ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League ! Match Day 1 ! Americas ! Groups A & B ! Apex Legends
ALGS Year 5: Americas Pro League Split 1 – Neue Teams, Legend Bands, Action!
Die ALGS Americas Pro League Split 1 ist gestartet. Neue Teams und Legend Bands verändern das Spielgeschehen. Virtus.Pro fehlt aufgrund eines Vorfalls, Reject überrascht mit kreativer Roster-Vorstellung. Shopify Rebellion und 100 Thieves sind Favoriten. Legend Bands erfordern Anpassung und fördern Vielseitigkeit. Es gibt deutlich mehr unterschiedliche Teamzusammensetzungen als im Vorjahr.
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ALGS Year 5 Split 1 Pro League Americas startet mit neuen Teams und Legend Bands
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00:06:35 We've got legend bands. We've got teams trying to make history. We've also got teams coming out from qualifying to see if they can put their stamp what has been four years of an amazing esports story. My name is Randy. I'm your host. And I got some great people alongside with me to kick off the Americas. That's right. The Americas here in year five. And of course, I'm talking about Onset and Gaskin, Mark and Dan. Mark, we started.
00:07:02 Earlier today with EMEA, it showed us a lot of new looks for Apex. I expect that North America will keep giving us those glances at a game that is constantly evolving, especially in this year five. I mean, the EMEA show was an amazing preview of what we can expect from the entire year. I think Legends Bands is going to be such a fun addition. It makes every game so much more watchable when you just don't quite know how those games are going to play out. Plus, of course, in the Americas, we've got some huge new rosters as well. So let's just get into it. I'm gassed.
00:07:31 Dan, I mean, he's gassed. He's gassed again. Dan, as well, I mean, things have shaken up. And I think in this point, when you look at not just Amia, but in America, we have some new faces, you know, old history rostered like TSM, no longer together, not a part of this. There's new faces now who have a chance to step in and become the team that we're all talking about. Yeah, I mean, there was the talk of Falcons being the super team when that was made. And now you look around and there are...
00:07:58 Maybe three, four other teams that could possibly be put up there as super teams as well. When you consider the accolades that are behind them, it's going to be an incredibly exciting time in the Americas. But you've also got to bear in mind that in the EMEA region, we just saw a team that came through PSQ win week one. So will it be an unknown team, an underdog that maybe comes out and wins things here in Americas?
00:08:19 You know, UQ, we talked to him as well from Infinite winning in EMEA just a few hours ago. Great question to pose, Dan. Will we see that happen here in North America? Let's take a look at who's participating today as we jump into our teams. It's A versus B, which means C will have a little bit of a break. We'll highlight something going on with Virtus.pro, though, just to keep you up to date with them. LG, another team that won't be participating. But I know a lot of eyes are on some of these squads, from Envy to 100.
00:08:47 All the way to VDR, Reps' new selection of teammates. It's weird to see Reps on a team with anybody other, well, I mean, at this point, Verholtz. I mean, Hal, we got used to that one, but now those guys have split. What's going to be the story here today as we take a look at that one? And I think it is important, guys, Mark, just top down.
00:09:08 Ja, ich bin, du hast die Rammbo, die auch noch ein paar Worte. Du hast auch noch ein paar Worte, was auf der Topf der Fraggen-Leaderboards in den letzten Jahren. Es wird ein sehr guter Season sein.
00:09:32 5 years into eSports lifecycle, usually these teams and these players at some point start to come together at the top of the rosters, right at the top of the leaderboards. The best performing players all start to come together and now we're seeing, like you mentioned, those quote unquote super teams start to form and it's not just one anymore, it's five or six that you look at and you're like, this is a potential championship winning roster.
00:09:53 Yeah, you look at some of those names, too, if you're noticing, we do have a few of those pulling issues, not to make it a big deal, but Don not going to be starting in place of MT today for Shopify Rebellion. He would love to. I've talked to Don. He feels he probably could do it, but he's going to be better used here just coaching.
00:10:10 Dan, let's talk a little bit for those jumping back in. You might not have caught EMEA if you're in North America like me and you're just basically kind of waking up, throwing on some Sunday TV. Now it's NA. What's new? What are the kind of pieces for these teams that if you're just jumping back in, we need to be aware of, especially returning threats that are going to be playing today? Yeah, let's talk returning trios. I mean, we spoke about super teams. The one we have to talk about.
00:10:37 Team Falcons, they had a lot of ups and downs, maybe more downs than they would have liked ups in the last season, but they had moments of relief.
00:10:45 As you can see here, Ecstasy, where maybe they thought they were going to be eliminated and then suddenly they do show that moment of class, but they never really reached the heights that I think were expected of them. But they are staying together. No one's getting dropped. They are trusting Waltzy, who was the main player that was under a little bit of threat, I feel. And I think Falcons are here to prove a point this season and maybe reach that super team status. Elsewhere, we of course have more teams showing up. Another super team, Shopify Rebellion. You have got...
00:11:14 2x LAN-Champion, Xiong on this roster, alongside MT, alongside Koiful. I mean, they showed that they really are a squad that everyone has to be scared of because they have so much threat, so much presence, but the fighting ability of this roster when they come together as a 3. And I think Xiong is one of those key reasons. He has been touted the best player in the world by some of the analysts within the ALGS scene. So we'll have to see whether Shopify Rebellion can step up and continue their journey. We also still see Liquid...
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00:12:05 I mean, I...
00:12:14 To me, it's the conversation, not just of returning trios, but chemistry. We know that this landscape is kind of created. Where will the puzzle pieces fit? Well, 100 Thieves is maybe the biggest question mark that everyone has. This org that is established across the world in esports as a premier dominant org, now having three different players who have all lifted trophies themselves, albeit on different teams. And when you look at Jim Burton and Verhulst against each other, Phony, maybe the person that didn't get as much love when Zainu and Koifel split away with him.
00:12:43 Ssg ins.
00:12:45 Das war das Video mit 100 Thieves. Das ist ja auch so. Ich bin ja auch für sie und wie sie können, denn wir wissen, die Talent ist sicherlich da. Jetzt müssen wir auch ein Team mit VDR sehen. Für mich, VDR ist die nächste große Herausforderung. Und ich liebe die Idee von Science und Tests.
00:13:14 But you really cannot say, no matter what, what is going to happen with these guys. Reps, Deeds, Vaxon, you look at Reps here and his moment of being at his lowest. This is kind of a part of the hero's journey that everybody who is going to end up on the top, though, has to go through. They've got to hit that down. They've got to have stones thrown at them. They have to bounce back and get through the adversity. And certainly a guy like Reps.
00:13:37 who in his life has been the most consistent thing for everyone else. While everyone around him has changed from teammates to rosters, we do love to see that he's now maybe finding a roster that can stick together and make things happen. Heading more into it as well, NRG, look at them. I mean, this is a team back towards 100 Thieves. That is a huge name in it. And Timmy is joining the ranks of them with Yanya and Gildersens. This is kind of a new, you know,
00:14:06 You know, this is a new look in terms of, obviously, really just going back to it. NRG, can you find your way, your chemistry? I don't think that, yeah, exactly. And I think, you know, when you look at Timmy and Gildersons, they've got experience with each other. They've been on Moist together. This actually allows them to see if they can build upon that, but what will ultimately end up happening? And I think that's where you have to look to another team like Envy, where, again, stars align.
00:14:34 But can they find their success? I mean, going into it, that's the last thing we have to talk about for me in terms of the chemistry question mark. It is Envy.
00:14:42 We may not bring their graphic up, but we'll just kind of focus on them just to say that this is another squad with Drop, Zap and Sykes that is, you know, there's a lot of questions out there. And I think this is the big year for North America where the shakeup is upon us, where we've got all this talent and everyone is kind of trying their best to figure out where and how that talent can be utilized to be successful. Obviously, Mark, there's a lot of questions to be asked. Hopefully we get some answers. I'm sure these next six games will do that. But who do you have your eye on?
00:15:11 especially that maybe we haven't focused on heading into north america here well let's talk dark horses by starting off by talking about a colorful horse because it's going to be stallions our relay crook and enemy now we know that it was a maybe a difficult chance for them not the success they would have wanted but let me tell you in the off season this roster has looked particularly dangerous and i feel like a lot of it is due to the adaptability of this squad when it comes to legend bands albrelli is one of those players i
00:15:41 He was always trying to push them to try something new. Remember the caustic arguments that he had with Hau. He was always trying to move forward with the meta. And now, with that deep legend pull, he's one of the best players in the world when it comes to experimenting, being able to flip from one legend to the next, dependent upon the map and the situation they find themselves in. So Stallions, for me, certainly a team to watch. Now scrims are done, it's time to do it when it comes to the Pro League. Next team up is going to be...
00:16:06 I can't remember. It's Oblivion. And this is another team, when we talk about scrims, by the way, that you should be keeping your eye on. Because, you know, Fun splits from the roster from Nocturnal that he was with for so, so long and form something new. And when you're looking at a player who's as established as Fun was, you expect there to be some really big names alongside him. Now, I mean this with the biggest of respect, of course, to Jelly and Blinkser, but maybe not the two names that jump out of you as being teammates that a player with a...
00:16:32 der Talenten und der Success of Fun has had may go for, but he sees something in them and it's proven to be something that is the right stuff for them to have success. So I'm very excited to see what Oblivion do. I think they've got a lot of I think confidence coming into this week as well of how they've been performing in scrim. So keep your eye on Oblivion. Next up.
00:16:50 We're talking about Apegang, and this is from the PSQ. They look very, very good. They pretty much dominated the PSQ in their way to this split of the Pro League. You've got Qumzi, you've got Wi-Fi, and you've got Burstee on this lineup. And I think there's just another team, when you look back at what happened in Amir a little bit earlier, that you can't write these PSQ teams off. They can certainly throw a spanner among...
00:17:09 Und wenn ihr die PSG stand-ins gesehen habt, dann sehen wir genauer wie wir uns auf die Augen sehen haben. Sie kamen in 1st place, sie qualified durch, sie sind sehr, sehr gut. Und wenn ihr wissen, dass die PSG und die Finals, die Lobbys sind, sind sehr, sehr, sehr schwierig zu bekommen. So Apegang ist sicherlich etwas zu sagen hier in dieser Pro League.
Neuerungen in ALGS Year 5: Legend Bands, Map-Änderungen und Playoff-Punktesystem
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00:17:27 One of the great stats that we kind of head into is that we had 55 unique legend compositions heading into this America's broadcast from earlier this morning. And part of it is because of the legend bands, guys. Year 5 has changed. That's one of the biggest things that has really shifted, not just the core element of Apex Legends in terms of how it's played, but also the people that can stand out. I remember Reps tweeted and said about these, one of the rare tweets that people get excited about right when they hear it, is that this is going to be able to
00:17:57 Show off what I can do. Dan, walk me through your thoughts and kind of people jumping in on what legend bands really have done in year five to help elevate and also expand the reach of each of these teams.
00:18:09 Just to put that into perspective, in Year 4, the opening week, we only had 7 different compositions that were on display. That really just shows how deep your pool has to be. Another example is going to be our EMEA winners, Infinite. One of their players played 6 different Legends in 6 different matches. You need someone who is versatile. This comes along with a few more changes that are in the ALGS as well. We've had map changes, World's Edge has been removed, Broken Moon has been added alongside the Legend Bands that we are talking about, and of course...
00:18:38 Das ist die neue Play-Off-Point-System, das wir sehen haben. Und eine Sache we learned in EMEA ist, dass es ein bisschen mehr Unterschied ist in jedem Spiel. Es war viel mehr spannend, zu nicht wissen, wie ein Team war zu spielen, statt dem Valkyrie-Alten über, wie jeder andere Team war. Instead, du hast zu versuchen, den Weg durch, ohne eine bestimmte Legend. Alter wird da für Map 4, aber dann in Map 5, wie du durch das Chokepoint hast, ohne die Portal zu sein?
00:19:05 Back to your point that you were making about individuals getting the chance to shine Rain Day. I mean, I think we are going to witness certain players who are good on certain legends have their moment in the spotlight, but also those who are good at loads of different legends will ultimately be the most valuable players on that team because they might have to play a Wraith and an Alter and an Ashe and maybe even a Newcastle. Who knows what you get put on, but you have to be making sure you're at your A game with every single legend.
00:19:31 E.Q. also noted, the winner of Infinite and the person we interviewed, that it's more difficult on the fraggers who are having to go through those lineups of choices versus somebody who can anchor, maybe play a Watson. We saw a Kostig in there, but somebody who could just stay consistent with that. If you want to know exactly how those legend bands work, I've got a little graphic for you, and I might talk over it, and we might just see it right here. All right, so...
00:19:58 What you guys are seeing here is for game number one, if you have the most played character being Ash, that character will then be banned for the next game. And that will probably stay the same. In rare situations where you say, well, what if we run out like in a match point where at 12 games, 13 games, and there's nobody of a certain role, we will refresh back kind of like dodgeball rules where the first person voted out gets right back in. But ultimately, that is exactly what Dan and I set up for you guys.
00:20:27 Marc, you know, this is, I think, a bold change, but also the way Apex is being designed right now, very bold. Skirmishers, a lot of those legends we did see get flexed, have gotten some major changes too. So it just feels like the game and the eSport kind of taking that head on and going in the direction of saying, be ready to adapt, get with it or get lost, essentially, pros. Yeah, one thing I love about it as well is I think the timing. I mentioned this in the EMEA show, right?
00:20:51 The timing of this with so many different legends being relatively balanced when it comes to picks. There's no class, like the support class meta that we had at the ALGS Championships where you had to play or felt forced to play certain legends because of the strength that they had in the legend pool. Well, now everyone is kind of viable. You can jump on any legend and still have some success. Of course, you're still going to want to put a composition together that's going to allow you to...
00:21:14 Yeah, it was great to witness. I'm sure we'll see a lot in the Americas here today.
Virtus.Pro Patzer und Reject's kreative Roster-Ankündigung im Fokus
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00:21:42 And for those who are catching up with us before we get started, we have a new segment in year five as well. New legend bands, new buffs. It's called Why?
00:21:51 Ja, oder, you know, what you might have missed. Either way, we don't know if the acronym is going to catch on. We're going to try it. The first thing I'll talk about here is Virtus.Pro. We know that in Group C, they'll be eagerly awaiting and watching the broadcast from home. But hopefully, they pay a little bit more attention than what happened earlier these last couple of weeks. Let's roll the tape.
00:22:15 Es ist all in Zone. Bro, ich glaube, wir haben einen Mets. Bro, ich habe einen Mets. Ich habe einen Mets. Ich habe einen Mets. Ich habe einen Mets. Ich habe einen Mets. Ich habe einen Mets.
00:22:45 Ich weiß nicht, es war Zone 3, bro. Yo! Alright, guys, scrub the fucking VOD. How do we delete the VOD? Scrub the fucking VODs. Scrub the VODs. Scrub the VODs.
00:22:58 The scrub of the VOD did not happen, by the way. That's how we actually have that clip. Big moment there. Obviously had to poke some fun at that onset, but what else has been going on throughout catching up here with Apex? I'll turn it back to a more positive note. I'll say the VP will limit testing there, just seeing how long it was not good. Let's talk about Reject, because they've got a new roster and they announced it in the best possible way. Now, if you're an org watching, there's been a lot of creativity.
00:23:25 Ich glaube, Reject haben eine sehr gute Arbeit gemacht. Die Artwork ist absolut großartig. Und wenn ihr ein Fan von der Anime-Style von Artwork habt, könnt ihr sehr, sehr glücklich mit was ihr hier sehen. Ihr habt Miyak, Reigen, Urisse zurück in die Szene zu sehen. Und ich meine, ich werde einfach nur ein paar Sekunden stoppen, so dass ihr alle könnt, denn es ist wirklich ein Ding of Beauty.
00:24:00 Beautiful, right? A truly beautiful way to announce a roster, very unique. And I hope that some other orgs see that as a potential marker for everyone to try and meet, because that's very, very impressive stuff from them. All right, we're also going to look at the results from EMEA match day one that happened just a few hours ago. And I'm just going to stop talking so we can watch and appreciate. That's a joke, I'm not really going to stop talking. It was a fantastic day that we had.
00:24:28 We saw excitement, we saw legends change every single time, not just because of bans, but because people were trying to adapt to the meta that was forming within those games as well. And we saw the rise of Infinite, a PSQ team coming through and taking the number one spot. Other big stories, Na'Vi getting into the top four.
00:24:48 World Champs coming back in and still performing at the tippy top. And also Alliance were able to stay alive and survive so often that they finished in the top three, despite having such difficult zones. But it was Infinite who took the crown, not only with a couple of victories, but also just making sure they were the number one team across the board. They did an excellent job of changing compositions because of legend bands. And I'm very excited to see what the America region does here. Yeah.
00:25:16 I'm so excited, too. And, you know, one person who has been around and loves getting some of that time with us at LAN, on desk when we can, but is also very busy doing his own journey in life in YouTube is, of course, Jumba. He put together a great piece on Alliance. Now, I'm not going to, again, you know, I'm not going to sugarcoat this. He said from chokers to champions. As a YouTuber myself, I understand you got to clickbait a little bit, but a group stage team no longer. The story of Alliance, the reaction in his career,
00:25:46 Vielen Dank.
00:26:15 Yeah, he's awesome. That's all I have to say about it. Jumbo is an awesome person, awesome guy to hang out with and make some amazing content as well. A lot of videos on his channel that you want to check out if you're new to the ALGS for sure, because there's some great history that he puts together and the way that he explains some of those big moments throughout Apex history is certainly a good way to get up to date.
00:26:32 Yeah, we got some great, great storytellers in Apex as well, you guys included. You're about to have your chance to tell the story of Americas very, very soon. But if you want to create your own story, you feel like you want to navigate how things will go for you and kind of focus on certain characters in that novel that you're trying to watch today, well, check it out on Faceit. You can watch your own way. You can highlight the player, the person that you're most interested in. You can see the team and their rotations, how they operate in this new year five. What legends do they pick? Why did they decide?
00:27:01 So always have a chance to see what you care most about. Guys, there's something else just so you watching at home know if you are chatting with us on X on Twitch.
00:27:29 On YouTube, at Play Apex Esports, or at Play Apex on Twitch, you might be in the conversation. Let us know what you think, because we have a feature coming up at halftime where we'll highlight your comments. So make sure to be engaged, comment, get involved, chat. Let us know what you think, because we're going to be honoring that and putting it to the test. And, you know, maybe we'll argue with you. Maybe you'll be on our side, maybe not.
00:27:51 I heard Dan and I might have an argument coming up at halftime. We'll find out. So you guys stay involved in the convo. Guys, let's get started. We've talked enough. It's Americas. It's game number one. Mark, Dan, take it away. Let's go. Let's get into this. It is going to be the first week of the Americas, Dan. Some new teams coming together. A lot of new fun. And I think I tweeted out after the media show that we had a little bit earlier.
00:28:14 After what we saw in those six games, I genuinely feel like this might be the most fun year of Apex Legends we've ever had. There is so much to talk about and so much that changes from map to map now. Yeah, I think that you can get a completely different game despite it being on the same map because we are seeing such different selection of the Legends due to the Legend ban.
00:28:33 When it was first announced, I was kind of asking myself, you know, how much is this realistically going to change it? Are we just going to see the same teams playing the same comp? But we're starting to see something develop where people are trying to avoid the bans, trying to get past the bans by playing, let's say a Watson, for example, as your controller. She doesn't get banned because only four or five teams, maybe even less, are playing her. So you get to play her throughout the entirety, at least of Stormpoint. Maybe you change on E-District to a Caustic or something like that, but...
00:28:59 Map-dependent, of course, and we are going to be playing Stormpoint and E-District. But one thing I will tell you is every game is going to be different. Even if we have that rare occasion where the zone is the same, it's going to be a different game because the Legends are going to be different. So that's what's exciting for me. We only save that for land, Dan, where every single zone goes north or south. We know that. We know that. We'll talk us through the POI draft here because this is what's going to be happening here on Stormpoint.
00:29:27 Yeah, this is where everyone's going to be dropping on Stormpoint, and we have seen so far that Stormpoint has been the priority for most of these teams when it comes to their selection as well, because some of these POIs are a little bit more desirable than those of E-District. I mean, certainly for EMEA, everyone, almost everyone, 18 teams prioritized Stormpoint over E-District, and I'll have to double-check those numbers on the screen to see whether it's the same here for Americas, but...
ALGS Americas: Neue Teams, Legend Bands und Strategien auf Stormpoint
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00:29:55 Here we go, Marc. I can't wait. Here we go, then, everybody. We are back. Year 5 of the ALGS has officially started for the Americas. We've got the ALGS open in what feels like just a few weeks' time now. But before we get there, we've got to really set the table for everybody to expect what to see when we get to New Orleans. We're starting off with the new team. All together, some of the best fraggers in the world with a LAN-winning IGL. It's Phony, it's Gemburn, and, of course, it's Big E.
00:30:24 I'm so excited for this team, by the way, because you put all these pieces together and on paper, this is a championship winning team. I don't think there is any doubt about that and I don't think anyone would really disagree with that. The question is, how does it work when it actually gets put into practice? And we've had plenty of practice in scrims, there's been ups, there has been downs, but how will it go now we're in a competitive environment for the first time?
00:30:50 in months this is the look of the land then this is where we're going to be heading over towards sito station and between the mill and you also get to see all those legends we are expecting a lot of ash ash is likely to be the first ban as it always is really for any of these teams and these series that go down
00:31:07 A lot of Catalyst in the lobby in the Americas as well. Something to note. So we're expecting that Catalyst might go out a little bit earlier than what we saw in EMEA. But we'll have to see how those Legend Bands play out. When we talk about Zone though, it looks like Seto Station is going to be the main POI of focus here. And just looking across Storm Point at the moment, it looks like not too many teams have left as yet to head in towards Seto. Finally, a couple of teams start to make their way. But for Locked In...
00:31:33 One of the newer teams that have come together and fought their way into the Pro League. This is a very, very good zone for them. This is so different to Amir as well when you look across these legend compositions. I mean, it's a 100% pick rate for Ash, by the way. A lot of Catalyst and a lot of Newcastle. It looks like Ash, Newcastle Catalyst seems to be the most popular and many a team are going for it. You've got a few fuses, a few cryptos going under the radar a little bit for people trying to play the off meta so they can keep.
00:31:58 mit etwas anderes, aber wir werden sehen, viele Teams zu entwickeln. Ich würde nicht überraschend, wenn wir Ache, dann Catalyst, dann Newcastle geplanten hier und Teams zu ändern, als wir in E-District gehen können.
00:32:27 Oh, my goodness!
00:32:54 Und Sie sehen, was Zero kann, es geht nicht mehr, was in die Hand ist. Sie werden das Team behalten, und sie werden diese Position auf der Nr-E-S-S-Side halten. Aber ich denke, sie werden immer weiter über die Zone gehen. Ich möchte noch ein bisschen über Zero reden, weil wenn du in den Stream-Stream hast, all die talk ist, ist, dass er seine IGL-S-Skill ist. Wie gut ist er, um die Treibs, um ihn zu spielen, um ihn zu spielen und wie er die Endgames navigiert. Aber ich will sagen, mechanisch...
00:33:21 With that Scout in his hand and those P20s, he has been absolutely ridiculous. He has been putting out so much damage, clutching so many times for them. And at the moment, Empire are going to have to look to clutch. And that's just what, by escaping what is a lot of pressure coming from Sonote.
00:33:36 Empyre hatte eine gewisse Schlimm. Die zwei Schlimm-Teams kamen gegen einen anderen. Sie kamen in der Top-8, wenn ich mich richtig richtig. Sie waren wirklich die größte Schlimm-Teams in der Welt. So, 8th place. Wenn sie das heute waren, dann wäre sie delighted gewesen. Aber natürlich, anders als man in einer konkurrenzischen Welt kommen. Sie sind auf der Südwest-Tipp an der Moment, um zu Cenote. So, sie werden müssen ein bisschen weiter in. Aber die Schlimm-Teams starten zu fangen.
00:34:00 Seto Station now. This is where we assume the zone is going to be heading, or at least in that vicinity. So it's not the worst area to try and hold. Well, this is Seto itself. A couple of teams starting to stack up. One thing about Seto is you look at the main building, a lot of playable spots in there, maybe a couple of floors. But as we turn our attention away from Seto over towards Trident, 100 Thieves, who we saw dropping right at the north side of the map on Zeus Station. Well, they've got a little bit of pressure on them at the moment. It's going to be bored.
00:34:29 They were in front of them. Yeah, a team that really struggled in scrims. Boar only put up a few points recently, so could be Cannon Fodder in this lobby if they play like that. And at the moment, Falcons are also hunting down a team. Flat's going to be below them, and they've already been able to get one knock. And Walty's just trying to scout the area to see if they can find any more. A couple of our big hitting teams here, Mark, showing aggression early on. One of these.
00:34:56 Right on Q, flying in now onto Nano from Flat. He's trying to do what he can to stay alive, but Jim Burton with the P20s is just about good enough. And 15 HP to play with in reserves for him in that fight.
00:35:09 100 Thieves will be able to collect the final pieces there by the looks of things as well. Excuse me, it's actually Falcons as we swap back over who get the final pieces of flat. So a combination of both super teams. Unfortunately, you don't want to be in the middle of that because that's kind of what happens. That was a sandwich you definitely don't want to be the meat of. 100 Thieves and Falcons will pick up the pieces on either side, but...
00:35:31 It looks like 100 Thieves are the ones that would have to push into Falcons with their rotation, so we'll have to keep an eye on where they try and move, but for now they're thinking about teams that are north of them, because there is two, actually just one, sorry, it's Bored. Bored are gonna be still above them, and that's where 100 Thieves are currently paying their attention toward.
00:35:51 Just trying to check on Falcons position at the moment. I think they were looking for a potential third, but they are over at checkpoint at the moment still playing up on the high ground. So that kind of cuts and limits some of the rotational options here for under three. There's plenty of evacs to play with. Of course, they've got the ash port as well if they want to go underneath and just rip their way past where Falcons find themselves. And I want to say, I think game number one with the legends that are available, rotation options are a premium here. You have the catalyst, you have ash.
Taktische Manöver, Teamkämpfe und Zonenrotationen in ALGS Americas
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00:36:17 You have so many options to go from A to B across open ground that this is where you see a lot of teams stacking up towards the endgame. As I say that, though, take a look at that zone. I'd rather not. You'd rather be a team who has picked Newcastle. You want to look away from that one if you are a non-Newcastle team, that's for sure. I mean, CTE taking advantage of quick old zip in as they take...
00:36:42 One of the few buildings that are actually available. Fury are going to be fine over towards Mill. And then NRG and Unleash also currently reside within that circle. And then actually locked in, you mentioned them earlier, Rambo Squad. They're going to be in a big position to potentially pick up a lot of KP. Could be the gatekeepers. But you mentioned it as well. With Ashe being so prevalent, 100% pick rate, there's going to be carnage. It's going to be portals left, right and center. It's not going to be as simple as holding teams out. You're going to need to have your head on a swivel to try and catch KP here.
00:37:11 One team who's a long way away from the zone at the moment is going to be Shopify Rebellion. I think it's only right that we mention them, as we also rightly should mention NRG. Now, Rene was talking about Timmy and Guild and the history they have, of course, on the Moist roster, but that was with MT as the IGL. Now, they've got Yanya, who kind of co-IGL'd Team Liquid quite some time ago now.
00:37:30 But Timmy is the man who's going to be taking the majority of those decisions. He is the IGL for this team. He's obviously expressed that he really wants to be that guy for his squad. So it's going to be a real test of his abilities. And I think NRG, when you look again on paper at this team, you kind of pick ingredients off the shelf for success. They've got everything you would want. All of the pieces to the puzzle, but can they actually put it together? It's interesting to, by the way, look at...
00:37:57 The legend selection. There are only five legends being used in this first lobby from the Americas. You compare that to EMEA where there was nine different legends, right? There was far more decision making to be made by a lot of the EMEA squads of how do we approach this? How do we try and avoid all playing the same thing? Whereas the Americas teams just all seem to be in agreement of what is the best composition and maybe are happy to go along that route of...
00:38:21 Well, this character gets banned, and then we move to the next best composition. Then this character gets banned, and then we move to the next composition. And I wouldn't be surprised if we see exactly the same thing that we saw in scrims, where we see Ash banned, then Catalyst, then Newcastle, then Alter. We'll just come back to that later, but that's my prediction. And of course, Noct joining Fury as well in the off-season, replacing Vaxalon. Envy, another team where you look at the players on the team.
00:38:48 And you feel like there's a lot of ingredients for success. Dropped, who's always one of the IGLs who when it comes to LAN, a lot of the time will put his team in great positions. And now he's got Zap and Sykes alongside him. Two great controller fraggers who have had success themselves. So envy another team who could have a real say. Although they have struggled a little bit in the build up to this in scrims. But how much of that is limit testing? How much of that is their limits maybe being a bit shorter than they would want?
00:39:15 I wonder if this takes a little bit of pressure off of Zap as well. I'm excited to see how he does on this Envy roster actually. I think there's so many teams and so many players that have potential to make a mark on this season. Like Rebson said, we're going to see some players really stand out from the rest when it comes to playing in this kind of meta with legend bans being so prevalent. As Envy just about squeezed through and just about survived, albeit by the skin of their teeth.
00:39:44 Yeah, we're just going to take a second here, gentlemen, to pop some batteries and some meds to make sure that our next Trident trip can be completed. Elsewhere, by the way, I just want to talk about how a lot of teams banked on it being a Seto zone early on. There are a lot of teams in Seto at the moment. They will be safe, of course, for the next zone, but when it pulls away, boy, there is going to be one of those situations where 20 or 19, I should say, goes down to about 8 or 9 very, very quickly. Back over to Checkpoint, though. Bored?
00:40:11 Die Falken sind auf der Norte, nachdem die Falken zu finden, auf der Checkpoint zu sein. Sie müssen sich vorsichtig, dass sie nicht die Wings geschlossen haben.
00:40:21 We're going to Bean!
00:40:50 I touched upon CTE moved very early to get to that building, and they are going to be in prime position here. Oh, look at Falcons. Falcons are taking the Ashport right past Oblivion at the moment. Oblivion probably thinking we could hold them out here. We have the building, and then the Ashport just takes Falcons straight into zone, and now Oblivion are the ones being held out. So the Spider Cave is a little bit awkward to hold, especially when you have Unleash and 100 Thieves looking at you. NRG also within the vicinity. So Falcons, they've used the Ashport to get to where they find themselves, and they will be safe. But how long can they hold for?
00:41:19 As we jump on board with another team who's got a little bit of a different journey. I mentioned how Shopify Rebellion have a long, long way to go towards this zone. Well, having two Purples, a Red, and a Kraber might make it a little bit more comfortable for them. They're going to be taking a similar rotation that VDR did a lot earlier in the game, this southern route around the Bean. But sadly, they're going to come across Envy very shortly. If they're not careful, just need to make sure they keep...
00:41:45 Their eyes peel here, and I think they have just seen Envy. So they're not going to be caught off guard, and they can take a fair fight. But it might be unfair for Envy, actually, because there are a couple of teams that are just north of Envy, and Shopify Rebellion might be able to take advantage of this.
00:41:57 Ja, Sykes ist da für Envy als auch. Und jetzt sind sie geimpft. Sie sehen, die Grenade zu gehen. Die Tether hat sich geimpft. Ich glaube, es war Zap und Droppe. Wenn sie sich auf den Schrauben holen, dann wird das Schrauben gescheitert werden, dann wird das Schrauben gescheitert werden. SR wird diese Möglichkeit, während der Carnage geht in fronten, um den Evac zu übernehmen, um den Evac zu übernehmen. Das ist ein sehr smart, snap-decision hier. Aber woher sie landen? Weil sie nicht mehr Platz haben, und sie haben nicht das Newcastle in dieser Composition.
00:42:24 Bunker down in one of those corners and use that castle wall. Yeah, it is worth noting the lack of Newcastle and also the fact they are running the Crypto in the Fuse. They're banking on keeping Crypto and Fuse throughout the majority of these first three games because they're unlikely to be banned. They have been able to find somewhere to call home, though, and they have just about survived here. Back to Falcons in the Spider Cave. Back to them trying to hold out Oblivion. The cat wall is going down. Walsi is going to respond. Envy eliminated second in this lobby. In the meantime, it did look very awkward every time we were on board with them.
00:42:53 Couple tethers going down through those catwalks. This is such an ugly looking fight on both sides. Three grenades, frag grenades. Falcons in a bit of trouble. And Zero says, nope, I'm out of there. I'm hitting the port. Yeah, it is a blind portal, but they may have gotten away with it. It looks like they've been able to escape that kerfuffle. But I think VDR are going to be above them here looking down. So they need to be careful. And now here comes the nades. Here comes the tether. And Falcons are getting absolutely tasered right now.
00:43:20 Aber das ist die wichtigste Sache, das ist sie, sie spielen. Sie spielen die Newcastle, sie sind able zu bekommen, und zwar 1HP ist 1HP, sie leben sehr lange genug, aber wie lange ist das Castle Wall gonna last? Und noch ein Ball geht, aber ein Ball hat fallen, und ich glaube, das war Hau, der war auf seine Seite.
00:43:46 So good during scrims. They finished second last time and they wiped No Name. No Name down. They have lost Panic in the meantime, but they'll get that banner back.
00:43:59 Amp not gonna be quite ready yet still a little bit of charge needed on that so it's Rambo and Hambino gonna have to play this one out as a duo in the kill feed in the meantime see liquid alienware Well, they just picked up one themselves, but Rambo is gonna have to be picked up himself Do they have the time to reset here or are they gonna get pushed? You can see there's another yeah, I think this is gonna be for locked in this gonna be so difficult. They've not had the chance to reset
00:44:27 Nice shots coming in here from Recon. Will get the finish. Hambino down, locked in, will be eliminated. So Bear Gottes will pick up their first KP. But then again, third party. But a third party is only a party if you can celebrate. And at the moment, it's looking like it's getting a bit awkward on both sides here. Right, you're trying to stick this res with the Newcastle. Does manage to get Not Panic back up, pained up to his feet. As 100 Thieves move through the Spider Caves as Falcons will finally be eliminated as well.
00:44:53 Oblivion wurde getrennt, und auch Bord, mit dem anderen Team der Kampf zu tun. Und sie werden den Engagement gewinnen, also. So auf der easternen Seite, sie werden die Victory haben, und sie vielleicht können sie gehen. Empire geht in die 13e Position. Sie sehen Janja in der Killfeed, mit der Motherlode, als 100 Thieves zu gehen.
00:45:15 Der Hull wird versuchen, eine Castle Wall zu holen. Aber sie hat ein Damage, und ich mag das Spiel. Aber Phonie hat es geschenkt. Phonie hat es geschenkt. Und wenn es der Damage geht, und wenn es der Nox auf der anderen Seite geht, kann sie den Rest? Ja, sie können. 100 Thieves zurück zu einem Kompliment. Jen hat es versucht, die Camel zu überleben.
00:45:33 Ape Gang also go down. Ape Gang down.
Shopify Rebellion's Dominanz und Strategie in Spiel 1
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00:46:00 und es ist der Return of Skill Cakes und Dupe zu den ALGS. Teamen wieder einmal wieder mit Gen joining diese line-up. Sie werden die Norden-Side kontrollieren für jetzt. Bord still hat einen Spieler auf der Norden-Side, aber wenn du über die Zone bist, wenn du über die Teams bist, und du über diejenigen, die zu machen, den Weg zu machen, Schopify Rebellion ist jetzt in einer der besten Spots in der gesamten Zone.
00:46:24 I mean, I used to say it when he was playing, and I will say it again, I still think Skittle Cakes is one of the best aimers that we have in the ALGS, and not a player you want to be going up against. Now, CTE, they moved to this building so early, but sadly, the building no longer in the circle. You mentioned it, Shopify Rebellion arguably in the best spot right now, but that doesn't mean it's an easy win, because there are so many teams still alive going into this Zone 6. You've got Team Liquid Alienware, VDR on the western side. And by the way...
00:46:53 We're gonna see Deeds getting back onto the map. Not for long, though, I don't think. Vaxxon is down, Reps is down as well. CTE take that opportunity. They recognize it was a duo. Only available for them to try and take this space away from. It's easy KP for them. I'm not sure if they've actually managed to take Deeds out. No, Deeds is still alive, although you get the feeling that we might not be saying that in about three...
00:47:14 2, 1, he's gone as well. VDR eliminated as CTE pick up some KP. Can Liquid Alienware take advantage of this though? Because CTE have taken damage and yes, here comes Liquid Alienware to swoop in. But now HUS, they're going to go for the fourth party here. Maybe they can pick up the pieces, but all the meanwhile, Shopify Rebellion are watching all of this. This has got to be the freest win that Shopify Rebellion could ever ask for. They've just got to be aware of some random ports behind them.
00:47:40 They were able to reposition though, and the Dark Veil goes down. This isn't over yet, but Shopify Rebellion with the player advantage should win this one.
00:48:06 Ja, EMP geht auch. Da ist das Knoll. Koi nimmt die Million-Kill von der ALGS. Aneazol, auf dem Standstill, accepts sein Fete als Shopify Rebellion. Wir werden mit dem Spiel Nummer 1 gewinnen.
00:48:19 Shopify Rebellion continue their dominance from Scrims right into a competitive environment. They won it just a few days ago when these groups went up against each other, and they proved that Scrims can be very important for your progress into the ALGS. Now, the real question is, how many points can they continue to put on the board here? Because things change going into Game 2. 100% of teams chose Ashe, but Ashe is now banned.
00:48:48 Absolutely done. We will not see any more Ash today, which is disappointing sometimes for some people with how fun she is to play, but it also means that we have maybe a little introduction of Wraith, which is what we saw in the Emias a bit earlier.
00:49:01 Das ist der Match 1. 8 Kills, 12 Placement Points, 20 Points auf dem Board, bereits nach Game 1 für Shopify, Rebellion, die hatten die sehr, sehr lange Rotation gemacht. Und ich denke, die Key Moment für sie dann, war das Evac Tower. Die Timing, die Möglichkeit zu sehen, die Evac in den Platz, in den Platz, die sie für den langen Spiel gemacht haben. Sehr, sehr smart call von MT. Und es ist...
00:49:24 Worrying for other teams that Shopify Rebellion are one of these teams that are currently playing the Crypto and the Fuse, which are not going to be banned, so they can continue with that composition probably for Games 1, 2, and 3, and they had that much success without the Newcastle. Other squads should be maybe looking at this approach and saying, okay, well, they can keep a consistent composition throughout these games now. They're going to be one of the squads that we will be chasing because they're going to be putting up points like that. It's terrifying.
00:49:48 Shopify Rebellion looking terrifying in Game 1. Big KP, big placement points, a first place finish for them. Game 2 coming up just after this break.
Anpassung an Legenden-Banns und Team-Dynamiken
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00:51:50 They find a way to get the job done. This is, I don't know, for some people, I feel like they're a little bit of villains, you know? I mean, Koeful and Zainu dropping Phony, you can kind of take either side. They made it so that you had to kind of take a side, but MT clearly has worked. That's what's been awesome about seeing Guild, seeing Shopify. That swap wasn't really about who was right or who was wrong. It's more like, man, both teams are playing just as well. Now we get to see Phony on 100 Thieves, obviously missing out there, but...
00:52:17 Just the fact that Shopify get it done, you can tell this is going to be a team we're going to be talking about a lot, not just in the Americas, but overall in Year 5. For sure. And I think as we take a look at this final circle, Shopify Rebellion, you know, there's always talk about Falcons, talk about 100 Thieves. Everyone's like, I'm sure Shopify Rebellion sat there like, wait a minute, like we're still a team who's going to come in and dominate here. We might not be as brand new and flashy as these teams. However, we're still here.
00:52:41 And we're still here to take over. Maybe Champs wasn't the performance they would have wanted, but they've shown in game number one here that all the pieces seem to be working. And I think the value of a good IGL is really being shown here in year five as well. It's almost as if you find a good IGL and you're looking, even if you're one of the best fraggers in the world, you need that leadership. And MT quite simply brings that. That evac tower that they hit, the timing of that, the call to make that decision, that's the split second decision making that makes the best IGLs in the world separate themselves from the rest of the pack.
00:53:11 You know, I'm kind of curious now that we shift towards Game 2 and we look at Ash. 100% pick rate, which means if you're just joining us, that means she's banned. So you cannot play Ash now for the rest of the series. I keep mentioning this caveat because at the end of the day, if you do go 12 games and you've banned every skirmisher or every assault legend, you're going to have them come back into play. So Ash being the first ban would be the first of that ban in that class if all of them were banned to come back in. But now we've kind of shifted towards...
00:53:40 What do you think, Mark? Alter, Wraith, kind of being the second predominant choices heading into it. We saw Privacy's tier list earlier on in EMEA. He has Alter up at S tier. Do you believe that there's a significant difference between what Alter is bringing to the table right now once Ashe is gone versus Wraith? Or do you think we're just going to start seeing more of a split to your own play style for these teams? Because now, obviously, kind of the go-to best mobility fragger is no longer available.
00:54:05 Yeah, I think you look at Wraitha, I mentioned this in Amir, you know, very similar properties to Ashe. You know, you've got the ability to get into a fight and as a skirmisher as well, if you get that knock as well and you get that finish, then your Q is going to come back as well. So if you're Wraitha, you can Q in, you can Q out. It's as simple as that. And you really do have that value as well. Plus you have the portal, which may be, you know, very similar to the portal of Ashe. You're going to get from point A to point B without taking damage. But there's actually something really interesting that Dan just raised in our Discord chat here. He was saying...
00:54:33 ...during scrims, when Ash got banned, half the lobby then took Wraith, but Shopify actually decided to go with Bangalore instead, maybe thinking they'll get a couple of games of Bangalore instead of Wraith being played by the majority of the lobby, and then having to change for match number three as well. So I'm kind of liking this kind of, you know, this little mind game that's going on with teams at the moment. It's...
00:54:55 Do we try and play what we believe is... Oh, it's Catalyst. Oh, no, sorry, we haven't padmatched her yet. I was going to say, it's this mind game of like, do we want to try and play with the composition for more time or do we want to try and play the legends that we feel have the biggest impact in that particular game? It's a fascinating thing to watch develop and I wonder if more teams are going to look to that as the weeks go by here.
00:55:17 And as we head into this game and we headed to the Open, which of course is coming, you got to get there at some point to even get to Pro League. The Challenger Circuit is where you start. So check that out. It's beginning in just a little bit. If you want to be involved and maybe play Apex at the highest of high levels. And speaking of high, coming down from the sky on Crypto is MT. And I don't want to pass over what you just said, Mark. I think it's like fascinating beyond something we've...
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00:56:10 Wraith. Wraith is better than Bang. You play the most optimal character you can at all times. So it's kind of going to be interesting which pros land on what side of that and also their decision making in terms of why. It's a fascinating kind of thing we get to now dive into again. If we needed more stuff to focus on in Apex, you know, now we have it. Yeah, it's the wonderful thing about these changes, right? And these adaptations, this evolution of Apex Legends, it gives us so many more talking points. You know, the game feels...
00:56:34 Das ist alles ganz anders. Das ist alles ganz anders. Das ist alles ganz anders.
00:56:59 Somebody scrubbing that VOD and trying to go back in time saying, is this playing again? Unlike Virtus.pro, who were able to not do that. But of course, at the end of the day, we do see a lot of these similar zones happen. It's part of why these map picks, the way we've jumped into Apex has been so impactful, getting these zones that might be a little bit more consistent. Well, you hope to find them, but these good POIs here, like Mill with Unleash, sending their NRG on down Bs, able to make a small rotate as well.
00:57:29 Es ist wirklich ein interessantes Ding zu sehen. Und die Frage, wenn du eine Zone hast, wie dieses wieder ist, ist, ob wir das letzte Mal machen, wenn wir erfolgreich sind? Oder ob wir versuchen, eine andere Weise zu tun? Weil wenn es nicht broke ist, dann fix es, richtig? Und so, a lot of times, du hast du ein Similarer Zone, aber du hast du mit, jetzt hast du mit Ash. Was Ash the reason you could play that Zone, richtig? Can you play it the same way?
Strategie-Anpassungen und Zonen-Vorhersagen
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00:57:56 Yeah, can you play it the same way? Because now you don't have the abilities that Ashe has. Now, we see Raids being a very popular pick as almost a replacement for Ashe for a lot of our teams in this game, number two. But it does play different. It does feel different. It does not offer the exact same...
00:58:13 a to b almost instantaneously you have to put that portal down and it's a a little bit of a different feel so that's the great thing right previously before poi draft and legend bands we would see this same zone and we'd be like okay this is a great zone for x they just won this this game they're gonna know their rotate they know who they have to go through or our team's gonna try and adapt but now even though the zone is the same the game is very very different because we have the different legend picks
00:58:40 Apegang zu finden, ein bisschen mehr Platz zu finden, mit dem Triple Take zu finden. Und Bucks wird ein bisschen von Burst. Und diese zwei Teams sind zu bleiben. Und als von jetzt, wir über die Falcons sind, wirklich die Star der Amerikas für so lange, in viele verschiedene Worte. Ein Team, das
00:59:09 In equal parts has fans and people who say, you know, do we want to really see you succeed? This is the super team. Do we love it? They're making that rotation. We got to come back though to CTE before we finish that topic because they're in the middle of it. Goes straight into the Wraith queue. Can come out now whenever they want. And that's huge for Mav as his adjustments allows him to get that first kill and go right back.
00:59:30 Ja, ich war zu sagen, das Skirmisher-Purr bleibt ihm in der Situation. Er kriegt die Knock und dann kriegt die Q back. So all of a sudden, Double Q. All of a sudden, he's alive, he's a problem, he's staying with his team, and it's a pretty clean-looking fight for them. So that is why the Skirmisher is such a strong, strong pull to pick from in this particular iteration of Apex Legends and Season we find ourselves in. Falcons had a little bit of a disappointment in Game 1.
00:59:58 Wir versuchen das ein bisschen besser zu sehen, als sie für die Ring-Console hier sehen können. Und wir werden die Informationen bereits wissen, dass es genau gleich die gleiche Zone ist. Aber sie haben entschieden, um Zero auf Wraith zu setzen. Und sie werden mit Wraith zu setzen für die Ashe, die wir gesehen haben in Game 1 gesehen haben. Also, ein Konsistency, wieder, von den Teams, die die Ashe in Game 1 wählen. Imperial Hau, vielleicht der größte Known-Name in all of Apex. Vielleicht wäre es B.R. Esports an dieser Stelle.
01:00:25 Obviously, trying to get it done here. A fresh year for them. A team that had so many expectations, trying to live up to them has almost been impossible. Winning everything was really the only thing that would allow everyone to say, you've done what we think you should do based on your roster with paper. But, you know, at this moment, I think it's great that they have this new start just to kind of feel fresh. And also with the Newcastle Catalyst, Hal feeling good on Newcastle as well. I mean, these guys, you know, while championships wasn't...
01:00:53 Their win, you know, third place, not bad at all. A lot of money earned already in your vibe. We'll see if they can keep things up as we transition to Albert Lely, an old teammate of Pals on Stallions rotating with Crook and Enemy. Yeah, it's interesting the Falcon story, isn't it? Everyone, it's like if they don't win, it's failure, essentially, because they still picked up some pretty damn good placements on land when it came to it. It was that one, of course, blip that happened in Mannheim. Everybody knows about that, but they bounced back pretty strongly. 100 Thieves.
01:01:21 You have to see the best of them in game number one. Maybe game number two is going to be a little bit different for them as they make a very similar rotation as we would expect with the zone being very similar. Stallion is going to be in front of them. Board have actually changed their rotate towards Down Beast this time instead of trying to go through this choker checkpoint. So they've decided to try and adapt a little bit knowing some of the powerhouse teams that might be trying to wrap in behind them. You know, Phony too with this squad, you know, just his story over these last few years.
01:01:48 Das war's für mich. Das war's für mich.
01:02:13 Just personalities. And so how does that mesh? Does that really work well? Do they all allow each other the space to thrive? Do you need someone to step up in that? Is it Jen? Is it Big E who kind of steps up in that? We know Phony is going to IGL them, but it's just so interesting to see how these three personalities are going to mesh heading into, obviously, a new team, a new org, and a new year. Yeah, it's interesting. I think Phony is certainly able to put his foot down when it comes to making those calls. And I think that, you know, there's two teammates.
01:02:40 Ich glaube, es ist nicht so wichtig, wie wir es sehen, wie wir es sehen können.
01:03:10 The western side of Storm Point here. I'm clutching at straws, but it still looks very similar. Phony upon height here. And just keeping the seam at the edge of zone. Gonna ash portal away. And deal with the enemy that you know, right? The zone, it's gonna give you consistent damage. Phony, you never know. That headshot with the triple take, that could change your whole...
01:03:37 Game 2. So they're going to back off and not risk it here as Phony pops a Phoenix Kent. It's going to grab a little bit of this Evo Harvester. No more red shields as well. Something I feel like we just haven't talked much about. But the fact is, you know, things are just faster. You do not have usually, you know, that level of being able to adjust in the same way. So maybe not as risky in terms of some of the choices that you're going to make, knowing you cannot recover from it anymore as Liquid Alienware.
01:04:06 mit still 19 squads left make their way past Barometer.
01:04:34 A little bit of a scan of the sky here from Albrelele on to a care package that's coming down, which is not only going to grow on them Evo, it's going to give them information that there is a Kraber on its way down. The only problem for them is it's almost 300 meters away, so very unlikely they're going to be able to go and grab that one. Even the new Wraith port's not going to go that far. Yeah. No Ashe either, you know, you get to level 3, you get that ult there, ult back possibility. Not any more stallions having to work with what they've got in front of them on blue shields here.
01:05:03 Und Enemie, ein unserer Jungenst Pros, ein unserer Jungenst Pros in der Geschichte. Sie haben ihn über unsere E-Sport und viele verschiedene Teams gefunden. Jetzt finden sie eine Home mit Stallions zu sehen, ob sie es mit Kroak gemacht haben. Katalist ist die Mose-Bit-Charakter hier, das ist warum man das Bann earlier ist. So, sie wird immer weitergehen. Oh, oh. EMP in den Trees! Oh!
01:05:34 An EMP hidden in the trees. The drone is good enough. And Oblivion obliterated. You feel for the boys. Envy didn't have a good game one. And they're taking it out onto Oblivion.
01:05:46 They found Oblivion right there. And 100 Thieves coming back to give Envy a little bit of a taste of their own medicine. Zeiss feels the through damage of the P2020. Huge pick up there from Phony. Can he continue to go off? He's got Verholtz pushing in ahead. Jim Burton drops. It's just dropped. And Envy will go down right after they find the kill of their own. 100 Thieves, the ultimate winner of that battle.
01:06:11 Yeah, they are going to be the ultimate winner. There's no one else close to third party. You can see that the port is going to go out from Phony just in case to get them away. But Envy, you feel like maybe that was a bit of karma. We are seeing a slightly different zone. It's slightly moving away from Bean. We're going out towards the southern side of Mill. So a slightly different zone here, Fury, and a very, very good spot on the bridge for this one.
01:06:32 VDR on the south side as well. I like this rotate for them. Obviously, potentially running into Ape Gang and CTE who have stayed in that building, feeling very, very confident, but they'll have at least a zone to play around it. Empire, Shopify Rebellion, Hundred Thieves, and of course, Stallions, who we've kind of been keeping track of, all destined to kind of come into the same area here, especially with Falcons being aware that...
01:06:53 There's a lot of teams behind them who would love to kind of claim that northern side of where this zone is going to be an inch their way in as the team without anybody on their backs. A long way from that for Falcons and all those squads. Action about to heat up here in game two. This is a really, really important play from Team Liquid Alienware. This is a little bit of an all or nothing play. They're trying to take the bottom floor here. Niesel might be able to get this kill.
01:07:20 Zon is going to be a problem, has to jump into the void to stay alive. And now at 1 HP, you get the feeling that Team Liquid Alienware might not be longed for their spare gods will hold. And I mentioned how it's an all or nothing play. If they don't win that fight, essentially they're out of the lobby. They're trying to take away one of the god spots here. And it's a great hold from the team on your screen. Huge here from all of these squads trying to fight for just a moment and not.
01:07:47 Finds 1, onto Not Payne. Geriv goes down to the ring. Ryu trying to get the Newcastle res. He's going to get it, but will they stay alive after that? That's the question. I mean, I was worried that Zone was going to be a problem, but it's madness. He threads the needle this time from distance. This time with a 30-30. He was knocked from Fury the first time around with the Scout who got that knocked. And Beck got us now just really struggling. Somehow Team Liquid Alienware are up to 2. While all this is going down.
01:08:13 I think Team Liquid Alienware, I gotta send a pay packet towards Fury and say thank you very much for the help. Fury is not gonna push that though. We're kind of still in a standstill. 100 Thieves about to get EMP'd and they do! Verhulst almost goes down immediately. That's Zynu from up top taking down Big E. And now Zynu raining fire with the upgraded G7. And he's got the gold version as well with a PK. You don't want to stay away from him. You don't want to get close.
Shopify Rebellion's Herausforderungen und Unleash's Sieg in Spiel 2
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01:08:40 Es ist wirklich kein Problem, Zynu hat euch zu lösen. Hier ist Shopify Rebellion, nach Game 1 gewinnen, hat sich etwas zu verändern. Sehr ähnlich für Shopify Rebellion, sehr ähnlich für Falkontore, Eliminated in 17th, in diesem Spiel Nummer 2. Es ist eine Red Armour und zwei Purples, genau die gleiche Position, als wir sie in den letzten Spiel gesehen haben, wo sie das gewinnen haben. 100 Thieves waren able, zu überleben und Portal Owl, aber ihr wisst, wie lange sie...
01:09:05 Gonna survive here in this game because there's only one of them left. And with the way that Shopify Rebellion are playing at the moment, this is looking like a scary squad as Empire will also fall in the lobby.
01:09:17 You talk about Shopify Rebellion, obviously SSG prior, but looking at Zainu's history, hoisting that trophy twice, you know, not a lot of people can say that they did that. I mean, we're really talking about someone who has put themselves in, you know, a category of elite play here in Apex, and you cannot ever discount the fact that...
01:09:38 You know, somebody of that caliber is now getting more and more experience. And we speak about enemy being young. Zainu as well. Such a bright career ahead of him. Already done so much. And we'll see if this will continue. The 30-30, however, from Skittlecakes. He wants to find that slot here. Just going to hide behind the Newcastle wall. And you can see above Kurev and Liquid Alienware getting him back in the game. As we have round four about to close. Still 15 squads left.
01:10:06 Ja, das ist eine wirklich, wirklich große Porta hier von Skill Cakes auf der Wraith. Er hat einen Spielplatz für seine Team. Er hat einen Spielplatz für seine Team. Er hat ihn in. Er hat ihn in die Queue als auch, um ein bisschen länger zu survive. Zynou ist in der Feed, wieder einmal mit der Peacekeeper. Oh, der Boy ist Chunkin. Oh, der Boy ist Hungry, by the looks of Dings. Es wird zu dead hier für VDR. Koifull wird es in, mit MT. Shoulder wird es beendet. VDR fühlt die Pain von Shopify Rebellion, aber es kam zu einem Kost, als Zynou wird es beendet.
01:10:33 Sometimes you have to give, you know, a little bit to get some and luckily in terms of that situation, they make it out alive. Unluckily though, they have to now respawn Zainu. Shouldn't be impossible, but it definitely adds a little bit of difficulty to what would have been a pretty strong game in game two to see if they can go back to back there. Gilderson's off the headshot dealing with a little bit of a EMP himself, but those Arc Stars are going crazy.
01:11:00 Oh, my guild! Ich meine, das Guild ist best, richtig? Damage, Damage, Damage!
01:11:28 Für was könnte die Priorität sein. Liquid Alienware ist auf dem Godrug, um alle diese Teams zu behalten. Sie sind immer noch in den Norden. NRG ist endlich auf. Der Final Player wird Guilden, der Fall ist.
01:11:40 Neasel up on top Trying to stay here just apply pressure when needed the car in the 30-30 for Jaguaris and Skittle Cakes I was gonna make up to three phony has pulled off an absolute blinder here
01:12:01 Well, you know, Phony obviously knows how to get out of tricky situations, so don't count him out just yet. He will be finished, however, from Nano. And that will leave 100 Thieves back to two. Sometimes being the IGL and also being the person who has to go out in front and try to scout, it's a difficult thing to do. So now Jim Burton and Verhul's trying to get him back, and they will, Mark. They're going to get him back. They're going to get the res. By the way, shout out for Gen. He doesn't need the dual P2020s. He's just rocking the one at the moment.
01:12:31 He's playing the game on Extreme Mode. Flat eliminated in the meantime. Eight squads now remain. Liquid Alienware are going to have to move soon, though. But they control so much of this height. And if they can force the team off in front of them, then they can carve a path towards this zone. Underthieves back up as a three. Phony back with purples. Got his weapons and everything. And now Huss trying to rotate into them. What will be the answer? Goes immediately into the queue. Eyes himself a little bit at a time. Slides out. Going for the portal.
01:12:59 Skittlekeggs, wieder nach dem Newcastle Wall. Es ist genug, aber Team Liquid Alienware ist auf dem Topf, um zu 100 Thieves zu gehen. So viele Teams gehen jetzt an es jetzt, als die Zone zieht in, sechs Squads left. Und er ist einfach zu versuchen, das Newcastle Shield zu gehen. Es ist nicht passiert, als Liquid Alienware, die Jaguartis ist noch alive, verliert Niesel. Oh, die Newcastle Wall ist gut genug. 100 Thieves ist noch alive, aber Verwals ist noch nicht. Jaguartis 1 HP!
01:13:31 von Jaguars. Sie fallen in 4th position. Liquid Alienware will fall. Honda Thieves go down as well.
01:13:43 What a moment here from Jaguaris. He finds that next level, Super Saiyan, whatever you call it, and just gets the job done. It's not going to be the win, but it is going to be a highlight that we will remember for a long time. Unleash now have a chance to close out game two. Three shields, they've got a red on Newcastle. Lorzi dropping down with a P20, trying to find the last one. It's Madness. He's been causing chaos with that 30-30. He's going to go down and Unleash.
01:14:10 will find the kill and find the victory in game number two. The Kunai gets the job done. There's no better way to reintroduce Wraith to the ALGS than getting the final kill with the Heirloom. It's a beautiful thing to see. Unleash the winners of game number two. And again, it's one of the teams that we weren't talking about coming into the day who perform when it matters. But I mean, that was a crazy game. That play...
01:14:37 He got the job done. Sometimes as a pro, you know, you don't win your game, but you have moments that say today was special. I think Jaguaris just had a moment that felt special for us on broadcast. And so whether they get the W or not, they're coming away with 10 points and a lot of confidence that they can 1v2, 1v3, if need be.
01:15:06 Unleash, take the win overall, 20 points there. Hus right behind them. Furia also. Madness, we didn't watch any of their play. We saw them through the kill feed, but obviously a really solid game for them. Puts them up into seventh place. And Hus leading the lobby yet again, Mark. It's very similar to what we saw in EMEA. Some teams that, yeah, weren't leading the conversation heading into it. Now two out of our top five.
01:15:29 Yeah, I mean, the team with one of the most chantable names and players when it comes to the live event, you know, I'm expecting a lot of dupes. Seeing him back on the stage, I'm expecting a lot of huss, huss, huss when they come out on top as well because 30 points on the board after two games is a very, very good-looking score to have on board. Liquid Alienware just behind them as well, but...
01:15:50 Shopify Rebellion was a good KP in that game, weren't able to convert on those KP, a very, very North heavy side it felt like that time as everyone tried to rotate in in comparison to a lot of teams trying to wrap from the South in the previous game. All I have to say is with the 20 teams that we see here, imagine 160 in the Open and the names that we're going to be talking about, the unknowns, the unexpected moments, all that coming up and also Game 3 right after this break.
01:16:29 I am the protector of the weak, defender of the just, and lifter of damn heavy swords.
01:17:23 I can't get my sword from a stone, but I'm still worthy.
01:18:01 The official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
01:18:17 Dan Gaskin is back, everybody. That's good news for me and for Reinde, because he gets a break as well. Two games done, Dan. One with a powerhouse team coming out on top in that game number one is Shopify Rebellion. But once again, a team who's gone under the radar a little bit win game number two. What did you make of that? I thought that it was an interesting one, considering we had the changes, like, same circle. I mean, I hate to say that I was the curse. I did say that it could happen, but different game because we saw...
01:18:43 Das war ein ganz anderes Spiel.
01:19:04 We also hopefully get to see the POV of the Kunai finishing things off which is the best way to finish
01:19:30 Es ist cool.
01:19:53 Ja, es ist ganz sadistisch. Sie haben ihn mit einem Knife gemacht. Aber ich glaube, es war natürlich ein Interesse in Game 2. Jetzt gehen wir in Game 3, wir haben Catalyst-Band. In Skrims, wir haben noch mehr Newcastle gesehen. Ein paar Wraiths kamen. Es war eigentlich ein 50-50. Well, nicht 50-50. Es war die same...
01:20:16 Amount of Newcastles and Wraiths in Scrims. So then it comes down to which Legend has been picked more overall, which in Scrims was Newcastle. So we'll have to see whether that ban comes out again. But then we started to see more Cryptos coming into the equation. Rampart started to be played as well in Game 3 of Stormpoint. So this, I think, is going to see the most diverse selection of Legends going into this third map.
01:20:38 And a little bit of a worrying start here for Falcons as well. 17th and 18th, I think, respectively, if I'm not mistaken, from those first two games. Might be slightly off on those, but either way, certainly not in the top 10. So they've got some questions to answer here. Some tough zones, of course, for them to try and access. But the crazy thing about it is we're talking about Legend Bands. We've got one more game on Stormpoint. Before then, we have another change. We change maps. We then move over to E-District and a completely different feel to the lobby once again.
01:21:06 Ja, sehr, sehr unterschiedlich. Ich denke, wir werden auch die Veränderungen sehen, wenn E-District ist die erste, zum Beispiel. Ich denke, wir werden Alta benutzt und verabschiedet werden und verabschiedet werden, während wir nur ein bisschen von Alta verabschiedet haben. Und dann werden wir ein paar sehen, wenn E-District kommt in für Game 4. Aber diese sind die Series results. Und Huss, du sagst, der Chance, Huss, Huss, Huss. Huss, Huss, Huss!
01:21:29 Ich bin all für es, ich werde in den Stats. Vielleicht können wir den Stats leaden. Sie sind die Nummer 1 in der Moment und für gute Grund. Ich denke, das ist ein wirklich guter Squad, das sie haben sich gemacht. Und ein sehr excitinges Team, indeed. Liquid Alienware, 2nd Place, Shopify Rebellion. Sie haben nicht geschafft, wie sie in Game 1 finden können, aber sie sind noch in der Diskussion. Und dann Unleash kommt aus dem Weg, um sich in den Top 4 zu bringen. Ich möchte nicht sagen...
01:21:56 All of Hus's success as my own, Dan. But let me tell you a story. Please do. About six, seven months ago, I think it was, Duke was struggling a little bit with his audio setup. It was cutting out when he was trying to make calls as an IGL. I sent him a DM. I was like, brother, I've set up so many GoXLRs for people like you and everyone else throughout the years. I've got you. Got it sorted for him. He's been on the rise ever since.
01:22:21 Coincidence? I think not. Could be a coincidence? I don't know. Let's take a look at the map schedule though. Let's see what we've got coming up. I'm sure the chat will agree with me. Can you fix mine? There's no other factor. Will I improve mine? Well, if I break it and you fix it, will I get better at Apex? Um, yeah.
01:22:42 Match number three, Stormpoint. Catalyst has been banned, Ash already banned after game number one. And as you can see now, this is the final time that we'll be on Stormpoint before we head over to E-District for three games where we've got a little inkling that we're going to see quite a lot of Alter come into play. Now, who do you think is going to be jumping into the compositions, Dan, now that we see Catalyst removed from the Legend pool?
01:23:06 Little sprinkle of Caustic, couple of Watsons coming into it. Bang, Alter, Crypto, Rampart, Fuse. They're going to be the ones that are going to be injected into compositions now just to try and make up for the lack of Ring Console information that was available previously from the Catalyst. The real question for me is who gets banned here, Newcastle or Wraith? Because we've seen a lot of it already. And that is going to really change Game 4 because...
01:23:31 If Wraith gets banned, then we will of course see a hell of a lot of Newcastle and Alter going into Game 4. But if Newcastle does get banned, that makes E-District very interesting, because to characterize it back to Emiya, Newcastle was still alive until Game... He didn't die, he just got banned. He was still there until Game 5, right? But then it changed Game 6 when he was then banned. I think the E-District is going to be very different if we lose Newcastle here in Map 3.
01:23:57 Ich weiß nicht, ob wir einen Pathfinder sehen können. Wir sehen uns ein bisschen in EMEA als auch. Ja, wir sehen uns 1 oder 2, nicht wir? Ja, wir sehen uns auch ein fantastisches Beispiel von einem Skirmisher-Changes für dieses Jahr, mit dem Fall wir sehen in Bean sehr early, mit Wraith.
01:24:12 Getting that knot, getting the fin, and then getting the Q back immediately after Qing into that fight. So that shows it's a really good kind of illustration to the strength that a skirmisher can have in your composition if you do choose to go down that route. But speaking of taking a route, it's going to be straight down to start this game off. Match number three is live. It's the last time that we're going to be here on Stormpoint.
01:24:32 And this should be another exciting one because now we have no Catalyst. Everyone has to come up with a little bit more of a creative way to try and get out of some of those dodgy moments. So you've got no Ash Portal to escape. You've got no Dark Veil to escape. So instead, is it going to be a Bangsmoke, for example? Are we going to see people try and retreat to that? You can see the Rampart is here and available. You've still got Wraith available as well for those portals. So can Unleash.
01:24:59 Put that second game and turn it into a third one to try and get towards the top of the leaderboard. By the way, the game attack Vlorzy, I feel like he's trying to get as many letters at the end of the alphabet into one game attack as possible. You feel that's fair? I think that's possible, yeah. He's just decided he could do as much as he could. Yeah.
01:25:20 Heilside ist wo wir sind und in terms of Legend Selection...
01:25:38 It is going to be Wraith who takes the majority 14 picks over the 13 of Newcastle. So we will see Newcastle for game four. So that means, again, we might see Newcastle up until game five because Alter is more likely to be banned in game four, you would imagine. But anyway, yeah, lots of Wraith here today. We were also seeing, as expected, a couple of Watsons and Caustic being thrown into there and then six Ramparts and eight.
01:26:03 So we'll have to see how those Recon Characters and the Recon Perk might help out from the side of Alter as well. Very interesting that when we head to E-District, we're going to have a real kind of cut down on strong rotational characters, right? You've lost Ash, you've lost Braith, we've lost Catalyst. Yeah, they're some of the strongest. Maybe Bangalore's going to pop her head up and say, it's my time to shine with those smokes.
01:26:28 As you can see from the map overhead here, Oblivion in a very good spot early on. Bergosas, who had a really good spot actually for quite a long time and managed to get into that top three. Maybe in the top two, if I wasn't mistaken, from that previous game. Apegang also very, very close. But just looking at the northern side of the map, looking at what Falcons are up to. They're heading from Trident, understandably. They need a game here, I have to say. I feel like they need a game because it's not just been a case of no KP. It's been no placement either.
01:26:53 Ja, ich denke, das ist das Worry. Wenn du zu diesem Punkt hast, wenn du zu diesem Punkt hast, ist es wenn du wirklich eine Entscheidung hast, ob wir die richtige Weise spielen? Ob wir gut genug sind? Was können wir besser machen? Was können wir besser machen, um diese nächsten paar Spiele zu machen? Du wirst es nicht einfach nur in die nächsten Spiele sein und dann sagen, okay, jetzt werden wir agressiv werden. Jetzt werden wir für Punkte gehen. Jetzt werden wir für Punkte gehen. Jetzt werden wir unsere Comp-up.
01:27:13 Try and do it a little bit earlier. See if you can find that rhythm for success here in Game 3 moving into the next one. Because you can consider this a halfway point and this is your last attempt to gain points on Stormpoint.
01:27:24 Well, Fury have had a very good game number two. They had a really good spot in game number one as well. And at the top of Barrow, we've got Team Liquid Alienware underneath them for now. So they're going to have good angles onto them. I'm sure that Liquid Alienware are more than aware of their position. But this is the hillside that we're talking about where this endgame is going to be taking place and unleash the winners of our game number two.
01:27:46 A little bit of duress early on here, trying to set up a little bit of cover. They do have Rampart and Newcastle, so playing behind this tree might actually be an option for them as everyone else tries to fight for those buildings. Trying to work out what BR they're playing with Rampart and Newcastle. They're going to be building a base before you know it. Sky Tower starts to come through. They've got all of the opportunity to build up some fake cover here, but will that hurt them in other aspects of the game? Of course. Now, Falcons...
01:28:12 Wir haben einen kleinen Blick auf ihn und sie werden zumindest einen Knochen auf Janja bekommen. Aber viele Teams haben sich in diese Zone geschafft. Auf Janja? Auf Janja?
01:28:25 You went very Ron Burgundy. You just whipped a question mark on the end of your statement. Shout out to everyone who's old enough to remember Anchorman 1. Well, it's a little bit of a confidence boost here for Falcons, just getting that KP on the board. Even if it's just the one point, it's one, which is better than none. Little bit of loot for them to pick up as well. Little bit of loot for them to pick up as well.
01:28:50 Das ist eine pure Family Guy moment, ist es? 1 ist besser als 0, da ist ein Michael Owen für dich heute. Wir sind alle auf 1-1, auf Tier 1 Analyse. So Falcons, jetzt mit der Position sie gerade halten, du denkst, dass sie eine Chance haben, um die K.P. von Teams aus den Norden zu kommen, aber niemand wird wirklich kommen, das zu ehrlich sein. Alle anderen haben versucht, einen Weg zu finden, nach dem Map zu finden, um irgendwoher zu kommen. So Falcons werden eigentlich auch ...
01:29:18 Inward teams that have been able to get ahead of them depending on where this zone currently pulls. As for Team Liquid Alienware, sure they've got height right now, but they need to move eventually. I don't think they have zone, so that's going to be the reason why they haven't really been able to work out where to move yet. So they're just holding on to their tippy top of the tower. Just a note as well that NRG did manage to get Yanya back up. We did see them as a full three momentarily, so it's not going to cost them as...
01:29:46 As far as player count for the team is concerned, it's more about the spot that they would have had and now how they're going to have to fight in a little bit later. Liquid are more than happy, by the way, to be here at Barometer. Maybe they're just reminiscing about the simpler times. You know, POI draft, when Suck came in, it meant that they weren't guaranteed Barometer. Just staying up here and thinking about the good times.
01:30:07 Just reminiscing about Barometer. Barometer, as it was once called. Ah, who knows who called it that, hey? Not me. Digivibes down.
Analyse der Spielsituation und Teamstrategien in der ALGS Pro League
01:30:2201:30:22 Probably back up? No, not going to be back up. Alright, so there's been a couple of ones eliminated, a couple of people just getting caught out on their rotate, just being picked off, but still being able to escape. As I say that, I thought they'd been able to escape, but Unleash will be fully killed. So from winning the previous to now getting eliminated first, the age-old curse of Apex Legends. Let's go this way. It's Flat who did lose QZ up, and they're going to try and port for his banner by the looks of things.
01:30:53 19 squads, first team was eliminated. This is going to be a very tough recovery though. Ape gang are very close, but maybe they're not quite paying attention enough to that death box. Indeed, they're going to be able to get that banner and get away by the looks of things. They're a bit late, they're like, what's going on here?
01:31:12 Also, completely opposite to EMEA, is the POI draft that came through from the Americas, as Flatgate eliminated. Everyone prioritised E-District, from what I'm seeing. If the numbers are correct, which I'm always going to assume they are, we saw priority on E-District for all the teams, not on Stormpoint, which, as I said, is polar opposite to EMEA, which again just shows region by region we are seeing something completely different, which makes an Open even more exciting.
01:31:40 It certainly does indeed. Just a look at your map overhead. That zone has gone right to the center of the second zone. So third zone. If you were reading off of second zone, you're going to be pretty happy. Pretty predictable. Furia in a really good spot as well. Just holding down the outside of Jurassic. A lot of, again, traffic on the north side of this zone. And you can understand why as well. Because of the fact that you have that natural height to try and work your way down from. The problem is with so many teams stacked up inside. And so many teams trying to make essentially the same play.
01:32:08 Es wird sehr, sehr schwer sein, wenn man das ganze Nr. Und wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn man, wenn
01:32:33 Hier für Shopify Rebellion. Ja, die Good News für Shopify ist, dass sie die gleiche Comp als sie in den vergangenen Spiel gehabt haben. So die Struggles, sie würden sie in Game 2 haben, sie würden sie die gleiche Spiele hier sein. 100 Thieves, 5th Platz in der Moment und sie müssen in den Southeastern. Let's jump in zur Listenin' und sehen was 100 Thieves haben zu sagen.
01:33:02 Take it, take it, take it Take the evo, take the evo Where do you wanna go? My side They're getting MPed, they're getting MPed Are they getting forced? Are they getting forced though? No, they got Fuse ulted I think You can scout Palo and I'll watch the portal You can scout Palo and I'll watch the portal Kypto's just watching me Let me know if they fight Yeah, I'm bossing for now, I'm waiting for Genacross I'm coming Like two teams on my side
01:33:32 Ja, ich bin hier für heute.
01:34:00 Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid. Ich bin auf Heid.
01:34:29 Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
Spielsituationen und Team-Eliminierungen im späteren Spielverlauf
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01:34:43 Und das ist alles passiert auf der Norden der Zone, wo wir die Team stacken vorhin hatten. Ja, Schöpfe Rebellion zu haben, die Final Kill auf Dube zu haben. Und da sind sie dann, 16 Squads zu haben. Und da sind ein paar große Fälle passiert, es wird sich, um die Map zu sehen. Das ist eine von ihnen. Und eigentlich, Schöpfe Rebellion zu sehen. Sie sehen die Falken in den Bord, aber da ist auch ein Team in den Bord.
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01:35:29 Yeah, they're just praying to any god that will take them at the moment, hoping that someone can... No, not gonna happen. They look to the heavens, but sadly all they see is Koi fall with a G7 scout. Board eliminated. There wasn't really any way they were gonna get out of that situation. And now Shopify Rebellion probably looking to see if they can do a little bit more damage to Falcons, who were close to them on that northern side. Falcons as a duo, if I'm not mistaken.
01:35:56 Walsi wurde erinnert ein bisschen früher von NRG, die noch so, so close sind zu ihnen. Sie haben Alienware, aber sie sind in diesem Bereich. Schöpfe Rebellion ist jetzt wieder nach dem Norden, wo diese Zone ist. Und ich denke, Falcons Zero, mit den zwei Team-Maten, habe ich gesagt, haben sie noch ein bisschen Recon-Work gemacht, aber sie haben Walsi zurück.
01:36:19 Sie werden schaden und folgen Schöpfe, aber die Zone wird anfangen und starten zu spielen. Envy ist jetzt auch ein Team. Es gibt 100 Thieves. Sie sind so leid, und es gibt Verholz, nicht genug Rock, um seine Rock zu lösen. Zappsweeps in, aber es gibt nur noch einen Remain-Member. Envy ist jetzt so viel dämmer.
01:36:41 Zapp and Sykes, die zwei Fraggers sind in von der Boss zu tun. Und sie tun genau das. Die Bauter-Managerin hat den Bauter-Managerin, aber jetzt müssen sie sich auf die Bauter-Managerin. Und sie haben noch ein Weg zu gehen. Sie haben auch eine Art von Empyre. Ja, Empyre, die nur in die Zonen-Managerin sind. Es gibt nur zwei von Empyre, die sie in den Bauter-Managerin halten. Eine von ihnen ist auf der Norden-Side. Es ist noch eine Chance für Envy, aber es ist einfach eine Chance, weil sie nicht mehr wissen, dass sie gegen zwei sind. Es wird ein 2v2 in diesem Scenario sein, so es ist noch eine Chance. Sie haben alle Bauter-Managerin.
01:37:11 Sykes, unfortunately, ist ein bisschen warmer als er will. Er wird es ein 1v1 an dem Moment geben. Er wird ein bisschen mehr Info hier an wo der Final Player ist. Gut Spray kommt in von ihm.
01:37:25 Nivea soar, und Jaguar ist auf dem Weg. Such ein guter Halt von Empire, aber jetzt Liquid Alienware ist die Chance! Aber jetzt sieht man die nur Kostik in der Lobby, die wirkliche threat zu Liquid Alienware ist. Wir werden versuchen und Rez das eine. Apegang haben wir in der meantime. Wir sehen Rambo und sagen, hey, das ist für mich, will ich? Wir halten das eine. Es hat genug Dammage zu bekommen, aber nicht genug Dammage zu haben, für jetzt.
01:37:54 Trennend auf VDR, die Schuss kommen in von Knott, aber Keyon ist auf. Keyon ist auf. Keyon ist auf. Going to get a chance to be picked back up though. And will be back on his feet. But are they going to be able to survive this? No is the answer. VDR coming hot. And Liquid Alienware also finally go down. So just eight teams left. That was an insane amount of teams that just fell. Mainly because there was not really any room to play. Everyone was trying to force their way through. And again, without any sort of Ashe.
01:38:22 ...to take you through any sort of dark veil to give you that cover. I don't have to take those fights. Vaxxelon might have jumped into his drone at just the right time here... ...because Locked In may be looking to wrap... ...where VDR's position is. NRG looking for their second reset of this game as well. And Timmy...
01:38:39 He's gonna say welcome back to Yanya as least. Did he have both of the banners? We'll have to find out. Didn't need both because Guildy is back. He's alive and kicking. And he's trying to throw some frack grenades down to finish off this team. He's just in that little crevice between the rocks.
01:38:55 Looks like it's gonna be a safe arrival back onto the map. A chance to get into a loot box as well, so you can be at least somewhat equipped for the fight, but the zone about to close and it has to be a decision made now. Which way do you go here? Sadly, I think that decision might be made for them because of the shots that are coming from the other side. Well, there's eight squads remaining, so there is a little bit of space here. It's not gonna be a heavy traffic zone for them to try and force their way into, so they might be able to thread the needle a little bit here.
01:39:22 The only problem for them is those rotational characters that have been taken out by the Legend Bands. They don't have a Wraith, they do not have an Ash either. So it's going to have to be Brute Force and there's no one better than Guild if you're looking for Brute Force. Yeah, Brute Force with the P2020s, but they all go down the lower route here just to take a little bit of cover. We'll use the Bangalore Smoke as well to move to the next rock, but sadly, Nades, EMPs, Bullets all flying in NRG. Their demise is arriving and Guild will be the last one to fall.
Entscheidende Momente und Team-Eliminierungen im Endspiel
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01:39:49 Energy will fall. Six squads remain in his bed. Gotas go down as well. No, the fight's still taking care of itself here. It's locked in. And Rambo on the prowler. What year is it? No Name will be eliminated.
01:40:10 Push on in and locked in down to just one. And VDR are doing so well to command the space at the moment. That's what year it was. I mean, Caustic and a Prowler and Rambo. It feels like 2023, 2022 to me. I'm a lot younger now. I'm just taking years off of myself. It's great. The pandemic cost me two years and now I'm bringing them back. Oblivion, two red armors and a Kraber. Three bullets left here for Blingster. Oh!
01:40:40 in front of him line them up but can you knock them down they know exactly where falcons are and they can surround them they have the advantage thanks to these red armors you can see falcons have been able to just hold off they have the ability just to create a couple of barricades to separate themselves but they both have to move zone's gonna close in 10 seconds blinks blinks is looking for another angle here
01:41:16 Falkons waren einfach nur für einen kleinen Raum. Sie waren so vulnerable. Und sie waren wahrscheinlich nur die Kräber, aber es hat nicht. Es hat nicht. Es hat nicht mehr als es nur noch geholfen. Es hat zwei. Und jetzt die Falkons gehen, vier Teams left. So VDR ist auf der westen Seite. Empire ist noch auf der southeast. Und Sie haben Oblivion und ein Mitglied von LockedInn auf der north.
01:41:45 One bullet. Two dead Falcons.
01:41:52 Incredible shot. One of the best Kraber shots we've seen in the ALGS. It all lined up for him. It was about pulling the trigger at the right time. And now they build that base. Castle wall down. Rampart walls down as well. It's Oblivion who have performed so well in scrims. Who are looking to continue that form into week one of the Pro League here in game number three. Empire eliminated. They're into the top three. And they are looking so good. Not only did they have the Kraber. Funge got himself a PK as well.
01:42:18 Ja, das ist wirklich Oblivion vs. VDR und dann der kleine Inklusion von LockedIn, der eine remaining Spieler, die jetzt noch sein wird, und jetzt hoping. Panic, still da, behind The Rock. Das ist so low, by the way. Der Name Panic Apex kann nicht mehr Poetig sein.
01:42:34 Oh, he's just been pinged as well. Oblivion, know that he's there. Is he on the Wraith, though? He'll well be. We'll check it in a few moments' time. He's on the Wraith. That could play a big part in this, because you can go into the void. You can maybe encourage the other teams to fight. Try and kidnap someone, just to be funny. All options, depending on if you're playing for comedic presence or to get as many points on the board as you can. By the way, reps, 1.8.
01:43:04 in this game. Massive amount of output of damage from him. Reps did say it's a chance for players to shine in this environment and maybe he's going to be the one shining in this game. Can VDR convert this into a win to get some much needed points to send themselves up these leaderboards though? Oblivion do have the Alter available and of course have the Rampart and Sheila which could play a big part into this and of course the red armors we've already mentioned. A severe advantage when it comes to armors here.
01:43:35 Ich hoffe, ihr seid bereit für diese Jelle Panik Apex. Es ist ein Problem. Es ist Rebs, der da ist, und das wird nur die Tür öffnen. Ihr müsst, wo der Solo ist. Es wird Spaß. Auf der Back of the Damage gettet der KP.
01:43:49 Rats are a problem and they really can affect the endgame, especially when they go unnoticed.
01:44:07 They ruin the chances of VDR taking anything there, but they just open everything for Oblivion. And maybe it was inevitable anyway. Oblivion just had such a big advantage with those red armors and with some of the ultimates available, especially Sheila being there for them too. But maybe they earned that position based off the previous fights they had. Yeah, really, really impressive from them. And I think coming into this week, they were one of the Dark Horse teams that we talked about. Been performing extremely well in scrims. Well, it's carried over.
01:44:35 Das ist eine schöne, jubbly sette Punkte. Sie werden wirklich auf da in der Diskussion für Top 5. Ja, all die weit in 4th place.
01:45:03 Ja, und ich glaube, wir sind ein bisschen...
01:45:29 Vielen Dank.
01:45:39 Also, a huge shout-out to Shopify Rebellion's ability
01:46:04 oder gewinnen den Tag. So, an diesem Punkt, Shopify sehr, sehr close zu maintaining und pushing past that lead. Aber hey, a lot of names. Hus coming in as well, Marc. I mean, this is not an underdog story, but definitely a dark horse that we're getting to witness here right in front of our eyes. I can't not say it every time that now I read it or you say it. I'm like, Hus, Hus, Hus. You know what I mean? I really want New Orleans to be screaming that. We'll see what happens. Yeah.
Anpassung an Legend Bans und Team-Diversifizierung in der Pro League
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01:46:30 I mean, there's a few teams who have performed in scrims who are performing here in Pro League. And, you know, there's a lot of experience on these teams. These aren't teams that are just like unknown players. These are players that have either picked up young talent or they're players who are coming back to team together again after a little bit of time apart. And everyone knows how to perform. And I think it's fascinating, you know, how every game is so different now because you look at that and you're like, why did that game end the way it was? Why was there so much space again in that end game? And it's...
01:46:56 You look at zone this time. Zone is the difference there. There is no playable zone areas for people. People are looking at maybe not playing in Newcastle early on. It's all of these things that start to evolve in every game. I keep saying it, but I'm going to keep saying it. It feels different. And I think that's fascinating to watch.
01:47:12 It's because when you really think about what a pig is doing, and we have a fun segment to jump into in just a second, but when you really think about what a pig is doing, it's eliminating RNG. It's eliminating the randomness in a game that is inherently random. So having a shield, having Gibraltar, having Newcastle gives you the sense that you know what you're going to be able to do, even if you take a fight. But now that those characters...
01:47:34 Das ist nicht nur die Charaktere, aber die Faktoren, die sich über die Katalist-Wall spielen, um Ash-Mobility zu gewinnen, wenn man eine Tightspot hat, hat man die Mobility. Jetzt vielleicht nicht, oder nicht in der gleichen Weise. Obviamente, es ist eine Erfahrung, nicht nur für uns zu sehen und zu sehen, aber für die Spieler auch, das ist so, so spannend.
01:47:55 Alas, while we could talk about this all day long, it is time for us to talk about something even more important, which is our hot takes. It's halftime, and that means it's hot take time. And that means, Mark, I'm going to have you sit this one out. It's going to be me versus Gaskin. The real hot take here, guys, I'm not sure this is hot.
01:48:15 I mean, maybe the movement is hot. I don't know. You guys like this? A little merengue, a little salsa? It's pro players and their worst habits. One of my least favorite aspects of our pros is the fact that whenever a change happens, they always tweet about it negatively. I mean, at the end of the day, POI draft.
01:48:34 Legend bans? A new map coming into Pro League? How can you be so aware that someone is sneaking up behind you in zone, but so unaware that these changes usually work out and are good to watch and for the esport? Can we stop hating on stuff all the time? I mean, just hating for the sake of hating. It feels like you got a PhD, a play-a-hater degree. Pro, step it up. Give it a little bit of love, please, because at the end of the day, you know that we are doing what we
01:49:03 I'm just sick of it. I have a little bit of good faith. I don't know. Well, I mean, yeah, pro players, bad habits. There's far too many of them. Pro players need to remember they are on camera too. I had to watch Sykes readjust after a game. Please have a think about who's watching at home.
01:49:24 Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt. Ich weiß, dass ihr euch aufhören könnt.
01:49:54 Und das ist real, weil... So glad I stayed out of that one. So glad I stayed out of that one. So glad I stayed out of that one. You know, I think, to be honest, I feel like Dan just really had a lot to let go in that segment. A lot of pins up anger. Yeah, a lot of pins up anger.
01:50:18 This is therapy. We're being therapeutic. Obviously, we know this segment was Dan's idea, by the way. He's the one who put this in. All jokes aside, chat, let us know if you enjoyed that and you're enjoying our hot takes. We're having a lot of fun in the middle of the broadcast. Usually, we brought on a guest, but we're changing things up in year five, like we have said, around all of Apex Legends. If you think somebody won, if you like the tag, we encourage you to get involved in the conversation, whether it's on Twitch, on YouTube, or on YouTube.
01:50:48 x wherever you end up watching uh guys i think at the end of the day too it's time to hear what chat thinks uh i gotta know i gotta know at this point let's go ahead and feature some chats here mark i'm gonna let you read this one because you know what you stayed out of that okay i'll do some responsible work uh alternative dashboards dash 655
01:51:14 Just make sure I got the right amount of fives. This is such a disgustingly stacked lobby. SR Falcons, Hunter Thieves, Furious Stallions, Vidya. You get the idea. All in one lobby with a ton of unknown quantity demons in there. In the back. You should read this. I'm regretting my decision. There's genuinely 10 teams in this lobby who could win. In my opinion, there's nothing to speculate on off this lobby. Lol. It's just too damn hard.
01:51:40 AlternativeBad6555, welcome to Year 5 of the Apex Legends Global Series. I think everyone feels like that at the moment.
01:51:48 We all do. And at the end of the day, this is one of those comments that really rings true for us watching. We don't really know what's happening. Everyone does feel like they have a chance to win. And it's not just the Legend Bands, it's just the quality and the experience now as we head into the fifth year of, you know, people know how to play this game. Benris, Ask Gear. Interesting. I'm not sure if I said that right, but thank you for commenting. If Hus keeps up performances like this, they'll be signed in no time. Dan, obviously a good sign for them.
01:52:18 A team certainly on the rise, and orgs need to be paying attention right now. I did see a little teaser trailer from TSM. They're looking and they're maybe picking up someone. So, I don't know, performances like this, maybe Husk could be next. Maybe they could play that trailer backwards, by the way, at double speed. It actually goes, Husk, Husk, Husk!
01:52:41 Was ist das Led Zeppelin? Was ist das Pink Floyd? Was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das, was ist das
01:52:56 My heart is full. Well, you know, it has been a little bit since we've heard that dupe chant in an arena. Hopefully we get a chance to see it here if they keep playing well. That puts us in prime position, especially at the Open, to get some dupe love back again. So that's it. Thank you so much for engaging in the chat, whether it's on Reddit, on Twitch.
01:53:17 Wherever you are, we're super excited about it. Mark, I know you're about to take a break. We had a great cast. It's time for Dan and I to get going, however, for this little portion. So we'll say goodbye to you, and we'll kick off game number four. Dan, man, this is our little special, our second time of the day to be able to do this. What's kind of the takeaway for the, I think,
01:53:44 The lobby's dynamic. I know that we've talked a lot about legend bands. We've talked a lot about someone said there's 10 good, there's 10 teams could win. They're so good. Do you feel that it is something around the teams that we're witnessing? Do you feel that people are still adjusting to these legend bands? If you have a takeaway over the final three as we head into our next three, what's kind of the observation that you've had? I think when you get this many good teams in a lobby that all know how to read the game of Apex Legends.
01:54:11 You get an agreement from everyone of what is the best Legend composition and how is the best way to play. I think this is a very kind of stylistic approach to Apex Legends that we're seeing from a lot of players. They all agree on where are the best places to rotate, which is the best Legend to do so. But what amazes me is you've got some teams that recognize that pattern and say, actually, how do we go against this meta and try and beat this rather than being a sheep? And Shopify Rebellion would be the one that stands out for me.
01:54:38 They are not necessarily playing the meta comp. They are trying to find different legends so that they can, A, be a little bit against the grain, but also have the ability to stay on certain characters for longer and not necessarily have to change time after time again. And that creates a lot of excitement as well, because we get a little bit of a difference when it comes to these legend selections. I know that game one, we only had five different legends, but now that went up to nine in the last game, if not more.
01:55:04 And now we're going to start to see Alter come back into the equation, because it all starts again when you go onto E-District. Yes, we still have the bands that stand forth, but when we always change map, you're always going to have one legend who is better than the other. Well, let's take a look back at some of the incredible action that we've witnessed as the players get ready for this next game. That Kraber shot from Blinkster Oblivion. Shelly, fun FPS.
01:55:27 Das Moment, 2-10, 1-68, und dann ein 1-28. Dan, es geht nicht wirklich besser als das. Das ist die perfekte Version der Kraber-Approach. Und es war toll, dass Blink schon das gemacht hat. Marc fragt eine sehr große Frage, ob sie das able, ob sie das Gehle able zu halten? Und ich denke, am Ende der Tag, die Antwort war, nein. Ja, leider nicht. Und dann haben wir die...
01:55:54 Ich denke, Oblivion hatte die bessere Position und die bessere Position.
01:56:19 weil sie auch die Red Armors haben, so sie waren sicherlich zu gewinnen. Aber natürlich wird das letzte Wraith nicht sehen, weil die Wraith nicht wiedersehen wird. Aber das bedeutet, dass die Wraith nicht wiedersehen wird. Aber das bedeutet, dass die E-District, beide Alter und Newcastle werden hier sein werden. Sie sind zwei der wichtigsten Picks, die wir haben. Ich hoffe, Alter zu werden in Game 4 und dann Newcastle zu werden in Game 5.
01:56:47 Ich glaube, dass APEX ein paar Monate später waren. Die Supports waren diejenigen, die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die
01:57:07 The aggressive characters being the ones that flex. And it makes so much sense because why are you going to, again, try to eliminate some of the consistency that you have with how you play the game? But it also means that some teams who are out in front, you know, are deciding, hey, we're not going to, like you said, with Shopify, really play into the meta where we're always getting banned each and every game. If we can have two games in a row, a ban, then two games in a row and a ban, that does make us a much more consistent team across the path. And so there's going to be
01:57:37 So in Scrims, it was a little bit different, because in Scrims, it was Newcastle who got banned in Game 3.
01:58:04 So we saw, you know, plenty of other legends coming into the fray here. We saw Fuse being included. We saw lots of Rampart, Watson starting to come in as well. But it's going to be different in this game because Newcastle was not banned. We are...
01:58:17 Und ich kann nicht warten. Ich liebe E-District. Ich will sagen es jedes Mal.
01:58:47 Differently, it can play depending on what Legends you have available to you. Southern Zone here in Shipyard as well, as we just talked about. Ape Gang at the top of it, and Oblivion are winners of Game 3 at the very bottom that we just saw as we take a look out at the map, Dan. What's the story here? Shopify Rebellion in a good spot as well to add to their talent. Yeah, they are indeed. I mean, this one's pulling a little bit further south. It's going to be...
01:59:11 Draft Point is where we're going. And I think the interesting thing is Energy Bank, the rotation through, there's a few teams that maybe could pick up some kills if they kind of hover on the south side of Energy Bank up towards the northern side of Draft Point. Maybe you can pick up some of those teams that are going to be moving through the middle. But there's big points up for grabs for some of these squads that have been able to move fast as well. And some that need them. I mean, Ape Gang, for example, they've been able to move pretty fast and they'll hold their southern side. Oblivion, who we saw just get the victory, they're going to be right on that southern tip.
01:59:40 A difficult spot to hold sometimes. You have to go across that bridge if you do want to get into the fray, if it pulls into the middle. But some squads are certainly getting into these early positions good. You know, one of the interesting things, just as we hold on for a second, number four, Oblivion, they're playing a Ballistic. Our fifth place team playing a Watson and a Bangalore. Our first place team playing a Fuse. I mean, there is something to this because these are not the most picked characters at all. And so they're going to have...
02:00:07 Ich habe das Gespräch.
02:00:36 In Twitch coming up. Should he just change his name to Digivibes? Because at this point everyone thinks that is what it looks like. Yeah, maybe at this point. I don't know. But obviously rotations of plenty. Two buildings being held and continuing on with 100 Thieves as they're trying to find their spot down south too. Maybe when the Digi got removed, he just removed an eye from his name. And he was like, well, if they're not going to be in the game, then I can be Digivibes anymore instead of just Dig Vibes. But the Vibes shall be dug.
02:01:05 Some might say. Now 100 Thieves, 20 points at the moment, 8th position, a chance to try and surge up the leaderboards here. And I like this comp. I mean, we only see the one, the three Caustics in the lobby right now. And we already saw earlier on E-District in Amir that Caustic can be very tricky to deal with if the zone starts to pull some of these areas that are very building heavy. And of course, E-District, a lot of buildings to work with. So I don't hate this comp from 100 Thieves.
02:01:33 Falcons also early on the rotation here.
02:01:38 You can see playing the Fuse. Which is something we have seen on Shopify Rebellion as well. The mirror composition. With Zero on the Altar. A character unlike Fuse and Crypto who really didn't see any changes this last patch. Altar really the character that got probably the most love. And what this has meant is she's been even more of a threat than before. It's taken about a year to get to that place.
02:02:06 Aber jetzt ist sie sicherlich eine Threat. Verholen zu finden, Rambo auf der Kille. Es gibt noch 20 Schaden, also nicht eine Full-Wipe. Und wir versuchen die anderen zwei. Jemburton zu sehen, wie es die Art von Alter ist, mit den Wallen, die man sich durchführen kann, die man sich durchführen kann, die man sich durchführen kann, die man sich durchführen kann, die man sich durchführen kann, die man sich durchführen kann, die man sich durchführen kann. Und das bedeutet, dass ihr nicht wirklich safe ist. Es war ganz lustig, in Emiah.
02:02:33 We saw teams just staying off of the floor when they were in a building, like the floor is lava, just so they didn't get abducted by alters trying to grab you through every little object that might be close to you. Well, that's certainly what you've got to keep in mind, but only for this game, because she is going to be banned going into game five. But it's very refreshing, I think, to see a lot of alter when she was first announced. We were excited for what she could do and how she could change things.
02:02:59 Sadly, never really entered the meta until now, and especially on E-District. She's gonna be very prominent throughout this season. Yeah, and even in pubs, if you're playing, you know, you're gonna see a lot of her, whether it's just casual games, ranked games, whatever it is, her power has been discovered. And that's kind of the thing with a character that needs a lot of learning, that it takes time for that learning to assimilate itself.
02:03:22 in die Community-A-Large. Und wenn das klar ist, wo du diese bestimmten Portals hast? Wie kannst du diese Schöne ausfüllen, diese Zone? Was sind die kleinen Wäste zu garantieren, die Kidnapps auf die Bottom-Floor sind, wenn du mit den Team-A-Bove-Floor bist? Wenn du die Team-A-Bove-Floor bist, diese Dinge jetzt sind, wenn sie ein Teil der Community sind, kannst du jetzt sehen, die Value der Charakter bringt viel leichter. Und es geht um sich zu mehr und mehr von ihnen zu werden. Aber wie du gesagt hast, es wird die letzte Game, Enemy.
02:03:50 Trying to make sure that he can get this last bat off, get himself back alive. Albreleli takes the portal and takes it right back. Doesn't like what he sees. Trying to get aggressive and get reminded that, you know, he should be careful where he puts his foot. Yeah, it's been a slow and steady start for Stallions. Mid-table right now. Albreleli, who has been touted as one of those who has a deep legend pool, can maybe be the difference maker. Well, his chance on Alter to demonstrate what he can do now is...
02:04:18 ... ... ... ... ...
02:04:42 Flak are going to be on the west side. He also got Oblivion down south who still have to make that move. The one I was talking about earlier, that Shipyard Arcade's great, but then when you do have to move up towards Draft Point, it's sometimes difficult. You do get held out a little bit. So Oblivion will need a plan before they move. You mentioned it at the beginning of this game, and I think it was a great point of how difficult it can sometimes be in E-District in terms of...
02:05:09 Getting held out, zones, the poles, the ability for you to be on a high ground in a building, and really only one choke in terms of getting past it. You look at kind of these little spots. If you need to move past towards that apex sign, there's really not too many ways to go. And so you are kind of forced into a lot of confrontations. It doesn't remind me of King's Canyon in any sense other than that.
02:05:32 Look at Shopify Rebellion, by the way, still playing their same core.
02:06:01 Du hast deine Fuse und deine Krypto, aber jetzt Khoifull geht's von Bangalore zu Alter. Und Khoifull seems zu sein, der sich zwischen den Legends, die oder nicht gebannen sind.
02:06:13 Und es ist die Intention von diesen Fans und was es hilft.
02:06:39 ...to create and cultivate in terms of Apex Legends Esports. It's the fact that you do have to flex that roster possibilities within your own team, but also decide whether we want to kind of play for the moment. Do we want to play for long term and consistency? And I think that's what has obviously worked so far for Shopify Rebellion. Falcons also have the same lineup. We'll see if this stays. It's also an interesting idea.
02:07:04 So we really are just rewarding, really the ability to be nimble.
02:07:33 Of course, scrims will help with that. You'll get a general idea of how things are going to play out in the scrims that happened leading up to the games, but you can also use scrims as decoys if you want, and you can also try different things out. It might be a composition that you don't try when things come in. Anyway, this zone is going to be closing, and we get a better idea of where we're going to be heading towards this endgame. Oh, we're going to be pulling east. Great news for 100 Thieves and VDR. Bad news for those who are committing to the western side. There's a lot of buildings that actually have just been...
02:08:02 Jaquareus geht es um ein 1v3, ein 1v3, ein Moment in der Tournament so far heute. Aber jetzt Niazul versucht ein wenig Geld zu bekommen und er macht einfach nur das. Und ein bisschen mehr. Hides hinter den Binnen und lässt Kurev
02:08:31 And 166 damage is not enough. It's Niesel by himself. It's going to be a Liquid Alienware. 1v3 needed to get the job done. And Niesel is there. Says Reinde, you need something? Well, I'm here for you. Right away, though, as he finishes it off, it's taken down. Just like that from VDR. Excuse me, from Zynu. And that ends Liquid Alienware.
02:08:55 Was it worth it? That's always the question. Was that fight worth it, that 3kp, just to then go down in the early stages? And I think both teams guilty of taking the engagement maybe just saw it wrong. Maybe they didn't realize another team was in the area, but you always have to presume. Excuse me.
02:09:13 Always have to presume, bit gassy, you always have to presume a third team is going to be in the area and VDR were just that. So Shopify Rebellion, our leaders go down and that opens the door up for teams to start catching them with points here.
02:09:26 Game 4, obviously a new map. You don't want the tone to be set that now this back half of the tournament is not going your way. There's some optimism in a sport that has a halftime. So you think no matter how bad you're losing, if you lost in the first half, well, that same thing could happen or more in the second half. So just seeing if they can get this back half right. Shopify will wait. Empire and Riley will use the portal.
02:09:55 ...to go upstairs, taking a little bit of an engagement here. An opportunity for reps to get this bat off. And show what VDR are about 8th place, trying to climb a little bit more. And certainly they will. Vaxlon entry frags and it gets the job done as Empire is eliminated. And VDR climbs to 6th place with 23 points.
02:10:17 So a few teams now falling to the aggression of other squads that are just making sure they can push through and take advantage of the P2020 situation. Oblivion, they have been able to move slightly out of their position on the southern side, but they still have quite a ways to go here. They do have the altar for rotation, also have Newcastle available just to build some cover, and then the Ballistic, just to add the extra little bit of firepower. They are going to see NRG below them here, and NRG might get blown to smithereens here.
02:10:48 Und Jelly, oh man, mit der Grenade! Das ist der Job gemacht! Du kannst du aber nicht hide. Und Jelly findet ein Couple. Und Oblivion geht in den Top 4.
02:11:07 Grabbing that KP.
02:11:28 Das war's, ein bisschen von Krook.
02:11:55 Und es ist ein Immediate Response. EMP kommt zurück und versucht ihn mit der Knuckle Cluster zu retten. Albert Lele ist auch wieder neu. Sie haben so viel Platz, dass sie viel Zeit haben. Aber auf der anderen Seite ist Shelly, es Blink, es ist Fun zu tun. Aber look at das Angle von Anime! Nein, es sieht ihn aus! Wenn er 2 hat, das wäre huge! Aber Fun soll hier fallen! Albert Lele mit der R99. Aber er hat Zeit? Er geht für die Portal. Und ich denke, er wird es einfach raus. Hopefully, er wird sein Ultimate. Und der Void Nexus kann sein Seam-Mate bringen bevor er gettet.
02:12:25 Zone is still coming in, though, and sadly, was it a premature Void Nexus? Happens to 1 in 5 Alters, and sadly, they are going to have to keep on moving, and I don't think they'll be able to get back up just yet. No Name down, Ape Gang also down, and VDR are just watching over on this one.
02:12:44 Love reps on the Ballistic as well. You're right, it was just a day late and a dollar short on that Void Nexus. Needed to go to the high ground so he could keep crawling. And there's just no way for him to get up there without any version of movement.
02:12:57 Sometimes it be like that. It's normal. Happens to everybody. And, of course, Unleash. Saying, well, we feel pretty confident about this. Something's not happening to everybody. It's the Watson pick. We're going to own that one right there. Dig Vibes on the B20s. Finds a ton of damage here.
02:13:18 Und du kannst verstehen, wie viel Schmerz sie können, wie viel Schmerz sie können, und wie schnell das geht. Usually, du kannst nicht nur 25, 30 Health zu deinem Namen, aber mit diesen P20s in den Händen, es fühlen sich jemanden ist bereit für ein Challenge. Ja, jeder scheint zu sein für ein Schmerz in diesem Spiel. Äh, ähnlich zu Game 6 in Amir. Jeder ist Brune-Forting der Weg durch, an der Moment. Unleash of Lost-One, aber vielleicht kann er wieder auf die Full-3. Lechotron ist einfach, um zu holen, und vielleicht joinen die resten der Squad.
02:13:48 And we'll be able to do so. But at the moment, I think the shield is actually more valuable than the player right now. That's what's crazy. You think, well, you know, if we get you up, then we lose this shield. And this is a very hard spot to push. Yeah, stay down. At this point, P20 pushing into that bathroom right there. There's no way that's going to be an easy thing. But getting that Watson up, obviously getting that utility is going to be important. They know they have to be on the move. Ligatron still alive. And dig.
02:14:16 Es ist ein paar Shots, aber natürlich erinnert auf Staying Alive selbst und fällt da. Es ist Florsi von Unleashed und das wird das Ende von ihnen sein. 9 Quads leften, als Imperial Hau findet ein paar Kills und Hambino fällt mit Rambo und Panic Apex, hinterher.
02:14:36 Let's go this way. Let's go this way.
02:15:02 Former teammate Reps and Al going to maybe be going at this one to claim supremacy. But this high ground is looking really good. The pressure of the Knuckle Cluster, this is what you want Fuse for. You don't need ordinances. You have the ability to just keep them in there. And Envy's going to take that as an opportunity. BDR knows that the more pressure we put there, that means Envy's going to push knowing they can get some KP. And it makes our job even easier. This looks like it could certainly be a win for Reps and Squad. But they've got to execute.
02:15:31 Ja, VDR and Envy. Both the teams that are commanding space. Envy just lost Zap. VDR just lost Reps, but it looks like they both might get the exchange of Rezes as well. All the meanwhile, you've got a dogpile of 100 Thieves and Fury happening on the northern side. I think 100 Thieves are trying to escape, and we'll just be able to move on the high ground. But VDR are absolutely griefing Envy at the moment, saying, actually, we're not going to give you as much freedom as you might have thought.
Intensive Kämpfe und Teamdynamiken im Fokus
02:15:5902:15:59 Refs, Verhulz, und Hau. All on separate teams. Having a chance here in this lobby. Falcons will be the ones who have fallen down. But Refs and Verhulz having just split. Now have a chance to try to claim that that decision was the right one. For each of them. Jim Burton with the push. Refs gonna fall to half health. Shield goes down. Deeds also finds the crack. Jim Burton smells blood in the water. And he knows.
02:16:26 This is the moment they've got to capitalize on. Still swinging. The swing will not end. As VDR loses Thieves, they lose Vaxalon, and that's that. 100 Thieves now alive in the top three with Fury and Envy. 100 Thieves have just been able to force that engagement. They absolutely shoved VDR into Envy. And now 100 Thieves commanding the most space and arguably have the best position in the game. Fury are still down low, still being a nuisance, and still have the red armor on Madness here. So there is a chance they can still do something.
02:16:54 Envy and Furia might just be forced together with 100 Thieves to watch from above. Furholz with the Caustic as well, feeling very confident that no one's going to push. A little bit of an anti-alter there because you might want to portal up, but you're not going to portal into a Caustic gas canister and have success. So maybe a little bit of patience, maybe a little bit of understanding. See that portal right there? They're not going to want to take that. 100 Thieves takes Furia right away. And the Caustic making it known. Furholz getting pushed though by Envy!
02:17:23 Sikes!
02:17:45 Huge, huge moment there. Gotta feel good for Sykes.
02:18:13 Vielen Dank.
02:18:37 Wow, they're starting to look very interesting at the top, isn't it?
Analyse der Spielentscheidungen und Teamzusammensetzungen
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02:19:05 34 34 30 you can separate the top eight just with four but the top nine with five points uh this there's no clear leader at the moment shopify might be first but that could be whisked away from them at any moment and when we do look at that endgame again i think it was dropped who pushed up and caught verholz off guard from the right and that
02:19:26 Was massive. That may have even been the kind of winning play. Yes, the 1v1 is what we're going to talk about and Sykes did destroy Gen Button in that final moment, but we have to look at how they got there to that 1v1.
02:19:38 Exactly. Yeah, you're right. I mean, Verhulst really was kind of caught dead to rights in that push. When we were looking at the composition, I think that composition was almost designed to not be caught dead to rights in those moments like that. And you look at Verhulst also being such a clutch player. You have him in that final 1v1, not to say anything about Jen Burton, but you definitely know that you're winning that if you have both of them alive. So a lot to look at for 100 Thieves, a lot to be excited about for Envy and Sykes. As we head into game five and six, I'm going to take a break.
02:20:08 We'll get Mark back on here with you, Dan, and keep the action rolling. Navi.
02:20:22 Where else to start than with our reigning ALGS Champions. After winning the most prestigious trophy of Year 4 in Sapporo, Japan, Hiraka, Usako and Zidane headed out on a search for a new place to call home. They have been picked up by a MIA powerhouse Na'Vi, a fitting org for the first ever ALGS LAN winners from their region. The first split of Pro League will be a brand new challenge for this roster. Their underdog win in Sapporo has
02:20:51 Firmly put them in the spotlight, and that comes with increased pressure and attention. The question will be how the Sapporo champions handle being center stage in Emiya, and if they can pick up where they left off considering their formidable performance at the last LAN.
02:21:07 For Alliance, Year 4 featured several strong performances at major events. They finished 3rd in Mannheim, 2nd in EMEA BLGS, and also 2nd at the ALGS Championship in Sapporo. While none of these results were a win, they will still likely feel that they are the top dogs in EMEA heading into Year 5. Their mission will be simple.
02:21:29 Go out and prove it. Allianz are also the defending Pro League champions, having one year four split twos competition in EMEA. Since adding unlucky to their roster, they have gone from strength to strength. Allianz have always been one of the teams to think outside the box on legend picks, so the new legend band system might work in their favor.
02:21:51 Faze are one of several teams that have had an off-season overhaul. Joining IGL Cynetic in Split 1 is Controller Duo TylerFPS and Zayn. This is a team that is just teeming with potential. We have seen flashes of both Tyler and Zayn over the years, however, neither of them have quite managed to deliver the consistency needed to bring home a major title. They will both head into Split 1, looking to prove their doubters wrong under the leadership of Cynetic.
02:22:21 und Nettik, einer der Breakout-Stars von ALGS Jahr 4 ist, um sich als einer der Welt's best IGLs zu spielen, obwohl er nur die erste Pro-League match in Split-1 im Jahr. Er scheint zu haben all die Feuer-Power, aber kann er seine zwei Shooter in den richtigen Spots an der richtigen Zeit? Na'vi, wo else zu starten?
Envy's Triumph und die Bedeutung von Selbstvertrauen
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02:22:54 Was up, everybody? Welcome back. And what a finish that was to that previous game that we just saw, Dan. A 1v1 for the money. And it's Sykes who comes out on top of it for Envy. So much to talk about in those final moments. And I think for Envy, we talk about teams who are maybe struggling for confidence a little bit in the build-up to this week and this opening week of the ALGS Pro League for Americas. And I think Envy certainly fit that bill, right? They were desperate to find something because scrims hadn't looked great for them, but this final circle certainly did.
02:23:21 Yeah, that might just be the confidence builder they were after. Now I'm very curious to see this final circle, because I want to see who it was who made the push. I believe it was Dropped, who decided to take advantage of maybe a blind spot.
02:23:35 auf der Seite von 100 Thieves. So, FURIA go down, 100 Thieves, Verhulst, ja, und look at this push from Dropped. A Blindspot takes Verhulst out from the right. And that just allowed this play to happen, where it ended up as a 1v1. Now, we can see this from Sykes' point of view, instead of Jen Burton's. And he played these shields magically. Fascinating that both players had White Knockdown Shields to play around as well. You can see Sykes actually uses...
02:24:00 The 100 Thieves knockdown as well, and then swings out at the last second. So just as his knockdown goes down, he's close enough to the 100 Thieves players that he can actually just soak up a few extra bullets himself with those knockdowns. So Sykes showing exactly how to play a 1v1 scenario perfectly in those final moments. And you were watching from the POV of Jen, and you're like, Jen's got this. Jen's got this. It pops up with NVE Champions. I'm like, maybe Sykes has got this. Sykes has made a hell of a play here. But that's how you play those situations, right? It's about navigating those knockdowns.
02:24:28 There's always ways to find an extra second to stay alive. And I like how we tried to kind of abduct with the portal from Alter as well in that final moment to force Jen out from behind that cover. It was very, very smart. Understanding of every single situation and ability he had at his disposal. Yeah, I think it's about staying calm in those situations as well, because even if you think you're ahead, all it takes is you getting a little bit antsy and wanting to, you know, start to push a little bit too soon. And then you expose yourself.
02:24:55 too much damage you really do have to play the shields and it's so difficult because you don't want to allow your opponent to have too much time you don't want to give them the chance to maybe pop a shield cell for example so you have to get somewhat aggressive had the high ground as well but it was just the way sykes was able to manipulate those shields to his advantage and also with the p2020 spam i mean
02:25:15 You have to trust the spread sometimes, and you almost have to just go for the headshots, but also say, well, how's the easiest way I'm going to hit this damage? Do I go for body shots instead, rather than just aiming for what's available? It's a tough scenario in a 1v1 like that, and Sykes certainly put on a good show for us. Yeah, it's a little bit of a bloom on those P2020s that can be a little bit of a problem sometimes in those scenarios where you think that you're doing the right thing, but there's that element of randomness to some of those bullets that's like, am I doing the right thing?
02:25:44 Is what I want to happen going to happen? And I'm sure that Jen will look at that and maybe think, he could probably play the situation better. He'll probably understand that himself. But it's one of those situations where sometimes you've just got to hit the shots in the end. And if you've got P2020s, sometimes the bloom is going to be in your favor. Sometimes it's not. So one of those situations to look back on. But the fact that we had 100 Thieves, Envy, Falcons involved in that endgame as well. It's a fascinating look.
02:26:08 Was to come for the LGS. And I think the video had a really good game as well with some good KP on the board. And I mean, when you look at the series standards, Dan, it's a point or so between the top teams at the moment. We still got two maps to go. Yeah, five points between the top nine, which is pretty insane. And like, even if you go further down there, I mean, locked in CTE.
02:26:29 you still have a chance to catch up here with one game i mean you're not even that far behind realistically if you're like falcons for example they are half of first place but if falcons have a game that we know they are capable of they could jump up to first place themselves so this is all very open in day one here of america's in pro league and i'm excited for for match five because we've just seen alter now bam so this is going to be a very different game going into game five on e-district
02:26:56 Ja, Newcastle ist noch nicht möglich, so ich fühle mich, wenn wir ein Pattern sehen, wie wir in EMEA sehen, wird es interessant sein. Wenn wir Newcastle sehen, wie wir das kind of style of game sehen, wie wir in den ALGS Championships sehen, wo jeder spielt für einen kleinen Spot, spielt an den Newcastle Wall.
ALGS Open in New Orleans und Legend Bans
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02:27:12 And they're going to be able to execute that with Newcastle still being available. And of course, if you're excited about what you've seen today, both of me and the Americas, you should be excited about what we've got coming up as well. Because of course, New Orleans is just around the corner. The ALGS Open is just around the corner. The biggest ever ALGS Open.
02:27:27 LGS event with 160 teams invited to participate May 1st to the 4th you can get your tickets right there use a QR code do everything that you should do if you're not going why not I'm disappointed in you you should be get tickets now book your hotel do everything you need to do Dan's got a spare bed he said that you can stay with him if you can't
02:27:47 Ja, ich weiß nicht, aber du willst da. Apex Live-Events sind wie nichts anderes in eSports und es ist wirklich ein spectacle, besonders wenn du die Matchpoint-Finals hast, als alle chants einen mehr Spiel. Und es ist wirklich etwas, was du wirst zu verstehen. Du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst. Du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst. Du musst, du musst, du musst. Du musst, du musst. Du musst, du musst. Du musst, du musst. Du musst, du musst.
02:29:09 Und Grenades, wenn du, du wissen. Aber es wird ein unglaubliches, unglaubliches Event. Und Dan, unfortunately, dieses Jahr, ich bin ein Day Out on mein Birthday. Und Wig's Birthday as well. Wir werden da auf der Monday. Ich werde in einem Airport in der Monday. Ich werde mein Birthday in einem Plan. Was wenn sie aufgeregt mich? Uh, no, wahrscheinlich nicht. Sie sind nicht sehr kind, wenn es zu diesen. Anyone works für Delta.
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02:30:00 Game 5 hier. So the patterns from scrims are slightly different here because Newcastle was banned in Game 3 in scrims. Newcastle is still alive here in Game 5. So that does open up a whole new avenue when it comes to these compositions for legend selection. So I think Game 5 is going to play pretty similarly. I mean, we did see more cryptos in Game 4 than we did see Newcastle's though. I think that might change going into Game 5, but there is a small chance that crypto could get banned going into Game 6. We'll have to see.
02:30:28 A lot of look ahead to New Orleans, of course. Let's take a look back at what we've seen, though, so far, because, you know, we've got two more maps remaining here as the lobby is almost ready to get underway as I take a cursory glance to my left-hand side and get that information. And we, like you say, we're going to see Alter banned now, so we're not going to see plays like this, although that isn't probably the best example of what you can do with Alter. However, we did see a couple of deductions that turned into KP in that last game by firing that portal towards the wall, dragging players out from the positions that they were kind of hiding and stuck.
02:30:57 in behind one of those pieces of natural cover. So I love how Alter is, even though it's fairly new to a lot of these players who haven't got a huge amount of experience, we're seeing that tech develop and those playmaking abilities that Legend has. Yeah, it was a really exciting game. It's so difficult to try and play as well when there's alters in the lobby because you never know where someone's going to arrive from or abduct you from.
02:31:21 So I think there's a lot of anxiety in the lobby when Alter's here. So maybe that's going to calm down a little bit going into Game 5. But that just means that Newcastle Wolves could slam out of nowhere and catch you off guard as well. But there's teams that can certainly take advantage of this in Game 5. The squads that maybe have all been running Alter are going to have to switch now. More Wraith, for example, might start to pop up. So this is going to be an interesting one. Oh no, Wraith got banned, excuse me. So yeah, Wraith banned in Game 3. So...
02:31:48 Es wird wirklich schwer für diese Teams zu finden, eine neue Assault-Charakter zu finden. Vielleicht ein Ballistik kommt in die Equation. Das ist natürlich eine Option. Vielleicht werden wir Fuse sehen, dass es ein Roller-Entry-Fragger ist. Das ist die Map-Schedule. Das ist die Werbung, die Werbung hat so far gewonnen. No Repeat-Winners so far. Und zwei Mapps still zu gehen. Da sind die Legend-Bands auch.
02:32:09 Happy Birthday to Vicky.
02:32:36 Send your regards. That sounds very different. But yes, happy birthday Vicky. Is that not what you say? I mean, I think it is, but it's also what you say when like... Say season's greetings to Vicky. Send any birthday cards, any flowers, whatever you want to send. Yeah, happy birthday Vicky. We will see her, I'm sure, very soon in Pro League as she comes on to...
02:32:59 Do a much better job than we wish. Hopefully she doesn't have any birthdays to wish anyone because we've done a terrible job. Yeah, I was going to say, one thing I'm looking forward to is a hot take from Vicky Kitty. Oh, wow, yeah. That is going to be unmissable television. When Vicky gets fiery. When she gets coming, let me tell you. I'm sure it'll have something to do with controllers as well, knowing her. But we'll wait and we'll see. Very excited for that.
Spiel 5: Strategische Anpassungen und intensive Kämpfe
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02:33:29 I like the idea that her hot take is people don't respect when she shows her ranked clips enough. Anyway, into the game, everybody. Thank you for staying with us. Thank you for bearing with us. And thank you quite simply for dealing with us as we waited for this lobby to get back underway. But we are now live in Game 5, the penultimate game here of Week 1, Game Day 1 of the Apex Legends Global Series, America's Pro League. And we're starting off with the winners of our previous game. We got a little bit of envy for you.
02:33:55 Onset sends his regards. Envy had an incredible game prior. They really showed us what they were made of. An amazing push from Drops and then a great clutch from Sykes. Of course, they are switching things up. No altar available for anyone here. And look at the amount of ballistics that are suddenly in this lobby.
02:34:18 Ich zeige euch, es ist nicht ein Newcastle-Ban. Es wird ein Krypto-Ban. 12 Kryptos, 11 Ballistiks und 9 Newcastles, sowie 9 Fuse. So Krypto-Ban hat sich die größte pick hier. Interessant zu mir, dass Newcastle-Ban hat.
02:34:34 They do have a ring console available to them. The real question,
02:35:04 Have they got blue on Hughes yet? So you can actually use that ring console. That's always the tricky part. Well, SR, a team that have been...
02:35:14 Manipulating die Legend-Band-System in ihren Favour ein bisschen, so sie nicht mehr die Legend-Band-System zu ändern. Sie haben noch M.T. und Zainu auf Fuse und Krypto, als sie sind in der gesamten Reihe. Es ist Koeiful, der sich verändert, von Assault-Charakter zu Assault-Charakter, oder Skirmisher, und es wird Ballistik als die Wahl für Koeiful in dieser Reihe.
02:35:35 The real question is, can they start to create a little bit of a gap at the top again? Because they had a bit of a dud game and have allowed everyone to catch up. Yeah, ahead by zero points at the moment. Tied with second place at the moment. 34 points is fairly low, you would say, for a week of Pro League after four games as well. It hasn't been that kind of week where we've had one team really come out of the gates and have a monster couple of games and everyone else is thinking, okay, we kind of just got to settle for what's in behind. But Oblivion already?
02:36:04 Getting very, very aggressive!
02:36:10 Sadly, es wird Empyre auf der Receiving enden, aber ich glaube, es ist nur eine. Ich glaube, Oblivion sah eine Möglichkeit von einem Straggler. Sie sind direkt auf ihn, und Oblivion wird ein Kp. Und sie starten zu close das Gap zu Shopify Rebellion, weil Oblivion, sie sind nur drei Punkte hinter, als sie weiterentwickelt werden, aber es ist nicht möglich, dass sie ihn finden. Empyre haben sie zu scatter, eigentlich, so viel. Eine ist in Old Town und eine ist in Shipyard Arcade.
02:36:38 Maybe they're looking at the Aurora playbook on E-District. Just split the difference. Everyone go everywhere, get as much Evo as possible. Whoever gets knocked, one of us will be alive to res. It's always fascinating to watch how this develops. EMP will not connect. Envy did pick up 1 KP, by the way, on their way forward towards this position. It was Zap who got that knock, if I'm not mistaken, and the kill. Yes, indeed. You can see that on the top right-hand side of your screen. And now he's holding the line and saying, if anyone wants to peek, I will teach.
02:37:08 My envy actually going back on themselves here.
02:37:13 Are they going to go for a little further rotation? I don't think they liked what they saw ahead of them. Two teams that could potentially be holding them out, but there is actually an opening on the southeast side. They might not know that yet, but they're going to see as they approach, especially with the vantage point of that bridge. There's a couple of nervy fights, because I think you're right. I mean, the points total is not as high as maybe as it could be after four games, but that's what happens when you have a lobby this stacked. Ten plus teams who, you know, we heard it earlier from...
02:37:41 The viewers just saying that any of these 10 teams could win it and there's a few underdogs here as they can also pull things off. It's just a lobby where it's very difficult to accumulate points. We do see Ape Gang be eliminated in the meantime as the first team to fall in this lobby.
02:37:59 Envy, die ein bisschen von Damage haben und keine Name. In 16th position in der Moment, aber sie werden nicht mehr Kp in diesem Spiel bekommen. Und viele Punkte für Placement, weil die Last Player Alive ist, wenn ich nicht. Oder vielleicht ist es ein, wenn ich mich nicht. Aber das ist der easiest Kp in der ALGS. All sie brauchen ist, ist es zu finden, wo er ist.
02:38:23 And hit shots. Part one was done, part two is now complete. Oh, next up.
02:38:33 Play Pigeon shooting starts to begin. Bord, they will put a couple of more points on the board. Much needed points for Bord, has to be said. But more than they were able to achieve during scrim. So positives and improvements, which is all you can do really when you're in a lobby with this many heavy hitters. And I don't mean that to discredit Bord and their performance at all. This is not a lobby where you are going to comfortably find points if you are kind of a new addition or...
02:38:58 A team that hasn't played as much as some of the heavy hitters. So they're doing well to at least have 11 on the board. Shopify Rebellion, one point on the board for them. Extends their lead by one. By one. Very easy to keep track of, even for my very, very challenged mathematical brain. Liquid Alienware. Just hand into zone for a few moments here to craft a little bit.
Strategische Zonenrotationen und Teamdynamiken in Spiel 5
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02:39:26 And they are on the northern side of this zone at the moment, very much on their own. One team who's moved into a fantastic position, by the way, where this zone is going to be pulling is Team Falcons. And boy, do they need points. A better performance in that previous game. But the great thing for them, like you mentioned, quite rightly, look at the overall standings. How this entire day could change in two games for Falcons. There they are, right in the middle of City Hall, where that zone is going to be pulling. Now, the only...
02:39:50 A couple of games away from winning this thing, which is crazy considering the position they find themselves in going into game number five here, but still very, very possible for them to turn this day around. Yeah, it just shows how tight this lobby is that you can be in 15th position and feel that way. I would imagine they should feel that way as well because you can ask the Falcons players themselves. They're always going to be confident in their own ability and they recognize when circles have been difficult, when the zone maybe hasn't been going your way or maybe someone just ruins your game.
02:40:16 Hus have now arrived next to Falcons, actually, as you can see on the map overhead. Liquid Alienware are just going to be northwest of them. And Hus, can they find a home? It looks like the answer is yes. They've been able to avoid Falcons and they at least have some playable space here. Dead center zone. And it is a very, very playable space because the fact that Newcastle has yet to be banned. So you can get a wall down in here. It's going to cover essentially the entirety of this. And you've got the natural cover above and to the side. Coinfall!
02:40:44 Und Koeifel wird eine 3rd weapon, mit Ballistik zu spielen. Sie sehen, die Rampage kam in den Ecken. Wenn er nicht gut genug ist, mit 2-Gunnen zu geben, ist vielleicht unfair, wenn ich ehrlich bin. Und ich veto Ballistik für Koeifel.
02:41:12 Okay, by the way, the Zynu was credited with that kill. He's got four damage. Four damage? Very important, four though. That's the one I look back at in the post-game lobby and go, guys, I got one kill. What were you doing? Yeah, step it up. Chopper by Rebellion, up by two points.
02:41:31 Good. Thank you. Oh, maybe some struggles here for Huss? No, Falcons actually eliminate the team that we're starting to approach. How's the definition of 1HP right now?
02:41:47 Obviously, ich bin ein bisschen mit dem Cover. Und die Difficulty der Spiel ist, dass es hier ein paar Open-Windows gibt und ein paar Open-Hallways-Doorways ist, und es ist schwierig zu halten, die Majority der Struktur zu halten. Later in den Spiel, wenn die Teams versuchen, ihre Weg in, die Bottom-Floor werden, wo sie versuchen, es zu machen. Und dann haben Sie die Angles, die Teams versuchen, die Team zu tun, zu machen. Und dann haben Sie die Angles, die Teams versuchen, das zu machen. Und dann haben Sie die Batterie aus. Sie werden die Batterie ausprobieren.
02:42:14 Falcons mit ein paar KP auf dem Board bereits. Mit dieser Menge Ballistik in der Lobby, ich kann ein Endeffekt, wo es all geht um, dass es dein Gun Overheating in der Final 1v1 geht. Und das wird both painful und glückliches zu sehen, wenn es passiert. Und vielleicht ist es Hal, der macht es auf dem Ballistik. Ich glaube, dass wir nicht so viel Ballistik sehen können, aber das ist was Legend Bands kann machen. Es kann ein Legend, der nicht normalerweise ist, sehr prominent in der Lobby.
02:42:40 Die 100 Thieves sind noch auf 33 Punkte. Sie sind in 4th Platz. Und sie haben einen kleinen Platz zu holen hier. Also nicht so viel worry für sie im Moment. Sie sind einfach zu hunker, und sie werden sehen, wo diese Zone starte zu gehen. Ja, sie sind gut für ein paar Zones hier. 100 Thieves. Das ist jetzt übersehen, ob sie sich auf die Teams, die Rotationen sind in Late. Die Downs kommen, sie werden vielleicht überlegen, als sie nicht gewinnen. Aber Sie sehen, sie sind für die Long-Game. Die Newcastle-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall-Wall.
02:43:12 Unless it's threatened by someone trying to take it off them, they should be good for quite some time, as you alluded to. The zone is going to move slightly further east than where 100 Thieves currently are, and it moves towards, actually, the central area that Huss found themselves in. Unleasher also going to be there, and there's going to be plenty of room for them to find kills. This board are going to pick up a Mythid Bin, and they are going to have a chance to have that red armor available to them through the helmet.
02:43:39 A good opportunity for them to maybe pick up some points and start to catch up these lobby leaders. This is happening on the south side. Look at Envy. Envy maybe were thinking about that themselves and they might be trying to catch board off guard, but a very difficult fight to take when you know they've just hit that mythic because the likelihood is they're going to have a power weapon. They're going to have a red shield to play with. So Envy actually, I think, played this one quite smart. They tried to see if they could pick one off and instead just let them rotate ahead of them knowing.
02:44:03 Die Firepower, die sie vielleicht haben. Aber look at Shopify und Empire. Auf der right-hand Seite des Screen, auf der Eastern Seite des Zone. Sie haben ein bisschen mehr scrap, und es ist nicht viel Platz für sie zu spielen. Nein, nicht an all. Ich denke, das ist eigentlich ein Kampf zu spielen, und wir werden sehen die Schlussfolgerung jetzt. Koi-Fuhr ist viel zu tun. Koi-Fuhr ist viel zu tun. Koi-Fuhr ist viel zu tun. Koi-Fuhr ist viel zu tun. Koi-Fuhr ist viel zu tun, aber Sie wissen, dass er etwas zu tun hat. Zainu-Fuhr ist gerade der richtige Zeit, um seine Team-Mate zu helfen. Es ist auch zu Zainu und Koi. Koi-Fuhr ist viel zu tun, mit 1HP.
02:44:31 Trying to pop that shield Barry's about half way done Zainu just trying to suppress the final player from Empire inside of this little hut Karla's gonna try and peek out the back And Koi has popped that battery, but they've lost MT in the meantime Are they able to get their IGL back up?
02:44:48 Looks like they're opting just to kind of back up a little bit and try and play the long game here and see if they can survive, but there's more teams with eyes on. Zainu goes down and now it's just down to Koi4 on the Ballistic to try and survive here. There is a few areas he can hide in, but you can see Deeds wants to push this and wants to get the kill. Deeds versus Koi. A little bit of help coming in from elsewhere as Deeds overextends for VDR.
02:45:13 Es ist Kion von FURIO, aber es ist eigentlich ein Kion von FURIO, das ist ein bisschen von FURIO, so ein bisschen zufrieden für VDR, und es ist eigentlich nicht so gut, aber es ist nicht so gut, aber am Ende der Zeit, das ist der Fall, und Schopify Rebellion, die in der ersten Place kommen, in dieser Lobby, vielleicht sehen Sie jemanden übernehmen sie jetzt. Ja, sie vielleicht. Ja, sie sind jetzt offen für jemanden, um sich jetzt zu nehmen und versuchen sie zu nehmen.
02:45:35 Und jetzt haben wir die erste Position, um das ganze Lobby zu nehmen. Vielleicht ist es vielleicht VDR, aber sie haben noch ein paar Endgames, aber sie haben noch nicht mehr als bisher gewonnen. Das könnte das erste sein, doch. Wenn man das circle sieht, und VDR spielt den anderen Seite, und sie sind noch in, aber sie werden auch Führer und Empyre nearby haben, dass sie vielleicht vielleicht etwas machen können. Sie sehen, Falcons sind in die Gebäude, auch zu der westen. Und Sie haben also Haas, sie haben Haas gemacht. Sie haben Haas gemacht, sie haben ihren Weg in die Mitte der Zone.
02:46:03 Somehow stayed alive, had the Newcastle to play with, and they are still going to be in contention to win this game too. It's a really big moment in this game here, how teams try and navigate. Look how many teams are outside of that next zone. Not worrying about the one after that, but just outside it. NRG outside, Liquid, Falcons, Furia, VDR. I mean, VDR will be fine in their building, but...
02:46:20 Everyone else has to move. And then you look at the southern side. That is going to be carnage as people try to leave. You've got Envy, 100 Thieves, CTE. Unleashed are going to be holding those teams out. Locked In are going to be holding those teams out. Board now moving in on the position of Locked In themselves. This is going to be one of those zones you get the feeling that if you don't have a rotational character, which not a lot of the teams do, due to the legend bans, it's going to be a tough, tough move to get safe in this next zone.
02:46:46 Mark, I'm already nervous about Game 6, and we're still in Game 5. That's how tight this lobby currently is. I'm nervous about Game 5. I'll be nervous about Game 5 for the rest of it. You can be nervous about Game 6. I'll start to think about Game 6 and be worried for all the players, because this is so tight. Still, no one has really taken any command in this game, and those who are at the top are starting to drop off. Four squads now eliminated.
02:47:06 Maybe we're going to see one of the teams that are down in the top 15 take a game here and just close it even further. This could be arguably the tightest lobby we've ever seen in Pro League history if it keeps going this way. NRG moved down to the southern side, but there's going to be 100 Thieves and flat ahead of them. Let's maybe take a listen in, though, to NRG and see how they approach this one.
02:47:34 Okay, I'm getting on the head. Good damage. On me safe, on me safe, on me safe. I'm batting, I'm batting, I'm batting. On me safe, on me safe. Yeah. I'm making it. No drone, no drone, we have to be careful of this. Yeah. Shoot them back, shoot them out. No smoke for 10 seconds, okay? They're trying to play this corner down here. Yeah, that's fine. Walk down. Play on me, play on me, play on me, play on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:48:00 Ja, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie, ich nade sie
02:48:24 Kann sie weitergehen?
02:48:39 Es ist ein Gresson. Ich meine, es all fällt in die Mitte. Es all fällt in die Mitte, um die Mitte zu bekommen. Und dann hat er noch keine Kills. Aberlele, ein Schliver von Health. Oh, das wird es. Oh, er wird es. Oh, er wird es.
02:48:57 Nrg, könnte sie werden die Team der Bezüge auf die Bezüge zu machen, hier zu machen, aber sie müssen sie ein bisschen weiter nach dem Spiel. Aber sie müssen sie ein bisschen weiter nach. Liquid Alienware haben hier verloren, aber sie haben ihn verloren, aber sie werden ihn zurückkehren.
02:49:26 Oblivion ist in der Dammage. Gehle versucht zu fly in, er wird die letzte Spieler zu eliminieren. Oblivion, oder wie ich es so sagen, Oblivion, wird in der Lobby sein. Jetzt ein 1v1 für Guild fließt auf Rambo. Aber es ist nicht ein 1v1, ich dachte. NRG hat Gott in, Eliminate. In der meantime, Envy kommt auf und verlebt diese Teile. Gott in, Gott in, Gott, Unleash, Gott. Envy, Survive. Können wir Envy, die nochmals advantageen? Aber sie haben noch immer wieder zu nehmen.
02:49:52 Die Führer-South-East-Furriere haben einen Tor zu arbeiten, mit den Rampart Wallen und über sie wird VDR. Die Lobby wird ein bisschen gegründet, es gibt ein paar Explosions hier oder da, aber die meisten Teams sehen, dass sie irgendwo zu spielen finden. Ein bisschen von Back-and-Forth, mit dem Envy. Und ich denke, sie haben einfach zu stoppen, eine Suppressive-Firre kommt, um sie zu stoppen, um sie zu stoppen. Ein sehr Cyril-Figgis von ihnen. Liquid Alienware eliminated in der meantime, Envy!
02:50:21 Looks like they're on a little bit of a charge here, to be honest with you. Flatter on this high ground, but there's not many bullets being fired between the two teams. Until Sykes moves in now. Dropped is on the flank. Nano fires back. Does a good amount of damage. He's going to grab the down here. Zap will be moving in onto Nano to try and finish off this fight. Oh my word.
02:50:46 Die Teams, die in dieser Lobby, nach all dieser riesigen Exchanges of Fire, sind FURIA?
02:51:12 Und VDR, drei Teams ist alles, was bleibt! Und look at die size der Zone!
02:51:20 A chance for someone to take advantage and gain a lead here. Hust, 2nd place on 42 points at the moment. VDR, 4th place on 39. As for Furia, they can catch up. They're on 37 points in 8th position. It's Envio currently in 1st, but of course, likely to be overtaken here by either Hustle VDR. But you can see it's just everyone assessing the scenario at the moment.
02:51:49 How do we get towards the middle here? And who is going to jump first? Oh, no. Oh, no. Furia just getting ripped by Sheila. By the way, Huss, excuse me, on your screen. Three red armors. We talked about how rare that is to get one. They found three. Reps has just gone down as well. Skillgate's getting the knock.
02:52:11 VDR struggling a little bit. They've been backed up into a corner. Hus kind of have the vantage point. They've got eyes on everyone below. And they've got a Kraber. Kraber hits. 150, but not a knock. But Jett's going to get the fin. Or the down, I should say. And Skill Cakes, he sees them lined up. Skittle, what are you doing to poor old VDR? That is a disgusting angle. Stop, they were already dead. Surely Hus cleaned this thing up.
02:52:36 What a performance this would be from Huss. In the penultimate game, three squads remain, but it's just the pieces of furia. And I think one remaining member of VDR, Huss, will move in.
02:52:50 Huss march on and they make Onset start to chant their names once more. They take the lead in this series. They move up to 52 points and create a seven point gap between themselves and Envy. Could it be Huss' names we are chanting at the end of this series? They are certainly putting on a show for us.
02:53:14 Legend Bands ist die größte Sache zu haben, zu Apex Legends zu sehen. Das ist so Spaß zu sehen. Es ist so Intertaining. Und jetzt mit unseren Match Results zu kommen, ein paar Teams lieben es auch. Das ist Huss. 22 Punkte, nach dem 10 Kp. Furia, irgendwie, hat es geschafft. Bis zum Top 2, VDR in den Top 3. Aber es war Envy, auf der Run von ihrer eigenen, die 15 Punkte auf dem Board.
02:53:40 In that Match 5, mostly thanks to those 10KPers, they just ran a train through most of the edge of the zone. It was impressive stuff to watch from them. And whilst it was extremely tight at the top before, and don't get me wrong, still very close between the top...
02:53:57 Huss, Envy
02:54:26 Liquid Alienware, Furia and VDR are our leaders going into Match 6 in what has proven to be one of the tightest Pro League matches we have ever seen. Shopify Rebellion fall from 1st to 7th. We'll have to see if they can reclaim that first place as our final game is coming up in just a few moments. Don't go far! Game number 6 is on the way.
02:54:56 Turning to Team Burger and Apex South, this iconic Free Agent team has some new faces. Burger veteran Pricey is joined by Player K and Strafing Flame, who many will remember from their time on Legends Gaming and most recently, Disguised. One thing these three players absolutely do not lack is experience.
02:55:18 This team has been there, done that when it comes to playing on the global stage. They know how to perform consistently week in, week out across a pro league.
02:55:28 What they will want to work on across Split 1 is improvements to take the next step on land. Pricey is stepping back from his time as an IGL to focus on fragging, and how quickly he gets back into the groove in this role will be crucial. All three of these players left Sapporo disappointed, something that they will want to avoid at the upcoming ALGS Open and beyond.
02:55:52 Jesko and Legacy are heading into Year 5 without Phony. However, what is a better replacement for a LAN winner?
02:56:00 than a Multi-Land Champion in Sharky. The former Dark Zero player is yet to relive the heights of 2022, where he won back-to-back LAN events. However, his experience and natural talent is undeniable. Not many players could take a large break from Apex Legends and then return right back to top-level LAN competition. One of the questions hanging over this team for now, however, is around leadership. Legacy is looking to take on IGL.
02:56:29 mit Scharki versucht seine Hand zu erhoben. Niemand auf dem Team hat Land Success in der IGL-Roll und Legacy will auch noch mehr Erfahrung zu bekommen.
02:56:43 X and Y operate very differently from other rosters, and therefore it is no surprise to see them still together despite the roster mania that took place during the offseason. They have said that they are more like a band of brothers than teammates, and this unity and chemistry helped them finish fourth in the last ALGS Pro League. JR is the key that can unlock success for this team.
02:57:06 He is a fearsome fighter with immense mechanical skill, considered at times the best in all of China. X&Y will be looking to build on their first LAN experiences last year, with a strong Pro League showing to keep working together and improving across Year 5.
02:57:32 We're back, everybody. We are back. Game number six is just around the corner. And if you've missed the first five games, well, at least you're here for what is going to be one of the best games that we've seen in quite some time. Games one to five, Dan. Some of the most exhilarating Apex Legends we've seen in the Pro League. And this is only week one, and we still have no idea.
02:57:50 who is going to be first place as we take a look back on our final circle from Gamefight. Just so many massive fights, so many engagements that are taken by teams because they're either forced to because of the lack of legends to support the way they would like to play or just because they know that if they don't take that fight and win, they're going to have such little effort to get in later. It's just such a difficult situation to try and be in here. Do you take the fight? Do you try and survive? Otherwise, you might not get the points that you so desperately need.
02:58:19 We watched the final moments of this previous game here where Hust was just kind of commanding the space and yes, even though in the end it looked comfortable, it was the fights that were won previously by Hust that gave them that advantage. You don't just get three red armors for no reason. You get three red armors because you have fought through the lobby, you have battled thick and thin to be able to take those armors off of people's dead bodies. Yeah, it's an amazing performance from them and what a time to do it, but now it's about...
02:58:46 Das war's.
02:59:08 A lot less fights earlier on. We were having Valcolt into space to then get that castle wall down. But now it just feels like the game has opened up and we are seeing so many influential moments that are relying on gun skill and big team fights more than anything else. Yeah, and some people may be reluctant to pick Newcastle, worrying that Newcastle was going to be banned going into game six as well. However, it ends up going kind of the opposite way where maybe people...
Legend Bans und Strategie in Match 6
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02:59:32 Second guess themselves, Crypto ends up getting banned in Game 5. So then that opens up the recon slot here a little bit for teams. And I'm almost more excited to see a Match 6 without Crypto than I would have been to see a Match 6 without Newcastle. Because yes, we're going to see plenty more Newcastles going into this Match 6, but who fills that role for hitting Survey Beacons for you? Because we've also lost...
02:59:52 So maybe we see a new inclusion here. Maybe we see something a little bit different from some of these squads. Or maybe you just sacrifice Recon altogether and instead just go down the Ring Console route. Of course, Fuse is still available as well. We see Caustic still available in the controller section. So yeah, this one's going to be an interesting one when it comes to Legend Selection.
03:00:10 Do you reckon Hus can hold on in this final game? Or do you think we're going to have another twist in the tale of week one? Based on how it's gone so far, I think there is another twist in the tale. I think someone has something up the sleeve and it is definitely not won by Hus as of yet. But also with how they've been playing, if they can assert that much dominance through the lobby, that confident in their engagements, in their fights, in their pushes, and they pick those moments right, we might see Hus walk away from this as victors unsigned going into week two of Pro League.
03:00:40 Maybe could be signed by the time we get there.
03:01:07 7 points can both be a lot and also not very much it depends what happens around them because if we see envy eliminated early suddenly that 7 point lead becomes a 9 point lead over liquid alienware right oh sorry 11 point lead over liquid alienware and that is a bigger difference then suddenly you're looking at liquid alienware having to realistically get into the top three same for furia with a 12 point difference between them and then it might be a bit more comfortable for us so i think for us what's important here
03:01:36 Maybe the playstyle changes. I know what, maybe I'm contradicting myself here and I was saying, you know, if Hus play with that same kind of raw aggression, but actually survival could be key here. Maybe Hus do need to play the ring console game, just try and like hunker down, get to the end game and secure a good five or six points. And that might be enough to keep them at number one when everything is said and done.
03:01:57 Don't get me wrong, I'm looking down to 10th to 15th. Those points can change very quickly. If one of those teams wins, it's probably a top 6 performance from them instead of a top 15. Still a lot to play for as we take a look at the legend bands that have taken place so far. Ashe was first to go today, then it was Catalyst, then it was Wraith.
03:02:16 Dann war es Alter und dann in Nummer 5, wir sagen goodbye zu Krypto. So, looking at what's available, Rampart's still available as that Controller Legend, who can hit Beacon. You've got Fuse, of course, with the Blue Perk, who can hit that Ring Console as well. I mean, it's an interesting one. We've seen a little bit of a touch of Core Stick as well. Teams have been kind of experimenting with that again. Probably not going to see any Recon Legends, though, unless someone decides to maybe play Valk, but that seems like a...
03:02:45 Ja, Vau could be the only one, but this also is what excites me about, you know, potential match point situation with these Legend Mans, because you don't really want a Seer, you don't really want a Bloodhound, but there is potentially a chance when it comes to match point, you might need a Seer, you might have to play a Bloodhound, and that could just change everything going into it, and that's when your Legend pool really has to be deep.
03:03:11 And we might see those ranked grinders show up on our screens, but a seven point lead going into it for us. Can they continue things into match six? I think we're going to see a lot of ballistic again. I think ballistic fuse Newcastle could be definitely a very common composition that we're going to see here in match six mark.
03:03:29 Falcons chose first. Disagree with me. Disagree with me. I can't. I mean... Exactly.
03:03:57 Digg Vibe ist die Person, die will be in Vibeye sein, für Ultimate Vibe. Falcons took Heitz, wir haben gesehen, war es Match 6 in Amir? Ja, es war. Wenn die Pattern starten zu entstehen, wenn die Skripte geht für Falcons, vielleicht werden sie wieder happy für das erste Pick bekommen. Und, ich meine, interestingly...
Regionale Unterschiede und POI Draft
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03:04:19 Wenn es richtig ist, und das ist kein Schade für jemanden, wenn es nicht richtig ist, aber es ist so verschieden von EMEA, wo EMEA all Prioritized Stormpoint. In Amerika, Leute Prioritized E-District, von dem wir jetzt sehen. Und es ist so ein Unterschied, dass das mich so macht, ist das richtig? Und wenn es ist, es wirklich zeigt, dass regionally, Dinge sind so unterschiedlich für welche Teams werden Prioritized, das macht mich so excited für die ALGS Open.
03:04:48 160 teams suddenly come into the equation and who knows what a POI draft is going to look like. One thing we can guarantee, I almost feel like with 160 teams, surely we have to see every legend played in ALGS event for the first time ever. Possibly, if it's going to happen. We'll keep our eyes on that one. Well, I won't, because I won't pay enough attention. I have a very short attention span, as you well know, but somebody more...
03:05:13 Es war, ich denke, Huss haben die Best-Foot vorgelegt. Und, you know, wenn sie nicht in der ersten Platz nehmen, sagen wir, dass sie die Welt getrennt.
03:05:38 Still a very strong points total to put on the board after week one of Pro League, where, you know, in a lobby that's difficult to get points, I think they'll be very happy with what they've already achieved. But they'll want to put the icing on the cake here and make sure they come out as number one and also give themselves the best chance of being signed, because what better way than being number one here in Pro League? And just to remind everyone as well, I did fix Dupes' audio, so if they win today, my services will.
03:06:06 Es wird ein weiterer Wettbewerb werden. Wir werden sehen, ob ich etwas Bistus auf den Backen habe. Aber Envy, diese Runde, in dieser Mid-Game haben, hat sich schon mal auf Huss gemacht. Das könnte sein, dass es die eigentliche Kampf ist, die entscheiden, die gewinnen. Ich meine, du hast den Output der Damage von Envy. Sie haben eine wirklich gute Arbeit gemacht, nicht zu vollen Resetern, um das einmal zu tun. Almost, aber nicht ganz gut genug. Und das ist, was...
03:06:31 Es hat sich sehr spannend bei vielen Fällen. Wie viele Collats haben wir gesehen mit dem Kramer gesehen? Mehr als wir gesehen haben, ich denke, in der EU-JS. Vielleicht sind wir nicht mehr in der EU-JS. Vielleicht müssen wir jetzt die Weapon-Bans geben. Der Kramer wird nach Game 1 geholfen. Das ist wahrscheinlich nicht ein Ding, aber es könnte sein. Vielleicht ist das etwas für ein Spicey-Topic in Zukunft. Aber wir sehen uns die Final-Circle hier. Husten hat den Wunsch. Und sie werden Nummer 1 in Match 6 sein.
03:07:00 So, number one going into Match 6, but will they go out of Match 6 still being number one? Now, if we were to go to a Game 7, Newcastle would be banned, but we're not, because this is a six-match series. So, Newcastle will be certainly prevalent. We haven't even seen how many teams have been picked. That's just people presuming. No, no, no, no, no. The lobby's ready. I think there's tech. There's tech. Okay, the lobby is ready. You know what I mean? Okay, the lobby is ready. Sorry, production. Tech stuff is doing its tech. Sorry, production.
03:07:27 If we were going to a Match 7, which we're not, Newcastle will be banned. But think forward, everyone. Think match point. Think what's going to happen around Game 9 and 10. 90% pick rate, by the way. If this is correct, which I think it is. Newcastle is going to be a big old pick for everyone. To be expected, if he's still alive. I keep making out that the Legends are dying when they're not selected and they get banned. Take it out back.
03:07:56 come here newcastle uh no newcastle is going to be very prominent for good reason because you need it we saw how difficult it was in match six of emir when there was no newcastle available uh you almost had to use raw gun skill just to force these fights because there was very little ways of creating cover outside of rampart so yeah excited to see how this one goes here we go then everybody
03:08:19 Ja, 18 Newcastles, 11 Ramparts, 9 Bangalores, 8 Ballistics, 7 Fuse. And then this is where it starts to get interesting.
Match 6 Strategien und Zonen-Kontrolle
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03:08:46 Two Watsons, two Valkyries, one Mad Maggie, one Caustic, and one Lifeline. Didn't you say something about Lifeline? Didn't you say maybe we'll say a Lifeline? Yeah, one Lifeline coming into the fray here. But yeah, lots of Newcastle to be expected. Interesting, one of the two Valkyries is on Huss. Skittles jumped onto Valkyrie. Maybe that's a clear plan. Like you mentioned, Huss is going to play for a console and they're going to just hit zone and try and survive. Hold on to first place. They've done the heavy lifting, so to speak, and now they just need to survive.
03:09:16 Long enough to essentially outlive the chasing pack. This is where the teams are at the moment. You can see the legend compositions that they are playing. There's some bangalores around. There's a few different things that you kind of highlighted. Watson's being played by a few different teams, but the zone is central. And I love the fact that we have a bang center zone to finish this off.
03:09:36 This is one of the toughest zones to play as well, because there's so much open space. Match 6 is set up to be one for the history books. So Husk do have a ring console and a survey beacon, by the way, so they can hit both. And you know what?
03:09:50 Excuse me, Gassi. I like that opportunity for them. They can just Valkyrie up and they can get somewhere closer to the zone and just try and hunker down and out survive the teams that are closing in them. If they take a early fight here, then it would be very detrimental to their chances of leading this entire thing. I really hope that Lord of the Rings 31 screamed, Lord of the Rings, just as he did that. Oh my goodness, this slam's going down everywhere.
03:10:13 Wir sehen uns ein paar Teams mit den Ballen zu bekommen. Wir sehen uns ein paar Teams mit den Ballen zu brauchen. Wir sehen uns ein paar Teams mit den Ballen zu bekommen. Riehle ist jetzt schon ein bisschen mehr aggressiv. Riehle ist jetzt schon mal, und das Aggression wird jetzt kommen, um sie in den Backen zu bekommen. 2v2. Lord of the Rings 31.
03:10:34 Finds himself with barely any HP. Empire. Trying to survive for now. Carter's going to throw a couple of Sky Nades to the 2v2 situation. It's actually going to become a 3v3. No, it's not. Because that Sky Nades certainly hit. It's the 3v2 still.
03:10:49 Und sie können nicht den Rez jetzt, weil es so vieles gemacht wurde, die zweite Spieler zu haben. Du soll nicht Rez! Die Nade kommt durch und Empire jetzt sicherlich kann das Ganze clean. Es ist nur eine Sache, dass sie aggressiv sind. Und sie werden. No Name Eliminate. Empire Survive. 16th Position. Sie brauchen Points. Wunderrefer, Lord of the Rings, 31. L.O.T.R. eigentlich nicht für Lord of the Rings. Ich habe ihn nicht. Love of the Riley. Es ist...
03:11:17 Ich weiß nicht, dass er seine Team-Mate ist. Love of the real Toast stands for. Fake Toast. Falcons, 15th, not a good day, not good in the words of their IGL Zero. But it can certainly be improved with a good game here. And those shots are pretty damn good coming in from Imperial. How big damage going out.
03:11:38 Do we see a little bit more? Zero's on Lifeline. Yeah, I mean, I was going to say, that's the one Lifeline is going to be Zero. Has he lost it at this point? Or he's just got to that stage where he says, screw it, we're going Lifeline, we're going for something a little bit different. Or is this going to be a Legend Selection Masterclass and at the end of this game, Falcons are on top and Lifeline is one of the key reasons. Time will tell.
03:12:02 For now, no kills, just damage output. Waltz is up. Well, he's on blue at the moment, but the heart is showing purple due to the fact that he's got that, of course, perks, thanks to playing that legend. NRG, scarpering across the bridge for now. Guild of the Rampart, much similar to what we saw from Waltz. He's going to be essentially on purple himself, thanks to the abilities that he has on Rampart.
03:12:27 Moving their way towards zone. Everyone is almost in zone already, by the way. Shopify Rebellion are one of the teams who are taking their time. VDR on the opposite side of the map. Taking their time as well. NRG. Trying to work their way through this choke. Ape Gang are on the other side of it. They've got to be careful here, NRG. Gotta check your corners.
03:12:48 You never know what might be waiting around said corner. A few people have already been able to get some ambushes already today. Here's the number one squad. They have been able to get into zone, by the way. So plan successful. And now you can start to build a base. Rampart walls come down. And all the meanwhile, they just watch that kill feed. Our team's going to be eliminated around them and just give them that little bit more security. But of course, they want to put as much points on the board as well here.
03:13:18 ...to try and stay ahead in the overalls. Skills again. Just absolute Chad with a single P-2020. I'm so happy. I'm so happy to see Skittle Cakes back, by the way. And Duke's same. He's too talented. Too talented not to be involved in games like this. Ooh, Stallions will be able to get the res. Alb just about managed to scarf around the corner before he scraped his knees.
03:13:45 A little bit of quiet here. Just for a few seconds. Enemy trying to play around Albu, who's unfortunately still not to be rezzed. And that's the difficulty, right? If your Newcastle is the player who goes down, they can't drag you back. Crook trying to keep his head on a swivel right now. He's waiting for that Rampage to do some damage. And damage it does!
03:14:03 That's why you have that thing in the swing. That's what a Ballistic can do. And that is why Ballistic can be a popular pick. As Board will be eliminated and their day will come to an end. A valiant effort throughout. But sadly, they will just have to watch on and see what happens in what could be one of the more exciting matchsticks we've ever seen in Pro League. Scallions, 12th place, 26 points. Still a lot to do, but again, not impossible to find yourself in the top three. Maybe winning it.
03:14:32 Could be impossible, but top three is still achievable. SR making their move. Flat. Might be about to surprise Koi, who gets very, very fortunate. MT has to burn the ult to get back to his teammate, and here comes the assault, the ambush from Flat.
03:14:53 Big Louis with the big P2020s MT goes down Koi falls down as well and Shopify rebellion is just a matter of trying to escape here and maybe get back up to a full three elsewhere but flat job done for them again this this is what happens in match six a team who's down in the lower part of the leaderboards just starts to full send it and maybe catches some of these teams up towards the upper end off guard
03:15:17 Lui ist auf Zynu und Zynu ist dead. Die Shopify Rebellion sind dead. Sie starten auf den Tag so impressively. Winnen Game 1, haben eine gute Performance in Game 2, aber nur fallen auf ein bisschen. Wenn es zu crunch time ist, in diesen Final Games auf E-District geht. Let's take a look at our map. Overhead, as we see our two teams eliminated. SR, excuse me, three teams eliminated. SR-Aragon, NN-Aragon as well, and Bord, all eliminated.
03:15:41 Das ist die Zonen, und Huss in ein guter, guter Spot hier.
03:16:07 VDR still in the conversation for winning this whole thing today, by the way.
03:16:35 They're a little way off first place, but not unachievable. Fifth place at the moment on 39 points. Remember, Hust currently hold first on 52. By the way, with Shopify Rebellion being eliminated, you mentioned it earlier, they dropped down to seventh. They could drop further, it's now Empire. They're sending it on to the last remaining player and will take out Furia. So that's the end of the day for Furia. They were in top three, they've just dropped into fourth. So they could fall down further in the lead board as well.
03:17:02 Yeah, things are really opening up. You think about the teams that have been eliminated, Shopify Rebellion and now Furia. Two teams are in that top five. Well, they might be worrying about what's going to happen in this lobby for now. One team who wants to take advantage of the teams falling out ahead of them is NRG. 26 points overall at the moment. No massive games from NRG, but a little bit of productivity from the KP in that last game. Flat at the moment, they're going to be trying to hold out Oblivion on the other side of this. They're trying to work their way up this ramp.
03:17:33 God, it's so tense with some of these fights because with some of the angles some of these teams are trying to create, if they actually win the engagement, they force their way into a position that could turn out to be a great endgame position. Oblivion, they say, we have to go for the last ditch attempt of just trying to full send it here. And they're going to try and take like a northern route and go all the way around. I mean, they're going to take a lot of ring damage, but if this works, they could maybe surprise the likes of Liquid Alienware who currently hold that spot.
03:18:03 Also, Huss, as you can see, on the northern side of the zone. Oblivion in the zone. Liquid Alienware probably looking to pressurize Huss at the moment. That could be a really, really big engagement if we see those two teams decide to fight. But look at where the zone's going. Huss have called it absolutely to the T. One of the only buildings that is inside of that zone. And think of the comp they're playing as well. They've got the Rampart walls down. They've got the Newcastle wall down as well. Their survivability is a very, very high percentage one at the moment for this endgame.
03:18:35 So, VDR being held out by Stallions. And there is an option. VDR can take a different route, by the way, which looks like they might be going for. They're going to traverse further east before they head towards the circle. It is the long way round, and we'll put them arguably last to rotate into zone, but I think it's more intelligent than taking the fight versus Stallions in that choke. So yeah, VDR retreat, and they keep their chances alive of getting further up into this lobby. Stallions will just watch them go.
03:19:10 So much tension in this lobby. You can really feel it. Just with the way that people were playing. Every mistake is going to be punished at this point. Kurev just looking to overextend to put some pressure onto Oblivion. But this is the team to keep your eyes on. First place still. And they just need to hold.
03:19:33 Great position that they find themselves in. The team opposite them is Falcons, actually, and two very different stories for these teams. One who just wants to hold on, secure enough points to stay at the top, and one who desperately needs points to get closer to the top. Envy also still alive in this game. Remember, they are very much on the chase, just seven points shy. And with one more squad being eliminated shortly, everyone gets that one extra point from placement.
03:20:02 You have a feeling, Onset, that it's quite quiet at the moment, but this next zone, when it forces everyone in, there is going to be a killfeed set alight. So many teams still in Energy Bank, where this zone is going to pull away from. Which is one of those, if you haven't moved early, you're going to have to win a lot of fights to find yourself involved in this final zone.
03:20:27 Envy, eine der Team, haben sie zu verabschieden müssen, als sie das Zone getrennt. Und es ist weg von der Position der Huss waren. So, all of a sudden, Oblivion, Liquid Alienware und Falcons sind die Huss, die müssen zu verabschieden. Ich meine, es ist weg von alle, wirklich, ist es? No-one in der Zone. Nun, da gibt es einen. Aber die Majority der Leute...
03:20:54 Ich weiß nicht, dass sie in diesem Spot finden können. Und das ist was ich meine, dass das nächste Zone ist, dass die Kielfeed auf die Kielfeed ist. Denn look at all die Teams auf der Eastern-Side. Das ist also warum ich vorhin bezeichnet, VDR zu kommen. Weil sie sind die letzte Zone zu kommen. Weil sie sind die letzte Zone zu kommen. Sie haben alle diese Teams zu kommen. Es könnte sein, dass wenn alle VDR starten und VDR beherrscht, sie werden können. Aber es ist nicht einfach zu erreichen. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie einen E-Backen können.
03:21:24 Hopefully team start to rotate, they might be able to hit a late evac and just hoping they find a corner to get a Newcastle wall down. But when you're relying on hope, it's never a good thing. NRG trying to force their way through flat at the moment. And flat are not budging. 10 seconds until this zone closes.
03:21:44 Und RG benutzen alle nur noch und kranne zu finden, um jetzt zu bleiben, bevor sie das Dreaded-Move machen müssen. Sie müssen durch die Flasen durch. Wenn sie durch die Flasen können, gibt es viel Platz für sie, und vielleicht können sie eine Art Basis zu arbeiten.
03:22:02 Uh oh, they're going to worry about Stallions. Stallions, yeah. Stallions are wrapping right alongside them. And NRG have the zone at their back. It's a tough, tough move for them. But here come Envy. They have to make their move forward as well. And they know...
03:22:16 Sie sehen, Zapp hat die Schieler schon aus. Diegd hat die WDR schon ausgewählt. Hier kommt Envy. Hier kommt Zapp. Hier kommt Schieler. Ist die initiale Schieler genug? Envy hat eine Apegang. Aber Envy ist unter Pressure hier. Uh-oh. Die Alte ist weg. Hoping andere Teams fallen. Dropped ist auf seine eigene. VDR hat die WDR in der meantime.
03:22:44 15 squads now remain dropped. It's safe.
03:22:49 Und du wirst wundern, ob jemand weiß, dass er in dieser Position ist. Er ist nicht sicher, dass es ein paar Punkte gibt. Stallion, zu speichern, zu speichern, zu speichern, zu speichern, zu speichern. Sie haben jetzt in die Top-12 in den letzten Sekunden oder so gewonnen. Sie können hier auf den Newcastle resetieren. Unsure, ob es zu speichern, dass es genug ist, für Envy zu nehmen, aber wirklich öffnet die Tür für Huss. Und die nächste zu vielleicht nehmen, ist Liquid Alienware. Wir werden sehen, wie sie tun. Oblivion, 6th Place, 39 points. Eine Chance für sie zu topen, das Lobby, auch.
03:23:19 Es ist NRG und Flatt auf der anderen Seite. Flatt sind in zwischen den beiden Teams und das wird die Ende des Flatt, nicht nur ein Spieler kann. NRG wird jetzt involviert. Checker der Damage output von Timmy. Blinxer wird die Motha-Lode weiter. Timmy wird versuchen, die Dominanz zu zeigen, dass er in dieser Kampf so far hat. Gibt es die Schildswap, hat es zu dealen mit Falcons. Die Q-Welfer geht um das. Let's reset für jetzt. Mayhem in der Lobby. Falcons jetzt versuchen zu versuchen.
03:23:45 Droll the blood from the team of NRG, and they do so. NRG eliminated. Falcons up to 12th position as Unleash. They're in fifth at the moment. They can still do something about this. Stallions go down. Eight squads remain in Unleash, put themselves up into the top three. Can they chase and hunt down us?
03:24:03 I wonder if they managed to get that. I saw the Halo went down. Oh, Envy are eliminated. That is the second place team who will fall and unleash. You're making a run here. They're into third. Going back to what I was saying about Falcons though. The Halo went down from the lifeline. Were they able to get Hau back to his feet? That's the big, big influence on how this game might turn out for them. 100 Thieves still safe down on that low ground. Falcons did get the reset.
03:24:27 Hartz have done so well to just play the survival game here. Hold that number one position. Hold on to these points. But can they add extra points to the overalls here? Skillgate does spot out Falcons. And actually Falcons in a tough spot now. Because there are plenty of eyes on. They're just hoping there's not going to be a Kraber to take them out. Well here comes Sheila. Well maybe not. Because Sheila just got destroyed. And Jett's lucky that he didn't as well. Dupe.
03:24:56 Trying to find a little bit of an angle here. Unleashed have just been eliminated in 7th place. Overall we're into our top 6. Falcons on lifeline. Into the top 6. Whether they meant to be on lifeline or not, that's unfair debate. But they are certainly making it work. But Hus are making it a tough ask for them to stay alive right now. Skynades go up.
03:25:36 Trying to survive!
03:25:40 Dupe ist jetzt in dieser Kampf. Dupe ist jetzt aus dem Schraper, zu spielen, als 100 Thieves zu cleanen. Aber Dupe ist jetzt in dieser Kampf. Das macht einen der Closer-Teams, die versucht zu schießen. Und vielleicht ist die Writings auf dem Wall für unser Winner für dieses Series. Eine der besten Series we've watched, wirklich, von Apex Legends in Amerika. Throughout Pro League history. Aber Liquid Alienware, still mit einer Outside Chance. Fünf Quads remaining. A win plus all diese Kills. Vielleicht können sie aufhören Huss.
Finale und Zusammenfassung des Spieltags
03:26:08
03:26:08 As Hust has been eliminated in fifth position. Hust are eliminated. They're gone. And you never know. You never know. If you can clear the lobby, the Liquid Alienware might be able to steal one here.
03:26:25 Locked in with one player remaining. That's going to be Rambo. We've seen him shimmy and shakers a solo before and pull off the almost impossible. Hundred Thieves still alive as well. And Empire will close out your top four. Hundred Thieves in fifth position as well. They have a chance to push their way into the top three here and put some points on the board. Been so tight this lobby.
03:26:45 Liquid Alienware hold the north and actually there is still a member of locked in alive just north of them and it's a solo rat we have seen this before this time it's Rambo though can he impact this final circle has he spotted him out it just went around the corner they can't drop because they know even there's one KP they need more than that
03:27:13 Have they seen him? Are they just pinging ahead of a spot where they can drop? Rambo might have... I think they have seen him. No, they haven't! Rambo's behind them!
03:27:49 Don't miss the Scan Legends, because things like that don't happen with them. I mean, at first, when I saw Niesel looking down, when I saw the pings, I was like, yeah, surely they know. But then I realized he was pinging ahead of the spot where they were going to jump on. And Rambo must have just watched them come down and said, well, I guess I have to shoot him at this point. There is too much backside to ignore. And 100 Thieves come out on top in what happened very quickly. And I think...
03:28:12 100 Thieves might have just pushed their way into the top two, but we will wait for the final standings to come through. And who better to walk us through the final standings than the beautiful man that is Rain Day. Thank you so much, Dan. Mark, you guys had a run there. Normally it's a little bit of time that I get off and come back here. We talk about at the end of the day, it feels like we had a second back half to close it out. But you know what? Maybe it was worth it because we got that little special moment.
03:28:38 Let's take a look at the match results and how that ended up impacting Liquid Alienware and their attempt, obviously going from, you know, a third place or second place and getting taken out early. It could be the difference if it's just one, two or three points that decide whether they're going to be able to claim victory over Hus or if Hus will hold on. And as we look.
03:29:03 At our series results, the answer will become evident. It is Hus that finds a way to stay on top. 57 points. They are your winners here in our Pro League for day number one in the Americas. Mark, it's just a testament, not just to anybody and the openness of this lobby, but also the fact that Dupe is back where many, many of his fans and this crew believes he belongs.
03:29:30 It's been a phenomenal performance from Haas. I think that final game, the way they managed it and approached it was very, very impressive as well. It's a great zone read from them early on as well. They just kept them ahead of a lot of the traffic that was rotating in from that southern side. And 100 Thieves with a win in that final game puts them into second place as well. So a great day's work from those three gentlemen. The new lineup looking very, very good. Yeah, I think 100 Thieves have to be pretty confident with the fact...
03:29:53 They didn't get everything right all the time, but they did show that they were relevant in these final zones, and they were getting to good spots. Obviously, you take a look at what could have happened with Jen Burton and Sykes. That 1v1, that's the difference right there between probably winning and being in second, third place, and finding a way that, hey, these are the little things we need to work on now, but if we do this, we are probably where we want to be. It's a great start.
03:30:18 Für 100 Thieves. Also, it's a great finish for some of our players here who have tallied up some kills across the day, and that's why we always love to shout them out. It's our Sony Endzone Kill Leader time, and let's see who took the cake in Match Day No. 1. It was Big Zap with 19 kills overall on the side of Envy. And while there are so many different shoutouts, Zyneu, Skittle Cakes, Hal, especially with the performance that we saw Falcons have.
03:30:48 Ja, ich denke, es hat ein bisschen mehr...
03:31:15 The ability on the role that he has on this team as well with Envy, not having to essentially IGL, he's got dropped, he's going to do that job for him. He can kind of co-IGL a little bit or give a little bit of secondary information, but he can just concentrate on what he's best at, right? And that's killing people. And you can see that from the performance today from him, 19 kills, quite considerable distance between him and the rest of the lobby. So it looks like Zaps found a comfortable spot that he feels he can play his best Apex.
03:31:38 6 assists, 4.6,000 damage. Zap, congrats on being our Sony Endzone and Kill Leader. Dan, it also gives us a lot of confidence looking at a team like Envy. You have the org coming in and there's expectations with that. To perform at this level, obviously to get that accolade, that means a lot, not just for them, but also setting the tone that in North America, things are, yes, wide open, no matter what you've done in the past heading into this new year.
03:32:02 Yeah, I think, you know, there was all the talk about the super teams that have formed or whatever. And obviously we'll move on from that narrative very quickly because there's just so many teams that are good in this region. I think that has been proved today looking at the top end of that leaderboard. But you can't count out any of the teams that struggle today. I think that's also something you need to look at that a lot of the teams that are considered at the top will learn very quickly and will adapt very quickly as well. But Envy take the plaudits.
03:32:31 mit Zapp, sicherlich, aber du hast auch noch einen Huss zu sehen, die Überrollen sind. Und die Fortschritte haben sie heute gewonnen haben, sind unglaublich.
03:32:39 And I think, too, when you come into a pro league like this, you are kind of rolling the dice in terms of what's going to work. You know you have a game plan. You know what's worked in scrims. Maybe there's a version of you where the lights are on and your scrim performance doesn't indicate how well you're going to perform here on the day. But there's also an element that we're taking some guesses. Some teams had a little bit of a strategy coming into it. We saw Caustics play it a little bit more consistently, even in game four and game five. Obviously, instead of having to get to game six to be able to use
03:33:08 Das ist, dass wir das Backpocket-Pick aussehen können?
03:33:14 Maybe it didn't quite go our way and we could have adjusted that earlier. Do we want to come into next week with a different strategy and play some characters that aren't going to get banned so that we can kind of have more consistency? What was our real issue? Because, you know, this is kind of that learning process and there's not that long to learn. Remember, unlike most of our splits, this year five is changing everything. And in the middle of our pro league split one, we're going to be going into the open in just about a month. It's going to be literally testing these theories, Mark.
03:33:43 You don't have as much time to go through a full 10-week Pro League to iterate. And you have to kind of try to be right on it. Yeah, get it right early. Otherwise, you're not going to be performing. And I mean, we talk about getting to a finals lobby and how tough that is. A normal ALGS LAN, when we have 60 teams, there's 160 teams to get through. If you want to be in one of those finals lobbies, it's an achievement in itself. I mean, when you say it like that, you realize the scale of the ALGS Open. And I think you're completely right.
03:34:12 It's find a way and find a way quickly because otherwise, you know, you're going to get to that event second guessing yourself and you can't quite simply cannot be second guessing yourself with so many teams there who are looking to prove a point. So I think it's a, it's a really tough ask of the players, a lot of changes for this year, a lot of changes for this season. You've got to be on it.
03:34:30 Yeah, I mean, it feels almost like we have entered into a phase of Apex where we're continuing to showcase people's ability to adapt, but also, you know, allowing ourselves to have new experiences from whether the challenge is just winning a game versus now it's dealing with some of these player bands, dealing with the new maps that are coming into this, dealing with the new schedule that's going on. It is a high...
03:34:55 Du! Du! Du! Du!
03:35:27 What is up, Mr. Duplex? How you doing, man? I'm doing good. Feeling good.
03:35:34 Feeling good. Obviously, you know, you have been a part of the ALGS for so long now. You've been having your ups, you've had your downs, you've had teams that have worked and teams, you know, that haven't worked. How do you feel about Hus here? Obviously, the win, you know, got to be a huge confidence boost, but how do you feel going into year five with this squad? And what were some of the reasons why you feel good about it? Well, I'm feeling very confident in Skittle Cakes and Jen.
03:36:01 Es war eine Last-Mit-Decision. Es war ein bisschen ein Group-Effort zu formen die Roster-Together. Aber ich fühle mich mit Skittles gefühlt, weil wir vorher waren, wir waren Co-IGL. Wir sind Co-IGL-ing und Jent ist ein Great-Edition zu dem Team. Plus, wir haben die Rank-One-Grind viel gemacht. Wir haben für eine gute Zeit gespielt.
03:36:28 That's amazing. Now, I've got kind of a two-part question. The second is more serious than the first. The first one is, would you say that all of your fortunes in Apex have changed since I fixed your audio?
03:36:38 Yes, yes, I remember that. I told you! I went through hell and back and you fixed my audio and technical audio issues so well. Still haven't changed anything, so I appreciate you for that. See, I told everyone. Dan kind of gave me a little bit of a raised eyebrow and he was like, what are you talking about? But see, it's true. The second part is I love asking players about the Legend Bands and how it is to adapt game to game.
03:37:04 Wie findest du es? Du findest es viel Spaß? Du findest es sehr challenging? Talk to me about the mentality of the Legend Bands und wie du adaptest als Team. The Legend Bands, I think, ist ein guter addition to the game. Es mixen es ein bisschen. Du musst ein bisschen mehr head-thinking und denken über alle anderen Regionen, wenn wir gehen zu LAN. Es ist ein bisschen vieles zu denken.
03:37:31 was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst, was du spielst.
03:37:52 Obviously, Hus are unsigned at the moment. Doob, what would you have to say to any organizations that are watching as to why you should be picked up as a squad? We have the passion. We work day and night. We play ranked a lot and there's a lot of behind the scenes. So we're working to get signed. So we put a lot of work behind the scenes that nobody knows about. Just me, Skidoljent.
03:38:21 Und Aiden. Aiden ist unser Coach, wenn jemand weiß, Aiden ist unser Destroyer. Ich muss sagen, ja, genau. Und also, ich muss sagen, dass es gut gut ist, wenn ihr euch auf den Open und die ganze Crowd ist yelling, Dupe. Das ist ein viraler Moment, da. Es wird all your salary geben. So, Orgs, pick this guy up und pick this squad up. Obviously, wir sind die Winters von heute. Hus, congratulations. Und, of course, Dupe, great job. Wir sehen uns, was du in Probe. Vielen Dank.
03:38:48 All right, that was Duplex from Huss. Such clear audio. Mark, all thanks to Onset. Was that you? I mean, you know, Moonlighting is an audio tech. What's going on here? Look, I've set up enough audio for people that I work on shows with to probably qualify at this point. And like I said, my rates have now increased from nothing to talk to the DMs.
03:39:14 If you want to get your audio fixed and win weeks of the ALGS, I'm here for you. All right. Yeah. Selfless and a very good sell, I would say there. Guys, closing things out. I know I just talked to you about that, Mark, but what a day we just saw. Day one, it did not disappoint in the year five beginning. Yeah, I think it's one of the best opening days that we've ever had in the Pro League. It felt so fresh, so excited. Every game was different.
03:39:42 I mean, the real highlight for me was we had almost exactly the same zone on Stormpoint, and every game felt different. It still felt different because everybody had to approach the zone differently due to the legend bans. I think if you're a fan of Apex and you've watched for a long time, you probably feel the same way. This is very, very fresh. But if you're new to Apex as well, there's so much to be excited about as well. We've got the Open just around the corner as well. I think it's a really great time for Comp Apex, and I'm looking forward to what I feel could genuinely be one of the best years of the ALGS ever.
03:40:12 Dan, I'm sure you share pretty similar sentiments to that. What a day, what a start here in year five. I don't think it could have gone any better. And also Legend Band is clearly a hit, not just from us watching, people watching, but also the players. Yeah, I mean, I could repeat everything Onset has just said, but...
03:40:29 I had fun. I think, like, it's not that I haven't had fun before, but it's always a good indication if I'm smiling ear to ear every single game because there's something new, there's something unexpected. The players are doing crazy stuff as well. Kreber shots being hit left, right, and center. Rats staying alive. People going for different ledgers. I mean, it was just such a perfect way to start year five, and I cannot wait.
03:40:51 to see what happens throughout the rest of pro league. And of course be in new Orleans and see the LGO ALGS open with 160 teams. You heard it right. It's going to be unbelievable.
03:41:03 I mean, how are we going to take a shuttle? That's what I'm worried about. The traffic for the shuttle somehow. But guys, we'll deal with that or let somebody else, one of our team members are obviously great at setting all that up for us. And you guys have been great at setting up this wonderful showcase of day one. So take a break and enjoy the rest of your evenings, guys. That's been Onset and Gaskin. Appreciate you guys. And let's close it all out.
03:41:26 Für all of you who have been watching at Twitch and at YouTube, at X, just know that while today is ending, there's still more coming up next week. That's right. Next weekend, we have Match Day 2, 6 p.m. BST, 1 p.m. ESC, and 10 a.m. PST. For those on the West Coast like me, we'll be talking about how these legend bands have impacted day one all the way up until then. And of course, that will lead us.
03:41:53 After a few weeks to our May 1 through 4th New Orleans LAN. 160 teams at the first Apex Legends Global Series Open. You wanna grab your tickets, scan that QR code right now and be a part of it. Everyone always asks me, should I go?
03:42:10 I've never been to a land that wasn't better than the land beforehand. Somehow we keep outdoing ourselves. That's just, I guess, in the name of the game for Apex Legends. What a great start here to year five. I am always so grateful for the team that we have. Our talent back home, who you'll be seeing next weekend and throughout this league. Our talent here today and Onset and Gaskin. And of course, all the people behind the scenes who make it possible and the lovely game respawn. Even though we're done here, go ahead and load up Apex and play your
03:42:40 Mein Name ist Rain Day, ich freue mich, und als immer, never give up, never stopgaming, und wir sehen uns auf Matchday 2!