ALGS Year 5 Split 2 Pro League ! Match Day 8 ! Americas ! Group A vs C ! Apex Legends
ALGS Americas: Onik dominiert Match Day 8, sichert sich Tagessieg und Regionalfinale
Onik triumphiert am ALGS Match Day 8 in Americas, sichert sich den Tagessieg und dominiert mit strategischen Entscheidungen. Das Team nutzt Caustic effektiv und sichert sich den Bonuspunkt. Die Top 20 Teams für das Regionalfinale stehen fest, während andere Teams wie Legion ausscheiden. Der Ticketverkauf für die Meisterschaften beginnt nächste Woche.
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ALGS Year 5 Split 2 Pro League Match Day 8 Americas - Einführung und gestriger Rückblick
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00:10:56 hier in EMEA, das bedeutet, dass wir heute entscheiden, welches squad werden weitergehen zu Ende der Region Finale gehen. Welche Teams werden wir durch die nächsten Phase des Spiels kämpfen? Nur die Zeit wird es sein. Also, wir werden jetzt in's. All right, mein Name ist Gunner Explosion und ich werde heute hier sein. Also, wir werden unsere Fabulous-Casters in, weil wir DIA und Genome sind gut, bereit zu reden, über alles wir haben hier in Matchday 9. DIA, wie sind Sie? Ich fühle mich wirklich gut.
00:11:25 I cast ALGS yesterday, I'm casting ALGS today. There is no way, there aren't more, I guess there are more ALGS days to cast. I could have done Impact North and South, but then, Genome, I think I'd be pretty tired. Well, yeah, yeah, I agree.
00:11:42 There have been some long ALGS days in my past. Even for these players, you know, going back to back, obviously Group C has to play twice. And yeah, look, some people get up at 2 a.m. to, I don't know, go fishing, to look at the stars. Me, I get up at 2 a.m. to watch European adults play video games. That's just, you know, that's just my happy place. I think that sounds like a great happy place, in my opinion, Gina. So I'm glad that you're here with us doing exactly that. Now, we've got a lot to talk about here today.
00:12:11 Before we get into all of our Match Day 9 stuff, for everybody at home, let's give a little bit of a recap what happened yesterday because we are on another doubleheader weekend. We just had Match Day 8. Dia, you got to be there. So talk me through these first three matches. The adrenaline on Stormpoint was palpable. And especially in our first game, we were talking up the Go Next and Alliance.
00:12:34 Rivalry that is starting to stir in EMEA, or has been stirring throughout the course of this split. But off the back of that, it was Na'Vi that profited with a Game 1 win out in the open on Stormpoint. Alliance did strike back hard though, with an impressive victory in Game 2, chaining constantly these alter jump scares into each other to eventually find the match win.
00:13:00 in our second game on Stormpoint. Our third and final game on Stormpoint was once again held by Navi as ultimately Trojan, or Tro07jan, however you would like to say it, ended up going to fight Alliance really early on and opened things up for Navi to swoop in and take a very nice, very clean victory. Two out of three victories for Navi was a great start to the day.
00:13:29 And then we move on to the last three games of the series. And in Game 4, it was Kashira, who with a new team, obviously Natsuki has left to go join Trojan. And with Taxington and Tyler, managed to take out the dub in Game 4. Well, we're moving on to Game 5.
00:13:53 Um, es war, um, für mich, es war ein bisschen der Geschichte von GoNext, die hat viele Kills bekommen hier, als wir noch ein paar von den City Hallen haben. Und das hat GoNext in eine Position zu beantworten, um die Behemoths zu beantworten, die Behemoths von EMEA-Allianz haben. Sie haben eine Chance zu nehmen, um die Nummer 1 in Pro-League zu nehmen.
00:14:12 Für On-Dogs, die irgendwie was sie brauchten, und sie sind in der Game 6. 16 Kills für sie war ein MASSIVE Result zu Ende auf. Und das hat sie wirklich einen Top-5 gemacht. Und sie werden vielleicht noch einen Top-5 gemacht. Aber wir können über die Potenzial Qualifikation Pass für die Region Finals ein bisschen später. Ja, definitiv ein sehr spannender Day yesterday, als wir sehen, was das für die Top-5-Alliance resultat.
00:14:40 Inverse by a large margin, but one of the important things to notice is that obviously this is the last day of the regular season, which means Group A will not be playing here today. Alliance is in that group. So this big points buzz, which we talk about a lot throughout the entire season, will not be in the lobby here today, which does open up a lot of opportunity for so many of these other teams because there are not a lot of opportunities left to get some points on the board.
00:15:09 So now that everybody has a little bit of a recap about what happened yesterday, let's dive into what we have to talk about today. It's all about regional finals. We're going to keep talking about this, which teams continue on their journey. And the biggest part of that story will be the fate of the last remaining eight spots to...
00:15:29 Wir sehen uns, was das bedeutet für unsere Region.
00:15:56 We already have quite a few teams that have qualified through to Regional Finals, and these are the teams that are now on your screen. Alliance up there in first, followed by Go Next, and then Passion being the last team that's qualified so far definitively. There are still eight spots remaining, and that's what we're really focusing on here today. We'll take a look at the overall scoreboard so everybody can kind of see what that means, because this is what happens all the time. As you can see on the scoreboard, it is very...
00:16:24 Very, very close. Our teams are separated by just a few points here and there, Gina. So this is going to be a really important day for our teams. Absolutely. I mean, if you look at the series played number there, that'll give you a bit of a key of sort of who we're looking at today. If you're six, that means your sort of chances of getting into the regional final have mostly been locked in at this point. You know, the fact that we've got Trojan only one point away from hitting 56, which I think we've got...
00:16:52 Staple in there as our definitely going to qualify position means the teams, so from say 13 to sort of 17, 18, they're looking pretty good. From there down, we are looking for some big performances from other teams to try and jump their way up into the top 20 and make it to the regional finals, which will be occurring next week. Yeah, I think there's going to be a lot of storylines that we have to be following here to see what that means.
00:17:20 So let's start kind of narrowing down on which ones we want to be focusing on here today. Dia, I want to start with you. Talk to me about one of the teams that you think will be important for our overall ALGS story.
00:17:33 I'm looking specifically at the team with probably the lowest bar to meet, but one of the highest ceilings in terms of how far they can go. Trojan was a team that, as Natsuki talked about in his interview yesterday, is put together for the longevity of the roster. They're planning to take this, not just into regional finals, perhaps into champs, but more importantly, into the next coming year of competition. And Trojan have already shown some remarkable consistency, even through roster swaps, starting off the last matchday that they played.
00:18:02 in matchday 6, with a 7th place, and yesterday, even after a roster swap, moving into 6th place, in a...
00:18:10 in a matchday where Alliance was playing, where as you talked about, there was an incredible amount of point sponging going on. The ceiling for the squad is very high, and it does look like their storm point, those older maps that are more practiced, are looking a little bit better for them, but they've only got to avoid getting 20th place today. Anything but that will get them one point, will get them into the regional finals, so look forward to seeing Trojan in the regional finals. I think today is really about what they're going to look like when they get there, but...
00:18:39 I want to know, Genome, who are you looking for? Yeah, well, I'm going to keep my focus on on-dogs here. For me, this is like the next generation of Apex. And I feel like, you know, around the world, we've seen this sort of next generation coming through, right? And to put that into context, catch that we're watching here was 11 years old when Hal won his first, the first ever Apex LAN, right?
00:19:05 Um, so the fact that we're seeing these guys now turn up, be at the top level of Apex, and be able to have massive games like this one, um, that we saw right here, uh, in the, the, uh, the sixth game of the series is really cool. Uh, you know, I, I like how they're approaching the draft. I like how they're approaching the legend band system right now. Um, some people have said Apex is the most complicated right now, uh, competitively.
00:19:28 Aber ich denke, ein Team wie On-Dogs, haben sich auf die Herausforderung, insbesondere der relativ inexperience an dieser Stelle. Aber alle Regional Finals, alle Match Point, alle Land, die du spielen wirklich hilft, die du bereit für die Zukunft der competitivität. Ich würde gerne sehen, dass sie ein Top 5 haben, um das Regional Finals zu machen, aber ich denke, das ist für sie.
00:19:56 I think these are two really strong choices so far, as far as our storylines go. For me, I want to focus on Empire Gaming. Now, if you recall, they were one of the teams that has already qualified through to Regional Finals, but I would still like to talk about them, okay? The roster of Lipan, Arctic, and Vasate. And now, just because they are qualified for Regional Finals does not mean that their journey is finished yet. And that's why I think the story is so interesting, because they are a team right now whose champs points...
00:20:22 Do not qualify them through Champs Points alone. We've talked so many times about how there are three ways to qualify for Champs. It's either winning Pro League in Regional Finals, your Champs Points, or LCQ. And right now they've made the step to Regional Finals. But if they want to make it to Champs, they have to win. Either that or they then are stuck fighting through LCQ. And that's always a tough spot to be in.
00:20:47 But Empire Gaming, coming off of the last time we saw them, had a really strong performance. Not only did they win the day, but they closed it out with a first and second place finish on World's Edge. The same map that we'll be starting with here today. So not only are they coming in on a strong map for them, but with a little bit of momentum, hopefully some confidence. And I think that that confidence is best exemplified by the fact that we even got to see a tweet from Vazate as soon as they won. First on the day, all caps. Love my teammates.
00:21:14 I mean, why wouldn't you? They've shown us that they have the ability to be at the top. It's just about finding that consistency for Empire and being able to do so when you've got the best in the region qualifying through to regional finals. So now that I've kind of started that conversation a little bit, let's just dive into it, okay? Obviously, all of these teams are trying to make their way through to champs. That's what everyone is fighting for at the end of the day.
00:21:42 These are our championship standings right now. And what we'll notice here is that the teams with the stars next to them are the teams that are currently doing well for themselves at the top of their region.
00:21:54 That is going to be something important to note, because you can see the dotted line. There are only so many points available based off of your championship points. If we were to end everything right now, this is where our teams would be. The Stars, once again, like I said, denoting that they are at the top of their region, and that would be a spot that they would then have won through winning their Pro League to get through to Champs. If that happens, if they do win their Pro League, their spot in the top 24 based off of Champs points then gets
00:22:23 So anybody below that 32 line will not be able to qualify based off of their champs points. But that is also not guaranteed. Maybe only one, two, three, four spots opens up.
00:22:49 Below that dotted line. So there are still some things in flux here. Nothing is 100% set yet. So it's going to be a really important day for a lot of these teams. But we keep talking about champs. Do you want to go to champs?
ALGS Championship in Sapporo: Ticketverkauf startet bald
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00:23:05 I sure hope you do, because ALGS is obviously coming back to Sapporo. We announced that already, but we wanted to give you a little bit more information on when you can get your tickets locked down for the big event. Ticket sales will be live next week on our ticketing partner site, Zyko, on October 11th at 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET, or 5 p.m. JST during our first regional finals of Split 2. So if you want to get up early and get your tickets, you can absolutely do that. Or stay up late, depending what time zone you're in, okay? You can find more information as that.
00:23:34 I hope to see some of you there in Japan because it was an absolutely life-changing experience last time around and I know all of us are very excited to go back yet again. Alright, now that we've kind of...
00:23:58 Broken everything down here a little bit. Let's start talking about our upcoming matches. We typically save this for just you two. I wanted to join in here today.
00:24:07 Before though. So let's talk about our map schedule. I mentioned a little bit earlier. We've got World's Edge and Storm Point here today. The tried and true for our last day. And we're going to break this down here a little bit and what that can mean for some of the teams that we've been highlighting as far as the squads trying to make their way through the regional finals. For me specifically, I mentioned it when I talked about Empire. They did well on World's Edge and the last time we saw them, that's how they closed out. There's two incredibly strong performances coming straight back into World's Edge with a pretty favorable drop as well here.
00:24:37 Aber wir haben auch einige historische Ranges, und ich weiß, dass du ein bisschen ein Deep Dive hast. So, talk to me about das. Ja, und ich will ein Bohnen zu Empyreien. Sie haben sich tatsächlich ein ziemlich guter Platz gemacht, weil...
00:24:50 Und wenn du diese Rings hast, was wichtig ist, wo sie sind enden, sagen Sie, historisch. Was Teams werden heute erwartet, und wo sie sehen endzonen werden. Und das wird in den ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen ganzen
00:25:19 wie Empyre und Cyberkatz werden in Skyhook landen. Aber dann ein bisschen weiter in der SOUTH, haben wir die Legion in Shree und Nameless in Thermal Station, die könnten die meisten von den SOUTHERN Zonen nehmen. Over in Stormpoint... ...dere hat, Admittedly, G-Dome... ...quite a BIT OF CROWDING in der SOUTHWESTERN SIDE OF THE ZONE. Es scheint, dass wir nicht mehr von Barometer und der SOUTHWESTERN SIDE haben. Wir sehen uns, wenn das heute verändert.
00:25:46 Yeah, I do spy a few circles down on the south side for sure. It always is a question of, you know, we don't have that much data in just one set, in one split of Pro League, right? It's not that many end circles. It's hard to get, like, you know, a solid...
00:26:05 Solid sample size, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. But why don't we have a look at the actual draft here to see where all 40 spots were chosen? Because this, for my money, is the hardest draft of the split, right? E-District, with its equanimity, I suppose, across the board.
00:26:24 um, makes it pretty simple, um, whereas Stormpoint and World's Edge had a clear pecking order, and it actually makes it quite hard, um, to decide which one to go for first. Now, Empire, they're going for Skyhook West first, um, that is a fairly common choice, because you do get...
00:26:44 Such great loot there over at Trials, Instapurple, often with a brick coming out of that, and so on and so forth. But, you know, there's a time where you're just like, ooh, do I need to switch over to Stormpoint now? Do I want to prioritize Trials? Do I want to prioritize, you know, the Tridents over on Stormpoint? It's a hard choice, Glitter.
00:27:07 It definitely is. It definitely is that it's going to make today that much more exciting. Now we're about just a few seconds away from getting into our matches. So if you weren't able to make it here yesterday or you won't be able to make the region finals or you just want to stay up to date with everything we've got going on, follow us on social media, whether that is X, YouTube, our new Insta and TikTok, all of which are Play Apex Esports or our Twitch, which is, of course, Play Apex. As long as you're following along with us on there, you won't miss a single second of anything we've got going on. And there's some really fun content that we've got going on over there.
00:27:37 as well. So, you know, I've mentioned giveaways in the past, so make sure you check that out. But like I said, our match number one is ready to get underway. Day nine is ready to get under idea. Gino, let's dive into it. Let's do it. Gino, I gotta be real with you. You made me Google the word equanimity.
00:27:56 Did I use it correctly? Now I'm educated, but I'm gonna be drawn to using the word way too much today because I've just learned something about it. So you're gonna have to police me on that. We had one of our producers bring up historicity before. Yeah, there's just so many words with great mouthfeel. I feel like I'm at like a cellar right now, like tasting wines with how they're all just like rolling around in my mouth.
00:28:24 Es ist absolut fantastisch.
ALGS Match Day 8 Americas - Spiel 1 auf World's Edge: Frühe Kämpfe und Strategien
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00:28:54 Enough of the dithers, Genome. Let's start things off with Game 1 on World's Edge. Alrighty then. Well, here's Ondogs and, you know, continuing some of that conversation I suppose we were having before about drop spots and whatnot, DR. I thought this was an interesting choice, right? They went for Survey Camp here. I believe it was like the ninth pick, somewhere around there. And...
00:29:22 Obviously, it's not a super great POI, but they did it early enough that I think it did actually manage to force some other people away from Epicenter, so they got both of them to themselves. Anyway, we can forget about that for a second because we do have an early scuffle here, as we often see if teams do get clustered up here.
00:29:44 across both Monument and Fragment East. And that oftentimes will happen because the team hasn't picked Epicenter.
00:29:53 The scuffle that we're seeing in Monument right now absolutely caused by some pretty severe imbalance in the draft. The fact that Na'Vi ended up going Fragment and Test Region, the team currently in last place in the region, landed right next door to them is going to cause some early scuffles because Na'Vi can play with such confidence. The awkward thing about this particular zone is that...
00:30:19 It also is going to force both teams to stay in the area. Test Region can't really leave, and Na'Vi essentially get one and a half POIs to themselves, since they get Fragment and half of Monument. I believe they've also got a ring console there. The Test Region hit moments ago, so with both squads knowing that we're going Frag Monument for the first and second zone, they're going to be stuck there for a while. Yep, with that zone heading straight to them.
00:30:50 Es wird es schwerer und schwerer zu werden, nachdem sie wieder auf ihren Feeten zu haben. Und es oft passiert, dass es, wie die Devs, die Ring-Konsole, um, macht es ein bisschen...
00:31:04 Es ist ein bisschen schwierig für Fragmenten zu kommen, oder zu shooten, die Monument-Teams, die vielleicht beherrscht zu bekommen. Ich denke, es ist eine gute Sache, dass wir von Evo Harvesters gesehen haben, und die Konsoles und Wot-Not in recenten Zeit haben, ist es, die Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams-Teams
00:31:27 Das war aber komplett unforchend. Der Fakt ist, dass Roadhouse klaszt, mit der gleiche Test-Region. Navi ist noch...
00:31:38 ...despite having lost Basik.
00:32:09 Let's see if they can get him back. Meanwhile, down at the Southern Chokes around Geyser, we've got Ronin, Legion Gaming, Citadel Gaming as well. Potentially looking for some late entrance into this mid-map situation that we're in. NVMI potentially could come to meet Legion Gaming a little bit later on. Nameless is sitting around Harvester as well, but yeah, most people...
00:32:38 Sie haben bereits in eine der zwei Central POIs geöffnet.
00:32:45 It's funny how Roadhouse, in contrast, had to make their way right into the center of the map, lose two members and get right out again, having rotated now towards Lava Siphon, where SJP2, on the opposite journey, have continued their movement straight into Monument. It is going to be a pretty crowded zone. We've still got Cybercats approaching from the north. We've got Ronin out in Overlook, getting a little bit more data. And we've got Empire sitting in Countdown.
00:33:13 Those three teams making their way in from the northern side of this zone. Well, we still got a lot of space. A team like GoNext, however, up by Epicenter, could very easily run into Cybercats should they choose to delay a movement into a couple buildings. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they do that right. I think sitting on the edge of where these icicles are is a pretty common spot to be looking for KP in these zones.
00:33:41 It is a little bit risky depending on where it pulls. I think if the zone's a little bit more north than it is currently, it's a lot more of a power position. Right now, I think they're more likely to just get kind of stuffed over and have to make their own desperate scramble in towards the buildings a little later.
00:34:02 No surprise that Caustic is going to be our most picked legend in game number one, something that has stayed true across most regions, across most most. Yeah, I don't know if you saw what happened today back north last night, dear. For the very first time, we had Caustic be available for all six matches. Insanity. What are they playing?
00:34:29 Was? Not Caustic, what? Ja, ich denke, was das ein Team war, dass ein Team ein Team gespielt hat, mit der Newcastle, statt der Caustic mit der Newcastle, in Game 1. Und so, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das.
00:34:57 So wild. Such an unusual thing to happen, especially this late in the season when most teams and most comps are already pretty well established. Speaking of, however...
00:35:08 Die Caustik, specifically, ist zu werden, die viel wertvolle in dieser Zone zu bekommen. Wir wussten es, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir, wenn wir
00:35:29 It could be. The way I'm reading this, though, is I feel like it is going to be potentially pulling a little bit closer to, say, like the monument itself, right? So a team like Onyx, SJP2, Pot, I think in the buildings are actually going to have good spots. I think if the zone is a little further south, that's when we tend to get the pools that sit sort of in the pocket outside of those tunnels. And you can sit in the RV down there, you know, those kind of positions and really reach.
00:35:59 the rewards uh of an early setup down there especially of course if you've got that caustic newcastle um that we've been talking about to um help yourself get established in the location but as you say uh depending on where nvm i depend to make their uh ingress into the circle uh nameless could be waiting for them
00:36:20 Oh no! Oh no!
00:36:48 Nur zu viel damage von Rang da. Und Taskmaster ist auf dem floor. Aber ich weiß nicht, ob er wird da für lange bleiben. Ich fühle mich Pot hat eine guter Position für ihn zurück. Sie spielen die Altar, natürlich. Sie ist die Queen von Resets. Wenn du ein Altar hast, dann hast du die höchste Chance.
00:37:16 Incredible amount of safety, even for Nameless, who are sat in the southern choke right now. Their job really is going to be to watch their backs, where, as we mentioned, Roadhouse are coming from. But you can tell they're extending out, trying to take up as much space as possible, because you've always got the option to retreat with Alter and reset again.
00:37:35 Hold this choke for even longer, and hopefully the space around it as well. GoNext are seeking a way into Monument, as they are quickly running out of safe space up towards the northern side, but Light doesn't really know how he wants to approach it, and thus they're going to back off, regroup at the Void Nexus, and try something else in the next little while.
00:37:57 This small bit of epicenter that is still in provides a lot of safety for go next, but it is temporary because you and I both know we're going further south.
00:38:06 Ja, ich denke, das ist Option B. Option A, das wir gesagt haben vorhin, ist, dass ihr alle, dass es, dass es, dass es ein Killing feel für Going Next ist. Das ist Option B, wo andere Teams, die mit Edge spielen, werden auch in einer anderen Situation stehen, um das High Ground auf Epicenter zu finden, und ihr einfach habt, dass ihr die bessere Team habt, und vielleicht habt ihr einen extra Evo Harvester oder zwei auf ihr in, in order zu haben, die andere Hand, wenn ihr das fight habt.
00:38:36 Oho!
00:38:59 Die Altar-Portal ist sehr schnell aus, aber Roadhouse wird in der Seite getötet von N.V.M.I., forcing diese drei Teams zu versuchen, Reset zu co-existen für ein bisschen länger. Roadhouse wird versuchen, Reset zu versuchen, Lufka zurück zu Rez'Aku, während Blast bleibt, und bleibt das Bereich, die sie bereits erwähnt.
00:39:22 I'm watching the map, though, and I'm a little bit concerned that Legion Gaming are actually thinking about a zone wrap here. Maybe they're just watching their back. That's probably the more likely scenario here, but you can see the blue team on your bottom right down there. Now they're going back a bit further north. I guess they were worried about maybe someone else doing the same to them. So for now, they will be all attention forward.
00:39:50 I really like a Nameless rotate right into the train cart, however, on height in Monument, that could get them pretty darn far. Difficult to push, difficult to siege, however, with fewer Watsons in the lobby than we'll see once Caustic is banned, you can also get naded out of that cart, something that Nameless will have to be very wary of.
00:40:11 Ronin starting to move in behind Legion. Remember, we said Legion was holding their back. Legion are currently completely split up and having lost one so quickly, it spells disaster for the roster that now needs to regroup and reset. Yeah, they were kind of watching their back. They weren't really watching their, like, northeast, though. And that's where Ronin have come through. Coming through from Ghost Town, they do get that initial knock, but...
00:40:36 As we've mentioned, Alta's pretty good, so they do go back to the portal to try and get them up again. But I don't know if they're going to have time with the zone closing in on them now. Ronan might have completely usurped them.
00:40:51 We have another fight brewing with Test Region, but this time it does not go their way. We see Go evict them from the single building they held in Monument. An unfortunate end for Test Region and for Legion Gaming. Old squads that have arrived pretty early into the zone. Test Region, albeit faster than most could ever do. Ronin starting to make their move. Half run up against Roadhouse, however, and there's very little space to coexist on this south side of the ring.
00:41:20 Oh, these naves could be dangerous because NVMI are also looking from the west. If a single one of those gets a crack, a down, a knock, NVMI could decide to pull the trigger here and complete the pincer maneuver with Roadhouse in the middle of them and Ronin.
00:41:41 Empyre wird sich umbauen, 16 Quads leften, und NVMI wird auf Roadhouse aggressiv. Es ist ein constantes Thorn in der Seite dieser Squad, auch von der ersten 3v3-Fuhr gegen Nämlös. NVMI hat sich umbauen, und sie sind immer für Kills auf die mehr unabhängige Roadhouse-Members, die sich umbauen zu beschäftigen, auf Rönnen zu beschäftigen. Wir haben eine Quick-Move gemacht, um diese South-Side zu machen, als Rönnen zu suchen, für ein Reset.
00:42:10 Das Moby ist, ich denke, ein bisschen aus der Range zu sehen, aber ich bin auf der Top-Side meiner Seite zu sehen, ob sie eine Rez finden. Rodehouse hat ein bisschen mehr auf die Low-Ground und Ronin, in D.D., findet eine Rez.
00:42:22 That's crazy. I'm really surprised that NVMI haven't pushed them harder and faster, but I guess they are trying to prioritize their position, which they see as pretty good. Anyone on the south side of the tracks right now is going to be pretty happy. I think your earlier call out of that region was spot on, dear. So having a look at these two teams, I think they are just so desperate to stay here and not die that...
00:42:47 They're a little bit worried about pushing, but surely after that name you go in for that, right? What was that like? 150 200 damage
00:42:57 It's definitely been enough to push Ronin onto the low ground. And for NBMI, that's basically a win. You may not have taken out the team, but with finding a kill and the space that NBMI now have, the only team to be on these train tracks, it should be securing them. And I say should. At least a top three. NBMI's issues, though, having been solved, are a sharp contrast to CyberCat.
00:43:20 Sie haben mehr und mehr Probleme verloren. Sie haben noch einen Member, sie haben noch keine Move, sie haben keinen Cover und jetzt haben sie keine Newcastle zu machen. Oh man, ja, es ist ein sehr langer Schritt in die Zone von Cybercats und dann wird sie dann einfach nur um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um
ALGS Match Day 8 Americas - Spiel 1: Finale Phase und NVMI sichert sich den Sieg
00:43:48
00:43:48 Take Flight sitting in one of these few buildings. Take Flight actually pretty darn close to where we're seeing teams like Trojans sit as well. All these buildings very occupied and go next. Unfortunately, not going to be one of the members with a unit. Taken down means that Take Flight, Citadel Gaming, Navi all sit inside of this building and all have to move south into the likes of BC Go Trojan Anomic.
00:44:17 Yeah, this split has been fantastic for giving us fascinating rings, and I think we're getting another one here. Streamer building, you just rarely see it. This occupied this late into the game, and I think up until the last circle, teams were still unsure where this ring were going, and they were kind of just hedging their bets. Now, it's been a clear shift down to the south, and NBMI and Ronin still are sort of occupying those spots, with everyone else really just...
00:44:46 Planung zu bleiben hier.
00:44:48 I real credit to NVMI here. They extended down to this train cart that SJP2 hold right now and wiped out Nameless. SJP2 have inherited a lot of safety off this, but NVMI showed clear proactivity in being able to take out a squad that otherwise should have been safe for a long time. I hesitate to say that SJP2 are even safe as they, much like Navi, must start moving into the zone. SLR will not make it on this next rotate. Navi, we're about to find out.
00:45:18 Eureka ist auf der Seite mit Slab zu gehen. Na'Vi wird meldeten. No, drei oder vier verschiedene Teams kommen aus Train Station und haben zu versuchen, ihre Weg zu einem bereits heavily occupierenden building hier. Und du kannst sehen, Nades, Gas Grenades going überall. Barely any playable space left alive. Wie viele Teams kommen aus dieser Seite? Es fühlt sich wie sie einfach wie flies sind.
00:45:47 SJP2 will fall and Trojan managed to defend against an attempted kidnap from Onik. The nades still reining in though, and zone control is so difficult to manage. Thermites are providing a crazy amount of value inside this building, but they're gonna run out eventually. Roadhouse do fall.
00:46:06 So that is another team taken off the board, despite having that early reset that went pretty well for them. And Shrojan, now out of Thermites and out of safety, still are besieged by two different teams. One peeking them from the stairs, one trying to come in the door. Surely this is the end of the road for Shrojan.
00:46:25 Cakeflight fall and Trojan fall right after. Oh, no gas mask available for Nasky and no chance of him staying alive there. Envia might continue to hold space up the top here. And I think, you know, what you were saying about them pushing out and being proactive is even more impressive when you consider that this is game one and the teams that they're doing that against most likely have a Newcastle and a Caustic, which makes them very hard to push.
00:46:55 On dogs getting...
00:46:58 Hemmed into the stairs at the moment. Really awkward spot given that they do have to leave, in theory, this building. Although I don't see them being able to do it. No altar for the squad means that Trix has to pull off a portal plate from inside. Billy's got an EMP to rip, making things a little bit more chaotic on the outside. But Trix has got to pull the portal plate. Let's see where he goes. Sending him off on a mission. Can he find a safe space?
00:47:26 Trix places the portal on the lower floor, and Ondogs do end up sending Ronit, taking them out. But damn, they've got, uh, how many kills is that? Seven kills already on the side of Ondogs, doing very well. VCGO, Onik, I love their little spot that they were playing on the outside. And now we've got NBMI peeking over the side here and continuing to pick up KP, but also just secure their unassailable position on the high ground.
00:47:55 Absolutely incredible stuff, dear. I think that, yeah, that's exactly right, dear.
00:48:24 Uh, the mid-game was what put that exactly in the hands of MDMI. They end up with 25 points, and I'm gonna be honest, I feel like they almost deserve even more. Like, like so many of those kills were actually hidden away from them, um, because they were inside the building where there's, you know, literally just no way, um, to get those shots in. Um, also want to give out a shout-out to Onik there, who went second, and they took the unusual step of bunkering up
00:48:52 Outside the building, where you're sort of maybe a little bit more exposed, but actually closer to the end circle. So you avoid a lot of the crush as the other teams come out of the building, and that nets them a second place. Impressive forethought from them as well. Odok were able to collect quite a few kills by playing outside.
00:49:14 Being one of our few squads not to run the Caustic, but instead to opt into the Rampart for game number one, the Amped Cover and Sheila gave them the option to clean up basically the entirety of Na'Vi as they tried to rotate in, and that's to say nothing of Take Flight that came before them. Like you said, the 25 points from NVMI is really impressive, and we've got to give love to OnDogs, who had a crazy...
00:49:37 Wraith Portal. Und ich sage verrückt, weil es von dem in die Gebäude, das war DOOM, zu in die Gebäude, das war DOOM, aber es war ein Spiel für KP, was das On-Dogs wirklich fokussiert und hat gut gemacht, um sich in 3.0 mit viel Platz zu bekommen. Und das ist nur Game 1. Ihr Team Focus ist gut. Wir haben auch ein Spiel aus N-V-M-I, eine gute Mid-Game, und so viel mehr zu sehen, als wir für Game 2, nach dem Short Break.
00:50:16 Ja, ich weiß, ich weiß, ich weiß, ich weiß, ich weiß, ich weiß, ich weiß.
00:50:38 Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist eine große Herausforderung. Das ist eine große Herausforderung.
00:51:01 Ja, das ist ja, das ist ja.
00:51:40 Ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja.
00:52:03 3 v3なのでポジション的にはブラックシープがハイグラウンドとの bb ですねー リアライズのは初のジャンプの書かれる静がちょっと顔を出したところ痛いダメージもらいました 2人削られてるのでこれ一気に攻めてくいきますねはいさあリアだぜ1人失って陰キャポジル3対1 ブラックシープ今日絶好調最後チャンピオンで締めくっ
00:52:42 Nummer 1, DIA. Das war eine sehr spannende Art. Wir wussten, Matchdenai wird ein guter Team sein, aber congratulations zu NBMI für Klaue die Wünn aus dem Gate.
00:52:55 It is that kind of gameplay from NVMI, and from any team, but in this game from NVMI, that really makes me go, man, I love Apex Legends. The macro gameplay that set them up for success into a great endgame finish as Kazak landed a nasty Stingerbolt to clear out a couple of teams. I know that Genome had some really nice things to say about Onik as well, and I'd like to echo that.
00:53:21 This is a really creative approach to the game, especially in a meta that is dominated by Caustic. We addressed it in the mid-game. The fact that game one, they are running Rampart and making her work by playing in the open space with still just enough cover provided by Newcastle is such a fantastic way to solve the problems of, say, low KP that you might otherwise encounter on World's Edge. Yeah, I think they also, you know, set themselves up for a little bit more consistency there, being able to then continue with...
00:53:49 So I think that, you know.
00:54:18 So far, our storylines are looking up and match number two is going to continue to tell us a little bit more about how the day is going to go. But one thing that I do also want to really kind of.
00:54:32 Ich glaube, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben, dass wir jetzt einen Moment haben.
00:54:58 It really does. In fact, I was thinking about the points as you were saying that, thinking about on Dogs and the fact that they won yesterday. They did pretty well today. What placement would actually be required? If we're saying that 56 points is the cutoff for the regional finals, 25 points...
00:55:15 So, they need to get second place in the matchday today. We should give them 21 points on top of the 35 that they have. We should get them 56, which would lock them for regional finals. That's a scary proposition. I know that was a lot of math, guys. The thing is, the thing is that second place is what ondogs need today. Nothing less than second place guarantees them regional finals, albeit it is possible depending on the performance of other teams. I am 100% relying on that as fact. So, good job.
00:55:44 Das ist einfach, das ist einfach... Impressiv ist was es. Ja. Great job. My math teachers would be upset at me for not showing my work, but it did happen, I promise. And if you do the work at home and it's different, no, you didn't. We don't need you to show your work, because for now, that's what we're working with here. And it is, though, but that just illustrates just how important it is for these teams to be doing well. And we...
00:56:13 I hate talking about it so much because we say it all the time, but then it just continues to happen, whether it's a match day or a LAN. We watch hearts be broken based off of one point, which is one kill, one indecisive moment, one, you know, woulda, coulda, shoulda. And it really does matter.
00:56:35 from the very beginning of today if these teams want to continue on to regional finals especially if their champs points aren't where they need to be and they want to be on that international stage that's what today is really all about at the end of it all as we dive into match number two jumping on board with NVMI they're gonna be nice and confident now after that win but we'll get to see if this ring is going to give them a little bit more information on where they're gonna need to be running here
00:57:04 Our winners of Game 1, and again, on this south side of the map, it actually has a lot of zone pulls that have gone through it historically in EMEA, but they don't get one today. As this ring does appear, if you look in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, to pull them out and up towards the north, I would say...
00:57:24 Und das sollte Anik eine große Vorteile geben, wenn sie die Ringskannen in Thermal Station haben. Sie haben eine sehr gute Idee, als wird Pot, die zu Mirage-Atois haben, sehr schnell in die Staging Mirage-Atois. Und das sollte Anik eine große Vorteile geben, wenn sie die Ringskannen zu bekommen.
00:57:53 This will be big for Anik too, considering that they were just able to solidify a second place finish there. So a lot of those teams, and you can kind of see on the map before we went off, that they're moving in very quickly. Meanwhile, Navi has already found themselves a potential for some poke damage here. They're going to go for the chase and see if they can maybe hunt down VCGO through that Vault Hunter towards Geyser. Will they be this aggressive or are they going to back off here? They do all have White Shields, so it's not the safest time.
00:58:23 Ult Excel to get EMP ready. Sets Navi up for a good fight. It'll literally take the whole shields off of anyone. That includes VCGO at this point in the game. Ronin, however, waits in geyser for both teams to rotate in. So if you do start a fight, you want to finish it quickly. Navi, undaunted right now. Push VCGO out and into the arms. The waiting arms of Ronin with a 3-2-1. That's Mirals down.
Frühe Spielzüge und Teamdynamiken
00:58:52
00:58:52 This is going to be a real rough pinch here for VCGO. They're not going to have anywhere to back off to. The Sheila is out already in the hands of Nate, but he does get knocked from the return fire. This could provide a little bit of breathing room. Ronan able to clean that up, though, and Navi looking to move in quickly after. This could be the downfall of VCGO very early, and they're out. Pinch between two squads. That was a rock and a hard place. Ronan the rock, and Navi... Wait.
00:59:21 Rock and a- no. That would make them both a rock. It doesn't matter. Navi now looking up at Ronin, who have made a recovery. Like you talked about, it was a quick cover of this door with Sheila. Nate got knocked, but instantly picked back up as VC Go were taken care of by Navi. Now no real way out for Navi. Just put them in an awkward position. Do you go out into Ronin, who have now better shields and more loot? Or do you sit in this tunnel for a while and hope that they go away?
00:59:49 Ronan looks like they are preparing for another fight if they absolutely need to and like you said they know they've got a little bit of an advantage now having gotten the additional loop but nothing needs to be forced right now between these two squads and we're going to find a little bit of a lull as both squads are reassessing Navi potentially 100% backing off and just deciding to make a little bit of a safer rotation at least into the next ring where they can figure out their next move
01:00:18 Meanwhile, we could take a little bit. No, go ahead.
01:00:21 The words I was looking for earlier have come to me. It was unstoppable force and immovable object. Navi, the unstoppable force. Ronin, the immovable object. And actually, I guess we find out what happens, right? Navi, leave the immovable object alone. Ronin, get Geyser. Navi, keep moving into zone. And as you were alluding to, there are a couple of other teams that have started making their way into zone. Trojan, being a big one, sat in what I'd argue is a very good position given the second ring pull we saw.
01:00:52 Ja, wir werden zu sehen, wer war able zu haben, was auf Mirage zu haben.
01:01:02 We did back off of it just a little bit. We've got Anik over their test region, SLR. Pod just wanted to... I wasn't sure if Pod was going to force Anik off it. They decided to hold their ground, so they've not forced that fight. But they also have set themselves up well with that high ground and all of those squads around them. They will have the sightlines nameless. Down to a duo right now. Guts low on that health as well. So they've needed to find a little bit of sanctuary here just for a second to get themselves reset.
01:01:31 Really awkward for Nameless as well, given that they land Thermal and had Ring Console Scan to get enough information on where this ring was going, but still got outpositioned by Legion in front of them. I want to make a quick note as well that because we saw Pot still on Mirage Atoile, that means Onik never got a Ring Console Scan from Mirage Atoile.
01:01:55 Es bleibt sie in eine gewisse Position später, weil Onnick jetzt nicht mehr zu haben, keine Informationen zu haben. Als opposed zu, sagen wir, ein Team wie Navi, die sich in die Seite von der Seite und eigentlich gegen Roden, wieder zu haben, nicht nur zu Fights, sondern auch zu Konsols.
01:02:12 And now you find Navi with a little bit of that advantage as they are trying to look down and see what Ronan are going to decide to do. They might be using that guise at a wrap here. Meanwhile, Gonext up on the northern side, finding Cybercats in their crosshairs. An opportunity for Gonext to pick up some points here, really kind of clear out that north side. They do decide to back off after getting the first knock and just kind of claim that space over at Countdown.
01:02:42 Works for them, but oh my, these teams are mirroring each other. I want to say that this is a Na'vi aggressive position, but it feels like Roden are just as ready to fight at any opportunity. Na'vi, however, do have the zone advantage.
01:02:57 Und wir brauchen Voidnexuses, Voidnexai, zu gehen und Reset für Ronin. Navi ist nicht so bereit, zu nehmen das 1. Instead, es geht weiter weiter. Das ist 3 Kp, dass wenn du deine Karten richtig spielst. Du wirst zu secure. Nate, der letzte Member standen, wird EMP'ed auf das alles. Das ist wahrscheinlich der Ende von Ronin, als Nate falls. Und das bedeutet, dass sie ein, vielleicht zwei Member standen.
01:03:26 This was rough. And this is the indecision that I was talking about earlier. If there's a moment that you just wait a second too long, it could spell your downfall. Ronan now having to run back the way they were originally going down to a duo. They're going to have to look for a reset here. They're going to head a little bit towards Lava Siphon, see if they can maybe play safer. But Navi did well holding their position there after they had backed off, knowing that there were only so many opportunities for Ronan to make their way out of Geyser and picked up.
01:03:54 an additional point because of it. And now you can see they've got a pretty safe rotation all the way through Monument there. So they'll have a little bit of time to breathe and get some additional information as they head towards that ring console. Meanwhile, we can see where the next shift is going, Dia. And like you mentioned, Trojan are in a pretty comfortable position.
01:04:12 I really like what I'm seeing from Trojan. Take Flight as well on High Ground is going to be in a fantastic spot since they've got the Dorito building that is notoriously hard to besiege. Nameless approach from the south. And I want to really quickly touch on Ronin and what their path to recovery looks like. There is a Crafter over at Tree. There's another one over at Harvester. One of these two areas should have Ronin rotating through it simply to get back up to a full break.
01:04:43 Jumping on board right with Onik, who is down to a duo, but are still picking up a little bit of KP here. They will need to still recover that banner if they would like to get back up to a three, but they've got a little bit of high ground to be working with for now and not really a whole lot of opportunities, so could be playing for just a little bit of a kill-heavy game today if they can manage it.
01:05:12 Ronan finally get that respawn. Good for them. This was over at Shree, and so having the whole squad back in the game is going to put them in a much better position. Cybercats, meanwhile, don't really have to move, are playing more defensive inside of this card. Up against GoNext. I wouldn't really rest easy. GoNext. I have played a quieter game today, but...
01:05:38 Ich bin nicht sicher, ob sie es zu extendieren oder nicht, speziell, dass du auf der anderen Seite bist. Navi ist ein Team, der vielleicht sogar gegen GoNext in der Zukunft ist, aber sogar das könnte, würde sie wünschen.
01:06:05 Okay, let's stay here Stay here and don't do shit, for love of God, stop shooting your gun every time Just stay
01:06:21 Wir brauchen sie, um uns zu gewinnen. Ich werde die Team vergessen. Ich werde Kull, wenn es ist. Die Team ist scouting uns, die Krypto-Team. Sie kennen uns, es ist nicht diese Team. Ich denke, es ist es. Aber diese Leute kennen uns nicht. Und wenn wir es brauchen, später müssen wir hier nur smokeieren und dann können wir sie auf jeden Fall abkommen. Later. Weil es ein Team hier ist, aber es ist ein Team nur im Main-Bilding.
01:06:50 Die Leute sind gebetet. Es sind zwei Teams, sie sind auf. Diese Leute sind schon auf. Die Leute sind schon auf. Wir müssen uns auf. Kannst du mich vergleichen? Das ist hier, das von Laura.
Strategische Teamentscheidungen und Konfrontationen
01:07:05
01:07:05 It's just like we talked about, a very avoidable fight for Na'Vi. They aren't engaging with anything yet. They aren't trying to move past GoNext. They are waiting for GoNext and CyberCats, maybe even Empire, to take an engagement, knowing that that is their opportunity. We talked about this a little bit yesterday during Match Day 8 Glitter, but in Apex, taking a fair fight is often a waste of time. You'd much rather wait for two teams to be distracted and then jump on top of them. Absolutely.
01:07:32 That is the name of the game, is it not? And that might be the moment that Navi seems to have possibly found now. As you see, they've moved in and are finally starting to take some shots. Cybercats finding themselves in a tough spot between GoNext and Navi. Slab does go down, but they should be able to stick this res. No, no, just not.
01:07:54 So, das wird ein bisschen verletzt werden, um Navi zu versuchen, ein bisschen mehr sicherzustellen.
01:08:05 Tuck timing, especially with the rain closing, but Cybercats have it even rougher. Falling now to a majority of GoNext, actually. Not a whole lot of those kills were picked up by Navi, who exposed their fangs and don't really get anything for it. Hiarka even in trouble, dancing inside some smoke right now. But GoNext have plenty of time to look down at this and try and collect some kills on Navi now.
01:08:32 These teams can just not escape each other. Navi trying to hide behind these bins in just a little corner of safety. Trying to get the bat off. Able to do so using that knockdown shield. But this is not going to be an easy fight. You can see GoNex having to back off a little bit as they were exposing themselves for just a tad too long. And did take a few shots that could give Navi maybe enough time to get that res as well. But that's not a great place to be playing out of here.
01:09:02 Did you notice that go next to her in the building? Yeah. Go next to her in the building, right next to Navi. You remember who was there is Trojan, and Trojan have not died. Meaning that they have relocated into what is presumably a better spot for Endzone. Navi somehow pulling off the res right now with the Crypto Drone. But I'm taking a look. Check it out. Up on the bridge, on the right-hand side, it's Trojan who are sitting on top, up on high ground.
01:09:31 Und wir haben, mit Anik, die waren ein Duo. Ich habe gesagt, sie hatten keine Chance für eine Rez, aber sie konnten es endlich finden. Sie sind zurück zu einem Trio. Navi wird in dieser Bereich mit Go-next gehen. Sie haben nicht wirklich viel Platz zu移ern, weil sie es aus dem kleinen Korne war. Aber Ronin ist auf der South Side, mit Nameless. Hoping that Sheila kann etwas mehr zu tun, in die Hand von Nain. Sie hat genau das, aber dann Nain...
01:09:59 down and they're eliminated were able to hold
01:10:07 Thank God Nameless were able to pull this together, especially after their earlier clash with Legion, who are now looking to take advantage of a scuffle that they just heard happening between Ronin and Nameless. See if they can find a few picks here, because Legion, down one, need every point they can get, and they'll find it. That is an unrecoverable, doesn't even hit the ground before being turned into a box. Oh, great shots.
01:10:35 Great shots there out of Legion. This is going to be some good KP for them as well. They will be able to continue rotating tight around this mountain, but Nameless has moved ahead of them. And now they're going to be fighting here in this choke, potentially drawing the attention of Roadhouse and Citadel in the area as well.
01:10:55 Again, only a duo, so they do not have a whole lot of room, maneuverability, or even health, as Guts does dip into the zone real quickly and ultimately gets taken down. Let's see how long the squad is able to last, as every placement point would matter for them, but nameless. Go down in 12th.
01:11:15 Legion out shortly after. And here is a look onto Trojan. Not only that, but they were able to get the Mythic that was here on the bridge. Now you've got Kraber in the hands of Nasky. They've set themselves up so well for success right now. But Test Region, Empire Gaming are all moving in from the northern side.
01:11:34 As Roadhouse recover, I think they're going to be able to pull off this res. Their focus has to be on how on earth they clamber up to this high ground, but take flight still hold. This Dorito building has been so good. Newcastle res comes in. Roadhouse have the time to reset. But what they don't have is a safe rotation ahead of them. No wraith, no ash. It's going to be all altar portals or nothing. You know...
01:12:03 This is definitely going to be a tough rotate through from the teams on the south side. But now I'm looking at Onik as well. I'm looking at the map. You've got Onik and Trojan, the only two teams that are holding space in the next circle right now. And with the likes of Roadhouse and Take Flight, Envy in My Citadel, all on the southern side, I will have to move in. This is going to be a big collapse.
01:12:28 This is their game. This is their zone to take advantage of their power position. Let's have a listen with Take Flight as they fight for the high ground. I cannot find that. It's fine. He's looking up here. It's a solo. Can you peek over with me? One second. One second. He's below me. We're going to have to jump down. Just jump down. Jump down. It's a solo in front of you. Pink.
01:13:00 Es ist der Fall auf dem Auto, wir müssen ihn auf dem Auto töten! Ich nehme tp! Können du tp für mich? Ich habe Heber, du kannst mich hier raus! Komm hier, Niki! Du musst ihn durch. Oh Mann!
01:13:24 Das war ein sehr, sehr schweres Moment für Take Flight. Sie sahen, sie wussten, sie wussten, sie wussten, das war NVMI, und sie konnten das genau das tun. Aber sie gehen runter, Onyx still hat das Raum. Meanwhile, Empire und Gaming haben in den Norden geblieben, wo Trojan war, mit Roadhouse, neben ihnen. Und das ist alles, wo alles auf dem Roadhouse geht. Empire folgt kurz danach, und Trojan ist weiterhin dominant auf diesen Tracks.
Entscheidende Kämpfe und das Ende des Spiels
01:13:50
01:13:50 And now coming up, right to Trojan, like you talked about. This is the team that took down Take Flight, that eliminated the squad in a power position. But Onyx is the team that has inherited that high ground. See what they're able to do with it is Onyx's creative solutions earned them a second place in last game. Can it get them first in this one with only SLR and Trojan left? Trojan have navigated this game so well. And they have a Kraber.
01:14:20 I don't know about this one, Glitter. This could go either way. I think this is going to be a fun ending. Credit to Onik, too, for being able to acquire that high ground. As we wait to see what Nasky does with the final bullet in this Kraber. Will it connect and make a difference? At least it's keeping the teams off of them for now, combined with the Sheila and the Rampart walls. So this could be a big moment for Trojan. Onik waiting.
01:14:46 in the wings to see what they do in SLR just hoping no one looks at them right now off to the side as they don't have a whole lot of cover to be working with here this is going to be all down to whichever team makes the first move
01:15:02 Schurzern brauchen Nades in order to clear Onnick out from behind this amped cover. There goes one. Skynade not connecting onto EQ, but he watches it. Next one does a tickle of damage. That's a very awkward spot. 407. Wow. And they come right underneath. Now smooth moves. SLRtho looking to punish. Oh, this is rough Onnick.
01:15:25 Oh, they got it.
01:15:51 Great close, and like you talked about, the control over other teams was really the focus for me. Onyx have the high ground, but they focus on Trojan and SLR too as well. Knowing that, the game solves itself for Onyx. SLR don't have sightlines on them.
01:16:14 Und es ist ein Ein-Direktional-Bully-Train. Das geht von Anik auf den Rest des Lobbys. Das ist eine sehr kleine Sache. Aber es ist passiert, wenn wir nicht unbedingt auf die Fokussung auf es. Aber Anik hat für eine Kidnappe gemacht. Sie missen die Kidnappe, aber...
01:16:32 It made Take Flight realize that not only was Anik aware of their position, but that they didn't necessarily have a safe place to push in as the ring was closing. And that was one of the big reasons that forced Take Flight down below to have to push NVMI and try to go for that KP. That one small kidnap attempt alone really solidified safety for Anik in that high ground position. And it allowed them to stay there for so long while everybody else was in the middle of chaos.
01:17:00 I think that that alone is one of the biggest factors in why they're able to win that game. You're so right about that, because Jake Flight's decision to go down to the low ground is what opened things up for 07. And for our top performers of this lobby, I mean, fantastically done.
01:17:19 bei Natsuki in diesem Spiel. EIGHT KILLS mit dem Position, der könnte sehr passiv von Chojun sein sein können. Der könnte sich auf den Lowground-In-Countdown sein, bis sie aus der Gebäude und in den Jods sind. Aber sie waren Pro-Active, wie du vorhin schon erwähnt hast. Sie sind für Mythic-Crate.
01:17:38 Und ehrlich gesagt zu Trojan, weil sie...
01:18:06 Sie kamen starken Position nach starken Position, wie Sie sagten. Sie haben es gut gespielt. Es war wirklich nur die, you know, die schlechte Situation, die Apex Legends ist. Sometimes das letzte Mal in die nächste Position war die Unlucky-One. Sie sind die Team, die von den beiden beiden Fokust wurden.
01:18:28 Still, Trojan looked very strong. They looked really cohesive there. They had to take a lot of fights around Ring 4 that they were successful with. So I see a lot of things that I'm liking out of our top teams here so far. But that is just match number two on the day. We still have one more match left on World's Edge. Before we get into it, though, we're going to send it to a short break. So don't go anywhere. We'll be right back.
01:19:03 Und jetzt kommt es hier. Und jetzt kommt es hier.
01:19:28 Ja, ja, ja, ja.
01:20:09 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
01:21:37 Yeah, I'd be very impressed with how they have played. They've picked their spots exceptionally.
01:22:02 Well, even this time, I think, uh, from what I remember looking at the map screen, um, while I was off-cast there, they were sort of playing behind where the Dorito, uh, building was, or, like, like, they were really hugging the mountain, uh, and letting the zone kind of come to them, uh, and they, yeah, obviously, it enabled them to use this high ground to great advantage, as we see having the oversight with the Sheila.
01:22:26 Ich bin so komfortabel mit den Ramparts, in diesen ersten Matchen. Wir haben es in Game 1 erwähnt, dass Koffstick ist die eher typische Wahl für viele unserer Gruppen-Squads, wenn man für eine Controller-Legend ist. Aber in Game 1 und natürlich in Game 2, sie haben sich mit den Rampart gewählt, weil sie so gut mit E.Q. zu kontrollieren.
01:22:48 Ultimately, that space control turns into a lot of additional resources for them as they had so many grenades in approaching this final fight that using that utility to evict Trojan without ever really needing to fire their guns was the biggest boon. Yeah, I'm not sure that they went through due process to evict them from that spot, but apparently, I don't know, grenades are just good for that, huh? It was really well done, honestly, by Onik there. And yeah, now we see them.
01:23:16 At the top of the leaderboard, 38 points after two games is obviously a very solid result. I guess the question is, where do we go from now, right? Because we have Caustic banned. Sure, you can put a Watson in there, something else, sure. But now that we've had Caustic and Newcastle banned...
01:23:36 You know, the bunker composition starts to fall apart a little bit. Do you want to play Gibraltar Rampart? Like, you can. That does allow you to set up in situations sometimes, but it's definitely nowhere near as versatile as what we saw with Newcastle.
01:23:53 Ja, ich würde sagen, dass zumindest Rampart ist. Aber wie du gesagt hast, ist es ein Thema, was du mit ihr mit ihr. Aber YeeQ hat sich in den Lobbien so weit gefühlt. Anik hat sich wirklich gut gemacht. Und über den Kursen von zwei Jahren, YeeQ hat 3.4k damage.
01:24:11 Das ist fantastisch. 76% killparticipation für die Team und ist, of course, leading die Lobby in kills, tied mit Naskin, interestingly enough. So, Onik und Trojan haben at least that much in common. As of right now, the kills that have kept them going have gotten them a...
Qualifikationsrennen und Team-Performance
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01:24:30 Really far distance, especially when we consider game one, the fact that it was second place with a lot of kills that kept them in the lead. Now, however, that lead is starting to expand as they take the win in our second game and have seven points over NVMI, the squad in second place. Yeah, now look, Onik, you know, very much qualified for both LAN and the regional finals at this point, but not everyone is right now, Dia. So what we've got here is if it ended as...
01:24:59 with the results as they are right now. This was who would be qualifying for regional finals. This is our top 20. And as you can see, it is so close, right? Now...
01:25:12 Killer Whales, they have already played a full series, okay? So they are on 50 points, and it feels like they're going to be sort of the barometer by which teams go up and down and maybe sort of squeak into our top 20 here. On Dogs right now have just done enough to get there, but there's teams below them, like VCGO, who are currently on 48 points. All they would need to do...
01:25:39 is move up into their 13th right now. If they were 9th or higher, all of a sudden, they'd push one of these other teams out. But as you can see, it really is all those teams on the bubble. So CyberCats, sorry, not CyberCats, Pot, SJP2.
01:25:55 On Dogs and VCGO. Those are sort of the four teams that are playing and will probably move around and maybe be able to kick Killer Whales out. Maybe Killer Whales just sneak through into our regional finals next week. I mean, especially because...
01:26:12 The graphic that we just showed was based on their positioning right now. Say Trojan, they could end a little bit higher, but they could also end significantly lower. Like we said, Trojan realistically are qualifying for regional finals. The same thing can be said of that on the bubble team, like you talked about, teams like on Dogs, where they're positioning right now in fifth place overall at the moment. We've played two games. They're fifth place over the course of those two games. If they drop from that,
01:26:40 Suddenly they have less than 50 points, and that starts to get really awkward in terms of who's able to overtake them, how many points other teams are soaking up. Ondogs need to stay at this level or higher in order to feel, and I hesitate to even call it safe, in order to feel relevant. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So it's kind of a top five for them and then for some of those other teams who had slightly more points to start with.
01:27:08 Yeah, they can afford a few more positions, but it's really that 50-point cutoff, I think, that I'm kind of going to be looking about because so many teams just seem to be clustered around that spot right at the moment.
01:27:22 As of right now, Roadhouse do currently lead over OnDogs, but a couple of other teams that do need to perform today. We talked about OnDogs, Nameless, Vortex, SLR also need to place extraordinarily high in order to secure their regional final spot. And then we've got teams like Take Flight, Legion, and Test Region. Test Region, an interesting exception since...
01:27:46 Mathematically, they cannot qual for Regional Finals. This is more of a preparation day for LCQ for them. Obviously, a lot of these teams, Regional Finals is the first step.
01:27:59 But, you know, to qualify for Sapporo for a lot of them, they do actually need to then win Regional Finals, which of course will be a big ask when you've got, you know, teams like Alliance who we're not seeing today there trying to snatch that away from you. And that's going to be a tough ask for anybody in the world, let alone the other best teams in the EMEA region.
01:28:21 We didn't talk about this in the pre-show, right? But as of right now, there are two teams from EMEA going to Champs. Barring anything else happening. Regional Finals, having a wild winner out of nowhere. As of this very moment, that's what's happening. We would need to expand a few more slots. We would need to have some Regional Finals.
01:28:47 Ja, ich meine...
01:29:10 I've gone through a lot of these scenarios. We've had, you know, people like Zephyr in the background, you know, running some Monte Carlo simulations. A lot of really nerdy stuff as we do finally get into our game three here. And it heads up towards north where on dogs, I believe, do they not have? Hard to see. They do?
01:29:32 Epicenter? Okay, yeah, he's just hovering over it right now. Okay, so they do have the ring console over there, so hopefully they get that information and start making their move really soon. But yeah, just to finish that point off, Dia, they... What was I talking about? It was something about chance qualification points.
01:29:51 Es war die Monte-Carlos und... Ja, so ich denke, ich denke, die wahrscheinlichste Scenario ist, dass wir 28 bis 30 Slots haben. Ich denke, dass es ein oder zwei Teams gibt, wie Soten oder Unlimited von Abaknorth, glaube ich, die Chance haben, um, zu gewinnen, um, das Top 32 zu gewinnen, um, das Top 32 zu gewinnen, um, als Chance Point zu haben.
01:30:15 Champs points go. And I think we'll probably have say four to six slots open up and be available to our competitors here.
01:30:25 Das wäre ein wirklich tolles Boon für, also für die Teams in EMEA jetzt. Und für Cybercats, die sehr gut helfen können. Sie haben die Empyre aus der Skyhook West geöffnet. Die Empyre sind jetzt ein Mitglied, wo Take Flight, die auf die Richtung nach dem Monument, auf der Moment sind, passen bei dieser Test Region Navi-Fight.
01:30:48 A constant in World's Edge, something that I'm sure Test Region is looking forward to getting away from on their next game on Stormpoint. Na'Vi besieging them at the moment seem to have found a way into the building. Now it's time to see what they can do with it. Will Na'Vi overstep and be taken down by Test Region? Raka has the drone ready to go. We can see Drill starting to come through. We've even got the ball ready to go, and if they found some...
01:31:15 A couple of Ultimate Excels on there. Must have been a very quick looting pass to get over here and take this fight to test region immediately. But certainly Navi are looking for this fight. I mean, even just the composition. Nagi? Pathfinder? Crypto? They want the kills.
01:31:35 In fact, they're playing a little more quietly right now. Still moving around, so you know Testration are getting plenty of information on this and apparently getting kills while all this happens as well. Watson keeping the team extremely safe. Have Navi twiddling their thumbs on the low ground while Testration, they've got a space to play.
01:32:00 A bit of a gander up towards Epicenter here, where you can see teams are congregating further towards the north side of it. Nasky adding to his kill total. He is just racking them up today. He was obviously enjoying his little run, you know, being more of a fragger when he was on what is now the Nova Gaia roster, and he's taken the reins back with IGL on this team, but it doesn't stop him.
01:32:29 Putting his name on the leader bullets apparently. SJP2 on the way in. Uchako trying to disengage with the Pathfinder as Hiyarka heads for the hills with Crypto. Will have the drone back momentarily. Try and survive. Maybe go invisible as SJP2 finish off the kills. Taking out Slab. Again, recoverable with the Crypto and with a couple crafters. But Navi and...
01:32:55 Und ich werde sagen, TestRegion, die Loser zu diesem Platz sind, mit Navi zu bewegen, so aggressiv zu machen. Das ist die perfekte Zeit für SJP2 zu kommen, und den Bildung, und ein FÜKP.
01:33:12 Sounds so quiet every now and then, you know like I love it when they just let the observers pan to a spot where there's actually nothing going on You just get to enjoy the ambience of world's edge for her for a few quiet seconds before we go back to non-stop action What what's the word you used earlier that was equanimity? It meant peaceful like an equid in the equid equanimitus. I think we could use that. That's
01:33:40 Look, it's an ever-evolving language, dear. If you want that to be your contribution to the next version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, go right ahead. Yeah. We're all building English. Or whatever Frankenstein monster we're calling this. At this point, Trojan getting inducted. Bit of an awkward spot, but a very defensible one. And most importantly for Trojan,
01:34:10 One that is going to be in Zone for a very, very long time. And Annika right next door to them. Who would have guessed?
01:34:18 Man, I feel like we haven't seen like a full Survey Camp Zone in quite a while where, you know, the teams are actually sitting in the Survey Buildings themselves until, you know, Zone 5 or 6. That's what the teams are reading it as right now. And certainly it's not high enough to be over the tracks where you often see, you know, what you'd call more of like a Climatized Zone or like the North Respawn Beacon Zone. So it will be fascinating to see if that happens or if we get...
01:34:47 für die 84th Zeit in der Split, eine weitere Pullback.
01:34:51 SJP-2 haben eine nice Rotate mit der Wraith, das bringt sie direkt in dieser building. Ich sehe, es cutt aus Trojan, als sie versucht, die building zu nehmen. So, unfortunately, haben sie verloren ein paar. Trojan ist nicht der einzige Squad. Nameless sind die Aggressiv auf Empyre, die wir wissen, ist ein Duell von früher, ohnehin zu recover, nach dem Cybercats' Kampf. Und, though Nameless do nicht zu heal, Heffin just needs to survive. Should be able zu tun.
01:35:20 Ja, das ist ein fairer distance. Und dann haben wir Teams wie Brodhaus und Pott auf den anderen Seite.
01:35:45 Shyheart does chuck the pylon out. Gets the finish. Is that enough for the teams to disengage? No, it looks like they are locked in Mortal Kombat. Oh yeah. Eva, right in the back, is exactly what Citadel ordered. We're going to get an easy finish on this Wraith, but still one that is very much possible. Unfortunately, when you start placing a portal, you can't run very far.
01:36:15 Citadel Gaming do manage to finish off the majority and indeed all of the kills on SLR as they do go down, leaving Citadel alone on the east side of the ring. Overlook completely theirs at Harvester, belonging to both Navi and NVMI.
01:36:37 Another fight very far away from the ring. NVMI, with that excellent performance in game number one here, aren't going to be able to find their position early on in game three. It's going to be a harder route this time, and nine impulses making it harder yet again by going down early here.
01:37:00 Der Arca ist stinger-Bolt, aber nicht tatsächlich besiegt. Finally, der Frag von Impulse nimmt ihn aus. So Nvmi ist der Weg zurück in diesem Kampf, besonders mit der Rez zu Impulse. Uchako ist gerade unter Kazak, der sich vorhin auf den Sparrow zu spielen, auch mit dem Mobilität. As Hardeki und Impulse sind jetzt jetzt re-re-joining den Engagement, um ihn ein bisschen zurückzuziehen. Kazak ist jetzt ein bisschen zurückzuziehen. Kazak ist jetzt ein Pump.
01:37:27 Das ist ein bisschen zu lange. Es ist ein bisschen zu lange. Es ist ein bisschen zu nerve-racking für Kazak, der in 1v2 ist, und wird endlich getrennt. Im Pulse running, um ihn zu retten. Will sie machen es in Zeit? Kazak hat es geschafft. Das ist ein volles Thirst. Aber es ist ein 2v2, und die Health Advantage belongs zu NVMI. Aber sie sind wirklich nicht sicher, ob sie will das. Navi will eventually fall, und NVMI Rekover.
01:37:54 Incredible stuff by NVMI there. I mean, they were split that entire fight. Na'vi were a unit, an NVMI, going up against almost the sort of Shadow version of themselves with their name. You know, they were on all three sides. Three different sides of Harvester seemingly couldn't get caught back up through the Void Nexus. And even that Stinger Bolt by Kazak, you know, pre-patch.
01:38:21 Das würde absolut schreden die Opposition-Team, aber da all es tut ist, ist ihn zu stunden. Aber luckily, seine Team-Mates kommen in Zeit, um ihn zu retten.
01:38:30 Nameless make their hold. This is up against Cybercats on the north side. Cybercats haven't moved very far, I will say. They more or less spawned in Skyhook and then went, well, I guess we'll just hold out other teams that want to rotate through Skyhook, and it seems to be working well enough for them. Nameless are forced to take an Evac Tower.
01:38:53 Und wir gehen über CyberCats und sehen uns für die Zentren der Zone. Es gibt ein paar Lootpills, die Nameless werden jetzt spielen. Das soll ihnen eine Temporary-Safety geben geben. Das ist nicht geholfen für Teams wie NBMI. Rotatieren in Empire Gaming.
01:39:11 Well, Envy am I finding yet another fight on the edge of the circle here, and this time it's not gonna go their way. A little bit too much to ask to get by Empire in this one, and even Roadhouse getting some knocks from very far away, but now we switch over to Citadel versus Punk.
01:39:31 Doesn't seem to be going too well for Pot, but Citadel 1 HP on the other side of this has it very iffy themselves. Reload on the Peacekeeper still necessary. Zuni trying to heal up, but he gets finished up by another squad entirely, Legion Gaming, who start making their way up through the outside of Epicenter. Now look for the finish on Pot themselves, but Rez has gone through. Into the altar portal they go.
01:39:56 Calamity goes right into the Watson fences and is lucky to get out of there alive. Can Legion take the duo? Oirain really wants to keep that from happening. Peacekeeper shot right to the face of Sampe. Does force him back and Watson fences and Generator doing a lot.
01:40:15 Oiren steps out a bit too far. Legion back off, though. I think Potter's staying alive. Wow. Feels like Nameless is looking to come in and maybe have something to say about that. Prestes goes down first, though. Taskmaster needs to finish this often.
01:40:38 Er hat auch den Gutsch, aber... Oh mein Gott, es ist so viele Teams, die Eppicenter zu sehen, dass das Fight einfach weitergeht. Es geht weiter und weiter und weiter. Der Faktor hat Empires Show-Up lacht zu der Fight, ist wahrscheinlich die einzige Sache, die Spott aus dem Lobby macht, denn sie waren wirklich gut als Duell. Roadhouse ist in Schambles, auf der Lowgrounds. Sie haben Lufka, aber...
01:41:03 Recoverable absolutely, especially with this relatively safe Void Nexus. Still do need to defend though, and that's all up to Blasts. We talked about the anchor position yesterday. Blasts needs to do that for his squad. Take as much space as possible and keep Roadhouse in the conversation for who is the last squad standing in Epicenter. Cybercats fall. Blasts does exactly that, keeping the squad safe, and now gets to pull off the res and hopefully get Luka back into the game.
01:41:31 I thought there were way too many targets there. But somehow Blast actually finishes that one off. It's too much though. Another team comes in. This time it is Legion Gaming by the look of it. So Roadhouse do try and take their Void Nexus to get out of there. At least the one or two of them that were still not in a death box. There we go. Roadhouse are going to be finally put out of their misery by Nameless.
01:41:57 Sad to see Roadhouse go down after the stunt they just pulled in the center, but somebody had to do it to them, and Nameless were the team. Legion now thinking about, much as they did earlier, do we drop down, do we try and finish this squad? What is the timing for Legion getting out of here? Because they can't stay forever. Eventually, Legion are going to have to leave the center of Epi, and it's going to be an awkward fight for them no matter what. Right now?
01:42:24 Taking out Nameless is one big piece of the puzzle they need to solve, but Ronin are still right underneath Legion. Well, kill Lita now here in match three. It's going to go over the way of Calamitous.
01:42:42 As we can see, the rings actually pulled quite far into Epicenter. Onnick had the best of those buildings, but as far as survey goes. Did you see that Empire, after finishing off NVMI, who came from Zone, after finishing off Pot on a third party, now have an amazing position in the ring?
01:43:04 Trojan, unfortunately, won't live to see it, but these stalactites are going to provide... stalagmites? Doesn't matter. They're going to provide a lot of cover to Empire. Thank you. Stalagmite, hold on tight. Stalagmite might poke you in the butt. Oh, it's handy. R.I.P. Roden.
01:43:27 Cotäse of TenaciousGee, by the way. SJP2 will fall and go next. Looking at Ondogs right now, a squad that needs to hold on to their 5th place position to have a shot at regional finals. As go next, aren't even worried about 5th place, they're worried about 1st in the region, if they're able to have a good match day today. Empire seem to have mispositioned themselves a little bit in terms of the cover, no Newcastle really hurting them this game.
01:43:56 Und dann geht es weiter, um An-Dogs zu gewinnen und gewinnen!
01:44:13 Das ist auch der Grund, warum ein Team wie GoNext ist so weit entfernt. Onyck ist unser Nummer 1 Team in der Lobby. Ich will es hören und sehen, ob sie können in dieser Kampf gewinnen und zurückkehren.
01:44:41 Ich habe zwei Axel. Ich setze auf Zidane. Ich setze auf Zidane. Ich setze auf Zidane. Ich setze auf Zidane. Ich setze auf Zidane.
01:45:11 Ich kann nicht frisch sprechen, aber ich verstehe, wenn Anik gewinnen wie das, ihre Confidence, ihre Kandor in diesen Fights.
01:45:37 And their position now has made taking Legion out so simple. Zidane on high ground has plenty of safety with the phase, but Onik and Take Flight both are playing very small quarters, knowing that there is one last squad in here. There they go. VC go. Taken out. Onik needs to take space right now, and you know that means they're sending their wraith forward. Zidane.
01:46:04 Der Frager für den Squad ist erhöhnt für eine Alternative Angle, nicht eine Kidnappe, sondern ein Platz, das sagt, hey, look at me, do not look at my team. Out goes the Ant cover, aber das Alternative Angle von Zidane nimmt Pablo, der erste Nail in den Coffin für Take Flight. YQ-Swings, aber jetzt braucht ein bisschen von Zidane zu stabilisieren. Pablo ist nicht fertig, es 2v2.
01:46:30 Das war so risky! Ich meine, die Wraith könnte haben...
01:46:47 Oh mein Gott, er hat das schon wieder in der Öffnung. Es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist, es ist
01:47:08 Oh mein Gott!
01:47:25 Zajan schubs on in, plays safe, plays close range now, peeks with the Peacekeeper, and just holds hands with his team and swings, Take Flight are down one, Take Flight are down two, and Take Flight are taken down by...
01:47:45 Für die 3rd game in a row, Onyx finish in the top 2. That's 2 matches in a row that they've won, almost 3. I mean, they weren't really that close to winning the first match, but it doesn't matter because they are just so far on top of this lobby right now. That was just like an almost perfect World's Edge from Onyx. It was. Was that even their first? I don't think it was their first pick. I'm going to...
01:48:14 Let's double check. But before I check that, let's take a look at how many points they were able to gather across this match and then across World's Edge. I think they had 20 and 21 as far as picks go. So it's kind of much of a muchness. Yeah, you're right. You're right. It didn't really. Yeah, picking staging first. So technically this was their map of choice if we had to go with it. But the fact that that means they get...
01:48:44 Das ist wirklich ein High Priority, relativisch, auf etwas an Storm Points. Das ist eigentlich ziemlich telling. Ich bin sehr curious, wie das für sie funktioniert. 22 Punkte gathered in der course of this game. Take Flight, however, ist gerade hinter ihnen. Ich möchte auch sagen, das war ein tolles Spiel von Take Flight. Sie waren sehr active, sie haben viele Kills auf der Weg in. Sie haben viel damage gemacht, als auch. Und, given die Fakt, dass sie von der gleichen Seite als Empire waren, die auf einem Rampage durch den ganzen Souten von World's Edge waren.
01:49:13 Take Flight really come out on top, at least in this game. And for their World's Edge performance overall, it is not a bad look. Onik, of course, the dominant force in this lobby, 26 points over anyone else, specifically over NBMI. And then when we look a little bit further down, Take Flight managed to come up big in this game, bringing themselves into the top five conversation. So Glitter, this is looking a little bit better for Take Flight as a team that still needs to secure their spot in the regional finals today.
01:49:43 Um, yeah. There was a second there where I was like, is this the moment that Take Flight gets redemption against Anik from the last match? But Zidane was a force to be reckoned with. I mean, using the Wraith for the off angles, able to be so annoying. The fact that both of those teams were able to get a res before they went back into a re-engage shoe was completely crazy to me. I didn't think that they were going to be able to do that. I mean...
01:50:11 That was a very fun final 3v3 fight, a very protracted fight as well. I mean, that went on for a lot longer than I thought it was going to. Anik just look so unstoppable right now. And I had mentioned at the beginning of the show, you know, with teams like Alliance out of the equation, does that open up the door for these teams to start getting some points on the board? But when you've got another point sponge in Anik, it's making it that much harder. I mean, this is...
01:50:37 This is exactly why, like you had mentioned earlier, Genomonic is one of those teams that has already found themselves a guaranteed spot for regional finals.
01:50:45 Yeah, they're just looking so strong right now. And I guess if we're looking at some of those other teams, like Take Flight, who actually need a gigantic day to make it into that top 20, like Onik have almost put first beyond doubt. Not quite, but, you know, it only will take some middling performances for them to wrap it all up after a 60-point World's Edge. So all of a sudden, it's getting a little bit harder for a couple of teams like Take Flight, who really want, you know, a Hail Mary performance.
APAC North Match Days 8 und 9: Caustic's Überraschende Verfügbarkeit und Fnatic's Triumph
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01:51:15 um to get into that sort of 50 plus point range yeah just to talk about their composition a little bit real quick remember that we had the new castle band and we were like oh onyx has been playing this new castle rampart what are they going to do they completely abandoned it like this was a totally different composition from a squad that still looked dominant they went crypto wraith watson totally different from the rampart new castle that they were playing earlier it's a great point too it's a great point it just also you know really shows
01:51:43 It illustrates their versatility. So that was a very fun World's Edge section of the day. Obviously, we still have our Storm Point matches yet to go. But before we get into that, we need to fill everybody in at home on what you might have missed over the last couple days, because in the last couple days, an entire region finished their regular season. So let's do a quick check-in with exactly what happened. First, talk me through Match Day 8 here, Gino.
01:52:10 It was another very fun day over in APAC North. And as I mentioned previously on the broadcast, the weirdest thing about this day was that Caustic was available the entire series. Did not get banned out. Just absolutely wild result. The only time previously the latest he's been banned is match two. So for him to get through six is crazy. This was another crazy moment where we saw Yulari Man almost pull off a...
01:52:40 1v3, um, after he gets Momon down here, it's, like, we're in a 1v1v1 at this point in time, uh, and I was honestly just being like, oh yeah, he's gonna win this, like, he's actually got this, and then all of a sudden, Tyder pulls out the Kramer headshot, uh, to even things up, gets the full reset, uh, and is able to, uh, take out the win against Pannota, uh, I believe, um, but either way, uh, Yelari man had an incredible performance.
01:53:09 After this game, he was on 33 kills. By the way, we're getting a mid-fight res here with the tie members dropping right in and then Riddle Order only just clutched out against them. But, you know, for two full resets to come off the back of that, for Ylari Man to win it, it was a crazy game. It was Unlimit who took out the day, of course, with Ylari Man leading them with 33 kills. He needed two.
01:53:38 Two kills to get the kill record, which would have only stood for one week after Asia got it last week in Apex Out. And he ended up with zero in game six. And so, unfortunately, just missed out on holding that record for himself. Dang. Dang. What a day. What a day. But of course, it was another double header as well. So not only did they wrap up match day eight, but then...
01:54:02 We went straight into Match Day 9 the next day. And the story of Match Day 9 overall was, of course, Fnatic. They were able to win the series just by three points over Soten in second place with a first, second and third place to go along with it. But some standout moments here was that Match 2 that you saw where No About Me was able to get a win. And that was a team that had a strong final day of competition, landing at fifth overall. However, much like Cat Jam on the previous day,
01:54:32 Es war nicht genug, um sie durch die Region Finale zu bringen, mit der Resultat der 23. Und dann in der Riedel-Order, hier in der Nummer 5, das ist auch die gleiche match, die sie in der Nummer 8 gewonnen haben, so vielleicht 5 ist der Glück, ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht. Aber nach Placements 6th und 10th, auf Days 8 und 9, das bedeutet, dass sie in der Mitte der Pack sind.
01:54:56 10th overall on the Leaderboard heading into Regional Finals. So the fact that we were able to close out this region now gives us our top 20 that will be competing in Regional Finals, Diya. Really looking forward to the Regional Finals here and I want to note as well that
01:55:19 Given that we can still shake these positions up among the top 20 with the additional points from regional finals, Black Sheeps are a team to really keep your eye on. Right now in terms of chance points globally, they are...
01:55:31 We'll see. I love it. I love it.
01:55:55 It's going to be a very fun event once we finally make our way to Japan. And everybody at home, don't forget that that, of course, is happening. ALGS is back in Sapporo. So if you missed it earlier, we want to give you all a little bit more information on where you can get your tickets if you want to go, because it's going to be an epic event. Ticket sales will be live next week on our ticketing partners site, Zyko, on October 11th at 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET, or 5 p.m. JST during our first regional final of Split 2. Of course, you can find more information.
01:56:24 We hope to see you there. It's going to be a very fun event. But if you're wondering
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01:59:24 Yeah. Like with Powell toothpaste? It was, there was shampoo. It's a whole thing. You're just going to have to sign up, join us, hang out, you know, bring you back some soap. If you need it. Let's take a look at what we've got coming up around.
EMEA-Analyse: Ungewöhnliche POI-Exklusionen und Strategische Team-Platzierungen
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01:59:39 Ja, ich meine, das, in EMEA speziell, ist eine große Exklusion von Northern Zones. Wir wirklich nicht sehen, wie Lightning Rod and Zeus Station.
02:00:04 The fact that we aren't seeing really anything in Black Sans or North Path as well is very, very strange. Cito has been largely excluded, which puts a lot of emphasis on things and POIs like Barometer, like Mill, Millage, and even some Stormcatcher. But when we're looking at this, like yesterday, we saw Gaia really prioritize playing over by Barometer because of how powerful it is. VC Go are playing there today, Roadhouse are playing out by Millage, and Na'Vi are playing...
02:00:34 So, there is a lot of potential for those teams, including SLR and perhaps even Ronin, to get some crazy good placement points. It'll be very interesting to see how that works out, especially with Onik operating out of Forbidden Zone, another quick rotating area.
02:00:50 I love it. I love it, Dia. Thank you so much for your analysis. For now, we're going to give you a little bit of a break. I'm going to steal Genome from you, and we are going to dive into match number four, kicking things off here on StormPoint, obviously starting with our back-to-back winners in Onyx right now, Genome. Will they find the same success here on StormPoint? You guys were talking about, you know, did their draft positions matter at all?
02:01:12 kind of back-to-back here. So I think it's just, they're just good enough. It didn't really matter. Yeah, well, it just means that oftentimes you're like, oh, they got such a good POI on this map that the other one's going to be terrible and we expect nothing of them. But it's not quite the case when you get the 2021 picks where it's obviously a little more even. Now they've gone for Jurassic here, which I find to be interesting because especially in the context of what we just saw Glitter, which was that
02:01:42 We have had a lot of zones that have ended around here. And, you know, obviously everyone is picking Tridents first on Stormpoint. That's your number one priority. But after that, you start to wonder about some other things. And I think certainly where these zones have been ending, and lo and behold, we've got another sort of Devo slash Launchpad zone. And all of a sudden, they do have a chance to be pulling up around there. And not only that, I mean, they've got...
02:02:09 Potentially three Evo halves on the way. They've got one within their POI, another one just above them at River Entrance, and another one on the way to Launchpad. So this gives them so many options in terms of where they want to rotate through and how. It looks like they're actually going to forego at least one or two of those by taking the Balloon past Citadel in Pylon right now.
02:02:35 This is kind of what you were alluding to after you were wrapping up the last match with Dia as well. Anik has kind of gotten themselves to the point where they have had such a strong performance the first three matches that they can have some middling performances in the last three and still be quite comfortable. They've already solidified their spot in regional finals so they know that they're in for another competition day. They can kind of play this as aggressively as they want to and there won't be too many repercussions.
02:03:04 Ja, genau. Once die Pressure ist auf Onnich, all of a sudden, vielleicht werden sie sogar noch mehr gefährlich. Es ist schwer zu sagen, ist es? Aber sie kommen in die Gebäude, und man kann das nicht erwähnen.
02:03:24 A pretty hot topic. I would absolutely be expecting other people to come in here and try to slam that building and take it away from them because in these kind of zones it is very sought after.
02:03:38 They've set themselves up well for now. They definitely know that obviously quite a few teams made their way in early as well. You've got Ondogs, VCGS, you've got Cybercats over there, Navis over there. So people have already claimed some space over in that Devastated Coast area. But now we're getting an opportunity to see one of the other teams that's on the edge of the next ring. You've got Citadel down here with Trojan, potentially finding themselves in a little bit of a scuffle.
02:04:10 Just waiting to see if there is enough damage, an initial knock, something to get these guys going at it fully fledged, but it looks like the fight over at Seago Station is happening a little more in earnest as Roadhouse actually gets the first knock onto Aimbot.
02:04:32 I've been waiting for Roadhouse to kind of pick it up a little bit here and show us the aggression that we know that they're very capable of Looks like they might be realizing that they've got to start kind of doing exactly that Nameless having now backed off Roadhouse claiming that space for at least a short while
02:04:52 Yeah, with Kainer being full kill, looks like Natsuki and Nono are going to make their way out here. Well, depends if they can get past Remix powers. I mean, as you were saying, with a shield difference at the start of the fight, it can be really tough.
02:05:21 Um, to make that up. And sometimes you want to force a bit of more of a poke battle so you can get your blues up first. But if the other team doesn't let you do that, just as soon he picks the spot. I don't know, he's been playing the, I don't know, magic eye puzzles or something. He can, he can see through the cloak.
02:05:42 Will Trojan be able to recover? We'll have to wait and see what Nonno can do as he is able to escape and Citadel now own Pylon, which will at least give them, give Citadel Gaming a little bit of breathing room. Meanwhile, Nonno trying to rotate out west towards Barrow and see if maybe there's an opportunity to get the team back in the game.
Match 4: Rampart Ban, Catalyst Uprising und Roadhouse's Dominanz
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02:06:10 Ja, und das war... Oh, go ahead. Oh, ich denke, es ist etwas ganz interessant, was wir sehen hier für den ersten Mal seit Match Day 5, Glitter, ist, dass wir eine Rampart banne sind. Und das heißt, drei aus den vier Controller Legends werden nicht mehr unabhängen. Und wir werden eigentlich sehen, dass eine große uptick in Catalyst ist. Literally, du hast mein Geist. Du hast mein Geist. Du hast mein Geist. Du hast mein Geist. Du hast mein Geist. Du hast mein Geist.
02:06:39 I think people were potentially thinking, where are we going to get some Gibby now that the cars are in play? Or is that just no longer where we're going with our squads? And Rampart has just been the buy-in far favorite for match number four here. And so that will very much change, like you're saying, once the majority of those controller legends are no longer available, what we're seeing out of some of these squads. Meanwhile, the rotations here are getting a little bit dicey.
02:07:03 Citadel Gaming looking to see if they can maybe do some more damage. They've got a couple teams around them now down there at Pylon. So we'll have to see what they're able to kind of eek out there as Roadhouse are looking to get a little spicy.
02:07:19 Taking out Go Next. Now, we were talking about Go Next having a chance to actually usurp Alliance at the top of the leaderboards. Of course, nothing will be finalized until the end of the regional finals next week. But a good performance, I think it's maybe like top three, something like that, will be enough to actually push Go Next into the first position. But currently, they're sitting off the pace.
02:07:44 Definitely a slower day for them to be sure. So maybe we'll have to see if they can bring it back in the last couple matches as we get to take a look at our ring as it is continuing to shift south towards Devastated Coast. And all those teams that got in there nice and early are going to be well set up and hopefully able to kind of fend off the rest of those teams. But also that means that because they were there so early.
02:08:12 Where have they managed to get their shields to? Are they able to do that poke damage? You know, are they able to have enough time to get enough loot, having moved in as early as it did? Only time will tell as Ronin is now trying to make their push through with SLR being in the way.
02:08:34 This is up, of course, towards Launchpad here. A couple of the teams who probably don't have the beacon scans aren't sure if, you know, perhaps the ring will come back towards them. They are unaware that it's going to continue pulling south towards teams like VCGO, Cybercats, even perhaps Onik in that building outside of Launchpad, putting themselves in a good spot. Defensive bombardment coming down. CJ's got to move. He can't stand in the middle of that.
02:09:08 Ronan's still trying to figure out how exactly they're going to be handling this fight with SLR. The altar allowing them a little bit of freedom of movement here so that they can get a safer position, but the ring is...
02:09:22 Yeah, they probably don't have a
02:09:45 Ich glaube nicht, dass sie auf die Armour sind. Ich denke, dass das ein bisschen zu gefährlich ist. Aber sie werden auch ein Problem finden, ein Thorn in der Seite von Ronin und SLR. Es hat sich auch SLR gedacht, dass sie vielleicht den Approach von Ronin mit dem Defensive Bombardment haben. Ich bin nicht sicher, dass sie die Altar hatten und sie können einfach unter den Zonen gehen, wo jetzt die Rolls sind und Ronin halten SLR.
02:10:12 Ich denke, das ist ein sehr starkes Spiel an behalf von Ronan hier. Das wird ihnen eine Chance geben, um zu bekommen zu bekommen. KryptoAmp hat sich durch und sieht Nate, die Arbeit mit der Magie zu tun. Das ist genau das. Und Ronan ist einfach so, dass. Und Ronan ist einfach so, dass. Und Ronan ist einfach so, dass. Und Ronan ist einfach so, dass. Oh mein Gott!
02:10:34 A wild triton bubble appears, and Navi are in here. They don't want any of these KP to go missing. They are going to chase down as much of it as they can, but have they gone too far? They're in the zone right now, and one, two, three members of Onik are on the attack. They've come all the way around. They've left that building to Roadhouse, and they are actually looking to do to Navi what they've done to Rodan. This is what we're talking about, though.
02:11:03 Und jetzt ist es die Vorteile, die Anik anzunehmen.
02:11:31 Well, the Halo 4 Navi of Angel appears, and it allows them to stabilise for just a little bit against that EMP and Onslaught that was coming out of Onik, but now with the Amped cover set up, they will be deleted from Game 4.
02:11:51 Dang, Anik. Navi thought they were good with their third-party push, and Anik said, not today. We want some more KP. But at the end of the day, that means that no one was chasing Ronin down. So I'm assuming that Ronin got out scot-free. They are. Somewhere in the zone. You can just see them peeking out towards the bottom of the map, out towards Coastal.
02:12:19 um, camp, where they have just reset and now will be coming back in towards Onik, uh, who may have gotten even more KP than they bargained for by taking and winning that fight at Echo. Oh, that's gonna be real spooky scary for Ronan to come back in and have it be Onik in this time lying in wait. They do a lot of damage to EQ though, so now Onik finding himself a little bit in back foot, but you can see how much damage Ronan's already had to take having to come in from, from the ring and Ronan are...
02:12:48 ...eventually eliminated. Onik getting a 2-for-1 special in that corner. It is insane that they've done that. No one's even come to look at them. I mean, think about how many third parties there were before Onik were able to take that spot. Either way, we'll switch our focus to some other parts of the map now. We can see Oyerain is just barely getting in here, but Ondogs have pinged him out. I think they're very much aware of his positioning here. And unless he can...
02:13:16 Find some really good void passages. I don't know if he's going to be able to survive here. You know, Pot's been fighting here for a while and this was definitely a tough spot for them to be in. Nice little rock cover that Oirem was able to find to keep him alive for just a few moments longer. But I don't know how helpful that's going to be able to disengage, potentially come back and just kind of play a little bit of a...
02:13:41 Undogs ist jetzt noch nicht in Ordnung.
02:13:55 Ja, well, he's way up in the north now, all by himself. And there's a lot of teams stuck up there with him. We've got SJP2, Legion, Nameless Trojan, and Citadel, who are unlikely to find a home in the next zone. So most of them really just need to start looking at each other and either thin out the herd right now or make a desperate attempt to find a place in Zone 5.
02:14:22 Genome, ich weiß nicht, ob du das auf der Minimap ist, aber erzähl mir, wie Onyck left ihre Position, dass Roadhouse genommen hat, und dann wieder zurückgekehrt, und dann haben sie einen guten Platz in der nächsten Reihe. Ich meine, sie sind unstoppable. Meanwhile, Legion Gaming endlich findet die Kampf, und sie sind eliminiert, in den Händen von Trojan. Nasky, nur auf der hohen Garten, auf der hohen Garten. Will sie sein, dass sie eine Reset-Awaren nehmen und versuchen, diese Möglichkeit zu nehmen?
02:14:50 Das wird ein interessanter Punkt sein, aber Pod hat überlebt! Oirene hat überlebt! Ja, nicht nur überlebt, aber überlebt! Sie haben eigentlich, sie haben ihren Weg zu dem Gravity Cannon. Sie sehen, Taskmaster hat er versucht, mit den Iron Sights zu tun. Sie haben ihn nicht gefunden, aber es war On-Dogs, die ihn auf Blast, als er versucht, ihn aus dem East, und es ist noch On-Dogs auf dem Back.
02:15:18 um, um, they're trying to get some KP in front of them right now, but Ondogs are about to peek over, and yeah, there we go. Trix does get the knock on to Prestes, and I'd be surprised if they survive any further. But what's crazy, though, is that they survived long enough that three other teams were eliminated. I just talked about Onik having moved into a strong position while Roadhouse decided they wanted to take it. Onik do finally go down, and Roadhouse have taken their spot. However, Nameless, out.
02:15:47 Und Pot ist still alive. So, das hat sie gewonnen, Placement Points zu haben, und es wurde wertet, über die Bord.
02:15:55 Okay, Rez number two? Let's go. I want to see it. Surely there's enough teams around that they might actually get held up. Hopefully Ondogs and Empire look at each other. Meanwhile, Citadel trying to take out Roadhouse, but they say no, sir. Roadhouse. And they will get them after. I mean, it must be said, by the way, Roadhouse have taken positions away from Onik twice in this game. They are obsessed with them.
02:16:25 To the point of actually knocking them out of match four. I mean, Roadhouse needed that too. I think that was a momentum builder that Roadhouse definitely needed. Now we're getting to see what Ondogs is going to be doing here. They are in the vicinity of Empire Gaming, like you were mentioning earlier. A duo of pots still alive. They've managed to survive the chaos in the north that's been happening up here. So now it's really down to Ondogs and Empire to kind of take each other out. They have been in a staring contest for the last minute.
02:16:57 Und, oh mein Gott, das ist okay. All right, wir sind zurück. Pot ist zurück. Round 3. They are officially the cockroaches of this game. They cannot be killed. Meanwhile, Ondogs haben so viel damage von Empire. They're down to just a solo, while Empire are quite healthy. Manage your survival. Pot is back up to a trio. This is massive, and the solo tried to go where Pot is on.
02:17:30 Naah, fam. How do they manage that? Oh, as you say, the cockroach is living underneath Empire and NVMI right now. Let's see if they can make it across. Roadhouse have got them pinged out. That rock is certainly not big enough. And finally, their run will come to an end. But hey, a top six is three placement points, and that's better than you would have expected.
02:17:56 Impressive nonetheless with what they were working with as the position that Roadhouse has taken off of Onik is paying in dividends right now. NVMI are eliminated as Cybercats are back and forth with VCGO. The Thermites are making things a little bit tough for these squads. The Cybercats are able to survive a little bit longer. VCGO do go out. Cybercats own the eastern side of this ring and Roadhouse know exactly where they are while Empire are up on the northern side.
02:18:26 Three teams are left alive. Only two of the Empire members have made it thus far. They're trying to get the res, I believe, but now two down. It's just up to the Rampart player.
02:18:45 Roadhouse is also the only team that also has a Gibby on top of the Rampart for the added cover here, which as these teams condense in a little bit further will be very, very useful. Empire Gaming does end up going out at the hands of Cybercats and Roadhouse and Cybercats are now in a 3v3 across from each other here for these final moments. Yeah, I mean, look, and Luca is about to get his third...
02:19:13 Ultimate back up, and once he's got three Stingerbolts, I just don't know if there's any way that Cybercats will be able to find safety, will be able to find any reprieve from the Sheila and Stingerbolt nonsense that is about to assail them. Not only that, but Blast is being so annoying with the Scout right now. Roadhouse is just waiting for Cybercats.
02:19:37 zu machen, dass sie so viel Dämmung haben, wie Sie sagten, dass es so viel Dämmung ist, wie Sie sagten, dass es so einfach ist. Beautiful shots into Cybercats. Alonzi geht es jetzt, und jetzt sind die letzten Shots hier aus den Händen von Roadhouse zu cleanen, um das Nummer 4 zu machen. Die Quacks kommen durch, die Gibby ist die extra Dämmung, die Added-Cover, die Final-Push ist großartig, und die P.K. closes out. Match Nummer 4.
02:20:04 Oh my, I didn't even mention the defensive bombardment. And that was the nail in the coffin there. 16 kills. Okay, Roadhouse. But this is what I'm talking about. They can be so aggressive and so good. And we were just kind of waiting for that pop-off moment from them. And, you know, they just wanted to do it when we went to Storm Fight.
02:20:32 Yeah, that's a stunning victory there from Roadhouse. And you've got to remember, you know, they played through the other strongest team in the lobby, as you said, the one who had nothing to lose. They had to push through Onik to get there. So it wasn't an easy road. It might have looked a little bit easy at the end, but kind of similarly to Game 1, you know, they'd done a lot of the work in the mid-game to open it up for themselves. Insane.
02:21:00 Insane match number four there for Roadhouse, almost 5,500 damage, 22 assists. I mean, like you said, a 28-point game here in match number four. That was the type of pop-off performance you love to see out of any of these teams when we're talking about the final regular season match day. And like, you know, you had mentioned earlier, also Rampart Band coming through. So no more Rampart Walls, no more Sheila. What does this mean?
02:21:29 Yeah, it means a lot of Catalyst, right? I think we only saw two teams picking up Catalyst in that game. Yeah, 10% pick ratio. So it's going to go up by a massive amount. I wouldn't even be surprised to see that get banned out next game. Or will it be something else that was already high up like the crypto, the altar perhaps? But of course, the fun part will be...
02:21:56 If we do get Crypto, sorry, Catalyst banned out this game. What does that mean, Glitter? That's a reset. We're back to Caustic, baby. How? How? It's only six matches, okay? Let's see what happens. I'm excited. I'm excited for that. It's going to be a really fun final two matches, but there's already only two matches left here in EMEA for match day number nine, so we'll be diving into those last two matches on the other side of this short break.
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ALGS EMEA: Aufstieg von Undogs, Strategische Team-Anpassungen und Spiel 5-Analyse
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02:25:16 All the cool kids are talking about it. And yeah, as you can see on dogs...
02:25:42 Es ist genug jetzt. Wir haben S.J.P. 2. Ein oder zwei Placementen ist es all das für sie zu haben. Die Team Take Flight haben sich umgekehrt, aber sie haben noch ein Vertical Leap. Sie müssen sie erreichen, wenn sie in die Top 20 machen wollen.
02:26:06 What I'm noticing now, as opposed to when we saw this graphic before, is that the 20th place slot is no longer 50 points, it's 49, which may not seem like a crazy change, but it's actually really helpful for squads that do have lower points. And I mean significantly lower points, especially for teams like...
02:26:30 SJP2, for example, who do just need a few points, this makes it that much easier. Undogs right now, however, at the cutoff, and absolutely the team to watch, Genome, because today and yesterday, with the win that they were able to find, seems to have been not only to come up, but at the perfect timing for Undogs. Mmm, yeah, they've really peaked towards the end of the season here, but...
02:26:55 Ich weiß nicht, ob der Peak ist 20, ich glaube, es ist ein langer Weg für sie zu machen. Obviamente, das ist ein bisschen ein stretch. Aber unsere Augen heute sind wirklich auf die Top 20 und auf die Region Finals zu machen. Eine Step-at-at-a-time, dude! Wenn etwas passieren kann auf Matchpoint, kann ich Sie, Geno sagen, dass, wenn wir in Region Finals sind, wenn Un-Dogs win...
02:27:21 I'm going to be messaging you, I told you so. Even if it's completely unwarranted and I could not have told you so. At this time, with our fifth match on the horizon, you and Glitter made mention of the fact that Rampart will be taken away. It's been a pretty big piece of Onyx's game plan with the exception of Game 3, so I'm excited to see how this affects the first place that they've held so dominantly until now.
02:27:44 Yeah, that's a really good point. Some teams, more than others, absolutely have been leaning on that pick, utilizing it well. They're drilled, right? Because they've been using it for 3, 4, 5 matches every series. Whereas other teams, you know, it is more of a late series pick. And certainly Catalyst is a team that I think it was only Na'Vi and I believe Test Region were running in Game 4. So they're going to be the ones.
02:28:13 um, you know, potentially, who have that more as, uh, a comfort pick for them. When I think about Na'Vi especially, I'm like, that's where they won their championship, Dia. No wonder they've got fun memories and, uh, are pulling back to that as a style that they know well. I-I know that this will make you smile, Junom.
02:28:33 Catalyst ist, in fact, die best-picked legend. Let's go! We are likely getting a return to Caustic in Game 6, given everything that we know about Pro League so far. And that'll be for Roadhouse, that'll be for everyone, as Roadhouse are winners of Game 5, or rather, Game 4.
02:28:57 Now are hoping to win game number five with a nice ring placement that should help them quite a bit if they're able to get the idea that the ring is actually coming to them. No ring console spawning at Millage, so they're gonna have to head out to Seto, where Trojan are coming from right now, to get an idea of where this ring is going.
02:29:15 Yeah, and sometimes you want to do that, but I think actually, Dia, because they have had, fortunately, an Evo Harvester spawn on top of them, and they see Trojan and now VC Geo, now Onyx come in, I don't think they'll even bother with the console. I think they will assume that the ring is on top of them and play straight for it now that they've got the blue armor.
02:29:39 Und Trojan, ich sehe, sind gerade für die gleiche spot, wie sie gestorben sind. Sie sind geöffnet. VcGo hat die Nutt-Buildung, die Trojan gespielt hat, während dieses Zones in der ersten ersten Spiel war.
02:29:54 Und jetzt werden wir einen anderen Platz finden. Es sieht aus wie Spider Caves ist der Call, aber Ronin hat bereits genommen. Also, wenn du ein Zoneteam bist, und du bist ein bisschen zu langsamer, wirst du fighten für ihn? Du kannst du es gehen? Jetzt müssen wir Spiders und Ronin fighten. Ein bisschen PVE, um zu spüren, um es zu spüren.
02:30:16 We love it when a Prowler gets involved every now and then, just sort of runs up and jumpscares you out of nowhere when you're running past Northbatten, having a fight in the trenches. Seems to be taking a while to kick off this fight though. I think it's not happening, to be honest. The answer that was found by Trojan was Catalyst Wallet, and after they Catwall and put up some defenses inside, I'm not saying that Ronin won't push it.
02:30:44 But I am saying that it would be a more Scrim-style decision. Is that the polite way to say it? That it's not the move? Yeah. Yes, it is. A Scrims decision. I mean, you know, we could call it a Navi decision if you want, given how they've been playing today. Whoa! Okay! He's just coming for people. Yeah, you know, they've been...
02:31:15 Shall we say, playing creatively so far today. And we saw that bite them in the last game. And if I'm honest, if I sat Hiarka down in front of me and I went, you know what you're doing. He'd look at me and he'd go, yeah, I know what I'm doing. Like, Na'Vi are qualified. They're having a bit of fun today. And while I don't think that that is completely separate from them trying hard. I know that they're trying hard and that they want to win. You can do a fair amount of limit testing in a pro league lobby when you're sure that you're going on to regional finals.
02:31:44 That is true, but I think you also should never doubt seeding going into LAN and all that sort of stuff, right? Your map picks can make a huge difference. If you are one pick less and all of a sudden you miss the car POI going into LAN or something like that, that's huge. Just like Rojan going down this early is for their chances because they're currently sitting in fifth.
02:32:11 Really awkward for Ronin, as well, to have taken that fight and still managed to win up against Trojan, who had the defensive spot fully available to them. I think it's a great sign for Ronin, but it really hurts Trojan, who, may I remind everybody, expended the Catalyst Wall in order to secure their spot, had their defenses set up, and still got run over by a team who just had a little bit more confidence.
02:32:39 I mean, speaking of Navi there, Dio, we've also got, you know, they're landing in milk this time, right? So if there was a game for them to finally hit, let's say, double digits, it would be this one. But yeah, Onik go down in first place. That's an early exit, their first early exit, I believe. And at 67 points, you know, they've still got quite a buffer over Roadhouse. But Roadhouse...
02:33:06 Und vielleicht sehen wir uns das hier in Game 5 zu machen. Und hinter Roadhouse haben wir MBMI und Empire. Funnily enough, GoNext haben sich nicht ausgesprochen. Die match-up von them vs. Allianz gestern ist vielleicht nicht der Weg, wie viele erwartet.
02:33:26 With GoNext really being on the come-up, today seems to be more of the same. Unable to find momentum, but maybe shutting down Onik is exactly what they need, because GoNext, while they're not looking to qualify to Regional Finals, their goals are a little bit loftier. They'd really like to take first place in the region. Yeah, I mean, how long is it since someone has taken that away from Alliance? Quite a lot, right?
02:33:51 Es ist, ich denke so. Ich werde sagen, ich werde sagen, dass Game and Gladiators, ich werde sagen, haben sie durch den 1.0. Aber es ist absolut ein Reteroccurrence. Und ja, das ist auf dem High Ground mit einem Seer Double Jumping. Das ist etwas, was ich nicht gesehen habe. Das ist eine relativ neue Edition. Es ist so weird, zu sehen, dass das kleine bar auf hier auf deinem Schrein, wenn du das Seer playst.
02:34:18 Almost feels like you're playing wildcard there. You got an extra little bonus. As you said, you know, when it came out, we were like, oh, this is just going to be a big gimmicky, but there are situations like this where you need to take height, and it actually does come in very handy. Hanaki, nasty headpeak there, and hey, the double jump could have solved that, but now that the ult has expired. Empire Siege is just that bit tougher. Losing Arctic right now.
02:34:46 Oh no!
02:35:16 Looks for an angle in, but doesn't actually find any damage after losing Taskmaster. This goes poorly for Pot and Take Flight. Hold on to their spot and get another KP. It's the perfect play for Take Flight.
02:35:29 Ja, und ich denke, dass sie das ein bisschen zu schnell approached haben, DIA! Sie haben die Voi-Nexus gehalten. Es fühlt sich, dass sie wirklich in die Voi-Nexus gehalten haben, wenn sie das in den Fall waren, dass sie wahrscheinlich waren, dass sie das Schuss waren, dass sie das K.P., um, es ist einfach, dass sie das K.P., um, es ist eine Sache, dass du wirklich als Alter hast, um, du musst dich um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um,
02:35:57 We'll pull down to Cenote Caves. The Zone has pulled a little bit further down towards there. And you've got teams like Ronin playing. I believe they're on the top part of the Armor Cave. And that will be a very important place to note later on in the game. But for teams who want to play in and under and around that, we could be looking at Cybercats, Citadel, even Ondogs actually coming through the Spider Cave right now.
02:36:27 I'm also really curious what this means for teams like BCGEO, who took Trojan's spot earlier on. While Trojan have ultimately fallen, they're gonna be watching this game and watching teams like Ronin, who took them down, ultimately besiege the very spots that they wanted to early rotate for, which is gonna sting. BCGO and Navi.
02:36:49 Sie haben großartige Positionen jetzt, wie du schon erwähnt. Ronin ist jetzt in der nächsten Zone und SJP2, die auf den Kusp des Qualifikationen in der Region Finals sind. Still technically in Zone hier, obwohl es nicht so safe ist, die Bridge kann zu einem guten Endgame Positionen führen.
02:37:06 Yeah, I mean the cutoff is looking like it could even be 48 right now. Ondogs at SGP2, neck on neck. We will just have to keep you guys updated on how that one is playing out. But I don't think Ondogs can drop any lower than the seventh position they're currently in. Meanwhile, Cybercats, they've actually pulled out of Cenote Caves to find this fight against Nameless in Bean.
02:37:32 Seems to be going Nameless's way. And it'll be a quick finish off on the KP. Cybercats play the bridge.
02:37:42 Mit dem Team kommt hinter dem, so als Nameless pushed forward, Cyberkats geteinsandwiched zwischen Nameless und Pot, ein fight das ist wohl zu breiten. Cyberkats go down, und Pot haben keinen Weg zu gehen, aber vorwärts, direkt in die Cyberkats. Having getan mehr damage, und mit Taskmaster kommen über die hill, vielleicht ist Pot's Zeit zu shine. Taskmaster lerns ein paar Shots, drops down, und Pot seem zu haben sich eine safe Rotation. Cyberkats back weg.
02:38:11 Just seems like deja vu with Pot, honestly. Every time we see them, they're just putting us on the edge of our seats, waiting to see if they can make it in. And it's at the very, very last moment. However, Nameless, they actually take, you know, they really took the aggression from Pot there and waited until the tide turned in their favor. Love how they played that. Pot have gone down.
02:38:40 Oh, das ist so rough, weil sie haben, äh, NL, go-next, als auch, neben ihnen. Citadel Gaming, also, looking.
02:39:07 ...to overtake them in the standings for this series. That could be deadly to their chances, as you say.
02:39:15 Region 14th in this lobby so far need at least a 7th place to gather 50 points and put themselves in a safe position for the regional finals. Again, that math can change, but 7th place gets them 50 points, and 50 points at least as of right now will get your regional finals. To do that, though, you do have to survive the aggression of Ronin.
02:39:38 And the Void Nexus here could be the thing that Legion Gaming need to be able to get aggressive and always have a safe spot to back off to. Yeah, Ronin currently locked in. I think if they really slip down in the standings, they could be at risk. But this game is looking good for them. They do need to hold off Legion, though.
02:39:57 Um, this position up the top of this rock is typically the godspot for this zone. And Ronin could convert that to a win if they can just beat Legion Gaming off their back. Definitely seeing teams like Ronin, even Ronin in this game, get aggressive for good positions when they need to, like they did up against Trojan. And like GoNext is doing up against Test Region. Last member standing now for Test Region.
02:40:26 Aber Ronin, auf der anderen Seite der Map geht. Der Southen hat sich verändert, und Legion hält die Power Position.
02:40:35 That's a big result there for Legion. That could even be a game-winning fight that they have just succeeded in. Magadules going into Gibby Bubbles has been one of the more fun counters that we've seen happen in this split. Another one is the piercing spikes on the edge of a Gibraltar Bubble. If we think back to Champs and Sapporo last year, that was a defining factor in how teams played these Bubble Fights.
02:41:05 Das hat viele Teams stabilisieren in diesem Spiel, zumindest bis zum nächsten Mal. Mythic Crate ist ein Klammer jetzt. Vielleicht ist es ein Klammer, aber ich glaube, wir haben die Gibraltas, die können und gehen für es. SLR haben wir einen Trident zwischen ihnen und anderen Quads, wenn wir zu dem Late Game haben. Und Roadhouse, wir sehen, ob sie sogar noch da sind. Oh, ein Completely Useless Undercover hier. Und NBMI, Wipeout Roadhouse, die wir in Game 4 haben. Oh, Roadhouse!
02:41:33 Es ist ein bisschen ein bisschen ein bisschen für sie, aber ja, diese Position wir haben, insbesondere die Nuts in der Mitte, einfach außerhalb der Zone, wir werden sehen, ob Gibraltas und Catalysts können ihre Weg aus dem Weg. Aber es ist GoNex in eine even less enviable Position, als sie versuchen, an Angles zu haben, auf Citadel Gaming, die jetzt gerade sitzen, auf Godrock.
02:41:54 Go-next in der Race for the Top, sitting in 6th. They need not just wins, but a lot of KP to make it up to the top of EMEA. With this game, a Kraber shot could do it. Kaisha gets hit, but does not go down. Legion range out of death and destruction on SLR. The Double Nade coming out from Exxonfei. Go-next now, coming in hot underneath this bridge. They have to deal with...
02:42:22 Citadel-Bit Henchman is down. He's the one who can give them cover. Kraber. Somebody Kraber. Lights got it. Wrong side. I know it's not fair. He doesn't know. Go next spot. Extremely tenuous right now. Catalyst wall. Oh my god. Signals a disengage. Risky res. Let's go next. Hit this res.
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02:43:14 Ich bin nicht weg, ich bin nicht weg, ich bin nicht weg
02:43:46 Das war unglaublich!
02:44:07 Und wir sehen ein Double Kramer Schaub von VCGO. Das ist das Ding, das Wippe Navi aus dem Map. Aber wenn ihr Navi ist, ich bin sicher sie werden, aber Babylons ist nicht. 3 Hits in 2 Bullets. Das ist ein sehr guter Ratio, wenn ihr mich fragt. Er hat 6 in den Chamberlern, aber wir sehen, ob VCGO kann einen weiteren In-Road machen. Es ist noch etwas...
Spannungsgeladene Endphase und Qualifikationskämpfe
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02:44:34 It's still going to be a tough one. I think they're going to have to... Oh, they're actually going to go for the top. They're going to challenge Legion for the Hyde here. I like the chances, especially if they get an opening with the Kraber. Yeah, Babylons can absolutely do this. The fact that they've used Gibby Bubble, however, does expose them to a lot of risk. It means the VCO don't really have a lot of safety after this goes down. Catwall at 90%.
02:45:00 So a few seconds of exposure at the very least. Citadel will fall as SJP2 taking a few critical points. Now put themselves in a better spot to qualify to the regional finals, but not a secure one just yet. Bangalore ult eaten on the high ground. Legion pushing up on VCGO who have lost out on their catalyst. No wall, no safety. Bubble back up in one second, but Peacekeeper.
02:45:22 Und Kraber sind in den Händen von Babylons. Er wird geöffnet von oben auf Hecht. Lesion wissen, dass sie die Spiel-Winne gewonnen haben. Und sie wissen, mehr als das, dass sie sich für ihn zu kämpfen haben. Er hört sich die andere Team auf dem, und pre-emptively Pupps-The-Bubble hier. Und es funktioniert! Lesion geht zurück! Sie wollen das Spiel nehmen! Und jetzt haben wir eine Situation, wo wir die Havs und die Havs nicht haben haben. Wir haben...
02:45:45 Teams up the top, Teams down the bottom, they may eventually funnel into that hole in the middle, um, but who knows, like, is it gonna be a heal-off ending? This is gonna be a crazy endzone either way, dear. Take Flight are still alive, by the way. Top 5 for Take Flight is huge. We said they need a pop-off game, and well, they haven't been super loud. A win here, or even a top 2 with some good KP.
02:46:10 Could keep Hope alive for Take Flight in their journey to the Regional Finals, but it will all hinge on this fight up against SJP2, whose only option is seemingly to walk straight into Take Flight. These two teams will have to fight each other.
02:46:26 It seems almost inevitable. You can see them measuring up their opponents, and three hits with the scout is enough to get the crack. Not enough to start sending on, though. We can see a Stigger, I believe, giving Take Flight a little bit of vision onto SJP, too.
02:46:47 So next Fall, Catwall is out. Is this aggressive or defensive? Take Flight, do not know. So they answer with one of their own, creating a dark corridor in the middle where neither team wants to peek. Anaki's trying to defend it right now, but only a few seconds left on these Catwalls. And Take Flight still in the sightlines of SJP2. Remember, Legion are on top of all this, and they're fighting with VCGO. VCGO even winning the fight in a two versus three with Babylon's cleaning things up with the Peacekeeper.
02:47:15 How is that possible? Maybe it was the Kramer difference. Maybe they just know how to work the shotgun pump after pump. They're coming up though. We do see the altar coming into play here. This is perfect when you need to bridge the low ground to the high ground. SJP2 are looking for the hipfires and will take the dub.
02:47:38 Just in time for SJP2. And I have to say, just in time for Take Flight. First and second for these squads, almost assuredly, and I say almost assuredly because we'll need to take a look at the standings, pushes SJP2 into qualification territory for the regional finals. Second place, maybe not what Take Flight needed from an absolute perspective, but it is a huge step for them given that it is not...
02:48:05 Ja, es wird so, so hard für sie, ich denke. Um, look.
02:48:32 We can do a bit of mass later, but right now we've got SJP2 and we've got...
02:48:42 legion gaming there we go i haven't seen that uh that logo too many times but uh our second and third team for this game uh managing to pick up a reasonable amount of points each here um you can see with legion uh no revives and and that's interesting to me just because you know they had to take so many fights up the top there that it's a surprise that they didn't uh you know need any resets at
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02:49:34 Legion hat eine wirklich, wirklich gute Chance zu machen, und ich meine wirklich gut. So, die Fingers crossed für Legion Gaming, die jetzt sind besser als 7th. Sie sind in 6th. Ich denke, Sie haben eine letzte, gute Game nicht zu fallen, weil ich ehrlich bin, Eugenio, viele Leute für 32 Punkte sind. Haha, so close. Ich meine, es war alle On-Dogs an den Tag. Sie sind jetzt 7, 8 Punkte aus.
02:50:03 auf die PACE, und sie brauchen eine massive Finish hier. Ich meine, so viele Teams machen. Take Flight... Honestly, ich weiß nicht, ob es für sie doable ist. Ich denke, dass sie einfach nur für Pride sind. Ondoxin ist es doable, aber sie wahrscheinlich brauchen eine Win, weil sie sich über Pot, über Ronan, über VCGO, über Legion... Oh Gott, es ist all... Es verändert sich bei der Moment, Di. Es ist...
02:50:31 It's a crazy, crazy maths game to see here. Who's going to finally make it to our Regional Finals and be in the top 20 for EMEA next weekend.
Letztes Spiel mit unbann von Caustic und Schicksal der acht Teams
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02:50:40 It is wild. We keep changing things. We keep breaking records. Everything in the last couple of days of this split comes down to the wire. For this next game, it will be the final one, so we'll get the chance to finally determine who's going to the regional finals. But it's also a first for us this split, as Caustic will be unbanned. It is the first time in Pro League that we have seen an unbanned happen across a six-game series. So, very exciting moment for us, and for all of you Caustic enjoyers at home, very exciting moment for you.
02:51:09 We'll see you after the break with some more Stinky Grandpa.
02:53:36 The final match of the regular season. And the very first time we get a Legend unbanned genome. Lots of big things, lots to focus on. But I think, as I heard backstage, lots more green on our screen. There sure will be. I also found it interesting that you referred to him as the gas. Was it granddaddy there?
02:53:57 Um, I had a look. I had a look through the gra- Yeah, sorry, there we go. Uh, the Stinky Grandpa. He's 50 years old, so I guess, like, technically he could be a grandpa. Seems like, uh, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if we're putting him to that grandpa category.
02:54:12 Also, ich werde jetzt einfach nicht mehr über meinen Age sein. Das ist alles. Ich denke, du bist gut. Ich bin nicht 50, so... Das könnte etwas zu fragen, vielleicht. Wenn sie denken, dass Kaustik ist, ist, dass sie ihre Grandma sein. Es kommt zurück zu, was die Spieler denken, fühlen und erleben. SJP2 zu erleben, um gegen, als wir noteden, Take...
02:54:38 We're now at a very precarious spot on the leaderboard. SJP2, much less so. And increasingly, Legion Gaming, despite not having found a win, in a much less precarious position themselves. It is Legion and Undogs that seem to have had the, in air quotes, best days so far in terms of meeting their own conditions for going to regional finals. Yeah, I mean, when we were looking at these, uh, these, well, sorry, yeah, just to focus on their guys.
02:55:07 Kaustik ist unbann. Ich werde das wieder mentionieren. Das ist das, was ich auf der Kross in front of ihn war. Aber natürlich, wenn jeder Legend von einem bestimmten Klasse ist, der erste Legend zu werden, wird dann unbann. So dass du immer ein Mitglied von jedem Klasse hast, an der sehr least. No matter how long dein Matchpoint-Series geht.
02:55:34 für eine Controller-Klasse zu werden in eine 6-Match-Serie, weil es zu viele andere Legends in all die anderen Klasse ist, richtig?
02:55:45 I will say, frequently I take the time to think about these things. I'm not going to take the time to think about it right now, but I promise that I'll do it later. At the moment, I'm really focused on what's going on in this game. For SJP2, of course, our victors of the previous round, and how it's impacting everyone else. Unbanned, I will think about later, I promise. But this is our last game of a regular season genome. Yes, it is. It is. It's the last...
02:56:14 für ein whole bunch of diese Teams. Was wir, was wir calling it at the start of the day? The fate of the eight. Of which eight Teams will be joining the 12 that had already locked in their Regional Finals chances going into today. And as we've been mentioning to you...
02:56:32 It's been chopping and changing every game. Legion, the most recent ones, who are currently sitting in 20th spot, if things stay as they are, which of course they won't, will shuffle around a little bit. But we have to wonder, can they maintain that spot? If they slip down one, Killer Whales all of a sudden might nip them in the button and make their way back up into the top 20. There's just so many possibilities!
02:56:59 Especially with this zone being so far away from them again, Legion Gaming had a really good fight up against Ronin earlier. It honestly could have gone either way. Ronin, once again, do get a ring console over in Cenote as the zone pulls us into the Mill and Downed Beast area. You'd think that Na'Vi would have one of the best shots at playing this zone. Well, I won't say that's not what they're doing. The fact that they hit the ring...
02:57:27 I don't even know if they hit the Ring console. The fact that they landed and sprinted straight at Downed Beast says a lot about their gameplan. Na'Vi are playing for kills. And that means that teams like SLR, VCGO, and even Roadhouse who have now gotten into the area are in trouble. So maybe Na'Vi are playing for Zone all along. Who's to say?
02:57:48 And we just have to keep our eyes on VCG, on Legion Gaming, on Ronin, and probably on Pot as well. Those four teams really are worried about dropping too many spots in this last game and therefore dropping out of the top 20, especially if someone like OnDogs can have a massive run. And the other thing is, like, we've got...
02:58:13 Different teams, with SLR already going out, by the way. We've got different teams playing for different win conditions here, dear. Sometimes in Game 6, it's like, oh, everybody just needs a huge game. But here we've got some teams, like on-dogs need a huge game. Some teams just need to stay stable and do okay. And I think it's going to be interesting to see those different styles clashing against each other.
02:58:36 Finds me honestly a lot of match point finals simply because Your condition can just stay alive get a few more points and for cybercats That seems to be the case their defense against citadel however not going very well This drone does get broken but out of ammo on the mastiff and out of luck with the shots Ilanzi will fall leaving just ranches alive should be able to escape
02:59:01 in this Trident, although we'll see what shots land from Citadel. Meanwhile, Trojan, however, find themselves in an engagement that seems to be going well, and Test Region will go down. With Test Region and SLR both gone, those are two teams that coming into today were basically mathematically eliminated from regional finals anyways. And while it is sad to see them fall, I'd like to appreciate...
02:59:27 Ja, eine mehr Chance für die Teams zu machen, die zu Japan in der Start der 20.26 Uhr. Und wie gesagt, das wird durch die LCQ-Avenue, zwei Spots für jede Region. Over da.
02:59:56 Ich glaube, Dio, eine nice Sache ist, dass sie nicht zu verlieren, dass sie jemand anderes'er chances sind. Sie sind nicht die X-Faktor zu Ende des Endes, wo es keine Rolle spielt für sie, aber es geht so viel für jemanden. Das stimmt, das stimmt. Das stimmt, das stimmt. Das stimmt. Das ist das, was ich was appreciating über die Teams. Ich denke, dass viele Teams das gewinnen, oder das einfach nur spielen wie es. Ja, das stimmt.
03:00:25 I haven't gotten that from either of these teams, SLR and Test Region. They've both been working really hard throughout the split and even coming into today, I felt like we're trying to play their best games of Apex Legends. I think that's been something honestly really impressive about the teams that we've gotten in EMEA so far. Despite the flame that I was giving to Navi earlier for playing a bit fast and loose.
03:00:48 They know what they're doing and they're making it to regional finals. Pot up on the high ground, have lost Prestis so far to refocus on squads that still have something to gain or to lose throughout the course of these games. Na'Vi dropping down until low ground are continuing exactly what we talked about earlier, hoping to gain KP and really make others lose.
03:01:08 Yeah, and Trojan, their ones are at risk with the EMP on top of their heads. No, no, goes down. No, no, completely finished up now by Hiyaka. But they get one the other way.
03:01:23 Kainer und Natsky sind noch in hier. Aber wie du sagst, mit Nono nicht mehr zu werden, sie müssen sie irgendwie interrupten Rez von Navi. Kainer kann es nicht auf sein. Natsky versucht auf die andere Seite, aber Hjarka ist zurück. Und das geht von schlecht zu schlecht für Trojan, speziell als Slab immer weiterentwickelt. Navi hat Hjarka da, momentan zu haben, aber mit Kainer zu Rez auf der inside.
03:01:52 It'll still be a fight advantage for Navi, who get away, still with 1 KP. It seems like not wanting to push their luck too much. Oh, but they should, D.A., but they should, because as the zone pulls, this building has just gone up in stonk so much. Um, as you can see, it looks, I mean, I'm reading this to be a, you know, just south of Down Beast.
03:02:15 ...sort of ending here, which means this building is exactly where you want to be. I mean, you know, you probably get bombarded by everybody, but that's what you've got to do to win the game, and Na'vi do eventually evict Trojan.
03:02:31 Trojan, die, ich will sagen, zu ihrer Kredite haben wahrscheinlich genug gemacht, um ihre Region Finalen zu haben. Sie sahen wirklich gut an den Start des Jahres. Sie sollten gut und wirklich in der Zeit sein. Es ist immer noch so schwer, zu haben sie nach Navi gehen wie das. Lesion, die alle Punkte und alle Placen haben, kann man nicht afforden zu haben. Und sie sind sehr nahe jetzt.
03:02:53 Holding the inside of this building with not a whole lot of cover up against Empire, who are besieging them from the outside. Sampe, after hitting this heal, may be able to finish off Lippin. Dips inside, only to very quickly go down. The fight between Ronin and Citadel kicking off as well. Nate on the Mad Maggy is already gone. Cracked gets slowed and taken down, and MG Clutch heads for the hills. We'll see if he escapes. And he does not. Ronin goes down to Citadel.
03:03:20 My stomach's feeling a bit weird after watching that exit from Ronin. Spinning upon their demise. But now Ronin in 15th spot. Look, I don't think... I think because a couple of teams have gone out below them, like SLR and Test Region, I don't think they can drop enough points now to drop out of 20th spot and regional finals.
03:03:44 Jeez, they're cutting it close. That said, Dia, we've got so many teams on the outskirts right now. You know, unlike a lot of other zones we've seen today, it has not been a flood for that end zone. A lot of teams seem to be saying, hey, if we just win one team fight, we're fine. You know, that's it. Bam, we're through into the top 20. A lot of teams are looking for KP on the outside.
03:04:12 Undogs seem to be following exactly that. Playing around the edge of zone didn't get an early rotate in, the likes of which SJP2 and Onik were able to secure. Looking for KP, seems to have stayed through, at least for SJP2, who did get a quick knock on Zidane before he was able to be rezzed inside this building. Onik's still relatively safe, especially with the amount of traps that YiQ is able to lay down.
Taktische Entscheidungen und Kämpfe um die finale Zone
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03:04:40 Interesting to see them now running a Caustic when Anik were avoiding this pick on World's Edge. That is interestingly interesting, because I would say Caustic is actually stronger on World's Edge than it is on Stormpoint. So that's a fascinating choice, but I guess it's because all of the other controller characters are gone.
03:05:05 May as well, I guess, try what everyone else thinks is so strong, especially when, like you say, it seems to be the best option. Citadel Gaming, got some pretty good options earlier. They did a lot of damage to CyberCat. See what that Skynade can do, because the Peacekeeper is doing plenty for Zuni right now. Guts goes down immediately.
03:05:27 Citadel Gaming ist sehr viel in charge von diesem Kampf. Wir sehen uns die Ende der Nameless sehr schnell. Die Evac Tower ist sehr gefährlich an diesem Punkt in der Spiel, an diesem Punkt in der Serie. Und das Risiko scheint nicht zu haben für Nameless. Sie müssen zweit für die Region Finale gewinnen und haben gewonnen.
03:05:49 So, another team, unlikely to be part of that conversation, gracefully bows out an honest demise. And a circle pull down towards the buildings at the back of Mill. Okay, so maybe that position Navi took up not quite as good as I thought. It looks like...
03:06:13 Oh, yeah. Or is it just going to be sort of the middle ground between them and teams start having to, you know, really rely on smoke cover from Bang, maybe a Gibraltar Bubble if you're lucky enough to have one of those, or perhaps your Catalyst Wall. Sorry, not Catalyst Wall. Catalyst isn't in here. It's just the Caustic. What am I saying? Please, someone help.
03:06:36 Roadhouse will be happy to assist you by taking all of your kills, all of your KP. However, that gets turned around quite quickly and I'll be honest...
03:06:47 That was a little risky for my taste. Roadhouse almost lost control of that fight before taking down Empire, and they are lucky to get an uninterrupted reset. Undog's not nearly so lucky as they face Cybercats right now, and most importantly, are lacking a Trident for a safe rotation. NVMI won't get it either. Let's go next, drop down, clean him up, and pop right back up to the top of Down to Beast. Yeah, I mean, it's fascinating that even Alter is still in here when Down Beast is in play, but it doesn't look like that many teams.
03:07:16 are actually getting into it, in and around the actual Beast itself, because it's always fun to see people, you know, zip up to the top of Beast through a void passage and make something fun happen there. Ondogs have managed to slip around with Trident or no, and sit, I believe, underneath, maybe on top of one of those buildings at the back of Mill. Legion Gaming and Roadhouse.
03:07:42 They're just trading blows here as the zone will force them out of the checkpoint area. But, I mean, we've still got all of the teams who are looking, who are right on this bubble. Dear, this is just getting more and more exciting by the moment.
03:07:58 Es wird ein extremem Close-Series und mit Roadhouse-Takken-Out, das ist wahr. Lesion Gaming und On-Dogs! Und On-Dogs-Takken-Out opens sich auf ziemlich auf. On-Dogs-In-Extremely-Risky-Position und Lesion beset von Nades, da ist kein Weg aus. Surely, Lesion geht's next. This tight race ist becoming an extrememelig-Scary-One, Lesion-Sunghows-Surviving.
03:08:26 Für jetzt. Aber sie können all das von Go-next, aber Go-next continuing zu close die Gap unter Cover-Up-Frag-Grenade. Blooming Flower, gonna have to pop out with the 30-30, see what sort of damage he can do to keep his team safe, because Go-next don't wanna give up on this, but you have to imagine they're out of Grenades now. Ich hoffe so, after the barrage that we just saw, but Legion Gaming cannot afford to go out right now, Dia. Slipping down from 7th?
03:08:53 2.8 ist genug, um sie aus den Top 20 zu knacken. Es ist ein Punkt, aber es ist ein Punkt zu viele. Das würde den Killer Whalen zu berühren in der Region Finals. Sie brauchen mehr Punkte jetzt.
03:09:12 We'll see what they're able to do, because right now, it's just a series of abducts and harassment by GoNext that keeps the rest of Legion away from this rock. And that's to say nothing of the rotate that's coming up. I like that Sampeh is... I like this. Ooh, I like that Sampeh was holding onto the cooldown. I don't love this expenditure. Legion Gaming now have no ult excels and need to rotate in five seconds with nothing to force GoNext undercover.
03:09:42 What are they gonna do? Okay, we do see a tick come through. Legion Gaming know that at least one of them is stunned. They're gonna go in with the help of this Stinger Bolt, but all of a sudden, they're getting pushed back. Calamity goes down. Blooming, no. Xampi, you need to squeeze out. Legion will miss out on Regional Finals.
03:10:07 It is tough to watch them go, but go next. Had all the time in the world to execute this squad. Onik sliding out onto SJP2. Uju managed to get back up to high ground. SJP2 a squad that should be safe, I will say. But I like the extra bit of safety that comes with better placement.
03:10:31 Pot next to Navi and GoNext, who are playing as a duo now. Their rotation, not nearly as simple as they would have liked, but somehow staying alive, if not comfortable. The nades are a little too much, and we will see at least one fall. Perhaps all Pot trying to push in onto Navi right now as GoNext do eventually go down. And Navi are trapped in this building, like it or not.
03:11:01 The Zone pulls very much onto VCGO. That building is going to be a beautiful spot for them to hold, whereas SJB2 and Onik will be having to make their way north. Meanwhile, Taskmaster using all movement abilities he's got here just to try and get away from everything that Navi is throwing at him. Oh my god, how many shots did he just hit through the smoke?
03:11:28 The Thermite seems to be enough, but will it actually be enough to reclaim momentum in this fight? Navi continuing to poke out, still trapped in the building. Citadel Gaming looking at this as well. The pot have refocused. Maybe the fight went their way, maybe it didn't. But they're looking at what the next play looks like. Can they move into the building that VCGO and Anik currently occupy? Looks like the zone is going out into the water.
03:11:55 Für das Tridents wird wirklich wichtig sein. Ein Team, die noch einen hat, kann ein guter Platz finden.
03:12:02 Es ist ein Indestructible Cover, das ist warum es so gut ist, aber Slapp ist nicht so Indestructible jetzt, Navi ist nicht, und Pot wird sie zu resten.
03:12:28 A third, but no. Citadel take them down, despite the near clutch from Pot. Take Flight, fighting to stay alive, fighting for one more placement, have Oniki up and down in fifth. It is unlikely that Take Flight will be making it. SJP2, trying to climb up over the fence, probably will. They would have liked to make it a little further, however. VCGO in the top three right now with Citadel and Onik.
03:12:56 This could be a bonus point for Onyck. That's exactly what I was just thinking. With two games going their way on World's Edge, a third win here would get Onyck that bonus point. It'd be super cool to see. We've had a couple around the ground so far this split, but they are few and they are far between. Onyck's use of the Wraith allowed them to safely port from one building to another. Citadel Gaming.
03:13:21 They've just used the Phase Breach themselves to come in behind and find a little bit of a spot on this fence. Apparently, they've got so little ammo they need to punch the barrels to make sure that they have some sort of safety here. Honestly, keep everything in reserve until the last possible second. I will note Onik have control of two Tridents right now and apparently control of this rock.
Onik dominiert, sichert sich Bonuspunkt und Tagessieg
03:13:50
03:13:50 Citadel ist nicht besonders sicherlich, besonders wenn Zidane ist, wenn Zidane auf Angeln ist. Anik ist nicht nur die Trident, sie sind nur die Wraith-Portal. Sie sehen, dass sie auf keinen Kuhl-Den an all. Zidane zurückkommt, Anik hat ein wenig Aufmerksamkeit, aber ihre Wün-Kondition ist, natürlich, zu machen VCGO und Citadel fighten.
03:14:09 YQ, he's got three of the four perks available to him on the Caustic. And you can see they're going to start loving barrels at each other at this point because the Caustics are going to be everything as this zone closes in and cover becomes unavailable. Sedona look for their first win of the day. BCGO look for their first.
03:14:33 Anic, look for the 3P. They are playing different games right now. Citadel playing right around the outside of the building. Have Anic playing on the inside. Hoping to split focus between teams and it seems to have worked. Nobody is shooting at YiQ. Nobody is shooting at Anic. They are taking no damage.
03:14:52 von den resten der Lobby zu zwei Gruppen. Es ist ein Mitglied von VCGO gegen alle drei Wins von Onyck Gaming in den letzten Tag des EMEA.
03:15:06 Someone ring the bell! I feel like there should be like a ding, ding, ding, ding! We just got a bonus point! Oh man, three di- I don't know if that went out on broadcast as well. I did actually hear a bell there. Apparently that's a button that we have. Amazing. Amazing job by Onik. They're going to take out the day as well as, yeah, the three wins. Weirdly enough.
03:15:32 Oftentimes, when you get the three wins and the bonus points, a lot of the teams somehow come second, but not this time. They've taken out the full dub as well. 90 points for them. It's been a phenomenal day here to finish off the regular season. Yeah, I loved what we saw at Glitter. Watching Anik get the bonus point in the end felt surreal, especially in the way that they did it, because that end zone is an extremely chaotic one. Yeah.
03:16:00 I came to play today, okay? They made sure that even though they were already safe, and this is something that we haven't even really touched on that much because we've been focusing so much on the bubble of who was qualifying to regional finals at all. Just because the teams that were safe in so far as having made it to regional finals doesn't mean that that was where it ended. They also were technically playing for that draft position.
03:16:25 in their POI draft. So now with a performance like that out of Onik, that could potentially put them up in a better spot for their POI draft. And also want to point out that we need to remember that Zidane just joined this roster on the 9th.
03:16:43 And we've seen Zidane come in and have these pop-off performances as an individual before, but they look so good together right now. And the fact they're able to do that, Dia, with being a new trio, is insane. Yeah, and I know that we talked at the start of the day about the fact that Alliance weren't in this lobby, but we had, or we have, teams like GoNext and Na'Vi in this lobby, Citadel Gaming in this lobby, Roadhouse in this lobby, all squads that are clamoring for...
03:17:12 Some of the top spots in the entire region. And the fact that Anik comes in on the last day of the regular season and gets three wins, a dominant performance from them on the day before the regional finals. I mean, we all knew Anik was going, but to be going in style like this makes me really excited for what they'll look like when in the same lobby as Alliance.
03:17:33 Regional Finals is going to be good. We'll take a look at those results and see what that means for the rest of these teams. After that performance, Anik with the 23 points to close out the day. But Citadel Gaming Genome with the 16 KP.
03:17:50 Not bad. They took a much longer route to get to that final circle, but they certainly picked up some scalps along the way. 23 points is very good in terms of jumping them up the standing at the end of this day. But, I mean, as Dia pointed out, the fact that Onik have played, you know, a rampart Newcastle and then capped it off with a caustic performance to win the day like this, I mean, shows flexibility among all of the other attributes that we've seen out of them today.
03:18:20 Ich meine...
03:18:22 Ich fühle mich, dass wir ein guter Tag haben. Nicht nur die Storylines, sondern wir bekommen unser erstes Unban aus unserer Controller Legends. Wir haben Anik absolut obliterating die competition mit 90 totaler Punkte für unsere Serie Resultat, followed bei Roadhouse und Citadel Gaming. Und dann haben wir die Bonus Points gehören von Anik. Die Bonus Point, excuse mich. Jetzt können wir uns hier sehen, at die Overall Standings. Das sind die Konfirmative Top 20 Teams, die jetzt qualifizieren.
03:18:51 für Regional Finals. Ronan barely making it in, and VCGO with their last game, even though they didn't win it, the fact that they made top three surely secured them their spot. Legion, as we focused on barely making it out, it was a great call from you in the moment, Genome, but the fact that it was the fight against GoNext that pushes them out really hurts, and I'll say it hurts almost as much as watching On Dogs be taken out of Regional Finals consideration.
03:19:22 Das war so sad.
03:19:53 Yeah, yeah, I know when it comes down to it, they were, you know, you hear the team comms, right? Like they're madly checking scores in between every game. They're trying to do the math. They're trying to theorycraft. They're trying to, they know the rotations as well. So they're thinking about where the teams are around them that are going to be running into them and how that factors in. Like there's just so much going on. And it was, yeah, I was crushed. Like it was such a good start for on dogs that it felt like,
03:20:22 Something that started out as very unlikely before the series started, all of a sudden became possible. Unfortunately, they just couldn't close out the day as well as they might have hoped. This close. This close. I mean, we had a phenomenal day on behalf of...
03:20:39 Wir wollen auch einen Moment hier zu zeigen, weil ich freue mich zu sehen, wie es das eigentlich geschickt ist. Es ist Zeit für unsere Sony Endzone Kill Leader Race. Ich möchte sehen, wer ist auf der Topf der Leaderboard. Und es ist eigentlich sehr nahe zwischen Zidane und Geekhue, DIA. 18 und 15 Kills, respectively. Ich meine, wenn Ihr Team ist einfach nur die Lobby, ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht, was wir expecting. Zidane und Geekhue, natürlich, Zidane.
03:21:08 really stood out. And I know that it's because he's on the flashier Wraith, but oh my lord. In endgames, it's so rare that we get to highlight a player as making huge, not just micro moves, but macro decisions that take your team to the next level in terms of splitting focus. It comes back to exactly what we talked about in matchday number eight, about the importance of anchoring for your squad and how this unleashes everything else. In this case, Zidane.
03:21:37 The perfect example of what a Fragger should be doing in these matches. And Onik really took advantage of that. Again, you highlighted it, Glitter. This is less than a month that Onik have had together. And they are in form, the likes of which I think could challenge top teams in a meal. Absolutely love to see it. A total of almost 9k damage for Zidane as well. I mean, this is insane. And that's...
03:22:04 including match number five, where he got zero kills. I mean, this was an impressive performance on behalf of Anik, but specifically Zidane and obviously Yiku right behind there in second place at the 15 kills as well. That is a way to go out, to say the least, in our regular season. I think this will also...
03:22:26 In both a good and a bad way, definitely be putting a target on their backs heading into regional finals. A lot of these teams knowing who they need to be looking out for. So I think we had a very exciting day here in EMEA. Any favorite parts for you, Genome, on the day?
03:22:44 The ban, you were very excited about the ban. I was. Yeah, I mean, Korsig is very fun right now. I mean, I know a lot of teams wouldn't agree with me. I'm just kind of coming at this from like the casting viewing point of view. But those chaotic end zones where like you've got no space to play anything like that. I enjoy it. That's why I enjoyed the six games of APAC North yesterday. And that's definitely why I'm enjoying the extra game that we were treated to here.
03:23:13 Today in Amir. Yeah, things always pick up, obviously, at the end of the season when everything's really on the line for these teams. And there's always a little bit of heartbreak, but lots and lots of joy and success that we're finding out of these teams. We had some really exciting storylines to follow today. And once again, like you guys had mentioned too, Dia, the bonus point for Anik.
03:23:38 Yeah, that bonus point is actually, I mean, really helpful in theory because, again, you know, in theory it makes a big difference for regional finals. I think it is more at this point in the season about sending a message because regional finals seeding is going to be adjusted slightly. It's not going to make that big of a difference for Anik whether they got first or first plus a bonus point today, but it is really going to matter in the long term of...
03:24:06 Ich glaube, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft.
03:24:29 Absolutely. I mean, we talk about how important consistency is, especially when it comes to LAN, because not only is it about hitting the point threshold, but then it's also about getting the win after the fact. And if you can put up a stat like 50% of your series is you winning your series, that is definitely a good base to be starting from as a team. We're going to take a look here.
03:24:52 Und das ist wirklich mehr zu jetzt starten hier mit Genome. Okay, jetzt weiß ich, die 20 Teams sind, die es zu Region Finals haben, aber das heißt, dass all die Teams in Region Finals sind zu machen. Es gibt ein paar Teams, die ...
03:25:12 in order to solidify being able to compete on that international stage. I think that's where everybody's focus is going to be shifting once we get to regional finals. Oh yeah, it's only half the battle. If that, you know, 20 out of 30 teams made it to regional finals, your odds aren't so bad there.
03:25:31 How many teams of these will be making it to Champs? I mean, we were looking before. And for Amir, it's actually not looking that great right now. We've got, you know, Alliance, Citadel, Na'Vi, GoNext, pretty likely to make it. But then when we look down the bottom of that leaderboard here, we've got Roadhouse, Ronan, you know, NovaGaia.
03:25:54 They really have to have a big result to push themselves into sort of contention for the middle spot. Of course, any of the 20 teams does have the golden ticket, the out of winning. But at that point, you have to beat Alliance. You have to beat Onyx. You have to beat Go Next and make sure they're the ones not...
03:26:14 Klinching it at the end of this. And it's a little bit weird because, you know, they're going to win this and then they're going to be like, there's probably going to be just a tiny tinge of sadness where they're like, well, this actually means potentially one less team from EMEA now will make it to champs if they do. And that's where...
03:26:31 Everything that we were talking about at the top of the show really comes into play. If it is a team that wins regional finals that was already qualifying based off of their champs points as well, the spots start opening up past that top 24. So lots to be keeping abreast of, really trying to pay attention to all of our points and where they're going and how these squads are doing. And there's not a lot of time left for them to figure out their game plan. Before we say goodbye to everybody, though, we're going to be bringing in an interview, the man himself, the...
03:26:59 Skill Leader of the Day. We've got Zidane ready to go for an interview. Zidane, welcome. What an absolute performance here today. Thank you for joining us. How are you feeling? Thank you so much. So yeah, I feel good. That was a good day from us. We played very well. We had like a few weeks to work on what we have to do in Pro League and we have short time to qualify.
03:27:26 Ich bin froh, dass wir es geschafft haben. Ich bin froh, dass wir es geschafft haben. Wir arbeiten jeden Tag und spielen sehr gut zusammen. Ich fühle mich sehr gut über die Team. Wir machen alle was wir, wie wir auf Screams machen. Ich bin froh, was wir gemacht haben.
03:27:48 I mean, you're looking like a team that is in shape to take regional finals. LCQ, like you mentioned, likely make it back to Japan. And for you, another chance to win. What is the roadmap been like for you? What have you worked on so far? What have been the biggest improvements? And what do you still want to improve on moving into what is hopeful to be Japan? So basically what we worked the most, it was the comms together in the gym.
03:28:17 Work on what we can do together, what is the best thing to do as a team together, because not every team works the same way. So we had to work a lot, like watching VODs, watch what we can do, and see how we can work on the meta. So that was a lot of stuff to work. Basically, the first thing that was the most important was the comms. We had to work on the comms so much, and that's what we've done. And I think that's one of the most...
03:28:43 Das ist die wichtigste Sache in der Spiel und hat uns sehr gut gemacht. Wir hatten wir in Pro League, Zidane. Wir hatten Kaustik Unband in Game 6. Du warst ein paar Teams, die wir nicht spielen, um das zu starten. Du warst Rampart in Newcastle, und natürlich, du warst es auf den Wraith, die ganze Zeit.
03:29:10 Und was das eine komplette surprise zu dir? Und du warst einfach, dass es stark ist? Oder hast du genug Reps in auf das, um, dann bringen wir die winnen in Game 6? Die Sache ist, es ist ein strategy, weil ich glaube, Kaustik ist sehr...
03:29:38 Very good, but in the other way, sometimes it is not because of some other character, you know? So at that point, we had to play Caustic because we need the beacon. And if, like, everyone plays Caustic and we don't have anything to go against it, we just have to play Caustic as well, you know? So we didn't have a lot of choice, like a lot of other character. So, yeah, we just had to pick it because that's how it works and that's what we had to do, you know? That wasn't basically like a lot of...
03:30:06 Strategie behind taking Kostic in Game 6. But yeah, we had to do it. That was literally something we had to do. Nothing much. But we worked on Kostic already. We played it on Scrims.
03:30:21 And you guys looked absolutely incredible making all of those choices. Now, I do notice you've got the chair behind you, okay? That championship chair is there. Are you looking forward to the opportunity to make your way to Sapporo and kind of, as an individual, really defend your title? Absolutely. I really want to.
03:30:44 Ich glaube, dass alles möglich ist. Ich glaube, dass alles möglich ist. Es ist ein Team, dass ich es nicht möglich war. Ich glaube, dass alles möglich ist. Ich glaube, dass alles möglich ist.
03:31:13 You guys definitely are in a position to absolutely do that. So congratulations again on a fantastic last day of the regular season and best of luck in regional finals. Thank you so much for jumping on here and chatting with us. Thank you so much.
03:31:30 I love it. I love it. What a day. It was lovely being able to talk to Zidane. And now it's time for me to get some final thoughts from you guys. And Mia is done. We're now looking towards regional finals here, Dia, determining which of which we've already mentioned, the limited amount of teams for me are going to be making their way through to champs. So like there's a lot of the line for this region.
03:31:52 There is. I mean, I'm really excited, of course. Like, who wouldn't be after having watched these teams and players try their hardest to make to Japan? Every day we're talking about it, but we are down to the wire for how you make it to Japan, to Sapporo, for Zidane, how you defend your title, and for so many other teams, how you clamor together and finally make something.
03:32:16 good enough to sail to international competition. And that's really exciting. However, for my biggest final thought, I wanted to get back to you, Genome. We can have Unband Assault Legends if we really want to. It's possible, but I thought it was important to circle back to that because I did have to move on in the last game. Thank you.
03:32:36 Thank you. I appreciate that, dear, especially as I was so adamant that I was right in the moment. And you know what? I'm not afraid to say I'm wrong sometimes, and apparently it was today. So, yeah, thanks for that. Bye-bye. Any other final thoughts, Gino?
03:32:53 Um, ja, look, for Amir, you know, I think earlier on in the split we were talking about how this is a region rebuilding, right? And I think, you know, some of the vibes we were getting from Zidane there was reflecting that and saying that we've got a couple of teams who are on the up. And I'm kind of hoping, honestly, that one of them...
03:33:16 Maybe can pitch a regional finals slot next week because I feel like there are a couple of good teams from EMEA that might miss out. Otherwise, obviously, two of these strong teams will come through the LCQs as well if they don't make it this way. But yeah, it's going to be light on with representation either way for EMEA in Sapporo. And we're really hoping that the four or five teams that do get there are the absolute best ones to represent.
03:33:45 This region. Yeah, 100%. Well, you guys crushed it today. As always, we're going to say goodbye to you for now. And for everybody at home, we're going to remind you, we keep talking about champs. How do you get there? How do you go? Well, ticket sales is coming back, okay?
03:34:00 It's coming back. It's ready. It's right around the corner because we're going to Sapporo, obviously, but we want you all to be there with us as well. So if you're looking for the information on how you can get your tickets, where you can get them, when you can get them, the ticket sales will be live next week on our ticketing partners site Zyko on October 11th at 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET, 5 p.m. JST during our first regional final of Split 2. You can find more information as the day nears on our ALGS website's Year 5 Championships page.
03:34:29 See all the latest information about Champs here, from tickets to exciting news and updates. That way we can all look forward to seeing each other in Japan for Champs. I mean, I cannot wait for this to happen. But, EMEA!
03:34:46 is, of course, not the only region that we have on the docket for today. The Americas Region Match Day 9 is right around the corner. So make sure you tune back in at 11 p.m. BST, 6 p.m. ET, 3 p.m. ET to see all of the action. And if EMEA is any indication, the Americas Region is going to be just as exciting. So trust me, you do not want to miss it. But if you can't make it,
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03:35:44 Bis zum nächsten Mal.