ALGS Year 5 Split 2 Pro League ! Match Day 1 ! Americas ! Group A vs B ! Apex Legends
ALGS Year 5 Split 2: Teams kämpfen um Championship-Plätze in Japan
Die besten Apex Legends Teams kämpfen um einen Preispool von 2 Millionen US-Dollar und die Chance, in Sapporo, Japan, die Meisterschaft zu gewinnen. Qualifikationswege führen über Pro League, ALGS Open und Mid-Season Playoffs. Legend-Änderungen in Saison 26, Roster-Swaps und Team-Strategien werden analysiert. Ein neues Creator Tournament Series wurde angekündigt.
Apex Legends
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ALGS Year 5 Split 2 Pro League Ankündigung und Qualifikationswege
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00:01:32 All of the best Apex teams in the world will be fighting for their share of the 2 million US dollar prize pool and the chance to lift the championship trophy in Sapporo, Japan. But how do teams make it there? Throughout the ALGS calendar year, our teams have earned championship points based on their placements in Pro League,
00:02:00 the ALGS Open, and the Mid-Season Playoffs. The top 24 teams on the Global Championship Point Leaderboard will automatically qualify for the ALGS Championship in Japan at the end of the Split 2 Pro League. LANs earn you the most points, so top-performing teams like Team Falcons, the winners of the ALGS Open, and BK Gaming, the winners of the ALGS Mid-Season Playoffs, have earned thousands of points, putting them at the top of the Championship Point Leaderboards.
00:02:25 Other top performers like Alliance, Gen.G, Ninjas in Pajamas, who have been consistent throughout the year, both in Pro League and at LAN, have all but locked their spots in for Japan as well. Further down the leaderboard, teams like TSM, Virtus.Pro, Noah's Fox will be fighting for their position on the Championship Point leaderboard. They will be looking to secure enough points to remain in the top 24 and lock in their ticket for Sapporo.
00:02:47 Anyone that wins their region's Split 2 Pro League will book their ticket to Japan. With four regions, each having their own Pro League, there will be one slot per region up for grabs for placing first. So consistency is key if you want to secure your spot for champs. The next method is regional finals. The winners of each regional final, regardless of their final placement in Pro League standings, will also lock in a spot for Sapporo. The regional final will utilize the match point format, so you'll have to be locked in and aim for that big win if you want.
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00:03:30 or has already qualified for the Championship via Championship Points, such as Team Falcons. Then the next available team on the Championship Points leaderboard will join us in Sapporo. With our four Pro League winners and four Regional Final winners, we'll have 32 of our 40 Championship teams locked in at the end of Split 2.
00:03:48 This means 8 spots now remain, as we enter into our Last Chance Qualifiers, which will have 2 spots per region up for grabs. The LCQ for each region will feature all of the remaining Split 2 Pro League teams that have not yet qualified for the championship, as well as at least 10 of the top performing Challenger Circuit teams, totaling 40 teams. These 40 teams will compete in a double elimination bracket.
00:04:07 culminating in a Matchpoint Finals Lobby, where the top two placing teams will earn the final spots in Sapporo. Once again, you'll have to be playing at your best and be able to perform under that pressure if you want to make it to Japan and have your chance to lift that ALGS Championship trophy. With that, you now know all the ways our ALGS teams can earn their way to the ALGS Championship in Year 5 and have their shot at securing their legacy. What teams do you hope to see to make it to the ALGS in Japan? Let us know down in the comments.
00:04:37 This has been the ALGS Rundown with me, Jumba. Thank you all for watching and we look forward to seeing you all for the Split 2 Pro League.
Diskussion über Legend Changes und Roster Swaps in der ALGS
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00:06:06 Wir haben DIA und Graceful bereit zu gehen. Es ist Amerika's time, DIA!
00:06:35 I thought I gassed myself on EMEA this morning, but I took a break. I ate some food. It was delicious, and I'm ready for North America. This is going to be a blast, as ALGS tends to be. Yeah, I mean, graceful. We saw just what EMEA was able to bring to the table in terms of variety in winners. Do you think we're going to see something similar to that now that we're in the Americas region?
00:06:56 Potentially a variety of winners as well. I also would like to see more of the double defensive comps, which we saw only at the end of EMEA. Maybe we'll see a little bit of that earlier in NA.
00:07:06 Yeah, I think Graceful was a big fan of the Revenant that we saw all throughout EMEA. So we'll have to see what Americas has in store. But for now, we mentioned those season 26 changes. Let's start talking about them because it's only been a few weeks and there are a lot that have been influencing the ALGS, even just after the first day of Split 2 so far. And we're going to start with our legend changes. So Graceful, talk me through Caustic, who was that first ban out of EMEA and those changes.
00:07:32 I mean, bad for a reason. Outside of the fact that his basic abilities have been massively buffed as well, he has a new passive called Field Research. Being the only Legend pick that can uniquely get all perks if you manage to load up the points on it with Gas, Death Boxes and Objectives like Ring Console, his perks are out of this world. And speaking of perks as well, if you go through them, they are crazy. Look at the blue perks right there. That one alone is so much value. Extra traps gaining additional charge as well as two traps in the world.
00:08:02 Das bedeutet, dass du mehr Platz zu kontrollieren, mehr Platz zu denyern. Und es ist so oppressive. Aber auf die Purple-Area, wo beide sind wirklich gut und haben ihre eigenen Reisungen für entschieden werden, ich denke, Gasfighter ist wirklich gut, wenn du eine Early Rotation Team hast. Und ich würde gerne sehen. Ja, es war wirklich toll, zu sehen, wie viel Caustic war, auf der ersten Tag. Aber dann, natürlich, wir haben auch große Veränderungen für Bangalore hier.
00:08:25 Yeah, well Kostik got stinkier. I think Bangalore got honestly more interactive. You get to pick between what is essentially an Assault-sided Bangalore or Support-sided Bangalore. And I really like this decision between the Electric Smoke and the ECM versus Cover Me and Medal of Honor. You are choosing between being able to take away the defenses of your enemies or provide more utility and ability to keep your team up to the rest of your squad. So even though I'm expecting to see a lot of Bangalores, the stuff...
00:08:55 Isle of Bangalore that you can see is gonna be really different from team to team. Yeah, I think that we
00:09:02 Literally saw exactly how useful that was just in only the first day of EMEA. But we've got to keep going for these changes. And one of the other big impactful things was amps. These are brand new for Season 26. Let's talk about them, okay? Because they are that purple tier ground loot item. And we've broken them down into different categories for everybody here at home. Into an offensive category, a defensive category, and a utility-based category. Now, they'll be that item that slots into the new spot in your inventory.
00:09:31 Und das ist die Offensive, die die Power Reducer, reduziert die Kühne für beide TAC und die Kühne. Und die TAC wird die Kühne, wenn du ein Angegenstststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststststst.
00:09:45 Ich meine, für Defensive Ones, man kann man nicht auswählen, von Overarmor zu bekommen, jetzt die Helmets entfernen. Es ist auch Ring Expert. Aber auf der anderen Seite ist, man hat Heal Overflow. Das macht es so, wenn man ein Cell oder ein Syringe, es Heals die ganze Bar, wenn man keine Dämer hat. Und das ist ein sehr schönes Ding. Ich denke, ich denke, dass ich nicht jemanden bin, um diese Amps zu kicken. Und dann, wir haben die Utilität, die Ressource-Side-Side-Side. Und das ist sehr gut.
00:10:14 It really is, and infinite ammo and bottomless batteries both basically take one thing that you no longer have to worry about anymore. You're either always gonna have shields or always gonna have ammunition. We've seen, in large part, teams opt for bottomless batteries because infinite ammo can only really get you so far. Ammunition normally isn't the biggest problem in the ALGS, the ability to survive and reset. So bottomless batteries...
00:10:38 Does get a bit of a boost here in competitive, but I can tell you that when I'm playing ranked, infinite ammo on a Spitfire feels pretty good. You would, you would, Dia. Well, one other big change for talking about weapons and how they've potentially been impacted. We've got to talk about the hop-ups then as well, okay? Because those have now been removed from our floor loot. They are pre-equipped to your weapon and they have to be...
00:11:04 und die Hup-Ups machen eine große Unterschiede. Wir haben eine Quick-Clip, die genau das. So, wir schauen es.
00:11:35 Oh mein Gott!
00:12:18 I mean, when you have the locked hop-ups, that means you just have to deal damage or take the boosters as well to get the arsenals as well.
00:12:33 ...to unlock the hop-ups, essentially. And when you have the PK, and you have the accelerator on that, when you deal damage, you gain all charge, essentially. You get to slam not once, not twice, maybe even three times in a fight... ...to when you just keep resetting and getting that power back over and over. And it's so interesting as well, because I actually got to speak with a developer. Shout out to Casey as well. And she just said, hey, we haven't touched hop-ups for pretty much 25 seasons. It's about time to make it more fun. And also, we can skip...
00:12:59 Ich denke, es ist sehr freig. Ich persönlich liebe die Wingmen. Hearing den Piercer in jedem Spiel, ist es eine gute Zeit für mich. Balance oder nicht, wir werden sehen. Aber ich denke, es ist refreshing, für sicher.
00:13:17 I love it. It's just more things for our pros to work with in this current split. So now that we've gotten all of you guys updated on everything that's new for this season, let's start talking about today and what is on the table for Americas. Because as is customary during the downtime between LAN events in the next season, we have a lot of roster swaps and changes that we need to go through first. Okay, now these are our roster moves. We've got Madness from Furia to Hot Dog Mafia.
00:13:46 We have to take a look at our new trios as well.
00:14:15 Shake-ups, Dia, that everyone is going to be dealing with this split.
00:14:19 Yeah, and it's formed a lot of new squads to look forward to. I think anybody who watched the Open and has been watching for a long time is going to know that I'm really excited about what ZZ can do, especially with Guild and Sykes joining Zack. I think that squad's got some pretty incredible potential. Movistar Koi is going to be super fun. Honestly, looking across the list, there's not a single team, especially with the six that are listed here, that you can't look forward to in some capacity. Everybody's got a little bit of an edge, whether it be for content, whether it be for...
00:14:49 Whether it be for a bit of fun, maybe some maser moments here and there. But looking at this, I think that the really big thing
00:14:56 is that we've got a lot of new dynamics, especially when you are teaming up with Monsoon, Fun, and Blinxer. Just to take one example, these are three completely different squads that got torn apart to make this, and it makes me wonder, what is the playstyle of these guys going to be? And I can look at a lot of these rosters and go, you know, I see all of your personalities individually, but how does that turn into one playstyle that I can actually associate with you as being then successful in the season?
00:15:23 I love that point. I love that point. And we're actually going to get to see a couple of those teams competing here right out of the gate on the first day of the split. So we'll take a look at which teams are going to be competing from Group A and B here today, because we've got some heavy hitters in this list of participants. I mean, we obviously, we've got Falcons on here. We have TSM on here. We have Liquid Alienware on here. And we've got Pioneers back into the Apex Legends scene.
00:15:49 So there's lots of storylines between these roster changes that we're going to be talking about. But I kind of want to deep dive you guys and your thoughts a little bit here. Now that we're in Americas, which teams do you want to be keeping your eyes on? Dia, I want to start with you.
00:16:05 Well, for me, I'm going to start with DKK. They are one of the teams that we mentioned as having a big swap-up recently, but with Noct, Keon, and Dropped all teaming together, I think there is a lot of potential here, especially if you're somebody who's been a fan of Apex for a very long time. You're going to recognize all of these players. I mean, Keon and Noct did work really well together on Furia recently. They made the midseason playoffs finals, but then didn't quite have the performance that they were.
00:16:34 So look out for DKK to see what sort of chemistry they're cooking with in the early season. But Graceful, who were you looking at?
00:17:02 I mean, for me, it's nobody else than the new, I guess, behemoths at this point, Rock Esports. A lot of the people have been saying, you know, are these guys the new people to dethrone from the Pro League Champions Falcons? They are the team that has already had success that most of the...
00:17:17 Other teams really haven't had as of yet. They had a good success just recently. Can they keep up this form now into Pro League remains to be seen? But if you look at the names, Deeds was an up-and-coming player, now proven himself for quite a while. Sorcerer, phenomenal land experience as well as Vacton has been leading that charge. And all of these guys are really, really good at making it happen. And I think that as they develop even more as a team, they've already shown success. I think they could maybe even take it to the next level.
00:17:49 I love that. I think these are both some really, really good squads for everybody to be keeping their eyes out. And like we said, this is a pretty stacked first day of teams. So I think it's hard to kind of choose the chat. Let us know your thoughts as well. Who is your favorite for today? Who do you want to win day one of split two? Because we're moments away from getting into it. But of course.
00:18:07 Split two in the entire competitive year. What are all of our teams even playing for at the end of this split? Let's take a look at how our teams could potentially get to the end all and be all of year five because that is our ALGS championship in Japan. What are the paths, the avenues our teams can take in order to get there? Well, of course, we're in split two and the regional finals winners will qualify directly through from this portion of the pro league as well as our top point holder.
00:18:37 Then, of course, if that's not one of the ways it works for you, we have your overall champs points. So the teams with the highest championship point totals earned via Pro League all year so far and LAN events all year will then be the next 24 that will be making their way through. And of course, if you haven't made it through in any of those two categories, you still have the LCQ. The winners of the LCQ will get those last couple spots into our championship in Japan. And you know, every single one of those teams is going to
00:19:06 Befehl-Tooth-A-Nail, um sie zu gewinnen.
00:19:09 So it's just something we're going to be keeping our eyes on throughout the entirety of this split as we continue to get closer to that moment. But of course, for everybody at home, you should be familiar with this by now. Best way to watch ALGS all split too long is, of course, Face It Watch. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, this is the best multi-view option for you at home. You can watch up to four different POVs. You can pull up the map feed. You can even adjust the volume to your liking. So you can listen to some.
00:19:38 your favorite teams favorite players comms and see how things are going you also can potentially get those drops when they're available just by hanging out in face it watch and of course you can do all of this at faceit.com forward slash watch so you can watch the algs your way and find
00:19:57 Finally, one little quick reminder before we dive into everything is our social media. If you haven't done so already, make sure you're following along with us, whether that's on X, YouTube, our newest ones of TikTok and Insta, or of course, right here on Twitch. If you are up to date with everything on there following along, you won't miss out on a single second, whether that's ALGS stuff or cheeky little, you know, giveaways, personalities of our cast or our...
00:20:23 You check that out, okay? Because we are about ready to dive into match number one of the Americas. So Dia, Graceful, let's take it away. We've got a lot of games to be coming at us, and I want to set the stage Graceful. We are going to be playing two maps today. We're starting on Storm Point, and then we're moving over to E-District.
Map-Dynamiken und Team-Strategien im ALGS Split 2
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00:20:44 You and I talked about this quite a bit on the show during EMEA this morning, but those two maps play very differently, especially when you're looking at how you play the open space in Stormpoint versus how you survive in the small corners on E-District. Stormpoint, really rewarding of teams who are on their timings. When are you showing up for the third party? How are you doing it? And how do you keep yourself the safest possible when all that's between you and other squads is the willingness to walk over?
00:21:13 Ja, definitiv. Und dann haben wir das auch. Wir sahen die Caustik sehr early in der EMEA-Region. Will das passieren hier in der NA-Region auch? Weil das nur hier zu counterfactieren ist, dass wir einige Krypto-Plays machen können. Weil, wie wir gesagt haben über Caustik, diese Buffs sind großartig. Und wenn man mehr Barrels zu spielen, und man mehr Raum zu nehmen, es ist nicht mehr so zu sein. Wenn man in eine Gas-Area geht, wird man in die Gas-Area geteilt. Und man sieht diese Veränderungen, ist auch interessant, weil es komplett fresh ist.
00:21:42 A lot of our players selecting their legends as we speak. I do want to highlight once again that the top side of the map has an interesting dynamic happening, especially with Rock and Falcons nearby. We've not only got the struggle for dominance in North America here, but also interestingly, it seems a low priority zone. We don't get a lot of zones that we're pulling up there, at least not in midseason playoffs, which was very rare.
00:22:10 So I'm expecting a lot of this high ground area.
00:22:13 ...to be then transitioned into, ultimately, the rotation is through Command Center, but not so much a sort of stay-at-home zone. This is Match 1, however, we are kicking off the ALGS Split 2 here in the Americas. So, with the Falcons landing over at Lightning Rod, I think it's as good a place to start as any graceful. Most definitely. I think nobody complains about the loot there. It's a great thing. Rotate is also fine, especially depending on where the zone is going. I got a little sneak peek of where it's at going, and it's...
00:22:42 We're actually looking a little bit more towards the south-west side of the map. I think most of the teams are happy with this, like how the map will be playing out. If it pulls more towards the central side, you know, around Jurassic, it's going to be fine as well. All of these teams are just looking to gear up at this point because these Evo Harvesters are crucial. And if you're also playing Caustic like we see Halon currently as well, you want to try to get every little bit of points that you can get. And already we're making it a little more complicated, guys. Caustic and Alter.
00:23:11 Tied in Pick Rate for our first game. Which is going to mean, when we get ties, that the legend that places higher on average ends up being the one that is banned. This is going to be difficult to tell. We'll update you. I promise. Right now, just know that it's going to be Caustic or Alter that is eliminated going into game two. And maybe if we see a team with just an Alter or just a Caustic win the game, you'll get an inkling of how the next one's going to go.
00:23:39 This zone, though, is going to be really fun to watch because this could be going either way. Is he going to pull into Jurassic? Is he going to pull more towards the east side, towards the compounds? Leave no witness in a phenomenal spot. Being in one of those spots that we always say, you're not locked in on a spot to where if it hard pulls...
00:23:56 Sie sind either dead oder gewinnen. Sie sind in einem Ort, wo sie sich adaptieren können. Sobald sie es aufzunehmen, haben sie ein Spiel zu machen. Sobald sie es aufzunehmen. Denn in der Endeffekt, es ist eine große Tunnel. Und aufzunehmen das auf beide Seiten, oder von einem Team aufzunehmen, ist definitiv hart. Aber wenn sie es aufzunehmen, sie sind in einem guten Ort.
00:24:16 I'm really partial to the position that ZZ is holding right now as well. When you are on the ridge lines entering Jurassic, but end up holding a little bit of high ground outside of Seto. Liquid Alienware, not a bad position, although ultimately one that does necessitate them crossing ground. It's really unlikely that the ring pulls this far south.
00:24:36 Ich finde, dass wir die Caustik und die Altar zusammen sind, ein guter Platz zu retreten, ein Bild zu halten und ein bisschen Zeit in der Late Game zu halten.
00:24:47 Ich bin auch sehr gespannt, dass Liquid Alien hier machen, weil ich immer noch nicht die Mid-Season Play-Up, aber die Land vor dem auch, Nia und Sol machen wirklich große Plätze. Kann ich das jetzt machen, in der aktuellen Meta? Wir werden sehen. Ich fühle mich, die TTK ist ziemlich gefährlich. Du hast gut Armour, du hast 2-Tap von Peter, du hast 1-Tap von Charged Rifle. Es ist eine verrückte Moment, um diese Aggressiv Plätze zu machen. Aber wenn wir es tun, wie wir in der EMEA-Region haben, bei Cybert.
00:25:17 We saw Ranches making these, not hero plays, but really good off-angle plays. It's definitely a thing of beauty, for sure. Taking a look over by Pioneers. They are really an interesting spot. Or rather, an interesting team to watch, especially statistically. Cruelbuckle and Jay, just last team. Oh, I'm going to hold it. I'm going to hold it. They were thinking about fighting. And now we're back. They're going to let me drop the statistic.
00:25:47 Kruelbuckle and Jay were the only team tied with Shopify Rebellion for being the best converters of being top 5 into top 1. So if we see Pioneers make top 5, they could win the whole thing. And if that gets hit one more Peacekeeper Pump like that, we could see CIMJ in serious trouble, as I would suggest they already are. Dean gonna be able to at least heal for right now.
00:26:10 Und ich glaube, wir müssen Banner Recoversen gehen. Aber jetzt sind wir schon in der Mitte von Jurassic, es ist extrem schwierig zu finden, zu finden Rez zu finden. So die Aufnahme ist auf CIMJ. Und Rock E-Sport ist nicht zu viel besser, denn jetzt ist Deez der letzte Stand, und er hat nicht den Accelerator.
00:26:25 He does not have the accelerator. He's currently trying to survive through fencing and holding off two doors. It's going to be really hard. We were talking about if they could, you know, have a super good start or not, keeping up the performance, looking really rough as they're getting engaged on right here. Sacred Soviet is looking to close out this fight, but Deeds is putting up a fight. If not for the knockdown shield going down, I believe Deeds could have done it. He's that kind of guy, but zone spammers do end up taking out Rock Esports A.
00:26:52 Wenn du dich anst, wenn du dich anst, wie Kostik und Alter, auch diese Offensive Pressure, entweder von Riffen durch oder von Gassern ab und zu nehmen, ist es so schwer zu holen, wenn du einen Watton locken und bereit hast. Es ist ein hartes Spiel, aber gut für Zonespammers.
00:27:16 Ja, und ihr seid intercepting ein Team, das macht ein ziemlich schnelles Rotate. Zonespammers haben zu verabschieden, viel mehr Raum zu verabschieden als Rock in der gleichen Zeit. Und so, mit dem whole Coming-From-The-North-Thing, wir werden eigentlich ein paar andere Teams verabschieden sehen. Falcons, notably. Wir haben ein Squad, aber gerade hinter Rock. Es ist schön zu mentionen, sie zusammen sind. Sie werden in ein bisschen anders sein. Nicht durch Cascade, weil sie die Informationen auf wo alle waren. Aber instead...
00:27:44 all the way out into the north and prioritizing EVO above zone position.
00:27:50 Good play from them. This is the typical way of hitting UAVs to make sure that your rotate is safe as well as you gather objectives. Solid play because they can now reliably make sure that they're all on good gear whilst maintaining safety because they're just hitting UAV to UAV. Like, okay, we're safe. We can keep going. Okay, we're safe. We can keep going. And now once they're fully geared up, they're no longer scared of taking any fights, even though because they're playing Cossack, but they're also playing Crypto, which I personally like quite a lot because that really enables you to make those aggress.
00:28:19 Aggressive players on both Watson players and Caustic players. I'm kind of down with Zero's driving too. I like the way that he was piloting that. Pretty smooth to get into Checkpoint with nobody else around like you're talking about. The Crypto, I will say, bit of an odd pick. Not because of the strength of the Legend, but because of who it's on. The fact that Zero is playing Alter and you don't have your IGL on Crypto is a very different look than we'd see in EMEA.
00:28:48 Look at this zone as well, Dia. It seems to be pulling maybe even more towards Seto's side, western side of Jurassic, potentially a little bit more towards the mountain. We'll have to see. But these zones are very different. As you can see, Pioneers, Thuggets, Unreal Nightmare, TSM. Liquid Alienware is actually still good as long as they can identify this zone.
00:29:07 Earlier than anybody setting up in that spider choke, essentially. If they can navigate that earlier before anybody sets up there, they're in a super solid spot still. However, other teams that are kind of full committed to Jurassic, they're going to be collapsing on the same side, and it'll definitely be messy. Yeah, that is the difficult part, and that's where, again, I'm going to point us towards the spot that ZZ currently holds.
00:29:29 On this ridge line that separates Jurassic from Cito, it's the most flexible spot, it's a really nice position to play during the mid-game, but in the endgame, very hard to execute when you have teams on both sides of you with pretty easy angles to take you out. Not only angles, they're definitely looking to just start something so that they can end up 3Ping, however...
00:29:51 Dmg hier sind, aber sie sind in eine Safe Spot zu Reset, das ist wirklich nett. Sie sind in die Zone, nicht nur in der aktuellen Zone, sondern in der nächsten Zone. Sie werden sich sehr gut fühlen, dass sie einen Platz haben. Und jetzt werden sie sich sehen, ob sie können, wenn sie sich in die Zukunft halten können. Fenix-Skit macht die Swap irrelevant, aber ich sehe, Chaos. Das war die richtige Spiel. Keep dein Team alive.
00:30:16 I respect what you're going for. A lot of our players really polished on exactly how they want to reset. Speaking of teams that are polished, again, we are going to be highlighting Falcons who are taking this long edge rotate. This will have them approaching Jurassic and Cito from the south side with liquid alienware directly in their path. And both teams very much spotted each other.
00:30:37 And that's one of the things I said before. Would Liquid Alienware move earlier to hold out the team from potentially taking the Spider Choke? They did. Now they're holding out Falcons potentially from fighting them here on the Cannon side. Because Cannon is not in the next zone. They're going to have to fight there. And if they take this fight, it's actually going to be isolated before anybody else joins the fray. But can they close out this fight or not? This fight and push is hard. But they do have EMP and also Alter to make this happen. With the Crypto on the side of things. As EMP comes out.
00:31:06 Liquid Alienware just giving up so much space. I mean, this fight is doomed from the moment that they're all sitting inside and not looking out. Team Falcons are all over the building. Zero's on the high ground. Hal's on the low. Jaguaris is the last one standing. And we're saying goodbye to Liquid Alienware just like that. They give up presence. They give up a chance at the game. And Falcons will take that every day of the week.
00:31:34 Das ist was ich, Krypto. Ich liebe Krypto, und ich bin so froh, dass Falcons benutzen es gut, wo sie auf die EMP in Altered Play machen, und dann machen die Angle von verschiedenen Seiten. Eine kam von oben, eine kam von unten. Du bist auf jeden Fall. Sie sofort catchen jemanden. Sie immediately catchen jemanden auf den Stairs. Und jetzt haben sie das 5 super-smooth. Sie haben jetzt einen Spot. Leading in die nächste Zone, wo sie werden wieder fighten.
00:31:58 für die River, wenn jemand E-Backen ist. Aber wenn jemand sie für die River contestieren, dann ist sie in einem Phenomenal-Spot, die Zone, für Zone 4 und Anwurs. Zone-Spammers, conspicuously außerhalb der Zone, werden sie einfach direkt in die Zone machen. Aber Sie werden nicht alleine hier sein. Chaos-Feelings-Khäos-Khäos-Khäos-Khäos
00:32:17 Zone spammers are going to hit a reset, and I wonder how successful this will be. They have to actually pause on getting everyone back into the game. Sophie, it's still on the ground. A little bit of support from your local Bangalore might make this easier. It's a hope against hope that zone spammers will be able to survive this, and there's a good reason why Sacred ports out the Void Nexus. Very useful here, even as your altar has been executed, it at least gives the team a second chance at life.
00:32:46 Good proactiveness from DMG there with the big stinky in that building. They were forced to go back out because they would have died if they stayed there. Nice reset potentially from the other team.
00:32:55 Tried to take a spot, couldn't really take it. Resetting, and now they're gonna have another try without getting eliminated. Zone pulled south towards Team Falcons. And like I said before, if they are uncontested from River, they're literally in Godspot, where everybody else are forced to fight if they can hold out the spot. Some teams here could be bound to make an evac play or like a super wide swing play. But if Falcons can lock it down and push every other team away from the River, they're looking for a phenomenal game right here. We're not only talking good players,
00:33:24 We're talking huge percentage of getting high KP game as well. I think that's something that fans around the world will expect. But as to what on earth happens towards the north side of this zone, seems like that's all up to chaos. Legatron likely going to go down, but trying to play Sneaky on the altar who can survive for a while. No easy beacon, however.
00:33:49 Und das wird der reale Problem sein. Wenn du in die Zone wirst, wenn du in die Zonen verlierst, so early auf wie das, wie du eigentlich zurückkehlt in die Spiel? Unfortunately, oftmals die Antwort ist, dass du nicht. Und wir sehen das genau zu Ape Gang. 17 Squads left, so sie werden Eliminatet.
00:34:08 As they get eliminated, still 17 squads left is a ton of teams. It's actually incredible how all of these teams are surviving without actually committing to it. But the zone will be closing now. And as the zone is closing, collapsing will happen, especially on the east side of the map and northern side as well. We're going to see plenty of teams fall down here as 4k Nano right now got it down with the Sentinel.
00:34:32 C.I.M.J., they did suffer some losses early, and unfortunately, it's not getting a whole lot better now. I like the Void Nexus, however, which should allow them to reset at least with Boxed, but the issue becomes how you make your way up this hill in the next couple of seconds. Too many squads looking at C.I.M.J., and I expect we'll be moving down to 15 squads soon, as so many teams look at the one squad that is out of zone.
00:34:58 Ja, das ist einfach so bad, aber...
00:35:22 We knew it was going to happen to several squads, and unfortunately, when you're in a spot like that, you can get angled out, especially with the nades and the caustic cast, leaving you with no real options. Hot Dog Mafia won a few squads left inside Jurassic.
00:35:35 All these fights happening at the same time. It's all about timing. Who will push the 3P essentially?
00:36:04 Und das ist was so riskierend ist, wenn du gegen Hot Dog Mafia fightst, wenn du für die Height hast, du bist für die Height exposingst. Es ist ein Glück, dass Hot Dog Mafia die Thuggets fighten jetzt, weil sonst, Leave No Witnesses, sie würden in den Backen werden, bei den beiden Gruppen. Instead, Hot Dog Mafia und Skittlecake, speziell, sind wirklich verrückt, ist es, fast zu werden. Instead, Kimshee wird mit 25 HP und gehen für ein Dream. Unfortunately, es endet mit, ich sage es, eine Unreal-Nightmare. Leave No Witnesses ist, die Squad aus.
00:36:34 The Moment. Madness picking up some kills as well, leaving Hot Dog Mafia in a good spot up against Sentinels. This is a three-way fight on the low ground, and Sentinels are coming up a little empty-handed, but that turns around real quick with Lord of the Rings.
00:36:49 We talked about the 3P. Sentinels came out of the tunnel to 3P. Now, however, they're getting 4P'd by Pioneers from behind the same spot. Everybody's gonna be collapsing towards Leave No Witness. And CC, who has been holding the choke this whole game, as Sentinels is fighting Leave No Witness, as they actually trade. And now, Pioneers get kind of a free down right there. They still have to move up towards the choke.
00:37:11 Pioneers are fighting, but up on the top, Hot Dog Mafia and ZZ are fighting. And unfortunately, with those trades going through, it's really difficult for Pioneers to then climb this hill. Leave No Witnesses are going to go down. And again, ZZ are still holding everyone out. They still control this high ground. And it is a massive KP that heads their way. ZZ have collected so much here. And we talked about the execution that they had to have on the high ground. Now they have height.
00:37:40 And they've collected all the kills leading out of Jurassic as well. They managed to hold off the height, which is really, really good. Hold out the east side. Everybody else is fighting on the northern side. On the flip side of things, Falcons sitting really cozy in the middle of the zone. The zone ends on top of them. Can they hold it out without CC making the play on top of them? We'll have to see. But huge fight here. NIP right now in Seto looking to hold the pyramid. Everybody's trying to fight and push their way in slowly but surely without overextending to the teams on top of the hill.
00:38:08 Und ich werde es nicht mehr für die Leute in der anderen Seite sagen, Zone Pole direkt auf die Falcons.
00:38:14 There is nobody else even close to them right now. Again, ZZ still in an incredible spot, still on high ground, but the amount of zone priority the Falcons have in Game 1 alone is wild. This Ninjas in Pajamas fight is to determine who comes out of the north side, and we'll see, as it is them, DKK, and the Durags all fighting for dominance of the north side while Team Falcons fight ZZ for what is likely the game-winning spot.
00:38:41 Definitely fighting for the game-winning spot. If they can secure this point, they will literally get all the KP from the northern side all alone. However, CC not shying away from a fight. Taking a little bit of a peek, taking some damage though. Falcons not letting up on the pressure because CC is forced to move in a couple of seconds. As the zone is closing, they're about to get out of the choke right now. As Ninja's in Pajama still looking to fight as well. They pop that Stinky in that building to try and force stuff out. But CC fighting Falcons right now as the fight is exploding. As Falcons is slowly going down into the river.
00:39:10 again into their safe spot.
00:39:12 This is the craziest part, is that Falcons, they lose the damage fight up top, but their retreat still gives them priority into the zone, and now it is closing. So ZZ have no choice but to rush into Pioneers. The remainder of this Ninjas in Pajamas do rags fight. Up on the top, you can tell right now, ZZ struggling behind a tree, have very little space left to play, and Ninjas in Pajamas are committing to the low ground. Again, on this north side, eliminating the competition. Do rags go down, but Kurev melts immediately.
00:39:42 ZZ picking up some of the kills and again still looking at Falcons as the one other team that they're really looking at to win the game. ZZ need to win the damage fight and they do with Zack landing that huge shot onto Waldstein. Falcons have lost two but it's a trade onto Guild. Zack's got to play this safe as DMG from the high ground could still come in on the other side of this sliding in onto Howl. It looks like...
00:40:05 ZZ wollen den Kampf, aber das öffnet sich das Ganze für DMG zu kommen und schweb aus ZZ. Es ist ZZ, die Falken von Falcons nehmen. Es ist DMG, die Spiel gewinnen.
00:40:16 DMG, nonetheless, actually opted for the west side of the zone right there, while Falcons was occupied with keeping ZZ out of that game-winning positioning, essentially. They came from the northwest side of the things, kept out DKK, actually, and then they came in for the 3P on the last fight and won that game. That was phenomenal play from them, making sure that we're not easing up on the pressure because they did end up getting pushed, won that 3v3, and then, while they were trading in the river, came in to swoop and close up that game. Really good work, especially because they...
00:40:45 Ja, das ist eine sehr wichtige Endgame als auch, wenn wir über die Spiele haben, weil wir sehen, die matchresultaten sind, wir können sich über, wie viel diese könnte haben, hätte ZZ won den Kampf gegen Falcons ein bisschen früher. Aber Falcons...
00:41:13 They're playing really defensive and it costs ZZ the game because they have to move down onto the low ground. DMG, what a way to take advantage of that as well, especially with Ashe still available. We haven't had that many legend bans yet. And like you talk about after this game, we'll be saying goodbye to Kosti.
00:41:31 Ja, Kaustik bereits aus dem Spiel. Wir haben nur ein paar Mal gesehen, aber das macht wirklich Sinn, denn er ist hella stark. Aber Top 3 hier ist ein guter Spiel. Wir sahen alle ihre POVs an der Ende. Wir sahen drei Power Spots, also zwei Power Spots aus diesen Teams. CC auf der Ridge Line, das für die ganze Zeit. Falcons sind eigentlich Falken gegen Liquid für das River Spot, und jetzt haben sie versucht, aber nicht ganz gut, weil diese Teams, all of sie
00:42:01 Ja, es war sehr, sehr lustig, und letztendlich, ich denke, wir haben viel mehr zu sagen, aber wir werden noch ein paar Gedanken haben, bis wir nachher kommen, für Game 2.
00:43:25 Das war so ein interessant Endgame. Und du kennst, weil ich immer wieder darüber reden kann, dass ich eigentlich nicht mehr über das Endgame kann. Ich kann es nicht mehr über das Endgame denken. Ich kann es nicht mehr über das Endgame denken.
00:45:38 Do you not push up onto the high ground? If you're ZZ, do you not commit onto the low ground? And I think that's the point that I'm really getting stuck on is whether ZZ commit there or not. And I've kind of come full circle on it and gone, I think it is the right play because by ZZ going into the low ground, they secure second place. It seems like it makes sense. I'm sure I'll talk about it later in the stream, but you know, game two distract me. Yeah, it was a tough one. And we're going to be diving into match number two here in just a second. Before I do that though.
Ankündigung des Apex Legends Creator Tournament Series und Diskussion über Legend Bans
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00:47:01 tournament announcements because they're going to be so so cool we're so excited to partner with our creators to bring you that amazing content and now as we look towards match number two right off the gate same as emilia dia we had caustic band first
00:47:19 Ihr wisst, es war iffy. Ich wusste, dass ich in Game 1 gesprochen habe. Ich wusste nicht, ob Kaustik wird oder nicht sein. Mit Kaustik und Alter gehalten, ich denke, es ist eine foregone conclusie, dass wir wahrscheinlich an Alter gehalten werden, nach diesem Spiel. So, enjoy die Alter, wenn wir können, Leute. Aber mit Kaustik jetzt gehalten...
00:47:37 I do think that, you know, obviously the defensive capabilities of a lot of squads are hampered. And as we saw in EMEA, Bangalore priority also goes down because Bangalore's effect into Watson, which people will typically rotate into after Caustic has gone. Watson's much better into Bangalore. I think that we're definitely starting to see the new preference meta here.
00:48:03 Und es wird ein vieles Gas geben für die Zukunft für die Zukunft zu kommen, als wir in die Nummer zwei kommen, hier auf Stormpoint zu kommen. Mit den winnersen der ersten Match in DMG, über die Northpad. Oh mein Gott. All right, ich werde Nordamerika für einen Moment. Ich bin nicht eigentlich Flaming Nordamerika, aber das ist ganz lustig. Wir sind so Controller-Legend-Krutsches, dass wir nicht even bannen Alter dieses Spiel.
00:48:31 watson is the most picked legend in game number two we saw no caustic everybody going watson that's fine that's fine controller legend legend crush that's all i'm saying that just means we get another another game of altar after this everyone will go rampart which i won't mind to be honest
00:48:52 It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing. DMG, winners of Game 1 and deservedly so. I think there's some pretty great gameplay, especially zone play out of them. Remember, an early rotate got them into Cito before anyone else, and they exited in a way that nobody else did, which I think is the really critical thing. Recognizing when you're going to be competing with a few too many people is also just as big, if not bigger, of a skill than picking the right fights in Apex Legends.
00:49:21 Absolutely. Absolutely. And now we get a chance to see where the next match's ring is going to be headed on over to. And we are looking down at Launchpad. So DKK Pioneers are going to be happy with that, giving them a nice opportunity to set up and have some information on where it's going to pull so they won't even have to move all that far. They've got a ring console and a beacon down there. I mean, they're good to go.
00:49:42 Yeah, this is a really nice spot. I love Pioneer's position up on the high ground. It can be a little bit awkward, and the thing that you have to look out for in this zone is whether it pulls up towards DKK for the ending, as we saw over in EMEA, or whether it goes back towards Launchpad. That's going to be the difference that a lot of teams are splitting. Pioneers can stay where they are, but you can see that DKK and Apegang, they've both placed their bets as to where they think the zone is ending, and that's going to be pulling a little bit up towards the high ground instead.
00:50:11 Yeah, Unreal Nightmare looks like they might be trying to do the same thing. They scooched in there nice and quick, seeing if they can maybe solidify a spot for themselves. And this is just going to be that point of early game where it's about getting through some of those scarier chokes as quickly as possible. You can see Hot Dog Mafia sneaking right on through, managing to avoid everyone in the pylon area and going to be able to claim some early space for themselves as well.
00:50:39 Honestly, these buildings are pretty safe.
00:50:42 as we saw pay off in EMEA. And it's nice to be able to lean on some of the play that we've already seen on this patch from other regions to guide what should be happening in these next couple of minutes. However, when we saw that, it's important to note that Caustic was also in play. Now Watson, who can show a lot more presence than Caustic, can also dissuade teams from entering the fray too early. You place a couple of fences on the roof, they get seen through windows, and you're much less likely
00:51:12 to have somebody landing on you accidentally and picking a fight where they don't mean to.
00:51:18 Yeah, it definitely changes the pacing here based off of whichever Defensive Legends we are going to be having in each of these matches. Checking in with CIMJ. They are one of those teams who's in the general vicinity of this pylon chaos, as is Sentinels right near them. Liquid Alienware down there as well. So everyone looking to potentially rotate away. Sentinels getting out of dodge early. They've got a car. They're going on a little bit of a drive for a safer route through.
Frühe Spielzüge und Teampositionierung in Spiel 2
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00:51:48 The choke just north of there. You do end up actually hanging out in Lagoon. I don't hate it. Zone is unlikely to actually go to Lagoon. Setting up in this low ground can be pretty nice for picking off teams around the edge of the zone. And it's difficult to push because you get a lot of assistance from other squads that can fire from Lagoon.
00:52:09 All I'm saying is not end of the world for Sentinels, who are inherently going to be rotating in a little bit late. But a team to certainly keep your eyes on, be it in the kill feed, be it on your screens, is going to be Rock. Because remember, they're a team with high expectations that went down extremely early in game number one. Yeah, you know, we saw a similar situation with Alliance out of EMEA. I think another team that has very high expectations in their region. And they had a slow start as well. But you might have just...
00:52:34 Bless them a little bit here, Dia, because we see Vaxalan popping up here in the kill feed, able to get a knock there. I mean, maybe they just had a rough first match, but might be able to potentially win a fight. It looks like against Zone Spammers. You never want to count out these teams after game number one. It is a little ironic that it's against Zone Spammers, whether this fight goes their way or not, as it appears to.
00:53:01 Could be an interesting turnaround for both these squads. Maybe we get a little bit of an early into the season rivalry cooking up. Nihau Nuggets also suffering in the killfeed. Unfortunately, Rock, now up on high ground, I would say have already achieved a much safer rotation. Even though they haven't got any more placement points than they did in Game 1, this game is looking so much better just off the positioning.
00:53:27 Yeah, and you can see that now that they claimed Stormcatcher, they're going to give themselves a little bit of extra space and time to be able to figure out what their next move is. But one did escape from Zone Spammers. There were only two kills there for Rock. So Zone Spammers might be able to get a reset. They were able to survive Team Falcons rotating right past them through Elrod. And they might live to see another day. But now we get to see a team who might not. I saw good timing there on Ninjas in Pajamas.
00:53:57 Up in the high ground, NIP should be pretty safe, I will say. They've always got the rotation to pylon available to them. You get a little bit of opening damage, and maybe it's your chance for 3 KP. That really does matter early on into the game.
00:54:13 Because in Zone 1, Zone 2, it's so much safer to pick these Edge of Zone 3v3s. And you can see off the Survey Beacon, Ninjas in Pajamas have determined with the Crypto Drone that this is an isolated 3v3. And that they can take it with, honestly, a bit of recklessness. That's exactly what they're going to do because of how valuable KP is in the early game. And the fact that they know that it's pretty low risk, to be honest.
00:54:38 Und was geht in ihren Favoren ist, dass sie sicher sind, dass sie sicher sind, um die Nice Guys zu empfehlen, durch die Nise Guys zu empfehlen. Sie empfehlen die Nise Guys zu den Pionieren. Sie haben eine Möglichkeit, um nicht nur die KP zu bekommen, sondern um die Teams zu erzeugen. Und als ich sage, die Nice Guys sind die ersten Team zu erzeugen, um die Nummer 2 zu erzeugen. Die Pajamas sind nicht wirklich die KP.
00:55:02 But honestly, I'd still call this a win for them. Of course, a bigger win for Pioneers, who were chilling and ended up getting KP. But for the Ninjas in Pajamas, it's one team that was on your side of the zone that now no longer exists. And that can be really beneficial to your game plan, especially when you've already got all the way up to purple Evos. And it's the points that would have really mattered for you, not so much the actual Evo and then access to perks.
00:55:27 As long as I can find a way in, the southern side of that ring right now is relatively open. If Pioneers gets distracted and there's an opportunity for NIP to sneak in, they're pretty safe right now. As we've jumped back on board with CIMJ, squished in between everybody over in the launch pad area. They're inside the building and they're going to be holding here for quite some time.
00:55:48 You remember earlier when we talked about the different reads on the zone that you could have? It was either that you were going up towards high ground where DKK were, or down towards the south end, it's not low ground, but south end, the hill just south of Launchpad, where Pioneers were. Pioneers held their ground, and it's a good thing they did, because the next zone pulls down towards the south of Launchpad. All of this high ground that DKK ended up prioritizing early, now going to be out of zone.
Strategische Entscheidungen und Teamkämpfe im mittleren Spiel
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00:56:18 All about Pioneers and Launchpad. This is going to be really interesting in the later stages of this game, not this zone closed, but the next one to see how teams deal with it. Well, we've gotten a chance now to jump on board with Team Falcons. They're kind of alone up in that northeast corner, but let's jump into a quick listen with them and see exactly what their next strategy entails.
00:56:49 So the Q right here like pretty much wants you on the prowlers thing. Yeah, well, he's just playing right here at my ping. By himself. We need to take a close right corner. It should be like indexed and then we're okay. We have TB to get back this over there. Yeah. I don't have any other cells. I do. I've got three. Do you want to hold? Give me one. Give me one. Yeah. There's Sparrow close building. There's an explosive arrow. Yeah, I recalled. Should be chilling. I'm flying back up to the sea. 55 blue now. Here's a blower now.
00:57:23 Ich weiß nicht, dass ein Q2 ist. Er ist noch hier. Ich fühle mich, dass ich mich nicht aufhören muss, damit er sich nicht aufhören kann. Es ist Q1, ich glaube, es gibt 2 Prowls. Oder 3 Prowls. Okay. Es ist 2 hier.
00:57:46 Definitely a more mellow moment here for Team Falcons as they're just kind of debating they're aware which teams are aware around them and they're just trying to figure out the best opportunity to move through this choke as the choke itself is relatively open but they do have a couple teams on the other side of it in the safe side of the ring.
00:58:04 With the way that Falcons are positioned right now, it is going to be honestly a pretty easy zone close for them. They can go through the Spider Choke. They should collect some KP. I'm expecting Falcons to make it into the top 12, top 13 squads just off the positioning alone, even if they don't fire their weapons. That's going to be really nice for them. For Pioneers, this is where you're stressing out a little bit.
00:58:30 You've got a really nice zone, you've read it correctly, you have the high ground, but the burden of execution is so high. So many other teams want what you have. The Durags, they're positioning for it right now, and Cersei can't hold this side alone. But look, Pioneers can't even commit all their resources over there because there's so much high ground to control. This is where it gets really scary. And this is what we mentioned before as well, because...
00:58:54 Pioneers were watching NIP, trying to see when they were going to move in. Not only was NIP able to move in and grab a little bit of space, but the Durags followed shortly after. And now Pioneers have to split their focus between these two teams to make sure that they can even survive. And knowing that too much poke damage or too much sound could also potentially then have more teams looking their way, focusing on them. It's going to be a little bit of a tough spot. There is enough space, like you said.
00:59:22 für sie zu manieren. Aber es wird ein interessanter Southerrn sein, wenn die Teams müssen weitergehen. Die Zone hat sich auf dem, und es ist noch nicht mehr safe. Während die Sentinels in der Back-and-Forth mit 14K.
00:59:35 Es wird ein schwerer Kampf für Sentinels, einer der einen, der sie einen, der sie eine Chance verliert. Sie verlieren einen. Ich denke, wir können diese Kampf umsetzen, aber wir haben eine Newcastle Rez auf der Seite. RR845s werden wir hier machen, aber...
00:59:53 And it is still just Nano left. 14k Resonance go down. Sentinel's now alone in Lagoon, which is pretty big, but it has ignored their rotate for now, and there are very few safe spots.
01:00:06 They should be able to reset and move. Meanwhile, we were wondering what was going to happen with Falcons. And it looks like TSM has actually come up towards them from the south as Falcons have moved through the choke and continue to wider rotate. They now find themselves in a back and forth here. Zero tried to put it over the PK. He does go down. It's just down to Hal and Walty. And honestly, even with Zero on the ground there, Dia, they made quick work of TSM.
01:00:30 Ja, so little space was held by TSM. All in one corner, very little that they could do. And a nice clean up by Falcons. We are into top 15 right now, which means the points have started to be accumulated. And just like we talked about, Sentinels did go down. No place to hold in the next zone, meant unfortunately they were just out of luck for this game. Zone spammers, not quite in the same position. They've got this building.
01:00:54 We've got ZZ down here.
01:01:13 Hanging out in the low ground. They're gonna have to be finding their way up and out of there. And I'm glad we get another look over here at Falcons because the ring is now close to a point where they only have to just defend this last little sliver before they own the whole southeastern corner of the next ring. Durax decide to go and potentially get past them as quickly as possible. Don't want to fight Falcons if they don't have to. Are able to zoom past in the car and get away from that engagement.
01:01:41 Das ist ein ziemlich verrücktes Swing. Mal sehen Sie die Upper-Left.
Endspiel-Chaos und Comeback-Potenzial
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01:01:51 Zone pull deep into Launchpad, leaves two teams scrambling. Pioneers and Falcons both likely going to fight the same spot, but Ninjas in Pajamas might not even survive to make it there. Kurev gets taken down. DMG cleaned that up real quick and are another one of those squads that is going to have to make it in. Now facing down against Pioneers. Pioneers need KP because they can't actually determine whether the next rotation will be safe for them. Falcons, meanwhile, already have.
01:02:21 Falcons haben wirklich gut gearbeitet, werfen ihren Weg auf der eastern Seite dieser Ring. Sie weiterhin finden safe space. Und sie sind wirklich straight-up 3v3s. So jetzt haben sie einen Cover gefunden. Sie sind für die nächsten zwei Ringen. Das ist alles über die nächsten zwei Ringen. Aber der Chaos ist passiert in Launchpad jetzt. Leave No Witness ist jemanden. DKK, Out. DMG in den Killfeed, also Down. And Leave No Witness, Down to nur zwei.
01:02:46 We did mention, however, Zone Spammers need to think of a way out. They haven't, neither have Leave No Witnesses, and it's going to result in a mad scramble. If Renner Tricky can make it over the death box, it was pretty close there, to be honest. Renner does go down. I don't think there's enough time to pull this res off, though I'm open to being wrong. The question is whether they survive. Leave No Witnesses have very little space.
01:03:09 This corner, I don't believe is in zone. Could be. I believe, yeah, they have one member left alive in that corner. Durags are going to go down. Pioneers hold on to a little bit of the high ground, but it is just a small corner and there are so many sight lines onto them. Watch that crib.
01:03:29 Pioneers have also done a really good job of being patient. DMG was that final team they need to clear out. They did, they moved through, and now they're in a little bit safer of a spot. They can at least kind of take a breath and reset for just a second. Apegang with the Kraber. Only two bullets left available in the hands of Burstee, though, so gonna have to really make those last two shots count. If they're not safe, they will have to be pushing through to the next circle. I'll tell you what, Glitter, Falcons are in serious danger of winning this game.
01:03:57 They have a great spot in the next zone. They're already inside the building. And they're taking a fight inside it. I want to say winning it. I guess we'll find out. Guild can work some miracles. He's not going to on this particular day. ZZ go down. Falcons now missing Walt Siege. You have, I will say, a harder road to the endgame, but not an impossible one.
01:04:25 We would love to know how ZZ decided to push into the building there. What kind of precipitated that fight with now Team Falcons having to dip out Unreal Nightmare realizing there's potential for them to maybe third party. Good choice by Falcons to leave now down to just a duo as Unreal Nightmare's been able to hold that second floor this entire time. And this is who they originally, Falcons originally was shooting up at. And now they've had to back off just a tad, as you said, having lost Waltzy. That's definitely going to...
01:04:54 Kripple them just a bit as Pioneers are the next team in the general vicinity looking to see if they can maybe hold this building. I think Falcons are rezzing up on the high ground. I think they got it off. Oh my god, they are. Falcons get waltzy back into the game and Pioneers do not show up early enough. Oh my lord! Skynade.
01:05:18 This building is absolutely insane. The fact that Crew Buckle was able to land one of those frags and completely destroy the plans that Falcons are trying to implement. Now they're trying to move up onto Unreal Nightmare and see if they can own that second floor for themselves. And they've barely taken any punishment for it.
01:05:37 Ozone spammers go down. Falcons are going to join them. Unreal Nightmare finally finished the job. And Pioneers, sitting in the same building as them, have now become the focus. Ape Gang have a small corner to themselves. Leave no witnesses, oddly enough. Do have the full trio back up. Remember that squad that was sitting behind a singular crate with a Watson on 3 HP? Yeah.
01:06:02 They're on Shrio now and actually pretty darn close to the endgame zone. It's going to be really down to the wire between Leave No Witnesses and whoever's leaving this Pioneer's Unreal Nightmare shenanigans.
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01:06:40 I think they actually pull off the res. I don't know if they make it work later, though. Leave No Witness. Look at the angle they have. Nobody else can fire at them. It is just harassment onto Apegang. Cyberbullying, as some may say. Zilash will end up cleaning up one kill. But at this point, it's a matter of not overextending. Leave No Witnesses have done the damage on Apegang on the low ground. A couple of nades would round him out, but looking at the inventory, you'll notice they don't really have them.
01:07:10 Leave-No-Witnesses haben keine Sustaine, so damage will stick to this squad. Unreal Nightmare and Pioneers, the teams that have to exit the building, that's got to be the focus right now. You can see all of the fences down on that low ground. Pioneers trying to do what they can to keep themselves safe. Hopefully the alts are giving them a little bit of space to move, but they are forced to leave the building, and the PK is what's putting in Ward Krulbuckle. Once again, keeping them alive. Unreal Nightmare.
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01:08:06 That was great. That was great. I mean, like you said, talk about resilience down and out. I think everybody had just kind of forgotten about the fact that they were even in the game once they were down to a lone rat. And look what they did with just that little bit of extra time where no one was paying attention to them, able to come back and win the entire match. I counted them out and genuinely face it watch moment.
Analyse des Spiels 2 und strategische Überlegungen
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01:08:35 Like, go back in the face and watch Vaughn and see how on earth a solo Watson, with three square inches of space to her name, ends up rezzing a full squad to a 10kp victory. Amazing turnaround for Leave No Witnesses. I dare say Miraculous Glitter. You know...
01:08:56 I'm glad that they just did well in that second match because one of the things that I forgot to even mention when we're getting into match two was the fact that in match one, they were in 11th place. But in 11th place, they still had eight kills. So Leave No Witness was bringing the aggression in that first match. They just weren't able to find these placement points, which they turned around and instantly did here in match number two. And that...
01:09:23 Konsistency, once again, is impressive. And really great recognition as well. Funnily enough, in contrast to Game 1, Leave No Witnesses had a lot more space to look down and go, yes, there is a team on the low ground.
01:09:39 Das Team ist nicht wirklich ein Threat zu uns. Es ist sehr anders aus dem Game 1. Sie lassen Ape Gang survive, sie nicht in die Finde auf die Kills zu gehen. Und dann ist es, dass Ape Gang kommt und sie sie von Pioneers kommt. Leave no witness, jetzt leidt die Pack in dieser Serie. 31 Punkte, 25 die ZZ haben. Pioneers haben eine sehr gut gespielt. Great self-prediction, great play, nice. Ja, das ist ein guter Shout, was du gesagt, über...
01:10:06 Ape Gang as well, because that changed the entire course of the game for the entire top three teams. Wow. Loving all of the impact we're seeing for all the Season 26 changes and loving what our teams are bringing to the table so far here in the Americas. But that's only two out of our six matches done for today, which means it's time for us to send it to another short break before we get into match number three. Don't go anywhere. I'm last man standing. At least I lasted longer than anything can do better. Metal finger.
01:12:56 Sony Inzone, the official monitor of the Apex Legends Global Series.
01:13:11 Das war's für heute, und...
01:13:37 You only have to watch for 30 minutes to claim this particular sticker. A sticker that is, I'm sure, most accurate to all of your and certainly my comms. He's one typically known as a phrase that you'll utter after doing a single bit of damage to a person. Graceful, if I comm that, you know what I mean. And it means that you have to carry the fight as you typically do. But again, only 30 minutes to get this particular sticker and that'll last you all the way.
01:14:04 through match number three. Let's take a look back at Match 2's final circle, however, before we get into all of that, and take a look at how Leave No Witnesses, again graceful, staged the comeback of the century. This was such a phenomenal play from them. They actually just took the style quite early, leaving everybody to play for the pit and for the house while securing their spot. Managed to wait long enough, even with the zone really, really close behind them, as every team collapsed from the house right here in this big,
01:14:31 Gb bubble fight as we can see cruel buckle making it work with the passive right here from sparrow look at this angle arrive now boom they don't even see him get the free pumps now he's doing damage the team wipe that these guys actually almost made the same play with the pk where he gets old twice as you can see the old right there ready to make it happen actually has a solid placement with the old there but
01:14:52 We did talk about the game knowledge that it took. Again, leaving Apegang on the low ground, not committing to the fight. Worth noting, that
01:15:21 That victory, that win from Leave No Witnesses not only happened with a squad that got rezzed, but it's a team that had basically no meds to their name. The majority of their heals were coming from Pylon in the endgame. They had nothing to work with. And yet...
01:15:36 with the right amount of cover and with the right timing out of ape gang on the low ground they're able to make it work and credit to ape gang for going for the play that they did as ape gang securing themselves a second place is much much better than had they tried to climb up earlier and likely been forced into third we got a lot of teams making very intelligent calls around storm point i mean really good place
01:15:58 für a place from everybody because you actually have to at some point when you're in that scenario where you're in top three even top four you have to opt for are we actually playing to win the game or are we playing for the most consistent points and in this case making sure you get second with additional kp is better than we're praying to win the game but the worst case you get third with nothing and they opted for that and that's great that's how you do it consistency and getting those points on the board is super important and even this early on into the series as well it's such a good start because now you're allowing yourself
01:16:27 more room and D-Way for having those average games to eventually, if you get into endgame like that all the time, you're going to have a pop-off game. I'm noticing as well, typically when we pull towards any particular POI, we start keeping track of what teams land around there. Interesting to note, we did highlight them early, DKK.
01:16:48 Ended up with a lower point game than you might expect, but Pioneers are to be applauded for the way that they ended up playing out of Devastated Coast. Right next door, getting top three with the amount of KP that they did, I'd say that's a really successful game from Pioneers and capitalizing on the strengths of getting a zone pulling basically directly to you. Interesting note as well as we go into game three, that Alter not banned because, as I said at the start of game two, it's Watson that gets taken away.
01:17:16 Yeah, I mean, people opted to change, you know, instead of going for that, Watson got hit. But the gameplay kind of still stays the same because you're essentially just swapping out one piece of the puzzle for another equal or ish same playstyle piece of the puzzle.
01:17:30 But now, however, we're going to see if people are going to change things up or not. Like you said, though, about Pioneers as well, they managed to hold their spot from early on. Was honestly surprised they survived as long on that small cliff. After the big slope and on that small cliff, I thought you would get absolutely eviscerated. Like, one of them even got Kraybird, didn't get finished, and then managed to make something out of it. That's kind of, you know, you can't give up just because one of you gets Kraybird. They're still clawing onto that any point they can take. And if you're that hungry and you get more points, even by clawing, like...
01:17:59 That's such a good mentality to have as a team. I remember he got Krabered and then they were rezzing him with a Watson in the open and I was like surely you just get Krabered again. Like 100% you're knocking that rez but it's really difficult to make stuff like that work and funnily enough that tied into another squad we saw in the endgame because the squad that was shooting at them.
01:18:23 was Ape Gang, down on the low ground, that ended up surviving so many more rings with the Newcastle walls to eventually alter their way into some sort of safety for a second place. It's funny how all those threads from the south side of the ring ended up tying together. Other interesting thing, Falcons. Quick exit around the middle of the late game, but I think well played.
01:18:49 Fokus that Falcons and Unreal Nightmare both had around capitalizing inside the building was good. It's just awkward that Pioneers show up and do it that little bit better. I mean, the thing is, they played phenomenally, honestly. They scouted with the Cryptodrone, they took it place by place, they pushed the team into the corner, EMP played, made that wipe, got into the house. Honestly, it could have gone either way because if instead of a team joining the bottom floor and they're ending up picking a 3v3 versus Falcons, if they went...
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01:19:42 Yeah, and a lot of the plays that we saw from many teams, but especially thinking of Ape Gang and Pioneers, were really enabled by Alter as well, something that has been and continues to be likely very high priority in the first couple of games. The big question for me is, since we swapped Caustic out for Watson, if everybody picks the same thing, yes, Alter survives another game, we take her on to E-District. If we split the vote...
01:20:11 Between something like Catalyst and then Rampart All of a sudden Alter's next on the chopping block And we're not seeing this legend that so many people Are making heads up plays with anymore As we load onto our third match on Stormpoint That'll be the big question Is not just who comes out on top of this game Which of course we'll be taking you through But how does that set up for the next one?
01:20:32 Ja, ich meine, wir immer über die Clash-of-Playstyles sprechen sprechen und wie gewöhnliche Spiele ist, das nur eine Legend kann machen. Nur Alter kann machen, was sie macht. Und wenn du das machst, hast du dein entire, sozusagen, Scenario zu verwenden, wie du deine Strategie betrachten kannst. Es ist die gleiche als wenn du...
01:20:51 Es ist immer interessant, zu sehen die Dynamik zwischen Teams.
01:21:17 ...several years or so much experience with every single Legend, because the meta swaps and changes, right? So you just gotta make do with a few comfy comps, and then we'll see if people can make do or get even better results. One thing I'll have to say, though, is I think we saw way more Ramparts on the NA section so far than we did in EMEA, right?
01:21:37 I believe so. In fact, I'll double check it for you right now as we load into match number three on Stormpoint. The final match on Stormpoint of the day.
01:21:48 I mean, I'm definitely looking forward to this because now we saw some specific zones around this, you know, southern side of Seto. And I saw around east side of Launchpad. We're seeing a little bit more zone towards the central side of the map again. Maybe could be leaning a little bit more towards the central and northern side rather than the southeast. Still though, gonna be fun to see. Leave no witness here on first place currently after that play. Really solid play overall for the start of the day. Now we're gonna see if they can keep up.
01:22:18 das Momentum und end at the top, at the upper section of the leaderboard or not. Got a little bit of data for you, especially given that Zillatch is running the Rampart. One of five Ramparts in this particular game. We had one last game, so the Rampart pick rate is going up. I'm going to avoid saying ramping up, except for now I said it and so everybody knows that was on my mind, and that's my bad. However, fun stuff to note, Alter going to be...
01:22:46 Your most picked and thus banned legend in the next game. 85% of teams running Alter with Catalyst being the one right behind. So we have in large part swapped out controller for controller, but we also did exactly what we talked about in between the games, and that is splitting between Catalyst and Rampart, which means that Alter is the most picked.
01:23:09 Ich meine, Alter für sicher, wird es den meisten pick. Aber in dieser Zone, wir gesehen haben es früher, als auch, ist es, glaube ich, es wird mehr auf den Southeastern-South-East-Side, wo es, you know, auf den Prowler-Nest geht, oder ist es, glaube ich, auf den Hillen? Das könnte, ehrlich gesagt, gehen either way. Ich bin super interessiert in dieser Zone, regardless, weil ich die Height-Differenzial finde, von der Slope zu sehen, ist so anders aus, von der typischen Bildung-Fight. Es ist sehr interessant zu sehen, und ich freue mich.
01:23:36 Yeah, I mean, call me crazy, and I think you'd have to be for just predicting a Zonon broadcast like this. I'm not on set, so I'm not going to get this right. But this probably pulls towards Stormcatcher. That's what I'm thinking. And as I will say, I'm in good company. Leave no witnesses think so as well. CIMJ, Thuggets, Apeka, it looks like we're all on the same page.
01:23:56 Leave No Witness is playing in one of those spots, we like to say, is very adaptable. It doesn't matter where it pulls from them, because they are capable of making it either way. If it pulls up northeast side, they can make it there by fighting for something, and if it pulls southeast side, they can still make something happen, just sliding down the slope and taking something early. As we see, other teams are starting to ramp more towards the central side of the zone. Hot Dog Mafia, love that name, are just looting up and preparing. Still a little bit central, but haven't committed to anything just yet. Just taking a...
01:24:25 Gander at where is everybody else at? Because a lot of the times, if you're not entirely sure about where the zone is, you can actually predict it depending on where teams play sometimes. Obviously, we do have those faults sometimes where you say, wait, there's five teams here, the zone is here. And then those five teams misread the zone and it's not a fun time. Hopefully that doesn't happen to Hot Dog Mafia. Yeah, it's a gamble. It's a gamble when you choose to play off the low ground, but...
01:24:54 Hotdog Mafia's spot with a Longbow that can get essentially a guaranteed Skullpiercer. You could end up picking up quite a bit of KP if Crypto would just get out of your dang way. Madness? Rambo's gonna have words with you. I'm in. Hey man. Snipers. I like to see it.
01:25:12 Not only seeing Peter and Scout and Chartreffel, seeing a little bit of Longbow is refreshing as well. All the Marksmen or Snipers in general are really, like long range weapons are just so prevalent right now because you still have the PK that for some reason hits 108 for a billion feet away. But you also have the RE45 and R9 being really solid, like especially on close range, but almost leading into mid range at this point. So you can actually, you don't really need to play ARs nearly as much now.
01:25:42 as you have done previously, where some weapons are just almost locked into a short range and long range. Now you have that absolute long range with the marksmen, with the snipers, leading into your RE45, R9s, and PKs. PKs especially have been picked up a lot today, as well as R9.
01:25:58 Let's just compare these two teams real quick, because we keep talking about them, especially in the early stages of the game. Rock have already rotated. They're sitting right underneath the Stormcatcher. Falcons, who land right next to them, are playing a very different game. They're playing around the edge of the zone right now, and with Falcons pulling this kind of play off, and on the other side having Rock really commit hard into a zone prediction,
01:26:23 Ja, ich denke, niemand will in ein bisschen zu viel. Falcons sind in der ersten Zeit, wenn es hier in eine super-solid ist. Und es ist eigentlich, wenn es hier in eine super-solid ist, wenn es hier in eine super-solid ist. Und es ist eigentlich, wenn es hier in eine super-solid ist, wenn es hier in eine super-solid ist. Und es ist eigentlich, wenn es hier in eine super-solid ist, dass sie mit Sicherheit haben, man kann es aus.
01:26:47 But I think they're really happy with that spot. They predicted it. They saw also the next zone. So they're kind of banking on the fact that it's going to pull up towards them as other teams have as well. As we see, other teams that have done good so far in this series, DMG looking to take fights more against NIP here in Command Center, which is always fun to see this fight happen.
01:27:08 DMG know someone's here. Drone got destroyed and they don't know that it's ninjas in pajamas, but I don't think that'll stop them. DMG very likely to continue taking this fight. Pioneers and DKK, a bit of a short range battle, but I don't anticipate that it will result in them full sending each other. There's always the chance that I'm wrong. I mean, you one tap somebody with the charge rifle and I know you're sending it.
01:27:36 Could happen at any moment. Everybody is on edge to make sure a play could happen at any point. And I like to see that. Everybody is ready and locked in to make a fight happen if it has to happen. However, I think they'll just be waiting to see someone pulls eventually because they're still safe in the next one. Unless something drastic happens to where like you're chunking the other team or you insta kill somebody and you're all healthy.
01:27:59 A fight shouldn't happen just yet. As also, the Zone, I believe, pulled off of them more towards the northern side, where we saw some teams predict very early. Now we're seeing the Zone here. They're gonna have to fight once they figure out that, hey, we're not actually in the next zone together. Who's gonna take the fight first, though? We'll see, as 14k Resonance is poking a little.
01:28:22 This is in the realm of possibility for a fight that will fully break out, mostly because 14k has just gotten so darn close to the Pioneers in this building. Turning things around rather, Pioneers will be the ones to take out DKK. These two teams did full send it, now 14k Resonance who we tuned back in with. They're gonna take the Void Nexus into a trap. Nicely done by Sentinels.
01:28:47 Yep, they tried to start something or clean up the whole southern side, essentially. They got punished by Sentinels waiting on that teleporter. As we now see as well, the zone is indeed pulling up. Could still pull down and end on the mountainside, potentially, but should be pulling a little bit more towards where teams have been predicting. Now we're seeing, though, people are understanding they're no longer safe on the southern side. We'll be looking to collapse on other teams because...
01:29:14 You don't want several teams to collapse on the same side because that opens up for opportunities for the teams that have the timing to come in late, perhaps with a 3P, even a 4P. So you want to make sure here that if we see a team we want to fight now or we want to stall enough to where they get thirded from behind.
01:29:33 TSM's Rotation. This time South will take them right up by Unreal Nightmare. Scene of the Crime from last game. And running a very defensive composition as well. With the Altar, of course, being a staple of everyone. But then New Castle and Catalyst combined. Two very different forms of staying power. Skittle Cakes 1v3ing at the moment.
01:29:57 The sole representative of Hot Dog Mafia, and it seems to be working out for him. Does have the Pathfinder to get out if things get iffy, but with Zhang pushing him, I don't know if he has time. Skittle Cakes is going to go down, and it's up to Madness and Rambo to make up for this. They are nowhere nearby, but in comes Rambo to save the day. We'll see how well this ends up going. This, honestly, could go extremely poorly for Hot Dog Mafia.
01:30:22 Das war schwer. Ich denke, dass sie mit dem Kettelkakes gespielt haben, als Kettelkakes war, als er nicht gemacht hat. Sie konnten es nicht machen, weil er eigentlich ging, aber der Reset kommt aus von Ram. Sehr schön von dem. Looking zu Reset properly, bevor ich das Fight mache, weil sie wollen, dass niemand auf der Seite ist. Aber als ich gesagt habe, dass auch, Nice Guys und Hot Dog Mafia haben das Fight gemacht und gemacht haben.
01:30:43 Zone spammers, creepin' up on them. Haven't really shown too much presence yet, because they're waiting for trades of some sort, maybe, to see which side do we go. Do we go through the spider choke, or do we go through the southern side? Might even go northern side, but highly unlikely, as that's uphill. We'll have to see, as the zone is about to close as well. An unfortunate demise, but ninjas and pajamas do lose McLovin. Weirdly enough, it looks like an oob timer expired, so perhaps a rotate gone wrong over a mountain, but...
01:31:11 Das wird sehr gefährlich sein, um ihn zurück zu bringen, besonders weil der Death Box ist inaccessible, so man braucht einen Crafter. Und in diesem Moment, das ist ziemlich unlikely. Keep your eyes auf Ninjas in Pajamas. See if they get the Rez, weil es braucht viel mehr Effort als der typisch, oh, we'll just pick him up, weil he, I don't know, died to Zone oder so. TSM.
01:31:32 Making a quick rotate for the moment. Are going to land in temporary safety. Launchpad definitely not where the zone is going. But it is at least away from Unreal Nightmare who are harassing them otherwise. I mean, they're just taking a little peek here. Making sure to see and scout is where our team's at. Is there anywhere we can join in and land safely? You see they're just scouting, okay. We saw at least one team there. Maybe a team in other building as well. Let's go back and recoup. We still have one and a half minutes to decide what to do. We're in no rush right now.
01:32:00 Sie sehen, ob wir das passieren können, oder ob wir das gegen Unreal-Nightmare machen wollen. Wir sind schon bereit, um das Kampf gegen TSM zu machen. Ich liebe die Gold 30-30s in diesem Fall, ich sage Ihnen das. In fact, es sieht aus, dass ich nicht alleine bin, als sie auch die Triple-Take preferiert sind. TSM ist noch immer wieder in hier drin, und ein Follow-Up an was wir schon erwähnt. NINJAS in Pajamas haben, in fact, bekommen die Rez.
01:32:28 They were off on the western side of the zone, as you can see them right now, over by DMG. Both squads, many squads in fact, having to make their way into this next zone. It is pulling up to the high ground, but still significantly south of Stormcatcher. TSM in their own fight up against Unreal Nightmare, relatively isolated 3v3, but a tense one nonetheless, as Huntsman shuts down Aiden. And TSM, now in a two versus three, need Jet to clutch things up, who goes down immediately.
01:32:57 It's all up to Jupiter 1v2, and he might do it. Rails gets kicked, but does not get shot down. TSM instead will fall.
01:33:06 Unreal Nightmare. Really good trades here. Getting the first down. Immediately Gibby bubbling. And then they're trading bodies essentially. Just absorbing damage as a team. Making sure that hey. Even if I fall. My next teammate will clean that up. Super solid fight. They got that fight fast enough. Where they didn't even get collapsed on. By any teams a little bit further in. Because this zone right now. Zone 3 is about to close. And now it's getting terrifying. Because this zone is starting to get rough now.
01:33:33 Not a whole lot of cover to play and this is where you'll really see Newcastle teams get ahead. Hot Dog Mafia unfortunately very behind despite the Newcastle as Skittle Cakes expires in the air. Death Box flying away and DMG will join them at the hands of the Ninjas in Pajamas. 14 squads left so we are in a placement point territory but just by the skin of our teeth.
01:33:58 Also, the zone pulled back south now. All the teams that banked on the fact that it was going to pull north misread this zone, and it's going to be a rough time for them to collapse everybody through both the archways or the stairs. And then outside of that, there's two more teams on each side. If they go all the way down, there's like three, four more teams ready to jump at them. It's going to be a mayhem from the north side, as right now we're seeing fights from the west choke as well. Sentinels taking out NIP. Super solid. Nobody went down, and they have a spot walking in as well at spider choke.
01:34:27 completely uncontested and you cannot say the same of zone spammers who get focused out by nice guys and a combination of they and unreal nightmare who are up on the high ground sacred still alive and kicking for now but unlikely to be for very long as he has left a solo zz two versus two guild
01:34:49 Gets Crypto ulted, but manages to back away through the Altar Portal. Unfortunately not safe. He's gonna go down. Sykes, the last one left alive. Blue Shield's on a Catalyst. Has to make it work. Sykes needs to pull off the Miracle, and he will not. Getting shut down by CIMJ. He's been doing work right now. He has two kills, but 768 damage, as well as he gets insta-ripped by the RE45 and the Piercing Spike Spindership. And now...
01:35:15 Timj is looking a little bit rough in the center of the zone, getting charge trifled by everybody, trying to play that one as much as they can. Already opting to go back up, but somebody else occupied their old slot, actually. First it was Sentinels, then it was Rock. But this strategy of sitting on top of the altar portal and just waiting for them to take it back...
01:35:37 Es ist wirklich gut, es ist gut für 2 Kp und Rock wird noch ein Kp, wenn sie das aufhören können, weil Vaxelon hat einen Knopf mit der Kraber.
01:35:46 Was ein nice knock indeed. Nice, guys. He's been trying to throw down that TP for a while. He finally gets it down. Because sometimes if he doesn't land properly, he gets reset. You gotta re-throw that down as Rock is sitting in a really solid spot. They just gotta defend this now. Because we see 1, 2, 3, 4. Four teams needing to go through the same choke. Which side will they ape? Which side will they evac on? Are they just gonna go down the hill? Or are they gonna actually land on somebody? We will have to see as Falcons is about to evac over. Durax are about to...
01:36:15 Walking in as well. And now Thug is fighting CIMJ right now. I believe they're shooting at each other as the zone is closing. Holding my breath as Falcons land as well. Waltzy's got basically no HP. And Zero lands and just doesn't get shot at at all. Maybe waiting for the right moment. But Rock do finally take some poke at them. Zero's still alive. And Falcons, even with the very little HP that they have, seem to have made the landing work.
01:36:46 Wow, I mean, sometimes timing is all that happens. They survived long enough for other teams, like they needed to take their focus on other teams walking in with the zone. Falcons currently surviving in the middle of the zone above another team in central zone as three teams on the northern side are about to fight as Falcons is taking a look to join that fight as well. Leave no witness, trying to reset on the northwest of the side. However, going down two right now.
01:37:10 Our winners of Game 2 now find Falcons. We'll be honest. Oh my god, you do not want to be there! Out goes the teleport. We'll see if Blaze can survive as he has done for, I'll say, a little too long so far. No sightlines on this Ashe. Maybe he gets the shield cell off. Kind of crazy that we're seeing him survive this long. Rocks still hold their spot. And when we talked about Falcons earlier...
01:37:39 We're seeing them continue to suffer in the killfeed. Let's just say that. Zero's gonna go down this time. It is all up to Hal. And Rock take this moment to climb on over and throw some serious damage towards Thuggets. Deep Falcons are gonna go out. Sorcerer, waiting on the swing, doesn't want to overpush, but with the same time as the altar portal, it could work out. Kimchi ends up going through.
01:38:02 Es bleibt für jetzt, aber Rock zurückgekehrt, sehr sicherlich, als Kimshee auf der anderen Seite des Fenster wird gebrochen. Deeds wird in den Backen genommen, aber es ist KCP gekommen, die Pinched Rock in sogar weitergekehrt. Vax nicht überlebt! Und, unfortunately...
01:38:19 As Leave No Witness got pushed out of their spot, Durags are in a prime spot right now to make stuff happen that Thuggets are getting.
01:38:39 Ja, Thuggets!
01:39:04 Do just completely send it down the hill onto Pioneers. Cruelbuckle's got the accelerator, much less game. We could see that turn into something, but it'll get shut down pretty quickly by the 30-30s. Nice guys contributing from the low ground. Leave no witnesses, gonna go down. And that puts us into a top five situation as Durags wanna push it even further. There goes the Gibby Bubble for an isolated 3v3. The Thuggets go down and the Durags, they've got a game plan. Let me tell you, Bubble in...
01:39:34 und zu senden, es funktioniert gut.
01:39:55 Krabbering Davis. And now everybody else is collapsing on each other as Riley is trying to make that Ori 45 sing. Doesn't quite hit anything just yet though. It is this kind of zone though where Alter, the catalyst, the most picked controller of this game can make such a big difference. Sentinels saving the wall, not quite able to.
01:40:17 Use it to get themselves any safety, are gonna go down. Unreal Nightmare and Nice Guys out as well. It's just up to Durags and a Jewel of Sentinels. Finally, the wall goes out and it is puny. It does nothing. The Durags slide in and from the high ground execute the game plan perfectly. They bubble, they kill.
Durags' Starke Leistung und KP-Fokus der Pioneers
01:40:3401:40:34 Bubble and also Gibi ult. And then they're forced to fight them in their bubble and they win the shotgun fight right there. It was a 3v2, but still very solid, like super solid gameplay. We also can't forget to respect the fact that they came from this side where like six, seven teams collapsed on each other because they all misread the zone pulling north. And they managed to take out, like push Leave No Witness from the northwest side of the zone.
01:40:58 Sie haben das Heid, und dann Tuggets und Rock, auf dem E-Side, haben sie gesucht, und jetzt haben sie absolut Heid. Sie haben mehr K.P., T.P. wieder auf Heid, und dann haben sie das Heid. Das ist ein super Phänomenal, Proactive-Gameplay, und sie haben viel K.P. von dem auch, von der Proactive-Gameplay.
01:41:16 Yeah, I mean, I really liked their fight strat. We called it out several times. The Gibraltar bubble, like you mentioned, the ult, it gets them to the tune of 8kp. So really, a great game from Durag's matching the kp that Sentinels had. I am wowed, however, by the kp that Pioneers were able to put up. Yeah, they may have finished in 7th, but good lord.
01:41:39 Ja, ich meine, wir sahen das Madness-Happenheit auch. Und 14 Kills ist nichts zu schünen. Aber diese zwei Teams hier. Solid KP overall. Just ein guter Performance. Es ist nichts aus der Ordnung. 8 Kills ist etwas, das jemand ist glücklich mit. Ich würde sagen, dass nichts mehr 2 Teamwipen, das ist 6 Kills, ist natürlich sehr gut zu haben.
01:42:03 Yeah, this was really fantastic for both squads. I want to take a look, however, at how it impacts their overall series standings. Sentinel's going to be moving up, of course, quite a bit, up to 7th. But taking a look for the Durags, they're the ones in 3rd right now. 28 points to the 41 that Pioneers currently lead with. And when you look at this...
01:42:25 It's no mystery where Pioneers are getting their points. They have way more KP than everyone else. Their placement points, not nearly in the same state as, say, Leave No Witnesses and Durags, but that doesn't seem to matter too much. Glitter. I'm cooking up the same take that I had this morning that I admitted I was wrong about, where I'm like, ah, KP better than Zone, but I know that I have three games left and that this could all go wrong at any moment. Yeah, to be fair...
01:42:52 We saw what the swap over to E-District did for our teams in EMEA as well. So it's still anybody's game. But once again, it might not have been as impressive a performance, but we're seeing consistency out of Leave No Witness, finding themselves in top six again, which puts them at that second-place spot in the overall. And I don't know. I feel like these early weeks are always such a good opportunity for...
01:43:21 The teams that.
01:43:23 Das war's. Das war's. Das war's.
Team Falcons und Rock dominieren in Amerika, APAC North zeigt Potenzial
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01:43:52 und bereits, wie Sie, was Sie durch was Sie, was Sie durch was Sie, was Sie, was Sie in der Welt gewonnen haben. Und wir sind in der Amerikas Region. Und wir haben Team Falcons in 1st place und Rock in 2nd. Und, you know, you had mentioned earlier on, Dia, they're a team that I think has
01:44:21 Ich weiß, was das hier ist. Obviamente, KP Poll hat ihre eigene Philosophie behind das. Aber ich weiß, ob das current Power Rankings
01:44:44 Oder wie die besten Teams in der Welt sind? Oder wie wird die besten in der Zeit von Split 2 sein? Ich denke, die Antworten sind sehr unterschiedlich. Wenn wir die Start-A-Split 1 sehen, Falcons nicht in der ersten ersten 1. Ich weiß nicht, warum sie nicht in der ersten 1. Wenn sie nicht in der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1. In der ersten 1.
01:45:13 I mean, APAC North was a...
01:45:28 ...at least in the first couple of games, a steamroll performance. Soten looked really fantastic in the first couple of games. The team amassed 45kp over their first three matches. And again, they were doing the same thing. Stormpoint, then into E-District. Kakiguri, their player, ended up dropping 31 kills across the series. But most of those were on Stormpoint with 8 kills, 8 kills, and 11 kills. So Soten certainly...
01:45:57 Untertitelung. BR 2018
01:46:16 E-District and Stormpoint play very differently from one another.
01:46:38 It's just a matter of solving the other maps. And that is not nearly as hard as solving things as your team synergy. So keep your eyes on Sotun. Keep your eyes on Kakigori because this is clearly a team with a lot of potential in APAC North. Love that. Things are strong enough in APAC North. But of course, that's only one of our APAC regions. So that means we also need to check in with APAC South Graceful. So tell me what happened over there.
01:47:03 I mean, Apex South, as well as we know, very talented individuals coming out of that region. I believe every single match had a different winner. And when you have matches like that...
01:47:13 You always know there's a storyline for all the teams that are putting on the performances. One of the teams that put on a big performance was Tomyamkung right here. I believe they had a 17 kill game and they ended third overall, which is nothing to scoff at. As we can even see Genome right there mesmerized by the gameplay footage on his screen. He's just so happy to see this happen. As all of these players as well, very well known. I believe that the region is so strong. Like all the regions have grown over time and I like how we always say it for each land.
01:47:42 Ich denke, Apex South hat sich...
01:48:10 Ich glaube, ich habe auch die PIX ein bisschen anders gemacht. Vielleicht ist es nicht so skewed. Aber ich glaube, es ist auch die samee Weise wie EMEA und Amerika haben verschiedene Regionen.
01:48:22 Some teams prioritize Newcastle and Ramport a little bit more than other regions. We might see a little bit more flavor to other regions, like Apex South and North, as I would like to see when all of this meshes together on LAN in the future. As we see the total points here as well. Humongous point there on ADA total points. Crazy, crazy.
01:48:42 And a perfect split for Wolves Esports as well. Yeah, shout out to Genome, of course, for running those watch parties there for APAC South. But at least a nice little recap there is all of our regions have kicked off for split two. And hopefully everybody at home is now caught up on what you might have missed. But we've got a couple more things to talk about here as well. And one of those things, we've talked about it in the past. And we're going to keep reminding you guys because we need you to remember that.
01:49:07 Apex launched new social accounts on both TikTok and Instagram. And it's really cool content over there. It's not just ALGS. It's all sorts of additional fun pieces of content with our players. So if you're interested in that, make sure you're checking that out and following to keep up with everything. But in case you're wondering what I'm talking about, if it's not specific to like ALGS competition content, we put something special together for you guys so you can understand what I'm talking about. So let's check it out.
01:50:20 Nein! Nein!
01:51:19 Vielen Dank.
01:51:48 I mean...
E-District-Strategien und Teamleistungen im Fokus
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01:52:10 Wir sahen E-District-Action vorhin und es war fantastisch. Wir sahen die Teams zu spielen. Wir sahen viel Wraith-Gameplay auf die Map, speziell, als Legends werden gebeten, natürlich. Aber ich bin so froh, zu sehen, wie die Leute spielen können, denn das ist einer der Map, wo du nicht...
01:52:27 Ich sage nicht, dass es mehr Fehler auf anderen Maps ist, aber du bist viel stärker auf den anderen Maps. In dem Sinne, dass wenn du in eine Choke bist, du bist mehr als dead, oder du bist verletzt. Wobei auf E-Ditrick speziell, du bist never wirklich, wirklich stuck. Es ist sehr rare, bis in Zone 4 oder 5, dass du wirklich stuck bist. Auf den Zonen vorhin, du kannst du immer immer ein Team verletzt werden. Und ich freue mich darauf, zu sehen, wie Teams playen mit sich in diesem Sinne.
01:52:54 Schasing people and fighting on the outer edge, are they going to look to opt to rotate around each other and play more towards the zone-centered playstyle as we have seen previously? Yeah, it'll be exciting to see what we get to with our zones, who that's going to end up favoring, how these squads are going to be handling it because...
01:53:12 As we head into match number four, we currently have Pioneers at the tippy top of things, followed by Leave No Witness. Will the map change that up for them? You know, we'll take a look at they're going to be. Pioneers will be on that western side over at Blossom Drive. We'll have to see how it plays out. I'm excited, though. I love watching E-District when there's teams.
01:53:38 Das hat eine schwere Performance auf den ersten drei Maps. Ich bin speziell auf die Likes der Liquid Alienware und TSM. Wir sind wirklich für sie zu haben, und die Closer wir kommen zu dem Ende der Serie, ich fühle mich, die mehr Desperate sie sind, um die Aggression in zu bekommen, um die Punkte zu bekommen. Ich habe auch ein sneak peek. Wir haben schon ein paar Wraithpicks gesehen, und ich bin sehr froh, wie diese Leute aussehen. Wir haben gesehen, wir haben ein paar...
01:54:05 Some individual players known for which legends they end up playing. And Vreik is one of my personal favorites. I don't think anybody can dislike her. Obviously being the poster girl from the start of the game, essentially. Everybody loved that Kunai, the only heirloom that existed for a while. And seeing her in gameplay makes me very happy. I'm so excited to see it because I feel like it kind of goes back a little bit to the root of the basic fundamentals of how you need to approach fights.
01:54:31 Listen, I don't know what is in the water here today.
01:54:59 We're watching our previous match winners in Durags. But when we get a chance to take a look at the map and see where that first ring is going. I said TSM needed to have a little bit of a comeback performance here. And look at that ring, Graceful. I mean, it's a great start for sure if they recognize it and they're playing around it properly. But we already see five teams pretty much moving their way in Liquid Alien. We're leaving with this on the cusp as well. They're going to be several teams already center zone almost.
01:55:26 Will they have a spot that they're able to play from? And do they have enough loot? You know, sometimes the amps will definitely help if you found an infinite batteries or if you actually found an infinite ammo. That could definitely help you. But if you haven't been as lucky, because as we said before as well during the amps, amps gets progressively more common the later you go into the game with bin resets, with drop packages coming down. All of this makes it easier to get those amps. But before that, it's RNG, baby.
01:55:55 Yeah, and you can see, I think that a couple of those teams, TSM's starting to figure it out. You can see DKK over at Boardwalk as well, knowing that it might just work for right now to hang out a little bit farther north. Like you mentioned, so many teams moved in as quickly as possible to claim some real estate over there in City Hall as we get a chance to take a look top down onto Sentinels who are right by Suggits. And this could potentially be a third-party opportunity for TSM.
01:56:23 Hey man, if you're gonna fight, you wanna fight as absolutely early as possible before teams start to settle in. Because when they start settling in, that means you have to take less than 10 seconds, 5 seconds engages. Because if not, you're gonna get third free. So if they're fighting, they're about to fight right about now. If not, they're probably gonna lay down low a little bit. But speaking of fighting, Sentinel is already cracking people up here. As they got into a small cubby essentially. And they're setting up to either fight or take a breather.
01:56:48 You know, this is actually a big opportunity for Sentinels, because I think they were trying to move in on Leave No Witness and T-Law, who were fighting back and forth here in this corner. You can see that in the kill feed already. I think Sentinels tried to move in. We've also got KCP in the mix. So, I mean, this is going to be an interesting, very early game fight. So, let's jump in to listen in here with Leave No Witness and see how they plan to play this one out.
01:57:16 Ja, ja, ja, ja
01:57:46 chill chill tenemos que dejar de ser foco le deberían pique por la palda igual a ese tipo no? si muchas nades, estamos bien, estamos bien vamos a pique a la derecha vamos a dar a la derecha safe en mi safe en mi safe en mi safe en mi
01:58:14 The Leave No Witness find themselves in a bit of a tight spot here, Graceful. I mean, they've got teams on both sides of them who have some decent lines of sight. They were getting poked down, but their rampart walls are saving them right now.
01:58:40 Ich meine, ich hörte Komo, chill, Komo, chill. Das ist alles, was ich brauchte zu hören. Don't get knocked down, als sie almost get knocked down wurden. Ich promise, die Sentinels würde auf sie explodieren, als du sie versuchen mit den Nades und den Angle zu tun. Aber sie konnten wirklich nicht machen, was machte beide Teams leben für den Moment.
01:58:58 It's definitely a scary spot because while that was happening too, T-Law do go down. They're the first team out in match number four and they were in the middle of that back and forth with Sentinels and Leave No Witness. They were all in that area kind of poking each other down and they end up falling. So smart choice on behalf of Leave No Witness to start to back away from that when they've realized that they didn't have an advantage anymore.
Strategische Entscheidungen und Team-Eliminierungen in späten Spielphasen
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01:59:22 I mean, that's how it goes sometimes. You gotta recognize, as well as I said, the longer the game goes on, if it was immediately early and it was only them, as we saw before when they got cracked, that could have happened at that point. But when you stall it out for additional 10, 15, 30 seconds, at that point it becomes way too risky to take that opportunity. Because even if they sent them, a little bit, like a small bit, such as a single trade on both sides, could just wipe them both off the map. So they opted not to do it.
01:59:51 I was worried for a second there. I wasn't sure if we were about to get like a third, fourth, fifth party situation within the first 10 minutes of the match. I was stressed. But now though, someone is pulling towards that same bridge above the water as we saw earlier when CyberCats won in EMEA, which was really nice. This zone, however, has a lot of playable area in different layers because there's so many small cliffs and...
02:00:19 ...small islands, I guess, and palm trees on top of them, that you can play around if you are playing Newcastle. And we only see a couple of Newcastles, actually, but we also do see Ramparts, so that could happen, potentially. But when we also have some Cryptos, when I say some, I mean more than five, it's gotta be scary, because even if you set up, if you get EMP, that's enough for people to rip through you with Sheila, with Nades, and what other stuff as well they throw at you.
02:00:44 Absolutely. I think right now it's going to end up being those catalysts that come through and really help people kind of create a little additional space if they can't find it, being able to utilize their wall and hopefully survive a little bit longer. As you can see, just how many teams have really bet on that southeastern corner of the ring. We've got a couple more squads moving slower on their rotates, kind of coming up on the edge of the next ring. But right now,
02:01:13 After that chaos towards the middle with Leave No Witness and Sentinels, it seems that things have calmed down. You can even see on the map that Sentinels did back off all the way towards the north, and now they're near Hot Dog Mafia. I mean, there's so many playable areas, there's really no reason to immediately ape somebody, unless you find an opportunity of, like, insta-downing somebody with a Peter or maybe a Charge Rifle, because there's just so many playable areas. 19 teams still alive.
02:01:38 Chilling, waiting for Zone to show. Next Zone is about to move in in 20 seconds. They're just gathering up, looting up and seeing what happens because there's no real reason to push anybody just yet because the collapse doesn't happen until two zones from now. I do love their decision. As Carter's knocked, they're going to see if they can maybe get a little bit of reset here. I do love Sentinel's decision to fully back off and try to play it a little bit safer and not really mess with the potential chaos of
02:02:06 Two rings from now. I think this patience could pay off for them as they are able to get that reset onto Carter and they should be safe for now. They've got a lot less teams to be dealing with this far north and Hot Dog Mafia have backed off a little bit so that could have ended up saving them in the long run when it comes to even just placement points. Yep.
02:02:26 And CC on a far way side of the map. Southwest actually in Blossom Drive. Just relaxing and taking their time to loot. Making sure they're stacked up for the zone coming in later. Because you have to remind yourself that even though you have more utility in the form of amps. If you do end up getting the infinite batteries and everything else. We're also seeing right here on your screen as we speak. Blue armor. When you're late. Super late. You're almost always purple armor. And when you have purple against blues. You're going to feel a lot more confident.
02:02:55 Hotdog Mafia macht eine große Bewegung hier.
02:03:12 I told you about the EMP, even if you go there, if you have a Newcastle and whatnot, right, like I said, the Islas with the Pompies, that one right there.
02:03:36 Even if you set it up, if there's Kryptos in the lobby, you're gonna get hit. And they lost two members immediately. Not out yet, though. We can't count them out because we have seen it even today in EMEA. I'm mad at right now. A solo rat could pull it back. We've seen it happen even here in this region in that game before. I mean, he's close enough to get the banners, but DMG will potentially just wait on those boxes looking to see if he dares go for it.
02:04:04 We see a Kraber, we saw a Golden Scout, we saw a PK, we see Golden Peter, we see...
02:04:29 Golden Flatline, nobody's picking that up though, let's be honest, right now. Even though I love that weapon. They are stacked right now. People do not want to let them free shoot on the southeast side of the map. They are the first team that will have to move eventually. It'll be between NIP and Team Falcons, probably needing to pick a side to rotate towards. But if they get to 3P anything with those weapons in hands, they will make it rain.
02:04:53 We were wondering what was going to happen with Madness while you were watching that. He did go down, so Hot Dog Mafia are the next team eliminated here. That was definitely a rough time for them to have landed exactly where they did. Unfortunate, but they do go down. Meanwhile, 14k.
02:05:16 In a serious back and forth here. Buck's a little bit low, but able to survive and they're keeping themselves locked. DKK is on the other side of it and goes out. Things are starting to heat up. Things are heating up indeed as they're just securing their spot, finding their way in now. CC as well, working their way in with the zone right now. Are they going to hit the UAV or not? I'm not sure. However, I would like to find out. So let's take a listen in with CC.
02:05:44 Komm her, komm her, komm her!
02:05:58 I have Moby, I can grab his banner, if he does. I might be able to crawl in. AP, AP, AP, AP, you Fuzel, Fuzel! Rake one! Reset, reset, reset, reset, reset, reset! Full reset! Get Smikesed! Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel, Fuzel
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02:06:53 Phenomenal play from Sykes and Guild, holding it down as Zach got knocked early on that rotate.
02:07:00 Playing that double PK, Jiggle peeking, making sure that they shoot together was huge for them, and then calling that comm off. Don't push, reset. They get that whole thing, even pre-planned immediately after. If they're here, we're gonna EMP and fight them. However, the team managed to run away, and they did not want that fight anymore into a 2v2 with that reset. So now, ZZ looking from a good spot, walking in with his own. Yeah, honestly, they have been playing really well together. We see a...
02:07:28 Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal. Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal. Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal.
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02:08:22 They should be able to get, yeah, he gets that thirst, another KP on the board as he goes down, lands on a team, gets a couple PK shots in, even a down as he falls short. Listen, he's going to go down in a blaze of glory if his team is no longer available. He's going to make sure everybody else's game is ruined as well. Definitely a thorn in the side of those teams. TZ is out. We get to see what's going on here with Falcons. How is Noct looks like he's able to get up back and reset here and...
02:08:51 Getting a nice little Skynade. Pioneer's eliminated at the end of that, but Falcons have managed to set themselves up pretty comfortably here. They're looking for a Solo that was kind of running around near the bottom that was doing a little scouting for Unreal Nightmare, but they decided to back off and Unreal Nightmare is back as a trio now, and Falcons have a decent position with the Kraber in hand.
02:09:16 The Falcons got to a great spot, honestly. They were behind two teams before. Huge collapse by Zero here on the team under the bridge. They're probably not gonna engage on that. However, good macro rotate from them, as we expect from Zero, making those calls, making sure that they get into the next zone. Now he's already scouting, even though he's making sure other teams aren't able to walk up. Because sometimes, if you take too long to pre-plan, another team could be creeping up on you, especially on the same bridge, as Nades comes out. But, making sure that they know that you have a Kraber and Peter.
02:09:44 With Piercer, they shouldn't be able to take those peeks for free as they're now throwing out Utils and Ultimates at them as well.
02:09:51 Falcons are doing everything they can to stay alive here. Looks like they're about to go for that rotate, use the Wraith portal to hopefully give themselves a little bit safer position as it was Rock up on the bridge with them that had started to poke damage towards them. They do escape, the wall goes down and now they have a little bit of breathing room over in the next ring. But Unreal Nightmare also makes the move in very close to where Falcons are and everything they had around them for protection has now been destroyed.
02:10:19 Great spot that they managed to find. However, two teams are coming in from the same side as them. They should be engaging in a fighter as we see as well. Other teams are also engaging because this is a collapse I'm talking about. PK is coming out. Gyosa. Oh, now I'm feeling about Gyosa. Is it trying to hit some shots as they are falling? They're trading it actually. They get the wipe here, but they're kind of in a rough spot as other teams are also walking in with the zone. Should they be able to get the reset here? It's a little bit hard as Cody as well. On the cusp, on the zone, surviving there. Nice guys made it in.
02:10:49 Falcon's handling this right now is absolutely insane. They've been avoiding Unreal Nightmare and everybody else. 14K Durag's eliminated while all that chaos is happening. And now we're trying to see if they can still survive. Wall C does go down, but Hal's on the low ground and might be able to see if he can get a bit of a reset. TSM, unfortunately, do try to peek over and see if they can maybe clear Hal out as well. But right now, the knockdown shield and this angle is kind of working in Hal's advantage. Will he be able to survive or will TSM commit and clear them out?
02:11:19 Sie sind nicht zu lassen, sie versuchen alles zu stoppen das Rest und Halle ist alles zu stoppen das Rest. Jett endlich findet die Pick auf Waltzy mit den PKS, als sie vielleicht sollte jemanden versuchen zu retten. Halle ist sehr hoch, und wenn sie das nicht sollen oder nicht sollen, ist es...
02:11:35 Es war definitiv ein Eventuality, aber wie du gesagt...
02:11:57 Every peek was costing a little bit of reciprocated damage from the teams across the way. TSM able to clear them out and now they're looking towards the rest of the squads as we get to see Rock here using this wall for a little bit of cover. But you've got Unreal Nightmare in the mix. Nice guys in the mix. DMG at the top and CIMG off on the side. Everyone looking for a pick that they can maybe clean up. There's not a lot of space for cover as everyone has to collapse while this ring is moving in.
02:12:24 DMG and TSM are looking in the most promising spot right now. I would honestly say TSM even might be in the better spot if they can hold out in front of them where Kony right now is standing. Nice guys, Unreal Tournament, CIMJ are right now collapsing on each other. Three teams right now are looking to do something happen. CIMJ actually re-engs, disengages and gets back out as the duo they are as Rock Esports and Nice Guys and Unreal Nightmare are real close to each other and all throwing hands.
02:12:48 Just looking to get some full kills here. Trying to get one more cleared out onto Cody. Rock is in a rough spot. Nice guys eliminated. Like you said, TSM still in a relatively comfortable position. Trying to see if they can clean up any of the chaos that's going down right now. They've got DMG right in front of them. CIMJ in front of Rock. And Rock's able to clear them out. Rock has given themselves a little bit of breathing room with Unreal Nightmare across the way. And this could be an opportunity because Unreal Nightmare took the race portal.
02:13:17 We saw one of ROK members get knocked earlier, but right now we see TSM vs ROK. It comes down to this fight here. TSM, ROK and DMG, who's gonna be aping each other first? DMG gets eliminated by TSM, and ROK had that wall. They're playing around their catwall and the Qs from Newcastle as they're getting two downs with the Stingerbolt indeed. And now it comes down to a 2v1 with the PKs, but this should be an easy cleanup for this team as ROK Esports takes game.
02:13:44 Rock eSports zu sein, als sie in der letzten Spiel mit TSM waren. Das ist ein bisschen verrückt, wie viele Teams waren alle hinter den neuen Kassel-Wall und Schildern und Kat-Wall. Ich meine, das war so gut bei Rock. Ich sehe, wo die Community jetzt waren, sind sie jetzt auf der Haupt-Wall-Wall.
02:14:09 You think that's a number two game, is what you think? I mean, we did see a little bit of a fluster right there from, I believe, Vaxlon got punished by dropping down there to see if he could close out the fight. By getting those resets, reaffirming that, hey, we're here, we got this reset mentality, and then the manager re-engage and win that last 3 or 3 is great from them. Not to mention, just gonna throw, you know, we're gonna see it right now. Let's pull up the match results, because I need you to see the KP here, Graceful, for Rock, okay?
02:14:38 16 kills for that win to get a total of 28 points towards their overall. They were just destroying people. They point sponged the majority of everything that was available. This is absolutely crazy because I always like to talk about averages and if you can average 5 points, 5 to 6 points to be safe but let's just say 5 points on average 30, you know.
02:15:05 After every game, 6 games to get 5 points each, they got 28 in 1. That frees up the remaining games to make sure to just secure top 5 or top 3, if anything, from that one big game. And as we saw them as well, they were navigating really well throughout that whole game, throughout the clusters of teams on their same side collapsing. And if they can keep doing that into late game as well, we're seeing them at top 2 right now. Top 1 isn't that far off.
02:15:32 I mean, an almost 7k damage game as well. That was quite the performance on behalf of Rockin. It catapults them all the way up the leaderboard into second place behind Pioneers. That was a very big game. And we said there was the potential.
02:15:49 for E-District to really shake things up. And I think Rock really capitalized on that and has now set themselves up while heading into these final two matches. Of course, before we get into those final two matches, we're going to send it to one more short break. So don't go anywhere. You're watching the Apex Legends Global Series. Armor swap at least. There we go. Gets 100 back in. They have got so many kills to their names right now. Double sting has come out.
02:17:35 Wo braucht Diamonds? Er hat die Stinger-Ticks, um zu sagen, wo die Enemies sind. Und T-Walks-Solutel ist der Lobby hier in Game 4.
ALGS Challenger Circuit und E-District Strategien
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02:18:13 Red Bull is the official energy drink of the Apex Legends Global Series. Yes, everyone. My name is Dia. I've still got Graceful with me. And the best part of this is that we've still got two games left to go on E-District. Before we jump into those, I want to remind everybody at home that yes, you're watching the Apex Legends Global Series, but the players got here somehow. Here being the Pro League. And you can get here as well, funnily enough.
02:19:22 Through the Challenger Circuit, we've got three more happening during the course of this split. Our first Challenger Circuit happened just a few days ago, with the winners being Zestfest. Funny thing about Zestfest, Graceful, they won the first Challenger Circuit without winning a single game in the finals.
02:19:41 They got seconded a couple of times, but it was the kills that really made the difference for this squad. Something that we've been going back and forth on, even in the Pro League today. Fun thing about the Challenge Circuit is in Split 2, is that it doesn't just have the chance of pushing you into Pro League, it actually has the chance of getting you into champs. If you play your cards extremely, extremely, extremely right, you can make it through the LCQ and into champs. It's tough, but it's doable. So if you're seeing what teams are doing today and you're going...
02:20:09 What Rock just did, I could do that. Show us, and we'll see you in Japan. I mean...
02:20:16 You said it. Challenger Circle is where it's at. And I think everybody has the opportunity to make it happen. It's not just a dream right there. But I think anybody could make it happen. However, making it happen. Let's take a look at Final Circle from last game. Because that was something else. I'm so impressed with the way Rock played that. Because they actually came from the side where most teams had to collapse. From the bridge side, aka water side. Where so many teams. We saw the likes of Falcons as well in that corner get collapsed on. We saw other teams as well needing to fight for it. Unreal Nightmare get taken out. And Rock...
02:20:46 Rock even dropped one member, got the reset as TSM engages on right here as DMG goes down. And then they close out the fight as Gent is kind of low, Aiden kind of low, and they just win that 3v3 with an ease, honestly. It was phenomenal game. They had so many kills from that side that collapsed on. All I was thinking during this final circle, outside of, wow, Rock are clearly going to win this as they're coming in for the third party, was...
02:21:14 Remembering back to EMEA, when 07 won a Final Circle.
02:21:20 Das war gerade da. Es ist quasi die gleiche circle. Aber du musst über den center nur ein paar ft. Und siehst du wie anders das Endgame ist. Weil das erste war nicht nur ein Team waiting in den Wings für etwas zu passieren. Way auf der low ground. Die low ground nicht existiert. Und bei nur ein paar ft. Alles hat sich verändert. Ich liebe die Art Rock. Ich liebe die Catalyst. Das war in der Gespräche für das auch. Und, you know...
02:21:45 A bit of tough news for the viewers at home. Catalyst not going to be in contention for the upcoming games, but that just means more variety graceful. We'll get a different look at what it means to play E-District. Yeah, most definitely. I'm also very happy seeing more Wraiths right there. We also saw some ramps as well. It makes me very happy because I feel like she is one of the characters that's like... She's hard to use because if people just literally focus fire, it kind of goes on real quick. But if you manage to get that setup done...
02:22:14 You have so much power with that shield and holding teams. People will literally run away from your side of the map if that does happen. Whereas if you only have Newcastle, we saw that as well happen right there to Madness' team. One EMP was all it took and they just got destroyed right there. And it's so hard. But when you have some characters that enables that, like Kossak as an example, but he gets banned really early. Now you gotta...
02:22:39 You gotta take some new approaches, some new strategic approaches to it. Hey, can we maybe try this, try that? I like seeing Wraith, I like seeing Ramp. Let's see if it sticks to that, but I believe so. Yeah, some teams definitely prioritizing Wraith last match, so there's potential.
02:22:54 for Wraith to be taken away in match number 5. We'll find out a little bit more about that once match number 5 gets going. Before we jump into it, I want to remind everyone that we're kicking off some new socials here at the ALGS, specifically around Competitive Apex. So on Instagram, on TikTok, we are posting Reels, we are posting TikToks. That's what they're called. They're not called...
02:23:15 TikToks and Reels. So you can check those out and all of the ways that we can get to know our players through them. For a little bit of a preview for that, we're going to take a look at what we've got up on the Reels and the TikToks.
02:23:29 Wer ist dein Mount Rushmore von Apex Legends? Hau, Dizzy, Wig, Aesu. Wer ist dein Mount Rushmore von Apex Legends? Hau, Aesu. Ich würde sagen, Dizzy. Ich würde sagen, Nice Wig. Wer ist dein Mount Rushmore von Apex Legends? Okay, so ich für sicher. Aesu, Wig, und... Ich würde sagen, Raps. Was ist das, was du hast auf deinem Kiebel?
02:23:59 Ich habe das jetzt nicht, aber ich habe das, was ich von der Fans von Crayzie Raccoon, Seri. Ich habe das jetzt 3, aber ich habe einen großen Fan von mir. Ich habe mich sehr gefühlt, deshalb habe ich es in der Vergangenheit.
02:24:25 Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle Assault rifle
02:24:44 ARs.
02:25:07 To get to know our players a little bit better and perhaps pose important life-altering questions like SMGs versus ARs yourself, you can check all that out on our socials. Graceful, I know I asked you during this morning, so I'm not going to ask you again. Guys, it was SMGs.
02:25:22 Now for Graceful, there was also some contention around what the question actually was. We had to go back and forth on it. Maybe you can check out the VOD. Hashtag FaceItWatch? I'm not sure. I'm not sure where we're going with that. Where I am sure we're going, Graceful, is back to E-District. And it'll be fun, actually, to look at E-District again in a bit of a different light now that we're going back for the second time, because this is where the drop spots really start to matter. Of course, they mattered in Game 1, but from game to game, it's really interesting.
02:25:52 to see how different POIs affect teams' chances of making it into different quadrants of a district. Yeah, most definitely. And as the zone shifts as well, some teams will have better prios and whatnot. Some teams are opting to just go in super, super early, but getting essentially gatecapped like DMG did right there to poor Madness' team with the EMPs. It's all about timing, honestly, because you have to make sure that...
02:26:16 If you get stopped very early, and you run into, like we saw, the Leave No Witnesses and Sentinel scenario, where you're both stuck essentially on macro, because you're in that small period of time where we could fight, all the teams aren't here yet, but it's a little bit risky, and then it kind of stalls itself into making those plays. Those are the moments that we're terrified of, because it becomes so risky when it's been extended for too long of a period of time. Now we're looking at 3P, 4Ps.
02:26:43 But if you go way, way, way too early, it's kind of the same thing where you just get into it because they know there's nobody here. So finding that sweet spot for the timing of where the zone on the map is as well as where you're dropping at with your looting route is a hard thing to do. And that's why macro is so important.
02:26:59 You know, speaking of macro, and especially the decisions moving into these games, it was interesting to note that Ninjas in Pajamas were the first team to elect for E-District over Stormpoint in terms of their priority on POI. But instead of most teams, as they go Lotus, things like Energy Bank, Ninjas in Pajamas' first pick on E-District was Stadium.
02:27:21 Ich denke, es könnte eher ein Komfort-Pick sein, als wir jetzt noch helfen in den Spiel. Ich bin so glücklich für das. Aber ich denke, es könnte eher ein Komfort-Pick sein, als wir jetzt noch helfen in den Spiel. Ich bin so glücklich für das. Aber ich denke, dass...
02:27:45 Comfort pick is important, but I think the next level way, which we have seen some teams actually do as well, as the active zones in the game, I keep talking about this from land to land, there are certain active zones every single patch and it changes every, like it changes after a specific amount of times and you will notice, oh there's all the zones in Lighting Rod, we no longer see that, now all the zones are somewhere else. When you can adapt to where the current zones are mostly popping at, and you pick a POI close to those, if you're a center zone team, that's huge for you.
02:28:15 But if you're not a center zone POI team that you like to play fast rotating and you're more like, hey, we like to loot up, we get purple armor, we're looking for fights. We have good fighting prowess on our team. Let's take advantage of that. Now it no longer really matters as much of when you're actually going to need that macro because you just pick a POI that you're comfortable looting with that has good loot essentially. And seeing these two play styles mesh well is always fun because it's vastly different. And that's why we see some teams up the leaderboard with a huge amount of KB.
02:28:44 and no placement points because all they're doing is looting up and taking proper fights over and over and some teams rotating early and getting those placement games getting solid late game and that's where they're getting their points from as we also see here the zone all the way up north this time i'm happy to see less water now moving all the way up north seeing these ending where thug is currently at as well and we see they're super happy up there hopefully they get to
02:29:10 Hopefully they get a good read on their own and knowing where to play early to lock teams out from coming in.
02:29:16 You know, funnily enough, because I was talking about what you prioritize and when, Thuggets were also a team that picked E-District first, and they picked Lotus. So this must feel extra, extra good when you get the zone pulling right on top of you. It is going to depend on whether Thuggets actually know this. I know they have a ring console. I don't recall if they hit it in the first couple of seconds of the game. So if they hadn't...
02:29:43 They're certainly going to know as more teams start to pile in that, yes, the Zone is likely ending around us. And a really good spot for Thuggets to be in is when the Zone pulls to you. You are expected, you are, I would say, advantaged in being able to make it up into the top three, four of squads. Quick note on the Legends for this particular game. Funnily enough, Wraith topping the leaderboards. Ten picks for Wraith. Interesting note, however.
02:30:09 I mean, that's what I'm saying. I'm so happy to see that as well, because we talked about it a little bit in the EMEA region earlier. I was like, why do I not see as much here? Is that some preference to the different regions? Which I'm very happy to see, because when you see that...
02:30:32 Und dann die Clash as well, right? Du sagst, oh nein, wir mögen sie nicht, oh nein, wir mögen sie. Und dann sieht man, dass jeder Region ihren eigenen Lieblingspick bringt. Wie das spielt, ist immer so schön zu sehen. Und N.A. right there, playing that Rampy, macht mich super glücklich. Rafe, ich erwarte es, als wir später in den matchen werden, weil sie ist ein super solider Pick, aber nicht so stark als die typischen early Bands, wie wir sehen mit der Caustic und der Alter, etc.
02:30:59 Jungs in Pajamas making their rotate. It is a little tough out of stadium. They move past nice guys, but right into ZZ and have to double back. Not early enough that you're comfortable taking a fight, or I guess looted up enough that you're comfortable taking a fight. But 30-30 Peacekeeper does still hurt quite a bit. They take some poke at ZZ. We're trying to make their rotation through.
02:31:23 und wahrscheinlich in die Energiebank. Again, mit so vielen E-Districts auf E-District ist, es gibt eine Webseite von Entscheidungen zu machen, um die Zone zu kommen. Aber es gibt nur so viele Paths, die Stadien von Stadien können, um die Zone zu führen.
02:31:38 I mean, this is so much fun as well, because on that map that we saw, there's so many teams in that area with the Teenage, you can't even see the buildings anymore, because this is one of those areas, if you look at the map right there, just this photo that we're looking at right now, how many playable areas aren't there? I believe 20 teams could probably fit right here and still survive, exist right next to each other without needing to fight, and that's crazy. That's something that only this spot actually provides as well. This map in general is really good at keeping teams alive, naturally.
02:32:07 But this spot specifically, so many floors, so many layers, you can coexist everywhere almost. There's an important question here, and I'm going to do something dangerous. I don't have the answer to this question, so I'm going to pose it anyway. I want to know what ALGS game across any region...
02:32:28 Ich weiß nicht, ob wir es haben. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir es haben, ob wir es haben. Aber wenn wir es haben, ob wir es haben, ob wir es haben. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir es haben, ob wir es haben. Aber wenn wir es haben, ob wir es haben, ob wir es haben. Aber wenn wir es haben, ob wir es haben. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir es haben. Ich weiß nicht, ob wir es haben.
02:32:54 I don't know if we've seen 20 Circle 5. I don't think we've seen 20 Circle 5. That's impossible. I'm pretty sure we've seen for a brief second 20 Circle 4. Definitely Circle 3. Maybe even Circle 4. And that's crazy to me. But I think this map definitely makes that a lot more possible. Like I said, because there's so many different pathways to get to your destination that you're aiming for. You never really get stuck anywhere. Not like World's Edge and there's two chokes and there's five teams on the way holding you, gatekeeping you. Here, there's...
02:33:24 more like 55 chokes you can pick between you don't really get stuck unless you get ratted on or somebody mirrors your macro essentially so definitely interesting to say i would like to know that fact as well as we see luxford on that wraith doing a little bit of scouting perhaps
02:33:41 Just managing to get from place to place safely. We also checked in with Pioneers, which I thought was interesting. Sort of sitting in a building south of Lotus, still in the POI, but definitely not in the main stack of a couple buildings that you've got just off to the north. What do you think of these small buildings when it comes to the late game? Is it safer?
02:34:03 Is it more risky to play in a spot that a lot of people are going to be rotating through? Because especially for our first place squad, risk is going to be a really important thing to evaluate moving into game five and six where you can lose that lead. I think it's mainly dependent on which legends are actually available, which the legend band system has done phenomenally by changing the games. If the game starts on E-District where you have Caustic up, right?
Analyse der Teamstrategien und Spielsituationen
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02:34:26 Small spaces immediately is doomed. You don't want to be in any small building at all. But if Kaustik is banned going into Eta Shrik, that's very different. Same with Altar as well. If she's banned, all of these smaller enclosures are a lot safer than before. Whereas if you get kidnapped by an Altar, if you get stinkied by a Kaustik, it's no good, right? It is...
02:34:53 Ich glaube, es ist schwierig, aber ich glaube, dass es kein Caustic in den Lobby ist es vielleicht ein bisschen einfacher zu halten. Wir sehen uns wie Pioneers arbeiten, weil wir uns über Pioneers gesprochen haben, und in Split 1 haben wir eine unglaubliche Konversion Rate von Top 5 zu gewinnen.
02:35:12 Das war's für heute. Das war's für heute.
02:35:42 Das war fast und silent, auch. Es ist einfach... Sie sind weg. Und es ist crazy, dass wir sagen das, aber ich will sagen, wenn ihr euch wieder auf Hause seid, ihr sagt, es ist Game 5, warum? Remember, Split 1, Falcons 1. Split 1, First Day, Falcons Place 13th.
02:36:11 Es gibt Hopium hier.
02:36:13 But, nonetheless, people are getting warm.
02:36:42 ... ... ... ... ...
02:37:01 They expended so few resources to actually win the fight with the double knocks that happened already. I mean, it's disheartening, but at the same time, you can't help but look at Rock and go, you know what, that's impressive. And you've clearly got some discipline to jump back in. Quick trade onto Keon, does unfortunately take him down. Down, but not out. Still resable, where 14k resonance, they've got a little bit more difficult of a journey. Lux, we're just going to stick this res out in the open.
02:37:30 Das nicht get punished für es. 14k Resonance. Der Reset ist, die NANO nicht genau zu werden. Die Nades könnten die Nades die Lose es für sie. Aber ein Nackt! Und all of a sudden, NANO ist es down. 14k Resonance, obwohl die Resonance gewinnen, haben absolut keine Grund.
02:37:50 4K Resonance hat den Thirst in den Beginn, aber jetzt Nano wird Thirsten. Es ist dann zu 2v2, als Luxford wird krackt hier. Aber das Swing ist eine große Ausgabe von dem. Er hat es, und er hat es gewonnen. Er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es. Er hat es so gut gemacht. Er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und er hat es, und
02:38:19 Oh, Luxford playing the outside of the bridge, playing greedy just to make sure that he's got the ability to become invulnerable. Luxford goes for the 85, but gets shot just in the nick of time. Kion comes down with the Peacekeeper and makes sure he meets his end. 14k Resonance now in a 1v3. No way they're winning that. And they go down. DKK pull off the successful reset, but a third party.
02:38:46 ...kould change all of that. Zone spammers from afar, starting to close the gap. DKK, though, I'm betting they're able to reset this. Yeah, 100% they get to reset. He was just looking to see if he could get anything, perhaps a thirst. They're not sending that, because zone spammers are indeed in the next zone, looking to gatekeep. DKK most likely gonna go through the chokes. Will they get collapsed on by zone spammers from the left? Pioneers from the right will have to see.
02:39:11 But they're happy with that nonetheless because they started off very rocky right there. One of them went down early and got thirsted. They managed to duo fight that and get Nano out of the fight as well. And then even getting that reset as Keon came down with the PK on his head. That was such a good recovery from them. They're definitely happy with that.
02:39:30 And it's gonna help that they've got the additional 3kp now. Something that DKK absolutely needs. Sitting in 17th so far. And that's 17th with the additional 3kp that they just got. So you got 3 points to where they started. And they still haven't even cleared bottom 5. For a team that we highlighted at the start to look out for. Especially because the history surrounding these individual players.
02:39:56 Es ist ein Team, der ich sage, sehr viel braucht die nächsten zwei Spiele zu gehen. Und das ist ein Team, das könnte etwas zu sein. DKK ist jetzt gerade auf dem Ende der Zone. Und ich sage das gleiche für Hotdog Mafia. Die Unterschiede ist, Hotdog Mafia haben die nächste Zone, der sie direkt zu ihnen.
02:40:14 Top of the leaderboard, Pioneers.
02:40:41 Like you said, with the Ashe, can make one, maybe two portals happen. But they're still going to be extremely risky. Especially with the density of squads. I know we were talking about records, who ended up holding them for squads alive. But 17 squads alive this late into the game. Zone 4 is no joke. DKK?
02:41:05 Und es ist nicht nur ein Wraith, jeder folgt auf Noct. Und als Zang wird weg, Biddy ist absolut nicht zu.
02:41:22 Finally, DKK getting some momentum, especially what they needed. More KP, more loot, they're very happy with that. But the journey isn't over. They're still not in the next zone as several teams are in front of them. They're gonna need to fight at least once, maybe twice, to make it into the next zone. So it's gonna be interesting to see how they work this out. As Pioneers are on the side of them right here, they're also in the spot of, hey, do we hold them out or do we go ahead and try to gatekeep? But they don't really know what's ahead of them because they can't scout properly without potentially getting...
02:41:52 So, they're leaving it up to the last couple of seconds before they make a route. We'll have to see if they can make this safely or not.
02:42:01 Pioneer's planning out their rotate. It's gonna be tough, and holding onto the portal for as long as possible. I mean, it could be the patient play, it could be the desperation that gets you at the end. Liquid Alienware, however, sitting in zone. This could be a huge game for them. Their position 20th right now. You tell me Liquid is 20th? On the first day of Pro League? With teams newly promoted from Challenger Circuit? I don't believe you, but I'm seeing it right now. And this game needs to be a turnaround for them as Pioneer's.
02:42:30 Und jetzt, mit J-Full Thurston, die Pioneers haben, dass die Jäu und sehen, wie weit sie können. Trollbuckle und Cersei auf der anderen Seite auf der Türke, als Noct ist hinter den Noct-Down-Shields, als er tatsächlich wurde mit dem Re45.
02:42:56 C.I.M.J. looking to make something happen as all these teams are collapsing for the same spot. Cersei tries to make something happen. Noct, don't go down without a fight as Cruel Buxel is currently confused going up the zip line. He's just trying to make it out as Pioneers gets eliminated now as another team, I believe, climbed from outside on top of the second floor is looking to get some more KB and go in the fray. C.I.M.J.
02:43:20 Part of that confusion that contributed to an unfortunate and early exit for the Pioneers now hold this high ground and the death boxes that DKK left behind. I believe DKK is still in this. Looking for the last member. Yeah, Noct is still around. See what sort of trouble he can cause. If somebody can, you know, take a few members of a team out when they're not looking, it's definitely going to be Noct. The Zone, though, really looking good for Hot Dog Mafia.
02:43:49 Hotdog Mafia super happy. I believe their van is still in, is it not? Maybe their van is still in and they're super happy about this because even when the zone is closing next, they still get to do so much. However, Liquid Alienware, as you can see as well, up top there, being very happy. PSM finds the team behind them, walking in with the zone right now, has a Kramer in the hand. Dupe is looking to make something happen as the zone is currently slowly closing in.
02:44:14 Zip comes out. They're taking the next hype. Are they able to survive there from Hot Dog Mafia? We'll have to see. Gildersen's really contributing in the kill feed. And Leave No Witnesses fighting against ZZ as well. Up on this high ground. Blaze does go down. But Zilac and Redertrick, he's still alive, still fighting as Portal onto his face. Gild shows absolutely no fear. And Leave No Witnesses are escorted from the lobby. High ground fight is won by ZZ and Rock Esports go down.
02:44:44 Huge play right there, CSM as well. We're holding everybody, but when they saw that Zipline play happen, they had to fight, and now it comes down to just dupe alive on 13th spot right now. Needs to make something happen as he drops between two teams. Immediately gets shredded. DMG also gets taken out, as now we're looking at Riley trying to survive on top of that small cluster of a platform. Sentinels have basically no space to play.
Spannungsgeladene Kämpfe und überraschende Wendungen
02:45:11
02:45:11 But ZZ, mit everyone auf, jetzt dass sie die Kampf gegen Leave No Witnesses haben, was sie machen von hier? Es sieht aus, wie sie die Playground haben, richtig? Sie haben High Ground, sie haben Not-A-Care-In-The-Welt, aber sie müssen sie aufzunehmen.
02:45:27 Not only is it their playground, they have Fuse. They are just spamming it now. Even without nades. And he has 5 frags. Even without nades. He has 5 frags and 2 Thermize on him right now. He's just spamming Cluster. And that's enough for them to make...
02:45:44 They're really uncomfortable with those clusters coming from above. And now we see Durax in a solid spot. Sixth overall. Trying to make something happen. Because they have to move. As Team Liquid Alien, we said before, was super far down low on the leaderboard. In a good spot to get a couple of more KP and potentially better placement.
02:46:01 Und sie haben zu eliminieren DKK, so wie wir gesagt haben, die Kill-Points kommen in Clutch. ZZ, however, wird es zu machen, sehr schnell zu machen. Eine Drop-Down-Seins-Innevitable von diesem Team. Und wird sie quasi auf der Durag, die nur die Entrennung ist auf dieser Patio. Team Liquid, die Unternehmung haben alle die Zeit in der Welt, aber Guild!
02:46:23 Gild is the one that puts the pressure to him. ZZ dropped down, and ZZ changed the course of the game, taking Hot Dog Mafia space. Gild goes down immediately, however, as Sheila cleans him up.
02:46:36 Und Zack geht für die Heils in der Hoffnung von einem Mobile Rez zu finden. Und auf Krypto, Zack kann das passieren. Liquid Alienware geht für den pushen, um Ape Gang zu Ende, um zu Ende, um ZZ zu Ende, um ZZ zu Ende, um ZZ zu Ende, um ZZ zu Ende, um ZZ zu Ende. Liquid Alienware und Ape Gang zu Ende, und die Du-Rags, von Backward Liquid Alienware kam, haben jetzt ein sehr cleanes Sandwich gemacht.
02:46:58 Liquid Alienware is in a great spot here. Durax has to move first now. Are Durax gonna collapse on Apegang or not? They will indeed. They're all on the same spot here. Looks like Liquid Alienware could close out this game as long as they are patient.
02:47:10 Um, we'll have to see.
02:47:35 Das war großartig, weil sie wirklich kapituliert haben, dass CC von absolutem Heid auf die Hottog Mafia zu fallen. Huge play, by the way, aber es wurde sofort verabschiedet von Team Liquid da, gegen das God-Winning Spot.
02:47:53 They're literally just taking a fight for winning the game, essentially. But that last 3-3 wasn't free by any means. That was a tough fight. But they managed to lock it down and close out the game. And that really shows where they're capable of all of this. They might have had a rocky road leading up to this point where they were on the bottom of the leaderboard. But now that's a good start to at least push themselves up a little bit more closer towards the top 10 area.
02:48:13 Yeah, this is the game that Liquid needed, because like we talked about, even if you aren't able to make it all the way to a win, every game counts, because these are contributing to your overall standings during the course of the entire split, but then also during the course of the entire year to the champs points that you're able to get. So, giving up...
02:48:34 1, 2, 3 spots on a day may not seem like much on paper, but it can really add up over the course of a limited amount of opportunities during a double round robin. Great game from Liquid Alienware, and I really want to see where this puts them. But before we do, fun stat, Liquid Alienware, I just looked at this on our stats sheet. I was like, I never look at ring damage, whatever. I scrolled over.
02:48:59 Liquid Alienware, the only team that hasn't taken any ring damage all series. Weird stat. Let's take a look at the match results. Liquid Alienware, currently in first. I know, I know. I know you were wowed, Graceville. You were like, I don't even know what to do with this. 18 points for them. Durags, 18 points, a few more kills, and honestly, really nice positioning from Durags. I think they played that really solid, actually, because they came in late to wipe that team up, Ape Gang.
02:49:33 Even though Durax actually had to move first. But the hardest part is that when people, when everybody is proactive, it actually opens up for a team that is the least proactive, which is crazy, right? Normally what you end up having is that teams are just walking kind of with the zone and the teams that are gatekeeping tend to just mow everybody down. But when you have people hungry for plays like CC, that opens up for Team Liquid to wipe them. That opened up for Ape Gang to try to off-angle them. That opened up for Durax that was actually out of the zone first if both of the teams played passively.
02:50:03 Now shifted for them to getting the second spot. It's just so funny and interesting to see how these games play out because it's so different depending on which team are in the lobby and which teams are making the plays. As the top of the leaderboard, top six, wow, very close. And Durang's really slotting in there quite nicely. It's been two games that they've managed to place top three, but that's enough with the kill points they've got on top of it to push them into second place. ZZ right behind them, Rock in the conversation as well.
02:50:31 Really scary top half of the leaderboard, but clearly with Liquid winning last game, still plenty of room for surprises to appear as we prepare for game number six. We are going to take a very short break, but we will be back with the final game of the day. Petition. Greatness. For some, it is the reason we forge rivalries. Drive to be the best. Others, mate? We're just here to have a bloody good time. Three times, but we're...
02:53:19 Vielen Dank.
02:53:48 sitting at 44, DMG at 43. The top five teams within only seven points of each other is basically nothing. And we are coming into this game even better with Alter, Taken Away, Catalyst, Wraith, Watson, and Caustic from Stormpoint. So we are severely limited in what options you've got to transport your team. I'm expecting to see a lot of Ashes. That is still available in contrast to EMEA this morning.
02:54:16 Yeah, I mean, as we saw the Caustic swap into Watson, essentially, we might, like you said, see Rafe swap into Ashe now for the same, essentially, playstyle. And I'd like to see that because Rafe having that little bit of moment of shine was really nice, but I was a little bit scared to see. I thought Rafe was going to be gone, honestly. You said they were tied, correct? That's always fun to see. However, last game, we'll have to see because that leaderboard is definitely shaken up right now with that last win.
Entscheidungen und Strategien im finalen Spiel
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02:54:44 Team Liquid Alienware moving up all the way from the bottom into 12th spot, I believe. It's definitely in anybody's game to move up to at least top 10, because only the top six spots is kinda cemented for the moment. As of right now, our winners of match number five, like you said, Liquid Alienware, who have taken zero ring damage all of the matches we've played today, are in 13th at the moment and are so close to cracking into the top 10. On the other side of this,
02:55:11 Falcons so close to dropping out of the top 10, sitting at 9th place right now with only 28 points. Liquid Alienware only 8 points away from taking that spot away from them. Although I will say for the Falcons fans out there, it does seem like they will have a better placement than they did in the first matchday of Split 1.
02:55:33 Ich denke, wir werden gut sein, weil wenn ich diese Teams habe, die Professionell haben, dass sie die richtige Macro-Decision gemacht haben und die Spiel nicht genau wie sie identifizieren können.
02:55:48 So...
02:56:12 You don't need to win the last game, like Team Liquid right there. They had to win that or they would have been almost doomed and had to throw like a complete bomb, 40 bombs in this lobby right now, which is, you know, almost impossible for anybody at this point. Yeah, I would say if you're Falcons, maybe two zone spammers who are sitting in the low to high 20s area, that's where you need to win a game in order to win the day.
02:56:37 Absolutely possible. We've seen zone spammers actually play pretty consistently throughout the day. Albeit, yes, they did go out early in some of our Storm Point matches, but they've stayed true to their name and actually gotten into most zones. I really liked the way the Hot Dog Mafia played last game. Almost managed to execute on the great spot, but just got sent a little too early by ZZ, who are really on the come up on E-District. I'm not gonna lie.
02:57:03 If there is any other team that doesn't like it, as long as they didn't play Fuse, the team at the top, they would have probably won that game. But because there's that one team in that one spot, with that one legend that makes it so frustrating for you to play, they end up falling short. However, other teams are very happy about that, Team Liquid especially. Now we're seeing, though, Zone is actually pulling more towards Electrodam, a little bit southeast of Electrodam, perhaps.
02:57:30 It's a solid spot that we haven't seen so far in the other regions. Yeah, this one will play out, thankfully, quite differently. And, you know, for teams that did stay up and do their scouting across APAC and across EMEA, they may not have as big of an advantage here, just given that you do naturally research other regions, especially for teams that are expecting to make it into international competition. This time...
02:57:56 Elektro Dam will throw a bit of a spanner in the works and force teams to adapt and improvise their own playstyles, which can be pretty nice to see happen in real time. ZZ, one of the teams that actually has done quite well at that with the fuse that you were mentioning.
02:58:14 Psych certainly was able to lay down the hurt last game, and I love that close range portal from Guild to take out Leave No Witnesses, making use of the fact that as Ashe, you can get anywhere, even if you're not making use of the max range portal. ZZ, however, still have a long way to go, as moving up towards the north side is going to be their recipe for success, but they're stopping down here for a chance at upgrading their weaponry through the arsenals.
02:58:40 I mean, I'm still super stoked of seeing that old listening we had with them, actually, with Zac communicating, hey, don't push this, make sure you reset. Seeing that duo fight from Sykes and Guild as well with the peek, it was phenomenal. And I'm so happy to see that they're matching really well and listening to those guys, and the communication was so clear. Don't get me wrong, I love a good, solid, hectic, Hal and Zero scream every now and then, but when you have those clear...
02:59:07 Concise communication, it's something else that we're not really used to hearing, you know. One makes you smile because it's entertaining and one makes you smile because it's entertaining and probably the correct thing to do. Artful. Very artsy. Artful for sure. Pioneers maybe with a little bit of an artsy fight here. Use the Stinger Bolt again defensively. We've seen this twice today.
02:59:30 Pioneer is using this to just try and buy themselves some space in the high ground, but they still lose J. Cruelbuckle holding things down with a nade. Can fake the res, but isn't going to go for it immediately. Instead, letting Sang reset on the low ground. Cruelbuckle and Cersei.
02:59:46 Disengaged completely from this fight, neither wanting to risk the chance of getting the full team taken down in game number six. Mastiff fights up close with the Peacekeeper, though, could be sending Durags out early. And indeed, they will be gone. Liquid Alienware taking them out with the help of Unreal Nightmare from afar.
03:00:06 Das war wirklich gut. Er kam dann zu Trades auf beide Seiten. Team Liquidalien war sehr glücklich mit dem, als Durex war eigentlich viel höher auf dem Leaderboard. Jetzt kommt der Janja, zu versuchen, zu Survive, als die Team ist gestorben. Und sie schießen ihn down. Kann man ihn durch den zweiten TP? Er geht nicht, er geht aus. Wow, das ist ein goldenes Gelegenheit zu Reset, weil er nicht geholfen hat.
03:00:32 I can't believe he took the first TP, but not the second TP. If you're gonna take one, if you're gonna take one, you may as well take them both. I will say CIMJ still do come out on top of that. They get some nice, not only knocks and kills, but even better than that loot. However, the nice guy is not coming out so cleanly. Cody gets taken down. Sang is a hair's breadth away from falling himself. The shield swap could change all of that. I hold my breath as he swaps it and he survives.
03:01:02 Das war, das war Gerwig. Ein Peter Shot in die Heade ist, aber sie vielleicht haben überchastet, als jetzt die Pioneers sind wieder auf sie wieder. Das fight hat sich schon über ein Minute an diesem Moment, aber Cruel Buckle und Cersei haben sie jetzt auch die Banner auch, hoffentlich haben sie direkt neben ihnen. Oh, und ich weiß nicht, dass Cersei hat die Batterie, welche...
03:01:30 Again, I like noting early on, if you're able to get in the first couple of rings, just because it can make such a huge difference to your team's economy, especially when you are somebody like Cersei, that does enjoy getting a bit aggressive and on the Ashe, can be hypermobile and then recover from that at no cost to the team. Zone spammers, thinking about their next move, can pick a fight, but I'd be surprised to see them commit.
03:01:54 If they can make a comeback on this game as well, it's gonna be great for them. Moving up from 12, potentially even further up, is gonna make them really happy after those four cold games in the beginning of the series. However...
03:02:20 Zone is indeed moving towards Electrodamage, it seems like, as Zone Spammers is moving further ahead. Other teams right now are opting in slowly, but surely still a lot of playable area, a lot of teams alive right now, and we're slowly starting to see ZZ move in as well. Who had that a little bit more calm approach to the game in the beginning? Now, on the hunt, with a snare? Yeah, Pioneers and ZZ were mirroring each other in a really weird way. Just...
03:02:48 Ich möchte es aggressiv sein. Es sahen, wie ZZ war Chasing Pioneers der anderen Seite. Und jetzt, mit uns in den Spieler-Cams zu tun, ist es noch schwer zu wissen, was die Zusammenhänge zwischen den beiden Teams war.
03:03:03 Sie waren sehr aware, und jetzt sind die ZZ-R Position solidlich hinter Pioneers, so ich werde sagen, dass sie die Pioneers chasing. Even als sie starten Disengaging into Energy Bank, das ist eine gewisse Entscheidung. Du fokuss auf dein Rotate, du fokuss auf dein Game above all else, weil Eliminating einen anderen Squad, das geht nicht wirklich zu gewinnen. Chaos-Feelings ist zu gehen, die Nicely-Placed-Arkstar von Nocte hilft ihm.
03:03:25 But DJKilla turns around and actually finds a trade unfortunately going down. The one clip almost happened. The future streams with the reset could help his team get back into control of this. I mean, I love the fact that he got sniped by a PK from that trade just well. Always makes it fun. DMG has been playing in this whole game right now, trying to defend it against DKK.
03:03:47 Actually gets one reset, potentially the third one. I think they just got into a stalemate, essentially. And we'll see now. This fight is bound to happen one more time, because I doubt any of the teams want to give up this spot. Yeah, DKK certainly don't want to let a duo coexist with them. It should be, in air quotes, free and easy to take out DMG. But as I say that...
03:04:08 DJ Kill is getting rezzed. DKK closed the gap onto Future Streams. But the rest of DMG have got to be here soon. Invisibility not going to work, but Noct getting taken down by Future Streams. Now has turned things around. Keon's going to fall as well. And DKK, they go hard, but they go home. They are out. And DMG disengaging onto the low ground with Sentinels at their back. Give Sentinels the high ground that they were fighting for.
03:04:36 Sentinels might have 3P'd that, but everybody's been picking up PK this whole day. DMV shows up with Double Mossies and Mastiff. Super happy to see a few other shotguns get played, even though maybe that's not the weapons they didn't want. They did work with them, and it really goes to show that if you're a great player, you can make any weapon work. Liquid Alienware getting a knock onto Cody. We gotta keep track of this team just for the insane comeback potential that they would have.
03:05:04 Going from 20th in Game 4, 13th in Game 5.
03:05:13 And already picking up a KP in Game 6. How much further can they take this? Yanya starts burning to a crisp with a Maggi drill to the face. And with Jaguaris down, Liquid Alienware have got to disengage. Instead, they double swing, taking out Biddy. Sang trades it. And Yanya, in a 1v1, has got to land the Peacekeeper shots to keep his team in the game. And he will not. Liquid Alienware get taken out. The comeback ends here. And it is a nice takeout.
Dramatische Wendungen und abschließende Analysen
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03:05:41 für Biddy und die Squad.
03:06:07 It is gonna be a slow play from KCP. They're not particularly close to anyone and they would really like to avoid drawing attention. So quick loot and then rotation further to the north and slowly into the ring. Again, with a real emphasis on unlike ZZ, not attracting attention from anyone. ZZ, different philosophy, portal directly onto their faces.
03:06:32 ZZ still have one member left of the Ninjas in Pajamas to take out.
03:07:01 I mean, that was phenomenal. Did you see that sack? Actually, it was the explosive arrow that got the initial knock as well. He had shot him, and then after a while, boom, he got the first down. That was great. Managed to get that EMP off as well, getting the second down, cleaning up that fight very confidently. They got a good spot to work their way in from right now, as there's only two teams really standing in their way towards the next zone. However, on the other side of things right here...
03:07:25 Rock sitting pretty much close to the next center zone almost. They can make it their way in really by a couple of steps, a couple of feet only. Feeling very good about themselves. However, when there's too many teams to walk in from the same side, it kind of... It's a ball toss, honestly. Like, who's gonna get landed on? Who's gonna get collapsed on? And Rock definitely wanna make sure that they're not one of them. But I think when you have a character like Rampart with that Sheila, it works a little bit like a...
03:07:52 ...to discourage them from joining on them.
03:08:17 Ape Gang will be escorted from the lobby. Pioneers do that pretty quickly and efficiently. Fast enough that they're not going to get third partied off of this. And our winners win more. As right now they're in first place. And they've got 5kp on top of the 50 points that they started the game with.
03:08:33 Für jemanden, die zu mainen Sparrow als der Main Legend ist, muss man Krulbuckle sehen, denn ich habe ihn den ganzen Tag gemacht und habe off-angeln, die viele Sparrows nicht natürlich haben. Sie vielleicht haben einen fighten, aber Krulbuckle ist immer auf-angeln, mit dem Passive auf Sparrow zu machen, und ich bin wirklich überrascht. Und das ist toll zu sehen.
03:08:58 I'll be honest with you. This Pioneer squad, at least today, is looking unstoppable. And they were already a team that was quite scary on paper going into the season. That doesn't always translate into the first day, but it's certainly looking like it here. The nice guys needing to be stopped. We're going to see Hot Dog Mafia go down, but...
03:09:20 Die Zonespammer sind vorhanden, die Zonespammer sind vorhanden. Ssang ist still alive, still machte seinen Weg in die Zone, aufs auf der Zip Line, wir sehen, ob er survivet. ZZ wäre so lucky, als Cutting to them, they help Escort leave No Witnesses aus der Lobby, und plötzlich, wir gehen von Top 14 bis Top 8 in ein paar 60 Sekunden, Graceful.
03:09:45 They might even get a reset, but it looks like Cruel Buckle once again trying to take an angle, but Duke Nade usage out of ZZ. And even DMG joins in with that massive. DMG is still here. Now he got eliminated. That actually opens up for the potential full reset on ZZ as they got that rest off as well. Potentially the mobile rest as well, but they're getting collapsed right now by Rock Esport, who was sitting in that spot earlier before. He doesn't go for it. Oh my God.
03:10:13 They held them off, they're still all up now. There's actually no way that Pioneers look to finish off ZZ, get griefed, and Rock saves them by continuing to apply pressure to ZZ. This keeps all three of those squads alive, and all three of the squads, I'll say, in not terrible positions. Unfortunately for all of them, they'll have to fight again, as none are inside of the zone, and realistically, only one can rotate him.
03:10:42 Es ist definitiv schwierig für ZZ to move in hier. Und sogar wenn sie sich vor dem, bei einem Potenzial an Ash-TP oder so, es wird blind sein. Du wirst nicht wirklich wissen, was ist, weil du nicht aufhören könntest. Sie haben jetzt, gerade jetzt, haben sie zu brief für ein paar Sekunden. Does Zack haben genug Zeit zu scouten auf dem Drone bevor sie sind?
03:11:02 No, not yet.
03:11:28 Oh, mein Gott.
03:11:57 Let's ZZ have space for now. Falcons are in a spot to where they're getting shot and they can't really extend onto ZZ unless they full in. But now they're getting shot by the whole lobbyists actually. They're just trying to survive for the moment. Sykes and Guild is making sure that hey, those guys need to die before they fully recover because if they fully recover they might ape us. One of the Falcons members goes down. Hal goes down right here. Other two members are super low right now.
03:12:20 Und dann versucht es zu reseten.
03:12:43 Huge Fuse Cluster as well. They get Stinger ulted right now. They're gonna get placement points nonetheless. It comes down to Zero surviving on Falcons, but he's getting absolutely spammed by everything. They're just shooting every single knocktash. Everybody wants those placement points. Please leave the lobby Falcons so we can get more points. CC fighting for the first place right now, but Rock looking in a better spot. CC is on the move right now. Are they looking for placement? They are committing. CC want the kills.
03:13:07 Gild goes for it, Gild secures it, Falcons are out, and ZZ with 64 points look untouchable in the first day of the Americas Pro League. Gild's gonna pop out, Gild's likely gonna go down, a surprise portal buys him a little bit more time, and Gild keeps it going. Gild keeps it going right now, but he gets Fusalted solo for Gild.
03:13:28 Die Eviscerated rock in a great spot to close out this series or this game and potentially this series if they get enough KP. But that might not be enough to take the first place. They are however in a great spot as the team above them has to drop down below first.
03:13:42 Tuggets in a spot where they have walls right now, looking to see if, hey, can we force the other two off to fight each other? Rock need every single KP. They need to take this fight. These nades must land if Rock want a chance at winning the day. Otherwise, it will be ZZ. Vaxlon, playing slow with the Kraber behind the walls, is now going to have to swing CIMJ, and this opens everything up, because on the high ground, you know that they are watching and waiting for a third party.
03:14:12 As Rock commit onto the low ground. Thuggets wait in the wings for their chance to swoop in and claim the victory. CIMJ still alive. But the Thuggets start coming in and peppering in shots from above. Saucerer climbing over on half HP. Needs to commit for something. Has no points to work with. But they could still pass Pioneers with just six points. It's three squads left. Rock are down. And the Thuggets from above take game six.
03:14:38 Thuggets from above in D, the last team needing to move. They opted for the height after eliminating both Falcons and then CC from that river. Managed to close out the game. Huge play from them. Definitely needed it because they were a little bit far down on the leaderboard, I believe. However, Rock couldn't make it happen. I think we actually saw who the first team placement was, but I will hold off until we do see the overall leaderboard. I'm looking down to see where the Thuggets were. Okay, the Thuggets...
03:15:07 Began that game in 17th place. But they've won it. Like we talked about, every game matters. Every placement matters. And how far that moved them. I'm not going to do the math right now. I know we could, but it would ruin some of the surprise. And Glitter, I want you here for the special occasion because we had some crazy leaderboard switch-ups in that last circle. That was exciting. And this is what happens similar...
03:15:35 to EMEA, when the teams that can potentially be big point sponges don't do the point sponging, it opens up the door for so many of these other teams, and this was such a close lobby, even with some very big heavy hitters in here, and the fact that we get to see these pop-off performances out of the likes of ZZ and Pioneers, I mean, like, everybody came
03:16:04 to play here in day one of the split and I really really enjoyed what we got to see here today huge shout out to everyone because that was an entertaining series of matches we will get a chance to take a look at those results and see exactly how everything played out at the end of the day is that everything you wanted though out of this day Tia I feel like that was a really good
03:16:31 Play Day for America. A couple surprises. Well, I did say I was going to be a ZZ shill and they did win the day. So I'm pretty happy.
03:16:43 To be fair, you did have a good day as well, Dia. I feel like you were a little bit of a lucky charm here today for some of these squads. But it was just really impressive with the consistent aggression that we saw out of quite a few of these squads here, Graceful, as we get a chance to take a look at the match results. Thuggets obviously closing out the day with a win. And like you have mentioned, Dia,
03:17:08 Das Wynn wird sie auf den overallen Bord, um, aber Grateful, ich meine, 10 Kills zu Thuggetts, 12 zu ZZ, eben in 4th Platz, und das ist einfach nur weil der Waterfight da an der End war so close.
03:17:22 I mean, that was huge, honestly. They didn't only fight there. They fought almost the entire game, I felt like. And they were even chasing Pioneers earlier on in that lobby as well, when they were still a duo. They didn't fully commit to it. But taking these fights after fights, engage after engage, and still coming out on top, even when they get pressured by two different teams, it's just something else to see that happening. Let's see. Like Diaz said, ZZ finding themselves at the top of...
03:17:50 Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal. Wir sehen uns beim nächsten Mal.
03:18:19 And this is absolutely a squad that I'm putting in my top couple of teams just to look out for during the season, because if they're able to keep this level of play, I think that they're going to be moving up on the KP pole leaderboards. Oh, you heard it here first.
03:18:37 I want to see if the poll changes by the end of Split 2. Maybe they can rerun it after we get through Split 2 and see which teams kind of sit where in the global community rankings heading into champs. It's got to be a week to week thing. A week to week? It's got to be. I'm pretty sure. We'll see. You know what?
03:19:01 Well, we'll see what people have to say about that. Let's start continuing to highlight, though, the individual side of things, because it's time for our Sony Endzone Kill Leader Race. And if you're wondering what team that might be, we've got a tie at the top with Guild and Cersei. And I know it looks like a tie, but graceful. Cersei wins the tie by ending up with more damage. But the fact that we've got two of them up here, 21 kills today is crazy.
03:19:30 Yeah, most definitely. We saw a lot of combo playing between Cersei and Krulbuckle, who's also on that leaderboard. One thing, though, I gotta say, we saw a lot of RE45s here in the American region compared to EMEA region, but Cersei has been nonstop shooting people. Look at this. Those two are from different teams, by the way, and he still cleans up them, cleans up more people, taking so much space, playing Alter to a really high level, and I think more characters as well. I think I've been talking a lot about Krulbuckle in general, but Cersei, nonetheless, have been sh**ing.
03:19:59 Ich glaube, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft, es hilft.
03:20:24 You know, I know we're highlighting Cersei here. 21 kills of the day is a very impressive day. Also winning out in the tiebreaker because of the damage. But like you mentioned, we do have Cruel Buckle up here in 5th. And then down there in 10th, we also have Jace. So all of KCP find their way into our Sony Endzone kill leader race. But of course, at the end, it is Cersei with 76, almost 7,700 damage for the day here, Dia. That is a very strong day one performance.
03:20:52 And it is really telling that you've got basically Cruelbuckle and Cersei holding hands. Cruelbuckle, more damage than Cersei, less kills. Same thing with Guild, who got so many kills. Sykes, holding hands with him. Yes. Same amount of kill participation, more damage. And it really is graceful. You love to talk about this. The team holding hands and being...
03:21:13 able to help each other and push together and helping in this case, when we're talking about the kill leaderboards, really raise each other up and give your other teammates the opportunity to succeed.
03:21:24 I mean, holding hands is the most important part, especially when you're a man down as well, as we saw in that scenario where Zac was dead, crawling in the zone, essentially. It came down to Sykes and Guild, holding hands, because the enemy team swung one by one. If they try to PK shoot at you one into a 1v2, they get insta-knocked, and they immediately got, like, that advantage just disappeared for them. And if you can play on that same page this whole time, it's...
03:21:49 Es ist einfach etwas anderes, weil du nicht wirklich gegen eine Person kämpfst, wenn du schwingst. Du kämpfst zwei oder vielleicht sogar drei. Und bei diesem Punkt, wenn PK auf 108 oder 106 ist, du wirst einfach weg. Es ist einfach etwas anderes zu sehen.
03:22:03 Honestly, just an impressive day across the board. But of course, the winners of today were ZZ. So let's do a quick interview here. Let's get Guild to come in and chat with us about the win to kick off Split 2. Guild, welcome. Thank you so much for jumping on and chatting with us. How are you feeling? I'm feeling fantastic. I'm loving the mobile vibes that we got going on right now, okay? Love this.
03:22:30 Everything sounds and looks great. Talk to me a little bit about how you feel those new changes from Season 26 have impacted the first day of ALGS.
03:22:41 Um, well, I think, like, the recent, um, like, RE change made it so that PK is just, like, hard meta, so I'm just running PK, like, literally every game, which has honestly been pretty fun. I'm actually really liking the meta, and, uh, yeah, I mean, Bangalore and Cossack, obviously, both being super OP as well is, like, a huge change, so I don't know. It's been nice just having a, having things changed a bit.
03:23:06 What are things like, this is purely personal curiosity, what are things like for you guys behind the scenes on days like today? Did you sort anything out in terms of comms when you're getting into late game scenarios? Because I noticed that obviously Zach is likely doing a lot of the big macro IGLing, but you were really taking matters into your own hands at the end of Zone 6. So how does that work for you guys comms-wise and how have you worked to clean that up?
03:23:33 Um, well, recently, actually me, um, well, we've, we've, it's kind of been a big focus of ours for like the past like week is really focusing on the dynamic between me and Sykes, um, and making sure that we're always like playing together properly and that we're constantly communicating between each other because sometimes we would have like small disconnects and fights that would really cost us like pretty big. And I think that our work on that over the week has definitely shown to, you know, um, help us improve a lot.
03:24:03 I mean, hey, we even got to listen in on you guys on that one specific moment that showcases exactly what you were just talking about. We saw when Zach went down to the zone on Edith Street, where he was crawling on all four. You and Sykes was up left alone in that small cubby right there. You guys had to 2v3, essentially. You guys both double peaked every single guy who solo peaked, you guys. Insta hit 100s, 100s, down one, cracked two more, I think. Got the reset, and then those are the types of fights where we're seeing, even if you're in a 2v3, you guys are still a threat. And it's so fun to see you guys communicate.
03:24:33 I appreciate that, thank you.
03:25:03 I mean, Guild, you guys were definitely a force to be reckoned with here today. I think everyone...
03:25:10 Constantly, even when we were on the breaks, all of us casters were talking about just how flawless you guys look like you're working together as a trio. So definitely a very well-deserved win to kickoff split two, a well-deserved win in the kill leader race, getting up there tied for 21. So, I mean, that was just a very strong performance. I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys can bring to the table. So before we let you go, any final shout-outs or anything you want to do?
03:25:36 Shout out both my teammates. Shout out Winnie, our coach. We've been working hard every day in scrims, even though we're not signed right now. We're free agents. So I'm proud of us. I think we've gotten a lot better and improved a lot as a team over the past couple of weeks. Well, it was super enjoyable to watch. Thank you so much for jumping on and chatting with us at the end of the day. Best of luck in the rest of the season. Thank you so much.
03:26:05 All right. What a day. What a day. We made through America's some pleasant surprises in this region as well, Dia, for day one. So talk to me a little bit about your thoughts. Well, I'm really happy that I know I talked to you about this in between shows. I'm really happy that in between shows we were able to catch this amazing.
03:26:27 Sideswipe by ZZ to overtake in the leaderboards, that we were able to catch Team Liquid with an incredible turnaround win. I think we had so many shining star moments that we were able to catch from multiple teams today. And that is the sign of a fantastic season to come because it's only day one. So really amazed with what we saw here in the Americas. And I'll be honest, I am...
03:26:52 I'm almost gassed out. We've just been at such high energy levels all day with the incredible plays that we saw across EMEA and North America that I am going to take a break, sleep, and then I guess open the face at VOD and start prepping for next week. You know, I feel like I'm just realizing...
03:27:13 ...that you coordinated your outfit here to go with the ZZ shill vibes. I get it. I get it now, Dia. Great call on the day. Graceful. Give me your thoughts on the Americas region. I think it's been fun seeing, like, especially Cruel Buckle for me today. I feel like we tend to see a lot of... There were so many heavy hitters in the lobby. It's easy to just focus on their journey. But when we see a small glimpse of, like, potentially players that might be taking...
03:27:42 Es ist einfach etwas anderes. Und ich denke, es sollte sich inspirieren für Menschen, um neue Möglichkeiten zu spielen. Und das Spiel, wie wir gesagt haben, ist ever-changing. Und sogar Guilden selbst sagt, ich liebe die Veränderungen. Wir hören viele verschiedene Opinions darüber, wie es gut ist, wie es schlecht ist. Aber die Leute, die es lieben, in meiner Meinung nach, wenn du diese Motivation hast, und du diese Mindset zu freuen, du bist mehr zu haben, mehr zu haben.
03:28:09 Ja, ich denke, das ist wirklich ein Spaß hier für dieses Region. Aber, Dia, Gracefall, als immer, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid, ihr seid,
03:28:39 So make sure you tune back in next weekend to see how all of that plays out. As always.
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