance.
There's the Syndra.
Now Skana, what is going to happen with that?
Because typically we've been seeing that Leblanc,
the Syndra and the Renekton
from the side of Pain Gaming,
but this time around R7 have the option
to leave the Skana open, but they're not going to.
Instead, they're gonna ban it themselves.
Volusion I feel has to make it away to the band table unless they want to play it themselves
first pollution would be
Something I didn't expect coming into world's planes, but something that has defined this series
Chitans power on that pick alongside Kuri's Nami has been
Devastating for our seven Jax their final band they're mixing things up there now on the blue side before it was the Orianna
But pain gaming have done themselves a solid goal in a bit pain gaming now going to remove the Lucian themselves
So the walk is open now. I'm not saying you should first pick a long first pick the one to save it
But renec-ton also it's your first pick the renec-ton though. No instead you go for the sejuani
I think that this makes a lot of sense body has a sense of comfort and an ability to
Act as a frontline and more reliable engage on the poppy you have good disengaged tools
that he was, but they were
very reliant on the arms acting
is an engaged tool and
ultimately punching the
message on paying game. But
this time there's more
agency given over to Audie.
How will paying gaming
respond? Will they look for
the early connective priority?
Will they continue to prioritize
that box out of the map?
I'd be very surprised. I am
surprised. I'm a genk. Oh,
incredibly comfortable on this
thing. Hold on thing to
note. He I think he's only
this series. So giving him something he's comfortable on in a game where you think he needs to be a pivotal part of your composition does make sense. But as you say, a little bit surprising, considering the fact that
Cainy has had his number for most of this series. The charms obviously now alongside the Wukong for karaoke can do a lot of work.
I'm wondering if Kani thinks about going for a LeBlanc.
Like, I guess you can argue that there's not really a really good matchup, like a stompy type of matchup that you could dominate on.
You could go for the something like an Akali, but I don't love it this early on in the draft.
The Renekton makes sense for Summit. They're very safe blind.
They're going to have to go for the blind anyway.
But you lock in an AD carry here.
No, they're just going to go for the LeBlanc.
I think it makes sense, like, early on in the matchup, very similar to every matchup that we've seen so far,
is you have a lot of advantages against the Ari in the 1 vs 1.
Once you get level 6, I think it becomes a lot more of a skill matchup,
which obviously the charm can be a very powerful tool.
But yeah, okay, so the high priority on the Ari, like Donghae Miro on game 2, he definitely had a lot more impact.
Some of his charms still went wide, but later on to the game, he was landing those crucial picks.
As a side laner, Ari is a fantastic champion.
How do they round out their first half? Do they want to lock in a top laner here? Something like the NAR for Wiser could make a lot of sense.
They're really paranoid about giving this bot laner something comfortable to have agency on to win it on the 2 vs 2
and so they're going to take the Kalista and then ban away the Ash.
Okay, I do quite like this strategy.
The question is, where can R7 go with their bot lane?
We're not taking away Kalista, we're not. It's just such a powerful combination.
Nautilus next maybe?
Nautilus as well would make sense. Even a rel, a rel collector is so powerful.
It really depends on how R7 want to play it, because you could look for something like the Ezreal
and just play back and then rel is not as powerful because you can just play on the back foot.
One of Kareem's most comfortable champions is his Alistar. True.
And they can save that for last pick too, so they can wait and see, but he's played
five different champions across five different games. Of course the last two
Nami games he's played as well, he's got a lot of versatility.
and they're going to respect that possibility as well.
Korea had a fantastic performance on the champion yesterday.
So what will their pick be? You have to imagine it's top laner.
It's like it's safe. It gives you isolation in a teamfight as well.
You can pull that Renekton out, stopping from getting onto your backline
or focus down the enemy AD or support.
It's the safest blind you can pick in this situation
and with support being left for last, they are giving Korea
everything he needs to succeed against whatever R7 decide to pick as their bot lane.
What will it be? Maybe they just play safe, maybe they just go for something like the Ezreal.
I wouldn't mind Ezreal well, I'll be honest, I don't think it's the best in terms of dominating that lane,
but it gives you so much teamfight later on and if Kani can get control of the mid lane,
we've seen how well he can do when he starts to move around.
A similar thing, obviously the slow from Riptide helping out, the staggering blows as well, onto the Callister, also a denial away from that Callister North we were talking about, Betty.
My brain's saying Samira could be good here.
No, I don't think it's going to be Samira.
The trade course voice in your head right there, it's like, Nila, Samira, Nila, Samira. It's obviously not going to be Rek'Sai Varus.
I like this. Yeah, that's fine. On hit Varus, I think, is still very strong.
The problem with Varus is the amount of mobility you have to things like Wukong. It's a scary thing to play into.
I think I would prefer a rail, but maybe they're concerned about the amount of lockdown that they have.
Mavkav would give you a lot more utility, but the rail is going to be the lock-in for Kuri.
And I think this makes the most sense, because even it's a champion that typically you associate with,
Once you're in, you're in. But Kalista provides that extra bit of security for either a re-engage
or to just take, in case the engage doesn't quite go the way that you want it, you can bring your
support out to safety. But a lot of great team-fighting tools coming out from the side of pain gaming.
The Wukong get a skill nicely and provide that additional damage later on into the game,
which means this mid-jungle combo is going to be lethal, especially with finding picks on a
side lane or just going for those early scrimmages. Meanwhile, R7, they have a lot of poke at
at their disposal with both the Plonk and Varus champions that leverage Fog of War exceptionally well.
They're a scary duo to face-check into, especially with an homeless pair alongside them,
with R7 having an incredibly powerful bot lane top two versus two.
Renekton Sejuani is a very potent combo that we've seen multiple times.
Renekton consistently denied away by the side of pain gaming.
A lot on the line, it feels like the comfort has been given across the board,
especially for these two midlaners who I think are going to be pivotal in the
success of their respective teams in the LLS versus CBLOL fighting for that last
big stage spot. The voices of the fans echo the voices around the world.
Every dream of your region lying on your shoulders right now.
The League of Latin America looking to, for the first time, make it into that world's main stage
for their evolution into America's next year for CB of all eight years in the desert.
The pain nine for all these players standing on the shoulders of those who came before in their regions
looking to do them proud one last time before the Americas comes in next year
and we get to see them challenge all again under a brand new banner.
Lines of skirmishes set out across the map here.
Sayo playing very safe back towards the tower.
Looks like they've been early ward down towards that bottom lane
to track if anything spicy was happening.
But I doubt there's spice here, Betty.
Just a little bit of salt and pepper.
It's German Schaaf, if that's what this is.
In the old chat right now, Kani and Ginkero saying,
I like you.
I like you too.
And now they're going to try and beat the hell out
of each other for 30 minutes.
And we're here along for the ride.
As you said, a rivalry between the two regions, 9-4, 10-3, sorry, in favour of CBLOL across the last 10 years.
LLA have been denied so many times.
I mean, it's crazy to think how many times both of these regions have come close to qualified to the main stage, and they've been denied.
To have that opportunity against one another.
I mean for pain gaming so many times they were close to representing the CBLOL being denied five finals in a row
They made as an organization always getting second place them at the sixth opportunity making it through
Leon's hit taking down to about half HP something that's a little overlooked in the rail normalist matchup
Is the fact that rail can break through your Titans Roth shield as the normalist so you don't have that
Tool at your disposal to the same degree you usually would obviously that means she has to have held her shattering strike
which is often used as a possible engage tool.
Kani here, once again, winning the mid lane matchup early on,
is a little bit of a struggle for Ari early doors
because of the mobility of the LeBlanc before level six.
I mean, it's also just,
you can't really trade against LeBlanc.
I mean, Ari is not a good training champion.
If that hasn't become clearer over the last three games,
I'll try and make it clear to you now.
She's not a great training champion.
She connects a charm, she gets a good chunk,
which is what gives her agency and lane,
but that's what makes it so difficult, right, is you need to land that charm now.
LeBlanc is going to leverage the wave to kind of navigate through,
leverage them as a wall so you can't connect that charm,
and you kind of have to predict when that aggression is going to come through
in order to connect it. If you throw it too early, it makes it even easier
for LeBlanc to get a nice charm.
So while it can be a skill matchup,
a lot of the responsibility falls on the RE to be able to find those outplays
as LeBlanc continues. Oh, a cannon being lost there.
It looks like...
Chief and I are kind of pretending that they won an early back here, coming back into the lane.
You can see Sao and Leons thinking about it.
Charmed does hit on Zakeny in the mid lane.
Ginkado trading positively there.
The hook.
Ooh.
He'll be bendable at that.
And it's one of those lollipopping situations where you're like,
that shouldn't have hit me, but it ends up doing so
because of the way that Nautilus Q works and a lot of those books work.
Are you seeing that with the lines?
Well, one line is for Terrain and the other one is for Champions.
And then it has a little bubble at the end, right?
Yeah.
Little bit of lollipopping, Audie here, pushing in and Ginkedo is down to about half HP.
I mean Audie might just be like, hey mate, you don't get any of this CS.
Ginkedo forced away, there's the first chain landing, but Kani just going in and immediately dying.
Ginkedo will follow suit, Audie only level 3 to the level 4 of karaoke and now he needs to get the hell out of there.
We'll leave him in the permafrost, does half the flash, karaoke can follow and he still brings down the star.
and g-fine to the dive ill advised I said that Jim Kato played that as well as he could have
Because he connects the charm once the chain has connected because that crucially to tower aggro onto Kani
Which when the two tower shots connected?
So he was trying his best to get us the kill before that happened
But he wasn't able to do it allowing them to went out on the two versus two now the bot lane
I'm looking for the engage here, so having to flash away does still have that barrier.
Night ticking as well.
Kuri burnt both his summoners for that exchange, but as a support in this situation, you take
that trade every single day, especially since the dive is beginning to materialize here
for pain gaming.
Try to put Seyo and Leon's even further behind though.
Try and get the shove out.
Leon's acting as that body man, that bouncer.
It looks like in the end, pain gaming will call it off.
Ok, don't need to be careful about these roams.
In terms of the gold being pretty even in the mid lane, the problem is like look at the farm, the experience.
This is going to be a problem if he keeps looking for these roams and he has to be very cautious about how much he is actually moving.
Now the way he's pushing towards him, so that's the good news.
But if you were to die on a dive now, there will be some very serious problems.
Meanwhile, Odi has been stealing away some camps on the top side of the map.
It's the first chain.
Keynes doesn't have two chains yet, but we'll have those at his disposal relatively shortly.
Curie here.
Clashdowns gets a shield.
Season up by the Varus.
Audie trying to trade with Karyoku again.
Doesn't have the double buffs, of course.
Gifted those over to the Wukong earlier on, but with Keyne having to push in the mid lane.
Summit under the tower.
Wiser would have jumped away.
Summit just hit 6 off that as well, and Wiser decides that he doesn't want any more of that.
We'll back then TP back in with a much fuller health bar
You press tab and you see that mid CS diff and you are stressed
But the good news is the goal difference is not that big of a deal
Unfortunately, we didn't get to see a replay of the skirmish that happened in mid
But Ginkero did do a really good job and showcased why that charm is so crucial in the matchup now that he's gotten level six
You'll have a lot more security and safety. Thanks to the ultimate that
Kani, knowing how strong he is, lands the jump, chains.
First chain, bashes back away from Kuri, Leons.
He wants to join the fray, hooks the minion.
Sometimes you've got to show him who's boss, can get a forced away, does have no TP and no flash.
So we'll take a while to come back into this fight.
Kuri could try and hold the wave, but I don't think that's the wisest thing to do.
Look at the experience difference in midline now.
It's basically a full level.
and having this much control on the mid wave means that it's very difficult for
karaoke to really do much he is playing towards the strong side of the map which
is the bot lane for now as the swap did come through numbers advantage
guaranteed for R7 alternate the means of trade in objectives as the gold
largely stays relatively even with advantages coming out on top and mid
in favour of R7 plate gonna be secured as well
we talked about how these mid laners gonna be crucial for the results of
the game. Kani off to a great start. The Karaoka on this Wukong in a position to be a real threat
himself. We've already seen that Sao doesn't have the flash available. I'm wondering if they can
consider a dive in the near future. Potentially set up a stacked wave towards Blot. Kato with a
little bit more wave there now. Not quite enough to one-shot the wave, having invested in
the early magic resistance to help get him through this matchup. The risk for Junkato is
You don't have flash, you do have spirit rush as you say, so you do have a little bit more flexibility in this,
but at every opportunity, Kane is going to be trying to put you under as much pressure as possible.
You can even see Leon's actually moving up from the bottom lane.
Having Sayo just stay underneath the tower to deny as much vision around here.
Kinkado is the target, there's a bull's eye on his back and when you use the charm like that, the chains will find their home.
home. Kaney just chipping away bit by bit until eventually that kill threat materializes.
Of course we've been talking a lot about the mid lane because of how much action has been
happening here but the same is happening on the top side of the map. Summit has been denied
this renekton so often but he's constantly finding good trades, building advantages,
provides himself with a pretty good lead for now.
So I'm going down, Leon's has to flush away, the cycle won't just show up and now a tempest
but Leon's karaoke gets his second on the board.
Numbers advantage in the mid lane for paincaving and they turn it into a kill, Junkero has the ultimate, maybe connects a charm.
Looking for it, lands a charm, curry there with a shadowing strike, but I don't think they have the damage to go through, Kani turns it back down onto Junkero.
Be careful about overstaying, yeah. One more charm will be enough to get the kill, low mana though on Kani.
Shadowing strike? Yeah, didn't follow that one up.
Yeah, it's like do you have enough mana for Junkero to actually get the kill, will the Magnus or Magnus do anything when Kani can just jump out?
I think it was wise not to follow it up, but always the possibility that PNG would go more.
The kill did go over to Karaoke.
Yes.
Ideally it would have gone to the RE, given the discrepancy that's happening in terms of the farm.
Sure, I'm sure that Karaoke would say differently, but yeah.
I'm sure he would.
Admittedly though, on this Wukong, he's going to be able to do a lot of damage.
He already talked about the fact that Flash is really the only escape tool that Seiro is going to have.
Obviously, Lyons is going to have the peel available to him as well.
But yeah, I am worried for R7 in terms of how they're going to manage this Wukong relative
to Squishy in the other game, but so much team fight threats, so much backline access,
and it's so easy for him to get to the backline.
Too often we talk about Flanks, but thanks to his W, he can be very crafty, especially
when you pair that up with his E when it comes to actually getting onto the backline.
How are you looking for something down towards this bottom side?
There's a ward in the tri-bush, but Kuri and Chitana are always very willing
to be air group. Like should present hits only on to kuri face call. Easy enough escape. Have to
burn the flash. I think he burned the cleanse there as well. Some of here needs to be a little
afraid of the all out as he dashes in through a bit of damage and slices away to escape the clutches
of the Kasante. Karaoka on his way up is on a ward as he goes for that Skaloka. Kani,
yeah good chunk there from Jin Kiro. I was just about to say he's also made it through
the worst of it. Right now that he's got Merc trends in the last chapter he's feeling
way more comfortable. His waver is a lot stronger. You'll see him melt through those
castor minions now. And after starting the lane by just getting a good trade immediately,
Kaney has to alleviate some of that pressure. So good job from him. Basie is going to come
through and has the TP available for Kaney. He really wants to invest it here though.
As once again, Kuri and Karaoka regrouping. Six of their sights on a bit of deep provision.
The Grubbs respawning 5 seconds.
The pain gaming, want to get their hands on it.
Pain gaming have done a good job this series of denying R7, 6 Grubbs.
R7 played for in game 1, pain gaming came across.
We see the charm landing here alongside the shadowing strike.
Odie is just face checking into them to get the spirit rush for the chase.
Junkero looking for a little M1 as he jumps onto KMV 0.
Chase against spirit rush.
Reset, Leon's trying to come in from the side but Odie just face checked straight into pain gaming.
to pain gaming knew that they were around the grubs and still walked into his demise
pain gaming will take three grubs so take a kill alongside a teepee behind here
miser needs to find a way out pops the all out kaney going in flash away by wiser as kaney now
lands the chains even with a dash away i'm not sure but summit taking the tower wiser will be
able to survive this one summit dashes out of tower aggro kaney takes him then flashes
And the final tower shot doesn't find its mark
They did have to commit the flash and the TP from Kani to at the very least get some form of cross map
But you're right ultimately it's a one-for-one trade with the crops going in favorite pain gaming a few extra plights for summit tomb
He may have overstayed he needs to be careful. He's greeting for the extra play better summit overstaying Betty in a side
But who would know curry comes around the corner with the shadowing strike the Magnus on coming down as well with a
Crash down TP in, Pain Gaming investing a lot in this fight.
It has an overstate, he'll just back away.
The Drake though available for Pain, so.
But he has TP?
Yeah, he does.
I still think the Drake just goes over to Pain, right?
I think that's fine.
Especially with Kani in top lane.
I mean, Pain Gaming, the gold is an interesting one
because you can see that the solo laners
are giving the overall gold advantage.
But this Wukong continues to get stronger.
Ari's about to complete the Lignans.
Dragon being secured as well.
Pain gaming, I think doing a really good job of finding these picks, punishing the plays from R7, Summit forced to be respectful here, knowing that he's on the weak side.
Does have the flash, no dominance for him, that Renekton ultimate is still on cooldown.
We've seen this a few times though, Pain gaming investing into the one point of the map trying to take these plays trying to take the towers and as you say, mid lane falling lower,
We're trying to escape the clutches of Oddy, but meanwhile in the top lane,
Kaini is just getting free pushed by himself.
But what could open quickest Tower Taker in the world?
There's a hook lands in the mid lane, there's a death charge to follow up.
She's now trying to escape, but Oddy puts him in the dart.
Now, Kuri next on the menu sails, didn't have to flash away because Karaoka's here,
but the Cyclone, the barrier, the flash, not enough to keep Sayo alive.
And now in a 3v2, a 4v2, Jinkedo comes in from the side with a charm and two-ball for R7.
R7 just couldn't move. CC after CC after CC.
They were permanently rooted, stunned, locked up.
And it means that pen gaming were able to convert some kills back after losing the Rady Kary.
But the good news is R7's on the cross map.
They secure the tower and bot lane.
Klai is being secured by Kayne up in top lane.
Look at this level 11 now for the LeBlanc.
Overall, in terms of gold, it's R7, the propellant of the league.
About a thousand gold ahead, two Drake's to pain gaming though, puts them in good stead if they want to try and fight around that.
Chitan has been involved in three kills but hasn't picked up any of them.
I'm sure he'd like to rectify that across the next couple of minutes.
A riff held, fight, possibly brewing, a swarm on the horizon here.
Chitan is slowed, Leon's looks for the hook there, only onto Kuri who can dash away with the crash down,
It's going to be slow for the next couple of moments before he can remount up onto his noble steed
Oddie has a habit of just starting the Rift out here
He does have a little bit of support while he does it
Dincado is down in the bot lane no TP for him
Someone's going to take top tier one as well
And we'll get the local goal. It's a very good sequence for our 7. This fact is mega-fed
It's extremely strong. He has so much gold
and it's something that pain will have to deal with at some point like sure
wiser will be able to hold the renekton but in fights with the herald now
secured things are only gonna get scarier. I was concerned for R7 given that
they weren't really converting these early, wow, picks into really anything it
felt like the game was slowly slipping out of their hands but now they're in
full control of the objectives around the map. Pain gaming will secure the
bot lane tower themselves but unlocking this mid tier one gives you so much
access into the river into the enemy jungle. Potential to make more plays, Kani. We already
talked about how this debunk wants to try and leverage the fog of war. Now you're going
to have a much easier time doing that as the bot wave is caught and we kind of return
to a neutral map state.
Next fight, two minutes away, most likely as that's when the infernal drake will
be up and R7 kind of has to fight it, otherwise it's sole point for pain gaming.
gaming an organization that has been with the CBLO since its inception. They were in the first ever
finals of the CBLO 10 years ago lost to Vivo Keats and now in a kind of a robber off situation they
beat Vivo Keats to make it to this world's 10 years since the first now in what will be the
last of the CBLO but of course the Americas League evolution coming next year for both North
and South America, who else but pain gaming to represent them. It's an organisation and
a team that has been around for so long. Chita and Jinkedo as well, been around for so long
in Brazil. Kaney goes in, Jinkedo misses a charm. The chains don't quite connect, but
Jinkedo has to invest his ultimate, a much longer cooldown than the mimic from Kaney.
The Kaney should have been a little quicker with the chains there, but ultimately gets
That's the ultimate out from Ginkado, so small win for him.
Showcasing how strong the LeBlanc is in the side lane.
Your job as Ari is mainly just to wave clear and then get out.
So a little over-accented there from Ginkado.
We'll give the opportunity for Gany to push in bot.
So they're pushing in mid.
They're stacking up as five now.
Both sides are.
Deep vision control invested from R7.
Hex flash.
No, nothing too crazy.
Nice setup.
This is the Drake fight we were talking about, Betty.
TP to the bot lane. R7 trying to maintain control around this.
The Sentinel spots them out.
Audi able to dodge away from the shadowing stripe,
but Wiser is looking for a little bit more.
Kaney here on a control ward.
He'll start to step away.
Drake up in 20 seconds time,
and perhaps the deciding moment of this series,
the deciding moment for LLA and for CBLOL.
Will we see a LATAM or Brazil represented
once again at the World Swizz Stages?
Audi's caught out the crash down,
doesn't land a charm.
That was enough to chunk out Ori, now Wiser on the flank, Cheetah there as well, the hook goes down by the Pathmaker in
All out of possibility still, Cheetah looking for that base call but looking at damage already
Onto Wiser, TP coming back in and Summit is here, YAMP KROCK!
Summit ripping through PNG, the clone, the base call out!
R7 get the investment of Ultimates from Pain Gaming, now they can turn their eyes back towards the Drake
So many ults wasted on the side of R7 yet they're still able to force Pain Gaming out of the river
They secure themselves the dragon, it will be their first off the game, and they will deny Soul Point.
A very scary effect, given that Oddy uses Ultimate defensively after getting caught by a charm.
And then, I think it was Seira's Ultimate that was also then thrown into Wiza on the Kazanthi, who then just brushed it off.
So I was really worried for R7 at the very start of the fight, but ultimately they make it work.
Summit doing so much damage on the back line.
You're really feeling that 2G gold advantage, like, why is it melted, I think, quicker than pain gaming expected him to, and Summit did not?
He was hard as alligator skin, you might say, as he just ripped through a PNG.
The Drake soul slowed, as you say.
Rainbow 7, if they can get 4 infernals, this little block is absolutely gonna kick a punch.
And now, the next objective, Baron in a minute 30.
We'll see the resets happening from both teams.
Event Horizon completed for Kani here.
Alongside that Luden's companion. Oh, sorry, Horizon Focus, not about Horizon.
Completed for Kani.
He will be dashing in, dashing out, getting that extra damage from the range on the Leblanc.
Picking up all of these Infernal Cinders as well for that extra ability haste.
Dodges away from the charm. Good reactions there.
There's a blind dodge.
As much as a dodge can be blind, I guess, because you have to see the ability to be able to dodge it.
Good reaction. Good reaction. Yeah, that's I should have just stuck with the first sentence I said, Betty
Being two verbose here intense moments between R7 and pain gaming
Let me take a second
To recognize the stakes that are on the line
The winner of this moves on to the main stage of the world championship to compete against the first teams in the world
the loser goes home
both teams
playing safe
recognizing that
I mean, the rest of your year could be decided right now.
You don't want to go home just yet.
Both sides have opportunities to take control of this game.
A single pick is all that's needed.
Cheetah.
You're able to get away.
It isn't forced to expand any of the summoners.
The second item I've completed for Chinkado.
As you see, all summoners can be available very soon.
TP's almost up for both mid laners.
You can see how defensive pain have to play, right? They're all the way forced back.
As you say, they've got a bit of vision on Baron, so they're okay. They're comfortable enough knowing
Cool, maybe they take away our Crocs. Does that really matter when they group up?
There's four Spirit Rush away from Dinkierdo from the Glacial Prison.
Karioka looking for that Cyclone. Stayo still available.
Up towards the backside, but Karioka's looking for that flank against the Magnus Storm in.
Someone's coming in as well as the base core will pull out. One sheet done.
Chucks him back into Kani, the charm just wide, and summits on the backline now.
Karioka trying to survive, but he can't through the power of the Crop.
Wiser going in with the Pathmaker all out, pulls Summit into his team,
and Summit's happy to be here!
Nice to meet you, Payne! He'll take two!
R7 out with only one dead so far.
Wiser and Kuri trying to survive under the safety of their tower,
but that might not be too safe for too much longer.
The permafrost going off.
Leon's gonna tank the tower first. There's one.
Kaney takes it. There's two.
Sayo joins him!
R7 with a wipe under the tier two in top.
It's an ace, and they only lose a single member.
They're gonna secure the top tier two as well,
and that may very well have been the moment that defines this series.
They try to catch Chinkeito, he reacts quickly with the ultimate,
but then Payne tried to force the fight.
The TP comes in, but he's very far away as Wiser tries to find a flank.
Look, this engage is really capitalized on.
All these resources are being spent one by one,
and now Summit finally joins the fray.
He finds an angle onto the back line. Cheetah can't hit onto anyone and it was just a scattered
affair. While R7 were pumped up, grouped up, could focus down a single target at a time,
it was pain gaming that couldn't quite lock anyone down. And with Wiser then delivering
Summit onto the back line, R7 win a massive fight and you can see what it means.
Leon's caught out a little bit here as the charm comes down because his prison
hits onto Kuri as he was looking for the engagement with the swarm surge coming out.
PNG have found a counter kill. Won't amount to much but with Drake coming 45 seconds it does delay
the vision control that R7 could have acquired in this upcoming minute. You can't afford to rest on
your laurels R7 you may have found a winning fight but that doesn't mean the pain are going to
go quietly into the night. Notice Summit pushing in the top wave has the TP available to him
as pain gaming continue to reclaim vision control around the river force R7 back.
is this constant point of pressure that pain gaming have to deal with.
You can see three of them recalling right now, vision for Curry.
Doesn't have the flash but has that Magnus Storm and would say they're not having a flash.
There's always that threat. Chitun still has the cleanse and the fates call.
But with the Gintsu's now complete, you can see the win probability powered by AWS
starting to swing into R7's favour and the Blanc is pretty deadly.
Void stuff on its way. Chitun, you got no flash.
You've got no flash as odd he looks for the chase.
There's the slow, permanent boss for the stun.
Summit dashing across the wall, a good Magnus Storm.
From Kuri, we'll buy his AD carry a second.
Summit needs to get out of here now
because PNG are starting to collapse.
Summit with the Rufus Predator,
Tinketa with the Teleport behind.
Leon's going in, all of his lonesome.
Kani went in, but he was stunned immediately.
And what looked like devastation for main gaming
is coming up in their favor.
Sayo is nowhere near the battle.
And now, sole point available.
But Baron, perhaps the call.
Was it over confidence? Was it over eagerness?
Regardless of what it was, that is seriously a bad fight for R7.
Losing their mid and jungler opens up the barren as an opportunity and pain.
They catch the throw given by R7 and they're going to swing the game just like that.
It just swings in a moment.
Pendulum between these two teams, the Drake will be taken by R7.
They'll get their second Infernal, but I'm sure they wanted a much bigger prize.
pain gaming down but not out. With no pain there is no gain and pain have been through the ring of this one
but now they are within a thousand gold of their Latin American opponents. R7 just needed to slow down
but they they kept their foot on the accelerator and they paid the price. Another tower will go down.
R7 now the team on the back foot the gold will be equalized but look at the AD carries. Chitan sitting
with a healthy advantage and just look at the minimap here. The virus is in mid, they think they've
caught Cheetah out of position but the rest of Pain Gaming are quick, it's a collapse, the TP flank
is so crucial as well, they just can't quite lock down this Callister because they don't have the
Sejuani ultimate, Summit's forced to retreat, Shinkada on the flank and then watch Kani
tries to go in, gets changed, he's seen, gets shut down. I actually think Kuri remounts
as Kaney comes across the wall and stuns him as soon as he lands.
That's actually crazy.
Maybe predicted, maybe just fortunate in terms of timing on that fight.
Kaney now looking to see if there's anyone to catch out towards this topside.
Baron Buff remains on PNG for the next two minutes,
but they don't really have the siege that they want.
Callister not the longest range.
Ari has a little bit, but R7 able to clear out the waves.
They're trying to work their way down towards the bottom side.
I think they should just have Ari sit bot with the bound up, keep the rest pushing in mids and play between these two lanes.
Ari has more than enough wave clear to just be a nuisance. They've been able to make the rotation happen. They've been here faster than R7 have, and they're going to unlock another tower.
I think R7 willing to give that one up. You can see Sao stayed in the mid lane just to get this push out trying to lay the next set of waves.
That's what Kaini's doing in the top lane as well.
as well but from a game that was 4k in advantage for R7 now basically even
between these two teams almost 3k off the Red Bull Baron power plate
still have a poke in that mid tower though that's true pain gaming they really want
to secure that giving them way more access into the enemy jungle but you're
right this basically gets neutralized the game we now find ourselves in an
interesting situation Cheatown once again finds himself in the driver's
a massive threat on the Calista. Three items completed. If he's able to dance well in the
upcoming fights, he should be able to navigate any potential back lane drake. He should be
able to make fun of this Renekton. Depending on how circumstances lie, but then LeBlanc,
Kaini, we've seen him find these one-shots before and on LeBlanc with three items,
so much damage at his disposal. You could be the difference maker. Regardless, it's
going to come down to another tense fight. Individual performance is going to be crucial
for this game. Find yourself on an I-Fedgin. What better way is both regions fight for
a spot in the main stage?
Oh, it is going to be charmed. Should be okay with this. Doesn't have the warm-ups,
but frozen hard and Zeke's convergence enough to keep him pretty tanky in this
situation. Payne pushing through mid, therefore, matched by Rainbow Seven's four, Glacial Prison
exchanged for a spirit rush away and still that mid tower stands. Kaney had stepped into
fog of war and with the waves pushing in top lane, Payne gaming could never have been
sure they were being flanked by the LeBlanc.
Payne should be caught. Both teams take a breather, cyberleaf spend, what gold they've
been able to grab. It's a large rod now secured by K&E. Like they were towards either a zombie
or a death cat, we'll see. Third item now finished, really three items being completed across
the board for everyone. The gold really doesn't matter, we're getting closer to that point,
again the biggest difference is between these 80 carries. This virus doesn't quite do the
same damage that this Callister does with the two level difference as well. It's
going to be difficult, especially with this Cassante level 16. We know how difficult
This champion is to kill
Everyone's got their summoners up as well very a minute before the next inferno
We'd be sole point for either of the teams but not soul importantly if either one wants to give it up for
Pressure on a side lane we've seen enough nexus for Baron exchanges and nexus for Drake
Always a possibility if one team out macros at the other pain gaming trying to regain control of their blue side quadrant here
R7 have a little bit of control for their own cheetah flash cleanse available
but currently his team now moves across to join him.
There was a brief, brief moment there
when he was elect without defences.
Summit pushing out top has the TP.
Kane here able to dash across this wall
can mimic that distortion.
Then jump back TP to the mid lane by Summit.
They want to fight this great fatty.
Looks like it.
I was going to say that they don't have to.
They could just concede it,
but to try and siege mid instead.
His teams want the third dragon of the game.
TP comes through from Wiser.
He was trying to work his way down from topside to save the TP,
but he just TP's in after seeing Summit walking across.
Talked about walking on the entry.
Walk on the entry.
Once again, trying to find the angle, but...
Pan Gaming doing a good job of spotting them, and she turns starting off the track.
Charm lands down onto Kane.
On the bottom side, you can see he's trying to burst Jinkado out as well.
Seven of Wiser towards the top.
The clone coming out from the Wukong.
Scythe gone used, but only defensively.
Another Charm's going to land though.
Sterex enough! The Magnus Storm won't do too much
on the backline, Kuroi and Wiza are getting eaten alive by Rainbow 7.
Kamioka, Junkedo and Titan have one help bar between them.
Jitan trying to escape, he's locked up by Ardi and the stun will connect.
He can get one kill, but it won't be enough.
The wave's not in the state for R7 to end immediately,
but they rested control away from pain gaming.
It's an ace for R7.
The start of the fight looked promising,
but the crowd control just didn't connect at the same time.
Good damage from Gengado on to Kani, pretty much eliminating both midlaners from the fight.
But then look at Renekton immediately onto the backline, forces the cleanse, the ultimate comes out as well.
But look now, both carries are forced to disengage, carry off the same.
And the scattered teamfight from Pain Gaming mean that R7 can collect themselves, their target focus was good.
And they're able to find another ace, Dragon secured.
R7 find themselves once again at the precipice of qualifying for the main stage.
That's a lot calmer than I'd be in that situation, I'll be honest. I'd be screaming bloody murder.
As R7, as you say, one step away, one fight away, 3,000 gold in the lead, Kuri getting hurt, Keeney jumping across the wall, can't land the chains,
but R7 very much on the front foot now and perhaps a little bit too much, Jet Charge coming out as well.
as well. Leons is just deleted, he's burst down, steps into darkness and is met with it.
Chromium is forced to the chains and does to the piercing arrow, but Cady will follow
suit and as soon as you say anything good about R7, they walk into their own demise.
Adi caught out with a charm and now it's pain gaming in control.
Another colossal mistake from R7. They over-stepped, they're over-eager. They needed to just
calm down but they just couldn't help themselves and they walk into the meat grinder that is paying
gaming they find themselves three kills they're going to get another Baron and Medic we're back
into the fold once more. We sure that wasn't a replay I'm pretty sure that happened six
minutes ago Betty obviously Infernal sold up in three minutes time four R7 but they're going to
to lose so much before that's still 14 seconds on Kani 14 10 now on Audi a tier
one in the mid lane has fallen we talked about how hard it was for pain to break
these but they just took to ensure succession they'll back away afterwards
with the respawns coming out from Kani and from Audi but they still have the
Baron on their backs for two and a half minutes let's look back so again look at
the minimap look at the positioning of CEO and Audi beyond is just going in
He's just walking like this jungle belongs to him. It doesn't buddy. I know you feel strong right now
But as well Kani getting locked up by
Curry's ultimate and then the charm connects from Ginkado a crucial pick
And then odd teacher tries to come afterwards to only then get locked down himself
Just a massive overstep. I
Mean
Now the Baron buff sits in the hands of our seven. No one's defending mid
This is mid in him.
They've got, yeah, I mean it's gone.
It's gone, they're trying to get back in time.
It looks like they were trying to push out the side lanes,
but they neglected the mid lane.
Mid in him, tower gone.
There's a possible TP from Kaney,
but he doesn't really have any wards to go to,
apart from on the top side,
PNG now walking down towards the bottom.
Curry pops a good pass cone
and gets himself out.
Kaney now joining up with his teammates.
Importantly, the mid in here,
yet to fall, but with two,
well, a minute and a half,
still left on that Baron.
You think it's going to fall quite sharp,
if Summit tried to deal with Wiser.
Karioka just shadowing between the lanes, Leon's there on the front line, Keeney jumping in just to get the Cana Minion.
Junkero goes in here with the Glacier Britain, but is able to get out in time, R7.
They were overstepped in this position before we saw...as well.
The pain gaming were able to disengage in touch-up time.
Keeney looks for another chain, can't land it, TP now in, a hook lands, only onto the clone.
TP stopped by Summit in the mid lane, this inhibitor tower falling lower.
Bait school going in, say on Pulse of Stopwatch, and Curry's in the middle of them all.
The dead charge coming in as well as Kaney tries to put the damage down.
Cheat down on the backline, Dodgers waving the distortion, but the United's ticking.
Kamiyama is taking out Adi, Curry falling low, Summon on the backline, J.K.Do, falling lower.
And R7 somehow, some miraculous way, and finally found a bite, that might end the game in their favor.
Is it enough double TP into the top lane?
Wiser is still alive, but R7, they find another massive fight.
Why's it can just go for the wave? Who cares about your life if you can stop this from pushing in?
He'll stop them. The chain's land, but he's tanking up with a cane and a lucan.
They don't have a wave! They don't have a wave! Oh my goodness! Absolute chaos!
It's cinema, Betty. This is what you pay for. This is what you get your popcorn out for.
This is what keeps you glued to your seat. It is cinema.
And you can tell just how much it means for R7 and for Pain Gaming to beat the representatives for your region.
LLA have never had this opportunity where they've had the opportunity. They've never made it to the Swiss stage
for CB Lolli. It's been eight long years for Payne. It's been nine
Infernal, Drake up in 19 seconds time buddy. What we got in terms of summoners. Back into the pentagon we go, Nick.
Cheetan still has his flash, has that face call. No flash for Seyo, no flash for Kani.
Ginkado has it, Rabadons.
Absolutely melt through, but doesn't have that summoner at his disposal.
R7 trying to get control here. There's a flanker, Summoner just fighting against Wiser.
Kani jumping in, looking for the damage. Leon's here as well.
Summoned in the middle of them, there's the Magnus Storm. Summoned to ready to have HP.
He tries to jump on to the back line. Cheetan falling lower.
Summoning is doing so much work, but he can't quite get the damage.
Cheetan called up with a head shrinker shield.
He still manages to survive, and R7 have lost one.
Pain gaming, healthy enough to continue this fight.
They might just take the drink.
I think R7 will give up the ghost on it.
It's not sold, but pain.
But it's more action, it's more fighting
between these two juggernauts.
I mean, we've reached the point where Renekton now
just has a much harder time playing the game.
Yep.
So far, Summit has been consistently getting on top
of Cheetah and making his life exceptionally difficult.
But now with all these extra resistances coming through for him,
it's harder to just straight up dive in the one-shot him.
This time around, Cheetan is able to navigate his way through the fight.
He takes up Summit, and now we're all tied up in Drake's.
And tied up in Gold, 36 minutes in.
Six Drake's taken the 66.6,000 Gold for PNG in R7,
about to press that mark as well.
Cheetan burnt his flash and that last engage does still have,
Well, the cleanse back up in about 30 seconds time.
That's a Zondjens for the virus!
Yep, he doesn't use it in the bot lane player with the Seekers.
Oh, I've got...
He manages to survive the engage from the Fates call.
It kept him alive.
My goodness, I'm now getting lost.
There's so much happening.
I need to lock in, focus up,
as we get closer to the game deciding fight.
Baron spawning, 45 seconds.
The gold really doesn't mean much at this point
as itemization is largely completed across the boards.
Let's see a pot sitting in Audi's inventory, waiting for the next fight to begin.
And a look to the iron, his beverage of choice.
He'll chuck that before the fight begins. As you say, look at Audi, they want a good flank here.
They're paying gaming back away.
In an inopportune moment, Audi can find them. Hasn't been seen yet, he's trying to go for that long flank.
Karioka trying to spot him out, doesn't. Audi's on his lonesome here behind the team,
though backs away, the charm lands onto Summit.
Nice damage onto Summit.
Kani?
Chunk's out of Cheetan.
Stammering on the Cheetan?
Okay, so low health.
Kani's half HP as well though.
Just trying to look at that charm.
It lands on the party.
Pop the elixir.
The root coming out as well as he's locked up in the middle of the team.
Kuri pulled back with a face call.
Summer diving in onto Cheetan.
The more of Malmorty has the death charge going on to that backline.
Kuri falling on a bitch.
He's got so many code off.
Son of a code, the F5.
It's two already for pain gaming.
Death charge coming out.
Say you can't do it all.
Say you can't do it all.
at all but he can do nothing in the face of pain gaming and now Kani trying to get
in trying to kill off one can he defend I think the answers no they don't have a
way to play with Kani gets a crucial pick right at the edge pain gaming with
a fight but now with cheetah gone I don't know if they can end the game the
way just be the in here they shadow the wave in ready Kani I think they're
going to try and end. This guy's had the planes of his life. He is being the cornerstone of
R7 and now he has to do it once again. They may just look for double in hips. In fact,
I think that's the call here from Payne. It's the smarter one. It's for sure the
smarter one. Kaney dodges the charm. Doesn't hit the chains. The double in hips go over
the pain now to barren up. Oh my goodness. So Kaney keeps R7 just barely alive. But
That last fight was absolutely insane.
So R7 just got poked out.
Summit got cut in half.
Kaney got cut in half.
And so he just couldn't fight.
He couldn't really hit anyone in the fight.
So there was such a massive damage difference.
R7 have been finding so many good team fights
in this game.
But paying gaming it feels like
as we've gotten later have found the confidence
they know how to play the fights now.
and it's only getting harder.
Summit's not having the same impact
that he was earlier in the game with a bloodthirst
and now finished for Cheetan.
He is completely full bills.
And R7 have to manage their waves.
There's double TP available for Payne.
If they ever push out, if they ever get caught in a fight,
all Payne have to do is delay, delay, delay.
So far, R7 have tried to take a mile
on multiple occasions and Payne have only given them an inch.
Now they give them nothing.
Deny them control over the mid-wave,
deny them control over the river.
they managed to pick up the scuttle crab but that's about it here for R7 tournament
lives on the line Audi stepping forward charm going wide banshee's available for
Jinkedo shadowing strike going wide as well with summit invest the ruthless
predator onto a ward plays out that control R7 is five try to group up here
and push it out once again summit right now down to half again they can't get the
control ward in the back of the pit they can't control yeah he does no TV on
Yeah
Now the Starex you can call the meek on this wave try and get the force if he stacks up
But he's still half HP
Maybe over to the razor beaks to use that fury and here comes the soul. He needs to be sooner rather than later
It's gonna be too late. I guess he's just doing his best to heal up and he's just gonna play with this HP
He was spotted by that scryers bloom
Karaoka hungry for blood sharks in the water pain gaming starts to collapse can he's pushing out the bot lane some it's still
About half HP. I mean this is such a hard approach from R7 with mid and bot constantly pushing in your face
Junketa doing a good job of leveraging the fog
Here we go to the flank the salt could determine everything remember Callista spear something
We haven't had to talk about too much this game, but it's so hard to outsmart that can you looking for it?
Look how many spears are in their infernal soul secured she's and gets the face called and flashes forward curry
Can't quite land the lock up meanwhile on the backside summit doing so much work onto wiser pain gaming got the soul
but they've already lost one of their players. Perhaps R7 can chase for more.
The base super minions pushing in towards those Nexus towers.
It looks like R7 won't get more out of the battle.
Kani backing away.
He turns down towards the bottom side.
He's looking for the base, seeing if anyone gets the back off in time.
Can't get there before Kani does.
The Nexus tower stands, Audi chasing out Kuri.
Leon's here with the blast cone.
Will be able to find the flank.
Kuri won't have a way out of this.
Summit's going to block his path.
Baron wasn't started actually by PNG for a second though.
Just dash out who he's gonna fall and now our seven can look for the baron cheetah was looking perhaps
If they go for the band we can go for the blank but Kani which still has that TP a
Steel for karaoke a possibility no flash on him up in a couple of seconds time
They're not gonna go for it the Baron the first one of the game for our seven secured
It's taken three, but they got one
Oh my goodness. We go again! We go again, baby! We go again! I didn't hear no bell.
What better way to determine a spot on the main stage than with a game like this?
We crest 42 minutes, 42 kills. The goal is dead even, but it doesn't matter.
Items being completed, it's all about the execution.
The elder now the next big objective
The soul is gonna help obviously, but we've seen that these fights play out in so many different ways
The reason why it fell apart for paying gaming in the last fight is because Png
She's done a query hard committed onto Kainy. I'm losing my words
And that meant that a lot of the damage to disappeared you need him in the fight
Especially this late in the game, he carries us so important and that meant that when it came to a front-to-back fight
Seyo was just able to get the better. They took down wiser and they were able to convert it into a Baron
Couple of flank wards here left off at Pan Game, you can see three of them
One in that tri-bush, if R7 over extend without clearing out, oh the tri-bush one is gone
But there's a couple just behind if R7
Just over extend here, wiser can TP, Frank, and Kato can do the same. We saw
Do it earlier this game, someone's gonna push out mid
the Baron remains for a minute 40.
Hopes of a region.
On the backs of these players,
the last representatives of the LLA
and the CBLOL here at Worlds,
one last dance you might say
as Kuri's chunked out to damage from Keeney.
It would be even more if those chains had connected.
Kuri's going to have to back away,
Cannon minion pushing in,
for the rest of the wave,
culled by PNG.
R7 trying to sink their waves up,
quite do it. Just that cannon minion in the bottom lane. Kani still looking for something,
jumps onto Kuri once again, the shadowing strike and the crash down, invested. But they'll be
back up in short order. Kani still try to play out of vision. They do have a single oracles on
Leon's if he wants to invest it, but decides against it for the moment. There's the TP,
the ward we talked about, but you can see that because it's a control ward. Chain of corruption
coming out, why is it trying to get onto the back line? The dead charge is going to slow
and the Magnus Storm going in as well, but Karioka and Kuri and Wiza are all amidst Rainbow 7.
They managed a kill of Sago somehow and now Lyons is all hailing the retreat.
Kaney's down, Payne Gaining find the flank they were looking for.
Odi trying to get out of here, Summer's killed off Kuri, but Cheetan and Wiza
will get revenge for their support.
Now Odi falls 60 seconds on the Deathjammers.
Waze can be pushed in, inhibitors broken
And perhaps the backs of Rainbow 7-2.
An incredible TP flank. May have cemented the win for pain gaming.
CBLAL are looking to return to the main stage.
There's only a normal standing between them, the inhibitors are still there, but maybe they're too far away.
He just has to buy time.
Can Leons buy enough time for his team to respawn.
17 seconds on Cane.
15 on Seo.
Can a minion three casters and a dream for pain gaming?
They immediately engage and Leon's cannot get to the wave.
Pain gaming have done it.
10 years ago they were denied.
And now after eight years in the desert,
Penn are going to Swiss.
Was able to find the final team
by Haitians for CBLOL.
An Haitian for CBLOL.
An Haitian for CBLOL.
Eight years ago,
Aintese were the last Brazilian representatives in the main stage at World.
Now Payne joined them after having been in the league for 10 years after losing in the first finals for Keating.
They've decade-long rivals in this to make it here to take down the LLA.
Of course, commiserations to R7, they were so close so many times in this game.
It looked like it was done, it looked like they'd secured the win.
But they fall at that final hurdle and Payne will take the prize at the finish line.
A position in Swiss for our 7th Dejection, but still hope as a region.
Still some pride to be taken in how well they fought here at this Worlds.
I mean, I understand how frustrating it must feel to not only take down the North American representatives,
But then to go so close against pain gaming arrival in the play-in stage
To then just falling short of the final hurdle must be heartbreaking. Yeah
Yeah, it must be but I really do feel that they did their region proud
Most winning is organization of the LL a
An organization that has dominated for so long
Had a fantastic showing that this is plans and the things have gone slightly differently
I mean, it could have been so close.
What's so close?
I mean, yeah, that's all right.
Literally, yeah.
That's a single teamfight away.
It was a 45-minute game, constant back and forth.
They'd lose a baron to then win a teamfight,
to then lose another baron to then win a teamfight,
to then get the baron, and then pain gaming at the very end
finally found the teamfight they were looking for
off the back of an incredible TP flank.
Nothing but praise.
No, they were respect as well for both the teams of both the regions. Yeah, they gave their all
It was a fantastic game super entertaining to watch and I'm excited for pain
Let's see what damage they could do in the main stage. I mean obviously they're gonna be the underdogs
It is not getting any easier
This point CBL representatives have a very good track record of upsetting someone. Oh, yes, they do
I'm TZB EDG kaboom beat alliance
I still remember those days so we'll see what damage pain can do. You can see the roller coaster of a gold graph.
Truly a roller coaster. I enjoyed the ride.
Absolutely chaos but absolute cinema at the same time. I'd pay to have a ticket for that I guess.
I mean incredible. We're just standing up for an interview but it looks like that we're ready for it.
We are. We're going to hand over to Jisun and Jisun for the Verizon post game interview.
Please welcome T-POP! What a historical moment for the Civil Law! Congratulations!
How do you feel right now? What does this mean to you?
What a historical moment for the Civil Law! How do you feel? Congratulations!
I feel very fulfilled. I think that having been able to win today made me very happy.
It's a feeling so unreal. And the first time I'm going through it,
I had the first experience, I was something new, I'm very happy.
Overall, I'm very happy as the first time that we are actually in such a thing to go
to the next stage and it's just like unbelievable for me.
Unbelievable, an unbelievable performance and mental fortitude as well because you guys are
off to a very rough start losing the first game and then bounce back and game three
was crazy bloodbath.
How did you maintain your mental fortitude throughout this crazy game of League of
Legends?
So, you went through a very troubled start, so we want to know what you did to continue to comment a lot on the state, to get to the third game and have this blood bath that was.
I think our mental, it was wrapped up in some infight, to be honest, I thought we lost at some point, then I thought we would win and it was a very crazy turn back.
but we knew it was a game of a lot of pressure and a lot of expectations from us.
I think we felt a little bit, but we managed to keep calm and win. I was happy for that.
So, like, I won't gonna lie, there were moments that I was like shaken, my mental was shaken,
I was like, okay, I think we can win, I think we can lose, but in the end, like,
we managed to keep everything stable and I'm very happy that we managed to do this and then bring the victory home.
In the end, you guys found your way to the Swiss state, the main state here at World's 2024.
And you guys are carrying the entire Brazilian fans' love and support and hope.
So anything, you would like to say to them.
You are now here representing and bringing all the hope to the next phase.
Do you have any message for the Brazilians that you are presenting?
I would like to thank everyone who is here, who is Brazilian, and everyone who is doing the show at home.
I want to thank all the Brazilians that are here, all you guys gave us strength in order to be able to come to this, and in this time attend all the expectations.
come to this and in this time like attend all the expectations and be able to
classify for the next trip. I'm very happy. Amazing. Vamos, Brazil! Let's go. Thank you.
Congratulations, T-POP, over time. And thank you so much for the interview. Thank you, Arthur,
for the help with the translation and back to you guys. Thank you.
Don't play it. We'll leave them in the play. The main stage here at Wells 2024 as
by 2R7 after an epic showdown for South America, paying all the fans, of course, but guys how do
you feel? How do you see that comfortably? The emotions for the past couple of hours. I can't
imagine. I feel spent after that. I can only imagine what the players are going through. Yeah we were
both jumping up and down on that one. It was a tough one for LLA, but man the passion from
pain side. On the good side we're just halfway through the day and we have another series
On our hands, so let's get straight to it because we have amazing matchups to go through and one
especially because in 2021 they were fighting side by side but today only one of them will get
to advance to the next stage. Maple and River is our featured matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz.
His featured matchup presented by Mercedes-Benz. It's a fight for a spot in the Swiss stage.
For PSG and 100 Thieves, this will be their last chance to keep their world front alive.
After struggling against Rainbow 7 in their first series, 100 Thieves delivered a dominant
performance against the Softbank Hawks.
It's in the hands of Quid and the rest of the LCS's third seed squad to perform when
it's due or die.
Halo blocks it!
Dory and his equipment!
This is the story of this game.
PSG entered Worlds as one of the strongest teams in the playing stage, recently faltering
to LEC's MDK.
Now with a spot in Swiss on the line, will Maple and PSG be able to clutch a win?
Now, Jorja is here, and they're flash forward, knocks up!
And in this series, guarantees the last spot in the Swiss stage.
A loss, and your run ends here.
There's so much on the line, and even just talking about the history between both River and Maple is crazy,
that they were together for just a little bit on PSG, now that River, they're both in each other's way basically.
And the fact that you have Maple who's played for so long, I mean with River obviously for a little bit
But this guy's been popping off and now he's in his potential
Well, he's already confirmed last year. This is his retirement. It'd be insane to see him go on
But now it's River who stands in his way. Absolutely, and you want to make it count
Especially when it comes to the expectations of PSG sorry at the beginning of Plains
They were supposed to be one of the strongest teams
But so were 100 thieves and now only one of them is gonna make it out
So we have to talk about PSG's progress, but also bad start of this playing stage
Yeah, they put themselves in the situation. Exactly. It's been really spotty here and there.
So it's really been crazy to see that PSG has been like really fighting consistency. Whereas
100 thieves, I feel like they've had that glow up and they need to keep that going.
Is it going to be enough though? That's going to be 100 thieves, man. Two O.
You gotta believe. You gotta believe for the West.
Oh, scope. I don't want to sell a rat. Let's see what the guesters think.
It's the second series of the day. PSG 100 thieves. Take it away guys.
Well, Raz is taking the Hopium on enough, it's Copium right now, as they're next to me, very tall by the way, like, I might have to stand up while I'm hysteric, but that's better.
We're huffing Copium or Hopium, because I know right now everyone's pick-ums are screwed, you know, that's a factor right now, thanks to 100 Thieves a little bit earlier on.
But after yesterday, people were like, wait, 100 Thieves back, they looked good.
Yeah, they did look really good, and talking to the team, you know, they're feeling a lot more confident, they're feeling a lot more comfortable after getting that win.
win. You know, Kuwait definitely didn't perform like we know he can in that first series. We really
saw him show up in the second series. I think definitely if 100 thieves are playing through
their level, they have a good shot today. But that being said for me, the biggest question is
what is PSG's new meta read? Because they have had some atrocious drafts throughout this tournament
that have really set them up for failure. And this is a really, really strong team. They
were my number one team that I had powering into play-ins. And I do think if they can get
at a real handle on the meta and they can draft a really strong comp, it's going to be
so hard for 100 thieves because I think PSG is a strength of a better macro team and they
have some really talented individual players.
I know backstage you're talking a lot about it again, these drafts being a little bit
geared towards previous patches.
I love the read again as we're looking at this game, open eyes to see if PSG can adapt
as Ashe has already gone.
The Viago has already gone up against River, who's been a great carry on the pass,
with the Vi against Jhinja is a must take.
Yeah, this is really interesting the Viego and the Ash Bands against Hunter Thieves because PSG is really well known for banning against their opponents
Banning specifically target champions and not so much banning them meta
So very clearly they're concerned about River, right? They're going to be banning the Viego, they're going to be banning the Jarvan
I would be concerned as well. I mean, I think he's been performing insanely well
One of, if not the best, as far as the Dunkler's are concerned in play-ins
Even in the losses, he was trying his heart out to 1v9 on that Viego game
So it kind of feels like they've looked back at some of those games, and they've just
repeated this pattern that we showed against Matt, where, against Matt, they just banned
all three champions that Matt played in both games in their previous series.
So they're just going to target whatever they think you performed on well so far in
the tournament.
And with Yone gone as well, we get out first, pick and out first question to
see how PSG adapt now.
Azal, what hits your mind as a priority pick-off to everything's taken away?
I mean, it's going to be so interesting.
The Yone ban to me was a little bit of a surprise, because we've seen Maple dominate
so hard on the Akali and I really do associate Yone with Quid.
So I'm interested to see what they are actually trying to set up for here, you know, if they're
more concerned about that, but they're just going to go stock standard in his Orianna.
Now you have to really worry about the Orianna Nocturne combo.
We saw 100 Thieves really dominate with it.
We also saw them get dominated by it.
We have seen this combo come out a couple of times.
So now the question for 100 Thieves really becomes, you know, is it high enough
trial that you need to actually deny it or can you draft something else around
it to really sort of answer?
And the question I have further for 100 Thieves is are we going to get the Syndra matchup
into it as well, right?
Because that's up and available, Snipe on the Renekton is something I know as well backstage.
You're like, we want to see him more on these carries, no more on this wishy-washy Kasante.
B1, R1 pick instead.
We get Snipe on something that can make plays.
Yeah, absolutely.
Kasante, you know, yes, he can play it and he did play it three straight times against
R7, but it's really not what he's known for in NNA.
People think about him for his driven, which he doesn't really play in for competitive,
but also for his Renekton and his Jacks.
is the kind of style that he is really well known for. And with the Sathroni coming through,
Quid is also really a melee specialist here, so it definitely could be double melee soul lanes.
The only is banned, but he can even take a page on a Miffles book and go towards something like
the Akali. If he wanted to bring out something a little bit aggressive here, but these are some
incredibly strong power picks over on the PSG side. It's not going to be the Nocturne combo,
but it is going to be Skarner, another super high-prior champion, as well as
Aja, getting the gnar, has been really strong on the gnar when he's been playing it and
I am thinking this is just a really strong team fight style here for PSG.
I like what they're drafting in these first three.
On the other side, Hunter Thieves instead of looking in the colony that went past it
and that returned to the way. Something we have been seeing more and more in the past
couple of days here at Worlds. So we get a bit of range added in and we'll set up from range
for quick. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this is the champion that he performed really well on
against R7. You know, people obviously gave him a lot of criticism for the Vex, but kind of forget that
Hwei game that he did turn in, which was really, really strong. He can definitely play those control
mages. It's not what I would really consider his style. You know, he is more known for the aggressive
skirmish heavy champions, you know, things like Auri if you're talking about AP, or a lot of
these melee champions if you are not. But it definitely is looking like we're just setting
up for some pretty heavy 5v5. But thus far, I do kind of really favor what PSG has, especially
after how Aja played on the gnar the other day has been looking so damn good on it.
The setup again, especially when Junja getting this power pick at the skana,
let's see if he can have better performance.
We'll go in depth because Junja has been a massive question mark at Worlds so far,
but once again he's set up for success with the playmaking jungle,
or rather the setup jungle there.
Now there is engage taken off from 100th big side,
but well it's first to go here, Lucian on the other side as well by PSG.
Yeah, it's really interesting when you're on red side in this kind of position,
You can sometimes really try to pinch the support pool and that made me exactly what they are going to do
You ban out rel you ban out Nautilus you can even take away a support here on four if you want and really try to limit
What would he has?
Woody is someone that does really like to go towards those hard engage supports
You know even in the PCS
He was very much the player that was setting up for that follow-up
He's setting up for you know the rumble when they're playing those in the ms
And in this case he's going to be setting up for that shockwave potentially is really a big fan of picks like
Leona and with the braum getting banned out it's possible that Ailey would want to look to try to take that away
Of course Alistar is another good combo as well
And they aren't said gonna go for the Varus and try to save Ailey's pick here for last to look to try to get that winning 2v2
And though it's not really what hundred thieves are known for and Ailey I think has been having a bit of a down tournament
He's looked nervous at times
And I don't think he's really kind of performing to the level that have come to expect from him first international as well
I'm in a guy couldn't win it
you know, who couldn't win an OPL championship back in the day when I knew him in OCE and
again, this is such a big step up for him as well after not even winning an LCS championship.
So, not trying to rinse the guy, just letting you guys all know that first major stage here,
we're going to have to see how he does with an R5 counter pickers.
Tomo, by the way, quick tidbit, 6th unique champion, he's played a different champ
each and every game as he now goes up against Betty on Jin.
This is something I've been talking about, you know, we saw some of the different
Cass this year about Tomo is that I don't rate him incredibly highly on any particular
champion, but he can play basically every champion, right?
He can play everything at a really strong, serviceable level here, and he can bring
out the supportive picks, he can bring out the gins, the ashes, the whatever, but he
can also bust out the hard carries and play Lucian or play Zerri or whatever.
So he does have a lot of flexibility.
There's no way we're going Ferris Yumi here.
I mean it was something the crowd got baited in and now that was a squeal.
Like someone really wants to see you, but it's Renata instead, so we get a bit more
AOE to the mix here for Alo. Yeah, Renata making a lot more sense here.
You have these two strong carries in the way, in the Varus, they really do need to protect
and it's going to make it a lot more difficult with the handshake to be able to get in there
for Skarner especially when you're just going through with the E. You can easily interrupt
that with the handshake with the hostile takeover. So it puts more pressure there on Woody
Who has been, I think, a bit more up or down than I've kind of expected from him.
I was really impressed with his play regionally, but hasn't been performing, I think, to his level so far here.
But obviously, a lot of this comp is going to center around that potential Alistar Orianna combo.
The Jhin opens up, the Nars coming in on a flank, Jhin Jhin is trying to come in on an interesting angle.
You know, it's all about those first moments of the fight, and Hunter Fuse being able to disengage, being able to stay spread.
Because I do think they are quite high DPS with this Verus, expecting him to go on hit and with play.
I would expect them to win a lot of these front-to-back fights as long as things don't go tragic with that shot.
Well, you have to think here for PSG, I mean, they were really well known as a good team fighting team.
They all have that reliability at 5v5, but here at the Worlds, they've been underwhelming.
That's the biggest takeaway so far for the PCS first seed.
They've already lost VKE beside them where SWF MC with three individually powered players of the region
were taken away without a single game win.
Now you're left with a new PSG talent
where they play so heavily towards top.
They've got Arger who's developed into the region.
Junja, who is a sub world champion, by the way, on EDG.
Let's no one forget.
But they haven't hit those bars.
They haven't hit those high expectations.
100 things at first, yes, against Rainbow 7.
Did the same.
But at least they came through cleanly yesterday against SHG.
Now it's time to put up or shut up for a final time.
Swiss spot, last one available, and 100 PSG walking away with it after this one, last
best of three before we go into the Swiss stage.
Yep, it's going to be an exciting one.
We are through the champion select, powered by Omen HyperX, and how well have all those
picks locked in?
PSG, yeah, well they haven't been performing, I think, to the level that people were
expecting from them.
They do have a very stock standard comp, they have a strong comp here, I think
it is very much playing towards the meta.
And I rate them really highly playing these style of comps.
This is one of the most kind of standard metastyle drafts that we've seen from the entire tournament,
right?
And this is honestly like, as the LCS caster, what I was kind of scared of from them coming
in, you know, I was kind of hoping that they were going to be drafting some of these
kind of old style meta picks and giving 100 thieves an edge there.
But if they do have a good meta read, which game one, I would say it looks like
they do.
It could be pretty scary.
And they aren't grouping up for potential invade here.
will be able to spy it.
Archer walks in the brush, sees River walking away.
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Now Sniper runs away from there.
I'm glad we didn't get any fighting while that happened.
He'll move to mid as per standard.
Woody Walls, so shadow as they all, as you said.
It is a lane swap here as Betty now moves top
and looks to the shove in this way.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, 100th of you
should not be surprised by this.
This is honestly pretty smart here for PSG.
New Palostar, one of the worst early laners here,
going up against Varus and Renata
is gonna be incredibly tough.
PSG are gonna dual lane their top and ADC
up in that top lane.
They do have the Skarner taking away the enemy jungle camps.
We'll have to see if River can get down and cross map
to try to take away some of their camps.
While Qwid and Sniper, the two hundredth of you soul laners
are the ones kind of just to be doing here.
So it's a very interesting setup.
You know, we see a lot more of these kind of dual lanes
This is something that was really popularized in the LCK, but it was a lot more of when we had that kind of AD carry meta
Both support to go mid and we just have like essentially what looked like partly in slain in mid
Yeah, it looks like the strangest configuration imagine if you just starting to watch league now, and you're like wait
Or at least coming back to it
What happened to my game as we get a three-man push in bot massive life here remembering that bot turret is always gonna
Be the squishier exactly it's been a pretty big change on the patch people have been talking about
You know, this is a lot squishier on that bottom side compared to what is up on the top side with the fortification
They also made it so that additional people being around
It's not stacking up nearly as much in armor as it did after every plate is cracked
So they are here piece. She's gonna try to defend this but they're TP again. Audrey. He's level three
He's on a Megan ours where he gets a stun down, but there's no accurate yet
Flush is set from sniper look at the picture picture, but what he's about to die
He flash headbutt pulverizes to get on out, but Tomo matches in river about to die
But before he does he goes out and he trades one for one in the end. It was first blood over to Tomo
But in response a kill over to Junzia. Yeah, they try to go really aggressive there
They do end up taking down Woody the trade on summoner is pretty even overall
And it is gonna be first blood there as you say for Varus
So Hunter thieves gonna be pretty happy about this as a sniper goes back up towards top
It did TP up there, but I had no buy really so it's gonna be able to get pushed out by the gin
We'll see if you can pick up the wave before he leaves
I just was able to pick up some CS from what will look like their whole rotation
Just as you said he's getting to push out here
That's why those numbers are in flight of finale. It was just hovering and fuckable holding the way to slow it down
Yeah, this could be a little bit dicey force diaper
You know now we see that Woody is heading back up towards topside
So he's gonna get pushed off
He has no TP and this gets pretty awkward here because they didn't elect actually swap back to try to match or anything
like that. So now Sniper is going to be missing out on a lot of this and I don't really think
Hunter Thieves are in a position to actually pressure Aja off. We'll see if River comes down
and tries to do that because they're kind of forced to make a play here. It looks like Aila though
is going to base and he's going to try to walk top and get Sniper back towards this wave,
get him picking up some of the CS. So even though Hunter Thieves got two plate spot,
even though they got first blood, it's even now by the fact that PSG is getting more farm
and Sniper really got punished. She's gotten zoned off completely and again I mean still getting
sniped off or rather sorry zoned off pun intended no meaning that first plate is eventually going to
fall on down you can see bot as well Archer was walking over a ward that was between waves I believe
that just expired as he was crossing back down to the bot wave so they keep it same while
Ailer as he clears out is now also spotted on the ward so respect is given by PSG.
Yeah exactly you know Ailer they realized okay we can't actually dive the Nara so I just
We just have to go top to try to cover and continue moving around the map here.
We do see that Betty has those Swifties.
He's going to be going right back out towards top.
So we'll see if Hunter D's does anticipate that or exactly what their move is going to
be as Tomo has the way of crashing in, he's going to be able to pick this up and is in
a really good spot.
Are you still excited by these?
I may not know if you initially would at Lane's Wops.
And Emily still loves Lane's Wops, I think, but what can I do with these guys?
I mean, I think Lane's Wops can be really interesting.
I mean my feeling on Lane Swaps is generally pretty similar to my feeling about everything in League where I like seeing innovation
I like seeing variety and I like seeing the evolution of it
But when anything becomes an every game, yeah, it gets less interesting to me
I mean it's not an every game anymore and also the Lane Swaps changed like like top line is playing around mid that adaptation
You talk about exactly and that's the part that is interesting to me seeing where people can try to
Evolve a strategy and push it forward to create, you know additional advantages, right?
And that's something that in DLCS TL was really really well known for doing is always kind of the evolution of that lane swap and
Changing things up to try to get little edges here. I think PSG used it very well
3-400 gold leaf for 100 thieves honestly who cares you got your Alistar out of what would have been a really difficult lane
100 thieves though coming over to potentially contest but they are pretty late
They are indeed flash away. Aila had to burn that really early into the fight
Two grubs have already been taken by PSG, he's engaged, set up by River, he's got a level of Benz with a Permafrost as well
He's running for his life. Ah, did you just kill Tomo? Wait, bot! That was a solo kill from the level 6 now!
Yeah, Tomo getting caught out there. I'm not sure if he'd even gone back to base yet
I guess he maybe had, I don't know, I mean he maybe thought that he was actually gonna be safe
He didn't have flash, so probably just got ran down
We did see that flash from Aela, that was the shockwave used from Maple that, you know, was able to kind of force that
Yeah, but it does allow 100 thieves to at least take one of those crubs away
Aja I talked about it. This guy snore is very very scary
He's performing really well on it and it's definitely a concern to see him getting ahead sniper
You know look definitely not in a good spot out of these lane swaps and yeah, just no flash on Tomo
And it's just gonna get caught by the Megan are pretty much guaranteed here
So it's gonna be a w into an ult shortly. I just just clean play set up early
Yeah, nicely done. I mean, Tomo just not necessarily seeing the angle for that. Thought he was going to be safe, was pretty far back, but to make it our hop in, it will get you.
And it comes back to something you mentioned earlier, as the L as well. We look at it up and say, his Benz featured matchup. It's not about the players I'm going to talk about right now, as Meeple and River go head to head some history there.
That point was going to be that, you know, you mentioned Sniper wasn't getting too much
from that lane.
The CS advantage now rearing at 10 as Arger has just stayed towards bot.
He's got a kill as well.
620 gold up.
Is a massive lead for the star player or one of the star players when PSG puts so much
resources into this guy naturally anyway?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, he's in an incredible spot.
You know, Sniper obviously has been put down quite a lot in this lane swap.
But this is one of the things that they talked about as kind of a weakness for
him.
You know, this is the youngest player in all of Worlds here playing.
This guy was a tiny little kid when the ladies were out last meta, right?
Like he had to fully learn this from scratch and it was like 12 when Faker, you know, even
before younger when, you know, Faker won his first world, isn't that crazy?
Yeah, even younger than that.
Alright, China corruption brings us off, it's an impilibous, so kept in place, River
Khan, Kedadious, the Arctic is solved in the end.
Woody's zone controls as Archer is about to go mega-narred, even though Junja's
low, they got to respect this big top laner of PSG.
Yeah, I mean, back in, it was, what, 2013, right?
So Samper would have been like 6.
So, you know, it's definitely, you don't want to go too far into that at all right now.
That's crazy.
But 100 thieves here, you know, not able to pull off the dive on the bot side, well defended by PSG and PSG, opening up a nice advantage.
And as I said, I kind of expect them to play the better macro game than 100 thieves.
So if 100 thieves are going to fail on one of these early fights, I'm going to get really concerned for their chances in this game.
Because PSG, Aja has set up well to play through the side lanes and they're moving around the map, you know, so much better than what Hunter Thieves is doing.
And as a result, the Renekton has been put very far behind and as we know, Renekton from behind, you just really aren't offering a lot.
So, Sniper is going to have to find a way to be able to get some sort of impact in this game and put himself into a better spot.
Whereas you can say he finally gets some solo time in the lane, but Aja has that TP ready to match top.
So CS is still going to lead by about 15. He wants Archer is done with set wave. Sniper goes back Fage in inventory
So he's playing that game a catch-up that we're talking about before
Yeah, and in this matchup Renekton versus Nars so much about the movespeed right and when he has this early tab
He's already has the tier two boots there on the side of Archer
It's gonna be very difficult for Sniper to really find much of anything if you go in for any sort of a trade
Then Nars can really chase you down and punish you with the hyper proc with the tier two boots
So Sniper is gonna be heading off to the other side of the map and they're gonna try to avoid that 1v1
It looks like he's likely gonna reset and send Tomo out towards top with aila
They realize that Sniper is not set up for success in this 1v1
So they're gonna have him landing against Betty here and seeing if that's gonna work out better for them
Woody's back again Junji's just gonna hover around me 15 seconds
So the grub spawn PSG on the verge of looking towards four or five if they can at least scrap the majority
majority in this upcoming objective in 10 seconds.
Exactly, Shockwave is back up, of course.
And Aila just about to have his flash back
from when that was forced at that last grubs.
Tomo is up on that topside,
but we'll see if Hunter Thieves can get pushed.
Aila and Quick trying to do that here.
Will Tomo's up solo on topside?
Hunter Thieves, if they want to contest that,
is going to have a really tough time
to actually reconvene and enter the fight
because look where Tomo is compared to the rest of the team.
I don't really think they have an angle in here.
And if they go too far,
they could just be giving up some free kills
and they could be opening themselves up
something like the curtain call as well.
Quid tries to zone out.
It looks like Hunter Thieves are hungry for it.
The ult sent out, but three grubs were granted, taken,
and given over to PSG.
Hunter Thieves are still late to the show,
and PSG know that if they run into this,
they can re-engage.
So grubs take in Hunter Thieves,
spend their time looking at them, and get nothing.
Exactly.
I mean, Sniper went down to Flatside
because he had the TB, but part of the problem
is when it's your Varus that's split from the team,
he can't threaten on a flanking angle.
And he doesn't have time to actually walk all the way
around to rejoin with the team.
So River wanted to go in,
so he could at least snipe away one of those grubs.
But at the end of the day, PSG do get five.
The gold is pretty much dead even,
and it's gonna come down very likely to five B five
with these compositions, unless Aja can really continue
to open up that lead in side lanes.
But Nar, mostly just takes the side lane leads,
gets pushed, and then brings those to the five B fives,
which is what I'm expecting.
But again here, it just feels like PSG is understanding
exactly what 100 thieves wanna do at every turn.
You know, that's why Woody is going top with Aja
to cover any sort of a dive that River was in position for.
And then look at what happens in response,
because Maple can step up juniors nearby,
in case Sniper tries any all out.
And there's going to be two plates taken.
Shockwave used for pressure as well.
Maple has good wave clue at this point, but lost chapter.
And Asail, there's another plate.
He's granted more and more gold,
and dragging on top of the grubs that they just got.
Exactly.
I mean, just look at Sniper's position right now.
He has put so far down in this lane swap,
and now you have a cloth armor and a thiege,
and you're leaning against someone who's double your CS,
We're going to see Jinjin some trouble.
Yeah, Dragon does go down at the very least.
Impales there, and Betty canceled his recall.
A deadly Flourish outflash over the wall.
Quit.
Now wants a new target, but Jinjin gets on out.
At least a flash burn, but the objective he came for
was taken with ease.
Yeah, they're able to grab that objective, no problem.
And Sniper's just getting zoned off.
All of this farm is half as yes of what Miffl is.
And I'm just going to get more plating.
Exactly.
It's a map master class right now.
Yeah, they're playing it really, really well.
They got two plates bought.
They're getting multiple plates stopped here.
He's even gonna get another one before this does fall.
Sniper is entirely out of this game.
And it's gonna be a situation where PSG, you know, they got the early objectives.
There's no sort of pressure on them to take any fight before they are well and truly ready.
And under these are gonna be in a really, really tough spot.
Again, Archer, you know, he's not at the top there, but he's a player I'm watching for this game.
Tomo, the leader of 100 Thieves, next to the earlier kill he got.
but you've got a 1.1k gold lead in top lane, a 30 CS lead.
I'm just a player who, you know, historically,
you wouldn't remember him for the PCS.
You remember players like Hanabi up in the top lane.
I think another good NAR player.
I don't know why all PCS top laners are so good on NAR.
No, rest of them.
That champion has been good for like 10 years,
so it's part of it.
Maybe everyone's just good on NAR
if they're in top laner.
If you're still there, you're probably pretty good on NAR.
That's true.
But no, I mean, it's very true.
He's not one of the, maybe the biggest names, but also PSG plays so heavily around them.
So they obviously have a tremendous amount of faith in them.
And Drenja has an abnormal amount of jungle proximity towards top lane.
And Aja, you know, there's some really interesting stats that he was fifth overall in the PCS
as far as kill participation for first bloods, which is just crazy for a top laner to be,
you know, above a bunch of junglers and champions like that that are so involved traditionally.
So, you know, they really do focus on them.
it works for their style. Hunter Thieves is going to be over here on this Herald and this
fight could be trouble for them. Quid is not with the team and I think Hunter Thieves are about to
get flanked by Audra and all die. Woody's also on a warden making that flank happen. As you said,
a Megan are about to come right up against the wall. Zale doesn't like it and I'm sure North
America are hitting it as well. Rivercourt in an impale, a kill, a take, and Tomo will only
survive a little bit longer. And here's Maple to bring it to a conclusion. Quid running for
for his life, a perfect setup, a triple to the mid-laner of PSG.
And the PCS are not taking anything today from 100 Thieves.
PSG just wiped the map with 100 Thieves,
but what are they even thinking with that contest?
Qwitt is on a base timer.
You have three people up on topside
trying to contest the Herald.
When you know Augia is behind you with Megadar Bar,
pully prep, this is just about as bad as a setup
can get here, 400 Thieves.
I mean, look where Qwitt is.
Qwitt is back in the map, keeping
topside sure he's gonna TP in but there's a TP here the gnar is already
coming in from above like there's just no way you're ever gonna be able to get
there in time as quid and snipers on the position to even rejoin with the team
either so hundred thieves it feels like really nervous in this position maybe
feeling some pressure that they need to contest for an objective but they
weren't set up to do that in any sense of the word Spooks looks worried
You've gone glue as well.
I mean, as you should, this game is really out of hand already, it's 15 minutes in.
And it felt like it started, you know, with the lane, so it felt like the map movement from PSG was always quicker, always snappier.
You look at the MasterCard lane economy snapshot, solo lanes are so far ahead,
and when we consider, you know, Maple on PSG once again in historic play,
not only in the region, but of this team of flush-wheels back in the day,
as Al and I know you can attest to, you are older than me.
but Naples is a big part of this region,
if not one of the biggest parts of the PCS.
And he's performing well.
He's been the best performing member of PSG
so far this tournament too.
Absolutely.
I mean, the feature of matchup is River vs. Naples.
I think back to like Naples, Karsa,
and even even a lot further back when the LMS,
as it was known those days,
were really known as the green killers.
They were able to take down some really big series
against some good LCK teams.
We're kind of famous for that
and the level that they could perform in those big matches.
But 100 Thieves, they took that herald fight,
and that might kind of be the straw that broke Campbell's
back in game number one.
It's tough to say that this early on,
but yes, they were falling behind.
But they were within reach of, hey, you have a good team
fight, and maybe you come back.
At this point now, you are so far down in gold,
it's going to be incredibly difficult for them.
And you're starting to get to the point
where you have to really rely on PSG making mistakes
that they just don't often make.
All T against the wall, white, the wife's dead,
quits in trouble.
He's taken two, maybe three, turret shots.
Shielding comes through and Woody's attempting
to play off the dive.
Turret might still be going down as Archer gets down low,
but 100 thieves are still in trouble.
The Herald was shaken.
This is a free mid-push.
Yeah, Keele trying to come in from behind
to try to see if they can find some sort of angle
as the very soft gonna make.
This size, it's all falling apart.
North America's third seed of just not getting anything
here and impaled for free.
Archer orders him down and look who's here.
It's meal number two, a double kill for this now.
Pot eventually falls, but no one's there for the local goal.
While Maple is having free servings
of a dessert and top lane.
This looking rough for under these PSG
are making this look absolutely easy in game number one.
And they're just pushing for it.
They're gonna take even more.
Here we go.
It's a said 20 tanky enough.
Argus says no, sends him backwards and river.
The once great member of PSG himself
taken down by his formal organization, a 7k gold lead, five grubs, a drag and keep stacking it up
because PSG and game one, their adaptation and their glow-up so far at Worlds is definitely going
up in stocks. I mean this is by far the best game PSG have played so far at Worlds, they're looking
incredibly clean here and they have settled on what their meta is going to be at least for
this series and this composition, I said it as far as the draft was concerned and where
people were coming out of the draft, this is a comp that they could really dominate on. This
This is kind of their bread-and-butter style
where there's such strong teamfighters,
they know how to play out these style of comps,
where you play one for traditionally in the PCS.
This year it was a lot of maple sidelading on those marksmen,
but they can very easily just have Aaja playing
through that sideline,
and he set himself up well to do so.
So PSG is an incredibly commanding spot here.
And I don't think he's gonna try to have to find
a miracle or just look towards game two.
I mean, again, it looks like right now
it just feels so hot to come back from River.
jumped into this brush by the way and in his brush he might even die he doesn't
have flash to get on out he sends an ulti in return but into what he at one
mean a thing I just about to go into mega and River almost getting sniked down
as there's an impaler like Ken into the middle sniper wants to finally fight
but they're too far behind Maple's flanking on Orianna if this doesn't
tell you to die or strighten as he flashes away then nothing will it's
It's only game one, but at 19 minutes, it's almost done.
It's looking pretty over to me.
Quid the lone surviving member here.
Maple was on a flank there, coming in 1v1ing Tomo
from behind as an Oriona here.
They know the powerful position they're in.
Maple five and zero here on this Oriona at this point.
Dijon has been involved in so much as well.
Charges in an incredible spot and quietly Betty is very very strong as well here hundred thieves
You're gonna have to start looking at words game number two
And I know you wanted to see more from Woody
I think the package is working together so Woody is to at least that gives you a bit more game to a reset for a hundred fees
Yes, we're already saying that you can look at the scoreboard. I don't need to read it out again
It is beyond belief at this point the best game from PSG in the tournament
And we're ready to come into this talking at plays like quit. Oh, what a resurgence
He's had, you know, we can mention that in the next game.
So many good elements here.
But PSG just haven't given it a chance to breathe.
There's been nothing that 100th.
I'm looking for positivity in this game from 100th.
He's not struggling to find it.
Yeah, there's not really anything going for them.
You know, I think that early dive bot went OK.
He got the goal on Tomo with the first blood.
But that's really about it for them.
You know, their set-ups around these objectives
have been really, really bad.
They have not been really in the right spot.
But Harold, I really do think kind of sealed their doom
in this game, you know, compositionally,
I think they were in a fighting spot,
but PSG played the map so much better in the lane swap.
Sniper was in such a tough spot,
and Hunter Thieves had to take really weird lane assignments
because Sniper got so far behind,
and you couldn't actually go 1v1 versus Aja,
so it kind of sacrificed some of the rest of the map too,
and then from there, you start to feel like
maybe these four players here
who have never even been to Worlds before on Hunter Thieves
start getting nervous, they're feeling like,
oh, we need to make something happen,
the game's going bad,
and then it really starts to spiral, right?
because you're taking fights that you're not set up for,
you're taking fights that you're not going to win,
and PSG will crush you if you give them
those sort of opportunities.
There's so much veteran play here over on the PSG side.
And there's almost so many nerves.
There's gotta be when 100 thieves
are facing down history himself.
We saw in the first series today,
obviously with LA vs. CB Lowell
making history of their own.
NA's third seed has never been out in plans in the worlds.
We have seen North American's third seed,
even though I'll go further to say that Cloud9
in the history of 13, did so well that they were one of the best NA teams at Worlds, okay?
Yeah, I mean, absolutely.
This is kind of a very young team here that is coming out with Hunter Thieves.
Obviously, they had a massive upset over Cloud9 to get here.
They fell in very convincing fashion in finals weekend to FlyQuest and weren't able to
make their way all the finals, but deservingly, they did qualify here.
And we've never had a team actually out in play-ins at Worlds, period.
You know, this is potentially them going down in this game one. Of course, there's a lot of League of Legends left to play
Yeah, I definitely could come back but game one is looking incredibly difficult to make something happen in and then 2024 if it's more like this and PSG
I'm gonna start crowning them the potential NA slayers MSI by the way. I'm sorry. I know yeah
I know you for the region as they'll
MSI fly quest PSG knocked them out of the playing stage. I mean there's no shame in losing a PSG
this is an incredibly good team.
It's also true.
You know, they, I don't think have really shown up
in the way that people expected coming into, you know,
play-ins, but if they can play like this,
they really can challenge top teams.
You think back to that MSI, yeah,
they knocked out FlyQuest, and that was the first time
any NA team had ever gotten up to any play-in period,
but then they went five games against BLG.
They almost took BLG in a best of five,
which is incredible to think about.
So PSG, when they were playing at their best,
this team really can go toe-to-toe
with the very best teams in the world.
And if they bring that level,
I always knew it was going to be a terrifying series here.
400 thieves, but PSG full control of this one.
They are 10K out on.
They've taken all of these, this vision away.
100thies know they're on the baron,
but the question is, can they actually safely approach?
Well, they can't shockwave,
is he engaged and Tomo has to flash away.
The Kern called out out of range,
but Maple just takes him
and he can no longer stay on the other archer.
It shows you, doesn't it?
clean now performance is historic most played for a reason and PSG got early
lanes they got an early game they got an easy one at that a double for Betty to
clean it up Sniper didn't join because he said wait the fight's already done what
am I gonna do now what an absolute storm fear by PSG they are dominating in
game number one also with a beautiful Megan are there catches multiple
members Tomo just separated from the team who's walking out trying to clear
vision by himself but really couldn't be there without his team behind him without
River being the one to face Jack he achieved to choke out 100 deep from this
game it's an easy Baron here 24 minutes in and with this kind of lead you have to
think they could probably close the game on this very powerful absolutely only
24 minutes in but this Baron is gonna wreak havoc thank you Red Bull and
let's start clawing at it because under these needed game plan to return in
this series only a B03 as we look at the replay yeah we can watch this
I mean, Tomo's trying to actually play for this vision,
but look where the rest of the team is.
Aila is down in mid by himself.
I'm not really sure what he was doing there.
And River, it needs to be the one actually first checking
these brushes.
You have to be playing further back there if you are.
Tomo, they're just feeling the pressure.
They know they're over on there.
And they don't want to go too slow, but at the same time,
PSG have completely choked you out.
And Aja is going to punish that to the maximum.
As we can see in the picture in pictures,
we're just trying to claw some gold here off the map,
trying to get something back here, but we'll see if they can even defend their base as this
Baron power plate is going to get massive, you have to think with two minutes on it, they're
already at the inhibitor's house.
Sniper's been reacting to top lane turret, he's got to push in himself, he gets some
gold back to his credit, but with an impaled back, where can you go?
There's enough damage here that River, even though he's going to get paled out for a
little bit, will end up dying.
So a 4 vs 5 to run to the base with, and Baron's got another minute 50.
Yeah, no one can answer Azir at all, so he's just going to kill that mid lane
Inhibitor and PSG are pushing forward, they're looking for the win.
Of course they can, Chun-Chui can't die.
He's almost a three-odd and scarner, and with the range that they have PSG now,
a breaking down turret's inhibitors to go as well.
This will be double.
Let's just see if PSG fully commit to the end.
What have they got to lose?
Not a lot of them in there, and such a strong position here they go.
Underneath the Nexus turret, the full committal doesn't come through.
It's just inhibited for now, but PSG have another wave still pushing in,
and with Baron, they make it easy.
Archer with a knockback is clinical, yet again.
I feel like I've gone to the doctors
and they've given me a full bill of health
watching Archer play that knock.
Nexus turret number two will drop with it as well.
And in 26 minutes, PSG do not give a single chance
for 100 Thieves to breathe
at the start of this elimination series.
PSG won the game away from Swiss Absolute
Domination 20 to 1 was the final scoreline there
in the first game of this series.
This was the PSG I was terrified of.
They looked so incredibly good here.
They played it very clean, very clinical across the board.
They outplayed 100 Thieves in the individual matchups
and heavily across the map.
There was a glow up there that's a great glow
for this third series of PSG's tournament.
They've looked better each and every single series
that we've seen them.
And all I can say is I hope 100 Thieves
show up to the party because again,
We've seen some great games from them.
We're gonna have something to talk about from this team
because we know where their capacity is.
As we go to short break and see
if 100 Thieves can find their mark.
Understand by one more time for the mid game check.
And thank you so much for joining us.
It's the final match in the playing states,
the last test to make it out of the playing stage.
So I know we asked you every time
with the pressure about the stress
and the players are also like,
you don't care about the stress,
you're just chilling.
So one more time, let me ask you,
How survived today?
I think the team's vibe is pretty good.
I'm pretty stressed.
I'm watching these games, I'm pretty stressed.
I think they don't feel as stressed as much as I do.
I think especially after watching how that last series went
and how close and back and forth that went,
I was just like, man, I hope,
I really hope our games are not like that.
I don't think my heart can take it.
Well, I'm glad the players are not stressed at all.
I mean, looking at this matchup,
the biggest disparity I see is the experience.
Hundred thieves, full of young bloods,
their spirits are really high.
You know, they're always just going in,
you know, they're not afraid
Nothing worse, PSG, they're packed with experienced experts.
So is there any specific piece of advice
did you give to the players regarding this kind of experience
gap?
I think we, you know, sometimes I think ignorance is bliss.
And sometimes they don't really know the level of, I don't know,
like stress or pressure that they've
known her because it's like brand new.
But I mean, I'm just telling them as much as you can.
It's like a really rare opportunity
to really enjoy the moment.
And a lot of people didn't even expect us to be here.
so there's just a lot to gain from us playing well.
Okay, I'll let you get back to the game
and thank you so much for joining us, good luck today.
Thank you.
And welcome back to the desk after this first game
and I think these insights were important,
especially given the way the game went,
really not according to 100 Thieves
and Golden Gloves expectations here.
It was a stump, let's go to Catacats.
Yeah, I mean, it's really difficult to tell you now,
okay, what did the 100 Thieves do well,
because quite frankly they didn't do anything well this game and I know that's very harsh
but it's really just because PSG controlled this game from the get-go coming out of from
the swaps, the first grob fight, the second grob fight, the dragons, 100 thieves didn't
get a single one of those, they got one grob in sort of neutral objectives and as soon as
PSG ran away with just a little bit of a gold lead they played a slow methodical controlled
game that is what we had come to expect from them from the PCS but really hadn't
seen so far so I'd say very scary PSG so far that we haven't seen in the tournament.
Yeah, just a max punishment any time a mistake was made.
The first dive I thought was great from 100 Thieves.
Of course, still, it was still messy by the end of it
because you're trading one for one,
but you're still getting the first blood.
And then immediately afterwards, it's the reset.
Renekton going top, getting punished there.
Varus getting bullied on bot side,
dying to the NAR solo.
There was just a lot of mistakes that happened.
And then at every point, you're like,
okay, 100 Thieves, let's reset.
Let's like at least slow the pace of the game down.
Oh, we're like Sedge queuing in for a control ward
And we're like going into another fight that we're just disadvantaged. Yeah
It's the dive that really kind of screwed the pooch on this one
They just messed it up the fact that you weren't able to actually get those that experience onto your top side
Yeah, and then Tomo had to go for a very late reset which gave more advantage to Betty
But I do want to give a quick shout out to Azure because this is a man that oftentimes kind of gets lost in the woodwork
When it comes to PSG talent you look at names like Junja like Maple Betty stepping up in these fights and Azure isn't always praised in that team
But he had a phenomenal performance. He got that early lead on the narrow
He brought it not against the Renekton. He brought it down to Tomo pushing him completely out
It was him having incredible narrow tummits
That was really where my focus was for a lot of this game and he popped off
I really feel like it was a lot of PSG players having a lot of good moments on their own
And thanks to the reliable sysconnect work
I feel like Woody as well was able to put off a massive flank that put BLT right back on track
And exactly where they wanted to. And it's just a shock in the waters
They don't see him coming immediately
They had already spotted him on a control ward.
The problem is he goes out in that fog.
They're still busy with the Rift herald,
and suddenly all the members of PSG
is there ready to clean up.
And it's also just, they don't move out quick enough.
They don't call it a bad fight quick enough.
They take too many losses.
And as soon as this happened,
that goldly we're talking about,
it's just got over in the favor of PSG
and they just run the game afterwards.
Yeah, the sirens had to have been flaring
a little earlier on when a quid had to get a base off,
because he got chunked pretty heavily by the GenQ.
It was like a fourth shot GenQ that hit him.
And I was like, okay, he needs the base.
So suddenly, that's an opening that Alistar can go for.
And then the TP comes in from Maple
and there's just no escape from the Verus.
No, I will say, though, I mean, it's looking that.
Right, Rast, you and I, we were here last year as well
and we were covering PSG.
Do you remember what they played against
in their qualification match?
Oh, remind me, please.
Oh, I will, since you've clearly forgotten.
They were playing against BDS.
And I will tell you what,
PSG was on match point as well back then.
It looked incredibly dire for BDS.
They hadn't gotten anything going for them.
They couldn't get the ball rolling.
Here's the thing though.
The thing that made them come back in reverse
through PSG was the fact they went back to their roots.
They started finally getting something going for them.
The guy had to get the comfort going.
I think if you're 100 thieves now,
that's what you need to rely on.
You've just been completely demoralized.
You need to just find that comfort that lets you reset.
I love everything you're saying, Jibi,
but I'm looking at the stats here
and especially these two players, and it doesn't look good.
How do you stop the individual power from PSG,
but also the team cohesion that they seem to have here?
Well, this was just based off the lane swap.
And flatly, I agree with Zael in terms of PSG
just having the better macro.
If you can just, I would say the first thing
that I would want to do, I think Orianna and Skarner
is a much better pick, and I would like to at least
try and disrupt it a little bit within the draft.
And then try and match in lanes
because I think PSG has just had a better play
through swapping and probably just don't want to even face that going into the next game.
I also think Quay is a bait without setup. I don't think not having a buy, having something
along these lines that can lead you to have access to back lines to set up for Severing
Bolt just leaves you very vulnerable when you try and go for these early skirmishes.
So I think opting into something that can play a little bit more aggressive and match
PSG talent in these early stages puts you better for 100 thieves and if you're not
getting these early leads where PSG talent can play the map I think that's where
you'll find that niche that the LCS boys need to survive.
I hope they have here and I get your eyes I would be scared to call 100 thieves they're back against the wall here in this
Elimination series against yes, let's see if they can come back in game
If you want to hug just awesome and maybe off in the game after the series
I'm a lot of experience casting in a
Apparently you're bad luck John. Can you tell me that at last well? Yeah, I've never cast anyone a series really like ever and never you've been casting for years
Yeah, yeah, that's a sale. That's a sale of his day and let's hope your luck changes around because 100 teams got run over in that first game as you pointed out to me
Woody did more damage than sniper on Renekton. He did and he was a cow. Yeah, I mean, it was basically fighting minions.
It felt like in the in the sideline for pretty much every time they took a team fight. He wasn't even there.
even there so I mean this game was a disaster from early on but you have to
give so much credit to PSG for playing the map so incredibly well for Aaja
getting such an advantage including that solo kill over on to Tomo forcing you
know punishing that missing flash that he had from that earlier time you know
talked about it when he locked it in Aaja really played well on the NAR so
far this tournament again he played an outstanding game this was one of the
most one-sided games like we've had at the entire event our granite PSG
plays like that. Hunter Thieves really need to step it up or they're going to have no chance at all.
I do agree with what people on the desk were talking about as far as I think Hunter Thieves
needs to go towards comfort. I think Qwidd is definitely a strong player as far as the control
may just go. I would just like to see River and Qwidd pick a strong winning 2v2 play around
mid jungle really heavily. They are the big stars of this team. Try to avoid a lane swap at
at all costs, because it's definitely
something that they are very weak at answering.
And try to play something early, try
to play something aggressive, where you can take skirmishes,
you can take fights, and try to get the individual outplays
in that way.
I think that's under these definitely their best
chance at doing it.
Because if you go into a macro game against BSG,
I expected it.
You're not going to be able to match what they can bring.
They're just a much stronger macro game
that they can really bring across.
And they have so much more experience.
And we talk about Maple a lot.
This guy's been playing forever.
But Maple and Betty were teammates.
in this kind of situation, like six years ago, right?
When Cypher was 11, and all of these players
over on the thieves are really lacking
an international experience.
And even regionally, they're not known as a macro team.
So they need to play towards their strengths.
The Ziggs is going to get locked in.
I'm thinking it's going to be a Tomo Ziggs,
almost guaranteed.
He used this really well in NNA as a neutralizer
as far as those 2v2s were going.
He played a lot against Berserker in the C9 series,
where they had that big upset where, you know,
he was just, his job was kind of just shutting down
or equalizing that 2v2 and then showing up for the 5v5.
It does make me wonder if they are going to go something
a little bit more aggressive for mid jungle here
to facilitate that because obviously Tomo,
you know, you can play that 2v2,
try to play that to a stalemate
and then you can move him mid and have quit more
in a side lane or something like that
where I think, you know, he can play with river
and try to really make something happen.
But while I'm on the top of PSG,
let me just help you all triple melee here
to sync up with the Sejuani of course, but you know, the Rumbles had a lot of criticism in the tournament.
They had been some great games, but again, with the Nerfs, people are still questioning the priority at HALT.
Absolutely. I mean, we see the bands being swapped up here for 100 Thieves.
They banned out the Skarner and the NAR. They had banned out the Yone.
And then immediately they take away that Yone as soon as that is left available
and they take the Sejuani that 100 Thieves have been using in that last game.
Renekton mid.
It's going to be Renekton. This could be Renekton mid.
It also could be Renekton top.
You know, we'll have to see exactly where they go.
So I'm expecting it to be Renekton mid to that Yone and having Sniper play that Atrox.
But Qwid also has actually played mid Atrox before in the LCS.
So there is a possibility of both those matchups.
Definitely expecting it to be Renekton though.
Obviously is that old school Yasuo counter and it's kind of the same thought process
here against the Yone and we even saw it brought out.
Was it against Maple that the Renekton mid came out against the Akali but then it
works really poorly.
That was in the Mad series, right, which was always one.
So we have seen that fail against Maple, obviously different matchup, but similar idea.
And we'll see if Qwidd is going to be able to pilot that and how successful it will be.
If you look at the soul lanes 400 thieves, you'd be like, ah, they could really use the Senjuani,
but unfortunately, Qwidd has taken that away on the other side.
And already you have to feel like 100 thieves are kind of locked into a very early game
comp, right?
You're going to have Ziggs bought, you're going to have these kind of like early mid
game, bruisers in mid and in top regardless of where they do go.
So they are going to be really low on damage as far as that's concerned into the
later stages, especially if there's like a safe AD carry that's locked in from
Betty. We saw a scythe a couple times in the earlier series.
Something like that would be strong.
I think even an Ezreal could be quite strong in this kind of situation.
Ezreal is a good pullout as well.
We've seen a little bit of the virus too, depending on what we want to
add to this virus.
Varsal would be a little bit kind of like unsure about just because
You know, Renekton and Atrox are going to be looking to jump on you, and then it's going to be a zig-zolt on your head, right?
So I do think you want to have a native carry that can have a dash, that can have some sort of safety to it.
It's not that PSG couldn't win without that, and I mean, if you overcommit to a Varus, if they were to trap that,
and then over on the other side, there's a Rumble and Yone roasting you, then obviously that could still work out.
Well, yeah.
Rell is going to be the lock-in here, kind of that S tier support really does just come down to all these different engage ports.
Also, it's open again though.
Woody didn't get a band against him.
It has been the go-to.
And I say, I love that you knocked this on the head.
Again, Ezreal is having more versatility
around this very heavy dive.
Exactly.
I mean, you could just play cleanse Ezreal.
And then all of a sudden, it gets
very difficult to lock this guy down, right?
Like really with this kind of comp,
already what they want to do is
they want to lock someone in place,
and they want to zigzalt on their head,
and they want to instantly kill off that carry.
Yone, lots of mobility.
Ezreal, lots of mobility.
This becomes so much more difficult already
through the draft that PSG have grabbed.
I think if you just go something defensive,
some sort of safety support here, even like a rom
or like an Alistar that kind of punts
some of these carries out on the 100th side,
I think it would be really, really strong.
I think Rakan can work as well as far
as the countering gauge goes.
You know, Sniper and Quid are going to be just running in
towards these carries.
That's the only way they can really play it out.
But Alistar, one of the picks I was more expecting,
you just head butt out, Sniper or Quid,
every single time they come in in these fights.
And you're kind of binary in the way
work on these champions like you slice forward on the renekton you get hit but
out how are you getting back to that Ezreal it's very very difficult then
an equalizer is later over the top as well. We see the bands you know from PSG
they know that hundred thieves need some sort of AP carry in the jungle because
it's double physical soul laners so they banned out the brand they banned out
the shavanna river going to be going towards the liliya which i do think
is quite strong in this draft yeah it's four meleis over on the PSG side
which is kind of that dream for the Lilia. So this could be the X factor here potentially 400
these. If River could really get going and have a great game on this Lilia, then maybe get to the
point where he can be that extra difference. You know, if all these members on PSG are stacked
up too much, Lilia can be a nightmare to deal with. So it does have an opportunity to potentially
take over a game because they can really stack up comp. I mean, PSG comp is like all in all
buttons. We all dive, we all press, we miss. River's a good punishing factor. So that's a real nice hit,
considering that 100 thieves are up against Death's Door. I've used this analogy over the past couple
of days considering we are on the elimination matches. But our last Swiss spot is determined in
this series and for PSG, after that game one, they are firm favorites. They are heavy favorites.
They are very powerful favorites. After winning in 27 minutes with 100 thieves, excuse me,
Barely scraping across more than a kill.
America needs your energy because this would be history making,
this would be history breaking.
PSG this year knocked out FlyQuest at MSI.
And now up against 100 Thieves out worlds,
they have a chance to be NA Killers.
Well, they start writing their own history
or 100 Thieves got more in the bank
than they let on in that first game.
Yeah, we'll have to find out if 100 Thieves can bounce back here.
It's a very different style of composition.
It's very skirmish heavy here.
And it's going to come down to a lot of these early fights
because I do think when you have these types of comps,
that are kind of binary.
It's just a lot of melee champions
that run at each other and fight to the death.
When one team gets ahead, it's pretty tough
to actually turn it around.
There's less ability to kind of have that X factor
and have that outplay in these kind of compositions.
So it is going to be interesting.
It's going to be exciting here.
Maple going towards the grasp on the Yone.
This is that kind of new meta as fleet
has really fallen out of favor, you know,
even on these melee champions,
but especially on the range champions,
a lot more people are playing with the graphs.
It procs up your W, procs up your Q,
so you can farm it up,
especially in these melee matchups, quite well.
And just the result tree in general
is quite strong for Yone.
You're going up against the Renekton,
you know you're gonna be on the defensive.
Plus, Stridebreaker first item as well.
I mean, this Yone gets quite tanky.
A lot of HP in the build.
It's important to erase it because, again,
it has been the go-to
We are getting standard lanes for the time being no swap up the now jungler starting on opposite sides of the map and again to confirm
Quid does take this renekton into the mid lane versus the yone no PTA
He's going for conqueror key and it looks like resolve also in the tree
Absolutely, and Betty as I was expecting is going to go cleanse. So could be very difficult to lock him down
You know if what he's just giving ghost words like a lock it
You just go that kind of defensive style. You just need to keep the Betty on this as you're alive
He really is going to be one of the biggest problems here 400 thieves
Especially as you go towards the later stages of this game as you'll scales up
He is going to be a nightmare for the hundred thieves squad to deal with to me
So difficult to actually get in the back line be able to lock him down and put him down
And if you don't it's pretty easy to hit three four million champions that are just kind of running at you with cues
I mean again. Yeah, that's what I love about these drafts of both sides
So is that as you said alluding to this game? It feels like it's going to be brawl heavy
I think it's going to be kind of in your face.
I am going to track River a little bit here
because he's clearing towards the top side.
Bot here for Junjian.
While I have your attention at home,
I kind of want to mention that it's something
that you left us with as Ayle after the first game
is that River has had a good tournament so far.
A hundred thieves have been in question a lot,
but I think the best performing player is this jungler.
And I really hope he bounces back
after what was probably his worst game at Worlds.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, even in their last versus R7,
he was having some monster games.
such a standout player, of course, in their win versus the Hawks.
These are stats before game number one, but has been playing really, really well.
Definitely did get dominated along with the rest of his team in that last game,
but he is set up for success here.
He is a champion that has a lot of pressure on him to really get things done in this game,
which could be their final game here at World.
So we'll see if River can step up and really make something happen
as he has been 400 thieves all year long.
Again, as a player who I highly respect after watching a lot of bots in their journey into playoffs,
especially the C9 series, so pivotal that that linchpin, or better yet, that stabilizing factor
that brings it all together with some of his great engage tools. You know, on the Lilia this
game, we mentioned it before, if there is a mistake from PSG, if they can't pull off this
teamfight, then River on Lilia is going to be the big playmaker again, is going to be that
deciding factor, so it seems fitting. Absolutely, and in this jungle matchup, you know, he can
You can get ahead of the Sejuani, you know, Genja can't find those plays around the topside
and that is a question because he has set up very well with Maple, with Aja, he's double melee, soul laners
but River could try to get ahead of the curve here. We can see the push coming in from Aja up on topside
you can Genja just up top to try to cover, but not going to look for any sort of play
he will just be recalling and River going to do his Raptors here, obviously did them to start
and they're flashing bot, it is a flashing cage, he knocks down straight away, Aila just flashes backwards
to crash down maybe, but he's about to be auto.
Betty flashes in, gets a missed shot
after getting first blood.
Aila can't be doing that in potentially their final game.
Yeah, that is rough.
Quit, taking a good trade mid, but does it even matter
with first blood going over to Betty there?
That was definitely a misclick.
There's just no way he's looking to actually flash back
in that position.
A panic moment from Aila costs them big time.
As it's gonna be, as real, really, as I said,
The last person you want to get that gold because this guy is going to be such a nightmare for them to deal with leader on in the game.
If you allow him to get accelerated, it's going to be so tough for a hundred thieves to ever take him down.
But before he is in the North American scene, it's such a big moment for this bot lane, especially Aler.
I'm talking about here, but as Maple hovers around mid, we draw our attention close.
He now roams and looks for something to see if he can catch off this mid Yone.
Yeah, I mean, Aler obviously is a pretty experienced player, not at the international level.
level they're gonna look a nice snap back there from maple but you know played
in the opl has been around you know the lcs and lcs seen for quite some time
yeah tomo if you don't know this guy who didn't start the split with hundred
these you know he was a sub in for me to self out for mental health reasons we
can watch this one more in time a great engage here from woody and then oh no
that's just a panic flash for me is I think what he was maybe trying to do
was cue backwards and then flash away or something like that but just a bit
of a panic moment your mouse is in the wrong spot when you use that flash and he
knows it, a bit of a laugh there you know trying to kind of keep the mood good but
your heart has to kind of sink into your stomach when you have a moment like
that and you know you are one game away from being eliminated here at Worlds.
So we look towards mid let's pause on that thought level six is available for
both of them as River and Junja and now getting involved with Junja sits there
first on top of Quiddin he's got a melee mid laner who can help him out
with the perm across but he backs away because grubs are now here and health bars are important
as River looks to stick around.
Yeah, Quidd doing pretty well in the 1v1 but it's not a big enough lead that like you're
really concerned about it at all.
Woody has roamed over and Quidd did take a pretty big chunk there from Ginger so that
is going to help him quite a lot here.
He will be able to get the honey fruit and heal back up somewhat but we'll see if
100 thieves are feeling confident to take this fight.
But Arjus walking down first, Sniper had to back away.
The wave pushed up against him, he teleports towards the top, so PSG get the scuttle band minimum.
And they are in river comfortably first with numbers as the Engager set up by Woody.
A hundred things are here by themselves that Top Lane are not involved.
The equalizer layers down and the proof is shown by Archer setting up to put him into the ground.
It's a double kill over the Top Lane rumble and PSG in the same spot as last game.
Just clean the fight again.
Yeah, Sniper's coming over to see if there's anything he can do here.
He's gonna maybe be able to put us off junja a little bit
But one grub already grabbed and now it's gonna be really tough and I'm gonna get anything more
It's rough to set up from what he beautiful, but respect from hundred thieves not just that
2k gold lead all from that Archer already winning the lane is out. I didn't get to talk about it in the early game, but
He was already 20 CS up and as those numbers come back up. Yeah
Now he has two kills, like he is completely out of Sniper.
Sniper is going to be already out of this lane, absolutely.
You can see the zigs all used there to just try to clear the wave, 100 thieves in a terrible spot here.
Seven minutes into the game, you're already 2K down.
This is a nightmare spot for them to be in.
And again, it's at one of these setups that the objectives, they just really feel completely out of sorts.
I mean, you called it.
Cypher is back in base.
He's keeping back.
You cannot be positioning that aggressively
without him around.
They just go for an easy engage there onto river.
Hela completely whiffs on his crash down.
And it's a couple easy kills there for the rumble.
And then the old and the main wall,
but he just keeps whittling away at the bot side.
Let's watch this set up yet again.
I mean, this is the problem, right?
The TP is up there.
You know, we can see that the ATTRAX is not anywhere near.
And then, I don't know what that crash down was
from Hela, but he unfortunately goes right down
into the equalizer river, you know,
this shouldn't have even been there
until the atrox is there, right?
I think that their composition can fight pretty strongly
at that first grubs, but,
stepper needs to be with you.
You have to be at four man squad.
And if you are, then hey,
I think you have an opportunity
to really make something happen.
You know, get onto a target like Audra or Maple,
try to lock them down and burst them down.
We know that Woody had no flash
from the altercation in the bot side,
so there were targets that they could actually punish,
but again, they show up,
they don't have all their members together,
And PSG just instantly crushed them.
Sniper's going to go all in here.
Archer is about to burn out, but he's got the equalizer almost up and available.
Dragon's going down for PSG, bot.
I pause for top because there is still kill threat.
They're fated ashes.
Morellonomicon or a rather magic orb.
I can't even remember the name.
Let's just call it.
Oblivion orb.
Oblivion orb.
Oh yeah.
Thank you so much.
It's the baby Morellonomicon.
Baby Morellonomicon.
Archer's picked up so healing me down for Sniper's only got merc threats.
Yeah, and it's going to be obviously pretty effective.
It's a sniper witness. Let's find out. He hits all the sweet spots.
Maybe yes, but overheating.
Oh!
Sniper takes down Archer.
The Off the Junja will get a response here as he looks for the auto in the aftershock.
But Sniper finding the solo kill is some hope him desperately needed by North America.
Yeah, that's a big moment.
Aila here waiting on the side will see if they can find anything more.
They need those kind of plays to be able to come back in this game.
PSG already were in a great spot and do have the better scaling composition here
but unfortunately for sniper no TP he gets killed by Jhinja and then as a
result you're kind of really not getting nearly as much as you want if he got
that kill got to push out the wave and have it crash he'd be in a great spot but
he loses multiple waves to his tower afterwards and the wave is going to
bounce away from him so this is like a net of like negative you know 12 15 CS
even compared to had Jhinja not been there.
Quid disengaged from no mega inferno bomb the fates yield catches to on the way out
And maple has the flash what he's now caught up in the action as well as quid doesn't have the ruthless predator
He used it here on maple. They're gonna get some summoners out and if what he wasn't there
I think maple would have been in a lot of trouble. Yeah, absolutely
Aja makes the roam down as well river try to interrupt these recalls is able to do so onto woody
And he's gonna be able to take away some of these camps hundred thieves
Yes, everything early went kind of disastrous, but with this composition you cannot afford to say all right
Let's sit back.
You need to keep playing with confidence.
You need to keep looking for these skirmishes and say,
you know what, memory of a goldfish.
Let's just forget what happened earlier.
And let's just keep playing to the strengths
of the composition.
Because if you sit back, you're guaranteed to lose.
They're in a really rough spot.
But at least if you take some fights,
you have some opportunities to get some outplays,
to make something happen.
And try to claw your way back,
because it is do or die for the LCS number three team.
That's the way of crashes or at least gets close to Ajah.
I'm not sure about the freeze there,
but the next wave is coming in.
So it's in a very good spot where Woody now trying to take advantage of it.
Flamesfitter might reset this a little bit here as
Aja close by the way to getting that Leandrie's first item is Sniper.
He's still pushed out in the lane.
He also needs a cover in River who's moving top anyway because of the 22nd timer
that Grubbs are now supporting too.
Yeah, exactly.
And I mean Sniper obviously just so down as far as the itemization is concerned.
Merkshred's definitely a good buy, but at the same time, his first item is going to be so incredibly delayed
Compared to what Aja is going to have where he was really accelerated by those early two kills again
Woody moving up for its top and they're gonna look for sniper here
He's in the danger zone, so he's already doing so much damage flame spitter out
But he's gonna overheat before the fight kicks off as PSG in the river again
This place has not been good for hundred days here in this series. No, it has not at all
But hundred thieves again, they have to keep fighting for these things. They didn't get too early grubs
They're gonna look to see if they can make something happen here this time at least they are together
But Woody's on the flank.
Flash is bobbing back in that D8 cornering headlights.
Equalizer down.
And PSG had taken the hopes away as Ailey gets good engagement.
The fates sealed.
Use of the backline start but can't get in.
They're getting picked apart again.
Even though 100 Bs had some hope in from the solo kill,
from a pick off kill, it's falling apart just like game one.
It's just a gorgeous engage from Woody.
He found the early kill onto Ailey
with that engage in bot side.
And then another one finding River here he was the one who found River at the last fight around grubs again this time
Even better picks him off knocks him into the team even when River flashes out
Ozha had held the equalizer to drop over the wall to guarantee that kill
It's a brilliant engage from PSG out of fog there
He goes Q flash W over the wall River flashes back trying to get to safety
But Junja nails the ultimate Ozha has the equalizer. They know if they kill off that Lilia
There's not a lot of threats. So even though there's some good individual plays here from 100 thieves dodging out on the fated
Sealed there by quit a good old from Tomo
It just doesn't matter because so much of the power there is in Rivers hands
This said you're wanting by the way when everyone's in that little scruff II II II
Yes, maple sitting. I just hitting Woody's hitting
There's so much CC to go around everyone gets a pile and now we come back to live
a 3k gold lead, excuse me, a dragon, four grubs. PSG, I was worried about how this team was against
Payne. I thought Payne, at the start of the series, might wait, might be Payne at the beginning.
He was one fatally from beating PSG. That's right. And then we've developed, haven't we? Even against
Mad, they showcased a little bit more here against 100 thieves. This is the PSG we were hoping
for coming into World because of how well they could team play because of how good individually
as well. These guys were good with their hands. Absolutely. I mean I think they're playing incredibly well.
Hunter Thieves also make it pretty easy for them, you know, going for some of these fights but they
don't really have it set up. And PSG is playing the map better, is really punishing to the maximum
when there are these mistakes from Hunter Thieves. So PSG looking like a really dominant team.
They have about a 3,000 gold lead here already. But again, Hunter Thieves have no option
but to keep fighting. You're playing 8 rocks for Nectin as your sole laners here. There's no
No sit back and scale, you need to make things happen now when you're looking at a Yone and
an Ezreal on the other side that are going to scale to infinity.
Alistair trying to make it happen and 100 thieves, now the same guy is a good thing to
say the very least with the game's state.
PSG are moving into River now, though his dragon at 3.5k is about to be reset.
Ulti sent into Tomo on the back line through a shot barrage and taking himself flashed
over Tomo, hit with a flail.
Heila has to back away as River hasn't even gotten to play this game.
PSG corn into the wall, and I'm telling you right now
Venison is going to the mall that one look personal
He's caught against them all with no flash at 20% HP to equalizer them. He was the yone on things
everything and the kitchen sink
Making River wish he still was on PSG. Oh man the throwback
He was on the best PSG roster. I had it all prepped out
had it all scripted but scripts be damned. PSG are breaking that, breaking it in half as 100
Thieves try to defend their mid turret and Tomo sends out everything. Woody was about to die but
he pops the ulti. Turret goes down anyway and now it's a 4k goldly as 100 Thieves try to find
something off the force, off the side. Ailer jumps in but Archer is burning down Sniper
at the very least. He gets the reset, he gets the kill. PSG only have Betty for the damage
now so they have to run away. 100 Thieves their best chance in this game is now looking at
of them in the face, a couple already.
Sniper finding some blood, finding some kills.
They're not out of this just yet
if they keep getting opportunities like that.
Yeah, Sniper showing up in a big way there.
They know they need to get something.
They need to find these fights here.
They lose that mid lane tier one,
but Sniper is able to come in,
get a couple kills for the team.
It's a good play from him,
but still they are down 3000 plus gold even off that.
You can see the difference in the MasterCard
lane economy snapshot.
It is massive.
It's advantages for PSG entirely across the board
that will have even now a little bit
after those couple kills there from Sniper,
who is now ahead of his lane opponent,
and he's now 300 gold up off of that.
But still, he's going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting
if they want to have a chance here.
I was talking before about how I think
there's a lot of pressure on River.
River has been put very far down.
He is behind this edge, Wani here,
not in this really strong position that he wants to be in.
and Lillia from behind, you can be very vulnerable
to these plays.
PSG is just hard engaging on and bursting him down
before he really has an opportunity to stack up
the conqueror, to get these passive stacks out,
to find any good sleep.
I don't even know if he's pressed ultimately yet this game.
I don't think we've seen one.
What chances he had, right?
The fight always seems over
before he gets into position
and now as Harold goes down,
you know, I was ready to hype up in there
and I see the sniper kills and I get excited thinking,
okay, there's something,
but we just come back to the macro game,
We come back to the map game and it's PSG again,
faulting with it as they pick up the Herald.
And at the end of the day,
it's PSG with a much better scaling composition,
up 3,000 gold with all the objectives.
You know, they're gonna be able to get another tower here.
They move top.
They are controlling vision very well on the map.
A maple on the Sione,
he is gonna be scaling so much better than the Renekton
and is gonna be able to get solo gold on that tower
pushing in the top lane as well.
Our Thieves trying to get something back
on that bot side, but Herald dropped mid.
That means Tier 2 is gone.
The question is, only can they even defend the Tier 3?
And now they all have to move for mid,
because you see Arger moves back into position,
defends bot.
PSG not overstaying their welcome as Sniper
is sent away by a blast cone.
His angle matters, but only if he can find a target
is what he disengages and gets out
of those internal chains.
So mid stays standing, but the damage
means it's a breath away from being taken down.
I mean, it's just really well handled by PSG.
They just retreat out to the topside.
They have like three, four pink wards up
on that topside of the map.
So they had full vision of 100 thieves.
There's no way for 100 thieves to get any sort of like a TP
flank or make any sort of unexpected play.
They knew they had full safety, just retreat up
toward that topside out of the mid lane.
It's just, again, great macro play here from PSG.
This really is their hallmark.
They are not one of those teams that is just
going to scrap at every turn.
They're going to be able to play really intelligently
around the map when they take a fight.
It's only going to be one that is on their terms
that they are feeling confident that they will win.
That's why Maple is so reliable,
whether it's on mages or things like this Yone.
I think Maple's map plays is I think the thing that always brings it together.
So far in the playing stages. Absolutely.
And I mean when we build is able to win lanes, that's just the cherry on top.
This guy really made his career on the map play on how intelligently he moves around.
You can see Ezreal is coming back. They're going to try to defend.
They get the satchel charge which gets the turret down.
But Ard just not hit by the little swell seed.
So he walks away.
100 thieves get themselves a turret top.
And this is again, you know maple pushing in top, you know getting that gold onto that Yone
They're gonna be feeling really good about that that he incredibly ahead here
And it's stacking up just about fully stacked now for that Marama and it's gonna be an incredibly strong position
There you can see it now it just does take over so he has that now available
And it's only gonna get harder and harder and harder to deal with this as real as he's leveling up as he's grabbing more items
You kind of need to deal with them. You can't really ignore this guy whatsoever in a team fight
But the soul iners are going to be a really big issue as well
So let's highlight where the next chance stands for a hundred days to keep their dream alive at worlds
Dragons up in 35 seconds will be the third of PSG Baron in 25
It's objective fight that a hundred days have to keep reading tempo to is up
So yeah
This is the big question is you know Ezreal has two items and is on a huge power spike
But a hundred days have to weigh that against the fact that they are just getting more and more outscaled
So even though it is only a contact so I think they are going to try to draw their line of the sand here and
Put their world's lives on the line with this fight if you lose this fight if they get to sole point get even more of a gold
Leave it's probably completely cooked. So how do thieves have to wait and see can we find the right angle to go for this fight?
If the opportunity isn't there they definitely can't force it because you really only have about one more fight left in you
It would be such a rough history if North America in both
both internationals this year fell out in plans.
Maple trying to make that happen now,
but onto Qwiti doesn't get the face shield.
Just some damage out as the solo unbound gets him to half HP.
Qwiti is the one who has teleport,
so he's gonna move down now for the fight.
And Zaeli's trying to make it happen.
Yeah, he's gonna try to look for the second one.
He's gonna try to tell you the jungle,
it looks like Junji's buying time though.
Blastcoe inseparates them all.
There's an ulti out from Sniper.
Qwiti has got the dominance, so he pops it now,
but Archer just turns.
They see this flank in action.
They bring their own teleport.
We pick apart the pieces and Sniper, the member who's trying to keep them breathing, has run out of oxygen.
That Blascoe just destroyed 100 thieves. They tried to find that flank and now Arjah spotted Quinn.
He's gonna get cooked.
He's gonna get destroyed. I know what I'm having for dinner tonight.
It's gonna be snappy.
As Quinn runs for his life down, he's got nowhere to go.
Betty Arjah, just fighting for the scraps.
I don't know who's paying the bill, but I know that they're eating good as Inotara drops down.
We snap to another part, a flash from Maple.
Tomo hit hard, almost dead as well.
PSG, if they're not making a play,
bot, they're making it mid.
They're making it all in one.
They got the dragon from that as hell.
There is literally no positive takeaway.
I can give the 100 thieves from that play.
Yeah, I mean, they lose the dragon,
they lose the fight, they lose the mid tier two,
even after that, PSG got everything.
Just dismantle that play there from 100 thieves.
They felt they needed to try to send it.
Maple up on the top side spent his ultimate on quids and quids as you know what we're gonna try to call for this play
We're gonna try to go for it right here right now does TP in had they been able to pick up ginger to start
It could have been very different, but that blast cone really destroyed them
It sent you know sniper over the walls with his ultimate expires
It saves Junja it pushes away quit and puts him in this situation where he's pretty awkward
And then again it just would he has been playing an insane game right again
The instant engage on the side where they 100 to zero him in that spot when he's trying to come in on the flank with quid
his target selection has been beautiful and
PSG have all been instantly following up on any of those engages where it's an Ezreal equalizer a glitchal prison
Everyone is there to do their part to burst down the member that would he zeroes out?
We're finally getting the junja that as well, you know, isn't this caught out
You know in movement caught out in random places
I think is what I'm trying to say in multiple series so far at Worlds
We've just seen the Junja that was again not promised
When all the pieces are working together PSG look clean and now with a six almost seven K gold leaf if my Nats is correct
They hover around the topside they look for this topside turret a dive underneath for quick just to enable that inner to drop down
He's getting closest what he's caught up, but no no no
He says ailer must walk away. He pops the ulti ladders. It's a mess from Junja
So sniper takes him down. There's a mistake as the flashlight pick assault gets him out of ground
But now you see aila is just standing by Archer while maple also shut down
PSG I just called them clean right after that they get picked apart
Yeah, they do get a pick their hundred thieves
They know they just have to keep forcing here have any
Opportunity of coming back in this game to five thousand gold lead though for PSG
So even though they do trade up they get two kills for one they get that shut down
I think we're doing a farm shutdown on maple
That went over to Tomo, so that is some slight hope for them, but PSG can just play towards their win condition here.
OVSOL just looked towards it. Yes, not the strongest Solby. You already have a significant gold lead, and it's going to make it that much harder at 400T
to burst down those members, which really is their only hope in these teamfights.
They have to zero someone out right off the bat. You know, get a stun on a key member, which really at this point is kind of only Betty,
like, you know, and try to one shot him with a zig-zall.
But it's so tough because you have to think it's like,
okay, how is this gonna happen?
Maybe you get River hits him with a sleep
and then he forces a cleanse on that
and then afterwards you can get him with a stun
and then burst him down.
But it's like, it has to be this series of events
to really ever imagine Betty
getting fully caught out and burst down.
Still trying to realize or wonder
if River's used the loasing on the fly yet.
Maybe we've seen one.
I haven't seen it, but like it could have been used,
you know, on a skirmish that was kind of
on a pick off the side.
You know, maybe he's used on Maple there, for example.
But definitely not any big impactful ones, but any means, and we think of Lillia, you do think about those like Q Flash on 3-4 members and a big sleep set up fight.
Is that as an X factor, there is a potential big engage from Aila that could set up a multi-man ult from Tomo.
These are the kind of things that you have to really be looking towards and hoping for, because PSG are just playing a pretty bulletproof game and looking like they are very close now to being able to secure their Swiss stage spot.
I'm used to North America bringing us the big sleeps,
the nine man sleeps, the resonator vanes.
I just say, oh man, your little is.
Next tier, but in this game, that's what it has to be,
doesn't it?
It has to be next tier for River.
It has to be the carry that we talked about,
being so crucial for 100 thieves.
It's been a massive year for them.
Obviously not MSI, but it's been a massive year,
this split, being able to do the unthinkable.
The third seed, you have high expectations
when you're part of this major region
and here against PSG, they're struggling
to move towards Baron, 50 seconds till the dragon,
if PSG looked to pivot and try and take Sol.
And I think it's so incredible
if they're having this strong year,
especially after what last year was.
It's such a bounce back year,
because last year PSG got knocked out
in both Planet Act, MSI and that world,
and then to come back and have such a strong performance
here in an era where I think a lot of people
are saying, well, the time of Maple,
the time of the PCS has passed,
Woody's gonna catch him again.
It means their time now, River's going to be laid down and set to bear.
Sniper stands in front, it's a good sleep this time.
I correct myself, but Sniper's not running to five people.
He doesn't get the kill on Archer.
Haley engages only to die in the end.
The range, the true chopperage.
Betty's time to shine his quit.
Keith Tron committing, but he doesn't have the damage.
Now Betty's caught into a chain.
Sniper's trying his heart out.
This guy's got a bright future, but not today.
Maple's gonna look for even more.
Tomo's got nowhere to go.
The solo unbound, the flash is gonna be a safety,
but Betty, triple kill, they're barely survives.
They're gonna get solo and PSG,
that may just have secured it.
River's chasing down Maple, Betty, Betty,
the long shot, Betty, it was gonna die.
And the dragon, Tomo kills Maple in the end.
PSG are getting a little bit sloppy,
but as they move back to dragon,
Betty can hit from over the wall.
Arge is gonna help them secure it now, River.
as he walks in once the steal.
It's a little cartwheel to move forward,
but it's not enough PSG with Seoul.
Tomo teleported as well.
Yeah, I mean, it's desperation hours, right?
They know if you give up the Seoul,
you really have no chance.
You're already so far behind, your comp is outscaled,
you're in a horrible, horrible position.
So any play that 100 teams go for
is likely to look bad at this point.
But again, Woody, it's a master class.
It's Q flash, W back into the team.
Yeah, this time River does survive
He gets a pretty nice sleep on multiple members, but he's out of the fight and sniper is kind of a hope here
But it's a gold lead in action. The zone is just completed for Aja
If sniper got that instant kill there with the Q3 flash on Aja, which he would have had the damage for
He would have got the reset on the ulti and then this fight that is that close
Imagine this is an ulted atrox. It could have looked completely different
Maybe he can take over maybe he can actually turn that around, but they just don't have it
And you can hear the disappointment in the voice, obviously, trying to stay positive in
these situations.
You have to try to look for those 2% odds, those 1% odds, whatever there is for you
to grab.
You've got to try to reach out and grab it in these situations.
But Betty said he was going to be a problem in the late game, and the late game feels
like has arrived early.
He's already on three and a half items, because he has eight kills, we're 28 minutes
in.
This guy is a monster, and he has double summoners for the next fight, which
It's just gonna make it that much more impossible to deal with it's gonna start up baron right now and
As Betty hits away river needs to move towards his former comrade who's also on top of the baron
Maple starts chunking away and rivers way too far away as when he turns the print gauge baron goes down a fight sealed over
Aela's fate of worlds
Betty with his knife and PSG are gonna start running rings again
And PSG, an incredible spot here, dominating this series.
Start to finish it feels like this one a little bit closer.
Last one, 20 to 1, but let's be honest,
this one really hasn't ever felt that close
because of the compositional advantages,
because of how even they kept in the early stages,
the advantages they took were pretty strong
even from there.
They've played the map incredibly well
and now Maple and Betty, monstrous gold leads.
such reliable carries here for the team and PSG dotting the eyes crossing the
teams now 2.5k starts off our Red Bull barren powerplay as those waves start
crashing in not much standing gold outside of the bases it is just that
Inatar in the bot side and Nexus Taras to go rather inhibitor Taras to correct
myself as PSG starts stealing away River's jungle and making it even more
impossible to find anything in the gap. Yeah River you're not gonna get
into that jungle, but 100
thieves you're just hoping for a miracle now you're hoping for some sort of deep
word. They do have one deep word behind them. We'll see if quit is going to
actually elect a TV on it. I probably think you should. I don't think the
chance they're going to get even better here, but 100 thieves not going to go
for it just yet are going to be backing off and we'll see if those
words do expire. Quit is paying these going to go for this year too. So I
guess their call is we can't actually defend anyway. So try to get a little
bit of gold back on the other side. They did this last game as well.
Alright in PSG just keep taking and taking and taking mid turret's about to drop down on the TP.
There's the full commit and maybe the TP comes in late because River's about to die in his own base.
Maple takes him down. It's an engage for Maple. Look how split they are.
All of the Betty is good from Quinn. That starts it off with the equalizer.
Has to be walked over. PSG's to all an advantage.
A flash away from Junja. Stops a sweet spot from Sniper.
They tried. They fought. North America though.
History is calling out to you.
PSG are going to be going to the Swiss stage. It's a 2-0 over 100 thieves.
Asseil, it's rough. 100 thieves were expected to be one of the best teams out of play-ins.
But when PSG lighten up, I'm sure we'll remember this name, the NA Killers of 2024.
It started at MSI versus FlyQuest. It continues against 100 thieves here at Worlds 2024.
They have done the unthinkable, they have made history here, and they have locked in the last spot at Swiss for this year's Worlds.
Playing, ending on a high note there for the PCS, PCS team dominate 100 Thieves.
This was not close, this was a team playing at a different level than the LCS number 3 seed here today.
Fortunately, 400 Thieves that couldn't get it together against the PCS team.
Maple, Jhinja, Aujin, everyone on the spot. Betty and Woody playing incredibly well.
I give so much credit to Woody in this game.
All-Hour Star was one of the best support performances.
This was looking like Alvaro out there. They're both playing so incredibly well.
He set up, it felt like every single fight, every engage he had,
someone was going to die on 100 Thieves and it felt like time and time again,
time again, the fight was over before it even began.
Now the early game that stings dear, 100 Thieves.
As I said, you know a lot of history has been made in this world.
This has been a very big world for play-ins.
But never before has the North American team been knocked out at world play-ins.
100 Thieves have valiant effort in the end.
But it was just not enough.
Yeah, bright future for a lot of those players for them their first time making it to an international event here
Obviously heartbreaking for them and he worked so hard and it's not the result that they were hoping for but
It will be heading home and you know looking to try to learn from this come back next year stronger if they can
PSG though, they are heading to the Swiss stage and they will be awaiting their draw here to find out who their first opponent is
And I have to say if you watch them on day one and you watch that first game from PSG
You would be saying they have no chance against anyone at Swiss
You watch this series and you're saying oh god, I don't think I want to play against them
I don't think I want to draw them because
PSG playing at this level when they have a strong meta read like they did
I think this is the first time they actually had really strong cohesive drafts
Yeah, you know the series that they lost against a mad they really weren't drafting to that level the first series
I really don't think they were drafting that level so if they come in like this into the Swiss stage
They could be a threat for pretty much anyone. That's what I love about our teams that we're sending as well
Right because you know we saw early qualifications from teams like gam who a lot of people said well, you know
The VCS doesn't look hot or yeah, the VCS is overblown
They looked absolutely clean coming through. I've just seen a leading series from C below
You know pain managing to lock in their spot after a big back-and-forth best of three and now after PSG's performance
I don't know. I don't like calling things out maybe this is the strongest worlds
We've ever seen because it's all by comparison and by meta rise the strongest world
But this is a already a really exciting world and we're just in plans absolutely
I mean I do think the level of so many of these regions is going up
Yeah, you know honestly, you know people people are coming into this event
And as far as the power rankings were concerned so many people had
R7 and pain as the bottom two teams in play-ins that they just played for a play-in spot
You know to advance and they were able to pull it off
You know pain's gonna be in Swiss and they're gonna be there with PSG
Well, we're gonna throw it over the Verizon post game interview with Jason and Archer. We just carry that best of three
Welcome everyone. I have Azul and standby for the post game interview. First up, congratulations
Congratulations Azul
First of all, congratulations to you guys
So first off, I want to ask you, how do you feel qualifying for the main stage of Worlds?
It's been three years for PSG talent actually, last time was 2021, so what does this mean
to you?
First of all, congratulations on becoming a Red Cross team.
What do you feel about the World Championship in PSG?
I'm quite happy, because we had a little bit of a problem before.
Today, we have to adjust the situation.
So at first, we didn't feel good about our performance, but later we adjust all and then we feel good to say it.
I think the adjustment was so effective.
I think as the matches went by, PSG Talon had better performance throughout the playing stage.
So what was the main focus preparing for this 100-deep series?
Because you guys are the anti-killers and you guys did it again with this time around a clean 2-0 win.
So playing against 100 Thieves, we keep our maintenance to the best, and we think we can win all teams with this.
Great confidence heading into the Swiss stage then speaking of Swiss stage
Is there any specific team that you would like to face?
So I would love to face against G2 since we like constantly losing to them
a revenge might be happening.
So thank you so much for the interview.
One more time, congratulations on qualifying
for World Swiss State.
It was Aso everyone, thank you.
Thank you, Gisonne, and congrats to PSG Thelon, of course,
here.
We will see them next week in the Swiss State.
Happy faces on the side of the coaching staff,
of course, bowling to the crowd here.
They had such a dominant performance on the stage today,
compared to, compared to the beginning,
of the pain stage that we saw from them. I mean that's what we said at the beginning
of the day, right? It's the form of the day that matters and yeah, Raz being all the LCS
fans right now, all the Western fans right now.
I like it better when they're the LCK killers, why us?
Yeah, we've all been there, okay?
How? We're gonna be there soon.
Hello, Malfoy fans.
Okay, okay, excuse me.
God, I had you guys like that.
Thank you, thank you.
But, I mean, PCS and PSG specifically, they guys start somewhere, they used to be the Korean
killers, then they fill a bit off.
You gotta have those baby steps towards greatness again, so yeah, starting out with you guys,
it's unfortunate, but I mean, the better team won today, they were dominating and while
game 2 was a lot more sloppy than game 1 was, it just always looked winnable for
them.
players like Sniper, they're due. That man tried his damn best.
Absolutely, the great trucks like made me start planning the game again.
I was like, it's not over. Let me get some of these sniper highlights.
We really needed that.
That was the thing. One Seepers Armguard, one auto away from having a reset on that ultimate
and he could have carried that five bus.
PSG Talents has said like phenomenal game one, incredible game two coming into the
back of this. They just, they felt like they couldn't be stopped.
Yeah, I agree. I think that just the fact that it was the first international for
a lot of the boys on 100 Thieves and for PSG,
they've been pushing again and again to go as far as they can.
And seeing performance like this, a bounce back from
when they're playing against Mad Lions,
it's, you know, big respect to a lot of those players,
especially Woody.
I think Woody is the player that we were all looking
forward to seeing after his performance in playoffs
and PCS and then being able to come up
and have such a strong play on his Alistar
and all that, love that.
It feels like it was the PSG that we were waiting for
all along, honestly, rumored when we were just even
prepping for the event and looking at the games
they played domestically.
Took them a while, but I mean, it's not about skating.
Yeah, I mean, they still got the Sightlane win condition,
going for them by picking up the Yone as well.
I think that gave them a lot of the same comfort,
but as to why they were so good in their own region.
So they can still draft these AD laners
that allows me to have that prowess.
But I also just think that it benefited this team
so much that they were able to slow the game down
and just make it objective focused instead.
That was something they couldn't get done at all in the beginning, they kinda got sucked into the chaos.
They looked uncomfortable on the meta, Picks didn't work for them, and this time around, they were just in the zone. There's no denying that.
And of course, we see 100 thieves bowing to the crowd. Snapper still with a smile on his face, you know what?
A long career awaits this player, I feel. Again, I wanna remind people how young he is, the Raster and Raz, you know, more than anyone.
It took them a while to find the final form that was shooting for them.
I don't know what's going to happen of the roster now, but I, of course, being sad that
you don't make it out of play-ins, but so when you look at the progress from all these
players over the year and what awaits them in the future, I have hope.
100%. I mean, I talked about the fact that it was the first worlds for a lot of those
players outside of River. And like from certain players, especially for Quid, like
Nervz were a big question, but then I felt like he actually had to glow up specifically
going in the series after that. So I would, you know, focus on these players
going into the next year and hopefully they make it back to the States like this again.
I'm excited for their future. Absolutely. One small thing to know is just like as a roster,
they're not barely two months old as well. We're still coming in and all these things, right?
So while this is a good baseline foundation, like hopefully they just keep the members for
next year and start building with this because the foundation was there.
Josho, how come you're next? I'm not nervous at all.
Here guys, this is really my most awkward call, like, what can we, what would be, what would be the, the worst scenario for the, the West here?
Let's, let's think about the possibilities that we have.
So it depends how you look at this, right? Because FlyQuest is a pull one team now.
Yeah.
The SG is a pull four team now, which means they can draw each other, which, if you're FlyQuest, you would love that revenge.
Yeah.
Like that would not only be a player.
We have 16 teams split into four poles.
Pole 1, pole 4, pole 2, and pole 3.
The poles are determined by original strength and the team performance throughout the 2024 season.
Teams from pole 1 will play against teams from pole 4.
teams from pull 4. And teams from pull 2 will face teams from pull 3. We'll be starting
with pull 1 teams, then drawing from pull 4 teams, then pull 2, and finally pull 3. Remember,
teams cannot play someone from their own region in round 1. For example, if T1 is drawn against
The drawn team will be moved down to the next available matchup.
Pool 1 has BLG, Belibili Gaming Dream Smart, HLE, HANA Life Esports, Flight Quest, and G2 Esports.
We will start the draw with Pool 1. So if you can, please draw the first team.
It is HANA Life Esports from BLCK. Please draw the second team.
It is flight quest from the LCS.
I mean realistically speaking right now.
Please draw the third team from pool one.
The pool one team from pool one.
Which is waiting for us is going to face the fight.
Yeah, that's the thing.
That's the thing.
I definitely would not want to pull the LPL or LCK.
Yes.
Like that is terrifying.
Let's be real.
LEC and LCS are definitely easier options to go through.
It is G2 Esports.
You're very much helping your dripping down the bottom now.
Do you love how engaging the fans are just by seeing the note.
Yeah, we know that. That's us.
Matchup I'm probably most excited for from Pool 1 and Pool 4 is like a Madline versus Flyquire.
And it's still a gaming group smart from the LPL.
Love me some western rivalry.
I just know that BLG is pulling Madline's edges. I just have that feeling, yeah.
Honestly, we see this but like it's...
Pool 4. That's Swiss, right? Like the amount of a friend that they're going to face us against and...
It wraps up but ultimately you're never safe.
Thank you.
I mean at least the good news is you can't get any rematches when you get into the second
crown, right?
So you just got to pull BLG and say, cool, you're out of the way now.
We cannot interact with you ever again.
Yeah.
Maybe that works out better.
Here we go.
Come on, man.
This is where it begins, guys.
Is it Mad Lions?
Oh!
Yes!
It is ESD Talon.
That's actually a bit of a bang.
Yeah.
Isn't it?
They were promised in the beginning coming into this world to be the one that
would take down these top teams.
Yeah. So if you truly want to test that analysis, this is the game for it.
So, so in. In the past, he and she thought I'd done OK.
It's a game. It's sports.
So, he thinks so. But uh...
I'm gonna, I'm not gonna top Esports.
No, please.
That's a good point, Doug. That's a very good point.
Is this G2 now?
We had, yeah, I think so.
Okay.
Is it?
It's pain gaming.
So then the schedule comes back up by the matchups. So then my question is the last one right yeah, I'm pretty sure yeah
So it's mad flight. Oh
Wait, you might be right. Yeah, that would be great
No wait
While you're seeing how they're looking on the match-ups later.
Team Liquid Honda and Fnatic.
Can you add like...
Please draw the first team.
It was a bit unfair Gen.G being pulled to.
Yeah, something doesn't add up here.
What are you guys doing here?
I mean, look, same with Top, but...
Okay, there they are. There we go.
Top is poor. I mean, that's the thing.
Say a lot about this strength at Worlds.
Every year, even more so this year.
Those are just the top two from both LPL and LCK, they're absolutely insane.
Top B's boys look in the strongest set of the LPL for the majority of the year,
despite the fact that BLG were there, so I think it is going to be crazy.
Boom!
It is Team Liquid Honda!
Honestly, going into the finals, this was going to be the expected pool one team.
Team Liquid, of course, that was like a banger of a finals.
True.
As a reminder, that was the one where the minions was the difference maker.
That was amazing.
Cheers from the Berlin audience of the North.
I wonder if it's not...
That would be crazy if it's just that one around.
How did you know?
You're so good at this.
Thank you, thank you, I appreciate that.
Okay, top-east, what's T.L., Matic, and then Genji.
Okay.
Moving on to poll 3.
We can't have any interagent matches.
So we'll have to see.
Because I'm not going to be able to keep track of this.
He landed the whole thing.
Yeah.
Way bow game in tap tap and T1.
The first one is either down on a T1, right?
That's the only one they can...
Yes.
Please draw the...
Of course me, I'm scared.
Who are you scared for?
Let's just be glad we don't have auto armor.
They played these, right?
Yeah.
Hey guys, so it isn't...
Oh my god, you stayed home.
Oh my god.
Move LNG down to the TL match.
I
Can we at least play with the yowl still I mean like of course
But I want him back we give me
Let's just top them isn't it oh
That's insane match
And this has to be a great meta port T1 of course
I mean especially when you consider like the latest form of team 1 and what we've seen from them that's gonna be spicy
It's fine a lot of emotions today
the matchup that we have for the first stage round one. T1TS, Team Liquid Energy, Fnatic, DK, and Gen G versus Waibo Gaming.
Oh my god. Show me a good show.
The world first stage begins on October 3rd. The order of the matches will be decided and posted later on LawlessPorts.com, so stay tuned.
Thank you everyone.
Thank you, Jisan.
So, I like Malu for draw shows more than Odo Malu.
Very good, very good.
Can we take a look at the schedule that we're going to have?
Let's take a look at the bracket actually. We're going to take a look at the schedule later.
To wrap a plane, set a break plane.
I think most of the expectations we had coming into plane were correct,
at the exception of 100 teams, of course.
And that is us, our Swiss brackets.
Any first thoughts on the first games that we're going to have?
I mean, FlyQuest pretty happy, I think.
At least with some of the teams that you get FlyQuest versus Cam.
Yeah, Rache, you're going to have to get a bit of a climb.
Okay, thank God.
Top Esports T1 is absolutely insane.
That's the thing, yeah.
The fact that that's going to be happening on day one is unbelievable.
And I just think this is just
unbelievable. Also Gen G versus
Webo, but I think for G to
versus paying game without
paying game or playing like.
Paying pain can take that like
they've actually been looking
pretty decent thing when it
comes into play. And yeah,
just taking a look at this. Now,
my God, you're right. I am so
happy for. I mean, of course,
never underestimate a team
that's like an underdog like
game, but that's one thing
that I'm excited for. Top
eSports cram versus faker is
So definitely want to see the form that T1 is in at the moment just because
What the hell like it's been a really tough one. They barely made it to this event
No, but yeah, I completely agree. It's gonna be a great a great test for them and
Yeah, see how they ensure this world's competition. I am actually slightly worried about the first fanatic matchup. I mean, yeah
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense
especially
With well some of the issues we saw from Flatterglass and they've obviously had a lot of time to then try and reset and figure out
What they need to do especially with those early game objectives
I am scared for G2 because it's pain gaming and Brazil when they make it to main stage
Yeah, I mean I'm just saying I also appreciate that the MGK lads have a lot of confidence because they're deaf
They're gonna need it.
Yeah.
Hold on to that one, boys.
You're gonna need it.
But again, it's just gonna happen.
Yeah, Knight has just been on the tear.
So that matchup is crazy.
I mean, that one just looks really good for BLG, obviously.
The one that I'm interested in the most is Team Liquid versus LNG.
Yeah.
Because they must have not had a lot of time to be able to scrim with Scout.
No.
Like, that's the biggest question for me, because they didn't know how long it was
going to take to resolve the issue.
will that matter? What form is Team Liquid going to be in? Those are the kind of the few questions, but like, you know,
LNG has to be extremely happy that they have to start the first stage without the substitution.
That Scout, who has been the reason why they're here ultimately, is able to play in game one.
I think for me though, just looking across the board, so many of these mid lane matchups are so interesting to watch.
like when you look at Gen G Wave or when you look at like Raz already alluded to like
cream versus faker you got so many amazing mid lane matchups especially because I think the
shift is going to come through in the meta as we start to move in towards the main stage as well
where I'm expecting more of the Akali's maybe get some silenced counter picks for like
Aries or the Orianas that we've been seeing so I think this mid lane matchup is going to just
explode and you've got incredible talent. That's even much like humanoid versus showmaker
are these kind of things that it looks insane.
Early takes on the Mera that we've seen so far in general,
because I know that it's always the question,
is this Mera going to benefit this team or this team
or that team?
And we also know that Plains Mera usually
is not going to be the final version of what the teams
from the main event are going to be playing,
but early thoughts on strength here.
I think it's exciting only because we're seeing Skarner,
Orianna, like some counter matchups
into stuff like that, like the Akali.
So for me, if I'm thinking like the Akali matchups,
Zika is going to be the person that really is going to be
Remember 2022 guys
Exactly, so like I'm excited
I really want to see the form of Peanut
Because Peanut domestically is a terror
He really slammed it, but whenever it comes to international play
A lot of the times, that's where the question comes in
Tim's the falter there
But if he's at his same level
That he's played in domestic, the domestic league
Then
They have to be Hanwa Life has to be the team to fear you
Yeah, when I look at like
The BLG, Gen G
And how my life I'm not really worried about a meta for these types of teams. Yes
They seem incredibly versatile with whatever they want to bring to the table and I think they'll be able to pop off regardless
I think the meta shift is probably gonna help massively T1 like getting faker back on to more of these control mages
It's gonna be perfect for him. I think that's where he's really gonna shine
But even guys like caps right not that he didn't play well in a domestic beyond these
These 80 carries. Yeah, but I think like syndrome is these kind of things have always been the wheelhouse of capsule
We're shifting in towards a lot of the strengths of these mid laners I've ever seen and I think that's really where the pop-off performances are going to be.
And I think it's going to be a question mark for me about how do junglers facilitate that.
Do we end up with a lot more of the tanks?
Do we start to see things like Diego coming in, which are great for Wei and Tian, or is it at least in for Tian?
Like these kind of players, that's where I'm really excited to see how that facilitation goes on between these strong mid junglers.
Yeah, but I also don't think we've actually seen Syndra at her best shift.
I still think Sinjer in some of these mid laners hands will be incredibly powerful
And I think there's gonna have to be asked a question in terms of what will you actually pick into this, right?
Because I don't think we've seen the actual counter matchups
Silas is one of the ones that do well in solo queue as well. We haven't seen any Silas right now
We got great Silas players at this tournament. Bedias was talking about Echo. I'm not too sure about that one yet
But it's still a lot of experimentation available. Big Echo player. I know
It was one of the biggest matchup in 2018 as well
So why not see if we see that as well?
Also, Exe kick-tweeted, he's playing Echo AD Kari to counter Syndra AD Kari.
That is his thing, yeah!
So who knows?
Someone get the rest of the bag.
We need some fish, we need some Echo, we need some of these bag.
And I'm just interested in how frequently teams are going to lane swap.
Because that was something, we didn't see it nearly as much during the play-in,
but it's definitely still effective.
And teams like Team Liquid really made, you know, their name, at least during summer split,
off of the effectiveness of their lane swapping.
They're going to be going up against LNG,
so I think it might be a good chance to be able to do that.
And just the champion pool that I want to see from mid lane here,
because APA has a great Aurelion Soul.
We haven't seen that at all.
And I wonder if we're going to see a larger champion pool mid lane of mages
now that we're seeing a lot more stronger side laners
in the second stage than the first stage.
I'm going to rewind a bit here and talk about the team
that just qualified for PSG because looking at their first matchup they're going to face
up against the champions of the LCK, Hanwha Life Esports, so talking about their improvements
and everything and today we wanted to give praise to Woody of course, who is the OPPO
player of the series, how much is his performance and the rest of PSG's improvement is going
to be enough against the Titans.
In terms of setting up for objectives right, Woody was just there to make all of these
teamfights that much easier, I had some really good reads in terms of where he
needed to be on the map. I also think when he was cheating reset timers, either of
draggings or trying to stay ahead of Eila, he was there the entire time. He was
trying to influence top laner at some point as well, which would have been a
mech-a-roam, and then Ardrey grieved it a little bit, but he was ahead of the
play multiple times in this series. Yeah, and if my question is or is going
to be on how he's going to perform versus Honorable Life, or how this
team is going to perform, my first look is going to be Woody, because
Because domestically, Woody was the biggest development in this team.
Becoming really the reason why they won their finals and why they became such a good team
fighting team.
We didn't get to see that so much during the play-in stage and he really, really showed
up today.
So if it's going to be PSG potentially taking it over Hummel Life, Woody is going to be
a big factor in that.
Yeah, I think the series has really quite a lot of buzzer for me for Woody where
I want to see him being able to get these flanks playing around the vision like
we saw today.
And I think if you're able to set that up successfully, that's where PSG talent can try and take it,
but you're up against such a powerhouse, you have to be playing on all cylinders.
But what better way to cement yourself as the Korean killers again, DAKDA, by taking down the LCK number one seed.
PSG, the road is paved out for you, now you just have to walk it.
I love it. The storylines, the fire from all these teams, the excitement that we only had for this playing stage, guys.
It's just the beginning. I cannot wait for next week.
Hell yeah! It's just the start, this is what people were waiting for, the biggest match-ups and it's just a couple of days away.
It's Walls, baby! We'll be back next Thursday on October 3rd, 2pm CST. You don't wanna miss it!
We have weeks of amazing League of Legends ahead of us and this was just the beginning.
See you for Swiss! Bye bye!
Bye bye!
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