ALGS Year 4 Pro League ! Match Day 1 ! NA ! Groups A & B ! Apex Legends
ALGS Year 4 Pro League NA: Spannende Duelle und überraschende Wendungen!
Die ALGS Year 4 Pro League in Nordamerika ist gestartet. Teams wie TSM, DarkZero und LG kämpfen um den Sieg. Neue Strategien und POIs auf Storm Point sorgen für Spannung. Analysten beleuchten Teamleistungen und Meta-Anpassungen, während sich die Teams auf World's Edge vorbereiten. DarkZero führt nach dem ersten Spieltag.
Apex Legends
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ALGS Year 4 Pro League Season Kickoff and Team Overviews
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00:01:15 The ALGS Off-Season is finally over. Welcome to our new series, the ALGS Rundown. I'm Tiff, and this week we're going to be covering all things year four of the ALGS program.
00:01:35 As a reminder, each Pro League region consists of 30 teams, 22 teams invited by ALGS and eight teams from the preseason qualifiers. The Pro League regular season prize pool is $1 million divided evenly amongst the four regions. Those teams will then battle it out in two eight-week-long splits with the top teams from each region then advancing on to the playoffs.
00:02:02 mit der ultimate goal der ALGS-Champions-Stage. Jetzt gehen wir in den größten Händen in der ALGS-Pro-League.
00:02:13 One of the biggest questions this offseason has been, what team will top IGL Sweet join for ALGS year four? That anticipation ends with the new era of LG Apex unfolding. With Nathan on the bench, it's been years since this iconic duo has split up. Can Sweet lead his way to the top again alongside Funk and Slayer? Get ready for an exciting chapter as this formidable team steps into the arena.
00:02:41 Das ist der Weg für Oversleeper's Qualifizierung in Pro League. Sie sind unterdokst, aber sie haben großartige Potenzial. Boddery, der 16-jährige M&K-Prodigy, muss sich zu zeigen, was er ist zu zeigen. Alongside former Splitgate Pros J.P. und Charmander, das Team ist ein Eye-Catcher. His Watsons returns zu competitive. After eine kurze Zeit zu rechnen, er ist zurück mit Furia, und diesmal mit Ried-or-Die Kion.
00:03:11 Added Madness to complete the 3, this team has some serious firepower. Furia is taking a risk on an untested 3, but this trio comes preinstalled with more synergy than most teams. Exet made a big move grabbing Roller Prodigy Koifel, whose Pro League debut rocketed him to the tops of conversations along Roller veterans like Jen Burton, Verhulst, and Effect. If he maintains his solid form,
00:03:38 This could result in XSET moving from a solid top five worldwide to LAN winners. Dark Zero, a three-time LAN-winning team, isn't resting on their laurels. Despite a successful year three, they've opted for a big change, bringing in Sykes to replace Zynu. Is this the key to reclaiming their championship form? Moist Esports has made shockwaves in two regions by leaving APAC South to follow Dark Zero to NA.
00:04:07 They've also picked up Guild, the last free agent from NRG. And we're expecting them to gel seamlessly. But will they stake a claim in NA? Year 3 land Dark Horse, the Dojo, are back with the same roster. Timmy, Designful, and NA.
00:04:24 Was beginners luck, but others are confident that they're going to make it back to land and best their fourth place finish at chance. How can we talk about the NA region without mentioning TSM? Unarguably the most successful ALGS team of all time. They've made themselves a target early on in split one with the wildcard meat lovers. Will this affect their ability to qualify for split one playoffs?
00:04:51 Or will they chase off meat lovers away from their POIs? There's a power vacuum forming in APAC South following Moist Esports move to NA. Everyone expects Primus Commanda, formerly Blackhand, to be the top contender. But will they stand their ground or will a new team stamp their authority on the region? Divine has formed a team of three APAC veterans.
00:05:16 Pricey comes out of retirement alongside Wei and Shady. With tons of experience on the team, they've got the potential to make a real splash in the region. If Primus Commanda can't find their way to the top, then Boogie Boarders will be happy to take over. Former Onyx members Rakki and Fussy join forces with star controller player Panavi to make a bid for the top spot in the region after spending the last couple of years in Moist Shadow.
00:05:46 Time to speculate about the King's downfall. Fnatic is rebuilt around Yuka F, Satsuki, and Laika. Yuka F hands over the macro reins to Laika, and we're all waiting to find out if this is the right move, or is this going to open up the region for a massive battle to take their shot at the crown. First in line to take that shot will be North F ship. After some revolving door roster changes, Tida, Rezi, and Yuka Predator
00:06:14 Sie wollen sich auf die Werteilung auf der globalen Ebene. Sie haben es alles zu tun, als sie sich auf ihre formeren Team-Mate, Satsuki sehen, und sich auf die FNATIC betrachten und die Nr. 1 für sie selbst. Crazy Raccoon ist zurück. Nach Heartbreak, als Razz wurde auf die Militär-Service geholfen, die Team nicht compete in den Jahr 3 ALGS-Champions. Für Jahr 4, Crazy Raccoon hat...
00:06:42 der Fan-Favorite Team Gombere Otosan, a Staple on the LAN Stage. Dagwa, Juzna, and Junghee have an org, and Crazy Raccoon has a team expected to perform. Coming off a hiatus, Matsutasu has returned to Pro League, this time to join alongside Shunmi and Suda Taiken underneath that Reignite banner. Experienced and talented, they will have to get comfortable together to shoot for the top.
00:07:10 After all Matsutasu has a legacy to uphold of finishing top 10 at every LAN he's been to and it would be a shame to break the streak now.
00:07:22 In EMEA, we've got a brand new org ESG looking to make a splash in the region by grabbing up Lufka, Light and Blast alongside Coach Luke. Aftermath Esports have crossed the pond from South America to EMEA. Stelizy, Kurev and Flash have kept their ALGS dreams alive and will be planning to give the fans in this new region a reason to remember their names.
00:07:47 EMEA No. 1 Seed Element Six has a fresh new look, adding in two new talents from the Roller Pool, Fract and Slab. Element Six has been dominant in the EMEA region, but has never been able to swipe that trophy. Swinney will be hoping this new roster gives them the juice to go all the way. Longtime fans of the EMEA ALGS will be stoked to welcome back Brynn.
00:08:12 Popular among pros, this hot prospect back in 2022 vanished from the scene. Like a phoenix, he's risen from the ashes and playing alongside Sir Dell and Noises on the team The Full English. This trio will want to pick back up where they left off and remind fans why they loved him. Aurora also leaned into the year four phoenix storyline, confirming the return of M&K legend Hardeki, joining the duo of Impulse and Oireen.
00:08:41 When you take an unconventional and aggressive playstyle and add in a dash of raw M&K talent, sparks will fly. Get ready for an exciting ride as Shiv and Mandy step into the ALGS fray with 40% worse. Despite challenges like Shiv's injury, Mandy's retirement, and a tense last game in preseason qualifier, the team, including Zarifer, is driven by motivation.
00:09:08 With no expectations in everything at stake, they're set to bring an all-out, unstoppable energy to the ALGS Pro League. With all this and more, we're looking forward to the best year of Apex Legends Esports ever. Find us on YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter. And be sure to follow us for the start of year four ALGS Pro League on January 20th. See you there.
Season Expectations, Format Overview, and Roster Changes
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00:10:50 Ich bin Reinde, und ich bin so, so bereit. After eine lange off-season und eine neue Jahrzehnte, Happy New Year, by the way, it's a chance to see stories unfold, maybe new stories that we haven't seen before, and maybe tried and tested stories that have passed on from just...
00:11:14 Will the likes of TSM raise their trophy again, which is where we left them just a few months ago? Or will we see all the roster changes, all the swaps come to fruition for a new team to make themselves a chance at having glory? And of course, the biggest name in the ALGS. All of that to unfold, and it starts off here with day one, and that's why we're going to get underway here. Everyone joining us, welcome. Let's get it started.
00:11:43 All right, of course, I've got to bring in my duo who's going to be working with me all day long. We had EMEA earlier, and now it's a chance to go back to it in North America. Of course, Mark Onset Hatcher bringing the play-by-play. Mark, it's North America. This is where the champions reside. We're going to have a whole year to see if that stays the same. Yeah, it's a team with a target on their back for sure. TSM, of course, are champions. But if you have been living under a rock for the last few months, ever since Champs, where we saw them lift that trophy.
00:12:10 So much has gone down with the competition. So many teams changes. So many org changes. So much has happened to try and close that gap and make them feel more under pressure than ever. It's going to be an amazing season and I'm sure this is going to be a day to remember too.
00:12:24 And of course, for those who didn't see the introduction in EMEA, alongside Mark, Dan's been holding it down as an amazing color commentator. He's won the Esports Award for Color Commentary last November. So congratulations right off that. And Dan, again, a fresh start, not only to the ALGS, but to a year for all of us to get this action back.
00:12:42 Ja, und wir wissen, dass Nordamerika in eine ganz andere Art von EMEA geliefert wird. Also können wir uns sehen, was die Leute haben auf ihre Sleeve bekommen, denn Skrims haben uns ein paar Dinge erzählt, aber wie wir in EMEA lernen, Skrims nicht die ganze Geschichte erzählen. Aber wir werden die Geschichte entwickeln, starten hier heute.
00:12:59 Yeah, that's one of the interesting elements about live. Whether it's a show, whether it's a tournament, an event like this, you always see different results than practice. It's just one of those exciting things that make sure you have to keep your eyes glued to the screen. For those joining us and maybe not familiar with how the ALGS runs, or if you've had a couple of moments in the offseason where now you're trying to get back into the flow, we've got a perfect video to set up how the course of this season will take place and transpire, and ultimately how you'll get to the prize play in the Split One Playoffs.
00:13:34 The Split 1 Regular Season features four regions made up of 30 teams, seeded into three groups of 10 teams each. Pro League teams will begin by competing in a triple round-robin format, where each group plays a match series against every other group three times. After these matches have been completed, the top 20 teams according to the Regular Season standings will compete in the Regional Finals. At the conclusion of the Regional Finals,
00:14:01 40 Teams, including Teams from all 6 ALGS Regions, will have qualified for the Split 1 Playoffs.
00:14:10 Of course, if you need any more information than that, sometimes it takes a rewatch. Check out the QR code on your screen. Grab your phone, whether it has this cute little Nessie icon behind that's, you know, homemade as well. Again, shout out to Dia and his partner for making this for us in the green room. Go up, use that, and then it'll take you right to the landing page. Give you all the information on when our ALGS broadcasts take place so you never need to miss a beat. Of course, missing a beat could be something that happened over this offseason, fellas. It was...
00:14:38 Tremendously wide open space. We talked about this idea of a great reset, partially because every team needed to see how they could best compete. And really, they're aiming for first. A lot of these teams have been beneath first for a while. So there really had to be some major changes. But just as an idea, I know we've got a graphic indicating just a little bit of what has transpired. Mark, we'll get into that in just a moment. But before we even do jump in there, I want to lead this to Dan.
00:15:07 A few new ways to get some points to end this season.
00:15:10 Ja, wenn du schon mal auf den Linken hast, kannst du wissen, wie das System funktioniert. Du bekommst, du bekommst, du bekommst, du bekommst, du bekommst, du bekommst, du bekommst, und du bekommst, dass du über 50 Punkte bekommst. Wenn du über 50 Punkte bekommst, oder größer, über den 2nd Platz gewonnen hast, dann bekommst du ein extra Bonus Point. Und du bekommst auch ein Bonus Point für jeden Match, du bekommst über 50%. Wenn du 4 Matches bekommst, dann bekommst du ein Bonus Point. Wenn du 5 Matches bekommst, dann bekommst du 2 Bonus Points. Und wenn du 5 Matches bekommst, dann bekommst du...
00:15:39 Ich meine, es ist das einfach. Ich meine, fünf Match Wins, ein paar Bonus Points, ich meine, da ist es. Split one Playoffs, you just win that, you win Champs. Seems like this season is starting off pretty simple. I teed this off a little early, Mark, but I want to get into it now. The roster changes have been significant. Walk us through, we've got a graph to support this, but walk us through, I mean, just the concept of this great...
00:16:08 Reset, and how many teams have made swaps over the course of these last few months. I mean, this beautiful graphic, shout out to Tanya, by the way, for doing that on Twitter, but it kind of indicates the carnage that's gone down, right? These are our roster changes on our partner teams. There are so many more that have gone down, but they're the big names. They're the ones that are in front of you right now. Something to note, of course, Moist moving over to North America as well to compete, and Guild has joined that lineup. You've got Complexity making big changes. FaZe just announced their roster as well.
00:16:38 Und natürlich, Snipe Down ist es noch da, und dann haben wir die Läge von Dark Zero. Ein Massive change für sie als auch. Picking auf Sykes über von Exet, die dann in turn sehen, dass Sentinels Roste und sagen, hey, wir wollen Koi-Full wegnehmen. Und das ist genau das, was sie gemacht hat. Es hat so viel gedauert. Ich habe nicht mehr zu sagen, Furya oder DSG. Es ist einfach... Es ist verrückt. Honestly, Sie werden nicht sehen, dass viele off-seasen machen diese Schritte. So, get ready für eine Roller-Coaster.
00:17:04 I just want to shout out, too, that one of the talent in R6, Jess Goat, I think she's been nominated as well. She mentioned if I had something like that on my broadcast, I would be so grateful. So, Tanya, again, big shout out to you and big shout out to our production team for allowing that visual.
North American Teams and New Contenders
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00:17:21 Make something that's very confusing a lot easier to read in the offseason. It is a little bit hazy. However, I think it leads us back to conversations that sometimes are not. We come into North America with a clear focus on maybe who the top teams are. Teams that are absolutely familiar faces. And you cannot mention North America or ALGS without these three rosters. TSM, Imperial Howell, Reps, and Verholtz. They went back.
00:17:46 And back and forth against Dark Zero to see who would be the best last year. Championships sealed the deal in dramatic fashion in September of 2023. What a performance. They are certainly the team to beat, but they've been known to have slumps, whether in the beginning or in the middle of these split ones. So will they start off strong is our question today. Optic Gaming, they finished second place and notoriously them and NRG could have actually ended the tournament before TSM had that.
00:18:12 Und es war wirklich ein sehr guter Überraschung für uns zu sehen, dass sie bejoinig sind.
00:18:42 Nice League. As you may have heard, DSG's got an Apex team. Yup. But I got no players. You call the right guy. All I do is watch Apex. Albert Lele, five-time champion, former TSM member, phenomenal player. That's pretty good. We'll say. Does he get much viewers on Twitch?
00:19:05 Ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht, ich weiß nicht
00:19:18 Kind of weird, I'm not really understanding. Again, Cloud is everything esported. Okay. You don't actually have to be good at the games, you just have to be famous, like Sentinel. Yeah, you know, I'm starting to see that's, here, Zyno, LAN champion as well. He doesn't get much better than this. Did he post on TikTok? Like, TikTok's the new big thing. Do you want him posting thirst traffic? Yeah. I have no idea what he's doing. Cloud, Cloud. What about, um, how about that Timmy guy? What's he up to? Timmy's, he's pretty good. And he has a lot of Twitter followers. Tons of Twitter, but he's on 100 views. I don't see how that's gonna work out.
00:19:48 all right no why don't we just ask him timmy you want to join dsg sure ladies and gentlemen we got him
00:20:16 There, you know, Disguise, he drives a hard bargain toast. Make sure you got to have the Twitter followers. It was almost going to be Zynu Thirst Traps on TikTok. Dan, I'm glad we went a different direction here, but it seems like Timmy and his squad Dojo formerly have found a good spot.
00:20:30 In fact, let's head over and...
00:20:55 Hey guys, it's Timmy here. My teammates are Design, Enemy, and our coach is Bronzy. We are on the team Disguise, also known as DSG. It's honestly a great feeling, you know, me, Design, Enemy, and Bronzy get a org to represent. They're going to do their absolute jobs to really put us out there, and we get to just focus on winning.
00:21:24 Ich denke mir und die Boysen werden das Jahr verrückt und ich bin sehr froh. Es ist wirklich cool. Ich habe nie gedacht, dass ich zwei Orbs auf einmal sein kann, aber 100 Thieves war sehr nett, um mich auf DSG zu spielen, als ein Pro Player zu spielen. Es gibt viele Backends zu treffen, aber ich denke, es ist eine wirklich cool Möglichkeit, und ich bin sehr froh, um mich für 100 Thieves zu spielen, um mich mit ihnen zu spielen und auch mit DSG zu spielen.
00:21:57 Obviously so much from that story, but Mark, more stories in terms of new contenders here in North America to talk about. Yeah, certainly some squads to keep your eye on right now. Native Gaming, I want to talk about them because Klein and Mambo, we know them as the duo, but Rambo is back, everyone. The man with the hair and the man who loves to frag, he is back.
00:22:15 in the ALGS, and he's going to be certainly a player to keep your eyes on. PLP, a team which is made up an IGL by Phony. Frexy's going to be joining him, and Zynu, the LAN champion, will be on that squad. Very excited to see what they can do. Of course, led by the IGL in Phony. And then you've got, of course, Moist Esports moving over. I mentioned from ANZ, and they're picking up Guild, who's not too bad of a player himself. Obviously, the ex-NRG man joining the two Aussies as they compete in North America for the first time, trying to follow in the footsteps of Dark Souls.
00:22:44 ZERO.
00:22:46 And then from new contenders, we've got our new beginnings, but you could arguably say some of these could be new contenders as well. Dark Zero, how could we not talk about Dark Zero? Carrying on the same path as they had before, picking up another controller player as a replacement, Zero Gemburne and Sykes. I think they are going to be a squad to watch. And then the return of his Watson, Furia. They really pioneered the way of play back in the day when his Watson was at his very best, and I'm excited to see what they can do here.
00:23:15 Pretty amazing stuff from...
00:23:35 I believe just Fioria, that comeback from his Watson. I'm keeping my eyes on that so much here. But all the prove, this is somebody, and these teams are people that really you need to pay attention to. Two out of three of our EMEA, all the proves actually ended up in the top 10. And I think this is a great sign for teams knowing that they've got to make a strong start. GKS, Saucer, Sleepy Panda, Chaotic Much have to show up big today. Zach Mazur on Elevate Gaming, he's had leadership opportunities from Cloud9 and huge rosters. Can he do it with Shuba?
00:24:04 und zappen dieses Mal an, endlich was er braucht. Und Marc, Meatlovers, sie sind ein Enigma, eine Geschichte von ihrem eigenen. Sie sind natürlich. Du bist über Alter-Proof. Tech hat sich so lange versucht, und er hat zwei neue Spieler mit ihm zu tun. Du hast einen Mann, der nicht so unfamiliar mit der Shotgun ist, aber es wird ein Gnatscher swapped out für ein Peacekeeper oder ein Mastiff für A1, der former Gears of War man da selbst. Und ich denke Meatlovers, understandably, Alter-Proof, sehr hot Contest story, wie wir wissen, mit einem bestimmten...
00:24:33 Three-Letter Name Team. We'll have to see how that pans out in the following game days that we have. But today we're not going to see that TSM are going to have a home for themselves. Yeah, very, very interesting. One of the first active four-man rosters that we've heard about. We'll see if that ends up showing up. Will they change? We have time to figure that out. But of course, today we'll take a look at Groups A versus B. And let's just zoom in on who's in each group.
00:24:55 für unsere Zuschauer zu Hause. Wir haben Gruppe A, mit LG und TSM. Das ist in der... Ich habe schon gesagt, es wieder gesagt, LG Suite und TSM, Imperial Howl. Wir wissen, dass wir die Rivalry da sind. Sie werden in Gruppe A, wenn Sie sie in Gruppe A sehen. Gruppe B, als auch.
00:25:13 Like everyone, some star-studded teams, from Dark Zero all the way to Optic Gaming, the newly formed Phase, Monsoon, and his squad of Complexity. Not a lot of time to overall get things going. He had mentioned earlier in a tweet, but they feel confident that they've been putting in the work this week to make things happen. Group C, they will not debut today. That will be next weekend. But that's, if you're waiting to watch, it's Timmy, Gilderson, Swalzi, those...
00:25:42 Bis zum nächsten Mal.
00:25:50 Dan, auf Group A vs. B heute. Kannst du etwas sagen, bevor wir in die Spiele kommen? Natürlich die Obvious ones. TSM, Optik, ist der Fineform weitergegangen? Ich will sehen, was die Komplexität zu haben. Ich freue mich immer immer zu sehen, Monsoon zu sehen. LG hat eine große Frage über sie, was sie tun können? Was können sie uns hier auf der ersten Matchday zeigen? Und ich bin sicher, Marc agrees, dass das vielleicht eine Chance für Dark Zero zu zeigen, was sie haben.
00:26:19 Ja, Dark-Zero ist ein sehr, sehr gefährliches Team. Ich möchte ein Shout-Out für Elevate Gaming. Sie haben sehr, sehr gut in den Scrims gemacht. Und ich denke, dass sie ein paar Spieler auf dem Team sind, die Sie sind, die Sie sehen, haben sie einen schweren Team gehabt. Ein bisschen ein, ein bisschen, ein bisschen, ein, ein bisschen, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein, ein,
00:26:44 Even that was, despite it being Element 6 winning, but so many teams within that top two to six, so close, could have taken it. North America, I expect a similar thing, but sometimes we do see a few teams stand out from the pack, at least in the early days. But one thing is for sure, this is where our champions have come from this last year. All of our land champions have been playing in North America. Will that stay the same? Either way, we know we're going to get some juggernaut gameplay going on here. So without further ado, fellas, let's kick it off.
00:27:14 Let's kick year four into gear in our first split, our first day. Mark, Dan, take it away.
Match Day 1: Storm Point and Early Game Contests
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00:27:19 Our first taste of North America. What is it going to bring to the table? What are we going to see in front of us, Dan? It is an amazing time to be part of Apex once again. The ALGS is back, everybody. I want to see some Ws in the chat for this gameplay because this is where we start. This is our map rotation. It's A and B in the lobby today. Stormpoint kicking us off. Yeah, some changes since the last time we saw Stormpoint in ALGS at the Champs. We've got some new POIs. We've even got new Tridents on the map. Barometer has a new Trident to work with, which is going to be great for any squadron dropping or...
00:27:49 We certainly will indeed. And there is Lightning Rod, which has had a few contests going down.
00:28:18 Bis zum nächsten Mal.
00:28:29 Und das ist alles, das man sieht auf der Schreie gerade jetzt ist, dass es ein POI ist. Sie sehen, warum TSM war so glücklich zu kämpfen für es. Aber Match 1 ist live, everybody. Die Dropship ist bereit. Es ist eine neue Saison der Apex Legends Global Series hier in Nordamerika. Gaskin, take uns weg. Und die Dropship path ist immer sehr wichtig. Das ist sehr weit für die Leute, die sich über die Tieren zu bewerben, auf die Trenota Cave. Barometer, für zum Beispiel. Wenn du early Loot up kannst, kann es sehr wichtig für deine Rotation sein.
00:28:59 Dropping in, Dropping Gaming. They will be dropping fast and they'll be looting up and they'll be taking the fight.
00:29:03 Und hier ist der Contest, der 2-Shield wird gebrochen. Stunny hat sich wirklich gut gemacht mit der Rampage gemacht. Er hat nur 7-Bullets left, also er hat sich zu retreten zu einer dieser Bins, und es ist ein bisschen verrückt, nicht zu sehen, dass er ein Knochen in dieser Situation ist, Dan, mit dem Dammage gemacht wurde. Ja, das ist ein Contest ich nicht erwartet, an ECHO zu passieren. Keiner nehmen Coastal Camp, so vielleicht ist es ein attempt zu asserten Dominanz hier, und wenn du gewinnen kannst, kannst du weitergehen und weitergehen.
00:29:29 DNO auf der anderen Seite. Purple Mag auf der Karte kann sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr.
00:29:49 Und das ist etwas, was wir in Amir gesprochen haben, wie elongated diese Fights können, wegen der Conduit werden. Wir haben die Möglichkeit, um die Team zu schildern, um die Team zu schildern, um die Wipe zu bekommen. Und jetzt ist es an einem Standstill. Wir schauen uns an, wie die Drogs durch Glas, um zu versuchen, einen anderen zu attackieren. Und jetzt sehen Sie, dass sie eine Möglichkeit haben, weil ein Spieler ist, also es vielleicht eine Möglichkeit, um ein 2v1-1 zu machen. Die Droppe-In-Gaming wollten es, aber nicht ganz able zu nehmen. Jetzt schauen Sie in die Meds und die Backpacken, um zu sehen, wer wird es.
00:30:19 Heal up, because the amount of damage that's been done by dropping gaming, you feel like, you know, I've got to run because they just won't have the meds to heal here.
00:30:27 So maybe this fight just comes to an end. And I'm looking at teams that are nearby. You've got Flat over towards Pylon, who could have a look at this one if they wanted, but it doesn't really help their rotation. So this should be an isolated fight that no one else truly benefits from potentially third partying. However, it does mean that the likes of Flat and PLP rotating from the southern side, they should have an easier move into the circle. Because we're going to be going up north. We're heading up towards the likes of Zeus, Lightning Rod and The Wall. And you can see there was a few different teams it drops.
00:30:56 Das Team ist sehr glücklich mit der Zone, Paul, ist LG. Sie haben eine große Priorität zu sehen, wo das Zone ist.
00:31:24 Weak, shall we say. Desperate to heal? This is another fight that's just been going on for so long as well, on set, over towards North Pad. We knew this contest was potentially happening. This is good news for Optic, because it means they can loot even longer at down Beast, because this rotation isn't going to be particularly affected by them. But both teams, again, just kind of backing off. Secret Formula getting away from Eternal here, but yeah, they've lost one, but will they be able to get back up will be the real question. Yes, they will.
00:31:53 Interessant you can test going down on POIs like this. It's not like you would say a priority POI for a number of reasons. Tough rotates. Not the best of loot pools as well. But the fact that you can test a POI that doesn't have great loot even if you win it. Even though you might have a little bit of crafting. It's an interesting one to take. But you can understand maybe they just feel like it's their best chance to get into the game by winning that Dark Zero though.
00:32:15 Ich glaube, es wurde unter der Radar ein bisschen, und understandably so. Champs war wahrscheinlich der größte Moment der Karriere, ich würde sagen, für Jemburton und Zero. Sehr well-dokumenten, die nicht die Finale gemacht haben, was wahrscheinlich die größte Schocken zu kommen aus der ALGS Champs. Es war almost sacrilegisch nicht zu sehen Dark Zero für den Trophen.
00:32:38 Ja, das ist ja, der einzige andere Team zu bekommen, ist Dark Zero, außer von CSM. Es war strange, dass sie nicht in der Finale spielen können, aber das bedeutet, dass sie nicht zurückkommen können, mit einer Vengeance zu sein. Und Scythe ist ein weiterer Spieler, der hat eine unglaubliche Herausforderung, und wird auch viel zu tun, besonders unter den IGL-Biliten von Zero, weil wir wissen, was ein Massive-Brain er hat. Hier ist die newly-announced Phase, Snipe-Down-Pickin-Up-Pandas und Zera-Tricky, und ich freue mich, wie sie progressieren.
00:33:08 Das ist wirklich ein Problem für diese Spieler. Sie sind da, sie haben das. Sie sehen Pandas auch, natürlich, Formally Furia für ihn. Und eine Sache zu halten hier für sie ist, eine gute Position, eine gute Rotate, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr.
Mid-Game Rotations and Team Engagements
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00:33:37 Wow, look at this. GKS well aware. And they see and they catch them right on the crafter as well.
00:33:59 Und GTS wird die Rewardser von einfach nur ein bisschen Patient sein. Und das ist auch ein Grund, warum das Elongated Fight der Drop-In-Gaming hat hat, weil sie das Verzweck hat, und sie hätte das Verzweck gemacht haben.
00:34:09 One thing I love about that as well is I even get the free battery. It's like the ultimate insult, right? The player who crafted the bat. It's like, not only my dad, I have to watch them take away my hard work. But I mean, you got to do what you got to do in these lobbies. We mentioned it earlier. The lack of seer, the lack of bloodhound, the lack of scan meta means those plays become viable once more. And if you are rotating, you have to check every single corner because you don't have the legends in the meta at the moment, which are going to do it for you. So you have to keep your eyes on it and GKS take advantage.
00:34:38 Yep, now they've got to make their long old journey from south to north. They will or should have a comfortable journey up to command center, but there is a chance they could meet flat a little bit later. We've also got to keep an eye right on that southwest skirt, still down towards Cenote and will still be moving in at some point. So GKS are not the last to move in. And of course, Drop-In Gaming could get back up to a full three as well with two retreating. They're going back towards Coastal Camp. We'll have to see if they get the banner. Now for the actual zone, it's starting to get congested in the north.
00:35:08 You've got a few teams that moved in from the Lightning Rod side. Zeus, of course, is going to be high ground positioning for the likes of LG and TSM, who have now taken it as well.
00:35:16 It's just funny, isn't it? You know, TSM, stay together, win champs, Sweet on the other side at the start of the season. Obviously, we had a lot of fun with both Hal and Sweet. It's just almost amusing that they're facing off against each other, right? New roster versus the old TSM, and they're looking at each other right now. And TSM will be gatekept as well by LG, so they have to move through them, unless, of course, they want to evac over the top. But you mentioned a team in zone.
00:35:39 Well, this is deep in zone at the moment. Skirt deciding that, hey, we'll let everybody else take their time. We'll let everybody else get inside of that zone. We're going to play it late. We're going to be healing up. And we're going to see if we can force our way in late. Or maybe.
00:35:50 Just take a little bit of a triple to try them.
00:36:20 in anderen Gruppen, und das bedeutet, dass sie eine komfortvolle Rotation über zu Zuse hier sind, und sie jetzt noch ein guter Positionen halten.
00:36:49 Es wird nicht so einfach sein, wie es möglich ist. Speaking of rats, ich spotte ein paar.
00:36:57 I don't think it's physically possible to be closer to one another, whispering sweet nothings in each other's ear, as now TSM are going to make that rotation around and out of zone that you were talking of, but there are teams in this area, so you really need to have a game plan here. Yeah, they do, and there's going to be multiple teams inside of the buildings. The thing is, though, if they can land and they can reset, there's an opportunity for them to fight for one of these spots, right? We mentioned how FaZe were inside of one of those buildings. PLP, I believe, were inside of one of the buildings as well, and they didn't look too strong when it came to armor, so TSM can reset here.
00:37:27 Dann werden sie vielleicht beantworten, aber sie hatten bereits den Dark Veil auf der Katalysst, um sie zu retten. Jetzt müssen sie agressiv werden, als die Zone starte zu pushen. Ja, sie sind nicht in die Zone, also Phase ist wahrscheinlich der Ziel. Aber ihr habt die Armors, Pandas, Xerav, beide auf White. Und hier kommt die TSM-Push, und sie nehmen die High-Graph.
00:37:48 Send in the Verholst. Sometimes it's the best way to try and achieve gaining any positioning, but they have now successfully found somewhere to call home. But this isn't really a fun position to hold. You can be poked and prodded from...
00:38:17 Die Leute, die auf der Bühne stehen können, aber vielleicht haben sie nicht viel Utilität, die wir gesehen haben. TSM wirklich wollen und empfiehlt es. Sie wollen es nicht mit einigen. Sie sehen, dass die Idee hier ist, und dann senden Reps, die die Digi-Threaten haben. Und jetzt werden sie versuchen, ein paar Chip-Damage zu tun. Aber Verholz sagt, es ist nicht wert, dass das.
00:38:39 Und gehen und geben auf dieses Spiel. So jetzt, TSM. Sie haben sich in der 1st für 1st für 1st für 1st. Mal sehen, was die nächste move ist. Mit der Liste mit TSM.
00:39:07 No, es ist eigentlich jemand in der Noten, in der Top-Floor. Okay, kann man, man, man, man, man. Why'd you break this door? It's there, it was there reinforced. Okay, can you reinforce that or something? I don't think anyone's above us. Can we keep you up here in a ten-second smoke? I don't think it's worth it. It doesn't even matter. Okay. I'm looking. You can throw your chain in this check, Kevin. On there and on there. Okay, they're not at the Top-Floor, across. Here's someone to us.
00:39:33 Pretty sure I heard someone boys. I'm going bottom 4. Evan, you should ink your bottom 4, I think. So you can play. I'm from the right. Right here.
00:39:42 I absolutely love that listening, because it shows the process you have to go through. But it also shows, without a scan meta, Dan, you're never quite sure if there's someone behind you, if there's someone above you, and you have to be so careful on checking everything as you move into a position. I just love that you can just throw your Q up and find out, dude. It's just the little things between these guys. There's awesome damage being put out by Eternal here as they're starting to find people running in from that red. And it's going to be Optic who are taking damage and losing players.
00:40:10 So TSM have successfully found...
00:40:34 A home, but FaZe also quite rightfully moved away because they recognized there was some aggression below them and they weren't really equipped to take a straight fight. But speaking of Flights Native Gaming, they've lost one. PLP getting aggressive and doing the damage here. Yeah, PLP, a team I'm pretty excited about this season. I think there's a lot of potential in this lineup, not just fighting-wise, but some of the positions they put themselves in. And this is going to be the tunnel, which kind of forces its way into the wall.
00:41:00 A lot of work has to be done to get through here. You can see a lot of teams are already in the vicinity. Native Gaming will be one of the ones to not come out of this victorious, as it looks like PLP and the aggression they're showing is starting to pay off. Zainu with the 30-30 and the car in his back pocket, a real threat in the lobby at the moment. And, you know, I'm so glad that Zainu landed on his feet, landed on a team like this. It was still a surprise for me that Dark Zero made that change, but...
Late-Game Positioning and Final Engagements
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00:41:23 Was quite right, they felt like they had to after not reaching the goals that they had set for themselves. So we'll have to see how Zainu does on that new roster and whether he can find himself being a LAN champion once again. Now, round three closing, 20 seconds left, so teams are starting to be forced in from the south. Oxygen, Flat, PLP, they're all in that tunnel you were speaking of and they're all taking damage. Yeah, you can see everyone who's in your view right now, FaZe, TSM, EA.
00:41:48 EEC als auch, der Dropp-In-Gaming eliminated. In der meantime, sie müssen nach, sie müssen nach. Und das ist wo Oblivion wird jetzt sein. LG wird erneutig sein können, bevor jeder andere andere hat sich zu verraten. Aber sie haben eine Chance hier, mit Oxygen durch die Zone zu finden. Ja, Oxygen walking in.
00:42:07 Das LG-Gatekeeping-Situation, das sie sich in so lange ago haben, ohne jemanden zu kommen, von Lightning und Zeus zu kommen. Und Oxygen ist nur was sie können, um zu bleiben, um zu bleiben. Das ist ganz gut. Aber es ist Aiden gegen den World. Das ist sehr, sehr, sehr bad. Aiden, du bist ein guter Spieler. Aber, unfortunately, das ist der Ende der Spiel für Oxygen. Sweet ist zu schwingen aus, und sicherlich einfach das damage, wie du erwähnt. Aber es ist sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr. Und er ist sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr.
00:42:38 If there's one player you don't really want to take in a 1v1 fight, it is Aiden the Destroyer. You know what he could do. We've seen him in all sorts of scenarios. Now, this is the kind of cave situation we were talking about earlier as well. GKS will be approaching as the last squad from this southern side, and they should be able to clean up the pieces. PLP will go down, so will Secret Formula. Twelve squads remain, and now the southern side is owned by GKS temporarily, but there is more players on the horizon. Skrr are arriving. Skrr here.
00:43:04 Skur looking to do damage. Look at the shots coming in from Albreleli as well with Devolt, the M&K Show, and it still gets it done in 2024. Skurry trying to back it up, and a couple of smokes are going to go down as well. Arcstar's trying to follow up, but only 16 seconds until that zone closes, and Albreleli is on his back. This fight is going back and forth at the moment. There's no clear victor as Skurry now tries to move in to finish off some of the damage being done. GKS eliminated, and it's Skur, who will stay alive.
00:43:29 Skurt, die jetzt auf der Zeit gekommen sind, und jetzt haben sie die ganze Zeit, aber sie müssen durch diese Cave gehen. Und wieder, es wird LG, die dort warten, um sie dort zu lassen. So, es gibt viele Teams, die sich in die Zone zu tun, einer von Dark Zero zu haben, eine von Dark Zero zu haben.
00:43:45 Dark-Zero geht es um, und Dark-Zero geht es um Tempo zu tun. Great shots kommen in von Zero. Und Sykes, mit Jim Burton, ist es schuldig genug. Und wenn sie sich in eine Art, dass Zero gezeigt hat, dass er kann, Dark-Zero wird in einem Fall zurückkommen. Und ich denke, aus all den Teams, die mit dem größten Schiff auf der backen sind, ist Faze. Sie starten zu werden, und Zeratrache wird wiederholfen. Faze wird wiederholfen.
00:44:08 Anders hat es geschafft, für ein paar Sekunden zu erlaubt, und es war EA, die die Push gemacht hat. Ja, EA macht die Push auf Phase, aber TSM hat es geschafft, all die Meanwhile, und Phase will jetzt fall in 9th Position. 8 Squads bleiben. Jetzt sehen wir Ape Gang, die EA hierher kommen, dass sie in den Backen sind, bei Dark-Zero. So all diese Westen-Teams versuchen, mit einem anderen zu schlafen. All die Meanwhile, TSM haben es geschafft, und haben Position geholfen.
00:44:30 Ja, so TSM sind jetzt in die Nrw-Side. Oblivion ist in einem ganz komforten Spot, in der moment in der Nrw-Tip. Alle anderen anderen sind auf der Nrw-Side. Die anderen sind in der Nrw-Side. Die anderen sind in der Nrw-Side. Die Nrw-Side sind in der Nrw-Side. Alle anderen sind auf der Nrw-Side. Die Nrw-Side sind in der Nrw-Side.
00:44:59 Und jetzt ist es, dass wir ihn auf den Weltkrieg haben. Wir haben ihn schon gesehen. Wir haben ihn schon gesehen. Niemand ist wirklich zufrieden, denn TSM und Dark Zero sind so, so close zu uns. Und Verhulst, er hat eine horrible Überraschung. Und jetzt müssen wir auf Ripps kommen in und cleanen diese Schmerzen. Zwei Spieler haben das gemacht. Und Dark Zero hat es geschafft. Ripps hat sich jetzt zwei Kills zu bekommen. Ripps hat sich jetzt zu Clutch, und Clutch ist es für TSM. Dark Zero hat es geschafft.
00:45:26 Another 3P kommt in, TSM Eliminated, und es ist Complexity, der Stadler, der Kerfuffle, der Ende.
00:45:32 Ja, TSR und Dark Zero sind genau das, was wir wollen sehen. Und ich bin sicher, was wir werden sehen, was wir hier sehen. Komplexity wird glücklich sein, weil das Freize-Up-Their-Spot ist. Es kann sie sich in den Top-4 pushen. So jetzt Komplexity haben sie sich in den Westen. LG und Skurt noch müssen zu kommen, aber es ist Oblivion in Prime position zu schauen, und regnen hellen auf alle anderen, die nach ihnen kommen. Ich würde sagen, die journeymen der ALGS in Monsoon, und Lu, zu machen es passieren, als LG...
00:46:01 Make their move!
00:46:02 A lot of questions about this roster, and only questions that can be answered after a few weeks of gameplay, after a few lands maybe, for these three players. Has Sweet made the right decision? Are these the two players to push LG and Sweet Dreams back to success? We'll have to find out, but in game number one Dan, they're in a fantastic position. Well, LG just need to be careful. Oblivion, if they get eyes on, which they do, and now Oblivion join the likes of Skurt and absolutely shred through LG. The Dark Veil goes down to try and keep them alive, but Sweet's just taken too much damage.
00:46:32 Schürt also verliert die Spieler, und es ist noch Oblivion aufzunehmen. Aber Komplexity, die 2, haben wir hier noch eine Möglichkeit, Marc.
Oblivion sichert sich den Sieg in Spiel 1
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00:46:48 If Complexity can pull something out of the bag here. It's Lu and Monsoon against Oblivion. And Oblivion should be able to get this done. The damage is there. They've held the god spot. And now they have the number one spot as well. Just clean up the damage, boys. And you can call yourself champions.
00:47:03 Oblivion macht sicher, dass sie alle in den Oblivion senden. Sie hatten die hohe Gründe, sie hatten die Positionen und es funktioniert so effektiv. Und ich liebe, dass sie auf LG pushed. Sie konnten sich auf LG schocken mit ihnen und schocken mit ihnen, aber sie wussten, dass das 3v3 war. Sie hatten die Möglichkeit, als viele Teams, als sie konnten, und als viele Spieler, als sie konnten. Und sie konnten sich in die beste Position zu gewinnen.
00:47:27 Ja, sehr, sehr stark position, of course, sie hatten für die Majority des Spiels. Es ist eine sehr schwierige Zone zu finden, wenn du nicht die Team da ist, wenn du nicht die Team da bist. Aber als wir wissen, das ist ein Risiko in sich selbst. Einige Teams sind in den letzten Momenten da, Dan, und ein paar Teams mit guter Priorität zu haben, das auch. No surprise zu sehen, dass wir die Names haben. Die OX-Zero hat eine sehr smarte Rotate, in der Zone. Sie dachten für ein paar Sekunden, dass sie vielleicht ein paar mehr Placement Points haben, aber sie haben die KP zu gehen, und sie würden sie auf dem Ende sein.
00:47:56 Ja, ich denke, es war ein paar Teams, die vielleicht vielleicht vielleicht ein bisschen mehr zu haben, aber dann plötzlich ein Krieg begann. Wir hatten ein paar Teams, vielleicht, weil sie in ein schlechtes Position auf der Map sind, weil sie alle aufhörte sind. Du musst nicht in die Final-Circle gehen, aufhörter und einfach nur aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter, aufhörter.
00:48:25 Team navigated from that southern side up to try and fight their way into the north. The one thing about that hill is you do have some rock formations to allow you to kind of bunker down a little bit. But we saw it from TSM, right? They thought that they could overextend, look over a team in a fight that was going down in the distance. Didn't realize that Dark Zero were there just around that corner. And their game, which they probably thought were just looking for a few extra KP before we continue our rotate towards zone, ends up being ended because of the fight they had to take.
00:48:50 Ja, und wir sehen uns am Ende, dass TSM die Verlangen hat, immer wieder eine andere Team. Es gibt immer noch einen Potenzial für eine andere Team zu ratten, und es ist Komplexity-A-Two. Sie sind einfach lange genug, und eine 2nd-Place-Finisch für ein Team, die bei einem Punkt waren zu 1 in der Final 5. Ich denke, sie werden sehr glücklich damit. Ja, sehr gut aus Komplexity-A-T, aber es ist Oblivion. Wahrscheinlich das erste Name, die wir nicht in der Pre-Show gesprochen haben, mit all due Respekt. Sie kommen auf den Toppen und haben...
00:49:16 Make us talk about them. Make a name for themselves. We'll take a look at the results after the break. But it is time for us to jump away for a few moments before match number two.
00:51:14 Das war's für heute.
00:51:41 Yeah, I think that when you get a circle like that, it's so heavily northern-based, you have to tip your hat to the teams who dropped on the southern side and where they were able to finish. And Oblivion dropping at Cascade Falls, I mean, credit to them. They were able to rotate in a way where they found themselves right on that northern tip above everyone in the end. And I think they'll be delighted with where they were able to position themselves. There'll be a few teams, I think, a little bit frustrated with their game one performance, but sometimes it is just ironing out the kinks a little bit in your first match. And then you see what goes wrong and just making sure you...
00:52:11 Ja, Blink, Arcology, Akimbo, all winners in our first game. Sometimes points, though, don't necessarily go that way. We're going to have to see how they did in terms of kills, and obviously their placement will give them 12, but we'll have our standings ready in just a moment. We're still waiting on that.
00:52:27 Big differences that you've seen so far in EMEA. I mean, we were kind of questioning. We saw some bloodhounds in EMEA. We saw, in terms of pacing as well, way more content to rush at teams, take advantages in scrims. When you get into this pro league environment, things slow down a little bit. It's kind of like things get a little colder. People put their jackets on. They move a little slower, a little more cautious, not just wasting energy unless they know it's going to be a guaranteed result.
00:52:53 So Dan, any noticing of the pace changes or anything different from our first games in EMEA? Not seeing as much conduit, that's for sure. Plenty of Horizon and Bang, almost the entire lobby throwing themselves on Horizon and Bang because we know how important both those legends are and a slight bit more of aggression, I would say, here in North America. People are pushing fights a lot quicker. We saw in EMEA, if a team felt they were down.
00:53:19 In the fight, even if they hadn't lost a player, they were kind of backing off. They were trying to make a different rotation, which then forced them into another team. Whereas a lot of these NA squads seem to be committed to their rotation, saying, all right, this is where we're going. We either die on this hill or not. And it makes for some very interesting viewing because we're getting some really good skirmishes. Well, we should have match results coming up in just a moment from our last match. You're right on all those things, Dan. I mean, sometimes you have a different adoption of the meta at different stages.
00:53:47 Das war's für viele, viele Teams. Oblivion start auf der 4th. 16 total points, 4 kills, 12 points. Complexity right behind them in 2nd with a kill, and that'll give them 10 points overall. Skirt, 12 points, 5 kills.
00:54:06 Three placement points, LG and TSM right behind. Good showings from them, and even Dark Zero, only one point separated from TSM. Pretty interesting as well with GKS. I want to just focus on our top ten performers here, Dan. What stands out to you? I mean, so far, this is kind of what I expected in terms of big names performing right out the gate.
00:54:26 Yeah, I think that a lot of Apex is down to your IGL and who knows where to be positioning yourselves when you've got these circles and making the best of a bad situation at time with your rotations and where that circle pulls away. And you look at that top 10 and some of the biggest and best IGLs that we have in Apex Legends, but that doesn't mean they're the only ones that are doing the work. You have to rely on your fraggers in the team. That's why we're seeing such a big...
00:54:48 Influx of controller players being picked up by teams, teams who want that one player to be able to get them out of a sticky situation. Your Verhos, for example, your Dynus, teams that can have players just thrown into the mix to deal that damage and force those rotations that your IGL is trying to make. And the top 10 really does show that from that match number one.
00:55:08 Zainu, eine gute Geschichte, als wir folgen Dark Zero durch diese Saison und heute darüber sprechen, etwas zu erzählen, Leading der squad, Sykes kommt in, Replacing ihn. Es gibt vieles Gespräch und Spekulation über warum, was das Moment für sie bedeutet. Wenn du in der building, Champs, und du warst da vor und nach Finals Day, du sah zwei verschiedene Versionen von Zero, und nach Finals Day, vielleicht ein Version ich nicht gesehen habe. Ich bin so upset bei dem Ergebnis.
Storm Point Änderungen in Season 19 und Meta-Anpassungen
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00:55:35 Obviously, hoping Sykes and them can get the job done so far. So far, pretty decent result in Game 1. Storm Point will be where we head to Game 2. In Game 3, we'll switch it up to World's Edge, as per usual, for our final three games of the six. But I want to talk more about Storm Point. You can see the difference in height, Dan. One of the things in Season 19, Ignite, that the developers intentionally did was try to bring in some of the space and limit those moments where high ground made...
00:56:03 We know it's still a part of the map, but there were some new additions changed and added to Stormpoint, and that's kind of changed a little bit of the flow and given players some landing options. So kind of walk me through what has been this most significant change for you from Stormpoint that we've seen added in Season 19.
00:56:21 Ich denke, es war etwas passiert während EMEA. Es war nicht nur die POIs, sondern auch die kleinen Bits und Bobs in die Geometrie added, wo man ein bisschen Respite macht, wenn man die Rotation macht. Somewhere, wo man landet, wo man nicht nur in der Kampf war und nicht nur in der Open zu sein. Und du bist, Height ist immer alles, und Rotation von South zu North ist immer schwierig, aber das ist warum wir so viele Horizonten hier sehen, um das immer so leicht zu negatieren. Und das ist einfach, dass die Overall-Map-Size nur ein bisschen reduziert.
00:56:50 Just to try and speed things up every now and then. We saw that loot pools were changed. Certainly in both the southern and northern sides, we saw different loot pool changes. I think ultimately, north teams still come out on top with what changed. But it has made things a little bit better for those teams who are rotating from the southern side. Certainly coastal areas have been really a focus point. I mean, we saw some fights happening in north pad and a contest happening at north pad here in NA. That's because it's such a good area to...
00:57:20 für die Rotation, weil es so viel Flexibilität gibt, wo man muss, aber man kann auch die Edge spielen. Ich freue mich, wie es sich weiterentwickelt werden, ob bestimmte Teams fühlen, wie bestimmte POIs sind sogar noch stärker, aber für mich ist es immer noch über die Northernen Sides.
00:57:35 I always find it so interesting having a chance. We've developed a relationship and our team with the developers and some of the map designers, we had a chance to have them out to championships and we're doing more of those calls. But just in my experience, how maps are adjusted and they have very intricate knowledge of where fights take place at almost every single turn, kind of like a heat map, higher heat signatures, higher fights. And they did do some very specific work on some of those hard rotations in Stormpoint to make things more defensible. The Forbidden Zone, a great...
00:58:04 If you go over into the Season 19 patch notes, you can actually see buildings.
00:58:10 so that teams, even though they are rotating through what was a dangerous area, now with none of the Prowlers, that would have bothered you in there. And even if you do get caught in the fight, you have more ways to make a stand and not lose your ground and be caught out, left hanging in that type of situation. So in overall, I think improving, I think player feedback and gameplay, but also I think for fans at home and learning this map, a lot that you could take from in terms of, hey, you know what? I have...
00:58:36 I've been dying a lot in the Forbidden Zone beforehand. I realize that maybe that is a different way that I want to approach some of these matches. A lot of these things mirror, you know, the games that viewers at home can play and some of the things they can learn from picking up ProPlay as well, Dan. So always good to get that information. Take a break. We are getting this lobby loaded up again as well, which is why we are having a little bit of a chat here.
00:58:58 It's always good to take some time, Dan. I guess this also opens up some of the meta-conversation. I kind of hinted at it earlier on. We've seen a little bit of the conduits. But to me, when you look at Conduit, when you look at Horizon, when you look at Bangalore, I mean, all of these legends have had an impact this season. Who in your eyes have been maybe the most important legend or maybe the most fundamental legend that we might be seeing over the course of these next few weeks?
00:59:23 I think it's situational. I think the biggest difference, of course, has been a new addition of Conduit and how that's changed early game fights, how it's changed late game fights at time with not only her zoning ability, but also being able to shield your team at the right time to really get yourself over the line and maybe have that surprise factor against certain squads where they're chasing you, they think they've got you down to one shot, and then suddenly you're essentially full shields again and you can just turn on them and wipe them in that fight. But ultimately, it's got to be Bangalore and Horizon as the two staples, especially on...
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01:00:22 have so many different ways of trying to approach the game. And I think that's what I love is we see teams play style sometimes just by legend composition, but by adding new legends who do different abilities, it always shakes things up a little bit. And Conduit's done just that because not only does it elongate the fights, which makes it harder for some of these teams that are contesting, but also the teams who are near those contests can now benefit from it because either they choose to just move around those teams and have an easier rotate or they can third party.
01:00:51 10 Sekunden. Das macht all die Unterschiede. Wir sahen, in EMEA, Thermite, die die Entrance zu finden.
01:01:01 Hurting a rotation of Orgelist in Hungary and they ended up losing a couple members that made it very difficult to ultimately come in first place. There's only a few points at the end of the day. You know, a character that got some changes as well that is very good at adjusting the way the landscape is played as Catalyst. She had some changes in this recent patch that were intended to bring her back in line. It doesn't seem like it's had much of an impact in terms of taking her away from the meta, but Dan, I think it's good to see just
01:01:30 Ich glaube, dass es ein paar Parodien, die die Entwickler weiterhin aufzuhören, um nicht nur einen Charakter zu tun hat, wie wir in den letzten Jahren gesehen haben, mit Seers und Gibraltars und anderen Dingen, die wirklich dominierten Metas für Jahre. Und Catalyst. Wir hatten einen Zeitpunkt, wo Catalyst war fast 90% pickrate. Especially, dass sie jetzt...
01:01:53 The throw range, I mean, decrease that by 50% is massive. It's huge. You're able to kind of throw that goo out and just really grief teams who are trying to arrive. Instead, she's a far more kind of passive legend at times, but still very, very important. Now, we are live, Rende. We're getting into the next game. Yeah, baby. Everyone has sorted things out, and we're into the drop ship. All right, always fun to take advantage of the time where, you know, they're spending some...
01:02:20 Das ist eine gute Zeit, um sich zu kennen und zu reden, zu reden, zu reden, als die Angelegenheiten oft machen, wenn sie nicht in der Dropship spielen können. Und jetzt, als sie aus der Skye landen, in den Designated Bereichen haben, es ist alles Business, Baby. Wir sehen uns, wenn es eine andere gewisse Leistung gibt, von Oblivion, Back-to-Back. Das wäre eine Überraschung. Wir haben es schon gesehen, in den Nord-American-Daisen, wo ein unsuspecting Team nicht nur einmal, aber auch einmal.
Contests und frühe Spielstrategien auf Storm Point
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01:02:46 Und ich denke, das Contest sagt viel über Devastated Coast und Coastal Camp von diesen Teams, dass sie ...
01:03:14 ...happier to contest here at Echo... ...rather than playing either of those POIs, which are currently free. This is just asserting dominance in the early stages here in Pro League, I think. Saying, look, we've been doing it in scrims... ...but now let's make sure we win these in Match 1, in Week 1... ...so then we can start to solidify this as our drop spot. Let's make them blink first and then retreat to an arguably worse POI.
01:03:38 Do you think that this is a mistake in some ways that can only be done when you have the casualty of scrims as your reference point? Because I don't know. If you lose two of these in a row, you are not looking forward to the third one. It's not worth it if there are two POIs to the left and the right of you, even with worse loot, to just get zero points across an entire map set in a day like this. We'll have to wait and see. And maybe at the end of the day, they'll just delay each other.
01:04:06 Und irgendwie 50-50 das, wie sie können. Das tut nicht wirklich auch nicht, aber das sieht gut aus, dass das jetzt ist, wie es jetzt geht. Als wir jetzt wieder auf eine andere Seite gehen, haben wir noch ein weiteres Spiel. Wir haben Zeratricky, die neue Faze-Squad hat. Der Snipe-Down hat fallen. Bander ist still alive mit der Conduit Q. Und das wird ein Revive für Faze. Und Tempere wird aufhören, als unsere erste Team Eliminate in Game 2.
01:04:29 Es ist Eternel.
01:04:56 Untertitelung im Auftrag des ZDF.
01:05:21 So well played by Carter as well. The knockdown shield being faced as high up as possible and then just crouching underneath it, letting the other player use their bullets, wait for that reload, and then you re-engage with that PK, which can hit hard. And it is going to be Eternal who will win their battle at North Pat. So we've got three contests happening on the map at Stormpoint, but as I said, it could benefit you in the long run with a contest. It always looks silly when it's happening, but maybe as they go into another group, that POI will be theirs. And when you think about LAN, if you can take out that team, the POI could be yours for the rest of time.
01:05:50 Es ist ein bisschen...
01:06:11 Toss-up into the air as to what makes a better transition into the late game here. Finding a building that everyone is continuously trying to pressure or taking your time. TSM electing to take time, rotating on the southern side with the Trident.
01:06:25 As we saw a glimpse of in the map, they may run into complexity. Meanwhile, in the center of Zone, playing the opposite style is Optic Gaming, holding it down. They've got the squad to do so. Catalyst will still be fine with their passive, being able to barricade those doors, causing it to take four kicks instead of two. Traditionally, and also with the two piercing spikes, she'll be able to deploy. Dropped in Skittle Cakes, and specifically Skittle, really one of the best.
01:06:50 He prides himself on this, has ever since we've seen him enter into this league. And so if I was somebody who's betting, I'd say they have a pretty decent idea of where this is going to go. And I mean, you compare this to previous seasons. We have eight teams who are outside of the circle right now. I remember how zone heavy ALGS was for a short while. There is definitely.
01:07:12 Teams who prefer playing Edge now and in scrims, arguably, Edge has had a little bit more success at times. So that's why teams are going to be a little bit more comfortable with moving in late, circle moving a little bit faster, just moving in with it and picking up on teams who are kind of stuck in a sandwich at times and then slowly moving your way up, taking position after position. And if you are a good team fighting squad, you can take positions off of other squads as well. So there are going to be teams who are more than happy to play Edge and their compositions usually will...
01:07:41 But we're seeing a lot of Bangalore Horizon Catalyst. That seems to be the most popular composition here in North America.
01:07:48 It's like two different types of students, right? You've got the genius who doesn't have to study and somehow aces the test every single time. To me, that looks like a TSM. You never know what they're going to do, but somehow they find a way to come out on top. And then you've got kind of the valedictorian type, the ones who do all the research. They do all the prep. They're always first and ready to take it and probably first to finish as well. And to me, that's more of the optic style. Tried, true, consistent. We know what we're going to get from them, and it's usually something very, very successful. Two different styles.
01:08:17 Two different outcomes potentially here as this game continues. The Zone about to close in with Round 1 20 seconds away. FaZe still making their way through. This new squad of Zeratricky and Panders joining Snipedown on the FaZe roster, getting rid of Phoney and Frex. It's an interesting bet, I think, for Snipedown. I apologize for continuing to use that. I think I'm just caught up in my vernacular. But I would say it's an interesting choice, too, for Snipedown to trust.
01:08:42 Zeratricky and Panders in this new role and to say this is the team that we're going to choose as our style for this year. And I think there's a lot of fans rooting for them that it works out for Snipe this time around.
01:08:54 Ja, es gab viele Fragen auf der Phase-Roster. Ich weiß, es war sogar über Sweet zu sein, aber wenn du Sweet gesagt hast, warum er nicht auf der Phase-Roster ist. Aber LG ist wo Sweet endet, und du könntest sehen, für ein temporaryer Zeit, LG wird das Gatekeeping-Style noch mehr spielen. Aber über die Barometer, die Teams versuchen, was sie zu bleiben. D&O, die Teil der Early-Contest hatten wir, nach ECHO,
01:09:22 Das ist ein guter Punkt. Kann ich durch die Smokes?
01:09:31 Yes, they will. No problem there. Top of Barometer, Bursty. Dan Mantic just going to do the best they can to ward off any attempt at establishing a position with another team nearby them. Going full well, probably not going to get it down there, but again, showing force, showing presence, and possibly getting some collateral KP if it ends up being something like...
01:09:54 An opportunity for another team nearby. As we switch over to TSM, the story undoubtedly in North America. The team to win two out of three last year at LAN. And of course the final one, the biggest one, the championships. What an epic run. Three in a row. And you just had to be there, Dan. They're looking to compete at the same level. Or of course, if you look at Imperial Howell, better this year. And with the same squad returning, that's going to be something that a lot of people expect.
Kämpfe um Positionen und Taktiken im Mid- bis Late-Game
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01:10:24 So, TSM ist immer wieder zu gehen. Ich bin froh, hier bei Pylon. Und... Ich bin ein bisschen worried über diese Norden-Squads, denn sie gehen sehr schnell nach Choke-Points, wo Teams sind für sie. Likes der Complexität, die Likes der LG, sind zu versuchen, zu versuchen, die KP zu bekommen.
01:10:44 Und es wird eine schwierige Situation sein, und das ist eine der Grunde von Rotatieren so schnell, ist, dass man sich ein Fokus auf diese Gruppen haben, und das ist wo die E-Backtower wird, wenn man einen solchen Team ist. Es ist E-Ternal im Moment. Sie werden hier kommen, und es wird LG warten, aber sie sind bereit, und sie sind bereit.
01:11:04 Sometimes you can only be so ready as this fight coming in from the high ground as well. Eternal. I love this area, by the way. One of the newest areas to be added to Stormpoint. Really fun fight. Very good hot drops. Great engagements. A lot of ways to play it. Low ground, high ground inside those buildings. So far, though, just going to pass each other. Sweet Slayer Funk. Sweet, obviously, with his leadership. Knows when it's time to take a fight. When it is time.
01:11:33 ...to move on and find something better. Eternal feel the same way. And with Carter's heroics earlier on, Dan, they probably don't want to push it. They're happy to be alive here. 17 squads still remaining, and that's probably why you don't want to push. Because there is going to be another team most likely around the corner waiting to take advantage of any damage that has been done.
01:11:53 It's all starting to get pretty sticky now in any location you find yourself in. LG, interestingly, rotated out of their area, and they've gone further north to try and take a different approach into this next zone. They didn't feel comfortable where they were, because they were quite vulnerable to their backside, so instead they're gonna be moving for a different spot. Zack Mazur. It's been... I mean, this, this, this...
01:12:21 He is one of those players that truly just has always been a part of the NA scene. Whether it's been the highs and the lows, I mean, from getting to LAN, getting ready to go ahead and play with Cloud9 and catching COVID at the start of that event, to the numerous roster swaps. Now with Shubi and Zap, maybe a resurgence here. Obviously, a fight win in this one would bode very well for the confidence, and it looks like it could be going that way. Crook in trouble.
01:12:50 Horizon, Black Hole up on top. There is a down to Zach, though, so it's going to be up to his teammates, Shubi and Zach, to try to finish this off. Did Zach get enough for them? As we're on the wide, we do see Drop-In Gaming eliminated Zach. The perfect entry there opens the door for Shubi and Zach, quite literally, and they get the downs.
01:13:10 Und das war eine nervige Zeit für sie, für sicher. Und es scheint, dass jeder Kampf so wichtig ist, weil wenn du zu viel Schmerzen hast, dann wird es immer die Möglichkeit, dass andere Team einfach nur Dive auf dich, wie viele Teams da sind. Und wie viele Teams da sind. Und wie viele Teams da sind. Optik, Komplexty, alle versuchen zu leben, mit einem anderen. Komplexty haben bereits gewonnen, aber sie waren able zu bleiben und haben 2-2-2-2. Monsoon macht viel Schmerzen, aber macht viel Schmerzen. Komplexty, Sie müssen sich hier aufhören.
01:13:39 One of the best in the business. It's up to Kim Chi. And it's not going to be done. Dropped, Skittle Cakes, Nox. They don't chase the fight. The fight comes to them and they handle it. As you would expect, professionals in business. Glass Act. Dropped will now pick up Nox. No gold shields or anything to help make that easier. So they'll just have to use the resources inside the building. But they should have a few armor swaps, at least two blues, in case there's anything immediate. Medkits will Sabilize.
01:14:08 Round three about to close and things are starting to get testing. We are running into that time of the game where there's just not enough room for all these teams to coexist and this rotation is going to be a tight one. Over half the lobby is outside of this next circle and they're all going to have to start inching their way in but they're going to be exposed to the other teams who are nearby.
01:14:26 Die D&O haben eine gute Position auf dem Südwesten und Optik müssen sie in immer so leicht zu pushen. Die D&O werden dann auch von Dark-Zero gegründet werden, die auch von Oblivion sind, die einfach nur noch nach vorne sind. Und das ist die Rotation, die ich vorhin schon erwähnt habe. LG ist noch auf der Norden Seite dieser Circle, noch immer wieder zu machen, und noch immer wieder zu kämpfen. Sehr interessant. Ich meine, sie haben wirklich gewonnen, um zu gehen, nicht nur für...
01:14:53 Das immediate Interaktion, wo wir sie passen von Carter und Squad haben. Aber Sie sind richtig. Sie haben die E-Vac-Tower. Sie können Overheight gehen. LG, ich weiß, ob sie versuchen, Sout-West oder Sout-East. Jetzt haben sie zu. Sout-West leads sie in Eternal und Skirt, und das ist wo sie werden. Sie werden direkt über die Squad. Sie sehen sie in der Schreie, eigentlich, nach oben. Und sie werden jetzt landen. So Eternal hat eine andere Team zu worry about. Sie passen Oblivion.
01:15:21 und Eterne zu kämpfen für ihre Leben. Die Old-Fashioned-Wahne und Walking und Dark-Zero findet ein bisschen mehr Platz in der Zone. Sie sollten okay sein, aber sie sind auf jeden Radar.
01:15:31 LG threading the needle, by the way, have found themselves almost center zone at the moment, really picking their time perfectly. You wait for the commotion to happen, and when it does, you can fly through the air, sometimes unnoticed. Optic eliminated, GKS also eliminated, Eternal down to a two, but at least able to put down some good damage as a squad at the moment, just to make themselves big. There are plenty of teams in the area, which could prove to be difficult for them when they do make their rotation from this northern side. It's Dark Zero who are close. Elsewhere, look at all the teams here on the southern
01:16:01 Das war Chaos und ihr könnt es sehen, LG ist ein Teil der Banner. Und sie sind nicht genug für sie zu erhalten.
01:16:29 Auf der anderen Seite, wir sehen uns noch nicht, aber nur noch ein Hinweis, TSM, ELEVATE und OXYGEN E-Sports werden müssen, die gleiche Sache auf der anderen Seite machen. Aber jetzt, LG, sie sind die Star der Show. Wir hören uns und sehen uns wie sie machen. Okay, das ist was ich. Okay, ich bin auf der Kantein. Ich bin auf der Kantein. Ich bin auf der Kantein. Ich bin auf der Kantein.
01:16:51 Okay, wir sind auf der Wand, wir sind auf der Wand, wir haben hier voll Kontrollen, das kleine Helle hier, Leute. Wir haben wahrscheinlich einfach nur eine Klose-Side-Island, okay, auf die Yellow? Wir sind wahrscheinlich, wir gehen super schnell, wir gehen auf der Wand, wir gehen auf der Wand, wir gehen auf der Wand, wir gehen auf der Wand, wir gehen auf der Wand, wir gehen auf der Wand, wir gehen auf der Wand!
01:17:08 60 Flush! 60 Flush! 60 Flush!
01:17:36 There's no one here just y'all made in this
01:18:00 Let me know what you see, okay? Let me know if you see Nox. They ran into Oblivion in both senses of the word. Sweet, the only one alive. Arcology Akimbo holding down the central space. Dark Zero and LG, the other two teams there. DSM has made their way to the southern side, though, Dan, too. And they have found a little bit of space on the outskirts, but it is tight in the bushes. And you can say, who has your eye on maybe the best spot here?
01:18:27 TSM ist sicherlich in einem guten Platz, aber lack of coverage. Ich meine, du hast das Final-Circle, so viel Open-Area, als Dark-Zero ist also able to take out Oblivion. Dark-Zero wird kommen von der westen. Du hast Oxygen, du hast ein bisschen room zu spielen mit, auf der northernen Seite. Und dann TSM auf der southernen Seite. Das sind die drei Teams, die ich mich anrufen an. LG ist ein Rat. SWEET hat sehr gut gemacht in der Beste der Beste der Situation. Das ganze Rotation LG gemacht war eine unglaubliche Entscheidung von ihnen, aber einfach nicht able zu gehen in der Kampf.
01:18:56 bei einer der Gruppe auf der Rock. Elevate könnte Annoi Oxygen hier, und sie werden starten mit dem Kampf, aber sie haben einen Downladen. Oh, Prowler in den Händen von Shubi, das ist zu spüren. Die Gravität von den Black Hohen ist, so Shubi ist zu spüren. So, Shubi ist zu spüren, dass das. Sie sehen, dass es vielleicht eine Chance gibt, und wenn der Chaos passiert, entweder ein bisschen wie ein Parasite, oder einfach nicht in den Schatten.
01:19:24 Sweet coming in as well as a solo. Shubi picks him off. And that is incredible awareness from Shubi. Maybe just shooting at anything that moves right now. And trying to get this Phoenix kid off Dan. Top 5. Can he do it? This would be massive if Shubi can get Elevate up. Especially as the zone looks to be closing in on them.
TSM sichert sich den Sieg auf Storm Point
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01:19:44 I also love it from Sweet as well, by the way, taking advantage of teams looking at each other, and he said, actually, maybe I can get involved, but he will eventually fall. Shuby gets that kill, so at least some KP added. Elevate out. We're down to the three teams I had mentioned. Dark Zero are approaching Oxygen, but it's TSM who now hold center zone here. And if Dark Zero and Oxygen do damage to one another, this could be prime time for TSM, as now they start to flood it. They battled last year for the trophies. Right now, they're battling for Stormpoint. It's Dark Zero.
01:20:13 3v3 gegen TSM. Zero hits his shots this time around. The first one to go down, though, as Verhulst finds it. Big E comes up clutch yet again, but will Sykes be the difference? Oh, my goodness. It is Sykes. He needs the last bullet. No, it's TSM, who will take to win. And I believe that just started our split off with some fireworks.
01:20:40 TSM vs Dark Zero, a tale as old as time, but it's TSM who come out on top in that final 3v3. They did have the advantage coming into the fight when Dark Zero had taken a little bit of damage, but the Dark Veil allowed Dark Zero to at least reset ever so slightly. But a great fight. I mean, the initial damage by Zero, I thought that maybe they had the lead in the fight, but Verhost managing to turn on them, do the damage, take down Zero before he fell was very impressive indeed. And TSM back on top, and now we have our...
01:21:10 Team 2 in 1st and 2nd place Dark Zero just ahead of TSM in the overall standings may I add with a big win for TSM Dark Zero made
01:21:19 Ich denke, ein viel größer showing von der Mid-Game und der Early-Late-Game. Sie hatten mehrere Fights, die in der Favorien waren. Sie haben viel Kp. Und sie hat den Zonen für eine lange Zeit. So, andere Teams haben wirklich den Zonen gezwungen. Noen war zu pushen, in der Center-Spot in der Zonen. Aber als es ein bisschen war, wo sie hatten, dass sie ein bisschen mehr zu tun haben. Ich denke, TSM war super smart, um das zu halten. Und da ist ein bisschen Glück, zu das, auch, Dan. Easily, du könntest sehen, DarkZero, um den Zonen zu tun, wo TSM war, um die Zonen zu tun, um die Zonen zu tun, um die Zonen zu tun.
01:21:48 Aber es ist alles, dass all der Kampf gegen den Dragon Ball auf der Seite ist, war zu attraktiv für sie. Und ich denke, dass sie easy KP. Wenn wir das als 3 gewinnen, haben wir eine gute Zone-Position für die Final-Fight, woher das Team ist. Und es war die richtige Entscheidung, weil sie nicht gewinnen, sie haben die meisten Punkte. 21, TSM mit der actualen Victory, und vielleicht die Moral-Viktorie, oder die...
01:22:14 you know, emotional victory against DC, but Oxygen Esports, Elevate Gaming and LG round out your top five with a shout out to Oblivion, who again have a pretty solid game too. Yeah, I think if you were to go back and watch the rotations of...
01:22:26 TSM, Dark Zero and LG, all very interesting in their own way, but all brilliant IGLs showing why they have, you know, the achievements under their belt that we've been able to see across the years, because there were some very interesting decisions made, but also ones that were very important to keep their team alive at the right time. And then a final 3v3 like that, I mean, we'd love to see those engagements happening time and time again when you get straight 3v3s. Sure, Dark Zero taking a little bit of damage, but they still did have an opportunity.
01:22:55 in der finalen Zusammenarbeit. As für die anderen Gruppen, viele Punkte bekommen von den Top 10, aber sie waren auch diejenigen, die in der Early-GAME struggled, ob es zu verlieren, in der Early-Contest war, oder einfach nur von anderen Gruppen geholfen. Die Bottom 10 sieht so aus.
01:23:23 Dark Zero has to keep the mentality that we had a great game there, even though they lost not only the team that they were fighting for in terms of LAN championships last year, but the team that is, I think, their spiritual rival here in terms of winning the entire thing this year again. And so, yes, that might be an ego blow, but still, you got the job done, head focused on where you're going, Dan, and in terms of average placements, in terms of kills, and specifically damage, Dark Zero edging out the tally on that.
01:23:51 Yeah, and you can see this is the comparison of their Match 1 rather than Match 2. And it shows how similar their match days have been. Match 1 was a situation where they both kind of came 5th and 6th. And then Match 2 was a scenario where they end up in 1st and 2nd. And that's why there's only a point to split them at the moment. Two teams who are very closely contested. But it shows that Dark Zero, you know, with this new change, they are up there and they are competing well with TSM. Let's go to a break, everyone.
Letzte Chancen und Contests auf Storm Point
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01:25:55 Es ist DarkZero, die in den letzten zwei Sprechern gespielt hat.
01:26:15 Also, es gibt immer eine Chance für Bonus Points, wenn man die Verteilung auf dem Board bekommt. Remember, es könnte nur noch ein Punkt sein, wenn wir CSM sehen 4 Verteilung haben. Wenn wir es sehen, ist es nicht möglich. Wir oft nicht sehen 4 Verteilung.
01:26:27 Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017
01:26:49 Das war ein bisschen mehr Accessible, aber es war ein bisschen mehr Größte zu haben, aber es war ein bisschen mehr Accessible, aber es war ein bisschen mehr Größte, aber es war ein bisschen mehr Größte, aber es war ein bisschen mehr Größte für sie, so sie werden sich ein bisschen mehr aufhören. Aber ich denke, es ist einfach nur die ALGS, besonders in Nordamerika, dass wir Dark Zero und TSM nehmen das Spiel.
01:27:12 So the last chance for teams to show...
01:27:37 Maybe their performance on their better map. We do have some teams that are slightly better on Stormpoint than World's Edge, certainly from scrim statistics anyway, but we won't really talk about true stats until we start to get into the thick of it with match play, because it's going to be very different with people taking a lot less risks. But we have our contest that we are still seeing, and it's FaZe versus Temper up at the 1. Yeah, and it's going to be 1-1 at the moment as far as Nox.
01:28:01 Zeratricky ist auf den Start. Zeratricky ist auf die Backpandas und Snipe Down ist, aber noch nicht in der High-Ground. Aber können sie nicht das Reg? Sie sehen, Zeratricky hat das Regen gemacht. Und Tempura hat die Q auch von der Conduit, so sie werden sie auch bekommen. Und Phaizia hat es gesagt, vielleicht auf die Back-Foot ein bisschen hier. Aller das Regen ist etwas, was man kann das Regen nicht tun können, wenn man das Regen kann.
01:28:24 Spades very low on health at the moment Condiment Q is available though for cloaked and they all dive out there comes the queue but great damage there is Eric Rona is very best. It's the bait though it's the bait they send one player out to fly across there was one player still on high and that is what makes the difference it is brilliant coming in from FaZe there's still one player who's trying to have a look at this though and it's Secret Formula who's actually coming to third party
01:28:48 I mean, you're completely right in what you say. I mean, Panda's probably thinking right now, really? Really? We just made such a good play on contest. We just really earned.
01:29:16 Wir haben jetzt ein paar Worte, um zu diesem Spiel zu gehen, um zu Ende zu gehen und zu Ende zu gehen. Und dann ist es, wir denken, um zu überwinden, für jetzt. Pandas hat ein bisschen mehr Zeit mit dem Bangalore, aber man sieht es, dass es ihn schießt, und schießt hart. Sie wollen diese Kille. Sie wollen die Lobby aus dem Lobby. Und Pandas ist wahrscheinlich gedacht, hey, kann ich jetzt einen Moment für mich selbst? Es ist nicht so, dass ich ihn nicht sehen kann.
01:29:43 I just thought I wanted to be quiet for him there. I didn't even want to let out a breath as he hoped that they would walk by. Now back down towards Echo where Athiano again facing this fight against Drop-In Gaming and Drop-In able to do some damage with Mozambique.
01:29:58 I love the Mozambican contest, by the way. I just feel like it's one of those guns, if you can find it, you pick it up, because it does so much damage. And Dropping Gaming look like they've had, I would say, certainly the better side of this contest in our first three games here on Storm Point. They seem to just be constantly outpitting damage. And you can see it from the shields as well. Mostly the time they're coming out of that contest with blues, and that usually is a pretty good indication. But again, they have to be careful of any third parties arriving. Here is your map, though. Now the, shall we say, the early 50 Cuffs is done and dusted, and everybody is on the map.
01:30:26 This is where we're going to be going. It's looking pretty central, maybe down towards Barometer again. Also, as much as it's frustrating for FaZe, but you've got to...
01:30:34 ...to Secret Formula. Sie waren die Battle in Nordpads, so sie drobte leichter, und es ermöglicht sie, und es ermöglicht sie in den Bühnen, und dann in den Krieg zu spielen. Es war ein strategisches Plan, obwohl es ein annoyinges Plan für FaZe. Jetzt, Circle, wir werden nach Westen nach Miltern Station gehen. Native werden in den Zentren zu sein, als wir ein Blick auf Complexität und ihre Rotation sehen.
01:30:58 Der Komplexer E.U. hat eine sehr gute Game No. 1, natürlich. Ein bisschen ein Quiet Game No. 2, aber man kann es nicht mehr gewinnen. Wir bekommen den Buster Sword, der größte Heirloom ever. Ich weiß nicht was jemand sagen, ich bin der größte Final Fantasy VII-Stan. Und ja, der Buster Sword ist großartig. Es sollte 700 damage machen. Oh, ich habe es in Comp. Uh-oh, Dog Zero.
01:31:18 Das ist ein vieles vieles zu haben. Das war 700 damage. Die Buster Sword werden nicht mehr sehen. Aber sie haben sich auch auf den Trident geholfen. Die Materialien, Heal-All, Cure-2-All. Naja, genug von meinen Nervenen. Danke, Gaming. Die sind die Schmerzen. Kann sie den Schmerzen? Und will Dark-Zero, die in der ersten Zeit in der Moment sind, werden sie zu leben? Das ist ein Frustratinger für sie, auch. Und sie werden sie müssen als ein 2. Aber natürlich, sie haben...
01:31:44 The Conduit available so they can craft those banners, but it's about getting to a crafter and it's about being able to get the res off. It's not an easy thing to do with so many squads making their move. Very different when you're playing in ranked and teams will go down a lot earlier and you're able to just get those resurrections off a lot more comfortably. Now, Dropping Gaming, after having that early contest, they are going to be moving very quickly, or as quick as possible, away from PLP, who are now looking to see if they can pick up any of the stragglers knowing that that contest had happened.
01:32:12 Ja, definitiv.
01:32:39 Das ist es, das ist es.
Intensive Kämpfe und Zonenverschiebungen prägen das Spielgeschehen
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01:33:07 They are chasing them, they are running it down, they want these KP. I mean, they should be confident with a team like this, right? This is a fighting squad through and through and they are going to be more than happy in any 3v3 engagement. The amount of damage output that this squad offers is incredible, but they just can't quite get enough damage to really put on a full charge at the moment. You can see how desperate they are to try and take ground though and try and get closer so they can initiate this fight because they know elongated fights could hurt them here.
01:33:33 This is the equivalent of going outside of a nightclub and there's that one guy who's trying to fight everyone, and everyone's like, dude, just leave it. You know what I mean? Just leave it. Yeah, PLP, they're the guys who are just throwing hands at everyone. But this is a fight that's going to go on for quite some time, and the zone has decided, hey, can we just move away? Like, follow me, guys. And that's what they're going to have to do. Dropping Gaming survive for now, but now the problem is if they want to take this fight, they're going to have to take zone damage on their way towards...
01:33:58 Ich weiß nicht, wo PLP ist.
01:34:07 Das ist eine Art, Oxygenity Sports eliminated, 16 Quads remain, und TSM wird das Raum behalten. Aber es gibt andere Quads, die sie von einem Distanz zu schützen, aber ich glaube, ich glaube, niemand ist able, dass das Gap, für jetzt. 2 Minuten, bis die Zone zu verlassen, so TSM nicht mehr als schnell wie sie dachten würden, wenn sie das Spiel hätte gehen können, aber sie brauchen ein Spielplan für diese Position.
01:34:28 Es ist interessant, ich habe Verhulst's GameAttack, was in all caps, und ich habe es als TSM Van Verhulst. Ich dachte, er hat sich als ein Dutch Streicher geworden. Aber es ist einfach, es ist Evan. Ja, genau. Vielleicht hat er, wer weiß. Oder vielleicht ist es Evan, als wir wissen es ist. Job in Gaming ist, in Zone Dark Zero. Interessant, als die zwei sind ...
01:34:54 Kostel Camp, right at the bottom of your screen. Probably thinking about looking for that respawn, trying to get a teammate, Jem Burton, back into the game. And they might be caught off guard here and put in a little situation. Turn and run, boys. Turn and run.
01:35:10 Du bist ein Bloodhound. Du bist immer nur ein Bluthound. Das ist immer nur ein Bluthound. Das ist immer nur ein Bluthound. Ein Bluthound. Und wieder der Trident ist, dass sie ein Bluthound machen können. Die Trident ist ein vieles Schmerzen hier, als Dark Zero nur die Schmerzen zu versuchen. Psych sagt, du wirst es einfach gehen. Wer ist hier?
01:35:32 I want them to have a breathalyser. They are all over the place, but they get the job done. They survive for now, but what are the meds looking like? Because you would have thought they would have played for the economy of being able to get that res, maybe crafting a few medkits over down on the southern side of Coastal Camp and then getting back into the game. But now they're in zone and now they're probably thinking, hey, it's plan B. We might have to play this one out as a duo.
01:35:52 So Flatter in a pretty good spot at the moment as well, they can hold down this position for quite some time and having the rock behind you just means that you have that extra little bit of security that you're not going to necessarily get pushed from that angle, they just have to be careful of the northern side. They could certainly grief a few teams that are arriving late, but speaking of arriving late, sneaky sneaky. Oh dear.
01:36:18 Big nades from LG, they're bouncing off of the black hole and making sure the nades go in afterwards so even if the team destroys the black hole they would have been
01:36:42 A little bit stationary, putting those shots out onto the black hole, so they'll still be vulnerable to those grenades, and LG will be able to survive. Dark Vale has to go down just to give them the extra little bit of cover. They clean up the rest of the kills, but are they going to be able to survive here? Because there are still teams who are doing damage from a distance, LG just need to reset. Yeah, it's a little bit of a rough spot though, because you can see they're being shot from Pylon, they've been, excuse me, it's shot from Seto Station, they're being shot from the teams who are inside a mill at the moment, up to Gaming and Elevate, and they kind of, when that Dark Vale goes, they have to make a decision.
01:37:11 Will they slide down and try and play underneath the building in front of them? Or do they just try and find a rock to play behind that denies those LOSs? Dark Zero's story continues though. Jen Burton is still just a banner. Just a banner? He's more than just a banner, Jen. He's more than just a banner. But it's a pretty scary banner to be holding if you can get hold of it and bring it back into the map. I'll tell you that for sure. But it's going to be a difficult journey for them as PLP now having a little scuffle outside of Jurassic Park.
01:37:38 Monsoons hat auch noch einen Knock in der Killfeed. Die Teams sind jetzt zu beherrschte, als die Zone ist geschlossen. Und es gibt noch vier Squads außerhalb dieser Circle. So diese Killfeed wird immer so schnell. Ja, das ist PLP, Skurt und GKS, alle in der Nähe von einem anderen. Es ist ein drei-Way-Fights, wo man nicht die erste Team zu beherrschte. Man will einfach nur ein Knock spielen, um ein Team zu spielen, um ein Team zu spielen. Und das ist das GKS zu tun, hier in dieser Corner. Sorcerer mit der Scouten hat die perfekte Weapon zu tun.
01:38:06 Let's go up against the 30-30 damage. Yeah, going up against the 30-30 is never fun. It really can chunk you down. But at least they've got smokes just to stay alive. And they're a little bit worried, I think, about the teams arriving from the east side. So that's why they're playing this one very slow. Plenty of teams still in this lobby that can cause you an issue as the zone continues to pull west, which is even worse news, really, for these teams at Jurassic, who are going to have to move as far possible across the map to go there.
01:38:33 This fight is continuing to go down, and now you can see with a minute or so left before the zone is a problem, the push is gonna come in. You peak, I teach. Very, very simple for Chaotic. He gets taken down by the R9 of Phony.
01:38:47 Now they're trying to find the rest of the squad. Behind the box will be player number two, but good crossfire that's happening at the moment just to try and cover the angles, but not good enough to help the teammate. PLP is still healthy, still well, and will get the knocks and the finishes onto those players. So PLP doing very well just to time that push accordingly and make sure they take advantage of one player being slightly out of position. He cares with one alive. Sleepy Panda is...
01:39:13 Und jetzt ist es um den Schuss, es ist um den Schuss, um den Schuss zu retten, um den Schuss zu retten, um den Schuss zu retten.
01:39:40 Ja, Skirt kam in für die 3rd party, catchen POP, während sie noch immer wieder looten hat. Und jetzt werden sie nicht mehr able zu nehmen, weil sie noch andere Team sind in fronten hier. Und ihr wisst, wie vulnerable ihr seid, wenn ihr die Ballon umgebracht habt. Und POP ist jetzt in eine Sticky Situation.
01:39:57 Thinking about crossing, maybe. Freix is still alive, but only for a few seconds. The Zone is going to take him down, as well as the Bullets coming in. And Skr will win that fight. But now they have to rotate in behind where we saw Zainu trying to put that Evac Tower down. Dark Zero is still alive, by the way. And Jeb Byrne is no longer a banner. He's back on the field and causing some problems. Yeah, a lot of problems. Dark Zero are trying to just force Oblivion off of this spot at the moment. But remember, the solo of GKS is arriving behind Dark Zero. So they just have to be aware of that.
01:40:26 Ich liebe einen IGL-Being-On-Bang, aber es gibt bestimmte Plätze zu machen, als Dark-Zero erzeugt die letzte Member von Oblivion, und dann schnell das Solo-Rat von GKS zu finden, ein Secret-Formula, also voll.
01:40:51 Ich bin, es ist toll von Dark-Zero, dass sie die Seite des Zones haben. Sie haben noch viel Arbeit zu tun, aber ich denke, die wichtigste Sache für DZ hier ist, dass sie DZ in den Spiel genommen haben. Und sie haben sich in die Situation, dass sie sich in die Zones getrennt. Und wir haben eine Listen-In mit Dark-Zero. Wir sehen uns wie sie versuchen, das nächste Zones zu planen.
01:41:19 Ich habe 16 Sells hier. Ich habe Kettbewerb. Ich habe Kettbewerb. Ich habe Kettbewerb.
01:41:50 We do have to go again we do have to go again
01:42:11 Ja, ich habe den Ball. Ich habe den Ball.
01:42:28 Ja, es gibt viele Städte zu der Rotation. Sie vielleicht haben die initiale Phase gemacht, aber dann haben Sie sich über Phase 2 zu denken und wie Sie dann gehen die Charge und die restlichen Team führen. Jetzt LG, die sehr interessante Rotation hatten in der vorherigen Spiel, haben sich in einem sehr guter Platz hier auf der northeastern Seite gefunden. Sie müssen in die Zone gehen, aber sie haben die Mehrheit der Begründung gespielt, depending auf was in der Kampf zwischen TSM und Eternal, die hier geht. Es wird Reps, die erste Knochen bekommen.
TSM dominiert weiterhin, während andere Teams um Positionen kämpfen
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01:42:57 Obtengaming wurde erinnert, so der Slow Start hier auf Stormpoint weitergeht. Sie werden jetzt auf diese Map und wieder auf Worlds Edge gehen, aber TSM jetzt machen sie ihren Weg. Es gibt ein paar Teams in front of sie, und sie müssen sie mit dem, und Verholz!
01:43:13 Die Komfortpick der Hemlock ist auch, dass Verhos sehr glücklich ist. Wenn wir einen Trafter finden, haben wir einen Trafter. Ich habe die Waffe, dass ich die Waffe bin, die ich mit dem Waffe bin. Und du kannst es sehen, warum. Dark Zero ist gegen Native Rambo. Und Sykes und Zero sind ziemlich low hier. Aber sie sind zurückgekehrt. Sykes versucht, was...
01:43:37 He can bring to this Dark Zero roster. One thing he doesn't want to bring is a grenade and a death box. Well, Zero's got enough shields back and should be able to buy enough time for Sykes to at least get back into this fight. A 2v2 still breaking out. It's Elevate versus Dark Zero. The wall is going to go down here from Zack Mazur, but can they take advantage here? They've got the Prowler, they've got a Digi, they've got everything they need, but they decide to rotate away from this.
01:44:00 So Native just got caught between those two teams and has now allowed Dark Zero to reset. They're back up. They're just like a Phoenix from the Ashes every single time. When you think they're down, they are back in the game and they will now hold this southern side. They are going to have a slightly uncomfortable rotation into this next circle with other teams having eyes on them. But if you can trust anyone to call a play, it's going to be Zero here.
01:44:21 The question is, do they have the wall available? Because we've seen them using a lot of utility to even get into this spot. The great news though for TSM is they completely and utterly own where that zone is going to be ending. Their rotate and their fight there against Eternal is...
01:44:35 Es hat einfach nur auf alle anderen zu kämpfen. LG ist die beste Team, aber Komplexe ist schütten sie in den Seiten, so TSM sollte man sich zu bekommen. Aber look at das, die Brilliance der Rotate sind. Sie wissen, es ist ein Team auf der Godrock hier, Dark Zero, aber sie haben jetzt einen Walk-In. Sie haben jetzt einen Weg in die Zone geholfen, und vielleicht sind sie für KP.
01:44:55 Well, they forced the Bangal out as well, and then they repositioned slightly as, Shubidoo, you're back in the game, are you? And he's going to get involved as well as EA is still going to be a threat on this map, as now LG are making their way uphill, as TSM have got eyes on them though, and it's not going to be fun for LG. TSM with the ultimate high ground right now, and as you said, prime position to potentially win this game.
01:45:15 Das Sounds silly, die Bins sind die besten für sie. Ich spreche nicht über die Gameplay. Ich spreche über die LOS zu Zack Mazur auf Height, sowie Shubi und die Rest von E8. Dark-Zero ist noch ein bisschen ZD, aber sie sind noch ein bisschen ZD, aber sie sind noch im Kampf. Und ich sage euch, wenn Dark-Zero in diesem Kampf ist, würde es ein absoluter Masterclass in Navigating hier auf Storm Point kommen aus von Zero.
01:45:40 Und ich will correct mich, ich habe gesagt Ultimate Highground. Sie sind nur die Farbe-North-Team, die meistens ist Ultimate Highground. Aber Elevate hat das Rock zu spielen. Jetzt, die Circle, die Final Circle ist, wird es mehr nach dem Nr. So es wird es schneller zu Elevate, Ape und Dark Zero, als TSM. Aber TSM sind die einzige Team auf dieser Nr. Nun, das kann nur zwei Worte sein. Manchmal kann es gut sein, weil die anderen Teams sind auf jeden Fall. Aber es gibt immer die Möglichkeit, dass...
01:46:04 Everyone looks at you when that zone closes. So TSM need to be thinking about this one, how they position themselves to get close to the circle without taking too much damage. And this giant rock that Howl's found could be a blessing for them. Yeah, it could be really, really good for them as well. You can also see that they do have the Horizon Ultimate available as well. You would imagine from the time this elapsed as well, since they took that last fight, they will have every single piece of utility like the Dark Veil to go down as well to maybe split this zone in half. But Shubi's got a wing, man.
01:46:33 Und wir wissen, dass der Care Package Weapon sehr stark ist. Und mit ein paar Smokes und ein Digi auf es kann, er kann TSM Probleme geben.
01:46:58 Es ist wirklich ein Team. Die Solo-Player von Apegang ist aus, so es ist ein 3v3 zwischen E8, Dark Zero und TSM, drei der größten Hitters und drei der Form-Teams, wie Sie sehen, wenn Sie die Schlimm-Resulten sehen können. Aber surely das wird nur eine einfache, einfache, einfache für TSM, eine die sie nicht messen können. Dark Zero-Eliminatete, E8-Puschte sie. Damage ist es, und jetzt ist es nur ein Fall für TSM. Nein!
01:47:26 The fire's turned on his head here. Shubi's still alive, but no. TSM will manage to close it out just for a second. You thought Elevate might be able to pull something out of the bag, but no. TSM back to back as we finish our games on Storm Point.
01:47:40 There's always that heart-in-mouth moment when you see a knock happen and you wonder, could it be the turnaround? But yeah, TSM going back-to-back and now I joked about bonus points and winning four games, but they're halfway there, are TSM, and it could prove to be very vital. They got that victory previously against Dark Zero, but again, the rotation is on point. TSM knew exactly where they wanted to play. They are the best team in the world. We know that, and they are proving why they are the best team in the world at the moment, still dominating here in Pro League.
Analyse der Teamleistungen und Strategien
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01:48:07 Ich denke, die Gefahr für mich ist, wie sie sind in ihren Teamfighten. Sie haben sich jetzt auf den POV gesehen. Oxygen ist ein fantastisches Teamfight, aber sie wurden absolut decimiert in den ersten Teamfighten, gegen TSM. Und dann haben wir den Teamfighten gegen Eternel gesehen. Es war nicht so close. Die Dämme aus dem Hemlock von Verholzen ist ziemlich stark. Wenn man die Zeit braucht, dann sollte man die Zeit. Und wenn man die Zeit braucht, dann sollte man die Zeit.
01:48:33 I mean, the job was made pretty simple. Their decision was made pretty simple as the two teams below them had to fight. You know, Dark Zero and E8 were going to have their line of size clash and TSM just had to clean up the pieces. One player did go down, but it never really felt like they weren't going to win that one. And with 12 kills alongside it, it's a 24 point bomb coming in from the 2023 ALGS Championship Champions.
01:48:56 Und du fragst, wenn du von einem Weltkampions- und einem neuen Jahr in der Welt überwindenst, ist die beste Team in der Welt zu überwinden? Ist die Meta-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter-Meter
01:49:25 Their backs against the wall for the majority of the game were able to get back up to a full three and they pull out nine kills alongside it. So still a very impressive performance from them. Yeah, very, very strong performance from them. Elevate as well, 16 points for them. And I mentioned in the pre-show that this is a team to watch because I feel like there's something good brewing here. And they're kind of going under the radar. Maybe a few names, which...
01:49:47 Don't catch the headlines, but it's the teamwork and sometimes the natural synergy that gets you into some great positions and creates a great team. And Elevate is showing really, really good signs of that. 16 points for them. 8GAM managed to wrap their way into some placement points as well. Complexity with some decent LG with some good KP. But in that endgame, just got cut down on the cross. And another quiet game for Optic, you have to say.
01:50:09 Well, speaking of Quiet Games, our Bottom 10 was still featured of points. It's not too many zeros. Teams still able to pick up KP and pushing their fights when they are available to them. Temper and FaZe, after having that initial contest, sadly for FaZe, even despite the fact they won it, they were pushed by Secret Formula, who had moved from their initial contest to take another one and take a third party off of FaZe. So, unfortunately, FaZe won't have a chance to respond to that here in this match week because we're going to move to World's Edge next. But certainly interesting to see.
01:50:38 Great showcase of not only what this lobby can offer, but TSM and how to IGL towards success. When you look at the videotape, my goodness, I had a chance to watch the first game that we were casting, seeing TSM win against Dark Zero. They walked up on that final two fight the same way they walked up on the final two fight right here. They are just putting themselves in positions.
01:51:05 to win. And of course you guys give us your thoughts on an in game Mark Dan. I want to bring in a Jayhawk who's joining us now yet again. It's been a minute. Jay, you know, we had a chance to talk to you in EMEA. Now it's North America. You've been familiar with all these regions, but this region is star studded. How are you feeling? And for everyone as well who maybe didn't see your EMEA broadcast, catch us up with what's going on in your life.
01:51:31 Ja, so I work a full-time job, but I'm actually going part-time to commit more time to Apex content. So that's super exciting. And living up to the excitement is North America. That first game was wild. I got to jump around from different streams, PLP with Phony. Their comms were going crazy. TSM, Dark Zero, so many great teams. And that game one was amazing. And the next two followed suit. Like NA is living up to the hype right now.
Ausblick auf die zweite Hälfte des Wettbewerbs und Map-Anpassungen
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01:51:59 Yes, it certainly is an incredible day. I think everyone's been looking forward to the action kicking off. And I think you have to give a lot of respect to some of the IGLing we've seen so far. Some of the rotates we've seen and the play calls, understandably, I'm going to say from zero and how, because they've been two teams who have been involved in those last two games and those final fights. It's a masterclass, right, to watch these guys do what they do.
01:52:20 Ja, ich meine, die Best in der Welt für ein reason. Ein Clash of the Titans, wenn du will, in Back-to-Back-Games. They're showing why they're the best and they're going to continue to show it throughout the splits. It's not surprising. We've seen them do this for years, so to see them continue to do it in Day 1, I mean, everybody knew this was coming. Ja, seeing the differences between EMEA and NA has been clear as well, certainly composition-wise. Is there anything that you really picked up on in differences, Jayhawk?
01:52:46 I did think that, I mean, we talked about this during the EMEA broadcast. The teams that had that direct priority were often controlling the games. The teams who were nearby, wherever the endgame zone was, they were getting to those power positions and they were holding them. As we just saw in back-to-back games, TSM coming all the way from Lightning Rod down to the south side of the map and winning two games in a row where they don't have priority. They're having to play edge and just fight their way in. I mean, obviously they're the best team in the world for a reason, so we're not surprised they're doing it, but it is different from EMEA where...
01:53:15 Based on where the circle pulled, you could kind of tell who was going to win that game. Well, speaking of circles, I mean, we have some final circles here to look at as well, Jayhawk, just as we did in Amir. I mean, you said match one was exciting and you were bouncing around. I mean, what did you see between all the streams?
01:53:32 Ja, das Spiel war wild, denn ich dachte sofort, dass wir die Clash of the Titans werden. TSM, DZ, LG, Elevate, all diese Teams waren zu Ende, aber sie sind nicht. LG wird hier eliminiert und wir haben einen Final 3 von Skirt, Complexity und Oblivion. Und ich liebte es, weil diese drei Teams haben etwas zu tun. Komplexity mit einem Roster-Change, Skirt ist ein Unison von verschiedenen Spielern von anderen Teams und Oblivion kommt von den PSQs. Es war ein wirklich tolles Endgame und ich liebte, dass es zu starten, North America,
01:54:01 Some teams that people have had questions about sort of answer those questions immediately. Now, can they continue to do it throughout the day? That's the big question mark. I mean, obviously game one gave us a hint that maybe Oblivion are going to be rotating well. They've practiced their Storm Point enough.
01:54:18 Game 2 certainly gave us that information as well, as we kind of see it close out here. You thought maybe Street would get his first win. No. Arcology, Oblivion, Complexity, they would be in the mix, and they grabbed this one. But I want to talk to you about something I noticed and see if you've kind of picked up on this as well. For me, there's a timing thing to being in the right spot. We saw in Game 2 Optic, they were positioned extremely well inside, you know, near Barometer, and they were kind of in zone early. But the teams that seemed to have the biggest impact in that late game ended up being the TSNs, the DZs.
01:54:47 Und ich frage mich, wie viel das Timing ist, als Teil der Tide zu ändern? Versus einfach nur in der richtigen Zeit? Und vielleicht ein bisschen zu early?
01:54:59 Ich denke, es ist wichtig, dass auch Oxygen, die wir gerade in der 3rd sehen sind, in der ganzen Welt waren, wunderschön für Zirkle zu kommen, aber jeder weiß, dass du da bist. Du hast so lange ein Target in die Leute gehalten, dass wenn TSM und DZ kommen, du hast zu re-adjustieren, das neue Informationen verabschiedet wird. Und wenn du gegen die besten Teams in der Welt bist, dann kapitulierst auf die Brief-Hesitation.
01:55:25 Es ist ein weirdes Ding, aber es ist die alte Idee, dass jeder eine Planung hat, bis sie sich in die Füße schlägt. Die Punching in Apex-Terms machte dich mit dem einen Schritt weiter. Das ist interessant. Wird DZ und E8 entschieden, ob wir das für eine Sekunde spielen können? Oder war das die Natur, wie diese Catalyst-Wall sind?
01:55:45 I think, realistically, based on the positions that TSM had, they had the most cover, so naturally the other two teams are just going to duke it out and see what happens. But I do want to shout out E8 here because we've been singing the praises of TSM and DZ. E8 has been dominating in scrims, and the question was, can they continue it in pro league matchdays? They're doing it right now. They're looking fantastic. In that game two, they finished in fourth with nine points. Here they get 16 in this game, and they're living up to those expectations that they were setting for themselves in scrims.
01:56:15 And here are our final points. As you mentioned, TSM Dark Zero Elevate. They go step and step in terms of not just their gameplay in that final zone, but in terms of the points. Our top three teams, Oblivion with a good first and second round that's netted them 25. And LG, always going to be a threat when you have someone like Sweet guiding you towards the endgame. But taking a look at this entire roster, A versus B, Jayhawk, since we have you here, what's maybe the biggest story you're looking at now for the second half, our next transition into our last three games on World's Edge?
01:56:45 Well, I'm looking at Optic Gaming all the way down in 17th with 6 points, and I'm wondering, where are they? This is a team that dominated in that Finals Lobby at Champs, and they have not quite shown up yet, but I'm not going to give up. This isn't a team that goes down easy and going to World's Edge with the POIs they have of Stax and Big Mod. I'm expecting Optic to bounce back in a big way because I just can't see a world in which Optic is finishing 17th on the day.
01:57:11 Marc, I'm going to lead it to you as well. Any thoughts on what we need to see in this next half of these games for these squads? Yeah, I mean, I want to echo that because I think Optic have been so, so quiet in those first three games. It's almost a surprise to see them there. It always is a surprise to see them down there. But the teams at the top are the ones we expect to be there. And like I mentioned, me and Jayhawk seem to be thinking the same thing at the moment because I was thinking about Elevate and what they've been doing in the build-ups. Could they produce it here in round number one? Well, they're doing it so far, but...
01:57:39 We're only halfway through. That's the crazy thing, right? It's very easy to take your foot off the gas, thinking that you're having a great day, that everything's going your way. But then the map changes, then the rotates change, then the contests change. All of this changes up halfway through. So it's about concentrating on the job ahead and not kind of patting yourself on the back too early here for Elevate. But I'm excited to see what they can do on World's Edge 2.
01:57:57 So AJ Hoppe, before we let you go, I kind of wanted to give you a chance to do what you do. I mean, you're going, you know, part-time, so it's going to be more of these videos hopefully heading out. Every video starts with what story do I want to tell. Over the course of today, we've kind of titled it The Great Reset on our end in terms of teams looking to see what they can do, shift the tiles, shift the puzzle pieces to have a chance of competing with the big names. How would you craft this story? What would the title of this video be in your eyes and what can people expect who are watching the next few games?
01:58:28 So far, as we've seen, with TSM and Dark Zero continuing to dominate, a lot of people are expecting at some point someone else has to win a LAN, right? But if you look at the story from these two teams' POVs, they don't want to go down. They don't want to be the team that finally falls off and somebody else takes the throne. And so, you know, as much as we want to tell other stories and talk about the other teams, it still remains to be seen who's going to step up to the plate and do it as of right now.
01:58:55 E8's trying, but even they are not able to overcome TSM and Dark Zero to start off NA Pro League. Amazing stuff. It's really maybe who's going to elevate to that spot, you could say as well. Amazing stuff, Jayhawk. Thank you so much for being with us and hanging out on our halftimes. It's always fun. Make sure you are following AJHawk on all of his socials, his YouTube channel, fantastic videos. And I think, do you stream, Jayhawk, as well? You got to stream?
01:59:23 I do. I'm actually doing watch parties right now. So come on over if you want to. All right. Check them out. And hey, thanks again, man. We'll see you on future broadcasts, I'm sure, and definitely around the ALGS. AJ Hawk, everybody.
01:59:36 Thank you so much, man.
02:00:05 I don't know, just a thought. Why not try it? I mean, what's the worst that could happen? Maybe you end up making something special occur. Anyways, I wanted to give you guys that information. Dan, take a break. You've been casting. You've been here this entire first half. Mark and I are going to get into the second half of games. And I guess to lead into that, Mark, I want to talk to you about what does this mean here now that we're in World's Edge? One thing that...
02:00:29 We may see are some composition adjustments. I think we've gotten teams a little more used to that. I know TSM, for sure, adds the conduit to their roster when they don't play it on StormPoint. But, you know, what else does this mean for you, map-wise? We've looked at this shift so much. I mean, at the very least, last three games of the set, you've got to make things happen, especially if you're in the bottom 10.
02:00:50 I mean, I think it depends what POI you're playing from a lot of the time as well. If you're playing a very edge-based one, your composition is certainly going to change as opposed to maybe a team who's landing center. As far as the TSM Conduit is going, I don't think we'll see it right now because they're not contested on Syphon. So I think you might see...
02:01:06 Possibly a Fuse, we saw a little bit of Fuse yesterday coming back into the equation, should I say, the day before. We'll have to see, you know, we'll see what they pull out of the bag. You know that Raven's certainly got the whiteboard going on what is going to be the best play, but...
02:01:21 We'll have to see, right? I think we're still going to see Catalyst, we're still going to see Bangalore, we're still going to see Horizon. Question is, are we going to see any Scan Legends? Because we've seen Rat Play certainly be effective in those tunnels that kind of link a few of these POIs. So I'll be interested to see if Bloodhound does pop up once again. And EMEA Special, we'll see if North America tries to take it and put their own spin on it as we see...
02:01:42 Faze, Sarah Trick, he panders and sniped down with the Kondo with Bangalore and Catalyst heading over towards Geyser. One of those POIs that's rather central, gives you some access to a lot of different rotation types. Not everyone's favorite all the time, I would say. And, you know, we do see a few in-game circles that can be a real mess over here. But Faze electing this to be their spot. And right now in the midst of...
02:02:09 Little bit of a challenge. That's that fuse you were talking about.
02:02:12 But the knuckle cluster right there. Yeah, we are going to see the contest go down. This is one that's been going on for quite some time as well. It's going to be dropping gaming versus phase. You just wonder if this is going to be a contest where nobody got any opening damage. So is it going to be one that's a slow burner like it has been in scrims? I mean, honestly, this contest seems to have taken for five, six minutes to be resolved. Or are phase going to rotate away and try and play a little bit of a smarter game here? Go over to the no-name village, go over to the... And just see if they can grab a little bit of loot and continue on their way. Elsewhere, you can see the survey camp is looking a little...
02:02:42 Ich glaube, es ist ein bisschen ugly für zwei Teams, weil es ein Punch ist, hier. Komplexity ist einer dieser Teams. Und natürlich haben wir noch ein Team in front of sie, der versucht, den lang-term POI zu nehmen, hier in Kol.
02:02:55 Liu, we know how gifted from a mechanical aspect this player is. Kim Chi Lee helps support what was already a pretty well-earned fight. They just push forward and they get three kills. That's a nice start for Complexity. And as we switch gears, early fighting as well is something that we'll see probably more so as this day goes on. Teams maybe get a little bit more desperate. And, you know, in some ways we'll see teams...
02:03:24 Aber es ist immer ein RISK. Es ist immer ein RISK. Es ist ein Pivotal, Mark. Es ist ein guter Placement in Day 1. Skirt hat sich in 6. Und haben ein bisschen Spaß auf dem Mirage. Als wir einen Überblick auf den Map sehen können.
02:03:47 Well, it's important that Complexity won that contest because the zone is going towards where they are basing themselves at the moment in that train tunnel. Native Gaming, they're in a really good spot as well. PLP, of course, they're going to be moving in. And this is a zone where you want to control that northern side, right? If you can get into a position, maybe hold down the northern side of that tunnel. If it pulls all the way north, you're going to have the least line of sights onto you. Being able to play in that little crevice that Complexity you may be looking to move into now. Everyone working around SurveyCamp, though, it looks like it could pull that way, but we do see the pull back towards...
02:04:17 Ja, und es geht um, ich denke...
02:04:36 Es ist klar, dass die Pro-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus-Aus.
02:05:02 Ja, looks everyone wants to be in Survey Camp at the moment by the looks of things. FaZe, we mentioned how they decided not to hard contest, just split the loot and continue on their path. TSM are already making their way.
02:05:26 ...on their rotation as well. And just looking at what they're trying to do, you get the feeling maybe they're looking ahead towards Overlook, getting a bit of Ring Console information. Maybe they're looking towards Overlook and doing a little bit of crafting in and around Climatizer. Looks like there's no crafter available over there at the moment. So this is an interesting route for them to take. It looks like the long route round towards Climatizer and maybe taking the height of Epicenter to try and fight their way in. They know this is a tough zone for them to get into, right, from Siphon. So they're going to have some decisions to make.
02:05:54 And I think just limiting the teams that are going to be coming in, trying to pressure them from behind so they can play forward with the fuse, like you had mentioned, them picking up, opting away from the conduit, that offensive pressure and just pressure in general for teams who are already maybe in a better spot than you, but towards late game, start to run out of grenades, start to run out of resources to fend off something like a fuse knuckle cluster again and again and again. There's going to be opportunities, I think, for TSM to siege. And so maybe that's why they're deciding, let's just keep things in front of us. But of course, they will run in up to a fighting team.
02:06:24 Das ist richtig, du bist ein Rampage salesman.
02:06:53 ... ... ... ... ...
02:07:04 Die Frage ist, ob sie in eine Position zu rotate durch Skyhook?
02:07:33 Ich meine, die Wahrheit ist, in World's Edge, du kannst du aufhörst, wie in einer map.
02:07:37 Whether it's even Broken Moon, Olympus, those aren't competitive maps that we tend to see. Everyone knows in Apex you can get into a bad spot and not really have anywhere to turn. However, comparing that to what Stormpoint can do in terms of getting caught out, you can be caught out so badly on Stormpoint that you might as well just walk away, throw your controller down and just let them finish that off. They've got the better position. World's Edge isn't usually like that. You can play out of it. So I'm starting to understand this Bloodhound pick a little bit more, though we're still only seeing it with about 10% of the lobby.
02:08:07 You're getting major value and you're kind of saying, we don't have to have good RNG. We don't have to have the best loot. Our early fight and rotation timing doesn't have to be proper, but we will be able to see and have presence in this endgame as long as we make it there. So for a team like, you know, I think Dark Zero with the confidence of...
02:08:25 A million teams put into one, I think they're going to be happy with saying, all right, we'll take a little risk. Maybe you don't have as much mobility, but we are definitely going to be able to be a threat with our controller players that we lean on in these endgames. I'm interested to see that apparently when you play Rampart, the walls are not affected by gravity because...
02:08:44 Those things are at an angle. She just hammers them in real hard. Those things have got some grip. Ape Gang are going to have this height on Survey. We did see where the Zone is going to be pulling though. It's going to be pulling a little bit south and actually towards the west side. I double checked once again with my directions to make sure they were correct this time around. Towards where, surprise surprise, Elevate Gaming find themselves. All these teams are in Survey Camp at the moment. They're going to find themselves having to leave, having to move. One team who is going to be safe in Zone.
02:09:13 der Exit der Train Tunnel zu den Norden ist, dass es Dark Zero als auch. LG, sie haben den Volk-Tunnel genommen. Sie sind sicher, als auch. TSM, sie sind diejenigen mit der Harder-Tunnel zu verändern. Sie müssen all den Weg von Epicenter, durch den Traffic, nach dem Height, nach dem Lowground, den Train Station, um zu versuchen, ihre Weg in die Zone.
02:09:34 Just an overlook at Epicenter. As to the positioning of TSM. Sometimes a very dangerous spot to play, but they do have a gravity lift that can get them up top. Maybe buy them a bit of respite if things go wrong. But you can't always plan to go wrong. In fact, this moment right here, there's a ton of planning because this next zone in round two, it's going to move, but it's going to close so much due to the fact that we've pulled all the way north.
02:09:59 So every southern team is going to have to push in behind them. TSM has made a long rotation. It will be safe for the time being until round three, but that's about it before they're probably going to have to move. They're praying that thing comes their way. Meanwhile, Zach Mazur and LG in the midst of a tangle, one below and one above inside the building. Let's see who gets the edge.
02:10:20 Und das ist genau das passiert.
02:10:30 So both teams are going to be able to reset here. Even though a couple of knocks were traded, no one was in a position to finish them. So we are going to see the continuation of this fight. Elevate control the inside, which is always going to be better because you could be the team looking out. Underneath is so vulnerable. Unless you have a Legend that can eat up grenades like Watson, with that interception pylon, you're just kind of waiting for damage to be done because you don't have a way to create space around you.
02:10:54 Unless you have pressure on the outside, which is, you know, maybe what's happening here with some of the rotations. It has to be worse for Zach Mazur and them to try to pressure because they might get poked from a third party. Otherwise, LG is pretty much in trouble. They are not in the driver's seat. You could say that, at least in this position. And that's one thing that is extremely important to know. D&O Gaming, two points only. We're in our fourth game. Duplex, Sinox, Crust. Impressive pros in their career so far. Together, not putting it.
02:11:23 They do have a great position, though, Optic Gaming. They're trying to hold DNOO now. Well, they've managed to force them to retreat. And with a little bit of a spray coming in here from Noct as well, they're going to keep chipping away and keep trying to gatekeep them on the outside of this zone. This is a big opportunity for Optic Gaming. However...
02:11:51 Keep your eyes on the top right side of your screen. There are 19 still remaining here. Only one team is a duo as well. I mean, it's pretty ridiculous to see.
02:12:02 Das Amount der Spieler in der Lobby ist, das Amount der Teams ist, als Zone 3 wird in 60 Sekunden geschlossen. Und das ist das gleiche Gegenteil von was wir sehen in ein Stormpoint, South to North Pole, weil es so viel Chaos gibt. Es ist so schwierig, dass das Amount der Space und das Highground ist. So viele andere Teams sind einfach auf die Position, die sich einfach auszudrücken, um 3D zu machen. Aber in dieser Strange Weise haben wir gesehen, dass all diese Teams landen nach North, landen nach...
02:12:31 West and East, that there really hasn't been too much of a committed fight. And maybe that's also the fact that it's Game 4 and they know that the stakes are high. Optic Gaming and TNO still holding each other on the southern side of where the zone will move. TSM at Epicenter where we left them and they will have to cross phase. But I'm focused on the north. That's not enough space for what looks to be about 11 teams sitting at the top of this mark.
02:12:56 Ja, ich denke, dass wir die Lobby sehen, wie es mit 19-Squad still alive ist, ist, dass ich es schon ziemlich schlecht ist. Vielleicht auch schon mal ein paar Zonen-Reeds, vielleicht auch schon mal ein paar Zonen-Reeds, dass alle anderen wiederherrungen sind. Teams, vielleicht, die nicht die Survey-Beacon-Informationen haben, sehen die Traffic, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung, sie sehen die Schlammung.
02:13:26 Smartly as well is going to be Complexity. Complexity do manage to hit the balloon inside of the train tracks and get all the way across to the other side. And look at the killfeed now. That's what you're going to see. This lobby is going to get cut in half as everyone has to leave Survey Camp. Yeah, and you know, it's exactly it. That is exactly what happened. They called Survey Camp. At least five, six teams called it. Probably more than the lobby called it, but just wasn't there. And now they're in trouble. These teams fighting for it. And this is what happens sometimes when you make a bad call. You got to work with what you got.
02:13:55 Und das ist es.
TSM's Herausforderungen und Ape Gangs Dominanz
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02:14:25 Ja, perfekt, einfach 3rd party. Wir sehen uns TSM jetzt ein bisschen Druck von FaZe und FaZe hat sich zu wenigstens getrennt. Und TSM sind mit 2v3 gegen die Highground. Imperial Howl ist es, sie versuchen zu stecken die Rez an der Moment zu stecken. Oblivion wird es auch beeliminatet. Einige Team, die sich in die Rückwärts-Rotating-Decision zu gehen in die SurveyCamp hat. Sie haben zu verlassen. Das ist eine der beauties von Fuse, richtig? Du kannst die Team auf die Highground. Du kannst deine Team-Auswärts bekommen. Du kannst die Team-Auswärts wiederholen. Du kannst die Team-Auswärts wiederholen. Hier ist die Queue-Auswärts.
02:14:54 Das ist sehr schwer, und da ist kein Ultimates zu benutzen. Er hat es 73 Prozent. Er hat es nur ein bisschen zu benutzen, vielleicht um diese neue Space zu entwickeln. Aber hier ist es wo du zu sehen, Refs zu gehen. Er startet das Fight mit 100 damage, und er braucht 500 bis 600. Er braucht vier oder fünf Shield Batterien hier. Er braucht diese Space und Zeit, um ihn zurück zu bringen, weil es sich die Challenge mit Faze einfach nicht ging. Und ich denke, an diesem Punkt,
02:15:24 They're calling in a MOBI here, and I'm wondering if Reps is thinking, hey, I could hold this.
02:15:46 I could ult this one and cause some problems because he knows both players are going to be pretty close to that respawn beacon. Maybe he's thinking about doing it late so that he can kind of escape and hold FaZe up, but Snipedown is going to be back in the game. We've talked about how the respawns are very different this season than previously. You come back in with shields, you come back in with guns, you've got to hope you can get back to your death box for a bit of ammo and maybe some attachments, but you could cause problems as FaZe control this side of zone at the moment and they're trying to force everyone away.
02:16:12 Let's just not really talk about Rex anymore right now, because I'm looking at him. He needs a miracle to survive. He's in the middle of GKS and FaZe, and Oxygen are about to make their way over. But maybe miracles can happen. We've seen crazier things. Let's hold off, though.
02:16:27 Let's be surprised by that. No surprise here with Ape Gang, who have maintained this position. The Rampart walls are working for him. Bercy, the only Rampart in this lobby, and the only one we've seen all day long, showing exactly what this Legend can do. And what Legends can do in general, when they're given their prime positions, their prime circumstances, to be successful. And this is exactly how you want to use a Rampart, to hold space and to dominate from it.
02:16:50 Well, TSM will be eliminated. It's not back-to-back-to-back for them. They cannot recreate what they did at Champs. DNO are also going to be eliminated. That long-standing battle that we saw with Optic Gaming comes to an end. But Apegang, up on this high ground, they've held this for so long. And like you mentioned, with Rampart in the composition, those walls allow them to do exactly that. They will have to move as well. But I want to see the conclusion of E8 versus LG. Both these teams have been coexisting for so, so long. But only one can leave this side. And Optic, who had a pretty good walk into this zone as well, have lost Skill Cakes.
Optic Gaming's Chance und Dark Zero's Triumph
02:17:19
02:17:19 This is a big opportunity for Optik. They cannot let this kind of game from this kind of position not total up to as many points as they can to get back into this series. This is one of those zones that tends to end under or around those train tracks, right where Optik are hanging. And looking towards, Dark Zero already have a great position there. FaZe kind of going to be able to be the troll under the bridge and work their way out from behind. But you're right, LG and Elevate. These two teams been teasing each other all game long. LG making the first move, Bangalore Ultimate.
02:17:48 In kind from them. They can get a swap as the ultimate hits if they want to do that sweet. Not sure if he's waiting for it or he's just going to try to take it. They avoid it nicely there. And they have a chance to win. We've heard them once. They couldn't quite get the job done, but they were close. Let's listen in to LG and see if they can take the win.
02:18:19 Oh, man. Wait, you didn't kill them? Oh, man. When I'm saying kill them, why are you asking me to cry? Certainly couldn't do it, Mark, but that doesn't mean they didn't give it a try. It's chaos here as the zone starts to push in. And it's E8 who seems to be winning this fight, right? Knocked his last player alive for Optic, but E8, who were inside that building for so long, delayed long enough for LG to have to make their move first. They come in and clean up this side of the zone. They now own it, but who is still in this lobby? It's Optic and GKS4?
02:18:48 Surprise, surprise, it's Dark Zero again involved in this final fight. It's a 3v3v3, Elevate, Dark Zero, and FaZe, who made that decision to not contest hard over at Geyser, they left, wanted to play the long game, and that decision has paid off. Just incredible from FaZe to make that move and find themselves here. They played with nobody behind them, and Dark Zero have just had the best spot the entire time near these train tracks. They can play height.
02:19:15 They have cover with these boxes and the mountains from above. And they also right now have a Bloodhound Ultimate. We're going to see how this works out. Doesn't look like they're going to be missing much. Elevate, however, they're going to be missing all of their members as that is an easy wipe. It's going to be a phase and Dark Zero 3v3 mark.
02:19:33 Ja, der Damage hat auch gemacht, hier bei Faze. Sie sehen, Zero hat einen Off-Angler, aber kann er survive? Nein, er kann nicht. Es wird Faze, der erste Knoll wird, aber Sykes wird wiederholfen. Sykes ist die neue Pick-Up, wieder zu zeigen, dass er die Mann ist, um Dark-Zero zurückzunehmen. Der zweite Knoll für ihn auch. Er hat die 3-Piece, und er wird es. Dark-Zero wird sein, und Sykes zeigen, genau wie Zero und Gemburne haben. Sie wissen, Dark-Zero hat sich für das Knoll gewartet.
02:20:02 They were so close, so long here in this ALGS Day 1 of our Year 4 split. But they finally get their win, and Mark, that's got to feel good. They have been maybe, now when you look at it over the course of 4, the most consistent team in being involved in these final circles, and they finally get their win. This is the Dark Zero we expected to show up today. Maybe even better than we expected. Yeah, I think there's a couple of important moments to talk about about Dark Zero's game that we just saw.
02:20:31 Bloodhound being able to scan and find out where everybody is on the map, not just the circle information, and then playing away from that huge amount of congested area that Survey Camp became, gave themselves kind of, if it does go to Survey Camp and everyone fights, we can play from that. If it does pull away to Train Station, we can play for that as well. Playing that kind of 50-50 position allowed them to get ahead of traffic when it did pull away from Survey Camp.
02:20:55 Faze, ich will sagen, sie sind sehr glücklich mit der Performance. Ich denke, viele Leute haben sich gesehen und gedacht, hey, das ist nicht der Fall, aber ich denke, da ist noch viel zu sagen. Ich denke, da ist noch viel zu sagen für die drei Spieler auf Faze hier. Ich denke, da wird ein bisschen ein Dark Horse sein. Ich denke, da wird ein bisschen ein Dark Horse sein. Ich bin ein Believer.
02:21:24 Ich habe zu sagen, wenn sie das Contest über Geyser gewinnen können, oder gewinnen können genug Loot werden können, ich denke, sie haben es in sie, um sie guter Punkte auf den Ball zu geben.
02:21:34 Ich meine, es ist nicht wie Zeratricky und Panders nicht proven sind. Snipe Down, wir wissen, leadership-wise, absolutly proven. Winning-wise, absolutly proven für viele Games, und speziell hier in der ALGS. Es hat nicht das Gefühl, aber das könnte es sein. Elevate Gaming 2, ich war froh, aber wenn man sehen, wie die meisten Teams sind, die in Smoke sind, ist es schwer, dass alle drei Teams das level haben.
Teamdynamik und Spielstrategien
02:21:57
02:21:57 The ability to fight you so clearly without digi-threats on them. It can happen there, but I think there maybe was, oh man, we're fighting a Bloodhound now. This means that we have got to take the pace to a different level. We're not going to be able to hide at all. We have to treat this as if it's go time 100%. Optic, decent game. 8Gang had a really strong showing, and I'm liking the Rampart. And as we look towards the bottom 10 of our showcase in game number 4, still teams...
02:22:25 Das kann einfach nicht funktionieren. Oblivion, vielleicht kommt es zu minden. Sie sind sehr konsistent über 3. Der erste Stud so far ist auf World's Edge. Ich bin sicher, dass sie zurückkommen sind. PLP, ich würde gerne sehen, was sie haben. Zero this time, und natürlich Complexity. Sie waren in der mix. A Top 2 finish in Game 1, 13th hier. Aber still 4 kills, Showing Mark, dass sie sie spielen, und sie fühlen sich gut, in terms der Contest.
02:22:48 The contest looked pretty comfortable for Complexity, to be honest with you, but apart from that, not really too much to talk about. They forced their way into the top 10, but I think that was just from the long-term position that they did have. It was the next fight where they really didn't contribute enough to force their way towards that endgame. TSM had a little bit of a rough game there, a very tough rotate for them. Decided to go from the side of Epi, which was a little bit of a surprise, but also you can understand it coming down from that height. Maybe they thought it was going to pull back towards where those rocks were a little bit more, but...
02:23:16 I mean TSM, they're not going to win every game of Apex Legends. It's a fact. You do still have bad games even though they won two back-to-back.
02:23:23 I just want to bring up, again, TSM, Dark Zero. We've seen that back and forth last year. We see it today. It's just so much fun to watch on North America when you have two great, great fighters going out. And it really reminds me of a little bit of Messi and Ronaldo for our football fans out there. Just two greats. People, obviously, different types of accolades at different times, but you can tell the talent is there to be able to win it all at any given moment. Talk to me just a little bit about...
02:23:51 Not only just Jen Burton and Zero picking themselves back up after a disappointing finish in Champs, not what they wanted, but also how well Sykes is just meshing into the squad. Well, first of all, I just need to say that between Messi and Ronaldo is completely incomparable. Messi is a far superior football player. But anyway, let's take a look at what they did in that game because I think...
02:24:14 You know, you're talking about synergy, you're talking about teams coming together, and I love the way Sykes is playing on this team, by the way. I think that Sykes plays best as almost a secondary Slayer, and I think he steps in perfectly, right? He can capitalize on damage that Jem Burton does. Jem Burton goes in, and a lot of the time he will be an instigator in fights, alongside Zero, who can get a little bit of damage down, and then with the movement he has on MNK, he can usually get out of there, which leaves Sykes in a perfect, almost natural feeling role for him on this team, which is just amazing.
02:24:43 Ich glaube, das letzte Mal war ein sehr guter Hinweis. Ich glaube, es macht Dark-Zero eine sehr gut-schöpfung-unit. Aber du wirst mit Dark-Zero sein. Der nächste Event wird nicht gewinnen, und dann wird es...
02:25:08 I mean, exactly. I mean, I wonder too, I mean, one of the thoughts I had, and this is something that we can talk and bring up as these weeks go by, is maybe that there's an age component as well. Maybe just the way Zero and Jen Burton or their length or tenure together in the ALGS. Zainu coming in new, a star in his own right, but Sykes maybe a little bit more tenured, a little older, maybe something more alignment in terms of the way that this is fitting right now in terms of the goals without needing to really speak them. Obviously, everyone wants to win, but there's just...
02:25:38 Just different paces, different decisions. How do you practice? How do you think about the game? Maybe this is just something that meshes on a lot of different levels for Dark Zero. But we will find out very, very soon if they can keep this up. TSM don't win. They don't go back to back to back. It's Dark Zero's turn to claim the limelight. When we come back, two more games to close out day one of year four. We'll see you in a sec.
02:27:48 We've got two more games to go. And it's going to be Gaskett and myself to take you through those two games of World's Edge. A little bit of a change up with Dark Zero coming out on top, Dan. And I need to get your opinion. Messi or Ronaldo? Right now, let's start the Twitch chat off again. Who are you picking and why? Messi every day of the week. Thank you. That's all I needed. Give me a reason because I'm a smart man. TSM or Dark Zero? Oh, I'll wait for that one. I'm not going to throw you under the bus that early. I'm sure there will be some people in the chat who will be coming after you otherwise. But what did you take away from that last game? Because it looked very impressive from Dark Zero.
World's Edge und Teamstrategien
02:28:17
02:28:17 Yeah, I think Dark Zero have clearly got a formula that works here, right? Zero has been looking to find a squad that will be able to put his plan into action. And it very much worked there in match number four. More of the same, the consistency has been incredible from Dark Zero. They're the most consistent team now after having the four matches with TSM falling a little bit earlier. And as we know, consistency is everything in Apex Legends. And we'll have to see whether they can carry this on into match number five. Well, here we go then, everybody. Match number five is live.
02:28:46 The teams are going to be dropping out of that dropship. And World's Edge is looking as beautiful as it ever has. Who's going to take this one away, though? That's the real question here. Dark Zero. They get the win. We're going to see the contest potentially between Eternal and Complexi again over at Survey Camp. A couple of Arc Stars are going to give the indication that is going to be the case. And now I want to see what happens over here at Geyser as well. Because FaZe, it was an interesting strategy that we saw last time, Dan. They kind of went for the halfway route and looted their way back. Didn't take the hard contest.
02:29:14 und entschieden, dass sie genug Loot haben, um diese Gebäude zu gehen. Ja, Faye ist in der Mitte, um diese Circular Gebäude zu nehmen, wobei sie auf die Gebäude zu gehen, und dann auch in die Vault ein bisschen, um ein bisschen zu Loot zu lösen. Both Teams, die sich nicht nur zu Loot haben, sondern auch zu lösen, in einem bestimmten Bereich zu lösen, sondern auch zu lösen, in einem bestimmten Bereich. So, wir gehen zurück zu diesem Contest, wo es tatsächlich Fights geht, Komplastie geht ein paar Shots, aber es sieht, dass sie ein paar Dämpfe zu tun haben.
02:29:41 Oh, ich zeige euch, wenn ihr Monsoon streamt, ein bisschen Ranked wird, ihr wisst, ihr wisst, dass er die Sentinale liebt. Und er ist nicht zu viele Schöne mit ihm. Er hat ein R9 auch, aber er hat einen R9 auch. Aber er hat einen R9 auch, weil das Tor ist ein Problem. Er hat einen R9 auch gemacht, aber er hat einen R9 auch gemacht. Aber er hat einen R9 auch gemacht. Er hat einen R9 auch gemacht, aber er hat einen R9 auch gemacht. Er hat einen R9 auch gemacht, aber er hat einen R9 auch gemacht. Er hat einen R9 auch gemacht, aber er hat einen R9 auch gemacht.
02:30:10 Es ist egal, ob es auf den Knie, auf den Knie oder auf den Toes ist, aber du hast es. Es war in der head. Es war 165. Das ist wie ein Kast-Iron-Pan zu den backen. Das ist wie ein Kast-Iron-Pan. Wir haben nur ein Kast-Iron-Pan bekommen. Das ist der einzige Grund, warum ich immer darüber reden würde. Es ist einfach in der Fronten in meiner Meinung.
02:30:34 You can see there the Kill Leaders of the Day, by the way. All three members of Dark Zero featuring in the top. Not really surprised after their consistency so far. They have been so impressive. But the early tests... Are you still thinking about snakes? I don't know. I never thought I'd be talking about Cast Iron Pans in the Apex Legends Global Series. Another fight going down here with Oxygen and Secret Formula. Secret Formula just trying to hunker down a little bit. Watton Fences go down for protection. They've also got...
02:31:02 Das ist eine schwierige Herausforderung. Es ist eine schwierige Herausforderung, wenn man sich in dieses Gebäude befindet. Es gibt so viele Dörfer zu versuchen, und die Team zu versuchen, kann sich und wählen, wie sie sich ausführen können. Ich bin interessiert, wie sie sich ausführen können, wie sie sich ausführen können. Ich bin interessiert, wie sie sich ausführen können. Ja, Ried. Rieds, mit dem Buster Sword zu machen. Er hat sich in die Tür zu holen. Er sagt, er wird das Ding ausführen. No Material added, aber...
02:31:26 Looks like Oxygen, we're going to decide to leave this fight for now. And I think it's smart. You can see there was water some fences down. There's potential of a gen coming up pretty soon. It also slows down the rotate. So Oxygen, having not got initial damage, decided it's more important for us to continue on our path. One team who's also continuing on our path in a more aerial route after hitting the evac is going to be TSM, who are working their way into Monument, where it's looking like teams are starting to stack up here. This could be our endgame.
Monument Kämpfe und Teampositionierung
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02:31:50 Ja, ich denke, alle sind auf Monument hier und TSM bereits landen und haben zu kämpfen. Sie sehen, dass sie nicht mehr als nur ein Team sind, und das ist nicht einfach für sie. Darkveil geht einfach nur noch ein bisschen an, als TSM versucht zu retten. Oblivion also in Monument zu tun, hier zu den TSM-Squaden. Ja, es ist ein guter Wall, eigentlich, von Verhofst, auf der Katalysst, zu machen, dass er sich auf die Liner Sight geführt hat, und es gibt einen kleinen Korner für alle.
02:32:17 Ja, das ist nicht so easy für sie.
02:32:43 Das Thermite might be able to get out of power. Unfortunately, power goes down. And CSM down to just a 2 now. And who else? It's Zynu with the Kraber as well from distance being able to finish off that knock. CSM at the moment is probably thinking, this isn't a very fun game, is it? Just let it survive. And now they've got decisions to make. Do they go for the banner? Do they try and get in a position to get a hull back in the game like we saw Dark Zero do?
02:33:09 I was holding my breath to make sure that the Kraber reticle didn't wobble beside you there because you could see he was lining it up.
02:33:17 He certainly has a sightline on it, but doesn't want to waste too many bullets on kills that they can't necessarily convert. So just going to hold and have some trigger discipline. As I say that, he's like, actually, screw it. They're on the balloon. It's easy targets. Imagine if he hits that with the bullet drop. That would have been quite some shot. Danyu now decides he's going to turn his rotation away. And you have to say POP. Not only are they in a great position.
02:33:41 Weil sie die Height-of-Epicenter zu sehen sind, um die Teams von Monument zu sehen, als TSM, of course, hat das Kraber da auch gemacht. Das macht es so schwierig für die Teams zu even considerieren. Sie wissen, wo die Bullets sind. Sie werden das Kraber gehört, in so eine Distinktive Audio Queue für die Teams. So, PLP wird hier sicher sein für ein paar Zeit.
02:34:01 Ja, eine große Circle Pool für sie und die Position, die sie sich in gefunden haben. Alle werden müssen zu Monumenten gehen. Es gibt noch mehr Platz, oder mehr Platz zu spielen, wie es funktioniert. Es gibt noch viel Platz auf dem South-West-Side. Und obwohl es nicht eine garantie Position für Sie in der Late-Game ist, es ist ein Ort, wenn Sie sich in der Late-Game zurückkehren können. Es ist nicht all DOOM und GLOB, aber Sie müssen eine Secondary Plan once Sie kommen.
02:34:30 is the bigger picture. How do you win this game? That's what everyone's thinking at the moment. When you're in this kind of stage, everyone's like, where do we need to go to win? No one's really committing to fights and committing to just second place just yet.
02:34:42 Ich habe ein Gefühl, dass es ein Buster Sword ist. Ich habe ein Gefühl, dass er es sich um, weil das ist, dass es ziemlich heavy ist.
02:35:03 So many bad Final Fantasy VII references going through my head right now, by the way.
02:35:30 Ich habe den Buster gesehen, ich habe den Fenyx gesehen. Ich habe den Summon gesehen. Ich habe das Gefühl, dass ich den Kross-Over war. Ich habe den Kross-Over gemacht. Ich habe den Kross-Over gemacht. Ich habe den Kross-Over gemacht. Ich habe den Kross-Over gemacht. Ich habe den Kross-Over gemacht.
02:35:57 Ich wirklich mag diese Phase-Roster und die mehr ich sie spielen kann, die mehr ich denke, dass sie eine Real-Threat sein können. Ich habe immer viel Respekt für Snipe-Down und seine Abilität, aber wir müssen uns über Pandas und Zera sprechen.
02:36:10 Ich glaube, es ist einfach so, wie es die anderen Teams gibt. Und was sie eigentlich noch dazu adden, ist, dass ich, als ein Unit, diese Leute spielen in eine andere Weise, sie wissen, was sie wollen, und in den Fights, wir haben sie gemacht, sie sehen, sie funktionieren gut und Chemistrie ist natürlich zu ihnen. Also, ich denke, als sie werden und wir weitergehen, sie werden nur noch besser werden.
02:36:28 Ja, ich denke, das ist die wichtigste Worte zu benutzen. Ich denke, das ist die wichtigste Worte. Ich denke, das ist die Worte. Wer ist die Worte? Wer ist die Leiter? Wer ist die Worte? Und ich denke, Azera Tricky hat die größte. Man könnte sagen, dass Co-Igling hat. Und Snipe Down hat sich in die Position des Komforten, die ist, pick up die Kills. Do was du best best. Make sure du die nice Snipe Down-like Flanks und clean up die damage we tun. Aber Oxygen E-Sports, speaking of Fraggers, sind drei der besten. Und sie haben sie durch den Tunnel. Und Reed ist jetzt zu beherrennt.
02:36:57 Actually, I think they're holding out this team in the tunnel, so it's working out okay for them. You just have to sit back, wait for the other team, and press their advantage if it comes up. Black Hole will go down, but 30 damage, 15, 30. Oh, and it's good ticks with the Vault to make sure the Sleepy Panda goes down. The rest of the team supporting Vayne there to get the initial knock. Sleepy Panda, take a nap.
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02:37:41 How important every single game is here to make sure that when the standings are done at the end of the season, you have as many points as you could have racked up.
02:37:48 Yeah, I mean, there was a period of time during ALGS where you would just get points for where you finished in the overall standings. But now it's about your accumulated points of where you've placed, of where you've got kills that go into the overall standings as well. So it's not about trying to play catch up in games four, five and six. Instead, it's about trying to put as much points on the board in general. And that's why we still will see teams playing it slow, playing their game, not doing anything crazy, not taking too many risks, even in these latter matches.
02:38:17 Das war eine kurze Zeit, wo Skirt in Landslide war, aber das Kampf zu Ende war, hat sich zu schnell geholfen. Sie sind eine der, was, vier Teams aus dieser Zone? Alle anderen sind in Monument, in und um es. Teams wie Phase, Optik, Drop-In werden immer so leichter gehen. TSM ist noch mit der 1, aber Teams wie Elevate, LG, Oblivion, Native, Dark Zero haben alle geholfen in Monument, und sie werden da bleiben.
02:38:44 Ja, ich weiß nicht, ob TSM ist ein 1 oder ein 2. Sie werden auch ein 1 oder ein 2. Ein Team ist ein 1 oder ein 2 oder ein 3 oder ein 3 ist DNO. Wir sehen sie, dass sie über Geyser sind. Sie werden schon viel zu arbeiten, um das Zone zu werden. Sie sollten auch ein Crafting sein können. Über Geyser werden, um das Spiel zu bekommen, um das Spiel zu bekommen, um das Spiel zu bekommen. Sie haben eine Evac-Tower, aber es sieht aus wie Dupe ist 10x schneller als alles.
02:39:08 FaZe ist hier zu Monument. Ich denke, das ist eine Sache zu reden hier mit FaZe ist, das ist das, was es ist, dass sie einen guten Tag für sie machen können. Und diese sind die kinder Games, wo ich denke, dass sie ein guter Gauge haben, wie ein Team ist, weil sie werden sie durch die Mehrheit der Lobby werden müssen. Es ist nicht einfach für sie zu machen, und mit 50 Sekunden leften, das ist wo die Entscheidungen werden müssen. Und ich sage euch, wir haben eine Listen-In-Ready. Wir gehen in die Komms und sehen, was die Plan ist.
02:39:38 Hey, I want you to ping something they just like I mean, no, I just know bridge and we can work in from bridge and that's all I really know Hey bridge to bridge to bridge here Fine LLS is a team right next to me. I'm just laying on a full team my game froze again, bro Honestly, I'm on a full team. That was fucking tragic They're all on the bridge. Oh my god We just went way too fast
02:40:03 Well, it didn't go well, I think is the takeaway from that one, Dan. Still waiting to see what the results of Phase are going to be in these subrotates. But that's kind of exactly what you were talking about. Like, there was questions made, no really solid decision. It was like, I think there's only Bridge that's available for them. And sadly, Bridge wasn't available for them. And they will go down here as our team's starting to lose members. By the way, confirmation TSM are still a 2. I did double-check that one, so apologies there. But that could change very quickly if Dark Zero start to get involved.
Dark Zero's Dominanz und Optic's Aufstieg
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02:40:32 Even as a 2, Verhulst is still able to pick up kills at the moment, Complexity losing a couple of players. Dark Zero inside of Monument though, and once again somehow, they've just managed to work their way into a pretty central position, taking the inside of Monument. By the way, developers, I really want to see ALGS-like Trophy Room added here. I'm just saying, just an idea. Don't worry about it, it's a free one. You can have it, you can take it away. But it was Optic here holding down that bridge. They've got to be careful though, because Zainu is still up on this height.
02:40:56 Die Unterschiede ist, als Oblivion ist, er hat nur einen Schraber mit dem Schraber und es muss gut sein, es ist 140, aber es ist nicht genug. Also, ein Trophy Room ist nicht so schwierig, es gibt nur zwei Teams mit einem Trophy, so sicherlich wird es gut sein, aber ich weiß nicht, dass du gesagt hast... Game Devs ist easy! Ja, so easy! Just build it! Komplexity in Fallen, 15 Squads!
02:41:22 Das bleibt so, dass alle ein extra Platz bekommen haben. P.O.P. still holding this high ground and still threatening everyone that is below them. It's Dark Zero who are trying to press their advantage here at the moment, trying to show us even more consistency going into this match number five. They could really be putting down one heck of a score this series. Well, Flat are going to make their move at the moment and they're going to try and push here. That Q is going to be good enough just to slow this push down though. Flat trying to move in and clean up the damage and should, you would imagine, be in a position to do so, but...
02:41:51 Ich meine, das fühlt sich eine ziemlich unnötige Frag-Grenade zu nehmen. Aber die Queue kommt jetzt, und jetzt werden sie sie versuchen, zu flühen, zu Ende des Spiels, zu Ende des Spiels. Und eine ist auf der Toilette. Das ist niemals ein guter Ort, wenn du mit deinen Träumen gehalten hast. Es ist wie Jurassic Park immer wieder, als er, unfortunately, wird er sein, während er singen Songs auf dem Loon. Aber 28 Sekunden, bis dieses Rund endet. Und ich will sagen, wo diese Zone ist, ist...
02:42:15 D&O in ein guter Platz, so ist Drop-In-Gaming und so sind die zwei weitere TSM-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming-Gaming
02:42:33 Ja, sie sollen einfach über die Brücke gehen. Sie werden nicht sicher sein, aber wenn sie in der Brücke gehen können, dann ist es ein Spiel zu machen. Die TLP, die jetzt haben zu verlassen, sind jetzt in die Position der TSM-Ware in. Early-Game.
02:42:47 Und in der Bühne ist, ich bin sicher, still Dark Zero. So, das könnte ein sehr interessiert sein. Jetzt, wenn wir TSM unter Pressure sehen, werden sie eliminiert. Es ist D.I.G.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
02:43:15 Yeah, you're so vulnerable from different areas that you never really, truly feel safe, especially when there's Krabbers and Bochecks in the lobby that can just pick you off in a couple of bullets. So you do have to be careful, and that's where some of the legends that give you a little bit of cover will come into play here. But now we'll see whether PLP, how they want to approach this next circle. But for now, they're more than happy to reside in this current area as Oxygen Esports go down. 11 squads left.
02:43:41 So Optik pick up some of those kills as well. You saw Skittle Cakes and Optik, speaking of which, they're going to be on that edge of the bridge at the moment. And I mentioned how Optik had a decent enough game in their first one on World's Edge. The second one is looking pretty good as well. One more team to be eliminated before they find themselves in the placement points and dropped. I mean, there's a reason they like Big Mord. It's because you get Big Mord weapons. And look at that R9. All Gold, Digithreat, Gold Mag, plus the Smokes of the Bangalore. He's going to be in a great position to entry and get some decent damage they can push off.
02:44:11 POP, die haben sehr glücklich in ihre Fights all day. Nur 14 Punkte in der Moment, in 12 Position overall, aber still mit zwei Games left, sie können sicherlich hurtle up die Leaderboards in der Killfeed. Sweets getting some action, und Tempo will fall. Now we're down to just 10, aber es looks like LG, even though they pushed that one, they're now being griefed by another squad.
02:44:31 They are, but they're alive for now. Where is Sweet, though? He's on his back for now. It looks like they're going to be trying to move into a position, but dropping down might have been the worst decision, as now you'll find a team walking around that corner is going to take them down, and it's Dark Zero, who, again, picked the perfect moment to pounce on a team who was weak, who looked vulnerable, and LG will find themselves the most vulnerable as they will hit the death box. Yeah, taking advantage of some of those squads that were just griefing from a distance.
02:44:58 Das ist was hier passiert, wenn es so close ist. Aber in der Öffnung, wie du schon erwähnt, wird es kommen von anderen Teams, die vielleicht nicht mehr involviert werden, aber sie können auch ein bisschen helfen. Die Dark Veils haben jetzt zu gehen, um ein bisschen mehr coverage zu geben, um die Teams zu machen. Die Skirten sind auf dieser Reise, aber sie sind sehr vulnerable hier. Aber als Sie sind großartig, als Sie können ein guter Damage machen können, Sie können es funktionieren.
02:45:22 Es ist auch der Pressure. Zero ist zu backen. Elevator haben sie versucht ihren Weg zu erweitern. Es wird eine Top-10-Finisch für sie, mit ein paar Kp. Aber diese Zeit ist Dark Zero, die auf den Top. Aber look at Native, sie sind aufhörbar. Und Dark Zero, als großartig als Sie sind, ist es wahrscheinlich Sie gewinnen.
02:45:40 UNLESS YOUR NAME IS SYKES AND YOU'RE PLAYING KONUIT. HE IS DESTROYING THEM AND FORCING DARK ZERO INTO THIS ZONE. Somehow Dark Zero still alive here and forcing Native back and making it work and Sykes, you know there's a lot of pressure on this young man's shoulders being added to this roster but boy is he living up to expectations. They may well go down here Dark Zero but they've been able to stay alive to get those extra placement points in the very least as Sykes still just about surviving. Yeah Sykes is still a problem as a solo.
02:46:10 Der No will be eliminated in the meantime, and I tell you what, Sykes, he's found himself a kill onto Cenox as well. He is the player that sends them to their deaths. Unfortunately, he will be sent to his as Optic will move in. Optic now into the top five, Dan. It is almost like they have risen. As soon as we changed over to World's Edge, Stormpoint looked a bit ugly for them, but World's Edge looking a completely different story. And correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think Optic got a beacon throughout the entirety of Stormpoint, and...
02:46:36 Vielleicht ist das eine der Gründe, warum wir sehr viel Erfolg haben haben. Aber vielleicht ist es vielleicht etwas besser auf World's Edge. Obtet Gaming ist jetzt zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, zu versuchen, wie die Green Wall ist. Ja, das ist ein Schaffolding. Wenn sie Bangle zu uns sind, dann ist es ein Bangleback. Okay, ich habe alle. Ihr habt alle Art Schäuze. Wir sind ein paar Leute, ja. Ich denke, sie haben einen Knopf. Ja, ich habe einen Knopf. Ja, ich habe einen Knopf. Ja, ich habe einen Knopf. Ja, ich habe einen Knopf.
02:47:04 I bought him blue armor in 30 looking brilliant. I'm gonna kill him You guys under this you guys under this hard work. Oh, they're staring. They have Kramer drops. I crack I have a smoke down. I have Kramer though shit on them. They wall it We can play off the wall play off the wall. I'll pick it on the track to stop. I'm joking. I'm selling Last guy hit 50 blue 50 great money fucking alts Climbing up here breaking it
02:47:33 They're on the wall. I'm up and wall the right side of the right Yes, they're both left okay, I'm going right. I'm going right. I have all the space I'm safe on me. I'm getting back here. Stay for me. Stay for me. Stay for me. Stay for me. Popping a cell. Just fucking play. Hold your second floor.
02:48:02 120 120 on a conduit. I'm safe on this fucking crate. I'm playing on your walls about to go down soon. They have to drop into each other 78 on top guy They won't don't look inside. Oh, we can't we can't They just have to drop into each other. I'm selling I might just is where's the other team? Okay, they're on the hiding the fighting
02:48:30 Vorizons 1, wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1. Wir sind 1.
02:48:53 Yeah, and you saw how Albreleli up in the air just disrupting Optic Gaming as well and giving Flat a little bit more freedom as they utilize that Dark Veil to push over onto the right-hand side. And it was what Optic were worried about. They said, don't let this team push on the right side, but you can't counter a Dark Veil sometimes without a Horizon maybe to get above it, especially when another team can potentially drop on you. So unfortunate for Optic, but they still secured a second-place finish with KP, far better than their performances on Stormpoint earlier today.
02:49:20 Ja, es sollte ein wenig auf den Top-Half der Leaderboarden werden, das ist eine große Unterschiede, richtig? Wir sprechen über die Wochen, wenn du nicht gewaltt für Land gewaltt hast, und es ist meistens eine Auslösung. Wenn du ein wenig gewaltt hast, dann fühlst du ein wenig gewaltt, dann fühlst du ein wenig gewaltt. Und ein Team wie Optik Gaming, mit der Talenten sie haben, wird das noch kommen. Und es ist noch ein weiteres Spiel zu kommen, für Optik. Es ist noch ein ganz anderes Spiel zu gehen, als es nach drei Jahren war, so Optik ist ein sehr guter Start.
02:49:46 Flak, ein Team, die wir noch nicht erwähnt haben. Sie bekommen ihre erste Win-O-The-Day hier. Und eine gewisse Leistung von ihnen zu zeigen, ein bisschen Resilienz in der Final-Circle. Und ein bisschen Decision-Making, wenn die Pressure war. Ja, ein bisschen Decision-Making und, wie Sie es all the time sagen, Hittin'e Schott in den Final-Momenten. Wir können sehen, dass die Teams die Position- und gute Entscheidungen gemacht haben. Aber Sie müssen mit den Dämmen mit den Dämmen machen. Und sie können das genau das machen. Ja, das war von den anderen Team-Aberleli. Aber Sie müssen die Spiel-Aberleli-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-Aberlel-
02:50:14 Ja, das ist sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr, sehr.
02:50:38 Ja, wirklich einfach nur die Punkte an dem Moment. 12 ist ein großes Spiel, weil sie in 6th ist. Und das ist dank zu Sykes, an times zu sein, dass sie ein Mann-Arme in bestimmten Situationen sind, um ein paar Placement Points an den Bord. Also sehr wichtig für ihn und für die Squad. Als wir nach den BOTTOM 10 sehen, ich glaube, da waren immer noch Teams able zu bekommen, hier oder da. Ja, ein paar 3s, ein paar Teamfights, 1 zwischen bestimmten Squaden. Und dann wieder, Early Fights nicht weiter.
02:51:08 von anderen Teams. Ich möchte auch sagen, dass Sykes SOMEHOW got Dark Zero aus dieser Position. Ich weiß nicht, ob sie sind. Sie waren, eigentlich, weil er die Kiel auf den Final-Member, der DNO hat. Also gibt es ein extra Placement Point, so ein paar Dinge wie das. Ein paar Augen auf ihn, understandlich, um das Dark Zero zu machen. Es ist ein großer Weg zu machen, richtig?
02:51:29 You know, Exet are a team who have had success in North America. We know how good they've been. Have they been able to turn up on LAN in the same way? You have to maybe say no. Historically, they haven't. But Dark Zero have won championships. You can kind of maybe understand why that move was enticing for him. But again, he would be aware of what's happened previously on that Dark Zero roster, right? He would be aware of some of the roundabout players that have been there. But I've got to give a huge amount of respect to him for making that move, for making that play and backing himself and showing as well in the first week here that he can be...
02:51:58 that consistent missing piece that maybe Dark Zero and Jim Burton and Zero felt themselves might have been missing. Yeah, and even though it's a tough decision and it's a risky decision, it's a smart one as well. You're joining LAN winners. You're joining the only other team that has ever won trophies in this game, and you're putting yourself within the opportunity to be the best, and you're trusting that Dark Zero can find that same kind of firepower that they had in previous seasons.
02:52:22 Well, one team, of course, we've got to talk about is going to be flat, the winners of our previous game. Even though we had a big points total coming in from Dark Zero, these two teams that we see on our screen were very much involved in that final fight. First place and second place, 12 placement points and nine respectively, as you would imagine. And not much between them, Dan. You're looking at damage stats, you're looking at assists, maybe a few more for Optic, but that's about as close as it gets. Yeah, quite a similar story, really.
02:52:47 Ich muss sagen, ich liebe die Logo. Aber als wir alle wissen, die Erde ist eine Cube.
02:53:14 Das ist ein Joke bei euch, aber nicht so weird. Darg Zero ist auf dem Top 82. Und sie sind jetzt ein Lead, Dan. Jetzt! Welche? Ich werde es nicht sagen, bis zum Schluss. Potenzial? Potenzial? Potenzial? Potenzial?
02:53:42 You know, TSM would have to fall early again, which it has happened. World's Edge hasn't really gone the way that it did for Stormpoint for them. But most importantly, Dark Zero have 82 points, Mark. They are putting on such a clinic at the moment, such a huge points haul, which is going to do them wonders, even early days, thinking about qualification for playoffs. Yeah, I think it's a great performance from them, a huge amount of points. And I think as well, with all these team changes that have gone down...
02:54:06 No one really knows how it's going to work until we get into these lobbies. And I think if you have early success here, like Dark Zero have, and as they would expect to have as well, I think it just means that they believe that this was the right move, right? And they're going to feel very, very confident going into the weeks ahead. Speaking of what's coming up, we've got one more game to get done, and we're going to go for a quick break before we get there. We've got one more game on World's Edge. When we get back, we're going to bring it to your eyes.
02:56:21 It's been a great day, Dan. It's been so good to have the ALGS back. I've had a smile on my face for the majority of the day because I've just been enjoying being back and seeing the Apex on our screen, seeing all the team changes and how they're working out. But we've still got some unresolved business ahead of us as Flat take the previous game. We've got one more game on World's Edge to see if Dark Zero can complete what has been a pretty much perfect first day for them so far. If it ends with a bonus point, by the way, you've got to come up with something. I don't know what it is, but...
02:56:49 Es ist ein Moment, Dan. Es ist ein Moment.
02:57:14 Ja, das ist... Ja... Ich meine, es ist schon ein Contest, aber ich glaube, dass es nicht wirklich ein Punkt ist, dass wir genug Loot haben.
02:57:40 Still, though, a good amount of points. Fifth place, 31. They've done pretty well, especially considering Dark Zero have been mopping up the majority.
02:58:03 Und wenn diese Lobbys passieren, du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst, du musst, und ich will sagen, LG hat gut gemacht mit dem, dass, auch mit baden Situationen, sie hat gut gemacht, um sie in besseren Situationen zu bringen. Und es war ein bisschen Dicey gegen Skurt hier, um Lava Fischer zu sehen. Elevate war auch noch ein Blick, aber LG war able zu kommen und gut. Jetzt, wir waren über den Contest, was passiert bei Geyser, oder die Split, bei Geyser.
Strategische Rotationen und Teamentscheidungen im frühen Spiel
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02:58:30 We're heading down there between Lava Siphon and Geyser. Might be Hilltop on the house is where our finish could be. And FaZe have positioned themselves very close to it. But Drop-In Gaming taking one of the priority positions. Yeah, they are indeed. And TSM, this is going to be an interesting one. I'm just trying to see. I think they did have ring console information. So look at this decision being made by TSM. Defining Quick Rotate, leaving with White, White, Blue from Siphon. Because they had a ring console. And of course, they have the ability to hit it. So...
02:58:58 They're going to be in a great position here to get into a good spot where they believe it's going to be for Endzone and pretty sure that anyone who goes through Syphon would have seen the TSM on here. We're at TSM, we're going to have to follow them.
02:59:10 And look at everyone following as well. As soon as they see someone in the sky diving over towards Geyser, other teams start to follow suit. There is a lot of copycat nature in rotations here in Apex Legends because not everyone is going to have beacon information. Not everyone is going to have ring console information. So instead you have to kind of look to the skies and see what's happening elsewhere. And sometimes you'll replicate that. Sometimes you'll commit to what you think it's going to be. But a lot of teams moving further into Geyser maybe than they would usually.
02:59:38 Rebs just about made it. I always feel like on the crosses, when TSM rotates, if one player goes down, it's reps. I don't know why it is. I mean, he's got the best movement, right, on M&K, but it always seems like he's the one who gets focused. I kind of feel sorry for him. I don't know why. I've got a lot of sympathy for reps and what he has to do for TSM and the fact that he doesn't get enough love, okay? I'm just saying. I'm the biggest reps fan out there. Arguably, at times, he's going to be the most important player.
03:00:04 We talk about M&K, we talk about Controller and the differences that are available to you, but we know that Reps plays a vital part for TSM. But you're right, it does seem like... I was about to say, we've had Messi versus Ronaldo, let's not bring up M&K versus Ricciola. Yeah, that's a very different conversation, which will spark outrage, I'm sure. Elevate making their rotation through the tunnel.
03:00:24 Looks like they were able to get ahead of the likes of LG, the likes of Skurt. They didn't really press onto the third party. Instead, quite intelligently so, they move in and will start to make their rotation. Yeah, I've been pretty impressed with the decisions from EA. I think one thing that maybe Zack Major as an IGL has been a little bit guilty of sometimes in the past is not taking that extra beat to think about the decision. And it seems like this time they're just taking that extra second sometimes just to make, is this the right play?
03:00:52 Ja, es ist. Okay, wir kommen zu es. Instead, ich gehe, alle folgen. Ich denke, die Kommunikation ist ziemlich gut. Und, ihr wisst, dass sie durch die PLQ gehen ist eine gute Indikation von wie sie haben, und wie sie sind, wie sie von Zack haben. Und ich sage, ich habe viele gute Dinge zu sagen. Ich denke, sie sind wirklich gut zusammen. Und plus, Zack hat die Buster Sword. Ihr wisst, ich bin ein großer Fan. Immediately. Hey, ihr wisst, ich habe Final Fantasy 7. Did you know that? Just als eine Final Note.
03:01:19 Der Grund, warum ich die Boss Disorder habe ist, dass du es auf jeden Legend hast. Und ich liebe das, dass ich einen Erlund habe, no matter who I'm playing. Aber ja, ich liebe Final Fantasy, ich kann sagen. Danke. Ja, ich bin ein großer Fan. Ich war ein bisschen worried, dass wir uns geholfen werden. Ich dachte, die Nade war der Weg. Aber eigentlich, sie sind die Aggressors. Und sie werden nicht nur noch geholfen. Aber die Circle, wir sind so weit entfernt hier. Everyone auf der westen Seite kinder muss...
03:01:48 One of two ways. You have to go fast or slow. If there's any middle ground, you could be punished. So you need a clear direction of which way you want to move. I think one thing to point out here is the comparison of something we talked about in the previous game, where we're saying, hey, Faze have a tough rotate here. They have to go through a lot of traffic. They had to go through Monument.
03:02:04 When we went to the listening and the decision-making process, it sounded a little bit like there was a lack of confidence on the call and who was going to be making it. Well, let's compare what happens in this game to Dark Zero, right? Because they've had to go all the way over from Skyhook Trialside towards where Geyser is going to be. And that is just as tough a rotate. So many teams to have to go through for them. And I'm just interested to compare how they navigate it in comparison. Because this is an opportunity for TSM to maybe close that gap, right? TSM were in second place before that previous game.
03:02:33 Dark Zero have kind of extended that lead ever so slightly. But TSM have perfect prior to this zone. Plus they had the ring console to give them a little bit more zone information. So it's kind of a tale of two different teams this time. One's quickly rotated to what they think is going to be Godspot. One has to work their way through so much traffic. And you can see Dark Zero there right at the top of your screen. Making their way just past Countdown towards Monument. And TSM banging the center of that zone. I think it's going to be a very interesting story to follow.
Kampf um Positionen und strategische Zonen-Plays
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03:02:59 Ja, und du hast die Entry-Points hier, von Geyser und die gesamten Bereichen. Es gibt einen Schöpfe auf dem Norden, ein Schöpfe auf dem Süden, also. So, dein Seifers bettet wird, dass du von der Westen kommstst, aber dann wird es durch die meisten Team sein, weil es die meisten Spielern gibt, so es wird viel mehr Augen auf dich sein. So, es ist, ob du versuchen, eine Süd- oder North-Rotation zu versuchen, oder ob du versuchen, Brute-Force in. Es gibt immer die Option für Evac Towers, und wir haben schon so viele Evac-Towers gesehen, so far heute. Speaking of the devil, Dark-Zero starten.
03:03:28 Es gibt einen Schritt-by-stepen Prozess hier für Dark Zero und sie haben ein bisschen die Cushion, so zu sprechen, mit den Points sie bereits auf dem Board zu wissen, dass das, wenn sie ihren Weg in den Top 10 hier mit ein paar KP, es sollte genug sein, wie Sie sagen, zu vielleicht gewinnen.
03:03:48 Es gibt ein paar Teams, die werden viel, viel weiter für Platz 1 gewonnen haben, als KP wird sie in die Position, um sie in die Ranking zu gehen. Skirte ist eine solche Team. Sie sehen, dass Albreleli in der Moment ist, ein paar Wallbouncers zu vermeiden. Und sie haben jetzt schon mal geschafft. Ich sage das aber, Albreleli wird es noch mehr, wenn er will, und er wird es noch mehr, wenn er will, und er wird es noch mehr, wenn er will, und er wird es noch mehr, wenn er will. Wie soll er das? Er braucht es für ihn. Er braucht es für den Rest des Team. Er braucht es für den Rest des Team. Er braucht es für dich. Das ist für dich.
03:04:15 Oh, my goodness. The 30-30. Doing exactly what you will need and what you require when you are covering a teammate. Disgusting gun, I will say, by the way. Double-heading. And the body with the H-Cog. Okay. Awakening. Name to watch for sure. PLP note.
03:04:33 Ein Mann zu sehen, ein Mann zu gewinnen. Ein Mann zu gewinnen, ein Land Championship. Er wird jetzt eine Death Box, als PLP wird geblieben. Und obwohl wir ein paar Dinge sagen können, ich denke, dass sie ein bisschen disappointed sind, mit den Final Stand-In-Series Complexity sind. Sie haben die Hill House, und das ist ein guter Platz zu halten für diese Zone.
03:04:53 Ja, der POP war ein bisschen besser als Ende, das ist sicher. Komplexität, 9th Position, 26 KP, nein, 26 Punkte! Sie haben noch 26 Punkte gemacht, ignore das. Der Punkt ist 26. Sie versuchen das zu verbessern, um in die Nummer 6 zu machen. Und sie sollten so aus der Position sein können. Es gibt definitiv Punkte, die zu ihnen sind. Speaking von Flatt, unsere Verteilung sind in 6th in der Moment.
03:05:17 Now arriving from the south-east side, but a few teams holding them out from Lava Siphon, and with the circle now moving back over to Siphon as well, ever so slightly, depending on who had that ring console information, this may change rotations a little bit, and we might see more teams just trying to stay alive on the edges of Siphon.
03:05:34 Interessant to see what the play is here for a few of these teams. Skurs still being chased, by the way. This has been a little bit difficult for them. They finally will have their game ended. It felt like they were kind of just being chased or stuck between a couple of teams a few times, and they weren't able to make too much work. That Dark Veja was going to be perfect, though, to stop the push coming in from Oxygen. They didn't want to push, by the way. There's a Skynate for them, a little present with their name on it. And Oxygen, who, again, 11th place today, haven't...
03:05:58 Ja, ihr wollt einfach nur ein paar Punkte, wenn ihr endet auf die Spiel-Offs endet. Und ich würde sagen, für mich, ihr wollt eben für...
03:06:20 30 plus if you want to be if you can achieve 30 plus each week you're probably going to be in a relatively comfortable spot even if you don't have one of those demon weeks but oxygen are capable of having that big game so they certainly can propel themselves up the leaderboards here in match number six if they can find themselves in a good position it's good not positions this was the northern joke that i was talking about if dark zero are going to hold and it's just temper they're the only team on the northern side that really dark zero should have to worry about
03:06:48 Yeah, Dark Zero have got all the head glitches, all the rock formations to play here as well. Temper are going to have to move towards them. I wonder what the composition is for Temper maybe, if they have a Bangalore that can force Dark Zero back for a few seconds to give them a little bit more space with that ultimate. But look at the zone down and look at Phase. Phase are...
03:07:05 Schlap-Bang in the center in one of the only buildings that is there. There's a couple of areas, of course, that you can play for cover, but FaZe are going to be feeling very good and it's another opportunity for them to convert on some good points. And we'll come back to that later after this fight between Dark Zero and Tempo, but it looks like it's going to be the end for Tempo. Dark Zero pressing their advantage now. They just need to be careful they don't lose anyone in this push. With Cloaked falling, this should just be a matter of wrapping it up and hoping no one pushes. But actually, I'm seeing on the map overhead, Eternal have used...
03:07:34 Ja, aber look at das Wingman. Das Wingman hat sich jetzt nicht so gut gemacht, aber jetzt sind die Position gezwungen. Aber ein Headshot mit dem Wingman wird von 95. Und信 mir, es tut mir.
03:07:57 So one wingman is enough to take down two players, you feel, in some of the Dark Zero players' hands. Eternal got to back off for now as they try and retreat. Shot's going to be delivered to their back as well while they do so, and I kind of like this decision, to be honest with you. Saw that the fight wasn't really there for the taking, didn't get the initial damage or the knock on the third party, so decided let's play Gatekeeper, let's play the high ground and force them to be towards us. Well, they were in Vault and they literally heard the damage and decided to take that chance and take that risk, but Dark Zero are pressing up and getting...
03:08:26 Aggressive on them, meanwhile Optic Gaming down to Jester 2, and they're playing a game of survival down on the low ground at the moment. This is always such a tough position to play, because there's going to be so many eyes on from high ground, but Skillcake's just doing what he can to survive it as well.
03:08:40 Obtet down to 2. Dark Zero taking on Eternal once more. Zero's taking a huge amount of damage. And so is Jim Burton as well. Look at Jim Burton down to the definition of 1 HP. But somehow Jim Burton gets the first knock. I mean, it's just what he does, right? He's 1 HP. He turns around. He hits the 30-30 shot. That's what I talked about. The opening damage is massive in fights. And now Jen can move in. He will go down, but Eternal will be finished off. And it's Sykes. Surprise, surprise. He moves in to clean up some of that.
03:09:06 Dark Zero should get the reset here. No one's going to push up this hill onto this choke. So even though they lost that position temporarily, they knew how important what...
03:09:13 wie wichtig es war, und die Position zurückzukehren und wieder zurückzukehren. Nun, zurück zu einem vorherigen Punkt über Phase zu sein, dass sie nicht sogar eine Ring-Console hatten. Die anderen Team, die mit ihnen haben, haben sie den Ring-Console ausgesucht, aus dem Outer-Side von Geyser. So, sie waren haltet ihr beten, was sie gesehen hat, nur von der Original-Circle-Knowledge zu sehen, aber sie finden sich in eine gute Zeit.
03:09:37 E8 haben sich in einem guten Platz in der Bar momentan und das Bildung wird sicher sein. Die Zone starte zu close als auch. LG haben sich durch die Choke und sie sind in der Momentan mit GKS auf der Eastern Seite, aber Complexity ist, sie sind in einer dieser Bühne und sie sind noch in den Momentan zu kämpfen. Es gibt noch ein bisschen Co-Habitation, als Oblivion wird auf der Outside sein, aber sie nehmen die Bridge und nehmen sie zurück und nehmen sie zurück.
03:10:05 ...Zone closed. Looking elsewhere, Dan, you can see on the map overhead TSM. I'm not sure what the zone read was or the decision was, but they're going to have to work pretty hard to get back into this zone now. Yeah, they were very much thinking it was going to pull over towards the Hill House and Geyser. Hasn't done so, and now this is where you get to see...
03:10:22 What a team does when they've made a decision when the zone doesn't go your way. Where do TSM go from here? Elsewhere you saw on the southern side, there's about five or six teams all in the same area, all still on the edges of Lava Siphon at the moment, who are all going to have to move in. Ape Gang, Oxygen, Flat, Secret Formula, all just hunkered down and so close to one another, and Native also in that area too. So there's going to be a lot of action in the kill feed shortly as TSM sends an evac tower to the skies and, well, let's see, where do you go?
03:10:52 Wenn es so ist, wenn es so ist.
03:11:06 Are they going to be safe? They have to use the Dark Veil, and that means they're not going to have it available. Some shots coming in from all sorts of directions. Can they stabilize here, TSM? It's a risky play. There's a team up on the crane as well. I get the feeling that TSM might be forced to take a fight here, and if I know TSM, they might think about forcing the fight onto Phase. Yeah, people shooting blind at the moment, shooting through the Dark Veil, but still doing damage, which is very annoying for TSM, but they're going to heal up. As soon as this Dark Veil goes down, they are extremely vulnerable.
03:11:33 So they do have to be careful. They're maybe just hoping that they don't have a sight line on them. And as you say, otherwise they might have to take the fight, but they're trying to make themselves big. They're very much puffing their chest out at the moment and dealing damage where it's available. Well, meds is a problem for them as well. You can see that Verhul's only got two cells. He's got three bats to play with, but when you're taking continual chip damage, that's going to put their healing economy at a little bit of a premium.
03:11:56 Also, still no attachments. You have to wonder with the SMGs when they come out as well. Will they be able to win fights with someone against that mag? That's just going to be able to do that a little bit more damage for a little bit longer. But look at that kill fee dropping gone. Flag gone. Complexity gone as well. And TSM are safe. Let's jump into a listening and see if they can survive this situation. Yep. We don't want to drop low ground. We have Nosex cells, right? Can you put a Mobi down? Can you put a Mobi down so we can recover? Maybe on this fence right here? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:12:27 Can't play that because it's gonna be someone's below me We might get pushed because we put a Bobby down pop and show Team top bridge people top bridge. What do you have tell all that's 50 what I don't think cells know it excels
03:12:48 We have to shoot bridge. We have to shoot bridge and fuse off bridge side, okay? Okay. I'm gonna fuse it like right here. I'm gonna fuse it like right here. Yeah, you want to cut off anyone that tries to come this way. Use your thermites. Use your thermites and shit. They're fighting north side. 60 on 2 over here. Look north. Free kills north.
03:13:10 Hier ist ein Ding, der Walk-Up. Ja, ich bin ein, ich bin ein, ich bin ein.
TSM's Überleben und LG's Triumph im Endspiel
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03:13:39 Dark Zero fall, TSM still survive here, and they also take down EA. You heard it from the comms that that is a massive kill for them. That opens the leaderboard for TSM to maybe do something special. Yeah, the fact they've been able to get into this position, survive, and then still fight their way out is very impressive from TSM, but are they able to win the game from here? That'll be the real question. Can they close that gap between themselves and Dark Zero with them now falling, but also put some big points on the board for the overall standings. Reeds in a tough spot between a rock.
03:14:08 und ein Rock, und Oxygen zu versuchen, zu versuchen, und vielleicht auch ein Placement Points zu bekommen. TSM hat ein wenig zu tun. Sie sehen, der Hau hat seine Schilden gebrochen und Flesh Damage, auch. Er hat sich die Sekunde zu einfachen. Und wieder, wir haben uns über die Ökonomie für TSM gesprochen. Das kann auch die Einzügekirchen werden, als vielleicht Ammo. Sie sehen, das wird dann auch getrennt durchgeführt, als TSM hat eine Feuer-Off gegen Teams auf den Ouskirchen, um sie zu einfachen gehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen, um sie zu gehen.
03:14:35 But for now it's working for them. But look at LG as well, Dan. LG once again into a position here to maybe capitalize on an endgame. The story for them so far is close, but not quite good enough in those final moments. Is this going to be the game where it changes? Certainly LG and Oblivion both in good spots at the moment. If they can just avoid the damage that's arriving from the teams that are up on the high ground, then they may be able to worm their way in. You can see the circle is pulling ever so slightly closer towards the likes of Oblivion and LG, but...
03:15:04 Everything can change. If you send it a little bit too soon, if you start to get focused and actually Oblivion, they moved in. They said, actually, we don't feel safe here. They try and dive on Oxygen and because of that, they've taken too much damage. Reeds are still alive. LG capitalized on it as well. And Oblivion have lost the majority of their team, if not all of it at this point. It looks like they've gone down. This is really interesting because 8Gang are going to have to leave the height, which means they have to fall above.
03:15:26 Das ist die Möglichkeit für Loot, das TSM für so lange ist.
03:15:49 Ich denke, FaZe hat noch eine Alive, aber natürlich die Dämpfe hat sich gemacht. Zerra ist jetzt übernommen, wie ein Rat und versucht, FaZe in den Top-3 zu nehmen, aber LG wird bald sehen, als TSM in den Skies gehen, aber will nicht nachdenken. Ich habe es nicht gesagt, ich habe es gesagt, ich habe es gesagt, ich habe es gesagt, als M&K Reps geht, aber Verhof senden sich in, 8-Gang eliminiert, drei Squads left. Kann sie halten, das ist die Frage, das ist die Frage, Imperial-Hauw ist auf seinem eigenen, 8-Gang down, FaZe eliminiert...
03:16:17 Ja, da waren viele Fragen gefragt.
03:16:38 Luminosity in general picking up this roster, especially the roster they had dropped previously, who were a top 5 team, now PH of course, and maybe a new team, but we will see what their name is going to be next week. These guys have demonstrated time and time again that they can get into final circles. We just hadn't seen them convert today. They convert it, they get it done, they play it successfully. Very impressed with how that's gone down. That's going to be a big points total for LG as well. We're just going to put them right up there when we look at the overall leaderboards.
03:17:05 Very, very interested to see how these leaderboards do look at the end of things as well, because we heard from the TSM listening, they were very happy they'd eliminated E8, because they knew how close they were on the standings as well. Dark Zero forcing their way into a position where I think they got inside of the placement points, and they also definitely had some KP to put on that, so you would imagine that Dark Zero, they've probably done enough to hold down first, but everywhere else, it's very interesting. Phased as well, decent points in that game, but LG, I think...
03:17:33 I mentioned how Team Changes, the only way to kind of validate them and feel confident in the decision you made is to win games of Apex. Well, LG have done that today. They win that final game and shown that they can get it done in the endgame. Yeah, we are going to see the gap closed as well with the...
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03:18:09 Sie werden noch die Vektoren gewonnen haben. Sie werden noch eine unglaubliche Punkte gewonnen haben. Aber die Top 10 ist ein sehr beeindruckendes Spiel für einige Teams, die wirklich braucht es.
03:18:21 Yeah, Elevate again inside that top 10, some KP, some placement points, that will do them every single day of the week. Elsewhere, the winners of our previous game flat, not so much of a good game in our final one of the day, just a one point for them. It's got a little bit quiet and PLP, I have to say, a little bit quiet today on the overall standings. Complexity as well, they had a pretty good start to the day, but just got a little bit quiet towards the end of it. And I think it's going to be interesting to watch how the final standings look now that we see A and B conclude.
Zusammenfassung der Teamleistungen und MVP-Auszeichnung
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03:18:50 Und wir sehen uns die Punkte auf den Bord, Dan. Wir sind sicher zu sehen, die Frontrunners sind, in diesem Region Reinde. Es ist klar, Dark Zero, TSM, Elevate sind alle da, aber LG sind auch in der Contention, zu bezeichnen hier. Absolutely. Killers, ready zu gehen, winn any game, at any moment. These sind die Teams in A&B, die werden uns eine Elektrik performance every time sie clash. Wir werden sehen, obviously, diese Gruppe kommen zusammen in ein paar Wochen wieder, aber das war...
03:19:18 Amazing. Let's walk through those last moments on World's Edge because there are a few teams we mentioned at the top, guys. You know, TSM, DZ, obviously FaZe had a good game there. LG with their first win, which was big for Sweet. But in this first World's Edge game that Onset UNICast, there are a few teams that surprised me as well. E8, great positioning. Dark Zero, they really started to turn the corner and really put themselves in first place. But teams like Ape Gang, who 10 points in this last game in Game 6, had...
03:19:45 Ja, sie hat eine sehr gute Zeit auf den Kraten. Die Schwung ist, dass die Zonepulung von ihnen ein bisschen Probleme hat, weil sie ein paar Probleme hatten, weil sie ein paar Probleme hatten, weil sie ein paar Teile hatten.
03:20:06 We know how good these teams are and how well they teamfight. That second is enough for damage to be done and for the fight to be resolved. But I think Dark Zero for me are probably the team, understandably, who are the most impressive today. And I'm not just talking about results, I'm talking about synergy. I love how Sykes has just naturally fitted in on this team, right? Everyone has a clear role with just naturally how they play Apex. And I'm pretty... I think I'd be pretty scared if I'm the rest of North America and the rest of the world at the moment with how they are...
03:20:33 Es ist wirklich ein marvel zu sehen. Wir haben es sehen, es vor uns die Fragen zu sehen.
03:20:46 Becoming statements and then being answered so emphatically that there's a ton of exclamation points, kind of like you're trying to sound pleasant in a work email and not saying something that sounds like, hey, that's not gonna work for me. When you go into the second game though, game five, I think ultimately this kind of set the tone of could we see the start of something new for Optic, who I think, Dan, were on the tip of our tongues at the start of this match, kind of fell to the wayside for most of these games. Yeah, really struggled on Stormpoint. As I said, it could have been down to lack of ring console for them,
03:21:15 But the fact they had this game, which I believe puts them around fifth place in the overall standings, means that it's still a successful week for them, despite not having the luck on their side, as it were, over on the other map. So it's so important when you have these opportunities to get into a final circle that you do capitalize on it. Sure, Optic didn't win this one, but it was a big kill game, a lot of placement points that they have to work with, and they'll be delighted they were able to put something on the board in what was a rough week for them, but I'm sure they'll still be happy.
03:21:43 Not even a great week, but they still, just with their, it seems like, their fundamentals get the job done and find a good placement so that they can work on things next week. I am still waiting for who is that person on Optic who's going to step up. It's been so many times Hal on TSM. A lot of times it's been Verhoels, though. Who's going to make the big play for Optic? That really puts them into the next echelon. We know who it's going to be when we talk about LG as well, and that seems to be what started here. A fire burning physically in front of...
03:22:13 TSM in this as they kept the high ground but low ground a fire burning inside LG knew they wanted to get a win at least one win on their debut with this new roster and sweet Slayer and Funk did just that Sarah tricky doing a good job to get some placement points obviously four squads here so surviving to get that top three which makes a difference for face really solid performance from them but verhals how they go for the KP they feel pretty safe versus a little too far out of the way with
03:22:39 wie Dark Zero war. Und mit E8, die nicht wirklich haben, haben Sie sich nicht über die Worte zu gewinnen. Aber LG, Sie wissen, dass sie es. Und das führt uns zu den Overallen Standings von Day 1 in Split 1 in Jahr 4. Dark Zero, 90 Punkte. No Bonus Points yet, Dan.
03:22:56 But a heck of a day for DZ. Yeah, no jingle that I haven't created yet, but very much will make one if it happens, if we see a team get a bonus point. So kind of we see our big four, Dark Zero, TSM, Elevate and LG, and then Optic, the best of the rest, putting 36 points on the board, but only just pipping those who are a little bit lower. So we know who's going to take the headlines, and there was a few teams who maybe didn't perform as well as we would have expected. Certainly teams who were looking pretty promising in Games 1 and 2, but then dropped off.
03:23:25 Und Marc, obviously, you know, this has been a very...
03:23:44 I think it's been a great start. It's been electric. Oxygen Esports, some of those teams that they just need to stay in the mix. They need to just make land. We know how good a few of these teams have already proven that when they get to the show, that they work well within the limelight. But overall, pretty solid performance. The top players, we expected them to perform, and they did. Yeah, I mean, I look at those overall standards, and there's a couple of things to talk about, right? There's the obvious TSM Dark Zero. That's going to be talked about for quite some time.
03:24:10 Teams, I think, will be very happy with that day number one. But there's the Elevate story. Also, if you look what happened at the end of the day with the standings in comparison to how we were after three maps.
03:24:19 Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.
03:24:45 Ich glaube, dass sie ein bisschen mehr kontrollieren, um ein POI zu verändern. Und wenn sie etwas zu tun haben, ist, dass sie etwas zu arbeiten für sie. Und als die Hoffnung grows, ich denke, dass die IGL-Calls wird ein bisschen clearer werden. Everyone ist auf der gleichen Seite. Und ich denke, dass ein viel growth für diese Röster ist.
03:24:59 Oh, there's a ton of growth. And I have loved seeing these new teams, maybe some new faces show up. And that's why at the end of the day, we always have to book in a broadcast with an MVP. Last time in a me, I brought out the glasses. You know, I'm not sure I'm going to do it this time around. But I will say that there is nothing to hide when it comes to the way this man played. There's no shade being thrown.
03:25:24 He, to me, is the MVP of today and not only part of the winning team of Dark Zero. You talk about the journey that this man must have gone through over the course of his time in the last four months. A crazy offseason for us all. Not a lot of Apex Legends. There's really no way to figure out if, hey, where do I really stand amongst the best of the best? It's holidays. It's scrims. Not a good litmus test. So question marks for sure. And of course, not being a part of the X set. That was a team that he had built a lot of good
03:25:54 Das ist heute, er hat er die MVP, nicht nur von wo er ist, sondern von wo er ist. Aber was der Zukunft jetzt ist, wenn sie das Pace aufhören, ist es nicht nur eine gute Home, aber die beste Home, das wir sehen für Sykes so far. 17 Kills, 15 Assists.
03:26:23 He looked like he played with those two players for
03:26:52 you know, three or four seasons. It just looked like a natural fit. And I'm really excited for him, man. I think he's a, I think he's a great player. And I think that he's only going to get better. I think he can learn a lot from zero as well, how to play some of the, the more, shall we say like pressurized situations. And I think the sky's the limit here for dark zero. They look, they look deadly today. I think Dan too, I talked about synergy is a question, you know, I'll ultimately ask when we get a chance to speak with a member of dark zero coming up shortly, but.
03:27:19 There's something to say outside of the game, too, and maybe the mesh that's just looking like you could see the results of what's happened here. They've got to be getting along well with each other just in terms of a team.
03:27:28 Outside of this. I think it's evident with how successful they've been today. They're all listening to each other. They're working in tandem. They're baiting and switching well. And I love that we see Sykes on the conduit as well. It was something you brought up during Emiya, Rain Day, is who do you put that conduit on? Do you go for a more support player who's going to be using those shields in a support way? Or do you put it on your main fragger who can still shield at the same time to one of your teammates, but will ultimately shield themselves in those engagements and something that Sykes did very well today and sometimes was winning 1v1s because of it.
03:27:57 Also, I think Sykes, even breaking that down to the sub-point here, like I'm doing a presentation, I feel like he's that secondary fragger behind Jen Burton when it comes down to winning the crucial fight that will change the game. Jen, he's been in those moments. He can be the guy that kind of takes the limelight and Sykes can do what you need to do and step up in those big times. So for him to be able to have another person to add that cue to or for...
03:28:23 The moments he has to go away and make a big play, that is massive. I just want to double-check I heard. Do we have the interview ready? I think we do. Oh, we got the leaderboard coming up. Okay, I thought something was happening. Here we go. So, in terms of kills, look at this. Dark Zero, I mean, there's no surprise here. Over the course of it, Zero. Sykes, Jim Burton, top three in kills. Verhoels, Imperial, Hal, right behind him.
03:28:44 To me, Mark, Zap and Chubi, I mean, this has been a really nice performance from these guys to kick off the day. Sweet and Funk making it out there. Bursty as well joining that top 10. But, you know, very, very impressed with Elevate and the way that they perform. Yeah, I mean, you're looking across the names that you see in here. A lot of these are the fraggers on the team, right? I mean...
03:29:06 Ich möchte ein Shoutout zu Zero. 21 Kills sind eine Liste voll von Controller-Playern, der Suite auf der Bottom bookend ist. Zero, M&K, 21 Kills, Leading the Way. Ich denke, es ist sehr easy, wenn man Dark Zero schaut, zu Fokus auf Jem Burton und Fokus auf Sykes, der Slayers und Zero ist der IGL, der macht die Calls.
03:29:26 Let me tell you man, Zero is a special kind of player. He isn't an IGL who's going to rely on making calls and then for his two teammates to execute on damage done and fight for positions, he will lead the way. He will headbutt his way on MNK and do so much damage and clean up so many kills. He's so good at engaging and disengaging and doing damage, staying alive to re-engage in that fight if he needs to. He's a special player man, you know, he's one of only a small amount of players who's won an event on LAN and you have to be a special player to do that.
03:29:55 And not even that, multiple times a long time alongside his teammate Chen Burton and being able to do it, it's a special, special thing. And not everyone gets a chance to specifically be in those moments. Dark Zero, no stranger to them though. And as we've talked about them now, we get a chance to talk with them. We are here with Jen Burton from Dark Zero. Jen, how's it going, man? It's great to see you. Congratulations on the win here on Day 1. Thank you so much. How are you guys doing? Hi, everyone.
03:30:23 Hello, mate. How are you? We're good, man. We're good. We want to know how you're doing. I, most importantly, don't want to start with what's been going on with you guys because we had a huge offseason. Last time we saw you, despite a lot of people thinking it would happen, you didn't lift the trophy.
03:30:41 And there was this kind of reset, right? What do we do? Where do we go? Do we keep the squad? Do we add someone new? Walk me through just kind of the stuff you guys talked about honestly with each other and how you got to hear from the offseason a few months ago. So after championships, obviously we had like a 23rd finish. So we had like a pretty unlucky run for the trophy. And then after the championships, we decided with Zero that...
03:31:08 um we're gonna look for a new new third uh honestly i love zynu to death he's one of the best players in the game and obviously phony has picked up zynu and then i'm pretty sure they did pretty well today as well but from that we were looking for options and we had limited options we were looking for guild to be honest uh guild and psyx with like the only two options that were available at the time
03:31:32 And we trialed both of them, and we chose Sykes. And honestly, today he played absolutely phenomenal. He was like the best pick-up I could have ever done. All of us were just popping off. It was insane. I absolutely love that for you guys. I mean, I was going to kind of comment on that, right? Because, you know, Reign avoided the MVP today to Sykes. And there just seemed to be this natural chemistry. When you put a team together...
03:31:57 Sometimes it's something you have to work on, but the way you guys were kind of baiting and switching, you would go in and do damage and Sykes would always be there, kind of as an anchor to move in as a secondary frag to finish it off. And it was almost as if it was just a natural flow. It was almost you didn't have to communicate a lot of the time, just with your natural movement. Is that something that you felt when you started playing with this player immediately? First, to be honest, when we first picked up Sykes for a whole month, we were kind of struggling. We were running Horizon at the time, not Conduit, and we were having chemistry issues.
03:32:26 And then once we put Sykes on Conduit and his more of an anchor player, we were just rolling every single team in 3v3s. And today was literally the highlight of that. We were baiting and switching, we were just on point. All the boys were on point today. So, yeah, we were just playing insane. Yeah, I mean, you guys look incredible. I mean, 90 points that you were able to put down. I mean, already that puts you as land contenders with a points total like that.
03:32:53 Where is the goal? What is the goal for this team? Is it getting back to first place? Do you see this roster being what propels you back onto that championship scene and back into a winning mentality? Yes, this is a championship winning team. Easily. And we want to be the best in the world. We want to prove it again to everyone that we're the best in the world. We're coming back for that trophy. See you, TSM. I see you.
03:33:20 I love that. It's week one and we're getting this kind of fun from you, Jen. I love it. It's on tape, too. Yeah. Hey, man, I kind of led that journey of a thousand steps and that being metaphorically the championship. It starts with day one and this could be the beginning. I mean, what we saw today, it certainly looks like the path is there. You guys just have to walk it. I want to just, before we leave you, though, just really...
03:33:45 Talk about Sykes himself, what he brings specifically. I know you guys are working well chemistry-wise, but is there something outside of just the gameplay? Do you guys get along well with each other? Is it personality? I just want to touch a little bit more on this new roster because we know how you and Zero work together. We've already heard about that. I want to know what you and Zero are really saying about Sykes and what he's bringing to this table.
03:34:10 Okay, well Sykes, he brings the vibes. I love the energy that Sykes provides to the team, and we need that energy. When all three of us link with the energy, we just roll. We're just fluid, you know? Straight up. So that's what Sykes brings to the team, and I really like that. And he's very vocal, too. He likes to talk.
03:34:32 Yeah, I mean, he brought 17 kills as well today and I think 9,000 damage. But the vibes were high. Jin, I want to not keep you too long, man. Just, you know, you've got obviously so many fans around the world. And, you know, shout out to Mama and Papa, Jin Burton over there. And, you know, all the family who's watching. But any shout out to the fam and your fans? Shout out to all the fans, all the DZ fans. We love you all. Love you all. And also, big shout out to Zero today. He absolutely got the IGL.
03:35:02 And big shout out to Sykes, the GOAT. All right, Jin, take it easy, man. Thanks so much for talking with us today and congrats on the win. All right, see you guys. Bye, everyone.
03:35:14 Hey man, you know, you know, vibes, vibes, clearly. That's a man who just won a week of Pro League right there. He is full of beans, isn't he? That is amazing to see. And you know, the positivity you had to say about what Sykes has brought these two teammates. I love that, right? And there just seemed to be something, I don't know if it's just me, but there seemed to be something about the look in Jen's eye, right? There was like this, okay, that was great. And we feel unstoppable. Like it was an amazing, amazing interview. Love it.
03:35:42 Es ist irgendwie das, und Dan, das ist irgendwie das Gefühl, dass belief ist, weil ich das Gefühl habe, da war ein Moment, dass sie die Beliefen verloren haben, und da war ein Weg zu gehen, zu sagen, kann wir das wieder machen? Ich fühle mich jetzt, sie glauben es jetzt, für sicher. Ja, und eigentlich, um ein Team zu sagen, was ihr goals ist ein schlechtes Problem, aber ich fühle mich, dass er wollte.
03:36:05 Ich bin froh, wie gut sie waren. Ich bin froh, wie gut sie waren. Ich bin froh, wie gut sie sind. Sie sind zurück zu Challenge. Ja, sie waren poor performers at den Championships. Aber es scheint, dass das confidence hat, hat sich in den Sieg geöffnet. Ich kann nicht warten, was passiert. Ich bin froh, was passiert. Es ist nur Week 1. Aber was ein unglaublicher Match 1 war für sie. Ich denke, sie waren unglaublich. Und ich bin froh, was passiert.
03:36:30 Ja, für die DZ in der Power Rankings sind 1 oder 2, sie sind either stehen oder gehen up, weil das ist sicherlich eine performance die ganze Welt in Apex Legends zu sprechen. Onset, Gaskin, great job today, fellas. Wir sehen uns sehr, sehr, sehr bald. Enjoy the rest of your week, und congrats on a great Day 1. You too, buddy. All right, ladies and gentlemen, let's get to it, because you know what?
03:36:54 We started, but we are not even close to being done. Next Saturday, it continues with Match Day 2. We'll have the rest of our squad coming in and doing their hosting. We'll have newer faces you haven't seen being a part of this broadcast for a minute and also some familiar faces you know and love. Cannot wait to watch with you all and check out the debuts of some of these teams in EMEA, Aurora, Fire.
03:37:20 Die Beavers haben noch nie ein Teil davon. Sie sind auf Hardecki mit 9 Impulse und der Squad zu machen. Hier in E-Mia. Wir sehen uns, ob sie es richtig machen. DSG, die Dojo in der 4. Und vielleicht ein DREAM. Sie haben das DREAM gemacht.
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03:38:12 Ladies and gentlemen, what a day. What a start. Year four. It is only just beginning. And like we said, with those journeys that are so far away, the only thing we can do is keep taking a step at a time. But I can promise you this. Today is not the greatest day. You will see. There is more, bigger and better, and more excitement to unfold here in the ALGS. So we hope you stay with us and enjoy the ride as we all will. My name's been Rain Day. It's been Onset and Gaskin on the cast. All of our production and crew, everyone from EA and the ALGS.
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