ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League ! Match Day 3 ! EMEA ! Groups B & C ! Apex Legends

EMEA Pro League: Spannende Matches mit Legend-Bans und überraschenden Wendungen

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- 20.04.25 - 03:33:27 - 109.056 - Apex Legends

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Die EMEA Pro League bot intensive Apex Legends Action, geprägt von Legend-Bans und dynamischen Teamstrategien. Teams wie WEH, Nemesis und Forbidden lieferten sich packende Kämpfe. Die Anpassung an die Bans und die Kontrolle wichtiger Positionen auf den Karten E-District und Broken Moon waren entscheidend für den Erfolg. Überraschende Wendungen und individuelle Leistungen prägten den Spieltag.

Apex Legends

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Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Kommentatoren

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00:05:16 Wir haben Vicky und Genome auf den Mic für den ersten Mal.

00:05:44 This split. Vicky, I know you have so many thoughts. You've been grinding a ton of ranked and it's so good to have you here. I'm so glad to be back. I mean, so much has changed out here. We got legend bands. I mean, I've been gone for nine months, four new weeks, 279 days since the last time I've been able to join my amazing colleagues here to cast ALGS Pro League. I don't know who's counting, but once again, I cannot believe to be here again alongside you guys for another already interesting year for year five.

00:06:11 At least you didn't hit us with it. It's been 82 years. No, but for real, Gino, you're starting to turn into a streamer at this point, watch partying Apex South. I don't even know what time it is for you now, but I'm so happy to have you here for the EMEA region. Yeah, just about to hit 3 a.m. here, but there's nowhere else. Even my bed, there's nowhere else I would rather be right now. Apex Esports, only place for me. Okay, same, honestly. And same for those of you at home. Thank you so much for choosing us to watch here.

00:06:40 Bis zum nächsten Mal.

00:06:55 Wir werden sehen, was Kräckfüda und Phönix können unter dem Banner haben. Sie wissen, dass sie in A-Versus-C ist. Sie wissen, dass sie auf den Up-N-Up-Stay-Healthy werden von den Kansas City-Pioneers bekommen. Ich liebe es sehen, mehr Orgs kommen in Apex Legends, vor dem Open. Aber Vicky, wir haben Group B auf den K-C hier. Und ich habe zu hören, ob du nennen? Ich bin sehr glücklich, zu sehen, dass die Allianz. Sie wissen, wie ich fühle mich über das Team.

00:07:24 Oh, und Gino, wie du? Ja, ich bin immer keen zu sehen.

00:07:53 These guys are just a level above everyone else, and honestly, it's a pleasure to watch them. I mean, Aurora, Gaming Gladiators, these are guys I always keep my eyes on because I know that they're very likely to make it all the way to LAN, and I want to see what they're doing and how that's going to translate from a pro-league setting to a LAN setting. Ooh, I love that we're already talking about LAN. Granted, I mean, it is literally in two weeks. It's kind of soon.

00:08:20 It's just right, you know, 20 days or so away, but let's go ahead and let's dive more into the storylines. Vicky, I know you've been doing some research on, I believe, Infinite, so take it away. Yes.

00:08:29 Yes, so our full-fetched squad, Infinite, has definitely been a team that I've been eyeing for a bit now. Not only showing their limitless potential on day one with pretty consistent placement across both Stormpoint and E-District with a great amount of KP, they were able to finish first place overall in our groups A versus B. We even saw Infinite fare against the likes of Na'Vi and Alliance. We know that these individual players are incredibly talented and just being able to see...

00:08:59 wie sie so flexibel sind, um diese Legend-Bands zu adjustieren. Das ist das Thema, was ich glaube, das Thema ist. Wir haben mehr von diesen Teams gezeigt, dass die High-Skill-Seilinge in der Lage zu adjustieren. Weil manchmal, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn du, wenn

00:09:23 mit Placement. Und wenn wir sehen uns auf ihre Stats, ihr könnt sehen, dass der Worst Placement der Woche für Matchday 1 war 13. Und nonetheless, sie waren immer noch ein guter Kp in ihren Pocken. Für die letzten zwei Matches der Serie, sie endet in 1st und 2nd mit 7 Kp. Die Frage ist, kann sie sein? Wobei, wenn sie auf die andere Seite der Coin sind, eine andere Team, die ich wollte, meine Augen an, ist Game & Gladiators. Kind of haben wir ein bisschen die Opposite Problem.

00:09:52 Kp that they need. Stormpoint being that rough map that we saw from this squad during day number one in terms of placement.

00:09:59 But finding themselves with an 11th and two games where they finished in 16th, a bit better on E-District where their best placement in the entire series was 5th place. But the one thing we've seen consistent with this squad so far is their capability to rack up that KP. Averaging around 5.3 KP per game, putting them second in the lead behind Na'Vi's 6.50. It's looking like Gaming Gladiators, they have figured it out, but they need to be able to juggle both things at the same time if they want to elevate themselves in the overall standing.

00:10:29 Und dann gibt es andere Teams hier, wie Genome, Pengu Power, die auch wirklich able zu verbessern. Ja, ich meine, es ist nicht nur der Logo, das ist geändert. Obviamente, von 75% British und jetzt zu Pengu Power. So, diese Leute haben die Young Gunn Feuder auf der Seite. Sie sind mit CJ und Fenix, als auch. Sie hatten eine großartige Start zu Ende, ein Rippen Start.

00:10:56 really did fall off a little bit towards the end um they have been experimenting a lot

00:11:02 We see teams play anywhere between three to six compositions now with the new Legend Man system. And Pengu Power are trying to put their best foot forward every single game. They played a full six different compositions. So every single map they are changing it up and trying something different. So hopefully they can take that data from last week where they've had varying results and try and work out between these which ones are working for them and which ones.

00:11:31 Wenn ihr die 18th-Place-Matches kommen habt, das war eigentlich eher die Alter-Gameplay. Ich finde das interessant, weil ich persönlich bin sehr hoch auf Alter als Legend. Aber ich denke, sie hat eine sehr hohe Skill-Seiling. So vielleicht Pengu Power einfach nur noch mehr Zeit zu bekommen.

00:11:51 a bit more experience with that particular pick, because I do think it has the potential to push them up much further and get, you know, something closer to their, you know, the second with 11 kills. The other team I think we should mention here in Emiya is Ninjas in Pajama. For slightly different reasons here, obviously this is the core that Nasky has been IGLing for quite some time. He's got Nags and Amphi with him.

00:12:17 so far this season but as you can see from these tweets unfortunately Amphys had family emergency and won't be playing for the rest of the split so look at best witches to his family we hope everything you know works out for the best here with Amphys but in the meantime they're going to be moving forward with Sir Del who's obviously had

00:12:43 You know, a lot of history with Nasky playing in previous teams with him. So there's some great synergy there. However, due to the substitution rules, because Bell was already listed as a sub for a different team, he won't be able to join them at the New Orleans LAN. And it'll actually be Skoury who will be going to New Orleans to back up the EMEA core.

00:13:08 Wow, I mean, you guys broke it down absolutely perfectly. And of course, we are always thinking of AMV. And it's good to hear that they have such a good support system and kind of really a plan going forward. But honestly, we have a lot to look forward to today with Groups B versus C. And I'd like to dive into it just a bit more because we haven't seen E-District since Match Day 1. And now we're getting both of Broken Moon and E-District into the mix today. So let's go ahead and dive more into what that POI draft looked like.

Diskussion über POI-Drafts und Teamstrategien

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00:13:37 Ich finde, welche P.O.I.'s get picked up first. Energie Bank. Und das ist eigentlich gonna go to Nemesis. Wenn du denkst, was sie hatten letzte Woche. Sie waren aus Old Town, all die weit nach links. Aber ich liebe Energie Bank. Das Problem ist, es ist eine HUGE P.O.I. Es wird viel Zeit zu lösen. Du kannst du ein paar Sachen machen. Und du kannst dich auf deine Lute-Pathen. Du kannst dich auf deine Lute-Pathen.

00:14:05 Es gibt auch noch ein paar Schritte, aber ich glaube, es wird wirklich gut sein, denn ein paar Schritte für Endgame sind in den Central-E-District-South-Side. Same mit Street Market, richtig? Das wurde in der 2nd overall pick von VC-Go. So, mit einem 9-30-second pick auf A-Versus-C-Match-Day 2...

00:14:30 We had decent POIs, right? But we haven't seen them yet on E-District. So getting Street Market, I love it. I know Vicky and I, we talk a lot and we play Ranked with Graceful. And Graceful in general said, if you're not landing Draft Point in Ranked, you're throwing. Well, Street Market is right next door. You've got some nice rotations. There is a little bit of disjointedness when it comes to forming your loot path because everything is spread out. But you have some nice rotations to endgame. And I know that's not all, but Stadium, Vicky. Yeah, Stadium being the fourth pick for Forbidden.

00:15:00 Ich glaube, es ist ein ziemlich hartes Po, ich glaube. Und es hat viele Konsisten Evo Harvester Spawns, wo man auch sieht die andere Evo being closer zu den Extended Supply Bins. So, da ist ein viel Loot zu tun, hier. A lot der Beter High-Tier Loot usually Spawns in der Mitte der Stadium. So, du kannst eine Person zu gehen, um die Stadt zu gehen, um die Stadt zu gehen. So, du kannst das Loot alle zusammen und dann gehen für eine Quick-Rotate. Du kannst das Rotate in weniger als 3 Minuten, ich würde sagen. Just zu versuchen, eine Priorität zu gehen.

00:15:29 hier, aber es wirklich zeigt, wie diese Priorität POYs helfen die Quads zu spielen in ihren eigenen Spielstylen. Ja, all right, ich werde jetzt ein bisschen zu haben, über Settlement hier. Das ist natürlich an der anderen Seite des Spektrum. Das ist ein POY man wahrscheinlich nicht wollen, und das ist so, dass wir BPR in 38th pick haben hier.

00:15:51 A couple of things to note about Settlement. It is quite central, right? So that means it's got good access to rotations. Obviously, you're going to get better priority to a larger range of zones. But as the camera pans through here, you're kind of looking around and you're like, where's the loot? And it has maybe a half to a third the amount of loot spawns that a lot of other POIs have.

00:16:15 So you really need to be able to, you know, either fight another team and take their loot early or maybe be picking up something like a Watson who gives your team resources in a different way. Yeah, honestly, I love that. We were talking before the show and I'm like, you know, they're going to want to encroach onto like south of Energy Bank. Just try to find it.

00:16:34 Any kind of thing, because you don't want someone coming in from Stadium and just early rotating on you. But I absolutely love it. I can't wait to see what we're going to get on eDistrict, considering I was watching some APAC North last night, seeing the bands that were coming through right along the way. But enough about that. We'll dive more into what you might have missed this week, because we want to keep all of you guys up to date on all things ALGS. I'll be kicking things off. We'll be talking about the KP.

00:17:00 Und das ist eine Community-run event. Sie machen viele Ballads. Ich denke, sie haben über 25 bis 30.

00:17:08 Vielen Dank.

00:17:38 1 kills in their most recent matchday, north of triple digit points in the series. They netted themselves some bonus points. So let's go ahead.

00:17:46 Oh my gosh, Uchako of Navi. This one was really tough. And we were talking about it before and we're like, oh wow, I don't think anyone's gotten 31 kills in a series thus far. And then Genome was trying to tell me that this week people were giving Uchako a run for their money. But look at the legends played here. Very much diverse, loves being on the hyper aggro character, which is interesting because...

00:18:12 Over the past couple of months, even some LAN performances, it really wasn't Uchako leading the fragging potential for this team. So to see him kind of take charge, get wild with it, it's been fun. So I want to see what Navi has in store for us, but let's keep going. Vicky, what have you had your eye on?

00:18:31 I had my eye on something that I hope I don't have to deal with one day in one of my ranked games. You know what? Why don't we talk about it? Why don't we look at the clip out here? Because friends like these, man, sometimes unfortunate situations happen. And in this case, it happens with Reignite. The accidental wraith kidnap on your own teammate is cruel. It be your own sometimes out here. And in the middle of him popping the Phoenix Kid, he's not going to be able to take that portal back. It goes away. He pops the syringe way too.

00:19:01 und decides to accept his fate looking into the sky. Very unfortunate situation there for Reignite, but it allowed you to see some pretty funny situations that do end up happening. When you yourself are also playing Apex, you get to see the pro players go through some similar tribulations as well.

00:19:19 Very funny here to see that Wraith kidnapped. But you know, that's not the only thing that we have been able to see. I want to also update you guys on APAC North. Because after everything that we've seen shake up here within Groups A versus C, something that I was able to like watching here is not only Soden winning, you can see the P2020s blaring through your screen. You can see the killfeed lighting up out here too. Soden was able to clutch this out, utilizing the altar that Genome had mentioned earlier here. And not only that, being able to pop off and getting that dump for APAC.

00:19:48 And then on the other side, too, we got to see B versus C with Uris's team popping off. I loved watching this clip, too, because you could see the shrivel. Look at this. The pixel where he's hitting their toes up on the high ground. Reject up on the best positional advantage that they can have over this lobby before finding the dub themselves. Winning here for the day with Reject taking that top here. Looking at the overall scoreboard of the Apex North overall standings, it's looking like it's shaping up really nice.

00:20:17 mit GHS, mit 46 total points. Das ist, mit all zwei Seriesen gespielt. Ich freue mich, GSS Fanatik. A lot of people talking about those. Es wird ein tight-knit battle. Aber, honestly, Genome, wir waren es. Du weißt und weißt du, APEC-South. Du war kind of trying zu prove mich wrong über die Spieler von der Woche mit den neuen Spieler kommen aus APEC-South. So, tell me what I missed. Ja, well, looks, you know,

00:20:47 Our best talent seems to keep leaving us and going overseas, but we just keep finding new and even better players, apparently, because we had Shoji from Lonely Let Gone come out and pull out a 33 kill, I think it was, series. Just, yeah, honestly incredible from those guys.

00:21:06 um but yeah looking into the uh overall standings we started off with a versus c um this was a a fun series we had keep going gaming uh run away with this one and we had so many high frag games honestly throughout this entire weekend i think there was only a single game across our 12 games this week where one team didn't get

00:21:31 over 10 kills. And Keep Going Gaming were like, you know, the epitome of that. They got a 21 kill win and an 18 kill win as well. And then having a look at Green Stego as well, they were our team that took out the B and C group.

00:21:49 um wins so that's put them on the top of the standings now sitting there with 43 points you can see llg there in second that's who we were talking about you guys probably remember roy um from the the heart antics um when he was playing at lan uh he's no longer with dreamfire he is now playing with lonely leg gone and has somehow surfaced this incredible talent um in shoji who just absolutely showed up i suppose this week

00:22:17 Well, thank you so much for giving us the information on Soji in general, because the majority of people on Reddit are basically just saying that new guy with Roy. And I'm like, no, no, he has a name. We want to know more details about the new talent that is always coming out of Apex South. America's EMEA, please no poaching, at least not yet. Come on, let us get through like a full year or two with them on Apex for that. But guys, thank you so much. That's what you might have missed. But we're going to keep on moving because there's a lot of things we got to talk about before we dive into.

00:22:45 Our first match of the day. And I'm going to go ahead and hit it right now on the nail, right? Face It Watch, guys. This is one of the best ways to go ahead and watch all the ALGS action because you can control all of the POVs. Now, I know when I'm watching, I like to bring up the match view, hear the comms, and just kind of track rotations throughout it. You can also do clips now and be able to share those. It's getting better. It's on mobile. There's so many things about Face It Watch.

00:23:10 Das ist ein tolles Beispiel für die Watchpartys. Das ist ein tolles Beispiel für die Watchpartys.

00:23:37 I've kind of been loving. It's what does chat think? And sometimes that can be really dangerous. Like I was talking earlier. I was like, I was reading Reddit. Yeah, you never know what you're going to get. But what does chat think? So tag us on your social account because later during halftime, we're going to have MG, aka MG Clutch, join us here on the show. And he's going to go through a lot of your thoughts. So let's go ahead and see what you've got for us. Give us your spicy takes, your medium takes. Maybe you just want to say hi to MG.

00:24:06 But I'm going to go ahead and kick things over because match number one is about to get underway. So Vicky, Genome, take it away. Thank you so much, Tiff. Genome, we are here again.

Einführung in die erste Spielrunde und Diskussion über Legend-Bans

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00:24:20 It feels like it's been forever. I started setting everything up here at my home setup and I realized how dusty my green screen was. Do you understand? It's been so long and I am so excited to be back alongside you here on the main broadcast for Play Apex. It's been a fantastic time to watch how the first two days have shaped up. We got new maps coming into the fray. We got legend bands. I am so hyped to dive to see what legend bands we're going to be exposed to.

00:24:49 I want to touch up on something you mentioned at the beginning of the broadcast, Genome. You mentioned Alter. And we're starting things off on E-District. And there's so many ideas that were flowing through my head when I was thinking about the different possible legend competitions that we could see from some squads to help them get over some tricky chokes that they may find themselves in. Yeah, and there was a massive change to Alter that has essentially turned her into, in my opinion, like the best...

00:25:14 der beste Legend auf dieser Map. Die größte eine war, dass sie die Void Passage erhöht.

00:25:23 Anyway, words from 20 meters to 30 meters. And what that meant is there's a lot of the big walls that separate POIs in eDistrict were about 26 meters wide. So previously you couldn't get through them. You had to rotate around. It made chokes just one of the biggest features of eDistrict. But now all of a sudden, if Alter is still in the pool, we'll see how early she gets banned out. I would expect her to get banned out at some point.

00:25:52 in den ersten paar vergangenen. Es just opens up the world for you in terms of rotations. And the other part, of course, is the fact that they made her Void Nexuses much more usable. You can put two down now at once. You can go back to them multiple times. There's just like a little refresh on them. And even the Void Siphon, the way you can reach the top levels of buildings now, makes her such a better Legend overall.

00:26:19 Ja, ich verstehe. Die Map-Choice ist definitiv die Influenz auf welche von unseren Legends wir sehen werden. Aber während wir alles setze, Scrims, Scrims, Scrims! Wir müssen die Lobby starten. Aber in der meantime, wir werden Hyped für New Orleans, weil ich bin.

00:27:26 It's going to be an absolute fantastic time. We got more teams than ever before, Genome.

00:27:54 Exactly. I mean, yeah, if you wanted to meet the players, well, we've just quadrupled the amount of teams that you can go there and meet, right? So, yeah, there's going to be something for everybody, I think, there. So many teams, all these new changes to Apex Comp, you're going to get to see, you know, legend bands evolve over the course of a LAN, you know, whereas previously we generally see, you know,

00:28:22 A sort of funnel effect where teams will start playing more and more the same comp as you get into that final lobby. This time, it does feel like we could get change-ups going all the way into the final series because teams are going to be like, okay, yeah, sure, we've got no Newcastle. We can't play Catalyst anymore. How do we keep ourselves safe and prioritize rotations when we've got all the best teams in these ultra-high-pressure lobbies? Yeah, I don't really...

00:28:49 I guess we'll discover it with you guys along at New Orleans.

00:28:53 I'm so excited because not only do we have LAN coming up around the corner, but we get to see a little taste of what these legend bands and such a big map pool has exposed us over the course of the first two days of LGS Pro League, what that means here shaping up for day three, but also how a lot of these different teams have been able to adjust. And that's going to be something you're going to hear me talk about a lot because I think that's the topic to focus on. It's what highlights the individual player skill ceiling that needs to be achieved to be able to catch.

00:29:23 mit der Best hier. Because beforehand, we had a lot of players and teams that were able to kind of sit into a comfort seat, aside from maybe some characters getting nerfed that they were more comfortable on before and then having to readjust beyond that. And staying consistent between that same Legend composition and maybe otherwise switching between one map to the other since we only ever have two that play out for the entirety of the course of the Pro League. Now that's not the case anymore. Now you're forced to play so many other Legends and that adjustment has to be made on the fly.

00:29:52 You have to be able to be on top of a very large Legend pool. Yeah, exactly. You need to be much more flexible. That does. It absolutely raises the skill ceiling. I mean, you know, I don't want to start throwing dirty words around here and calling people one tricks, but, you know, potentially in the past, you've had people who have stuck to one Legend for a very long time and not been willing to, you know, to try something else.

00:30:18 I don't know why Designful just came to mind, but it's always kind of funny because now it's like Wraith is actually more playable than ever. So in some ways it's actually made it better for some people who are maybe picking a little bit more like sort of off meta picks, right? But yeah, it's going to be awesome to see.

00:30:36 uh players who are versatile and are good with a whole range and a whole host of different types of legends uh and even different play styles right because you see teams go from like a uh you know a really heavy defensive catalyst newcastle setup and then all of a sudden uh you know in game six they have to be playing maggie ballistic crypto just off the top of my head that's what lonely lake on was playing in in eight back south which is basically like dialing up the aggression to like 100.

00:31:06 Yeah, and you know, when you take a look at the different legend comps and the different maps that add everything up together, you're still going to see certain players be the outlier of maybe running a legend that you don't see any other team running. That's why I'm interested to see how they could try to piggyback either out of the Ultra that we are 100% going to see on E-District or maybe the Valkyrie here too. But while we do settle some things and we get game number one ready, thank you guys so much for your patience. I want to bring back Tiff over here. Tiff, I know you just sat down just for a little bit waiting out for the first game to start.

00:31:35 But I want to look at the e-district PLY draft that we have on our hands. Cool. Let's go ahead and bring it up. Honestly, I just thought they brought me back because anytime Genome starts to go rogue, they need someone to keep the peace. I was here to do it.

00:31:48 Ich weiß nicht, was ich jetzt? Nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein,

00:32:14 A lot of the Zone Pulls in E-District are in that central POI area. So a lot of Energy Bank endings, a couple draft points just towards the northwestern side of Street Market as well, Genome. So when you start looking at the teams that were able to get those POIs right off the rip, I talked about VC Go in general, and I believe Nemesis as well for Energy Bank. Do you think that's what people were looking forward to? Because obviously it has good loot potential.

00:32:43 Rotations.

00:32:45 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I would take Energy Bank first if it was me as well. And, you know, if you want to get really nerdy about it, one of the reasons that the zones do keep pulling so centrally there is because zones tend to pull away from those walls. And because there's such a big empty space within them, it sort of pushes the zones inwards and you just end up with a lot of zones that do finish up in that POI.

00:33:15 All right, let's say goodbye to Ted, because while we're getting hyped up on E-District, we're starting off on E-District for game number one, match day three here. And let's start off the action. We waited long enough, and I'm excited here, Genome, to start off with groups B versus C. All right!

Spielbeginn und Analyse der Teamzusammensetzungen und Rotationen

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00:33:40 We're back. We're back in. We're in the game. It's happening. It's EMEA. It's Pro League. Alright. Get some early vision of Alliance here. One of the teams that we were both excited to check out, I think. And as we start to wait and see where this first zone will pull. Obviously, they're not playing for 100 teams.

00:34:04 Wir werden uns ein bisschen später sehen, um sie zu sehen. Aber es ist auf die gleiche Power-Level, du sagst. All right. Wir werden sie sehen, was sie brauchen. Nice camera shot of the Octopus, um die Ramen zu essen. Ich liebe das. Ich liebe die Aesthetik von E-District. Playing E-District hat schon so refreshing, seit its release. Und jetzt werden wir sehen, wo unsere Zonen wird uns über den Nrw.

00:34:33 Ja, da ist definitiv ein paar Catalysts in der als auch.

00:35:00 Complexity might be one of the only teams who are not running Catalyst right now. ACP as well, both sticking with Newcastle as their sort of defensive characters. I guess, yeah, the Newcastle Watson is an interesting one. Yeah, it's definitely a toss-up between Catalyst and Alter right now, I think.

00:35:20 So interesting to see how that's going to play out for our second game here. Ready? Squads on their rotate nemesis. We're walking the full blue here. They got that control legend while they've already scanned the circle beacon and where that circle is going to be pulling us here. So important. You have that portal nexus too if you want to try to rotate to a tricky spot before wanting to see if you could try to go in for a third party as well. It's been very enjoyable to play the changes myself with Alter this season. It's really been refreshing out here, Gino.

00:35:48 Ja, ich habe einen Ball. Ich habe viel Zeit in ihr, weil ich, wie gesagt, ich fühle mich, sie ist die ganze Legend, die hat vieles Wettbewerb zu haben. Das ist die Sache, die mich sehr beeinflusst, so far ist, die Charaktere, die natürliche Gründer sind, Leute, die viel ranken, vielleicht sogar in Custom-Matches gehen und wirklich tinken, weil sie einfach diese Instinktive-Knowledge haben, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,

00:36:17 Und sie können Alta's Void Passage gehen von einem Platz zu einem anderen in wirklich effektive ways, sehr schnell.

00:36:47 Wir waren über DraftPoint und wie tricky es ist, wenn man nicht der erste Squad hier ist. Es gibt so viele verschiedene Plätze, die man sich in, speziell in dieser Highground-Bridge, die wir jetzt sehen, Gaming Gladiators auf.

00:37:05 Yep, they are in a cluster of teams down the bottom. Quite a few teams have moved up into the zone up in the northwest like we were talking about, but there's three or four teams down here with 10k Ninjas in Pyjamas as well as Gaming Gladiators all in this one spot. And this is, as we see, Blast getting some nice shots. Oh, just this is the last one, but Lufka's there to make sure that the...

00:37:29 Geoguessig Goat apparently doesn't make it away

00:37:36 So many squads have already gone in for a quick rotate. DraftPoint is the only place right now where all three of these teams are trying to split their rotate. Whether they want to see NIP take Energy Bank to prioritize playing on the edge of that next zone through the choke on the west side of Energy Bank and even Gaming Gladiators who are still hanging out on that south side. BH2. Let's see if they can try to take height. While coexisting here, so many other teams have already made their way over to City Hall.

00:38:09 This is a great spot to hold if you're holding out in City Hall.

00:38:16 Oh, sorry, Neon Square, I guess they're in. We have such good high ground here. The sight lines are, you know, just excellent if you're looking to potentially grab some people who are rotating in, like there's, you know, F9 are still below them, potentially Ninjas in Pyjamas and Gaming Gladiators who we saw down at the bridge will eventually come this way. The only other option they've really got is to go through Energy Bank.

00:38:43 Holding this spot is great, too, because they also had that circle beacon, knowing where that zone is going to pull. So they're going to be hanging out on that south side for now, before other teams on their north side of the POI by City Hall have already been able to go through those chokes, those tricky chokes that we've seen be the detriment factor for a lot of these squads here. Reply Totem already also trying to make their next move. You can hear the shooting from the distance here before trying to see where they want to move over to.

00:39:11 Hier, die Paintings hier, zu sehen, wo sie können, nachdem die Information zu haben. Wir sind jetzt jetzt, so sie wissen, wo das Neck-Circle ist, in den nächsten 30 Sekunden.

00:39:25 Ja, City Hall, eine der häufigsten Endzonen, die wir haben, auf E-District haben. Diese Städte sind immer Spaß zu sehen, wenn mehr Leute in die Städte kommen, wie die Abduktionen, die wir sehen, wie Teams haben, zu spielen, wie sie auf die Buckehäste, so dass sie nicht einfach durch den Boden fallen. Wenn die anderen Teams versuchen, die Void Passage zu überlegen, und versuchen, einen cheapen und easy-Kill zu machen.

00:39:52 I also saw some rampart teams sitting on their rampart walls as another way to avoid that happening.

00:40:01 Vielen Dank für uns hier. No Rampart in diesem Lobby. Ich habe das in meinen eigenen Spiels hier gesehen. Sie sind mir da, als Sie sich hier aufhören. Teams sind die Zeit, die Gaming Gladiators haben, als wir sie bei Draft Point gesehen haben, haben jetzt komplett geistet sich, um sich zu weit entfernen, um sich weiter zu öffnen. Other objectives in mind hier sind, um das Survey zu erzeugen, die Eget getting aus der Street Market und IP zu erzeugen. Sie sind in einer anderen Fight, doch. Sie sind mit Naxx auf der Caustik, auch.

00:40:30 Ja, wow, okay. Ich glaube, ich habe einen Team in Apex South bekommen, sogar in der ersten Spiel. Und ich habe noch mehr auf der Ende des Series, weil wir hatten einen Punkt, wo jeder Controller-Karaktere war. Und es ist so, dass du jetzt ein Fuse- oder ein Caustic- oder vielleicht sogar ein Mirage-? Weil du musst du wirklich über die anderen Charaktere-Karaktere haben, die die Ring-Console-Perk haben.

00:40:57 und kann dir die Möglichkeit, die Ring-scans zu geben. Aber ich meine, ja, zu beantworten all diese strange Legend-Differenzierungen, Vicky, ich denke, die coolste Sache ist, die Legend-Band-System hat so viel mehr Experimentation gemacht und wir sehen sogar größere Differenzierungen zwischen den Regionen, als wir vorher hatten.

Anpassung an Legend-Bans und regionale Unterschiede

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00:41:18 We really haven't. We also see the way that certain teams have had to adjust even their own playstyle to work around these different legends. The way that they rotate into the zone. How quick they can rotate into the zone. Do they want to play slower? Do they want to play for objective gear? That's what we see from Gaming Gladiators. How they're going to be playing more so by the edge to slow rotate.

00:41:37 Und wir wissen, dass die E-District viel cover für die Team zu co-existen sind. Es geht darum, wie du in die Finale Zonen hast. Wir wissen, und wir haben von Hockies, in unserer letzten Broadcast, dass sie für Circle 3 liebte. Das ist, dass sie ihre Rotate liebte. Das ist, warum sie meistens in eine gute Position sind. Und sie sind nicht in der Zeit, in die Zeit, in der Mitte der Rotate. Sie sind bereits in der nächsten Zonen. Als wir schauen, Faze, auf der anderen Seite.

00:42:04 Just trying to stare them down to see if they could try to farm some of these evil shields since they're still on blue, so they're at an evil shield disadvantage for now. Yeah, so these guys, FaZe Clan and Annex Esports, they're sitting right on the edge of the zone here, Vicky, and this is where, what is it, like zone two touches zone one, essentially. So they're playing, what I would say is like, you know, they're predicting the zone will continue to pull towards the edge, as it does a lot of the time, but...

00:42:31 They are going to be sorely disappointed because the Zone is pulling back into a more central City Hall position and where usually they'd be fine until the end of the game. They're actually going to have to make a much earlier rotation than they might have been hoping.

00:42:49 Der Team ist auch nach dem, um sich nicht mehr zu sehen, dass es keine anderen Schwer-Rotaten-Squads hier ist. SJP2. Wir sind auf der Nord-Side, die du schon erwähnt hast, weil die Schwer-Rotaten-Squads sind, dass sie auf den Schwer-Rotaten-Squads sind. Sie wollen für eine Late-Rotate-Rotate. Das ist Aurora, die auch in der Evo-Harmester ist, über die Mitte der Mitte. Sie können sich, wenn du in der City Hallstatt hast, sie stehen auf dem Tisch.

00:43:14 Untertitelung des ZDF 4. Die Sjp2 sind auch sicher, dass ihre Begriffe sind, bevor sie versuchen, zu über das City Hall P.O.I. Pengu Power haben sich bereits in eine Gebäude, die sich mit der Sjp2 befinden. Aber das ist eine gute Option, die Sjp2 ist eigentlich zu nehmen. Jetzt werden sie in die Norte gehen, wo es noch nicht mehr gibt, aber es ist ein sehr großartiges Raum, wo man sich von der anderen Seite von der anderen Seite ausführen kann.

00:43:42 Oh, and yeah, if they were hoping to get a ring pull anywhere near them, it's just gone the other way as well. It is actually pulled almost directly center. Hopefully we can get some map vision of that at some point, because this is actually quite an interesting circle pull that we've had here, and it will actually favor ninjas in pajamas. You can see they're actually scouting ahead right now.

00:44:07 You're seeing Nags and Sir Dell sit there while Nasky is trying to work out where they could go next. Obviously they don't have a ring console, they haven't actually scanned this, but it looks like they have picked up that they may need to move more centrally. So I like that they're being a little proactive about this.

00:44:28 Es hat sich auch, wenn du ein viel aggressiver approach hast. Warrer einfach zu senden, auf der Seite des Zones, in front von Pengu Power. Sie sind nicht nur diejenigen. Sie sind noch nicht in der Bunker. Sie haben sich nicht in der Bunker, dass sie sich mit dem Newcastle verabschieden. Neibringen das mit ihnen, und ohne einen Alter, kann auch sehr gefährlich sein, wenn du auch an Evil Shield hast.

00:44:48 Es ist always tough, wenn du in der Crossfire so weit bist. Man sieht, dass jeder hat den Voidnexus set in den Shop.

00:45:15 So if they do run into any trouble as they're making their rotations, there is always the chance to reset. It's one of the things that makes this character's legend so powerful. And you can see F9 in absolute shambles, just trying to take an E back. They do it in a time where essentially nothing else is going on, and so they just get completely focused fired by all the other teams around.

00:45:41 Ich bin sehr froh, dass sie das E-Vett-Tower in den ersten Platz haben können. Ja, sie haben einen 1. Aber das ist ein sehr risker Spiel. Sie haben wirklich keine Wahl. Sie wollten das Risiko nehmen. Und das hat eine Ex-Tat zu schießen lassen. Nemesis kommt sofort zurück. Sie clean up.

00:45:56 Lufka, GG in some trouble here. And with the utilization of the altar, by the way, looks like they may have come from the top to then drop right back down here. And this is the beauty of the altar on E-District. You can also bait a lot of players to make it seem like you could go through one portal, put it somewhere out of their line of sight in a different direction. So that way you could actually just completely encapsulate them in a sandwich situation. The fighting has not stopped though here on the other side. 10k too.

00:46:22 Also find themselves in a scramble here on the high ground, see if they can get the loot that they need, but the P2020s have not slowed down and I did not expect them to, Genome. I mean, we were seeing a little bit more shotgun usage in Apex Out yesterday, so I don't know if that's a region-specific thing or if some teams are actually saying...

00:46:47 Die P20s fallen ein bisschen ein bisschen. Ich denke, es ist ein extra Schott auf jeder Armour-Level mit dem Nerf zu den Dammage. Aber sie sind natürlich auch ein Fearsome-Weapon. Ich weiß nicht, wie du fühlst, um... Obviamente, gimme die Roller-POV-E, denn ich finde sie schwer zu benutzen, ehrlich gesagt. Du bist Spamming-A-Way. Es kann wirklich schwer sein, um die Tracking-A-Way zu bekommen, wie schnell sie firet.

00:47:16 Oh, I make them sing, but it feels like you're in the microwave. It reminds me of the early Mozem of Kimbo and how savage it was on the receiving end of it. And we get to see it play out here too, even with that slight nerf, right? What was it, like one damage here, Reply Totem on the high ground. Still full blues though.

00:47:35 Looking to see if they can close in that gap. Or if they can just try to prioritize this rotate. And that they do. Calling in the cat wall. To just block them from the line of sight of FG. Who are trying to look at them too. But with Totem trying to get ahead of the curve. So that way they can get edge of circle position. Trying to gatekeep Forbidden. Could be big here. But with all this noise. Forbidden and Replied Totem are the only ones here in this spot. Gaming Gladiators. We saw that they were in some trouble before. And as a duo. They're also going to try to cut off Forbidden.

00:48:04 Hier sehen wir GG, aber Forbidden haben festgestellt, dass das hier passiert. Und als Sie sehen, sie senden es ein paar Sekunden. GG wird ein nach einer. Forbidden! Oh, nein! Die Wall ist auf der Wrong Seite. Sie haben die Mobile Shield auch hier, um das Rez zu bekommen. Aber sie werden voll senden von Replytotem.

00:48:27 Und ich sah die voll Slamm von Infinite, von der Newcastle Wall zu der Newcastle Wall, aber Repli-Totem ist auf der High-Ground einfach so gut. Okay, er war nicht wirklich auf ihn, als er hat ihn geholfen. Unfortunate da, aber es ist besser für Repli-Totem, um noch mehr KP zu bekommen, als wir sagen, dass die Pengu-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw-Pauw.

00:48:48 It's up to catch here. Trying to clutch this out, but he doesn't hear right behind him. They circle around him. And SJP2, they get to see another day. You can hear the 30-30s in the distance. Some shots being taken to then pull up for the 3P. Yeah, teams, they're trying to hold onto high ground desperately here, but they're seeing the KP below them. And it seems like one by one, they pop down. They're like, ooh, there's some juicy KP. And as soon as they do, there's another team that will take their place.

Finalzone und Entscheidung

00:49:17

00:49:17 und die Highground-Value und die Shots-Down auf dem. So, die Teams haben zu weh-up jetzt, ob sie für die Later-Placement wollen, oder, um, einfach zu holen. Das ist so eine riesige Final-Zone. Das ist crazy. 10k sind diejenigen wirklich in dieser Zone, und sie haben die Highground, aber das ist die Sache über E-District, richtig? In Zones wie diese, da ist wenig oder keine Cover. Once ihr seid, die Städte aus diesen Städten...

00:49:43 You're up on the high ground, you're playing up a hill. Other teams are looking at you with either a 30-30 or a G7 that we've seen thus far. And it feels hard if you don't have a new castle on your team to make up that makeshift cover once you're forced outside of these smaller buildings. You're gonna play uphill like you've been seeing from 10k, seeing if they can hold that south side of the map. But once this zone closes in for that next zone, the squads on the north side of the zone are in a lot of trouble as we're already seeing right now with round 5 closing.

00:50:09 Ja, es fühlt sich die Zone zu werden, um zwei Seiten zu verändern, mit dem Norden und dem Süd, und das Dividend zwischen ihnen. So, Aurora ist eine der Team, die in die nächste Zone ist, um die Norden zu sehen. Aber als Sie sehen, vier oder fünf Teams, in die in diese Gebäude zu verändern, ist es zu machen, eine absolute Hell-on-Earth, wenn das nächste Circle beginnt.

00:50:33 Was ein schönes Nade hier. 10-K in Trouble, der Alter Queue ist, aber ihr seid in der Zone! Nein, 10-K! Sie wurden elimitiert. Du kannst nicht wissen, wo du mit dem Alter Queue geht.

00:50:53 It's got to be done now as Aurora, you mentioned it before, Genome, one of the squads coming in from the north side of the zone. Out in the open too, so many squads neighboring them. NIP, Nemesis here too. Now Team Nessa here too, trying to see if they can try to push in from the north side. Ewing get eliminated, eight squads left. With Nemesis neighboring them, SJT2 are also on their south side. This is going to be a bloodbath, but Aurora have no issue cleaning up the KP that have been left out for them. DC, go, get eliminated.

00:51:22 Oh, I mean, this is where Aurora wants to be. This is what they live for, just in the chaos, going straight for the other teams next and trying to rack up KP here. That said, all the teams from the south side seem to have been sorted out a lot earlier than the north side here. We've got Team Wehr sitting in the middle, taking out the last remaining members of F9 and just waiting for these fights up the top end to finish.

00:51:50 And then we'll get a kind of final showdown. We got Team Nemesis versus Nemesis, by the way. That is what we're seeing right now. And we are seeing Nemesis dancing around the Alter Portal. The Catwall has been called in. Remix Power is still alive right on top of them. But look at all this space that Wei is holding. They're on the high ground. They're looking at all the action play out from right underneath their feet. And it's just free reign of shooting from them.

00:52:16 Ich meine, das ist sehr einfach, nicht wahr? Die Team versuchen, die Wall zu hugzen, denn das ist die einzige Chance, sie haben, um zu gehen, von den Scouts, von den P2020s zu kommen.

00:52:31 And it feels like at this point, Team Wet are going to take this one out. Unless someone makes some kind of crazy evac tower play or something, slams them off height with a Newcastle wall, I don't know. You're really going to have to try and think outside the box to remove them from their high ground.

00:52:49 I mean, when this is a situation, right, when you don't have the proper Legend composition, who's going to force way off from this high ground? They got here first, and they're just getting free KP as they clean up the rest of the lobby. One squad left. They drop down. They take the portal. See where we're going to be going. Um, was it working? Yes. And is he going to die right when he cakes it right back? He lets the rest of his squad finish off the rest of the work that needed to be done. And Team Wei with the dub. Again, getting up on the high ground when nobody else had the potential.

00:53:18 Ja, das war eigentlich. Newcastle, Ash und Catalyst für Team West. So, von denen. Ich meine, als wir gesehen haben, das war ein extrem stark, High-Ground position. Vielleicht, wenn es ein Ash-Teams ist,

00:53:43 was really how teams could have taken that off them getting the portal up to high ground there and just full sending in that way but we've even had that ash nerf recently right where you travel less

00:53:56 Was ist das eine interessante Veränderung, und ehrlich gesagt, eine gute Idee, dass die Respawn Team gemacht hat, um Ash's Portals zu machen.

00:54:20 Yeah, I love the quick balance changes that we've been having, too, because let me tell you, I start crying the moment I see the ash coming in, and I know there could be a second portal coming out, too, right off from the works, and then the double dash at the beginning. It was insane work to see, but in a case like what you were talking about, even having the ash could be difficult if there isn't another team to try to split their attention, because like you said, it's slower, it makes the noise, they get to turn around, and they'll just blast you without you having the opportunity. That's why now you could see some ashes, they take their portal, and they'll start already shooting their gun before they're already on the other side.

00:54:49 So they cleaned up so much KP from the action that was happening at their feet from the squads that were stuck on the low ground.

Spielzusammenfassung und Strategieanalyse nach der ersten Runde

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00:55:06 Ja, ja. Und ich denke, sie hat das, weil sie waren Proactive. Als wir gesagt haben, sie waren zwei separatee Gruppen. Und weil Wett managed zu clean up deren Fight first ist, all of a sudden sie sich auf der High-Ground und starten spraying everyone else. Aurora und all die anderen Teams kamen aus dem building.

00:55:25 As we take a look at our match results for game number one, already coming out to swing. Wave take it with 13 KP and the dub. That's definitely one way to start your day with a pretty big gap between yourself and the rest of this lobby. Coming in second, F9. We saw them in a good amount of fights, but unfortunately not getting the KP that they needed, but they did get the placement points in that second place. Looking all the way down though, pretty evenly distributed KP. Really strong here from Team Nemesis.

00:55:55 Nemesis 2, I mean, they tied each both when we saw them collapse on each other. Aurora with 6 KP and even NIP with 7 KP. We saw them getting pretty aggressive on the north side of Zone alongside with Aurora. I mean, that's some incredible rat strats there from F9. I mean, they were just sitting below Ware. And obviously, yeah, a couple of them have died and then one has ratted all the way to the end. 9 placement points, 0 KP. Don't see that too often.

00:56:21 Yeah, it's unfortunate here, but with game number one in the books, you get to see some more E-District on the other side of this break, and you don't want to miss it.

00:58:10 Welcome back to ALGS Match Day 3 here in EMEA. We just sent Genome on a quick break. I'm stealing Vicky because, you know, I think it's time that we hop back on the mic together. Although you guys did crush it for E-District right off the rip. I always love casting with you, Tiff. You know it's going to be exciting, especially after the action that we already saw kick off a game number one. What better way to dive back into E-District now with one of my favorite people out here?

00:58:35 Honestly, I loved it. And everything that we were talking about with E-District in the POI draft as we pull up the final circle from last match is that we are seeing these endgames in a neighboring vicinity with a lot of easy rotations.

00:58:49 But can we talk about WEH and how they walked in from Shipyard Arcade at the far south of E-District. And honestly, we didn't go back far enough because there were 18 squads at round four closing where WEH and 10K essentially walked straight into the southernmost point of zone while all these teams were kind of collapsing in the north.

00:59:11 Ich meine, wir haben noch 13 Teams leften für die 5e Runde geschlossen. Wir hatten so viele Gruppen noch immer noch, mit dem Chaos wir sehen, am Ende. Und mit Wey being auf der hohe Gründe, Tiff, wir bereits wussten, dass es nicht möglich war. Da gab es niemanden, dass diese hohe Gründe von ihnen zu nehmen.

00:59:28 And I think that's one of the most powerful positions here in E-District and just kind of navigating that high to low ground and constantly making sure that you're not giving up that height advantage because we see so many endgames where it's just a simple kind of pounce and end it with the P2020s. And that is just how you maximize.

00:59:46 Absolutely everything. So to see them come out on top, considering that was a team that won the preseason qual number one in the EMEA region. So for them to get, I believe it was 20th in match day number two and to kickstart things off with a game one win and 25 points. Like what are we even in for? This is our last online match day ahead of the ALGS Open. So if you're going to find your form, find it today.

Legendenauswahl und Strategieanpassungen in E-District

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01:00:10 Exactly. And you know what? With the legend compositions that we've seen, too, because Gino and I, we were counting out here. We had highlighted altar with an e-district for all the right reasons, being that there's so many buildings that coexist in. Some of the squads that may struggle on finding themselves through some of these chokes. Talking about Catalyst, how that could be the Band-Aid fix with the wall and trying to find your own rotate. But that wasn't the most picked legend that we saw, Tiff. Oh, okay. Do tell. Do tell, Vicky. I feel like you're about to drop some knowledge on me, and I need it. Whoa.

01:00:36 We have Newcastle exiting his way out from the series already. Newcastle being the most played legend that we saw in game number one. And we know how strong the Newcastle has always been. Whenever I was watching scrims and watching you guys pop off on the other last two match days, I was noticing that we constantly see, depending on the first map that we have within our series, sometimes Ash.

01:00:57 Newcastle being those priority catalysts, being those priority legend bands, because that's the most legends that we see within the game. Now moving on, though, we're already starting game number one, day number three strong with Newcastle being that first legend band. You know what's so wild is when you're talking about that and you've mentioned two of the legends. I was up at like 3 a.m. last night, my time watching APAC North, and when we got to group B versus C on that second, because you know how they do the back-to-back, neither Newcastle or Catalyst got banned.

01:01:25 in APAC North. So the fact that we're kicking things off as we get to look at our map schedule, we still have those two games left on E-District. Newcastle didn't get banned in APAC North and you were telling me that the first game of the day over here in EMEA, we're banning Newcastle. Now granted, if you look back to week one, I think Newcastle actually did get banned the second game of E-District. So we are starting to recognize the importance of this legend on that map, but now...

01:01:52 Du bist rausgekommen. Du bist fertig und verletzt. Keine Newcastle mehr für den Rest des Tages.

01:01:56 Exactly, und du kannst du sehen, die verschiedenen MAP-Rotationen zu sehen, bevor du in den letzten 3-Games hast. Wir haben das Broken Moon-Transition, du kannst du Glück an Newcastle für jetzt. Ich liebe die Graphics, die wir gesehen haben, wenn es um diese Legend-Band zu sehen ist. Ich habe so viel Spaß gemacht, dass du dich wirklich kickst. Aber mit Newcastle zu sehen, wir haben unsere Game-One-Winners, Wei, der Po, ich glaube, ist Shipyard Arcade, haben die Newcastle auf ihre Team, auch. Wir sehen uns auf die Strong Position. Usually, du sehen die Grand Slam von

01:02:25 1 Newcastle, but the Newcastle, who slams 2nd, is the one that controls that space, because you could just break the previous Newcastle in that interaction. But it's also finding the better position to have your rotate in, because then you'll be those squads hanging out underneath Way, struggling to find your way up on the high ground, because you were so stuck on the north side of that zone.

01:02:46 Oh, und du nicht wollen, dass du da. Aber es ist verrückt, weil sie gegen SJP 2 war gegen den Endgame kämpft. Und sie wählen all den Weg von Lotus.

01:02:55 All the way in the north. So you have the complete differential between the top two, but that's enough yapping for that because we're getting in to match number two here on E-District. How our teams will adapt without Newcastle? Well, they've done it before. They're getting some more experience into it. And honestly, I'm really curious to see what WEA is going to pull out and decide to go without that Newcastle, considering they were running, was it was Ash Catalyst Newcastle game one, I believe?

01:03:24 Ich glaube so, ja, tatsächlich. Wir haben viele von den Catalyst gesehen, auch mit dem Newcastle. Das hilft so vielmals, wenn es diese Rotate geht.

01:03:32 Rocking the Ash, Alter, and Catalyst this time around. Okay, this is going to be interesting. They're going to be able to bunker down with the Catalyst. And with Alter having the changes that Alter has now, Tiff, we know you get to pick between being a support legend or being that recon legend to scan surveys if you want, to be able to pick up your teammates' banners, get a Mobi here too. But it's all about that information, the different utility, as we know that Catalyst is going to be able to scan these ring consoles to see where they want to start rotating from their POI of shit.

01:04:01 Shipyard.

01:04:03 And we wait to see, where are we heading? And oh my gosh, did we just get leaked to go to the same place? Now, I was talking about some of the ring pulls that we were seeing on E-District kind of being relatively central. And if we kind of pulled more towards City Hall, I've actually seen an ending on where that respawn beacon is kind of towards that L by the Evo Harvester. So we've seen pulls there, but last we saw was kind of almost more centered south there. So we saw the mistake of a...

01:04:33 A lot of people going to play on that boardwalk side of things that led to 13 teams. Those are the teams that you mentioned, Vicky, that just all grabbed right on top of each other. But teams that grabbed Street Market, that grabbed DraftPoint, Energy Bank, you're looking pretty smart right now on your POI drafts, just saying.

01:04:49 Yep, draft point still comes out, too, right, Tiff? Just to hear Graceful's words in my head right now. I know. I'll reply totem calls. I know. To already go in for a quick rotate. But that's what it is, right? Because you have the utility out there. You have the Evo Arvester. Then you immediately just start quickly rotating once you have that circle beacon, which they already were able to get. So unlike reply totem, though, you also have F9 phase. Both of these teams are already trying to get ahead of the curve. BPR into going into that next zone. Because like you mentioned, as we've already seen from game number one, the team.

01:05:19 Teams that had rotated from that north side by CityWalk did not have a good time. Having much more success over by the south side of that next circle pool allows you to have a much higher position to work off of.

01:05:31 Okay, Aurora, look, we really changed some things up. I understand that we got rid of Newcastle, and I understand that Kazak is now no longer playing Newcastle. We went to hyper aggro here. You're bringing out Mirage. I know you guys have dabbled with it in the past couple of years. You've got the new perk system for him. I love it, but we are just going on that aggressive front that Aurora is known for handling. Now, granted, in their last matchday performance, a fifth overall isn't where they wanted. They started off incredibly slow.

01:05:59 ...on der ersten drei Matches, bevor sie warm und salvagieren es. Aber zu sagen, wir haben nur Nemesis gewonnen, und ich würde sie nicht erwähnen, vielleicht ein paar Probleme, als sie aus der Energiebank waren, das wir wussten, was zu sein, weil sie die Trennung sind, der ihr in der Mitte der Welt ist. Und alle versuchen, den Westen zu gehen, wird auf dich auf dich aufzunehmen.

01:06:21 Yeah, especially for the squads that had already called it an early evac tower, right? And they've already were able to fly towards Energy Bank. Very difficult situation to be in for Nemesis. While NIP also involved in their fight, still sticking to the caustic. And with Serdell being on the live fund, I can't, I just really love to see the legend diversity that we're first to be exposed to with these legend bands. NIP, they don't like the situation right there. They would rather just prioritize their rotate when it comes to going through Energy Bank because they don't want to be late to the rotate if they're going to go through that middle part of the map.

01:06:50 Behind them was forbidden, and forbidden could cut them off in the choke that is currently behind NIP when you look to your right. So both of these squads now trying to get ahead of the curve to go into where that southern side of that next zone, that pool that we saw earlier on north side of Neon Square. Ooh, Alliance, relatively quiet in game number one. Only three points thus far here. Trying to kind of...

01:07:15 Ich glaube, dass ihr schon gesagt habt, Alter zu bekommen, das erste Perk upgrade.

01:07:44 You can loot from afar, which gives you that Loba perk as well. So I love it so much. And then, you know, you dabble with the abilities like this. So Alliance prepping to kind of make a move here.

01:07:58 It's cool. It makes things interesting, too, because what they're preemptively doing here with the Portal Nexus is they've recognized there is a team right in front of them. There's another team on slight high ground behind them up on that hilltop. So if they want to try to look to see if they could try to take a risky play, they could immediately reposition with the Portal Nexus if they could call out that isolated fight. Now, I don't think it's going to be isolated because they're in that next zone, and so is basically the rest of the lobby minus, like, five other teams. So just setting themselves up on the low ground and then having that Portal Nexus up on the high ground until they see.

01:08:27 was das nächste Circle Pool ist, wird das Spielplan sein werden, weil sie nicht mehr zu haben, das Circle Beacon zu haben, weil sie bereits ihre Endgame-Rotate hat.

Teamkämpfe, Rotationen und Zonenkontrolle in Spiel 2

01:08:36

01:08:36 Oh, all right. KCP making their appearance here. I'm picking up Stay Healthy. Falcon's going to be the last alive, though, as they go under fire from F9 Babylons. And ASCII are not going to let Falcons get out of here. We can't even take any time to try and shield up. It is just done, dusted out of the lobby in 19th place. But we check in here briefly with Infinite. Now, I do love the positioning. There's just so many teams around in this vicinity. And it looks like WEH and 10K are also kind of setting themselves up.

01:09:05 für mehr der gleiche Plan, um das South Side zu entfernen, bevor es in Endgame wieder geht. W.E.H. hat keinen Fall, über Neon Square, wo man einen Ring-Console sieht, wo das nächste Zone ist.

01:09:22 The next five seconds now F9 here in the fighting around them. Very similar situation that we saw them in the first game too, while 10K looked to get a little aggressive with the P20s. Still full blue Evo shields here too, but having to be careful, they are getting shot in the distance by another team.

01:09:37 All right. Postkill. Still maintaining this building space. At least you can lock it down. Thankfully, with the piercing spikes on par, you've got the Dark Veil on deck and 30-30 to kind of keep pressure on. Else in the distance, you see Max Strafe going down at the hands of...

01:09:55 10k, likely not going to get that full. They'll probably keep him res, but at least we're able to just keep pressure on everyone. But Francisco just down there on the south side, trying to maybe look for an opening pick that we can just say, hey, we have player advantage off this team. Oh, this is the beauty of that portal nexus. Look how quickly just repositioning after seeing that there were shots in the distance. I believe it could have been phase that we're taking shots at them. That's why they couldn't overextend when they did get that initial knock onto you aim.

01:10:22 Trying to find that isolated fight is gonna be hard with so many other teams within the vicinity and other buildings too. Taking a look at the edge of the zone. Currently see SJP too.

01:10:35 Over by Lotus. They're not the only ones, though. The next eSports are also over to the south side of this POI, and they're looking to close in the gap here. Ooh, that's interesting. Max does get fooled and respawned back into it in the Grand Central of things. 10K still having the ability to use this Void Nexus and keep on putting that pressure straight onto them, and Kashira kind of moving back.

01:10:58 Ich liebe ihn, dass wir ihn in den ganzen Regionen sehen, und es wirklich leans in, ehrlich zu Kajera, einen der besten Kryptos von Kajera.

01:11:07 Oh, absolutely. Like 10 out of 10, we've seen Kushira always pick Krypto. He is the Krypto when I think about a player that has highlighted the potential of what Krypto could do. And with these legend bands, we know that Krypto has been that utilized legend here to help out a lot of these players. So when you can play to your strength, what better player to highlight than Kushira as we take a look at where the next zone is pulling. Look how many teams have already found their space in these buildings. Still more squads, though, that will struggle a little bit when it comes to road.

01:11:37 Untertitelung des ZDF.

01:11:38 Yeah, I was really curious what SJP2 was going to do kind of coming out of the north at the very last minute. They did have a ring console that was down towards the right, but I'm not sure if they hit it to know where specifically they needed to lean towards going into that. Because once you play for ring three advantage, it kind of helps you dictate which side you need to be on considering the betrayal that we witnessed in game number one here today. So gaming gladiators forbidden a lot of teams that don't want to make that mistake, which is why I love WH kind of.

01:12:08 in Neon Square before committing. The issue is, with a lot of teams preemptively playing for that, they're gonna get held out. It's gonna be really hard here. I'm even thinking about that north side too, right? Where we saw BPR and Infinite. Team Nemesis, the Nemesis still alive in the lobby. 17 squads still left. Round 2 closing in in the next 42 seconds.

01:12:33 See the Ashnare in the distance on that door. There is a team staring at them too after they were able to clean up the KP that they needed. Bunkering down with the Catalyst, barricading the doors here. Nice flyby and overhead of Aurora, who are also in the distance over by that bridge side. They're gonna completely wrap around the zone, it looks like. And if they go from the south side in that next choke, they will inevitably run into VC Go.

01:12:58 Und die Zeit für die Röte ist, wenn sie das Spiel nehmen können, dann sind sie auf eine 3-Parte. Ich bin einfach so intrigued. Wir haben nicht die Fast-Paced-Movem für die ganze Team mit der Ashe. Wir haben nicht die Alter, um sie zu helfen.

01:13:14 Throughout their queue with the top to low ground. So you really just have to make plays off the Bangalore Smoke and the Ballistic Ultimate. So they're just going to have to barricade straight through anyone on edge, which is very much like their typical playstyle. I just really hope it works out for them. For Annex Esports here, kind of playing off these stairs. Sure, you're on this eastern side of things. You want to control this space here, getting into that next circle. But what I don't want is for Pengu Power.

01:13:43 hier, zu challengeen. Und dann gehen wir runter. Oder, ihr wisst, sie sind. Wir wissen, was die Penguin aussieht mit dem Anvil- und Hammer. Das ist sehr Intimidant hier. Die Penguin ist auch mein Lieblings-Animal. Ich liebe diese 30-30-Shots, die ich hier gesehen habe. Sie sehen, dass sie ein bisschen an den Anvil-Pengen hat, aber noch nicht zu kommen.

01:14:07 A little risky, but at least you have some time as we take a look at the overhead. Next you can see them over to that east side that Tiff had mentioned. Pengu Power still holding on to that evil harvester over to the north side. It could be an isolated fight right here too, but it would be a shame if BPR were to grief them. I don't expect that to happen though. They're pretty settled inside that building before they will inevitably have to move beyond that mystic bin where we currently see a line hanging out by the Wraith Portal 2.

01:14:32 So many squads, though, already in that final zone. Replied Totem, NIP, Gaming Gladiators, Alliance inside of their own building here, too. WEH and Forbidden also looking at each other, having a stare down through these chokes. But eventually, one of them is going to have to start moving if they can find some space, because Gaming Gladiators will be waiting for them inside that next zone. And Tencake could just wrap up behind them to sandwich both these squads. Ooh, and I love that position there for Gaming Gladiators. But some of the playable spaces will be difficult without that Newcastle, thanks to the Legend Band.

01:15:02 You can already see Aurora feeling that pressure. Sure, they popped the Ballistic Ultimate and were kind of trying to work and rotate with the Speed Boost accordingly throughout that. But they're just going to keep on wrapping north of SJP2. But you can only deny this fight for so long elsewhere. And X Esports, we knew that was happening. Pengu Power finally moved on in. And here goes Aurora being completely decimated though.

01:15:26 Schrein tries to hold on and see if we can put the finishing blows in. Not going to be able to do it. SJP2 racking up more kills. Looking pretty solid today. And being able to get the reset here too is huge here for them. And it looks like the Mirage did not work out for Aurora this time around. No bamboozling to be done with 15 squads. Still left in round four, Tiff. I'm noticing that trend here with an E-District. Because there's so much space to coexist, we're having more and more teams stay alive for the final zone.

Endgame-Strategien und Teamleistungen in E-District

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01:15:55 Honestly, it's fun. It's three less than last game, but I'll take it considering the ring has moved even further over towards that east-southern side of City Hall and teams are still trying to play for it. But that fight that Pengu Power there wins gives them a free rotate into that next circle with no one to challenge them. Now we could see some late plays to steal that space, but it's going to be nice.

01:16:19 Währenddessen, WEH, deinem ersten MAP-Winner des Tages, würde ich gerne in und hören, was sie denken.

01:16:49 Zwei, Zwei, Zwei, Zwei, Zwei, Zwei, Zwei, Zwei.

01:17:16 Ich liebe die Passion, dass wir von WEH hören können, okay? Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen. Sie können es in ihrer Sprache sehen.

01:17:45 All right, well F9 down in 15th place, and it looks like we're about to get some EMP action coming through. Have no fear, still trying to hold the stairways as you see Totem up above, and a Lion C picking up more kills along the way. Can we get Unlucky back up on their feet? A nice little regain, some nades to kind of isolate alongside the Piercing Spikes. We do not want anyone coming through these doors until we are fully set up.

01:18:11 We do lose out on SJP, too, who had just won that fight against Aurora, but things are just gonna break out in an absolute brawl here. This is what you're talking about before, Tiff, when the circle betrays you and completely pulls away from what you were expecting. WEH still alongside 10K, reply Totem, Infinite, get eliminated, 11 squads left, BPR.

01:18:34 Getting some of the KP that they need themselves here. Looking to open up the Nexus, a reposition. And this is the beauty. Now you're right back on high ground. You have to make sure no other team has taken the space that you gave up to engage on the fight right down below you. Looks like you do see a team right in the distance. They have to start moving soon too. You got less than 30 seconds between the squads in the north side to make their next move into the next zone. And you highlighted something to Pengu Power being completely cleared on the east side of their zone.

01:19:04 I do love that, but Gaming Gladiators could be one to threaten them. If they kind of move out of here and decide to encroach on Pengu Power's territory on the eastern side of things, the big deal is you've got five teams over to your left side of things. So if they all push you straight in, you just basically get sandwiched. And it's uncomfortable. We don't have Newcastle. You've just got...

01:19:23 Das war der Dark Veil, um das auf die Rotation zu haben. Und die Linien schon sehen, mit der Dark Veil auf der leften, um sich zu halten, um sich zu halten, um die Nades zu halten. Mal sehen, was Team Nemesis kann hier machen. Noises down. Sie haben eine Trade-For-Trade, mit Hockey zu bekommen, dass das Knochen, was Team Nemesis kann.

01:19:46 Not feeling confident after losing out of one in the ring closing right behind their back. They're feeling the pressure Alliance with this hockey is alive. He's trying to make the magic happen with the habit. Can he pull off the shield back? He looks up and his head gets blown off. VC Go also claimed them as VC Go are also going to try to contain Nemesis from the low ground. No one's really looking at them from the building right now with the zone closing in.

01:20:07 At this point, we lose Forbidden as well. Replied Dotem says, I want to get into the action. They dive straight into NIP. VC Go Falls, the P2020s are trying to make it work. They're so good with the TTK and how much they've been working throughout. But Gaming Gladiators, no surprise to trying to get a ton of kills, but looking for that average placement. Look at this, Vicky, into the top five. But who's going to challenge Pengu Power, who cleared out the East?

01:20:31 Tiff, we just saw like 13 squads all the way down to 5 in an instant. This is what we were expecting here. It's difficult when you're stuck on the other side of where this next zone is pulling 10k. The P20s can't clutch it for them. Kashira gets taken out. Three squads left right now and Pengu power from the other side. Now moving to look at BPR and Gaming Gladiators. Oh Pengu, racking up more kills here now.

01:20:55 Versen Gaming Gladiators in a nice 3v3. And it's Phoenix who just walks up the stairs, walks into a Match 2 victory. And you do not anger the Penguins because this is what happens.

01:21:10 So if you called out Pegu Power's power move there perfectly. Being able to contain the entire east side of the map allowed them to be the least contested squad in that next zone. Walking up for free and taking care of the game in Gladiators just to take the dub on top of it all.

01:21:29 I mean, that was just a pure, beautiful execution of an endgame. That's all about timing of your calls, knowing when is the perfect moment to push into those last fights. It's really just analyzing the kill feed, seeing where teams are moving and keeping things going. Let's go ahead and pull up the match results and see just how many kills they were able to walk away with alongside that. Seven with their 12 placement points. 19, look, that's a stellar game. That's a good match too here.

01:21:55 Absolutely. It's been very KP heavy, honestly, for some of our top squads on E-District. Even in game number one, right? When we saw WEH win with 13 KP. But it's Pengu Power this time with 7 KP. Gaming Gladiators still being able to find that KP. And they heard me talking about them too, Tiff. Now being able to achieve the placement points that they also need to keep themselves up in contention. BPR with a KP here. And looking at our top three stats too. Side by side, Pengu Power again with that 7 KP, 3 KP.

01:22:25 Das war einfach nur ein Punkt von 3,000. Aber ich habe auch noch einen Punkt von 3,000. Aber ich habe auch noch einen Punkt von 3,000. Aber ich habe auch noch einen Punkt von 4,000. Und 1,500, wirklich helfen die BPR-Squad. Und dann Pengu Power, eben auch für alle hier auf dem Team. Oh, ich liebe die guten Stats. Und ich fühle mich 1,500 ist solid. Als wir in die Serie, die W-E-H ...

01:22:50 Their stellar performance with 25 points in match number one. They still hold the top of the leaderboard at 30. Team Nemesis and Pengu Power trying to kind of get back into the mix of things. But honestly, it's still anyone's game. I can't even believe we're done with the first two, which means we only have one more map to go on E-District. But Vicky, that late mid-game, as we're getting ready for the endgame, where we lose out on...

01:23:18 Maybe 18 to 15 teams down to literally six or five. It's probably one of the scariest moments I've witnessed in ALGS. It's been absolutely insane and I can't wait to see the action keep it going as we move on to game number three on the other side of this break on E-District.

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01:24:12 Sollt-Dekstra, Orb-Garden! FIGHT, KACHERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERERER

01:24:55 Zerlohahn, Uli.

01:25:26 T.I. ist in dieser Position.

01:26:14 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.

01:26:28 Welcome back, everyone. Pengu Power, they take game number two on E-District. And it's becoming more noticeable, Genome, as we welcome you back, that a lot of teams are living until like round four, round five here, where most of the chaos brings us down to like last five squads for a lot of the action. Yeah.

01:26:47 Ja, es war so viel Spaß auf E-District, es ist immer so. Es ist verrückt, dass wir zwei Circles haben, in sehr unterschiedliche Pläne. Es fühlt sich so, dass wir immer wieder nach der Repeat-Final-Circle-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort-Sort.

01:27:06 Ja, ich habe ein bisschen PTSD, wenn ich so viele Similarer Circles zu sehen. Und dann sehen wir sie Back-to-Back 2 auf E-District. Ich fühle mich, dass die meisten Endzonen passieren, in der Mitte der E-District ist. Das ist nicht wirklich passiert, das ganze Zeitpunkt. Jetzt geht es nach dem Nord-Western, und die Aktion, die wir hier haben, wirklich spielt alles aus, auf die Zone. Ja, ich sehe, wie gut Alter ist in diesen...

01:27:32 um sort of final in circles just being able to pop right in and out and here at this point phoenix decides you know can't mantle if there's one thing that gets you killed in apex is just mantling straight in front of people um does manage to find a nice angle from behind uh and they take the dub so yeah solid work from pengu power that puts them up into third spot overall i believe with 20 points but it's actually a fairly tight lobby no one really running away with it at the moment

01:28:00 WH with 1 win and 1 solid performance will be on 30 points overall, but yeah, it's still definitely anyone's game. I love how volatile it's been, honestly. So much KP spreading across our top end of the overall standings here, seeing that evenness with WH having those 30 points. Bangu Power now bringing themselves up to 20. That's two games down for E-District. One more to go, and we say goodbye to Alter next.

01:28:28 Yep, so that's an ultrapick gone. Makes a lot of sense, obviously. In that second game, she was up to 90% pick rate. Catalyst was sitting at 75%, which is quite a ways above Ash, sitting at 40%. So we're probably going to see Catalyst go in game number three. See how that works out, especially seeing how many of these teams have been rocking the Catalyst, utilizing the Catwall, so that way they could go in for some of these.

01:28:58 Trickier rotates here. That's going to be quite interesting too, Gino, because again, we too have Broken Moon on the other side after E-District. So going in to our final game on E-District before making that transition onto Broken Moon is going to be quite interesting here now. We get to say bye to Alter and Newcastle.

01:29:19 Two very important picks, um, and with those gone, obviously, unfortunately, it's a little sad for me personally, because as you said, you can make, there's so many plays that you can make with alter that you just cannot do in other ways, because, you know, I guess, like her name suggests, she alters the game in some pretty fundamental ways.

01:29:43 It makes things really exciting for me, too. It allows you to really see how teams can make those adjustments when they find certain difficult rotates or what they feel like they're lacking on and what they have to do as basically the makeshift Band-Aid for the legend that they're forced to play if they're not used to it. Pengu Power, though, the team that had completely cleared the east side of that next zone had a lot easier of a time on rotating to try to 3P our final three squads fighting.

01:30:10 Now they're going to be able to come out of their POI here, make their quick rotate.

01:30:15 Yeah, a couple of those teams who were playing Ultra picked up Ballistic. You can see there's been an uptick in that aggressive character across the board now. A couple of other teams, I think, will also pick up Ash here. And yeah, Ninjas in Pajamas, still the sole holdout with the Caustic. I would love to hear their views on why they've gone for that character. I feel like it's almost, he's almost like a remnant of the past now, Vicky.

01:30:45 Disagree, but respectfully. He's just so slow, right? And when you look at all the characters we've got here, you've got...

01:30:57 you can dash around she's got portal um you've got ballistic when he pops his alt tempest everyone is moving faster all of a sudden and there's just all of these ways that you can really move around so quickly and it feels like caustic is just a little too slow to go up against this new wave of legends

01:31:16 Yeah, honestly, jokes aside, I do agree. You know, I got the early season PTSD out here, but we haven't seen Kossak in so long. And that's not the only thing they're running, too, right? They're also running the Lifeline, while Alliance are making the Ballistic work in beautiful ways. I have a lot to say about Ballistic, let me tell you. Especially the things that I've seen within my own games and what we've seen thus far within scrims and our last two match days. Alliance chasing down after the Ballistic straggler. Blood in the water here for Alliance. They want to get even more KP here. They know they've come close.

01:31:45 Ja, boom. I think that's the, uh...

01:31:59 Let's get the finish off there. One of the other Annex members is way on the edge of the map right now. So yeah, you can see Jans has managed to make it out. So we'll have to look for a crafter, but he's potentially going to run into Pengu Power, who's actually just ahead of him here in Heights. So it could be a rough one for Annex Esports, but Alliance happy to open the account early.

01:32:25 Nothing to see here, because right next to the next eSports is Pengu Power, who I have not noticed Yons. So he's gonna be able to get away here. Still gonna be able to now rotate over to the south side of Heights. Hopefully there's a replicator there for them to work with here. Team Nemesis, though, on the high ground. Rampage was singing in the sling.

01:32:50 Ja, sie sind jetzt hier und hier sind die Team neben dem, auch. Die Team ist auf die Mirage hier, auch. Wir sehen uns die verschiedenen Variations, die wir haben von unseren Squaden, zu gehen für was sie das beste ist hier, und zwar Faze sind hier zu starten, zu starten.

01:33:05 Ja, ich würde faszinierend sehen, was sie zu sehen, was sie picken auf Mirage zu sehen. Wir können über das in einen Sekunden reden, weil FaZe ist in die Mitte hier. Sie sind gegen SGP-2 und sie sind auf so eine Teile so far in dieser Serie, dass ich ein bisschen gefährlich bin hier für Synetik, als er gegen Denze geht. Aber Sie sehen, er hat ihn zu Ende, da wir sehen. Und Nock mit der Tether hat, hat ihn mit der Tether, hat ihn mit dem DASH zu gehen und den BAT.

01:33:32 Ja!

01:34:00 Das war ein tolles Clutch von SJP2. Die Leute sehen, mechanisch, sehr gefährlich. Synetik war da auch. Das war ein Clutch 1v3. Das ist wirklich verrückt. Aber wir haben GG-Go jetzt. Und sie werden zu reseten. Wir werden sie sehen, dass sie sie machen. Und sie sind nicht nur diejenigen, zu sehen. Auf den Outskirts zu spielen, auf die Edge, wie wir immer sehen. Gladiatschern zu sehen. Und sie spielen ein bisschen split-up.

01:34:28 Wir sehen uns, ob sie können, was sie brauchen. Wir sehen uns, ob sie können, wenn sie wieder auf den Rettung gehen können. Weil sie eine Raid haben, so sie können das Portal nutzen. Pengu Power, der andere Squad we waren, wir sehen uns, ob sie auf den Rettung geht.

01:34:49 Annex have got the Respawn behind them, Alliance also up in Electro Dam behind them, so it just depends on how fast Pengu Power decide to play this. In the meanwhile, KCP! Oh, he's just left enough of a gap there that Slab could actually go through, and that could have been very dangerous. I think that KCP's actually gotten away with Murder there.

01:35:12 Oh, and look how low they were there too initially, like you had mentioned. Now looking all over to the other side for midden, trying to take different angles. That cat wall though, trying to speed up the approach here, gets the next knock here. KCP get eliminated and forbidden in a nice patient fight there. We're able to force their way up on top of those stairs.

01:35:30 Ja, ich denke, das ist auf der Katalist. Es gab eine Option, um die Wand zu setzen, in eine Weise, das blockiert alles auf den Top, aber sie haben nicht geregelt. Und sie gehen als ein Result. In der Meentime, wir hören uns zu Allianz hier, und sehen was sie zu sagen, um diese nächste Rotation zu sagen.

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01:36:22 Ja, du hast ihn, du hast ihn, du hast ihn, du hast ihn, du hast ihn, du hast ihn, du hast ihn. Ja, ich bin 90% TP. Ich bin auf der Seite, du hast ihn auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite. Er ist auf der Seite.

01:36:58 Schreibe mir ein Crack, 1. Nice, du hast du das? Gut, gut, gut, gut. I'm scatting forward, we're 30 seconds on, we gotta get Eddie Banks in Zone 3 and then walk in.

01:37:14 Okay, so online, grab a nice couple of kills there. Of course, that was Annex Esports. Take a little bit of damage in Zone. Pengu Power, uh, we're not able to double dip on those kills, I guess you could say. They've, uh, made it far, far...

01:37:30 Further south, down all the way towards Energy Bank. So Alliance now... They don't even take that much zone damage in the end, honestly. So this is actually a killer spot for Alliance because they can pull in further. They've got Catalyst, so of course that means they can scan the ring in Energy Bank and they will have fantastic priority into this next zone because... I don't know if we can get a look at the zone at some point, but all the teams are actually clustered.

01:37:56 Not where the zone is ending. They've read it as a far more sort of southwesterly zone. And it's actually swinging back towards Energy Bank. Compared to where most of the teams are sitting around Vicky.

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01:38:36 ... ... ... ... ...

01:38:50 Okay, so there's that vision that we were talking about. Alliance scanned and are now heading into an awesome spot. And as you can see, there's this massive cluster of teams towards the west side. And they're about to realize that they all have to head in towards the canals. And at that point, it's going to be bedlam.

01:39:11 Gonna be absolutely SJP2, too. See the team right next to them before they bunker down here up on this building with the Catalyst. It's Alliance meeting them on the other side. And there's other teams that are gonna get a whiff of this, seeing how that zone completely now has shifted and we get to see where that next zone pool is. For the squads that did have that ring console information, you see Gaming Gladiators now start approaching the fight that we currently see between Alliance and SJP2. Ooh, Unlocky! Alliance jumping in!

01:39:38 Man, Unlucky's just been great here today. I mean, he's great all the time, but here he goes, gets another knock. Huggies gets taken out next. Unlucky just cleaning up heads, gets the rescuer. Here's GG with the 3P like we were expecting. Okay, the third party comes in though, and just as we were saying, you know, SGP are doing such a great job in fights, but Alliance are a different breed, but they can't fight the third party. That's such an easy cleanup from GG. Good spot recognition.

01:40:07 Realizing that teams were trading and Alliance essentially had no chance to push that back once Gigi have now taken over what will be an excellent spot in the zone. You're seeing there's about seven teams that are going to have to crush themselves into very ugly spots towards the eastern side here.

01:40:28 Ja, look at the other squads, too, within the vicinity. Look how many teams are still not in that next zone that are going to be going through that choke over to the west side by the replicator. BPR closes to the replicator. 10K wrapping up from the north side of the Evil Harvester, where F9 struggling to see if they could find their space, too, right to the north side. They have found maybe a building right alongside Infinite, it looks like. But seeing how many other teams that are going to have to force their way through these chokes is going to be brutal.

01:40:57 Okay, Crypto EMP does come in. Reply Totem trying to pop that. You can see, just trying to deal with the drone as well. I think he might have actually been pushed out of that by the grenade that seemed, it didn't seem like a spot he wanted to be in. And certainly Reply Totem do not love going down as the 14th team here.

01:41:21 W-E-H have just been playing so well now. They have full EVO here, full purple EVO rather, and they're trying to run from the zone. They see the team that's playing right underneath them, but they have high ground advantage while they do make the rotate. And nobody to really meet them on the other side of this bridge, minus maybe NIP that could be on the other side if they're also on the high ground. If you're not careful, they may have to forcibly just drop down here, but luckily they do have the catalyst wall if they can try to get this reset. Yeah, it looks like they're just trying to work out.

01:41:50 Where the other teams are, where the threats are, you can see the thought process. Do I Catalyst wall across the bridge to block off shots that are coming in from there? Or is it the left and right side? Either way, looks like they might actually grab the reset here as GG Light dashes in on Aurora.

01:42:09 Oh mein, ich kann das Nuck first hier von Oirein. Blasto, he lets the Rampage sing, but he doesn't get the final blow. Lefka, the last one alive for Gaming Gladiators right now, seeing if he can try to take a different angle.

01:42:23 Ja, und du kannst es sehen, dass es ein schönes Shield Swap hier ist. Aurora geht es zu 1, also. So in der 1 vs. 1, es wird Nemesis kommen und sagen, ja, du wirst du einen guten Kampf bekommen. Es wird uns. Das Gebäude ist ein 3D-Party Magnet.

01:42:42 Literally just a whole graveyard of death boxes inside this entire building. I feel suspicious here, but Team Nemesis have claimed the high ground while overlooking the teams right below them. They're not in the next zone, though. The zone will be pulling over to their south side. They originally were looking at 10K, but 10K in a little bit of a better position here when it comes to trying to decide where they want to go over to the north side of this next zone as this nice little overhead highlights for you. F9 Infinite still sharing side by side those buildings. A lot of the action, though, happening over to the south side.

01:43:12 Und das ist warum Ledger Banzer ist einfach in Endzones wie diese, ohne Newcastle zu sehen, es ist sehr schwer zu bleiben.

01:43:35 Everyone is struggling to find good spots here. And the power positions like Forbidden have picked up here on the high ground where they do have actual hard cover as well are just so much more powerful than the spots below. It's huge here to have this positional advantage as well.

01:43:54 BPR, die Team ist unterhalb von Forbidden. Pengu Power über die Choke von der East Side. Vorbidden hat es zu spüren, zwei Teams zu tun. Während Postgill wird das Knochen zu Max Schrafen in der Feed. 10k. Wir sehen, was sie können, wenn sie noch weiterführen können. Sie noch nicht mehr auf den Norden von der Zone zu tun. Nicht zu vollständigen Füllen. Ja, nur 9 Squads left alive.

01:44:17 As we head into round five now, that's a fairly low number at this point in the game. And yeah, as we said, of course, that is because the teams just don't have enough cover to rely on. They've got lots of movement options, lots of rotational, less micro rotation options in terms of the rate, the catalyst and the ash. But if they get caught off guard by another team, it can be very tough. And U-Aim is the next to fall.

01:44:45 Eight squads left now. You hear the P20 still singing in this entire game. No surprise, Postkill backs away here. See them move up on top of the bridge.

01:44:55 So many squads, a majority of the team still congested on the northern side of the zone. VCGO, Team Nemesis, Infinite, F910K all looking at each other while neighboring some of these buildings. Whereas Forbidden and Pengu Power really uncontested on the south side. I do like the position from BPR because they're the only team that could see what situations happening from either the northern squads or the southern two teams that are going to fight. And decide whether they could 3P the southern teams, Forbidden versus Pengu Power, and then play off the only team that has nobody to contest.

01:45:25 Ja, ich agree. BPR kann viel mehr reaktiv werden. Sie müssen nicht mehr pro-aktiv werden, in dieser Situation. All die Teams im Norden, Pengu Power, sie hat Forbidden unter dem. Das sind die zwei Teams, die auf dem Souten sind. Und sie werden für Godspot kämpfen. Oh, die EMP von der Distanz!

01:45:51 Fortschritte.

Infinite's Risky Play and Forbidden's Victory

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01:46:20 Was ist das 3v3 von Infinite? Oh, wow, Infinite. Die eigentliche zu cross all the way from the low ground, up the hill, across a very open, um, you know, area of space to 3p that. But they're not rewarded with the spot. As you can see, Forbidden have remained in there. Um, I don't know why they didn't push the last remaining members of Forbidden. I think Infinite probably would have won that fight.

01:46:49 I feel like they were also just trying to be more aware of the teams that could take their old spot if they found out they had moved from the building that they were in originally from the north side. So they wanted to play it safe. Now moving all the way back to the escalation that we saw over to the north side by VCGO and F9, but still paying attention to Forbidden at the same time. So VCGO on the low ground. A little tricky, but they could play out of the line of sight of the teams up on high ground too. Yeah, man, it feels like they've just left there.

01:47:18 Their fate in the hands of others now. It's a gamble. I mean, any one of these four or five teams up the top could run into each other and cause problems for Infinite now. Whereas I really think it would have been up to them and how they played it had they stayed up and tried to take that fight against Forbidden.

01:47:36 Wow, look how much space people could just co-exist here. The different Wraith portals dancing around. The E&P at that going from outside the zone to in zone. I don't even think they know where they're going to be going. F9 are trying to struggle to stay alive here. They try. They keep getting taken down. VCGO are harassing them. BPR get eliminated. They were caught out in the open from F9. They take the Wraith portal right back to rejoin together. Having to be careful with VCGO still in the distance. They do not want to get sandwiched here with forbidden...

01:48:06 Linkin, Tessie, jetzt auf der Southside zu sehen, auf Infinite. Infinite sind jetzt bei der Entscheidung für ihre Entscheidung. Sie können Infinite sehen, uh, Forbidden, die Angle auf sie, Knochen auf sie, und Forbidden, um, wegen der Merse von Infinite, wird es so sein, dass sie das Spiel werden können.

01:48:25 Forbidden vs. VC Go right now. VC Go, they get the trade originally. Forbidden. Slab has a ult all the way up on the high ground. They're already low. It's a P20s. That's all you gotta do. No rest for you. They try to go for a shield swap. Slab goes down. He gets a shield swap. He's still shooting them up on top. He slides down. Gets a dash. And a huge win here for Slab to take the dub for Forbidden for game number three.

01:48:52 Massive there. That was a bit iffy. It was a bit close, but Slab, such a gifted player, comes out with the clutch there. You can see, I think his teammate was trying to block him with the knockdown shield and try to give him help in that way, but it actually ended up blocking about half a clip of the P2020s and almost cost them.

01:49:18 Das war ein bisschen schwerer, aber wenn du den Clutch hast und du hast den Asch, ich meine, die Last Person Being Alive, Being Your Asch ist eine perfekte Situation für dich zu haben in einem Case wie das. Forbidden, take the dub, und look how much KP they cleaned up. 15 KP, auf der dub für Forbidden zu gewinnen.

01:49:41 Oh wow, that's a big stack of points there for Forbidden to start making their way into the higher levels of this lobby right now. But even VCGO putting up 15, Infinite with 11 as well. Seeing honestly a more even sort of spread of points in this lobby than I've seen in some others this weekend in Pro League.

01:50:04 It's crazy to see how much KP, too, even from VC Go with 6 KP. Infinite still on top here with 4 KP. Finding that consistency, but even on the other side of Lyons, they got the 7 KP, but failed to land the mark with the placement here. We take a look at the stats after these matches results. It's just been great to see.

01:50:22 Die Top-Performer sind Slab mit 7 Kp. 7-2 mit 3 Revives, okay. 0-0, though, mit 11 Assists. Slab mit 2.3 Kp. Das muss ein Highlight-Clip für Slab, weil er absolut auf in das Spiel für Forbidden ist. Ja, er ist ein Apex-Predator. Er ist ein Warlord. Ich denke, sie sind Fittigen Titel für Slab, als er seine Team empfiehlt.

01:50:48 Almost to the top of the leaderboard here. Second place in 29, but actually a little behind WEH, who are sitting now on 37 points. And as you can see in the band legend section up the top there, Catalyst was the third legend band. Well, y'all absolutely crushed that. Y'all crushed that. I would love seeing you here.

01:51:18 Mm-hmm.

Halftime Show: MGClutch on eDistrict and Hot Takes on Legend Balance

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01:51:42 Yeah, if they've got any leftover Easter chocolate or anything like that, I think there should be some buddies going their way. Definitely. Let's go ahead. So guys, I mean, now that we're halfway through the action, done and dusted with eDistrict, I'd love to go ahead and move into kind of our halftime segment of ALGS. And of course, today we have got none other than MG Clutch. So MG, welcome. Thank you so much for spending the show with us. What are your thoughts on eDistrict being back thus far?

01:52:11 Honestly, probably my favorite comp map now. I know the zones are kind of repeating a lot, like the ones playing City Hall, but the map feels really good. There's always playable space to play. There's a lot of good rotations. All the PYs feel pretty even. I just really enjoy the map.

01:52:28 I love this. Okay, we're going to keep you on every week now because positivity coming through. I feel like we're getting rid of all the positivity right now because you know what you signed up for bringing on your energy here today. We have this segment that Vicky's going to kind of kick off. It is that hot take segment. So we're going to get Vicky's and then we're going to bounce on over to you. So think about what you're going to say because I'm ready to kind of get everyone talking.

01:52:54 Ja, so I have a lot to say here, and I want to hear a lot more, too, from MGClutch later on. Originally, Gino and I share the same brain cells, so I had something completely else that I really wanted to highlight on, but I'll let Gino take that, and you have to wait for his hot take in the America show. But my hot take right now for our show is that Valk is busted, and nobody is using Valkyrie right now. Valkyrie is actually slept on, is what I'm trying to say. She's an incredibly slept on legend, and people should be using her to get through these types of...

01:53:24 E-District.

01:53:53 Ich finde, andere Teams zu nehmen. Und dann auch, Ballistik ist richtig. Oh, ist das meine Zeit? Ballistik ist Busted! Das ist alles, ich muss sagen. Autoluck auf die Abilität ist richtig. Und nicht genug Leute sagen, wie stark Ballistik ist. Ist das meine Zeit? Das ist die erste Zeit ich habe. Ich denke, so. Ich denke, so. Jetzt M.G. ist zu haben, wir hier haben. Was hast du für uns?

01:54:18 Ich denke, dass die Legend-Ban und Draft-Ban-System haben eigentlich gemacht werden. Es gibt zwei Punkte zu es. Die erste ist, dass alle guten Teams immer die besten POIs haben. Für neue Spieler kommen, besonders meine Team, wir würden nicht eine gute POI haben. Wir würden uns mit Rationen in der Mitte, keine Beacon, keine Nothin, gehen in die Zone mit vier Sails, vielleicht eine Batch-Share zwischen uns.

01:54:42 Und als auch die Legend-Bands, das bedeutet, dass jetzt die Leute nicht nur die Charaktere haben. All diese OG Spieler, die immer wieder zu spielen, können sie nicht nur die Charaktere haben. Wir haben jetzt die Freiheit, zu spielen verschiedene Charaktere, und es zeigt, weil es nicht so großartig ist, dass es nicht so großartig ist. Wir haben jetzt viele Möglichkeiten, um zu kämpfen.

01:55:02 Oh, honestly, I love it.

01:55:28 I personally love that take. Can we even consider that a hot take, Genome? Because I feel like he was just speaking the truth. Well, I think it's interesting when you say easy, like obviously you were sort of referencing yourself there, but it depends on which teams you're looking at, right? Because it's probably made it harder.

01:55:44 Die Teams sind auf der Top, weil sie, als Sie sagten, sie haben God-Poys auf jeden Map sie gehen, und jetzt haben sie mehr Balance-Poys, als die restlichen Lobbys. Es hat sich einfach alles umgebracht. Oh, completely. Ja, all right. Ich gehe.

01:56:04 Well, that was our hot takes. And chat, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on who you agree with or if you don't agree with either of those. Get talking on social media because we love to read it. Which, speaking of, guys, we do still love to read all of your chat. Now, I don't know if we were able to pull some things off around social media, whether it was on Twitter, whether it was Reddit. So I'll kind of wait and see. But it looks like that's maybe a no. And we're going to go ahead and send em.

01:56:33 It was so nice to have him here on the show. So we wish you the best of luck on your next playthroughs. Wait, no, he's still here. What's going on? I'm confused. Tell me something good. Give me the news. I don't know. I'm just still here.

01:56:51 Should we throw some questions at him? Yeah, let's do it. Honestly, Gino, what you got? What you got for MG? Well, I was having a look at some of the stats earlier, and if I'm not wrong, you played Pathfinder three times in the last Pro League day. Is that correct? At least that's lying to me. Yeah, we played Pathfinder Lifeline in the first Pro League game day. Basically, like, with our playstyle.

01:57:18 So, es gibt nur zwei Beacon Characters, Fuse und Katz. Und wenn wir keine davon haben, was können wir noch machen? Unsere Platz ist für die Third Beacon und dann in den Godspot. Und die einzige weitere Option ist Pathfinder, in der Fall.

01:57:35 Und dann, der Grund ist, dass mit Newcastle Bann ist, dass es uns die Slamm Buildings oder Slamm Fights hat und eine gute Reset Abilität mit ihr Ult und ihr Passiv. Ich denke, sie ist wirklich, wirklich OP jetzt. Plus, sie Counters Krypto, weil Krypto A&P nicht zerstört ihr Ult. So, es ist toll.

01:57:55 Yeah, that's an awesome point, actually, because obviously there's so much Crypto being played right now, and it does destroy a lot. Did you think about Rampart at all? Because obviously she's one of the other characters that you can get set up with when Newcastle is banned, but some teams, you know, sort of, I think, not prioritizing her as much as others. I don't really like Rampart because I feel like you're kind of forced into, like, a playstyle where you're holding a spot.

01:58:22 Und du hast nicht die Freiheit, um das Spiel zu expandieren. Wir preferieren spielen Characters, um uns zu kontrollieren, um das Spiel zu expandieren, um das Spiel zu clearieren. Und dann, um das Spiel zu clearieren, wir können das Spiel in. Ich denke, Rampart einfach nicht so gut für unsere Stile. Oh, das ist interessant.

01:58:44 Ich habe nur ein Ton von Rampart kommen durch auf Apec-North, ein bisschen in den Amerikas. Ich glaube, wir haben alle Kontroll-Legend gespielt bei einem Punkt während A&C in Apec-North. Aber danke euch so sehr. Ich liebe das, wenn du hierher gehst, wenn du hierher gehst. Ich liebe es sehen, ihn in Play und ich denke, dass es eine Utilisation für ihn ist. Aber wir sind jetzt in die Was-Dies-Chatt-Think, weil wir ein paar Sachen bekommen haben. Ich war nicht trolling earlier. So die erste von Panik-Apec.

01:59:13 No, no, I don't think so, but uh, MG, what do you think? No, I completely agree, no. I think that's like way too strong, especially if you give it to like a character that has fortification, like you basically are gonna have to kill like 400 HP worth of their health. It would not be a good idea.

01:59:34 It sounds like a really rough day, like an LTM that I would just be going through it. Maybe if you guys want to test that out on April 1st, like I'm down for an April Fool's Day vibe for that, but let's go ahead and kick on over to the next one. So yeah, God, I'm just thinking about it because if you give it to the Assault Legends, just imagine a Ballistic ult and it just never ends. Never ends. Ooh, this one's for Clutch. This one's for you, MG. Go for it.

02:00:01 How does it feel having the most aura in EMEA? Honestly, it feels great. In PSQs, people kind of just ran away from us, so it kind of felt good. No one wanted to fight us, so it was actually really fun. And I just have nonstop GIFs of me on Discord spread everywhere. No matter where I look, I always see myself. It's weird.

02:00:25 Okay, so you're no longer MG. You're just basically Sungjin Wu here. You're on your own solo level vibe and you're just gonna keep on the up and up. That's what people are trying to turn me into, I guess. Hey, it's not a bad thing. It is not a bad thing to be turned into, but we do have one more opinion. So let's go ahead and see. SteepCookie2. I think that Aurora gamers play better than other teams, movement, aim, etc. But they always have bad and dumb position.

02:00:54 Okay, MG, thoughts on this one? I actually think Aurora are like a really special team. Like they have some of the best, like they basically split up. If you watch Champs, they all split up the entire tournament. There's one like 300 meters away grabbing all this Evo. And then when they actually get into zone, they actually get Godspot every time. I think like their strength is in that. Like they know once they get that fair beacon, they're going to actually just pop off and win the game.

02:01:20 I think they had three wins in winner's bracket in Champs. I think they're a really smart team. It's just the way they play, people don't see it. Yeah, no, I completely agree. I'm going to hit a x2 on that for a while. But I mean, this is the last match day that we're seeing, so thank you so much for joining us here on the Halftime Show. But real quick, before you go, what are you looking forward to most about the ALGS Open in New Orleans upcoming? Ah.

02:01:48 Ich habe noch nicht in Amerika gesehen, so ich denke, es wird wirklich Spaß zu erleben. Plus, es wird mein erstes Land, auch. Ich denke, es wird Spaß zu spielen und haben das Gefühl, denn es ist ein once in a lifetime opportunity, you know? Nicht jeder bekommt die Erfahrung, also ich werde jeden seconden.

02:02:07 It really does. Oh, my gosh. We'll eat plenty of beignets, find all the good food, and stay out of the nightlife. Focus on the land for that once-in-a-lifetime experience. Thank you so much for joining us. I hope you have a great rest of your day, and we will see y'all soon. We're going to send Vicky on break as well as we look to move on over to Broken Moon, which means I am kidnapping you, Genome. We are going to do this together here as we move on to the back half of our series. You know, the one thing we did, the kidnap from Reignite.

02:02:37 Ich bin so sorry. Und als wir sehen, unsere nächste Legend ist, Katalist. Sind wir surprised? Ich bin nicht. Nicht, wirklich. Und wenn wir die anderen Regionen sehen, und die haben die Bannung.

02:03:02 Well, okay, so in APAC South, day two, she was banned first. But if you look at APAC North, she wasn't banned at all. So yeah, I mean, I would say I'm not surprised because I think in EMEA and North America, she has been a lot more highly prioritized in those regions.

02:03:21 Oh, you're not wrong. APAC North, actually, Catalyst never got banned in B versus C. But then again, neither did Newcastle. They're just doing different things over there. By this point in time, they had lost out on Crypto for game number three, and then Ballistic was their next banned. But this is the first time that we're getting Broken Moon and E-District in one six-game series, which I think is just...

Forbidden's Spaceport Strategy and Team Nemesis's Victory on Broken Moon

02:03:44

02:03:44 So fun for year 5. And of course, we've got to check in with our team. That won game number 3. 27 points. That's a massive boom to a mid-series. Oh, big game. And yeah, I agree. It is so fun with the new map. So fun, so fresh, so festive. It's Easter. Or at least it is for you. It's Monday here. But, you know, I'm already three chocolate bunnies deep.

02:04:09 Do you want to hand one over to me? Because I just had a tier basu cookie and it tasted like popcorn. So that's on me for being weird. Oh, okay. We're already kicking things off. We are just going to go, hey, maybe we can take this one out. He's literally 1 HP. You know they're screaming over here for a reply totem.

02:04:23 Damn, okay, yeah. And these two POIs always are in such close proximity to each other. You have to be worried about Spaceport if you are a Dry Gulch team. So, Forbidden, pulling out a Spaceport. If you want access to some of their beacons, the Ring Console in this instance, but most likely also the Evo Harvesters.

02:04:47 Und das ist warum sie auf der Nordseite der Dry Gulch sind, weil das ist wo der Closest Evo Harvester ist. So sie brauchen das, um die Blues zu bekommen.

02:05:04 Oh, no! And Reply Totem, they were trying to get away into court.

02:05:33 Vielleicht. Vielleicht. Vielleicht.

02:06:01 Is it bad that I have no idea what I even did, but Aurora got some kills. When you said Ash, are they gonna catch them? Oh, look, you're making me sound smarter than I really am. Oh my god, I was like, surely that has to be deliberate.

02:06:16 Yeah, it was. And look at this ring. Also deliberate here for Aurora to walk in right at the top of zone where it intersects. So we've been asking for Aurora to step it up. Typically the second half of a series that I've witnessed, at least for them here in year five split one, has been stronger. And after MG kind of hyping them up, saying they're a special team, we know that. Like just the way that they have had one of the most intricate play styles, that it's just like, it's got to work eventually, right?

02:06:43 Eventually. You'd hope so. You'd hope so. But as you can see, we've got Forbidden kill farming reply totem over here in Spaceport. They've somehow cottoned onto the fact that the respawn was in earnest, and as soon as they come down from the dropship, it will just be extra KP going into the back pocket of Forbidden. Ooh, I mean, they weren't going to let that one go.

02:07:11 You know, if you let Wandy Jax try to hit a full reset, you see a neighboring POI, the dropship comes on and you're like, I'm just going to push on out to that. Now, are they alone up here in spaceport as they kind of decide to go over towards the east just a bit or were teams going to be looking to find more information in potential isolated fights? You can see FaZe here, Synetic on your screen, maybe wanting to take an isolated 3v3.

02:07:38 Ja, so potential for that fight to happen, but we're going to be switching over to one that is happening right now. And as we go over to Stasis Array, where the zone is pulling, you're seeing ninjas in pajamas, really struggling. And even though Surdell had the interception pylon down, you can see that zapping away a lot of the fuse alt. They're still in so much trouble. So good seeing Surdell back onto the Watson, but Max here on Valk. Vicky should be happy.

02:08:06 A Dance Around the Boxes and Ninjas in Pajamas will fall in 18th place with Uaim picking up some well-needed KP as they're still trying to get up into maybe the upper top 10 here for Beavers to see. Oh, but Max, here comes the third party. Team Nemesis, the noise is making the call. Sure, the Crypto EMP is going to be a little difficult and try to hold them back. But it's only just a couple second delay on that push.

02:08:35 Yeah, I mean they've got the Rampart, MGClutch was saying he's not a huge fan of it, but that makes sense because they were, you know, they're playing Edge and it's a very different playstyle for Team Nemesis, who managed to get in here nice and quickly, all of a sudden the Rampart starts to look good. The only thing I'll say is that teams have cottoned on to the fact that without the walls, she's, you know, she loses a lot of her power, right?

02:09:02 Es fühlt sich wie alle Team ist, die Schmutzung der Schmutzung von den Schmutzern, wenn sie Rampart sehen. Es ist einfach eine Reaktion. Und als eine Resulte, sie hat nicht so viel Defensive Power als sie hat.

02:09:17 It's true. Honestly, it's the first thing you need to do anytime you see those. Those walls take, what, like five to eight seconds to go up? So if you can take that Amped Cover portion of it and deny them getting that damage boost, brilliant. I did see another Caustic. So some teams are looking to bring that back in for the Controller Legend, especially if you're going to be holding buildings on Broken Moon. But as we still kind of play through the Solar Array area, some teams still up in Alpha Base. Base Clan, whoever, going for that massive rotation up towards Dry Gulch and Spaceport, have found...

02:09:45 in der Core, still looking, hunting for some edge fights.

02:10:15 Okay, well, if you've already got one down from the Gaming Gladiators team, it's kind of unfortunate Vicky was highlighting the fact that they've been struggling getting into the late game, but can grab kills early on. And with Alliance having a rather slow start on E-District.

02:10:29 So, Ballistic ult in hand, looking for the rest of GG. Ooh, okay, yeah, GG. Taking some losses, having to pull all the way out into the Divide to look for a potential.

02:10:53 um reset here you can't even see they've gone off the map off reservation to try and get back into game four here so alliance playing from eternal gardens um it looks like they'll be go able to go up to that sort of the big open platform uh with the bins that f9 are sitting uh on the building just outside of that i i don't mind that spot from alliance i think they'll be able to push in from there

02:11:19 fairly easily. It just depends how far into Stasis Array this zone closes or if it does actually swing a little more east towards Eternal Gardens. That will be interesting and I'm kind of basing my calls off of where Pengu Power goes. They have that ring console that they're holding down on the cliff side and they've been really accurate.

02:11:39 on which fights they need to take later into Ring 3 and 4 to put themselves into Godspot. So they've made a lot of solid calls on E-District, but I'm curious if Broken Ramoon will remain the same because WEH and 10K also had a lot of the same. And WEH is holding kind of the southern side over by Hazmat Tunnel. And 10K is up just ahead with the Rampart walls all situated. Yeah, you can see GG.

02:12:06 Throwing out the drone to minimize some ring damage and get the respawns there. Ring 2 is closing at the moment, so you really want to be staying as close to that as you can. Try and minimize the amount of meds you're going to need. The ring is quite far away, having to push all the way through Terraformer to get back. But Alliance looks like they might be taking another fight against VC. Go right now!

02:12:33 Look, if you're feeling more comfortable on Broken Moon, get the fights out of the way. Take them all. Like, you can make this right in this one to two games on the back half of this series. We saw a 27-point game, which would do massive numbers and put them... Look, I'm not going to do math, but close to 40, which I think is brilliant. So, effect here, using that Ballistic ult to speed on up towards Solar Array. And from a distance with the G7 Scout, can we pick a couple off? It would be nice.

02:13:02 Yeah, interesting. So they don't stick on that platform. They decide to take this cliff, which overlooks a lot of Stasis Array. And yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense, right? They'll just have to worry about their back with teams like Annex Esports, who could do potentially like a zone wrap or maybe an evac over the top. I'm not sure what's even possible around that mountain range, but it does look like they've got people watching their back. So Alliance should be okay for any Alliance enjoyers out there.

02:13:29 Stasis Enjoyers, that's right. I don't know what I was thinking, calling it Solar. Maybe that's where I'm just going for, but Aurora that has moved up on the fence line. Look, that's one of my nice positions that I think is going to be really interesting for them. The question is, can they hold out their backside on this? Because people can easily pop down, and the next thing you know, you're fighting way too many teams. So Nine Impulse here, back on the Mirage, locking it in, popping over the fence, and the Geogasser goes.

02:13:56 We're just gonna try and finish this out, but we do lose nine Impulse in the process. Kazak and Oirein link up together. Can we get the friend back? Nice. Sadly, it's not the Mirage rezzing and getting that sort of invis buff when that happens, but oh my, the ultimate's coming out now. We're seeing EMPs, rolling thunders, lots of ultimates and utility pop.

02:14:21 Oh. Oh.

02:14:49 Nothing like being tethered. But a moment of reprieve. I mean, you have Team Nemesis on the inside, which makes sense. They're playing Rampart. They can use the amped covers to cover the walls, especially the doors if they're being broken. But Annex still being held out. Not a good position to find yourself in this late into the game. You're chaining your heels. They do actually go for that zone wrap, right, that we were talking about. But as you say...

02:15:15 Ja, sie müssen sich definitiv sein. Sie haben zwei Ache Portals, vielleicht können sie einen zu kommen und einen zu kommen, einen zu kommen und einen zu kommen. Aber Allianz ist es, und sie haben gesagt, dass es kommt.

02:15:28 Okay, WEH just continuing to rack up points on the board. Started off with a massive game in game number one, but here we go. Annex finally trying to push on in and Alliance holding it out. The smart bullet to really hone on in because they're going to have to walk right through that unless they kind of isolate through. But when you've got the Watson fence on the left, you're just like, welcome to my traps.

02:15:51 Ja, ich meine, die EMP kam in von Annex dort, also haben sie die Watschen Utilität, die die Allianz hat sich um. Ich meine, es ist sogar weird, dass die Allianz auf die Watschen zu sehen. Es tut mir nicht so gut, aber man muss sich sehr, sehr, sehr gut sein, aber man muss sich sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr.

02:16:16 Oh, ein paar Armorswappen kommen in! Oh mein Gott, die Dammage kommt wieder!

02:16:41 The way of VCGO is impressive for Alliance. I thought they were done for sure. And yes, even with those replies, they don't manage to weather the storm of VCGO just porting straight at them. Oh, job's not done for the mid game.

02:16:59 Yep, KCP.

02:17:24 Looking over F9, and yeah, the zone is very much towards Stasis Array, right? Like, it's gonna be in between the sort of spaceship landing platform and the main building of Stasis Array. Somewhere in there is where the zone will be ending up. So, I think actually the buildings to the south of Stasis are probably...

02:17:44 The more impressive ones, the more solid ones to be holding. And we've got teams like Infinite here going up against WEH. And yeah, this is important fights and important positions to be looking after.

02:17:59 F9 falloff screen and WHEH trying to take down Infinite, your Matchday 1 winners. It's wild to see just how much of a leveling up that WHEH has done as they claim this building that you proclaimed was going to be incredibly important because it is inside that next circle until we find out where does it go from here. VCGO finally, KCP here on the other side. They made that movement from taking it over and now trades on either Falcons here.

02:18:27 Can we hold on? Visiko does fall though, but I don't think we're going to be able to regain. We're soloing it out potentially for the rest of the match.

02:18:35 Forbidden, second in the lobby overall. And they're looking to wrap around the north side of Stasis. They've got it actually pretty much to themselves right now. So if they can hold this fence line out, I like the composition here with Ash and Fuse. You put one of those on either side while zero and nothing is just coming in the drone where they have to worry and look at these other teams. So if they can shove...

02:18:59 10k away from them and also potentially scare aurora a little bit and make some space for themselves as they push towards the eastern side of this zone um you know forbidden could be in a good spot

02:19:11 I love that you say if they could scare Aurora. Meanwhile, Aurora is literally hunting down BPR. It's the Boogeyman. They are chasing them down and clearing out the western side of things. But more Crypto EMPs coming our way as Forbidden is going to have to get over to the western side of things. But with Ashe still being in play and having the ultimate there, I can see the Motherlode trying to get prepped for an endgame position.

02:19:35 Pengu Power in WEH had to nuke it out there on that southern side of things, but look at the high ground here! We just have to point the P2020s down, and Pengu Power is done and dusted. Importance of high ground 101. Man, and I feel like P20s are so strong from height as well, because with other guns, you kind of have to adjust the recoil and whatnot, but like P20s, you don't really, so you just lock your reticle on them from above, and then it's GG.

02:20:03 And they walk into a solid position, but it's Forbidden and Aurora on the northern side of things. This has to be decided upon. Either Forbidden fights this or they decide to kind of rotate over towards the east. Either way it goes, you're potentially sandwiching another team. We do still have that one lone member of Pioneers as we move on in towards that main building. Aurora, after pushing out BPR and moving Forbidden, likely will seek to third party this.

02:20:31 Yeah, interesting. So Forbidden, they don't want to, yeah, sort of have to worry about Aurora and the position that they're in right now. They're actually switching their attention to some of the teams inside, like Team Nemesis, who will probably have some space to play inside that building in the next zone. So they don't necessarily have to leave yet. It'll just be a little bit iffy.

02:20:55 Well, there goes the solo from Pioneers. Out in 6th place, our top 5 teams here. Now, no real fight has broken out, but we did see the free cam just a moment ago. There was a member of WEH that was still scouting for any push from Aurora of moving south on the western side as opposed to, like, kind of circling around where Forbidden has gone.

02:21:14 But it does seem that WEH has set their sights straight onto Aurora. A Motherlode is down. Try to circle them and find that advantage, especially if you can pop on up around this staircase and take a bit of high ground from them. But if you don't get that initial damage or that knock you're looking for, we kind of just end up prolonging this too long. Yeah, exactly.

02:21:34 Und Sie können das nicht passieren können, denn es gibt Möglichkeiten für die anderen Teams. Aber nein, die Aurora finden die Möglichkeit. Und sie haben 2 W-E-H. Und als sie versuchen, sie auszudrücken, sie finden 10k zu Ende. Das ist eine Ballistik-Ult-Retaliation, wenn ich so sage. Sure, Sie gehen mit einem 3rd-Party, als Forbidden...

02:21:56 Und jetzt haben wir auf die 5-Titel gekauft. Und jetzt haben wir 10-K, die sind in der Zeit, in der Zeit. Und jetzt haben wir 10-K, die in der Zeit, in der Zeit, in der Zeit, um sie zu sehen, ob sie eine Reset von Forbidden können. Aber Team Nemesis muss die Schilder der Stasis zu verlassen.

02:22:14 Yeah, the aggression coming out of 10k and Forbidden, though, have pushed them into a corner, and Team Nemesis seizing that opportunity, pushing out of the main building in Stasis, and now have the majority of the zone to themselves, sitting center zone with only 10k left to go. Let's see which one of these two teams takes it out. Two wildly different legend compositions, both playing Rampart, though...

02:22:39 Zuni mit der Ballistik ult, der Rampage und der Sling, ist alles aufgerüstet und bereit zu fire, mit Trades auf beide Seite und Minimal Health. Können wir den Distanz? Finish Blow, Remix Powers, und Zuni versuchen zu finden Kaishii, und wir tun Team Nemesis. Wir nehmen die erste Map des Tages auf Broken Moon. Wow, gut effort da von Team Nemesis. Wir haben das.

02:23:04 Pushed themselves into second spot, actually. Up with 47 points. So, yeah, incredible work from Team Nemesis. That was an interesting game from start to finish from them.

Team Nemesis's Valkyrie, Ballistic, Rampart Composition and Series Results

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02:23:18 Completely. And it's actually interesting that this comes right after our halftime where Vicky gives her hot take about saying Ballistic is busted and Valkyrie's great. So now that they're running Valk Ballistic Rampart, they hit a win here on Broken Moon. They grab 19 total points, which is brilliant. Forbidden, though, they prioritize a lot of fighting towards that endgame and kind of hopping on well-timed third parties. Grab 10 KP.

02:23:42 Very nice, yeah. I mean, obviously there was some fighting they had to do to take control of the main building, but then picking and choosing the timing, we saw Aurora sort of fail that check, as well as the other teams that were outside, but Nemesis thread the needle and come out with the dub.

02:24:00 as well as 7KP. Yeah, as I'm kind of like correlating where this is, we pull up some stats. Team Nemesis started in Internal Gardens, 10K in Stasis, Forbidden over there in Spaceport. So all on the northern side of things where it ends on the north in Broken Moon. So Noise is grabbing, you know, three kills, sharing that with Remix. But overall, nothing too crazy on the Outlier segments, but we did see Forbidden have a really big game in game number three, and it was Slab that kind of controlled a lot of those kills. And he put up 2K.

02:24:29 So not bad at all. Yep, big numbers there. And as we switch across to the series results, you can see that Team WEH are still up ahead, but now the margin has slimmed. It's gone on a diet. We only got one point ahead of Team Nemesis after their dub, and only one more point between them and Forbidden. So the top end of this looking very tight, very exciting.

02:24:57 Oh, I'm so excited. This is going to make the last two games of our match day number three insane. But before we get there, we are going to jump to a quick break. So we'll have Vicky and Genome Casting on the other side.

02:25:26 ...shall descend upon this world, and bestow upon it... ...ma body. What offerings do you bring, thy beautiful vestige? I demand they be sharp and explosionized. Ha ha! You are making quite the scene. For me not to be in it, what the hell?

02:25:58 This fighting pleases me.

02:27:01 Welcome back, everyone, to EMEA B vs. C. It's looking great here as we take a look at our teams that have been shaping up the Total Series. Very tied here, too, Genome, as we close in the gap for a lot of the squads that popped off earlier on on E-District. Yeah, absolutely. Only two points between first and third. It is very tied there up at the top, and here's one of those teams that is looking to take out a victory today. Picking up...

02:27:29 Ein paar Kills und Placement Points sind ziemlich balanced für diese Leute über at WEH. Forbidden, via Contrast, haben viele Massive-Games. Sie starten mit gar nicht in Game 1 und 2 und dann haben sie eine Win-Win mit 15 Kills und eine 3rd-Place mit 10 Kills.

02:27:50 It's just been a ramp up here to see our squads really popping off now as we make that transition into Broken Moon 2. We talked about it earlier, the Ballistic. We saw the Valve Team Nemesis though being able to wrap up around this fence line. You and Tiff took it away here with our final two squads before Team Nemesis was able to get the Evil Shield swap and then the Finishing Blow on that final team.

02:28:12 Yep, yep. Nice little Stasis Array finish. I'm not sure I've seen one of those in Pro League before. And that's one of the fun things about having new maps, right? It's like we're getting these exciting new finishes that the audience probably hasn't seen before, unless they're, you know, maybe a diehard Scrims watcher where you've...

02:28:29 Obviously, you would have played these in probably your ranked games, but your ranked games don't look like ALGS. It's kind of two very different systems of playing Apex, frankly. So always cool to see how it shakes out when you've got the best players in the world turning their minds to the strategies that you need to be playing when you've got 10 teams pulled into one POI and really all fighting over Godspot.

Legend Bans, FaZe's Struggles, and Broken Moon Strategies

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02:28:58 And you're absolutely right, by the way, Genome. There hasn't been a circle thus far in ALGS on Broken Moon over by Stasis. We've actually seen one over by the south side of Alpha Base, but nowhere near by Stasis. We haven't seen one in Eternal Garnerins, Breaker Wharf. So it's been nice to see, at least now starting things off on Broken Moon, a bit of diversity as we dive into game number five. And we see that Crypto has broken the tiebreaker versus Ash on PickRate to be the next Legend Band before diving into game number five.

02:29:27 Ja, so if you've got multiple Legends that have been played equally as much in one game, because obviously we're banning it from, you know, one game to the next, you start going down from the top of the list who placed higher in the previous game, and the first team to only use one of those Legends, that's the Legend that will get banned. So in this case, it was a team that had used Crypto and not, sorry, what was the other Legend that was...

02:29:56 Ich glaube, es war Ash. Ash, ja. So, der, der, der Hire-Placing-Team würde aufnehmen, Krypto und nicht Ash, und deshalb Krypto wird aufbauen.

02:30:08 That's huge here. Seeing now that Crypto has left from the lobby, gotta check up on Kachira. Now I know they're gonna be doing great. A team that does need to really start kicking things off though. I'm thinking about FaZe really needing to start turning things around. Currently sitting in 20th overall in the series for diving into this fifth game.

02:30:29 Ja, das ist kind of nuts, huh? Just thinking about FaZe's performance over the last two weeks when...

02:30:56 Especially coming into the season, I think Vicky coming into this year, coming into this split, we really had high hopes for them. Synetic has been amazing in the past. He's been a really special player and he's got a solid team around him. So it really feels like they have all the pieces they should need to succeed. Is it, you know, what is the reason behind them failing to perform here? Is it the legend bands?

02:31:25 I don't know, coaching strategy. I'm not sure their background is there, but we'll have to keep an eye and see if they can perhaps swing it back in these last two games. When you have really two good controller players and only two kills today, there's definitely something here that needs to be looked at. Maybe their momentum being halted over by E-District, now making their way into Broken Moon, not really breaking that curse. Now taking a look, though, at...

02:31:53 Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.

02:32:23 Yeah, I'd be extremely surprised if this went past the mountains to somewhere like the Divide. We have been seeing a lot of terraformer zones. Almost, maybe not to the extent, but a little bit similar to Energy Bank, right? Where it's a central sort of POI, and there's just a lot of big mountains around it, which, as we said, kind of bounces the zone inwards.

02:32:52 All right, the action though, starting off quick here for Gaming Gladiators. The teams with the Fuse and Ballistic and Bangalore trying to take shots at the squad flying right overhead them. NIP already going to be able to try to play off the corners, north side of Bionomics, while Gaming Gladiators are going to let them fly by. There is a Survey Beacon and a Ring Console there. VC Go though in the neighboring building next to Gaming Gladiators and right behind VC Go, as you can see, is going to be Team Nemesis.

02:33:20 Okay, so ein paar Teams. Especially Team Nemesis hier.

02:33:26 As we said, one point, a single kill will start jockeying them between one spot and another and overtaking those other teams ahead of them on the leaderboard. It wouldn't be the first time that we've had a Pro League decided by one point or less. Highlights the skill and how some teams are closing in the skill gap that we could see in these lobbies. Team Nemesis being one of the squads rocking that Valkyrie too while they...

02:33:55 Ja, okay, so...

02:34:22 Phase, als wir sehen, nur ein paar Punkte zu ihrem Namen. Zane versucht, um die Fuse ult zu machen. Und er hat es geschafft. Das ist ein Barsch zu ihrer Confidence, die Sorge geplant sind. Huge hier für Phase. Das ist was wir jetzt erwarten. Wir werden jetzt zu starten, um hier auf Broken Moon zu starten. Und das ist wie du angefangen hast, um die KP zu starten.

02:34:48 V.C. Goh haben noch nicht von diesem Gebäude. Es ist N.I.P., das ist jetzt, die wir jetzt auf dem, nachdem wir sie fliehen über. Gaming Gladiators sind jetzt auf der anderen Seite, die V.C. Goh haben, das könnte sich auch auf den 3-P. Wenn sie nicht mit Team Nemesis sind, die wir wissen, sind wir auf den Outskirts. Ja, es ist so ein weirder Ort zu haben, wie ein Pylon hier.

02:35:12 Es ist nicht einfach ein Platz, das man sieht, als defensible ist. Es hat mich gefragt, ein Nip, für eine solche Strategie, wo auch, wenn man sich...

02:35:24 Even if you expect the Zone to pull on Terraformer side, you can still hug the wall for as long as possible and then potentially put an evac on the top of this building that we see here. In some spots in Broken Moon, I don't know if this is one of them, the evac on top of those types of buildings will get you over the cliff and you can make it across to the other side. So potentially if they fight for Supremacy in that spot, it'll be a very late evac rotation into Zone.

02:35:52 That's an amazing point, Genome. Yes, you're absolutely, especially on that building too, right? Unless there's been some sort of patch, but yes, you absolutely can off of that building with an evac or a Valkyrielle. To see KCP though inside of this building. Terraformer already getting so many other squads to start sharing some of this space. Reply Totem on the other side, hugging that ring console. While KCP are looking at the team that may be playing right underneath them. Believe that could be Infinite that's still inside their building. Yeah, it is. They're gonna be on the other side, still rocking full blues.

02:36:21 Yeah, they're just coexisting for the moment. No Mad Maggies in this region by the looks of it to start drilling them through the walls and potentially get some openings that way. I guess the other things we should have mentioned there is that when we were looking at Forbidden previously, they've switched on to Seer. So we've got Seer in the lobby now. We have been seeing just a scant amount of that Legend making its way into the latter half of Ceres now with the Legend Bands.

02:36:49 Es zeigt sich die diversität, all diese Legend-Compositions und was wirklich in die Spieler-Strengthen und wie sie fühlen fühlen, wie sie diese Zonen fühlen. Ja, sogar map-by-map als auch. Wir haben sehr wenig Wraith hier, aber viele Bangalore, so Teams natürlich preferieren zu haben Smoke Rotations, rather than Portal Rotations auf Broken Moon, als opposed zu E-District.

02:37:15 Awesome to be able to take advantage of that server. We can scan here too. Nice shots here with the Eva A into immediately utilizing the Ashe ult. Trying to take out to the high ground. Trying to cut them off. Nice placement on the stair. Look how that slowdown on the Ashe has affected their ability to get away as JP2 out for blood to take out Lyphen.

02:37:36 Denze in der mit der DASH und endet auf die Last Member von Annex E-Sports und ihr könnt sehen, ihr wisst, Nemesis E-E-A, no need to be playing a, actually, no, ich sage das, no need to be playing an Accelerator Weapon, well, not to charge up your Evo, but one of the reasons a lot of teams aren't running that loadout, Vicky, is because the extra utility gives you in charging up your ult.

02:38:02 Und der Evo ist so einfach in Endzones, wo man will use an Ultimate and then quickly get another one up and running. And the Evo right there, too. It's just crazy. Crazy to be able to see the Accelerator really impact how some of these players are going to be able to get that Evo Shooter charge here, going to be able to get that Ulti ready to go to closing that gap here, as we can get to see where our teams are positioned right now on the outskirts. Gaming Gladiators and VC Go!

02:38:28 Like you mentioned, Genome, I don't see them moving anywhere because they are going to try to utilize either the evac tower or if another team moves up, the Valkyrie ult to get around the other side of the mountain. But just waiting out this side here to look at the teams like Alliance, who will be uncontested by this choke unless Nemesis decide to fully commit on that rotate. They still have enough time to rotate on the outskirts of Atmos Station, so we'll see where they're going to be going into. While we take a look at FaZe Full Purples, let's jump into a listening with FaZe while they plan their next rotate.

02:38:58 Es ist frei!

02:39:04 Ja, ich bin schon. Ja, ich bin schon.

FaZe's Fight with Forbidden, WEH's Loss, and the Importance of Comms

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02:39:31 Just wait for zero to go. Okay, it's on Ash seiren we should try to see him right now. I see a fuse. Yeah

02:39:56 I love the comms that we're hearing. Synetik is still able to stay alive. He was burned though by the team that was up on high, but you could hear the comms recognizing the Seer and Fuse team right across from them. Okay, looks like the fight will start in earnest now and Synetik unfortunately is gonna drop first.

02:40:15 His teammates move close to him to see if they can potentially create an opportunity where the res is possible. And Zayn, the pickup from ninjas in pajamas, has a lot resting on his head, honestly. Known as a very mechanically gifted player. He obviously hasn't been able to have the impact on FaZe so far that he would have liked.

02:40:40 We'll be able to get the reset at the very least here and the res. You can see the pings. They weren't able to clean up that last straggler trying to get away now from out of their line of sight. Looking at the fighting that has not stopped though. While FaZe reset from that fight originally with Forbidden. Now we get to take a look at WEH. They lose out on Fito though. Fuse in the backside.

Alliance's Herausforderungen und BPR's Dominanz

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02:40:59 Es ist nur Rund 2, aber auf der anderen Seite, Excused ist, kann man sich auf diese Positionen nehmen. Plus, dass es noch zwei BPR-Members gibt. Es wird sehr schwer sein. Und sie werden Eliminate. Allianz-Effekt wird, dass es noch mehr K.P.

02:41:20 Obviously, we know what these guys are capable of. Consensus, best team in the world in ALGS Year 4, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen again this year. Everything's different this year, and they have to be able to make those changes. As they come in off the back here to try and take down BPR, FaZe Clan get involved as well, and it kind of seems like...

02:41:43 Es ist ein bisschen schwer für Allianz heute in ein paar Senses. Sie wissen, dass jederzeit sie zu kämpfen, es ist immer ein 3D-Party ready. Sie können nicht finden die isolierten Fights, die sie zu verabschieden lassen, und die Punkte zusammenbinden.

02:41:58 Das und die Circle Pools, auch. Sie haben 22 Punkte und 18 von Kp. Sie versuchen, diese Fights smart, aber wir sind auch in der Zeit, wo das Zone Pool ist. Es ist schwer, weil Faze jetzt auf die Fahne zu füllen, auf BPR. Insofern ist das Gebäude. No Wadson Fence zu stoppen. Hier, no Krypto needed, obviously, being banned von Lobby. Nice Natos, though. Gonna be able to get that, knock it in the distance. The Lions are waiting. They repositioned to put themselves in the best spot, 2-3-P, this fight that they saw coming, but they lose.

02:42:27 Oh, Hackus! Er ist ein bisschen greedy, um zu gehen für den Fall zu gehen, und er wird Knocht als ein Result!

02:42:37 Now Unlucky, trying to get both of his teammates back into the fight, but more teams have turned up. There's almost no chance. Yet another low finish for Alliance. Alliance getting eliminated. Forbidden coming back. Aurora making their face show up against BPR again before backing away after not liking the situation. Forbidden now resetting. Ring 3 closing, but they're on the edge of this next zone. Still taking a look, though, at Aurora to make sure that they're not going to be able to rewrap.

02:43:06 Ich denke, dass Slab die Heir-Apparent in der EMEA-Region ist, als ein Charakter, der in den ersten Stages des ALGS war, aber dann hat so viel Potenzial. Und es scheint, dass wir das hier heute sehen, in dieser Gruppe-Match-Up.

02:43:35 What's insane is this circle pool. We take a look at Forbidden trying to engage here originally with the Artstar Slabslides and Kiera alongside Aku to get that knock here. Now it's in your feet. Get eliminated. Still another left for BPR. He manages to get away while Forbidden take over this building. They get pinged from afar. That's you aim who are looking at them with the 30-30 it seems. But this zone pool is insane. Pooling completely over to the east side.

02:43:59 And by 10K, who have been uncontested, F9 are trying to take that building away from them if they can. 10K set up, though, with the Rampart walls is huge here for them to play off that high ground and look at all the teams that will be funneled in their direction. Yeah, it's insane when you are a Rampart team. If you do correctly guess the zone, rotate early enough and find a strong position like this.

02:44:21 Yeah, that's just the ideal scenario. And if you try to make rotations with her, not so great. So 10K, this is the game that they need to convert on. They're sitting in fourth place already, so it's been a solid day for them. This could be the one that puts them in contention.

02:44:39 10k lands in stasis too, so gonna be able to make that rotate from that east side of the map. Infinite, aha, I hear the PP singing in my ear. The P20's really making the statement. Infinite now over on this low ground, still looking at KCP up right on top of them. And they're not the only ones, right? Team Nemesis on the outskirts here too. We know that U-Aim were trying to hold back Forbidden on the edge of zone. And Gaming Gladys will slowly make an appearance here while you hear the P2020 sing in the middle.

02:45:09 Zones closing on them though, so GG do have to make a move closer to a team like Aurora, who's currently within the zone, but currently with only one out of their three team members. Make that none. Now you see him, now you don't. Eliminated from this lobby. Sliding down, UAM also trying to fight for their lives. FG up on the high ground here.

02:45:34 Eben Gladys haben ihn zu bewegen. Nice Krabkirchen hier. Aku mit dem Motherload. NIP get eliminated. Trying to hold them back. It's GG. Trying to force their way up. But they are at an Evo Shield disadvantage. Full blues versus the full purples that we're currently seeing from Forbidden. Nice. UAM get eliminated. I'd rather actually Gold Evo here for 0-0.

02:45:56 Nice for them. Moving up to the platform here. On top of Terraformer, we've got SGP finishing off a couple of kills. That's Pioneers going down. Nemesis will pull up on top of them. GG versus Forbidden. You gotta remember, last time Seer was in the meta, accelerator weapons were not a thing. So just think about the potential uptime you have on the exhibit, on the Seer ult, with the changes we've had in the game now.

02:46:25 And imagine that, matching that together with the Motherload potentially. GG, they'll take a different angle. Huge protest here. Gaming Gladiators, with Luka being on that fuse, put in so much pressure in that corner. Gaming Gladiators completely reversing the situation. And now I've been able to take care of two from FG. Oh, it's big ups from GG. You've got quite a few kills so far in this game. And it looks like, yeah, Forbidden completely eliminated.

02:46:54 Ich glaube, es war die Ache-Port in die Zone. Ich glaube, es war Kai'Sha mit der Bowen, der hier hat, hat sich das kill gemacht. Und das ist 10K, die Postung auf. Ich meine, als ob die Bowen nicht genug gemacht hat, Vicky. Es ist hinter der Amp-Cover.

02:47:13 Let it sing. Look at the ping. He wants it. They're not going to move here. Yeah, right? The bow check, especially behind the ant barrier, just so scary. It makes you cry a little bit while Gaming Gladiator is trying to find an angle here.

02:47:37 Das war's für heute. Und GG, nachdem wir in den Rampart-Wall.

02:47:52 Good luck with an R9 versus two double P 2020 staring you in the face. It's going to be a lot to deal with here. They try to reset the reply totem waiting for them. Andy Giants gets taken out first and catch just trying to help them allow the circle to put in the pressure right behind Nevis' back and they clean them up. Now get the loot that they need and they're going to be able to get the reset on the res before the slide in though.

02:48:14 Ja, ich meine, wir haben die Position, die 10K hat und gesagt, ich meine, das ist richtig, besonders mit der Rampart auf der Seite. Und ja, es ist nicht even ein Kon-Test. Die anderen Teams sind all krippled und, you know, just...

02:48:41 Just walking around on one leg by the time that 10K even gets into the fight freest win you will see today.

02:48:48 Yeah, well, we take a look at the match results, right? Because they were in that position for quite some time, Gino. But with the Bocek and Gachero's hands being on the Ashe too, they still were able to pepper in a good amount of pressure and damage. They got 8 KP on top of the dub with Reply Totem getting second place with 5 KP. We saw F9 trying to make some magic happen, trying to go in for the 3P as a solo. Couldn't get the KP, but at least was able to get the top three finish.

02:49:15 It's weird, that's the second team we've seen so far today, who's gone heavy on placement points without grabbing any kills, but interesting, a good spread across our top performers here. As you can see, Noises pitching in with the assists, Kishara grabbing four kills. That's actually, it's a little bit low for an Apex Predator stat, the same as the Warlord, only getting 1500 damage. So yeah, that means it's obviously been spread out across our contestants here.

02:49:44 I'm taking a look at the series results to talk about the damage film. Let's take a look at where our teams are standing and it's still so incredibly tight with Team Nemesis now taking that first place spot with 59 total forbidden right behind him with 55. We were talking about WH for so long, but still very possible with one pop off game having 48 points with 10 K after that dub setting themselves up for the top three with 52 points.

02:50:09 Nice, but yeah, it's still tight up the top there. WEH falling behind a little bit now, sub 50 after they weren't able to hang on. But this last game, it's going to be an exciting one with that many teams close together, Vicky. I feel like time is just flying by. I cannot believe it, but we have one more game to go here on Broken Moon. Don't go anywhere. It'll come to you on the other side of this break.

02:50:42 Lai-Ker

02:51:05 Bis zum nächsten Mal. Bis zum nächsten Mal.

02:51:28 FNATIC REJECTは確認できています。

02:52:00 Das war's für heute. Das war's für heute.

02:52:24 Wachtage ist er in der Karte. Das ist er in der Karte. Das ist er in der Karte. Das ist er in der Karte. Das ist er in der Karte. Das ist er in der Karte.

Letztes Spiel auf 'Broken Moon' und Legendenauswahl

02:53:21

02:53:21 With all the action shaping up here, we got one more game to go while we dive into Broken Moon. Game number six, and we say goodbye to another Legend Genome. Yeah, we do have another one leaving us behind, but first let's have a quick look at that final circle here.

02:53:42 Ich bin ja, wir werden viel zu sehen von den anderen Teams, die sich um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,

02:54:10 Ja, es war einfach ein bisschen zu late, so dass sie dann auch ein Kp aus der Solo von F9 gehen können, aber es ist einfach nicht so, dass sie das Kp sind, aber nicht so, dass sie das Kp sind, bevor sie das Kp sind, dass sie das letzte Kp sind und 10 Kp sind, aber in die besten Plätze, dass sie so, dass sie in das Kp sind, so dass sie das Kp sind. Ja.

02:54:32 Yeah, there was just a great zone read from Kashira there. Obviously, you know, one of the most experienced IGLs in the entire world. And he's proved it with that one because the best thing you can do as an IGL really is just put your team in a position where they can't lose.

02:54:52 Yeah, and it's crazy to be able to see the flip side of things of this lobby, right? We keep highlighting Alliance, how they keep finding themselves in these difficult situations where they're getting this KP, but the placement points where these circle pulls have been pulling have not allowed them to benefit. Faze now waking up a little bit, going to be able to get some KP themselves, but still taking a little too long. Now, again, we're just on the last game here. We've been able to figure out which of these teams have been able to be able to adjust to the legend bands, to the different map pools.

02:55:21 We've had here going in from E-District to Broken Moon. You still have a lot of that open ground, but less buildings for cover, less space to coexist with. Aside, of course, that last zone, we do have a lot of space for that Terra 400 to exist, but it's in the opening once that zone ends up pulling away.

02:55:37 Yeah, and Zone's definitely been pulling away from some teams like Alliance today, right? Getting some great stats here from production. Alliance have 83% of their points today coming from kill points versus only 17% from placement points. If you contrast that with a team like Pengu Power, they've had 64% of their points from placement points and only 36% from kills. And then, ooh, again, F9.

02:56:05 89% so far from placement points. I think that was off the back of that game where they had, what was it like? They got a second or a third and got no KB with it. So yeah, look, some interesting variances throughout our lobby so far.

02:56:20 Yeah, because then you take a look at the fact that Alliance sitting in 13th overall with only 24 points. You have one game to go. And then you look at, for example, Team Nemesis sitting in first place with 59 points. It highlights how kill heavy they've been. Almost matching that of Alliance is still a bit of a difference there because Alliance having only 24 kills. But it's rather 24 points and 20 kills. But it's still the placement, the ability to find yourself in this next zone that I just keep pulling away from Alliance. It's been very unlucky here. When we take a look at our...

02:56:50 All right, see you later.

02:56:59 Interesting differences between, you know, you can see the correlation between damage done and the kills picked up. So obviously WEH and Forbidden had much more arduous paths towards victory in games 1 and 3 versus the other teams who picked up 7 and 8 kills and only had to put out about, you know, half or 3k damage throughout the course of a game. So as Ash gets banned, you can see it's actually nice and evenly spread. One Assault, one Controller, one Skirmisher, one Recon, one Support.

02:57:29 So essentially the best character from each class has now been banned out.

02:57:36 I love this. I like it. I don't know. Honestly, just seeing my OCD brain just sort this out in the way that it is. Having one Legend band from each section really highlights how everybody has just been able to adjust in their own different ways. We've seen Lifeline. We've seen the Gibby at one point. We've seen the Mirage. We've seen the Cossack. We've seen the Rampart. We see the Watson. Everyone's been able to be played in their own way, really. Mostly, at least, we've been seeing the Valkyrie. We talked about the Seer before, too, as well as the Ballistic. So it really helps elevate.

02:58:05 wie diese Teams noch benutzen diese verschiedenen Legends zu tun, was die vorherigen Band-Legend waren, aber anders zu bringen.

02:58:14 Und ja, es wird wieder anders sein, als wir in unsere 6-Games hier sehen, was die Teams sind für uns. Ich bin nicht eigentlich sehen, dass es nichts zu verrückt ist. Manchmal sieht man auch wilde Sachen hier in Game 6, aber ein paar Wotts und Picks, ein paar Valkyrie. Es scheint, ohne die Option zu haben, gute Setup-Legend, gute Rotation-Legend.

02:58:38 A lot of teams are actually saying, you know what? We'll play Valken, we'll slam it. We think Vicky's right.

02:58:44 It's just hard, too, because in terms of positioning with Valkyrie, right, like looking on the other side of the coin, if I had more time during my hot take, it's really hard, especially in lobbies like this, to be able to take advantage of the Valkyrie and find some space without getting absolutely decimated from the sky. But in terms of positioning in these specific maps, you could try to find those spots very early on if you do not find yourself early game pinch, which you usually don't unless you see a lot of these teams go for these quick rotations using an evac tower or so. But loving how we're already seeing our final game.

02:59:14 Vamiya's shape up here. A lot of different diversity in terms of the legend comps with the Gibby 2, the Watson, and the Valkyrie that you were talking about. I mean, yeah, look, as we get the zone pulling over towards, ooh, is it another Stasis? Is it an Eternal Gardens one this time? We'll have to wait until zone 3 because it's a bit 50-50 right now to see in which direction it swings.

02:59:38 You can also see all of the Legend picks here. So Forbidden going with the Seer once again. A smattering of Wraith. I'm surprised we're not seeing more of her. And the teams who want extra reset options, we do have some Gibraltar here. So Nemesis and Infinite both picking up that support character.

Strategische Zonenrotationen und Teamkämpfe

02:59:59

02:59:59 This is interesting. I don't think we've even seen a Pro League Zone try to pull in this direction just yet. So it's going to be nice seeing how Team Nemesis having that Eternal Guard and POI play off of this Infinite already quick with the ziplines to get into that position closer to Nemesis and NIP flying overhead. Oh, but look at the creep up. Phoenix trying to get into position right behind Batsniper to get the jump onto Nemesis. Trouble goes down.

03:00:28 Nice shots coming out from Feudar. He can't step through the fences, but he doesn't need to to grab the first two knocks.

03:00:37 Huge here for Pengu Power, getting even more KP, seeing the opportunity because they're wrapping around this squad. Nemesis get taken out, but they were wrapping around them because they know that Reply Totem are on the other side, a quarantine zone. And they hear an evac tower in the distance too. That could be FaZe that could try to go right over the underpass side to try to show presence or maybe KCP flying away through cultivation.

03:01:01 Yeah, we see multiple teams going to be pushing through Quarantine Zone in the middle of Smack Bang in the middle of the map. So teams always going to be rotating through here and potentially running into each other as they do it. And so there's four teams currently in Quarantine Zone. But if we push up even further and go over to Alpha Base, it's all these Annex Esports who seem to be getting into fire too early. They're just a rebellious group, always looking...

03:01:31 für ein bisschen Argy-Bargy. Und dann wird sie in Aurora sein.

03:01:37 Taking it slow, though. I'm gonna be able to pop that shield bat. Trying to get up on top of the high ground here. It's gonna be an isolated fight. Nobody really around to go in for a 3P, which is great here. For an X. We're playing split position, though. When you're here at Alpha Base, there's so many different angles you can hold. You can see 9 Impulse by the bins over by the middle. While Lifan trying to see if he can get up on top of the high ground here. Oh, he falls down here. You can hear the Pings right behind him, too.

03:02:03 So, once again, Amex are on the wrong side of this early fight.

03:02:25 And this just keeps, just continues to cause problems for them, right? I mean, this time they're completely eliminated. In some of the other games, they managed to get away with one of the members, but then they're in such an ugly spot that they usually get eliminated on zone close. So yeah, that's been a rough, rough series for Annex. They will go out, and yeah, that's guaranteed 20th now. Only six points for the day. Unfortunate, got to bounce back here too. That's Nemesis.

03:02:54 Saw some life here. Now gone. 10K, though. After winning our last game, Kashira being on the Wraith. Again, just really love the diversity of legend picks that we're currently seeing. Trying to make a play now with the portal. Setting things up for 10K.

03:03:10 No squads in the vicinity, but maybe trying to get the ring console that's over to the south side of Stasis. Pengu Power are on the way on that rotate, so while they do try to make this play, they will probably end up fighting against Pengu for that cliffside beacon. Can we just say, there should probably be a rule, there should probably be a rule against someone like Kashira, picking up a teammate that's called Kashira.

03:03:37 Ich war studieing das Team, ich sah das und dachte, ich weiß, dass das auf purpose ist, aber ich nehme es. Ich nehme es. Kashera, Kashera, Juni, Kashaiha. Das ist einfach so, wie es um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um.

03:04:04 That's a legend one for those of you veterans here in the LGS scene. But FaZe Clan now making their rotate through the zip lines. Find themselves up, up on the high ground. Nice shots though earlier on. Teams ain't on the low ground here too. Look how many squads though are trying to share some of this space. So many teams have made their way already into Eternal Gardens. Finding each individual dome building to create some space too.

03:04:35 Pengu Power right in the middle of a whole bunch of different teams here as, yeah, teams certainly seem to be erring on the Eternal Gardens side of the issue. They think it might be pulling out further east and that does kind of make sense.

03:04:53 Ah, do we get confirmation? Yes! Okay, we are going over to Eternal Garden, so nice! We get to see something a little different, as Infinite says, this is my house, and really wants to get stuck into Forbidden, who's right below them.

03:05:11 Ich liebe Variation hier. Ich liebe Variation mit unseren Circles. Wir waren über Kai'Sha und Kashera, aber wir hatten auch Nemesis und Team Nemesis. Es geht all den Weg nach dem Lobby. Luchy ist ein anderer Angle, zu sehen, ob er ein bisschen Sneaky ist. Er ist ein Wraith. Er ist ein Wraith. Er kann einfach nur Q-Welt sein, wenn er in Trouble ist. Der Rest ist auf der Highbranche.

03:05:38 Let's see if place could be made here. Infinite though, lose out on Vushi. It looks like it was way worth it here for Infinite. They finish off Feuda. They get the next one here too. And they were able to get that reset. Pengu Power get eliminated while they take over the entire building.

03:05:57 Das ist ein schönes Pick-up! Nur zwei Kills, natürlich. Wo war die andere Pengu-Power-Player? Wo? Wo war die Fisch? Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Ja, das war die Fischung. Das war die Fischung.

03:06:18 W-E-H.

03:06:47 We'll clean up yet another kill, and they're one of the teams that Alliance is chasing. As fast as you can here, Alliance. Over on the north side of Divide, while WEH make their rotate, probably could get either that Ring Console or Survey Beacon in the outside of Zone. You hear the pings too, while Alliance call in the Evac Tower, trying to make their next ping on where they want to rotate to.

03:07:18 Let's have a look, let's see where they go. Are they going to try and slam somewhere in the middle of the road? Okay, they're actually going to go for the OOB play into one of these buildings below them. BCGO currently are split holding the buildings and they get a knock onto Effect. You blinked and you may have missed it. You see how Quake Effect went down the moment his feet touched the ground. BCGO.

03:07:44 Standing on Business versus Alliance, where Hockey has found himself up on the high ground of the ship here. They were able to get effect back and gonna be able to get that passive healing back here too. Nice cover here from Hockey's holding onto the high ground, preventing VC Go from making any plays off of that knock. Yeah, interesting that they didn't go for the full finish. Maybe they're worried about other teams like this rotating in through EVACs or Valve Colts. Alliance, yeah, that's a good reset for them to have though.

03:08:14 He walked into the Charged Up Rampage, just shooting preemptively before he even got over the Rampart Barrier. Unfortunate here, WEH lose out on their Fuse. Alliance with the Charged Up Rampage of their own now, trying to fully send it onto VCGO. They lose out on Effect again, but they get the trade originally here. Weren't they here for Alliance as Hawkeyes is gonna be able to watch Unlucky get that res onto Effect. Damn, two kills. The other member of VCGO is outside, so...

03:08:44 But yeah, importantly, you know, VCGO, they had the knock. They could have prevented this happening by being more aggro. But it's, you know, flashbacks to sort of, you know, Infinite and Forbidden earlier on E-District. They just don't take the opportunity when it's presented to them and they pay dearly for it.

03:09:03 Let me know that they're going to look back on to here now looking at other squads making their way in from the south side thinking about f9 now looking at a lion on the left dome building by those crates infinite still were able to hold on to that building by the zip lines without giving up that space to but the zone is going to completely be shifting over to that northeast side closer to gaming gladiator genome.

03:09:26 Yeah, so unfortunately it's the northern set of the circular buildings that will be in a good spot. And they're currently occupied by U-Aim and Ninjas in Pajamas. So Alliance, sadly, we're hoping to pull back down to them, but no such luck. Gaming Gladiators also are sitting on, I think they're in the sort of the trenches.

03:09:50 Ah, which I don't provide you with a lot of cover, so I don't know how much I love that position unless they've got Rampart, which no, they don't. They've just got Bangsmokes to hide behind. I'm just appalled that once again, this zone just pulls completely away from Alliance. Very unlucky today with some of these circle pulls. I just literally 6 for 6, really, from what we've seen thus far. But that's how it'd be sometimes. Forbidden now, looking to force their way in through this choke. Looking at the team that's waiting for them up on the high ground, that's going to be Bades cutting them off.

03:10:19 Oh, huge shots right there, G7 shots, landing, but going out in the open like this, after getting that knock, absolutely FaZe is going to try to cover them while they're trying to get that rest, and now it ends up working against Forbidden, they really had no choice with Circle3 closing in behind them, there's really nowhere for them to go. And FaZe Clan have won this fight in just the nick of time here, because you can see with Zone3 closing in,

03:10:47 Es wäre schwer für sie zu machen. Luckily haben sie einen Speedboost von Tempest zu helfen, als sie starten mit SJP-2 zu sehen, die sich vor allem vorhanden sind.

03:11:00 Aurora, Kazak, still alive here. Playing right on the other side of KCP while getting beamed from a distance. Teams from afar, I hear the triple take, I hear the P20s, I saw the Nemesis, the 30-30. Everything singing here in our ears as Aurora get eliminated. KCP now walk up, get the loot that they need. Reply to them, meet them right back in the lobby.

03:11:23 Yep, sad, especially when it's a game six and you know you've got, your fate is no longer in your hands, right? You've done all you can and you have to just sit there, watch and wait for the other teams to see if they will eclipse you on the scoreboard. It does, oh, the zone actually pulls a bit more subtly. So it's essentially on top of Eternal Gardens, the main building here. I think it might have been a game that we cast at Land Vicky that had a similar finish to this.

Endspielstrategien und Team Nemesis' Triumph

03:11:53

03:11:53 Es ist eigentlich so großartig zu sehen, mit Allianz jetzt so close zu der southern point als möglich. Es ist wie sie hat es, und sie hat es zu geben, dass das eine circle pull.

03:12:02 Now Alliance playing on the edge of zone, SJP2 though on the outside of this zone trying to figure out how they can move in here. Cause they're looking at FaZe now cut them off, Yuayma are another team that's gonna cut them off on this rotate. And it's always so difficult to find yourself out from this position when the zone's pulling out in the open where you're forced to rotate. Do you go through the back side where you know that's probably gonna have another spot waiting for you on the choke by HUGE Kraybur! I was gonna say by the bins where exactly 10k is at.

03:12:29 Ja, ja, das ist wahrscheinlich eine der zwei Dinge. Aber ja, BPR ist einfach nur unter dem. Just als Kachira starten mit dem Portal, die BPR sehen, und sie haben sich in die Position, die sie brauchen.

03:12:55 Die Kramer hier zu versuchen, das andere Team zu bewerben. BPR findet ein guter Öpning gegen 10k. Will es work out? Oh, he cancelled it, he cancelled it! Oh, das ist so unfortunate, aber es ist fine, Postkill kommt, und sie können die Rez. Aber die Zone closing in, die sie nicht von einem Reset zu bekommen, als Round 4 closes in. Und NIP also findet Fazecat an der Outschritte von der Zone.

03:13:23 Well, thank god they had the portal set up, so 10k2 managed to move a little bit closer to the zone, but they're still not done. They've got further, you know, positions to take and there you go. It's Pioneers that actually had the sight lines on them to eliminate them. And we now move down to nine squads.

03:13:44 9 squads left in a zone like this. KCP Slayers poked for 1 second, got deleted, having to reset now by the stairway. Team Nemesis, though, directly in the middle, and with their composition right now, with this rampart, it lets them keep up this pressure. You see Hockey's on the other side, but they have to split up so much of their attention to all the squads within the vicinity. Yeah, and looking at the leaderboard up the top of the screen here, Vicky, it looks like Team Nemesis have most likely wrapped this one up. The next...

03:14:13 Team left alive is like 30 points below them. So in 64, they probably won the day. Team Nemesis wanna keep it going now. NIP get eliminated. SJP2, the team playing underneath Team Nemesis right now. Gonna share this middle part of Eternal Gardens.

03:14:33 No one's gonna try to contest them from inside this building. KCP are still looking to see what they could do on the outskirts of Eternal Gardens. Do they wrap around as the zone pulls slightly over to the east side, closer to Alliance. Game and Gladiator still overlooking. They don't want to fully extend because they know that U-Aim could just walk up behind them and 3P them.

03:14:50 Yeah, you aim well by themselves at the northern side of this ring right now. They're still in one of the other buildings, the circular buildings, whereas everyone else has their attention firmly focused on the main part of Eternal Gardens. GG, as you can say, this is the trenches that I was talking about.

03:15:10 Sie sind nicht wirklich tief genug zu gehen. Sie sind einfach, ich glaube. Und ja, die Sightlines sind wirklich schwer. Sie müssen nach hinten gehen. Und wenn jemand anderes starten hierhert, dann könnte er auch ein Licht aus für GG. Und wenn man Fliegen in also verliert auf Max Strafe. GG ist jetzt auf, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen, um zu sehen.

03:15:39 Leich versuchen zu Reset mit dem Shieldbat Blast, bereit zu blow. Sie closing in auf die Distance zwischen ihm und Slayers. Und Team Nemes ist auch noch ein paar Shots auf die Teams von unten.

03:15:53 Ja, das ist der Position in der Lobby nicht gut genug. Die Death Boxen sind gegründet. Allianz, in der meantime, haben sie eine gute Chance, um diese anderen Teams zu übernehmen, wenn sie das gut spielen können. Sie haben ein paar Zonen für sich jetzt. Sie vielleicht wollen mit F9, die sich unter den F9 befinden. Aber in diesem Moment, all diese anderen Teams, wie Nemesis, werden sie aus dieser Main-Buildung kommen.

03:16:22 und haben zu kommen und spielen mit ihnen auf der anderen Seite.

03:16:27 Team Nemesis knowing that they got this in the bag with the way that they played today holding on to Hyatt Gaming Gladiators right underneath them Team Nemesis are still focused though looking on different angles but also looking at the teams to themselves specifically Alliance and F9 that are still poking at each other and SJP2 also trying to take some shots Alliance so hailing from above here you see the Arxar right behind the barriers from the Rampart

03:16:52 Five squads left here, and now round six finally ends up closing. The final ring closing up behind their backs. Unlucky gets that initial knock here. Alliance want to get even more KP, because that's where most of their points have stemmed from for the day.

03:17:05 Indeed, they do want to be adding some placement points into the mix, holding on to some of their ultimates right now. Obviously, being on the outside and slightly on the high ground here, it does give them an opportunity to maybe start setting up, you know, defenses, the pylon as well. Whereas other teams are really just going to have to, you know, push into it with very little utility available. What a play there with the ballistic ult from a fa...

03:17:33 und dann kommt von hinten hin zu komplett Displace-Team Nemesis. Haki tries zu gehen für ein Follow-Up, aber Unlucky ist jetzt auf die Rez. Er bekommt das Passive Healing, Unlucky slides in und mit den P20s, Team Nemesis wird Eliminatet und was ein Boom von Allianz. Das ist die Calls kommen aus Haki, und es ist die Aggression zu nehmen, das Spiel von den anderen Teams zu sehen, aus dem ihr Dynamik Roller-Duo.

03:18:00 Okay.

03:18:28 Is this Portal going to be enough to put Alliance in the right position to take down GG and SJP2? SJP2 have waited their time, they bided their time, and it'll net them the win! Alliance had a great sequence of events there, managed to pick up lots of KP, and certainly jumped their way up the leaderboard in that last game, but it's SJP who rests on their laurels in Game 6.

03:18:56 What patient play 2 from SJP 2 with 12 KP, I believe, in that game? They were the squad neighboring Team Nemesis on that low ground and did not give up that space at all, bringing back Tiff after such high-octane action in that 6 game. You're not wrong. I was just sitting there vibing to the music after that. I was like, look, SJP 2 at the start of the day, right? Second place in match number 1. We're going full circle here. At least they got game 6 there.

03:19:25 Ja, das war wirklich verrückt zu sehen. A lot of die action that played out in the very end. Allianz macht das move, so dass sie besser placement können, aber auch K.P. zu ihrem Namen. S.J.P. 2, mit der dubbe 12 K.P. Allianz mit 11 K.P. Double digits all the way around.

03:19:40 Look, it was definitely well needed, and I'd be curious to hear Genom's thoughts on this after, because at a certain point in time, Alliance is outside the top 10, looking in 13th, 14th place, and they needed that Hail Mary of a game to kind of salvage the majority of their points. Now, before I kick it over to you, Genom, because I want to hear your thoughts, but Hal said something last match day two, where you weren't going to see a lot of teams be consistent week after.

03:20:05 Ich denke, das Game 6 wirklich hat sie gespielt.

03:20:12 Ja, ich meine, wir haben das über die Bühne gesehen, wie alle Regionen gezeigt haben. Ich denke, Apec North, letzte Nacht, hatte ein 1st und dann 19th performances, ich glaube. Wir sahen von VKG und Keep Going Gaming in Apec South, als auch. 1st, 19th, 1st, 20th. Es hat einfach nur über die Schöpfung. Also, die Allianz hat sich in den großen Spiel mit den großen Spiel und zu Endeffekten, hat das. Es hat sie umgelegt, von 13th zu 6th.

03:20:41 Huge. I mean, look, it's not quite where they were on their initial showing. They had a third overall. But I will take a third and a sixth in a matchday series just to kick things off while everyone's still kind of learning with E-District and Broken Moon. But congratulations to Team Nemesis out here on top with 68 points on the day. 10K after their win, Forbidden kind of being in that top three overall. It was a stellar showing. And I even saw a tweet from Team Nemesis while you were casting in Game 6. They were like,

03:21:10 Wait, we're cooking in Apex, too? I guess they were doing pretty well in a major in a different state where maybe Onset and Gasket are. So good to see Team Nemesis having success across the board. Right, Vicky?

03:21:23 Oh yeah, I love it when the energy transcends esports out here. Seeing a team pop off in multiple directions, especially in a day like today. Again, it was my first exposure to broken moon casting for an ALGS environment and being able to see how volatile it could seem for the teams that didn't go for a quick rotate, that don't have a legend that allows them to get over these difficult chokes. So many times we saw FaZe on the north side of that zone, gatekeep like two, three different squads. And in situations like...

03:21:52 Team Nemesis wurde flexibel von E-District und Broken Moon.

03:21:58 I think it was so vital that we saw the endgame that we got in Internal Gardens for game number six. And it's pivotal because when you're going into game number six, as we roll back that final circle, because I want to check it out one more time. It was so interesting to me because as soon as we see those start to pull, it gets deeper and deeper into Internal Gardens. And the majority of people like to play with this high ground area, but you'll bunker down beneath kind of these catwalks. But we've already lost out on Newcastle.

03:22:27 Ja, Newcastle completely changes this game.

03:22:42 Das ist warum, wenn wir zu Game 6 kommen, die Sprengung der Sprengung ist oft sehr fremählich, weil viele Leute spielen Ballistik, viele Leute spielen Fused, um zu bringen, um die Ring-Console-Karaktere zu bringen. Und das ergibt sich sehr viel Aggression.

03:23:01 It does, and they see the portal back for Alliance, but you're completely split between SJP 2, and you take so much damage, and despite Effect, right there, trying to hold down in almost that 1-3-3 situation, it's just like, it's too little too late, we're split between them, but honestly, with enough KP to save the majority of their match day 3, I think it was exceptionally done, but overall.

03:23:24 The first time we're seeing E-District and Broken Moon in one series for the EMEA region, I think it definitely paid off there. But I want to go ahead and look at who our Sony Endzone Kill Leader was for the day because we had some pop-off moments from a variety of people, but it looks like it's going to be Remix Powers taking the top slot with 17 kills. But Vicky, very, very close.

03:23:50 532 P2020s.

03:23:54 Oh man, Remix Powers 17. And Zuni, of course, coming in right afterwards with 13. Well, we take a look at what Remix Powers was able to do today. We know that Remix has had the potential forever since he was on Noctum. Take out that jersey because you are making waves for Team Nemesis. We saw the transition too when I highlighted E-District and Broken Moon. They did obviously do better on Broken Moon, but it was still very even in terms of their placement and the KP that they were able to get on E-District too.

03:24:24 And that's with playing the Rampart, by the way, for all the last three games on Broken Moon. I love that you can adapt to Rampart because we were hearing so much from it about MG, right? He was like, yeah, not necessarily the biggest fan of Rampart, but when you can lock it in and be an exceptional one, I think it pays dividends, especially if we are going to lose that on Newcastle so early on in the EMEA region. But I honestly...

03:24:48 After all the action today, I would love to go ahead and get an interview in because they stayed calm under pressure today. Clutched it up. We've got Zuni here from Team Nemesis. Congratulations. Thank you.

03:25:05 All right, so while we've got you here, I kind of want to kick things off and let them kind of answer a couple of questions. But I want to talk about what specifically was going through your mind in game six. You guys land Eternal Gardens and immediately you get that information that it's coming there. So what did you guys start to think of as a team and how did you prepare to hold on to the top slot?

03:25:28 Um, honestly, the first thing we thought was, we didn't have Beacon in the last game. Uh, so immediately we were just looking for teams that were running in. Um, obviously Nurs were kind of high, so we didn't want to, like, go out of our way to go to a different POI and kind of throw the game. So we were just mainly focusing on other teams and what they were doing.

03:25:49 Honestly, hearing that, too, and seeing how you guys were able to patiently just wait and see everybody just flying your direction, that was the indicator that you guys needed. But you and Remix Powers, I mean, your whole team just popping off today. Can you explain a little bit of that consistency that you guys were able to find on E-District and Broken Moon? Two rather new maps here into our ALGS map pool, but the way that you guys were able to still stay consistent, very highlighting of your individual powers.

03:26:14 Um, so I think for E-District, the main thing that was different for us today was that we really used the altar to, like, change our rotations a lot. So in, I think it was game three, we did a whole Valcol over walls and we were using altar queues to get to, like, these weird angles that no one was ready for. And then Broken Moon, honestly, it was just being patient and Valcolting in late was the main thing for us, just going off of info instead of, like, just going for a fight randomly.

03:26:44 Okay, so nice approach to the game there. I guess a more like slightly personal question here, Zuni. You know, you've played a couple of pro league splits before, but, you know, there was quite a big gap between, you know, playing in 2022 and 2024. And now obviously, you know, doing so well here today. Like, what's it been like?

03:27:10 with your progression as a pro

03:27:16 Um, so it's definitely been like a rocky road. It's been like a very difficult journey, honestly. Um, I think my last year of Pro League was the biggest point for me, where I joined Triathor and Black Venom, um, and I picked up the IG Oral for the first time. Um, I think the biggest thing for me was just getting picked up by Remix, honestly. Um, I've learned so much since I got on this team, and I think I've improved so much as a player, and I think they enable me so well, and it's just going really well at the moment.

03:27:46 I'm going to agree with you on that as well. I think it is making strides considering you were 13th in your first game day in Split 1 and now you're on top here and everything's kind of looking good leaning into the ALGS Open. So what are you guys going to take from today to LAN?

03:28:05 The confidence, honestly. I think there was a lot of times today where we were just in a building and most teams would just sit still and do nothing, but we just killed the team next to us. They weren't ready for it and we just killed them. It's just pure confidence, man.

03:28:21 Honestly, that is the biggest thing that can make such a large difference. And congratulations yet again for being confident, getting the top of the day and taking all of that forward to New Orleans. Please eat a beignet and celebrate for me and crush it on land. Thank you so much for joining us. Yeah. Have you never had a beignet? I haven't, no. You're welcome. Okay, go eat one. Go eat one. I'm going to look for the pics on social media. I'm telling you right now, get one, get a win, crush it at land. Thank you so much. Have a great rest of your day.

03:28:50 All right, thank you. Now I'm craving beignets. Vicky, Genome, please tell me, have you guys had beignets before? I have gone to Café du Mont. I've tried it before a long time ago. It was really good. It was like one of my first e-sport tournaments outside of state was in New Orleans. Genome? I haven't, no. I only heard about them when people started talking about the New Orleans LAN. Yeah, I didn't even know they were a thing.

03:29:15 Well, well, well. I mean, maybe take some beignets back to Australia's realm. But I mean, guys, a killer day. Zuni was epic. I'm so proud of Team Nemesis for coming out on top. And honestly, I love that he highlighted the confidence because it is such a game changer. If people are going to sit still in buildings, ape them. If you have that, that's 99% of the battle.

03:29:35 Plus Good Shot Calling. Plus, when you say remix picking me up, that was the best highlight. Honestly, stellar performance. But honestly, like that is all we've got for the EMEA region. So Vicky, I got to hear your final thoughts. You said it was your first time casting Broken Moon ever. Was it everything that you wanted it to be?

03:29:51 It was. It was actually a lot better than I originally expected when I was watching. It's very fun to see how when Broken Moon's at the end of the map rotation, when you already have three Legends bands, what teams are going to do differently. Like you had mentioned earlier on with Newcastle being as strong as he is and holding whatever spot you want to hold down, not having him into the mix on Broken Moon could be really difficult when you have teams like Alliance coming from your behind and trying to take that space. So it's been really cool. It's also the first time I was able to...

03:30:20 Ja, das ist gut gesagt. Die Legend bans sind einfach sehr gut. Genome, ich habe es hier. Final thoughts on the day?

03:30:41 Well, look, I knew exactly what was going to happen. I had the script. What? Right here. You know, yeah. So look, I've just been waiting for this to happen. Look, no, it was a great day. I really enjoyed how Nemesis played, honestly. And the description from Zuni there about...

03:31:03 um how they make those decisions i think says a lot because we saw even some of the best teams in the world across all the regions um lacking some of that confidence i think um with how we've seen the game evolve in the year five of algs so any team who can um you know just just just reach out and grab that confidence and start playing like that is going to see amazing results and nemesis nemesis has proved it here today

03:31:31 I'm going to try to channel some of that confidence. I don't know what it's going to look like, but I want just maybe like 70% of it. I'll even settle for 30. Look, it's not that much. But guys, you were brilliant today. I can't wait to have you on later for the Americas. Go rest up. You guys deserve it. Let's close some things out here because chat and everyone around the world, thank you so much for watching match day number three with EMEA. But the Apex action, it's not going to stop here. Of course, we do have the Americas where we will see.

03:32:01 Und mit der Road-to-Land zu heißen und der Final-Match-Day, du wirst nicht mehr zu verlieren, okay? Especially mit einem 160-team-Land in New Orleans, wo es gibt Beignets. So, wenn ihr noch nicht habt, habt ihr noch nie zu New Orleans.

03:32:20 It's interesting. That's how I'm going to put it. It's interesting. But anytime you take Apex Legends to a city, you know it's going to be a good time. So that's all for us at the EMEA region. We will see you just a couple hours away in Americas. Who knows what's going to happen? Because we're going to have more E-District, more Broken Moon, and more Chaos. Catch you on the flip side.