ALGS Year 5 Split 2 Pro League ! Match Day 9 ! Americas ! Group B vs C ! Apex Legends
ALGS Americas Pro League: Gruppen B vs. C kämpfen um Finalplätze
Die ALGS Americas Pro League nähert sich dem Regionalfinale. Gruppen B und C treten am 9. Spieltag gegeneinander an. Teams wie Liquid, Rock und Thuggets kämpfen um die Qualifikation. Zusätzliche WM-Startplätze sind möglich. Ticketverkauf für die ALGS Championship in Japan startet bald.
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ALGS Year 5 Split 2 Pro League Americas Match Day 9: Vorschau und Team-Fokus
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00:10:55 I've got to be honest with all of you Americas fans out there. EMEA gave us a collateral Kramer shot in the first three games.
00:11:25 So, I hope it is. And if we go off yesterday's Games in Americas, I will say, I dare it just might be as exciting as the MEA. Yeah, I kind of agree with that, Gene. Have you been able to recover a little bit of energy between the two series here? Oh, absolutely. It's a glorious day outside. I went for a walk in between, grabbed a coffee, grabbed a nice little salted sandwich for myself.
00:11:50 I'm feeling refreshed, I'm feeling ready, and I am absolutely hoping that we get every little piece of action and intrigue that we had in EMEA following us over to NA. I could not agree anymore. We have quite a lot to dive into here today. Storylines to be set, stats to talk about. So before we do that, you mentioned it, let's take a look back at what happened yesterday. It's a doubleheader weekend. We just had Match Day 8, so talk me through those first three circles.
00:12:19 As I said on the actual matchday, Game 1 broke records in the form of Jen Burton securing a monstrous amount of KP. In fact, the most kills in a single game during all of Split 2 in Year 5. So, fantastic game from Hunter Thieves. Obviously they were the winners after that performance. Match 2 broke my brain in a bit of a different way. This was a great win from ZZ to actually...
00:12:47 ZZ played for the win and Exterminators played not to let them win. In the end, Kryvor walked right up.
00:13:15 So Lightning Rod and took a victory away with the fantastically placed Bubble and honestly some really nice play. Well, we had another couple of games over on E-District and a hundred thieves continued their rampage. Twelve kills in our fourth game, but it was a sneaky VP coming up from the low ground, waiting, biding their time and then taking the win with a solid nine kills for themselves.
00:13:43 in Game 4 over at City Hall. Game 5, we did see Sentinels taking a much-needed dub, as you can see, 7th before this happened. But it was Team Falcons, Team Inferno also picking up quite a few kills here at the end. And then to cap off the day, just like they started it, we had 100 Thieves put out an absolute...
00:14:10 with 19 kills to finish off the day and get into triple digits. They were only three points away from grabbing a bonus point with almost more than 50 over the top of ZZ. There was a phenomenal performance from that team. Insane. Triple digits is absolutely insane at this state of the game. I mean, second to last match day for some of these teams.
00:14:38 Because while this was our Top 500 Thieves, did have a phenomenal day, we still have today to get through to determine everything when it is all said and done. So let's start talking about today. Because while there are some teams that have solidified their spots when it comes to our regional finals, we still have groups B and C ready to fight here today for those last remaining seven spots. So which seven teams will be?
00:15:07 Seeking their success here today? We are going to find out. And I'm excited to talk about this lobby because between B and C, we've got a lot of teams that we want to be talking about. So I think what is going to be important, obviously, we'll show you guys all of the standings across the board, but kind of paying attention to where some of these squads are when it comes to the bubble discussion. I mean, we've got Liquid in here. We have Rock in here. Thuggets. We've got Oblivion. 100 Thieves are back again.
00:15:36 After that absolutely insane performance, Shopify, I mean, this is not going to be an easy lobby. So I think it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. We'll take a look at what I'm talking about when it comes to where these teams are at as far as their regional finals placements. And these are the ones, like I had mentioned, that have already solidified their regional.
00:16:03 So, like we said, there's still seven spots available that everyone is going to be fighting over here today. And then depending on how these teams that have already solidified their spots do, could be some potential for a point sponge as well. Also, with a look here.
00:16:21 Das war die Amerikas-Amerikas-Amerikas-Amerikas. Und eine wichtige Sache zu wissen ist, dass die Teams, die sechs Series spielen werden, die nicht spielen werden. Das ist Group A. Wir werden sie nicht hier sehen. Sie haben sie heute gespielt. Und jetzt geht es um B und C zu sehen, was sie können. Das bedeutet, dass es eine sehr reale Möglichkeit, Diea, dass Falcons-ZZ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-
00:16:45 Yeah, and it's entirely likely that we see a lot of teams passing others today. Where the focus is really going to be is on the line between those making it to regional finals and not. That right now has the cutoff of Masters of Evil. I will say, in the favor of Masters of Evil, they're playing today. So they are...
00:17:03 Ja, und das ist immer die Geschichte. Es ist immer...
00:17:20 Someone separated by a point or two at the end of the day. So every single match today will matter to our squads. But let's start talking about some individual storylines that could be exciting to follow throughout the day. Genome, I want to start with you. Which team do you want to talk about? I want to talk about Develop Modern Gaming, also known as DMG, because they are developing. And I'm not going to lie, some of their compositions are also pretty modern.
00:17:44 Um, this is, uh, we can see there from Game 1, the only team in North America to be playing Watson right from the get-go. Um, also playing, like, a defensive crypto style, uh, which is interesting as well. DJ Killer, uh, has also just really put himself in everyone's focus. You can see here making some really cool plays just by himself.
00:18:05 Um, but he is one of the highest rated players in the entire scene, not just in his team, um, but in the entire region right now, if you go by the absolute player value, uh, metric. Now here's some of the stats we saw from match day seven from these guys. They got the most kills. They got the most points overall. Um, albeit it was a very tightly contested day.
00:18:28 Sie sind mit 57, nicht die 103, die wir aus 100 Thieves gesehen haben. Aber wirklich interessiert zu sehen, ob diese Leute, die kinder pace zu halten, weil es so ähnlich zu den Teams, die wir in EMEA gesprochen haben, es fühlt sich wie Future Streams und DJ Kille hier, vielleicht könnte es die nächste Waffe der Spieler zu machen, in ALGS.
00:18:55 Absolutely, which is why we're constantly also talking about people making their way through Challenger Circuit as well. But for me, I want to talk a little bit about VP here today. We've got the trio of MT, Lou, and Slayer. And now, while it might look like when it comes to their champs points that they are a little bit on the bubble, they are technically over that 2,600 marks. They should be relatively safe.
00:19:16 Not 100%, though, when it comes to their performance for me. This is why I want to talk about them, okay? Because I really want them to get their consistency back on board. We saw them kick off the split in match day two. That was their first match day. And they won that first match day, looking absolutely unstoppable. And then had a big fall off throughout the rest of the split. Up until, though, this most recent play date for them. This was a little bit of a return to form, having gotten third place.
00:19:44 with some really solid stats. And this is kind of what we were looking for. A little bit of a resurgence of what we know that they are capable of because they really want to kind of continue to snowball and set that confidence up well when it comes to not only regional finals, but then of course, you know, playing at that international stage at Champs. But Dia, final team, who do you have? Tell me about them.
00:20:07 Well, I said I like to say Thugget's name, but I wasn't lying, so I decided to give myself a whole segment on them. I'm really looking at the Thuggets coming into today, and it isn't just because I like to say their name, although I can't lie, that did play a part in it. A big part of why I want to focus on this team is because...
00:20:25 Wenn wir sehen, wie sie spielen Apex Legends spielen, sie machen es in ein ziemliches Textbuches. Ich denke, sie haben eine gute Idee, wo zu spielen, wann zu spielen und wie zu spielen. Der Transitions haben sich ein Punkt für die Team geholfen. Und sogar das, Statistisch, die Team landen sich ziemlich gut. Sie sind jetzt in der bubble von Teams, die für die Region Finale gewinnen. At 21st, all you need to be is 20th, um die Region Finale zu kommen. Aber die wichtigste Sache ist, die wie sie zusammen spielen können.
00:20:54 to win last time they played and they've improved in between their match days. The first time BNC matched up, they placed 18th. The second time, they placed 11th. This time, who knows? Maybe the Thuggets just keep on going.
00:21:06 I love it. Another great choice. There's so many good teams to be following here today. And at the end of the day, though, it's really going to boil down to which of those seven are able to step up to the plate and get those final seven spots. But we'll talk a little bit about champs. We obviously keep mentioning it. That is the ultimate end goal at the end of all of this. So we'll take a look at the championship standings. And this is where everybody is right now. Based off of chance points, obviously top 24 would get through. And you can see what I was talking about with VP there. They're just above that 2,600 mark. So it looks like they are a little bit.
00:21:36 Aber es ist wichtig, denn die Stars sehen auf diese vier Teams representieren die Teams in der Region. So, wenn sie eine Pro-League haben, sie würden dann qualifizieren durch zwei Champs. However, wenn wir es all heute enden, nicht counting die Series, das ist wo Teams fallen. Und eine wichtige Sache ist, wenn die Teams mit den Stars enden gewinnen,
00:22:05 der Region Finals oder Pro League, weil sie bereits qualifizierte Champs durch das Avenue haben, ihre Champs-Points dann öffnen die Schlotter-Line auf der 24. Dann öffnen die Schlotter-Line auf die 24. Dann öffnen die Schlotter-Line für die TSM, JDG, etc. Jetzt, wenn jeder Team, der Top-Line war, also won die Region Finals, also won die Pro League und die Region Finals, die meisten Spots could öffnen.
00:22:32 ist 8. Und du hast das Red Line cutoff da an der 32 spot. Das wäre das beste I could ever possibly make their way in off of additional spots being opened up. Aber da ist so viel going on we're going to be keeping track of. Don't worry, we'll make sure that you stay informed on where all of that is shaking out. Now, one of the biggest points, parts though, to Champs is obviously all of you at home, our spectators, do you want to be showing up?
00:22:57 We can tell you a little bit more about that right now. Obviously, we're going back to Japan, but we wanted to give you a little bit more information on the where, when, how you can get your tickets and make sure that you lock them in for this big event because our tickets will be live next week on our ticketing partner site, Zyko, on October 11th at 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET, 5 p.m. JST, which of course will be during our first regional final of Split 2. So you can find more information as that day nears.
00:23:27 on our ALGS website's Year 5 Championships page. See all the latest information about Champs here, from tickets to exciting news and updates, of course. So that way you guys can make sure you get in there nice and early and get your tickets to come hang out with us in Japan because it is going to be an absolute blast. I cannot wait to see how all of that goes. I know that Dia and Genome are very excited to be back in Sapporo as well. It's going to be a great time, Genome. It's going to be great.
00:23:56 Oh, it was the best time last time. Yeah, look, if you can go, absolutely do go. Japan's amazing. Apex is amazing. Apex in Japan? Like, could you even imagine? It's so much fun. Not to fixate on the wrong thing, but it did happen right next to the Winter Festival last year. It had a lot of beautiful ice sculptures.
00:24:20 Obviously, we're all there for Apex Legends, but the fact that Sapporo has a huge cultural event at the same time did not go unappreciated. Absolutely. Which is why you guys got to make sure you get your tickets so we can see you there. But let's start talking about our match day, okay? Let's start talking about what we have coming up because first things first, we've got a classic map rotation here today. First three on World's Edge, second three on Storm Point. So let's start breaking down what this could potentially mean here.
00:24:50 Ich meine...
00:25:02 You're thinking the same thing that I'm thinking. We are so far south in Americas. Our single climatizer zone sticks out like a sore thumb. I will say, on that same matchday, matchday 2 took us all the way to the opposite side as well. Just interesting matchday 2 things. However, the fact that the zone's in...
00:25:21 Die Amerikas sind besonders central. Es wird einige Teams zu sein, die anderen zu sein. Und wenn Sie diese Daten haben, wenn sie ihre POIs wählen können. Wenn Sie die Teams sind, wir haben CIMJ in Monument, mit niemandem in Fragment. Sie haben sich selbst für ein bisschen success. Wir haben die Masters of Evil, die wir sind in Landslide. Und mit Masters of Evil, die ein Bubble Qualifying Team sind, ist es sehr likely,
00:25:51 Ich denke, 100 Thieves zu spielen? Kind of strange.
00:26:20 Anything else jumping out of you here, Gina?
00:26:22 Well, I mean, Geyser might have been not the best pick, but if you look at the map, right, they've actually, you know, they can potentially split a bit over to Ghost Town, maybe even to Siphon North, maybe to Fragment as well. There's actually a lot of potential scrap looting around 100 Thieves. So the way that the map has worked out, actually not too bad at them at all. I mean, the other thing, of course, is Skyhook East going unpicked means that, like, Liquid have, like, a quarter of the map to themselves. That's just...
00:26:51 Bunkers for that. And I guess one last thing to note will be Big Maud. So it's dropped down to a 38th pick. It really has fallen down the standings these days. And one of the reasons is, I don't know if this was announced anywhere, but the guns no longer come with the Rampart hop-ups. It was one of the big reasons to drop there, right? And now that hop-ups are integrated into the guns, you don't start off with those buffed weapons at Big Maud.
00:27:20 Love that catch. I love the catch. And I love the shout out for Liquid as well. Let's see if we can actually get a sky, any final circle there, Northwest, something here in the Americas, and maybe that can benefit them.
00:27:33 Or just anything up in the northwest half. It's going to be a fun day. And now, of course, before we dive into match number one, guys, if you want to make sure you're keeping yourselves up to date with everything that we've got going on here in ALGS or just across the board, make sure you're following us on social media, X, YouTube, Insta, and TikTok. Both Insta and TikTok are new at Play Apex Esports. And then Twitch at...
00:27:55 So make sure, of course, that you are following. I think this is going to be a really fun day that we've kind of set the stage with our storylines. We know.
00:28:18 Which teams to be keeping our eyes out on? Will we get a back-to-back repeat triple digits performance? Well, we are moments away from finding out because match number one is ready to get underway. So Dia and Genome, let's kick off the final regular season day for Americas.
00:28:35 It still sends shivers down my spine to think that this is the final day of the regular season. It feels like it all goes by so fast. It really is only nine days, although we do spread it out over the weekends, Genome, but only nine days is a very short amount of time, all things considered. It is, and it's the last one. It's the last region, last one off the block, right? I mean, we've got Apex South, Apex North, and EMEA have all locked in their 20 regional finalists now.
00:29:02 It's just one left. Just one more region to decide. And we do. We kick it all off here on World's Edge.
Match 1: Strategien, Teamzusammensetzungen und frühe Rotationen auf World's Edge
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00:29:10 This is the best opportunity as well to make use of, in this particular case, Faceit Watch, because there are a lot of different teams that are on the bubble of qualifying, that are struggling for dominance in the region, that are trying to make it to regional finals or trying to finish their season with a bang. I know you've got your favorites at home. You can check them out.
00:29:33 Bis zum nächsten Mal.
00:30:02 On World's Edge. And I'm very curious to see, mapfeeder, know where on earth this takes us. Oy, oy, oy. Well, 100 Thieves. They are apparently looting Geyser. We've got DMG loading in. They are, as we mentioned, the only Watson team in the lobby.
00:30:25 North America known for having a very homogenous set of team compositions, and that is absolutely the case here once again, dear. If we go to, if I'm having a quick check of Rooney at our stats, we've only got four different compositions. 17 teams are playing Alter Caustic Newcastle, and then we've got one team each playing Alter Caustic Crypto, Crypto Watson Wraith, and Caustic Newcastle.
00:30:54 Wraith. So, 3 Outliers and 17 Sheep. Are we allowed to call them that? You know what? Sure. Why not? I don't think there's anything inherently negative about Sheep, so I think it works. I am surprised, though, to not see anybody running Gibby Caustic Newcastles. That seems to be the flavor of the week, shall we say, just a little while ago.
00:31:21 Yeah, I mean, obviously Gibby is more valued on Stormpoint, especially if you're running a Trident POI and looking to make those bubble rotates. But that doesn't mean we haven't seen it on, you know, World's Edge or E-District at all. So yeah, I do agree with you. It'll be interesting to see if it creeps in later on in the series. I would expect so.
00:31:45 If only we weren't banning Caustic. Or Newcastle. He could be back. He could be back. He could be back. He could be back. My man gives me hope. You guys...
00:31:56 Vielleicht sahen die Ring, aber nur in diesem Fall, wir sprechen über dieses Mal ein bisschen. Ring ist all den Weg zu der easternen Seite. Ich glaube, es war das Ghost Town, einige Leute sagen es einen Namen, aber es ist north, wo 100 Thieves landen. Und, fortunately genug, 100 Thieves haben einfach gesucht in den Big Mod, gettet die Ring, gettet aus!
00:32:17 Yeah, it's always a little annoying, of course, when you have to negatively rotate. Well, I mean, not that they would have thought they were necessarily, but you go one way, have to hit the scan, and then you realize the ring is so close to you, but it's in the opposite direction. And all that means is there's potential for teams like Virtus.Pro, who pulled up from Big Mord and went over them, obviously, with that scan happening earlier. And now a team that was further away and had less priority ends up on the wrong side of you.
00:32:48 All of a sudden...
00:32:49 Du hast große Probleme in deinem Weg. Virtus.Pro, however, hat ein Problems ihrer eigenen. Kontrollen dieses Highgrounds wird schwer sein. Sie sind ein Team, die relativ wenig Meds haben, und sogar Evo haben, nicht nur die Fronten und die Team in Fragment und Monument, sondern auch ihre Backen, weil 100 Thieves oder DMG, Pioneers, Unreal Nightmare, können alle kommen in dieser Richtung. Ich finde, dass Slayer ist, dass seine Augen auf den horizonen, dass er sich nicht auf dem Team geht.
00:33:19 Yeah, well Firestrays are right behind them. And you can see, it looked like MT was actually playing for the Newcastle Rez, like potentially get knocked like he just has been right now, in order to give his Newcastle extra Evo and get onto Blue Shield. But of course, it's not a play without risk. When you've got someone on your back, luckily Firestrays have opted to go further around and look to be going through the Vault Tunnel instead.
00:33:48 Unreal Nightmare also doubling back on their own Rotate. They wanted to go through Big Mod, ran into DMG, and now we're gonna run into D-Gap. Unreal Nightmare unfortunately cannot find a Frictionless Rotate.
00:34:04 Sie haben eine Jumptower neben ihnen, wenn sie sich nicht so gut ausführen können. Sie sind nicht mit einem Team schreit auf dich. Die D-Gap sind nicht zu interessiert, in die Angelegenheit zu nehmen. Sie sind hier zu defendern, aber nicht viel mehr. Ein Quick-Rotate von Unreal-Nightmare nimmt sie in die Mitte der Lava Siphon, das macht die D-Gap in eine gewisse Position. Sie waren Rotate, die Team in fronte sind, und jetzt sind sie hinter dir. Sie gehen nach vorne oder zurück?
00:34:32 Hard to make that decision. Luckily, they've got the Crypto, one of the two teams in the lobby, running it to be able to scout out their surroundings and help them make that decision.
00:34:45 Wir gehen über Firestrays. Ja, die, wie wir gesagt haben, sind in der Tunnel Richtung. Sie haben 100 Thieves vor dem in diesem Tunnel und DMG ist vor dem Tunnel. 100 Thieves vor dem Tunnel macht mich wirklich unkomfortabel für beide Teams, aber mostly für Firestrays, wenn ich ehrlich bin. 100 Thieves haben eine viel weniger Risky Position, wenn es zu...
00:35:09 Their placement in the Americas. We know the 100 Themes are going to Regional Finals. Fire Strays actually might not. They're right on the cusp and are one of the many teams from Group C that have not secured their place in Regional Finals. In fact, quick note on that. Group C has five teams that have not secured their spot in Regional Final. Group B only has one. Interesting, isn't it? It's a big difference between the groups.
00:35:39 And as you said, different stakes here for different teams. Some teams are playing for champs, some are playing for regional finals, some are, you know, just playing to have a good old time.
00:35:52 We're talking about Shopify Rebellion, aren't we? Yeah, look, these guys... I mean, look, I know we got talked about yesterday. They had a great time in scrims this week, but scrimbox apparently don't convert all that well into real placement points as well as they used to. Yeah, that was surprising to me. I did expect to see Shopify Rebellion popping off a little bit more, but maybe that's going to be today, because as we did mention in EMEA...
00:36:19 Der Scrimbox scheint zu sein, der 5-star geschenk in etwas. Die FyR strays will aber nicht fallen zu DMG, der erste Squad zu gehen. Und nicht der Tag, die Sie wollen es machen.
00:36:34 You know, as you said, they absolutely do need those points. But, of course, so did DMG. And here they go up against... Possibly, right now, if we're going off, you know, we're looking at the form guy, DR. Potentially the most scary team in the entire lobby. These guys were on a tear yesterday. Their confidence is going to be sky high. I mean, Jen obviously, you know, wasn't here for the first couple of...
00:37:01 Match days, and he is making up for lost time. The guy is absolutely shredding our other pros in North America. Plays really well with the squad, and in this particular case, keeps them quite honest. He and Phony, who was nice enough to grace us with an interview on the broadcast yesterday, brought a lot of perspective to how 100 Thieves are approaching this.
00:37:26 Specifically in this game, it does seem like that's with a lot of reservation. They had the opportunity to jump on DMG. They had done a decent amount of damage, but didn't want to overextend and lose their position, which they prioritized over everything else. We saw them doing that yesterday with 100 Thieves, always making the most aggressive plays, only for the best spots.
00:37:49 Und wenn du das CRITICAL DECISION in einem CRITICAL DECISION bist, dann wird es sich um, zu einem sehr großen Schlag. Und 100 Thieves war viel mehr oft als nicht gestorben. Heute ist die Entscheidung, um die Tunnel zu sehen, und zu sehen, wo die Ring geht. Natürlich, als wir auf dem Map, da, als Shopify...
00:38:14 We have to go for a little bit of a reset here with Xionu down. Luckily, Crafter and Moby are ready at hand. The zone was shifting into Fragment East, away from the tunnel, away from, you know, maybe the more northern scenes in Epicenter, even away from the sort of lava lake that runs through the middle of Monument and Fragment that we saw it go to in our last set.
Match 1: Kämpfe, Überraschungen und das Finale mit Thuggets und Rock
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00:38:39 Pioneers hope to take control of the snake, do so from the inside. Everybody grouping up, but eating Peacekeeper shots to the face. Cruelbuckle stabilizes the crew. And now we've got some caustic barrels just to make sure that this spot is all the safer. The awkward part of this is that they're spending a lot of time and resources securing themselves a spot in what is not the next ring, not even close. Pioneers...
00:39:03 Ja, Unreal Nightmare ist hier im Hintergrund.
00:39:21 This is one of the surprise packages, I think, for this split. Currently sitting, what, like top 10 or something? I don't think anyone would have put them that high if you were doing a prediction of where our teams ended in terms of the America's standings at the start of the split. But they have proven over quite a few match days now that they've got what it takes. You know, I'd probably chuck them in a similar bucket to someone like DMG, who are really showing that they are...
00:39:49 You know, perhaps the, uh, the next wave. Pioneer's just gonna be timing their heals for a little while as that next wave will have to wait until next ring. Ah. This is a huge roll. I cannot believe 100 Thieves.
00:40:08 Ja, ich bin sicher, es ist. Obviamente 100 Thieves haben veränderten ihre Support.
00:40:37 Roster recently, right? Adding Balvarine in favor of longtime Coach Bronsi, who had, you know, a nice send-off. It was nothing acrimonious between those, but it sure has been cool seeing their approach to the game, and obviously Balvarine would have been very happy with his first day on the squad.
00:41:02 Und es ist auf Davis zu klutch. Es ist absolut möglich mit dem Alter als auch. Ava ist auf 1 HP. Aber er hat nur zu viel damage und hat eine Sekunde zu gehen. Und er gibt's. D-Gap geht um, meanwhile. Als Oren kam in für die 3rd party in, Unreal Nightmare seemed zu haben.
00:41:29 Weirdly enough, on perfect timing. What? There's no way he gets away with this. He's actually fine. And Orin are cooked.
00:41:40 I think they might be done for, absolutely right. DMG looks to be getting the better of them. Virtus Pro on the adjacent choke, also thinking about having a go at this. Grow Gaming, I thought they might finish up Unreal Nightmare as well. They were actually porting to the backside to think about getting involved and third partying that fight down at North Siphon, but they don't in the end.
00:42:09 Pioneer's reset not going too well, as Mav does need everybody to join them. But at this point, with the zone starting to pull further and further south, Pioneer's aren't even going to be in the game for very long, or even shorter, as they get eliminated. And DMG eating the focus of Grow. I wouldn't be too comfortable as them either. It seems like this south side of the map, much like Game 1 in EME, or rather...
00:42:38 Ja, Game 1 in EMEA has ended up being a big focal point, and if Grow Gaming can control this area, they've got a good argument for winning. Oh yeah, I mean, you know, technically below ZZ and Falcons right now, but Grow Gaming are in the prime position to actually win the Americas Pro League. That's how solid they have been throughout the entire thing. I think they're the only team so far to have won two days as well.
00:43:08 Ich möchte kurz nach, für diejenigen zu denen, die ich auf die Map-Feed habe, haben wir noch ein paar Godspots gehalten. Virtus.Pro kämpft für einen mit Grow Gaming, als wir schon erwähnt haben. Aber dann, wenn wir ein bisschen weiter nach dem Nord sind, wir haben Thuggett's in der Mitte der Zone. Und wenn ich sie in der Pre-Show habe, ich nicht, ich werde sie jetzt nicht, ich werde sie jetzt. Thuggett's hat Godspot. Ich sagte, sie spielen Textbook Apex Legends.
00:43:36 This should be a game they're able to walk away with at least a top three from. You know, in almost any other Legend composition, I wouldn't call that Godspot Dia, but because we have Caustic Newcastle, I think the position there in which I believe is under the bridge will be quite defensible. That position of Groen Virtus fighting over, which is obviously more high ground, probably has slightly higher priority.
00:43:59 than them um but a hundred thieves also coming up with a nice nice spot here as they port in over from ghost town
00:44:08 5-star, unfortunately, are taken down, and we get a nice shot of 100 Thieves, and in contrast, the Thuggets, 100 Thieves who have fought their way here slowly, but surely, and Thuggets, who very quickly rotated, leaving Din still on blue shields with this new castle. Not a comfortable spot at all. Pioneers are going to go down, and 100 Thieves are being focused, which might actually force them into Thuggets. You'll see in that...
00:44:34 Mid-Zone Reset right now? Unreal! Nightmare! Are directly in the middle of the Final Zone, and they somehow just got both of their teammates back into it. Alright, sure, fair enough. Shopify Rebellion go down in the meantime. Also, Team Inferno, we've got Rock with the Kraber, and they're going to try and force their way a little further into the Zone. They're just out of it right now. Potentially Thuggets, maybe even 100 Thieves in the Crosshairs.
00:45:03 See what Sawserer can do with this. 100 Thieves get abducted. Jen Burton gonna go down to the nade from Lorz. 100 Thieves in shambles right now as they get pushed by the Thuggets and taken out. Thuggets do not coexist with nobody. I'm hyping them up, I'm hyping them up. Thuggets have got this guys. Oh my god, VP are trying to coexist with.
00:45:26 Sie haben jetzt über eine Zentimeter zu spielen, und ja, sogar eine Single Caustic Barrel mit dem Buff zu den Damage wird wahrscheinlich genug sein. Keon versucht zu sehen durch die Gas, und Virtus.Bros hat die Pressure, die GroGaming exertert von dieser South-Western Seite der Zone.
00:45:53 Nocte hat sich sehr gut zu spielen, besonders auf diesem Highground hast du eine riesige Anzahl von Priorität, aber es gibt auch noch genug Teams in der Lobby mit Headpeaks auf dich, dass du zu beherrschst. Der Fakt ist, dass Virtus.Prohre ihre Rotation hat, und sich vor allem auf Groh-Gaming hat, kann sich sehr Probleme für Groh-Groh. Die Ninjas in Pajamas gehen, und Masters of Evil sind gleich, sitzen in Caustic-Gas mit Zonen auf ihren Backen. Wir können von 9 bis 7-Squads gehen sehr schnell. Oblivion aus.
00:46:22 Oh my god, just gets the medkit off in time. Perfectly done. Down to the frame, but with CIMJ in this building to his right, Kuzme is going to struggle to get any further, I would say. Masters of Evil do go down. That is CIMJ finishing them off, and now we're down to seven.
00:46:46 This is still looking, I will say, insanely good for Thuggets. Rock, who were their next door neighbors, have committed onto a fight on the high ground that seems to be going their way, but not quite well enough. So not well enough that Din from Thuggets is able to pick up kills on Rock, who now have to reset on high ground. Unreal Nightmare are going to go down. And Rock, dead center of zone, have a lot of teams looking at them. Again, Thuggets most notably. From the low ground.
00:47:14 Es ist so schwierig, um diese Team zu nehmen. Ich will mit Dugget zu hören, um sie zu sehen, ob sie das in eine gewisse Wunsch werden können. Es ist nicht forward, können wir identifieren? Wir haben Gnades, Gnades, Gnades!
00:47:25 Ich denke, es ist ein Team up hier. Es ist ein Team auf der Seite. Ich werde mich auf der Seite sehen. Ich werde mich auf der Seite sehen. Ich werde mich auf der Seite sehen.
00:47:54 No, no, 2, 2, 2, 2. I can make it. Yeah, I know. I'm destroying the team. I know. When you get barrels over here because they can look down on us. They're not going to be in for a long time, though.
00:48:11 Yeah, they're just farming the other ones. Can we shoot them on? Yeah, yeah, start crossing the Labyrinth. 100 Kursk, 100 Kursk. They're shooting. Fuggets have identified their threats. They're focused on the team on high ground and how long they can outlast with their position. We'll see if they can convert us right now, CIMJ.
00:48:31 Start eyeing the position of Thuggets and very quickly get taken out. That is 8 KP for the Thuggets from low ground. And they start moving up on Rock. A very dangerous proposition with Exterminators on one side, Rock on another. Thuggets seem to have moved themselves into a scenario where unfortunately their only way is between these two scary teams. Let's see what they can do. No catalyst, no safety. And Rock, not willing to overextend.
00:48:57 Yeah, I mean, look, they've popped the Evac Tower. I don't know if that's going to really help them a lot. As soon as Rocks start kicking over, though, they are looking at Exterminators. And Thuggett maybe can just survive for the meantime. They were the ones who cleared out Virtus.Pro and Pro Gaming up the top and gave themselves a chance to win this. Can they pop in here and third party at the right time?
00:49:19 They should be able to. I mean, Rock are resetting on this high ground, and it is disastrous for them. Exterminators go down, and a second place for Thuggets is absolutely fantastic. Rock come in. They claim the victory. But for a team like Rock to win that game and Thuggets getting second place, it is exactly the kind of thing that both squads want. Yes, Rock want to win. Yes, they want to end the season on a banger. But...
00:49:48 We're talking about Thuggets, man. Thuggets want Regional Finals, and with a second place here, they've taken one big step closer to it. It was a big game. I mean, I think the mid-game was fantastic. 14 kills. As we said, they killed both Virtus.Pro and Grow Gaming, who I think were in good positions to cause them problems.
00:50:08 Honestly, look, I don't want to put too much of a dampener on this, but I don't know if I agree with you there at the end, Dia. I feel like there was a window there. There was a good sort of 5-10 second window where they could have set that and made a difference in that final fight, and they sat back, and then we just saw a small amount of time, which allowed Rock to peek over with the triple stake, start hitting them with the 111s, and take the game for themselves. So maybe a small missed opportunity for Thugit, but they still end up with...
00:50:37 Ja, ich denke, das ist wirklich gut für beide Teams. Und wie du gesagt hast, gibt es wahrscheinlich noch mehr für die Thuggets. In fact, das ist wahrscheinlich warum sie in 21st zu Beginn mit ist, dass sie ein wenig weiteres zu gehen hat. Die Faktoren sind in 2nd mit 23 Points, doch...
00:50:59 Das ist eine große Hilfe zu diesem Stand. Rock gewinnen die Spiel mit 22, und ziemlich gut von ihnen, auch. Ich liebe die Art Rock, die die Fights war, insbesondere mit dem Alter, sehr aggressiv. Und sie haben die Alter, wieder einmal zu haben, als es eine Caustik-Ban hat. Mit Rock taking den ersten Spiel, Thuggett's taking die Leid. Wir haben Exterminators gerade hinter dem, an 17 points, und CIMJ, an 10. Es ist die erste Spiel, sehr hoch für die...
00:51:28 The fact that both of them are over 20 does mean that a lot of kills went their way. Yeah, I mean, the right side of that screen is looking like a Krispy Kreme shot right there. Unfortunately, only DMG with the six kills. It took me a second to figure that out. I'm going to think on it. I'm going to grab some water and I'm going to get ready for whatever game two has to throw at us after the break.
00:52:03 Das war's für heute.
00:52:24 Das ist ein Schwer, der sich in den ersten Schwer. Der Schwer, der Schwer. Der Schwer. Der Schwer. Der Schwer. Der Schwer.
00:52:41 Das war's für mich. Das war's für mich. Das war's für mich.
00:53:07 Das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja.
00:53:26 Ja, das ist ja, das ist ja, das ist ja.
00:53:55 Ja, da ist das Wachstuhl-Kakana-Shizu-Kakana-Shizu-Kakana-Shizu-Kakana-Shizu-Kakana-Shizu.
00:54:37 Das war eine sehr interessante Final-Fight, DIA. Rock hat eine sehr stark Position, aber wie du schon erwähnt hast, Sie haben ihn mit einem guten zweiten Platz gehört.
00:54:59 And Gino mentioned this as well. I think the biggest factor in the fact that Thuggets got second place was the fact that Exterminators, when they drop, attracted a lot of attention from Brock. It is, in moments like this, a look one way or look another scenario. And Brock looked at Exterminators first, took them out with some fantastic play from Sorcerer.
Match 2: Analysen, Strategien und frühe Spielzüge auf World's Edge
00:55:21
00:55:21 und dann hat er die Rez gewonnen, das war die größte Faktor für Rock. All this time, auf High Ground ist genau das Genome, wo er würde gerne sehen, mehr Aggressiv Thuggetts. Und ich habe zu sagen, er würde wahrscheinlich haben Thuggetts, wenn nicht eine Victory, closer zu es. 2nd place ist, noch fantastisch für sie, als wir gesagt haben. Und sie haben dann die Points-Lead, die für ein Team, das ist auf der Bubble der Qualifikation der Region Finale, ist die wichtigste Sache.
00:55:49 Absolutely. But we do talk about that a lot, right? How sometimes, you know, a little bit of indecision here and there can completely alter the outcome of a fight or even an entire game. And, you know, maybe we saw a little bit of that out of the targets, but it is just the first match. They did give themselves some momentum, some confidence. And now as we head into match number two, they can potentially build off of that. As we saw in Amir earlier, Kostik is that first ban out of the...
00:56:17 We'll see if the Americas do anything similar to EMEA.
00:56:27 ... ... ... ... ...
00:56:51 We tend to dance to the tune of a different fiddler. That metaphor came into my brain so perfectly. You got that one. I don't even know. I don't know if anybody says that. It just sounds so right. And I guess we'll see whether it feels right to our teams as we drop into game number two. If they don't say it, they say it now. Wouldn't you be a trendsetter? I hope so. Our winners of game one, Rock, starting things off in Epicenter.
00:57:20 Also kind of a trendsetter location. I don't think Epicenter was especially popular. We used to get Survey Epi being the claimed drops before POI Draft was invented. I think I'm going to use the word invented here. Created? Incepted? I'm not sure. But the fact that Rock Drop Epicenter and Ninjas in Pajamas Drop Survey Camp does mean that this POI's loot...
00:57:44 Ich hoffe, dass sie das Informationen bekommen hat, denn mit dieser Zone zu beherrschst, es ist natürlich, dass es nachdem, wie es nachdem, wie es nachdem, wie es nachdem, wie es nachdem, wie es nachdem, wie es nachdem, wie es nachdem.
00:58:10 Chosen as much lately because of that loot nerf, but you do see the ring console at Big Mod as well, so VP have some information. They're going to start rotating into one of those buildings, whichever area they think that this is potentially going to be ending at and setting themselves up permanently here as we can start to see the mass rotation coming through. 100 Thieves are getting the scan at Big Mod as well, but I want to touch on where Virtus Pro are playing.
00:58:34 They look to be playing the furthest building, the only building that is all the way out to the eastern side. And I want to note it because it is an extremely inactive position that has the potential to win you the game. This is a bit of a gamble by Virtus.Pro. If they win the game, it's great. If they end up with zero KP and a seventh place, it's a very, very bad play. So I'm curious whether they'll stick to this or start moving around a little.
00:59:00 We're also still sticking with that southern and or central ring theme for the Americas so far that you talked about when you did the historic ring analysis, which does put the likes of Liquid Alienware all the way up at Skyhook with a very long road to get to where they need to be for this final circle.
00:59:20 C-I-M-G starting to show up in the final circle. And white armors and all. The epitome of a world's edge zone rotation. There's really nothing that C-I-M-G have to worry about at the moment, but later on that is not going to stay true. DMG, however, making Pioneer's worry, that's for sure. This fight towards the southern side of Stax seems to be going DMG's way. And would DJ kill her?
00:59:46 On the R99, there is no mystery why. That guy is a monster. I don't think Pioneers was ready for that. They do. You can see Mav right there managed to escape, so an opportunity potentially to maybe get the team back up here, but Mav is a solo, so this will not be super easy. Hopefully you can do it without drawing too much attention, as they do have that.
01:00:11 Beacon down and ready to go, so Pioneers will be respawning back in. Will not be the first team eliminated, which right now with this situation is huge. The nades landing on that. Did make me wonder for justice. Oh no, they're gone! I curse that, oh my god. I think it's important to forgive yourself at times like these. The timing! Are you kidding me?
01:00:41 Das war wie, weil er die Rez wurde, und das war so eine Sekunde auf dem Registerung als being Rezzed. Man sieht das jeden Tag. D-Gap ist auf die Hillen jetzt. Vielleicht ist die zweite Team Eliminatet, wenn sie ihre Karte falsch spielen. Und jetzt ist es jetzt auf die Hillen, das ist unglaublich schwer zu spielen, in einer Weise zu spielen. Sie sind auch die zweite Squad, die Eliminatet sind, und die Masters of Evil.
01:01:09 Die sind die Kills zu nehmen. Unreal Nightmare, nicht in Zeit für 3rd Party. Sie werden einfach weitergehen. Und das heißt, Masters of Evil ist eigentlich all der Dome-Side. Niemand ist zu spielen. Das könnte auch gut sein für Masters of Evil sein. Die southern Seite dieser Circle ist Bloodbath. Wir haben einige von den earliesten Existenz gesehen in einem Moment. Wir haben bereits 18 Spiele. Und ich denke, alle kamen bereit zu spielen hier in Matchday-Night.
01:01:38 Das war's für heute.
01:01:59 Let's see what happens with Thuggets, because they've once again predicted a spot in Zone, and the thing that I critiqued about them in the pre-show is not their Zone prediction, it's not their endgame play, it's their transitions from area to area. If this ring pulls away from Thuggets, that's going to be a big problem for them.
01:02:17 Ich liebe das Shout. Es wird viel Spaß zu folgen und sehen, was sie zu finden. 100 Thieves haben. Ich habe sie sehen, dass sie von der PoV wie es geht, denn sie sind einfach nicht. Denn Jen ist einfach nicht auf. Aber es ist all zu Jen, an dieser Stelle zu gehen. Wir müssen die Portal zurückgehen. Wir können sie vielleicht ein bisschen mehr Reset withouten. Meanwhile, Inferno ist Eliminated.
Strategische Spielzüge und Teamdynamiken im frühen Mid-Game
01:02:42
01:02:42 He's got the support perks on Watson, which is going to be really nice. Letting Phony regen up as soon as he's picked up. And hopefully letting 100 Thieves stabilize in mod. This will not be punished by Grow Gaming because they were flanked at the time. Rock Esports was trying to poke up and see if they could take a bite out of Grow. And 100 Thieves get to reset as a result. This next ring, though, is going to be very telling. Where are we going?
01:03:07 Honestly, no huge change. Basically, everybody that thought they were in ring, they're in ring. This is going to be an insane final circle, Dia. What does this ring tell me? I think this ring tells me, if I'm speaking to the ring, that we're going a little bit further north.
01:03:26 towards the Eggshell rather than deep into Stax. That's the vibe I'm getting right now. Okay. And you can feel free to call me on that later on if I'm wrong. But that seems to be the biggest shift. Shopify Rebellion making their way in from the north. Liquid Alienware right alongside them. Keep your eyes on these two teams as them clashing last time ended up really hurting Shopify's Rebellion's chance at a rotate. They'll also...
01:03:53 Be looking to see if there's any opportunity for them to be grabbing those Evos or any additional information on the ring as they do continue those longer rotates down to the southern side, knowing full well just how many teams will have gotten in there early and already claimed some of those best positions. Five Star, though, another squad that's down there on the southern edge of the circle, looking to see if they can maybe move in or if there are teams that will be looking their way.
01:04:18 Und das ist eine der größten Dinge, die sich mit der nächsten Zone gezeigt hat, wenn man das nächste Information hat. Und 5-star ist es, als sie zurück in die Dome getrennt, und zuerst getrennt werden, wo alle anderen sind. Diese Ridgeline ist wahrscheinlich in einem Spiel-Winne-Winne-Winne, die macht 5-star in eine sehr schwere Zeit.
01:04:41 Sending some teams in Stax and exposing themselves to a barrage of fire, or realistically, do they fight Oblivion, who are in the tunnel that connects Lava Siphon and Stax? And they were looking at that tunnel a little bit. I think they are aware that they do have a team in there, so we'll have to see how they handle it. Now getting to see where Liquid Alienware are, you would call that they might run into Shopify, and we see those pings coming out, but Shopify is playing it safe, staying in Geyser for just a little bit here.
01:05:08 Giving themselves some room while Liquid Alienware, determining which way they want to continue this rotation. Both teams have placed Void in Exide, that's what we're going with. Love it. To give themselves a retreat, should they continue and find a little bit of trouble. For Shopify Rebellion, that's actually extremely likely, since their choke point will take them directly into Grow Gaming. And for Exterminators...
01:05:31 You wish that they had a little bit of a retreat. Right now I'm not seeing a Void Nexus that's been placed for them, but since they're moving up onto this high ground and challenging 5-star, there's a world where Exterminators suddenly find one Noct and have not much that they can do about it. Let's see what the ports look like as Alter Portal does take them a little closer to the high ground. Are they winning? They've done a lot of damage. Maybe 5-star just gives us up.
01:05:54 This is tough for Five Star 2, because they don't have a lot of safe space to retreat to from here. They know they've got Oblivion in the tunnel, Masters of Evil right in front of them, who will also hear these shots coming through and be looking this direction. So Exterminators will be able to force Five Star out of the way. It doesn't put them in a great spot either, but it at least puts them safe into the next ring that they can then decide what to do from there.
01:06:17 GroGaming hat einen memberen von Rock sehr schnell gemacht. Rocker spielt die Eggshell nach dem Norden. Und wenn Exterminator's die Position erinnert, ist es worth noting, dass 5-star das Problem hat. Es gab nicht auf Oblivion, als Exterminator's sie auf den Kampf gestellt haben. Aber das Panik, das Quick-Move, hat sie einen Platz in Stacks bekommen. Eine Exterminator's könnte auf der Jumptown sein. Das ist ein Risiko, wie viele Teams sind in Stacks.
01:06:46 Lots of bullets flying through the sky. Will they be able to make it through unscathed? They try to go far east, similar to where VP is in the position. And we do finally get to see the next ring shift. And it is not what these teams were planning here, Dia. So this should be interesting as Exterminators survive and have a place to hold, at least for now. I know you said it's not what the teams were expecting.
Unerwartete Wendungen und strategische Entscheidungen im Mid-Game
01:07:13
01:07:13 But let's give me a little credit. It is exactly what I said was gonna happen, and I am not letting that go. Ninjas in pajamas crack open the mythic crate and get themselves a triple take for their trouble, should they choose to accept it. And they do not. The triple take unloved and abandoned. Tragic. Sad.
01:07:36 Wir sehen uns hier jetzt. Ich bin eigentlich, ich bin eigentlich almost crying. Du kannst nicht glauben, aber ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
01:07:59 I see now why they didn't pick up the triple take. I also would not downgrade for Makefraver to a triple take. And McLovin with the G7 actually gets quite a bit of value out of this as well.
01:08:11 mit dem, mit dem, mit dem Hop-Ups funktionieren in heute's economy. Having a G7 by your side can really help you, especially when you're playing Rampart and want to benefit from the additional Sheila. Ninjas in Pajamas do have a problem to solve, though, and that is the Team Liquid Alienware actually have a pretty easy-to-defend position, even with a Kraber. Through an Amped Wall, a Kraber's doing nothing, and Karev's gotta get creative with a shot angle that he's having trouble finding right now.
01:08:38 And he doesn't really have a lot of time to be peeking. And while all of this is happening, you can see creeping off to the side there. You've got Grow Gaming just peeking around the side of the mountain to see if maybe there's an opportunity for them to clean up. A shot was taken care of, does not connect. But this might be the moment that they decide to move in and see if they can maybe push Teela out of their position and claim it for themselves.
01:09:00 Look at the amount of shields between Chilaw and Ninjas in Pajamas, though. It is gonna come down to a close range fight in anything. You can see Yanya dipping just below Liquid Alienware, and that might be the call from them. If Ninjas in Pajamas want to play this aggressively, honestly, as Liquid Alienware, I'd be second-guessing myself, too.
01:09:21 A little bit of a push, a little bit of a retreat, but it does force Liquid Alienware off of them, giving Ninjas in Pajamas just an opportunity to breathe. Vayne is down here on this lower portion of the bridge, continuing to harass, not allowing Liquid Alienware to just back off without at least a little bit of punishment here. Now Liquid Alienware find themselves backed into a corner. Meanwhile, Exterminators are moving in on VP. Oh, a Slayer!
01:09:48 Ich wollte nicht die Tür gehen, mit Scheelah in die Spiel. Sie sind nicht sicher, nicht sogar hinter der Tür. Die Exterminators nehmen Vertus Pro, und sie werden ihren Rampagen gehen, als Nitsch und Pajamas gehen. Liquid Alienware, down 1, Goldthirsten.
01:10:07 With NIP cleaning them up. You can finally get some more light ammo, because I'll be honest, I didn't notice they were running out. And I was starting to sweat. Liquid Alienware down 3kp. Didn't do just the pajamas. And this is a big question that we'll answer as well. Teams like CIMJ. Teams like the Thuggets.
01:10:23 Wir können auch sehen, dass GroGaming hat sich auf den nächsten Zonen gehalten, was mit den NINJS in Pajamas und Liquid Alien gehalten ist, wo sie jetzt mit dem Mod sind, wo Shopify und 100 Thieves haben eine battle, und du kannst sehen, dass 100 Thieves ein bisschen injured, hier, nach etwas ...
01:10:50 Damage has come through, GroGaming's on the outside, trying to see if they can maybe peek in while Jen is trying to keep them at bay. And this is going to potentially be an opportunity right now for GroGaming to claim some serious real estate. Sometimes you get a shotgun him, sometimes you just punch him right in the face. Jen Burton goes down, Verhulst as well, and that leaves just Phony alive to try and...
01:11:14 Get these reses, survive, rat, whatever he wants, but limited time to do it. Fire aren't doing too much better as most teams are going to have a miserable time leaving this southern side of stacks. This is where the killfeed is going to start lighting up because these teams are about to go down. Okay, Oblivion injured.
01:11:37 Juggits, though, surviving here so far with just a little bit of cover and should be able to watch some of these other squads having to push out. They can see people above them. They're trying to see if they could have maybe landed that kidnap. It doesn't connect, but they are aware that they have to keep their eyes not only above, but also below.
01:11:58 Full charge is expended nobody's gonna be going through the wall anytime soon on thuggets and for dmg it's a bit of a different story rock would like kills but they'd like to win the game a little bit more and that's the reason we don't see them extending too much to try and finish off the kills that they have on dmg letting teams like ninjas and pajamas pick some of that up cimg or cimj are positioned opposite rocker
01:12:22 Rock has been holding this spot for a very long time, so they've had the opportunity to set up quite a few of these Rampart walls as Vaxlon's trying to use the Sheila to see if he can maybe clear CIMJ out. They are eliminated, and now that opens up so much breathing room for Rock until the likes of the Unreal Nightmares and the Thuggets start to have to move in. Vaxlon's doing the perfect thing, though, playing out, playing aggressive as Oblivion go down.
01:12:48 Rock's focus has to be on controlling as much of this Eggshell as possible, showing as much presence as possible, because the big advantage of this Eggshell is that nobody can see into it. Thuggets try and slam on the outside and immediately are gonna get melted by the shield. This Nate is doing nothing, and this is exactly what we talked about. The movement from Thuggets is just not there. The game plan did not allow them to survive against Unreal Nightmare, and I'll be honest, it might not even let Unreal Nightmare survive.
01:13:14 Yeah, because now this is the third party opportunity that anyone who had held onto a little bit of building space was hoping for or esports tried. They do go down though. Exterminators shortly follow 100 Thieves going down on big mod and this is the final collapse.
01:13:28 All the while, Ninjas in Pajamas have just been waiting on the outskirts on the northern side looking for their moment to strike. GroGaming has claimed some space on Big Mod as well as they continue to move in alongside Shopify Rebellion trying to take out this rat in DMG, but this is not setting up GroGaming as it's just down to drop.
01:13:47 With one little bit of zone left, Dropped is going to try and go for these reses, and Shopify Rebellion haven't actually stopped it just yet. They do finally, with an Alter Abduct, take out Kion. And that puts Grow Gaming right into the clutches of Shopify Rebellion, who have extended quite far to make this happen, but are going to make it happen no matter what. Grow Gaming are down, Shopify Rebellion have a nice spot, Ninjas of Pajamas looking straight at them. We're down to five.
Spannungsgeladene Endphase und überraschender Sieg
01:14:16
01:14:16 Oh, that was rough. That was chaos. And the whole time, Rock has been sitting here in this eggshell just doing a little bit of poke damage. But like you said, never fully committing, never overextending until they absolutely have to. They've got great angles on these teams that are just north of them. And Ninjas in Pajamas have now found themselves sandwiched between Shopify and Rock when they previously had such a strong position. When it comes to this other side, Unreal Nightmare and Masters of Evil are the only two teams to survive coming out of stats.
01:14:45 Rock have got problems that Unreal Nightmare don't. While Rails has infinite ammo, Rock has stayed in the eggshell long enough that they're starting to run out. Unreal Nightmare, they've run out of patience, pushing up onto the Masters of Evil to finally clear their sides. Once and for all, Huntsman lands. One, two, does not get the third Mastiff shot and goes down for his trouble. Kuzme and Miles still up and actually starting to res, starting to reset for the Masters of Evil.
01:15:13 Great job staying alive there with Masters of Evil, but now you've got Shopify in the north. Rock isn't trying to hold this final circle position with the Rampart walls for a while now, and Shopify are looking to see if they can maybe sneak up on them, maybe get a little bit of an angle here, and it's going to be interesting to see how they handle this. They do have Maggie, so maybe that drill will come in useful.
01:15:36 Already, it's bought them enough space to move up. The drill alone is taking positioning away from Rock, but with Alter, anything is possible. I mean, Rock could show up right on top of Shopify Rebellion at a moment's notice. And Masters of Evil are the real X-Factor here. The big thing is that Masters of Evil do not want to push Rock who are on high ground. That is sure to be in their death.
01:16:02 I cannot believe that Masters of Evil has managed to continue just to sneak up right on the underside of this rock and still stay alive. You can see Shopify trying to figure out what they want to do here. Are they going to go for that low ground and fight Masters of Evil, try to go for the KP, or do they want to try and stay alive? See if it forces Rock out of position as they don't have too much cover to work with. This is where it's all going to pop off, Dia. It's just this final 3v3v3.
01:16:25 Und du sagst es, Maggi ist die größte, Drill Usage ist die größte, Rock sind sozusagen aus dem Platz zu spielen, und müssen Alter auf die Seite auszultert, wenn sie auszultert wollen. Das Drill könnte der gesamte Spielplan machen, und Rock, sie sind für es. Sie sind in der No-Win-Situation auf gegen Schottapier-Rebellion, und sie voll senden! Ich kann nicht glauben, dass das passiert, und jetzt die Schott sind verbunden. Die Schott sind verbunden, und jetzt sind die Schott sind verbunden. Masters of Evil, sie gehen nach, um zu spielen, und Rock!
01:16:54 Their second win in a row. Rock do the same thing that they did in game number one. They play for a power position, especially in the mid-game. And this time, I'd say even earlier than that. What's amazing to me is that Rock not only won that game, they managed to not run out of ammo somehow along the way because they had no death boxes to play with. Nobody was coexisting in their space. And yet...
01:17:23 They force a fight between the other two teams, and that is always how Apex is gonna go. I, you know, Rock took the fight to Shopify, and I really thought that that was potentially going to be their undoing. I thought that would be when Masters of Evil would then peek up over and do so much damage that Rock couldn't recover, but...
01:17:44 Das war so stark, DIA. Das war also ein sehr konservative Spiel. Aber wie du gesagt hast, sie nicht pushen. Sie waren K.P., aber nicht genug genug zu ihnen, dass sie dann wiederholfen und alle die Lüte von den Death Boxen können. So 4,500 damage, sozusagen zwischen den drei und acht Kills sind ziemlich konservative. Aber sie...
01:18:13 Es ist so perfekt, dass du eine gewinne Wunsch hast.
01:18:41 They didn't look fantastic. The Shopify Rebellion do manage to get a little bit of momentum in this second game, putting up 16 points. It is still going to leave them pretty far off the top of the leaderboard. Fifth place right now, where Rocker at 42, dwarfing everyone else's points.
01:18:58 And look at the difference as well with the double digits in the KP for our top four. And then it falls off pretty aggressively from there. We talk about point sponges all the time. And we're seeing exactly that happen just across multiple teams right now, which makes it even harder for the teams at the bottom to get the points that they're going to need. So we're going to need to see some of these squads picking up quickly because we only have four matches left. But of course, it means we also have one more match left on World Zed. So before we dive into it, we're going to send it to a short break. Don't go anywhere.
01:19:28 Und ich bin ich bin ich bin
01:19:58 Ich kann mich nicht sagen, dass ich mich nicht sagen kann, dass ich mich nicht sagen kann, dass ich mich nicht sagen kann.
01:20:22 Ich kann es nicht so gut, aber ich kann es nicht so gut, ich kann es nicht so gut, ich kann es nicht so gut, ich kann es nicht so gut, ich kann es nicht so gut, ich kann es nicht so gut, ich kann es nicht so gut
01:20:48 Das war's. Das war's.
01:21:18 Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall. Das ist der Fall.
01:21:59 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
01:22:12 3v3v3. Rock's in a good spot.
01:22:40 Und dann, aber ja, mein lord, die Alter plays in dieser Final Zone waren so viel Spaß. Ich sehe Shopify, die Fischung, Baiting the Hook hier, aber nichts Biting. Und dann, all of a sudden, wir sehen Rock Pop aus der Egg. Und es war dann, wirklich, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das, das
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01:23:25 I actually, I know that we just ran it. I want to run, if we can, the last couple seconds of this again because I realize that I even got confused in those last couple seconds because Shopify Rebellion are waiting on the eggshell. I thought they popped out, popped back, like baited a fight and popped back in. Instead, it's a long-range altar portal from the Masters of Evil on low ground that puts them directly between the two teams. That's, I mean...
01:23:52 It is a small difference, but it is a huge difference in terms of how much risk Rock actually had to engage in in order to win that game, which is ultimately very little now. That's super cool. Yeah, because obviously we didn't really get to see the Masters of Evil POV at all in that sort of last section. So yeah, wow. I guess they still were a factor in that fight.
Meta-Analyse und Legend Bans
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01:24:16 Ja, das ist ein sehr großartiger. Und so ist Newcastle, in all of that Final Circle. Nicht nur für einen Team, wie Masters of Eidl, die auf der Wand gewonnen haben, Schopify Rebellion, oder Rock, die aufzunehmen. Aber jetzt ist es ein Teil von niemandem's Gameplan. Newcastle ist banned. Wir folgen in den footsteps von unseren Forefathers in EMEA. Und die Frage für mich ist, nach Match 3, will Watson be banned?
01:24:45 Oder sind wir ein bisschen anders? Nein, wir sind jetzt noch etwas anderes. Ich meine, wir haben einen Blick auf die vorherigen Tage, seit dem Patch. Sie wissen, dass wir jetzt die Daten in der ersten Halbzeit haben. Obviamente, wir hatten viele große Unterschiede in Legend. Korsik geht's, Wotten geht's, Sparrow geht's. Aber in den letzten Tagen, es hat Korsik, nach Newcastle. Also, das ist noch weiter.
01:25:10 Ich glaube, es geht um ein bisschen. Wir hatten Alta-Bans, wir hatten Krypto-Bans, sogar in den Amerikas, auf die 3rd game, auf E-District. So, ja, ich denke, es könnte eine dieser drei. Alta, Krypto, oder Watson. Mm-hmm. Es scheint...
01:25:30 Die globalen Meta, zumindest in den Westen, die EMEAs und NAs, ist mehr homogenes als es in den resten Regionen, mit den Amerikas wirklich der epitome auf das. Wir tenden an ein oder zwei Compositions, wie wir talked about, wie die Sheeple.
01:25:54 You are absolutely right. As we pop into our third match and our final match on World's Edge, Watson is the most picked legend. And we'll be banned moving into game number four, so enjoy while you can. Because next match on Storm Point, you are eating grenades.
01:26:12 No Castle Walls. No Interception Pylons. There is nothing that will be eating up those nades. And the other two we mentioned were only just behind. So Watson's up at 80% of the pick rate. But Alter and Crypto, the other two that we said had a chance. And it might just depend on, you know, which particular teams you've got in the lobby that have a sort of fixation one way or the other. But they were up at 70%. So we are seeing a lot of those three. Also, can I just say, if we're going off the Sheep...
01:26:40 Um, you know, sort of metaphor here. I just realized that works even better because the teams who aren't playing, uh, you know, the, the bunker, um, sort of comps, which is the most prevalent one, therefore the sheep, uh, they're actually the aggro teams. So they're, they're like the wolves on playing edge and trying to hunt the sheep down, right? Whoa. Okay. Wait, I see the thematic thread that you're weaving here and I like it. I like it a lot.
01:27:09 I am looking forward to seeing a few more Maggies on that thread as well, because seeing that come out from Shopify Rebellion was quite exciting, and we've got some on Fire, we've got some on D-Gap as well. Maggies is increasingly a prevalent pick, so much so that we're even seeing the Ninjas in Pajamas pick this up. Yeah, I was really hoping in that last circle in Game 2 that we'd...
01:27:37 We see some really clutch Magi Jewels come out, but it seemed like there was just enough space inside that dome for Rock to be able to dodge them. And they were mostly used on Masters of Evil. We see Monsoon pick up an early finish there onto Serial Cat. So that's one down already for five stars.
01:27:58 Given the timing with which that door opened, they almost stuck Five Star as well. And the fact that Five Star has stayed in this building or in this area likely means that Oblivion are going to find them. We'll see what actually occurs as there is a little bit of wiggle room in Thermal Station for everyone to retreat into. That includes Oblivion, Unreal Nightmare and Five Star, the teams that are there, but...
01:28:23 Wenn Fiery Maggi Balls kommen, kann man ein bisschen spicy werden, und Virtus.Pro sind das erst einmal zu tun. Sitten in Harvester, jetzt haben sie eine Deathbox zu arbeiten, aber eine Defensive Position ist, dass sie nicht die Rotation haben, das würde sie in den Mirage-Atois gehen. Das ist eine wichtige Frage, hier, weil wir nicht mehr haben, wie wir eine North Zones hatten.
01:28:49 Does Mirage à Trois count as a north zone? Oh man, I feel like... So where I live in Melbourne, it's like... People only talk about the west and the east in Melbourne. But it's like I'm in the north, sort of on the cusp of both, and I feel like you're asking me the same question. It's like you want me to commit one way or the other when it kind of doesn't matter.
01:29:18 Ich... Ich nehme das. Ich nehme das. Ich nehme das. Ich nehme das. Ich nehme das. Ich nehme das. Aber ich nehme das. Ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das. Und ich nehme das.
01:29:47 Un. Real. Won't answer the question he poses himself.
01:29:55 I am, as I continue to dodge this question, increasingly curious about Rock's positioning, be it relative to the leaderboard or relative to this game, because they are much less safe than we've seen them in the past. This Graveyard, as some call it, could end up being one for Rock as they eat nade after nade. No Rez on Saussewer just yet. Maggydrills coming in to harass them. Leaves Rock with basically no options. Backslot doesn't even have a safe way out of here.
01:30:25 Was there a void nexus that could take them to safety? Oh, well, let's just take them to their deaths. I'm just trying to work out. Oh, no, my map's frozen. That's why I'm not seeing them zip around. Now that I've done that. Okay, so they go back to landslide. I'm surprised it took them that long, DR. Like, were they that obsessed with sitting in that position that they didn't want to give it up? Because, you know, they've lost a member in their hesitance to retreat.
01:30:55 Das ist ein bisschen schwierig für mich, nicht zu lieben. Ich kann nicht viel klar sagen, was hat Rock zu dieser Decision ledet, wenn sie Safety und Landslide hatten. Aber das Safety hat sich zumindest an den Faktor zu tun, dass sie Krafter hatten. Also, sie haben die Banner und Rez ihre Team-Mate. Sie jetzt nur noch Orin zu contend mit. Das und vielleicht 100 Thieves, die sich um die Rotation auf dem Landslide zu machen. Das könnte auch die beiden squads in den Gegensatz zu bringen, mit 100 Thieves zu sein.
01:31:24 Aggressively oriented composition. The wolves shall we say. The wolves on the hunt. Unreal nightmare.
01:31:38 Not okay, they must be something else because they're not the sheep cuz they're not running the same composition Well, actually now kind of everyone's caught up to them, but they have been playing this Composition. Okay, I don't know look this metaphors gonna fall apart if we try and fit unreal nightmare into it There must be like alpacas or goats or something, but yeah, I am begging you not to think about this too Okay, all right. I'll just give it up
01:32:08 We can see where all of the teams now are pulling into towards Mirage Atoile. As we said, that's where the circle's heading. Shopify Rebellion, of course, taking their sweet, sweet time as they love to. Orin Esports very much up the north as well. They've currently only got a smattering of points. They are one of the teams that would love to pile a couple more on. They will need a significantly higher finish to enable them to...
01:32:37 Qualified Regional Finals, um, at the moment they are well off the pace.
01:32:43 With this next zone pulling us a little bit further into the corners of Mirage-a-Trois and Lava Fischer. Virtus Pro are going to have a ring scan available to them. I believe 100 Thieves, who now have landslides themselves, will as well. And Oblivion, coming out of this side by Thermal Station, actually could dip back into Thermal and get a ring scan themselves, should they wish to. And it is...
01:33:09 ob sie das ist, oder nicht. Ich möchte kurz noch mal, dass du, wie Rock, eine lange Zeit, um die Position zu移st? Ja. Und sie hat sich direkt in die Graveyard, die sie ausgedritten haben, und sie sind besser. Aber das ist wirklich riesig. Fühlt mir mal.
01:33:26 Fool me twice. Shame on you. I guess we'll see what happens. Maybe they can avoid the Maggie drills a little bit better this time. We head well down south. We're watching the Longbow do some serious damage to... I think that's DMG on the wrong side of that sniper rifle. Of course, the Sentinel not in the game right now. So if you're a sniper in Joya...
01:33:51 Mostly it's the charge rifle, but we have actually seen a surprising number of longbow shots come through so far here in North America. Yeah, the Skullpiercer access has been quite nice. Maybe not quite as nice as it was for 30-30 enjoyers, but nice enough to at least let it not be too punishing. And I definitely saw...
01:34:13 Ava machte gut use of it just then, machte gut use of the Peacekeeper to try and defend from DMG, but at this point, once DMG have a knock, and once they've got a clear line of sight on you, it's 1 KP that gets given up, and it's up to DGAP not to take this fight, but to run from it. Whoa. Sniper shots ring out.
01:34:36 Abelie, does she know that DJ Killer is here lurking? As we mentioned at the start of today, one of the most dangerous players in the lobby. Meanwhile, Future Streams, he wins his one against James Fearless.
01:34:54 So helping out a lot that's kind he did make me clench I'm not gonna lie DJ killer after popping this med kit should have a way in but gets caught by the thermite instead and it's a but it's going on the push DJ killer phases in aggressively future streams healing on the low ground back up on the way but again
01:35:14 Zon just doing a little bit too much right now. It takes a long time, but D-Gap do eventually go down, leaving just one squad. The victors, DMG entry. D-Gap, unfortunate goodbye. Trigger Discipline just a little bit better for the DMG player there, as Zynu pulls out both of the light weapons in order to put pay to Auron.
01:35:39 E-Sport, who now are down to one as well. A lot of fights happening well within the zone right now. A lot of zone damage being taken by all of the teams getting into engagements in the last couple of minutes.
01:35:57 Shopify Rebellion extending out for the kills though is very much in line with the scrims that we were talking about this week. The scrims that led us to believe this would be a titan of a team moving into the weekend.
01:36:12 We want to see if they can continue this trend, or if it'll get shut down like it was yesterday. Still, very much to determine the flavor of this lobby. Whether it is one that is more risk-aggressive or risk-averse. Oblivion, for their part, extremely risk-averse, as we've seen multiple times. And Team Inferno are watching them get on and off the zipline like four times. Don't find a knock, but...
01:36:36 Ich denke, Team Inferno ist wahrscheinlich ziemlich confused bei dem, was passiert. Oblivion will sehen, ob sie enden landen safe. Keep your eyes on the killfeed, just in case. Oh, hohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho
01:37:02 Just a couple of bullets will have you bleeding out on the ground as we see multiple members of Oblivion. I mean, they even had the Gibby. That's what you are asking for, Diya. Oblivion boarded out here in Game 3. Sadly, the other most creative comp are probably D-Gap with Lifeline and Maggie. Obviously, we also saw them see D&G get the better of them.
01:37:27 Maybe not flourishing in this particular game. We'll have to hope that these picks, these creative compositions can find a little bit more security in the later stages when everybody is forced out of comfort due to the legend bans. Shopify Rebellion playing in an uncomfortable area themselves. They do have a truck to play as a central position.
01:37:48 Und jetzt, wir sehen uns in der Öffnung, 100 Thieves zu machen, oder in eSports, das zu erleben. Und jetzt, wir sehen, Shopify Rebellion und 100 Thieves zu spüren. 100 Thieves zu haben, zumindest in einem Headpeak zu haben. Die Zone, gerade bei ihren Backen, macht es ein bisschen ein Problem für sie. Arna struggling. Es ist nur die Krypto lebt, und ich bin nicht sicher, ob er ist, dass er ein Res oder ein Reset wird.
01:38:17 We're going to the Watson player. CIMJ, similarly in a rough situation. They're on the low ground, kind of in the middle of nowhere. They've got about six teams behind them who are about to make their rotate, but it's 100 Thieves versus Shopify Rebellion. An exciting matchup here. As the Thuggets go down 100 Thieves, look for Shopify.
01:38:45 I'm loving the EVA 8 play out of Jen Burton, but I hope that it's lovable enough to give them the win against Liquid Alienware who come in for the third party and immediately take out Phony and Verhoz with Virtus.Pro on the other side. We'll be saying goodbye to 100 Thieves momentarily. Nobody can stand in the face of three different teams.
01:39:07 Shooting at him from different directions, 100 Thieves go down, Jen Burton's Fancy Feet not saving him, and Liquid Alienware move on back to Fischer, where they actually want to play the rest of his game. Virtus Pro doing the same with his small train car that will provide them safety, but not on the next ring close.
01:39:23 Ja, look, Fancy Feed is certainly one way to talk about a controller player who unfortunately cannot move while they are trying to get a shield swap in front of three different teams. Um, it was a little bit rough in the middle there, 400 Thieves. I'm surprised that, uh, you know, Shopify lasted as long as they did, but now having gone out in 16 as well, uh, you know, Team Look at Alienware really did get the better of them and now are in a fantastic spot as one of the teams playing from the Lava Fissure side and from that north side.
01:39:53 Ich denke, dass die Spieler wirklich zu kontrollieren werden, wenn die Team von Mirage Atoile starten zu ziehen. Vertispro, die EMP für sie, gewinnt sie den Kampf.
01:40:04 Against DMG, Aura in Esports ist auch zu fallen, das zu Team Liquid Alienware in den Norden und wir haben jetzt noch eine Aggressive EMP, diese Zeit aus Rock, als sie gegen CIMJ nehmen, aber letztendlich geben Deed's life in der Prozess, die geholfen von hinterlassen sind. Rock haben sie ihre Priorität haben, sie haben einen EMP, sie haben keine Defensive Positionierung und zwei Teams, vielleicht drei, auf sie schauen, Unreal Nightmare, eine dieser Gruppe zu spielen, als CIMJ geht, Unreal Nightmare.
01:40:34 They are still fighting up against Rock and VP on the inside. Rock helped take out Unreal Nightmare and VP come in thinking they'll clean it all up. But with Lu on 1 HP, who's to say RE45 does not do enough? And Sorcerer is the last man standing in what we can now absolutely call the Graveyard. Yes, it is 100% living up to its name in this game. And I think, surely...
01:41:02 Das ist der Ende von Rock. Ich meine, look at all die Death Boxen. Du kannst die Skulls in front of Niesl jetzt sehen. Und er ist einfach so gut, wie er kann. Ich bin sicher, dass ein Gold Bag in da ist, irgendwo für ihn zu enjoy. Und mit dem, Oblivion? Ich denke eigentlich, er wird eine wirklich gute Chance geben.
01:41:27 Unless the remaining member does get fanned out. Meanwhile, pretty much every other squad is sitting up or under Mirage Atoile.
01:41:39 Das wird ein Mass Exodis geben. Wir werden sehen, Klay, in den ganzen Leben, vielleicht sogar Jellis, in den nächsten paar Sekunden, als sie Heal up, hoping, zu bleiben für ein paar Sekunden, um es bis zu 5th Platz, vielleicht sogar weiter. Die Ninjas in Pajamas sind eine unserer Gruppe, die wir haben zu verlassen.
01:41:59 Sie haben eine Aggressive Composition mit dem Weg zu machen, aber das bedeutet nicht viel Sicherheit.
01:42:19 Oh my!
01:42:35 But Liquid aren't resetting up on high ground, they're staying on the low ground. And there's an amazing rat play coming through from Blixer, who has somehow avoided detection this entire time. Remember, he was the single member of Oblivion who managed to make it through on their rotate from Thermal.
01:42:53 Oh, jeez. Look, Ninja in the Pajamas now, who seem to have sort of places somehow with Team Liquid, have taken the high ground. Not only that, I mean, Kurev with the Pylon from up here is actually probably going to save them from a lot of the ills that could befall them. The one Exterminator member is still up on top of Mirage. Did they just call in a Moby? Yeah.
01:43:23 Oh mein Gott! Oh mein Gott! Oh mein Gott!
01:43:39 Absolutely gross. Insane that they managed to find a position that was... Ninja Jump said nothing else to do but to try and look and find an angle there, and they still couldn't. That's incredibly well done from the Exterminators to find a safe angle to pull that res off. Meanwhile, Blinks are... No! Someone's finally seen him, and the issue with one person seeing him is the whole lobby sees where those traces are going.
01:44:05 Seems like the Exterminators really did end up living up to this. Jumping down onto Blinxer. We've still got four squads left. But they found the rat. And Exterminators are not going to give up easily. Ninjas in Pajamas doing the same thing to Liquid that Liquid did to Grow moments before. Nani already down. Jelly fallen. Exterminators are out.
01:44:30 Das heißt Oblivion Zerat ist still alive. Blinks sind gerade in den Bane jetzt. Slowly but surely, Ninjas in Pajamas haben zu geben auf die High-Ground. Und das ist wo sie wirklich gut sind. Ja, Slowly ist eine Art, diese Drills sind jetzt dominiert. Team Liquid Alienware, endlich Nip2 finden die Schuss zu unternehmen. Hier geht's Blinks, aber hier geht's Trimbytree.
01:44:58 Wrecking Ball comes out, Kurev, trying to retain as much high ground as possible, does end up watching McLovin and Kurev go down. This is so rough. Liquid Alienware pull off the most insane reversal of all time and take the third win of the day.
01:45:21 Ich will sagen, Genome für dich, Look what Alienware win our 2nd Northern Zone on all of World's Edge. Es war sehr well played von denen. Ich meine, sie hatten das Trax-Position. Somehow, es war über mit Ninjas in Pajamas. Und dann, du denkst, dass sie über 400 damage von Drills und Balls, als sie sogar sogar über die fighten. Und dann, du denkst, dass sie über 400 damage von Drills und Balls kommen. Und dann, du denkst.
01:45:50 Yeah, I am serious about taking a look back at this endzone, because much like last endzone, where I was like, surely one thing that rock just came out and popped back in. This endzone, I'm also looking at it and going, ninjas and pajamas on high ground, ninjas and pajamas on high ground. Wait a minute, what happened? Liquid alienware 14 kills.
01:46:15 A 26-point victory. And from the high ground, where Ninjas in Pajamas just were, I felt like I was watching Now You See Me. Or actually, let's name a good movie. I felt like I was watching The Prestige. Yeah, I mean, it must have been some Niesl Shanigans right on the altar. It had to be. I don't see any other way which they could have managed that. But you're right, we probably do need to have a look back to pin it down exactly.
01:46:42 What we do know is after that win, where Team Liquid picked up 14 kills, they will move up into 4th position with 28 points, but no one is coming anywhere near Rock so far with 50 points, not quite matching up to the 60 we saw earlier today on the first map, but certainly doing their job to try and win the day with 50 points on a single map. Plenty of KP to go with it as well.
01:47:09 Right now, Rock are absolutely slaying. And as of right now, Liquid keeping themselves in the Regional Finals at the same time. We talked about Thuggets and how today was important for them. They're also moving on up the leaderboards, but aren't yet a lock. I think if we're looking at this from the point of view of Pioneers being locked, we could say that Liquid are as well.
01:47:34 Ja, ich denke...
01:47:59 I think Stormpoint is going to be a little messy in the most fun and chaotic way that Apex Legends could possibly be. This was quite the first half, to say the least. And I cannot believe that this is what we are getting right now just out of World's Edge alone.
01:48:24 We're going to take a quick break, let our players kind of take a deep breath here as we go into our halftime segment. Because it's time to start talking about a couple of these other regions. And for everyone at home, let's dive into what you might have missed. Because while we did Match Day 9 for EMEA earlier today, and while we're currently in Match Day 9 for the Americas, APAC North wrapped up their entire region over the last couple of days. So we're going to do a quick check-in and see how all of that went. Genome first, tell us about Match Day 9.
01:48:54 Bis zum nächsten Mal.
01:48:55 Ja, Matchday 8 war ein Spaß. Ich glaube, es war ein Spicey Sausage zu haben, zwei Spiele zu haben, in EMEA zu Dayglitter. Aber wir hatten eine voll set, eine voll sechs Spiele von Caustic. Weil ein Team, sehr gut wie DMG, nicht zu spielen in den ersten Räumen. Und das hat Newcastle tatsächlich getrennt. Und dann war es ein ganzes Verständnis von dort. Das war einer der Ridiculosen Momente. Das war einer der Ridiculosen Momente.
01:49:25 1v1v3, uh, as he takes down two members of Riddle, and I swear on my life he would have taken down the third if he didn't get his head snapped off by a Kraber the next second by Tyder. Uh, at this point you're like, well, obviously Riddle are gonna take this out, it's, uh, you know, he'll just, uh, get a couple of Rezes against Pannota here. Uh, no, what you haven't seen is there's two Ty members raining down from the sky right now. Yep, that's, uh, that's a nice last...
01:49:54 2nd respawn from the ship here, and the 3v3 ensues somehow from the situation we were in just a second ago. Riddle Order do end up clutching this one out, but it's kind of strange that it even came down to a clutch. In the end, it was Yulariman with 33 kills. He needed just 2 in the final game to get the record, which Asia broke just last week in Apex Out. He unfortunately got 0 and ended on the 33.
01:50:23 und nicht mehr es da. Aber es ist Unlimit gewinnen, die heute gewinnen. Crazy, crazy pop-up performances. Aber das war nur Day 8. Dann müssen wir uns über die Story des Day 4 für Match Day 9, weil, overall, das war wirklich Fnatic. Sie haben nur drei Punkte über Soten in 2nd place, mit einem 1st, 2nd und 3rd place finish auf dem Board. Aber wir haben auch ein Standout Moments, und specifically...
01:50:49 First of all, this match to win by Know About Me was one of them. A team that had a strong final day of competition, landing at fifth overall.
01:50:58 However, much like Cat Jam on the day prior, it just wasn't enough to get them through to the regional finals with the final results of 23rd overall. And then, of course, Riddle Order in match number five. They win it, which was also the same match that they had won previously in day eight. So maybe five is their lucky number. I don't know. Either way.
01:51:20 After they ended up with placements, after everything they ended up with placements in 6th and 10th on days 8th and 9th. Which meant that they settled in the middle of the pack at 10th overall on the leaderboard heading into regional finals. You can see just how close it was up on the top side of things there. A limit also finding themselves in top 3 after a strong prior day of competition as well. So APAC North has really been heating up here, Dia.
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01:51:49 Yeah, I mean, Unlimit are absolutely the squad to keep your eyes on. However, I'm going to extend a little bit of this down to Black Sheeps. I think they are a team that everybody should be watching right now, especially as they are in a spot championship point-wise that could very easily be opened up by regional finals across the globe. There is a pretty significant chance that we see Black Sheep end up playing on the championship stage, but it is going to be reliant on their...
01:52:18 Ja, so now that everyone at home knows what's going on in the other regions, and there's going to be more regions finishing things up here this weekend, so lots of information coming your way for ALGS if you're just joining us, but if you are just joining us, let's also talk about champs and how you could go, because obviously we talk about all the time we are going back
01:52:47 to Sapporo and we wanted to give you all a little bit of information on when you can get your tickets locked down for the big event. Now ticket sales will be live next week on our ticketing partner site Zyko on October 11th at 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET or 5 p.m. JST during our first regional final of the split two. So if you want to get up nice early to get those tickets, you absolutely can. Now you can find more information as that day nears on our ALGS website's year five championships page. See all the
01:53:17 All right, hopefully you guys are locking down those tickets, but that's not the only.
01:53:28 We have to talk about here today, okay? Because if you're like, well, what do I do once Split 2 is done? There's so much time between them and chips. No, because we have more Apex Legends coming your way. Because if you saw it last year, the Red Bull Legends Inn is going to be coming back. If you don't know what I'm talking about, live in Chicago, live from the Godfrey Hotel. Let's check it out.
01:54:06 Es ist Timmy's Legendary Lather, die Soap, das bringt Champions zu sein.
01:54:44 Red Bull Legends Inn is returning this December 5th in Chicago, Illinois, to the Godfrey Hotel, where 19 teams will compete live in an Apex Legends Duos Tournament for a $25,000 prize pool. If you think you and your duo have what it takes to compete against the Apex Pros, well, sign-ups are open now at battlefly.com forward slash Red Bull Legends Inn to compete in the online qualifiers on October 25th.
01:55:07 und 26th, where two duos will win the opportunity to compete live in person at the Godfrey Hotel Chicago. Must be 18 or older to register. More info can be found at redbull.com forward slash legends in. Make sure you get signed up for that because I got to host that last year and it was an absolute blast. It's Apex Legends like you've never experienced before. Definitely check it out. But I talk about this a lot when we talk about social media. We have more stuff for all of you.
01:55:34 So make sure you're following along, checking that out. And if you already followed...
01:56:03 You already know that we do giveaways all the time on those social medias, so you could be winning any of those giveaways.
01:56:11 Make sure that you check it out. Let's get the boys back on in here as we prepare to switch on over to Storm Point. Okay, we've gotten through our first three matches of the day. World's Edge is now done and dusted. That means we are changing things up. We're going on a Storm Point, but we are tracking with EMEA's Legend Bands as well. Dia, you had said you might be wondering how that was going to go. Caustic first, Newcastle next, Watson out next as we head on over to match four. So let's talk about that, but let's also take a look at some.
01:56:41 Ja, ich bin sehr froh, um die Legends zu sprechen und wie das alles funktioniert.
Storm Point Analyse und Teamstrategien
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01:56:49 To put all of this in context, it is going to be largely about where the rain goes. We saw it be super important on World's Edge, and it is just as important on Storm Point in slightly different ways. It's not necessarily about getting to buildings first, but how you plan rotations. And especially in the Americas, we have seen zones basically everywhere on Storm Point. Notably, Wall is missing, and down at Cenote and Barometer are missing. It's just curious when we consider that Barometer was one of the first Storm Point spots selected by Rock Genome.
01:57:18 Ja, ja, das ist etwas sie haben in den letzten Jahren. Sie sehen, dass sie jetzt über die Barometer sind. Das ist die 4th pick für Rock. Obviamente, mit zwei Wins in der bagen, sie sind in ein Platz, wo wir sehen Zones B sind. Es gibt eine Beziehung, wenn wir denken über andere Regionen, als auch. Nicht nur das, aber natürlich, dass sie das Trident Spawn getrennt da unten, so ich würde es nicht so schwer zu sehen, dass sie die Gibbe auf den Gibbe zu gehen.
01:57:48 Dann wieder einmal, nicht jeder, die einen Trident-PoI spielt, ist es zu geben. Wir sehen uns DMG spielen von Lightning Rod und nicht unbedingt haben, die Bubbles zu voll senden.
01:58:02 Lots of information to be considering here as we prepare to dive into match number four, which is ready to go. So we're going to say goodbye to Dia for now. Thank you so much for your analysis. As we start talking about match number four, Genome. All right, we're going to talk about our zones. Who are we getting? Our team's currently on top right now. We've seen some really strong performances across the day, and Stormpoint could be just another way to shake things up. G-Litta. Is that how that goes?
01:58:31 No, no, no, never again. That doesn't sound quite as good, does it? Sorry, alright. We'll put that one on the shelf and leave it there. We haven't got any info on where this next zone is heading just yet. Look, we get it sooner than we used to. The fact that we don't have to wait for the dropship anymore means that it happens about a minute faster, which is kind of nice. But once we do get that extra dotted circle to let us know...
01:59:00 Which direction it's headed in? It does look like it might be a little west. Go west. Are you familiar with the 80s band? No. Who is that? No, I'm sorry. I can't help you here. I don't know what this is. Okay. I thought you were cool, but yeah. Maybe not.
01:59:21 I can't help you with a reference. Honestly, it might have been a one-hit wonder. Are they Australian? I don't think. Wait, let me have a look. British. No, yeah. English pop duo. Formed in 1982. We Close Our Eyes is probably the big song. Well, that maybe would have been better suited for Mark or Dan because then maybe they would have known. But we're getting to take a look here.
01:59:45 Yeah, um, I mean, talking about, uh, things that are hard and aggressive, it's, uh, Exterminators.
02:00:09 Really getting into it with Grow Gaming. Didn't quite see how this one started. Did one of them send the cannon at each other? I mean, how did they find each other in the vicinity? Hard to say. Wow, getting a gold heavy mag in a Zone 1 bin. That's quite lucky, actually.
02:00:30 Maybe a little bit of a good omen for them heading into this game. A little bit of good RNG luck for their loot. But what are we gasping? Oh, sorry. We just got some good info through from our observers who said that Exterminator were actually ratting on the Gravity Cannon there waiting for Grow Gaming. So honestly, the fact that Grow Gaming has gotten out with...
02:00:55 All right, not too shabby then. But what we're seeing right now out of Pioneers is potentially the opposite. Nice little recovery here out of Pioneers as they did find themselves in a bit of a back and forth scrap.
02:01:19 So, a good way to make it out of that fight right now. Both squads backing off here as we get to see Brock on the rotate. With that trident getting themselves into the next ring.
02:01:37 Yeah, look, they're down here in Bean, uh, not expecting the ring to pull as far as Bean, um, past, say, Zone 2. I think they will eventually have to head up towards either the back of Mill or towards down Beast. It looks very similar to the zone we had, uh, this morning, uh, over at Amiya. So, we've got teams prioritizing those three buildings that, uh, three small buildings behind Mill, like Virtus.Pro, 100 Thieves, uh, I think it's Shopify Rebellion as well.
02:02:06 Für once, they do not spend their time roaming the edges of the map looking for kills. This time, they are just going to bunker down. All right.
02:02:22 This is the calm before the storm here, Genome, as with all of this extra space we've got on Storm Point, people are able to make these safer, wider rotates into the circle, getting some information as they go, getting a chance to take a look at Thuggets here, who find themselves right on that western edge of the ring, seeing if there's potentially any space available for them in one of these nut buildings.
02:02:46 Sie können auch ein paar Teams sehen, ein paar Teams zu sehen. Sie haben ein R.O.C. da, wo sie sind. CIMJ ist in der Richtung.
02:02:57 So they're just trying to determine the best course of action. Yeah, I don't know if Duggets are trying to sort of, you know, pull the zone back to them. Sadly, it's not going to be going that far down to Cenote Caves, but they'll just, they'll zoom around. Maybe try and go for a very late scan in Cenote Caves, potentially. Maybe look for a scrap with Team Liquid Alienware, who are currently in Barometer as well.
02:03:25 Ah, hier ist eine der Back-Buildenden, die ich hatte. Natürlich eine gute Anzahl von Priorität ist. Auf diese ist Fun, die einfach nur auf die Grenade geführt hat.
02:03:39 Oh, see you later, Pioneers. They had survived only to find themselves in yet another tough situation. CINJ down to a duo. Nice shots with the PK, though. Trying to see if they can maybe survive right now. Will they be able to stick this res?
02:04:01 Looks like they're going to get her. Chickas isn't even looking. He's just looting. Clearly is not too worried about teams on the outer. But as you can see, Masters of Evil were lurking and did...
02:04:16 Find their way a little closer, but zone's about to close. So I think we'll start looking at some of those teams who are going to have the next ring information to be able to let us know where this is going to swing. Thuggets are sitting on that in Tsunoda Caves right now. Just like Team Inferno is sitting on Firestrays, who continue to have a horror day. Sitting in 16th right now. Firestrays are one of the teams that if they...
02:04:43 Das ist aber nicht so gut.
02:05:10 Ja, ja, ja, ja, ja.
02:05:32 Tennis ist mein Pobre Buss, um die Portale zu sehen.
02:05:44 A nice calmer section there. You can see that they were talking about recognizing the fact that Thuggets was leaving in the car and that they weren't going to be, you know, forcing anything there. Smart call for Liquid as they now have Cenote to themselves and can kind of determine their path in the safest way from there. As we kind of get to see what's going on in the rest of the map. We're going to be trying to stick a res here. Taking a lot of damage. Kion down. It's all...
02:06:11 ...onto Dropped's Shoulderset. Will he be able to survive for Grow Gaming? Tough couple games so far for Grow. They've made it work where they could, but with Keon going down now, it's just up to...
02:06:29 The Lone Crypto Player. So it's looking tough. This has been a rough set for them. And Dropped is going to have his work cut out for him if he wants to somehow get a reset and head back in.
02:06:46 Surprised he was able to survive, though. I am, too, yeah. It might have just been, honestly, the invis from the Crypto. But, like, there's teams all around him right now. I just don't really see a path back to being able to get his teammates back in. He would need to... I guess he can snag the banners with the drone and then maybe try and look for... I don't even see a res beacon within...
02:07:14 Drone distance though, within like 200 meters. I think he was able to benefit short-term from the fact that there were so many teams in the area that they weren't necessarily looking for him, but then does get hunted down by exterminators. Grow Gaming are eliminated, so Dropped won't be able to bring it back for them. They've had definitely a tough go of it here today, but now that...
02:07:36 Exterminators have cleared out Grow Gaming. Rock have also disengaged and tried to get away from it as Liquid Alien where we're coming in. DMG were coming in. So it started to become just a little bit too chaotic for comfort as we get to see what happened with Fire Strays. They are able to get a reset. So get the one player back up. I don't even know who had gone down for them, but now they're back in checkpoint looking to see if they can push their way through a little bit more safely now without having to worry about Inferno in the area.
02:08:08 Inferno. Yeah, they're just trying to sit under the bridge. It's not a bad spot to be when you've got the rampart set up. You've got enough walls to kind of block those sight lines off.
Kämpfe und Strategien in Storm Point
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02:08:22 The real question is, how many teams will want to move through them on the way to those back three buildings? And it is kind of funny that two of the more aggressive teams in 100 Thieves and Shopify Rebellion are in these western POIs and therefore have had to just sit tight in those buildings up the back.
02:08:45 Ninjas in Pajamas right now have some good off-angles trying to pinch Unreal Nightmare in these buildings, and they've gotten a couple cracks to come through, so potentially an opportunity for follow-up out of Ninjas in Pajamas who are quite healthy and have been playing like they wouldn't mind taking this fight. As I say that, they start to try to move inside, see if they can maybe get some connections here. Kurev trying to use that PK and McLovin doing the same thing, and as...
02:09:12 They move to their roots, they lose Vayne, but continue to move in as they do a little bit of a train.
02:09:20 Yep, they know they can't stick around here for too long. May as well get this fight over and done with sooner rather than later. And McLovin, he isn't even going to wait for the PK reload. He just goes straight in with the G7 Hitfire to finish them off. Meanwhile, T-Law have finished off DMG over here near Godrock. This is the very south end of the zone right now, but Rock aren't even in the zone.
02:09:45 Das ist richtig, sie hatten den Reset außerhalb des Reset. Und jetzt haben sie es zurück in Bein. Aber jetzt haben sie sich mit Thuggetts auf den North Hill und Team Liquid über den Westen. Das könnte es schwer für sie zu squeeze haben. Vielleicht eine Houdini-Maneuver.
02:10:08 Because this is going to be tough here for Thuggets, like you said. Definitely a rough spot. They're low on their health, and Rock is moving in. Much better health-wise and ready to fight. Vaxlan does go down, though. So now we're talking a little bit of the Tide's turn here against Rock. They're down to just Sorcerer. Thuggets going to be able to survive this one. Sorcerer trying to get a little bit of a shield reset here for himself. Will he be able to strive this push?
02:10:37 The zone's moving in. It's going to make it a lot harder. He's got one syringe in the backpack. Glinda, he has to stay ahead of the zone because he's got no option. If he takes even a tick or two of damage here, it's probably all over Red Rover for him. His two teammates have gone down. Thuggets have unfortunately been collateral damage in Rock's plan to get back into the zone here as he tries to sick underneath. What? And no.
02:11:05 Masters of Evil will not allow him to live. That was a tough fight for him regardless. Exterminators eliminated shortly after while Liquid are just barely hanging on by a threaded guy. Aguadis trying to do what he can but CIMJ moving for the kill. They clean it up and Liquid Alienware are eliminated.
02:11:28 Okay, Zone. This one swings a different way. I feel like these zones were so, so similar to what we saw earlier on today, but the end result is actually quite different. This one does go up towards the buildings outside Down Beast, and that means Virtus.Pro are up there now. They've let Oblivion take over their building. DGAP are in a great spot, and 5-star right on the edge. The teams that have...
02:11:55 Catalyst in these positions will be happy. But, of course, Ultra Steel is in the game for that. And that means at any time, one of those buildings can become, you know, can get opened up by any of the teams that want to make a push. Not to mention the couple of Maggies we've got here that will be pressuring teams on the inside.
02:12:19 An opportunity here for Oblivion to do a little bit of poke damage as our teams are being systematically weeded out. We've got ninjas in pajamas that have managed to move all the way around to the north and they've got Auron Esports and Firestrays ahead of them up there on the down beast.
02:12:40 And they've been pushing and taking these fights aggressively today so far. Currently find themselves in second place overall, so maybe Dinches in Pajamas just continue this rampage. Nades continue to rein in. Verholz is waiting, biding his time. What else can he do in this situation? He's not a Gibraltar. They don't have a bubble to try and withstand the onslaught. Sorry, I say that.
02:13:09 They do, in fact, have a Gibraltar, but it's just not Verholz. A couple Rampart Wars do come down as well, but no! We've just got so many teams! Oh my god, every single side of them was getting tickled by nades, or defensive bombardments, baggy drills, whatever it might be. They cannot withstand. Masters of Evil eliminated on the southern side.
02:13:35 The hands of Shopify Rebellion who clear out some space CIMJ follow shortly after and now Shopify own that southern edge but they are only a duo so they will have to try and play this well able to get the banner though and they've got the respawn ready to go so they will get themselves a reset as long as Oblivion don't cause too much of a problem meanwhile we were wondering if Ninjas and Pajamas were going to make an aggressive push they did
02:13:59 They took out one of the teams up there, I believe it was Auron, and Firestrays are still alive, but Ninjas of Bajamas continue to slowly push into a better position as Oblivion are now looking to do the exact same thing. Yep, nice use of the Triad in here. It'll be valuable not only in that rotation that they just made, but also in potentially blocking some of the damage from teams who are...
02:14:20 ...on higher ground, who are sitting in the buildings above them. Interestingly, we do see Shopify Rebellion all the way down the edge there. I don't know if you remember last time we saw them. Do they have purples yet? Because obviously they were sitting inside a building from very early on in this game... ...and may not have had access to Evo Harvesters the same way some of the other teams have here. They started off in Down Beast itself, and now...
02:14:49 Unfortunately, it may have just been a slightly erroneous zone read from Shopify that made them pull more towards Mill rather than staying in their own backyard.
02:15:04 Getting a chance here to take a look at Ninjas in Pajamas, looking like the next team on their list will be Fire 3s as NIP is trying to wrap here and see if they can push in for another straight up 3v3. The cat walls are down and they don't want anybody else to try to third party this. Is this going to be a mistake, Genome?
02:15:25 Guess we'll have to wait and find out. He's going through the Cat Ball when you're not a Catalyst, a mistake. It doesn't seem so for McEloven. He still has enough. Oh my god, I think, wow. Okay, it's just a mistake for everybody. Everybody dies. Shopify Rebellion does pull in. You can see they are up to the Purples now. Oblivion. They're playing within Zone 6, so everybody has to come to them.
02:15:52 The question is, will they get their feet shot out from under these tribents or not? Meanwhile, VP have been very quiet, but they've been here the entire time. Just doing damage from their corner, trying to mind their own business as all of these teams are cannibalizing each other. Oh my god.
Virtus.Pro sichert sich den Sieg in Spiel 4
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02:16:13 Und das ist das erste Mal, wo die Gibraltar-Taktik will nicht erheben. EMPs und Maggi Balls sind die direkter. Das ist warum Koifel ist auf dem Hero jetzt. Das ist warum Koifel ist der Kill Leader. 5 Kills zu seinem Namen.
02:16:32 Great decision and timing there out of Shopify to really bring the fight onto Oblivion. Oblivion didn't have a lot of space to play behind there so that was well fought by Shopify now earning them the best position for this final circle as VP are starting to see if they can clear out five star team on their left right now that would really open up a lot of breathing room for VP if they're able to do so.
02:16:59 Oh, we were expecting teams to come at Oblivion. Joppa Rebellion just did it a little earlier than they were expecting. So now they do take over. I'm not going to call it Godspot, but certainly the most advantageous position in this circle right now. Virtus.Pro 5-Star and D-Gap have to consider now their next approach. 5-Star will be pushed out first.
02:17:21 Ah, und wir sehen sie einfach nur ein bisschen steckig mit der Void Passage zu kommen, aber Virtus.pro sind ihre Weg mit den Barriers leitfroggen.
02:17:32 Okay, so five star.
02:17:59 Take the position away from them, but how much longer can they last out? Meanwhile, VP use the nades to absolutely shirin! Shopify Rebellion Apart! Oh my god, we do have the last 3v3, but in the blink of an eye, Virtus.Pro will do the last bit of damage that they pretty much promised with the triple crack I think they got from the nades that they threw in earlier. That was very well played from Virtus.Pro.
02:18:29 Girl? Girl? That was insane. Oh my god, I look so fabulous. Wow, look at me go. You've really been working on that beard, Glinda. Nice work.
02:18:44 Proud of it, I'm not gonna lie, but what a performance there out of VP. I mean, I talked about them saying that, you know, they really need to work on that consistency to start off the day here today. This is something that they needed to prove that they can be in that upper echelon, and that was very well played on behalf of VP. They had Shopify right there after an insane push out of Shopify, and they knew there was a squad watching them the entire time, and they just played it to perfection.
02:19:11 Yeah, I mean, I don't think their potential has been in doubt any time recently, but obviously, as a trio, this is a new team, and that does mean that they have certain things to prove, right? Some might say that they did that in the first week, but then with a little bit of a drop-off after that, you know...
02:19:33 The questions start to arise, and I'm glad to see that they are now bringing it back in the second half of this split and put those questions to rest. Yeah, we'll take a look here. We'll get to see now what that means for the match results as we have our top three stats. And this is interesting to me because while Shopify might not have won, we kind of got a glimpse at just how destructive they were from that one push onto Oblivion.
02:20:01 Ja, es war ein Spaß zu behalten. Gratsch zu den Observersen für das one at just the right time.
02:20:22 So, you know, look, Shopify played it well. They are rewarded with the most points in the lobby. 18, a little bit more spread out this time than we saw earlier on in the day. Virtus Pro, only the three kills. So I think that might just be Shopify Rebellion, the only KP they pick up. But who cares if you've got 12 placement points to back it up. And then if we have a look at the placement, sorry, the results as they stand,
02:20:50 As the series here, we've got four matches played. Rock Esports only managed to tag a few on there at the end and other teams are catching up later. But this is what I was talking about when we were talking about VP's position too. Like they had snuck in and they held a spot very quietly.
02:21:07 ... ... ... ... ...
02:21:27 What does that matter when you get a good chunk of points from getting the win? We'll work on the KP from there because clearly the teams like Shopify have that down. But the day is flying by. We only have two more matches left in the series. Two more opportunities for our teams to secure a spot into regional finals. And we're going to be getting to those matches in just a moment on the other side of this break. Don't go anywhere.
02:23:08 Das war's für heute.
02:24:02 is the official energy drink of the Apex Legends Global Series.
02:24:16 Das war's für heute, LGS. Wir haben jetzt unsere vierte Game des Jahres. Wir haben aber noch zwei weitere Gnome. Ich möchte noch einmal nach der letzte Game sehen, der vierte Game. Und wie es endet ist, weil du das in der Moment kam. Ich war blöde, als wir schocken bei Rebellion, bei den Nades aus der VP. Kann ich sub you? Das ist einfach nicht so, als ich so überrascht, was passiert.
02:24:43 Aber ja, das ist eine gute Idee. Und genau das ist, ja. Ich glaube, Shopify war so auf die Team in der Mitte. Ich glaube, dass sie nicht wirklich haben Angles auf VP haben. Wie sind sie denn die Nades in dieser Situation? Wie sind sie denn da etwas anderes? Vielleicht haben sie... Ich würde sagen, dass sie ein Drill durch sind. Aber du kannst sie sagen, dass sie ein Drill durch sind. Und es tut nichts. Es tut absolut nichts zu VP. Aber die Nades waren all die Arbeit.
02:25:10 And this actually strikes on something really rare that happened with this Virtus Pro win. We don't have stats on this. It doesn't exist. But I think I can count on one hand, if you even did this globally, the amount of times that a team on blue shields has won a game. That was a really impressive turn by VP. And it comes just in time as we're about to head into match number five.
02:25:37 Where VP, starting us off at mil, have the chance to do it again. I mean, it was like 2,000 damage or something we saw there at the end as well, which is, again, not very much damage for a team who has won a match. So, yeah, obviously you can't have done that much damage if you don't have purple shields at that point. But, I mean, you know, it also has to be said that...
02:26:02 Virtus.pro started off at nil. They rotated immediately to one of the buildings directly behind them, so it's not like they really had a lot of chance to pick up objectives along the way and sort of help their Evo out. This time, it'll be a slightly longer rotate, but of course, they will be getting the Ring console, so they'll be happy about that. Alter has been banned out, by the way. That was our Game 4 ban, so we are seeing a lot more. Wow, Catalyst is coming through.
02:26:30 a lot here, obviously because of the earlier Watson ban, but even a bit of Wraith is also starting to pick up, tends to be as a response to the altar going away.
02:26:41 Yeah, this particular game, like you're talking about, Catalyst seems to have taken the lead. Crypto a close second with 10 picks in this game. But to talk about the map just a little bit, as you did mention, Virtus Pro have got the ring console. It looks like Wall also had a ring console, which means 5-star, get a really early rotation. Whether that's good or bad, we're finding out right now. And it's, shall we say, not looking good. A1's on White Shield, last left in Wall, may very well have to head back.
02:27:09 für eine Chance zu bekommen, vielleicht sogar über das zu Zeus Station, wo es tatsächlich ein Crafter gibt. Interessant, ich glaube, dass sie bereits haben, dass das Circle nicht zu sein war, aber ein bisschen below ist, hier, wo Trident Spawns ist, nach dem Nordpad.
02:27:30 Oh Gott. Oh Gott.
02:27:57 All right, if that's me, my heart's in my chest, and I'm saying GG, go next. It does look like Liquid Alienware will get another shot at life as one manages to escape with their life, but it's the Thuggets that shut this down. Thuggets, again, absolutely a team to keep track of during today's games as they look to qualify to the Regional Finals, and Oblivion getting a respawn on Monsoon are hoping for the save.
Strategische Spielzüge und Team-Eliminierungen in Spiel 5
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02:28:27 Our number one team in the lobby right now is Rock. But who cares about them? Because there's fights going on at the wall. DMG will bleed out the last remaining members of Five Star. Looks like they were trying to get a reset off up the top of Wall. If what I can see is correct here. It doesn't work out, unfortunately. The DMG just catch them off at the wrong time.
02:28:54 Before they're fully established again, and that's just a couple of KP going their way, and increasing their chances of moving a little bit further up. DMG, you know, very solidly in for regional finals, but, you know, they're more in the conversation of, hey, let's play for seeding and maybe even try and win this damn thing. Whereas Five Star are like, go do, we just went out in... 20th? Yep, 20th. In Game 5.
02:29:21 When we need to be moving up at least two more places in the region in order to qualify to regional finals. It is an extremely tight line that Five Star are walking right now. And now it's all on game six, which is an even scarier position. Yeah, I mean, two...
02:29:43 I think it's a few more than that, even, honestly, for Five Star to actually make it all the way. So it's going to have to be, like, they're going to have to slam, I don't know, 10 teams or something in the last game, I think, in Match 6 to actually come out on top here and make it into that Top 20 for Regional Finals. Five Star have, unfortunately, not really completed the marathon, and now we'll have to, I don't know, pull off, like, a Usain Bolt sprint.
02:30:10 Ja, es ist unglaublich hart für sie zu machen, wie du sagst. Wir werden sehen, was sie und andere können. Rock, meanwhile.
02:30:21 We're taking the long way around into this zone. Very much a positioning play, like you mentioned. That's how some of these teams are playing. They get to sit by and grab a couple of Survey Beacons on their way in. Mostly an Evo farming route for them until this point. And now you sit back, collect the loot, and kind of play the way you were suggesting the 5-star could have. Go through wall. Go through the top end. Play slow through the north side of the map and see what you can make happen.
02:30:48 Thinking about that mid-speed play that Graceful loves so very much, it feels like Locke might be on that sort of trajectory, but they will run into probably Oblivion, DMG, maybe even Fire Strays, who seem to be doing something very similar. And from a southern angle, it's more ninjas in pyjamas than Thuggets, who are essentially looking to do the same thing, but just from a different region of the map.
02:31:18 C.I.M.J.'s Exit ist eigentlich ziemlich gut. Sie hat die Invis-Bat off, als GroGaming reset auf der interior. Nicht gut genug für C.I.M.J. auf der Seite, als es ein paar andere Gruppen in der Nähe gibt. Most notably Team Inferno, die auch noch eine andere Kälte bekommen. Als Masters of Evil starten zu sehen, at die remainder des Kampf, GroGaming könnte weiterhin sein. Team Inferno absorbing viel Druck. Und D-Gap...
02:31:46 Lägen die Pressure auf Team Inferno in dieser kleinen Korn. Eine kleine Klinik von DGAP.
02:31:55 You see a Lifeline Halo. You know DMG is involved. And Monsoon with the shoddy. Can't get it done. Oblivion go down. They've only got 16 points so far today. DMG edge up past them with those KP. And now they can start thinking about other teams like Fire Strays who might...
02:32:19 Potentially think about challenging them at the wall. Rock, however, they actually took the long way around and have headed to the very north of the map. With this next circle pull, though, as you can see, do you think this one's going to be a pullback, Dia? I want to put you on the spot here because, like, you know, 100 Thieves playing way out in the northwest there, they're kind of banking on something else happening.
02:32:46 I'm going to say, I'm open to being wrong, but I'm kind of in 100 Thieves' boat. I feel like we're going out into the water, maybe by the Gravity Cannon. This could be really good, and it'll certainly be really exciting, given that Newcastle is not allowed in this game. Gibby Bubbles and Maggie Balls are what we're going to be looking at, and I'm really curious about the way that Rock will play this as well, since they are outside of the next zone, but it is...
02:33:07 Für meine 2 Centen ist es eine wirklich gute Position zu spielen. Ich meine, es ist nur eine Bangalore, ich glaube, in der Lobby. Ich glaube, DMG hat die einzige Bang. So, die Halo und die Smokes könnte kommen, und die Catwall kommen. Wenn du über die ÖPEN...
02:33:24 ...Ground finishes in Stormpoint. Um, those characters all specialize in providing cover in those situations. So, if DMG can actually weasel their way into, um, into that water sort of area, maybe forcefully come down the zipline from walls, it could work out well for them in the end. But there are trials first, one of them being Fire Strays. I don't know if Fire Stray is...
02:33:52 Are the hunt-ing or the hunt-er or the hunted, that's what people say. They seem to be aware, especially with the Cryptodrome, that there is a team in the area. Are they going to find out in time that it is DMG? Nice scouting, had EMP immediately as well. Plus the catwall. Fire strays.
02:34:13 Ich glaube, es ist ein sehr aggressiver Entry in dieses Gebäude und ich denke, DMG war bereit für es, aber mit dem Bubble oder mit dem Halo jetzt, vielleicht können sie den Kampf auswählen. Ja, natürlich eine der Vorteile der Halo ist, dass man sehr kurz zu einem Instant Reset ist, wie man die Meds auswählen kann. Aber als sie haben das gemacht haben, sie wollen die Fight, aber es ist nicht der Weg. Enemies, die zwei mit dem Kampf auswählen.
02:34:36 Cersei wird getrennt, aber Dmg wird letztendlich fallen, Anni schulden, eine große Herausforderung in das gewünschte Engagement. Und letztendlich, die Fyresträte aufzunehmen, für Fyresträte, sogar die Nade auszunehmen, um eine Reset zu erzielen, um nicht zu tun, weil es nicht mehr andere Teams in der Nähe gibt. Aber die Fyresträte nicht wissen, weil sie die Krypto ist auf dem Floor, bleeding aus. Das ist ein Verständnis für die Utilität.
02:35:03 Ja, ich bin sicher, dass noch ein Extras in den Boxen sind, um sie zu replenischen mit. Wir haben einen Thugget, die, uh... Oh, die gehen all den Weg um, um, um, zu Checkpoint hier. Wir haben Liquid Alienware, die jetzt in Pajamas sind auch. Also, wir denken, um, die Mythic Bin, um, in Wall zu spawnen.
02:35:27 Why don't we have a listen in with the Thuggets and maybe we'll get a sense as this ring closes of, you know, where it's going next and what their plan is. These kids are shooting at them too.
02:35:56 Shit, if you can hit that man-scan from here, it'd be calm. Definitely not. I mean, bro, we could go in there, hit the man-scan and this man-scan and see. It's super blurry, but I don't see anyone. Let's just go, let's just go, let's just go now. Let's just bring the car over here, Josh. I doubt why they need it. Just be careful, you guys.
02:36:25 Just keeps spamming, that shit. Spamming, throw it. Oh, should be fine. Travis out of his own.
02:36:40 Die Trident wird ein ganzes Plan gemacht werden, um die Begriffe zu machen, mit dem Survey Beacon und Checkpoint zu machen, dass sie vollen Daten haben. Die Trident wird ein sehr wichtiger Teil der Rotate sein. Wir bereits wissen das, als sie in Gibraltar sind. Die Begriffe haben eine gute Chance, um es in der nächsten Ring zu machen. Die reale Frage ist, wo man auf der Erde spielen wird, wenn man mit dem Trident landet, weil es nicht viel Platz ist. D-Gap...
02:37:09 Unable to even exist in this small little gazebo. Pioneers inheriting a lot of the loot off the back of that.
02:37:18 It's unfortunate for D-Gap. It would have been a good position to play from, but Pioneers instead are going to now look at clearing their backs, worry about Exterminators and 100 Thieves, because we do have, in fact, a pullback, Dia, and that means 100 Thieves are going to have to fight their way in. We know they're good enough to do it, but today they're sitting in 16th spot. A far cry from their performance of yesterday.
02:37:47 Maybe they'll be able to turn that around here, maybe not. Liquid Alienware, however, turning things around inside of this fight.
02:37:56 Nice reinforcement of the door by Jaguaris. Maybe gives the team a chance to reset as Yanya finishes off a kill on Kuzme. Around the outside Liquid Alienware are fighting the Masters of Evil in a 2v2. And again, have a defensive setup. And even a Rez going off in their favor with a Reinforced Door at their back. It's the perfect time to do so. And Bubble immediately lets Liquid Alienware reset. The Masters of Evil. I'm sorry they're straight out of luck.
Shopify Rebellion sichert sich den Sieg in Spiel 6
02:38:25
02:38:25 So many different teams. On every side here. Trying to pressure them thug. It's just slowly walking up. As if Sheila didn't have enough DPS already. Behind the amp cover. A little preview of the ring there as it shifts towards both ninjas in pyjama and Unreal Nightmare. And the armory. And rock go down. Wow.
02:38:54 Das öffnet sich auf. Ich meine, das ist eine große Veränderung. Ich will dir was, Gino, wenn ich das Spiel war, würde ich jetzt sein. Weil ich dachte, das war wo 100 Thieves war. Und jetzt, wie Orin, wie Shopify, Rebellion, Virtus.Pro und, formerly Rock, müssen ihre Weg nach dem Süd. Das ist etwas, was...
02:39:14 Almost impossible when you are this far away from the zone. The last team standing out of the nut buildings, though, does have a fair shot of holding some head peaks and rocks out to the eastern side. Let's see what happens. Because right now, we've got to determine who on earth is moving into this ring from the south. And the Thuggets really want it to be them with some nice Sheila play. But no knocks on Liquid Alienware just yet.
02:39:37 Well, Masters of Evil do get crunched eventually. Nugget's trying to chase down Teelor. And Yan-Yar, despite being full on shields, unfortunately doesn't really have any teammates to help him out. So he's got to try and make a rug for it. But as a Maggy, you don't really have a lot of options to run and hide. I mean, you can fortify yourself with the ball now, I guess. But you're literally...
02:40:05 Putting down blinking lights telling the opponents where you're running to. Oren, Dufal, Exterminators, a 4th place team actually balling aggressively at the Pioneers and getting aggressive on the Pioneers with a Stairbolt in their face. Liquid Alienware will go down meanwhile, but Shubi's a solo right now and literally running around in the open with no plan at all. 100 Thieves do peek their heads out.
02:40:31 Playing a sliver of rock that isn't even in the next zone, but that'll keep them alive for a few more seconds as Virtus.Pro get in the Trident and start fraying. This Maggie's drill ruining their day as Lou empty. And you have to imagine, soon Slayer will fall. FYR, Strays at their backs will be taken out as the Exterminators expire. And Slayer, still alive, is gonna do what Rampart's gonna do, set up walls and frays.
02:40:59 Why was he trying to res in the water there? I mean... Oh, he's stressing me out. He's stressing me out. He put the cover up eventually. We'll see if they can get the res. No, they don't! It's actually a Kraber shot from Vayne, who has inherited... Oh no, unless they get that from the package, I guess. It was a Kraber we saw in the mythic bin go the way of... Who was that up in the wall? Anyway, it doesn't matter.
02:41:24 Kreber will end VP. Meanwhile, Thuggets are looking to end some more lives over here in the buildings. Grow Gaming and Ninjas in Pajamas trying to posture. And with all the noise in the south, this almost goes unnoticed. But Shopify Rebellion took out 100 Thieves on the way in. A Shopify Rebellion that was accruing momentum just last game is now the only team off to the north. No one is looking at them.
02:41:50 Everyone looks south at Thuggets and what was formerly Grow Gaming. Shopify on the rise! They might not have won that last game, but as you say, momentum seems to be shifting in their favour. The Pro League day that was promised.
02:42:11 They had so much momentum even just coming in off the scrims and maybe finally that's translating into actual pro league points
02:42:22 Katwall ist nice, aber Katwall ist temporär. Das dauert für Shopify-Rebellion, und sie werden mit Budget-Katwall spielen. Aber dann, ich meine die Trident auf Lowgrounds. Nicht in guter Position. Und Zapf findet das erst-hand. Zynu ist noch immer noch Platz. Weil Unreal Nightmare endet die Thunkets für die gewinnen Position. Keep your eyes on the fight!
02:42:42 As Shopify Rebellion move up onto the Ninjas in Pajamas to challenge this rock and ultimately win the fight in a 2v3. Ninjas in Pajamas are down while Unreal, Nightmare and Thuggets are still fighting. Yeah, this is the best thing about the fight for Shopify was that there was another two teams going at it at the same time. No risk of a third party. They're way too locked into it with each other. Well, I say that. It looks like they're actually on separate sides or separate levels of this armory.
02:43:10 So we do actually see them. Wow, they even managed to grab the respawn here. Zap comes back in behind the rock. And because Thuggets and Unreal Nightmare are so close to each other, there's not really any way for them to make a move forward and try and take advantage of a weaker Shopify rebellion.
02:43:32 Ich glaube jetzt, ich glaube nicht, die Thuggets gewinnen. Sie haben einen Gibby. Sie haben einen Maggi auf der anderen Seite. Sie haben einen Dropdown aus hier mit Unreal Nightmare. Das sieht fast nicht aus. Aber ich möchte, wie die Thuggets approachen. So schnell, wir haben einen Listen-In mit den Thuggets. Wir müssen uns für 2nd spielen, oder wir spielen super late auf der leften Seite. Ich kann Gibby-I'll-I can Gibby-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll
02:44:00 Bro, we could just play the left. Look at me, like right here. Okay, we should probably do that. We should probably do that. We should do that before we get fucked. Just start setting up right here. Start setting up right here. They can just drop, bro. They can't swing our back. Yeah, I know. I'm gonna stay up here for a little. I'm staying up top. They're cattling! They're cattling! I know.
02:44:22 Gameplan ist set, Unreal Nightmare yet to leave the building, but Thuggets, they called it, they're playing left, and Shopify Rebellion are having none of it. Oh my god, Maggie Ball pushes them all the way back, and Cover is useless in the face of a mad Maggie, and she is furious right now. Unreal Nightmare should be able to come in from within the Armory. Surely they take this one. Yeah, I mean Unreal Nightmare.
Match 5 Analysis und Ausblick auf die verbleibenden Spiele
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02:44:50 They just watched the game be served up to them. I respect Shopify Rebellion for going on that push, for recognizing they needed to take out the Thuggets, but it cost both teams the game as Unreal Nightmare. Surely we're watching that and going, are you guys sure you want us to win this game? Yeah, look, and, you know, we got that in the listen-in, right? We heard it directly from them. They said, look, we're probably just going to have to play for second here.
02:45:16 Uh, wait, who actually got second in the end? I mean, I was focusing on Unreal 9. It was Shopify. Oh, they got 16 points. Yeah, okay. There we go. Placement points. Thuggets did get the second. Oh my god. Yeah. So Shopify Rebellion, despite having so much utility to try and push Thuggets back, I guess they just got double focused.
02:45:47 Ja, ich bin froh, dass Thuggets zu sehen, dass sie 2nd sind und die Chaos in der Endzone sind. Aber wir schauen uns mal an, was das Endgame wirklich war, weil wir so auf diese Thuggets-Shopify gefühlt sind, als Thuggets und Shopify waren auch, dass mit Unreal Nightmare kommen wird, wir nicht mehr darüber reden, dass Thuggets und Shopify waren. Sie beide hatten...
02:46:11 War-Torren Paths in die Endzone und das wirklich zeigt in den damagenummern, besonders Koifo, was able to put up. Dan, auf der anderen Seite, hat viele Kills für die Squad, aber man kann sich die Thuggets verletzten, um die letzten paar Zonen zu sehen, weil sie nicht jemanden hatten, als wir sie in Checkpoint hatten.
02:46:31 Yeah, no one really walked out of match five with an absolute bag of kills, right? It was reasonably spread out across the lobby. And as a result, no one really jumps up massively to overtake Rock, considering they've only got, what, five points in the last two games? People are certainly, you know, creeping up on them now. Ninjas and Charmas and Shopify only a few points behind, and Thugget with the 16 points that they grabbed there.
02:46:58 We'll move closer, but Rock have one more chance to close this out. I mean, they gave themselves every chance at the start of the day. But I don't know, man, with the momentum that's coming out of Shopify right now, I think they're kind of feeling themselves.
02:47:15 I'd imagine they are. I mean, I'm certainly feeling inspired by watching Shopify play. This has been a big day of recovery for them, and I like how they're looking. We'll see if they can keep it up and whether or not Rock can claim some back and stay on top in the last day. Additionally, as we move into Game 6, we're going to be keeping our eyes on who's making it to Regional Finals and who is not, because it is your very last chance to make it to Regionals right out of the break.
02:48:00 Of course you think that. You've got one bloody eye. Uh oh. Just walk it off. Yeah, you'll be alright. Oh, guess not.
02:50:02 Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal.
Kampf um die Qualifikation für das Regionalfinale
02:50:2202:50:22 And for a lot of teams, that step is Regional Finals, some of which that seems out of reach for. Let's take a look at the overall standings and what we are thinking. As of right now, the cutoff is Masters of Evil at 20th place. They have held on to that since the start of the day. And that is only if it were to end here. We have one more game. Yeah, I mean, they built up a little bit of a buffer there, as you can see.
02:50:50 Firestrays ist wirklich, vielleicht 5-star als auch die zwei andere Teams in dieser Lobby, die, wenn sie eine Massive-Game jetzt haben, könnten sie sich die Momentum und überkommen Masters of Evil und vielleicht move in die Top 20. So, ich werde definitiv beinahe auf diese zwei Teams. Aber, als ich gesagt habe, es wird eine Monumentale-Game von ihnen sein.
02:51:17 um, um, to take it away. Fire Stray is currently at 20 points overall in this series and five stars below them in 17. So, you know, they would probably need like a, a win plus 10 kills or something to make it there.
02:51:31 We've got, honestly, a lot of teams that would vie for that spot. I know that I was talking about the five scenes, and it is a long shot, but I do want to throw Orin in here as well. They are a little lower down on the leaderboard. In terms of squads that we need to keep track of, that are on the bubble of qualification, we've got Kryvor, Masters of Evil, FYR, Five Star, and again, perhaps Orin. But the other big team to keep in this conversation weirdly isn't playing today. And that's...
02:52:00 Ja, das ist verrückt. Ich fühle mich... Ja, okay. Es ist eine schwierige Frage. Wir brauchen ja auch Fyresträse und Fyresträse, um ein sehr, sehr, sehr viel Resultat hier, als Masters of Evil.
02:52:28 So that's a lot of things that have to go their way. But either way, it does seem like TSM will most likely be having a DraftKick when we do come to our Regional Finals next week.
02:52:43 As of right now, the final game on Stormpoint is coming at us. The final chance for these squads to, like you said, put up not just double-digit games, but over 20 points, which often means a pretty darn incredible game. You've got at least eight kills on top of a victory to max out over 20 points, and that is a huge ask. Your squads, like we talked about on the bubble, Masters of Evil.
02:53:13 Und... Fire. Wir haben noch mehr, dass wir über den ganzen Tag sprechen. Aber wir beginnen mit Unreal Nightmare, die, all things considered, haben einen sehr guten Tag gefunden zu finden.
Entscheidungen im finalen Spiel und strategische Beobachtungen
02:53:31
02:53:31 We found a couple throughout our split here. Is it the first Pro League split for quite a few of those guys? Someone can go look that up on Liquipedia. Meanwhile, we're too busy watching the action because you know that this Game 6 is going to be a wild one with Pioneers and Oblivion already at it. Because obviously, this is the last game. As we've just said, if you're going to go for it, you've got to go for it right now.
02:53:59 And typically in these Game 6s, we don't see as many teams rushing to zone. We see them rushing towards each other. This was where we really saw the pace of Lobby pick up in EMEA, as if it wasn't fast enough on the last day anyways. Pioneers are absolutely hunting kills at this point.
02:54:20 Looking for that momentum that, as we mentioned, they have lost between match days. However, sitting in the center of the map right now, outside of Forbidden Zone, they are going to have to think about grouping up and moving towards the ring. Because ultimately, that's where the game and their best chance of winning for both points and kills will go. Pioneers should already have an idea of where this ring is going, given that they've got Rampart and Jay has hit the ring console already. We are heading south. We are going to Barometer. In fact...
02:54:48 Remembering the zone polls that we talked about in North America earlier, it's one of the very... I think it is the first barometer zone on Stormpoint in North America. Oh, really? Okay, we definitely have seen barometer and its surrounds pop up across the globe. But yeah, if it's the first one here for North America, then I guess we have to say...
02:55:13 Good luck to Rock, who spawned there and not only are getting a chance to redeem their day, which has been a little rough since game one and two. But remember, they're still on for a bonus point, by the way. They've already won two games. That's true. I guess we'll see what Rock can make of this. And I did get this confirmed, by the way. For the Americas, we have had rings at Coastal Camp. We have had rings south of Cito. We have not yet had a barometer end zone.
02:55:43 Die Firsts und Lasts wird dieses Spiel. Das ist das letzte Spiel des Spiel des Spiels. Der erste Ring des Kind. Nun, Remember, Masters of Evil sind auf der Kusk jetzt. Sie sind in 20er Platz. Wenn es endet wie sie sind, dann geht es um... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
02:56:15 Das ist ein guter Start für Masters of Evil. Ich will sagen, ein Tragic Finish für Team Inferno, die mit dem Kampf, haben sich nur auf den L.C.Q. für ihre Chance zu machen. Team Inferno werden uns nicht in den Region Finals beitragen, als sie die erste Team eliminiert in Match 6 haben. D-Gap taking yet another engagement, dieses Mal auf der westen Seite von Cascade Falls.
02:56:40 Seems like they've got plenty of nice positioning up against Five Star, enough to even push Five Star, a very aggressive team, away from the engagement. You know Five Star, they don't want to take any fight that they can't win here. That might sound like a silly statement, Dia, but they know that a single loss here means they are out as far as the regular season goes. And they might be joining Team Inferno, so they actually back off.
02:57:08 Despite the option to Crypto Send D-Gap there, they don't take it. And they will go back towards potentially Cascade Falls. Maybe just farm some more Evo up on the way to Barometer. 100 Thieves with their Gibby Bubble Rotate available. Don't have too far that they need to go. But are setting this up in a safe place for them later on. Most teams that are already in zone.
02:57:36 They sure do.
02:58:00 A hundred banger right now would go a long way to giving them a chance.
02:58:08 Maybe even off the back of an EMP. But apparently Crook is going to put the drone back in the satchel. And deploy it elsewhere. Looking behind them now. They don't see anyone in Pylon. It really is just them and ninjas in pyjamas. Unless they don't hurry up and we do see DMG enter the arena. A couple of knocks coming out.
02:58:35 Almost hoping against Hope that Oren get this knock. Yeah, I mean, it would feel bad for the team running ahead of them. That's D-Gap, but Oren really need the points if they want to secure regional finals. And it wouldn't be just one team wipe. It would have to be many, many, many team wipes for Oren. I won't count them out, but over at Cascade Falls, they've got limited information to work with. They may know where the ring is going, but...
02:59:02 There aren't even that many squads around them to take advantage of. An edge playstyle in this game. Risky. For more than one reason, not only can you be outplayed, you also just might not find anyone. FYR, looking for the fight at Coastal Camp, have ninjas and pajamas in their sights.
02:59:20 It's still these two teams, but as we said, they've delayed this fight for some time, and DMG are now moving past Echo HQ. You can see them creeping up in the back line there. They've got their own drone, Dia. They'll be able to hit the Survey Beacon at Echo HQ and get the information that there is a potential third party for them to come in off the back of here. Oh, okay. Crook does get two knocks, though.
02:59:48 Und all of a sudden, the fight is on. Firestrace, kann man das in Zeit clean? One more to secure before DMG joins. Oh! They traded so constantly up there. Nice finish by Cersei. And DMG, they arrive, but now it's Fire that have the high ground. Cersei getting sent by DJ Killer, the 1v1 of the century. Won by Cersei, because even DJ Killer has to fear the Wraith.
03:00:14 Instantly phases down, rejoining the rest of the team and swapping out with FutureStreams, who goes up to the high ground. FireStrays, low ground getting needed. Have DMG right next door to them and unrelenting in the pressure.
03:00:31 The third, I believe it's there. Crypto Player finally joins in. Was actually quite a ways away with two knocks now. Crook goes up the top. 40 health and a dream. This is Fire Stray season on the line here. The knockdown shield desperately trying to shield him from these frag grenades.
03:00:55 Almost sending me into cardiac arrest with that nade. Crook, got to win the 1v2, but dropping down to the low ground wasn't going to be able to do it. Firestrays, Dufall, DMG taking the win and unfortunately sending Firestrays to the LCQ. Oren Esports looking for their team wipes, looking for their points. Do find Monsoon immediately and the RE45 traps behind the knockdown shield that is short-lived as all. Oren.
Dramatische Wendungen und Qualifikationsentscheidungen im finalen Spiel
03:01:24
03:01:24 2 KP2, crucial points for them. Yeah, look, Oren's chance is certainly counted in the single-digit percentages, if that, but they can look for as many kills as they can to try and improve those numbers. That's what they're doing out on the outskirts here. As you said, Firestray is no longer with us. See you in the LCQ, guys, but 5-star?
03:01:51 Still alive, still kicking. That said, they're going up against maybe Shopify Rebellion next? With the way they've been playing the last couple of maps, 5-star have got their work cut out for them if they want to continue on and make that top 20. That said, TSM, Kryvor, Esports both sighing a sigh of relief as Firestrays go out. It means they're much more likely to stay in the fight now.
03:02:18 Oblivion's Elimination ist nicht so gut, dass ihre Chance zu viel an Regional Finals oder in Sapporo ist, aber für CIMJ, die Geschichte ist ein bisschen anders. Es ist das, dass sie in den Regional Finals für sie wichtig sind. Und für Shopify Rebellion ist es so, dass sie in einem anderen Spot auf Oblivion, wenn nicht ein viel besserer one ist.
03:02:39 They know what their future holds. It's about polishing the team up until that point. And we have seen a team over the course of yesterday into today that is iterating, that is looking for new ways to win. And in this case, ways to get aggressive and take advantage of teams that are unprepared around them. What they have found is a pro league that is very prepared to take on Shopify. Will Five Star rise to that very same bar as Five Star right now are the only team near Shopify?
03:03:06 Could be an isolated 3v3. The Zone pulls so far towards the southwest. That's so bad for Rock Esports. I'm just keeping a little bit of an eye on them as obviously the team who spawned in Barometer who had to try and guess which side of Barometer the Zone would pull to. And it seems like they may have guessed incorrectly in 100 Thieves who, similar to last game, have sort of taken the outside chance, the outside position. This time, it might have worked out.
03:03:36 D-Gapper up against the Thuggets. Off in the eastern corner of this ring. Neither one happy about the next ring pull, but D-Gap seemingly more trigger happy with it. Goes for the stick, but Golden will not find it after eating a Peacekeeper shot to the face. Fearless trades back for him, and D-Gap have a numbers advantage up against the Thuggets. You have to be very careful. EMP connecting, not doing too much.
03:04:05 ...to dissuade D-Gap, as they walk up straight to the amped cover unbroken, and lose two, losing control of the fight. Someone please shoot the glass out! They can't do anything! Wow, that is still up! It was like they kept peeking and hoping that the other team would come out from behind it. But they play safely, they play smartly. And the thuggets...
03:04:31 Surely we'll get the better of DGAP after that. Two of them down. DMG off the background now. This is Five Star playing for their lives. Sorry, I realized we've gone from one nut to the other. Five Star, done for, not making regional finals. It was a valiant effort. The isolated fight not going their way and Shopify Rebellion continue to terrorize the lobby as DGAP look for an escape.
03:04:56 It's DMG that have come in for the third party on the Thugget's D-Gap fight. And like we talked about, taking a fair fight, never of any DMG's interest. Why would you do that when you can stack the cards in your favor? What is happening? I don't know. Are there like different teams trying to get into the same Trident? This isn't a bust, guys. That killed a lot of teams.
03:05:25 That killed way more teams than it should have. I've never seen a Shridan bait two teams into it. And honestly, probably eliminate a third as I don't see D-Gap getting into this zone. So that's D-Gap and Thuggets both down. D-MG whittled down to a solo off of one awkward escape from the nut building. Oh, also goodbye Unreal Nightmare. Oh, does Unreal Nightmare go out in seventh?
03:05:54 The only chats really we've got left is Oren Esports, who is sitting in 14th. They would need, what, plus, at minimum, plus 10 points. Fourth spot. One of them's just been knocked.
03:06:06 4th right now is 43 sorry just do it a bit of quick mass they need at least another 22 points right now dear at least who's sorry who's this i was focusing on the gap so already you need a minimum of 22 points uh to make their way into the top 20 and make regional finals okay there's a bar there i'm not saying it's easily achievable we've set the bar 22 points it's a far distance see how far they make it cimj as a duo
03:06:35 Positions right in front of Rock, who sure would like that bonus point. I'm sure that they saw what happened this morning and would like to mirror Onyx's success. Virtus.Pro race setting on this island, essentially isolated, but unfortunately isolated as a duo and not in too comfortable of a position. This stops being a game-winning spot if you don't have everyone to hold it.
03:07:00 Absolutely not. And they've got Grow Gaming behind them as well. They look like they are very soon about to send it on to Virtus.Pro, while 100 Thieves try and hold on to this critical building, this game-winning building, and Grow Gaming do indeed finish off Virtus.Pro from behind.
03:07:20 CIMJ will fall as well. Exterminators moving in from where we just saw CIMJ meet their untimely end. But that telltale zipline shows you where Rock have rolled up and Rock...
03:07:34 Sie sind hinter 100 Thieves und Liquid Alienware. Das ist Oren, die Team mit 22 Punkten zu brauchen. Sie sind zu einem Duo und jetzt aus der Zone. Ich suspect, dass wir sie vielleicht sagen, dass sie mit diesem Triple-Tipp zu versuchen. Sie haben 5 Kills so far. D-Gap und Ruck fallen, gleichzeitig zu Ruck die Chance an eine Bonus Point.
03:07:58 And Orin, somehow still alive. They move in. It's a paltry 11 points a player. That's all they need. And with nades and stinger bolts on top of them, I don't know if that number is going to get any easier. They are alive for right now, though. But they've got Shopify on one side of them, Pioneers on the other, and goodbye Orin Esports. That's it. That's probably our top 20. All done and dusted.
03:08:26 And KCP, never been known for their merciful streak. 100 Thieves, doing much the same in this game. Quick bubble out of Boney just to let the team reset. Hasn't been going off on the Gibraltar this week, but today has not been that day. 100 Thieves in 12th right now, and that's after what has been a good game for them so far. A bit of an awkward day.
03:08:49 für die 100 Thieves, die gewonnen haben, so dominantly, nicht 24 Stunden, vorhin. Liquid Alienware, however, will fall at their hands. Und Shopify Rebellion reset zu einem Duo auf der Lowground.
03:09:03 Ja, wir haben ein paar Teams, äh, eigentlich, sie haben die Rock gewollt, an 58. So, Shopify, ich glaube, nur noch einen Punkt zu nehmen, um, die Dub hier zu nehmen. Und es ist, äh, ich meine, sie sind in eine ROUGH SPOT. Brogaming wollen sie auf den Weg machen, Pioneers machen sie auch. Sie haben nur zwei leften, ich meine, das ist going zu sein, aber sie sind so weit zufrieden.
Masters of Evil sichern sich Regionalfinalteilnahme, Shopify Rebellion dominiert
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03:09:30 I'm not a fan of celebrating too early, but I will give congratulations where it is due. Masters of Evil, having survived this long, have secured their spot. Just having survived to this point. Masters of Evil are likely to attend the regional final. Relative to the rest of the lobby. Shop about Rebellion.
03:09:53 Ja, wir haben eine Team geöffnet, also haben sie zu 59 Punkte. Das ist ein Punkt vorhin, und das ist wahrscheinlich der Tag. Alles andere ist, glaube ich, zu weit entfernt zu treffen. Shoppfei, mit einem Banger Stormpoint, haben sie in den Stamm auf BVC gebracht.
03:10:14 Nagyball maybe saves Koifal for a second, gets a slick shield swap, but it's a matter of time for Shopify Rebellion, even as a solo. Bro Gaming not gonna give up their position to try and grip Shopify Rebellion, but the Masters of Evil did not get that name for nothing. Miles goes and finishes off Shopify Rebellion before retreating back, and the Masters of Evil may very well be celebrating with a win.
03:10:41 They've already moved up, like we said, they've clinched Regional Finals. If they could find a victory here, it would be massive for them. And with Grow 100 Thieves both having to fight almost directly on top of the Masters of Evil, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Oh, I mean, they've shot themselves up, what, five places on the leaderboard just in this game, Dia?
03:11:02 von einem potenziell 20-Place-Finisch zu jetzt 15-Protenzieren. So, sie haben sich jetzt noch besser als wir in die Region Finals gehen. Jetzt haben wir die Finale 3-Squad, 100 Thieves. Sie haben sich in dieses Gebäude für die lange Zeit, und sie werden jetzt in den Wettbewerben geöffnet werden. Sie werden in den Wettbewerben geöffnet werden. Sie werden in den Wettbewerben geöffnet werden. Sie sind in den Coffin, und dann, of course, Masters of Evil, plodden ihre evil, nefarious Schemes von unten.
03:11:29 You can hear that Wraith portal. Grow Gaming know it as well as we do. That means the Masters of Evil are right underneath Grow. Rampart walls all set up, waiting for the drop down from Grow, who granted do have a Gibi Bubble, but you only get one. And there's very little space to play. Hundred Thieves, their play is obvious. They've got the wall.
03:11:51 Es geht um den Norden, um 100 Thieves zu halten, für zumindest ein bisschen länger. Aber zu harassen Groh auf der High-Grohre würde ihnen viele Fälle. Eine Gibbe-Ult, eine Gibbe-Bubble, um Groh zu halten. Sie können sehen.
03:12:04 Dropped is holding onto that for as long as he possibly can, but that ultimate is what makes these final circles so hard to play against four Gibraltas. He uses it against 100 Thieves. They will counter with the Gibby Bubble, but after this, what have they got left to play with? Full res for Phony, and this may be the time for 100 Thieves to trade.
03:12:29 mit einem Ultimationen. Sie werden das aufhören. Sie sitzen auf dem Lowground. Sie lassen Growth auf die Höhe von 100 Thieves gehen. Aus geht es die Füße, aber das ist die Masters of Evil. Macht, Fokus ist hinter ihm. Aber wirklich, Sie können nur einen oder anderen wählen. Sie können auch 100 Thieves gehen, oder? Oder werden Sie nichts gemacht? Und in der Füße gehen!
03:12:54 ARD Text im Auftrag von Funk
03:13:05 How on earth have they weathered that storm? Oh my. The back and forward, up the wall, mantling, somehow still staying alive. I mean, it really did. Who was the rate there? Dropped, was it for? Knocked for Grow? Yeah, knocked for Grow. It kind of felt like he was.
03:13:33 in the void when his team needed him. You know, he was trying to stay alive a little bit longer, but if his PK had have been at the ready, potentially, when 100 Thieves mantled up, he might have been able to do enough damage to push them down. Look, what ifs have used, we don't need to live in that what if world, because 100 Thieves have actually pulled that off. That is an incredible win by them.
03:13:57 It does boost them up significantly in the leaderboards. Glitter, this was a really impressive game from 100 Thieves to find the win. Equally as impressive. We were talking up the Masters of Evil. What a victory for them. Even if it doesn't come with the screen, you are the champions. It does come with the additional bonus that you're going to regional finals.
03:14:20 Which is just the next important step along the journey, right? You have to get to regional finals to even have a shot at winning regional finals and then potentially make your way through to champs. So this is going to be massive for them. Congratulations, of course, to them, but to all of our teams on their performance for the final regular season day of Split 2. Here are our match six results and you can see just how much KP 100 Thieves were finally able to get in this last match.
03:14:49 Das ist eine große Pick-up für sie, um das Momentum um. Du hast 8 Kp für Masters of Evil, 6 Tegro Gaming, und sogar Oren hat eine gute Punkte in 8.
03:15:17 Es war das letzte Spiel in der Serie. Wir erwarten, viele Teams zu gewinnen, um die letzten Punkte zu bekommen.
03:15:25 Ja, es fühlt sich so, nicht wahr? Es fühlt sich so, nicht wahr? Es fühlt sich so, nicht wahr? Es fühlt sich so, nicht wahr?
03:15:55 Vielen Dank.
03:16:10 TSM hold on to their spot. That's a big thing, looking at how we came into today. The Thuggets make it up to 16th, and the Masters of Evil, just like you talked about, Genome, with that performance, rocket themselves up for barely holding on to 20th, to a solid 15th place seed in the Regional Finals. It is a small step, but it is a necessary one in anyone's, and especially Masters of Evil past Japan.
Analyse der Top-Performer und Ausblick auf die Regional Finals
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03:16:39 I love to see it because we mentioned it in EMEA as well, but now not only do the likes of Masters of Evil clinch their spot for regional finals, but that also means...
03:16:50 They've got a slightly better draft pick when it comes to the POI draft. So all of these small things will tie in together. Phenomenal day across the board. Let's start highlighting some of the individuals that really put on a performance here today because it's time for our Sony in-zone kill leader race. Now, I do want to say something before we look at the top because I assumed it was going to be cool at the top. I do want to give a little bit of a shout out to Dropped in 10th place as well because I was looking at some stats heading into match six.
03:17:19 Und er hat 11 von der Team's 13 Kills in Match 6. Er hat einen in Match 6, aber er war in eine 6-Way tie, 4-3rd. Sie können sehen, wie viele Leute haben 11 Kills in Match 6. So, wenn Groh hatte ein bisschen ein Struggle, Draft ist wirklich steppig auf die Platte für sie. Aber natürlich, es war Koifel. Der absolute Terror. Genome, sind wir surprised er ist der Kill Eater?
03:17:48 Not at all surprised. What I am surprised about is that the Kill Leader only had, was that 14 kills? You know, we've just had so many sort of insane pop-off performances recently with people just running amok in most regions and pulling out 30 bombs that it was such an even contest here. That's what really stands out.
03:18:11 Yeah, honestly, in this lobby, every single team and individual really came to give it their all for this last day. They really did. One of the other teams were giving out flowers for those who maybe didn't top the charts but had impressive performance. Exterminators and Jelly specifically. Jelly's teaming with Shubi and Naughty and coming out...
03:18:35 Ich glaube, er war 3. Er war 3. Er war 3 in den Kiel-Leaders. So, das ist das Shopify-Rebellion. Das ist nicht so gut. Das war ein enormes Momentum. Und Koi-Full, hoffentlich inspiriert mit Confidence, besonders auf Stormpoint. Vielleicht werden wir auf das Welt's Edge ein bisschen. Das ist nicht Flame, das ist nur Reality. Die Stats backen. Aber Exterminators...
03:18:57 Wir haben einen tollen Tag, und ich bin froh, wie Koiful und seine Kompetition für Kill Leader weitergeht, die letzten paar, ich weiß nicht, es sind nicht matchdebt, es ist einfach nur 14 Kills. Ich meine, es war 14 Kills, was, you know, sounds like nur 14 Kills, weil der Stats wir haben, und wie close das Lobby specifically war, sogar auf einen individuellen Level. Aber 9.1k Damage?
03:19:22 Das ist ein viel. Ich kann sagen, die letzte Cop Lobby in der ich in hatte, ich hatte 9.1k damage. Und ich hatte nicht 14 Kills, auch.
03:19:30 What a day for Shopify as well as for Koifel. What a day for both of our regions across the board, America specifically. Obviously, that's what we're finishing right now as we've now closed the chapter of our regular season match days. We know which teams are going to be competing in.
03:19:55 all of our regional finals i mean this is very exciting we'll give you a little bit of an update from apex south as well while we're waiting to see if we can maybe get an interview going here because this was the week where everybody had to get it done genome so as our resident expert talk me through a little bit about our top 20 here from apex south yeah look obviously uh we've got some pretty
03:20:17 Well-established names in their Gen.G. I know you guys probably know who Gen.G are and how they've been going, but the crazy thing about them is they're actually improving at a rate faster, it seems, than almost the rest of Apex South right now. That's why they find themselves so far on the top here with 135 points. I think, you know, one of, if not the highest points leaders in the entire world right now. Wolves obviously still very solid.
03:20:46 S8 hat einen starken Start zu der Seasonen, um, bei der Standards zu haben, aber sicherlich haben es zurückgebracht. Boogie Boarder ist wahrscheinlich der outside, um, sort of, Chance, um, zu hopefully, um, grab, uh, Qualifikation Slot into Sapporo via a Regional Finals win. Um, wenn du wundernst, warum unsere Land Champs VKG sind ein bisschen weiter da, um, in 18th, um, das ist, weil QQ hat nicht mit den Reinen Champs gespielt, unfortunately.
03:21:16 They've had to use a sub for most of the time. We're hoping he comes back for champs, but TBD.
03:21:24 Alcadzia, ich glaube, wir können auch mal sehen. Er hat sich schon gut gemacht. Und dann JDG, eine der wenigen Team, die tatsächlich die Chance haben, für Champs, via Champs-Points, depending auf ihre Leistung. Sie sind gerade jetzt in 7th, aber sie müssen eine Solid Regional Finale, um, zu halten und zu sehen, dass wir sie in Sapporo sehen.
03:21:52 I love that. And Genome, just a quick question. Where can people go to watch all this Apex L stuff? Well, you can go watch it on Battlegrounds OCE, but of course I will be doing some watch parties there as well. So if you want to come and hang out with me, it'll be on Genome underscore.
03:22:12 So if you guys are trying to keep up with all of the regions and you want to hear more of that lovely Australian accent, go hang out with Genome so you can keep up to date with everything we've got going on for APEC South. And while we're here doing a regional update, we might as well give you a reminder of what happened with APEC North as well. Now we touched on it a little bit earlier during the halftime show, but overall, Dio, we've got our APEC North top 20.
03:22:36 All of our regions have wrapped up and you can see Unlimit up there at the top. I mean, this is going to be really interesting when we start having to crunch who's winning what, champs points, where things are falling, because that's what's coming up right around the corner.
03:22:53 Ja, ich werde ehrlich sein, wenn ihr euch die Regional Finale sehen könnt, es wird ein sehr kompliziertes Maths geben, die von den Schenzen zu machen, die nicht zu machen, die Regionen machen, in verschiedene Orte, weil es all die Kat-Skating-Down-Champions-Points passiert.
03:23:11 Keep your eyes on the ball. Regional Finals is about making it to Sapporo. It's about securing your spot. And most importantly, it is about winning match point finals. The winners of Regional Finals have such an advantage when it comes to going to land because they already understand how to win match points. So keep it simple for yourself. We're going to figure out who's going to chance when we get there. And you're going to hear the casters going, actually, if this happens, this happens, this happens, this happens.
03:23:37 focus on who's winning who has the best chance of coming out on top and how your favorite team is playing it's a good time to plug face and watch because they're really genuinely is that much math going on in the background um
03:23:50 I mean, shout out to Jayhawk because I know he's doing a lot of that math as well. Kind of keep track of where there's points, who has points. You know, if this person loses, but this one wins and it opens up one of the spare spots in the champs points because they've already qualified through winning pro league or winning regional finals. What does that mean for the teams down below? So shout out to Jayhawk because I know he's tracking all that as well. And if we're going through all the regions and you guys are just joining us or maybe you only saw America today, we'll do a quick recap on EMEA as well. Just so you can get the full picture of what is happening.
Zusammenfassung der EMEA-Region und Ausblick auf die Regional Finals
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03:24:20 hier heute, weil wir waren, natürlich, Groups B und C zu verlassen haben. Allianz ist jetzt auf der top der EMEA-Overall-Leader-Board, mit GoNext. Aber wir sahen, wir sehen uns hier, insbesondere aus Anik. Wir haben das Bonus Point in der Woche, weil sie haben drei aus der sechs Spiele in heute ist, und es war ein bisschen von einem Schrapp nach dem Bubble. Wir waren zu sehen,
03:24:49 was was going to happen at that 20th point quite a few teams were able to make their way in pot was able to get on in there you got ronin in there killer rails just barely holding on i mean
03:25:01 Es war ein sehr spannender Tag über die Bühne für was wir aus den zwei Regionen gesehen haben, was wir über die Welt haben. Wir haben ein bisschen extra Video zu zeigen, als wir unsere Interview getrennt und bereit sind. Und ehrlich gesagt, Emia war eine gute Zeit heute, Gino. Es war Spaß, man. Emia war.
03:25:27 Was slappin' around. But so was Onik, as you just said. These guys, from start to finish, really showed us what they're capable of. We even got a little bit of a listen-in. I didn't understand a whole lot of it. I think there was some nice and some okay. That was about as far as I got. But either way, we can understand their gameplay. And their gameplay is pretty fast and furious.
03:25:56 Shout out to them for taking the dub. Well, one of the big things we were talking about too, Dia, is the fact that we've only got four teams right now putting themselves in contention for champs from EMEA specifically. So there's definitely, you know, an opportunity here in regards to this region to make a big push and start becoming a powerhouse when it comes to that international discussion side of things.
03:26:25 Und für Onyck, sie sehen wie ein Team, das könnte nur das tun. Und das ist, dass für ein Team, das sie in so gut Form sind, sie sind absolut nicht zu Champs, wenn sie die Region Finals in der LCQ gewinnen. Sie sind nicht durch die Champs-Points, selbst mit der Performance sie heute hatten. Und so, ihr habt zu hoffen.
03:26:48 Hope against Hope even, with how Apex tends to go, that the team that is in form today stays in form tomorrow, next week, and the LCQ as well, which will be even following that. So a lot to not just keep track of, but also hope for from your different teams, because we've even seen, between yesterday and today, a great example here in the Americas, with 100 Thieves having a dominant performance, and then barely clinching a top six.
03:27:15 Apex is hard to master. Apex is hard to stay on top of. The Onyik we saw today, I want to see in Japan. I don't know if they'll make it. You know, I think that's a good shout to point out, as well as the fact that while we're currently hyping up regional finals, and of course that's what's on the horizon, you can't count the teams that don't make it out just yet. We will have that LCQ. There will be one more opportunity for eight more teams to still get a spot.
03:27:42 On that international stage. So we're not done just yet, but for now, let's jump into our interview. Thank you so much for your patience, because I believe we've got Don standing by ready to chat. Don, let's go. Thank you so much for jumping on and chatting with us. So talk to us a little bit about the success that you guys found today. I mean, Coy looked like he was absolutely on just an insane tear on Maggie. Yeah, I mean, obviously we struggled a lot yesterday, but.
03:28:10 The boys managed to keep their heads down, you know, and play our game. Ran into a few issues yesterday, but we fixed them up and tightened them up for today, and that's all that matters, right?
03:28:21 I mean, I have to agree. It certainly makes it look like that today. We're talking about consistency just a few seconds ago between different regions and different days, what we can expect from regional finals and onwards, and we're expecting to see you at Lion. So, given that, how are you looking at other regions right now as a coach and preparing for how their metas and their playstyles are going to shake up what Shopify Rebellion already have?
03:28:47 I don't think it will shake up much. If anything, I feel like everyone, every other region will start adapting to playing what NA will be playing. And I think that the meta that you're seeing right now in NA Pro League is probably what you're going to see at Champs, unless there are patches.
03:29:09 Well, look, that's actually something we should probably talk about then, Don, because there's going to be a new season, right? There's going to be a new patch between now and champs. And if the last couple of seasons are anything to go by, it'll be a big shakeup.
03:29:23 So is there anything that you guys do when a new season comes out, when a new patch comes out, where clearly, you know, there's maybe three or four new Legends that are super powerful and therefore introduced into the meta? Is there anything that you're maybe sort of hoping for in the next one or anything that you will do specifically to get up to speed quickly? Because, you know, how quickly you adapt to those new changes obviously will make a massive difference to how you perform at Champs.
03:29:51 Ja, me personally, I'd love for Newcastle to just be completely up to meta. Okay. I think it's, you know, I think if we were in a meta where we're playing with three, like, small hitbox characters instead of, like, a lot of Gibby, Newcastle, Corsic, it'd be more fun to watch and more fun to play. That's what I'd be hoping for. But we'll never know, right? We've just got to wait and see.
03:30:17 Okay, GM, do you want to follow up with that? Oh, I was just going to say, so obviously you have insane roller fraggers on your team. Do you think having those sort of small hitbox characters, let's say it was three wraiths in the meta or something, do you think that would suit you guys because their aim is just so elite? Yeah, it's kind of really hard to play, especially on Stormpoint.
03:30:42 Games 1-3, it's really hard to play Edge, right? And it's really hard to play characters that kill these type of comps, these Newcastle comps. And it almost forces everyone to just get in zone and play these comps, you know what I mean? There isn't much flexibility from Games 1-3, which I really don't like. But when we get into the later games, there's a lot of flexibility, as I'm sure you guys see, you know what I mean?
03:31:09 Now, before I let you go here, Dawn, I just want to kind of get your perspective on Koiful specifically, because obviously we got to see just how much damage he brought to the team here today as an individual when we were taking a look at those kill leader stats over 9k damage. What has he done for the squad in terms of like fragging power? And do you think that that's going to give you guys what you need?
03:31:39 Ja, der Kidd ist ein Kind, man. Es gibt niemanden wie ihn in der Spiel. Es gibt niemanden wie ihn in der Spiel. Es gibt niemanden wie ihn in der Spiel. Es gibt niemanden wie ihn in der Spiel. Er ist immer ein Kind. Er ist immer ein Kind.
03:32:06 Yeah, Koi's just one of a kind, bro. He's the best. I love that. Well, Don, fantastic chatting with you as always. Thank you so much for taking the time to come here to talk. And congratulations to you and the squad on the win for the last regular season day. Yep, thank you guys so much.
Abschluss der regulären Saison und Ausblick auf die Regional Finals und Weltmeisterschaften
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03:32:27 It's always nice to get to chat with Dawn. To close out the Americas here, regular season, done and dusted, that's it. That's all she wrote. So, Dia, give me your final thoughts now that all of the regions are looking towards regional finals. I mean, we've seen an incredible amount of and quality of Apex Legends over the last two days. My thoughts now are with the teams. They have got...
03:32:55 Twenty of the best teams in each region facing off for what for some regions will be one slot, for some regions will be two, depending on where their champs points lie. I'm hoping that we get some incredible storylines coming out of here, but also some underdog stories in Matchpoint Finals, because that can be some of the most exciting play. Regional Finals is all about winning, is all about taking the core of a BR.
03:33:22 und einfach zu finden. Ich freue mich für die Region Finals. Und das ist alles, was ich. Ich liebe das, und ich liebe das, die für die Unter-Dog-Storys. Wir lieben immer eine gute Unter-Dog-Storys. So, Gina, was du?
03:33:38 Yeah, look, Matchpoint are kind of made for underdog stories, aren't they? And yeah, it's going to be a fantastic week next week across all regions as we see those Matchpoint Finals play out. I think, you know, in Apex South, we've got teams who are, you know, pretty much locked in as number one and number two, and it'll be interesting to see if they can continue that in what is always the most intense lobby of the entire split. Meanwhile, over here in Americas, it's actually quite close now between Shopify, Grow 100 Thieves, Rock, ZZ,
03:34:07 There's so many teams that there's sort of 80 to 90 points that there's almost 10 teams that could actually walk away as the victors overall of the Pro League. So certainly some different storylines for different regions and how we're going to see that play out. Americas has been so tight the whole way through that it's just going to be a fabulous watch next week. Absolutely do not miss it.
03:34:32 Yeah, very exciting to be sure. Well, Dia and Genome, you guys crushed it today as always. So thank you so much for lending us your voices to get us through the final day of our regular season for Split 2. We'll say goodbye to you for now, but it won't be for long. As far as we go, chat, it's time for you to start planning your trip to Japan. And if you're wondering exactly how to do that, obviously we keep talking about champs.
03:34:57 We're going to give you the information right now because we wanted to let you know how to get your tickets locked down for the big event. Obviously, the ticket sales will be live next week on our ticketing partner site, Zyko, and that'll be on October 11th at 1 a.m. PT, 4 a.m. ET, and 5 p.m. JST, nice and early for everybody here in the Americas during our first regional final of Split 2. You can find more information as that day nears on our ALGS website's Year 5 Championship.
03:35:27 See all the latest information about Champs here from tickets to exciting news and updates.
03:35:34 Of course. But that is not all, okay? We keep talking about it. Obviously, our regular season has come to a close, but that just means it's time to prepare for the Regional Finals. And if you want to know when to be here, that is going to be October 12th for our EMEA Regional Finals. 6 p.m. BST, 1 p.m. ET, and 10 a.m. PT Start. Be here to find out which teams will be...
03:36:03 Who's taking the whole thing home? Who's winning Pro League? Who's winning Regional Finals? Who's clinching those spots available to champs? And then, of course, later on in that same day will also be our America's Regional Finals. So lots of things for everybody to be paying attention to. As always, if you're unable to make it, just make sure you're following us on social media. Easy peasy. Whether that is...
03:36:27 YouTube, Insta, or TikTok at Play Apex Esports. And don't forget, check out the new ones on Insta and TikTok. Might be some giveaways that you guys could see over there as well, as well as Twitch for at Play Apex. That way you can keep yourself up to date with everything that we've got going on for regional finals, for champs, for everything along the way. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your week and maybe go hop into some games of Apex and we'll see you all back here for regional finals next weekend. Good night, Legends.
03:36:56 Bis zum nächsten Mal.