ALGS Year 4 Split 2 Pro League ! Match Day 2 ! NA ! Groups A & C ! Apex Legends
Nordamerikanische Apex Legends Pro League: Spannende Matches in Split 2
In der ALGS Year 4 Split 2 Pro League NA standen sich die Teams in intensiven Matches gegenüber. Strategische POI-Auswahl, frühe Kämpfe und Team-Eliminierungen prägten das Geschehen. SSG zeigte Dominanz, aber auch andere Teams sorgten für überraschende Wendungen. Die Falcons sicherten sich am Ende den Triumph.
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ALGS Year 4 Split 2 Pro League NA Match Day 2: Einführung und Teamvorstellungen
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00:14:56 The ALGS is back here in North America, is star studded per usual. We saw the debut of the Super Team yesterday, and they played pretty super, taking the win. Who will challenge them today, as Group C has their debut in Match Day 2? We're about to find out. Let me tell you, it's gonna be a heck of a ride. My name is Rain Day, I am your host of the ALGS, and I am joined by two amazing talent. We had some time in EMEA to go through those six games, and now we bring them back for another six.
00:15:23 in North America. First off, let me introduce Spider-Tiff, though. Back with us to join into the fray. North America, it has been the talk of the town. It really has, and a couple of names in particular. You already mentioned one, those big bird falcon things that are running amok against our lobbies, and then also, trypods. I've been really interested to see how they performed off day number one coming in second, but will those two teams be able to run it back on top of the leaderboard? Only time will tell.
00:15:50 Und das ist ein guter Punkt. Es waren viele gute Erfahrungen hier. Wir wollen sie nicht überraschauen. Wir werden uns auf die Intricationen und auch die Spaß machen. Vielleicht ein bisschen Automatopoeia wieder. Shazam! Hier ist Dia! Kabow! Hier bin ich!
00:16:05 Thank you very much, Train Day. Like you said, we don't want to let this overshadow the fact that Group C is having their debut of Split 2 today, and those are certainly the teams that I have my eyes on. Falcons, of course, respect to you, Tip, I'm going to be looking at them, but very excited to see what Group C brings us, especially with C9 entering the fray. I have been doing a lot of watch parties recently, and...
00:16:32 I have been amazed by C9. All of my tweets are like, oh my god, Naughty, one clip someone, again. That's a big word, amazed. I mean, I think a lot of people are going to be looking for that, and it's their debut, so we may see some great things. In EMEA, we saw a debut for a lot of teams show up one way, some not so good. And in North America, we can expect more of the same. But yesterday, it was an interesting day. We saw Team Falcons jump out to a lead, and they won the group.
00:16:58 Das war die Hauptsache, die wir hatten. Aber ein Team wie TRIPOTS, mit 2nd Tiff, du hast gesagt, ist so gut zu bleiben im Mix. Und ein Team hat wirklich viel momentum gemacht in den letzten Wochen. Aber SSG und Oxygen Esports, und auch NRG, alle haben Wins, Oxygen und NRG speziell. Und SSG spielt eine critical, clinical style of play, bringt in die Young Zynu und Koiful.
00:17:27 Es war ein guter Team, ein Experten, und jetzt eine sehr gefährlich Team. Und wenn Sie das Vickie sagen, wie hyped das war, war es ein guter Tag. Ein viel zu reden, Tiff, und die Geschichte werden wir weitergehen. Wir werden, und das ist meine Reaktion, als auch. Wenn ich mich über die Nummer 1 starten, all die Teams von Group A, ja, es war eine stand-out performance, wie wir gesagt.
00:17:54 Falkans, Tripods, Your Top 2, SSG and Oxygen Esports. And then you have NRG, which by the way, guys, if I slip up and say NRG when I think of XSET and all those things, that's the former XSET roster. Of course, there are some changes there. We're bringing Reptar into the mix, competing alongside Knock and Fun.
00:18:13 Fun had some really impressive plays as a solo yesterday, so I really want to see them run it back today and find, yet again, even more success. Like you called it, they got a map win. They also found a top three with only a few eliminations, but despite it, they made the distance. But for LG, 14 points overall on day number one. Not a bad showing. They're going to kind of take their leave as they were in Group B, and how they see what Group C can do to shake things up.
00:18:40 Sweet's not making it easy. Obviously, former NRG, LG qualifying right behind them as well. Xset also coming in. But again, big sentiment there was great to have that org back in Apex Legends as a contender. And of course, big names bring expectations that are just as big. These bottom 10 looking to obviously improve it. Maybe the biggest and most notable name that has gone through some serious changes is obviously TSM at that point, grabbing 11th place, coming on with new...
00:19:08 Roster of Reps, Zapto, and of course Verhulz. But Group C, like Group A and B, had several roster changes as they went into this new split. And as their debut, it's only right here that we highlight what went down. Yeah, well, I mean, like we said, we want to keep track of what's going on with Group C. And these roster changes really do, I think, change the identity of these teams in some odd ways. For Vanity, perhaps it's a little bit more of a sidestep, dropping Orioles and picking up Stunny, who's actually played with Crook.
00:19:36 Ich bin schon ein bisschen in den letzten Mal ein Fan von Stunny. Ich denke, er ist ein ziemlich unterratedes Controller-Player, so, you know, Fingers crossed! Let's see what comes up for Vanity. Für Native Gaming, however, they've actually kept Rambo after Last Split, but swapped out Klain and Luxford, with RKN reentering the competitive scene, and the pick-up, which I will say caught me out of left field, of McLovin. Now, I've seen McLovin compete for quite a long time. He was in the Challenger Circuit for ages, ended up playing on EEC for a while, and is...
00:20:05 Er hat sich in den Pro-League aber zu sehen, dass er mit Nathen mit RKN und Rambo gespielt hat. Sie haben gut in Scrims gesehen, jetzt können sie in Pro-League performieren. Rambo ist gut in allen Aspekten, ob es die Größe des Schultern, ob es die Haare down ist. Er ist natürlich ein guter Spieler für Leute, und er bringt viel Energie, ob es in Land oder in Groups ist. Aber speaking von Groups, heute ist es ein...
00:20:29 Grupp C. A will have that double header, so they'll have experience from yesterday to lean on. Grupp C, well, they'll have a little bit of the surprise factor as well. But there's one team that probably stands out, Tiff, when you look at it, that people will be focusing on to see if they can repeat the results of yesterday.
Strategische POI-Auswahl und Team-Fokus
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00:20:50 Ich bin wirklich glücklich, dass dieses Team tatsächlich performt well yesterday, weil alle in Chat, die EMEA-Broadcast waren, wo Falcons, wo Hal, was ist passiert? Okay, gut. Sie kamen. Sie kamen. Und ganz ehrlich gesagt, 20,000 damage across sechs games yesterday, mit 6,648 damage differential. Die meisten damage dealt in der gesamten Lobby, die meisten eliminations. Und nicht nur das, sie waren able zu gewinnen auf World's Edge und Stormpoint.
00:21:20 Proving that they can be consistent no matter where they are. And speaking of Coastal Camp, that's where they started on Storm Point. And that's pretty tough. And I'm really excited to see what they can do today. Yesterday, they had 20th and 21st draft pick.
00:21:34 Actually today, Lava Fisher and Launchpad are going to be where they will be starting things out. They did well on Storm Point yesterday from Coastal Camp with a 39th pick and then Sky West with second. Now, we start to think about why Sky West has been so prevalent for a lot of our teams and in North America specifically, it is that
00:21:51 Tried and true POI that you see go first. Now, since they didn't get it today, you can see that they've locked in Lava Fissure for similar rotations, and they should be able to play relatively similar and stay consistent. Will those birds slay out today? I hope so, but Reinde, tell me about another team. DSG, I mean, they've got to be somebody that you speak about. It's been an interesting story. Obviously, Falcons have dominated the North American news, but Landing Thermal Station at North Pat.
00:22:18 really comfortable for them on World's Edge. And DSG have built a roster that has synergy together. And I think the biggest thing that people are excited about, not just It's Timmy and Enemy and Designful as players, but the fact that they're sticking together. Designful had that opportunity to trial with TSM. And whether it was Didn't...
00:22:36 Das ist ein Team. Das ist ein Team.
00:23:04 We may need to see some more from today, Dia, is of course Liquid Alienware. Liquid Alienware, they may not have had the greatest run when it came to the Split 1 playoffs, but I will say that is not tempering my expectations for them in Split 2. I actually got a chance to talk to them a little bit after Split 1 playoffs about how they felt it went. This team that is...
00:23:30 was and is known for taking these 3v3 fights and for dominating them, really fell short quite a bit when it got to LAN. A lot of that came down to some increased pressure, perhaps, feeling like, and I think it was Pistillo that said this, that the Org signing Well and Amazing Thing had put pressure on them that they really hadn't experienced before as an unsigned team. And so as they continue to iterate on that and...
00:23:55 really move forward in Split 2. I do expect a lot of those nerves will come off, that this will become more of a regular thing, and that we can see Team Liquid get back into the legacy form that they had.
00:24:07 Well, they certainly will have the buff if they can make it back to LAN with Liquid Alienware sponsoring all the gaming setups as well as the laptops on our desk. It's easy to think about them, but we'll have to see where the gameplay takes us. And if you're curious as to where they'll be landing or why we're even talking about that in this big a way, well, Split 2 has introduced the POI draft. It's changed the way we start and navigate Apex Legends at a competitive level. And for those who aren't caught up yet, here's a quick video to get you up to speed.
00:24:35 Prior to the Pro League regular season, each team receives a random assortment of draft picks for matchdays 1 through 9. The assortment is perfectly equal, meaning if a team receives the first draft pick, they'll also receive the 40th draft pick on that matchday. This draft style is called a snake draft, and the order of draft picks changes with each matchday, which means that teams may not always get their preferred POI.
00:25:02 On Draft Day, each team will make two draft picks, one Storm Point dropspot and one World's Edge dropspot. Strategizing is crucial, as dropspots on both maps are up for grabs at the same time. There will always be more dropspots than teams, which means that even if you're the last pick, you'll have multiple options to choose from. Once a POI is chosen, it's off-limits to all other teams for that match series. On Match Day,
00:25:29 Each team is dropped from an individual dropship above their drop spot. It is a whole new ALGS. It'll be interesting to see how North America in our second time to see this play out in the start of our season end up engaging with this POI draft. We've seen somebody get top picks and not perform. We've seen people have lower picks like CCE who had their 38th pick on World's Edge. By the end of those three games, they were in a third place position having over 30.
00:25:58 So it can go either way. We'll continue to pick that up. And if you want to watch those storylines as they unfold, well, we've got a great place for you to go. It's faceit.com.
00:26:09 Watch. This is your way to watch the ALGS in the style that you prefer. Of course, the main broadcast will have you covered, whether it's telestrainers and lovely listen-ins from our production team and our main Mandia, or if it'll just be random commentary allowing you to get the big picture of the storylines and the arcs that we're following across splits and for our international play. But if you like to hear the team comms all the time, you like to see every rotation, you like to get into the action and be there in the struggle.
00:26:34 We're about to get going, but as we head into it, let's leave this moment as an opportunity for us as casters commentators to not do our talent picks, but more so a prediction or expectation of
00:26:55 I'll start with you Tiff and kind of get into the conversation around what are the expectations? Do you think that this is going to be another storyline based around the Falcons again? Or do you look at a couple of other teams as whether they perform and get first or not as the most important results that you'll be tracking? Look, if you're going to spend a lot of time and other efforts to put together a super team, I really hope that they are able to remain consistent. Now granted, I had my...
00:27:23 Wurries, initially, when I saw that Hal was going to be moving towards that squad, and I'll go ahead and say that, because you know Hal, very vocal. Zero, very vocal. Sometimes you wonder what that's going to look like, and honestly, Zero, IGELing that squad, it's been impressive. Obviously, they succeeded yesterday. I'd love to see them come to terms and throw down today, and another squad like Dia, I'm very excited to see what Cloud9 brings to the table.
00:27:45 Well, Dia, I want to get your thoughts as well, but I don't want to delay the action that people have tuned in for here on Twitch.tv slash PlayApex and across YouTube and all our socials. So let's get into it. Game number one is about to begin. So Tiff, Dia, take it away. Let's do it, Dia. I know I already talked about my picks, kind of. I mentioned that I want to see Cloud9 do really well. Disguise Team Liquid also making their first showing alongside Furia.
00:28:08 But is there someone else aside from Cloud9 that you either want to see step up from Group A or maybe create some expectations from Group C? Boy Tiff, I am so glad you asked because, well, we are going to be starting on Worlds Edge and this will give teams the opportunity to play things out on a little bit more of a solid map. There are two teams that are solving things even faster or I should say in more creative ways. I'm really enjoying...
00:28:34 Two teams out of PLQ. Both of them played yesterday. Weave has been playing and calming fantastically. I am a really big fan of their game plan so far. Incredible fighting team. And I would never think, never dream of missing the opportunity to highlight that CCE and Shrevstax have qualified up to the Pro League. And we now have a certified Rampart team in Pro League.
00:29:02 I knew that was going to make you super happy as we run through our World's Edge draft picks. You mentioned Weave.
00:29:08 Wir haben einen ersten Draft-Pick und konnten in Sky-West sein. Und du hast auch Trev Stacks, welches ich sehr familiare mit, dankz zu Nicewig. Er hat viele Watchpartys gesehen und hat Trev Stacks' POI seit den Challenger Circuit days, folgt ihm in ALGS. So es ist wirklich interessant zu sehen, was sie zu bringen, als sie zu dem Tisch bringen. Sie haben eine Top-10-Finisch gestern, 7th-Place. Vielleicht können wir den Momentum oder besten ein bisschen. Aber wir haben unsere Squad hier.
Erste Spielrunde: POI-Auswahl, Strategien und frühe Kämpfe
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00:29:37 ESG grabs Thermal Station in 18th, so that's really solid for them to lock in a POI that they're familiar with, but where Falcons kind of go through, right? They get 21st and 22nd pick in the draft day. They wrap in Lava Fissure first, and then they grab their Storm Point one second. I guess it really doesn't matter when you're 21st and 22nd which one you pick first, but Lava Fissure was that first choice.
00:30:00 Now, it is important since we are starting to jump around POIs, right? We're seeing some teams that played one yesterday that didn't get it today. I want to give a shout out and a recommendation based on our past couple of points. We've got a couple members of the community that really do thrive when it comes to picking up stats. And I want to shout out Berk the Apex Nerd or Berk the Nerd. You can find them both on Twitter and on YouTube. I've been seeing them post a lot of content recently about the POI draft. As I said, very active member of the community. And if you end up liking CCE, they've actually...
00:30:29 Wir haben ein Interview mit Treff Stacks auf, das ich hatte ein Blast zu hören. So, um ein bisschen deeper auf Teams, dass du nicht wissen kannst, kannst du unsere Community-Kontenten haben. Wir sind so glücklich mit einem Community-Kontenten über Apex, um so viele Möglichkeiten für die Community zu lernen und zu studieren. Aber all die POI-Draft-Pics sind jetzt auf der Bildung auf der Bildung der Welt. Du kannst es sehen, E8.
00:30:57 I would be worried about Survey Camp, and I mentioned this in EMEA, if someone had chosen to land Epicenter. So E8 will then be able to loot up all of the surrounding areas with Stallions in that nearby Klima East. And I'm going to go ahead and reiterate this because some people were asking...
00:31:11 Vielen Dank.
00:31:34 Ich denke, es ist eine smarte Entscheidung. Wir haben einige kleine Tests geschehen. Ich glaube, es war Team 310 und Red Rams. Oh. Wenn wir in Apec North waren. Aber auf Climatizer... Ich weiß nicht, es ist wirklich nicht... Es ist nicht die größte Option. Wenn du ein POI hast, warum würde du 50-51 machen? Especially mit der Draft limitieren Sie in dieser Weise, ohne zu landen und zu fangen.
00:32:03 You've got to land on separate sides of the POI. You have to take a fair fight. And unfortunately, fairness sometimes means that it takes longer. You don't want to do that.
00:32:11 Well, you know what I do want to do? I want to drop right into match number one of World's Edge, kicking things off. You can see Falcons separating from that dropship. They'll go their separate ways, start their loot pass, and it's quite interesting to see how they approach it. And it's one of my favorite ways, because we talked about love from the community. Will the Green Bean put out the max flight path from any given POI that hovers above?
00:32:35 So for Lava Fissure, when they separate out, make sure that they loot their respective areas and granting themselves even a survey beacon here to boost.
00:32:44 Das wird ein guter Start für sie mit einem Evo Harvester nahe. Sie können die Falken rotatieren, aber ich wirklich nicht den Norden rotatieren. Sie werden noch mehr Informationen auf den Ring geben, als das POPs-up gerade jetzt. Sie können die Falken ein guter Chance planen. Die Falken haben die Möglichkeit, die ich sehr gerne.
00:33:09 I do, too. They also have the Survey Beacon, they have a Ring console, and they have an Evo cache, so by no means do they have any issue getting that Evo leveled up for them. But it's a very, it's so uncharacteristic, let me just tell you, when we come in and we don't have Contest anymore, but I'd love to get a lay of the land. They found out Ring information. We're hopping on the EVAC already, so let's roll and see where we're headed towards.
00:33:32 Yeah, I mean, this will give us a really good idea of where Falcons want to end up. The fact that we've got a ring pulling this far into Overlook is of course going to give a team like Cloud9 good priority, but I want to highlight Stallion's position as well. We actually saw this in EMEA, but being able to move from where Stallions are all the way into the back of Overlook can be really beneficial, but it is problematic that E8 are cutting them off right now.
00:33:58 Putting Stallions in a very tough position where they no longer have priority on this rotate and instead have to fight through E8. Switching to the other side of the map, Falcons are prioritizing Landslide, giving them opportunity to hit both of these scans before likely proceeding through the tunnel with the information that they will then have.
00:34:17 They're going to be absolutely kitted with all the information they get. That Evo cache before they even make it towards the end will likely be purple. But Cloud9, with their POI draft pick sitting at fourth place, they grabbed Overlook. And you can see right there, they get that ring console information. They grab the scan and move to play on the outskirts of Overlook, which is very much on brand with where that zone pulled earlier in EMEA and is likely to be similar.
00:34:43 I can certainly imagine it. Taking a look at the top of the screen, we've got some of those legend stats for the curious ones at home. We've got a lot of fuse in the lobby today, and with Tripods whipping out one of the only Caustics, now having high ground as well, maybe they'll be able to try something cheeky. Good angle on Vanity just below them, and the start of the fight takes out Krook. Not the beginning that Vanity were looking for.
00:35:10 No, definitely not. And when you start getting into Geyser, things can be really weary. You were talking about a lot of the rotations, specifically in that mid-map. But when we saw the drop spots, everyone was in the south. It was very heavy. Dome, stacks, all of these POIs taken. So you know that this is going to be a point of contest with NRG flying on over, making their way to Tunnel. Noct takes some damage, of course, on that rotation, knowing that Tripods are nearby and the remnants of Vanity.
00:35:38 But for now, all is well fun. We'll have that Dark Veil and two Piercing Spikes available. See how we're going to use that. Here come Tripods. I mean, it makes playing something like the tunnel really nice for NRG. I think the worry has to be that eventually you will leave this tunnel. And that's always the danger, no matter how good your spot is in this area between Geyser and Overlook.
00:36:03 Having to relocate can be extremely punishing with a lot of teams watching the exit from the tunnel. Because, I mean, it's incredibly easy to take advantage of a steam that has to go through one spot. Oh, for Elevate, though. Slayer down here. They did get a knock on Jalowen. And, well, the swing comes in. That purple knockdown shield will provide cover by the Chal. It's not enough. Stallions have fallen Oblivion as well.
00:36:28 But we did just get to see a rotate there from Team Falcons. They did everything that you mentioned. They hit the survey beacon and frag, evac'd out, and chose to fight north, where Elevate currently are looking to reset. Yeah, but by choosing to move north, Falcons make sure that they have high ground on a rotation, which is mostly to prioritize their, what I'd call, like, advantage in a fight. Because they're always going to have high ground, teams should be disincentivized to fight them. And like you say, calling out E8.
00:36:57 We really got to see how punishing it can be when you do move a little bit late, and a squad like Elevate is able to move ahead of you. Huge punish as well for Most Hated. That's J down, and we could see Vanity out. They're down to just a singular player. Very tough start here for Vanity. We'll keep back in touch with them. It seems like they were trying to make a res there.
00:37:20 They get caught out. Now Most Hated will keep on moving through. They're not just down to one. Crooks still up in it alongside Stunny. You can see them moving over towards Lava Siphon. And Most Hated definitely scouting things out over here at Grandma's. A Wope over there just pops up to the roof. But at the end of the day, sometimes you just got to focus on that rotation. Is that extra elimination worth it? Or should you just let it come? But more action to be had. Falcons on that Rotate run into Furia.
00:37:47 They haven't got a lot of safe spaces to play. Pop of the Blood ult is mostly so they can battle for their next spot. Jen Burton and Zero already very low. Hal has to cover the cross and manages to buy just enough time for Zero to pop a bat. This is by no means safe, however, neither is Zack. Hal doing disgusting things.
00:38:09 Let's see what they do. Jen Burton on one of the only Watsons in our lobby. You can immediately retreat towards the inside of any building, fence it up, and you look at the perk selection. We talk about the first...
00:38:20 Level up for that is you can grab Arc Stars if someone throws an incoming nade into your Arc Star and it intercepts it or any interception will grant that Arc Star onto the ground. And also we're on purple. So we grabbed that next perk, which allows you to have your Jenny 250 HP as opposed to 150. So plenty of free shields there towards the end game, specifically if you're quick rotating, which is exactly what they've done here.
00:38:46 Taking a look at the next ring, E8 continuing with their great position. Like you said, very similar to what we had over in EMEA, albeit pulling a little further into Overlook proper. This could actually foreshadow an even further south pull that takes us to the south of Overlook, because we don't see a lot of endings over by where E8 are, despite the fact that these zones' edges are very close together.
00:39:13 You're telling me Falcons can move from that building straight into Overlook Deep? No one's there to chow them and they're going to get ring console? I'm telling you it's possible. I'm certainly not a doubter of that particular outcome. I think what I am doubting right now is Weave's exit from Epicenter. They've got both Yup and SSG gatekeeping this rotate. And as much as I am a fan of Weave...
Intensive Kämpfe, Team-Eliminierungen und Strategie im Endgame
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00:39:37 It does look difficult for them to find their way into safety, much in the same way as most Hayden and Vanity are likely only going to leave with one alive. And this is tough, right? We've got less than a minute left before that ring starts encroaching on the territory. Incoming Bloodhound Scan, and well, when you just pop Beast of the Hunt back, Dynasty smokes forward, looks for some angles here, but this is where your Bloodhound player will excel.
00:40:03 Gotta take down those piercing spikes first, but if I'm Vanity, I'm disengaging. We've already invested the Dark Veil to cut off that Linosite, doubling down into Lava Siphon itself.
00:40:13 I do like that they're playing very conservatively, like instant Dark Veil, not waiting for a knock to come through, not waiting so that you're shot and have to use it reactively, but instead say, okay, well, we know that there's a Bloodhound Dold on the other side, we can really quickly cancel out any push. I think it's a smart move for Vanity. I don't think it's a move that necessarily keeps them alive for that much longer. Let's take a look at this rotate, though, from Disguised. Using a Wraith Portal, one of the few Wraiths that we have in ALGS as a whole will let them cross through.
00:40:43 almost the entirety of Epicenter untouched. It's wild. You've got your Skirmisher, you have your Recon Legend, and then you have Fuse, the Assault. Right now, something to be said about the changes that came into Season 21 with Fuse in particular. Now Design, yes, on that initial scouting from the portal, will just kind of rotate back through. I love that Timmy's already dropping the Shield Core to allow for Design, but decides, okay, well, that's...
00:41:08 Unfortunately, with Caustic, it doesn't give you a lot of opportunity to bypass the way the Catalyst reinforces things, part of how Caustic can walk through other Caustics.
00:41:30 Catalyst can walk through other Catalysts, having one or the other, not doing you a lot of favors. Tripods, eat the Thermite. Somehow Deeds is still alive. I've never seen health bars this low in my Apex Legends casting career. And yet Tripods are going to somehow escape with all three members up. Did not go down once. The Thermite that was just burning around him, the actual real life.
00:41:54 We do lose out on Designful, and with that scuffle early on, Timmy's banner will be collected. Let's hope and see if we can get him back in. But more to the point, enemy on Fuse, right? You get access to the rain console with that first initial perk upgrade. You saw that enemy had that locked in, but now here sitting in Fragment East, things are not going to be easy, but we're managing those cooldowns. Designed, looking to get the ranked portal back online. There it is.
00:42:22 I believe they've got a team behind them. Designful's looking. Maybe the squad behind has rotated out already and another Wraith portal comes through to try and give Disguised the opportunity to get Timmy back into the game. This lets them hold the building and get a res at the same time. Hopefully the portal will last for long enough that Timmy can rejoin the rest of the squad, but will?
00:42:49 Disguised actually Outlast, a push that I'm sure is coming. There it is, Timmy. Feet on the ground, and here comes Oxygen, Aiden, Bane, Frex. We'll see if it does last. I think he's able to get through it. Now Design and Enemy are going to have to fend off Oxygen for the time being. Timmy gets deleted on his journey back, thanks to Aiden watching that portal.
00:43:10 Smart move from Aiden, but unfortunate for Disguised. Enemy going to jump up onto the high ground. I think he misses one jumping below him, and unfortunately is just outangled. Oxygen pick up another kill, pick up the last one. Disguised go down, and it's just in time for Oxygen to attempt a reset. This zone closed, not going to be kind to them. Weave passing them by, and now taking the forward rotate away from Oxygen.
00:43:36 Das ist gut, wenn ihr Oxygen ist, zu finden. Wir haben zu checken, was sie zu tun, weil Furia hier ist, in einer Art, in einer Art, nachdem, dass es ein Squad unter ihnen ist. Wir haben zu checken, zu sehen, wer das in particular ist. Ich glaube, es ist Cloud9, die in Overlook landen und rotateten. Aber das 4x10 Gold Longbow ist hier. Wenn du so viele Bangalores in der Lobby hast, und du wirst zu sehen, das ist...
00:44:03 So good for scouting and to keep that damage mid-rank. Also get to smoke at your own feet and keep the advantage, which I think is very, very cool. Not only using it to see through smokes that other people are using defensively, but sort of using it offensively yourself, which is a really unique way to leverage the power of the digital threat on Sniper.
00:44:26 Can we just talk about that angle that our observers just hit to tell us that Cloud9? Because as we jump on over Weave, that grabs the forward rotate against Oxygen. Everything's collapsing and they actually make it out. And I say that, Shinny, down to Ring. Riley, can we get in just mere moments away? Not enough. The fight that costs you Oxygen and Weave both fall. And unfortunately for Weave, they go down without any placement points having been collected, so...
00:44:53 All of that hard work gets them a few KP, but it is not a start they'd look for for SkyWest, one of the most prioritized POIs in the game. Instead, the late rotate literally does kill them in the end. Liquid Alienware and Tripods have fallen also a lot, chalked up to the no-name area where multiple teams are collapsing upon Temper being the most recent one cloaked last standing. Let's see if he can hit.
00:45:20 A reset here, but not where Vanity has made a play. Slatt and CCE are also here, and so many teams target them. Temper has fallen. And Vanity make a huge comeback for this as well. They've rezzed two members now in Siphon. Full run from an engagement, only to take a teamfight win at long last in no name. Now the journey isn't done. It's far from that for Vanity. Everybody having to move up towards the north, where teams...
00:45:49 Like SSG, E8, and Falcons await them. You know what awaits me? All of the Amped covers, a Trev stacks, and they are just bunkered down. They're gonna have to move, of course. But for the time being, that is a force to be reckoned with. And if they can make that play alongside Loba to constantly keep that loot moving, everywhere else is just a big Spider-Man meme of pointing across at each other for flat, though. Two seconds on the clock.
00:46:16 We need to end this quickly and hit the road. I really wonder whether either of these teams will make it out alive. Flat starting to get shot in the back as they approach and clean up with vanity. Does not look likely. Flat pick up the first kill. Zone 4 really ticking. This can and will take you down.
00:46:39 Fortunately, Flat do find one more knock, but go down before they can collect any additional KP for it. Native rotating ahead of them, having watched the carnage, are going to be mirrored by Yup just further off to the north.
00:46:53 Honestly, at the end of the day, CCE is able to bypass the entirety of that mess and just rotate in the moment that fight broke up. Now they're ahead of Native Gaming and NRG was able to hold towards the right side of the zone and walk up. Now granted, not a lot of cover here. We do have fun. We could potentially see a Dark Veil come into play. Two Smokes on deck and a Rolling Thunder. But for them, I think it's nice to just bide their time and try to stay out of angles from Fury over here.
00:47:21 Ich denke, das ist ein wirklich tolles Angle für die Bangalore ult da. Nocturnal's use of das ist fantastisch. Du hast eine Team aus der Highground, oder zumindest zu stoppen, für die Duration. Furia takes ein paar Chunks aus der Ultimate. Und jetzt, wenn sie re-peak NRG, werden sie finden, dass Nocturnal hat bereits geholfen. Vielleicht nicht in Ring, aber nur ein bisschen weiter. E8, für Kontrolle, auf der Nordseite des Zones, haben auf die Position geholfen.
00:47:50 Oh, we're approaching, looking for angles. They're gonna leave and reassess here. Constantly, with that Beast of the Hunt expiring, there are the scans to give them the information, but it makes sense where...
00:48:11 The Falcons have pushed themselves into, right? You're a Watson. You can play inside those. Now, granted, if you don't have that Jenny, it makes for an atrocious time to hold. And speaking of tough places to hold, NRG actually moves up to the top of Tower. We're throwing down the piercing spike should someone try and make a play for that. But when you've got longbows in the hands of Furia and constantly looking to find an angle, you have to make sure that you don't even show the slightest peek up.
00:48:39 Das ist die 4x10 Digi-2. So, even mit den Smokes, sie können sie sehen. Fioria, fortunately, hat ein paar andere Dinge zu checken, um die Liste zu machen, damit die Teams nicht nach dem Rotate gehen. Aber sie können nicht die Retaliation von NRG suchen, um ein Weg zu tun, das Team mit einem Thorn in ihrer Seite zu verhindern. Fioria, das ist ein bisschen ein Rotation, das sie brauchen, und ohne ein Catalyst, sogar schwerer.
00:49:04 Wir haben ein paar Cover für den Zeitpunkt gegeben, aber es wird nicht genug sein. Die ARK-Stars werden es nicht mehr schwierig machen. Und wir sind noch nicht auf die Purple. Ja, du hast die Schild-Core Swap, also du hast eine Fake-Purple für den Zeitpunkt. Ja, Eliminatete. Das ist unsere letzte Smoke. Und wir sind in für jetzt. Over Team Falcons, wir sind in die Probleme. Jen Burton völlig Eliminatete, aber sie sind able zu finden.
00:49:27 und die Elimination auf ELEVATE GAMING.
00:49:52 Pushing, putting pressure onto that duo. And as soon as you take over their truck, Fun from the back, anchoring on high ground with the triple take, which can be so damaging. We're just waiting for that opening moment when you push the Falcons out. Team Falcons eliminated the hands of SSG.
00:50:10 Zainu hat's gone down for it, but it looks good for SSG. Before we get to the endgame, let's pop into a quick listen-in with SSG. I'm bang-ulting too, I'm bang-ulting too. We're gonna slide to this. We're gonna slide to Hetty. They're gonna be playing behind this rock. They're gonna get shot by everybody. Can we just shoot it? Yeah, wait, good idea. Just shoot it, shoot it, nice. They're gonna have to climb up, they're gonna have to climb up then. No, no, no, they're gonna take it up. I'm bang-ulting this, I'm bang-ulting this. Take it, take it, take it, take it.
00:50:38 Und du kannst hier sehen, Spacestation Gaming, die auf den E-Vac-Tower nicht wollen. Furia hat in den Finale 3 fallen.
00:50:52 C9 hat ihre Besten, 1 auf dem Lowground auf den Platz. Will noch ein Kampf passieren? Saving C9 und sie legen sie auf 2. Nrg, C9, SSG und C9 haben keinen Weg zu spielen. Es ist nur Chaotik auf dem Lowground. Kann er auslasten? 1 der 2 Teams auf Height! Nrg wird Senton! SSG takeout 1! Skynade von Fun muss sein.
00:51:20 We are just biding our time, healing to maximum if we can. A BloodScan incoming will give that information over to SSG. We're going to have to take an angle and into the final two. Koi!
00:51:47 Finds Reptar, some trades come in, and at the end of the day, SSG take match number one in dynamic fashion. Great play from SSG at the end. They put the pedal to the metal, recognizing, hey, we have data that NRG don't. We just saw C9 try and take height, and we know they're not coming back. Let's make use of this time while we can, and take as much space as possible. It's what ultimately wins in the game, what gets them height, despite how well NRG fought them for it.
00:52:17 It was really interesting. I'm so glad that we got to dive into that and listen in just before that circle started to collapse because you hear their collective thinking. As soon as the evac tower gets popped from cloud nine, like you mentioned, they just start shooting it out and kind of waiting to see what can we do to put the pressure and eliminate that threat from our right so we can focus our real attentions over onto NRG, which by the way, NRG played fantastic throughout that rotation to get northbound over by overlook to bypass.
00:52:45 und get through Team Falcon, shove them into SSG, and let them take the brunt of that. Now, granted, you're going to give up a few KP in that regard, but at the end of the day, NRG still walked away with a slew of eliminations.
00:52:58 And they managed to get second place out of this. Imagine how different this game would have played out if they had instead played Scared Up on the Sniper Tower, let Falcons get a reset off on low ground, have all three members in the game, and now suddenly you've got a full brawl that SSG can come in in third party after the dissuade C9, which is a very, very different endgame.
00:53:19 It really is, and they might not have finished in second, but who knows? I love the what-if scenarios when you start talking. It's like, hmm, what would have happened if they would have did it? But let's go ahead and pull up the match results. Like we said, a lot of eliminations went the way of Space Station Gaming 11, a 23-point game to kick things off. NRG, you mentioned it, right? They were able to capitalize on the weakness that Team Falcons had despite that earlier fight from sharing that space with Elevate.
00:53:47 Gaming in that neighboring truck, they walked away with 6, so 15 points. Overall, a pretty solid start. Yeah, I don't think that this is a bad place for any of these teams who had started off the game and really made their way with a solid game plan, right? SSG essentially took a late rotate through Climatizer, not something that would be crazy for them to do even when they were landing Climatizer. NRG managed to make really good use of their rotation through Overlook, which really impressed me because they were...
00:54:16 They were looking pretty down bad for a little while. Falcons do much the same. E8's early rotate, however, really impacted this game, cutting off Stallions. And I'm sure that when we look at the bottom half of the leaderboard, Stallions seeing themselves found down there is going to be a big motivator for them coming into game two, because this should have been one where Stallions were placing top three. And with the experience on that roster, I think they know that.
00:54:42 Well, quick pointer before we do jump on over to that second half of the Match 1 results flat. Nine eliminations, two placement points, a total of 11 points to go out in 10th place. Imagine if they would have been able to grab some placement points alongside that. That's three full team wipes when you're thinking of that in terms of eliminations. Vanity find themselves with eight as well. That's pretty wild.
00:55:06 Und es ist eben wilder, eben mehr wild, eben wilder. Ich bin nicht sicher, welchen wir jetzt. Wenn wir jetzt, dass Vanity hat zwei Mitglieder in den ersten Spiel genommen haben, haben sie nicht realistisch gemacht, zu spielen Apex Legends bis in Zone 3, wenn sie einen 3D-Party-A-Fight haben, und dann haben sie ein paar mehr Kills über die nächsten paar Minuten gehört. Aber sie einfach nicht haben einen Spiel zu spielen, und das macht ihre 8-Kills so viel besser.
00:55:33 It really does. And we're going to go ahead and pull up the stats from our top three finishers there. Now, Cloud9 played from the underneath. And honestly, that's why, in my opinion, their damage really isn't in comparison with the other top two teams. It's because they were holding out, being away from those squads and anchoring down from the low ground. And when they tried to make that play in towards the endgame, it got stifled by SSG, who...
00:55:57 By the way, a nice 4K damage, 11 eliminations across the three of them. And it's been really, it's shared between Zainu, Koifel, Phony. Quite impressive. But I mean, if you think about it, we're just getting started. That was our first World's Edge map of the day. Anything can happen. We got five more games to go, two more on World's Edge. We're going to cut to a quick break. And when we come back, more Apex Legends action.
Analyse des ersten Spiels und Ausblick auf das zweite Spiel
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00:58:05 Kept the hype going with that music in our break, but we are back quickly after a couple of minutes to get into the action for another game here. Dia on the mic alongside myself. Rain Day as North America continues to go on. Whether you're watching at home, well, I guess everyone's watching at home at this point. I mean, I'm watching at my house. Some people might be at a studio, but most of you watching from home, hopefully you're enjoying watching this. Plenty of other esports as well happening on Sunday. It's kind of one of those days, Dia, where
00:58:33 The best of esports really showcased themselves. ALGS, obviously, a part of it and a core fixture for a lot of our fans tuning in. I want to first give my thoughts, though, before I toss it back to you to get us into what you expect going into the second game. On Game 1, the biggest takeaway I had was really SSG and the fact that Phony, as a leader and somebody experienced, it's obviously tough with Frex being kind of the SSG.
00:58:59 I'll be honest with you Randy, I don't feel that differently about SSG than I did last split, but I don't
00:59:20 Don't take that as a dig. I thought they were a really good team last split, and I also think that they're a really good team this split. If anything, the changes between the SSG rosters have been kind of lateral, and what really this...
00:59:35 Can Phony keep that up?
01:00:02 It is a great point. And while maybe you look at Frex and Koifel as lateral, I think in terms of synergy is where I'm seeing the biggest jump up for SSG. Because I think Frex and Phony feel familiar-ish. It's not a full overlap, but it's more of an overlap than Koifel and Phony. And I feel like this allows Phony to IGL, to lead, to gameplay, and then also come back in with those fights to hit some crucial shots. But it then opens up Koifel.
01:00:30 who we've seen perform at LAN, and we just saw him perform at LAN as a sub in L.A. phenomenally well, making a big difference. And then obviously Zynu, who's got LAN experience himself, to really just, I feel, be free on those roles and frag out. We've seen that pay dividends. It's just the feeling that I've gotten. Obviously, the results have been strong over yesterday and starting out today. But of course, we will see as we get into it.
01:00:53 So if I'm hearing you correctly, just to really encapsulate it one more time, I'm hearing a similar thread to what we heard from Luke this morning about Game and Gladiators, that they sort of had two anchor players that were doing the same thing and they needed to diversify that. This roster move for SSG does that for you? I think so. I think it puts Phony into a more comfortable clear-cut role, and I think Frex was the one who didn't have the as clear-cut role for me on SSG. You can't...
01:01:20 Frex's experience as a player. He's been a part of Apex Legends for so long. But I think maybe the synergy with how Phony likes to IGL and then obviously the two young Gunners who, you put those three in a teamfight, they're pretty scary. I don't know if anyone absolutely beats them, right? Because they've got so much talent there and young, and so they can build off of this. I think it's a nice pairing. I like it.
01:01:43 I mean, Koifel's first LAN ever, he was top fragging for, I think it was Sentinels at the time. Yeah. And then Xynu is such a good player that in Zero's interview yesterday after Falcon's win, he was talking about how what he wants from this HAL move is a player like Xynu. That's a pretty brave review from one of the top IGLs in the world.
01:02:05 Es ist unglaublich. Und ich denke, das ist einfach toll, zu sehen, verschiedene Teams zu haben, in der Sonne, in der Spotlight. Und das ist das, was die erste Start-up-Split ist. Es wird uns ein Fokus auf andere Teams geben. CCE, du bist ein großer Fan von ihnen, so habe ich. Trevstacks, der Resident-Rampart-Main hier. Yesterday, es wurde referred to als ein Gimmick. Du war nicht able zu respondern, auf das Broadcast, wenn das war.
01:02:31 Pushed back a little bit, but I want to know your thoughts. How do you feel about the Rampart in general and CCE heading into their second match of the day? I think Rampart is a good pick. Is Rampart the best pick in ALGS right now? Probably not, because I think a lot of Legends tend to overshadow her when it comes to the utility they provide outside of Rampart's specific niche, which is just, we have a good spot, let's make it all that much better.
01:02:57 I think that calling it a gimmick would be to discredit what CCE have gone through in the challenger circuit. And it comes back to what we were saying this morning on EMEA, that Apex Legends really does allow you to experiment with what you're comfortable with and then find that thing that makes your team unique and succeed with it. I think that this is that for CCE. This is a team that also stuck together for a really long time that has found something unique for them. And just because nobody else is doing it, I don't think makes a bad thing.
01:03:25 You're absolutely right. And, you know, just one step away from high-level play, maybe a few big steps away, however, is Ranked, where you see utility of winning games very, very possible. But because of, you know, the kind of structure that we've seen the LGS have and pro play have and the consistency, we don't get as much flexibility. We don't see as much variety. But one of the pieces, maybe the transition into that is...
01:03:50 Maybe that's just because we haven't seen it, not that it can't work. And B, a little bit of spicy Watson pick from Jim Burton there, who we hover over and now transition back over to C9, a team you're excited about in Stallions. But the Watson certainly coming back into the fray after Reject Winity.
01:04:08 Take their win from Impact North, representing the beloved Fencemaker herself. Oh yeah, I mean the ability to control space on Watson, absolutely critical. And I can only respect Falcons for seeing how that worked for Reject Atlan and doing it themselves. Also into Fuse, super useful. I'm sure it would be nice to be running a Watson up against what Stallions are doing right now. But with C9 bunkered into the building, perhaps they can put up a good defense even without it.
01:04:37 Stallion's a team of veterans. Alberleli, Retzi, pair with Jelowen. Jelowen on defuse. And defuse we have seen with the change to be able to hit ring consoles now. Much more prevalent in our ALGS, at least these last two match days. It's always been an incredible character in terms of pressure. You have two knuckle clusters that serve as essentially grenades that are on cooldown. So you can continue to apply it in Stallion's. However, that push...
01:05:06 Es war nicht der Zeit, es war nicht der Platz. Und sie werden nicht die Ergebnisse bekommen. Sie werden als unser erstes Team gespielt in unser Lobby. Der erste Team zu machen eine sehr wichtige Error, Rindey. Wir sind auf das Gebäude mit Teams, die sicherlich kommen aus dem Norden. Die Stallions, ich denke, sind vielleicht ein bisschen unkomfortabel nach dem ersten Spiel, wo sie aufgarten waren. Sie wollten zu versuchen, das Spiel zu werden, aber...
Strategische Entscheidungen und Teamdynamiken im Fokus
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01:05:29 The Pro League mentality has to be one where you're making stable decisions, and C9 certainly did that. Native came in, got some good kills. We'll see how they can stabilize as a lot of other teams are going to have to keep their heads moving into this next round. NRG, in fact.
01:05:45 Oh boy. Oh boy.
01:06:11 Timing, that was the problem. And Nano and Flat end up going ahead and stealing one off of NRG. That was not what NRG was hoping for. But again, that's the danger of rotating just a second too late, Dia.
01:06:30 I do wonder how far Flat can chase this. There's really not a lot of space in Skyhook for NRG to play, though they may be able to find some small safety. Disguised running up behind this as well. Could have taken advantage if they were just, if the timing had just lined up as serendipitously as it did for Flat. They've still got a little ways left to make their way into zone, but Rain Day, I want to take this moment and talk about the teams that actually are sat in zones. Let's bring up the map so we can talk a little bit about this, because notably, CCE.
01:06:59 dead center of ring right now, have one of the more common zone pulls. I'm going to circle it right now. Zone pulls normally going to be around here. Now there's still chance for that to deviate, but when we're looking at CCE's position relative to other teams, the fact that they're on Sniper Tower and with a rampart, which means that it's not easy to push them off, means that they deny this area from teams. Oh.
01:07:19 We're moving around, one second. Means that they deny that area from teams, they deny this, they deny this as a playable space, and they deny all of this, which are three power positions coming into the end zone. CCE has to die for another team to succeed, because otherwise nobody can really play these areas, and you're just going to see everybody from this side die, and then maybe one team move under CCE.
01:07:42 And this is the benefit of having a Rampart just for a moment, because CCE will get a lot of attention. Falcons, Tripods, even Elevate, they'll realize that's a good spot. We want to take that from them. And yet with a Rampart, it's going to be difficult. It will be harder to do than maybe that Fused Bloodhound Bangalore that we've seen. Obviously, maybe even with the Catalyst as well, because those walls, not only are you going to block out damage, they will return the damage just in kind. And so while we wait to see if they can hold it.
01:08:11 A good spot for them, certainly, as we head towards the endgame. Disguise, DSG, we saw them a little bit. Right now, Liquid Alienware rotating through Epicenter up to the top. They're still outside of zone, but they will find themselves with mostly a clear landscape to make a rotation. Just a few teams ahead of them and most hated, but Nizul, Jaguaris, and Yanya coming off of...
01:08:34 Oh, there's a quote from somewhere. Something about criticizing because I know you can do better. I don't know what the quote is, but...
01:08:52 Whatever the positive emotion coming out of that is for Alienware, absolutely. I've been such a big believer in this team, and Randy, I know you very publicly have been a big believer in this team. They've got incredible spirit and are one of those squads that has stuck together for a very long time, only doubling down on what's made them so impressive. Absolutely, and these great pair, a great trio, really, I don't know what's beyond it.
01:09:17 Trio, a quartet of people here. And Castillo, the coach, you cannot forget that. But they really have been a big part of Apex Legends. They've been a huge part of North America. They represent Mexico. It's a great region to support. But also, they've just been a threat. Whenever they're on a battlefield, you cannot forget about them. Cloud9 moving through the dark veil. Chaotic wants to get a little chaotic here. Piercing Spikes, not going to deny it for long. Thermite will open up the door. Wide swing there. Doesn't get the kill. And Chaotic actually takes...
01:09:46 Das war ein bisschen ein Missplay, Dia. Jetzt müssen sie den Rollen Thunder nutzen, um sie in der Geburt zu halten. Und dann können sie das Rez auf, aber ein wird wieder in Kind sein. Dynastik geht auf den Swing und bleibt C9 von C9. Wir sehen uns das gleiche Mischung von Stallions.
Teamkämpfe und Rotationen prägen das Spielgeschehen
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01:10:16 99 took them out and now fall themselves to the same issue. We have seen this again and again. Liquid Alienware on that rotation a little bit late, but maybe right on time if you're a Liquid Alienware fan. Mose did not gonna be able to withstand a lot of this pressure and I feel like just a little bit of the Havoc without any of the setup could pay dividends, but now looking for armor swaps as well. You know, a few of them have already been taken.
01:10:42 Liquid Alien, we want to be careful. They don't want to get in the same exact spot. Could be deja vu here as we have another attempt to siege. Will this be the successful one or will they back off and say it's better to play with our lives than to lose them right here? Yeah, great time to smoke and I love the conservative play that we see from Liquid Alien where they're for just a moment. Enemy.
01:11:00 The Motherload picking up a kill on Furia. Surprising there, but Vaxlon's able to get out on a sliver of HP, and DSG continue pushing Furia forward, maybe picking up a few more kills before their time is over, because Furia have nowhere to go. Native pick up a kill on them as well. And that's part of the value of just...
01:11:18 Showing enough pressure, showing enough force. Even though you don't wipe the team, what you do is you push them into Native's line of sight. They get one kill. It forces Baxalan to try to solo, and you get that second KP. So sometimes showing force, not just through movement, but just through pressure, the right play, a little bit of a surprising ultimate that catches somebody off guard, it can lead to that domino effect that puts DSG in a good spot on this rotation. Few teams have gone down. 16 squads left here as we continue.
01:11:47 zu sehen, aber DSG ist ein Team, das wir haben heute schon erwähnt haben, und ich fühle mich, dass sie viel Potenzial haben. Sie haben gut in Land gearbeitet, sie haben gut in den Splitt gearbeitet, sie sind ein sehr, sehr consistentes Team in Nordamerika, und in vielen Fällen, sie sind Fan-Favorites, nicht nur mit Org und Disguised Toast, aber auch die Weise sie spielen und die Ergebnisse haben, vieles zu für.
01:12:10 Yeah, well, I mean, I've certainly enjoyed watching DSG. They're one of our more stylish squads. We were talking about how that can certainly influence people's opinion of you today.
01:12:19 Ja. Ja, und ich habe es gesehen, dass sie spielen für das Grund und nicht das Grund. Die meisten Hateden, unfortunately, sind auf der Receivung, aber es ist ein sehr stylisches One-Clip von Yanya. Und jetzt haben sie zu spielen, in 2-3-2 mit Catalyst-Wall zu helfen. Laser swings durch, a Wob behind ihm, playing Anchor, nicht ganz gut lay down genug damage. Instead, es geht wieder einmal, zu Liquid Alienware. Und wir sollten sehen, eine Full Squad Wipe hier, das ist gut für Liquid, weil sonst, da sind 3D-parties abound.
01:12:49 Es ist wirklich schwer, nicht zu sagen, den Impact Native hat in den letzten zwei Fights hier, die in Survei und Epicenter haben, als sie versucht, ihre Weg nach dem Westen zu machen.
01:12:58 von Skyhook East. Native Gaming haben diese Brücke und es ist eine solche Dinge, die wir uns haben. Er hat uns gesagt, ich habe unsere Spots auf World's Edge gegeben, um zu helfen, in der wir meistens versuchen. Und es ist eine sehr schöne Showcase, eine andere Strategie von der POI Draft. Trying zu aufsetzen deine Weaknesses versus Play to your Strengths. Es hat natürlich funktioniert für Native. Sie haben eine gute Spots gehabt, viel Kp und ohne Druck.
01:13:26 These just melts, Timmy, for a moment. Nice shots with the devotion. This battle over Grandma's house. A lot like a very violent Thanksgiving. Could go poorly for all teams involved, because remember, they've still got to walk through underneath that sniper tower we talked about earlier. As it appears, plenty more teams needing to make their way into Skyhook. The skies do go down. Tripods pick up the kills.
01:13:55 And likely have a way to move into Zone without the use of Wraith. I'd like to see them evac over this. I'm not seeing it happen. I'll be honest with you, Rain Day. I was hoping for a little more mobility. Well, the Bangalore Ultimate comes out, but that would hurt them because then they'd have to run through it. I mean, Amu would have to stay behind. Zone's starting to push in. They still got some time, so want to play ahead of themselves.
01:14:19 Die Havoc ist gut genug zu tun. Es gibt Druck. Sie haben keine Catalyst-Wall. So eine der einzige Teams, die mit den Remnants von Split-1 und der Caustic-Meta sind, die mit dem Bangalore und dem Bloodhound sind. Das bedeutet eine Sache. Es wird schwierig für Situationen wie diese, wenn sie ein wenig Glück haben. Und sie können nicht mit Native setzten, um sie auf den Crossing zu treffen. Aber wenn sie zu End-Zone kommen, werden sie ein sehr, sehr gefährliches Team werden.
01:14:42 Team Falcon's having taken the previous CCE position. Nice kill on Most Hated. Quick swap to the EVA just to make sure they get that last hit. Running a little bit low on energy ammo. I like that Zero gets to drop down. Refresh on some much needed resources. While HAL covers with nades. This is over towards where Native just rotated. Huge crack. And that's on Tripods this time. As it looks like they were the ones slow to exit. HAL's gonna go into the kills. The rest of Falcon's coming in behind him.
01:15:11 Biggest issue, right there. We just saw it. Not being able to throw up a wall. That Dark Vale means that the Caustic, Tripods, they're dead. And that is what we just brought up. Team Falcons, though, are the ones that really made it happen. And it's part of that playstyle that they love to do. Hal, always on TSM, looked to see how much KP can we get. How can we turn the game into our favor by taking control of the situation? Well, now with Zero, who does that as well.
01:15:35 Unfortunately, a lot of these teams in the building that Liquid Alienware reside in...
01:15:53 Auf Wiedersehen. Auf Wiedersehen. Auf Wiedersehen. Auf Wiedersehen.
01:16:20 Interestingly enough, we're going to see Liquid Alienware try to take this low ground. And they're just so close to doing it. Check what is. On the swing. Goes right, then goes left. Presses a couple of buttons. It's the trigger. That should be it for them. Liquid Alienware. Find three more. Elevate. See you later. Back to lobby. Ten squads left. Yan-Yan them. We'll stabilize down there. SSG still on top. Winners of game number one. And Falcons.
01:16:47 Oh, they're entering in a big way. Zero with that EVA 8 is cooking, but Imperial Hau, he's gone down. I do wonder whether they'll be able to get the res. Zero wants to go for it with a squad pushing up on Hau. However, they're going to leave this one for Doomed. Maybe recover the banner later. There is a Moby right next to Team Falcons, but they would need to overcome a squad in order to do that. Native Gaming are the ones sitting on the outside towards this eastern side of the ring.
01:17:16 Die Falcons sind auf die Defense zu machen, um sie zu gehen. Ich denke, sie gehen auf die Push jetzt, aber Team Liquid hat eine Rez. Ich würde sagen, dass SSG hat eine ziemlich gute Vorteile hier in einem Spiel wie das, auf High Ground. Obwohl, die Problem ist, sie haben Teams wie Liquid Alienware und Team Falcon, sowie Native, die haben sich selbst zufrieden.
01:17:38 in diesem Spiel. Und so, während es sich traditionell auszudrücken, die Teams haben sich in den Low-Ground zu kämpfen, und Sie können sich in den Enden aufzudrücken. Sie können vielleicht ein Spiel sein. Sie können vielleicht vielleicht ein Spiel sein. Sie können vielleicht nicht in diesem Lobby sein. So SSG muss hier sein, obwohl sie sich in Pryl-Position fühlen. Sie haben die Banner. Das könnte es sein. SSG ist aufzudrücken all das.
01:18:03 Ich denke, SSG ist komplett nach Natives. Sie sehen durch die Smoke, dass etwas geht. 1.40 auf Koi! Das ist ein Kohlreis! Das ist ein zweites Perk, auch. Das ist eine große Bedeutung, auch. So er wird ein bisschen mehr Access zu bekommen. Und ich denke, das ist für SSG, um zu verabschieden. Das war definitiv Falken. Sie versuchen, es wieder zu gehen. Kann Koi-Full-Delay sein? Sie versuchen, es sich nicht mehr zu machen.
01:18:30 You can't allow this to happen. Weave go down flat somehow, down to one member. Took the central spot early. Have very little time left to play with as the zone is closing in. This may just be Nano choosing to rat it out. He cannot take one tick of zone. Falcons are back as a three-man squad. Hau rockets down. SSG, look at all that, but they cannot push onto the low ground.
01:18:53 Das ist verrückt. Ich wundere was, was in ihrer Meinung ist, ob sie die Forderung nicht da war? Oder ob sie einfach mit anderen Dingen preoccupiert sind? Es ist nicht, weil sie müssen, wo sie gehen müssen, und die Falken, die Chance zu nehmen. Das ist das, was passiert, wenn ein Team nicht zu retten, oder nicht zu zweit als Antwort. Sie wollen gewinnen. Das ist warum das Superteam ist eine Superteam in der ALGS. Aber SSG, sie sind nicht bereit, um das Titel zu geben.
01:19:21 Es ist die zweite Spiel, eine Top-5-Dia. Und sie versuchen es zu schließen, als sie in die Hunt gehen. Oh, und ignoriert die Falcons. Die Drop-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down-Down
01:19:45 Schutten dies down, Catalyst walls left and right in the Havoc singing. What song? What note will it play? Liquid Alienware hoping that it's a good tune as the insult follows up as well. This team, we talked about them coming back and showing up in this split and it seems like match day two, they will. They'll grab the game and take the win here in match number two. Those are our boys, man. Liquid Alienware making it all the way back.
01:20:12 Finding a win is so critical for them, especially in a zone like this, where they have to go across the map to do it. What a series of plays from Liquid. And to make the Exodus from the building that they did, just a little to the south of SkyWest, I think a lot of other teams would have considered a play like that impossible right now.
01:20:34 Ich denke so, auch. Und es ist so ein interessanter Lobby. Das ist warum, wenn man diese Levels von Teams in da ist, das auch was macht Matchpoint so interessant ist.
01:20:44 Was für Liquid Alienware, Dia?
01:21:12 Es ist etwas, was wir haben, und sie sind hier auf der Start des Matchdayen. Ich meine, es ist eine solche Dinge,
01:21:19 It evades a lot of the ways that we talk about players, you know, like they've done this much damage or they typically do this much damage differential. One of the things that's always impressed about Liquid Alienware and why it's so hard to count them out is that each of these players individually have that clutch gene in them. When they're cornered, they will fight. And for some reason, as opposed to other teams that have that same instinct, Liquid Alienware just win a lot more often than not, especially watching them in that building when a lot of other teams are thinking about their rotation, what they're going to do.
01:21:49 Liquid Alienware, jumping from floor to floor and eliminating every other squad in that building snowballed them all the way into being the only team to make a cross with Catalyst.
01:22:01 And they're a team that likes to focus on, if we can get going, we're going to steamroll. They really have that as a game plan, and I don't know if that's something that's spoken about. I don't know if it's something that Pastillo, when they're talking and overlooking VODs, addresses. But it's also been the thing that, while working well for them, has plagued them in different ways. Because if they don't get that steamroll, if they don't get that early start and take fights that go in their favor...
01:22:24 A lot of times they remind me a little bit like 07. They can have one of those days where you go, where were they? You know, 10 points, 15 points, a 14th place. That's not what we expect from them, especially when you see games like this, where they grab a 20-pointer already in game number two. But so many of these things start to...
01:22:42 Ja, still nice day for SSG with 2 games down. They haven't left the top 5 jumps yet. I believe it was ANC, yeah, in EMEA this morning, ANC outplayed out in there.
01:23:08 Six games placed top five in five of them. SSG are currently on the road to do exactly that. Well, as we take a look at the second page also, you know, this is where Tripods, who have a phenomenal game number one, you start looking at how can they improve here in game two. DSG as well, a team that had some nice position, but people ended up getting caught.
01:23:35 Wie gesagt, die Catalyst-Wall start...
01:24:04 Ich glaube, es funktioniert sehr gut. Der wichtigste Unterschied zwischen diesen Teams ist die erste Double Swing die Team Liquid macht zusammen. Both Miazul und Janya machen die erste move, all die durch die Catwall, die sie set up zu finden, die erste pick auf Vanity.
01:24:21 ...makes all the difference in an endgame like this, because otherwise, I mean, there's a good chance that Vanity gets to combat this, and it's a lot less close. But finding the first pick, making it a 2v3 situation, is literally one of the most important things in Apex. It's why you so often see, oh, I cracked him, oh, I knocked him, now let's push. Because having that extra 100, 200 health between all of you just snowballs even further once you've eliminated it fully from someone else. Still very close games between these two, however, with, of course, their placements being so ridiculous.
01:24:50 Liquid, however, launched themselves up, not quite to the heights of Vanity, given Vanity's consistency over two games.
01:25:08 Seriously, probably would have been in first place, I would say, or at least tied for it with SSG. SSG, though, still doing so well in terms of the overall standings. Liquid Alienware, as a result of that win, right behind them, tied with Falcons for fourth. And Flatt coming in after a nice second place there, third place there, excuse me, going to round out our top five.
01:25:27 Some notable picks, though, on the other side of the board. You know, teams that we saw like Weave, teams that we saw like Elevate, most hated. All those teams kind of had the same fate, Dia. Just fighting your Survey Camp past Epicenter and getting caught up in maybe wrong timings on a push that just didn't go their way.
01:25:47 Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised by some of the starts that these teams have had, but the fortunate thing, Randy, is that we've got one more map on World's Edge and then three on Stormpoint for them to turn that around. We've seen some big swings in the leaderboards today already in EMEA. Well, there's always an opportunity to play better. I think teams now going into match three are going to hope that they don't have to do so. We'll see what happens as the action continues here on the ALGS.
World's Edge und Stormpoint: Strategische Zonen und Team-Anpassungen
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01:26:12 Hermann Miller ist der offiziell Partner der Apex Legends Global Series.
01:27:53 Welcome back, everyone, to the Apex Legends Global Series. Someone let me back on the broadcast. I broke away from the break. And Dia, it's time to take all the action for ourselves. One more map on World's Edge. And honestly, I'm ready to see what's going to happen. It was really impressive to watch Falcons walk away with 10 eliminations despite not being able to take a win. They're still showing up and why they're a super team. And as we jump on to the map rotation, Liquid Alienware winning map two.
01:28:22 in einem hellen Fall auf World's Edge. Ja, das war... Wir haben über das ein wenig, aber Liquid Alienware gewinnen, das war eine Cross-Map-Win. Sie sind all die weg von Dome, um nach dem Norden. Es hat so viele Kills gemacht für sie. Aber auch, wenn wir an Teams spielen wie dieses Spiel, das sind über eine Long-Distance, es gibt viele Möglichkeiten, Tiff. Und die Möglichkeit, Liquid Alienware hat nicht gemacht...
01:28:49 Any mistakes severe enough to take them out in the meantime puts them in sharp contrast to a lot of teams that were just moving from Survey Camp. I mean, Liquid almost went down in Survey Camp. That's crazy, but hopefully they can hold on and keep it consistent here because we are locked and loaded for match number three, our final map on World's Edge. And honestly, one thing to note, Dia, when I stepped away, it was quite interesting because the same thing that happened in EMEA this morning, the zone pulled north.
01:29:15 Und das ist sehr typisch von der Art, wie es sich bewegt. Ich war wirklich hoping für eine Deep Southstone, aber ich weiß nicht, ob wir das hier in Map 3 sind. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir das hier in Map 3 sind. Ich weiß nicht, es könnte. Wir werden für Liquid Alienware zu finden, wo dieses Ring ist, als das noch nie zu zeigen ist. Fortunately für sie, sie haben eine Ring-Consol, um sie zu sehen, um ein bisschen mehr Details zu können.
01:29:42 I'm crossing my fingers for you, Tiff. Maybe it'll be a south zone. Maybe you will get to go over to launch site, over to tree as we predicted earlier, but I'm just taking my hands off the keyboard now because it absolutely is not. That is a straight line upwards. We are going north once again. Perfect. I couldn't have imagined or wanted anything other than that as we pull up the map and see exactly. Yep. Well, I'm going to leave now.
01:30:10 Ich habe voll faith in dich. Ich habe voll faith in dich. Der Ring ist entscheidend. Es ist nicht helfen. Dann bin ich nur lonely. Und wir würden nicht wollen das. Especially Tiff, ich weiß nicht. Du würden nicht mist, was wird in Game 3 sein. Denn mit SSG auf 8.
01:30:33 Two-match streak of being in top five both times. Great games from them. Now having another zone pull right into their territory should be setting Space Station up to have one of their best match days in recent history.
01:30:46 Yeah, it's pretty impressive. They walk away with a game number one win, 11 eliminations. You mentioned that top five alongside four eliminations, but do you see the rotate that's incoming from Falcons? This is something that I noticed yesterday as well. Anytime the zone started to pull into that Skyhook area, just like that initial game, they wafted right into underneath Trials, took an impressive fight to secure that for themselves. And here they go from Lava Fissure, immediately jumping into Skyhook, where are these zones?
01:31:15 So, hopefully, we can convert into some exceptional gameplay and more eliminations. But for now, we just have to wait and see what our teams, like Liquid Alienware, your winners of Map 2, all the way down from Dome. I can't help but wonder whether they'll interact with Weave as well, because Weave do land sky west.
01:31:35 We're caught pretty off guard by that rotation. E8 is going to get really similar info right now. Pulling off a pretty typical rotate when you have a ring like this coming out of Survey Camp, which is where E8 are dropping today, you will normally move up towards Grandma's house and then take the scan. This time having an evac tower makes that even better, and it should set E8 up for a good spot in the end zone if they're able to predict this properly, as they have struggled with in the past couple of days.
01:32:06 You can see here, they're not going to intersect with Weave. Instead, Temper will be the object of their desire. Hal, down here. Jen and Zero will have to clutch this up. One of the things that's to be said, I can only imagine what Zero is talking about now that Hal is down and they're just probably looking to hit that res. Not going to come through as that Thermite stifles that Jen with the Jenny down. That's hard to think about right there, but it happens. Do you think that he says Jen Jen when he puts it down?
01:32:36 Gen-Gen, go! Doesn't seem very on brand for him, but I kind of hope against hope that it's what happens. Oh, for now, cloaked. Fully eliminated there in temper to fall. The first team from our lobby, you asked where Weave was. Well, a well-timed third party for them as they make their move onto Falcons. Could even take out this power squad that they've got on top of them, but are gonna instead take this small moment to loot, which I...
01:33:04 Ich glaube, es ist ein Wunderschön. Aber wenn sie mit Falcons sind, dann vielleicht ein Handshake ist, was ihr braucht. Ich will sagen, das ist nicht was Falcons ist für. Typically, diese squad werden sehr aggressiv auf dich. Und wir sind einfach komplett auf die anderen squadsen, um die Falcons wegzunehmen. Und das wird die Duellen von Falcons unabhängig zu bekommen.
01:33:29 Yeah, they went ahead and just left the building. You're right. They do not like coexisting or cohabitating in any of those buildings. So taking the leave there for now. Flat currently in fifth place with 22 points on the board rotating over to grandma's house, which is typical of what we've seen E8 just do, right? You want to grab this survey beacon atop, hit the player scan or man scan as you've heard frequently.
01:33:54 For now, it seems like they're going to bide their time, smoke it out and see what their next course of action is. Having this Grandma's House beacon is super nice.
01:34:07 Es ist die Rite of Passage für alle Team. Ich denke, Vlader wird es jetzt nehmen, und Stallions sind in der Linie hinter dem. Disguys, wieder zu kommen, ein bisschen early in die Lobby. Sie können nicht mehr auf die Rotation machen. Und sie sind auf die Wraith-Port mehr als ich sie in Splitts gemacht habe. Es scheint, das ist die Antwort für Disguys, denn sie sind nicht in Bangalore zu machen. Das bedeutet, dass es ein Ult-Excel-Hungry Team ist.
01:34:36 Also, you can see when Design upgrades those Evo Shields, which perk he locks in. That first one is going to be the ultimate cooldown, so he'll get it faster coupled alongside Alt Excels that he usually has, but you can see none for the time being, but a Wingman Race. I mean, name a more dynamic duo. I'll wait.
01:34:56 Ja, right? Das ist das, was Design gemacht sein ist, mit dem Wingman zu sein, die, dank Gott, ist auf den Boden, auf den Boden zu kommen, zu können, so viele Leute so schnell. Mit der Maschinen, vielleicht Design wurde ein bisschen nerfed, aber DSG nicht so minden, das ein bisschen. Sie haben Timmy, aufzuhören, aufzuhören, aufzuhören, aufzuhören.
01:35:20 Love that he grabs that Evac Tower to rotate ahead of Anmu and just catch him. If I'm Anmu right there, I just am like, really? Really, Timmy? We gotta do this? And he did. And there goes the ult. Excel to get the Beast of the Hunt a little bit closer. And for now, they'll regroup.
01:35:42 DSG ist eigentlich auf eine ziemlich silent Seite der Map für den Moment. Sie haben noch ein paar Teams zu run into. Aber wir wissen, dass Liquid, unsere Winters von dem letzten Spiel, sollte sich auf den Momenten beurteilen. So ein paar Leute auf der Seite, die vielleicht nicht in SurveyCamp sind, wie sie vorher waren, sind noch immer wieder auf die Wim.
01:36:03 of Team Liquid who are coming up from the south. I want to take a moment to actually talk about Team Liquid's pathing. I'm going to take a creative liberty and illustrate how they were rotating up last game as we caught on to them just around here at Mod, where they then went up through Geyser, actually sticking around here for a beacon, and then moving up towards Fragment, into Epicenter this way, down, around Survey.
01:36:31 Und dann über und in Skyhook für die win. Das Mal, Liquid, wenn Sie sich jetzt sehen, ist jetzt auf der Positionierung folgendermaßen, und es wäre eine große Divergence gewesen, wenn sie nach Disguised sind. Ich würde sie sehen, dass sie ihre Patten von früheren und durch die Epicenter-Side kommen, mit der Prüfungs-Rotate und vielleicht... ...hitting das Beacon.
01:36:56 Yeah, you're Creative Liberty at first. I thought you were driving the Big Dipper there, and then it just got a little squiggly. But yeah, making its way over to Grandma's house in the north to grab that survey beacon because, as you'll see, you'll pick up all of the information of what's going on in that Skyhook area. Now, very unforgiving because there's going to be two separate ways to get in there, but we've already got action that's going to be breaking through Furia on your screen. Vaxlon kind of...
01:37:21 Holding up inside of Diner, you've got the teams inside the building just north of them. But it's going to be the Bloodhound scan that gives that information away.
01:37:32 Unfortunately in Skyhook, you can bunker down for a really long time. With the amount of teams that are running Catalyst, I think a lot of people in this ring are going, well, why would we fight? We don't know where next ring is going. We don't need a better position. In the next minute, that should change. But until then, it's going to be mostly the teams that are fighting outside of Skyhook that are drawing the most attention. Teams like Stallions that, granted, do not want to swing into nades. Retsy actually hurls a nice one. Could find some cracks.
01:38:00 We'll see what the cons from Stallions are like over the next couple of seconds. Moretzi gets double swung on shot in the back, doesn't even trade back 50 damage instead. Stallions have got ahead for the hills because this fight, this fight is lost, Tiff.
01:38:12 It is going to attract the attention of everyone in the lobby that is still trying to make their way into Skyhooking. You already drew out the pathing. This is right where Liquid Alienware should be heading. And as you can see, we pull out that full picture. They're on the opposing side of the tracks. Now, will they make their presence known in this fight or will they make a well-approached third party as Alv and Jalohan has moved up towards the roof here?
01:38:39 In a weird way, the fact that these shots have stopped may actually have saved both teams from the wrath of Liquid Alienware, because I don't see anyone sticking around and watching this fight, waiting for them to be discovered, and we haven't seen...
01:39:01 Any gunfire from either squad in the past 30 seconds. It's given more than enough time for Liquid Alienware to move on past. And it's a bit of serendipitous silence for them both. Yeah, yup. It was in that vicinity as well. And they dived right back south and disguised. More action for them. Job's not done. Enemy throwing out the knuckle clusters. We do have... Oh, that nade connects. Jet goes flying. And here's design.
01:39:27 into the void to reposition, but gets caught out retribution from Deeds across the way. Who knew that we would be calling out Deeds, Gent, and Design playing against each other, especially Design and Gent. After so much history together in the ALGS, Anmu, formerly a championship-winning IGL, could make their way down, perhaps rescue the banner.
01:39:55 On the low ground, with Designful now being full thirsted, Timmy's eating Crossfire from Anmu. And just this IGL is denying the path forward. Forward Disguised, what will he do now that he's down to a duo? Can he even deny something like this Rez with the angle that Anmu has? I don't think he can.
01:40:13 Oh, he's going to stick it. Oh, the angles, though. You're right. He's going to keep on trying to make that happen, but we'll eventually have to invest the mother load in some knuckle clusters, but time is of the essence. We're sitting at about 20 seconds, but the damage coming through, and honestly, with the perks, you get all of the outlines from the players, and Fuse. Oh, my God, enemy. He takes down both of them after the res happened. Now, that is Fuse.
01:40:43 just on a ridiculous level Timmy knows that he's got this in the bag swooping in on to both of them enemy fuse changes the game for design
01:40:55 Oh, mein Gott. Du denkst, dass dieser Mann in Apex-Comp für einen Zeitpunkt ist. Er hat sich mit anderen Spieler spielen hier heute, wie Krook. Aber seit seinem Zeitpunkt auf DSG ist, dieses Squad hat so Cerebral, so fun zu sehen. Sie sind immer mit der Legend-Composition. Aber Sie wissen, was sie sind? Die Ring. Und es tut. Real bad.
01:41:23 It's the one thing you can't outplay in Apex Legends. Enemy's medkit actually will go off. He actually might be able to get a second one. I think he will. But I do wonder whether he's actually able to make it into the ring as a result. Waits out the banner. It's going to be real close. And Enemy doesn't have a lot of medkits to continue this. He's walking right up next to NRG who have just Pharaoh Fluid in the door.
01:41:48 I think Reduction just told me that he did 562 damage there with those nades, so kind of cracked, if that's what I just heard in my ear. But we turn our attention to the teams that have thrived so far in Skyhook, and NRG just on the outside of the edge here, making their way in, destroying those Watson fences, trying to clear out this building. We go down.
01:42:13 As a team landing in Sky West, going down in 19th, not what they were hoping to cook up. An enemy has made it in right next to NRG without having been spotted. Not a great spot in the zone, very, very close to the next ring, but not as close as Liquid Alienware, who have landed right next to it, even taking the building, this low ground, and making it their own. Good rotation from Liquid.
01:42:42 All right, Liquid, you won map number two with eight eliminations. And it was, you know, in Skyhook. Despite the long rotation out of Dome, we've made it here and have found ourselves well positioned for that next zone. For Furia, though, Keon on the lifeline would love to hear how they're going to approach this. Let's jump into a listen-in.
01:43:05 Okay, so now we should look to cross them with your next smoke. We should go now because they wasted scan. I'm gonna scan back. Come left, come left. I'm going, I'm going.
01:43:16 Der Rampart. Wir sind gut. Wir sind gut hier. Wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon, wir sind gut. Keon!
01:43:42 Can we blow that up? Not really, no. Looking for a vert on it. I got him over here. He's on the outside, on the outside, on the outside.
01:43:54 All I hear is that's gonna be the problem, but I need a way to solve it. While we were in that listen and flat moved into this building neighboring Cloud9 and took down Team Falcons to do so. That'll eliminate a pretty big threat for CCE, who are in a power position. Last game.
01:44:20 Really big fan of CCE's position. Got taken out by Falcons flying in on top of them. This time they are again in a great spot with Rampart walls on height in the next zone.
01:44:33 Und jetzt mit Falcons weg, vielleicht werden sie nicht landen. Und dann können Sie auch ihre Rampart Wallen sehen, überlegen so viele Kills, so viele Kills, das könnte CCEs sein. Und ich kenne sie Kills, Tiff, weil so viele Teams werden müssen, aus der westen Seite der Zone, dass ich garanke Sie, sie nicht all überleben. Das ist eine der größten Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf-Gandalf!
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01:45:22 Der Replicator hat sich in der Mitte der Exit zu dieser Tunnel gespielt. Vielleicht kann man das mit dem Truck spielen für ein bisschen survivability, aber der Most Hated wird direkt neben der Furion. Oh, aber Oblivion auf der BOTTOM der Schrein sendet es auf NRG und nehmen sie aus. 11 Squads hier in dieser kleinen Zone von Skyhook, sehr typisch von dem wir gesehen haben. A Dark Veil splits die Zone in half und allows Aiden zu nehmen hier.
01:45:50 It looked like such a good nade, but then immediately got turned around. In fact, so much so that Oxygen may just fall entirely. In fact, they do. C9 joining them, and CCE from up on height have been able to collect almost no kills for their trouble. Instead, defending underneath them against Liquid has taken the majority of their time. They've still got a good spot, but the kills having not come through could be very, a very bad sign for CCE. We'll see what Sheila's able to do up here.
01:46:19 Not a whole lot through this Catalyst wall right now. And without a Seer that used to be paired with Rampart for this very purpose, you can't really shoot through Catwalls. I'm scared. The last time I saw a Sheila on high ground was way back on a Storm Point North Pad game, and it was Knock behind the Amped covers with a Sheila. This time, World's Edge, you've even got the Longbow looking to connect straight down onto that team overlooking them. That's going to be most hated.
01:46:47 Und ihr seid, ihr seid, die Trine ist, was sie können. Aber für Furia, auf der Opposite Seite der Circle, mit SSG und sogar Solo von Stallions, haben wir unsere Arbeit für uns gemacht.
01:47:00 Moving down towards the south, towards where Fioria were just set up for this ring close. Having the last bit of hype remaining in this zone should be the key that Fioria need to find a game win. They've just got to look out underneath them. Team Liquid pushing up on CCE, playing with fire on that Rampart squad. Oh, the drop down from Yaguarez to avoid the nade reinforces the door. We're trying to hold out for as long as possible here.
01:47:29 See where CCE eventually jumps down, Vaxlon, a rogue pickup onto a member of CCE, and then Alb swoops in and takes out another team. So for now, a lay of the land, a dark veil for Team Liquid to hopefully aid them in their rotation out.
01:47:45 Remember that Most Hated are playing out of the tunnel as well, leading up from Landslide. They are untouched. They are not affected by this cluster of teams that is exiting the buildings. CCE go down. Stallions go down. Four teams left. And Most Hated, again, are nowhere to be seen. Yeah, Guarez just body blocks for Yanya. Well, he's got the shield back going through. And Furya making their appearance, finally.
01:48:11 Already putting damage onto Most Hated. We've taken down Awoke. We've got angles around the boulder. And it's just a matter of time before we have to drop down. But SSG fully healthy on the low ground, taking out Liquid Alienware. And again in the top five, this is SSG's day. Playing off the low ground, they should have to leave the building at the same time as FURIA. No catalyst for them. Can they find a way to separate these fights? Manage to avoid FURIA somehow.
01:48:39 We saw what Fuse can do in the hands of the enemy. And I want to see more from SSG. But Furia, they jump down. Madness falls. Vaxlon to boot as well. What can Keon do? On the lifeline, it's phony. It's Koi. We swing the final two. The Hitfire has come through. And SSG continue the dominance here in map number three. How do they win their second game?
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Dominanz von SSG und strategische Wendungen prägen den Spieltag
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01:49:30 In Apex, you can move everyone necessary into the necessary space and still have them fall because they get a little bit outplayed. And that is absolutely what SSG does to FURIA in the final zone. And honestly, can we talk about Xynu on the Fuse pickup as well? I was really curious to see how many Fuses would come through in North America. And it's more than I typically thought. We've got Enemy on DSG. We have Xynu on SSG. And like you said, this is their second win in three maps.
01:49:58 Everything they've had on World's Edge has been a top five finish. It's incredible what SSG has been able to do. And the fact that they've got two wins. Tiff, so close to getting them some of those nice points that come with finding three of them. Oh, yeah, that would be, oh my gosh. We were like obsessed with those bonus points last split and they never happened.
01:50:23 Now, I fear that by bringing it up, I've cursed SSG, but it is theoretically possible if you score more than 50 points above the competition or win three or more of the games, you're getting bonus points on top of the points that you already get for winning match days and whatnot. It is just one, and I say just one, but when it comes down to the end of our regular season, when we're looking down the barrel of what is to come for split two playoffs.
01:50:49 One point can change the trajectory between you going to LAN and you sitting at home or in the audience. It really can. So important day for SSG to come out and perform. I mean, they have played really well. They're a team that a lot of people respect quite a bit and ultimately played quite well making it up to the top 20 teams of the playoffs. I believe they made it up to 13th, placing third in the regular season. This is a team that...
01:51:18 Nobody should be doubting coming into this split, but I also didn't suspect that they'd be coming out and taking out Falcons during their first, or rather during their second day of the regular season. So I'm surprised to see them taking the lead by this large of a margin. Yeah, that's kind of tough, right? We spoke to Zero at the end of the North American broadcast just yesterday, right? And I think it was a quote that I'd witnessed on social media where he was talking about anything less than first is a disappointment.
01:51:47 And after our first three games on World's Edge, you know, they're not in first. They're not having a bad day by any means. And they could go on some crazy back-end run on Stormpoint to change where they're currently at. But with SSG having such a dominating performance on World's Edge, even if they just kind of carry that momentum slightly with some more top fives or even a well-needed top 10, this could be the day where they...
01:52:13 I don't even want to say have a disappointment for Falcons, but maybe. Exactly. I'm going to take those words and sort of...
01:52:21 Ja, das ist, dass wir nicht so gut sind, dass wir nicht über Falcons haben, so viel als es SSG haben, und das ist ein tolles Mal. Und das ist ein tolles Turnier, weil Falcons sind noch sehr gut, obwohl dieses Spiel vielleicht nicht weitergehen. SSG hat die erste Platz mit 19 Punkte. Furia ist auch sehr gut. Sie haben nicht gewonnen, aber Furia, und ich glaube, das Listenin wir haben mit ihnen, ist der Position.
01:52:50 in den 3rd, 4th, und 5th Zonen ultimately put them in a much better spot than many squads would have imagined if they had a right to.
01:52:59 Quite impressive. And you're right to call in on that listening because they're like, this is going to be a problem. It's like, how do we solve it? And they walk away with double digit eliminations. Most hated that performance they had in tunnel, eliminating Yup and balancing around the replicator and getting out into the open. That team fight saved their long game. As we jump on over to the back half of this lobby disguised, walk away with four eliminations. Now, granted.
01:53:26 That whole area, that fight in Countdown, was so tough for them. And we said it, right? North of 500 damage alone from enemy when he was trying to stick that res. It was just time was of the essence. And that ring, once you get into the later half or later half of the mid-map, it starts ticking hard. And they just could not get out of there.
01:53:47 The disguised play with the Nades is going to live rent-free in my head forever. I will not be facing a Fuse team for a very long time, I really hope. But given how much the ALGS tends to inspire ranked play in North America, somehow...
01:54:03 I doubt it. DSG, do go down without any placement points, but with four kills. And that alone should be very impressive. I'm surprised they didn't get any placement points as well, because enemies survived for quite a while. Now SSG, taking a look at their stats off of this match, do have a lot to be proud of, especially Koiful, with 2,000 damage in a singular game.
01:54:29 I mean, these are solid, right? A 2K in this level of Lobby, quite impressive. I'd love to go ahead and get Rain Day back in here so we can start chatting about this, but it's a good chunk of elimination. Seven overall, very nicely.
01:54:44 für SSG, die haben auf den Tisch gewonnen, ob wir in Game 2 waren, oder in Game 3 waren. Und in fact, weil wir so viel zu viel reden, in Game 2 waren, es ist die einzige, die sie nicht gewonnen haben. Ich meine, das ist unglaublich, von dem Start. Und, again, es geht um, da sind great players in Apex Legends. Ich kind of look at es in diese Weise, wo wir haben zu diesem Punkt, mit Apex being jetzt 5 Jahre alt, Jahr 4 VLGS officially, dass...
01:55:10 There's a lot of skill everywhere. It's not like somebody is a bad player or can't hit shots. So what is the difference between a successful team or not? Maybe you have these moments where Hal and Zero, but...
01:55:22 For most of the teams, I feel like it's just a synergy thing. And I feel like there happens to be some really good synergy with how they've started. They've shown in scrims, they've shown it here in the first two match days, but can they keep it up is really now going to be the question because they've made a heck of an introduction. Somebody who knows a little bit about SSG and definitely knows a lot about the Pro League as well. He's a longtime pro and one of the faces of the scene. Let's bring it up to Drops, who's going to be joining us here for the half.
01:55:47 Halftime Show. Representing the Spurs hat, my man. You know, as a Lakers fan, I don't know if I can give love to the Spurs right now dropped. You're making this a hard intro, man, but hey, still happy to have you and welcome to the show. Yeah, I'm happy to be here. Thank you guys for having me.
01:56:05 So, you know, one of the things that I think is interesting, because you have had such a journey here in Apex with previously Optic, and now with your new roster as well, representing yesterday and your guys' performance, you were on SSG prior to that. We talked at Land Before You and Znial and Frex split up, and that SSG no longer exists. In fact, kind of maybe the talk of the town right now in terms of...
01:56:27 These three games, I want to just get your take on how you feel the landscape is in North America. There's been so many roster changes, so many big conversations, but as a pro in this offseason, in scrims heading into the first weekend of split two, what are your thoughts as to where people stand in North America and yourself?
01:56:45 I think that it's definitely been like the craziest roster mania and roster changes that we've ever seen in Apex. So it's definitely been very interesting to say the least. I think for myself personally, you know, it was definitely rough for me because I came off of a bad performance last split. So it's like I didn't have, you know, I didn't have, I guess, the...
01:57:12 bargaining power that some other teams had with the EWC and, you know, so on and so forth. So definitely a very crazy time for Apex Comp. And I mean, exciting for some people, you know, I've seen a lot of people saying that the super team with Hal and Zero and stuff is makes it boring for them. And, you know, I can see that perspective too. But yeah, I mean, just a crazy time for Apex Comp, for sure.
01:57:40 It's 100% crazy. I personally don't think it makes it boring. It just makes a lot of room for other teams to kind of step up and look at a level. And granted, I loved something that you said there. And it was interesting because you're like, I didn't have the bargaining power when it came into Roster Mania. There's a lot of recency bias based on performances, right? So what are some of the things that you did when putting together the squad?
Teamzusammensetzung und Spielanalyse von SSG
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01:58:04 Granted, you picked up a solid coach slash analyst. You guys are working with Raven now. Yep. Yeah, no, we have Raven, which I'm really excited about. Yeah, like by no means, you know, the team I have now is not, we're not slackers at all. Just kind of speaking to the entire roster mania, you know, there was a lot of things that happened before I came to this squad and how we came together.
01:58:33 there was just a bunch of different things that happened. So, yeah, I'm very happy with the team that I ended up coming to. And yeah, I mean, it's just been a crazy ride, to say the least.
01:58:49 Well, Drop, I mean, while your journey has been a crazy ride, I want to focus in on what we've got today, because walking through the final circles with pro players, with coaches, is always one of my favorite parts of the broadcast. So let's take a look at the first game. This was the first SSG win, although maybe not the last, of the day. And this one's over by Overlook. What did you make of this final 3v3 and the way that SSG were able to take control of this endgame?
01:59:19 Um, I actually really love the way that SSG played this game. I actually rewatched their VOD back after the game because I would probably use the same way they played this myself. I mean, they just basically held out their back towards Climatizer's side. They didn't allow the SkyWest Trials team to come in behind them. And then essentially from there, their whole side of zone was just free. And they just walked in towards the rock behind them on the replay right now.
01:59:49 und sie haben ihren Platz auf der Seite. Und ich denke, sie blockiert alle von der Seite zu kommen und dann gewonnen die 3v3 zu Ende, die sie in den Vorteil hatten. Almost managed zu machen hier. Ich denke, SSG kam aus einer Powerful Position, aber die Geschichte ist nicht wirklich über sie in der Endzone, besonders wenn wir in Skyhook haben, und viele Teams in der ganzen Welt. Ich weiß, dass du in dieser Situation bist, aber...
02:00:16 How can you mitigate spots like this? Is this something where you sort of throw your hands up? Or how do you think about in an endgame scenario when things are so chaotic, making the best play for the team?
02:00:28 Ich glaube, es kommt einfach nur zu split-seconden Decision-Making. Ich meine, von mir ist es, dass SSG versucht, in der Balcony zu fangen, um die Green-Building-Team zu fangen. Aber ich denke, sie haben einfach verloren. Das war es für mich. Und dann, sie haben einfach nur Falken gespielt. Ich glaube, wenn sie Falken kämpfen würden, sie hätten einfach verloren. Ich denke, sie haben einfach verloren. Ich denke, sie haben einfach verloren.
02:00:53 A little bit of misintentions, right? And it happens. Fioria still managed to, in this last game, have a really good spot. Again, SSG right below them. And it does feel like we're saying their name a lot. I was really impressed with the way that both of these teams were able to navigate finding themselves in this building. But final 3v3s like this are really tough. And you did mention that in Game 1, you went back, you watched the VOD. When you're going back and watching VODs like this...
02:01:21 Are you thinking about what POIs you're planning to draft in the future? What rotational paths you'd like from those positions? What are you looking for when you're doing Vaudevue as a player? Yeah, so that's actually exactly what I was doing because in the next Pro League day that we play, we're going to have first pick. And SkyWest Trials is obviously a very top tier POI that is an option for us.
02:01:47 Wenn ich re-Wathing das VOD habe, dachte ich, okay, sie spielen diese Weise und es war wirklich gut. So ich re-Wathe und re-Wathe es, wie ich sagte, und ich dachte, ich würde wahrscheinlich die gleiche wie sie das von SkyWest spielen.
02:02:04 A lot of good play here as well, Dropton. It's great to see you competing and thank you for taking the time, my friend, to join us on the broadcast. Always great to hear your insight and spend a little time with you here when the competition isn't as fierce. Hopefully you enjoy watching the rest of the games and good luck in the rest of the split, man. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you guys for having me.
02:02:25 All right, dropped, ladies and gentlemen. Dia, great breakdown as well with those final circles. Some interesting questions. We will simmer on those while you take a little bit of a break and Tiff and I get ready for Game 4. You've earned it. And of course, we will see you back here for 5 and 6. Tiff, let's start talking about...
Stormpoint und POI-Draft Strategien
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02:02:46 Game number four, because we switch it up, we go to Stormpoint, new map, new opportunities, and again, the POI draft now has its impact yet again, where teams who have prioritized those picks for Stormpoint get a chance to see if that's going to level up their game. Yeah, let's go ahead and look at some of our picks, but honestly, I wish we could have kept dropped for this POI draft discussion. My man was on it in terms of VOD reviewing, looking for maybe what they want to play out of in particular for their next match day, but...
02:03:15 The pick number five was the first time we see a zone go for Stormpoint. SSG grabbed Lightning Rodden earlier in EMEA. 07 was landing Lightning Rodden, didn't really find a lot of success for there. But SSG has been having such a phenomenal day, but I think it'll be really interesting. Also, Team Liquid grabbing Echo HQ. It makes sense knowing how much experience they have out of Echo and because a lot of the zones have been pulling south.
02:03:41 Ich meine, die verrätsten Dinge ist, dass wir unsere Nummer 1-team haben, ihre 40-team pick, die letzte Draft pick, die Dome, zu erzeugen, eine 1st-Place auf Worlds-Edge für heute. Das ist ganz schön, das ist ganz schön. Wenn man sich anschauen, dass das gestern war, es ist noch eine 5-team pick für Stormpoint. Also, ich glaube, es ist 35, dass sie in der Lage sind.
02:04:07 Es ist noch ein sehr starkes Show-Case von SSG, um die Tide zu tun und finden, wenn sie nicht Prioritieren, die Welt's Edge sind, noch ein Relativ-Threat. Und es geht zu sagen, vielleicht gibt es noch mehr Faktoren, als wenn du landierst. Das ist die POI-Draft.
02:04:24 Hier in terms of the value that people are putting on it in the ALGS.
02:04:54 So it's a very similar position on Stormpoint, not as south, of course, as Coastal. Because honestly, in my brain here, I see why Echo goes first. Echo, we heard earlier just how much loot they have, specifically from Luke over in EMEA, the coach and analyst of Game and Gladiators. The only thing I have to say about this is, well, I love that Trident was picked up. No one electing to grab Prowler's Nest yet, honestly. And I don't blame them, because that's probably the worst POI that you could possibly.
02:05:23 At least our pros think so in terms of that as well. We're still keeping track of all of these numbers as well. The draft took place two days ago. We've got the full stat sheets. I was looking at day one a little bit there, but again, still SSG with Lightning Rod used their fifth pick to prioritize this position here. One of the notable things too is that with 36...
02:05:44 um they pick sky east and i feel like that's open so late because of the contest that people don't want to do in sky west but when you really look at it tiff it's still a very strong location to be starting from so in many ways while they did have a later pick i wonder if it's just an undervaluing of the contest possibility of sky east and and a lot of teams going uh maybe overlooking the value of picking any one of those pois
02:06:12 It's hard, right? If you're comparing Sky East to Sky West, I'll take Sky West all day. Everyone will. And Sky East usually gets picked way later on. But for now, we'll see where that zone is going right off the rip. And Oxygen Esports in Barometer with a potential for a good zone. Now, granted.
02:06:34 Once they hit that ring console and start finding that information, we'll see where they would like to play this zone from. But this is going to give teams like Cloud9, Liquid Alienware, Tripods, and even Native Gaming from Jurassic a power position to hit that rotate quick. Yeah, you see it so often. These barometer starts, there's going to be huge rotations over into the south side of the map.
02:06:58 You know, sometimes it works out well for those early rotated teams or teams that start there. Oxygen Esports and Aiden Reed and Frex, you know, being able to, Aiden Vane and Frex being able to really find their rhythm a little bit yesterday, trying to pick up pace as well. Today wasn't a bad performance at all. It was actually quite strong. But when you talk about rotations, this is where our native is. You see McLovin, who is...
02:07:22 Ich bin selbst, nicht selbst Titel, Titel by his IGL Arcane, die uns als The Truth. Die Truth. Die Truth. Them and Rambo make a very fast rotation. And it's because, you know, maybe they feel very, very confident about IGLing on this map. Arcane has let us know about it. And they're going to find this spot with a Catalyst and secure it up here.
Team-Taktiken und Meta-Analyse auf Stormpoint
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02:07:43 Really interesting to see. Yeah, Oxygen have moved out of Barrow and into a neighboring building, but for teams that are going to be making their way from the upper areas around, Falcons will be able to kind of rotate here through Prowler's Nest, get some shield bats maybe, or not shield bats, some attachments and cells and syringes, and also grab that Evo cache for clearing out the nest. Yeah, it's one of those things, you know, you don't have to be too confident to do it, but you know you're making noise. You know that if things...
02:08:12 If you are a little bit atypical, then you might be attracting the attention or the ire of some neighboring squads. But overall, Falcons not worried about that too much. NRG sitting at 7th place overall with 19 points on the day. Fun, Reptar and Nocturnal rocking the Catalyst, Bangalore and Bloodhound. It's just been so stereotypical for about 75% of the lobby to be rocking something just like this or exactly like this.
02:08:41 Und für eine gute Idee, auch. Wie fühlst du Kostik aus dem Meta? Und Katalistin kommt wieder mit diesen Veränderungen? Ich meine... Ja, es ist noch vieles Gefühl, ob man sich die Veränderungen aussehen. Aber Katalistin, wenn man die Veränderungen auf die Veränderungen hat, und die Veränderungen auf die Veränderungen auf den Piercing Spikes auf 5 Sekunden...
02:09:05 I think it makes sense, especially on Stormpoint, when you have some of these heavy-hitting rotations out in the open. It's going to allow you that shred of cover. And honestly, when we saw it just in those World's Edge endings in Skyhook, just really dividing the endgame circles coupled with Smokes, it's a little bit chaotic, but it makes sense. One of the weird things, too, is kind of what changes the meta in Apex.
02:09:30 Es ist ein Charakter zu fallen, aber manchmal ist es ein Charakter zu bekommen, ein Necessary Buff zu haben, und manchmal sind es die Intangibles, die du fühlst von einem Distanz, die es so großartig ist. Fuse, doch?
02:09:44 Being able to get that Ringmaster perk, taking away, losing damage, getting, I guess, less damage from explosives, which really never had a place for most people's loadout. But now being able to see Ring consoles, it's completely changed and given options to a more aggressive style while not having to sacrifice the information, which is, you know, often do or die crucial to living or actually having a chance.
02:10:07 in einem Spiel wie dieses Spiel. Das ist wo wir DSG haben. Aber jetzt ist es ein vieles Druck von Albert Lely und Squad. Das Eifel ist almost down, und es ist Timmy, um die Körner zu machen, auch.
02:10:17 He may not make it, Tiff. This is close. They're just trying to get out of dodge, but Aberlily and Squad are right on the track, and they do get Timmy. Yeah, Alp on the forefront right there, able to just take a chunk out of DSG's health. Now the Dark Veil comes out, allowing them to push through with cover. We're going to dodge out of that frag and blow it with the scan, looking for the remnants of him. Design has fallen, and now can we find enemy?
02:10:44 Ja, er sollte sich aus dem Weg kommen. Wenn du DSG bist, ist das was du sagen. Es ist noch eine der Legenden, die wir nicht sehr oft sehen. Ich würde sagen, die Least-Picked-Pool-Legend ist die Support. Und so, wow, da sind ein paar Lifelines in EMEA. Ich glaube, ich denke, wir sehen nicht mehr hier in Nordamerika. Du wirst wissen, dass wir eine Switch haben. Wir haben es auch mit Falkons gesehen. Und wir sehen, dass das immer weitergeht. Aber es gibt keine Chance für die Bannersen. Aber es gibt keine Chance für die Bannersen oder eine Chance für die Bannersen.
02:11:12 Game for DSG enemy. With Rexy still on the trail, I mean, it may not be a long game.
02:11:20 No, but can we just talk about how we pan on over? We see a Slayer Clutch, now a reset for them just on the outside of that next zone. Stallions, though, on the hunt, had taken down some members of DSG, but job's not done for them. They go ahead, evac on over to Command Center. Now, here's the deal. That scan's gonna connect. One hostile detected.
02:11:43 I can only imagine, of course, that this is enemy on blue, and Alb is just ready to put the finishing touches on to DSG. Connects for 126, swaps the gun, and goodbye, DSG. You better not forget about me, says Albert Lely, one of those names that we were saying for so long in the early years of Apex Legends. And now you find out that with this team, maybe with Retsy as well, former Sentinels, and of course just a OG Apex Legends pro.
02:12:12 Which alone, maybe they could really figure it out. Stallions have certainly charged into battle quite heavily here. As you see a little bit more of the barometer shaked up, and south it is for all the teams, except Stallions, who just finished up their meal of DSG.
02:12:25 Good call there for Oxygen to move into that building and native gaming to waltz on in there quite early on, thanks to the neighboring POI of Jurassic. But keep your eyes on Team Falcons here. They've hit the rotate out of Launchpad to wrap around and grab this survey beacon to see what is free on that neighboring zone. SSG also waits it out in Stormcatcher on their rotation from Lightning Rod to grab that ring console information and a survey beacon scan to determine their endgame pathing. NRG here, though, flying.
02:12:55 Just towards the north to see how they're going to wrap through. And I can only imagine that stallions and vanity will likely run into each other as they keep looking for that extra information.
02:13:05 Taking a note of the picks up on top of your screen. 19 out of 20 Bloodhound picks. And 2 out of 24 Fuse. DSG was one of them. They will be out. Not quite sure who the other one is. At least as of now. But one Rampart. One Valkyrie. And one Loba. And what you might be interested to note. Is that is all on the same team. CCE yet again.
02:13:31 with some unusual picks here in the Pro League. But hey, why not? And I love it. And I feel like this is the time, the split tip, where you need to make strong changes. You got to believe in yourself. Maybe you have to shake things up a bit because, I don't know, if you just feel lackluster and let things happen, it feels like a lot of teams are going to run away with this one. I like the change up. And I like the confidence, too.
02:13:52 The confidence, of course, but a lot of the Legend composition picks that we see from CCE delineate from their landing spots here on Stormpoint, more specifically Command Center, right? You think of the Evac Tower or a Valgold from that rotational aspect where the Graf Cannon is. You can get that extra height to hit a rotate specifically south, so we'll keep tabs on them, but SSG making their way and Howl with a bit of a rap play, playing small per se.
Dynamische Kämpfe und strategische Entscheidungen
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02:14:21 I mean, that was incredible from Falcons. And that was just unbelievable from SSG. You gotta be thinking, there's no way we just died to that. And now probably the hardest 2v3 you could imagine here. A full three of Jim Burton 0 and Imperial Hau on purples with SSG just trying to heal up and stay alive. While they are on reds, and there are opportunities, Koi and Phony. I mean, it's time to put your money where your mouth is here in terms of...
02:14:50 High performing. You're leading the lobby for a reason. Falcons don't like it. They're trying to take you out. And Zynu already paid the big price. I think it's a really good surprise attack for them. Now that scan incoming from SSG will give the information away of Falcons' current location. But with round two ring closing, we're just looking for angles here. Hal answers back with a scan of their own. Will they disappear through that gravcon and try to run away from Falcons?
02:15:18 Yeah, I mean, this is interesting because Falcons are in a tough spot with the zone pushing in. I'm not sure if they're going to be able to... I don't know. It's the question of do you buy it up more than you can chew? You can't really let this team get away. Just the confidence and the ability of these players, they're going to feel that they are in a right spot to take this fight. But I don't know. What does this mean? Not just for this play and finishing this off, but for the next play. Zero finds one. Gets the shield swap easy.
02:15:43 And they may just have to let one go with that. SSG though eliminated, but here's the problem. It's not that play, it's this play. With NRG hearing the noise, Falcons, they should be wary. NRG, show up. Rektar immediately throws down Beast of the Hunt. And for Falcons who can only tank this ring.
02:16:05 für so lange lange haben in Pylon hinein. Jetzt, was wirklich gut hier ist, dass NRG sind in den Aspects. Trifods, sie wollen Gate-Keeper die Gate-Keepers. Das ist das Risiko, wenn man versucht, eine Spiel wie dieses Spiel zu machen.
02:16:21 Ich meine, es ist die RISK, und jeder ist einfach nur für jemanden zu fallen, um sich zu holen zu holen. Es ist eine interessante, interessante Dynamik hier. Und ich glaube, Zero, Jim Burton und Imperial Howl wird einfach sagen, dass wir jetzt Gravity Lift haben? Ja. Ich glaube, es ist die Smartest Play. Sie werden es. Wo werden sie landen? Es ist ein Team da. Stallions wird relativ gut sein. Es wird nicht gut sein, aber es all angefangen hat mit dem, aber es all angefangen hat.
02:16:48 Jen, hier zu Catalyst, bekommt die Dark Veil für Stormpoint. Sie sofort schießt es, um die Line von Stallions auszutzen, und sofort wird es umgekehrt. Aber sie sind nicht alleine. Vanity ist auf der anderen Seite dieser Gate. So jetzt müssen sie nicht nur Stallions auszutzen, sondern Vanity.
02:17:08 Ja, aber sie stabilisieren und das ist die große Sache, aber sie haben den gleichen Faden auf dem anderen Seite. Es ist ein Team waiting für sie, und jetzt ist es ein Team in. So, instead of being the ones they kept, ist es wieder ein bisschen zu early, nicht genug genug zu dieser Party, wo sie werden zu haben, zu face pressure auf Multiple Sides, als auch. Ich weiß, Falcons haben etwas auf ihre Schlebe, aber, aber wieder zu diesem Team, eine Chance.
02:17:33 Es wird sehr, sehr schwierig sein. Jinn-Burton, Zero und Imperial-Hal, sie haben mit diesen Situationen gehalten. Imperial-Hal hat seine Team aus, und jetzt Zero wird auch helfen, als er hat die Rolle von IGL zu ihnen gehalten. Und sie sehen, wie sie auf die Situation handeln.
02:18:02 Ich habe mich nicht gesehen. Ich konnte nichts sehen.
02:18:19 Ich denke, das war in der ersten Zeit. Es war sehr Thanos-eske, in dem was zu passieren, was in Stormpoint zu passieren. Und das ist so, ich sage, du hast viel Platz, Tiff, aber du wirklich nicht. Du hast nur ein paar Möglichkeiten, und...
02:18:33 You could just get caught like that, and it was like they did their best, but once that SSG fight happened, it was almost predetermined there would be too many teams blocking their pathway out. Yeah, that's the risk that we talked about, right? You dive into Ring, take down SSG, but then you get gatekept by multiple squads, and you pop that Grav Cannon to maneuver around, but land in the open arms of multiple teams. And one calm there from Jen before we touch base on what's going to be happening over here towards Barometer is...
02:18:58 Wir können nichts sehen. Das ist das Visual Clutter, die diese Abilität sind so prevalent in heute's Meta. Das kann passieren. Wenn du in diese wirklich tight-knit Engagements hast, musst du sehen. Und wenn du keine Scanner hast, kannst du den Beast of the Hunt nicht, und du bist der Bloodhound-Player, bist du auf Catalyst. Das macht es ein bisschen mehr tough. Tri-Bots haben eine interessante Sache gemacht. Sie haben die Deeds mit dem Caustic gemacht. Es ist wirklich die einzige Caustic, die wir sehen in dieser Lobby.
02:19:25 It's from a Meta's past. And now, while holding onto it, you still will potentially see the threat. They're in a pretty decent spot right now. Not a lot of pressure. NRG are going to come from that southeast side. But I doubt that they're going to take bridge right away unless they get forced down from Oxygen Esports or Cloud9 who are sitting up on top of Barometer. On bottom of Barometer with Liquid Alienware on top of it. So right here, I think Tripods are actually in a great spot. Now NRG, who are in the middle of that fray, who made it difficult for...
02:19:52 Imperial HAL and the rest of Falcons to move in, they've got a chance to make a play themselves. They just have to stay low enough on the radar and find someplace safe. A Dark Veil, it's gonna buy them a little bit of time, but they have to figure out a place to play and it's looking like there aren't a lot of spots there.
02:20:09 Und Nox just rotated wider than anticipated to kind of look for that information. Here comes the Frag Grenade spam, and Fun takes a lot of damage. We hear Beast of the Hunt get popped elsewhere. Reptar deleted. Now Fun, only really a glass cannon Oxygen Esports, who's been here in this building on that opposing side, want to defend the home turf now. You run...
02:20:32 This issue of rotating into your own POI and holding from the beginning, you need resources, but they're still kitted out quite nicely despite how long they've been here. I think this should just be kind of a lesson. We've seen a very interesting macro move from teams on the east side and the southeast side rotating into Barometer. Or really more of like the east, maybe northeast side rotating into Barometer. It's very difficult. These are the spots that you have available with every team already there. Oxygen Esports, a good example of it.
02:21:01 It's not a lot. So, while they're in a good spot right here, they still have to take advantage of it. They've done the dirty work to get to 10th. Can they take it even further with this new squad here? They will give up a KP just to stay alive a little bit more as Liquid Alienware looks to maybe fall down here. Tripods will be eliminated as well. That Caustic will not make it into a top 5 yet again and get caught out on the rotation. But we've, all of a sudden, 11th place, Tip.
02:21:28 Starting to look like they've cleared out some space in front of them and have a chance to be aggressive. They need to finish the rest of flat. There should be one member left standing. You can see them with their enemy pings over there by that rock. The scan proves that true.
02:21:42 Now, are we swinging straight onto the last member? It seems as if that's the play we're going to make. Native there on the opposing rock. So, inevitable fate there for Flap. We turn our attention over to CCE, able to play the underside of this walkway here solely because of that Rampart-Loba combo. I gotta say, Arkane is backing it up here. I think he's putting himself in some pretty good top five.
02:22:10 Esk situation, says he's much better on Stormpoint. Prioritize our picks on World's Edge for the draft so we can offset that weakness. And look at that. Well, it's paying dividends here. They're looking like they could make an impact as we move into closer and closer of our final five here. 19 players still remaining. Round five closing here in 39 seconds as they have just that much time to make it in and find a safe spot. Boater, he's going to find a dark fail. That will block off half.
02:22:39 We got seven squads left and a rogue fun as a solo nearby this building. He had some pop-off moments.
02:22:56 He has a solo in some of the games yesterday. Got himself into a top three finish. We'll see if he'll be able to do that again. But for Weave, who have had this rotation, they had to use the Dark Veil. Also dodging through the Bang Ult. Spending a lot of resources to make sure they get to where they are. I don't love that position, but for now, it would cost the teams deeper into this building a lot to try and go for an angle on that. Keep your eyes over there on Native Piercing Spikes to anchor out that.
02:23:24 Ja. Ich meine, sie haben sehr interessante Spots, sie werden müssen, aber die Vorteil ist, wie wir sehen mit ANC-Outplay haben, ist, wenn man sich in den Top-Five-Situationen hat, multiple times in eine 6-game-Set sind, gute Dinge passieren. Wenn sie gewinnen, sie nicht gewinnen in EMEA gewinnen, sie haben 1st-Place auf dem Matchday. CCE ist nicht so weit genug zu tun.
02:23:51 But this could be the start, especially if World's Edge and Stormpoint, excuse me, goes their way. But Oblivion on top, they're sitting nicely. They really are. And I'm trying to look at their resources. And we jump on over to Reed's. Interesting to see here. They have been playing really well together. And I love that they've kind of got King of the Hill action up top here.
02:24:14 Keeping angles on all the teams, more specifically Weave, who have moved out of that crevice corner and in towards the opposing side of the building and all the piercings. Oh, the clutch reinforcement of the door from the outside from LOTR. That's the kind of play you love to see. It's nice. It just buys a little bit of time. The zone hasn't pushed yet.
02:24:35 So they're going to have enough time to kick it down, but it's going to make it predictable and it's going to give them something else to do besides shoot at them or throw nades, arc stars or apply pressure. So great heads up play there. CCE have been able to move.
02:24:46 Und benutze diese Wall für jetzt. Die Frage ist, was sie machen? Sie können sich das Schiele aussehen. Sie können vielleicht ein bisschen Solo-Player von Kap-On-Moba, wenn es so ist, und sie müssen zu leben. Aber Oblivion ist, wie sie in den Katalys sind, mit dem Katalys. Für so lange wie möglich, sie sagen zu ihnen. Native ist auch noch alive als 3. Archein ist noch auf blue. Aber Rambo und McLovin sind unten auf der Staircase. Es sind sechs Quads remaining.
02:25:14 Anybody's got a shot right now. Love that we're kind of toggling on this angle, but we just talk about all of the issues when you walk through an enemy Dark Veil and get crazy and now Beast of the Hunt active. We have to climb up through this. Dupe, Asivian, Zenial, biding their time, cutting off those line of sight before they hop on up. Look at CCE. Now this is interesting, right? You would usually make that kind of structure with a Watson Jenny behind it, but they don't play Watson, right?
02:25:43 Das ist interessant, weil man sieht, dass Watssons vielleicht einen großen Impact haben. Aber es ist die Lobo, die sie in dieser Position haben. Was können sie hier machen? Sie nehmen Yupp. Sie verlieren ein paar. Reeds also geht's in. Yupp eliminated. C.C.E. geht's auch weiter. Natives müssen auch fallen. Es sind Oxygen Esports und Oblivion, die haben die Gebäude gehalten. Und Weave ist auf der Bühne. Können sie machen? Oder will Oxygen finden? Oblivion hier mit Reeds und Blinks!
02:26:10 They may just be able to drop it in Tiff and finish it off. And it's looking like it could happen, but Oxygen Esports, they breathe life into their game and they win match number four. That is one of the end games that I'm going to have to run back on speed dial from like 15 different POVs. And at the end of the day, Oxygen Esports converting a barometer circle where they land as their drop spot.
02:26:39 All the way throughout is impressive. Now, it's quite interesting, right? Because you've got some changes. Frex is coming in from former SSG, playing alongside Oxygen. Reeds going from Oxygen Esports over to Oblivion, who find themselves kind of battling it out. That former roster in Oxygen Esports taking away that place out. But Reeds, of course, is going to have information from all the times that he's landed Barometer to make that play and go the long game.
02:27:04 You know, Tiff, I gotta do something, because it's not often that you see this, but we've been reached out to by a Twisted Humanoid who has a son named Alex Tiny Titan, who is having a 13th birthday, a big 13th birthday, and Oxygen Esports is his favorite org. So I want to give a big shout out to Tiny Titan, representing Oxygen, staying up late watching the ALGS. We appreciate you and all of our young fans out there, everyone who's aspiring to be a pro, and congrats on your favorite team getting a dub.
02:27:34 That's true. I love to see that. And it's so fun to see a lot of our up and coming younger Apex players, because who knows, one day maybe they'll be up here and you'll be casting on over them.
02:27:46 That is true. That is true. And I actually feel like as players are getting more invested at earlier ages, you know, we could be casting younger and younger players. And that just means they have longevity as a huge part of their esports careers. Well, it's so exciting to see that happen. Obviously, Oxygen Esports with the W there, Tiff. It was a tough in-game, though, to manage and even to anticipate how that was going to go. Barometer has that.
02:28:12 It's also one of those difficult things because you have layers upon it. A lot of buildings, a lot of floors to those buildings that you could play. And then there's a lot of outside space that in some ways is very, very safe. And in some ways you're getting shot from like 17 angles, depending on.
02:28:35 So it's a weird zone, and that's why I think it takes a lot of skill and a lot of clarity for a team to navigate it well and come out with a win.
02:28:43 Yeah, I think that's why I wanted to run it back. This is probably one of those things that I'll look at tomorrow in VOD review, similar to like what Dropped was talking about, because I want to see it from all those different angles and kind of slow it down and maybe pause and be like, these are the things that would have changed a course of action. But we've got the match for results up. Oxygen Esports walking away with 19 total points. Oblivion, who had moved in and taken the rooftop of that building initially, walk away with 18 and weave quite impressively. Eight eliminations.
02:29:13 und 15.
02:29:14 You know, I think one of the best things about Oxygen and, you know, these teams like Liquid Alienware is that they continue to stay relevant across different splits no matter who is joining that squad. And I have to only, as we show that back half of this, focus again on the SSG that has now separated. And Frex, I talked about him and the fit with SSG, but you can see just the talent and the experience that him as a player brings into an Oxygen squad. No hate on Reeds, but fitting in with Ada in vain.
02:29:44 Das ist jetzt ein Team, als auch, zu gewinnen und zu gewinnen. Und natürlich bei Land, sie wissen, was sie machen. Sie werden nur noch mehr Erfahrung mit dem. Es ist ein guter Start für Team Falcons. Aber als wir nachdenken, hier ist es wie das Final Fight ging, und Oxygen war es able, zu clean es up.
02:29:59 Yeah, I love that we get to see it from a different angle, right? Oxygen kind of drops down into the amped covers that CCE had positioned early on, and Oblivion reads here. Blinks are still up here. We lose out on Akimbo, who had dropped down earlier. Weave gets eliminated, and we just start frying, and it's not enough despite the jump down here. Vayne, Frex is right there. They stay healthy, and they just withstand somehow.
02:30:25 Oblivion on High Ground, it's not always the benefit to have the High Ground. I know we have been told that from the very beginning, but one of the things is when you land in Apex, unless you're Horizon,
02:30:34 You have a little bit of a hiccup. I call it a hiccup, but you're slow a little bit. Your aim doesn't quite immediately go back to full control, and that leaves you vulnerable. And Oxygen Esports taking that spot from CCE, which interestingly enough, credit to CCE, ended up being the winning spot. They just weren't able to survive there long enough. They bounce back into the fray with a win, put themselves in fourth place overall on the day with Flat, Liquid Alienware, and SSG leading the pack. Vanity right behind.
02:31:04 mit 29 points. Today, though, it's, you know, still two more games left. Anything can happen, especially on the likes of our backside, Tiff. That's true. And honestly, SSG, despite not having the best game, everything that they did on World's Edge, those two wins and a top five performance in the other game is exactly what was needed to keep that consistency moving across. Now, granted, we still have two more games to go. Can SSG hold on to the top of the leaderboard? We'll have to see after this break.
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02:33:15 What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Apex Legends Global Series. We've had a really long day. Lots of Apex action. Started things off with EMEA this morning. And now, two more maps to go for our North American region. I've got to welcome back Dia. Hope you enjoyed the break. And I know you are keeping eyes out specifically for that Barrow ending. And I just want to get your thoughts on that really quick before we jump into the final matches of the day. Two thoughts. One.
02:33:43 Almost Sheila, so close, love the knockdown shield play. Second thought, we see another team win from the low ground. Just very weird, just very strange that SSG managed to pull it off in match number three, winning up against Fioria in the low ground at Skyhook, and Oxygen managed to win against Oblivion in game number four from the low ground in Barometer.
02:34:07 Reindei war es ein bisschen über die Hiccups von Apex Legends und Horizons Anti-Hiccup-Booten. Aber das ist, ich würde sagen, ein ziemlich oddes Phänomenon und ein, dass Oblivion, wahrscheinlich, nicht zu lassen. SSG ist ein bisschen mehr, ein bisschen mehr, ein bisschen mehr Clear-Cut. Es ist aber auch sehr, dass Height-teams sind, dass es sich nicht zu lassen.
02:34:33 Das ist interessant, und wenn ich über die High-Ground gegen die Low-Ground denke, ich denke von Anakin und Obi-Wan. Und jetzt, wenn du all die High-Ground gewusst hast, das High-Ground nicht immer gewinnen. Das ist das wir hier sehen, für Apex Legends. Aber was das sind die Southeren Zonen auf Stormpoint? Aber wir schauen mit Oxygen hier, als sie auf den Boden getrennt auf den Bärow, starten das Leutungs-Prozess. Und wir sehen, ob sie kann es zurückgehen. Versatile Energie.
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02:35:23 Pulling close to them as well. I can't help but feel like this is a game that should favor them, but I cannot help but put respect on Liquid Alienware, who playing out of Echo, uncontested, have also done historically very well in rings like this.
02:35:40 This is going to be very similar to another ring that we witnessed in the EMEA region earlier today, right? Look where Cloud9 has immediately started moving towards. Now, granted, they are operating off a survey beacon. They did not get a ring console, but CyberCats was the team that had taken this location and tried very hard to clear out their back from FA Kids. Now, remember what happens in the late game? FA Kids make that late negative rotation around, eliminate the majority of CyberCats, and then go on to...
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02:36:38 mit Faceit Watch. Es ist die offiziell Multiview streaming platform für die ALGS. All you have to do is go to faceit.com slash watch, pick your favorite POVs. I know Diaz is that map view in particular, but see what you can track all the action from the comfort of your own home. And, you know, if you want to pull up some of the watch parties and the co-streams, have at it. Also, Main Broadcast loves you too. Map POV is goaded. Always map POV. It literally, it may, once you watch.
02:37:06 Apex with map POV, it changes the whole game for you. You can't go back. I can't go back. We can never go back.
02:37:17 Es ist schön, dass man das extra Informationen hat und wirklich eine Holistik gesehen hat. Wir haben bereits erwähnt über die Teams, die wir überlegen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen, um zu hoffen.
02:37:45 I'm really uncertain what their next move will be, because Trident from here does seem a little bit risky, especially if they're going to go through Jurassic. I'd much rather see them go south. But, you know, they're playing, I'm not. So let me backseat drive for a second. True, no backseat driving allowed. We'll check in with that later. Falcons, though, have elected to move in from the backside of Echo HQ, filtering up through the stairway, a scan to garner information.
02:38:14 And then they'll reassess accordingly, getting back to full health here. Now, this is interesting, right? Because initially when you got a good look at the zone, people were setting up for it to end maybe in pylon.
02:38:26 Maybe a minute or so later in a couple ring consoles, everyone has decided to move into Echo HQ. Cloud9 in particular, the front side of Echo HQ, Falcons in the back, and Furia, who we had witnessed going north with that trident, have doubled back around and are hitting player scan in Postal.
02:38:46 Das ist wahr. Ich denke, es ist sicherlich understandable, besonders wenn du auf ALGS gesehen hast. Split 1 war all über EchoHQ. Nordamerika, EMEA, any region you like, any time you like, wir waren bei EchoHQ. Und viele Spieler, rechtlich, haben wir das zu heart. Der Fakt ist, dass wir viele Teams in das PoI sehen ist, und es will also mean, dass squads, ein bisschen später zu der Rotate,
02:39:15 Speaking of that...
02:39:39 Naughty able to stick that res onto Sauce. We don't want to lose him just now. And get back into a building. Throw the Pharaoh Fluid on the door. And Chaotic and Beast of the Hunt gives him some speed and some great vision there on what's to come. We've got a distance pinged on the map. But there's so many squads here for the time being. If you haven't already rotated into Echo HQ, you're going to be late to the party now. Granted, I...
02:40:08 I don't know where it's going. This would be one of the craziest moments if it does decide to pull out of Echo. I don't suspect that we'll be doing it, but we have to acknowledge that there is a chance.
02:40:22 Flatt will get a good idea of at least where everyone else is predicting. It's possible they play up by the Gravity Cannon. They do have another squad moving right by them, so you have to be careful hitting this scan. In fact, they're not going to be able to as E8 shoot them off the beacon. Could claim this for themselves, but you have to remember, especially when you have Zone right behind you, Bangalore Smoke does not hide you that well. So E8 will have to tank a bit of Zone and get their angle perfect on the Bang Smoke in order to stay alive as they hit this survey.
02:40:52 Very interesting to see. Flat hitting the evac tower, making that rotate in. Some teams are still not anywhere nearby this. SSG waiting to play off that third ring console. And well, we're getting tagged up here, but we don't lose anyone to a knock. And the recover is well piercing spikes to hold out any push. Now granted, it's tough. I would prefer Watson to play from here, but this is the best you can do on such a crazy jump. The fact that we're even alive from that evac says enough.
02:41:22 Ich bin ein ziemlich low-Ground-Low-Priority-Spot. Das ist nicht die schlimmste Sache in EchoHQ, mit den ganzen Teams, die in den gleichen Bereich sind. Du bist nicht möglich, bis zum Teil der sehr, sehr LATE-GAME ist. Es tut aber auch, um die Option zu finden, um die KP zu bekommen. Also, du bist sehr placement-reliant, wenn du in ein Spot bist, wie das. Wenn du nicht ein paar Angeln hast, um die Teams zu sein, um EchoHQ zu sehen. Take a look at die Map, das ist interessant.
02:41:50 It does look like we're pulling further into Echo HQ, so as much as we were wondering what would happen earlier, a lot of teams are getting rewarded off of this. There is one small strat that some teams will use, like Stallions, to play through Pylon and Evac late into the other side of the ring. It can be done without Ubing, like we've seen some teams in 07 do before.
02:42:13 Ja, das war ein schweres für mich. Elevator, Luxferd zu haben. Schlager und Zack werden das Kampf gegen Furia wiederholfen. Aber als Zack sieht, wir bekommen die Crossfire. Es ist Falcons, zu sehen, abzuhren. Hal, zu durch. Zack.
02:42:32 Game Sense from Slayer, keeping him alive. He was the first one to swing the big door, ultimately backed off before Zack, and comms a bit of a mess for E8, as they weren't quite all on the same page, and running into a caustic, of course, does change a lot of people's game plans, especially when they're not used to having that as much in the meta. Tripods, throwing a wrench into the plans for E8, and although...
02:42:55 Die E8 sind nicht vollständig, aber die Chancen zu machen in diesem Spiel sind sehr hoch. Hier geht es NRG, der Rotate aus dem Launchpad. Sie waren hier auf der Ring-Console zu sehen, die Information auf der Minimap auf der Seite des Minimap. Aber mit dem Verlager, wird das Verlager ein Problem haben, auf Rotation zu gehen.
02:43:22 und wie sie geht, das ist, dass 50% der Platz in der nächsten Zone ist ein Mountain ist.
02:43:53 They're deep. They're going back. They're going back. I'm trying to get all back. He's going to have Budd. He's going to have Budd on advantage. Thanks on this rock. 70 on Budd. Budd's running back. Thanks on that rock. Just keep queuing.
02:44:21 I'm watching, I'm watching, I can't see her. Keep queuing her. Keep nading her. She's fucked. We're back. I'm shooting her teammates off. 44. 44. Alright, I'm gonna go back. I'm gonna rock it down, I'm gonna rock it down. Are we going back to hill? My port went away. Yeah, we probably should. Or fuck it. Stabilize on ours. Okay.
02:44:48 I have one bat left after Sal. I'm too bad. I see that you got the corner for free. I have four. What corner? Okay. Quite interesting to hear some of those comms and, well, they're still looking for most hated. They get out of the ring for now. It's only a matter of time before they run right back into who they were trying to take that push onto.
02:45:18 Honestly, with the distance that Disguised have to go, it may be worth them committing to this fight. They've only got a minute to do it, but any damage that they deal now will likely stick. I'd like to see them start to make their way through Jurassic if they're going to do it. I'm not seeing Chimmy with an Evac Tower, which does hamper their possibilities. Nice shots out of design. Oh my god, he gets that knock. He does in laser.
02:45:44 Not going to be able to do anything about that for Most Hated. Likely going to lose that. And now we have to focus on that rotation. Mind you, 30 seconds before that ring starts to close. And they are full sending the rez elsewhere. Oxygen Esports, your map for winners. Running into a bit of an issue here. Trying to clear out their back. With Most Hated Rezzing, this has gone from bad to worse. The whole squad may just go down. Oxygen.
02:46:11 Fighting over a Catwall right now at Vayner. One HP doesn't dodge the bullet. And it's Furia that come out on top, taking down oxygen. And they need to get reset as quickly as possible. This would be different if Keon may have not been on the lifeline. His lifeline, remember, was their world's edge pick. But they do not have that here. We get the res up and now start to heal. But job's not done. Teams are still going to be making their way out.
02:46:40 Out of Pylon, teams like Most Hated, teams like Disguised, and even Yup, maybe they'll have to hit a Hail Mary evac, but you said it yourself, Timmy didn't have one, so hopefully one of the other two did.
02:46:52 Now, some nice shots. Trevstack's taking down Phoney. Oblivion may finish off SSG. Last shot does it, and yes, indeed. SSG will go down. Killcredit on the last one, going to Blinxer. Oblivion now with 2kp. Get to play for the height outside of this hill. Looking really good for Oblivion. Perhaps not a game-winning spot just yet, but they've got time. Does that...
02:47:17 Really set the door open for Liquid Alienware. Still alive, still in second place, knowing that SSG has fallen. And Kion gets that new heal off with its time being. But we still have to get to Zone. And Native Gaming has fallen. The reset coming in. But for Disguise, they're still running into issues trying to stabilize. And they're one of three teams that all played for this late rotate.
02:47:44 Portal right back to the edge of Zone, may save them for a second, Designful still technically alive, but Yup and Most Hated fight over the kills and ultimately will take out Disguise, leaving them with just this 3v3. Only one team is gonna come out of this side to bring alive to. And for now, Zanile on that opening front gets tagged up, forced to take a shield back while Dupe and a Sivian.
02:48:08 Pulled off the cover fire, but it seems like we just cannot get good angles. Despite that Sentinel being amped up, it would only take a few bullets to make it work. Duke just says, let me cut this in half and throw the Dark Veil, but an opposing one comes up to hit an X.
02:48:24 I like the swing through from Ossibian. It is taking a while, though, to find targets with all these Dark Veils around. He's getting lost in the sauce, turns around and makes it himself. Ossibian, finding one burst with the Havoc, almost finds another, leaving it all in the hands of Laser to find the Wipe onto Yup. There is time enough to rest, there is time enough to heal, but do they have the tools to make it out and over this hill?
02:48:49 They've got to have an Evac Tower if they want to focus on this. And with six seconds to go, I don't see one planted. We turn our attention towards the opposing side, the Echo HQ side, the collapse between Falcons, Cloud9, Furia, Stallions. There's going to be a lot going on. And Furia from the low ground has to deal off with Cloud9 just above them.
02:49:11 Und das ist nicht alles. Sie haben eine kleine kleine Zonung zu spielen. Viele Leute werden kommen für Furia's spot. Die meisten Hateden könnten die gleiche machen. Aber hey, wenn ihr auf Face It Watch wisst, ihr wisst, dass die Evac Tower nicht aussieht. Wir werden einen anderen Team wiederholfen, als Furia warten für ihre Zeit zu collectieren. Looks wie Flatt wird in den Fall geholfen.
02:49:38 Little 07 similar situation for Most Hated. Some of them even tried the Rapid for Fury. The Bloodhound scan connects for eight enemies. We take towards the high ground and we just keep moving forward. Madness drops on down into the Chaos below and lets the Havoc sing. Switches on over towards the Nemesis. Cloud Ninefall, Falcons to join them into the top seven.
Turbulente Kämpfe und überraschende Wendungen in Map 4
02:50:0202:50:02 Das war ein grosses Dropdown, und Furia's fight ist nicht vorbei. Sie haben noch eine Bühne. Liquid Alienware ist gegen sie. Es ist nicht der Last Kill, er hat die K.P. Liquid Alienware ist nicht der Last Kill, er hat die K.P. Liquid Alienware ist auf der K.P. Everybody ist auf der K.P. In kommen die Stallions von der Westen. Und Weave, von der East, von der K.P. taking out F.U.R.E.A. Weave, von der East, von der K.P. taking out F.U.R.E.A. Weave, von der East, von der K.P. taking out F.U.R.E.A. Weave, von der East, von der K.P. taking out F.U.R.E.A. Weave, von der East, von der K.P. taking out F.U.R.E.A. Weave, von der K.P
02:50:28 For the teams that have rotated in early from the opposing side, man. They're just watching this entire collapse. Just being like, I am so glad I don't have to deal with it. But Stallion's able to withstand it all. And here comes Oblivion. But look at Fun. Still alive. Staying out of the chaos.
02:50:47 Ich denke, gegen 2nd hier, Oblivion hat sich geholfen, dass es zwei Teams in dieser Region gibt. Sie haben noch nicht gesehen, die letzte Nummer in NRG haben. Und jetzt sind sie ein bisschen zu nahe, um zu beherren zu können. Stallions sollte weitergehen. Und als Funn bleibt, wir sollten noch ein paar Punkte sehen, noch ein paar Punkte von NRG zu sehen. Ich werde mich interessieren, was Funn macht, wenn er in dieser Kampf geht. Hier geht's Darkveil, Retsy durch die Deltung.
02:51:16 Gelowen und Alb hier, viele Traves gehen in der Weg. Funn ist in der Weg. Two members left von Oblivion. A 1v2 wäre mirakulös für NRG. Ich glaube, Sie können das Rez in der Zeit nehmen, aber Reeds und Akimbo müssen sie haben. In kommt der Catalyst Wall von Funn.
02:51:36 He throws the Dark Veil, piercing spikes through it. We're looking for Akimbo, looking for Reeds. They get the Reds. It's a 1v3 fun. Not sure what you're going to do here, but it's a valiant effort. 6kp for you, and a nice second place in Oblivion. Find fun, clean it up. Second place in Map 4, and they convert to a win here on this Echo HQ Hellish Zone. Really nice play from Oblivion to be able to do that. I mean, consistently.
02:52:04 Making their way to the top couple of squads, especially, I mean, you called it hellish. Absolutely. Being able to play out of Echo HQ in that situation and be one of the few remaining teams, some of it's going to come down to some good play. And some of it is really going to come down to timing. And that is what ultimately saved Oblivion, got them kills, and got them a win on top of all of that. And timing, right? We talk about that. You're like, hey, if Fun just stays back here, he's guaranteed a second.
02:52:33 100% does just that. So you take 9 placement points with, I think I saw 6 KP. So that's a 15 point game just for being patient. And who knows, he was probably in there just singing to himself or whatever fun does. You know what's wild? I think I might have posted about it. I definitely drafted a tweet about it. I know that you're thinking about singing.
02:52:54 APAC North sings a lot. They sing a lot in their... I didn't realize that, but if you guys at home are like, oh, I love the ALGS, but only what if it was a musical? That's what could be improved. Just go watch APAC North. It's incredible. Or you could just rerun the Conduit trailer where Revenant sings because it was some of the most beautiful music to my ears also. That was really good. That was really good. More content like that, hopefully, in our future.
SSG unter Druck nach inkonsistenten Leistungen
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02:53:23 More Revenant singing, that's all we need. But despite that, five matches done, some craziness that we've witnessed. And in the last two matches, SSG has fallen substantially early. They were north of 50 points coming into Storm Point. And I was just saying, they just had to be consistent. All we needed was one, maybe two decent games out of them for them to hold onto the top of the leaderboard. And now when we think about it, with just one more match to go, we need something epic out of them.
02:53:52 I mean, it looks like SSG were taking the draft strategy that I believe we talked about two, three games ago, where they, by picking Lightning Rod really early on, were looking to shore up their weaknesses, because it's very clear after the first couple of games that World's Edge is a big strength. Playing out of Lightning Rod, yes, SSG should be doing a lot better. The fact that they're not...
02:54:13 I don't think it comes as a massive surprise to them, given that they were the first team in North America to prioritize Stormpoint. I think they did that for a very good reason.
02:54:23 I think so, too. And it could be said that we keep seeing all these southern zones. So despite playing for some of those late-game ring consoles, you're still arriving into some of these zones way too late. Thinking that barometer zone, how do you fight for a position when the majority of the teams in the lobby have already set themselves up there? And then even more so, that Echo HQ ending that we just witnessed was one of the most chaotic things I have seen in a very long time. Let's see how it panned out for our squads. We knew Oblivion won, and they're going to walk away with 20.
02:54:52 Und ich habe mir gesagt, ich sah 6 auf NRG's screen. Ich bin crazy. No eliminations, aber zumindest sie bekommen 9.
02:55:00 Ja, ich meine, das ist das Beste, wenn man sich das als Solo spielen kann, wenn man keine Hoffnung hat, wenn man keine Hoffnung hat, ein 2nd Platz finish ist fantastisch. Ich meine, ich meine, vielleicht 1v3 Oblivion für den Win, aber das ist ein bisschen farfetched. Jetzt, Stallions, nach hinten, also nach der Zeit, um Stallion's World's Edge, in contrast zu SSG, war atrocious. Der Storm Point ist ziemlich gut.
02:55:27 I had to pop my glasses on because clearly I was blind. But now I can see. Oh my god, Furia. 11 eliminations. 14 Liquid Alienware who had made it into Echo HQ. Obviously, because of their journey. Landing there, calling it out. That was their first pick of the draft. Falcons with 8 as well. Jumping on over to the back half.
02:55:48 The majority of the eliminations were in the top 10, but still, yup, SSG and Tripods, the only teams to walk away with a few here.
02:55:58 Picking up, yeah, just the slivers that were left behind. There are, of course, teams that did get a little bit more unlucky than others in the course of this game. And this is in that sort of zone that you were talking about where it is really impossible almost to master. Fioria commit for the kills thinking that it's the right decision. And I find it really difficult to fault them for that, Tiff. The amount of squads that then showed up to this fight really changes everything for them. And it's a matter of, well, do you commit for the kills? And then...
02:56:27 Maybe get at least a few KP. Or do you not commit for the kills, wait for Stallions, and then let those points pass you by. I think Fioria made the right decision. I think a lot of the teams that committed to that fight, including Team Liquid, made the right decision. But it was Oblivion that ultimately playing from the opposite side of the hill, behind NRG from the north, that end up taking the win with nine kills to boot. That'll push them further up in the standings, of course. And it is these overall standings that I'm really curious about.
Strategische Analysen und Spannung vor dem finalen Match
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02:56:56 Oh, I know, same. I feel like we have to set the storylines for what's to come in map number six. And here it is, SSG, 52 points. They've withstood two lackluster games on Stormpoint, but they cannot afford another Oblivion, all for their second and first place on Stormpoint.
02:57:13 46 points in Liquid Alienware and Furia, kind of rounding out some of those moments there, 42 and 41 respectively. Team Falcons, 25 eliminations and 11 placement points will give them 36, albeit a really interesting day for them, but the sit in top five going into the final game, it's not bad.
02:57:32 No, not at all. In fact, they could arguably still take this. SSG's not been putting up a lot of points. Falcons have not yet managed to find a game win. And when and if they do...
02:57:45 Those tend to be pretty big ones. So Falcons fans at home can hold on, but it's looking like SSG are in control. They've still got to pull this back and not just to a fantastic game on Stormpoint, because they don't need that, but they need an average game on Stormpoint in order to stay ahead. Can SSG muster that with the fact that they've picked up Lightning Rod, knowing full well that this is their weakness? Can they overcome it this early into the split?
02:58:09 Can we just get a lightning rod zone at this point in time? Because that would just make everything be that much more easier for them. But we'll have to see after this break what's to come of SSG.
02:59:56 Ich bin Tiffany, das ist Dia.
03:00:04 Before the break, if SSG could hold on for the final map of Stormpoint. And well, I guess it's about to be time to see. Yes, it is. As we prepare for this last match, I mean, there is a lot on the table. We've seen teams get a little bit messy when we approached the last games of any series, but especially on Stormpoint. I will say today's games haven't been particularly clean on Stormpoint from anyone. However, there's been a lot of...
03:00:33 A lot of fighting in the mid-game, and many of our teams are still getting caught out on rotation, despite the scrims that I know happened, in order to push these teams to, well, ultimately, where they are today. Everybody's prepared for Pro League somehow. Oblivion walked away with the win. If SSG do manage to not just have an average game, but an exceptional one, picking up that third match, they would have won half of our games today. A really impressive feat. I mean, it's pretty solid, right?
03:01:02 Let's go ahead and jump into match number six and see if they can get on through. I was looking at the team stats kind of after four games in general. They were dealing almost 13,000 damage. Their damage differential 7,100. That is crazy for the first four maps alone.
03:01:19 Das ist verrückt. Ich meine, sie haben wirklich sehr gut gespielt. SSG's average placement hat schon lebt all the way up. During scrims, ich glaube, Oversight ended up...
03:01:32 Patching us some stats, during scrims, the average placement for a team coming out of Lightning Rod was 10th. For SSG, it was 8th. And today alone, they've really upped the average placement, moving themselves up with two of, of course, the first place. However, they are placing a little bit lower than average when it comes to Lightning Rod teams. Hmm, interesting. And you start to think about it, right? And RG got Zeus stationed. That's where they're landing. We go ahead and pop.
03:02:00 that ring console to see where our zone is going to be headed in. It looks like it's potentially not pulling to the deep south that we're used to, but maybe a bit of a more mid map.
03:02:13 Ja, ich meine, das sieht wirklich interessant aus. Let's actually talk a little bit about the rotations that happen when we go over to Seto, because Temper, of course, have priority, that much is clear. However, when it comes to teams like E8 and Furia, controlling this ridge line is actually super valuable, because of how often this will end up turning into, like, a zone that pulls over here, or, of course, the ability for you to transition around this side of the map.
03:02:41 Now Temper have the option to set up dead center in Seto. A lot of teams will choose to do that. And where Native are sat right now is another very powerful position, allowing you to output pressure over towards the Jurassic side of the zone, as well as towards all of this area in Seto Station.
03:03:00 Interesting. I love that you're kind of calling that out for native gaming because you think about it, RKM, we already talked about it in that Roster Mania coming out of retirement, but one of the most zone-oriented IGLs that could come through here and starting in Jurassic, it's interesting to see them kind of pull on north towards Cascade. They've got to find extra info.
03:03:18 Yeah, Temper are now taking this power position, and Native have pushed themselves into a spot where it's likely that they've got to now play for either control of Cascade and then third party either this side or this side. So I guess despite having this priority rotation without information, that's ultimately worthless to them. It really is, and SSG, they didn't really...
03:03:39 They're actually going through Zeus as well, and NRG who lands Zeus. You can see they've already made their way towards that mid-map next zone information by your arrow. This is honestly looking like it's going to be a very complex game for a lot of teams, many of them piling straight into Seto. Nobody controlling things like high ground, and that'll open things up for late rotating teams to get much better positions. Native in their fight with CCE.
03:04:07 Perhaps the opportunity to pick up some much-needed KP, have already taken out Cobra, do slide on into the Sheila, and Rambo's got no problems with that, especially this early into the game. When you were on blue shields and do not have the additional purple perk with Rampart, you move so slowly when carrying Sheila.
03:04:27 Das war eine der größten Überraschungen, wenn ich in Rampart habe, wenn wir all die Legend Challenges hatten. Ich hatte sie zu locken in, und das war die größte Sache. Wenn du nicht hast das Perk hast, bist du in der Thick. Aber nur ein Mitglied von CCE war able, um das Engagement zu kommen. Wir haben, wir haben, wir haben, wir haben eine Support Charakter, wir können Kraft.
03:04:55 You've got the opportunity to get out of Cascade, so it is entirely possible that CCE are able to craft. It'll require them going to the north. I know Command Center has a crafter, Wall has a crafter, North Pad does not, and really you're going to be picking between those two POIs. Command Center's a bit rough.
03:05:12 Job's not done, back to the high ground we go!
03:05:38 Love the portal to allow the maneuverings throughout Cascade here in Design here. Looking for some angles onto Native the Arcstar. Hopefully that could be the opening that he wants it to, but we're still going through here, well-timed into the void to avoid the Rolling Thunder. Yeah, that was some serious, like, Wraith cooldown knowledge. Drops down.
03:05:59 Just in time to get the cooldown back. And ultimately, with all the pressure that they've expended as Disguised, push Native Gaming back out into the open. We talked about how Native had two options. They could control the hideout of Cascade or be pushed into the low ground and fight there for a third party. There's no third party. Native have moved there on their own. And if there's no pre-existing third party, Tiff, it means that Native are at risk of coming into a fight and then being sent on themselves.
03:06:28 Das ist wirklich schwer. Wir werden jetzt sehen, wie sie das Ziel haben. Das Tunnel ist north von CETO. Aber die meisten unserer Quads haben tatsächlich waltzelt in CETO. ELEVATE ist, auch noch für extra Informationen. Overbymille Oxygen ist hier.
03:06:46 On that southern side. And I think this is a strong place to hold, especially when you need to see where those teams from the southern side of Stormpoint are going to hit that rotate in. Plus, you've got to do spawn. Wait, isn't Frex's the one that's got the, I don't know what the phobia is called, but you can't do spiders? Oh, arachnophobia. That's it. That's it. Yeah. Wow. Honestly, tough. But, you know, with good teammates, you can overcome anything in Apex Legends. It's very true. Even in a rational fear of spiders.
03:07:16 Es ist crazy, vielleicht, vielleicht, maybe I should change my name Dia, maybe I should. Oh yeah, I mean, some people, some people get tough about it, but I think that most of the time the word spider is okay. If you started dressing up as a spider though, then I think we'd have problems. No, what do you mean? Yeah, I just want to dress up. You don't know Tiff's Itsy Bitsy Spider cosplay? Stop!
03:07:44 Ich habe eine Spider-Gwen-Gwen-Kosplay, aber ich verstehe. Mehr zu kommen hier. Wir werden nicht. Wir werden. Wir werden. Ja, ich wusste, was ich in der Zeit. Aber irgendwie...
03:07:58 We've got the mill, we've got Luxford over there, still Slayer and Zack kind of on the houses outside and most hated. We're going to be dressed in front of them. A good look at where that zone is pulling towards. And we were talking about on the Telestrator portion early on that some of these zones can pull out towards where Yup is playing from. And more specifically, where Liquid Alienware is holding over in Millage. But where we briefly saw that next zone going to is actually deeper into Cito itself.
03:08:26 Yes, and for that very reason, teams like Most Hated and Liquid actually have the benefit of a higher ground position to evac tower from, and for Liquid, they've got priority in a southern rotate. Now, the nature of a zone that comes from this, or that is more southern oriented, is that not a lot of teams will be here. So if Liquid actually choose to stay on this low ground, they can then move into oxygen space and take a fight against them, which is basically an edge team's dream, because nobody else is going to come down there.
03:08:54 Very interesting. I mean, Cloud9 waiting on that survey beacon scan, and they're going to get just an influx of information. It's going to be like, CEDO, we knew, we knew, but hopefully it'll find them some angle that they can approach from. Speaking of that, SSG have moved into that same rotate that we were talking about with native gaming. Now, still all 20 squads up, and if we're going to move 20 squads deep into CEDO...
03:09:20 This is going to be yet again another interesting endgame for Stormpoint.
Turbulente Endphase und Falcons Triumph
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03:09:25 We gotta remember as well, Disguised fought for control of Cascade. What did that get them? That got them a ring console. That means that Zone 3 Scan belongs to Disguised, who are approaching from the north. One of very few teams to be doing that. The teams that are moving behind Disguised into Cascade include Cloud9 and CCE, who both have the opportunity to hit the console themselves. But with relatively few squads having access to this information, Disguised, C9, CCE all have a pretty notable advantage.
03:09:54 They do, and also another advantage that CCE has is they've got the whole crew back together. They went to the north, they crafted, they hit the respawn, and now will be journeying us in that full force. Extra Valkite as well, I'm sure, so.
03:10:10 This may not be the command center rotate that they wanted to take them into the zone, but still possible, especially from this position. Unfortunately, getting tagged by the scan. That isn't in Cascade, so they've still got a ways to go on their journey into Ring, but it is going to hurt to have been revealed by what I believe was Weave over by the zip lines in the western side.
03:10:37 You know, they've got the Valk, which is the Skirmisher Legends. They were scanning those care packs to hopefully get them onto purple. You can see right here, 32 Evo away, electing to go that route with the Evac Tower.
03:10:51 Of course, going from north to south, you've got an evac tower right below them also. But we're going to keep on moving because everyone is deciding to rotate in. Now, with this many squads alive, with round two closing, it's only a matter of time before this lobby cuts in half. We're going to take the underside of that cascade area, that high ground that you were talking, disguised, fought so valiantly for.
03:11:14 The setup from CCE is fantastic as well, because nobody is realistically dropping down into them from that angle. Would have to be a little too confident, I'll say, as Disguide, to try and take this fight. Do here, quick Bloodhound ult pop. See, we could be getting risky, but I like the way that CCE are navigating their composition, making this almost impossible to push. Now Trev's got to be careful, and I know Trev knows this, but if you do shoot through two Rampart Amped covers, the...
03:11:43 Amped cover further ahead of you will go down as the bullet's already been amped. You don't want to expend basically 3 HP that your walls have that way. That's why you see him sitting on the wall with Sheila, so he's not shooting through the first amp.
03:11:55 I forgot, Dia, the little Rampart enjoyer, coming in with the facts. Any Rampart mains out there, you're welcome. Dia's got the knowledge. Elevate here on the screen, looking for control over this tunnel. Now, mind you, they have to go through this. They do have an evac tower, but we've seen just how not beneficial they've been kind of going over these mountains. And when coming out of checkpoint, I mean, it's basically impossible. I don't think I've seen anyone pull off or rotate with an evac out of checkpoint. It's a notoriously...
03:12:24 difficult POI to get out of, and it surprises me that E8 have stuck around here for as long as they did. I know that they got the ring console information out of here, but even at LAN, when E8 were originally scrimming out of Checkpoint, they were talking about how difficult of a POI it is to rotate out of here. This time, they've just opted into it. It's gonna be really tough, and we'll have to keep tabs on it, but at least Slayer is out here on the back looking for anyone that could potentially be rotating, and we get that pip of the map.
03:12:54 Sie sind nicht alleine. Die meisten Hated haben entschieden, um zu wrapen und rotieren durch Checkpoint zu machen, um zu machen es schwieriger zu machen. Und Zack öffnet sich mit viel damage zu tun. Er ist in der Tunnel und versucht, Fawn zu halten. Hier kommt der Swing aus dem Opposing Angle, aber er hat keine Schild left.
03:13:14 I swear that Bloodhound walked straight through him. Shield swaps come in instantly for EA, but SSG are all over them. Native go down in the meantime. Phony has fallen. Motherload inside to seal the deal on Elevate. And SSG head out.
03:13:34 Knowing that there's a third party coming in behind them, they want nothing to do with that. It is fire and flames, turn and burn for SSG. But we lose out on Frexis. Now mind you, this is the first place squad sitting at around 50 points or so. They need a good game here to hold on to it, right? Oblivion in second with 46 points, just a mere eight points outside of them. And NRG on that south side of where the zone is pulling to, sitting on blue.
03:14:03 NRG's spot, honestly, not fantastic, but not devastating just yet. Catalyst Wall can change a lot of things. For Tripods, having a Kraber in the hands of Anmu, however, could do them a lot of favors. This is exactly the path, the one that Anmu is aiming down, that they want to take to get into zone. You don't want to have to dip into Sido, where a lot of teams will be trying to get out of. Instead, you want to play for the supply bins on the low ground.
03:14:30 Oh, Anmu has to play it safe there. Able to get out of dodge. It's that double-time passive that comes through. Sometimes it throws you into oncoming cover, and sometimes it throws you into the enemies. But for now, they're going to have one of the longest rotations into that next zone. We got a brief look at it. Welcome back, Zenile, and goodbye. Zenile landed in the open arms of a Kraber. That's unfortunate. Mm-hmm. Not every day it happens, but when it does, you ramble.
03:14:59 At this point, there's not a whole lot that Tripods need to do outside of move forward. The biggest problem is that right ahead of them in that nut building, they've got another team staring them down. That team is Team Falcons, who have yet to win a game today. We're still inside the top five, who still could take this day with the right amount of points. The fact that that didn't connect is crazy, but that one doing it, 140 damage. However, we're getting...
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03:15:45 Everyone else is going to be forced to try and make their way creatively out of Seto. Furia expand a wall to get just a little bit closer to the center. Will not have that very same cooldown for the next fight and need to take one now. Madness is low, Vaxlawn the same. Keon is the one who holds their face in his hand as a respawn goes off behind them. Seto's station is chaos still.
03:16:09 Yeah, honestly, there's not much that Furia can do. We've eliminated and Furia about to join them. You've got Temper, you've got Oblivion, and even NRG in this small area of Cito. And there it goes. Reptar from above joins alongside them. But for this rotation right here, Cloud9 making their way towards the underside.
03:16:29 Just outside of the tunnel, and SSG, Zainu, last standing. They've only picked up two eliminations, but is it enough to hold onto the top of the leaderboard with Oblivion rotating in from Cito? It's gotta be really tough, especially being shot at from the height. That's Disguised, trying to pick up a few kills, denying a res onto Koi. Zainu almost goes down. The Knuckle Clusters have done him so many favors, but I don't know if he'll survive. In the meantime, we'll tune in with Vanity, see if they can survive. Stallions, Liquid, NRG, all down.
03:16:56 Oblivion down as well. So we'll have to see what happens for now. That's going to be SSG's saving grace. Black on your screen. Zynu looking for angles here. And the push comes in. He's able to take down most hated. And a perfectly timed shield swap. I cannot believe that he is alive. Anyone else died there. And he goes for the res. This man knows no chill. Zynu gets Koi back in the game.
03:17:24 Ich glaube, es ist nicht so, dass DSG nicht das passieren wird.
03:17:48 Wir haben eine wirklich solid hold, auf wo diese Zone ist. Für die resten der Squaden, die sich außerhalb der nächsten Ring befinden, Zeit ist der Essenz. Und da geht der Play-Design-Enemy auf den Lowground. Was ist CC gonna be able to do about this?
03:18:02 Timmy hat Heidt auf CCE, um ein paar Angeln zu erreichen, von dem Enemy mit der Knuckle-Cluster zu erzeugen, zu erzeugen, zu erzeugen, zu erzeugen, mit dieser Pick. Es ist wirklich ein Enemy-Favorite und wahrscheinlich ein DSG-Pick, das hier zu bleiben ist. SSG und Zyneu sind noch neben dem, mit Koi und Zyneu auf und auf Reds. Können Sie DSG-Pick zu erzeugen?
03:18:25 Das ist der Top 5!
03:18:38 It's still good for SSG. Team Falcons start moving up on the water. Now it's their turn to Siege Disguised. Falcons, they make their presence known. 46 points looking for potentially their first victory of the day. Hal, with the jump on over that rock, scan to boot five hostiles connected into the top four. And while this could be a really big game for them, but that Arcstar...
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03:19:32 Down into the final three. A 3 v 3 v 3. Plenty of eliminations left withstanding here for Falcons to grasp at. But I love that Jen Burton's already working on chaining. Ult excels together at 73%, waiting on that Dark Veil for Endgame. Not sure if we'll actually be able to get it, but zero there with some well-timed Thermites and placed over there to really work on flat.
03:19:57 But it doesn't stop the res on Nano. Flatt now, as a three-person team, have Bangalore Smokes available again. Vanity, waiting to clear out the Falcons, are going to play with the control of their door, getting sent on by Flatt. It's the time for Falcons to start moving up. Even this Bangalore old Cannon will be affording to dissuade them.
03:20:17 Es geht um ein Knochen. Falken ist noch ein Knochen. In kommen die Real Punishing-Cooldowns von den Falken. Zero waits auf der anderen Seite des Wallen. Flatt geht um den letzten zwei Squads. Falken ist in der Lage in dieser Zone. Wir warten für die Catalyst-Wall zu gehen. Hau hat einen Angle auf Height. Der Wall kann nicht aufhören. Das Wall kann nicht aufhören. Du wirst nicht aufhören. A second. Das Singular Rock hat alle Vanity. Falken haben einen Auf-Angle. Everyone ist auf Hau.
03:20:46 Rook goes down first, and Halligan controls The Rock, taking a wide swing, and taking Falcons to a Map 6 win. Better late than never, a massive game out of Team Falcons to assert their domination on North America. What an impressive game. Now, mind you, they walked on in Held Grav Cannon on that eastern side of the zone. They withstood all of the collapse from Cito Station itself.
03:21:14 And it was quite impressive done. Now, when it comes to whether or not they got first, when it comes to whether or not Zero is personally disappointed in their performance, I don't know. I don't know what we're going to get. True. The kills may add up, they may not. It's going to be really close, mostly because Falcons didn't get that much KP moving into the final zone, but...
03:21:40 They picked up a lot of it with those last couple of squads. So the numbers are going to be really tight. SSG may still retain a lead. In fact, someone else may have surfaced from underneath them as well, with a lot of the top squads actually being pretty close together as we came out of game number five. That's true. Honestly, that clutch, when you think back to that prior close, Zainu, that clutch from him, like that.
03:22:04 could have been enough to hold on, because we were curious, would they be able to do enough in this map number 6 to hold on to first place? I guess we're all just kind of waiting to see what happens. Yeah, I mean, that's the game, right? We play it, we calculate it, then we get to figure out who won the match day. What is important to note is that with SSG not managing to clinch the final win, with as impressive a performance as they did have, they're not going to be asserting their dominance by any wild margin, even if...
03:22:32 They still managed to win the day. This was a really close day between all of the squads, and especially those that were near the top, that were playing perhaps a little faster octane. SSG Oblivion Liquid Alienware making it into the top three after Game 5. We'll see what happens, of course, with the overalls, but those three really have nothing to worry about when it comes to their standings today.
Abschlussanalyse und Ausblick auf die Zukunft
03:22:56
03:22:56 Well, as we start to wrap things up for our day here in North America, we've got to bring Rain Day back on into the mix, lying in wait. And I always got to hear your thoughts on what we just witnessed. Yeah, it was a huge game from Falcons. And just when we thought, you know, the story wouldn't be about them, they make it so close and they leave everybody waiting with bated breath as to will they have done enough.
03:23:17 ... ... ... ... ...
03:23:45 How are they even in this position, right? Well, you go back to game five, an eighth place, that's not too many points. But when you add on eight kills to it, that's 10 points. That's actually doing just as well or better than most of the other teams in the lobby. Essentially, they took fourth overall in that lobby, just within eighth place. So that's the threat that Falcons is going to bring. And until teams...
03:24:08 start playing the style, they're always going to be very capable of coming back with that big game and staying in the mix to have it. So Falcons, obviously making things interesting for us. Tiff, obviously it's going to be a...
03:24:22 Real fine line as to whether they won as we take a look at our match results. 22 points to close out the day. The first win for Falcons on the day as well. Meanwhile, Dia, Vanity, Flat continue to perform. Disguise, have a little bit of a bounce back there. In SSG, we talked about those decent games that you don't win. Well, seven points. The question is, is that enough? I think they were around the mid-pack on the 30 before this game, Dia.
03:24:48 That is correct. I can do the math, but I am not going to because I don't want to spoil it for myself. So I instead want to take a look a little further down the leaderboard because, well, teams like SHG, CCE, Most Hated filled this out. A lot of them actually come up with seven points. Adding to that the kills, Liquid Alienware really stands out as a team that got away with not a whole lot of placements, but lots of kills on their way to this zone have really pulled out a nice day. C9 didn't quite make the cut in this last...
03:25:17 Aber Temper, mit einem interessanten... Ich würde sagen, das ist ein Pop-Off-Game, speziell wenn es zu dem wie Temper war, nach dem Ende der letzten Splitt war. Und jetzt, bei der Beginn dieser einen, eine 5-point-Geme ist eigentlich ziemlich gut.
03:25:34 We've been waiting for the moment. Did Falcons do enough or did SSG hold on? Here's your series results for match day two. 59 points is the winning total. Team Falcons with a massive game do not do enough to take first place yet again, but they will be second and coming out on top in day one and second in day two. It's almost a perfect score, so they will be happy with that. Oblivion.
03:25:59 Liquid Alienware and Vanity there, but Tiff, your reaction to SSG taking Matchday 1? I mean, they did just enough, right? Zynu, I was like, Ignis Clutch, is that going to make the difference for the overall to win the Matchday? And it does. And honestly, like I said earlier, I know Zero was talking about how anything less than first is a disappointment.
03:26:18 I don't think this is a disappointment at all. If I'm zero in squad, I am happy with that endgame to salvage as many points on the overall day as possible. And it just goes to show you that you can lock it in. Well, I mean, look, we moved from fifth to second and almost first. That's pretty wild in one game. And it's obviously Dia.
03:26:37 Big day for SSG, who with the new roster continued to perform very, very well. But in Game 4, it actually shifted. This was the game I think teams started to catch up. SSG had zero points in here. It would actually be Oxygen Esports who would take the W in this contested circle near Barometer.
03:26:55 Ich meine, das war ein sehr guter Spiel, und es war lustig, ich habe das gemacht, als du auf der Desk Reinde war, aber wir hatten eine Low-Ground-Team, die gewinnen sind. Ich liebe Schiele für C.C.E., die immer noch nicht zu tun haben, die immer noch nicht zu tun haben. Sie versuchen es aus dem Mid-Game und in den End-Game zu machen. Das ist gut für sie, aber zu sehen, Oxygen, mit all diesen Shield Swabs auf dem floor, macht wirklich sehr gut aus dem Visual Occlusion, die mit Bangalore-Smoke zu bringen.
03:27:25 Das war sehr interessant, right? Wir hatten das Ultimate Collapse von Echo und Stallions hier. Sie haben auch ein guter Kp, aber wenn es um die Final-Fight gegen Oblivion kommt, und Albe versucht auf alle Fronten...
03:27:52 Not able to do it. Now, when you say sneaky, there is one more player left in this lobby who throws that dark veil down right here and makes their presence known. Now, I was curious if he would be able to hit a 1v3 because fun is absolutely cracked and does crazy things. But albeit, that's a tall order to ask. But the three of Oblivion just full swing fun and clean house right there. But job's not done. We still had one more epic endgame that we all just got to witness.
03:28:20 It was obviously very exciting to see this one. And this would be the one that would decide second place. And Oblivion really woke up game four, game five, second place. And then obviously at first place there. But they really would be overtaken. Vanity would unfortunately have to lose a little bit of that as the storyline would shift towards Team Falcons yet again. And 52 points. Well, what's...
03:28:42 Three points for going from second to first and three points of KP. It's six and it means they're just one shy away from the 59 SSG did. Whether it was Zainu with the miracle play or whether it was just a little things over the day that led up to a big result. Falcons with this 3v3 would take second place and it would leave SSG with the win on match day two. Either way.
03:29:05 Great sign for North America that there are tons of teams who are threats. And at the top, well, it is super clear. You can see it. SSG third place yesterday, first place today. Falcons first place yesterday, second place today. A clear top dip in North America. Yeah, that's really impressive and consistent overall from those two squads. But even NRG, a top five finish yesterday. And then you come on down here today and finish just outside the top five.
03:29:33 Aber es ist alles gut, denn du findest dich in den Top 3 nach zwei Matchdayen gespielt. Aber wir sind jetzt... Ja, eigentlich, ich werde nicht machen, weil KastrMath nie funktioniert. Aber wenn du dich in den 40s nach zwei Matchdayen bist, bist du chillin. Ja, und nach zwei Matchdayen in Positionen wie diese, du starten zu worry, wenn du Jupp...
03:29:53 oder wenn du am meisten hattest. Wir haben drei Rounds von drei Rounds Robben. Es ist nicht wie es über, von der imagination. Aber es bedeutet, dass es sich nicht mehr verändert hat, wenn du schon wieder gespielt hast. Jetzt, auf dieser Seite, ELEVATE, vielleicht die größte Notable, zwei Punkte, zwei Match Days played. Du hast du Gefühl für Zack und all das er hat er gemacht, um zu diesem Punkt mit diesen Teams zu erreichen. Die Roster Mania, es wahrscheinlich nicht in ihrem Favoren.
03:30:18 But there's plenty of other teams in this situation that we would maybe expect in stronger starts. Notably DSG, who had their debut today. Not excited about a two-points finish for the MDF. Perfectly understandable. And this is going to happen to teams. I think it's a matter of whether you can...
03:30:36 Pick things back up, of course. We talked about that with 07 this morning. But I think that, especially when we're looking at teams like EA, how well you can identify what's going wrong. Because this is a new squad, and it's a squad that has a lot of potential. But when Zac is IGLing these two new players with him...
03:30:55 Er ist eigentlich eine sehr andere Team als er war, und zu entscheiden, wo sie falsch sind, was sie zu tun, wird es die Unterschiede sein. Es geht nicht um die Vibes nicht so gut, sondern es geht um die Eigenschaften, was die Wahrheit ist, was die Wahrheit ist.
03:31:08 Yeah, I mean, you look at Rostermania, and usually there's some winners. Sometimes there's some losers. It's too early to tell, and obviously we want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt to have plenty of weeks to show what they've got. But as of now, we've got a few teams that have stood out a rest from the pack. And today, specifically, we had a few players stand out. We talked a lot about this team, but I have to give a shout-out to the young Gunner himself. He spent his time at LAN after not being a part of XSET, who did not qualify. He stepped in for Legends Gaming, and now he's stepped in big time for XSET.
03:31:37 Filling shoes alongside Zynu and Phoney, that were big to fill a historied organization across all eSports, but especially been present in the ALGS for a long time.
03:31:49 Koiful has stepped up, and not only was the entire damage deal leader in the lobby, he just was maybe that piece that for SSG fit the synergy of how they want to play under the IGLing of Phony, and with the assistance of Xynu's incredible skill, the best. And if that is the case, as it's shown in these first two days, what does that mean for the future of this org, which has constantly been a threat when it comes to lands, and when it comes to Pro League? Can this be that thing that pushes
03:32:18 them over the tide. The benefits of Koifel and Zainu to me are their abilities to learn, they're adaptive, they're hungry, they're young, and they're ready to get it after it. And so SSG's MVP, Koifel, it seems like it's no surprise here and certainly shouldn't shock many of the fans watching at home. He is icy with it, that is for sure. Nine kills, eight assists, and 6,000 damage dealt. Great day!
03:32:44 für Koifel in terms of SSG's performance. And it's locked them down a win, guys. And so you've got to say everyone on that team proved to do the right things at the right time. And luckily we have a chance to talk to them and get their thoughts as well. We've got Phoney sitting by ready for the interview as he has won match day number two and taken third place in match day number one. Phoney, congratulations, man. This is a great start to the split for you guys and a well-earned victory today.
03:33:12 Thank you man, it was an amazing day to play with these boys.
03:33:17 So I gotta know, I've been seeing the adjustments of this roster, and there's a lot of things, I'm sure, behind the scenes as to what happened, why it happened, how Koyful's been fitting in with the squad. I don't want to, you know, say any more about it. What has gone on on your end, and how are you feeling about this new team, and what's working for you guys here at the start of this split? I'm feeling amazing about this team, man. Like, I love fucking playing with Koy. I love playing with Zainu. Zainu's always giving me, like, the best comms possible, and, like...
03:33:44 Er ist ein fantastischer Spieler und ich liebe ihn auch sehr. Koi ist in diesem Spiel und er möchte ein Teil einer Team sein, die er mit ihm kann, mit ihm zu sprechen und mit ihm für eine lange Zeit. Ich bin glücklich, dass Koi mit dem Team ein sehr guter Edition ist. Wir alle zusammenarbeiten so gut, und wir alle lieben uns zu spielen.
03:34:08 So, vibes are high. Obviously, the fragging potential is there. And once again, congratulations. It was quite impressive. But there was a real stark difference between World's Edge and Storm Point in terms of your performance, right? Now, not all of that was your fault there. You got Gate kept in one of those Storm Point moments over there in Pylon. But I, yeah, no, we can laugh about that one. That was interesting, right? But I want to look at the POI draft. You guys had fifth pick right off the rip.
03:34:33 You snagged Lightning Rod first, and that was some crazy rotations out of there, considering the majority of those zones went to the south, which is very typical of Storm Point, right? So talk to me about how you kind of navigate your squad through some of those endgames and trying to get there. Yes, it was definitely a bad pick. We definitely didn't like it as much as we thought we would. Of course, scrims are very different from LGS, and we have to rotate on that side of the map where we'll get ratted by Falcons or we'll end up...
03:35:01 Ich habe mich über die Säden von einem Team für die Säden, die wir nie hatten. Das ist definitiv nicht der beste pick, aber in order zu navigieren, ich stehe mit dem Fraggen Potenzial, die ich für meine Team habe. Und ich weiß, dass wenn wir nur ein Kampf nehmen und das Kampf nehmen, dann haben wir eine gute Seite auf den Map.
03:35:19 Ja, ich meine, du sagst, dass Scrims sehr unterschiedlich sind. Und ich habe zu sagen, ich habe viele Scrims gesehen, sie sind sehr unterschiedlich. Aber du bist sehr gut in Scrims in den gleichen Zeit. Und du hast viel Zeit IGL'ing in ein paar andere Situationen. Wie solltest du sowohl dich und deine Spieler in die Transition zwischen den beiden? Wie solltest du von Scrims lernen und dann das in die Matchday?
03:35:44 Was wir in scrims machen, ist, wir versuchen es zu limitieren. Das ist der erste Mal mit Koi. Wir haben mit Zaini gesprochen, und wir wollen sehen, was er kann machen. Wenn er ein verrücktes Spiel macht, dann können wir ihn machen und sehen, ob es funktioniert. Es ist gut zu sehen, dass er limitiert ist, weil er will, um alles zu kämpfen. Und es gibt ihnen die Möglichkeit, um alles zu kämpfen und alles zu kämpfen.
03:36:08 Ich glaube, es elevates unsere Spiel, besonders in ALGS, weil er die größte confidence möglich ist, wenn ALGS kommt. Und Zynu ließ, wenn ALGS kommt, weil er weiß, dass alle nervös sind, besonders auf der ersten Spiel oder der ersten Tag.
03:36:22 Well, it's been really exciting to watch you guys. I want to close it out with any final thoughts you have, whether you're fans, SSG, The Org, anybody who's been watching, any last words from Euphonia after the win today? Just thank you to God. Thank you for giving us this opportunity to win. And I'll just let my actions as playing speak for itself. I don't really want to say anything else. Thank you.
03:36:46 I gotta respect it, man. All right, congratulations on Match Day 2, taking the dub. Phony and SSG with the win there. Thanks for joining us, man. Thank you, man. You have a great day. All right. I like that as well. I gotta say, Tiff, a little bit more my style. Let action speak more than words. A little bit of a difference between yesterday's interview and today's. No shade to either style, but certain people have different ways of hyping themselves up. And, you know, I respect the side that Phony's decided to lean on.
03:37:16 It's very mature and honestly just level-headed about it. And some things to be said about his answers, right? I know Dia was really excited about this one. The limit testing that occurs in scrims that you can take. But I was excited about that answer. But then when he said it, even more details, seeing what Zainu can come up with, I liked that.
03:37:35 It's a great team and really a lot of synergy. I feel like the fact that Koifel mentioned, he was able to build and grow with the team and not have to switch up. We've seen it work with ANC Outplayed in their win in EMEA today, one of the longest standing trios in all of EMEA and ALGS. Well, SSG seemed like they've got that headed in their future as well. Dia, final wrap thoughts of today's North American action as we look to close it out.
03:38:00 I am so glad you led with ANC Outplayed because my final point actually has to do with a story that we did touch on a few times but didn't really get to make the center because it was so much about SSG and their free fall and Falcons coming back up. Oblivion managed to get away with third place today and Oblivion mirror ANC Outplayed in a really important way. Don't let this get away from you. The fact that a team that came out of Challenger Circuit and the Pro League Qualifier
03:38:28 Walked away with third. Oblivion are not a team to be underestimated. For those of you who are at home who are going, oh my god, ALGS is so far away. Less than a year ago Oblivion came out of the challenge circuit. Take this opportunity. Go sign up. Go find a way to play some competitive Apex Legends because it's the best.
03:38:47 Always repping the Challenger Circuit. You gotta love it. And so many great stories have come from the Challenger Circuit as well. Great stories told today and casted by the both of you. Thanks for being a part of the desk. Broadcast as always, guys, and enjoy. Until next, we're able to see you in the ALGS. Hopefully it's soon.
03:39:05 All right, guys, that's going to wrap up Dia and Tiff for the day. Fantastic work across everyone here to bring you this. And what's next on the table? Well, we'll have new talent here ready to guide you through match day number three, starting at 10 a.m. Pacific time next week. And it'll be the same quality action to see who can continue to dominate and thrive in EMEA. And really in EMEA, a region that has had so much parity. I've used that word again.
03:39:34 But it feels so equal across the board that anybody can win.
03:39:39 What region will stand out? What teams will continue to show up in the ALGS? Well, we absolutely cannot wait to find out. We hope you are there alongside with us. If you missed a little bit of the action today, make sure to check us out on YouTube at Play Apex Esports or on Twitch at twitch.tv slash Play Apex. Our VODs are usually up and ready to go. And if you need a reminder midweek on when the match day is and what time it starts in your region, make sure to follow us on X at Play Apex Esports as well. You've got a week.
03:40:06 So, now it's time to chill out and play a little bit of Apex. But in the meanwhile, if you want some more action on your calendar, June 8th, the Challenger Circuit No. 1 will be going on. And registration will close June 5th, which I believe should be like Thursday of this week. No, it's Wednesday. So, Wednesday of this week, that will close in the U.S. Pacific time. So, make sure to get your registration in now. You never know. You could be the next oblivion.
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