ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League ! Regional Finals ! Americas ! Apex Legends
ALGS Americas: Teams kämpfen um EWC-Qualifikation in spannenden Regional Finals
In den ALGS Americas Regional Finals kämpfen Teams um die EWC-Qualifikation. NRG, TSM und Furia sind im Fokus. Sturmpunkt und Broken Moon sind wichtige Karten. Legend-Picks wie Alter beeinflussen Strategien. Spannungsgeladene Kämpfe und Team-Rotationen prägen das Turnier. All Gamers und TSM sichern sich Siege in frühen Spielen.
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ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League Americas Regional Finals: Vorschau und Erwartungen
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00:06:01 We're going to 50 and we're possibly
00:06:30 EWC in just under a month. It's North America's turn to qualify their teams and also declare a winner after this first split. All the action is here. I'm your host, Rain Day, and excited to be riding it with you. And of course, we've got some amazing talent along for the ride as well. Vicky Kitty will be joining us and, you know, taking the second game and a big part of this. But right now in front of you, it's Onset and Gaskin joining me yet again, Mark. Mia, it's really hard to think that something
00:06:59 On a day as great as today. It's Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to all of you who are watching. But it's impossible to think that North America can somehow up end EMEA. But I don't know. I got a feeling that there's just something special in the air. We might see it happening in North America too today. I believe what you're doing there is called foreshadowing, if I'm not mistaken. Which means that you are wanting something similar to happen. And why wouldn't you, right? 11 games in EMEA before we had our champions. And Go Next became those champions who...
00:07:27 Auto-qualified for the mid-season playoffs at EWC. A huge achievement for them, but it was an epic. It really was an epic, and now we get to do it all again here with the Americas. You know, I couldn't have really made my decision at the top of show about who would end up qualifying, Dan. It got so mixed and mashed and muddled.
00:07:45 Ich glaube, es wird das gleiche Weg gehen.
00:08:10 is going to catch us off guard and maybe steal away one of those placements away from the teams that might have thought they were just going to scrape through. Well, you know, North America, a little bit of a different story than EMEA. EMEA, not a lot of spots, a lot of people who want a spot. Here in North America, as we kind of set the table and look at the stakes for what is occurring, we've got other teams who are, you know, maybe in a position in EMEA where they would have been saying, well, there's no way we're going to make it.
00:08:37 Amerikas hat diese Schloss, 16 Qualifikation Schloss. Wir hatten Falcons win die Open, wir hatten eine unglaubliche Leistung von ihnen. Das war die größte und die größte Region in ALGS-History, das hat sie versucht, zu haben double die Spots von EMEA. Und so, die Teams, die es auszulernen würden, würden sie vollständig sind hier in Amerikas. Die Matchpoint ist heute, also du hast zu cross über 50 Punkte, dann du hast du gewinnen.
00:08:59 There's, however, more points allocated for the placement. Aside from the six teams that are already locked in, meaning we're going to qualify 12 more teams, the points are really a big story here, Mark. It means, yes, of course, if you win, you're in. And we saw that with GoNext earlier in EMEA. They jumped the standings just because of that. It had nothing to do with points. But if you're second, right, those 29 points, that's more important than winning any of the other weeks. It's because of how stacked this lobby is and the weight of what winning in this lobby would mean.
00:09:28 Ja, und es ist nur ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte. Es ist ein paar Punkte.
00:09:52 Es ist wirklich auf der Top-End, auch. Ich meine, 16th, 17th, wenn das wo ihr landet, wird es nicht viel difference. Aber wenn du 5th und 6th gehst, dann sind 6, 7 extra Punkte, wie du schon erwähnt. Das ist vielleicht genug, um dich über die Edge zu pushen. Big overview, Dan. Was haben wir hier ein paar great Teams, ein paar Teams von Group B, auch. Ja, ich meine, das ist die Kreme der Krop, nicht? Wir haben einige der besten Teams, wenn nicht die besten Teams in der Welt, hier.
00:10:16 Es ist schwer zu wählen. Ich weiß, es gibt ein paar Stands, Falcons, die Leute werden sehen, aber nicht die anderen Rösteren, die haben sich geplant. Ja, das ist die Dynamik, die wir in Nordamerika erleben. Es gibt ein Surges von Rösteren, die vielleicht nicht Falcons sind. Und wenn man die Topen sehen, sie sind nicht in der Lied. Wir haben über den letzten Matchdayen, dass da ein paar...
00:10:44 We'll get into them when we need them, but that's why NRG is over Falcons. They hold the tiebreaker, I believe, of overall points in the series that they've won. 97, though, leading the top. Shopify Rebellion right behind. NIP, all gamers, TSM, 100 Thieves, all of these teams. When you really look at the rosters, they're people who we've considered as potential winners overall in the ALGS history when they've all competed. So now they get to show and prove in this lobby.
00:11:13 They are the best in the world, especially after EMEA has certainly just put on a stellar performance for all of us to get excited about. The same stakes, though, do apply whether you're on the bubble or whether you're on the cusp. We just expanded a little bit in North America. So let's keep with themes and talk about those teams that are in those situations. And Mark, I want to lead with you. What is the story with a team that's probably going to be OK heading into this? Let's talk ones to watch them as teams to keep our eye on. Right. And these are the teams that should.
00:11:41 Und ich sage das nachdem, was wir in EMEA gesehen haben. Be safe, richtig? Wenn sie eine gute Leistung haben, werden sie gewinnen.
00:11:48 EWC. They will be qualifying for those mid-season playoffs and Twisted Minds and Rock are going to be those two teams. Twisted Minds, who I think really did impress on LAN back at the ALGS Open. I think they showed a lot of things that they can not only be proud of, but also a lot that they can build upon as well as a squad and keep moving forward, keep evolving and become a real powerhouse in the region. We've seen some really impressive moments from them throughout this split. This one in particular, where it felt like they had absolutely no right to win this fight. Well, they ended up winning it and they ended up winning this game.
00:12:17 Und jetzt ist es ein bisschen gut oder schlecht, wenn es der Punkte total ist.
00:12:43 If they can find a middle ground here, then they should be absolutely safe. So Twisted Minds, just about consistent to see today and holding on to the spot that they have. Next up though, we're going to talk about Rock Esports because ROC have been pretty much a similar story, right? It's been a little bit up and down. 12 points, 1 point, 8 points, 25, big win in that week, then 12 and then 9. So a little bit more consistent in output, but the big one for me is that game week that they managed to take away, that they managed to pick up first place because...
00:13:10 Matchpoint, ich werde immer sagen, es geht es darum, zuerst zuerst, zuerst zuerst, zuerst zuerst. Und wenn du schon kannst, kannst du das machen, kannst du in einem Matchday gewinnen, dann bist du in einem tollen Platz zuerst. Und ich denke, dass sie ein Team, wenn sie zu tun, was sie haben, werden sie zuerst machen, werden sie zuerst in den Mid-Season Play-Offs gehen. Also, auf Twisted Minds und R.O.C., barring ein Collapse zu sehen, dass sie beide qualifizieren. Und dann wird es dann wie sie in den overallen Stand-In.
00:13:35 Wenn es um den Stand-Ins geht, wenn es um den Stand-Ins geht, und wenn es um den Stand-Ins geht. Wir schauen uns an die Stand-Ins zu sehen, wie sie auf den Stand-Ins geht. Es war 14th für Twisted Minds in Match Day 1, dann 3rd, dann 13th, dann 2nd, dann 8th und dann 11th. So, auf der Bord ist ein bisschen von der Mittelfdecke zu finden, ein guter Average zu finden. Und auf der anderen Seite, wir schauen auf Rock 8th, 19th, 12th, 1st, das große 1st, dann 10th und 6th. So, sie können nicht afforden zu haben, wie wir in Match Day 2 gesehen haben.
00:14:04 They might be worried a little bit. Dan, who are you looking at, my friend? Who have you got your eyes on today? Well, it's hard not to look at Furia because they are kind of one of those bubble teams that are there or thereabouts would get to mid-season playoffs. But there's a few teams that are around the same as well. You've got the likes of Virtus.pro also there. But I think Furia are a team that we have to look at because they had such an impressive match day. I think it was seven where they put 21 points on the board. But then in latter weeks...
00:14:32 Sie beginnen zu verlieren. Sie beginnen zu verlieren. Sie beginnen zu verlieren. Und ich denke, dass die Decline immer ein gefährliches Faktor ist, wenn du in den Region Finals wirst, weil du wundervollst, was du in diesem Set zu kommen. Will du den FURIA, der hat das Glück gehabt, oder vielleicht hast du die META entwickelt, in der du kämpfst? Ich denke, das Team hat was es, um zu brechen, weil es wird es schwierig, nicht zu haben FURIA.
00:14:58 Sie sind ein guter Team, aber es hat sich angefangen.
00:15:27 Match Day 1, Match Day 3, Match Day 4, meh. But then Match Day 6 it was, where they really showed us what they are capable of. But then again, it started to go down in Match Day 7 and in Match Day 9. And the real question is, which Furia is going to turn up today? And are they going to leave it a little bit too late? You can see clearly they've struggled a little bit with Broken Moon. So perhaps Storm Point is going to be a key to their victory today if they are going to find success.
00:15:54 A team definitivt, wenn wir etwas von Ameer lernen können, ist es, dass etwas kann, Rende. Absolut, und Furia, sie sind nicht sicher. Es ist kein Team hier, dass es nicht sicher sein wird, bis das letzte Whistleblower oder das letzte Spiel ist gewonnen. Und in der gleiche Weise, dass Furia, dass sie performen, so ist Liquid Alienware. Das ist ein Team, das wir wissen, hat eine Geschichte, von einem Juggernaut, aber nicht zu setzen.
00:16:22 Er ist immer ein Team in den Top 5 in Nordamerika, zumindest sie haben für Jahre. Aber es hat sich schon seit Jahren verändert, wie Yanya-Janya-Janya-Janya-Janya-Janya.
00:16:35 zu Liquid Alienware, zu mir, hat sie eine neue Bedeutung von Leben gegeben. Diese Roster hat viel zu tun, und obwohl sie die meisten Experten sind, sie sind immer noch für das Titel, das Vindication, dass sie hier deserve. Die andere Elemente, auch, das ich finde, ist, dass sie ihre letzte Matchday gewonnen haben, und es war in der Lobby, wo NIP war in es. Die letzte Matchday, Matchday 9, wenn Liquid Alienware nicht in es war...
00:17:00 NIP ended up winning. So looking at two teams in form, and when you could put Yanya, Niazul, and Jaguaris in form, there's not a lot of teams that can beat them. Also, you can tell, not a big point sponge day with 66 points being the winner. We've had teams get 73 points and still get second. So overall, if it's gonna be contested, if it's gonna be a tight lobby like we expect it to be, Liquid, Alienware have shown that they can get the job done. And specifically, going into Niazul.
00:17:28 Und Yanya, diese sind zwei Leute, die wir auf die ganze Zeit haben, haben wir über Liquid Alienware gesprochen. Aber Niazl braucht sein Geld. Er hat sich in die Rolle gespielt, mit Yanya Absinthe. Und er hat das Gefühl, dass sich das Team auf das Team aufwachsen kann. Wenn er sein kann, dass er das Team aufwachsen kann, ist es als ob...
00:17:50 Unlucky kann in on Alliance and outperform Effect a few games. And then you can just have Effect in the background. Well, this team becomes super, super dangerous. But again, a lot to prove from Liquid Alienware. And on the bubble, not where you want to be. On set, let's talk about one more team. I'll pass it over to you to close this out. Our team who needs to find a little bit of magic today is going to be CTE, who I'm focusing on. But you could say the same about LG. You could say the same about Team Orchid. And I think...
00:18:18 Out of all of those teams that we're kind of highlighting here, LG would certainly be a surprise to many people to find in this situation. But CTE, the worry for them was the slow start to the season, which has left them with so much to do here, where they essentially have to win regional finals today to book a spot at EWC. One little bit of hope for them though is their recent performances, which have been their best. The last two game days that they had, the last two match days that they had, they put 15 and 16 points on the board respectively, which in comparison to what they had done previously,
00:18:48 was night and day. So they've shown that there is a little bit of hope for them, and in the same way that they probably watched a little bit of Amir earlier and were thinking, hey, we've kind of seen that anyone can do anything in these kind of situations, and these lobbies, where the pressure is on those matchpoint teams, they've got to take that same kind of, I think, ideology into today and think that, hey, if we get out to a good start here, we put a high killpoint game on the board for early, then maybe, just maybe, we can be the Cinderella story of today. But CTE...
00:19:14 Sie haben viel zu tun heute. Sie müssen die ganze Zeit gewinnen, als wir sehen, ihre Resultaten haben. Ja, sie haben 15th, 10th, 19th, 13th und 13th. Wir vergessen, dass sie 7th und 8th sind. 5th und 4th sind, dass es Leben gibt. Und ich denke, dass ihr Leben habt, dass ihr Leben habt. So, CTE ist es, dass es sich selbst zu sehen. Aber diese sind die Resultaten von Matchday 9. 1st, 16th, 13th, 18th, 1st und 8th sind. So, sie haben sie gewinnen, hier auf Reinde. Und wenn sie gewinnen, sie gewinnen, sie gewinnen.
00:19:43 Das ist genau das, was es bedeutet, in einer Situation wie dieser Situation zu finden. Du hast einen Weg, um zu sein, und sich in den Top 20 zu separieren.
00:19:52 But if you can also have that special something extra and do what maybe we saw FaZe do in that last couple of games to push it in, but do it a little earlier. Keep that momentum and the confidence in the lobby where, granted, you're going up against people who have won millions of dollars here and lifted tons of trophies. CTE has to have that from the very beginning if they're going to have a chance. And by the way, that's a great story to watch. All these stories, really good to watch, really entertaining. And you might have connected to one that we talked about. And there might be one that we didn't talk about.
00:20:22 Bis zum nächsten Mal.
00:20:50 Sextumple monitor setup. I mean, yeah, it could be that crazy. I've seen some streamers. I know you guys get... Yeah, that's what it is. Watch it. Control it. Faceit.com slash watch. All right, guys. It's been so fun getting ready to go into this. North America.
00:21:05 You've got a lot to prove. We'll see how it goes here, especially after Mia. And chat, what do you guys think? We're going to have some fun guests at halftime and some fun, fun opportunities to listen to your comments and interact with them on the broadcast. If you want to be a part of it, you may not. But if you do, make sure to connect with us at Play Apex Esports on X or type in the chat.
00:21:25 Also, if you're interested in predictions, we want to hear who you think is going to be the qualified teams. We already have six teams who are guaranteed to be going already. You've seen them highlighted. Here's a little bit of a sneak preview of who we think are going to end up making it overall.
00:21:45 Some of us went with, hey, what we've seen so far, this is what we expect. Some of us went, hey, I think there's going to be a little bit of a spicy show up today that's going to change the way this lobby feels and kind of knock off the order of who should be going to EWC. Either way, it's going to be a great day of Apex Legends and you got to earn it if you're going to get there. Of course, let's kick things off. The players are ready to start earning it right now as game one is close to getting underway. So with that, let's send it over to Onset and Gaskin.
00:22:13 Let's get this thing going then. The Americas seems like it's ready to go. EMEA certainly was an incredible show earlier on. I think it took everybody by surprise just how intense those final games really were and what felt like the final game wasn't the final game. We just kept going and going and going. Dan, Americas has got a lot to live up to here. Do you think he can do it?
Map-Auswahl und Strategien der Teams
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00:22:33 Ich denke, dass wir zu 18 gehen werden. Ich denke, dass die Amerikas vielleicht ein shorterer Tag sehen können, weil sie in den Matchpoint-Format sind und wie erfolgreich sie sind. Aber das ist die Lande der Lande. Das ist die Lande der Lande. Wenn nicht, das ist die Map-Layout. Wir starten mit Stormpoint. Wir starten mit Broken Moon.
00:22:56 E-District in the middle, and then we go back with a little Snake Order. But this is the POI draft. Falcons prioritizing Stormpoint. And that is a key factor here because, yes, it's Game 1, but it is also Match 6. And with it being Match 6, there is a high likelihood that Falcons could be on Match Point by that time. And we know that Stormpoint has been historically quite good for this roster. Also a very, very strong POI, as you can see.
00:23:22 Es ist live, und ich weiß, dass alle Menschen wirklich warten, für die Amerikas zu kommen, wirklich, denn diese Region never disappoints, immer so...
00:23:47 Das ist die beste von den besten, wenn es in dieser Region geht. Sie wissen immer, dass jeder match ist, dass es competitiv ist. Und wir werden sehen, wirklich, wie es auf dem Topf kommt. Und mit so vielen Spots gibt es für die Mid-Season Play-Offs auch. Auch die Teams, die in den Bottom 10 in der Moment sind, oder aus diesen 20 Teams, haben wir noch eine gute Möglichkeit für die Mid-Season Play-Offs.
00:24:09 Yeah, they certainly do indeed. There's a lot of chance to make it, but there's also going to be those who are still heartbroken. That's the great thing, right? When you have qualification spots, when you have that jeopardy, it makes every move that you make as a team, as a player, and certainly as an IGL put under that microscope in a way that not many other opportunities do give you. Now, let's take a look at the zone. We are going up towards Down Beast, probably pulling out towards the watery depths just to the north of it.
00:24:37 Ja, Virtus.pro up in North Park will have a good chance to move early, as well as all gamers, of course, at Downed Beast, depending on whether they have ring consoles. I can see Virtus.pro do have a ring console available to them if they are also playing a ring console character, which they have fused, so as long as they get them up to blue, they will be okay. Now, in terms of teams that have been performing well on Stormpoint throughout the season in America's Shopify Rebellion, actually the number one...
00:25:01 Ja, ich denke, es ist eine reale Chance für alle in der Region in der Region zu stellen, um ein bisschen Marker zu stellen, um EWC zu stellen.
00:25:30 Und wenn sie nicht, dann Falcons gehen will mit all sorts of confidence.
00:25:59 Ich dachte, sie waren gebrochen dann. Ich habe mich für einen Sekunden gebrochen, aber es war nur Max, die Rest der Team. Ich habe gesagt, wie viele Male in Ranks haben, wenn man das Geräusch hört, und man sagt, wir sind in für eine Runde hier, Leute. Aber ich glaube, ich glaube, Falcons... Ich denke, wenn Falcons nicht gewinnen, ich denke, sie würden mit Confidence kommen, weil das... Das Kind ist das Team, aber...
00:26:19 On the flip side, if someone can take down Falcons here, then that would also say a lot to this region and kind of how competitive it's going to be in mid-season playoffs. We know it's going to be anyway, but we kind of want a precursor to that to see what happens when it's just region specific, because everything changes once you get on the international stage. There's also something I wanted to talk about earlier in EMEA as well, because when you look back at Apex South, I think Ashe didn't get banned until like match 8, or didn't get banned at all.
00:26:45 Whereas if you go into international scrims, Ashe will be gone in the first three. So it really does change things. Elsewhere you see Zack Mazur's just got knocked onto Guild. The Guild from NLG, the first player to fall in the lobby, hasn't been finished off quite as yet. Sentinel's up on the top of the waterfall area and the respawn beacon looking to put a bit of damage onto VP who are looking to rotate through that tunnel. And it looks like they're going to try and shudder them here. Or have they got them trapped in this rock formation, the little cave pathway towards it?
00:27:15 VP did make it through. And it's going to be Sentinels now who will be able to continue on their way. So a little bit of an exchange of fire, but Sentinels will be able to continue pretty much uncontested through to the checkpoint side.
00:27:34 Es gibt ein vieles Respekt zu sein in Match 1. Ich denke, das ist zu erwähnt, in dieser Region. Es ist eine sehr gut-Praktische Region. Und das ist kein Respekt zu EMEA, ich weiß, dass EMEA Scrim ist viel, aber wir wissen vollkommen, dass Nordamerika hat ein bisschen extra, umphh, wenn es zu der Scrim dedication ist. So, sie haben alle gemacht, sie wissen, was die Matchpoint Scrims sind, und sie wissen, wie wichtig es ist, wie wichtig es ist, wie wichtig es sind, und nicht unbedingt aggressiv sind.
00:28:02 Und in Skrims, es spielt komplett anders, weil es nichts auf der line ist. Aber jetzt, mit der Region Finals auf der line und in der Mid-Season Play-Offs, das Risiko in Skrims ist nicht sicherlich in diesem Fall. LG wird hier sicher sein. Das ist ein wirklich guter Position, weil es, als ich gesagt habe, es könnte aus der Wasser gehen, und wenn es das ist, dann könnte es nicht nur ein guter Platz für den Endgame sein, aber auch könnte ein Kp aus dem Kp aus hier sein. Ich habe die Newcastle und Katalys in der Composition, also habe ich ein paar Defensive Capabilität, wenn sie getrennt.
00:28:31 Ich glaube, dass sie einen Weg finden, um ein bisschen später zu spielen. Ich glaube, es ist interessant, dass sie auf dem Nort pad auf dem Moment spielen. Vielleicht wird sie ein bisschen später gehen, oder sie werden das Survey Beacon spielen und sehen, wo alle anderen spielen können. Auf der Zone-Close. Liquid Alienware ist ein langer Weg von Zone für jetzt. Und der Grund ist, dass sie jetzt haltet sind. Die Jaguars versuchen, ein paar 30-30-Shots zu spielen. Es ist Godrock vs. Godrock.
00:28:58 Ich denke, Liquid Anywhere, are they the only team not running Alta? Ich denke, 19 Alters in der Lobby, wenn ich es genau richtig bin. Aber ja, 19 Alters, ich meine, wir wissen, wer wird bald im nächsten Spiel, das ist für sicher. Aber es also shows, wie wichtig, gut, du gewinnen! Es also shows, wie wichtig, Alta ist hier auf Stormpoint. Es ist die Reset Capabilität und die Faktion, dass man ein bisschen aggressiv ist, aber das Fallback, wenn es notwendig ist.
00:29:27 Das bedeutet, dass es ein bisschen schneller ist und besser ist und bereit für jemanden zu folgen.
Spannungsgeladene Mid-Game-Kämpfe und Team-Rotationen
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00:29:38 Liquid have got that next zone information. You can see that as well. So they know where the zone is going, but just have to be a little bit careful here because Fury is still holding them out and Sentinels are playing in the Spider Cave as well. So Liquid Alien might be waiting for a little bit of a fight to break out where they could potentially third party. Speaking of which, you can see Fury are in those buildings and the Spider Cave is owned by Sentinels for now. That's where the zone is going to be going. So it's pulling right into Down Beast at the moment.
00:30:03 The only real engagement that we're going to see in the next few moments looks like Falcons and Flats who are kind of having a little poke at each other over at Cascade Falls. Yeah, everyone else is either there and situated or just kind of not near each other at the moment. And the winner of that fight, if it happens, could just travel up north and then try and enter through checkpoint. Might get held out. If not, they'll go through the north side. But again, 100 Thieves are going to be there as well.
00:30:29 Either way, you're going to have to fight your way into this zone now as the latest rotator. Looks like Falcons, if I'm not mistaken, have a Trident that they're playing with at the moment, so they're going to be able to zip away from where they are needed. Yes, indeed, there is that Trident. Flatter Trident will chase them, but as fast as their little leggies will go, that Trident's always going to beat them in that race. Even Pop Ballistical to try and catch up, but still. Quads aren't quite developed, so the fast twitch fibers don't match the pure power of the Trident.
00:30:58 You know what could have changed that? Octane. That's all I'm saying. But Shopify Rebellion are making their rotation. They also have a Trident. Let's jump into a listen in with Shopify Rebellion and see what their thoughts are of this zone.
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00:31:57 Well, Shopify Rebellion, we heard it from the listening, the push did not succeed, and Koifo has to go all the way into Sonoto Cave here to get the craft, to get those banners, and to get Shopify back in the game. It's gonna be a tough rotate for Shopify. I mean, they drop all the way over the exact opposite side of the map, so it's a tough rotate for them full stop. It's not too surprising that they're gonna have to maybe take a few bumps along the way. Yeah, a few little hurdles, but I think they'll be all right, and they should be able to get over it.
00:32:27 We are going to see quite an exciting endgame already. As everything's transitioning and moving over towards Down Beast, as are all the teams. There's Falcons and Waltzy scouting out of the area right now and also might be able to hit a little cheeky survey beacon on his way.
00:32:46 Either of us are ever getting hired for... Yeah, I think yours was better, honestly, yeah. You think? Mine was bad. After I heard actually how it sounded, it was bad, yeah. Okay, that's fair. Well, Falcons have managed to make their way into the bunker and through the trenches, at least, so they have some sort of access to where this zone is going to be going, but they have a lot of teams in front of them. Flat also joining the trenches. 100 Thieves, they're over at North Pad, and then before they even get to zone, they've got to go through LG, TSM, and NRG. Now, those teams will have to move.
00:33:15 ...wenn that Zone moves towards Zone 3, but for now, Falcon's safe. We are going to see some action shortly on that side of the Zone as they try and move it a little bit later. Maybe a little bit earlier than we thought. Yeah, here they come. Again, that Void Pass is just allowing you to pass through some walls. Maybe you shouldn't have been able to, or at least wouldn't have before, but Falcons have lost how?
00:33:39 Maybe they're going to have a chance to potentially portal back here. The Void Nexus is available there for them, but I think they reconsidered. They felt like they could reset. Look at this damage coming in from Wolsey, by the way. He is last alive, though. Zero has gone down. The worry is, where is that port? Where is that Void Nexus? Because there's Flat in the area. There's multiple teams in the area who might just be waiting on the other side of this. Flat now trying to push in.
00:34:05 Falcons will finally be eliminated. This QZ will get the final kill onto Walsey. What happened to 100 Thieves here? Have they managed to escape? Well, it's not the dream start for Falcons.
00:34:17 Und vielleicht gibt es einen Weg zu den Rest der Lobby, um sie zu versuchen, zu versuchen, sie zu finden, um sie zu finden, um sie zu finden, um sie zu finden, um sie zu finden, aber er wurde schnell wieder zurückgebracht. Er hat sich nur noch gemmert, also die Hunderthieves zu versuchen, um sie zu retten, um sie zu retten, um sie zu retten, um sie zu retten, um sie zu retten, um sie zu retten, um sie zu retten zu retten.
00:34:42 Oh, wait, they got phony back up. Verholz is still here, by the way. Never take the Void Nexus. Ever. I don't care who you are. That's what I was saying, though. It's shorter now, the time in which it takes for that to pop up, so you can be more aggressive on it. But even so, when there's a Newcastle involved, probably a bad idea to take it and try and be aggressive on someone. The amount of times I've done that, and I'm like, I should have done that.
00:35:10 Ja, wenn ich sage, dass ich es. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich. Ja, ich fühle mich nicht. Ja, ich habe mich. Ja, ich habe mich. Ja, ich habe mich nicht. Ja, ich habe mich nicht. Okay, LG, ich werde einen E-Bag zu versuchen, um, in den Beasts zu tun. Ich habe Rebellion.
00:35:31 Thanks to the recovery work of Koifo and some skillful driving, I've managed to get back in the game and more importantly managed to get a place to play in zone as well on this cannon. Triton is going to provide them a little bit of extra cover as well, which will be indestructible and almost indestructible. It's going to be that Newcastle wall as well. Going to take a lot of damage to take that one now.
00:35:51 I'm so excited for this endgame already. I see some circles and the way their teams are playing, and I already know this is gonna be hectic, it's gonna be enjoyable, but now we're also getting mid-game fights as well. NIP have been able to take a real fight here against Sen. Flat have also been eliminated. Yeah, Flat learning that you don't go through the Void Nexus, they've been eliminated by the team that they did chase. Sentinel's also been eliminated as well. TSM has started doing a little bit of damage on the 100T, but for NIP, the problem for them is the SR are waiting.
00:36:18 They are making sure they hold down this choke. And they've already lost one. Vayne and Kurev are going to be the last ones alive here. As one player has already been taken down. But Glovin is on his back. Not finished off yet. But that Bolt is going to slow down Zainu. Not for long. I mean, that's an R9. He's just absolutely ripped away the shields of Kurev.
00:36:39 Nice Tracodot, though. Kurev is going to be able to get a lot of information for the rest of the team. A Shopify Rebellion still pushing regardless. Kurev will answer back. It's not done here. I'll tell you what. Kurev, with the bow check, just absolutely destroyed someone. Shopify Rebellion will go, and so will Ninjas in Pyjamas. LG, the third-party timing is perfect from them. It felt like Shopify just got a little bit hungry for those kills there.
00:37:06 Perhaps they felt like their hand was slightly forced judging by what was around them and with the amount of teams already in the zone so they just tried to get that KP as they maybe chalked this game up as being done. Now teams who haven't chalked this game up are those who are at the back of downbeast because that's where the zone is going. All gamers, VP, they're already right at the very back and in two of the best positions right now and then you've got ROC and CTE who are kind of on and under the beast and then everyone else is on the other side here.
00:37:33 Team Liquid Alienware who need a very, very good day today if they want to qualify outside of the qualification spots. Excuse me, inside of the qualification spots, but one of those teams with a really bad day could see themselves overtaken.
00:37:48 RFC in a great spot, though. This Zone is going to be pulling towards where they find themselves right now, by the way. All gamers are going to be at the back with them, and VP. All of them playing this back platform. Orchid just f***ing the cannon to find their way inside of the Zone, and will find a place to play as well. Oh, I like this route. I like this route from Team Orchid.
00:38:13 Are they going to be able to actually get away with it, though? Yes. This is another reason why Alter is fantastic. You can use it as an entry point to the zone. And they've got the Newcastle wall. I'll tell you what, they should be able to reset here and should be okay. Fury has been eliminated. In the meantime, 100 Thieves under pressure, as well as NRG try and force their way into zone. First player that was knocked in this game was Guild.
All Gamers sichert sich den Sieg in Spiel 1
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00:38:35 Well, unfortunately for NRG, the second player who's going to be Nox for them is going to be Sykes as we go over the POV now of All Gamers who were above Orchid, trying to flush them out. I think they want to swing on this. Yeah, they will try and swing, and they want to take this position off of them. Now All Gamers were having the back of Downbeast for quite some time, and they do bully Team Orchid who get eliminated. NRG also have fallen. Twelve squads now remain. As All Gamers say, well, we'll go back up. We'll make sure no one's going to be behind us. This is our area, and could be...
00:39:02 Their game to win. Honestly, with where the zone's going, they're in a fantastic spot. As long as no one kind of lands on them and takes a weird fight, they should definitely get to the endgame here. Just needs to get that loot that was delivered to them by Orchid. You also see them defeat a couple more teams, taking a lot of damage. Twisted Minds is going to be inside of the Beast right now with a Gold Devo. Enemy's going to be very interested in taking some 1v1s with anyone who dares to swing his weight. Inside is going to be CTE. Any more of the Miracle Day?
00:39:32 In comparison to Twisted Minds, you just need some consistency. 11 squads remaining now. Underthief's still alive, by the way. One player, solo player.
00:39:41 Es ist in einer der kleinen Trenches, die das Zonen ist. Und wenn sie für lange genug sind, die hier sind, werden sie fallen. Und sie werden auch ein paar Placement-Präsidenten werden. Speaking of Trenches, TSM ist in der Metaphorical Trenches. Sie sind durch die Trenches. Sie sind durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches. Sie sind durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches. Sie sind durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches. Sie sind durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches. Sie sind durch den Trenches, durch den Trenches.
00:40:10 und es war Liquid, die die Top-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best-Best
00:40:38 Now see Liquid Alienware making a play for the back of this platform.
00:40:44 Es ist Movistar hier in front of them at the moment, und das Inception-Pylon ist ein bisschen ein Nuisance zu spielen, und Liquid wird nicht gewinnen. Es ist ein Great Hold, und das ist die Macht von Watson in diesen Situationen. Oh, aber jetzt alle Gamers sagen, die Backside ist Ours, und sie nehmen es aus Movistar, auch. Sie sind Eliminatet, sechs Quads jetzt bleiben, und, wiederum, AG wird eine der Prime-Positions, und sie werden immer weitergehen, und sie werden immer weitergehen. Sie spielen fantastisch in der Moment, als Fusion geht es um, als R.O.C. und Twisted Minds sind auch.
00:41:13 Krooks geht hier, der Final Member des Twisted Minds. Deeds ist zu versuchen, die Rez hier zu versuchen, aber er ist zu versuchen, ein bisschen mehr Zeit zu bekommen. Sorcerer, der Last Player Alive hier für Rockers. Allgamers versuchen, hier zu gehen, um das Spiel zu machen. Drop geht in, durch die Void Passage, aber es geht um, zu wissen, dass es eine sehr schwierige Situation zu kommen und zu finden, so Drop showed ein bisschen Erfahrung.
00:41:36 R.O.C. ist in der kleinen Gebäude, AG ist in der kleinen Gebäude zu tun. V.P. und C.T.E. sind auf der anderen Seite, die sich an den anderen Seite zu sehen. V.P. ist einfach alles, was sie können. All-Gamers sind immer wieder zu pressen, und sie werden es dann nicht ohne V.P. auf. So, sie werden dann auch noch weiter. V.P. ist in der Position. V.P. ist in der Bank Center-Zone.
00:41:59 They do have still that void Nexus down AG, so they can return to that original spot that they've been playing. So we see essentially more space now just being taken on the side of all gamers. They now control that little building as well as about 30% of this zone. A third of it certainly belongs to them or even more than that. Zack is absolutely blasted by something and he's going to have to take the time to heal. Three different compositions, by the way.
00:42:28 We've got Fuse on the side of VP, where the Motherload could really make a difference here. So just try and absolutely trap a team, which might happen right about now. Lou's trying to line it up, but is he going to save it? He knows this team is down on the low ground. Knuckle Clustles will go in to try and flush them out and do a little bit of extra damage, but doesn't get the ticks that he's requiring here. But they are going to have to move from this low ground here, CTE. I love that he felt like the Motherload wasn't needed then, but now it finally comes out.
00:42:56 He's just trying to think about holding it for Endgame, but they might realize that this is a second place opportunity for them. First place might be a bit too big of an ask with the distance they have to go to. CTE have been eliminated, and they do a pretty good job of staying healthy here, VP. They've got a chance. This is a straight 3v3. Zap with that PK, though, could be the Difference Maker, and that is the Difference Maker. Big shot coming in from Skill Cache with the Sentinel as well. Slayer goes down. It's a 1v2. Slayer left on his own, and that is all gamers being in Champions here in Game 1.
00:43:25 All gamers all day at the back of DownBeast. And it wasn't just given to them. They worked so hard for it. As soon as anyone came within a certain radius of their area, they said, no, you are not allowed in here. They denied it instantly. They got aggressive when they needed to. And they also stopped teams resetting. They were brave enough. They made sure they utilized the altar portal to be going back if they needed to. And they stopped teams from resetting. They stopped teams from getting too close. And they always held the back of DownBeast.
00:43:52 Ja, ich liebe das, dass sie das Spiel in generell haben. Sie hatten, ja, viel access zu der Zone. Sie hatten Priorität Position. Aber ich sage immer, es ist eine Sache, dass es die Position zu haben, aber die mehr Spiele, die man mit dem Kp kann, und die Kp, die man mit dem Kp kann, wenn man überrextend kann, um das Voidnexus zu retten, wenn es sich ein bisschen Dice ist. Allgamer ist ein absoluter Masterclass in wie die Apex Legends zu spielen. 15 Kp gibt es 27 Punkte für sie.
00:44:19 Das ist ein absoluter MASSIVE Spiel zu starten uns auf hier in Nordamerika, in den Amerikas, excuse mich, ich entschuldige, Southamerika. 1st, 2nd und 3rd, du hast all-gamer-Virtus-Pro und CTE. Remember, wir haben gesagt ZTE zu starten. Können sie das heute machen und machen ihren Weg zu den Mid-Season Play-Offs? Aber du sprach über Zap!
00:44:39 With that Peacekeeper mark. And I'll tell you what. He was junking. We've already seen the Peacekeeper and Amir hit 150 damage from about 7 million yards. But he was getting up close and personal with it this time.
00:44:51 Ja, du war es sicherlich paraphrasing. Es war 10 kills overall, 5 assists alongside es, 11 knocks, und ein huge amount of kills going alongside. Ich meine, du kannst es für mehr von einem Spieler wie Zapf, das ist die Rolle, dass du ihn für den Team performierst. Und er ist genau das. Und ich denke, es war das perfekt für AG. Ja, ich denke es war.
00:45:13 Literally that, I don't see an error that they made at any point. They were constantly making sure they held prime position for them. But that's match one done. It is a huge game for them. But can they do it again in match two? There's only one way to find out. We'll see you after the break.
00:47:11 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
00:47:31 Yeah, no kidnaps from all gamers like you, but a couple of attempted abductions. They certainly were putting Alter to full use, and as was...
00:47:55 Die Majority des Lobbys sind 95% pickrate. Nur Team Liquid Alienware hat nicht Alter für das Spiel. Aber das bedeutet, dass Liquid Alienware nicht mehr in den Match 2 hat. Aber natürlich alle anderen Team nicht mehr haben Alter für sie. Aber das war die Final Circle, Vicky. Ich meine, Lew war das Mothelode für ziemlich viel Zeit. Eine unserer Produktion hat gesagt, ich glaube, dass...
00:48:17 Actually, Void Passage threw it anyway, so it didn't even matter. But they also did die, but it did allow AG just to push up and then pressure Virtus.pro here. And this was an interesting swing here from VP. That from Zach Mazur was wild. I'm just going to put it out there. Dia, maybe look back at that one. I know he'll be doing some VOD review, but it just allowed all gamers to simply wrap that one up, Vicky.
00:48:43 Yeah, also with Skittles with like the Sentinel shot too, just to catch Zach in the middle of the slide. I think it's also very interesting to note that those last three remaining squads are all teams that land on the west side of Storm Point there. So they had a pretty easy rotation to get there faster than a lot of the other teams that were just stuck like TSM on the low ground at one point too. You saw that with Team Liquid watching them from the high ground over by down B side. It was really difficult for the teams to have taken their time to rotate into a
00:49:13 Das heißt, wir sind ein Wraith.
Strategische Legend-Picks und Kartenrotationen im ALGS Americas Pro League Split 1
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00:49:41 It used to be Ash going first, and then Alter would come in a little bit later, but Stormpoint seems to be an Alter haven, as everyone sees how important she's going to be. But Broken Moon's where we head now, and it means no Alter rotations through the middle of the map, which is also very important to take into account here for this draft as well. NRG went for Quarantine Zone. This is where they're hoping to pick up the most amount of points. But interestingly, Vicky, Falcons are the team that's had the most points on Broken Moon throughout the season in the Americas region.
00:50:10 Averaging around 11 points per match and 6.6 kills per match on this map, which is pretty insane. And that's their POI over by Stasis Array, too. So seeing a lot of northern pools on Broken Moon could benefit them, although today...
00:50:27 I will say, we've been seeing a lot of zones. If you've been paying attention to EMEA, we saw one at one point by quarantine zone. We saw one pull towards the outskirts of production yard. So mostly benefiting the like southwestern quadrants of Broken Moon. I'm wondering how that's going to play a hand going into the Americas region here. First time we get to see Broken Moon here for the Americas. Game number five. It's been high octane action thus far. I think it's been very interesting to see how Matchpoint has influenced.
00:50:56 Das ist die Legend-Band-Pick-System, die wir jetzt in den ALGS gebracht haben, von der Anfang der Pro-League-Saison. Und es ist großartig, weil wir auch ein Team haben, die sich bereits über den Rest des Packen zu navigieren. Es ist speziell, all die Spieler mit bereits 27 Punkte, die ein guter KPM für das erste Mal haben. High-Octane-Action, aber noch keine Octane für uns. Ich glaube, es ist nicht passiert, hier in Amerika's.
00:51:21 Even with the legend bans, unless we get to like match 14 or something crazy. Yeah, we've seen Americas in particular has been a region that have been pretty much in agreement of what they want to play throughout this process. I think if you look back through scrims, you could probably quite easily predict who's going to get banned each match. Other regions, however, has been a little bit more all over the place, which will shake things up when we get to international competition. I think it's always really funny where we were taking a look at
00:51:50 Apex legend bands and what Ash made it all the way to like game number seven or so. Yeah, didn't get back north. Yeah, it was a back north. I think it was a back south actually. Yeah, and
00:52:00 Did it get banned? Meanwhile, I want everyone to take a look at your screens. How many Ashes do you see right there? Because Ash will be that second legend that we won't see when we go on to game number three. But so far, a lot of our teams here are going to be able to take advantage of the Ash on Broken Moon as we take a look at where that zone pool is. This is what I was highlighting before. When I was taking a look at scrims a lot within the Americas, I noticed it did pull a lot towards Alpha Base. We've seen it on the outskirts of Stasis as well. So Falc is not only having that zone,
00:52:29 but they're already getting set on their move. They had those two Survey Beacons, having to take that Evac Tower as Furia slowly and make their way towards their POI. Elkins did have a Ring Console there as well, and they do have a Watson, so they're able to get that Ring Console information as well as the Sparrow information with the Survey Beacon. The thing I love about Sparrow, and I think this is something that I maybe didn't highlight when we heard about what Sparrow could do,
00:52:55 Was doing those Survey Beacons from distance. It's another reason why Crypto was so successful, but just being able to get those lineups and ping those Survey Beacons from distance can be incredible for your team, but also his ultimate is basically nuts and probably will receive a nerf at some point, let's be completely honest. Now Falcons have moved to find somewhere to call home, as have Sentinels. It's been very entertaining to see a lot of our pros master the lineups to be able to get that remote Tracker Dart activated, just to get that...
00:53:24 You speak about the Sparrow lineups. I was playing ranked with Graceful and I missed like...
00:53:53 3 in a row on a somewhat easy survey beacon and he was just like bro come on like you have one job and i was like you kept pinging it and your icon was covering up the whole survey beacon bro but i got there in the end the fourth one was fine so that's okay
00:54:08 Mastering lineups is always really fun. That's actually something else that I considered. You know, obviously Alter not here, but Alter being able to get these great rotates always comes in clutch. A CETE being careful. Jay having to navigate away those 30-30 shots from afar before having to pop the Newcastle ult. They also have the circle scan, so they know where this zone is going to be pulling. But with that quick Newcastle wall, it was kind of expended because not risking getting knocked with those 30-30s, taking a zipline where you're literally just sitting in place to get shot in.
00:54:38 Oh, it's starting to get busy in this area now. So many early movers, not really surprised. As soon as you get the ring console information, people are like, this is a zone where if you arrive late, you are pretty screwed, so it makes sense to be moving fast. We've got, what, eight teams outside of this zone, so already 12 that have found their way into Zone 2, which is pretty impressive. Team Orchid being one of them.
00:55:03 But they're still moving at the moment. They're not happy with just residing within the next circle. They want to actually get into a more secure location they can work with and maybe make use of the Watson that they're playing as well.
00:55:15 The goal is to be in that final zone positioning. They have that scan already. You could hear the pings right at Team Orchid's feet. There are so many other teams, though, within the vicinity. It's not just the team right below them that could possibly TSM, but also Koi are over to their left side. You could already see the moves being made by Lux for just to get information. Maybe a kidnap, and he gets it! Lux gets it!
00:55:36 All I'll say is it was Rambo's fault for not having any fences down.
00:55:56 Otherwise, they probably would have got the kill. So, you know, great kidnap, but his teammate just didn't do the job. Also, how awesome is it to see kidnaps again? It feels like forever since we've seen good kidnaps. They were all over the place back in the day. A nice attempt, but sadly doesn't accumulate anything. It's crazy, too, because then you have Wraith with the old run animation there, too.
Taktische Spielzüge und Team-Kompositionen in der ALGS
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00:56:18 Good old times now. We make our way back to LG. One of the teams rocking the Ash Catalyst and Sparrow. See the pings from up ahead too. Well, they do take this round of rotation here. Nice to note that they're going to be trying to prioritize these server beacons. The evil harvester. Kind of like side question here. Just to boost up those evil shields. This is the most played composition as well, by the way. In the lobby. Only four. But still, that's 20% of the lobby is playing.
00:56:45 Ash Catalyst and Sparrow. I love it. I think this is a really solid composition. It gives you a little bit of everything, gives you mobility, gives you information, and gives you the ability tunnel to lock down and cross areas. So yeah, I think it's the perfect for Match 2 when Alt has been bad. It's a little bit of everything as they look through their backs because Fusion...
00:57:06 Das war's. Das war's.
00:57:35 Oh, Shopify Rebellion. Are they under siege or the ones sieging? It was hard to tell as we joined, but either way, definitely damage being done on both sides. NIP just able to reset here. Looks like Shopify Rebellion have taken more damage on the opposition side. And NIP looking to try and push up and try and find Koifal here.
00:57:56 Having to be careful, though, the third party is in the distance. 100 Thieves wanting to clear their backs, maybe not even wait to Gatekeep, want to get involved in the fight that was happening here between NIP and Shopify.
00:58:10 100 Thieves, uh, just watching out on this one from the southeast side, but they have NIP and Shopify Rebellion ahead of them as well. Uh, let's jump into a listening for 100 Thieves and see what they think of these two teams just behind them. Yeah, I thought we should definitely try to kill a left side. Yeah, we all calmed up if you weren't there. Yeah. I said I was going southeast from the beginning before you guys even got up to me. Then you guys, like, just started shooting left. Yeah, the guys on the roof were low-key free. Yeah, the guy on the right was literally free as fuck, too.
00:58:38 All right, we just have to set up a new castle wall and get ready to fight the Sphera team. I'm gonna try to see if I can play split, okay? Yep. I can play middle here. That doorway's taken. There's a cat team there. They just took zip here. I'm looking. Let me put a wall here in the south room, I think. I could do the roof. I don't see anything right now.
00:59:05 So this is still fucking slammer? Matting. Can they climb your pump dead? Cheating out, the spot's horrible. Careful, they're taking height. The comm collected comms, Phony, after getting hit once and losing nearly all his health, literally leaving him one shot. Dang. Well, while being calm and being able to reset here, we get to look at another fight happening. It is Fusion, who get the finishing blow onto enemy from Twisted Mines.
00:59:38 I like this position for Fusion as well, actually. If there were more teams transitioning from this side, it could be a lot of kills. Sadly for them, not really going to be many teams transitioning from this side. It does give them a kind of awkward rotation into zone, though. Maybe they can go up and through. Either way, it's going to be tough. Right now, it's just focusing on Twisted Mind, so you just need to think about what's happening afterwards. Anyway, Liquid Alienware, they are amongst...
01:00:05 Wir haben Liquid Fans hier, die Team Liquid Alienware. Die Santeria hat sich um die Energie zu geben, aber mit Nizul zu gehen, Koi.
01:00:24 Man kann das finden von Shopify halten auf dem Highground von der Cliffside. Zynu auf der anderen Seite zu helfen, Koi zu nehmen. Als Higuardes ist in der Geburt, Koi-Po zu versuchen, ihre Weg in. Manchmal ist es nicht so, dass sie den letzten Teil der Partei sind.
01:00:41 Schöpfe Rebellion, sie haben ihre Zeit gewartet, aber jetzt haben sie... Oh! Aguarez mit dem Beam in Halt! Es wird wahrscheinlich endet sein, aber er wird jemanden mit ihm sein. Und es sieht aus, Schöpfe Rebellion hat sich jetzt zu gehen und versuchen, Koi zu kommen. Es war schwer, weil andere Teams haben jetzt ihre Weg gemacht.
01:01:03 Wir sehen uns auf 100 Thieves in der Kielfee. Team Orchid jetzt auf 100 Thieves, und Schopify Rebellion ist auf der Southeastern Seite. Ja, das ist jetzt schon wieder action-packt nach, ich glaube, Zone 3. Weil viele diese Teams sind auf Zone 2 auf dem Moment. Wir sehen uns 100 Thieves, ohne Jemburton zu sehen. Wir versuchen ihn zu finden, um einen Moby zu holen.
01:01:30 All they need really is a crafter and then they could do it as well having the Newcastle available to them, but It's gonna be about just focusing on getting into the zone at the moment for 100 Thieves. I do like that especially at this level Some teams still trust in their ability to perform as a duo and don't hard commit to trying to get their third back too often. Obviously as a solo sometimes you kind of have to but as a duo we've still seen teams win.
01:01:55 I think it's also really hard with Sparrow being included and being able to get those remote lineups. Being able to have that information from afar and even calling out a team that's a duo could be scary. Sometimes you're just forced to have to play like that.
01:02:08 Even if you get to look at where 100 Thieves, they were able to call in the Moby, by the way, because they had already gotten that banner. But can they pull it up is the question when over to their north is Rock. They're still playing on the edge of Zone. That's going to be the Hot Zone while Movistar Koi make their way to from the Survey Beacon. And then TSM over to their south side. So let's see here if they are able to get that res.
01:02:29 Wenn wir das Overhead haben, Villainous, wir sind in der besten Position im Moment, von der... ...move in die Eternal Gardens. Twisted Minds auf der Seite, Falcons haben sich in einen guten Platz auf der Norden Seite, mit Sentinels neben dem. LG haben wir gesehen aus. Oh mein Gott, he sagt, get back da, boi, wir ainten going up hier. Und die Melee, aus der Tether 2. Comes in Clutch, really helps you try to get out of there even better.
01:02:56 als die Katwall ist gezwungen, denn von einem Distanz die LG getrennt, eine andere Team schaut auf sie und sie haben sich nicht über die Squad, sie versuchen sie zu bewerben, während Koifu ist der letzte Mal für Shopify.
01:03:06 Es ist nicht genug, aber es ist nicht genug. 18 Quads jetzt noch bleiben. Ich sagte, Trouble Fire Embellion, eine der besten Teams auf der Welt ist, aber sie sind in 18. LG ist noch nicht so schwer hier. Es ist viel zu viel auf die Team und hat Energie über sie. Es ist wirklich schwer zu reset, wenn man sich das an. Und es sieht aus wie LG ist, die Fall hier. Oh, das ist so schlecht. Es geht um, bevor die Aschmortel kommt.
01:03:30 Ich sehe Fioria in der 3rd party, zwischen NRG und LG. Ich denke, das ist genug, dass die Arrows und die Grenade ist. Das war von der Distance. Also, LG ist auf dem LG, und NRG ist in der Highground.
01:03:53 Wie ist Shubi still alive? Er hat wirklich über 15 Grenades gefällt. Ich denke, die Armorswap hat definitiv geholfen von seinen Teammaten, die in fronte sind so kruehlich. Aber vielleicht jetzt Shubi kann sie weg und gehen sie zurück. Aber es wird... Nein, nein. Forget das. Flatt war da, dass er da ist. Also, keine Ahnung. 16 Quads jetzt bleiben. Und diese Zone wird starten zu starten.
01:04:17 There is no conspiracy theory on Shoebeech surviving there, you know. Flat, they'll be able to live up to their name here, at least take care of that. And now coming in from the eastern side, there are so many teams waiting for them in that next choke where Team Orchid is holding it, Dan.
Strategische Entscheidungen und Positionskämpfe in ALGS Americas
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01:04:34 Where did Flat even try and go here? This is awful. They go for the death boxes at the moment, but they try and go north. You've got NRG above you. You've got Fusion holding the northern tip. NIP just got a respawn as well. If you try and go south, you're screwed as well. I mean, I think you're damned if you do damned if you don't here if you're Flat with any position you try and take. There's six teams on this western side in the next 30 seconds that all have to try and transition to the east. It's going to be carnage.
01:05:01 Und ich denke, es ist auch wirklich eine bessere Option, aber es ist so schlecht, weil es nur noch etwas zu tun gibt, als die Team ist in den Buildings, von den Mythic Bin, von den Falcons, tatsächlich. Und zwar, die Dome-Shaped-Bildings kann einfach nur freiwillig werden, als Flat endlich starten die Engagement. Und mit dem Demo, es ist perfekt zu machen, während die Tempest von Nano aktiviert. Oh mein Gott, Fusion war so focused auf NRG, dass sie versucht, Flat zu walken auf sie hier in Flat.
01:05:28 Bullying them from this position. Ripping the North away from them. As Kimchi is going to be the next target. He does go down doing a lot of damage to Kuzia. But it looks like Flat will at least be able to stabilise or not. Because Falcons were watching this as well. Zero with the Kraber. And Flat will fall.
01:05:46 mit dem Graber und dann Walty mit dem Sentinel. Ich meine, das ist was passiert. Falcons war das Team, waiting für sie auf dem auskirrt von der Northern Zone, neben dem Mythic Kid. So, jetzt mit Rocken zu bleiben, Deeds hat das Red Evo-Shield, lässt die Devo singen hier. Vaxx und Saucer sind incredibly low. Looking zu reset, aber ein huge Graber-Shot von Vaxx, allows ihn zu bleiben, aber er kann nicht bleiben, als Rock geteilt. Movie Star ist wieder in die Lobby.
01:06:14 Yeah, as expected, it was just mayhem on that western side. Fubystar, the last team to fall out of all of the action that was on that particular direction. But TSM can now walk up, they can loot, and they can pick up all those rewards of all the teams that have just delivered them all those goodies. As we can now focus on the squads that have been able to find themselves in good positions. Now, very important that this zone has transitioned west, away from the likes of Villainous, VP, Twisted Minds.
01:06:41 Falcons, Sentinels, und es hat über die TSM und Team Orchid hier.
01:07:03 This isn't gonna be a fun building to be a part of I think that's evident Three teams in here all kind of just trying to avoid each other at the moment But eventually when you have to move does any is anyone brave enough to take the jumps out? That's the real question. Do you take the zip? And the answers probably no let's be honest, but you never know it is Covered if no one's looking at you, but word and you can't even land. There's no Valkyrie in this lobby You won't even know where to land where it's safe to find
01:07:33 your spot here with their with their being eight squads left now as that zone starts closing in zero makes the first move though with the actual just to reposition oh almost yeah falcons can take the northern side this will work as long as they can use these hedges in the rock for now just to avoid any sight lines from the teams coming in they can join the likes of tsm and just peppering those teams that have to move from all good areas but of course a lot of ashes 75% of the lobby
01:08:02 ... haben Ashe in der Composition, so wir werden sehen viele Portals hier, als Twisted Minds gehen. Ich sehe viele Kraybeer in das Lobby. Panic war auch ein Kraybeer, V.P. Trying to stay alive. S.L.A.Y.R. will be able to find that last player. Sentinels get eliminated, 6 Quads left. S.L.A.Y.R.'s the only one with some shields to work with. Meanwhile, hier auf der Stair, Team Orchid haben die Blu Evos, und S.L.A.Y.R. ist literally One-Shot. Du kannst nicht aus dem, weil sie in der Distanz von 30.30 sind.
01:08:26 So all of those teams on the east in that building die. It's back and forth at the moment. A trade for trade when it comes to the snipers. Can Falcons get Balti back up? The answer is no. Oh, and Hal's gone down as well. 150!
01:08:43 But he's one shot, and he's getting shot from behind, too. It's the Kraber v Kraber, the Zero versus Panic 1v1. Waltzy also, I believe, had a Kraber in the feed, but this is such a difficult position for Zero to be in.
01:08:59 Der Rez für euch! Denied! Zero, obwohl es Backs-Against-The-Wall oder Hedge in diesem Moment ist, aber noch immer mit den Rest der Lobby geht, um zu versuchen, etwas Anstrengung zu machen, und um die Aufmerksamkeit von ihm zu nehmen.
01:09:16 Can't believe he just decided to look to the left and said, if I'm going down, I'm not going down in a fight. Specifically, not you Vayne. Not you. And Zero still stuck behind these knockdown shields. Everyone knows how vulnerable this squad is, even if they don't know it. And with TSM holding the better position, Panik still continues the harassment with these P20s, as well as that Kraber in the sling.
01:09:38 Es ist wirklich gut für TSM jetzt. Sie haben eine großartige Begründung von dieser Zone. Sie haben eine gute Menge Platz. Zero könnte es für sie werden, ich will ehrlich sein. Die Falken könnte es für sie werden, oder zumindest zwei von ihnen. Hauw sieht aus wie er ist, und vielleicht nicht. Denied! TSM sagen, tatsächlich, wir gehört das, und TSM wird noch mehr Platz hier auf dieser Seite geben.
01:09:59 With NFP finally being able to reset after that. Well, I said finally here. Team Orca get eliminated. Our last two teams, they got deleted. TSN just walked up to get the dub for game number two.
01:10:13 Well, well, well, TSM already finding a huge game for themselves here in this series as well. Like I said, they just had so much coverage. As soon as all those teams died on the western side, they not only were able to take the west, but they also got so much reward from the death boxes of grenades and utility. And I think they put those grenades to pretty good use as well to shut down some of those opposition teams.
01:10:37 Definitely agree. And aside from that, too, we keep seeing our winning squads end the game with these double-digit KP. Let's not forget that TSM sat down in that choke and prevented the other teams coming in from the west side of that zone from coming in from that choke specifically. Everyone was funneled into their line of sight, and they held it down hard, looking at this dub with 14 KP to their name. I mean, it's another huge game.
01:11:02 Was es 27 in Match 1 und jetzt 26 in Match 2? Es sind zwei große Games von Teams, die definitiv haben die Best Foot Forward zu versuchen, die erste zu über die Matchpoint-Threshold zu gehen. Aber niemand wird da nur noch da sein. Die Frage ist, wenn jemand zu cross die Matchpoint? Aber das war Broken Moon. Wir gehen über E-District. Es wird die Back-to-Back-E-District. Aber diese sind die Top-3 Performing Teams.
01:11:28 TSM, TSM, TSM, putting out an incredible amount of damage. Panic? Panic, 2.2k damage with 9kp, literally combing through with a clutch game number two, putting on the performance and also highlighting why Panic Apex was picked up by TSM. Beautiful look here too, not only with the kill participation, but just in general with the output and damage and the kp.
01:11:55 I think he managed to get three knocks with one single grenade. It was pretty intense. Yeah, pretty intense on the side of TSM. Anyway, 29 points. They will be in first. They overtake all gamers in second place. So both of them are now over halfway towards matchpoint. NIP also slowly but surely steading their way towards matchpoint as well. But still a lot of games to be played here before we see a team cross. And the thing is with Americas, Vicky, is...
01:12:24 All it takes now is another big team taking a big game, and we are still further away from another team getting to Match Point, because there's just so many points to be shared between these teams. It's crazy, but with Match Point format being introduced here for the Regional Final to further highlight what the teams need to do to be sitting at that 50-point threshold, a lot on the line for our teams looking to qualify for the EWC. Don't go anywhere. We got game number three coming to you guys on the other side of this break.
01:16:31 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
Analyse der Karten und Legend-Picks in der ALGS Americas Pro League
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01:16:46 Welcome back. We've had so much action across the APAC region, as well as EMEA earlier on. You got a chance to catch a glimpse of what had transpired. Now North America, we're still writing that story. Welcome back here after game two. It's game three, Reinday and Onset on the call with you. And of course, it's important to look at where we're headed, Mark, because it turns into probably one of the more unfamiliar maps. Broken Moon, maybe the least played. E-District, maybe the most difficult in terms of some of the routes.
01:17:13 Das sind die Spieler, jetzt mit Ash, jetzt mit Alter, nicht mehr in den Mix. Wir sahen es vor, es wird jetzt ein Gespräch über wie du mit den Legends navigierst. Es ist interessant, dass E-District ist, wo es in unserer Map-Lay-Out ist, weil es der Fakt ist, dass du nicht hast Alter, du nicht hast, weil sie werden die Popular-Picks auf welcher Map wir spielen. Aber ich fühle mich, Alter und Ash, sind die E-District am besten auf E-District, comparativ zu anderen.
01:17:42 die wir in der Rotation haben. Die Problem ist, wenn Sie nicht spielen, die ersten zwei, in der Hoffnung, dass Sie sie auf E-District gewinnen können, dann können Sie sich auf Disadvertrages und dann werden sie dann auch geholfen, weil alle anderen immer noch spielen können. So Sie müssen die Ausage aus den Legends, während Sie können. Aber jetzt geht's in E-District hier in den Back-to-Back-E-District. Die Teams, zumindest haben Sie eine Chance, um ein bisschen zu machen, auf der Map zu machen, in der wir sehen, Map-to-Map so far.
01:18:06 Gonna be a great one here as we head into E District where the lights are bright and the city is alive at night. TSM trying to stay on the right side of the standings here. First place with Duplex Panic, Apex and Gent. Panic just having his moment of discovering what it means to be a pro and continue to hold that standard high. A lot of these players come in and...
01:18:36 Er hat sich in unterschiedliche Weise, und Panik hat sicherlich einen Splash gemacht. Er hat viele Augen auf ihn, und für gute Gründe. Er hat seine Familie an den Open gesagt. Ich habe es erzählt, bevor es ein junger Bruder kam. Er hat gesagt, er ist mein Bruder. Er hat gesagt, wer? Er hat Panik Apex gesagt. Er hat gesagt, er hat such pride. Er hat gesagt, er ist ein guter Bro, aber er ist auch, in das Weise, ein Team Player. Er ist auch, was er braucht, um die Leute zu tun, um die Leute zu tun, um sie zu unterstützen. Er hat das mit TSM gemacht.
01:19:03 Let's see if that can continue here and they can hold on to first place. A lot of people are rooting for this new iteration of probably the most iconic org in our ALGS history. Yeah, Panic's certainly not as short of confidence when it comes to him as both in-game and out-of-game. I'm sure that a lot of people would have picked that up already, but I just feel like you need a bit of that sometimes to hit the top, top echelons of anything competitive you do. You need to have this belief in yourself and your ability, and he's shown that in game number one.
01:19:30 He's a player that's going to keep rising, and his stock is going to keep rising as long as he keeps performing like that. Just take a look at where the zone is going to be going. It's down towards the southern side. Humbert Labs probably not going to be the endgame. I imagine it would shift over slightly to the west, but this is one of those zones that pingpongs when we see endgames and scrims. It can pull towards Humbert Labs, but sometimes it pulls back towards the other side.
01:19:53 Zone 3 info is going to be very, very important, as he's not dying on your way to Zone 2, which is not looking like something that could happen here for Sentinels, as Kara's already taken down. Yeah, it seems like Sentinels are already failing. Step 1, Orchid on the run. It's been great to see Rambo competing yet again. Hambino, Luxford found their ways. In and out. Maybe it's that one. Oh boy, that's going to be something spicy. So hard to get those flying shots, especially with those projectiles. Really no hitscan weapons, essentially, that are...
01:20:22 Wir sind sehr aktiv in der ALGS-Szene. Wir haben ein paar Optionen in den letzten Jahren, aber es ist so schwierig, aber es ist so schwierig. Und Binoe ist ein guter Job über die Pressure. Ich glaube, wir gehen auf Chase. Wir sehen uns. Speaking of that, Chase Mob, Cruel Buckle, NJ, CTE running away. Und Twisted Minds, die die Forst ihm zu run. Alberlele, Enemy and Crook. Sie sind für diese Zonen.
01:20:47 Und er hat gesagt, mit Hodzik gesprochen, wie wir ihn mit ihm haben, wie viel sie drillen, wo diese Zonen werden. Also, wenn man Twisted Minds hat, dann sind sie in ein guter Platz. Das ist ein guter Platz. Und ich kann sagen das, weil er ein guter Freund von mir ist, aber Hodzik hat den Stealing-A-Pay-Check zu beden. Er bleibt es. Er bleibt es. Er bleibt es. Er bleibt es.
01:21:11 Und er ist jetzt schon seine Value hier mit den Twisted Minds, wie wir sehen. Keon ist auf den P-20, das ist ein B-20 zu tun, aber es ist ein 2-2-2 zu tun. Keon ist jetzt zu haben. Keon ist zu haben, auf seine Team-Made-Madness zu geben, um ein bisschen zu cover zu geben. Und er ist jetzt ein bisschen ein bisschen von Führer aus. Man, das ist schon ein bisschen weg. Er ist in rund 20 HP. Keon ist auf seine eigene.
01:21:31 Key on to it. They were calling him in scrims. He's self-appointed the name also. Haven't seen the conduit come out yet for Furia. Haven't had the confidence, haven't had the right moment and trust to do that. Certainly game 10-11. I thought maybe, maybe in Amiya we might start seeing something like that, but nope. No conduit, no vantage, no octane. A couple of legends that just didn't see any time.
01:21:56 But we'll see what North America has in store for us. Cruel Buckle from CTE still on the fight. They've created some distance. Keon trying to hide out and out of sight. Virtus Pro, they are eliminated. First team to go down. NIP, Kurev, McLovin, and Vayne, the team Keon was actually scrimming with when they were running that conduit earlier on E-District. Grab a few points. NLP have been really, really good recently. Really good form coming into regional finals at the moment.
01:22:24 23 points in 2 games, nothing to be disappointed with. We say an average of 10 points per game is usually good enough to win you a matchday. So the fact that they're just over that shows you how well they are playing at the moment. You can also see the Tempest has been popped somewhere along the line as the team is looking to fight. Speaking of which, let's take a look at Humber Labs. This is where a lot of the teams are hedging this zone is going to be pulling.
01:22:46 My initial thought was this might pull to the west side of the zone. It looks like a lot of teams in the lobby at the moment are thinking it is going to go east. And it's an easier position to play from as well. There's a lot more area to actually get to, to play from, to give yourself cover. Whereas on that western side, really just open water and a couple of bridges to play. So that's why maybe a lot of teams are banking on this. And if it does pull back, they just back their own ability to make a rotation. But CTE, 10 points. It was a good game number one from them. Game number two, a little bit more quiet though.
01:23:16 Going into where people are holding, too, I mean, just on that southeastern side, kind of a, I don't know, 50 in one hand, half a dozen, you know, six in one hand, half a dozen in the other, because, yeah, you could split it either way, but maybe the idea is that, hey, we're all doing this. Maybe three teams don't have zone info, and so they're following other teams. They're rotating quickly. They're saying, okay, here we know what just in mind is. It's got to be somewhere else.
01:23:41 But at the end of the day, too, you know, Rock and NIP and all gamers kind of making that call that it might not be there, might pull west. They're going to have to go against seven teams if it does. Ten teams who are already sitting there versus, you know, all the teams on the right-hand side in the east. They're only going to have to go up against three teams who are sitting on the west if they do have to try to move into that zone. So maybe putting themselves on even footing based on the majority of this lobby.
01:24:05 Either way, though, it's still a bit of a gamble, and they know that. TSM up above Liquid Alienware, a team I talked about earlier. Jaguaris, Niazul, Yanya off to a pretty decent start. This team sometimes has the tendency to go zero or hero, and so they've actually kind of played it right up the middle, 13.6th place. I'd say that's a good start for them. Furia were eliminated in the meantime. Kion wasn't able to escape and get his teammates back on the map, so that would be Furia eliminated from the lobby.
01:24:33 Game number three here on E-District. That is where everybody is at the moment. As you can see, a lot of teams already stacked up inside of Humber Labs. You've got Falcons on the north side rotating with NRG. All gamers are trying to hold that tunnel. You can see they've got some tracker darts down as well. So anyone tries to rotate through, they're going to be able to get that information and know there's a team coming in behind them. And I think that's another thing that maybe a lot of people aren't given enough value to with the new legend Sparrow. Being able to essentially kind of leave your back open.
01:25:01 Wenn man einen Tracker Darts befindet, ist, dass man einen Tracker Darts befindet. Man muss man sich nicht auf die Darts befinden, sondern man muss sich nicht auf die Darts befinden. Aber man muss sich nicht auf die Darts befinden, wenn man einen Tracker Darts befindet und sich nicht auf die Darts befindet, ist Falken. Also, wir müssen uns auf die Darts befinden.
01:25:25 I'm light, but I'm coming. You have the UAV really bad. There's a blue bag on the rooftop. Oh, I will see. Alright, I'm going for it, I guess. Someone else just hit Map Room. Can you hit Map Room now? Wait, yeah. Wait, which one? I know sort of the front of us. Yeah, yeah, I'm going. That went around. Battery in here, I'm grabbing. That fuse coming. We see Map Room. We climb over, I will see. You might have to shoot it for me. I've hit 2 for 20.
01:25:55 Ich kann wirklich... Ich bin so... Ich bin so... Ich bin so... Ich bin so... Ich bin so... Ich bin so... Ich bin so...
01:26:24 Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja, sicher. Bro, ich werde das fucking guy killen. Bro, ich werde das fucking guy verletzen. Ich werde das Fenster haben, aber ich denke, ich werde das hier sein. Ich werde den Schrauben.
01:26:52 Das Fuse moves wie ein Spastik, weil ich Angst habe, weil ich Angst habe. Und ich habe Ballistik Q, weil ich dachte, dass er sich in den Fall war.
01:27:05 Well, Falcon's on that rotation. We got it there. Mark, I like the communication going from them so far. Yeah, so it's pretty calm, but whenever I go to Falcons listening, it always sounds like they're calm, but on the edge. You know, anything can block. So we're trying to stay calm, but they're kind of gritting our teeth through it. Sentinels look like they're getting the respawn here. It's going to land, hopefully, without taking too much damage for their sake, and lands straight into that port. So well-placed portal from the Wraith.
01:27:34 on Sentinels to get him back safely Imperial Howl hitting that Tracker Dart from Sparrow and just showing the impact the change of nature of it a lot of pros understanding the immediate
01:27:49 ...element that Sparrow brings to the table with that range. But that vision, I mean, especially on a map like this, zones moving, zones changing, trying to navigate these little moments. Look how congested it is on E-District. You got these wide open spaces, these low grounds, and then you have these small buildings that, you know, really are full to the limit. There's just not enough room for these teams. So having that information, making these incisive rotations, that's what Sparrow brings to the table and often not banned.
01:28:17 So a resource whenever you want is flat falls in and look to hold this building will be safer now and NRG on the other side as well. Flat will be fine for now.
01:28:31 Es ist dann, es geht um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,
01:28:57 Flap would certainly need it. A team that we've seen perform at times. Not really taking, I would say, command of this lobby or of the season. Sitting at 19th place, they just came in. Only LG behind them in overall standings. It would take a win, most likely, to put them in the conversation. They are a good 35 points away from our 8th place team. Well, but if you look at 8th place, that's where EMEA was. If you really look at 16th...
01:29:26 Sie sind wirklich nur 8 oder so weit weg. Ich correcte mich da. Wir sind so genutzt zu diesen kleinen Nummern. Ich glaube, es ist wirklich ein Wiggle-Room. Flap definitiv ist noch nicht. Zwischen Minds, vielleicht auch. Das ist die DIVA, richtig? Sie sehen die Stinkerball, die in den Stinkerball geht. Und jetzt sehen Sie die zweite Ball kommen. Ich glaube, es hat Tenny zu sein. Aber bei dem so, bleibt es sich offen. Zwischen Minds, vielleicht geht es ein bisschen early.
01:29:54 Even though this spot was a good one for where this next zone is going to be going, there's too many teams still in Humber Labs who aren't leaving and being forced to move themselves without an LOS on it. So timing is everything. Sometimes in Apex Legends and those rotations, Movistar are going to be eliminated as well. So four teams now out of the lobby as we jump over to all gamers who are in a fantastic spot once again. It was a great game one for them where they got the win. They're set up for success here in game two as well.
01:30:19 Vayne still alive on NIP pushing the envelope here. They've got a Stinger bolt out from Sparrow and they've got potentially a Tempest charging up ready to go. It's 70% for Vayne if they need to push the envelope, but they're already okay. Take Bucks down. Villainous will lose him in the lobby as NIP continue to rack up some points. Devotion in the sling ready to go as Chiquis is still there.
01:30:47 One of the interesting elements about Villainous staying alive, but yes, in that kind of 13th spot. Obviously trying to hold on to that as teams like Orchid, like CTE trying to move in.
01:31:03 100 Thieves do move it. They take the Wraith Portal from Phony and Phony is managed to find himself not just the red helmet to give himself full evo but also the triple take in his hands which is such a good weapon for playing a little bit of an open area because you can output so much damage so quickly that nobody's going to want to peek you so he's going to be invaluable to the success of 100 Thieves holding down this spot and finding maybe a secondary spot to move to having made that initial rotation. That's a look at the map overhead by the way. That's the position I was talking about with...
01:31:30 With Rock, who are just holding down so much space at the moment as to where that zone is going to be going. I tell you what, if you were to have played on that western side, you would be in a great spot right now. Yeah. Conversation is, though, what can Rock do in terms of, and this is kind of this quandary I set up, you know, 10, 11, 12 teams moving that direction because that is a lot of teams to try to zone out. It's going to open up some space versus if you were Rock trying to get into that building on the eastern side.
01:31:58 Oh my god, that seems like, you know, a pipe dream. So now you will see that relative dynamic occur. Can Rock hold out enough to keep that spot on the west? Can NIP move in from the south and hold there as well? Will Shopify Rebellion be able to climb one of these?
01:32:17 Fights and stay on height, especially with TSM right in front of them. He's got the knock-on to Panic with that Arcstar. Now Koifu sending it through the cat wall. The wall is down from the Newcastle as well.
01:32:32 So Shopify and Rebellion have forced their way into Zone. And if they've got their ears to the ground here, there might be a third opportunity for them on Hunter Thieves as well. Because Verholz and Jen Burton are trying to hold at the moment. But there's damage being done everywhere at the moment. Panic got picked back up by TSM. But MC with his Teemo in his hands, alongside Zainu, is outputting damage. And Shopify will be safe for now. Really love what these teams can do in terms of defense. Holding out these weird spots at times.
01:33:00 mit der Newcastle Wall und mit der Watson. Krypto für MT und Koifel auf den Pathfinder. Aber auf der anderen Seite, 100 Thieves, haben die Newcastle Watson und die Wraith, so ein bisschen mehr Bewegung, ein bisschen mehr Kontroll in terms of Holding Out of Zone, aber wer braucht Kontroll von Koifel, wenn du einfach grabbing Jen Burton bei der Throat und takin' es? 100 Thieves finden ein Weg zu gehen, aber dann haben wir einen zweiten.
01:33:28 Das ist das Worry, wenn man so viele Teams stacken ab und dann die Zone zurückkommt, und jeder muss zu gehen, und jeder muss zu verändern. Niemand in Humber Labs denkt, um die Spiel zu gewinnen.
01:33:52 Everyone is thinking about how do we get the most points on the board possible and a lot of the time it's going to be looking for third party opportunities. Zero is looking for first party chances though as the zipline from NRG is going to take them away from some of the action. But Zero is not letting them get away without letting them know he's just behind them. Whilst he finishes up one of those outputs of damage coming in from the 30-30 and Zero managed to get the knock onto Guild. And it's happened again. Zero let one get away earlier on. He said not today. Not again. I'm going to pop that Tempest and we're going to make sure.
01:34:21 dass die Pressure weitergeht. Und das wird eine große Chance für die Hoffnung von Falcons, Open Champions. Sie versuchen zu gewinnen und gewinnen die Region Finals, auch. Das wäre ein großer Moment für sie, insbesondere für sie sich auf, was wäre eine große Spielzeit-Saison. Aber NRG, sie haben auch eine große Geschichte für mich. Sie haben auch eine große Geschichte für mich. Sie haben auch einen guten Team für Falcons, mit der Tiebreaker. Und sie halten es. Er hat immer gesagt, er hat sie zu groß sein.
Spannungsgeladene Momente und Team-Eliminierungen im späteren Spielverlauf
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01:34:48 Not big enough, decent game, 8th place for Liquid Alien, where CTE goes out right after that, and it's TSM here in the final six with Sentinels as well somehow making it out. Yeah, a lot of teams just fell very, very quickly. It was all the teams that had to leave Humber Labs. Falcon's still alive, though. TSM, Sentinels, Ninjas in Pajamas, NRG, and Rock. Rock down on the low ground as a duo, though, even though they had that great spot.
01:35:12 They're gonna have to try and play this one out as a 2, unless they find themselves a little moby. Here comes NIP though. Kart's trying to hold this angle with the Devo, but has to change over and Vayne says, hey, whatever you've got, I've got one too. He fires back with that Devo spray from the sling, but now that Tempest has run out, doesn't have that available to him. Has to turn back to old trusty, the R99, and he's just trying to make sure here. He's not worried about the KP so much. He's just trying to stop this rotate on this side.
01:35:40 NIP holding the zone quite well. Mobile Respawn Beacon for Kurren. It'll be back up as a three as they grab the banner. In that exchange, Rock Falls also. And now it's the top four with Falcons, NRG, TSM, and NIP. TSM trying to get more members up if possible, but it's just a solo right now. And of course, NRG, NIP, and Falcons fighting as a full three. NRG on the high ground here. Gillersons with the Devotion. That's a scary conversation.
01:36:09 Zero and Walty trying to avoid that discussion as best they can and they do going underneath the bridge NRG as well Timmy holding on that right side but this is a clash that feels inevitable here as of course Falcons on the low ground gonna have to play this at some point and try to get up here I don't know how Falcons get out of this situation you can see they're trying to use essentially an EMP in that situation although I think they got EMP'd I'm not sure if Falcons have it available Falcons have to send this they don't really have another choice
01:36:37 NRG get warmed up on, NIP from the shadows gives them the jumpscare of a lifetime and that's given the opportunity for Falcons to not only move out from the position they were stuck in, but clean up KP and now they have an evac tower as well to get over the top. Oh my god, now this leg is between two teams on opposite sides of the wall. I mean, look at this.
01:36:59 Das ist unsere letzten zwei Teams hier. Es ist eine große Wall-Wall zwischen uns. Michloven nimmt Imperial. HAL und N.I.P. sind die Champions. Falcons move, aber sie sind in der Luft geöffnet. Und es ist N.I.P. für die Game 3 auf E-District. Ich dachte, dass HAL einfach zu verlieren. Ich glaube, dass Falcons nicht gewinnen. Ich glaube, dass sie nicht gewinnen.
01:37:22 Haus made it over, made it to the top of the wall, dropped in and still managed to take someone down with him. But it's going to be Ninjas in Pajamas who win that game on E-District. Game number three belongs to them. Well, you know, I see the interesting quandary that NRG were in because Falcons made it out, which felt like they were in a situation they shouldn't have made it out because NRG was hesitant to drop down. And that peak from above, you have to kind of...
01:37:47 Ich liebe NIP taking command of it.
01:38:16 Und Marc Offen, ich fühle mich, das ist der entscheidende Moment, dass du gewinnen oder verlierst. Du gewinnen oder verlierst. Es ist Top 4, es ist Top 7. Du machst nur ein Spiel, und du kennst das alles. Ja, ich denke, NIP machte den richtigen Spiel. Ich denke, NRG forgot zu watchen, weil sie verletzten zu viel. Ja, ja. Sie waren zu viel worried, was die Falcons waren zu tun, und sie waren zu tun, und sie waren zu tun, und sie waren zu tun. So, unfortunately für sie, das bedeutet, dass sie nicht in die Top 3 sind. Aber die Top 3 sind jetzt auf deinem screen. 28 Punkte, by the way, für NIP in der Spiel. 16 Kills.
01:38:45 und alle auszüglichen Dämmen. Wenn die größte Dämmen auf dem Team ist 1.5k, dann ist er wahrscheinlich ein guter Job. Kurve ist gut, aber Vayne und McLovin, diese Dämmen 2k Dämmen über dieses Spiel...
01:38:58 from both of them. That is an incredible dynamic duo there. Guys who have kind of not been written off, but definitely not given their fair shake in terms of the focus this season. This is a team that clearly, with the org, with the presence, the coaching of Raven, the ability to kind of put a good plan together and execute. I mean, this is looking like a favorite right now, especially in this match day so far. Dan, I want to get your thoughts. It's NIP, first place, 48 points, two points off match point, TSM.
01:39:28 who was our leader, now in second with 38. Yeah, I think the consistency from NIP in matches one and two put them in a position where when they finally had that big game, suddenly they are candidates to win this whole thing. And I think that was the point I was trying to make, but I don't think I made very well at the end of last game, is that there are so many good teams here that, yes, you might have one big game, but someone else will do it the next game. Someone will take that moment away from you the very next match. So it is...
01:39:55 about being consistent here. You can't just have one big game and then not do anything. You need to be having consistent big games. Yeah, I love the analogy too to that aspect of like, you know, you're only going to get a couple of shots, right? But if you know that, hey, I get 10 shots, that's enough. I'm going to make a few of them, right? You just have to put yourself in the position to then get the shots. That's all it is. I think a lot of these teams throughout the season have just proven that, hey, if we get in this lobby, we're going to have a chance to win because we're that good. We know we have a game plan. We know.
01:40:22 If we get enough chances, we will make it happen. And that's certainly what NIP have shown. That's what TSM has shown as well. All gamers as well. These teams that, you know, maybe we're not talking about first and foremost in North America, but certainly have made the conversation shift towards them. All right, as we take a little bit of a halftime break here, settle in, let the players use the restroom, bio break, all that kind of stuff. Reset before we do another E-District and get to the back half of potentially today. It is time to go to our favorite little segment. What you...
Rückblick auf EMEA und APAC North Regional Finals
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01:40:51 might have missed otherwise known as on our back end and now on the front end for you guys as well let's talk a little bit about amia because if you missed it boy oh boy was that a moment we had a early
01:41:05 Early kind of day start thinking, hey, maybe it'll end early, have a little bit of time for some lunch, maybe a little nap, you know, in between regions. Yeah, right. No, no, no, not at all. I mean, it not only didn't go six games, didn't go seven, didn't go eight, didn't go nine, didn't go 10. It went 11 games and it was this close to going 12. FaZe Clan did it. They somehow found a way after Alliance got an early match point to stall this game out in what was a lobby with 12.
01:41:34 12 Teams on Matchpoint, and 8 Teams who were not on Matchpoint. Meaning, if pretty much the majority of the lobby had a chance to win, it was all going to be over. FaZe makes it happen. Nadas Vincere end up attacking Dragons at the end of it, and it ultimately puts them into a situation where it opens things up yet again. Another story, 10K, Natsuki, and Kashera, they're sitting in the top spots. They're finding ways to be successful, but slowly but surely, they're playing a little bit too conservative, some may think.
01:42:03 Und als diese Games weitergehen, das Point-Total wird weniger und weniger optimistisch für sie in den Top-Einigen. Und das letzte Spiel letztendlich empfiehlt sie aus den Mid-Season Play-Offs. Die drei Spieler, die in so viele von unseren Play-Offs haben, über den Kursen der ALGS-History sind. Es wird wild sein, dass sie nicht ein Teil des Spiels, besonders wenn sie das Spiel endet. In jedem Spiel, das wäre das Fall. Aber im Grunde, ich meine...
01:42:27 Wenn du das EMEA ist eine Region mit nur 8 Spots hast, und Nordamerika ist eine Region mit 16, kann man sehen, warum es so... ...desperate für viele diese Teams war. Ultimately, am Ende ist es ein Gibraltar, Valkyrie und Rampart kombination... ...wann die Spiel, nach 10 Legendbands zu sehen.
01:42:51 Unbelievable. Und das waren die Serie's results. Go-next mit Claim-The-Victory mit Nanis Vinciere und FaZe Clan in der Final 3. Und ja, guys, wenn FaZe had won, es war close, würde es nach Game 12 gehen. Unbelievable. Das Final, natürlich, Kept Alliance und Na'Vi, die bereits secured, waren in der EWC Mid-Season Playoffs bereits. Aber es hat Ronin zu sneaken past 10K und Claim-That-Final-Spot. So, Teams, das will be going.
01:43:18 Our Alliance, Nata Spenser, Team Nemesis, Zero Tenacity, Mouse, Ronin Gaming Gladiators, and Go Next. We will see them representing EMEA in mid-season playoffs. But of course, Mark, it was not the only region to have played over these last weekends. APAC North had some action, and they would qualify their teams heading into our mid-season playoffs as well.
01:43:40 Yeah, they certainly did indeed, and I think there's a few stories to really talk about here. Regional Finals obviously didn't disappoint. Match number three, it was SBI Esports who followed up a very impressive match number two as well, which was fourth place with 11 kills, to win their first match of the Regional Finals. So this was their first win on the board, but hey, spoiler alert everybody, it certainly wasn't the last match, if you get what I'm saying.
01:44:05 SPI Esports managed zu gewinnen. In den letzten Momenten hier sehen wir Fnatic involviert, aber der High Ground für SPI ist zu viel zu überkommen, als sie zum Beispiel die 3rd Party zum Teil der Fnatic gespielt haben. Das bringt sie den ersten Wunsch. Dann gehen wir auf die Nummer 4. Und du hast gehört, die E36, die ALGS Championships in Sapporo, Japan. Das war ein wunderbarer Tag für alle, die in jedem, oder in jedem, oder in jedem, oder in jedem, wie.
01:44:34 E36 kam mit der winn hier in den finalen Moment.
01:45:02 Wir sehen uns die finalen Moments hier.
01:45:19 Das war der erste Spiel auf Matchpoint. Das war der erste Spiel auf Matchpoint.
01:45:46 And they closed it out. It's a fantastic story for APAC North. But also a big shout out to the likes of Crazy Raccoon. Who going into the APAC North Regional Finals. Were really struggling to qualify. But they made it through in that final qualification spot. So some of your fan favorites from APAC North. Will certainly be at the midseason playoffs being represented. But what a moment for SBA Esports. And I'm Mikey's by the way. What a way to close it out. Look at this. It's a 1v1v1.
01:46:15 ...to win the regional finals. And he is the coldest man in the building. Look at this. Double R9. He has the job done. I'm freezing after hearing that. It's a nice line.
01:46:30 SPI Esports coming out on top here for APAC North. Great overall set and a great bit of action. Honestly, it gets even better as we keep talking about these regions. But overall, SPI taking the top spot. Noah's Fox, you can see they were out of those regional standings.
01:46:49 für den overallen Series. Aber in Qualified Teams, sie waren 2nd place. Wir sehen uns mit Interforce36, RRX, Crazy Raccoon, KinoTrope, Gaming, Fnatic und Unlimit in der Mid-Season Playoffs in der Mitteilung. Fnatic, ich denke, ein Team, der muss das Sparken finden.
01:47:10 Nichts haben eine gute Open, aber sicherlich ist es zurückgekehrt. Und Speaking of that, Apex South ist auch ein Team, mit einem sehr guten Repräsentanten in jedem Land. A Region ist sehr stolz, aber sie haben einen Show in der Region Finals. Wir haben auch die Genome Show. Genome streamt alles in Apex South Region Finals. Wir starten mit JDG zu gewinnen, mit 15 Kills.
01:47:36 Ich denke, das war die Prezidenz für den Rest des Lobbys. Ich dachte, okay, wir werden BigKill-Games werden. JDG werden wahrscheinlich gehen. Es wird einfach für sie. Noe ist überhaupt nicht zu spielen.
01:47:47 But then other teams started to turn up. And actually JDG weren't even the first team to reach match point. It was in fact Gen.G. So this was match three. They did go on to win this game and later became the first team to reach match point eligibility in match five. So off the back of this one, it just gave them enough points to be consistent going into four and five to cross the threshold without a victory. And you think, all right, well, maybe Gen.G went on to win the whole thing. VK Gaming said, ah, no way.
01:48:16 You may have found yourself on Matchpoint, but we're gonna keep this thing rolling at least to a Match 7. And they had a 17-kill game to do it. These teams weren't just scraping victories through. They were dominating in every aspect and absolutely wiping the floor with the rest of the lobby to find their victories. It was crazy to watch, even crazy to see the highlights of it. But in the end...
01:48:40 It was JDG! Again, Match 1 winners came back on Matchpoint to win it all here in Match 7.
01:48:47 Und einfach so wie Clockwerk, sie haben es mit 17 Kills gemacht. Es war nicht nur eine Erwartung, als sie in den Körner geflogen sind, sondern sie wurden Druck auf jemanden, die sich in den Körner verletzten, dass sie jeden Fall in den Körner verletzten, dass sie jeden Fall in den Körner verletzten, ob es durch Loot oder Position gegeben hat. Und in der Ende, sie wurden die Regional Champions von APAX South gewonnen. Und natürlich, das bedeutet, dass sie jeden Fall in APAX South representieren.
01:49:15 The mid-season playoffs. And I tell you what, if they can find any sort of consistency in the way that they played in the regional finals, once we get to international competition, I am very excited to see what they can do on the biggest stage of all. Because they looked so impressive. The teamwork was excellent. The way they were all ensuring they were targeting the same people at the same time and then switching those targets to the next. It was like they've been doing it for 10 years with how they've been playing.
01:49:41 And it means that they will walk away as the champions after this victory that you're watching on your very screen. They were delighted with it, as I'm sure were a lot of fans around Apex South. And they will be the frontrunners for this region. And we can take a look at how those results looked in the overalls. Because very different to what we had in EMEA, where they're only going eight games. But these were the six squads that were able to pull it through in the end. JD, BK, Rival, Gen.G, Edward Gaming, and Wolves here, Reindei.
01:50:08 Which, you know, alongside the teams that then qualified for midseason playoffs, it was just a pleasure to watch. You know, and it was interesting too, because no matter how well you play, you get to that level of Game 7, 8.
01:50:21 You're not going to have Ashe available. I don't know how that happened for YC. I mean, Jonner was popping off with that Pathfinder, no doubt about it. 2K damage, you know, five shots in the PK and a G7 scout. I mean, that's trusting your aim right there. And Jonner certainly had the movement to go with it. But man, man, that is not going to look the same way at playoffs. That's going to be the most exciting part. What meta develops? Will we even see a little bit of a patch beforehand towards the end of June? Maybe change a few things, knock a few characters up or down. We'll have to wait and see. But all the excitement there.
Partnerschaft mit Hypeland und Match Point für NIP
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01:50:50 from all the regions. Now, if you're excited as well to represent, maybe not a region, but just Apex in general, you might not be competing, still show your love. And there's one special way to do it. We go to every event and we want exclusive things. Well, you want exclusive things? Check out what you can't have nice with. You can watch nice with, but you can't have it, but you can have what he's wearing.
01:51:08 Oder holding, oder keeping himself warm. Apex with the Hypeland collab. One of the coolest things that we've done. A limited edition collaboration. When these things sell out, they are done. So get fit with Outland. With the Apex Legends Hypeland collab. Make sure to go to Hypeland.com. You can see the hoodies. You can see the bags. You know, I think that bag is just like...
01:51:30 If you end up going into, you know, for me, there's a couple of fast food restaurants. If I find I'm just going to throw that, that's going to be my order. They're going to need that in order to fulfill what I've got. Dan already has the hype land right there. You could, you could think he might be disappearing with the Mirage, but no, he's just wearing that cool shirt. Make sure to get yours. Hype land.com. And while Dan and I go shopping for some more hype land stuff, and hopefully you do too. Let's send it over to onset and bring back Vicky for our cast as we get in the game.
01:51:58 Let's do it then. That collab looks fire, by the way. We saw them in New Orleans for the ALGS Open. And for those of you who don't have the 20 kill badge, well, maybe you can get a t-shirt and tell people that you do by having it on there. Vicky, welcome back to the broadcast. We're heading into match number four. I'm excited. Let's go, because NIP already two points away from sitting at match point. You know, better...
01:52:21 Better speedrun this here and not try to take a book out of the EMEA region if you're NIP. You want to already feel like it's a...
01:52:29 Long day, job well done here. But that's to say, if they even get these two points, because I feel like even in EMEA, there were some teams that were struggling just to get those final two points and get the distance, because it can be difficult sometimes, too. You want to get those two KP or even placement points, but you put yourself in a really risky situation. But at least on E-District, I feel like, I mean, in that last game alone onset, we had, what, like 16 teams in round four? It was insane how E-District allows a lot of these teams to coexist in the end zone.
01:52:58 Ja, ich möchte ein bisschen ein shout-out zu Kurev, der ich glaube, ist ein Spieler, der auf den Unfortunate-Receiving-End ist, dass nicht seine Wahl ist, richtig? Wenn, ja ja ja ja, das Team Liquid war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war, er war,
01:53:27 Now he's on this team, this NIP team, and it feels like everything is just working, and I think a lot of the players on this team have very similar stories, where they've had to shift around, they're nice guys that maybe don't, you know, get vocal about decisions being made, but now they are finding success, and it's sometimes the personalities match on a team, and that's why that success starts to come, and I feel like that really is the case here with NIP.
01:53:48 Yeah, that's why we see a lot of roster swaps in general throughout the course of the competitive Apex eSports season too. So being able to at least stick together and figure out what you have to work on as a team while then also feeling like you already have built up synergy. He's always nice to see while we take a look at where the zone is pulling over by draft point. Onset, you know, Grace will be very happy. This is one of his favorite POIs, but it's also a great POI to rotate from in general. So being able to have that POI advantage, being able to get that information just as quickly.
01:54:18 Es wird wichtig sein, denn ich fühle mich auch, dass es viel Platz gibt, auf das POI zu speichern. Aber depending auf wo es shifts ist, wenn es auf der South-Side geht, dann wird es nur noch cover sein, wenn man auf der River-Side ist. Ja, das Bridge ist ein interessantes Thema. Es ist wie, oh, wir spielen die Bridge, aber dann gibt es vier oder fünf Teams, die versuchen zu spielen die Bridge. Und es wird dieses weird, Peak-Battle zwischen Teams. Und ich fühle mich mehr oft als nicht, wenn sie da sind.
01:54:39 ... und du hast Watsom, für zum Beispiel, um den Platz zu holen, um den Platz zu zeigen, um die Presence zu zeigen. Wir sehen uns NIP weiterentwickelt. By the way, Match Point für NIP. Die erste Team zu hit, Match Point. Sie cross 50. Sie geteilt die Job. Back zu meinem Thema, über die Bridge. Es gibt zu viele Teams, die zu versuchen, das zu schnell zu werden, und es wird dieses Weib- ...
01:54:59 Es ist wirklich wirklich verrückt, wie wir es haben, wie Gap NIP hat, die Rest des Lobbys, sogar in der Zeit, in der Zeit, in der Zeit, in der Zeit, in der Zeit, in der Zeit,
01:55:28 I believe the closest team to them is TSM with 38 points. And now, right now, they're literally getting mowed down by the Devo. And they get eliminated by the hands of LG. And even some help from 100 Thieves who were earlier able to take control and get those knocks. Yeah, that was one of those situations where it's like, I don't want to look, but I'm watching. Because it was that kind of awkward. It was just a complete decimation there as they ran through the LG. 100 Thieves.
01:55:54 Das ist ein guter Platz für das nächste Zone. Sie spielen auf der anderen Seite, aus dem Draft Point ein bisschen. Aber wo das Zone ist, kann man sehen, dass 100 Thieves sind. Sie spielen auf der anderen Seite ein bisschen.
01:56:09 Es sollte ein guter Platz sein, um nicht in die großen Fights zu gehen, um sich zu verändern, um sich zu sehen, um die 3rd Part Eid zu sehen, um sich zu sehen, um die 3rd Part Eid zu zeigen. Kim Chi left auf seine eigene jetzt. Und es wird M-Koi hier sein, um hier zu sein, um hier zu sein, um hier zu sein. Und ich sage, Kim Chi ist wieder in der Küche. Kim Chi hat eine Idee. Ich weiß nicht, ob es die richtige Idee war oder nicht, aber ich glaube, dass er eine Idee hat und erinnert hat.
01:56:37 He thought, you know, being one person from Sentinel, so at least trying to clutch out that win after seeing that there was Nox, that he could try to take that away, but there was also so many other teams in the vicinity, sometimes the panic button is right there, and with Fury not walking in, they take up this building with a plethora of deck boxes at their feet. Yeah, Kim Chi, the kind of guy, if something kicks off, you know he's, wherever he is, if he's your friend, he's gonna jump in there. That was a great example of it. Fury up.
01:57:03 Die Sendung haben wir jetzt die letzten Pläne von Sentinels, und wir können jetzt das Gebäude für sie selbst. Furia, die haben immer wieder quiet, von allen definierten Worten, so far heute. Nur die fünf Punkte auf dem Board in drei Games sind sehr un-Furia-like von ihnen.
01:57:21 Yeah, I really want to listen to the comms and figure out what has changed from Furia specifically because it's kind of just been on a downward spiral where they don't seem like they've been able to find their footing. Either comms are messy here, maybe some sort of uneasiness or not even trusting the comms sometimes. I'm making some of these rotates or decision-making here while we take a nice overhead look at the other teams that are making their rotate in. Falcons with an evac tower all the way from Lotus passing that of Shopify Energy over by Energy Bank.
01:57:51 A lot of these teams, though, with the Crypto Jones, will just be able to get that Survey Beacon ring console before they take their time to rotate into that next zone. Yeah, tough zone so far in E-District with the two games we've had for our Northern Landing teams, which is, you know, the teams that seem to have prioritized some of the POIs. You've got Falcons who would have...
01:58:08 Put a lot of stock into Lotus. Shopify Rebellion landed on the northern side as well. Would have put some stock into their POI. So a bit frustrating when you are in the POI draft and you put your stock into a certain map and then the zones pull away. You're like, okay, we're not going to be able to make the most of this. However, everybody is able to adapt. Shopify have had a pretty rough zone so far. If you think about the first one we had, the down beast one, that was pretty tough for them to get to. Map number two, not the easiest as well. And then...
01:58:34 Two long rotates for them here as well. It's been tough so far for Shopify Rebellion when it comes to these rotates. They're just trying to make the best of it so far. Gotta make do with what you have here when it comes to some of these rotates currently. Shopify sitting in 18th.
01:58:53 in der overallen Serie thus far in den Region Finals. Looking at the teams, looking at all the Sparrow Tracker Darts there, too. You were actually highlighting this in the last game, and that's a very good point to make, too, right? Making sure you can rotate, try to cover your backs without having to split your attention, just thanks to the utility that Sparrow provides. And it's the lovely bridge, your favorite part to hang out here in Draft Point, right? All the crates, you've got the different open crates over to your side, and then having to play up this low ground. I am not a big fan of this. Yes, there's even that small crevice.
01:59:22 But there's so many different angles once you get out of this specific corner that you currently see Lewin, that you can get shot up from afar, from the high ground, by that tunnel side that you saw behind Lew there. It can be difficult once a lot more of these teams feel more brave to congregate in the center part of draft point. Love of good bridge, meh.
01:59:40 Ja. Oh.
02:00:07 Ich weiß nicht, dass die Konstruktion ist. Sie sind für eine Destruction. Und das Nade... Oh, ich dachte, ich wäre ein Reducer, das Nade. Aber Skittle Cakes wird versuchen, einen Angle zu finden. Und ich sehe den Stinger Ball runter. Das ist für sie zu fahren.
02:00:20 I believe 15 Sparrows, by the way, or 12, sorry, in this lobby, as well as Ballistic, while Drop takes a different angle with the Fuse, activates the Motherload here, too, after the Tempest was already called in for all gamers, but they're getting shot by what looks to be a third party, while Skittlecakes, he jumps and dances around into the zone, just so that way they can take a much longer, wide rotation, because they have circle information, thanks to that Sparrow getting that remote beacon scan.
02:00:50 Und da ist ein Team above dem, und das ist ein Problem, weil sie haben sich viel zu tun. Zab ist zu haben, dass die Med-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin-Kin
02:01:15 That does also have an evac tower, so even though they look like they're running away, it looks like a little bit of a double bluff, because some fights are starting to break out, and maybe there's an opportunity for them to move back into this position and third party in this now. Can they get away with it? There's a bunch of sterile tracker guards in that choke specifically, but another fight now happening. It is against Liquid Alienware up on the high ground, looking like it was villainous that were here.
02:01:38 Und jetzt haben wir die Möglichkeit, jetzt.
02:02:06 Either hold them out, or look to push this. There's this guy now coming in from Niazul. He wants some more. He gets the re-knock as well. He actually gets the finish, excuse me, onto Zap. So that's going to be AG down to two now. Liquid Alien, we're not only winning that fight, but also holding off the third fight. I hear the fighting happening inside this zone right now. Shopify Rebellion.
02:02:29 They take out Skittles, Drop is gonna be the last one out here, and all gamers get eliminated. 15 squads now left, while Shopify gets to clean up the death boxes that was left from all gamers. They're looking at the position of Shopify Rebellion now. They probably have to head back to the north. Liquid Alienware was still holding down that choke. It's NRG who have the drone up, who will know that Shopify are coming. We do see the opportunity for NRG versus Shopify probably breaking out as this zone will close, but NIP...
Strategische Rotationen, intensive Kämpfe und Furia's Triumph
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02:02:57 Trying to play a low-profile at the moment if Falcons are trying to rotate in alongside them now Patiently here with Falcons neighboring them across the zipline by the way is movie star koi something that e-district provides from a lot of different POIs is that one zipline that could connect from one lot to the other
02:03:16 Even if it's on the same POI. Love this side-by-side though. Looking at where this zone pool is going to be. Falcons already getting ahead of the curve. I've already rotated out here. Still looking behind them is NIP. But they have to make sure that this is going to be a safe rotate. Because LG can equally just cut them off. While Shopify are looking to reset with these shield bats. Yeah, Shopify would get the first knock going to Sykes. And I mentioned this fight is about to break out. Well, it is breaking out. And aren't you going to have to...
02:03:42 Do what they can because the retaliation is now coming from Guild. He gets the knock himself. Sykes will be finished off here by Zynu. So 2v2 might actually be a 1v2. Timmy has to escape as Guild did get taken down and finished off. So Shopify Rebellion essentially win the fight and get the reset onto Zynu. And Timmy has now got to survive this one or find a way out to get his teammates back in.
02:04:07 All the way in the distance still 100 Thieves on the other side of Shopify.
02:04:12 mit Timmy, der letzte Straggler ist, dass das Krypto ist. Das ist das, was Sie sehen, wenn Sie einen Solo haben, von Ihrem Squad zu sehen. So, Sie sehen, Timmy, mit dem Krypto-Drohn. Sie sehen, es fließt auf den Norden von Shopify. Shopify 2. Also, ich bin jetzt auch, die Krypto-Drohne sind, dass sie über den Krypto-Drohnen sind. Eine von FURIA, eine von CTE, eine von Team Orchid. Die skies sind ziemlich congested, aber mit Timmy, jetzt von Shopify, könnte absolut sein, aber...
02:04:42 Where do you go? Do you have the Mobi yourself is the question. You can't res your teammates in the middle of where VP is. And that Mythic bin, uncontested at the moment. No team looking like they're close by to even give up any sort of high ground space to be able to commit to that. Yeah, I love that map overhead. You saw how if you want to commit a crime, you're not going to get away with it here on Edith Street. There's tracker darts everywhere. There's drones flying everywhere. There is going to be video evidence of you doing something.
02:05:07 If you get a little bit frisky and feel like doing something untoward. Falcons now down on this low ground inside one of these little hot buildings will be safe inside of where this next zone is going. So Falcons done a great job once again from dropping all the way over the northern side of the map to navigate their way all the way down to the southern side now into a safe position. VP still down on that low ground as well underneath the bridge. But they're going to have to rotate away as the place they were playing wasn't safe for any longer. And inside of this building is Rock and Vaxalon who...
02:05:37 Not on quite the show last time that we were on his POV. He gets that first knock, but Kralbuckle is going to be able to get back to his feet.
02:05:44 Oh, Vp! Oh, Vp! Oh, Vp! Oh, Vp!
02:06:11 Ja, Mythic Bin, mit der Kraber in hand. Nano misses das erste Schott. Looks wie sie auch das Gold R9 haben. Ja, sie hat das Mythic Bin. Sie sehen es nur auf der Seite des Nano. Führer auf dem High Ground, auf der Bridge. Und Nano wird der Weg für Flat hier. Aber ich bin nicht sicher, was die Plan ist. Sie haben die Überfläche von oben. Inside dieses Krayt. Aber Big Louie ist ein Problem hier. Emcoi ist auch ein Problem. Aber das ist für sie auf dem Sparrow.
02:06:40 Oh, he broke his neck. I've never seen someone turn around so fast after hearing the zipline prompt. Kurev still alive, NIP. If they hit Matt's point this game already, but they're gonna have to win another game aside.
02:07:03 von der Progresse hier, einfach nur die Winters von den Amerikas. Und wir werden hier gehen, als Kirov geht hier, Falcons geteilt werden, NIP haben viel Platz, weil die Rest des Lobbys noch hat eine große Bedeutung zwischen NIP und NIP. Und NIP hat das auch, das ist, das ist, dass sie noch mehr Punkte auf dem Board haben, so auch mehr K.P. von anderen Squaden, die man mehr braucht. Nrg, auch, nach dem Resip von Timmy. Always diese Clutch-Respawn-Moment für ihre Forza-Drop-Down.
02:07:32 Und jetzt sind sie in den Charged Start Rampage. Das Ding ist aufgerufen und so ist NRG auch. Aber die Nades kommen in. Das könnte das Ende der Spiel sein. Timmy ist noch live. Er ist noch voll Schild auf der Krypto. Verhulst ist aufgerufen. Es gibt einen Schild swap für ihn, aber er kann es aufgerufen, denn die Banner wird aufgerufen. NRG wird aufgerufen und es ist 100T. Wir werden noch ein KP.
02:07:54 Das ist so schade. Die Arrows mit der Grenade cleareden so viel space. Wir haben sie alle rausgebracht.
02:08:03 von der Bühne, sehr införtlich zu haben, dass das Knocktown nicht getrennt, aber es ist besser für 100 Thieves, aber es ist besser hier für 100 Thieves, aber sie müssen in die Richtung der Liquid Alienware, die hat die Zonen, die hat die Highground auf der Bühne, die nur auf dem Team Liquid Alienware, die nur auf der Bühne zu fühlen, ist Rock, und du wirst auch nicht beherrennt das Zip-Line für free. Good luck mit dem in der Lobby.
02:08:30 Have that one locked down with the Watson Fences. Now you're seeing Rock on the back foot. Trying to play around these knockdowns. Shield Sorcerer is going to try and pop this bat. And there's a grenade at the feet of these knockdowns. He hasn't managed to get it off. He's got Twisted Mines inside the building next to him. This is the definition of Rock and Hard Place. Rock being grenades, Hard Place being Twisted Mines inside that building.
02:08:49 E-District has been so enjoyable to watch. Where do you go? Where do you hide? Sawsterer is stuck in the corner here. They haven't called them out just yet. Twisted Minds securing this bottom floor of the building. Team Orchard also on top of this building. Flat looking to reset after coming out of that zipline building themselves. Wrapping around fully though. 100 Thieves are keeping Liquid Alien. We're busy.
02:09:07 Just in mind, having to keep their heads and swivels here. It's left, right, left, right, up, down. Wherever you can find an angle to put some damage out from this building, they are finding those angles. Orchid above them at the moment. Nano escaping. Alba Lele just poked a little bit too long, though. And it's cost him his life as Flap will fly in. And Kuzia gets not only the knock, but the finish onto Alba as well.
02:09:29 Und das ist, dass Alv eigentlich den Arcstar Knochen hat. Er wollte zu expandieren, und jetzt verlieren mit Twisted Minds, hoffentlich zu werden, die Rez von Ruck. Ruck also wurde das Re-Spawn in den Dismans gespielt, aber man sieht die 30-30-Shots, in Trouble. Das ist 100 Thieves und Liquid Alienware. Wir haben keine Ahnung, was wir werden über diese Rez-Portals gehen.
02:09:51 Und jetzt ist er, dass er hier in der Tür geht. Aber es hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Aber es hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Er hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Er hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Er hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Er hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Er hat sich in der Tür geblieben. Er hat sich in der Tür geblieben.
02:10:14 Although you still have one member of Flap. The Pathfinder just looking at everything happening over to the north side between Twisted Mine Team Orchid Furia and says, what is going on over there? Well, don't count me in this because 100 Thieves in Liquid Alienware, they both have the height advantage, positional advantage on top of that. In a zone like this, with Nisul being on that Sparrow, trying to get more information with these Recon Arrows. This bowl could be huge. It fires this ult down at just the right time. Everybody...
02:10:40 ... ... ... ... ...
02:10:57 As Furia fly out to deal with the last remaining members of 100 days flat eliminated in the meantime as well. The timing, the timing from Furia to exit out of the fight while all the teams were busy on the north side to then wrap around. They knew what the priority position was and now they take prime position. They go in for the third party and now they drop on top of a very weakened and blundered Team Orchid. Furia will clean it up and Furia will be...
02:11:25 Your Champions! It is a good return to form. Extremely well-timed for them. But we still only have one team at the moment in that game who has hit match point. That was the NIP, who were the team who crossed 50 points in this next game. They have a chance to win it all.
02:11:44 We were talking about Furia. We were asking where they at. They heard us and they performed because they needed to. Looking a little bit lost, but the comms right there to disengage on the chaos that was happening right alongside them to then time a third party with the 100 Thieves versus Team Liquid Alienware fight up on high ground was the best decision they could have made.
02:12:04 Ja, wirklich, wirklich gut. Und es ist auch wichtig, wenn man die Kill-Feed ist, wenn man nicht kennt, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann, man kann.
02:12:20 Furiya, mit dem Spiel zu Ende des Spiels, hat eine sehr, sehr simple Konversion in der Final Fight. Und mit 9 Kp alongside den 12 ist 21 Punkte für sie. Team Orchid und Hunger Thieves sind 15 Punkte. RxC, wir sehen uns in quite ein paar Fights, by the way, aber sie sind sehr produktiv in. Und das heißt, die 9 Kp für sie, alongside den 3, gibt sie 12.
02:12:41 And that was off of the respawn too, right? We saw them trying to respawn once or maybe twice here too. And looking on the other side, NIP, who now are match point eligible with 7kp. Curve has been popping off throughout the course of the series. I think he's sitting at like 16 kills thus far over the course of the last few games as we take a look at the heavy hitters from this game alone. See 5kp in favor for Noct. Rambo with the 3 revives, Keon with the 5 assists, and then Baxlon with the 1.6k damage.
02:13:08 This is how the Series results are looking after the end of E-District. And NIP, they're going to hit 56. That's what really matters here. They will be on match point. If they win this next game, they will be your regional champions for the Americas. TSM closest behind them. They still need 12 more though.
02:13:27 It's a lot to deal with here and as we make that transition to into a different map you have to imagine other teams are gonna know where their POI draft is specifically and as it stands NIP with the performance that they've put on today alone have secured them that first place spot above Falcons with 125 total points. Let's not forget these teams right now
02:13:48 die haben nicht qualifiziert. NIP hat aber diese Teams in generell versuchen zu bekommen, das erste Platz zu bekommen. Das erste Platz für Pro-League, das erste Platz zu bekommen. Das 20 extra K, außer von qualifizieren in den Mid-Season Play-Offs. Als wir sagen, goodbye zu E-District. Wir gehen jetzt in eine Pause. Und hey, ich habe wieder ein POI-Draft. Hopefully, ich kann wieder zurückkehren.
02:15:58 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
02:16:17 Ja, das ist ein Team, das ist NIP. Das war eine weirde Transition, aber es funktioniert. Aber es ist ein bisschen weird, aber es ist ein bisschen schwierig. Aber sie haben 50 Punkte, so wenn sie das nächste Spiel mit einem gewinnen, dann werden sie die Region Finals Champions werden. Aber natürlich, wir spielen ein Minimum von sechs Spiele heute.
02:16:45 Ich finde, dass alle die Sparrow-Ultimate sind.
02:17:11 But yeah, a great match 4. I love the back-to-back E-District. I think it really does provide us with a lot of entertainment. Just before we then switch over back to Broken Moon, where I still feel like, even though E-District is newer, Broken Moon still feels like the unknown, because Broken Moon just hasn't been played as much in competitive. So, I think that...
02:17:33 This is going to be a tough one going into Match 5, especially for NIP. But you mentioned it, not usually we don't see the first team on Match 4 go into and winning the whole thing in Match 5. But with how EMEA went, will NIP even get there at all? That's the real question. Yeah, that's a good point, you know. Maybe NIP will change the story. Maybe they close it out in 5 and maybe play a Match 6 to find out what the final standings are going to be for qualification. Who knows?
02:17:58 Broken Moon is where we're going to find ourselves, though, and we're going to see Ballistic go bye-bye. He is out. He is banned. He is not allowed onto Broken Moon. Yeah, surprising early ban compared to Emiya, but again, I think that this region certainly sees the benefit of Ballistic a little bit more than Emiya at times, but yeah, very excited going into this one because I think we'd get a lot more aggression coming out of some teams because this is what happens when one team gets onto Matchpoint.
02:18:27 Everyone else has that old, you know, old moment. We need to start to pick it up here, otherwise this whole thing could fall apart. Yes, you will still have match six as a fullback, even if it ends here, but it could only be two more matches. You're not guaranteed another five like the lucky lads over in Amio are able to get. You have to pick things up now.
Spielanalyse und Matchpoint-Dynamik
02:18:48
02:18:48 Just a shout out to NIP as well and a shout out to Production to give us some stats in the back. Highest damage dealers in the lobby, but also highest damage taken, but it's a plus 3.1k damage difference. So all in the positives when it comes. They are extremely active on the map with their weaponry at the moment. NIP really are putting on a little bit of a show in those first games. An exciting show for sure, but can it now?
02:19:13 Move them into a victory to take the whole EMEA Regional Finals. Broken Moon has been very kind to Team Falcons throughout and Shopify Rebellion. I think I mentioned this a little bit earlier. So both of those teams should be looking up to pick points here. And can anyone actually get onto Matchpoint going into this next one? Like outside of NIP? Because when you look at the closest to it, it's TSM on 38. That's not a guarantee to be there. Maybe NIP get two free shots at this.
02:19:40 Das ist etwas nicht zu oft, aber es hat sich schon passiert, wo ein Team wird da super early gemacht werden, und es gibt viele Attempts zu gewinnen und gewinnen. Es ist viel schwieriger zu tracken Teams mit Legend-Bands. Vorher die Teams schon wissen, welche Komposition oder Skins sind, wenn du sie an Matchpoint gewonnen hast. Aber jetzt ist es so, was diese Team spielt? Wir wissen nicht, welche Komposition sie werden. Wir haben nicht so, dass das Team das Team ist, dass es die Team wir denken, das ist, dass sie an Matchpoint sein.
02:20:09 Ich würde sagen, wenn man ein Matchpoint-Team geht, würde ich sagen, wenn man ein Matchpoint-Team gehen würde, in comparison zu den letzten seasonsen. Aber NIP spielen Sparrow, Wraith and Fuse this time around. So, die Ring-Console wird von Fuse werden, wenn sie das Blu-Perk bekommen. Und jetzt sehen wir, wo sie sind. Entschuldigung, ein bisschen. Ein bisschen, ein bisschen. Ein bisschen, ein bisschen. Ein bisschen, ein bisschen. Ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen. Ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein bisschen. So, oh, sie haben alle, sie haben alle, sie haben, sie haben, sie haben zwei Survey Beacons.
02:20:37 Sie haben zwei Survey Beacons und eine Ring-Console. Es gibt zwei Survey Beacons, eine Evo und eine Ring-Console. Ja, und das heißt, dass sie zu Blue getrennend ist, dass sie die Ring-Console mit Fuse gehen können, und sie können schnell gehen. Und sie können schnell gehen. Ich meine, sie haben eine direkte Route zu gehen. Ja, genau. Das ist eine gute Möglichkeit für NiP, um, zu vielleicht in die Position zu gewinnen, um die Spiel zu gewinnen. Of course, Sie müssen da erst, und dann...
02:21:00 mit den Engagements folgen. Als für TSM ist es ein ganz anderes Spiel. Sie müssen 12 Punkte finden, und sie haben bereits drei Spieler in fronten. Es wird AG sein.
02:21:26 All gamers did manage to overtake them indeed. All three players have got passed. Villainous are approaching Terraformer at the moment, but not really anywhere near TSM's position, who are heading towards Hazmat by the looks of things. And through Quarantine Zone. So NRG, they're going to take a little bit more of a more direct route. They are going to the skies, using that evac to just about get over the tower. But there's a race going on, maybe for a very similar spot. And January recognizes that they are not winning that one. So it turns around very, very quickly.
02:21:52 Der Stinger Ball ist 2! Der Stinger Ball ist 2!
02:22:22 Unfortunately, Sykes wird einer der Spieler, die nicht mehr zu nehmen wird, denn er hat es geschafft. Kann Timmy durch die Port? Das ist die Frage. Was ein Stinger Bolt das war, von Verholz. Sie hat ihn absoluten Decimaten. Es macht so viel damage, wenn man es in die richtige Richtung kann. Das ist NIP. Wir sind in der Matchpoint-Team. Sie sind viel Probleme und viel Probleme. Aber können sie sich wieder zurückführen? Oh, es sieht man, sie werden. Kurev stayed alive in all of this. Oh mein Gott!
02:22:51 He's sending it. He wants the KP. And CTE RIP, as NIP, will come out of that fight with a victory. Love that. That was full-on dumped on. Let's be completely honest. Let's call a spade a spade. That's what Devotion can do in the best of hands. Sometimes even the worst of hands. But NIP, now they have to try and get Vayne back up, which they have the Mobi for. They'll get him back on his feet.
02:23:17 NIP still live to fight another game here. Really brave play that from NIP as well. They took the fight in that position because they wanted the building. And they win the fight.
02:23:29 And now they have a really, really good spot inside of Zone. But NIP... Things are starting to line up for them as Vayne goes back to his box and says, hey, I remember what I was holding a few moments ago. Thank you, boys. Now, what are the loot and treasure that do I get from the other teams? But you're right, that could be a game-winning fight. When we look back, if NIP win this game, majority of it will be down to that fight. It'll be forgotten because it's so early.
02:23:56 But without it, they never would have had this position. So a big, important decision to be made. And I love that they're taking a little bit of a risk by going for that fight. I think some teams in this position may have just tried to skip that team, got away from that team, backed off, and looked to try and get help from a third party of some sort. But they were aggressive. I love it. Good for them. The Falcon's coming in from the north side of the zone at the moment. You can see they have ring consult.
02:24:22 The Falcons love to do, of course, as most teams do when you're approaching the zone and you're a little bit late and the majority of teams is making sure that at the very least you're gonna find yourself on purples. Milne is completely free at the moment, which is gonna give them an indication that a lot of other teams are banking on it going somewhere else.
02:24:43 Well, they will be safe for now. Over to AG then, who started off today very, very fast with the win in that game number one. But since then, Dan, it's been a little bit more quiet. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, they still find themselves on 28 points. And, you know, apart from NIP, they're not that far behind the rest of the lobby. However, I think they'll be a bit frustrated. They haven't capitalized from that impressive start. And I think that was...
02:25:07 Again, the point I was trying to make is you can have one incredible game, but unless you follow it up with consistency, it will be very quickly forgotten because there are too many good teams in this lobby to help the audience forget it. Rotispro, 20 points. They also need to pick up the pace a little bit. They want to find themselves on match point before this thing is done and dusted. I'm going to start getting to that point where we start looking at those bitseason playoff positions, Mark, as well, because...
02:25:34 If this thing does end here in match 5 or 6, well of course, by match 6, suddenly those people that are having to fight from behind, they're not going to have the time they maybe thought they would. Falcons just in the kill feed find themselves having to get Walsi back to his feet here as it was a member of Twisted Minds. I think it was Albrelletti, if I wasn't mistaken, who managed to knock him with that scout, but the scout usually gives an indication that he's from distance and should be able to get him back up. Certainly not been finished in the kill feed.
02:26:03 Der NIP, deep in zone as well. The reason I love this position as well is because it's deep enough in zone where a lot of teams arriving are going to be in front of them. So they're not going to have to worry about their backs so much. You can see that behind them is kind of the opening where the sea, if you like, the water behind them is going to not allow any teams to rotate behind them. It's that deep pocket, right? You're right in the back of the zone and you can, even if it pulls away from you, you have everyone in front of you you can focus on.
02:26:32 Oh, it's going to get messy, isn't it? You look at these zones. Some of the zones we've had today have been brutal, but also incredible to watch at the same time. And with the zips that are coming in through to these zones as well, we might see some teams just saying, screw it, committing, and then suddenly finding themselves in a really good position. Because if you time it correctly, you can just whiz on past teams if they aren't paying attention. So it's certainly going to be a fun one to watch.
Taktische Spielzüge und Teamdynamiken im späteren Spielverlauf
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02:26:59 Maybe this is the ROC play. That's what they're waiting for right now. They're just going to absolutely yeet into zone. Guys, wait until we hear shooting and then we go.
02:27:11 V.P., this is an interesting match for them because V.P., a lot of conversation has been about their good weeks in Pro League when they had a lot of zones, right? When POIs that they were drafting gave them quick priority to zones. Well, this one isn't a quick priority to zone. This is one where they're going to have to work for us. I'm keeping my eyes on how they do in this game and seeing if those worries are maybe a little bit more true to them. RSC, nice headshot coming in from Vaxalon, just taking advantage of...
02:27:37 Die Lacken der Helmets sind auf der BATTLEFIELD auf der Moment mit der 30-30... Ich habe keine Skullpiercer auf dem Weg. 104, boom.
02:27:46 Was will we say about the 30-30 again? Really good weapon. I will say it's really fun to use. I will say that 100%. I mean, when these kind of marksman-style long-range weapons are in the meta and you start to get used to the dip and how to use them, you can absolutely destroy some teams and it is very fun when they connect. A lot of dopamine, it has to be said. Not so much when you're on the receiving end, though. It has to be mentioned as well. You have to look at it from both sides.
02:28:13 Ja, Dopamine or Tears, eine der zwei. Das ist eine Fine-Line. Ich kreier mit Dopamine. Das ist die beste von beiden Welten. 100 Thieves mit mehr Pressure und der Stinger Bolt wieder von Vahrholt. Das ist die erste Knochen, und es wird AG, die sie jetzt unter Pressure sind. Twisted Minds mit dem Pressure auf zu VP, als ROC auf unsere Screens. Wir nehmen die High-Ground weg.
02:28:36 And we'll be inside this new zone. Back to our match point team though. NIP. By the way, VP just got... Zack Mazur finished off with an Arcstar, so they're down to two. Still commanding a lot of space here. I love how they're so proactive as well. Oh, shots! It's going to be Zap from AG. He'll be taken down. AG in a little bit of a shambles at the moment. Getting shot by numerous teams.
02:29:05 By the way, as it stands, there's only one point between four teams in the final qualification spot for midseason playoffs at the moment. Like, that's how tight it is. I'm not going to go too much into it yet because there's a lot that's going to change in these next couple of games, but just be ready for... You mentioned tiers. I think there's going to be teams that miss out on midseason playoffs by just a point or two. NIP just...
02:29:31 They're good. Trying to stay proactive here. This is what I love, right? You can see they've got a great spot in zone. They're not bunkering down. They are playing this space around the zone and using this as a fallback, this building, to try and pop shield cells to get back healthy again. But they want to know who is around them at all times and do damage to those teams to keep the space between them and everybody arriving. It really is. I mean, again, NIP have got a real chance here. Real chance. Genuinely have a real chance. As long as they do...
02:29:59 Keep staying proactive, like you say. If they keep just swinging out, making sure that the likes of ROC and TSM don't push up on them and get too easy a walk-up. Like, if you apply that little bit of pressure and you force those teams into engagements, eventually, if you keep them that far out, the zone's gonna help you enough that they should just be very easy and simple to take out of the game. Worth noting, Twisted Mind did pick up the Mythic Bin that spawned up on the north as well. That could be a factor later on. Who knows what they got from it, but...
02:30:26 Definitely some goodies available to them, and it might help them force their way into the zone. And well, there is one of those goodies. It's a red helmet and a Kraber for one of the best players you could probably give it to. Well, gamers are finally eliminated, by the way. Drops was the last player alive. We've seen them up and down, up and down. Well, finally they will be fully down. That'll take a little bit of damage here.
02:30:48 We're gonna have to find some headshots pretty soon cuz Fusion are holding them out and Twisted Minds need to somehow work out a way to get past them at the moment. Stinger Bolt's going in again, but Yaku Pyrofegia spawns with a Devo. By the way, no turbocharger on this thing. Keeping it old school. No turbo, no problemo.
02:31:10 Aguarez and the rest of the squad will take out Villainous. By the way, Villainous, one of those teams that I mentioned within a point of getting towards qualification for midseason playoffs. They might be dropping off a little bit after that early exit here in this match, but Sentinels look like they're just about going to get around that corner away from the oncoming fire as VP on their journey. Zach Mazur trying to survive here. I don't know why I laughed. That was a bit mean, but...
02:31:34 I just remember VP was struggling earlier, and it's always tough when you go onto a screen and there's just one person left on their own trying to make or break it for their team. As I would say when we play ranked, don't worry guys, I got this. I just immediately died to 12 people with Krabers. The Sentinel's moving into the position that they want to take away. But this isn't going to be safe in this next zone when it does start to close. Shopify Rebellion and ROC all in the vicinity here.
02:32:04 Falcons outputten damage on Twisted Minds, and they've actually managed to take them out. So Twisted Minds, a combination of them and movie stars, will mean that Twisted Minds get eliminated from the lobby. Zack Mazur, Aura sends Team Liquid back through their own pool. By the way, Twisted Minds going down means that that's a red helmet and a Krayber going elsewhere. So keep an eye on the killfeed, because there might be some Kraybaby action.
02:32:30 Ja, Sentinels sind nicht die Aura-Trap, wie Team Liquid Alienware hat.
02:32:57 Still checking with NIP. The zone's still looking pretty good. Oh my god, NIP have zone. They have everything. They have zone. They have shields. They have utility. Alt excels. They have resources. They have ultimates. And they have the composition. Boy, are they handsome.
02:33:21 Gott, ich wüsste ich war NIP. Ich wüsste ich was NIP. Ich wüsste ich was NIP. Ich wüsste ich, ich wüsste ich NIP. Ich wüsste ich NIP. Ich wüsste ich NIP. Ich wüsste ich NIP. Ich wüsste ich NIP. Ich wüsste ich NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP-NIP.
02:33:52 The head still intact for the player trying to rotate in and they use that port to retreat to his teammates for now has to pop that battery Sentinels move in on Shopify Rebellion who again have another rough zone in this game that they've had to navigate and it's not looking good for them Carter is gonna hit the zipline to get ahead of this traffic Falcons been eliminated as well bit of a shoddy performance from them so far ROC trying to pop on to Sentinels
02:34:22 We'll manage to take them down. Fury also eliminated in the last few moments as well. Yeah, things are gonna start getting pretty ugly now around this zone. I think most teams have found somewhere to call home, but the next one, the next shift in, I mean, no one is in this next circle except a little bit of NIP who have their toes in. Of course, they can walk in, but everyone else is not. And a lot of teams have stuck outside of Foundry, which means they are going to have to fight their way in or just look for KP here.
02:34:50 Und Fusion, sie haben bereits Kim Chi. Und sie sind auf der Nrw, und die Nrw ist wahrscheinlich der Ugli-Este von all den Plänen zu sein. Unless du kannst du ein bisschen findest, in Foundry zu finden. Ich weiß nicht, ob NIP-Greifst wird. Ich weiß nicht, ob NIP-Greifst wird, was sie jetzt haben. NIP-Greifst wird, die nur noch in der Lage sind. NIP-Greifst wird, die nur noch in der Lage sind. NIP-Greifst wird, die nur noch in der Lage sind.
02:35:19 The biggest threat is going to be 100 Thieves, just looking at the map over there, but it also depends what happens now with the zone closing. If everyone kind of panics and a team runs towards NIP and maybe knocks one of them.
02:35:45 Das könnte genug sein, um ihre Chance zu gewinnen. Denn dann 100 Thieves wird Kapitalisieren, wird die Position geschehen. Team Liquid Alienware wird auf und überstehen. Das sind so viele Teams. Das ist jetzt wo es zu werden, und Ultimates kommt in die Spiel. Chan-Yuck mit der Devotion. Takes Koi-Full, das ist nicht easy zu machen. Koi hat eine Devotion von seiner.
02:36:05 Now the portal will go down as well. Jaguar has been brought back to his feet as well by Mirzo. And Liquid are moving towards potentially the position that is held down by NIP right now. Shopify Rebellion have been eliminated.
02:36:19 Looking at this killfixing, if we ever see NIP involved. And now they are staying quiet. They are staying in their lane and letting everyone else deal with each other. Liquid Alienware are gone. Rock are gone as well. We're into the top seven now. Into the top seven. And actually, NIP are taking a look at TSM from behind, but they will portal back. NIP back to safety and will be in a position where they can play the entirety of the Southeast right now. TSM under a little bit of trouble. Have to be careful. The Catwall is going to help a lot here.
02:36:47 The real question is, do the other teams even care about it? They're still pushing up. And it's NIP. Look at that, extending out. Again, still outputting damage here, NIP. They will influence that five. Fusion are falling as well. We're into the top five, and King G is just a solo.
02:37:03 I think it's really going to be down to 100 Thieves in NIP here. Team Orchid, Ask of the Live, Movie Star as well, so don't count them out. But just by position, 100 Thieves still seem to be in a better spot. Movie Star are taking portals at the moment to try and reposition as well. Team Orchid do have the red armor. That is worth noting. Luxford on the red could make a difference here, but they're the only team on the north end. Now Movie Star moving into the position on 100 Thieves. This could be massive for NIP.
02:37:30 Look at the damage from NIP as well. They are just still outputting damage, damage, damage. It's on to 100 Thieves. It's on to Movistar. Whoever moves has damage put onto them. But now with the zone closing, NIP finally have to show presence. And 100 Thieves have to pressurize them if we want to see some more Apex after six games. Well, can NIP do it in five?
Matchpoint-Dramatik und Team Orchid's Überraschungssieg
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02:37:55 Again, we don't see it very often. After a team gets on Matchpoint, Vayne's taking a lot of damage here. Comes into the void, though. But Lovin's down, though, and 100 Thieves are keeping it going. 100 Thieves are looking to deny NIP. From the high ground, Phony and Verhulst combining. Verhulst getting the finishes on that damage. Karev's still alive, though. But for how long gets that Barry Park? But now Emkoia poking out. We have more Apex. We will at least...
02:38:25 See, other teams have the opportunity to jump onto Match Point here. The real question is, is anyone going to join them? Orchid on 42 points. I believe there's still a chance they could get Match Point if they were to win this one and find kills. But they are in a rough spot at the moment. They are kind of being forced back and watched by Movistar and 100 Thieves, but now the Zone's going to force them all together here. And you can see that red armor for Luxford could be very important, but Movistar have one as well.
02:38:54 Team Orchid need the 8 points. Not sure they're going to be able to get it in this final, in this game in particular. Verholz is having a game, by the way. He will go down, but Orchid can create a little bit of space here. Jim Burton is down behind the knockdown.
02:39:11 A Movie Star are down as well, and surely this is Orchid's game to win, and indeed it is. Did they get enough KP alongside the placement, a hit match point? We'll find out in a few moments' time. But I do feel like the big story from that game, Dan, is NIP had a chance to win it at the first roll of the dice. Spoiler alert, they did exactly 50 points for Team Orchid. It was that one kill with the P2020s from Distance, just getting that one extra KP.
02:39:40 Was massive for them. If they had not gone that extra KP on the team that went out in third, they would have finished on 49. Incredible from Team Orchid. And it now means that NIP have competition going into match six. They certainly do indeed. So two teams now on match point. I thought they might be one short, but 50 points exactly. That's all you need to hit. And that's exactly what they do hit. So congratulations to Team Orchid for getting the job done there and managing to find the points and accumulate the points that they needed. 20 points is...
02:40:07 Very, very impressive from them. Eight kills alongside of NIP. You look at the KP, it looked good. You look at the placement points, they had a chance. But I think the problem for them was when they got to that point where it was like, oh, we've played this spot for so long. What do we do next? There really wasn't anywhere for them to play with cover. And they just didn't have the composition that was going to give them that false cover as well. So NIP had a chance, but they won't close out this time around.
02:40:35 And whilst they had a good composition for fighting and for repositioning, I think if it was a straight 3v3, good opportunity. But the fact there was four teams alive, it was very difficult to do. But NIP and Team Orkid will be on Match Point going into Match 6. Now, this is the series results, but of course we have the overall standings for how teams are trying to qualify in Split 2 for the midseason playoffs. And remember, there are so many spots up for grabs here. 16.
02:41:04 Das ist die wichtigste Nummer. All die Teams haben bereits gewonnen. TSM, sie sind sehr gut auf 110 Punkte jetzt. Aber all die Richtung zu Vertus Pro, die Team ist der letzte Spot. Ja, 76 Punkte, ein bisschen mehr zwischen ihnen.
02:41:23 und flat, aber nicht so viel von einem Gap. Das kann man nur in einem Spiel geben. So, VP wird sehr, sehr nervös auf dem Moment sein und sicherlich will, dass sie auf den E-Sports World Cup für die Mid-Season Play-Off haben. Wir werden sehen, ob sie können die Punkte finden, die sie brauchen, um das Spiel zu halten. Und wenn jemand in der nächsten Spiel kommt, zwei Matchpoint-Teams finden sich mit der Möglichkeit, und wir werden sehen, ob sie können.
02:41:56 Siphon Perk hier für Sparrow und das also gibt's them complete knowledge. Es ist Close enough that he scams all three of Remarkable Team. Und ich weiß nicht, dass ich ihm ein bisschen höher chance habe, aber no. Gen.G. will take him out. Final 3v3, take it away, Dax. Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax, Dax,
02:45:02 Game 5.
02:45:05 We will go again and Match Point is still upon us for them and another team, Team Orchid, who have gotten 50 points and will be able to close it out here in six. And if any of them win, that will lead to the end of the tournament and the placements will be locked. Of course, I'm Randy joined by Gaskin. We're going to give Onset and Vicky a little bit of a break here as we cast game six.
02:45:32 But Dan, let's walk through that final circle yet again, because it was close. NIP looked like they had a lot of things going for them, but ultimately 100 Thieves, I think, was the biggest contributor in stopping them from closing this one out. Yeah, I saw it on the map overhead when NIP were in a position that 100 Thieves were going to be the biggest threat, and obviously you can't see the elevation on the map overhead necessarily. I didn't know whereabouts 100 Thieves would end up, but the fact they were able to get that high ground was just a detriment to NIP. Now, 100 Thieves didn't go on to win the entire thing, because...
02:46:01 Sadly, they got forced into Movie Stars before they had a chance to really take on Orchid. But these kills are the ones that Hambino gets here. That one with the P2020s was what sent them on to match point. Just that extra KP onto the third team was the difference maker. Otherwise, they would have been in a situation where they only got 49, I believe. So just those slight little things can be a huge difference because now Orchid have the opportunity to win this entire thing. And before today...
02:46:29 Ich glaube, sie waren nur außerhalb der Qualifikation Spots, aber jetzt haben sie eine fantastische Möglichkeit. Ja, das ist huge für Orkid und ihre Geschichte auch. Ich habe es gesagt, in Game 3 zu sprechen, aber der Fakt, dass Rambo ist zurück in den Aktionen, nach dem so lange Zeit, Hambino, der sich über ein paar Teams veröffentlicht hat, und hat diese Synergie gerade mit Team Orkid, die wirklich gut in der Open veröffentlicht haben, und wir sehen uns als sie wieder in den LGS-LG. Und jetzt, in dieser Split...
02:46:58 Das ist eine große Herausforderung hier. Und was das eine Geschichte wäre, wenn sie wieder zurückkehren können. Und sie finden sich ein win, um es all zu Ende. Game number 6 kommt hier. Und wir sind hier wieder auf Stormpoint. Das ist eine gute Zeit für viele diese Teams. Das ist die Map wir auf angefangen haben. Und vielleicht die Map we're gonna finish.
02:47:21 You saw there the bands, Wraith is the next one to get the big old X. And sadly means that that's another rotational character gone. So Alter disappeared. Wraith gone. And we have no Ashe either. So we're going to start probably look towards more Pathfinder. And there you can see it on your screen already. Luxford switching over to the Pathfinder. And of course we move over to Stormpoint yet again here for match six now.
02:47:46 A team who has been quiet today is Team Falcons and Stormpoint has been pretty good to them so far this season. So perhaps this could be the game that really just brings them back into the conversation here today.
Strategische Zonenpositionierung und unerwartete Wendungen
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02:48:00 Luxford and Rambo. Team Orchid mentioning them. You cannot say Rambo and Hambino without also talking about Luxford on the Pathfinder. The contribution to this team, it's undeniable. Luxford trying to obviously find his place within this meta, within this team, within this season and split. So many teams vying for that same opportunity though.
02:48:26 Look at this, a northern zone, CTE, Ork, NRG all about to collapse onto each other. 100 Thieves ahead of the pack there as well, but a very, very far north pull here, which is looking pretty decent, Dan, for NIP. Fantastic for NIP. They've got Catalyst as well, and they have the Ring Console. Now LG have moved extremely fast from Zoo Station, which could be at the detriment to NIP. That's going to be their biggest competition to kind of...
02:48:48 Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.
02:49:12 Yeah, I mean, it's also about the pulls, too. You want to hold these chokes. You don't want to let too many teams in. You want to force them into the south. That means NIP can avoid almost all of the fighting up until the very end circle. And if it pulls well to them, you know, they're just going to be in position to really stay safe. And that's what you want as a match point team. NIP getting a little bit of luck going their way early on here in game six. Looking to close it out. Teamwork is still on the rotation here. They've got information on the zone.
02:49:40 Und sie haben Informationen über die Teams vor dem. Sie sehen, dass es zwei Schuads vor uns sind. Ich sehe ein paar Shots als auch. Lux, wir haben einen Evo zu holen. Und es geht um den Weg nach dem Norden. Die Teams sind bereits für Spots. TSM und BirtisPro sind jetzt auch in den Mix. Just wie in der United Kingdom, ein bisschen tense in den Norden. Manchmal muss man nur auf den Norden bleiben.
02:50:07 TSM will pick up one onto VP, and now Zack Mazur's gonna try and respond. Panic's gone down, so still a chance here for VP to try and rescue something, but Jett also responding. Makes me think that TSM should have the upper hand here. Question two is when is the moment to make a move? What is the moment that decides your fate? Hindsight's 20-20, but can you seize it? Can you recognize it when it's upon you? A lot of these fights for these buildings, these little things, end up having such tremendously...
02:50:35 Big Cascading effects later on, as this Lobby closes, and we get to Final Rings. And TSM prioritizing, holding that building. Ultimates going down, and they've secured it, at least for now, forcing Virtus.pro away. Falcons finding QREF. Oh boy, talk about Cascading effects. LG taking that spot. Still sitting fine up in that corner, but it's now NIP. We've had to kind of be in the between.
02:51:01 die sie vielleicht nicht wollen, und sie haben bereits gewonnen. Das ist nicht ein guter Start für sie. Und es wird Team Falcons werden in der Richtung gehen. Und obwohl Falcons haben gehalten, sie sind noch 30 Punkte, und mit nur zwei Teams auf den Matchpoint. Es ist nicht der Ende der Welt, eine gute Spiel hier. Und dann sind die Falcons auf den Matchpoint und alle anderen in der Lobby sagen, oh Gott, es wird wieder passieren.
02:51:25 But All-Gamers, also the same. They're on 28. But remember what a start it was for All-Gamers. Sadly, they haven't really been able to follow up since. But they have found themselves on the northern side as well. So they'll be in a good position. And look at this spot. That's quite the hidey hole. Quite the knuckle cranny they found. I like it. I mean, you know, the only thing they got to worry about is maybe a knuckle cluster or knuckle cracker. As Onset said, it should be renamed. I'm kind of going with that rename as well. I'm with it.
02:51:53 Das würde sich selbst in diesem Ort befinden. Aber so far, so gut auf der Norden Seite. Der Vorteil ist, dass man nicht viel traffic hat. Das ist etwas, was wir nicht sagen können, in Los Angeles, wo ich auswählen bin. Sentinels. NIP! Kind of holding up this high ground, hier, als auch. NIP haben wir jetzt ebenso geholfen. Sadly, in der Killfeed werden, wird sie in 20er place geholfen werden.
02:52:21 Ich meine, es ist eine der Zonen, dass...
02:52:36 Sie kommen zurück und schauen zu es, und ich habe mehr Erfahrung in den Gesprächen zu hören. Obviamente, sie hatten eine gute Zone. Sie wollten etwas, aber LG war etwas schneller, und vielleicht ist das nur ein Problem. Manchmal ist es einfach nicht viel zu analysieren. Manchmal ist es vielleicht ein besserer Weg zu spielen. Manchmal ist es vielleicht ein besserer Weg zu spielen. Sie denken viel über das, wie auf Matchpoint und die erste Team zu sterben in der ersten Runde, haben über 20 Minuten zu sehen und sehen alle anderen spielen.
02:53:04 Das ist nicht ein Spaß, so NIP wird das machen. Wir haben einen Weg zu bleiben. Sie haben einen Weg zu bleiben, obwohl sie noch nicht gewonnen haben, in diesen Fights. Es ist Lair und Dan, Entschuldigung, Lew, arbeiten ihren Weg um. Dan? Put me in da. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan. Ich weiß, du bist Dan.
02:53:28 Instead, VP will get that KP, and they can start to work about getting back in this game, despite the struggles we saw earlier. Maybe Kimchi is going to be the next target for them, but they are still a 2. Can they get Zach Mazur back in the game? Remember, there is a crafter just behind them, but it's not as simple sometimes as just grabbing a banner.
02:53:48 These games have gone so long today. It's actually given us a lot of time to see these teams in action in different ways. And, you know, sometimes they can be over in a blitz. Kind of before you even believe that you blinked. Very much like the open match point. It feels like Falcons kind of won that one a little bit before everyone could catch their breath in that lobby. Certainly not going to be happening again for Falcons. Not going to be happening for NIP. If War could go down, you know, we are starting now to push towards 7. And 7 becomes 8. 8 becomes 9.
02:54:17 And teams like all gamers, teams like even VP, you know, they're experienced enough to really have a moment. And you just got to say, you're trying to hold off and clean this up before any team like this starts to find their rhythm. And that's hopefully, as you look again at Team Liquid Alienware, another type of team that could have a significant run in a series like this. 34 points stand, fifth place, not on match point, but, you know, can't put it past them to come out with a 20, 30 point bomb.
02:54:46 ...und totally turn this lobby on its end. The scary thing is, I mean, only two teams on Matchpoint. And depending on who wins this one, we might only have three going into the next as well. If Orchid don't win, of course. Whereas in EMEA, everyone kind of surpassed Matchpoint at a similar time. We had like five teams join at the same time around Match 7.
02:55:08 Und ich weiß nicht, ob das gleiche ist hier in Amerika, oder ob es sich in dieser Art von einem Team nur ein Team bopfen, um die Majority des Points zu machen, und dann alle anderen einfach nur 5 oder 6, vielleicht 9 oder 10, wenn ihr Glück habt. Wir haben einfach so schwerer Wins von Team so far, dass es ein sehr unterschiedlicher Lobby ist, comparativ zu EMEA. Aber Fury wird sich in der Nähe zu der Mitte der Zone zu sein, wo ich denke, dass sie ziemlich glücklich sind. Und Sie können sehen...
02:55:34 Mit der Zone hat es Pulled, es hat Pulled Out East zu verstehen, was die N.I.P. waren zu erreichen, wenn sie sehr schnell waren, sie wollten das Choke, sie wollten das Positionen, sie beherrschte und foreschädigte das Zone Pullen, aber leider waren sie aus der Lobby ziemlich schnell. Und es wird öffnen zu anderen Teams, wie Falcons haben die Position, die sie wollen.
02:55:56 Liquid Alienware adroitly flying in between the bullets that were nearly grazing that body armor to find a spot nestled into the zone up north. Meanwhile, Twisted Mines in the middle of a skirmish here. Alberleli sliding in, doing all things, goes down. The Kazeera should get cleaned up here. Enemy has got to have the confidence and tempo to push. He goes the wrong way for a second. Does it open it up?
02:56:24 No, he doesn't. Alberlele finds Nano. That'll be a kill there, because Zier may be still out there, but ultimately that's gonna be enough to just discourage Flap from taking that building, because Zier making it out with his life.
02:56:40 NLG haben jetzt eine Mythic Bin, neben ihnen zu ihnen. Sie sind auf der North-East-Side dieser Zone. Und diese Mythic Bin wird ein schönes Gift von der Heavens sein. NLG wird nur weiter von ihnen sein, Falcons zu dem, nach dem zu dem, als auch. Die drei Teams, auf die Zone, die ich wünsche, weitergeht. Das ist ein Favorites für mich. Ich liebe, dass du einen NLG bringst.
02:57:08 Not a team that we would anticipate being in this position. 15th place right now. They came into this lobby first place in the season. And they came into the open, in my opinion, as one of the favorites. They proved that they were. And now this is just a different shade to them. Kind of a discoloration of what the anticipated bright, vibrant color that they bring to this game has typically been. And that is certainly a team you do not want to wake up. So much talent, so much skill.
02:57:37 Individually on that squad. If they could just put it together. And it's been a journey for Timmy to take leadership in that. Obviously Sykes joining that squad. Post open from N.V. Gilderson's being a part of that now. And Timmy's still staying in the leadership position. 19 points. But Dan, I love this spot. Like you said, I mean, very, very hard to siege from. And they got a lot of control so far with that Mythic Ben. Yeah, and the zone has pulled their way as I thought.
02:58:05 NRG, LG, Liquid, Falcons, they're all in some of the prime positions right now. All the teams that were in wall, like TSM, Orchid, CT, Villainous, Movistar, they've all got an awful rotation now, somewhat uphill to try and find a position as well.
02:58:21 We are gonna see and just check in with ROC who are above the Virtus Pro a Shopify Rebellion Looking like they're avoiding a fight rather than taking run right now, but they have been able to take the roof There's gonna be Falcons there on the other side of this one won't he's taking a lot of damage, but how's gonna try and fight back? So I would have to do massive from Zainu cleans up how and it's gonna be Shopify Rebellion Rebellions wins Falcons out 31 points and they will wait and watch the rest of Lobby as well our third team
02:58:50 Oh Gott.
02:59:18 Oh, living on borrowed time. And he goes down. 100 Thieves. Bo-Check-Bo to VP Zack Mazur. He'll clean him up. And there's just one alive. Yeah, I preferred the Pathfinder route than the Through Air Control route. I'm going to be completely honest. There was far too many eyes on them in the Pathfinder. Sometimes you see the Zip and you're like, eh, they've got enough protection. Let's not waste our ammo. CSM, they are four points off of Matchpoint Threshold right now as VP do get eliminated.
02:59:44 TSM finden sich in der ZONE, in der nächsten ZONE, aber es werden sich in R.O.C. und all die Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer-Gamer
03:00:12 They have gone out without a point in this Game 6. Now, they do know that NIP is out. So they're going to be feeling at least a little confident that they could have another chance. But Orchid's still well alive. And not necessarily in a spot that guarantees that they're going to get the job done. They got a lot of movement to go through, Dan, before they get there. However, alive, that's scary for the rest of this lobby. No one can really rest.
03:00:39 Until they know that that team is out.
03:01:07 Slightly weak, they have lost members, but Movistar are there as well as Fusion. Fury are watching over. I mean, it's going to be a gauntlet if Orkid are going to make it through here. This would be like an absolute mammoth of a run. It would be one for the ages. But just like those Ninja Warrior gauntlets, man, you can't worry about the last obstacle while you're doing the first. You just got to do the first, then the second, then the third. Hopefully you run up that ramp and you touch that button, but there's a lot of things that come first. You can't get caught up in thinking about the future.
03:01:36 You know, two seconds ago, they were on two blues and a purple. Now they're on two purples and a gold. I mean, Orchid winning that fight, getting aggressive at the right time. Those decisions starting to pay off for them as we head into a zone four close. Orchid, CTE, Movistar about to run into them as well. It looks like there's an evac tower for Movistar, so they're going to be ahead of the game. Team Orchid, this is the call right here. Can they find something?
03:02:00 mit Luxford. Er hat seinen Pathfinder zipline in 99%. Make es 100%. Er hat eine Chance. Das ist es. Wenn Orchid get's settled into the zone, we could be looking at Matchpoint. And it looks like they're staying alive. But Rambo loses the zipline. Luxford now isolated by himself. Ambito goes down already. Maybe they're just hedging their bets, saying at least one of us could stay alive. We'll have a chance. But Ambito's out.
03:02:27 I'd say no man left behind, but it was definitely several. Oh, yes, there was a couple of men left behind. Oh, did he miss that, right? Yeah, he did. What's he shooing at? Weird hitbox. Is that something strange? Very strange hitbox, if there is. So I think it is. Yeah. The phony just gets bizarre. By the way, there was a respawn beacon there for Team Orchid. I have to mention that. And remember, they do have, or did have a...
03:02:57 Krypto als auch. Aber zu all Gamers, die jetzt unter viel Pressure sind. Zapf, der letzte Maler, hat die Devo. Wir gewinnen, aber hier kommen 100 Thieves zu versuchen, die Rez zu retten. Und sie haben es geschafft. Und es ist so, wie 100 Thieves sind. Sie haben eine Chance zu werden, hier zu Matchpoint. Und das wird es. 100 Thieves, join Team Orkut auf Matchpoint. Aber sie werden nicht mehr tun.
03:03:23 Und zwar haben wir die Re-Spawn Beacon, aber es war Hamburg, die die Krypto-Krypto haben, ein bisschen schwieriger.
03:03:51 We mentioned the Gauntlet, Team Orchid have got through Obstacle 1, 2, 3, 4, but right at the very end of it, you've got NRG, who have been sat on the highest point of this map. They have the Mythic Bin, they've got a Triple Take, they've got the Red Armor, they have all the toys they could possibly want to win this game. This should be an NRG victory.
Spannungsgeladene Momente vor Spiel 7: NRG unter Druck, 100 Thieves mit Match Point Chance
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03:04:11 But again, there is still that chance that maybe you pull something miraculous off, because with four teams still alive, there is still a chance NRG could be distracted by one team whilst another pushes up behind them. Real question is, could it be Orchid as a 2? Highly unlikely, but not impossible. I think the only way is 100 Thieves push NRG for some reason. I don't know why they do it, because there's an easy 2 and that's it. We're going to game 7. Buckle in.
03:04:37 The LGS continues. We asked North America to try to get close to EMEA. So far, so good. As we now have three teams on Match Point. 100 Thieves, the ones to have joined. Can they get a win on top of it? Jen Burton, Phony, Verholz. Verholz with that Bowcheck Bow. He's already taken down Virtus.Pro with it, looking to do the same to NRG. But that is a tall hill to climb, Dan. Sadly, for NRG, they wouldn't get enough points to reach Match Point, even if they win this one.
03:05:07 100 Thieves, however, if they get all of these kills, I mean, they completely destroy the chances of anyone else getting onto Matchpoint. They say, even if NRG were close, we're going to take those three away from them. But 100 Thieves, guaranteed on Matchpoint, they've done their job. But this is going to be such a tough task to try and win this game. I think the running was on the wall, quite literally, for NRG. I like the composition. I like phoning with the Kraber. I mean, if he has a Stinger Bolt.
03:05:33 auf die Seite von Verholz, das könnte das, könnte die Fighten, da. Especially, wenn sie get caught up. Und die Problem ist, sie geht um, aber die Sache ist, ist, dass sie auf die Watssinn ist. Es gibt keine Defensive Stabilität auf die Seite von NRG, das bedeutet, dass eine Grenade, das könnte etwas ein bisschen einfacher. Wenn sie Siege gut genug sind, das könnte es. Energize zipline.
03:05:56 Das ist die Definition des Uphill-Battles. Die Spiel ist gewonnen.
03:06:25 Es ist ein guter Effort, ein Valiant Effort von 100 Thieves, aber 100 Thieves will sehen uns und sagen, hey, wir sind die realen Winners. Wir sind auf die Matchpoint, aber NRG wird einen Schritt weiter mit einer Victory, das war eine Inevitable, als sie das Position gemacht haben, und die Mythic Bin auch kamen. Aber, Sadly, Orchid, obwohl sie das Gauntlet ein guter Run haben, konnten sie nicht past die finalen Hill und pressen die Button, die du gesagt hast, Reinde.
NRG sichert sich Sieg, während 100 Thieves und andere Top-Teams hinter den Erwartungen zurückbleiben
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03:06:49 I've been running up that road, be running up that hill. Hey, Stranger Things coming out as well. Come on, man. You got to get ready in the zone. It was definitely not a fun, as fun as that song is to sing. It was a tough battle. But 100 Thieves, like you said, taking something away from it, at least because of the fact that they are now on Match Point. Remember, looking at the open, you saw Falcons, 100 Thieves. You saw NRG, Shopify Rebellion. And to me, it was Twisted Minds in that conversation for me.
03:07:16 I think these teams looked extremely effective as some of the favorite squads to take that lane. It ended up being Falcons, but right now NRG, Shopify Rebellion.
03:07:26 Those are the teams that we've been surprised to see, the lack of performance so far. If you look on the right side of things, that is where you've been finding NRG up until this last game and where you still see Shopify Rebellion, Dan, with 23 points as well. And surprisingly, Falcons. So teams that we know come into lands in the world that are top three expected winners are not necessarily even in our top seven. NRG barely breaking that.
03:07:53 So, yes, 100 Thieves make it. Still a lot of Apex to play, it feels like. Well, if it had have ended there, this is what it would have looked like. But it does not end there. We go to Match 7. And remember, there's 16 spots is what we're looking at. Of course, six of them already guaranteed. But then everyone else who is above 16 would be qualifying for the mid-season playoffs, Rain Day. And VP, hold it right now.
03:08:17 I mean, it's going to be hard to change this. Let's bring in Vicky Kitty as well, who has obviously been watching from the sidelines and has a chance to tell us what she's been seeing in this one. NRG, they close it out, but it was close. 100 Thieves make a nice push there, and it's nice to see both those teams having a little spark of life here right when they need it.
03:08:34 And still though, three teams only at Match Point further highlighting the distance that Americas always go when it comes to their Pro League days, especially when they show up for Regional Finals. This is insane.
03:08:48 Well, you know, we talked about the difference between the heights of where NRG were fighting, where 100 Thieves are fighting. Some may say that's a disparity. Some may say it's a tough hill to climb. Some may say levels. And the guy who is going to say levels, well, he's joining us right here as well. We the people on broadcast back again with the ALGS. It's great to see you, man. And Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Happy Father's Day to you, to Ashton, to all the dads out there.
03:09:17 Ja, man, es ist gut zu sein, ein bisschen zu sein.
03:09:21 I appreciate you, bro. You know, you gotta love the commitment to the tree behind. And obviously your stream's been incredible. I know many viewers watching and supporting on this and also gonna hang out with you after the show as well. So big shout outs to We The People on stream. Let's take a look at those final circles, bud, and walk us through what you've been watching throughout these last couple of games, but also just this last game in particular, how 100 Thieves managed that and how NRG was able to close it out. Yeah, 100 Thieves, I mean...
03:09:49 Kraber on Phoney, you can't ask for anything more. I will say this, you know, this reminds me of 1944 Beaches of Normandy here, storming up. It's near impossible push, you know. I think most likely you're always going to lose that game. And NRG, just clear cut, great being there by Jen Burton. But, like I said, near impossible to win that. Absolutely. And all they had to do was really wait and collect the KP.
03:10:18 Kind of well done in my eyes to Jim Burton to even get that trade with Timmy. It felt like NRG got into the best spot, but were a little bit hesitant. They've also been a team like Shopify Rebellion and even Falcons who haven't had the best of days so far. We're playing six games already, 30 points around so for those teams. That's a disappointing day. What do you think is going on? Any of those teams in particular that you have some insight on and why or what you think is going on in this lobby in terms of their performance?
03:10:47 Yeah, I mean, I've been watching the actual broadcast, so I haven't been listening to the team comms. But, you know, fighting is always the number one. Shopify do not look like themselves. I've seen a couple clips from scrims from Koi and Zainu, and, you know, they're screaming. They're going crazy. Same thing with Falcons. You know, they're not looking like themselves. They're a fan favorite. If you had to bet the house, you're betting on the Falcons.
03:11:14 We got more Apex. That's the beauty of Match Point. You know, that's the beauty of the Legend Bands. And so I'm excited. Hopefully we see more games than MIA. Yeah, I mean, that would be crazy, but it's kind of setting up to where that's still possible. If you have a team like Shopify Rebellion only on 20-something points.
03:11:35 You are saying, hey, they could win two, three in a row. They've already done it at certain points in their history. So, Biebs, we've also got the special privilege of having you on to give us a very, very spicy, hot...
03:11:49 My man, you have opted in. I don't know who got you to agree to this, but I'm waiting for the sauce. I need the spice. It is time. What that means for those watching at home, you are going to be listening to Peeps. How about 45 seconds or so to give us his take that he thinks needs to be going down in Apex Legends? A little spicy. And Peeps, time for you to go. Clock starts now.
Devo-Debatte spaltet Community: Nerf oder Buff?
03:12:11
03:12:11 It is a little spicy, a lot of people are going to hate me, and people have been asking the devs to nerf the Devo. Now here's my thing. Don't nerf the Devo. Not yet. Give me one more split with it. It is an insanely fun gun to use, alright? I don't think anything in Apex brings me more joy right now than getting three purple attachments on my Devo and just one clipping. You know, you got 52 rounds in the mag.
03:12:38 My goodness, Vicky, you agree with this? Absolutely not. Only because, let me tell you, you know what it feels like to literally funnel in one direction and just get mowed down without somebody having to reload because maybe they have like a ballistic with Tempest
03:13:08 Und ich bin einfach so, ich habe alle meine Haare verloren. Und ich habe die Devo ausgesucht. Das ist verrückt. Ich weiß, Gaskin hat einen Gedanken. Ich denke, das ist ein Selfish-Controller-Player-PoV von euch. Wow. Ich habe gesehen, Clips auf Social Media, von euch mit dem Devo. Ich kann es mit dem R99 machen. Du kannst es nicht mit dem Devo, bro. Los geht's nur ein bisschen. Einfach nur ein bisschen. Einfach nur ein bisschen. Einfach nur ein bisschen. Einfach nur ein bisschen. Das ist alles.
03:13:38 Hey, I'm down for that. Actually, you know what? I agree with Peeps. Rather than nerfing the Devo, let's just buff some other guns to make them of similar power. How about that? R-301?
03:13:50 Mike Sully.
03:14:20 3 7 4 8 2 6 says the centi remains the most entertaining gun in the game i know the devotion was just mentioned peeps but you feeling that one if you're especially if you're talking snipers uh i mean definitely the fun of sniper i love i think the devs did an amazing job on like the reload animation and to make it feel like a super fun gun reminds me of mw2 with the intervention but definitely not the most entertaining gun in the game in my opinion
03:14:49 Wow, just a hard no. Yeah, he likes the Devo. We get it now. He's biased. Badger tees RIF. Watching Skittles just no scope in every fight is a thing of beauty. I mean, you know, this is obviously something that we've seen for a long time. Skittles is a great player. Loving the fact that he gets those no scopes going. I mean, you know, Vicky.
03:15:12 We don't get to see you play except when you know in the green room 1v1's you and me showing up You know we don't want to show that footage right there, but is this no scope impressive nowadays? Or is that something we see too often? Maybe we should show it because I don't know it's kind of fresh you know what I mean? You know sometimes it's just first serving eyes Hold on on a controller you know how difficult that is you always got to get them hits in and I still think no scoping is still pretty fresh I mean especially depending on which iron sights you're talking about and also depending
03:15:41 Ja, ich muss sagen, es ist ein schönes Ding zu sehen. Oh ja, Bibi, als Nr.G. spielt Krypto, sie sind immer wieder zu gewinnen. Oh, das ist rough. Das war definitiv entschieden vor Match 6, das ist für sicher.
NIP überrascht, Falcons kämpfen, und die Spannung steigt vor Spiel 7
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03:16:06 You know, Production picked that out too, just after Matchix, throw it in, throw it in, you know, because they knew this was the setup here. Do we have any more? I think we might have one more. All right, let's see what it is here. Oh, NIP. Brody says, I thought this new NIP team would struggle. They look like the most veteran team here.
03:16:23 Peeps, I'm back to you. NIP is looking pretty strong right now. In fact, when you look at this team, Vayne and McLovin and Kurev, this is not the team probably anyone would have bet being on top of this split. But so far, it looks like they're the most likely team to do it. Yeah, I mean, you got Vayne, who is a mechanical monster on the keyboard. He's also an ALGS champion from 2021.
03:16:50 Amazing IGL, absolutely underrated. You got Karev, McLovin, two underrated guys, grinders, absolute shooters. It's a recipe for perfection. And I'm definitely bullish on NIP stock. Definitely. Nice. I love it, man. Well, it's always good to see your face. Always good to hang out with you, man. Hope to talk soon and congrats on everything. And thanks for joining us. All right. Love you guys. Bye.
03:17:16 Big love. We the people, man. And we're going to take a break too here. It's time for Vicky and Gaskin to hang out and have a little bit of cast as well. I'm going to go off, but guys, enjoy it. Let's get going. It's game seven. All right. Thank you so much, Randy. Gaskin, will it be time? Will it be time? History sometimes repeats itself. And what do I mean by that? Last time you and I have been able to cast a regional finals in the past, I believe it was even for the Americas. I think we were able to take it home. And I have to ask you.
03:17:45 Looking at the overall standings right now, specifically throughout the course of the series.
03:17:49 Falcons in 11th. They died in like 19th place in the last game. I was looking around with TeamViewer and seeing how yeeting a nade up to the sky is it landing at his feet and he took 100 damage. So you know what? I don't know how the vibes are looking like over there. I'm questioning how sometimes the comeback potential is insane. But we take a look at the map we'll be moving on to coming right back over to Storm Point. I mean, the terrifying thing is, Vicky, there is still a world where Falcons can win this whole damn thing. Let's be...
03:18:19 Sie wissen das, wir wissen das. Und die Teams sind jetzt auf Match Point. Es ist der Job zu stoppen das, von einem gewinnen hier, in Match 7. Aber Storm Point ist wo wir wieder zurückkommen. Es wird wieder zurückkommen, als wir die Map-Series-Layouten sind. Falcons sind jetzt noch auf Lightning Rod von der POI Draft. So, ein tolles POI. Fantastisch position zu sein. Of course, sie haben eine gute...
03:18:44 Sparrow ist Bann, aus der Equation.
03:19:13 für Match 7 auch, Vic.
03:19:15 I'm so glad that Peeps highlighted Vayne, by the way. Vayne being the IGL for NIP has really highlighted how NIP have made the adjustments that they needed going into this Regional Finals. And like you highlighted too, Sparrow being off the table. Finally a Recon Legend we can say goodbye to, at least within that lineup. Probably the only Recon Legend, I'm not gonna lie, unless Crypto is the next to join Sparrow on the ban list. But this is a different look that we had looking at across different regions, right? EMEA didn't have a single Recon Legend ban.
03:19:44 Ja, ich denke, das ist die große Sache hier. Es ist nur drei Teams. Und mit den ganzen großen Teams in dieser Region, die noch nicht auf Match Point sind, es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, wir gehen zu Match 8. Vielleicht in Match 9. Wer weiß, das ist immer die joy von Match Point.
03:20:13 Und ich kann nicht warten, dass es zu passieren wird. Säumpoint ist auf uns wieder einmal. Und ich glaube, du hast eine gute Frage. Wer wird das Bann? Wer wird das Bann? Du hast gesagt, nur eine Recon-Legend. Surely wir werden nicht mehr sehen. Aber Vicky, ich habe zu sagen, 16 Kryptos in der Lobby. Recon ist sehr gut, von den Amerikas. Es macht Sinn hier. Du hast zwei Recon-Legend, die nicht zu über-extend werden, um...
03:20:39 Wir sehen, dass wir so viele Krypto-Dronen sehen, um diese Lobbyen zu sehen. Wir sehen uns beim letzten Nr. 6, Nr.G. Wir haben die Godspot für so lange gewonnen, und sie sind die Krypto-Dronen. Ja, sie haben gesagt, sie würden nicht gewinnen mit Krypto-Dronen, aber hier sind sie. Ich meine, es war die perfekte Spiel für sie. Wenn ihr nach der PoV-Dronen seht,
03:21:07 Die Position haben sich dann alles in die Zonung und die Mythic Bin gefällt. Aber sie hatten die Position zu gewinnen, so wir müssen sie die Kredite wo es ist. Und jetzt sind sie 12 Punkte aus der Matchpoint. Die Frage ist, kann sie das wieder machen? Kann sie das wieder machen? Kann sie das wieder machen? Oder vielleicht mit einem Solid-Gain hier zu finden 12 Punkte?
03:21:28 Yeah, nowhere near NIP. They're going to have to go on quite the merry journey.
03:21:55 As for Orchid, it's not going to be the best of rotations for them either. And then for 100 Thieves, I mean, it's equally as difficult. So there is all our match point teams that can have to move pretty far, Orchid being the closest. But the real question for me is...
03:22:09 Do Orchid get caught up in the rotation behind Furia? It looks like they've been able to move fast enough that they're not going to get pinched. My worry was CTE and Furia being either side of them. When they moved, they might have just got caught in the crossfire, but it looks like they're going to be okay, and maybe Orchid have the best opportunity out of the three match point teams here.
03:22:26 Yeah, because not only are they in the edge of that next zone, they'll be able to have the ring console that's right there already, the Survey Beacon and Evil Harvester to their south, which is uncontested by no team in the vicinity of Coastal Camp or Echo HQ, because a lot of these teams have already quickly rotated over by Launchpad. And LG, we're wondering, where has LG been on the bottom end of the leaderboard over the course of today's series? They do find that knock and that finishing blow onto Panic, though. And TSM, they were so close to hitting that.
03:22:56 LGs almost sound a little bit like a Sean Paul song and you'll get it if you think about it but I do think that the three players they they should be doing better right they are a squad that definitely have the potential to be up there but sadly just
03:23:24 Ich kann wirklich den Erfolg haben, die wir heute erwarten haben, in den Region Finals. Aber wir haben nur drei Teams im Matchpoint. Es ist Zeit, um sich zu verabschieden. Man braucht nur einen großen Spiel, und dann sind wir wieder in den Mixx-Things. Wie es aussieht, hier in den Amerikas zu sehen, ist das erste Lied von NIP, zu 68, mit 100 Thieves, zwei Teams, die zwei verschiedene Compte sind. Ich denke, es ist toll, dass NIP die Konduit sind.
03:23:51 Maybe the only Conduit that we have in the lobby. And that's a little scary when you're a Matchpoint team. Because if one squad could figure that out after studying the VODs. Or after scrimming against you. They'll be able to know and isolate that you are the only team running that Conduit. And they could even greet you here as liquid Alienware. Love this setup. The zipline into the EMP to follow up. Oh no. Can't go anywhere. Can't go anywhere Cheeky. Sorry about that. Yanyam saw you in their sights. That is Villainous losing out on another one.
03:24:24 The Trident is going to be very important in this game. With where this zone is going, I think the Trident could really help you, especially on the southeast edge if you can get all the way around and just skirt around the edges of the coast and then you can cut in behind and catch people off guard. That's if you can drive your Trident, of course. I wouldn't advise just trying to skirt over walls too often. At least Villainous are able to get away and now you just need to find a crafter here.
03:24:49 Oh, in this current direction, and if movie star Koi, who are currently on their own trident by Barometer, hear this trident from Villainous.
03:24:57 Yozy gets off. Let's put Blue Hero off with the Shield Cell before getting right back on that Trident to try to wrap around completely. But Movie Star will be able to call him out while we take a look at our Matchpoint team. Team Orchid, who got ahead of this Rote, have found themselves in a nice spot on the low ground here of Launchpad. Because even sometimes we've seen this pool in a very similar endgame. I believe it was Matchday 9 for MIA. Alliance were holding a very similar spot on this low ground that Team Orchid is now situated in. And more teams are now flying in. It's going to be Team...
03:25:26 mit Alienware that are currently in Devastated Coast. Yeah, everyone's moving pretty quickly now. They, uh, they've realized that the rest of the lobby were trying to take the position away from them, so everyone was like, just quickly, like, hop in the trident, guys. We can't allow this team to get ahead of us. Looks like those who were late to the party now are gonna have to force their way in. One of those being Falcons.
03:25:53 LG, NIP, VP, Allgamers, Fusion, Movistar, und Villainous, die wir sehen, zurück zu Rez sind. Die anderen 12 haben alle gefunden, einen Platz zu holen.
Strategische Manöver und überraschende Wendungen dominieren Match 7
03:26:17
03:26:17 On the bottom end of that leaderboard, sitting in 19th place with only 17 points. You have to start making magic happen if you haven't been able to find your stride already after, what, seven games now at this point here? So looking at the overhead map and the teams that will be rotating, though, from that north side, LG, NIP, taking their time, they'll be able to have that evil harvester over by cliffside. And Falcons, who could hold this position to try to gatekeep either NIP or LG. But Falcons probably also have that ring console, and they'll have to deal with NRG to get inside.
03:26:47 Das war's.
03:27:11 Conduit is insane, especially in this Legend band system that we currently have in place. The only thing I'm worried about is if other teams understand NIP's game plan after scrimming against them, they could isolate NIP if they know they're the team with the Conduits. And so they're the only ones running the Conduits. Same thing, I mean, Movistar Koi aren't at Matchpoint, but them being the only ones with the Lifeline, it would kind of be a similar situation to that. Or even bigger brain would be that they never took out the Conduit and no one will know that it's NIP.
03:27:40 Ja, es ist immer schwer zu spielen daran, dass das auch. Denken, dass die Leute sich gegen dich würde, zum Beispiel. Du versuchst, dass du dich in die Position, wo es nicht interessiert, sogar wenn sie sich in die Position gehalten hat. Und eine Sache das Conduit's Ultimate kann tun ist, dass andere Teams auszonen, und vielleicht force sie in die andere, als jetzt NIP will weitergehen, mit dem Conduit we were zu sprechen. Ich liebe diese Composition. Ich denke Pathfinder Fuse und Conduit ist eine scarye Composition, um zu versuchen, gegen die...
03:28:08 My worry would be similarly to what we saw in Match 5 when NIP got into the position, but then they didn't really have any pieces to set up. There was no defensive tools. With Conduit, you do have the ultimate. That's the only thing that can maybe do something, but of course you can be shot through that ultimate. It's not like a wall. It is just like a bubble that can kind of stop people and it will damage them, but they can definitely still shoot you through.
03:28:31 Das ist die schreckliche Sache, wenn man so viele Kryptos in dieser Lobby ist, dass es die Counterpick gegen die Watssons wollen. Das ist das, warum man mehr Watssons, 10-Picks specifically auf Watssons, gegen die Catalyst hat 4, also showcases die Teams, die nicht die Zeit zu gehen, die nicht in diese Fino-Zones sind, die nicht so schnell gehen. Und Shopify, Koi-Full, die mit den 30-30-Jetigen schon mit einem 30-30-Jetigen aus der Lot. Looking at ihre Positionierung auf der Hill, looking at Liquid Alienware, als Movie Star Koi von der anderen Seite.
03:29:02 Schöpfefe Rebellion, es hat auch eine quiete Zeit, sogar Peepz hat es gesagt, Vertus Bro verloren zu Twisted Mines. Schöpfefe Rebellion war eine der S-Tier-Teams, besonders auf Stormpoint, zu sagen. Es war eine sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr quiete Zeit für sie, aber manchmal die Lobby einfach nicht wirklich gehen. Aber wieder, es ist noch Zeit, um sich zu verändern, um diese Matchpoint-Teams zu finden, und der beste Weg zu machen ist, ist es bei der Victory.
03:29:29 But Astro will get back up to a full 3 as well.
03:29:32 I feel like VP's up and down success needs to be studied. Because obviously this team started off so strong at the very start of the Americas within Pro League. And looking at them struggle right now, while Lou is going to be able to take some shots to at least clear this building, they're going to be able to secure it. And with this composition, Zack being on that Valkyrie specifically, is going to give them that info with Lou being able to bunker down on this Watson. But it'd be a shame here. Slayers may be on that Crypto. Could EMP another team across from them? But equally could be done to them too.
03:30:02 Sie haben auf die Heide gelegt, und Sie sehen Moonstart absolut senden es mit der Devo. Schöpfefe Rebellion jetzt in eine 2-3-Versus. Koifull responds, aber kann er raus? Die Antwort ist ja, und es bleibt empty in eine 1-2-Versus-Versus-Versus.
03:30:20 Oh, he's backing away, he pops the EMP just so that way he has even more time to get away before they start looking at him. Running for his actual life, while now Furia, here's some footsteps, showcased with Nutt, with that zipline, wanted to peek and see if maybe they had an opportunity to get some KP. Sentinels, they are very much in the thick of it here. Hau gets a grenade in the right place this time, and it will take down Carter, as now Falcons begin to move up and try and pressure, and try and take this position here on the eastern side.
03:30:50 Sentinels are scoffering away, though. They do not want to take this fight, and they're trying to escape. At least with a really good grenade here from HAL, redeeming himself. Now, this time not hitting his feet, but hitting the enemy from Sentinels. But are still alive, hanging on that slight lip of the cliffside. You can see the ping, Silver Blue Evos. Don't think they know where he is just yet. Maybe trying to look for him while January gets him up with some help from the ring. Zone is going to continue to transition south as Fusion is down to just...
03:31:19 Januar. Und es wird ein schwerer Road in sein. Ich meine, ihr könnt euch die Teammaten most likely die. Sie werden ihm als viel Informationen geben als möglich. Before er moves in.
03:31:32 Aber diese Zone, mit dem Schiffen weiter nach, das war die Expectation, das bedeutet, dass die Leute, die ein bisschen weiter nach, können sie in TSM, LG gehen. Die sind alle über die Padre. R.O.C. looking zu machen. D.E.D.S.E. will be Shredding von a distance. R.O.C. should be able to push up on this one, wenn sie wollen. Unless sie sind worried about a third party.
03:31:53 In fact, you got that Arcstar knock means that you have the man advantage. Jay is literally one shot. They're one of the teams with the Catalyst. Nice bunkering down at the right time, but they have not been able to reset fully. In terms of health, as Deeds goes in, Saucer with the follow-up on the Devo, they find Jay, they finish on Chase, and with 19 squads left, he's trying to run away. Shufflepike get the res here in the header, and Rock just chasing down that one last member. Surprised R.C. decided to use the Dark Veil there.
03:32:23 Es war ein vieles Utilität für nur ein Spiel, aber es ist ein Isolation. Die Frage ist, ob ihr es wieder in der Zeit ist? Es ist jetzt FURIA, der sich in der Vergangenheit zurückgekehrt hat. FURIA ist in eine sehr gute Position. Sie müssen sie gewinnen, aber vielleicht, vielleicht... Nein, du kannst es nicht weg. Die Knockdown Shield hat aber nicht genug genug. FURIA hat sich in der Vergangenheit geholfen, aber nicht genug genug. FURIA hat sich in der Vergangenheit geholfen. Die Tristin-Mind hat sich in der Vergangenheit geholfen.
03:32:45 That slow approach to try to maybe go in for Hail Mary Evo shield swap while you're still slowed down with the Arcstar. Sad to see here while Twisted Minds though in a good spot up on high ground. And NIP, one of our Matchpoint teams, have now made their way into the northern side of the zone where the majority of these teams have congregated. But...
03:33:06 Bad news for them, Gaskin. Guess what? We are moving exactly by that gravity cannon on the south side, north of Devastated Coast, away from where everyone has predicted this launchpad ending.
Matchpoint-Teams kämpfen, Falcons steigen auf, und die ALGS-Action geht weiter
03:33:22
03:33:22 NRG geht um. Es gibt keinen Back-to-Back-Games für sie und sie werden nicht finden Matchpoint hier. 100 Thieves, aber sind bereits auf Matchpoint und sind noch auf der anderen Seite. Sie sind auf der anderen Seite, so sie haben noch ein bisschen einen Weg zu kommen. Sie haben die Pathfinder für sie, um das Transition zu finden. Sie haben auch viel Rang mit den Bochecks und 30-30s zwischen ihnen, so sie sind auch ein Problem für die Teams, die jetzt zu crossen. Team Orchid sind gerade...
03:33:49 ...quickly moving from north to south as well to try and take one of these buildings alongside Virtus Pro. Maybe Team Orchid with a good opportunity here in this game as well. It's scary to hold that position early on unless they have a Trenton to maybe cover their front here because Virtus Pro could still have them in their line of sight on the roof side of that building north of Devastated Coast that we saw them holding on to the high ground for. Team Orchid with that quick rotate. 100 Thieves currently.
03:34:13 Looking to see if they could try to find an opening on this rotate, but Phony needs ammo first. Look at this, he's got the Nemesis, only 28 bullets now to work with. 100 Thieves have been here from the very beginning, or more so holding up to this position from a very early part, denying themselves the opportunity from getting even more loot. Only 30 seconds to try and decide where you're gonna go now. Here's an overview of Orchid making their rotation, and look at the amount of space that they've taken as well. Those Watson fences just saying to everyone, keep out, this is ours.
03:34:42 As NIP, it looks like it's going to be up into the skies. This is going to be a big play here, as long as the Balloon stays alive, which looks like it will. Does Vayne stay alive? That's the real question. Almost gets taken out of the sky, but there's the Conduit. There is the Conduit coming into play to keep Vayne alive here.
03:34:59 And then you get to see all the action happening right below. You see 100 Thieves zipping on by Vayne with that Conduit Shield passive now slowly taking up wall where he just has to focus on popping this medkit just for now. 100 Thieves look behind him. Do they focus here on the team that just flew in here with Vayne scouting ahead? 100 Thieves up this hill though is still a very risky situation to be in just looking at the composition. They're one of the teams without a cat, without a cat wall too on top of it. 100 Thieves just trying to pressure these teams that are crossing the water now.
03:35:29 They also need to think about how they're going to force their way into zone at the same time. Like, what is their plan of action? Looks like Phony's gone up, so he's the one who's scouting right now as the Pathfinder. Just needs to let him know if it's safe as Flak get eliminated. TSM also getting pressured at the moment. Remember, TSM were so close to match point, but TSM eliminated. They will not reach match point. All gamers go down. Fusion go down as well. So many squads being wiped off at Stormpoint right now. They were like two points away. Team Liquid is the next team. Very close.
03:35:58 mit nur 40 Punkten. Seymour kann jetzt die anderen Team wegnehmen. Sie wollen sie haben weniger Resistenz und 100 Thiefs helfen sie, denn Rocker ist neben ihnen und sie sind Sandwich.
03:36:12 All three of our Match Point teams are still alive at the moment, but Orchid have just lost one. Twisted Minds might be helping them out here, though. Verholtz has just fallen, now Orchid is going to go for that res. Jen Burton says, I want to deny this one. Let's try and take Orchid out right now, and Phony flies in, but gets absolutely obliterated as Orchid is just trying to hold on.
03:36:31 Looking at 100 Thieves with Twisted Minds, also looking to get involved. 100 Thieves get eliminated, they come out on top, they look to get the rest, but they have to put in the pressure. Lux, with no time to actually reset with his shield battle until now, Rambo gets eliminated. They finish him off while he's knocked down, and the Crypto's gonna get information at Team Orchid. Oh my god, Lux put in the alternator is going to work, but it will not be enough, it's Orchid eliminated.
03:36:58 Und das heißt, es ist nur NIP jetzt, die auf Matchpoint sind. Und sie sind auch in eine schwierige Position. Sie sehen, sie sind in Rez, sie sind in Rez, sie sind in Rez. Und sie haben einen Mobi verloren, aber sie haben einen Mobi. Aber das Zone ist zu Ende. Das Zone ist zu Ende. Das Zone ist zu Ende. Das Zone ist zu Ende. Das Zone ist zu Ende der Backsides. Und fünf Schwanz left ist, aber es ist Team Falken.
03:37:21 die auf der westen Seite hier dominieren, und sie versuchen zu finden, ihre erste große Spiel in dieser Serie zu finden. Ich würde sagen, jetzt die Falcons sind in der ersten Position zu gewinnen. Ein bisschen quiet von Falcons hier. Sie gehört es von Keith.
03:37:36 Und wir sehen uns noch mehr Apex als wir weitergehen.
03:38:04 Death, Taxes, mehr games in Matchpoint, und eine Falcons-Viktorie, potentially auf der Horizont. Das ist einfach wie es geht in der ALGS. Falcons haben alles in fronte. Twisted Minds, VP und Liquid Alienware sind alle zusammenbunden. Falcons haben diese Zone dominiert. Sie kontrollieren all die Raum. Die Frage ist, ob sie zu Matchpoint sind. Sie sind 39 Punkte jetzt mit KP. Das ist noch nicht möglich. Ich glaube, das ist nicht möglich. Und das könnte einfach...
03:38:33 Take it away from them. They're on 41 points. Get 45. They need all these kills, I believe. So still doable. Not impossible for Falcons, but it's certainly going to be tough, especially with how close VP and Team Liquid are.
03:38:47 You literally need to just go APVP without getting third party by T-Law. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. They're gonna be holding this position. I feel like Falcons, they've won from this position before, especially when they clear that east side of the map approaching this side of Devastated Coast. They found a lot of success, but another team who's done something similar is VP. That's why they're holding this lot right now.
03:39:09 Das ist nur zwei Mitglieder von Liquid. Das ist nur zwei Mitglieder.
03:39:34 Can they get enough just to get to match point the math not necessarily on their side here and the position of both teams Maybe not either is how goes down and that might just open things up for VP. They start to move here They try and take position great cover though from zero Not allowing VP to step up on them, but this bow check is deadly
03:39:54 Oh, Yanya!
03:40:13 Dropping down from the Hylou just drops down. Grease, Liquid DP are playing for second. They know they couldn't win. They just wanted to get the KP. They allow Falcons to move up and be your Game 7 winners.
03:40:28 Team Falcons find their victory, find their form, but they do not find Matchpoint. They will have to win not just another game, but then one after that if they were to be the champion tier of the Americas Regional Finals. But one thing that does guarantee us, Vicky, is more ALGS action. I love Matchpoint.
03:40:50 I love it too, and I wonder if VP realized that that was Falcons just predicting their path in for a zone like that, because if it was Liu dropping down, probably already communicated with the rest of VP to play for second, because if Falcons got two more KP looking at Liquid to see if maybe they could have taken that two KP or even more two KP from VP and they gave that to Liquid, Falcons would currently be at match point right now. They are at 48 points, even with this dub getting five KP here with that first place. I mean, that would be...
03:41:19 3,800 damage only resulted in 5 kills for them which sadly means they were short but
Drei Teams im Gleichschritt, Spannung vor Match 9
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03:41:48 BonusPro, die 2nd place sind. Sie stellen sich zu den Matchpunkt, als auch Liquid Alienware. So, das ist für drei Teams, die sehr gut sind, die in den Match 9 zu finden. Und in den Seriesen, wir haben nur drei Teams, aber...
03:42:07 The competition is getting scarier with just a few point difference away. We have literally three teams that are in a 48 point tie. TSM, Falcons, Liquid Alienware. I highlighted TSM earlier because they were at 46 points for quite some time. I feel like even when we were still looking at E-District earlier out throughout the half part of Americas, now still sitting at 48 points. This time around two points away as we take a look at the match results as it stands right now. NIP still lead the pack with 125 total points.
03:42:36 Wow, I mean, it is so close down there in 14, 15, 16. And of course, sure, you're safe right now in 16, but if somehow, someway, one of the teams outside of the top 16 were to win, they would take that position away from 16th place. And it can all change so fast as well. All it takes is one good game from flat to soar up the leaderboards in the series standings. And then suddenly VP are left scratching their heads as well. But an important second place for VP to give themselves a good chance to get to midseason playoffs here, Vicky.
03:43:04 Yeah, they need to be comfortable because they're sitting on that cusp for our top 16, the teams that want to qualify here for the midseason playoffs. We still have more Apex to go. Only three teams currently sitting at Matt's point. We have some more Apex action coming soon on the other side of this break.
03:45:13 4.14 a.m. local, I am ready for the next game. Vicky is here alongside me to take me through the action. Falcons with the win. Falcons rising. Not champions yet, though. We've still got some work to do. We still have a couple of teams on Matchpoint and still a couple of teams chasing down that beautiful 50 points that seems so far away for so many of us. Don't you love it, Onset? More Apex. You love it, don't you? It's like your sleep paralysis is even knocking on your door to remind you that we still...
03:45:41 Wir haben noch mehr Spiel zu gehen. Wir sehen uns jetzt die Final Circle zu sehen, was VP hat. Sie wussten die Situation, sie wussten, sie hatten sie für Second zu spielen, weil die Moment, die Zonzer zu spielen, hinter ihren Backen, es war Zack's Call. Der Maybe-Lew-Drop-Down. Sie haben die Initial-Knock, aber auch wenn sie sich umgekehrt zu pushen, sie werden einfach getrennt von der Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell-Duell.
03:46:10 Für Falcons.
03:46:38 Better late than never. Not a match point as yet, but closing in on it now as we see Crypto Band as we head back to Broken Moon. I feel like highlighting some of our heavy hitters thus far in this lobby, Kira still leads the pack with 17 kills, but it's been a pretty even split.
Krypto-Ban und Legend-Experimente prägen Broken Moon
03:46:5503:46:55 Das ist der Grund, warum wir nicht sehen viele Teams in Matchpoint schon sehen. Es ist eine große Herausforderung. Wir haben gesagt, dass Krypto die 2nd Legend von der Recon-List ist. Ich habe nicht mehr Recon-Legend zu sehen, aber wir sehen die Bangalore kommen. Wir sehen die Conduit, die Dan war sehr froh, von NIP.
03:47:19 So we're crypto gone, and we start to get into the interesting part of Legend Selection. We start to see a little bit of experimentation having to happen, and we also get to see who's most prepared for these long game series. I know that a lot of coaches and a lot of teams would have been thinking about our compositions when we get to this point in match point, not just for the regional finals, but of course for the midseason playoffs that's coming up. And with the amount of games we are seeing, Vicky, I think more and more work is going to go into what compositions we play.
03:47:47 Past Game 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, however far it goes, before we start to see some resets, where we almost did see that with the Assault class in Amin. I'm not gonna lie to you, Onset. The amount of notes that I have just stops after Game 8, and we only have three teams still at match point. Although I am expecting to welcome maybe another four teams here. I'm being pretty hopeful here, but again, we still have a lot of teams.
03:48:11 TSM mit 48, Falcons mit 48, Liquid mit 48, Liquid mit 48, Liquid Alienware 48, of course, too, with all gamers right behind them with 45, Furia with 43, all the way down.
03:48:23 From TSM in 4th place to Furia sitting in 8th place. This could be that pop-off game that they need. But they have to get aggressive for it. Maybe not Falcons if you're only 2 points away like the rest of those other 3-way tie teams. Maybe just trying to get those 2 KP. And then try to maybe play for positioning. But if you're all gamers, if you're Furia, you have way more right here to try to play for just to try to get that extra KP.
03:48:45 Well, Falcon's job is initially simple. Let's get the two points that they require to get onto Match Point. And then it becomes find the teams who are on Match Point and stop them winning the game. If they can do that, then they're going to have an opportunity here. Hunter Thieves, NIP, and Orchid, still the three teams who are on Match Point. And we are going straight over to Quarantine. And for NRG, that is a huge opportunity. Not only because we're the zone is, but they have Ring Console. They have Assault Bin. They have Support Bin. They have...
03:49:13 Survey Beacon, and they've got an Evo Harvester right next to them to get up to blue as well. So they're going to have all the information and the pick of where they want to play.
Strategische Positionierung und Teamdynamik in Quarantänezone
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03:49:21 They better get to that high ground building that Fury is about to approach real soon because we saw a very similar zone to this in EMEA and that was the game winning position to be in there and to get away from a lot of the chaos that ended up collapsing on a lot of the squads that ended up sharing that middle part of quarantine zone. Their playing split up a little bit. They hear Fury up on the high ground. Team Orchid also on their move as well as movie star Koi. But look at the amount of teams that are already on their move after getting that information a little far away from NIP who land in Atmos Station. TSM over by Terror.
03:49:51 This does benefit teams, though, that do need to get some KP. If they could take some shots with that D7 or 3030 from afar, just to maybe steal that away from another fight that's happening right in front of them in quarantine zone. I keep thinking back to the last time that we were on Broken Moon and the opportunity they had to close out in that first game after hitting Match Point. And I said at the time, I don't know if they'll get a better chance. And...
03:50:14 Ich habe einen kurzen Weg auf Social Media. Es ist immer ein DANGEROUS Ding zu tun, aber ich war mit meinen Kneepads und Helmets. Und Gino hat gesagt, er hat mich über den Kons zu hören und es war 10 Minuten von ihnen zu spielen, nachdem wir die Position gespielt haben, was wir jetzt machen, wenn die Zone starten zu close sind. Es war kein Plan für sie, was für sie passiert. Und ich denke, dass vielleicht die Möglichkeit, dass sie durch ihre Fingern gespielt haben, und vielleicht hat sie ein bisschen aufhören. 100 Thieves, doch!
03:50:41 I feel like they're starting to roll a little bit here, but they've got to be aware of Falcons because we know how good Falcons are. We don't have to tell people at home how good Falcons are. But when Falcons start to find momentum, that's when they become particularly scary. And winning a game at this stage with still so few teams on match point, they are so, so dangerous.
03:51:00 Das ist eine andere Team, die sich mit der Ramp-Up befinden, weil sie immer aufhören, aufhören. TSM findet ein Spot hier, mit der Katalys. Das ist das, was ich in der letzten Woche erwähnt, mit Panik auf Valk, mit der Banglore zu haben. Ich sehe ein bisschen mehr Valk in dieser Rotation, das ist, was ich immer wieder sehen, wenn man diese wirkliche Roteate durch die Chokes auf Broken Moon macht. Viel mehr Valkyrie zu spielen hier, es sieht aus.
03:51:30 We're going to see here nine Valkyries in this lobby. I mean, the timing, by the way, for Falcons and for Zero in particular, they land and there's a care package that drops right in front of the position they're trying to take. So he gets the brick, he gets up to purple, and all of a sudden Falcons' position feels a lot more secure than it did previously. By the way, we're living in a world where Imperial Hau plays on Watson. That's where we are right now. Huh.
03:51:57 Valkyrie. By the way, I said nine. It's actually seven Valkyries in this entire lobby. It's 15 Bangalores. So Bangalore being the most picked legend within this game, specifically while 100 Thieves now make their way all the way around towards the northern side of that next zone.
03:52:13 Just trying to make sure that they go uncontested through that vault tunnel, which I don't blame them because the moment you have to go into quarantine zone from that specific vault tunnel when you exit out of that evil harvester from underpass, everyone's gonna be staring at you. You're stuck on that low ground, so much better rotate coming in from that building through that northern side of the choke that leads into those accelerated zip lines. Huh.
Rotationen, Teamkämpfe und Matchpoint-Teams im Fokus
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03:52:35 R.O.C. chillin'. Straight into this zone. Really good rotate from them actually. Not only just good rotate, good position, but the fact they got there were being able to get up to blues and of course these are the extra shields that he gets from playing the Watson and the controller character. Essentially blue, purple, blue for them. So they're going to be able to fight from this position and output damage onto everyone rotating in. EP.
03:53:01 Es ist ein Outmuch! Team Liquid, VP! They were waiting, they were waiting. VP's like, we gotta do whatever we gotta do. It's time to play a little dirty here. Jump in Team Liquid. He's all turned around so fast, by the way. Now Zack's still chasing after them here, but it looks like he may have just gotten a little bit of distance. But when you have Zack on the Valkyrie, good luck crossing that open ground. Well, you gotta hit your shots first.
03:53:28 Dude, I can't believe that Lou still has not gotten a kill by the way. It's crazy, right?
03:53:57 One thing about this TSM position is it's extremely fortified. There's only two entryways to it and...
03:54:26 The good thing for them as well is they're playing Catalyst, so they can reinforce those doors and just kind of sit there in their own little bubble and not have to worry too much. Team Liquid Alienware, Jaguars did manage to escape, and he is hitting the Res Beacon, but look at the background. BP in the evac, and when they see that Resport ship come in, they are hunting them down. They want part two of Liquid.
03:54:50 Leu ist mir ein Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm! Ich brauche einen Krumm!
03:55:13 So that goes in with the Devo will get the finish on to team liquidating wherever Paul Lou still doesn't have his kill, but he will not care One bit if VP managed to get the points they need in this game to cross match point seven points now need a VP Might care a little bit Maybe Justin Justin and make everyone happy. You know what? It's very unlucky very unlucky. I'm glad you had you had to say it
03:55:39 Ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich habe zu, ich bin sehr glücklich. NIP, doch, waiting in die corner, right through, wuh, wuh, wuh, wuh, no offense, um, ignores the fence completely, goes around on the other side, I mean, the ziplines, man, you know, when you take a little bit of less damage right here, you're going to be able to cross that distance, it looks like, and steal this building away.
03:56:00 The Q has been instrumental to how this fight seems to be going from the conduit. Those shots are not inspirational from Kurev, but his teammate is alongside him and it will be flat eliminated. So at the end of things, Ninja's in pajamas. He managed to win that team fight and pick up some KP, but the KP is one thing for them. It's all about the win. They were the first team to hit match point. Still haven't managed to convert, but they do have a spot now, which is going to be within this zone.
03:56:31 Until they find out that it's pulling over top of Quarantine Zone. I'm sure they already know that looking at the direction of this zone in general. But they'll be able to have that Evil Harvester take their time. They still will be able to rotate exactly where we saw 100 Thieves before. If they want to take a much more roundabout positioning over to that northern side. That's what I'm expecting. That's why 100 Thieves still keep looking towards their back. ROC2 involved in that fight from afar. The G7 shots landing. TSM have not moved from this position. I'm not expecting them to go anywhere here.
03:56:57 Das ist wie die Boxen David Blaine war in. Das ist eine große Boxen, wo er in für viele Jahre alt war. Er war ein paar Jahre alt, aber er war ein paar Jahre alt. 50 Jahre. 50 Jahre. David Blaine hat 50 Jahre in der Boxen. Das ist toll, wenn man die Leute glaubt.
03:57:21 Ich habe immer gesagt, dass Falcons nicht gewonnen haben. Ich habe das letzte Spiel gewonnen. Aber sie haben immer noch zwei mehr Punkte zu sein, um vielleicht noch mehr Apex zu bringen.
03:57:35 But you still have to deal with NIP, Team Orchid, 100 Thieves, who are all at match point, all playing this rather safe because you have 100 Thieves holding that northern choke on the edge of zone. NIP through the vault tonal choke that Fusion could look at them from. But specifically, you want to highlight Team Orchid, where the Mythic Bin will be respawning once this round two circle starts closing right on top of Team Orchid. And that could actually lean towards Orchid's win condition.
03:58:06 VP stylistically an information making their rotate was a little bit risk to go through this tunnel you never know if someone's gonna be right in one of these corners VP probably will check for that considering they were the team who did perform that exact we'll call it a play style a few moments ago against team liquid instead it's gonna be up into the low oxygen
03:58:32 ... und zu den Skies, wo sie werden müssen, um den Bereich zu lösen. Das ist ein Blind Valcol von VP. Sie wissen nicht, was ist... ... und was ist frei. Und es sieht, dass sie viele Positionen haben. Sie sind jetzt auf die Position des TSM, glaube ich. Ich glaube, ich würde mich überraschend, dass sie das Valkyrie-Perk haben. Sie sehen, wer ist in diesem Bereich. Und sie sehen, dass sie genau das sind. Und sie sehen, dass sie genau das sind. Sie finden sich in einem Abandonnungs-Train-Cart.
03:59:00 Up above, rather a bridge, honestly, more so than anything. But Slayer is on that low ground by that zipline. His teammate tried to cover his back. They drop all the way down, too. They would rather hold the low ground, it looks like, instead of the high ground here. Just in case they have to funnel out of this, and they'll have some shield bats, too. The VP finds somewhere to play. Flamebox, too. Empty for now. Ambino, though, he's got himself a Kraber. Wow.
03:59:24 So now there's a chance for him to control one side of the zone completely, stop everybody rotating in from this southern side. And looking at that southern side, the one issue for Team Orchid is there's no one wrapping them.
03:59:41 Ich bin jetzt auf der Krayberg. Der Zone ist auf den Norden. Das ist schon außerhalb der Quarantäne. Wir sahen das. Ich war über das. Ich sagte, wenn NRG nicht auf die High-Grohung ist, Kuria, die zuerst hat.
03:59:59 Aber dann haben wir zu denken, Führer hat sich aus dieser Position geblieben, weil die Sentinels walked up und jetzt, die R.O.C. sind jetzt auf das gleiche Gebäude. Sie sind auf die High-Ground, sie sind nach dem Hintergrund, sie sind nach dem, sie werden sie endlich verletzieren. Sie sehen sich gegen die Sentinels mit den Sorcerer zu beherrscht. Sie sind auf die Shield-Bat, Deedz zu versuchen, zu versuchen, an den Karter zu machen. Danke, das ist großartig von Deedz.
Schlüsselmomente und Teamdynamiken im späteren Spielverlauf
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04:00:24 Lg, willkommen to the fight, Lg. A little late even off that zipline, but having that red evo shield from Nox could really help them out here, but...
04:00:51 Sie waren wirklich zufrieden, und jetzt haben sie den Kampf gemacht. Sie hören die Rez kommen, und es ist nicht wert, wenn Sie noch zwei Team-Maten auf Blue Evos haben.
04:01:03 Chibi only needs 25 damage. One little connection with an arrow coming out of that bow check should be good enough to get him up to purple. And that's the lay of the land. That's where that zone is going to be going. We mentioned ROC, how big that fight win against Sentinels was. Look at Shopify Rebellion, by the way, wrapping all the way towards that building, which is currently held by ROC and LG holding one end of it as well. They could find themselves a little bit sandwiched here, ROC, if they're not careful.
04:01:31 Das war auf der Pathfinder-Zipline 2 für Shopify-Rebellion. So being able to get on top of that high ground, ROC looking behind them after they had to reset from that previous fight that we saw versus Sentinels.
04:01:41 A lot of attention on NIP, Team Orkin, and 100 Thieves, though. I keep highlighting these teams because they're the only team still at match point, and 100 Thieves are playing this so safe. Very similar to NIP, who are about to approach 100 Thieves as a full three-man. One member of 100 Thieves trying to swing over to the other side. Needed some help. You see the Watson fences try to slide in with the Pathfinder Grapple. Gets the crack onto Furhal. See, now he's got Blue Evo. Just a note, by the way, VP just won another fight. Lu did not get a kill in that one either, but they do manage to.
04:02:10 At least win the fight once again. NIP. Can't get the knock onto Verhos, which would be a little bit frustrating for them, having done so much damage. 100 Thieves back away for now. Hambino in the feed with that Krabel we showed you a little bit earlier as well. He finds one onto CTE. It's Kruhlbuckle, who's going to fall.
04:02:31 Das Mythic Bain war huge hier. Ich möchte auch sagen, dass Lüge hat, dass er die Massive am meisten von Damage ist. Es ist einfach nicht so gut. Es ist ein bisschen Unlucky. Es ist ein bisschen Tilting hier. Aber er hat über 4k Damage plus über die gesamte Serie. N.I.P. jetzt move up. Ich habe das Zip-Line, dass sie hier drauf haben, für die N.R.G. zu der anderen Seite. Er hat das Gebäude zu der anderen Seite. Er hat das Gebäude zu der anderen Seite. Er hat das Gebäude zu der anderen Seite. Er hat das Gebäude. Er hat das Gebäude.
04:02:57 Well, they had to swing, because Rambo was taking so much damage, and he gets finished off as well, so one of our Match Point teams, not looking good for them, and another one of our Match Point teams, not looking good for them either. NIP down to one, Courier of the Last Alive. No, TSM get eliminated as well, wonder if they did just enough, but we're sitting at 51, Team Orkin gone!
04:03:21 All Matchpoint teams are out of this lobby. We get to go next. And we get to welcome even more teams at Matchpoint. TSM with 51 points. They did just enough in that final fight. AG, by the way. Furia. AG with 48. Furia with 46. Still have an opportunity. T-Log cannot make it. They're still at 48 points. VP on 50 as well. They will hit Matchpoint. They will be available to get.
04:03:46 into a position to win this thing in the next game as well. All gamers. Still won 50 points, by the way. This is crazy. Both of these regional finals, both EMEA and the Americas, have not disappointed. I'm sat here right now watching genuinely in awe of what I'm seeing.
04:04:10 Dude, Falcons and AG now being at Match Point. I'm just gonna say right now on set, I guess the Grim Reaper blessing isn't strong enough because... What? Are you kidding me? Are you... We're 100% going to a Game 9. It's like the Apex Gods, they hear the comms, they've watched every Match Point Finals, and it's about creating a story here because we are now seeing...
04:04:36 Mehr teams hit Matt's point. ROC could do it here, too. They're at 45 points, and they are in prime position. It is a high-ground building spot, which, by the way, Furia gave up and now have to move back in that direction. But at least on the bright side of things, they can try to get this KP after getting that crack onto Zack Mazur. Oh, Luke got a knock! Luke got a knock! Can they convey something?
04:05:04 VP Winters VP though, most importantly, get the extra point that they need. They are now closer and closer. A CTE will be eliminated to finding match point themselves. VP on 52 points, they have hit match point, excuse me. But Furious still need three.
04:05:22 Luke got the KP that was needed. He got it. VP though literally one shot AG. They're collapsing on one another. Now Furion is going to clean up whatever his leg. Furion gets a match point. More and more teams. Six quads left in this final circle. As everyone collapses here, this is where match point format gets to shine the most. Falcons lose how. He gets finished up as well by Nutt. Walsi trying to peek, trying to prod.
04:05:53 Und mit dem Kraber geht es um Zero zu nehmen. So als er noch alive ist, er hat vier Falcons. Aber ich glaube, er wird nicht mehr für lange sein. Er hat die ganze Energie von NLG. Er hat die ganze Zeit, wo er war. Und NLG ist in dieser Gebäude zu nehmen. NLG will also beeliminatet.
04:06:13 Es ist sehr gefährlich, aber...
04:06:42 I really like the geometry that we have to work with with these Watson fences. NRG still need five points to hit Match Point. Yeah. They're in the middle of the sandwich right now. Deeds and Sorcerer on top with all the fences in the world down. And surely this is a win for Furia. Everyone in this building has to leave. Sykes is going to get taken down by Koi as well. And five points feels like a mile away now for NRG. They do get that knock onto Sykes.
04:07:10 Now playing this out as that duo. ROC could be doing the same thing right above. And they gave up the high ground. What timing! They gave up the high ground and the zone closes in. Just by just a little bit of time here for NRG. MT though. He's in front of Timmy. Turns around on the M&K. NRG eliminated. Cannot get the points they need. They will not be on match point.
Entscheidende Momente, Matchpoint-Teams und Serienstand
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04:07:36 This is even more important for Shopify right now, as they have the high grub, but Furya have the better weapon loadout. It looks like more space to work with while the zone closes in right behind Shopify. Huge nagier from the other side. MT takes a good amount of pressure earlier on. Madness is trying to get an angle with this Kraber. Oh, Madness! This is Kraber! 50 now follows up the headshot with a body shot. Beautiful shots.
04:08:02 FURIA wird es gewinnen!
04:08:17 But we ain't done yet, Vicky. We ain't done yet. We go again and again. Game 8, done. Game 9, Beyond the Horizon. And Madness, adding to the confidence, adding to the momentum that Furia needed with those Kraber shots. Looking pretty fresh out here, too. Also putting themselves at match point. Only like one out of five teams that are now sitting beyond 50 points is insane. Took eight games, though. Took eight games.
04:08:46 Surely, surely the next game is the last one. Last time I did that, we went another game after that. That's what I'm hoping is just about to happen. So, I mean, what an incredible, incredible game. So many teams crossing match point. These are the results from match number eight. We head towards match number nine. We still keep it going. Bangalore, go and sit down. You're benched. You're banned now for the next game. Furia, 22 points on the board. Shopify with 15. VP.
04:09:16 14 points in the ball and 12 of those through KP down in eight. Dang. Even looking at the way that things played out here for the teams that were able to soak up some KP, it's crazy to say that VP may have gotten that 12 KP. Two of those went in favor to Lou, by the way. It's also nice to highlight. Well, we were talking about it earlier on for the beginning of match number eight. Furia, though, with that 10 KP and getting that dub sets them up for success here with the head-to-head now.
04:09:44 Furia vs. Shopify, a team also a little quiet building up for today. Still sitting in 13th place overall with only 38 points, but they needed to get that second place finish. Take a look at the series result and see how things are looking in the overalls. There your match point teams are.
04:10:04 NIP, Orchid, 100 Thieves, Furia, Falcons, All Gamers, Virtus Pro, TSM, and Rock. If they win it in the next game, they will be your regional final champions. Let's look at the overalls though, Vicky, because this is the big one.
04:10:20 Let's see here as it stands. NIP, so lead the pack. Lead me not by very much with Falcons clawing their way back to the top. 118 points for them. NRG still a bit behind here too, but it's even looking at the teams within this top six, they're still sitting very hefty across the pack. Very close though in terms of just few single digit total points compared to the rest of this lobby, but looking how close it is, looking at Americas in general.
04:10:46 Whether it be the Regional Finals and looking at the current series results or even looking at where it stands overall over the course of Pro League, you could tell that the competition in America is getting hot. Nearly half the teams in the lobby at Matchpoint on set. Nearly half the teams on Matchpoint, but we still have to decide who is going to be our Regional Finals champions. Will it be in the next game? We will find out after this break. Don't go too far. I don't even know what game we're on at this point, but it's coming up after the break. We'll see you there.
04:13:02 Dan, was you making of all of this? It's quite... There's a lot of drama, isn't it? Really? A lot of... Evening? Day? Morning? Parents are taking their kids to school outside, man. I mean, what's more insane is if you look at Emiya and how many teams we had on Matchpoint and how far it still went in Emiya.
04:13:32 We don't have that many teams on Match Point here in Americas, yet we are still going. But we have had some heavy hitters cross that line in Match 8, so that does raise the percentage chances of someone taking it home here in Match 9. But, you know, there's still some big boys down there that have not crossed Match Point yet that could keep us going into Match 10. But this was an interesting watch, a very intriguing endzone as well, dominated by Watson Fences, which...
04:14:01 Ich denke, es ist gut, dass Krypto das Bann war, denn es hat die Leute zu nutzen, die zu voll-effecten. Das war ich jetzt. Wir sind in ECHO-MODE. Das ist mein Lieblingsmoment. Das ist mein Lieblingsmoment von ALGS Matchpoint.
04:14:28 When Mark starts to lose his mind just a little bit. And you know it's going to be a very entertaining cast. Just a little bit more than normal. It's always on the edge. But yeah, here we are. Here we are. And it's always an entertaining one to watch. But I think now we see teams like Falcons start to join the threshold here. It is going to be a little bit more of a nerve-wracking time for those teams who are not on match point. Especially when it's easy to forget about the mid-season playoff qualification at this point.
04:14:57 E-District ist wo ich mich finden. Es ist wo all die Teams finden.
04:15:24 Ich möchte dich mit dir mit dir. Der Steer ist jetzt abhängig. Wir werden jetzt zu diesem Punkt wieder sehen, als Bangalore ist zu werden. Nun, mein Hund hat sich in den Raum gebrochen. Es ist jetzt all gekinnt. Es ist all gekinnt. Er ist jetzt all gekinnt. Er ist jetzt all gekinnt. Er ist jetzt all gekinnt. Er ist jetzt all gekinnt. Er ist jetzt all gekinnt. Er ist jetzt in Matchpoint. Hi, buddy. Aber ja, jetzt haben wir diese extra Legends genommen. Wir haben drei Assaults gone. Ich denke, wir können sehen viele Fuse. Ich denke, wir wissen, das wird passieren. Fuse ist oft der Fallback Charakter, weil er so viel gibt, nicht nur die Assault Perks.
04:15:51 Aber auch gibt es Ringkonto. Er ist sehr prominent in den ganzen Tag. Aber insbesondere mit drei mehr Assault Characters gone. Aber jetzt geht es um E-District. Es fragt sich die Frage, ob wir noch mehr Kontrollen gehen müssen, besonders mit mehr Teams auf die Matchpoint zu gehen. In dieser Phase in AmiA, wir starten zu sehen, ein paar Caustics fließt. Plenty of Watsons, Catalysts, sogar Ramparts. Ist es mir, oder ist das Musik wirklich episch? Ich denke, die Musik ist wirklich episch. Die Musik ist wirklich episch.
04:16:19 I feel like I'm shouting, Marc. I have to beat the music as we get into this game. I feel like the band is getting closer and closer as the seconds go fast. Let's get into the game. Let's get into the game. Let's find ourselves in match number nine and let's see if we have more Matchpoint teams, more Matchpoint games or if we can crown a champion. Oh, here we go. It's E-District and remember...
04:16:43 I'm still giggling at the intensity of that music. That really did tickle me.
04:17:12 Ah, hier we go then, everybody. Time to get serious, and it's time for everybody to enjoy the ride that we are going to go on in this game at number nine. Back on Aegis District. And like you say, Pathfinder is certainly going to be a big, big pick for a lot of these teams to find those rotations from building to building or through those chokes as well. No more options of Alter or anything that was a long, long time ago. Team Orchid have already lost Ambino. What happened there?
04:17:40 Looks like he went for the Evo Harmster and got cut down. That's crazy. Really bad news for Team Orchid. Not to laugh, but... Yeah, that's... That's a pretty rough way to start, honestly. It's just surprising. Shouldn't happen. Should not happen. Well, we're heading north, and that's good news if you're an NRG fan. It's also...
04:18:03 Great news if you like Matchpoint and want to see more games, because NRG aren't on Matchpoint, and they're gonna have a good opportunity, as are 100 Thieves that you mentioned, now they are on Matchpoint, they're in third place at the moment, but it is worth mentioning, Liquid Alienware, NRG, Shopify Rebellion, all are not on Matchpoint. I would say they are three teams that I definitely could walk away with a victory.
04:18:26 Ich weiß nicht, wer ist hier. Ich dachte, du bist hier. Ich bin hier. Ich bin hier. Ich bin hier. Ich bin hier. Ich bin hier. Du kannst mich nicht mehr so schnell machen. Du sollst wissen das, nach so vielen Jahren zu wissen. Die Thieves sind hier auf die High-Ground. Die Thieves sind hier auf die Matchpoint. Die Thieves werden hier gewinnen. Sie werden die Champs in den Region Finals gewinnen. Sie haben bereits gewonnen. Sie haben bereits in der Mid-Season Playoffs gewonnen.
04:18:57 Ich weiß nicht, dass das Ring Console information sie haben. Sie werden sehr glücklich auf dem High Ground spielen. Sie werden viel Zeit spielen. Auf dem Low Ground haben wir V.P. auf ein paar Zeit. Und Sie haben Ruckrack neben dem. So V.P. haben Sie sich sehr, sehr auf den Angeln halten.
04:19:13 We're gonna get initial pokes and prods from the teams that are moved early to the very northern tip here, but I don't know if any of them will actually result in any fights. Speaking of fights, Waltzy's just gone down into killfeed. Flat. Big Louie with the big R99 taking down big Waltzy. Big Louie. Now he's grappling in.
04:19:36 Und wir sind Zero in all of this, das ist die Frage, ob er es geschafft hat, ob er es geschafft hat, ob er es geschafft hat, ob er es geschafft hat, ob er es geschafft hat
04:19:44 Und das sieht genau wie das ist. So Zero ist auch zu grappen, das Situation zu helfen. Er hat noch eine Grapple in 1 Sekunde, so er hat sich noch mehr Platz zu geben. Und ich denke, dass die Flagge ist, dass sie nicht mehr werden können, dass sie ihn nicht mehr verletzt werden können. Er ist ein Crafter für ihn hier an Resort, sowie ein Re-Spawn Beacon, so er wird auch Beaute und Hauw back in dieses Spiel. Aber still mit White Armour, ein bisschen ein Poverty starten hier für Falcons. Ja, nicht, wie, hugely detrimental, aber natürlich...
04:20:14 will slow down their rotation by an incredible amount. They are not going to be able to move and find a good position, so they're going to have to fight their way in. Maybe they'll just take their time and try and find any lingering loot around Resort. They could even transition to Boardwalk to look for some extra as well, and they'll just probably go on the side quest of finding Evos and whatever else they can hit to try and get a little bit of shields to work with here.
04:20:40 Well, Flat, who were the ones who dealt the damage, now have taken some damage themselves. No teams dropping in the lobby, but you can see there's three players at the moment who aren't on the map. And QZR needs to be delivered to a beacon, which they are doing right now. So he'll be back in the game in a few seconds' time. We might see an opportunity for Falcons to have a little bit of revenge on Flat as they try and rotate in.
04:21:08 There is a Conduit in the lobby, but it's not NIP. Team Liquid Alienware and MovieStars actually both playing the Conduit. Interesting, the NIP, the ones who have kind of been reinforcing how good Conduit is, but they're moving away from it going into this game, opting instead to go for Catalyst, Maggy and Pathfinder. Speaking of NIP, here they are making their way in and finding a lone survivor. Take me down.
04:21:36 Es war ein bisschen weirder, um es zu gehen, um zu einer Unstern, um, aber... ...NIP will collect the KP. Das Bucs ist aufgenommen. So NIP, die haben sich auf die Match Point gehalten, so... ...NIP, die haben sich auf die Match Point gehalten, haben sich auf die Match Point gehalten. Still nicht able to convert. Probably still looking back on that game, auf Broken Moon, das ist eine große Herausforderung, aber...
04:22:01 Ich werde das mal auf den Back of the Memory. Ich werde es finden, um einen Weg zu diesem Endgame zu finden, um sich in einem Spot zu geben, um sich zu gewinnen, um es wieder zu gewinnen. Weil es kann, es kann, in diesen Spiel zu gewinnen, wo man denkt, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und was, was und all diese Dinge. Ich werde es einfach machen, um, um, zu gewinnen, um, zu gewinnen, um, zu gewinnen, um, zu gewinnen, um, zu gewinnen und zu gewinnen.
04:22:27 We're up into the sky for Sentinels. It's been a pretty disappointing day for them. Let's be honest, 19 points. Again, I mean, they could be one of the teams that maybe turns this thing on his head, completely changes it, gets a win, finds himself 10 points off match point.
04:22:42 Und wer weiß, da ist immer das was-if aspect mit Matchpoint, aber ich habe es nicht unbedingt gezeigt genug für mich, dass sie das tun hat. Aber die Position sie finden sich in, ist jetzt nicht so schlimm. Sie sind auf der Norden Seite, sie haben die Watschen zu arbeiten, sie haben auch die Watschen, so die Frage ist, ob sie sich alleine oder ist jemand zu versuchen, sie aus diesem Bild zu versuchen.
04:23:07 So one thing about the Watson as well. If you find an Aries plane, you can get that gen down immediately. No teams are going to want to push you because they're going to have the shields regen in. They're going to eat up all the grenades if they try and flush you out. And you can just reset very, very comfortably. And it's probably the most available ultimate that you do have in the game as well. Pop one alt Excel. You're going to get that back immediately. That's how everyone is stacked up at the moment. We did see Falcons wrapping into the zone, through the zone, excuse me, as well to find their way to the northern side.
04:23:36 ...of where we'll have our endgame. Furia, Shopify Rebellion, they're doing their own thing. NIP doing the same. Flat, back up to a three. Falcons, as you can see, just appearing on the left-hand side of your screen. Re-entering the safe zone. Villainous and LG playing their own game at the moment, down at draft point.
04:23:57 Ja, zwei Teams, oder, zwei Teams, die wirklich NEED to pop-off, wenn sie sich in den Mid-Season-Play-Offs finden, als auch. Both outside der Qualifikation-Spots für die Mid-Season-Play-Offs. Both not having the best of days. Now, I'd ask you, Marc, if you understood my Sean Paul reference earlier for Naughty 30 Shoebie, but I don't think anyone did. I'm not sure you'd be the one who would save me. Look, I'm...
04:24:23 I'm a good friend, right? I feel like the best friends in the world are the ones that are honest. I think it was just a really bad reference. But I mean Naughty 40 Shorty is not far away from Naughty 30 Shuby, let's be honest. No, it's terrible. It's not close. It's not as close as it needs to be. It's 10 numbers off. It's not as close as it needs to be. 100 Thieves still up on that high ground. NIP are going to go to their own high ground, but it's only going to be momentary as they use the evac tower here.
04:25:00 Let's go around the outside of this zone on the western side to try and find somewhere to play. Looks like a pretty successful redeploy for them, so NIP will be safe inside of this next zone. But it's getting into the next one that's tough, right? You've got so many teams up on extreme levels of height. Anywhere you go, someone's going to have an angle on you.
04:25:26 Ich weiß nicht, wo die Falcons geht. Ich meine, die Falcons gehen können. Die Falcons könnten... ...eine Revenge werden. Die Falcons sind gerade in der Mitte, aber die Falcons sind gerade in der Mitte. Und ich denke, die Falcons sagen, ich bin zu dip. Ja, sie sagen, wir wollen nicht mehr in das wiederholfen. Ich glaube, es ist vielleicht ein schlechtes Fight zu nehmen. Das Flat Retreat, die Falcons wohl wohl einfach endet in einer Fight. Das war ein schwieriges Problem gegen den NIP, die High Ground haben über sie.
04:25:56 So just a reminder here of our Matchpoint teams to everyone who's watching, if you just joined us. Good morning. At least you're here. Yeah, good morning. Or after, wherever you are. Thunder Thieves, All Gamers, Falcons, Furia, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Rock, Orchid, TSM, and VP are the teams who could win it here. Anyone else? Cancel your lunch plans.
04:26:29 Oh, there's a Mythic Bin. Mythic Bin's gonna spawn next to Falcons here. That is one of the benefits of, I guess, having a retreat and respawn and then... Oh, no. Well, Falcons should know it, though. Although they are being surrounded like sharks in the water. Flat are literally taking several positions around them here. And there you go. But that is gonna be a 1v1 multi-wins.
04:26:52 Ja, das ist big von Walty, wirklich, wirklich von ihm. Es ist ein straight 1v1, dass er, ganz einfach, hat zu gewinnen. Walty hat ihn gewonnen. Big, big moment, potentially hier für Falcons. 56 Punkte. Remember, sie sind auf Matchpoint, und jetzt können sie über dieses Mythic Bin, oder haben weniger, ich würde sagen, über diese Mythic Bin, um die Priorität für Flat ist zu bekommen.
04:27:14 Does Zero get his Kraber? We did a lot of Kraber's today, and the answer is yes. Now when I play Ragnarok, there's a Gold Devo in there as well. Oh, you never get the Kraber out of this thing, I'm just gonna say it. And Zero seems to get it every single game when he opens one. Um.
04:27:34 So as you get As you get the Kraber and the devotion in the hands by the way there was an energy arsenal as well So feeling that Falcons probably gonna have two or three different Evos. Let's see what Nippa doing. Let's jump into the gums Get them now I couldn't okay. I'm just coming back to going right side anyways Want me to drop a seat somewhere to like get there or no, I don't think I'm gonna follow you then
04:28:07 We need to go like Sin before everybody starts looking at us. Let's just go together. Okay, I don't have grapple. I don't have grapple. I don't have grapple. Yep, I'm following you then. My second. Three. Okay. Slide down this. Jump around the corner. I'm right. I'm batting. I have something here, Thiel. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, you can grapple. I'll do it later. Just grapple, maybe you have it. Yeah, cap it. Ten seconds. Wait, who is looking at you? Top, top, top, top.
04:28:31 They're not holding this room, by the way, they're just holding the big room. Okay, you can easily run up and just take the room Yeah, they're holding it now
04:28:47 So watch out that's all not fucking balling. Yeah, it's about Watson. Yeah, look, he's not holding it just left It's a team here, but I don't mean it stay healthy so we can we can take the room if we need to know I'm gonna show in the boat Yeah, we should probably go we should yeah, we should we should just kill them now
04:29:16 Der Ninja's in Pajama ist es zu planen, was sie machen jetzt hier, Dan. Aber wir werden sehen, Falcons... ...also versuchen zu tun etwas ähnliches an der Moment. Trying zu worken der Weg in die Zone. A lot der Pressure ist auf Zero hier. Hier zu hit die Big Shot, das ist 1.50. Das ist die Seite zu pushen. Immediately, die Catball geht um, und Zero... ...dass nicht zurück. Das nicht, indeed. Falcons versuchen zu versuchen, zu versuchen, die Revenge wieder zu bekommen. Es wird wieder flat auf der anderen Seite, aber es geht um, jetzt. Hal also falls, und es geht um, aber es geht um, es geht um, aber es geht um, es geht um, aber es geht um, es geht um, es geht um, aber es geht um, es geht um, aber es geht um, es geht um, es geht um, es geht um, es geht um, es geht um, es geht um, es geht um.
04:29:46 Sie werden nicht in diesem Spiel kommen. Und sie werden vielleicht noch einen Match für sie werden. Ah, Wings Clip für Falcons. Villainess wird auch die Spoils bekommen. Das Mythic Bin wird die Red Armour bekommen, die Kraber aus dem Body of Zero bekommen. Und sie werden es um, um zu arbeiten, um das Endgame zu gehen.
04:30:10 Don is pulled over to the east by the way, and I was just looking at the area That side of the zone completely to themselves, and they are all match point Fury on match point TSM are also in a pretty good position They're a match point a team that could throw a spanner in the works, or if you love apex I'm gonna see more could be your sabers
04:30:31 Liquid Alienware. They're actually in a pretty good spot as well. They're definitely in the area of getting to the final circle, but I think Furia is the big outlier here because they're not surrounded by another team. So they should just be able to watch the party unfold. Ninja's in Pyjamas rotate is rough. I was going to say rough to say the least. I think you've just seen exactly that. I mean, Vayne just gets boxed, just deleted by Verholtz from the height.
04:31:00 Glauben hat Heelshields broken, und das ist ein komplett und utter Blind Hail Mary zipline. Und es ist nicht so, wie es zu sein wird, aber sie finden sie, und sie finden sie auch Timmy. Aber jetzt werden sie müssen, aber sie haben sie zu retreiten, und spielen den kleinen Cubby hier. So, sie sind safe. Aber sie haben verloren, sie haben nicht die Bannery, die Movistar nehmen, die Führer nehmen, und ein paar extra Schuss auf den Boden, wenn ich nicht. Die Deckboxer sind lebt.
04:31:32 Das war der attempt von N.I.P. zu versuchen, aber es sieht aus, dass der attempt sehr schnell verletzt ist, aber nicht, dass McLovin einfach rauskommt. Timmy wird absolut verletzt, aber die P2020-Sykes ist jetzt! Und McLovin wird hier verletzt, aber er definitiv hat mit einem Bang. Die Sentinels haben auch geblieben, und N.R.G. wird gerade übernommen.
04:31:56 NRG hit Match Point. 50 points on the board for them, but like you say, by the skin of their teeth, Villain has just been eliminated. 13 squads now remaining.
04:32:07 Six of those teams not on Matchpoint. Seven of them are on Matchpoint. Just to give you an update on the overalls as well. As it stands, Flat Villainous' CTE would not be going to mid-season playoffs. There's 100 Thieves full. That's another Matchpoint team eliminated from this lobby. Liquid Alienware are not a Matchpoint team, but they have now crossed the threshold. But can they be the ones to keep us going to another match? They're right on the very height here. If they can stabilize...
04:32:35 A really good position.
04:32:45 BP. Ich bin zurückgegangen, in 2nd place. Von there it looked like they just fallen apart. But now they find themselves in a position where they might be able to win the whole thing. But no! They get destroyed! They cannot hit that Valkyl. And that was my one worry about Valkyrie in this meta. The High TTK, the Devotions, and the 30-30 Scouts all about. Just getting them off is almost impossible.
04:33:13 Team Orchid ist jetzt zu solidifizieren, mit den Fencesen, wie sie in den letzten Spielen haben. Das Circle wird sehr klein sein für 12 Teams jetzt.
04:33:23 There is plenty of teams on Matchpoint. They're in a position that could win this game. And Furia are still the leading factor in that discussion. They are the only team on the East. Everyone else, Marc, is in this building or on this building or under this building. Wherever you are, it doesn't matter because Furia are the ones who are watching on. But the real question is, is there too many teams here? Ten squads left going into round six. This is insane.
04:33:51 Furia, by the way, might have just given themselves an even better chance of winning this thing because they cleared out their biggest threats, which was VP and Rock, who were fighting over to their west. They cleared that fight out. They got those final knocks themselves. And as Keon sits as the kill leader in the lobby with four kills to his name, for Furia now, quite simply, it's about not choking. It's a huge opportunity for them.
04:34:15 Fusion, LG, Team Liquid Alienware, Shufflefire Rebellion and NRG and Twisted Mind still alive, but this is my worry, because there are so many teams, so many eyes, all it takes is someone to take that extra risk, to push out, to try and get ahead of the curve here, and here come Liquid Alienware, the team to try and be brave and push out under Furia. Oh my goodness.
04:34:39 Rave is an understatement. Madness will not be able to get back up here, surely. Logs is going to pop the medkit. Somehow that riot drill is not connecting. Maybe that's going to think... Give Team Link with the idea they might have left here, Fury. But no, they do know they're still there. Thermite guy's in. Shopify Rebellion just has been eliminated as well. And Thermite is going to cook a little bit here. They didn't finish off Madness. They didn't finish him off. Get over the zipline.
Spannungsgeladene Schlussphase und Matchpoint-Situationen
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04:35:09 None comes to join him, and Furia still alive and still a three. A huge chance for Furia, but Madness goes down again, because now all the teams trying to take space out of this building, trying to find a spot to call home. Dark Veils now go down. Furia's coverage of this eastern side has been completely taken away from them by other squads. It is not going to be the comfortable victory that maybe could have happened. Too many teams alive here. Twisted Minds eliminated, TSM.
04:35:38 Die Kappel will fall in front of them, and maybe their chances will fall with it. Furia have been eliminated, so Furia won't win this thing. Duplex goes down. Panic is the last alive for TSM. NRG will fall as well. Everybody left in this lobby. It's a 50-50 split.
04:36:01 Three teams on Matchpoint, three teams not on Matchpoint. Well, now it's just four squads left. TSM have gone down. It's three teams not on Matchpoint, and only AG are on Matchpoint at this squad. And Zap is the last remaining player here. Unless he goes nuts, we're going again. He's starting to go nuts. He's doing the job, but I just don't think it's going to be enough here, Marc. Oh, we go again. Matchpoint continues here.
04:36:30 As LG haben sie ihre Turnen zu bezeichnen. Das ist richtig, zu diesem Punkt. Es ist richtig, das ist total.
04:36:43 LG find a win, but they do not cross the match point threshold. We go again. More matches. More Apex. Match point. Onset, I mean, you joked about kids being taken to school at this point, but I think you hit it to that point. I was not joking. There are cars driving to schools right now. Amazing. I mean, what an insane final circle as well. With that many teams all in that building, that was my worry for Furia. They had so much.
04:37:12 We have more Apex somehow.
04:37:40 Das war's für TSM.
04:38:08 But again, from the bottom end to the top end, you've got to say, it looks like this should be the last one. But that's what we said last time. And the problem is, Mark, you know, Shopify Rebellion, I said this out, Shopify Rebellion, Twisted Minds, before that NRG, and then of course Liquid Alienware, these teams were not on match point in that final zone going into top 10. Now a few of them are, but those are teams that could easily win. So is this really over? I'm not sure.
04:38:37 Ja, ich verstehe mit Ihnen. Ich weiß nicht was, was die nächste Spiel geben wird. Ich weiß nicht was, was die nächste Spiel geben wird. Will es die letzte Spiel geben? Will wir noch weiter sehen? Wer weiß. Das ist wie es steht für die Qualifikation. Das ist wichtig, dass die Augen auf, weil LG, mit dem Spiel gewinnen, haben sich ein Schlitter von der Hoffnung gegeben. Das ist wie viel es verändert. Das ist eine große Spiel, und LG haben eine Chance.
04:39:05 And you can see how difficult it is. I mean, North America doing themselves favors for just existing, right? I mean, being a region that has been so successful. I mean, you look at Sentinels. I talk about them being in last place today. And they are holding on to dear life for that 16th spot. But you look at LG right now. That's the story for me. Because 45 points coming into this, not on match point. They just get the win. But if they were to win, if Villainous were to win, if one of these teams were to get themselves.
04:39:32 Like we saw go next. They would jump Sentinels. They would push these teams.
04:39:36 Just by the fact that they would add themselves into that now top seven and the rest of the teams would be filling it in. So it's just one of those hard things to imagine if you're Sentinels, you know, you don't want to go out that way. So you've got to turn it up, even though it's not looking like you're going to win on the day. But hey, crazier things have happened. How did we get here to this crazy nonsense, though? Let's take a look back at round eight and walk through that circle. Dan continuing on, you know, this is where Furious started to pick some things up.
04:40:06 You saw NRG in dieser Final Zone. Still not a match point for them. But it ultimately set the stage for what would look like now. A setup where now the top teams, even though they were slow to start, have kind of picked up enough momentum to be threats to close this one out. I really hoped that Guildhand Sky would die, but was going to just jet up into the sky at this point and hope for the best. But in the end, they did drop. They tried to save the fight, and alas, they died. Didn't matter, because NRG have made on
04:40:35 zu match point now and they still have an opportunity to win but this as you said is when furia really started to pick up the pace a little bit also shopify rebellion started to put themselves back into the equation as well and quite rightly you mentioned shopify rebellion still not on match point and still a team that should be on match point so definitely someone that can keep this match point flowing into yet another match if things go their way
04:40:58 Aber für Furia, ich denke, dass sie die letzte Spiel zurückkehren, und wir natürlich sehen, dass das Final Circle ein bisschen nach diesem Spiel, und vielleicht vielleicht ein bisschen frustriert, dass sie nicht mehr machen können. Aber es war Liquid Alienware in der Ende der Real Thorn in der Seite. Ja, Furia finden sich in ein paar of diese Positionen. Ich meine, Broken Moon ist einfach eine andere Beiste, und wir sprechen über die Serie auf E-District. Es ist schwer zu spielen E-District, es ist schwer zu wissen, wie zu navigieren. Es ist, you know, nicht alle Moment.
04:41:25 Das ist der einzige Match Point Moment, in der Zone zu sehen, in der Art und Weise, dass Furi hat. Weil du nicht so viele Möglichkeiten hast. Ja, du hast Skrims.
04:41:33 Aber nicht immer. Hier ist das Zoned-Back, Marc, das wir gedacht haben, vielleicht FURIA könnte es auch nicht, vielleicht auch alle Gamern zu close. Zapf mit ein paar Erohäten, war es nicht möglich, aber es war all OG. Ja, es wird ein bisschen hart auf FURIA gesagt, dass es nur die Schöne ist, wenn sie nicht schocken. Also, wir müssen die Kompositionen sehen, und die Legend-Bands natürlich beeinflusst, wie die End-Game geht. Wenn sie eine Newcastle haben, wenn sie eine andere Legend, die helfen sie, um das Spiel zu helfen, und geben sie ein bisschen mehr Unterstützung, als die Team flog aus dem Gebäude, dann vielleicht das ist der Fall. Aber es ist einfach...
04:42:02 I know I mean listen LG you know with enough of a move and Sentinel staying in 19th 20th place
04:42:29 It's not impossible. It's not impossible for them to have a little bit of a storyline coming up here as well. Game 10. Can you believe it? On the way. We had 11 in AMIA. 10 now guaranteed in North America. Will they beat AMIA's earlier action? We challenged NA. Well, they've answered. Much to the chagrin of our sleep schedules. We'll be back in a couple minutes. See you soon.
LG's Überraschungssieg und die Bedeutung der Map-Priorisierung
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04:46:24 We've got 10 games of the ALGS in North America. Rain Day and Vicky Kitty here on the broadcast ready to bring the action, dance it off a little bit. And for those of you at home, Jiggy with us. Come on now. I mean, Will Smith dropped the new song. Not necessarily his best song. Let's not put it in that category, but he dropped it. So let's get Jiggy with it here and get ready for this game. Vicky, North America still seems to surprise us. And it's been a lot of casting, a lot this week. E-District 2 has been...
04:46:53 Sometimes a mystery, but let's take a look at the prioritization of this map and how teams are navigating it because the POI draft always reveals what players think is most important, whether they're right or wrong.
04:47:05 Yeah, LG just took that dub on E-District. They land in the Hubert Cumberdale Labs or so. At this point, the way that they approach that final zone, Salad Fingers, the OGs remember. But coming off of that win, that was such an LG win on top of it all. Of course, you're going to wait until the very last second, match number 10, to finally put yourself on the board. Even after that dub, even after 10 games, you're still at a match point. So then you have to look at the rest of the lobby.
04:47:33 12 Teams at Match Point right now. Shirley Rain Day. Shirley, looking at this action from Match 1 in this first page because we can't fit all the games in one page here. Looking at the variant for Match 6 where we saw NRG take that dub with AKP. Now shifting on over to our next page here. We haven't filled in our other boxes. We do get to say goodbye to Pathfinder, but we are moving on to 10 games. You know, I will say that there is...
04:48:02 Surely not an answer to this quandary you've presented. Twelve teams, eight not on Matchpoint. Well, in EMEA we had the same thing, and it was FaZe who became the star of the show. I gotta shout out a couple of media that I've been seeing and consuming right now. Great show, Poker Face, by the way, is a great kind of showcase of how you can look at things from one person's perspective.
04:48:27 Aber du kannst es auch wiederholen und sehen die gleiche Sache aus einer Person, die nicht nur die Augen öffnen, aber vielleicht machte dich heraus, dass sie die Hauptcharaktere sind. Faze war quasi die Hauptcharaktere in EMEA, aber wir wussten nicht, bis Nummer 10. Will da ein Team hier in Nordamerika, vielleicht LG, vielleicht Movistar, vielleicht jemanden, die wir nicht erwartet, wird eine neue Narrative für uns?
04:48:55 So that when we look back at this, Vicky, we say, wow, they were ready all along. It just took them a little bit of time to get going. That's the possibility here of what Game 10 could provide. And of course, you can also end it all here with a big win from one of our favorites. That's the storyline here too. You know, I'm also surprised that we haven't said goodbye to any of our controller legends just yet, but I may be speaking too soon. Let's get it going. We got more Apex. Match number 10 now back on the District.
04:49:23 We get to see where we'll be moving on to after watching LG win from their Humbert Labs P.O.Y. Going all the way over to that north side. Taking a look now at what LG's got planned for us. Because Furrier are also on the hunt. Landing over to their south side where there is usually that Survey Beacon. And make their quick rotation.
04:49:44 Come on now. Guys, you know, at the end of the day, if you missed your rave tonight because you were planning on going out and having some fun, we brought it to you in terms of the music that joins us as we change scenes. We love to keep the action, even if it's not on your screen yet, at least in your ears. That's the ALGS way, baby. LG, this is the team that I kind of have propped up as my, I don't know, my secondary storyline.
04:50:10 ...savior of maybe this lobby for teams that need to get that little bit of movement. Of course, Vicky, it is, you know, kind of the thing that everyone knows, the elephant in the room, that North America is just not as risky as it was in EMEA. We had maybe four, five teams balancing on a knife's edge on who would be going into midseason playoffs because there were only eight teams to qualify. Here with 16 teams...
04:50:35 You do have a little bit more breathing room. But it doesn't mean that there still can't be some heroics. And it also doesn't mean that some of these teams, in terms of winning this, because you know that matters to every single pro here, cannot start making a run. Because you look at Twisted Minds. You look at Shopify Rebellion. I mean, these are playoff winning level teams. I mean, LG, the story of Nocturnal finding his...
04:50:56 I love that there are so many things to track here. It still does give me a little bit of, not hope, but trepidation to say that this one's over in 10 for sure.
04:51:23 I feel like that's why the statement of seeing America's having 16... Kimchi, oh my goodness. The fact that he got the wall bounce right there and Panik got to reload literally saved his life. Literally one shot and Panik knowing that, looking to his right. But I was going to highlight, that's the reason why with Jen still being able to find Kimchi, man. Kimchi's been very unlucky with his positioning thus far. That's why we have 16 slots though. Finally getting our thoughts out here. That's why we have 16 slots because it's such a highly...
04:51:49 So, da ist noch viel auf der Linie, um auch zu spielen, für ein 2-Million-Dollar-Tournament.
04:52:17 zu EWC, und dann haben sie zu warten, wie lange sie wieder zu spielen. Eine interessante Sache ist, dass LG ist jetzt draußen bei 9.0 von der Sentinels sind. Aber wenn die Sentinels in die 19.0, 20.0, die sie jetzt sind, und LG findet sie 20.0. Vielleicht wird sie 20.0. Vielleicht wird sie 2.0. Wenn sie von 13.0 bis 8.0, 7.0, 6.
04:52:45 That's very, very possible. Even third or fourth is really up for grabs because they're in that 45 range. And you look at, let's say, fifth place, that's 63. So a big win, 18 points. Third place, that could be enough to make that difference. I mean, that is more than enough points.
04:53:03 I mean, it's probably looking at, what, 20-something points, 24 points or something like that. They would certainly be able to jump Sentinels. So LG, even if they don't win, have a chance to make it into playoffs simply by highly outperforming Sentinels in this game. If they can do it, they kind of control their own fate here, even if we don't go to another game.
04:53:23 Same thing from 100 Days right now as they try to fully engage after getting that initial knock onto Lux for Team Orkid. No chance for them for match number 10. They were the second team to hit match point earlier today and have not been able to secure themselves a dub. Now they're the first team to go out for match number 10 and we get to see even more heads drop right below.
04:53:46 Und wie Sie sehen, von der schönsten Overheader, von unserer Observer Squad, all Gamers, auf auf Sop. Und wie Sie sehen, unten, die Kräfte, die Ränen auf dem Shield, von jemandem Kittelkakes hat, das 2x Sight-On mit dem 30-30. NIP, Heeling-Up, ist das ein Conduit? On NIP?
04:54:12 They've been running the Conduit for a while. They've practiced with it, that's right. It is a Conduit. This is something that I mentioned earlier on in the broadcast. I did a video on earlier on this week. Keon, big proponent of it, played it with NIP. Subbing out for one of their members. I'm not sure if it was Kurev or Vayne that he subbed out for. But now NIP is showing what that Conduit can do. And this is when you bring it out in Game 10. McLovin goes down early though.
04:54:39 Not a great sign for them, but what can Vayne and Kurab do with the extra shielding now, trying to fight against LG?
04:54:45 Das ist der Fall, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, du willst, N.I.P. get eliminated, der Chance hat, du willst, L.G. Man, du warst über L.G., man, du warst über L.G., man, du warst über L.G., man, du warst über L.G., man, du warst über L.G., man, du warst über 48 Punkte, Rain Day, du warst über die Narrative, um, was sie können, um, was sie zu tun, um, was sie zu tun, um, was sie zu tun, um, was sie zu tun, um, was sie zu tun.
LG's Kampf um den Einzug in die Playoffs und die Rolle von Nocturnal
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04:55:13 Und, ihr wisst, ich würde einfach nur sehen, ein Team haben einen Moment wie das, besonders in Nordamerika, wo es fühlt sich wie ihre Backs sind gegen die Wallen und sie können irgendwie machen ein Moment für sich selbst, besonders wenn man die Leute wie Nocturnal haben, die viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, viele, ihre Identität in Apex Legends, across Teams, und sogar als ein Individual-Player, in, ihr wisst, was, was...
04:55:42 Was am I bringing to the table? How do I bring that? Is it my squad? Is it me? What situation do I need to thrive? You know, sticking with it throughout all that. It's a great quality. You can see Gildersense here and NRG. Gotta go down here to this play with Sentinels. And unfortunately for LG, this is the team in front of them. So this is the only team LG want out of the lobby right now, staying in 20th and not getting any other points. Wow, the retaliation with the Mad Maggie Wrecking Ball, it's villainous.
04:56:10 I'm showing up now. Versus Sentinels. Literally 19th versus 20th place squad right now. Both these teams so desperate. It's like the bread bowl, essentially. Just trying to figure out what they could get in terms of any KP to start off this fight. Both teams tired of being stuck at the bottom. 25 total points for Villainous over the course of 10 games. Sentinels though, they get the bleed out on Timmy.
04:56:36 So, they were able to try to move in with Villas, trying to go in for the third party at the same time. They now get that knock onto O'Reilly, trying to get a nice little peek through the window from the Valkyrie. Cheeky's flying in, nowhere to hide behind these knockdown kills. Carter was literally one shot. Cheeky's, he comes out, they wipe out Sentinels, and they needed this KP. And getting out right away, and they know it. It's just, you know, going to be a chase down for sure. Sykes stays alive, NRG still in the mix. All teams.
04:57:04 helping to hopefully get out of the way if you're an LG fan. But when it comes to Sentinels going down, that was the first piece of the puzzle. Now, going back to that conversation, normally in a pro league, if you're sitting where LG is in 13th place, you're going to earn 7 points. In this situation, you're going to earn 10. If you stay there, it's not quite enough. So what they need to do is make up a 9-point difference from where Sentinels are. That means they have to get at least 6th place. But since Sentinels are out...
04:57:33 Again, fate in their hand. If they get 6th place or higher, they will get enough points to push Sentinels back. It doesn't mean, however, that the job is done, Vicky, because Villainous are in the exact same position as LG points-wise. They also have 64 points, so they've got to make sure that Villainous doesn't outperform them in this game, and Villainous in 18th spot is still alive.
04:57:59 Das ist ein sehr guter Punkt, denn jetzt haben wir die Teams zu sprechen, die nicht zu qualifizieren für die Mid-Season Playoffs, die nicht zu qualifizieren, für die große Prize-Präsidenten. So, aside von von der 16-Präsidenten Spots, mit dem Tighten es aussieht, und der lacklösser Performance zwischen Sentinels und Villainous, es kommt into Frage, LG still haben die Möglichkeit, als sie das Zip-Line über die Rooftop dieser Bühne, auf die Zone zu spielen.
04:58:24 Looks like they're just going to be able to wait just so that way they can calm, see where they want to go first. Rocking the Mad Maggie, Catalyst, and Fuse. Randy, you know what? If you were going to tell me that the way for me to highlight maybe an end to a Matchpoint Finals has to have 12 teams at Matchpoint, more than half the lobby, I'd say, you know what? I'll take it. I'll take it. You know, even if it has to go with me casting over eight teams.
04:58:52 18 teams sitting at Matchpoint, I'll take it. LG will creep about. They get the scan earlier, looks like. Hearing Shopify who are approaching off that low ground.
04:59:03 Well, here it is. Nocturnal on the Mad Maggie. We've been talking about his journey. Not necessarily a character that you see in the main mix, but certainly a character that we've seen quite a bit today, especially towards these final games. We've seen Conduits. We've certainly seen a lot of Fuse. Naughty on the Catalyst. Kind of surprised she's made it this entire way.
04:59:28 Aber das ist eine große Asset für diese Teams, als LG weiterentwickelt es. Vicky ist noch in Match 10. Viele Teams sind bereit zu close this one out. Ring 3 ist über den Countdown, und Furious ist in der Zone, jetzt wieder, wo jeder will. LG ist ein bisschen von Villain-Esser zu der leften. Und über sie, es ist Movistar Koi, die Familiar-Teammaten sind. Vorher Teammaten sind in Shopify-Rebellion, die zu der leften.
04:59:57 So a big gauntlet here for LG. They've got to make it through this if they want a chance.
05:00:02 Maybe they're starting to wake up just a little bit late because it's in Nocturnal's name. You gotta just stay up just a little bit longer to find yourself without getting bombarded with these nades, by the way, because Villainous Cheeky's still being alive, still moving up because the rest of Villainous and their squad are up. We also saw in your feeds earlier NRG look to have fully reset too with another res. So Villainous and NRG, both from their individual fights, have come right back up while LG lose out on Nocturnal.
05:00:29 Such a dangerous spot right here fun FPS for movie star koi helps to finish off LG naughty And they are sitting ahead of them as well could be the end of that story But not yet My friend not yet as you can take a look at the zone and the team's still playing for it. You've got at least Nine ten teams now live on match point Yeah, Vicky, it's looking tough
05:00:58 Aber auf der westen Seite ist auch, als auch Falcons. Wenn L.G. get's out survive this, wenn sie noch mehr K.P., wenn ich nicht so, wenn N.R.G. er wird von der Schöne, L.G.
05:01:12 Need two more points to be at match point. A team that was sitting at the very bottom end of the overall standings now have moved up towards 13. This is how highly competitive the Americas regions is in the ALGS. Are you kidding me? This is the biggest rat of his life. LG trying to make it in right now. It's most likely going to be the end of it, but maybe NRG, maybe Shopify.
05:01:39 Maybe Movie Star Koi, CTE. They could fight each other, but it looks like there's going to be really a collapse with LG and CTE right now. Unless there's some serious craziness going on. And oh my god.
05:01:53 Oh my god, he's right next to CTE, by the way. I know I'm kind of calling this map feed, doing a map feed cast, but CTE literally are staring at the solo from LG, but they don't know it yet. All gamers as well, a team that is in a position with 65 points and fifth place to close it out and maybe get a win here. Let's go ahead and listen in as they make a very treacherous dive.
05:02:17 They're getting shot right now. I'm gonna die on this fucking dead. Where do I gen? Where do I gen? On my corner? From you maybe? Yeah, my corner. From me. Move, move, move, move, move! Moving, moving, moving, moving. I'm gonna pull after I make it. Yeah, my phone's off. I will.
05:02:44 I wanna run across to this back part here They can't keep it from the side because I can just fucking trigger I met is so safe And we're in back here to only thing that could happen is a random drop down
Finales Match: Rock sichert sich den Sieg in einem umkämpften Feld
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05:03:07 Listen, they're going to be scared of Pika's because of Galleria's side. And they don't have any smokes or anything to smoke their fucking angles. Back here is just way better. Yes, I agree. Yes, I agree. This is better. All gamers steady, alive and well. Setting up their webs of Watson fences. For those paying attention to the earlier drama, LG still alive. CT in front of them, so is Movistar Koi. On the other side of things, it's flattened all gamers on the north side of this ring.
05:03:37 It will be LG who go out. That will not be enough. They will not make it to our midseason playoffs. Unless for some reason we go to another game. And it's not going to be because of NRG. They are on match point. And they are trying to close it out. Fusion will fall as well. And so it's just flat CTE, Shopify Rebellion, Twisted Minds, and Villainous. And Vicky, as I kind of say that, I'm saying a few more teams than I would have anticipated that are still alive.
05:04:07 And ready to play. 100 Thieves, though, they're one of our leaders in this lobby. Third place, and they're taking it to Twisted Minds. And it looks like it's Crook versus Phony. And somehow 100 Thieves find the win. No, they lose. Crook finishes off Phony. Oh, my gosh. And Twisted Minds stays alive. Twisted Minds for now. VP are looking at them, though. They're about to get pinched. If NRG split their focus onto them, VP fully dive in.
05:04:35 Hier, looking at Twisted Minds. They have to get this finishing blowball. They bring all the attention to themselves. Crook can't hide anymore. MVP. They get some KP. Grenade turtled in their direction. Looks like they have the Watson Gen, though, just for some safety. And TSM, also another team that's been sitting at Match Point for so long. 11 teams left. And by the way, the only teams holding on to that north side of Zone, the least contested side, Flats. Who is not at Match Point? All gamers.
05:05:04 Und Rock.
05:05:34 Yet it is NRG who will go down on Virtus Pro now on the other side. Next to TSM. And they're gonna have to do a lot of healing and they're certainly getting that done. The power of Lifeline right now coming in huge for TSM. Dude!
05:05:49 Dupe von 5. Aber es wird ein schweres Rotate. Shopify ist auf dem VP. Sie verloren auf Panik. Sie haben die Remote-Rez mit Dupe auf der Lifeline. Und dann sieht man, das ist ein Team. Du bist auf deinem eigenen, buddy. Er hat einen Punkt, während Dupe geht auf Highgrohe mit dem Jett. Movie Star Koi ist weg. Nur zwei Teams können diese Serie stoppen, diese Region Final von Endeffekt. Und es ist flat.
05:06:18 And it is Shopify Rebellion, one of the teams in the ALGS that have lifted a playoff trophy at LAN. Boy, oh boy, they would like to do it again. Play spoiler to all these other teams who think that Shopify Rebellion are out for the count. Fury has been in a great spot for a while, and they've got two purples and a red, Vicky. It's going to be hard to supplant them here. And right now, it's actually a 3v3 potentially between Shopify Rebellion and Fury. They're on either side.
05:06:47 Oh my.
05:07:04 It is just Flat, and they're on the north side looking at Falcons. They're looking at all gamers, ROC, all four teams on the north side with Furia, the least contested team on the south side of this Vino Zone once it starts closing in. It's going to be nearly impossible for Flat to win this one. They've got pressure from Falcons landing down on all gamers. Rock as well on the other side of it. And you just look at Furia, who are sitting pretty, watching them all fight.
05:07:32 Es wäre nicht möglich, dass es jetzt enden würde. Aber ich sage das, Blaine Gibraltar... Das ist die Sache, die andere Spiel in EMEA gewonnen hat. Die Watssingin ist auch. Das Watssingin ist auch. Das Watssingin ist auch. Das Watssingin ist auch. Das Watssingin ist auch. Das Watssingin ist auch. Oh, das Watssingin ist auch. Oh, das Watssingin ist auch. Was ist das Watssingin? Das Watssingin ist ein Watssingin. Das Watssingin ist ein Watssingin.
05:08:00 Flak, die einzige Team, die kann das weitergehen können, aber sie werden von hinterlassen. Sie verlieren auf einmal. Es ist nur auf Nato. Und es sieht aus, wie es es endet hier ist. Nato kann ein paar Miracles aussehen. Und er bekommt ein Shield Swap. Und er bekommt ein Shield Swap. Direkt er zu seinen Feen. Christmas came early. Ich kann nicht glauben, er ist still alive. Flak, get eliminated! 4 Squads left! Es enden hier, Vicky. Es ist Falcons. Es ist Furia. Es ist Allgamers. Und es ist Rock.
05:08:28 To close it out and win our Regional Final in North America. Who can do it? Teams don't have to move quite yet. Rock on a really good spot. And Falcons, as usual, pushing up the pressure. Oh, he wants to steal stuff. He's trying to get to show stuff. He gets it right there. Fury are incredibly low. That kite wall may help out a few Falcons, but Zero has won. He gets taken out. Rock, now move in for the top. Rock are your winners. You're America Regional Final winners.
05:08:57 They ended here with a total of 81 points!
05:09:04 And just like that, Deeds, Saucerer, and Vaxlon lift the regional final trophy and tell the world just how good they really are and just how steady Rock is. My goodness, Vicky. Congratulations to Rock coming out on top of a lobby that was so stacked with so many potential iteratives of where we could have gone.
05:09:33 für den resten der Nacht. Wir könnten auf den 13, 14 geschehen hier sein, aber es war destined zu enden. Rock mit den Wien. Wir bringen Gaskin zurück in, als auch. Ich möchte his thoughts und congratuliere, Rock, für den unglaublichen Glückwunsch. Es fühlt sich um, es fühlt sich um, es fühlt sich um, um, es fühlt sich um, um, well deserved. Und Dan, du hast du gesehen, wie du sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr. In meinem Leben, wir waren zu 11. In meinem Leben.
05:10:00 It was 11. Couldn't be done here in the Americas. But I mean, that was mental. There was that moment where I was like, all right, it's done. Then I saw the Gibby and I was like, but unless. And then when he got around that corner, I really thought there was the what if moment. But yeah, Brock taking it is kind of nuts, really, if you look at it. And I mean, what a moment that's going to be for them to secure.
05:10:21 Their victory secured their spot in midseason playoffs as well. And I can't wait to see which other teams kind of ended up where with the qualification spots. But we go to 10 matches. That's what it took to separate this incredible region. I get really excited thinking about the story here. I mean, you look at the redemption arc with Vaxlon, who, you know, at some times has been used as a scapegoat.
05:10:43 für, you know, things not working out, right? He gets to hold that over his former teammates and say that, no, there was that talent, that skill, that ability to execute that we thought. And I think the other thing for me, you know, when you look at deeds.
05:10:57 And his story kind of coming into, through the Challenger Circuit, we interviewed him the last Matchday weekend, and he was talking about how he kind of came onto the scene, was actually able to qualify for EWC last year for the very first time from Challenger Circuit, Vicky, now doing it.
05:11:14 Not only was he going to make it, which we had a feeling and knew he was probably standing wise, but to be able to go in as the regional final winner, that's just not only giving him an advantage, you know, talking POI draft and things, but it's just given a huge boost of confidence as well that, hey, man, maybe you barely made it last year. Now you're going in as the champ.
05:11:32 Yeah, and they all did their part, by the way. They all got basically the same amount of KP leading up to that winning moment. And a lot of teams, you know, not keeping them on their radar. VAC's having to step into that IGL role, testing something different here. It's not easy when you're put up against the formidable region that is America's. That's why it goes the distance here, but that's also why we see not only these different legend bands, but this different play style with everybody respecting one another. Looking at the match results,
05:12:02 They were riding on just straight momentum that entire 10th match. Yeah, I mean, incredible stuff from Rock. 27 points. What an actual day. I mean, that is just phenomenal when you consider...
05:12:18 Das ist so inspirierend.
05:12:44 Not only to a lot of players, but a lot of people watching to see that. Of course, now it leads us to our Series Results. You look at the backside of things. We talked about LG trying to make it in terms of this qualification. As you can see, it's not going to get done. Those are your Series Results qualified teams. The overall standings coming up in just a moment after this. You can kind of get a clear picture though on who will be joining us. It's not exactly in this order because this is what happened today.
05:13:12 But overall, here we go for North America, your qualified teams for our midseason playoffs. It is Orchid who snuck in to that 16th spot. What a story from them. And Sentinels, despite getting 20th today, have somehow gotten enough points across the season to survive. And not only that, Dan, be above Orchid here.
05:13:39 And most importantly, or not most importantly, but also importantly, to focus on NIP. At one point today, we're in dead first. Falcons were able to cash them up and it looks like they win the tiebreaker and they take the 20,000 and go into midseason playoffs at number one. But really just an incredible end. I mean, when you looked at those series results as well, I mean, back in EMEA, the winning team go next was quite far behind first place in terms of points. And it was clear that Alliance were the best team on the day.
05:14:07 Only 5 points behind in the end were Rock, right? It's not like they didn't deserve it. It's not like they just eked their way through. They dominated that last game and they earned their victory and I'm delighted for them. Yeah, I meet you.
05:14:20 You look at that team and, you know, even at the Open had the iteration of them, you know, had a really good opportunity to, I think, be a successful veteran squad. You know, obviously things shifted up and towards the back half of the split, that's just been the case, Vicky. A lot of teams have shifted squad mates. They've shifted, you know, a lot, really. And sometimes it's worked out. Sometimes it hasn't, certainly for Rock.
05:14:44 Es ist super spannend für sie. Und natürlich, das führt uns zu unseren Sony Endzone Kill Leader des Tages, das wir uns zu begrüßen. Und ein shout-out auch. Es ist noch andere als der Mann, der Myth, der Legend, Zapp. Und er hält es real. Ich meine, das ist ein Mann, der 1v2, 1v3. Wir haben es gesehen. All Gamers hatten eine gute Leistung heute.
05:15:05 Vicky, es ist einfach ein Level von Skill. Und ich denke, wenn du an Fraggers starten hast, er wird nicht in das Gespräch, wahrscheinlich auch oft als er sollte. Zapf ist einfach ein Spieler, die du immer auf deinem Team möchtest, wenn du kannst.
05:15:17 Ja, absolut. Von A.G. zu 24 K.P., du sahst die Devo und wie viel ein Menace die Devo war. Ich weiß, Peeps ist absolut schießend auf das. Von der Beginn der Zeit, Zapf war auf die Performance. Es ist nicht vergessen, dass alle Gamers waren, das Spiel war. Ich glaube, es war das Spiel, das Spiel Nummer 1, die sie gewinnen hatten. Sie haben sich in eine wirklich gute Bedeutung. Alle Gamers, nachdem das Dumpf, kam einfach nur ein bisschen. Aber es ist Zapf, die sich immer auf die K.P. auf die K.P. an.
05:15:46 All gamers, congratulations on your performance today. And of course, Zap, 10 kills on Stormpoint with Alter. Man, I mean, that just set the tone right there. 14 kills in a normal matchday. Again, we've got kind of the record being 30 or so in one matchday of six games. But when you look at the consistency across match 7, 8, 9, and 10, this is what I like to see. You don't have any duds. You don't have someone kind of...
05:16:14 für zwei Games in a row. In fact, he kind of gets better. It's really matched in, where, you know, you know that the game's about over. You got to maybe make a run. You got to maybe make a play. That, obviously, you can understand. Just even one kill, but, you know, maybe not the right rotation, would have done it in. Sony in zone. Kill leader goes to Zap today, so congratulations.
05:16:34 Dan, da sind viele Spieler, die wir heute highlighten haben und wir wahrscheinlich könnten vieles und vieles und vieles und vieles und vieles und vieles und vieles und viele Spieler aus dem Tag. Nordamerika ist nicht bereftet von Talent.
05:16:49 It is not. Sorry, that was a hard hour. I thought you were still going. The Americas have been a very pleasant region to watch. I think we all know they are the most dominant region across the board. I think that's why they have so many spots for midseason playoffs as well. And Rock is a fantastic advertisement of what hard work can look like, even if you get dropped from a team. If it isn't going well for a team, you can build something new and you can come through like they have today.
05:17:14 Well, you know, coming through and being a big part of a winning team, that's not always easy to do. But, you know, we've seen it happen across many different works for this man. And he's found a way to do it now at the very, very top with Rock. And so let's bring in none other than Saucer here to talk to us a little bit about his victory and the team's victory. Jason, good to see you, man. Congratulations. I love the little...
05:17:38 The fan mural in the back, what is that? Tell us what that is. That's actually a poster that my marching band section made for me when I graduated in high school. Oh, heck yeah, man.
05:17:53 I love it. Jason, you've been performing at such a high level for so long. You've earned, what, $64,000, $65,000, at least in your ALGS career. You've been with orgs like Cloud9. Now you're with Rock. And we've gotten to know you, but in a way, we haven't had some of that isolated time to really hear from you in the same way that some of the other players that we've really kind of...
05:18:17 you know, spent time on. I've just been in these positions to get these kind of interviews. So I'm excited to talk with you. I just want to know what's going through your mind right now. Rock a team that probably people didn't have on their bingo card to win today. I know you guys probably did, but talk to me about how it felt, you know, finishing off that game today and that series, which was just, you know, one of the tightest, longest series we've seen in the ALGS in North America.
05:18:43 Ja, um... Ich bin ehrlich gesagt, wir sind sehr glücklich mit der Zone-Pull in der letzten Spiel. Ich dachte, es war zu tief in die Heizung. Und... Ja, es wurde nach uns zurückgekehrt. Wir waren in einem guten Platz. Wir leveraged unsere Catwall sehr gut in unserer Space. Und ich war einfach mit der Devotion, ehrlich gesagt. Ich war einfach ein paar Damage, und alle anderen sind weggekehrt von uns, die wir able zu halten, und wir konnten unsere Space auswählen.
05:19:08 Und eine Chance zu geben, deine Team-Mate hier, Sorcerer. Deeds und Vaxlon, zwei unglaubliche Spieler, ich weiß sie sehr gut. Aber was fühlen Sie sich das Team bringt? Was haben sie heute gemacht, um das Spiel zu bekommen? Deeds hat Sturte, er ist natürlich unser only Roller-Player, so er wirklich aufgeteilt hat, wenn wir ihn brauchten, in den Fights. Und Vax ist ein sehr talented M&K-Player. Und er bringt vieles...
05:19:36 Ich habe einen Co-IGL-Auspekt. Auf meinen beiden Teams, Cloud9 und LG, ich habe einen Co-IGL-Auspekt, und es fühlt sich als night und day an, dass die Pressure alleviiert, auf bestimmte Callen. Er bringt viel zu unserem Erfolg.
05:19:52 So you talk about co-IGLing and actually finding that rhythm because I believe at one point Vaxx was the one IGLing the team and you guys had to make those adjustments. What was it about making those changes that you guys had to bring on to be able to stay as consistent as you guys were because you guys were fragging out that last game too. It wasn't just the depth but it was like 15 kills in total. So what were those changes that you guys had to make those adjustments for being so late into match point?
05:20:18 Honestly, we didn't change much. Vax just kind of helped me with ideas of where to play, where to go, and it just cuts down the time that I need to process and think about certain calls, and I just choose an idea that I like.
05:20:41 Well, you know, it's been great. I kind of want to, you know, pick your brain a little bit more, you know, band, you know, Jason, we got to keep expressing the personality here. I know everyone's super excited, wants to keep knowing as much about you as possible, but it is late. It has been a long tournament. I'm going to let you guys go. Any final thoughts or words for friends, family, or anybody that's been watching?
05:21:02 Vielen Dank.
05:21:32 All right, Jason Lee from, I almost said Cloud9. I mean, Rock, I mean, this is just kind of a new identity for Saucer. He's just been a pro with us for so long, Dan. It's been really great to see it. And also kind of peel back some of the layers behind a player who's just, you know, shows up day in, day out, gets it done, is excellent, clearly. And now finally has some of the stats to prove it here was this regional finals win going to EWC. You got to feel good.
05:21:58 Ja, und ich glaube, was er sagt über seine Team-Mate. Ich glaube, was er sagt an IGL, was sie denken, was sie denken, und was sie denken, weil sie sagen, ich glaube, ich hab alles, sie schießt, das ist alles. Aber er war sehr ehrlich mit der Co-IGL-ing, wie wichtig es ist als Controller-Player zu sein, und sehr positiv über seine Team-Mate. Und ich denke, dass es ein brightes Zukunft für diese Team-Mate. Und jetzt hoffe ich, der Vaxelum wird mein Name. Ich war hoping, dass er ein Interview war.
05:22:24 Ja, ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht.
05:22:46 You got some pizza to eat. I feel like I keep talking about what you've eaten or are going to eat soon, but I guess that's because you keep sharing that. Croissants earlier, now it's pizza. You're making everyone jealous on the broadcast. Final thoughts here to wrap it up as we end our split, but we go into our regional, we go into our midseason playoffs.
05:23:06 Yeah, it also feels like it just flew by, right? We are being able to see the meta shape up with Legend Bands coming into play. I feel like it's given us the best level of competition we've ever seen in the competitive Apex space. And it's only going to get better from here as more and more teams start figuring out how to get comfortable, literally being uncomfortable, around different map rotations, around these Legend Bands. I'm really happy to see where we're at currently in Apex Esports in general. I just can't wait to see how that's going to...
05:23:35 Wir sehen uns so viele verschiedene Regionen, verschiedene Legend-Bands, depending auf die Weise diese Regionen spielen. Das ist alles zu schicken, wenn wir uns alle treffen. Absolutely. Und danke, Leute, so viel für Ihr effort. Danke, Mark, die wahrscheinlich zu beden bereits, aber definitiv hat eine großartige Cast. Es hat sich gut gearbeitet. Great show.
05:23:58 All right, let's start to wrap things up here as we kind of head towards what will be our mid-season playoffs. It's the Esports World Cup. You already know, but in case you don't, here's some tape.
05:24:52 The midseason playoffs in Riyadh, July 10th to 13th. It'll be our second year at EWC. It was an incredible tournament. Believe it or not, it went longer than all the games today, even in EMEA. So make sure you stay tuned for that. We're going to go on break for a few weeks. Until then, so get ready. Grab your popcorn. Plan your vacation. Tell your bosses you won't be working. Tell your significant others you might have to, you know, back.
05:25:19 ein bisschen, weil es etwas sehr wichtig ist, unsere Mid-Season Playoffs ist.
05:25:23 We expect you guys to be watching. I know I will be there along with so many great members of our crew watching and interacting and casting. Of course, if you guys want to stay in touch with everything that we do, make sure to follow us at Play Apex Esports on X. And of course, YouTube.com slash Play Apex Esports and Twitch.tv slash Play Apex. All your action will be held there. You'll get information on where to find it. It's been a great day. Thank you to our production. What a long one. North America, EMEA, both incredible regions. And kudos to everyone.
05:25:53 Wir sehen uns bei den Playoffs.
05:26:20 Here we go!
05:26:44 Oh, what a shot! God, I just wish I was L.O.P.
05:27:17 Das ist ein Blöckchen!
05:28:20 All I do is ween.